A Paradox YouTuber Challenged Me To Save Her HOI4 Disaster....

Welcome back to the HOI4 Disaster save series! Today A Paradox KZbinr Challenged Me To Save Her HOI4 Disaster.... This is my first Hearts of Iron 4 By Blood Alone savegame. Can I do it?
Cara's channel: / heyyallitscara
Try the save: drive.google.com/file/d/1HSYL...
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Alex the Rambler produces videos on a variety of Strategy games while dabbling in other things from time to time. Expect extremely incompetent gameplay!
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[@AlextheRambler]

*Thanks to Cara for sending in this save! EDIT: Already seeing some gross comments about Cara, please, please get a life and stop trying to put down women in an effort to make yourselves feel better*

[@UserStillLoading]

Now you need to send her a disaster save too.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

@@UserStillLoading That would just be mean.

[@jimthedinoman5765]

Women play hoi4?

[@ivorycxxxx]

@@UserStillLoading I’d pay to see Alex’s reaction to the aftermath of it LOL.

[@mrmixtape3336]

Send her one

[@legionofmetal9968]

Cara: [Just chilling and generally having a good time on hoi 4 no matter whats happening.] Alex: [PANIC!!!!]

[@dani__-zz8tl]

Meanwhile in Alex brain: error 404 progamm nont found

[@theinfinium3247]

Cara: [Realises she made some mistakes] Alex: [calm] Cara: [refuses to fix the problems and instead decides war is the answer] Alex: [PANIC!!!!!]

[@andreasottohansen7338]

Man, just watching Alex reacting to Cara's playing was absolutely amazing.

[@oneballimann6425]

Yeah !!! and i also feel like screeming at my screen "DONT DO THATTT!!!" xD

[@jasmadams]

My favourite was when she realized there was a problem with her front and considered fixing it, but then decided to ignore it again. He got so hopeful and then... "NO!!!"

[@kingjo-jo2463]

Maybe she should have picked Germany for the first game and not the Soviet Union

[@matt_the_croat9521]

It made me cry 😭 not Alex he’s good but her 😢😢😢

[@jamaluddinkhalifa8371]

@@kingjo-jo2463 you probably know this by now, but this was her second game. for the first one, *she picked FRANCE!!!*

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I'm just happy it's not my steaming mess

[@EyeForgorMyName]

Bitter boy stream when??!?!?!??!

[@whitezombie10]

Wow you're here too?

[@EnteresanJEA]

​@@whitezombie10He nearly always is

[@queru1ous]

Alex long ago: “It’s me, your diddly-daddly-doodler, Alex the Rambler” Alex not so long ago: “It’s me, your boi, Alex the Rambler” Alex now: “It’s me, Alex” What’s next?! “What’s going on everyone? Alex.” ????

[@zukzbigniew4802]

Hello. A.

[@friendly_ricefarmer6526]

Hello it’s me

[@mosleypilled376]

Hello.

[@bigcat100and2]

He is depressed now 😞

[@queru1ous]

@@bigcat100and2 I probably would be depressed too after playing so many disaster saves…

[@TheLordNovo]

I could feel Alex’s pain when she neglected to pause the game.

[@Cornan1980]

Watching this really reflects how complicated this game is and what the learning curve is like. I forget how much stuff I've just internalized about this game over the years.

[@Swagmaster07]

Same, i started playing when i was like 9 now im 13, lets just say im doing alot better, i even kicked the soviets A as baltic auxilary states or smt ( i was facist.) I remember that i used to do tanks only.

[@aoki6332]

Yeah and the fact that she went into pretty much soviet civil war when she still beginning the game its easy when you understand the mechanic but yeah its gonna be wild

[@owenr-m4619]

I literally watched 3 hours of tutorials in order to wrap my head around it. I remember when paradox's idea of tutorials was just pointing at the wiki and saying "have fun".

[@edwardaugustus9680]

The Chad Cara: What do you mean I don't have a boarder? I have an army. The Virgin Rambler: NooOOo you cAn't do that!

[@ErikaWeiss633]

Cara sends disaster saves to Alex, Alex sends disaster saves to Bittersteel. Good, we have a pecking order. Bittersteel and Feedback Gaming are definitely titans of HOI4 while Alex is the very popular one.

[@CTM162]

Where is ISP?

[@ErikaWeiss633]

@@CTM162 Eh...he sort of jumps around. He's sort of recently gotten back to HOI4, but for a while he abandoned that game for other kinds of content. Whereas Alex, Bittersteel, and Feedback Gaming primarily focus on HOI4 majority of the time with some deviation via sponsorships and taking a wee break from HOI4 itself.

[@therealgaben5527]

Shame people like dankus/grisha don’t do these as they would definitely be at the top

[@Matthias-bt2kx]

@@ErikaWeiss633 there's also taureor

[@jaxkommish]

If you send me your disaster saves, i can make them worse for you!

[@DeathEatsCurry]

Man this really highlights how much knowledge the typical hoi4 gamer takes for granted. Even just stuff like "do your industry research first".

[@josthobic9860]

Yep...her play reminded me of me 5 years ago.... despite playing Hoi3 quite a lot...I was clueless 😂

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

Putin could really use Alex right now. He's got one nasty disaster save

[@OnionIlan]

💀

[@redshirt5126]

I'm not sure anyone could save THAT disaster.

[@jaxkommish]

Well I have heard from very reliable sources that the operation is going just fine, and we are all underestimating how well the Ruskies are doing *cough cough*

[@olsiontoska9520]

Don't watch to much western propaganda boys if you want a real information on Ukraine war you can watch here on KZbin history legend channel for neutral and real news and defence politics asia channel

[@olsiontoska9520]

You don't now that in Ukraine war for one russian soldiers killed there are 7 Ukrainian solider killed

[@TinkyTheCat]

HOI4 isn't really my cup of tea (not sure why KZbin recommended this) but it was still interesting. Being willing to fail, and fail, and fail again is the prerequisite to learning. Many people will never even try in the first place for fear of failure, so props to Cara and hopefully she doesn't get discouraged, especially since their save apparently wasn't in as bad shape as either of you thought.

[@sued_]

I actually play smaller nations now after 1400 hours, just to see how far my sanity will last. Now I got the ethiopia achivement but i havent done all the paths sooooo... Back I go I guess

[@31337ification]

@@sued_ teach me senpai! I have been playing for ages and progressively getting worse and worse at the game.

[@sued_]

@@31337ification With each dlc, you loose a bit a familiarity with the game, if you are playing by blood alone, I can't really help with that. However if you wish to be better I suggest looking up division template designs and getting good at setting up your economy. Or you don't even need to look up designs just experiment and have fun

[@sld1776]

There are a bunch of interlocking systems in the game. It just takes time to learn.

[@megafatuunna3467]

@@sld1776 yeah

[@tili4710]

As both a woman and someone who could not win the germal civil war event on her first try, this video is relatable in so many levels.

[@hamzaalikhan9932]

L

[@7XQO]

I feel that

[@Dovahleaf]

It took me a good many attempts to win that war too

[@helcioforoni1453]

that war lowkey demands a bit of previous knowledge that you *need* to cut off bavaria with tanks else its just landsturm regiments mindlessly charging the enemy

[@dryhad9253]

Unfortunately for Cara, BBA introduced a couple of bugs to the Soviet Opposition, which is why she was getting so much paranoia (no reduction from purging generals) and those "anti-soviet thinking" debuffs aren't supposed to be there post civil war. Not a great introduction to the game when it's just accidentally harder than it's supposed to be. Still, made for good content I suppose. Thanks to both of you!

[@nikolakolev2168]

Why tf Latvia in the thumbnail looks like Austria?!?!

[@xi.na_]

Always has been

[@42carlos]

my reaction exactly lol

[@BobbyWanKenobi]

1:00 - 8:00 - Zhukov reacting to Voroshilovs Finland campaign, 1940, colorized. The first eight minutes were PAINFUL to watch. I was suffering on stream.

[@jamiedavies3810]

Ramblers face just dropping as Cara picks techs and equipment was gold. Edit: Cara seems cool! I'm gonna go sub!

[@slikespitfire4751]

I feel bad for her, this feels like my first game...

[@tlpineapple1]

This feels like every game ive played

[@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer]

me, a noob, seeing her mistakes aswell : "groans in pain yet is happy im not this bad"

[@whitezombie10]

Same

[@DaMetalRenegade]

Sorry but seeing Alex having literal panic attacks over her messing things up is just the funniest thing ever.

[@ertrick3693]

This reminds me of when I first tried HOI4 on Game Pass, except she's smart enough not to try to research nuclear technology as the first tech for no reason and she isn't failing miserably to defeat Yugoslavia as Germany.

[@ertrick3693]

Check out that sick encirclement at 6:18 😎😎😎

[@davidbraccini4770]

My compliments Rambler, you actually won for once!

[@cdub35071]

The introduction is a masterpiece. Alex has a panic attack if this makes a best bits.

[@poyloos4834]

Btw, I’d like to take this moment to bring up how inadequate the current in-game tutorial for hoi4 (and most other pdx/any grand strategy game ever) is. It should not be the community’s job to teach itself how the game works. I know we just sort of live with it because “that’s how it’s always been” and we just assume that these games are too complex for a truly comprehensive in-game tutorial, justifying the youtube tutorial approach, but truthfully it does not need to be that way. So what’s wrong with the current tutorial, and how can we fix it? Well, the main problems it has are that 1. It is out of date and not representative of the current game. 2. It only covers some of the more basic mechanics, like troop movement and building things, without talking about any of the intricacies surrounding them, like consumer goods, construction speed, how production efficiency works, how supply works and how it affects units, combat width, division designers, xp gain, etc. 3. The tutorial can hardly be considered a dedicated one, as it’s just an italy game that holds your hand for a year at the start. So how do we fix it? Well, to start off there should be a segmented number of tutorials, not one big one, that each covers a specific topic in-depth, and maybe each topic has subtopics. For instance, an economy tutorial that covers the balance between mils and civs, infrastructure, equipment production and trade. A battle tutorial that has many subsections not just instructing how to move units, but what stats mean and how they affect a battle, terrain, effects from pack of supply, generals and field marshals, division templates, veterancy etc. And this covers my next point, but having segmented tutorials on new mechanics added, like tank, naval, and air designs, spies, high command spirits, dealing with resistance, managing a puppet, production licenses. I’m cutting myself off here because I’ve already written an essay, but I hope the one person who reads this gets my point.

[@alexgortz3127]

This is so funny cuz alex just talks in this really condescending tone and is taking this vid so serious while CARRA is just chillin and playing all goofy like

[@zadaron4286]

Alex is basically in pain from what he's watching here lmao 2:12

[@seemotte7065]

5:30 … no … No … NO … Wilhelm, you cant go through neutral nations!!!

[@whitezombie10]

Actually you should have made Wilhelm tell it to his generals, with that answering they already did

[@seemotte7065]

@@whitezombie10 So much potential …

[@whitezombie10]

@@seemotte7065 what I mean is that in real life Wilhelm didn’t want to invade Belgium but the generals have the order without his authorisation and they weren’t quick enough to stop it

[@seemotte7065]

@@whitezombie10 Schon Klar (deutsche Geschichte is mir recht gut bekannt), meine Antwort war drauf bezogen, dass ich das auch auf deine Art hätt umsetzen können.

[@maurowns]

The escalation from 6:11 is gold! ❤

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

I'm happy that Cara actually exists. About time we have females genuinely interested in PDX games.

[@sued_]

This has been staged, we all know there are no girl paradox players

[@iwishuponafish1274]

Femal fascists

[@Tom-oj7si]

Would have been nice to have a lady interested in PDX who also has a nice voice This girl has a grating rasp

[@therealgaben5527]

Ngl she is the second female I have actually seen play hoi4, the only other one was in a nonhist game

[@whitezombie10]

@@sued_ true

[@simplymatt6140]

Would love to see more disaster saves. Also, I think some basic tutorials would be a good idea since the game has changed so much

[@loopyguy7611]

Please do more of this, its amazing! the reaction before the saving was perfect

[@maiqtheliar789]

The thing is she is actually pretty good at Crusader Kings but that requires different things than HOI4. That is the thing about Paradox games. They are all similar in a lot of ways, but also have vast differences between them as well. I have played every Paradox game that there is, and going from Crusader Kings to HOI4 seems like that would be the hardest leap to make as far as commonalities between games. Give her some time and she will become decent at it. After this video I checked out her channel because I was unfamiliar with her but she seemed like a nice person. Her Crusader Kings videos are pretty good.

[@redholm]

Yea. The way you play in HoI, CK, Stellaris or Surviving Mars is extremely different. Edit! Can't forget Surviving the Aftermath. Came out not to long ago.

[@brokenarrow7996]

This is one of my favorite disaster save videos. Would love to have more with Alex's reactions!

[@wetwillyis_1881]

There is one man who could do this, and that man is Alex. I love you mate!

[@captainstag8189]

Ah watching cara remind me of my first hoi4 game

[@sverredierikx7628]

Your humor is very good in every part of any video you make!

[@YoungNapoleon]

Already subbed to her, I've been waiting for this video and it did not disappoint!

[@stepheningram6415]

This was really fun! I liked this a lot. I like you collaborating with with other steamers is great! You really are the nice guy of HOI4

[@redmatador7595]

After 3 minutes you know this is going to be a frustrating disaster😆 Good on her for trying though.

[@SlapInTheFaceForMora]

Smashed the bell, flicked the like button, there was fire, I was scared. Hope it helped, Alex.

[@LordDaret]

I think that intro video explains how most disaster saves happen.

[@NineNoRouge]

Good on Cara for trying. I was really bad when I started.

[@Geraduss]

Think Cara or anyone for that matter that plays HoI4 for the very first time, should play the 1.0 version without any DLC to get used to the basics, the game was much simpler then.

[@ClnlBogey]

Excited to see how this plays out.

[@sirnilsolav6646]

Alex's reaction Cara's playthrough was exactly the same as my reaction

[@BossFountainGames]

As someone who streamed a pretty bad naval invasion as Germany, and had a pretty great segment of the HOI4 community show up, I'm honestly pretty proud that Cara seems to be fairly chill about the learning curve! I was... much less chill. HOI4 is/was very intimidating to jump into as someone brand new, but generally the community has seemed pretty supportive, as it should be if you want new players to jump in! Grand Strategy is probably my weakest genre, so still pretty trash at HOI, but at least I can watch stuff like this to feel reassured a bit.

[@Hutcherie]

Not the most disastery disaster save ever, but still plenty enjoyable. Also I love your mountie duck

[@williamvageland6563]

this is how I feel watching Alex

[@insignificantgnat9334]

That intro takes me back to my first few HOI attempts. Good times. Also what's going on in Siberia at the end of the video? It looks like the Japanese broke through.

[@delano4526]

Have a game where you just play regular single player as any country but at the end of the episode you have to give up the save to another youtuber and this can go on for maybe 10 times where the leader is just constantly switching and they're free to do whatever they want

[@Captain-Axeman]

Honestly, as a noob really like these videos, because I learn a bit from them. Hopefully eventually I actually manage to complete a game without relying on the alias.

[@PadaV4]

22:19 faction leader capitulating. Nationalist Spain "Clearly now is the best time to join this faction" ಠ_ಠ

[@Marklennon]

Learning this game took forever!

[@jacksurvivalwolf9671]

Atleast Cara tried their best, they seem so wholesome

[@McGravyBoii]

I have played paradox games since I was 13 and I am. Now 21. I still play like cara.

[@GinDragon]

I watched the first half of this, and was wondering if you were going to do the other side in a video!

[@5-but-3-idiots67]

Good upload Matt

[@someguy-qh4bt]

Rambler on top! 🔥🔥🔥

[@fkmkl]

Fun video, really enjoyed this one.

[@Gnomkiller2000]

I just like caras vibe she's just a mood 😁

[@insanity021]

Rip Alex’s sanity watching Cara do all the incorrect stuffs lmao 😂

[@salvatoreclaudiochiarenza5735]

Another great save... Incredible... I'm speechless...

[@callmedaddy2172]

just a great video .. Alex reaction was the same as mine xD 😂😂

[@JeroenHensing]

nice win Alex! :)

[@ouanlynch6404]

I've been looking forward to this since her video dropped.

[@grantforester1864]

Honestly, managing to have a 2-1 kd with Germany with like no equipment and supply is pretty good for a new player.

[@darkest_eclipse8271]

Honestly a lot of us probably started playing hearts of iron before all these extra Add-on mechanics were here. I know for Eu4 it was incredibly complex for my first time and I absolutely did not get the hang of it till hundreds of hours into the game. A lot of these things are not incredibly obvious and you need experience first hand to know what is needed and not. I hope she at least had fun in the end!

[@athena3342]

This video is worth a watch just for alex's reactions to the video

[@toshmcmongbody755]

More content with cara please. Hi Alex hope you're doing well

[@ItalianChad98]

I remember my first game of hoi4 where I was playing the soviets and I accidentally incircled the Germans in stalingrad. But I still held Leningrad and Moscow.

[@justyes1234]

Based

[@swissmemer7886]

this must be the greatest video so far!

[@christopherbailey8926]

I'm finally early to watch one of my favorite hoi4 KZbinrs

[@seangallagher9435]

I honestly think paradox should flip the order of the research tabs. When I started playing I did the same thing and got all the military tech first because it’s the first tab on the research menu, and I thought it would be most important.

[@mrcleantrash2345]

Didilly danm ram he's back

[@peeter2624]

alex i want you to know this is how i feel every time i watch your videos

[@salsalvador3354]

Bro this person (the person Alex is saving) is hilarious

[@jiahturner8122]

Alex had a straight Hodor moment watching her try to invade Latvia.

[@AclibButLikeTheRealOne]

The fact that u added cavalry recon infuriates me to an indescribable amount lmao

[@timesnewromania530]

Oh hey, I lost to Latvia in my first game as well. Except it was just against Latvia. Somehow

[@Jolo12530]

AHHHH it hurts so much I cant handle it

[@justanotherdayinwherever]

Reminds me if showing this game to my friend who then does absolutely everything wrong :)

[@leone.6190]

5:30 it's like watching german ww1 army highcommand.

[@hoovy2319]

While some of the mistakes are pretty bad, we all had to start somewhere when we first started learning

[@medicblue9400]

Reminds me the first time I played and got smacked

[@thataussieguy4770]

this woman just proved if you dont use youtube to learn hoi4 you will cry yourself to sleep

[@gokublackssjr9335]

Watching this high asf was so damn awarding

[@aspielm759]

I can feel Alex' pain on this.

[@justyes1234]

He makes it look so easy...

[@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn]

I could feel the soul leaving Rambldoos body

[@markolukic7824]

I had flashbacks of my first HOI4 game xD

[@RidwanMiah-dd5ke]

To the gulf stream and the forgotten password is the temperature

[@BetzeBert]

Nice save

[@jeefgaming1367]

Alex I feel sorry for you, you should teach her console commands as you are an expert and it will be able to help her.

[@lukalolleonardo4797]

This is how I was playing hoi4 when I started playing

[@grandly2214]

Alex's reaction said a lot 😂

[@ericfuchs123]

Flicking… my like button for you and only you, Alex.

[@littlerambo]

People acting like hoi is a straightforward game

[@NoNoSot]

I feel ur pain watching that vid. It hurts.

[@kimchi2780]

Every New Player: GUNS FIRST! Everyone else: Radio!!!!!

[@Kirkner31]

I think we need more reacting to other HOI gamers.