Fortress Luxembourg

TFW you out-Maginot the French as a OPM.
Get fucked, Germany.
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[@dannydacheedo1592]

You can't cuck the lux

[@juliusdannhorn4956]

Nobody cux' the lux

[@mrlime9526]

Over a thousand likes and only 1 reply? IMPOSSIBLE!

[@BorisstalmN]

Anything 8s impossible if you lux it enough

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[@dannydacheedo1592]

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[@georgemurdock7670]

"I wish i where at the eastern front. I heard all they had to deal with is being outnumbered 4 to 1 and a heavy winter" -German soldier, Luxemburgian front, 1943

[@thinkingboi9508]

"My dear love, it has been three years since i've sent to attack the Defiant's Wall. Pride turned to fear, and fear turned to boredom. At first it was somewhat thrilling, running across that no man's land, now i just stay behind the pile of corpses waiting until nightfall before sneaking back to the trenches, apparently this is common amongst the "Old Guard" "Old". I am not even out of my twenties. They always come up with the "solution" to the "Luxembourg question", wonder weapons, a new type of gas or a genious tactic, all of them fall apart in their first hours agaisnt the Defiant's Wall, beaten by guns made from the last war. We all heard about Moscow's capitulation, yet no one cheered, we just stared at the radio as rain poured in and mud filled our trenches, i looked behind me and saw a flash of light followed by a gunshot coming from the one of the Defiant's bunkers, blood plastered agaisnt the bunker's interiors. There was a fight between the generals, some wanted to nuke the whole place while others argued that doing so was admitting defeat, that the Luxemburgs beat us. Anyway, the plane was sent to London but unfourtunately it fell into the British Channel alongside our hopes of winning this war. The Allies landed on Normady a month ago and i plan on running away the moment they reach the wall and surrendering to the first squad i see, i just can't handle it anymore. I haven’t been receiving letters from you, i am not sure if the convoys are being gunned down by the Allies' planes, if some SS agent is discarding mine or if the bombers have reached Dresden."- Letter from a hanged German soldier, dated "15/06/1948"

[@EremisYamamoto]

@@thinkingboi9508 this turned darker than i actually wanted lmao

[@canon-de-75]

@@thinkingboi9508 Notable publications on the Luxembourg nation-fortress holdouts: Mid-1940 “BRITISH PATHÉ: SUMMER SPECIAL: Heroic pilots fight off the Jerry’s blitz, Italo Bablo’s Escertio in hard fighting with us over Egypt, and finally, the amazing fortifications that keep Luxembourg safe from the Nazi jackboot that trampled Western Europe Fall of USSR “WE ARE NOT DEFEATED”: Speech by Winston Churchill after the treaty of Vladivostok, extolling the continued courage of the Luxembourgish people as an example to the rest of the world. 1950 “GERMAN-LUXEMBOURGISH CEASEFIRE”: Luxembourg and Germany race to acquire nuclear weapons. In the end, Luxembourg gets them first thanks to British-Norwegian sabotage of the already weak German nuclear program. The Allies land nuclear bombers in Luxembourg and the Rhineland is bombed. Germany agrees to a very limited deal. The Netherlands, Belgium and northern France are freed. Post Capitalist-Fascist Cold War: “WORLD WAR 2 AND LUXEMBOURG: NATION FORGED IN FIRE”: Before 1936, Luxembourg was a demilitarized, minuscule trade hub state. After, it remains respected the world over for being able to punch well above its weight. Here’s the whole story. Modern day: “THE GREATEST LIE OF THE 20th CENTURY” Luxembourg’s fight to the end is embedded in western pop culture even today. But: growing evidence comes to show it never even happened- and was merely a desperate attempt to discredit Axis military might (TV episode made by a imperial Japanese front organization, widely discredited)

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

@@thinkingboi9508 But I thought Luxembourg got Nuked in 47 according to the maker of this video

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

@@canon-de-75 Ahh obviously there would be non Believers. There always are.

[@beefedupkronks4371]

Kills 1 million germans but still gets 0 war participation. I love how hoi4 calculates war participation based more on how many casualties you take instead of how many casualties you cause.

[@old_kasr1155]

BBA update has fixed that.

[@rebelfriend9006]

And he is playing with road to 56 so it might work differently

[@hugo57k91]

@@old_kasr1155 what does bba stand for

[@desjay7072]

@@hugo57k91 It’s the newest hearts of iron 4 DLC it’s an abbreviation BBA means by blood alone

[@brainrot___]

Luxembourg soldiers going home with PTSD with an average KD of 100 people, and they hear that their country wasn't given any compensation from the war

[@thinkingboi9508]

Imagine living in Luxemburg, having a constant battlefield happening not far from you 24/7 knowing danm well your country is a sleepy soldier away from total capitulation

[@frankfrankfrankfrankfrank]

the only solution is while on guard duty or combat duty all soldiers must be on NONSTOP METH

[@MyUsersDark]

@@frankfrankfrankfrankfrank Luxembourg contracts Heisenberg to cook for them

[@definitelynotstalin4306]

@@MyUsersDark jesse, mir musse kachen

[@Javyhat]

we will pay you after the war mr heisenberg@@MyUsersDark

[@normimemes7059]

Yo dont have to imagine you just described Palestine

[@Mate-vg2ft]

“The last bastion of democracy in Europe”

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

I thought Luxembourg was a duchy?

[@Mate-vg2ft]

@@trygveplaustrum4634 honestly got no clue.

[@jamiefenwick8359]

@@trygveplaustrum4634 I think it was (and is) a constitutional duchy. So a democracy.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

It was in fact a duchy during the world wars. Modern day it’s a representative democracy headed by a constitutional monarch. Frackin Europeans and their micro states

[@manender1020]

@@jamiefenwick8359 constitutional duchy is not parliamentary constitutional duchy (if I called it right), so it's not so democratic More like "the last Bastion of liberalism in Europe"

[@JonathanToolonie]

France who watches Lux in disbelief: What's he doing? Britain: He's beginning to believe.

[@projectember728]

Nothing like losing millions of men to conquer the least strategic land in the entire game😎

[@halfpasteight]

TBF the entire war was pretty much a combination of vanity project and desperately scrambling to postpone inevitable economic collapse. So I can buy the OKW continuing offensives against a single tiny nation just to justify manufacturing and out of a sense of wounded pride.

[@projectember728]

@@halfpasteight how long do you think you can survive for(if you hate yourself enough to play more of this save)?

[@halfpasteight]

@@projectember728 On my own without competent allies? As noted elsewhere, Germany generally develops nukes in '46-47 and after the UK falls I can't maintain sufficient air supremacy to stop them from dropping. Even with maxed out jet fighters they just have better planes, and more of them. With competent allies? Basically until they make a landing in the low countries and push a wedge towards me. After that it's a W. So with the AI it's 50/50 between "it all ends in '47" and "I win hehe". With players? A competent German player can crack Luxembourg, at high cost. But competent Allies can hold the front anyways. So it depends from there.

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

Its not about the resources, its about the message

[@projectember728]

@@kriegertechpriest7011 😌

[@PokerageAH]

I like how theres also a few Greek Divisions and 1 Danish Division also holding out in Fortress Luxembourg™

[@user-wc6su7lw2q]

The Greek Chad's came to help

[@fifervonpiper6707]

It must be the Sacred Band of Thebes.

[@fegemarsilang5746]

​@@fifervonpiper6707 maybe alexanders Hyspaspists or Phalangites

[@caiocesar3084]

just like the norwegians and french at siege of reichstag

[@diegoyqulki]

The True 300:

[@gabrielb5742]

I hate when i'm defending against the Axis in a minor power and they just cap the soviets too, i know there's a 1M manpower deluge marching right at my direction.

[@halfpasteight]

Believe it or not in this game I managed to hold out until I got nuked in '47. Even with the entire Eastern Front at my doorstep I still somehow managed it.

[@dreamypizza8458]

@@halfpasteight bros had to nuke luxembourg to defeat the 5 luxembourgian divisions

[@scoreandspore.5606]

@@dreamypizza8458 💀

[@fargoth391]

@@halfpasteight THE COUNTRY CRACKED BEFORE THE GUARD DID

[@kennysar]

@@dreamypizza8458 😂😂😂

[@almcmemeshack8443]

Imagine being a German soldier who’s been grinding against Luxembourg’s gigabased fortifications for 5 years straight, you’re exhausted and worn down from war, and 24 hours of every day you just hear the Coconut Mall playing nonstop

[@hobohabsburg8447]

After two years he’d blow his brains out

[@the-letter_s]

now that's psychological warfare

[@halfpasteight]

Better than Caramelldansen.

[@smokeyplane3285]

@@halfpasteight you have a point

[@merfo_]

Stalingrad moment

[@mrsokolov8954]

Luxembourg: I didn't made a Maginot Line, I *AM* THE MAGINOT LINE.

[@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508]

If they were maginot linę they would've fallen in 0.001 seconds so one big cap

[@jerryalbus1492]

​@@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508 But Maginot didn't fall though. They were cut off from everything and mostly succumbed due to low morale. iirc didn't even take an assault on the damn thing for the french snowflakes to crumble inside.

[@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508]

@@jerryalbus1492 luxembourg here was encircled too, and thats my point, maginot have fallen very easily after getting encircled, luxembourg have stood its ground

[@jerryalbus1492]

@@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508 i see. Though tbh the FRENCH fell, not the line/fortification itself. It felt more like the reverse of the warhammer meme "Cadia broke before the Guardsmen did"

[@definitelynotstalin4306]

I can only imagine what's going on in the Reichstag right now Adam Hilt: give me a status report on our invasion of France. Generic general: France has fallen, but one country stands defiant. Adam: really? Is it the Netherlands? Maybe Belgium? Generico: no, it's Luxembourg Downfall scene plays

[@omeven5785]

asterix but it's in luxembourg

[@foolishgrapefruit1099]

​@@omeven5785 LMAO

[@scezich6126]

We all know the real country that killed the 3rd riech was Luxembourg not the ussr

[@Cheesburger1009]

Señor Himmler

[@DogeickBateman]

Read “Downfall scene plays” right as the main theme of Coconut Mall kicked in

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Hitler: Surrender Now! Luxembourg for 5 years straight: Your Authority is not Recognized in Fort Kick*ss!

[@Coecoo]

Now to figure out where they are getting all of their food and resources from...

[@reckless20]

Your troops digged down so well - that they've practically brought the whole country under the earth's crust. Sci-fi stuff from paradox.

[@MistorAnimation-wq3yc]

На самом деле, в Люксембурге было очень много хороших крепостей. Поэтому все соседи хотели получить их себе. И в конце концов просто снесли их, с лозунгом "Да не достанься же ты никому! "

[@theinfinium3247]

An alternate universe version of tim curry: "Im going to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by fascism... Luxembourg"!

[@IronClique]

"Dear beloved, The mighty walls of this place resist all we throw at it. The sky is choked with fortress bombers continuing to pound the lands, yet the foe remains steadfast. The land has turned to muck, the air filled with smoke, and the dead overflow the foxholes and trenches, the stench is unreal. It's a horrid place, not even the rats and strays remain in this hell. The artillery have been rolling non stop for days, the tanks and trucks are sinking in the grim. And this song the enemy is routinely playing over its sirens and radios, its constant and never ending, its picking away at our nerves. How can they have resisted for years, even after the whole of Europe fell? I hope one day I can return to you, my flower on a hill. Pray for me, and souls of this damned front. You're soldier."

[@halfpasteight]

Man, you guys come up with the best short stories!

[@bombercbc9431]

luxembourg literally turned into krieg

[@KoishiVibin]

Empires fall, kingdoms crumble, but apparently dutchies are forever.

[@fireiron369]

Fun fact: When this game first came out it took the Allies until 44 to beat the Axis usually (just AI) now it takes until 53

[@enzoleegwater3718]

Why won’t they fix it? Isn’t the game meant to be historically accurate?

[@neoknight9180]

@@enzoleegwater3718 because they doesn’t cater to the wehraboo fantasy that they make so much money off of

[@t4stingo]

@@enzoleegwater3718 AI is smarter than Hitler.

[@manender1020]

@@enzoleegwater3718 in HoI4 world Nazi never genocided Jews and USA never made a concentration camps for Japanese people wha

[@Sebaleroma]

for some reason my game always ends in 1944 italy being destroyed in africa and europe

[@timemachine1773]

Germany:Why won't you die!? Luxembourg: Defense son

[@halfpasteight]

LAND FORTS SON! THEY HARDEN IN RESPONSE TO ATTACK!

[@Vestyyy887]

​@@halfpasteightYOU CANT INVADE ME,GERMANY

[@GwainSagaFanChannel]

Its a fun multiplayer experience to play as lowlands and just go full on fortification to troll the germans

[@SidorovichGaming]

...and the german player just goes full-on siege artillery, railway guns and heavy tanks and goes straight through level 10 forts like through butter

[@pontus135]

Problem is, if you only control one tile, even if you hold your capital, you get the encirclement debuff which means your troops become hella voulnerable. So you should always try to make a fallback line on Metz and Luxembourg if your actually going to do this. (For anyone that didn't know)

[@NoNameAtAll2]

you're*

[@pontus135]

@@NoNameAtAll2 me trying to find who asked

[@NoNameAtAll2]

@@pontus135 it was your english teacher. I was asked to take care of you and your bad grades.

[@FBIagent913]

@@NoNameAtAll2 oh you mean "you're" teacher?

[@Heligoland360]

@@FBIagent913 It would be "your" teacher.

[@charakiga]

The allies troops in your territory really were like « thank god we’re safe ». You even annexed a bit of Germany.

[@ViciousVitiate]

Theres a pretty viable version of this strat were you go commoe for the manpower bonus and then just slowly push towards a port as you fortify all your holdings so the brits and americans can pour manpower into your horrifically fortified lands.

[@halfpasteight]

Yeah, but that involves going commie which is automatically a no-go.

[@coloradoing9172]

@@halfpasteight Based.

[@Raven-yk7lg]

@@halfpasteight Yeah! Always go fascist

[@SidorovichGaming]

@@Raven-yk7lg not necessarily, since democracy is based as well.

[@Brent-jj6qi]

@@halfpasteightchad

[@clorox2595]

What I really liked about this video is that you didn't beat the Germans. The outro was astonishing with the sense of despair as the axis conquered the old world and unlike other meme Luxembourg videos that other creators make that always ends with Luxembourg conquering the world, this video has an actual ending that feels a lot better. I give this video a like and a sub to your channel, looking forward too seeing more of your content.

[@lordbelou7279]

Luxembourg, bastion of freedom in a world of hate.

[@johnmurphy5689]

@@lordbelou7279 Unfortunately Germany would later nuke the nation in 1947 and crush the Luxembourgish resistance :(

[@sadpotatohours4846]

I actually really love this, the idea of having a small nation/city state stuck in the middle of a vastly more powerful empire but still standing defiantly. if nothing else, the people who still believe in good in that world will continue to fight on tooth and nail in the spirit of Luxembourg! the last free city of Europe!

[@burntbread6575]

All I thought about after reading this,was the Tau in the Warhammer 40k universe.

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[@bluebeastgamer7494]

General: Sir the Soviets have fallen H1tler: Ok good now prepare for the invasion of British Isles General: Sir their is one small issue H1tler: What is it? General: My fürher........ My fürher Luxembourg still stands *ANGRY GERMAN RANTING NOISES STARTS COMING OUT FROM THE FÜRHER BUNKER*

[@GMan-xv8ek]

its called "führer" but great meme xD as a german i give you my approval for this meme

[@user-zy8cy6hn6o]

The Soviet Union has fallen but they're still in the bunker because they like the acoustics

[@unsrescyldas9745]

@@GMan-xv8ek Fuerher means for lord tbh. actually nah Herr is lord, Her is more like a shortening of Hier (Here) so Forhere/herefor.

[@manender1020]

@@user-zy8cy6hn6o they are scared of Luxembourgish Nuclear Program

[@FN-ib8wd]

@@unsrescyldas9745 ??

[@jachymdolejs5156]

"Luxembourg is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Luxembourgs still holds out against the invaders."

[@ortherner]

lmao

[@obi_wanshinobi]

As someone who has never played HOI4 before, I’m just kinda like, “ah yes, the screen. It is doing things” for all the management stuff. But still funny how Luxembourg managed to hold back Germany.

[@manender1020]

He does some (probably generic, idk I never played Road to 56), then spams bunkers, then makes a good division template then makes some divisions with it

[@obi_wanshinobi]

@@manender1020 ah, so he did the Switzerland IRL strategy. Makes sense. (But fr, Switzerland built so many bunkers around wwII)

[@NotASovietSpy1]

as a person who has played hoi4 i can conferm itsb the screen alright

[@thisisaname5589]

@@obi_wanshinobi Yeah, with the construction he did, Luxembourg is basically a single giant bunker/AA emplacement.

[@sparx0s]

2:27 Love the Belgium-Luxembourg orb so much

[@sputniki6465]

that province of Belgium, the "Province de Luxembourg" was luxembourgish territory that they just took and incorporated it while literally calling it province of Luxembourg, bastards.

[@listenherejack]

"It was said that the Moselle river ran red with the blood of German troops for years; the land appeared snow covered in summer, but it was only the dry bones of the millions of skeletons that blanketed the landscape around the Duchy. Jericho may have fallen to the trumpets of God; but even He might be repelled by Luxembourg."

[@samp2651]

Nope cringe bs

[@attackmaster519]

@@samp2651 Found a German survivor of the Luxembourg front

[@An_Entire_Spinell]

The mighty fortresses of Luxembourg can't be beat by the tanks of the Germans.

[@will_adamborn]

Respect for having the willpower to only have 11 games on Steam

[@halfpasteight]

I'm afraid I don't deserve it, I only have eleven games *installed*. I have over 400 in my library, excluding DLC.

[@will_adamborn]

@@halfpasteight AHHHHH

[@RyGuyMaster]

"Surrender! You're surrounded!" "All I'm surrounded by is dead men."

[@giovanino5173]

we need part 2, good video

[@halfpasteight]

Not really much I can do for a Pt. 2, Luxembourg can't really expand from here or defeat Germany on its own, and once Germany gets nukes it's all over. Luxembourg can't hold out forever without Allied support. I might do a remake, tho.

[@giovanino5173]

@@halfpasteight ok, maybe do the remake with some allied support or stronger allies

[@inzyniertv9305]

@@giovanino5173 This sounds like fun

[@bluebeastgamer7494]

@@halfpasteight do Luxembourg form Benelux and then attack the Germans

[@humanperson3365]

@@halfpasteight what mod did you use?😊

[@goji3908]

Luxembourg has become the Maginot Line

[@halfpasteight]

A better Maginot than Maginot. (Jk, the Maginot Line did its job as intended and successfully prevented an invasion through Alsace-Lorraine and diverted German forces through the Low Countries, the failure was on the Franco-Belgian part by refusing to countenance an invasion through the Ardennes and by not creating adequate reconnaissance and communications infrastructure for their forces)

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

​@@halfpasteight Well more so Belgium's Fault than France. A few days before they got invaded. Belgium kicked out all the French Elite defenders that were holding Eben Emael and the border with Germany. Although France probably would have still fallen. It wouldn't have fallen that quick.

[@bartekkrzysik7730]

“The year is 50 B.C.(1942 A.D.) Gaul(France) is entirely occupied by the Romans(Germans). Well not entirely! One small village(Luxembourg) of indomitable Gauls(Luxembourgers) still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman(Germans) legionaries(divisions) who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium…”(I don`t really know when they are)

[@jordanasparadoxproductions8401]

Bro really did the 30 minutes of hel as Luxemburg Anyway good video

[@Finn_7117]

I love playing as a small country and becoming a bunker

[@halfpasteight]

Hoxha approves.

[@brokenordinance]

Those allied divisions finding refuge in fort Luxembourg after the fall of France is amazing.

[@Dylyinyang]

the funny thing is that both Luxembourg and the Belgian region "Luxembourg" didn't fall

[@ArtypNk]

Hitler in angry german: I am in charge!!! Luxembourg in perfect Bane: Do you feel in charge?

[@swagbelly7740]

i though u would casually conquer all lands germans got BCS they killed all their units , that would've been epic

[@halfpasteight]

Unfortunately the AI is not *quite* so stupid as to continue to ram themselves into Level 10 forts, so I can't just bleed them of manpower. Tragic.

[@ABPHistory]

@@halfpasteight i think having a max of level 5-6 forts would still encourage them

[@swagbelly7740]

@@halfpasteight there is a strat as poland whrere u def 3-5 tiles where u have main units in 2-4 and when german enter ur 5 tile u just crush them bcs they have no organization when they do it, and u can make 30 minutes of hell with that achivement, hard strat but its really funny to see how germans literally have 4-6 mill losses after that

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

@@swagbelly7740 That's the New 30 minutes of Hel Strat for Poland

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

​@@swagbelly7740 The Krakow Donut

[@therealcallmehans]

"The New Order; Bastion of Democracy."

[@Peruun]

As in some movie series one village still aint conquered

[@halfpasteight]

The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely... One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium...

[@abercrombieblovs2042]

@@halfpasteight Ah, a fellow Asterix enjoyer :D

[@redwolfgamevideo]

It’s like the Matrix in Europe, one free city left in a world dominated by the machines....

[@flyingsquirrell6953]

The question is not do we have enough men. The question is do we have enough bullets.

[@halfpasteight]

The Luxembourgish mines run deep, and the factories run on. There will be bullets aplenty for the wars to come.

[@juanon_industries7256]

@@halfpasteight we make bullets out of our enemy shooted bullets🙃

[@gifigi600]

Imagine that. Just imagine Luxembourg holding but not the Soviets

[@lerbronk]

french resistance is really strong here

[@sumretard]

Nah, its more like the Polish Ghettos

[@mr.exodark9042]

The legend says The luxemburg is holding to this day

[@halfpasteight]

It is 2340, and the Großdeutsches Reich dominates the entire galaxy. Except for a single tiny province a few hundred miles away from its capital Germania, that still stubbornly holds out.

[@shahedamere6976]

@@halfpasteight “they call themselves,the free nation of Luxembourg,holding out as a beacon of freedom,before the republic fell to the Germans,they received a radio message from the Luxembourgeois,the message was received as the consul declared no surrrender,the message read;first time?;”

[@shahedamere6976]

@@halfpasteight casualties have risen for Germany but after the Flanders offensive,Luxembourg advanced to the now long gone city of Brussels and prepared to attack Germania.

[@shahedamere6976]

After the decisive battle of the Netherlands,Luxembourg against all odds beat the luftwaffe and pushed to the grandest city,Germania the city was larger than the duchy of Luxembourg and yet after a gruelling siege of 5 months Luxembourg took it.the aliens began to fight back on different planets but on earth,Luxembourg received a transmission from a human nation,confused,they looked at who sent it,it was the grand empire of Bhutan and the holy realm of the Vatican,which had resisted the Nazis as-well.12 years after the fall of Germania,the Nazis surrendered in the city of ULM .the world was free once more

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

​@@shahedamere6976 Wait are you telling me Tannu Tuva got defeated!? There's no f*cking way

[@user-lz7ut7lh3s]

Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army on the march Long way from home Paying the price in young men's lives Thousands of feet march to the beat It's an army in despair Knee-deep in mud Stuck in the trench with no way out Young men are dying They pay the price Oh how they suffer So tell me what's the price of a mile?

[@playdeat3435]

The fortion of Democracy: LUXEMBOURG

[@novacentorium4943]

reminds me of when I played the Netherlands going fascist but then got declared war on by Napoleonic France and was defending well until I got naval invaded 💀💀 and then I held out in like three tiles including Amsterdam until I flipped and got Germany to kill France for me

[@MsPysoul]

Doesnt matter if the population dies of starvation. The Luxembourg holds.

[@halfpasteight]

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[@shkila_s_chitami]

imagine a history lesson in this universe -Children, put down the date, October 7th, 1972. -Today we are learning about luxembourg which held its border for 33 years and ongoing....

[@MazaAzi]

Luxembourg survives WW2: Pros: *Luxembourg survives WW2* *USSR falls* Cons: *USSR falls* *TNO becomes reality...kind of*

[@halfpasteight]

I dunno, "USSR falls" sounds like a solid "pro". Not a fan of what it falls to tho.

[@MazaAzi]

@@halfpasteight Best case scenario, USA has no counter weight, Worst case scenario, Nazi Germany has no counter weight. Both scenarios are shit for the world with one just being significantly worse than everything else in between.

[@viita796]

Now... This is the kind of content I want to see more.

[@halfpasteight]

Well, unfortunately I'm probably not going to make a lot more of it. At least, not on that regular of a basis. I have like 2k hours in HoI. I've been playing it for the last four years. And I am completely burned out and entirely uninspired. This video was supposed to be a one-off meme that I threw together to get some practice editing three months ago, that only just now blew up completely out of nowhere. Frankly, I don't much like it myself. You're welcome to check out some of the other, more recent content on my channel as it's more typical of the kind of stuff I actually enjoy making. And while I'm definitely still trying to find my niche on this platform and I welcome every bit of feedback I can get...frankly, this video just isn't what I'm interested in making. Thanks for watching, tho.

[@viita796]

​@@halfpasteight I checked out your other content as well and it's really entertaining, especially the wt ones. Keep up the good work 👍

[@halfpasteight]

@@viita796 Thanks mate!

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

I just got the most briliant of ideas: Create a multiplayer game. Give Germany all the buffs you can. One plays Luxembourg, another plays Albania.

[@Calbeck]

literally the reason Luxembourg exists the most-fortified chunk of Europe back in the day to the point both French and Germans said "maybe we should just go around" on the regular

[@bread3039]

Bro is playing as the Maginot Line.

[@johnuthus]

also if lux has a railway gun, it would add more defesne buffs

[@halfpasteight]

Yeah, I might pick up NSB at some point and do a remake of this.

[@marduk1734]

Random allied general: but that's impossible. Raymond Beringer: no, it's necessary.

[@mobgabriel1767]

luxembourg:standing here i realize

[@arealitybender]

0:02 Ah, judging from the steam library alone, I have discerned one trait of this individual… They’re a masochist

[@halfpasteight]

It gets so much worse. I have so many more games...

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

I did this with a single modern tank division I got from CC'ing all the research. Germans didn't even try to invade, just surrounded me and sat there lol

[@halfpasteight]

Tends to happen after a while

[@piercebunge4297]

It would be impossible to capitulate the Soviet Union without capitulation Luxembourg first

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Yeah. I thought the Germans would be too scared to invade the Soviets because Luxembourg was still alive

[@simonnachreiner8380]

“But sir it’s literally nothing but machine gun nests why are we bothering to take it?” “I DIDN’T AS FOR YOUR OPINION I TOLD YOU TO CHARGE!”

[@unitedfloridamapper7669]

This is basically what if the Maginot Line covered Luxembourg too.

[@Kirby-sf2dl]

Luxembourg be like: "I WILL SURVIVE" 🎵🎵

[@kommado7677]

Your ability to not move the map around while waiting so that the time-lapse doesn't look awful is truly impressive

[@robfus]

to make a reference "Julius Cesar conquere the Gauls...all of them? not exactly, there is a little village that still oppose him a fiercy resistance"

[@3b106]

YOU'VE JUST GOT LUXEMBURG MALLED!

[@theweirdclasher3955]

Luxembourg roleplaying as the 101st airborne

[@El_Solido-nj3qh]

That's what I'd call a little trolling indeed

[@mmmxp]

3:10 Мне нравится, как в этом моменте играет музыка из TNO

[@dragonmastergrant]

burgundian lullaby my beloved

[@miracleCS2]

USSR thought that he was most strong, but he didnt know about Lux. USSR was absolutely outplayed.

[@greensike8516]

the Maginot Dot

[@crazyhayden]

bros game list is cultured

[@spendingpine4381]

imagine the history books saying about this stand 💀 IMAGINE THE REICH EXPLAINING THIS IN HIS HISTORY BOOKS 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Lavortriziska]

"All of Europe fell, but one, one remained. It was, Luxembourg. Even after a thousand bombs fell on it, it stood up. Even after a million men were dead, it was alive, looking through the smog and glaring til everything bowed down to it." ~ Reich history books

[@spendingpine4381]

@@Lavortriziska nahw, they'd would just delete this from history, if they could invade Luxembourg XD

[@Lavortriziska]

@@spendingpine4381 i forgot to mention that the Reich would also be a puppet state of Luxembourg

[@korhol2065]

Now I know why most multiplayer sessions I see always have a limit on forts that can be built

[@halfpasteight]

It gets pretty wild after a while, tho a competent player should be able to break it with enough equipment.

[@Dragoot]

Everybody gangsta until Burgundian lullaby hits.

[@eli-mi3mh]

Luxembourg means little fortress

[@halfpasteight]

So it does! Comes from the medieval Lucilinburhuc Castle, allegedly constructed on a Roman fortification of the same name. Allegedly the modern "Lëtzebuerg", and thus the Anglicized "Luxembourg", come from "Letze" meaning "fortification"; however I can find no instance of this definition being used for this word and "letze" in German actually means "last".

[@stateofflorida5082]

*CADIA STANDS!*

[@reaverfang377]

WW2 Nazi Victory, but Luembourg's power level is unleashed to its max potential resulting in the most fantastic nazi stomping action that even Wolfenstein could be proud.

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

The last bastion of the HRE

[@shiki_dayz]

2000 hours☠️

[@Otto_Von_Itter9000]

I thought that forts over level 7 were useless due to the AI never attacking such high level forts, someone lied to me, someone on KZbin 😡

[@lordssundee7047]

I mean, the Germans invaded the entire USSR before the fort sooo…………

[@antoniothegunexpert5955]

Same

[@HyruleSwordsman94]

Luxembourg looking at the Maginot Line: PATHETIC

[@halfpasteight]

"I AM the Maginot Line!"

[@reckless20]

Literally Asterix & Obelix lore reborn 😂

[@najerrys5061]

as a luxembourgian, i agree

[@user-hp2cy5mq4c]

That border piece of belgium be like "Brothers in Arms"

[@alexsandresixarulize8616]

Country broke before the guard did

[@aresxx2217]

Love the TNO reference with the Burgundian Lullaby

[@supersoldiergaming4464]

With this video I now know why fortress exists in hoi4.

[@kristianstrm2375]

Random Norwegian general: Nice forts you've built, I think I'll take command of the battle now.

[@gggo1789]

Basically Luxembourg in the middle of TNO

[@halfpasteight]

Is Luxembourg in TNO? I'd love to see a TNO/TWR mini-althistory with Fortress Luxembourg in it.

[@gggo1789]

@@halfpasteight lol same

[@dragonmastergrant]

@@halfpasteight It's part of Germany

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

​@@dragonmastergrant It's also pretty irradiated BECAUSE IT GOT NUKED 3 TIMES!

[@TaitLawrence-xl2xb]

I always love just maxing out everything in Luxembourg then destroying the world

[@anomonyous]

"You may have tanks and entire legions." "But we have an unlimited supply of bouneschlupp and Bofferding."

[@pecetabla8042]

one time i watched my friend playing HoI4, and on the soviet front he just encircled like 87 soviet division (mostly motorized infantry) with like 10 casual infantry division and with 1 SS panzer division too, meanwhile the yanks and brits were at Berlin, so he basically made a bloodshed at his final moments, while he gave the defense of Berlin to Steiner (with his last 10 panzer division he just tried to counter-attack the western allies, but the whole army was from panzer IIIs and short barrel panzer IVs, and he had like 2-3 tiger on every division, his army was a bigger mindf@ck than the actual german army back then)

[@survivalist2607]

Bro really decided he hates the commies more. Going down without a fight? more like going down with the reds.

[@Kiwoeoe]

i mean this is a perfect example of whats wrong with the game calculating battles

[@halfpasteight]

Yeah, you can stack bonuses to an utterly ridiculous degree.

[@Kiwoeoe]

@@halfpasteight yeah

[@Whiteknighty]

Just a small village in Gallia is still free and strong

[@ThyNewRat]

"luxemburg is perfectly balanced"

[@halfpasteight]

As all things should be. Honestly, I don't know if it's Rt56 balancing, the HoI4 AI, the game as a whole, or some combination of the three; but defense in this game is so broken. You can relatively easily get yourself in a position where you can hunker down and fortify and even armoured divisions can't get through you, with pretty much any nation. I've done a similar strat to this as Ethiopia even, just hunker down in Addis Ababa and wait for WW2 to distract the Italians so you can get your land back.