Hoi4: Invincible Irish Potato Cannons Ruin Bad Mustache Mans Day

[@LeafyMouse4478]

Dang Stakui having to say the classic line of I am not supposed to be doing this right now as my wife is asleep has the same energy as sneaking into the Xbox 360 to play late night Reach with the boys.

[@08NightBat]

Fast upload wow

[@MAGICUSERNAME]

Yeah

[@newstages95ay87]

I miss those days reach was my first game that made me a customization addicted

[@RainedOnParade]

Algomathisms

[@bad31monkey13]

Fax

[@fullirishham1015]

"A single gun split between eighteen dudes down the pub"... Well yeah, why'd ya think it took us eight hundred years to boot the English out of most of the island?

[@liamqueally9074]

Our car bombs helped later on

[@Nerdnumberone]

To be fair, history has shown that England is pretty good at this whole "colonialism" business. It took a world war or two to get them to let go of most of the empire. The U.S. had a lot of help from France (who were always up for fucking with the English) and an ocean of distance when we broke free. Even for such a dominant naval power, oceans are big. We just needed to make things too expensive to be worthwhile anyway. By comparison, Ireland was in their backyard.

[@MegaGun2000]

I find it darkly humourous How similar your situation was to our situation in India. Lol, even the reasons that they gave for starving you guys when it would have been perfectly possible to keep you guys well fed were the same ones that they gave when they starved different parts of India “We are civilizing them” “ they are lazy and stupid by nature, maybe a little starvation will make them smarter” and other nonsense. Lol

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

It all makes sense now

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@MegaGun2000 There was no intentional starvation. However it is true that some, like Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet viewed the Irish in such a manner as you suggest. Rather the British could not be bothered to pay for grain and wedded themselves to a free-market doctrine for God only knows what reason. That and incentivising evictions multiplied by a landlord clause which exempted a vast amount of landed peasantry and thus forcing them off the land. Soup Kitchens in contrast cost less than public works and worked. Nevertheless a lot of the charity was provided by the English themselves.

[@TheDakkaman]

It went from “All Quiet on the Western Front” to “Oh God Spud Gun Go ‘Punt’”

[@benalor1973]

I hope things work out with KZbin. Your history channel is great and so are the HOI videos.

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Thank you my friend I appreciate you

[@alexcrazy1492]

Yea good luck

[@milkmessiah5192]

You could have spent that money on buying crack, but you choose to waste it? Sad...

[@dardell2001]

You had me rolling on the "if there's one thing the Irish can do it's plan a surprise for people that don't want one"

[@chernoblyat.152]

I love how Stakuyi just shares his worries and etc with his viewers, of course we aren't supposed to meddle in his life, but it's just so wholesome how he shares his vids about his family, vids with his wife on Instagram and shorts, etc etc, it's just so wholesome

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

I never want people to think I’m better than I actually am. Too much is done to put KZbinrs and others on pedestals but I want people to know I’m just a guy

[@chernoblyat.152]

@@historyofeverythingpodcast yes Stakuyi, that, and your pure joy in your gaming videos and very true enthusiasm in History, you connecting with your viewers, makes us all love you and your videos, at least it does for me :)

[@FazclaireCasino]

Angry German Mustache man : "Get that dam Irish off France!!!!" Amazing job

[@TheArklyte]

It might be a strange thing to say, but countries with generic focus tree are a prime target of civil war factory exploit. Make sure you have two provinces. Finish first industrial focus that doesn't give factories, then pursue causing civil war and cheese it with either leaving AI with only artillery template or no units. Encircle them on their only victory point... and just wait for them to do their focuses. Bam, you have exploited generic focus tree(which already has more factories and building slots then New Zealand) twice.

[@alshaeebi812]

Aren't Nations with only one province programmed to go the industry focuses last ot at least very late game

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Ah that sounds interesting

[@johnnotrealname8168]

Ireland already had it's Civil War (1922-1923) though.

[@WarsmithThanatos]

The year is 1939. France is entirely occupied by the Germans. Well, not entirely... One small coast of indomitable Irish still holds out against the invaders.

[@Jamhael1]

I know the reference... And what is the magic potion of the Irish?

[@WarsmithThanatos]

@@Jamhael1 Whisky

[@Jamhael1]

@@WarsmithThanatos what about poitin?

[@jhammers1918]

A seventy day focus for a civilian factory? Damn, we haven't changed much, given our child hospital

[@jameslockhart4507]

"She has no idea i'm playing map-game for funds" Uh oh

[@ruairikendall302]

The Irish holding the most celtic region of France makes sense

[@Prestiged_peck]

You're awesome @stakuyi !!!! We love you and I hope you find success with your dreams!

[@steffenzielhuis7497]

Hey Stakuyi. You can actually have even more, all important, stats by creating a front line and gaining the planning bonus. I usually take a general and give him a area defence order in a nuetral country and a field marshall that has a front line and attack order. This gives you both planning bonus and you remain in control of your units. Planning bonus with grand battle plan is 60% stat modifier which is pretty strong.

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Damn that makes sense

[@Mr.Janitor]

You are doing good my man. Love your stuff brother.

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Janitor you are wonderful, thank you

[@Mr.Janitor]

@@historyofeverythingpodcast you deserve that and much, much more sir. It brightens my day to see you, your family and your awesome content. I hope and pray that you will be able to do amazing at all you do. I love you brother and God speed my friend.

[@TAP7a]

"a single gun shared between 18 dudes at the pub" Ah yes, the Winchester, I know it well

[@eliscerebralrecyclingbin7812]

Ouch Wow You’re an amazing person and superb husband We love your work! Thank you for your dedication, but don’t forget to take time for yourself!

[@MegaGun2000]

I agree! As much as I love watching your videos, taking care of yourself and your loved ones is way more important

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Bless you

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

I hope Ireland would get a focus tree because you could do a lot of interesting alternate history stuff as Ireland- mostly around England and Northern Ireland but still, I'd like to see a lot more stuff for Ireland in the near future.

[@Nerdnumberone]

Yeah. Just because it didn't do a lot historically doesn't mean there aren't some interesting things it could have done that are no less unusual than some of the paths for other nations. I wonder if they are worried that giving the minor nation AIs more options in an ahistoric run would be too wild (actually, I'm not sure how those AI work to begin with). Possible focus tree paths: - Unifying Ireland - Conquering Britain out in revenge for... well, a lot of things. - Reuniting with Britain. You could always do something about going commie of fascist. Maybe reestablish an Irish monarch?

[@Domarikat]

There’s a good couple mods for it that I use

[@FortressLordJP193]

Ireland is in a good place to make the war interesting for anyone. If they go Axis they can stab the UK in the back and not decimate sure but sap and distract allied... everything. If Ireland goes Allied then it frees up some British reserves and gives allies more places to move troops and dock ships let alone if you ever deploy men. If they go communist no idea what then, but it's amusing enough to be worth it. Obvs they're weak in base game, which is sorta realistic for the manpower and arms (Some Americans, read: Redditors, have a distorted view of how strong, united and populated Ireland was) and f's they gave about dying on frontlines for another country but HOI4 is strong at alt history. There are mods to make their focus tree unique and there's also a pretty cool looking Ireland unit graphic mod.

[@TheArklyte]

Idk, I'd just be happy with ability to: 1)get northern Ireland back in return for joining Allies and participating(in the video Ireland controls a quarter of Europe, but not northern Ireland); 2)same wish as for other Commonwealth and Allied nations - ability to get US/UK investments, indian volunteers and easier access to Allied research bonuses.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@FortressLordJP193There is a historical Monarchist path they could go down. Prince-President of the Irish Republic, Dual-Monarchy and of course generic Republic stuff.

[@DoktarRaven]

imagine being a 21 german soldier, stuck in the western front or 3 years, as you see millions come and never to return. THEN THE IRISH COME IN SPEEDING IN WHILE THEIR ARTILLERY IS FIRING ON THE BACK O A TRUCK AT MACH 1 SPEED

[@Lp-gn5hx]

I like to imagine the Germans in Ireland just grabbed some paddle boats and rowed themselves to the Irish Coast to do their thing.

[@truthseekerdude]

Damn, bro really just casually turned Brest into almost 3 simultaneous Stalingrads

[@speznaz212]

Getting first generic navy national focus is good for any nation even if you don't build navy as it unlocks building slots, dockyards can be deleted.

[@PS2_Peter_Pan]

1. that intro is so wholesome, valid, kind and thoughtful. best Husbando. 2. Personally I'd love to watch you do other games similar to Hoi like Crusader Kings as id love to see your historical and creative spin on some of the wacky things in that game as well. 3. hope you got some rest & sleep after filming.

[@DeaconBlues117]

Brest looked like it was being led by Captain Kirrahe from Mass Effect for a bit there. "Good captain. Bit of a cloaca, though. Loved his speeches. 'Hold the line!' Always preferred to get job done and go home."

[@Joseph_Stuntn]

Hey Stak, I've been watching you for like 5 to 6 months now and you're already my favorite person on the platform so I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble right now, I know it's not much but I figured I'd do my best to help. Anyways I hope all goes well and you can keep making these videos!

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Thank you my friend. I appreciate all the love that you have shown

[@historyofeverythingpodcast]

Hell this is not something that I ever expect from people, I’m grateful but never feel pressured to do this. Even a watch is loved

[@Joseph_Stuntn]

@History of Everything Podcast It's no problem really, just felt like showing my appreciation a little more than I already do by liking/watching your videos. Not to mention you entertain thousands of people every day and only ask that we leave a like or subscribe if we enjoy it, this is the least I can do.

[@j.vermilye3816]

5:29 bullets are cheap and life is not, anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice.

[@BelgarionV]

Liked, subscribed to both channels, and followed your podcast. I know how tough it can be with relationships and I hope this works out. Love your stuff!

[@theoheinrich529]

irish artillery is guided by God

[@SirHolton1]

Finally I’ve been asking for this video for so long

[@BlackBanditXX]

"If there's anything the Irish can do, it's plan a surprise for people who really don't want one." I resemble that remark!

[@Hentie4Life]

0:20 I'm doing my part!

[@kudrzyk]

All the gallia has fallen to the empire. All? Well, theres one village that holds off by potato-cannons.

[@slavichusk1153]

I remember when I’d try the same strat with as Canada, but I’d alway stay on the border if Brittany and then get naval invaded from behind the lines, killing my expensive chaos legions

[@ThreeIrishMen]

ireland has never lost a war so you know germany should be scared

[@Relaxed_Moon]

“I am literally killing you!” 😂😂 You had me dying at that part lol

[@emperorofwends8875]

Deterence focus is good 4:20

[@DMphobia]

Remind me not to piss off the Irish.

[@iskmati]

Yooo I've been waiting for hoi4 Irish gaming on KZbin

[@Robert-ku6jx]

I’ve really enjoyed the couple of videos I’ve seen anyway, but I’m subbing because the opener by itself is so wholesome.

[@itsbillplayzjaneczko971]

Thanks!

[@hangingjester668]

My homeland has finally com

[@Auriorium]

I know that peninsular! That is where the village of Asterix and Obelix is located! Surrounded by 4 Roman legions

[@robland3253]

And the legions were as effective in this video as in the comics

[@Auriorium]

@@robland3253 Exactly.

[@michaeljackson8002]

I like that you've started in 1936. Many KZbinrs gloss over so much and start in 39. I'm half here for entiertainment combined with education because I suck at the game. Keep it up.

[@fastshock6569]

I found your channels through tiktok when you played as Ireland 😁

[@stakuyi]

Ah back when subs could be abused

[@arbiter5853]

Potato go Brrrrrrrrrr

[@dannydacheedo1592]

Congratulations Stakuyoli, you've won a free car; Go turn it on! NOW!

[@schmidtge2890]

"The great thing about holding Brest" had me rolling

[@6blxdz-fk4zu]

you're amzing and you have the most iconic intro of "I am not supposed to be doing this right now as my wife is asleep. I hope you achive great things

[@Idunno307]

"Im doing this while my whole family is asleep" bro same

[@lockretvids]

I imagine German scouts advancing on Brest and before they could report anything back, 3000+ artillery shells drop on them because Irish gunners wanted to test their spud cannons :D

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

With the power of Ireland, you turn WW2 back to entrenched WW1 artillery warfare

[@empereurloutre]

It's funny because it's an actual strategy that France almost done after the fall of Paris, trying to hold Brittany and keep fighting from there.

[@boomknight1015]

Field hospital lowers the war support loss for losing men which is super good if you lack good war support. It also at 3/4 often times my troops almost never end up losing trained status and some times can end up getting skull ranks thanks to the -xp loss. 2 vs 3-5 it's clear which ones are flat out better. Due to not seeing this bonus right away people sleep on it. Personally I think it's 100% worth it for anyone you know will take losses like France or Russia, France can't afford the loss in war support and Russia will lose a ton of battles by default, making it hard to bounce back or even just find a line to hold. Even Germany tends to suffer lack of man power after a time, Italy I never had issues with man power.

[@eduardnemo69]

Great Video Stakuyi!!!!

[@RBN1939]

ww2 or "the emergency" as it was called here still had an impact on the country despite staying out at one point the north strand an area in the inner city of dublin was bombed by the germans officials they said they made a mistake thinking it was britian but some think it was on purpose either to force Ireland to stay out of the war or even force Ireland into the war as it irelands army is quite small and focused on defence only so an invasion would have allowed the germans to flank britian and there was a plan to invade called operation green or case green also britian at one point offered the north of Ireland back to us in exchanged for joining the war but the government refused believing britian wouldn't be able to honor it given the opposition of the unionists to Irish rule and probably thinking britian was just lying to get us to join on the other side the British at one point threaten to invade despite Ireland being natural they were leaning towards the allies handing over german pilots that landed to the allies and letting allied ones go they also gave weather reports to the allies which helped with d day and letting them use Irish air space despite that Éamon de Valera actually offered his condolence after hilters death was announced and we had to ration our economy for years after the war britian was mad we didn't join and our economy suffered for it also we didn't join the UN till 1955 because part of the deal with it when it was set up in the closing days of the war was you had to declare war on germany and unlike say turkey and others who did in the last year we never did my two great great uncles fought in ww2 one was in the forgotten army in burma and the other was in the RAF over maylasia and was shot down by the japaness and take as a POW and disappeared for 20 years after he came home my grandad only bumping into again in a pub in London during the 1966 world cup

[@themidnightbanshee5927]

Your Australia betrayal campaign got me hooked onto this series

[@nadog1011]

I am amazed other hoi4 players don't talk about you man your content is so funny

[@gdlghdghslghsdghksdghk]

and that is why i always make sure in mp that doesn't happen because once there were like 10 british division that had really good defense and had also anti tanks so i brough out one heavy tank and they all died

[@polarbearbelikebonjour6279]

0:40 “the victim of sed big boom”

[@Ratich]

Defence and breakthrough are the exact same thing. Defence minimises damage received when being attacked and breakthrough minimises damage received when attacking.

[@brandoncoxwell9181]

Congratulations Mr. Churchill you've won a new car now go outside and turn it on

[@meriabreadsticks]

"In June 1940, Malcolm MacDonald offered to "give back" the six counties comprising Northern Ireland - an offer of Irish unity - if Ireland would join with the Allies, but the offer was not taken seriously." - random fact

[@masonedens3395]

love you man. please keep your head up, remember if your plan fails you got an Irish potato

[@RadioactiveRaven2828]

From an Irish person that is the biggest inaccuracy there is in hoi4

[@fordwyman5223]

don't forget surviving sieges in the Congo during the Congo crisis called the Siege of Jadotville if i didn't watch the movie i'd think it was the us marines

[@SGAman123_]

Yes, finally an Ireland video!

[@Emile50]

if this was real life, the whole world would know of the Irish defense of breast. I cant imagine how horrible the battlefield would look with millions soldiers dead, so close to each other. Idk even know how you memorialise this

[@robertlarson7224]

Given Germany’s intended role in supplying the Easter Rising, I am kind of surprised there isn’t some sort of Axis Irish Free State mod or something

[@samueltrusik3251]

Depending on your POV, you could say that potatoes are the greates weapon AGAINST the Irish.

[@TexanAstarte]

Don't think I've ever seen a content creator give a sitrep on a late night gaming run that they could catch shit for lol.

[@stakuyi]

She hasn’t seen it yet so we will see

[@eisbergsyndrom5010]

Stakuyi: *gets his war score with a smart strategy to kill millions upon millions of germans and effortlessly running through France and Germany whilst encircling the remainder of the german army along the way.* AI: Haha, meat grinder goes brrrrrrr.

[@lordodin5755]

To be fair the irish didn't know how to blow things up because the 92 honda civic didn't exist yet

[@vixen878]

me: how many bomb jokes is he gonna make about us? stakuyi: yes me: good~ >:D

[@Nerdykid2407]

I hope you’re able to continue this, I love watching your videos

[@nutcrackit7396]

Ai germany correctly identified the issue and attempted to naval invade ireland to take them out of the war was great.

[@willbuckler1723]

Hitting us right in the feels off the start

[@lachlann121]

Happy to see my country has been done so well

[@Т1000-м1и]

This channel is singlehandedly keeping up my interest in hoi4 youtube

[@Jacket08]

Could you play these nations in Road to 56? It really improves every single commonwealth nation and makes everything better imo. Literally just better vanilla (again, my opinion)

[@Biff255]

Wasn't Ireland part of the commenwealth up to the end of 37? Hoi4 should correct that

[@Aegis---]

Technically yes, but they had basically full autonomy outside of being forced to have king George as their "leader"

[@Biff255]

@@Aegis---but could be part of the focus tree. I want an Irish focus tree

[@Jim00306]

Love y’all and the work you’ve done!!

[@JamesHussey404]

Historically Ireland didn't get directly involved but they had a impact enough in Intelligence and a joint defence paln with the UK in case of a German Invasion. I would recommend anyone interested in Irish History or WW2 History to read Irelands Secret War by Marc Mc Menamin. It could be a good option for a more Inteligence focused playthrough if a focus tree came about.

[@themadladss]

Its a coinincidence that bad mustache man faced Vladimir Lenin in chess and lost but just so happen to stumble upon a war that was similar to his chess moves.

[@noname-dq9uf]

Which one, the Germany flavor, which started a war and genocide a class of people or the Russian flavor that throw them in Siberia or kill them( basically the same thing), both are terrible people but only one is more know but might have killed indirectly or directly less than

[@themadladss]

@@noname-dq9uf Starts with a A ends with an R

[@noname-dq9uf]

@M&C Oh, we are doing this sh*t Last time, I check he isn't voldemort Who gets summoned or some sh*t when you call his name So Adolf. Hear noise, and turn around Oh, sh*t here we go again

[@themadladss]

@@noname-dq9uf I'm not the one getting ppl getting demonitized here

[@noname-dq9uf]

@@themadladss why would he be demonitiz because of the comments?

[@abdulrafay1664]

Awesome video as always Keep up👍

[@miss-sagemoon]

Normandy? Never heard of it, we all know the fighting was in the ports of Brest

[@nonverbalpie8151]

I've tried doing this strategy twice now but not with Ireland but Columbia. The first time I tried I made the mistake of training my units right as France was about to fall and the German units demolished mine. The second time around I got to a point where I could actually start pushing into Germany, but then Japan invited Peru into the Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere and attacked Columbia from behind with somewhere between 10-65 units. I'm now considering either trying to run as Columbia a third time or try a different nation like Uruguay or Democratic Portugal.

[@Teal182]

You could actually do it as united kingdom or nations with focus trees, i like to do it as brazil

[@Charger-se4bm]

Hey Stakuyi, just an idea for ya to use if you want to! If you want to try different but similar stuff Stellaris and Crusader Kings may be up your alley!

[@Justmichael1995]

Congrats my dude! That was beautiful!

[@teddycoala2521]

The Only thing that went through my mind was Asterix and Obelix XD

[@Jamhael1]

"Occupied France in WW2 was marked by not only the brutal regime of Germany, but by the undying light of hope in Brittany, where the Irish Army send their military to defend the city and port of Brest, facing wave after wave of the German Army who were stopped thanks to the formidable artillery weapons developed by Ireland which, combined with the extensive trenches dug by the Irish Army, and a well trained, equipped, armed and coordinated military, created an inexpugnable defense system nicknamed 'The Wall of Thunder', and after years of gruelling defensive war and three attempts of naval invasion on Ireland by Greman Marines, the counter-attack was at first timid, but once momentum was achieved, it was unstoppable, with successive encirclements leading to the destruction of whole regiments of the German military till the last member, a maneuver that became known as 'The Spearing of Cuchulainn'. And this relentless advance of infantary equipped with automatic weapons (the first military to do so in the world) while accompanied by sundering artillery barrages, led the 3rd Regiment of Artillery (The Hounds of Eire) being the first Allied military force to reach and occupy Berlin with success. Thanks to its usage of artillery, relentless attack and overwhelming firepower, the Ireland Armed Forces now adopted a new motto: THE THUNDER OF EIRE FALL UPON YE!"

[@osogitzgraymane72]

When the Irish became the Death Korps of krieg

[@alexedwardson4319]

You're honestly my favourite person to learn history from. Keep it up brother

[@mrkeego1769]

Listening to the intro and then the bit about Ireland being "insignificant" in WW2 hurts to hear so much. We did so much to help the Allies, Britain in particular, during the time

[@slumpedsoulja9196]

This man deserves the algorithm gods

[@Firemind_EX]

Just from this video, someone should make a focus tree and make one whole branch of it reference this video with each focus.

[@TinyCatHC]

hope everything works out!

[@goldenarcc]

Dude I’m loving these videos, HOI4 and stakuyi go like milk and orange soda

[@BuilderB08]

The title is the best that I’ve read all day.

[@Cteabis]

Germany took all of Gaul.. except for one small village of indomitable Irish

[@calebcajiuat5521]

Ah yes, the fabled gaming while wife sleeps.