Here are some timestamps regarding templates and production for those in need: 1:46 Construction 2:22 Production 7:08 Navy 17:15 (Early) Fighter Template 18:51 Medium Tank Template 24:16 Basic Infantry Divison 24:41 Tank Division 40:30 Improved Fighter Template Thanks to BItt3rsteel for the amazing guide on Germany!

@Gunnart

5 ай бұрын

dont listen to anime profile picture users

@bryn_______

5 ай бұрын

@@GunnartI have aids

@tomirk4404

5 ай бұрын

Don’t listen to prejudiced opinions

@GoldSpangledBananaBoy

5 ай бұрын

Don't listen to anyone, don't trust anyone, THEY Could be listening! THEY could be the ones speaking! THEY could be YOU! THEY could be ME!

@lyonvensa

5 ай бұрын

Don't listen to those think hating on anime is cool

Finally I can tweak a few things for my 156th Germany run! Thank you!

@kio7596

4 ай бұрын

how satisfying it is doing the same thing for 200 time and still lossing against soviet union this time i will do all steps in this video taking probably 24 hours of my life

@noldo3837

4 ай бұрын

It's funny how PDX keeps Germany and fascism OP and Soviet Union and Allies super weak so that even something so... suboptimally intelligent as a wehraboo can enjoy the game... "Wroum wroum, pew pew marxyst, me gotta a tank now!"

@mystimallow

4 ай бұрын

@@noldo3837 the soviets and allies get much stronger as the game goes on as you will be outproduced if you take too long to take them down, making it much harder on you as germany

@sasusaku3373

3 ай бұрын

Anyone else getting abnormally strong Brits recently? I have literally 200+ enemy divisions... in March 1940. Fairly frustrating they just bog me down.

@kio7596

3 ай бұрын

nah i just naval invade them from the other side @@sasusaku3373

I don't know if I'm the only one and maybe it's a bit sadistic but I have always wanted to watch Bittersteel play Belgium in the great war redux mod

@Thatbrownguy-ce5vt

5 ай бұрын

Belgium in the Great War isn’t that hard, just place ur troops behind the river and hold out

@enusama_9384

5 ай бұрын

@@Thatbrownguy-ce5vt I'm sure you're right but Bittersteel is the kind of man to push the Germans to the rhine and hold out there.

@sheep7

5 ай бұрын

​@@enusama_9384absolutely

@jamesmuller9258

5 ай бұрын

​@@enusama_9384no hes the kind of man to push the germans back to berlin😂

@microscopicallysmall

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesmuller9258 no he’s the kind of man to push the germans back until he occupies all of germany

For the ones who don't have dlc just get them cracked

@razorguy5328

5 ай бұрын

Virgin "I spent 100 gorillion dollars on all of the DLCs" vs chad "I pirated the DLCs"

@moriokki2972

5 ай бұрын

based af

@idk443

5 ай бұрын

​​@@razorguy5328I pirated the whole game 😂

@razorguy5328

5 ай бұрын

​@@idk443based

@ChrMuslimThor

5 ай бұрын

Paradox ain't EA they deserve to get paid for their work.

Yay, another bitt3rsteel video! Thanks for the guide. The release timing is impecble as always.

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

Enjoy!

@mohamedsalahsaber7646

5 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel if you want make a video playing with tunisia make it all the way to the middle east and take spain france and UK (i'm big fan i've watched every single video you have made till now)😅

I appreciate you doing another guide for Germany, it's been a while since I played the game and I was confused what the new meta was for airplanes etc. Loving the vids as always :)

Every day Bitt3rSteel posts a video is a great day. Very nice walkthrough, your content is amazing as always!

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

Thanks a ton!

@Slicester

5 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel can you make a video on how to micro like you

Just an extra tip: If you juggle EME and construction 1, you can get the industry bonus for construction 3 and machine tools 3. You have to hold focus after Rhineland for 28 days for it to work.

@TheEventHorizon909

5 ай бұрын

He did do that with the previous guide

@tagus100

4 ай бұрын

1) Save 1 Research Slot 2) Replace EME with Smoke Generators 3) Put EME in saved slot 4) Free Trade after Rhineland or Oppose Hitler 5) Save 1 Research Slot 6) Pick Four Year Plan after Smoke Generators is finished 7) Put Basic Machine Tools in saved slot (swap with Mech Engi) 8) Swap Mech Engi with Imp Machine Tools. Put Dispersed Industry in bottom slot. Save top slot 9) Once top is filled, put Construction I in it.

It was literally yesterday I tried following your previous Germany guide before realizing that the requirements to Anschluss had changed and I wished there was an updated version

@floppi7098

5 ай бұрын

Bros wish came true

@kj_heichou

5 ай бұрын

You can still get anchluss in 36. You need infantry equipment in the field. So just produce inf equipment and produce divs as normal

@theorange1729

Ай бұрын

It's literally not worth it to go for early Anschluss. If you leave Austria to do its thing then by 38 it would've completed most of its industrial tree, giving you more factories. You can also get other focuses earlier in the meantime, it's a win-win.

49:55 "A massive buldge down the center" alright dude. That big soviet buldge really getting to you.

FINALLY, YES! I’ve been waiting for ages for this and I’m so happy now. Combining this with some of the last video guides strats and I can have a really good game plan

The faster way to pump out units is to wait for the 5 army XP from Rhineland, then make a single infantry unit. Then pump those out. It will be net faster than going with Cav earlier.

Germany needs a rework DESPERATELY. It's the "main character" of the game that sets rest of the events in motion, and currently, we are left with 3 options: 1) Going historical without any nuance or options on how we proceed 2) Going democratic and doing nothing (aside from forced war with USSR that makes little sense) 3) Going monarchist and making forced wars against Russia It would be nice if historical trees would have more flavors or options on how to proceed with armament and wars, and if alt history options didn't straight up FUCKING SUCK.

@JacobFraps

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree it's likely the last dlc that will come too the game the dlc will most likely focus on Belgium,Germany,Austria and knowing paradox Luxembourg

@JChrist0AD

5 ай бұрын

FR

@noldo3837

4 ай бұрын

IDK if it is possible. Most of the community are dumb Wehraboos who only play "fixing the history", and PDX programners are the part of that. No wonder democracies are weak, Allied AI is brain dead, SU is a laughing stock, and fascist countries don't even have any negative spirits or any issues,and Hitler has like 3PP or what. PDX doesn't care about Alt-history lines. In Norway, non-fascist lines were not even tested, like... "who would play non-fascists, right?"

Finally, I have been using your old guide for north of a year now, it’s awesome and I have made tons of memories with it, I saw this and couldn’t wait to see it!

So happy that bitt3rsteel updates previous "ultimate" guides for the new DLCs because there's much more things to consider. It would be amazing if he does updated guides on the other axis nations (Italy and Japan) and other major powers because they're the mostly the main reasons people get into HOI4 in my opinion

I was just looking the last ultimate video desperate. Your my savior🙏

Been so hoping you would be doing this!!! I need to reduce my disasters

Hi Bitt3rsteel! Can you please make a guide about the navy in HOI4? Many people playing the game including myself don’t understand how it works so it would be really useful if you could explain it to us

@felipescheuermann1736

2 ай бұрын

As latest iteration of the game light attack+crapton of torps. Pretty much thats it. Ah and use subs 3 with lvl4 modules, snorkels all the way to both keep enemy fleets busy and spread and to decimate their convoys to stop always annoying never ending landings😂

I'd love to see more guides like this for other major countries, like the US or the Soviet Union. I feel like each country has its own unique play style, and sometimes it can be tough to adapt.

fun guide that got me back into playing hoi4, my big mistake was the sea lion approach, blundered it and wiped my entire navy. Italy was terrible, Ethiopia was a thing all the way till the invasion of Poland. the guide also helped pop the blitzkrieg achievement and got both Poland and France before the end of 1939.

Merry Christmas Bitter! Thank you for a year with wonderful horrible fun videos. God jul🇧🇻

My boy thank you so much. Your old video on Germany is what got me started. I’m sure you saw my comments lol. I was helping some others that couldn’t quite follow it. Even though was a little dated. Thanks so much for making this. I know how much time it takes to do this. Also do you ever realese long format (not that this isn’t long) but I mean an unedited version

@JChrist0AD

5 ай бұрын

he probably didn’t

Heyyy, nice video, thank you once again, you make my job lot easier. I listen/watch everyday I can. Btw idk why but I can't change quality of the video :// i thought it was bcs it was new video but I'm rewatching rn and it still don't let me change it to better

one thing ive taken to doing since AAT, is rushing export focus, and doing German Swedish trade agreement after rhineland/ before Four year plan. since you lose a bunch of resources to exporting the trade agreement lets me offset the loss of steel, and gives me access to swedens sweet, sweet tungsten. this also gives me leeway with the industry research bonuses from Four year plan. im by no means a great player though, and this could turn out to actually be detrimental

Happy holidays Bitter, Thank you for the guide as always, I wish you and your family the best

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

Happy holidays!

@ProgrammingPrexicular

5 ай бұрын

nope@SLOVAKCATHOLIC

@Kiyotakaaa524

Ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel why havent you deleted the comment that literally tells people to break the law

@Bitt3rSteel

Ай бұрын

@@Kiyotakaaa524 which one?

@Kiyotakaaa524

Ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel the one that says to get dlc cracked

Excellent guide, will be trying this soon I frequently f'd up the Low Countries invasion and as a result the French would park a huge amount of divisions on the border and make breaking through (with my far inferior tank divisons to yours) very hard.

@1furious

5 ай бұрын

Lmao idk how but I wasn't even able to equip my armies by 1939 and it took me much longer to get the same amount of factories. I think I'm actually done with this game. Every single time I try, I get worse. Tried following the guide and it just took me somewhere else entirely and made it impossible. 1940 and I still haven't invaded France let alone capitulated the UK.

@okyaii2772

4 ай бұрын

I had the same issue you’re not alone

@Demon-Senpai

2 ай бұрын

Try to invade france through belgium

@Demon-Senpai

2 ай бұрын

But in early 1937 start invading

I have just bought the game and only have 4 dlc, i appreciate that you also tell what people without dlc should do!

@crunch.dot.73

5 ай бұрын

Pirate dlc

@flaggy185

5 ай бұрын

@@crunch.dot.73 is strange how many people suggest me that lol

@kio7596

3 ай бұрын

how @@crunch.dot.73

I enjoy watching you play hoi 4, I wanted to say 2 things one when i play germany I normaly annex all of czecslovakia to trade for danzig, cuting the poles from the sea helps me fight most of the time, and I have a stupid obsesion with always having %100 tank reliabilty. forgive my bad grammer i am rather sick.

I just found your channel and I love it, I'll never play this game but it's fascinating Your 1944 save videos are epic

@greenkoopa

5 ай бұрын

By giving my comment a ♥ you have triggered the implied social contract of Mr subscribing to you. Welcome to the Koopa Troop 🐢🎄🐢

@JacobFraps

5 ай бұрын

This games very addicting stay Safe 😂

Thanks for your videos

Yippie Christmas Eve BitterSteel! Merry Christmas everyone :))

Hold shift field marshal order is a fantastic tip. Thank you

Your last Germany guide got me all the achievements

Hey bittersteel, where in your video did you send your navy out? I can't seem to find a segment where you gained the naval xp at the start, happy holidays!

@lrmunro

4 ай бұрын

Yeah - this got me too. Think it must almost have been day one.

@migaudo119

3 ай бұрын

He just put his navy fleet to training

For increasing division count, it would be easier to exercise up to 5 army xp, then make a new division with one cav battalion and spam that up to your target division count. Also now you have a good cavalry garrison division. Then if you need men in the field for Anschluss change the divisions of this template you have to normal division template and bling, you have a lot of men on the field. The german cavalleriebrigade still requires arty and support equipment.

@arankoka

5 ай бұрын

u need guns in the divisions also now to count , not number of divisions. number of divisions is good for volunteers only

@felipescheuermann1736

2 ай бұрын

​@@arankokahence why he said u can chamge when needed?

Yay, another bitt3rsteel video! Thanks for the guide.

That encirclement in the start of Barbarossa was one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever seen in this game

Thanks for some of the tips man, after like 20 hour i managed to defeat the allies almost flawlessly, ended with an invasion to the briish

Thanks this is helping me i just started playing HOI4

YAY LOVE YOUR VIDS

Nice video keep it up

The MIO fast tank, is incredibly op in germany, super fast tank, and the chief of the army + 10% speed, the military theorist heinz guderian +10%, and if you go with blitskrieg, another + 5% speed

@boop7441

5 ай бұрын

germany can already outrun the AI with basically zero problem, you will run out of combat capability due to lack of fuel and lack of supply long before the enemy catches up to you. Plus mechanized and trucks have a set speed as well, (8km/h and 12km/h respectively) meaning that eventually when you replace your trucks with mechanized your cap will be at 12 kmh anyways. If you do still want to have more than 12kmh at that point, there is largely no reason to go for higher speed mechanized by way of sacrifincing IC when you can just repurpose your old trucks and production line on truck divisions to rush ahead of your tanks as well as hold the encirclement open. tldr: for super fast divisions that can create massive encirclements, use mot. inf to run in the enemy backline and tanks as mobile hole punchers with the best land combat capability in the game. Speed is mostly valuable out of combat regardless, and building your tanks for speed requires even further IC commitment to mechanized speed, or to sacrifice mechanized for trucks, when you can choose to do neither by running with trucks as your speardhead and tanks as your hole puncher.

@kimjongun1348

5 ай бұрын

​@@boop7441Mech can get up to 14 kph if you upgrade them.

Brilliant!

I like the video, it's a great video for starters but I think there are a few things that were suboptimal. In my game for example, I started the war later but I had 274 factories on November 2nd, before I took Poland and did around the maginot while having enough refineries to care for my airplanes/truck production. I also had Germany and Romania as my puppet at that point. There were some things that I could improve, like waiting one (short) focus for the industry research bonus and sending more volunteers to Ethiopia, Spain and China. I was lacking in doctrines compared to you though.

Despite knowing what to do (I think) I'll still gladly see this episode. Also Merry Christmas.

After 4k hours in this game I will give you one tip that I see almost no one using. One of the greatest QoL tips ever and will vastly improve your video's in the future in my humble opinion. Shift click on the little yellow arrow in the top left of any production line. It minimizes the list of production lines and makes it so much easier to see what is happening without endless scrolling. Other than that, good video!

@noahwatt1269

4 ай бұрын

This bugged my production layout.... I can only see the navy stuff now

I really like you taking people who don’t have certain dlc into account

This is a really great guide

Looks like guides are BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!

17:12 i usually rush heavy mgs by this point usually gives me a little edge later

wow you really just did this all for me

as always bitt3rsteel never dissappoints

1700 hours in hoi4 but still watching ever minute of this

You don't need to train Cavalry Brigade. After Rhineland, you get five Army XP. You can then use that XP to make a two-width division of your choice and spam that.

Marry X-mas bitt3r! Wish you and your family all the best!

@martyhipston4239

5 ай бұрын

​@@SLOVAKCATHOLIC☦️🛐

I did an Iron Man world conquest that stopped in the 1960s using your No Step Back guide. Still worked, it was great.

Could you do a histrorical UK run? Would be cool. Also love your content! Got me into the game; however, not gonna spend all that money on the dlcs lol.

thank you sir

34:10 - " a Fair split of Poland" - Im crying under the tabel )))

Merry Christmas

Love your content! Keep up the good work 😊😊😊😊

Just in time 👍👍

Best christmas present

I saw you building infra and civs, but at the start of the game, I always build mills as Germany. You get like 70% mill building speed and it is insane how fast you can make them and have sht ton of equipment

@Bitt3rSteel

2 ай бұрын

And you'll be producing... Junk. While with a civ snowball, you can get more. Mils and those will be making more good equipment

@impostorsyndrome1350

2 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel huh? I was able to fully fill my army with tanks only and steam roll the entire world. Past certain point, civs don't do that much, only when you need to have resources, which you get from focuses and conquering either way. I use Miffos to my advantage

What you could also do is instead of using the research bonus for the four-year plan on machine tools you could use it in 1939 construction tech which will be very useful. Just make sure you take the army innovations as your second focus because the timing will fail otherwise.

I really enjoy these, thanks BitterSteel :D

Can never resist a "New" Germany Guide for Hoi4

I'd actually really like a production/supply tutorial. I am literally always in an equipment deficit on guns, tanks, and artillery. I have some ideas what I'm doing wrong, but I've never really figured it out

15:30 Not sure about this but I think you get intelligence bonusses for putting the spy in the capital.

Pro tip: listen to teufelslied for SS damage and training speed boost

Assisting Nationalist China as Germany is also Historically accurate

Thanks

I used to be so good at Germany but It took me months to finish off Poland and I couldn’t get past Belgium and I have lost so much confidence in my ability to play hoi4 well 😭

You make very goods videos and i see you since they release la resistance

I play against max buff sov plus USA on historical iron man. The key to Germany early on is getting to war economy as quick as possible. Using PP for goebels asap then to war economy. I also build some maybe 1/10 factories as mils, just to provide some extra efficiently lines prior 1939. If I just stick to civs. I have a big industry but no war stock.

@felipescheuermann1736

2 ай бұрын

Interesting. Ive played a lot as france latelly, i usually rush civs and use to buy crapton of trash from others to send lots of volunteers... kind of fun to go as a lone fascist and beat axis, then allies then comittern, the last im not doing cuz my pc is weak and by then soviets, chineses, japaneses and americans have waaay too many divisions and the sluggish progress of the time make me start another game😂

Steel says that you start out with historical trades (Sweden steel) however I don't for reasons unbeknownst to me. Historical focus checked, all DLC active.

Love the addition of the Gulliman meme

Nothing says 'Christmas' like 1940s Germany lol... Great vid as always! Merry Christmas everyone!

i love bitt3rsteel videos, its great for someone who cant afford hoi4 :)

Here's hoping you do similar videos to the other major nations as well :)

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

That's the plan!

@noldo3837

4 ай бұрын

Half of the players players play only Nazi Germany anyway, "Fixing the history", including Paradox developpers.

I usually promote Guderian as a Field Marshall, has the better stats and cheap to promote, probably worth looking at it.

Maginot Line was build to force the germans, or pressure them to invade through the Benelux because A) it would force the brits to join due to the London Treaty of 1839 and B) to buy the French Army more time to mobilize. Anyhows, your vids are entertaining as always🔥

@xanderbush3469

2 ай бұрын

and then the French fail to mobilize fast enough and get stomped XD

watching this makes me want to play the game again but i can't forget the frustation ive got whenever i i played before. lmao. you make it looks that ez.

Now imagine a Kaiserreich one :D Would be at least 5 hours long probably, but indeed a challenge for the channel no doubt

brother, i got like 3k hrs in this mental health problem called hoi4 and i still watch a fukin guide to on germany

@JChrist0AD

5 ай бұрын

same

Nice Video! Please Do These Kind Of Guides For Other Nations Too.

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

That's the plan!

@MohammadMehdi_1889

5 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel Appreciate It ❤️❤️

19:00 nice tank

Great video, the only problem I'm having is some confusion, like at a time you took the horse recruitment off, and on a cut it was back with less units so I wondered if I should have left it? Because I removed when I saw that you removed and then it was back later so I didn't get anschluss at the same time as you, there's these little details that got me confused, but it's good anyway

@Bitt3rSteel

3 ай бұрын

Which part?

@RafaelNasiasene

3 ай бұрын

​@@Bitt3rSteel13:07 it has no horses training anymore and on 17:35 there are 7 horses trained, so I got confused about what should i have done when I reached 17:35, but even tough I managed to win from allies on other try so it is still helpful a lot.

Hey bitt3r, could you please explain planning bonuses for frontline and attack/spearhead orders?

6:17 got me rolling on the ground lmaO

Thanks.

It's easier to declare on all of the low contry and break trew sedan and spread out Go around french delvisions and hit victory points

Nice guide man ty! First time actually winning Barbarossa. Can you make a guide for the USA pls?

35:33 *happy Asterix and Obelix noises*

Merry Christmas!

merry christmas

I'm actually impressed that bro can actually pronounce the german words so good, specially the r's

Supporting China also makes sense since defeating the Allies gives you the option to grab the incredibly valuable Dutch East Indies - which will inevitably cause Japan to declare war on you on historical, since the AI will always do the focus that gives it wargoals on the south east asian territories. By handicapping their conquest in China, you essentially gain XP and set yourself up to have it easier in the late game.

I would add that you can avoid war with Japan by disbanding Axis and joining Co-Prosp Sphere. Can take over faction inmediately after and help them finish off China while also avoiding MEFO payment.

This video is great fun to watch even at 1600 hours