What If Greece Restored The Roman Empire?! HOI4

what's going on everyone it's me still working on my on my room Rambler here and today we're back on hearts of iron for it's a new week and that means we're covering a new hearts of iron for Maude what we're gonna be doing today is attempting to reform the Byzantine Empire and that I'm the Roman Empire Wow I bet you're thinking Alex that's never been done before what can I say I like the Roman Empire and it appears a lot of you do too because the these the there's always new Byzantine Empire Roman Empire mods being released now this one is called a Greek dawn and it just adds in a new focus tree for Greece and allows you to attempt to take you on your own your own path pretty pretty much that like or like all total conversion mods but this one's actually pretty well fleshed out the focus tree is is complete which is a shocker I know and it seems fun I've done a bit of a trial run and didn't get very far but hopefully this won't be a fail so of course comment like and subscribe 5,000 likes for more hoi that's the role and don't forget that EU 4 it's currently only one dollar on Humble Bundle right now or you can get EU 4 with pretty much all of the major if not all the major DLCs for $17 that is a bargain price and you can choose how much goes to charity how much goes to support me how much you choose to support paradox etc etc it's a I I really can't recommend Humble Bundle enough you can choose your own charity that the money goes to it's it's honestly a great way to support charity while getting games that you like so that's my little shoutout for today right well here we go this is Greece as tensions rise in the world Greece stands at a precipice the Greek government is divided as Iona Smith met attacks attempts to secure his power I'd never know how to pronounce that I always get it wrong maybe I still have I'm not wearing my glasses on life yet many which for a change of course that should be wish some call for a strong Greek state while the trade unions demand empowerment finally some fringe groups believe that the time has come for the Byzantine Empire to return the threat of Italy looms what will Greece decide so we can get the Athenian at research school the art of democracy and revolutionary feather probably not going to do that but we can also get the Hellenic repunit realize the Constitution and proclaim the Byzantine Empire so we're just going to go and have a have a rootin tootin good time and forestall what never should have fallen well the only thing that we can do to begin with is to construct the meant axis line the parisa rising militarism of Bulgaria has led to a demand to defend our borders this will be met at once so Greece pretty much starts in exactly the same position it would start in the base game a bit of a bit of a bit of a trap one like they don't even have any aero aeroplanes researched apart from transport plane somewhat good at those a right named after the incumbent Prime Minister this line will protect the Greece against the looming threat of Bulgaria except they're not written down much of a threat at the moment are they now I'm just probably gonna beeline political effort actually I don't need to do that right away I should probably do military effort and actually get some industrial revitalization going on I need me some factories I'm just thinking is my lighting getting better or is it the fact that the Sun has just come out for the first time in like a week it I can't describe to you how much it rains in in in the vancouver-based area it rains more than the United Kingdom shocker I know but it's true also got a plushie that I got from paradox come say hello to the Imperator Rome platypus nice there you go oh also I I'm trying to figure out a Content plan for the channel and I think by covering one mod every week and then one disaster savegame might be the way forward I think that's probably quite a good you know compromise on the whole content so one one disaster save so at least one disaster save and at least one mod overview as well as the non hearts of iron content have also been releasing so about three or four videos a week Spanish Civil War I don't care about that they can whatever the heck babe 1 I am attempting to eventually turn to the past ho ho baby so I'm probably gonna try and strike Turkey in 1937 yeah if I leave it too much later I'm just going to be in a really bad spot so I just need to try and get the kind of divisions that I want pumped out and then focus on on expansion overall there's not a whole lot to really prepare for I'm gonna try and keep these islands secure and this we might lose Crete temporarily but overall I think we might stand a chance at holding I'm actually really nervous because this is very easy to build up right at the start of the game you start in a bit of a tricky spot to try and take out Turkey as Greece you're not you're not very strong and they are stronger I would say yeah they actually have an Air Force whereas I don't I don't even know what a plane frickin is they start with more divisions more manpower and more everything really and I'm just trying to still get enough frickin guns in okay turn to the past there we go we're we're a couple of focuses away from war and I do not feel ready I'm actually breaking it a little bit especially when the Turks are training on my border Oh give legal good my good only go I might just have to do I can do Greek inscription when I'm a war and I guess I can get more army XP when I'm a war okay let's just go for it let's reclaim Anatolia right we're at war and I think I'd probably need to do a Greek conscription first I'm just trying to seize this plain tile before they get any divisions there I know I probably oh I took it okay now I just try and hold or they scythe will attack me I'm hoping yes the attacks begin and that's where I just try and hold for as long as possible especially on these tiles they're going to be important to hold casualties are looking good though 800 weld 900 to 9,000 good odds for any Spartan Greek person type thingy so my plan was for them to attack me pretty consistently so then I can start upgrading my divisions with whatever I need because I have a decent tissue surplus now so I'm eventually gonna change around my artillery Oh so my divisions are gonna have artillery in them is what I was meant to say yeah those casualties are looking very nice indeed very nice we can do this if we really try oh boy for the first part of this video you you're just gonna see the resolution be really bad because I still had it on my live-streaming template rather than my recording template which I've just switched well it seems my OBS stopped recording just when I switched my profiles over originally I was I was recording at my livestream profile awful oh that's weird so I switched it over to my recording profile and after seven seconds it stopped and I haven't realized for the past hour or trottle the footage oh my god oh god but as you can see I guess I'll just have to recap this is my save at the start of the war and I'll play from here because it I just so you can see what I've done and but you know it took me a year and a half I think and and now you're gonna see the magic which you've missed and there was so many encirclements look now on the Byzantine Empire that's basically it I took out Turkey they took like three hundred thousand casualties the way it happened was that I managed to take this area here then I sent most of my army down to to the Aegean islands and invaded from here I also had 12 cavalry units which I had been converted over to my infantry and they mentioned just punch through we United the lines and then just pushed on into Turkey and and that was that as well as pretty much it then the other focus that I've been doing oh I need to do imperial expansion now okay so we can kind of go on from here so I can I can do I don't really care about Imperial diplomacy right now just imperial expansion and we'll go from here but I really did miss that up Oh Alex right protect albania yugoslavia isn't guaranteed by anyone at the moment which is surprising but now i've occupied albania that's pretty good I'm probably doing Piro diplomacy now so people start to like me I don't like being the bad guy I just want the I just want I just want my freakin territory you know am I still recording yes it's still recording oh my gosh I can't believe I've lost like an hour of footage just to freakin ineptitude I'm so salty but we're getting the Byzantine Empire underway which is good which is very good indeed formatic conscription here we go name aside this conscription system shares few similarities of medieval Byzantium system however it really greatly increased the number of soldiers that chimeric we're different territory outside the call stays get the auxilary it's in the armies boys the auxiliaries are key so it appears my divisions of vastly superior with that of Yugoslavia's nice almost at belgrade beryllium for lease Novi Sad bullies Novi Sad but no what will be we should be we should be able to capitulate Yugoslavia pretty soon I grow stronger look at me I'm such a big boy I'm such a big boy oh okay I'm gonna do the Roman Alliance soon I'm gonna try and reclaim phrase first and then do the Roman Alliance get Italy on my side rather than Germany's right the Roman alliance Mussolini shares our ambitions to restore the glory of Rome he's a man we can you live yeah man yeah we become the owner and control of their canoes and Zara why the Frick with the UK protect Bulgaria of all places like what the heck that's so dumb freaking I hate the UK when you just guarantees everyone and screws up my plans Durer how dare they wipe them out wipe them all out okay naval and air defences well we're starting to get some decent buffs now look at this ho-ho-ho-hold ice best best tasty no while my in the axis that what excuse me oh no he's doing down drivel war-torn yep yep I don't want to get involved in the world war please don't make me get involved this is going to suck okay the Roman Conference there we go we should hold a bilateral conservatively in order to make progress towards a union of two great states yes Oh feck oh no no no this isn't a they've actually made progress holy moly they're doing it they're doing it I am actually really surprised Italy's managed to do that oh my god and Germany's broken through the Maginot ah what's going on Wow look at Italy go what has happened to France why is the AI just derped and stuck all of their divisions on them right well that's pretty good geez I'm just going to attack Bulgaria while people are distracted and Bulgaria joined the Allies but that's okay the Roman conference begins activates mission prospect of unification yes please I have the PP for this discuss airforce integration [Music] let's hope for the best ah they succeed okay so it's just a case of doing all of these missions and hopefully they Italian citizenship scheme sure oh you can't see them can you oh I am a right let's move my face there you go so you can kind of see the missions now Oh it'll is accepted Greek proposition to a citizenship exchange scheme good and that it's all going to be the integrations I could discuss let us hope for the best I think they're gonna agree to everything they they like me a lot and I'm helping them in the war now so why wouldn't they discuss Navy integration a little in its political integration and then its unification whoo-hoo oh I took out Bulgaria okay and then proposed a unification oh my gosh here we go if they actually have a final gambit Italy indicates acceptance of Union [Applause] oh my gosh the Roman Union are politically included Lee and the research of Byzantine states been agreed upon Roman glory will be achieved screw further ere innovation I won't do the Roman Union get out of here err innovation the Roman Union our allies in Italy are ready to enter a political union which will lead to the Reformation of the Roman Empire come on les encircle the Brits in Jerusalem oh I might be able to see the Suez oh no they have a lot of garrison troops there Wow how many troops is the UK have just roaming around many oh they're home Islands might be up for grabs and I'll definitely have the forces once this is all in my command our day of glory arrives our brethren grossed out of glory arrives here we go holy moly why am I still purple what I wanted to be red gained all calls and Italian states in Europe do I get their army I do and their Navy how about that how about that oh I have turn red I have turn red there we go the redness has arrived good well I'm losing bombers but I'm destroying some of their fleet so I'm kind of okay with that all my capitals now in Rome okay I'm a pretty I'm a pretty chunky boy though aren't I it's looking very good for the most part develop Italy nice leaves the support of the Italian people we can improve the industrial capacity I'm gonna move myself back over here nice there we go Wow they've they've got 30 divisions protecting the Suez I'm hopeful that I can actually do this naval invasion then huh Oh demanda bruiser yes please Thank You Romania gimme gimme oh wow you've already been carved there haircut Avenue all I needed was a moment and we've taken Dover noise so once they're all in all 20 divisions I don't know I think that I did tons of different group of soaps I've just been producing them and in calais and focusing on bombing the heck out of them that went better than I thought it now if I can bullets through the nation we might be able to do something against them I just need to make sure I keep my supply up luckily my infantry divisions are seem to be superior to theirs so I'm doing an alright job we can just keep up the momentum I reckon we could have it oh my gosh Oh subjugate Romania yes sorry I didn't even read what that said but I presume it's just the Roman people across the world must unite ah nice I also might if you're interested in my infantry template it's this it's just seven twos with lots of different support companies but they admit to be conquering the Brits no problem with that templates right well I think I've made the Roman Empire more powerful than it's ever been kind of well I don't technically own Spain nor do I own all of the UK but I do have the can free Canadian Republic as my as my puppet I've also got the Roman Raj Oh the EMU Empire we've also got the Nova Zealandia Republic it's very very nice I'm still looking pretty thick I don't think I have a faction name do I know and Romania is now my puppet great and look at that man power seven million all righty-roo so some time has passed i annexed Switzerland into this until about mmm Oh most of the way through 1943 and I couldn't find a way to break the German Reich's lines my intention was to like to Clare war on them and then and then have a jolly but I wasn't able to do that so I'm gonna leave the scenario here we have reformed much of the Roman Empire but in order for me to take the German Reich I'd probably need to keep the school keep keep recording for for another five hours and it's it's the way I the way I do my scenarios is that I give myself like a set amount of time and if I record for a number five hours the time investment versus that ad revenue that I'll get from the video just isn't viable so I can't really go until 1946 to 1947 in these games at the moment maybe one day I'll be able to if if if ad revenue improves but you know sorry about that however you did see the glorious Roman Empire reunite Germany I don't know why but just facing Germany is so difficult I didn't think that other that they were this strong but I I don't know maybe maybe I'm just bad maybe I'm just bad at the game but if you've enjoyed the video please do comment like and subscribe and I'll be back very soon to glue may thanks to onion duck Maximilian Foreman wire green Robert kingj da Falcon Ryan Cody fries name name of 1 2 3 1 Aiden shear jiggly crotch news beef Sean Young and Logan Whaley for being ridiculous Rambler supporters on patreon and many thanks to all the other patrons tune [Music]

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Length: 19min 42sec (1182 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 28 2020