Developers: Don't play in Ironman, it will break the Ottoman peace deal! Bittersteel: Ah whatever, what's the worst that can happen? *Bittersteel stuck in a war with the Ottomans* Bittersteel: Oh no, how could this happens, this sucks
Great War Redux suffers from too much scripted peace deals and scripts in general, it's impossible not to break shit when there are this many scripted events
small correction to the history lesson, the Greeks got to Thessaloniki first with the Ottomans surrendering to them 9 November (27 October Old Calendar). The Bulgarians arrived a day later after learning of Greece taking the city.
"Because Bulgaria attacked ever-" Bulgaria attacking everyone is NOT a true statement, They only Attacked Serbia and Greece, Romania and the Ottomans attacked Bulgaria.
9:32 actually, the Greek army entered the City first, because the Greek prime minister, Elefterios Venizelos, pressured the King to move against the city first and the Bulgarians entered a day after
Hey, Bittersteel, hope you see this. If you hand Dobruja to the Romanians they won't interfere in the Second Balkan War and also there was a way (via focus/decision) to sign a non-aggression pact with the Ottomans, leaving you with just Serbia and Greece as enemies. Despite losing Dobruja, I think this could be an interesting alt history path.
9:30 The Bulgarians did NOT get to Thessaloniki first! The Ottoman commander, Hasan Tahsin Pasha, surrendered Thessaloniki and its garrison of 26,000 men to the Greeks on 9 November 1912.
the bug with the ottomans explains so much. I played a game as Bulgaria last week with just the goal to beat the 2nd Balkan War which ended up dragging into an alternate WW1. In the end, i won the 2nd balkan war, but lost the Great War, but still ended up with some pretty good borders
"I talked to the developers and they said: Dont play on iron mode as Bulgaria." I wish I new.... It`s my 5 th try, 5 th day in row trying to win as Bulgaria and survive a WWI
Epic video! It's sad that it takes forever for the devs to finish any sort of rework. But I heard the Ottoman trees historical rework is done and the update my come soon! Very excited for that video
>explicitly ignore mod author instruction Well, it is hard to feel anything but humor at the outcome knowing you could've taken in any form of external stimuli and probably done better as a consequence.
Tip for the devs of the mod. Of course there are the obvious ones as to fix the ottoman peace event and greece thing and such. But what would be nice would really be an interwar/after war part, and the demobilisation being more like half your mills go into civs thing or so, and smack some debuffs in there but let people try to continue after, this thing just kills any reason to play further not by choice but by default
Bulgaria back then was known as the Prussia of the Balkans, and they never had a flag captured in battle. So at the end of WW1, when general Vazov was marching through, the British lowered their flags in respect to the victor of Doyran, for he remained undefeated!
10:48 Btw theres a mod called notification fix which allows you to press enter for those notifications in the bottom right. Its ironman compatible aswell
The game giving Serbia lands that you occupied during the war seems like a bit of an oversight because they probably wouldve kept it, at least until the second balkan war
I just did a playthrough! I was stuck in the Balkan war in a two year stalemate because the otoomans had too many groops and we only pushed to thrace lol
To continue playing you need during the event where they surrender and before the end of the fight justify war goals to use then at the end then denounce the truce and continue to play
Make 20 wif + shovels that hold the position. Then you can improve them with a support artelerie. If you can afford it, you can later add an artelerie to the frontline division, which is more than enough. Cas is King is the only thing that counts Shock troops never more than 3 artelerie, otherwise the maximum damage they can do and the costs will only get worse.
I played bulgaria too and the peace deal for ww1 that happened in early 1916 happened without me taking part randomly, so i lost serbia, albania, and montenegro, and was invading romania but lost that too, so i was left with bulgaria, and greece.
i played the 1600s mod (forget the name) attacking poland-lithuania is like what happened with greece and turkey in this video, they just keep spawning into existence and instantly declaring war on me opening another front onto what i was doing
A bit of correction in regard to the pre-lute to second balkan war: The greeks got to Thessaloniki first before the Bulgarians and took the city, to the frustrations of the Bulgarians. There were multiple reasons Serbia did not honor there agreement with Bulargia, the main one was they were pressured to release Albania by the great powers as you mentionen. What contributed however, was the Bulgarians did not offer their support to the Serbians during the negotiations around Albania. Greece and Serbia entered an Alliance against Bulgaria, since bulgaria had ambitions towards both nations. Bulgaria had a similar agreement with Romania, which Serbia had with Bulgaria in regard to distribution of land. However Bulgaria did not honor that agreement, which was one of the reason Romania decided to join.
Just checked, Lone Liberators of the Balkans focus is currently broken. To activate it you have to first click the historical option for the first Serbian negotiation over Macedonia. Then you cancel the negotiations at the second negotiation stage, refusing to negotiate at all will lock you out of your political Balkan focuses tree. Now currently it is true the Ottomans won’t offer a white peace even when you take all of their European territories including Constantinople. I still managed to defeat them on June 8, 1914, one month before the July crisis and the events leading to The Great War. However I was locked out of my Balkan Political Focuses again. I couldn’t progress down the tree to make Byzantium at all. Not to mention Austria-Hungry will declare war on you if you refuse to make Albania independent.
thing is, you do not need to OWN albaina to form byzantium. get a justification on them and greece before joining the entente, then declare, also dont use the reclaim tsargrad justification fuocus until AFTER they have been whitepeaced, idk if this will work after an update or if you are going to play this again, but I hope this helps.
bulgaria is actually a really good country because like in 1914 when serbia fighting austria-hungary you can backstab serbia and you can beat romania also when it protects its border with russia and austria hungary
Quick history correction Greek troop entered Thessaloniki hours before the Bulgarians and claimed it as part of the "first come first served" agreements for the territory every nation eas going to annex
ww1 redux the mod where Austria-Hungary has to core Austria-Hungary but Romania and Serbia start with cores on Hungary absolutely low tier revisionist mod
I saw another comment by a dev on your last Great War Redux video that there were things to do post war. I just don't know what they are having never inserted.
Ok Bittersteel, we all know you’re itching for it: Black Ice Czechoslovakia.
get this man up the comments
let him preach 🗣
Bittersteel be like 😶🌫️😶🌫️😮💨 what are you talking about?🫣
is there any better AI than bittersteel?
we all want this
Developers: Don't play in Ironman, it will break the Ottoman peace deal!
Bittersteel: Ah whatever, what's the worst that can happen?
*Bittersteel stuck in a war with the Ottomans*
Bittersteel: Oh no, how could this happens, this sucks
Not his smartest moment, lol.
Yeah, that was a touch infuriating to watch.
😅😅😅
😂 if only someone told him
Maybe he’ll learn for next Tim- ahh who am I kidding he still going to iron man mode his way into world conquest
Dev: tells Bittersteel not to play in Ironman because the mod is broken
Bitter: I'm gonna do it anyway
Bitter when no peace deal with Turkey: 😮
JONES BBQ AND FOOT MASSAGE
@@scottandcoke1342 why
@@user-xw2eb4or6l ya better get down here
Bittersteal out here, keeping Hoi4 Singleplayer alive all by his own. Thx for all your amazing content. Keep it up :D
Appreciate it!
@@Bitt3rSteelwe all know that you want to do black ice Luxembourg!
Not on his own, isp is still doing hoi4, but still.... they both are carrying
@@losisansgaming2628, Kristibbs, Wolfdemon, and ChaoticFlorious are good too.
@@losisansgaming2628Along with several other *competitors* ...
Great War Redux suffers from too much scripted peace deals and scripts in general, it's impossible not to break shit when there are this many scripted events
It's honestly easy to get around if you know all of them and you can make some batshit crazy endings, it's hilarious.
you can turn them off in game settings
When you said you'd do Byz again, this wasn't entirely what I expected the outcome to be.
For real
small correction to the history lesson, the Greeks got to Thessaloniki first with the Ottomans surrendering to them 9 November (27 October Old Calendar). The Bulgarians arrived a day later after learning of Greece taking the city.
the first bulgarians were there for the sword of the city to be passed to the greeks to be fair
Yh yh we was. Pansexual pfp larp lol
That was a hot mess between the crown prince and the prime minister.
Was just about to comment this. Thanks lol
@@basedbulgar5240 Thank you for your opinion, Wehraboo
"Because Bulgaria attacked ever-" Bulgaria attacking everyone is NOT a true statement, They only Attacked Serbia and Greece, Romania and the Ottomans attacked Bulgaria.
That may be true but they were incredibly power hungry
@@someonewhonooneseverheardo5271Serbia? Yeah they were
@@SinfullyHera yeah everyone was power hungry in the balkans. But I'd say the top 3 is austria-Hungary, the ottoman empire and bulgaria
@@someonewhonooneseverheardo5271 Yeah, Bulgaria instead of the disloyal backstabbing Serbia
@@SinfullyHera yeah but bulgaria are the ones who attacked serbia and Greece. It doesn't matter how it happened bulgaria easily could've negotiated
What a great way to end a shift, Thank you for all the amazing content and all the hard work you do.
Glad you enjoy it!
How did comment is 16 hours ago, if the video is published now.... (I think because they are members and they can watch it from early)
@@NikolaZ2012yea you’re right members get videos earlier
Ye
9:32 actually, the Greek army entered the City first, because the Greek prime minister, Elefterios Venizelos, pressured the King to move against the city first and the Bulgarians entered a day after
Acktchually 🤓☝🏻
"I have only one Thessaloniki, which I have surrendered."
@@basedbulgar5240 name checks out
@@basedbulgar5240 cope harder
@@Ioannis1821 ok wehraboo
"Why do these Ottomans just attack stupidly?" - Enver Pasha says hello
“Don’t play in Ironman”
*plays in Ironman*
*suffers*
Hey, Bittersteel, hope you see this. If you hand Dobruja to the Romanians they won't interfere in the Second Balkan War and also there was a way (via focus/decision) to sign a non-aggression pact with the Ottomans, leaving you with just Serbia and Greece as enemies. Despite losing Dobruja, I think this could be an interesting alt history path.
He could've gotten it back by letting Romania cap out to the Central Powers and then taking Dobruja afterwards (because Germany then occupies it)
23:15 that Alhamdulillah was so personal 😭
It took my guard off lol. Bro so relieved, i can feel it
9:30 The Bulgarians did NOT get to Thessaloniki first!
The Ottoman commander, Hasan Tahsin Pasha, surrendered Thessaloniki and its garrison of 26,000 men to the Greeks on 9 November 1912.
Yeah we did lol, just get over it
@@basedbulgar5240you are under every comment seething take a break
@@supermanpapastalin I'm good
@@basedbulgar5240 we didnt we tried but we were 1 Day late
@@kocaka69 aight, I got you bratan
24:18 thats why you dont play in ironman
the bug with the ottomans explains so much. I played a game as Bulgaria last week with just the goal to beat the 2nd Balkan War which ended up dragging into an alternate WW1. In the end, i won the 2nd balkan war, but lost the Great War, but still ended up with some pretty good borders
Bulgaria walks a long alternative way only to find herself screwed up and deprieved again.
"I talked to the developers and they said: Dont play on iron mode as Bulgaria." I wish I new.... It`s my 5 th try, 5 th day in row trying to win as Bulgaria and survive a WWI
I forgot about "fly the white flag of war." People say you use Futurama references too much but I personally enjoy it.
Lore accurate bulgarian commentary on the peace deals and post-war events
12:05 Love Bitt3rsteel roleplaying as Bulgaria and getting hung up on not getting gains in the Balkans
GG you glorious guy
Bulgarian Lives Matter everyone 🇧🇬
BLM✊️
Epic video! It's sad that it takes forever for the devs to finish any sort of rework. But I heard the Ottoman trees historical rework is done and the update my come soon! Very excited for that video
Where di you hear it from
@@filifilo8686 the discord of the mod, the dev for the ottomans said it himself
Petition for Battle of Seelow Heights Japan
I support
me too
>explicitly ignore mod author instruction
Well, it is hard to feel anything but humor at the outcome knowing you could've taken in any form of external stimuli and probably done better as a consequence.
Bittersteel cooking these weeks
Great war redux + Bittersteal is the youtube video i was looking for to watch while eating my pizza.
"As you can see I am not the New Byzantium. I am however big sad." -Bitt3rsteel, 31.08.2024
New drinking game for this video. Take a shot every time Bittersteel says Thessaloniki!
"Do they have a focus tree?"
"It's an older focus sir, but checks out."
lesgoooo my favorite video updated
I am bulgarian and i am SO happy that you like my country
Tip for the devs of the mod. Of course there are the obvious ones as to fix the ottoman peace event and greece thing and such. But what would be nice would really be an interwar/after war part, and the demobilisation being more like half your mills go into civs thing or so, and smack some debuffs in there but let people try to continue after, this thing just kills any reason to play further not by choice but by default
Thanks for finally forming Byzantium as Bulgaria in the Great War Redux!
Bulgaria back then was known as the Prussia of the Balkans, and they never had a flag captured in battle. So at the end of WW1, when general Vazov was marching through, the British lowered their flags in respect to the victor of Doyran, for he remained undefeated!
This is a great video. Really great...
Glad you liked it!
I was playing Bulgaria in this mod yesterday. I finished the second Balkan war in 1916 because Serbia and Montenegro became fortresses
10:48 Btw theres a mod called notification fix which allows you to press enter for those notifications in the bottom right. Its ironman compatible aswell
The game giving Serbia lands that you occupied during the war seems like a bit of an oversight because they probably wouldve kept it, at least until the second balkan war
Bitterst33l getting warned, ignored the warning, regretted his decision.
I never imagine i hear Bittersteel say "Alhamdulillah the ottoman is dead"
the lack of cavalry to rush early gaps and act as fast units is killing me
Bro made big turkey and thought we wouldnt notice
I just did a playthrough! I was stuck in the Balkan war in a two year stalemate because the otoomans had too many groops and we only pushed to thrace lol
To continue playing you need during the event where they surrender and before the end of the fight justify war goals to use then at the end then denounce the truce and continue to play
Didn't know you can do it that way, I'll use this from now on lol
Love your content ❤❤❤❤
A minor in the WW1 mod. Well, you gotta 100% life
The whitepeace bug ruined a run for me and i didnt know it was a bug back then
BURGARIAN ULTRANATIONALIST ASSEMBLE!!!!!!
If the Bulgarian path is getting an update, how about a re-rerun once it's out?
Make 20 wif + shovels that hold the position.
Then you can improve them with a support artelerie.
If you can afford it, you can later add an artelerie to the frontline division, which is more than enough.
Cas is King is the only thing that counts
Shock troops never more than 3 artelerie, otherwise the maximum damage they can do and the costs will only get worse.
WW1 sims where things actually happen feel wrong on a deep level ngl
I played bulgaria too and the peace deal for ww1 that happened in early 1916 happened without me taking part randomly, so i lost serbia, albania, and montenegro, and was invading romania but lost that too, so i was left with bulgaria, and greece.
I didn't know Ferdinand had such good skin routine in the 1910's
He looks like a woman with a beard
I've been meaning to do a Bulgaria into Byzantium playthrough in this mod and was looking for tips. Thanks for the help
S8 level of a disappointing twist with you not being able to form Byzantium
12:05 : some random bulgarian guy at the end of the first balkan war
When I did this and won both wars as Bulgaria, I never got a WWI. Did this happen for anyone else?
Bitt3r making my morning a whole lot better
Never stop with the futurama references!
bittersteel really needs to play as the state of serbs, croats, and slovenes one day frfr
someday even i shall bring glory to every land i touch in this game
i played the 1600s mod (forget the name)
attacking poland-lithuania is like what happened with greece and turkey in this video, they just keep spawning into existence and instantly declaring war on me opening another front onto what i was doing
4:01 bulgaria didn’t start it Greece and Serbia agreed that they want to attack Bulgaria and then Romania and the Ottoman Empire joined them
It's almost like you shouldn't have played in ironman mode.
loved the history lesson, 10/10
Amazing video like usuall! I just hope u find a way to beat Seelow heights the final date, we belive in you, u can do it! Take Care Bitter!
Love your videos. YOur got a lovly nice Voice and you know much about History, I guess., And you playstyyle is very comfortable to watch
14:48 Yes, look at this. History keeps repeating itself, until the naked ape will learn... 😢
The Turkish white peace would probably have resulted in a scripted peace deal in due time lol
23:15 When the Arab revolt militia heard about the fall of Ottoman Empire.
5:56 yk what ELSE is massive
Another week another banger by bittersteel
Bro really loves great war redux
Great video, maybe try Yugo next?
A bit of correction in regard to the pre-lute to second balkan war: The greeks got to Thessaloniki first before the Bulgarians and took the city, to the frustrations of the Bulgarians. There were multiple reasons Serbia did not honor there agreement with Bulargia, the main one was they were pressured to release Albania by the great powers as you mentionen. What contributed however, was the Bulgarians did not offer their support to the Serbians during the negotiations around Albania. Greece and Serbia entered an Alliance against Bulgaria, since bulgaria had ambitions towards both nations. Bulgaria had a similar agreement with Romania, which Serbia had with Bulgaria in regard to distribution of land. However Bulgaria did not honor that agreement, which was one of the reason Romania decided to join.
I think this is the best mod from an historical point of view but also one of the most bugged one
Pls try some magna europa challenges!
I'm a simple man, I see big bulgaria, I click.
Love the play, would not mind a second go at it but burn-out is real so play what you want mate :)
YOU ACTUALLY DID A BULGARIAN VIDEO!
Just checked, Lone Liberators of the Balkans focus is currently broken. To activate it you have to first click the historical option for the first Serbian negotiation over Macedonia. Then you cancel the negotiations at the second negotiation stage, refusing to negotiate at all will lock you out of your political Balkan focuses tree. Now currently it is true the Ottomans won’t offer a white peace even when you take all of their European territories including Constantinople. I still managed to defeat them on June 8, 1914, one month before the July crisis and the events leading to The Great War. However I was locked out of my Balkan Political Focuses again. I couldn’t progress down the tree to make Byzantium at all. Not to mention Austria-Hungry will declare war on you if you refuse to make Albania independent.
I wash myself with a rag on a stick
09:37, the Greeks liberated the city first, and then the Bulgarians arrived after a few hours
I LOVE YOU BITTERSTEEL
Epik
bittersteel, you cannot escape the seelow heights mod, you must complete it!
This video has some classic examples of HOI4 chicanery
Petition for Bitt3rsteel to do Black Ice Czechoslovakia
thing is, you do not need to OWN albaina to form byzantium. get a justification on them and greece before joining the entente, then declare, also dont use the reclaim tsargrad justification fuocus until AFTER they have been whitepeaced, idk if this will work after an update or if you are going to play this again, but I hope this helps.
bulgaria is actually a really good country because like in 1914 when serbia fighting austria-hungary you can backstab serbia and you can beat romania also when it protects its border with russia and austria hungary
24:16i eleda pote den petheni😂😂😂,somehow greece has returned momment
Quick history correction Greek troop entered Thessaloniki hours before the Bulgarians and claimed it as part of the "first come first served" agreements for the territory every nation eas going to annex
ww1 redux
the mod where Austria-Hungary has to core Austria-Hungary
but Romania and Serbia start with cores on Hungary
absolutely low tier revisionist mod
That is historically accurate.
let's go not looking bitter, bittersteel
Challenge Request #3: win as Germany with only weapons and equipment bought off the Market. No mills only civs.
I saw another comment by a dev on your last Great War Redux video that there were things to do post war. I just don't know what they are having never inserted.
Lmao, its funny seeing him struggle when not listening to the developers or knowing how to get around the funni peace deal mechanics.