That moment when Poland and Hungary got their Habsburg paths before Austria

@dantemcmillan6337

11 ай бұрын

Yup I saw him pull up the focus tree first minute into the video and I was confused, at this point I would’ve been totally okay with bitter using Road to 56 for certain countries. Because Austria not having a proper focus tree is downright fucking disgusting.

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

True, but I appreciate a challenge

@kniazjarema8587

11 ай бұрын

@@dantemcmillan6337 This game will be close to 10 years soon. The fact that austria, sweden with norway and (I think) whole south america does not have a unique focus true is like you said, downright fucking disgusting. You pay 20-30$ for a dlc, and all you get is focus tree up to 2-3 countries. And don't give me the "paradox can support hoi4 thanks to this" crap. It helps, but this amount of money for so little is no laughing matter. mods can give you better focus trees, and much, much more for free. Why can't just paradox contact them, and work with them? literally no reason to give money to paradox at this point, they are so anti consumer.

@RandooGaming

11 ай бұрын

​@@kniazjarema8587exactly this. This is why I never buy dlc full price and I would pirate them if I knew how

@theholydoggo6378

11 ай бұрын

​@@dantemcmillan6337 I agree, Switzerland and Ethiopia getting focus trees before Austria and Belgium is fucking horrendous

It blows my mind that Switzerland got a tree but Austria has to live with the generic one while two other countries can get Habsburgs.

@plebisMaximus

11 ай бұрын

To be fair, they exist entirely to be eaten by Germany.

@drew17210

11 ай бұрын

262 likes and no comments? Let me fix that

@ancaoraathasach

11 ай бұрын

@@drew17210 Thanks!

@terrarossa879

11 ай бұрын

Switzerland tree is so offputting when playing as them or when playing against them, on ahistorical they usually get half of my Italian puppets for free its kinda revolting

@drew17210

10 ай бұрын

@@ancaoraathasach it now has exactly 100 more

Austria explaining why it can’t proclaim the rebirth of Austria-Hungary because they lost a single city out of thousands:

@Barwasser

9 ай бұрын

"It... just doesn't feel right, you know?" - Archduke BitterStahl von Habsburg, 1939

Haha! That emotional rollercoaster of losing czech occupation and then getting it back, awesome!

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

Wanted to flip my desk at that point

@catfacecat.

9 ай бұрын

​@@Bitt3rSteelI love watching you suffer more than isp there

A thing you can do to avoid germany getting a lot of war score is disabling supply for your allies in supply map mode, which will make germans refuse to have divisions on the frontline

@J7Handle

11 ай бұрын

Won’t stop the Sudetenland thing though.

Austria-Hungary may have been a failed state, but it just looks nice on the map i dont know how to describe it. it just feels correct in the space

@ivanvladimir0435

11 ай бұрын

1-Yugoslavia is ugly 2-Romania is ugly

@neverburstx4638

9 ай бұрын

True

@theemperor-wh40k18

7 ай бұрын

It was a failed state AT thé end or ww1. Before that it functioned.

@KayJay01

7 ай бұрын

Aren't all defunct states by definition "failed" once they can't control their own territory? How was Austria-Hungary any more of a failed state than, for example; the German Empire (and then the German Reich), Russian Empire (and then the Soviet Union), Kingdom of Denmark-Norway (and then the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway), Roman Empire, Holy Roman Empire, the many forms of Spain over the years, the many French Republics/Empires, etc.? These all lasted for a long time until some revolution happened to where it couldn't continue existing and became some other form with different territory.

@benjaminphelps561

7 ай бұрын

@@KayJay01 yes, that was my meaning of it, i couldve worded it better in hindsight

Seyss-Inquart should 100% have a portrait in-game considering he's also one of the Reichskommissariat leaders.

@Hilter420

11 ай бұрын

Same with Egelseer because Germany gets him as a general (a good one at that) and then you have this generic guy in the middle of unique german portraits sticking out like a sore thumb

@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva

11 ай бұрын

@@Hilter420 I'm incredulous as to whether Germany would need another "rework," but they 100% need a "tune-up" like the Together For Victory countries got. More portraits, more flavour, maybe some minor improvements to a few focuses like Form the RKs so you could have more puppets like Bohemia-Moravia and the General Government.

@32Vache

11 ай бұрын

Well for a fact if Austria gets fascist without getting Anchlussed, and Germany makes Reichkommissariat Niederlande, Seyss-Inquart will be in charge of both but will only have a portrait on the kommissariat.

@TSnake1982

11 ай бұрын

Arthur Zes en een Kwart was Hitler’s man in the Netherlands, so it is strange that he has a generic portrait. Also Ernst Kaltenbrunner with generic photo, same as Rendulic I think.

@shadelampsofficial

11 ай бұрын

@@Hilter420 hes actually the character of the default guy

austria:denies the anschluss bad moustache guy:oh no anyway...*proceeds to invite to faction

Fun fact, Seys-Inquart was the governer of the occupied Netherlands in WW2. We called him "Zes en een kwart" or "Six and a Quarter" this joke was made because he walked really limp, almost like one of his legs were much larger then the other.

I struggle doing Austria-Hungary as Hungary, and this mf does this as Austria. You earned a like

@toddbussey5718

11 ай бұрын

Heh, I came up with the basic strategy and Bitt3rSteel improved upon it .

@Kioskettoh

7 ай бұрын

exactly what i was thinking the whole time i was watching the video xD

@MajinObama

6 ай бұрын

Me doing Austria for years 💀 I only have Waking the Tiger and Battle of the Bosporous sooo... no spy stuff or whatever etc. . I even managed to ally with Italy against them twice, holding the 2 tiles at the Mountain Range left and right, but it doesn't work! Italians are so bad somehow 😭 I would never start from Hungary. Doesn't fit

@Kioskettoh

6 ай бұрын

if you have discord i can help you with a dlc unlocker, since its so expensive i just cracked the dlcs@@MajinObama

I would've recommended playing Austria with the rt56 focus

@ThatOneMedic

11 ай бұрын

There’s also a mod named “Dreams of Austria” where you can remake the Austrian and Austro Hungarian Empires. ( The HRE too )

@christoperwallace6197

11 ай бұрын

That would invalidate the whole point of the list. Which is to play the base game A to Z.

@mark2.057

11 ай бұрын

@@christoperwallace6197 but he played a mod with argentina

@KayJay01

7 ай бұрын

He stated in previous episodes that he could play with mods, and did so with Argentina.@@christoperwallace6197

My guess is that after we get the Nordic countries we will get a germanic dlc with Belgium, Austria, improved Germany and maybe even Luxembourgish focus trees

@sebe2255

11 ай бұрын

Luxemburgish? Lol Besides Austria should have been a part of the latest one

@ImJustAKwimpOfficial

11 ай бұрын

@@sebe2255 yeah but they didnt now did they?

@user-vi1qz5um4i

11 ай бұрын

they never exactly said that Austria wouldn't receive one in this one, so maybe since austria is a snowy mountain country, they'll give Austria a tree along with the nordics? idk.

@aidenbooksmith2351

11 ай бұрын

i doubt Austria will get a tree. The right time to give Austria a focus tree was in Death or Dishonor or By Blood Alone. Same for Albania, who was skipped THREE times: Death or Dishonor (they're next to Yugoslavia), Battle for the Bosporus (they're next to Greece), and By Blood Alone (they're connected to Italy)

@KayJay01

7 ай бұрын

Nordic (apart from Finnish) is Germanic btw :) So is English... And Belgium is more Dutch and French than German. Only the tiny territory ceded to Belgium after WW1 is ethnically German. More Dutch people speak German as their native language than in Belgium... Germanic is a language family, German is a specific language. The areas we typically consider German are part of the High and Low German language groups (which does not include Belgium) And you forgot about Alsace-Lorraine (modern day Alsace-Moselle) in France, which is a majority High German area, and Trentino-Alto Adige (southern Tyrol) in Italy, also a majority High German area. Both of these areas are bigger (Just Trentino-Alto Adige in Italy has over a million people, compared to the 77,000 in Belgium) than the tiny part of Belgium that is majority German...

Pro tip: in case your troops are pinned by enemy, and you have an EMPTY enemy tile that you wanna take (expl: zagreb was empty, enemy was pinning you), you could do some cheese to circumvent the pinning, first pause the game, then fallback/retreat your troop into your own territory, once you have the retreat arrow shown, right click on the empty enemy tile you want to take, this will make your division 'retreat' into the enemy territory and voila it's yours

@theorange1729

11 ай бұрын

But wouldn't that make you not actually control the tile you've walked onto? I've had many instances of my troops standing on enemy territory after retreating onto it.

@night9o283

11 ай бұрын

@@theorange1729 That happens to me sometimes but if you unpause the game for a few hours the tile will swap to you

@kakhasukhitashvili5617

11 ай бұрын

​@@theorange1729 click and that same tile with that division and it will occupy it

this run is symbolic for every hoi4 achievment game im playing. Just some weird A.I. thing happening everytime screwing me over.

I been waring ages for this but another great video Bitt3r 🎉good job 👍

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

@Mr_Fridge

11 ай бұрын

I did . (Very good video)thanks for replying

i was hoping you gonna do austria in road to 56, but this is awesome video too

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

Maybe one day!

When I play Austria, I always use between two giants because it has a huge focus tree that has a bigger focus tree than any other country. It has basically any path that you can think of and it is extremely fun, but most are hard because of Germany

*A Good Austria-Hungary run never gets old.*

we all love to see a bitt3rsteel upload ! would have enjoyed seeing a "survive against anschluss run" tho

If austria gets a focus tree I would love an option to form the holy roman empire in the tree

I love it when you show how to play minor nations with the generics

Austria has a generic tree!? Wow... Paradox needs to get on that stat

Bittersteel never fails to fill me up with happiness

Cant wait for the next episode with A for Alf Landon

You actually ended that game in a prime position to be a scenario where someone could play any side of the war.

@ivanvladimir0435

11 ай бұрын

I would also think of one that includes France which is right after he got control of ostrava

loving the series

You just gained a sub because of playing Austria in HOI4 ❤️

24:44 The amount of stress that you get playing hoi4 is sometimes bigger than the dopamine levels, its not worth it, but we keep playing.

New Bittersteel video, Best Saturday ever!!!

And the goat is back

Bro Austria is simply biggest bird

2:38 "I need men, a lot more men" -Bitt3rsteel

Merci!

ISP: puts mods to have fun Bittersteel: hold my bear

@ivanvladimir0435

11 ай бұрын

*proceeds to suffer*

I came here to see if there was a way to hold Austria against Germany This was better than what I wanted haha

I was hoping for Austrian Australia but that was freking awesome, 10/10 video

One thing you can do to prevent Germany from taking any land in the war against Yugoslavia is deny your allies access to your supply. This, I believe, will keep than from walking through your controlled territory, meaning they can't get into Yugoslavia. Unless of course they start some sort of naval invasion all the way from northern Germany all the way down into the Mediterranean. Or use paratroopers.

You earned yourself a subscription

Fun Fact: Kurt Schuschnigg (Leader of Austria from 1934 to 1938) was also a fascist, with an similar symbol to the hakenkreuz, the Kruckenkreuz(Shown on the Flag when he flipped fascist). The dude actually shown as leader of the fascist party, Arthur Seis-inquart, was the leader of the austrian supporters of the ndsap, which basically wanted to be annexed by Hitler and Germany.

I got here the moment notification appeared, let's go!

Today is a big day! Why? I subbed 🎉

Soo about the ostrava thing it was owned by Germany at 24:14 wich is why the whole thing flipped to them. Also vichy France is based on if Germany gets Paris.(unless thats been changed.)

22:54 LETSGOOO its beautiful oh wait actually, that makes this a grindfest...

Do you plan on playing any mods soon? ISP did A to Z base game, Stakui is doing Kaiserredux A to Z.

Nice 👍

I think the latter part counts as you fixing your own disaster run

I like all of your vidios about Hearts of Iron 4, and I think it would be funny if you try a challenge to all the America as the Empire of Brazil 😂

i dont know if bitter steel realized, but you can avoid germany getting war score by disabling allied supply on your supply hubs. the ai moves their troops away when this happens.

well done

0:00 you can practically hear the suffering and we're still in As

Ngl sometimes I watched these videos just for the calming music.

It is so sad that you only have 160k subs, you deserve as many as ISP 👍

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

Maybe one day!

@darthscotchy471

11 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel hey, atleast all of reddit knows you as the guy to send your disaster saves to!

Once one of the great empires to now reduced to some mountains

Maybe Paradox is reserving Austria's Focus Tree to come alongside Germany's rework?

@diegoyqulki

11 ай бұрын

Please yesssss...

@anuszbizsergetokommentek2171

10 ай бұрын

I hope they are gonna rework Hungary, romania and czechoslovakia alongside germany. Thos trees are outdated.

APPROVE THE PAINTERRR

Nice

Actually the german civil war is something i always force when playing with UK, I land on Hamburg and then push a lil bit but I think it only happens in 1938 when you dont give the sudetenland

I love how he pronounce droboja drobeze

Could you play Austria-Hungary in The Great War Redux Again? The whole focus tree got remade in the latest update

Either I'm doing it wrong or sadly the 'Call arms then ignore Anchluss' trick doesn't work anymore - each time I try it it immediately turns into Germany declaring war which... Isn't ideal. I mean I'm probably doing it wrong (I am a turnip, after all) but yeah... At least I get to see it work through your vids, still

@sollumi3014

4 ай бұрын

pretty sure it still works. you need to be in germany faction and have germany called to arms. i think you need 1-2 days before the game realises, only then refuse also immediately join the faction again btw, bc germany still have the wargoal on you, the trick is to be im the faction. refusing amshlauss kicks you out. if you dont answer that popup om the top of the screen quick, germany is gonna attack anyway

What mod you using to get these extra researches on Industrie,planes,tanks, and the stuff in the Officer Corp? And what mod you using to Design your planes,Tanks,Ships ?

@sollumi3014

4 ай бұрын

its the dlc content

First from Romania! Great Video! (haven't watched it yet lol)

@quasario

11 ай бұрын

13th

I see the paradrop counts is because it counts as a move action and not an attack order from the mikitary access country

You really should finish this campaign after the emotional roller-coaster that was the Czech disaster

Respect that you said Ljubljana correctly.

How did Germany end up in a civil war?

@tokul76

11 ай бұрын

Munich does not happen, Czechs fight for their country and Austrian mustachio gets assassinated. I think it is The Oster Conspiracy event and 33% chance of getting that ending. Historical focuses probably went to the toilet once Anschluss failed.

@Dumbo8234

11 ай бұрын

@@tokul76 thanks!

@mbos14

11 ай бұрын

I think they didnt press the war against the checz when they where denied.

If you are an axis nation and need a navy, conquer Vichy because i think they inherit the french fleet, just don't forget to have some troops in Africa because they have some cores there

yooo this shits wicked yooo

Will you ever do disaster saves for mods? I have a disaster save from Equestria at War...

As a person who plays a aoc2 mod as austria i can confirm its pretty hard in every game to play as austria

cool

Concentrated seems to be the best as the trade off is bomb vulnerability it if your a major power just build planes but as a small nation you need the extra boost to production so dispersed just seems like a bad trade off no matter what

@Bitt3rSteel

19 күн бұрын

The strength of dispersed is in the efficiency retention actually. You keep more efficiency whenever you switch production. That's what makes it strong

"Artillery is the lifeblood of the army." Napoleon probably.

28:57 if I am not mistaken to trigger the event of the creation of Vichy France, it's necessary that Germany controls only the province of Paris

Good

Wait I thought of an idea how about you do world conquest for where you left out on every other HOI4 game so you can basically world conquest everyone

Wasn't there a focus tree for Austria that allowed the Habsburgs before? Or was that a mod instead of DLC and I got mixed up?

@HawkThunder907

11 ай бұрын

I'm confused too.

@wojtekpolska1013

11 ай бұрын

there is one for Hungary. Austria never had a tree at all, it uses the default minor country tree

@HawkThunder907

11 ай бұрын

@@wojtekpolska1013 thank you

at the begging i didnt think u'll even get close but... yea. congrats

They updated Austria-Hungary with a new focus tree in Great War redux

I have to learn for my a levels but here Iam

9:42 damn you almost paradroped on me

I really hope they give Austria some love after the arms against Tyranny dlc

22:53 it’s like the AI was trying to help you but accidentally made it worse

You used commands to trigger that german civil war

23:51 I assume it's weird mechanics still, but actually no, Germany controls Ostrava here, though it is your unit in the tile.

Holy hell

i need tips how do i get the countries to be like rn irl

try make the PlanZ with ONLY historical ships, whitout taking navy of other nations

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

There shall be an attempt!

There's a way to save yourself from Germany doing the Sudetenland focus. The Czechs can't control Prague. Well the state Prague is in, but you need Prague for that. This bypasses the focus for Germany. I don't know if this still works as I haven't touched Austria Hungary since BBA became the worst dlc.

i hope Austria gets a focus tree!

how do you get that german civil war event?

Ah “I need more men” -Bitt3rSteel

Did a historical run with my friend I was Germany and it was Austria hungry under me with Czechoslovakia in it too and I almost lost a war to them

If you’re looking to just make Austria annex German and prolly others and not Austria Hungary what I do is go fascist all the way down to the one that lets you make factions, improve relations with Italy and when Germany declares war invite Italy to faction Hungary and Romania will join faction if you play your cards right and defend until allies declare then just grind Germany down until u annex everything

What mod do you use to steal navy?

Ok, so why did Germany go into civil war? I was trying to figure out if there is a point in 1936-1938 were a Spies or sneakily politics could destabilize Germany enough to slow down their foucs tree progression. IE to get Spain a bit more time to build up and attack France or as Balkan nation a bit more time to build up before WW2 kicks off. Did somehow blocking anschluss and calling them into war lower stability enough to cause a civil war? Can that be duplicated by other nations?

@toddbussey5718

11 ай бұрын

Czechs were part of the Allies faction so when Germany sent the Demand, they told Hitler where to go and how to get there because they were backed by the UK and France. Germany was left with two options: declare war on the Allies or back down. In the latter option, Hitler shows weakness and his internal enemies try to remove him which can start a civil war. Germany backed down and chaos ensued.

25:09 Germany had the city itself, the only VP out of most of the VPs needed to control a State. Petty I know, but that's what happened.

How do you get the additional demands?

Whatch is the DLC or Mod that add the option to form Austria-Hungry as Austria or Hungry and Persia as Iran,or the ones with Greece and Afganistan?

@aidenbooksmith2351

11 ай бұрын

Austria Hungary is from Death or Dishonor. Greece can form all its nations in Battle for the Bosporus and Iran/Afghanistan get their Persia formable from the same DLC

Try austria in rt56, they get a pretty big focus tree with a whole separate tree dedicated to the Habsburgs

@Cbrown161

5 ай бұрын

(and you can form the HRE)