Hoi4 Götterdämmerung: Is This Austria Path OP? Or Terrible?

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[@stakuyi]

Hello my friends this is a video I filmed before leaving on my trip. As you can tell from the thumbnail it’s a bit tongue in cheek. The short of it if you have not seen my community post I am sorry about the confusion and issues I’ve had with sourcing base images to use for some thumbnails. It has happened repeatedly before. I’m changing how things are being done and getting a dedicated editor to make thumbnails so I don’t run into a similar issue because of my own impatience and negligence. To clarify that last statement, the Hungary video was not anyone else’s fault. No editor to blame. It was my own and I’m sorry for that. I’ll make sure nothing like it happens again

[@RNKel1]

I don’t think it should be a huge deal, you’re busy, I’d rather have original content and an unoriginal thumbnail than vice versa

[@vahlen5281]

​@@RNKel1 Plus it's not like there are that many options one could choose for making a thumbnail about a title that is basically just "Map Painting: The game".

[@dominicanemperor28]

Yeah, who cares for the thumbnail stuff, as long as your content is good, I won’t stop watching it

[@viligerm6592]

John Parker 117 :}

[@BullMooseSpirit]

Thank you for responding to the situation, I didn’t think it was a huge deal as I personally didn’t mind, I just wanted to ensure that the original creators were credited if they are used in the future. For instance, Swinceball stated how its “not that much work, but it's not the work that matters for me. It's the fact that it was stolen without asking, which is immoral. Though I am not that sore about it”. I only spoke up since other parties involved were not in favor of what I happened, but of course it doesn’t matter anymore since it’s resolved. Let’s just keep moving forward and not dwell on it since apologies were made and the situation is over with. Have a great rest your day Stakuyi!

[@PravusGaming]

Now THAT is a quality thumbnail! Really gets the point across.

[@wills4615]

Huh not who I expected to see especially commenting that it's like just randomly seeing the professional in a ww2 documentary

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Yo what!? It's actually Pravus Gaming

[@10EightyPlays]

Pravus? In HOI4? Anyway, I love your Plague Inc. content!

[@thebestbread8834]

Was not Expecting you here Also love you videos

[@royearle1673]

Two legends in one room? Whoa

[@RNKel1]

‘This is my thumbnail’ 😭😭😭

[@cadentrevino5746]

💀 it's to good

[@stakuyi]

It’s an accurate statement by all accounts

[@husseinausbonn7655]

@@stakuyii see what you did there😂

[@kiefer6568]

Looooool stak drama is real XD keep being awesome buddy

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

Can’t be accused of stealing thumbnails

[@vampireknight5821]

I just had to laugh at the thumbnail even with the ongoing controversy XD

[@archstanton3931]

Someone want to fill me in?

[@RNKel1]

@@archstanton3931there was a video exposing stakuyi’s thumbnails being dangerously similar to other creators’ thumbnails

[@bagrbagrovsky]

​@@archstanton3931 the thumbnail in the hungary video was used before by other youtubers and many others are similar

[@realgabster]

​@@archstanton3931yeah a youtuber named John Parker 117 who made a video accusing stakuyi of stealing other people's thumbnails.

[@stakuyi]

@@realgabsterit was a right thing to call out. My own negligence and impatience to source google images to use as a base came back to haunt me. I’m getting a dedicated editor to make sure that does not happen again

[@Hyde_Hill]

Did he miss the entire joint focus tree? Which has things that help him integrate the puppets. Some building in the puppets etc. might still be needed though. Need to take all the troops off of your puppets. And maybe not call all of them to war.

[@silenthound8116]

I would have called this run "The Second Great War of Attrition: Habsburg Edition"

[@tweetert.9978]

Stayuki upset that all the different armies in the Austrian Empire isn't able to coordinate. Oh how history repeats itself

[@VivBrodock]

bro missed the Austro-Hungarian Focus Tree which is like, the whole reason to go the puppet route, and is where the integration happens with Thousand Year Federation

[@JosTheMan1]

I missed it at my last gaem, its just so down there and you have to complete the first one before others starts to do them and you get notified about them completing focuses :D

[@workshopsmashers5154]

Nice thumbnail

[@stakuyi]

Thanks, the secret is inbreeding

[@wyvernstudios3858]

@@stakuyi Well of course, no normal mortal has a chin capable of hitting a homerun like that 😭

[@lennartgamer2339]

​@@stakuyi sweet home Alabama style or sweet home Saarland style?

[@Mr.Eggthreal]

@@lennartgamer2339more like sweet home Habsburg dynasty style

[@teebob21]

@@stakuyi Always has been

[@michaeltengrootenhuysen5732]

Damn the thumbnail just killed me😂 And now i'm dead, RIP me i guess

[@feexy41]

Damn, rest in peace man.

[@TopatTom]

May you fly high, and can you confirm if theres food in heaven?

[@Michałwójcik89]

Rest in Peace

[@AnimeFreak40K]

BitterSteel pretty much just did this entire path... and he does outline how you can integrate everything and push the shiny-red-button to claim everything.

[@Wendeta-hq2cp]

This was fun. I think it would have been cool if the game Acknowledge the fact that the Habsburgs puppet so many countries and allow for a Proclaimation the Habsburg Monarchy (cores on everything that you conquer, effectively allowing a war conquest in hoi3; would have been a fun idea for the developers to do, but alas, maybe mods deal with it).

[@Drongo-l2y]

I did not expect that opening

[@kyperioth4212]

(Banjo tunes ensue)

[@AkiUwUx3]

@@kyperioth4212 _redneck yee'ing follows_

[@Simon-kd3jc]

Thank you for addressing the thumbnail thing

[@griffinhunter3206]

whats funniest about the hapsburgs is a hapsburg wrote a childrens book arguing he should be back in control of austria or somewhere

[@VasiliyOgniov]

I can't overstate how much of a reilef I had when I read the community post and pinned comment. Its a surprising... laziness (sorry, for the lack of a better word) to use image on a Google as a base for a thumbnail. Especially being a pretty well-known content creator. However, huge props for not trying to hide anything and being honest about what happened. Literally nothing was stopping you from just blaming it on non-existent "thumbnail editor" and getting through scot-free, but you owing up to it made me respect you even more. This takes hell of a lot of integrity to be genuine about it. People make mistakes. Shit happens. This is alright and natural. And as long as you made amends with people involved, and wthis counts as

[@piercebunge4297]

Have you heard of DarkViperAU?

[@VasiliyOgniov]

@piercebunge4297 I heard about him, but I dont know what are you referencing?

[@piercebunge4297]

@VasiliyOgniov he was accused of simular things, just curious though

[@theonlyjoe_]

Potential idea: What if Germany was capable of Operation Sealion?

[@dragonslayer-kd4lt]

Is nobody talking about that intro. I get it its his thumbnail

[@GenuineGuitar56]

Thats my man! Thats a good original thumbnail my guy!

[@alecw4444]

What if the Dutch successfully held out against the Germans?

[@witherblade7558]

Hey, you know there is a shared focus tree when you do that path, that when you finish it you will be able to integrate your puppets much quicker, and your puppets can also do the focuses on this focus tree making it much quicker to finish it

[@pizza3676]

Stak, there's an entire joint tree for you and your puppets where you can integrate all of them at the end...

[@JBBurle]

My God this is the best thumbnail I've ever seen💯🇬🇧

[@bangshotuhead_III]

Hey Stakuyi! Did you know in Kaiserredux if Huey Long loses the civil war he flees to paraguay? Try and get to that!

[@piercebunge4297]

It's nice that you see what John Parker 117 posted

[@haxongd]

Stakuyi you could've annexed all your A-H subjects using the joint austro-hungarian focus tree 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@truegeatee]

The thumbnail is GENIUS

[@VivBrodock]

we love to see a guy who can make fun of his mistakes and improve from them

[@Piratewaffle43]

You can peacefully annex the lands directly without puppeting

[@cyclone159]

There really is no controversy. It’s just a thumbnail. Every watches for the video content not the thumbnails. 😂

[@carlosamponin2859]

First ten seconds - Stack made me trip and fall face first into a wall.

[@mileau7578]

Going down the puppet/faction path opens up a shared focus tree that you would've had to scroll down to see. Focuses in it can be completed either by you or any of your 'Austro-Hungarian vassal' puppets, and it leads toward integrating them all much more quickly and easily.

[@YovenBonJoven]

fastest and most effective drama response I've seen this year damn

[@alexkudzin4980]

What if at the start of the Siberian intervention, Japan finds Alexei Romanov and makes him a puppet ruler of Siberia to justify their ongoing “intervention”? Yes Alexei Romanov is assassinated in July and the intervention starts in August, so either move the intervention forward a couple of months, or have the Czechoslovak Legion rescue Alexei and bring him to the Japanese. Either way, Japan should remain in Siberia after October 1922, with enough legitimacy so that America doesn't embargo Japan or force Japan's withdrawal, & Japan can pay for the “intervention” with Siberian gold/iron/gems/fur. Or, alternatively, one of his sisters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, or Anastasia, survives and is married into the Japanese royal family giving Japan a claim over all of Russia.

[@TheExpendableGuard]

Stayuki, you forgot about the combined focus tree that allows you annex your puppets.

[@stayfrosty1323]

If i had a nickel for every time Stakuyi missed a major part of a focus tree which made the path actually work, I would have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but its funny it happened twice. (Federal Ethiopia is the first one)

[@sombertownds149]

16:30 great tigger impression

[@MRNOOBPLAYS90817]

My whole family was around me when you said that intro 😊

[@herbatoriginal]

Fun fact: Austrian left-sided branch from monarchy actually does make you gain almost every single state from Austria-Hungary Empire as a core. And all that in diplomatic way!

[@metgath]

When you demanded that they vassalize the other option was to demand they submit to annexation. I did that route and flattened Germany when they demanded the Sudetenland. I joined the Allies to get them preoccupied on the Maginot while I flooded into German from the south.

[@xoover]

great video, 10/10 storyline and plot

[@dragonslayer-kd4lt]

He says 4 minutes after it released

[@dragonslayer-kd4lt]

On a 24min video

[@stakuyi]

@@dragonslayer-kd4ltto be fair you only need to hear the first 20 seconds of this to know the whole plt

[@xoover]

@@dragonslayer-kd4lt i watched it on 50 times speed

[@starrredits830]

Oh you finally decided to actually make a thumbnail!

[@andresdominguez4914]

(Video 28) What if the United Arab Republic was a success? (Egypt/Cold War mod)

[@nawolith3840]

Despite the focus names, the choice between Subjugation and Annexing your old lands is BOTH diplomaticly possible. Its just between puppeting/annexing the land. Either CAN be war or peace.

[@AverageStrategyGameGeneral]

The hasburg chin has been trademarked by Stakuyi

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Finally monarchist austria is here first germany now austria

[@VincenteSteele]

Annex the puppets needed via the autonomy system then declare empire. I'm pretty sure that's how that is supposed to work.

[@Khemarite]

0:01 wtf started a conversation like that?! I just sat down!!!

[@Hatsuzu]

>ignores shared focus tree to integrate the puppets

[@AnimeUmbreon]

I think doing a run with historical ai off while trying to do the historical analysis of your alt-history videos could be fun. Trying to figure out the logical justification on the spot.

[@georgefallu]

You can annex your puppets it just takes a bit of lend leasing or building in their lands

[@sunshower6560]

What’s interesting, is that if you try this with Hungary, the surrounding nations get war goals on you to prevent Otto’s ascension.

[@looseycanon]

Ah, Stakuyi... you know me too well... I can't have a good morning without committing a felony either :D

[@teebob21]

Three seconds in, and I already thought I was watching the wrong browser tab

[@yuckal]

What if Germany had focused more on submarines earlier. Apparently Moustache man didn't put alot of effort into research and production of them. I've heard that if he had alot more U-boats at the beginning of the war, and kept increasing production of them, it may have changed the outcome. If the UK didn't have anything getting through, that means they'd have less fighters to defend during the Battle of britain, less bombers etc.

[@Chaoskiki923]

Day 71 of asking stakuyi to do the goddess viira path for barrad magroacy in equestria at war

[@stakuyi]

I have another EAW to do but that’s because we have a big reveal that I’ve been told I have to check out

[@512TheWolf512]

just integrate them via the standard puppet mechanic... which you get a buff to from the joint focus tree at the end

[@mrcousins93]

Everyone has already said it but yeah the joint focus tree.

[@wargamingdk3560]

I hate to say this but if you look further down in the focus tree there is a Focus tree to integrate all of your puppets

[@semajniomet981]

My question: What would've happened if the entire world decided that Germany was a threat in 1937 and declared war on it? Setup: At a New Years Eve party, a drunken funny mustache man shared his dream of conquering the world (Surely this will all blow over). Three days later, a conference was called, and Germany's ambassador was not invited (Nie gut!). Not long after... I think you get the drift. Anyways, what do you think of trying out the Apocalypse 1937 mod?

[@PatroticMapping]

Yall I think this is his thumbnail

[@garrettknorr9186]

Funniest person to put for that thumbnail 😂😂

[@TheRavenLord1]

Fantastic thumbnail 😂

[@FreePalestine07462]

Is that a KZbinr doing a good apology? Impossible

[@killerclown3310]

Not the thumbnail 😂

[@Bata-chan]

All of your issues with this path are solved by the GIANT shared focus tree you somehow didn't see. After peacefully puppeting Hungary, you and your puppets gain access to a quite powerful shared Austro Hungarian focus tree (it's below the austrian one on the focus screen) which give a LOAD of buffs alongside easy annexation and integration.

[@Oscar92839]

I LOAD UP YT AND ITS 7 SECONDS AGO LMAO

[@glitchvlogs6597]

See Steven? if you take the time to create a thumbnail, it'll be great. Amazing thumbnail btw.

[@glitchvlogs6597]

1:20 your transition was out place my dude

[@sqwidlord8344]

You could have taken control of your puppets divisions to prevent them from throwing so hard

[@A2kry]

⁠I’m so happy that you actually took responsibility for it instead of blaming it on someone else or pretended that it did not happen

[@justdracir8197]

Yeah that run is basically whatever the austrian empire always was. Relatable.

[@JohnSmith-qp7xu]

That opening is popular with Alabama.

[@stakuyi]

I should have done japan

[@bird5993]

​@@stakuyi Why Japan? Do they have a history of incest or am I missing something?

[@JohnSmith-qp7xu]

@@stakuyi Alabama: The Southern Hapsburgs

[@Tno_is_a_great_mod]

“Who’s ready for incest” was that improvised or something 😭

[@ryanrg1545]

THE THUMBNAIL LMAOOO

[@hyperdimensionbliss]

What's better than resolving an uncovered controversy about your channel? It becoming a running gag afterward.

[@crissagram]

"The CHIN shall lead us all to victory!!!"

[@Awesomewithaz]

stakuyi ain't got his name on that thumbnail so I think I'm gonna claim it

[@ricardoandre7049]

The one you are calling the Not peaceful side, is also kinda peaceful. You spend PP to influence the other states and then demand anexations which like the one you had, you just directly annex them into a singular Austrian Empire. instead of becoming your puppets

[@stakuyi]

Ah that’s good to know

[@BlackJack19121]

The start though had me rolling on the floor : "Hello my friends stakuyi here and who's ready to commit incest" lmao xD.

[@DavidAndrews-eb7gm]

Insect. He said insect KZbin. It’s a Hapsbug joke.

[@Jabo-qy7ym]

Not a chancellor, special Dictator

[@Koemelk]

When are you making a video on the EAW continuation mod for stellaris (the video is at 10k likes)

[@ShadowFalcon19]

What if The USA has elected Alf Landon as POTUS in the 1936 Presidential election (Götterdämmerung DLC please)?

[@legendaryarchie6512]

As far as controversies go this isn’t that bad

[@legendaryarchie6512]

Still waiting for the stakuyi apology video

[@Gabeslicor]

Multi-Ethnic disorganized armies are the true Austro-Hungarian expirience.

[@shotgunjake]

Guys! Its his thumbnail 😎

[@stakuyi]

Yes I’m pretty sure that was made clear

[@shotgunjake]

@stakuyi i just find it very funny for some reason, still laughing about it.

[@Pykerivous]

no offense but you're not keeping in mind that you can integrate puppets through the puppet menu, which is why the focus 'a thousand year federation' absolutely nukes the autonomy of all puppets that get access to the focus tree! While yes it could be direct and the formable should probably allow you to click it if the needed area is held by puppets. You are kinda forgetting an important fact, over all in terms of whats better the puppeting path I personally believe is better. Yes it takes longer to form austria-hungary but it has the native idea of you slowly integrating your puppets, while they and you can take focusses in the joint-focus tree to make the over all empire stronger. Generally you idealy never want your puppets to be in the same wars as you, this is true for everyone. unless you plan to make offensives from their territory. makes integrating harder, and the a.i doesn't really make good divisions. ever. yoinking their troops to fill out your armies and act as buffers is a good idea though, while yes they will still gain autonomy. its less than when they are actively fighting. Also typically you should try to annex your puppet quickly if they can be yoinked by other nation's focusses. saves headaches because the often means to do it don't ask the player or give them an option to refuse. same with territorial demands, you might get romania as a puppet. but that doesn't stop romania from giving their land to the soviets. over all good video, found the thumbnail funny. But I wanted to mention this even if its. well. not necessary. keep up the good content and have fun traveling!

[@stakuyi]

While I do agree there is a key problem. That being that you won’t get the states puppets until right before you get attacked by Germany which in turn rapidly boosts their autonomy as they fight. Or am I thinking about this wrong?

[@Pykerivous]

​@@stakuyi No you're not thinking about it wrong, I guess its up to player preference and what is prioritized. you can, quite easily get hungary, czechslovakia, poland & yugoslavia before germany attacks. But this is at a cost of not really taking much of your economic focusses / military focusses. And is also in mind that you take the diplomatic option for getting Tirol (basically giving italy 2 civs for the land. which has a single civ. so it costs 1 civ really.) you do raise a valid point and I dont mean to belittle the problems you've had. Because they are valid. I guess I probably should've addressed some factors that probably could've help avoid the issue at hand.

[@Willing_Herold]

1:38 I thought you were teacher Ryan. I’m a Mongolian student and we had an American teacher called Ryan teaching us at one point.(I thought you went to Mongolia not going to Mongolia.)And he looks a lot like you.

[@hugostiglitz7373]

What if the air raid on Polesti didn't happen? What if the raid was greater in destruction?

[@heavyhebrew]

What is it about that area that compels them to keep trying to reestablish the Holy Roman Empire?

[@proci890]

oh hey an empire that's falling apart where have i seen that before 😆

[@rickelleman6613]

Bitt3rsteel got a very different result from his playthrough.

[@Diamond_Brony]

Fun fact: If you annex Slovakia after Czechoslovakia agrees to it as Poland, they get annexed by Germany and because of new dlc it just makes Slovakia (except for a southern Slovakia state) into a puppet of Germans. XD And Hungary will demand it anyway, while you fight the Soviets, so there is no point.

[@TheDJdragonflame]

Erm, you got another focus tree when you subjugated Hungary. Might want to look at that one a little more closely instead of just the Austrian one...

[@lucabuchwald9744]

Hypothetically speaking, how would history have unfolded if the Soviet Union had launched an invasion of Japan?

[@schuetermcgavin]

I found that you can peacefully annex all of Europe as the Kaiser and form a sort of EU.

[@jayhenry2197]

I'm confused. Aren't there already mechanics in the game for taking more authority over puppets? I thought you could do that with any occupied territory by decreasing their autonomy. It would be very slow I guess.

[@lukas54cz71]

You need to do the joint focus tree first

[@bryantpck8]

19:01 they want their vaccines

[@autoworld56]

I think that's my thumbnail

[@peaceguy5993]

Welp that’s a way to start a intro

[@FelixRoblek-ih4fu]

Is there any way to avoid being beaten up by Germany with historical AI? I mean it's quite devastating for me as an Austrian to fail every time in Gotterdämmerung.