Base Game Italy Is Ridiculously Overpowered (HOI4 Italy Rambler Guide)

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Today on the game known as Hearts of Iron 4 I'll be showing why I think Base Game Italy Is Ridiculously Overpowered. The HOI4 meme nation can actually be such a powerful support nation.
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Alex the Rambler produces videos on a variety of Strategy games while dabbling in other things from time to time. Expect extremely incompetent gameplay!
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@AlextheRambler 2 года назад

*Gigachad Italy*

@opaque_totc9275 2 года назад

yes

@calzybmapping3550 2 года назад

Yeeeeees!

@gamernewby1636 2 года назад

vs expectations

@ryanheredia9474 2 года назад

Indeed

@explodingwolfgaming8024 2 года назад

Based

@thesummergamer7245 2 года назад

if you send volunteers to spain, you can demand the balearic islands in exchange, which can be useful considering there's no other air base near

@ItsZombieNGL Год назад

Do u need dlc for that

@randomthingy4834 10 месяцев назад

@@ItsZombieNGLnope

@behroozkhaleghirad 2 года назад

It was so lovely to see Alex being serious and actually trying instead of memeing. From time to time, we need such serious games

@chickennugget6995 2 года назад

Indeed

@whitezombie10 2 года назад

Yeah

@brandonmaddox4607 2 года назад

No when did someone take HOI4 seriously?

@Dovahrish 2 года назад

The base game Italian focus tree is, in my opinion, the best one for newcomers since it's small and without many wacky alt-history paths. You can grasp easily how the focus trees work without too much information overload.

@nielsengrau1587 2 года назад

Yeah. There is a reason it’s the tutorial nation

@goldenhate6649 2 года назад

@@nielsengrau1587 Which is likely why they never updated the tree

@JagmasterGeneral12374 2 года назад

@@goldenhate6649 the new dlc is

@someother5512 2 года назад

I am going to guess that the new focus tree is going to make Italy weaker.

@honeynutreviews332 2 года назад

Weaker but more fun probably

@moontworks2232 Год назад

@Eeclyon *Papal Roman Empire anexes europe*

@nono_Hoi4 2 года назад

Day 5 of waiting for alex to play national populist United baltic duchy to restore the german state in kaiserreich 23:51 I couldn't agree more

@Tom-oj7si 2 года назад

Shut up spammer

@lordbonney9779 2 года назад

If Kaiserreich had achievements, that should be one!

@nono_Hoi4 2 года назад

@@lordbonney9779 If you have played it. It's worse than all the current hoi4 achievements in vanilla

@binbiwashere8739 2 года назад

Yes keep the campaign going! You can take out the world with a start like this!

@Selvanus 2 года назад

Someone made a scam bot for a tiny RU-vidr like Alex? Lol

@binbiwashere8739 2 года назад

@@Selvanus Indeed... That's pathetic

@davidhedstrom4569 2 года назад

A tip, create a spy agency and create a collab government in Yogoslava to get some compliance up

@lugerry 2 года назад

I tried his tactics and only lost one destroyer throughout the war

@arandomdude695 2 года назад

14 seconds ago, ima edit this when im done watching, EDIT TIME!!!! I've never seen an Italy doing that good on hoi4, other than the ultra tech ais, oh and, "Italy starts off pretty powerful" Italian ai: yeahh let's just pretend that never happened. Keep up the great work, I love your videos.

@barbaro2898 2 года назад

Q ladaiaaa

@ZvenoBlox 2 года назад

@Yourenowcontrollingyourbreath 2 года назад

Im waiting

@LordBota 2 года назад

@@barbaro2898 what u finna do with that pp

@biaaszinterneta1050 2 года назад

Please, recreate the Roman Empire from this point. This would be glorious

@GalacticExplorer83 2 года назад

Yea all he has to do to be number 1 in the world is annex his puppets France and Britain he would be so overpowered, the thing is it would take so long trust me.

@Prauwlet213 2 года назад

One thing that I'm definitely going to miss from unreworked italy is the ability to swap ideologies freely Basically, with most non focus tree nations, hungary, italy (and the warlords for some reason), and germany in the case of communism, you can appoint advisors freely, and go from fascist, to communist, to democratic, but now it's all done by focus, not decisions, you have to complete a focus to be able to get the advisor, then once you have 40% you take another focus, you switch ideology, that's it, you cant go any other ideology again. It really restricts what you can do in the game, and I really hate it.

@dogsittinggay7273 8 месяцев назад

You should get the toolpack mod it lets you give states cores and claims to any country it lets you change ideologies or lock it into one ideology you can add manpower or decrease it and tons of other stuff

@legal371 2 года назад

this man with 0 fuel most of the game still winning lol

@patricklapointe4979 2 года назад

As Italy I like to take Ethiopia slow so I can get state serves the military for 35 exp. I use the extra political power to send an attache to Japan and leave him there for the entire war. It really helps your exp and if your airforce has been active in Spain and Asia you can start the war with maxed out variants of all of your planes.

@endlesserrors 2 года назад

"I'll surrender barbarossa" Now that's foreshadowing

@Davidletter3 2 года назад

This save is pretty strong now. If you want to continue it I'd love to see it but seeing you take other "weak" or "meme" nations and do this would be fun also. This was a really satisfying game to watch, especially the with the naval stuff.

@alexh2947 2 года назад

People underestimate how strong free trade is, just having 1 or 2 resource rich puppets like turkey, yugoslavia or Romania can offset the resource defecits for 1 civilian factory each. Unless you have a crazy industrial base always go free trade.

@danabendu7294 2 года назад

Do you keep free trade when war starts?

@alexh2947 2 года назад

@@danabendu7294 I tend to, by then if I'm a large nation like Japan or Italy I'll usually have a large puppet like China or the aforementioned countries to supply most of my needs and I won't have to deal with resistance, in addition free trade gives away 80% of your own resources, meaning land you occupy has a lot less value. Aslong as you're self sufficient it is worth it to keep, if it's hamstringing your industry then get rid of it, but usually a puppet can account for that.

@breadlamberty8925 2 года назад

I played a democratic italy with superheavy tank meta and i survived all 6 years of ww2 against the germans only for germany to declare on the soviet even though they had no troops on the border so i got nothing in peace deal

@simplymatt6140 2 года назад

I don't know if it's too late to say, but I would like to see a world conquest as base-game Italy

@dont-rump901 2 года назад

Thank you for making my day today, Alex. Can’t wait to watch this tonight!

@marcobisi7768 2 года назад

Small tip: if you puppet Ethiopia you can skip the "Triumph in Africa" focus, plus Ethiopia has a custom name if it's puppeted by Italy, it's called "Italian East Africa".

@Boretheory 2 года назад

Because they were actually part of the newly created Italian East African colonial administration

@kirkvergason3573 2 года назад

Alex" the aim of this isn't to do a world conquest..." also Alex conquers world....

@jamesd3472 2 года назад

Fully expected your navy to be completely destroyed when you sent all the aircraft carriers around to France when they weren't repaired

@howtocapataingames429 2 года назад

“This is not a guide” has the word Guide in the title

@BetzeBert 2 года назад

Curious about Poland and US, because he ticked historical

@scott3017 2 года назад

It is pretty overpowered. I just recently formed Rome, then a Super EU (cores on all of the Roman Empire plus Germany), and it wasn't all that difficult. Challenging yes, but not hard.

@eveisunavailable 2 года назад

When you talk about AI and Italy in the same sentence, all i can think of is that time in a game i played where Italy did every other focus in its tree before triumph in Africa. The AI is something truly awesome to behold

@thekeiser553 2 месяца назад

Is it me or playing Italy or Germany I always forget to send volunteers to Spain

@subboid 2 года назад

Italy going for the Roman Empire thing makes them imo the strongest nation in the game. But it's tricky to get

@ronswearingen552 2 года назад

Every game I play as US, Italy takes Cairo before I can even get in the war. Historically they failed in almost every campaign. The opposite is true in-game. The game just has too many advantages given to the Axis.

@g2ltt733 Год назад

And yet when i play as Germany, italy gets steamrolled all the way from Ethiopia to libya lmao

@joehelland1635 2 года назад

I like to go airpower and carriers with italy.

@Tacoman-o1f 9 месяцев назад

the pizza empire

@fkmkl 2 года назад

Good format

@marcochiari4244 2 года назад

Time to rebuild the Imperium Romanorum!

@Orimbar 2 года назад

Where are the Balls-Comercials? #bringbacktheballs

@woodworm6369 2 года назад

puts on iron mode, procede to restart game not on iron mode

@Chaz16 2 года назад

Had to remove the French guarantee somehow

@DERBYCFC Год назад

@@Chaz16 The French guarantee is removed when they join the Allies

@c.s432 2 года назад

Me when i see the title: bruh stop trolling

@mikhailiagacesa3406 2 года назад

Italy has always done me well.

@Qwerty-of4cy 2 года назад

The Channel Battle HURTS ME as a navy guy, he could have killed the whole Royal Navy

@averyguiher1644 2 года назад

When I do Italy, I invade Spain as soon as their civil war is over. They're rather weak at that point so it goes fast. Makes taking Gibraltar trivial. I then help Germany work through Northern Europe and eventually naval invade Scotland from Norway.

@matteoclementi 2 года назад

I take out France before mid 1937 and after UK with their ships help. After that is just easy to win everyone else with Germany on your side.

@bigchungusdriplord2301 2 года назад

Everytime I do Italy after i get claims on Yugoslavia I justify and declare war on Yugoslavia while the French guarantee is still active. I hold my border with a few cavalry divisions. I then land with 4 paratroopers on Dieppe because 3/5 they dont have anything there. Oh, and of course by that time i already joined the Axis. I send most of my army in there and push. Usually with this strat you can conquer yugoslavia, romania and France by 1938

@Semovente7546 2 года назад

True sigmas invade Germany after capitulating France

@raidenromeo8427 2 года назад

I justify on Greece invade them call Bulgaria to the then kick them from the faction so I can take them and Romania in the peace deal

@alexsergio71 2 года назад

yea continue!

@m.m.8518 2 года назад

The big, damaged fleet without split off and any repair enabled made me feel real uneasy ngl

@pandabear4565 2 года назад

Damn. Ive played itsly a few times. My lack of oil always dooms me. Taking out romania is deffinitly something i must try

@clownshow_5727 2 года назад

Spelling is also something you must try.

@BukanChurchill 2 года назад

I laughded at this

@scottjuhnke6825 2 года назад

"CAS is King...Especially once Socialism has been realized." Alessandro Rambolini.

@НикитаФомин-ю8ц 2 года назад

Италия с упором на флот и авиацию

@barryfraser831 2 года назад

CAS is Caesar

@legendarymons3 2 года назад

How do you send disaster saves ? srry if i sound like an idiot i just don't know, do you send the files idk?

@murad0139 2 года назад

Got the same chair as Alex, very nice

@japaneseshogun5252 2 года назад

keep up the good videos alex❤

@someperson8641 2 года назад

Nice

@williambarraco7212 2 года назад

Continue this^

@pjdelta4056 2 года назад

Judging by your thumbnail I bet you do good :)

@TheDaniolip 2 года назад

Why Germany didn't declare on Poland? Also dutch east indies became fascist for some reason

@LockeTheAuthentic 2 года назад

You're not dobe till you're mousilini with leaves on your head

@zoso8700 2 года назад

Continue!

@Thegameallday 2 года назад

how many times did you use console commands

@farmerjoe6204 2 года назад

Please make a part 2 or something.

@berncrispimdossantos4731 2 года назад

Sick

@petermann673 2 года назад

Was expecting preview of the new DLC because who needs reading comprehension. But this was a pleasant surprise!

@hawksnebula1506 2 года назад

This reminds me of your 2017 format of videos - watched one recently and the no facecam + music is a neat experience.

@f-dog13tactics61 2 года назад

Continue

@justaplayer2250 2 года назад

Invade Bulgaria and be the total Lord of balkans

@ptenesnet 2 года назад

Somehow you avoided having the Brits jump in when you declared war on Yugo - that certainly helped. I guess you squeaked in on that one early enough and Germany paid the world tension penalty. Well done. You might make me a believer in carriers..

@AlejandroP123 2 года назад

Love the extra confidence you show when you don't use face cam, you probably feel quite a lot of pressure from thousands of people watching you. I struggle in class presentations, which is only in front a couple dozen of people.

@Jimothyjohns 2 года назад

3:49 disgusted that Italy has 4 research slots and France only has 3

@apex1757 2 года назад

Unfortunately, the French are French

@DonForceFeedback 2 года назад

This should not be finished until the world is taken over! Even your allies.

@vasiliosmitropoulos5590 2 года назад

This poped in my feed today, i was like "this will be fun to watch"

@crypticgaming9618 2 года назад

Me and my brother are about to do a Germany + Italy game with the naval rework mod, this video came out at the right time, love ur vids keep up the good work

@DiviX72 2 года назад

Is this the newest update of the game? Mine doesn't have a doctrine slot anymore, it goes through the commander's panel

@kimchi2780 Год назад

Is soft attack better with small pp? LOL!

@zarinth 2 года назад

I don't know about the carrier play, Italy and kick some serious butt with some decent Cruisers.

@philipbenson5235 2 года назад

i love alex

@monikamyszko5512 2 года назад

HI Alex, are you ok? Why are you playing as Mussolini's boy?

@TheUltimateTsunami 2 года назад

Today we are of course back on "Hawts of Ion Four" very iconic

@esbenk.d.jensen9345 2 года назад

You’ll do great Alex :)

@christianhennebold8274 2 года назад

continue 🙂

@Horizontalvertigo 2 года назад

I digged this, feel free to make more country playthroughs 👍

@Horizontalvertigo 2 года назад

Wao, Alex has hit the big time, scambots have noticed him

@nicklibby3784 Год назад

What does base game mean? No dlc?

@vulpersderboss5143 Год назад

Without mods I think

@James-rm7sr 2 года назад

I have done a very similar play through. Italy for WW2 feels way to strong.

@wilberdebeer4696 2 года назад

Not really, it's only strong in a player who knows what they are doing hands but currently Britain and France are each stronger when done by a player of equal skill.

@FeralGrizz 2 года назад

Would love to see this continued!

@josephl3278 2 года назад

Meanwhile my Italy game yesterday results in me destroying the british in the med and North Africa within a year. Then I look up to France, and Germany is at 1.2 million casualties stuck in the Benelux cycle charging into fortified lines having lost their entire airforce...

@funzo2018 2 года назад

Yeah that happens to me too. Whenever Italy does well, Germany goes poo poo

@flickerdart 2 года назад

And after all that, Germany didn't even get Alsace-Lorraine.

@sandstorm9305 2 года назад

The rambler Roman Empire - all I’m saying is he’s the self proclaimed best total war player

@Canada1994 2 года назад

To me the meme and understanding of Italy wasn't that they are trash since they are quite good when led by a player, but that the AI never garrisons their homeland so a single allied invasion capitulates them and that the focus tree just limited what they can do not to mention the "tank" division template that is just cavalry with a single light tank. Thank God Italy finally gets an expanded focus tree in By Blood Alone.

@fuglbird 7 месяцев назад

He's using DLC's. It's not the "base game".

@cdub35071 2 года назад

What? Italy? How non-historical! Great video as always. Also, hi Matt.

@j0sefant0ni0 2 года назад

"That's gotta be the best Focus Tree I've ever seen..."

@liammozza2330 2 года назад

So it would seem

@cespu_iv4519 2 года назад

The fact that irl Italy didn't just invade the Allies in '36 just goes to show how incompetent we were at the time.

@themaavpage8169 2 года назад

no, it's called HINDSIGHT

@yeetusdeletus8489 2 года назад

Irl italy itself was in a pretty bad place lol, tbe best time to invade would be '43 or '44

@McAwesomeNuggets 2 года назад

Continue please!

@FunkyMonkeyI 2 года назад

I usually puppet Ethiopia.

@Hartsock252 2 года назад

I am subscribed, but I can't give you a like, cause right now its the Number 4292.. it looks better than 4293.. I am terribly sorry.. I will look later..

@lodofuchs3346 2 года назад

Competent Italy *AND* competent Alex? What parallel universe is this?

@stevepirie8130 2 года назад

There are speed runs as Italy that beat most majors in ‘36 which is plain madness. One of the really powerful parts to Italy is actually starting at war allowing very cheap and fast war justifications. Yes you’re not an industrial powerhouse at first but go grab them from your enemies like U.K, France, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Spain, etc.

@nawolith3840 2 года назад

A cóntinuation of this would be interesting to see! I enjoyed this a lot, even made me think of doing my own run there.

@lucaricci1861 2 года назад

More please

@esbenk.d.jensen9345 2 года назад

Amazing :)

@timszar3949 2 года назад

Chad Italy strat: Farm Ethiopia for 75ish Xp Invade Austria in late 1936 to screw Germany 14/4 base infantry with 20 width mountaineers 6/1 canal divisions in Libya and abandon Ethiopia Declare war on Germany when allies do With Germany out of the way the world is yours

@opaque_totc9275 2 года назад

or you can speedrun roman empire with cheese 10 day justifications while 5 divisions stand outside london :)