HoI4: Albania Stands Defiant with King Zog!
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Can King Zog hold on to his throne? Let's find out together!
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No
I already have it
You could have used the school for leaders mod to make your campaign a little painless
Would love to see you do a Portugal run where you do Macau my day. Or whichever achievement gets a Portuguese China. I’ve been struggling with that one for a long time.
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I can hear the conversations from this timeline "Oh but if the nazis had the Albanian tactics they would’ve easily won the Second World War"
@milk facts
@milk but like, if the nazis had albanian tactics they easily could've won ww2
I can see you been arguing against ww2 Germany supporters for quite a while
so basically the entire albanian male population is dead or maimed but at least zog got to rule from rome for a bit and that's a pretty good meme
And not just the men, but the women and the children too
@@kianvandenberg6364
The reason Mussolini killed them was that his Pasta had died.
@@acon70 yes
A fun thought crossed my mind! If Albania managed to get some 12 factories from occupying Italy, Bittersteel could've tried to hit up Italy with Collab Governments and released it as Albanian Italy, keeping most of it under Zod.
So Zog basically gets a harem? What a chad.
You finally won as Albania.
Yes
What did it cost?
1/3 of my population.
Man pulled a Paraguay lol
@@alvinlin8140 Paraguay lost even more, 2/3 and 90% of male population IIRC, plus they didn't win
@@b3ygghsas Disputed
Technically 2/5 of their population
I was not prepared for massive power plays like the albanian capture of Rome and the albanian D-day, Zog must've grown a titanic adamantium back carrying the entire allied campaign.
Alternate title: 30 minutes of steel saying “I’m out of manpower”
but he never had manpower since start lol
@@Nanoarciere true lol
God: did you win?
King Zog: yes
God: what did it cost?
King Zog: (stares at manpower pool) everything
CAD- erm... ALBANIA STANDS!
@@lolifico_banzago it’s just the territory and the leader that stands cause the people are now dead lol
*Allah ✌️
He’s gonna repopulate the Albanian population by himself
Albania: *Takes Rome, takes Sofia, takes Bucharest, takes Budapest, liberates Paris, and takes Berlin*
Allies: Yeah, that's about 9% of war participation, buddy.
Germany in hoi4: *Conquers half of Europe and Takes Moscow, dominates the british in the air and does "Sea Lion" *
Paradox: 40% participation
Italy: *loses 3 Million to Britain*
Paradox: 60% participation
This why the update to peace deals is going to be awesome, dealing casualties should give warscore, not endlessly grinding with no supply against mountains like the ai does.
@@soviet_doge1263 I also want them to fix the historical peace deal, I'm tired of Uk puppetting Vichy France and taking Savoy or the ussr annexing Morocco, parts of poland and Zara
@@yoanawramow8809 the historical peace deal is interesting, Poland can be annexed if they capitulated, but the only other thing it does is make east and west Germany releasable
@@soviet_doge1263 Yet the amount of gore that is unleashed is immense. Also, the allies won't stop liberating
"Red and black I dress, eagle on my chest, it's good to be an Albanian! Keep my head up high, for that flag I die, I'm proud to be an Albanian!" - King Zog
29:43
Several months before you actually finished, in which thousands more were surely KIA, crippled, captured, or missing (casualties), you got 349 thousand casualties. Albania's total population in 1938 was 1,048,000. I'll call it 390k to capitulation. 37.21% of Albania's total population in the war was killed, wounded, captured, crippled, or missing. That's almost halfway to the Paraguay War in which nearly 60% of the population was killed. Jesus wept, Albania deserved better than that lol
So they don't have males now?
@@blackandwhitecats4243 well, probably on average around 60-80% of the male population of Albania is just gone in that context. There honestly would realistically have been absolute regicidal outrage that he got so many of them killed when the threat to Albania itself passed, but, here's a fun tidbit. Albania, while never especially pious about it, has been majority Islamic since Ottoman rule. I expect that polygamy (nominally allowed in Islamic law) would be temporarily encouraged to help rebuild the postwar population
@@Anonie324 We got Zog,a coward in OTL.Then this Zog got killed by regicidal outrage for actually serving his country instead of taking the national bank of Alabania then fleeing.Don't know what's worse.
@@blackandwhitecats4243 This Zog might have realistically faced at least some danger of a coup, revolution, or at minimum a referendum on a republic in this scenario after the war. Like, holy shit bro, the immediate threat passed, why didn't you demobilize the country and save tens of thousands of our precious remaining men while the rest of Europe handled it because you wanted the prestige of being the one to bring down Hitler and occupy parts of Italy we could never spare the resources to control?
@@Anonie324 He's a king,they like prestige over peasant issues that think it won't lead to their demise.How about the minority(albanian)in southern italy?Would it cover 40% for garrisoning or a quicker demise?(There's a funny thought of me thinking if that timeline happened,Hendway maybe wouldn't exist as a channel or a person.)
I love these "historical disasters". Please do more. Try 1939 Baltics or Finland maybe and win against Soviets? Or 1939 Philippines?
1939 luxembourg.
Count me as a vote for Philippines. Pacific front is always fun to watch.
This was 1936 though
Agree, another real challenge is releasing Macau, tag switching, and trying to unify China as that OPM. It is possible due to Japanese war Machine
39 netherlands or belgium
lmfao Albanian capital in Rome is the most meta joke I've seen in HOI4 in a while
I had a game as Germany where the Soviet Capital moved to Kazan. That's worse.
@@BluesonofmanNah thats pretty normal actually
@@emin166 Kazan once ruled over Russia
Sigma King Zog has been blessed with the Spirit of Skanderberg
My request, a Portugal campaign. I've dug into the Brazil-Portugese Empire tree, and it's a nerve-wracking and wild start that gives you fairly early wargoals against Nationalist Spain, Italy, Japan, Germany . . . and America. You get to take a part of the map that usually does little in World War and forge them into a peer great power. Flag looks awesome too.
He could do Go ahead, Macao my day at the same time.
I tried it a couple months ago, haven't finished it but pretty fun.
I'm not Albanian but this makes me feel patriotic
"Call an ambulance... But not for me!" The playthrough
I see, So Albania was involved in many of the important operations and liberations in Europe. Truly pulled above its weight there, did cost it just about everything I guess, but got a few things out of it in the end.
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@@emmiplemmi2000 yes especially if you have a bad pc
BEST VIDEO EVER!!!! also for playing as ZOGU in albania or albania at all you should use king of the blood feud mod. it adds a pretty good focus tree for albania.
also your pronunciations were great :)
So his correct pronounciation of Vlorē was the first one, second, or third?
@@krasnamerah1926 the first one was close enough
@@krasnamerah1926 In Albanian we pronounce it Vlor (without spelling ë at the end) or Vlora. It depence on the lexicon of the sentence.
Kneel before Zog.
He unlocked his true nationality🇦🇱
All Albanians ever: "This is canon now"
And yes, Skenderbeg would be proud of you.
Had a "fun" try at this myself. The Axis proceeded to kill the Soviets and get all of Africa. Me as Albania was just sitting on my 5 provinces with lv 9 forts.
Hoxha would be proud of all those bunkers
There is a way to get more manpower. Idk if you tried this, but you can request garrison support from your allies to free up the manpower used in policing
This is one of the best you've done in a long time, I really love smaller countries like this!
Fax, sometimes minor powers are more fun to play especially as allies
I’m probably not the only one who watches these videos, but doesn’t play the game
I just gotta say, I LOVE those thumbnails. They're awesome.
The content is good as well ;)
I feel like using a 15-width division (6 inf, 1 art) template for such a small nation could of been better. Get more divisions out and they can hold out pretty well.
Enver Hoxha in 1967: 9:08
30:55 - "British forces have advanced into Berlin..."
Somehow that just doesn't seem fair, lol (even though I get why the game reads it that way)
more like king pog amirite boys
it is the burden of Zog to lead the allies to victory
Zog over all! Rally to Zog!
Ohhhh going for the "Albania or Iberia" achievement?
"The Albanian capital is in Rome"
*you have provoked a gang war*
Zombalanians...best doctrine theorycrafting ever
Edit: did you make any attempt to request garrison support from the Allies since you were occupying so much of Italy?
The peace deal looks like the Italy boot stepped in a puddle of jelly.
Lmao Albania has so many bunkers irl too. There is one every 100m
The editing has seemly improved randomly, very swag!
Nice as always!
Now do a non-aligned Austria and deny Anschluss!
Bonuspoints for restoring Austria-Hungary!
Austria hungary can only be restored if you play as hungary
@@Wcrqdrift uhm... nope?
Just look up the videos of Bitt3rSteel - he already did it even as croatia!
So all of the former austro-hungarian states can do it:
Hungary
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Croatia
@@oneesama3421 Can't bosnia do it aswell?
@@emin166 good question, should look into it by releasing it
Bro lost 400k soldiers as Albania...
Why did you say “They just reinforced me me out of every one of my tiles” twice?
Lol at your description of putting everyone in the army. Weekend at Bernie’s: Albania Defense
I tried doing something similar with yugo, had fighter 3s and released Croatia and slovenia to use as buffers before the war but oh well they attacked them anyway and my fighters (around 1000 were shredding theirs but the CAS destroyed me :/)
life doesn't get easier, you just get albanian
“Until now we used to say that the Albanians fight like heroes. Now we shall say: Heroes fight like Albanians.”
-Winston Churchill in this timeline
“We still have guns we just don’t have any Albanians” oof
At least you are now in control of the Tyrrhenian Fleet!
This was one of the best playthroughs I've ever seen! I really like alt histoy.
Used to be a ritual in my uni dorm to do the Zoggist salute and chant "ZOG ZOG ZOG ZOG" infront of a Zog portrait.
I was playing a game as Albania, and when saving the Italian front (as you do), I found that I had three Panzer 3 B tanks in stock (captured from the Germans). Now all I can imagine is some Albanian kurwa riding around in a Panzer 3 from 1938, in 1943.
That 2 minute long ad tells me this guy actually uses Opera GX
I use it too, and I can say it is very based
400k casualties assuming they were all men albania lost 90% of their total male population 💀
The American Zogbot fan vs. the Albanian Zogbot enjoyer.
"We have two divisions now, that has doubled our army." Lol, thats a way to play HoI 4...
Man you're literally the best hoi4 youtuber ever dude ur videos are so fun and soooo soo good
Love from croatia
Allies: Hey uh, can you help us with Japan?
The New Order: Albania
Albania: takes every major capital city
The news: Fall of (Major city) British troops….
Best Albania play I have ever seen. I probably would have given Italy to one of the allies to garrison though ;-)
Zog submits? NO! Submit to Zog!!!
I'll make the joke if no one else will. Kneel before Zog.
"Nobody can say Albania was useless"
Allies: Uhm, excuse me?
Albania no longer has anyone between the ages of 12-80 anymore.
You should have researched trains first. You dont necesarily need trucks, especially with Albania being small. Leaving it on the lowest motorization is enough.
When Albania takes Berlin
British forces have stormed the gates of Berlin
Hello again Bitt3rSteel, I got a mod challenge for you: As Peru,
1: Crown an Inca, and reform the Inca Empire.
2: Build, not steal, South America's biggest navy with 5 aircraft carriers, 30 Crusiers and 100 Destroyers.
3: Build South America's biggest air force with 10 Fighter, and 14 Strategic Bomber Wings.
4: Have the best infrastructure (Maximum development) and railroad connection to All owned cities and ports before December 31st 1945.
5: No joining a faction. Instead be neutral or create your own before 1950 or 1956.
6: Build the technologically best possible piston fighter with Heavy Machine Guns, Cannons, Bomb Bays/Racks, and Drop Tanks.
luckily nowadays Albania and Italy are best friends 🇦🇱🇮🇹♥️
If you ever want to do another challenge of this tier in the Balkans, you can actually form the Macedonian Empire with George II leading Greece. It’s by far the hardest start of any Greek path but you do get early access to joining the Allies
Bro won with fucking 7 manpower while im here with the USSR with millions and im still losing
3:07 video starts
Suggestion: For manpower make air wings. If you go to total mob, you can invest all available manpower into air wings. Once you have demobilized manpower for total mob, you disband the air wings and you just saved so much manpower.
(They might’ve patched it, I haven’t been able to see in around three months due to my computer being broken).
The childlike giggling was funnier than the memes pulled off in this run.
"The Albanian capitol is in Rome."
The downside to that is that now we'll never hear the end of actual Albanians saying that.
This is the underdog story we all needed
We where just trying to share our cuisine
When I did it, I went down democratic focus and then I was able to get a ton of forts down and then I still lost because there isn’t enough Albanians to hold off the Italians lol
I love the new way you make your videos
When albania has had enough.
zog followed in the steps of skanderbeg
honestly this still is one of the best peace deals ive ever seen in hoi4
9:24 albania circa the cold war colorized
i didnt want to watch this but my cat turned it on so i played along.
*Hold fast, men! Gjirokaster stands!*
I did this a few weeks ago, didn't go fascist but went down the tree for manpower, did a small army with 40 width infantry with 4 artillery battalions each, murdered italians who naval invaded me, taught bulgaria and Romania a lesson after some pain, killed italy. Invented nukes.
Bitter Steel on his way to sponsor Opera GX and Honey at the same time
This guy actually sold me on Opera GX lmao
In this scenario Zog isn’t a traitor
In this scenario he is a hero, who followed our tradition to fight the enemy against all odds, as he should had done in real life.
11:36 ,and I took it personally
It's too bad you can't just say to the Allies "Guys after all Albania did in the war I think it's only fair we get Kosovo after the war and unite all Albanians under one banner"
as an italian, seing the fascists fail in Something Is Always Amazing in every way, shape and Form.
That Darth Revan is my Lovkscreen
id like to note that 400k albanians died (some of them might've not been albanian, but lets just say they are), and the population of albania in 1945 was 1.1 million, meaning that around 30% of the Albanian population died
Once me and my friend play albania and turkey, we didnt hold the axis, 1st try couldnt go any worse
Berlin was captured in May 1945. In his game, it was June 1945. The German Reich in the East wasn't even suffering. His game had to be glitching or something. The Allies could of done better WTF?
I think I just watched one of Mussolini's nightmares. Amazing.
3:06 start button
Nice work can u do a chalenge run to get that bear incharge of poland??
finally my home country
RED AND BLACK I DRESS EAGLE ON MY CHEST GOOD TO BE AN ALBANIAN
What a sick Revan background