The thing about the 1939 start is that you really are locked into historical focuses so unless you like starting out as nazi Germany and allied France or Britain, 1936 is the way to go
I'm guessing that the 1939 start date is used quite frequently in testing, as it gets to the big war much much faster (obviously), which is why the trees have been kept updated.
The first five minutes of “history with isorrowproductions” was very fun and led me through multiple Wikipedia rabbit holes. I could easily watch a whole (series of) video(s) of you going through the game like a funny map man museum docent!
Mine's 2011, but it's a desktop AND it has a 6-year-old very cautiously used GPU that might be on its way out. Thank you for making me feel like I have a beast of a gaming rig, it makes me feel better :)
It’s strange that nations like Paraguay have entirely different leaders and ideologies. Like in 1936 it starts Communist (which isn’t accurate) and in 1939 they start non aligned like they did historically in 1939.
The only 1939 start game I’ve played was as China and it was honestly a lot of fun, because of how the Japanese start it’s basically a disaster save from Paradox
Char 2c's were sent South on trains (which got stuck because of a burning oil tanker cart that blocked the tracks) when the French lost the North and they blew up all but 1 Char 2c it was captured by the Germans as a trophy then disappeared after the war.
I thought he was going to talk about the find states button, or change music button, or the country of tannutuva, or scorched eart button on states, or the ideologies map mode, or that Vichy France has a focus tree or…
@@ordinaryperson-my7qr It was relatively recently added in NSB. It's located on the top part of state menu and it basically sabotages every supply building in the region(railroads and supply hubs) and removes them from repair queue. It can be very useful for countries like China to temporarily stop enemy advance into their territory in order to build some sort of defence while enemy repairs all supply.
The reason paradox didn't add more start dates in CK3 is because people generally don't like their other start dates like this one or any of them in EU4 but the thing is that CK2 start dates are actually really good and most of the groundwork is already there.
I'm a paradox nut and play every one of their games, ck2 is the only one where I play on a different start date. I pretty much change up the date whenever I start a new campaign, and I even make use of the non-bookmark dates.
2:07 When he means gameplay, he means staring at the screen waiting for the focus to finish, selecting a new one, then staring at the screen again for it to finish
You should try the World Ablaze mod. I know it's not your type of mod, and it is really slow, but i really like it, and it has the most historical flavour out of any other mod out there. It will surely make the developers' day if you made a video on it.
I've quietly enjoyed so much of your content but this is the first video where I'm seeing that you're actually a big history buff and not just playing this game because it's really fun 😅
Don't know if anyone else noticed, but when then Italians were counter invaded in Syria, they tried to fight the invasion by quickly putting a naval invasion on the port. Triple invasion.
They should have a go at doing a 1945 Start Date, maybe a bit of post WW2 content, since whichever 2 of the Axis-Comintern-Allies survive always go to war like 6 months after a peace deal anyway.
We should make a petition for Isorrow to play in 1939 start date......AS SLOVAKIA! It IS a starting nation ISP and you didn't cover it in A to Z series, so you NEED to play it!
Ngl this start is how I learned the game cuz right at the beginning I had no clue how to build divisions or anything so the 1939 just kinda gave me what I needed to win
I think I've used the '39 start date once and that's when I was in a lecture and my shitty laptop couldn't handle the 3 years of build up to the game...
Fun fact: the Graf Zeppelin is now a pub in Friedrichshafen, the city where the Zeppelin was invented. It also allegedly has neo nazi relations, but I don't know how accurate that is. Good fries though
Ah yes. The German democratic repulblic being liberated in the middle of eastern russia doing the facist focus ''improve national spirit'' Thank you Paradox.
“Even if you don’t have a great computer, the game runs so fast that you’ll be caught up in no time.” My ass. It usually takes me about 3-4 hours to get to get to 1939.
It's kinda sad to see 1939 being updated while nobody is playing and if it doesn't get updated some people will complain for a gamemode designed to not be played like those people only look at the map and move on to 1936 but if there are mad lads who play 1939 Im not judging this is just my opinion
I only play hoi4 at 1939 (because im a physcopath) AND if you’re a minor country that is mostly uninvolved in world events until later you can get to the action sooner.
Actually the vast majority of the 2C tanks were scuttled because they were too difficult to transport to the frontline and they had a lot of mechanical problems. There was only one of the ten 2Cs that was captured because the explosive charges did not explode.
You need to play 1939 Slovakia. It's technically a starting country, and you didn't play it in A2Z.
Oh boy
This Needs More Support
Agreed.
Petition for ISP To play as Sloviakia.
Yes
Oh no, ISP mastered the AI's tactics of doing annoying naval invasions everywhere.
I don't know what you mean, all my ports are always protected. It's almost like being predictable has a definite downside.
cancerous naval invasions are literally why i gave up on my japan game in 1947 when i almost capped USA and Canada, while holding all of the east
@@carbon1255 Just because they're useless and easy to counter doesn't mean they're not annoying though.
@@carbon1255 broke: defending your ports and preventing landings. woke: letting them land an army then crushing them with a dozen tank divisions.
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The thing about the 1939 start is that you really are locked into historical focuses so unless you like starting out as nazi Germany and allied France or Britain, 1936 is the way to go
He literally said that in the begining.
And Britain Can Still Go Alt History In 1939
@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 yes
Isn't it obvious , like thw entire point ahahhaa
Omg really? You must be SOOOOO smart thank god you told us this or we would have never known
I'm guessing that the 1939 start date is used quite frequently in testing, as it gets to the big war much much faster (obviously), which is why the trees have been kept updated.
I personally used it to train myself when i just had to game with strats and micro/macro
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@@EEEEEEEE ok
Naval invading the port to use the airport to naval invade another port to encircle the italians was a real 6D chess move.
Meh, default really
The first five minutes of “history with isorrowproductions” was very fun and led me through multiple Wikipedia rabbit holes. I could easily watch a whole (series of) video(s) of you going through the game like a funny map man museum docent!
Agree tbh
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So now that you remembered the 39 start date, all you have to remember is that you never played slovakia in A2Z when it is staring at you.
@Standislav We should get mountain general to pester him :D
@@kucsidavee they hate each other.
@@kucsidavee Why would you get the worst possible person to go after him on Slovakia?
@@leviticus2001 what
@@cakecwkecake7479 the
Hope you do more achievement hunts, those are really fun to watch!
OP is trapped in ISP basement
I have all hoi4 achievements, it's not fun
"survive till 2056 as democratic switzerland"
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There's probably 1% of the hoi4 playerbase that think 39 is the normal start date
*000,1% of playerbase xd
@@smeggiamagarwine 69 Guys
@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 420 guys.
@@eugeniaamariei8626 1488 or 2137 guys
@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 why do I see you everywhere lmao
"Graf Zeppelin is something Germans tried to make... It didn't go too well for them"
That's... A generous way of putting it
1:28
As someone from Siberia with a laptop from 2012 (with an integrated GPU), that hurt for some reason
He said Serbia I still use a PC from 2012
i think he knows
Don’t forget the dishwasher and toilets
Mine's 2011, but it's a desktop AND it has a 6-year-old very cautiously used GPU that might be on its way out. Thank you for making me feel like I have a beast of a gaming rig, it makes me feel better :)
@@voxvolhynia5400 why flex on us poor souls...😢
It’s strange that nations like Paraguay have entirely different leaders and ideologies. Like in 1936 it starts Communist (which isn’t accurate) and in 1939 they start non aligned like they did historically in 1939.
39 start date honestly would be really good for new players who don’t quite understand the building up process and what to go straight into the fight
1:27 I live in Serbia and I have a gaming PC but this time I am not at home and I am watching this video from a laptop from 2006. Still, I'm shocked.
The only 1939 start game I’ve played was as China and it was honestly a lot of fun, because of how the Japanese start it’s basically a disaster save from Paradox
Hello ISP i am a bengali immigrant in Uzbekistan my only reason to keep living is uzbek crack and your videos
Based Uzbekistan
Woah is that an Uzbekistan reference?
@@Frankenbutt99 my family Is held hostage by the government of Tajikistan
@@groucho1080p your channel says you are from zimbabwe. who are you really??
Gigachad Uzbekistan
Char 2c's were sent South on trains (which got stuck because of a burning oil tanker cart that blocked the tracks) when the French lost the North and they blew up all but 1 Char 2c it was captured by the Germans as a trophy then disappeared after the war.
1939 start + historical focuses off is my favorite cursed game because you can get things like Franco restoring the monarchy and joining the Allies
I thought he was going to talk about the find states button, or change music button, or the country of tannutuva, or scorched eart button on states, or the ideologies map mode, or that Vichy France has a focus tree or…
Scorched earth is pretty useful actually.
@@dimanyak373 WAIT, WHERE IS THAT BUTTON AND WHAT DOES THAT DO????
@@ordinaryperson-my7qr It was relatively recently added in NSB. It's located on the top part of state menu and it basically sabotages every supply building in the region(railroads and supply hubs) and removes them from repair queue. It can be very useful for countries like China to temporarily stop enemy advance into their territory in order to build some sort of defence while enemy repairs all supply.
@@dimanyak373 I CAN HURT THE CIVILIANS IN HOI4 😱😱😱, damn i love this game (again)
That was your chance to complete the A-Z with Slovakia in the 39 start!
Thank you ISP for inspiring me to do a 1939 play through for the first time in ~2000 hours of hoi4
Man I want to see that late alt history path. Pls isp. I need the suffering.
i really enjoyed isp actually talking about equipment and operations
I enjoyed the way ISP used this premise to just flex his knowledge of WW 2.
Good going, son)
The reason paradox didn't add more start dates in CK3 is because people generally don't like their other start dates like this one or any of them in EU4 but the thing is that CK2 start dates are actually really good and most of the groundwork is already there.
I'm a paradox nut and play every one of their games, ck2 is the only one where I play on a different start date. I pretty much change up the date whenever I start a new campaign, and I even make use of the non-bookmark dates.
CK3 is a big step back after CK2. I had more than 1000 hours in ck2...
Jul 21st, 2016, close to it, I feel you Isorrow.
2:07 When he means gameplay, he means staring at the screen waiting for the focus to finish, selecting a new one, then staring at the screen again for it to finish
You should try the World Ablaze mod. I know it's not your type of mod, and it is really slow, but i really like it, and it has the most historical flavour out of any other mod out there. It will surely make the developers' day if you made a video on it.
This is an interesting video, I like the historical detail ISP gives
Maybe some disaster saves? Or Endsieg???
He need some avatar
ISP apparently also watched the Lazerpig video about french WW1 tanks
Isp really showing off his actually pretty decent history knowledge in this one.
Did anybody else have a PC which was so crap that it would take 5 hours to reach 1938?
Had? Cries in poor.
@@jplegend98 use Nvidia GeForce
i used to :(
@@DavideKuras My geforce 6600 disagrees with you.
@@carbon1255 Nvidia GeForce now
I've quietly enjoyed so much of your content but this is the first video where I'm seeing that you're actually a big history buff and not just playing this game because it's really fun 😅
I’m not sure why I’m so obsessed with this game. I’ve never even played it before.
MY GOD, ME TOOO
i have never actually played a game, just watch others do magic button stuff and paint on map
Me before getting this game
I sorrow used this to flex his historical knowledge
Don't know if anyone else noticed, but when then Italians were counter invaded in Syria, they tried to fight the invasion by quickly putting a naval invasion on the port. Triple invasion.
in this video grandpa isp tells all the kids about military history
Disperse is actually the best option, way more efficient than concentrated
Hear me out now, A-Z but in the 1939 start date.
Yeah Usually You Get To 1939 In No Time...
Unless You're Using Mods...
Like A Certain *Chaos Mod*
*Cries In Desperation At 5 FPS In 1938*
I like playing Italy on elite 1939 with a bunch of restrictions to not cheese the game to try and fix Musolini's mess
They should have a go at doing a 1945 Start Date, maybe a bit of post WW2 content, since whichever 2 of the Axis-Comintern-Allies survive always go to war like 6 months after a peace deal anyway.
Achievements? What a silly notion. I wonder what your distant long lost cousin ISP thinks about this behavior
Every single starting nation in 1939 Hoi4 A-Z
Huh, ISP actually knows his military equipment? A surprise for sure, but a nice one.
A Surprise To Be Sure But A Welcome One*
I played a lot of the 1939 start date cuz my pc was so trash and the game ran so slow, I didn't want to wait from 1936 for ww2 to happen lol.
Same
Just play as chad already I've been asking you this for a month and won't stop
Time for A-Z 1939 edition
I only played in 1939 start date when I was new to game . 1936 build up was kinda overwhelming. It is good starting date for newbies.
We should make a petition for Isorrow to play in 1939 start date......AS SLOVAKIA! It IS a starting nation ISP and you didn't cover it in A to Z series, so you NEED to play it!
A-Z did the 1936 start date therefore didnt exist circa 1936
March of the eagles A2Z please
We want him to be alive so he can make more videos not dead. Because of pain and suffering.
Ngl this start is how I learned the game cuz right at the beginning I had no clue how to build divisions or anything so the 1939 just kinda gave me what I needed to win
Time to do new A to Z 1939 starting date edition
1939 A-Z when?
The only reason people do this probably is the 30 Minutes of Hel achievement
isp's actions in the united kingdom have resulted in the queen's demise
1939 more like never played
I think I've used the '39 start date once and that's when I was in a lecture and my shitty laptop couldn't handle the 3 years of build up to the game...
Fun fact: the Graf Zeppelin is now a pub in Friedrichshafen, the city where the Zeppelin was invented. It also allegedly has neo nazi relations, but I don't know how accurate that is. Good fries though
I like how Japan kept Hawaii
Hey, don't do peter dirty like that. He's a lovely chap.
Ah yes.
The German democratic repulblic being liberated in the middle of eastern russia doing the facist focus ''improve national spirit''
Thank you Paradox.
I think the US and Soviet Actually just can't handle the sheer amount of stuff they have so just break.
Isp doing all this all the time meanwhile I can hardly take down the Dutch as Germany on civilian difficulty
develepers invest alot of hours to do another start game
The players: I dont bother looking
People who play the 1939 start date are the type of people to remind the teacher of the homework assignment at the end of class
I play the 1939 start day Because my PC is crap and very slow
I played 1939 start the other day, to see if I could do it as Poland
“Even if you don’t have a great computer, the game runs so fast that you’ll be caught up in no time.”
My ass. It usually takes me about 3-4 hours to get to get to 1939.
ISP you got everything right about my laptop and country except I'm not Boris.
What I took away from this was that there needs to be a Hearts of Iron 4 - Start Date 1939 - run through. Oh and the rat needs to come back..
I almost always do dispersed
Play more 1939 please I love it
Earth 1899 is the greatest mod in the world.
"Willsmithing the rudder of the Bismarck"
Uploaded 21 seconds ago? Dont mind if i do enjoy this man's suffering so early.
japan almost losing nothing in the peace deal while the URSS is full on partitioned god i love this IA xD
I mean I’ve played on the 39 start date it can be fun to see how you can survive
It's kinda sad to see 1939 being updated while nobody is playing and if it doesn't get updated some people will complain for a gamemode designed to not be played like those people only look at the map and move on to 1936 but if there are mad lads who play 1939 Im not judging this is just my opinion
Guys one of my friends only start in 1939, what should I do
Find new friends
@@Frankenbutt99 Thank you, this will help me get out of my depression
Kill
your sims characters don't count as friends. they aren't real
What shouldn't you do?
The Tuscans deserved those nukes lol
Victoria revolutions when?
Hamberger
11:20 im having wolfenstein the new order flashbacks
I have tried it and it’s not that bad but I like 1936 more cause it gives you a chance to be better than the standard
I feel called out, I'm literally using a 2005 laptop
I only play hoi4 at 1939 (because im a physcopath) AND if you’re a minor country that is mostly uninvolved in world events until later you can get to the action sooner.
IWO JIIIIIMA!!! IWO JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMA!!! -Braun (1940)
Actually the vast majority of the 2C tanks were scuttled because they were too difficult to transport to the frontline and they had a lot of mechanical problems. There was only one of the ten 2Cs that was captured because the explosive charges did not explode.
Haven't been playing since release. In fact have only started playing in mid 2020.
Still have 3k hours though. The game simply consumes time itself.
Next on the ISP channel: Hoi4 A-Z but it's the 1939 start date!
God I wish literally any start date after 1444 worked in EU4 *cries*
I think you did a '39 playthrough before as a challenge thing.
People who play 1939 remind me of that one snotty kid in elementary nobody talked to
first hoi4 game i did was 1939 slovakia
god i love watching his videos when im stoned af.
Manhours wasted on updating 1939 starts are probably half the actual cost of HOI4 DLCs.
Dont call my man boris out like that!!!
i hoped we'd get a 1941 start date with the barb patch
The Italians didn’t even use the tanks on the frontline they literally used them in convoys and they were tiny🤣