As an Australian; I, too, would love to see Austro-Hungarian ranchers in the outback. Just for the sheer insanity of it.

@Maezhughes

2 ай бұрын

I'd definitely want to see how that shakes out. Hmm, goulash with kangaroo meat. That's a cursed thought. Have fun with that!

@krissteel4074

2 ай бұрын

Personally, I think the idea of PNG being owned by the Austrians as producing a very interesting 'Long Pig' Goulash coming out of there.

@Karyovin

2 ай бұрын

I'm looking for the fleet off Fremantle

@ReinaSaurus

2 ай бұрын

that makes minus three letters then

@TheInsomniaddict

2 ай бұрын

Royal Austro-Australia has a good ring to it.

“We’ll be home by Christmas” Tex owns land in almost every timezone so I’m sure at least one person will be invading their home by christmas

@StarCommanderStelios

2 ай бұрын

will they be dressed like Santa or as Randy Savage and which language will the be speaking is the correct question :D

@TherealTenmanI

2 ай бұрын

​@@StarCommanderStelios Oh Oh Oh YEAAAAAAH

Hapsburger hamborger. Chain resturant in this timeline. Confirmed

@Maezhughes

2 ай бұрын

Hapsburg Borgar, now coming to a community near you!

@TherealTenmanI

2 ай бұрын

​@@Maezhughesmeth weasels represent.

Franz! Australian for beer! Come on down, we'll put some schnitz on the barbie. We're happy little goulashmites, as bright as bright can be!

Ok, here me out, a single 20" barrel on a large cruise and call it a hunchback O and it does 35 knots

@blackops555

2 ай бұрын

That's so nightmarish.... Do it.

@DiggingForFacts

2 ай бұрын

Like an M-class on steroids.

@covepontin

2 ай бұрын

@@DiggingForFacts i was thinking basically a floating Schwerer Gustav railway gun

@Deridus

2 ай бұрын

I am so doing this now. And a 10incher that does 32.

@TeflonTrout

2 ай бұрын

Stealth17 did that and the poor thing got dunked on during its maiden voyage!

Tex helps the Brits to work on their sub technology. As a show of faith, he converts the HMS Africa to the HMS Coral Reef. As a culinary artist, he teaches the Irish to use Haggis to make Goulash! Good times!

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Tex is a hard core environmentalist. He makes new reefs to save the polar bears!

Pride of a nation, a beast made of steel. Wide Tom in motion, king of the ocean. He was made to rule the waves across the seven seas

@Deridus

2 ай бұрын

To lead the Beef-Machine! To rue the waves and drink the Kriegs Grenadine!

He's doing it! The madman is actually doing it! He's trying to form the Australian-Hungarian Empire!!

You know, for not being a musically focused channel, the BPL has some fantastic songwork within it's gilded history. I salute you mysterious Legion musicians!

@goatburger7992

2 ай бұрын

wowie

@Kirkmaximus

2 ай бұрын

I approve of this message.

@mattmaser2126

2 ай бұрын

Keep at it man​@@goatburger7992

Tex: *loses giant battleship to subs* IJN: I know that feel bro

What Australian table wine goes with roo-lash? A nice peppermint-flavored Burgandy, perhaps?

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Fosters goes with everything I'm told...

An addendum on the idea of Austrian China or Austrian south america being odd; Not entirely true. Tsingtao and the central city of Manchuria had a german presence and brought their culture and industry along with them, training the Chinese army and supplying them in some instances, which would continue into the 1930s. South America would hire German advisors and give safe passage to their families as early as the 1910s, and would adopt german equipment which would persist well into the late 1940s. Also it should say something about Tex's tunnel vision that he focused on getting bigger cannons but didn't get oil fueled engines until the 1920s were already ensuing.

6:38 Tex daring the British to take the English channel: "Come on, take it from me!"

No mercy for Britain! REMEMBER THE...uh...THE OTHER WIDETOM!

Good morning lads!!! All hands man your battlestations!!! ALL SHIPS MAKE SMONK!!!! 💨💨💨💨💨

@banebeard

2 ай бұрын

LAUNCHING TORPEDOES!!!!!!

@e-train765

2 ай бұрын

​@@banebeard Send in the Shootenboatens!!! ALL OF THEM!!!!!!

@Maezhughes

2 ай бұрын

Let them hear the roar of the Austeretes guns!

Britain, "I shan't surrender!" Tex, "Sir, this is not that kind of Kriegsmarine."

Send word to Starfleet. Tell them, we have engaged the Wide Tom.

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

At Shetland 459?

Thanks for bringing naval historical references to this now retired Airman (and recently graduated historian). I'm slowly building up my depth of knowledge on Korea, but you make it look super easy. It's always impressive.

Lex Luthor "The Greatest Criminal Mind Of Our Time" tried to claim Australia in Superman II. He tried to bargain with the three Kryptonian villains. You are in Great company, Tex!

Tex you should take sweden because Surströmming with paprica

Inspired by this series, i've started my own ridiculous Austria-Hungary misadventure. I modded the initial battleship the austrians get to be a 72000 ton barge. The idea is that i can't build any later battleships, because that would be a disgrace to the great and venerable Hapsburg. So i'm going to to see how long i can keep cramming new tech into it.

Shootenscooten. Floatenboaten.

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Sinken Britton!

@tomarmadiyer2698

2 ай бұрын

Sinkenboaten bottomwalkin

I love these videos so much. This series makes me happy every Friday morning. Please please please please keep this as a recurring series where you take a random nation/empire and see how far you can take them. Even the wittle guys like the Dutch or the Greeks.

"Fuck you, mate" is how australians say hello.

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Sounds legit....

Boats do boat things. Tex do Tex things. Me do me things and sips coffee. Good times. Cheers!

Did not expect to see a tex video posted at 4 am when I thought everyone was asleep except me

@ZacharyChristy-Aronson-wg5ki

2 ай бұрын

Same. I got myself out of bed, made some coffee, and then flipped on the KZread, to see it said Tex posted this four minutes ago.

@johnvaclavik773

2 ай бұрын

What is this sleep that people speak of?

Could you imagine an Ultimate Commander Battlemech game? Fighting through the different era's of Battletech but coordinating attacks, land grabs, and making different models of mechs instead of boots on the ground action. That would be cool.

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Yes, yes I can. 😬🙃

Australian-Hungarian Empire sounds grouse. Bring on the Imperial jackaroos

@Ozymandias2x

2 ай бұрын

"People kept mixing up Austria and Australia, so we blended them into one empire."

It's worth mentioning that they're working on the multiplayer for this game; it could make for some interesting future videos. Have the BPL in an all-out free for all naval slugfest!!

Austro-Hungarian-Australian Mad Max would be an even crazier fever dream than what we got in our own timeline.

this is just a delight, tex, thanks again for taking the time to LP this game with the excellent music

Missed opportunity to call the Exportenboten T O M instead. It's just a smaller W I D E T O M after all. On the plus side.. Exportenboten. It's a Boten. For exporten.

Thank you for uploading this again episode 8 you're the God we needed.

I'm a simple man. I've got a beer in my hand and I'm watching Tex piss off the English. Life is GOOD

The Hapsburg must live! For the EMPIRE! LETS GOOO LETS GOOOOOOO! Hawkmen! DIIIIVE!

🤣🤣🤣the hunt for wide tom tober!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂

It's like 200 years of pent-up aggression from getting bullied by the British coming out

I wonder if Tex or anyone know that there *was* a SMS Habsburg in the k.u.k. navy and they didn't particularly venerate it like Tex and his "Hapsburg" 😂

Just finished the saga of Dr Christmas. I would love to hear Tex explain WTF was up with US torpedoes in WWII. I still don't get how that whole mess went the way it did.

@Deridus

2 ай бұрын

Que Prof Tex repeating "Graft."

@JarodCain

2 ай бұрын

@@Deridus Graft and Bureau of Ordinance refusing to admit they fucked up.

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

BoO and huge piles of stupid!

@boobah5643

2 ай бұрын

Drachenifel did a video on the topic; he's no Tex, but he's got his own, admittedly less Texan, wit. Title is something like "Failure is Like Onions."

I miss the speculation on what the cuisine of the invaded countries would end up being like... Just imagine kangaroo wurst... 😂😂😂

Because of this series, I have started my own playthrough of this game and now Japan has quite the torpedo boat fleet!

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Beware the Kamchakta!!

As an orkadian it warms my heart to see tex fear Scapa flow

Tex should play as Canada next, take a crack at the Geneva Checklist.

@razorburn645

2 ай бұрын

Stop calling it that! You too Poland!

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Geneva Convention i e the list of things Canada did in ww1.

As an Australian I fully support the Aussie-Hungarian Empire, I am even making Chicken Paprikash for dinner tonight.

Damn, that back turret on the wide tom is trying so hard to take shots but its arc of fire is *limited*. Those poor, frustrated gunners.

As a brit i can cofirm you are very welcome to have Hull. Seriously, just take it...........we want you to have it. Consider it a gift. No, we dont need to tell you why we will give it up without a fight. Just trust me bro, you have it. We insist 😅

You need units with anti submarine ability in the fleet group under in order to protect your ships. The fleet groups act independently. So to protect your battle ships, you need destroyers attached to the ships.

@boobah5643

2 ай бұрын

It's worth noting you don't actually have to have any anti-submarine _weapons_ to sink subs. I often have sonar mounted on my battleships because of pesky twenty kilometer ranged torpedoes on destroyers and cruisers, but the sonar _also_ allows the battleships to sink subs.

Tex, Sir! Might we have more delicious Habsburg?

Hell yes! Friday Nights entertainment is here!

RIP W I D E T O M the second!

Tex, please use the shipyard in Belfast to make the "Titanic" class ships. Four stack for more smonk. Fast in a straight line. Tiny rudder. Zero flood prevention. Can be submarine once. Ps. Goulash would go great with champ. Pps. The Ulster Fry is and forever will be the superior cooked breakfast.😂

RELEASE THE RUBBER DUCKIES

the rise of the torpedo battleship

Yes! Thanks Tex!

If tex takes New Zealand, I'll subscribe to his patreon 😂

The Hapsberg rides again

For your next campaign, you should play as Germany, but you can't use anything smaller than a heavy cruiser, so no TBs, DDs or CLs. Like if you get the reference

Seeing Tex invade Britain I noticed Yarmouth is not Great Yarmouth, how dare they disrespect my hometown

@Deridus

2 ай бұрын

I'm more surprised you're not angry at how few troops are needed to take East Anglia. Note to self, visit Cockthorpe.

That heavy elbow dropping firepower too Sanic fast More torps than he has ships I'm having a hard time visualizing not having torpedoes The Australian-Hungarian Empire? HAHAHAHAHAHA his armor scheme is T O U G H, Tex's however is T O U G H E R The Hunt For Wide Tomtober I think I misunderstood something you said earlier, thought you were saying after a certain point the game wouldn't allow you to have torpedoes anymore

Wienershnitzel Navy vs: Pudding Navy. FIGHT!!!

Making me wait a quarter hour for the first collision? For shame.

So about convoys: the game generates older ships to guard yours, basically to simulate second-line ships on escort duty without making you actually manage that it can be quite funny if it includes crappy export designs you never built for your own use, though they may be tied to ships you sold to other countries, i'm not sure

@boobah5643

2 ай бұрын

This is something I've never seen; yes, if you have allied ports nearby they'll send ships to protect convoys, but they're tagged and flagged for the ally.

It's less about Austria-hungary does to Australia and more what Aus does to AH.

Ha ha! Time for moar botes!

Hey Tex did you know Mongolia has a navy? 3 whole boats 1 cannon and 7 guys.. 😊 You should see if the BPL/AUX can buy them. One guy can even swim.

been too busy, need to catch up, all I can think of is "why wide tom?"

@redcastlebowser4179

2 ай бұрын

or perhaps its should be "if not Tom, the why Tom shaped?"

@corwinhyatt519

2 ай бұрын

The class name? If so, it is a homage to a good friend of his, Tom Tombadil.

Like all cuisines, Austrohungarian cuisine can benefit from Australia's only worthwhile culinary contribution, chicken salt.

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

I seriously want to try roo steaks!!

53:42 *cough*T Y P H O O N C O B R A*cough*

So much fun ensues.

Finally, AUS and AUT united. 😄

Are these videos posted on any other website? My ... displeasure ... with youtube is greater than a factor of seven.

Like number 4, fuck yeah.

there is a mod that makes it so no hull goes obsolete which makes it so you can keep building and using the old balsawood torpedo boats of yesteryear even after you research something "better"

@America_Yea

2 ай бұрын

though that mod is likely out of date it hasn't been updated in a year

have a nice weekend T E X ! 😊👍🚢🚢🚢💥💥💥

Did the Wide Tom #2 get sunk because the fleet it was in didn't have destroyers? When it does fleet engagement it looks like it doesn't count ships in the vicinity, only those directly attached to a task group? Or am I misunderstanding it.

A game play challenge : Auto Resolve all battles .

*salute* HMS Africa

@Sh4dowFawx

2 ай бұрын

I bless their rains

Obligatory "fuck you, mate". Had to.

Move your destroyers 🤬

austrian empire instead of british colonies? maybe they will have some decent food at last.

More please!

Shrimp Paprikash on the Barbie anyone?

⚓

Well... You can pronounce both Brisbane and Melbourne correctly... I know! We can build your royal family a summer home in Tasmania. They'll fit right in there.

@boobah5643

2 ай бұрын

Habsburg devils in Tasmania? Think they'll develop a contagious form of cancer, too?

16:14-16:38 very funny thank you

Tex I love your content and know you have a day job, but this barely gave me my fix. Please post more content soon.

@jppauley9969

2 ай бұрын

Needed to be twice as long to keep the shakes away.

❤❤❤

judging from the KingdomCome videos I keep seeing, I don't think there **is** a way to learn Hungarian that isn't _the hard way_

Bru neigh. Tex actually a horse

Newbie question: if your main guns are over-penetrating, is it worth to consider switching over to HE rounds?

@boobah5643

2 ай бұрын

Certainly worth considering, but it depends on how much they're over-penetrating and the penetration qualities of your AP and HE rounds. That is, you might go from putting holes in both sides of the boat with AP to little more than scouring paint with HE, albeit with a chance of setting fires.

Rig the algorithm!

Your hands off for some battles make me wonder if you'd enjoy a game where you have x amount of battle tokens per turn, and once you're out you MUST auto-resolve....

Is Tex trying to make the Australian-Hungarian empire?

How the heck are the Australians going to beat you in 1933? The lost a war against EMUS in 1932.....

Please be careful about trying to invade Northern England. You don't need even more languages being added to the pool. I know you might think that it's all English but I promise you it isn't. Scouse, Cumbrian and Lankie Twang are very different.

Really, "Wait for train to pass" and no pictures?

Austria-alia

No HMS Monitor yet?

Heyo…

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