He means, why doesn’t Iceland have an option on the selection menu, where USA UK France Germany Italy and Soviet Union are with the portraits and then little flags of other countries below, example, the commonwealth nations, Poland, Netherlands, Ethiopia
That +20% non-core manpower modifier is actually so OP. There's basically no reason to puppet anything since even with 0 compliance you're gonna be gaining more manpower than it costs to garrison.
Just imagine being british in this world you dont want any war after the horrors of ww1 then you see the axis do what they could not in ww1 and captured all countries that opposed them in mainland europe then you hear news of an invasion but it is not the germans it is a random island called iceland despite having no ice and a lot of volcanoes
8:55 that's also one of the tricks you can use with Germany to naval invade the UK by going from the port north of amsterdam which puts the arrow exactly in between the english channel and the eastern north sea so you only need supremacy in the north sea
Iceland, a neutral nation that got invaded by Britain and then later turned over to the USA (before Pearl harbour). Which I am pretty sure is the only time in history that a nation was occupied by another neutral nation during a war
Great video. My run was similar, except invading Netherlands was very painful. I should have used the market from the start. Yugoslavia gave me basically all my guns and artillery. I didnt continue after the allies capped, i didnt know about that absurd non core pop advisor. Wow that is broken.
Great Video! For your next video, I'd recommend playing the Hoi4 mod "Battle of Seelow Heights" and attempt to save historical April 12th Germany from total disaster, it's a tough challenge hopefully.
Your guides are always the go to - clearest and most likely to work - thanks. Hoping for a FIN achievements guide, especially lone wolf (having some trouble there). MMM
If they want to go more realism heavy I think they should do something about the Indonesian man power, unlike for instance India the Indonesians didn't really fight as much in the Dutch armies, and do something about the naval invasions, ideally that you need superiority for a period not just a tick, with the possibility to react.
@@Hyde_Hill, thanks for the input. Yeah, the colony is barely industrialized and the populace is generally either apathetic (in case of the rural villagers because lack of care from above) or distrustful (in case of the educated urbanists because of the crackdown after the failed 1926 Rebellion) towards the administration. In turn, the heavy penalty to Recruitable Population Factor would entice the player to think more about their political decisions and its consequences, especially if it's manpower-related.
First of all: i love your work. Much like yourself i am someone who has attempted to grow a channel on the side, all while working, having family, etc. and I can only imagine the time commitment required to run a channel and provide content of this quality. I honestly can admit i never would have understood the game like i do now if it weren't for your videos amd tutorials when i picked the game up 2 months ago so mad props to you my friend. But i have a project Im considering starting but im not proficient enough with the game itself to make a quality video. Im wanting to recreate as accurately as humanly possible USA 's involvement in WW2. Im talking about accurate ship names, generals/admirals, advisors, and army and fleet compositions. Essentially follow the real world timeline and make a video from the perspective of pure history. I know that would be quite an undertaking but ive already done all the research necessary for it. I just need help from somebody with a far greater understanding of the mechanics of the game. If you know any content creators who might be interested in something of that nature, or have any suggestions or can point me in the right direction it would truly be helpful!
@@humphrey10-88 Mostly focus: Colonial Army: +10% non core Colonial Army2: +10% non core 5th Port. Empire: +5% non core Prince of terror: +2% non core Your several puppets at 90% compliance (requires 70%): +20% non core manpower Standard: +2%non core Equals: 49% non core manpower
Quite a bit of stuff missed out from this....gaining naval points out of nowhere, order of some focuses selected. It's a decent guide but I'll need to work out some other bits.
Invading the Netherlands as Finland before AAT was ridiculously easy. All you had to do was get a good beachhead and defend mainly Rotterdam and Amsterdam until you could strike back and take a port.
If you invade Britain from the tile north off Amsterdam, you can bypass the channel and eastern north sea. You just need to have supremacy on the north sea. Same works on Spain, from Leon to Bristol, just 1 region needed.
I mean, if Iceland was a country that historically exist but in HOI4 doesn´t till AAT we can maybe see the same for Egypt being the main countrie of an arab DLC with Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
Envy your luck here bitter. Tried three times and failed. First time HOL did not budge, lost half the convoy and 2 DD. Second time UK intercepted 2 out of 3 naval invasions to Hull, and the one they let slip, well that's the one hitting Hull where it was guarded. Third time the charm, the naval invasion did not even launch and it is 40, more than half the convoy ship is gone to maintain troops on HOL supplied.
@Bitt3er I have 2 Questions: 1. My destroyers II don't reach all the needed sea-regions for NL invasion. Game version problem? O r do I miss something? I did it now with Sub lvl 2. 2. How did you get the wargoal on UK by Sep 39?
Ye somethings wrong with special forces. As Finland I played a late game (1947) and all and i mean ALL my divisions were mountaineers (I had 3 army groups)
Iceland getting a tree before Belgium is really showing which are the relevant countries in this world.
I imagine they’ll make a dlc for Belgium, Austria and Albania about the countries that were invaded super fast
I already thought this when they gave the Baltics their trees.
Why buy a possible future DLC that *might* include a Belgium focus tree when you could just use a mod for free 😉
Why would we give a highway a focus tree?
@@RookiMellonachievements
Love the EU4 Comet sighted easter egg in "I wish I lived in more enlightened times"
All of the options there are comet event references, from what I could tell.
Aww yeah thanks for the shoutout!
Excited to see your spin on the best Nordic nation!
Hatless let's go!
the 2 goats
I wonder why Iceland doesn’t get put on the selection menu like the Sultanate of Aussa
if you mean why iceland doesn't get invaded, well, the sultunate of aussa was a vassal/member of the Ethiopian Empire, which Italy was at war with.
He means, why doesn’t Iceland have an option on the selection menu, where USA UK France Germany Italy and Soviet Union are with the portraits and then little flags of other countries below, example, the commonwealth nations, Poland, Netherlands, Ethiopia
That +20% non-core manpower modifier is actually so OP. There's basically no reason to puppet anything since even with 0 compliance you're gonna be gaining more manpower than it costs to garrison.
germany can always attack it if its not his puppry
The fact that Iceland has a better focus tree then Germany shows where the priorities are in the world
Based paradox
Just imagine being british in this world you dont want any war after the horrors of ww1 then you see the axis do what they could not in ww1 and captured all countries that opposed them in mainland europe then you hear news of an invasion but it is not the germans it is a random island called iceland despite having no ice and a lot of volcanoes
8:55 that's also one of the tricks you can use with Germany to naval invade the UK by going from the port north of amsterdam which puts the arrow exactly in between the english channel and the eastern north sea so you only need supremacy in the north sea
I wonder why Iceland was secret... it's such a cool nation and had so much impact in WW2
I dont think it really had an impact in ww2
@@nucelarworker7569 major impact for the battle of the north sea and keeping the kreigsmarine out of the arctic (hosted allied intelligence)
@heccsclips3319 iceland falling to the germans could been disastrous on allied shipping in the atlantic
@@dobi2236 yessirrr
Iceland, a neutral nation that got invaded by Britain and then later turned over to the USA (before Pearl harbour). Which I am pretty sure is the only time in history that a nation was occupied by another neutral nation during a war
Play as Democratic Yunnan
why do you want him to suffer more than he already does
Signed
Forgot yunnan existed ngl
@@salxrnwell warlords access all type of boost ideology advisors he can go communist/fascist and flip democracy
@@doctorwhat779 how does that change anything
Great video. My run was similar, except invading Netherlands was very painful. I should have used the market from the start. Yugoslavia gave me basically all my guns and artillery. I didnt continue after the allies capped, i didnt know about that absurd non core pop advisor. Wow that is broken.
I love hove the Spanish civil war penalty is a reference to the infamous EU4 "comet sighting" stability hit event
some of this is just plain and simple peddling to the vikingboos
and i love it lol
I’m sure they would be so touched but our support we would be among the first sacrifices! 😅
Would love to see a continuation!
Oh, please, continue!
gotta love that guy
The epitome of "size doesn't matter"😂
The Indonorse strike again! Now in Hoi4 instead of Crusader Kings games...
Great Video! For your next video, I'd recommend playing the Hoi4 mod "Battle of Seelow Heights" and attempt to save historical April 12th Germany from total disaster, it's a tough challenge hopefully.
I liked the old thumbnail as I’ve been loving the thumbnail art recently, sad to see it go away but it doesn’t change the high quality of this video
Really need at least one play-trough with that Nordic tree lol.
Your guides are always the go to - clearest and most likely to work - thanks. Hoping for a FIN achievements guide, especially lone wolf (having some trouble there). MMM
It seems like that while I wasn't watching you, a lot of futurama started getting into your videos
If they want to go more realism heavy I think they should do something about the Indonesian man power, unlike for instance India the Indonesians didn't really fight as much in the Dutch armies, and do something about the naval invasions, ideally that you need superiority for a period not just a tick, with the possibility to react.
East Indies Reworked mod kinda did that.
The manpower situation is heavily gimped with barely 240k manpower available in 1936.
@@krasnamerah1926 Ah okay a mod. Yeah would be good if they include that in the base game. Should still probably be less lol.
@@Hyde_Hill, thanks for the input.
Yeah, the colony is barely industrialized and the populace is generally either apathetic (in case of the rural villagers because lack of care from above) or distrustful (in case of the educated urbanists because of the crackdown after the failed 1926 Rebellion) towards the administration.
In turn, the heavy penalty to Recruitable Population Factor would entice the player to think more about their political decisions and its consequences, especially if it's manpower-related.
Stop trying to ruin my Australian Empire runs
Indonesian people are fighting in UK for the some state in Canada - best timeline ever :)
4:26 where did that naval xp come from??
the navy advisor. he gives passive naval Xp
Heh, a wonderful surprise indeed! Honestly, Iceland is just fun to build from absolutely nothing.
First of all: i love your work. Much like yourself i am someone who has attempted to grow a channel on the side, all while working, having family, etc. and I can only imagine the time commitment required to run a channel and provide content of this quality. I honestly can admit i never would have understood the game like i do now if it weren't for your videos amd tutorials when i picked the game up 2 months ago so mad props to you my friend.
But i have a project Im considering starting but im not proficient enough with the game itself to make a quality video.
Im wanting to recreate as accurately as humanly possible USA 's involvement in WW2. Im talking about accurate ship names, generals/admirals, advisors, and army and fleet compositions. Essentially follow the real world timeline and make a video from the perspective of pure history.
I know that would be quite an undertaking but ive already done all the research necessary for it. I just need help from somebody with a far greater understanding of the mechanics of the game.
If you know any content creators who might be interested in something of that nature, or have any suggestions or can point me in the right direction it would truly be helpful!
Huh that 20% non core manpower is nuts. Might have to give Iceland a go
You might enjoy Portugals 45% non core then XD
Holy hell, if they conquered their natural allies colonies they would be unstoppable. XD@@scavenger6268
@@scavenger6268 wait really? Is that a advisor or through focus?
@@humphrey10-88 Mostly focus:
Colonial Army: +10% non core
Colonial Army2: +10% non core
5th Port. Empire: +5% non core
Prince of terror: +2% non core
Your several puppets at 90% compliance (requires 70%): +20% non core manpower
Standard: +2%non core
Equals: 49% non core manpower
23:21 every special unit cost 6 so if you get one it will say 6/292
Quite a bit of stuff missed out from this....gaining naval points out of nowhere, order of some focuses selected. It's a decent guide but I'll need to work out some other bits.
I would love to see an update on the Byzantium guide since the strat doesn’t work anymore.
I always ended up capping them in 39
Love that god old style thumbnail with the new country ball style!
This was great video now I want to do A Finland Nordic Unity
BITTERSTEEL IS MY SECOND FAV HOI4 creator keep going
I was very happy to see a nice EU4 easteregg
just got this game a couple days ago, already got a great new youtuber to watch
Imagine learning this for your history exam 😂
21:33 Good song from Toto, I agree
@Bitt3rSteel_ huh?
20:32 Kallo was so scared that he left leadership.
Please continue and do the world conquest with this save
Iceland has a focus tree. Meanwhile, I just had to pull off Snakes on a Plane with the generic tree for Brazil.
I couldn't do the achivements, because i did not play in iron mode but finally could invade Britain. Thank you.
Invading the Netherlands as Finland before AAT was ridiculously easy. All you had to do was get a good beachhead and defend mainly Rotterdam and Amsterdam until you could strike back and take a port.
Just wanted to let you know that you are my favourite HOI4 youtuber and i watch quite a few 👍🏼
BITTERSTEEEL WOOOOOO
Please continue 🙏
I love your videos
If you invade Britain from the tile north off Amsterdam, you can bypass the channel and eastern north sea. You just need to have supremacy on the north sea.
Same works on Spain, from Leon to Bristol, just 1 region needed.
Are special forces doctrines dlc only because i can't access them
Such a good video
gg for the new thumbnails
I love your icelandic
I hope the next DLC update will be focused on South America because so far it's literally the most irrelevant thing in HOI4
Brazil and Venezuela desperately need a tree
They said they want to add 2-3 more flavour packs and that the Middle East and South America are most likely places that will get covered.
Careful what you wish for my friend...
I mean it did happen so
You can diplo pressure UK and they will give up what you ask, but it is kinda RNG
Imagine having Christian X as a national spirit as Icelend but Denmark doesn't have it ! Just imagine the irony. 🙃
crazy gameplay !!
Could you do a tierlist of all hoi4 nations rating how fun they are to play?
Love the content ❤🎉❤🎉
you beat netherlands in this video with 4 marines, but I beat yesterday netherlands using only 3 marines
There's a chaotic florius video on this
I mean, if Iceland was a country that historically exist but in HOI4 doesn´t till AAT we can maybe see the same for Egypt being the main countrie of an arab DLC with Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
Envy your luck here bitter. Tried three times and failed. First time HOL did not budge, lost half the convoy and 2 DD. Second time UK intercepted 2 out of 3 naval invasions to Hull, and the one they let slip, well that's the one hitting Hull where it was guarded. Third time the charm, the naval invasion did not even launch and it is 40, more than half the convoy ship is gone to maintain troops on HOL supplied.
That was crazy
@Bitt3er
I have 2 Questions:
1. My destroyers II don't reach all the needed sea-regions for NL invasion. Game version problem? O r do I miss something? I did it now with Sub lvl 2.
2. How did you get the wargoal on UK by Sep 39?
Never mind, I found both answers.
I’m having the same problem with the destroyer 2s, how did you fix?
Docking rights from Germany.@@christopherribaric648
only a few people will remember when he misspelled "back" as "bakc" in the title
Can u make a video as playing vichy france? Apparently, there stronger with out all the debuffs
Lore of Iceland brings back the Viking Age: Cod Wars Guide Momentum 100
So good
the brits guarded dover when i did this
Is it possible for you to make an updated version of facist imperial federation guide?
@Bitt3rSteel_ ?
Good video
Vikings in india 1940 recruting indians for the viking cause 💀
I saw that title change Bitt3r. SHM MY HEAD
Iceland has a better tree than Japan, a major power of the war
Need part 2
Hmm yes the rise of 🇮🇸🗿👌😎👍 Icelandic Cod wars 2: the clone wars in waterloo
My fav country is iceland so this video is a W ma boi and i will take it as a tutorial so thanks?
"Trust me, this is a big one and I'm going to show you"
Hahaa that's what she said... wait no that's not right
19:48 Average Gora when they set afoot in india
You are the best
Waiting for HOI4 April 1945 start date!
You know i think bittersteel likes futurerama? idk tho
You had 245 factories before proclaiming Nordic Unity, why didn't it go up?
Is the title a typo? (will edit after watching video) Edit: He changed it mid video.
Yessir
Love from greece
PAtiently waiting for the joys of the Fifth Portuguese Empire.
Nice
Yay
Ye somethings wrong with special forces. As Finland I played a late game (1947) and all and i mean ALL my divisions were mountaineers (I had 3 army groups)
I'd love to see you continue this campaign.
Iceland , 10 M manpover …..
I keep thinking Copenhagen is a weird translation as the name is København which literally spells Buy a harbor (Køb en havn)
Good
At training phase why don't wait a little bit more and all of the units get lvl 2 without burning equipments?
The tumb as changed?
Would it be possible to do a Finnish guide? But without the DLC, so a historic Finland
Where did he get the 9 naval experience?
@Bitt3rSteel_ Wait, what?
There's a naval commander you can get for naval xp
Another video 🥹 tank god 🥹