This guy just played it in the most historic way possible. Getting shit on and not prepared, then winning.

@brokenwall3188

5 ай бұрын

soviet union was quite prepared though, they just couldnt stand against germany, italy, romania, hungary, finland and bulgaria at the same time in the beginning. In the end they won because they were actually much more prepared than the axis, they werent fighting in so many fronts, they had more resources and manpower, their troops were more resistant to the cold and they had moved some of their industry to the east of the urals

@Lancephil

5 ай бұрын

@@brokenwall3188 dont forget the winter, those white snows were scary

@OnlyGrafting

5 ай бұрын

​@@brokenwall3188they had basically no fallback prepared. When they ended up being pushed back their river defenses were far and few prepared. Most parts of it were basically undefended. So when Soviet forces came retreating across, if not killed beforehand, the axis forces could keep moving before any large defense was mustered. Just look at today's ukraine war. Even trying to push across that damn river is brutal, the Germans had a get out of jail free card.

@JimboHiggin

5 ай бұрын

@@brokenwall3188 True, the Germans were not truly prepared and underestimated Soviets. They almost won though if they could have gotten Moscow and they had Leningrad under siege already. They could have at least had peace talks with the Soviets

@legend9181

5 ай бұрын

@@brokenwall3188 nah, even stalin insisted that germans are not going to attack at june 22 1941, found out himself.

Historical game btw

@ulisesvaldivia6072

5 ай бұрын

Lol

@raines6546

5 ай бұрын

My brother in Christ

@scottishcountryball1922

5 ай бұрын

My dad is Napoleon ​@@raines6546

@chengzhou8711

5 ай бұрын

Okay but you forgot the continuation war front

Bittersteel: “Why get Rubber processing? You can just buy all the allied rubber!” Me knowing I’m gonna invade the allies soon as I’m done with the axis: 👀

@user-lj5nc1ub6j

5 ай бұрын

Fr bro

I'm the person that sent in the save! Thank you for saving it lol For reference I have about 480~ hours in hoi4, and I wanted to try something new. This was my first attempt at max-buffed Germany. Normally I'd use 9/1 and 42 widths for tanks, but with the combat width changes in AAT I thought I should change it up Great video Bittersteel, and thank you!

@elitel3yton147

5 ай бұрын

yap yap yap 🤓 youre ass

@GreatBillyBoy

5 ай бұрын

Nobody cares

@Muhamster38

5 ай бұрын

Yapping at its finest

@SaulBadman-wb5kt

5 ай бұрын

Jeez guess someone shat in these twos guys hot chocolate

@vison883

5 ай бұрын

why these replies so rude

I think if not for Germany buff this person would genuinely win on their own

@ivanvladimir0435

5 ай бұрын

I wouldn't agree weren't it for the fact they had a *good* air force

@Cheesburger1009

5 ай бұрын

I remember forgetting how to use planes in hoi4. My entire game became Endsieg for Germany. The ai felt like buffed because in just 6 months italy just fell apart to shreds. The Soviets have everything and the British is going crazy.

@ae-kz4xd

5 ай бұрын

I dont think so, he looks like he REALLY CARES about EVERY single of his troops, he just doesnt make alot of divisions which are needed for eastern front

@elitel3yton147

Ай бұрын

as their friend i can confirm they wouldnt

Vladivostok fell because for some weird reason, since AAT, Denmark proclaiming her independence triggers the guarantee that Japan has on Germany, and it drags Japan into the war against the USSR. It's annoying, I know. Now the USSR actually needs to put troops in the far East. Great video, as always! :D

@shihablamara222

5 ай бұрын

It happened the same to me😢

@spynix0718

5 ай бұрын

Alone, we stood against fascism.

@tagus100

5 ай бұрын

Great. New DLC content being incompatible with older content.

@Ronald98

5 ай бұрын

​@@tagus100Paradox Interactive at its finest

@boxcarz

4 ай бұрын

Paradox Interactive trying not to add game-breaking bugs with every new piece of content that they actually believe you should *PAY MONEY FOR:*

MIOs are real interesting because of how they function in a dual capacity. For the Soviet Union, you want to use the tank refurbishment plant as your producer, and then OKMO As your researcher/designer. The reason why you do this is because production bonuses apply without any of the negatives, and then you put OKMO to get the actual better stats.

@SuperSmith

5 ай бұрын

How does that actually work?

@colef2222

5 ай бұрын

@@SuperSmith Basically, for some reason production bonuses apply to the actual production, but stats only apply to the design. If it's possible, you get the best of both worlds. Just remember to research with the designer MIO, not the producer MIO.

@SuperSmith

5 ай бұрын

@@colef2222 so you design the tank with the research MIO and then on the production line you add the refurb plant as the MIO?

@BobbiusRossius

5 ай бұрын

you use the tank refurbishment plant to make a skeleton tank with a heavy machine gun, then when you get the gun you want you convert them all, its an easy 45 tanks at least

@SuperSmith

5 ай бұрын

@@BobbiusRossius Ah that makes sense thanks

The last stand cheese move, is exactly how I imagine Hitler thought his “fortress cities” and his “no step back orders” would work.

I guess he believed that air could hold, without infantry.

"it looks like the tips are about to touch- AAAAGH" - Bitt3rSteel, December 16th, 2023

Man, you literally teached me how to play this game. I wouldn't be able to learn it and play it if it wasn't for your interesting disaster saves. Just wanted to thank you

@realdylanoof

5 ай бұрын

I'm hoping it helps me aswell

0:50 you can easily beat Axis as soviet union with only 120 infantry divisions and 12 tank divisions (and decent aviation of course). The key thing is to not stretch the frontline and hold the pre-war border.

Bro thinks he’s Legit burger. Nice video as always

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

Appreciate it

@TamiGeorge-vs1ug

5 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel You are my favourite Hoi4 KZreadr,keep up the amazing work :)

Russians and sailing ships to Japan has a history of not working that well :D

It really hurt when you didnt even take the south part of Sakhalin after the Japan war...

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

Always leave an excuse for future wars

I think with that first encirclement you literally replicated the ending of the battle for Stalingrad.

Since I'm no HOI player, just interested in history, I wonder, if it's beneficial at all to keep some armies away from the front to act as "fireman units", when front starts to collapse or to keep it hidden from the eyes of the enemy (if it's even a mechanic at all), so that they become a nasty surprise during an offensive.

@madiaw5553

5 ай бұрын

The answer is a bit complicated so bear with me. No if it against the ai because they know where all your units roughly are so it is quite useless. And mayabe it a valid strategy against player(seen it a few time) if you use it in conjunction with "ghost" units and like the only nation it is a valid strategy on is USSR because you have such a wide front large industry and manpower you can create a nested defense to bog the axis down while you get rid of the purge debuff. But then again those industrial output can be more useful for more tanks and planes so it not really good but usable.

@nucelarworker7569

5 ай бұрын

Its only used online against paratroopers or naval landings on vanilla u dont need to do all of that

@quaker2636

5 ай бұрын

It's always good to have a reserve in case things go south but "hiding" units is not gonna make a difference with the ai. It's extremely simplistic and doesn't know how to perform basic strategies like effective use of tanks and mobile units. Only thing it knows is naval invasions. Lots and lots of them.

@whitezombie10

5 ай бұрын

Not in single player because the game’s AI cheats and they can see your movements. In multiplayer it’s a good idea because players can use paratroopers to take cities

@kyallokytty

5 ай бұрын

there is actually such a thing as too many units if you're overflooding a frontline, sometime your units are gonna start to take attrition even when you're entirely supplied simply cuz the sheer amount of numbers there, in such cases yes, having them directly on the front is detrimental the issue with doing it in any other way is that the AI doesn't know how to use paratroopers nor how to spearhead, it's like they make one big frontline order and press go(not really, they make many tiny ones sometimes even without generals, tag switching to an AI mid war shows you how atrociously they handle troops)

Your pronunciation of these Soviet province and city names etc. is really good.

@Supahdenning

5 ай бұрын

Except "Sithomir"

Love watching your videos as I am learning so much. I specifically interested in the way you are setting up the divisions. Lots of good info to take in here! - thanks!

20:49 Bittersteel larping as a Soviet Officer

From The mountains and the planes come in 1000ths on the trians day and night there rolling in to join the fight

@stephensaikawa

5 ай бұрын

Cool Defence of Moscow Reference man

看來就只是AI比較愚蠢，在你的電腦 否則他們就會建立起鐵路來進攻了，或是集中進攻補給點，甚至直接建立新的補給點

@panpsalt6757

5 ай бұрын

I have never seen the AI build Supply depots without a mod, but the AI does upgrade railroads regularly

His forget to use Move Industry to the Urals, so OP this focus

Amazing video man do you do modded disaster saves?

@mariano98ify

5 ай бұрын

Yes but you have to name the mods you used.

@cringefurrylordxdddddddddd8177

5 ай бұрын

@@mariano98ify actual? i never seen him play disaster save with mods on

@cringefurrylordxdddddddddd8177

5 ай бұрын

@@mariano98ify i had a game with the Pulchritudinous States bro i thought i was napoleon cuz i when to war with all of europe including ottoman empire and russian empire lost so hard

I wash myself with a rag on a stick

Not even a terrible build, he had a really good Air Force, decent templates. He just didn’t prepare for elite Germany, that can push even 240 units fullly entrenched with CAS.

A max buffed Germany stands no chance against bittersteel’s max buffed encirclements

I think the attached file is wrong. My start date is 1953 and not 42, as shown in the video.

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

Woops

I haven't played much soviets, but the game I remember best I had only 5 armies defending, but I also had 60 mils on CAS

Bitt3rsteel uploads always brighten my day :D

Don't worry, Russia losing most of its fleet sailing to the East is just a tradition (aka, a repeat of 1904).

I had to use 2 full armies to hold just the polish line, without worrying about Finland and with a full line of full supply and a minimum lvl 3 fort. I held it very easily even without air, but that line is smaller comparatively.

Amazing video man. This filled me up just right 😊

With spies, you want to stack them all in one place which raises the intel network quicker to 100%, which gives you the bonus quicker as well.

I haven’t played HoI4 in so long I’d have to completely re-learn the game but I still watch the shit out of your videos lol.

This was quite impressive ngl, especially due to all the buffs given to Germany

In my numerous times playing Soviet, I'm only once hold in the Stalin line. I like to brawls defensive battle in Eastern Poland. Also recently go against strengthens Germany, it's finally a good fight

This is a HUGE reason why i only build military factories in the east of the USSR

Stalin Thanks you for saving his ass once again

He probably tried to use the meta from Dave from FeedBackGaming

I love the music you play in this video, I’m going to make it my mother in law’s ringtone

I need another co-op gameplay with Laith in my system

The frontlines look very historical

love your content man keep up the good work

Unironically why did it look like Germany stopped at historical lines 😂

This man is unable to do bad videos. :D

SEND DUDES

Saving the Onion :thumbsup:

Bitter is the historical meaning of the uno reverse card

very cool

Can't be caught with your pants down, if you don't wear pants. I'm looking at you Donald duck.

I’m a fan of both of these teams lol

14:33 Bitt3r "Brad Pitt" Steel

Self propelled anti air is a very classic Chinese strategy. But in infantry, not tank divisions😅

20:10 almost looks like finland xD

22:38-22:42 relentless drive east, may be a bit of a bad idea

You finished the war earlier than irl

Thanks for calling it Kharkiv

Bro should tr6 to beat Germany as Denmark

you should give these saves in desc so we can paly them too

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

But they *are* in the description

@elmercimek7814

5 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel then im one of an blind myself lol

What mod or dlc are you using?

next max boosted Italy xd

Was this the one on the reddit too?

soo... you played a historical Soviet game then

"Im not a spreadsheet nerd" 💀💀

Come to Bali

Honestly the Soviet Union❤ is my favorite counrry to play ngl

@AgentAction-ni2ji

5 ай бұрын

Why? they have that horrible political paranoia system, i hate the USSR in hoi4

@nikolasrpak6187

5 ай бұрын

@@AgentAction-ni2ji yeah i agree the paranoia sucks, but its cool to play after the purge

@clongshanks5206

5 ай бұрын

@@AgentAction-ni2jithey were more fun before the paranoia mechanic. My favorite playthrough lately is Trotsky Mexico

@arya.n.8252

5 ай бұрын

Paranoia make Soviet like playing a rougelike, up to RNG which one survive the purge

Wait, do you mean you need 10 full armies... as it 24 x 5 x 10 = 1200 fucking divisions?

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

I saw two full army groups, so 10 Armies. 240 divisions

The Brits want Kosovo even in a video game.

I wanted to see what the aircraft looked like?

100 миллионов советских потерь из 10

Bro he's playing Realistik

What version of the game is this ?

Germany’s guide pls

Bro pronounces Stalino different every time

where can i send my own saves?

@316-9

5 ай бұрын

Check the description

i became romania

Soviet yamato LOL

ai is so bad. armies whose logistics routes are cut off do not retreat and just wait.

fix save

@Bitt3rSteel

5 ай бұрын

Is fixes

@ADSP1945

5 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel google drive sayes you need permission

Mamamia

@QreatorXD

5 ай бұрын

Waiting for Italy to counter soviet union

Mijn favoriete zuid Nederlander.

It's just hilarious that this mappainter paints even after years and years of patches and improvements such horible maps. 😂

Lets go

I think I’m the first viewer it says no views lol

hoho

IM ONE OF THE FIRST ONES YAYAYAYAYAYAY