[HoI4] Massive WW2! [AI Timelapse] Max Facs / Full Mob / +4k Provinces

In this AI-only scenario we'll take a look at a WW2 timeline in which all of the major European powers, with the United States, were ready for the war. They have max factories, infrastructure and a fully mobilized population that is ready for recruitment into the war effort. What ensued was a massive conflict with equally massive casualties in both military and [est] civilian population.
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Hearts of Iron 4 AI only simulation.
Settings:
Historic, All European Majors (w/ USA and Poland) w/ Max Factories, Infrastructure, Fully Mobilized Population, Nerf to Supply Consumption
Songs:
Dawn of War OST - • Video

[@bagdon8144]

is this the alternate history where mousollini had a good army and steiner made his counterattack?

[@hermes112]

i was waiting for this day for Steiner and his counter attack

[@martimsalvador9186]

@@hermes112 but that damn Steiner wasn't prepared to conter-attack

[@hayro252]

Vichy's nice&fresh counterattack is what saved them imo

[@soppa24]

this just proves Italy could've been good if Mussolini hadn't forced the country into war too early and had competent leadership ofc

[@martimsalvador9186]

@@soppa24 if he didnt put all of italy's money into his pockets and instead actually invested in the military he could be as good as france

[@heikoribbrock8461]

damn that general pushback...I honestly think Italy deserves an MVP medal in this game, cause them holding Africa and Turkey...that was huge

[@siyaaviation3659]

How was the red army crushed like that

[@edwardbrown3721]

@@siyaaviation3659 all the good units died and all they had left was hordes of naked men without equipment

[@eggrollsoup]

@@siyaaviation3659 Italy took the oilfields in caucasus. also it was a 3 way war instead of 1v2 so that helped a bit

[@ScottieMacF]

@@siyaaviation3659 looks like they ran out of manpower.

[@MT-su2lq]

You see here the effect the Axis get the enough oil fields and resrouces - which is here the case with all the south east parts of europe and around turkey they was able to hold. In reality ww2 would have run very different if they was not stopped in sight of the oil fields around the black sea. It was really somewhat close. So, be careful when people tell you today the nazis was complete incompetent and the war lost from the start. It was far from that. Its more like they had a real chance but their incompetence lost it at some point. As someone from europe you should have in mind that as a side effect the win of the oil fields for germany had brought the nuke over europe. They was build and planed for exactly that szenario. A little detail in history we should be thankful for.

[@thorshammer7883]

Dang you don't see the Axis really make comebacks like that much especially once the Soviet Union pushes them that far into their territory.

[@leonardlangner9949]

Italy in the caucuses

[@Njuregen]

Russian ran out of manpower... Italians were good wow.

[@Robbini0]

@Christian Jarvis They went from 12k tanks to 5k (in less than 2 years= against 4k german tanks to less than a thousand pretty quick. Honestly, if Comintern and Allies hadn't fought eachother in Germany and the Benelux countries, it would be hard to say if they would've won or just stayed in the game longer. And man ,that massive axis air force.

[@landonfromdanceclasssussyb2987]

What a comeback

[@leonardlangner9949]

Notice how it happened after the caucasian oilfields fell? Probably CAS decided the war.

[@commanderstorm8874]

I wasn’t expecting that

[@landonfromdanceclasssussyb2987]

Yeah you can see Italy flinging around it’s divisions like there’s no tomorrow, but what I really love is the music. Especially at 6:06 and 4:42 it’s implying that one wrong move, and the war is lost

[@eggrollsoup]

@@landonfromdanceclasssussyb2987 Competent italy

[@shadicmidnightblitzer8915]

Endsieg In A Nutshell, But This Time Italy Is Competent

[@winchestweis2328]

Lol when I saw italy conquering the oil I said omg what if they actually win this

[@alphariusfuze8089]

But yeah...the Italians is not weak, nobody is, or it isn't a war...

[@winchestweis2328]

@@alphariusfuze8089 well, he said she's incompetent, and I don't think that we can call one country who managed to lose to GREECE competent, yk?

[@galeno3719]

@@winchestweis2328 it was competent, Mussolini wasn't. How can it not be competent if Italy is the one who fought and won against austria hungary. Il Duce chose generals for their loyalty to fascism rather than skill. Btw, I suggest you to go learn about El Alamein battle, what the italians did.

[@Redisonthelaptop]

And Steiner got enough forces for a counterattack

[@Identitools]

Italy saving the day, numerous times, wtf...

[@roberttheobesoh8192]

So what?

[@honkeykong4049]

Bizarro World

[@btp-0128]

How many military casualities of your faction? Axis : *YES*

[@NascarFan-hi4et]

Oh you know just your average 150 million people

[@fem530]

Ngl the axis made a nice recovery with comitern

[@ImperialZorn686]

They would have lost if comiterm wasn't at war with the Allies

[@tythorn13]

Even with that victory, they aren't recovering for at least 100 years

[@martimsalvador9186]

There are more casualities in total than the population of today's europe

[@tythorn13]

@@martimsalvador9186 yeah. That's not even considering the infrastructure and economic damage.

[@lorenrosenhal6555]

Idea (if it hasn’t already been made): France goes fascist and joins the Axis, however Japan also goes democratic and joins the Allies. To make China interesting let Nationalist China join the Axis, while every single warlord and the PRC join the Allies/Comintern around 1941.

[@lmvr127]

Steiner commences his attack at 7:00

[@sailorofmyvessel7890]

Damn, the allies and soviets fighting... allowing the axis to hold the line JUST long enough for the Italians to break through at Baku, taking the Soviet oil supply and causing them to falter. Awesome comeback! Cheers for letting it run until sealion as well :)

[@iacorianus]

I've never been so proud of Italy in my life.

[@mjf69]

Portugal: Okay I just need to sit here and shore up my boarders and hang on for dear life, I have Spain as a nice buffer. 7:18 Portugal: *shits pants*

[@alexb6454]

The axis with three times their entire population dead: I'm fine

[@Inderastein]

5:30 isn't it a coincidence that the Axis do look like Rome?

[@leonardlangner9949]

Only missing Iberia, a few Islands, England and Switzerland

[@nicholaspratt8473]

OMG yeah! It's so close!

[@jstoned88]

Allies and Soviets: In Berlin Axis: I didn't hear no bell

[@TheLeaderofNoone]

In most the timelapses you somehow end up destroying half the world's population

[@GameWatcher545]

well in my defense, I feel bad about it :(

[@TheLeaderofNoone]

@@GameWatcher545 lol works fo rme !

[@nick24488]

sadly, it's what war is all about

[@Koplod]

When the Comintern counter attack into Europe and start fighting the allies as well Allies: "Hang on I thought we were supposed to be friends" Russians: "Well da but actually niet"

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

You mean да and нет?

[@enderman_of_d00m24]

"Every major country participating in the European theater is fully mobilized, and will include Poland as well" I didn't notice the difference with Poland

[@dragooll2023]

It's proportional, germany was stronger too

[@anti79]

Can't believe the AI actually pulled off an endsieg

[@anti79]

@Bardia ghanbarzade what do you mean?

[@Aynshtaynn]

*spoiler* That was the most unexpected comeback I've ever seen in HoI4. 3 minutes in I said Axis was going to fall, and it was falling just as I expected, then I blinked my eye and Soviet Union was dead.

[@Mowraq]

Fully Mobilized Italy = Super Mario Army

[@Impenetravel42]

A competent Italy and a huge air force made the Axis win just barely

[@hawkerben1158]

I’m starting to respect the Italian AI more and more in this patch first they don’t fail in North Africa and then they made a pretty smart offensive through turkey into Russia for once I think Italy was a pretty key reason that Germany won the war

[@justeunfrancais]

With that power and that mobilisation and that resistance. The "take paris = france surrender" is ridiculous.

[@thibs2837]

How could they come back from this is still a mistery

[@thorshammer7883]

I guess they made a defense line and made the Soviets deplete their numbers as the Germans got reinforcements. As well as the second frontline Italy made in Turkey.

[@ha2kon539]

@@thorshammer7883 yep, the Soviets lost most of their tanks and the axis crushed both allies and comitern in planes. Soviet had 17 000 tanks and when the axis turned it around they only had like 3 000

[@alex20776a]

Air supeority over the Eastern front. At 4:32 the soviets had 151 planes vs. 37k from all Axis.

[@leonardlangner9949]

The axis finally had oil.

[@aircoolguy5218]

@@ha2kon539 bro the Axis is pretty smart!

[@alwarado]

nice to see italy being competent in africa

[@mitchellkaiser4553]

WOW, i think this was my favorite time-lapse yet!

[@justsomerandomdeathkorpstr8868]

Now this is the wolfenstein shit that i liked and subscribed for

[@natehetzer5507]

Zhukov's skill as a commander and 8 million dead soviets: am I a joke to you?

[@justsomerandomdeathkorpstr8868]

@@natehetzer5507 nein. Deustchland 4evr

[@natehetzer5507]

@@justsomerandomdeathkorpstr8868 can't hear you over the sound of allied bombing raids, sry.

[@justsomerandomdeathkorpstr8868]

@@natehetzer5507 me too, hans is firing shells at leningrad its too noisy scheiße

[@natehetzer5507]

@@justsomerandomdeathkorpstr8868 oof, wait till you find out how *that* story ends.

[@brom1277]

Thanks for including manpower ;)

[@TheDJKILLIN]

holy cow, the encirclement at 4:00 lasted a year and a half......

[@col1854]

Italy finally stronk

[@giorgiobonsi827]

Me seeing Germany losing the north of his country because of both Allies and Comintern: "C'mon Italy! Now this is your chance to lead the Axis into the victory!" Also me when Italy and the Axis actually make a great comeback and win the war 😮

[@newromanianmappernrm4420]

So, because the comintern was at war with the allies due to Turkey joining them, I think that probably resulted in the Axis victory in the end. As we can see at one point the comintern and Allies together had basically most of the northern european regions including most of france, however because they were at war they didn't put their full resources against the Axis which allowed them to hold on, hold on so long in fact that the italians got enough war experience to become competent, resulting in a counter-attack in the caucasus depriving the soviets of their biggest source of oil, which happened just after the soviets and Axis together pushed D-Day out of Europe, resulting the axis being able to fully focus on the soviet union which couldn't use planes nor tanks or vehicles of any kind really anymore (and were possibly also down on equipment seeing as they were easily the weakest of the 3 factions here in terms of industry, never breaching 1000), which after it was all done allowed the axis to focus on Operation Sealion once Russia was effectively under their control... So basically all you need to do as the Axis to win ww2 is make it last so horrendously long and be so bloody the italians actually become competent

[@theducklad3875]

Content has been amazing lately which makes me excited for ultra tech UK vs the world/everyone they invaded👍👍

[@hermes112]

It hurts to see France falling after resisting for so long

[@aguy5912]

Finally italy did a good job in ww2

[@paoloborghi6313]

7:05 500 IQ Stalin move

[@lorddwarfking7767]

The true ww2 ending that we all deserve

[@Trever101]

Amazing time lapse

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

It's a shame the AI doesn't push in the caucasus even if there is a direct front. It would almost completely negate the giant Comintern armour forces. But there is only Italy present anyways.

[@crazyhayden]

So smooth…

[@flaviusaetius5701]

Axis won cause Soviets got cocky and attacked allies too

[@actes_3751]

That Axis clutch though

[@mariogonzalez4928]

What was your providence addition mod you used?

[@trollkenobi6727]

Gotta love the 5 gazillion times the Allies attempted D-Day and those several Italian divisions having a blitzkrieg in Africa

[@trollkenobi6727]

And that gap they exploited in 6:55

[@mohammedgeli6722]

d day uno reverse card lol also endsieg uno reverse card even though berlin fell

[@MrMeoow91]

That was crazy

[@victoryfirst06]

4:20 Russia: "Yes my precious, Berlin is MINE! Now I will win the war!" 7:01 Germany "Nope!"

[@CringlChisps]

The Man in the High Castle scenario except there aren't any men left and anythinf that remains of a "castle" is all rubble

[@AustrianTimelapser]

good video

[@SpaceDoge]

steiner's counterattack worked 👏

[@noodled6145]

what if all the majors had unlimited manpower? (you can do manpower command of upto 2 billion) or the axis had unlimited oil?

[@Dan-xt7sv]

How are civilian casualties calculated? Strat bombing damage?

[@TheLeaderofNoone]

Can you close the weather? It looks nice in-game and it is useful. But in timelapses it just looks bad

[@Jacobulous]

this is the one time that size is truly what matters

[@cyporg6183]

You should do a ai only game where every nation is in one of the three factions

[@siyaaviation3659]

The Swiss be chilling doe

[@LOLizBACC]

Switzerland in all of the videos (exept for ultra tech videos) : *Grabs popcorn*

[@koviknia2894]

How do you see Civi casualties? thats something i've never seen before

[@KimAlmighty1]

so this is the history of the man in the high castle who knew!! :P xD

[@jevinliu4658]

The Axis comeback seems more probable considering that the Allies and the Cominterm were at war.

[@hanneslundin346]

Idea (unless you've already done it): Every region in a faction (with large nations such as the US and the USSR split up into faction-regions), and they are all at war!

[@rikaeriksharethisvid6911]

Recap: Germany finds itself outnumbered against the soviets and gets pushed back to Berlin but at this point the soviets armored divisions are a shadowy of their former self and with the help of the luftwaffe the pushed the Russians back to moscow

[@virthuss]

The moment Italy reached Caucasus and the oil that comes with, the war was over for non-Axis.

[@RSMKDell]

Switzerland the whole video: *eats popcorn*

[@amodprasad2082]

man Italy showed some nice competition too and i think commentern loss when they even declared war on Allies Btw fascist france acted as a nice teammate

[@averagegoogleuser607]

steiners counterattack :o

[@korean_empire157]

Soviets should've not attacked the allies..

[@emirhanduman9935]

because it's AI it's AI doing that

[@Goosiepoo]

Pog

[@MikoulOfficiel]

the name of the soundtrack in 5:58 time code?

[@hermes112]

I think it is this, here is the song link (the link has an hour of songs but it directly goes to the timestamp of the link, names and timestamps and songs are in the description of the video) kzbin.info/www/bejne/joCsnWubj8l9epY&ab_channel=VGameOSTs btw, gamewatcher put this link in his description

[@painkiller3782]

Steiners counter attack is too strong that the German becomes holy Roman empire at a chance

[@fruta6279]

Why axis dont have alot armour

[@chrisgaming9567]

80.8+70.5 (Comintern) + 153.0+170.8 (Allies) + 151.8+35.7 (Axis) = 662.6 million casualties. Bruh.

[@GameWatcher545]

I'm sorry

[@chrisgaming9567]

@@GameWatcher545 With the perfect Milennium Dawn scenario I bet you can reach the 1 billion mark

[@GameWatcher545]

@@chrisgaming9567 a lot of decent MD ideas fall flat because of poor/near non existent naval invasions in it :/

[@GameWatcher545]

@@chrisgaming9567 EU vs Usa, awesome idea, thing to watch, but nothing happens when you put it in motion

[@GameWatcher545]

@@chrisgaming9567 usa vs iran, nothing happens.. etc

[@DarthRevan0007]

Comment for the algorithm

[@georgiosmatsangos7353]

Are these casualty numbers accurate? 150 million casualties for axis and then both allies and soviets reach that number? Where did they find this massive manpower reserve?

[@GameWatcher545]

Please check the description

[@whitezombie10]

Shit, it was epic

[@Earthinawarshell]

caucasus oil fields really that affect ussr

[@toniseifert6431]

If this isnt a endsieg idk what is

[@alex20776a]

7:17 ....and Spain joins :-)

[@hunterschultz895]

I wish spain and portugul would join in more often or at all ever

[@rural8438]

Steiner must have attacked.

[@Caterev0038cool]

THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD HAVE HAPPEND!

[@BootafulBoots]

in total, almost 835 million people died

[@bastien5589]

Try always snowing next time please

[@lotrlmao1648]

The Soviet Union is basically the one that fight the strongest side of Germany, while the Allies keep stabbing Germany from behind. Just historically accurate, but I understand that is the only way for Allies to win

[@gasolineeater]

first time Italy didnt throw

[@rikaeriksharethisvid6911]

Could you please do, what if Germany switch with poland?

[@randomusername7096]

How did you get civilian casualties?

[@sixshooter500]

He had a war.

[@randomusername7096]

@@sixshooter500 No shit, I'm asking how did he get the numbers for it, how did he separate civilian from military casualties

[@DASBIGUN]

Hay GameWatcher Why not do this, but with the asian theater (or pacific)

[@GameWatcher545]

yep will be done!

[@lightningdragon809]

Why didn't the allies and Soviets use more of their manpower? I don't understand. Somebody enlighten me, please.

[@jorgeabud1133]

MVPitaly

[@artist_of_iq]

axis no steb back

[@jenomichael5224]

Axis came back only because the allies and comintern were at each others throats instead of finishing it off.

[@southwestwings8510]

271m manpower but less than 1m army..... why?

[@morsta99]

*MEGASEIG*

[@thetake-geopolitics4961]

The Italians never stop disappointing me

[@thetake-geopolitics4961]

Actually never mind they actually had a good game for once

[@zman1064]

*Germany is Balanced*

[@potatopototo5463]

what mod r u using

[@GameWatcher545]

a patched up version of the Tiles Galore steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2327117204&searchtext=tgep+v.0005

[@potatopototo5463]

@@GameWatcher545 thanks!

[@GameWatcher545]

@@potatopototo5463 np!

[@alvinliu4997]

@@GameWatcher545 why does it says errors could find the patch ?? please help