Beating Germany and USSR with no research in Hearts of Iron 4

[@operationmeh]

How far are we going to push this man before he invents a time machine and goes back to 1936 to see if he can solo the Axis as the president of Luxembourg?

[@filzhut6234]

I think we've went far and beyond that point. He has probably done that in an alternative universe.

[@Vitalis94]

Luxembourg was/is a monarchy, though. :P

[@fillo9873]

@@Vitalis94 *preparing for civil war*

[@christopherlee-hudson3283]

No we chose 1939.

[@SentryWill]

@@filzhut6234 I'll be there to grill the freshly cut meat

[@vladimirbrabec69]

Taureor: Anexes half of Europe also Taureor: "Hey I'm a good guy. Where is my invitation to the Allies?"

[@artanisplays3982]

Time stamp please

[@PadaV4]

31:17

[@artanisplays3982]

@@PadaV4 ty

[@pumpedpixel]

@@PadaV4 lol 2 months later

[@fazi354]

Ok

[@Stiann86]

me after 500 hours of HOI4: finally getting the hang of it Taureor after 500 hours of HOI4: lets counquor the world with this blind horse with 3 legs

[@heto_7111]

bonus crutch: cavalryman with no arms

[@Jay-629]

Me after 1200 hours of HOI4: I can (barely) win as China vs Japan Taureor after 800 hours of HOI4: Let’s do a world conquest as Iceland

[@MegaOgrady]

@@Jay-629 me playing as china vs japan (AI) rushed engineers shat out a fuck ton of troops They never attacked me I eventually had so many divisions I could just drown the japanese troops then machukuo declared independance... then the soviets declared war on them... was a sad day for japan

[@htmljesusarchive6341]

@@Jay-629 spam 10 cw infantry, rush engineers and make a fallback line that inflicts heavy terrain casualties on them. Build as many forts as possible and garrison ports. Japan has shitty industry for major power so air dominance won't matter too much unless they join the axis. Try to form/join united front if all else comes to fail, but attrition could become a big issue if you do that.

[@Ailobyte]

Stalin: "WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP STABBING ME IN THE BACK?" Taureor: "Cuz its easy... and it does a lot of damage..."

[@somerandomguy___]

Where have I seen it dammit I swear I’ve seen where it comes from

[@adriencharles4603]

@@somerandomguy___ It's from Happy souls at this part: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJzVaH56eNh8rdU

[@somerandomguy___]

SirCharles1 now I remember. Thank you

[@vieyel5426]

Poor stalin just wants some friends

[@TheArklyte]

@@vieyel5426 should have kept Kirov and Orjonikidze alive and safe then:P

[@mach2223]

next time: *declaring war on the entire world at once and winning without divisions in Hearts of Iron 4*

[@hallowtrash9874]

As Luxembourg

[@danielweigandberg2917]

or Butan

[@mach2223]

any country with one state

[@hallowtrash9874]

1939 start

[@awildfilingcabinet6239]

Machovec he already did

[@mateoisgood2742]

next on taureor *getting my child into Harvard without them going to school*

[@rhino1207]

we need this

[@JohnClark1984]

Soo pull an aunt Becky?

[@tjb_6203]

Would watch that tbh

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

@@pompomdomdom someones salty

[@archdukefranzferdinand567]

@Neon Blood no it isn't

[@gaevar66]

Dmowski: *seizes power in poland* *5 seconds later* Gomułka: mom said it's my turn to be in power of poland

[@Anatoli_Punto]

Hey, please don't think i'm a grammar nazi but it's Gomułka not Gormułka

[@gaevar66]

@@Anatoli_Punto aight

[@suclox12yearsago56]

Anatoli_RUS Grammar communist

[@Coinfliptails]

@@Anatoli_Punto Grammar centrist

[@Anatoli_Punto]

@@Coinfliptails Grammar Social Liberal

[@dirk3k278]

"We are running out of infantry equipment, but we're also running out of Germany." LMAO

[@luftwaffle4993]

We dont need Equipment if theres no one to fight

[@kuhlerkarl4473]

Different Name for the challenge: What if Taureor was in charge of his home country

[@kon1841]

But he was many times

[@kuhlerkarl4473]

@@kon1841 In real life

[@kon1841]

@@kuhlerkarl4473 Oh my god. YES

[@niemabatanatenlogin]

yes please

[@guywhorpk2017]

wait he wasnt already ?

[@basecoat1966]

Taureor : For my next Hearts of Iron challenge, I shall play as Bulgaria. My monitor will be off the entire time and I shall use only my left hand on the mouse.

[@tjb_6203]

Breaking news: „Insane Conservative man takes over Poland, refuses Advancements in anything, still conquers all of his neighbours.“

[@krasnamerah1926]

We have God on our side, after all!

[@FeHearts]

Alvin Benrick One of the PLC’s mottos actually was “Si Deus nobiscum quis contra nos" or in English "If God is with us, then who is against us.”

[@Ethan11892]

Why specifically conservative? Is this a joke I'm not aware of?

[@krasnamerah1926]

Polish and Indonesia are religiously conservative, the difference is the religion. Poland is Catholic, their flag is white and red Indonesia is Islamic, our flag is red and white

[@jimi5014]

Ethan R conservatives are supposedly against change, right? research would change things

[@PacificEmperor]

New challenge: Form the European Union as the Netherlands. Focus war goals only. Basically you have to go down the Lead the Minor Democracies route as the Netherlands. You'll be able to diplomatically annex Belgium and Luxembourg. At the end of the branch, you'll get a war goal against the UK and Germany. Go to war with Germany and knock out Germany and Italy, and go to war with the UK and knock out France. You don't have to complete the wars, just acquire the required provinces and use the decision to form the European Union to complete the challenge.

[@andriesbakker4861]

It's actually easy so :/

[@sku36]

Taureor cant stay away from order 66 even if it means 66ing himself...i love it

[@SpeedSlowVideos]

next challenge: world conquest as bhutan without doing anything

[@duckduckinator3185]

“ Annex_all “

[@thegrayguard1087]

Taureor - *Wakes up* Taureor - Hold my beer

[@theitalianjojo3440]

Ok, here is my next challenge:unlock "bearer of artillery" or however this is called.

[@carltonleboss]

Good old Wojtek.

[@simrandhaliwal6913]

Carl Busani underrated comment

[@kevinboros7427]

He probably did it by accident when he was playing regularly 2 hours after he bought the game.

[@karma_cardinal]

"- research is useful, but not useful as flexible foreign policy." those a powerful and dangerous words, sir!

[@ECloudDog]

Let's be honest, we all unintentionally did this challenge when we first started playing hoi4

[@Matt-bz2dm]

Yeah, my first game was as france and i didnt research anything else than infantry things, and I was like "why is my industry so shit"

[@ECloudDog]

@@Matt-bz2dm oh boy can i relate

[@Copperhell144]

I don't believe you people, lol

[@tjb_6203]

Mat LaVache my first game was as Italy, and I conquered Ethiopia. My ambition was to be less shit than Italy was irl.

[@Author_Paluthor]

@@tjb_6203 Not exactly a high bar

[@AspirinAddicted]

18:15 That‘s literally the UNO reverse card meme

[@jameslatini]

Taureor is the only KZbinr I can rely on for never clickbaiting

[@512TheWolf512]

now an actual challenge: as democratic Ukraine, starting in 1939, get rid of the USSR without in-between steps (russia existing, as a puppet or otherwise)

[@barney10240]

Hey, the omsk bird

[@abyssstrider2547]

@slavboi Its just a game who cares

[@CanalGian2012]

18:31 "Poland takes Berlin September 39" LOL

[@Xenuos]

You're too powerful for this world.

[@FriedrichBarb]

Can you imagine if Taureor has a smurf account for HOI4 multiplayer playing regularly and just totally wipes the floor with people, I feel sorry for anyone who unknowingly plays against him lmao

[@mlgsty8880]

Why does he always forget that he can easily get more cores by just conquering Lithuania as Poland by forming Commonwealth. It bothers me always.

[@Taureor]

but it wouldn't be Poland any more

[@californiaranger6232]

Fair point

[@_MrMoney]

Ok, here's my challenge: Play as Shanxi, stay in the Chinese United Front, stay non-aligned and annex all of Asia

[@NintenDan.2005]

Aren't you forgetting someone?

[@_MrMoney]

@@NintenDan.2005 someone?

[@NintenDan.2005]

@@_MrMoney Mengkukuo, I know its mongol but still.

[@_MrMoney]

@@NintenDan.2005 it's easier as Menguko, they're fascist and with Japan, this means it's only needed to not join the war with China, break free from Japan and then you use the best ideology in the game to conquer China, while if you're Shanxi you have a worse ideology because you'll actually have to wait before declaring wars and at the start of the game you most probably get attacked either by China or Commie China

[@NintenDan.2005]

@@_MrMoney OK fair enough, still hard though!

[@chak8950]

I can't even imagine what the next challenge will be anymore...

[@jarskil8862]

Conquering world as germany without army?

[@panzeelecreusois6357]

@@jarskil8862 non-aligned Luxembourg world conquest in 1936 with artillery only in very hard difficulty and no civilian factories

[@low--]

@@panzeelecreusois6357 World conquest without starting the game

[@panzeelecreusois6357]

@@low-- world conquest in real life

[@FriedrichBarb]

Colonizing and terraforming Venus using Vietnam by 1941

[@corporalzeph2518]

It's 3 in the morning, Taureor. Your uploads are what keeps me up at night.

[@FriedrichBarb]

Sounds kinky

[@truschel]

Play as Greece at starting date 1939 join in the allies and try to survive against the Axis. You have only a couple months to prepare because Italy throught the focus tree gets a war goal on you.

[@simonwilliams1156]

You mad lad, you've done it.

[@rhino1207]

challenge: using only one battalion-sized divisions to conquer the world with your favorite country.(I mean you can use multiple divisions)

[@antonieegas557]

I love your video’s, i don’t even care what you play as. I find your hoi4 videos extremely relaxing and i always watch them before going to sleep. Keep on the good work man!

[@hupoi]

I have a challenge: Play as Haiti and conquer America.

[@angelodecock6280]

I'm loving your videos Taureor, these inane challenges are amazing to watch. By the way, lend-leasing equipment from countries you annexed to your puppets doesn't reduce autonomy, I've seen you do that a few times, just thought I'd mention it.

[@nitramx9930]

Next challenge : only great war tank

[@elaborationrefuser828]

I don't really understand why are people suggesting more challenges, I mean, after Taureor killed world as Iceland it's pretty much obvious that this man is fucking unstoppable.

[@awildfilingcabinet6239]

Challenge: play as the nice Canadians and end all conflict by defeating all the warmongerers Basically, be Canada, go independent and take out all three major factions. It includes the allies I guess it’s kinda similar as hero-hito, but it’s Canada

[@t.stephan4213]

Ethiopia 1936! Don’t know if it is possible, but I guess for you it is :D

[@pedrofrancisco2291]

Not that difficult

[@6IM_]

Or you could play Ethopia and annex Italy

[@pancytryna9378]

@@pedrofrancisco2291 I have no idea how to do this Italy just attacks and wins

[@pedrofrancisco2291]

@@6IM_ now that is a challenge

[@Copperhell144]

@@pancytryna9378 I saw one guide retreat all soldiers to the two or so mountains in Ethiopia (one of which is the capital or a victory point or somesuch, so you don't collapse even after losing all your other territory?). Italians fail to break through when you're in the mountains so you just bide your time, build up your army then strike back after some time. Haven't tried it myself though, so maybe it's a lot harder than it seems.

[@MadsenTheDane]

After having watched a bunch of your videos from time to time, this one tipped the scales. I have now subbed to you

[@filzhut6234]

**Breaking News** Polish infantry regiment attacks German tanks with rifles! More on that later at 5. Back to you Johnson.

[@etho7351]

At 5 o' clock... And it seems the German panzers in the first ghost division under Rommel are in fact being pushed back by the poles. Some of which don't even have guns. But the weather forecast seems nice under the Reich. Back to you Johnson... Oh yeah Johnson lived in Berlin... Back to you steve.

[@filzhut6234]

@@etho7351 Polish divisions have started attacking our Cities with everything they've got. It is a vicious battle. Shoes are being thrown, bullets are being thrown (due to lack of guns) and Potato grenades are being tossed at our Panzers. Wait. *BREAKING NEWS* Polish divisions armed with nothing but their helmets seem to have cap- *BREAKING NEWS* Polish divisions seem to have captured Esse- *BREAKING NEWS*

[@crazyyyyy2945]

Taueror, I have a really hard challenge. It is to play as Malta and annex Italy. (start as UK and then release Malta)

[@kyo4510]

I bought the game around 10 days ago, all because your videos made me addicted to the game xD

[@JK03011997]

Future challenge suggestion: Outsourcing. You are not allowed to build factories in your own land and the only troops you are allowed to recruit are colonial templates. The goal is winning that games version of WWII w/o a single person on your home turf dying. You may play any country in Eurafrasia

[@FedericoMartens]

Hi Taureor, I noticed that you could use "Request License Production" in this challenge to have access to better equipment without research. Maybe the number of civs that it would cost is too much, but anyways. Also, by conquering Lithuania you could form the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to have cores (and lots of manpower) in some soviet and german states. Great video!

[@bravoxray1280]

All this deflates me. I get the game. Watching videos. Learning the program. Thinking about the moves. And I see now over and over that it doesn’t matter. It’s a brute force game w/ an illusion of choice.

[@0rangevlad]

Hey, I have a challenge for you: Be Afghanistan and Conquer the middle east

[@tjb_6203]

He is gonna turn this into a 5 Minute Video.

[@FreaKCSGOHacker]

next up on Taureor: "Luxembourg takes over the world with no divisions"

[@foooooof]

i think he did that one already. he also did it without any land

[@NiceGriffin]

@@foooooof yeah but that one was to easy so he did it with negative land. Without taking casualties.

[@velozio]

Everyone: How far are you gonna in HOI4 challenges? Taureor: You are correct

[@AWENGERR]

Here is my challange : Regular Difficulty Historical AI On Start 1936 as Poland Must Stay Neutral You can't conquer anybody You cannot give Gdańsk and Eastern Territory You can't release any country (Ukraine, Belarus) Try Survive

[@fastfire7409]

Now do Ethiopia vs Italy buffed to the max

[@anthiloppa]

"September 1939, polish troops invading Berlin"

[@ferdinandpetit190]

Nice video as usual ! For next challenge in the same Idea it could bé fun to try the same but only with licence construction :)

[@vladikaranov2241]

I'm proposing unaligned Byzantium challenge. It looks like pretty challenging to do as a Greece because it is hard to turn back to unaligned from evil ideology.

[@alexandru6342]

Annex the soviet union with Non-aligned Romania with Carol II, and you'll find an easter egg.

[@datguy6101]

Hold ctrl and alt when putting down a frontline with your field marshal to have one uniform frontline with all attached army groups distributed evenly. Looks nicer too

[@tobiasGR3Y]

19:36 There's no beauty in that. That's just Poland being stuck between a rock and a hard place :(

[@luismedina5792]

I find it hot

[@Taureor]

that was sarcasm. I am Polish and my family was hurt by this

[@santiagomarshall1447]

There are few things more satisfying then seeing a new Taureor video

[@Maxims1]

Taureor should remake the umayyad caliphate

[@seensatan1543]

Challenge:Play as Uruguay and take over the americas

[@tipexx7052]

Dude I'm around 200+h in the game and I have problems following your vids 😂. Can't even win as a mayor country. Keep up the vids love them 👍

[@SuperWolfman9]

Okay....the fact you had Polish troops marching into Berlin in September 39 was fucking perfect :D

[@joshwashere2005]

Great vid I really enjoy watching your videos

[@jacknapier2949]

You should do a video unlocking Wojtek

[@refmors2796]

Next challenge: conquer your neighbors without using national focuses

[@Amare_Sentire]

I'd like to see you try and do some historical challenges, such as Germany using only historical division templates and number of divisions. Go to war with the Soviet Union in 1941. Don't annex or puppet any non historical countries prior. Etc.

[@hypervermin5272]

Recreate the iron curtain as any country except USSR? You can chose any country that was apart of the iron curtain. I think that would be a creative challenge and force a semi historical play through

[@itsjustanapple5452]

Now do with fully mechanized army

[@X_Tron]

Play as Malta and take every country that borders the Mediterranean (decolonized)

[@casenjones826]

“We’re running out of equipment. We’re also running out of Germany.”

[@Gaming_Samurai-uc8kb]

I have some ideas for your challenge, 1)play as Ethiopia and conquer all of Africa 2)same as #1 but with Liberia 3)play as Siam and become a power house 4)play as communist China and unify all of China including Tibet

[@caiarcosbotias1710]

This is specially ironic as mathematics was one of the main sources of international prestige and respect of the Polish State at the time.

[@carbonado2432]

That was so underhanded lol

[@SaviOr747]

Every HOI4 Player: Let's develope a ncie modern army! Taureor: Mh, I dont like micromanagement.

[@TrueBren]

Got a challenge for you - Poland - Beat Germany and USSR - limit casualties as much as possible - conscription law can't go higher than Volunteer Only - can't go fascist/communist - economy law Civilian Economy

[@Sovietube]

far from their land as they made their stand they stood strong and the legend still lives on!

[@etho7351]

YES!

[@etho7351]

I was just at their concert is San Francisco.

[@mcalkis5771]

That went so much better than I thought it would. Impressive! Edit: Will there be more Minecraft?

[@theexam7394]

Very nice video. Not too many cheeky tactics.

[@george87hd]

Next try to play as Denmark and take over Germany

[@Kjajo]

What is a Denmark?

[@FoxbatSVK]

Flexible foreign policy, AKA not having a problem backstabbing anyone and everyone allied.

[@Samwiz1]

Play as 1936 Chad and declare war on all three major factions. We're in the endgame now.

[@lordstarlin1949]

Release and play as Scotland and then conquer the UK and USA

[@loanstowalruses]

Can you procure licenses from puppets? Might have been worth using that to get around tech requirements. Maybe there's an interesting challenge to be had by playing someone using entirely licensed tech? Yugoslavia, Italy, Japan, and one of the Chinese states all jump out as potential options here.

[@alexanderreny1823]

Do a super country challenge when you help a word power get really strong Then betray them but you cannot order 66 them

[@SokolS125]

This is basicly how it went down

[@Diegovnia]

33:21 STOP!!! My Hussar can only get so winged!!!

[@GermanRaptorLPs]

I'm looking forward to hearing your son in the video again! 🤗

[@alapotato9367]

Eisenwolf that sounds... _wrong..._

[@readmyusernameifyouregay8486]

@@alapotato9367 ikr

[@billidewck6135]

Churchill: Finally! Poland destroyed that damn communistic plague. Perfect day! Adviser: Emm sir, I need to tell you something about Poland... *one-minute later* Churchill: [long and terrible British curse]

[@marrow2261]

30th September 1939 Real Life: Warsaw capitulates to Germany Taureor's reality: Berlin capitulates to Poland

[@riggy1990]

Here’s my challenge. Play as Belgium starting in 1936 and create the modern world map. The reason as Belgium is we need Brussels to be the capital of the eu. When you conquer the uk, annex Scotland, and leave wales/Northern Ireland/England as the uk (I’m picturing brexit, but then a Scottish referendum where they rejoin the eu) Exceptions: Kaliningrad can join Eu if you can’t get it to Russia/ussr. Taiwan can be part of prc if you want (or it’s too hard to get that to nationalists and prc annexes mainland). And micro-regions (Portuguese/French India, portugese/French/British China can be whatever you need/can achieve) So from what I see, you just have to conquer Europe, deconolise africa, break up the ussr ensure communist China conquers all of China + Tibet, and beat Australia to release png. Don’t even have to touch America (can release all the islands by European conquests)

[@user-bz1od4yc5r]

as soviet-released ukraine, liberate every colonized nation in the game. (and ofc colonize the colonizers) (puppeted nations also count as being "colonized," so like the phillipines is colonized by the usa and etc.)

[@נירמנחמי]

Play as Germany in the mod of everyone v.s Germany and take London, Paris, Rome and Moscow.

[@Novac_Alexandru]

lol wow cool :))))) I played hearts of iron 4 With Austria and i form a faction called Austro Hungary and i invite many countryes and i start a world at war. Lol Big like!

[@boseebosee9337]

Open the subtitles 23:37 "We just wanna take out the Virginianus" 30:07 "I just Took a shit on the soviet union"

[@ashc4h488]

1/4 polish deaths gets scarier the more you think about it

[@snipingflute4346]

I’m trying to imagine what was Poland’s base equipment for this alternate timeline. Technology that was issued since the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921?

[@maddyschad6649]

"We're running out of infantry equipment, but they're also running of Germany."

[@paulo0698]

As Austria, restore the former Austrian empire of the Napoleonic era, you can't join neither the axis nor the commintern at any point, finally declare war on France and change their ideology

[@veeraeka4296]

Imagine being a leader of a country in ww3 and you have to fight against general Taureor.

[@chayse2556]

During the period where Germany was your puppet, you could've demanded license productions for their updated equipment - a request which they cannot deny to their masters.

[@paca7429]

i feel like if this man went into the military, he'd be the greatest military tactician ever.

[@misiek8995]

Next challenge - restore Austria-Hungary as Croatia

[@lordmouse9985]

Misiek you can’t. Only Czechoslovakia, Austria or Hungary.

[@asbestos_remover]

@@lordmouse9985 croatia can too

[@misiek8995]

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