HoI4: Man the Guns | The New British Empire - Part 1

hello everybody and welcome to prophecy gaming and in other hearts of iron for series now with the man the guns expansion which of course revamps naval warfare ads and fuel new national focus trees and so on it it looks pretty exciting and I'm looking forward to getting started with it we're gonna be playing as the United Kingdom for this run why well because this is a naval themed expansion and Britannia rules the frickin waves so need i say more but by a happy coincidence paradox has decided to revamp the united kingdom focused tree there actually are a lot of alternate history routes including a communist route to fascist route an alternate democracy routes where you can ultimately decolonize the british empire don't know why you'd want to do that and also an unaligned monarchist route which i'm looking forward to because it kind of breaks up the the british empire and then we get a reforge it in our own image it's gonna be amazing so let's get started now one additional feature we're gonna play with in the man the guns expansion our custom game rules you actually can now determine which national focus path vai is going to be using in this campaign so for example germany we can tell them and go down the restore the kaiser route which we're gonna go ahead and do because if we're gonna already go down a monarchist united kingdom routes let's go for a monarchist german reich routes that could be kind of fun so they're gonna go down the german Civil War try to knock Hitler out of power and then restore wilhelm ii into into the emperor ship whatever that was smooth as heck we're also gonna go for the random soviet union the random japan routes france i'd like you to go down the french communist a let's go with the united states into an alternate history democratic route i'm not sure if this will lead to the new civil war option that can't occur in the united states i have no idea but i'm looking forward to finding out for sure all right let's go ahead and jump into the game now of course the first couple years of the game will be focused on building up our production and our war machine in preparation for a world war of course with germany going down a completely different path i have no idea if we are gonna go down a world war what i think will end up happening as proud as soviet union will continue to be communists and they're gonna pair up with the french and then we're gonna find the German and the British against the russians in the french I imagine that's what's gonna happen but we have to find out as we play because I'm really not sure what to expect here for the national focus now we can go down well first off real quick or you can revisit colonial policy and ultimately this is gonna only to the decolonization route which is interesting and apparently you have to do this if you go down the Communist route or else there will be a civil war which is really interesting but anyway we're gonna go down a change in course this leads to the Kings party which is the none aligned routes the fascist route with the black shirts and the communist routes with the trade unions for now it will get me some extra political power weepy war support and support for all three of those ideologies now how are we going to ultimately become a monarchist party currently we have Stanley Baldwin as the prime minister but I want to kick him out and put myself as the head of the government I think we are currently led by King Edward I don't member which number that is but if you guys remember your history in 1936 there was a constitutional crisis in the UK where King Edward wanted to marry an American woman named I think it was Wallis Simpson who had already been once divorced and was already in the process of getting her second divorce at the time all this kind of affair broke out it was quite the scandal and ultimately King Edward stepped down and abdicated the throne in favour of his brother King George the sixth I think it was if you guys have watched the movie The King's Speech that's actually central to the plot and that is that's historically how things went down in our case though we are going to fricken marry Wallis Simpson we are gonna weather the storm of this constitutional crisis and if Parliament decides to resign so frickin be it I will install a new party of loyalists and I will run the country and of course there's gonna be a lot of consequences for doing that the Dominions are gonna want to break free it's gonna be kind of fun let's see if we can pull through starting off with for research slots is kind of nice as Britons are going to go for our basic machine tools and construction we could go for synthetic oil so we can start producing oil and fuel early on because we know we are going to ultimately need this this is very important now but I'm not sure we are prioritizing that at the moment let's go for the mechanical computing for the extra research speed since we do start off with the electrical mechanical engineering and for our infantry do you want to go for support companies we do start off with grand battle plan doctrine which I usually don't like but I guess we could go down this route if we wanted to I could alternatively go ahead and research the 1936 light tank the Matilda because I know that there is a pretty early on national focus that gives me a 100% research boost toward a tank so we could get an early medium tank if we get this pretty early on let's go ahead and do that and see what happens civilian factories I want to get at least a couple of these up front England actually has some pretty good infrastructure at the beginning of the game so let's build like ten of those and for our military factories we're not gonna worry about the planes I think let's hold off on those for now let's go for some extra support equipments towed artillery and infantry equipments we can start training up some more troops now naval configurations is complicated and I can't say that I fully understand the optimal build order yet for navies one huge change that was added into the game our variance of ships it used to be that just like with tanks or planes you'd increase the engine or the main gun or your armor and that just kind of tweaked some of the basic stats of your ships now if you go to let's say the admiral class and we do a variant we can change out the modules of all of our different ships and create several different variants for different purposes so for example let's suppose we want to create a destroyer that is mostly a screening anti-air ship we could do that we could also have two different types of submarines one that is purely torpedoes for DPS and one that is half torpedoes in half radar for some extra detection and so on there's a lot of different things that we can do now and it's exceptionally complicated and I have no idea what is best so we're just gonna cause stumble blindly along and hope that this works I've been trying to do some reading on reddit and I can't say that I am that much wiser for it but what the heck we'll give it a shot I do think we want to go ahead and build out some well we actually have eight hundred convoys do I need more I suppose a few extra convoys will not go amiss let's go ahead and just kind of keep adding some extra to the pile unassigned divisions yeah we're gonna have a bunch of those let's at all of you guys in a group create a new army over here by the way one new thing that's been added in the strategic Navy map mode you can see that there are theaters just like there are for the armies and each individual home command is split up into different fleets and flotillas which we can group together as much as we want it's it's again complicated and I'm not sure how best to proceed with it but it's gonna get interesting pretty quick let's go ahead and get a general in charge with you I guess Clawd will be fine pretty good stats promotion cost reduction better defense and logistics alright we'll go with you for the time being that seems fine and we'll assign you to just some basic garrison orders cuz I don't know I don't really feel like dealing with the oh we were how to sign units message is just annoying decisions demands reduced Dutch trade with Germany that's not gonna be an issue to me because Germany is going to flip to non-aligned nation building in the British Raj and British Malaya can't say there's a lot of point to this right now one I don't want to spend the political power to I know that all of our dominions are gonna break free in the constitutional crisis so let's not worry about that let's go ahead and speed up to speed five you can see up here by the way our fuel there is a fuel capacity so you have a maximum amount that you can store before you're kind of wasting your opportunity every time we are using our planes or our tanks or our motorized or we're sending ships patrolling the sea we are gonna be using up some of our fuel so we do need to be very cognizant of how much fuel we need in order to field a capital ship Navy during war for now I'm gonna let this kind of buildup in 227 days we will be at our maximum consumption if we find ourself in a position where we are maxed out then maybe it is worth getting our Navy together and doing some naval drills spend some of that and get some free naval experience I assume that that is a reasonable choice all right well let's go ahead and jump forward for a little bit so I don't know exactly when the constitutional crisis is going to fire but it should be pretty early on I would think we should also consider getting ourself a Marshall Field Marshall who do once Allen Brooke max entrenchment you're planning speed sucks defense logistics more planning speed reassignments planning speed supply consumption that seems good King George the fifth has died okay so I was wrong we are not currently ruled by Edward but we are about to be His Majesty King George the fifth king of the United Kingdom and of the British dominions an emperor of India has passed away his quiet calm and devotion to his subjects saw the Empire through both the Great War and the Great Depression his son will assume the mantle as King Edward the eighth but there are already concerns that he will be too independent of thought Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain are preparing to ensure that he will accept direction from the Prime Minister and the cabinet we lose stability for pretty much ever which really sucks free dockyards one of the reasons I didn't want to reassign all these ships is because they're already in progress with a lot of them so why cancel progress on ships we might as well get some free ones pretty early on what do I want to build I don't I don't really know maybe some heavy ships for now I don't know I don't know what's best I really do not should've done more research on this but it's hard to say for sure there's just so much to do we probably should get some colonial theaters set up we're gonna take you move you to a new theater like so let's see all of you will get a signs well actually on all of you will get assigned to the brown theater over here you as well and we will assign you to garrison I don't know let's say the coast line maybe this a little bit of Egypt's I'm sure that's very important for us yeah just do that I guess you can go here as well we have a lot of colonial territories which is very annoying because I don't like having to manage these personally but we'll go ahead and protect Malta we would need to protect Gibraltar as well so let's set up a garrison order with you um where else we got to go oh hello you guys can join up with Brown and then we'll set these up like so let's see Hong Kong okay notice by the way we have a lot of fleets spread out all over the place managing these is going to be a pain in the butt as well I'm sure you guys join up over here garrison Britain malaya sri lanka needs a garrison let's do that and that should be everybody okay wonderful more talk yards let's just finish up I guess some submarines or something sure early submarine holes what's the skull I don't I don't know whatever I'm sure its importance okay so King Edward do something naughty I won't see what happens I think by the way that these icons here these numbers represents the number of capital ships in this flotilla and the number of screening ships or light ships so three light ships and zero capital ships here but up with the aircraft carrier eleven and forty seven appears to be what we're looking at over here which we could just go ahead and group these guys up I think the order is supposed to be something along the lines of for every one aircraft carrier you're supposed to have four capital ships and for every capital ship you should have for screening ships that's what I've heard is the optimal setup I have no idea if that's true now we cannot go for the Kings party focus yet until King Edward has married Wallis Simpson so for now we are going to ignore the alternate history route we could go for reinforcing the Empire for extra base stability which sounds nice eventually moving toward extra research speed and so on most of this I'm not sure how much is gonna matter because I know that our dominions are gonna break free at least temporarily some of this is still good but maybe we want to go for limited rearmament for the extra civilian factories and i think that makes the most sense so let's go down that focus for the time being what is this wait what is this oh wait okay yeah so we actually do have our home command set up down here in the theaters fascinating I'm gonna have to remember to actually jump between these two map modes more often now finish it with these stockyards alright let's go for now it says we can't build any carriers at the moment I'm not sure that's true what we have to do is select a whole right so if we go to know that's module slot what is this yes okay so this is our hole and then we'd have to add on some modules like let's say hangar space here um I guess we have to do an integrated hangar and then an integrated hangar die like deck these are the kind of the base things you would need in order to have a functional aircraft carrier a place to store the planes and a place to launch the planes if we saved this out I think we actually would be able to start building this but for now we're not gonna worry about it let's go for let's go for some hung County class early cruisers I guess so research for your naval production has changed completely now instead of just researching a base ship you research the whole of which you will manipulate all of your modules as we saw earlier so if we want to go toward a better module and stuff later or better holes we could do that we also can unlock different types of weapons and improve the modules so for example instead of a basic light battery and improved light battery and so on we'd have to research magnetic detectors torpedo launchers airplane catapults depth charge throwers sonar so on and so forth not to mention mine warfare is now a thing in the game as far as I can tell it's not very consequential so I don't expect that I'll be playing with mine warfare very much if at all but it is a thing you know once you go to war you can start laying mines in a naval region with the anticipation of doing damage to enemy ships that try to get through if you're playing as a small nation like let's say the Netherlands and you go the fascist routes and you're planning on fighting England's with Germany's help then maybe that actually could be useful to you small nations with inferior navies can try using mines to great effect I assume I don't know for absolutely sure let's go for see this is a mining ship here I don't really care about that we're gonna go for a destroyer hole let's go ahead and focus a fair bit on some screening ships the time being at least until I can figure out what we're gonna do with our capital ships one thing that's been added into the game by the way I don't know if this has always been the case but I don't think so naval treaties there's the London naval conference and basically what this means is it's an international agreement that nations will not start up a new arms race for the naval game and they are not allowed to have more naval power than basically which is interesting I've heard there are some exploits in the game where I could actually demolish my entire Navy get a lot of people to sign on to the naval treaties so like everyone joins and I can kind of control the naval game from there not only sure there's much point to that but yeah you have to have a so you can't build like anything over I think it's 10,000 production for your ships we can actually confirm that let's say yeah CV nelson class here is blocked out max allowed is 10,000 because then london treaty if we ever break that treaty then we can build whatever we want but obviously we're not at that stage of the game alright we're not really letting a lot of things happen here Germany is now embroiled in a civil war so they finished their first thing so there's the German military whom to fighting the German Reich I'm really hoping that they are going to win it's kind of it's gonna kind of defeat the purpose if Hitler wins this but I think there's a good chance that Wilhelm will come back into power we'll see what happens we'll see what happens out of that I wouldn't mind forming a brand new faction with a monarchist Germany to counter France and the Soviet Union and maybe eat a little bit of Italy along the way you know that could be kind of fun there are some national focuses that will have to do with our relationship with Germany and if they are not fascists in there my alignment or my ideology then I feel like we could actually get away with doing a lot of cool stuff but we'll see nationalist Spain has declared war on the Republican Spain so that civil war has officially begun come on where's the event come on King Edward get involved with Wallace all know you want to do you want to go for a political advisor I don't know if we lose all of our political advisors during the constitutional crisis so I'm not really eager to jump into this I think we're gonna do instead is save up for a military theorist and get that extra army experience generating pretty early on do we want to go for the shadow scheme which gives me extra military factories let's see hang on I'm gonna read this grants for building slots and for military factories in total and to States when entering a war and national spirits that sounds pretty strong we can actually convert civilians military factories so what this allows me to do I guess is build extremely heavily in civilian factories and I'll be able to convert them later if I want to that's interesting we also get some extra research bonuses for industry which I'll I motorised army here's the extra armor technology I've been talking about before I think we're gonna go for the shadow Wow this is this doesn't actually give me a lot of benefit at the moment because I'm not going to war but the extra industry and research slots could certainly be nice so I guess we'll go for that for the time being and see what happens again I'm not sure how much benefit I gain from going down the reinforcing of the Dominions because I know that no matter how much I reinforcement how much they like me they're going to break free let's go over the military theorists to get that extra army experience going through every day we'll be able to change up our templates as we see fit eventually research we're about to finish it with the basic machining tools so we'll move on to something else I guess we can continue with the Graham battle plan doctrine just make some progress on that since it takes a while second naval treaty has been signed so Britain France Italy Japan and the US have all agreed not to build a massive ship this will safeguard peace better than any super battleship oh I beg to differ super battleships are amazing also I should mention we are in the Commonwealth research which is reducing my tech research by a significant margin I think we lose this once the Dominions break free which is going to be sad I really don't know if this is the best United Kingdom path I really don't know it probably isn't I don't know we're gonna find out come on where's where's Wallace I want to fire off the King's Speech seriously we do need to get progress with this I'm gonna be a lot of political power to make this work so it actually might be wise for us to just kind of hold on to a lot of it instead of spending it but again that military experience it's just hard to pass up on that opportunity we could also go for things like some Industrial Research speed or electronic research speed which is nice to probably go for industrial honestly since we did get a head start with electronics this particular game Ethiopia has been annexed by Italy looks like the German military hooter is pushing back against the fascists so that's making some solid progress Construction is done let's go for the concentrated industry because I don't expect we're gonna have a lot of German bombers causing problems this particular game don't want to go for any early game naval research no I think I would rather go for some support companies and start research these like field hospital and get those ready outdated equipments in production you say I think it's the tanks so we need to change those up to the Matilda this is the old variants that you would have with your new ship so you can see how things have really changed in the man the guns expansion it's made a lot more complicated honestly it reminds me a bit of stellaris but Solaris was pretty simple and straightforward in comparison we're not gonna create any variants of the Matilda I just want to change it for production there and get better like tanks going that way when we do eventually create some light tank divisions we will be able to make that work alright here we go the Edward the eighth abdication crisis for some time King Edward the eighth has entertained hopes to marry the American Wallis Simpson a constitutional crisis has now arisen as mrs. Simpson is not only divorced from a previous husband but in point of fact still married to her current husband presently pursuing a second divorce general outrage has ensued on the grounds that as king and being the head of the Church of England Edward cannot marry a divorcee or divorcee how do you say that the king however has made it abundantly clear that he is very much in love with mrs. Simpson and intends to marry her regardless of the opinions of his governments or his subjects as such only three options remain open to him the British government and the governments of the dominions have already stated that any alternative to abdication would be unacceptable and repercussions of trying to force through a marriage even an attempted compromise would likely be dire not only for Britain itself but also for its ties to the Commonwealth as the Kings closest advisors continue their attempts to convince him the public awaits with bated breath the resolution of this conflict between the king and his cabinets normally this is where you would say better to get King George and and actually have him abdicate get better stability we could go for a compromise with a morganatic marriage better based stability or rather we lose some based ability 5% but we do gain popularity of non-aligned plus 5% which is fun or we can go for losing 15% base stability gain 10% popularity with a non-aligned and lose some political power I don't know if this leads to better options in the future but an extra 5% popular non-aligned sounds nice but it's not gonna be that important to me or is it I suppose the more popular you are the more is the more stability you have so over the long term this might be better now but then we lose a lot of base stability I think I'm gonna go for a morganatic marriage will lose 5% Bay stability will gain some non-aligned support and continue with our alternate history routes that will lead to a king's party so yes the non-aligned party is gonna continue Nigel Battenberg is apparently the leader not me I would think that I'm the leader of the monarchist party but all right should the shadow shadow scheme is about to finish excellent now we can go for the industrial efforts or we can go for reinforce the Empire for extra base stability which sounds nice but I think I will go for the industrial effort speed up our research in that path a little bit we're about to finish the mechanical computing so that will get me an extra 3% research working classes support the marriage this is something that's gonna be happening a lot until we actually do get married we're gonna have either positive or negative events where people are like hey this is great or hey this is terrible so in this case the working classes are like whoa we're married marrying a commoner that sounds excellent so we gain some base stability and more popularity and non-aligned or we could just abdicate I mean at any point we can change our mind and abdicate but for now sure an extra change in popularity and base stability sounds great so far we've come out ahead it's not gonna stay that way I guarantee you a lot of people are about to get angry but it sounds fun let's go to the naval map mode take our navy and actually go ahead and do some naval exercises now you're gonna see this gonna consume a lot of fuel very rapidly when we have 50 days of fuel remaining so if we ever bring out the full red Navy we can get an idea that's gonna consume 5.4 thousand barrels of fuel per day which is obviously not enough so if I do want to have this maybe able to stay out in the ocean permanently we would have to get a lot more fuel production realistically I think the best way to play the game though will not be to have your Navy out at all times you'll probably want to have screening navies out patrolling at all times able to detect submarines and and so on and keep the capital ships docked up until such a time that you are ready for a major engagement at least I think that's how it is going to work but again a lot of things have changed I don't know for absolute sure if that's the if that's the way we want to play it let's go for a little bit of extra infantry equipment some extra towed artillery and then probably more support equipment as time goes on support women is something I always find that I have a shortage of when we are actually ready to start putting in field hospitals and so on I'd like to have those ready to go so we'll focus on that I'm not gonna worry about my fuel right now okay with getting the extra naval experience see this coming in so in theory if I can get up to ten I think I would be able to start producing new carriers if I wanted to not sure that we do want to at the moment if I could get some more war support and stuff it would be nice to switch over to partial mobilization fuel gain / oil interesting so fuel gain actually is affected by your mobilization law as well that's interesting good to know okay okay I get it I get it I think all right do we need anything here we could go for the fuel but right now I'm still building civilian factories so I wouldn't get any immediate advantage from that we could go for some better and Naval Research or perhaps improve our artillery I think mostly I want to just research new things that we can put into our divisions such as logistics companies so we're gonna go for that the newspapers are opposing the marriage The Morning Post how an unfortunate we lose our popularity and stability yeah this is just gonna keep flying back and forth like a lot there's nothing we can do about it even so even so it's gonna be interesting the German military hooter is doing a very good job so it sure looks to me like the German Empire will be reforming in this game which is cool the Soviets are going down the purge routes which makes me think that they are gonna stay communist so Soviets plus France that's gonna be it's gonna be a little awkward I actually do want national and Spain to win then because I don't want Republican Spain joining in a new Soviet bloc more support forms for Edward the eighth in the midst of the tremendous outrage caused by the Kings decision there are some voices rising up in support of King Edward though isolated from the main political parties their names nonetheless carry weight Winston Churchill Oswald Mosley Mosley and David Lloyd George though tentatively at first this grouping of unlikely political allies are beginning to find traction among the people and following their lead more and more dare to publicly support Edward in his decision thus strengthened in his resolve the king has made it clear he has no intention of changing his mind in this manner the marriage shall go on as planned so non-aligned gains a lot more popularity we gained some political support more stability is gonna start building for the next 150 days and more support for unaligned we will continue with the preparations for the marriage eventually we will be able to get those three major powerhouses Churchill Lloyd George and Mosley as political advisors and they're gonna end up being pretty strong consumer goods factories and stability political power gain war support and support for unaligned lots of really good stuff and this is one of the reasons to not bothering with any political advisors at the moment I could go for some changes in laws not sure I see the point of that I think I will go for the Industrial Research speed because there's a lot that I'm gonna be researching this game we might as well stack up those early research advantages and snowball out of control if we can but after that I think I'm just gonna save up my political power as much as I'm able to okay we're running low on the fuel newspapers once again are opposing the marriage I'm hoping to come out of this ahead but that may not end up happening let's take our read home command and end the naval exercises everyone is able to just go home let's start rebuilding our fuel supply we haven't only accomplished a whole lot in this particular video but again this is hearts of iron for you play the lor you read the the pop ups and as you build up your infrastructure it's just how things go man let's see so we are currently up to 44 available civilian factories would love to reduce my consumer goods to make these more effective but for now I think yeah we're just gonna build a lot of civilian factories we will build more military but for now this should be fine we're gonna hold a radio speech managed to persuade the government to allow him to make a radio speech illustrating what he refers to as his side of the story he has expressed hopes that this will allow the people to better understand why he feels he must as he does it turns out it's pretty convincing game power base stability and popularity for non aligns well done let's now see his brother had a stutter and stuff so these are things that I also know from The King's Speech a very good movie by the way I like that one a lot so there's our industrial effort we're gonna go off the extra research slot and we are gonna get way far ahead of time when it comes to our research there's no reason right now to go for the King's party because we can aren't married so until that happens we can't go down the focus tree we want to we might as well get as strong of an early game start as possible and yeah I'm just gonna keep building this up all right all right well this is looking promising I'm gonna have to do a lot of reading I think on our naval composition and how this is gonna work they're probably in this is at this point I know that I'm starting this oh gosh dang new newspapers I know that I'm starting this series after the man the guns has been out for a good couple of for a good couple of weeks and such already so I'm behind the times but even now I'm not seeing a whole lot of really compelling guides for naval composition if anyone knows of anything really good let me know in the comment section down below the German Civil War is at an end the German military Hunta is over or has taken command and Hitler is dead so there we go excellent well done August VII von Mackeson be really funny if they formed the holy roman empire cabinet resigns as the king has shown no intention to listen to his government Stanley Baldwin has seen no other solution but to dissolve it in a statement he says it is evident that the cabinet cannot function without the trust of its monarch in repeatedly discarding the unanimous advice of his ministers it has been made clear that hid this advice is neither desired nor observed and so later tonight I will meet with his majesty to offer the resignation of the cabinet clearly intended as a final protest against the Kings decision it is uncertain whether it will be successful it is also unknown who the king will announce as Stanley Baldwin successor and when good riddance we lose a lot of political power and base stability and we have a democratic crisis a fallen government lose a ton of stability and political power gain so long as this is the thing there goes empty Parliament's it's only gonna get worse from here until we are able to assert control thank you all very much for watching I hope that you are looking forward to this series yeah I know that I am if so then I ask they hit that like button leave a comment of course subscribe and 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