HoI4 By Blood Alone made Switzerland an ABSOLUTE BEAST!

In this new DLC, By Blood Alone, as Switzerland, we will see if the new Focus tree can help us get some more mountains and achievements!

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Outro Music: Wild Pogo

[Hlios]

The Swiss: I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire

[Boybala]

"It feels like I'm beating a harmless child."

-Bitt3rSteel, 2022

[jaysvideos]

Switzerland: *suddenly demobilizes their 400+ Divisions after getting territory*
Italy and France: "Wait--no what just happened"

[Chorutowo]

tbh the neutral swiss tree is the most fun, thought the balance of power really makes Switzerland unfriendly to beginners. You really need to make very specific choices to rush down that path before anschluss.

[nauvelty]

I love how you explain the mechanics of the game to new players and beginners in your videos. It's absolutely lovely, and you're probably one of the few youtubers that do it, so thank you.

[kedronmallia]

11:05 YES they should def start having collapsable trees. Maybe they could add a feature where there's and arrow bottom right of focus icon that you could click to hide too but if they do it like some mods do it that is great too. Would be lovely with spain focus tree

[ancaoraathasach]

You need to demilitarise both Rhineland and Mosselland for that achievement.

[kleinerprinz]

Secret or not so secret cooperation with the Allies gives you also one research slot down the line. It if it was possible to flip easily the balances of power one could research the secret path to to get access to that part of the focus tree as well. And if there is enough time.

[dryhad]

Important: In the current version of the game, nearly everything in the Armed Neutrality and Buero Ha branches require the Balance of Power to be in favour of the cantons, so you cannot pick up these focuses after beelining Preempt Anschluss etc. unless you go through the entire business of flipping the Balance of Power back.

Also, I haven't actually played with Furrer as president for life but my reading of the script is that his extra research slot is *not* a one-time thing, like all presidents for life you can take his presidential initiative about once a year and there's nothing preventing you from getting an extra research slot every time. Again, haven't tested this but you may want to check your save game since this is pretty big if it pans out.

[Poison_Eevee]

27:08 This would actually make for a really neat achievement
The Sounds of Our Torpedoes - As Switzerland, have Georg Von Trapp as a Naval Commander.

[achallor]

“Hyperrealistic Swissball isn’t real, they can’t hurt you”

Hyperrealistic Swissball:

[forresterscalan]

Ever since bba came out I've been doing concentrated industry and i can feel the difference with the amount of units I get out.

[ChrisVillagomez]

Switzerland in our timeline: "Who cares what they did, they'll give us gold if they don't invade us!"
Switzerland in this timeline: "A L P S"

[MrWestdickens]

there was once a tank which was only in use in Switzerland, the so called panzer 68. which was based on the panzer 61 and his older brother mittlerer panzer 58. Greetings from Switzerland

[Kilroy]

After 4, 500+ hrs of playtime, I'd say dispersed industry is better in most cases. The biggest part is the production efficiency retention. Anytime you upgrade to a new tech, you loose efficiency. With concentrated it's way more noticeable. The only time I've found concentrated to be the better choice is when playing the Chinese nations. This is because they already have a massive debuff to retention anyways, so you shouldn't be switching production around. Pure numbers are what matters. Basically every other nation dispersed is the better option.

[ertrick]

The odds of the target nations accepting any of the expansion stuff from Switzerland all are dependent on the same factors. Namely, if A) Switzerland is a player, B) if historical AI is off, C) if they have a good relation with Switzerland, and D) if Switzerland have a colossally larger military than the target. For the last one, it's two factors. First, if their division count is less than 80% of yours. And two, if their division count is less than 30% of yours. Also, the relation modifier is *massive* - like, it multiplies whatever total chance you have by a factor of 15 for the Austrians, and a factor of 10 for the other two. With all combined factors checked off, there's still a chance they'll say no because there's always at least 1% for the alternative outcome so long as nothing modifies the AI chance factor for that outcome to be outright zero (which in this case, it's always a flat 10 factor, compared against factors as large as 3, 000 or 10, 000).

You can check this all in the event file BBA_Switzerland.txt - specifically, the events "BBA_swiss_expansion.9" and "BBA_swiss_expansion.12" (also "BBA_swiss_expansion.6" for the Vorarlberg focus, which interestingly also includes outcomes for if Hitler controls Austria).

Also, I want to point out that in this campaign Italy essentially handed over 16 military factories (probably more due to the territory being uncored until the Alpine Protectorate focus) for no reason whatsoever, lmao.

[baustin]

Dispersed is better if you keep switching equipment to newer equipment. If I remember correctly, It's about a 5-7year payback period that makes concentrated better

[complexquestion]

Maybe there wasn't in the version you're playing, but to answer one of your questions there is an additional research slot at the end of the democratic tree, under weapons of democracy, meaning Switzerland can get 5 total.

[schadowizationproductions]

Have a good look on that map at the beginning. They still didn't include Schaffhausen (up North) as a part of Switzerland and Liechtenstein (in the East) as a country!

[trygveplaustrum]

*The Hills Are Alive...*
*With the Sound of Gunshots!*