The New Hardest Nation In Hearts Of Iron 4 - Hoi4 A2Z

So in the new hearts of iron 4 DLC they added a new starting NATION! Iceland... lets have some "FUN"
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[@T0ac47]

Remember that Slovakia is a starting nation in the 1939 scenario.

[@GameFanaticBR]

And "africa orientale italiana"

[@krasnamerah1926]

@@GameFanaticBR, is that BBA-only? Because i didn't own it and Italy directly held AOI in the 1939 start before automatically creating AOI a few days after starting.

[@JacobFraps]

​@@GameFanaticBRnot anymore its created a few days into 1939 thus you can't start as then

[@cbtillery135]

Why won't he play them

[@lorekeeper8117]

Now that A2Z is back, GIVE US THE RAT!!!!

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@nou9800]

🐀🐀🐀

[@barneycalhounlieutenant1st256]

Here, take Hakos Baelz.

[@patjaoable]

Cry about it

[@turanturkistan]

​@@EEEEEEEEE

[@lacrimosa7073]

Daily petition for ISP to play Malta in Kaiserredux

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@user-oz1hi7rd6n]

Isp PLZ do this

[@nou9800]

🐀🐀🐀

[@Schmiado]

I mean that's actually somehow fun, you can do a crusade and in the end form Byzantine

[@FionnH-B]

I sign

[@MikeCGannon]

A little know fact is that the last Viking to invade England from Normandy, William the Conqueror, also had problems with his invasion. But like ISP, he was able to go back to the autosave until he won the Battle of Hastings on the sixth try.

[@raggum1052]

Top kek!

[@xijinping4690]

William wasn't a viking, The actual viking, Harald Hardrada was unfortunately on ironman mode and got shat on early game 😢

[@joundii3100]

​​@@xijinping4690AI was cheating. Like, London to Stamford Bridge in 4 days ? Excuse me ?

[@obombomattatetrahondamog1461]

@@xijinping4690 There is a story of one viking, holding off the entire anglo saxon army for ages, until some dudes in a barrel, floating down the river, shoved a spear up through the bridge into his asshole no joke.

[@mori7929]

He was descended from Vikings and the Duchy of Normandy was founded by Rollo the Viking but William wouldn't have considered himself a Viking. He would have likely considered himself Norman and later English. The former of which was a mixture of Frankish and Scandinavian cultures, but was a settled Christian state that had no formal ties to Vikings or Scandinavian kingdoms

[@AbsolutelyNutz]

- You could join Japan’s faction and take parts of China (or puppet communist China for manpower) - Or I guess you could invade the Netherlands through Germany (with paratroopers on the victory points) for some waffles and sweet Indonesian manpower - Or you could just bring back the rat…

[@brusbackna9684]

taureor did a video on iceland awhile back and he implemented the china strat

[@rensvanderhoven4682]

Bittersteel did the dutch strat

[@Tom-oj7si]

Fantastic comment

[@MyUsersDark]

@@brusbackna9684 "..because he invented it! And then he perfected it so that nobody could ever beat his HOI4 runs!"

[@RlingCap-uk6rk]

Didn't they patch the China strat?

[@Georgeflord]

It’s funny how paradox gives Iceland a focus tree but they still haven’t updated the Japanese focus tree.

[@losisansgaming2628]

They did in waking the tiger.

[@davidwargamer]

@@losisansgaming2628it’s still trash tho

[@AdolfGOhomE]

Japan became the new Italy, it's saaaad

[@MsaneGaming]

@@davidwargamer just as bad as Germanys focus tree due to the lack of communism. You can only do it through an advisor.

[@zonnytiger2371]

Someone commented about this a while ago but a dlc around japan (maybe asia in general) and the US would be nice (instinctively said dlc cause paradox dont do good updates)

[@medievalthebucket5248]

Not as hard as life without the rat, BRING BACK THE RAT!!

[@primesonic4459]

RAt

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@patjaoable]

Cry more

[@lippi2171]

What the hell is the rat

[@Dr.ReflexBBiEaL]

@@lippi2171 an infantry template he used as Denmark while playing with bokoen1

[@captain_hammer]

If you pause at 15:04, you can see that ISP did all that for two cores on some barely populated states, 5% stability and war support, 1 level of infrastructure in one state, 3 building slots, and a naval dockyard.

[@krasnamerah1926]

Roleplaying is a serious business

[@ianmiller8399]

The dumb thing about the demand North Sea islands event is that the countries being fascist will double both the acceptance AND denial weight/chance…

[@Elvesflame]

Perfectly balanced as all things should be!

[@eyeblech2001]

So it does nothing?

[@Han_Solo2426]

i like icelands focus tree more than the other ones for one reason you can make destroyers and cruisers from only convoys without needing manpower

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@LAGAMAAA]

Norway had thid ability aswell

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

Finland has this ability too

[@SMGJohn]

What? You can convert convoys to destroyers? What the f*ck

[@Han_Solo2426]

@@SMGJohn 100 days for 1 cruiser and 50 days for one destroyer

[@wunderpuma4453]

The AI really showing their skill. Germany cannot kill the Soviets while not having the allies attack her. Yet Iceland can cap the USA.

[@sporgonmcgee]

You forgot to play R in A2Z, the nation is called the RAT

[@therealspicybadger5071]

The people have spoken ISP, bring back the rat

[@PlvsVltra-ji3rs]

A wise man said, when in need for easy man power, invade the Netherlands lol.

[@Thedefenses]

fun fact, the other paths for Iceland can get 4 research slots, its only the fascist path that´s locked to 3. another fun fact, the democratic/non-aligned path can get rid of and make the Icelandic economy a buff, the communist and fascist paths will have it be a negative forever.

[@vikingman5384]

That is a dumb decision. It is so much to research, so they should fix it

[@Kasaaz]

Wow, that split of India... by the AI is ... yah that's actually an impressive peace deal...

[@artquimine2170]

I have a wonderful suggestion ! I found a concept where you play every starting nation in HOI4 from the letter Z to the letter A ! It's called HOI4 Z2A

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

Geographynow said if there's a new nation, they'll break the alphabetical order to cover the new nation So I guess it's the same for A to Z

[@krasnamerah1926]

My guess is that once Pearls of the Orient (Southeast Asia DLC) get released, he would play as French Indochina

[@jacklubman1729]

Bitt3rsteel has a video he put out basically where he got the free stuff from focuses, and then declared on Netherlands to steal manpower from dutch east indies.

[@jacklubman1729]

This is the first time I’ve commented on your videos and I did it just to tell you about it.

[@dreyri2736]

I like how your infantry is entirely composed of policemen

[@rost123lav]

WE NEED A LUXEMBOURG FOCUS TREE 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@joesullivan7940]

I imagine we will get one for Belgium, which might force PDX to make a Luxembourg tree

[@Flavius_Theodosius]

Yes, we had one A2Z. But what about the second A2Z?

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@dreixler]

11:59 that is a juicy spirit for Iceland lol

[@UpliftThrone76]

WE ARE BACK BABY LET'S GOOOOOO Day Eighteen of asking ISP to do his next mega campaign in West Africa.

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[@rotomfan63]

Honestly I have wanted him to do one where he starts in Africa and stays there for so long

[@UpliftThrone76]

@@rotomfan63 I comment on every video he uploads, keep liking it, keep commenting. Eventually we shall rise to the top

[@gurigura4457]

The pain in ISP's voice when he saw that Newfoundland was American was *mwah*. I laughed.

[@christoperwallace6197]

Yea, the whole destroyers for bases thing.

[@RealTrey19]

Nothing like some quality Iceland gameplay from the depressed map man

[@wumbo2255]

2:48 "We can either get - steel - alumininums - tungsten - chromosomes" wowie

[@TruePolishGuy]

Does ISP has dementia and he is doing A2Z again. Oh God bless him and his dementia.

[@superyoshigaming57]

Iceland is the new "you're going to Brazil"

[@franciscostender3564]

You need to do a world conquest because just owing the US have you 18mil. I bet the Icelandic manpower would be outrageous at the end of a world conquest

[@yoshilovesyoshi]

ISP, can you tell PDX to give us a goddamn keybind map please? I really would like to have the ability to adjust my keybinds

[@eatmyshorts9931]

Fun fact for Iceland players, you can do the nordic council focuses if you have at least one of the scandis as your ally in a faction. You get some nice buffs if you have any ability to use it!

[@PRKLGaming]

The way he casually said "chromosomes" killed me

[@Driver-qt9jh]

- Conscript your entre country into the army - reduce total population to 0 I don't know if its possible, but this would get you the closest to finding out.

[@alphadron4073]

An issue with an early collab as Iceland might be that one civillian factory you have at the start, given the civ requirements for a spy agency, let alone the actual collabs.

[@mr_goose7481]

As an Icelander I LOVE that they gave my country a focus tree

[@JoelSyverud]

Islandveldi out here tryin to preemptively solve the Battle of Britain 🤯

[@D4nk0_01]

One thing missing from this viking campaing is the norse god RAThor

[@Soldier-bo7uo]

This is the earliest I’ve ever been to a newly uploaded video and I’m still not even close to being the first person to watch. That just shows the dedication of your fans ISP, I think they deserve a reward, something special… like maybe… the rat

[@legaullonapoleonien8760]

Nice episode of A2Z as always. For Iceland achievments, after capping the UK, you could declare war against Vichy and Spain to get their lands and theirs manpower.

[@quicksecret673]

After the achievement series if finished, u could do a series where u do every path of each major

[@Eazy-A_2005]

The video we never knew we wanted but the video we needed

[@DarthEstebanMontoya]

Best way I've seen is go in after the Dutch and take the Indies for the manpower.

[@blockytart]

the alternate universe where christopher columbus is a viking

[@154Kilroy]

Anyone else think its weird that steel is a resource that can be discovered? You have to make steel... its kinda weird that its not a building actually. I know there is a building in rt56. But it just kind of exsists in vanilla.

[@michaelchristy506]

Doesn’t matter how many times you do A2Z, GIVE US THE RAT!

[@Swbossdestroyer]

HOLY MOLLY ITS BACK

[@LSDuke23]

I will never stop gravvying my timmys when you call me a gravy timmy

[@painlesschip5366]

blud never did slovakia in hoi4 A2Z 1939 start date

[@Theaudacity787]

Give us the rat

[@ultrahevybeat]

invading the whole of america to raise one statue of some dude is pretty great

[@wesley_4444]

Ending with 18 million manpower is wild

[@Voslaarum_]

I have a strat for you on how to win easily: BRING BACK THE RAT

[@GG-do8wu]

Petition for the continuation of CK3 A-Z

[@diamondsam]

A-Z is back, huh ok, neat, time to wear my Greece-o-slavia tshirt while watching this

[@ZYKLES.mp4]

WHERE IS THE RAT

[@snakkze]

Hey ISP can you play the Liechtenstein Mod that has been released lately. It has custom Focus and Achievements(I mean "Liechtenstein [Arms Against Tyranny Support!]")

[@samueltrusik3251]

I love the Oil decisions for Island, allow it to become a lot more self-reliant.

[@sichentang1515]

Isp: NEW-FOUND-LAND!!

[@grozzelg5952]

Love the video bud now give us *THE RAT* right flipping now 🔫 yes i do have a water gun and i will not hesitate to use it if u chose to not give us *THE RAT*

[@dexterwilliams2520]

Iceland would be a much easier nation to play as if you were led by someone named Alf Landon.

[@godzilla36812]

Hey isp wasn't joking. Youre in a coma. Wake up, timmy. Your family miss you.

[@CubanPlantTurtle]

Paradrop the netherlands to suck up all that manpower, after eating germany.

[@Tom-oj7si]

Now do Slovakia, who has always been a starting nation

[@parkedcar3411]

I can hear the mental deterioration in his voice just from having to return to a2z

[@ThePurplePeppy]

4:52 Neville Chamberlain moment

[@scepii]

Quick tip, u could get a lot of manpower as any of the nordic countries if u just join the war against the allies or the chinese factuion and get a lot of non core manpower buffs. Just take a few provinces of India or China for example and ur set for the rest of the game.

[@FlashGamersNetwork]

A2Z is not over until you play Slovakia...

[@thomascardella6250]

Welcome Back ISP🎉🎉🎉

[@mertatalar205]

A2Z YESSSS

[@lordz19]

Holy moly its back.

[@infernowar8790]

Can't wait to see Greenland playable

[@temy4895]

Bittersteel took India for his Iceland run, which as you aren't playing India doesn't have the recruitable pop debuff, so you get oodles of manpower.

[@kennethmoses4900]

You can’t run forever, my lord. BRING US THE RAT!

[@eccentricartist3996]

Where the rat, bring the rat back

[@walnzell9328]

Fun fact: Some of Hitler's advisors thought about instating a neo-Germanic pagan religion for the Third Reich. This being almost the same as the Norse pagan pantheon. Odin was known as Wodan, for instance. Hitler thought it was f*cking stupid. So anyway here we are in the fascist viking path for Iceland.

[@henrie_but_its_spelled_wro8935]

20% non-core manpower advisor

[@someguyplayingagame7118]

good ol' EU4 reference 2:42

[@medicman4444]

Omfg the tube actually told me ya posted something it's a sign!

[@napion9675]

truly a land of ice

[@liam609]

Steel, Aluminum, Tungsten or CHROMOSONES

[@undercoverjesus9352]

Thanks, ISP, i just opened youtube to eat my dinner to, and your video popps up I hope the peace conferences wont be so bad that i have to vomit

[@zaoda1357]

fun map man

[@danieldiedrich1164]

I am so sorry for you playing Iceland, but please, bring in the r a t 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀

[@154Kilroy]

Some ideas for places to attack; Taking out Netherlands early and annexing the Dutch East Indies for manpower would be easy. Joining the war in China with the Japanese. If you do your own naval invasion you should get that manpower pretty quick. Getting the collab and capitulating them early would be pretty important though. Attack Ireland. Not too much manpower, but its in a prime spot to invade England and would still be something. Hit Iran, okayish population to work with, oil, and right next door to India where there is a ton of Manpower. And you can go into Indochina too. Siam, same advantages as Iran, except rubber instead of oil, and the added advantage of a border with Malaya. Spain after the civil war. They'll be weak, wont join a faction, and will offer a rather large amount of manpower compared to some other options here. Plus they have the best navy on this list to take. China has the most risk, but the most potential reward. Taking the Dutch out and annexing the Dutch East Indies is probably the easiest, and second most rewarding. Maybe the most since the resources are better. But taking out the Dutch early has been done many times. Siam is probably a little but better than Iran, but might be a tough target if you have to wait too long. And if they join the Japanese, that could be an issue. Ireland might then be the most logical choice after the Dutch. But personally I'd want to see the China strategy in a video😂 Siam would be the next choice.

[@AngelBloodriver]

Isp not calling me a gravy timmy is almost as bad as THE RAT NOT BEING HERE WHEREISTHERAT?!?!?

[@preyo6511]

I am not an everyone. I am a gravy Timmy.

[@ChadTanker]

"we will have no manpower" end of video: 18MILLION

[@Grothgerek]

We all know, that the paradox developers know how 45 day focuses work... despite this, they had choosen to not use it for the one new tree it would have really made sense. By the time I have the bare minimum (becoming viking and converting transports into ships) most fo the world is already in full war or conquered...

[@wheatlycrab4868]

ISP, we know what you did to the rat. You can't hide your crimes any longer.

[@krazeyish]

Imagine the next DLC is the Carribean nations. Trees for Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Haiti. Secret suprise tree for Curcao.

[@VasiliyOgniov]

That's what I had been asking for so long - some contemt for Central and South America. Right now it's just a fucking barren wasteland

[@mappingshaman5280]

The middle east is more likely than the Caribbean

[@drippyamongus3235]

Play Denmark arms against tyranny next!!!

[@napion9675]

BRING BACK THE RAT ISP

[@patriziobasilico4030]

THE RAT, T H E R A T

[@SebiSuper9mil]

The series is revived!!!

[@juanmendez3290]

BABE WAKE UP NEW HOI4 A2Z JUST DROPPED

[@Technae]

do a challenge run where you do not produce any military equipment, convert all mils to civs, only build civs ofc, and buy all your equipment from the global market

[@KV_85U]

THE RAT IS NEEDED

[@Theaudacity787]

give us the damn rat already

[@Robinjhoe1]

Didnt know that Bo´s grandfather was the fascist leader of and alternativ Iceland