Blitzed & British in BICE, HOI4's Most Agonizing Mod

[@Aldrahill]

Support the channel & become a member: kzbin.infojoin Also, fun fact - the drinks shown in the skit are the ACTUAL daily drinking regimen Churchill partook in during the war, to the exact minute!

[@DuplexWeevil337]

I tried this, it was not fun. Good Luck mate

[@deinuntergang1420]

I wonder why

[@Chinchenhanjichuanchireno]

Aldrahill, you should do a painful bice Luxembourg or Denmark run (historical divisions)

[@asianperson104]

Imagine historical CHINA in black ice, the amount of pain and suffering would be insane

[@Aldrahill]

Ohhhh it’s coming

[@Ntinos7971]

​@@Aldrahill Now imagine historical Poland in black ice. Eh? Eeeeeh??

[@АртёмСпиренков-е9ю]

I played it, it suffer every second. Even without division shit and bad production. MODIFIERS is bad as dying germany, maybe worse.

[@Ntinos7971]

@@АртёмСпиренков-е9ю shh.. he doesnt know that

[@Saipot123]

hIsToRiCaL bLaCkIcE lUxEmBuRg

[@RahpaSmurf]

It hurts so much seeing the org on the historical divisions. Not as much as it hurt you playing it of course. Love the dedication haha.

[@Aldrahill]

Oh yeah it’s so unpleasant xD historical divisions LOVED their artillery! and thank you so much for that :)

[@maximilianodelrio]

​@@AldrahillNot nearly as much artillery as what's in vanilla divisions though lol, they did have tons of artillery but mostly in independent units that were attached to corps and armies

[@Tacosmos]

11:55 bro litteraly did the "Dyle-Bréda plan", the French defensive plan to protect Belgium and the Nederlands by setting an fallback line in the Dyle river, leading to the german "Fall Gelb" plan, or the Ardennes offensive...

[@Aldrahill]

Hey. , I said historical. :D

[@Tacosmos]

"Oops, I did it again !"

[@Swagmaster07]

PIAT's were created in like 1943, before that they had Boys Anti Tank Rifles not sure everybody had those in the early stages of the war.

[@Aldrahill]

YES that’s a really good point I was being dumb here. And it’s a shame, because I find the boyse rifles really cool!!

[@TheAndrew1987]

what i dislike about these videos is that you dont get historical divisions in time due to research hurdles, id like for you to use dev commands or whatever to unlock all the hulls necessary and build the historical divisions in due time and see how they perform. the game's logic for making more advanced vehicles and weapons hard to research is due to balance but if you roleplay and self impose limits you can freely unlock them all and use as needed

[@caileanfindlytearle6936]

Bumping this comment. Specifically for black ice runs, I would be okay with you force researching the techs required for the various divisions, but only if you haven't been able to research them (not you forgot to research then but it was literally impossible for you)

[@pollball598]

Fun fact: there are no ads on Russian KZbin

[@emrecanarduc4378]

because they are not really in russia

[@Dertymepy]

Can confirm, we dont have ads Its getting blocked soon though (about 90% sure about it)

[@pollball598]

@@Dertymepy I just hope for the best

[@funkymarco4411]

​@pollball598 it because putin wants to block KZbin without actually blocking KZbin.

[@booogdan123]

Ты пытаешься удивить иностранцев?)

[@DijonSenf]

That ad was so good I wish I could join twice

[@DijonSenf]

You looked kinda like Caddicarus in that Winston Churchill cosplay lol

[@Aldrahill]

Never heard of them, but having watche a bit just now... yeah! xD

[@Aldrahill]

Thanks so much buddy

[@mgrillo2863]

best "do the thing" advert ive ever seen, bravo

[@Aldrahill]

Ayyy thank you so much! Now to see if it works xD

[@thewaterlord27]

Ah yes the first issue with playing black ice as the UK you gotta deal with, is you have to be playing as the UK.

[@igorgorczynski6339]

Its very lucky. I was just playing Britain black ice and here notivication come.

[@eyadomar4627]

who tf plays black ice willingly?

[@Aldrahill]

chad

[@igorgorczynski6339]

@@eyadomar4627 Please dont judge

[@akaKuiper]

Recommendation: Play Soviets in Black Ice using the WW1 Russian army layout Also video was very entertaining (and painful)

[@Aldrahill]

Oh god xD and thank you!

[@rmtshow9619]

wow like only ww1 russian empire or ww1 soviet union?

[@akaKuiper]

@@rmtshow9619 WW1 Russian Empire

[@obamajoker7166]

​@@akaKuiperrecommendation: lose

[@Lucarionape]

No Royal Artillery divisions for the 1939 army, I’m already feeling sad. Edit: about the 18-pdr and the 25-pdr. BICE is pretty accurate here, in that the 25-pdr replaced the 18-pdr, to the point that the BEF mostly used 18/25-pdr guns (18s rebored to use the same shell as the 25). The 4.5 and 5.5” guns being rare in 1940 is good, as RA post war documentation notes that these guns were rarely seen in numbers pre-1941. Edit 2: the 1942 6-pdr AT is because the 2-pdr was solidly obsolete in the face of German up-armoured panzers by 1941, but Dunkirk had forced British industry to rush good enough 2-pdr and only have free capacity to replace the poor thing in ‘42. Edit 3: About the armoured division problem. Maybe next time you can attach the Infantry Tank Regiments to the Infantry Divisions? It would reflect common practice of detaching these units from the Cavalry Regiments and simplify your tank layouts.

[@childenjoyer6981]

Nerd

[@Lucarionape]

@@childenjoyer6981 this was my dissertation :)

[@DijonSenf]

Been waiting for this one since you said it on the premiere

[@Aldrahill]

Ayyyy enjoy ;)

[@Gorbz]

My grandfather was a British parachutist in WW2. Don't know what regiment, but do know he went AWOL alot.

[@Aldrahill]

Oh that’s cool! Presumably 1st airborne division?

[@Gorbz]

@@Aldrahill Maybe! The only other thing I know for sure is that the missions he went on were classified.

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

​@@GorbzHe was probably a commando

[@Gorbz]

@@Aldrahill I have found out! My grand-dad was in the 1st batallion, was dropped over Arnham, and got capured. Roughly 6 months before the war ended.

[@cekretone]

I thought black ice would block puppets from advancing to better autonomy. Kinda annoying that exporting some stuff just completely frees puppets. With logic like that India irl should’ve been free so much earlier

[@grantlathrop6837]

I’m surprised you didn’t try to quote the “so much is owed to so few” speech in the channel membership plug

[@Aldrahill]

… shit that would’ve been a great idea

[@Weightyloan15]

TEA SHORTAGE? SOMEONE CALL SPIFFINFLG BRIT WE HAVE A CODE RED

[@Aldrahill]

WE NEED HELP OVER HERE WE HAVE TO DRINK COFFEE!!!

[@thatponybro6940]

"The light tank will be the light tank." *mind blown* also when's armored car Ottomans gonna drop?

[@Aldrahill]

Truly innovative thinking Dear format sounds terrible xD

[@ImSamsquanch]

How nice of Ol' Winston to support this charming youtube channel

[@parkedcar3411]

Luxembourg historical divisions in black ice is the final boss

[@Electricfox]

20:42 - And that's why Dowding and Newall refused to send more Hurricanes to France in May 1940. ;)

[@Picklesthedonutfrog]

Aldrahill. The glory of byzantium awaits

[@crook7493]

best series on yt

[@Aldrahill]

Damn thank you!!

[@andreygusak]

The historic Black Ice series is great. Got me subscribed. Keep it up!

[@Aldrahill]

Hey thank you so much! :)

[@pvp216]

when world ablaze

[@Aldrahill]

Doing it as a reboot eventually when BICE is done! :)

[@pvp216]

@@Aldrahill thank you bbg

[@catfacecat.]

​@@Aldrahillyoure pvp216's babygirl now

[@TheHalofan3]

It’d be funny if they modified the black ice tech trees based off Aldrahill’s stuff, cause multiple nations he’s played have had stuff that hasn’t been possible with the current tech tree.

[@piesekwojtek4487]

u should play historical italy in great war

[@justderp5713]

When, long ago, the gods created Earth In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design’d; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill the gap, and join the rest to man, The Olympian hosts conceived a clever plan. A beast they wrought, teeth covered in bits, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a Brit

[@Aldrahill]

Just don’t look up the original ending xD

[@ethanton7074]

Surprising quality, and an enjoyable commentary! Sub.

[@squirtleawesome1064]

As... I guess "teaboo"? myself, I really enjoyed this video! I own a Lee-Enfield Mk 4 No. 1 myself and yes, it is a very beautiful gun. I find the bolt cycling a lot easier on it than on other bolt action rifles, so I can see how the British managed to get their "mad minute."

[@silentrayvenger]

Orange UK, so cursed...

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you! I hate it

[@kaiser8142]

I respect your good content Mr. Churchill

[@TheGrandeCapo]

You've done it. You've kept the sun over the british empire.

[@poggingmilk9452]

Yo quick question, when is the 50k special going to release? I wanna know for when to take a day off to enjoy all of your pain in suffering lol

[@Aldrahill]

Hah I’m glad you’re looking forward to it! I’m currently working on it, and I’m currently thinking sometime in September? It’s tricky because it’s gonna take a LONG time to make xD I’ll post updates as community posts :)

[@Terrence5]

“Guys the British was alone in ww2 before 1941!” Britain having a quarter of the world helping them Against the Germans…

[@chombus2602]

Well, to be fair, they still had to keep a eye in their dominios, both to they not go independent and to not be invaded

[@_.l4n3]

I was surprised to see I was already subscribed , thank you for the good 2024 hoi blackice content

[@Aldrahill]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@JH4LL013]

I’ve seen College’s UK black ice vid and it seemed tough. Let’s see if the goat can do even better.

[@Т1000-м1и]

That was that

[@amn0940]

One day I'll learn how to play BlackICE and I'll hate it Until then when historical China and Italy? Or even Spain?

[@Arturo005100]

Playing spain historically means winning the civil war and then chilling save for a single division of volunteers fighting the soviets

[@Aldrahill]

Do it! And yes, done them in vanilla, but BICe is coming!

[@ixarys8102]

I’d be curious to see how you would fare playing Greece in BICE. Fixing the economy of a minor is certainly… something, only to get bamboozled by german panzers once the war begins. Holding mainland is way more challenging than in vanilla.

[@Aldrahill]

Definitely want to give it a go!!

[@pedrotbird5426]

Is this mod actually fun? I've seen a lot of people play it and it seems super complicated but satisfying when you figure it out

[@Aldrahill]

It is! It’s just agony to try to understand and it gets super tiring xD

[@swamperino8450]

If you've got enough hours in the base game to get a natural feel for certain builds, like what to produce and when, and want to focus more on that, it's amazing. You need a spreadsheet to figure out your infantry division needs, a good infantry division costs about 6-7k IC compared to 1-1.5k in vanilla. However, tanks and planes are about as expensive as in vanilla so you get as many tank and airplane plants as you can and win by using those.

[@Wako6432]

hey aldra imagine historical NZ in blackice its got a full focus tree and would be amazing

[@Aldrahill]

Oh god I know I’ll be doing it eventually!

[@dr.paulwilliam7447]

5:35 Nope, not accurate, but close. The BEF that went to France was fully mechanized. So you should have added trucks or IFVs instead of regular infantry.

[@시오리-z2n]

i didnt know winston churchill had a beard

[@Aldrahill]

Learn something new every day!

[@fallmite9485]

Do you have a google doc or spreadsheet with all the historical templates? Because you must have made dozens of historical templates by now. ( also includes divisions)

[@Aldrahill]

I have them all in separate documents :) I do neeed to make a spreadsheet, tbh. The sources are available for all members and patrons as well

[@StationaryGamingReal]

The best day to start the weekend.

[@akmalrisyadhakim9089]

Denmark historical division template in Black Ice 🤔

[@Average_Cinder_Block]

Bro was not Winston Churchill, that was Cinston Whurcholl

[@Aldrahill]

Love it, changing my name

[@legendofdrago1113]

You can find a decent No 4 MK 1 for around 500, or go cheaper with a project from Royal Tiger Imports. Which I'd advise against

[@Aldrahill]

Ooooo how tempting.

[@isaacwalters8210]

If you ctrl+click on a port it forbids ships from repairing there. It was so annoying playing the brits before i knew that.

[@sebastianduran7106]

Silence! My soap opera has started

[@commandercorl1544]

wow, i don't remember churchill being that sober! and he only smoked one comically large cigar! he must really care about the channel if he makes sure to be in such a state for the ad.

[@Aldrahill]

Hey I confirmed to his actual drinking regimen throughout the day!

[@commanderkampfsuppe7840]

Maybe historical minors like Romania, Bulgaria, Thailand, Greece

[@itsquitemessy]

Luxembourg historical blackice world conquest armor only when?

[@fynnlang3011]

I just started the video and now I'm panicking because I'm German and Hugo boss is my favorite clothing brand..... I'm I the bad guy now?

[@Aldrahill]

So long as you wear it with STYLE, baby, then you're fine.

[@pollball598]

What do you think about also using historical amounts of divisions?

[@Aldrahill]

Sadly the game just doesn’t abstract division. Numbers properly! Makes for a very weird game

[@3rr0r4o40]

I was expecting a threehundueyodiridiago

[@Engineer_gaming12]

I do want to ask to try yugoslvia in blackice, i think that whould be interesting

[@Aldrahill]

Oh god I wonder how workable it is!

[@jackson4672]

You should try a historical game on Magna Europa

[@blossomhaven2]

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

[@Aldrahill]

Second recommendation I've had for this!

[@Synthes788]

I want to see France with blackice at some point.

[@Aldrahill]

Same here, though I'm dreading it xD Bittersteel just struggled with it if you'd like to go watch his video!

[@yoanawramow4329]

Can't have content based on historical accuracy without a based content creator ain't that right:)

[@a_spoon2822]

you should do a cold war gone wrong historical divisions in cold war mod.

[@rocketroyale8593]

When Luxemburg World Conquest with Black ICE mod?

[@jacobweeks6526]

The fact he killed the RAF over Belgium hurt me.

[@Aldrahill]

It hurt me too :( and British pilots

[@jacobweeks6526]

@@Aldrahill even fighter command didn't make such a blunder! 😅🤣

[@sombertownds149]

I have respoly waiting for any france, is that so much a challenge?

[@sombertownds149]

And im not able to aid in any way, but point out a country youve not covered at “soon” and so im wondering how deep you have to go for it, like trips to confided storage for a glimps, because that would be a video in on itself

[@michaeldavis4651]

Why was Churchill drinking bourbon in the add? Not that Woodford Reserve isn’t good; it’s pretty decent stuff… It’s just curious… 🤔😅

[@Aldrahill]

Actually, Churchill’s daily drinker was Johnny walker red!! It was also just all I had :P

[@pocketman202]

The UK was vital to the Allie’s efforts in WW2, but in fairness 1 out of 4 human beings lived within the British Empire at the time of WW2 so to say they are alone is a little misleading.

[@rmtshow9619]

idea ww2 germany but only ww1 presets and and historical templates and also ONLY WW1 STUFF you can research other stuff tho but not use them so you can see oo ye its outdated

[@Aldrahill]

Oh god that would truly be agony xD

[@micronombo2015]

When historical divisions Italy with Black Ice mod will be a thing?

[@Aldrahill]

It’s the next BICE video!!! :)

[@republic0_032]

Hello, is it possible to make a video about optimal div templates for Black Ice?

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah that could be a good idea! Figuring out what’s best and NOT historical xD

[@republic0_032]

@@Aldrahill Nice, I'll be keeping an eye out

[@ERJARINTAAHOV2-uj5vh]

When will you so finland historical templates

[@Aldrahill]

Eventually!!!

[@NovaRoma-l]

GREAT WAR REDUX WHERE IS IT !!!??!!!!!

[@Aldrahill]

More coming soon ;)

[@ERJARINTAAHOV2-uj5vh]

No wonder france fell

[@Clemdauphin]

Historicly acurate. Instead of fighting until the end, the british fleed to Dunkirk...

[@crazyduck156]

@@Clemdauphinyes that would have been intelligent. Sacrificing the entire british army for a country that couldn't even defend itself

[@Clemdauphin]

@@crazyduck156 it was just the british expeditionary force... beside, France know how to defend it self, they were just (like the british) suprised by an offensive that they though (and that even the german though) was impossible to do that fast. But before that, the plan worked. Making the german attack Belgium, involving the UK, keeping position on the rivers. In real life, the british retreted way too early, making the front collapse at some point... Go spread your french bashing propaganda somewhere else.

[@crazyduck156]

@@Clemdauphin lol, it was the french who collapsed in the ardennes, causing the British to be outflanked and forcing them to fall back from Belgium or get surrounded and destroyed. The BEF was some of the most experienced and well equipped Armies Britain had at the time and you've yet to explain the benefits of the british fighting to the death while surrounded and the french were further collapsing, rather than evacuating and continuing the fight. It was the french who lost the battle of France and whining about Britain continuing the fight is french cope for their performance

[@Clemdauphin]

@@crazyduck156 the lost is on both armies, not just the french. The french were suprised and capitulated and the british had to flee... the british still retetead troops on some sectors, letting the french being incircled... some great job! Be glad the french defended the fleeing british in Dunkirk, or it would have been a complete lost... i would also say that the british wouldn't listen to the french plans... In France we say "filler à l'anglaise"...

[@misterperson3469]

Wow thats a lot of 2 pounders, kinda sad when you know how quickly they become obsolete. Though the weird way hoi models penetration and hard attack probably helps them here

[@misterperson3469]

Oh one note on the Churchill I, the 2 pounder is actually the primary gun with the 75mm hull gun being secondary. Unlike the hull mounted 75mm on the lee/grant it was HORRIBLY low velocity and it was put in largely to provide smoke cover for assaults.

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah right?! It’s SO MANY!

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah isn’t that such an odd thing? The use of two main guns in the Lee or the Churchill is so weird to me

[@misterperson3469]

@@Aldrahill I would have understood it for the Churchill I since the 2 pounder barely had an HE shell but with it being stuck in the hull with a bad range and traverse it remains strange. You do not want to have to wait until you are 200m away before you can effectively engage AT guns, even less so when you have to slowly crawl towards them

[@Heyo-s3t]

Banging vid

[@Aldrahill]

Banging comment

[@valentinotto88]

Why is everyone playing Blackice when the mod isn't even updated???

[@Aldrahill]

You just have to go back to 1.14.5 :)

[@Geyskuy-ogurchik]

How can it was real Churchill if we can understand what he said?

[@SpaceFH]

Hoi 3 black ice next

[@_-Wade-_]

The tech tree/slots are basically intolerable...

[@Aldrahill]

It is so painful, right?

[@_-Wade-_]

@@Aldrahill 1938 I'm doing a tech every few days and can't even micro my volunteers...

[@TheKonkaman]

Usa Ai carried you on this one

[@Aldrahill]

So it’s historical ;)

[@TheKonkaman]

@@Aldrahill If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years

[@Ktosexe-uz8oq]

Historical Switzerland in BI when?

[@Aldrahill]

The pain xD

[@peste1463]

You have messed up the Churchill impression. We're not supposed to understand you

[@Aldrahill]

Forgive meeeee :(

[@dolgulduripostaszolgalat7010]

I'm high af and hold this video in great affection, truly!

[@Aldrahill]

Ayyy nice thank you :)

[@BellePepprs]

SINGAPORE MENTIONED 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@atticus-w5q]

do black ice nepal world conquest

[@theyedmeister6981]

Sir, the radio doesn't fit!

[@connorholt6965]

i really want to try this mod but it keeps saying its outdated how do I get it to work?

[@Aldrahill]

Downgrade hoi to 1.14.5 beta. :)

[@connorholt6965]

@@Aldrahillthanks

[@connorholt6965]

@@Aldrahill keeps saying i need 1.14.2 but i don't have that as an option? i have 1.14.3

[@Aldrahill]

@@connorholt6965 1.14.5 is fine! Just go to the betas in steam go to that :)

[@hope3186]

man bittersteal did like a French run and you did a UK run... is this foreshadowing?

[@Aldrahill]

He just wanted to suffer that little bit more than me ;) Would love to play with Bittersteel sometime though.

[@BioNexus-ps4ju]

can someone pls tell me why dont people integrate tanks in their common battlion

[@Aldrahill]

It's super expensive!

[@BioNexus-ps4ju]

thx

[@niksavisans6342]

How come you don’t crash all the time

[@Aldrahill]

I went back to 1.14.5 and that really helps with the crashes! I only crashed at the final peace deal.

[@PădureAndrei-j9k]

Only americans remember that they saved the world from Germany. If you ask a russian, he'll say his country, as well as a french, a british or even greek,( Greece defetead Italy)

[@justtoasty979]

That’s all cool and all but where is Poland Black ice?

[@Aldrahill]

Coming!!!

[@DumbCup]

Dude Luxembourg fighters only blackice 🤦

[@crazyduck156]

Germany in black ice (like in all "historical" hoi4 mods) gets absurd ahistorical buffs When I played it last that had more planes in 1940 than me (the UK), France, the soviet union and italy combined... with still a few thousand more to spare on top I just switched tag and deleted a good chunk because I'm not going to play a "historical" mod where my planes do no damage and Germany apparently has star trek replicator tech

[@VixCorydon]

Interaction for the Interaction God Comment for the Comment Throne. For the Almigthy Algorithm

[@Comerade_Daniel]

Sooooo.... Norway historical?

[@Aldrahill]

Oh it’s coming ;)

[@nightspawnson-of-luna4936]

So, my feelings on Black Ice itself are already documented... But OH MY GOD, the country colors are so...off Why did they switch the UK and Netherlands colors! It looks like that time I saw the UK get forced to be a democracy after going Facist and then they lost their focus tree... because the irish just beat them...

[@Aldrahill]

Bro THANK YOU I hate the color choices

[@French_Bread-k2f]

Hiiiiiiii x2 Also, Belgium black ice?? 👉👈

[@Aldrahill]

Hey hey! Might try it, but Christ that would be painful xD

[@French_Bread-k2f]

@@Aldrahill lol I believe in you!