United States of WHAT? 🇺🇸

[@LudietHistoria]

Wow I can't believe south america is so big

[@Notexactlydat]

Neither can i

[@CasparMinning]

Ludie confirmed to be an south american resident :P

[@Thomas_from_roblox]

@@LudietHistoria hi Mr Romania

[@getsomeboy321]

I love the mutual focus tree. They should implement this into the Nordic defense pact that no one uses

[@InZomnia365]

No one uses it, except for the AI in every non-historical game. It's honestly far too easy to form it, suddenly you have the US joining Sweden in 39...

[@getsomeboy321]

@InZomnia365 yeah I've never used it. Habsburg mutual focus tree is pretty strong though.

[@jeremyglass4283]

27:42 the reason why you thought you were about to gain a level of autonomy is because while you were microing, Belgium DEMOTED you to a puppet from a colony!

[@RobsRedHotSpot]

I think they should redo the commonwealth focus trees with the same idea! Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa particularly would benefit from this kind of resource expansion

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

well not at least the mechanic exists so modders could do it. But that's not the same thing tho.

[@fraulens]

At 22:50, you didn't realize that the foci you picked were reducing your autonomy instead of increasing it (they all have a -100 or -250, and any negative value decreases your autonomy). Good video as always, FBG!

[@lightningmcqueen1717]

this map projection def does not give the congo justice. its over half the size of all of europe

[@Late0808]

@@lightningmcqueen1717 Kongo is 2 million km² and you can put UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and poland inside it just for the conparison so you are right about your claim and its a geographical fact

[@ZarexianMapper]

30:15 and you would have had even more autonomy points if you had fired Albert de Vleeschauwer (the guy who gives you a 15% malus on freedom by war score) by completing the "An Independent Colonial Cabinet" focus from the "The Congo and the War in Europe" branch. For everyone who wants to try the new Congo focus: please do those three focuses (all 35 days) as soon as they are available, not just to fire that annoying guy but also to reduce the "An Uncontrollable Vast Nation" malus.

[@explosivo666]

Honestly Congo should keep access to its economy focuses when independent, but needs to have a certain number of civs.

[@julianbauer9775]

I often buy my train in such a situation from the international market. I rather loose my all industry for a couple of days then stability. But it is just a personal preference.

[@overlordmateus407]

22:13 if you did this, you wouldn't be so limited. That's what you get when you only focus on one part of the focus tree

[@electricVGC]

Finally united Europe into one country

[@lawden210]

Had Dave waited to do the independence focus, wonder if he really could've snuck the french territory focus first

[@thegrumpyraccoon]

Coop Kongo and Ethiopia would be nasty good.😄

[@darkequation]

The thing is Ethiopia almost always fight UK for land and Congo seems to flourish the most under Belgium, so unless Belgians join Axis they would inevitably clash

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

Kingdom of Burundi World Conquest when

[@knpark2025]

6:20 "Why can't I use command power or guns or something." Asking why he can't throw troops at the problem while he is forced to invest a metaphorical resource for political effort is a good question about a game mechanic on its own, but because he's saying it while playing as Belgian Congo, the line is also a PEAK in-character representation of a colonial governor who would solve every problem with guns if he could.😂

[@knureksun6306]

Thanks for the video. I will use the opportunity to recommend a great movie that mentions Congo: "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat". Take care

[@Koagulat]

Feed man. When you zoom in there are 2 mice on the screen. Fix it.

[@kamilkuzak3493]

36:36 I believe that with decision "Invest Funds Into Local Villages" you can stack another civs in your new cores. So, with communist path and African Union path, you can have a +1 civ in every african state

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

I think the inevitable Pacific update in 2025 should rework internal politics and divide Political Power into PP and Cash to represent a divide between economic and persuasive efforts in your strategy. You've already started to see PP get represented more like cash in some focuses in the past few updates, so dividing things would give you alternate ways to influence your development so for example your diplomats won't stop shmoozing with other countries just because your government did some deficit spending.

[@Zack_Wester]

I could also see political power been split into 3. Military power(police, military, MIO and that kind of stuff). economical power(cash) political power (persuasive). Military Power can only be used for military project you can also trade some military power to be used for civilan stuff like send in the army to clear a landslide or fix infrastructure or disasters (example Chinas flood the river action) but it will hurt war support.

[@frankunderbush]

Wakanda nonsense is this???!!!

[@samuelbishop3316]

I think the logic for congo industrialoy advancing, is they have finances from Belgium. As oppose to Ethiopia who has that do everything locally

[@Nadie8856]

Concentred Industry forever 🗣️‼️

[@Notexactlydat]

Yessiirrrrrr

[@MrTeddy12397]

nah bruv i need that efficiency retention when i unlock a new gun every 6 months

[@Wolfogre]

Congo Congo, how about a independent Katanga and/or Kasai? ;)

[@Ansuzhelmaz]

84 days is nothing compared to the 210 day focus of the netherlands 😭

[@Notexactlydat]

United deserts

[@marche434]

Blue emoji locked up Dave inside the basement

[@MartinKaar-mq6of]

What is the name of the game 11:22

[@ausnorman8050]

congo congo in the comments*

[@Notexactlydat]

No way. Did they add a focus tree for Africa or is this a mod?

[@DiseaseCheese]

It is a new dlc

[@Bucket-f9z]

this is the gottermbandgon dlc

[@winningsmile4214]

its the dlc

[@Notexactlydat]

@@DiseaseCheese oukeyyyy

[@ryanrg1545]

@@Bucket-f9z gottermbandgon

[@pashadwantara]

Play The Fire Rises, would you kindly?

[@Luis_Manuel_Suarez]

Kong GO! Kong GO!

[@moosegoose3159]

As much as I like the flavour, I have to ask why? Why Belgian congo?

[@FairyRat]

Because they deserve better than what they had for what, like 2 centuries now.

[@TheDanc1nghawk]

I love the Congo, Congo is the best.

[@derAlphabet]

Congo Congo line?

[@Mikko_pl]

I didn't watch for a while, but I have a feeling something's wrong with your voice in the vid.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Yeah mic is bust. Fixed in next video

[@jugi4767]

bro said political power 110 times😂

[@EcardEcardian]

Going bongo in the Congo.

[@unionnet27]

Why not continue?

[@michaptak4314]

congo congo

[@bertschi7]

Bingobango supercongo 😎

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

bingo bingo bongo I don't want to leave the CONGO oh no no no no Noooooo

[@DustyOldPanda]

I'm playing the Congo just now. Trying to gain a foothold in Europe, if you join the Allies, is awfully hard. Germany stomped USSR pretty quickly. Doing the quickest breakaway route (Civil War) to see if I can join Axis to take Belgium, this time. The tree is pretty cool.

[@zarbi64]

King kongo

[@Mohenti]

USSR has 3 research slots from the start. Congo can get third by a second focus. R - realism.

[@BoopleSnoot-u5b]

good luck getting 15 factories before 1940

[@slorp_hint4752]

Is it time to congoline? Pa dum tss

[@ciceronroma]

Congo Congo!

[@slemansleman1356]

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[@dfoleyusa]

Congo Congo

[@SomeNoobWithCE]

Congo congo

[@RejonMunchausen]

congo-congo

[@beltedumde7469]

Yummy

[@Notexactlydat]

Nuh uh

[@connorbrown5488]

Congo Congo

[@danielhakim9756]

congo congo