HOI4 Z to A - The Most Cursed Yugoslavia Ever?

[@AlextheRambler]

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[@explodingwolfgaming8024]

Nice!!+

[@This-handle-isnt-available123]

H o n e y

[@viclorenzo5016]

Very nice 👍

[@rebelraptor426]

Did PayPal buy honey or collab with them?

[@lukamilas2802]

Croats join yugoslavio so italians don't take ouer coastline, Stjepan Radić Said "nemojte srljati kao guske u maglu"

[@tromedlovdrolmai]

If ever you feel bad about a nation you're currently playing Alex, just remember: You still currently have 19 total nations to play in South and Central America and the Caribbean.

[@Finlandia_]

certainly a motivation Edit:tysm for likes

[@marrowkaiproductions7053]

Hey El Salvador is fun!

[@AlextheRambler]

Help

[@ink2954]

@@AlextheRambler Never

[@Finlandia_]

@@AlextheRambler You shall suffer like the first person that Did the concept of z to a

[@jimtalbott9535]

Alex at the end of this game: “Dude, where’s my army….and my victory…and my country?!” Perfectly recreating the experience of people in Eastern Europe at the end of WW2. Good job Alex!

[@MH-tr4kn]

Alex being able to lose is honestly why he is my favourite HOI4 creator. Because a good story has risks and stakes.

[@mappingshaman5280]

i mean here he didn't really lose, the game just fucked him over

[@MH-tr4kn]

@@mappingshaman5280 no he didn’t really lose here. He wins often because he has skills. Though having to struggle and take risks is is intrinsic to storytelling.

[@yaorito1]

You should collaborate with Bittersteel when you two meet in the middle of the A to Z/Z to A.

[@maple_ravel]

Unrated comment

[@leontes]

"We need to focus on industry." *leaves factories free on five-speed*

[@krasnamerah1926]

Tunnel vision....

[@krasnamerah1926]

Well, nothing compared to my rather compulsive obsession on checking actual maps to build rails in-game lol

[@slashgigawon]

@@krasnamerah1926 lmao

[@DovahFett]

@@krasnamerah1926 The only time I ever look at actual maps while playing Paradox titles is when I'm trying to recreate historical borders. And then I just end up angry at how undetailed Paradox's maps are.

[@MeLoNarXo]

Im pretty suprised that Alex only now has unlocked "No country for old men" considering hes been playing for 7 years

[@ciphergacha9100]

@@georgeholmes9445 he likes to give it the ol Alex the rambler try

[@tbr7035]

Most countries don't need to go that far. Even smaller nations can usually get enough manpower unless you did something like this and cripple yourself

[@tbr7035]

@@bighillraft If you are playing the game for fun most people aren't bothered about "sniping achievements"

[@jep1st]

I have about 600h in HoI4 and I have literally 0 achievements because I have always used mods :D Mostly music and flag mods but still, it disabled achievements.

[@Enward834]

Because he's been cheating up till this point. And this is the best proof..

[@azh698]

The thing about this path, Alex, is that all the states get free factories through their focus trees, which you get to exploit when you reannex them.

[@michael-edwardvan4369]

Unless you go the path where you dont reannex them like he did

[@azh698]

@@michael-edwardvan4369 Yes, but why would you do that?

[@Tsusday]

@@michael-edwardvan4369 Even playing that style, you never call in your border puppets into the war, you just request their troops and push from Romania which is your only ground border to the Axis... Alex is quite "outdated" as far as hoi4 goes, he used to be good but now he's lacking behind in game mechanics as it got more complex.

[@x3cion]

​@@Tsusday Not saying you are right or wrong, but this weren't puppets and it was overall probably more for entertainment.

[@Tsusday]

@@x3cion Fragmented Yugo is basically like puppets, they don't have wargoals, the added benefit tho, is that you can assimilate them all back in for extra factories, coring. So if someone declares war on them, you are not forced to intervene, and you're not forced to call them in as well. I did my fair share of early Balkanized Yugo, and by 1941 you can stomp germany nearly alone.

[@denisnikolaev2246]

The Yugoslav focus tree is quite outdated, but there was a great mod that came out like a month ago called Yugoslavia Overhaul where it's completely changed. Maybe you could give that a go someday?

[@Airblade101]

It was updated like a year ago

[@denisnikolaev2246]

@@Airblade101 no, that's a different one. I'm talking about the one that came out a month ago

[@kaka09876543210]

i playing it and it updating yugoslavia focus to modern hoi. gameplay still feel vanilla.

[@EduardoGonzalez-ux5nl]

If ISP losed his mind, alex certainly will lose his too

[@MBSteinNL]

The human player has an increased threat weight of I believe x1,5 or x2, that’s why the AI generally will prioritise you in single-player games

[@Gungnirs_revenge]

Yugoslavia fighters bonuses are crazy along with the devolved yugo then taking bulgaria as a puppet to get cores on it and I think a couple other countries aswell when you reunite the kingdoms makes you op

[@ian3as]

Loved when Alex said is so happy he doesn't have to play in China so quickly anymore and then realized the existence of Xibei San Ma 😂

[@justchangethenameyoutubegeez]

Another epic challenge, Alex! Thanks for always taking the road less traveled - makes it much more fun

[@EndParenthesis]

I'm looking forward to seeing you play Spain! Kinda hoping you go down their anarchist focus tree, since it's something a little different from any other HOI4 nation.

[@Big_Boy_Words_User]

i do certainly love this unique and original series that alex invented first, its an ingenious concept and alex should be proud of inventing it.

[@thevillager8339]

I can feel the originality seeping into my bones

[@Davidletter3]

Love the content Alex. I forgot Yugo would be so soon in a Z to A play.

[@calelretro5207]

This is the best rout. I was playing this a short time ago , when I inializated it, I was with 26 factories. When I reintegrated them I finished of with 72 factories

[@ertrick3693]

The self-inflicted border gore path is my favorite Yugo path. One of the hilarious things about all the Death or Dishonor trees is none of them lock you out of any ideological advisors, meaning you can do bizarre things like create communist Austria-Hungary or fascist Czechoslovakia leading the Little Entente without any mods.

[@The_Fishy_Fish]

I like. I comment. Alex is my favorite HoI KZbin. Many others are great, but Alex is my favorite. It's because of the goose. That, that and because he's fun and not concerned with meta or winning. It's how games should be *honking* played.

[@krasnamerah1926]

He's the very definition of fun and that's why we love him.

[@PoThePanda]

That cursed Yugoslavia is one of the strongest Yugoslavias ill have you know because of all the free divisions and factories from the basic focus tree!

[@wreaker1O1]

Hey guys let's reunite yougoslavia it will definitely be fun

[@David_Dude]

Yes you go Slavia

[@coolguy69420L]

Frongod

[@This-handle-isnt-available123]

Alex is always nice to watch on a saturday

[@leonardomoreira6162]

Woke up this morning, watched the RB Leipzig match, walked my dog. And now I'm watching this

[@hakku9344]

What's with the other days?

[@seagoingberry8171]

​@@hakku9344What other days, only Saturdays now

[@jimtalbott9535]

Engagement - very meaningful engagement. Also, chonk name suggestion: Herman

[@bluecatdk]

the devolution route is the most op route cause you can core hungary and bulgaria when you reunify

[@bluecatdk]

(also transylvania if you conquer it but eh)

[@mappingshaman5280]

you can core any nation you puppet. If you somehow puppet china or india, it's your core

[@pablo_escanor1681]

Tbh the yugo focus tree isn’t that bad, of course some more factories or manpower + new mechanics cd improve it. However the way to go is to create a billion puppets, use their troops to attack your neighbours and then do the focus that makes you annex the European puppets. So it’s quite good in that regard, especially since you are free to invade everybody thanks to that British guarantee. You can’t really play it any other way though, which is a shame

[@TheFosseArmy]

Something about our Alex lightens any bad mood

[@Torlonus]

Clearly the friendly space penguins are the answer.

[@BillosUK]

This is one of my favourite videos of HOI in the last 2 years that I've played! I love that you went done this route of the focus tree! Very fun!!!!

[@lololol246]

Alex, I gotta say, I love your content. Especially this series is already really fun to watch. Keep up the good work!!!

[@sparkythewolfgaming]

Sir Chonkington, the Chonker

[@chrisillsley5861]

That 'no Turkey' reference spoke to a part of my soul I didn't know existed :D

[@londonsmith1990]

Really excited for this series Alex!

[@gs-8279]

Paradox add a resistance focus tree for Norway, The Netherlands Yugoslavia and Greece. Their resistance movements were very important and in three of the cases the resistance movements overthrew the invaders by themselves

[@cantabitvidentis5569]

So glad someone else is doing all the nations!

[@jhonnik6913]

I thought you cant make balkans even more balkanized. turns out that you can

[@azh698]

If you really want stuff to go crazy, have all countries in the Balkans release as many as possible (Czechia/Slovakia, all the nations in Yugoslavia, Romania releases Transylvania and Moldova) then go into the Greek focus tree and do the focus that gives off-map civ factories for good relations with the Balkan countries.

[@Airblade101]

This route is actually amazing because if you swap to Fascist with the quick civil war then you can take puppet Bulgaria and Hungary. Once you do that and you do the focus to "A United Kingdom" focus, you get cores on them as well.

[@marekjoska9524]

Suggestion: co-op the country in the middle of the alphabet with Bittersteel

[@justpreston5583]

Oh how much do i love this unique and great series.

[@princessjules98]

Der Größte would be a good name for chonk

[@Davidletter3]

Surely The Holy Chonker is a name in itself. All praise the Holy Chonker

[@jamietus1012]

All of the commonwealth focus trees suck, I'd love to sea that DLC basically completely redone. Could make the pacific enjoyable if india and Australia were redone. Especially Australia, there isn't even a focus about militarily shifting towards the US, which was a pretty important part of Australian strategy during the war

[@LordDaret]

What the heck was that peace deal! My only guess is that you were either not a major nation or you were technically in a separate war.

[@SnazBrigade]

you should try and do something that ive failed at many times; (with or without modded focus trees) make Long Chile, IE, As chile, control all of the provinces (AND ONLY those provinces) directly bordering the pacific ocean on the West Coast of America from Tierra Del Fuego to the north of alaska. You can make any allies you want along the way and go any ideology you please as long as you personally control all of the states in question.

[@theStormWeaver]

Referring to The Chonk with a 'name' would be nothing short of heresy.

[@stevenda22]

For the engagement… I had a Canada game recently where the Axis put pretty much all their divisions on the Italy front after we invaded them that the Soviets overran them. All the way through they kept tiles on my front line with 13 german and 10 other nation units. I couldn’t push that much but the soviets just walked into Berlin. Bit of a bug there!

[@axonice]

Me, very casually watching a HOI4 video knowing that I have a giant exam (4 questions, 10+subquestions? each) in math (geometry, algebra, that 'good' stuff): Yyyyhhyy HOI4 help mjth maeth!

[@KuuraHelmi]

I could imagine playing as a the independent Yugoslavia nations in a multiplayer game could be hilarious.

[@edwxx20001]

the biggest problem is they mostly start later 38/39, have no factories, have generic trees, and start with no generals. would be cool if someone moded in from start and gave them all factories and unique trees.

[@ProgressOnly]

Hiding in the cabinet to try and keep your sanity for doing all of this...smart

[@TKnightcrawler]

Wow. You weren't even invited to the peace deal. What the actual heck? And you lost Bulgaria somehow. What?

[@isterlings]

Always glad to see you post!

[@minecraft_by_oz]

Austria will be the french word for bread.

[@marcomorgen300]

I propose, the chonk to be names as: Count Chonkula 1st of its name.

[@kzinscout]

Love watching a new videos of alex when ever I get the chance

[@pocketmarcy6990]

That peace deal was horrendous

[@AlexKS1992]

I think when you get to Xibei San Ma you’ll lose your mind.

[@robindemeyer8960]

Yugoslavia's tree was refreshed with botb.

[@aitxol0279]

5:51 Literally Rusia, Corea, Iran, Venezuela and Cuba

[@TheBrawlUnit]

That peace deal ending was wonderfully bad, thank you HoI4 peace deals, you always disappoint.

[@damiand6818]

Hey hey Alex I sure do love making a well thought out comment about the content of the video and including some joke related to the community and I definitely am not just posting this to appease that which must not be named so you get more views as you deserve my fellow canuck.

[@mappingshaman5280]

11:26 Mom can we have the sopranos? Mom: We have the sopranos at home? The sopranos at home:

[@wills4615]

Comment "Why would you go air as Yugo" Alex Also Alex like a minute later survivability studies

[@ThePrimePlaya]

I always enjoy naval Spain, any political path. Not sure why, but rebuilding a navel empire from the civil war just hits right for me.

[@NetCoreGames]

Slovak State!!! Most unknown country in HOI4.

[@overlord__l2267]

I don’t know about you, but I’m here to watch Alex having a bit of fun. If he’s having fun, I’m having fun….

[@Colin-yr1py]

Rupert seems like a good chonky name

[@CardinalTarjan]

The chonks name should be Johnald

[@chazbrown1139]

The Chonk shall be known as Chonk McChonker McChonkerson

[@yougoslavia]

Ah hell nah Croatia in the Axis.

[@mars-go7bp]

my face droped when you said yeman because im playing all the countrys with you

[@RogueCheyne]

Yemen next? That's gonna need some serious Rambling to make watchable

[@bob-qb9gw]

cant wait to see alex play as dongrub

[@benhaberl5322]

Tannu Tuva, Luxembourg, austria all gonna be brutal

[@jordangaskell534]

You are my favourite KZbinr and I've learnt a lot about the game by watching you over the years.

[@ashkaplan7548]

Name the chonker ISP

[@Chambers_90]

Peace treaty logic is borked, even when it's basically game over, I like to see the gigachad I would become!

[@joshreichardt2485]

A name for the Chunk.... Chunkulas the Conqueror!

[@mr_joksi]

Him destorys yugoslavia in ww2 Me as a Serb: THATS ILLEGAL! *vomits*

[@aaronmoots2797]

I just broke 1k hours on HOI4! Thought you’d be proud, Mr. Alex.

[@ShaunHill-m6s]

Brilliant content again! 🤣 Love watching the vids bro 👍

[@AlextheRambler]

Glad you like them!

[@technicallynothinginterest5134]

Alex just unyogosed Yugoslavia, Nice video though!

[@nelsonb7592]

I think the Chonko should be named Honko the Chonko

[@relcnt]

[@geraintthomas4343]

11:40 i would recommend personally. I'm not a good player but i managed to capitulate italy just with serbia 😅

[@johnrode43]

i would love Hungary to be updated it only really has 2 paths and there is no downside to have no king in a kingdom

[@loopyguy7611]

we need more of the BONG noise

[@goranohlsson9235]

I am waiting on a Slovakia gameplay in the 1939 start date.

[@mastermonkey2472]

In my experience the AI just loves fighting in Yugo for no reason

[@NisuUuno]

I guess I keep on rambling I'm gonna, yeah, yeah, yeah Sing my song (I gotta find my baby) I gotta ramble on, sing my song Gotta work my way around the world baby, baby Ramble on, yeah

[@StivKobra]

When Battle for the Bosphorus came out, Yugoslavia had this little update to the political tree where you got the option to dissolve Yugoslavia. Which was... interesting, although no one in their right mind would have chosen the option to give independence to the constituents and just play as the tiny Serbia with no industry. They also added the extra path for communism where you incite communist uprisings and create a faction with them, which is okay, I guess. But still, the problem with Yugoslavia is that it's still so bare bones. The political branch basically deals with its internal problems, which is fine, but after that there is not much to do. The most expansion you can get is to claim greater Yugoslavia through Bulgaria and central Macedonia, but you only get claims, not even wargoals. Yugoslavia as kingdom is just waiting for others to do stuff, because every single country around them has specific interactions with Yugoslavia: Italy can demand Dalmatia, Germany can demand Slovenia and then complete annexation, Hungary can demand the north, Bulgaria can incite the VMRO uprising, Romania can demand the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Greece can incite a communist rebelion in Yugoslavia, UK can just straight up declare war on Yugoslavia if Yugoslavia decides to stay neutral. Yugoslavia is not a proactive nation, it's a reactive nation. Which makes it just so boring... There's just so much wasted potential with Yugoslavia. They could have added some la Resistance mechanics to Yugoslavia to deal with the actual things Yugoslavia in WW2 is famous for: the resistance, the choice between the Royalist JVUO or the Communist Partisans, actual choices how much would you like to collaborate with the occupiers. Even further, if you manage to create a multiethnic country as a kingdom, you could have tried to expand your federation. Bulgaria got the focus to create a Balkan Federation. You know, Bulgaria, country hated by basically all of the Balkans at the time, can create a Balkan Federation. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia which can become in game a successful experiment of multiculturalism and religious freedom (guided by the player), can't do that? Yugoslavia which was on friendly terms with Romania and Greece, and has in its name "The land of the South Slavs" to incorporate Bulgaria normall as a core? It's clear that very little was done about Yugoslavia, it's the most bare bones country out of the whole DLC. There is a mod called "Arise Slavs! - Yugoslavia Overhaul" which deals with the issues of Yugoslavia in a much more interesting and believable way: centralization vs decentralization (without butchering your whole country), actual resistance mechanics, actual opportunities for expansion, several kingdom and socialist Yugoslavia paths. The mod is what the absolute basic Yugoslavia should have been. Kaiserreich makes Serbian created Yugoslavia have so many different flavors with unique mechanics, having you make a functioning multi-ethnic and multi-religious country work (or have you fail spectacularly). Calm Before The Storm mod had several developer diaries about Yugoslavia which deal with the intricacies of internal politics and creating a functioning government of Yugoslavia, a country filled with awful, selfish politicians, with several constitutional outcomes (and several rebelions). Which makes it such a shame that current Yugoslavia is extremely boring.

[@patrickfournier2305]

Congrats on becoming a permanent resident ya hoser. One of us, one of us...... ;)

[@TheVoltaro]

Shattered world Z to A, do it.

[@BoblopZmuda]

Subbing is like reconnaissance. Does it make a difference? Eh... Should you click it anyway? Yeah

[@bayat53]

They really need to update the yugoslavia tree post bba. It hasn't aged well at all

[@azb3728]

That ending…….

[@chodiloo]

If you want defenseive field marshal you should have promoted Vladimir Čukavac instead of putting def. doctorine on Nedić.

[@dylantomlinson218]

I can't wait for you to do Luxembourg loved this video!!!!!!! 😀

[@zuelfish1459]

Chonk should be called Banat!

[@ee9269]

Love the videos!