20:30 The reasons your losses are so high is because of the difference in spotting and air efficiency (the two numbers to the left of your plane count). Building radars, using air infiltration missions from an agency, advisors, and increasing your planes’ range can help to make them perform better and thus lose fewer planes.
I've done this challenge in the opposite side, play historical USSR and bump Germany and Italy to max strength. It could also be interesting to play Japan with strengthened Allies. You could also do this challenge but have a condition that you can't Sea Lion until the USA joins the Allies.
@@kmmediafactory I ended up having practically a historical game, I got pushed to within a few tiles of Moscow, about the line between Rzhev and Kaluga, and their attack ran out of steam.
also my friends there was a section at 24:23 that showed occupation paint because for some reason loading back up the game turned norway into a checkerboard with italy splitting control and I am not going to have a chickenpox nation. That makes the map look very ugly and we are not about that life
Challange: Give the benelux max power and turn the speed bump in to a concrete wall. Play with historical IA off. You can play a country of your choice.
Here's a challenge idea: Play as Yugoslavia go down the monarchist path were you balkanize Yugo and then conquer Germany, Italy and the Soviets that are buffed to the max.
What I would recommend for dealing with the UK a lot easier is to exercise the navy until you get enough EXP to create a cheap Heavy Cruiser hull that you can spam out by the dozen, while also doing the two 35 day naval focuses that give you dockyards to be able to spam out more Heavy cruisers. After you get France, set it on strike force, then go to town from there
Tbh that's mostly how I play anyway(full buff on all majors, elite difficulty). If you're a minor nation, you feel like minor nation. If you're a major, buff and elite difficulty mostly cancel each other out. And both allow AI to do at least something beyond eating rocks. I would also recommend using options to allow faction leader to get % of war score of faction members and allow overlord to get war score of puppets. Both are off by default for some reason and both limit the player conquest in "death warring". P.S.: fair warning, AI with both difficulty and major buff gets a bit insane in terms of aggression in the war. No, they don't become more aggressive in diplomacy, they just speedrun "0 manpower" during the war by constantly spamming general abilities. Which is an exploit of its own if you focus hardness and soft attack...
Even tho I know you dislike New Dawn, the latest update added unique focus trees to a few new countries, and the Bulgaria one has a Balkan conquest path, which I think would be pretty interesting to see, especially given the fact that they start with a single civ and mil factories. One love ❤ P.S. The video was amazing as always, both you and Gabby have improved very much since the beginning of this channel, and I'm glad that you've been able to turn RUclips into your main source of revenue. Hopefully your channel will keep growing cuz you really deserve it.
You should try playing the horror mod that was popular around last year. I don’t remember the exact name but you can turn Mussolini into an eldritch monstrosity and it’s epic.
I'd absolutely be here for videos about your cat. Also, the Soviet buffs are just what the German tank commanders claimed the Soviets had. It's historic to a sense.
Recommendation - Play Equestria at War and do the Genocidal Cult secret path for the Colthaginian Republic. It's genuinely one of the most in-depth focus trees of any HOI4 mod
Hey there, Regarding your community post, I would love to see more Total War action! If you want an exact example for a challenge, you could try playing as either of the Roman empires in Attila Total War. (With the West Romans being the harder one for obvious reasons) Alternatively you could play Attila with the Ancient Empires mod and play as Carthage (it starts at the end of the second Punic War and carthage is at quite the disadvantage) and win against the Romans (makes for a shorter video as opposed to the entire mini-series needed in the first suggestion. Cheers, and thanks for integrating your community the way you do!
20:30 because the Brits have radars and get some bonuses. You can get lvl 2 radars along the British channel and you will get the same spotting as them. Another thing that might help is building a spy network, getting some advisors and aviation corp bonuses.
I havent seen anyone do this but, stakuyi i have a tip for you for getting collabs faster. Get atleast 3 spies early asap then build a network on soviets until 50% and then assign one spy to do silent intel (so it would stay 50%). And those other 2 spies set them to automatically repeat the collabr government and u wont have a problem about it since ur network is always 50% sooo. Plusssssss keeping intel silent will make u worry less about your agents getting captured
Challenge, do a mega campaign and make a run from ck 3 to stellaris of a DIY nation from CK3 that at some point rules the world and attempts to rule the galaxy in stellaris.
Feedback from my hoi4 experience as germany. Rush the tank agreement focus with soviets so you get 1940 mediums somewhere in 38-39, avoid taking spains capitals, grind that army xp, start building mils only in -38 and from there only build mils, before -38 you should be making civs only. The medium tank rush cannot be overstated, that makes air almost obsolete against AI if you make good templates and designs
I actually did exactly this with ussr usa uk and france at 200 percent and it was the most fun I've had in hoi4 in a while. It's come to a nuclear war in 1946 and I still haven't finished it. the soviet frontline has gone back and forth like 5 times already
Generally, this just goes to show if you spend time learning the game, understanding your tactics and the strengths of your nation it doesn't matter what difficulty you are on you will always be the Ai.
I have a challenge for you: the chilian empire. Take every coastal state on the west coast of the Americas, and ONLY those states. You cannot annex an inland state (you can puppet it though)
Challange: max buff all Axis and Comintern members and try to survive as Poland without capitulating. Also you cannot declare war on any of current or future members of Axis and Comintern, but you must wait for them to declare on you (so no eating Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia nor Baltic states before the war; you basically can declare only on nation that where neutral whole WW2 and never felt to Axis nor Comintern)
Challenge: You can play any country, but you cannot capitulate a major until their entire military is destroyed to the last division. World domination (all majors defeated) is the end goal
German potential is just crazy, although I wonder how difficult it would have been if instead of defeating the Allies and gaining all those factories, you ignored them and went straight for the Soviets from the start or actually did the historical war on two fronts...now THAT would make max strength USSR fearsome.
HOI4 (No mods) - "Turnabout is Fair Play" - Yugoslavia rises and siezes the old Ottoman Empire from the Balkans to Iraq, and the Mediterranean coastal region from Anatolia to the Egyptian/Libyan birder. Romania must be at least puppeted, if not outright siezed.
if you want more of a challenge, give the soviet union some of the national spirits that are very strong. sadly this does need to be through console commands unless you know how to mod the soviet union to have them naturally. Imagine. I tried giving them just construction bonuses and in 1940 they had about 400 military factories.
Was playing hoi4 yesterday, and for some reason, the Italian AI was being extra dumb as I got the event as Britain where I could send volunteers to Ethiopia 😂
Try Hearts of Minecraft: Sins of the Cohort, (or if you have already, do it again but with another nation) it’s really fun and has focus trees that aren’t just 70 day spam. I enjoy playing as Imperia and the Southern Player Empire.
Challenge idea with a new mod, either play as the 2nd continental army in Pax Britannica and unite America as a failed state or naruru in millennium dawn and invade america.
Challenge: In Kaiserreich (not Kaiserredux), form West Slavia as Nationalist Poland without allying with anyone (so basically take on both Germany and Austria by yourself).
Hmm, challenge I suppose play the Empire mod for hearts of iron as Britain and you have to double the strength of your enemies; and unite Britain and France also you have to convert the Island to Catholicism.
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Oh man! You are definitely wrong..We are all here for your cat and we love it !!
As a owner of two cats, yes, they demand all out attention.
I want more cat videos, you need a supervillian chair to match the cat and facism. 😂
Can we have a video of your cat?
Wait, I don’t think I noticed Stakuyi. I saw the cat only XD
@@Kain01ablei have 5 one is right nexted to me the other on top of me and the other at my feet the other 2 no idea what there doing
thank you all for being here. top liked 5 comments will go in a poll to determine what i make next. Game or challenge does not matter
You better pray my Liberia comment doesn’t make it 😏
Bannerlord (Definitely mention your twitch soldiers unionizing)
While you were wasting your time fighting China, Britain, and the Soviet Union, Italy was conquering the world.
20:30 The reasons your losses are so high is because of the difference in spotting and air efficiency (the two numbers to the left of your plane count). Building radars, using air infiltration missions from an agency, advisors, and increasing your planes’ range can help to make them perform better and thus lose fewer planes.
also anti air
It also is probably all the bad planes that you start the game with getting shot down.
they changed the air system so now you lose more planes to air accidents and the ai dosent
They were also all green at the start
I've done this challenge in the opposite side, play historical USSR and bump Germany and Italy to max strength. It could also be interesting to play Japan with strengthened Allies. You could also do this challenge but have a condition that you can't Sea Lion until the USA joins the Allies.
god, I tried that once, bumping germany to half strength and I got obliterated. Of course, that was in my earlier days.
@@kmmediafactory I ended up having practically a historical game, I got pushed to within a few tiles of Moscow, about the line between Rzhev and Kaluga, and their attack ran out of steam.
@@Vaelosh466 ah nice, always fun getting a more historically accurate playthrough. It's not that common, even with historical ai decisions on.
also my friends there was a section at 24:23 that showed occupation paint because for some reason loading back up the game turned norway into a checkerboard with italy splitting control and I am not going to have a chickenpox nation. That makes the map look very ugly and we are not about that life
Were you at any point concerned that you might run out of oil during the war?
Challenge: play Victoria 3, unite Canada, become independent from Britain, and have the United States as a puppet
nice, how about we also invade cuba
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Stak, we are all here for you cat. The rest of the channel is just a bonus. Also you should attempt to do a game where your cat controls HOI.
Absolutely
You wanna teach a cat the strategy and skills for world conquest???
Are you _crazy?!?!_
Challange: Give the benelux max power and turn the speed bump in to a concrete wall. Play with historical IA off. You can play a country of your choice.
oh there is an interesting one. I have contemplated creating scenarios and just doing commentary
luxembourg 3000 divisions
@@historyofeverythingpodcastAI Germany would get crushed. You’d need a skilled player.
@@ajcon3874
He just said Historical Ai would be off.
Most definitely we will see Germany embroiled in a civil war lmao
Do a world conquest on vanilla, but release every single colony and do a world conquest, starting as a tiny island, or a country with no military
Here's a challenge idea: Play as Yugoslavia go down the monarchist path were you balkanize Yugo and then conquer Germany, Italy and the Soviets that are buffed to the max.
Pfp checks out
@@daboss1113lmao fr
Not possible
What I would recommend for dealing with the UK a lot easier is to exercise the navy until you get enough EXP to create a cheap Heavy Cruiser hull that you can spam out by the dozen, while also doing the two 35 day naval focuses that give you dockyards to be able to spam out more Heavy cruisers. After you get France, set it on strike force, then go to town from there
Though I will say that spamming naval bombers does give way more air exp
Yeah the UK can just spam out ships as the empire has tons of resources you practically can't get invaded if your fleet is in the channel
Tbh that's mostly how I play anyway(full buff on all majors, elite difficulty). If you're a minor nation, you feel like minor nation. If you're a major, buff and elite difficulty mostly cancel each other out. And both allow AI to do at least something beyond eating rocks.
I would also recommend using options to allow faction leader to get % of war score of faction members and allow overlord to get war score of puppets. Both are off by default for some reason and both limit the player conquest in "death warring".
P.S.: fair warning, AI with both difficulty and major buff gets a bit insane in terms of aggression in the war. No, they don't become more aggressive in diplomacy, they just speedrun "0 manpower" during the war by constantly spamming general abilities. Which is an exploit of its own if you focus hardness and soft attack...
Stakuyi, you should totally do some 2023 HoI4 tutorial videos on how to best play the game (economy, army, navy, air, etc.)
Even tho I know you dislike New Dawn, the latest update added unique focus trees to a few new countries, and the Bulgaria one has a Balkan conquest path, which I think would be pretty interesting to see, especially given the fact that they start with a single civ and mil factories.
One love ❤
P.S. The video was amazing as always, both you and Gabby have improved very much since the beginning of this channel, and I'm glad that you've been able to turn RUclips into your main source of revenue. Hopefully your channel will keep growing cuz you really deserve it.
You mean *MILLENNIUM* Dawn?
You should try playing the horror mod that was popular around last year. I don’t remember the exact name but you can turn Mussolini into an eldritch monstrosity and it’s epic.
I'd absolutely be here for videos about your cat.
Also, the Soviet buffs are just what the German tank commanders claimed the Soviets had. It's historic to a sense.
And you believe WW2 German military claims even though it's a well-known fact they inflated their kill counts for propaganda reasons?
Recommendation - Play Equestria at War and do the Genocidal Cult secret path for the Colthaginian Republic. It's genuinely one of the most in-depth focus trees of any HOI4 mod
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Escalation 84' time.
There's more genocidal cults besides the Dread League?
Challenge: Play Monarchist Netherlands and never lose your continental lands against Germany.
Stakuyi technically already done this.
But just with democracy
Pls include the cat when she wants to join a recording.
1. It's adorable
2. It will help grow the audience
3. Cat!!!
Wrong good sir! Cats and Dogs are the bread and butter of the Internet and we demand to see more of your cat.
Hey there,
Regarding your community post, I would love to see more Total War action!
If you want an exact example for a challenge, you could try playing as either of the Roman empires in Attila Total War. (With the West Romans being the harder one for obvious reasons) Alternatively you could play Attila with the Ancient Empires mod and play as Carthage (it starts at the end of the second Punic War and carthage is at quite the disadvantage) and win against the Romans (makes for a shorter video as opposed to the entire mini-series needed in the first suggestion.
Cheers, and thanks for integrating your community the way you do!
13:04 "This is so terribly brutal"
German tank volunteer commander in China fighting along with the Japanese
Play as Germany in the EndSieg mod with the 1943 start date. That would have you starting your game right after the disastrous Kursk offensive.
20:30 because the Brits have radars and get some bonuses. You can get lvl 2 radars along the British channel and you will get the same spotting as them.
Another thing that might help is building a spy network, getting some advisors and aviation corp bonuses.
I highly recommend Starsector. Its on indie sci-fi game that's a lot like Mount and Blade in space.
Liberia play through when?
"Cat sleeps in HOI4"
The timeline: *Agent Leon Trotsky of the Gestapo*
I havent seen anyone do this but, stakuyi i have a tip for you for getting collabs faster.
Get atleast 3 spies early asap then build a network on soviets until 50% and then assign one spy to do silent intel (so it would stay 50%). And those other 2 spies set them to automatically repeat the collabr government and u wont have a problem about it since ur network is always 50% sooo.
Plusssssss keeping intel silent will make u worry less about your agents getting captured
You can annex Youguslavia, if you do the focus bevor annex Czecholovakia
Challenge: Survive as France against a maximum buffs Germany
Challenge, do a mega campaign and make a run from ck 3 to stellaris of a DIY nation from CK3 that at some point rules the world and attempts to rule the galaxy in stellaris.
you excitement in these is so fun, Ive taken up watching these while I'm playing Total War
Hmm, cat plays hoi4? I think that's what we all really want
Maybe give Total War: Napoleon The Great War mod a try?
When the notification for Stakuyi comes I click simple as
Same
As a wise man once said - superheavy SP AT, medium SPAA, heavy flamethrower tanks and lots of artillery battalions.
Feedback from my hoi4 experience as germany.
Rush the tank agreement focus with soviets so you get 1940 mediums somewhere in 38-39, avoid taking spains capitals, grind that army xp, start building mils only in -38 and from there only build mils, before -38 you should be making civs only. The medium tank rush cannot be overstated, that makes air almost obsolete against AI if you make good templates and designs
Forming the HRE, but EVERYONE is boosted by 100% (PAIN FOR THE PAIN TRAIN)
yes we want cat cam
like, during the vid if the cat is near u, have a cam of it chilling like a facecam, id love that
Try playing with only anti-air divisions
I actually did exactly this with ussr usa uk and france at 200 percent and it was the most fun I've had in hoi4 in a while. It's come to a nuclear war in 1946 and I still haven't finished it. the soviet frontline has gone back and forth like 5 times already
Yeah, we aren't for the cat, BUT...
Maybe one cat video, Please?
Stakuyi confirmed Michelle Branch back-up singer....Gabby must be so proud.
We need more cat
Generally, this just goes to show if you spend time learning the game, understanding your tactics and the strengths of your nation it doesn't matter what difficulty you are on you will always be the Ai.
Be the AI?
Glad to see ya uploading a new video!
I'm not necessarily here for the cat but if you wanted to give her a cameo at the beginning of every video, i would not be upset
I have a challenge for you: the chilian empire. Take every coastal state on the west coast of the Americas, and ONLY those states. You cannot annex an inland state (you can puppet it though)
I have a challenge, do Yugoslavia with only light tanks
Challange: max buff all Axis and Comintern members and try to survive as Poland without capitulating. Also you cannot declare war on any of current or future members of Axis and Comintern, but you must wait for them to declare on you (so no eating Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia nor Baltic states before the war; you basically can declare only on nation that where neutral whole WW2 and never felt to Axis nor Comintern)
Challenge: You can play any country, but you cannot capitulate a major until their entire military is destroyed to the last division. World domination (all majors defeated) is the end goal
Hoi4 India Rush Challenge
> Historical
> Obtain independence
> Join Allies
> Liberate All of Europe including Poland and the Balkans before the Soviet
German potential is just crazy, although I wonder how difficult it would have been if instead of defeating the Allies and gaining all those factories, you ignored them and went straight for the Soviets from the start or actually did the historical war on two fronts...now THAT would make max strength USSR fearsome.
thank you, it's lovely to see HOIV on youtube
No, I DO want to see videos of your cat!
Episode 11 of asking Stakuyi to play Equestria at War as Equestria with “Twilight Theory” turned on in custom game rules.
More stellaris
We need a cat cam!
Lore of Hoi4 Germany but with 200 PERCENT STRENGTH SOVIET UNION momentum 100
Watching this during a Tornado warning 👍
Best cat best cat
Kind of funny about the release date since
July 20th, 1944 was the day of Operation Valkyrie.
I want to see a world where all the nations are buffed to 100% and stakuyi has to pay as Belgium or something like that.
HOI4 (No mods) - "Turnabout is Fair Play" - Yugoslavia rises and siezes the old Ottoman Empire from the Balkans to Iraq, and the Mediterranean coastal region from Anatolia to the Egyptian/Libyan birder. Romania must be at least puppeted, if not outright siezed.
if you want more of a challenge, give the soviet union some of the national spirits that are very strong. sadly this does need to be through console commands unless you know how to mod the soviet union to have them naturally. Imagine. I tried giving them just construction bonuses and in 1940 they had about 400 military factories.
about the fighters : they are shootting down your old planes dont worry
My trick is to lend lease the outdated stuff to my allies only if I have new planes, guns ect
Was playing hoi4 yesterday, and for some reason, the Italian AI was being extra dumb as I got the event as Britain where I could send volunteers to Ethiopia 😂
95% if historical ai is off
@@austria-hungary7680 it was on 😂
@@dobbydobson9430 dear god.... albiet a fuckton happened with ethiopia on and off.
This is essentially what the Soviet Union thought it was and what Russia wishes it could be
Easy for an experienced player. Build your army for encirclement and gain air superiority with superior model fighters.
artillery only
Challenge: play Soviet Union but all the axis have 200 plus strength, also have France and United Kingdom go facist if you want a harder game.
Challenge: World conquest as Hawaii. It can be vanilla or a mod of your choice
This Cat video with a pet human was amazing!!!
fully buffed sov union and vetran difficulty
@stakuyi Challenege Take over and hold the Island of Japan as the the Republic of Ireland
You should play the napoleon total war campaigns
Cats A rise. famly guy meme
I just want you to do a campaign with cat in lap, dr. Evil style. No, cat need not be hairless.
Navel invade and conquer Japan as China would be fun to watch
Your cat is a bonus easter egg in your vids
Demanding a cat cam
Try Hearts of Minecraft: Sins of the Cohort, (or if you have already, do it again but with another nation) it’s really fun and has focus trees that aren’t just 70 day spam. I enjoy playing as Imperia and the Southern Player Empire.
Hope you enjoyed your stay
Don't have any ideas on challenges, but I'd love to see you play some other Paradox games like CK3 or Stellaris.
Show us more cat.
Challenge: Play USSR on elite difficulty with expert AI mod enabled, and buff Germany in game rules
So the reverse? I love it!
That cat needs a funny mustche
Next we need the cat to make decisions.
20:44 Germans were wondering that too
Millennium dawn Japan please
Challenge: Artillery only on the hardest difficulty and with expert ai enabled
Army route Japan, ignore the navy
Challenge: Coin Flip every decision popup regardless of circumstance
Challenge kind of? play kaiserredux and form the cosmic realm of aaru cause you can never play too much kaiserredux
We need more "AIRPLANES"
Challenge idea with a new mod, either play as the 2nd continental army in Pax Britannica and unite America as a failed state or naruru in millennium dawn and invade america.
Challenge: In Kaiserreich (not Kaiserredux), form West Slavia as Nationalist Poland without allying with anyone (so basically take on both Germany and Austria by yourself).
Basically he turned the Soviet union into what the modern Russian military imagines itself to be.
Hmm, challenge I suppose play the Empire mod for hearts of iron as Britain and you have to double the strength of your enemies; and unite Britain and France also you have to convert the Island to Catholicism.
I think even with the 200% buff the ai gets dumber and forgets to build infrastructure.