I Played Hearts Of Iron IV Until 1960 (It Was Not Fun) 

ISP, blink twice if you're being held hostage and forced to play hoi4.

Gotta love how you can get barely any War Participation by building a massive navy from scratch that sinks the biggest and best enemy navy single-handedly.

16:55 imagine a world where most families in italy had a relation that died in the great battle of birmingham. The great grudge between Italy and Birmingham

Man i sure do love the map game that definitely doesnt fucking drive me insane

Isn't even mentioned at 18:13 that the Canadians have sunk the Bismarck, without torpedo planes this time.

8:52 Fun fact, the Canadian navy did end up with aircraft carriers after the war. Historical accuracy!

also worth noting that the "maritime railways" focus gave you factories literally as far away from an ocean as geographically possible.

If you don’t have Man the Guns DLC, heavy cruisers are still their own research item which is probably why they haven’t updated the focus tree

Can't wait for him to do the Czechoslovakia focus that gives 10 naval xp for 70 days after you get a coastal province

To be fair. Canada did have the world’s 3rd most powerful navy at the end of WW2. Granted every other navy that wasn’t an Allied Navy was sunk but it’s something

Quick question: WHERE'S THE RAT

Road to 56 is designed to extend the playable time by several years, you played beyond even their end date.

ISP has truly lost his sanity at this point

I love how democratic Germany at the end demanded Slovakia and partitioned Yugoslavia

5:33 Habakkuk is referring to a WW2 plan to make naval carriers out of pykrete (basically a special blend of pulped wood and ice) that was based in Canada. It was kind of successful, but not enough to be actually used in the war. Pykrete is still used to make roads in the far north because it's as strong as concrete without the risk of cracking from the cold.

I've played till 1991 before in the USA state mod with the whole world active as a newer player. I played as Minnesota and slowly took over all the America's North and South. After I finally consolidated the America's and having ignored the rest of the world I had discovered the Axis lost and after that the allies lost to the Comintern. Japan had taken all of China and was now fighting the Soviets there. I naval invaded from Brazil into Africa and began to push with infantry only not having the industry to support anything else. I did this game back in like 2019 so it was a much much older patch. There was no zone in North Africa preventing movement. It was just a zero supply nightmare tile for me to try to push through. I slowly burned through my small limited manpower taking all of south and central Africa and got to the doorstep of southern Egypt before I ran completely out of manpower. As Minnesota a single state of the US with no other owned territory as core. Everything else was occupied. Manpower was a problem. This is where I finally stalled out. It had reached 1991 and my old HP laptop who played the game really slow as soon as it reached 1938 got to the point where min of real time was a day of game time and I just couldn't take the slog any more. I had to retire from the campaign. My Navy stacks of only aircraft carriers with overstacked airplane wings on them of a couple thousand on each not understanding anything now Navy works using them as death stacks wasn't helping me much for Naval control and my industry couldn't support an airforce or tank industry. I was human wave offense on scrapping the barrel running out of manpower. I was even using the old default focus tree giving nationalism and the military youth thing getting the extra 7% manpower. In the 80's of the campaign I switched to mobile warfare and did the choices for extra manpower in a desperate last ditch to get extra manpower as I had been running desperately low. The vassal storm of the Soviet Union finally just wore me down to the point I couldn't finish. Resources exhausted. Manpower gone. Sanity finished. This was my greatest game. I still wish I could have found a way to finish it

by the end of that war there are men fighting it who were not yet born when it started. the only world they knew was War. all because canada left the british empire and built a navy. makes ya think.

ISP, think you should call this series Focus Tree A-Z. It tells people what the series is, and it rhymes!

THE RAT GIVE US THE RAT

Artillery only when?

Petition for ISP to play Bhutan until 2024

If you use light cruisers and carriers, i reccomend to make cheap heavy cruisers as meatshields to absorb heavy attack, otherwise your carriers will absorb all the heavy attack.

I once ran a campaign until 1970 with communist China... I had the historical focus deactivated... I will not deactivate it again

People who play naval into the 1960s should be locked in a padded room

You've gone to 1960 I now dare you to play till 2036.

They really do need to have a look at war participation. Air and naval contribution is grossly undervalued, and occupation is massively inflated.

Ah, Habakkuk, the 1.6km (1mile) Ice and Wood Aircraft carrier Guess that research went to advancing tech, even if we'll never get such a ship (both in real life and Hoi4), except maybe in the far future

video: 1958 thumbnail: 1966 how can he get away with this?

17:10 Mao and Chang did a historical swap lmao

yeah i think the german ai is putting too many troops on the eastern front that explain both why the allies are so successful early while the soviets are struggling until 1944

I had a Kaiserreich game as Japan go until the mid 1970's last week. It was actually kind of fun since I was Japan and had to conquer basically the entire planet (China & USA for their core wars, then cleaning up Asia, followed by Africa and a few wardecs on minors for resource stealing) to be able to outproduce the gigantic German-Italian-Austrian monobloc that had taken out the UK, France and Russia, in order to get rid of their resources so I could counter their 100,000+ plane count. I ended up dropping a lot of nukes then invading with a huge force of amphibious tanks & amtracs.

The fact that Canada still has the light cruiser and heavy cruiser focuses is probably because the navy rework only applies to Man the Guns owners. But they could still make a dynamic focus tree that changes based on whether you have the dlc enabled, I know they did that with Poland with the polish cipher bureau branch that only appears with La Resistance enabled

Can’t wait for historical Tana Tuva

I think I once sunk the Bismark with two canadian Battleships, an escort carrier, and 20 screens

He has been contained in the lab safely and will continue to make hoi4 videos forever

Imagine living in this timeline where WWII lasted for almost 20 years and the casualties numbered probably somewhere in the 100’s of millions when you include all the civilian deaths

You deserve 800k subscribers after that focus tree

Naval HOI4 ISP videos are always my favourite ones

One tine i had to play as Persia until 1961 until I could build a navy and invade US. It was one of the most fun campains I've ever done.

this really sounds fun. i might try this aswell

Wait, this isn't an ISP video without the Ironside sponsor at the start!

ISP drove my house while under the influence

Sir, you could play Pacman and I'd watch. You're comedic timing is perfect.

This is Insane even for isorrowproductions

I'm baffled at how expensive a navy is to build, but sinking every boat from every opposing navy contributes almost no score, but by golly you can shoot down 1000 planes and get 20 percent.

Ive been having a lot of fun playing naval minors these days. Sweden, Portugal, Spain, etc. Even Argentina without dlc. Its kinda relaxing. Like, no expectations for impact until like 42' or 44' 😂.

Your one of my favorit hoi4 youtuber

As a Canadian I can confirm that he broke as many war crimes in his playthrough as we did in WW1

The thumbnail was truly our road to 66

Yesterday I was playing Brazil on historical and Carlist Spain spawned. And won.

A race to Berlin with the Danish was a nice treat

I haven’t watched this video yet and half of it it’s defo gonna be chaos

The hero I didn't know I needed.

Fix existing trees? LOOK OVER THERE SOUTH AMERICA DLC

If you think that's bad I played a game til 1963 as Finland historical made Nordic unity after the winter war and russians capitulation and took out every major except Japan

1960 - The year ISP was born

22:26 The remnants of Spain are in regions of Spain that hate being part of Spain.

I tried to do something similar, but my fleets spends weeks on fighting submarines, shooting down 1, leaving 30 and repeat :( I had radar and depth charges, yet submarines usually get away

Mordred Viking stamp of approval for naval dominance

ISP has truly sacrificed his CPU for this video💀

I once had to play until the late 1980s to level up Li Zongren to a level 9 field marshal 😔 I'd never played past the 1970s before then, and that was only once.

Another day, another ISorrowProductions quote being turned into a shirt!

I have heard playing past 1945 destroys PC but to play to 1966 sounds like Nasa computer on verge of extinction

ooh, your playing a new game like Hearts of metal 4 or Iron hearts 4 or whatever this games name is! very curious as to what this game is

Just some tips ISP, build some BBs so they take the heavy damage from the enemy's BB, if you don't they will go after your CVs

It's okay isp, we won't tell anyone about the second channel. After all, there's still no rats here

Poseidon eatin good today bb

ISP should do a navy tutorial someday

Im currently doing that right now, as Bulgaria i just capped the US after dealing 12 million casualties to the Allies.

I've played till 2025 but used toolpack to spice things up so I wouldn't get bored.

ISP, I have an extraordinary video idea! Play as Jan Mayen. All you have to do is go down the Anastasia path as Poland, get Wojtek as leader and own Jan Mayen. After that, you can release Jan Mayen and play as them. You also get a pretty overpowered leader. Hope you see my comment :)

Bring Rat, or me bring RAT

You should have played with Extended Tech Tree 1960 lol, it's a favorite of mine that takes the vanilla tree and just extends it a bit. It's a lot of fun if you hate yourself like I do

I once played a game until 2003. Russian Empire achievement run. I had to fight literally every focus tree nation except Japan.

5:08 There goes iSP, C-posting again

I'm a simple Canadian (Newfie, so they don't come much simpler) - I see a Canada run, I cross-check the like button and leave a comment :)

As a Royal Canadian Navy vet this video was amazing thank you ISP for the representation

Remember guys, You paid for the commonwealth DLC once. But now its part of the base game so you clearly never have had a commonwealth dlc.

Hello, first off, love the content (even if you’re definitely playing HoI4 on your accord and remaining sane watching the map change colors) But if I could ask, would it be possible for you to show vehicle/division templates and designs. I struggle to know what’s good to put in them. Even if you only show a single image of them, I’d be very greatful. If you don’t want too for whatever the reason, that’s fine. I still love the content all the same.

5:33 Hey, that focus name, isn't that the pykrete aircraft carrier? The one made of ice and sawdust? ... Imagine if that focus gave Canada a unique pykrete armour module.

ISP, do artillery only, trust you'll gain a bazillion views

3:57... it's like this for air research bonuses too... all "fighter" and "cas" research boosts are now just "light airframe" research boosts, even though they still say "fighter" and "cas" in the focus trees. So yeah, getting 1944 light airframe now is doable by most nations around 1941/42 at the latest

I don’t have the patience to play a vanilla game for this long

I once played until 1960 in a Kaiserreich playthrough

Cruel and Unusual

Daily petition for ISP to do Artillery Only 3

Over 787000 subs - we’re 13000 poor halpless fools away from….ALF.

We demand the rat

We want Trotsky and rat

You're supposed to use at least as many heavy ships as you have carriers in order to screen them.

road to 56's version of this focus path is actually kinda sorta fun kinda not really but its better than vanilla

ISP's 2nd channel is run by his Evil Twin, they had a rivalry going on for a while.

The way British people say Newfoundland never ceases to amaze.

19:22 -ISP 《What is...》 -Me: 🎶Love; baby dont hurt me. No more🎶 -ISP *PROCEEDS TO NUKE* -Me: Well, it was to be expected...

Me, a road to 56 player, "wait this isnt normal."

Switzerland navy only when?

Ngl the navy was on a different level of nasty

"Mr President... They've hit the second channel."

Naval hungary next

The rat...