Trying To Fix This Utter German Disaster (His Second Game Ever)

Today on Hearts of Iron 4 we have a Germany save sent in by Jesse and this is his second game ever. Somehow Hilter is no more and Germany is now close to capitulation. Can this utter German disaster be saved?
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[@AlextheRambler]

*From the 25th - 31st October expect a disaster save every day to celebrate hitting 400K subs!*

[@WiggleOcto]

Oh god, alex you need sanity!

[@coolboi6724]

Jes

[@viclorenzo5016]

Yes Skywalker, DO IT!!!

[@hotfocaccia6070]

Epic

[@akramgimmini8165]

oi thats pog

[@methuzzah4221]

to be fair, for his second ever game he did alright

[@thekillingduck]

19 hours ago?

[@Lp-army1]

Prob stream

[@bagelkarp7573]

@@thekillingduck pretty sure patreons get early access, might be wrong though

[@throwaway.mp4931]

I remember my first game i thought assigning like 2 factories to make guns for italy was enough

[@hamzahhazmy468]

@@throwaway.mp4931 well that's historically accurate

[@rayden7290]

>be Alex >complains about micro >complains that his army is getting encircled >plays on 5 speed hmmm I wonder why..

[@caselikesbeans7334]

When I was playing my second game I didn't even know how to make a army group. So he's doing pretty good

[@bagellord7168]

Yeah I didn’t know how to assign generals until my 5th game

[@WhoThoughtThisWasGood]

On my second game i got my ass kicked by finland as russia.

[@bruhmomento9032]

@@WhoThoughtThisWasGood historically accurate

[@WhoThoughtThisWasGood]

@@bruhmomento9032 no like i almost lost moscow before i scrapped the save

[@bruhmomento9032]

@@WhoThoughtThisWasGood oh damn that must've sucked

[@alexion2001]

This man really discovered a new 30-width meta on his 2nd time playing the game.

[@maxxgrumpy]

I have seen many people playing 30w, I am aying like that now too... it's okay for SP I can say

[@jacklee8217]

@@maxxgrumpy noooooooo, 30w is only meta in the bokoen mp mod, its not meta for vanilla

[@TheIastfan112]

@@jacklee8217 100% he watched Bo's MP games and adapted it from there, which hey would be logical in a way.

[@jacklee8217]

@@TheIastfan112 yeah definetly

[@maxxgrumpy]

@@jacklee8217 I still like it, better than 20w and cheaper than 40w, perfect. Specially when I do with line arty and AA 😅

[@strikes_again]

is this a new meta? or is this just fantasy? caught in a deficit, no escape for the axis team. open your techs, look to the skies and see... sorry, got carried away

[@orix3434]

This is butifule

[@Jablecznik]

Alex trying to micro at 5 speed wondering why he gets encircled all the time...

[@bestinthewest4697]

Stalin and Himmler teaming up is probably the most cursed thing I've seen today.

[@honeybadger6275]

Sounds pretty epic tbh.

[@bestinthewest4697]

@@honeybadger6275 Burgundian Stalinism approaching.

[@whitezombie10]

Also with Mussolini

[@eichelkrieger_7838]

"30 Combat width? Does Jesee know something I dont?" This jesees second game i dont think he even knows what combat widht is... i have over 600 hours and i dont even understand it

[@evanmedi6144]

all you need to understand 40 for attack troops, and 20 for defence (cover frontline gaps) combat width is a factor in almost all paradox games. basicaly determin how many troops can fight and how many will be in reserve. so by having 20 or 40 you make sure u max out your width inflicting more damage. while doing 30 or an odd number will have you fight bigger armies then yours since youll never fill your whole combat width with odd numbers i hope i made sense english is not my native language

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

There kinda no point in understanding it since they are going to be completely reworking it in the next DLC. Basically the combat width just determines how big a unit is, battles have a maximum combat width per side so an attack might have 80 combat width to use and thus can field 2 40 width division at once where a defender might have 120 combat width to use and can thus field 6 20 width divisions.

[@fele09]

@@Mankorra_Gomorrah maybe I miss a dev diary but as far as I know they are just twitching the terrains width values to end the 20/40 meta. The core mechanic is still the same

[@honeybadger6275]

To be fair I use a 30 combat width marine division, basically a 7/2 but i throw in 3 amphibious apcs and 2 amphibious tanks so they get some extra oomph, they get the job done when i gotta take a straight.

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

@@fele09 yes the mechanic is there, hence why i explained the mechanic, but there’s no point in learning the meta when paradox is about to completely demolish it and it’ll probably be another few months before a new meta is found.

[@markcostello5120]

For the first time ever in the history of man has the following statement been said. "Everything was fine then disaster struck and Hitler died"

[@honeybadger6275]

So basically the cursed timeline we live in irl?

[@harrisonmontages1717]

Doing war at 5 speed is pain. Usually it's a good idea to do speed 3 or lower for micro and speed 4 for hands-off offenses.

[@yamamotohiromori419]

Ai army : 17 supply while being encircled Alex's tank : melt like it's butter in a hot pan

[@13ghettoDolphins101]

Alex, consolidating under equipped divisions would have made this much easier on the logistical and combat issues you experienced

[@Pydgin]

My second game was a LOT worse.

[@coolboi6724]

My second game ever was terrible.. he did alright

[@Thermonnuclear]

I couldn’t push past Belgium, mainly because I didn’t know how the division designer worked

[@coolboi6724]

@@Thermonnuclear rip

[@Thermonnuclear]

@@coolboi6724 lmao I know

[@Thermonnuclear]

@@coolboi6724 I still have the save game, I might go back and fix it

[@coolboi6724]

@@Thermonnuclear i tink you should (lol)

[@dutch_cheese_man]

I'm so glad you brought these back, I'm loving these videos.

[@TaleNodati]

I thoroughly enjoyed this disaster save, it seemed one of the few genuine ones I can see a new player get into if they don't know what they are doing.

[@Idekwtph]

My second game I didn’t know focuses are a thing. I jumped from Napoleon Total zwar straight to this and I played HOI the same way I played NTW. Didn’t go well

[@primal_guy1526]

Me, seeing Alex attack out of a 1 tile pocket: *pain*

[@voteZDLR]

Thanks for teaching me how to play this game. First your tutorial is the best (and the shortest) but then watching you play both regularly and also saving these disaster games, learning what works and why, it's very helpful. And I am by no means like an expert or anything but I can say I have now had a successful campaign after a few tries because of your videos.

[@gabrielaldworth7476]

They might of had supply because aerial transports have a unique option to drop supplies on your armies, it isn't much but it could save an encirclement

[@Xinamon98]

I guarantee that the supply was bugged, it happens all the time.

[@redholm]

With Green Air. I doubt it. Probably just the AI having cheats as always :P

[@fele09]

Everytime I try to do that shit I can get like 4 supply tops. To be fair I don't know how that shit works tho

[@hellriegelzimbabwe9294]

My first game I lost to Lithuania

[@sancrosanct5070]

The3 purpose of my second game was the united states and focusing on learning only the navy. My 1936 destroyers were wrecking battleships and carriers. It was unreal to see 4 carriers sunk in a naval report. I'll never forget it

[@annurissimo1082]

3:06 Tfw Alex literally quotes the line you just thought about and now you feel like you have a psychic connection with him

[@Shinyworldwide]

"who's we? you're not doing this!" "OOOH we did it, we did it." alex.... are you having a, GIRAFFE?

[@linkfromzelda1002]

16:05 US border patrol be like

[@deutscherstein1639]

Hallo alle zusammen und vor allem Alex , ich verfolge deine Videos nun schon über Jahre hinweg und muss sagen das sie mir immer besser gefallen je länger du produzierst . Es ist nicht nur dein Witz sondern auch deine Unbefangenheit an verschiedene Szenarien ranzugehen und immer gut zu präsentieren was erreicht wird , oder werden soll . Ich hoffe du hältst dich gut und hast weiterhin Spaß am produzieren . Ein Gruß aus Deutschland .

[@neo-luddismrules]

For his 2nd game he did better than my 2nd game Italy, 1938, I'm a French puppet (don't ask how)

[@oracle372]

How

[@oracle372]

Also in my second ever game I got annexed by Poland and Russia as the Soviets because I didn't purge and I attacked Poland but I didn't have any equipment so my entire army got encircled and i died.

[@jeffgraham9208]

Congratulations on 400K! Keep rambling the rambles that makes you The Rambler.

[@How23497]

Looks like Jesse applied the Bokoen meta to vanilla HOI4. Yeah that's not gonna work out.

[@jakeschneider7275]

Entertaining! Keep up the good work.

[@lolman533]

great video length!

[@robloxpal2856]

Good job to you. And jesse for his second game was great!

[@troyspencer753]

Alex, I enjoy your videos! Thank you sir!

[@alaaaxpruski6559]

In my second game I didn't even know that generals existed so I wasnt able to create a front line and was completly annexed by the Netherlands as Germany after declaring war on them as basicly my first act in the game... So I think this guy did a really good job

[@EshBBX]

If they're actually legit 'first time' players, then those disaster saves are the most fun to watch being recovered by far! :)

[@alexiel4406]

The constant 5 speed tunnel vision strat ….. 😅

[@realwindows9]

Always makes me happy when you upload :3

[@enzyme694]

It's not too bad. Okay, maybe a bit bad. Oh this is doomed

[@williammiller7799]

I usually never overlap front lines. I almost always have each army on a different part of the boarder. And I always have extra divisions not attached to anything. Mainly for gap fillers.

[@h3069]

Overlapping orders make me want to jump into a Gustav

[@renano95]

"Disaster struck and hitler died" someone please clip that

[@Jimothyjohns]

I thought I’d help with the algorithm and say that this was hotter than my second game. Albeit, HOI4 base game lags badly on my pc so, very low bar to clear but still…

[@ggarrus5355]

3:06 pleasant mass effect reference.

[@bigsealfan9579]

3:10 classic Horthy moment

[@tuukkahaapa3084]

My new favourite thing is Alex yelling at the hungarians: Dicks! 3.15

[@WolfpackPodcastOfficial]

Man, you make my day!

[@TheCaesar88]

ALEX, please let me give you a tip in terms of micromanagement/combat - when you click to attack with let's say division A, you can take another division B that is bordering the attacked place and click to attack WITH CTRL button holded - this means the attack arrow will be blue and it means they are only supporting the siege, if the attack succeeds division A will move to this spot BUT division B will stay in their initial place. This simple move can prevent from getting encircled.. Please, please, please use it as it is absolutely horrifying to watch you get encircled so often, it is so painful to see... especially when it could be avoided. Cheers, congrats on passing 400k!

[@sonsofgaming7511]

2000 hours and i learn this now

[@krzyszczyk8527]

Nice video length, Polish people are happy to see 21:37

[@slowlyjonas]

6:17 the moment when you live near Regensburg. 😂

[@FullFatMark]

This reminds me of all my HO14 games

[@jacencade4019]

0:11 hitlers face when the encirclement at bastoigne was broken and he lost Antwerp circa December 1944.

[@riko_z9962]

I just want to watch these people who sent him the saves on how they made this happen

[@georgeofazgad2176]

Back when I first played I didn’t even know about upgrading my economy laws

[@chobez271]

on my first game didn’t go well because my entire army got encircled in belgium

[@voteZDLR]

If they aren't pushing according to your battle plan, you can always try to put them on aggressive

[@thething9617]

Alex trying to micro at 5 speed really grinds my gears....

[@pandamoniom4260]

Tbf I was too scared till about 140h in to play a major 😂

[@j_mack__1370]

Good example of why the supply update this month is necessary

[@musketsrule5541]

Every Germany playthrough I’ve done I just get stacked and it’s a superrrr slow crawl through every single tile even when I’ve got the enemy outnumbered 2-1

[@necrolich9169]

2:32 Allied generals at the Battle of the Bulge

[@jonisalmela2399]

I would really like a mod where you can create a med or mod tank division, but it will fill with light tanks if you are missing the correct type of tank

[@emper0r14]

Alex made a mass effect reference??? Pog

[@AlextheRambler]

It's one of my favorite game series of all time 😃

[@MrBlades96]

That Mass Effect reference.

[@jakubsomka3945]

No one: Literally no one: Poles: Haha,funny video length! Becouse you know! Pope cream-cookie!

[@ukishnzer]

"Italy is doing Italy things" - Alex

[@Austrian_Butcher]

To be honest, he saved it quite well.

[@TotallyNot_PatrickBateman]

Reminds me of my first game good times

[@Soken50]

You nailed the pronunciation of Brest and La Rochelle, however Cherbourg is pronounced "chair-boor" (boo as in book) :) Yes silent letters are infuriating :D

[@anubarak9184]

- _encircles opponents_ - _own troops run out of supply_ - *fun*

[@MrSampurchase]

I mean this is not half bad for a second game. It's literally just gone a wee bit wrong because of 30 width templates and the Czechs resisting.

[@teaganvids1013]

That mass effect 1 reference hits differant from a hoi 4 youtuber

[@radikal5724]

The scary fact is that this could've been reality.

[@xxminecraftlegendarxx6804]

In my second game, I was playing germany and I was really going for Stalingrad because of the memes. Guess what I lost 67 Divisions in there because I got encircled it was about my entire Tank force.

[@simplymatt6140]

anyone else remember their second game? Before all the dlc? What a simpler time

[@HydraulicMan1]

72 of "Pěší divize"? (at 15:46) That's a Czechoslovak template... governments in exile are a thing I guess, but why so many?!

[@bored432]

Tbh in my second ever game I couldn't even push into Poland

[@Fyres11]

Too much 5 speed tunnel vision XD

[@beaverjedi1236]

Well! That was painful to watch.

[@georgeofazgad2176]

30 combat width might actually work in the upcoming dlc

[@chandlergloyd4230]

dude is play on 5 speed and keeps being like “how did the ai do that all of a sudden?”

[@petersummersby8025]

Hey Alex, You should do a paradox mega campaign for a subscriber goal

[@phdinporn5146]

My first games i prob restarted 3-5 times before i successfully managed to invade France and Poland with out losing most of my army strength.

[@insignificantgnat9334]

On the subject of random little pockets somehow still being supplied, you can fix that with a quick save and reload. Also how exactly did the save creator here manage to blunder into war with the Swedes and the Swiss, don't you usually have to go out of your way to fight them?

[@Micro0644]

Formation of the Berlin Moscow Axis usually causes a majority of the Democratic Nations around Germany into the Allies.

[@glitchyikes]

It seems like Alex is not even enjoying it. Speed5 when microing?

[@nevets2371]

Lol the same thing happened to me in my first Germany game.

[@AssiduousNostalgia]

I personally think the save game was saved after he capitulated luxemburg.

[@AyCk567]

Did pretty well for a second game, but i would have tried to blitz Czechoslovakia

[@funtimes4564]

Why did i only just now get the notification

[@AlextheRambler]

Because I just made it public 2 minutes ago :D

[@aaronthomas7309]

6:43 did you try to say it isn't a "walk in the cake"?

[@mrpotatonutz9154]

My pc can’t handle Hoi4 anymore and I’ve only even done three games, I really hope I can get some more games in when I get an actual PC…

[@mrmunchkin2181]

They either know something we don't know or they don't know something that we know with the 30w divisions ':/

[@ratblack8207]

Yo Alex I have the very exact shirt. I got it from Hudson's Bay

[@blitzo7525]

This is one of my favorite HoI videos, simply because of how upset Alex got.

[@Pronessboss]

Hmm my own second game of Hoi4. I believe I was Germany and went pretty historical. Well except for the fact I didn't know how to properly handle making tanks and kinda stalemated against France

[@timixl00]

My second game was me losing to the swiss while being germany

[@otherhorizon8193]

Imagine if there was a national morale gimmick

[@christiandevey3898]

Oh look, another game as Germany

[@samg5463]

Got a like for mentioning the best Salarian after Mordin.

[@TJ-bg4fw]

There's a Salarian other than Mordin?

[@berkeaydn8706]

Nice vid

[@theanomaly527]

Very nice