As an Australian who enjoys playing Australia I am offended by the title but am very happy to see you play Australia

@Bitt3rSteel

Жыл бұрын

It's just...not a great tree

@rosscalverley

Жыл бұрын

As a New Zealander....

@kvlt1349

Жыл бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel when new zealand has a better focus tree than australia. smh my head

@rio.francisco

Жыл бұрын

lol same…

@TheKonkaman

Жыл бұрын

Australia is my main country in mp, and i love it still

I always had an opinion that Australia is wasted potential. It would be so cool to create a pacific empire like Japan

@arrogantsavant2960

Жыл бұрын

Seems kind of counterintuitive considering how much of Australia's land mass is barely inhabitable desert but the player should have to grapple with that on their own terms XD

@boomerharris2965

Жыл бұрын

​@Arrogant Savant having the ability to core eastern british empire lands would fix the manpower issue

@cerealeater803

Жыл бұрын

And so do the entire southeast asia

@simont.4633

Жыл бұрын

@@boomerharris2965 Maybe coring New Zealand, but coring Malaysia or the Raj is completely unrealistic.

@boomerharris2965

Жыл бұрын

@@simont.4633 I mean Liberia conquering the world is too but it can be done. This is hoi alt history after all

True story Bitt3rSteel is only the guy I know who could enjoy playing Communist Australia for 24 hours straight.

@muhuashen

Жыл бұрын

lmaooooo

@snowyboi11

Жыл бұрын

It's the legend, Bubbles Zest. I wonder, Luxembourg run on Vicky 2?

@XSpamDragonX

Жыл бұрын

Bubbles is one of those KZreadrs I really enjoy but didn't remember to subscribe to, until now.

@muhuashen

Жыл бұрын

@@XSpamDragonX lmaooo

@mrfroggyboy1293

Жыл бұрын

​@@XSpamDragonXthanks for reminding me to sub to him!

Australia desperately needs an update.

@MarcusBlueWolf

Жыл бұрын

No update since 2017

@possessorofmine

Жыл бұрын

You need a life

@goatlord7310

11 ай бұрын

Not as desperately as real world Australia 😂😂

@paulrasmussen8953

9 ай бұрын

Many countries do

@tonyravioli1982

9 ай бұрын

I think there are many more important nations that need better trees. Even if its to add more depth. Like America, Britain, France, even Germany.

Other countries: Fight against foreign powers with their focus tree Together for victory countries: Fight against foreign powers and also their focus tree.

As an Australian, We need a better focus tree.

@lordhoden

Жыл бұрын

You need less huntsman spiders :D

@muhuashen

Жыл бұрын

@@lordhoden LMAO

@1Velaxis1

Жыл бұрын

@@lordhoden we need more huntsman spiders, only things that kill the actual annoying crawling insects. If I spot one inside, he gets a name and left completely alone.

@narthex1681

Жыл бұрын

¿ ǝɹǝɥʇ uʍop lǝǝɟ ʇᴉ sǝop ʍoH

@lordhoden

Жыл бұрын

@@1Velaxis1 If i saw one of those face to face id need a life time of therapy. The 5 cm abominations we have here are big enough ^^

Australia: Was one of the most important Minor allied nations. Who literally played a large role in almost every theatre before going behind Churchill's back to change the course of the war in the Pacific. Paradox: Ehh lets spend 5 minutes making their focus tree.

@D00MerJohn

5 ай бұрын

Without the brave men of Australia sacrifice from themselves fighting the Japanese on land The war in the Pacific could have certainly been much longer and bloodier. Bitter stubborn defense turning to offense in some of the most inhospitable jungles of the world from fine fighting men from Australia is what shaped the early part of the Pacific War.

In Poland you can make a bear your king. It would be funny, if in Australia you could play as an Emu Empire.

@christianthompson7915

Жыл бұрын

you can, it’s what happens when you switch to fascism

@ZoeyEldritch

11 ай бұрын

@@christianthompson7915I think he means for an literal Emu to be your leader portrait.

@The13thRonin

11 ай бұрын

No.

@goatlord7310

11 ай бұрын

Well we have actually had a magician as our prime minister before, in Australia.

@lokomo-px5gx

11 ай бұрын

Wait how??? I can just choose between 3 kings

Australia storming French-controlled Normandy in 1943 after annexing UK is possibly the most cursed D-Day scenario possible.

@Nuclear-Cheesecake

3 ай бұрын

Never in Churchills wildest nightmares did Australia almost single handedly destroy the Axis before attacking the UK and the Allies

We desperately need an Emutopia and Kiwiland update.

@Theover4000

Жыл бұрын

Well I found a new way to prod at my Emutopian friends today…

@Voytek877

7 ай бұрын

love the Perun reference

You sound so giddy when you mention the ships you'll build, it's adorable

I have an ungodly amount of hours on ironman Australia because it feels like the perfect underdog story plus as awful as the focus tree is there is some gold in there (2.0 years a head for small frame, destroyers, subs & cruisers), really nice industry bonuses. Colabs and annexing Indonesia is vital for industry, resources & non- core manpower. Always did civil war in the Netherlands but that trick with getting the invasion off from Russia is gold, will use the hell out of that. Great video that I will take a bunch of ideas from!

As someone who really enjoys playing New Zealand, this video inspired me to give Straya another shot.

@aidenbooksmith2351

11 ай бұрын

just HOW do you manage to enjoy New Zealand? I tried to enjoy it, believe me I really tried. But I can't it's just so underpowered

@bruh01238

9 ай бұрын

@@aidenbooksmith2351 cheat

@tonyravioli1982

9 ай бұрын

@@aidenbooksmith2351 Big bob

@koolguy751

7 ай бұрын

You play NZ for one of two reasons: B I G B O B You're a kiwi and just want to play your home country

4 ай бұрын

With the power of six research slots you can become Wakanda of the Pacific pretty quickly and be an absolutely annoying dbag to the Japanese. I find it very chill tbh.

Australia was so fun to play in hoi3, being so tough to stop the japanese before america came in made it feel like a genuine struggle to help hold onto places like singapore

Democratic Australia on historical AI focuses is actually really really fun. It's similar to Canada in that you're really far away from all the fighting so if you just abandon infantry and planes, and go all in on medium tanks you can put down like 12 really good tank divisions and just zip around North Africa, Italy and later Germany because you don't have enough units on the front line for the AI to think of you as a priority. Single handedly won the war for the allies multiple times as Australia, even saved Poland from being yoinked by Stalin once

Naval Australia… my god. The criminals are fighting back. GIVE THE AUSSIES A BETTER FOCUS TREE GOD DAMNIT

I like these "sub-optimal" videos! You laugh more and I laugh more. It's just as interesting watching a virtuoso be technically impressive (grinding out wins, fixing bad saves) as it is when they tell us a story and roleplay out a concept. Keep up the great work!

I cracked up so hard the moment he said "The Australian Army's already outside Berlin" and it's just 1941

As an Aussie, this brought me tremendous joy, and as an Aussie girl, I don't even mind that you pledged to kill your own, Aussie men (2:44). [sips.Vegemite.smoothie]

@Konichu35

Жыл бұрын

Girls play hoi4????

@roganmorrow

Жыл бұрын

@@Konichu35 What's a girl?

@DirkusTurkess

Жыл бұрын

@@Konichu35 No girls on the internet. Only feds.

@rbxless

Жыл бұрын

Vegemite smoothie? Monster.

@archusrtm6325

Жыл бұрын

@@Konichu35 yeaa we do :)

Paradox this is a petition Australia needs a better focus tree

“I don’t do armor” Immediately puts armor on the cruiser. 😳

@HeXetic

Жыл бұрын

Yeah what's up with that? I noticed it too.

@tonyravioli1982

9 ай бұрын

I think thats attempting to avoid them immediately be annihilated.

The image at 0:03 got me to subscribe. I never get tired of that joke

My great grandfather is from Australia. I remember during worker day of how he told me how he marched through tokyo, ending g the Asian war truly a war hero.

他用實力證明了這遊戲，只要有足夠的陰謀就可以贏 不管你是多麼偏僻又貧弱的小國家 只要你會搞掉那些沒有軍隊的國家，就可以壯大然後繼續贏下每一場戰爭 該死的，他讓整個社群的人難堪

Bittersteel: this is a terrible country also bittersteel: kills the entire world in 5 minutes flat

The title should be every Australian's life motto

Australia

@eliashelfer2740

Жыл бұрын

Australia

@Natliedje

Жыл бұрын

Australia

@iangoncalvesdasilva3161

Жыл бұрын

Australia

@pjackson6688

Жыл бұрын

Australia

@Laacceeyyy

Жыл бұрын

Australia

best video from the series so far. no mods and no boring standard approach

The absolute slander as an Aussie (I still agree our tree is garbage, but still)

Historically accurate title is historically accurate. Australia went from swol doge in WW1 to wimp doge in WW2; we did bugger all despite the war being on our doorstep. WW1 it was 4 divisions at the tip of the spear, WW2 was couldn't even defend new guinea properly, and that's a place still 80 years later still isn't tamed/is extremely rugged and difficult.

I think you need like 1 set of fighter wings for every certain amount of bombers in order for the bombers to actually want to go on their missions. I tend to go for 1 fighter and the rest bomber wings.

Carrier Fighters actually slap because they still do naval attack damage (very little damage, but still) and they will wipe out an enemy's naval bombers. It is still a good idea to put at least one squadron of naval bombers in each carrier, but I always prioritize the fighters.

"cheap destroyers, cheap fodder" you just described the scrap iron flotilla.... it was extremely successful.

Getting powerful navy ships is perfectly lore-friendly, provided you try to home-brew them from an outdated Swedish design even though you don't have a domestic ship building industry and spend decades trying to get them up to speed while the project costs balloon far beyond expectations and delays use up most of their service life. Then years later you learn your lesson and buy from the French instead, but cock up the process so bad it causes an international incident, and you have to pay a nearly billion-dollar fine to break the contract so you can go running to the Americans instead (who definitely didn't exert pressure behind the scenes to ensure exactly that outcome).

0:50 bitter sounded like he was really happy lol

Sure brand new focus trees are cool and all but jesus they need to do a sweep of quite a few of the old dlc trees and bring them up to par with their more recent work so selecting them doesnt feel like a mistake. Unless you're Bittersteel of course. Then its only a geographical inconvenience.

I know what you mean when you say super optimally, the Malaysia play through was honestly the most entertaining video you made👍

You totally got me turning the image upside down at the start. I just rotated the phone for full screen so I rotated again to get it oriented just for you to trick me again! I've been had 😂

That aircraft carrier isn’t that left field. The HMAS Melbourne was a majestic class aircraft carrier and it operated in the 50s

what makes Australia such pain to play, is no doubt the lack of research slots. as despite having great point to become a naval power, you have no research slots to research pretty much anything.

Best. Australia. Run. Ever. (or at least that I have seen)

Its a shame really that the focus tree is kinda mid, considering how Australia played a big roll defending from the Japanese. Also id love to see a Populate or Perish focus for Australia.

Australia during the WW1 mod is kindof interesting because in my playthrough Germany actually tried to defend its colonies in the pacific. It actually was quite the challenge for me to oust German forces out of the pacific.

It's funny you promoted Thomas Blamey to being a Field Marshal: to this day, he's the only Australian (or at least the only person actually born in Australia) to ever hold that position.

The first 3 DLC's they did are really showing how restricted they are these days, been itching to do a Japan game but each time I look at there focus tree just makes me sad. At least they are "slowly" updating these older trees, Yugoslavia got a ton of new focuses a while back, India can now finally gain access to its full manpower, and Canada can now have a large army and a good industry. No sign of Australia, New Zealand or South Africa getting any TLC yet however... Also from my own Experience from Carrier Fleets, secondaries are useless unless using Dual Purpose, extra Anti Air is handy especially if patrolling waters where the AI throws up Aircraft, same goes with Radar down the line, as it will help find enemy fleets much easier. Aircraft wise "I think" better engines and survivability massively reduce combat losses, when engaging ships with any sort of AA, especially Armour Plates. Also Fighters are great when dealing with enemy carrier fleets as Carrier Planes tend to go for Carriers more often than not, as well as Carrier Fighters also have some Naval Attack themselves, I tend to split my Airwings with a 50/50 split between Torpedo Bombers and Fighters. Also bit of an interesting note, if you got down the Ballistic Rocket technology you can gain access to Anti Ship Missiles for Naval Bombers, and they hit much harder than torpedoes, bit of a hidden tech that most players never see thanks to that line being useless otherwise.

i had an relativly fun game as australia, focused on tanks and got 2 of their achivments. The thing was that i dont have the dlc, so i had just the base tree and i think that made it more fun

I would like it if someday paradox goes through the older focus trees and gives them an update. Some of the older ones suck.

0:50 he just got so happy talking about the navy

Hey! I've seen that the member names always start with the same names (maybe it's supposed to be like this, idk), but it would be cool if the names list could be randomized before every video so more members could have their names as divisions. Anyways, great video as always, keep it up man :)

@aidenbooksmith2351

11 ай бұрын

My mod knowledge tells me that this is sadly not possible. HOWEVER. it is possible to make two mods that have opposite orders.

@KamikazeCommie501

7 ай бұрын

@@aidenbooksmith2351 Could he not spend the time to type them in? It's the least he could do for the people allowing him to make playing video games a job.

I swear I was just checking if you had played any Australia games when you uploaded

kind of late to the vid as always nice video Bittersteel! Keep the work up!

Australian fan here. You did well mate. Cheers for that. 🍺

yeah the focus tree sucks balls but im glad they updated the amount of territory you can actually build on. It was crazy small for one of the largest land masses around.

Nice to see that you’re still in charge of Belgium as well

hey that was a nice & refreshing video :D The flag isn't that bad steel! It's a lovely Kangaroo jumping toward the sun, looks pretty nice ^_^

I remember an aussie playthrough where I kicked Italy out of east Africa. Stole a German rail gun that was in british Somalia and named it THE BIG ONE. Occupied all of italian Libya and Sardinia. Then turned my army around to go kick Japan in the rice balls. That was a fun game.

Hey i got a challenge for you for the next video: play as Germany but you can only use horse divisions and you can edit them as you want templates to be.

Paradox: start a game from one of the interesting states! Interesting states: Australia, New Zealand

you can actually plan an invasion with just military access without joining their faction, you just need to plan an invasion from your country to theirs first, then plan the actual invasion (which is now possible), and then just delete the previous invasion and assign your units to the actual one

i know the saying a bit differently..."if its stupid but it works,.. its still stupid...you just got lucky" but great video ;)

I hate the together for victory DLC, besides the puppet mechanics that actually should be a part of the base game, it adds nothing valuable to the game.

@nategus1012

Жыл бұрын

paradox :)

@Havok0159

Жыл бұрын

And the puppet mechanics aren't even very good. You have no sort of say into how your puppet completes its focus tree, can't tell them to stop wasting their manpower on shit divisions, can't stop Bulgaria and Turkey from being snotty bastards that decide to form a faction while puppeted and break free just a few short years after being completely decimated. Can't force your puppet to give up claims on your own territory. Can't even manage their territory by giving them individual provinces you control or taking away provinces. At least they finally added the option to not give away your own cores when releasing a puppet after years of that being an issue. And there's also the inability for other countries to make puppets the way Germany and Italy can like the Reichskommissariats and Italian East Africa. France has the neat option to disunite Germany as the Third Empire, but otherwise you're stuck with existing countries. The compliance system could be used very well in such a system, making these reorganized countries gain cores only on getting compliance.

@tonyravioli1982

9 ай бұрын

They've gotten a lot better recently. I think every country should have a Focus tree like Italy, and Ethiopia. Its just so damn beautiful.

Together for Victory countries: Literally untouched for 7 years. Reminds me a lot of EU4 where 50% of the countries haven't been updated after missions were added.

HELLO bittersteel I would like to know how I can send one of these disaster safe thingies to you cuz I got a pretty bad game which needs saving.

As an Aussie in reality our biggest army is the Salvation Army. We have a few row boats and a bi-plane in a museum in questionable order. A few noisy cold war designed subs round out the defence force.

As an Australian, for what we were in regards to our accomplishments in ww2, I feel Australia has been neglected in hoi4. Just to name a few noteworthy accomplishments, the Royal Aussie Airforce at its peak had operated 6000 aircraft by 1944, placing it as 4th largest airforce by 1945. Australian bomber squadrons were among the first of the British overseas forces to recieve deployment to the European theater in 1939, and of course we'd been there for the British as it fought desperate battles over the skies of Great Britain. We also have the 'Scrap Iron Flotilla' of 5 Australian crewed destroyers, HMAS Waterhen, Vampire, Voyager, Stuart and Vendetta. In 1939, while being outdated 1918 models as Reichsminister for Public Enlightenment and Progaganda Herr Goebbels would put it; 'scrap iron', the scrap iron flotilla had got first blood on the Italian submarine fleet in their first deployment to the Mediterranean and sinking a handful of vessels. They'd participated in the Battle of Cape Matapan; the allied ships sustaining no significant losses while sinking Italian heavy crusiers, destroyers; also scoring significant damage to Italy's Battleship, the Vittorio Veneto. Other noteworthy engagements include their anti submarine and escort duties along the North African coast, the resupply of allied forces in Tobruk as well as the Vampire's service in the Pacific theatre. Of all the dangerous operations carried out by the scrap iron flotilla, only the HMAS Stuart and Vendetta survived. Don't forget that the Australian troops had fought well against Italian and German forces in the African campaign. The Aussies under the command of the British probably held the African force together since London and North African field command was getting into fights at the time when the axis forces outnumbered British forces by kilometers. Need I say, before Montgomery took command, nobody had any love for the apparently incompetent British officers. Apparently, the anzacs ran a bayonet charge into the position where Generalfeldmarschall Rommel was and the general took a picture of it that was recovered in his belongings. Honestly, Australia needs a rework that actually shows what we were capable of at that time. Australia may not be the main protagonist in the story but that doesn't mean we should be written off as being only useful for steel and tungsten. I'm not sure what interesting paths you could take for alternatives, but I suppose you could make it so that the Emu's overthrew the government as payback, or we could just declare war on Emu's and send them to Madagascar until it becomes too convenient to genocide the overgrown turkeys by sending them to the frontlines as meatshields that give big breakthrough, recon and hp to your divisons which should be powerful in the support companies/doctrine rework, or just the German kind of genocide. Another alternate could be a monarchist path where we put Michael Hastings aka australian man who claimed to be rightful heor to the British throne. With an infant Michael Hastings, we could partition King George to relinquish the throne or declare our own Head of State. Perhaps include a path for Australia to become successor to the British Empire under His Majesty, the sovereign monarch of Australia, Earl of Loudoun and rightful heir to the crown of England, Michael Edward Abney-Hastings the first. I reckon if we include an emu supremacy path, the player gets exclusive access to Australian fauna mounted divisions such as kangaroo mounts. However, if you go with Michael Hastings, he gives you access to exclusive units such as experimental battlecrusiers that were meant to be a hybrid of battleship and aircraft carrier. The British had planned the concept in 1917 with the HMS Furious. The first real attempts at building a battleship that could support fighter wings and big artillery guns to match that of the modern battleships was put into development in Japan but the most well known of these of the Yatamo class did not succeed due to torpedo bombing. However, whose to say that King Michael doesn't want to make one of those behemoths his personal flagship so perhaps he or rather his regent (he would be an infant) would be able to negotiate a deal with Gibbs and Cox, an American shipbuilding company that drafted plans for the concept that was never commissioned, and have them sent to Australia for development. More experimental units/equipment for Australia could be the Sentenel tank, Melvaine's Mobile Pill Box, Grasshopper Light Tank (Aussie Transformers), the Cossor Land Cruiser (a big tank shaped liked a dick), the Wirraway, the CAC-15 'Kangeroo', the CA-12 'Boomerang' and the CAC P-51 'Mustang' just to name a few Australian designs.

Oooooo knew bitt3rsteel video, haven’t watched it but I know it’s going to be good love your content bitt3r keep it up don’t burn out. :)

As an Australian and someone who usually only plays Australia, you have offended me good sir! haha great video as always!!

Out of all the things the soviets could have done in the japanese peace conference I'd really expected them to focus on taking at least south sakhalin and the kuril islands. Anyways, great run!

John Curtin is basically tf2 sniper

I bet Bittersteel is going to rant before every Commonwealth nation!!! Excited to see you play the Raj tho XD

I tapped this not knowing it was hearts of iron and was ready to lobby the government into sending a few drop bears to you

@N0tasava7

Жыл бұрын

I was gonna send it to Tride XD

If the enemy used naval bombers you should absolutely use antiair on carriers, as they're the first to be targeted and aa reduces the damage taken (so you spend less time in port repairing) It will also shoot down a couple of planes, but that's basically meaningless

I've been trying to get the "Australia-Hungary" achievement finished and, after a dozen failed runs, I can wholeheartedly agree that Australia has one of the shittiest focus trees IN THE GAME. It's maddening.

“Not carrier goodbye bomber” “Carrier naval bombers” “that reminds me”

Together for victory countries needs an update with baltic country style. Standart industry focus tree and unic political tree without any stupid requirement like world tension or being at war. Also recruitable population boosts would be really nice

@anon9469

Жыл бұрын

Or just... no stupid requirements. That'd bump them from "worse than default" to "at least passable".

@doctorwhat779

Жыл бұрын

@@anon9469 yeah but playing them with full potential would be better. For example India. Even without limitations its so under potential a peninsula like that rich history

@anon9469

Жыл бұрын

@@doctorwhat779 Paradox: we can't let India use more than 1/3rd of its manpower, it'd unbalance the game! Also Paradox: lol Britain can recruit as many Indians as they want if they just double down on colonialism hard enough.

The country of Australia doesn’t really suck... well... fair enough? At least we have free healthcare, and no starvation/water issues More the focus tree does, and yes, don’t let that stop you, think of it as a challenge

@lv9083

Жыл бұрын

🤓🤓🤓

@glauberglousger6643

Жыл бұрын

@@lv9083 🤓🤓🤓

Time traveler: Steps on a flower. The Timeline:

You can already sense that he is becoming more unhinged, just like ISP

Great editing

I always like the idea of playing an aggressive Australia or South Africa but it doesn't work

Bruh what was your infantry unit template, those guys were slicing through everything

By pumping out enough submarines, you can easily naval invade japan and puppet. Build factories then become integrated puppet. Then annex China, make sure 3 levels of collaboration government. Australia would then become an absolute beast.

This could be used to get Australia-Hungary, the long way around though. I never got the paradrop strat fully working

>Beats Japan because they had nobody to defend the homeland against naval invasion >Beats the rest of the world with nobody at home to defend a naval invasion

As an Australian, the title is Uhh… not pleasant but I’m happy to see you play the great commonwealth

Honestly, this is probably as close to meta for Australia as it currently gets, lmao.

You should get Coloured Puppets for future videos. It's Ironman-compatible and makes the overall map situation a lot clearer.

I remember trying Australia once thinking I could make a strong local navy and snatch south east Asia but uh...yeah the focus tree

"Never another Gallipoli" and ""we need expendable fodder" Bitt3rsteel...

*grumbles in Australian law and fact Inaccuracies*

I miss those days when bomber only Australia would get insane war score.

Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa all really need updates. Canada is actually ok still, especally since that beta patch where you can get their industry and manpower focuses at the same time

Bruh when i loaded the video my screen was upside down so Australia was upside down lol

Australia can be really fun. You can do some cheeky things like getting the USA into war in 1937

Bloody hell I was watching on my phone and thought that there was a problem with it during the first 10 seconds of the vid lol

I was expecting Austria but this is better

i think the best naval bombers are ones with guns too, im not sure tho. i just play battleships

I’m an Australian and seen the video title and got excited thinking it was a video ragging on australia not realising it was in fact a game 😂

Focuses locked behind world tension is easily the worst type of focus

it’s terrifying to hear a very experienced hoi4 player say “i don’t know” so many times