Anyone remember when you could annex the Soviets as FDR for free

Imagine the reaction of the workers at the ports when you go and cancel all those half built ships.

You said you never did that path, Dave. But you did. When the new dlc came out, you were the one who introduced us to this strategy of the US annexing the Soviet Union

That McCarthy fella would like to have a chat with you.

Look, if you know from the start that you're going for Join the Unions, you can sort of preempt the supply problems by building railways in Siberia all the way to the Urals, while Russia is still dealing with a bad case of the Wermacht. It's not exactly an unforeseeable problem, you know...

Dave found himself on the CIA list after this video.

Curious if paradox even remembers how broken commie murica is. Very good shit Dave.

Imagine the US and the Soviet Union would have started to cooperate in the forties like this. Would the world have turned communist?

I think that if you don't join the war against the germans, you would annex all the soviet cores, including the ones that the axis took. Never tried it, but it's a theory!

It's also very good because some (all?) Of the communist focuses that reduce the effect of the great depression don't have timers before you can take the next one, so what you can do is start doing the historical focuses to reduce the great depression, then start down the communist path focuses to reduce it further before the timer ends, then switch back to historical, allowing you to end the great depression early, and stay democratic.

i am absolutely convinced persona music fits with anything

That intro for the initial preparations was amazing, every youtuber says the same things at the beginning of their videos but with this i saw everything and the people who wants guides to start have a nice click by click. More of this Dave please 👏👏

The Communal Property Act is actually what allows you to do the Communal Domain decision.

For anyone wondering, thay first song is called lava cake and is from p5

4:11 argument for planning economy over market economy. America under Roosvelt, went out of depression becauss of large intervention of government into economy.

That casual Persona jam on the background at start~

You can partially go down the left path even as democratic. It is MUCH better than the "traditional" path.

American here, although FDR’s new deal was very liberal it was actually Lyndon B. Johnson’s government that gave us most of the welfare we enjoy in the states today.

Its almost like austerity doesnt help get out of recessions/depressions

Ah yes, valkyria chronicles engineering theme. I see you are a man of culture as well.

10:20 Communal Property Act Decision can be done many times, not just once

I dig the Valkria Chronicles music whenever you dip into the unit designer.

Persona and Fire Emblem music? Based Dave as usual

Does anyone remember the video he did that was the hardest one? That video made me do that, and I struggled to do something until 1939 November. I did the hardest one, and that was Malta, but with 200% Germany and soviet union, you should do that really fun and vary hard 😁

Appreciate the use of Fire Emblem music

Hiring Walt Disney so that I can be op

CSA vs CSA ..... was ?

Great video. I’m having a hard time letting go of my flame tanks, I just add flame tanks and the AA tanks if I can afford it. The AA tanks are so strong I don’t think I need it

Victoria 3 when?

The use of Chaoz Japan when you landed in Japan was genius, Love Castle Crashers

Chasing daybreak when going for berlin is such a fitting theme

14:52 so question feedback, when you say the latest patch do you mean the open beta patch or like the one thats absolutely finalized for the community

it used to be you wouldn't have to go to war with Germany, that was just too OP

There Should be a Feature even in historical Games, when you Take an alt-history Path, big Nations or Nations around you are Influenced by that. For example, usa goes communist, than Canada and Mexico go fascist so to Balance Out the game.

i love that you used layer cake from persona 5 lol

about that gurantee american dream focus. it is somewhat related to one of FDR's later welfare proposals

Mexico: Nationalize the oil fields CSA: *Angry capitalist noises*

Haha, I guess the game devs are American if they think that pensions are a communist idea.

Excellent choice in Persona music

3:07 "when u close yours eyes but nothing changing at all "

Would have it been easier just to leave the annexed Ruskie armies to sit on the Urals (albeit with perhaps improved tech/supply) while punching through the Mediterranean to cap the Axis from their weak side?

9:45 Is that Valkyria Chronicles 4 ost?...

actually mr.Truman had done exactly left part of the focus tree and it did not create any civil war in the us.

You should do vapsid Estonia

feedback gaming vid drops, me happy

He used ParagonX9 - Chaos Japan during his invasion of Japan Marvelous

You can go Communist without ever going through a civil war as the US. I’ve done it before with the MTG DLC

You were building Nuclear reactors

Do you have to be in the war with Soviet enemy to hit the join unions button? If not, you can just hit it and annex Soviet, and peace out straight away

9:39 me after finding out that lincoln like Marx's ideas.

Hmmm, I wonder where Dave found that music at 1:25

So I don't think that flipping to communism as the united states should remove roosevelt from power if that path is "democratic socialism" because if it to show a reforming of the nation and it keeps congress, why earl?

Interesting that paradox made Patton a general for the communist side

feedback gaining class consciousness ?? 😳

persona 5 music heard persona 5 exploit when

I got inspired and did this one it was a lot of fun.

Hoi4 Dave Lofi release date when ?

Ugh... The USofA focus tree is so sad. 😭

Seen this done so many times. Never seen someone make the confederation of nations as the UK, and then turn fascist by 1939 (maybe can be done earlier) exploit

I hate naval invasions, I'm doing same one you did with prep before war and I don't have naval supremacy Sadge

Does Join the Unions give you cores on all of the USSR or just ownership?

Classic US play, but the editing here is pretty outstanding, 10/10

6:59 You do know that multiculturalism is not a panacea, right? Edit: I'm aware that it's likely part of the bit, but I'll leave this here for those who take it seriously.

I remember holding off the civil war until I had a large army with tanks and I crushed the Confederates in like a week or 2 because they didn't have anything that could really go toe to toe with tanks.

4:17 bro watched too much not just bikes

The CSA was in the right here.

love the Three Houses music 🥲

how is everyone?

Uhm, how many casualties did they inflict on you?

I thought i was very late with the focuses but somehow i outproduced you in terms of stockpile in infantry equipment (had like 30k guns) but then the war started while i was still democratic so i flipped to communism and won it within the year of 1938. Idk how but i guess luck

Dave: The path nobody just cos noone likes civil wars Me: But.... but I like Civil Wars

Never expected Paragonx9 on a hoi4 vid. :D

do you get cores on it, tho?

Hey Dave, A game mechanic I never hear you talk about is stealing technology blueprints. Maybe because of the RNG nature so it's not appropriate for your guides. It also requires 3 spys, ideally 4. I've recently started doing it and it seems OP, like getting 1942 computing machine in 1939 for 150 days of research OP. This was with only 3 spys, could do even better with 4 (italy can get 4 early) It seems less good with naval / military tech as you often just get small bonuses. Would love to see you test or talk about spy operations.

18:50 Oppenheimer bombs

For some reason when you go communist as USA you get to keep almost all of the generals in the Civil War(it's insane to think Eisenhower, Patton, etc would have ever supported communism but w/e) So, that plus the manpower bonuses pretty much make it always better than going fascist. I wish paradox would make a non aligned path for the USA to allow them to voluntarily become a monarchy if Britain goes non aligned, and then form the United Kingdom of America. This way you the player can play it instead of only having them as a puppet when playing as Britain.

I love that u did this path! I's actually my favourite path to play as the U.S. 😂

The problem with the US spending money today is that they have no one watching what the money allocated is used for. So, they hand money to a state to improve roads and bridges. Something like billions of dollars. After a set amount of time nothing has changed, and the money is nowhere to be found and the roads and bridges are still in terrible shape. Also bills purposed in the house and then sent to the senate. Today's legislation they use fancy words to describe the bill like "relief" or "infrastructure" and only about 10% of the purposed money will actually go towards that. One of the relief bills during covid gave Egypt 300 billion dollars for military equipment which at that time they bought exclusively from Russia the one before that mentioned cannabis over 70 times. The infrastructure bill as part of the "build back better" plan only had about 10% of the funds go towards infrastructure. It's not like the interstate and highways act at which billions went towards building our interstate system that money was used by the feds to build it and they built allot of it during the 50s and 60s.

Got here through discord!

It would be funny af if Stalin became your VP and you got Soviet advisors and military staff 🤣

mfw Fire Emblem Three Houses background music

18:49 nuclear reactors?

But its the tought That counts If when the south rised back again

Can someone pls explain this aa tank "meta"?

I like the fire emblem music

Best America build is still 1) core porta Rico 2) leave naval treaty 3) homeland security act 4) cap Allies 5) cap Germany 6) cap Japan 7) cap soviets You can get FDR holding 79% of the planet

Building Refineries

imo join the unions is an insanely strong decision

Iwai shop theme lol

They should have the USA core the USSR and rename the country to USSA or something

7:00 something something

I want to live in this alt-history.

Dude, I just wanted a HoI4 video.

Communists when the rich run out 💀

supply depots desperately need t obe reduced in cost they take so long to build

Me as the usa building nukes: 18:49

T planes will get you supply.

its a killing munchie

The irony of this 😂

Tip: If u not join the war againts Germany. U can anex whole USSR. Overrun Germany divisions, which going back to borders. Them declare war to Germany and anex them for free. Cuz whole German divisions are still in USSR.