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@jaroslavunatinszki7223

10 ай бұрын

What was the best save video so far?

@jesusloves3333

10 ай бұрын

how much sanity do you have Left? edit i fixed my grammar

@Bitt3rSteel

10 ай бұрын

@@jesusloves3333 let's not talk about that

@aarpmgrafona5146

10 ай бұрын

This might be the worst save game ever

@redoctober67

10 ай бұрын

Requesting an updated achievement guide for One King, Two Crowns. Spain's been an utter nightmare for me and I just can't get things to go right! 😥

I propose 'Blessed Saves' where people send B3tter a save with absolutely everything and he just gets to wipe the floor as a bit of therapy

@royalcinnamon

10 ай бұрын

Like one of my save games where i had everything except the will to keep going 'cus to much AI shenanigangs?

@lexi1031

10 ай бұрын

@@royalcinnamonyes I dare you to send it to him

@spacebeans4985

10 ай бұрын

Nah, what if he gets great saves and tries to ruin them

@dr.vikyll7466

10 ай бұрын

​@@spacebeans4985great saves and plays as the ai

@TheRestedOne

10 ай бұрын

@@royalcinnamonAKA every one of my EU4 campaigns

“This is the worst spain game” My games: “I am light years ahead of your understanding

@Wieo_

10 ай бұрын

fr

@Idoexist._.

10 ай бұрын

"this is the worst spain game" yep, suffering pain of no cores and 1 game hour per a real life day is worse than stoopit surrender

@pixelchrome2

10 ай бұрын

i love playing as spain(i easily destroyed the whole europe)

@user-wx1iv1fw3d

9 ай бұрын

hahahahaha, this funny , show it

@fighters9881

9 ай бұрын

Its really easy to get a better spain game. You can see that the person who send this tried to make it look like they did not do this on purpose, but seeing as they didnt even take the extra research and instead just stockpiled pp without having advisors and no cores, it easily shows it.

Steiner got exiled to spain but still managed to launch a successful counterattack

@shonewarrior2178

9 ай бұрын

Underrated comment here

@doesfireburn8532

9 ай бұрын

@@shonewarrior2178 Damn right what a fucking legend !

@hasanmert43435

7 ай бұрын

😂😂 Yes,Steiner's Counter Attack from Spain to Soviet Union

@ComfortsSpecter

2 күн бұрын

Steiner Always Arrive’s

I love how the uk was completely undefended that entire game but the allies were just like “nah, you can keep it.”

@liaratsoni8556

9 ай бұрын

The ai in this game is genuinely broken. And not in a good way. I have literally had them naval invade, have me on the ropes…and then their armies just…leave. Like all of them. Just an empty front line. They just leave for no real apparent reason.

@Buzzy_Bland

7 ай бұрын

Look, they saw a chance to be rid of Liverpool and they took it.

@quuirrel19_-sz9pj

7 ай бұрын

do you really blame them?

@heavymetal3264

6 ай бұрын

its british thats why

@Svabre

5 ай бұрын

Yeah I’m currently in a spanish commune playthrough on elite difficulty and let me tell you - great britain was really way too easy to invade. Ireland joined the allies and suddenly - now they’ll fight me on the damn beaches. took me 2 years to get naval superiority there and about 1 year to get the azores. For reference it took me about 1 week to have troops on british soil since I joined the war. Oh and did I mention that in the middle of the civil war my country split in half (again) and it took until 1939 to end that mess?

Imagine being a spanish soldier waiting for a certain death in the south of spain unequiped.... and then general change and in 3 months you are in moscow

@jimmcneal5292

7 ай бұрын

More like three years but yeah

There's a reason my few spain playthroughs end after the civil war is done, because im not sticking around to having to click to recore my own damn territory again. Some strange people find it fun but the spanish civil war and the rebuilding simulator afterwards is genuinely the most unfun experience in this game.

@Bitt3rSteel

10 ай бұрын

I don't disagree

@sauron1414

10 ай бұрын

What makes it fun is how well Spain goes with tanks. Especially after uniting Iberia for more tungsten

@comandantepepperoni8104

10 ай бұрын

@@sauron1414 With what industry? It's spain, you can rush-win the civil war to late 37 in best case scenario, or even let the republicans live on a single tile to get lend-lease before losing the cores, but you'll still have a poor industry.

@futboltime12

10 ай бұрын

No

@Failman-xy6ge

10 ай бұрын

Honestly i love the spanish civil war just because of how easily ive learned to win it, you just have to secure the 2 northern republican territories as the nationalists and then take supply hubs early on and you can almost battleplan it, it’s ridiculous. The republic united is even more easy, you just have to secure the mountainous basque land in the north and hold there, which distracts vital nationalists troops and then you just have to encircle nationalists in teruel and they are hopeless. For carlists or falangists just do same nationalist strat and then crush the other nationalist state when they rebel, and for the anarchists you get basically all of the republican territory so just crush the rest of the weak republic then grind down the nationalists

congratulations for your newborn son, God bless him. But please dont let your son or your wife get between our love, don't let them hinder or stop you from creating more videos for us. Remember channel members are more important than family.

@lime6065

10 ай бұрын

What

@-.-.__..

10 ай бұрын

@@lime6065HES joking

@nonautemrexchristus5637

10 ай бұрын

​@@lime6065HOI4 supercedes all family, keep grinding 😤😤😤

@wrtekcz538

10 ай бұрын

Amen

@tago3860

10 ай бұрын

lmaooo

Germany:Join the axis, why are you not joining the axis😠 Spain imaging if they joined:

@skeletonjanitor

10 ай бұрын

gem comment

There is technically a strategic usage for nukes; bombing enemy airports to delete all the planes instantly, or by just spamming them on enemy deathstacks to delete half their equipment and manpower. But the other points do still stand; air superiority is required, and it is a waste of industry. Nuking enemy airports to delete planes happens in multiplayer games but in singleplayer games it'd be far easier to just produce better quality planes than the AI.

@Gustav_Kuriga

10 ай бұрын

All you need is local superiority.

@ShankTrix

10 ай бұрын

It doesnt matter if you have 100 nukes and the enemy has 0 nukes unless you have air superiority which Spain in this case did not have air superiority so Spain cannot drop nuclear bombs.

This must be one of the best videos you've put out in a long while, absolutely loved every second of watching you recover from such a mess

@Bitt3rSteel

10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@glauberglousger6643

9 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel Yes, as much as I like to see you turn the AI into mulch, I also want some struggle, and plot twists Although not Luxembourg 1939 elite levels, just 1936 civilian

On the aiplanes; Replace the drop tanks with a radio for night penalty reduction, or turn off night fighting and no retreat.

@filipjanovsky7067

9 ай бұрын

You are wrong. Might as well turn off the day time too otherwise he will just get shit on 2 times a day insted of 3. Not exactly a W. The thing is he needs to switch to intercept mission + stop the cas mission with 3 cas planes and have the first 2 techs in operational integrity. Or simply wait a little to make more planes before considering a fight over air superiority in that region because its 3 vs 1. Those wings are not even trained, just rookies feeding the enemy.

Spain : hey axis, be ready Axis : for what? we're done Spain : no, not for me

Hello Bittersteel. For fighters I recommend the 4x heavy machine guns (as many as you can), self sealing fuel tanks, and then as many armour plates as you can. A little more expensive but the planes are very hard to shoot down. Always works wonders for me.

As a Spanish person Spain is indeed pain

@an2939

9 ай бұрын

imagine having to core your own territory

@makiro1

9 ай бұрын

Spain iS pain

@ianlupr0113

9 ай бұрын

Confirm, Spain is actually pain.

@achudtr5463

6 ай бұрын

​@@ianlupr0113actually more

Hey Bitt3rsteel! Yesterday i sent you an intergralist Brazil disaster save. Id just like to add that i used a mod in that run (The Road to 56). I'm making this comment so if you ever end up making content on that Run you wouldn't have to struggle as to why you cannot access the file.

@Bitt3rSteel

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information!

@x3cion

9 ай бұрын

Fyi, pdx unlimiter shows used mods within saves

@blidea9191

9 ай бұрын

How bad was the save?

Jeez that looks bad, but I'm confident that you with all of your skill will somehow be able to save it!

@legitplayin6977

10 ай бұрын

Hehe least gay hoi4 player

@numsei-3530

10 ай бұрын

He didn't say anything gay, wtf?!

@WiggleOcto

10 ай бұрын

@@numsei-3530 it’s the non binary flag in my pfp lol

@billyjohnson9900

10 ай бұрын

@@legitplayin6977casually ignoring all the Germany Stan homophobes

@FreePalestine07462

10 ай бұрын

@@billyjohnson9900what?

The thing i like to much about the spanish gameplay is that you don't need a lot of troops to conquer the world. The quality is the more important thing.

This zoomfest around the balkans reminded me of when I sent italian tanks to an american civil war my friend started, and just steamrolled across the west while my friends were struggling in the north.

@bencatzilla

6 ай бұрын

AVE TRUE TO CAESAR

27:07 Use Dual cannons instead of heavy mgs(like 3x the air attack), switch one of those armour plates to Self sealing fuel tank (more range and armour for less production cost)

@TrondelagianPatriotsriseup

9 ай бұрын

​@@highlandersteve9953 Oh right forgot about that part

reminds me of my Global defence council run I did lately where I waited too tong to attack the Axis und ended up Grinding 120 mil casualties on them and 60 mil on me. Almost lost 3 times, but somehow managed to come back.

I always love cursed games like this where multiple nations get exiled but are still fighting

Clearly whoever sent this disaster save, this must have been his first Spain playthrough and he did it blindly without checking the post civil war mechanics.

You can use nuclear weapons strategically in this game to destroy supply hubs and rail lines. I find that this is and nuking massively stacked tiles in the late game are the best ways of using them.

Man i remember being in the exact same situation when i formed caliphate of cordoba in 1941 Joined axis and immediately got naval invaded by Britain in 3 directions, lost a lot of ground but stil managed to defend 5 states including the capital, couldn't counter attack since the allies stacked tons of divisions and i was struggling to defend my states but with last stand cheese i managed defending them until i got enough division to counter attack which i had to wait until 1944 to get a tank division and wiped the floor with the allies and won the war in 1945 It was really a memorable game

Bhutan: finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary

@gabrielqian9936

10 ай бұрын

Breh, Hey Abo.

One of the funniest things about this timeline is that Hitler and Mussolini were both still alive when Spain retook Germany and Italy, meaning those two fled to Spain with their generals and such and had to wait there for years under the dubious but somehow correct assumption Franco would magically save them and win the war against basically the whole world 😂

Fighter planes - I usually just do heavy cannons on all weapon slots, best single engine, armour plates and self sealing. Makes it expensive but the K/D is naughty (this is probably not meta though).

How did bro survive the Spanish Civil War but still be able to fail so badly?

Bittersteel back with banger disaster saves, hope you can recover from the sPAIN from this game lol

27:00 i'm no expert in hoi4 or air warfare, but having planes flying at 1 kmh seems a bit wrong in my eyes, especially if they are meant to be jet fighters

@tuxedo_cat_gaming

10 ай бұрын

It's 1.0K or 1,000km/h

imagine what this is like for the peoples perspective. like all the allies need is like 3 more pushes butr then all of a sudden the axsis gets better management for some reason.

for your airplane replace your heavy machine guns by double cannon (not the ones added in the last dlc that remoove 4 agility per canon) as you will basically double your air attack for almost no losses to your agility, maybe that wasnt you disign at fault at all but just the ennemy having better mission efficiency or detection.

Just found you a day or two ago and already binged a large part of your content

@theghoulmaster9566

10 ай бұрын

@@darkest_thief haha will do 🫡

Most people getting dopamine boosts: getting a nice job, eating good food, going on vacation Bitt3rSteel getting dopamine boosts: encircling troops, overrunning troops, destroying British naval landings

the problem with the planes is mainly that you are heavily outnumbered.

I have found heavy machine guns, self sealing fuel tanks, and armoured plates to make a pretty well trading plane in single player at least

What I usually do with planes is add 1 cannon and rest heavy machine guns and as modules is drop tanks and extra fuel tanks and self sealing fuel tanks and if any space left I put in a light MG turret and always put in the best engine. This works against AI pretty well I'm not sure about MP games however

You remember that feeling you got when your friend was being yelled at by their parents while you where visiting them? Yeah, listening to the start of this video gave me that feeling.

Very nice video! I just love the concept!

22:36 That's Elbe (in German)/Labe (in Czech) River

I”ve sent one of my disaster saves, the only modes I have are some music mods. BTW is literally France against the world, as Napoleon. The planes are kinda trash made kinda almost meta( can”t decibe between the 2) less armor put the armored fuel reserve(forgor the name) put 1-2 canons and one HMG and thats at least my most usefull design.

the way to always win air no matter the amount of enemy planes is to make your fighters cas and use battlefield support. the bonus to cas damage also applies to its other stats

this might be the first time i've heard bitt3r talking this angrily

07:30 I felt personally attacked for using them 😢

You know it's gonna be a good day when Bitt3rsteels music starts playing.

When you ask Bitt3rSteel where the Soviet Army is. Bitt3rSteel: "When it's gone it's gone it's gone!"

26:59 what's wrong with air? it's purely numbers. during my own disastrous playthrough i found out that even if you have the better planes, if enemy has more planes up they will kill more of your planes. do not engage in air combat unless you're at least 1:1 in numbers and then the better stats will get you through. i did not check if terrible planes will still win, but hey, the AI planes are subpar at best anyway

For an air design that gets up 11:1 KDR in all my games is to put cannons on it. I wrote out a whole guide on everything you need but self sealing fuel tanks, drop tanks, and armor plates are GREAT for fighters and keep the engine, cannons, and additional machine guns (if thrust allows it) up to date and you should be golden, for CAS swap out air brakes. The design is expensive BUT the KDR on them is insane

Ah, your worst Spain game is still better than mine.. I was suprised that someone on earth was possible to get past the civil war! I seriously dont know how many times I have tried it, but I just keep failing. It does makes me wonder if your videos about the civil war are still up to date? Did love the video, keep it up!!

@zoggolini

9 ай бұрын

If you play as Spain, you can mostly just battle plan and train actually decent troops during the war

0:17 "Rice protectorate Non-Vegan" beautiful captions, thank you

5:15 我會這樣做，把步兵隊 換成火砲部隊，減少一半的人力並增加戰場寬度外加攻擊能力 >防守上更多有效寬度與作戰能力

As i know just go for the highest amount of air attack as possible. I know that they dont have any agility or defense but with speed and damage you get almost every airforce down if you can sustain a few amount of planes shot down. When i am in situations like that i usually build up to around 1,5k airplanes(i know, it is alot) and then deploy 1k of airplanes. You have a good amount of stockpile and then start contesting one zone after another

@hansgyver9253

9 ай бұрын

How to send save disaster?

imagine learning about spain saving all of the axis in ww2, imagine the memes we would make...

This was a great disaster save. Loved it.

Hey, I'm no expert of air in hoi4 but whatever design i do usually works like a charm agains the AI so I might be able to give you some tips. Your jet fighter design was good but it lacked some punch, I would've thrown 4 large cannons on there. Also, armor plates are decent for air defence but I usually add self sealing fuel tanks first and then top that off with armor plates (if possible). Might work, might not but this works for me

Thank you mr.steel for helping me be better at HOI4 and for the content you make to entertain us. ❤

@Bitt3rSteel

9 ай бұрын

Glad to help

maybe one day you make an hour long video covering some of the most frequent mistakes that happen in these saves, y'know, nukes, no air, no cabinet etc.

Love your videos man!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

@bitt3rsteel the way to go with air for the moment is stack up as much air attack as you can. Modern fighter? Cannons II, as many as you can, self sealing fuel tanks and drop tanks. A single jet engine should do. But in general, the solution is the most cannons you can on a single engine. No armour on fighters, you need agility. When I went for the achievement as Ethiopia, I had 12 factories on air and I was keeping the entire allied air force at bay, trading somewhere around 13:1 at a certain point. Also, centralized control, ASAP, when you start the war. This is probably going to change with the news dlc, but for the moment, that's your way. And build radar, they do wonders.

"I admit i threw millions of lives away... but i had some fun with mechanized" fun is more important 👍

I think you're losing air because you have both air superiority and ground missions in the same air zone which causes your fighters to escort your cas and provide the enemy with full visibility of your smaller fighter force even though they only have 18% detection.

As a Kaiserredux player I am baffled by the lack of coring.

Your videos are very good man, apreciate your hard work and skill. Not only in the game, but also on youtube! Like, comparing to your subscribers number, you have a very high views rate in most of your videos. That's truly impressive! For example in this video. You have 169k subs, and this video got 151k views in only 4 days! That's like almost 90% of your subs watched this video, in less than a week! But, anyway, keep the hard work man, you are doing great 👍.

@Bitt3rSteel

9 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

I hope you do a wc with the Anarchists as Spain, tried many times but never managed to do it. Good luck!

Was wondering when the inevitable Allied AI naval invasion would come and they had quite a sense of timing @13:17

Poor bitt3r almost every time he has to manually rename the divisions to chanel members 😂

Might not have been a bad idea to go Mobile Warfare Desperate Defense or Mass Assault Human Wave for the extra 5% manpower (also, request garrison support from Italy, they had several million mp

Reminds me of when I had to beat anarchist Spain (Iberia really) after finishing off the rest of the world; basically the allies perspective of this save. Iberia had literally almost 600 divisions but with just two 24 division naval invasions of 40 width infantry I easily clapped them.

I have over 1 thousand hours in hoi4 and i had no idea the consolidate button existed

I agree on the nukes lol, I had an Italy game where the allied army was encircled in Switzerland and surrounding french states(half of the maginot). I lost my mind trying to break them, I made mountaineers, modern tanks, rockets, cas, and resorted to nuke carpet bombing. I did pretty good in that game, basically had northern Africa on lockdown and France was mine, but yeah... it took so long clearing that massive pocket

This channel always makes me want to play Hoi4. Damn you channel! 😭

Alternate Title: Belgian man yells about cores and naval invasions.

You destroyed his wunderwaffle program!

The balcans been a mess is so cliché that I love it.

I didn't think I was that good a player but my Spain, by 1949, tends to have over 50 puppets and be fielding hundreds of fully equipped divisions without ever going above Service by Requirement, all core territory and a significant amount of occupied territory covered in maxed-out radar and AA, enough synthetics to run tanks, air, and a massive stolen navy 24/7 without ever running low on fuel, and otherwise pretty much set up for a world conquest. (My current playthrough is in May 1953 and I have 1022 divisions with hundreds more in the deployment queue thanks to the magic of puppet manpower.)

Simple effective fighters: Most modern air frame Highest regualr engine you can afford (You don't need jet engines, make more tanks with the tungsten) 1 2xCannon 2 3 Heavy MG Drop tank 2 armor If you want complete domination, make sure you go left side air doctrine, a light aircraft designer, have static radars, enough planes to see their planes. That's all there really is to it. Having more than your enemy is good for air to air losses too obviously, but not needed. I can fight all of the allies with this design putting up 500-600 vs their 1000+ in france and trade 10 of mine to up to 80 of theirs in some battles.

The Spanish Steiner Offensive in the end lol

grand battleplan is good for defence because of entrenchment bonuses so if you wanna play fortress Luxembourg or something like that - it can be good, the best even

18:22 That laugh was so weird and funny 😅

While no doubt exhausting, this was a great disaster save. Bitt3ersteel is just an absolute wizard with this stuff.

@Finnishnat-conservativedot7126

9 ай бұрын

Judging by your profile picture I do not doubt that you absolutely love seeing people absolutely losing their head over stuff, games too apparently.

@samg5463

9 ай бұрын

@@Finnishnat-conservativedot7126 Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

This save was amazing.nice job❤️

Germany: loses to the Soviet Union and gets saved by spain Also Germany: yeah I deserve all of western USSR

I see games like this and I legitimately wonder how people are able to play this long with games like this where so many easy things are just ignored or not dealt with but when I actually play, strategize, and research and do the right things, the game just fucks me to the point where it's not even a disaster save, it's a failure save.

I think whoever sent this was trying to get the No Country for Men Achievement.

Normally my plane designs are exactly the same thing. But I usually only do one armor and use self-sealing fuel tanks. I usually have no problem getting air superiority with those designs. I never use cannons and only use HMGs for mine as well. Not sure why they were having problems. I can only assume it's because the soviets had so many planes over your few.

@GageEsterly-us7xm

10 ай бұрын

I'm not even sure if armor on planes is worth it because you can never have enough defense to negate enemy attack damage, and I'd rather have the agility and speed that armor takes away... not sure how the raw numbers back up my claim though

@rezvortex2474

10 ай бұрын

@@GageEsterly-us7xm I'm sure you've got a point. Something I like about Self-Sealing fuel tanks though is that it doesn't really take away much at all if any agility. The only downside is the extra production cost.

@GageEsterly-us7xm

9 ай бұрын

@rezvortex2474 for fighter's I use all the heavy MG that I can fit, best engine, and self sealing tanks. And that's about it, as germany it's a little rough because it devours your rubber supply

@rezvortex2474

9 ай бұрын

@@GageEsterly-us7xm Yeah I tend to trade with Britain and just produce as much as I can before the war

in 1952 you would for sure want cannons aswell on your fighter. I have 2 or 3 heavy MGs and 1 or 2 cannons on a jet fighter with 1 armor, 1 drop tank and 1 extra fuel tank, it shits on the AI also you would want to build radar so detection is as high as possible

You like challenges right? Lately a Liechtenstein mod came it with some nice formables and good focus which is challenging

You should continue the Germany vs the world game

For your air I would more than likely change drop tanks out for another Armor plate and switch out one light machine gun for 1 cannon. I don't normally go past fighter frame 3's which are basically cannon 1's with 2X light MGs. with Engine 3's and 3x Armor plates. Yeah you won't have as much range, but in Europe there are enough airbases you really don't need the drop tanks.

I kinda wish there was some kind of negotiated peace mechanic. Because once you hit nearly 10 years at war, it feels like both parties would want peace by then.

"Nukes can only affect the outcome of battles..." Well, I saw a Bokoen/Dankus game where they used nukes to destroy each others' air forces. Of course, that doesn't work when, you know, you have no air force, but still, it's another practical use. Snarky remarks aside, nukes are only good if you're in a stalemate and need something big to break it, not for saving you from disaster.

@ertrick3693

9 ай бұрын

Also, this video is one hell of a way for a newbie to learn the vital importance of cores.

i use that exact plane but self sealing fuel tank instead of 2 armour

22:37 the river is called Elbe in german or Labe in Czech

I’ve been wondering. How do you activate individual battle plans?

I'm not a genius when it comes to air forces in hoi4, but I did notice that your jet planes only had 1 air superiority, so that might be it but idk honestly.

For jet fighters, just go with 2x cannons as many as possible, best engine, one drop tank, the other +range modul, and two armor plates and you'll shred through everything

@TheN0bleCause

10 ай бұрын

My guess is he is just outproduced by USSR, plus they might have radar / anti-air.

Hi, you asked a question about fighters. I always use 2 2x guns and 2 4x heavy mgs for my jets and they are effective. And i use 2 jets engines.

Hundred millions of men dies because someone decide not to re core his teritory

27:00 your aviation is losing not because of templates, although they should have added cannons instead of machine guns, but this is not so important, mainly they are losing due to the fact that there are many times fewer of them, and at the same time, Soviet aviation managed to gain a lot of experience during the war years and aces, and meanwhile your air wings are at the very minimum level of training, well, plus in that air region you had less controlled land, which also affects the capabilities of aviation, plus if the USSR had already passed the focus on aviation, then it may have had bonuses from national perfume on her. btw still great video, i wish i had this skill