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@piotrszuryn3372Ай бұрын
Black ice Poland
@williambransch1192Ай бұрын
More black ice Ussr i really like ussr
@anelstarcevic696Ай бұрын
2 Yamatos were built, Yamato and Musashi and third ship Shinano was never finished as a battleship due to lack of resources but her hull was converted into a much cheaper carrier, but if Japan was more successful she probably would have been completed as a battleship
@qwryu1369Ай бұрын
i have happy birthday today
@S.CollinsАй бұрын
A realistic japan run would have two players who can't talk to eachother
@jeova0sanctus0unusАй бұрын
Two players who can only communicate in insults
@patrickkkkkkkkkkkkАй бұрын
Just insults in japanese for the whole game
@lolasdm6959Ай бұрын
Two players who lose if the other player achieves any objectives.
@Anothersovietcat3Ай бұрын
Lmao😂
@nathanlee4288Ай бұрын
Who can't communicate with one another and actively dispises one another whilst actively sabotaging and refusing to cooperate. True IJA/IJN realism
@martind5653Ай бұрын
Black ice Czechoslovakia when?
@akosperjesi4384Ай бұрын
Never
@unknowguy9642Ай бұрын
Better yet, Black ice Luxemburg when?
@user-iu4fr6yl7wАй бұрын
You guys are crazy
@chardaskieАй бұрын
I personally would love to see him play a Minor Country
@Rotogames-zj1zbАй бұрын
Yes do this chalenge
@iloveapple530Ай бұрын
'' Supply what's that? '' -Tojo probably
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Literally never heard of him
@iloveapple530Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahill you never heard of Tojo?
@noahn627Ай бұрын
Is it something I can eat?
@healyiceАй бұрын
@@iloveapple530 "never heard of him" as in supply i think.
@Erich_DinenthalАй бұрын
Aldra is discord 3 days ago: "I am pleased to announce, as Japan, I am winning against China. Somehow" - No manpower - No food - No uniforms An army of starving 70 year olds is running around naked in the chinese countryside. You won, but at what cost? 😂
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Uh... yeah but I uh... I still won! My color was on the map! Who cares if primary education ends at 12 and your conscripted?!
@Erich_DinenthalАй бұрын
@Aldrahill your primary education is "here's a rifle kid, banzai." Hell of a good job, though. You have the patience of a saint
@grantforester1864Ай бұрын
@@Erich_Dinenthalthey only need to learn how to count bullets lmao
@ussindianapolis487Ай бұрын
still better than japanese army in 1945 lol.
@martinhulinАй бұрын
@@AldrahillI that young and I handled a 12 Gauge pump shotgun pretty well but I must admit when I started shooting I started feeling that GET THE HELL OF MY LAWN energy
@zevnduck9904Ай бұрын
2/3 of Japanese casualties were a result of starvation so this is historically accurate
@MrGallowglaseАй бұрын
Slight correction at 23:34 only two Yamato-class battleships were built. Shinano was converted to a carrier and sunk before getting finished.
@TheHuffmanatorАй бұрын
Just about to comment this XD
@Kingmadman-1Ай бұрын
But technically three Yamato battleships hills were created so he is correct
@TheHuffmanatorАй бұрын
@@Kingmadman-1 Fair enough Battleship in spirit
@Kingmadman-1Ай бұрын
@@TheHuffmanator yeah I guess you could say that
@MrGallowglaseАй бұрын
@@Kingmadman-1 Hmm, dont really agree with this but we are straying into the realms of nitpick so it doesnt really matter
@redpancakesАй бұрын
“Are you guys ready for your HOI4 lessons?” *ISorrowproductions gulps* *BitterSteel breathes heavily* *TommyK nods nervously* “Yes Aldrahill”, they say in unison.
@AldrahillАй бұрын
I was even a teacher once ;) but nah Bittersteel would wreck me in any context
@panpsalt6757Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahillwhat if he was asked to make a historical USSR rifle division from 1943 without any research
@panpsalt6757Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahillwhat if he was asked to make a historical USSR rifle division from 1943 without any research
@panpsalt6757Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahillwhat if he was asked to make a historical soviet rifle division from 1943 without any research
@Bobbert_521Ай бұрын
@@panpsalt6757 bro really wants to know
@amn0940Ай бұрын
Holy Molly! Aldi finally realised he can turn off NATO symbols. My eyes are now pleased
@AldrahillАй бұрын
XD I do like them but Christ they are not clear! I worked this out a while back actually
@flutee6162Ай бұрын
I too cannot read NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION hieroglyphics. Much pleased
@yaldabraxasАй бұрын
Wow, you actually won as Japan. Congratulations. This seems to be hard. Maybe one day i'll grow a pair of balls to try out BICE on my own.
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thank you!! Do it, it’s super fun :)
@ZephyreGodАй бұрын
O7 to you suffering another BICE for us. Keep it up, the contents not suffering 🙃
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thank you! It always agony, but also fun!!
@fsfrancesco1539Ай бұрын
Oh my God, I am not the only guy that puts production lines always in the same order by type!
@FluppiLPАй бұрын
Black ice, a mod so realistic, it even simulates the pain of the commander :D
@samiamrg7Ай бұрын
6:35 Funny thing is that China did actually have a fair few tanks at the start of the war. Mostly Panzer 1’s sold to them by Germany. Yes, Germany inadvertantly undermined their ally Japan by selling tanks and small arms to the Chinese before Germany had allied with Japan.
@derkurier271011 күн бұрын
There were a fair few people in Germany who urged Hitler to support China instead of Japan with von Falkenhauser even giving the Chinese all his war plans before departing back to Germany
@pocemonwitcher9807Ай бұрын
Actually there were built only 2 Yamato-class battleships The third one, named Shinano was started to build into Carrier(there was almost finished hull), but on the way to other dockyard to be stoßt finished, it was sunk by Archerfich class American submarine with 1 torpedo(there was not-hermetic bulkhead on Shinano)
@Bread1979Ай бұрын
That ad was amazing, I never look at them most of the time but you made them really pleasant to watch. Great work like always!!
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Oh damn dude thank you so much! I work hard to try and make them fun and engaging you know? They support the channel and allow me to make these (Christ knows KZfaq doesn’t pay much :P ) so I appreciate so much your comment :)
@user-hy6cj7dn6vАй бұрын
Black Ice Luxembourg when?
@kickassgreekАй бұрын
whats the easiest BICE you've done so far?
@AldrahillАй бұрын
The EASIEST BICE was easily the USA. Even ony buffed Axis, the massive industrial might of America just won out :P
@MrRjh63Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahill Yeah as the USA once you get rid of the depression debuffs you can produce all the equipment with enough to spare to LL to allies very comfortably.
@biscuit4638Ай бұрын
good to see high quality researched videos like these
@ZehamKaiserАй бұрын
Japan actually fought quite well for a country of their stature They had very little resource availability and a below average land army The Axis as a whole somehow fought quite decently given their situation(well that's debatable)
@jackson4672Ай бұрын
Germany didn't really fight that decently, Belgium and France had outdated armies, the Netherlands, Norway, and Poland also had outdated and still managed to inflict heavy loses, Greece killed Italy's ass and lost because they ran out of ammo, Denmark didn't fight, and Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, England, and USA kicked Germany's ass.
@leninvascoАй бұрын
That isnt true, the japanese army suffered terrible losses because of the use of banzai charges. Tactically, the IJA was terrible, and as you admit, strategically too.
@leninvascoАй бұрын
@@jackson4672It is not that simple, Germany was incredibly lucky with France, and if you consider the french army outdated then all other armies of the world also were.
@greenoversight8021Ай бұрын
@@jackson4672 Whos fault is it they had oudated armies? The credit on germanies part is that they had expert command structure and a good military high command. that itself is a sign of germanies wellness of the fight
@rjagadАй бұрын
Soviets didnt kick germany's ass as you have said. Ussr took 10 million losses and only won because they sent out russians like meat bags. @jackson4672
@thedead12Ай бұрын
Black Ice Poland please
@greytamplier8411Ай бұрын
Maybe Historical Finland will be nice
@abu-hureraali4531Ай бұрын
I wrote that wikipedia article you used. Nice to see that its being used.
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Oh damn nice one, thanks ! :D it was super detailed
@Ozan-qr7huАй бұрын
Your BlackICE videos are always a delight to watch brother. Keep sending em. Great war too, I really enjoy the weirdly specific historical trivia you sometimes drop in them.
@LastGoatKnightАй бұрын
Technically, not 3 Yamato class Battleship were built and sunk, only two. Shinano*, the third sister was reconfigured before she was finished into the world's first supercarrier (this is a debatable topic but I believe this is true, you can choose the other options freely). But even she wouldn't been sunk, she was very poorly balanced, the superstucture was lighter than expected (go figure) and thus she was hull heavy, which meant that she would capsize more easily than her older sisters would. She "lived" for like 3 days if my memory serves right *= I got corrected, I mistook her for another carrier, my bad
@cadelussenden5144Ай бұрын
The name was Shinano
@ThrowawayModellerАй бұрын
Wat. Shokaku was a purpose built carrier. Perhaps you're talking about Shinano
@LastGoatKnightАй бұрын
@@cadelussenden5144 true
@LastGoatKnightАй бұрын
@@ThrowawayModeller yes, I misremembered, thanks for the feedback
@LastGoatKnightАй бұрын
@@ThrowawayModeller you're right. I mixed up the names, thanks for the feedback. That was on me
@ilduce4298Ай бұрын
12-70 bracket just means an army full of youth and experience
@arepupuАй бұрын
This was really enjoyable to watch! Good work
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thank you so much!!
@Saber7096Ай бұрын
Hey. Just letting you know you can fix the white boxes on boat glitch by changing your drive to direct x 11 on the start up page. Hope this helps 👍
@AldrahillАй бұрын
AH nice thanks! That does help, thank you
@user-ol1pi3kd6xАй бұрын
I would love to see you play Nationalist China in this mod.
@daninquin2732Ай бұрын
Should have just used a regular infantry division reinforced with marines and marine support companies as your marines since there was no marine divisions in the japanese army and they fought with regular divisions
@user-cb3dg2zm8iАй бұрын
Poland Historical Black Ice When?
@user-gt6do8qk8zАй бұрын
Really love how much work u put into the vid. Rarely seen this entertaining content, keep the good work up.
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Damn, thank you so much! Really trying to make something FUN, you know? Currently alternating between challenge videos and historical series :)
@gymMenMENАй бұрын
Another Bkack ice video🎉🎉🎉
@TheSomethingStoneАй бұрын
Finally another black ice video! This was Great, thank you, gave me a good laugh. Please keep posting this type of content if it's not to time consuming. Thank you!!
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Hey thank you! Next BIcE video won’t be for I think 3-4 weeks so I don’t get too exhausted, but thank you so much!
@user-vg7uk8hj1jАй бұрын
Aldrahill you are the best hoi4 content creator
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Oh dude thank you
@enusama_9384Ай бұрын
Finally he's playing the black guys mod 😍
@InternetPerson-ij3fh28 күн бұрын
This is like an old school HOI3 run. Very cool.
@Aldrahill28 күн бұрын
Ayy thank you :)
@igorgorczynski6339Ай бұрын
Black Ice Poland please🙏
@mackb2852Ай бұрын
Black Ice Australia would be really funny to see you attempt. Love your work!
@charlieturk2146Ай бұрын
knowing what japan did before joining ww2 historically, your commentary was completely accurate to its leaders' thought process
@Ntinos7971Ай бұрын
I find it amazing that your game speed in 1947 is faster than my speed with many opt mods and debug_smooth off in 1936 in base game.. Anyways amazing video. I enjoyed watching you suffer
@AldrahillАй бұрын
I recently upgraded my pc after 11 years so it’s running so fast xD thank you glad you enjoyed i :)
@ZakkiousАй бұрын
What specs did you get, man?
@AldrahillАй бұрын
I actually cannot remember the exact specs, but main thing is I got a super OP CPU because I was tired of not being able to get past 1860 in Victoria 3 :P One of the latest gen Intel ones I believe
@ZakkiousАй бұрын
@@Aldrahill Nice!
@IHasGoodJackstaa5 күн бұрын
Calling operation Ai operation "AL" like the Japanese abandoned their own Alphabet (which has no L) and decided to name their operation after an English name is very funny to me. It was followed by operation Steve and Jimmy I imagine. Not a diss at all its easy to mistake in the font but it made me chuckle.
@Aldrahill5 күн бұрын
Yeah I realised in editing how stupid that was xD
@danielboone8256Күн бұрын
22:10 What would infantry supporting MGs look like? Doesn’t MG supporting infantry allow more rifleman maneuverability?
@AldrahillКүн бұрын
Infantry supporting mg is what ww2 Germans did! :) the mg34/42 was the vital piece, with the actual riflemen providing the flanking and taking ground. In other armies, the mg only serves to suppress enemy infantry to allow riflemen to make moves
@khornatekrieger302320 күн бұрын
Ya know, these kindsa videos make me want a mod with like, Black Ice's depth and breadth of mechanics but also combined with like, Kaiserredux. I want schizo nation paths and the utter insanity of these 'realistic' mechanics.
@Aldrahill19 күн бұрын
Oh yeah that would be really cool :D
@LylescarАй бұрын
As an aussie, i love your pronunciation of wagga wagga
@AldrahillАй бұрын
WAGGA WAGGA BABEY
@nachtjager2467Ай бұрын
For those flickering unit models you have to set your hoi4 launcher to direcrX 9
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Ooo okay thank you!
@asianperson104Ай бұрын
Could you try China In blackice?
@Comerade_DanielАй бұрын
Ok. You want new idea? . . . Norway? Perchance?
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Definitely!
@misterperson3469Ай бұрын
Thats a sad Pearl Harbor. Cmon guys the Americans put all the battleships all in a row!
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Right?! I rolled super bad there…
@Creamy6015Ай бұрын
Day 1 of asking for historically accurate Yugoslav divisions
@caileanfindlytearle6936Ай бұрын
Ive been waiting for this!
@audiosurfarchiveАй бұрын
This basically turned into a slightly bizarre version of TNO
@sg_kerbАй бұрын
TANOHEIKA BANZAIIIII
@chadeller5588Ай бұрын
Is there a small map for 1v1? Tournament time!
@lucypatootieАй бұрын
love these videos mate, have seen all of them, keep up the good work :)
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Glad you like them! Really appreciate that bud :) more every week!
@temporaryname4121Ай бұрын
Congrats on the 50k!
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thank you!!
@dutch1641Ай бұрын
during one of my playthroughs i got stuck in china, my losses we're minimal all in all. andi was a advanced economy with perfect fleet. but china and the ussr had basically stalemated me in the mountains and had nigh equal divisions with antitank etc. and so their combined might made it impossible to push more than a province a year before supplies and logistic reserves ran out again and again. basically killing me because by that point it was too late for me to expect to hold a third front again america too.
@Lord-TeaingtonАй бұрын
I can only imagine how much work has to go into making these videos, but wanted to say I love these 😊 and I don’t mind a bit of historical leniency with some of the decisions or regiments
@giubgiubbi3409Ай бұрын
instead, how much work has to go into making such a complex and accurate mod.
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thank you! Yes indeed, it takes a LONG time xD Most of the week tbh
@infinite_way_studiov5825Ай бұрын
One Czechoslovakia, Sir, please!
@DannyCapM8Ай бұрын
Congrats on the 50k
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thank you!!!
@erke7835Ай бұрын
Italy next? I'm curious to see if you can match this Italy's performance x)
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Oh yeah looking forward to that xD Italy is in… 5 weeks I think?
@p_filippouzАй бұрын
Italy this time had prep time lol
@alexvonrom7942Ай бұрын
Black Ice Luxenburg when?? The children yern for the world conquest
@tyray3pАй бұрын
Something that's always bothered me with Black Ice (And HoI4 in general) is the way ships are handled. Prime example if less than 5 minutes into the video, you can't even start thinking of producing the Yamato because you don't have the techs researched, when in reality the ship was already being designed and laid in secretive dry docks. With the way the game works as of today, you "research" techs for ships that you should already have way later than you should, and to compensate the game makes it suuuuuper easy and quick to make massive battleships, or swarms upon swarms of DDs or SS/SSNs in unrealistic record time. I get that for casual play it works out for most people and they don't really bat an eye at the issue. But that's one thing that really hampers the strategic aspect of naval combat (the least-liked aspect of the game for many) by removing the forward planning of ship design and building.
@illuminati955Ай бұрын
TNO Japan Lore:
@PicklesthedonutfrogАй бұрын
Reform byzantium at its greatest extent using byzantine armies for division templates
@mohamdmlg9027Ай бұрын
Very nice Would love to see you redo some of the faild bice videos since now you know what to do
@AldrahillАй бұрын
A good idea for a stream sometime!
@mohamdmlg9027Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahill awesome
@theexecutiveassociatedАй бұрын
Great video, glad I could help you reach 50k
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Ayyy thank you! I don’t know why, I’m super stoked to hit it xD
@BellePepprsАй бұрын
"Singapore has fallen there were no guards" 😭😭😭😭😭😭 noooo Historically the Japanese did also sink two battleships that were sent to reinforce Singapore, although the ones you sank were kinda less modern ones. The Japanese sank the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, with the latter actually being there during Bismarck's attempted escape into the Atlantic. Playing Japan on BICE is also one of the things I like doing especially given how impactful their occupation is on my region's history. The interesting thing in BICE is that AI Japan very often manages to totally clean up China by the time they invade the South which is rather ahistorical... That certainly makes their invasion of Southeast Asia so much easier
@luftwaffle173Ай бұрын
Invading the US in blackice is insane, GG
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thank you! I can’t believe I pulled it off xD
@mrbloodhound009Ай бұрын
22:55 that fr(ah)nce really threw me ngl
@commandercorl1544Ай бұрын
32:29 All talk, no action, I see you're really comitting to the historical accuracy!
@xylixpachy9865Ай бұрын
Amazing video 👍
@Enderdeath2019Ай бұрын
Glory glory What a hell of a way to die
@yumsuc7069Ай бұрын
10:16 my immersion is destroyed due to the lack of warcrimes in this video
@AldrahillАй бұрын
I’m so sorry :( :( unit 731 was on holiday!
@Black-FishАй бұрын
Dude got a censored Carrier. Just like any censored stuff in japan 🤣🤣
@machination3eАй бұрын
Will they ever make B.I for hoi4 actually playable? No. The answer is no.
@poggingmilk9452Ай бұрын
Challenge: Conquer Europe as Luxembourg with accurate Divisions in Milenium Dawn
@Springy05Ай бұрын
Italy was... USEFUL???? WTF XD
@nemanja4758Ай бұрын
Just a heads up, you can turn on refineries before they are built so you don't forget to turn them on later
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Indeed that’s what I did at the start!!
@nemanja4758Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahill Was it cut from the video? I just saw you enabling the already built ones en masse, not assigning unbuilt refineries
@AldrahillАй бұрын
It must have been!
@ApriltheprotogenАй бұрын
Yayy!! Another upload!
@yesman6559Ай бұрын
Yes
@rondslott201229 күн бұрын
Black ice Finland would be cool
@ione2251Ай бұрын
Blackice historical poland.
@dolgulduripostaszolgalat7010Ай бұрын
33:38 mm something odd with the editing of the sound, just letting you know, i don't think that that was intentional.
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Ooo that’s weird! Crazy how small things slip through the cracks!
@crazywarriorscatfan9061Ай бұрын
Nice!
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Thanks!
@arespectivelime3578Ай бұрын
Black Ice Bhutan when?
@squirtleawesome1064Ай бұрын
Oh no, my Grandma would've been 12 by 1947... She lived in Sasebo. Hopefully women are exempt from the draft? I did remember she saw a photo of Japanese schoolchildren training with bamboo spears and she was like "Oooh I remember that"
@PolishGuy54Ай бұрын
Black ice poland when
@lime3612Ай бұрын
Where do you find the historical division statistics to do your historic presets?
@AldrahillАй бұрын
I do a lot of research through Google, mostly. Just finding sources, books, whatever I can find! I put all sources in a big sourcing document and I post that for all Patreon Supporters and Channel members :)
@timmyturner327Ай бұрын
この動画は見楽しかった。 お疲れ様アルドラヒルさん
@heirofwesterosАй бұрын
World ablaze historical divisions when
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Once I’m done with BiCE!
@dyrkuz5282Ай бұрын
When HISTORICAL FINLANDDD WUAAAA 🗣️🗣️❄️❄️🐺🐺🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮
@sombertownds149Ай бұрын
12:19 heeyyyy i saw/heard that
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Heard or saw what? :P
@sombertownds149Ай бұрын
@@Aldrahill the song refrence Its a banger song though
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Ayyyyy
@arkatoshhd8517Ай бұрын
Guys, thats no joke. I did not subscribe an a whole company banzai charged my house, my wwhole family is now dead
@AldrahillАй бұрын
F this guys family, F my subscribe :(
@TheBweadEaterАй бұрын
Thx god i subscribed just in time
@seekernomanjangoАй бұрын
Aland stands undefeated!
@AldrahillАй бұрын
ALWAYS
@wills4615Ай бұрын
Woooo more black ice Now I would wonder if aldrahill would be able to balance the power and the resources again but he forgets as every country but I am worried for the Japanese people now
@ussunitedstates2803Ай бұрын
Do historical divisions in cold war iron curtain as soviet
@user-bk2dj3bq4eАй бұрын
I like your content
@tylerhendrix14Ай бұрын
Can you go non historical with the black ice mod? Also does this work with the infantry equipment designer mod?
@AldrahillАй бұрын
Definitely want to :) and not sure about the infantry designer