WW1 Germany, but only Historical Presets & Divisions In HOI4?

What if you were FORCED into being historical in Hearts of Iron 4? What if you played the Great War Redux mod in HOI4 as Germany, and could only use the regular historical designs?

I've been on a HOI4 binge of using only the historical presets given by Paradox, alongside accurate, historical division organization. Can I do the same as the Germans in the wonderful WW1 mod Great War Redux, and defeat the Entente?

The addition of Historical presets into Hearts of Iron IV was an awesome thing for massive history nerds like myself. Now, I play REALLY historically, using only the stupid tanks and planes that happened in real life! I'm aiming to do this with EVERY country in the game (or at least every major) so let me know a good suggestion down in the comments for more countries to play!

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WW1 Germany, but only Historical Presets & Divisions In HOI4?
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UK, but I use Historical Presets & Divisions ONLY In HOI4?

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[sumingamer]

Lets make a petition for Poland game to fight against German Empire!

[hubertswie]

i love how its ww1 now and not ww2 i think personaly that ww1 is a bit more interesting and we all saw ww2 like milion times in HOI4

[misterperson]

To clarify: Torpedo boats are not the precursor to destroyers. Torpedo boat destroyers are.

Torpedo boats are small fast crafts armed with torpedoes that aim to toss out torpedo spreads against much larger and much, much more expensive ships.

Torpedo boat destroyers were purpose built ships intended to, believe it or not, destroy torpedo boats. To do this they had to be fast enough to keep up and have some reasonable firepower with the range to defend the big boy ships out on missions.

Because torpedo boats largely disappeared and the torpedo boat destroyers expanded their duties to fight subs, aircraft and firing torpedoes themselves the name got changed to just be destroyers.

[kirsamoonwhisper]

Fun Fact: German General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, The "Lion of Africa", led about 14, 000 German forces in Southwest Africa. He held up over 300, 000 Allied troops in Africa and is revered for never having been captured or losing a battle. He is an interesting general, and I thought of him when Aldra kept forgetting he had African holdings

[sabiancoomber-nickerson]

In an alternate universe "Second Weltkrieg using only historical presets".

[ione]

Im surprised you did this instead of continuing with base game major nations. I cant complain tho, a welcome surprise is something to celebrate.

[soropintoresco]

the Austria Hungary research you will have to make its going to be so horribleeee, those guys literally had like 3 armies

[Grand.Presidento]

26:42 When Kitchener was going to Russia his ship hit a German mine on the way there and it sank, not from a U-Boat

[efulmer]

33:30 You missed this but in the background you can see that the borders between Belgium, France, and Germany changed again showing that you took more of a border strip from France.

[HyperfixationStation-se]

I'd like to think that with how historical this is and how perfectly all of the borders and stuff line up this is just basically the backstory to Kiaserreich

[Faehen]

My problem with the redux ww1 mod is that at the divisions have a scale of an army and have around 10k in them. Naturally, thus leads to less divisions bring Deployed. This leads to gaps in tge front and makes france run wild in rhine and Russian plan to take East Prussia and Galicia seem incredibly easy, which doesn't make you truly FEEL ww1.

[dillonmcbride]

You should play the "totally not falling apart Empire that owns Constantinople!"

[a_random_W]

I would love to see an ottoman one. The research Will probably be really difficult but it would be a fun one to watch

[warriorblack]

As a person who plays mod grom time to time i dont know why you hated that division change like realistically it may have been bad but gameplay wise very good move bcz now you can have more division with art in battle then normal i personally use 22 witdh divs with 2 artis

[PB_pancake]

Ww1 needs more love.

Also, fun fact, the British Mark IV’s, or the mother tanks, had the nickname of “BIG WILLIE”








*BIG WILLIE!*

[kaiser_eistee]

Playing Poland is a great idea! There will be no problems that you need to deal with whatsoever!

[blue-_-space]

I think he should play a historical austria hungary

[efulmer]

2:45 Building infrastructure in your resource dense states can be really good but for the biggest benefit you should build it where you have the most slots and where your focus tree will not give you infrastructure, so that you're not building infrastructure where you could have gotten it for free and when you do build factories, you get the extra build speed on the most factories.

[eliasthememelord]

This is super high quality, can’t believe you’re such a small channel! Also, I really love historical templates, they’re so fascinating to me :)

[Cat_DeGaulle]

I miss howitzer redux: (






(Howitzers were insanity overpowered a couple of months ago they had like 30 or more soft attack per division)