Historical Divisions Germany in Gotterdammerung is PEAK?!

[@Aldrahill]

Want to see just how OP Germany is in Gotterdammerung? Use my link to buy the DLC! I get a small cut

[@schiefer1103]

Misspelled title: Götterdämmerung

[@IndependentObserver]

10:40 The reason they were motorised, is because people at the time understood that AT guns had a distinct disadvantage when fighting against tanks- they needed to be spread out around the entire unit/guarding an entire area, while enemy tank formation would only attack from 1 side- and if they were attacking from multiple sides it probably meant there were more of them so AT's were screwed either way. To combat it all major powers (and even minor ones like Poland) were trying to make weapons capable of destroying enemy tanks as mobile and as manoeuvrable as possible. Hence why all early-war AT guns were small enough that the gun's crew, of 3-5 people, could tow them and reposition without any problem. Britain on top of that mounted their AT gun (2 pounder) on a rotating chassis, allowing it to respond to attack from any angle at a moments notice. This is also why AT rifles were so popular- Soviet PTRS, British "Boys", and Polish "Ur"- the last of which was mostly given to cavalry units, again, to make it as mobile and manoeuvrable as possible, go one step above that and you have a Toyota Hilux with RPG's. Motorisation of AT guns being important is even represented in HOI IV- once you research the 2nd AT gun you get additional 10% piercing and 10% hard attack, specifically for motorised AT artillery, on top of all other piercing bonuses from the intermediate techs.

[@The_Watcher-v6]

Dude, the reason why danzig has no troops all the time is that it's demilitarized.

[@ZehamKaiser]

Why didnt you do the autarky focuses, you couldve gotten rid of the debuffs and consumer goods😭😭😭

[@guerra467]

Gotta love being historical

[@resentfuldragon]

I did the autarky focuses and MEFO still hits hard, like now I can't do a broken steamroller army and have to actually play the game (lol)

[@Goofyahhgamer.]

@@resentfuldragonI’m not smart enough to play hoi4

[@02091992able]

BF-109s starting with the F variant had one 20mm cannon mounted in the nose cone and 2 heavy MGs mounted over the top of the engine with interrupters to fire between the props.

[@appendixpower5538]

almost, the Fs still had light rifle-caliber machine guns. The g6 were the first to mount the 13mm MG 131, you can easily tell them apart by those nice rounded pieces on the engine cowling, designed to make space for the larger reciever of the heavy machine gund;)

[@bigvinnie3]

@@appendixpower5538 Fly like a G6

[@AceofSpades511]

The division designer mod dives you 10 support company slot. Historical divisions have a lot more support companies. I love using it

[@brianjamesward2150]

16:30 I'm gonna guess the raid option is missing if you don't have paratroopers to carry it out

[@Aldrahill]

Ahhhh that makes sense

[@ianmiller8399]

@@Aldrahillby default only airplane raids show up. If you look in the bottom right of the screen at the top, it shows airplane symbol lit up while paratrooper and nuclear symbols grayed out.

[@digitallee5006]

These videos have so much historicity, that college students are using your videos for their military history assignments... probably.

[@Strelnikov403]

lmfao no

[@Aldrahill]

Dude that’d be a dream xD sadly though, I don’t do any peer review to make it useful as a history essay source!

[@Masv1pe]

@@Aldrahillwhat peer review means?

[@EliCampbell-p9n]

I’m watching this instead of doing my assignments lol

[@ahennessy7998]

​It's basically when other academics check over your work to make sure you aren't making shit up ​@@Masv1pe

[@walnzell9328]

Vichy France sending you a consumer goods factor upping event several times is cause for Case Anton.

[@Aldrahill]

THANK YOU that's exactly what I thought xD

[@theedgar1239]

Consider trying the mod "France Expanded" that was recently updated in correlation with the recent HOI4 update. The mod makes playing historical France a lot more "historical", regarding events like "Phoney War", party changes, prime ministers, collapse of the popular front and more. It also has a lot of historically accurate division templates that was used in different theaters, like northern- and southern France. Beware of the national spirit Germany receives on 10th May 1940... ...Best of luck

[@Olmax-ir1cz]

21:46 You should use german governor, it gives you Hans Frank so accurate german governor. Piasecki, who can be collaborator was actually active nationalist resistent fighter

[@Aldrahill]

Ahhh damn, there were so many RKs that I messed up ;(

[@bigvinnie3]

@@Aldrahill It happens lol

[@soumadelezo4867]

8:52 The early Stug has the same gun than the early PzIV so it should have the close support gun, no the howitzer that in the Stuh 42 version that is mid war

[@havefun0235]

25:53 the maus is looking at us

[@Aldrahill]

I know that almost scared me xD

[@havefun0235]

@Aldrahill XD

[@horrigan495]

Danzing will pretty much always be empty as it is still a demilitarized zone for Poland at the war start.

[@Aldrahill]

Ahhh that makes a lot of sense

[@penzorphallos3199]

11:00 anti tank is motorized because you want to have a chance to quickly reposition if the enemy tanks don't correctly pass in front of your at guns, also horses/donkeys make constant noises

[@Aldrahill]

This makes sense! But in hoi terms it’s utter pain :P

[@arvojustice]

Can't wait to see this in Black Ice!

[@ice-p7w]

German inf divs had motorised to allow quick deployment to defend against enemy armour. This allowed flexible defence which was a key German defensive doctrine.

[@GothicGamerXIV]

I've written down every division design on pieces of paper, from the ones i've found on Steam forums to the ones showed by you. During my recent playthrough, i've been planning on replacing infantry division's cavalry recon with armored cars in 1940, and in 1941, motorized anti-tank with tank destroyers (hail to the StuG III). It's kind of a bummer that they don't have field hospitals. Do the mountaineers have the same support companies as infantry?

[@RestorerOfRome]

Yap yap yap, put the fries in the bag lil bro

[@piercebunge4297]

You forget that Danzig up until the war starts is demilitarized

[@MrZauberelefant]

Props to you for learning the tactical symbols. Niehorster is an invaluable source. Speaking of historical divisions, I have checked Niehorster on independent or corps/army level battalions (artillery mainly, but also Flak and other stuff) and I figure that a historical German division should have 4 arty battalions (or 3 regular+1 heavy or Nebelwerfer) and all armoured/motorized/SS get their own AA, plus a third of the line divisions (as AA was manned by the Luftwaffe mostly and "lent" to the Heer) and mostly at Schwerpunkten. Keep up the good work, and remember: sonderkraftfahrzeug!

[@Aldrahill]

Thanks! I was trying to do it to total numbers of guns, so 36 105mm and 12 150mm, which is 1 arty battalion and one support artillery, at least as close as I can make it xD Cheers buddy!

[@MrZauberelefant]

​@@Aldrahillyou explained that concisely. I however hold that artillery piece numbers do not mirror reality in hoi4, first because they needed more pieces per battalion to make attrition less atrocious (with low integers having an issue with fractions and so) and the main cost, ammunition, not being represented elsewhere. But your point is valid. Just not satisfying for me

[@Vengir]

The button for nuking has been moved to the bottom right, above the search button.

[@OrganizationOfFreeNations007]

There's a mod that i like, it helps with pp when you have a bunch and it gives bonuses. It's called "Better Laws and Policies". Idk how to link it so if you want to use it you have to find it yourself, but it's a good mod i think.

[@thelastplaguedoctor6992]

I can't play without it

[@peste1463]

How the hell!? In my Germany playthrough, France had all of their divisions in Belgium so I had to go thru the maginot

[@cyberse8346]

Germans actually used a self propelled super heavy arty the karlgerät.

[@krcsirke]

Hungary Heroes' Square as in the start menu, Horthy looks like a dude who claimed to be the strongest man in Hungary (later in the world, won that title couple of times), Austrian guy looks like he is from a Disney movie, it is wild design job from Paradox.

[@walnzell9328]

Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich was headed by Josef Grohé in 1944. It was only made a Reichskommissariat in 1944. Before that it was a regular military occupational government. I don't know why Paradox doesn't have Grohé as an option. Surely they knew. It wasn't that hard to find out who the Reichskommissar was. The Generalgouvernment was headed by Hans Frank. Again, wasn't that hard for me to find this information. Paradox wtf. Reichskommissariat Norwegen... UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH! The Germans hated Quisling! Paradox, find the real Reichskommissar! Do some research! It takes like a minute! REICHSKOMMISSARIAT OSTLAND- God why do I even bother

[@michinoix]

The historical value of this dlc is pisspoor from what I've seen. Honestly downright sad.

[@gratefulguy4130]

They've gotten worse with historical accuracy every DLC but this one is just godawful. I'm so glad I didn't let my game update. I'm going to assume there will be a serious demand for rolled back versions on the high seas.

[@bigvinnie3]

He was putting in local collaborators if you put in Germans you get Hans Frank, Josef Terboven, Heinrich Lohse, Erich Koch Etc.

[@bigvinnie3]

@@michinoix Its actually fairly good if you play historically. Its not perfect but its one of the better ones in that respect.

[@bigvinnie3]

@@gratefulguy4130 You should get it its actually one of the few DLCs id say is worth getting(unless you need them for Mods thats why I have all of em lol). The new nuke system alone is worth it.

[@OmeOmleid]

War crimes are not spicy. Spicy is nice. Warcrimes are not.

[@OmeOmleid]

Free Palestine

[@KyleKatarnBanthaHerder]

24:30 V3 falls under the land warfare projects, while V1 and V2 are under the air warfare projects. So if you end up focusing on land warfare projects first, I guess you can end up completing the V3 before actually completing the V1 and V2 projects. Would be interesting if they actually get labelled "V1", "V2", or "V3" based off of the order you research them in, but that would probably be annoying and confusing In real-life, the projects were all independent, being worked on around the same time by separate teams, and not, like, sequential evolutions or anything. The "V" was just a designation for propaganda purposes, referring to them being reprisal weapons meant to target Britain in response to bombing raids The V3 was a bit odd. It was just a really, really long cannon, longer than railroad guns, basically built into an underground base. And it was multi-charge. The shell gets launched by an initial charge like any other sort of cannon, but instead of only having that initial charge provide all the force, there were spots along the barrel where additional explosive charges or even rocket boosters would basically be set-off, adding even more force and propellent behind the shell to speed it up even more as it travelled the length of the barrel, and allowing it to (very inaccurately) hit targets over 100 miles away

[@pavlosd303]

Still Paradox makes wrong vehicles models. Löwe has Tiger model and Maus has Löwe model.

[@Aldrahill]

Hah, weird!

[@gratefulguy4130]

Typical

[@harmony8101]

You madlad

[@MrZauberelefant]

Oh boy, infantry divisions had 3 companies of horse limber/towed AT guns in the infantry regiments and 1 battalion of 3 companies in a motorized divisional AT battalion. The reason for that redundancy was that a) every regiment was able to immediately react to armour in its area and b) Division could reinforce any enemy massed armour by swiftly sending the motorized AT battalion. I think paradox buffed the motorized battalion over the limber one (bit more piercing, iirc) for that reason in NSB.

[@walnzell9328]

Historical run Makes Denmark a protectorate

[@MrZauberelefant]

Sort of correct, the Danish initially were made into a client state and got occupied for real in 1943

[@walnzell9328]

@@MrZauberelefant I read that Denmark was under direct German occupation from the 9th of April, 1940 until May 5th, 1945, just two days before Germany surrendered. And that the Germans kept the civilian government intact for the most part until phasing it out as the war progressed further. There was no autonomous state.

[@MrZauberelefant]

​@@walnzell9328i never said it was autonomous. They just hadn't a military administration ruling with an iron fist - so a puppet would be correct.

[@walnzell9328]

@@MrZauberelefant Except the protectorate has their own troops and is able to stay out of Germany's wars.

[@bigvinnie3]

@@walnzell9328 Denmark did have its own troops(sort of) and they were able to stay out of the war(until 43 anyway) so its not perfectly represented but its not too far off. In August 1943 they ceased to exist as a functioning state and their army and navy were disarmed and seized. But before that they had a small army and were allowed to function more or less as they saw fit. But the Germans were more or less in charge of policing with help of local collaborators and were allowed to recruit for the SS and Wehrmacht.

[@Radu_D_1]

Wonderful content as always, I love to see historical Hoi 4 and you're the best at it!!!

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you so much!

[@Ancient_Hoplite]

To do the special raid on the fort in Belgium Ében-Émael, you need Paratroopers I'm guessing.

[@RossGoneRogue]

Great video. My only complaint is they still haven't added motorcycle battalions for things like motorcycle recon companies because it was used a lot by both sides in WWII. Also if you're interested, Heinz Guderian's memoir (Panzer Leader) has a bunch of the German Panzer and Panzergrenadier division templates in the back of his memoir. It's also just a great read.

[@Aldrahill]

They have added motorcycle recon support company at least! YES I have that book! But my version doesn't have any divisional templates in it :( lame

[@andromidius]

The AI improvements are going to take some getting used to. You can't rush down the UK as easily anymore - they actually defend now and will push you back into the sea if given half a chance! I appreciate it. I was getting far too lazy being able to battleplan and forget.

[@gratefulguy4130]

How did you not know Bormann was last not first? It gives you a clue with him & Hess being mutually exclusive.

[@MarcelPiotr-l1i]

The Generalgouvernement was ruled by a German, Hans Frank. Boleslaw Piasecki during the German occupation, was part of the resistance movement. I know it's not very important in the context of the game, but you didn't choose the historical option. Greetings from Poland :)

[@aaronreynolds1717]

New challenge can you win as Germany but you can only use a division template once

[@IOSEF31]

Fantastical content

[@Bobbert_521]

Love your content man

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you so much!

[@duxxd123]

Day 1 of asking for End of a new Beginning historicaly acurate Austria

[@Bettenlieger]

You should also do Historical divisions as Belgium or Belgium Congo

[@ethanmalan7080]

I don't have the collaboration dlc ...so now I have to go half way through Russia with a economy that breaks when someone touches it to hard and a AI that is on steroids and I have to save Italy from its own stupidity.... sometimes I ask myself why I play this game...

[@monikawasherelol]

You don't have to do four year plan btw

[@Aldrahill]

Oh Christ that would be agony xD

[@wirdburker-son7010]

Guys, I want to ask, what is actually free in this update, all the German focus tree (including alt. history) the raids and the super weapon or I have to bought all of them?

[@piercebunge4297]

just the german focus tree and the patches of course

[@The_Watcher-v6]

@@piercebunge4297 obly the historical branch tho

[@wirdburker-son7010]

@@piercebunge4297 thanks 😸

[@kannonspendstoomuchtime4597]

Lessgo!

[@CrazyyzaiiMB]

Trying to survive against Germany as Austria with only hist. divisions next?

[@Blader445]

I am curious if historical Canadian divisions are possible in HOI4.

[@Aldrahill]

I have found some sources! So it's on its way at some point :)

[@Blader445]

@ awesome! Hopefully you can recreate the famous Royal Canadian Rifles!

[@tundrawolf5127]

Somehow I can’t push the soviets in this new update. They are an absolute wall impossible to push, how did you do it through battleplanning?

[@crunch.dot.73]

CAS is king

[@bicopgameryttm7266]

19:18 it was designed 50 years after the war for a video game. So it's not even real

[@gato_capitalista]

btw isn't the elefant supposed to have petrol-eletric drive?

[@jonathansibrian695]

Yes

[@Aldrahill]

YES I totally forgot about that!

[@jamiekamihachi3135]

Honestly I’m glad they have nuclear breakthroughs locked behind research because otherwise I think it would turn the mid game into a nuke game. And nuke games are just miserable slog for everyone.

[@Aldrahill]

I agree I think it’s a good change :)

[@TheFadedFolly]

Okay so if I want to play a completely historically accurate Germany… where do I find the necessary information to do so in a compilation?

[@Aldrahill]

Hey! So I typically post all sources and info on patreon and in a community post for YT members, as a way of giving back to those that support me. However, searching “German infantry division organisation 1938” is a great way to get started! And the site niehorster is brilliant for all sources

[@markildolsen883]

I got new dlc for free for some reason I wanted to buy it when I get a job

[@Chosen_Ash]

I have never and will never do free trade

[@Aldrahill]

But that extra construction speed and factory output! It’s so tastu

[@The-Game-Theory]

It seems like they massively nerfed Germany and added overly complicated new mechanics that constantly need to be tracked alongside countless others, which isn’t good. I can’t believe they removed the MEFO buffs and replaced them with nerfs. These buffs were essential for Germany's growth in historical playthroughs. Hjalmar no longer provides bonuses for civilian factory or refinery construction speed. On top of that, the free trade buffs are gone, Germany starts with lower party popularity, and early Anschluss is no longer possible. To make matters worse, they’ve added a -15% supply efficiency penalty.

[@bepsi6204]

Germany is and always will remain quite OP. Look how much buffs the inner circle gives you, in comparison with what is offered if you play as the USSR.

[@jackmeoff6745]

bolesłąw piasecki shouldnt be there if youre going historical , hans frank

[@comradekommandmentklaus1848]

He missed so many other reichskommriats (I know it’s not right but I don’t want to check)

[@ChaoticCubizm]

Just an fyi dude, IG Farben is pronounced “EE GAY Farben”, not “igg”.

[@Aldrahill]

Ahhh the more you know, thanks :)

[@JLS-ti3lb]

Can you make a Detailed Guide on how to form the Austro-Hungarian empire as Hungary I'm new to this game and no matter how much I change the games rules I can never get it to work and would like to see how a proper player can do it in this new update

[@piercebunge4297]

Well Im curious as to how you could fail that lol

[@JLS-ti3lb]

Again, new at the game so something usually goes wrong for me

[@kevinsheehan3789]

video idea your still use the historical divsion but you get use one wonder weapon for one group. so the wonder arty you place it in one divsion, which you can make your way but they are the only divsion you can use. no other gorup is allowed the wonder weapon. So the heavy arty for support only that divsion can use no main tanks get have wonder weapon tank but you can make once if it gone you can't make other tank divsion.

[@alexcollins1153]

Bro gets the dlc that encourages you to do a non historical Germany and plays Germany completely historical🙄

[@Aldrahill]

I know but I love the historical sources :( I’m doing alt history going forward though :)

[@alexcollins1153]

Im very happy to know that and I think it would be pretty cool to see Cold War historical division as now the new dlc has Cold War era techs👍

[@davewenos]

7:25 So it is real

[@jonsitron11]

Norway when? Or have I missed it?

[@blossomhaven2]

Can you play bulgaria ww1 and reform the Byzantine empire and if possible historic division

[@Mineno-fx6bi]

You took all the land of Ostland, no!!!

[@MrZauberelefant]

Aldra it's pronounced "ee-gay Farben". InteressenGemeinschaft Farben.

[@antilgr]

Why did they make the SS divisions so weak 😢, irl they were some of, if not the strongest divisions in the German forces during WW2

[@MrZauberelefant]

That's a common misunderstanding. Initially, SS troops proved to be ineffective, incurring more losses than the army troops. The foreign and later draftee divisions also were not exceptional. The first 3 (LSSAH, Reich, Totenkopf) were equipped lavishly from 1943 onwards, with organic heavy tank battalion, extra infantry regiment, organic AA and rocket launcher battalions, but any army or Luftwaffe divisions with that equipment (looking at you, Großdeutschland and Hermann Göring) were at the same level. No reason to make SS troops intrinsically better. They weren't

[@Aldrahill]

Commenter below me is absolutely right, ss were shit, excepting the special panzer bois that Hitler gave tons of equipment too

[@gratefulguy4130]

​@@MrZauberelefant That is modern cope that is easily debunked by looking at reality. Waffen SS divisions consistently overperformed. There were many on the Eastern Front that didn't even have any anti tank weapons, just ground down to purely infantry forces that still managed to hold positions for weeks longer than they should have been able to. Despite being put in the thick of combat constantly, their morale was until the very end consistently far higher than the morale of regular Heer units. You can find endless examples of both. It's simply ridiculous to claim otherwise.

[@IndependentObserver]

18:20 It didn't have sloped armour for the same reason why none of the modern MBT's don't have sloped armour either- it's actually not that good of an idea. To make the slope big enough to actually make an impact, you need to rob inside of the tank from so much space, space needed for the crew to operate, that whatever marginal gain in survivability you get, you lose twice as much in overall tank combat effectiveness, from the crew not being able to actually do their jobs. OR, you have to make the tank very very big and therefore make it easier to hit... (like with M3 Lee and Sherman that are insanely tall when compared to *any other medium tank from ww2* same with panther and King Tiger tanks- both of which were absolute behemoths within their respective "classes" Panther being as big and as heavy as some Allied Heavy tanks- like M26 Pershing and Soviet IS-2 (that also had sloped armour- but there Soviets used the aforementioned tactic of "Oh, the tanks are too small inside, because of sloped armour? Just man them with twinks and midgets)) And historically most tank engagements are won by whomever fires the first shot- this is why Panther was the worst german tank of ww2, and why Shermans would've been a death-trap, if they weren't also made by Gods of Engineering that gave every crew member their own evacuation hatch, and, after an initial period and a few complaints, wet ammo storage.

[@tymurleshan411]

🎩 🧐🍷

[@ChangeNameEdits]

🤫

[@agandaprop]

You play historically and give local in Poland? OMG, the general gubernia was one of the worst places in the world to be under the terror of Hans Frank... btw Gdańsk is empty because historically there were few Poles there. And the Poles cannot put a division there in the game until you declare war. Unless they do other goals

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah easily top ten miserable places to be in history! And thanks, good point!

[@Blundabus1337]

Finally, an expansion focused on the good guys of WW2.

[@fabovondestory]

This dlc is..... not great

[@Phantlos]

It's slow as fk. PARADOX FIX YOUR GARBAGE GAME

[@Strelnikov403]

this is an advertisement.

[@MrZauberelefant]

Correct. That's how influencer marketing works

[@crunch.dot.73]

He's literally sponsored look in the description

[@sosogo4real]

Man HoI4 has really turned to shit.

[@billybob6256]

I know dude, the base game was tremendous, so were all dlcs up to man the guns. The new stuff just keeps adding more micro. I have over 3k hours and i can't play it at all anymore.

[@gratefulguy4130]

​@@billybob6256 Same. It's gotten so tedious. This is a theme with all WWII games now (even WWI for the most part). Instead of fixing broken systems or things that don't make sense, the emphasis is on adding more seethecope.

[@gratefulguy4130]

​@@billybob6256 The direction most WWII games are going, I don't see anyone playing who wants more than just a botstomp as the Allies.

[@billybob6256]

@@gratefulguy4130 I don't need 300 menus with micro, make the Ai good and the game is perfect

[@MohammadMirjafari-zs1ec]

The name of the dlc is bad There is only one god and that's Allah

[@fabovondestory]

😂

[@MohammadMirjafari-zs1ec]

@fabovondestory I didn't say a funny thing

[@cathuria5818]

Yes you did lmao​@@MohammadMirjafari-zs1ec

[@MohammadMirjafari-zs1ec]

@cathuria5818 no it's not funny I am saying the truth There is only one god and that's Allah

[@Weightyloan15]

12k views in 1 day bro fell off

[@Aldrahill]

Don’t understand this comment

[@Weightyloan15]

@Aldrahill bro's too old 💀💀😣

[@Aldrahill]

@@Weightyloan15 oh definitely