Hahaha, I'm a WORLD OF WARSHIPS day 1 player..... this ads about it made me roll on the floor.... million of players? in Warships? Really? Yet to see them after 26 000 battles... community? hahaha, spell toxic. Hahahaha.... propaganda is fully on, brought to you by today's sponsor..... hahahaha Sure this has nothing to do with the world of warships I know of...
Fun fact: If you pick the bottom option in the delegation event, you get Mackensen back...but Mackensen is coded to die in the 40s if he's still the country leader, which gives you Wilhelm III as Kaiser. Yes, the one that already died. As far as I can tell having a zombie Kaiser confers no additional advantages or disadvantages.
@@lamster7422 At least with the Hapsburgs you can kayfabe it as "we were the last ones to hold this title and the continent has been reshaped by a massive war so we're reviving a title without modern baggage"
Habsburg Hungary is probably the most amazing and yet completely godawful path in the game. Can't stand the RNG, goofy "take Jerusalem and and take and take da world" etc. Also waka waka Paradox content drip :)
I'd probably leave the corridor, Poznan, upper Silesia and even the entire east to Poland after the war, so you can get the stuff as core territory in the "Danzig for Guarantees" focus. It seems they always accept that focus no matter what.
lol, i tried and Poland decided that it's gonna do a civil war and now i cant do danzig for guarantees because they're not connected not very cool of them
They don't accept it always. Sometimes, they don't give you all the land and you don't get a war goal. It's a mess. I think it depends on improved relations, although it's been a while since I played this path.
"The AI has decided to go completelly off the rails, its fine.... I'm going to have aneurysm, because China joined Chinese United Front!" I would be more confused if it didn't.... He did mean to say France though, but was pretty confusing/funny to listen while afk.
HRE is one of my favorite tags to form in this game, although the path is really convoluted and filled with manual war justification the country still gets such pretty borders (and i simp for victoria!).
A trick you can use for the civil war is changing all you units to 1 anti-air battalion, then after the civil war starts then switch them back. The AI doesn’t like to change the template, so it will be stuck with bad divs to man the frontline. I use this trick all the time for the Russian civil war
Hey Bitt3rSteel! I recently bought hearts of iron 4 and soon after death or dishonor with 1 goal in mind: Survive as czechoslovakia, democratic and czech entente, right now Im pretty bad at the game but your videos give me confidence and inspiration to do better. Love your videos!
Ayyyy, first he gives us an incredible, very good Japan guide which finally helped me DO something with it, and now he gives us a guide for my favorite formable! Thank you so much Bittersteel for giving us these great content! Dankeschön!!
I don't know how you, but maybe Paradox have to change or reform economy like civilian which would give bonuses to build: civilian factories, railway, infrastructure and other civilian infrastructure. But to make some balance, civilian economy will give big debuffs to military infrastructure. Also it would be interesting that if you choose civilian economy then you also getting bonuses to research civilian technologies but also getting debuffs to research military technology
Recommend doing soviet collabs earlier rather than later... Their spy defence gets wild later on and your spies will get caught all the time. Not too bad if you go early enough tho. Getting the illusive gentleman so you can keep 1 maintaining the network whilst 2 run missions back to back really speeds it up too.
Dispersed is good for rapidly upgrading tech and factory numbers, concentrated is good to produce a large amount of one thing with a similar factory count throughout the game
@@Monkeyman-pt6gsno its not lmao. It is literally worse in every way, and all you get is .05% increase in production. Which lets say 150 mils would mean 1 extra mil a year lmao. Maths is hard huh
@@nickxcaliber7991 Eh, I prefer it so I don't have to micro air superiority over core territory too much. It's a pain in the arse trying to compete with AI air micro.
Concentrated is a hot garbage. If I remember correctly, in some really old patches of hoi it gave more max factories in a state, making it sometimes viable; however, those times have passed.
I did order the blue tank design! Alltho it has been 10 days and still no word on the delivery! I didnt know they would come from the USA aswell so yea... :D
I had like 20 attempts and soviets ALWAYS stop me. Idk what's wrong. Here, in your video, it seems like they barely have troops, you push through them, you rush VP - when I try it, it takes them like 2 days and they have the WHOLE front fully covered, when my tanks even break through the front line and drive few tiles, regular troops can catch and stop them from pushing further or suddenly troops just appear on empty tiles - full equipment, full org. Like... WTF? Anyone got ANY tips?
i have same problem but with france i attack austria got them and when i try attacking someone else britany or france just joins war and demolish me (btw am new player) i lost like 10 times
The answer 99% of the time is supply and fuel. Your tanks and other breakthrough units fight like garbage without them and that's assuming you have GREAT designs. Always check what positive and negative modifiers are impacting your troops in battle. Also air superiority and CAS. Those are massive factors as well.
the ai cannot micromanage like a player can and it moves troops around with garrison and frontline orders, if you tag over to an ai nation in war you will see that there is a lot of armies with 1-2 divs in it
Anyways, when Bitt3rSteel said something about Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, i just wanted to make a quick Explanation. So Basically, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a Imperial German General doing World War 1 and commanded 14.000 Troops which were both of the German Imperial army itself and German colonial troops in German East Africa, for 4 years he harassed and forced the allies to concentrate hundreds of thousands of troops to guard their colonys aswell as to hopefully stop him, which didn't really work out. It's said that up to 100.000 to 200.000 allied soldiers either died, were wounded or taken prisoner doing Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's 4 year campaign in Africa. So overall hes a great dude, and you should read his wikipedia site.
What many people don't realize is he was the best at Guerilla fighting, and practically the inventor of it as we see it today. Now he wasn't the first to use this strategy, but he showed how effective it could be against a much larger force with actual trained troops instead of regular civilians.
Can you please do a guide to forming Byzantium in the Great War Redux? They changed the game mechanics since the last time you did it, so I have been struggling to form the big purple boi.
I just tried to form the HRE, but after taking Poland prior to Oppose Hitler, France and Britain opposed the idea a little after the Civil War ended, and forced Wilhelm II on the throne... and I also saved the Hindenburg ( after many many retrys lol ). Now I have to start over lmfao. the pain.
i pretty much always do the early Poland conquest in my Germany playthroughs now. Only time when I don't is when I do early invasion of Netherlands for Wilhelm II, just so Belgium isn't as hard to get through
As you mentionend Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his "hilarious" Wikipedia Article: we share the city of birth, and in the house he was born in (which is still indicated trough a memorial plague) there resides today... a Shisha Bar. Lead, very successfully, by people he would have seen as foreigners. Again: Birth house of one of the most notorious colonisers, a Shisha bar. If that's not hilarious, I don't know what is.
Fun fact: if germany and austria are together in a faction for long enough, germany will get an event allowing them to make an anschluss, found that out in my german empire run
At 6:52 you have 88 PP at 6:53 it goes to 0. I can't figure out what you spent it on as nothing seems to change in what can be seen in your video. Can you share what you spent it on? Thanks!
plock pronounces as plo/t͡s/k (very similar to zz in pizza but with a hint of a T in the beginning) and this applies to almost all slavic words wit ck at the end
damn, I just formed it a week ago, thinking you wouldn't make an updated guide for this. It ended up being completely scuffed (there wasn't enough war tension for me to guarantee greece, so I had to justify on Italy, which pulled the Italians into the allies, and led to Turkey declaring war on me after joining the allies)
i can never get out enough units to stop the soviets. even the french run over me. I don't know what i'm doing wrong but i tried like 5 times now, even got the Westwall focus, it doesn't work. And my tanks can never brek through the soviet lines . i'm always out of supply even with 1500 fighters up and constantly repairing my railways. I need help. this is beyond frustrating.
Damn this new Kaiserin has done what all other could not do Germany is great again with a competent Leader. thx for making and uploading this i appreciate your work and meybe you can do the same with the Modern Germany. ^^
hi i don't really know if you take inspiration from comments but i have a video idea for you play turkey and restore the ottoman empire and take all the core states and restore the borders of the ottoman empire and when you've finished it it go in the great war mod and win without losing territory or something like that i know the ottoman empire is very bad in the first world war but hope you can try and win DAY2
I had to laugh when the "join war" requests started piling up. Surely the single greatest quality of life improvement for HOI4 would be a button to stop that. If memory serves me right we were even promised one in Developer Diary when NSB was being discussed?
Hey Bitt3rSteel, now that you're updating some of your old guides maybe you can update your Turan guide? Most Turan guides available are extremely outdated. It seems like everyone formed Turan when BftB came out, and no one ever formed it again, lol
I tried forming it, I am not sure where I went wrong. But Instead of getting the option to choose wilhelm III, I got an option of Kaiser challenge met. I am not sure how that happened..
I have always noticed how the AI doesn't have alot of units when you play. What mod do you use to make the AI worse? Last time I did operation sea lion, the UK had over 7 tanks waiting for me. Just curious
Hi bittersteel, i tried to get the achievement 2 arms against tyranni, but i done it 2 times now as finland with sweden in my faction. And both time i didnt got the achievement. Do you have the same problem or a solution
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WoWs is not at all accurate 😂
Hahaha, I'm a WORLD OF WARSHIPS day 1 player..... this ads about it made me roll on the floor.... million of players? in Warships? Really? Yet to see them after 26 000 battles... community? hahaha, spell toxic.
Hahahaha.... propaganda is fully on, brought to you by today's sponsor..... hahahaha
Sure this has nothing to do with the world of warships I know of...
You gotta Danzig sometime
"gonna have an aneurysm because China joined the Chinese United front"
Ah, yes. China
Why can't Germany get mediums quickly anymore?
17:20 We need the hindenburg to not crash and burn for the reason that we want it to crash and burn later.
I thought of the same thing lmao
In my games the Hindenburg crash exactly on May 7 of 1937, probably they changed it in last update?
@@notilt9014 You need to sharpen air safety regulations for 50 political power and also the hindenburg crashes only like 80% of the time
Germany: Let's sharpen air regulations
Also Germany: OH NEIN!! Anyways.
Fun fact: If you pick the bottom option in the delegation event, you get Mackensen back...but Mackensen is coded to die in the 40s if he's still the country leader, which gives you Wilhelm III as Kaiser. Yes, the one that already died. As far as I can tell having a zombie Kaiser confers no additional advantages or disadvantages.
That answers my question, thanks!
**Wilhelm III walking back to Germany**
_"I didn't hear no bell."_
It's weird Hapsburg Hungary can't reform the HRE but a Hohenzollern Germany can.
Probably has to do with the HRE being considered the First Reich
Yeah, but being able to form it at all is already weird enough.
@@lamster7422 At least with the Hapsburgs you can kayfabe it as "we were the last ones to hold this title and the continent has been reshaped by a massive war so we're reviving a title without modern baggage"
Habsburg Hungary is probably the most amazing and yet completely godawful path in the game.
Can't stand the RNG, goofy "take Jerusalem and and take and take da world" etc.
Also waka waka Paradox content drip :)
I'd probably leave the corridor, Poznan, upper Silesia and even the entire east to Poland after the war, so you can get the stuff as core territory in the "Danzig for Guarantees" focus. It seems they always accept that focus no matter what.
lol, i tried and Poland decided that it's gonna do a civil war and now i cant do danzig for guarantees because they're not connected
not very cool of them
They don't accept it always. Sometimes, they don't give you all the land and you don't get a war goal. It's a mess.
I think it depends on improved relations, although it's been a while since I played this path.
"The AI has decided to go completelly off the rails, its fine.... I'm going to have aneurysm, because China joined Chinese United Front!"
I would be more confused if it didn't....
He did mean to say France though, but was pretty confusing/funny to listen while afk.
For me I heard “China joined the Chinese united fronch” which is 300% funnier
Don't you hate it when china joins their own united front?
HRE is one of my favorite tags to form in this game, although the path is really convoluted and filled with manual war justification the country still gets such pretty borders (and i simp for victoria!).
i feel like the reason they force you to manually justify is so you don't abuse staying in the allies and just conquering the continent like that
And she's Victoria III.
"Don't say it, don't say it"
"Neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire"
L French opinion
Actually, it can be considered an Empire.
Questionable first, definitely not second, could be the third.
"The United States of America is neither United, nor a State, nor it is American"
People always clown on the hre. But imagine having a mega France in Europe because there wasn't a strong enough buffer.
A trick you can use for the civil war is changing all you units to 1 anti-air battalion, then after the civil war starts then switch them back. The AI doesn’t like to change the template, so it will be stuck with bad divs to man the frontline. I use this trick all the time for the Russian civil war
We are simple men, we see Bitt3rSteel, we click
Me, I saw the phrase reform Holy Roman Empire under Kaiserin, and I smashed that button just for the what if feel.
Hey Bitt3rSteel! I recently bought hearts of iron 4 and soon after death or dishonor with 1 goal in mind: Survive as czechoslovakia, democratic and czech entente, right now Im pretty bad at the game but your videos give me confidence and inspiration to do better. Love your videos!
Ayyyy, first he gives us an incredible, very good Japan guide which finally helped me DO something with it, and now he gives us a guide for my favorite formable! Thank you so much Bittersteel for giving us these great content! Dankeschön!!
Langes Leben dem Kaiserin
Lang lebe die Kaiserin
Ja, mein Freunds! Langes lebe das Kaiserin!
I don't know how you, but maybe Paradox have to change or reform economy like civilian which would give bonuses to build: civilian factories, railway, infrastructure and other civilian infrastructure. But to make some balance, civilian economy will give big debuffs to military infrastructure. Also it would be interesting that if you choose civilian economy then you also getting bonuses to research civilian technologies but also getting debuffs to research military technology
42:14 "Back to the video"
😂😂
The gojo meme 😭
30:55 You got it right; that is indeed the Caspian Sea.
when he says the name of a polish city i die inside
For a second I thought u were gonna do a Eu4 video and was kinda hyped
He should do an EU4 video
Recommend doing soviet collabs earlier rather than later... Their spy defence gets wild later on and your spies will get caught all the time. Not too bad if you go early enough tho. Getting the illusive gentleman so you can keep 1 maintaining the network whilst 2 run missions back to back really speeds it up too.
Bittersteel is cooking with this one
I love how casually he picked disperse industry.
Dispersed is good for rapidly upgrading tech and factory numbers, concentrated is good to produce a large amount of one thing with a similar factory count throughout the game
@@Monkeyman-pt6gsno its not lmao. It is literally worse in every way, and all you get is .05% increase in production. Which lets say 150 mils would mean 1 extra mil a year lmao. Maths is hard huh
@@nickxcaliber7991 Eh, I prefer it so I don't have to micro air superiority over core territory too much. It's a pain in the arse trying to compete with AI air micro.
@@nickxcaliber7991 Imagine being this smug discussing a video game. Insufferable.
Concentrated is a hot garbage. If I remember correctly, in some really old patches of hoi it gave more max factories in a state, making it sometimes viable; however, those times have passed.
Wasn't expecting a gojo meme in there lol
You should try forming the HRE but with austria using the Between two Giants mod, it is really fun
Try 1945 Endsieg again but this time with the negative modifiers
Love bittersteels videos. And i am an absolute fan of these futurama's memes
33:45 "china joined the chinese united front"
yeah id figure so
I did order the blue tank design! Alltho it has been 10 days and still no word on the delivery! I didnt know they would come from the USA aswell so yea... :D
its always a good day when Bitt3rSteel posts
28:25 "You know how to play the game"
Weeeeeell..........
I had like 20 attempts and soviets ALWAYS stop me. Idk what's wrong. Here, in your video, it seems like they barely have troops, you push through them, you rush VP - when I try it, it takes them like 2 days and they have the WHOLE front fully covered, when my tanks even break through the front line and drive few tiles, regular troops can catch and stop them from pushing further or suddenly troops just appear on empty tiles - full equipment, full org. Like... WTF? Anyone got ANY tips?
i have same problem but with france i attack austria got them and when i try attacking someone else britany or france just joins war and demolish me (btw am new player) i lost like 10 times
The answer 99% of the time is supply and fuel. Your tanks and other breakthrough units fight like garbage without them and that's assuming you have GREAT designs. Always check what positive and negative modifiers are impacting your troops in battle. Also air superiority and CAS. Those are massive factors as well.
the ai cannot micromanage like a player can and it moves troops around with garrison and frontline orders, if you tag over to an ai nation in war you will see that there is a lot of armies with 1-2 divs in it
26:23 I think it even works if you dont have a Slot open so you can get some Spies from different Countrys for later
Ah yes…China 33:47
Anyways, when Bitt3rSteel said something about Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, i just wanted to make a quick Explanation. So Basically, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck was a Imperial German General doing World War 1 and commanded 14.000 Troops which were both of the German Imperial army itself and German colonial troops in German East Africa, for 4 years he harassed and forced the allies to concentrate hundreds of thousands of troops to guard their colonys aswell as to hopefully stop him, which didn't really work out. It's said that up to 100.000 to 200.000 allied soldiers either died, were wounded or taken prisoner doing Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's 4 year campaign in Africa. So overall hes a great dude, and you should read his wikipedia site.
What many people don't realize is he was the best at Guerilla fighting, and practically the inventor of it as we see it today. Now he wasn't the first to use this strategy, but he showed how effective it could be against a much larger force with actual trained troops instead of regular civilians.
@@Thebaconmurderer Exactly, i couldn't have said it any better.
Can you please do a guide to forming Byzantium in the Great War Redux? They changed the game mechanics since the last time you did it, so I have been struggling to form the big purple boi.
30:55 Left to right Black, Caspian and Aral Sea
I just tried to form the HRE, but after taking Poland prior to Oppose Hitler, France and Britain opposed the idea a little after the Civil War ended, and forced Wilhelm II on the throne... and I also saved the Hindenburg ( after many many retrys lol ). Now I have to start over lmfao. the pain.
i pretty much always do the early Poland conquest in my Germany playthroughs now. Only time when I don't is when I do early invasion of Netherlands for Wilhelm II, just so Belgium isn't as hard to get through
I never do collabs with less than 3 spys just so if something annoying comes up I have at least one backup.
OMG KAISERIN NEURON ACTIVATION AUEUEUEUFJFJGJJGSKAH
Day 5 of asking Bittersteel to talk about the new country pack Trial of Allegiance
Good, that you could save the kaiserin
As a german i have to say, your german pronounciation is pretty clean. Nice.
Polland can return your cores through focus, no need to conquer them
Their purpose is to distract the fascists in the civil war, that's it
@@Bitt3rSteel now it makes sense
As you mentionend Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his "hilarious" Wikipedia Article: we share the city of birth, and in the house he was born in (which is still indicated trough a memorial plague) there resides today... a Shisha Bar. Lead, very successfully, by people he would have seen as foreigners. Again: Birth house of one of the most notorious colonisers, a Shisha bar. If that's not hilarious, I don't know what is.
Fun fact: if germany and austria are together in a faction for long enough, germany will get an event allowing them to make an anschluss, found that out in my german empire run
-I can deploy my stupid horses and convert them into stupid infantry
I lost it 😂😂😂
At 6:52 you have 88 PP at 6:53 it goes to 0. I can't figure out what you spent it on as nothing seems to change in what can be seen in your video. Can you share what you spent it on? Thanks!
I hired IG Farben
plock pronounces as plo/t͡s/k (very similar to zz in pizza but with a hint of a T in the beginning) and this applies to almost all slavic words wit ck at the end
The last time I did this Japan and Italy jacked world tension way up and it killed my shoot at the Kisarin.
damn, I just formed it a week ago, thinking you wouldn't make an updated guide for this. It ended up being completely scuffed (there wasn't enough war tension for me to guarantee greece, so I had to justify on Italy, which pulled the Italians into the allies, and led to Turkey declaring war on me after joining the allies)
30:29 babalar sözünü tutmuş
My favorite video of all HOI4 content creation.
Wow, thanks!
Guide ends up being an accidental world conquest lmao
i can never get out enough units to stop the soviets. even the french run over me. I don't know what i'm doing wrong but i tried like 5 times now, even got the Westwall focus, it doesn't work. And my tanks can never brek through the soviet lines . i'm always out of supply even with 1500 fighters up and constantly repairing my railways. I need help. this is beyond frustrating.
Amazing video just like always
Thank you so much 😀
Damn this new Kaiserin has done what all other could not do Germany is great again with a competent Leader. thx for making and uploading this i appreciate your work and meybe you can do the same with the Modern Germany. ^^
hi i don't really know if you take inspiration from comments but i have a video idea for you play turkey and restore the ottoman empire and take all the core states and restore the borders of the ottoman empire and when you've finished it it go in the great war mod and win without losing territory or something like that i know the ottoman empire is very bad in the first world war but hope you can try and win DAY2
good luck on your hoi4 tournamaent bitt3rsteel
33:50 "China joined the Chinese united front"
Beautiful video, as always!
Thank you very much!
I was half expecting the USA gurantee the Switzerland.
A glorious return of an Empire.
Next, you should do a Napoleonic Third French Empire Guide for 1.13.
Please expand upon this legion, and the Eleventh if you have ideas for that one too
I had to laugh when the "join war" requests started piling up. Surely the single greatest quality of life improvement for HOI4 would be a button to stop that. If memory serves me right we were even promised one in Developer Diary when NSB was being discussed?
I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO RESTORED THE H.R.E FOR 1 NAD HALF YEARS AND THIS DUDES DOES IT IN UNDER AND HOUR WHAT AM I DOING WRONG
The Hindenburg can burn before you sent the family to uk. On my save it burned around 8 months before I sent victoria to uk
I suggested this on the discord yesterday but to do it with motorized infantry
Please sir, what template did you make and when did you start the 101 division training?
I honestly forgot you could do this
3:03 If you're interested, it's pronounced "pwotsk"
@15:20 you just crippled mah german main tank crew in WT lol.
i tried restoring the kaiserreich... i got 24 troops, he got 214
i love hoi4 but that bug just destroyed my fun and motivation restoring it ever again
35:47 France is in Chines Fraction. 35:59 France is in Allies. WTF? How?
The ways of France are a mystery
Just bought the Deskpad, it's sooo cool!
"theres no reason to take any of it",
Some Germans in his grave : Was our lack of a oil and the caucassion oil fields a joke to you ?
i love your pronounciation of Plock. idk if its correct but for some reason sounded funny
As an Italic, i'd collaborate with the HRE.
Another day another Bitt3rSteel vid on the top of my suggestions.
Does anyone know if this still works?
23:30 Who is your leader if everyone dies there ?
Von Mackensen, the civil war leader
I think man with mustache and skull hat returns
Bitter's been going back to the past in these recently videos, or returning to it in 1936 at least.
Shame the mousepad is only available in english
what should I do if my Kaiser is returning Austria-Hungary is reformed and I dont have the decision?
I loved the Japanese - Ethiopean War XD
@Bitt3rSteel, please do a Kaiserreich Germany play through, Germany got a huge update
Hey Bitt3rSteel, now that you're updating some of your old guides maybe you can update your Turan guide? Most Turan guides available are extremely outdated. It seems like everyone formed Turan when BftB came out, and no one ever formed it again, lol
try altylery only chellenge with no batalions else then altylery you can use support companies to have some organisation
honestly, a mousepad that large is a good idea 🤔
Most annoying thing about trying to get the kaiserin is the hindenburg dying
Just do the decision to tighter air safety regulations
I tried forming it, I am not sure where I went wrong. But Instead of getting the option to choose wilhelm III, I got an option of Kaiser challenge met. I am not sure how that happened..
Who noticed the fact that this is one of the only videos that support 1440p60?
Now idk why but the bitrate for me is a lot worse then older videos with the newer ones?
So when Return of the Kaiser completes it has France and Britain mobilize and I don't get the succession options. What should I do?
otton the great would be proud
Bitt3r nearly sacrificed his potato cpu for this vid.
I have always noticed how the AI doesn't have alot of units when you play. What mod do you use to make the AI worse? Last time I did operation sea lion, the UK had over 7 tanks waiting for me. Just curious
No mods
Hi bittersteel, i tried to get the achievement 2 arms against tyranni, but i done it 2 times now as finland with sweden in my faction. And both time i didnt got the achievement. Do you have the same problem or a solution
So I’m doing a hre run but can’t declare on anyone because of world tension. What do I do?