Hoi4: Old World Blues ROBOTS TAKE OVER EVERYTHING

Old World Blues is a total overhaul for Hearts of Iron IV: starting in the year 2275 and set in the Fallout universe. Experience the post-apocalypse like never before with a dynamic war system that ensures that the AI nations act on their own, respond to aggression, and strike when their opponents are weak.
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[@aidenv6537]

Patrolling the hoi4 naval mechanics almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[@stakuyi]

God damn that’s good

[@barshemsh4147]

I checked the comments solely for this. Thank you.

[@terryhiggins5077]

is the navy even relevant in OWB? In the years I've played the mod I've never even built a single ship lol

[@bluedemon2783]

Omfg Bethseda always had to have line that were repeated constantly in their games XD

[@matthewmorrison619]

When and if you play new Canaan could you try going for Joshua Graham

[@dinodude6992]

There is a sub mod for old world blues that adds a intelligent deathclaw nation to the mod, but there's been several of these mods that become outdated when newer nations are added to the base mod

[@linkh5375]

yeah, I do wish the deathclaw submod was updated. Had good fun with it

[@thegamercat6615]

There is also a mod for the East coast stuff from 3 and 4

[@aegeanharrier6648]

Enclave mod is also amazing. Macarthur just doenst cut it anymore

[@DominionSorcerer]

@@aegeanharrier6648 but it has to get updated so you can actually get caps.

[@jidk6565]

Like the courier mod.... Both of them

[@aubreyhuff46]

17:02 "it crashed again?" Wow, this really is NV

[@soullessvoidpixyincarnate4277]

They do plan on expanding to the east coast as far as I'm aware. I think they might be waiting for Fallout: Miami to be released first but who knows. I imagine that it also does just take awhile to flesh out these massive regions. There are two submods I'd recommend checking out if you keep doing videos on OWB, one that adds a Courier Six path to the New Vegas tree and allows you to annex New Canaan, and Annex the Divide getting both Joshua Graham and Ulysses as Generals and form "New America" and a enclave mod that allows you to either reform the enclave to truly embody American values, or to cleanse the wasteland.

[@terryhiggins5077]

Next phase is the rest of the midwest (both us and canada), then they'll (not necessarily in this order) finish up the southern us, east coast,/new england, north eastern canada, and the caribbean.

[@CupGuyDude12]

slow down the mod already is so slow that they have options that merge entire regions (texas,mexico,cascadia) and most of the new added nations in canada and montana have very little to no content and they endlessly rework nevada and ncr i think we’re on the 3rd ncr while same house new vegas tree since launch i love the mod but yea east coast never happening

[@KahavaveCAPIPI]

@@CupGuyDude12 Honestly I don't think they're liable to do a flat line to the east coast, but I would have to imagine that they want to at least get the Capital Wasteland and Commonwealth implemented. Though the mod will probably be abandoned before that. And for speed, the mod doesn't run much slower than vanilla at the beginning and for me has a faster speed late game because of lower units at that point. Like, if you have a habit of quitting your games 4 years in you probably don't see it, but its various systems have a nice habit of limiting the slowdown.

[@seangallagher9435]

They have a roadmap, the next update is for the Caribbean, then they’ll start moving the map east

[@TheUpcomingStudent]

Bro I’m trying to pull up to New England with the minutemen 😂

[@cello7302]

seeing a fellow Fallout New Vegas fan nerd out about the UI and Lore at every turn is so awesome to see. Keep it up!!

[@TheRewasder97]

This mod is the reason of around 70% of my hours in hoi4. I absolutely love to go heavy in power armour and play one on the brotherhood's or the Enclave mod.

[@TheStanislavson]

Can you recommend a good beginners nation for the mod? I tried some renegade tribe in the most northern parts, but it was pain.

[@TheRewasder97]

@@TheStanislavson I sure can. Depends a bit of what you want to do and how much experience you have with hoi4 in general. Factions like the NCR or Caesar are big and powerful but that's probably a problem if it's one of your first games. They have massive focuses and special mechanics that might be a bit overwhelming. If you like power armour and the brotherhood of steel, I would recommend the Washington Brotherhood. A darker, sinister variant to the north. They have strong BoS units and a simple and straightforward focus tree. They are based around conquering and fighting. They start at war, but if you have a basic understanding of hoi4 combat it should be super easy, barely an inconvenience. Throughout your campaign you'll face little resistance other than the supermutants of the Troll Warren. Speaking of which, I haven't played them myself, but if you want to play super mutants, the Troll Warren is probably your pick. If you'd rather go for the more economic and story focused route, maybe try playing New Vegas, they have a focus on robots when it comes to warfare. If the mass assault tribal style of Caesar seems interesting but Caesar's Legion is too much of a headache, try Lanious' cohort. If you want to go for the elite units but more of a ranger than a power armour, then try the Desert Rangers. Strong units to pacify the wasteland and friendship with the NCR means a strong and safe journey. You could also try literally anything, as with the exception of some minor nations that get eaten by big ones early on, anything is golden. I would highly encourage you against playing the normal brotherhood of steel(I think they call it western brotherhood now) or the Mojave chapter, as they both can come out as quite challenging taking into account that the enemy is the NCR and they have little room for expansion. The Mojave chapter is fun once you get a hold on their special mechanic of rivalry with the Mojave division of the NCR

[@TheStanislavson]

@@TheRewasder97 Thank you for the detailed answer, if you want to play together, we can play. I am doing a Texan Brotherhood run, annexed the Scorpions and the Gators, puppeted the Telethubies, but there are some strange glitches on the map during war in that region. Anyway, if you want to play or talk, i can give you my steam adress. Just say it.

[@TheRewasder97]

@@TheStanislavson thanks for the offer but I just prefer to play this games on my own, not much into multiplayer

[@TheStanislavson]

@@TheRewasder97 We can talk about the game, no problems, i am solo, player too. I played Kaiserredux a bit and the Pony mod. The pony mod is the best so far.

[@Chris11502]

OWB devs plan to eventually reach the East Coast, but that is sadly years upon years away. One nation I highly recommend is the Rogue Rangers, they're extremely fun and have a lot of unique lore.

[@terryhiggins5077]

The start is a bit tricky (that goes for all the tv town factions), but darn are the rangers fun. The sheer tribute to Wasteland 1&2 is great.

[@huh3027]

@@terryhiggins5077 loved wasteland 2 I love how owb devs added them in even when their not fallout.

[@Hippie_King15]

Both equestrian wars and old world blues are awesome. Please do more of both.

[@aegeanharrier6648]

Well there are April fools event that Combine Kaiserreich, Equestria at war and Old World Blues.

[@KleinesStein]

@@aegeanharrier6648 I’m sorry what? That sounds so cursed and beautiful at the same time

[@aegeanharrier6648]

@@KleinesStein Yep. Perfectly explained kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3TUoZKCe5WJkLs is froom Dshakey's channel. Im too lazy to search for others

[@koneser8197]

@@KleinesStein yeah both took part in some quirky cooperations fot april fools, like TNO changing places with EAW, magic horse invasion in OWB or fallout factions teleporting to Kaiserredux

[@MorkiMoo]

I have been waiting for this for far too long! Thank you Stakuyi! A note about the followers: when you select to either let them in or kick them out, it unlocks decisions for you to complete. You have a time limit to do them before the followers establish themselves.

[@leoisabell9797]

1, I would LOVE to see more OWB content 2, a fair few of the factions are OC factions, but that’s because they had to fill out the entirety of 3 countries and honestly almost all of them fit the setting really well 3 Ave, true to Caesar 4, make sure you poke around as much as possible, SO many factions have absolutely massive unique or semi unique focus trees and many of them have a bunch of diverging paths, for example you can turn the Rio grande into a state run by an outcast Centurion from the legion, or you can have a prison warden AI take over the hang dogs and reform Colorado for the American government or form the enclave from Eureka 5. Vegas doesn’t invade the divide, not unles you get on it real early. NCR invades the divide in lore to open up the supply route into the Mojave but it gets nuked when the courier accidentally delivers launch codes to the area, setting the scene for the lonesome road DLC

[@AsymmetricalCrimes]

Yeah I made the mistake of Invading the Divide as Mr. House only for the NCR to swoop in and take it all in the peace conference

[@chloejones1663]

Thank you for an awesome video. Love OWB, one of my favourite mods. Really advise to play Chained Choir, Republic of Rio Grande or Lanius’s Cohort

[@Trench1919A4]

Or last patrol and the Warden path of handdogs

[@SquooshyCatboy]

Aww.. you and your wife are so cute together. Never change, history man

[@sans1493]

Heya statkuyi (I dunno if you will ever see this) butttt OWB is still under development! they have a whole roadmap for it on their discord and yes the plan atleast as far as the community knows is to fill out america from coast to coast!

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

That sounds fantastic

[@paulthep0teat]

Honestly, if you made more Fallout content I wouldn't be opposed. I mean it technically has alternate history aspects, so it's not too different from your typical content. New Vegas playthroughs as historical figures would be awesome! (kind of like Nerbit's Abe Lincoln videos)

[@AsymmetricalCrimes]

Just got this mod two days ago. Been having a blast playing as Mr. House. Currently I'm using my army of securitrons to conquer all the tribal lands in Nevada.

[@KatabaticPlays]

So the original mod this was made from was a tiny map, only probably about 3 states. The NCR, the Legion and the Brotherhood. And was very. Very small. About the size of the Mojave for the whole map. But they worked on it, expanded the map and even added Mexico. It's one of the most worked on mods and they have plans to cover the entire map, so each point of land will have a nation, with some kind of flavour

[@Pandora690]

diana's (Twim Mothers) focus tree is great with a genetic focus if you want to try one of the faction in colorado, the reworked one in that area is the Maxson Expedition dealing with diseased paladins. Both are great with a relatively early war with lanius cohort which have a good focus tree for lots of wars

[@dwimrel]

Its not just learning bicycles or smoke signals but relearning. House had robotic everything with advanced communications etc..

[@DeaconBlues117]

I mean, as a person here in the 21st century, I'd have a pretty hard time working up smoke signals from first principles too. It's not like there are a lot of Native Americans outside Utah to ask about it, and the ones inside are either White Legs or trying not to be killed by White Legs.

[@martinsafranek2908]

If you ever want to try, there is a submod for Old World Blues called "Enclave reborn" and its really good. Im not gonna spoil it for you, but i can honestly say its the best nation Ive ever played in hoi4. In terms of fun, story and originality

[@splashrandom2918]

A fun but kinda slow nation I played in Old Wars Blues is the twin mothers. You get a really cool ai that used to be a human leading your nation, and you get a lot of resources and in one path you get to team up with Lanius's cohort against ceasers legion, or you could just fight them on your own. Its a bit annoying to play them cause they start as peaceful, but i had a lot of fun playing them

[@SuperSoldierS117]

My favorite faction to play is Twin Mothers. You can fight or ally with the legion. If you lose your core territory you basically respawn in raider territory to the north, and can take your revenge.

[@gagethompson5920]

@Stakuyi The reason the followers established themselves is because you didn’t take the decisions to deter them after selecting the choice to be hostile

[@thebob5240]

As a memeber of the LDS Church i HAVE to play New Canaan every time without fail XD

[@P-C-Principle]

Great content man, Fallout is probably my favorite video game series. This looks super fun

[@sonal8109]

Hey Stakuyi, if you ever plan to play this mod again, I suggest you add the Enclave submod. I won't spoil much but the Enclave nation that this submod adds gets to choose between changing itself and making a better version of America or establishing a new order.

[@seangallagher9435]

Stakuyi I love this so much because while everything is different from base HOI4, it’s so easy to just jump right into it. Other mods are too ambitious with changing the core gameplay.

[@keiranweir6021]

Man I love this mod been playing it since before Mexico was added . Is it bad I want to see him play the Equestria at war crossover focus tree?

[@MorkiMoo]

I think that one is broken, unfortunately

[@enclave9497]

OLD WORLD BLUES

[@daggerofromeo]

This was so much fun to watch. I'd love to see more of this mod

[@KevenKitsune]

So happy you covered the Old World Blues mod. one of the mods I'll be getting when I finally get Hoi4. the Fallout universe happens to be one of my favorite franchises. I've played most of the Fallout games.

[@GMSwagganaut]

I have waited SO long to see you play OWB. THIS brings me joy.

[@MunchKING]

Man I played the original 2 fallouts as well. Back when it was an isometric group-party style RPG with grid tactics and all. I never got that far in them, because I was young at the time, but still I remember that.

[@ZackAttack005]

Please make this a series, this make me want to replay the game so bad!

[@Karait933]

It honestly makes some sense that house wouldn't care about smoke signals

[@preserveourpbfs7128]

Whether it’s the camera mount, the desk, or Stakuyi’s unbridled excitement, I like how he bounces 😎

[@snelhestarna]

It feels so fitting with how excited he sounds, It just works.

[@fidoruh]

I'm always so impressed with the modding community. Like these are the kinds of people companies should be searching for to hire.

[@armchairwarrior963]

Followers are the best. You get all their benefits, they only take away your factories once. Take their bluff. But afterwards you get tons of free factories.

[@FellowWonder]

17:25 Awwwww, my faith in humanity has been restored.

[@trentonbarton105]

So with the Followers of the Appocalypse you choose whether to allow or get rid of them and based on which one you select you'll get decisions that will help them establish themselves quicker or get rid of them.

[@DeaconBlues117]

Personally I think I'd rather let the Followers stay. They love to provide support for all those peasants out in the Wastelands, so you don't have to.

[@BlackHat-qf2bc]

I remember Rimmy downunder playing this and loving it

[@arazlam4754]

Got hoi4 from watching your videos, discovered this mod shortly after. Have only played this mod since 😂 Keep up the great videos!

[@davaydg]

I just found this mod and I started playing as the mojave brotherhood and its so amazingly done, i pushed the NCR out of the mojave and conquered Vegas now im preparing to defend Hoover dam against Lanius

[@gtaakuma4514]

You can core territories after you get enough compliance

[@ayathados6629]

A Mormon campaign would go so hard. I played them as a 'tank' civ, mass producing cars and absolutely obliterating the NCR only to get naval invaded from behind by the NCR 😆

[@Lantern_Light]

Crashing a bunch? Damn that really delivers the new Vegas experience.

[@gamingman2720]

I’ve been waiting a while for you to play old world blues. Hope you keep doing some videos for the mod!

[@screamineagles0678]

"I ensure that every bandit [in new vegas] only has one arm." hardest (unofficial, slightly edited) Mr. House line

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

lol Cool, thanks! Could you do an examination of the Bronze Age collapse and/or systems collapse (one of the theories of what caused the BAC). Add your favorite theory of what caused, as well. I watched the Extra History series on the topic and want to know more. Thanks!

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

Man, this guy’s got GOOD ideas!

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

I know, right?!

[@CroissantGuard]

@@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812 You tried.

[@KingKiwi03]

Seeing America in Hoi4 after Old World Blues makes everything seem much bigger

[@wartornradio]

MORE OLD WORLD BLUES. Also a New Vegas Let's play would be lit.

[@elijahduce5323]

Great video as always! You should play New Canaan next (where I grew up) !!

[@DomanicM]

stack you ah, i hope i can enjoy your content more its so lovely

[@Master_WannaBe_]

My favorite sub mod is the one that adds the Enclave, and there’s a route where you can rebuild the state of Nevada.

[@caughtin144p7]

Please do more of this i love fallout nv and this mod made my day

[@KahavaveCAPIPI]

Props to the team for managing to come up with stuff that feels like it could be in fallout even though they had to make up the majority of the map.

[@LOVEPHOENIXDANCER]

as someone whos never played fallout and love this mod i was waiting for you to hit this mod. if you want punishment try lost hills, if you want some good brotherhood action go alamo chapter ( hidden) if you want a great robotic story go Santa Hanna. but if you want a great over powered nation go lanaus ( if you do it right) and yes they are expanding tjust going to take another year or 2

[@declanmugford987]

I remember rimmy downunder played heaven's gate and it essentially was 40k crusaders

[@NoName-sb9tp]

Mick is a canadian, we use politeness as our weapon, and it’s deadly

[@GG_1318]

I remember when owb was just a small slice of the west coast, they have come a long way

[@adrunkdwarf3066]

Should definetely do the roach king. Nothing quite like destroying everyone with sheer volume of radroaches.

[@Freezezonian]

The twin mothers is one of my favorites to play on this mod that and the Washington brotherhood of steel.

[@captainryk2167]

Old world blues just keeps growing

[@kennymcneese]

Please keep up the videos using different mods. I love it.

[@juicebox6581]

My game was so different. Idk how u got so many robots so quickly. Took me forever to get 20 divisions. And the legion went on a massive conquer spree and never had a civil war. Then attacked me and forced me to turtle. Legends still say my protectrons are still holding the high grounds. 300 losses vs 20k losses lol. I am not willing to wait another 5 years of war

[@Infergal]

My problem with OWB is all the untraversible terrain makes frontlines MEGA hard. Not the same set it and forget it frontline system we’re used to

[@lizthedumbfloofbutt3121]

It’s funny how he missed the a10 imagine the heavens gate and Mormons using a10s to “cleanse” their enemies

[@skipperxiv9401]

Damn; Taureor just did a vid on New Vegas and now you're giving us fallout fans more content.

[@trainwreck1135]

Ok over 6k likes, more fallout hoi4 content asap. Gr8 video appreciate the hard work.

[@shadowpoet4398]

Fallout 3 was my first in my apartment during college. It belonged to my room mate but I played it forever. Then I discovered fallout 2 and I was excited. Then I saw it... Fart sound effect... But I wanted to play it and Holy shit, the lore is the best.

[@Holorain]

I play this a lot, my favorite nation by far is twin mothers which is above lanius’s cohort

[@Nerdnumberone]

The Divide is the setting of the "Lonesome Road" DLC, the final and arguably most difficult DLC in New Vegas. It's full of terrifying enemies. I don't know how they coded it in this mod, but if it matches the DLC, it should be a nightmare to invade.

[@GrantSweatshirt]

The hoi4 engine is just so nice, such a good base for many games like this

[@everwinter9795]

This is going to be a wild series

[@gtaakuma4514]

My first fallout was new vegas i never really played it because I couldn’t get past the cazadors north of goodsprings

[@oddiethefox5832]

Make sure to use the scavenging decisions! You can get tech from it if you're lucky. Mainly you'll just get equipment. Also depending on your faction, you might not have a choice with the followers.

[@purgeutopia8696]

One of my favorite factions/concepts in this mod is The Deadlines. A territory that is controlled by an army of underground highly mutated, irradiated, and psychically connected feral ghouls. And all of them are under the orders of an ominous hive mind.

[@azalon2752]

I have noticed something weird about your channel for example this video was uploaded like 2 days before taureor did one for owb, this has happened again with other video but i cant remember, i think you just get inspired to play when you see their videos but even if not its not a bad thing i just wanted to point it out.

[@Ame-no-SagumeFan]

I can share the same story about my first owned fallout game. New Vegas is still my favorite to this day.

[@subjectmichael1]

Would recommend if you play through this again, go with the Kahns instead of the other guys, you can either peacefully absorb the Kahns afterwards or puppet them (it's one of the two) got some cool stuff that go with it.

[@widget3154]

LETS GO LOVE THE OLD WORLD BLUES CONENT

[@sovietpowersupereme6231]

YOOOOOO Someone finally did a video of a new vegas WC I did one like 3 years ago? or was it 4 i dunno but a LONG LONG time ago I'm happy to see someone doing one

[@Drag0nk1ngmark]

Honestly I wouldn't mind seeing the King rule new Vegas for the fun of it

[@BrianFlyingPenguin]

4:31 I think I might be spoiled if you think that's extensive. This is an old tree for this mod, and they're going to redo it so that it has an actual story. Try the Unity of Austin submod for an extensive focus tree.

[@wills4615]

It's pretty funny you and touror just did it as well lol

[@computethis1533]

“You can’t be accused of a war crime if it wasn’t done by a human” - Mr House probably

[@Mellowman2]

Wait till he sees the lost hills focus tree

[@tabox9653]

What a coincidence my 2 favourite HoI4 KZbinrs Taureor and Stakuyi upload the exact same video in 24 hours ^^

[@naturalbornpatriot6369]

You can spend 200 hours in this mod as it is right now, and still be having fun. If you don’t care for the base game, get it just for this mod, it is its own game.

[@lemme_c_ur_buns9102]

if you do the New Canaanites (mormans) they're are two trees you can do, winning vs the white legs and losing vs the white legs. Losing will let you get Joshua Grahm as your leader, also if you don't want the followers to establish themselves their are decisions you have to take multiple times to kick em out.

[@jaidenclements8105]

FOR THE ENCLAVE! OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEEEE BY THE DAWN’S EARLY LIGHTTTT

[@BetterDeadthenRed1991]

FINALLY A FALLOUT VIDEO FROM YOY YAY

[@CrackJeezus]

you gotta try the Cherokee Nation. They get access to armored horses and Vertibirds

[@chrischrisdaman]

I did a new Vegas run as Benny And I beat the legion and NCR in the most Benny way possible Killed house Joined the legion Helped the legion kill the NCR And then, I had raked up enough warscore to literally take everything. Then, since Caesar didn’t have new Vegas, he died and the empire broke apart and it booted me from the faction Then I crushed the remnants of his empire And from there it was just painfully taking out the remaining smaller states one by one But yeah Siding with some dudes, getting them so close to victory, then betraying them, taking everything, and then killing them. Like holy shit that’s 100% something Benny would do

[@insomniagobrrr5542]

New HoI video: 😀 It's the OWB mod: 😁

[@kiravatheargonian]

I played NCR, Pravus played the BoS, and He plays New Vegas XD

[@liamroarke7991]

Man, New Vegas BEFORE all the patches was so much fun.

[@wartornradio]

Eureka is a really fun nation to play as.

[@RefluxCapacitor]

Killer video!

[@trollsquad1827]

Love the video. When is the next equestria at war video dropping

[@nishvaze2666]

17:26 is wholesome