DOMINATING the Texas Wasteland | Hoi4 Fallout mod

today I'll be playing the Old World Blues mod for Hearts of Iron 4 Hoy 4 is a World War II strategy game but the Old World Blues mod Narrows the game down to the continent of North America within the Fallout Universe well half of North America the mod isn't quite done yet so that's why I'll also be playing a submod called Battlegrounds reign of monsters which adds about this much more of the map also I'll be assuming you know basic Fallout lore but I'll fill you in on some of the new lore this mod expands on and and I'll explain basic Hoy 4 game mechanics as we go with all that said let's literally go back down to earth and begin our [Music] journey this is the Lone Star Trading Republic headed by Chia Bang currently the people are living in absolute destitution we are currently at Rock Bottom no not that Rock Bottom this Rock Bottom though once you're at the bottom you can only go up before we begin we must assess the geopolitical environment surrounding lonar luckily we do have allies and start within a faction the Texan economic Union with us is unity of Austin and the Texan Brotherhood for now this faction is purely economic to the north and east of us lies the Great Plains in the Mississippi River Region this area won't be an issue but there are some massive hordes of monsters that we'll keep an eye on to the west of us [Music] is specifically leate Linus monster of the East and currently doesn't have that name but he'll get it for a good reason he is dangerously close to Texas and we will have to fight him if we want to achieve our goals which we'll get to in a moment in the immediate South is Shell's Army they're hellbent on fulfilling the Master's plan he is Public Enemy Number One and must be dealt with as soon as possible finally to the far south is Mexico and at its Center is Talan an AI made to preserve Humanity ironically it's the most dangerous entity in the whole game because it [Music] possesses while it clearly hasn't learned anything from the events of the past 200 years he isn't a threat as long as you don't invade any country that surrounds it and it should disintegrate around 2280 not an immediate threat but one we shouldn't cross paths with with all that assessed usually whenever you start a new game of Hoy 4 you have some kind of goal most of the time is to become the largest and most powerful Nation on the map that is what we're going to be doing but it's not the destination that matters it's the journey every nation has what is called a focus tree a premade line of destinations that can do a myriad of things a lot of countries have unique Focus trees in this mod 81 out of the 221 countries have unique Focus trees the ones without one even have different types of generic Focus trees depending on the nation type so what's Lone Star Journey going to be well I'll tell you 400 years ago the people of these lands once triumphantly won their independence of the Mexican vict Santa Ana capturing him and forcing him to grant them Independence the nation that arose was the Republic of Texas and for almost 10 years the nation struggled to control the vast amount of land they claimed and to keep themselves financially afloat eventually it became too much for the Republic to handle and joined the ever expanding United States for a short period of time it seceded from the United States as part of of the Confederate States but Freedom always prevails and the union won for another 200 years Texas would remain with the United States but with the world's energy resources running out the Giants of the time clashed for control and brought the entire world to a standstill today 200 years later not much has changed for most of North America some places like the new California Republic have formed and started to progress forward but still struggle against adversity that brings us to lonar named after the city with the same name lone star with the Texan economic Union all dream of forming the Republic that once was but someone has returned an AI has splintered off a talin and thinks itself to be no other than Santa Ana the Mexican general defeated over 400 years ago has returned and is out for Redemption he'll stop at nothing to control Texas and has enslaved slave the people under its control to produce a robot army to both gain even more power and to prepare for Conquest a smaller provisional Republic is not a matter of if but an absolute must to protect the people of Texas from complete and utter dictatorship but we can still dream for a full Republic that's our goals out of the way now we're almost ready to begin whenever you start you are greeted with this now this may look overwhelming but trust me it can be worse it's actually not that bad and a lot of it is pretty self-explanatory political power allows you to make changes in the government Tab and make decisions in the decisions tab stability how much people support the government less than 50 debuffs our Factory output above 50 Buffs it War support how much the people support our Wars less support debuffs our army stats Manpower it's how many man we have they're used to make new units or reinforce existing units factories there are three kinds civilian used to make consumer goods and any that are left can be used in trade for resources or can make more factories military insulations and resource production military makes military hardware for our army lastly Naval dockyards make ships fuel or in this mod energy is consumed by the nation and we generally don't have to worry about it Logistics we just have to make sure we have enough Caravans and supplies should be okay convoys we won't really need but they transport Supply via water command power or is used mostly to promote generals Army Navy and air experience allows us to make modifications to ships airplanes tanks make new division templates and generally can be used in a lot of places I've already basically discussed the government and decisions tabs intelligent agency we won't really need this for now research here we can research military hardware Vehicles robots planes ships Doctrine industry and Engineering diplomacy literally useless like it's not even worth mentioning trade and construction I basically already explained production is where we can use our military factories and dockyards to make all sorts of things recruit and deploy is where we can make division templates and make new units lastly are the logistics officer Corps and the malicious tabs which we don't need at the moment okay with that explained we're going to make these units have this production build some cities research and start at the top of the focus tree these focuses are really quick so the National Guard took priority so we can get more guns providing a safe haven for all gives us a military Factory expanding the industry for trade gives us a civilian Factory lastly continue with the te treaty with the startup done I've been sensing something like a civil war perhaps in the focus tree there are two diverging paths victory of the greater good or victory for the greater good two very similar but completely different sentences one is good and the other is evil you already know that we have to afford Texas and to get there we must of course go down the good path so to prepare I'm going to expand military sector in order to make enough equipment and deploy our units in time hire some mercenaries which also gives us even more guns and then return the lauk expedition in the meantime I'll explain a bit more about the Texan Brotherhood in their path Lone Star and the Texan Brotherhood are a little special in that they share a branch in their focus trees this helps because we also have to complete this branch which we don't share with the Brotherhood though they also have several of their own branches that they could decide to do instead which that's fine because this Branch allows them to give ultimatums to these nations giving them the option to decide whether to join the Tu or War don't feel bad for any of these nations because most of them are Raider gangs and absolutely deserve death but if they are willing to change and join then so be it these wars will also benefit us militarily at the moment we can't join their Wars because the faction is mostly economic but not far in the future we can change that participating in their Wars will allow us to gain experience for our army giving us an upper Advantage Massacre outside of Lee toown Captain Rose Edmund a woke to a caravan guard collapsing at her feet he was only able to utter the words Ambush Road Massacre hand gang the hand gang isn't new and was crushed years ago but my suspicions of War seem to be true we'll likely have to face a civil war in the meantime we're massing our forces and tripling our army crisis on the Colorado once again Captain Edmund was awoken by a blood soaked messenger and she marched her soldiers as quickly as she can to the battle site but was too late hundreds of bodies were discovered what's worrying is the scale of this attack the hand gang aren't capable of this level of Destruction meaning something much greater is out there luckily the mercenaries we hired have arrived and the lauk Expedition has nearly returned legionaries in Lone Star two legionaries were spotted in an Alleyway in one of the poor districts of the city of lonar with the recent attacks we're fairly certain that this isn't coincidental the brutality of the attacks in the scale all makes sense now though it means the risk are now far greater than before research-wise I'm continuing to further our industry starting the doctrine tree and researching riot gear this will become handy later on the teu front tube heads in Assassin City have made the right decision and joined up with the lauk Expedition here and force deploying our units I'm going to tell you a little secret I have of course played this country a lot in preparation for this video and I know what decisions to make to then know where exactly the enemy units are going to spawn so I've drawn up this plan in preparation to have the maximum upper [Music] Advantage fighting in the streets of lonar in the Northern District skirmishes between hand warband insurgents and lawmen have have erupted not war but it is coming very soon we must empower the lawmen this will spawn lawmen units around the Lone Star once the war starts we are more than prepared and we are ready to give it our all immediately remove the fallback lines and place front lines these six special forces units will swiftly destroy this division simultaneously the 11 motorized divisions will take out the South lastly the main main front in the north will push towards the capital has the special forces units are done they'll join the motorized divisions and retake [Music] leown with the South finished we can Mass our forces on the North and crush the hand [Music] warband victory of the greater good while our civil war was going down Unity of Austin was having their own Civil War and the Texan Brotherhood had peacefully split into two the Brotherhood is also a partway through their campaign into Louisiana and soon will join but Public Enemy Number One Shell's Army has only gotten larger the good news is that we are more than capable of standing on our own and have built a sizable Army in a rather short amount of time anyways with the top two focuses on the branches done we can now join Brotherhood Wars we're going to send back the LEC Expedition and withdraw the Rangers and get even more guns still building civies and still continuing on researching industry Doctrine and military hardware production-wise we're making that riot gear I mentioned earlier because whenever you conquer a nation it won't completely be part of your country it has to be slowly integrated then cord AKA complete integration but countries usually don't like to be invaded and conquered so they have to be watched over in garrisoned with troops infantry equipment used by the garrisons if you don't keep up will absolutely drain your supply this fact will come up again later we're making progress on the focus tree and heading towards integrating with laba at this time Shell's Army is entering into Eden so in the meantime we're going to grow our military even further and continue to help the Texan Brotherhood a bit of time later we took out the Desperados and the gator malls are putting up a tough fight Louisiana even before the Great War had [ __ ] infrastructure so imagine fighting a war through a postnuclear apocalyptic swamp yeah it ain't easy we wouldn't have much issue if it weren't for that reason because lack of Supply gives you heavy penalties but we are winning and it'll only be a matter of time before they run out of Manpower and or Supply back home I had earlier sent back the luk Expedition and for a good reason sending them back would significantly increase the chance of lauk willingly integrating with us and they accept it this is amazing because integrating increases our size industry and Manpower and opens a direct landf front with Shell's Army Midway through the war is when luk integrated with us but their land did not become Kors but instead occupied territory meaning they had to be garrisoned but using our normal infantry template uses a lot of equipment but we can change that by using riers riers use significantly less infantry equipment compared to our normal infantry template at a cost of using of course riot gear this helps whenever the war machine is sucking up infantry equipment because if you can't keep up the garrisons will also suck up a bunch of military equipment so if you're an idiot like me and forgot to change the template both the War Machine and the garrisons will absolutely suck up your stockpile and somewhat ruin your game to mitigate this we can divert all of our factories into making guns but I still want the largest possible Army I can humanly have so what we can do is prioritize where Supply goes this includes making new units who also accomplish this focuses have allowed me to access higher Contrition laws meaning I can field more all of this has allowed me to make about this many divisions so that we're more than just ready to face Shell's Army at this point he has conquered Eden and is on the verge of invading Austin the war has started and something interesting has happened in Shell's Focus tree they have a focus called the three-way War for Unity this starts what you can imagine a three-way war between Shell's Army Unity of Austin and the iron mongers the iron mongers are particularly unique in that they use yeah sure tanks are powerful and we can't effectively fight against them but the iron monger's industrial power is small and tanks are really costly on resources so even though they have literal tanks they probably won't hold out for long anyways this is going to be our first offensive War usually you got to wait for it to finish but I'm impatient and have the instant War mod installed so now it only takes a single day or about 3 seconds but we still have our reasons for justifying our justifications are the following capture of Innocents to forcely convert them into super mutants using the H virus and falling through with our treaty with unity of Austin to protect their sovereignty from foreign and domestic foes so with that let's Mass our forces and show Shell's Army the might of Texas prare your weapons hold your courage now we [Applause] move [Music] shell made a critical mistake of leaving his flanks open allowing us to scatter everywhere take all of his victory points and most importantly his Capital Fort Shockton doubling our size once again with little Bloodshed now it's time to justify on the iron mongers our justifications are as follows first ending the war the now non-existent state of Shell's Army had started between itself Unity of Austin and the iron mongers second protecting the sovereignty of unity of Austin from enemies foreign and domestic again let's gather our forces and end this [Music] war [Music] after the centuries of rigorous survival and Humanity barely making it by after the many Civil Wars and Military campaigns I have here gathered the members of the Texan economic Union Unity of Austin tube heads assassin City Lone Star the Texan Brotherhood and the newest member coming all the way from Louisiana the patrolman because no one of us can take on the task of defeating the increasingly larger totalitarian states that grow around us so I've come with good news for the people under the teu and the people that are enslaved in those Nations that surround us who hope to be freed from the anguish of their oppressive rulers and the brutality of the waste all members have signed and come to an agreement that something must be done divided we are none but united we become one I hereby declare the provisional Republic of [Music] [Applause] [Music] Texas I came I saw I conquered with the provisional Republic declared we single-handedly became the largest military on the map beating out Caesar's Legion in the NCR but a lot of territory is nonpor and Santa Ana has entered into Texas defeating the Alamo chapter putting the Alamo back under Santa Anna's rule that is completely unacceptable and Santa Anna must be annihilated off the face of the Earth but we'll be doing that next time because this video is already fairly long for my standards so subscribe just know that I'll be making other kind of videos in the meantime so don't expect another installment for quite a while with FNAF help one and two right around the corner expect the video kind of about that sometime soon again subscribe I greatly appreciate it like comment but most importantly thank you for watching

Channel: OUT of LANE

Views: 107,213

Keywords: out of lane, hoi4 old world blues

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Length: 20min 23sec (1223 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 17 2023