Imagine that you are a marine that gets stranded on an island you venture inside searching for people that can help you. And suddenly you came across a Bob Semple factory in the middle of the jungle.
Lore accurate Bob Semple should boost compliance gain, construction speed, repair speed and agricultural production of whatever area it's deployed to en masse.
Funnily enough, the Ross Rifle was actually not an especially bad gun. It was very accurate and a popular choice among snipers, but was ill-suited to the trenches of WWI because it basically jammed the instant it got mud on it.
Hey man, Semple himself made a good point: nobody else came up with anything better. And to be real, any tank would probably be able to be used to success against a Japanese amphibious invasion, either against infantry or against the shitty tanks Japan had. Keep in mind it wasn't until anime that Japan got the good stuff when it comes to armor
There's a book about the Bob Semple that just came out by the author Andrew Hills, who wrote the book about the TOG. Apparently there's even a part of the original Bob Semple that still survives.
@@Mr-Trox It's a small part of the armor, it's in the South Canterbury Museum. If you look at a picture of the tank on the left side there's a piece that sticks out behind the driver's port, it's that piece.
Its very clear certain countries need an updated focus tree. Preferably as part of a free update, since this was already DLC content. When Iceland has a bigger and better focus tree then you, you know you were done dirty.
HOI4 does a super disservice to New Zealand. We contributed massively to the defence of Greece, Crete, and Egypt. We also fought hard in the Pacific, and right through the entire Italian campaign. A New Zealander was in charge of the defence of Southern Britain during the Battle of Britain. We deserve a better tree and more depth.
"Massively" sure ok buddy. If the british raj has the tree it does while sacrificing millions to the cause, you lot better be standing at the back of the queue
Bob Semple, the man, was actually a communist who got exiled from Australia and then ended up becoming the Armaments Minister in New Zealand. His story is shockingly interesting.
@@noneed4sleep64 It's a fact. The "capitalist alternative" that you mentioned is not unionisation. If that were the case, the US wouldn't have killed a bunch of them in 1952, wouldn't have literally bombed workers on strike, and wouldn't have sent the national guard to deal with union protesters in Harlan County.
New Zealand has its own steel, its own coal, and is as large as Britian. We do lack a population to build quite as much industry, but a focus tree where we take in fleeing Chinese migrants or Pacific people's from the war with Japan to boost construction slots and gain bonuses to infrastructure and generate useful amounts of resources and factories would be one way to take the little corner nation that could, and turn it into a pocket powerhouse while Australia absorbs most of the early casualties. Maybe by making planes and lend leasing them to all your friends or building dockyards and making a navy, or selling Big Bob Bulldozer conversions to the world!
I'll be honest, whenever I play New Zealand, I always do motorized only. I just love the design of this stoopid little tank, and also that only some what fun way to play NZ to me
TBF, bob semple did make some good points for his armored vehicle design. First off, it's a good repelling force against attacking infantry without AT equipment. I mean, were the japanese really expecting AFVs out of new zealand? No. Very much no. It'd stall for time where they could get more potent AFVs with actual armor to deal with AT rifles and other equipment, allowing a hold and eventually a push.
"Willingly" playing New Zealand? ISP, does the F-22 Raptor have a gun to your head? Don't worry, he just wants to eat. I'll go get Grandpa Buff to calm him down.
As a kiwi I can say that our superior Bob Semple tank which was made almost Entirely out of corrugated iron, could most definitely destroy a tiger. Trust me bro
ngl, they should redo the tutorial to be set in New Zealand as well. Managing a little economy, a small army, and having lots of Big Brother nations to help you out (as well as a small focus tree so you won't get lost), would probably be a good rework.
The first ever game of HOI4 I played was a New Zealand run in base game many years afo. I was coming from CK2 and thought picking a small out of the way island would help me learn the ropes. I kinda just spend the whole game wondering when things were gonna get good. XD
18:21 This Is actually a display of the Hyper Bobinator’s Telekinetic Trophy System It can stop incoming projectiles mid Air; rendering them useless Truly Ingenious Australian Engineering
I remember one of my first ever playthroughs was as New Zealand. Someone (in hindsight, probably as a prank) suggested I play as them to get affiliated with the game. So I did. I took a couple focuses. I got bored. I had no endgame to look forward to, so I just, I guess decided to go fascist. so I did. and it was boring. I did rule them all. it was even more boring. I had nobody to attack and nothing to do. It got so bad that I genuinely think rn that sticking with the UK and actually contributing to the war is actually the only fun thing you can do as New Zealand. Who knows, you may get yourself a Libyan state or two in the peace deal.
"The Ultimate New Zealand Fun Time" isn't something you want to admit to participating in in public. It's sort of like Fight Club if Fight Club was only sex crimes.
i actually played new zealand not too long ago, my army was made up of entirely tank divisions and i helped liberate all of africa (i did most of the work in ethiopia) and fought in the middle east, then i just waited for it to end because only god knows how awful my divisions would be against any european powers.
I did an independent New Zealand run and declared war on the allies, invaded Australia then the USA (a pain btw if the ai doesn’t focus on Japan) and then ignored Europe and went for Asia, was pretty fun except for the long process of naval invasions
There was a time when new zealand ended up beating the soviet union (me) in a 44 player tournament by simply selling bob semples named "Ultra-T-34", I took the joke and proceeded to buy endless amounts of "Ultra-T-34"'s whilst giving them Actual T-34's and Is-2's, before i could realise it actually was going to be a problem (it's 1944 and new zealand owns china and austrailia) i ended up getting mass pushed by the remaining players despite the rules being No teaming, there was 23 people left and they all had me completely surrounded Moscow somehow withstood til 1946 due to them all fighting eachother at the proccess and i have all of Moscow's territory under lvl 10 bunkers and air defences with 4 mili fac's making rifles, end of story was that NZ took over the soviet union and owned all of Asia/Europe/Commonwealth
This video was sponsored by the government of New Zealand (ISP didn't get any money, they just have a gun)
A very bad gun at that
sounds like a great deal 🤑🤑
They rolled up to his home in a Bob Semple tank.
@@adamtank1746 Made using aluminum roof panels
EDIT: If you don't know, this was the armor for the Bob Semple tank
who gave them a gun?
Imagine that you are a marine that gets stranded on an island you venture inside searching for people that can help you. And suddenly you came across a Bob Semple factory in the middle of the jungle.
Bob Semple upon having people laugh at his tank stated - "i don't see anyone else coming up with any better ideas"
literally yes
Honestly? He had a point. At least he did something.
@@royearle1673 I 100% agree
Schofield tank
@@royearle1673action bias is incredibly dangerous
These mods are getting so creative! "New Zealand"
What will they think of next?
Maybe they will come up with something called "Denmark"?
It would suck if they added some random ass country between the island of Spain and mainland Europe
@@beniciounfiltered7861 True. imagine if they did and called it "France"
what about old zealand?
I demand they bring back Old Zealand!
"Theres a man in the room..."
iSorrow, Be a man and you tell that bloody developer to get back to developing Hearts Of Iron 5!
nooo we still need focus trees for central american nations and making panama major country !!1!!!11!
No please no im not buying hoi5 for 60$ 😭😭😭
@@darius-m3p then 39.99$ DLC released only 1 month after full release
@@darius-m3phey atleast hoi4 will become free( good for the homeless)
@@darius-m3p Oh please we all know in the end it will be far more than $60
Notice how he conveniently dodges the objectively worst path, Democratic Independent New Zealand. Like if we he doesn't say it we won't notice it.
'Path'
Best path *
I sorrow ignoring sorrow
8:00 You know since the Bob Semple was built by putting armor over top of a Caterpillar dozer. It might just be the best tank for climbing mountains.
Fun fact: The Churchill was actually *incredibly* good at climbing. It could go up goat trails it had absolutely no business climbing.
It's a weight issue for tanks.
Shatapillar
I can only imagine in an alternative timeline where New Zealand has the best focus tree in the game
@@huni1939 i wish
Kinda like mexico where its very unimportant historically but has a really good focus tree
When Paradox makes the Hobbit, and the Hobbit makes HOI4...
On the bright side, a very detailed New Zealand map, and great focuses and decisions
Lore accurate Bob Semple should boost compliance gain, construction speed, repair speed and agricultural production of whatever area it's deployed to en masse.
The Bob Semple? The worst tank in the world? Next you'll be telling me the Ross Rifle is the worst gun in the world!
Funnily enough, the Ross Rifle was actually not an especially bad gun. It was very accurate and a popular choice among snipers, but was ill-suited to the trenches of WWI because it basically jammed the instant it got mud on it.
Hey man, Semple himself made a good point: nobody else came up with anything better. And to be real, any tank would probably be able to be used to success against a Japanese amphibious invasion, either against infantry or against the shitty tanks Japan had. Keep in mind it wasn't until anime that Japan got the good stuff when it comes to armor
@@benvaughan2171 best tank
@@bobsemple07 Holy fuck it's Bob Semple himself
@@benvaughan2171 yup its me
There's a book about the Bob Semple that just came out by the author Andrew Hills, who wrote the book about the TOG. Apparently there's even a part of the original Bob Semple that still survives.
destroy it. melt that bit of bob semple and sell it in a Turkish bazar
Is it part of a shed, or is it tending a field?
@@Mr-Trox It's a small part of the armor, it's in the South Canterbury Museum. If you look at a picture of the tank on the left side there's a piece that sticks out behind the driver's port, it's that piece.
@@Hunter12396 what is this book and where is it I need to know
@@bobsemple07 It's called "The 'Semple' Tractor Tank: New Zealand's Legendary Armoured Fighting Vehicle"
Its very clear certain countries need an updated focus tree. Preferably as part of a free update, since this was already DLC content.
When Iceland has a bigger and better focus tree then you, you know you were done dirty.
We’ll time they where released at different times but yeah I agree
I'm guessing the new NZ focus tree whenever it comes out will be part of new DLC as they made TFW part of the base game.
3:47
Bob Semple with sloped armor. 😨
What next? A seat for the driver?
@@jampert3656 And a 37mm anti tank cannon?
Its armor is sloped by default. Every last bit of it. The problem isnt the angle, but that it is just a sheet metal.
😂
give rat mr. internet service provider
THE BOB SEMPLE BABY
Polynesia gets cores on some Japanese Islands, including Taiwan, which gives you some really nice manpower
it's practically the only way to play NZ and even the devs know it.
18:03 New Zealand gets six research slots???!!
Yeah, we're cool like that.
HOI4 does a super disservice to New Zealand. We contributed massively to the defence of Greece, Crete, and Egypt. We also fought hard in the Pacific, and right through the entire Italian campaign. A New Zealander was in charge of the defence of Southern Britain during the Battle of Britain. We deserve a better tree and more depth.
Counterpoint: They need to make more money
@@ivorycxxxx I'll be concerned about Paradox's profit margins when pigs can fly.
@@Caxon81pretty sure the police have helicopters
"Massively" sure ok buddy. If the british raj has the tree it does while sacrificing millions to the cause, you lot better be standing at the back of the queue
@@vedsingh-bp2ke I don't remember Kiwi troops signing up in the thousands to join Japanese collaborators :)
Bob Semple, the man, was actually a communist who got exiled from Australia and then ended up becoming the Armaments Minister in New Zealand. His story is shockingly interesting.
He wasn’t a communist, he was a unionist. Y’know, the capitalist alternative to communism…
@noneed4sleep64 you know what unions were called in the USSR? Soviets. You don't know how politics works 🤦♂️
@@power2ix605 this is bait, right?
@@noneed4sleep64 It's a fact. The "capitalist alternative" that you mentioned is not unionisation. If that were the case, the US wouldn't have killed a bunch of them in 1952, wouldn't have literally bombed workers on strike, and wouldn't have sent the national guard to deal with union protesters in Harlan County.
@@noneed4sleep64he probably wasn’t a communist, but he was in NZ’s Labour Party, so he was a socialist at least
New Zealand has its own steel, its own coal, and is as large as Britian. We do lack a population to build quite as much industry, but a focus tree where we take in fleeing Chinese migrants or Pacific people's from the war with Japan to boost construction slots and gain bonuses to infrastructure and generate useful amounts of resources and factories would be one way to take the little corner nation that could, and turn it into a pocket powerhouse while Australia absorbs most of the early casualties. Maybe by making planes and lend leasing them to all your friends or building dockyards and making a navy, or selling Big Bob Bulldozer conversions to the world!
Once he runs out of ideas for “a to z” we’re moving to the Greek alphabet
😅😂😂😂
Best episode yet. I could watch you do 10 more NZ play throughs and not get bored of how fun playing NZ is.
I'll be honest, whenever I play New Zealand, I always do motorized only. I just love the design of this stoopid little tank, and also that only some what fun way to play NZ to me
after you unite polynesia, the game should give you claims on other austronesian teritories and give you a decision to unite them as well
Did I get warped back to 2016?
Also 1:47 - What the hell is going on in Somalia?
Based ethiopia pushing a tile
@@dangerousnoodle8779 They looked like they were blitzing all of Somalia but then later in the video it showed pasta spilled all over it as usual.
@@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva You know it’s gonna be a fun game when you’re in the middle of microing and you get the “Humiliation in Africa” popup
No views in 0 seconds, bro- *proceeds to get purged by Stalin*
9 likes in 27 minutes, bro really fell off
13 likes in 1hr , bro really got purged ☠️
TBF, bob semple did make some good points for his armored vehicle design. First off, it's a good repelling force against attacking infantry without AT equipment. I mean, were the japanese really expecting AFVs out of new zealand? No. Very much no. It'd stall for time where they could get more potent AFVs with actual armor to deal with AT rifles and other equipment, allowing a hold and eventually a push.
The comparison between big bob and breeding dogs is easily the one isp moment that has caught me the most off-guard
Ah, it's been 5 years since you done the Bob Semple Tank only challenge, I guess you do love the Bob Semple and Big Bob!
God bless bob sempel
"Willingly" playing New Zealand? ISP, does the F-22 Raptor have a gun to your head? Don't worry, he just wants to eat.
I'll go get Grandpa Buff to calm him down.
Paradox treating New Zealand in this DLC like the commonwealth treated them in WW1
"Don't blame the developers, blame the plate tectonics!" - Idk either someone or me, 2070 AD.
oh god its 20 minute video pray for him
As a kiwi I can say that our superior Bob Semple tank which was made almost Entirely out of corrugated iron, could most definitely destroy a tiger. Trust me bro
ngl, they should redo the tutorial to be set in New Zealand as well. Managing a little economy, a small army, and having lots of Big Brother nations to help you out (as well as a small focus tree so you won't get lost), would probably be a good rework.
An amphibious bob semple should be called the bob shrimple
Im a little disappointed isp didnt lean into it and take Corsica and Sardinia. The island man has claimed more islands
The first ever game of HOI4 I played was a New Zealand run in base game many years afo. I was coming from CK2 and thought picking a small out of the way island would help me learn the ropes. I kinda just spend the whole game wondering when things were gonna get good. XD
18:21 This Is actually a display of the Hyper Bobinator’s Telekinetic Trophy System
It can stop incoming projectiles mid Air; rendering them useless
Truly Ingenious Australian Engineering
holy shit we're back to the BOB SAMPLE TANK!
They call Bob Semple tank the worst, but i don't remember any of them lost in battle.
100% win ratio if you count the crab it ran over during prototype
The Bob Semple is the Killdozer of WWII.
that mountain in ethiopia. I'm pretty sure the new zealanders pushed those cans up those hills on foot.
The nation I consider "tutorial island"
A local man looked into the eyes of boredom itself and frightened. It took him a few minutes to choose a bit more radical path.
I always tought that NZs 5 focus long political tree was too long so i pick the path that has 4 focuses. Amazing tree 10/10 would recommend
The problem with Polynesia form is you need Hawaii which is kinda impossible as New Zealand
I don't think I have ever seen the animation for the Bob Semmple tank. The wall of machine gun fire is epic
New Zealand is the Bob Semple Tank of countries
In my 1,6k hours on Hoi4 I have never played newzlealend
Bob Semple is smiling from the heavens.
Episode 29 of asking to play as Poland, get wojtek, conquer Jan Mayen, and play as Jan Mayen
ISP this is your best game ever, thank you for bringing glory to my country and our world-renowned tanks
You should play one nation without doing any of the political trees, instead focusing on the naval tree. Gotta show off the trees that nobody does
please free me from the basement
Lateh
workers of the peoples republic of Oceania liberated only to build the Bobinator 4000
Even playing as the Baltics seems better to me.
Least unhinged isp video
maybe the real Bob Semple were the friends we made along the way....
should've done the independent democratic New Zealand path, that would be so much fun
Could add federation between Australia and New Zealand to the tree.
As you can see, it's really quite semple at the end of the day.
I remember one of my first ever playthroughs was as New Zealand. Someone (in hindsight, probably as a prank) suggested I play as them to get affiliated with the game. So I did.
I took a couple focuses.
I got bored. I had no endgame to look forward to, so I just, I guess decided to go fascist.
so I did.
and it was boring.
I did rule them all.
it was even more boring.
I had nobody to attack and nothing to do.
It got so bad that I genuinely think rn that sticking with the UK and actually contributing to the war is actually the only fun thing you can do as New Zealand.
Who knows, you may get yourself a Libyan state or two in the peace deal.
Fun Fact: New Zealand is one of the few countries in the whole game that can get 6 research slots.
I don't think the Italians were ready for the BOB SEMPLE.
LIES BOB SEMPLE TANK IS THE BEST TANK EVER.
Am I the only one who likes playing as New Zealand? Making an overpowered tank force and forming the Dominion Polynesia is a lot of fun
Well atleast this isn't as bad the Byzantium triple we had last year.
Arguably, New Zealand’s manpower should be higher as 20% of the countries population served in World War II
"Unite Polynesia" 🗿
All I'm saying is no bob semple tanks were ever lost in battle irl sooooo god tier tank
That comment about how he doesn't do the unpopular focuses in focus to z ages like wine.
new formable for HOI4: "Newnited-Kingdom" XD
Ah yes the resurgence of Pax New Zealandia 🇳🇿🗿👌😎👍 Be like:
ISP should put some respect on the Big Bob carryhandle
iSempleProductions
"The Ultimate New Zealand Fun Time" isn't something you want to admit to participating in in public. It's sort of like Fight Club if Fight Club was only sex crimes.
i actually played new zealand not too long ago, my army was made up of entirely tank divisions and i helped liberate all of africa (i did most of the work in ethiopia) and fought in the middle east, then i just waited for it to end because only god knows how awful my divisions would be against any european powers.
About time you upload mr.rattinson
I did an independent New Zealand run and declared war on the allies, invaded Australia then the USA (a pain btw if the ai doesn’t focus on Japan) and then ignored Europe and went for Asia, was pretty fun except for the long process of naval invasions
bob sample fire edition
Got the bob semple before we got the rat... Truly cursed timeline.
Bob Semplemaxxing
Great video, but I can’t believe ISP forgot to use the Bob Semple, or any tanks at all! Really breaks the immersion of the New Zealand focus tree
Do 7 days of madnes please
The worst? I think you mean the tank so terrifying it kept the Japanese from invading the island.
Isp, blink twice if you're being kept hostage
havent watched this guy in 4 years, still doin it i guess
Everytime I watch ISP I feel like I'm drinking McDonald's sprite
Gravy!
Mr. Timothy is my father's name! You can call me gravy.
The "worst"? How dare you, sir! It's the pinnacle of Kiwi engineering!
There was a time when new zealand ended up beating the soviet union (me) in a 44 player tournament by simply selling bob semples named "Ultra-T-34", I took the joke and proceeded to buy endless amounts of "Ultra-T-34"'s whilst giving them Actual T-34's and Is-2's, before i could realise it actually was going to be a problem (it's 1944 and new zealand owns china and austrailia) i ended up getting mass pushed by the remaining players despite the rules being No teaming, there was 23 people left and they all had me completely surrounded
Moscow somehow withstood til 1946 due to them all fighting eachother at the proccess and i have all of Moscow's territory under lvl 10 bunkers and air defences with 4 mili fac's making rifles, end of story was that NZ took over the soviet union and owned all of Asia/Europe/Commonwealth
Mind you bob semple was an actual important figure... by New Zealand standards, John A Lee is an actual interesting figure in his beliefs and actions.
Worst Tank?
Flame Tank, Flamethrowers are cool, Tanks are cool
Flane Tanks are cool
New Zealand: Decent Stability - Ok War support - Terribly outdated focus tree - Horrible industry - Nice amount of Convoys = 2/10 IGN/PSN/VPN
the new zealand focus tree is just the generic tree with a personality
Isp, blink twice if there is a little timothy holding you hostage right now
The finish run before ALF LANDON
ALF LANDON
ALF LANDON
BTW, Polynesia has a core on Taiwan. Even MORE manpower!