"ISP... This is the 7th time in a row you've shown a 'hidden' focus tree in class."

Rather than a cav template, if you make the template a single artillery and then leave that as their only template the civil war is easier. A single artillery has quite literally 0 organization. So it gets instantly pushed by literally anything attacking it. Even if you then use cav units for their movement speed you'll still outfight them.

The AI formed this in an game for mine, it was cursed

Speaking of onions I remember a story about a soviet official who lost the favour of Stalin and was thus worried about being assassinated, particularly by poisoned food. He decided that he should eat only eggs, since he thought they couldn't be poisoned. But eggs can be poisoned and the NKVD killed him with eggs.

I do Bukharin path pretty often actually, its pretty fun. You can get 0% consumer goods, which is kinda op, even with your construction speed debuffs. You even get the toned down version of the Stalinist COMECON focus (the one where you steal your puppet's factories), but with Bukharinist Russia (technically you should pick Rykov for 0% consumer goods) you could also steal resources from your puppets, but thats kinda redundant now with the new peace deals

Imagine Death of Stalin but instead of Stalin, it's Meletius and instead of Field Marshall Zhukov, it's Grand Admiral Emil

8:46 anyone notice Greece inflicting 1.8 million casualties?

14:11 ive played this path before and had the same thing I believe if you get the event "russian medelling in the americas" it gets rid of the modifier for all the countries that had it

I now want to see a 2-player game with Pope Roman Empire and Patriarch Third Rome.

this is a certified isp moment

I found this channel from a Kotaku article about how this channel supports right wing nationalism. It seems they were accurate...

Maybe you can do the historical Netherlands where you move your capital to Indonesia, there is a achievement too if you want

You can win the civil war so fast by both trading away all of your equipment to Spain and making their units one width arty. It’s just the best way to do it.

I still wonder to this day what his plane templates are

We all know the strangest focus is “United Balkan Federation”

Fun fact. If you manage to make Third Rome facist, the flag becomes black and gold instead.

"because just like me you are also trapped here forever" Oh boy, something to fill in the howling silence!

“Uploaded 8 seconds ago” noice

Fun fact:Did you know that the world's largest pyramid is not in Egypt, but in Mexico? The Great Pyramid of Cholula is a massive ancient structure located in present-day Mexico. It covers an area of over 4 acres and is nearly 100 feet tall. It was built by the ancient Maya civilization as a temple to the god Quetzalcoatl and was later covered by the Aztecs with earth and clay, giving it the appearance of a natural hill.

Tanna Tuva armored car only when?

0:10 hahah hello darkness my old friend.

8:15 interesting seeing all of those Bolshevik ship names being used by the wacky third rome

I'm warming up some boneless barbecue chicken wings in the oven.

Me: depression, sadness ISP uploads new video Me: *visible happiness*

I'm more impressed by the 2 million German casualties to the Kingdom of Greece... That must have been one hell of an encirclement.

It's hard to believe I have been here since 2015. I have started and stopped watching many channels in that time but I have decided I will see this one through till the end. I have been here to long not to

I literally just saved my outline for my research paper, turned on the video, booted up hoi4, and momentarily realized my hell.

I am sure paradox was laughing its butt off when making the idea for "third rome"

Rome, so good they even made a Rome 3.

You know one day Paradox will milk us with HOI5, ISP will make videos saying "welcome back to HOI4+1" and the matrix will just glitch out

1:04 omg Tsar Nicholas is still playing Hoi4 Great War

the "wake up" at the end felt like being a sleeper agent

Quick guide on how to end the civil war in 2/3 months. Make your army exercise for 5/10 army exp: you need that to make a usless 2 width anti-air template, and if you want to speed up the process, use the other 5 to make a 2 width cavalry template. Put all your mils on guns. Take only the territories with the railway west of chita. there is no need to worry about vladivostok. DO NOT take more than necessary. You'll need the pp for later. Before the war starts, do the lend lease cheese and convert all your division to the anti-air one. Once the war starts, convert all of your divisions to the cavalry one. Train as many as you can and spam them as soon as possible and go to war economy. Make a gigantic frontline, put on aggressive, and let them go. Keep some troops on the north and est border, so that you dont die. Once the war ends, start improving relation with china, so that you can sent an attaché to them and get the war support needed for your war economy. You can pretty much beat Germany in 39 with this setup.

0:50 you can see the little sanity left leave at this exact moment.

Need to see Third Rome and the Pope in a faction together

I literally just did this today and I have a 4 hour game (and counting) where the entire world literally is at war with me, my only allies who are now captiulated are romania and italy

Dear ISP! Is there any chance, you could be showing your defense and offence templates time-to-time? I played this game a lot on release, but then tried now, I SUCKED! A lot changed. Would be appreciated to see an actual working divisions, since you usually set yourself to horrible situations, and somehow fight well!

I am a simple man, I see ISP I click 👌

Mussolini: I am the TRUE inheritor of ROME!!!! Some random generals from the Russian civil war: lmao, national focus go brrrrr

This was my first alt history russia focus tree. Did nothing though.

While watching this video I got an ad with Jesse trying to start the van while mr white is eating those popcorn chips

ISP Windu when he doesn't know which side Zhukov will take: HE'S TOO DANGEROUS TO BE LEFT ALIVE 😂

"keev" oh god, not you too

So kind of you to post a video right as I'm about to eat

I had the 3rd rome appear on my papal states run. Gave me a good chuckle

14:44 “Although given historical precedent that is probably not very sensitive”

Great ending. Issue is that the vid came out a few seconds ago

Every time I hear "little Timmy" joy fills me

2:22 I actually have had Zuckov flip I. The civil war

I spent hours looking for the third Rome to complete the achievement for Italy!

My first soviet union focus that I went down after no step back

All my experience with this game is this damn channel, but you constantly make me ask myself How??? Why??? Damn I love this game lmao

The first 15 seconds hit like a goddamn T-34.

so fun fact zemsky sobor is a kind of parliament but sobors in general in modern russian mean a particular kind of a church this is because we use the word soviet for parliaments or just the word parliament outter soviet linguistic victory

"Did not make it out the basement" Lmao XD

The AI Loves to take the Bukarin path for some reason

I LOVE YOUR LAUGH!

The title of Defier of stuff is such a KZfaq thing.

At this this point I am not ever sure I am here by my free will any longer

ISP: Good morning, Timmy’s! Me reading time in American: Sir, it’s one in the afternoon…

little timmy man

Gravy Timmy is bathing in gravy of timmies

Also lend leasing your whole stockpile to Spain and then cancelling it when the civil war starts its a good cheese strat

how is this man so good? I capitulate 90% of the time I play soviet

I actually did this yesterday just for fun. After I did the "Dismantle the Zemsky Sobor" focus, I joined the axis. Germany never kicked me from the faction or declared war on me even after they did the war goal focus. We defeated the allies, I got Canada and other colonies, went to war with the U.S.A. because we killed the allies before they joined, and it was all free real-estate from there. I didn't go third rome and stayed fascist, which I think is why Germany hasn't kicked me from the faction and attack me.

YES MY FAVORITE CATBOY UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO

I play Romania a lot, but every time I just go for Balkans Dominance with His Majesty's Loyal Government and dominate the Balkans by '39 because the whole Preserve Greater Romania and Flexible Foreign Policy branches just lead you towards joining the big three factions rather than do any conquering of your own. So maybe a video where you do go flip-flop between all three factions as Romania?

Hey ISP, you should check out some of the CK3 mods.

Good Morning is weird to hear while its 21:30 over in turkey..

ISP Video yay🎉

Achievement hunting you say... How about some 30 minutes of Hel?

alot done? we are gravy babies of course not!

The only time I did third Rome was for that achievement. Things went wrong three times when the Soviets kept joining the axis during the civil war. Finally won it. Went down the focus tree without realizing it would ruin the achievement by going third Rome so I quit and never attempted it again.

very good

Tanna Tuva world conquest speed run

I am also trapped here forever

We wanna be called gravybabies!

Isp have you ever tried the artillery only challenge? I advice you to play as bosnia

I wish that it actually renamed the national spirits again to things like "Roman Air Force" and "Roman Corporate State".

shoutout sean ranklin

Fun Fact: The concept of a Third Rome originally came from Medieval Bulgaria in the 14th century when it experienced a cultural golden age and its capital Tarnovgrad eclipsed Constantinople, which had long been declining at that point. After the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria many Bulgarian scholars fled to the lands of the former Rus' (Ruthenia and the Duchy of Muscovy) and influenced the Muscovites with what was basically their unique interpretation of the Translatio Imperii.

as a gravy baby this pleases me

hi iSorrowproductions and everyone else!

single artillery is the best div for instant winning a civil war.

Russia went from Stalin to Tsar to the Defier of the sun god in just 4 years

Based isp does the thing

The real funny way to win the civil war every time is to just park your army in siberia, declare on Romania and have Turkey and Romania finish the civil war for you

"Grey skies, depression and onions" Thoight you were gonna say France Well no I never actually thought that but hey

Me, an intellectual: "But what about second-Rome? We've had one, yes....."

Ah... White Russia, the only path in the entire game where you can conceivable use Super Heavy tanks NOT for the lols.

8:49 Wtf did Germany do to lose 1.8m Men to Greece xD

I like how in that Third Rome event, Paradox forgot that Russia is Orthodox and the Patriarch is a leader of an Orthodox church yet they put some text in Latin on the button on the event even though Latin isn't used by any Orthodox church lmao. Bit of an oopsie daisy there

The Romans strike back! For the third time.

nothing compares to ISP videos to go sleep with, me, who drank whole night and was debating for whole fucking morning, sorry for my language dear ladies and gentlemans, its such a pleasure

No Mr. ISP I did not have a good day, I have norovirus.

"Mom can we have revolution?" "We have revolution at home" Revolution at home:

As someone from Siberia I absolutely agree it sucks

Patriarch Meletius is such a youtube

If I recall correctly, you get war goals on Turkey, Italy, and UK because they all called themselves Rome at one point. Yes, including the UK.

The real hidden focus tree is Stellaris because he won't touch it