When Germany Has No Airforce You Know It's Going To Be A Disaster (No Step Back HOI4 Disaster Save)

Today on Hearts of Iron 4 we return to the No Step Back DLC I try and save a disaster game in which Germany has no air force and can't push into France. It's all a rather big mess.
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#hoi4 #disastersave

[@AlextheRambler]

*When HOI4 drives you crazy install the go outside mod. Works every time.*

[@whyops9862]

It crashed my game

[@asimcevdetkaya9917]

ok. maybe.

[@themediabros]

@@whyops9862 mine too

[@Chrisartproductions]

Finnaly my game crashed. Time to get laid

[@viclorenzo5016]

No, install Skyrim instead. It just works. Just ask Todd Howard.

[@quiq5993]

"If Germany can't get a plane into the sky, you may not call me Goring. You can call me Meyer." -Herman 'The Rambler' Meyer

[@memazov6601]

Good one man

[@ArturHedlund]

I dont understand

[@quiq5993]

@@ArturHedlund There was a quote that Goring made where if any bomber made it to the Ruhr they would call him Meyer, which was something of an insult

[@ArturHedlund]

@@quiq5993 yes i just never understood what a meyer is

[@ubrot7995]

@@ArturHedlund Meyer is just a German last name. Meyer and its many versions is one of the most common Family last names in Germany. Also Funfact: the original quote doesnt use 'Meyer', it uses 'Meier' instead (still the same name, just a local difference) 2nd Funfact: there is no actual proof of Göring ever using the original quote. But that didnt stop people in Germany during the war making jokes about him using it.

[@ericfuchs123]

For generations people will talk of this Great Siege of Amsterdam, the two or three year long epic battle that cost the lives of millions in endless hand to hand combat as democracy held on for its final hope in Western Europe.

[@hunterv9983]

They didn't even have blades, bayonets, knives nor forks. They just strangled each other. There was book written by a Dutch militiaman who wrote about his horror how he strangled a Nazi boy to death.

[@manwell8328]

Ah yes, the never ending grind of trying to kill the Netherlands with 90% of the allied troops sitting there and not a single plane in the sky, I’ve been there before

[@TEO-jo4xm]

Alex: "Hmmmm... Germany without any single plane i wonder what might've happened" *Goring Burps* *Stares at Goring* Goring: "Oh for f... sake it wasn't me... I stopped at fighters"

[@strikes_again]

Also Goering: PASS ME THE OPIUM YOU FOOLS

[@TEO-jo4xm]

@@strikes_again Also Goring *burps*: I was totally not eating my whole airforce!

[@Elementisphere]

"*DEFEND AMSTERDAM TO THE LAST MAN!!*" "but sir they've taken Lond-" "*I DON'T CARE HOLD AMSTERDAMN IT*"

[@nono_Hoi4]

Uk be like: WE SHALL DEFEND AMSTERDAM Uk on the mainland: come in london

[@TheIT221]

When London falls before Amsterdam

[@barryfraser831]

They need to add something to encourage nations to defend their core lands, and something that makes nations pull back troops to defend the mainland if naval invasions succeed. Mostly because no nation is going to give up all its troops to protect an ally when the enemy is walking into your capital.

[@thogdentheimpaler8711]

Reminds me of how Britain will go overseas to fight pointless wars for the benefit of another country but wont stop itself from being demographically replaced in its own biggest cities.

[@TheWinterRaven]

As squire once said -If the plane is bombing you, it's the US Air Force -if its taking pictures of you it's the RAF -if its on fire it's a Russian plane -If its not there at all it's the luftwaffe

[@LordDaret]

5:30 what probably went wrong was that with the massive equipment deficit, the garrisons could not maintain their occupation force and the resistance kept growing with the lack of equipped forces.

[@nikolatanev1140]

Ngl ai has gotten 200% better. Me as bulgaria having all of the balkans, italy punching through the costlines so they connect with their troops in albania and sending naval invades to turkey later on snaking them to my capital and one also going to yugoslavia's capital. Ugh. I just wanna wend alex a juicy disaster game which hasn't happened yet.

[@LordDaret]

@@nikolatanev1140 I definitely do agree on that. However looking towards the Asian continent, the war has gotten definitely harder for Japan. I don’t see them steamrolling China like they use to and they rarely are able to gain control even over British Malaysia. Of course that has to do more with the AI not yet ready for the new supply system rather than combat decisions but still.

[@connorh2215]

@@LordDaret yeah Japan used to always take out all of Asia by 43 for me but now they barely take the Phillipines and have a near historical China war.

[@keuwlcat1319]

i imagine those garrisons in real life is just like ayo ayo wats dis den? *gets shot then pulls out baton now your fu- *pop then just full forced of batons and shields like a roman testudo going against armed mobs with guns

[@KommandoCraftLP]

Using "mister generic" is actually often a good idea since the Austrians usually promote hin to fiele marshal and give him the adaptive trait, thereby making him a very good marshal for mountainous and diverse terrain. You though gave a field marshal a general traut, what was a bit of a waste.

[@leothecat9609]

Do general traits not still work for Field Marshals?

[@KommandoCraftLP]

@@leothecat9609 they get a hefty reduction of the bonus

[@hashtagrex]

one big thing that can make a difference when lacking air is to pull some planes out of the sky and train them. The bonus from being regular itself may not do much, but its so much worse when they're stuck in an infinite loop of being green

[@ProfibobWot]

u are right 100% if u have low amounts of planes and have nor rubber to produce any significant number, dont waste ur few planes... train them to highest level and then send them on mission

[@BaronVonAnime]

My little brother was just like "Who's that, is he imitating Alex?" he only knows you with a beard xD

[@Notmyname1593]

You brother is right, Alex is the beard, this man is just a mouthpiece (a rambler, if you will) for the beard.

[@hdjjdisijdbhfjdjdjd576]

When Alex was complaining about supply then got rid of the logistics killed me 😂 still love you tho alex

[@Crunchifyable2]

And so Mr. Reagan said to Mr. Rambler, "Tear down this mustache" and so he did.

[@lyvekis8824]

I want to see a parody WW2 movie with Alex on Germany's side sitting in the high command. A.H.: Zhe allies landed in France. Alex: Still manageable, mein Führer.

[@wolfm33]

0:10 "middle-aged man screams at screen..." I can understand the feeling. I watched the F1 final today

[@markjones952]

What happened to the mustache, Alex? I mean, you are a handsome man either way...I showed this video to my neighbor, and she said, "Why is Elvis playing ww2 strategy games?".... (To be fair, she has cataracts)

[@skillganon606]

I feel like you took me on a journey there and I appreciated it.

[@Marulauriu710]

Fresh face Rambler really makes me think that I travelled in time to like 2017

[@hitomisalazar4073]

"As Germany in this new update, an air force is mandatory". I dunno that you have to stress 'this' update. I mean I recall Alex having said that since... Waking the Tiger? Before that? Yeah. It's been years where Green Air Mandatory has been a thing really.

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

Personally I didnt need air until this update. AA is based. Air force is nice but not necessary until now. You need, minimally, fighters to protect supply

[@BackgroundSpace]

Kinda hurt when I saw him select all those planes to move around and...they had no mission attached to them. Three or four wings of fighters just chilling taking up space it looked like. 21:32 was one example but I saw one later on that I thought had four.

[@matheusGMN]

that awkward moment when the UK falls before the Netherlands does x)

[@apilolomi4354]

0:37 No need to apologize. These are the best ones.

[@regularshitposter2601]

Start Thx Chain

[@regularshitposter2601]

Thx

[@xolotlnephthys]

Intelligence Agencies are in a DLC right, so it's possible that they were unable to utilise them

[@germanlad1609]

First a stream and now a video? This day is truly blessed

[@mjk506]

Fresh faced rambler looking good man, keep up the great work!

[@samuelbek5413]

Great vid!

[@adamwilcox8947]

I had that bug with Maginot line supply as well, so frustrating!

[@isterlings]

Having watched other HOI4 streamers, you are my favorite. I appreciate the humor and so.ewhat stern parenting.

[@sandstorm9305]

Oh my giddly goo this was a real humdinger

[@pbred5630]

Keep up the work

[@Warius5]

Looking good as ever Alex!

[@martin127cz9]

Alternate title: Trying to capitulate the netherlands the entire video

[@theholymage7188]

The one thing that sucks about the update is that countries can get supply from essentially nowhere, as long as there is a supply hub. There were ~35 british divisions in the congo, with no ports, yet they somehow were always at full supply.

[@primo.jr1]

keep the good work up your content is very good keep it going 🤲🏻💯

[@Silly2smart]

THAT was a tough one!

[@petaravramovic966]

Battle of Amsterdam, longer than Stalingrad...

[@danhohan1]

Alex said:” Hô Hán Dân very Beautyful “

[@rockstar-5934]

Do love this disaster save game marathon.

[@petersva]

12:22 rambler moment

[@saintbread5080]

Always lovely to see that you are pushing with 10% of your tank divisions actually having tanks

[@BTClips522]

Who needs tanks when you got the Flintstone feet

[@connorriley4800]

Love your videos

[@Rymontp]

Love the disaster saves

[@ThePoint6]

Can't even watch a simple damn KZbin video without being reminded of the French Defeat at Sedan during the Franco-Prussian war.

[@TheToby121]

Tip: don't attack just a single tile. While you were attacking Amsterdam and pushing them off, fresh troops were moving in from tiles right beside it. If you attacked the entire front you can stop them from being able to move in to Amsterdam. You were essentially letting them rotate in as many troops as they wanted from anywhere on the line while your troops slowly bleed organization and faulter in a single mass charge from one direction without air support.

[@Roketsune]

Wow, he didn't even take over Benelux in 1941. That takes deliberate, willful incompetence.

[@jmr6619]

12:30 when your enemies break through your defensive line

[@bigsealfan9579]

Feel like the USSR that had just been building up the whole game and just canceled non-aggression was gonna steamroll him

[@999mi999]

As i said in a Bitt3rsteel video, disaster Germany save and giving Hungary the entirety of Transylvania seems to be a trope at this point. What's with bad players and doing that anyway?

[@chucknorrismlg425]

Because Transylvania is rightful hungarian clay

[@999mi999]

@@chucknorrismlg425 This is about HOI4, not about an irrelevant war your country lost hundreds of years ago.

[@wartrix6046]

From the Carpathians to the Adriatic, the Great Nation of Hungary (best country) shall rule all!!! 😎🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺

[@jamesmccomb9525]

@@999mi999 Overreaction much? I'm sure the guy's just joking and here you are taking it up to 11. Settle down.

[@aldrixalkemadus]

The afsluitdijk was one of the best defended lines in the Netherlands you have 5 forts at the frysian side and onather 5 at the Holland side this with a chocking point is the ideal defensife point

[@MGoogle3146]

Other players/AI should not be able to call *your* puppets into wars, it's absurd.

[@maxpowerdup]

Astounishing how big of a difference a moustache can make.

[@Jimothyjohns]

Rambler looks pretty good without facial hair. Just as handsome as he does with facial hair imao

[@johndi16]

Where is the full stream? Can't find on twitch

[@FlorianXXV]

What's to say about your face? You look great.

[@santiagosuarez-quiroga3378]

Lmfao when Alex got the hiccups

[@aurelionsoil9207]

look qt alex eye i think he never sleep before 12pm

[@sammygroth1125]

RIP epic rambler stash

[@MichaelBNegron]

Great job saving this one dude, I wasn't sure you'd be able to with that start. Also, for what it's worth (from a bi dude) I think you look handsome as hell clean-shaven!

[@maestus6]

diddly doo, ta-da!

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

This is going to be good

[@pewterschmidt23lord99]

Got to research at guns now since they give you better guns for your tanks

[@algeriangamer1618]

22:16 i laugh so much, that stomach hurts me 🤣🤣🤣

[@nikerboker1995]

Fresh face Rambler feels like Rambler Classic

[@celionovais6273]

It looked like you had a good party at Amsterdam.

[@ajk710]

That laugh at 25:20 fucking sent me over the edge ;D

[@danielbroadstock1164]

Love a disaster save!

[@667Agent]

I can't wait for next episode of middle-aged man screams at screen!

[@quinnmccormick2369]

real alex ramble

[@natet2547]

Really need to duplicate the large division before you reduce the original. Save that army xp

[@ekeech]

Imagine being stuck that long on amsterdam and not swtching a group to marines.

[@explosivecherry2150]

The reason for the Ironman mode saying that is because of the color mods the guy had originally

[@Nico-gt3mg]

HE SHAVED THE BEARD OFF. THE DAWN OF THE GODS IS NEAR

[@CybrSlydr]

Drink every time Alex comments he has no Air Force Me: dead

[@mazz2622]

No longer Alex "ya man" Rambler... back to "Ya Boy" - RIP the facial hair.

[@fredaap]

I kind of miss the moustache. You looked like you could've walked out of a Blackadder WW1 episode!

[@a_anorfauze2054]

Its easy to know someone personality when u saw that guy save germany when germany is almost dead a thousand time

[@WIILIME]

14:36 i know i'm not the only one who heard that

[@Jackcarr87]

Been playing HOI4 since 2018 and I have rage quit more in the few weeks since NSB came out then in the few years that came before.

[@antibolsevism9814]

he had it back because he gave Transilvania to Hungary , give us his location and we can fix it Iron Guard mode .

[@jv63bevv16]

I click on the video and I thought that it was a Serial Killer Documentary😂😂😂

[@Cmdr_Sam]

Hey Alex I am a long time sub, I love watching your content, I hope you are doing well :D Your content stopped getting recommended to me a while ago and today you popped up on the first page. I would love to see you play Halo Infinite even though its not your teste but I think you will really enjoy it and we will love watching something new too :D Regards, Sam

[@lillifeless197]

let’s go Alex 😤😤😤😤😤

[@oliverthomas-couch]

Herman Meier's worst nightmare

[@TheIT221]

When London falls before Amsterdam

[@robbiebrown4533]

Can't imagine how many planes Germany must of has

[@donkoltz1]

So casually savage while critiquing the situation lol

[@fxshyy]

this video was so funny lmfaoo

[@raskalthefirst]

I miss the stache!!!

[@ghostlyswat12]

Can’t lie I’d like to see some disaster saves of other countries other than Germany France uk and Russia I mean the contents good non the less 😅

[@alexrempel3274]

Bhutan

[@samvortex2802]

Please stay clean shaven Alex

[@god99thmiketri52]

Lol nice vid

[@likes_too7538]

The german amour modells still don´t work in the new update, the british for example do. I don´t have the DLC. Does someone know sth. about it or when it will be patched?

[@aciiks]

Nice video.. and ofc.. a comment about a baby faced rambler :)

[@hemlockwaterdropwortchanne3896]

at 1:47 i think the reason is because it had a mod at some point

[@LeahBouley]

With or without facial hair rambler you look amazing

[@yeetadog]

15:11 luxembourg major nation

[@sfjuhispst8144]

What kind of a madman doesn't set his garrisons at high reinforcment priority? Do they want Poland rebelling?

[@christianbendixmau7348]

Uploaded 58 seconds ago, I'm never arrive this early. Not even with my girlfriend.

[@ScientistOfMemes]

Don't know about you guys but I don't need an air force to win in singleplayer

[@harrypeter8402]

me likey fresh rambler