THIS SHOULDN'T WORK! Historical German Infantry Template

[@FeedbackGaming]

Want more historical templates? Drop a like 😍

[@Ananas-280]

YES.

[@superterra]

The only ironical thing about asking gpt to make a historical HOI4 Template is that you should ask it first if some other youtuber done this for you already (the answer is yes)

[@rushiusu2545]

Yes please

[@1kvolt1978]

You should go not only for historical templates, but for div numbers as well. I mean, Germany without tanks? Heresy!

[@sombertownds149]

Your taking adrahill gimic, and not even doing it correctly lol

[@StarryNightSky587]

Germany 1945 division: 10 old grandpas, 3 Hitler Youth and a bunch of crude boomsticks made in a shed

[@FeedbackGaming]

Too true!

[@james.beatty]

Oddly enough, probably Germany's best soldiers in 1945 were taken from their then useless Kriegsmarine. With some basic training, and the latest small arms, they gave the Allied forces hell for a little bit. Weren't enough to make a difference in the end though.

[@JohnSmith-pj6wb]

you forgot the teenage blonde girls with panzerfausts

[@marvinrennemeier9386]

Mighty

[@christophwaltz8919]

usa biden 2024 division 3 lesbian, 4 gays 2 hindu, 2 chinise all lgbt woke

[@p35flash97]

Helping the Republicans triggers an event that gives you Spanish Gold which gives you -5% consumer goods for a year.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Its more then -5% now ;)

[@prinskorvar9331]

That and the nationalists are stronger making you able to get more XP supporting the republicans

[@paavali-lo3my]

I think it was 15%

[@medika9651]

Try not to re-use the same thumbnail challange (impossible)

[@FeedbackGaming]

Sees blue emoji. iT aLl tHe sAme. I joke I love you pepe

[@ScotchWhiskey864]

​@@FeedbackGaming For one day, change the channel icon to Blue Guy and back again to make people question things

[@jagplaysroblox2169]

@@FeedbackGamingCan you have a channel membership thing where members can use the blue emoji

[@FelipeTempestad17]

​@@FeedbackGaming I been wondering, did you made the previous thumbnails or another person made those? 😊

[@apolloforabetterfuture4814]

Blue emoji always makes me laugh

[@BlueViper8907]

Aldrahill has a whole series on historical templates. Would love to see that collab!

[@FeedbackGaming]

I don't watch other creators. However Aldrahill is a top guy. Check discription

[@CarolusRex1]

I have decent playtime in HOI4,but I believe everytime I watch a feedback video, I discover buttons in this game which I never thought existed

[@FeedbackGaming]

LAD

[@zeliospetkoglou1009]

Next video suggestion "can chat gtp do a world conquest as democratic tanu tuva with artillery only"

[@FeedbackGaming]

No

[@kalilrezak4995]

@@FeedbackGaming sad

[@evannpalma2404]

I literally asked bittersteel to do a world conquest with democratic Switzerland in black ice artillery only. You and i aren't so different after all

[@epyonpl]

Fun fact, in 1944 most of german divisions (inf and panzer) were downsized due to lack of manpower and also because on the paper you could "field" more divisions

[@Weightyloan15]

Should have asked aldarahill for the templates so he could have felt like he is not the only one who is insane

[@FeedbackGaming]

It was fun to try and figure it out

[@drakegod84]

This is actually the infantry design I use.... I didn't even know it. Usually I roll out with a 36 width infantry division with 4 arty, 1 AT and 1 AA. I never use arty AA or AT as a support unit. I fill my support with anything that adds a buff to my infantry followed with a signal company.

[@GooxGoox]

@@drakegod84 is it any good?

[@johnp4000]

Feedback, you have to remember a lot of troops in the infantry division are in support roles. Each German Infantry division in 1939,had an artillery regiment of 36 field guns plus 12 heavy guns, in total 48 artillery pieces, your division had almost 3 times as many guns, so no wonder you were successful! It would be interesting if you would have been successful if you scaled down the artillery to the historical level?

[@XXLPIakat]

There is another youtuber who did all the research for the historical divisions and I wish Paradox would add some button or option to only use historical divisions, kinda like a design template but for divisions.

[@FeedbackGaming]

I don't watch other creators. However Aldrahill is a top guy. Check discription

[@KingofDiamonds117]

not sure I would trust chatgpt with historical accuracy. I would rather ask Mark Felton.

[@alganhar1]

There are far, far better historians out there than Mark Felton....

[@gratefulguy4130]

Yeah that was what I thought. Like dude those figures have been compiled by human being that don't have a reputation for lying just because.

[@pisani_productions9339]

You should host a multiplayer game and force other hoi youtubers to do historical templates

[@FeedbackGaming]

You can police it ;)

[@pisani_productions9339]

@@FeedbackGaming you’ve got yourself a deal

[@chadeller5588]

I want to watch this!

[@FeedbackGaming]

OH NO AI. My day is ruined!

[@jobe_seed6674]

Monkey business

[@cogex74]

@@FeedbackGaming if you want ...i can speak for your spanish audience

[@StationaryGamingReal]

Aldrahill, best hoi 4 fella ever has historical divs covered.

[@Danielness221]

this is the most effortless german playthrough ive ever seen,

[@SonOfNone]

One would think Paradox would implement the July 20, 1944 "Plot to assassinate Hitler" assuming certain conditions existed... isn't it a bit weird they don't? [ _Super_ historical ]

[@RandooGaming]

I'm pretty sure it exists. (If it doesn't I'm 100% sure there's a civil war if you anger the SS or the Wehrmacht)

[@DershPardonNow]

Imagine the Germans encircled at Stalingrad seeing the devious blue emoji

[@ItsGhidxrah]

Have a good rest of your day Dave

[@FeedbackGaming]

Thanks buddy. I love you

[@jack_is_to_good1216]

I don’t know why I watch the entire half an hour to an hour videos. I don’t have nor like the HOI genre, I don’t understand the complex(ish) mechanics nor what you mean when you say anything. But I still manage to watch and enjoy these videos.

[@madsakjr6507]

the "sub"liminal message forced me to like this!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Touches fingers together

[@Coconut-219]

Rommel: "You're too late Churchill, I'm already... FORKLIFT CERTIFIED!"

[@MrForest_123]

13:40 “let’s just pretend you didn’t” FBG could’ve run Operation Paperclip lol

[@TheMelnTeam]

Large divisions take less equipment than small divisions as long as you a) use support companies and b) use all width available.

[@IamGomska]

That Blue Emoji creature has my 3 cats held hostage

[@FeedbackGaming]

True

[@alganhar1]

German Divisional Artillery was pretty much formed into a single 'Regiment'. In 1939 you had three Battalions of light Howitzers, each consisting of 12 105mm Howitzers in batteries of 4 guns, and a single battery of 150mm Howitzers, again 12 guns in 4 gun batteries. Generally each of the light howitzer Battalions would support one of the Infantry Regiments. The heavies would be retained under direct Divisional control for fire where required. Manpower is around 500 men per Battalion, around 200 on the guns, the rest would be support (takes a lot of dudes to shift all that arty ammo around). Early war the Artillery would have been mostly motorised, but by 1943 the infantry artillery battalions had their motorised transport removed except Heavy Battalion. So early war you could get away with motorised Artillery, but mid to late its horse drawn for most of it. By 1944 many infantry units, especially the Volk units had lost one of the light howitzer battalions replaced with a Field Gun Battalion consisting 16 75mm field guns (often captures Soviet or French guns). The recon element would be a single Battalion of armoured cars or motorcycle troops, usually a mix of both. Infantry, Each German infantry regiment consisted of 3 Battalions each of around 1000 men. A division typically consisted of three regiments. So around 9000 men at full strength. Early German Infantry Divisions did not have organic AT or AA guns, though each Infantry Regiment did have an organic complement of 36mm AT guns, Can't remember the number though, was not many, maybe 2 or 3 4 gun batteries. Late war Divisions had an AT and AA Battalion as part of their organic TOE. THIS is why I do not make historical Divisions!!! HoI IV simply does not allow you to do so. EDIT: as a side note, each of the batteries in the Howitzer Battalions would generally support a specific Infantry Battalion unless the situation demanded otherwise.

[@magni5648]

9 inf, 1 line arty, 1 line AT is 22-width. Not meta, but perfectly useable. Then add support arty, engineers and recon. Signals and logi or medical if you're feeling fancy.

[@alfa_dad6988]

I love your content. Keep going on!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Thank you! Will do!

[@resjakeht]

add the mod "10 Support companies" it is for an older version than 1.14 i think but it still works, so you can actually make THE historical template

[@guillermowinthorpe1000]

DAVID! I lovved the new video

[@FeedbackGaming]

I love you

[@Para0234]

Okay that's it. I want to see a gameplay with MODERN templates.

[@Karagianis]

4:23 Are you saying that the Boulton Paul Defiant is META? LOL

[@xandlhofer8029]

In war times within the Wehrmacht it was quite usual to detach units from the divisions - especially engineers and artillery which were often moved to strengthen the fronts were under severe attack or for special tasks, sometimes a part of a trained division was detached to form the core of a new unit, which distinctly lowered the time they needed to be fully battleready as as 20 to 30 % of new division were already trained and battlehardened. The only limit in later stages of the war was severe losses and difficulties to fully equip units. - Also in later stages of war the actual numbers of Soldiers in Divisions varied from 70 down to 20% of regularly required strength. Many especially reserve and occupation units were formed of reconvalescent wounded and older soldiers these units were often equiped with looted weapons especially tanks and Artillery (where dominantly czech and french weapons were in use, whereas czech weapons clearly were preferred due to quality engineering) Of course the use of looted weaponry made supply a bigger task due to different ammo calibers. The most important weapons in that regard were the tanks type 35 (t) and 38 (t) where T stands for "tschechisch" - meaning czech as those were built by Skoda company in Pilsen and CKD Praga. Many specialized weapons like the Marder III used their chassis as self propelled platform. - to come back to the Big division size - it does have a big advantage in a real war, as there are sufficient numbers to not only battle but in longer lasting battle events to rotate soldiers between front and back and to have attack reserves as well as the infrastructure to operate almost autonomous - every of these divisions was like a small army of its own - thus hard to break, hard in hitting the enemy - but it needed a sufficient supply to work correctly, though also in war, it showed that this was replaced by improvised supplies and builds, very much like we see in current Ukraine, where outdated or looted artillery was put on a truck to make it mobile. It does work well, at least for a while. - keep gaming!

[@Lukey-D]

I found mods to make divisions bigger, which adds more support companies as well, which would be perfect for this challenge

[@rffyn]

Really fun to watch ur hoi4 videos as always!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Glad you like them! Thanks buddy

[@MrSleepDeprivation]

deeply amused by the ddrjake cameo

[@FeedbackGaming]

Meme not found

[@andriaqardava3766]

Adrahill at home

[@deplorabledegenerate2630]

Hermann Hoth is one of my favorite no-no German commanders and not just because George Lucas named a planet after him. Because I don't think any other better represents how complicated things can be- bad news on the "I hope you didn't commit any warcrimes" front, friend. He was considered one of the most talented panzer commanders in Germany and served in the invasions of Poland, France and finally Russia. He was well liked by his men because he genuinely cared for their well being and refused to set them to any task he felt would end in ridiculous casualties. His fatherly personality and protectiveness earned him the nickname "Papa Hoth" and he was known to discipline troops that mistreated Polish, French and British POWs in his care. Specifically Polish, French and British POWs. Some of whom were shocked when they found out how into "Lets just pretend you didn't" for the best.

[@Ondog1234]

Try to spam out 120 army consist of 1 infantry only, this can allows you to send 6 volunteers

[@BigMacAnFries]

Historical POG very cool chat, best gamer in hoi4 confirmed

[@KROO-fy7tl]

Overrated editor

[@MaDDoG199200]

ChatGPT also know what hoi4 is, so You could ask it directly for template in game

[@FeedbackGaming]

It does. When asked it pulls old meta templates like 40w tanks and 7/2s

[@DustyOldPanda]

I know you're probably sick fed up of playing this game, but I really enjoy these videos.🙂

[@FeedbackGaming]

Glad you like them! Na I'm still having fun

[@linuxares]

I wonder how long you could survive with historical templates for China vs Japan.

[@FeedbackGaming]

YOU CHALLENGING ME?

[@ADobbin1]

That 1936 infantry division should have truck towed artillery not just the guns. GPT said there was an artillery battalion complete with logistics and transport.

[@bIuebuIIet]

Should do a video where you only build divisions that Chat GPT recommends

[@FeedbackGaming]

Could do. It would recommend old reddit meta

[@JClark2600]

@1:10 Love me some ChatGPT TOE tables! lol

[@FurryCruz]

Another channel made the historical templates. Military History Visualized, check them out.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Top video. Top channel

[@JustGamingForYou18]

You could have told the ai you were trying to make historically accurate hoi4 templates. If you are specific enough you get good results.

[@ruansteenkamp4289]

I think Andrahil's resources are more accurate than that buggy AI, but hell , this is interesting in it's own right

[@FeedbackGaming]

I don't watch other creators. However Aldrahill is a top guy. Check discription

[@bloodyboy1029]

No way this guy responses to every comment, I feel like this is the work of ai.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Worse. Feedbackgaming has brain damage

[@bloodyboy1029]

@@FeedbackGaming Dang

[@sombertownds149]

@Adrahill seems youve got compitition, but yours is always accurate so your probably fine

[@FeedbackGaming]

I don't watch other creators. However Aldrahill is a top guy. Check discription

[@s0lsticefr4]

Brutal Oppression should only be use for states with already high resistance when you conquer them. If you're invading a country that has never been occupied (like Poland, Benelux, France, etc.) just use Martial Law. One should note that the non-core state (for exemple French Africa, Dutch SA or Belgian Congo) can have already high resistance if the colonial power ran out of gun/manpower for garrisons. Although these states are usually low resistance anyway so Martial Law works fine.

[@FeedbackGaming]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6nIlmCEq9CBp9U

[@s0lsticefr4]

@@FeedbackGaming You're losing more from Brutal Oppression increased requirement in garnison that takes more damages than you're gaining from having lower resistance. I don't see how Poland could get to 50% and even then I don't think the AI is smart enough to trigger an uprising.

[@richy2837]

I would have watched the hole video, but I hate if someone asks Ai. Its so boring and you cant trust the answer. You have all the possibilities to research the historical templates for yourself. An easy source for a list of unit compositions is wikipedia. e.g. 12th infanterie division

[@mattewtop1857]

Wikipedia, the open-to-everyone source. Totally reliable, yeah😂

[@richy2837]

@@mattewtop1857 it references historical archives typicly. But I agree to you normaly wikipedia is not reliable

[@RandooGaming]

True, huge bummer he lazily asked the ai. A KZbinr named adrahill does his own research for historical divisions

[@thedemonlord8685]

"Why dont you play germany historically?" Because germany lost historically.

[@jimmyjohnnsen8511]

Isnt seventeenhundred = 1.700 not 17.000?

[@FeedbackGaming]

'Math'

[@panachevitz]

yeah, he misspoke a few times.

[@Steve-de4kz]

I love you're vids!

[@FeedbackGaming]

Thanks buddy

[@PetsGameLp]

maybe take a country you like and ask the AI to give you a reasonable ahistoric War-Tactic. With Who to declare on, Focus on what research and the Template, and later do maybe a "desaster-save!"

[@FeedbackGaming]

I LIKE!

[@TntMooze]

I believe I've seen a video like this already but I enjoyed this anyway

[@scubandym1941]

I really like some of the new graphics

[@nicdesmedt7443]

I think a 1942 division would have been the ultimate one. You could have also asked for a panzer divizion template, no? The Germans sure had those..

[@FeedbackGaming]

Can do tanks next

[@nicdesmedt7443]

@@FeedbackGaming I think a mix, as it was historically would be nice. The tanks don't need to be hightech anyway historically: the vast majority they used were pzkw 1, 2 and 3 anyway, then some 4 and only very late in the war did they have the panter, tiger, kingtiger etc.. Installing riechscommisariats (release occupied countries) and demanding volunteers/units might also ease the need for a larger amount off templates. Also a mix off light fighters and medium bombers/fighters would make sense historically, since as you said max air xp should be ez. And as it pertains to "special forces" German parachutists were their invention, so that might be nice..

[@SuperExplosivegames]

Great video idea! Now do Italy XD

[@belkoo4707]

19:00 i tought that germans used Blitzkrieg in land doctorines

[@drakegod84]

I'm very confused....Karl Eglseer leads the front? I thought you said to choose Brilliant Strategist for those roles? Am I missing the meta on this? Also, Dave you should download the mod historical portrait for karl eglseer. IDK why paradox made a bunch of generic portraits for everyone. It's so lazy.

[@FeedbackGaming]

Na no meta. Just picked the guy with the biggest attack stat

[@adaw2d3222]

These new blue emotes are pain.

[@FeedbackGaming]

I choose pain then!

[@wintersp1ce]

Close enough, welcome back Aldrahill 😼

[@FeedbackGaming]

I don't watch other creators. However Aldrahill is a top guy. Check discription

[@FeedbackGaming]

Like historical templates? Try this 1 i uploaded 18 months ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3maqp6YaL1pbtk

[@FourtoslavGenrikhovich]

it's sad that you can't mix motorized and infantry batallions cause of the lowest speed and no stat benefits and also initiative being useless

[@vallergergo737]

Do you want to know something very funny? @FeedBackGaming From the moment the war began, there was no such thing as a "universal" infantry division, at least certainly not on the German side. Because you had the infantry division, the Fortress (Infantry) Division, Static Division (which was different from the fortress div), Fusilier Division, light Inf Divisions (or Jagers), the panopy of Mountain and Paratrooper Divisions, you had Reserve Infantry, AND Reserve Mountaneer Divisions, Grenadier Divisions, SS Grenadier (Infantry) divs, SS Mountaineers, the Luftwaffe Feld divisions, Volksgrenadier division, which were kept separate from both regular infantry, and grenadier divisions, you had Sturm (storm/assault) infantry divisions, at the very least 2 "Marine" Infantry divisions (basically organised from Kriegsmarine navy personnel close to the end of the war), Security (Sicherungs) divisions, which were often used as supplementary infantry formations (since they were basically a watered down infantry force), 1 Skijager brigade converted to a Skijager division (and was, despite the name stationed in Ukraine/Belorussia ). And these are just the variations outside the scope of the "regular" Infantry division! Because even within that designation there could be 2-3 different types of divisions (usually denoted something like A or B, or by the wave (mobilisation wave) number attached to them)

[@RandooGaming]

Well, the volkstrum divisions were created late into the war but other than that you are correct.

[@vallergergo737]

@@RandooGaming Not volkssturm, volksgrenadier. They are different. Frpm the wikipedia article of volksgrenadiers: "Volksgrenadier divisions were professional military formations with standardized weapons and equipment, unlike the unrelated Volkssturm militia"

[@drakegod84]

Wait, why did you put an armour officer in an Infantry template? Am I missing something? And why is Hermann Hoth an armour officer when historically he was a panzer leader?

[@FeedbackGaming]

I just picked the guy with the biggest attack number

[@jeremymorris6738]

With the artillery, the manpower kind of goofs it up a bit. Really what should matter is the number of guns, which would be accurate with a single battalion.

[@Zdeno8525]

maybe you could have asked the chat gpt to show you how the division would looked in hoi4 and you would not need to think about it so much :D

[@GloriousEagle69]

protip u shouldnt actually win spanish war. justmove to a tile that is being attacked u lose far less and get more xp being on the defense where inf excel

[@Revener666]

There are mods to add more support companies.

[@FeedbackGaming]

'shrug'

[@Revener666]

@@FeedbackGaming yeah yeah :P

[@joaoguilhermepradolopes4562]

I think you should dowload a mod that increases the amount of suport comapnies that you can use

[@singularitytr1550]

This looks like a muiltiplayer division template.

[@Bryzerse]

How do you get your division icons so small?

[@FeedbackGaming]

UI scaling setting

[@Bryzerse]

@@FeedbackGaming Ah thanks lol

[@ricardookiveira8446]

What is the spanish gold reserves event in 8:35 😭

[@gruffelo6945]

why would you build civilian factories with Germany ever?

[@NoNoMustashMan]

How about Finnish or Polish historical inf.div.?

[@FeedbackGaming]

Finland be fun

[@jamesgamescraig7144]

There's a switch division template button!? 😓 Agghhh! I never knew.

[@rougechampion]

Never had the spanish gold event but looks like you just get less consumer goods factories?

[@coreytaylor9877]

What mods and DLC do you have ?

[@FeedbackGaming]

All DLC

[@Tiamaru0o]

Short question why are u helping the other Spain and not the nationalist I thought having the nationalist Spain could be a nice help for Germany later or am I doing something wrong

[@FeedbackGaming]

shhhhhhhhhh its a secret

[@Tiamaru0o]

@@FeedbackGaming 😂😂😂

[@tacspace900]

Ehm where are historical tank divisions and motorised divisions.

[@Ace_Jacob]

can you do an italy guide again?

[@mrcousins93]

So why republican spain?

[@thomasalanine9801]

Spanish gold reserves

[@mrcousins93]

Yeah I just got to that part in the video. Reduced consumer goods right?

[@FeedbackGaming]

HES LEARNING

[@mrcousins93]

Cheeky Dave ❤

[@BFGP]

heya funni british man

[@FeedbackGaming]

v funny

[@ugfpandas007]

Hi Dave

[@FeedbackGaming]

Hi panda

[@ceaciruleonardadrian3585]

What happened to Brazil?

[@skswi8777]

what cpu do you have?

[@panachevitz]

Funny story, but when HOI4 came out, Military History Visualized came out with historical division templates: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6q0npuoi7CmmZI&ab_channel=MilitaryHistoryVisualized

[@FeedbackGaming]

AMAZING video! My big inspiration

[@bhaswardeepsikdar446]

How much time did it take you for this run....?

[@domowomo2125]

I don't get the Spanish gold event

[@FeedbackGaming]

Takes a wile to fire

[@woodsman9427]

why no tanks?

[@FeedbackGaming]

Can do historical tanks next?

[@Albanian1government]

What does the Spanish event even do?

[@lavincen]

historical infantyr WIP

[@TiotiLP]

THIS IS NOT HISTORICAL way too much artilerie . they were ~32 artillery pieces in different size . So the division in hoi should just have 1 artilerie division and one support artillery and not 4 .

[@FeedbackGaming]

I wasn't wrong. ai was wrong

[@bigmichaeljack3851]

Creates slovakia to be historical, also dosent set up vichy france and dosent give the soviets the other half of poland 😂

[@FeedbackGaming]

Historical until 1940 XD

[@grahamstone1198]

Historical until 1940 XD (except for the Spanish civil war)

[@xristosimprezas5006]

what is that tab he sees at 29;10?

[@GraySweatshirt906]

Do the thug shaker next video