They made Paraguay invincible | Hearts of Iron 4 Trial of Allegiance

[@emperorcoffee5217]

"My country is trully disgusting, everything is just terrible" As a Brazilian, yeah i know, in 88 years and we are still deep in shit, now it is just shit with perfume

[@Kaiserboo1871]

Hey, on the bright side, at least you’re not Argentina.

[@daytenanderson3898]

Brazil is neat but the only Brazilian I know defends the electric suicide showers with such vigor I can't help but think you guys have lost your minds.

[@Laranja_Game]

@@daytenanderson3898bro, it isnt worse than the gas ones that could probably suffocate or explode you

[@emperorcoffee5217]

@@daytenanderson3898 they actually work great if u arent crazy to try and hook it up yourself without knowing what yo do, which is what a lot of brazilians do since hired electricians to do so are expensive

[@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3]

If you use sandels you won't get electrocuted!​@@daytenanderson3898

[@quox3987]

Remember when Rimmy was dreaming of running Arma ops with Vtubers? Now he’s inspiring others to become Vtubers.

[@neevasteria8060]

Dreaming? My man already made it a reality

[@quox3987]

@@neevasteria8060 Oh I know, he’s just surpassed that dream so far it’s funny to me.

[@Valiran9]

“Welcome to the Iron Cage of Paraguay. You’re fucked.” Remembering what I do of Paraguay’s behavior during the War of the Triple Alliance, yeah, that checks out.

[@EricGamer87365]

The energy in "CHINESE LITHUANIA?!" Is amazing.

[@inductivegrunt94]

I love how chaos is erupting all over the world as these two are doing nothing to cause it. These two have done nothing to cause any of the civil wars and wars and the whole world is on fire. This is peak Hoi4 and I love it.

[@Peptuck]

I have TRIED to intentionally cause this much chaos in my Millennium Dawn games and not gotten anywhere near this much random madness.

[@Haxelos]

We going back to 2018 with this one. Imagine still playing HOI4 (literally me.)

[@TheGloriousMoron]

Oh two years ag-

[@sunkiller5682]

im not like most hoi4 players (i only play OWB)

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

Same

[@StabbyTheSkaven]

@@TheGloriousMoronas someone who has watched that original "peaceful hitler" video semi recently, god did the time frame on that throw me.

[@bencurran3204]

​@@TheGloriousMoronme still not knowing most bands from at least the last 5 years

[@Lady_Amelia-Eloise]

So the reason for Paraguay being a literal defensive fortress is every one of their states has river navy which give massive entrenchment bonuses, division defense on core territory plus they have a focus called “cult of personality” which gives another defense on core territory and I believe entrenchment bonus So basically it’s pain to invade

[@kylezdancewicz7346]

Basically Paradox feels bad for their loss in the war of the triple alliance

[@lorenzmaut3708]

​@@kylezdancewicz7346 Paraguay is a weird form of jungle and a terrain so hard to conquer that their native language is still relevant and important.

[@mechahayato4988]

@@lorenzmaut3708 it is, guarani is so relevant to the point that it is officially the 2nd official language of the country and a huge amount of ppl speak that exclusively, also yeah the terrain is pretty fucked, theres a reason we survived the Triple Alliance War and the War for the Chaco cause realistically our army aint the strongest by any means

[@FuelDropforthewin]

​@@mechahayato4988I think that a complete refusal to give up also helps. You cannot be beaten if you absolutely refuse to accept defeat no matter what.

[@AnimarchyHistory]

My girl Saff is moving up in the world!

[@commanderhurst3283]

Omg Animarchy!? From the KZbin!? - Peter Griffin 2024... (Plz kill me lol, this is cringe and outdated meme 😅. Either way big fan Animarchy, when are you doing a part two on the Soviet air force?)

[@bubbasbigblast8563]

@13:25 *HSwMS Gotland:* "This is the Gotland! There are too many Chinese torpedo boats, we can't possibly fight them all off! We need immediate-!" *???:* "STAND ASIDE!" *Gotland:* "?!?" *Камчатка II:* "I'm coming through! This is Kamchatka II!"

[@Braindamagedpotato]

At long last , the prophecy has finally come true

[@fireflowers5105]

POV :Your Rogal Dorn Sieging The Eternal Fortress

[@Butter_Warrior99]

Paraguay in game unbreakable fortress. Paraguay in history: (Uncanny Mr Incredible.)

[@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3]

Brazilian infantry: kids having small hit box don't compensate for the small hp!

[@Butter_Warrior99]

@@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3 Nothing like some brotherly war.

[@Eodat]

​@@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3There were no kids figthing, Your army persecuted them.

[@swamproman2007]

what did that Brazilian man say that the administratum had to redact 💀

[@level20eevee75]

15:44 i misheard rimmy said civilized france instead. when he asked where it was, i was joking in my head about how hard it is to find a part of france that is civilized at all.

[@aidanfarnan4683]

*My Therapist:* "The Chinese Baltic isn't real, it can't hurt you." 13:14

[@Arenumberg]

Nukes also wipe out all aircraft in any airbase they hit, so another good usage. They guarantee any tile they're used on will fall though, if you ever get to the late game mass AI deployments they're very useful if not sometimes essential to push initially. But yeah - HOi4 doesn't model the near complete elimination of industry and people strategic use would entail. Also the Atoms for peace program was wild and did do a few actual things. The Soviet one was also.. mixed. I'm pretty sure one on one side of the divide started a natural gas fire that lasted decades.

[@ham_the_spam4423]

Didn’t the Soviets use a nuke to plug a natural gas fire or something because they tried literally everything else and was like “we’re out of options, a nuke can’t make this worse right?”

[@Arenumberg]

​@@ham_the_spam4423 probably what I was thinking of mixed with other stuff, also the US trying fraking with a nuke, good? times

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

​@@ham_the_spam4423How did that work out for them?

[@mikelnazkauta1317]

Awww, Whiskey, never change. Edit: Oh my god, the Iron Gate of Paraguay, the Dutch-German fortress, the jungle-mountains. This is great.

[@kuronanestimare]

Whiskey truly is Best Girl.

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Paraguay really decided to go full on Paraguayan War of The Triple Alliance with that insane defense.

[@JohnBrown-tw2qi]

One step closer to Rimmy realizing the weakness of his flesh and embracing the strength and certainty of 2D anime avatars.

[@liger04]

0:04 Is that a fucking GLEIPNIR DISPLATE!? OFFICER, GET HIM

[@tl1326]

I was lured into a trap that I had to see the end too, the 2nd phase was was absolute bullsht. that girl deserved to live.

[@cupojoe9462]

Love that you guys managed to roughly recreate the circumstances of the War of the Triple Alliance A war, where Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil all went to war with Uruguay Where so many Paraguayans died that the Pope briefly sanctioned Polygamy to restore their male population (Depending on very varied estimates between 7-70% of their entire population) And where Paraguay lost the conventional war before holding out using unconventional tactics for another year The Iron Cage of Paraguay is a fortress built of so many people And on a completely unrelated note, Paraguay is one of the few countries in south America where an indigenous language (Guaraní) is predominantly spoken (Though most people actually speak Jopara (lit. "Mixture"), which has much more Spanish influence than the "pure form" Guaraní taught in schools)

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Second War of the Triple Alliance lmao

[@shakey2023]

20:56 That would honestly make a fascinating Arma op, say 1950s, post nuclear exchange in North Korea/China, and your whole job is just to try and survive and figure out what to do next.

[@izzeixablau]

7:54 so good to hear that

[@a.morphous66]

"If your strategy starts with 'first we get nuked', I don't think there's much of a Step 2"

[@dinonuggets7148]

"the chinese own the baltic" god damn that belt and road initiative was really effective

[@aaroncabatingan5238]

A tip in dealing with the Dutch fortress in Guyana (or whatever that place's name was). What I did when I encountered that problem is send several dozen divisions to sit around it. Build new supply dumps and rail until the units I sent stop starving to death, and send my ships to convoy raid the coast. And then wait for a few months before attacking. Oh and also cas and air. You need those too. In a year or two, you should be able to destroy them. 26:05 The Paraguayans remembered what happened last time.

[@walnzell9328]

There was an idea to dig a canal east of the Suez canal using only nuclear warheads. I think Bluejay had the best explanation as to why that was a terrible plan. A bunch of scientists yelling instructions about how to bury and detonate several nuclear weapons over the gunfire and explosions of the local ethnic conflict.

[@ObviouslyNotXenrek]

NGL I could listen to Rimmy ramble on about military concepts and doctrines and history for *hours*

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

2:11 I mean, in real life by 1936, Pinochet himself was 21 years old, and he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Chilean Army at that time too. But yeah, Pinochet is one wild ride to read into, not to mention that he died in 2006 at the age of 91. Only 18 years ago.

[@liladoodle]

That wild ride began all because a Marxist (Allende) won the Presidential election, and the US had been responsible in some form or another..

[@NacoEU]

Love your content, Rimmy ❤

[@RimmyDownunder]

damn, a gold emu! thank you mate 🙏

[@void-creature]

Tíme traveller: moves rock The timeline:

[@Smeghead76]

18:17 "It's weird that they're [nukes] better tactically than strategically" - given that 1940s nukes were less than 50kT, that actually makes sense. Also, the plans for the projected invasion of Japan called for the tactical use of nukes... and sending troops into the freshly-nuked areas less than 24 hours later. 27:38 Someone had a real liking for Classical Greek names of cities?

[@1ManRandom]

As I understand it, the idea of using nukes to soften Japan’s beachheads was just a proposal made by a few generals who didn’t quite understand that nukes weren’t just really big bombs, it was never in the official plans, nor would the US have had the time to construct enough nukes to achieve such a feat. The ones they dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only two they had at the time, and producing more would have taken awhile.

[@Smeghead76]

@@1ManRandom What I've read about Operation Olympic has suggested that nukes could be used to reduce particularly stubborn centres of resistance - as opposed to glassing the landing beaches - if they were available in time. There probably would have been at least two or three available by the proposed launch date of November 1945, too.

[@AdamantLightLP]

@@Smeghead76 No, they only had one more nuke being made after the two they dropped.

[@Smeghead76]

@@AdamantLightLP No, the initial rate of production was one per _month_ so there would have been three available by the time of the initial landings on Kyushu

[@ksfirewolf1530]

Honestly my favorite fact about the Davy Crocket is the fact it was removed from service not because it's minimal safe range where the nuke wouldn't kill you was the max range of the actual launch system, but because they didn't want nukes in the hands of a bored sergeant.

[@magmat0585]

Rimmy's only 23? 1. He's mature for his age 2. He makes me feel old

[@thejestor9378]

How am I older than him!?

[@Wolvenworks]

@@thejestor9378ikr?

[@stanchpandora3658]

He sounds so much older, I can't believe I am only 3 years younger

[@lukalovric2463]

25:40 Paraguians: Iron within, iron without

[@statelyelms]

Lady Saffron was really chill, I hope we see more of her! And MAN this game was a right mess

[@silverbolt67]

Rimmy: List his losses in Paraguay and refers to it as a iron cage Rogal Dorn: First time?

[@zddxddyddw]

Now you know why it took the Triple Alliance 6 years to beat Paraguay. They fight tooth and nail to the end.

[@Otterdisappointment]

I was 16 in 2017… I actually like the idea of elite, fully protected, fully mobile army divisions with what would become France’s current *regimental* division structure (for tradition reasons). Add to that subterranean complex networks like a Fallout game. The single alternative we (the U.S.) adopted is a pick-me dedication to waves of infantry *or* tanks with endless supply trains, to be used at a commander’s discretion-because we’ve been so powerful that no one has considered the real possibility of dispersed, isolated units facing a peer force or insurgents being so stubborn that lazy, lumbering, random, green units do not work on them.

[@dragotonitrua5929]

No-one expects Czechoslovakia to declare war on itself.

[@Jojob541]

Paraguay deserves that defense modifier. They got destroyed by all the surrounding countries at once one time, never again! :D

[@unitedstatesofamerica4987]

Honestly It felt like seeing History repeat itself,the struggle of months to defeat am enemy in what should have been a quick war.

[@Khornecussion]

" Goo goo ga ga we all fight or we all die. " *Snickering.* Baby make boom boom.

[@MessoremMortem]

Play with her more often. She’s hilarious and the dynamic btwn the two of you is good fun!

[@unitedstatesofamerica4987]

Solano Lopez seeing the Special Military Operation to defeat His country again and just chuckling on the repeat of old History. Good lord as a Brazillian seeing that gave me flashbacks from my ancestors.

[@jorex4011]

27:52 "I want to never play as Chile again" Me everyday since i was born

[@RandomGuy-xr6ll]

25:30 honestly that’s just how the Paraguay war/war of the triple alliance went, it was thought that is was gonna be a short and easy war but as you said A LOT OF BRAZILIANS DIED (But don’t worry we scored with the Paraguayans after by murdering 2/3 of their population)

[@GhostCryProductions]

Rimmy and Saffron struggled hard with those forts. And I’m sitting here thinking, “should’ve used strat bombers.”

[@pybro4755]

REJOICE, RIMMY HATH RETURNED TO HOI4. Bro, the hit of sheer happiness seeing this pop up on my youtube, knowing that i can relive the nostalgia of discovering your channel because of hoi4.

[@CStone-xn4oy]

"Yay I did it! I did fascism." I love how funny that sounds both in context and out of context.

[@toxicthereporter515]

Rimmy making the PRIME MISCALCULATION of enabling NONHISTORICAL on stream.

[@Near_Toast]

"The Iron Cage of Paraguay" ah yes, the 4th legion, descending from Paraguay

[@CaptainCorneliusArgo]

Hoi4 is always a welcome return, though I'll probably never go back. You very nearly got me this time, but I am not going back. That playtime is staying where it is!

[@kaiberuss]

the davy crocket was a fucking nuclear bomb shot out of a recoiless rifle, that literally would kill whatever it fired at and whoever fired it so basically to whomever it may concern and return to sender all at once

[@aalbes50]

as a netherlander, seeing us give rimmy such a headache with that little pocket at his north was alot of fun

[@alehaim]

LadySaffron at 23:04 explaining how all of her country is dead is just too cute

[@definitelysomeone6131]

I watched this stream for 5 hours, but as soon as I left to make some Chili, I came back and the fortress had fallen.

[@Daf1400s]

Cant believe Rimmy didnt know about the Glorious Nation of Welsh Patagonia

[@StalkerQtya]

24:43 I mean, the Czechs are best known about being partitioned without a war and they got a focus tree. And right now Poland has the most extensive focus tree, while they were capitulated in a month by two superpowers. The danes surrendered within a day and they also got a focus tree. And now you got irrelevant south american minors, like Uruguay and Paraguay getting focus trees. Belgium at least is a sizeable industrial and military power compared to these and should received it's own update in La Résistance, but they didn't. Why? Because that would mean hiring another focus tree designer for it (not developer, focus tree designers don't program, they design) to look up a few wikipedia articles and shit something together in a month before release.

[@derekdoolittle257]

For some reason Rimmy always meshes well with Vtubers. His interactions with them are always awesome. Im convinced the Rimmy we see is just a super ultra HD vtuber model

[@typicaluser697]

Rimmy is just so jolly, so energetic, i believe he can vibe woth anyone

[@aaronlarson9718]

Hearing you two talk about war history is great

[@DokiDokiAviaryClub]

Really cool to see the collabs with Lady Saffron, discovered her a couple of months ago, never expected to see collabs with Rimmy

[@wilhelmkaiser1435]

Oh god he's turning back into his teenage self, he's back in HOI4

[@DefrostedChicken]

>The French got exiled to the Kerguelen Islands IS THAT A MOTHERFUCKING-

[@hunterjoyce3580]

Oooooh, so you think you can enter my impenetrable fortress of pain said Paraguay

[@nizu2003]

Fun fact about my country argentina the patagonian region during the 19th century and part of 20th century was called the welsh coloni because 80% of the population was welsh and irish but for some reason now days they dont like been call welsh or irish because all the things UK did to argentina

[@mr.overheat6914]

Was a Great Stream, Glad to see it became a video.

[@mrwri]

When is the hit piece on Starship Troopers Extermination dropping? That game's terrible development deserves the kind of roasting only Rimmy can provide.

[@dasji2]

Oh jeez has it gotten worse?!

[@mrwri]

@@dasji2 Yeah way worse.

[@wardenofall]

Love your vids Rimmy, If you're willing to make more Hoi4 content, might I recommend the Equestria At War mod again? Since the last time you played it, it has become astronomically bigger and better, with three continents instead of just one and many, many nation with unique and fleshed out focus trees, secret paths, and it is a great time.

[@calebcruikshank4341]

So what got from this play through is to basically play Paraguay and just hold to where it’s basically a meat grinder for anyone but me. I take that to note

[@aqvill406]

Paraguay mentioned I shall rejoice for the rest of my life now

[@sleepyboy633]

tbh, I have just finished watching almost all his hoi4 content, I love this, keep up the good work rimmy

[@austin6820]

It was nice getting a dose of nostalgia watching this video. But fuck I didn’t realize me and you were the same age Rimmy. Crazy how I was one of the 100k people watching your peaceful Germany video in my German class funnily enough.

[@eudescardozo3395]

"Pick a minor nation, and by the end of the tree you'll be the emperor of some ludicrious made up nation and you'll have enough buffs that all of your soldiers are superhuman" So the emperor of mankind experience?

[@francovillarroel505]

I love this video, it captures the essence of literally every HOI4 game I play with my friends

[@schmeissergod]

Perturabo was placed in charge of the defenses of THE FORTRESS OF PERPETUAL PAIN. Aka Paraguay.

[@jamesmccomb9525]

"Belgium doesn't have a focus tree because they collapsed 30 seconds into the war" By blood alone Ethiopia and Switzerland: 👀

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Arms Against Tyranny Denmark be like: 😐

[@LeafseasonMagbag]

WAR OF THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE PART TWO (Brazilian Empire and Argentina trying to invade Paraguay already tried to happen, it failed even worse)

[@JC12223]

4:11 Lady Saffron with the Stars and Stonks flag lmao

[@joesmutz9287]

Vanguard Chile's flag is just the Stock Market

[@bulldowozer5858]

Who would win? Fortress Kraus vs. Iron Cage of Paraguay

[@DailyXperts]

i did not even notice he was wearing a trash taste t-shirt during this video

[@Skykid3307]

This was a very good episode! I hope we get to see more of her and Rimmy's Shenanigans.

[@SpericGaming]

Oh this brings back memories

[@null4331]

As a Paraguayan I can confirm that this video is 100% accurate

[@deamongimli]

"But they're important for collapsing thirty seconds into the war..." Denmark:

[@kohlrabe1709]

Playing Paraguay is *incredibly* fun.

[@Electricfox]

20:10 Rimmy going full Twilight 2000.

[@In10tionL]

This video is what happens when you throw your history book in the shredder and give it to a dyslexic to put back together.

[@Sirscruggz]

And this game continues to amaze me with how batshit insane it’s scenarios become

[@samueltrusik3251]

It is truly the height of HOI4, this DLC.

[@Herstal8389]

Good to have ya back Rimmy

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

A glorious Paraguay

[@dafio2710]

I know I'm late but the reason the south of Argentina is welsh is that in 1865 a bunch of Welsh colonists settled that part of argentina. the name translates to "The Welsh Settlement", and it's one of the only places outside of Wales that speaks Welsh.

[@owensmith3485]

iron cage of paraguay had me creasing

[@bomberfett3439]

It's always a wonderful video seeing rimmy playing a paradox game again especially hoi4. Somebody break out boonaroo!

[@mranderson9553]

somehow there was still a world war, it just was a series of duals rather than one fight

[@aramisdagaz9]

I started rewatching some of your old HOI4 videos, so they’ve been showing up in my recommended videos. I had to do a double take on the date for this one.

[@ragingpsychiatrist5375]

That leon degrelle healed my soul

[@explosivo666]

Rimmy playing Old World Blues mod made me buy HoI years ago.

[@trashcompactodile8305]

1:44 Accurate description of the United States as an entity at this time.

[@apathymanthemundane4165]

"The great Solano Lopez...NEVER SURRENDERS!!"

[@cruye9633]

"My country is truly just disgusting. Everything is terrible." Yeah sounds about right for Vargas era Brazil

[@flannyfizzle9402]

This why ISP always dreads turning historical focuses off… haha 😂