Let's play Hearts of Iron IV Black Ice - Japan (BICE difficulty) - part 1
118The playlist of this playthrough can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFkTQscFYIU&list=PLpVUxdiS7yw-35e0NUMwX_AVqrv59YVZH
Hello everyone and welcome to let’s play Hearts of Iron 4 modded with the latest vision of Black Ice, version 8.0.5.
This is a let’s play I have been looking forward to for a long time. Since I finished the playthrough of Germany I was sure I’d like to challenge myself with Japan. However there was always some other thing to do. Well not anymore. It is time to crack this nut and do it in front of you all on the highest (BICE) difficulty. I really hope I won’t regret this.
Actually, I am pretty sure I won’t. Losing is fun and struggling is where the campaign is the best. So let’s hope my plan will work. It should have all – taking down China, massive sea battles, resisting the USA and if we play our cards right, also taking down Soviet Union.
Last but not least – if we win this I am planning to do another playthrough of TNO as Japan. So wish me luck, crack open a beer and keep your criticism coming! I will need every advice this time.
00:00 Introduction
04:00 Brief history of Japan
10:40 Japan in-game
17:30 Japan’s policies and focuses
41:41 Spy Agency
42:00 Research
48:57 Trade
49:49 Construction and Production
51:00 Army
58:30 General military strategy
01:01:14 The setup
01:02:00 Research
01:09:22 Trade
01:12:20 Production
01:19:11 Military, Airforce and Navy
01:27:42 Wrap up
History of Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan
War in the Pacific: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II
Japanese war crimes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
The Black Ice mod Steam page: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1137372539
Hearts of Iron 4 Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/394360/Hearts_of_Iron_IV/
From Black Ice Steam page: „We aim to bring Hearts of Iron 4 to an all new level, making your game experience more immersive, historical and challenging.
Black ICE completely overhauls most national focus trees, changes game mechanics, adds in tons of events, technologies, units and much more.
While playing ahistorical will work, Black ICE mainly aims at improving the plausible historical experience.”
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