The Russian Tsar is having a bad day - HoI4 Disaster Save
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- In this HoI4 Disaster Save as the Russian Empire, we find ourselves at the receiving end of Barbarossa. And it seems the player gave up for some reason.
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@Erik Sauer and all doubters: ua-cam.com/video/wbH4zGUIcP0/v-deo.html RAW FOOTAGE of this segment. Did I cheat? No. Is the AI competent? Also no
Hoi4 ai and competent ai are polar opposites.
The reason why was that the divisions were on a garrison order and moved automatically to the next province along.
Hey just wanted to let you know the company you promoted a few weeks ago "Established Titles" is actually a scam. There is a UA-cam video by Scott Shafer that goes into detail.
His About page shows several other accounts. You should try telling him on Twitter and Discord as well to maximize the chance he finds out.
@@aprender1952 chess ai vs hoi4 ai
At 14:00 there is a river crossing, but its hard to see.
You see that the river is running parallel to you on your left side just before Astrakhan and than it splits around Astrakhan, making it into an island. You can see that the river flows left and right around Astrakhan if you look closly.
But it is something I wouldn't have seen myself if I was playing at that moment.
I thought I was going crazy. Like THERE IS A RIVER
yeah its the rivers delta
Anytime that happens i figure the devs did more research than me in this, and i double check and usually learn something new!
That's the Volga delta. There are hundreds of islands actually
"I'm just roleplaying NATO please" is a sentence said at almost every hoi4 game.
This has got to be the best disaster save Ive seen, the guy clearly pre-planned everything before everything went wrong. I love it!
Wait, so this guy won tsar civil war and still had more factories compared to when I was playing against AI as Stalin. Just WOW
Yes, yes i did
Well, you can stack high the consumer goods factories decreases with tsarist Russia (War economy, ministers && some focuses).
I was destroying the Axis in 1940 without any industry focuses picked, fair Civil War && no army reorg, my economy was quite great and kept up with the expenses.
This started at 1944 that’s why
If you play the stalin route you can have around 400 factories at the start of barbarossa (bit luck dependent if the ai buys your resources, but 370-80 should be doable every time, regardless of luck).
probably trade factories because commie has difficult time getting non commie ai trade with them
You could say he was *Royally* screwed
LMAO
Bruh
No just no
Can u explain i feel i am missing a vrry funny joke
@@kermit8804 the tsar is royalty and royally screwed means you are very screwed
I like how he has more factories than ai soviet before barbarossa
because 60% of his civs are from trade, probably lots of them from Japan
its 1944 at the start
@@logannoble6707 but soviet ai's number of factories does not change from 1941-1944
@@nerfjanetreal source?
@@tombomb47 i made this whole shit up 🗿🗿
well actually a
Astrakhan is in delta of Volga river, it's really surrounded with little rivers, greater rivers, swamps and deserts
so, hell?
@@asherwoodrow7471 da
A small tip i have for tank pushes is to leave a couple behind incase enemies try and cut you off. Usually leaving lowest org
Bittersteel one min into the video: “what I like about this save is not so much that it is terribly set up”
Bittersteel literally 20 sec later:
“I hate the way your army is set up!”
3:16 was such a coin-drop moment
It's a bit hard to see but there actually is a river to the east of Astrakhan as well as the west, so the city must be inside a river fork. So it makes sense that this is a river crossing
Oh hey its mine, also i didn't do third rome because i was trying to get romanovs last laught which third rome invalidates, also the caucasus was lacking oil because german factories win civil wars but going to war with Germany doesn't give you therights back.
Wait now i remember why i chose st petersburg, i was at war with Ukraine and Belarus and Kazakhstan when the soviets fell and they controlled Moscow and tsaritsyn when the decision came up so st petersburg was my only option.
You can win the civil war pretty easily without doing the shit AI support decisions
@@dobi2236 without waiting for stalin to bleed troops in dessertions and surrender capacity to random events
@@Litterbugtaylor ? Not really? Unless you're speedrunning, 1938 is usually when i end off but that's because I dont rush and tackle romania + turkey early game
@@dobi2236 you cannot push if you do not have supply, you are literally pushing them towards supply, although it is easy to change all thier mills into civs then change all the units to 2 width heavy tanks because the ai cannot swap divison templates
@@Litterbugtaylor push along railways, Building supply hubs is something ive done maybe 4 times, ever
Always fun to watch your disaster saves …thanks Bitt3r keep it up 🔥👍🏻
Those end of the war German casualties were brutal, I don't think that would leave a whole lot of fighting age men at the end of the war.
Greeks killed more than the french
Nobody:
Bitt3rsteel on his way to pronounce Kutuzov as Kututsov
Some people just can't pronounce Z properly, ts is close enough for those people.
Your tanks move slowly because they are constantly out if fuel dude. NSB has been making it way harder (and more fun) to do tank encirclements. You gotta plan your offensive around supply hubs. That's also why infantry is the queen of the battlefield
And he's out of supply + using tanks in terrain that they're not suited + during winter.
I literally only bought this game because I saw that there was a sale on it. I knew nothing else about it but I bought it because I had nothing else to play. So far it has consumed about 1500 hours of my life. Best and worst purchase of my life
3:16 I hope nothing's broken lol
Waiiiiii-- Mr. bittersteel said “we dont need that many airplanes!” Like in almost every Desaster save he complains not having enough and here he finally has enough ;)
I did say in the submission i had a beefy airforce and economy, still have the save too
great video, really love your enthusiasm about encirclements haha, makes it very fun to watch. i would love more content like this
Love the weird number of factories
(So many for post Tsar Russia)
Can you make a video on what the best tank templates are? I can never really figure them out
This counter-attack was… really, really historically accurate
Edit: territorially at least*
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3:18 plan was so crazy, it’s got objects falling off your table
These videos are back. As always, the only person to actually explain what they're doing
So if you are ready for it, it's more of a challenge than a disaster save (mainly because erm..it's slightly edited in the favor of the enemy to make it harder for you so that we can finally watch a failed disaster save saving)
If you want a slightly tampered save that is so ridiculously difficult I would consider it a lost cause before I even see the armies..
Then go ahead, I'll submit it later this week when I'm on my computer.
20:20 that voice crack💀💀💀💀💀
I've always been unsure if you were Walloon or Flemish but hearing you say Rostov I can pretty safely say you're Flemish.
There actually is a river between Astrakan and the tile you were attacking from. The river is hard to see, but in 14:20 it's clearly visible.
Solution is almost always Supply -> Equipment -> Amount of divisions -> Lack of armor. Then -> Stabilize front until defense and deploy armor to make encirclements.
Great work as usual! I think that we can agree though that the usual "stabilize, build a small amount of tanks, push them somewhere and encircle" is getting a bit old. I'd love to see you take on some disaster saves where you are not allowed to use this tactic, because the AI clearly can't handle it. It's starting to get a bit boring since you do the same thing literally every game.
Also, the tanks moving at 1km/hr because they don't have the supplies for the fuel shows the danger of using this tactic.
15:24 almost thought you were gonna call him Sinterklaas
I just love how something falls in the background at 3:18.
I thought something fell in my room lol
Fr just the same.@@Error_code_1001
I try to play this game and then I watch yt and see how miserably bad I do. I just send troops into the land and pray I win. This is on a whole other level of good 😨
Nice to see these Soviet style offensives. Trapping the German in the Caucasus. Worked in the past and still up to date
Huge move
I actually choose St. Petersburg on my russian empire saves, easier to defend bc of the river
i chose st petersburg, i was at war with Ukraine and Belarus and Kazakhstan when the soviets fell and they controlled Moscow and tsaritsyn when the decision came up so st petersburg was my only option.
A Encirclement Compilation of this video would almost just be a reupload
idk if @bitt3rsteel knows the martians meeting the phone skit from sesame street , but that yep yep yep was on point!
We all know how the russian czar saved the empire in 1944 by appointing that belgian guy as his commander in chief.
If only he wouldn't backstab the monarch and gave the crown to Santa Claus, our history books would look a lot different
😞
Thankyou for showing the war casualties now and then
Hmm yes lore of momentum of Hoi4 Russia but historically accurate somewhat
I am a chinese player and I saw a trick that almost every chinese streamer/uploaders use but almost never saw any uploaders here in youtube using it. That is: including a medium AA tank battalion in your infantry divisions.
The reason you should use this is that it gives you a 50% damage reduction(might be 60/70/85 depending on armor/piercing ratios) to both org. damage and equipment/manpower loss(that is, unless you are completely encircled) while providing defense, breakthrough and attack bonuses.
The AI usually have low piercing early and mid-game, so 30-40 armor usually works and gives you the full 50% damage reduction(You get full reduction if the enemy piercing is less than 50% of your armor). You shouldn't use this in multiplayer since the other player would see that you are using medium AAs to get damage reduction and would just stack piercing to destroy them. Stacking piercing is a lot easier than stacking amor.
You should choose medium AA instead of medium tank for these reasons:
1. Medium AA is a lot cheaper per unit compared to the average medium tank. Since we are only using armor, every other value does not matter(except maybe speed and reliability, speed should be the same as your division speed).
2. Medium AAs only require 36 instead of 50 per battalion for every other type of medium tanks.
3. AAs would also deal damage to enemy planes(obviously), which is especially important if your airforce is sht and is facing countries with a strong airforce. It is way easier to do this instead of building up an airforce for yourself and defeat the enemy airforce in battle.
4. Choose medium tanks since light tanks are too weak to give you the 50% DR unless you stack armor very hard, and heavy/SH tanks are way too expensive to be used(You will need 1 battalion at least per shock division)
Using this may give you a large advantage in all situations(as long as the enemy does not have ATs/lots of tanks) for reducing your org damage, saving manpower and equipment and increasing your attack. It's not expensive at all and you could try including it instead of an extra artillery battalion.
Love the thumbnail keep up the good work
Great video as always. Take care and getting better soon.
18:57 is it going to show up in a British museum later?
The river around Astrakhan forks but it was hard to see with the battle plan :p
I am sick (as in too sick to play in bed) and this has the effect of chicken soup on me.
Check max speed on thet tank desine. I thing they have 4km max speed.
It 11.9 km/h btw. Supply + terrain modifiers just slow tanks down so much.
@@nomfvideoesonmeisthatokfor6539 1 km/h might also be a hard limit , right? they cannot go slower than that, or?
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missed Carpathian Ruthenia and memel but it was good enough
i just love. how the guy who made this disaster. have more factory that me when i played with the ussr. XDDDDd
Good video
This video was uploaded 8 hours ago I can't believe it 🤩
7:58 majestic
Боже, Царя храни!
Сильный, державный!
"Axis minors are starting to fall" *includes Italy in that statement*
Great Video man !
Quick, find a crazy magic homeless man! He'll save us!
I wouldn't exactly call the Metropolitan a homeless man.
oh yes, the great nation of Barbarossa! (referring to the thumbnail)
woah 2 mins, gotta get in fast
If ur curious the most southern territories of Poland bordering Czechoslovakia weren’t part of the russian empire
The easternmost part of that territory is Ukrainian, and we know by now what the average modern leadership of Russia thinks of Ukraine.
How can you make the group of armies frontline united? I mean not divided on army 1, army 2 at each sector, but mixed?
shift click the front line order
Click on the Field Marshal, then Shift+Click when you make the frontline.
Almost at 120k!
3:17 is it just me or did i heard a coin fall
Hi, can i ask you, why i shouldn't use cavalry recon for infantry? And for what unit is cavalry recon?
Cavalry recon doesn't give a lot of bonuses so it's just a waste of equipment
Killing blow!!? You use Tau empire (Dawn of war game) as weapon masters?
its so funny to see the italians having 80+ divisions in Lithuania while the allies are pushing Rome
Tsaritsyn? Vital to your strategy? Even in an alternate timeline, bogging the Germans down in Stalingrad is effective.
15:55
22:09
Ah, the Duality of Man.
I love how this is still the Italian war on Ethiopia
The holy patrik strikes back at the German inveders!
death to communism
3:17 Eyyyo??
Jeesus the amount of encirclements 😄
14:00 NO ASTRAKHAN! astrahan I live in astrakhan
Learned so much from this
Why does your video have a strange noise in the background?
backround music
@@AEEAnotsus but my ears hurt if i watch the video with a medium volume
@@filce1232 oh my bad
You couldve continued trading with US and just set convoys to not use any Atlantic sea tiles
That was saurkraut for the Thrid Rome
5:00 It's should be "Gvardiya" I have no idea why it's named incorrect.
How much can you build supply lines or railway systems? Is there only dedicated spots or.
Lithuanian medium armor at 20:56? How? I'd understand the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth having armor but this is historical non-aligned Lithuania. Very historical as it seems.
hey man check your mic or something because since some time there's been a constant high pitched noise in your videos
Love your videos Bitt3rSteel! I'm a new player to HOI 4, so you have been very helpful. I have a scenario that I could use some help with, if you're interested. I'm trying to recreate the Swedish Empire, minus the landholdings they had in America and Germany. Essentially, this means I need to take over Norway, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia. I've been having a lot of trouble with it. I can usually get Estonia, Latvia, and Norway with little to no issue. My problem is having the manpower to take out Finland. The Soviet Union declares war on me each time, so I'm forced to use most of my manpower to fight them. Holding out until Germany joins in 1941 has bee very difficult, and I only succeed about 1/2 of the time. Even after I change the conscription laws, change unit templates, etc., I find that I have very little men left to create new divisions in taking over Finland. ANY help would be much appreciated!
Ive tried somewhat of the same thing and got absolutely crushed so you probably did way better
You could try to create a non-aggression pact with the soviets right before Finland capitulates. That should buy you a year to prepare. Mass produce Close Air Support and build as many forts as you're able to. Break their ciphers to have and advantage over them and try to have a 100% strength spy network in Leningrad, it will give you a 100% bonus for defense.
Using the Spy Agency and formign as many collaboration governments you can before taking the non-cores helps a lot with resistance and compliance. In BBA you lose so much manpower and infantry equipment just to garrisoning occupying territory. Its more than actually need in your armies. If the lands you hold dont have any significant industry and population, changing the occupation law to no garrison might help as well. Having puppets or allies that love you and have manpower and you can ask them for helping you with garrison via diplomatic options.
Can you do modern day Germany to conquer poland
I wanna see bittersteel play against other people
對你來說，真的太簡單了吧，敵人都跟紙糊的一樣碰到就破
但是一般來說，AI 都會布置 AT部隊作為步兵的武器，不知道為甚麼，你的坦克就從來沒有遇上過呢
My PC would have exploded 😂
@Bitt3rSteel, could you pls place somewhere a link for downloading this save ? Try it yourself at the description is empty =(
Can you pls do a challenge were you get 30 mil dead enemies
Love your vids
Maby moer
hey bittersteel i know you dont do these kjind of videos but could you do an up to date russia guide without any dlc's because i seem to always lose to some bs ai thing.
thanks.
(Love the content btw)
17:17 oh no.
I love disaster saves and tsarist russia, so this video was awesome. I'm wondering though, is there anyway I can send my own disaster saves? I don't have access to the discord as I was banned a few months back.
Don’t get banned 💀
@@johngalt5166 lol it's hard when the mods are tyrants.
@@AmericaeDominaturOmnibus this… is very valid lol
14:15 I can literally see the river.
In my defense, I'm stupid
@@Bitt3rSteel fair enough, so am I.
I am convonced that ww2 was just an okay hoi4 player that needed a disaster save
Specifically a USSR player, seeing how far they got pushed back before things fell apart for Germany.
The states of Kraków Lwów Zaolzie Stanisławów and Bucovina weren't controlled by russia but Austro hungary so if you were trying to rp you failed because they also had Finnland Vladivostok north sakhalin and all that but close enough
Wtf 18:19 , He David Bowie album fan ?
There's no save game listed. It's just a blank 'Try this yourself:'.