*Millions dead and economy in ruins* Entente: "What do you mean my country needs to recover? We won the war! Where's my gold medal and reparations from all of those young hard-working Germans we just kil- oh right..."
Read Voyage of the Damned if you haven't. The journey was a meme-worthy nightmare involving wool hats, zoo ships, refrigerator issues, cutting an undersea cable and almost bringing the entire Royal Navy down on Russia
Yeah that was the big reason the Germans wanted it during the Munich conference, then after the war the Czech government decided “fine you wanna be German, go be German” and kicked them out to Germany
@@Lady_Amelia-Eloise It wasn't that linear. The Czechoslovakian government never wanted to concede Sudetenland (It was a natural deterrent from German invasion due to its hills and built in defences). They were forced too. France and the UK (Italy too but who cares about them lol) told them too after the Munich conference (which they weren't invited to). It was a betrayal from France and the UK which lead to their annexation without bloodshed. A famous image of Czech tanks mixed with german tanks going down the champ elysee in Paris shows how badly selling out Czechoslovakia was for the allies.
100% agree with you at the end. Great mod, until the end of WW1, then it just falls of a cliff. The one-two gut punch of the scripted peace deal and then the post-war recovery is just a bad idea.
Just as an interesting historical note, the State of Slovenians, Croatians and Serbs actually existed for a very short time and didn't include Serbia. Serbia annexed it and it became the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia
While howitzers are way more expensive than regular artilery,you use less of them on a battalion than artilery,so in the long run they are actually better artilery for about the same price
If you hit the rewind button at the very beginning repeatedly it sounds like bittersteel is getting whacked over the head repeatedly with a kids drum. That is all.
Honestly the great war mod makes me so angry. I enjoy the way the combat is, the slower pace and longer battles are thematic and fun. However, I agree the random events that just break you suck. I played a French Republic game, with historical focuses ON, and for some strange reason Franz Ferdinand never died. I knew something was wrong when I got a notification that "the United states of greater Austria" got declared on by Serbia. However, the serbs lost immediately. No one joined the war. The entente just did nothing. So when my build was ready and I felt I could solo the Germans, I attacked them through the tree in like 1916. Only for the Russians to join the Germans. Which was fine I was able to fight them both alone. That is until 1918 and the Germans owned 1 french town along the border. This made me immediately lose the war even though I was at full stability and war support. And I had killed 2 million Germans and a million Russians, to only 300k. However since they were on my territory the war just ended and I got a shit ton of crazy post war debuffs. It was in that game I realized what you were saying about howitzers is very true. The final tier of howitzer has like 10 less soft attack than regular final tier arty. Which is insane cause for the French it's like some 200mm gun. Then the arty piece is just a 155mm. I know the 15cms were a really powerful class of artillery that's why it's still used today. However, a 200mm howitzer has like double the explosive mass of a traditional arty shell. Soft attack is all about the amount of explosive damage a unit does. Makes 0 sense.
I mean I get the point in having even the winners of the Great War suffer at the end, given that no one wins in such catastrophic wars, but Bitt3rsteel is right from a gameplay perspective.
The interesting part about the Austrian borders past the treaty in this video was, that unlike in our timeline, they traded the Sudetenland and Czech Sileasia for the Burgenland region, essentially moving they land border with hungary, in this timeline, 50 kilometers closer to vienna, which idk if thats such a great deal lmao
I think the forced demobilization at the end of the great war redux is the point? It forces you to involve everyone that you want to invade in the great war, so you can't take everyone out one by one. So in this case, it wanted to force you to go in on the USA while you were still fighting everyone else
please make a series where you play .... and protect ..... from anyone else. Like play as russia and protect ethiopia from italy or play as france and defend czhecoslovakia from germany. As random as you wish. Atleast 50% of its original land has to remain and You cant attack/puppet/satelite/annex the country you are supposed to protect
Lol you find it difficult to play poorly while I find it impossible to play well. I'm always impressed watching you play because I lose every time even with nearly 1000 hours in the game.
The thing regarding the Sudetenland is that It is true that they were Majority German in parts up to 90% from what I saw On the other side: - Bohemia and Moravia did have defined border. Unlike the Slovak part where the borders needed to be defined .... - Defensibility of the border was also a big consideration as both the German exclaves and the remaining Czech lands would be indefensible. - Not all Germans in those areas were opposed to being part of Czechoslovakia - especially the the West - North areas ... and even in the southern parts there were a significant portion not wanting to end under Austrian rule ...
You want to do the event for the All-Russian Strike for a year, and then it goes away. Gets rid of the strike movement easily. (This advice is for the historical route)
💀 IRL WW1 Russia couldn't be any more "competent". It was already way stronger than both France & Britain combined. Stop following these bs soviet "stereotypes".
You're dead wrong on the howitzers by the way, they are signifcantly better than the artillery (because better stats on slightly less unit tends to be better than worse stats on slightly more units) try using them if you don't believe me
Howitzers are only good if you need to make elite units before 1914, as that´s when you can research the next artillery model that´s just better than howitzers at everything. If howitzers could be made a support company they would have more uses but as things are, they have are a bit too niche for how much they cost, your paying 2,5 times the cost for a small improvement in soft attack at the cost of defense and breakthrough and even the bonus to soft attack lasts only until you get the next artillery model which you can pretty much always get before WW1 kicks off.
Usually when I play Russia I’ll civ rush until the start of 1914 which is when I’ll start building mils after which I spend the next 10 years slogging it out with Germany and Austria in Eastern Europe. Peak hoi4 to be honest. France gets capt early and sometimes I use the console to keep Britain in the war.
The Republic of German Austria really happened. Aside from today's Austrian territory it also claimed Sudetenland, Czech/Austrian Silesia, upper half of today's South Tyrol and a little bit of Slovenia. The borders were like this for 2 reasons. 1 - it encompassed all German inhabitated areas, 2 - they were hoping to be annexed by Weimar Germany (that's why the name of German Austria, they thought that without the monarchs, there is nothing separating Germans and Austrians)
If we do get a new video on the civil War, could you go into more detail on the best templates to use in the mod? With howitzers and other changes I still don't know what good offensive divisions look like
Now Bitt3rSteel knows how Italy felt after being on the winning side of WW1 and still getting cucked out of all the land they wanted in the peace-deal 😆
Before you even hit play, the answer is yes you can. Ive dont it, and i don't remember a civil war happening. It kept sending me events saying the communists were about to rise up but they never did and i steam rolled germany.
Russia being unplayable in the late 1910's is a canon event
He’s not Wrong
God Awful Context
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Yeah i mean who would've thought after a 'world war' realistically their economy would be screwed
Fixed event in time!
You a mutserd drone fan?
"I dont want to be recovering after WiNnInG tHe WaR"
I think thats exactly what the entente said after winning the war 😂
*Millions dead and economy in ruins*
Entente: "What do you mean my country needs to recover? We won the war! Where's my gold medal and reparations from all of those young hard-working Germans we just kil- oh right..."
Mind those japanese torpedo boats in the north sea, Oh sorry Britain.
@@tricky1992000 Second Pacific reference. Kamchatka was either rebellious or had the dumbest naval officers to ever live.
@@flutee6162 lol real though, what did they expect lmao.
Battle of Tsushima explains in one sentence: Russian Fleet travel half the world to just be completely destroyed.
Russia never was, is, or will be a naval power. lol
@@rh906imagine having your mighty black fleet sunk by some random Drones😂😂😂😂
Read Voyage of the Damned if you haven't. The journey was a meme-worthy nightmare involving wool hats, zoo ships, refrigerator issues, cutting an undersea cable and almost bringing the entire Royal Navy down on Russia
@@mttokrnk imagine still losing after receiving free "game changers" that are destroyed by 10$ drone 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Most of the fleet is fine and Ukraine should focus on stopping Russian offensives @@mttokrnk
I would like to see a Teddy Roosevelt playthrough.
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@@sixtenfrid6895Bitt3r releasens videos early to his UA-cam Members
It would be epic
@@General_Dane The paranoid kid gave me a small chuckle at least.
This mod is a great lesson that not everything should be completely historically accurate.
The sudetenland was indeed mostly german. my grandfather is actually from there but now lives with my family in Nuremberg, Bavaria.
Yeah that was the big reason the Germans wanted it during the Munich conference, then after the war the Czech government decided “fine you wanna be German, go be German” and kicked them out to Germany
@@Lady_Amelia-Eloise It wasn't that linear. The Czechoslovakian government never wanted to concede Sudetenland (It was a natural deterrent from German invasion due to its hills and built in defences). They were forced too. France and the UK (Italy too but who cares about them lol) told them too after the Munich conference (which they weren't invited to). It was a betrayal from France and the UK which lead to their annexation without bloodshed. A famous image of Czech tanks mixed with german tanks going down the champ elysee in Paris shows how badly selling out Czechoslovakia was for the allies.
According to the allies genocide and forced relocation is only bad when it is done to them
@@literatureconnoisseur that wasn't a thing before 1948
@@dolteki forced relocation happened between Greece and Turkey before 1948 tho
I played a run as Germany, won the great war, for some reason took the time to recover and let's say... It doesn't really get any better
1:26 5k likes for GWR RCW gameplay? Deal accepted.
One hour and we're almost halfway there
2 hours in and we're at 3k
3h and we are at 4k
5k was a low bar. Writing this it's 4.4k in 3h. I feel like I'm somehow late to this party! :D
At 5.6k 5 hours in
100% agree with you at the end. Great mod, until the end of WW1, then it just falls of a cliff.
The one-two gut punch of the scripted peace deal and then the post-war recovery is just a bad idea.
Just as an interesting historical note, the State of Slovenians, Croatians and Serbs actually existed for a very short time and didn't include Serbia.
Serbia annexed it and it became the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia
exactly
They didn't annex it they just joined
what the guy above me said, the Republic of SCS had to join the Kingdom of Serbia because they would be f'd without them.
@@notbanjelacic da
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes; latterly the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
21:24 this is why you shouldn't play mods with Ironman on! Nobody would think any less of you for just doing focus.autocomplete here!
I was wondering about why there were no great russian empire playthroughs in the Great war redux and right then this banger dropped
Monarchy playthroughs are always a must watch.
Please do more of this! :3
i just finished a germany playthrough from 1910 to 1934. it was fun
I like how his rant after the end is pretty much historical leaders of every post-WW1 nation
And you hear in the winds to name Kamchatka and feel the need to toss binoculars.
do you see torpedo boats?
While howitzers are way more expensive than regular artilery,you use less of them on a battalion than artilery,so in the long run they are actually better artilery for about the same price
everytime u see Bitt3rSteel upload u already know its gonna be FIRE
If you hit the rewind button at the very beginning repeatedly it sounds like bittersteel is getting whacked over the head repeatedly with a kids drum. That is all.
it does.
A A A A A
Indeed it does! Unintentional comedy.
Honestly the great war mod makes me so angry. I enjoy the way the combat is, the slower pace and longer battles are thematic and fun. However, I agree the random events that just break you suck. I played a French Republic game, with historical focuses ON, and for some strange reason Franz Ferdinand never died. I knew something was wrong when I got a notification that "the United states of greater Austria" got declared on by Serbia. However, the serbs lost immediately. No one joined the war. The entente just did nothing. So when my build was ready and I felt I could solo the Germans, I attacked them through the tree in like 1916. Only for the Russians to join the Germans. Which was fine I was able to fight them both alone. That is until 1918 and the Germans owned 1 french town along the border. This made me immediately lose the war even though I was at full stability and war support. And I had killed 2 million Germans and a million Russians, to only 300k. However since they were on my territory the war just ended and I got a shit ton of crazy post war debuffs. It was in that game I realized what you were saying about howitzers is very true. The final tier of howitzer has like 10 less soft attack than regular final tier arty. Which is insane cause for the French it's like some 200mm gun. Then the arty piece is just a 155mm. I know the 15cms were a really powerful class of artillery that's why it's still used today. However, a 200mm howitzer has like double the explosive mass of a traditional arty shell. Soft attack is all about the amount of explosive damage a unit does. Makes 0 sense.
Love your content! Hope everything is going well with live and such. Also recommend the new update with East Coast Rebirth submod for Old World Blues
10$ and no replies? Outrageous! Thank you for supporting one of my favorite creators, it means alot to me that other people like his content too
I thought he was gonna play across the dnieper 💀
unfortunately probably too controversial for him 😔
💀💀💀
Is that mod any good?
"I find it very difficult to play poorly" that's pure gold
Drachinifel has an awesome video on the Baltic fleets adventures
Would love to see some KaiserreduX. Some fun paths:
- Meme Poland (Great Lechia)
- Lovecraft’s new England
- Fiume
I appreciate that you still name a Marine unit after me. Semper Fi brother!
"Navy is mostly irrelevant"
But consider Bitter, it's very fun to play navy Italy and get shore bombardment on most tiles
Whenever I play this game I NEVER get my claims and rarely get my cores in peace deals. Hot trash of a peace system
You have to put your mod last in the load order
5:35 I'm not entirely sure because this is a mod, but you can manually fire advisors by clicking them in the hiring screen.
France, Italy and Austria : Never I thought I would die side by side with you.
I mean I get the point in having even the winners of the Great War suffer at the end, given that no one wins in such catastrophic wars, but Bitt3rsteel is right from a gameplay perspective.
Big fan. Love your videos. Please keep pushing them out
The interesting part about the Austrian borders past the treaty in this video was, that unlike in our timeline, they traded the Sudetenland and Czech Sileasia for the Burgenland region, essentially moving they land border with hungary, in this timeline, 50 kilometers closer to vienna, which idk if thats such a great deal lmao
Always remember to turn off scripted peace deals when playing this mod
I think the forced demobilization at the end of the great war redux is the point? It forces you to involve everyone that you want to invade in the great war, so you can't take everyone out one by one. So in this case, it wanted to force you to go in on the USA while you were still fighting everyone else
And this sucks
but thats stupid and prevents the player being strategic
@@ianhogben3472 Agreed not a fan of the overly scripted stuff, one reason why I never play kaiserreich.
5k likes in 4 hours, you know what to do, steel
Yeah hahaha
please make a series where you play .... and protect ..... from anyone else. Like play as russia and protect ethiopia from italy or play as france and defend czhecoslovakia from germany. As random as you wish. Atleast 50% of its original land has to remain and You cant attack/puppet/satelite/annex the country you are supposed to protect
Lol you find it difficult to play poorly while I find it impossible to play well. I'm always impressed watching you play because I lose every time even with nearly 1000 hours in the game.
The thing regarding the Sudetenland is that
It is true that they were Majority German in parts up to 90% from what I saw
On the other side:
- Bohemia and Moravia did have defined border. Unlike the Slovak part where the borders needed to be defined ....
- Defensibility of the border was also a big consideration as both the German exclaves and the remaining Czech lands would be indefensible.
- Not all Germans in those areas were opposed to being part of Czechoslovakia - especially the the West - North areas ... and even in the southern parts there were a significant portion not wanting to end under Austrian rule ...
I've seen on the gwr server that the next update will have huge russia revamps, many changes from this one
I love how you lose 3/4ths of your industry in a night. Cool stuff. Great design
You want to do the event for the All-Russian Strike for a year, and then it goes away. Gets rid of the strike movement easily. (This advice is for the historical route)
When you want to a competent Russia but the game doesnt let you:
💀
IRL WW1 Russia couldn't be any more "competent". It was already way stronger than both France & Britain combined.
Stop following these bs soviet "stereotypes".
4:23 hey, i made a school work about this
I tried doing the same and it took me few tries to get enough stability and support to avert Duma crisis.
I love to see you playing kaiserreich
12k likes. We want that civil war video
You're dead wrong on the howitzers by the way, they are signifcantly better than the artillery (because better stats on slightly less unit tends to be better than worse stats on slightly more units) try using them if you don't believe me
The problem is that they are 5x as expensive so not worth it with minimal bonusses
Howitzers are only good if you need to make elite units before 1914, as that´s when you can research the next artillery model that´s just better than howitzers at everything.
If howitzers could be made a support company they would have more uses but as things are, they have are a bit too niche for how much they cost, your paying 2,5 times the cost for a small improvement in soft attack at the cost of defense and breakthrough and even the bonus to soft attack lasts only until you get the next artillery model which you can pretty much always get before WW1 kicks off.
Usually when I play Russia I’ll civ rush until the start of 1914 which is when I’ll start building mils after which I spend the next 10 years slogging it out with Germany and Austria in Eastern Europe.
Peak hoi4 to be honest.
France gets capt early and sometimes I use the console to keep Britain in the war.
7 hours later almost 6.6K likes. YOUR FATE HATH BEEN SEALED, STEEL
So if the stats are the same for artillery and howitzers whats the point?
BALANCE team being retarted thats what happened
Bro loves to spam that one futurama clip
Your Russian and German pronunciations are always so funny😂
Going this path triggers a civil war that is different to the regular Russian Civil War.
The Republic of German Austria really happened. Aside from today's Austrian territory it also claimed Sudetenland, Czech/Austrian Silesia, upper half of today's South Tyrol and a little bit of Slovenia. The borders were like this for 2 reasons. 1 - it encompassed all German inhabitated areas, 2 - they were hoping to be annexed by Weimar Germany (that's why the name of German Austria, they thought that without the monarchs, there is nothing separating Germans and Austrians)
This game is rising to its peak of popularity
If we do get a new video on the civil War, could you go into more detail on the best templates to use in the mod? With howitzers and other changes I still don't know what good offensive divisions look like
2:44 bye veterans hello (less)inexperienced soilders😂😂
Lore of Russia, but this time it's COMPETENT! Momentum 100
Putting BitterSteel through the pain of a civil war for 5k likes? Sounds like account creating time
not even 10 hours and he has almost 10k likes ! enjoy seeing that upcoming video
19:39 hmmmmmm where have THAT before
this guy got personal beef with italy
Just woke up, and saw the video on the notifications
Thank yu bittersteel for the 9 am content
I'd like to see you try the Millennium Down mod, have you ever tought about??
„Unlike nicolai im not an idiot“ got me 😂
3:16 *angry danish noises intensifies*
Austria was trying to keep Czech Republic and Austria then bits of Czech then to nothing
i would dispute that 40% is "barely" an improvement! altho the 100% more cost indeed is too steep :D
Now Bitt3rSteel knows how Italy felt after being on the winning side of WW1 and still getting cucked out of all the land they wanted in the peace-deal 😆
19:31 Just like real life
Love the mod playthroughs
You should try the 2WRW mod for TNO. It's a lot of fun and gives some much needed endgame content for some Russian tags
Please play Serbia in the Great War Redux! It's quite challenging playing the underdog.
Not bad товарищ, not bad
I love the fact the russian Ottoman empire turned christian by the looks of their flag. I absolutely love they included that
Before you even hit play, the answer is yes you can. Ive dont it, and i don't remember a civil war happening. It kept sending me events saying the communists were about to rise up but they never did and i steam rolled germany.
Always a good week when bitter posts
Man, I just love your content.
Please whatever video your doing next, use that fnaf jumpscare that rambler just posted :)
Do now a historical game without the civil war.
I would like to see you play Germany 1910-1945 and try and make a kaiserreich, Lol.
i thought this was my SSSR disaster save from the title 😭😭😭
Lets goo an other bittersteel video
1;28 i think we getting a follow up video bois
Hi Bitt3rstell, can you try German in World Ablaze, this mod is so difficult😢
Fun Fact: The Kaiser , King George V and the Tsar were all cousins it’s really tragic to see how king Louis could help fix the war but he didnt
I think you mean George, not Louis
@@beruckle thank you for correcting me
Are you still doing the A-Z run?
Honestly, competent Russia is a pretty scary concept
WW1 Russia couldn't be any more "competent"
That focus tree is massive?
So, the next video will be played on "In the name of tsar" mod?
BITT3RSTEEEL ARE YOU UP FOR A CHALLENGE!!!!????
Why isnt there an option NOT to have the conference that demobilizes? Or at least some sorta option to check on when you want to for RP sake?
Dev's America Bias.
Damn, Russia can't get Alaska even in a video game
Request for Great War redux playthrough as Qing China in submod
Danzig for guarantees playthrough when
Bulgaria world conquest?
Can you do a germany before the leaves fall challenge in great war redux?
I think its kinda impossible