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The reason the Germans weren't pushing is because you had your troops on the front but not pushing. The AI will wait for you to push if you share a front, that's why when you pulled your troops off to deal with turkey they started pushing.
It can actually be useful in certain situations, like when the allied ai is endlessly attacking and losing every battle, if you send 1 division and create a frontline but you don't attack, the ai will stop attacking and losing massive amounts of equipment and manpower.
Jokes aside, I played this path out of my own free will and I think it is actually very cool. The point of it is to create a UK aligned fascist Italy. Dino Grandi IRL attempted to stop Italy from entering WW2 and opposed anti-semitic policies. He was still a violent fascist, ofc. Following the invasion of Sicily, he led the proposal to remove Mussolini from power. His path is meant to be played alongside the "guarantee austria" foreign policy (oppose Germany), and is actually pretty historically truthful. Part of why the British+French response to Ethiopia was so weak was because they hoped Italy would be their ally against Germany. It involved a lesser known element of fascism (corporatism) and let's you get good relations with nearly everyone. Overall - Good path do play :)
Fun fact to add, pretty much the same applies to Italo Balbo. He was a staunch opponent to the alliance with Germany, and became even more outspoken when Germany attacked Poland; constantly reasoning for joining in with Great Britain instead. This is just one of multiple reasons why his accidental death - being caused by friendly fire from an AA battery - is seen as extremely convenient for the Axis, with many historians still suggesting that it was not an accident at all.
9:45 Poland has a "Become Soviet Puppet" side in the communist path as well and the point of that one is that you temporarily give up the eastern half, beat up Germany with the Soviets, they give you Germany's eastern territories, and then you ask for your own eastern territories back (which the Soviets will usually accept) so in exchange for a bit of weirdness you can get some pretty nice expansion from the safety of being the Soviet bulwark. Although I've never done the Polish fascism side, I suspect that the "Become German Puppet" thing may work the same way (give Germany the Polish corridor -> help Germany destroy the Soviets -> Germany gives you the Polish corridor back).
Yeah I found out the Polish-German alliance path needs you to stay a puppet the hard way too, except I was doing the Cossack King who shares the same branch
yep, that's quite common as a sight in those ISP videos lmao. Poland just loses all the land that others want and Germany and USSR get to keep their parts
Didn't he already do that in his achievement video for Portugal essentially. I don't remember if it was the 5th empire or not, but I know he had to fight basically the entire world.
I know who is Dino Grandi, and he is my first choice when playing as fascist Italy 🇮🇹 after that DLC. I'm italian and I regularly watched the TV 📺 documentaries on the third channel that they air during lunch right after school 🏫 The biggest feat of Dino Grandi, during ww2 was: - secretly contacting the politicians unsatisfied with Mussolini. - contact the King 🤴 in secret to ask for his support to sway the undecided and legitimise a post Mussolini government. - organised the arrest of Mussolini and forced resignation by calling him out of the bunker with a trick. - knowing that the italian army was getting deported by Germany and the italian generals were still loyal to Mussolini, he organised the first partisans movements. (Pre-war it was jn the party even before Mussolini, he never liked him but survived the purges, because he was an important person, and he was the italian foreign minister and a great fan of USA)
Im not italian but i looked a little his biography. What i assumed is that he was rare to be fascist in the game and rather i would put him on Non aligned or democratic. Anyways, paradox had its reasons.
seeing you play something as challanging as that polish run was super fun! you should try more hard to pull of focus trees and show us an underdog fight again!
Btw there was a new feature added to No Step Back when it came out I think. If you put troops on the whole front and don't attack the AI won't attack either. That's why Germany wasn't attacking. I found this out when I decided to be ultra smart as Planes Hungary to prevent micro by putting all my planes on a single general commanding crappy divisions on the entire Soviet Front... took me years to figure out why the German's refused to push.
ahhhhh who didnt miss the most stupid country in this game (country that i love for its incredible ai and its excellent focus tree (be carefull one of those two examples is a lie).
Honestly this was super fun to watch for some reason xD. I can't explain it but you trying to claw your way to victory was a very fun viewing experience. Different from self imposed challenges. This was literally just a semi believable alternate history fight for your LIFE.
I actually did one of these Poland runs a couple days ago, before this video popped up in my recommended. And yeah, the German AI was very confused by the existence of falangist Poland between them and the Soviets and they left it up to me to decide when to push. Its not like Poland could have built a navy, and the German navy didn't have supremacy over the baltic sea, so constant naval invasions through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which I annexed before the war to get some bonus land. It's a focus tree you take if you want to feel like you're losing for the entire game, which you are, but it was actually quite fun.
Welp... to save the lazy lot googling... Dino Grandi is according to Wikipedia, TLDR: -fascist hardliner who opposed involement in the WW2, and played backroom politics against Mussolini. -was diplomat to UK and had an affair with many upper class women including daughter with the Viceroy Governor of India - look much more Chaddish than the game makes him
6:54 dino grandi was actually pretty pro-allies during his time in the italian national fascist party. he wasn't anti-semetic or racist, and opposed ww2 and all of the things hitler did as a whole. if he was prime minister instead of mussolini, italy probably would never have been involved in ww2 as mussolini did have the bigger dictator complex. but mussolini and dino were both very similar on the ideology spectrum but not the personality spectrum. dino was kinda the fransisco franco of italy. yes, technicaly a fascist, but more of an authoritarian government than totalitarian government that implements massacres of the citizens. in fact, mussolinis italy accepted more jewish refugees than any nation during ww2.
ITALY! Such a weird nation, I do love them, still trying to get good at them though. Anyways, day 41 of requesting ISP to do his next megacampaign in West Africa.
You know when they play a retired wrestler’s music in wwe and the crowd goes absolutely wild? That’s what it’ll be like when the Rat makes his return for the mega campaign
I feel like a “gravy Timothy”in the same way that I order a 6pc chicken strip basket from DQ ‘with gravy’ but never end up opening the gravy tub and don’t get the hype, even tho I get the menu item……..
so apparently Dino Grandi actually did some stuff. He was the ambassador to the UK who tried to keep Italy out of the war. He also called for the vote of no confidence when the allies invaded Sicily, sparking the Italian Civil War. so that's neet. Oh also he had an affair with the daughter of the viceroy of India.
If you do spread the eagles wing focus for Dino Grandi after annexing austria, you can also get a free wargoal on the czecks and hungary, it's very exploitable, you might even be able to take out poland if you play your cards right
The NZ decisions to unite Polynesia are not locked behind the Historic path in the tree, unless Paradox went back and did so for the AAT update. I've done it as the Kiwi Empire after winning my sovereignty from the crown. Doing it that way also has the benefit of not requiring you to go to war with Japan to get their islands. Just leave the Allies after grabbing the American territory you need, make nice with Japan, join the GEACPS, and ask for their islands. After that, the world is your oyster. Liberate Australia, the Philippines, and the East Indies, backstab the Emperor, stake a claim in the Japanese archipelago, fight off hordes of angry Chinamen for supremacy in the Pacific!
Nobody does the "The National Commonwealth" path, and you didn't either. I did. It sucks, don't do it, if you value your sanity. Edit: the reason for this is because it will be almost impossible to get the PLC on this path.
democratic hungary pls. it is just the worst. I also tried sweden with a democratic hungary on my side, and it triggered a bug where they offered / failed to offer help EVERY DAY as long as i was in a civil war. It was truly annoying. I hope they fixed it.
I really dont understand how when playing against the German AI they will ram 3 billion divisions per tile and completely stop any advance but whenever you play another Axis country you constantly have to play firebrigade for a Germany that only has 200 odd divisions
Don't know if you've gotten the spain achievements yet but i find that for the Spanish civil war, turning off historical is the best route for the republicans/communists/anarchists because if Germany goes ahistorical they wont send volunteers to the nationalists and they makes things very easy when you don't have to deal with German tanks. Also good for anarchists because the soviet civil war will pull their mountaineers away from the republicans when it fires as well. last bit if Britain decolonizes they can just give you Gibraltar which is a free achievement right there.
Fuck it, Im here. I wrote a different comment like 5 or 6 times and just chose not to go with it. Anyway, youre all still my favorite lil hunny bunnies, its just stress on my part.
Everybody begging for the rat but can we just take a second to notice and appreciate that this man has been pumping out amazing hoi4 content for soo so long 🤓💙
I mean you can really play sides in the monarchy path I got all of the colonies italy wanted took over the balkans and literally let the AI fight till I could see who was losing and I joined them it was a really good play through and having the IEA is so nice as it means I don’t have to micro resistance problems and I never call them to war so it’s just a nice trade partner
yeah thats smth that is a big problem with focus trees like the bulgarian one where you can annex the entire balkan, nobody is gonna go anything else like just axis gameplay getting your cores same with hungary, why go greater hungary when you get all of austria hungary on top of that
I say Dino you say
rat
Communisim!
Give us rat
Rat
THE RAT
C'mon ISP it been months since we asks for the rat, take him out and show us the rat he been in the dungeon for too long now.
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I think he's likely saving it for the mega campaign
@@connornewcombe4319 he better be.
@@connornewcombe4319 if it's not in the mega campaign we will riot!
He is dead
The reason the Germans weren't pushing is because you had your troops on the front but not pushing. The AI will wait for you to push if you share a front, that's why when you pulled your troops off to deal with turkey they started pushing.
That is so dumb
@@whitezombie10 its hoi4 ai
@@whitezombie10well imagine the ai going god mode every time and dominating the peace conference…
It can actually be useful in certain situations, like when the allied ai is endlessly attacking and losing every battle, if you send 1 division and create a frontline but you don't attack, the ai will stop attacking and losing massive amounts of equipment and manpower.
@@official_commanderhale965 They already do. Their units are so bad that they always get like 10 mil casualties and casualties gives you warscore.
You didn't mention it but New Zealand gets cores on Taiwan if they unite Polynesia, which gives a much nicer core pop if you can get it
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Now that's something I gotta try thanks for the info
@@skyboy4341did u try it
@@skyboy4341 how about now?
@@skyboy4341 it's been 8 hours, have you done it yet? Smh
If ISP made the rat the 800k subs reward, then he’d hit it instantly
gotta wait for alf landon
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RAT!
Roll tide ❤
What is the rat?
Jokes aside, I played this path out of my own free will and I think it is actually very cool. The point of it is to create a UK aligned fascist Italy.
Dino Grandi IRL attempted to stop Italy from entering WW2 and opposed anti-semitic policies. He was still a violent fascist, ofc.
Following the invasion of Sicily, he led the proposal to remove Mussolini from power.
His path is meant to be played alongside the "guarantee austria" foreign policy (oppose Germany), and is actually pretty historically truthful. Part of why the British+French response to Ethiopia was so weak was because they hoped Italy would be their ally against Germany.
It involved a lesser known element of fascism (corporatism) and let's you get good relations with nearly everyone.
Overall - Good path do play :)
Fun fact to add, pretty much the same applies to Italo Balbo. He was a staunch opponent to the alliance with Germany, and became even more outspoken when Germany attacked Poland; constantly reasoning for joining in with Great Britain instead. This is just one of multiple reasons why his accidental death - being caused by friendly fire from an AA battery - is seen as extremely convenient for the Axis, with many historians still suggesting that it was not an accident at all.
9:45 Poland has a "Become Soviet Puppet" side in the communist path as well and the point of that one is that you temporarily give up the eastern half, beat up Germany with the Soviets, they give you Germany's eastern territories, and then you ask for your own eastern territories back (which the Soviets will usually accept) so in exchange for a bit of weirdness you can get some pretty nice expansion from the safety of being the Soviet bulwark. Although I've never done the Polish fascism side, I suspect that the "Become German Puppet" thing may work the same way (give Germany the Polish corridor -> help Germany destroy the Soviets -> Germany gives you the Polish corridor back).
Unfortunately you won't recieve your western territories back, but you MAY get soviet western territories and baltics as cores
Yeah I found out the Polish-German alliance path needs you to stay a puppet the hard way too, except I was doing the Cossack King who shares the same branch
ISP, this is the 3rd time you've brought "the focus nobody picks in Hoi4" to the class
the disconnected Polish-Rostov Republic at the end after that peace deal made me laugh so hard it hurt
love how Poland ends up as a dot in the center of Europe (plus Rostov), but Germany, the MAIN BAD GUY, gets bigger after the war, keeping Austria
yep, that's quite common as a sight in those ISP videos lmao. Poland just loses all the land that others want and Germany and USSR get to keep their parts
This is actually the first thing I did with the new Italian focus when it game out. Also bring back the rat.
Really?
I only did it recently, first thing I did was to form greater Italy
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I did Rome
@@andreaperazzolo7095It was worth it for you?
It was worth it for you?
_The Focus Trees Nobody Does In Hearts Of Iron 4_ part 2 to be like:
*Democratic path.*
Yeah most democratic paths are horrible. We really need a rework for all focus trees
R A T
R O T T A
I actually recommend u to play portugal and do the fifth empire, and really do a world conquest ( defeat the majors )
Didn't he already do that in his achievement video for Portugal essentially. I don't remember if it was the 5th empire or not, but I know he had to fight basically the entire world.
you should send the scenario at 19:05 of the game as a disaster save for bittersteel
I was gonna comment the same. Send it to bittersteel!.
I mean Japan seemed to be winning against the allies thats probably something
BRING BACK THE RAT!
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@@EEEEEEEEMarkiplier moment
I like when ISP loses, makes all his pain and suffering so much better when it was for nothing.
Sweet suffering nourishes me
maybe the megacampaign will give us a good push towards the legendary Alf Landon playthrough
always a good day when the sorrow man posts
I know who is Dino Grandi, and he is my first choice when playing as fascist Italy 🇮🇹 after that DLC.
I'm italian and I regularly watched the TV 📺 documentaries on the third channel that they air during lunch right after school 🏫
The biggest feat of Dino Grandi, during ww2 was:
- secretly contacting the politicians unsatisfied with Mussolini.
- contact the King 🤴 in secret to ask for his support to sway the undecided and legitimise a post Mussolini government.
- organised the arrest of Mussolini and forced resignation by calling him out of the bunker with a trick.
- knowing that the italian army was getting deported by Germany and the italian generals were still loyal to Mussolini, he organised the first partisans movements.
(Pre-war it was jn the party even before Mussolini, he never liked him but survived the purges, because he was an important person, and he was the italian foreign minister and a great fan of USA)
Im not italian but i looked a little his biography. What i assumed is that he was rare to be fascist in the game and rather i would put him on Non aligned or democratic. Anyways, paradox had its reasons.
seeing you play something as challanging as that polish run was super fun! you should try more hard to pull of focus trees and show us an underdog fight again!
The point of the Beck-Ribbentrop path is for the bonuses against Germany you can get from some of the focuses.
Btw there was a new feature added to No Step Back when it came out I think. If you put troops on the whole front and don't attack the AI won't attack either. That's why Germany wasn't attacking.
I found this out when I decided to be ultra smart as Planes Hungary to prevent micro by putting all my planes on a single general commanding crappy divisions on the entire Soviet Front... took me years to figure out why the German's refused to push.
This was the first time I saw ISP lose a game. It was a captivating journey tho
ahhhhh who didnt miss the most stupid country in this game (country that i love for its incredible ai and its excellent focus tree (be carefull one of those two examples is a lie).
I'd been calling him Dino Grandini this whole time and it wasn't until this video that I realised I was wrong
Honestly this was super fun to watch for some reason xD. I can't explain it but you trying to claw your way to victory was a very fun viewing experience. Different from self imposed challenges. This was literally just a semi believable alternate history fight for your LIFE.
How do you not know who Dino is? He was the main fascist who deposed Mussolini. I may be a history nerd but you're literally a professional nerd!
I actually did one of these Poland runs a couple days ago, before this video popped up in my recommended. And yeah, the German AI was very confused by the existence of falangist Poland between them and the Soviets and they left it up to me to decide when to push. Its not like Poland could have built a navy, and the German navy didn't have supremacy over the baltic sea, so constant naval invasions through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, which I annexed before the war to get some bonus land. It's a focus tree you take if you want to feel like you're losing for the entire game, which you are, but it was actually quite fun.
MORE RATS
If Isorrow brings back the rat, we'll have to resort to demanding a collab with ISP next
Welp... to save the lazy lot googling... Dino Grandi is according to Wikipedia, TLDR:
-fascist hardliner who opposed involement in the WW2, and played backroom politics against Mussolini.
-was diplomat to UK and had an affair with many upper class women including daughter with the Viceroy Governor of India
- look much more Chaddish than the game makes him
6:54 dino grandi was actually pretty pro-allies during his time in the italian national fascist party. he wasn't anti-semetic or racist, and opposed ww2 and all of the things hitler did as a whole. if he was prime minister instead of mussolini, italy probably would never have been involved in ww2 as mussolini did have the bigger dictator complex. but mussolini and dino were both very similar on the ideology spectrum but not the personality spectrum. dino was kinda the fransisco franco of italy. yes, technicaly a fascist, but more of an authoritarian government than totalitarian government that implements massacres of the citizens. in fact, mussolinis italy accepted more jewish refugees than any nation during ww2.
4000 guys who sees this 20 minute video as 12 minutes💀
Me: go to strat while playing Italy is Dino Grandi
Issorrow: WHO THE HELL PLAYS DINO GRANDI
75 million military casualtees... real ww2 had 75 mil TOTAL casualtees. Most of them civillian
So hopefully this isn’t such a controversial opinion that I get drummed out of here, but can you play something else already?
As a Dino Grandi player, I see this as an absolute win
ITALY! Such a weird nation, I do love them, still trying to get good at them though. Anyways, day 41 of requesting ISP to do his next megacampaign in West Africa.
Ironically the Italy Grandi tree is the only Italy path I've played.
Daily petition for ISP to play Malta in Kaiserredux
Give us the rat
RAT
Me when 80 million people die but I stop being a puppet (positive net gain)
ISP when losing: “There’s nothing we can do”
I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS MOMENT ALL MY LIFE
How tragic
WHERE'S THE RAT
Cool and all. But what about the rat??!?!!?!??!
Rat.
I like how japan kept everything
We demand the RAT, we can't take it anymore, GRAVY TIMMYS RISE UP
You need to do the terrible „return democracy to the party“ focus when playing as the soviets
Least dictatorship sympathizing hio4 focus tree
You know when they play a retired wrestler’s music in wwe and the crowd goes absolutely wild? That’s what it’ll be like when the Rat makes his return for the mega campaign
Play Red Flood… next November?
Day 101 demanding ISP to form Mongolian empire with generic focus tree and minimal mods
Play
*Hearts of Minecraft*
I feel like a “gravy Timothy”in the same way that I order a 6pc chicken strip basket from DQ ‘with gravy’ but never end up opening the gravy tub and don’t get the hype, even tho I get the menu item……..
Can u please do a mega campaieng
I think Bokoen is the only person Ive ever seen go down the Dino Grandi path
RAT RAT RAT RAT PLEAS I BEG
Rise up! THE PEOPLE WANT THE RAT!
I was just thinking it had been too long since you actually lost one. Keeps it interesting
Should have saved the polish game during the war and sent it to Alex the Rambler
GIVE US THE RAT
so apparently Dino Grandi actually did some stuff. He was the ambassador to the UK who tried to keep Italy out of the war. He also called for the vote of no confidence when the allies invaded Sicily, sparking the Italian Civil War.
so that's neet.
Oh also he had an affair with the daughter of the viceroy of India.
If you do spread the eagles wing focus for Dino Grandi after annexing austria, you can also get a free wargoal on the czecks and hungary, it's very exploitable, you might even be able to take out poland if you play your cards right
The NZ decisions to unite Polynesia are not locked behind the Historic path in the tree, unless Paradox went back and did so for the AAT update. I've done it as the Kiwi Empire after winning my sovereignty from the crown. Doing it that way also has the benefit of not requiring you to go to war with Japan to get their islands. Just leave the Allies after grabbing the American territory you need, make nice with Japan, join the GEACPS, and ask for their islands. After that, the world is your oyster. Liberate Australia, the Philippines, and the East Indies, backstab the Emperor, stake a claim in the Japanese archipelago, fight off hordes of angry Chinamen for supremacy in the Pacific!
Wait...hold on...if you play is Italy you can actually ally with the Pope and declare a Crusade in WW2? I think I might have to buy this game now.
The form Polynesia option has been in the game for years.
Nobody does the "The National Commonwealth" path, and you didn't either. I did. It sucks, don't do it, if you value your sanity.
Edit: the reason for this is because it will be almost impossible to get the PLC on this path.
democratic hungary pls. it is just the worst. I also tried sweden with a democratic hungary on my side, and it triggered a bug where they offered / failed to offer help EVERY DAY as long as i was in a civil war. It was truly annoying. I hope they fixed it.
I really dont understand how when playing against the German AI they will ram 3 billion divisions per tile and completely stop any advance but whenever you play another Axis country you constantly have to play firebrigade for a Germany that only has 200 odd divisions
Get gud
the boarder gore is, I need something strong after seeing that.
Don't know if you've gotten the spain achievements yet but i find that for the Spanish civil war, turning off historical is the best route for the republicans/communists/anarchists because if Germany goes ahistorical they wont send volunteers to the nationalists and they makes things very easy when you don't have to deal with German tanks. Also good for anarchists because the soviet civil war will pull their mountaineers away from the republicans when it fires as well.
last bit if Britain decolonizes they can just give you Gibraltar which is a free achievement right there.
Fuck it, Im here.
I wrote a different comment like 5 or 6 times and just chose not to go with it.
Anyway, youre all still my favorite lil hunny bunnies, its just stress on my part.
Everybody begging for the rat but can we just take a second to notice and appreciate that this man has been pumping out amazing hoi4 content for soo so long 🤓💙
I mean you can really play sides in the monarchy path I got all of the colonies italy wanted took over the balkans and literally let the AI fight till I could see who was losing and I joined them it was a really good play through and having the IEA is so nice as it means I don’t have to micro resistance problems and I never call them to war so it’s just a nice trade partner
4 hours and 55k views wow I guess that’s what happens when you call your subscribers gravy Timothy’s
1 minute 25 seconds of NEW ZEALAND GAMEPLAY LET'S GOOOO
RAT
Rotta
Who the hell is playing as Dino Grandi? The AI whenever I play non historical, for some fuckin reason.
Allies: "hOw CoUlD wE lOsE sO mAnY sOlDiErS iN tHiS wAr 😭😭😭😭"
China: "First time?"
Petition for ISP to play Syndicalist Italy/Roman Empire in Kaiserredux Day 8
So I used Google Translate and apparently Dallairi Buaice means Peak Glares. "dallóga buaic" apparently means Peaky Blinders
So Dino Grandi was actually against the Italian entry into WW2 and supposedly against the antisemitic racial laws. One interesting character
yeah thats smth that is a big problem with focus trees like the bulgarian one where you can annex the entire balkan, nobody is gonna go anything else like just axis gameplay getting your cores
same with hungary, why go greater hungary when you get all of austria hungary on top of that
the facsist focus tree for Poland is just being a coward
Italo Balbo lived in a hole and went on an adventure with an old man and some refugees if i remember my history correctly.
Dino Grandi was the Fascist who pushed the Italian King to retake his Constitutional powers and oust Mussolini.
Fifa 23
I didn't think the assault battalions were anything impressive, rather do five of the normal ones
Give us back the rat ISP! Unless you prefer to do artillery only again?
I find ridiculous that the allies doesn't give up after hitting so many millions of casualties
Who goes down Dino?
Well me😅
Basically made grande Roman Empire.
Italian Sweden isn't as cursed as it seems.
I kinda wanna try spaghetti with Swedish meatballs.
Lore of The Focus Trees Nobody Does In Hearts Of Iron 4 momentum 100
how do you keep playing this game. its been years. aren't you miserable?
i like doing the assault battalions just to use them as millitary police 2
Wait i didn't think on that, could be good for a weak nation as Italy
Rat