@@Tom-oj7si Dankus is 50/50, since he's pulled off some absolutely braindead moves in MP (see: Dankus leaving the Home Isles totally undefended allowing Germany to cap him without resistance)
Something I've noticed in these kinds of runs. Doing Rhineland, then going into Army Innovations, using one research slot to rush the basic medium tank, lets you get a really good tank, (the Panzer IV) that works well into 1941. The reason you rush it is because that way, you can get a couple tanks, and the production cap's been reached, so you'll just start pumping out tanks divisions. Also, in my experience, having 7/8 lights tanks with high speed can work very well. Assuming you have the Truck production, (meaning 5-7 mils) you'd be able to double the amount of tanks you can field, while still having 3/4ths of the soft attack, and the ability to basically teleport around your opponent.
It's quite amusing that in this scenario the chaotic early war starts because of Adolf's bad handling of alcohol, especially considering that in real life he was apparently a teetotaler :D this was a fun one, keep up with the great HOI4 content!
@@joelkilchoer4238his doctor gave him "medicine" for different kinds of reasons. Hitler did not entirely " choose" to take drugs, but he became addicted.
@@joelkilchoer4238 to be fair, something like Meth wasn't considered a drug at the time, so while he may have been using drugs by modern standards, he wasn't by 30s and 40s standards
I love how bittersteel always turns into the respective historical leader with his commentary. Hitler building Battleships? "I know its mathematically inferior but I like it"
Regarding your tank template at 9:29, I think motor recon can be removed, as testing shows it's more effective during defence rather than attack. Also I personally prefer slightly higher org, so I'd replace few tanks with motor. This allows me to do dangerous encirclements where I need the tank divs to fight 3-4 tiles, back to back.
to be fair, the recon support companies don't just give recon, they give some pretty good movement bonuses which would make bigger/longer encirclements easier
@@tami8110 as based on testing 42 and 44 suffer the least terrain penalties for overstacking. As for why so big as 42. Bigger division have a lot of advantages over having smaller, but more number of divisions. Ex: no dependency on reinforce rate, higher HP, lower xp loss, lower supp equip loss, etc.
Tank template is good width and I like the 8 motorized inf as a minimum, but add 2 motorized AA to help with the CAS(especially with no air build) and transition to mech from motorized once your mediums are rolling out nicely off the production lines.
I love that ending casualty exchange, also I'm pretty sure that when you were cleaning up an encirclement in Belgium near the start I saw the enemy divisions as 187 in battle and 59 in reserve which is absolutely insane especially since they all died
I remeber when I did this on brutal before NSB launched after watching Dankus' run. Took me a few attempts to survive but once you get rolling, there's no stopping the geman war machine. Love to see, that it still works, was worried with all the changes to supply and air power, that it might be impossible. Perhaps going to give it another try
27:22 In singleplayer, some hoi4 tubers say meta is "spacemarines". Tank division has breakthrough like as spacemarines but they have speed also. But I think you should consider using them, because instead of constraring tanks to single divisions, you can send them to inf. divisions to make lots of more spacemarine divisions and they're cheaper. Efficiency-performance division. I am not sure, it has to be calculated however. By the way, it's fun to think about that France's tactic od dividing tanks all over divisions may work while playing hoi4.
It wont work, the tank is used for speed and breakthrough to get to vp asap while the enemy still bogged down in the frontline. spacemarines while having some breakthrough from the tank, they still as slow as an infantry which is not good for "snaking" to vp. and spacemarines took a big hit on industry too considering the 90% of the army is infantry so many tank is needed. so the best use of tank in this situation is like this in the video, this tactic were used for many disaster save vid too by alex the rambler and isp for encircling and destroying enemy div.
@@cpt.john_price Agree, I was wrong. But may I ask something, if I am not bothering you? Which situations where spacemarines will be useful? Or they are completely useless?
@@tutku1560 The only spacemarine template that will work really good is basically anything with flame tank, i didn't know have paradox nerf it or not but cheap light flame tank with max armor is rly op, you got infantry org, tank armor and light flame tank terrain buff. I forgot to mention the point of spacemarine isn't for breakthrough but the armor cause on the old version if you can't penetrate a division armor, you will get 20%(or smth i forgot) attack debuff, so stacking infantry and cheap tank with high armor is the meta
Honestly this isn't done until we see a peace conference. Cause you've yet to win. And saying "It's 1942 and I'm tried". I can say it's only 1942. You have like 3 more years to play. Keep playing my dude. Go for the win.
Did you know you can actually see how much people you killed in a encirclement. In the upper right corner there is theater tab and there is a paper there. If you click on that you can see A LOT of information regarding your battles
The way you continue is now that you've taken out the Soviet Union, find a part of the Eastern Front to hold and let the AI batter itself against a prepared line or waste time taking Siberia as you focus on Spain, firmly securing Continental Europe. Then go for taking out GB, which will remove the base for most AI invasions. That will allow you to again shift focus, pushing South into the Levant, setting up a defensive lin in Iran while you push down into Africa, taking out the Suez and securing the Mediterranean.
I've always wondered if you know that you can click on the skull icon in the casualties list to sort them by who has lost the most men. You usually seem to be searching the entire list.
Would love to see this continue! Even if it's not a full WC, taking out Scandinavia, reaching Gibraltar and Suez (so you control the Med) and maybe invading Britain (and maybe Ireland as well) would be a decent way to end the campaign
Me and a friend did this a year or so back but added some mods in the mix to make things interesting like improving ai intelligence and started it in 1939. Was a really tough but fun campaign where we caused a massacre in Scandinavia. The allies lost a good 30 million men up there through encirclements. Truly a cursed game
when youre working with limited time/eco i would very much suggest doing 30 width light tank spa divs especially against ai the spa has enough soft attack to basically hold/attack into most stuff and about 3 divs of that as france for instance is enough to hold against germany with the rest of your army being 10 widths or 18 widths (basic inf)
Hey super video I have no idea how you did this well, at 39:48 I don't know if you realized that you did the same things than the battle of kurske at the same place.. (btw I love this new type of video continue like this.)
Hey Bitter. For I dont know how long has this been going on, but I've had this problem that other people might have is that I hear this static high pitched sound in your videos that is very recognizeable if the volume is turned up by a bit and could it be your microphone or some kind of bug in the editing progress.
UR MIC is making a high pitched sound that makes it impossible for me to listen (ear sensitivity) for future reference you can remove it through audacity using a high pass filter under the frequency (to lower volume of sounds above selected frequency) the frequency is probably 7000+ hz, so to identify the exact frequency of the sound you can use a spectral analysis (go to Analyze -> Plot Spectrum while a part of the audio in which the sound is audible is selected) and look for a peak in higher frequencies, which your voice and sound effects would never reach alternatively there are more precise methods if you're a perfectionist, you can find tutorials on youtube good video nonetheless! keep it up
This is cool, I like watching your videos because I have the game, but my computer is not powerful enough to handle Hoi4 😋 I started by watching instructions on how to play and now I’m watching disaster and fun videos of yours. I hope you have a wonderful day and I want you to know these videos are awesome!!!
When looking for casualties, division count and factory count, you can click the buttons above to sort by them. This is very obvious, but also something people do not do.
Maintainence companies would be my first choice for a campaign like this, at least to have the chance to have divisions with guns from every country on earth lmao
I think you had a lucky run here. When I played, Vichy France somehow called itself into the war and dragged in my other puppets as well, who all instantly capped and destroyed my front lines. I also got naval invaded nonstop after the first month. Also, mediums being moved to 1938 tech makes this harder as well.
They all redeployed to the Frontline and one that line broke, Poland was dead and gone. It's amazing how some countries just can't handle early war due to pop and mil issues
@@Bitt3rSteel I just mean in all my runs, Poland was stuffed full of units from all over the world, particularly the Soviets and Chinese, almost instantly after the war began. By 1942 I had killed literally 100 million people with only 3 million losses but they still kept flooding in. This is a really fun mod though, thanks for recommending it.
@@Gustav_Kuriga short term, my divisions would be understrength, leading to me losing more battles, and making my lines harder to hold. By the time the maintenance company would be productive, I'd either already be losing hard or I'd be winning and I'd need the production elsewhere
Absolutely need this to be a full world conquest, I know its unethical to even ask it but please!
Dankus did it
Yeah agree with op
Dankus is the best player so it's not surprising haha
I would like a continuation anyways
@@Tom-oj7si Dankus is 50/50, since he's pulled off some absolutely braindead moves in MP (see: Dankus leaving the Home Isles totally undefended allowing Germany to cap him without resistance)
I would love to see this campaign continued.
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The battle of Kursk, the famous battle between German tanks attempting to encircle to soviets against Japanese Calvary and American infantry.
Cavalry not calvary.
@@darkraven8103 it’s Calvary
@@nadersaid2215 actually cavalry is the army made up of horses and calvary means crucifixion
Also known as operation Citadel
@@darkraven8103 🤓☝
I was there for the Bitt3rSteel rage at this mod 😁
Glad you were able to figure it out. Such a fun and difficult challenge!
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have you tried this one?
@@HPLovecats not yet, no
Definitely looks like a good challenge though!
“Hoorah another friend for the Reich”
That was unexpected 😂😭
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Something I've noticed in these kinds of runs. Doing Rhineland, then going into Army Innovations, using one research slot to rush the basic medium tank, lets you get a really good tank, (the Panzer IV) that works well into 1941. The reason you rush it is because that way, you can get a couple tanks, and the production cap's been reached, so you'll just start pumping out tanks divisions.
Also, in my experience, having 7/8 lights tanks with high speed can work very well. Assuming you have the Truck production, (meaning 5-7 mils) you'd be able to double the amount of tanks you can field, while still having 3/4ths of the soft attack, and the ability to basically teleport around your opponent.
Omae wa mou shindeiru.
@@kennethmoses4900N A N I ?!
@@kennethmoses4900uno reverse, SHINDEIRU
N A N I
It's quite amusing that in this scenario the chaotic early war starts because of Adolf's bad handling of alcohol, especially considering that in real life he was apparently a teetotaler :D this was a fun one, keep up with the great HOI4 content!
And THIS is why he did not drink.
Strange that they chose alcohol when Hitler was constantly on drugs
@@joelkilchoer4238his doctor gave him "medicine" for different kinds of reasons. Hitler did not entirely " choose" to take drugs, but he became addicted.
@@joelkilchoer4238 to be fair, something like Meth wasn't considered a drug at the time, so while he may have been using drugs by modern standards, he wasn't by 30s and 40s standards
I love how bittersteel always turns into the respective historical leader with his commentary. Hitler building Battleships? "I know its mathematically inferior but I like it"
Regarding your tank template at 9:29, I think motor recon can be removed, as testing shows it's more effective during defence rather than attack. Also I personally prefer slightly higher org, so I'd replace few tanks with motor. This allows me to do dangerous encirclements where I need the tank divs to fight 3-4 tiles, back to back.
to be fair, the recon support companies don't just give recon, they give some pretty good movement bonuses which would make bigger/longer encirclements easier
Maybe you can explain something for me then: Why the 42 width? I know they change it but I never managed to wrap my head around that
@@tami8110 math was done, 42 is the new 40, odd numbers are more liked more for terrain differences
@@tami8110 as based on testing 42 and 44 suffer the least terrain penalties for overstacking.
As for why so big as 42. Bigger division have a lot of advantages over having smaller, but more number of divisions. Ex: no dependency on reinforce rate, higher HP, lower xp loss, lower supp equip loss, etc.
@@Kryssalids that is true, did not think of that
I love how he even re-enacted the Battle of Kursk in the exact place it unfolded in real life
Happy new year!
Ok
A bit late but ok
Happy new year to you too random stranger❤️
You to buddy! 🎉🎉🎉
@@mazen_tarek8535 thanks
Tank template is good width and I like the 8 motorized inf as a minimum, but add 2 motorized AA to help with the CAS(especially with no air build) and transition to mech from motorized once your mediums are rolling out nicely off the production lines.
Thanks for the tips!
"Thanks for the tips"
-Bitter
8 people: wow such a useful comment!
Edit:why did I exactly make this comment?
I love that ending casualty exchange, also I'm pretty sure that when you were cleaning up an encirclement in Belgium near the start I saw the enemy divisions as 187 in battle and 59 in reserve which is absolutely insane especially since they all died
I remeber when I did this on brutal before NSB launched after watching Dankus' run. Took me a few attempts to survive but once you get rolling, there's no stopping the geman war machine. Love to see, that it still works, was worried with all the changes to supply and air power, that it might be impossible. Perhaps going to give it another try
27:22 In singleplayer, some hoi4 tubers say meta is "spacemarines". Tank division has breakthrough like as spacemarines but they have speed also. But I think you should consider using them, because instead of constraring tanks to single divisions, you can send them to inf. divisions to make lots of more spacemarine divisions and they're cheaper. Efficiency-performance division. I am not sure, it has to be calculated however. By the way, it's fun to think about that France's tactic od dividing tanks all over divisions may work while playing hoi4.
It wont work, the tank is used for speed and breakthrough to get to vp asap while the enemy still bogged down in the frontline. spacemarines while having some breakthrough from the tank, they still as slow as an infantry which is not good for "snaking" to vp. and spacemarines took a big hit on industry too considering the 90% of the army is infantry so many tank is needed. so the best use of tank in this situation is like this in the video, this tactic were used for many disaster save vid too by alex the rambler and isp for encircling and destroying enemy div.
@@cpt.john_price Agree, I was wrong. But may I ask something, if I am not bothering you? Which situations where spacemarines will be useful? Or they are completely useless?
The point of space marines is that you can fill entire armies with them, they arent supposed to be better than tanks
@@cc0767 Agree.
@@tutku1560 The only spacemarine template that will work really good is basically anything with flame tank, i didn't know have paradox nerf it or not but cheap light flame tank with max armor is rly op, you got infantry org, tank armor and light flame tank terrain buff. I forgot to mention the point of spacemarine isn't for breakthrough but the armor cause on the old version if you can't penetrate a division armor, you will get 20%(or smth i forgot) attack debuff, so stacking infantry and cheap tank with high armor is the meta
Honestly this isn't done until we see a peace conference. Cause you've yet to win. And saying "It's 1942 and I'm tried". I can say it's only 1942. You have like 3 more years to play. Keep playing my dude. Go for the win.
Did you know you can actually see how much people you killed in a encirclement. In the upper right corner there is theater tab and there is a paper there. If you click on that you can see A LOT of information regarding your battles
I love that thing. The largest non-encirlcement battle I've had was 500000 of my troops dead and 672000 of their troops dead. On one tile
@@pivotboy2062 so ur front was a replica of ww1
@@pivotboy2062 Stalingrad, Light Edition
37:26 You mean that?
@@derkurier2710 exactly. İ made the comment before finishing the video lol
Great video. Very lucky vichy didn't join the enemy early on.
True!
Continue this campaign, it's satisfying seeing all those 100 divisions encirclements
AA that is important. Aurim did a run on the hardest difficulty. Mostly waited for enemy air to get reduced to ash in the beginning.
Its always nice ending the day with a Bitt3rsteel video!
The way you continue is now that you've taken out the Soviet Union, find a part of the Eastern Front to hold and let the AI batter itself against a prepared line or waste time taking Siberia as you focus on Spain, firmly securing Continental Europe. Then go for taking out GB, which will remove the base for most AI invasions. That will allow you to again shift focus, pushing South into the Levant, setting up a defensive lin in Iran while you push down into Africa, taking out the Suez and securing the Mediterranean.
I’d say Scandinavia before Spain.
I've always wondered if you know that you can click on the skull icon in the casualties list to sort them by who has lost the most men. You usually seem to be searching the entire list.
I would absolutely love if you actually continued this at least until you knock out all the major world powers
Unfortunately do not think this is possible anymore, too much manpower loss so guaranteed loss in places like china/jap
The perfect and appropriate response to the "Well actually," crowd... "So?"
You know what's funny about that? I don't care
@@Miyukiareyouintroubleagain Yeah, me neither. Let's both not care on three.
One.
Two...
@@12Prophet wait no that's what you should say when someone sais well actually
@@Miyukiareyouintroubleagain Ah, sorry I thought you were starting some banter. :3
@@12Prophet yea sorry I didn't explain myself ^_^
Do you have a playlist of all the music you play in your videos? I checked the description to no avail. Some of these songs are so good!
You can beat hard mode if you have either massive airplane or artillery , also encircle the bad supplies area that has large army
Also, get bunch of fortications at the port and get some anti aircraft at the backline so paratroopers will get clap
Would love to see this continue! Even if it's not a full WC, taking out Scandinavia, reaching Gibraltar and Suez (so you control the Med) and maybe invading Britain (and maybe Ireland as well) would be a decent way to end the campaign
This one is going to be wild!
You are an absolute Madlad. Really enjoyed being part of the journey. Congratulations!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Me and a friend did this a year or so back but added some mods in the mix to make things interesting like improving ai intelligence and started it in 1939. Was a really tough but fun campaign where we caused a massacre in Scandinavia. The allies lost a good 30 million men up there through encirclements. Truly a cursed game
I REAAAAALY wanna see a WC from this campaign!
when youre working with limited time/eco i would very much suggest doing 30 width light tank spa divs
especially against ai
the spa has enough soft attack to basically hold/attack into most stuff and about 3 divs of that as france for instance is enough to hold against germany with the rest of your army being 10 widths or 18 widths (basic inf)
How many versions of this saying are there across the world? 40:01
1:15 , this halo reach reference so delicious
33:53 how did you make that formable nation I’m considering this mod and would like to know
Hey super video I have no idea how you did this well, at 39:48 I don't know if you realized that you did the same things than the battle of kurske at the same place.. (btw I love this new type of video continue like this.)
I was looking for this comment
Damn, this video was so soothing that I actually fell asleep. Thank you and a happy new year 👍🏻
Just doing a Ragnarok campaign myself. Very slow on my PC though. And still fun as hell somehow
4:30 once you become a major or get a certain number of factories, i've noticed that decision disappears. not sure why
Keep on doing this man we love it
Bitter I need a full world conquest, love your content and when you rage haha
If you are looking for another good challenge, I would love to see you do the "World Ablaze" mod.
Now you need to fight the whole world as Tannu tuva
Hey Bitter. For I dont know how long has this been going on, but I've had this problem that other people might have is that I hear this static high pitched sound in your videos that is very recognizeable if the volume is turned up by a bit and could it be your microphone or some kind of bug in the editing progress.
I heard it too
UR MIC is making a high pitched sound that makes it impossible for me to listen (ear sensitivity)
for future reference you can remove it through audacity using a high pass filter under the frequency (to lower volume of sounds above selected frequency)
the frequency is probably 7000+ hz, so to identify the exact frequency of the sound you can use a spectral analysis (go to Analyze -> Plot Spectrum while a part of the audio in which the sound is audible is selected) and look for a peak in higher frequencies, which your voice and sound effects would never reach
alternatively there are more precise methods if you're a perfectionist, you can find tutorials on youtube
good video nonetheless! keep it up
How much harder is it than Endsieg? Haven't played either but Ragnarok looks interesting so far
Because Endsieg is still in battle for the bosphorus and supply is bullshit
This is cool, I like watching your videos because I have the game, but my computer is not powerful enough to handle Hoi4 😋 I started by watching instructions on how to play and now I’m watching disaster and fun videos of yours. I hope you have a wonderful day and I want you to know these videos are awesome!!!
When looking for casualties, division count and factory count, you can click the buttons above to sort by them. This is very obvious, but also something people do not do.
Every time he switched to the air map it made me chuckle slightly
Please continue this further! :)
One thing you can also do to help with manpower is to request garrison support from your puppets.
You should try this challenge:
1. Play as France
2. Get cores on Algeria
3. Release Algeria while retaining core states, and also play as Algeria
Since you have done a Poland and Germany game recently, have you thought about doing a Kashubia run, a releasable from both those countries?
Great video man
Appreciate it
Never had this much fun as when i played ragnarok mod. Encircling 320 alied divisions is the way of life i enjoy.
You gotta finish this. No giving up until the whole world capitulates
would love a monthly episode where this save is being tackled and slowly completed in terms of taking over the world...
"The goal here is to take my land back", well well well really embodied german spirit....
Blessed run. Happy new year.
Please continue it. :)
*Clock hits 1940*
*USA* "Oh, would you look at the time, it's D Day o'clock!"
12:48 the name of that National Spirit sounds familiar...
Maintainence companies would be my first choice for a campaign like this, at least to have the chance to have divisions with guns from every country on earth lmao
Never forget how anarchist spain was there from the start. 19:08
Me:Losing against Poland as Germany
Bitt3rSteel:Destroying Europe as Germany
I think you had a lucky run here. When I played, Vichy France somehow called itself into the war and dragged in my other puppets as well, who all instantly capped and destroyed my front lines. I also got naval invaded nonstop after the first month. Also, mediums being moved to 1938 tech makes this harder as well.
Also also, why was Poland empty?!
They all redeployed to the Frontline and one that line broke, Poland was dead and gone. It's amazing how some countries just can't handle early war due to pop and mil issues
@@Bitt3rSteel I just mean in all my runs, Poland was stuffed full of units from all over the world, particularly the Soviets and Chinese, almost instantly after the war began. By 1942 I had killed literally 100 million people with only 3 million losses but they still kept flooding in. This is a really fun mod though, thanks for recommending it.
@@Bitt3rSteelcould you please make a second part?
@@james2529I think you need to kill like 500 million to make them run out on scrapping the barrel..
What if Italy and Japan were against Germany during WW2?
Bitt3rSteel:" New Year- New Me." ... Me: "Okay he deserves a like." xD
Regno del Sud? I think you mean Neue Ostrogoth Reich. **Evil laughter**
It's fun with the new 100 % cap of the swiss, you need to conquer literly everything
I can’t believe a mod made for 1937 works on this build of hoi4!
I would love to see you continue your own disaster save here to completion.
Wouldn't it have been viable to put support troops into your divisions to get enemy material? With all those encirclements...
The upfront cost for that much support equipment is massive
@@Bitt3rSteel As much as the mil you'd save not having to produce the other stuff?
@@Gustav_Kuriga short term, my divisions would be understrength, leading to me losing more battles, and making my lines harder to hold. By the time the maintenance company would be productive, I'd either already be losing hard or I'd be winning and I'd need the production elsewhere
Not the first time people have said it, but man the AI in HOI4 sucks. Incredible that Paradox just never programmed reserves into the game
The kanye edit was insane 😂
Amazing! Love the videos Continue!
That moment when trying to prevent world conquest causes world conquest
whoever made the subtitles need a raise
and also english classes
bitter. i love your videos.
would you mind showing of the division templates you ended up with at the end of the video sometimes?
Happy new year. I am here to ask for you to make the flying snakes achievment with Brazil please. I BEG YOU
Loved the video!!
Does anyone know if there is a Endsieg mod compatible with recent game updates, I loved that mod but now it's unusable.
Bitt3rSteel getting sick of fixing disaster saves decides to do his own
Allies: So Germany is completely encircled. Surely þey will surrender or at least be defensive.
Guderian wiþ 9 tank divisions: kauwabanga
Please continue soon :)
What a video, keep it up 👍
17:48 Rise Of Nations?
I would add maintenance companies to infantry after all these juicy pockets lol
How... How is the ringing back. It was gone for a good while too.
Hey, where did you got the darth evan background in opera GX? I was searching for it but i didn’t find it. so could you please tell me?
Hey Bitter I’m pretty sure the train decision you mentions around 4:35 is only available to minor countries
I love how cursed this is. My favorite historical moment was when the Germans encircled Canadian troops led by Zhukov.
Please continue this
I like how bro acts like this was gonna be hard for him
"I promise that I won't get political"
*3 drinks later* 11:40 :
You actually created a Kursk salient 39:30. You’re Kursk offensive was succesfull
38:40 Kanye fucking killed me
Aw, I was kind of looking forward to seeing you naval invade late game USA!
Bro... I lost the ethiopian war 💀💀
I love you bittersteel you are my favorite UA-camr ❤