OP Yugoslavian Airforce DEFENCE

[@Michal66627]

Hi Dave, I really enjoy this new format of videos that you've started making. I find them really relaxing. No cringe. Sometimes I play them in the background while playing hoi4. Keep up the good work!

[@asim1030]

Cringe ? Its lovely! Have good day .

[@saladmcjones7798]

Yup. This is great content! I love these long form videos.

[@GeneralLiuofBoston1911]

Me too. These are my new HOI4 background videos of choice

[@aedeyd5693]

lmao i watch them to sleep

[@edinramadanovic6996]

What they teach us in history in the balkan schools is the legend of the Former Yugoslavian Ikarus airplane manufacturer and it's legendary "Ikarus IK-2 10k likes?" aircraft. It's good to see Dave teaching us HOI4 mechanics as well as history.

[@gabrieldesmarais3394]

Honestly, I find this pseudo-historical format so much more interesting than a fully optimized strategy aimed at the fastest world domination which usually ends up always being the same cheese. This format is always different, chill and really interesting.

[@FeedbackGaming]

I appreciate that. Thank you! I find this style more fun for me too

[@ЂорђеКозић]

There used to be a sweet exploit with the IK-3 focus, in which you could obtain 1944 fighter as early on as 1938-39-40, i.e. as soon as you have completed researching 1940 fighters.

[@FeedbackGaming]

YEP. Was insane!

[@emiloster2454]

Only OG Yugoslavia players remember 😂

[@peterl3417]

Couldn’t you also core all territory you conquered in war, making Yugoslavia very op?

[@ЂорђеКозић]

@@peterl3417 It's still possible to core Hungary and Bulgaria, and I think Albania too, through the focus "Reunite the kingdoms". Yugo is shit in 1936 but is pretty OP mid to late game.

[@totalwar1793]

@@ЂорђеКозић I thought you could core all of the Balkans?

[@stepheningram6415]

I am loving this series! So good. Classic Dave. This reminds me of your Turkey series for forming the Ottoman Empire like 5 years ago now. When Waking the Tiger came out. No one plays a minor nation quite like feedback.

[@andreichira7518]

It is classic Dave, up to and including the "Low Manpower. Okay, it's basically saying we're low on manpower." commentary. 😂 Jokes aside these every click videos are very helpful and he makes it so enjoyable to watch.

[@stepheningram6415]

Agreed. Its a fine series. @@andreichira7518

[@mitolinski]

The right tree is better when you divide the states, becouse they all have generic focus tree. And if they finish their industrial focus by 1940 when you reunite them you can have over 100 factories, which is op as hell

[@sajberdeka]

Also if you puppet Bulgaria and reunite you get all of Bulgaria cored.

[@FeedbackGaming]

True but not historical

[@derthcobra9765]

one important thing to mention about calvalry, is that unlike motorized they don't lose speed going deep into enemy territory as fast as motorized do, so snaking with calvalry is much easier and a lot more efficient.

[@dokkisse9075]

Hey Dave! After a year of hiatus, Im so happy you're back to making these videos! They're awesome!!!!!!! Keep up the good work. :D

[@semihguner1]

I have 1K hours in HoI4, and this new tutorial-ish format makes me so happy to watch! I still learn something new, it also might be because I may be still a noob lol

[@pedrongamaster]

Hey, I started following you during the pandemic when I bought HOI4. Congratulations on maintaining such informative and unique content for so long. This video showcases one of the best ways to have fun in HOI4 with a minor nation, and your apparent enjoyment really shows that.

[@all4scatman]

First time I gave anything to any you tuber. Good to see you have fun. Makes a very good video. Merry Christmas

[@FeedbackGaming]

Thank you ❤️❤️❤️

[@TrulyRisenFromtheDead]

Man... i never realised a 1.75 hour video could actually be pretty entertaining if you pay attention. Well done man.

[@Chris-pb8cr]

I would assume the "Exercising only at night" thing is just the result of poor testing and forgetting that exercising only half the time results in, well, half the accidents.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Needs testing

[@Mohenti]

Tested it just now: put two wings to practice. One during the day, the other all day and night. They reached level 3 at the same time with the same number of incidents, but then the wing practicing at night kept losing pilots. The one that trained during the day had no more incidents (it's probably a matter of chance). As a result, the "daytime" ones lost 6 pilots in ~3 months, the "24/7" ones lost 18. Update: did some tests with the three wing exercises over the period of a year. So far it is confirmed that on average twice as many incidents occur at night.

[@sigurdbrattland7828]

Love the longer games, please keep it up :)

[@markjevons3556]

Another great video. Loving the long form, it's also something great to put on in the background when I'm working or just after some background noise. O and it's below my HOI gameplay

[@FeedbackGaming]

❤️❤️❤️

[@derekjones6984]

Always struggled with Yugo. So much to defend. Great video as always Dave

[@killroy123]

What a thrilling episode! Great job and I was on the edge of my seat. Love love love these videos. Keep 'em coming! It's been the highlight of my day ever since the series has started

[@weplaygames1836]

You managing to hold yugoslavia against the axis which, ironically, capitulated under 20 days. Really nice video

[@markbaldwin352]

1. Praise Dave, I am a believer!!! Please keep turning out these full play games. Get sick of watching 20 min viedos. This is the content I want. Best HOI4 content out there and I am learning loads from these!

[@AccountNo-fg8fy]

love it that dave most of the time ignores the field hospital

[@FeedbackGaming]

It's because they're mid

[@Nyx2856]

These videos go hard bro! And you are pumping them out like no tomorrow!!

[@nycdotnet4751]

Seems like you should only queue up 5 improvements for a MIO - that way when it gets to level 6 it will warn you and you can remember that when the MIO warns you it's time to pick a policy.

[@ziga4870]

1:13:58 tanks do suffer a stat penalty when they run out of fuel. In combat you can see an oil barrel icon on the tank division that slowly goes down to 0%. When that happens the tank division looses it's armor, hardness and it's soft attack and breakthrough are only a fraction of what they were. Basically once fuel runs out, the crew abandons the tanks, trucks, apcs and fight on foot.

[@FeedbackGaming]

I'm almost certain this isn't right. Can you find me the tooltip or status icon that shows lack of fuel penlaties? Only 1 can find is this imgur.com/a/picWKvQ

[@ziga4870]

It isn't represented in the tooltip, but the tank does loose almost all fighting capability. Played Soviets, made heavy tanks and once they ran out of fuel, they had no armor and barely any soft attack and breakthrough. @@FeedbackGaming

[@FeedbackGaming]

I've just tested this and all I was losing is speed

[@ziga4870]

Can't post a link because my comment keeps getting deleted. But the Fuel page in the pdx hoi4 wiki backs up my claim. Look at the "Divisions" section in the Fuel page.

[@SuperKrisNOR2]

This is so amazing! Thanks for actually explaining what and why you are doing the things you do! Now I can actually learn the game 😂❤️ Love this format, hope you do it with other nations too 😊

[@logankellogg1454]

IDK IF YOU READ MY COMMENT BUT THANK YOU ASKED FOR THIS SPECIFIC 👍🏻👌🏻🙏🏻

[@FeedbackGaming]

🎄

[@danijet0837]

1.....now im a Beliver! Thanks Dave for this Playlist!

[@PaladinElliott]

Davey Jones ur locker of content just keeps getting better

[@VanBourner]

I liked how you left outtake markers in last video, it kinda gives it more of an organic vibe. Kinda reminds me (and I know it is far fetch) how totalbiscuit sometimes would have left those (especially you could hear his audio sync "MARK" in the intro for Hearthstone videos) in his WTF is vids. It's in a very strange way wholesome for this format. And I saw nobody complaining about it so leave those in. It gives it a certain je ne sais quoi I also think that since now you have early trucks as an option, trading and land-lease over land should take up trains, trucks if there's no railroad connection and it should make the shipping with trucks longer than trains. I know, it is an evil feature but it makes no sense as is lol. And unsold resources on the market should give you slight construction/efficiency buffs. Like if you have excess steel that is not being used your production growth should be more rapid (as your people can make required machinery faster and have space to prototype). I know this would be insane buff to countries like US but maybe remove it on specific economy like isolation and give debuffs for it for countries that are not industrialised enough like USSR. Or maybe give it as a MIO policy to make it delayed bonus.

[@Jansay34]

I'd find it interesting to see government-in-exile mechanics in one of your playthroughs. Maybe Netherlands or Poland?

[@paleman7611]

Netherlands move their capital to Batavia, hence no exile

[@蔡林翰-v2m]

我才在昨天，打蘇聯的同時，獲得了2:30的空戰戰績 以我的話，AI 沒有準備"升級"如此的快速，導致他們在非43年科技外沒有優勢 所以，其實只要專心衝一種科技(尤其是國策樹有加成)，AI 在對抗上就有絕對的弱勢，HOI 本身因為平衡的關係也不會出現數量強於質量的奇妙狀態，空戰的對抗就是質量上的一對一與數量上的制空壓制 也就是說，只要前面對打 數值上是贏的，繼續下去就是一直贏過去

[@Nikolavasiljevic06.]

To my credit, I haven't seen such a good KZbinr in a long time

[@soral94]

Thank you, Dave. Beautiful content.

[@conservativegamer1180]

Dave i also love these videos. But also i kept bringing everything you clicked past the research speed tech. Much love

[@billder2655]

been loving your videos lately dave, keep up the great work. its really useful and interesting content

[@milesexplains]

Awesome video! Loving this series

[@linuxares]

Dave plays with Horses so much he should try the updated Equestria at War mod for HOI4!

[@IndependentObserver]

57:00 It also increases your XP GAIN, and CP generation- meaning that you get those doctrines about 10% more quickly- 5% cheaper, and 5% faster, and once you're done with the doctrines you still get more XP to use on *all the other shit that requires army XP* And you get to use general 'powers' like Forced Attack more often. It's also very useful in early game on countries that don't have much war support to get more CP, to be able to fill your military cabinet with people, and aren't democratic (cause democratic-specific bonus from that category is busted AF and only a lobotomite would choose anything else for the first ~4 years of the game)

[@elseggs6504]

24:11 The Tripartite Pact sort of was historical though. The leadership was interested in the non-aggression thing the most, so they werent signing up to be Brothers in Arms. *However*, many people still remembered the genocide in WW1, so within 2 days (with british Support) the government was overthrown, Peter declared King and the Treaty would be voided. What *is* ahistorical IIRC would be the events looking at german military access since that was one of the things they didnt grant them even under the Pact.

[@crookshanks5000]

No air doctrines for the war is rough lol, took you long enough!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Lads here counting L's. I only count W's

[@mc-ranelid7078]

I love this series, inspiring and helpful for a new hoi4 player 😊

[@MrCalls1]

1:39:13 Dave finally discovers the jugo! ❤️

[@guyincognito3199]

I've played fairly regularly since MIOs got added and only learned today that they have bonuses. That's absolutely terrible work from Paradox not having alerts for that. Also learned about queuing upgrades for MIOs from another video of yours earlier, so thanks a bunch for the education

[@deenjones3352]

I love these long playthroughs!

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

You know, you're allowed to be a lil OP if you want to; it's part of doing what you want

[@FeedbackGaming]

I felt pretty OP this game

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

@@FeedbackGaming only the very end, tho, after some nailbiting fights back still, gg mate

[@FeedbackGaming]

Bit of suspense is fun

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

@@FeedbackGaming Sure, but there's also a joy in watching folks beat down on the poor AI and the Pdox devs that made it

[@teachernr1]

awesome series, so happy that you did Yugoslavia (again). too bad not to go with Tito choice as my favourite choice for Yugoslavia

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

historically he definitely is mine, but why do players like Tito in the game? I mean, he doesn't have any traits. Sure, his path is _fine_ (lackluster for someone like Tito but oh well)

[@teachernr1]

@@aidenbooksmith2351 with Tito you don't need to go through all focuses to fix political situation and bring stability back.

[@luciferspiro]

Establish the Banovina of Croatia focus is not banning the Croatians, it´s basically the opposite. It is a historical focus tree of what really happened in Yugoslavia and what it did it gave Croatia more autonomy in the state not ban them. I don't understand why they didn't translate the Banovina part, in English it's basically " Establish the Duchy of Croatia".

[@apaper3978]

Love these Dave

[@mrakguy99]

Thanks!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Merry Christmas buddy. Thank you so much

[@Monksy1337]

All that build up to be exercising when the war starts was heartbreaking Well played tho fun bunch of vids and congrats on the home

[@theoharismoisidis5382]

true believer of these every single click videos I love them!!!

[@Firebomber03]

Love these videos keep going!

[@aymanfawzy525]

more of these videos man ! i finnish it from first second to the last

[@SuperSmith]

I never knew why Yugoslavia was actually invaded during WW2. Thanks for the history lesson

[@garyjohnson3252]

Really nice video!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Very nice. Big success

[@neso_003]

Thank you, I like your Historical playing of games. Specially you were still non allied. Great game 🎯

[@pufffincrazy5275]

Great episode! You probably should have invested in synthetic resources for fuel and rubber though.

[@FeedbackGaming]

It's a tough choice. To get the big payoff. You need at least five techs in rubber. Plus the only time I had an opportunity to build them was when I was already winning. If I built them early I could lose them when Germany takes control of them.

[@toolboxnj]

Starting the notifications from right to left, my brain is broken.

[@aleksandarvuchkov9154]

I love your videos Dave! could you maybe try to play with the scroll a bit less - would make the experience less sicky always with love

[@KingOfStopMotion]

Germany when it looks south and sees Italy fall: 😐🔫

[@АндрейТокарев-р2ч]

You're Dave, right? I personally enjoy videos about HoI4, especially the "boring" ones, as you've said. I like this game alot and have much to learn about from advanced players like you. Thanks for the content! (subscribed)

[@robertlockrem558]

Bro, are you ok? Don't burn yourself out on these videos.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Only Poland left now. Can't stop!

[@talosisoursavior3061]

if you are doing all of this cavalry only, you gotta do the cossack king when you do poland

[@philipbenson5235]

Love this series

[@NormanconEVE]

I like the idea you just have no fuel but planes are still in the air but just less effective? They stuffing animal fat or saw dust soup into the fuel tank or something? I need a FeedBackGamingIRL spreadsheet on the effectiveness of fuel and lack there of. - Peter II Also yes the air support bonus would be from the allies. You do not need you own CAS to get bonuses. Sometimes If I have too much CAS I put it over friendlies to provide some advantages. That 1942 anti-balkanization though. One last thing I noticed. The Anti Tank cannons for the CAS hurts agility at all times. Not just on CAS missions.

[@sstt5585]

If I remember correctly reliability on planes reduces the amount of accidents during missions

[@FeedbackGaming]

I'm aware of that too. However I don't know the ideal number to aim for. In the past plane reliability was ignored because accidents were so rare

[@t0bb00]

I think your leader must have bugged. According to the wiki, Peter II is supposed to age up in September 1941. It's not like you missed out on any interesting focuses, and even the underage monarch trait didn't really matter after a certain point, still weird that it bugged like that though.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Yep it bugged I was gonna talk about it at the end of the video but I forgot. For some reason he never came of age

[@talltale9760]

Was it caused by not putting him into power until 1942?

[@FeedbackGaming]

Could be. However last time I did that it came of age straight away

[@antoniusxxo5687]

You can get more in the peace deal when you use all your points as soon as you have them so don't press pass after each demand states if you spend them every time you can get 75% of states with 40% contribution

[@commissarkordoshky219]

Also Supply Hubs connected via rivers also use convoys

[@FeedbackGaming]

I'm pretty certain they don't

[@OtterSpace975]

gotta say, I;m super glad someone else is noticing how broken speed is in HOI4. Motorized and light tanks do better than mediums in single player because you can overrun full stacks going as fast as possible. Cavalry is better than Infantry for pushes because again, you can overrun, cut off and create encirclements easier. You may need to break heavy tank divisions, and for that, you need mediums, but if you are an industrial nation, use motorized and light tanks with CAS in single player. It trivializes the war part of the war game.

[@linushammarkyro4075]

this needs 10k likes

[@quarties]

Can't wait to see you playing Poland 😎

[@FeedbackGaming]

Tomorrow

[@quarties]

@@FeedbackGaming 🥳🥳🥳 the lan party crew will surely check how did you do 😎

[@RejonMunchausen]

you are spoiling us!

[@muffinman594]

You should try to take over the world on disarmed nation manpower laws the entire game

[@FeedbackGaming]

As China. So no challenge

[@MichaelBrown-d3o]

Loving these!

[@phreakedout1]

I feel like you are calling out Alex the Rambler with the tea comment at the beginning of this video :D

[@FeedbackGaming]

Why Alex?

[@phreakedout1]

He's always talking about his tea. I guess my American sensibilities are showing.

[@FeedbackGaming]

All British people and talk or drink tea ;)

[@phreakedout1]

LOL and then he proceeded to release a UK focused episode. Fantastic.

[@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo]

Interesting build!

[@nicdesmedt7443]

Really liked the video! Would have been funny to see what territory you would have gotten from the Chinese unification war. That would have been ideal for bordergore or maybe just adding Tibet or Indochina or something.. lol

[@delpiressed4756]

That post WW2 border is good, my game wouldn't do that

[@maverick4761]

perfect tutoriel

[@christophideker8378]

Whooo here we go again bois!

[@DoctorX149]

Hey Dave, love your videos! I’m really curious how these long videos are performing-I see they have a similar number of views to your shorter videos, but how long are people watching? Personally, I’ve been missing the edited down ones, I just don’t have the stamina to watch these ones through :(

[@FeedbackGaming]

Tbh these videos are doing insanely well. Way better than I expected. I need to assess what my channel is going to look like in 2024

[@tbeller80]

@@FeedbackGamingcould be that since you're doing them as a series and putting them out every other day it's keeping interest high. It's showing aspects of countries that not everybody sees and we're seeing them in detail. You mentioned in the Norway vid that you had to try it three times to get it publish-worthy, so do what you have time for, but this has been a fun ride so far.

[@MrPureblindman]

Fortress Serbia into HUGO-slavia nice. love playing as Yugoslavia its super tough and challenging and still a new player too. Hardest part i have is the getting mobbed by everyone but you did it with horse only proves it can be done. also that horse supply use reduction is massive W in smaller countries with weak/ slow economies.

[@FeedbackGaming]

False is most definitely, strong!

[@MrCactusVids]

It might be helpful to have a mini keyboard UI at the bottom right to show what buttons you are pressing

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

You should be able to promote aces to your airforce chief

[@FeedbackGaming]

Wouldn't be surprised we get a air marshals update in the future

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

This series is great! I think they should probably nerf horses though. They should really only be used to haul carts for countries that don't have rubber for twucks ;P

[@andydufresne9593]

50:37 i need to defend prince Paul here, historically, he asked ''allies'' for help, in particular to arm his country so it could defend itself from the Axis, USA said it can't help them and UK advised him to attack Italians in Albania and to try and capture as much equipment as possible while being surrounded by Axis... That is why he signed the treaty with Axis, and it was not treaty to enter Axis but a treaty of Yugoslav neutrality in war that was happening in Greece between allies and Italy, which was going bad and Germany needed to intervene. A short history lesson

[@enochinri]

To me, it seems like cavalry is a very cost-effective "win more"" strategy. Choosing between cavalry and regular infantry isn't going to make or break your game, but once the enemy has exhausted themselves, the speed allows you to just roll over whatever is left. If you are in the allies, Russia, or China, you will be on the back foot for the first part of the game, but at a certain point the scales tip and you just destroy them. I would be incredibly interested to see you do cavalry with an aggressive nation. Japan, Germany, or an Axis minor.

[@McEldercraftHD]

Would really love to see Bulgaria next, especially if you would go ahistorical, because those are the best paths for Bulgaria in my opinion, especially the Balkan faction and united Balkans

[@Grey-ub5ds]

Dave i fall asleep on those videos please do more

[@kaptan_davuk]

i have two things to say! First, playing minor nations and making them major is much more fun than conquering world, its satisfying and there is an achievement but its so boring to do. Second, building civies one by one so that you can make the most out of the construction is a really good strategy if you are trying to min max.

[@chef4025]

You’re my favorite British!

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

Reliability reduces accident chance for aircraft

[@FeedbackGaming]

True! However I don't now what is a big or a small number. In the past reliabilityon planes didn't matter

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

@@FeedbackGaming it modifies the base crash chance so if the base chance is 5% and your plane has 80% reliability the accident chance is 1%

[@slip6699]

Thanks for doing these. Maybe just once a year update these or try a new nation.

[@FeedbackGaming]

I'd like that do this every year for December. That sounds fun

[@ZeEvulFirefox]

Free trade is really -not- worth it anymore unless u need the research from it since it now gives a 5% base construction speed increase vs Export focus which gives 10% base resulting in Export always being better for construction.

[@FeedbackGaming]

The difference is very small because you have to be selling a huge amount of weapons to bank market money. I always end up spending market money faster then I bank it

[@ZeEvulFirefox]

Yeah my bad missed that it were only for the Surplus that it increased the speed thought it were as a base for all construction. Even started the game to make sure XD@@FeedbackGaming

[@NorViking94]

Loving it

[@VeilWalkers]

I get the not wanting to just conquer the everything as fast as possible. I may be in my first game that might be successful, sprinting down the Balkans and Turkey by '39 as Italy. I went Italy First and having Bulgaria in a faction and still having Italian Yugoslavia from the focus tree, but it still feels, i don't know, "off?" All the other guides and videos just talk about "you have to absorb the entirety of Europe by '38, otherwise you messed up," but that just never seemed as fun as actually having to seriously fight people.

[@FeedbackGaming]

💯 true! The speed run of the majors is a bore to me.

[@welovegarro]

it always annoyed me how with only a handful of convoys you are able to transport ten or even more divisions each comprised of like 10k men but it takes a hundred convoys to deliver a thousand guns.. it's just so stupid

[@FeedbackGaming]

Hahaha so true 🤣

[@AlvorReal]

Hey, you can accept the lend leases, then request convoys. They'll send you a bunch.

[@signoguns8501]

Tank having no fuel but still being powerful makes sense. The guns and canons are still operational, just the engine wont be able to run. But yea, planes should suffer much bigger debuffs when there's no fuel. How would they even get into the sky with no fuel? lol

[@PlvsVltra-ji3rs]

This is a country I never figure it tbh, and never cared to use, to the point I played in South America instead lol. So this is actually highly anticipated on my part.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Yugoslavia is a fun nation to play

[@PlvsVltra-ji3rs]

Yeah I am gonna give it a go after watching the guide