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@rmtshow9619

6 күн бұрын

man poor ppl on phone sadly there is not a game called War Thunder Mobile

@TopatTom

5 күн бұрын

I have too much hours on Hoi4 I do not need anymore suffering

@SvensHistoryLab

5 күн бұрын

the snail consumes all.

@luchaticat3661

4 күн бұрын

I just got off war thunder.. this damn snail wont STOP

Play as China (Republic) in BlackIce with Historical calvary divisions only

@FreddyB41

6 күн бұрын

Satan?

@poyloos4834

5 күн бұрын

Is that you, Lucifer?

@Sd.Kfz250

5 күн бұрын

bro likes to see ppl suffer😂

@toothsweet5839

5 күн бұрын

There is only so much we can put this poor man through lmao

@smokeyplane3285

5 күн бұрын

@@toothsweet5839 but if he pulls through...

You’re one of the few hoi 4 youtubers i can stomach these days, because it feels like you bring yourself to the level of the ai, and really immerse yourself into the game itself, rather than do whatever is necessary to win fast and hard, leading to german capitulations being beyond easy and in 1942

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Oh shit that is such a high compliment, thank you so much! I spend honestly a really long time on these videos and try to make them as interesting and good as possible, so this comment means the world to me

@poyloos4834

5 күн бұрын

@@Aldrahill staahp, you’re making me blush!

For Germany in black ice, under custom game rules in gameplay rules in the starting menu, there is a historical division spawner, which spawns the historical divisions at the historical date and upgrades them as they were historically upgraded. I would highly recommend using this feature for Germany, but I believe it works for other major nations as well.

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

Oh interesting I haven’t used that!! Is it accurate though ?

@arvojustice

3 күн бұрын

@@Aldrahill from what I can tell the division design is accurate, the updates I assume to be as well. It appears to be much like the SS division designer updates, though done through decisions, rather than any separate screen.

I will always remember the b27 as the work horse of the USAAF

@user-uk5ng5cg7n

5 күн бұрын

ye hahaha

@user-uk5ng5cg7n

5 күн бұрын

b17 actually

@Aqueox

5 күн бұрын

@@user-uk5ng5cg7n It's the B-27 Fucking Fort in canon, actually.

@biddygames

3 күн бұрын

And the b49

Aldrahill: I want a historically accurate game Also Aldrahill: I'm going to magically buff the axis production

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Because I knew that otherwise it would be too easy! And it was! Even with the massive buff I still massively outperformed them due to the sheer power of American industry

@Kaiserboo1871

5 күн бұрын

@@Aldrahill U.S. OP. Both in game and IRL.

@superdevton1137

5 күн бұрын

@@Kaiserboo1871(trollface.jpg)

2:04 I forgot about the famous B-27, the unrecognized offspring between a B-17 and B-29 when they were left unsupervised on the airfield that carried the US through WW2 while its parents got all the lime light.

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Hear hear!! Respect th3 b27!!

@craigmuriel5606

5 күн бұрын

Gaijin plz

sultanate of aussa world conquest

@oliverandersen5117

2 күн бұрын

With only the historical amount of divs and templates

this historical preset series is the only hoi content i have watched in the last four years. a testament to your quality :)

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

DAMN thank you!! REALLY appreciate that

Finland BICE next!

@majormonogram8999

5 күн бұрын

Thats good

You should try Finland with historical divisions in this mod. That’d definitely be torture

I actually love this mod. Like I love all the stuff it adds. I suck and haven’t won yet, but I LOVE that a lot more than vanilla where I just steamroll every single time.

@Aldrahill

6 күн бұрын

Same dude it’s SO SATSFYING but also agonising

@user-pe8yi9uh7d

6 күн бұрын

if only i had someone to play with lmao

Don't belittle your work or say you did "too much research". I, and I'm sure plenty other viewers, watch you because you carry it out and give thorough explanations. It stands out from the 8 billion other HOI4 youtubers.

@Aldrahill

4 күн бұрын

Oh dude thank you so much

@justderp5713

4 күн бұрын

Please, don't worry about boredom. These videos are a hundred times more interesting than the average ISoyboyProductions-tier videos put out by the majority of the community where making a war crime joke every 5 seconds is 'funny'. You've been doing the historical doctrine/divisions/decisions etc. playthroughs for a while and they're still great videos because nobody else has the same dedication to both original research and actually applying it strictly ingame. Also helps that you speak like a human being and not one of those aforementioned types.

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

@@justderp5713 thank you so much

Why is the USA Green???

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Because the mod creators hate me, personally

@Bellius27

5 күн бұрын

Us army green kinda color

Ultimate, impossible challenge: No cheats No nukes Create a global faction Go to war against the most powerful nation of all time, the microstate of infinite strength, LUXEMBOURG! Good luck and try not to lose. I have yet to win.

@i-kun_yeetpain

5 күн бұрын

You forgot to specify to do it in BICE.

I’m gonna say it. Not only is black ice fun, it’s how hoi should be played

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Watch out, we gotta hero saying truth over here

@KokenyRichard

4 күн бұрын

Absolutely agreed!

29:22 it is infact a much better name

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Just rolls off the tongue, right?

Seeing that the Enterprise killed the Bismarck gave me a good laugh

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Just beautiful, right?

Every time you talked about the amount of artillery in the division I just kept hearing "those caissons go rolling along".

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Great, now that's all I'll hear as well :(

Finally something i have been waiting for a long time

"And actually being able to control it is a part of the power fantasy." *Thus little timmy was quite naive that day.*

You hands down have the best HoI4 videos. You have no idea I appreciate you playing historically and making it fun. It's like watching a history teacher playing

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

Oh dude thank you so much ! That’s an incredible compliment :) I’ll keep at it!

I love watching your hoi4 videos . I never played the game but I like military and ww2 and I know it takes hours and hours to play hoi4 .thanks for thr great content. I really enjoy the black ice mod it really let's you use all the little special parts for each regiment and battalion. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into the videos

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Oh wow thank you so much buddy :) Really appreciate that! It does take a very long time to make, so your comment is very much appreciated

PLEASE DO HISTORICAL POLSKA< PLS PLS PLS

Another amazing video. Love yhe hsitroical content. Waiting on the historical black ice GB :D

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

Thank you!! It’s on its way :)

@robsimpson1991

3 күн бұрын

@Aldrahill i cant wait! Will lap up the content in the meantime though :)

Play as yunnan in the new order and liberate China only using historical Republic of China divisions

I love BICE, but I sometimes hate playing it, so when I can watch you do these, I love watching it. Thanks for these. I look forward to a BICE video of Australia.

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

Oh dude thank you so much :)

The title could have been “Red White and BLUE” cause that still works for what you’re saying

Italy black ice when ?

The Lee was beloved by a lot of British tankers in North Africa! For a tank designed and produced within four months I would say it did pretty well in its role. It was a pretty good matchup with the common German Panzer IIIs and IIs, and even against the Panzer IVs.

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

A good point, but only really good it in that limited theatre. Sherman all the way baby!!!

@squgieman

3 күн бұрын

@@Aldrahill It also slapped in the pacific heavily outclassing everything the japanese had, and troops LOVED the canister round for the 37mm

16:30 "Mr President, the Japanese have attacked Pearl harbor" "Actually, it ain't that bad" "..."

I thought I was good at this game, but then you have this madlad casually buffing the AI in fucking BICE because "it would be too easy otherwise". To you I tip my hat off man.

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! Honestly the USA factory power is just incredible, so it only seemed fair!

Once you're finished playing every major in BICE you should make a video about how to play the mod and what you learnt, since there's really not many of those, especially ones that are up-to-date

I played Japan recently in this mod, and it was just pain. The war in China, with the supply situation, is so bad. You need an insane amount of garrison equipment for occupation, and China gets tons of planes per lend lease from the Soviets and the US, it honestly makes it kind of hard to compete with them. I took until 42 or 43 to finish China. To be fair, I probably also sucked. But it was also pain. I'm really looking forward to your future video about this.

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Oh gooood that's going to be agony isn't it xD

You are gonna reach Peak Oil decades early with all these planes and tanks

”Green USA can’t hurt you!” Green USA:

Here's a challenge for Aldrahill Voluntarism: As a nation that has electiona and that does not start in a faction, win WW2 without joining a faction, or going above civilian economy or volunteer only (if you start above either you have to demobilize as soon as possible no banking manpower) you can change government but only if the new government has elections.

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Doable as China, certainly!

15:12 Enterprise in the Atlantic fleet T_T ( I remember trying to make fleets as historical as possible, including numbers of ships of every class)

@Aldrahill

2 күн бұрын

I know, forgive me :(

Instead of civs I went with max infrastructure where iron was extracted to reduce civs wasted on improts of this damn iron and to boost future builds there. Then I've invested in Philippines naval bases to supply all of my entire fleet and 36 best divs there. Then I've built lots of industrial farms to reduce civs being wasted on food imports. After an easy defending of Japan's teleportation to Philippines in late 1941, I immediately started to prepare a naval invasion to Japan and since the us navy is op I've landed there and gg. Edit: idk if it played any role but I was also securing naval route between Philippines and usa homelands with around 60 escorts to keep the supply line to naval bases

@Aldrahill

2 күн бұрын

I would say that simply moving to less export laws gives you all the iron you need - infra just doesn’t seem worth it in this mod

13:30 The Plan is likely referring to The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), often referred to as simply "The Plan"

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Ahhh thank you! The event didn’t tell me xD

@ebowles181

5 күн бұрын

@@Aldrahill No problem. Another place you can find reference to it in HOI4 is in the Canada focus tree historical route

You should do all historical USA in the Cold War mod

I love your Black ICE Videos. I am my Self Startes playing black ice Clause of your Videos and it’s pain at First when you start the fist time this mod 😂

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Thank you so much buddy! So glad you like them !

Hard to imagine, but you managed to do even less than historical USA, wow

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

How DARE YOU

How did "I am relying on the game presets and making historical divisions" become "I am doing littraly everything historical and then loose because the nation actually lost or because I buffed my enemies"? XD

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Historical realism just gets more and more real as I go :( and HEY I won thank you very much!!!

To complete black ice historically in time you have to be a 5 star general😭

Play as South Korea in the Cold War Iron Curtain with historical division designs

trying to find the gun stabilization tech......felt that on a whole level no one understands lol

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

The agony

The navy rework is actually from a mod called Naval Rework Mod II by Elouda, which i played a lot with, and as a navy enthusiast it was so fun to create semi-realistic ships. Shame it was discontinued and moved to BICE, beacuse now you have to torture yourself with this mod to play the naval game. Honestly i couldn't find a naval mod close to this, but i found Vanilla navy rework (or something like that) which is ok.

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

That’s why it is so accurate! It is insane just how precise it is.

The most unrealistic part is the fact fdr's policies actually help the economy

@Aldrahill

4 күн бұрын

I think a good number of fdr policies did help to allay issues of the Great Depression, they just had wide reaching implications on large groups of people, like farmers. It’s easy to judge in hindsight, but I think at the time, they seemed like intelligent options

@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger

3 күн бұрын

Some did some didn’t. At the end of the day WW2 was what took the US out of the Depression but the policies help ease the hurt. If we can use influenza as an analogy. There is no cure for the flu, only time to recover but there is medicine that helps to feel better which allows you to get better and recover

@No.00000

3 күн бұрын

@@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger I suggest you go watch "1946 the greatest depression in us history" by tik history

one of the 2 best hoi4 you Tubers

@Anders_Lund

5 күн бұрын

Who is the other?

@derpinkigste

5 күн бұрын

@@Anders_Lund thatguyfromcollge

@derpinkigste

5 күн бұрын

@@Anders_Lund there are other very cool but these 2 are my favourite one

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Damn dude, thank you so much

you know what this packs Aldra, some armored cars, in The Great War Redux, maybe while playing as the Ottomans?

Where did you find all of the information for this?

@Aldrahill

2 күн бұрын

Lots of research! I put all sources up for members and patron supporters, but ultimately, googling “infantry division USA 1941” pr something will get you started!!

B-27 best plane eva :D

I have a question we're are you getting the information from and could you send me the links to this information so I can do some of my own research

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

Hi there I provide all sources on community post s to members and on patreon :) you can get a good start by googling things like “American infantry division 1941” or whatever though

Ok but when is Luxembourg BI historical only coming out /s

SPAIN HISTORICAL POR DIOS POR LA PATRIA Y EL REY

No matter where I go, I cant escape war thunder....

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Hey, it’s pretty cool!!

Just a fyi if you roll back the game on steam to 1.14.5 beta you can finish your game. The patch broke my UK Bice game and this allowed me to finish it.

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

Nope that’s what I did and it still crashed :(

I mean bice does also feature semi-motorized units does it not?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

That… is a good point. FUCK

Can you try the Total War mod for Hoi4? Any country is fine, but just playing that mod in general is pretty interesting. Every time I played(Usually as Germany or China) I'd try to do every operation on the exact date or like Capturing Paris in June.

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Yes I really want to try that one! :)

Love Your big!

@Salvador-hp8tw

4 күн бұрын

bog not big

"I've lost 125 bombers over germany" ah so historically accurate then

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Masters of the air was REAL

You should play as heydrichs Germany in TNO

When Bhutan BlackIce world conquest👀

You should try Texas in North America divided with Louisiana buffed

Cannot help myself. The"historical player" just said b27 bonkers 😅

@Aldrahill

10 сағат бұрын

Yup I’m stupid sometimes :P

@paladamashkin8981

6 сағат бұрын

@Aldrahill I love what you do, it is not often you mess up with your research. The plane geek in me just had to laugh

You have an amazing beard What about playing as France in BlackIce?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Ohhh thank you! And it’s definitely coming!!

My people will be avenged!!!!

@Aldrahill

3 күн бұрын

Sorry mate, collaborating with the enemy! What else is there to do but Little Boy them? It’s what Little Pee Boy would’ve wanted.

Love dah content dude !!!!! When are ya' gonna try the lords of gothland again ?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Thank you!!! Need to revisit so many things honestly, it’s all just about time xD

Norway! Norway! Norway! The pleps demand Norway historical division!

you should play the Magna Europa mod (basically makes the map 10 times bigger) with Expert AI as one minor Axis nations (like Slovakia or even the Vichy France) it would be very entertaining to see, i havent seen anyone to do it lol…

@Aldrahill

2 күн бұрын

Oh damn that sounds intense xD sadly magna a europa is, I believe, out of date for the current version :(

i quit hoi because i got bored of it back in 2021, i would be willing to try this mod but i feel like three whole years of updates, changes, and the complexity of this mod is WAY too overwhelming to even try

@Aldrahill

Күн бұрын

You know it’s honestly not too terrible if you just sort of throw yourself into it and commit an evening to learning it :)

Historical Poland on Black Ice when?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

It’s coming!!

Black ice Italy only tankettes challenge

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

OH GOD that's basically just REGULAR ITALY ARGHJJ

Its so uncanny that the usa is green

Hey Aldrahill can you do Bulgaria ww1 historical only or even France ? Much love from India ❤❤

@Aldrahill

6 күн бұрын

Yes! It’s on the agenda :)

You should play france black ice

@Aldrahill

2 күн бұрын

It’s coming!

You shoud play italy historical in Black ice

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Either that or Japan next!!

Humlbe suggestion: Play Historical France with historical divisions in BICE . Love the series keep it up!

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Yes!! Definitely in the plan!

Historical divisions as Poland

You have bokoen1 friended on steam? Based

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

From ages ago! He once invited me to play with him in the MP games, but I was too chicken :( wish I had taken him up on the offer, though I know him and his group would destroy me in MP

I've recently run into the constant crashes in Black Ice, and this is what resolved - it only worked one time for me, so don't get your hopes up too high. I switched autosaving to weekly, and as soon as the game autosaves, I'd load the game from that save. A couple of months of that and it didn't need any more reloading

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Ohhh that’s interesting! A massive ballache, but a great idea!!

Played blackice for the first time 2 weeks ago.. it took me 3 games and 2 weeks for me to beat Germany and my game crashed after the peace deal 😞😭 i was there you were saying your game kept crashing.. i feel bad for you knowing how much micro this needs and how slow the game is..

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Oh god someone that understands my pain!!! It started crashing in 44 originally, but downgrading my game version fixed it, but then it just kept crashing where I showed it in my video :( it was so depressing, I just wanted the satisfaction of winning after all that effort!

I just played this as USA in black ice, first time ever doing bice... regular, not iron man, historical didnt build a single Civ and I have 200+ at 1939......... 125 before 1939........... i dont think I need to build Civs LOL

Mengkukuo gang rise up

flawless 1930's american accent, aldra, flawless...

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Shit thank you xD

Isn't some of thy arty accounted for by Infantry guns?

@Aldrahill

2 күн бұрын

Kinda different though!!

Black ice Germany historical artillery Divisions only when?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

I think you would literally just explode and die, right?

❤❤❤

Luxembourg Black Ice??

can you try historical finland

@Aldrahill

2 күн бұрын

Definitely coming!

Im confused why you consider the soviets losing more people in ww2 as a strength Like thats tenacity but its also callous

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

True, but it's a contribution :D Like Mussolini said - "I just need a few thousand dead to get a seat at the negotiating table." USSR earned a lot of seats :P

Can you do cold war mod? (cold war iron curtain: A world divided)

Why there wasnt landing in italy?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Because North Africa never got landed properly :( I never got my spicy Sicily invasion :(

You bitter steel Pravus (PRAISE PRAVUS), biffa (does biffa count?) and a few others I can't remember are my favorite HOI4/grand stragity game KZreadrs always funny and want to make me dive more into history more and more If i ever have kids i will show them your and the others videos

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Oh wow thank you so much for considering among such an incredible concert! All of them are among my very favourite KZreadrs :)

Black ICE. A mod I'll love to play but I'm severly limited by my crappy PC and my lazy ass not wanting to make the effort of reading english Also historical Italy when?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Oh yeah it is HARD on your PC! Next BICE video is either Japan or Italy :)

@amn0940

3 күн бұрын

​@@AldrahillNow you're being hard on yourself

Did the nukes on germany get a peacedeal that crashed the game?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Ooo I wonder, maybe that's why?

Do cold war iron curtain as soviet

Utaly black ice next?

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

Trying to decide between Japan and Italy for the next BIcE :)

@yumsuc7069

5 күн бұрын

@@Aldrahillyou should do Italy, that way if you get absolutely demolished you can just say you were being historical

Why is the US green??? That’s hurts so much

@Aldrahill

5 күн бұрын

It's truly cursed