The License mechanic was designed in such a way that you'd think they don't want you to use it. The point of it should be "hey I don't have the research capabilities to unlock this stuff but my allies do so I should just produce the stuff they ALREADY RESEARCHED" but instead you get a debuff for that exact use case and you also get a debuff for just using it at all. Amazing!
It's meant to represent realism, but yes, it sucks as a game mechanic (I use it to get nation specific stuff like Pre-Dreadnoughts and Torpedo cruisers, but that's about it... Other than Ross Rifles and Gustavs, and Bob Semples)
ISP: "I don't have enough factories to make planes". Also ISP: Using 75 factories on AA, Arty, Guns & Support equipment he's already got massive stockpiles of.
next up: can you beat hoi4 with bought equipment only? (i.e. only equipment in your units is bought off the market) EDIT: or just survive as France/Poland/Czechoslovakia until you get decced on and only then start to produce military equipment, but before that just build trains for sale and buy the rest or smth
@@CubeInspector true, and it usually dries up after ww2 starts. Maybe a better challenge would be then to survive as either France or Poland\Czechoslovakia
Honest lil bro with how long I’ve been watching your videos I’m confident you can just complete hearts of iron with any form of challenge this is a skill level of which the world doesn’t deserve
November 25, 1991 Gorbachev's office, one month before the dissolution of the USSR. "Good news sir!" ... And from that moment... history unfolded pretty much the exact same way. 15:16
USSR using Hurricanes and Matildas? Historically accurate. Only thing missing was licensing R-class battleship and having it sit in port idly for so long its gun turrets GET SO RUSTED THEY ARE STUCK IN PLACE(HMS Royal Sovereign/Arkhangelsk).
can you survive as France with only artillery (like literally your divisions can only have artillery in the template unless it is too difficult, then limit yourself to 1 inf allowed for every 2 arty)
You should do a puppets only challenge where basically you have to rely entirely on your puppets to do everything. Obviously you can still commander their units and whatnot because what would be the point of a video where you just sit back and watch them do everything, but you are not allowed to use any domestic planes, ships, or units. A good way to do this challenge would be to play as a nation with a lot of releasables (maybe France and Britain with their colonial empires or Italy can release basically the entire peninsula as old Italian kingdoms)
The only challenge I can come up with is the imitate Ai challenge. You have to do your best to win whilst still playing like the Ai, throw in a collaboration to have them guess which country you're playing
I always do license equipment. It makes the run feels REAL, like obviously Yunnan wouldn't be producing its own stuff, never mind having factories and resources to do that. That's why I got good with France, they gave me their license for a French MAS rifle, I pretend that me producing the rifle is actually me buying it, and I march my French-equipped divisions to save China from Japanese imperialism !
Having to keep up with tech to get license equipment is kind of silly. Like why would I even be licensing equipment in the first place if I was up to tech? Then again if it wasn't balanced at all you could ignore most tech in a game and focus on industry, or even have your allies focus on a specific tech branch for each of you to license from.
>55% reliability Damn, who knew the AI min/maxes tanks. Also if you want to quickly see if any Ross Rifles are used anywhere you can click on the army button on the top right and go to the ledger on the top right of that window.
I remember ISP did this challenge omce and the game bugged out so hard the AI cheated They were doing all the doctrine techs from multiple trees and just being annoying
I'm still waiting for a real tanks ONLY run. No cheating with trucks, infantry equipment, support equipment, or artillery. No HP allowed.
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Taureor actually did that once
Why are you getting into that tank soldier, TANKS ONLY!!! xD
@@ScotchWhiskey864 tanks driven by tanks driven by tanks driven by tanks driven by tanks... driven by the third greater luxembourgish army
Nah, I am still waiting for Alf Landon
Now it’s clear why the USSR collapsed in 1991. Its economy simply could not withstand the launching of the licensed YAMATO
And thus Japan's economy stagnated because it was no longer licensing the Yamato.
Screw artillery only, I want railgun only
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No equipment manpower deployed world conquest
Screw that, support company only! (with 1 infantry or arty and maybe mods to increase max support companies)
No military world conquest
@@Floris_VI
That will be a lot of praying. 😂
11:21 there is already the fighter 3, but the ai just pinned them outdated so ISP didn't realize that the ai's competence.
I'm picturing Gorbachev dissovling the Union and then immediately getting the news that the first Soviet Yamato has been produced
The License mechanic was designed in such a way that you'd think they don't want you to use it. The point of it should be "hey I don't have the research capabilities to unlock this stuff but my allies do so I should just produce the stuff they ALREADY RESEARCHED" but instead you get a debuff for that exact use case and you also get a debuff for just using it at all.
Amazing!
It's meant to represent realism, but yes, it sucks as a game mechanic (I use it to get nation specific stuff like Pre-Dreadnoughts and Torpedo cruisers, but that's about it... Other than Ross Rifles and Gustavs, and Bob Semples)
I would like a "only donated/bought from market weapons" challenge. (Basically a no military production challenge)
Civ factories only would be a cool run
ISP: "I don't have enough factories to make planes". Also ISP: Using 75 factories on AA, Arty, Guns & Support equipment he's already got massive stockpiles of.
>Light tank chassis
> Matilda
It grinds my gears too.
@@iSorrowproductionsGive RAT!!
@@iSorrowproductionslike you not giving the rat
Isp when old world blues
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real question right there
Once the brain was out, then came the COILS. The TESLA coils...
@@big_deez02One of my favourite DLCs tbh
ISP stands for:
I - Rat
S - Rat
P - Rat
Rat stands for:
R - Rat
A - Rat
T - Rat
@@DaScottishLad thats crazy😮
@@DaScottishLad
Rat
Rat
Rat stands for:
R - Rat
A - Rat
T - Rat
R - Rat
A - Rat
T - Rat
R - Rat
A - Rat
T - Rat
I = Rat
S = Rat
O = Rat
R = Rat
R = Rat
O = Rat
W = Rat
P = Rat
R = Rat
O = Rat
D = Rat
U = Rat
C = Rat
T = Rat
I = Rat
O = Rat
N = Rat
S = Rat
Please guys actually explain what is the rat you all keep talking about
next up: can you beat hoi4 with bought equipment only? (i.e. only equipment in your units is bought off the market)
EDIT: or just survive as France/Poland/Czechoslovakia until you get decced on and only then start to produce military equipment, but before that just build trains for sale and buy the rest or smth
Probably not. There's usually not enough and there's never modern tanks or planes
I do want to see this challenge.
@@CubeInspector true, and it usually dries up after ww2 starts. Maybe a better challenge would be then to survive as either France or Poland\Czechoslovakia
Next challenge: Can you beat hoi4 with only starting equipment?
Yeah this would be pretty awesome
- Comrad, you will go to Tankograd.
- You mean, London ?
You mean alf london
5:53 This "URAAA" was so authentic
УРАААА!
Fun fact if u think that its crazy isp only got 1mil casualties remember that at least 500k of them are the hidden function of the Ross rifle
This challenge should be renamed "license to kill"
Ba dum tshh
With a little ISP as James Bond
15:15 quite ironic that the battleship "Soviet Union" will be completed in 1991
Why not try bought equipment only? Idk if that is possible tho
My china games are essentially that
@@wyom2838loans still not a feature irl china used us loans to buy guns
Honest lil bro with how long I’ve been watching your videos I’m confident you can just complete hearts of iron with any form of challenge this is a skill level of which the world doesn’t deserve
Average production lines of a British colony:
Haha 🤣 😂
Petition for ISP to play Syndicalist Italy/Roman Empire in Kaiserredux Day 52
Also fun fact the type 88 rifle he gets from the chinese is an old Mauser rifle the germans used and licensed out to the Qing
It also really helps to do this challenge as the soviets, because then you dont have to use soviet equipment.
@2:05 don’t take my rifles!!!!
Now do the same but with stolen schematics. And if you wanna add an extra challenge "you can only steal one schematic (of any kind) per nation"
That would maybe be possible as the US, as that would take forever to get any production going.
12:01 - it will certainly help with igniting the revolution
9:20 ISP been recreating operation Bagration 😂
November 25, 1991 Gorbachev's office, one month before the dissolution of the USSR. "Good news sir!" ...
And from that moment... history unfolded pretty much the exact same way. 15:16
Can't wait for you to revisite the flintlock only challenge, which you will definitely do, right?
I remembered-yeah! Back in the day, this challenge was kinda fun for you! T'was an actual challenge to scrounge up a starting army.
USSR using Hurricanes and Matildas? Historically accurate. Only thing missing was licensing R-class battleship and having it sit in port idly for so long its gun turrets GET SO RUSTED THEY ARE STUCK IN PLACE(HMS Royal Sovereign/Arkhangelsk).
THE RETURN OF THE ROSS RIFFLE!
can you survive as France with only artillery (like literally your divisions can only have artillery in the template unless it is too difficult, then limit yourself to 1 inf allowed for every 2 arty)
You should do a puppets only challenge where basically you have to rely entirely on your puppets to do everything. Obviously you can still commander their units and whatnot because what would be the point of a video where you just sit back and watch them do everything, but you are not allowed to use any domestic planes, ships, or units. A good way to do this challenge would be to play as a nation with a lot of releasables (maybe France and Britain with their colonial empires or Italy can release basically the entire peninsula as old Italian kingdoms)
When do we get, Equestrian at War?
The only challenge I can come up with is the imitate Ai challenge. You have to do your best to win whilst still playing like the Ai, throw in a collaboration to have them guess which country you're playing
I DEMAND Mongolian world conquest with horses only (support companies possible - ?)
I sorrow ❌
We sorrow ✅
I guess that answers my question! You CAN license the Yamato.
10:45 Still a more reliable option than the historical T-34 xD
Can You Beat Hearts Of Iron 4 by only buying equipment?
regnum bospori armored car only challenge
Challenge: beat hoi4 with only lend-lease equipment
11:30 suffers in „en svensk tiger“
A Soviet made Yamato...I can't think of a worse ship.
What about market only? You cant make any equipment, only buy it!
International market equipment only challenge.
Day 260 demanding ISP to form Mongolian empire with generic focus tree and minimal mods + only cavalry
I would like to see a win only buying equipment off the international market challenge!
When are we getting the Bob Semple Tank Only run ISP?! We have been waiting...
I always do license equipment. It makes the run feels REAL, like obviously Yunnan wouldn't be producing its own stuff, never mind having factories and resources to do that.
That's why I got good with France, they gave me their license for a French MAS rifle, I pretend that me producing the rifle is actually me buying it, and I march my French-equipped divisions to save China from Japanese imperialism !
ISP turning ai for a second in china china war with those peace deals holy hell
Daily petition for ISP to do Artillery Only 3
The USSR will collapse in 1991 so you'll never get that Yamato-class Battleship
It would be completed just before the collapse
watching a isp video makes you wish he would make another ck3 A-Z video
The return of penor
16:12 isp is lobotomy kaisen fr fr
“A single tile has been taken for the motherland orraahhh!” Every single russian ever
Next Challenge: Can you beat HoI4 using only the Bob Semple Tank?
I remember last time he did this the AI broke
I can't wait to see no production, buying guns only challenge
what about market only equipment, just go all in on civs lol, i guess lend lease would help some too
Ah yes, the famous Chinese - Chinese war, the war with the chinese, fighting the chinese xD
I agree with Ross, they were on a break
Ohhhhhhhh Canada, our home and native land. Truuuuuuuue patriot love, in all of us command.
All our sons*
i’m waiting for the lend leased equipment only germany run
Just a little too Easy for some Reason
What Dif Is this?
Amazing Comedy
Great Vibe
Can we please get an ISP tank/air/ship designer tour
A challange: Play New Zealand and play tanks only (only bob series can be used)
Having to keep up with tech to get license equipment is kind of silly. Like why would I even be licensing equipment in the first place if I was up to tech?
Then again if it wasn't balanced at all you could ignore most tech in a game and focus on industry, or even have your allies focus on a specific tech branch for each of you to license from.
>55% reliability
Damn, who knew the AI min/maxes tanks. Also if you want to quickly see if any Ross Rifles are used anywhere you can click on the army button on the top right and go to the ledger on the top right of that window.
I remember ISP did this challenge omce and the game bugged out so hard the AI cheated
They were doing all the doctrine techs from multiple trees and just being annoying
Im still waiting for another vicky 2 video for nostalgia november
Episode 6 of asking to play with Poland get Wojtek conquer Jan Mayen and play as Jan Mayen..... please someone see this
Artilleey only gets closer
It may not have been the way they intended but it was British Tanks that rolled into Berlin
This is certainly the Ross rifle moment ever
License production no longer has a reason to exist in this game.
Penor Tashi js back!
Love these man!
Make isorrowproductions the pope of HOI4.
ISP is doing anything to avoid artillery only.
Now do Luxemburg artillery only world conquest
wild game this. My 12 width cavs with entrenchment are funny. dig that horse in. lol.
can you beat hearts of iron 4 with the lack of THE RAT?
Still waiting on the Alf Landon playthrough
Had to overkill denmark in case the snake comes out of his nest
Petition for ISP to play Goeringia in Kaiserredux
Question No. 1: Where’s the “Achievements to Z”?
Question No. 2: Where’s the rat?
Buy equipment only
now take it a step further and do purchased equipment only
Next you should only use equipment you can buy on the market!
Lore of Can You Beat Hearts Of Iron 4 With Only LICENSE Equipment? Momentum 100
Max tech only run would be hard
Oh I remember when this happened
Oh god, this is gonna be epic
Been on a bit of a Bitt3rsteel binge, time to give you a view from me I think
Now we Demand Only buying Equipment
we need bo for denmark
Next challenge only with bought equipment