At 14:58, when Alex said "The Soviets are just dead" all I heard in my head was the quote from the Moustache Man saying “We have only to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." I thought something terrible was about to happen to the Eastern Front.
I didn’t get good until about a thousand hours. Then my friends and I did a Nordic Brothers game and I managed to halt a British Invasion at Oslo (I was Sweden) and then push them back to the coastline. That’s when I knew I’d made it
Disaster saves are always fun to watch, if only to watch Alex perpetually struggle to work out how people got themselves into said disaster situations in the first place. Also instructional in the sense of usually when Hoi4 games go badly, you just restart, and don't often play on in bad situations, or at least I don't tend to. Another bonus.
Just wanted to say, thanks for this week, I watched every one. As someone who has played HoI 4 but only a little, understanding the very basics but not the intricacies and strategies, the humor kept me interested, and the little tidbits of explanation you threw out here and there made sense. And the editing was magic for helping to focus my attention on whatever was interesting in that moment of the gameplay. Well done.
Just wanted to give a much needed shout out to you and Matt for all the work to crank out all these videos in a week. It was incredibly appreciated and very much enjoyed every second of them.
Good week thanks, enjoyed it. Always up for more save game… saves. I sympathised with the swearing moments! I managed to get capitulated as Napoleonic France earlier, from an unseen naval invasion, launched by a nation that I’d already capitulated.
I had a disaster save I wanted to give you but I managed to save it myself XD Basically I was playing Germany and Austria joined Italy so Anchluss led me to war with Italy, Hungary, and Austria. Demand Sudetenland led me to war against Britain And my ally Japan was at war with China and the Soviets (I was ignoring their call to arms but some how our wars combined so I was forced into a war against the Soviets) Then France declared war on me and joined the allies at the same time the US joined the allies The West was a slow slog but I managed to not only hold but push against like 200-300 French, British, and American troops (they ended up with 3 million US casualties,, 5 million French casualties, and 2 million British casualties) and it was entirely because of my medium tanks The East was a blood bath as I had to keep forcing units out as a steady pace as units were constantly running out of supply and getting overrun, getting encircled if the Soviets manages a breakthrough or were just drained of supply until killed. To put it into perspective every time I forced a unit out at 20% green they would be Regular within a week and Seasoned within a month. I was under constant naval invasions which my garrison units couldn't always hold (I had a force of 72 cav units made up of only 3 cav divisions so not strong but they did decently good I holding naval invasions off) I lost and regained Italy like 4 times (every time I needed my tanks to do it) and lost berlin like 7 times (again redirecting my tanks would push the Soviets back) Finally though when I capitulated France and stabilized the East and was in the process of retaking Italy suddenly Spain and Portugal declared war on me and Spain had almost 200 divisions This shit took many hours of micro but I managed to finally kill Spain and was pushing hard in the East (until I lost Spain in a Naval invasion) God forbid I bring up the air war because while I had almost 15k fighters and 20k CAS the combined might of the entire war had just massive amounts of fighters everywhere. Navy was also fucked
Hey Alex, I have a farfetched idea for a mini series(Which I am sure the TH-cam community can help with or your local browsing/library research) on doing a campaign of one of the major nations: Germany, Great Britain, USA, USSR, Italy, Japan, or France and try and win the second world war using historic units only, being located in certain regions. An Example, the German Sixth Army lead by Friedrich Paulus to take Stalingrad in on December 30, 1941. Of course trying accurately place the numbers would be far fetched, but having the same number of regiments and armies to see if they could stand the test of the HOI 4 AI in Historical for an easier experience. Or go nuts on Ahistorical. Just a thought.
It would maybe help quite a bit with multitasking and micromanaging if you tried to do war at 3 or 4 speed instead of 5. 5 speed goes by way too quickly to pay attention to everything.
I'm a new subscriber, and I will say that your vids are both educational and entertaining. Well done and keep up the fun work! Also, the duck 'quack' is hilarious!
I was late commenting, but this has been a very enjoyable 7 days. Please do this again, or do a mega campaign. No matter what content you produce, I'll always be watching...
By the way, do modded disaster saves count? Because if there is ever a second disaster save week made. I would post my own entry to it, not saying that I can't do the same thing without mods. I'm just saying what are the rules and conditions?
How can you submit savefile's? I have a disaster savefile as Austria-Hungary with the most incompetent German allies. they're on 99% capitulation and declared on the Soviet-Union in 1940. I managed to deal with them and almost took them out but the Germans keep dying.
I wonder how many of these Disaster Saves can really be summed up with that mention about 3:30 in of: "You're trying to advance when you really have no ability to." It does seem to be a recurring theme. People thinking they're doomed because they can't crack enemy lines but being unwilling to bide time and improve the situation on defense. Just instead convinced they have to do "something" to push the enemy and achieve a quick victory.
Hi alex! I was wondering when you will open your save inbox and how many do you still have left my czechoslovakian disaster save is getting pretty lonely in that folder :(
I always invade UK in the North, right up the top of Scotland. It seems like prior to 1940/41, they dont keep any troops up there. So you can land, take the 2 or 3 airfields, fill them with fighters and CAS and be half way to Liverpool before youve even encountered a British division. Then just steamroll your way down to london. just make sure they dont entrench in the mountain or youre fucked lol
*How did you enjoy disaster week? Want another one?*
Yes!
yes
Yes!!!Please more!!!
It was amazing!!! Please do another one soon :D
yes please!
At 14:58, when Alex said "The Soviets are just dead" all I heard in my head was the quote from the Moustache Man saying “We have only to kick in the door, and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." I thought something terrible was about to happen to the Eastern Front.
My thoughts exactly
For the algorithm, disaster week was a blast. Down with covid and these videos have been great to look forward to.
Long live covid!
@@signoguns8501 Lmao
Get well soon mate😁
Wish you a fast recovery!
@@TheDeepState2001 as my mom says “children in Africa could’ve eaten that”
Alex: "this isn't really a disaster"
Also Alex with glowing red eyes: "let's make it one!"
Alex: Plays with ease
Me with 700 hours in HOI4 and still is bad at the game: Plz send help
Sure whaddaya need help with?
Big same, feels bad man 😂
Remember to always produce mor inf equip then you need and try to get arty and aa
I didn’t get good until about a thousand hours. Then my friends and I did a Nordic Brothers game and I managed to halt a British Invasion at Oslo (I was Sweden) and then push them back to the coastline.
That’s when I knew I’d made it
Just wait bro with the new dlc and the new supply system it will be even harder to play
"Focused on navy and light tanks"
The original player didn't even use the tanks and almost his whole fleet was destroyers and subs lol
Disaster saves are always fun to watch, if only to watch Alex perpetually struggle to work out how people got themselves into said disaster situations in the first place.
Also instructional in the sense of usually when Hoi4 games go badly, you just restart, and don't often play on in bad situations, or at least I don't tend to. Another bonus.
Would you consider doing an endsieg week also keep up the great disaster gameplay
That’s a great idea
16:18 - some random German commander probably - Nov 19 ,1942 battle of Stalingrad. (Operation Uranus)
*"The Romanians have it under control."*
Moments before disaster
Just wanted to say, thanks for this week, I watched every one. As someone who has played HoI 4 but only a little, understanding the very basics but not the intricacies and strategies, the humor kept me interested, and the little tidbits of explanation you threw out here and there made sense. And the editing was magic for helping to focus my attention on whatever was interesting in that moment of the gameplay. Well done.
"You'll see their resistance will collapse almost immediate- Oh no..."
Schlieffen Plan in a nutshell
Like so Alex sees this idea: A stretch where he plays every endsieg year and tries to win
Excellent timing from the Italians while you where proclaiming the game saved.
Just wanted to give a much needed shout out to you and Matt for all the work to crank out all these videos in a week. It was incredibly appreciated and very much enjoyed every second of them.
It's funny Italy gets ragged on at every opportunity, but when they aren't in the axis it's considered disastrous
awesome week! Usually you do disaster saves very RARELY, and it is an agony waiting. This week was really a bless, we need another one!
Keep going Alex you are best in heart's of iron 4.
and definitely competent
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@@InferKnow yep and never did something like cheating
@@ididntaskforthat8208 what r u on about
Completely agree
I indeed would love another week of this
"9 secs ago"
Man do I need a life
“9 secs ago”
Talk about timing
dang i thought i was sad with 5 minutes
@@pjnovayo makes me feel better about the 9 min. :D
@@matthijsja7084 :D
1 day later
These disaster save videos have really help me, I’m new to hoi4 and seeing Alex fix these saves is good advice.
Honestly I think it's my favorite series you do. Perhaps a Save your disaster month 😉😉
YES
Disaster week was hell of a fun! Would gladly see more of those
Good week thanks, enjoyed it. Always up for more save game… saves. I sympathised with the swearing moments! I managed to get capitulated as Napoleonic France earlier, from an unseen naval invasion, launched by a nation that I’d already capitulated.
7/7 what a run!! Great success Alex
Oh my giddy aunt
I had a disaster save I wanted to give you but I managed to save it myself XD
Basically I was playing Germany and Austria joined Italy so Anchluss led me to war with Italy, Hungary, and Austria.
Demand Sudetenland led me to war against Britain
And my ally Japan was at war with China and the Soviets (I was ignoring their call to arms but some how our wars combined so I was forced into a war against the Soviets)
Then France declared war on me and joined the allies at the same time the US joined the allies
The West was a slow slog but I managed to not only hold but push against like 200-300 French, British, and American troops (they ended up with 3 million US casualties,, 5 million French casualties, and 2 million British casualties) and it was entirely because of my medium tanks
The East was a blood bath as I had to keep forcing units out as a steady pace as units were constantly running out of supply and getting overrun, getting encircled if the Soviets manages a breakthrough or were just drained of supply until killed. To put it into perspective every time I forced a unit out at 20% green they would be Regular within a week and Seasoned within a month.
I was under constant naval invasions which my garrison units couldn't always hold (I had a force of 72 cav units made up of only 3 cav divisions so not strong but they did decently good I holding naval invasions off)
I lost and regained Italy like 4 times (every time I needed my tanks to do it) and lost berlin like 7 times (again redirecting my tanks would push the Soviets back)
Finally though when I capitulated France and stabilized the East and was in the process of retaking Italy suddenly Spain and Portugal declared war on me and Spain had almost 200 divisions
This shit took many hours of micro but I managed to finally kill Spain and was pushing hard in the East (until I lost Spain in a Naval invasion)
God forbid I bring up the air war because while I had almost 15k fighters and 20k CAS the combined might of the entire war had just massive amounts of fighters everywhere.
Navy was also fucked
Now Alex can go back to fixing his own disasters.
disaster week went by so fast jeez
Loved disaster week! Hope to see it again soon! The HOI4 never gets old, even if my first love is always Total War
Hey Alex, I have a farfetched idea for a mini series(Which I am sure the TH-cam community can help with or your local browsing/library research) on doing a campaign of one of the major nations: Germany, Great Britain, USA, USSR, Italy, Japan, or France and try and win the second world war using historic units only, being located in certain regions.
An Example, the German Sixth Army lead by Friedrich Paulus to take Stalingrad in on December 30, 1941.
Of course trying accurately place the numbers would be far fetched, but having the same number of regiments and armies to see if they could stand the test of the HOI 4 AI in Historical for an easier experience. Or go nuts on Ahistorical.
Just a thought.
It would maybe help quite a bit with multitasking and micromanaging if you tried to do war at 3 or 4 speed instead of 5. 5 speed goes by way too quickly to pay attention to everything.
Yes please do more disaster weeks!
Disaster Week was a great idea.
It's a pretty good way to get through your menacingly large folder of submissions too :P
I'm a new subscriber, and I will say that your vids are both educational and entertaining. Well done and keep up the fun work! Also, the duck 'quack' is hilarious!
we need alex to post daily like he used to
Alex is the type of mate who would just beat tournaments 24/7 in hoi4
This finale has come quick
epic week! good videos. Props to the editor
I was late commenting, but this has been a very enjoyable 7 days. Please do this again, or do a mega campaign. No matter what content you produce, I'll always be watching...
Please keep these up, love the videos.
Wow that surprise reverse card from Italy after he said it was saved.
diseaster week was awesome man just do more of theese pleaseeee
0:42 General Robert E. Lee, 1862 colorized
Why did I watch this series every day this week lol
I can just imagibe mussolini trying to stab hitler in the back when he isn’t looking but the knife is made of rubber
Wait aren't you streaming right now???
I was
By the way, do modded disaster saves count? Because if there is ever a second disaster save week made. I would post my own entry to it, not saying that I can't do the same thing without mods. I'm just saying what are the rules and conditions?
this wasnt a disaster, but it was still rlly fun to watch!
What a good week!!! Love it!
7 Mods 7 days week would be awesome
Definitely need another disaster week!
We need another disaster week NOW!!
Yea
how do you send a savegame?
i have one
Best week of my life Alex!
How can you submit savefile's?
I have a disaster savefile as Austria-Hungary with the most incompetent German allies. they're on 99% capitulation and declared on the Soviet-Union in 1940. I managed to deal with them and almost took them out but the Germans keep dying.
Note to self. Whenever Alex is loosing its saveable. Whenever he thinks it’s solvable the plot twist will be amazing
Whats better Death or dishouner or battle for the bosspores
I wonder how many of these Disaster Saves can really be summed up with that mention about 3:30 in of: "You're trying to advance when you really have no ability to." It does seem to be a recurring theme. People thinking they're doomed because they can't crack enemy lines but being unwilling to bide time and improve the situation on defense. Just instead convinced they have to do "something" to push the enemy and achieve a quick victory.
Theyre hitlers, always striking for a blitzkrieg but the moment the speed halts its immediately a loss
Hitler mentality
I would very much like to see another daisaster save week
It always hurts me to see my Italy invaded
Hi alex! I was wondering when you will open your save inbox and how many do you still have left
my czechoslovakian disaster save is getting pretty lonely in that folder :(
12:42 indiana jones is not happy
Yes we need anoather week like this
Alex, would love to see some Old World Blues content!
I always invade UK in the North, right up the top of Scotland. It seems like prior to 1940/41, they dont keep any troops up there. So you can land, take the 2 or 3 airfields, fill them with fighters and CAS and be half way to Liverpool before youve even encountered a British division. Then just steamroll your way down to london. just make sure they dont entrench in the mountain or youre fucked lol
Jaaa bitte nochmal Desaster Woche!!!
Every week should be disaster save week!
In my life every week is a disaster week
Lovely bit of content as per usual 👌
Very fun week. Happy Halloween, btw.
Can someone explain how i send fail saves from hoi 4.
Love these videos 😊
1941 Germany only on Continent 600 factorys ... DAMN
Loved disaster week 🙂
It's always a good day when alex uploads 💙
Please More Disaster Saves!
make more disaster saves. that's really good content
"Great stuff" Johnny Carson
Where do i send my save file?
This was fun to watch live.
Were to send Alex save games
How many bits or donations to extend saving your disaster for one more week?
You seem to have pleased the algorithm
Yeet, we want anotherrrr one!
Loved disaster week. It would be a disaster if it didn't make a return!
We want more disaster save week
He’s using his inner ISP
When push comes to shove
How the f did that guy have Light tank IIIs in 1940 O_O
Alex can you set the permission on the google drive to public? I can't access it
I love this disaster week
every week is disaster week if you're like me
You should do a disaster month
In 9:26 seems historical
I see pain
19:50 New pog face?
Yes, another week!
Take over the world as norway in hearts of Iron 4
What a humdingy humdinger