Romania in BfB is still Overpowered

Romania used to be a very powerful country before the Battle for the Bosphorus DLC, but now all the countries around it have powerful focus trees. Is Romania still the regional power to fear? Tune in to find out.
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The challenge is to play as Romania and take over a lot of stuff around us.
Rules:
- Play as the Romania
- take over the countries with new focus trees
- conquer stuff
- historical
- Ironman
What did I do wrong, what did I do right? What should my next challenge be? Let me know in the comments.
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[@lexthemystic3541]

"And maybe crush the Soviet Union." The words all Romanians want to hear.

[@JesusChrist-nd8td]

Wait what?

[@bartholomeusnebuchadnezzar2463]

im romanian and i can say that this is a bad joke

[@acmusic9974]

@@bartholomeusnebuchadnezzar2463 I actually like it!😅😂😂

[@btm1]

@@bartholomeusnebuchadnezzar2463 I'm romanian too and how is that a bad joke? The communists destroyed our country idiot(the USSR stoled Basarabia, forced russification , gave us a communist dictatorship, etc.).

[@makavelisoft]

@@bartholomeusnebuchadnezzar2463 its the best joke bozo

[@weehoo2]

“Romania is a relaxing game as long as you don’t piss off the Soviet Union” 2 sec later “Join anti Comintern pact? Sure”

[@onefastsled]

Ehh, so long as you don’t join the Anti-Soviet Pact, the Comintern pact does squat

[@zartoon7534]

Paradox:We released focus trees for Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey! Taureor: Romania

[@FatheredPuma81]

I'm not sure Greeks nor Turkish people would appreciate you combining their countries together as Greece Turkey.

[@czech_ring]

@Henry Wilson not turkey though

[@emperor_ra]

@@FatheredPuma81 lmao let's just unite them for fun it'll all go well ha~

[@FatheredPuma81]

@@emperor_ra Greecey Turkey Soviets say yummy.

[@ptsm]

Bromania!

[@svenkaasik9868]

Do Long Chile challenge Rules: Play as chile and annex all coastal states in americas or just west side if you really want to. You are not allowed to ever own a inland state I have requested this at leats 10 vids prob mire, pls do it or put it in the list you have to choose challenges

[@professorme2148]

I'm assuming you've seen it but there is a Half As Interesting video on it you might want to check out.

[@cruzdesangre2850]

I've been asking him the same for years, I don't think he's ever doing to do it

[@svenkaasik9868]

@@thegreatestdane8978 i can still ask and he can do as he did with Iceland join japan and make a small puppet in China

[@svenkaasik9868]

@@cruzdesangre2850 when did u stop asking? If enough ppl ask the same thing he will do it

[@svenkaasik9868]

@@professorme2148 acually no

[@GRM_lol]

Finally someone played romania in battle for the bosphorus!

[@ryanchungus8972]

... have you been anticipating this?

[@GRM_lol]

@Robert no

[@royale7620]

@Robert nice fucking stereotypical attitude you got there

[@awildfilingcabinet6239]

Because the first thing most people think when hearing about a new DLC is “I’ll play a country that wasn’t modified at all!” amirite?

[@damienjones1487]

@Robert yea

[@JJLiu-xc3kg]

Broke: Battle of the Bosporous Woke: Battle of the Order 66

[@nikitamorozov4850]

BfB stands for “Beautiful, fucking beautiful”

[@damienjones1487]

brutal floating behemoth ;(

[@itsmesam1450]

"Why is the resistance so high up" *has civilian oversight as default*

[@tymoteuszfedio3506]

And dont have military police in garnizons

[@dmitryanderson2242]

Nah, it really was the lack of manpower and equipment. I usually use civilian oversight (bc of compliance), and resistance doesn't go above 30-something if you supply your garrisons properly

[@itsmesam1450]

@@dmitryanderson2242 I like to use secret police, that way resistance won't go over 20% (even while at war) as long as you prioritise equipment and you won't lose as much manpower as he did either.

[@royale7620]

@@itsmesam1450 or use spies to opress resistance

[@a.d.478]

Civilian oversight is actually best on the long run bc you can get 90% of Compliance (while at war) Its just important that you have enough Manpower and Equipment and use a pure cav template for Garrison

[@mrbeardmTV]

Starting the year with Romania ey? As a Romanian, I grant you the blessing of Dracula to keep you safe this year.

[@danc7934]

As a moldavian, I really love Romania, and also grant him this blessing

[@chitzz]

@@danc7934 As an Argentinian i really respect both Romania and Moldavia :)

[@TheWolf-ie6nq]

As a Romanian i respect everyone who comentet here, and i grant him a Dracula's blessing too!

[@fabiandanesti1497]

@@danc7934 As a Moldavian in Romania , we have the same identity language and history and blood everything and Moldovas polls were 44% for unification

[@danc7934]

@@fabiandanesti1497 ok?

[@bob6769]

Additional fun fact 31:35: The romanian language is so similar to the italian one that a romanian can understand an intalian with out a problem

[@corn4618]

Some words at least can be understood, but as a Romanain Myself i Kind of Agree

[@wonderfalg]

No surprise for Romania means maniacs of Rome. 🤪

[@EumosVideos]

French too

[@manudabija7279]

@@EumosVideos For being a romanian born in France I can tell you Romanian is much closer to Italian than French

[@thatromanfella8377]

@@wonderfalg huh... german?

[@jonasptacek3984]

He is back!!

[@thomasodwyer5365]

I second the long Chile idea I saw in an earlier comment

[@svenkaasik9868]

I like you its good that you also comment so he sees its a wanted Idea but also that you are honest and say you saw the comment

[@iulianhodorog9979]

So even in the game Romania loses Bessarabia :(

[@tannofficial9757]

Yeah :(

[@janekk8833]

Molotov-Ribbentrop: gives soviets claims on Romania Taureor: not my problem 😂

[@victorfeledy8947]

No one: Absolutely no one: Taureor: SUFFICIENT

[@thomasbishop3494]

I had one of the dumbest HOI4 games with Romania last week... I did Balkans Dominance, took Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, and Turkey as puppets. Missed the mark on Czechoslovakia because I was busy doing focuses for industry and had no idea how the claim stuff worked with Yugoslavia and it all went to Italy. Figured to myself no big deal because I'm doing Flexible Foreign policy and I can join the Axis to go against the USSR. What I DIDN'T realize is that the game had made a faction for myself and my puppets. The Balkan Entente. Didn't even notice, UNTIL the USSR comes asking for Bessarabia and I refuse, thinking no big deal I've got big daddy Third Reich to the north to help me against the COMINTERN. And then it happened. I get a pop-up. The United States wants to join my faction. Uh.... WHAT? In the span of 5 seconds I check my country tab, notice that I'm a faction leader for The Balkan Entente. I clicked that Accept button so hard I broke my finger. I got the US on my side in a war against the USSR in 1941. However I'm also at war with Japan now, which is fine because they're on the other side of the world... until the USSR falls because the US brought a million men to the fight and are helping me push. I'm literally in a race with Germany to reach Moscow. Then USSR goes down. I start taking territory, taking the heavily industrialized areas like I always do. I focused on provinces around the Black Sea and the Caucasus for oil and when I end the peace conference, the US, instead of changing the USSR government, annexes the rest instead. Oooook. Guess we're now moving all our stuff to go help China against Japan... except China has already kicked Japan's ass off the continent and is giving me military access. Cool, because with all the captured Soviet industry I can build up a massive airforce of torpedo bombers, heavy fighters and strategic bombers to just bomb the shit out of Japan. Fast forward to 1945. I have nuclear tech and three bombs. I bring Japan's navy down to allow for the nuclear attack decision. And that's how Romania conquered the USSR and nuclear bombed Japan in 1945, while being in a faction with the USA.

[@DUCK-yd9zu]

0 dislikes. Everything is as it should be.

[@Shwifty69]

25 people: I'm bota ruin this mans whole career

[@fracture9877]

@@Shwifty69 10 more people: you son of a bitch I’m in

[@SvenDzahov]

It’s at 69 now... nice

[@Shwifty69]

@@fracture9877 that's a good joke

[@albrechkt8004]

Do not ever mention the dislikes if they're at 0, if someone sees your comment they will dislike out of assholery

[@kerotomas1]

I noticed that Paradox nerfed the first talent on Superior Firepower which added 20% soft attack to all frontline divisions now its only 10% which makes this tree questionable.

[@onion599]

It's still meta just less so and makes the other docs good in some situations

[@Aecrim1]

whetever you do, Romania's focus tree and decent start is what it makes it powerful

[@jacobrog1622]

ive watched all of your challenges and love your videos. Dont stop making these please

[@californiaranger6232]

Taureror as turkey restore the ottoman empire with the new focus tree

[@btmwastaken]

That's what i need, a chill Taureor video

[@Orthodox_Indian]

The gameplay: awesome The map: chaos to the max

[@zachrat9083]

You should use the non reflective water mod. Makes it look so much better and runs twice as fast. It would make your video quality go up dramatically. It’s also an Ironman compatible mod.

[@alex0filip]

You know what I’d like to see? A world conquest campaign with a mediocre european country (e.g. Romania, Yugoslavia, Poland, etc.), but no manpower from conquered countries, no order 66. Just romanian/yugoslav/polish soldiers conquering the world (maybe with allies, but more realistic).

[@Cornan1980]

I've been achievement farming and had hit a wall with Death or Dishonor or Cake and I think this video showed me the trick I was missing to make it happen. Thanks!

[@adanifallito956]

Guess who's back Back again

[@valy9992]

Shady

[@frisbee8501]

Finally, missed your vids!

[@HerrXenon_]

KZbin didn't show this in my feed but I could somehow _feel_ you uploaded

[@Vogelkinder]

Romania is my total "Go-To" nation in HOI4. That and the Guangxi Clique. Shiny.

[@kahlo8764]

Great video. Love this content

[@lpvrooom6714]

Amazinggg. Happy new year

[@Immushfiqurrahman]

After So Many Years Legend Is Back!

[@TheJonnyjoh]

Regarding your comment about the romanian language: Romanian is actually the remnant of a vulgar latin dialect (so the language of roman peasants of the area) that got mixed a little bit with the early languages of slav settlers in the region. I think because of the high concentration of roman settlers in the dacian provinces and the very mountainous geography, they got kind of isolated from the other roman provinces in the time of the slavic migrations. That is also the reason why in crusader kings 3 a ruler of wallachian descent cannot unite the southern slavs, despite being part of their culture group or the slavs in general. That's why it is in the romance language family and not the slavic family. And in their language the romanians don't actually call themselves romanians, but romans.Fun-fact: For a time romania was ruled by a cadet branch of the house of Hohenzollern, the same House that ruled the german empire.

[@Quuri_]

Heck yes more of your videos!

[@jaismith7658]

small/tiny in romanian is just 'minuscul' - also love the vids taureor, I've used quite a few of your strategies to help myself as I (attempt) to get better at the game!

[@Paul-tj9fb]

It's also "micuț" or "mic" but "mic" is also a good meal.

[@trashcan1350]

Survive the germans: try playing as The netherlands with historical ai on and you can't relocate to east indies or survive in suriname and curacao in south america, you have to release them. ( you can also not get any supplies from the indies)

[@mejhl3192]

lets goo! our favourite slavic hoi4 youtuber, mountain general!

[@yieldtome6143]

Hiiiiiiiiiiii welcome back enjoyed the video

[@Lloyd1808]

Hi from Romania, love it when you play it.

[@ImSiggo]

Love the hoi4 videos:)

[@linkfromzelda1002]

Happy new year Taureor

[@danielbohan165]

Love your videos!

[@Mrpizzahere]

Suggestion - 3rd Haitian empire? Love the video and the anguish over Poland partition was truly felt...

[@kjuba3953]

Little tip: using cavalry for resistance supression is more effective, because it has lower 'equipment per supression' ratio. So basicly, you'd use lower amount of equipment for same supression.

[@JM-wx5nm]

"Were going to leave batman alone, don't want to provoke batman." Proceeds to invade batman.

[@kospandx]

34:35 Love the Futurama reference!

[@3rdfrog311]

Nice video!

[@uraztheconqueror]

Hello taureor i just want to say your voice is so calming and your english is very good usually its not like that especially in easter european countries. also your videos are awesome you entartain me so good luck on your future i guess and we want more contriboutions from your son

[@meili4790]

I'd love to see a run where you make use of the Grand Battleplan doctrine! Maybe defending against the Soviets as the Finns would be a good use of the doctrine?

[@mixertrixter9637]

very good video :D ! ! !

[@RedoStoneCraft]

Romania is my favourite BFB contestant...

[@adrianfranco9869]

reddit

[@dannyscott9167]

I fucking love a 1 hour video LETS GOOOOOOO

[@mistabones5262]

He has returned!!!

[@markdobbins8393]

10w with support artillery, rocket, and anti-air is actually an incredibly strong division template, and incredibly production efficient too. The advantage is that it has 4x the org as a 40w for the same width. The disadvantage is that their attacks will be more distributed, which means that on average less will get through the enemy's defense. In other words, the 40w hits slightly harder, but the 10w can take a lot more hits. The problem is that 10w have a higher org:hp ratio, which is bad. They stick in the fight longer but take the same amount of damage doing it, which means they burn through equipment and therefore xp faster. Plus, since you're using attack support equipment, there probably isn't room for maintenance or field hospitals, so you can't offset the effects of that damage. On a difficult front, the xp level of 10w divisions will plummet. The other problem with 10w is that you need more generals to support the same amount of firepower. Overall, I think I like 10w slightly more. You can do a 10w cavalry division with cavalry recon and it has tremendous firepower per width, with a low cost, and without using any fuel, which is fantastic in low supply areas. Plus 10 attack groups can spread out more if they need to, making them perfect in Africa, Russia, and China. On top of that a 24 stack of 10w tank/mech with support artillery is probably the strongest in the game if you focus their firepower on a narrow point, and assuming you can keep them supplied and the terrain is favorable.

[@zacharytaylor2423]

Can you cheese this and go down to 2 width? Obviously not for your whole army, but maybe a specialty force to break particularly important tiles.

[@markdobbins8393]

@@zacharytaylor2423 Sadly they thought of that. You get a stacking penalty if you have more units than 1/10th the combat width. So 10w avoids the stacking penalty. Depending on the situation it miiiight be advantageous to go down to 8w or maybe even 6w but the problem is that penalties are additive, not multiplicative, so the more penalties you already have the worse the cumulative affect of adding new penalties is. In the open plains, during the day, against unfortified enemies you might be able to get away with 6w, in normal conditions you might be able to get away with 8w, but with any significant penalties you need to be at least 10w or it kills your effectiveness. It's just not worth min/maxing like that, so imo 10w is the minimum.

[@zacharytaylor2423]

@@markdobbins8393 Good to know, thanks. I'll have to read up on the stacking penalty and figure it out myself, but my initial thought is that if it's based on the number of units rather than the unit size, perhaps there's some cheese involving mixed division sizes and a good reinforcement rate. (The idea being attack with the bigger ones first so they get targeted then fill it with your cheesy 2s.)

[@markdobbins8393]

@@zacharytaylor2423 true true, it is the number of units. The problem is that afaik they retarget every combat tick, so your numerous 2w will get hit way more often than your big division, which will get very expensive very quickly. Another option is to have a bunch of 2w meant to absorb damage, cheap infantry, and then a big 60w meant to dish out the damage, it's just too much micro for my taste. Best of luck though!

[@lordtacocat3138]

Bruh imma be honest, I saw the release of this video as 2021 and I thought that Taureor was in the future, but then I realized that I'm just an idiot

[@Shadow-mm3cg]

Trăiască România! 💪🇷🇴🇷🇴

[@r00tku]

I really appreciate the 4K resolution. Record more often!

[@shishisoulez3319]

oh 53 minutes of taureor, a blessing from the lord

[@samjadk2681]

Return of the King

[@annurissimo1082]

Release (and play as) Bosnia and conquer every country that starts with B

[@SvenDzahov]

Caveat: you can ONLY conquer B countries

[@jacksim1135]

He's Back the best in the biz

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Romania reforms the Roman Empire.

[@battlefrontgameplay1649]

Taureor: Goes down superior firepower I stead of mass assault Also Taureor: "Only infantry guns. Cancel the towed artillery"

[@TheTrooper1878]

I was just wondering when are you going to upload

[@BoraY5734]

i think you should post the longer versions i m new so i m trying to learn few tactis and runs but its a bit hard to follow like this

[@Nokki680]

I always hear "Hello I'm Taueror and welcome to me brighten your day once more"

[@kipchaktengri]

Battle for the bosphorus: Gives focus trees for Bulgaria, greece and turkey Taureor: *records bulgaria and greece* Turkey: Me? Taureor: . . . . Romania.

[@David-sc7zk]

You were getting a lot of resistance because you were garrisoning with an infantry template that doesn't have much suppression. Also 26:25 you can use ctrl+b to move faster by using up your organisation ( with this you essentially just force your troops to strat redeploy )

[@stassmith8200]

Damn last time I was this early Romania still owned Moldova.

[@VenoTheLegend]

Ma soul... It hurts

[@cifs7511]

@Andy Andrei it’s a joke chill

[@stassmith8200]

It is a joke guys

[@VenoTheLegend]

@@stassmith8200 Don't worry, I took it as a joke.

[@stassmith8200]

@Andy Andrei I know same as we Polish want western Belarus and Ukraine back.

[@RaresFCB]

What I really like about HoI4 is that they actually name the military divisions in the language of the country you are playing, and he doesnt evem care about it and takes the name from English

[@MatheoTsr]

Hey, I have a challenge for you, making as much puppet as possible, with liberating (with puppetting) as much region as possible like France become, Brittany, Corsica and so more

[@aydenward1386]

Taureor POG

[@cifs7511]

He’s back

[@MasterJunus]

Hey Taureor. You know what helps with manpower AND resistance? Using more efficient garrison troops. 10 width cavalry w/ military police should be good enough to maintain control without breaking the manpower bank.

[@craniusdominus8234]

Pretty much the first thing I did on the day BfB released was to give Romania a go. Glad to see it's still OP. Sad to see that the Bulgarian and Turkish focus trees still have absolutely zero sanity checks.

[@alextecu8430]

Finally romania!!!

[@carltonleboss]

Wonder what country you come from? /s

[@gandalfdercyanfarbene6216]

@@carltonleboss probably Moldovia

[@theshadowforce3438]

@@Osgfkqgvsu no, it’s obviously chad 🇹🇩

[@nxibba]

he did another romania playthrough but it was a while ago

[@alextecu8430]

@@nxibba yeah I watched it after this video

[@lprcn2532]

romania Has restored Rome

[@zoltanszabo2709]

*Paradox realeses new dlc, focus tree for Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey Taureor: I’ve already done these years earlier 😙

[@golden2690]

I have a suggestion for a challenge No frontlines challenge (You can use garrison order only

[@ScarecrowZP]

I'm looking at the video title like: "Since when is there Romania in Balefire Blues?"

[@arleygomez465]

I thought Taureor would have exhausted all the possible ways to play each faction on HOI4 by now.

[@albertpacella1846]

Hey taureor, there is a really fun game, it’s very strategy based, and I think you would really like it. It’s called mr krabs over doses on ketamine

[@the-heckening4077]

34:36 I like the futurama reference! :)

[@AwayWithYouVileBeggar]

I find it funny how they gave Romania and the other DOD nations very aggressive early Ideas while Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey have late game Ideas. Idk if there is a way to go for fast aggressive ideas as the BFB countries but I still have an easy time conquering everyone around as the DOD nations.

[@brunodemartino4425]

Will you ever do a video with the modern day mod??

[@darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832]

Taureor got all the DLCs and then some More.

[@dankengine5304]

Hey Taureor. I just secured my first world conquest in vanilla HOI4. Im looking at DLC and what would you recommend?

[@Arvidowitch]

Challenge: Play as sweden and control all of the territory around the baltic sea

[@DescendentOfDracula]

Much love from Romania!!!!

[@speedy01247]

as someone who played Romania on BfB I know how annoying it is to lose Bulgaria, they NEVER refuse to be a puppet and you have to annex them before they join the Germans. (Paradox needs to fix it and the easiest way to do so is to make so they cant take that focus unless they are independent or part of the axis, where they can bypass it without them becoming independent)

[@gianniskuriakidhs3755]

really good video btw Greece can core almost all of turkey once it's given back to it

[@stygn]

I think the reason it switched to "Defensive War" was because you joined the Comintern. Since the leader of the Comintern is in a defensive war, it applies to you too. Not 100% sure, but that's my best guess.

[@eighteenAM]

Cavalry with MP support as the garrison division could've freed up a lot of manpower here.

[@nealsalman170]

So, at some part of the video; you said that the garrisons take a lot of resources. (I know you hate manual managment, but this will help you a bit) you can change the garrison laws to benefit certain modifiers. For example: the law forced labor will give you 25-40% more resources from the country you are occupying. And there is a secret modifier in the marshall law/military governor that gives you 8% more recruitable population.

[@justluky4192]

Thank you.

[@canerkosen2609]

you have done before more than once but please its the expansion you need to play with turkey ! show us some great stuff as you always do !

[@tow3842]

U UPLOADED AT MIDNIGHT NOOOOO Still going to watch it

[@Jansay34]

Nice Futurama reference.

[@svenw8439]

This videos helps me to val insleep