there was an editing mistake, from 29:04 to the end. This has been fixed in the editor and is being processed. my apologies, the editor will be flogged
Carlist Spain was like one of the first games I played. First was definitely Soviet Union. When I was playing Carlist Spain I made few mistakes, the war ended probably after WW2 started, before I manage put the country together Allies already won the war. So when I declared on France around 1950 it was Spain vs whole world. They had overwhelmingly numbers superiority but I have 42w modern tank divisions that had maxed out the design, so I could slowly push the 20 divisions on each tile that allies had. After France capped I immediately release collab government and the most amusing thing happened that I ever saw in HOI4. Allies dropped like thousand atomic bombs on France. There were dozens of atomic bomb dropping on France each day for few months. I stopped my advance and just wait for allies so they will use all of their atomic bombs. I eventually won the war, but France was probably a glass desert after. :D
There are some guides you can follow in what is relatively a paint-by-numbers exercise, but even then fighting the civil war (regardless of how slow it goes) can create a level of tunnel vision. Combined with poor picks in pp expenditure, bad strategy and poor understanding of the offensive mechanics in the SCW means you would still have a hard time. This guy seems to have tried to do it without guides (otherwise he'd have had more factories in Navarra).
@@Szajgicism it's actually not a bad pick, Mongolia doesn't have any special complex mechanics and don't involves itself in wars, it can help you understand some of the core mechanics really easy
This is why I obsess over having the Republicans and Anarchists defeated before the Carlist uprising in any run with them. It simplifies absolutely everything.
@@IntrusYT slow down the game and manually order divisions to troll the republican lines before the maluses take effect to speed things up, then continue microing from there
@@IntrusYT There's a hill tile that lets you push Madrid without pushing a mountain title. Provided you don't let the republicans disband the army you should have mountaineers that can push that tile and into Madrid before "The front solidifies" kicks in. Once Madrid is gone the republicans are a walking corpse. Of course the Anarchists are no problem as once Catalonia is gone they cap.
23:01 It’s fine, you survived long enough anyways and stuff like that happens all the time. You don’t have to restart just because you couldn’t record one bit of a run.
He's an honorable Hoier, so no restart needed because of a bit of footage... if he said "I just jumpcut to there" I wouldn't have minded either. BUT; personally I don't see much point in "saving disasters" that are worse off than the starting position... tbh, I'd prefer showing the save, then doing an (almost) ideal run up to that point and send back a save that is far better. I'd see that as a win-win-win (3rd win is for viewers who want to improve their game).
Wow what a video. One of the things I've always liked about Alex the rambler is seeing his defeats I think it's very educational and fun. I would love to see more of yours, add some suspense
I loved this video. Honestly makes me super excited that you posted a losing game as now ever disaster save will have a bit of tension. I usually watch them k owing you can fix it but now I like knowing there is a chance that even you can't. You are my favorite! Can't wait for next upload!
Personally I like to see the wins/losses/mistakes/technical difficulties and all. I’ve never watched a BitterSteel video and thought it wasn’t anything but authentic
Funny how the only thing that can defeat him is spain. No matter how difficult he always manages, except for spain. It seems like it's his cryptonite at this point.
I bought Hoi4 some months ago, with my first game was Germany (got civilwar'd because of the Munich convention failing as france went the Little Entente route, obviously this was non-historical), now I suck at the game less, but I also have the fact that my only dlc's bought were La Resistance and Man the Guns (this is for both collab and I like playing as either france or UK sometimes). P.S: Never going to send a dissaster save to Bitt3rSteel since I play with FPS map and on r56 since I got bored with vanilla (I only play vanilla on multiplayer with friends if I have the time).
If you really enjoy the game and don't want to pay for all the DLC (Understandable) I strongly recommend the DLC subscription. It's £6.70 for a full month and you get ALL the DLC for that month. Plus you can cancel it immediately after subscribing so it won't renew the following month but the DLC remains. It's what I do when I have a hankering for a few games.
@@katieheys3007 I actually want to buy all the DLC's, but I have the self imposed rule of not spending more than a third of my total amount of money I have. (Other than that, what dlc would you recommend, as I'm in the middle of choosing which to buy)
@@Bitt3rSteel As long as you remain trusted the viewers wont care if you lose some footage and explain it. Abuse that and our feeling will obviously change.
Showing off your "stupid mistakes" is arguably the most instructional thing you can do. Explain why you made the decision on the first place, what was overlooked, and then claw your way out of it to victory
i had a similair game to this so what i took a really big gamble what i did was basically go for an all or nothing all out attack on the anarchist as they were close to capitulate i got the territory so i got the manpower i retreated to my capital built a bigger force i was still in a dangerous situation so i just did the same thing an all out attack on the nationalists and with some clever maneuvering i got their capital and they capitulated to me than i made a frontline defended for 2 years building a proper army a proper industry and defending against france as the republicans joined the allies and portugal did the same so i held until i had a big enough army and france capitulated to germany so i went for portugal making the republicans overextend and then encircled their entire army saving the game
To answer your mid-video question, I don't mind the occasional loss of footage or cuts in time. In fact, if you were to re-do entire videos, I feel it wouldn't be as genuine, because you'd have already learned lessons from the first go around and would adapt your play accordingly. So even if there is concern that you're cheating in those cuts (which is dumb), to pivot would be a different form of cheating (sort of), right? I think just as you usually do, giving a thorough explanation of what you did in the lost footage time, is sufficient. But yea, get that second monitor, lol!
I do not accept Bitt3rSteel loosing. I am fine with seeing multiple failed attempts, but I want to see how you pull it of. I hope you will give this disaster save another shot and make part two of this video, so we all see Carlist in their full glory that they deserve! Pretty please, Bitt3r!
There is actually a way to possibly salvage this - That western army that you sack at the start, there's nothing defending their northern side. I just took a division and marched it to the Spanish directorates capital and together with marching a unit to Oviedo the Spanish Directorate capitulated to me.
I have seen enough of your videos to know that you are more than capable of handling pretty much any situation without cheating. Regardless, I enjoy watching your videos.
It is saveable. I was able to capitulate Spain by surrounded divisions, after which the second became weaker. As a result of a long 1 on 1 war, I was able to win in '41. After 40+ attempts, I was surprised how well you did
I don't mind watching this kind of videos. Hoi is demanding game, many hours of gameplay and sometimes you don't know if it will work so I can't demand from you to trash 5-8h of footage just because I told you so. You do you man I will be here watching 😄 cheers from Poland ❤️
5:03 absolutely no chance that cancelling the focus to get the conscription law a couple days earlier was a good plan. Overthinking at its finest. It’s still going to take time to mobilize, what a waste dude.
Big pain bro... honestly if you save scummed even just a little bit you would have probably made it "easily", especially with how well you understand the game mechanics.
Yo who ever sent this in, Brazil or Portugal are great starting nations, you can join allies or axis and make or break the war for either side, you can start a 3rd faction. Play mid level nations, New Zealand isn’t enough to have fun but, Turkey, Iran, Yugo, Siam are all super fun if you try and expand early without allies intervention
Can you do the hidden Argentina path with Senior Hilter? But with historical AI. I think it’s actually intended to do so if you look how short the focus is and what it refers to.
Worst thing about Carlist Spain was even after I was able to succeed, my manpower and industry were still basically non-existent, and it takes so much time and political power to re-integrate your own country. You're a liability to any faction you join, you're just too weak to do anything other than be a very brief distraction. Not very rewarding, not worth the effort.
It's ok if you fk up in the recording tbh, I have seen enough of your saves to trust your ability to pull such maneuvers. I am however surprised you did another Spain run, the last one you did broke you and i recall the vow to never play it again lol
there was an editing mistake, from 29:04 to the end. This has been fixed in the editor and is being processed. my apologies, the editor will be flogged
Got here less than a minute in and will the flaggelation be applied autonomously or externally?
i was watching it thinking "oh, he went back in and tried again"... lmao
Edit him
It was so traumatic playing as Carlist Spain the video has to replay the ending
can you give him 100 lashes?
Picking carlist spain as one of your first playthroughs.... Man really wanted some serious pain
Carlist Spain was like one of the first games I played. First was definitely Soviet Union. When I was playing Carlist Spain I made few mistakes, the war ended probably after WW2 started, before I manage put the country together Allies already won the war. So when I declared on France around 1950 it was Spain vs whole world. They had overwhelmingly numbers superiority but I have 42w modern tank divisions that had maxed out the design, so I could slowly push the 20 divisions on each tile that allies had. After France capped I immediately release collab government and the most amusing thing happened that I ever saw in HOI4. Allies dropped like thousand atomic bombs on France. There were dozens of atomic bomb dropping on France each day for few months. I stopped my advance and just wait for allies so they will use all of their atomic bombs. I eventually won the war, but France was probably a glass desert after. :D
There are some guides you can follow in what is relatively a paint-by-numbers exercise, but even then fighting the civil war (regardless of how slow it goes) can create a level of tunnel vision. Combined with poor picks in pp expenditure, bad strategy and poor understanding of the offensive mechanics in the SCW means you would still have a hard time. This guy seems to have tried to do it without guides (otherwise he'd have had more factories in Navarra).
More than pain, he really wanted a reason to deinstall HOI4
I had my first one as Mongolia.
@@Szajgicism it's actually not a bad pick, Mongolia doesn't have any special complex mechanics and don't involves itself in wars, it can help you understand some of the core mechanics really easy
"You can't have Spain, without pain"
And vice versa
@@Magister195 Indeed
The S in Spain stands for "supreme"
@@Sylvan1510 ah yes, i love supreme pain.
@@ThatPolishMapper. So... playing the anachists in spain?
This is why I obsess over having the Republicans and Anarchists defeated before the Carlist uprising in any run with them. It simplifies absolutely everything.
it’s the funny hoi4 man!
The Spanish Civil War guy is here !!!
how can you defeat them fast enough?
@@IntrusYT slow down the game and manually order divisions to troll the republican lines before the maluses take effect to speed things up, then continue microing from there
@@IntrusYT There's a hill tile that lets you push Madrid without pushing a mountain title. Provided you don't let the republicans disband the army you should have mountaineers that can push that tile and into Madrid before "The front solidifies" kicks in. Once Madrid is gone the republicans are a walking corpse. Of course the Anarchists are no problem as once Catalonia is gone they cap.
Spains favourite enemy to fight :
Themselves
lol civil war simulator be like:
You couldn't begin to imagine how right you are
-Spain is the strongest nation on earth, they have spent centuries trying to destroy themselves and they haven't managed to do so. Otto von Bismarck
Isn’t that also France?
Nah france invades everyone@@ChangeNameEdits
I'm pretty sure the trick to "saving" Spain runs is to restart. After all you only spent 10 minutes breaking it in the first place.
As they say: no pain, no Spain.
Or is it reverse? No Spain no pain
23:01 It’s fine, you survived long enough anyways and stuff like that happens all the time. You don’t have to restart just because you couldn’t record one bit of a run.
Yeah, if he does restart, that means less videos for me and I like frequent videos from bittersteel so no restart
He's an honorable Hoier, so no restart needed because of a bit of footage... if he said "I just jumpcut to there" I wouldn't have minded either.
BUT; personally I don't see much point in "saving disasters" that are worse off than the starting position... tbh, I'd prefer showing the save, then doing an (almost) ideal run up to that point and send back a save that is far better. I'd see that as a win-win-win (3rd win is for viewers who want to improve their game).
19:28 Lmao he just kindapped the population of oviedo
Asturias.
That's why it's called sPain, duh
Real
duhhhh
🤯
Real, they always have civil wars.
urm sorry but the S is silent
i know, as a hoi4 player, that spain is pain. Truer words never spoken brother.
Don't worry about restarting the campaign when the recording corrupts, some people will complain but don't break your back over that stuff.
“Spain can’t hurt, it doesn’t exist”
“Pain…”
Wow what a video. One of the things I've always liked about Alex the rambler is seeing his defeats I think it's very educational and fun. I would love to see more of yours, add some suspense
I loved this video. Honestly makes me super excited that you posted a losing game as now ever disaster save will have a bit of tension. I usually watch them k owing you can fix it but now I like knowing there is a chance that even you can't. You are my favorite! Can't wait for next upload!
Personally I like to see the wins/losses/mistakes/technical difficulties and all. I’ve never watched a BitterSteel video and thought it wasn’t anything but authentic
This is mine! This was my first time ever playing spain, plus i didnt know where cartilist spain spawns
Stupid (I've never played the game)
Stupid (I've never played the game)
I appreciate seeing either scenario. Your videos are greatly appreciated!
We want you to keep going! We want to see you fail and come back. That is more relatable than just having a perfect run
Sweden has a modifier that makes them able to send lend leases pretty early on, maybe you could try them instead of waiting for france.
Funny how the only thing that can defeat him is spain. No matter how difficult he always manages, except for spain. It seems like it's his cryptonite at this point.
Really goes to show Bittersteel is human after all and he does lose games from time to time too. Maybe this one was really unrecoverable
Nope. HatlessSpider saved it. :)
@@poelmeister Where? What’s the name of his video?
At this point you shouldnt send this disaster for someone to save it, just try again lmao
Thanks for the video. Always wonderful to see you handle the most impossible situations
Was the video looped...? There was so much that was like the first half lmao
yes
Think thats the first time I saw the conditional surrender marked as the AI accepting it XD
Do you think that would've made any difference against the Republicans?
I bought Hoi4 some months ago, with my first game was Germany (got civilwar'd because of the Munich convention failing as france went the Little Entente route, obviously this was non-historical), now I suck at the game less, but I also have the fact that my only dlc's bought were La Resistance and Man the Guns (this is for both collab and I like playing as either france or UK sometimes).
P.S: Never going to send a dissaster save to Bitt3rSteel since I play with FPS map and on r56 since I got bored with vanilla (I only play vanilla on multiplayer with friends if I have the time).
If you really enjoy the game and don't want to pay for all the DLC (Understandable) I strongly recommend the DLC subscription. It's £6.70 for a full month and you get ALL the DLC for that month. Plus you can cancel it immediately after subscribing so it won't renew the following month but the DLC remains.
It's what I do when I have a hankering for a few games.
@@katieheys3007 I actually want to buy all the DLC's, but I have the self imposed rule of not spending more than a third of my total amount of money I have.
(Other than that, what dlc would you recommend, as I'm in the middle of choosing which to buy)
@@Mnxglitchzno step back and arms against tyranny both add some nice focus trees and new content
Keeping the errors in makes it even better - you've dug out of worse than this so I don't think any of your members think it was cheating, great vid!
That Burgos unit fleeing with half orga and almost full hp at 28:30 is different
Walking Pamplona to Burgos on foot (Camino de Santiago) takes 10 days. The general who took 23 days to be resigned must have been very elderly.
sometime i just thinking they want to see bittersteel suffer by fucking around the game and sent it to him ask him try to save it.
This has Pytor Wrangel vibes
Don’t ever restart, we’ve all made a similar mistake in our respective ways. We just enjoy the content you make :)
This was actually a very refreshing take. Its nice to see challenges even you can't beat. More fun stuff like this please.
Mussolini getting competent what a W guy
23:00 nah, I believe you
Edit: WE believe you
You put up one hell of a fight. This was a masterclass in defensive play!
I like whatever you put up. It is entertaining.
I was so confused when the video didn’t end lolll I thought you were going to win
Nah man! The mistakes are alright. It's even better to see you climb up from the unlikely odds than having the perfect run
The last 7 minutes are looped right? Editing mistake from what I can tell
I saw that and was really confused as well
I'm trying to fix it in the TH-cam editor. My apologies
@@Bitt3rSteel I thought it was an intentional trick to make the loss come more as a surprise :D
@@Bitt3rSteel No problem, also I love what ya do, keep up the good work!!!
@@Bitt3rSteel As long as you remain trusted the viewers wont care if you lose some footage and explain it. Abuse that and our feeling will obviously change.
"You can't trust anyone, not even yourself."
Spain...probably
35:03 hands down top ten bittersteel moments
Bro the video uploaded 9 minutes ago. So how the hell you watched it already??
What about when it happened 10 minutes earlier?
@@dolphinnek8062channel member, probably
Fr
@@dolphinnek8062 They also made it to 35 minutes in a 29 minute video
It is refreshing to see you also fail for once in a while. I still think you did your best - so keep them coming! :)
Showing off your "stupid mistakes" is arguably the most instructional thing you can do. Explain why you made the decision on the first place, what was overlooked, and then claw your way out of it to victory
As a spanish, yes, Spain is pain
i prefer when you go through the full thing front to back, but i can accept a few skips as long as it's 2 at the most
they said my spain was weak....
i had a similair game to this so what i took a really big gamble what i did was basically go for an all or nothing all out attack on the anarchist as they were close to capitulate i got the territory so i got the manpower i retreated to my capital built a bigger force i was still in a dangerous situation so i just did the same thing an all out attack on the nationalists and with some clever maneuvering i got their capital and they capitulated to me than i made a frontline defended for 2 years building a proper army a proper industry and defending against france as the republicans joined the allies and portugal did the same so i held until i had a big enough army and france capitulated to germany so i went for portugal making the republicans overextend and then encircled their entire army saving the game
So no matter if its EU4 or HOI4, Spain is always pain. Its civil war is hell
28:30 the pain in his voice bruh
To answer your mid-video question, I don't mind the occasional loss of footage or cuts in time. In fact, if you were to re-do entire videos, I feel it wouldn't be as genuine, because you'd have already learned lessons from the first go around and would adapt your play accordingly. So even if there is concern that you're cheating in those cuts (which is dumb), to pivot would be a different form of cheating (sort of), right? I think just as you usually do, giving a thorough explanation of what you did in the lost footage time, is sufficient. But yea, get that second monitor, lol!
Interesting game and strat. Glad you posted even though you lost.
Shit happens. If anyone doubts your abilities then they clearly haven't seen any of your other videos. We forgive you!
Bittersteel when is the foot reveal? We want it now. Your options include: foot reveal, or workers strike.
youre always not sure if you will win, but you always do. the reason? you are GOATED.
and built different
Spain ❌
Pain❔
Spa ❌
Spin ✅😵💫
certainly not Spa that's in Belgium
Also Bitt3rsteel is in Belgium
WAIT A MINUTE!!!
I like it when you go ahead and finish the run. Just do what you did here and explain what was going on ^^
This was great, I loved it.
I am so sorry.
I have no doubt this guy is legit. He's just unbelievably good and I'm a lil jealous.
Yeah guess we have to say it for new players
When it comes to Spain playthroughs it's easier to just start over than to try and grind to save it
"We have no friends, no manpower, we have no economy"
Damn Bittersteel, don't come after my life like that 😢
You don't have to restart when that kind of stuff happens. I think most of us won't mind
I don't mind you continuing a run even if some footage is lost. We all know you have the skill to do what you do without resorting to cheats.
No need to restart the vid my friend. We trust you plenty.
Out of context Bettersteel : "Crusade against democracy is good"
I do not accept Bitt3rSteel loosing. I am fine with seeing multiple failed attempts, but I want to see how you pull it of. I hope you will give this disaster save another shot and make part two of this video, so we all see Carlist in their full glory that they deserve!
Pretty please, Bitt3r!
Remember: we are watching a family father playing a videogame
Dang, that was a really good holdout. You lasted forever!
First time ever I see you loose*
You are the real deal👍🏼
Thank you for suffering for our amusement 🙏 The vid's really nice, so have a like ^^
The opening frame of this video made my stomach hurt
if it take more than 30 min (i guess) don't bother to go back to the last save
yes we want the title to be sPain!!
Please give it another try, defensiv fails are the most entertaining piece of content
There is actually a way to possibly salvage this - That western army that you sack at the start, there's nothing defending their northern side. I just took a division and marched it to the Spanish directorates capital and together with marching a unit to Oviedo the Spanish Directorate capitulated to me.
It was a learning experience. A bitter one, perhaps. Very impressive
I have seen enough of your videos to know that you are more than capable of handling pretty much any situation without cheating. Regardless, I enjoy watching your videos.
this video is a masterpiece
Yes I do want you to continue after a stupid mistake, as long as you're being genuine then it's okay.
Bro almost recreate the Reconquista
Lore of Spain is Pain, and even I can't fix this momentum 100
It is saveable. I was able to capitulate Spain by surrounded divisions, after which the second became weaker. As a result of a long 1 on 1 war, I was able to win in '41. After 40+ attempts, I was surprised how well you did
I don't mind watching this kind of videos. Hoi is demanding game, many hours of gameplay and sometimes you don't know if it will work so I can't demand from you to trash 5-8h of footage just because I told you so. You do you man I will be here watching 😄 cheers from Poland ❤️
5:03 absolutely no chance that cancelling the focus to get the conscription law a couple days earlier was a good plan. Overthinking at its finest. It’s still going to take time to mobilize, what a waste dude.
WEEK 1 of asking Bitt3rSteel to play 8 years war of resistance mod
Big pain bro... honestly if you save scummed even just a little bit you would have probably made it "easily", especially with how well you understand the game mechanics.
Would be nice to see a video of your bloopers/bad decisions
Yo who ever sent this in, Brazil or Portugal are great starting nations, you can join allies or axis and make or break the war for either side, you can start a 3rd faction. Play mid level nations, New Zealand isn’t enough to have fun but, Turkey, Iran, Yugo, Siam are all super fun if you try and expand early without allies intervention
Can you do the hidden Argentina path with Senior Hilter? But with historical AI. I think it’s actually intended to do so if you look how short the focus is and what it refers to.
Worst thing about Carlist Spain was even after I was able to succeed, my manpower and industry were still basically non-existent, and it takes so much time and political power to re-integrate your own country. You're a liability to any faction you join, you're just too weak to do anything other than be a very brief distraction. Not very rewarding, not worth the effort.
It's ok if you fk up in the recording tbh, I have seen enough of your saves to trust your ability to pull such maneuvers. I am however surprised you did another Spain run, the last one you did broke you and i recall the vow to never play it again lol
geweldige video zou het geweldig vinden als deze save opnieuw zou proberen en hem deze keer wint
Dont worry, we believe you!
I feel bad for him, i have over 1000 hours in single player i still have a bit of a stroke whenever playing Spain
Strategy so nice, had to play it twice
22:42 Yeah, although I pretty much want to see any videos you make, lol
No need to restart
Nah don't restart. Keep the .mistakes in. Adds spice
„Yaaaaassss Benito“ slayyyy
Can we please get a black ice Italy run
Fixing mistakes is better learning opportunity. Plus it makes you appear human ;)