This is HOI4's Most Unnecessary Formable (in a good way)

russia is kinda strong guys.
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[@a_person_of_all_time]

I love how bad he did the civil war, he had practicaly no support from the army, didnt secure the states with the transsiberian railway and try to rush down Moscow, hadnt even done any cheese starts and willingly did the focus to become a Japanese puppet

[@jakubstachurski2298]

​@@tedkappas7393 that's how everyone learnt the game tho?

[@lefthand4943]

And went to the war with china and didn't go to warvwith the puppets.

[@maxthetube8466]

Also the fact he just had around 3 army groups standing around in Russia he could’ve used for killing g the breakaways which have so good resources

[@lefthand4943]

@@maxthetube8466 Bro needed a hard core mod because playing as russia was easy so he had to lose most of the territory

[@khinev3128]

A mad lad art

[@Local1945Leftist]

The pain of seeing him willingly become a Japanese puppet

[@arsenicflask]

Worlds greatest Hirohito meat rider

[@CrazyyzaiiMB]

2:22 I love watching hollow getting the worst paranoia event and then clicking the wrong option bc he never plays the ussr

[@MeLoNarXo]

Purging tuchatschewski :[

[@JohnofPA]

I mean I don't think you can get him on that path anyway. Can you?

[@Engineer_gaming12]

Eh its better to purge the stronger general cause he aint going on your side anyway

[@_HollowBeing_]

Stalins purges are part of the Russian experience who am I to disrupt that

[@Timmenim]

@@Engineer_gaming12 there is a chance they defect

[@altugataman5236]

4:04 my man purged the best field marshall 💀

[@LoveForLongIsland]

He still dies almost everytime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@altugataman5236]

@@LoveForLongIsland if you have luck he can flip to your side

[@_HollowBeing_]

What can I say, if he was truly “the best” he would have not had a skill issue and died 🤷‍♂️

[@altugataman5236]

@@_HollowBeing_ real

[@SkibidiLabubu]

But he got the best general to flip to his side

[@Destroyer-vd8rl]

you could have won that civil war so much easier, but you managed to split the entire country into a gazillion pieces, and start a world war.

[@_HollowBeing_]

All according to plan to bring pan-slavism to the world o7 (please help I have no idea what I’m doing)

[@swamperino8450]

It's not a Hollowbeing video if it doesn't include the most convoluted plays and drags into the 1950s

[@Destroyer-vd8rl]

@@_HollowBeing_ In order for me to help you, i need your full name, address and credit card informations.

[@glauberglousger956]

​@@_HollowBeing_Neither do I, all I know is how to expertly play the USA, France, Soviet Union, and Argentina I'd recommend playing as the Soviets more, they're really fun as you can just steamroll any nations with your starting army and immense industry All I have to say is, you played well, you don't need tanks, generals, planes, or whatever others tell you to use All you need are men, women, and guns, you can declare on Poland, then Germany at the start of the game, and take them over, why? Why not Also, always purge the Navy, you're not doing Navy as the Soviet Union As for what happens to paranoia, as of By Blood Alone, if it gets too high, a civil war occurs, also all your people die Including Stalin if you make him an advisor or general Although he still leads from the grave somehow I don't ever play with generals so...

[@Blitz_Ace-y5h]

HI HollowBeing! I am the guy from the Bulgaria episode. Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate it. It made my week. I am doing a bit better, and I am feeling kind of better. thank you HollowBeing♥

[@Arneliskas]

Lil bro do Lithuania alphabet challenge or things will get freaky

[@_HollowBeing_]

I’ve already played Lithuania 3 times, please release my family from your basement 🙏 🙏

[@Arneliskas]

@@_HollowBeing_ one. more. time

[@amberm.kozlowski5944]

@@_HollowBeing_ One more time or else Duo comes for you

[@_roviony_8708]

Btw, instead of finding fleet around all the world you can just unite it way easier. You know fleet has theaters like army do. So just go into your fleet, then look in the right part of your screen there will be like a little menu with all fleets you have. Press shift and click on all of them, then press G and your fleets will be united in one single fleet. P.s. this funny word "SMERSH" is an russian abbreviation which literally means "all spies must die"

[@nichtthunder]

Yooo the best Hoi4 KZbinr has uploaded again, let's fucking go!

[@niku4154]

Hey Hollow, did you know that you can play Democratic Russia by going for the Russian Empire but doing no focus that grants you any Non-Aligned Support? Then, when you have no Non-Aligned Support, getting the Focus that grants -0.05 Daily Communism means it will all be going to Democratic Support. Once you hit 50% Democratic Support, you will be able to flip Democratic! Doing this and following it up with "Our Slavic Commitments" provides for a very interesting Game. Regards, A HOI4 Democratic Enjoyer

[@_HollowBeing_]

That would be cool if I liked democracy

[@ahmadkadan6314]

​@@_HollowBeing_ not beating the allegations, are we

[@rogerr.8507]

@@_HollowBeing_ democracy is overrated

[@Cyro_77]

I have never touched democracy ever in my life, but this sounds interesting

[@AstroPhis]

​@@Cyro_77 especially since the leader of russian democrats is Alexander Kerensky, though... *Sigh* Paradox didn't make him portrait, because the planned democratic path included different tsar, Vsevolod I, as leader

[@joseluissegura9631]

6 views in a minute? Really? And I thought the towers were the only thing being celebrated for falling off this day

[@Volchonochec]

You didn't just say that

[@shelbriff1484]

dude is a menace lmao

[@eshaderidder3511]

DAYUM😂

[@kjohnbullkp838]

Fact

[@meliwest]

Actual fact. Search „Dancing Israelis”

[@koperekhabsburdzki43]

Virgin Pan-Slavic Union (its not even a union. its just bigger Russian Empire) 🥶 Chad Slavic Union (under rule of our God bless, one and only, King Wojtek) 😎

[@modddy0025]

You vs the guy she told you not to worry about moment

[@failedattempttboi6987]

He must now redo this formable, but under the chad king Wojtek

[@lyra5366]

Someone needs to add a Paranoia mechanic to the discord server tbh

[@htsgm]

23:50 you can use field marshals as generals btw

[@deluxehipster8714]

The fact there's no Mongol empire formable is a crime Edit - This genuinely hurt to watch

[@koperekhabsburdzki43]

@deluxehipster8714 it is, Russian Empire was formed even in this video I had to do it, it was unfunny, I know :c

[@rainbowappleslice]

this is one of the most successful HollowBeing videos because for once he isn't playing a country with 3 factories and 5 guys

[@Dedelblute3]

2:07 “I want to win this by myself” Also him: *BECOMES A JAPANESE PUPPET*

[@kaancesur-19]

I know a bit of navy and easiest way to beat ai is spamming destroyers. When you have lots of them in a deathstack they become invincible

[@alix0788]

until u meet cruisers with some light attack

[@maxsnow9952]

@@alix0788 and to counter that wouldn't subs work?

[@alix0788]

@@maxsnow9952 subs can't do shit to ur more valuable shipcrafts if they are welk protected by destroyers, specially with depth chargers, it's literally there mission in real life, spot, report to the command, run away, and intercept subs, some times they get into the torpedos way to protect for example a carrier that worths x1000 times a destroyer to save it, and verse versa, they can risk them self and launch torpedos to try and sink more valuable stuff

[@kaancesur-19]

@@alix0788 i tested it and it beats whatever ai has produced

[@alix0788]

@@kaancesur-19 nice

[@averagepolishguy]

You comment townsville but there are literally villages in Poland that are called New Village, Old Village or, (one of my favorites) Small Village Next To The Road. (It's Nowa Wieś, Stara Wieś and Mała Wieś Przy Drodze in polish fo curious ones)

[@kniviritsyn]

Russia isn't the only nation that can do Pan-Slavic nation, Poland also can as well, giving them arguably more cores than the Russian version.

[@dois_dee]

So close, is the "Slavic Union", almost there...

[@Engineer_gaming12]

If it gets to 90 paranoia Staljin had 20% chance to start the civil war EVERY day

[@Myjacob99]

Ngl Hollow has become my favorite Hoi4 KZbinr, his humor is unmatched

[@_roviony_8708]

5:33 As a russian I feel a little bit offended. We did have really good navy but everything people usually know about our fleet is Tsushima battle. And it's so sad 😢.

[@_HollowBeing_]

Sadly people only ever remember negative things 😔

[@khmil_0]

Is this “good navy” in the same room with us? Throughout all u your history u always managed to be the least developed navy off all great powers.

[@AstroPhis]

​@@khmil_0Well... Northern War and Synop Battle. Though you're technically right, but still, ouch.

[@rowan5690]

This guy calling russia a great power

[@AstroPhis]

@@rowan5690 well... Yes? Russian Empire was a great power (pushing Sweden to watching theatre of history)

[@sodanakin]

8:40 did you know there are buffs added to ukraine after the current stuff irl? Like these were added in a patch lmao. Its actually quite sad how broken Ukraine is now when you play with segmented countries. Hopefully the devs spin around to fix it.

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

Lmao that's cool. what buffs are there?

[@rainbowappleslice]

The best part about the plan-Slavic Union is that it gives you a really nice country colour

[@YorozuyaGinChan]

Never clicked so fast

[@YourAverageBritishIdiot]

True

[@TastyChicker1L17]

48:20 there is something very similiar for Poland

[@nashpen]

my greetings to the great man that sacrifice his mental health just for sake of his viewers

[@SigmasRizzler1234]

Nother rizzly video from Hollow 🤑

[@robertharrington703]

9:46 *certified 1994 moment*

[@MapletreePaper]

HollowBeing: "Hello fellow frauds." My sleep deprived brain: "Hello fellow Slavs." 🤨

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

you can put field marshalls on regular armies btw

[@idefix8524]

idk if anybody already said it but the "how to find your ships part" you can just double click on the ship symbols it should bring you to them

[@maxthetube8466]

33:51 you if only there was a menu where you could just…select all your ships…and bring them to one place…

[@poelmeister]

The not being able to demote a field marshal actually made sense. In reality you simply had two options. Either you get promotion, or you get shot. Well, three. Promotion, kia or the wall.

[@emoji4397]

Bro just purged his supporters + tuchachevsky

[@Canada1994]

The only land I ever give up is North Sakhalin to clean up the minor border gore of it being divided

[@sergeantdornan3833]

43:42 TOWNSVILLE MENTIONED!!!

[@wottpenn7074]

bro took the civil war like a champ then does a wc without hesitation. Just by these I'm subscribed and liked.

[@VivBrodock]

Puyi: declares war on Japan and Russia, survives, rejoins the faction, becomes emperor of china. my boi is out here playing 4D chess

[@bepsi6204]

watching you play hoi4 the worst way is the most enjoyable thing of my day

[@VivBrodock]

'The world is your oyster' comes from a Shakespear play, basically one character is like "yeah I ain't givin you shit" and the other guy is like, "well the world is my oyster and I'll open it with this sword". So like originally it's supposed to mean, "there's great wealth out there you just need to take it by force" but like all sayings the meaning has generalized and lost a lot of it's context

[@kristibbs2432]

41:55 I made the joke about Rangoon.....

[@gobreen4391]

This video is like those mobile game ads where someone plays so bad you want to install the game hollow did the 2nd russian civil war so horrendously i needed to play it just to make sure i wasnt dumb

[@simplymatt6140]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who refers to doing research without any bonuses as rawdogging

[@LittlegeckoAndFriends]

You have some real courage to finish this hell of a game. RIP to the braincells lost during the filming of this. Also, for the ( don't stop reading, I know you don't like that word) navy stuff, I think you're limited in range because you have submarines with your main fleet. Because sub have really low speed and slow down your surface ships, it may also use the range.

[@krasnamerah1926]

Man, you totally did not need to make this so painful.....

[@mohammedyayyo]

Im a fan

[@krasnamerah1926]

@@mohammedyayyo, are you his fan, or....

[@jalexvd7037]

Are we gonna ignore the part of the google text abt skill issue that a company is actually using it has a term in their HR?

[@mappingshaman5280]

Btw when you form third rome remember you dont need to become a puppet or let any country be independent or even give vladivostok to japan. The war is easy without those things ane frankly the only reason i can see for doing that shit is to join japans faction so they can help you in europe.

[@htsgm]

28:85 formables do kinda give more building spots and factories though

[@andriaqardava3766]

Finishing the russian civil war in 1940 and becoming a Japanese puppet should be classified as a crime against humanity

[@karolszumski7125]

i forgot to ask you if you can do a mega campaign the first time I watched this. So I'm here now to ask you again.

[@I_am_Amogus_Abobusovich]

If only I wasn't lazy to write a long comment, I'd tell you how bad this try/video/piece of data is. I even felt pain watching this. And do you have any problems with USSR?

[@Krom5072]

child: uses their navy to project superiority and thus prevent naval invasions, covers up potential invasion sources in the seas surrounding their territory (by invading small islands and etc.), sails out against enemy navies to deprive them of long-term capacity to project power, deploys port guards when unable to do none of that. man grown: lets themselves be spammed with naval invasions because duh you inflict casualties when you kill them so it's technically a win.

[@bannerjay3347]

you might as well could've turned this into a world conquest

[@artquimine2170]

I am a simple man. I see Hollowbeing uploading, I am happy

[@mrwhips3623]

42:20 "guys we have green WATER"💀🪦

[@alandavidacerocortes3046]

As a colombian i feel very grateful to the glorious leader to make cooombia bigger

[@jeremygalandiaz8224]

i love long videos it heals my attention span

[@MelonJrr]

Man i hope there is nothing related to death!

[@silver-ag4437]

My guy needs Poland for the formable, and is at war with Yugoslavia and Poland and decides to let germany roll over Poland, further complicating his play through.

[@primedpepega3832]

Another day of being a wagie another HollowBeing vid LETS GOOOO

[@vahlen5281]

It's better to not take the decision to set up a headquarter in the far east, since then it is randomly decided where you start at the beginning of the civil war; potentially giving you the chance to start closer to Moscow and the other big VP.

[@eldanaroilumbar]

OMG! At the start, he says that finally he has a big army and big industry, which is a lie btw, then in 10 minutes he manages to fuck everything up...

[@Alexplayzpro]

just asking cant you form pan slavic union with the romanov polish path?

[@someother5512]

Really surprised you never played the Soviet Union, it is the most fun to play and has one of the best focus trees, you really have been missing out.

[@oneballimann6425]

please add more of those not-funny jokes into your videos. that is a good reminder for my sanity!

[@juliano-nr-1]

you know you can still use field marshals as generals right?

[@Mintas_]

This was painful to watch 😭😭😭 Liked and subbed

[@awomanofsorts]

Soviet T-34 and T-55 tanks were pretty bussin, and the KV-2 was pretty dudes rock (look up 'Russian Death Fridge'). T-72, on the other hand. Would not recommend.

[@drmappington]

IT HAPPENED HE FINALLY PLAYED THE USSR

[@thespaceman8746]

10:56 I HATE that the color wasnt the regular russian green or atleast stayed white but just went straaaight back to red, typical hearts of iron 😒

[@meliwest]

Literally went back to green after the Romanov Reconstruction

[@thespaceman8746]

@@meliwest yeah I know, I just found it weird that it went to red instead of sticking to white, or just going straight to green

[@mr.jamezz7142]

Icl I've tried to watch this video 5 times fell asleep every time gonna complete it rn

[@macaroon_nuggets8008]

Townsville's full name is Townsville City.

[@sheep7]

Aint no way he ended the campain 5 days from 1960 😭

[@rogerr.8507]

i cant play right now, but this scratches the itch for me

[@pavlikmorozovgaming468]

Russia is the one to form Pan-Slavic Union because Russians came up with the idea of panslavism as a justification of their imperialism.

[@Eschadron]

Based

[@lefthand4943]

BIG FAN HERE Can you do a formable with an upside down map that is all.

[@boyanshopov2310]

14 seconds ago is vilely diabolical

[@emirilik0]

Yaay 11 lira i gave you paid off thanks❤

[@ciomuda2406]

Hes alive?!

[@maxstirnersego]

26:33 this set off my google voice

[@Carl-de4bg]

Hollowbeing Baka mitai cover when?

[@Potateagle]

Do you voice act yapdollar?

[@AltamaLFG]

All adults serve after forming the Pan Slavic Union! Skulls for the skull throne!

[@LoveForLongIsland]

5:30 Soviet Union had second biggest fleet in the world 🤓

[@andrew_wow6892]

One must imagine Hollow defending major Russian cities

[@zaine3314]

1 min ago😮

[@spacefonz949]

WW2 russian tanks are so good Ivan is still using them.

[@ThreeIrishMen]

the true winner is ireland

[@mrwhips3623]

This has to be the most embarrassing run ive ever seen😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ykillern4536]

Me wathing as persian empire and rattanakosim empire not getting purple like i dont want to read this shit😂

[@Geraduss]

You could have formed the Pan-Slavic union as poland to.

[@امیدرضا-ف3ع]

Now I know why ai always become a Japanese puppet

[@MowThatLawn]

It was so painful to watch you purge tukachevsky and become a japanese puppet

[@wastelander89]

Thanks again for making fun videos

[@isaacalcantara7462]

What is your favorite dinosaur? Day one

[@warthunder7730]

Sweden just remembered the past

[@Schniitzll]

the depressed man did it, he did the funny

[@Ressikyob]

Do NOT make your videos shorter pal

[@Kamel-d7o]

I dont think you need to care about reliability for tanks as long as ist not under like 50