The Fortress Cities - Hoi4 MP In A Nutshell

[@Bokoen1]

This video doesn't have the standard Germany ball in it. The reason behind it being KZbin demonetized my last Hoi4 video for "Hateful and derogatory content" due to the swastika in the ball. This was however undone as KZbin recognized it was an unjust demonetization as the German flag during WW2 literally has it in it. Anyways this video was edited on the basis that I wouldn't be able to monetize in the future with that in them. This will mean it'll be back next video again! :)

[@Anonymous-ld7je]

Rare KZbin actually realizing they were wrong and being logical W

[@zachdrago8130]

wow they actually let you keep it? are you sure you were actually talking to a youtube employee?

[@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong]

fr KZbin censorship is pretty relaxed rn. You can literally upload songs like SS Marschiert In Feindesland without constant reuploads, lol.

[@logoncal3001]

Meanwhile youtube does fuck all to all the SS edits out there

[@stryke5729]

Tbh I don’t mind a non swastika version of the German flag just because it makes it easier to show people stupid memes without them questioning me on why there is a swastika going on

[@bigcheese993]

"Who's in Paris?" *atomic blast melting the flesh off my face and flinging my body a 1000 yards away* "no one is"

[@typicaluser697]

But there are still germans in bunkers and ruins holding the city

[@BagofBeans1]

Thrice.

[@bigcheese993]

@@BagofBeans1 Billions

[@No.00000]

​@@typicaluser697Literally Krieg lore

[@typicaluser697]

@@No.00000 real

[@vuckopalibrk6576]

"North Africa goes wrong causing Germany to rely on a schitzo strategy" Imagine my shock when I hear the opening voice

[@GAarcher]

*Millions Must Safari*

[@jeffreyrook8073]

I was about to bring the "Joe Biden moment" meme back, after seeing a Kamala ad before the video. I hit cancel then play, only to see them going ALL IN. 😂😂

[@votecthulhu9378]

I sure hope the allies dont resort to triple nuking an allied City

[@anadaere6861]

They go to the glassed out city and somehow still take shots from the broken glass lamo

[@Kaiserboo1871]

They Nuked Rome AND Paris. All that cultural heritage just… completely vaporized.

[@amraniussilber5244]

Why did I see a mental image of Truman just staring blankly after the triple nuking.

[@BUMMY105]

Not just an Allied City, the CAPITAL City of said ally! With roughly almost a thousand years worth of history within it! :D

[@simonnachreiner8380]

I am actually kind of annoyed that you can nuke the core of an ally without consequence. Repeatedly nuking Paris would never have been allowed by the free French government. If it had gone ahead anyway Free France probably would've left the allies all together or face a mass mutiny.

[@Warhawk_of_Chogoris]

Whenever Swimmy and Golden are on the same team it’s like watching 2 baboons discover fire. I need more

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Or they discover the deep tech of Light Artillery Gun and wim the game

[@DomWood]

it's truly incredible how two evolved human beings can reduce a complex, nuanced game into exactly that experience

[@frankfletcher_1]

I loved the part where Italy said "It's Joever" and dropped out of the presidential race

[@kiddykitsune8158]

Italy was in the presidential race? Hello?

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

@@kiddykitsune8158 Did you watch the video?

[@kiddykitsune8158]

@@Gaelic-Spirit yes, I mean the way the comment was phrased sounded like some Biden would say

[@azlanadil3646]

@@kiddykitsune8158 I assume this was a joke?

[@exoticequinox4483]

Medieval castles being refitted with pak 40's in archer towers was not something i imagined possible in hoi4

[@wetplant1748]

love how as soon a swimmy used the anime loli voice, golden was suddenly very willing to send help to swimmy

[@Frenchofficerlsoldbat]

HIs weeb side couldn't resist.

[@Tlhague998]

Swigma diplomacy at work

[@Dargesh890]

What program did he use for it?

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

2:47 For those who want to hear it.

[@colincrew1857]

Shoutout to his favorite game on steam

[@ДмитроПрищепа-д3я]

3:30 AM, time to watch another banger episode of my favorite show, "What if getting a frontal lobe lobotomy was a prerequisite to becoming a world leader".

[@vinculaomega5283]

>Implying that it actually isn't

[@dakotaohayo1082]

Haha same time for me

[@kingcrafteroderderfahradtu7331]

Same time

[@FF-pv7ht]

turning ww2 into ancient warfare of mostly sieging cities, the script was good in this one

[@alect525]

There is the argument that something similar sort of happened during the war in cities such as Leningrad and Sevastopol, only in the reverse positioning

[@pedronabais1456]

​@@alect525i mean l mingrad kinda but stalingrad had conetant combat and invasions not so much calm like typicap sieges

[@rotmistrzjanm8776]

​@@alect525But in history too - most of the french port cities were heavily fortified. Americans tried to take Breast. They succeded but 1. They took heavy losses 2. They didn't achive total victory. After securing the city and port the Germans retreated on small isles making each of them small fortress so they could distrupt any supplies transport 3. Fights took too long 4. Port was cometly devastaded and it would take too long to repair it. So all of that operation was in vaine. After that Allies just gave up on taking city ports in France because it made no sense so acctually those holdouts kept fighting up to 9th May 1945

[@halo43v3r7777]

rare moment when the voices in goldens head were actually kinda cookin

[@jingleredthesecond529]

BoBiden1 himself

[@GAarcher]

*Joevered*

[@keirangray902]

Bidto Muscilini

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Mein Joe.....it's Joever

[@numbah1550]

Cannot believe they turned most French cities into star fortresses

[@Kaiserboo1871]

I love how the allies just straight up nuked Rome and Paris. All that cultural heritage just instantly vaporized.

[@typicaluser697]

But it worked (at least rome)

[@Kaiserboo1871]

@@typicaluser697 But at what cost!?

[@typicaluser697]

@@Kaiserboo1871 at the cost of 1 nuke (and providing funny video)

[@shikikankillzone4239]

​@typicaluser697 1?

[@oliverhendrix8176]

And the Allies killed the Pope.

[@thefireballleague3758]

To think that France literally surrendered Paris to the Germans to protect its heritage just for the Allies to have nuked it 3 times is actually hilarious ngl

[@Jake_the_tank]

Allies: *Nukes Paris repeatedly, Axis forces still survivkng inside the city" What is this? The Krieg Civil War? Holy shit lol.

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

THE CITY BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD DID

[@pancakegod6958]

@@rebelgaming1.5.14that’s immediately what I thought.

[@pybro4755]

Goated Reference in chat here

[@pancakegod6958]

@@pybro4755 I just got into 40k like a week ago and the first thing I started reading was Krieg. I haven’t finished it due to being so busy but the reason I got into 40k is because of the story of Cadia

[@tcrow5144]

@@pancakegod6958 Cadia still stands brother

[@Four_clownpieces]

President swimmy’s immaculate performance on tackling the healthcare issue in Benghazi

[@Ozzystrayroo]

He beat the benghazi healthcare to death alright.

[@officialvallen]

This was honestly one of my favorite livestreams in a long time. Using a feature like forts that have been in the game forever and giving it a breath of fresh air was awesome to see. Also the way everyone in the Axis got behind this and pitched in was so wholesome. 10/10 content

[@Technae]

It gave me the worst flashbacks to eu4's fort system.

[@commisaryarreck3974]

@@Technae Want to unlock an ancient trauma? Pre-common sense EU4 Every single province a full siege, before fort modifiers Sieging Russia with that...

[@nope7120]

Golden really cooked with this one,but the Denmark landing fucked him big time.

[@officialvallen]

@@nope7120 my mind immediately went to the line “D-Days in Denmark are bound to fail” lol

[@Arthion]

2:20 You practically replicated the actual historical Fall of France lmao. It's amazing how well the fortress-cities worked at buying time at least.

[@liladoodle]

Germany: *Has problems the whole war.* The Allies: "Well this sucks".

[@cyaniderap721]

6:11 ah yes the “Baltic states offensive operation” and “eastern balkans offensive operation” in northern France

[@deeznoots6241]

Himalayas defensive order

[@thundercheckov9782]

The parisians getting out of the catacombs and metro tunnels to have a cigaret after being nuked for the third time: "c'est la vie" Charles de Gaulle asking what were these mushroom cloud he just saw and why has the top of the eiffel tower landed in Orleans: "Merde"

[@MyBlindThirdEye]

Jesus, how much armor can the allies pump out? Twenty tanks dead in 43, another twenty in 45, not to mention those lost in the d-day pushed out off-screen in 44. Freaking wild

[@Michaelonyoutub]

That why the axis really have to achieve an insane level of success early on, so by the time the allies can just pump out an endless amount of tanks, the axis already have a very large force of their own that can out kill their production while minimizing their loses to manageable numbers. If the axis don't achieve that kind of success, often they have to hail mary on an insane barb in 1941 or even 1940 to finish the game quick and early before the allies' production outpaces theirs.

[@tharathamrongnawasawat8057]

Thats what happens when Japan died. Usually they at least distract the Indian garrison and the canadian and SAF tanks there

[@furinick]

I love these games yall play on the losing side but still keep going instead of "waa waa its joever i dont wanna play waaagh"

[@SaulBadman-wb5kt]

Yeah in normal competitive games whenever there is a huge encirclement or something the axis give up but the Bo squad straight up Larp Downfall until peace conference

[@Sc0ts]

Ah yes, the fabled counter attack by Steiner to relieve the fortresses and throw the Allies back. What do you mean it threw them back into the channel not once, not twice, but thrice?

[@Michaelonyoutub]

There was honestly probably like a half dozen ddays, but only the bigger ones are really shown. After pushing them out, the germans were too busy reorganizing the eastern front to set the atlantic wall up again, so the allies were free to just reinvade basically unopposed, so they did a few times. They would quickly halt at the fortress cities and then get pushed out by some tanks.

[@ashutoshsethi6150]

Throw them back, colonel

[@epicninja2378]

@@Michaelonyoutub Honestly it's insane how much ic the allies can get in this mod, they're just throwing dozens of tanks into a meat grinder and coming back in 6 months to a year with just as many.

[@calderhall1794]

the defense in depth strategy proves triumphant.

[@andrew_wow6892]

"We're defending Paris to the last man" *Paris gets nuked thrice* "And there he goes, the last man"

[@Lp-army1]

Versailles holding out:

[@hensomm]

"What do you mean you nuked Paris?!" "Wait do you mean singular or plural? Either way, yes."

[@boogitywoogity248]

There’s not a single civilian left in France at this point sadly, the axis soldiers in Paris were futurama mutants fighting from the sewers and still holding. They say if you hang out by a lamp post in Milan in the middle of the night, you can still hear the whispers of fallen waifus, and the broken echoes of Presidential campaigns.

[@CapitalShipBisko]

Peak fiction over here

[@ethanfoo9154]

Swimmy is a menace with the voicechange ong.

[@merc6trey919]

to be fair the fact that he held out to 46 and killed that many allied units is simply embarrasing

[@manwithaplan5503]

"Mein Fuhrer... ze Krieg, ist Joever." - Alfred Jodl to Hitler when asked the current status of Steiner's counterattack to relieve Festung Paris, 1946

[@MrElrondmcbong]

Lmao right at the end: Swimmy, we got your lamppost back 😂😂😂

[@josephcola9662]

That fucking killed me lol.

[@alect525]

Ironic, he could save others (Choking) from the Lampost, but not himself

[@MrElrondmcbong]

The last hoi4 games were reall banger, i think swimmy comming back brought back some life in the scripts

[@Fr33zy159]

"Your lamppost is back!" All time greatest line, I fucking died.

[@dimabrutalenko5704]

It’s 3:33 am, just wanted to go to sleep after another session of screaming and blaming ( average hoi4 mp experience) but now there is something to brighten my night

[@bearistotle2820]

I can not get enough of Joe Biden as Il Duce.

[@robertalaverdov8147]

Fortress Europa roleplay.

[@JamesHock]

You guys were really cooking with the script today. One of my all time favorites

[@keirangray902]

2:56 Golden:"Yes Eva Brown Chan"

[@rathisuhh4198]

In this alternate universe. Balkan nationalists will be arguing over the composition of those two Yugoslav paratrooper divisions rather than over haplogroups.

[@Madhijz]

Paris, the city of lights. Really REALLY bright burning lights. cool match I don't recall you guys getting so stuck in that people end up nuking eachother.

[@magmat0585]

this feels like a throwback episode with the humor, in a really good way

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

Bo: *Is playing as Yugoslavia.* The subscribers: "Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete?".

[@liladoodle]

To be fair, Bo has played Brazil and Mexico in the past.

[@bierrollerful]

10:40 Allies: "We did it, Patrick! We saved Paris!"

[@rhysofsneezingdragon1758]

I can't tell who won this. Whether they eventually fell, or the allies went "I'm done with this."

[@archdornan3694]

“bulgaria, you’re out!” “…” “….” “can i come back?” “sure whatever i don’t care”

[@alaztor1490]

THRICE NUKED, STILL STANDING.

[@Ozzystrayroo]

Paris Invicta

[@Mumbos_Trusted_Advisor]

The entire reason why the retaking of Paris was an accomplishment OTL is now gone. It's just a series of craters around what used to be the Eiffel Tower (German AA Site). Italian craters exist too. France over all loses like 5 million people from the nuking of Paris and the fallout on the surrounding cities.

[@whodis2614]

I love the fact that there would be no good guys in this universe at the end of the war. The Axis were committing their warcrimes and the Allies nuked multiple massive population centers multiple times, multiple of which didn't work lmao

[@leonardocontin937]

Yes, Italy and France would surely forever be UK and USA enemies Even if France was in the allies that wouldn't last long term when the Capital gets nuked And the entire Catholic world which is half of Europe and all of Central and South America would hate them for having nuked the Pope

[@Valen7141]

Didn't Golden ask once if bokoen would come over to his house after drinking with him And now he was like "I wonder what would have happened if I did it with my friend" Idk man, just feels like foreshadowing

[@USELESSDCK]

The question we all have is: Will it be a boy or a girl?

[@Valen7141]

@@USELESSDCK if he does it with Bokoen? Depends if he's put on the dress he wore that one time again

[@Cleo-h3x]

Nice the Perfect time for HoI4.

[@lordyoda607]

French people: why are you nuking us

[@bigbubble4282]

0:55 Extremely old reference to an EU4 video. Nice

[@Stoner-Thangs]

I was suggested here while listening to the song “Dupe - Kontrolla” 😅😅

[@generalgrievous4579]

Jesus how many D-Days was that lmao? Holy hell though, those Fortress cities look worked a lot better than I expected, hot damn

[@teslo8020]

Unironically best bokoen video of the year

[@KingoftheWelsh]

Waiting for the intro to eventually just become a Star Wars like scroll screen of text

[@sheacorduroy5565]

Wow, this seemed like a really effective strategy! I wonder how it worked out in real life!

[@tinchorb1340]

There was this big ass fortress in some french city in the atlantic that pretty much held up to the last weeks of the war or after the war had "officially" ended, cant remember rn

[@typicaluser697]

​@@tinchorb1340just about to say that

[@typicaluser697]

​@@tinchorb1340i mean, it didn't helped them to defend as they just got encircled, but still quite impressive

[@leilagorrilla4842]

@@tinchorb1340 There's multiple actually, Lorient (Atlantic), Saint Nazaire (Atlantic), Dunkerque (Channel), La Rochelle & Royan (Atlantic)

[@sheacorduroy5565]

@@tinchorb1340I’m aware, but they didn’t really help the German war effort, outside of having to maybe have a couple hundred men in reserve for them. They were basically all on islands and the Allies essentially determined that they just weren’t worth wasting manpower on capturing lmao

[@thegameinspector6910]

A lot of true alt historical events just happened in this video! 😂It was cool to see the fortress cities, that was a unique approach!

[@HawkeyeJoe88]

“Your lamp post is back” Iconic.

[@carlosmiguelteixeiraott3643]

He's LARPing, hello? Swimmy is LARPing, cringe, cringe, cringe.

[@cc0767]

I love the voice changer stuff, I need more of this. Reminds me of the hillarious game when Swimmy used the female voice.

[@sykles8589]

They reinvented the midieval fort strategy)

[@jaggelion4301]

Swimmy was so dedicated to the bit, he ran the north africa campaign like biden ran his presidential campaign

[@Fernybun]

It's Joever, we didn't received the Bidenillion rifles needed.

[@Brightheart_the_Sentinel]

Allies: "We did it, Patrick! We saved Paris!"

[@craimaxblack]

At this point, Paris was just a pile of ash after 3 atomic bombs, they were literally fighting for nothing

[@Aproppo]

With the near constant counterattacks in France where all the DDay forces died, I truly began to believe in the Endsieg smh.

[@kirby1225]

Nothing better than a desperate axis hold w/Swimmy, Golden and Bo

[@nolianpazac8440]

Can anyone explain what program is used to make different voices like that of joe biden ? How does he do it? Thank you in advance

[@CasualGamingDad187]

Them nuking Paris: Cowering in the dirt, thinking... what? That you might escape the coming fire? Your world will burn until its surface is but glass

[@weon_absoluto]

low key one of the best i have watched

[@4sakenreaper42]

Awesome video, one of your best in a long time👍

[@starhaven1881]

I'd love to have heard from the allies at the end of this game, the salt would have been amazing to listen to

[@Redcoat_]

Great now there are bots in Bo’s comment section

[@gandalfdergraue6540]

Nice the Perfect time for HoI4

[@anubis_desert]

Everything new is well-forgotten old. Talking about festungs. And Swimmys Ai bOiden was genius.

[@magni5648]

2:34: All the best french units getting trapped in Belgium by a push to the coast through Sedan? Nah, that could never happen.

[@domschra]

"mein fuhrer... Paris has been glasses... Thrice"

[@IdfkIdfcYolo]

This is probably one of my favorite episodes so far from this entire series.

[@radioactiverat8751]

Somebody actually got historically Dunkerque’d lmao

[@justinneilson1263]

Happy 30th birthday Bo!

[@YotoBoto]

This will go down as a Bo classic

[@garrettgoss2691]

Holy hell, Swimmy's AI Joe Biden kills me

[@RonaldTrumpet7956]

GET DOWN MR PRESIDENT!!!!

[@Zquirrelthing]

this one was a banger. the script as impeccable

[@alfredopotatogaming7033]

another stunning axis victory

[@APeculiarHabit]

What a video to watch as the Paris Olympics start.

[@justmymage]

Wonder why no one else has tried fortress cities. Also the AI voice bit where help was asked was hilarious

[@RisingFlag100]

I literally was just watching your videos for hours, and now I get a. New one, fuck yeah

[@Holsp]

The city strat was interesting. Perhaps you could pair the cities with mountain tiles so that you don't get the encirclement penalty and still have good defence.

[@highgeneralkage2748]

IT'S LIKE HE ACTUALLY HAD PRESIDENT BIDEN IN THERE THAT'S GREAT

[@RandomAutist]

Swimmy using those filters is making me upset. I love it.

[@dreamypizza8458]

bokoen calling his units west and east modrics as yugoslavia is hillarious

[@richardnixonpog9925]

I want a US political simulation game where it's just Swimmy doing the voices of each candidate

[@Nmoren]

I can only imagine how many people died in this version of WW2

[@mr.AndreiC]

Bo please we need a "Shit's toast, it is, oficially, Joever" sound effect

[@Yacovo]

They got the allies to nuke Paris, so I count that as a win. Thanks for the video.

[@rainbowappleslice]

I'm very interested in what golden was talking about with his friend.

[@deluxehipster8714]

I was half cooking half watching this on my phone and out of nowhere I hear Mr President and I instinctively saluted? Hello?

[@-caesarian-6078]

These Golden-Swimmy games are always the best lol