This Tiny New HOI4 Nation Is Ridiculously Overpowered

Today on the new By Blood Alone dlc for Hearts of Iron 4. I'll be playing as a new tiny HOI4 nation which appears to be ridiculously overpowered - the Kingdom of Aussa!
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[@AlextheRambler]

*I had so much fun with this nation. Have you tried them yet? My patreon **www.patreon.com/therambler146** if you're interested!*

[@viclorenzo5016]

Yes

[@Rocky-be1ml]

Yup

[@ghostgamer2524]

Do ur Videos louder i have everithing on 100 percent and i almost hear nothing

[@Mini_master.]

Play Democratic Germany pls

[@RockettMAN14]

I made the first yt vid on Aussa and was able to core all of Ethiopia

[@petartoshkov2076]

It is kind of ironic that the Sultanate of Aussa has a bigger focus tree than the previous Italian focus tree

[@justinchase6666]

well they did help the axis more then italy

[@resentfuldragon]

yeah but that's kind of a low bar at this point in hoi4's development.

[@memethief4113]

So this tiny insignificant nation gets a focus tree but Austria doesn’t because “they get eaten by Germany too quickly”?

[@Bread-kun]

That focus tree is kinda like the Chinese warlords focus tree. Not a generic focus tree, but every nation that gets released in this area of africa has that focus tree. And it's a pretty nice tree. It's why if you play as Ethiopia and go non-aligned, ABSOLUTELY take the focus to balkanize your country as all the states you create get that focus tree. Which means they all pop out infrastructure and factories like crazy before you pull everyone back in.

[@Pulstar232]

You should make sure you can pick up the Horn of Africa focus before you Balkanize. I'd also like to note that it takes a LONG time to min-max that. It took me until 1944 ish for them to finish all of their factory focuses + urbanization.

[@Bread-kun]

@@Pulstar232 It's mostly just keeping tabs on their focuses and their own state development. Even just letting them sit there for a year or 2 gives you waaaayy more industry then you can realistically pump out yourself in 4 years. Sometimes the AI just beelines the correct focuses and you can pull them back in ASAP and sometimes you got that one guy who just focuses the army tree and you're tearing your hair out.

[@Pulstar232]

@@Bread-kun if they do all their factory focuses they actually give you around 100 factories, which was enough for me to usurp China as faction leader(because after the war UK kicked me out because the only way to join was to justify). But I was in the faction long enough to get the Brussels Treaty. Which mean that I could turn the Chinese United Front into NATO. Shits weird.

[@lunatinia2173]

I have hoi4 but never tried playing it again since I sucked, but that sounds nice.

[@Bread-kun]

@@Pulstar232 I mean realistically even if you took that focus, then sat there and just spammed all the decisions ASAP and reintergrated ASAP, you'd still get a ridiculous amount of industry. At least 20-30 civs very quickly. I legitimately don't know how PDX thought that side of the focus tree when the more cetnralized side gives you. Like +5% construction speed or something and that's it in comparison.

[@freakkiller89]

I love the idea of the allies being ok with some random african tribe taking half of the Kriegsmarine after the war

[@germanyballwork5301]

"Look at me, I'm the kriegsmarine now"

[@methuselah8885]

I'd like to think that they recognize that their resistance contributed to Italy's defeat and also kept pressure off the European theater. Or you could roleplay it as the allies sending them the fleet they desired for some reason so they have a friendly country to help keep order in the region.

[@bluethunderbolt9631]

@@methuselah8885 I think "keeping pressure off the West" is low balling it, since I'm pretty sure the Italians dedicated like half of their army, the Germans sent 1/7th or so of their armor brigades and Romania for some reason sent a quarter of their army over. That's not "keeping pressure off", that's a major contribution to the war effort.

[@hypercynic]

Tribe? It's literally called a Sultanate in the game... They are far from a tribe my dude.

[@Coinfliptails]

Communist Aussa is fairly easy, especially with ideological loyalty to deal with manpower. Also to get guns from Mongolia/Tannu Tuva to spend more time on artillery. Other than that, everything was working quite well.

[@resentfuldragon]

so basically its like most actual communist nations at the time, ask mr stalin for some more free stuff.

[@antonionoronha2601]

Imagine conquering all africa with that 💀

[@jordanasparadoxproductions8401]

Alex: Are you challenging me ?

[@alwarado]

Just wait for Taureor to do it

[@argent4769]

Nah world conquest

[@supa5820]

Yea:D

[@compatriot852]

@@jordanasparadoxproductions8401 didn't expect to see another Lithuanian here

[@Oropher420]

I like how Alex is mad at the AI for being competent because he just wants to paradrop and naval invade.

[@resentfuldragon]

its more so that the ai is almost bipolar in the sense that it is incompetent when it hurts you but genius when its also to your detriment. the ai will deny you something you wanted so much but is too stupid to defend the lands you helped them take.

[@markjones952]

Have we all come to the realization of how lucky we are that we get to see new Alex the Rambler videos every few days? Have you personally thanked the man for providing you with hours and hours of entertainment? Well, you should! Lets do that know. Wherever in the world you are....stand up and give this man an ovation. Literally, do this. Stand up and applaud.

[@henryasselin123]

Fr I'm thankful for something to watch when I run out of ISP videos

[@bigbrother7604]

@@henryasselin123 Don't worry, ISP is just planning a new billion possible different schizophrenic, mind-fucking scenarios

[@SwedenTheHedgehog]

Yeah, I’ve been thinking this too for the last few days, and especially now that this videos came out and surprised me! Alex is a treasure, and he is definitely the most entertaining Hearts of Iron -player on the whole wide web!

[@henryasselin123]

@@SwedenTheHedgehog I remember when he first got his start doing Rome II total war videos, still just as cringe 🤌🤌🤌

[@mannerheim6208]

I’m at school and we are talking about hitler I did it and now I’m going to the office

[@154Kilroy]

Getting denied cities by the AI is incredibly annoying. Unless it's happening to someone else, then it's hilarious 🤣

[@austen7627]

That race for Berlin was very intense though 😂

[@feliperojas9860]

The patreons probably get the clips were Alex actually shows when he is using the command console

[@Dock284]

Why is he doing better as this nation then as Ethiopia?

[@mrr9636]

This nation has no nerf to entrenchment and a single mountain capital

[@SirAroace]

Also because this nation getting eaten weakens Ethiopia's front line

[@justanotherredbeard4439]

20:40 When Aussa builds A-10 Thunderbolts

[@mrr9636]

Alex you’re the first KZbinr I’ve seen trying Aussa, thank you for answering the call

[@captaintalking1646]

I recently read that this focus tree is shared by all releasable Ethiopian nations. So giving a nation which is not playable right at the start a - kinda- unique focus tree let's me hope that we one day may get an Egyptian focus tree which you can play when you release Egypt.

[@resentfuldragon]

Honestly I hope they just make a sequel to their hearts of iron cold war game so we could get great trees for places like egypt and somalia. Not only is it an already established paradox title, but the hearts of iron side series would have more room for unique focus trees than the main games.

[@mistermidwest]

I like to eat burger king happy meals when I am sad.

[@mobgabriel1767]

the early game in this nation be like: STANDING HERE I REALIZE

[@blakebobgamez1946]

“Bish bash bosh T H E W O R L D I S I N C R E A S I N G L Y U N S T A B L E”

[@youraverageuser7039]

Aussa should own the bosperous clearly and recreate the ottoman empire lead by alex the sultan

[@tromedlovdrolmai]

You didn't "own" the province. It's a bit weird with how the game says it, but how it works is that when you occupy the province, you control it. You don't become the owner of it unless you take it in a peace deal

[@jerdigaming4856]

Focus Tree Comparison: What Nation is more important, Aussa or the UK, and the US? *Aussa is obviously more important, see how they have a bigger focus tree?* Difficulty Question: What will be more hard, fighting against Italy? A. with a pretty large and populated nation that controls many states? B. With a one state nation, with only 3 tiles. *The Obvious answer is B.*

[@YoungClarke]

Ethiopias decision that basically spits out a half dozen countries each use that tree. It’s super nice since all those countries build themselves up like crazy via this focus tree, the. You annex them back and get all of it for yourself

[@MD.Akib_Al_Azad]

They don’t use the aussa tree

[@captaintalking1646]

It's jus because of you that I know Aussa has a unique little focus tree, thank you! I love it, especially because I got surprised by it since Aussa is not on the front page where you can select the unique-focus tree-nations.

[@skipper_4395]

Thanks for the video’s Alex!

[@dont-rump901]

Truly enjoy these longer video! I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea but the story of the video is much more enthralling and enjoyable (regardless of the outcome of the gameplay lol)

[@tapiaoc123]

Happy to be able to watch your videos fella keep it up and keep being you !

[@dariusmihai8674]

The 10 divisions of Romanian troops: "My goals are beyond your understanding"

[@JerseyMapping]

I literally remembering playing Aussa yesterday, and wondering, will alex make a video on this? and yup, he did.

[@whenyoucantfindaname]

bro me too was just camped in the capital until '39

[@zztophatzztophat]

Aussa was one of the best surprise treats in this DLC, easily my favorite small nation now.

[@explodingwolfgaming8024]

AUSSA STRONG!

[@rhokor4985]

Gonna buy the DLC just for this minor, great video, Alex!

[@medievalthebucket5248]

When bba came out i immediately played aussa and got to say i got way furtjer than alex i did some of the focuses which give troops and then i immediately invaded ethiopia (we had already won the ethiopian war) and since they disbanded the chitet and i now had a huge army they were easy to beat and i had cores on some Ethiopian states with my focus tree i adventually cores the rest and annexed ethiopia befote ww2 started and i invaded italy

[@fruta6279]

Here we go, Aussa world conquest

[@phsycresconquest6636]

Funnily enough I’ve found the opposite with both Chang Kai Shek and Josef Stalin eating rocks every time

[@alwarado]

Pretty sure Aussa's focus tree is just a generic one for all the ethiopian releasable nations, like the one for the chinese warlords

[@LOTUG98]

It isnt. I looked

[@placeusernamehere6150]

In my run through with assua I managed to get 64K dead for my side and 879K Italians deal along with 120K Germans 8K Slovakians and 18K Romanians

[@math3000]

"A king who fights his own battles, wouldn't that be a sight." Mohamed showed us that sight

[@lyndaldobson8556]

I thought you were talking about Muhammad.... the prophet

[@alfarep225]

Just joined the patreon couldn't get the second tier yet for financial reasons but I am part of the cult of the chonk, keep up the good content alex!

[@AlextheRambler]

Welcome to the cult! :D

[@TKnightcrawler]

Good video. Made me laugh. :-) I've also been a bit confused by some of their new mechanics. Half the time, my air wings simply refuse to replace their losses. I don't know why, when I have lots of replacements. I end up having to train up a new air wing and disband the old one. When I saw your 92/100 Transport air wing, it reminded me of that.

[@pewterschmidt23lord99]

im starting to think theres alot of bugs in the new patch

[@airborneofficer2640]

Man this is like when Patton kept overrunning the drop zones for paratroopers

[@Chadmlad]

Paradox definitely did a lot of good with this DLC but it feels incredibly unfinished. For example, the Soviet unions national focus tree still has old plane research options as focuses, or even Italy, a lot of their "___ has joined _______ faction" news that appears for players seems completely bugged to where neither faction, nor country name appears. I really hope they work on fixing the stuff they've broken rather than pumping out more DLC, at least for a while, until its back to its prior quality of gameplay.

[@pewterschmidt23lord99]

yeah im thinking theres alot of bus in this version to

[@pewterschmidt23lord99]

bugs

[@eisbergsyndrom5010]

Aussa's focus tree is shared with all other tags that make up Ethiopia. That can be seen when Ethiopia balkanizes itself with the "A Federal Empire" focus.

[@JDBD13]

I've never done any patreon things before but that little chonk is incredibly tempting.

[@chill2512]

This tiny is absolutely a gigachad!

[@AtlasAugustus]

Hey dude, from America. Long time subscriber, even though KZbin algorithm is shite, love the content and commentary, thank you

[@DiviX72]

I'm CONVINCED the only reason Alex has problems in the vast majority of his games is because the AI just really likes to royally screw him 🤣

[@PaganMil]

I remember quite good that I already subscribed. Well here i go again.

[@pc_suffering6941]

Aussa has same focuses as Ethiopian releasable tags.

[@austria-hungary7680]

I once played Aussa recently, i can't exactly remember why but i know it's either because, im bored af, intrusive thoughts, curiosity, or straight up just 'cuz. I still remember when it had a bigger focus tree than italy. I still laugh at that.

[@workerrcz5025]

Can't wait for HOI4 MP in a nutshell - Aussa Game Impact

[@yaboibruce_808]

Thank you for providing me with happiness

[@That_Guy_Named_Epyk]

Wow you beat ISP to it and he has a hole series for all nations

[@someother5512]

Funniest thing ever when that Soviet tank won the race to Berlin.

[@julekszul3939]

Interesting video alex

[@scubandym1941]

I think this was an excellent video Alex. You are the Chad!

[@scubandym1941]

What is your name on fam?

[@cobrazrt6006]

you just now played them? i have been playing them since day 1 of by blood alone

[@saoirsedeltufo7436]

I'm guessing the focus didn't work because you needed to own a coastal state after a peace deal, rather than just controlling it at war

[@jimbobdoohicky9150]

i actually went ahead and played it before i even tried italy or ethiopia and it was pretty funny

[@battleship6177]

EVERYTHING I TRY TO DOOOO That had me rolling

[@karlthorsten9118]

It's him, the man with the lined hair! And he's rambling so deliciously that I'm ordering my own CHONK-MUG!

[@wetwillyis_1881]

Hoi4 Gigachad, no, you’re a our gigachad, Alex!

[@thewalkingtree7077]

Alex is livin like Larry

[@Paya-hx6eu]

all the break away states have this tree

[@evill01]

Can someone tell me how the paradrops work now? they worked fine before but now they wont launch even if I have all the equipment and air superiority

[@cgallegos2106]

Alex angered the AI by surviving as Aussa, he already beat the Italians in Eritrea so they wouldn’t allow him to accomplish anymore of his goals.

[@aaronmoots2797]

You should play some more old world blues! Play as New Reno!

[@dank8478]

The last half is just you trying to get territories and kept getting memed 7 times in a row

[@enzyme694]

Alex the rambler: Ungobbler of Aussa

[@cemerencantas5719]

gigachad alex the rambler? more like alex the gambler

[@rogofos]

somehow, despite winning the war, rambler still managed to make a classic rambler fail

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

The fact a bunch of guys with swords boys and like 8 guns can can beat an entire army of well armed troops is hilarious

[@FirieifjcjfbdkdjekDjkdndldhdk]

Did you know you can core a macedonia as aussa

[@jakobhawkins77]

The new peace confrence is amazing! Love taking entire countries resources

[@danielehtemam8132]

I think ausa shoud be on the title screen like the other countries

[@horrigan495]

You had Coastal tiles, but as occupied, not as Owned... After the peace conferemce you actually owned them...

[@compatriot852]

The Hoi4 devs seem to be putting a lot of effort when it comes to adding and fleshing out a lot of content. Now only if eu4 was the same

[@kamikazebanzai1005]

Completely ignoring the new dlc that reworked all idea groups, added a fuckton of government reforms for everyone, reworked combat, and added for the first time ever coop mission trees. Seriously eu4 does not care at all

[@limeliciousmapping4652]

I am not used to hearing the words "giga chad" from alex mouth

[@aleksir.8380]

Is the Italian Social Republic now a thing if Mussolini is deposed? I noticed Italy's change of colour around the capture of Rome.

[@Hellstorm901]

19:13 basically a Bakhmut joke

[@NON155]

TO MAKE REAL CLAIM ALEX THE RAMBLER IS A SMALL CHAD INSTEAD OF GIGA CHAD

[@hypercynic]

Aussa is surprisingly fun to play.

[@fireironthesecond2909]

I love fuking Aussa having a focus tree before Finland 🤦‍♂️

[@danterroblox6400]

I dont have that focus tree, do you need to buy a dlc?

[@zarinth]

Paratroopers have been broken since day 1.

[@obamagaming7909]

aussa has a focus tree of comparable size to italy

[@gymMenMEN]

Nice Video

[@nitulescustefan3058]

He's a true gigachad actually

[@TomFarr185]

Can anyone explain how the new Player led Peace conferences work? 🙃

[@benmunn7481]

'Its great having a lot of pp but if you've got nothing to use it on, what's the point' - Alex "the rambler" 2022

[@henryab2700]

It's the Tanu Tuva of Africa

[@yoshilikes24-chesscraft94]

Hi Alex! Matt is great and all, but Alex deserves some of the His. Hii? What's the plural version of hi? Ah whatever, Alex deserves some of the casual greetings!

[@LoveSpuds]

He certainly does!

[@SchmandlineCrew]

Aussa... the Luxembourg of Africa :D Great.

[@pewterschmidt23lord99]

The computer does some weird shit in this current version of hoi4

[@kimchi2780]

I played this and Stalin sent me guns while sending volunteers to Ethiopia who declared on me. Typical Stalin.

[@JJmusic1915]

I also like Hearts of "Ain"

[@BRIDKIE]

Aussa world conquest when?

[@Archphoenix1]

If part of your patreon is an autograph of ISP, count me in!

[@will2003michael2003]

Paratrooping has always been stupid hard to understand. I’ve played thousands of hours and I still don’t understand why sometimes they drop and other times they don’t.

[@carlnisser3314]

Rambler at 20:40 sounding like an a10

[@gamingwithbaldi2847]

aussa is good nice