Unveiling Secrets: My Incredible Hoi4 Gottterdamerung Germany Debut!

[@Sunday_fits]

Besides no iconic intro by telling me who you are, good video

[@ESG1]

I appreciate your honesty, glad you like the video.

[@Sunday_fits]

@@ESG1 I’ll be following your guide

[@ESG1]

Thanks, names ESG. I have been a content creator covering HOI4 for the last 6 years. I am known for my Germany, air and naval guides. I was one of the first creators (if not the first) to employ the Anschluss rush, AA in the tank template and Free Trade first strats. Welcome to the channel!

[@floridaman4073]

Yep, he’s not full of himself like other YT.

[@NZIGNANTI]

He's full of hoiself

[@Hoi4withRobin]

14:43 you can click all of them at once, they are not wasted. The Consumer Good Factor will go into negative so it will actually turn into a buff for a short time

[@ESG1]

Thanks man!

[@watsonblack7481]

I tried doing the free trade thing and building cis without the autarchy focuses but damn the mefo bills are cancer unless you go quickly to price controls. Thanks for this vid

[@ESG1]

NP, yeah they lock you into going Autaurky.

[@99NeroTR]

Great video. Highly appreciate the good work

[@ESG1]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Elzebub666]

Looking forward to Part 2 :)

[@ESG1]

Part 2 will be a world domination with a much better build. This is just the appetizer. Thanks for watching!

[@doitny]

there is a trick to spam divisions. after you get 5 army experience create a new template with one division. i then make 120 divisions. this is the same trick to get you 7 division by the time war in Spain starts so you can send the 7 max divisions there. then after i get them i split them into 5 Army groups of 24 divisions and only upgrade one Army to the 9 division template. that with the divisions you start with is enough to get Anschluss by 1937.

[@KayraSaritas]

I agree with everything you said, very good professional. The only point I disagree with is that I think Rudolf Hess is better.

[@ESG1]

You aren't concerned that you lose him?

[@KayraSaritas]

@@ESG1 No, hes is not going away.

[@ESG1]

WAAZIHM!! The flight of Rudolf Hess!

[@banzaiduck]

@@ESG1 If you pick him, he will stay. Read his focuses.

[@ESG1]

K, and why is he better?

[@Atomik88slo]

Thank you for making another guide for this hard game. Without a guide i am lost.

[@DeprivedJuice]

The Denmark trade seems like a waste. You get 10% consumer goods factor for bonuses you don't even get to use when you go to war.

[@ESG1]

Thanks for the help

[@99NeroTR]

I think that one is build for a more defensive way of playing like a democratic Germany. The Trade will probably stay if you get attacked, respectively, are not the aggressor

[@Wright1331]

Would be nice if you could increase the UI size, watching this while laying in bed I can''t see anything in the windows :D

[@claudej8338]

Nice to have a guide so quick! PS: any reason not to use the "Commence when ready" and "Auto repeat" options for the Collab govs ?

[@ESG1]

May as well but you may lose your intel network if you don't have spies assigned to the country that you are trying to collab. I always use commence when ready. Going to change how I do collabs in the next guide. I have figured out a lot with further testing and help from the community.

[@claudej8338]

@@ESG1 Awesome! Looking forward to your next guide.

[@cynthiacuthrell514]

I like your videos. I have recently started taking the Netherlands ASAP for the rubber. I find it helps from needing to build synthetics. Also, I have experimented (a little) and have concluded taking England now is very hard. They have a lot of divisions there, so I scrap most of the initial ships and spam subs. I sink well over 3000 convoys in a few years. I have tried not attacking the allies and everyone takes the Soviet Union out then I attack the allies. I'm still not sold on tanks. I haven't seen a great return for the time and resources. I have not done too much with the spy networks and the game is fine. Is it worth the time? Should Germany take Norway? The game really comes down to holding the allies off and the more areas you take, the more units are needed to guard them. I find attacking the Soviet Union that I have trouble keeping up with the Infantry weapons. Any thoughts?

[@ESG1]

I think your problem with the Allies stems from the British focus “general re-armament.” When world tension spikes over 10% Britain can take this focus and boost it’s armed forces greatly. Get Anschluss early about July 15th, 1937. This is when wt spikes above 10% due to the Japan/ China war. That will slow them down. Bring Italy into the war when u want to invade Britain. Good job with the subs. Tanks are the best thing in the game if u know how to use them. They can attack and lose a fraction of the manpower and equipment. The trick to using them is maintaining air superiority and building level 3 railroads to where they are. The game will get much easier if u can use them properly. To get rubber you need to build refineries late 1938. Good luck and have fun!

[@Kydino]

what happens if you don't do the ribbentrop pact path of the focus? Can you still get a non agression pact with the soviets or are you screwed by early 1940 or so?

[@ESG1]

The Soviets don’t get eastern Poland and u don’t get the tank bonuses to research.

[@evilcarlonis9015]

Belgium is much op fighting with them in 1940 and they have 90 divisions 😢😢😢 em 1941 I was fighting with more than 240 divisions from france, belgium, uk and their minors.

[@TandaiAnxle]

Anyway Advice on naval invading UK? since the update. in all of my German games I always get destroyed by them when I land.

[@ESG1]

I haven’t figured it out yet. You used to have to bring Italy in so they could tie the British fleet up. I suspect it’s the same.

[@TandaiAnxle]

@@ESG1 I don't think so what I did was I got in a alliance with spain to take Gibraltar after calling Italy in and so the getting naval supremacy isn't the hard part its strictly the landing but I don't know how to push up north from dover or down south from Hull since they re enforce so fast. I also tried opening up a front in Africa but even that doesn't work even when I was pushing far into Egypt and out from Ethiopia.

[@ESG1]

Just Sea Lioned after Barbarossa. We incorperated the USSR fleet. It was pretty easy but we have bright green air.

[@TandaiAnxle]

@@ESG1 DUDE bro you just said this after I also got my first sea lion and won. It took forever but I got the right combination and I cut through them like butter. but I wanna try this next time to.

[@LeprinhaGul]

you can have better results if you train your units. attacking with green planes and soldiers is awful

[@ESG1]

Good point

[@marcustulliuscicero5559]

Generally good strategy but could use some optimization. Too much priority given to the spy agency limited your industry. With my build I had 18 tank divisions (15 full 1938 medium tank) and kampfgruppe at the start of the war.

[@ESG1]

I think that would be better. If the goal is world conquest you could take out multiple countries at the same time with the tanks.

[@Sapphic001]

May I ask how do you target enemy supply hubs , and how do you see them on an enemy country, like Poland. Thx ! 😊

[@ESG1]

There is no way of seeing the supply hubs that I know of. I just know where they are from experience. All rails will lead to them. Cas, and tac bombers have the logi strike missions to destroy railways which cut off the supply hubs.

[@Hoi4withRobin]

8:48 Im pretty sure the surrender Limit is only for Germany not for the countries you attack. I would for that to be the case though

[@ESG1]

Not sure but countries were surrendering faster when I had Himmler and that focus.

[@johnp4000]

Do you get the impression that the A.I is also developing/ researching high tech weapons?

[@ESG1]

Suprisingly no

[@maikbaumann1250]

ah the famous "arbiirt und broot" campain. i dunno why but i love it when americans try to speak german

[@ESG1]

Yes, try and fail. My pronunciation 6 years ago was even worse.

[@maikbaumann1250]

@@ESG1 some words you got pretty good other americans wouldnt get them, but as i said i love the accent. (i wasnt sarcastic, or a smartass) i mean its a pretty difficult language (most german cant even use it correct) and we have this ä, ö, ü, ß bullshit oh and you would love my english aswell, i sound like a robot with system error 😅

[@ESG1]

Thanks man, I try but I suck. Too much of my time has been spent making videos. All the German people I have met speak English well and are very nice people.

[@iw2751]

I thought Legion Condor focus is pretty Op. Am i wrong?

[@ESG1]

U can send more volunteers when your army is bigger without that focus. I think it’s mainly for multiplayer games but it could be good. I would rather get other focuses in an AI game.

[@KayraSaritas]

If you choose Hess, don't be afraid, it's not going

[@BradleyCason]

What DLC’s are you using?

[@ESG1]

All of them

[@BradleyCason]

@ Thanks! Pretty new to HOI😂

[@bradpitt5355]

Himmler is piece of ...it . That best historical accuracy you can get .

[@MrZauberelefant]

@@bradpitt5355 but that goes for all of them. Hess might be the nicest of the bunch, and that is saying something

[@KayraSaritas]

HESS GOOD BUT BORMAN BAD

[@Parastas]

are you going to continue with the Russian war? cause thats actualy the only thing you can call a challenge for germany and weirdly enough every single German ULTIMATE GUIDE ends before the russian war lol. Would love to actually see someone execute the russian war a win cause i swear to god i have not seen a single video of it done live, just cuts here and there, shows nothing about organizing and maneuvering during it

[@ESG1]

I have a recent live stream of me almost finishing the Russian war but I ran out of time. You can check it out on my youtube channel unedited here: kzbin.infoo57Yxhs4y0I

[@RCMchannelandMORE]

Isn't the other economic path better?

[@ESG1]

It could be, I haven’t tested it. Other youtuber’s have said it is better. I like the early industrial research bonuses on the right.

[@CHUMBAWUMBA-w1t]

Do you have your gaming setup outside? What's with the sunglasses, bud?

[@MrVictor1227]

Shut up

[@ESG1]

I wear my sunglasses at night