WW1 Germany, but only Historical Presets & Divisions In HOI4?

[@sumingamer475]

Lets make a petition for Poland game to fight against German Empire!

[@Gattroxz750]

My dragon boy will sweat 2 hell lot lmao that’s a great idea

[@PolishGuy54]

I agree

[@winddings351]

Bro, I read “petition for Poland” as “partition for Poland”

[@omnizon8951]

Yes

[@tt.tt.tec9]

@@winddings351 germanic eyes

[@hubertswie7438]

i love how its ww1 now and not ww2 i think personaly that ww1 is a bit more interesting and we all saw ww2 like milion times in HOI4

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you! Really glad to hear that you don't hate it :D WW2 ones will still continue, absolutely, but I like the idea of mixing it up a bit! :)

[@JanJansen985]

If you really want to fight WW1 there is a rts called The Great War Its by the dudes that made command and conquer

[@igorfontaine6669]

I agree with the above commenter, this was a very enjoyable and unique watch x) Would you ever consider doing a RT56 or another cold war styled version of this challenge? I personally think that'd be really cool@@Aldrahill

[@Aldrahill]

I LOVE RT56! Definitely want to revisit this challenge with that mod, though th next mod to do this with is Black Ice :D

[@Aldrahill]

I love The Great War :) beaten it as Entente and Germany on Max difficult, so it's kinda done for me :(

[@misterperson3469]

To clarify: Torpedo boats are not the precursor to destroyers. Torpedo boat destroyers are. Torpedo boats are small fast crafts armed with torpedoes that aim to toss out torpedo spreads against much larger and much, much more expensive ships. Torpedo boat destroyers were purpose built ships intended to, believe it or not, destroy torpedo boats. To do this they had to be fast enough to keep up and have some reasonable firepower with the range to defend the big boy ships out on missions. Because torpedo boats largely disappeared and the torpedo boat destroyers expanded their duties to fight subs, aircraft and firing torpedoes themselves the name got changed to just be destroyers.

[@Aldrahill]

Indeed, extremely correct!

[@pyrodacasual]

They become what they fight

[@Ozan-qr7hu]

So thats the origin of screening ship. Their name makes sense now.

[@volatile100]

Torpedo boats didnt dissapear! They became patrol boats. Often used as coastal defense by European powers (germany would use them in the English channel during ww2), but also as raiding ships by the US in all of Oceania. The modern form of them is the Fast Attack Craft.

[@misterperson3469]

@@volatile100 yeah thats why I used a qualifier. The successors to the torpedo boat do not pose a credible threat to a fleet so they essentially also have crept towards a different role.

[@kirsamoonwhisper1638]

Fun Fact: German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, The "Lion of Africa", led about 14,000 German forces in Southwest Africa. He held up over 300,000 Allied troops in Africa and is revered for never having been captured or losing a battle. He is an interesting general, and I thought of him when Aldra kept forgetting he had African holdings

[@Aldrahill]

Indeed! I forgot to mention him, but I wish there was any information about his actual troop composition!

[@Mwraf]

Ah, yes, the battle of the bees

[@jochurwa5480]

He also participated at the genocide of the herero. So maybe Stop worshiping war criminals Just because it makes a good story

[@Aldrahill]

Someone can be an absolute badass, whom did really interesting feats of war, while also being a complete and total bugger in other ways. I can appreciate the military acumen, but hate the literal destruction of peoples @@jochurwa5480

[@jochurwa5480]

@@Aldrahill you would never call any other murderer a badass or Talk in length about their skills. It is always this gloryfication of old (mostly German) warcriminals.

[@sabiancoomber-nickerson5830]

In an alternate universe "Second Weltkrieg using only historical presets".

[@ione2251]

Im surprised you did this instead of continuing with base game major nations. I cant complain tho, a welcome surprise is something to celebrate.

[@Aldrahill]

Tbh, other than France and arguably China, I've done all the majors! Will still be doing some minors in base game, but I just want to try mixing it up a bit :)

[@soropintoresco9030]

the Austria Hungary research you will have to make its going to be so horribleeee, those guys literally had like 3 armies

[@Aldrahill]

I've already started and it is HELL I hate it

[@kashmir3489]

@@Aldrahill historically accurate

[@Grand.Presidento]

26:42 When Kitchener was going to Russia his ship hit a German mine on the way there and it sank, not from a U-Boat

[@Aldrahill]

You are totally right! Though I like the conspiracy theory he was assassinated:P

[@Mwraf]

Probably just the Kings Man movie depicted it. Average Hollywood moment

[@HyperfixationStation-s8e]

I'd like to think that with how historical this is and how perfectly all of the borders and stuff line up this is just basically the backstory to Kiaserreich

[@dillonmcbride1360]

You should play the "totally not falling apart Empire that owns Constantinople!"

[@P0PG03S]

The Healthy Man of Asia Minor.

[@efulmer8675]

33:30 You missed this but in the background you can see that the borders between Belgium, France, and Germany changed again showing that you took more of a border strip from France.

[@Faehen]

My problem with the redux ww1 mod is that at the divisions have a scale of an army and have around 10k in them. Naturally, thus leads to less divisions bring Deployed. This leads to gaps in tge front and makes france run wild in rhine and Russian plan to take East Prussia and Galicia seem incredibly easy, which doesn't make you truly FEEL ww1.

[@Aldrahill]

I didn’t really find that was a problem for me! I just had to be constantly recruiting to ensure I have enough :P

[@a_random_W]

I would love to see an ottoman one. The research Will probably be really difficult but it would be a fun one to watch

[@PB_pancake]

Ww1 needs more love. Also, fun fact, the British Mark IV’s, or the mother tanks, had the nickname of “BIG WILLIE” *BIG WILLIE!*

[@Aldrahill]

BIG WILLIE!! and yes agreed :)

[@kaiser_eistee]

Playing Poland is a great idea! There will be no problems that you need to deal with whatsoever!

[@Aldrahill]

It will be so instantly easy :D

[@warriorblack832]

As a person who plays mod grom time to time i dont know why you hated that division change like realistically it may have been bad but gameplay wise very good move bcz now you can have more division with art in battle then normal i personally use 22 witdh divs with 2 artis

[@Aldrahill]

After having played it I agree! I was worried that the lack of infantry meant my org and def would be too low to hold, but the enemy ai wasn’t aggressive enough for it to be a problem :)

[@blue-_-space2209]

I think he should play a historical austria hungary

[@efulmer8675]

2:45 Building infrastructure in your resource dense states can be really good but for the biggest benefit you should build it where you have the most slots and where your focus tree will not give you infrastructure, so that you're not building infrastructure where you could have gotten it for free and when you do build factories, you get the extra build speed on the most factories.

[@Attacian]

Maybe try the historical Presets of Austria Hungary for next time. I think that will be "fun".

[@Aldrahill]

I'm dreading it xD

[@Cat_DeGaulle]

I miss howitzer redux: ( (Howitzers were insanity overpowered a couple of months ago they had like 30 or more soft attack per division)

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah that would have been nice :( now they’re total dogshit

[@Wazzup.Beijing]

Could you please play Austria-Hungary? Would be very nice if you do.

[@Aldrahill]

Definitely on the list! Assuming people don’t totally hate the ww1 reboot :D

[@eliasthememelord]

This is super high quality, can’t believe you’re such a small channel! Also, I really love historical templates, they’re so fascinating to me :)

[@Aldrahill]

Oh damn thank you so much! I try really hard so that’s really appreciated

[@felixhanisch4005]

One thing on the Cavalry in Infantry Divisions: German peacetime Divisions included a brigade of Cavalry but gave them away except for a Squadron (aka a divisional recon company) when they mobilised to form Cavalry Divisions

[@Seagull780]

Akshually destroyers is short for torpedo boat destroyers, because that was what they were meant to do but they also took over pretty much everything the torpedo boats did.

[@techitout9685]

The rubber production comes mainly from the small part of New Guinea we own. Shoulda protected it

[@Aldrahill]

Yup, I just totally abandoned it :(

[@WimsicleStranger]

I wonder why Germany is portrayed as the antagonist in WWI when they were literally just defending themselves and their neighbors from Russian aggression?

[@Panzermeiller]

Confirmed warcrimes against civilian population is occupied countries (IE : Belgium) +, first use of chemical weapons, first use of flamethrower, first use of civilian fire bombing, first use of submarines against civilian ship, some even neutral. Most countries have a pretty valid reasons to see them as bad peoples

[@WimsicleStranger]

@@Panzermeiller Even though they were fighting in a defensive war against the Russian+French land grabbing...

[@WorkersofAmericaRise]

@@WimsicleStranger”defensive”😊

[@MoonManMoonMan]

Because they were a monarchy. WW1 was really a war against Europe's monarchies

[@Dedelblute3]

I don’t think y’all really understand how and why WW1 started. It wasn’t a war about imperialism or aggression or against Monarchies, but rather about alliances (and caused by bad diplomacy). Franz Ferdinand was shot, and then the Austrians waited a whole *month* to declare war. They sent an ultimatum to Serbia which had all but 1 of the demands accepted, and THEN declared war on Serbia. By that point any sympathy they would’ve had with the international community had died. Russia got involved because they were trying to be seen as the “protector of all Slavs”, Germany got involved because they gave Austria unconditional support, and they then declared war on France and invaded Belgium which saved the British a lot of lobbying and time trying to get parliament to go to war by just bringing them in anyways. The Ottomans joined because two ships they bought from the Germans (that still had German crew and officers) raided Russian ports. Germany was seen (and is still seen) as an antagonist before and during WW1 because they literally did nothing but antagonize people.

[@autistic_kaiser]

You got yourself a new subscriber. Good luck in all your future games.

[@JoboGamezzz]

I would like to see a play through a Germany where you switch to Poland once you are able to establish it and either cooperate with your German “liberators” or try and side with the entente

[@sulc4092]

Do Bulgaria next

[@DukeofDenmark2]

5:53 Rizz’en’

[@TeeHaa0032]

Your historical preset series is pretty interesting and I think I watched them all. What I also like are historical roleplay series, like one proud bavarian does. That would mean that you start with historical presets and develop things following your actual situation. I mean... the historical slimmed their divisions because lack of manpower. If for one reason or another you didn't suffer those losses, why slim down your divisions?

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah it’s a cool concept right? I think the problem with that idea is that that’s just playing regular hoi4, you know? I slim divisions down because I’m low on manpower, nothing particularly interesting about that!

[@thorin1045]

torpedo boats? do you seen them? * throws binucolars *

[@arnuxasLTU]

Historical ww1 otomans would be crazy

[@Aldrahill]

Absolutely, I’m excited for it!

[@noiron6289]

I don't know if you were aware during the recording, but for the infantry doctrines you chose both historical options that the Germany Empire used; "Materialschlacht" was a term used in the times and more or less their industrial idea and Defence in Depth which was a defensive tactic developed by the Germans in WW1. Besides that, I really enjoyed watching the vid, just found you in my recommendations, am looking forward to watching the other videos on your channel :)

[@Aldrahill]

I wasn’t aware, thank you :) and welcome, glad you found the videos and enjoyed!

[@DanWindibank]

Love to see more of these WW1 vids as well as the WW2 ones!

[@Aldrahill]

Awesome! Got a new WW1 one as Britain going live tomorrow so hopefully you’ll enjoy that :)

[@DanWindibank]

@@Aldrahill I certainly will! Thanks for all the great content!

[@gareginnzhdehhimself]

"Wait until 1915, then something horrifying happens" - well, at least he wasn't playing Turkey

[@rickypampurii8772]

Yes please, would love more WW1 videos with this format. Also, imo, while being restricted to historical designs given by missions or FTs, you should adjust the templates if they're ridicously inaccurate

[@Aldrahill]

Glad you like it! And Definitely, I’ll adapt them if needed in the future :)

[@Monkeyman-pt6gs]

Cool vid! Just wanted to say that the reason you couldn’t find much info on German division composition in Africa is because Germany dedicated near nothing to their African territories, so (at least as far as I can remember) German forces in Africa were rather unorganized compared to their European forces.

[@Aldrahill]

Yup that’s pretty icy what I figured :)

[@DukeofDenmark2]

16:06 Rizz

[@velvet6923]

2:15 westfront in a nutshell

[@GoldenMoonOfDeltaCommentaries]

When your done doing all the ww2 countrys you should do a challenge of what if they used their ww1 division templates in ww2

[@Aldrahill]

That’s so weird, I had the EXACT thought today! Already planning to do Germany and USA just like that :)

[@iansborofsky4861]

Historical presets Russia under Tsar Nicholas II could be interesting

[@EricThyKaiser]

Hey german here! It‘s the Schliefenplan not Schleifenplan :) just felt like letting you know amazing video and very creative though!

[@EricThyKaiser]

I understand German is a tough language XD we even pronounce the german r like the french. Check out google translate to know how to say it!

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you! I suck at pronounciation, no matter how hard I try xD

[@YD39222]

27:58 the fact you look at your own divisions strength, and don't feel disgusted...

[@Aldrahill]

Forgive me, senpai :(

[@YD39222]

@@Aldrahill its alright mate, I love your voice and your videos

[@Aldrahill]

[@729060]

It seems the biggest difference between the Great War mod and the redux version is that the original has trenches as another defensive building option like forts instead of the entrench buff, that the AI fails to build which makes pushing much easier.

[@Aldrahill]

Yup that’s what I concluded as well - definitely seems like GWR is the better option

[@ricardovinicius3874]

Just loved your video mate,please try a ww2 match playing as soviet union using the realistics templates for the divisions and try to take over the world

[@Aldrahill]

I’ve actually already done that! Check my videos, I did it a couple months ago :) didn’t take over the world though, just best Germany :)

[@backyard-lobotomist]

You can tell this guy gets his history lessons from r/historymemes

[@Aldrahill]

HEY! Properly sourced memes can be a great source of knowledge! But nah, other than a few German efficiency memes, this video was alllll nerd learning, babeyyy. Seriously, I spent way too long on the research for this video. Really struggled to find the specific amount of howitzers and it was driving me CRAZY

[@CatpainLorel]

Now play as belgium, good luck

[@W9w-n8e]

Great video, enjoy the fact you attempt to create it as realistic and historical as possible. I think you should play as the ottomans in the next playthrough or after the Britan one if you decide to do it.

[@Aldrahill]

Thank you! Definitely, really tried to remain as historical as I possibly can! I'm thinking Britain is next, with ottomans as the next WW1 one :)

[@stanislavkaraslavov3090]

WW1 Russia Presets is pure pain or Austria-Hungary

[@Aldrahill]

YES both are coming soon :)

[@stanislavkaraslavov3090]

@@Aldrahill Thank you mate, love the pain you put in for well us.

[@Aldrahill]

Appreciate it, I'm glad you enjoy them!

[@kerkonig5102]

torpedo boats where infact not earlyer destroyers. torpedo bots where dirt cheap capital ship killers and the reason why "torpedo boat destroyers" where invented. We later droped the "torpedo boat" part of the name and onkly keept the "destroyer" part.

[@amilavxilmen5632]

Yes, Please play as Kingdom of Poland

[@alehaim]

To me it seems the mod devs took into acount the problem of accurate numbers of different artillery in a division and left it at just normal artillery for the beginning as you figured out

[@Aldrahill]

Yeah I think it was probably easier for them :P but I like accuracy!!

[@kamemesg2083]

If you want you could try using the accurate generals when possible in these videos.

[@Aldrahill]

Damn good idea!

[@MrBerni123456]

11:05 Schleiffen-Plan^^ Me as a German is amused

[@Potential-idiot]

Play as Britain and go imperial federation

[@CommanderTavos99]

Bulgaria?

[@knightmareza9478]

Was the destroyer(slightly larger with more guns but still fast) not created to counter small, nearly unarmed except for torpedos, torpedo boats? You said that destroyer was the old name for them

[@grantforester1864]

29:55 yea, Romania was peaced out irl but rejoined the war I think literally a day before it ended

[@Aldrahill]

Genius brain manuvor

[@micuconstantin2982]

17:04 the what plane💀

[@Swagmaster07]

Idea : You should try to play hoi how you would normally do in this mod, as Germany. (E.g. trying to get motorized, tanks, basically ww2 tactics)

[@Aldrahill]

Oh god so just rush medium tanks and wait xD

[@orchila9013]

More Great War videos!Iconic war as your videos!

[@Hatsuzu]

That's actually NOT the only tank Germany made, they made a super heavy tank as well towards the end of the war..wait this sounds familiar..

[@Aldrahill]

Indeed, but it didn't really see action :)

[@lovelylavenderr]

Doing a historical WW1 Russia game would be extremely entertaining.

[@Aldrahill]

You got it ;)

[@mohsen3901]

millenium dawn but modern presets?

[@Aldrahill]

Just endless mechanised and tanks :D

[@ussunitedstates2803]

​@@Aldrahillwhat about cold war iron curtain with presets?

[@Ichliebehäkeln]

OMG, YEAAS! This is so cool 😎

[@timkey_4542]

Try TNO Germany (dc what factions) with the actual Bundeswehr organization.

[@sebping7205]

19:58 I think the British sent troops through Russia and naval invaded through the Black Sea, thanks to the Russian Navy there :D

[@lordofdreams1451]

I think that to make this video, either I hate living, or you want to make hoi4 more difficult and complicated. Which of the two options do you choose?

[@Aldrahill]

I love living AND making hoi4 more difficult :D

[@KillerSniper55]

Gotta do the reason for the Geneva convention, Canada.

[@Aldrahill]

The only nation German soldiers consistently feared :P definitely gotta do this!

[@tianhaoju4634]

Britain in GW redux is simply stupendously strong. 70 days focus that gives 8 civs and another 8 building slots, plus eight provinces gets their infra leveled up. Britain also has a 300% booster onto researching planes, allowing it to build fighters as early as jan-feb 1914.

[@Aldrahill]

Ohhhh shit hope I’m not too strong xD

[@walnzell9328]

Germany was almost without blame in this war, but they had to go and invade Belgium.

[@Aldrahill]

Hey, it's so convenient :(

[@pollball598]

About support companies. German divisions didn't have field hospitals in ww1???

[@Aldrahill]

They had limited hospital transport yes! Not a lot of medical care until a bit later in the war,

[@ReichLife]

Tried lately similar game and it's just awful. For some reason Luxemburg starts as enemy alongside France while you you have to wait for Belgium 5 days decision. Pushing into France is just impossible outside of getting a single tile by luck.

[@huberthepner3754]

I love that you are actually holding back for the sake of interesting video, and not just killing everything effortlessly

[@Aldrahill]

Thanks! Yeah I want to create at least a semi historical scenario! :)

[@johnvideogames]

historical ww1 video is cool!

[@usssimshullnumberdd-4095]

I find it ironic that the torpedo boats have no torpedoes on them lmao

[@kamajuchikekenate]

DO WW1 AUSTRIA-HUNGAY HISTORICAL NEXT!!!❤

[@aaronh6169]

Don't play HOI4 but Kaiserreich presets only is another challenge. Anyways next up should probably Austria Great War Redux. I hope you don't suffer too much :)

[@BlackKnigth323]

What I like of this mod is that actually, indeed if Germany wins, leads to Kaiserreich He didn't continue the game, but they'd have seen the syndicalists take over France and UK

[@liamsabnani1744]

Since you defeated France in ww1 what if you played france and defeat Germany in kx as a "what if" scenario to the whole theme of Historical presets.

[@incarnationofmagicalenergies]

Blimps… Adorable??!!? You got me, subscribed, a fellow being of culture!

[@Aldrahill]

My subscribers truly are the smartest and most cultured

[@DirkusTurkess]

Austria is the Italy of a faction, that has an actual Italy.

[@Aldrahill]

They’re SO BAD

[@appendixpower5538]

How's Tsingtao? Is it save? Is it alright?

[@komitetgosudarstvennoybezo5097]

I usually don’t like ww1 stuff but this was very entertaining. Can’t wait to see more of ww1 and ww2 videos. Keep up the good work!

[@Aldrahill]

Thanks so much, super kind of you to say :) yeah I was really worried people wouldn’t like the ww1 stuff !

[@shadowmane6528]

Play with ottomans they start with -40 Division attack org defense and have debts and not much stability

[@walnzell9328]

I think the UK invaded Bulgaria by shipping troops into Russia and then walking all the way to their coastline of the Black Sea, then launched a naval invasion.

[@Aldrahill]

GOD if that's true, I'm impressed with the AI!

[@walnzell9328]

@@Aldrahill Some EU IV AI slipped in.

[@Wojtek760O]

French WW1 historicals presets would be nice since... they didn't realy had an army from 1940 to 1944

[@etruskeks7518]

HISTORICAL TANU TUVA OR MONGOLIA TEMPLATES!

[@generaltom6850]

Great work, now play Kaiserreich to keep your victory.

[@RémiRudolf]

Can you try france historical presets ? I would love to see how good/horrible divisions they have xD

[@Aldrahill]

Definitely! Want to do them in ww1 and ww2 as well :)

[@RémiRudolf]

@@Aldrahill Thank you soo much !!!

[@Swagmaster07]

I wonder what the Austrian man does in your save now.

[@Aldrahill]

You mean that random corporal that died in ww1 and we don’t speak his name?

[@Swagmaster07]

@@Aldrahill Yeah, i thought he may have still survived.

[@Aldrahill]

Shhhh no he’s not real no more bad moustache man

[@manuvirajkhare]

Try doing Russia in WW1 too some day.

[@Aldrahill]

Definitely!

[@mrwhips3623]

What did Germany do in the twentys??

[@DerSchuffler]

There where specific german units for Africa consisting of askari organised in fieldcompanies supported by aditional german Settler militia units and local auxiliary made up of natives but all in all only a few tausend so not really playabel in hoi4

[@Aldrahill]

Indeed! There were also schutztruppe, but I failed in my research :(

[@Aldrahill]

I have since learned how stupid I am, and the schutTruppen were obviously the African protectorate force, and I was talking out of my ass when o say I didn’t know what type of troops were posted in Africa :P oh well!

[@georgiikondratiuk5380]

You should play monarhist russia under nicholas 2

[@maxanderson8872]

Aldrahill wins a Germany campaign 😊 This means the world will be plunged into the cluster fuck that is Kaserreich 😢

[@Aldrahill]

Oh god no xD

[@lokenontherange]

It's dumb. The relative growth of more factories will give you more than infrastructure. The only major exception is when playing the US because your maluses are just that bad and because it allows you to get infinite oil and trade more - which isn't an option for Germany. Build civilians, then build military, then build bases and infrastructure as you need it.

[@Aldrahill]

Yeahhhh I think you're right, but I was worried that I was gonna run out of resources - turns out, didn't need to worry about that!

[@isntbeautiful4950]

Germany most definitely could have won the First World War, it’s very little known but France and literally everyone on the entente were close to breaking, with the defeat of Russia it made morale sore throughout the entirety of the central powers, and as time progressed they got further and further cemented, the only factor that made the entente crawl to the finish line was the American entry which gave the entente the much needed resources, relieving the British economy, and all around boosting entente morale, which forced Germany to launch their assaults to possibly reach Paris and capitulate the entente, basically if America didn’t join the central powers would have won

[@Aldrahill]

Naaaah I think their lack of focus on logistics and specific, actinoable goals in the Ludendorf offensive meant that it was doomed from the start

[@Panzermeiller]

American school system in action