A Bonkers Cossack King Poland Disaster Save (Final Video 2021)

Today for the final video of 2021 we have a Hearts of Iron 4 Poland disaster save where the Cossack King from the new No Step Back DLC is in a bit of a pickle!
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[@AlextheRambler]

*Time for the final video of 2021! I'll be back in 2022. I'm still away from home right now so save are not available for you all to try right now*

[@viclorenzo5016]

Ok

[@grugamersriseup7299]

Saw on the twitch!

[@michael04__806]

hi

[@akramgimmini8165]

Can't wait for the next Content next year

[@gfj893]

good lad, have a good new year alex!

[@mortomes7063]

"I would also love it if the allies could literally do anything to help me" - Historically accurate Poland playthrough

[@moontworks2232]

"Oh no we are incircled" "Sire, we're not encircled, this is the only part of the country we have left" "..."

[@timotheeponzo3516]

Hey alex, loved the video and was wondering if your disaster save inbox is still open as i have an interesting napoleonic france scenario i wanted you to save 😅. Anyways, tootaloo

[@ericremotesteam]

I, for one, would be very interested in seeing a Napoleonic disaster save 👀

[@Lloyd_lyle]

Is it Tootaloo, or is it Waterloo?

[@spadegaming6348]

@@Lloyd_lyle it's a Looolooooolooooo

[@JamesSomersetActor]

You did well enough on the last one that Italy completely capitulated France and Germany didn't get any of it 😂

[@12gark]

Imagine how bad France is to be capitulated by Italy that has to attack through the mountains with the worst division humanity have ever seen 😂

[@whitezombie10]

@@12gark I think the German divisions were trapped in Belgium and decided to do a surprise attack through Italy

[@kolos0139]

As a wise man once said: Alex stop trying to micro on 5x speed!

[@Gaivs]

An idea when you know you are about to loose a lot of territory: queue up as many units as possible in training, and cancel them after you've lost the territory. This way you might be able to keep more, if not most, of your original manpower!

[@johnnyboy95101]

Correct. Especially if you were going to do that 30 Minutes of Hel strat where you only hold Warsaw and a few other tiles. It would soak up the manpower and then once you lose the states you should be able to cancel them and get it back. I never think to do this though.

[@josephscioscio9649]

Is "a chill Polish game" a meme? Cause I seriously have no idea how Playing Poland will ever be chill (although the Novemeber Alliance is always a burden-lifter)

[@Filip-uw9jp]

just go fascist and join axis, then it will be rather chill

[@georgeofazgad2176]

On non historical Germany and the Soviet Union frequently go to civil war, effectively crippling both your main rivals allowing for a relatively chill game

[@Filip-uw9jp]

@@georgeofazgad2176 yeah, that’s also the case, once the Germany in my Poland game just went democratic and invited me to their faction

[@finlandball1939]

@@Filip-uw9jp Why invade when you can invite?

[@MeLoNarXo]

I played the polish lithuanian Commonwealth and pushed Germany out of Berlin.....and then Japan joined the axis and now im just trying to hold the territorry

[@jackfish7284]

It’s always soon as france capitulates all my Poland games get overrun, can hold the Germans till then

[@emperorsponge9208]

Because they send the better troops from west to East

[@cdub35071]

I really like the new Poland tree. It really is a big improvement and gives a lot of variety, especially in non-historical games.

[@reverendroar]

Alex you’ve been keeping me going through a troubled year (2021) both for personal and public reasons so thank you for your videos! Have some great earned rest with the family and see you soon! Hope you’ve had a great festive season and Happy Nee Year! Let’s hope 2022 is the year for all of us to achieve what we want and feel fulfilled with our lives! And thank you once again! Toodaloo!

[@Cjdergrosse]

Go just AA Art and Inf Weapons. Build forts, they can help slow down and the first couple levels are fast to build

[@dont-rump901]

Just saying my dude, “two-take” Rambler for 2022 would be totally fine for me👀 Thank you for all the fantastic videos, working to give us content through all your personal stuff, and frankly just hours and hours of laughter and joyous fun this year! Happy holidays and looking forward to all you have in store for next year😄

[@Kurondrion]

I love watching these disaster saves, think it would be fun setting up a small area to defend as Poland

[@crazedtimo2862]

Keep up the good work!

[@tobinrose2330]

Do you want some chicken lad?! 😂😂

[@dilladonuts8215]

YNWAAAAAAA!!!!!

[@dilladonuts8215]

@OrN227 boooooooo citeh

[@crazedtimo2862]

Woah j thought this was a hoi4 comment section not a football section but oh well, 6 champions league

[@CalvinNoire]

It's been one heck of a year! Keep it up.

[@burgerfanman]

My favourite disaster saves are ones where everything is already neatly organised, so you can spend your time in strategising rather than organising everything.

[@quinncidencea355]

I almost never comment in videos because I feel like they will never be seen but you, mr. Rambler have taught me so much about HOI over the years that I just have to. If it wasn’t for you I still wouldn’t know that supply was a thing in this game

[@lucamendoza5696]

Great year Alex Can’t wait for the new year

[@matthewboyle2641]

I like that the ol' rambler try is becoming the new rambler third times the charm

[@sandstorm9305]

2021: The Year Of Rambler

[@gamingodlan9557]

Nice video Alex

[@robloxlive798]

your borders at the start at the video are very accurate to that of inter 2nd partition borders

[@wendydelisse9778]

The thing about flying a lot of airplanes against a major power, if you are a low fuel country like Poland, is that flying a lot of airplanes will use up your fuel, and once all your fuel is used up, the enemy has 100% air superiority, since none of your airplanes are able to fly if you have completely run out of fuel, and your divisions will then suffer all sorts of penalties, including speed penalties. If you stretch out your fuel by flying fewer airplanes, almost any major power enemy that you have will still get more than 50% air superiority, due to producing more airplanes than you produce, and your divisions still suffer some set of airpower-induced penalties, including speed penalties. The solution for Poland would have been to have - well before the war - a division template with a towed anti-air battalion in addition to the towed anti-tank battalion. Whether or not fuel runs out for Poland's airplanes, a towed anti-air battalion will keep reducing those speed penalties and those combat penalties that will result from the Germans (or any other enemy major power) being able to use a large factory count in order to have more airplanes flying than Poland. The lesson from this video is that pre-war template design is important, once a defencive war starts. A good starting design for a 1938 time frame defencive division template against a major power has at least 5 infantry battalions (a little more than 5 is usually better), at least 1 towed anti-air battalion, at least 1 towed artillery battalion (more than 1 is usually better), and at least 1 towed anti-tank battalion. Here is a 4-brigade template that many mid-level minor countries can reasonably try for in 1938: Brigade 1 (infantry-only): 5 infantry battalions Brigade 1 provides all of the HP and about 60% of the Defence needed. Brigade 2 (artillery-only or mostly artillery): 3 towed artillery battalions Each towed artillery battalion in Brigade 2 provides about as much Soft Attack as 3 Infantry battalions, and at 1/6 the manpower cost, and does not pull down the division Piercing stat coming from Brigade 3 below like an additional 3 infantry battalions would. If you have a starting artillery template with 4 towed artillery battalions and both your industry and your supply structure can support having 4 artillery battalions, you might consider having 4 artillery battalions instead of just 3, in order to save the 5 Military Experience needed in order to make that 4th towed artillery battalion go away. Brigade 3 (mixed): 1 towed anti-air battalion 1 towed anti-tank battalion There is room here in this mixed brigade for adding an infantry battalion, or another towed anti-tank battalion, or another anti-air battalion, if battlefield experience indicates the need. Adding in a second towed anti-tank battalion will for example raise the Piercing stat by 10 or so more points, making it much harder for an enemy division to have an Armor stat that approximately matches your Piercing stat. Adding in a second anti-air battalion can almost double the number of enemy airplanes that you shoot down. In practice, adding in an infantry battalion will add about 20 to the Defence stat in 1938, and might or might not be needed, depending on geography and fort level. Brigade 4 (mixed) 1 infantry battalion (to eventually be replaced by a medium or heavy tank battalion) Adding an infantry battalion is the industrially least expensive way to add to the Defence stat, if you do not have enough research slots or industrial capacity or oil or Army Experience to add in a medium or heavy tank battalion. Of course, if you can get a medium or heavy tank battalion, the Armor stat from the tank battalion can protect from as much as 50% of the enemy attack value, meaning that the extra Defence might not be needed. If the extra Defence is still needed after eventually putting a tank battalion in Brigade 4, the infantry battalion can be moved to Brigade 3 or to Brigade 2 - at no Military Experience cost. Support companies: zero support companies (unless in a pre-existing template), since the factory expense and research expense and Military Experience expense for a minor country in 1938 is typically not worthwhile for adding in the lowly level 1 support companies available then. Of course, as support company technology reaches higher levels as the years go on, those 5 support company slots can eventually become really useful. Overall template characteristics for the above 1938 era template are: 1. Good Soft Attack per 100 manpower 2. Good Soft Attack per supply usage 3. Adequate division Defence stat. 4. Adequate anti-air attack per Combat Width 5. Adequate division Piercing stat 6. Reasonable industrial and manpower and Military Experience and research and resource costs in terms of what a mid-level minor power can afford in 1938. Of course, if you are in a much worse situation than Poland at game start by being a low-level minor power like Ethiopia and you are already being attacked at game start in 1936 by a major power like Italy, you build up your fort level in your capital - and on one or two adjacent tiles, you use your focus tree to add at least two civilian factories in order to speed up the fort building, you research towed anti-air and get enough of them in the field so that your divisions stop getting bombed to bits by swarms of Italian airplanes, and then you hope that you survive long enough to gradually work toward the above 4-brigade template. Ethiopia starts off with a 4-battalion template, with all 4 battalions being infantry battalions, so it will take a while if you are starting off with an Ethiopia to get to a true 4-brigade template that has a double digit number of battalions.

[@abodavidov4073]

Good try man. Always a great time watching.

[@batzing]

Maintainance companies are really useful in this type of situation. Stealing weapons reduces the burdens on your industry.

[@Gwebb74]

Truth, I did the titans clash 1945 start date mod before this dlc, If I didn’t have maintenance companies it would have gone worse. Context: I played the mod 100 times it felt like till I got a game where I stopped the Soviets 200 more till I stopped the Allies and 5 more till I could beat the allies. 1970

[@gerenba]

Why haven't the last few videos included a link to the save file? Trying it myself is the best part!

[@MilHistoria]

I watched the stream, chat was surprisingly good and didn’t do stupid suggestions

[@demi-doll-animege-sama]

Poland is not yet lost.

[@goodhumor9454]

Alex I used to be a fan but now I’m a whole air conditioner

[@bighit20100]

But look at those enemy losses! That must have hurt a lot! I bet if Germany lost 1.2 million men in just Poland, the morale and public support would be so low that the invasion will have to stop at some point and a white peace would’ve been signed. Atleast I would think so…

[@adamhashi9673]

The less tiles you have, the less you have to defend. Interesting

[@battlefield_hackers_exposed]

You might could have tried to hold the whole country, holding supply from the allies and trade open 🤔

[@joegibson1566]

POV: You're doing the Feedback strat for 30 Minutes of Hell

[@mrestratega2113]

The great war mod was updated! (Napoleon TW)

[@algeriangamer1618]

Alex The Rambler The Disasters Saver

[@yesirm1713]

Alex the Disaster Saver

[@algeriangamer1618]

@@yesirm1713 that look better

[@Eldanyveneboy]

Dude, you need to qeue units in production before they take all that territory. Then once you loose it, you stop the training of new armies and then you have a ton of man power

[@maximus76]

i have such an interesting save game, which i think is impossible for you to survive but i dont know how to send in

[@briandavitmusic9421]

two take tuesday ayyyy

[@akkrekz]

How do you do the focus thing for groups or field marshalls

[@exverge1522]

Hey alex nice video i was. doing a soviet union game however it went to pot and i was wondering if you still had your disaster save box open so you could try to fix it i think it is still fixable i know if i play still ill get widdled down and lose anyways see you.

[@joshtaylor9626]

@AlexTheRambler I watched you do this on twitch.

[@robertlam2000]

Wait is there a reason not to battle plan if you don’t intend to attack?

[@Syrath101]

It's kinda awesome as this guy you can get like a 30% bonus to cavalry attack and defence. It's a shame cavalry just kinda suck though.

[@christophersmentkowski3845]

as I played in the name of the tsar and I couldn't find the focuses you had in it

[@saiien2]

"I would love if the Allies actually do anything to help me".... Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Poland 1939 :D

[@boucletubage5916]

alex ramble

[@GreatNishanka]

Lets see if bittersteel could save this

[@danthomas5322]

Your the best Hoi4 player! Keep up the good work

[@snaiper195]

Love you showing losess and mistakes hate web cam

[@thechair9970]

5 seconds in and this already looks gross

[@kzinscout]

Don't even need to watch the video to know alex saved it

[@Zechariah_Mathieson1871]

He didn't

[@fxshyy]

fail

[@TheAPTGamer]

You probably should have watched it before commenting

[@Zechariah_Mathieson1871]

@@fxshyy I mean he had faith in Alex which is commendable

[@j.m.f5451]

If you swapped out AT for AA production and stopped wasting factories on planes you don't have fuel for, and actually made use of the massive cavalry buffs, then I think you most definitely could've held Germany indefinitely. Producing AT in single-player is really pointless, the AI doesn't field many tank divisions and you can usually just get a division's defense high enough to stop their breakthrough. Still a fun watch, though.

[@Enward834]

With all those cav bonuses there's really no point in running infantry right?

[@williamshelton9357]

Just a slightly wider 30 minutes in hel

[@yaboyernesto421]

I have quite a good disaster save for you I was playing Italy trying to restore the roman empire but the US ruined my plans

[@thomasrotweiler]

You collapsed quicker than an engiand cricket team :(

[@janustohal4918]

does anyone have information on when road to 56 will be released to the new version?

[@Creepitor]

why are there no save games to download any more?

[@scottrick7321]

I like your shirt in this vid.

[@yesman6559]

Yes

[@pavelprucha8441]

can you please post link to that save?

[@billybobjoe9479]

Nice game

[@dejannincic9671]

Why didnt u switch to cavalary? The cossack king gives them lots of bufs

[@laytonsealman2448]

What mods do you use

[@jaxkommish]

Ummm.... the guy wasn't expecting Germany to mess with Poland? And was surprised that the Soviets were also going to mess with him?

[@stephengayton5246]

Alex you should feel better about yourself you are a good HOI player and when you feel like you aren't you just should play swimmy

[@NerdAboveAll]

Is the map creator here?

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

Nice

[@russianviking6420]

Ha ha he said Crackcow

[@BetzeBert]

8 days no new vid?? Is everything ok??

[@Micfri300]

I literally studied ww2 at university and hearts of iron seems like advanced engineering and algebra put together in comparison.

[@Micfri300]

@Trance - 009 Sound System Dreamscape advanced algebra is not easy.

[@Micfri300]

@Trance - 009 Sound System Dreamscape i didn't do mathematics at university though. I did politics and international relations 🙄

[@Micfri300]

@Trance - 009 Sound System Dreamscape good for you.

[@babarella1374]

How can I send Alex a save game or doesn´t he take in new ones?

[@diamondsky3787]

Though his email in the discription

[@babarella1374]

@@diamondsky3787 There isn´t one or am I just blind and not seeing it?

[@completelyforgettable1130]

Just a thought, but maybe try and let Germany take one province of what the Soviets are justifying on and that should remove the war justification (unless it was changed for no step back). Then just defend from Germany and hope the Soviets don't start justifying again I AM NOT THAT GOOD AT THE GAME MYSELF but I thought I might as well post my idea

[@godlovesyou1995]

Alex you should change your channel name to Alexander the Rambler. :)

[@patrickoconnor3170]

wheres the mega campaign?

[@fancynaeser9154]

Im new to Hoi4, Can someone explain me why not to "battle planning" ? thx

[@GeneralDiamondSlayer]

You Unnecessary lose a bunch if equipment and manpower. So basically only battle plan if enemy is super weak or when you have a huge surplus

[@johnnyboy95101]

If I understand battle planning correctly that means actually using the battle plan to attack. That means the general (AI) chooses where to attack and with who. This launches a grand offensive that will likely cost a lot of manpower and equipment. You only should really do it if you're stupidly superior to your enemy or maybe you have beaten them so badly that they can't cover the Frontline anymore. It is typically better to micro to limit casualties and to try and take relevant things like victory points, supply hubs, airports, etc.

[@pocky9693]

Last time I was this early, Alex was good at hoi4. wait.

[@tobinrose2330]

Bro should have done 30 minutes of hel thing Dave from feedback gaming

[@willmilburn7905]

Prefer it when you win Alex but you’ve more than earned the like! 👍👍

[@Global_majesty]

Is this a mod?

[@cindywolz440]

How can you fail Cossack king Poland?

[@christophersmentkowski3845]

Can someone please send me a link to the mods he used in the video called "The Reich Returns But Its In Austria?! HOI4"

[@luftschiff1069]

Try out the metro mod for hoi4

[@christophersmentkowski3845]

in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJK2l2WNnNisoNU what mod did you use for it?

[@NON155]

PLAY AS CHAD ???

[@vorkutavorkutlag]

pinecone

[@RaptorYt3892]

Do more age of history 2

[@furgarr75]

One commentaire like one take . Comentaire

[@explodingwolfgaming8024]

Commenting 4 algorithm

[@ozymandias3329]

Alex is one of the only things keeping me from suicide, my will to live is as thin as Alex's hair.

[@signoguns8501]

hair stops being important when you get to 30. by that time you've probably got a wife, kids and a mortgage, you stop caring lol

[@theusa2317]

once i was playing poland (a year ago) and a lived until 1941. guess what the french did? NOTHING legit they moved one tile and then lost after my hangs started hurting and i couldnt mico anymore. keep in mind i did like a milion deaths on them. french ai was dogshit.

[@explodingwolfgaming8024]

Lmaoaoaoaoalaoaoa

[@andersonalvarez1326]

E

[@justyes1234]

Alex I'm polish and Krakow is pronounced like Krakoov

[@laufbl]

q

[@extogaming9649]

First

[@eriercandy3151]

First 100

[@matijamiskovic1427]

FIRSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

[@afriendlycadian9857]

Cringe

[@matijamiskovic1427]

@@afriendlycadian9857 0____0

[@fxshyy]

didnt ask

[@matijamiskovic1427]

lj

[@michael04__806]

Yes