Well if this actually happened germany would be doomed as the british and french definitely would of started attacking and then probably also declaring war on the soviet union had things been going so well and japan probably would of attacked the soviets if this was the case too. I'd guess japan would hope people would kinda let the whole china thing slide and just say we will have these freezing shit regions of russia and lay down our arms 😂
@@zackgrainger7510 Those are far from "shit". The russian far east is full of oil and minerals, and a major oil deposit lives under sakalin island. It would avert Japanese ambition for the other parts of China and Asia, because those matters are difficult, but you could colonise the empty far east
Me as a polish guy I played Poland in HOI4 a lot and I think the most effective way to play Poland is to rush right sanation wing to be able to do diplomatic annex of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia getting all their stored weapons and units so you will have ~5 24/24 division of 20 width at the time of Germany starting a war on you. For min/maxing its better to ignore artillery and do only anti-air instead as Germany will have full air domination on you. At January 1939 I'm starting to build bunkers, usually your first losing point is Poznan so keep it in mind. To have easier war its always good to focus your main power to occupy east Germany even if u might lose few provices on the west, when u take east Germany then with all ur forces u shouldnt have a problem to stabilize western front, also keep in mind that u will be attacked from south later so you can start building bunkers here in war time since these provinces are not attacked yet
I’m not sure if diplo annexing breaks the rules of the challenge or not… and I’m the one who made the rules lmao. It’s very very very clever for sure. Nicely done.
Ten gościu właśnie potwierdził że jego strategia jest łatwiejsza i działa o niebo lepiej niż te wszystkie strategie polaczków z youtube XD Którego na polskiej scenie nie obejrzysz to przeważnie idzie w sanacje a potem pół polski oddaje pod okupacje i dopiero potem sie odbija, tutaj ziomek poradził sobie znacznie lepiej, idąc normalniejszą i znacznie realistyczniejszą drogą także pozdro polaczky xDDDD
Yeah on polish youtube they almost always do sanation wing but they almost always lose half territory to germans and then slowly gain power and attack back. for me its funny how they all doing worst as poles playing poland than you. i think you played it alot better than most of them poles who probably tested 1000 different games each to be able to win with germans, its funny actually.@@thetibbiesshow
Nice going with the run. I probably would’ve tried to make some tank divisions or add field hospitals though to limit manpower losses and hun deficits, but it’s actually good to see someone actually attempt historical Poland for once finally.
Really cool video man. Love how chilled out it is. A lot of HOI4 playthroughs I try to watch are so frantic with a bunch of screaming and rapid editing and fast talking. This was just my speed. Keep up the good work!
When killing enemy divisions in ports, you can select your divisions, and just Ctrl + click on the enemy division. That way, your troops won't move into the tile after winning the battle.
Hey im also from Gliwice :D i have a view out of my window onto the Radiotower (Osiedle Baildona) which is the historical place where Nazi's provocation happenned!
This is personal to me because my very second play through ever was this and i was woefully unprepared. I didn’t know that paradox games are so hard, and that Poland is such a nightmare. I mean, i know my history but i thought it would be less… that
You did it, well played! The east border with the Soviets is hard to defend, if they control Lithuania, maybe it would be easier, if you retreat a little bit and make the frontline shorter and easier to defend. Great video !
I really wanted to avoid retreating before any wars and to try to hold as much land as I can. That was a mistake and I should’ve done exactly what you said tbh.
Love your choice of music. I don't mean this in a bad way, but it reminds me of high school. Its the kind of stuff i'd listen to when I was a teenager. Great content
My strategy for historical Poland is to start the was as soon as possible. I go for annex Lithuania and then conquer Czechoslovakia. Then, when Germany goes to annex Sudetenland I refuse (as I control that territory), and that starts the war when Germany is still not that strong. Initially I defend griding down their forces, then go on the offensive. The key is to be as quick as possible as USSR will strike you from the other side as some stage, but when I applied this strategy I had enough time - Germany capitulated quite soon after USSR stuck, so I was able to transfer forces over and then fight and in the end beat the USSR. It was nice to see Sanationist Poland from Cologne to Vladivostok :D
A tip from a beginner Hoi player (700 hours): When playing Poland it is crucial to crush Germany as soon as you can. Soviet Union doesn't really do anything, you just need to have army stationed at the border. It is not easy to capitulate Germany, it certainly takes some time. And Germany strikes really hard - if you are pushed back right away in the first week then you're done. My best playthrough was the Bermontian Poland focus tree. I took Slovakia by completing focus, and after the DoW I annihilated Prussia, defended for a bit, and in the beginning of 1941 Germany was a goner. Of course before attacking Soviet Union (with which I was already at war for a year) I had to complete a side quest involving the capitulation of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy. Soviet Union AI is miserable, really. You just need to draw an offensive line on Ural mountains and sit back and do nothing. And of course provide enough manpower and guns. Shouldn't take more than a year. Depends on your skills, my first USSR capitulation as Poland was in 1946. Yes, a 7 year war.
@@aprilruledearth Well, I'm not proud of my skills, but I'm happy that I can beat Germany without a problem now. On the contrary, I did it only once in HoI2, it took me a lot of attempts to make it work there.
i remember playing as poland, ended up holding warsaw until 1943, still had a few ships and a few hundred planes which went to britain the ships were evtnaully destroyed after many fights, and out of a few hundred planes, at wars end only 13 remainsd
Would that have been the end of it, or would Stalin have taken all of Europe? I'd say if only we lived in a world where the US didn't join WWI and allow the Treaty of Versailles to occur. Without it, Hitler never rises to power. But hey, we always have and always will enjoy interfering on the global scale.
I actually found a very easy way to survive Germany as historical Poland. First of all you just boost the relation with Germany to max. Then you get license production, military Access on both ways. All of these make the German ai think i will accept their ultimatum. Because of that the ai has only 5 division pn our border and when they send the ultimatum and we say no they start getting troops to our borders they declare war without having any troops in Konigsberg and the other state. So you can just take it without any issues, they might get 10 divisions in Konigsberg but you can easily kill them since they are unorganised. The troops in the other border are also completely unorganized so you can push for 2/3 days. After that they will push back some tiles but since you have dont have to worry about Konigsberg its very easy to hold. Then they go to war with the Netherlands and Belgium and they other start dying from the Benelux area or from you
Ah man.. i changed one letter and lost the like button from you.. anyways idc. I tried this again and it didn't work. And then i tried again and it worked so theres a bit of luck involved
i love that he is already in tears durring the intro (i havent seen your content before so i have no idea if this is just the way you talk but i thought it was funny considering the title)
When I play as Poland, I mostly try to keep motorized infantry with both support anti-air and support anti-tank, if lend lease allows it, field medics too. That allows for counter attacks, but it's hard to get it ready in time.
@@thetibbiesshow They're good, because they're cheap and really fast. Although the high defense stat coupled with high recovery (on mobile warfare anyway) implies they're better on counter offensives. Make sure to keep an eye on oil!
It's honestly insane how we can determine how WWII could have possibly played out better if allies could have predicted the enemies moves better, not let ideology get in the way of strategic planning, and made better alliances ahead of time, then be able to play that out in a little simulator.
Can you imagine how stressed your supply officers were trying to work out how to disperse replacement parts and ammunition for eight countries worth of guns? I bet modern Ukranians would blush lmao
The problem isn’t that you’re dumb (I don’t know you, maybe you are) but I know that there aren’t a lot of good super beginner guides out there and at this point, there’s so much content and mechanics in the game, even I wouldn’t want to learn how to play. It’s really unfortunate because it’s such a fun game and I wish more people would get into it.
I recently got into it and don’t understand all the mechanics especially the navy but watch one or two basic guides and then play Germany. If you need to know anything the guides don’t teach you watch a video on that specific thing that’s how I learned it
Not sure how much the updates changed Poland, but you can easily max out all Sanation Left/Right bonuses without having to waste political power to side with any of them (massive PP waste). Also, in the newer AI versions, Germany now throws a few tank divisions in the Prussia, which makes it extremely hard to take it early in the game. I used to love the days when they would empty out Prussia just days before declaring war and I could storm it with no losses lol.
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Imagine Hitler and Stalin's face when the reports came back that tiny little Poland is absolutely crushing their military lmao
I imagine hitler would be tweaking a good bit more than usual and the soviet military purges would be infinitely worse
@@thetibbiesshow Hitler probably coping about steiner
Well if this actually happened germany would be doomed as the british and french definitely would of started attacking and then probably also declaring war on the soviet union had things been going so well and japan probably would of attacked the soviets if this was the case too. I'd guess japan would hope people would kinda let the whole china thing slide and just say we will have these freezing shit regions of russia and lay down our arms 😂
@@zackgrainger7510 Those are far from "shit". The russian far east is full of oil and minerals, and a major oil deposit lives under sakalin island. It would avert Japanese ambition for the other parts of China and Asia, because those matters are difficult, but you could colonise the empty far east
Id imagine it would sound a bit like......NEIN NEIN NEIN!!! lol
"Occasionally the USSR won't declare war on you"
Accurate polish history
Over 1000 likes but no replies?
@@neonge3877and you RUINED IT
@@neonge3877 It's just a fact. No need to comment.
you causally reading "Warsaw has fallen" then panicking made me laugh so hard.
great vid and really good editing
I thought it was going to be “Italy capitulated” or something, I really didn’t expect it to be Warsaw lmao
when did he say that
@@neogivxapwntcpaa 44:30
"Warsaw has fallen? WTF!"
I was shocked to see that event lmao. I almost lost the entire game because I wasn’t paying attention to the Soviet fronts.
Been there done that lol@@thetibbiesshow
Well help it get up then
Warsaw has fallen. Billions must eat latke
@@thetibbiesshowI wonder what happened in ww2, yeah, the exact thing!
I loved the overwhelming support you got from your French allies.
not relatable
irl Poland fought alone
it was sarcastic xD @@Napolkaa
@@NapolkaaFalse
non historical moment
Me as a polish guy I played Poland in HOI4 a lot and I think the most effective way to play Poland is to rush right sanation wing to be able to do diplomatic annex of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia getting all their stored weapons and units so you will have ~5 24/24 division of 20 width at the time of Germany starting a war on you. For min/maxing its better to ignore artillery and do only anti-air instead as Germany will have full air domination on you. At January 1939 I'm starting to build bunkers, usually your first losing point is Poznan so keep it in mind. To have easier war its always good to focus your main power to occupy east Germany even if u might lose few provices on the west, when u take east Germany then with all ur forces u shouldnt have a problem to stabilize western front, also keep in mind that u will be attacked from south later so you can start building bunkers here in war time since these provinces are not attacked yet
I’m not sure if diplo annexing breaks the rules of the challenge or not… and I’m the one who made the rules lmao. It’s very very very clever for sure. Nicely done.
@@thetibbiesshow it wouldn't be historical, there is no way poland would annex baltic states
Ten gościu właśnie potwierdził że jego strategia jest łatwiejsza i działa o niebo lepiej niż te wszystkie strategie polaczków z youtube XD Którego na polskiej scenie nie obejrzysz to przeważnie idzie w sanacje a potem pół polski oddaje pod okupacje i dopiero potem sie odbija, tutaj ziomek poradził sobie znacznie lepiej, idąc normalniejszą i znacznie realistyczniejszą drogą także pozdro polaczky xDDDD
Yeah on polish youtube they almost always do sanation wing but they almost always lose half territory to germans and then slowly gain power and attack back. for me its funny how they all doing worst as poles playing poland than you. i think you played it alot better than most of them poles who probably tested 1000 different games each to be able to win with germans, its funny actually.@@thetibbiesshow
@@SkyIsThere. Well then, I guess we were doomed to lose that war, since we "played" ourselves in that time. ;-)
“the polish beggar is the most dangerous warrior”
im from pl and can assure they are relentless 😮💨
It is not SANITATION but SANATION it is from party name, in Poland it was called Sanacja and it is from latin word Sanatio ^^
😂😂
At this point, I think he's doing it on purpose.
You sound like an "American" complaining
Unfortunately I’m just dumb. Really really dumb.
real quick why is it called that, like what led to that name? idk much abt polish history sorry
I love the Taureor vibes these videos give, no over-the-top editing, just nice and calm haha
Meanwhile I hate the generic youtube video background music. Awful
Nice going with the run. I probably would’ve tried to make some tank divisions or add field hospitals though to limit manpower losses and hun deficits, but it’s actually good to see someone actually attempt historical Poland for once finally.
Definitely should’ve done tanks in late game, I had the industry for a few at least. I usually just default to CAS spam
Field hospitals are very expensive, but they do keep your divisions functioning longer
Av .@@andrewgreeb916
Dude your voice is so soothing. Most relaxing hoi4 youtuber imo
Thank you! I really do try to have a relaxed vibe in my videos
The fact it isn't overedited also help.
gay
Finally enough living space for bobr.
"Berlin has fallen to the polish army"
Okay now say it much slower with ASMR voice.
Congrats, you have survived as Poland, amazing vid!
Thank you!
Really cool video man. Love how chilled out it is. A lot of HOI4 playthroughs I try to watch are so frantic with a bunch of screaming and rapid editing and fast talking. This was just my speed. Keep up the good work!
When killing enemy divisions in ports, you can select your divisions, and just Ctrl + click on the enemy division. That way, your troops won't move into the tile after winning the battle.
Why did I not know this before, and I was just beginning to understand the naval system. Where did you find this info so I can look more stuff
Love the videos, your Qing guide was great. Got both achievements first try. Keep it up man
I love to hear that, thank you.
Thanks for taking Gleiwitz (Gliwice) That's where I'm from :D
How do you like living there?
@@thetibbiesshowit's the best place in the world.
Hey im also from Gliwice :D i have a view out of my window onto the Radiotower (Osiedle Baildona) which is the historical place where Nazi's provocation happenned!
As a Pole watching this was something beautiful.
bro hoi4 has so many underrated youtubers
Hoi4 and vicky3. Ever since I made this channel, I’ve had so many small hoi4 and V3 RUclipsrs pop up on my home page. Very happy with that.
Bro your so calm and then, “WARSAW HAS FALLEN WTF!?”
29:11 Just casually ignoring all the lend lease offers from Britain
great video, your micromanagment was the real deal
No joke, my wrist was so sore afterwards ahaha
This is personal to me because my very second play through ever was this and i was woefully unprepared. I didn’t know that paradox games are so hard, and that Poland is such a nightmare. I mean, i know my history but i thought it would be less… that
Sounds like a hell of a second game lmao. My first game was as Ethiopia and it went just as good as youd think it would.
57:48 ah yes historically accurate poland borders
XDDD
You did it, well played!
The east border with the Soviets is hard to defend, if they control Lithuania, maybe it would be easier, if you retreat a little bit and make the frontline shorter and easier to defend.
Great video !
I really wanted to avoid retreating before any wars and to try to hold as much land as I can. That was a mistake and I should’ve done exactly what you said tbh.
@@thetibbiesshow but you played excellent anyways
You have no idea how much joy it brought me to see Poland take Berlin after less than a year of war
Love the content, you are going places 100%.
I appreciate that, thank you!
dang bro, impressively done
Should I be worried that I just happily chilled for an hour to an (alternative) world war 2 reenactment and some smooth music? :D
Xd
@@thetibbiesshow No joke what is that playlist i loved the bgm
Love your choice of music. I don't mean this in a bad way, but it reminds me of high school. Its the kind of stuff i'd listen to when I was a teenager. Great content
Initial goal: *Survive as Poland in WWII*
Actual goal: *Conquer Europe as Poland*
ah yes the soviet art of 1000 unequipped siberian conscripted children on one tile
If you survive as historical Poland, then it’s not historical Poland. But a historical Poland it is.
"Having issues taking Stalingrad so it seems" ...... Truer words never spoken
My strategy for historical Poland is to start the was as soon as possible. I go for annex Lithuania and then conquer Czechoslovakia. Then, when Germany goes to annex Sudetenland I refuse (as I control that territory), and that starts the war when Germany is still not that strong. Initially I defend griding down their forces, then go on the offensive. The key is to be as quick as possible as USSR will strike you from the other side as some stage, but when I applied this strategy I had enough time - Germany capitulated quite soon after USSR stuck, so I was able to transfer forces over and then fight and in the end beat the USSR. It was nice to see Sanationist Poland from Cologne to Vladivostok :D
Is not historical if you don't get the war in the historical date, but seems great though, you might try the Habsburg monarchist path.
Traveler in time: kicking the stone
Past:
this video scratched the caveman part of my Polish brain in a good way
I came for the gameplay, I stayed for the music.
The thumbnail is such an accurate portrait of Poland xD
You came up with it quickly that I didn't even notice it. Well done! 18:00-18:15
A tip from a beginner Hoi player (700 hours):
When playing Poland it is crucial to crush Germany as soon as you can. Soviet Union doesn't really do anything, you just need to have army stationed at the border. It is not easy to capitulate Germany, it certainly takes some time. And Germany strikes really hard - if you are pushed back right away in the first week then you're done.
My best playthrough was the Bermontian Poland focus tree. I took Slovakia by completing focus, and after the DoW I annihilated Prussia, defended for a bit, and in the beginning of 1941 Germany was a goner. Of course before attacking Soviet Union (with which I was already at war for a year) I had to complete a side quest involving the capitulation of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Italy.
Soviet Union AI is miserable, really. You just need to draw an offensive line on Ural mountains and sit back and do nothing. And of course provide enough manpower and guns. Shouldn't take more than a year. Depends on your skills, my first USSR capitulation as Poland was in 1946. Yes, a 7 year war.
As somebody with 3,900 hours in Hoi4, I hate that I agree with you that you are a beginner
@@aprilruledearth Well, I'm not proud of my skills, but I'm happy that I can beat Germany without a problem now.
On the contrary, I did it only once in HoI2, it took me a lot of attempts to make it work there.
@@koulematon7359 If you can beat germany you should be proud of your skills, that's an impressive feat!
@@aprilruledearthCan't you read?
thank you for saving Poland sir :)
“I am once again asking for your financial support”
I have never played this game but your video was very entertaining.
this video makes me feel like my 1500 hours are worthless
Great play. Great video style
this vid was a complete W. i could fall asleep. music was a good pick and your voice is very calming good job.
Absolutely banger video thanks for making it!
i remember playing as poland, ended up holding warsaw until 1943, still had a few ships and a few hundred planes which went to britain
the ships were evtnaully destroyed after many fights, and out of a few hundred planes, at wars end only 13 remainsd
i don't mean to be one of those npcs but this seriously deserves more views!
NPC away! Comments like this make all the editing hours very much worth it
this is very satisfying. If only we lived in a world where Poland just kicked Germany's ass and that was the end of it.
So many horrors could’ve been avoided. I do wonder how the world would look today if things went differently during 1939.
Would that have been the end of it, or would Stalin have taken all of Europe? I'd say if only we lived in a world where the US didn't join WWI and allow the Treaty of Versailles to occur. Without it, Hitler never rises to power. But hey, we always have and always will enjoy interfering on the global scale.
Loki is right. Stalin openly stated his plans to invade Europe.
Imagine this irl
The good timeline.
I actually found a very easy way to survive Germany as historical Poland.
First of all you just boost the relation with Germany to max. Then you get license production, military Access on both ways. All of these make the German ai think i will accept their ultimatum. Because of that the ai has only 5 division pn our border and when they send the ultimatum and we say no they start getting troops to our borders they declare war without having any troops in Konigsberg and the other state. So you can just take it without any issues, they might get 10 divisions in Konigsberg but you can easily kill them since they are unorganised. The troops in the other border are also completely unorganized so you can push for 2/3 days. After that they will push back some tiles but since you have dont have to worry about Konigsberg its very easy to hold. Then they go to war with the Netherlands and Belgium and they other start dying from the Benelux area or from you
Ah man.. i changed one letter and lost the like button from you.. anyways idc. I tried this again and it didn't work. And then i tried again and it worked so theres a bit of luck involved
I love your video man, great job
Happy to hear you loved it!
That is actually quite enjoyable video! Keep it up❤ (Unfortunately Poland did not hold that well during ww2 😂) Cheers from Poland ! 😊
Bro this was a amazing video
Imagine being a german soldier and finding out that your unit is getting deployed to Memel
Thanks for the vid. Nice work!
great vid it was fun to watch. A lot of funny moments in it too
Glad to hear it!
Video should've been called "How Poland conquered most of Eurasia and became the largest superpower on the planet"
i love that he is already in tears durring the intro (i havent seen your content before so i have no idea if this is just the way you talk but i thought it was funny considering the title)
The faction name "Greater Poland" is so funny because it is a region inside of Poland alongside Lesser Poland.
Cool Video greetings from Germany
GREATER POLAND!😂
Awesome vids very chill watch
If you take political Loyalty instead of tenacious defense you get stability scaling with ruling party popularity
I always forget political loyalty exists. That’s a very good idea
Bro's gonna say "Sanitation" like it's a polishing session all along.
I love watching HOI4 Poland videos knowing damn well I will never actually learn how to play it but love fueling my patriotism
such a surprisingly entertaining vid
Historical Poland has Russia against them right away no?
The allies were huge jerks this game. France not doing anything, and the UK kicking you out of the faction twice!
You can press "S" to take half of the units you have selected.
imagine if poland destroyed Germany just like this un real life, that would be a massive moral Boost to the polish army
And to all of Poland for at least a century.
@@thetibbiesshow bro we are still busting in to pants when we thing about grunwald from 1410 :D
chillest gameplay. nice vid man
When I play as Poland, I mostly try to keep motorized infantry with both support anti-air and support anti-tank, if lend lease allows it, field medics too. That allows for counter attacks, but it's hard to get it ready in time.
I almost never use motorized infantry divs. Maybe it’s time to do a motorized only challenge so that I can learn to use them more
@@thetibbiesshow They're good, because they're cheap and really fast. Although the high defense stat coupled with high recovery (on mobile warfare anyway) implies they're better on counter offensives. Make sure to keep an eye on oil!
I use motorized (especially tanks) as methods of catching holes in lines quickly and causing encirclements and more land gain.
Not bad at all. Idk if you did collaboration governments with Germany or it, helps a lot.
It's honestly insane how we can determine how WWII could have possibly played out better if allies could have predicted the enemies moves better, not let ideology get in the way of strategic planning, and made better alliances ahead of time, then be able to play that out in a little simulator.
By the time the war is over, Memel would have plenty of mass graves.
When you chose static warfare: STAND FAST THE BUNKERS WILL HOLD!
“Gonna request guns from everyone”. That was not Poland, that was Ukraine! Lol😂
💀💀
russian face be like, when everyone accepts.
Space Marines with Poland. Very hard to defend against Germany without the armor bonus.
Can you imagine how stressed your supply officers were trying to work out how to disperse replacement parts and ammunition for eight countries worth of guns?
I bet modern Ukranians would blush lmao
As a pole I feel you bro I cry every Time
am i the only one who saw that the uk was sending alot of lend lease 😂
Wasn’t worth the convoy loss I’d get due to German subs, giving me debuffs to my war support.
yeah but there were so many diferent messeges. like a whole row 🤣 i’ve never seen that before 10/10
GREAT content sir! Subscribed! I can't wait to dive into more of your videos. Very fun to watch, and really good editing too. Keep it up, mate!
I would never keep pushing after fall of Germany, but you were right!
I wish I could play this but my small brain would not understand it😭😭
The problem isn’t that you’re dumb (I don’t know you, maybe you are) but I know that there aren’t a lot of good super beginner guides out there and at this point, there’s so much content and mechanics in the game, even I wouldn’t want to learn how to play. It’s really unfortunate because it’s such a fun game and I wish more people would get into it.
I recently got into it and don’t understand all the mechanics especially the navy but watch one or two basic guides and then play Germany. If you need to know anything the guides don’t teach you watch a video on that specific thing that’s how I learned it
sanitation? dude
very underrated hoi 4 chanel
this video was actually pretty fun to watch but i have one question why are the icon colours the old colours?
graphics mod probably
Probably this
Shame we didn't have you in Poland in 1939. Well done!
Clicks on video because of thumb nail, stays because you actually voiced over the whole damn thing and edited it all. Im a simple man
Finally a map of the world as it should be..! LOL If nothing else its most of the worlds forests utilized and protected.
Not sure how much the updates changed Poland, but you can easily max out all Sanation Left/Right bonuses without having to waste political power to side with any of them (massive PP waste). Also, in the newer AI versions, Germany now throws a few tank divisions in the Prussia, which makes it extremely hard to take it early in the game. I used to love the days when they would empty out Prussia just days before declaring war and I could storm it with no losses lol.
you should do the 30 minutes in hell achievement
Anytime the Italian civil war happens it's always going to be the players puppet
Awesome video!
That started as "can I defend this country?" and escalated.
Holy shit dude, that wasn't survival, that was pure axis annihilation!
This is awesome!