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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Canada: single handedly sinks the entire Japanese navy, killing hundreds of thousands, bringing unbearable shame to high command and leaving the home islands utterly defenseless.

Allies: "Wtf why aren't you helping?"

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.

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

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

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

ISP has truly lost his sanity at this point

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.

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

Quick question:
WHERE'S THE RAT

Artillery only when?

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

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