The "Hardest" Hearts Of Iron 4 Achievement In 2024

[@walnzell9328]

Walraven van Hall was a real man. He was a banker and financed the Dutch resistance. There's even a movie about him.

[@Roaringdawn]

Pretty sure most advisers of countries with focus trees were real.

[@walnzell9328]

@@Roaringdawn I was referring to ISP's comment on him. I thought he sounded familiar and sure enough Walraven is not a made up name.

[@nader50752]

He was a hero and a martyr

[@Tom-oj7si]

He was a coward and a traitor

[@nader50752]

@@Tom-oj7si only to fascists.

[@a_person_of_all_time]

I have never played long enough to see the 200 Japanese division guarding every single square centimeter of Japan and the 150 allied divisions on one signle island

[@Gencrossbones]

ISP casually forcing Japan and the Dutch to be best friends again. Hilariously irl when during the Napoleonic wars when Japan was an isolationist samurai island when the Dutch lost their country to Napoleon and got exiled to their colonies Japan had to go to the dutch (btw they're literally the only people trading with them before the Americans showed up) to ask them what is happening in Europe.

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[@thegreekguy1124]

The Portuguese did too. Until they didn't cause Japan decided they were too Christian

[@jesperdenbraven1995]

Japan was persecuting their Christian population pretty badly at that time, the dutch traders were the only ones not caring enough about that to throw away a good deal

[@Njuregen]

@@jesperdenbraven1995 The Dutch never cared about religion much with trading. They also slam-dunked the Portuguese a lot in the 1600s over colonies. The fact the Dutch also massive disliked Catholicism and kept Japan updated on European affairs helped to keep the trade and relations good.

[@Gencrossbones]

@@Njuregen they did kept the whole Napoleon business a secret until the Japanese got suspicious and asked them directly. I remember after learning about it Japan made a group that's meant to archive everything but I forgot what they did exactly. They do kept trading with the Dutch though and yeah Dutch really didn't mind religion when it comes to trading unlike the Portuguese who kept sent missionaries in an attempt to convert Japan and caused the christian population to revolt which revoked the trading privileges of the Portuguese and Gave the Dutch the opening they need.

[@just__mate]

The Netherlands is definitely my favorite Dutch country in Hoi4

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@YouTubeShortHater]

3 hours ago is crazy

[@CarbonMonoxide798]

​@@KZbinShortHaterMembers who have access to the video early

[@YouTubeShortHater]

@@CarbonMonoxide798 oh alr

[@walnzell9328]

Believe it or not it's not the only Dutch country. Not even in HoI IV technically.

[@Brabantian]

14:03 fun fact, 70% of the fuel used by the allies irl was refined in aruba and curacao

[@R3GARnator]

IRL, it was exported from America.

[@Maximus-mf2ty]

I WANT THE RAT GIVE IT TO ME ISP

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[@cisarovnajosefina4525]

Who is isp?

[@ibeastee2435]

yea whoever this isp guy is, he better hand over THE RAT

[@huni1939]

Imagine being addicted to Achievment Hunting in Hoi4 (I can relate)

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[@mkolankov62]

I do not need to imagine I just need every shore state of a Baltic sea as Lithuania. (Good luck with your hunt, you will need a lot)

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

I can't, Paradox prevents me from saving, I never had a single achievement, like 85% of people if you check any Paradox game. Achievements give me nothing, I'll take the extra save slots for whenever I reach a bug or one of my saves corrupt. Also for mods. Oh, if you say saves don't corrupt often, it happened to me on my last Stellaris game when the Crisis started, rolling back a save fixed everything. And it happened to me quite a few times in EU4 and CK3. Thankfully, with extra saves, it's never been a problem.

[@snomcultist189]

@@MichaelDavis-mk4me Nuh-uh, here we like masochism! Ironman every single time!

[@pufffincrazy5275]

@@snomcultist189people who never do Ironman are strange. You just check the checkmark, and if you screw up, you’ve screwed up.

[@FiL_0]

Ah yes, the famous Dutch word of *slams head on keyboard*

[@steyn1775]

Danish is far worse

[@joundii3100]

​@@steyn1775Meanwhile Polish

[@DynMorgannwg]

@@joundii3100 Meanwhile Vietnamese

[@T54_tank]

@@DynMorgannwgmeanwhile Arabic

[@pufffincrazy5275]

@@T54_tank Meanwhile German be like: Haben Sie Kaftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung fur ihr Auto? Wenn nicht, Sie müssen einen Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaft kontaktieren, denn ich werde ihre Arse sehr höflich verklagen!

[@Nathan-kn1ox]

5 thousand away. Alf landan awaits...

[@jagplaysroblox2169]

ARLFF LYNDON!!!!!

[@waltuhwhite8770]

HOORAHHH

[@thenerdy0boist955]

The genuine confusion at 15:28 when he saw the AI stack 108 divisions on one island sharing but a Costco sample among them in terms of supply

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

"Is Japan still alive?" Historical accuracy at it's finest.

[@MikeCGannon]

Appropriate that this video drops on the same day as Netherlands advancing to the EuroCup semi-finals.

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Oh are we now? Good to know, good to know.

[@justmonez]

yes, the Netherlands being played by a Brit. were gonna face England...

[@Visseman2]

I thought that too. We def have beaten the turk!!! YAY :D

[@Panzerless_SG]

Dat was ook 't laatste wat we hebben gedaan dit EK 😂

[@JM4rch]

I can confirm we DONT wear wooden shoes anymore and we DO use bicycles and cheese

[@not2hot99]

I still wear my clogs semi regularly

[@simonnachreiner8380]

The Dutch have taken the bicycle and have twisted and corrupted it. For that there shall be no forgiveness, only hood ordiments. For legal reasons, that's a joke.

[@warlordofbritannia]

You wear bicycles and cheese?

[@not2hot99]

@@warlordofbritannia cheese, yes, the bycicles wear me

[@JM4rch]

​@@warlordofbritanniaYessir, i wear cheez and eat wood

[@kniviritsyn]

When you lose nearly 300 thousand men _three times_ in Japan so you do a cheeky bit of trolling at the capital for payback (they'll never see this one coming)

[@mlgsty8880]

I think why people considered so hard back in the day because we had Uber Germany AI who just steamrolled Soviets usually in early 1941. Allies could never win unless player carried them. Naturally every beat Germany achievement was a nightmare back then.

[@kd3045]

Was going to comment the same thing. Soviet AI was eating rocks during this time (which I believe was due to them being programmed to rush Service by Requirement which crippled their factory output and division count). Also, under the old air system it was easy to amass tens of thousands of each plane and there were less air zones. Against a post Soviet capitulation Axis Fortress Europa, you basically had to lead the charge with a pitiful small Dutch army with skies blanketed by 10s of thousands of fighters and thousands of CAS. I eventually got this achievement from invading Vladivostok from Japan (focused on beating them first) and marching through Siberia after poking around in NW Europe, Italy and Syria/Turkey.

[@Azaqa]

Even then it was pretty easy to manage a naval invasion and then just hold vs the AI, just make some space marines and call it a day

[@Drunkendino34]

No one’s gonna talk about the Greek carrier in the English Channel? 7:06

[@luckyluciano1584]

The scenario you made at 16:00 actually happened and was also a reason why that one Dutch prime minister got ate

[@Lauris-1887]

I always wondered why japsterdam is not a victory point

[@Bekas_i]

Je bent incorrect. Waar ligt Japsterdam? Het is natuurlijk Drents voor Drenthe. Het is geen stad, maar een provincie.

[@dariannnnnn]

@@Bekas_i I understood like half of that, crazy

[@krasnamerah1926]

@@dariannnnnn, same lol. The Duolingo lessons really paid out

[@GameyRaccoon]

Oh dat is Drents. Voor... Drenthe.

[@beanos7267]

1:20 "they'll truly never see me coming" *last surprise starts playing*

[@One_step_above_is_here]

Weed and flooding simulator

[@themightyhood5922]

The Germans totally got G E K O L O N I S E E R D In this video

[@thewafflecousins]

Wow, one of the most realistic peace deals I’ve seen in hoi4

[@ScotchWhiskey864]

After all the memery Isorrow has brought to the Swedish map painting community, I think they should make him leader of Regnum Bospori

[@gavinthejanitor]

dutch studies returning to the japanese curriculum in this timeline it would seem

[@jimtalbott9535]

10:20 - Germans ignoring Berlin, looking in the Netherlands “fûr dein suße Timotz“.

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Dutch Japan, bringing back the Dutch studies and monopoly are we? Very nice, great video!

[@mrpurple2943]

Gekoloniseerd

[@GameyRaccoon]

Specerijen?

[@zevhessels]

As a Dutchman I've come to say one thing: Gib mein Fahrrad zurück

[@Panzerless_SG]

Verkeerde taal maat, maar kan natuurlijk ook gewoon express zo zijn. We zijn uiteindelijk toch maar moeras Duitsers

[@Süd-deutsches-Kaiserreich]

Nein! Niemals

[@ProdTraptrader]

Bahah precies ​@@Panzerless_SG

[@NoremacEcallaw]

I remember that when man the guns came out the allies were incapable of doing a d day, and generally the axis were a lot stronger so i think that os why you remember ot being harder, i remember it as well

[@SilaenNaseReborn]

that's seriously one of the best peace conferences ive ever seen in hoi4, lmao

[@sneed457]

There was a period of time where this achievement was basically impossible as the axis would ALWAYS win.

[@cisarovnajosefina4525]

Historicaly dutch submarines caused havic on Japanese convoys as well

[@krasnamerah1926]

Ship-a-day Helfrich!

[@timeforepic_inc.2105]

11:46 among us

[@tristianmartinez3238]

Fun to watch! Never wanted to try the Dutch out, will see how they work!

[@MBeckers]

Don't worry about missing that last tile ISP, we Dutch people forget about Zeeuws Vlaanderen all the time.

[@christerprestberg3973]

Damn, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau proving they are the OGs, surviving to atleast 1947 ^^ .

[@MrGiselbart]

I got this achievement after a very painstaking playthrough and I shall say one thing.... convoy-raiding should earn -way- more war participation.

[@gunterhunerbein9510]

If the fnaf agony generation was real,then you would be a nuclear powerplant.

[@Deux_or_Sasha]

i miss the rat, i'm crying everyday at its tomb

[@brendanrisney2449]

ISP suggesting that a dutch oven isn't an actual thing and not just some innuendo at the end

[@FoakHome]

Oh wow, that might be the best and most realistic European peace deal I've ever seen in this game Im actually pleasantly surprised!

[@nicey9239]

Episode 23 of asking to play Poland, get Wojtek, conquer Jan mayen and play as Jan Mayne

[@justanotherredbeard4439]

Man taking the full Bakker Schut Plan claims from Germany kekw

[@griamadtre5642]

That is the most historical peace deal i have seen in hoi4

[@IQUnder30]

It turned into an Operation Downfall gameplay with Japan there at the end

[@bramkleinbeekman4884]

My fathers grandpa hid a lot of bicycles during the war. and stil got one left and is stil in use😊

[@daekathdaekath3581]

based and cyclepilled

[@nikola256jerkovic5]

Hardest one is 30 minits of hell

[@Graknorke]

That was a pretty smooth European peace deal.

[@wazoo41]

this was one of my favorite videos you've ever made

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

09:05 Dutch Republic borders moment!

[@DropKickVirus]

When your done with These A-Z, i propose Equipmnet2Z - Artillery,bicycle,cavelary,deez nuts,etc

[@jacobroeske2380]

Time to copy ur play through for an achievement

[@gamerpolandjd]

The real hardest Dutch achievement is not sinking into the ocean

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

You nearly pronounced Sinterklaas correctly! Well done! It's Sinterklaas, not Sinterklaus, but quite well done! Good job!

[@TheSourLemoner]

When britersteel and isp upload in the same day

[@6th_Army]

Dutch oven. Don't look it up. -ISP Well now I have too.

[@6th_Army]

Oh. It's just a type of crock pot. okay?

[@pokemata1035]

@@6th_Army Type in "Loud house bed" infront of it, it's very wholesome

[@Gosso-qi1vp]

Dutch hoi4 episode, and the dutch are through to the semi finals? Great night.

[@winowmak3r]

The achievement hunting has the A-Z vibes I came here for.

[@Tokugawa__]

I wont let you go without playing democratic Mengkukuo

[@bremnersghost948]

Beaver Riding? Sounds like a fun weekend in Amsterdam for sure.

[@larsreckert5423]

Schnorkel two 😂 Die Errungenschaft ist Schmerz.

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

"Dutch people, you gotta figure this thing out." Did you know English used to sound like Dutch? Yes it did. Because Dutch is quite a normal Germanic language. At least compared to English. So don't blame us for pronouncing things correctly, blame the English for mixing Dutch, French and Norse (Weirdly enough no Celtic, huh) together and then doing weird things like vowel shifts and other stuff to it to create this monstrosity of a language. Also like a fellow commenter stated, it's pronounced bev-ray-ding. But then less English. PS.: I am fully aware that you will ignore this for the bit, and I respect that. Never say I don't respect the bit.

[@Tijn-nd8ro]

im dutch omg so happy to see this yeahh lets go one more youtube video before the game thank god netherlands mentioned yayy bevrijding achievement ok bye gonna watch the video to all germans here: yes, i do still want my bike back

[@SsjjSsjj-q3c]

Bevrijding means that you get free of a war or a bezetting

[@luckylmj]

There's also a focus to annex Luxembourg and Belgium if they either don't exist or have capitulated. It doesn't matter that much but is a bit funny

[@Me1le]

buh-fry-ding

[@jimtalbott9535]

5:50 - Looks like Liberia!! Bwhahhaha!

[@genzedaph]

gravy

[@YourAverageBlockater]

Timmy

[@RedcoatHistory-gj7xf]

"To hell and back again"

[@HunterProffit]

Correction, lots of people go into the Amazon not many come out.

[@jimtalbott9535]

13:15 - Ewwwww, Kaliningrad Pocket’s a thing. Meh! Make a “Pocket Prussia”, and toss all the Wilhelms in there.

[@scyblox4723]

we need rat

[@nomi4103]

The title is not even a clickbait, it is a straight up lie

[@Jacksnowyy5008]

Bevrijding = liberation

[@BreadyBoi.]

the real achievement was the rats we demanded along the way

[@Victini777]

Give us the rat

[@thevillager8339]

Third time asking for flintlock only. If that is even in the base game any more. It sounds more fun than this at least

[@eduardomelo151]

The british were missing Hanover

[@goldfang5191]

bevring-a-ding-ding baby

[@FurryCruz]

Yeah I had to do all the work when did one, the allies was crap that game

[@17Se7enteen]

swedish bus achievement when, i don't want to wait all the way until M...

[@zedgy3559]

Day 310 demanding ISP to form Mongolian empire with generic focus tree and minimal mods

[@Tom-oj7si]

Not gonna happen

[@surjackeroff]

@@Tom-oj7siit's gonna happen all right

[@xXxAngryBird101xXx]

I'm looking forward to Greater Finland!

[@kalvaxus]

Imagine if the Netherlands actually got the Rhineland after WW2.. we'd buy unstoppable..

[@shorkan1000]

Easiest way to pronounce "bevrijding" is by removing the j. So it becomes like this: "bevriding"

[@crafeer]

as a Dutch person myself, i approve of this video.

[@ancaoraathasach]

How is it hard? You capitulate and let the game play itself. Also, it's pronounced Bev-ray-ding.

[@killerbiller666]

Seems like someone doesnt get what “” means when used in a sentence…

[@ancaoraathasach]

@@killerbiller666 Seems like someone can't read.

[@YouTubeShortHater]

⁠@@ancaoraathasach yeah “you’re” right

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[@killerbiller666]

@@ancaoraathasach allow me to explain then, if a word is in between two “, then that most of the time means they are being sarcastic, hope it helps!

[@SadisNic]

What timing, I just started going for the Don't Lose a Dutch European Core Until 1944 achievement today

[@chaoshero9560]

😮

[@JDothan]

It’s really easy, go non aligned and unite the Netherlands then just put a forts on the front line and specifically on tiles where they can attack from 3-4 directions

[@lmperlum]

​@@JDothanOr just go ahistorical. If germany goes through the civil war, they never will get a war goal on you unless you go communist and they democratic

[@SadisNic]

@@JDothan I'll try that next, I've tried communist Benelux twice now and both times I've had Germany break three 9-1 (EDIT: I even tried 10-1 23 width because it almost perfectly fills the 70 width plains, that always break, with three divisions) Engineer, Supp AT, Supp AA, completely supplied, full strength, lvl3 trained, using Grand Battle Plan (51 Entrenchment) sitting on lvl5 forts. I'm not shitting you just straight up losing battles where I've got 3 divisions with 2500 defense, piercing all enemies and like 70% army intel (three maxed out intel networks). Literally the only thing I can think of is trying to get air or SPAA space marines.

[@SadisNic]

@@JDothan Def worked, I guess having the Swiss, Danish, Czech, Swedes, and Norwegian in your faction does a lot lol thank you, now its time to invade France and the UK with the fleet I stole from Italy and form the true EU

[@gfdx3214]

I feel like this might be an infamous achievement because it is so AI-dependent. Enjoy trying to get back to Europe or to Japan when the AI loses fleets like America did at the start. Enjoy trying to push where you can when allies take any supply you may have, or disappear the moment you need to defend an area.

[@AhmedlaithPsyD]

Bitt3rSteel make a video about Belgium and iSorrowproductions make one about The Netherland in the same day? I can smell something weird!!! never mind its my room I am a hoi4 player btw! LOL

[@debjitmondal5281]

My name is not Timothy

[@biotools420]

Honestly I love that my favorite Paradox youtuber played my country again, you butchered every name, and it's fucking great. as a Dutchman, I was very high when I watched this, and it made it amazing

[@Wahsteinious]

March of the Eagles A-Z when

[@dhararry7929]

5k away from Alf Landon

[@jimtalbott9535]

UNDER 5,000 to AAALLLLLLFFFFF!!

[@azure-rblx]

tar tar tar tar tar tar tar tar GIVE US THE TAR

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of The "Hardest" Hearts Of Iron 4 Achievement In 2024 momentum 100

[@R0D18]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@BasicallyBaconSandvichIV]

Fun Fact! Apparently Klompen are even more protective then steel-capped-boots. Both take roughly the same damage, maybe Klompen a bit more. But when they break Klompen split, where steel-capped-boots fold in. So Klompen make it nice and easy to remove your footsies, the steel simply aids in crushing your feet and hindering any aid or removal. This is probably why I sometimes (quite rarely, but still) see construction workers wear Klompen, which is the only place I've ever seen them seriously used.

[@Left4Candy]

What were the final casualties against Japan..?