Suffering & Zero Supply | Japan in HOI4's Most Painful Mod

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What if you were FORCED into being historical in Hearts of Iron 4? What if you played the Black Ice, the hardest mod ever made, in HOI4 as Japan, but could only use the actual historical designs, presets, and battleplans? Ready for Naval invasions and zero supply?!
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I've been on a HOI4 binge of using only the historical presets given by Paradox, alongside accurate, historical division organization. Can I do the same as the Japanese in the wonderful Black Ice mod, filled with memes and endless historicity and accuracy, and win the war?
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The addition of Historical presets into Hearts of Iron IV was an awesome thing for massive history nerds like myself. Now, I play REALLY historically, using only the stupid tanks and planes that happened in real life! I'm aiming to do this with EVERY country in the game (or at least every major) so let me know a good suggestion down in the comments for more countries to play!
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[@Aldrahill]

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[@piotrszuryn3372]

Black ice Poland

[@williambransch1192]

More black ice Ussr i really like ussr

[@anelstarcevic696]

2 Yamatos were built, Yamato and Musashi and third ship Shinano was never finished as a battleship due to lack of resources but her hull was converted into a much cheaper carrier, but if Japan was more successful she probably would have been completed as a battleship

[@qwryu1369]

i have happy birthday today

[@S.Collins]

A realistic japan run would have two players who can't talk to eachother

[@jeova0sanctus0unus]

Two players who can only communicate in insults

[@patrickkkkkkkkkkkk]

Just insults in japanese for the whole game

[@lolasdm6959]

Two players who lose if the other player achieves any objectives.

[@Anothersovietcat3]

Lmao😂

[@nathanlee4288]

Who can't communicate with one another and actively dispises one another whilst actively sabotaging and refusing to cooperate. True IJA/IJN realism

[@martind5653]

Black ice Czechoslovakia when?

[@akosperjesi4384]

Never

[@unknowguy9642]

Better yet, Black ice Luxemburg when?

[@user-iu4fr6yl7w]

You guys are crazy

[@chardaskie]

I personally would love to see him play a Minor Country

[@Rotogames-zj1zb]

Yes do this chalenge

[@iloveapple530]

'' Supply what's that? '' -Tojo probably

[@Aldrahill]

Literally never heard of him

[@iloveapple530]

@@Aldrahill you never heard of Tojo?

[@noahn627]

Is it something I can eat?

[@healyice]

​@@iloveapple530 "never heard of him" as in supply i think.

[@MrGallowglase]

Slight correction at 23:34 only two Yamato-class battleships were built. Shinano was converted to a carrier and sunk before getting finished.

[@TheHuffmanator]

Just about to comment this XD

[@Kingmadman-1]

But technically three Yamato battleships hills were created so he is correct

[@TheHuffmanator]

@@Kingmadman-1 Fair enough Battleship in spirit

[@Kingmadman-1]

@@TheHuffmanator yeah I guess you could say that

[@MrGallowglase]

@@Kingmadman-1 Hmm, dont really agree with this but we are straying into the realms of nitpick so it doesnt really matter

[@Erich_Dinenthal]

Aldra is discord 3 days ago: "I am pleased to announce, as Japan, I am winning against China. Somehow" - No manpower - No food - No uniforms An army of starving 70 year olds is running around naked in the chinese countryside. You won, but at what cost? 😂

[@Aldrahill]

Uh... yeah but I uh... I still won! My color was on the map! Who cares if primary education ends at 12 and your conscripted?!

[@Erich_Dinenthal]

@Aldrahill your primary education is "here's a rifle kid, banzai." Hell of a good job, though. You have the patience of a saint

[@grantforester1864]

@@Erich_Dinenthalthey only need to learn how to count bullets lmao

[@ussindianapolis487]

still better than japanese army in 1945 lol.

[@martinhulin]

​@@AldrahillI that young and I handled a 12 Gauge pump shotgun pretty well but I must admit when I started shooting I started feeling that GET THE HELL OF MY LAWN energy

[@redpancakes]

“Are you guys ready for your HOI4 lessons?” *ISorrowproductions gulps* *BitterSteel breathes heavily* *TommyK nods nervously* “Yes Aldrahill”, they say in unison.

[@Aldrahill]

I was even a teacher once ;) but nah Bittersteel would wreck me in any context

[@panpsalt6757]

​@@Aldrahillwhat if he was asked to make a historical USSR rifle division from 1943 without any research

[@panpsalt6757]

​@@Aldrahillwhat if he was asked to make a historical USSR rifle division from 1943 without any research

[@panpsalt6757]

​@@Aldrahillwhat if he was asked to make a historical soviet rifle division from 1943 without any research

[@Bobbert_521]

@@panpsalt6757 bro really wants to know

[@zevnduck9904]

2/3 of Japanese casualties were a result of starvation so this is historically accurate

[@amn0940]

Holy Molly! Aldi finally realised he can turn off NATO symbols. My eyes are now pleased

[@Aldrahill]

XD I do like them but Christ they are not clear! I worked this out a while back actually

[@flutee6162]

I too cannot read NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION hieroglyphics. Much pleased

[@yaldabraxas]

Wow, you actually won as Japan. Congratulations. This seems to be hard. Maybe one day i'll grow a pair of balls to try out BICE on my own.

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you!! Do it, it’s super fun :)

[@ZephyreGod]

O7 to you suffering another BICE for us. Keep it up, the contents not suffering 🙃

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you! It always agony, but also fun!!

[@pocemonwitcher9807]

Actually there were built only 2 Yamato-class battleships The third one, named Shinano was started to build into Carrier(there was almost finished hull), but on the way to other dockyard to be stoßt finished, it was sunk by Archerfich class American submarine with 1 torpedo(there was not-hermetic bulkhead on Shinano)

[@fsfrancesco1539]

Oh my God, I am not the only guy that puts production lines always in the same order by type!

[@samiamrg7]

6:35 Funny thing is that China did actually have a fair few tanks at the start of the war. Mostly Panzer 1’s sold to them by Germany. Yes, Germany inadvertantly undermined their ally Japan by selling tanks and small arms to the Chinese before Germany had allied with Japan.

[@derkurier2710]

There were a fair few people in Germany who urged Hitler to support China instead of Japan with von Falkenhauser even giving the Chinese all his war plans before departing back to Germany

[@FluppiLP]

Black ice, a mod so realistic, it even simulates the pain of the commander :D

[@Bread1979]

That ad was amazing, I never look at them most of the time but you made them really pleasant to watch. Great work like always!!

[@Aldrahill]

Oh damn dude thank you so much! I work hard to try and make them fun and engaging you know? They support the channel and allow me to make these (Christ knows KZbin doesn’t pay much :P ) so I appreciate so much your comment :)

[@user-hy6cj7dn6v]

Black Ice Luxembourg when?

[@ZehamKaiser]

Japan actually fought quite well for a country of their stature They had very little resource availability and a below average land army The Axis as a whole somehow fought quite decently given their situation(well that's debatable)

[@jackson4672]

Germany didn't really fight that decently, Belgium and France had outdated armies, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland also had outdated and still managed to inflict heavy loses, Greece killed Italy's ass and lost because they ran out of ammo, Denmark didn't fight, and Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, England, and USA kicked Germany's ass.

[@leninvasco]

That isnt true, the japanese army suffered terrible losses because of the use of banzai charges. Tactically, the IJA was terrible, and as you admit, strategically too.

[@leninvasco]

​@@jackson4672It is not that simple, Germany was incredibly lucky with France, and if you consider the french army outdated then all other armies of the world also were.

[@greenoversight8021]

@@jackson4672 Whos fault is it they had oudated armies? The credit on germanies part is that they had expert command structure and a good military high command. that itself is a sign of germanies wellness of the fight

[@rjagad]

Soviets didnt kick germany's ass as you have said. Ussr took 10 million losses and only won because they sent out russians like meat bags. ​@jackson4672

[@thedead12]

Black Ice Poland please

[@kickassgreek]

whats the easiest BICE you've done so far?

[@Aldrahill]

The EASIEST BICE was easily the USA. Even ony buffed Axis, the massive industrial might of America just won out :P

[@MrRjh63]

@@Aldrahill Yeah as the USA once you get rid of the depression debuffs you can produce all the equipment with enough to spare to LL to allies very comfortably.

[@biscuit4638]

good to see high quality researched videos like these

[@abu-hureraali4531]

I wrote that wikipedia article you used. Nice to see that its being used.

[@Aldrahill]

Oh damn nice one, thanks ! :D it was super detailed

[@Ozan-qr7hu]

Your BlackICE videos are always a delight to watch brother. Keep sending em. Great war too, I really enjoy the weirdly specific historical trivia you sometimes drop in them.

[@LastGoatKnight]

Technically, not 3 Yamato class Battleship were built and sunk, only two. Shinano*, the third sister was reconfigured before she was finished into the world's first supercarrier (this is a debatable topic but I believe this is true, you can choose the other options freely). But even she wouldn't been sunk, she was very poorly balanced, the superstucture was lighter than expected (go figure) and thus she was hull heavy, which meant that she would capsize more easily than her older sisters would. She "lived" for like 3 days if my memory serves right *= I got corrected, I mistook her for another carrier, my bad

[@cadelussenden5144]

The name was Shinano

[@ThrowawayModeller]

Wat. Shokaku was a purpose built carrier. Perhaps you're talking about Shinano

[@LastGoatKnight]

@@cadelussenden5144 true

[@LastGoatKnight]

@@ThrowawayModeller yes, I misremembered, thanks for the feedback

[@LastGoatKnight]

@@ThrowawayModeller you're right. I mixed up the names, thanks for the feedback. That was on me

[@user-gt6do8qk8z]

Really love how much work u put into the vid. Rarely seen this entertaining content, keep the good work up.

[@Aldrahill]

Damn, thank you so much! Really trying to make something FUN, you know? Currently alternating between challenge videos and historical series :)

[@Saber7096]

Hey. Just letting you know you can fix the white boxes on boat glitch by changing your drive to direct x 11 on the start up page. Hope this helps 👍

[@Aldrahill]

AH nice thanks! That does help, thank you

[@daninquin2732]

Should have just used a regular infantry division reinforced with marines and marine support companies as your marines since there was no marine divisions in the japanese army and they fought with regular divisions

[@greytamplier8411]

Maybe Historical Finland will be nice

[@ilduce4298]

12-70 bracket just means an army full of youth and experience

[@user-ol1pi3kd6x]

I would love to see you play Nationalist China in this mod.

[@TheSomethingStone]

Finally another black ice video! This was Great, thank you, gave me a good laugh. Please keep posting this type of content if it's not to time consuming. Thank you!!

[@Aldrahill]

Hey thank you! Next BIcE video won’t be for I think 3-4 weeks so I don’t get too exhausted, but thank you so much!

[@arepupu]

This was really enjoyable to watch! Good work

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you so much!!

[@user-cb3dg2zm8i]

Poland Historical Black Ice When?

[@user-vg7uk8hj1j]

Aldrahill you are the best hoi4 content creator

[@Aldrahill]

Oh dude thank you

[@igorgorczynski6339]

Black Ice Poland please🙏

[@enusama_9384]

Finally he's playing the black guys mod 😍

[@mackb2852]

Black Ice Australia would be really funny to see you attempt. Love your work!

[@gymMenMEN]

Another Bkack ice video🎉🎉🎉

[@InternetPerson-ij3fh]

This is like an old school HOI3 run. Very cool.

[@Aldrahill]

Ayy thank you :)

[@IHasGoodJackstaa]

Calling operation Ai operation "AL" like the Japanese abandoned their own Alphabet (which has no L) and decided to name their operation after an English name is very funny to me. It was followed by operation Steve and Jimmy I imagine. Not a diss at all its easy to mistake in the font but it made me chuckle.

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah I realised in editing how stupid that was xD

[@charlieturk2146]

knowing what japan did before joining ww2 historically, your commentary was completely accurate to its leaders' thought process

[@Ntinos7971]

I find it amazing that your game speed in 1947 is faster than my speed with many opt mods and debug_smooth off in 1936 in base game.. Anyways amazing video. I enjoyed watching you suffer

[@Aldrahill]

I recently upgraded my pc after 11 years so it’s running so fast xD thank you glad you enjoyed i :)

[@Zakkious]

What specs did you get, man?

[@Aldrahill]

I actually cannot remember the exact specs, but main thing is I got a super OP CPU because I was tired of not being able to get past 1860 in Victoria 3 :P One of the latest gen Intel ones I believe

[@Zakkious]

@@Aldrahill Nice!

[@khornatekrieger3023]

Ya know, these kindsa videos make me want a mod with like, Black Ice's depth and breadth of mechanics but also combined with like, Kaiserredux. I want schizo nation paths and the utter insanity of these 'realistic' mechanics.

[@Aldrahill]

Oh yeah that would be really cool :D

[@misterperson3469]

Thats a sad Pearl Harbor. Cmon guys the Americans put all the battleships all in a row!

[@Aldrahill]

Right?! I rolled super bad there…

[@danielboone8256]

22:10 What would infantry supporting MGs look like? Doesn’t MG supporting infantry allow more rifleman maneuverability?

[@Aldrahill]

Infantry supporting mg is what ww2 Germans did! :) the mg34/42 was the vital piece, with the actual riflemen providing the flanking and taking ground. In other armies, the mg only serves to suppress enemy infantry to allow riflemen to make moves

[@nachtjager2467]

For those flickering unit models you have to set your hoi4 launcher to direcrX 9

[@Aldrahill]

Ooo okay thank you!

[@sg_kerb]

TANOHEIKA BANZAIIIII

[@Lord-Teaington]

I can only imagine how much work has to go into making these videos, but wanted to say I love these 😊 and I don’t mind a bit of historical leniency with some of the decisions or regiments

[@giubgiubbi3409]

instead, how much work has to go into making such a complex and accurate mod.

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you! Yes indeed, it takes a LONG time xD Most of the week tbh

[@StalkerQtya]

0:24 The fleet lost the war. The Air Force wasn't a separate branch. The army beat China and only lost to the russians.

[@asianperson104]

Could you try China In blackice?

[@Comerade_Daniel]

Ok. You want new idea? . . . Norway? Perchance?

[@Aldrahill]

Definitely!

[@commandercorl1544]

32:29 All talk, no action, I see you're really comitting to the historical accuracy!

[@Creamy6015]

Day 1 of asking for historically accurate Yugoslav divisions

[@BellePepprs]

"Singapore has fallen there were no guards" 😭😭😭😭😭😭 noooo Historically the Japanese did also sink two battleships that were sent to reinforce Singapore, although the ones you sank were kinda less modern ones. The Japanese sank the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, with the latter actually being there during Bismarck's attempted escape into the Atlantic. Playing Japan on BICE is also one of the things I like doing especially given how impactful their occupation is on my region's history. The interesting thing in BICE is that AI Japan very often manages to totally clean up China by the time they invade the South which is rather ahistorical... That certainly makes their invasion of Southeast Asia so much easier

[@audiosurfarchive]

This basically turned into a slightly bizarre version of TNO

[@lucypatootie]

love these videos mate, have seen all of them, keep up the good work :)

[@Aldrahill]

Glad you like them! Really appreciate that bud :) more every week!

[@erke7835]

Italy next? I'm curious to see if you can match this Italy's performance x)

[@Aldrahill]

Oh yeah looking forward to that xD Italy is in… 5 weeks I think?

[@dutch1641]

during one of my playthroughs i got stuck in china, my losses we're minimal all in all. andi was a advanced economy with perfect fleet. but china and the ussr had basically stalemated me in the mountains and had nigh equal divisions with antitank etc. and so their combined might made it impossible to push more than a province a year before supplies and logistic reserves ran out again and again. basically killing me because by that point it was too late for me to expect to hold a third front again america too.

[@tyray3p]

Something that's always bothered me with Black Ice (And HoI4 in general) is the way ships are handled. Prime example if less than 5 minutes into the video, you can't even start thinking of producing the Yamato because you don't have the techs researched, when in reality the ship was already being designed and laid in secretive dry docks. With the way the game works as of today, you "research" techs for ships that you should already have way later than you should, and to compensate the game makes it suuuuuper easy and quick to make massive battleships, or swarms upon swarms of DDs or SS/SSNs in unrealistic record time. I get that for casual play it works out for most people and they don't really bat an eye at the issue. But that's one thing that really hampers the strategic aspect of naval combat (the least-liked aspect of the game for many) by removing the forward planning of ship design and building.

[@chadeller5588]

Is there a small map for 1v1? Tournament time!

[@mrbloodhound009]

22:55 that fr(ah)nce really threw me ngl

[@Lylescar]

As an aussie, i love your pronunciation of wagga wagga

[@Aldrahill]

WAGGA WAGGA BABEY

[@alexvonrom7942]

Black Ice Luxenburg when?? The children yern for the world conquest

[@p_filippouz]

Italy this time had prep time lol

[@infinite_way_studiov5825]

One Czechoslovakia, Sir, please!

[@mohamdmlg9027]

Very nice Would love to see you redo some of the faild bice videos since now you know what to do

[@Aldrahill]

A good idea for a stream sometime!

[@mohamdmlg9027]

@@Aldrahill awesome

[@caileanfindlytearle6936]

Ive been waiting for this!

[@temporaryname4121]

Congrats on the 50k!

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you!!

[@Picklesthedonutfrog]

Reform byzantium at its greatest extent using byzantine armies for division templates

[@yumsuc7069]

10:16 my immersion is destroyed due to the lack of warcrimes in this video

[@Aldrahill]

I’m so sorry :( :( unit 731 was on holiday!

[@Black-Fish]

Dude got a censored Carrier. Just like any censored stuff in japan 🤣🤣

[@poggingmilk9452]

Challenge: Conquer Europe as Luxembourg with accurate Divisions in Milenium Dawn

[@timmyturner327]

この動画は見楽しかった。 お疲れ様アルドラヒルさん

[@theexecutiveassociated]

Great video, glad I could help you reach 50k

[@Aldrahill]

Ayyy thank you! I don’t know why, I’m super stoked to hit it xD

[@DannyCapM8]

Congrats on the 50k

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you!!!

[@Enderdeath2019]

Glory glory What a hell of a way to die

[@nemanja4758]

Just a heads up, you can turn on refineries before they are built so you don't forget to turn them on later

[@Aldrahill]

Indeed that’s what I did at the start!!

[@nemanja4758]

@@Aldrahill Was it cut from the video? I just saw you enabling the already built ones en masse, not assigning unbuilt refineries

[@Aldrahill]

It must have been!

[@dyrkuz5282]

When HISTORICAL FINLANDDD WUAAAA 🗣️🗣️❄️❄️🐺🐺🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

[@rondslott2012]

Black ice Finland would be cool

[@Springy05]

Italy was... USEFUL???? WTF XD

[@luftwaffle173]

Invading the US in blackice is insane, GG

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you! I can’t believe I pulled it off xD

[@wills4615]

Woooo more black ice Now I would wonder if aldrahill would be able to balance the power and the resources again but he forgets as every country but I am worried for the Japanese people now

[@machination3e]

Will they ever make B.I for hoi4 actually playable? No. The answer is no.

[@sombertownds149]

12:19 heeyyyy i saw/heard that

[@Aldrahill]

Heard or saw what? :P

[@sombertownds149]

@@Aldrahill the song refrence Its a banger song though

[@Aldrahill]

Ayyyyy

[@xylixpachy9865]

Amazing video 👍

[@squirtleawesome1064]

Oh no, my Grandma would've been 12 by 1947... She lived in Sasebo. Hopefully women are exempt from the draft? I did remember she saw a photo of Japanese schoolchildren training with bamboo spears and she was like "Oooh I remember that"

[@illuminati955]

TNO Japan Lore:

[@arespectivelime3578]

Black Ice Bhutan when?

[@dolgulduripostaszolgalat7010]

33:38 mm something odd with the editing of the sound, just letting you know, i don't think that that was intentional.

[@Aldrahill]

Ooo that’s weird! Crazy how small things slip through the cracks!

[@ussunitedstates2803]

Do historical divisions in cold war iron curtain as soviet

[@RandooGaming]

Actual historical divisions. Unlike that crap that feedbackgaming did (he used chatgpt to find the "historical" divisions)

[@Aldrahill]

Hey thank you!! It takes a lot of research xD Dave is great though

[@NamingIsHard1234]

34:00 "CanBERRA" Swear no one outside of Australia can say it right.

[@yesman6559]

Yes

[@seekernomanjango]

Aland stands undefeated!

[@Aldrahill]

ALWAYS

[@Schniitzll]

Historical Luxembourg gameplay? Pwetty pwease

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

Nice!

[@Aldrahill]

Thanks!

[@Apriltheprotogen]

Yayy!! Another upload!

[@penguin5414]

Can you try black ice as soviet union but all buff for the axis.

[@ione2251]

Blackice historical poland.

[@PolishGuy54]

Black ice poland when