What if Austria-Hungary wasn't terrible in WW1?

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Sponsor
02:04 setup
03:03 BAN ALL PARLIAMENTS
03:37 setup continued
09:20 setting Europe on fire
12:33 sweet, sweet pocket
13:03 Russia Explodes
13:23 Greece gets eaten
13:43 Russia Explodes some more
15:28 Breaking the stalemate

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[Schnekko]

My man just called a historical event a sabaton reference.

[BubblesZest]

Time for a rebrand into the Austria Hungary Hoi4 channel I think, you made this niche yours.

[JamesSmith-cdrf]

I think a peace event fired with Italy capitulating due to the fact that in a realistic sense, with Russia gone and now Italy gone, you have one gargantuan front on the German border to defend with uk, France, and america, but now you have this mountainous front in the Alpes plus massive areas of the Mediterranean to contest now that Italy has fallen. The fact the ottomans are still around makes the situation untenable.

[casualboomer]

WWII Italy: I'm completely worthless, no one could be more worthless.

WWI Italy: Hold my beer

[Pollypinolly]

I love how excited he was when he saw "Crush the Serbian Terrorists" in the focus tree.

[viclorenzo]

6:19 Playing as the Ottomans is like playing a disaster save.

[Skycroft]

As grindy as this was... it was still an unrealistic amount of maneuver warfare for WW1 era tech. Granted the Eastern Front always was more dynamic. Still, the complete failure to break through the Western Front was accurate, at least. Lol at the idea of Austria-Hungary successfully pulling off a naval invasion of Italy though.

[mathy]

"This can't be that hard, right."
"I may have underestimated how hard this war is gonna be."
"I'm gonna regret this, aren't I?"

Going through all stages of the summer 1914.

[TexanNative]

I’d love to see more of this mod…especially the nations that actually have completed focus trees. Also historical focuses definitely matters for this mod.

[Adumbshiba]

"This is a sabaton refrence"-which is a refrence to real life

[JohnSmith-kbre]

"...between 1 January 1913 and 1 January 1914 he proposed a Serbian war twenty-five times".
-Conrad's wiki page


Very based

[denniswilkerson]

“What if Austria-Hungary wasn’t terrible in WW1?”

Also Austria-Hungary: Having to deal with fronts with the Russians, Serbians, Italians and Romanians all at the same time.

[Hive__]

"magically they somehow made some divisions appear"
Quite honestly that is the exact thing the italians did in WW1. They thought if you had to fight near your home you'd fight harder to... well... not lose it. so they kept their divisions close to their home to fight.

[Aqueox]

"Yeah let's suppress some minorities."

-BitterSteel 2022

MY MAN! 😎👍🏻

[tlam]

8:21
“We’ve inadvertently created Albania”
-God

[Merf_Gaming]

I always like seeing the post-war event chains, especially when the Entente loses (mostly because I coded a shit ton hehe)

[piculra]

...Should probably watch through the video before commenting, but I'm irrationally annoyed by seeing the game describe Austria-Hungary as an "Authoritarian Regime", and was already in a shaky mood, so I feel the need to rant. The empire (and the German Empire too, tbh) was way more decentralised than modern countries. (And what meaning does "authoritarian" have beyond a buzz-word if it doesn't mean "centralised"?) To give an example from both empires;
In WW1, Ludwig III of Bavaria hoped that Bavarian victories in the war would give him leverage in an eventual peace deal to keep Bavaria powerful enough to rival Prussia, to keep Germany from becoming too centralised around Prussia. Even in America, one of the most decentralised western countries (due to the federal system), it'd seem pretty ridiculous for any of the states to have enough power to rival the national government.
And in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Emperor had little enough authority in Hungary that the Hungarians only had to pay taxes to their nobles, who in turn were tax-exempt. Imagine if modern countries just didn't tax ~40% of the population...

[KAPTAINmORGANnWoeva]

7:30 - I think Franz Joseph should have a Resistance suppression and/or Compliance gain multiplier instead of the Ideology Drift stuff. A lot of the national groups in Austria-Hungary had no loyalty to the empire but had some loyalty to him personally for his reforms in the 19th Century.

[Cassius]

The Attack of the Dead Men was a real thing my man, Sabaton makes their songs off of real events…

[BMTEnjoyer]

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