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Digging up the OLDEST Hearts of Iron IV Mod: Apres Moi Le Deluge

LoreDad

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Apres Moi Le Deluge is the fifth-oldest mod on the workshop, and the first full-conversion alternate history mod ever made for HOI4, even before Kaiserreich made the jump from Darkest Hour.

In my LoreGrave videos, I usually cover mods that I was already very familiar with. But this HOI4 mod is so ancient and beloved that it feels less like reviewing a mod and more like raiding a catacomb.

Usually I focus on dead mods because there aren’t any active developers who might be perturbed by some YouTuber explaining how they should have made their project while they’re still working on it. But because this mod is so loved, it would be like desecrating an ancient tomb by even approaching it.

Regardless of this fear, I took on this challenge, but instead found that this scenario may have been far more suited to becoming a Victoria 3 mod rather than a Hoi4 mod. But why?
Well, let’s get into it!

Credits:
Video by @Loredad
AMLD Mod made by the AMLD team

Links:
LoreDad Discord: Discord: discord
ANLD Discord: Discord: discord
ANLD Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile...

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:11 - The POD
05:31 - Determining America
09:35 - The Springtime of Nations
17:22 - Aftershocks of the Revolutions
19:20 - Outro

FAQ:
Q: What programs do you use to create these videos?
A: I use QBam as a base map with references linked below, create scenes with Photoshop, use the assets in After effects to animate them and add the finishing touches with Premiere Pro!

"Compilation of QBAM Historical Maps" - Public Google Doc, Various used as reference
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14...

20 Comments

@Vyper1290 3 months ago Pinned

BRUH it was vyper1290 lol

@Sterno2003 3 months ago

sorry to hear you are Canadian, i hope they find a cure

@andrewrogers3067 3 months ago

Goodness me this is like restoring an old car…

@HAStheartist4747 3 months ago (edited)

AMLD is one of those mods that fully represent the era of hoi4 modding they were made in. You only needed some point of divergence that doesn't get much further elaboration besides the premise and from there you create whatever made up ideas you have in your head to make content for the scenario

@ladyariadneii 3 months ago

“aprays moi la delyuge” good God man

@_Nohan_ 3 months ago

I still remember the OG “What if Napoleon won” mod, Emperor of the World. It was made by the same guy who made the original Red World.

@holydoggo4822 3 months ago

Have an acquaintance who was working on a successor to it with full indepth content for everything

@ziopeppecartagialla.1360 3 months ago

Holy shit, this mod's so old that i was still in second grade back when it came out

@frontier_play 3 months ago

I always felt like the big thing that kept the game from being on the greats was the fact all the focus trees are copy and paste which is fine if you like sandbox style games but bland for someone who needs stuff to happen

@kamenyarov1509 3 months ago (edited)

The Duchy of Warsaw wasn't the reason that Napoleon lost. The reason Napoleon lost was due to Napoleons Ego, in which he decided to invaide Russia due to them leaving the continental system. Which was too much of a gamble, and THAT untimatly doomed Napoleons downfall.
Edit: Watched the whole video, wasn't given a reason why this should be a vic3 mod, other than "Preservation of Napoleonic Empire until 1936" even though Napoleons Empire could realistically collapse in the 1880's-early1900's
Edit 2: I made the comment before the video premiered, so sorry that I didn't put that I now Undertand the issue and didn't edit it in time

@propernoun1583 3 months ago

The ‘Russian Winter’ isn’t what defeated Napoleon’s troops. It was actually mostly due to Polish Typhoid fever which infected the troops during their march east.

@tristansimmons5294 3 months ago

Glad to hear your Canadian, hope you can spread it.

@-helpergamming-4163 3 months ago

Dont forget that there is also an alternate and very well into development version of this called The Gates of Versailles! 😁😁

@magosmarechferracioli1128 3 months ago

I still play this mod constantly, probably more than any other. I run a modified personal version, but I absolutely adore it despite how basic it is.

@calcifiedneurotic 3 months ago

“ahh praise ma delooge”

@JamesonAdelhilde 3 months ago

LoreDad's Canadian?!?!

@Mrcoffe-xw8gz 3 months ago

1:10 just as a little note, when talking about 'Napoleonic Victory' scenarios, we usually don't refer to Amiens-style French domination, but rather a complete short term French hegemony over Europe, similar to Kaisserreich or TNO Germany for example. In this case Dutchy of Warsaw is a key to any alternate history of this type. Alliances with other great powers of the time where always shaky and especially with Austria, Prussia and Russia, when the Balance of Power started shifting to their favor, another war to undo French hegemony and thus make the scenario redundant seems inevitable.

Thus a strong Poland , a nation with a potential to reach a Great Power status in 10 to 20 years (As shown by the economic and military growth of the Congress Kingdom of Poland) that is structurally reliant on their French alliance to deter it's neighbors seems like an almost necessary aspect of any scenario that sets out on France holding the level of hegemony most asociate with Napoleonic Victory for any significant amout of time.

Removing the Dutchy leads us to a simply different alternate history, we loose the core aspect of having a long period of uncontested French hegemony over Europe. It's kinda like making Nazi victory scenario but it's just them settling on their 1939 borders and not invading anyone besides that.

TL;DR Just as a Nazi victory scenario isn't really complete without the Reich stretching all the way to Moscow, a Napoleonic victory limited to Amiens-esque gains is simply not what most people asociaste with or want from a Napoleon wins timelines, and removing Dutchy of Warsaw does exactly that.

@animuliam 3 months ago

Can’t wait to see where the next 50 years goes

@Rotom-W 3 months ago

I don't know if Victoria 3 has a "Napoleon won" mod yet, but Victoria 2 did called Napoleon's Legacy. It's a natural concept (that being Napoleon winning, game starts just after the conclusion of the Napoleonic wars concluded) and good to develop, especially lore wise, but it can be rough to actually play. I didn't find the scenario too much fun back in Victoria 2 as that mod had laid it out, France was just way too strong (obviously) in the scenario, which makes them too oppressive in comparison to the British in the normal scenario as France is of course continental and can easily use all it's armies just about anywhere, with all the other European powers dismantled 10 times over so you can't even leverage say a Germany vs Britain's power projection being somewhat limited by logistics and the concert of Vienna re-establishing a balance of power so there are other European powers to turn to if one is bothering you.