@@Bitt3rSteel Yes I agree. I however found it easier to defend the baltics by holding Narva and securing the supply depots since the Soviets barely have any supply up there. During my entire run they didn't try to attack the line even once.
@@vascotank2143 In my language (not russian) it’s spelled almost exactly like Dvina and it originates in Russia, but yeah I guess some people would call it Daugava
TFW you spend a lot of time hearing about the great northern war and this Nordic DLC spends a lot of time fighting around Narva. Oh not to mention how they took Poltava. Fuck these cities are old.
Looking fairly good, but there was one thing that you missed in the setup. If you change the factories allocates to a prosuction line on the first day of a game, it will not change the prosuction efficiency. So you could have put more factories on infantry equipment from the start.
I beat it by NOT withdrawing to a new line. I did convert all divs to infantry to hold better, also got rid of some extra divs on the eastern front to free up equipment. Then prioritizing guns then planes. Any time I got a surplus of guns I would add battalions to the inf division template to get them to 40W. Also kept about 10 mils on tanks that I only used to repel the Allie’s. After you stabilize the eastern front it’s not too hard to beat the soviets. But the key is repelling the Allie’s, eventually they do stop invading. Was a fun mod but good luck to anyone attempting!
Paradox should add a lot of stuff, mostly quality of life improvements. Like a button that lets you save a design if you don't have the xp to make it at that moment so you don't have to remember what you made when you come back to it
While they're at it they can allow that template to be pasted onto different airframes so I'm not playing in 1945 with improved airframes because I can't be asked to design the same planes I've been using just with a better airframe and a better engine.@@Finn_the_Cat
@@Finn_the_Cat *R E C A L L V O L U N T E E R S B U T T O N* Also there is a button that auto-assigns the latest equipment when it gets researched, and exp is not wasted on upgrading.
22:38 Oh thats so painful, retreating the one tank out not realising 3 hadnt yet gotten into the tile, presumably meaning they were overrun.. Also, could just be the AI but the mod doesn't seem as good as the Ensieg scenarios considering in 1944 after like a year and a bit the main competitor, the soviets, are out of guns..
it is really nice to watch you play this game, always very satisfying and very educational, i hope one day i can reach your level in this game, much love.
On the subs leaving the med - it was actually something noted by Donitz in his memoirs, due to some pecularities of the straights, they were able to get subs in to the med but not back out again, so anything sent in there was "locked" in.
Man, I wish I understood more of this game. I enjoy it, but out of the dozens of scenarios I've tried, I've only achieved my goals in one. I feel like most of my problem comes from division templates. Economy-wise, things usually go pretty smoothly, and I have a lot of equipment stocked up, but I just never can seem to do well with my divisions.
Division templates are the easiest thing in the game. For infantry division, just use 10 Infantry Battalions (20 width) and add artillery, engineer support company. This division will perform well against anything in single player. For tank division, make 40 width, 10 tank battalions and 10 motorised infantry. Add artillery, engineer, logistics and other preferred support companies. The most important stat in tanks is Breakthrough; maximise breakthrough stat in tank designs and use Mobile Warfare doctrine for the breakthrough buffs. Use meta fighter designs and get air supremacy, which will boost your breakthrough even more. I learned the game by watching Bittersteels 'Ultimate Germany' tutorial and following in-game exactly as he did. From there I kept playing and learning new mechanics. After a few games it will feel very easy. I wish I understood less of this game, cause when you know all the stats it feels very shallow and too easy lol. Enjoy the challenge while its still there
@@Haha__ 21 width infantry with 9 inf, 1 arty is better for most. The combat width system was reworked and you no longer have to stay on numbers divisible by 10 to be meta. Back in the day any template which wasnt 20, 30 or 40 width was horrible but nowadays 21 and 24 width are more meta. If you have massive manpower such as soviet or japan 30 width with 2 arty, 12 inf is worth it as it will demolish most other inf. For marines you go 30 width with 4 arty, 9 inf and engineers obv. Generally you can go a slightly highhr amount of tanks than you recomend in your tank divs. For example 11 tanks, 9 motorized or even 12 tanks, 8 motorized if you have alot of doctrine. The motorized is only there to raise organization and the doctrines (primarily mobile warfare in the case of tanks) raise org so much that it will reduce the amount of motorized needed. I also wouldnt recomend engineers for tanks as they improve defense and amphibious invasions and tanks shouldnt be used for either of those. For tanks you should go maintenance, arty and logistics as tanks drain supply extremely fast.
@@ew264 I used to main 21 width 9/1s and they performed well, but I prefer 20 widths now. The 9/1s are very expensive in artillery plus you lose some defense and org swapping out the infantry for arty. Really it's all up to personal preference, it doesn't matter in singleplayer. That's the freedom of the game that makes it so good
Nice Mod Bitt3, I tried it too. But I still have to understand why they don't update the Endsieg, it's a beautiful mod and it would be a shame to leave it like that.
As I learned from their Discord, spaghetti code, too much leftovers from earlier versions which no one cleaned up That's why you had weird Karelian isthmus country, and other such bugs
29:24 "Tanks, you are failing me right now! Well, you don't have supplies. I understand, but you're still failing me right now." Pretty sure Hitler actually said that in 1943/44! Truly a historic game!
30:46 literally Sicily shape😆 1:08 after this I think the sponsor scripted (or at least portion) this ad portion of the video 😂😅 cuz it's so not "natural" that "phew" if I'm wrong then I need explanation XD
If you just give those Mediterranean subs an order outside of it, they’ll leave. You just can’t manually move them through. Assumedly a bug but easily circumvented
This was quite hard but definitely not very hard, all you have to do is 3 speed micro the soviet front slowly retreating the Soviet hordes, while pushing out the occasional day with the 4 tanks on the western front. Eventually because the Soviets have 9mil deployed manpower they attrition themselves out of supply and equipment, then you encircle and kill them. Didn’t even have to retreat back to the river line. I think you should try the 1944 version of the mod, it is definitely a lot harder but quite similar strategy to what I just described works, it is just marginally more difficult.
I gotta say I hate one of the songs you use, but otherwise can't binge your videos any harder. Well done man 5:24 in case you were curious what song. Much love brother!
0:35 warhammer? I feel so conflicted between my hate for belgians (I’m dutch it’s nothing personal) and my love for warhammer (I’m autistic so this is very personal)
3:55 So I may be Danish rather than Norwegian, but that's the first time i have heard someone who doesn't speak either language nail the "ø" sound. (hint: it aint the version that ends with the "o" sound)
@@altf4mapping129lol yeah I thought so. I used to just keep upgrading and spamming them and put them on high risk retreat and they would eat large portions of the Royal navy.
Has no supply, looks at motorization... still using horses. Yep, there's your problem. Also you REALLY needed to put that air up during the offensive, enemy air was just destroying your logistics.
23:58 you taking crimea here is a good plan, all soviet supply to southern ukraine goes through crimea! Dinepropetrovsk is where the rail on that side of the river goes
Download the game here: son.onelink.me/LCic/schgm005
It really helps me keep this channel going!
👍👍👍
Can you continue the Ragnarok 1937 game?
I downloaded it, I hope it helps pay the bills 😎👍
You pay so many bills and still your roads are shit.
Life in Belgium must suck so immensely.
I will try a new one, becsuer I don't think I still have the save game
The mod is incredibly easy if you keep a couple mountain divs in yugoslavia and grind the soviets until you have enough modern tanks to encircle them
It all hinges on your initial setup. If you mess up the Dniper defense, it gets hard as nails
@@Bitt3rSteel Yes I agree. I however found it easier to defend the baltics by holding Narva and securing the supply depots since the Soviets barely have any supply up there. During my entire run they didn't try to attack the line even once.
@@aedri good suggestion, I was afraid that would overextend my line
You guys sound like high command, ngl. Yall coulda won WWII for Germany. The good ending.
@@fodetraore6666 Good? ending?
"I will call it the Dnieper line, cause it sits on the Dnieper" *proceeds to draw it mostly behind the Dvina*
Daugava
@@vascotank2143 In my language (not russian) it’s spelled almost exactly like Dvina and it originates in Russia, but yeah I guess some people would call it Daugava
Dźwina, Düna…
@@vascotank2143it's Dvina, and the Russian city on it is called Dvinsk, not Daugavpils
@@fgkuv5232russian city?))) What a cringe, dude
*doesn't add fuel barrels to tanks
*wonders why tanks have no fuel when they are cut from supply for 1 hour
That one german tank division that went from normandy to the eastern front like 20 times during the campaign deserves a medal
BitterSteel: "Panzer-Division, it's 4 PM, time to rush across Europe to the opposite flank of our fronts :D"
Panzer-Division: "Ja, Honig"
It would be funny if you keep playing this save but with brazil, like a double endsiege
They speak Portuguese so "vitoria final"?
@@insignificantgnat9334yes, just a correction it’s vitória
Yeah but the english keyboard doesnt have that @matheusdiastelo5373
@@piercebunge4297 To get ó hold down Alt and type 0243 on your numpad. (Num Lock might need to be on in some situations)
@@piercebunge4297 actually, mobile devices:
Funny how leningrad survived under 2 years of siege but died to a motorized naval invasion instantly
A fellow roblox enjoyer? But ya
Hell yeah!
Will Germany survive!?
Will bittersteel get more sponsors?
Will the navy do anything???
NEXT TIME ON HOI Z
@@TheAdissimoNEXT TIME, ON.. HOI 8!
@@catfacecat.NEXT TIME ON.....MR. BEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAST
Finally, someone made Endsieg-like normal mod
fucks that mean?
BitterSteel : "Why do my tanks don't have fuel ?"
Also BitterSteel : left supply on cavalery deliveries 😂
I don't think that was the problem, its the tanks themselves.
@@austria-hungary7680I know this is a Necro, but fully motorizing supply massively increases supply range. They would have been restocked.
It’s really weird going from a video about a modern war to a fun gaming video and hearing the same city names, like Kharkiv, Kerch, and Zaporizhzhia
Uh-huh. And I'm from there.
?
TFW you spend a lot of time hearing about the great northern war and this Nordic DLC spends a lot of time fighting around Narva.
Oh not to mention how they took Poltava.
Fuck these cities are old.
@@buddermonger2000 Yeah Poltava is really fucking old it first started being a city around the 8th-9th century A.D.
@@MultinationalCrabLegionwhat’s you favorite city in hoi4
Looking fairly good, but there was one thing that you missed in the setup. If you change the factories allocates to a prosuction line on the first day of a game, it will not change the prosuction efficiency.
So you could have put more factories on infantry equipment from the start.
You should try a run with expert AI on max difficulty. Only challenge I’ve seen that is genuinely almost impossible
Yeah as the ai just gets insane buffs. The naval invasions are not even slightly fun then
I beat it by NOT withdrawing to a new line. I did convert all divs to infantry to hold better, also got rid of some extra divs on the eastern front to free up equipment. Then prioritizing guns then planes. Any time I got a surplus of guns I would add battalions to the inf division template to get them to 40W. Also kept about 10 mils on tanks that I only used to repel the Allie’s. After you stabilize the eastern front it’s not too hard to beat the soviets. But the key is repelling the Allie’s, eventually they do stop invading. Was a fun mod but good luck to anyone attempting!
Paradox should really add a button that makes troops automatically retreat from an attack.
Paradox should add a lot of stuff, mostly quality of life improvements. Like a button that lets you save a design if you don't have the xp to make it at that moment so you don't have to remember what you made when you come back to it
While they're at it they can allow that template to be pasted onto different airframes so I'm not playing in 1945 with improved airframes because I can't be asked to design the same planes I've been using just with a better airframe and a better engine.@@Finn_the_Cat
@@Finn_the_Cat *R E C A L L V O L U N T E E R S B U T T O N* Also there is a button that auto-assigns the latest equipment when it gets researched, and exp is not wasted on upgrading.
@@DaMelon23 depends on what button you're talking about.
@@DaMelon23It exists, on the tank(NSB), Naval(MTG), and Air(BBA) designers.
It seems to me that one of the reasons you were having supply problems with the tanks is that you didn’t motorize the supply for your tank army
FINALLY, A MOD THAT RECOGNIZES BRAZIL'S PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR (and that shows the invasion of the allies in the Middle East countries)
Come to brasil huehuehue
22:41 - you killed 3 of your own tanks by force-retreat here
I love bitterstells happy shouting whenever he gets a juicy encircelment
That second Tromsø pronunciation was near perfect! Best I've heard by far from anyone that doesn't have norwegian as their first language
"I don't wanna fight braziiiiiiilllll"
HOI 4: "YOU ARE GOING TO BRAZIL"
22:38 Oh thats so painful, retreating the one tank out not realising 3 hadnt yet gotten into the tile, presumably meaning they were overrun..
Also, could just be the AI but the mod doesn't seem as good as the Ensieg scenarios considering in 1944 after like a year and a bit the main competitor, the soviets, are out of guns..
30:47 look the shape of that incerclement
the operation was commanded by mussolini after he used the clownmobile to escape italy
@@LeStoopiedsclasic mussolini
Signore. Bitt3rSteel is one of the only gaming TH-camrs who can do both quality and quantity
it is really nice to watch you play this game, always very satisfying and very educational, i hope one day i can reach your level in this game, much love.
You can do it!
16:53 famous last words (irl at least)
On the subs leaving the med - it was actually something noted by Donitz in his memoirs, due to some pecularities of the straights, they were able to get subs in to the med but not back out again, so anything sent in there was "locked" in.
watches Bitter set up a great defence for the next coming years: 😁👍
also witnesses Bitter Alt+f4 the Air: 😱💀
We shall see
30:49 that encirclement looks like Sicily
Bittersteel you are a true man of culture doing both hoi disater saves and warhammer. What army to you collect?
I'm in the Guard, son
Let me guess Krieg
@@Bitt3rSteel as a chaos space marine main I have to ask you what happened to Cadia?
@@sasinator6918 CADIA STANDS
@@honorableduciz7738 good lord no, I can't afford that
Nebelwerfer is the singular and plural so you don’t have to add a s at the end.
Man, I wish I understood more of this game. I enjoy it, but out of the dozens of scenarios I've tried, I've only achieved my goals in one. I feel like most of my problem comes from division templates. Economy-wise, things usually go pretty smoothly, and I have a lot of equipment stocked up, but I just never can seem to do well with my divisions.
You can do it!
@@Bitt3rSteelgood advice lol. But that ain't gonna improve my skill.
Division templates are the easiest thing in the game. For infantry division, just use 10 Infantry Battalions (20 width) and add artillery, engineer support company. This division will perform well against anything in single player.
For tank division, make 40 width, 10 tank battalions and 10 motorised infantry. Add artillery, engineer, logistics and other preferred support companies.
The most important stat in tanks is Breakthrough; maximise breakthrough stat in tank designs and use Mobile Warfare doctrine for the breakthrough buffs. Use meta fighter designs and get air supremacy, which will boost your breakthrough even more.
I learned the game by watching Bittersteels 'Ultimate Germany' tutorial and following in-game exactly as he did. From there I kept playing and learning new mechanics. After a few games it will feel very easy.
I wish I understood less of this game, cause when you know all the stats it feels very shallow and too easy lol. Enjoy the challenge while its still there
@@Haha__ 21 width infantry with 9 inf, 1 arty is better for most. The combat width system was reworked and you no longer have to stay on numbers divisible by 10 to be meta. Back in the day any template which wasnt 20, 30 or 40 width was horrible but nowadays 21 and 24 width are more meta. If you have massive manpower such as soviet or japan 30 width with 2 arty, 12 inf is worth it as it will demolish most other inf. For marines you go 30 width with 4 arty, 9 inf and engineers obv. Generally you can go a slightly highhr amount of tanks than you recomend in your tank divs. For example 11 tanks, 9 motorized or even 12 tanks, 8 motorized if you have alot of doctrine. The motorized is only there to raise organization and the doctrines (primarily mobile warfare in the case of tanks) raise org so much that it will reduce the amount of motorized needed. I also wouldnt recomend engineers for tanks as they improve defense and amphibious invasions and tanks shouldnt be used for either of those. For tanks you should go maintenance, arty and logistics as tanks drain supply extremely fast.
@@ew264 I used to main 21 width 9/1s and they performed well, but I prefer 20 widths now. The 9/1s are very expensive in artillery plus you lose some defense and org swapping out the infantry for arty.
Really it's all up to personal preference, it doesn't matter in singleplayer. That's the freedom of the game that makes it so good
Thankyou for collabing with dankus doing gods work 💪
3:52 Tromsø mentioned RAAAH 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
Finnally bitt3rSteel plays endsieg!
I have over 9000 hours in single player, so I may try this mod out on my channel. I loved the endsieg mod when it was updated
Invading through Florida, knowing what I do about the area you invaded through, would be insane to do in rl Florida especially in the 1940s
I find Dniper line extremely defensible. Finally won at Endsieg difficulty in '50 with 30mil Allied and 35mil Soviet deaths.
You forgot to blow up your Infrastructure when retreating
Nice Mod Bitt3, I tried it too.
But I still have to understand why they don't update the Endsieg, it's a beautiful mod and it would be a shame to leave it like that.
As I learned from their Discord, spaghetti code, too much leftovers from earlier versions which no one cleaned up
That's why you had weird Karelian isthmus country, and other such bugs
Don't worry, Bitt3r has already reorganize a reworked Endsieg.
29:24 "Tanks, you are failing me right now! Well, you don't have supplies. I understand, but you're still failing me right now."
Pretty sure Hitler actually said that in 1943/44! Truly a historic game!
the warhammer segment hit hard.... i hate myself for thinking the imperial guard is cool
this guy's content is just 🔥🔥
The allies came to Brazil 😊
22:41 3 of your tanks were overrun, they simply didn`t get in time
30:46 literally Sicily shape😆
1:08 after this I think the sponsor scripted (or at least portion) this ad portion of the video 😂😅 cuz it's so not "natural" that "phew"
if I'm wrong then I need explanation XD
Brazil stands strong, we would totally win with Rondon’s counter-attack!
The pan handle of Florida is the northern part by Alabama. You invaded the Tip of Florida, similar to the tip of male anatomy
12:33 how did that instant research happen? :D
I was confused and checked. It's just a weirdly perfect edit, where the recon tab lines up perfectly with the unresearched engineering tab in the cut!
@@Bitt3rSteel you are right, I had to watch the scene a couple more times to see it. perfect cut :D
2 uploads in a day gentleman. My life is complete.
As a Norwegian, I can say that your second pronunciation of tromsø was pretty good
I really want a proper '45 start again. That's my favourite startdate as Germany and Japan.
this is actually pretty sick
If you just give those Mediterranean subs an order outside of it, they’ll leave. You just can’t manually move them through. Assumedly a bug but easily circumvented
I can certainly relate on the warhammer addiction...
Dvina-Dnieper, no? Since the northern river is the Dvina
0:28 can we talk about how Bittersteel is actually fuckin built???
Yeah the hoi4 man is jacked this is a thousand year anomaly
The good old dnepir line never fails.
Oh my god i have been waiting for this for soo long, god bless you Bitt3rSteel
From Downfall to Man in the High Castle
30:49 you meant the little privat army for a soviet grandma😂
Poltava pocket was like... 104 f*ing divisions
This was quite hard but definitely not very hard, all you have to do is 3 speed micro the soviet front slowly retreating the Soviet hordes, while pushing out the occasional day with the 4 tanks on the western front. Eventually because the Soviets have 9mil deployed manpower they attrition themselves out of supply and equipment, then you encircle and kill them. Didn’t even have to retreat back to the river line. I think you should try the 1944 version of the mod, it is definitely a lot harder but quite similar strategy to what I just described works, it is just marginally more difficult.
Bittersteel you could try this mod but with Italy! Form Italy nice video!
Wait a minute in the sponsor section it labels an Ambrams as a T-72B4 😂😂😂
Love these mods that focus more on the war rather than the poltics. Becomes more a war strategy game than a grand strategy game
I gotta say I hate one of the songs you use, but otherwise can't binge your videos any harder. Well done man 5:24 in case you were curious what song. Much love brother!
Try world ablaze, it is the HARDEST hoi4 mod for sure
That’s because of the Economy mechanic
@@pocketmarcy6990 Not only that but doing barb is actually almost impossible, and then invading Britain is also extremely hard
"this strategy would never work in multiplayer"
Haha, yeah....nobody could ever get outmaneuvered like that...nope, totally not possible....😬
Steiner will turn this around, I believe
Funny part is the Germans actually dubbed this the panther wothan line, and I’m pretty sure irl they didn’t hold it for more than a month.
0:35 warhammer? I feel so conflicted between my hate for belgians (I’m dutch it’s nothing personal) and my love for warhammer (I’m autistic so this is very personal)
Isn't half of Belgium basically Dutch?
This had me hyped! Very nice :D
i found that in this mod the uk and the usa start with no troops, so when i played it i invaded the uk with my forces in france and never faced dday
Gawd dawm bittersteel kinda jacked tho
3:55
So I may be Danish rather than Norwegian, but that's the first time i have heard someone who doesn't speak either language nail the "ø" sound. (hint: it aint the version that ends with the "o" sound)
Not saying Germany had the best U-boat game in 1943, but I’m pretty sure they had more than 5 subs at that point.
Yes by may 1943 they had 240 operational u boats
@@altf4mapping129lol yeah I thought so. I used to just keep upgrading and spamming them and put them on high risk retreat and they would eat large portions of the Royal navy.
"How am i going to pay for my warhammer addiction?"
"EVEN IN DEBT I STILL SERVE!"
Brazil is so strong, not even BetterSteel wanted to fight us 😂
“Naturally we will be playing as germany”
🤨📸
For your suffering you earned your medium tank designer
Bro made wolfenstein all over again
Aye I didn’t know you like warhammer that’s super cool!
Love the new thumbnails.
You need to try the Black Ice mod. You want a nightmare? You'll get a nightmare there...
The plural of Nebelwerfer remains Nebelwerfer just a friendly reminder
Nebelwerfer is plural? German are weird even in dutch you use nebelwerfers.
Damn dude you are jacked
Has no supply, looks at motorization... still using horses. Yep, there's your problem. Also you REALLY needed to put that air up during the offensive, enemy air was just destroying your logistics.
Fuck yes, modded gameplay?!? You’re the best Bitter🤘🏻
That big encirclement at Polatava. Quite ironic for the russians that one.
the 1943 is easy you need to try the 1944 mod, thats a real challenge
bro takes on the USA, UK, Soviets but doesnt want to fight brazil LMAO
Bralil was too nice to invade in the 1940s-50s
1:07 I might not be an expert but that IS NOT a T-72B3 😂
23:58 you taking crimea here is a good plan, all soviet supply to southern ukraine goes through crimea! Dinepropetrovsk is where the rail on that side of the river goes
Every time you break through in the north, a stupid allied invasion causes you to abandon the plan 😫
1:07 wonder when will we get this in WT
0:18
You should turn that clip into a donation. You could use ai voices to change what Bender said.
19:53 1% mongol ancestry
I havent watched the video with dankus but i can assume you are using “d-day” and “d-day wall” because of him
Love your videos man 😊😊😊❤❤❤