GREATEST Game of POLAND EVER

[@FeedbackGaming]

THE FINAL every single click video. Merry Christmas guys Thanks for the support over this period its been amazing

[@quarties]

Thank you for these videos - now I can send them to my friends and finally have somebody to play mp with 😅 Have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year ❤️ Thank you again, keep up the good work 💪

[@The-Imperial-Gamer]

10/10 series. Im excited for the next one. 😁

[@MrCalls1]

14/14 Series. Very much enjoyed, you’ve gotten me back into hoi. I got the game on release and was burned by the lack of flavour in the early days, and by the time I returned there were too many moving parts for me to know where to start, but your every click videos have helped me catch up on everything properly. Merry Christmas Dave!

[@boranozeren99]

Could you also do a Turkey video

[@Lantalia]

Germany tried to take a bite out of Poland, and their teeth shattered

[@Codebreaker440]

52:20 The blue in the Polish flag stands for reliable allies

[@pricel141l]

Bro realized he played on hard mode from the very start lmao

[@JulianP-q6u]

hmmm only if it had these in real life

[@thememeguy2135]

Theres a little "exploit" about commandeering trains by the way, when you have the Armoured Trains researched first, you actually get 15 Armoured Trains instead of 15 Normal Undefendable Trains by via commandeering them.

[@crunch.dot.73]

Thats really good to know thank you

[@thememeguy2135]

yeah, so the stability hit is pretty much worth it for the 15 anti air trains

[@MjukCheese]

damn you learn something new each day thx for that

[@punkcobi8953]

Ohhhh that's really cool

[@piotr7805]

"I got guaranteed by the UK, but then UK didn't come to my call to arms" - we're reaching historical realism levels that shouldn't even be possible.

[@LudietHistoria]

Thanks to FeedbackGaming, I now know how to make Poland great again. My little son Donald is gonna love this game too.

[@DaBadMoonIsRisin]

Please dont steal him👉👈

[@curtis2806]

Mold yourself around the RNG bois

[@Joshieboy75]

Ludi loved the byz wc stream

[@blaynus2872]

Ludi I love you

[@Precto]

General traits on Field Marshals apply 50% of the bonus to every general under them.

[@banishedprivateer]

Does it stack if generals have the same trait?

[@MrCalls1]

1:32:00 Dave: We’re out of manpower, we need to beg for garrison support. Also Dave: let’s deploy 60 troops we don’t need onto the front line. Hm, I wonder where the manpower went. Dave! 😉

[@FeedbackGaming]

Saving 60 divisions for a rainy day

[@Frewew]

From my Poland playthroughs I noticed that game probably counts not the factories you can use, but the factories build in states that you control. Therefore, unused factories from Danzig could be the reason why you can click the research slot when theoretically not having enough factories.

[@TFNCP]

4:00 if you wait for armoured train to finish researching you can get armoured trains for free instead of civilian ones

[@cheesycake5879]

Ty for the tip even it was prob meant for feedback.

[@FeedbackGaming]

WOW seriously? More you know

[@TFNCP]

@@FeedbackGaming I think you might only get 5 instead of the 15 though

[@dmi3Z]

Those 14 days where amazing! Thank you, Dave. And your videos felt something fresh. I might as well force my friend who doesn’t know how to play hoi to watch them all

[@Anarnam]

It's hard to say that Poland in hoi4 is a minor :p it's crazy OP powerhouse, however it requires some shenanigans to not get taken down by 2 great powers

[@MrNonejm]

yess, Poland isn't that weak. It's just Germany are super strong and have very favourable borders

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

to be fair they were pretty strong irl too they could've handled Germany at least enough to weaken them if the Allies didn't tell them not to mobilize + if they didn't get tag teamed by two world powers with little will or ability to be assisted by world powers

[@lowellthoerner1209]

I learned so much from this video that I didn’t know even after playing for 500 hours. Explaining things like “I’m queueing up these upgrades by shift clicking” or “the missing production factories get filled from top to bottom” really makes the video an excellent learning tool. Thank you

[@FrierenIsGoated]

When you put quiet intel network you only need to use 1 spy to quiet it and get the other two workin on something else

[@FeedbackGaming]

Big brain plays! Learning everyday

[@hadikabbout2649]

To minimize the clicks while assigning new divisions to generals you can right-click on the field marshal. It will evenly split the units on all the generals under him, prioritizing the ones with lower unit counts. ( Works perfectly if you intend to have equally large armies). Thanks for the content, the strategy is brilliant.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Master tip! I like it

[@Noblenoob1]

Thank you for doing the every single click videos, I really appreciate having a solid series to binge alongside my own games without missing details from all the cuts most others put in.

[@Carl-Gauss]

2:28 For tanks and trucks makes total sense: there’s a much bigger chance the vehicle breaks when it’s actually driving unlike when it’s just being railroaded on top of a flatcar

[@Creakko]

I have really loved these every single click videos. Thank you so much for them! They've helped me get through some long nights of insomnia and been amazingly insightful in teaching newbies like me in how to play so kudos for wonderful videos. I hope you have a wonderful yule/christmas/hanukah and get some well deserved rest after completing this campaign of clicks.

[@Tyanus2]

Thank you man, I think HOI4 became too complicated for me, I still don't know how railroads and supply works in 100% so everything that came after was only more confusing, also it broke a lot of my favourite mods so I lost interest, videos like yours help me connect back to the game and learn a lot so thanks again!

[@sholsy2785]

It’s not that difficult to learn the hard/annyoing part is being able to manage it with the other 40 systems they added I feel your pain but I cannot stop playing 😭

[@juicebox6581]

It took me a long time to learn the supply mechanic. But now its super meta when u wage wars with supply in mind. Especially the enemies supply

[@Luke-je1px]

What’s so complicated exactly about the supply mechanic?

[@gevsondybeli]

@@Luke-je1px It is complicated especially when you invade America

[@oliverlimb109]

The usa is not so bad the the rest of amerca build railway to what you can get

[@duel..]

i love poland

[@stefanosmichailidis6959]

Best first comment

[@The-Imperial-Gamer]

How was it sent 18 hours ago?

[@quarties]

It's not widely known fact, but swearing in Polish makes you travel back in time. True story!

[@Jahanceltic]

Why

[@schiefer1103]

As a German: So do we

[@fredriktornelius]

These were some great 14 days, I hope it wasn't to intense for you. From someone who doesn't play Hoi4, I watched every episode the day they dropped. Good job, Dave!

[@kyallokytty]

30:00 one thing I like to do is spam the tiny cav division and then convert it all to big division untill ALL my manpower is in the field. then after it finishes reinforcing I start to train my normal divisions, getting either as many divisions in training as I need or my entire army in training. then I delete all divisions in the field. Because the amount of army you can train is based on how much manpower in the field you got it means that's the max amount you'd be able to train at once that way I dont pay anything to get my army from lv1 to lv2 and I don't need to wait ages for it to be ready. most divisions take like 3 months to train on their own

[@NormanconEVE]

Thank you Dave for this early Christmas present. These have been great. Somehow after 300+ hours of HOI I still learned a lot.

[@SaxonSpooner]

Poland Historically was invaded by Germany in the west and Russia in the east at the same time, in 1939. Russia famously under Stalin's orders rounded up 22,000 Polish soldiers and executed them out in the swamps of Katyn.

[@manwesulimo7476]

Just one thing Dave. Left opposition in Poland isin't at that time communist. It was more democratic. Communists were a different thing. Basically after leader of Sanation Józef Piłsudski died, they divided into 3 parts: right wing with Rydz Śmigły - military and old guard, left wing, more socialist and democratic, but not ultra democratic with Walery Sławek and the middle ground with Ignacy Mościcki, current president of Poland. Basically it ended with Mościcki doing an alliance with Rydz Śmigły and making a coalition and Walery Sławek comitet Sudoku.

[@bmccray23]

Dave! I have watched every single one of these in it’s entirety. It’s like Netflix for me. Thank you for this beautiful entertainment and it’s made me a much better player.

[@Mowraq]

"Guaranteed by the uk" *is actually improve relations*

[@DanjasLP]

(1:16:49) So the last time I checked, though that was over a year ago, General traits on Field Marshals apply to all divisions under that Field Marshal at 50% effectiveness. So having an Infantry Expert Field Marshal gives 5% Infantry Attack to all Divisions under him.

[@pjneiger]

This was a great series! The last two weeks have done more to improve my understanding and enjoyment of hoi4 than the 500+ hours of playtime I had before. Thanks and I hope you keep it going!

[@unitedfloridamapper7669]

When I play Poland, the front normally stalls around Warsaw in the north, Lodz in the west, and Katowice in the south after which the Germans are simply unable to push. Sometimes I even end up making them unable to push France.

[@MrMillsy1986]

I'm 37 and I get yelled at for staying up too late.......these videos are the reason. Australia needs to fix its time zone

[@glauberglousger956]

It's only about 11:59 pm in Sydney, (plus, it could be worse)

[@MrMillsy1986]

True, we could be in NZ

[@mikev4135]

Great video! I've only seen one time, while playing as historical France, that Britain did not aid Poland. They didn't even guarantee them. I didn't really think too much about it, since it gave me more time to prepare for war, but there were some unforeseen consequences. That being Poland capitulated out of a faction, so Germany essentially annexed them making them stronger. Also, since Poland was "dead", I couldn't give them the historical land concessions after the war (east prussia, silesia, etc) bc I could only liberate them in their old core provinces. Not too big of a deal overall, but found it interesting.

[@SBragg88]

Great video as always. It's weird the term "min-maxing" seems to be now interchangeable with "try-hardy/ing". As far as I recall 'min-max' means to spend like all character points into strength and zero points into health; meaning you are min Hp, Max dmg/dps; aka a glass cannon. But according to the evolution of coloquialisms, so long as people understand the meaning, the original definition actually no longer really matters and it happens all the time. I guess you could make the argument, its like "min naval, maximum Horse"! :) Anywho; merry Christmas Dave; thanks for all the content, research, scripting, testing and everything in-between! Wishing you and yours the best❤

[@FeedbackGaming]

Thanks buddy 😊

[@PraiseTheToaster]

Your every single click videos teached me so much. I watched a lot of other content creators, but never learned much. I just finished two games as germany and china and had the most fun in Hoi4 ever!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Great to hear! LAD

[@SmoofyTripp]

I'm a Poland Main and this was super fun to watch, learned a lot aswell, idk if you've ever tried making light tank divisions early on, but you can fit them with cavalry for the org, and HP, and they're still speedy.

[@MastaChief10]

Just discovered you, like your style, your like in between isorrow and bitter-sweet, but the full lengthish videos are great for noobies

[@adamconner9302]

Poland has been my favorite nation to play for years. It's in the perfect place in terms of balance for offering just enough of a base to be competitive with the majors without making the game feel too easy like it does playing a major. My favorite runs have been Poland unaligned WC runs going it alone. Really like their focus tree too, even has the hidden fascist cavalry route, lots of flavor

[@joelker41]

Such a boss hold that Germany capped before Japan even declared war. What a weird game especially with the allies not guaranteeing people.

[@jjquinn295]

I guess the British only defend everyone when the player is in the axis

[@billpetrak]

Buffer yeah, but can they into space? 😅 Great run Dave! Really well played! 👏

[@FeedbackGaming]

Yes yes yes. They can into space 🚀

[@SBragg88]

Poland cannot into space :(

[@billpetrak]

@@SBragg88 I feel Mirosław Hermaszewski might beg to differ...

[@Azrenthe1stHighKing]

Any Country can do Commandeer Civilian Trains as long as the country has Trains researched and has less than 100 trains in stockpile.

[@OvenHut]

I love playing Poland. I’m not great at HOI4, despite my addiction, and I love holding out on two fronts once restoring the commonwealth for as long as I can

[@maczetaockhama6308]

1:24 Impossibility to paraller proceding plan West and East was a real, historical problem of polish General Staff- just not enough trained staff officers and support crew to make them both in the same time. So, in September 39 Poland had no ready defense plan West

[@PESTREAM]

Just some Polish perspective here - technically right path of Sanation (leading to OZN) is not fascist - it's more of a core Pilsudski's legacy. So per game it's a indifferent category. Also as it happens - the most effective one ;p You pick OZN, you get a militarist as head of gov, you sideline the left from the action segment and got more time for economic focuses which grant more civs and mills early on.

[@Seriouspizza]

Something I remember you showing years ago, was if you 'railroad' units moving by sea they would get a speed boost. I still do it, but I'm not actually sure if it actually does anything.

[@FeedbackGaming]

From testing I don't think it was worth it they don't go any faster

[@Dmitrisnikioff]

I always thought it looked like sanitation too, but then I remembered: "No way Poles ever approved of Sanitation: that's why they hated the Soapviets"

[@denonvilliers]

jesus christ

[@cheesycake5879]

Soapviets 😂

[@demonicsquid7217]

"...and what have the Polands ever done for us?" "Sanitation? The railways? Law and Order?"

[@spqr-wu2rd]

You're hoiiv videos are by far the best. While in primarily a Vic 3 playet you are tempting me to get back into it haha

[@dagamerzat9313]

Hey Dave! I did my own Poland along with your play through. One thing I found is that the German's loose a lot of org in the north. Within a month I took Memel and Konigsburg. I did focus more on the Artillery techs than industry techs. A funny thing here. The Soviets kept justifying on me and cancelling because Romania has the border XD

[@paladamashkin8981]

Poor Dave working so hard for to bring us the 14 days hoi

[@FeedbackGaming]

14 days of iron XD I like it

[@jaxonneahring4490]

The reason they suffer attrition when walking instead of railroading is because in real life when we drive our trucks or go on a field op(prior army) we have vehicles break down and sometimes we loose magazines or weapons break however when there tied down on the rail line or in a box on a train they don’t break. It’s small mechanic that makes it more realistic

[@Luke-je1px]

20:08 “Stability is a big issue with Poland” Don’t lose 10% stability by clicking the train decision, it’s not worth it. 2 factories on trains is more than enough. Plus the negatives for being below 50% stability slow you down.

[@FeedbackGaming]

This is a tough call because losing 10 stab requires no production. So I'd prefer to do that

[@ValorianAldyr]

Those videos were awesome, thanks for that. : ) You got me into HOI IV, when I could not understand anything at the beginning.

[@TheSisovic]

Yo feedback. One thing to say and i hope you read this. Over the years of watching your videos i've realized that i like those 30min ones the most since i watch you before sleep so 30mins is perfect to be able to watch it in one or 2 nights. But these 1.5+ hour ones...ou boi..now i'm looking at those 49minutes watched after 4days and i'm really starting to think that this series of almost 2 hours per video are gonna keep me going for the next month xD

[@FeedbackGaming]

Much love bro ❤️

[@kingdubztv9785]

For the first time ever I think I actually have a tip for you instead of just learning from you for a change. When you are adding the units to your divisions so the generals are commanding 30 divisions, you can just right click the divisions onto the field martial instead of the generals and it automatically splits them onto the generals assigned to the field martial and saves you a load of splitting and clicking. You do this around 1:16:00. It really saves time and clicks big time.

[@andrzej_k7]

20:05 "Stabiliti is a big issue with Poland" - it would not be an issue if you would not steal all the trains.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Either lose some production or take the stab hit. I made my choice

[@SeengignPaipes]

Watching this one is a little painful, poor feedback sounds absolutely destroyed. Hope you feel better soon mate, take some time for yourself and rest up if you can.

[@FeedbackGaming]

A sore throat isn't gonna stop me ;)

[@SeengignPaipes]

@@FeedbackGaminggood to hear but don’t strain yourself too much :)

[@sovietbear4776]

CHOOSING THE AGRARIAN REFORM FOCUS ADDS TIME TO THE UPRISING EVENT. THATS WHY YOU CANT STOP IT AND YOU HAVE "LOADS OF TIME"

[@itshalo3220]

Great timing, just yesterday I wanted to play Poland and realized I had no clue how

[@iseeyou5061]

Yay Poland Castle! And it's stronk! Ironicly i could see that it's success in the new alternate history make Polish the new Eastern menance instead of the Soviet since Poland suddenly become so powerful now. And good job on defeating the German, i find they are really powerful in 1939 and my success require me to either wait a bit longer before fighting German or fully focus on the German since i cannot hold both Soviet and German at the same time, that Hungary exploit would be helpful in my future playthrough though.

[@cooperwaters4109]

I've never been good at hoi4, but after a few of these long videos, I finally had the understanding to actually hold up in a long war

[@LuffarvisanSE]

Suggestion: When spy gets captured, even triggers and you get three choices. 1. Bribe, lose 10% consumer goods factories for 90 days 2. Spy attempts to flee and go into hiding for 60 days. 3. Start rescue operation. #1 and #2 has a 10% chance to fail. Overall, the whole spy system is to click-intensive, same as some other subsystems such as MIO's.

[@janekk8833]

You can't cancel agrarian reform focus, because it adds 70 days to the peasant strike timer (that's why you thought you had time, but if you subtract that 70 days you're not that far away)

[@Anhoranka]

Congratulations on a marathon done! It was fantastic! Thank you for all those vids

[@jep1st]

I watched all 14 videos and I definitely want 14 more! Also, merry Christmas to Dave and everyone else in the comment section!

[@VanBourner]

Final day already? :( Anyways merry Christmas Dave and hope you make your way to ESCing Czechoslovakia. It did not give you the MIO upgrade arrow on the infantry equipment because you had no MIO assigned to it.

[@pinkpanther7499]

Its takes time but ok. You do Poland. POLSKA GUROM

[@elolawynladriel]

Dave: Do you want me to make 7 days of more minor powers or 7 days of major alt history? YES

[@Tommy-qc4rj]

So so many nations need that "Balance of Power" mechanic adding to their focus tree.

[@TESI303]

Q: If you had the production &resources, wouldn't armored cars save you manpower (and guns) for garrisons?

[@jasondennis1273]

@davefeedbackgaming Sorry if already said, the "arrow" didn't pop for your guns, because the MIO wasn't yet upgraded, so the production line had no reason to think it needed to upgrade

[@extrage3061]

The reason you get manpower when you get a core state isn't because they line up and just join the Army but of course some do. Have you forgotten about FORCEFUL recruitment? You recruit anyone over 16 for example.

[@russellhagan2539]

Dave, little trick about the free train button. If you have researched armored trains and you click that button you get free armored trains instead of civilian trains ;)

[@MrMichaelBCurtis]

amazing, finally someone talked about how the ideologies don't make sense. I can't wait to hear someone say how the American focus tree is four DLCs behind and has broken focuses in it.

[@the_eye6229]

*avoids allies focuses at the end of the political focus tree* “why aren’t the allies coming in?”

[@etminan9458]

Dev dairy showing 22% of the total gameplay time of Hoi4 is from Germany gameplays really makes it clear, we all wuv warrrr

[@SBragg88]

Gdynia - Guh-Din-Yuh Also recently learned Warsaw is said - Var-sha-vah. And the one that had my mate loling at me was when I tried to say Łódź ......"Lods right?" Nope it's meant to be pronounced a bit more like "wooch" 😅 My poor pronunciation reminded me of WW1 guys calling Ypres 'Wipers' >.< jokes on him, I learned Spanish at school. It's not like a Slavik speaking country could ever take over...the...world...Oh Mierda!

[@joskarifinaukr6503]

I think a lot of people are thinking, "Hang on, Dave! Clamp down on Danzig, forced labor? That's not historical!" But the sad truth is that is fairly close to what Poland actually did to the city leading up to 1939. The invasion of Poland was literally the last option taken, after years of failed diplomacy and constant abuse of the German citizens (over 95%!) of that city at the hands of the Polish government.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Plot twist!

[@FordBluIhmseinneuerBesitzer]

How sick do you like to sound? Feedbackgaming: Yes.

[@FeedbackGaming]

💉😭

[@commy1231]

When you run out of manpower, you can go down to war eco, it’s definitely worth the loss of industry to get your divisions to full strength. Even service by requirement isn’t that bad if you need to.

[@robertgyiran]

As a guy, who lives next to KatoVICE, I couldnt help but smile how you pronounce the name, like in Miami Vice :D

[@R3av3r54]

The absolute mad lad for this series! Thank you, Dave for all this. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

[@STOPTIMMERTIME]

Been loving these videos, also a great thing to listen to while gift wrapping this year! Can't wait for 2024

[@EskiltheWanderer]

Whoah whoah all those green 99s in the thumbnail, that's a violation of the Versailles.

[@FeedbackGaming]

99

[@MaslAlek]

Poland is my most favourite country to play ( Yes, Im Polish ). So many options to choose from. Very playful

[@fabiofonv]

I think the AI considers how much total/deployed manpower you have when giving garrison support, that's why they wouldn't give you any.

[@Jimonwheel]

Every time I hear the music of that game, I want to watch "Band of brothers" again.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Good choice!

[@D_U_N_E]

On unassigned troops, if you just select them, and right click the martial, it auto-distributes to the generals. If you already have them assigned to a general, I forget how to unassign generals, but if you select all but one troop, it also auto splits.

[@wastelander89]

I watched all 14 videos great work. Ur long videos tickle my fancy

[@mertdemirkrat2372]

I have watched for years when i am on high school now I am studying on college and you start upload daily videos damn man its like 2018 i love you dave

[@imperialguardsman135]

I'm Polish and that focus tree makes perfect sense to me. Our politics were just that convoluted back then (and still are)

[@AltamaLFG]

Poland is my favorite to play, every branch can be fun!

[@CaptSargeMudkip]

UK didn't give guarantees this time, because you became major power.

[@kolkoki]

Hey dave, thanks for all those "every single click". They're technically less funny than your regular videos but so much more teachful. Also they're excellent video to put at the gym cuz they're long and dense, and your voice is louder than my yelling muscles. I'm gonna miss having such a stream of high-quality, hours long content. Have wonder hollidays.

[@MaxYoung-Maxinfet]

I didn't realize this was a series till this video, guess I know what I am going to be doing for the next 24 hours.

[@PaladinElliott]

finally bit the bullet and am buying hoi4 for myself for christmas(my birthday) because of you since Red Dead Redemption 2 was a flop for me (just felt so clunky)

[@bm8985]

It's amazing these playthroughs go as well as they do with how much feedback forgets.

[@EDunn21]

Yeah I’ve found that the 5th research slot for Poland is glitched. You don’t actually need 50 factories even though the tooltip says so.

[@Maximusmaxamin]

Who’s going to tell him theirs a visual bug and the trucks are the wrong images. Man was making early trucks the entire game

[@TheSisovic]

08:10 I thought it was Sanatation to this very moment... All becouse of you Dave! xD

[@Lups-fk5qr]

56:39 you don’t have a non aggression pact with the UK, that’s why they are not getting called in XD

[@FeedbackGaming]

Thats not the way it works. guarantees and non-aggression packs are completely different

[@Lups-fk5qr]

@@FeedbackGaming oh ok thanks, so basically hoi4 just bugged out

[@g1camuschy]

Dave dismisses the UK's invitation to their faction, also Dave, "why am i not in their faction?" :)

[@FeedbackGaming]

Was a non-aggression pact

[@g1camuschy]

@@FeedbackGaming my bad, you clicked so fast, didn't see what it was

[@shironee_2384]

It's frustating for how the one who got the lend lease is the one who need to provide their own convoys.