Rebuilding the Greatest Empire in the world

Today we make Greece Great Again, as Alexander the Great intended!
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[@Chorutowo]

I think the best way to summarize Greece is that I had 27 different ironman savefiles trying to get 1 Greece achievement.

[@krickon3819]

do you delete your savefiles? if you don't, you should check how large your save file folder is

[@kenchen3674]

29 for ethiopia

[@joshuacondron]

The unique paradox flavor of pain

[@Chorutowo]

@@krickon3819 nah, i keep em as a memorie of what countries i have played and what happened. I know i have 27 different saves as each Greece gets a different number, and my last one was num 27

[@lemonke4209]

Wait the more save files you have the more lag?

[@andreaskav7124]

13:20 bittersteel you are unofficially an honorary Greek. you spoke like our wise man

[@voiceactorofdovakiin]

Sigma male rule 39: default on your debts

[@snekksuperior]

In contrast to unofficially being a real greek

[@its__penguin7964]

A Greece video will always be an entertaining video

[@lazarospapadopoulos5452]

true

[@Chorutowo]

I love the sheer amount of guides for Greece exists. Like, the only way to play them is with a guide lmao.

[@tankdstr58yr50]

Cuz Greece is a very difficult nation

[@mlgsty8880]

@@tankdstr58yr50 I dont think it is, only the Macedonia path is absurdly difficult but others are medium difficulty. I would even say that Byzantine is too easy because it is so op.

[@SidorovichGaming]

@@mlgsty8880 it is not op it sucks

[@krasnamerah1926]

Both three BftB nations are definitely not for beginners.

[@Chorutowo]

@@krasnamerah1926 definitely

[@prkier2380]

0:12 “We will be playing as Greece obviously” *Based.*

[@Snakegg2]

31:50 Pushing north, pushing south, pushing straight into cockermouth

[@Vaelosh466]

22:30 - What's probably RNG is what ships defect to the Italian puppet, those ones presumably won't be in the peace deal since the puppet owns them.

[@bissebasse9571]

oh… i love this empire, but i wish there was a more dedicated better designed tree to do this. however, i remember watching your old video of this empire and loving it, and wanting to see other youtubers doing it but couldnt find any. finally you posted a new video of it, cheers!

[@Risviltsov]

Alexander the Macedonian Alexander the Greek Alexander the Persian Alexander the Egyptian Alexander the Indian (for a brief time) Alexander the Arabian (planned, never happened) Alexander the Albanian Alexander t- wait what?

[@FishwicksREAL]

You said Greek twice?

[@Sdude123.]

I see no difference between the first 2

[@ESG1]

Bravo! More country guides please!

[@eli-mi3mh]

Maybe do a turkey guide

[@grandly2214]

Whenever Bittersteel plays Greece we always get that banger music playing in the background.

[@LetsAMP]

Oh no. Just, Oh no. We know how this challenge nearly split Bitter into two last time...

[@austinquinn476]

Bitt3rSteel: "Some of you play this game really really poorly" Me: "Sempai noticed me "😊

[@Thonieler]

I was just looking at new nations to form and was thinking about this! Perfect timing, looking forward to another great video!

[@jimkirk9890]

3:20 you do actually need the fire control. It doesn't let you save the design without it

[@pepper7880]

Just FYI Mr. Steel: Army defense does NOT suck! It also applies to the breakthrough of your divisions, so it can be very useful on the offense.

[@spyronos]

BftB is still my favorite dlc, I wish they could put out more hyper focused DLC like that

[@sirllamaiii9708]

Together for victory is my favorite tbh. Love the puppet mechanics. Especially colonial divisions. Making a ton of puppets and draining their manpower will never not be fun

[@tsoutsekia]

Proud to be a macedonian (greek macedonian)

[@rowanwalter6306]

Stalin I thought you were Georgian

[@tsoutsekia]

@@rowanwalter6306 i just have him for the memes

[@someonethatlikesyou7713]

@@tsoutsekia papa stalin is macedonian confirmed (real)

[@Roketsune]

No, you're Georgian. Haven't you read your own biography, Stalin?

[@Roketsune]

You're not actually Stalin?

[@ZTGSWOrZaki]

Yes Finally the Almighty Macedonian/Greek/Hellenic Empire is come back to life Also This our beloved country’s Empire 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@lynarisevershadeshadowfall1684]

"And some of you play it really, really poorly" I feel personally attacked...

[@user-dk3fg2bn3p]

Bittersteel: wants to create Alexanders Empire. Bittersteel five minutes later: lets kill italy

[@baguetteman5168]

Kudos to you for remaking this video with the current patch when i get the dlcs this will be the first nation to form

[@jossos4876]

You know its a good day when bittersteel plays monarchist

[@Tom-oj7si]

He literally deposed the King 12 minutes into the video. Please pay more attention

[@Merf_Gaming]

but he didn't play monarchist

[@Roketsune]

I was about to say that I could have sworn you had just published this video a week or so ago, but I looked back in your archives and realized that I had recently watched your previous guide on the same topic that was published over a year ago.

[@jasperpostma605]

"Hearts or iron 4 be weird like that" Communist china joining the allies in my china campaign whilst still fighting japan on the mainland near beijing and declaring war on me -.-

[@panossa.6019]

Fun fact, Greece is the only country that actually is paying their debts, on the other hand Germany never did.

[@Daggz90]

Whilst in reality, Germany finished paying reparations for the first World War, in like 2017-2019 and they're just starting to pay the reparations for WW2 and there was/is negotiations for them to pay for Italian and Greek reparations ad well. So, in real life, Germany is the only country to have paid thoroughly for wars they didn't start.

[@PaulisInclusion]

You’re the best hoi4 youtuber wish the others would just talk normally and not act goofy for their clearly child audience. Taureor was good too you remind me of him. No fluff just quality content.

[@cyrusthenotsogreat744]

Man dies. Bittersteel: "Now this is a positive event!"

[@freelancepear87kakkoka11]

that's a really cool flag design, gotta try this one of these days.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

You should!

[@jaycob1830]

“Some of you play it really really poorly” I mean idk it’s kinda a difficult game to understand

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

"and his greeks" And thus the fourth Balkan war begins

[@skafidi]

but that he said is a historical fact

[@christos3280]

If the rest of the balkans seethe over our legacy then let them and bring us popcorn.

[@BobBob-zu2dt]

i had a sorta similar problem with france where i established vichy at the same time a civil war triggered (stole all my land) and declared war on vichy, joined the axis and vichy joined the allies. that game was a strange one…

[@Ryuko-T72]

Most countries would fight for the suez in a peace conference. But Germany fights for Jordan...

[@user-nk3su1wf5l]

Bitt3rsteel here invading Britain while exercising his army! Respect!

[@heliogt1961]

my man. i love your guides and videos. would you mind sometime in the future making a new japan video OR testing out egypt in r56?

[@rogofos]

I love that Germany decided to fight you over Jordan of all places

[@thelordpatricksun8759]

Hearing the pharse "Cas is king" after BBA really does bring back memories. Especially after the cas nerf.

[@hatless_spider]

Next up: Monarchist Macedonia *This has been a message of the Yeetboi gang*

[@bennett754]

I'll support this as a proud member of the Yeetboi gang

[@krasnamerah1926]

Oh no pls no

[@FishwicksREAL]

it would be the same game but nonaligned at the end?

[@jimmyjohnnsen8511]

I literly watched your first video on this yesterday and and discoverd it works even better now bc of the new peacedeal stuff and so on. Life is weird.

[@someonethatlikesyou7713]

damn pretty good video bit! btw they only path for greece you haven't done is the democratic one (megali idea formed)

[@simonweids6562]

You make it look so easy.. I'm very impressed

[@CmdrShepard95]

Great video BitterSteel. Do you think you could do another video on Greece while doing the Megali Idea? Would love to see you do it sometime

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Possibly!

[@CmdrShepard95]

@@Bitt3rSteelI hope so, because going down that path is surprisingly fun. Especially for a democratic path

[@accurategamer7085]

Ah yes seme- I mean siemens!! THE GREAT GERMAN TECHNOLOGICAL PATRON!!

[@tonybickle9933]

Love these types of videos

[@a.ricole4081]

How do you naval invade italy. I followed every step and I still cant naval invade them after 4rth try lol

[@Snakegg2]

What a coincidence, I got recommended and rewatched your last Alexander video just last night.

[@deusgr]

Same

[@joshtaylor9626]

Been watching a lot of Greek history but nice video

[@boweniscool]

an empire that stretched till the world ended... Then they had to merge the servers so there was more world

[@cc0767]

Who needs some guy named Aleksander when you have the legend named Bitt3ersteel!

[@FishwicksREAL]

Guy was not named "Aleksander", it was Alexandros

[@boarstreamgaming8240]

I tend to have the videos in the bakgrund as I play or chill. And have tried some of the ways of going about things. Even if I have not followed exactly or not managed to, they have helped

[@theaveragejoe___]

Love the support for Efficient Strategy Gaming, he has some great guides

[@elbirri]

when you gonna play with switzerland for 4 achivements in 1 game? btw congratulations for 100k subs and verified channel :)

[@radmehrbeygi719]

Every time i think something is impossible some how you do it and its amazing to watch hay can you make the persian empire again

[@ilprof2927]

pov:the greater empire was the britannic empire with canada,australia,new zeland,britain,ireland,egypt,south africa,india,pakistan and a lot of nations

[@regu6582]

Good run.

[@laurelaure3282]

if u want a hard challenge then here you go 1.start as mengukuo 2.do the part of the focus tree which makes you stay with the japanese 3.break off and declare war on the japanese between 1945 and 1950, but you must have already finished off all Japanese enemies 4.survive till 1960 rules:no cheesing, you can't do a step before the other, play it in hoi4 with all DLCs active and no mods active

[@walnzell9328]

Constantinople? Oh, you mean Byzantion.

[@dudu8la162]

great vid

[@Marmamartha]

all that effort for 70 factories in 1942

[@Bitt3rSteel]

It's all about the name on the map

[@Malino8835]

When you think about, it if Alexander had any hiers (Correct me if he did) they, though his splitting of the Gordian knot, would have a claim to the entirety of Asia! Not that anyone would let that be the case of course...

[@danieltobin4498]

"The Greeks could rule the world..."

[@raphaelbott7214]

Greeks in other games like Total war saga : 🗿🗿🗿 and Greeks in paradox games : 😭😭🤕

[@hexoslaya3696]

I just watched your original video on this last night.

[@kurooda9070]

Paradox games in a nutshell: "It is, what it is..."

[@F34R_Flo]

Hey Bitter have a video idea play as any nation but you must mainly use light tanks with a minimum speed on 8kph. You also can only add lights tanks with wheels or half tracks. You are not allowed to build towed AA or AA tanks or half track/wheeled tanks.

[@tagus100]

Any chance we'll see some comprehensive guides for Italy? Ultimate Italy (Mussolini & Greater Italy); Roman Empire; Pope; Communist under Gramsci? You're the best for guides but we haven't seen a lot lately and it would be a shame if you abandoned them.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I've been planning some reworked Italy guides, actually

[@Seskyman]

Can you pls do the persian empire that would be great can‘t find a newer guide on it

[@benbaselet2026]

I don't get priorising the leftmost production tech research since usually my efficiency isn't maxed out on most production lines anyways so I get nothing from it "early" on.

[@johnnyboy95101]

Fairly certain you gain efficiency faster or something from it too. I can't remember exactly how it was to be calculated though.

[@sevinceur1766]

@@johnnyboy95101 You retain more of the original production line’s efficiency but you don’t raise it faster.

[@ankard4]

Try the qing empire great war redux but with the sub mod that ad a bigger focus three is a good challenge for you

[@criptyx8981]

30:00 No way you just violated the Norwegians by calling them Danish

[@atha056]

YES YOU DID IT

[@MrRex-bo6gl]

nice video

[@jamieoboyle7100]

I love to see the evolution of bittersteel the first Macedonian empire video was like and hour and 12 mins. This one is about 40 mins

[@duryodhan6189]

World didn't stop at indus but he was defeated

[@Oshidashi]

Irregulars doesn't cost you or your puppet anything. Some Irregulars have terrain bonusses similar to special forces. I don't think there is any disadvantage about them. Most of them are best used in desert, forest or mountain IIRC. Their equipment is also just created, so aside from free manpower, a freely trained unit, you get the manpower free (or in this case your puppet) and you get the equipment for free. You do reinforce them with actual MP and Eq, which is why you best use them where they're stronged or otherwise on guard duty.

[@stefanol7803]

would've been sick if southern italy name was Magna Graecia after your conquest

[@onehandedvideos]

Amazing video you deserve sub

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thanks for the sub

[@AlexanderPallis]

Ok, this I need to see because I am 97 runs in, trying this for years but can I do it? Nah.

[@user-us5ye2sp4f]

Respect for recognising that Alexander the great was greek. The truth always shines.

[@caezin856]

recreating a video, sounds good.

[@hypercynic]

I wondered if forming the Macedonian Empire was a thing, now I'm definitely doing this. Too bad this wasn't one of the achievements for Greece, it's much more interesting than the other ones.

[@DirkusTurkess]

We have their troops! That's good! They're Italians. That's bad.

[@Madmuli]

Hahaha XD

[@512TheWolf512]

the "resources to market" part of Greece in hoi4 makes no sense, because there is NO WAY to encourage the AI to buy anything from you? which makes no sense at all

[@Bitt3rSteel]

It pretty much saps your resources. Even if the AI isn't buying, the resources in question are unavailable to you because they are reserved for the open market

[@commissarkordoshky219]

tbh at the end of the day... What did Alexander really achieve in the end? I want to know what sort of long term impact he had

[@LykaoniaBCE]

Search for the Hellenistic Period

[@FishwicksREAL]

he did quite a lot. Alexander set the groundwork for a Greek golden age before it declined when the Romans conquered.

[@scl9671]

'The greatest empire in the world' *Confused British noises*

[@theglavenglossproject2693]

Could you make an updated germany guide?

[@totalwar1793]

Ζη Ζη Και Βασιλευει Βιτερσηλ 'ο Μεγασ!!!

[@karigrandi7]

i watched the old video literally yesterday :D

[@anonym4867]

I think as democratic greece or as the monarchy you are able to get a shit load of off map civilian factory's by pickong that focus it's really op.

[@foivosarvanitis776]

Great video! We want Alexander back!Greetings from Greece! 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷

[@steakboi6912]

ty so much bittersteel from greece ❤❤

[@jackkanea9449]

Do this in the monarchist path !

[@user-hn3qm5ch4v]

How did you do in 13:59 just lunch the naval invasion plan?

[@tiknotr]

THE RISE OF NATIONS REFERENCE

[@etminan9458]

You never disappoint us

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I try to make these worth your time

[@apotato1386]

Damn bittersteel knows ron

[@belbsirhimself3415]

3:40 first time seeing a hoi4 youtuber using rise of nations refrence

[@Protogonos321]

You friend know history

[@Whitestboyevr]

are you running a mod on this or do you just have all the dlcs? i have a few but not all.

[@Aerozona23]

i wish i knew how to play this game cause that looks fun