This Germany Disaster Save Shows Why You NEVER USE THE 1939 START DATE

[@AlextheRambler]

*This one was an oof*

[@christerjackson9589]

What is the ratio of fail - saved tho?

[@liphrium9858]

Who are you holding hostage alex??? Let them go.

[@viclorenzo5016]

Yep

[@bobiscool7762]

Sorry man

[@jonmass4676]

ratio

[@jackopolo4635]

Alex during most of the video: "Steiner's attack will bring it under control."

[@santinogualdoni6414]

@Man Cock really? I din't know

[@timthndr2996]

"I have so many tank divisions here, why are they still pushing me??" Says he as they have no tanks in the divisions

[@zu_perler3011]

@Man Cock Dats da joke.

[@N8UrM8]

Bread Santa

[@theaman42069]

Das wahr ein befiehl! DER ANGRIFF STEINER WAHR EINE BEFEIHL

[@hvcskmagyar]

People who start 1939 as poland and defeat both germoney, and russlin: OK

[@lukesalvidge118]

My man russlin

[@franklind.roosevel2863]

@@lukesalvidge118 and the flexers ger-money

[@jackbrowne8527]

@@franklind.roosevel2863 lmaooo

[@plusxz821]

#Yoland

[@lafox2833]

@@lukesalvidge118 hes a good dude

[@Flavaop1169]

Here’s an idea…. Get with all the big hoi4 KZbinr/streamers *example Alex, tommyk, ISP Exc* together find one of the most ridiculous disaster saves and have a competition who can complete it, or do it the quickest… now I’d pay money to see that

[@Flavaop1169]

Absolutely ^

[@dyutimandas9772]

You forgot drew and bokoen

[@sherwingonsalves8821]

Forget Drew he can’t even assign divisions to a general

[@Jimothyjohns]

@Sonic Voice Guy Drew stopped doing HOI, and his vids are pretty meh

[@dyutimandas9772]

@@sherwingonsalves8821 hey, hey he can still be the judge god

[@FalkyRocket2222]

when i was really bad at hoi4 i tried out 1939 germany and it was the 1st time i defeated the allies and comintern with starting templates and i didnt even know what a field marshall was

[@mr.crowgamer6250]

It’s weird cause I’d been watching hoi4 vids for so long that when I bought the game I knew what I was doing

[@pagatryx5451]

Germany is really easy regardless of starting time. My record for the 1939 start is capitulating Poland, France and the UK within two months.

[@akadoiphin267]

@@pagatryx5451 it’s easy to do England cause all you need is a good enough stockpile of cas/naval bombers and maybe 12 u-boats and to get at least one second of 50% naval supremacy during that because of repairs

[@ezekiel440]

@@akadoiphin267 how do you actually start sending troops to England? I usually have a good amount of navy, air force and army but I have no idea how to send them over there.

[@akadoiphin267]

@@ezekiel440 naval bombers and 1 second of naval supremacy that’s all it take, also you could do Spain to Cardiff or Norway to Hull or whatever that town is called but for some reason they never keep that many ships there, but keep at least 490 naval bombers always in the English Channel, they’ll protect you from d-day and shred threw their fleet as well as take out hundred of thousands of ally troops and convoys

[@JonMI6]

Never use the 1939 start date as Germany? Hold my beer!

[@somerandompersonidk2272]

1939 as Germany is extremely easy though, you can take over the allies + yugoslavia + Poland and greece by 1940 quite easily.

[@insignificantgnat9334]

First lets take a moment to salute our men, women, and children in uniform. Secondly how exactly do you lose that much of Germany and only take 1.4 million casualties in the process. I've never seriously tried a 1939 start, but it seems like Germany ought to have taken more losses being pushed back from Poland.

[@akadoiphin267]

I’ve done a Ragnorok playthrough before and only lost 700,000 troops in 3 years playing defense while inflicting 60,000,000 casualties worldwide including 12 million Soviets, 3 million Yugoslavians, and 1 million Swiss which have only 3.5 million total population in their country at the time so idk how tf that happened, but if you never attack and get cycle charged, you’ll inflict heavy casualties while pretty much not losing anyone, even if they are unequipped.

[@insignificantgnat9334]

@@akadoiphin267 I get that, but the person who sent in this save lost a whole lot of territory without either taking a whole lot of casualties or inflicting very many on the Soviets. It just seems kinda weird.

[@Notmyname1593]

@@insignificantgnat9334 Got caught with his pants down probably and by the time he could muster a frontline in the east, they were already in Berlin.

[@akadoiphin267]

@@insignificantgnat9334 judging how he was trying to attack the Soviets with 0 equipment troops, it makes sense

[@LegoSwordViedos]

Upgraded hospitals and entrenchment and using all the bonuses you can

[@thessjbacca5177]

I think getting Medical Support Companies would have really helped you here if you could handle the equipment cost, weirdly they are very good in games where you struggle in manpower. And I mean like gamebreakingly good.

[@matteoclementi]

1945 Darkest hour start date: Hold my Steiner attack!

[@luisitocomunista546]

2:51 just the deadest look he could give

[@mjd13]

Watching Asked losing his sanity over 95 percent capitulated Germany is insanely good

[@11DNA11]

11:06 Sounds like Steiners attack will bring it under control :D

[@MaslAlek]

I tried this disaster save. I picked every German units, the best on the ground into one and spread it accross Germanys border to hold the russians, while those expeditionary forces kept Greece. Ofcourse go for 20w with art supp. Gather your scraps of airforce and set them on southern Germany. Start making mills. Focus on counter attacks and possible pockets. I managed to retrieve some of most industrilized areas of Germany and kept around 160 factorys, but most painful thing was manpower and that resultet in my defeat. The player was just too bad. Ill try next time this strategy but then I go straight for 20% conscription ( plus additional 5% from Volkssturm ) and man up the battlefields more quickly and Ill see how it goes :)

[@dylanram4653]

howd it go

[@TheDanDude17]

Alex at 0:00 “This will be a chill disaster save. Why stress over it?” Alex at 0:51 😨

[@C.R.A.B]

Alex, i recommend changing the occupation in controlled countries, because even if you cant get a core on their land, you can change the resistance mode they are in with the occupation tab, they can either have lower resistance, higher compliance, more mapower, more factories or equal amount of factories and manpower, which allows you to get more from non core states, So even if you lost 90% of your core land you can still fight back even in scenarios like this one, Just use the occupied territories button, it really helps.

[@shaunlevin5081]

I love how smart twitch chat thinks they are, but, in reality, they are act like they have a chunk missing from their brain.

[@TheGatrGamr]

AA would be more helpful than outdated fighters, he had 15 out of 32 factories on fighters

[@shaunlevin5081]

@@TheGatrGamr it would. The problem is that it would take around a year to get AA in the divisions. So fighters is the better move by far.

[@TheGatrGamr]

@@shaunlevin5081 Short term it seems like a waste to switch but ultimately what did the fighters do? They got shredded and it was a waste of 15 factories and resources. It might take a year to get going but once you have AA in the divisions you'll drastically reduce the efficiency of the enemies air. If they were up to date fighters possibly it could be worth it but 1936 fighters in 1944? Useless.

[@shaunlevin5081]

@@TheGatrGamr guess that's a good point. Although Alex probably should have put those fighters on intercept instead of trying to fight for supremacy.

[@yavuzscakir]

Producing fighters are 100% waste. It didnt have any impact. You just cant win in the late game if you didnt didnt do air in the early game. Just waste of manpower and production. 4-6 factory on AA would have better

[@quisutdeusmfl]

POV: you've just seen Alex playing a disaster save without using the console

[@ZetoBlackproject]

Man... that`s a troll save if I ever saw one. Newfoundland. SERIOUSLY?!

[@yavuzscakir]

Alex you cant win the air in this situations, year is 1942. Air is very important yes but you cant produce more planes than allies in the late game. Just add anti air to the divisions.

[@shadowlord1418]

Yep it was kinda ironic him complaining about not having enough factories for anti air when he had 15 on fighters

[@shadowman8535]

13:04 French when Germans go around the Maginot line, 1940,colorized:

[@lemmejustdothis]

In vanilla it's literally impossible to loose 1939 as Germany

[@labalag]

Didn't know Fredy Mercury is alive and streaming HOI4.

[@statelyelms]

I like how he just accepts defeat when the entirety of France pops back into existence

[@sketchye5943]

Alex would of won if he waited for Steiner’s counter attack

[@cowabungajumba2981]

Hope youre doing okay Alex! Thanks for the content 😁

[@DetectiveMekova]

I feel like there needs to be a major overhaul for the way air forces work. It's ridiculous how anyone can have literally thousands to planes flying over a single region at a time, let alone multiple countries having their planes there as well. At that point they'd start crashing into one another lol.

[@Nxtl68]

There needs to be an airspace penalty like in the naval game when you have too many carriers in one engagement.

[@sorsocksfake]

Doubt it, regions are pretty big. And if you have 3k aircraft operating there, probably only a fraction of that is present at any time. Most will be refueling/repairing or flying back and forth. During Fall Gelb, Germany used about 4000 planes reportedly, which would mostly be in the equivalent of one airzone I guess?

[@strikes_again]

Got that sneaky bits message in 😎. Loving the saves Alex, looking forward to the new DLC versions.

[@NewtNiko]

I’m starting to think many of these disaster save people are Taureor fans since they dedicate their production solely to guns lol

[@estonian8122]

you just speedrunned 30 April 1945 again, also nice moustache mate

[@themoustacheman6122]

I’ve played the 1939 scenario before, and it is insanely easy. I don’t know how you could lose so badly in the 1939 scenario.

[@CaffeineKing]

4:28 "Thank you very much for the three baguettes!" lol.

[@Drogwin]

Congratulations, you pronounced my neighbor city correct. Saarbrücken 👍 Was a nice video as always

[@woetoe2535]

He does realise that the war support was more important than the conscription law? His bottleneck was not with recruitable pop but with mobilization speed, wich would be increased with more war support? Or am i missing something here

[@TreeBeard2008]

in this situation I would consider dismantling Axis and joining Co-prosperity Sphere

[@lugerry]

It's been 5 years and I'm still in Alex's basement

[@TheRealFocalors]

Dang, I didn't know Freddy Mercury came back to life just to play HOI4.

[@braincell4536]

Alex is looking more and more like Freddie Mercury

[@BG-ig7vf]

Alex looks like hes about to have a chat with chris hanson

[@Vipers_Pit]

Legend says this. That Hitler and now Alex is still waiting on Steiner,s Count Attack.

[@gummi9948]

14:05 man was stunned by that fart

[@IG0tskill99]

I would contend that it is twitch chat holding Alex hostage

[@lordyoda607]

your real issue was war support, high war support gives a massive bonus to mobilization speed. at 1943 you had 12% max manpower but only 7% that you could actually use. you kept getting your max manpower higher while sacrificing your production while not upping your war support. if you had 100% you would have had 30%+mobilization speed and a nice 10%attack and defense on core territory. therefore if you spent your pp on war support you would have been able to hold and maybe even push the soviets thus saving this save.

[@us3rnam447]

i just fucking loved your own sound effects when u saw the save and the thing about the raj

[@guyincognito3199]

1939 France was my second campaign after 1936 France. Good learning experience heheh

[@Onion__Duck]

Alex never did do a Kickflip to impress anyone =(

[@methylsky]

WE NEED TO SAVE THE TWITCH CHAT FROM ALEX

[@brucedurelle5952]

Alex is getting his pre-winter Canadian face chub lol

[@ahmetfatih748]

Anti air would really help. At leaat he could negate 25 percent of enemy air support take less casualties less effects...

[@pls9998]

0:50 best Reaktion xD

[@babadufutur9112]

When the mustache think He can paint Mona Lisa

[@loganlane1633]

Daddy Alex so good at trying to fix our mistakes, praise be

[@andrewbogard2411]

@13:03 rip any headphones users at this point

[@lordbonney9779]

Watching these videos makes me think I’m somewhat good at the game.

[@tom_70_ads]

Good video as always

[@briaormead4239]

Yo that's a nice freddie mercury cosplay left over from halloween bro. Nice moustache

[@commanderstorm8874]

The one time I started in 39 was when I first played the game for the first time with the times ten mod on I lost

[@joelhicks5468]

this one was going to be nearly impossible to begin...

[@Nobody-ge7pk]

'it is fatal to enter a war without the will to win it'

[@cdub35071]

Out of the hundreds of disaster saves Alex has I wonder what the breakdown is by country. I assume Germany is high, maybe italy, then russia?

[@velikynovgorod4358]

I've seen mostly Germany with some Greece and Russia thrown in...

[@poryg5350]

I kinda miss the good old amateur saves. The sabotaged ones are just getting ridiculous.

[@kahlobf2263]

I find myself dying of laughter every time I watch a disaster save video 🤣

[@ryandegan2233]

Bring back the RambleStash!!

[@christiantaylor4217]

Getting deep Freddy Mercury vibes from the mustache now.

[@thebrazilianhistorian6530]

"Thank god for the Spanish defending New Foundland!"

[@MS-Holding]

Yo Alex when do we get a mustache guide?

[@jeffrees9994]

that stash is getting to epic proportions

[@thelittlemermaid9169]

“Maibly I eugh” A wise man once said

[@calmkat9032]

Why did he call it the Kyle Canal? Is this an inside joke or does he really pronounce it like that?

[@ЛъчезарСтоянов-ф6д]

I personaly think that a 1939 start as Germany is way better than a 1936 because I always get carried away and start WW2 too late in 1936. Plus I get like 100k casualties at most after taking all of mainland Europe except the Soviet Union, Finland and Sweden in 1939

[@otsogronberg6193]

Why was vichy green tho??

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

Japan gives Siam all of north India for doing nothing

[@gladiater56]

Retiring in Newfoundland.... Okay have fun with the winters.

[@Nonaggress]

Das war ein befehl! Der Angriff Steiner war ein BEFEHL!

[@CaptainLays]

Great videos good save

[@nikolavoinov8798]

Bulgaria stronk

[@sammygroth1125]

Ngl Alex should keep the moustache after Movember and grow it out into a Pappa Stalin moustache

[@birisuandrei1551]

Why so much hate for this start date ?....do you not think about the start date's feelings?

[@AtlasAugustus]

ISP sent me here to help with console commands

[@cameronsmith4827]

9:15 “non mandatory discrimination”

[@MechWarrior894]

The lack of manpower and inability to change the conscription law reminds me of my Japan game where I beat the Allies and Soviets then decide to take on the Axis. I let the game run while I was afk for two hours and when I came back, Spain joined the Axis and every tile where their army was exiled to became active and they encircled my front. I was not very happy. Also, I didn’t have anyone to pilot my jet fighters, so I also lost the air

[@ukj5850]

"Woooohuuu lets go" 🤣

[@yesno3621]

this looks like one of mine games im really good against allies but die in the first year of war against soivets

[@aihatsuchannel4013]

Damn this guy who request your help is basically newoob.

[@Flutterzancelight]

They need to work on 1939 start with Italian update ...

[@MGoogle3146]

Would it not have made a difference to switch aircraft product to AA, and then disband your existing airforce to release the manpower?

[@ProfibobWot]

propably would have mattered, but he would not get much out of the disbanded airforce....

[@andrejfric3764]

Why did you capitulate? Is it a bug? I tried that but I capitulated 2 days after start without losing any tiles.

[@randomname2159]

stalin is asking for his moustache

[@hccdgvvfccdgn993]

Bokoen1 and other streamers releases new hoi4 dlc. Alex releases another disaster save.

[@admiralforged1613]

What is that intresting vichy france colour?

[@arkatoshhd8517]

Every HOI4 KZbinr gets the option to play no step back in advance but Alex does not, I bet they think he isn’t good enough for it^^

[@eisbergsyndrom5010]

Bulgaria was doing the 30 minutes of hel challange.

[@sorsocksfake]

- Would conscription laws even help here? Given that you barely have cores left, I don't think you're raising any new manpower. - Any option of switching units to Dutch/Belgian/etc divisions? - Calling in the Netherlands seems like a mistake. Probably better to have them be frontline that only the USSR needs to man? - Probably too late to recall an army to deal with a softer target. Spain can give good manpower if it wasn't in yet, but probably too late anyway. I'm guessing you have no navy to sealion? Either way it'd be awful given that the USSR now has your factories and keeps you from your own manpower.

[@anticipatebacon7629]

Monarchist russia play. Get berlin and Beijing. Extra rambler point if you get rome

[@americansyndicalist7602]

Imagine this kind of shit with the new supply, officer corps, and scorched earth systems :)

[@zhanbolatmurzashov4001]

OMG! YOUR MOUSTACHE! YOU LOOK LIKE A COMPLETE DIFFERENT PERSON!

[@jonmass4676]

BIG OOF FOR ALEX

[@xpertd1962]

9:14 did he just say non-mandatory discrimination?

[@flyingtaco9007]

Me be like :sends Germany Berlin only save

[@scott3017]

I think Alex lost because he didn't use the power of the Chonk.

[@_.daviee]

It looks similar to that other disaster save