Communist USA conquers everything

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Today we're playing as the USA and exploring the communist branch of their focus tree.
Rules:
- Play as USA
- Go communist
- Annex lots of stuff
- Ironman
What did I do wrong, what did I do right? What should my next challenge be, if any. Let me know in the comments.
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[@easternspy8813]

Taureor out of context: -Democracy is a problem -I don't like parliament Good, good

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

inb4 Keynesians be like - I would love to live in a country that has the gold standard and no income tax

[@FLUX.2226]

@@tommykirk3403 And you can't even set up collaboration governments. Probably only so that the French and British AI won't spam collabs everywhere because Paradox can't prevent that in their AI spaghetti code. It's not like the real life democracies set up something like a collaboration government when they invaded Italy, right? _Right, Paradox?_

[@Auglet]

Very corrupt smh

[@peopleperson]

@Humanity Galatica Is this satire?

[@federalshiloh4899]

@@peopleperson 😀

[@mena860]

-*take iwo jima* I can hear dressel's screeching already

[@theshadowforce3438]

PAPUA NEW GUINEAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[@Gronkianer]

Wasnt that Braun?

[@dutch_cheese_man]

@@Gronkianer technically yes it was Braun screeching about Iwo Jima

[@shinyentree225]

@@Gronkianer shhhhh it was Braun PRETENDING to be dressel

[@Emel_unlegit]

Nice danganronpa pfp

[@_MrMoney]

A funny thing about the US' focus tree is that you can do the communist path without actually ever becoming communist.

[@Brenh0lly]

Like a true american

[@fedezanetti8470]

@@Brenh0lly yes like there are fascist but at the same time they are not

[@Bahns007]

@@fedezanetti8470 what are you talking about? Lmao

[@lyndonbjohnson2865]

@@Bahns007 They're saying Republicans are fascists. I'm an American leftist and pls believe me when I say irl we're not that stupid.

[@Eradicus_97]

Yes, It's true. If you trigger 'facist' civil war with McArthur in charge you're become not facist but non-alike whichever percent of facist you have.

[@snailor1867]

"regular difficulty, historical focuses on, iron man mode" - words that make my day

[@MayBeAHumanPerson]

Same

[@balijaa]

Meanwhile me with civilian and only historical cant annex Latvia w CCCP

[@UrWifiIsSlow]

@@balijaa how on earth is that possible? Even if you just used the AI and just drew a basic off line in 1936 and clicked go, you’d annex them

[@secret5816]

Taureor should play a game on a-historical once, change my mind

[@balijaa]

@@UrWifiIsSlow That was just hyperbole but ya I cant defeat CCCP w Germany nor vice versa

[@pluto6383]

Interesting fact: the 1934 elections, which was the last major election cycle before the HOI4 start date, was one of only three instances in the past 115 years where the president’s party gained house seats in a midterm election.

[@Cement12293]

@@Autumn-ko4pr other way around; people really *liked* the new deal and voted for it to continue

[@Lancynical]

When will I ever hear Taureor say "regular difficulty, historical focuses *off* , ironman mode"?

[@Bahns007]

He did that once as Romania iirc

[@Lancynical]

@@Bahns007 welp time to find it

[@MapletreePaper]

@@Lancynical Don't know if you found it, but here you go. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJDRkoypbaqUirc

[@Lancynical]

@@MapletreePaper Thank you!

[@R3GARnator]

He's too much of a meta-gamer timing things based off programmed focuses in the A.I.

[@FLUX.2226]

"And you are not free to do whatever when you play the United States" _insert freedom joke here_

[@Killerbee4712]

*smashing keyboard*

[@johnuthus]

Someone say oil?

[@khajiit5063]

@@johnuthus OIL!?

[@FLUX.2226]

@french general Yep, that's what I was referencing. Land of the free but you're not free to do whatever.

[@ecrradio7620]

@french general The land of the free *in relativity to the third world*

[@jeffhask367]

Admirals: Sir our ships are heavily damaged and we need to repair immediately! Taureor: No

[@Fabian-1908]

"You have become the very thing you swore to destroy"

[@OTT5329]

yes

[@watertoast7091]

yes

[@alapotato9367]

yes

[@popaog6786]

yes

[@noname-lx7go]

Yes

[@somekid538]

"Comrade, hq says to head to Murmansk for the Norwegian operation." "No the coffee maker is broken we need to repair." "But the brass sai-." "I said we repairing today."

[@johnuthus]

Mean while the brits had to have a world war to understand the useful mess of built in kettles

[@gugelimann4052]

Taureor: Britain and Japan are bad at defending their homeland Also Taureor:

[@Z_r-zl8iz]

"As the US we have three main problems first we're democratic so we can't attack anybody..."

[@icel8828]

"North Carolina is over here i think" honestly, watching Europeans learn about our states is really fun

[@theshellacstation78]

It is great the other way around too, generally just funny. Lol

[@icel8828]

@@theshellacstation78 yeah, i can imagine its funny.. but watching a random european talk about texas being the only state to have guns is hilarious

[@grandadmiralthrawn3164]

Hearing Americans confuse Sweden and Switzerland and thinking that we have polar bears on the streets of Stockholm is very hilarious

[@theshellacstation78]

@@grandadmiralthrawn3164 certainly lol

[@icel8828]

@@grandadmiralthrawn3164 HEY! they sound so similar:(

[@Luudacris1]

If you do the gold standard video “America becomes Ron Swanson”

[@yitzthejewman1160]

Yes.

[@mauricioaguilar7227]

Pd: I love how you can have Patton staunch anti-communist leading the Communist States of America army side by side to the Soviet Union. Only in HOI4

[@balindwarvenking6275]

Taureor: "I can live with a little bit of great depression" Honestly same dude

[@Blu_Jay07]

The Depression

[@like31000]

Great depression is ok, Bad depression is not

[@ssntf7]

24:36 "Actually, let's chaotically attack everywhere" Words that perfectly describe my playstyle.

[@prohacker5086]

@@Buffalo_Soldier Do spearhead plans instead of offensive ones, it might help

[@falloutplays624]

Nothing like coming home from work and see a new video uploaded after 5 minutes.

[@ygor827]

The perfect scenario

[@ohuckabee]

America: Shatter the Empires! No more kings, no more rulers from foreign shores! Philippines: So there's that "Liberty for the Philippines" focus right there, are you- *conversation drowned out by the sound of several European powers being annexed at once*

[@MrROGER1903]

French commune in Indochina, that's really cursed

[@robbob401]

Thank you for the support! Love from Rock Island!

[@golden2690]

I played communist USA and had so much fun, thank you for this to watch so I can improve next time

[@MalevolentSpirit234]

Probably the most confusing Communist tree I ever played. No Step Back USSR taken into account.

[@Yee501st]

I like that even if he makes a mistake at the beginning he doesn't restart, makes the video feel authentic.

[@arne1021]

he could also play without ironman and reload the game i do this in nearly every game

[@dietsch5273]

Better dead than red ~Optimus Prime

[@Pereirovsky]

amen

[@Tom_K]

bruh Liberty Prime....

[@lamowkachow4597]

Optimus Prime??

[@zykar1999]

I don't remember that quote from the Transformers.

[@dietsch5273]

@@Tom_K i know lol

[@lordbonney9779]

Something I sometimes do is just play as Britain or Latvia on the lowest difficulty and turns of historical focuses and Iron man mode to have some lazy fun. The things I have seen Germany do is honestly freaky, especially when democratic civil wars happen in Germany and Yugoslavia during WWII of Yugoslavia doesn’t die.

[@daktilo9232]

The thumbnail is perfect

[@hailongzhang2853]

How are you able to hire the communist guy? When I tried it, the requirement was to be communist beforehand.

[@Void_Wars]

Terrible pfp

[@hawkzhawkz9080]

Taureor: lets navy repair a few minutes later... Taureor: I didn't tell you to repair stop repairing

[@TheNignag89]

Fascist American Civil War is the most cancerous thing in this entire game and literally makes me wanna pull my hair out whenever I try it. However I would love to see you attempt it Taureor, there are SO FEW relevant videos of it on all of KZbin, and the few that exist are super out of date! Would love to see how you go about pulling it off without wanting to die lol!

[@Bahns007]

Feedback Gaming has a good couple videos on that when Man the Guns came out including an Unlimited Equipment USA Exploit (which btw still works)

[@TheNignag89]

Unfortunately outdated in most other aspects, Paradox patched the civil war so your opponents spawn WAY more troops now, basically impossible to cheese the fight in the same way Feedback did. Sucks because I think everyone wants to play fascist USA but it just nerfs them so hard it's not even worth doing the war anymore...

[@sabastian3022]

“Why do I still have a Congress? I’m still communist.” Well sir you picked democratic socialism, it wasn’t just for the names sake.

[@MayBeAHumanPerson]

Taureor: Tiny Americans. Me: Impossible...

[@Pan-be3vv]

Chalenge idea: French Indochina As France, counquer British raj and all of the chinese cores

[@zedamuria3287]

The legend says the ships are still repairing

[@Highjack333]

the top two things that make my day: 1. "Hello everyone i am Taureor" 2. "Regular difficulty, ironman, historical focuses, lets go"

[@friedwaldderlebendige8494]

hoi4 challenge: conquer japan, the allies, the comintern and germany as the us without getting rid of undisturbed isolation. bonus points if you do it without losing the great depression but since there is no wa you actually do that i am fine with just the first condition. would be nice to see you not be completely overpowered in 1939...

[@japaneseshogun5252]

I love how he calmly says ''infantry expert''

[@lurniejupi5934]

Hello Taureor, Just wanted to say that youre videos are great and keep up the great work!

[@kenasuma61]

A video going down “reestablish the gold standard” would be great!

[@Argentum_Rex]

Taureor struggling with navy is kinda funny.

[@samuraijack5919]

"I would like to be free when I play... and I'm not free when I play the United States"

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

1:14 This moment was brought to you by the Chicago School Gang

[@Kenfren]

*Austrian

[@alfiewills419]

The idea that Bernie sanders is a communist is hilarious lol

[@Taureor]

I don't think he is, but using him is funnier

[@pluto6383]

@@Taureor he’s not, but you’re right that it’s funnier that way. He just calls himself a socialist, which he really isn’t.

[@Bahns007]

@@Taureor he basically is Communist

[@lyndonbjohnson2865]

@@Bahns007 no lol. Is Canada communist? Is Germany communist? If so then Bernie is a commie.

[@ibrahimb4422]

@@Bahns007 He doesn't believe in a classless, moneyless society. He just believes in capitalism with social nets and programs.

[@marecup2911]

25:34: "aggressiver" is in fact a German word and means "aggressive" in English. So it's technically a word, but not in English :D

[@Cassertte]

Taueror, you’re the person that keeps me playing hoi4, and when i need to try and find something to do in hoi4 I come to your channel and look at your videos, you’re my idol and I when I become a pro at hoi4 I want to be just like you. From a very happy viewer

[@dub2juicy190]

It suprises me every time how ai germany holds up despite getting attacked from everywhere

[@flint8597]

Navy is my favourite feature of HOI4, once you understand it, it’s so OP. What I would give for Taureor to release a video and say “I figured out navy time to kick some ass” I’d love that

[@EnKopp]

Early bird gets the anchluss

[@tilly9805]

I would really like to see the other focus tree branch!

[@FREDWARDS]

I can already tell that this video will be epic

[@steffen5609]

Hey Taureor, I love your videos, very motivating, thanks. I have something for you. As UK I was able to get core on: UK, Ireland, Canada, USA, France, Belgium, Netherland, Luxemburg,Germany,Italy, South Africa,Australia,NZ... I think this is me most amount of cores to get in the game. I have a challenge for you to get more cores. Best regards

[@The_Lone_Aesir]

i know you mentioned having a relative that fought under one of the polish general's command. I have a great aunt that was part of Eisenhower's staff. She was hired to be a french linguist, until they asked her to translate something and she admitted she couldn't. Ike apparently laughed and said he'd find something else for her to do, which he did.

[@RIVNexxx]

I'd be down for a video where you form "The Golden Circle" as the CSA and maybe avenge 1812.

[@GabrielTrudeau]

hey Taureor, great video as always, one thing if you were not that sloppy with the fleets it would be much enjoyable for you. I can easily land an invasion in spain from miami, with very little micro management that I hate more than you... split your subs in packs of 20 make them convoy raiding the zones you need to go through use the tasks forces as strike forces not patrol in the zone you need to have your convoys to go through... easy stuff when done right and calmly :)

[@zakmudie3856]

Economics with Taureor 🤑🤑🤑 Love the content!

[@6th_Army]

To be fair to the navy. Taureor made me very confused and I'm very good with the navy. Like I have never seen anyone manage to make their navy that confusing before.

[@Xopop]

YES! :) excellent content as always :)

[@zeusz3237]

If you say never repair they will still maintain the current order for repair. You have to cancel it, that is the icon with: 2 wrenches that cross each other, and a red "X" in the left bottom corner, at the far right on the ships' bar. If you click that and accept it, they won't go to repair, but go for their given order. Also, if you change a lot of dockyards to repair role, they will repair faster any more ships. They will still produce ships as they should, just they will instead repair when there are ships to repair.

[@skazztheterrible]

Taureor and naval management is pretty funny - usually fully in control. Poor Taureor. There are a few tricks to make the navies behave better. #1 is forcing the whole fleet to move (with no mission) after changing the settings when they're in a single taskforce to wipe any residual detachments etc. Then you can command normally.

[@Xodion413]

New challenge: "Army of One" - As Democratic Jamaica, contribute enough to the war effort to ensure the Allies win.

[@Scourgeoftengri]

But why

[@Xodion413]

@@Scourgeoftengri The real question is: why not?

[@killman51]

If you start doing medium lobbying efforts from the beginning (before picking a focus) and chain them, along with chaining farm subsidies when they unlock, you'll never have congress issues. Also, conscription act + guarantee the american dream + attache to china gives you 50% war support and you can go straight to partial mob very early. Always best to beeline for the foci that reduce great depression, since there's the legislation delay.

[@KarakuraRiser]

"You're going to repair aren't ya? Basterds"

[@findlay2535]

If you turn on automatic split off in the naval options thingy, its next to repair priority, your ships will split off and go into reserve when repairing and join back in the task force when they are fully repaired. just a useful tip :)

[@XiangYann]

@Taureor, it might seem super un-obvious, but shift-right clicking a port with ships highlighted will change the naval base of the ships, which in turn will more or less "forcing" the ships to the desired naval base. The easiest way to do naval supremacy with ships with minimum management is 1. Merge ships 2. Get military access if not enough naval range 3. Move ships to desired port by shift-right click 4. Balance ship 5. Set to no repair AND no retreat 6. Patrol areas need to be the same amount or lower than the total "forces". 7. Set to patrol if enough oil, naval invasion supp if not. 8. ??? 9. Profit!

[@stevemd6488]

Very nice. Yes I'd like to see the fascist tree. The civil war is not that bad you just gotta hold off until all the states fighting you join in takes a few turns.

[@fischliebhaber8403]

really like your videos! 👍

[@annurissimo1082]

Democracy is the worst ideology. - Taureor 2020/2021

[@Sky4Jus]

Taureror, what I like to do at the start of the game as USA is to build infrastructure (max infrastructure) because you start with Isolated economy (also USA is pretty strong and starts with 100+ civs) and you get if I correct -80% penalty for building factories, so I just build infrastructure and later when I remove that penalty I can just build back factories.

[@AfshinR.Laroudi]

"Leslie, good name for a comedian" Ah.... I see you have excellent taste sir!

[@Adam-fj9px]

"Call it democratic which will make it all better" 😂😂😂

[@thefrenchareharlequins2743]

Democratic Nazism Better, because of the word "democratic"

[@FatheredPuma81]

Just found out Taureor doesn't like clicking a button every 45 days... I mean it's not exactly fun but at least it gives you something to do every 45 days...

[@FxTR22]

finally you try to face your biggest fear. Navy here another pun... This is "no work" for taureron: - play game for years and find exploits in the game - make tons of videos and upload to youtube - play game for hours This is "work" for taureron: - Play navy - install mod - complain about restricted mechanics

[@Ambera3407]

"Hello everyone I am torio and welcome to my newest haunted vine 4 video" closed captions as accurate as ever.

[@detroitdave9512]

Taureor submarines have a much longer range than other ships. Make a task force of only submarines next time and the range thing wont be a problem. Also for death stacks with capitol ships it's much better to put them on strike force not patrol. They'll only go out when there's a fight and there's a much lower chance of losing valuable ships to enemy air.

[@Birdsharna]

Yes new upload!!! :D

[@omerefegulunay1199]

You made my day perfect when u send a video

[@diamondback6366]

My challenge for you is to counquer the world as someone who can have a civil war, and win the civil war on your side, you can use someone like Germany

[@lamowkachow4597]

The world order is established then demolished by the same country. I like it

[@timh6792]

Didn't know Taureor is so based, we need the Goldstandard and we need to abolish the income tax!

[@platonplatonov7200]

Thanks for your videos

[@prussiaball1871]

Is it weird I love to watch your videos when I sleep?

[@Diego85Nap]

Your tone of voice makes me anxious :D

[@Yossarian819]

You can take the Union Representation Act Focus and choose the option that just loses 10% stability and you will not go to a civil war. That allows you to basically negate Congress and take all those juicy bonuses below it.

[@JK-mb2fr]

I will say, I do miss your son's cameos

[@idiard9956]

this man littraly has taught me how to play HOI4 in 40 minutes

[@hongyuzhu235]

Actually I found an interesting way to play USA: Go right, hire the fascist damagogue, do war powers act, then hire democratic reformer, raising dem support and do neutrality act and all the bonuses in the middle path. You can use war powers subtree to grab war goals and conquer as much land as possible.

[@154Kilroy]

For U.S. Navy... - they are short on Light cruisers, you need to build them... doesn't matter what, just so long as you have spotter planes. Will get back to that... The Navy is actually really easy, and once you figur it out, it's no different than choosing your starting research slots when you get to know the game. So, for the U.S., they have fifteenth battleships, and equal number of heavy cruisers, and 3 carriers, and I think 12 light cruisers, plus an crap load of destroyers. Split your battleships into groups of 5, with 5 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers ( add 6 more ideally, though you can get away with this realistically. ) and 20 destroyers and assign them a good admiral. I choose Halsey, Nimitz, and someone else, I forget. Guy with good traits... (King has the blockade runner trait, which makes the fleet more likely to retreat, good for convoys, bad for fleets...). And here is where you NEED more light cruisers. Spotting fleets. I use 1 light cruisers and 4 destroyers. (Think if it as the 7-2 of spotting fleets, except it still works...) make sure the light cruisers is the best it can be, and has spotting planes. Give them to a guy who has a spotting trait, and set to 'do not engage' if they are tier II cruisers of less and you don't have a lot. Or you can have them engage if they are good, as they can be quite useful if you can afford an occasional loss... Set these spotting cruiser to patrol in specific zones, and your battleships to strike in the same zones, and you have a winning formula. The AI never builds capital ships, (except the U.S. and France for some reason, but they build tier 1, 2, or 3 battleships, and always with tier 1 engines every 5 years or so, and not in every game. Idek why they bother.) But it's not hard to beat superior quantity fleets with less numbers. 6 tier 2 battleships with 4 carriers, 10 heavy cruisers and 20 destroyers playing s Germany will beat the British Navy every time. All naval doctrines are pretty good actually, again, the Ai ignores these focuses generally, so it doesn't matter what you get. It will always be an advantage. Base strike is probably the weakest though unless you truly focus on carriers. I feel like writing all this out makes it sound complicated... 🤣 It's really no harder than the rest of the game. If you can figure out the rest, you can figure out the Navy.

[@154Kilroy]

Also, subs, subs work great in 5's, 8', and 10's. I find 8's to be ideal. NY admiral you assign will get xp quick, as subs get used alot. The trick here is to of course, tell them to auto reinforce (as with all fleets), and auto split - off (DO NOT EVER DI THIS WITH YOUR STRIKE FLEETS. Battleships, carriers, and heavy cruisers will die fast this way... The Ai does this, and I makes things super easy. It's on by default... planes and subs will kill these ships fast without escorts. Set your fleets to medium repair priority (default) and do not split off, (button next to it - use Google... not default and important) your subs however are at an advantage by themselves, so auto split off is ideal. If one gets damaged, the rest continue, and it returns quick because it's a sub. Also, don't bother with tier 1's, they're worthless and you can still spam out enough tier 2's to get naval supremecy on any AI. And they're actually decent at convoy raiding while not dying so fast. Tier III's are the best overall however. Tier IV is expensive, and isn't a significant enough upgrade against the AI to be worth it. 50 subs is good enough, 80 is a target goal, 100 is ideal, anything above is a massacre. And you get ALOT of division kills from AI shuffling around divisions through the sea. It can add up extremely fast. Especially with Japan or the U.K.

[@154Kilroy]

It's really not complicated tho...

[@SteelCurrent]

I don't understand, why does your voice make me fall asleep? 😂

[@mattcanter9782]

Your joke about the gold standard at the very beginning makes so much sense after I visited Poland. Y’all got screwed by the EU. Złote should not have been left as your currency

[@lucaskalebef]

Let’s use the lunch time to hear the best voice of KZbin

[@Jdjdbxdj]

Honored that you had any idea where my state was.

[@Flinke_Fink]

You can make the navy split off so the dameged ships will repair on their own, then your navy will last longer.

[@kennet7837]

I understand the humour of Bernie Sanders in the thumbnail, but there are many conservative Americans who inaccurately view him as a communist, even though he's in reality just a social democrat (mislabeling himself as a "democratic socialist") inspired by the New Deal policies of FDR and the Nordic model of social democracy.

[@tobiasGR3Y]

You dont actually have to fight a civil war if you go onto the right side of the tree. There is a fun way to be democratic and go after other nations in a guide that I followed on steam. Kinda finicky but hey, its a blast to play.

[@botondtoth1316]

Hi I have challange idea: Name: "Forever friends." Challange: with Hungary stop Poland capitulation. Normal 1936 start

[@KhanterWinters]

Question that I've been holding for a while, what is that mod for the icons notification that you had? been seeing it a bit a while already

[@Ditzel]

You usually do the Lobbying effort from the beginning. Then you spam this into eternity and you have no problems with the senate or the house of reps

[@ZeitgeistGaming69]

Challenge: Release all of the Celtic Nations as Ireland: Northern Ireland, Britanny, Scotland, and Wales. (I wish Cornwall was releasable). Alternatively, you could create a unified Celtic State and puppet everything except the Celtic areas. That way you could include Cornwall.

[@SGWeber]

I also hate naval management, but man, that focus tree is one thing that makes me actually want to get Man the Guns

[@doomguy0774]

You should do the gold standard. I found the civil war super easy.

[@kospandx]

It is, and kicking the Confederacy to the kerbs yet again is oh so satisfying.

[@snailor1867]

taureor is a legend living

[@ctggames320]

I agree

[@nickgeiserr]

No sus your voice is so soothing