Two years on and the disclaimers for playing Russia in modern day HOI4 are getting shorter and less authentic haha

Story writing was a nice addition this time around. Really adds to the imersion, which is fun and is sometimes missed with other youtubers

Your little "addition" at the beginning of Your video is... Pretty good. You nailed the immersion when it comes to the whole "should I go to war with NATO, or not?" Thing

9:50 live russian oligarch reaction

That little girl and speech and the end was a campaign ad for LBJ back in the 60s

I like how you had an option to remove the bloated welfare system, chose not to, and then wondered why your consumer goods were vanishing XD

The economic situatuon in criemea did get a lot better after 2014.

Across the dnieper, so poetic

Colonel Cam. The Siloviki side of the focus tree expands after you coup Vladimir Putin, which got a focus where you can declare war with NATO after defeating Ukraine.

I think the storytelling part at the start was great

Really rather than the the nuclear weapon button being a "You Lose", there should be a Crisis Escalation mechanic that is determined by multiple factors - including WMDs but also the fall of various cities (specifically near the Polish border). Ukraine could have escalation as well, like bombing Russian soil or inviting NATO aligned troops. Tactical nukes would be on a medium level, and global nuclear war would be the end of the escalation ladder. Both sides would have to watch the escalation mechanic, as it getting too high for Ukraine means the Russians nuke you and if it gets too high for Russia then NATO deploys troops or creates no fly zones.

Your civs were getting eaten up by consumer goods, when you hover over the consumer goods factory number it should say where its coming from

When I'm in a having controversial political opinions competition and my opponent is a Hoi4 modder:

I felt like your pfp changed, also thank you for another lovely video!

that mod is insanely biased lol

im a staff and a previous developer of the mod, glad you played our mod and hope you enjoyed!

Hey Cam keep up the good work, been watching you since part 1-2 of the Falangist Poland run and been hooked ever since. A suggestion for a vid could be Poland in Kaiserreich. They have a pretty good Focus and you can choose many outcomes from remaining with Germany or becoming independent, joining Austria or Russia. It truly would be a blast. :)

Fun fact, modern guerrilla warfare like in vietnam and afghanistan only worked because of the Geneva Convention. Historically guerrilla groups would be destroyed through genociding the local populace, very good example of that being the Romans in Judea, Illyria and in Gaul with the deaths ranging from 500k in judea to 1 million dead and another 1 million sold to slavery in Gaul.

I love the story telling intro!

Vietnam was kind of like Ukraine in reverse. The average native conscripts were poorly equipped, but they were also supported by the USSR with modern equipment and their AA took out over 10k aircraft which the US and her allies were completely unprepared for.

I really like that your hoi4 video style are very peaceful to watch unlike other, I suggest you playing expert ai Germany

I have the exact same thinking about "ww3" that will hopefully never heppend

I swear, watching hoi4 videos about the Russian Ukraine war feels so surreal

how did they make nuclear war event scarier than tnos?

the intros get better every time

Loved this one

20:10 nega nega

I really liked the "lore", keep doing it pls

Considering how I make up stories in my own HOI4 games, the story addition was great.

press esc when a focus pops up to open the focus tree

Still Waiting for the Channel Pic. Change 👀

I feel like one of the things weird about the mod is just how much buffs Ukraine gets. Even if you fix everything wrong with the Russian army before the war. Realistically if thats the case, they'd get steamrolled.

Personally I don’t think that Russia under any case can win a peer to peer conventional war against NATO, assuming NATO commits everything to the war. Russia doesn’t have many stealth aircraft and do they even have weapons for them, i.e the ones you can put in their weapons bay. Russian Armed Forces was extremely devastated by the war in Ukraine, they won’t be able to fight NATO at all. There is no field where the Russians are superior to NATO, let alone equal.

The voice snippet at the end was from a Presidential Ad from Kennedy Or Lyndon B Johnson I forget which one

I hope this comment section is peaceful and respectable to each other 🥰

i think you are right. In a defensive war Russia world absolutely kick nato's ass. millions of russians will sign up to fight like in ww2.They have like what 20 million men to conscript in reserves. But if russia attacked nato first i don't think it will go very well for them.

Okay, tbh in start I think that he said:"Putin raised his hand and said:"Hail!""

Morals? In hoi4?? UNBELIEVABLE!

Ay, finnally playing as the good guys. 💪🇷🇺

You really need to try EoaNB

saying russia is struggling is something that would have worked in 2022 or 2023 😭😭

14:54 Ukraine survived because of a lack of cohesion on the russian side. They ran out of fuel for their tanks, they didn't have any understanding of the terrain and didn't have any maps, the units weren't properly briefed on what was happening, they had unencrypted comms (meaning the Ukrainians could listen in and locate who was talking), and they underestimated the Ukrainian resolve and suffered ambush upon ambush.

Putin has liked the video

I suggest to spend 20 years as Shukshin's Russian Federation In TNO With the Second west Russian war sub mod

HOWARD HAMLIN?

I am Romanian. The name of the guy who is leader when you puppeted Romania is Vadim Tudor. Ummm, he died in 2015.

Can you play TNO and do Monarchist Komi playthrough please??? Also the intro of this video was gold

Because I am totally normal I am actually going to talk about why I don't think Russia could win a war against NATO. 1. Geography: Russia has the very unfortunate situation of its entire heartland existing in the Great Northern European Plain, which stretches from the coastlines of France all the way to the Urals. Now this does give Russia some advantages as well, they could if lucky speed through Northern Europe, Crushing Poland and the Baltics, and quickly making their way through Germany, but this quickly leads to a big problem, the frontline would become overstretched. Having a Frontline from Romania to Western Europe would be extremely costly to maintain, sending resources so far through such a small region, not to mention all of that would be within bombing distance, making it even harder. Furthermore this doesn't consider other geographical features like rivers and mountains, which are great for defense, but awful for assaulting. NATO would have partial or complete control of the Vistula, Oder, Elbe, Danube, Rhine, Seine, Loire, Rhone, Po, Garonne, Ebro, and Tagus rivers, and those are just the big ones; not to mention all the mountain ranges like the Carpathians, Alps, Pyrenees, Balkans, and the Apennines. This would be a nightmare for the Russians to deal with, but that wouldn't be all. The Russians would also have to fight multiple fronts because of said Geography, the could be fighting in Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, The Balkans, possibly Anatolia, and the Far East (if the US decides to cross from Alaska to said Far East, though this might not be a good idea, Far East would be useless to invade as there is only one route from there to the west and it is a singular train track). 2. Home Advantage/threat to way of life: The European members of NATO would have home advantage, using their knowledge of roads, rivers, towns, cities, hills, etc. to be able to stall the Russians, plus civilians would most likely set up militias and sabotage Russian efforts, effectively stalling the Russian advance. Furthermore, people are much more likely to fight for their own countries survival than people think, the Polish Resistance and the French Resistance come to mind for most, but it happens in many countries. People are much more likely to take up arms and die if they think their way of life is genuinely in danger, for example the only time in Australian history that conscription was accepted, and the only time US soldiers were allowed to operate in Australia, was right after Japan had invaded the entire pacific, and Darwin was bombed. I am sure the peoples of Germany and France would go and sign up because their nations ideals would be at risk. 3. Cohesion: NATO isn't just an alliance, it is an entire military command structure, with a well detailed and highly trained and effective military force that has had 70 odd years of constant training, with so many nations in play they had to make sure the entire system worked, and while we haven't seen NATO fight a conventional war, they seem to operate in training very well, and I am sure they have perfected the art of cohesion, something Russia is... lacking. Thank you for coming to my TED talk that probably no one will see.

plz play monarchist komi in tno, it’s really fun and wholesome

I haven't watched the video (yet?) but this might be the most controversial one

Nice a Video at 2:30 a.m.

roast pork leg and doritos, you f*cking gremlin. loved the vid btw, keep up the good work!

I like the story intro a lot more. The previous way of showing what you’re doing in the future to going back to the start is really confusing for a first time viewer and may have them mistake your channel for an ADHD editing style channel lol

Russia should just replace their generals with hoi4 players

Hello

23:57 no 🗿

1:30 so glad that a content creator finally said it

Day 4 of asking cam to play age of imperialism.

Does Someone know the name of the music on 0:57 ?

ГОЙДА, БРАТЬЯ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why i dont have the right names for citys if i play this mod ?

COOL

I believe russia wouldn’t win against nato unless other countries got involved in the war against nato. Worse outcome, nuclear war

try “east showdown” mod

Wow your videos are very high quality, you deserve wayyyy more subs

20:10 What did he say 😭

6:38 thats not an enclave

Correction Viktor Orbán isn't the president of Hungary but prime minister.

you should play "East Showdown". its like "Across the Dnieper", but a little better, though unfinished

What's the russian song used in the video?

Across The Dnieper Better Millenium Dawn And N.V.

4:03 Free and fair referendum! just like real life!

Uh oh

How tf does this video hav 7 likes and 3 views

I think you lost alm your factories because you kept the bloated welfere sistem spirit

the moment putin become boris savinkov bravo russian state

PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME HOW DO YOU GET RID OF THE WHITE SQUARES!!

Wrong map for Russia in the thumbnail

I highly doubt russia can win against NATO but I can see them winning against ukraine and that giving russia a sense of national pride and confidence to survive and slowly wait till America declines and then attack east europe if NATO gets disolved.

It looks so ugly seeing poland behind russia, dont see how it could get fixed

Cool video

do crimea

Against NATO? No way

Topical

Russia could maybe push into poland but it cannot win a conventional war against NATO.

Its not just you. Most of NATO is struggling Military wise rn especially when it comes to manpower. Thats what 80 years of softy soft politics does to a population. Not proud or willing to fight and die for their homeland.

0:56-1:08 song?

Continue ❤

having seen a presentaiton on war games about Russia fighting Nato, basically Russia couldn't hope to defeat the west. At most they probably could take most of Latvia and Estonia in a very optimistic scenario for the Russians, and even in that case attacking Lithuania would doom any Russian invasion as result of Lithuania basically being the big eastern logistics hub for Nato, plus Russia also has Finland and Sweden closing the Baltic Sea for their navy thanks to some anti ship missiles in Finland, plus the Swedish fleet

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russia has zero chance against nato.

Bro speaks English, but failed English

This is getting political

I drive

sorry, but having 200 factories in 2022 is worse than russian bot did in my game, while I had 260 on Ukraine. in 2021, because he attacked in 2021

We want 15 years as ukraine

Name of the song in 1:00 pls ?

Nice video but u seem to know very little about the conflict going on soo far....

pls do monarchist komi in tno also russia could never win a war against nato, nato has more nukes, more soldiers, and more equipment, if russia cannot beat the ukrainian military which has outdated equipment they could never beat the usa

Russian troops were actually in Kiev and when Ukraine was planning to surrender, they agreed that Russian troops would be pulled out of Kiev, Ukraine didn't hold to their part of the agreement and started an entire counteroffensive. That's why Russian troops had to pull back, they weren't expecting Ukraine to not hold to their part of the agreement.