FACT: 99% of kamikaze pilots return to base before completely breaking the enemy's will to fight

Paradox taking notes on how much overcomplication is too much from the HoI4 modding community:

How complicated do you want the mod to be?    Mod creator: Yes! Please.

'sir we've ran out of naval bombs.'
'No Tanaka, you're the naval bomb. Now get in that zero.'

As awesome as super realist mods always look, it’s always crazy that hoi4 modders are even worse at game design then paradox is.

“If I don’t know what I’m doing — the enemy doesn’t know either” seems to be an actual historical IJN doctrine. For example, when they have planned a raid in Indian Ocean, the allies knew Japanese plans before they even departed, but instead of following their own plans, IJN decided to send the assigned aircraft carriers to pursue a non-existent US fleet, where they hit the ground and had to postpone the operation due to the repairs, which actually allowed them to surprise the allies

The man who couldn't micro the side of a barn is now trying out one of the most micro heavy mods I have seen

Black Ice is a mod made by those extra schizo people who played HOI4 for 5,000 hours, decided it wasn't 'deep' enough, snorted ten lines of coke, downed three litres of off-brand energy drink, then made a mod.

The Empire of Japan, liberating Asia from European colonizers, but not from colonialism.

Black ice modder:
Mom, I want to open and fiddle with excel.
Mom:
We have excel at home.
Excel at home:

As a Burmese, I can confirm that it is still a miserable place.😂

Ok but when will they add water as a resource for italians to cook their spaghetti.

Crazy to think that technically Japan is home to the manufacturer of such a reliable vehicle that Toyota technicals are a well used form of combat during the 21st century and a common theme in popular media

please continue playing Black Ice

Historically, the reason for the late Japanese mobilization at 4:26 is quite simple:

After the firefight at the Marco Polo Bridge, the Japanese government under Prime Minister Konoe Fumimaro initially reacted very hesitantly to the news of battle, with the intention of NOT(!) allowing the situation to further escalate, as Japan (who would've thought) wasn't prepared for a full-blown conflict with China.

In contrast, there was the Kwangtung Army stationed in Manchuria, which had already shown strong initiative during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria in 1931. In order to escalate the conflict in China they once again deceiving the Japanese government about their true intentions by falsely claiming that Japanese troops in China were in grave danger.

While the Kwangtung troups moved further and further into China the government found itself unable to stop their own troups or expose itself before world and Japanese public of having lost control of its own army, the Japanese government finally gave in and began mobilizing.

So the Nationalist army officers finally prevailed by once again confronting the government in Tokyo with a fait accompli.

The nost realistic mod indeed: "I dont know what im doing, the enemi wont neither"

Your hoi4 videos are some of my favorite out there! They're the perfect balance between commentary, memes and showcasing the content.

The fact that presumingly large amount of your population and perhaps even military were starving for half of the game. Yet it seemed to be of no consequence, is somewhat amusing.

Yooo my suggestion was turned into reality! Editing and commentary is a masterpiece, keep it up!!! I enjoyed this a lot.

you can actually change how much food your people get