Video summary
The video chronicles the highly anticipated launch day of "Iron Nest," an artillery simulation game set in Castile during 1927 and beyond. The creator expresses immense excitement after waiting since spring for the release, finally purchasing the full version on Steam just as it went live. Upon starting the game, viewers are immediately immersed into a narrative where they play as part of "Iron Nest," an elite heavy turret unit tasked with defending Castile against anti-monarchist forces and sabotaging enemy operations during times of peace celebrations. The gameplay loop centers around precise artillery calculations involving bearings, elevations, powder charges, and shell types to destroy various targets ranging from pillboxes and infantry units to armored placements and counter-battery positions across different sectors like urban areas and river crossings.
Throughout the session, the player engages in multiple distinct missions that test both tactical planning and reaction time. Early objectives involve neutralizing hostile elements identified by spotters using high-explosive shells while avoiding civilian casualties, a challenge highlighted when friendly fire incidents occur due to misjudged angles or premature firing signals. Later stages introduce more complex scenarios such as intercepting enemy landing craft before reinforcements arrive at specific times and locations, requiring the player to calculate trajectories under pressure. The game also features unique mechanics like unlocking punch cards for different ammunition types, customizing a cat companion, and using spy planes to locate hidden enemies who have gone underground or are camouflaged within city structures.
The experience is punctuated by humorous commentary from the streamer regarding the repetitive yet satisfying nature of pulling the firing lever after extensive calculations, as well as jokes about game mechanics like manual engine restarts for damaged turrets and the eerie sound effects of war horns that resemble death marches or 40k Titans. Despite some initial struggles with timing shots perfectly to avoid collateral damage among civilians or friendly troops, the player eventually masters the system, achieving clean victories where entire squads are eliminated in single bursts without harming innocents. The video concludes with a successful defense against landing forces and liberation of key cities like Madrid, leaving the creator eager for future content while encouraging viewers to follow their social media channels for updates on upcoming streams and community engagement via Discord and Clubhouse.
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Pillbox one destroyed. Pillbox two
destroyed. I think I could sound the
horn, chat.
Do it.
Freaking doomsday horn. Bearing
confirmed. Elevation confirmed. Gun arm.
You may fire when ready.
Why is that not getting old yet? You
would think firing that turret we I get
a little bit excited every time I get
ready to fire it.
It's like you get all this lead up, all
this calculation, all these drawings,
all these angles, all the twisting and
turning, and then you just look forward
to pulling that freaking lever.
No, it's almost 10:07. It's choo
chooing, chat. Choo choo.
Oh,
today's the day. Iron Nest Heavy Turret
Simulator. It's coming out any minute
now. I am going to have some fun with
this. Been looking forward to this game
probably for it really feels like it's
it's been an eternity, but it's probably
only been like a couple of months. I
think we first dived into the demo
around uh was this spring. All right,
I'm not even going to try to remember.
It's been a little bit. It's been a
little bit. And uh when we got the
release date, I was like, that's too far
away. August is so far away. And now
it's here. And now it's here. Now, we're
going to sit here and wait and
anticipate refresh, restart Steam as we
do all the times. We're going to play
this game. We're going to play this
game. Whether I don't know how long
we're going to play it, but we're going
to play it cuz I I really had to hold
back on the demo cuz I wanted to keep
playing. I was like, "Let me stop cuz
I'm I'm going to burn myself out. I'm
not going to want to play it anymore
because I played the demo too much." So,
we're going to play the crap out of
this. Should be live now. Actually, just
click ticked over to 11.
It's not funny. I didn't have to restart
Steam. Shut up and take my money. Oh,
$15. I'll make this back today. Don't
worry about it, chat. It's an
investment. That's how businesses work.
In your library. I never purchased a
game so fast. I see other people in my
Steam friends do the same thing. Assault
dumb bought it before I did. Holy crap.
I thought I was fast. Perfect.
All right. This location
is a H35.5.
Target is at Q4-2.
Power one. Power two.
Whoa.
Take a powder.
All right, we got two powder charges.
85.4.
Perfect.
53.5.
You may fire when ready.
Ding.
Oh, the bed unlocked already. Hey,
there's my cat. Why don't I remember
this stopwatch?
What?
You just join the cat. [laughter] What
in the world is happening? [snorts]
Monstrous strike on Mercy Ward.
Anti- Manakus. I can't even say it
right. Anti- Manakus that dained a bomb
in the hospital's entry courtyard,
murdering 163 and maming over 300
sentences. A brutal atrocity meant to
shadow the very heart of Castile. The
attack occurred during the visiting
hours which has been described by the
king as particularly unsporting.
[laughter]
Orinous efficiency laurel
completed a mission with minimum rounds
expended. H shell and star shell punch
cards unlocked.
intelligence
has identified an anti- monarchist
element operating within the city
separately. Separately, high command has
scheduled a celebratory illumination
over the royal palace to mark the
general pieces in general peace
initiative.
Irons has been assigned to both
operations. All right, let's mark the
ironess and spotters. H35.5
spotter one is at N903
03. Father 2 is at N279.
All right. Bill reports bearing is 94°
from spotter one. 94°
from spot 2 is 44°. 44
degrees.
Okay.
Now let's get our distance to target and
bearing.
Like so.
Get rid of these
for sanity sake. Okay. So that's 13 km
66° and uh 13.09.
Oh
13.09. 09.
Oh, that's where you get you get it from
here. Okay.
I got it.
So, now they got we got our elevation. I
thought we got that from the other
table. I forgot that fast. Even though I
just did it.
Three powders.
One powder. Two pound. Three pound.
Take a powder.
All right.
Rotation
is uh 66°.
Okay. Elevation is 52.36
chat. Don't look at me like that. You
know what I mean? 52
36
right there.
You may find Wait, I'm early.
Shell type bearing elevation
and arm the gun.
Gun is now armed.
You may fire when
target destroyed. Reconstance photos
transmitted. Two additional hostile
elements have identified and recon
photos. Destroy both before proceeding.
12.96
three powders
51.84 84 loading.
One powder, two powder, three powder.
Loading.
Take a powder.
All right. So, this
is now 67.9°
like so.
We're good.
Arms and load it.
We
just like over
pink.
Targets destroyed. Phase one complete. A
second fire mission is now authorized.
High command order starburst over the
Royal Palace. Star Shell owner. This is
a non-combat operation. Fire in the
vicinity of the coordinates below. A
ground observer will mark corrections
directly on impact recon photos. Adjust
and repeat fire until high command
confirms satisfactory burst position.
250. Let me um There it is.
There we go. So 200 boom boom
bearing 256 from sparter oneoop.
Arm the gun.
You may fire with
Okay. So, now I got to go 3.3 km. Mhm.
So, look at that.
High command to Iron Nest. High command
to Iron. Starburst. Starburst position
confirmed. Satisfactory.
Fire mission complete. I repeat, fire
mission complete. Stand down until
further orders. I repeat, stand down
until further orders. I repeat, stand
down until further orders.
A night of celebration marred by
atrocity. Aaron West,
November 17th, 1927.
On an evening set aside to honor the
generals continued pursuit of peace, the
anti- monarchists remind us all that no
pursuit concerns them. Their only
correspondence arrives written in the
blood of innocents. Honorary salute.
Deliver fire and light. I have unlocked
the punch cards of powder charges. Scout
plane and AP shell. And I earned
ordinance efficiency citation.
Liberation.
That is so cool.
I forgot what you had to do to get your
name up here.
These are all the supporters.
Can you find your name here, chat?
Think you have to support the
Kickstarter or something like that.
Loading.
You may fire when
Tink. Got him.
Oh,
you may fire when
I'm coming to get you.
Splat. There's a third one.
Please, no civilians. Please, no
civilians.
Okay. No civilians. Perfect.
Loading.
You may fire when You may fire when You
may fire when
Tink
Kaboom Crater. Two hostile infantry
units remain in urban sector. Complete
their destruction in detail. I guess
it's here an urban sector. So, let's uh
let's get a spy plane down there.
Do it.
Huh?
Two hostile infusion units remain in
urban sector. What sector? This is why
I'm confused.
What sector are you referring to?
I mean, I could send a spy plane over
here.
Now, we're going to send another spy
plane.
Over here,
buddy. That's not it.
Found him. Okay.
So, uh, these are going to be H charges,
high explosive charges since they're
infantry. So, I got to go over here. I'm
going to get two of them.
H shells. We're going to get two AC
shells, which they cost 10 each. One.
I'm down to 90 credits. Boy, I'm getting
close. Oh no. And now the infamous
words. You may fire when ready.
There it goes.
This little thing denotes the missile
that or the uh the shell I just shot
using advanced trigonometry technology.
Got them. Oh, they did.
Oh crap.
Didn't they have like an animation for
this that you could interrupt?
Tink.
Got him.
Yay.
Enforce deliberation.
Punch cars unlocked. I got a What's
this?
I cannot read a MCN shell.
You see my animation of my fire my shots
here.
Enemy forces have deployed artillery
across the river in response to recent
activity. This is anticipated.
Prioritize elimination of all identified
artillery assets.
Destroy what remains in detail. Be
prepared. Counter battery timer will
commence once the first shell lands.
So, it could be here or here.
That sucks. [laughter]
I don't think they're going to let me do
that.
Why is that open?
Dear Iron Nest, while advancing, I fell
into fell into one of your footprints
outside Delriel and twisted my ankle.
While I was trying to climb back out, a
shell landed where my squad was
standing. I'm now the only one left and
I can still hear them. I don't know if
that can ever stop hearing them.
Everyone tells me I was lucky. My mother
would have said I wasn't lucky. She
would have said, "God put that hole
there to save me." But God didn't put
that hole there. You did, Tomas.
Did we get him?
We didn't get him.
Okay, I got that one
for the glorium. Cookie.
Come on, Bobby.
Uh,
goti. Wait, there's another one.
Four hostile units remain across the
river. Solidate sector. Destroy main
element. Stand by.
Are these artiller? Are these uh
hostile units? Okay. A lot of them up
here.
No, not there.
There they are.
I kind of panicked.
I kind of panicked. I'm just like, do
something.
I guess I can just shoot the same thing
with uh AG.
Let's make sure I hit these guys.
Yeah, we got both of them.
All right, we're going to fly the spy
plane over there now.
Oh, I put it Oh crap. That's not going
to show me anything. I should have put
it back here. Oh my goodness.
Okay, this whole area is lit up now. I
don't see anybody else across the river.
I think there's two more targets.
Elevation confirmed. Omnig guns.
Gun armed. You may fire with
ping.
Got him. All right, we need another spy
plane.
Castile's mechanized wonder. Madrid,
January 29, 1928. Foreign observers
stunned by the iron nest might. A new
era of warfare, the general declares as
the world scrambles to respond to the
unveiling.
So, this is going to be a 10. The 6:00
one's going to be a 10:06. This one's
going to be a 10:10.
This one going to be a 10:13.
No, it's almost 10:07. It's choo
chooing, chat. Choo choo.
What's this?
Put the needle on the record. Uh 45.69
69 69 69.
That's fine. Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh. You
may fire with Hurry up.
All right, I got to start calculating
the other one now.
I'm probably not going to hit that one.
So that's uh 13.32.
Oh,
well done, operator. Allied infantry,
hold position, awaiting your signal to
commence the assault. Two armored imp
placements block the assault trajectory.
Allied infantry cannot advance until
they are destroyed. The armored imp
placements require AP shells to destroy.
Dang it. All right, got these.
Signal the assault. Use your war horn
located hanging in the left of the
trigger console or the back right of map
table to signal the successful
destruction of both armored placements.
Signaling before you have complete your
task will result in mass casualties.
Bearing confirmed, elevation confirmed,
gun arm.
You may fire when ready.
Why is that not getting old yet?
You would think firing that turret we I
get a little bit excited every time I
get ready to fire it. It's like you get
all this leadup, all this calculation,
all these drawings, all these angles,
all the twisting and turning, and then
you just look forward to pulling that
freaking lever.
Pillbox one destroyed. Pillbox two
destroyed. I think I could sound a horn.
Chat,
do it.
Freaking doomsday horn. You know good
well there's no such thing as a he
shell.
What am I guys?
From hence therefore and now there
therefore with and thou art. They will
now be called Heihei he shells on
kick.com/bwana.
There's my heing.
Very good. Very good. Chat, we're just
getting started, but I've been up all
night. We streamed this morning. I
pulled an allnighter and stayed up until
uh Iron S came out. All right. All
right. So, when we last left our hero,
we were doing
uh not the challenge modes, but we had
just finished Iron Road, which was kind
of surprising. So, how do you customize
the cat? I saw that Dag Dak put a
screenshot. You can customize the cat.
I don't know how high you got to get for
that, but I don't know where that option
is.
Oh, here it is. Cat customization.
Hat name.
This is where Borna draws a blank.
Although I don't care about a lot of
this stuff. That's cool. Back up. Oh no.
He has been working out.
Oh my gosh. [laughter]
What do you want to do today, boys? Back
arch. I keep clicking away.
Cool.
I have a customized cat cap. Three high
valued installations identify an enemy
backline.
There's an enemy signal station and it's
got three coordinates here from uh
different spotters. There's an enemy
assembly area and then there's a a field
command here.
I think that was both of them. I hit two
things.
I think my calculations were correct.
Yeah, it was right. They both were right
there. Field command destroyed. Enemy
enemy signal station destroyed. Wow. I
was I was doubting that, but that that
was actually it. Okay. USA, you may fire
when ready.
This one might be off. That one went
[music] way too well.
Do it.
Got him.
Bada boom. Now I need you to destroy
eight additional enemy units surrounding
the town. Signal the breakout. Once
eight enemy units are destroyed, sound
the war horn to signal the garrison to
begin a breakout. Listen, this war horn
needs to be a channel point sound. Let
me tell you, this thing sounds like the
death march horn. It's like
And I'm I'm not I'm I'm I'm under I'm
underelling it. You know what? If I fire
one of the Ooh. Ooh. Oh, I already got a
H though. If I fire one of those big
ones with the large blast radius, it
might kill all three of these. I'm going
to do a he.
See if I can get all three of those
guys.
No,
[bell] I killed civilians.
Friendly marine garrison destroyed. I
lost 10 requisition on that. It's so
close. I guess I could have fired like
to the southeast of it or something.
It's very good. You may fire when
Good stuff.
I like that we took out three targets in
one glory. Look how look at the crater
it left.
Sheesh. But the he shell don't play,
boy. Load it, Mr. Hehe He shell.
May fire when ready.
I'm burning up stuff.
I wonder if you leave those
un unmaintained, will you just like
explode? If stuff smokes and you just
ignore it.
All right, let's see if we can get both
of these.
The crater
at shell go.
We just play the planet side theme the
whole time. Play the Terran thing.
[laughter]
That'll trigger some folks. Kaboom.
Loaded.
This exactly what I imagine a Titan's
warhorn would sound like in 40k. That's
what it sounds like. Yeah, something
like that. All right, that's eight.
>> [snorts]
>> Yep. Smoke screen.
Smoke laid. Marine garrison six pushing
through. Iron. We owe you one. No, you
owe me two.
[laughter]
Is enemy able to shoot down your
launches? Not that I know of yet,
but they can counter fire. That's why I
killed those counter batteries. Breakout
successful. The city held. I do not know
what the papers will say tomorrow. I
know what you did today. Thank you,
Anton. You may stand down. Any enemy
elements still in the field are no
longer objectives. We ask of you.
Continue fire support is authorized at
your discretion. Should you judge it
worth your ordinance. I do want to kill
some of these targets, but I want to I'm
going to save my requisition credits.
So, I think we'll end it there. Glory
the captain.
Backers
[music]
divided.
With Carthagina liberated, the anti-
monarchists have been cut cleanly in
two, leaving their eastern and southern
remnants to distrust one another and the
crown's absence. Officials note this was
in fact the plan all along.
Transatlantic accent in a area where
it's not even used. His majesty [music]
king extends his sympathies to the anti-
monogous now forcing the conduct and
treason without the convenience of the
shared border.
Impact confirmed at a at port underside
armor held. Pressure lines ruptured.
Rerouting exterior lines now. Engines
require manual restart. Additional
systems may be affected. No, nothing
more we can fix from here. Anyway,
that didn't do anything.
Engines require manual restart.
That's master power.
Oh, here are the engines.
This is new.
Set both dials to start.
Uh, pull starter chain and then set both
dials to run. Got it.
Huh?
Let's try it again. Both to start. I
don't think I pulled the starter chain
right. Got to do it like a lawn mower,
chat. Got to mean it.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no.
All right, boat's a start. Here we go.
There we go.
You got to mean it.
Yes.
[laughter]
How do I close this? Oh, okay. I didn't
even know that was there.
Do it.
Got two targets right there.
All right, let's just um I'm going to he
shell these guys.
Getting the angle right might be a
thing. Um,
I'm going to assume one powder.
I'm just going to assume one powder
since it's so close. An angle. I guess
I'll do like 30.
Here we go, chat.
Oh boy. Arm guns.
I'm sorry in advance.
That was really shallow. I didn't kill
anybody though. We'll do two powders.
Gun loaded.
You may fire when
[cheering]
[screaming]
>> three.
Well, that turned out a little bit
better than I expected.
I got a bad feeling about this, but you
know what, chicken butt.
We're doing it.
I think friendlies are safe. Unless
going higher with the same powder goes
shallower.
Okay, we're clear.
Wow.
Holy crap. I'm nailing these.
I did change the angle, right?
Yeah, I did.
Dude, that's like exact
with three powders.
Yeah, I overshot. I still got three of
them though.
This should be it. Oh yeah, that's it.
That's it.
Oh my goodness. It's piping. We have
done the great thing that we have done.
Now fix this cuz I miss it. That was a
fun mission. That challenged my brain
stem.
Look at them legs on that thing.
The Iron Nest stands unbroken. Despite
the sustained ambush involving what
witnesses describe as everything the
enemy had, the Iron sustained [music] no
damage of any kind. No dents, no
scorching, no chip paint, and no cause
[music] whatsoever for concern. Army
engineers report the fortress is, if
anything, structurally improved by the
experience.
Not a single scratch.
Not one. [laughter]
The garrison with good conditions is
invisible to aerial reconnaissance. They
have gone to ground, dug into the old
city sellers and stonework. Ordinance.
Tear shells will force them into the
open, permitting detection by aerial
reconnaissance. Once positions are
visually confirmed, destroy them in
detail. Invisibility to reconnaissance
does not confer immunity to art
artillery fire. Once all three primary
targets are destroyed, sound your
warhorn
to commence the advance. Signaling
before all three positions are
destroyed, we'll order our troops to
advance into contested ground. Do they
have a high like a a high impact radius
for AP? Probably don't.
Sounding the horn is great. I I love
that crap. Holy crap. I didn't even know
that existed.
Okay, we got to find this third one.
Yeah, we're going to be searching for
We're basically trying to smoke out
people. We don't know where they are.
Like this. I found two in one shot, but
I don't know.
All right. All right. If it's not here,
I'm going to try down here. But
I feel like that's not west southwest. I
think that's like
south.
Oh, please be here.
I wonder if they're there.
I It's going to be something easy. I
already know it. Every time I get
tripped up by something like that, it's
something really basic and easy and I
overco complicated it.
I didn't expect that to do anything.
Oh,
I've already destroyed the enemy field
command. Chat,
I need to be looking at N4.
I told you it's all it's always
something simple. always. It never It's
been like that my whole life. I over
complicate simple stuff, man. In four.
And this
the moment of truth, chat. I've been
waiting for this all weekend. It's not
even a weekend. Hold on to your butts.
Go [screaming] go go go go go go go go
go go go go go.
Caris returns to the crown crown. Kis
has returned to the crown after his
garrison having gone to the ground
rather than face the precautions of
their actions was located and destroyed
before nightfall. The generals overseen
operation called the cleanest work this
[music] army has done all year despite
all the gas. With foreign support for
anti- monarchists now visibly thinning,
officials described morale within the
crown's ranks as the highest it has been
since the war began. They went to ground
because they had nowhere left to stand,
the general added. We did not need to
hunt for them. We only needed something
at the wall doable
to men. Woman, I'm [music] with the
cause.
Okay. Your objective is to prevent enemy
landing forces from reaching your
defensive line until reinforcements
arrive at 7:14.
Okay, we're in data now.
Irons is at
0129
01
29.
Landing craft spotted crossing
what?
19 traveled in 10 seconds. 1 km traveled
in 1 meter and 40 1 minute and 40
seconds. 3 km traveled in 5 minutes.
Intercept landing craft on course for
prepare for beach landing 708 uh 5 km
and 180° from E10
1 n
5 km from that.
So here
at 708.
So I have to be at 708
7120.
That's a different one though.
Oh, it's the same spot though.
Okay.
Stay focused.
Stay focused. They giving you a lot of
information there, boy. All right.
Everything's ready here. We just have to
fire at 7.
I hope it's not 7:05.
7:08.
We're armed.
We got one minute.
So, we're basically firing at the coast.
Got him. Okay.
I think it was 7-Eleven, chat. I hope I
hope it was.
Can't see.
Yeah. 7-Eleven 20. Whoops.
I'm early.
Well, I'm right on time, actually.
Yeah, we killed them all. Perfect. All
right, what's the next one from N1059?
Let's do the N1059. I'm not going to be
able to get that one. N1059.
N1059.
That's going to be straight down, I'm
assuming.
at 7:14. Here it is.
So, it's like straight down here.
That's going to be at 7:14.
It's going to be very soon. Uh 4.1 km,
one pounder. Go.
Load it.
I don't think I'm going to make this
one, chat. I don't think I'm making it.
Uh, it's going to take too long for this
thing to load.
Uh, 350.1.
I'm going to try though.
Here we go.
Too far. Too far. 350.1
angle
49.20.
I think they're arriving now. It says
71440. Okay, we got we got 20 seconds.
We got a little time. We got a little
time.
Too far. 49.2. Two
zero.
Go.
Okay.
Relief columns have reached the uh B
beach head to tie this turn. Sky
elements remain remain within range.
Okay. Primary objective complete. You
may stand down. That was nerve-wracking,
chat.
I still killed him, though. That was
nerve-wracking.
Holy crap. So, you're basically feing
off a landing army until uh
reinforcements arrive. All right.
Primary objective complete. We did the
thing.
Turn to high tide. Punch cars unlocked.
AP. Ooh. Armor piercing shell. Medium
bursting charges. Medium blast radius.
So, we got AP [music] charges
that have a bigger blast radius. I was
asking about that earlier.
Okay.
Woo!
Chat room, that was fun. Thanks so much
for watching. Thanks so much for joining
us. I'm going to head out. We got to do
some video editing. We got to edit this
what we just did. Also edit uh this
morning's video for a YouTube video that
I hope you all watch.
Go to youtube.com/boy.
So, I'm about to put some hours in. It's
3:00 a.m. my time, but I'm about to put
some hours in to to get these videos
edited. So, I hope you guys go up to
YouTube and watch them, like them,
comment, subscribe. I appreciate
everybody coming out and watching. And
I'll see you all next time. Thanks so
much for being here and make sure you
follow the stream. Make sure you join
the Discord to be notified when I go
live on Kick if you don't have the
mobile app cuz Kick don't know how to do
email notifications no more. So, the
only way you can get notified that your
person is going live, your stream is
going live, is if you have the mobile
app.
I think that's unfair. I'm just going to
say it out loud. So, we do have a
Discord notification when I go live.
I've been tweeting. I've been posting on
my club account, club.com/wana.
I I posted there today. Uh, so if you
don't follow me on Club, I'm going to be
trying to post all of my live stream
notifications up there as well, so you
guys can have another way of knowing
when I go live. All right, y'all have a
good one. Great stream today. I had so
much fun with this game. I'm going to
continue to have fun, and we're going to
put together some fun videos for you
guys to see. We got some good clips,
too. So, take care of yourselves. Have a
great night. GG's. Goodbye everybody.