Breaking Hearts Of Iron IV With Overpowered Secrets

[@clementpruvost8670]

HOI4 devs seeing the strategy to patch it later in the week:

[@Varitok1]

That would be the strategy if they ever patched their old content.

[@subhuman2433]

Actually kinda surprised that Paradox has yet to implement anything against space marine divisions after all this time

[@Raviollius]

They have done so. Multiple times. The piercing change in specific comes to mind

[@samotter9509]

​@@subhuman2433they added partial piercing, makes space marines a lot less useful they also made ai build AT, so space marine still work to some degree but it's worse than infantry defence and tank offensive so I don't see the problem.

[@subhuman2433]

​@@samotter9509 I stand corrected! I mostly play with major overhauls nowadays so I could hardly tell.

[@An_Entire_Spinell]

"We love slop" we all yell in unison!

[@valdy2811]

We do

[@reubentubegaming2936]

We love slop

[@Earlynyancat]

We love the rat even more.

[@usernametaken8968]

We love slop

[@HurtmePlenty1993]

We love slop

[@Infidus]

Most youtubers try to have 'rewards' for hitting sub goals, ISP just casually throwing out that we'll be forced to deal with Bokoen1 as a 'reward' is certainly something... (dw Bo we love you even though you're danish)

[@N00b0super]

What are you talking about, Denmark doesn't exist

[@bigrabii9470]

I miss Polden Narbo

[@kraykyle]

Yeah, he got the Danish debuff at birth to stop him from being too powerful

[@Tricky2109]

What is this “Danish”?

[@nakarilexfortaine2897]

​@@Tricky2109A type of pastry.

[@benjaminkeys6887]

Another tip for the Soviets! You can time your justification on Turkey with the Southern Thrust focus which gives you Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran as well. Doesnt provide much, but gives you more ai friends and denies the Germans of virtually all their oil

[@krazeyish]

Go full soviet onion, do this, then do the Japanese and Chinese foci to get even more puppets, get rid of the army foci, and skip to the end for the comecon economy buffs

[@tannerunderwood264]

@@krazeyish I love justifying on Japan as Soviets day 1. You get a ton of factories, a massive navy and can get comecon around the start of '38. Even better on non-hist and you get the event to declare on Turkey

[@user-to9ge8ii9n]

I don't think any Soviets are around to benefit from those timely tips. ❤

[@Maximusmaxamin]

My signature move

[@liathbricks7911]

Quick tip: Pressing ‘ will open up a magical screen that will help you a ton!

[@helixx4678]

Alex the rambler tip

[@ScotchWhiskey864]

Research all Ale Ale Debug_nuking Annex BEL

[@helixx4678]

@@ScotchWhiskey864 BEL? thats not a tag, fake country

[@PersianApologetics]

​@@helixx4678Belgium

[@nasseribnamr9043]

only real ones use ^

[@intoamutecrypt5782]

For those who don't know, the reason why you want to swap your tank across to specifically designate it as anti-air (and include SPAA in your units rather than normal tanks) is simple: SPAA needs fewer tanks than normal tanks. A batallion of tanks is 60/50/40 depending on if it's light, medium or heavy. A batallion of tank destroyers is 30/24/20, SP Artillery is 36/36/24 and SPAA is 15/12/8 - so SPAA uses 20-25% of the tanks. Thing is, the amount of armour that a batallion uses just depends on what type of tank it uses and whether it's got enough tanks. The number doesn't matter - having 8 out of 8 tanks is just as good as 40 out of 40. In vanilla, SPAA and SP Arty has reduced armour to account for the reduced requirement. The tank designer in No Step Back allows you to make SPAA and SP Arty with as much armour as normal tanks though - so you just slap on the simplest AA gun you can, chuck a few in your divisions and off you go.

[@rambleroodle2369]

Does SPAA also give you boost for air superiority?

[@intoamutecrypt5782]

@@rambleroodle2369 SPAA gives the same Anti-Air stat as regular AA (Air Attack). The basic tier 1 is a tiny amount less than basic towed/motorised, but towed/motorised don't give you as much. This won't contribute to air superiority (green/yellow/red air) - instead, it will reduce the impact of enemy CAS on the division, and has a chance to shoot down enemy CAS. It won't disrupt enemy fighters, though.

[@tmadlegionsoul3255]

I wish ironman had a save first day button. So you could setup your army, navy, and air and not have to set them up 1 thousand times......

[@avo478]

I think ironman could be made a lot better if you can make only one save and you got to decide when to use it, would make the sucky random event achievements a lot easier to deal with while still making the skill of setting up important while also allowing it to function in the same way as you were thinking with people using it as a day 1 save

[@sejozwak]

You can backup your save files, just back it up when first week passes

[@Zissou42]

Chamberlain: Look at my boat, my boat is amazing! The people: Sweet war! Mm, sweet war!

[@Tokugawa__]

WE WANT DEMOCRATIC MENGKUKUO

[@icy7472]

Wtf is that translation xD "We want democratics to nail"

[@mrwri]

Between you and Pyro I have enough slop to finally become the piggy I always wanted to be.

[@lucasworth5903]

fellow pyro viewer spotted

[@Likesouh]

we love our lesbian

[@surjackeroff]

we LOVE our trans lesbian QUEEN !

[@GlizzyGoblin757]

embarrassing, imagine not only watching pyro but being proud of it

[@queru1ous]

I’m still waiting for “The Interesting Tidbits With ISP 2”. I hope this new channel was brought to life for this specific reason.

[@TheArklyte]

I would have said that heavy SPAA is broken, but the problem is that irl it would have been even MORE broken, given the feats of abysmally bad KV-1 and T-34 of 1941, but only against germans, who relied on tanks, halftracks and CAS to push. So maybe rather then nerf, it showcases that battle calculations should be done differently depending which doctrine nation had chosen? Because heavy SPAA would do nothing against artillery spam ie brits.

[@lolasdm6959]

SPAA is op irl

[@TheArklyte]

@@lolasdm6959 well, he didn't create Gepard. Given the timeline and descriptions involved, it was more of a TG/T-35 hybrid with sloped armor and armed with 25mm autocannon. So like 1939's BMPT-62. Considering that he built enough of them to saturate the frontline, germans were annoyed to no end when faced with those:D

[@samotter9509]

in the game soft attack and hard attack are modelled weirdly, SPAA more akin to irl should have relatively large soft attack, its basically a mobile machine gun emplacement. also they did spaa dirty in hoi4, imo motorised arty should do a lot more damage to represent the fact that car can move heavier artillery than horse or men (and motorised in general eats so much supply its hardly worth it outside of speedy medium tank divisions)

[@Constanza235]

War Thunder proves that SPAA is not only broken, but hilarious to play with.

[@TheArklyte]

@@samotter9509 not really as while it is great against soft targets, it is great ONLY against soft targets in visual range with clear line of sight. It's a competition between 20mm autocannon and MLRS that removes from existence whole enemy divisions from dozen kilometers away. So yeah, due to ingame mechanics that don't take into account combat "depth", AAA would have low soft attack value.

[@Nordic_Netherlands]

Who is this person impersonating the ISP impersonator?

[@BayekofSiwaAC]

THE RAT

[@Dartingleopard]

His evil Triplet, all 3 are evil triplets of each other.

[@Finlandball39]

Alf Landon is imminent!

[@powdermcgee267]

These are fascinating secrets! I can’t wait for the super secret Victoria 2 tutorial to come out

[@AngelBloodriver]

Me (Timmy) and the RAT on a date at the SLOP factory while watching silly man play map games

[@OreGIOOreGIO]

its over

[@TurkeyottomanabdulhMd]

GIVE US THE RATTTTTTTTTTTTTTT 1"1!1!1!

[@CalvinKool-Aid]

SLOP GOBLINS REPRESENT

[@C4L1BRON]

slop goblins are dumb slump rats are superior >:C

[@ScotchWhiskey864]

Rat and goblin civil war when?

[@CalvinKool-Aid]

@@ScotchWhiskey864 it’ll probably be in the lazytown mod

[@cerberus6400]

Rats and Goblins unite under the shared desire to scavenge and gather shinies.

[@bobboy61]

With several hundred hours of hoi4 under my belt, mostly as poland, I can safely say I've only 'won' once. Hopefully, with the space marine trick and conversions, I can get this 'delightful' game to give me a second win.

[@arklaw8306]

You don't need to double click a unit to select all units of that type, you can just click on the unit icon of the type you want above.

[@edmundthespiffing2920]

Would have rather said to select the units with thie specific template

[@pacocheung1864]

About the heavy SPAA space marine Strat, this is honestly one of the most busted and easiest ways to win as the Chinese against the Japanese invasion, not even early light tanks can’t pierce heavies with 50+ armour, and being an AA piece the CAS damage is usually manageable / you can grind their plane count down easy That plus a surprise paradrop on the home islands, and you’ve got yourself a super charged china in 1939, manpower is not an issue, you just nommed the Japanese factories and fleet, plus a focus tree that can make you on par with the soviets or Germans in before Barbarossa even starts…… time to find some more dopamine

[@BORLMBK]

Ah yes the 50,000 subscriber special: coolmathsgames with Bokoen1, Alf Landon, Huey Long, artillery only and the rat

[@maciejbala477]

the coolmathgames thing is a throwback for sure

[@tiredexplora]

"I've played a lot of soviet games in my free time" same.

[@mrwri]

50k subs is going to be the paradox quiz isn't it

[@rat12368]

yum more slop

[@TheThrillernights]

I try to get into this game because I really enjoy watching you play it, but every time I feel overwhelmed! Hopefully these tips will help me a little just getting started as a complete beginner

[@tabletbrothers3477]

Fantastic background Jazz playlist

[@AHumanFromFinland]

I was tweaking when he didnt take anybodys navy. "We love the slop"

[@logandaley1544]

I still watch even though I have no intent of ever playing HOI 4. I just like hearing someone who likes a game talk about it.

[@Tom-oj7si]

ISP gave me sloppy toppy behind the pdx dev studio 🥵

[@rafiakbar803]

God, No Step Back was such an amazing DLC

[@rofljohn23]

This is not sloppy enough! We need TTS and random reddit thread readouts!

[@impostorsyndrome1350]

I mean literally putting one Heavy SPAA tank division with fu*k ton of armor is already broken, you can literally play with no air and play on aggresive and beat anyone and everyone with no CAS or Fighters

[@horrigan495]

Other method to selecting all units of the same type from Soviet stack on start is to click those division symbols next to the Commanders name. Does the same as double-clicking, but no need to pick from the list the stuff you want, just pick the decision symbol. Also, turkish puppet sometimes goes nuts. So kicking Romania first, then giving turkey to Romania. Solves the turkish tree quite nicely.

[@cryothesouldragon8323]

Sees part about Soviets: That's cool I'll try that! Actually tries that: *gets completely walled in trying to take Romania* Remembers that no matter what I am terrible at Hoi4: Oh yeah...

[@an_to_rage531]

theres another way to sorting units, you dont have to double click on a unit to select all of them. above right next to a general portrait you have icons of your divisions in your army, if you click on them it should select all of them too. mentioning it for people who wants to get efficient instead of 2 clicks you do it with 1 !

[@John-li6sk]

These tips are great tbh

[@martinescobar3908]

Please Vic 2 next, the ultimate jank!

[@Wahsteinious]

March of the Eagles A-Z when

[@djaballahadel]

You could add dozer blades to those tanks and get close to infinity defence

[@RenneVangr]

Out of all the opening greetings "Hello. Slop." might be my favourite.

[@ImBouncy]

"SLOP" 🗣🗣🔥🔥

[@iftija]

some addition to the third tip, just barely visible theres a little list of the unit types, so you dont have to double click them, just click em once at that top row.

[@Matkixbut]

As someone who knows nothing about Hoi4 even after years of watching your channel, this was very informative and really helpful. Thank you.

[@urduk]

I have 700+ hours in that game, didn't knew about plane thing. Probably because tech was about factories conversion before.

[@kevinhuening5274]

Why delete the starting planes for nothing when you can sell them on the international market and boost your industry instead.

[@zacharysilver911]

Too much work

[@PhobostheDarkOne]

You need to make a full on guide for this game, i got 1000+ hrs in and still feel like i am not getting anywhere. Mostly having to rely on allies to win and once factions start forming, mess up my ability to win

[@mono4on]

thnx dad, ill be winning now

[@walnzell9328]

I can't wait for the next spinoff channel. Productions.

[@OhYNo]

I remember a long while ago you said you’d try making a Vic 2 tutorial of sorts… I feel like that’d be great fit for this channel

[@OhYNo]

Or maybe that ISP guy

[@HELLOFRAYDO]

The conversion is something I never thought to use! Thank you for the informative slop Now give us the rat

[@florianbielawa2919]

3:49 in my free time i play Soviets, Italy or Poland cuz those are the best focus trees imo

[@Venator-Class_Star_Destroyer]

In my most recent Soviet Game I found myself in a China war taking out both Manchuria and the Nationalists They join the Axis However Germany was COMPLETELY unprepared for the war and I pushed beyond Berlin in like 6 months After that I tried to kill Italy but because Italy was at war with both me and the Allies. My puppet was also at war with the allies. Dragging me into a war with the allies And I could not be bothered less to invade Britain. Even if I was on such a high-end that I had the entire European and most of the Asian continent under my control

[@commandercody1210]

knew none of these things get good, slop. now teach me how to play super heavy tank only Luxembourg slop boy

[@pledge6389]

Instead of double clicking you can also click the unit type at the top

[@aleksandarvuchkov9154]

never thought about the planes, but hey i only have 780 hours in the game (started with 200 in January) might also say 200 hours is about how much it took me to understand all mechanics for all the DLCs out there ... :D

[@godsyogurtgun]

i watched this video knowing very little of hoi4 and i came out with more questions

[@khinev3128]

The black market of strategies best left unregulated..

[@danb.067]

Would love to see ISlopProductions share templates

[@FatheredPuma81]

Combine the first one with taking Paris without capping France. Vichy France gets half France's troops which then go to your Colab government. They're literally free port guard divisions.

[@MrPigeonaids]

Frist time armor cars? I smell a challenge

[@jermdaworm4845]

genuinely didnt know abt the tank thing, thanks

[@lucinaaugusta7279]

It seems the strategy of building compliance in Poland as Soviets doesn't work... at least for me, running RT56. Because Poland caps to the Germans and you get the land via event it doesn't count as them surrendering to you, so the collab government isn't triggered.

[@Beanie28]

Overpowered secrets, like artillery only 😏

[@yamtarbabayigit3328]

I started to believe my guy is losing his mind

[@klosek13]

bokoen1 supporting smaller channels? I respect that

[@sandororos4310]

OMG my favorite tilted screen effect youtuber uploaded a video! Love you tilted screen youtuber!

[@frankunderbush]

This ain't slop, this is actual good info! I want a refund!

[@georgecastaneda1779]

That's some good slop right there!

[@oooglypenguin2238]

i would also like to see what templates you usually use in your videos

[@w5527]

I’d LOVE a navy tutorial. Just one that says how to destroy the AI as a smaller nation with a superior fleet. (I did Mexico vs America, destroying the American fleet) I know there’s some penalty to stacking screens without enough capital ships and too many carriers without battle ships and screens gives a penalty? Something I read on Reddit. I just want to know how to blow up the UK’s fleet as Germany because I suck ass at navy with 3k hours in the game

[@willscott1533]

Thank you Isorrow, I needed some good slop

[@shadowwolf22222]

I enjoy slop with Isorrow

[@aeiuo42]

what are we, some kind of ISorrow?

[@glauberglousger956]

Here's my tip: Always remember that the AI is stupid, just defend, and the AI will eventually throw half of their manpower at you for very few casualties (30 to 1 ratios) Actually you can even leave some tiles vacant due to the ai being too cautious

[@Greyspecies9999]

10:55 ...huh, how didn't i ever think of that- oh right, conversion bonus sounded stupid

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

bokoen 1 is promised but still no feet pics have been delivered….

[@hypercynic]

Slop, my favourite dinner.

[@TT_oba]

12:45 is this not just what armoured cars are for?

[@snrken]

armoured cars give barely any armour like if you look at the british division a bit later in the video it has armoured cars and only 1.5 armour

[@james2529]

But i love sitting around as the soviets and building up slowly

[@xianderthest8014]

Any tips and tricks on playing as Finland without the new DLC besides not playing as Finland?

[@jimtalbott9535]

We love rats! And slop!

[@qui-gonjake2212]

We don't demand tips. We demand THE RAT!!

[@specialgaming160]

god please you should make a guide for this gaem

[@Sc0ts]

I can't wait for Bokoean1!

[@ybox1054]

this place is nuts!

[@germanyballwork5301]

Bring back sims 4 chef boyardee! 2016 style

[@512TheWolf512]

o hell yea, i LOOOVE slopkoen1 !

[@epiclazerpie1630]

we want to see the rat, sloppy joe...

[@summerium-kalimium3673]

Slop is comfy

[@joelker41]

iSorrow out here turning tricks.

[@jermymckee6023]

Oil up at 50K?

[@bazutz3789]

you should make a fourth channel for playing hoi4

[@flammebloud1696]

I have 800 hours most dlcs but most of that i didnt knew

[@mikeymikey7398]

TommyKay is lately using some armored cars. Not that it justifies using them. Just wanted to let you know there is an actual good player, who uses this monstrosity.

[@JohnBadger17]

So, can we have the RAT at 50k? Please Mr. Sorrow?

[@primesonic4459]

Cant believe we are getting 50k hwre beofre Alf Landon

[@romanmorozov6974]

Ah yes, the space marines devisions

[@potato88872]

Still waiting for that Equestria at war review

[@sykeissyke]

slop time is best time