HRE v2

I love how the pope just gets 15 free war goals for no good reason

"Who needs consumer goods when you've got God, right?" That actually makes a lot of sense.

I wish there was an achievement to beat Soviet Union as the pope hence quote “Stalin: pope? how many divisions does he have”

About the famous myth that in fascist italy trains were never late, that is basically a meme now. In a book written by one that study that period, he said that was forbidden 🚫 by law for a train 🚆 to be late, so every time there was a delay the italian railways administration constantly retroactively changed all the trains schedules, so not a single delay was going to get registered.

An HRE that is actually holy, Roman and an empire

At 14:08 you can see Ethiopia offering to send volunteers which I think is pretty funny.

"How do planes got longer range from just beliving?" surprised Warhammer 40k Ork face

Who else thinks that Dave should become the pope in real life and do this?

I love how this man went from "Wow this DLC has so much stuff, I'm flabbergasted, let's test it" to the normal exploiter madman that he is

Actually Paradox trying to portray Pius XII as a warlike pope is, crazy as it is, even more insanely ahistorical than the Adam Hilt/Señor Hilter event. Wish they'd have put some random fictional pope instead, considering also that Pius XII's election happened a little after the starting date of the game anyway.

I think they've patched it. The focus ''seek papal support'' now sets the balance of power to 0, instead of leaving it at like 50. Because of that, I can't get the pope in charge anymore. Help?!

Looks like the latest patch broke the Papalstates, after reaching 60 towards the pope, it still doesnt trigger the pope taking control. Used all of the tools to gain support for him.

this has been nurfed the focus seek papal state now set balance of power to 0 and you have to wait a full year to get over 60%

For everybody who tries this in 4/2024! if you have problems to reach over the needed 60% for "His holiness" you can skip the focus "Conspiarcy of the Shadows" right after "Undermine the douche" just dont do it and move on to Monarchy and then if you finished "Seek papal support" + "Agents of the church" + "Strengthen the papacy" + "Disband the blackshirts" (including doing the decions that comes with the focususes) then you can do "Conspiarcy of the Shadows" as last focus to push over the 60% Threshold. Might be sketchy and not intended :D but its better than waiting a Year.

Im gonna watch this at church, full audio

I legit saw the achievements and went down this path last night instantly

One of your best videos yet, keep up the good work Dave! I love you! ❤

I like that one of the Pope's Focuses is "The Golden Wind"

I love how easy it is to puppet Portugal by 1938 with just a focus

Dave, I'm drinking my coffee and studying my Roman Catholic Catechism (Second Edition) just for this video

4:55 seriously Colors matching from eu4 really is orgasmic

i like this dlc. you can larp if you want, but you can also be the biggest meme ever, all without mods

Been waiting for this new expantion to see some Dav exploit and cheese it! Totally epic watching you gobble up half of Europe before being at war with the UK

I've tried doing this, but for whatever reason I can't seem to get to the stage where the pope ascends 😭

This is exactly the sort of memery I'd expect from my focus trees. Really hope they go back and make a pass on older focus trees so they can spin out of control like this one.

Can’t wait for cas only papal state

bro this is insane. Dave is soooooooooooo underrated man, I love his videos, they're super fun

I am glad they just went full meme with the hidden papal states, they knew there was no way to even make it fit a weird alternative history and just ran wild with it.

You can select another country in Ironman in this patch. Select the "Load" button, click in a save, and then press "random country" in the top left corner. You are welcome.

I can only get 60% papal support

Did achievement this weekend, thank you. Main issue I had was getting Pope %. Left the focuses - Undermine the Duce and Conspiracies in Shadows to get over the edge. Also I could not get the Tac air as op as you did but still worked well. Roman empire created by September 40.

Welp we will need a v2 because of the new update that resets the balance of power of his holliness to 0%😅

Been trying to replicate this, but I am not getting the balance of power I need to do it. Even with Liturgical reform and condemn fascism.. And I cant seem to figure out what I am doing wrong.

Holy Roman Empire. Finally one that is Holy, Roman, and an actual Empire.

great content as always, love your vids, keep up the good work. I tried this run and there might be an even faster run. Keeping most of the strategy same, doing Balkan Ambitions unlocks a decision to give Yugo an ultimatum and they usually accept to be our puppet (If not instant war goal) (As a bonus you can also do the Albanian focus to get them early as well) So i just wait for the French and Czech guarantees to go away and send the ultimatum. If they refuse you enter the Yugo/Romanian war much earlier, if they accept they become your puppet and now you wait for the justification to finish up on Turkey and declare to get Romania involved. The Time For War focus will finish up around Turkish Justification so Bulgaria and Greece can be dealt with same as your strategy by declaring instantly after Romania finishes. A tip for players struggling to break Romania, You can declare on Bulgaria after Time for War focus finishes and take them before declaring on Turkey. Bulgarian border will be much easier to break than the Yugo border for Romania and will be a much longer frontline to manage. (You only need to call Yugo to take Bulgaria, Romania will still man the borders at Yugo front, weaking the Bulgarian front.) Please tell if i messed up or missed anything. Thanks everyone and may YOUR God be with you in your battles to come.

Thank you for giving me something to watch during the hurricane dave

I want to see what a fully cored Rome looks like

The pope, how many division does he have? - joseph stallin, this one gives a whole new meaning to this.

That Star Wars insert was perfect.

FeedBackGaming is literally the SPIFFING BRIT of HOI4.

with 1.12.2 this strategy doesn't work because the first papal focus set your balance power to 0 :/

Il Vento Aureo.... is that a JoJo refference

The decission doesnt work for me, i cant get the "hidden focus tree"

For aome reason I had to wait an entire year to have the pope take control because the balance of power was only 50 percent after doing all the decisions

Great work Dave, grazie!

Alexander Anderson has a quote for this. "Crusade?!"

5:20 Oh No italy it's broken

Truly, the best timeline

If you do Plan Z as Germany after all the new nations and various paths I’ll use your code

This game became meme officially sealed by developers

Somehow I wound up without the pope having enough power to take the decision

What the hell am I doing wrong? I can’t get enough BoP to fire the event, best I can manage is 60% toward “his holiness”? What am I missing? Does declaring on nations change it or something?

Bro took “the pope is dope” to a whole nother level

I really liked the edits you did with the clipping masks. Keep up the great work you absolute legend :)

Holy Roman Empire but it's actually holy, roman and an empire

Stalin: "The Pope! How many divisions has he got?" Pope: "You can't win, Stalin. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

Love the Il Vento Aureo Focus

This playthrough felt like it Was just one big Exploit Video except the fact that it all was just vanilla Focuses😂😂😂

When you finish the "Strengthen the Papacy" focus you had 55% in favor of the pope then did the decision "liturgical reforms" and had the pope in charge, When I tried following the guide after I completed "Strengthen the Papacy" I only had 20% in favor of the pope. Why is this am I missing something or doing something wrong, because of this "the pope's ascendancy" event doesn't trigger and it would take another year to wait for "liturgical reforms" to be off cooldown, then I could get the pope but that's an entire year off pace. Any explanation helps.

Probably realise this already but they've fixed that focus now - Seek Papal Support.

I can’t seem to get past 60% towards his holiness after I research “strengthen the papacy” and all 3 national power of balance modifiers. Am I missing a political advisor or

I can hear The last Stand intensifying in the background

How do you manage to get the papal support that far by 1937? As soon as it swaps the council to the papacy it resets to zero for me and I have to wait a year to get more liturgical reforms.

I tried this several times now, but I don't get the pope's balance over 60% to the left..what am I missing?

FeedBackGaming waiting 200 years for feedback on his gaming:

As a papist I approve of this. 😁

I wonder how you get balance of power to 55% while not do any decision i try to form papal but i can't form it even do all the decision that support the pope i just get 60% with all decision and focus tree this is bugg? or i do it wrong at some point?

This was the most beautiful video I have ever seen

Ofc this video pops up after I spend 8 hours getting this exact achievement.

Soooo we have: Papal state for Italy, Third Rome for Russia Holy Roman Empire for Germany and Holy Roman Empire for Austria (Austria-Hungary in Road to56 mod) Which is strongest?

Just a note for everyone, you can’t get to this focus if you choose king Umberto

This is so beautiful I almost wept

Imagine not having done all the new achievements "legit"

Now get Jet fighters as Italy in 1937

Sings.. “ I believe I can fly, I believe I can bomb that other guy. I think about it every night and day. Cheaper wings and small bomb bay’s “ ..

I adore how absolutely broken this is. The only question is who is better: the Battle Pope or Maciek the Polish Bear King?!

The aircraft are enhanced with the wings of angels.

Cant ever get it to go past 60% even when using all of the events like disbanding the blackshirts and the like

Do you use some special templates or just use the recital ones? For troops

My only problem with this update is the 100 mandatory transport plane air wings

I appreciate your commitment to calling Mussolini the "deuce" and not the "doo-chee" .

Pretty based focus tree I must say.

I did everything in the video, got papal support to 65% balance of power, but no event for the pope?

Very confused when I try to go for the "Stalin, how many guns do you have?" Achievement it says I don't meet the requirements. I play as the Pope and take out the Soviet Union. I have made them fallen but, I get like 20% the War Score. Is there something I am missing? I am the one making them capitulate to me as the Pope but, it says it while I'm at war and when I take them out. I figured it out. It doesn't count if it's during the peace deal as I capitulate Siking's Soviet Union puppet. *No Idea how they manage to puppet when they weren't in the war.*

Good video Dave.

8:00 - Holy Water is more efficient than oil

I like the energy of this video 😁

All hail Pope FeedBackGaming the 3rd

Turns out the pope can be a global superpower too

Idk if Feedback will see this, but the paranoia system in the Soviet Union is broken Not broken like the one we like, is broken like the pop up events (like purging generals) are not reducing Paranoia

5:53 why are baltic countries included? Aren't they like majority catholic?

You should probably have made it clear that you don't cancel the justification on Turkey. Thanks for the guide though

Watching this inside of Hurricane Ian.

well i tried it perfectzly like you did but i still need one year more because i dont have enough support for the pope after the "strengthen the papacy. i think they changed it a little in an update or sth

Civ has nuclear Gandhi , Hoi has closeted war pope.

focus il vento aureo is certified jjba reference

Man my game went so different to this. First of all, Romania didn´t cross the river, so I have to fight them fully on their territory. Second, they delay me enought so UK was able to guarantee Bulgaria. Third, Spain didn´t accept being my puppet, so I had to (try) naval invade Gibraltar. Fourth, UK had their entire fleet active on the Mediterranean, so I didn´t have naval superiority and couldn´t launch any naval invasion.

It annoys the h*** outta me that he didn't notice that his planes had 0 ground attack hence 0 damage done to the divisions...

7:57 Every single person on the internet: "IT'S THAT A JOJO'S REFERENCE!!!????"