The New Germany Kaiserreich Update Is BRUTAL 

*'Chuckles' I'm in danger!*

as Germany, you NEED to send volunteers to win. Like when the balkan war kicked off, you should have aided Bulgaria. a Balkan front really weakens Germany in the war. same with Spain, Italy too if you can afford it.

ok I finished watching the video (may as well comment again for the algorithms): at the start of the Second Weltkrieg, you get a debuff "Lacking Preparedness" depending on factors like how well you did in the card game (debuff bigger if over 150% debt, for example), and what military focuses you didn't do. I guess yours was like -35% defense or something. So that's something to keep in mind - together with all the other stuff! You said you didn't expect to read a novel...it's really just the first few years. But if you do everything just right, the game's a breeze. GERMANY TIP: SPD path gets the best army buffs

Send this one the bittersteel, I'd love to see him magically win somehow!

One of these days Alex is going to throw out his neck during one of the intros. That man is vigorous

Such a good update- previously Germany was far too strong. I love a good challenge. I may or may not have played to 1950 on my first Germany run this update LOL

You know a game is hard when it causes a crisis of confidence

Hey if you want to try this again, the path you chose (the SPD), is the hardest one by far, I had success with Schleiner, you have to deal with the Ruhr strike at the beginning of the game lees efficiently than you did (weirdly unintuitive and you can check specifics with the path guide), during war sit with really good infantry (I personally went grand battle plan just for more entrenchment but you could probably get away with less), and just hold until you get rid of your debuffs, make the most quality fighters you can and just focus on one air zone on interception (I think it still trades better?) And slowly out industry France, then Britain, then Russia, making really good tanks once you have mills to spare, also radar was key for winning the air war for me. Hope this helps and I look forward to seeing you try again!

I'm personally quite alright with reading lore (read all the progress reports and the political lore of the interwar years and stuff) and events and tooltips and stuff, and man, keeping the SPD government, winning the card game, getting all the constitutional focuses, etc - the endgame felt so good. It's okay to not have it perfectly on your first attempt though!

There’s an option in the game rules to disable the Black Monday card game

When i first did this i didnt realize how the card game worked so black monday lasted until....41

Honestly, I'm not a fan of this card game. You get so many news and decision pop ups and then you add this card game on top. It's going to scare people from wanting to play Germany. Sometimes simpler is better.

Now i understand what the Devs meant with "The Democratic Path is the hardest", because some People really do not want to read what they should do and instead just click on anything that looks good. The Coalition Path is real fun if you try to understand the different mechanics.

Alex, You should try this again, but read the Focus tree first, there are lots of ways of ending the Black Monday Crisis early' and of preparing your military for war. Germany is now a real challenge compared to the original mod.

Jesus christ USE YOUR FOCUS TREE AND READ!!!!!! "I cant change manpower" USE THE FOCUS TREE

15:18 the are decissions that will reform your agrarain policies and remove your debuff (it turns into a buff if you continue reforming your policies)there is same thing for goverment paraylisis too

I only recently had had beaten my germany playthrough of Kaiserreich as the SPD (My first playthrough is always of the most popular party at the start of the game), ive had a few attempts because I kept doing stuff wrong for the 2WK, but it was a knowledgeable experience (literally on my first attempt the turks took control because i forgot the demand for action timer). I had a whole army of medium tanks to be my breakthrough army (also DU is all about manoeuvre warfare doctrine, i believe was stated on the progress reports) and high level forts across the frances border. Only thing i was abit disappointed by was the mitteleuropa focus tree and agenda's breaking, couldnt do the one agenda that allows me to progress down the tree. Overall very fun, cant wait to try another ideology of Germany, probably Social Conservatives as they are the second highest ideology

Yeah, Alex thought it would just be a breeze lol did'nt even care to send volunteers throught the game

I'm not done with my Germany playthrough as WK2 only started at the moment i'm writing this. However so far i've been doing good I could say. I chose the SWR coalition path ("the Conservative Revolution") and was rather unlucky in th Reichstag mechanics as I only got in power in late summer 1936 as opposed to my (short-lived) first try before the bug fixes patches where I got in power in merely 3 months. After this rough start, I quickly got back on tracks while fixing the Black Monday issue. I'd say i got luckier this game because i managed to get debt under 150% during the whole game (this later on affects the negative modifier you get when the 2nd Weltkrieg starts). Meanwhile, I didn't have to do much during the Ruhrkampf minigame. I stacked some PP and did the foci of the political branch first and foremost as they prove to be quite useful for a later minigame : Hugenberg and the DVLP conference. I had to thwart Hugenberg's ambitions at becoming Chairman of the DVLP and if failing to do so, prevent him from splitting the party otherwise the coalition would be doomed.The foci i already did allowed me to sway more pary members to my cause and away from Hugenberg. I proceeded to win the conference easily with that preparation done. After Black Monday was won in early 1938 I switched to the military branch and reformed it along the Altgardisten's (Old Guard) views before the Weltkrieg which began in april 1940 in my game.

I’m pretty sure French-puppet Germany has a special focus tree now

All you need to do to beat Black Monday is take the focuses in the Forbidden One branch, allowing you to summon Exodia and end the crisis instantly

My first playthrough would have been just like yours if it was on speed five like yours. But I took my time reading the politics and in early '41 the spooky war was won.

I won the first time, beat the black monday game with around 180% debt, progressive party succeeded, i kept the coalition strong and chose to spend political power on every option that came up in events. i had -20% modifier at the beginning of the war and just build rows and rows of forts otherwise france would just push me, but i found that it was the allied divisions that could hold better against them. i broke through around the low countries and led several follow up encirclements following the northern french coastline before sending all my tanks on a beeline for vp's. was easier after that I dedicated a lot of attention to volunteers during the chinese civil war and the american civil war to stop the commies

"Im not bad at the game" - loses horrifically;)

KaiserReich: It's time to du du du dudududu duel.

When will you do a non-monarchist play through? Also that is some good art.

When you pay too much for a stripper: 8:00

this is one of the hoi4 videos ever

Don't feel bad, i lost all of southern Germany my first time, and that was with like 10 restarts of the first 3 months of the war.

Aaw man, I was looking forward to Rambler giving this to Bitter Steel LOL

In the few months I've had fantastic fun playing S-P and Australasia, but playing the recently updated Ireland felt EXACTLY like this. Far too many lore bombs, far too many hidden events, far too many hidden mechanics, and far too many focuses locked off without warning until you hover over them and search the tree to find the relevant FT. Someone worked very hard to add all this content, but it feels like they got lost in the sauce and forgot people play the mod for reasons other than pure, constant exposition.

Keiserreich Germany campaigns in a nutshell: "🔥This is fine.🔥"

Some focuses keep Germany way too strong even in this update.

"I'm not bad. I'm not bad at the game. I'm not bad. I'm not bad!!" Who are you trying to convince, Alex? Us or yourself?

Alex my Boi..whoa oh Rambalam!

The Kaiser tried to save the Empire, then it was destroyed.

Right. Germany is hard to play now, making it a much greater challenge.

I think I'm going to have to unsubscribe. I'm just too frustrated with every single video involving Alex not reading any events or looking at the focus tree, never doing research, and constantly having unused factories. The videos just aren't entertaining anymore. Half of them are just Alex barely even playing the game and instead constantly talking about how he's overwhelmed and confused while the game continues running at five speed in the background.

I hope the video is great. Your challenges are always challenging

even in the old patch i got mugged by france as germany (x

Definitely send this to BitterSteal. I wanna see him work his way out of this one.

Aw Cmon Alex it's okay you gave it the old Rambler try

Hard to watch xD Pls manage your icons at the top of your screen haha

yeah I played this update as well and im in 1944 the bastards that are the entente have only been able to somewhat invade Mexico while ukraine and I (Germany) have taken Paris, almost gotten to London and such else (with also the help of russia.)

Stop playing kaiserreich spd path everyone plays it and i wanna see how dvlp path looks

Na mate you did better then me, i went i to a civil war in 0.1 milliseconds😂

22:11 Doubt

I play Germany 3 times to get the right strategy to win so I realise that you need to get good tanks and sent volunteers to make the French weaker and sent the puppets troops in the eastern front

If bittersteel can save this game he can save any game

I have gotten my sh*t kicked in with the new update. I love it

alex the wambler upload!! 🎉

I have always seen that you can play as far as you want in the game with almost 0 problems with speed, when I play, by 1943 my game takes 30 seconds to get past a day, is there a way to fix this?

GDP? Debt?! *TNO traumatic flashbacks*

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14:10 Time to Steal😅

Honestly I prefer Kaiserredux, at least in that mod you don’t have to play cards to end the black Monday. So the only advice I can give you since the mods have many differences is to use your puppets’ divisions in the east to create a wall of men against the Russians and in the west make very good divisions and after you get out of the crisis invade the UK and from there strike at France. For the French you just need to create a ton of fronts to split their armies and then push

A mini game? Pity, I will miss this mod.

love Ur vids bro

“The young Turks seize control” *Armenians* 😳

Hy i need some help :) How do i keep Scleicher?? I tries everything :)

The only battle Alex ever lost was the one for his hairline

You are not bad at the game Alex you are bad at reading😀

5 minute gang keep up the good work

Saw it before ten mins whooop

The economic crisis minigame is something that would work better in a vic3 type game. Hoi is supposed to be about warfare and army-centric economy, not running a functioning country

Honestly this needs to be sent to bitt3rsteel otherwise there is no hope

Can you play as Portugal in the Empire Mod?

All you youtubers pick the SPD path. Im fairly certain the other paths are unobtainable

Hi Alex

Hey Alex you should go jim 🌞

immagine getting encircled by an ai in sp lmfao

Alexanderrrr

Hi

Lore of The New Germany Kaiserreich Update Is BRUTAL momentum 100

Skill issue.

Uppppppp

basically tno but earlier now lmao

Commenting 4 algorithm

you've been on a losing streak lately,, lmao

You aren't bad, This update makes germany so weak and other reason is you are a noob player in kaiserreich LOL