5:20 for those who don’t know, army defence advisors are actually very good, as for advisors, generals, and feild marshals. Defence increases actually increase breakthrough, which in this instance would be much better than a non combat out of supply penalty reduction
@@RyuakiraX yeah it’s especially annoying as things like aggressive assaulted which advertise +10% breakthrough actually do nothing, but unyielding defender which gives 10% defence actually gives 10% defence and breakthrough
Ok I might not be entirely sure on that one, but I know that unyielding defender is just simply better, as it gives the defensive buff as well as the breakthrough
Рік тому+19
@@RyuakiraX HOI4 aint gonna tell you shit by itself
"That's alot of americans, dying for no good reason" Ah yes, the real Afghanistan experience. Good luck on keeping your sanity in this series, bittersteel
Tip: if you want to find a mysterious country that you've already capitulated but it miraculously survived somewhere, press F and the search box will open. Also works for searching individual provinces
I wish paradox added like a signaling system for your allies, like you can ping the players in MP or the AI in SP to hold the front or to give you naval/aerial superiority in a region, or to start pushing somewhere or retreat somewhere else, etc. Would solve the issue of the AI doing things you don't want it to do
My boys did it! From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli. Even without the shout out, definitely one of my favorite videos. Not sure if I was more excited than you were when you clicked the Persia decision. Entertaining from start to finish brother.
Personally I agree that lend lease is a bit strong for any half decent player but on the same note it’s quite realistic. As long as your sea lanes are safeish I think it’s well placed in the meta. I’m reminded of the English and Communist who basically would have lost everything if not for American lend lease/loans.
The moment Stalin declared war I knew he was hiding there. I've had the exact same thing happen to me. Defeated Soviets, fought over territory and due to points shenanigans the Soviets still existed alongside other Soviet puppets. Then out of the blue Soviets declare war on some 3rd party. Had no idea where they were until I had business in the Pacific and saw them up there.
Cool video! I'm doing something similar for myself, but not in alfabethical order. Yemen, Cuba and Uruguay were surprisingly fun :) Good luck with this challenge!
Haha this was funny to watch. Thanks for adding me to your vanguard army and for keeping me alive! :D maybe some medals could be awarded aswell in the future :D
I absolutely love bitters content it makes me jolt in joy whenever i see his videos. As a mongolian 🇲🇳 hoi player i ussually cant play mp and his achievement guides are such a great source of joy
Im excited for when you play Austria. I just had a game where I denied anschluss and now have almost created austria-hungary. no mods and historical focuses too. If you wanna know what I did just ask.
This might sound silly but would you be able to make a micro tutorial interesting? I see you and others play this micro-ing, seems like you're using hotkeys to redeploy units or something? When do you move a unit, how do you "cycle" units into a losing tile, etc? Usually I see tutorial focused on build orders, templates, and focus trees. Not how to actually manage and micro. Which.. I think might be really useful and have valid info regardless of patches so you aren't being asked to update it every 6 months.
I loved this video and I have to say that I’m amazed if you keep your sanity for the hole serie. If you manege I think that you can try and create the Al-Andalus caliphate from an Algeria without the French cores.
Sometimes I feel like the developers added a Decision that sounded cool, then didn't actually try to achieve it themselves. I know it's not true, that power creep has just made previously-achievable Decisions vastly more difficult, alongside some regions getting blanket Decisions that some of them can achieve which others can't, but it's funny to think about.
I only heard about these "A to Z Nations" challenges recently and I must say, I love the idea. HoI4 is too difficult for my mind to even comprehend, so it will be EU4 "A to Z" challenge for me (Starting with Aachen).
I do love your vids I’m going to get a pc for Christmas and this is the first game I’m getting because of you thank you hope you get a lot of subs and have a great UA-cam channel
Yes! I love RedHawk's A-Z challenge in EU4, so I am very excited to see you do that in HoI4. It really gets you into playing nations that rarely are played, and then the challenge goals can also be a lot of fun to come up with.
Might it have been worthwhile to convert a few units to Mountaineers for the push into the Caucuses? Seems like all those mountain tiles would have been the perfect place to use them.
As for the "Why do they have light tanks" Post WW-2 there was A LOT of Renault-FT Light tanks. More than France or her allies could ever need nor want to keep. So to get some (badly) needed capital they sold them to every tin pot dictator who would afford to buy.
Bitt3rsteel's sanity is about to dissapear faster than Aussa. I watch ISP and attempting this is equal to losing your sanity faster than you can destroy encircled divisions with no equipment and no organization.
@@SemHuijgen, only the pro-Dutch path is mostly updated for now, and tailored for historical AI-focuses on. But in short, the political options are whether to: 1. Retain the Status Quo with limited liberalizations in exchange of higher stability and inheriting the military prowess from the Fatherland, or 2. To heed on the Indies' already existing interest groups' wishes to make the East Indies more independent from Den Haag but still ultimately subservient to the Kingdom, in exchange of stability loss.
I agree that the Clicking of the button to re-form the nation is a good end point. Yeah look at what it gave you. The important part of "goal has been reached" is still the main point.
May his interest in HOI4 rest in peace. He'll become the few who wants the smallest of nations like Liberia or Paraguay to have focus trees all because of this treacherous challenge. I wish you luck.
Something that really aggrovates me in your videos is, that you always trade, even if you only are in a minus of e.g. 2 steel. This only gives you like -2.5 output so I usually just keep my civ building. Great video tho
@@Bitt3rSteel yes you are, you decided that this was a sane idea. So go on play Albania, suffer and aggrivate me even more by buying unnecessary rescources
There is a small exploit, some call this nazbol, when you go the fascist branch of the generic focus tree for the recruitable pop but use a communist advisor and then actually go commie for alliance with the Soviets and in newer versions also 500 manpower a week
Have you considered your a-z not being countries but on hoi4 game elements Bombers, Communism, Destroyers, Europe, Fallback lines, Grand battle plan...etc.?
I gave this a try as well, but i just skipped navy completely and used paratroopers instead to take islands and strategic locations, since i have had previous bad experiences with forming persia as iran, some of which involve my navy getting stuck.
Good job. Very interesting, taking your detour into Russia. I tried playing Afghanistan, trying to recreate Persian. I attacked Turkey after Iraq on the one day where they aren't guaranteed by anyone, and it was so annoying because they joined the Chinese United Front because I was bordering Sinkiang. I have no idea why China let them in, and I didn't want Japan to take parts of Turkey in the peace deal. Eventually I just caved and finished off China and barely got all Turkish states in the peace deal. Then I had to wait for the Allies to take over the Italian states I needed so that I could get them without going to war with the Axis. But I had to do it before it was too late for the Axis, because I never could have fought off the Allies if they finished Germany. That was annoying. But I did eventually get it, with a lot of savescumming. :-P
Afghanistan has a nice focus tree in road to 56, but it was still hard to conquer iran at first. And all the ships you take from others are sent to the Caspian sea where they are locked until soviets build the volga-don (I'm in 1948 and they still didn't build it😢)
As a person who watches both ISP and Bitter, may Bitter's sanity rest in peace
As a hungarian, i want the country in your profile picture to become real. You have my full support.
that's exactly what I thought when I saw the notification
lol, nice profile pic
Same
His mine Will decay
HOI is the easiest game to do A2Z. Then it would be CK, VIC and EU
I wish you the best Bittersteel. Having Binged ISPS series and watched his sanity deteriorate, I hope you've prepared yourself.
He's surely gonna suffer when playing uruguay
@@SyndicalistBrazilian South America* just in general
@@thewalkingtree7077 Brazil is decent
@@thewalkingtree7077 Brazil, Peru, maybe Argentina are decent
@@thewalkingtree7077Brazil has kinda a decent industry and lots of manpower
And here falls another HOI4 player's sanity. Rest in peace Bitt3rSteel's mind. We loved you as long as had you.
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We are all forgetting what’s up next, Albania.
@@plaguepug2091 Oh no
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5:20 for those who don’t know, army defence advisors are actually very good, as for advisors, generals, and feild marshals. Defence increases actually increase breakthrough, which in this instance would be much better than a non combat out of supply penalty reduction
Would be nice if the game actually told you that, since breakthrough is displayed in other places as a stat.
@@RyuakiraX yeah it’s especially annoying as things like aggressive assaulted which advertise +10% breakthrough actually do nothing, but unyielding defender which gives 10% defence actually gives 10% defence and breakthrough
@@JS-iu3ce Aggressive assaulter does nothing?
Ok I might not be entirely sure on that one, but I know that unyielding defender is just simply better, as it gives the defensive buff as well as the breakthrough
@@RyuakiraX HOI4 aint gonna tell you shit by itself
After this game I suggest a "members killed" counter where you track how many members have died for you in your many armies
this is great
Cross it over with the Disaster Saves campaigns too, so we can see how many times over members died before and after the Bitter Intervention.
"That's alot of americans, dying for no good reason" Ah yes, the real Afghanistan experience. Good luck on keeping your sanity in this series, bittersteel
A new A-Z series? A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one
hold on, this whole operation was ISP's idea!
We have brought peace Justice Security to the comments section!
Now I want to see a Collab between ISP and Bittersteel
Frustration meets Artillery only
Guess who's who
Ah yes the immortal naval invasion meltdowns
When Bitt3rSteel gets to Belgium (I think he's Belgian? sorry if I'm wrong), he should do an MP with ISP as UK
@@musaiyabmirzaali he is belgian
Tip: if you want to find a mysterious country that you've already capitulated but it miraculously survived somewhere, press F and the search box will open. Also works for searching individual provinces
I wish paradox added like a signaling system for your allies, like you can ping the players in MP or the AI in SP to hold the front or to give you naval/aerial superiority in a region, or to start pushing somewhere or retreat somewhere else, etc. Would solve the issue of the AI doing things you don't want it to do
I imagine the AI would still find a way to do stupid shit
Expeditionary forces are kind of like this.
My boys did it! From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
Even without the shout out, definitely one of my favorite videos. Not sure if I was more excited than you were when you clicked the Persia decision.
Entertaining from start to finish brother.
It's culann!
Bro is the mvp
Bro single-handedly capped Bulgaria
MVP COLAN!
Already can tell this is gonna be a great series
Personally I agree that lend lease is a bit strong for any half decent player but on the same note it’s quite realistic. As long as your sea lanes are safeish I think it’s well placed in the meta. I’m reminded of the English and Communist who basically would have lost everything if not for American lend lease/loans.
The moment Stalin declared war I knew he was hiding there. I've had the exact same thing happen to me. Defeated Soviets, fought over territory and due to points shenanigans the Soviets still existed alongside other Soviet puppets. Then out of the blue Soviets declare war on some 3rd party. Had no idea where they were until I had business in the Pacific and saw them up there.
Can't believe I'm about to watch this whole series again.
I can tell this is going to be a fun series
This will be interesting as bittersteel focused more on his gameplay and goals while ISP focuses more on his personality while doing random shit
What a start to the series - best of luck with your A to Z campaign!!
IBelgiumProductions is best Paradox Vtuber!
ISP has really created a monster with his A to Z challenge
Thank you so much for doing a-z series. Seriously its so helpful and i like your video and play style. Thanks man!
Thanks!
Oh noo, Bitt3rSteel is gonna get the A to Z fever just like ISP😭
Jokes aside, love the content.
Hes gonna jump off a building i say..... When hes at British malaya
@@fortressandfortress974, hopefully not. But my Dutch East Indies mod sadly only added leaders and states for them, not a focus tree.
All the ghosts of empires is what really carried this run.
Can't wait for the rest of this series!!!
I am really excited for this series. Seeing someone do A to Z with a more long-form style will be very entertaining
Cool video! I'm doing something similar for myself, but not in alfabethical order. Yemen, Cuba and Uruguay were surprisingly fun :) Good luck with this challenge!
I'd love to see this campaign continue!!
I like how you went historical and baited the enemy into the mountains.
Haha this was funny to watch. Thanks for adding me to your vanguard army and for keeping me alive! :D maybe some medals could be awarded aswell in the future :D
Everyone‘s gangsta until Afghanistan starts deploying aircraft carriers in the Black Sea…
Gotta say, your commentary is so relaxing. It works as my ASMR in a weird odd way.
I absolutely love bitters content it makes me jolt in joy whenever i see his videos. As a mongolian 🇲🇳 hoi player i ussually cant play mp and his achievement guides are such a great source of joy
Im excited for when you play Austria. I just had a game where I denied anschluss and now have almost created austria-hungary. no mods and historical focuses too. If you wanna know what I did just ask.
Really love the idea of your A to Z series! Looking forward to seeing some never played minor powers.
Now this is a proper A2Z series. Waiting for more
I've watched all of Bittersteel's videos for a long time, and this might be my favorite ever. I can't wait to see the rest of A to Z.
Cool idea! Go on with your amazing work! 😊
This might sound silly but would you be able to make a micro tutorial interesting? I see you and others play this micro-ing, seems like you're using hotkeys to redeploy units or something? When do you move a unit, how do you "cycle" units into a losing tile, etc? Usually I see tutorial focused on build orders, templates, and focus trees. Not how to actually manage and micro. Which.. I think might be really useful and have valid info regardless of patches so you aren't being asked to update it every 6 months.
Bittersteel not checking the casualty report on that 80+ division encirclement in v france hurt my soul
I loved this video and I have to say that I’m amazed if you keep your sanity for the hole serie. If you manege I think that you can try and create the Al-Andalus caliphate from an Algeria without the French cores.
Sometimes I feel like the developers added a Decision that sounded cool, then didn't actually try to achieve it themselves. I know it's not true, that power creep has just made previously-achievable Decisions vastly more difficult, alongside some regions getting blanket Decisions that some of them can achieve which others can't, but it's funny to think about.
Oh boy, this is gonna be fun. Hope he does releasables as well!
Yay ! A to Z ! I was waiting for it ^^ and it's reaching my hopes ! Persian Empire for a start O_O Best HOI4 content creator here XD
I only heard about these "A to Z Nations" challenges recently and I must say, I love the idea.
HoI4 is too difficult for my mind to even comprehend, so it will be EU4 "A to Z" challenge for me (Starting with Aachen).
I do love your vids I’m going to get a pc for Christmas and this is the first game I’m getting because of you thank you hope you get a lot of subs and have a great UA-cam channel
The amount of micro-ing that bitter had to go through for this video, the amount of respect I give is immeasurable
YES thank you for doing this
It was so cool to see my name up there!
Yes! I am so excited for this! ISP brings the memes and shorts and you bring the deep-dives and strategies!
I gave the video a like, not because its good (which it is), but because u posted. Quality content like normal 👍
iBelgian Productions lol. Great series, Bitt3r, hope to see more of this
I think they changed Afghanistans fascist flag, earlier they had the Taliban flag as fascist flag
16:08 Damnnn who let bittersteel rap, bros harder on the rhymes than eminem
Yes! I love RedHawk's A-Z challenge in EU4, so I am very excited to see you do that in HoI4. It really gets you into playing nations that rarely are played, and then the challenge goals can also be a lot of fun to come up with.
I am very much looking forward to more of this series.
Imagine ISP and Bittersteel co-oping a nation😂
"I've deployed more Russian conscripts, they're not equipped or ready for anything"
Well no change there then haha
Epic play to finish this off, good effort!
Hello everybody, and welcome back to hoi4 A2Z. The series where I (now bitt3rsteel) play every single starting nation in Hearts of Iron 4.
Please make HoI4 A-Z a series! This is amazing!!!
This feels like the start of a painful and lovely series. May the ISP good bless your soul.
What a great video mate❤
Might it have been worthwhile to convert a few units to Mountaineers for the push into the Caucuses? Seems like all those mountain tiles would have been the perfect place to use them.
I cannot wait for him to be shocked at the El Salvador start.
That was amazing but im sure that wasn't in my mind when i asked persian empire 😂😂😂great job man that was amazing
As for the "Why do they have light tanks"
Post WW-2 there was A LOT of Renault-FT Light tanks. More than France or her allies could ever need nor want to keep. So to get some (badly) needed capital they sold them to every tin pot dictator who would afford to buy.
Bitt3rsteel's sanity is about to dissapear faster than Aussa.
I watch ISP and attempting this is equal to losing your sanity faster than you can destroy encircled divisions with no equipment and no organization.
Only bitter can make this sort of playthrough entertaining
this series will show how far bitt3rsteels sanity can go
Hopefully i can prepare my Dutch East Indies mod quick enough for your future playthrough.
What would it include? As a dutchie, it sounds quite interesting!
@@SemHuijgen, only the pro-Dutch path is mostly updated for now, and tailored for historical AI-focuses on.
But in short, the political options are whether to:
1. Retain the Status Quo with limited liberalizations in exchange of higher stability and inheriting the military prowess from the Fatherland, or
2. To heed on the Indies' already existing interest groups' wishes to make the East Indies more independent from Den Haag but still ultimately subservient to the Kingdom, in exchange of stability loss.
@@SemHuijgen, the mod's name is Hollandia Historica: East Indies Reworked
I searched it, looks a lot better than the hoi4 one!
@@SemHuijgen, well, what do you mean? There's no official focus tree for Indonesia/East Indies yet.
Look at this mad lad, he actually did it, he restored the mighty and glorious Persian Empire!
love the series, RedHawk is gonna be proud!
love there vids so much
I’m so pumped got Bitt3rSteel A-Z let’s gooooo!
Wow, pure respect for recreating the Persian empire. Who cares if it's cheese? If it works it works.
I agree that the Clicking of the button to re-form the nation is a good end point.
Yeah look at what it gave you. The important part of "goal has been reached" is still the main point.
May his interest in HOI4 rest in peace. He'll become the few who wants the smallest of nations like Liberia or Paraguay to have focus trees all because of this treacherous challenge.
I wish you luck.
Ok but unironically paraguay could have a cool focus path where you take revenge for the war of the triple alliance
An A-Z Series? I want to get off MR BITT3RSTEEL'S WILD RIDE.
Lol, but this would be a huge showcase chance for modders to get their own mods noticed.
Something that really aggrovates me in your videos is, that you always trade, even if you only are in a minus of e.g. 2 steel. This only gives you like -2.5 output so I usually just keep my civ building. Great video tho
I'm a flawed person
@@Bitt3rSteel yes you are, you decided that this was a sane idea. So go on play Albania, suffer and aggrivate me even more by buying unnecessary rescources
THE FIRST A TO Z .. EPISODE??
can't wait for more, got back into HoI4 and now I get to watch my fav Hoi4 yter lose his sanity.
hold on, gotta grab some popcorn.
There is a small exploit, some call this nazbol, when you go the fascist branch of the generic focus tree for the recruitable pop but use a communist advisor and then actually go commie for alliance with the Soviets and in newer versions also 500 manpower a week
Have you considered your a-z not being countries but on hoi4 game elements
Bombers, Communism, Destroyers, Europe, Fallback lines, Grand battle plan...etc.?
Greece never surrenders. Italy bleeds all its equipment there. Bittersteel, that's actually historical!
What a fun campaign to watch! Also spotted my name, well, I saw Stephen, just imagine I am the only one :P As an early subscriber ;)
3:40 can we take a moment to apreciate that a member of bittersteels channel has the most French name ever ,shoutout to @Jean-Pierre
Expecting Luxemburg world conquest as Luxemburg any day now.
Somewhere in Pentagon:
"- Admiral, bad news for you. Afganistan`s first aircraft carrier entered the service.
- Afganistan`s WHAT???"
If you don't love me at my small pocket, then you don't deserve me at my BIG POCKET!
For my afghan game I found it best to take Iran and Iraq then go for India since the ai is coded to abandon Asia
I gave this a try as well, but i just skipped navy completely and used paratroopers instead to take islands and strategic locations, since i have had previous bad experiences with forming persia as iran, some of which involve my navy getting stuck.
Continues to be wild seeing HOI4 combat take place in cities that are part of a warzone rn.
Thank you so much for making it into a longer duration (｡･ω･｡)ﾉ♡
Good job. Very interesting, taking your detour into Russia. I tried playing Afghanistan, trying to recreate Persian. I attacked Turkey after Iraq on the one day where they aren't guaranteed by anyone, and it was so annoying because they joined the Chinese United Front because I was bordering Sinkiang. I have no idea why China let them in, and I didn't want Japan to take parts of Turkey in the peace deal. Eventually I just caved and finished off China and barely got all Turkish states in the peace deal. Then I had to wait for the Allies to take over the Italian states I needed so that I could get them without going to war with the Axis. But I had to do it before it was too late for the Axis, because I never could have fought off the Allies if they finished Germany. That was annoying. But I did eventually get it, with a lot of savescumming. :-P
Afghanistan has a nice focus tree in road to 56, but it was still hard to conquer iran at first. And all the ships you take from others are sent to the Caspian sea where they are locked until soviets build the volga-don (I'm in 1948 and they still didn't build it😢)
Honestly for mods the road to 56 is the only good one, since it gives focus trees and a overhauled base focus trees for countries.
so nice love your vids!💖
You can destroy stalins country, but you'll never destroy his resolve
Try playing as switzerland and try to take over axis. But overall. Good video LUV iT