So I Played "TALL" In Hearts Of Iron IV (It's Broken)

Today we are checking out if like other Paradox interactive games you can play TALL in Hearts Of Iron IV... Unlike Crusader kings and Europa Universalis this will take some... interesting ways around.
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So I Played "TALL" In Hearts Of Iron IV (It's Broken)
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[@Noshott794]

The Japanese fleet being teleported INTO the Black Sea yet not being able to get OUT is a fine example of Hoi4 Logic 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheArklyte]

They should be thankful it wasn't in Caspian Sea😂

[@bigpoppa1234]

@@TheArklyte Behold, the flagship of the Lake Ladoga fleet, the Yamato!

[@RovingTroll]

I'm assuming turkey let them in, but refuses to let them out because of their whole black sea thing

[@TheArklyte]

@@RovingTroll I doubt that game tracks position of trophy fleet before peace conference. Far more likely the game just chose "main" soviet base at random and teleported fleet there. And ISP was unlucky with a dice roll.

[@RovingTroll]

@@TheArklyte sure fuck Mechanics my headcannon works out

[@zedgy3559]

Day 227 demanding ISP to form Mongolian empire with generic focus tree and minimal mods

[@waffles_georg]

I admire the commitment, good work timmy. May the rat give you strength

[@Fofenho]

the rat empire....

[@zedgy3559]

@@waffles_georg this comment genuinely made me laugh

[@EEEEEEEE]

E

[@ryanrg1545]

This dude wants to see ISP lose his (probably already inexistence) sanity

[@Snqwy]

Totally missed opportunity to play tall as either Chile or Norway

[@brendanrisney2449]

And Chile would even have been soon, if not next, in focus to z

[@natem1579]

Sweden is probably the best choice with all the focuses that make you into an arms dealer

[@thetobernator4548]

Nepal, nepal

[@coolguy69420L]

Chooses widest country Builds tall

[@WALTUH...PUTYACOCKAWAYWALTUH]

Instead of building wide or tall, chad ISP builds CUBE

[@blood7927]

I realize how much time I could spend being productive instead of watching someone else watching a map. Doesn’t mean I’m going to, I’m just saying I realize it.

[@krzychupl4044]

true better to do this yourself

[@OPOS-el7tj]

I believe in you. You can do better.

[@danielleayala2171]

Hey! Self-awareness is a good trait to have! I also realize it too but...eh...lol

[@Tom-oj7si]

Do it like me, watch this in 1.5 speed and then go back to work (labour or physical/mental) after it's finished

[@lacrimosa7073]

Daily petition for ISP to do Artillery Only 3

[@EEEEEEEE]

E

[@jopiesaus33]

Yes

[@Tea_N_Crumpets]

suggestion: if youre gonna do it daily, structure the comments like "Day [blank] of asking isp to do artillery only 3". itll draw more attention that way over time uwu

[@lacrimosa7073]

@@Tea_N_Crumpets I'm gonna lose count if I try that

[@far2noble386]

@@lacrimosa7073”DO IT DAD!”

[@daro4066]

You can actually play tall in HOI but only as specific countries that balkanize and then reannex themselfs through their focus tree like Yugoslavia and Ethiopia

[@Krillstoph]

1:19 ~sovet onion~ 😇😇😇

[@eyeblech2001]

~germ reik~ 😈😈😈

[@robertmihalovits8657]

Did this include COMECON, the way to make insane factory numbers from puppets?

[@iSorrowproductions]

Yes!

[@anti-mate407]

@@iSorrowproductions why was this reply so zesty

[@anti-mate407]

@@iSorrowproductions iZestyproductions

[@soldier8215]

​@@iSorrowproductions zesty ahh reply 💀💀💀

[@soldier8215]

​@@iSorrowproductions zesty ahh reply 💀💀💀

[@georgeholmes9445]

Give us the rat

[@667Agent]

not taking any land made me think of an interesting way to play with the new peace system; Don't take or puppet anything. You can only liberate cores to their owners or change their governments, and any other decision that does not transfer ownership.

[@volodyadykun6490]

Oh, also I heard "decentralizated" Yugoslavia (a lot of puppets) is also "tall", many factories

[@linkly9272]

Turns out I've been "playing HOI IV tall" this entire time and didn't even realize it. I just like civ greeding. Like, a lot.

[@Tri-angled]

If paradox didn’t want me to civ greed why does it feel so damn good?

[@CMDRJakob]

Same, man, same.

[@xanthespace5141]

Playing small countries and helping out is pretty fun sometimes, isn't it. Nobody plays democratic Portugal or Spain, for example, but I liked it personally, I gotta say

[@steevee4610]

When I was still pretty new to HOI4 and found trying to play the bigger nations with several fronts, navy etc a bit too overwhelming I played (no DLC) fash Portugal and managed to see the Axis to a total victory by killing 5m+ Americans just with Naval bombers. Made me realise what you can do if you commit to a path!

[@CMDRJakob]

Still new to Hearts of Iron IV, and yeah, don't like playing the giant nations or ones that have a lot to do, just like looking at fun situations, like Axis-Turkey.

[@TheArklyte]

Tbh the game kind of has "tall build" for smaller nations that relies on maxing out special forces and pushing your faction tech as even as a small nation you're given a fair ceiling in terms of number of special forces battalions(sometimes higher then total amount of equipment and manpower then you can afford) and you have several research slots that can contribute a lot if you know how to juggle them, use licensed research, focus bonuses and joint faction research. For Allies that means a lot if all minors would know how to do that. And would be double so for China if all warlords concentrated on pumping out mountaineers and pushing joint artillery research😅

[@allisongretsinger322]

Netherlands can also host an impressive number of factories once it's fully juiced

[@TheArklyte]

@@allisongretsinger322 I've meant primarily countries like New Zealand, who has the second highest number of research slots in the game and who can juggle whole 3 priority research if needed, but who can't support normal army as manpower and industry are barely enough to replace marine losses.

[@zachdrago8130]

I can’t believe isp forgot March modness

[@ryanrg1545]

6:12 Isp didnt notice that germany had an wargoal *on lithuania* , which went aways when he annexed it Also germany got that wargoal because lithuania probably refused to give memel.

[@palmarium]

ISP's prepping for a 47 barb

[@Preussensprinz]

Bro hitting us with the leet joke in 2024

[@SynphulHero]

17:06 "corporate needs you to spot the difference in these two pictures" second picture: modern USA map

[@noecintrat3921]

Thanks I needed an isp upload rn ❤

[@ryrep2992]

He will do anything to not play stellaris lol

[@SupremeRTS]

Me too at this point. They keep making the game worse

[@manoflead643]

I mean. Fair.

[@DreZzBE]

Another ISP video 😮 love it 😊

[@potatokingdom9194]

Welp it that time of year again where people start asking for Artillery only!

[@MediterraneanMediaYT]

This was a good video!

[@jonnoMoto]

i do something similar with monarchist britain when i want a chill game. churn out strat bombers, heavy fighters and build a massive fleet. Have to max out infra and syn fuel in britain. blockade the world and let bomber harris loose.

[@robergaming81]

I demand that iSP play total war again within the next month

[@SmallBoulderx]

Those air quotes are doing some heavy lifting.

[@akivaabraham7739]

You missed it. Going tall as the soviet union is actually a thing, where you can get every territory west of the urals up to 25 building slots, by getting in a war, and moving your industry to the urals over and over again.

[@Cepillin2099]

Bro did a One State playthrough in vanilla hoi4

[@jimmyclyde]

Deep into this video and not a SINGLE MENTION of having 69 dockyards yet. Smh

[@Shinbu150]

is the 1337 in the thumbnail a reference to all the EU5 hype?

[@engreem9281]

It's probs leetspeak

[@poklianon8453]

I've actually gone tall as Brasil before the dlc, and it took soo long that by the time I became competitive, all the fronts looked like 20-30 divs stacked per tile lol

[@mooseinthefrontyard]

iSP puts his shoes on before his socks

[@Strongest_under_heaven]

ISP making a whole video about something I solve in 1936 every game using the console lol

[@malachishock9343]

Tall would be puppeting the world as Luxembourg one at a time

[@grantforester1864]

I always love using instant construction, building up every nation in the world to max factories and infrastructure, and seeing what happens

[@Jo-Heike]

"Tall" those quotation marks are working overtime. The USSR is the definition of a wide country. If you want tall a Luxembourg that doesn't expand is the most tall, but other countries like Switzerland and Denmark. Denmark builds so much on those small islands.

[@VarenvelDarakus]

problem is most hoi4 nations cant be tall as you cant expand , you cant build more factories then limit and you cant expand that limit aside from exeptions and few nations very few countries have focus trees who could be considered building tall , most of them are not that fun and very time consuming ,

[@ereynolds72]

He literally explained this all at the start

[@RemiDobbs]

PRODUCTIVE FORCES PRODUCTIVE FORCES

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Incredible Vibe The Humble Man’s Game Make The Number’s go Up

[@AmethystTheFoxx]

Leet thumbnail ISP, nice redditing, well done sir.

[@mrbirch8791]

12:53 unless poland goes ahead and destroys us. Meanwhile poland doing the "Dismantle the soviet empire" focus

[@julienvalley28]

If you put supply hubs/ports in states which produce resources but don’t already have supply, you can increase your supply output by 20%

[@mnep5]

gem thumbnail

[@martonostorics3704]

Navy only Tannu Tuva when

[@judgementdaygaming8406]

4:37 accurate statement to this day technically

[@aleksandersaame9417]

Did you do region-wide industrial integration in every state? If not, you have to go back and build even taller.

[@thevillager8339]

What may it take to make a man play some Bhutan world conquest.Honestly?

[@jjquinn295]

Doesn't everyone end up with a fully filled country everytime they play the US.

[@MadeinHell2]

One recommendation I have to making the focus2Z challenge more "interesting" is that you play on elite difficulty. Because you know we like to see you suffer

[@sarahlynn7807]

That's a beauty!

[@Tekisasubakani]

That's a right purdy Soviet Bluenion ya got there.

[@rahmkota9864]

Well its true, there is such a thing as Kursk magnetic anomaly, which is just endless tons of iron deposits which bend magnetic waves like nothing else. so its not so crazy, but i did think it was broken until i saw where that was.

[@krystina662]

so its basically how USSR was supposed to work irl now that i think about it

[@pikapuffin368]

My man performed a Scientific Victory in HoI4. Masterful.

[@Diam0nD_007]

next time play prison architect in hoi4 pls

[@leleloy360]

how

[@Diam0nD_007]

@@leleloy360idk

[@The-Enemy-Medic]

Lenin and Marx seeing this video: FINALLY! Someone got what it means to seize the means of production!

[@calebhendricks1375]

I dont think you can play tall if you immediately go for the nation that is larger than asia and europe combined

[@nohornygoodlife1357]

WHERE IS RAT?

[@onnilindstrom7877]

Check the mirror

[@mooseinthefrontyard]

Ooooooh

[@StationaryGamingReal]

Only real OGs remember the table mod.

[@luisna9021]

I am an actual OG, as far as the n-word Albania Mod. The hell was the Table Mod?

[@hadihoumani5149]

Petition for ISP to play Suzerain

[@MowThatLawn]

Now build level 10 forts on every tile on the map

[@bencarrier2345]

May I suggest adding roads to your resource tiles first so you get an export boost that helps with your construction efforts :)

[@niofalpha]

This feels like a Drew Durnil video

[@itsnotben7874]

Spectacular

[@davidbascom5781]

A man on a mission to do the longest world conquest ever

[@seattlepunkgaming3825]

11:58 looks like iSorrow blue himself.

[@excusee7839]

That's vic 3 minor nation gameplay right there

[@Ominous_Walrus]

The amount of factories in the thumbnail is literraly the eu5 start date

[@Hadar1991]

To be honest it is quite normal to me, while playing a major, that I end up with up 2k factories by the end of the war. Basically you can win every war, by digging, not moving for like 5 years, and wait for the enemy to wear of their manpower on your entrenched troops. Also his start as Soviet Union is not optimal. He should start with converting mils to civs and then building infrastructure up to the moment he goes to war economy.

[@filifilo8686]

Day 3352 waiting for isp to play jacobite kingdom of America in kaiserredux

[@rainbowappleslice]

The Nordic cooperation alliance is giving me PTSD from my own Argentina achievement run where I had to fight that same faction but with Denmark, France, USA, Germany, Brazil, Japan and a mostly reunited China. That game had a 13 year war in it ending in 1960

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Bruh

[@dlp-2k]

ISP forgot to build in the Chuck E. Cheese peninsula

[@Gastogh]

You've seen Wide Putin. Now get ready for Tall Stalin

[@quanganh3251]

Alex the Rambler can accomplish all this in 1936 just by typing 2 letters.

[@micuu1]

New dimension of greedy civ boi

[@Bisnico10]

Dude what is your division template? I'm wondering how you always win since i always loose against the AI

[@Hoaxe72]

If you did the COMECON focus at the end of the five year plan, you would of had a lot more factories by the end from all your puppets

[@50mt]

I sure wonder what the post-game statistics screen looked like after this.

[@DarkSnake49542]

You forgot to build lv10 port everywhere (in sovietU first then in all your allies) to make sure your ships have the choice to go wherever they want to😂 (to repair or to be bombed while repairing)

[@quetzalcoatl2946]

Building tall in the widest nation in the game 🤔🤔🤔

[@ShadowOfThePit]

Did you ever do the focus "Transformation of Nature" for an extra building slot everywhere tho?

[@OpenEpicGaming]

You forgot to make every state a level 10 fort, a max level coastal fort, max level rail and a supply hub

[@ThePurplePeppy]

How about playing tall in Kaiserreich? There is endless civil wars/minor conflicts to send volunteers and you can sell weapons to so many people! Scandinavia seems like a great choice for this, they cant join any factions if you go Scandinavia anyways (it creates a "nordic council" faction that no one can join besides the nations you will peacefully annex).

[@Julien_Reinhardt]

Day one of asking ISP to play Darkest Hour

[@JimothiesMemeShack]

I see isp has resorted to playing millinium dawn

[@bigpoppa1234]

so many weird wars in this game it looks like a kaiserreiech game.

[@Arhamjowhar11]

Build supply hubs in every tile

[@MrFaorry]

"Today I shall play tall in Hearts of Iron 4" *Chooses widest nation in the game

[@allisongretsinger322]

the AI actually did the Dragon Swallowed the Sun achievement. incredible.

[@YoutubeChannel-rg2sb]

It was Bo, the frenchman

[@pieceofschmidtgamer]

Where's the Rat, ISP? THE RAT WILL BE MINE!!!

[@NavyVet9702]

I saw Pennsylvania ended up part of the Soviet Union. I am now imagining a statue of Stalin standing in the middle of the fountain at Point State Park in Pittsburgh.

[@VivBrodock]

I believe tall in HoI4 is called being a swedish arms dealer

[@chengzhou8711]

“ we are going to be playing tall” “Soviet Union”

[@ryansearle6157]

Another nation that would be good to go tall as would be any of the Baltic nations. Since they all have ridiculously overpowered industry trees that give tons of factories, you could rush all of your industry focuses, wait for them to do theirs, and unite the Baltics thus gaining a ridiculous amount of factories for how small the baltics are

[@ImSpookd]

imagine pressing the "emergency factory convertion" button after doing this

[@romanmorozov6974]

“Playing small countries… like Canada” My guy called Canada small xD

[@xanthespace5141]

You'd have a pretty high number with the TWR GDP mod

[@chonkerturtle8127]

You british a bread in the video