Conquered nation: finish it, go on kill me you coward. BitterSteel: *laughs* oh no death is too good for you, this is what I’m gonna do *proceeds to turn the conquered into an empty corpse on life support*

@idontlikerome2744

Жыл бұрын

Wrath of the Lich...i mean, Il Duce

@Baller474

Жыл бұрын

​@@idontlikerome2744 we all hate Rome, we get it

@AdmiralDevil

Жыл бұрын

​@IDontLikeRome as an Italian who has a score to settle with the li duce I understand

@emberfist8347

Жыл бұрын

Part of me feels sick looking at what he did. The other part wants him to do with the rest of the world map or at least one continent where every nation is one province.

The best part was when he said, “It’s Popeing time” and pope-ed all over Europe

@corslyn

Жыл бұрын

And then he said "I'm gonna pope !!"

Fun fact: in Southern Ethiopa, the AI tends to move that one troop on the eastern flank away. Give it a few days and you can walk into 3-4 provinces for free, sometimes going right to the airfield. Really speeds up that war.

When Bitter Steel uploads, it's always a good day not just for me, but for all of us except when it's about Italy

@greogis-hap5593

Жыл бұрын

yes

@VoidLaborator

Жыл бұрын

Right

@Hackee-fs9gh

Жыл бұрын

True

@Kelvin_Dnl

Жыл бұрын

agreed

@someonethatlikesyou7713

Жыл бұрын

True af

More and more Bitt3rSteel's Warhammer addiction grows, soon enough this will be a Warhammer channel.

@Bitt3rSteel

Жыл бұрын

Crap, he's onto me

@awesomebird1

Жыл бұрын

A Bubbles Zest and Bitt3rSteel collab' on hoi4 would be an absolute masterpiece, tanks to both of you for making this game funnier to play!

@blitzkrieg1941

Жыл бұрын

Lorgar did nothing wrong

@charluu1929

6 ай бұрын

​@@blitzkrieg1941Magnus did nothing wrong

@charluu1929

6 ай бұрын

​@@Bitt3rSteelwhen you post 40k content?

Can you do another collab with Hatless and Antasil but instead form the Czech entente on historical? You can use mods to spice things up and avoid touching the DoD focus trees if you choose to. I really enjoyed the Baltic Brothers video and I know plenty of others did aswell.

@irishguy051

Жыл бұрын

They should do a Belgium and The Netherlands historical Collab and defeat Germany. I've done it with one of my friends and it was a ton of fun.

@letsplaypetrus4802

Жыл бұрын

​@@irishguy051 Would Luxemburg be the third person?

@plebisMaximus

Жыл бұрын

I second this

@lazy9232

Жыл бұрын

hatless and antasil could be Netherlands or Luxemburg.Bittersteel should play his home country

@rosscalverley

Жыл бұрын

Hatless and Antasil have already done Belgium and Netherlands on elite difficulty.

I have an idea for a video: playing as Italy in 1936, set Germany tò go Monarchist and set Hungary tò reform Austria-Hungary (Monarchist too), then you go Monarchist and form a faction with them called "Renewed Triple Alliance" and then go tò war with the Allies and the Soviets

@kamladevi4500

Жыл бұрын

Another idea : Russia revives third rome Greece revives Byzantium Germany goes Holy roman empire route and italy also goes roman empire route . The challenge will be who restores the roman empire

@StockGoat

Жыл бұрын

@@kamladevi4500 That Is cool too

@andrewwaldschmitt4757

Жыл бұрын

​@kamladevi4500 Give the AI their buffs too, so that there is actually a challenge.

@StockGoat

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewwaldschmitt4757 That would be more of a reaction video like Drew does, but maybe Bit can be Greece since they are the most disadvantged.

@kamladevi4500

Жыл бұрын

@@StockGoat maybe like a multiplayer

the end of the video killed me when i saw the 60 requests of puppets wanting to join the war😂😂

Would love an updated Germany guide given the BBA update broke alot of the things in the no step back guide

@tagus100

Жыл бұрын

I think it still works fine. What about it was broken?

@TheEventHorizon909

Жыл бұрын

@@tagus100 sealion naval supremacy strategy doesn’t work anymore, and it lacks the airplane techs for BBA

@Toralen

11 ай бұрын

My attempt before BBA was perfect. Allies deleted before barbarossa. After BBA and it was a slog

Man, this video. The wars, the spies and collab governments, and the peace deals... filthy, absolutely filthy. I FREAKING LOVE IT. Bitter, my hat is off to you for your quality videos.

Bitt3rSteel didn't had the Papal Knights at his service, but at least he managed to find some... "eager volunteers"

Always a good day when Bittersteel uploads. Hope the family is doing well!

re: 14:05 "We do not want the British involved" To be filed under "when the mistake makes it better": I messed this part up, the Brits had the chance to guarantee Austria. Thanksfully I had gotten docking permission from the Germans on day one, so my fleet was in Germany, not stuck in the Mediterranean . Took France quickly as you do via paradropping, than with my navy in position invaded the UK. By this time all the others in the war had Allied up, so upon taking down the Brits I got Austria, Yugo, Romania, Czcgh-watever, and all the allies and their colonies/puppets. One trick is I always upgrade my prewar subs filling that empty spot with a mine layer. While at war with Ethiopia I start mining the English Channel, so invading is a snap (work really well for the Germans).

lightskin stare

@Baller474

Жыл бұрын

wth is this sus comment. your probaby a bot nvm

@irelandcountryedits416

Жыл бұрын

@@Baller474 sAyS ThE bOt LoL

@erupting2036

Жыл бұрын

SINNNNNNNNNNNN

@mrcleantrash2345

Жыл бұрын

​@@Baller474 balls

@bakuisimpartialtoemu

Жыл бұрын

🤨

One thing that puzzles me about Rome with the Pope in HOI4, is why the flag isn't the Chi-Rho (XP) sign. It would make much more sense with the Pope in charge

@EricBarbman

Жыл бұрын

Chi Rho is not a Roman/Papal symbol, it's in first place a Byzantine imperial symbol, although it may have been used into religious iconography per se : it's the Eastern Empire that presents itself as Christian worldy power, not the other way around : the religion that presents itself as a new earthly empire.

@b0ki459

3 ай бұрын

​@@EricBarbmanThe Chi Rho was first used by Constantine the Great, a Roman Emperor and even after the empire was divided the Western Romans used it until the fall of the empire. So it would make sense that the Catholic successor of the Christian Roman Empire would use the same symbols as said Empire

@EricBarbman

2 ай бұрын

@@b0ki459 There are countless options more "roman" and latin for a papal political/secular/imperial/symbol. Chi Rho, as a political symbol, is hellenistic. And I think I remember something about the Chi Rho being adopted by the oriental iconoclasts, which makes it even less occidental. In Rome, the Chi Rho is used marginally, as an apocalyptic iconography -> you can't make it less political. Any iconography linked to Peter (keys) or Paul (gladius) would be more latin and roman, therefore more papal. Or a theophanic iconography.

A strategy i personally use is to use the claims on yugoslavia from the foreign affairs branch (you'll need it for turkey and greece anyway) to get france paradropped, and instead of slogging through the balkans i go to war with the UK, which makes everyone join the allies (even turkey and greece, if you have time) and using the french navy i invade the uk. Doing this makes everything much faster and saves a lot of time and equipment :)

@wrcromartie

5 ай бұрын

this is the way

Bittersteel: we're gonna take the sudetenland back from germany! Also bittersteel: *gives sudetenland to his german puppet*

If you didn’t know, you can shift click when opening a new production line to bring it to the top, also, the Italian accent was top-notch.

This is great, I’ve been watching your Papal States video and the Roman Empire video and working out how best to do both. Hadn’t started yet so this video was perfectly timed! As I haven’t yet activated By Blood Alone, I’m unaware of what changes have been made since your last videos that meant you had to change strategy so much. Was it changes with the Balance of Power mechanic if you want to get rid of Mussolini? Not being able to annex?

Great guide ! I think I did even better than you by accident though. I followed every step very closely until the justification on Austria finished, and by lack of luck, they'd already been guaranteed by the UK as World Tension reached 25%. I figured, why not roll with it, and capped France before declaring on Austria. I then Sea-Lioned and since all the other countries I was at war with joined the Allies, I ended up having France, the UK, Yugoslavia, Romania, Austria and Czechoslovakia pupetted by the end of May 1937 !

@dougeberlin3633

Жыл бұрын

This saved me so much. I kept getting the Uk guaranteeing Austria. But you’re way is much better.

Holy cow, that was some good conquest

One thing I've noticed is that when you decline giving Bessarabia to the Soviets it only gives them a wargoal against Romania, meaning if you aren't Romania it doesn't matter. I play Italy alot attempting to get this achievement and I thought it might be helpful to know that, also love the video 👍

If you want to make the game go even faster, you can let the UK guarantee Austria -and just focus on paradropping the UK. You will have enough boats to protect your convoys and the UK usually has few garrisons to protect itself, and you puppet any nation you did casualties to.

Hope you've been doing well with the kids! Thanks for the lovely content!

I love your pronouncing of italian, i see you put effort in it which is very unlikely cos most of youtubers just say “this one” or “this focus” while you try to spell it out. So good job mate

perfect, been itching to do an Italy campaign

Day 1 of asking bittersteel to conquer the entire of Europe as Luxembourg on the hardest difficulty

IDK why but ive tried to do this like 10 more times and everytime without fail, Romania joins the allies and I get sucked into a giant war, this is in september 1937.

for real? was doing pope rome last week and didnt found any guide and now you are doing it haha

The best part of the video Is listen ti Bitt3rsteel tring to pronunce the italian name.

@laracroft8140

Жыл бұрын

ma davvero ahahahaa

I'd honestly go with the superheavy tank. you get a free research bonus for it with the pope line, and you can use it as support for your infantry to give them armor. Throw on rocket launchers and they get boosted by superior firepower doctrine, and these monsters make mincemeat out of basically anything they see. plus, papal states give a lot of bonuses to producing heavy and superheavy equipment.

34:41 "it isn't rocket surgery" lmao great malaphor

Great guide! Thanks for investing so much time in this. Just a short quesiton though: If you go full papal, what happens to the bonuses stacked on Vittorio Emanuele III ? Are they simply removed because you changed leader or are they transferred over to papa pio?

@Bitt3rSteel

Жыл бұрын

Good question!

@alessandrocupolo9843

Жыл бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel well, let us know if you find out! It would be pretty OP to be able to stack them

@Maethius78

Жыл бұрын

@@alessandrocupolo9843 they should get removed. you can actually get the pope almost a year earlier if you white peace Ethiopia; you get Struggle in Ethiopia , do the same as Bitt3rSteel focus wise down the papal tree and instead of waiting a year you can take Undermine the Duce and Conspiracies in the Shadows ; the second focus moves the Balance of power towards the Pope

i tried this myself and was having trouble getting the war goal to complete on austria before the UK would guarantee them. however, it turns out this makes everything substantially easier; just do the paradrop cheese on france before declaring on austria (you might need to wait until the justification nearly expires). then, once the UK gets pulled into the war by austria, the rest of the countries you're already at war with will get pulled into the allies. just use france's fleet to immediately naval invade britain, and you will get austria, czechoslovakia, yugoslavia, and romania for free without having to fight them at all. this might make certain achievements harder since it ends up screwing with the balance of power a bunch, but it's very fast to set up.

POV: UK and France leaving Africa 4:00

Goed bezig man, doe zo verder 👍🏻

"This isn't rocket surgery"

Can’t wait til you’re called up for service and lead Vatican City to victory

For me it worked better when i declared on Austria BEFORE the anarchist spawned. Idk if it generates more threat or changes somethign within the A.I. but it seemed to help in comparision to the runs before.

Hey BitterSteel, I have only subbed to your channel recently and I have never played HOI4, but I wonder if the following is possible (as a challenge): Would it be possible to form the EU when playing as the Netherlands, but you have to use bicycle infantry instead of foot infantry? You may still use armour, air, sea etc.; you just can't use people on foot. You can tell I don't know the game well, since I have no clue whether this is easy or impossible. ^^'

I was lucky enough to do these achievements in a run, where you could still use all the old tricks against France and Britain so I'm curious to see how much pain I spared myself from. Edit: This already looks a lot smoother, nevermind.

@somenorwegiankid7587

Жыл бұрын

Ouch

I don’t know if they fixed it, but make sure to abdicate to the king’s son before the pope takes over. There was a bug where the old king would die while the pope was in charge and his son would take over, even if the bar was all the way over to the pope

Love the Italian Space Marine Thumbnail ❤

If you shift and left click the production line starts at the top my friend.

That paradrop is so stupid and fun at the same time. I did it and it was the most fun i've had with the game so far.

That poland pocket for the Soviet. It made my jaw drop 😂❤

"The Pope? How many divisions does he have? WHAT?!"

What kind of background music do you use ? Its really nice

I got my wargoal on Austria done a day after world tension got to 25%, so what you can do is justify on someone like ireland that is close to britain just before the tension spikes to 25%, and britain wont have the pp to guarantee austria

I think this strategy needs an update for 2024 because I've done it a few times and it's not been productive. For me at least

I started playing the game very recently and I saw this guide . I’m so bad at this game on my 4th attempt it took me a year to invade Czechoslovakia but then for some reason got into civil war Looks like I failed again 😨 😂

@alpacasmafia9265

Жыл бұрын

Antasil's guide on getting the Roman Empire has a slightly easier strategy that's not as reliant on the early fights but you have to join a faction with Germany so you miss out on the achievement of protecting Austria

@1988_edits

Жыл бұрын

@@alpacasmafia9265 thanks I’ll look into it

@messer_sorgivo

8 ай бұрын

10TH run, fuck this game, one times the yugoslav are op, then spies get captured and france get fucked, once air forse is present, the other they destroy my paratroopers, and three times the fucking UK put guarantee on austria FFS. OH AND I DID NOT SEND VOLUNTEER IN SPAIN TO NOT RAISE THE FUCKING WORLD TENSION

I like how France capitulated because of two cities being invaded with paratroopers but on a disaster save held the Maginot, parts of the northern mainland and the colonies without capitulating

@Bitt3rSteel

Жыл бұрын

Both extremely powerful and laughably weak. The duality of France

as a new player amazing to watch

The Belgium Man has uploaded a great day to behold

omg yesterday i was hoping u would upload this lol. pls can u do a guide for ussr? maybe its just me, but it seems a lot more difficult than other majors, so a guide would be great

@kimjongun1348

Жыл бұрын

Get rid of the paranoia as soon as you can, once it gets up to 20 do the factory thing that reduces it and continue doing that, if need be, purge the navy. Do not do anything that messes with the army or air force, that is the worst thing that you can do. Get through the great purges as fast as possible and build up industry. I hope this helps a little bit!

@gingerbread101

Жыл бұрын

@@kimjongun1348 ty for trying, but i more meant once GPW starts. when trying yesterday, i could only push a little before 1944, then i couldnt push anymore

@kimjongun1348

Жыл бұрын

@@gingerbread101 I always go against Germany as fast as possible to make sure a grind like that doesn't happen, I'd have no clue how to help you there other than asking what division templates you're using.

@gingerbread101

Жыл бұрын

@@kimjongun1348 ah oke, dw abt it then

You didn’t give the Sudetenland back to Czechoslovakia. You monster

I tried this like 5 times on the hardest difficulty after seeing a shorts. Can’t believe the key to air superiority, is not having air superiority. Attempt 6 now LMAO. This time let’s focus on mega navy

Gave you strategy a couple of tries now and the UK always guarantees Austria at 24 per cent WT. Does the pope need Austria for anything other than to weaken Hitler?

Blessed Good Friday and Easter for everyone. Christus vincit. Christus regnat. Christus imperat.

I found a cheese to rush Pope. Those 2 focuses on the left side? Using one of those. Remember you cannot take those focus branches anymore if you are no longer fascist but you will keep their bonuses, the one is needed which is the left one, you only need to rush the second one (Believe, Obey, Fight) as this will unlock some useful advisor. Why you want those advisor? Some of them will push the balance of power to the left by 15, so you know what I am thinking. They are locked for a time but after you take Utilize the Blackshirt focus, you can hire those advisors so it's instant pope. The other branch unlocks a unique support company and recruitable population so you might want it as well, but it gives a permanent fascist tick so it might slow you down slightly. I prefer to do my conquest before the balance of power opens up though, because I don't have to re-annex everything, and yes that includes UK.

As an italian your pronunciation of the italian worlds Is to much funny😂😂😂 anyway great video!

@Bitt3rSteel

Жыл бұрын

I try

@laracroft8140

Жыл бұрын

un compatriota a guardare bittersteel hahahah?

hello bittersteel

@someone2538

Жыл бұрын

@@ourspolairealbinos thank you

First love your videos, between you and Feedback Gaming have really helped my own HOI4 playthroughs. On this I do have a couple of suggestions for others if they want to try this. First off, dont bother placing troops to defend Sardinia or any African territories against France, they will fold so quickly you just get any land taken right back, not worth the effort. Second, dont bother wasting time with collaboration government in France, it is not needed. Simply have 8 paratroopers hit 8 different victory points, including Paris obviously, and France falls in just a couple of days, no extra help needed. I have been experimenting with this in over 10 different play throughs now and the only time France did not capitulate right away was using less than 8 paratrooper units. Hope this helps save someone some time and better use of their resources.

you have the best videos

You know they are powerful when it’s a country ball space marine

Bro I just did the pope run for the first time yesterday, can’t be a coincidence 😳

just in time for Easter

What do you use for your background music?

love your italian accent

This video saved my marriage

Hello Bitt3rSteel, thank you making this excellent video. Can you please make a video on China in Road to 56, I tried a couple times and I failed. Thank you!

I think Im missing something here. I beat ethiopia quickly but never got a peace conference. War screen says they capitulated but i never got a chance to puppet any of them

"Soviet Raj" had me scratching my head for a bit.

Just because you played with Italy instant like

My headcanon is that Mussolini was finally deposed for not taking Savoy, Corsica, and Provence in the war against France.

34:40 😂”Rocket Surgery”

27:53 The real memey thing to do would be to leave Spain as a puppet on the Balearic Islands while annexing the rest of their territory.

Can you please do a guide for the holy, roman and an empire achievement? I think that would be interesting.

@SnakeOfficial

Жыл бұрын

he did it in this video?

@raippakeisari2342

Жыл бұрын

@@SnakeOfficial No he didn't. HRE is formed by non-alligned Germany with Kaiserin Victoria in power.

Challenge: Restore the austro-hungarian empire as Czechoslovakia released by Poland in 1939

My advise is, to get the pope and IMMENDETLY, go back to vittorio. Because he is the faaaar better leader (yes, this is possible), then you got the pope tree + the better leader.

Žilina is read as ZHI-li-na. the [zh] sound is the same as the J sound in (British) Raj

Hi ! I don't know if you noticed but your air numbers are exactly the same as the enemy's throughout the video. I think it's a bug that occurs when you send air volunteers to Spain.

@Bitt3rSteel

Жыл бұрын

Interesting!

If only Italy did this irl, paratrooping France and making collab governments and timing their wars. History would've been different!

Bittersteel im going to to say thank you! Literally wasted 3 hours yesterday for the pop achievement and 2 hours this morning. I will now be using your follow route for it now

@Bitt3rSteel

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

You can actually puppet a country for each state

Hope your family is doing well

18:44 I didn't think a landlocked country had ports 🗿

@shodstew

Жыл бұрын

he said forts

I did this too, but my timing was a little off, and the UK guaranteed Austria. I just naval invaded and paratrooped the UK from northern africa and killed all of the minors that way.

Hey Bittersteel, just wanted to ask if your division template video is still up to date. I recently got the game and am struggling with when to build what kind of template

I have troubles doing it, could you realease a more uneddited single run cause the time jumps really screw me over and cause me to lose 10 - 35 hours trying to fill the holes...

That little Purple Russia puppet at the end!

Okay so I messed up the timing with Austria and the UK but I wonder if it's that big of a deal? What I ended up doing is : - Cap France before declaring on Austria. - Prep the invasion of the UK from Puppet France in Calais toward Dover and Portsmouth (+ nearby tiles). - Moved ASAP the captured fleet of France and Italy's fleet in northern France. - As soon as both are ready declared on Austria. - Austria, Romania Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia will all join the Allies. - At the same time the invasion is started and should be succesful. - Rush the UK to cap. - Now the Allies immediately surrender since the other countries that joined are not major. - Puppet everything. I'll admit I missmanaged the war with Germany as it ended up in a grind of Bratislava since I didn't plan correctly (although their Air Force is pretty much gone). Not sure if it's easier to do this way.

As a Michigander, I'm dying laughing at 38:20, on behalf of the entire Midwest, good enough man

the papal world wars nice lol

I realize I'm catching this video eight months late, and will confess to still being pretty new to HOI4 so no expert. But, the paradrop that led to the capitulation of France felt pretty cheesy. Is this a bug or an exploit? I think BitterSteel mentioned something about not sending air to France, "if you don't send, the AI wont either," something like that? Anyway, love the videos! Just looking for a guide on playing Italy in BBA. Thanks again for the work!

@Locke-pi4ql

5 ай бұрын

Basically France starts with a debuff called disjointed government that lowers the victory points they need to lose to capitulate so if you cap paris and a few other places you can capitulate them really easy

@BiesGorielyj

3 ай бұрын

Dude, hoi4 is a very broken game, and I didn't mean bugs. And yeah, using the paradrop outside of singleplayer is considered G A У, so don't do that

how many language "dialect" do you know? cuz from the 4 videos I've seen: Deutsche ✔ Italian ✔ish Ex: 2:54-5:33 good 3:20 and others mhe a little difficult but I've heard worst btw very nice videos earned a new subscriber bravo!

Instructions unclear: It is 30 May, 1937, and the original 5 countries to justify are my puppets, in addition to the UK and their colonies

As a challenge idea: Let ChatGPT give you the division, ship and plane designs

I have a question:if you do "defeat mussolini "in the focus tree and then you do the roman empire mussolini will return?

That was the fastest France surrender I've ever witnessed😂😂😂😂