That +20% non-core manpower modifier is actually so OP. There's basically no reason to puppet anything since even with 0 compliance you're gonna be gaining more manpower than it costs to garrison.
He means, why doesn’t Iceland have an option on the selection menu, where USA UK France Germany Italy and Soviet Union are with the portraits and then little flags of other countries below, example, the commonwealth nations, Poland, Netherlands, Ethiopia
Just imagine being british in this world you dont want any war after the horrors of ww1 then you see the axis do what they could not in ww1 and captured all countries that opposed them in mainland europe then you hear news of an invasion but it is not the germans it is a random island called iceland despite having no ice and a lot of volcanoes
8:55 that's also one of the tricks you can use with Germany to naval invade the UK by going from the port north of amsterdam which puts the arrow exactly in between the english channel and the eastern north sea so you only need supremacy in the north sea
Iceland, a neutral nation that got invaded by Britain and then later turned over to the USA (before Pearl harbour). Which I am pretty sure is the only time in history that a nation was occupied by another neutral nation during a war
Great video. My run was similar, except invading Netherlands was very painful. I should have used the market from the start. Yugoslavia gave me basically all my guns and artillery. I didnt continue after the allies capped, i didnt know about that absurd non core pop advisor. Wow that is broken.
Quite a bit of stuff missed out from this....gaining naval points out of nowhere, order of some focuses selected. It's a decent guide but I'll need to work out some other bits.
First of all: i love your work. Much like yourself i am someone who has attempted to grow a channel on the side, all while working, having family, etc. and I can only imagine the time commitment required to run a channel and provide content of this quality. I honestly can admit i never would have understood the game like i do now if it weren't for your videos amd tutorials when i picked the game up 2 months ago so mad props to you my friend. But i have a project Im considering starting but im not proficient enough with the game itself to make a quality video. Im wanting to recreate as accurately as humanly possible USA 's involvement in WW2. Im talking about accurate ship names, generals/admirals, advisors, and army and fleet compositions. Essentially follow the real world timeline and make a video from the perspective of pure history. I know that would be quite an undertaking but ive already done all the research necessary for it. I just need help from somebody with a far greater understanding of the mechanics of the game. If you know any content creators who might be interested in something of that nature, or have any suggestions or can point me in the right direction it would truly be helpful!
Great Video! For your next video, I'd recommend playing the Hoi4 mod "Battle of Seelow Heights" and attempt to save historical April 12th Germany from total disaster, it's a tough challenge hopefully.
Your guides are always the go to - clearest and most likely to work - thanks. Hoping for a FIN achievements guide, especially lone wolf (having some trouble there). MMM
If they want to go more realism heavy I think they should do something about the Indonesian man power, unlike for instance India the Indonesians didn't really fight as much in the Dutch armies, and do something about the naval invasions, ideally that you need superiority for a period not just a tick, with the possibility to react.
@@Hyde_Hill, thanks for the input. Yeah, the colony is barely industrialized and the populace is generally either apathetic (in case of the rural villagers because lack of care from above) or distrustful (in case of the educated urbanists because of the crackdown after the failed 1926 Rebellion) towards the administration. In turn, the heavy penalty to Recruitable Population Factor would entice the player to think more about their political decisions and its consequences, especially if it's manpower-related.
@@humphrey10-88 Mostly focus: Colonial Army: +10% non core Colonial Army2: +10% non core 5th Port. Empire: +5% non core Prince of terror: +2% non core Your several puppets at 90% compliance (requires 70%): +20% non core manpower Standard: +2%non core Equals: 49% non core manpower
Funnily enough, there is an Indonesian club based on Bandung that its fans has "The Vikings" as their moniker. Could've put an Indonesian Viking in the thumbnail instead of the Icelandic one.
Invading the Netherlands as Finland before AAT was ridiculously easy. All you had to do was get a good beachhead and defend mainly Rotterdam and Amsterdam until you could strike back and take a port.
I really like your videos so this is absolutely no hate! But it's really annoying that when you call something a guide, you skip important steps like hiring advisors and doing certain focusses. Would be great if you can include all of those in future vids!
@Bitt3er I have 2 Questions: 1. My destroyers II don't reach all the needed sea-regions for NL invasion. Game version problem? O r do I miss something? I did it now with Sub lvl 2. 2. How did you get the wargoal on UK by Sep 39?
Envy your luck here bitter. Tried three times and failed. First time HOL did not budge, lost half the convoy and 2 DD. Second time UK intercepted 2 out of 3 naval invasions to Hull, and the one they let slip, well that's the one hitting Hull where it was guarded. Third time the charm, the naval invasion did not even launch and it is 40, more than half the convoy ship is gone to maintain troops on HOL supplied.
I really need you to start showing your naval screens, I wanna see those green zones cause that shit never happens for me and I just sit there with no invasion going.
If you invade Britain from the tile north off Amsterdam, you can bypass the channel and eastern north sea. You just need to have supremacy on the north sea. Same works on Spain, from Leon to Bristol, just 1 region needed.
2:48 100 weekly manpower means 400 monthly manpower which is a pretty insignificant boost to your monthly population growth of one whole human being but anyway
I mean, if Iceland was a country that historically exist but in HOI4 doesn´t till AAT we can maybe see the same for Egypt being the main countrie of an arab DLC with Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
Iceland getting a tree before Belgium is really showing which are the relevant countries in this world.
I imagine they’ll make a dlc for Belgium, Austria and Albania about the countries that were invaded super fast
I already thought this when they gave the Baltics their trees.
Why buy a possible future DLC that *might* include a Belgium focus tree when you could just use a mod for free 😉
Why would we give a highway a focus tree?
@@RookiMellonachievements
Love the EU4 Comet sighted easter egg in "I wish I lived in more enlightened times"
All of the options there are comet event references, from what I could tell.
Aww yeah thanks for the shoutout!
Excited to see your spin on the best Nordic nation!
Hatless let's go!
the 2 goats
That +20% non-core manpower modifier is actually so OP. There's basically no reason to puppet anything since even with 0 compliance you're gonna be gaining more manpower than it costs to garrison.
germany can always attack it if its not his puppry
I wonder why Iceland doesn’t get put on the selection menu like the Sultanate of Aussa
if you mean why iceland doesn't get invaded, well, the sultunate of aussa was a vassal/member of the Ethiopian Empire, which Italy was at war with.
He means, why doesn’t Iceland have an option on the selection menu, where USA UK France Germany Italy and Soviet Union are with the portraits and then little flags of other countries below, example, the commonwealth nations, Poland, Netherlands, Ethiopia
The fact that Iceland has a better focus tree then Germany shows where the priorities are in the world
Based paradox
Just imagine being british in this world you dont want any war after the horrors of ww1 then you see the axis do what they could not in ww1 and captured all countries that opposed them in mainland europe then you hear news of an invasion but it is not the germans it is a random island called iceland despite having no ice and a lot of volcanoes
8:55 that's also one of the tricks you can use with Germany to naval invade the UK by going from the port north of amsterdam which puts the arrow exactly in between the english channel and the eastern north sea so you only need supremacy in the north sea
I wonder why Iceland was secret... it's such a cool nation and had so much impact in WW2
I dont think it really had an impact in ww2
@@nucelarworker7569 major impact for the battle of the north sea and keeping the kreigsmarine out of the arctic (hosted allied intelligence)
@heccsclips3319 iceland falling to the germans could been disastrous on allied shipping in the atlantic
@@dobi2236 yessirrr
Iceland, a neutral nation that got invaded by Britain and then later turned over to the USA (before Pearl harbour). Which I am pretty sure is the only time in history that a nation was occupied by another neutral nation during a war
some of this is just plain and simple peddling to the vikingboos
and i love it lol
I’m sure they would be so touched but our support we would be among the first sacrifices! 😅
Play as Democratic Yunnan
why do you want him to suffer more than he already does
Signed
Forgot yunnan existed ngl
@@salxrnwell warlords access all type of boost ideology advisors he can go communist/fascist and flip democracy
@@doctorwhat779 how does that change anything
Great video. My run was similar, except invading Netherlands was very painful. I should have used the market from the start. Yugoslavia gave me basically all my guns and artillery. I didnt continue after the allies capped, i didnt know about that absurd non core pop advisor. Wow that is broken.
The epitome of "size doesn't matter"😂
Would love to see a continuation!
20:32 Kallo was so scared that he left leadership.
Quite a bit of stuff missed out from this....gaining naval points out of nowhere, order of some focuses selected. It's a decent guide but I'll need to work out some other bits.
I love hove the Spanish civil war penalty is a reference to the infamous EU4 "comet sighting" stability hit event
Oh, please, continue!
gotta love that guy
First of all: i love your work. Much like yourself i am someone who has attempted to grow a channel on the side, all while working, having family, etc. and I can only imagine the time commitment required to run a channel and provide content of this quality. I honestly can admit i never would have understood the game like i do now if it weren't for your videos amd tutorials when i picked the game up 2 months ago so mad props to you my friend.
But i have a project Im considering starting but im not proficient enough with the game itself to make a quality video.
Im wanting to recreate as accurately as humanly possible USA 's involvement in WW2. Im talking about accurate ship names, generals/admirals, advisors, and army and fleet compositions. Essentially follow the real world timeline and make a video from the perspective of pure history.
I know that would be quite an undertaking but ive already done all the research necessary for it. I just need help from somebody with a far greater understanding of the mechanics of the game.
If you know any content creators who might be interested in something of that nature, or have any suggestions or can point me in the right direction it would truly be helpful!
Great Video! For your next video, I'd recommend playing the Hoi4 mod "Battle of Seelow Heights" and attempt to save historical April 12th Germany from total disaster, it's a tough challenge hopefully.
Your guides are always the go to - clearest and most likely to work - thanks. Hoping for a FIN achievements guide, especially lone wolf (having some trouble there). MMM
4:26 where did that naval xp come from??
the navy advisor. he gives passive naval Xp
Really need at least one play-trough with that Nordic tree lol.
I liked the old thumbnail as I’ve been loving the thumbnail art recently, sad to see it go away but it doesn’t change the high quality of this video
Love that god old style thumbnail with the new country ball style!
It seems like that while I wasn't watching you, a lot of futurama started getting into your videos
The Indonorse strike again! Now in Hoi4 instead of Crusader Kings games...
Heh, a wonderful surprise indeed! Honestly, Iceland is just fun to build from absolutely nothing.
Indonesian people are fighting in UK for the some state in Canada - best timeline ever :)
If they want to go more realism heavy I think they should do something about the Indonesian man power, unlike for instance India the Indonesians didn't really fight as much in the Dutch armies, and do something about the naval invasions, ideally that you need superiority for a period not just a tick, with the possibility to react.
East Indies Reworked mod kinda did that.
The manpower situation is heavily gimped with barely 240k manpower available in 1936.
@@krasnamerah1926 Ah okay a mod. Yeah would be good if they include that in the base game. Should still probably be less lol.
@@Hyde_Hill, thanks for the input.
Yeah, the colony is barely industrialized and the populace is generally either apathetic (in case of the rural villagers because lack of care from above) or distrustful (in case of the educated urbanists because of the crackdown after the failed 1926 Rebellion) towards the administration.
In turn, the heavy penalty to Recruitable Population Factor would entice the player to think more about their political decisions and its consequences, especially if it's manpower-related.
Stop trying to ruin my Australian Empire runs
Imagine learning this for your history exam 😂
I was very happy to see a nice EU4 easteregg
BITTERSTEEL IS MY SECOND FAV HOI4 creator keep going
23:21 every special unit cost 6 so if you get one it will say 6/292
Iceland has a focus tree. Meanwhile, I just had to pull off Snakes on a Plane with the generic tree for Brazil.
just got this game a couple days ago, already got a great new youtuber to watch
Huh that 20% non core manpower is nuts. Might have to give Iceland a go
You might enjoy Portugals 45% non core then XD
Holy hell, if they conquered their natural allies colonies they would be unstoppable. XD@@scavenger6268
@@scavenger6268 wait really? Is that a advisor or through focus?
@@humphrey10-88 Mostly focus:
Colonial Army: +10% non core
Colonial Army2: +10% non core
5th Port. Empire: +5% non core
Prince of terror: +2% non core
Your several puppets at 90% compliance (requires 70%): +20% non core manpower
Standard: +2%non core
Equals: 49% non core manpower
21:33 Good song from Toto, I agree
@Bitt3rSteel_ huh?
gg for the new thumbnails
This was great video now I want to do A Finland Nordic Unity
I love your videos
There's a chaotic florius video on this
I would love to see an update on the Byzantium guide since the strat doesn’t work anymore.
I always ended up capping them in 39
Just wanted to let you know that you are my favourite HOI4 youtuber and i watch quite a few 👍🏼
Are special forces doctrines dlc only because i can't access them
Love the content ❤🎉❤🎉
I hope the next DLC update will be focused on South America because so far it's literally the most irrelevant thing in HOI4
Brazil and Venezuela desperately need a tree
They said they want to add 2-3 more flavour packs and that the Middle East and South America are most likely places that will get covered.
Careful what you wish for my friend...
I mean it did happen so
the brits guarded dover when i did this
I couldn't do the achivements, because i did not play in iron mode but finally could invade Britain. Thank you.
Funnily enough, there is an Indonesian club based on Bandung that its fans has "The Vikings" as their moniker.
Could've put an Indonesian Viking in the thumbnail instead of the Icelandic one.
Invading the Netherlands as Finland before AAT was ridiculously easy. All you had to do was get a good beachhead and defend mainly Rotterdam and Amsterdam until you could strike back and take a port.
Such a good video
only a few people will remember when he misspelled "back" as "bakc" in the title
I really like your videos so this is absolutely no hate! But it's really annoying that when you call something a guide, you skip important steps like hiring advisors and doing certain focusses. Would be great if you can include all of those in future vids!
BITTERSTEEEL WOOOOOO
Iceland has a better tree than Japan, a major power of the war
Please continue and do the world conquest with this save
Please continue 🙏
crazy gameplay !!
I love your icelandic
@Bitt3er
I have 2 Questions:
1. My destroyers II don't reach all the needed sea-regions for NL invasion. Game version problem? O r do I miss something? I did it now with Sub lvl 2.
2. How did you get the wargoal on UK by Sep 39?
Never mind, I found both answers.
I’m having the same problem with the destroyer 2s, how did you fix?
Docking rights from Germany.@@christopherribaric648
Envy your luck here bitter. Tried three times and failed. First time HOL did not budge, lost half the convoy and 2 DD. Second time UK intercepted 2 out of 3 naval invasions to Hull, and the one they let slip, well that's the one hitting Hull where it was guarded. Third time the charm, the naval invasion did not even launch and it is 40, more than half the convoy ship is gone to maintain troops on HOL supplied.
I really need you to start showing your naval screens, I wanna see those green zones cause that shit never happens for me and I just sit there with no invasion going.
19:48 Average Gora when they set afoot in india
"Trust me, this is a big one and I'm going to show you"
Hahaa that's what she said... wait no that's not right
you beat netherlands in this video with 4 marines, but I beat yesterday netherlands using only 3 marines
If you invade Britain from the tile north off Amsterdam, you can bypass the channel and eastern north sea. You just need to have supremacy on the north sea.
Same works on Spain, from Leon to Bristol, just 1 region needed.
Is the title a typo? (will edit after watching video) Edit: He changed it mid video.
Good video
2:48 100 weekly manpower means 400 monthly manpower which is a pretty insignificant boost to your monthly population growth of one whole human being but anyway
My fav country is iceland so this video is a W ma boi and i will take it as a tutorial so thanks?
Lore of Iceland brings back the Viking Age: Cod Wars Guide Momentum 100
I mean, if Iceland was a country that historically exist but in HOI4 doesn´t till AAT we can maybe see the same for Egypt being the main countrie of an arab DLC with Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman.
Imagine having Christian X as a national spirit as Icelend but Denmark doesn't have it ! Just imagine the irony. 🙃
I saw that title change Bitt3r. SHM MY HEAD
Could you do a tierlist of all hoi4 nations rating how fun they are to play?
Can u make a video as playing vichy france? Apparently, there stronger with out all the debuffs
That was crazy
Is it possible for you to make an updated version of facist imperial federation guide?
@Bitt3rSteel_ ?
You had 245 factories before proclaiming Nordic Unity, why didn't it go up?
Vikings in india 1940 recruting indians for the viking cause 💀
So good
You can diplo pressure UK and they will give up what you ask, but it is kinda RNG
PAtiently waiting for the joys of the Fifth Portuguese Empire.
You are the best
Where did he get the 9 naval experience?
@Bitt3rSteel_ Wait, what?
There's a naval commander you can get for naval xp
How did u get 9 navy exp on oct 1936?
Hire the navy guy, then fire him once you have the xp
You know i think bittersteel likes futurerama? idk tho
Waiting for HOI4 April 1945 start date!
At training phase why don't wait a little bit more and all of the units get lvl 2 without burning equipments?
Guys does anyone knows what dlc gives additional demands after country capitulate?
Like he can take navy, industry, resources and so on.
Should be the standard for everyone I think. Otherwise it'll be BBA, as it came out with that.
@woutervanreekum Yeah it's not standard so by blood alone you say?
If so thanks mate
@Bitt3rSteel_ I got a surprise for you, IM BATMAN
😮 28:14
The tumb as changed?
Need part 2
Love from greece
Iceland , 10 M manpover …..
capitulating uk as iceland damn that is hard
I'd love to see you continue this campaign.
Would it be possible to do a Finnish guide? But without the DLC, so a historic Finland