I Played My Best Germany Game, And Then I Tried to Beat It As The USSR (HOI4)

[@thetibbiesshow]

Merry Christmas guys, I hope y’all enjoy the vid and have a good holiday. Also full transparency, I did use the “annex Italy” command. After beating the Germans, I had accomplished my goal, but it would feel weird to just quit the vid when Germany was defeated, so a compromise I had for myself was I’d cheat with Italy but only after beating Germany. I didn’t need to do that with the other axis minors because I had them mostly beaten already. Also it was 1957, my computer was begging me to stop melting its cpu, and I really didn’t want to play too much longer. Feel free to show your displeasure by liking the vid and subscribing.

[@WitcherLover-pd9ye]

My wet dream is what you did. Im Soviet Onion Fan. I played it for 400 hours, in all possible ways. I conquered japan in 1937 on ironman historical. Then i conquered china in 1939. In other runs i conquered Turkey&Romania in 1937-1938 and easilly defended it. I played as All Russian ways, and its amaizing. Once before the Soviet - German war, I helped Germany to win Allies with Cheats, so that I ll be their only problem, oh And also i made it stronger, +50% and Italy stronger, and weakend my self. Still an easy win. The problem with Playing as Germany and then swapping to SOV is next, firstly Germany will change their Divisons template and all other shit, it will hold all the Naval territories, spending 999 divisions on that, if they beat Allies, And The Soviet Is just disgusting played as AI.

[@Simon_the_penguin]

Merry Christmas tibbies

[@gocool_2.0]

I did this challenge a while ago watching Bitt3r steel. But I made Germany too powerful and it took almost 1950 to beat the Germans as the Soviets. Merry Christmas mate.

[@thetibbiesshow]

Check the end of the vid. It took me till (spoiler alert) 1957 to beat them. They just had so much of everything. I shot down like 50k fighters, and they still had some flying around by the end. Also merry Christmas to you as well! Hope it’s peaceful.

[@legitburgerHOI4]

I really enjoy your calm narration and editing. Great video!

[@magmers6389]

Love your videos

[@HeitorAlmeida-fp7md]

the king himself showed up randomly, love your videos.

[@thetibbiesshow]

Dude, you’re literally one of the best hoi4 players. Your patience is legendary. I love your videos!

[@lippi2171]

​@@thetibbiesshow Mr Burger is the HOI4 GOAT, he literally broke the system. This my first time watching your channel though, the challenge looks dope looking forward to it!!

[@abderrahman3200]

The nukes... This would make Douglas MacArthur proud. Great video man, loving the commentary and the editing.

[@arvojustice]

Turning the world red has never seemed so like the Christmas spirit!

[@PhilipposACosta]

Similar challenge: Form the Roman Empire and core everything except a small province in North France. Tag switch. Play Asterix and Obelix Challenge.

[@Zzigny]

great music taste, i must say also, underrated video, hard to find high-quality creators like you these days

[@WhoElseLikesPortal]

i want to earnestly thank you for showing and explaining each little thing that you do like research, decisions, gov ministers, unit design, construction, ect. these tiny choices are totally key to leveling up your gameplay. i have smth like 2500 hrs and ive learned so much from you

[@johnmichaels6128]

Had a long day at work, came home and found this video. You are the most calming and relaxing hoi4 player I've found, and you fixed my mood after a rough day. Hope you had a wonderful Christmas too :)

[@commandercorl1544]

17:48 Fun fact: This is historically accurate! In 1941, Yugoslavia joined the Axis, but due to public opposition, the king was overthrown, however Yugoslavia was promptly invaded from all sides. Some people blame Yugoslavia's coup as the reason for German losses in the eastern front, but in reality, there's little to no chance they could've won the war, regardless of what happened. Afterwards, the Yugoslav resistance became one of the most effective resistance groups in Europe, if not _the most,_ and all of this with little support from the allies. The Yugoslav partisans were mostly Communists, with Socialists mixed in for some spice, which turned the Western allies away from them initially, so they instead favored France and Poland. Yugoslavia got minimal support from the Soviets, but even if the Soviets hadn't helped, the Yugoslavs would've still liberated their nation, it might've just taken an extra week or two.

[@Философ]

There were also Chetniks

[@Философ]

And I'd also argue that the belorussian partisans within USSR were the largest and most effective resistance group of the war. And if we combine them with the other groups of soviet partisans (mainly Russian, also Ukrainian) the combined resistance force of the whole USSR would definitely take the 1st place on that.

[@andriusgimbutas3723]

​@@Философ USSR partisans weren't really a resistance group, they were integrated part of soviet armed forces, followed the central command and retreated along when the frontier moved. Unlike resistance groups in Yugoslavia, Poland, Greece and Albania who were on their own

[@LeroxYT]

Well it wasnt really the Public opinion, rather a coup staged from the allies and it delayed the soviet invasion for one and a half month, which is ALOT if you look at the speed the germans were advancing,the soviets wouldnt have capitulated because of that ofc, but they wouldve lost way more land, and probably some major citys and more of their populated and infrastructured area. With one and half month more, that is around 20% more time for the germans in the battle of moscow, look at the map at Wikipedia...that amount time more wouldve extremly strengthend the German positions and supply, especially at leningrad and sevastopol, isjum, Tula, and probably even moscow... I know ive written alot, way too much but if you know how close the germans were to the biggest populated citys in russia,the russians would not be able to rebuild their army like they did, in all terms, and Germany would have even more ressources and workers...more resitance ofc, but that doesnt outdo the gigantic gains Germany wouldve made in the FIRST year . With all these gains the invasion of the caucasus wouldve maybe even suceeded, and If, it wouldve been over for the soviets and many others, germany lacked fuel the entire war, with the caucasus that wouldnt have been a problem, and the allies cant bomb the caucasus, like they bombed Germany...

[@LeroxYT]

Shit i wrote wayy too much lol

[@Loeidde]

Thank you, Tibbie for this Christmas video! It's nice to see you spend time with your channel and your viewers that much. Thank you for everything, have a nice Christmas.

[@mujtaba215abbas]

Merry Christmas man!! Love from iraq ❤

[@thetibbiesshow]

Man, I love Iraq. You have a beautiful country. Merry Christmas bro, I hope you have a great day

[@meili4790]

Dude you are so wholesome! Merry Christmas 😊 Edit: omg the HUH cat 🤣 Oh and dear lord how much manpower did they lose from their airforce alone 😆

[@thetibbiesshow]

They lost so much and yet, they still had enough to keep an airforce the whole game. It was wild

[@comradesocalistfromaustralia]

Worst christmas I've ever had yknow, lost the only girl thats ever loved me due to the classic "you did nothing, I just lost interest" my final activity for the day?.. watchin dis :> so thank uuuuu

[@thetibbiesshow]

Man, I hope your new year is shaping up better so far

[@Lleesstreett]

when you said at the end that the video was an hour long i stood up straight in my chair and couldnt believe i zoned out watching this for an hour

[@danielcrofts5181]

Loved the relaxing vibe to this video, also loved the Jazz music!

[@romulusnuma116]

Thanks for all the great videos this year and this month it was a lot of fun seeing what you'd do even simpler videos like this where you just play the base game

[@thetibbiesshow]

It’s been fun! I’m glad so many people enjoyed the content I made, because I had a ton of fun making it!

[@FabioGCR]

Love your content, bro. Very chill and helpful, i always learning something new. Keep up!

[@bungbung8525]

I really agree about tanks, especially in the new system, I feel like they are so damn expensive and I never manage to push out enough to make more than a couple divisions and I feel like that’s never enough

[@stank8460]

Support Light tank recon companys, only use 23 tanks per division and give a massive amount of stats.

[@thedarkurge420]

“it is no more than the germans walking into their own backyard” i know bro is punching air in the afterlife rn

[@hydrainsight5612]

dude an actual 1 hour hoi4 video I watched fully and also enjoyed

[@thetibbiesshow]

Man, I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it!

[@oversizedspeedbump9375]

this is such a vibe. glad i found ur channel

[@soupisgoodfood923]

Such a pleasant intro x

[@dylanmcdowell3894]

That was amazing lol. Unfortunately, the world you've inherited is almost certainly experiencing a devastating nuclear winter, with Romania essentially being one big salt flat, but... y'know, you won.

[@dreuvasdevil9395]

Great choice of music

[@danielboone8256]

You should try this again with all of axis (including Spain) max buffed. Maybe even use toolpack or set the focus trees at the start to get Portugal, Sweden, and Turkey to join the axis.

[@sara-hc7wb]

Been a joy to watch your videos this month! You definitely deserve a nice holiday break, but looking forward to what comes next!

[@artseosamhogriobhta]

How did you get Denmark so quickly? I didn't even notice when.

[@WarThunderEnjoyer4]

You made it man great job on all the vids this month!!

[@parmesancheez6087]

love the christmas music while simultaneously recreating fallout

[@HeitorAlmeida-fp7md]

idk how you make a gameplay look so calm lol anyways, liked it

[@jessicalindo7977]

Amazing! Except I noticed you had civ admin? Which is great for Czechia, absolutely amazing for that compliance gain. Everywhere else, Paradox have made it MUCH more painful on equipment and manpower in I think BBA or the latest DLC, either way the compliance is simply not worth it anymore, something like martial law is much more viable for keeping yourself from massive losses, except if you go for 90%+ hardness divisions

[@The_Hussar]

Nice and enjoyable video! I would try this with Expert AI and some other mods. Cheers!

[@notjx113]

You were absolutely annihilating those navies my daisies...

[@tonedeaftachankagaming457]

that feeling of pain watching the navy experience tick up...

[@Nayel9950]

nice video for christmas

[@meuolhaotorres8057]

merry Christmas tibbie ❤

[@thetibbiesshow]

Merry Christmas to you as well!

[@sld1776]

The best two German surface admirals are the two level-4 Old Guard ones because they have the Bold trait. The Craven one is useful if you build a mining fleet. You want him to run away from fights.

[@thetibbiesshow]

yeah but, old guard. gross.

[@aquaze7067]

Honestly recommend building civilian factories till 1938. It will have a snowball effect trust.

[@thetibbiesshow]

I gotta disagree there

[@h2ss201]

Your Japan navy video was rly good I would love to see you play navy Italy if possible

[@Meme_Dealr]

add torpedo's to your destroyer and more light attack for your cruisers, the way I see it cruisers should be the main counter to destroyers.

[@amirnefzi337]

The video is basically a what if maccarthur was a soviet

[@cyrusthagreat6649]

Aww man I wish you had waited to declare war on the Soviets as Germany and then started playing the USSR. Would've been such a banger challenge. Good vid anyway though

[@tristansky2031]

Bro called Hermann geörring „the close air support guy“

[@user-zo1uj2lo8k]

Luxembourg has a supply hub solves the issue of low supply

[@pibal]

great stuff

[@hughburda4490]

There should be a mod where you can record your through as a country and save it as the ai so that the future games use the method you played as.

[@izul4223]

the opposite would also be a fun watch fully build up the soviets until barb and then switch over to ai germany and see if you can break it

[@maxxgrumpy]

liked! and plz what is map mod?

[@thetibbiesshow]

FPS map mod

[@ivanthegod49]

50:00 was a naval blunder. you didnt cancel the order so the navy engaged the germans, not the other way around

[@thetibbiesshow]

Shhhh don't point that out ahahaha

[@FLUX.2226]

>AI Germany pointing at the player-made fighter design >"This is brilliant. But I like this!" >Points at whatever abomination it is using instead and losing the air war with

[@thetibbiesshow]

I wish i tagged switched to Germany just to see what they were throwing at me, because it was not working

[@Gabeslicor]

Never thought I'd Lithuanian Germany...

[@danielcrofts5181]

What is the name of the jazz song at 17:16 ?

[@chrisgaming9567]

The good ending

[@melonlord2801]

Common Tibbies W

[@117pyromaniac]

Bro started the fallout universe in Europe

[@evannpalma2404]

Pov:most sane hoi4 player

[@flyersniper7249]

39:07 "Huh" moment.

[@stephenklec318]

i hope ur christmas was good too

[@thetibbiesshow]

It was pretty good! Thank you!

[@T_I_D_S_P]

A+

[@felixbeth6340]

To handle tanks i always put support anti tank in my infantry divisions amd if i can afford it then one tank destroyer and one spaa imstead of the support aa and support at it also has the added benefit that it adds a bit of armour

[@felixbeth6340]

Also when u get goebbles with the pp from rhineland then u can get up to war economy in early 1936 wich is way better for boosting ur early snowball

[@thetibbiesshow]

Great tips! thank you@@felixbeth6340

[@leserb9228]

"I nuked Belgrade quite a few times" as a Serb living in Belgrade, thank you.

[@nyarlathotep616]

Any estimate on how many nukes you used?

[@thetibbiesshow]

At least 1, that’s for sure (probably around 50 though)

[@Rolf-son-of-an-electrician]

playing chess against yourself

[@wrtekcz538]

now do your best ussr game and switch to germany right before barbarossa, you HAVE to declare war

[@thetibbiesshow]

Maaaaaaan, that sounds painful but very fun. I’ll add it to the list.

[@tomaszrostek6498]

GG

[@Orcram]

motorized artillery instead of self proppeld early game smart

[@thetibbiesshow]

I have never in my 4k hours of hoi4 made even a single unit of spa. I’ve heard they’re good, but it’s just something I’ve never done

[@mariosgaroufalis4639]

​@@thetibbiesshowperhaps something to try for a different video where you use tank divisions with different variants

[@Simon_the_penguin]

Just found the channel me it’s amazing

[@frederickrhodes2551]

How do people do things like this! I can’t even beat poland as Germany!

[@thetibbiesshow]

Fast tanks with good armor and soft attack. Also, micro, and don’t push your supplies. Have some infantry to hold, and tanks to push. Once your tanks are wrecking the front lines, use your infantry to field marshal attack. You don’t need a lot of troops, you just need to be quick to take the ports in Poland so the Allies can’t reenforce, and you need to wipe the Netherlands and then Belgium fast before the French can react. If the French can plug the front lines in the Benelux, it’ll be a massive slog, so you really really gotta be fast.

[@tylerbrass4002]

I’m really sorry to be this guy, but it is pronounced “Mee-Faux” bills, MeFo, rather than “Meph-mo” bills. No second “m” sound. Again, I mean no offense, I just didn’t see anyone mention it in the comments, and I wanted to let you know. Most of your pronunciation is great, even with the variety of place names, in languages that are probably not super familiar. Kudos on you bro, I don’t think many people would care.

[@tylerbrass4002]

31:00 I also thought it was funny when you called Zhukov “Gregory”. 😂 Great video for real, I found it very entertaining.

[@thetibbiesshow]

Nah, I know my pronunciation is very wrong most of the time, BUT I really appreciate when people help out with it such as how you did.

[@milkes-zw1eh]

Hey you should build max infra in rhineland moseland it's just better.

[@thetibbiesshow]

Actually not a bad idea

[@ConeyManMan]

You should build up Germany and thn try to beat it as the Allies

[@thetibbiesshow]

Maybe as the UK because i hate playing as the USA

[@_Anti_dote_]

did you lose 83k on purpose so it would be easier for you to play ussr

[@Gattroxz750]

Small problem, for me it’s august 💀

[@sootcoot8712]

Isnt subs more effective in 15 wolfpack squads? Instead of your 32

[@thetibbiesshow]

No idea tbh. I heard years ago that 32-36 subs was best, but honestly, I don’t know either way. I’ll have to try it out and see

[@sootcoot8712]

@@thetibbiesshow Good luck on that!

[@carlosmoreno7496]

I was getting sader and sader when I saw the A.I doing almost the same thing that I usually do 😐

[@thetibbiesshow]

Nah, just learn from your mistakes. This is a complex game with tons to learn, but ALSO just because i think a particular way of doing things is correct doesn't mean it is. Everyone has different play styles, and when it comes to single player, as long as you're having fun, then you're playing correctly.

[@Greg-jq1co]

What's the mod.

[@XFizzlepop-Berrytwist]

I’m not sure if you will see this, but I’d like to see you play the MLP mod. Equestria at War.

[@mylifewasalwaysalie]

bro the one thing that made me dislike this was that you ddint annex lithuania, sorry, but i just get really peevish when people dont try to take as much land as they can (through the focus tree or decisions)

[@thetibbiesshow]

ahahhaha. I was going to, but idk, I just felt like they should live.

[@dawarpotato]

i have 13 different mental diseases

[@Gaben402]

Cool story bro

[@commandercorl1544]

he's...he's just like me, fr!

[@glack1390]

1:02:09 NATO in 1999

[@thetibbiesshow]

💀

[@VolumeCheese]

another tiddes show?? how did i almost miss it

[@lemonke4209]

First comment of 2024

[@kylethickium2710]

if you want this to be impressive do this again but don't use nukes

[@thetibbiesshow]

Itd be one long slog for sure

[@Floyd-wp7bn]

bro i look at your gameplay and i suddenly think im pro in comparison to you thanks

[@Floyd-wp7bn]

try to play MP sometimes mb you understand the real game not the singleplayer tutorial u playing over and over think about it

[@Floyd-wp7bn]

making soyjak thumbnails dont make you pro u know

[@Floyd-wp7bn]

well at least you tried

[@thetibbiesshow]

Nah.

[@FuzzyLoad]

the constant fake laughing is really obnoxious ngl... very fruity and pretentious

[@thetibbiesshow]

lmao, thats my real laugh.