Fun Fact: If you ever want to find a Belgian in a crowd just talk about Liege, the Belgian will immediately attempt to call it a shithole. It's just a fact of their biology, an involuntary reaction.

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

To be fair, it's a shit hole

@canardbelge

11 ай бұрын

I think you meant Charleroi

@legitplayin6977

11 ай бұрын

Which is funny because every city apart from Brussels is a shithole

@catito2958

11 ай бұрын

Ah, so much like how to find a Norwegian you need simply talk about Drammen. I see.

@Finn_the_Cat

11 ай бұрын

It's also the place where the germans were held up in ww1 delaying them and giving the french more time to prepare so liege is probably the reason ww1 was an entente victory

The day Belgium gets a focus tree is the day Bittersteel becomes the happiest hoi4 KZreadr

@Worgrunner

11 ай бұрын

Aaaah, just wait for the traits and effects that come with the rework. Massive debuffs to fortifications. Aircraft unable to take off for the first 18 days of the war. Huge penalties to attack and breakthrough. Unrest and oppression in Congo. Fleeing civilians nerfing your division movement speed. :P

@t_gabiuel6058

11 ай бұрын

The man is truly a patriot.

@RNKel1

11 ай бұрын

@@WorgrunnerFlanders and Wallonia tension 😬

@pannik_lucas

11 ай бұрын

​@@WorgrunnerI'm intrigued by the last debuff :o can you elaborate? Edit. I remember reading some of Rommel's diaries where he wrote about fleeing civilians amongst the French forces, but I don't know so much about the rest of the Benelux

@MorshuArtsInc

11 ай бұрын

@@Worgrunner Not to forget some balance of power bs, because apparently we cannot live without that anymore.

PDX trolling Belgians by adding Dutch and Danish focus trees before doing anything to Belgium.

@legitplayin6977

11 ай бұрын

Good, hope Luxembourg gets a focus tree before Belgium does

@canardbelge

11 ай бұрын

​@@legitplayin6977why do you hate belgians so much ?

@careywilliams3619

11 ай бұрын

Probably Dutch

@TamiGeorge-vs1ug

11 ай бұрын

Belgium? What even is a Belgian ?

@corentincaspers8229

11 ай бұрын

I mean, is belgium real ? Is bittersteel real ? Are you real ?

"angry German noises"

@timmyroadto5070

11 ай бұрын

Oh no panzerkamp wagen come to belgium

@PsychoMax

11 ай бұрын

Fühle ich

@Space_Pugglz

11 ай бұрын

@@timmyroadto5070 Panzer Selbstfahrlafette I für 7,62-cm-PaK 36(r) auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf. D1 und D2" ? (Marder II SdKfz 132) "Sturmgeschütz neuer Art mit 7,5-cm-PaK L/48 auf Fahrgestell Panzerkampfwagen IV" (Jagdpanzer IV SdKfz 162) "Selbstfahrlafette für 15 cm schwere Panzerhaubitze 18/1 auf Geschützwagen III/IV (Sf) (Hummel Sd Kfz 165)

@alexasobu7592

11 ай бұрын

​@@PsychoMaxdich, baby

@MohabWali08

11 ай бұрын

"Angry Wilhelm II Noises"

This was such a great video! As a fellow Belgian, i was proud to serve the nation and to serve my general, my leader, the mighty Bittersteel! I was also abit dissapointed when paradox announced they were going to do the scandinavian countries instead of giving Belgium finaly the glorious focus it deserves, but we'll keep on hoping :)

@kaspergast2276

11 ай бұрын

Leve België! Vive la Belgique!

24:48 The sheer fact that They have the most units in Dunkerque and they all get encircled and died is just...

@rost123lav

11 ай бұрын

literally historical ai on

@anomonyous

22 күн бұрын

Ahh. Duinkerke. Or more accurately Duunkerke. Wonder when the French will decide to give that back. Who, me? Salty? Never. What do you mean I'm not allowed to gather massive tank regiments at the border. Free country, innit?

My favourite western province of ALBANIA🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

@VictorCrtn

11 ай бұрын

Wdym

@privatecanook

11 ай бұрын

@@VictorCrtnAlbania owns all 🇦🇱

@VictorCrtn

11 ай бұрын

@@privatecanook you wished

@MattIsGaming1

11 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@VictorCrtnAlbania used to own the world but gave it back cause they are nice 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

@VictorCrtn

11 ай бұрын

@@MattIsGaming1 no💀

Loved when he belgiumed all over the map

@arteriacoronaria6058

2 ай бұрын

Im subscribed to you

I Hope, when they finally add a focus tree for Belgium, that they call the DLC Bitter Steel

@ferdinandfichte9077

11 ай бұрын

Sour Iron

May the Emperor be with you, Brother from Belgium. Actually there is a mod that allows you to use space marines and all that stuff, called Unification Wars. It is still in beta, but it just had a really big update. Would love to see a playthrough on this amazing channel.

@ONI_002

11 ай бұрын

that would be amazing! i love that mod

I feel like there’s some bias with this nation being the greatest🤔😂

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

That's a damned lie!

@luigi6409

11 ай бұрын

Lol

@cptcatf1sh

11 ай бұрын

Dutch slander

@supermaximglitchy1

10 ай бұрын

both his name and this country’s name start with a B

@anomonyous

22 күн бұрын

@@cptcatf1sh HEAR HEAR! Damn pseudo-Germans are spreading propaganda again.

Bongo Bongo who is ready to lose their hands in the Congo?

@EgggyBoi

3 ай бұрын

Me

@AtomicSandwich125

23 күн бұрын

Bongo bongo bongo I don’t wanna leave the Congo no no no no no no

Bittersteel back to making his homeland achieve greatness and make him proud!

I get the sinking feeling as I hear Bittersteel say: "I'm ignoring air, because I can do nothing in the air". Like I'm sure that's the line uttered near the start of about 70% of the disaster saves he gets, and the reason why they ended up disaster saves. Like that Belgian one. Heck just from my own experience even having something like 200 quality fighters sticking it out against seemingly overwhelming odds makes a huge difference compared to "I completely gave up even contesting the skies".

@buddermonger2000

11 ай бұрын

Tbh yeah. Just having them on low intensity and making sure they try not to die

You have made us belgians proud💪🏻🇧🇪

@TheTanveerGaming

11 ай бұрын

"*Blitzkrieg*"

@realawesomeos

7 ай бұрын

he is Belgian as well

@MaximilienRobespierre-kw4rt

3 ай бұрын

@@TheTanveerGaming…

Bitter reminiscing on those Leopold II days huh 😂

Yeah I had no idea how easy it was to get 50 factories as Belgium by simply invading France. That's all you have to do and its pretty much gravy after that. Belgium is seriously OP.

Ah yes, my favorite Hearts of Iron A2Z youtuber - iBelgianProductions

I have figured out about your channel recently and this is the most recent video I have watched coming from your channel man may I say! You are one hell of a KZreadr. You've earned yourself a well deserved like and subscribe and from now on every video I will watch from your channel will be liked ❤

"Why don't the people just listen to me? I know what's best!" Literally every tyrant in history.

this guy is so underrated, keep up the good work youre the reasone why l started playing this game and why l'm getting good at it!

I actually just did my first Belgian game this week, going after their one achievement. I too went commie and took the rest of the low countries, but i decided to call it quits there, once I had the netherlands factories added to my own. This was a pretty cool run to watch :)

Nice video I really enjoyed it!!

Hi Bittersteel, a nice tip is that you dont need AT against germany in singleplayer beacuse AA has enough hard attack a piercing to pierce the german tanks even in the endgame you dont need it beacuse advanced AA has like 90 piercing which is enough and you could have gotten more units out by war... Great video tho, keep doing what you are doing, they are really fun to watch

Always a good day when Bitt3rSteel uploads

Best A-Z video so far. Well done.

Hey there Bitter, just want to let you know I watch ur vids alot. I bought the game and played bc of you. But now I'm homeless, but I watch your videos on myphone for comfort. you help me lower my anxiety so I can sleep. I really appricate you more than you know! Hope one day I can find your discord when I get a place to play.

Merciiiii Dankuuuuuuu Danke schön! Finally The Belgium Video !

Waited all day for you to upload lol

24:53 I'm surprised you didn't notice you managed to do historical dunkirk, good on you

My mind was blown when I learned why it was called the BeNeLux

11:36 your leader and field marshal look very similar. Are they twins😂?

4:21 any french absolute monarch ever:

"Why don't people listen to me? I Know best" Every dictator every in history

Red Belgium = Waffles with strawberries

Heck yeah ! Back to A to Z :)

ah yes mighty Belgium

Certified "I'm not stuck in here with you. You are stuck in here with me!" moment.

13:10 You could give a reteat order to the units which are being pinned into another one of your tiles and then change that retreat order to go into the enemy tile you want to take. That allows you to just ignore pins.

@joebidengaming6329

11 ай бұрын

this is my favorite thing in the game i hope its not an expolit. makes the spanish civil war a lot easier

@149739

11 ай бұрын

Dont rlly understand how this works. you right click on an adjacent tile, and then right click onto the enemy tile that you want to enter? thats it?

@joebidengaming6329

11 ай бұрын

@@149739 yes. it should allow you to continue moving you need to control 2 tiles for it to work

@eisbergsyndrom5010

11 ай бұрын

@@149739 Yup. That's it. When you get pinned just say no. The enemy legally cannot hold you in one location without your consent.

Feedback and BitterSteel upload on the same day? What a treat!

"We dont talk about Congo no no no"

Dude I was going for the Austria Hungary achievement, killed the Allies, got my stuff in the peace deal and the game crash, my soul was crushed

Thanks to you I dowloaded Hearts of Iron 4 because while you play it it seems too fun, I now watch your videos like a tutorial video,Keep up the good work.

@Bitt3rSteel

10 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!

I would love to see you try a "maintenance" only run. A while back I did a greece campaign and the equipment captured from the axis endlessly attacking was giving me more equipment thanmy factories (+ the added reliability)

Ah Fellow Belgian Brother this is so glorious!

I am 99% sure the crash is caused by taking the navy in the peace deal. Happens to me on occasion, it sucks.

@thepatrickcrab

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I had this issue as well. My theory is that it happens if the enemy has occupied the port that the ships will go to at some point during the war it doesn't work. Even if you have retaken that province. I had this happen to me as Red Czechs I lost my Yugo ports, but took them back and capped Axis. I couldn't take Navy despite having owned ports from a previous peace deal. I restarted and made sure to never let Italy into Yugo, then I was able to take the ships in the peace deal.

@liahknight56

9 ай бұрын

@@thepatrickcrab can also happen if you start landlocked but gain a port in the deal, like hungary taking yugoslavia for example.

@thepatrickcrab

9 ай бұрын

Whenever I'm landlocked and take a port in the deal the game doesn't even let me select any navy @@liahknight56

“Astra mili- what? You’re in the guard Son!” 4:00

Video title by the least Nationalist Belgier ( idk the english word for person who is from belgium) in the world xD but you are great and love your videos UwU

@krasnamerah1926

11 ай бұрын

Belgian

love watching bitter play belgium

You should make this into a series with a playlist.

I had the same bug at the peace deal. If you don't take the navy it usually works, just take puppets and land. It ruined some of my runs lmao.

The US didn't get called into the allies because Japan never attacked the allies, Japan is meant to be the common enemy that justifies the US joining the faction instead of making it's own with Mexico The idea is that Japan is meant to declare on Philippines and a few weeks later declare on the Dutch East Indies/Netherlands who should be on the Allies by 1941 If you kept playing sooner or later Japan will declare on you, and if you switch back to democratic the US will ask you to join your faction

The game wasn't ready to handle such an amazingly awesome Belgium

you know, you can nullify a pin if you select the pinned unit, click to make it retreat into a friendly tile then click right after to make it “retreat” into the free enemy tile

Hey bitt3rSteel, great video! I just have something to say, i have a hoi4 disaster save, how can i send it to you?

All these years and you still have some achievements to do?! You definitely have to do that after the A to Z series.

Belgium became BASED?! 😨😨

Great Video! By the way, how can I send you a disaster save? my Germany isn't looking so good in Ironman + Historical mode...

Neat trick to get your war support up a bit with a country that has no navy is to make a captured capital ship your pride of the fleet, gives you 5% WS.

24:49 bro actually dunquerked them

Belgium was first county i played in hoi4. I switched to the communism and soon was eaten by a Germany))

The video: "Belgium the greatest nation" The ad before the video: "World is in FACEBOOK!!!!"

you can add resource rights and factory rights when you puppet or liberate nations, so you dont need to trade w them to have their resources. you should have added those rights and you would have a lot more civs and all the dutch east indies and oversees netherlands resources in full. havent watched the whole video yet so if its mentioned later sorry

Sometimes you can fix the peacedeal crash bug by not taking any ships

why do you have to make so good videos i allways stay up late cause of these videos

Nah Belgium played the uno reverse card on Germany

6:25 So, so accurate.

No views? Sad. It deserves more.

The A-Z continues!

As a Belgian, this video makes me proud

l Iove your vids i learn stuff about hoi4 when i watch your vid

Base on my experience i can get naval supremasi at the english channel using air supiority + port strike at the same time

Hello bitt3rsteel, I know this likely won’t be seen by anyone who will do this however, I saw a Reddit post that you might have seen. Where someone recommends for the finale starting as Afghanistan and release and play as Zimbabwe. Just food for thought

Bitt3rSteel: puppets the DEI to get to their resources. Also Bitt3rSteel: Forgets/Refuses to slap on resource rights. A fun little campaign, though

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

I actually did not have the required points

Germany watching the Belgians storming their borders like "oh that's not good"

Can you do a Belgium vs Dunkirk speedrun? It would make my life, no hyperbole.

I feel like this is the adult version of Advanced Wars. Rock on man!!!

Me *Sees a new Bittersteel video*: happy *It's a Belgian game, a country I myself love to play*: Happier *His first target is the Netherlands, my home country*: Damn...well anyway *continues to watch cause Bittersteel and Hoi4 are the best combination on this earth*

This is should be next dlc where their add the benelux Btw very nice!

Bittersteel, you were my inspiration to get into Hoi4 and to make a KZread channel, I thank you and politely ask for a small shout out.

glad i subscireb today

Hey, Bittersteel! I noticed that you were complaining about being pinned at 13:10. I just wanted to let you know that you can completely ignore pins by retreating into enemy territory instead of your own. Hope this helps!

"Maneuver warfare is key" >proceedes to use superior firepower like a mad man

Cool video! Little ask - what's happen, that USA were not in the Allies? I'm trying to do something similar now, but I cannot find some strategies for lacking american help :)

danm we early to this one today

Finally our "Bitt3rsteel.exe" is back with his new "Waffle Mode"

“What separates men from animals? The Rhine!” Dead 😂😂😂 my soul left my body

The planet broke before the guard did!

Resist and bite!

Bro pulled out the uno reverse card

Do ahistorical next, make it spicy :P

After watching Grand Tour I thought it would be a great idea if you ended the video with: "An on that terrible disappointment it's time to end. Thank you all so much for watching." Because of what happened at the end😅

Lore of HoI4 A to Z: Belgium is still THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH! Momentum 100

We gettin out of Brussels with this one🔥🔥

“Out of all the Gauls the Belgians are the bravest” - Julius Caesar

Guys, you underestimate the Game crash. We saw Bitter's play time and how many achievements he's missing

@Bitt3rSteel

11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, there's quite a few I just can't be bothered with

I do hope Belgium gets a focus tree at some point, along with Luxemburg, would be fun to play as the Benelux and try and hold back the German advance together..... or join them >:)

You should play more mods like rt56 and mods people have made for specific nations

I have a challenge for you Bitt3rSteel, play as Bulgaria in Kaiserreich mod and survive beneath the chaos.

You actually nailed the accent on "Leeuwarden". You used a flemisch accent. Way to goo