How a BEAR can be KING of Poland! Hoi4 Guide: Bearer of Artillery + He Who Bears the Crown

[@Sinvare]

+50% ideology drift defense. Yeah... I don't see many people arguing politics against him...

[@invurret9533]

Not out of fear, of course. Wojtek policies have just been so incredible for the nation that nobody wants to run against him.

[@Guest-qm8mi]

@@invurret9533 Wojtek's*

[@katanah3195]

Yeah, would *you* argue politics with a bear?

[@rost123lav]

@@Guest-qm8mi ok roblox pfp

[@breadlord8599]

​@@Guest-qm8mi Wojtka*

[@KB9813]

Fun fact, the bear in the game is a real bear: Corporal Wojtek was an enlisted bear of the polish 22th artillery supply company. From 1943 to 1945 he was their mascot and companion. He was reported to help carry 100lbs QF 25pr ammo boxes during the Battle of Monte Cassino mimicking the men granting him a promotion from private to corporal.

[@insanecrazyman7637]

He also fought another companies black bear at one point and won

[@MeLoNarXo]

he also drank only Bear and ate raw meat

[@poli_zgaming3616]

@@MeLoNarXo that's hardcore

[@lt2660]

@@insanecrazyman7637 holy shit what when did this happen tell me more

[@insanecrazyman7637]

@@lt2660 back in ww2 iirc

[@TheManWithTheFlan]

Best thing about Bittersteel guides is any time he mentions a possible setback that "almost never happens" it is 95% guaranteed to happen. It's great because it means he gets to show us what to do when things go awry.

[@johnnicholas1657]

Yes and the fact they never work....

[@juicebox6581]

Like when germany and soviets declare on me while my army is fighting romania 😥

[@akmwngtk]

bear leading the union of slavs is such a poetic thing

[@Boney1992]

Find a woman who loves you as much as Bittersteel loves encirclements.

[@Yelpeck]

Impossible

[@someonethatlikesyou7713]

only 1 in 1m chanse to this happens just like franch defeating germany :)

[@enbininja]

But that's impossible!!

[@thejivno]

A man can dream

[@sarge1176]

In poland you have the right to arm bears and bear arms in the name of the bear

[@plebisMaximus]

The right to arm bears is the dream.

[@slavemperor9581]

"We Will expand Poland to it's natural borders". Bro, I'm subscribing.

[@aliabdallah102]

Sooo, 1917 poland?

[@kacperdudenko6828]

@@aliabdallah102 more like PLC at the most excent

[@ChillDudelD]

@@aliabdallah102 Pffft, more like 1619.

[@FortuneZer0]

@@aliabdallah102 Bro. Poland cant into space. Therefore Poland can into whole world.

[@libatonvhs]

@@aliabdallah102 german bootlicker?

[@Mi-Nasuno]

I got the achievement with pure luck with the “No more partitions” And the lucky part was the Yugoslavs accepting my ultimatum in 1940 and having Romania as an ally through the Miedymorze once France falls. (So no allies with me against USSR) My path goes towards the industry first and do some political focuses with Romanov after getting the 5th research.

[@ppdestroyer9413]

Imagine being the general that got replaced by a bear lmao

[@krasnamerah1926]

Anders: .....

[@deadpan904]

Fun fact is that compared to Himmler's general skills once you give him promotion to Field Marshal, Wojtek is far more superior, both as a general, and leader of the country.

[@alexaccr1738]

Huh, didn't know Poland had a 4859 reference in their agency. Cool little nod to one of the badass resistance fighters at the time

[@heikoribbrock8461]

I knew I recognised the number, now I remember where from

[@btmwastaken]

Has that number any meaning

[@anthonygruidl1042]

@@btmwastaken Witold Pilecki was a Polish Soldier who fought since the first day of WWII. He served in the polish underground and during the war volunteered to infiltrate Aushwitz concentration camp to report back on what was going on inside the prison and start a resistance cell. When the Germans imprisoned him there he has made Prisoner 4859 which was tattooed on his arm. He was there for 3 years til he broke out in 43 then fought in the Warsaw uprising in 44 got taken prisoner and then broke out of a POW camp and went to Italy to fight in the Polish army there til the war ended.

[@shukes4645]

@@heikoribbrock8461 sabaton also released a song about him

[@TRCumbox]

​@@shukes4645 name?

[@franklinclinton4539]

Everybody gangsta till a bear deposes an impostor from the Polish crown.

[@flaggy185]

I just imagine the reunion with the counsil General: *My King, we are the most powerfull country in the world and se defeated all our enemies, all Thanks to your management and ideas, God Bless you, My King* Wjotek: *_roar_*

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Translated:BRING ME MOAR CIGARETTES (The real bear apparently really liked eating the cigarettes that his unit would give him)

[@TheRealFernancoTachanka]

I just love they where ruled by a CHAIR before at the start XD

[@dogsittinggay7273]

@@simonnachreiner8380lit cigarettes as well

[@kepler4739]

Estonia at the end just trembling in the corner in fear of being consumed, hoping to stay unnoticed as not part of the slavic union xD

[@OfficerCharon]

Well, of course... Esti is Scandi, after all...

[@Roketsune]

Fuuuurrrry!

[@kepler4739]

@@Roketsune Yeah! :D

[@emin166]

@@kepler4739 ew

[@emin166]

@@Roketsune Father gon 💀

[@Stiann86]

33:06 The horror of world war 2 is over! *Happy bear noises*

[@yc0003]

8:00 the fact that hoi4 has a reference to Witold pilecki is absolutely amazing to me he was a polish hero

[@cybjorn1273]

Yes exactly, I found it awsome when I saw that

[@elbeto191291]

I got this one yesterday. Through sheer luck (and German threats) Yugoslavia submitted to me, which was the perfect starting point to naval invade Italy and reclaim Eastern Europe and the Balkans. If you got Slovakia too, you can get a really juicy encirclement of every Axis division between Yugoslavia and your Western border! EDIT: In fact, you can pretty much take over the Allies faction through the sheer amounts of manpower and industry you get from defeating the Soviets! Which means, A BEAR IS LEADING THE ALLIES

[@invurret9533]

"Okay, and welcome to the 5th allies summit, now the first address is what to do with Germany. Wojtek, what are your thoughts on this?" "Growl" "That's... Some pretty radical stuff, not sure if we can do that..."

[@aliabdallah102]

@@invurret9533 *wojtek eats the person asking the question*

[@Okuu__Gaming_1]

Wojtek was a real polish solider during ww2, so this is the best focus ever, as it could technically be real

[@방탕탕아]

I have been waiting for the update of this guide for so long! Thanks, Bittersteel, you rock!

[@foxytrooper2300]

I love this video because i dont know if its real but i read in a book, some polish fled the USSR after they took east poland, and when there in iran they buy a bear of a boy, so then they join the british army with the bear and help with the invasion of Italy

[@HenrykCzarny]

Yes, it is real. The men who bought and saved the bear from being used in circus where polish soldiers captured by soviets. Thank the general Sikorski (he is polish field marshal in hoi4) they where freed and sent to Iran to fight in british army. Bear was named Wojtek (the name comes from wojownik-warrior) and served in one of the II corps' artillery units carrying shells. And he never dropped any of them.

[@DogDogGodFog]

Yes.

[@depressoespresso8116]

“Russians coming back with a sledgehammer” Ok so it’s still historical

[@yumDOOM]

As a Scot, we are proud to say we took care of the bear for his final years. We love you, Wojtek.

[@OMoanaigh]

I HIGHLY recommend googling Wojtek, He was a real bear that served in WW2. I love him

[@Gremph]

im glad you made another poland guide! with barbarossa and no step back its probably my favorite nation to play

[@Intrinseque52]

Thank you for your guide, it worked perfectly for me. Germany gave me Pomerania, and lithuania went down without a fight. A few notes : if you annexed lithuania, consider pupet it to allow restore the commonwealth focus. And you must change you conscription law while you are at war (not possible while at peace) with yugoslavia, otherwise you will never have enough divisions in time to fight the ussr.

[@unbindingfloyd]

Should let you rename Berlin to Bearlin.

[@dievovalguskusuma8363]

"What could posibly go wrong a brown bear rule the slavic union" is the most funniest part *that i think*

[@Guns_Blazin]

I really enjoy these guides you make probably more than the disaster saves, have you ever thought about doing a guide on playing historical Poland or at least going down the first historical focus for Poland to see if it’s possible to fight off the Soviets and Germans from the 1936 start date?

[@MrVineEye]

Love your guides Bitt3rSteel. Just to help anyone who may have missed it, you need to switch to Extensive Conscription as soon as you Declare War on Yugoslavia and Romania. It’s not mentioned directly in the video, but after rewatching and pausing on the political screens I worked out when it happened. I just had a run which was going really well until it came to the period between defeating Yugoslavia and being attacked by the Soviet Union because I couldn’t recruit enough troops. Nor could I change the conscription law during peace time (unaligned) to get more manpower. I ended up being able to hold the Soviets back and even make some minor territorial gains: taking Minsk and the border supply depots. I just couldn’t push any further and had issues with resistance in Yugoslavia due to lack of manpower and not being able to fill the garrison. Was going so well until then! I’ll be restarting and making sure I hit that conscription law change in time!

[@MrVineEye]

Also - if Iran does get guaranteed by the Allies, an alternative to having to go to war with both the Allies AND the Axis is to complete the Between the Seas concept Focus - which creates the Międzymorze faction. Disband the faction and then create a new faction with Iran. This works because you don’t have to own Hamadan yourself, it simply needs to be owned by a faction that is at war with Italy. When you go to war with the Axis, call Iran in too.

[@quaker2636]

I really hate how Paradox made all the monarchy paths for Poland so op that nobody ever plays historical, and in that tree you don't even have enough time to do all the historical focuses before the war breaks out.

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

Do they need to shorten the days on historical focuses?

[@quaker2636]

@@blackandwhitecats4243 they definitely should, and some of the focuses and national spirits like "embargoed economy" and the Gdańsk harbor issue are just straight up unhistorical because these problems were solved by Poland several years before the game starts.

[@dai-belizariusz3087]

right, the sanation branch is a lot of shit to deal with the opposition and then finally consolidate power, but if you just depose them and elect a king suddenly all the opposition dissapears and you get huge buffs and even free countries... like what?

[@NuclearN00bGaming]

"sir, please observe this new treatise" *indistinct bear noises* "wa-war? war made us strong and shall keep us strong my king...."

[@humongousman9848]

Never even knew there were hidden paths in hoi4, interested to see if there are anymore

[@iamacatperson7226]

There are. I can’t think of any off the top of my head, but I know Germany and I think Italy has at least one each

[@saxaren1133]

For some reason I was always in an infantry equipment deficit, and I got stuck in Romania and Yugoslavia so then Soviet invaded before I was prepared.

[@juicebox6581]

I just finished a run where it's been ages trying to break into Romania only to get to the very core of their country and then they join the axis, and then Yugoslavia joins the comintern, got f***** from both sides right before Romania capitulated

[@isterlings]

I love your enthusiasm for this run. Well played!

[@ramiel7666]

...if only we could replace all politicians with bears.....

[@TheBluntman666]

Romania is an absolute beast, probably tried 6 times and never even got close.

[@oilydoubloonz6001]

Ugh. I hate it when the AI spams last stand as soon as it realizes it's losing.

[@lordbonney9779]

It’s very useful, and very annoying

[@rescur385]

well, it's the only thing you can do. you lose? use last stand it make perfectly sense

[@riacoleridge4854]

Just a tip: if you do invade Latvia and Estonia as Poland, make sure to keep your army small enough and declare on the same time. This allows you ti get extensive conscription.

[@yeeterdeleter4101]

“Extending Poland to its natural borders” litteraly all the poles watching imeaditly subscribe

[@ooi97]

I was so confused in the beginning, like "wtf, Poland has *no* natural borders" 10 seconds later: "Oooooooooohhh!"

[@yeeterdeleter4101]

@@ooi97 it’s all Poland, always has been

[@winterkiller11]

At the end: He is bearing with the army under his command and bears the country under him [both commander and ruler]. He bears a lot...

[@becauseno9375]

“Speed is key, speed is ALWAYS the key” The Germans: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

[@giorgiiobidze351]

That allied radio in the background is great, the allied radio is good in general

[@TheRewasder97]

Mr Bearington is a very respectable member of our community and a great ruler!

[@PaulCabana]

This has been the 2nd hardest one I've attempted, I've had to restart so many times, Bittersteel makes this look easy but it's carefully planned and timed. Follow the guide pretty carefully and it's totally doable. I got discouraged in mid 1940, wide open western borders, unable to push the soviets for fear of suddenly running out of manpower and guns, no tanks to open up breakouts. As BS did, just focused on small encirclements, whittled down their numbers to the point that a rush for moscow became viable. I'm done with them, prepping for germany, expecting things to be much easier at this point.

[@PaulCabana]

Oh and this attempt showed me the power of logistics strikes. Holy hell, for a good year I couldn't build anything, I was just repairing stuff since I didn't have enough fighters to cover enough zones.

[@phsycresconquest6636]

and what makes it even better is that it is completely something that the commonwealth would have done just for the lols

[@mr.fluffles5900]

I very much approve of this video. Enjoyable and representation to the greatest of bears.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thank you kindly!

[@epyonpl]

Btw. one thing that is worth considering doing that run is to create an agency at the start of the game and rush for 2 agents and then do as quickly as possible collaboration gov in Lithuania - this allows you to very quickly proclaim Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth and resolve some pressing issues with manpower

[@PaulCabana]

That would have been a good idea, but you'd have to declare on them instead of use the focus, right?

[@colinplante8980]

You can complete the focus to core Lithuania if you have them as a subject as well, which is a lot faster than waiting for 50% compliance. So if they accept annexation, just release them as a puppet and you can do the focus immediately.

[@jediflamaster]

There is something extremely right about a brown bear leading the Slavic union. Feels like destiny.

[@shadeitplease7383]

Lol these days I'd probably vote for a bear

[@azeptee644]

You posted this right after i finished He who bears the crown

[@grassmania_yt9030]

I'll probably never play HOI4, but i cant stop watching these videos

[@Hehehehawhehehehehe]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the Poland focus tree looks pretty OP

[@ЙованДобройевичь]

Indeed Compare it to something from dod and you see how stupidly unbalanced it is

[@superwatcher456]

Genuinely very good

[@Michael-o2s3k]

3:35 I never thought that a chair would make a great ruler.

[@matheus216]

Woah this thumbnail style is beautiful!

[@Prussia_]

31:50 Taureor is gonna explode if he hears that pronounciation

[@agentchunk55]

all this time I thought you couldn't take Moscow before you get Wotjek. This makes things much easier

[@fofizz]

Bro, you are amazing youtuber and you are making almost everyone happy you deserve more subs

[@aa-ze1kh]

19:44 like a bear sitting down and ready to take Berlin.

[@YeEpIkAiYeI]

Hey Bitt3r, could you please make a video on how to make the HRE? Please :(

[@krossboe8512]

I think it’s kind of sad that the fake Anastasia led Poland to defeat the soviets and when they find out her name is fake it’s like, “you’re getting replaced by a bear”

[@CristinaMarshal]

The bear necessities, just the bear necessities - - - (Yew knew someone had to!)

[@Mr.Korzack]

I was expecting this play-through to turn out a bit more... Grizzly

[@crispyengineer7521]

I did the achievement alongside No More Partitions and Crusader Kings 3, it took me till 1947

[@someonethatlikesyou7713]

can we talk about how cool the slavic union flag is? just dang they put refrence from very old slavic kingdoms

[@jackpanzarella9471]

Mr.Bittersteel I have to ask what is the jazz-type music you use in the background of your videos? I would definitely chill to this music and I have been wondering forever. Thank you and have a good day.

[@acatusingtherockemote8619]

Thank you for this, recently thought of doing this achievement

[@fyfef]

For spying on the USSR: if u put your spy in Vladivostok, he will never get caught due to national coverage being too low, he only gets a spy network on two provinces with pretty low victory points.

[@tagus100]

Would this work without using a Soviet spy?

[@fyfef]

@@tagus100 this works with any spy, the modifiers like nationality and whatever don't even apply because the threshold is not met, if u start a game with debug mode and hover over an assigned spy you can see the detection rate, it will remain 0 regardless of counter-intelligence, stealthyness of the spy or whatever. Keep in mind to put the spy to sleep as soon as he hits 100% because the soviets will still get enough counter-intelligence to reduce the maximum intel network to like 25% if the game goes on, and if u use more spies, you get more coverage, voiding the strat

[@tagus100]

@@fyfef Understood. So more spies = more coverage of the country. Coverage is decided on how many VP are in the coverage zone. And more VP = higher coverage = higher detection chance. Correct?

[@fyfef]

@@tagus100 Yeah, one spy only gets influence on the province you set him to and every province bordering it, then from those states and victory points, gets divided by the total victory points and states and multiplied by network strength to get a ratio, called national coverage, if that is below 0.02, spies will never get caught, after that the rate increases depending on traits, for vladivostok the national coverage only goes up to 0.012 with one spy there. This national coverage does affect stuff like intelligence gained and how effective boosting is, so if u want to do that, the 0.012 multiplier for boosting will make it like impossible to boost an ideology (not even including stalins trait), meaning depending on what you want to do with ur spies, u should send them to more or less exposed places, for missions only, where only the network strength matters, hide ur spies in remote places of the country

[@sollumi3014]

actually around 60 percent is enough too, i go above 50 just to keep ability to do collabs (and quiet network does nothinf besides this so theres no reason to do 100)

[@tonydestroyer7896]

Replace gasoline for diesel engine and christine for torsian bar and you have a solid tank

[@gerwaltspodnovigradu5508]

Estonia at The end:maybe if I dont move, he wont see me

[@Luxeyo]

I've been waiting for that👍

[@LightgreenLP]

One tactic I always use as Poland, I always hold off on demanding Slovakia until the Germans got the Sudetenland. The reason is that I then get an event handing over a piece of Slovakia to me including a core, which I don't get from demanding Slovakia myself. Obviously this doesn't apply to many paths but it is something to keep in mind.

[@philipmpampos8893]

I think this is amazing, but I'm curuious to what infantry and tank templates you use!

[@omnizon8951]

same

[@BogFog_og]

Great vid but i've replayed this run like 20 times now and still cant manage to take those two supply hubs in romania as fast as you did 😭soviet unions invades before i finish off yugoslavia

[@maxilp9577]

I got the same problem this tutorial sucks.

[@BogFog_og]

@@maxilp9577 it’s possible that they buffed Romania after he made this video

[@MrVineEye]

My first run I was able to push through Romania but it was taking too long and I took far too many casualties. Second run I got through fine. Just make sure you have a strong concentration of units attacking the supply hubs from multiple directions and then just push through. Make sure your strong army has been swapped to a 9 INF 1 ART template (this isn't shown directly in the guide) Also put your Airforce up on Air Superiority, close air support and logistic strike over Romania. As in the video - if you're in too low supply then pull some troops back to Warsaw. You don't want them to be sat on the border taking attrition for a long period before the offensive starts.

[@konik5285]

From my exerience you dont need localized train canters for espionage in russia, you just need real live spies usually the ones on the bottom of the list and poland has one from the start

[@amberm.kozlowski5944]

This Bear Single-Handedly gonna reform The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth What A Chad

[@c.riddle8354]

25:48 : "Easy, peezy, 🍋 squeezy" 😁

[@juicebox6581]

Curious how many restarts are hidden between the edits. Cause when I try my hand at things from ur videos I get the most unluckiest events. Like czech denying me or romania joining axis as im attacking them. Plus ive never ever had an ez war against romania. In any game or faction. Something about them makes their front lines hard. Im not even fighting them on the mountains

[@GalahGaming]

Do a monarchist Macedonian empire run!!

[@vpxez3124]

Wow I would really like to see this

[@nateg6053]

bittersteel uploads make my day 10x better

[@month32]

Here we have the channel of Bitt3r "trust me" steel.

[@gluipertje]

Ah lol, just finished this achievement yesterday :p

[@gabrielsarcevic499]

How many tank divisions should there be in an army? Tanks are there to attack, right? So how should I use my infantry?

[@ЙованДобройевичь]

Use them as front filler

[@vonleeb4846]

One advice, when at war with ROM/YUG take Extensive conscription, otherwise you will have no manpower to build your army before USSR tango starts. Next advice, if LIT accepted your demand release it as a puppet to be able to start Restore the Commonwealth focus, otherwise you will have to wait until LIT will get 50% compliance to core its land with this focus. You can do it just after Slovakia submits.

[@doge3357]

how do i capitulat rom faster cuz i always have bad supply in that fucking border

[@bycracket7295]

told my gf that the key is speed... she wasnt agreeing

[@thomas1peck736]

"The things we do to put a Bear on the Throne because its funny"

[@frzlunar4845]

Hitler : I fear no man... But that thing... It's scare me...

[@fornaxgaming2.039]

Polacos al poner un oso como su rey Rusia: hey eso era mío

[@eliassandoval9601]

To me I wanted to first slope armor instead of bolded armor because both when you get hit by shell well the bolt starts flying around everywhere damaging crew members and equipment scoped armament is much better has better chances to reflect bullets I mean tank shells and for some reason at an anguish relatively thick at an angle of slope turner

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

23:14 "meme production"

[@American_Videos.]

this is what got me to play hoi, but i only could get hoi3 as the moment.

[@jacekgedek3872]

I haven't watched it yet, but I like it already :)

[@Kairilification]

I as a modder can approve, they made bad AI to USSR until ~1943. You can delete some of soviet tactics or entire and make it as generic one.

[@Buzzy_Bland]

You know, I’ve been struggling to manage the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth as Friedrich Christian, and I figured it was because I just sucked shit at this game. I’m happy to see that my approach to the war with the Soviet Union is very similar to Steel’s. I feel less dumb.

[@therealmanman7576]

Can you do more small countries that are doomed

[@sahilhossain8204]

Ah yes hoi4 he who bearers the crown of artillery double achievement challenge

[@2011SoxMD36]

Agent 4859... Easter Egg reference to Witold Pilecki perhaps?

[@superdaaa5563]

I saw 4859 and then remembered Witold Pilecki is in the game xd

[@reubenderry2469]

31:18 59 divisions encircled!!! (if my maths is up to scratch)

[@hippugamer6689]

WAIT WHAT I TOUGHT THIS WAS ABOUT THE BEAR IN THE POLISH ARMY BUT WHSH

[@walomega]

Heya! I just looked into the Hearts of Iron IV Files and I DID find that Yugoslavia CAN say yes you the annex ultimatum. I hope that question is answered now.

[@skorgevondoom___9571]

Hail to wojek Ruler of the world