HoI4 Challenge: Iraq into Arabia - Taking on the world ALONE!

[@13ghettoDolphins101]

I honestly can’t wait for Middle Eastern focus trees. Iran especially. Asian minors need some love too, I would love to see a redone Raj tree or an updated China focus tree.

[@KazakhHold]

Tfv needs to be completely redone imo, the focus trees that is

[@13ghettoDolphins101]

@@KazakhHold Yeah, so many new mechanics have been added that it feels empty. That’s why I use RT56 for minors, Commonwealth especially

[@sheepmasterrace]

I feel like the big land fronts like ussr v germany and china v japan need complete redos. hopefully no step back fixes china not just russia

[@ihategogle]

try the road to 56 mod, it makes all the middle eastern countries much more interesting

[@MarcusBlueWolf]

Most of them didn’t do much in the war, but were battlefields for the allies Vs axis

[@erhansolhan9564]

35:38 Historically, Turkey maintained their neutrality through out the whole conflict and Hitler even sent İsmet İnönü a proposal to join the war on his side and in return, Aegean islands would become a part of Turkey. İnönü rejected the proposal by declaring that Turkey does not seek to expand their territory. Instead, Turks continued to sell chromium to Germany to maintain their neutrality via the Clodius Agreement. Both Allies and Axis wanted Turkey on their side and Churchill personally went to the province of Adana for a meeting with İsmet İnönü in a railway car to propose military aid if they joined the Allies. UK wanted to have access to Turkish military airports to bombard Romanian oil fields. However, this proposal was also rejected. When Soviet Union started to push back the Germans from their occupied territories, for Turkey, it was clear that Germans were gonna lose the war and the tides have turned. Turkey cut their relations off with the Germans and stopped to sell them chromium and 3 months before the German surrender, Turkey declared war on both Germany and Japan in February 1945 to join United Nations after post-war. Turkey did join the war but with their stubborn neutral stance, no Turkish troop ever saw combat in WW2. Turks had nothing to gain and everything to lose and Turkish Republic was still very young and had flashbacks to brutal Great War and Turkish Independence War. I have no idea either why does Turkey joins the Allies in the game in 1943 either. It doesn't make any sense.

[@blazingfish8486]

It makes a bit of sense. IRL turkey definitely lent towards the allies.

[@ausar3852]

In Hoi4 everything is possible lol

[@CSmith-hx2pm]

@@blazingfish8486 that’s literally just not the case. In practice they leaned more towards the axis in their economic ties

[@blazingfish8486]

@@CSmith-hx2pm true, but they preferred trading with the allies. At the start of the war, turkey signed an assistance pact with the allies. They were friendly with Germany, but Italy wanted to dominate the Mediterranean so they were bound to be tensions. Turkey also joined on the side of the allies during the closing days of the war, but that doesn’t mean much.

[@mjamesknight]

>plays left-wing, nationalist iraq >sets out to unite the Arabs >beats Iran in a war >doesn't annex Khuzestan

[@corvo_..]

a reversed-saddam-hussien.

[@applecatcher231]

Awesome work mate! Glad you could make something of my ramblings lol. Such a shame Italy crapped out, in all my playthroughs they occupied Africa no problem but excellent improvisation in keeping the run going :) Looking forward to the Persia formation Much Love

[@Bitt3rSteel]

It was a very helpful email!

[@tommarkic4685]

@@Bitt3rSteel hey man! I formed Arabia with iraq before and persia as Afghanistan. I could tell you how i did it, if you would like :)

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Always open for suggestions!

[@tommarkic4685]

@@Bitt3rSteel can i maybe dm it to you via discord?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Absolutely, I'll check it out when I'm off duty

[@Thats_quite_cool]

I always wondered how you could form Arabia. I tried Saudi Arabia but I failed spectacularly. Thanks BitterSteel

[@dreuvasdevil9395]

I managed to get Yemen and Oman... but definitely couldn't face the Brits

[@MagicButterz]

@@dreuvasdevil9395 Yemen and Oman aren't even apart of the formable nation

[@dreuvasdevil9395]

they are... obviously.. its arabia

[@Alansworstnight]

@@MagicButterz they are now 😝😂

[@OliverPoninski]

how i dont have the option do you need a DLC?

[@cybersnake16]

Saddam's revenge, oil strikes back (Nice having a guide, diseaster saves are fun but i like seeing a guy do something stupid in funny map game)

[@cybersnake16]

@Arabic dude what

[@cybersnake16]

@Arabic dude damm bro, it was a joke, sicne iraq.

[@AmusingMusic]

@Arabic dude 1. It was a joke 2. Iraq after overthrowing the british monarchy was historically communist, under abdel karim qasim the biggest party in iraq were the conmunists, and a lot of socialist policies that the baath had a couple decades later were inspired by the communist policies under qasim. So this video, is atleast to some extent historically accurate. I dont get why 3aml nafsak za3lan o mot3asb 3ala nokta.

[@lionofpersis]

Not a very funny joke.. my dad fought in that war. :/

[@AmusingMusic]

@Arabic dude The baath was founded by Michel aflaq as an anti imperialist, socialist, and arab nationalist ideology. It wasn’t against communism. Saddam didn’t create the baath, so his dislike of communists, has nothing to do Aflaq or baathism

[@troykanotz626]

Wait a minute, we went with a secular socialist government, but with nationalistic elements, wanting a united Arabia. Doesn't this make us an early form of the Ba'athist ideology?

[@strangeonexd4776]

Uh oh…

[@thetigerking2613]

Ba’athism is based

[@Revenant76]

good point

[@maleexile9053]

Third position time

[@martinguerra5152]

@@thetigerking2613 Ba'ased

[@christofflinde]

These days, whenever I'm watching a video on HOI4, I can't stop thinking that all the guides made from launch will basically become irrelevant with the changes in combat width etc in No Step Back...

[@burkanov]

Well, DLCs are optional and can be switched off. I own all, but prefer to switch off "la resistance", for example...

[@christofflinde]

@@burkanov true, but aren't the changes to combat width & supplies etc. coming to the base game as FreeLC?

[@burkanov]

@@christofflinde oh, never thought of it... if they change the core game, this will require the dlc to outbalance it, I'm afraid...

[@christofflinde]

@@burkanov Yeah somehow that's not making me feel better XD

[@pcgaming7680]

you can figure out your own strategies, it's not too fun to just follow a guide imo

[@timothyhouse1622]

I use the NATO icons, but i'm also a historian and that is what I'm used to. The other icons are just weird.

[@PhantomFly_Br2]

Yep

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I see you are a man of culture as well

[@mrstocki586]

I cant get away from the NATO icons please tell me how to switch

[@mad0131]

@@mrstocki586 In your gameplay settings NATO unit counters need to be off for non_NATO things

[@Poffean]

Tbh the white clashes with the game's color scheme

[@robertalaverdov8147]

Props to you for doing it with la resistance update. I personally prefer to do something like this on versions before 1.9x husky since resistance eats so much manpower and equipment. And starting as a minor you're barely able to equip one full army, let alone garrison the middle east.

[@MutaVision]

Thank you so much Bitt3rSteel for making this guide. I truly appreciate your effort and looking forward to see more of your amazing guides. I have been waiting for this guide for a very long time and it finally happened! :)

[@otatoshio4315]

amazing! I love it I think this is the first KZbin that forms Arabia. The hardest nation to form in game

[@OliverPoninski]

how do you i dont have the option do you need a DLC

[@Kayvel54]

YES!!! you have no idea how many times I've attempted this.

[@sneed457]

The capital encirclement thing hasn't worked for several patches. Supply flows if they control the state, and if they control the capital they control the state, always.

[@epicman1990]

Siam definitely needs a new focus tree, they have options for formidables and they have a historical path to join Japan faction

[@lorenzocalvin8227]

Nice video, i hope you'll make more minor country contents in the near future. I can suggest you to make a video about reforming the thalassocracy as dutch east indies/british Malaya. Thanks

[@marioruggieri]

Bitt3rSteel. My man. My dude. Please. I have so many hours in this game that I'm ashamed. I'm even more ashamed that I can't form the EU as France. Can you help me. You're my only hope. Great vid by the way

[@CHLOS-4]

The Umayyad state will return thanks to this KZbinr

[@Geshiko-GuP]

i really think they should add a feature where you slowly core everything. like andalusia does this. imma do a lil example "Unify the Independent States" : take saudi arabia. yemen. iraq. and yemen "Unify the North" : own syria. kuwait. palestine. jordan. and iraq "Unify the Peninsula" : own the Arabian Peninsula (the south) these would be always avalible for the arab states in the Peninsula. but for the next you require the previous "Liberate Egypt" : own egypt "Liberate Maghreb" : own the Maghreb states and libya and finally one for most likely iraq if you war with persia "Liberate Khuzestan and the southern arabs" : Take the historically arab areas of most southern persia

[@Andrew-pd6ey]

Going red can be a great situation tactic but brown is usually best. Default focus tree best focus tree.

[@callmeburki2898]

38:34 "japan is... japaning" lmao

[@TheTyrfish]

>Conquers Iran >Doesn't take Abadan/Khuzestan Saddam is mad

[@3dcomrade]

War for oil before its Murica is specialty

[@ancaoraathasach]

Nice. Just as I'm going for lunch. Quick question and I already know the answer but has Ireland ever held any interest for you with regards to HoI4 videos?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Yes, I've been planning to do a campaign to take the islands. But Ireland has nothing going for it :(

[@ancaoraathasach]

@@Bitt3rSteel We have 2 steel in Leinster which can be increased to a whopping 4! But yeah, I know :(. Worth a shot!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Irish steel is twice as good anyway

[@ryanan8082]

@@Bitt3rSteelhow bout fortress Ireland

[@pcgaming7680]

wtf​@@ryanan8082

[@hennrysmustache]

I know you have done the Spanish empire but would love to see the old Spanish Empire under Phillip II (the one the sun never sets on aka Philippines, the Low Countries, Southern Italy, and basically the Americas)

[@zsh7862]

finaly a formable nation again, love them

[@phantomxyz_7171]

what a coincidence I tried this exact challenge yesterday

[@raulstefu1005]

You should have played in road to 56 iraq has a very decent focus tree.

[@HazmanFTW]

I'd love to see you win the war at the end of the video as well. :)

[@Patrick_3751]

Since you accepted and won FeedBackGaming's challenge, I think that entitles you to challenge him to something equally annoying! :)

[@davidlince2165]

Now play HOI4 but with Max infrastructure in all provinces of the world, just for fun 😉

[@beanstuff2825]

The African front is finally playable

[@cushpnk]

@@beanstuff2825 and South America

[@boxcarz]

@@beanstuff2825 Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia & Southern China are no longer actual hell!

[@jevinliu4658]

I mean, you'll still have to declare war on the Allies to take over Kuwait RIP. We know how well that would go.

[@Stiann86]

aaah Papa Dave with a challenge and Papa Stalin as protector. Iraq strong

[@Chewyshoot]

Back to actually playing your own saves?! I had to see it to believe it! AND HE ACTUALLY USED THE NATO ICONS IM DONE

[@Bitt3rSteel]

He dared me, I had to.

[@generalbkkg1684]

U should try to reform Persian Empire for the next video

[@Givat-cd6os]

Great run, tried this with the Saudis and it was not a good day haha

[@ottosalmenkivi8670]

Thanks for this, formables as a minor is the best! Also, I would like to propose an interesting challenge that has a lot of possibilities, and is most cool! Take over the world as The Empire of Fire! This is the name for fascist Azerbaijan. Azeris have cores on 2 states that start Iranese, and also they of course have the oil, and as you have to start soviet you can choose to build them up in many ways before releasin azerbaidjan if you wish. Thanks again!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thanks for the idea!

[@الاتحادالسوفيتي-ن6ز]

Funny thing is I am from Iraq and Iraq was commonest than it become socialist and try to unit the arabic world but things didn't go well...........

[@jacekgedek3872]

This is what I was waiting for :)

[@Madridy1996]

Thank you, greetings from Baghdad

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

Feedbackgaming is a curse upon these lands!! *shakes fist*

[@jasonjohnson1824]

Being an oil/rubber baron in the middle east is a surprisingly strong way to play the game

[@a.m.k__9883]

My god ive been looking for this vid for ever

[@audiesheppard7903]

My roommate forced me to do this with Oman and it almost broke me as a human

[@muhammadtroll2835]

Now unite the Maghreb as Libya :) took me very specific methods to have the upperhand and keeping superpowers away from me

[@gopherasoda2492]

Idea, unite the stans as any of the stans

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Stans, rise up

[@MemeMan69]

why dont you improve relations by just taking a non-aggression pact and then ask for military access instead of boosting it by spending pp? Seems like many people dont know that relations will be improved by asking for military access

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Sometimes it's not enough, other times the AI doesn't want to. And I often just forgot

[@xxcattoxx544]

@@Bitt3rSteel u forgor 💀

[@vasiliosmitropoulos5590]

I just started watching this... you have my attention :P

[@spencerjacobsen329]

26:33 Uh… you ok there? Lmao

[@i.rcvx0955]

Hi iam arab and thanks for this video its awesome ❤️❤️

[@marf4204]

Just came out gang finally

[@noahjohnson935]

ironically I just tried this the other day. I got stuck in a war when I tried to conquer Persia though

[@sniperboom1202]

"I thought Italy was competent...." Well ya see that was you're first mistake

[@ratzfatz6880]

I also tried Iraq a few times but fighting Iran always turned into pure attrition warfare with barely any movement - just like in reality. What a strange coincidence.

[@jessedale4287]

Here's a fun challenge for ya. Annex Japan as Menghouko

[@nodamiaen]

barring brazil with its enormous manpower reserves, i can't think of any minors that don't require the fascist branch manpower to be playable in this game

[@nodamiaen]

speaking of which, perhaps brazil would be an interesting country for these sorts of challenges

[@shahryarrezapour2997]

forming persia is really hard.spesially because of new dlc battle for bosporos because turkey gets garentee.but if you change to comonisim fast then use para drop to invade turkey first before afganistan and iraq(imean before it gets garenteed).you can make it.and make a 10 width infentry 24 devisions and put it for deffence against india and be carefull of the top border with india.they attack and break there first.then with one 24 army devision you can get african parts.by the way you will need cyrupus too.wish you good luck.

[@victorconway444]

Was anyone else hoping that he'd try to invade Iberia itself to reclaim Andalusian territory?

[@gchussain]

the fact that whenever he goes communist for every country but soviets he calls for stuff from "papa stalin" 😂

[@NoResearchProductions]

Oh land your soil is my kafoor,in the trench my magazine sang

[@tylerhutson4687]

Dam it Feedback!!!!!! Why you make it hard on my eyes!!!!

[@Vidjamon]

The Dankus Oman. Things you like to see)

[@christian908]

Oh hey I remember when you asked me about this!!

[@aminyt8742]

Me as a Iranian: Oh shit here we go again

[@Omar-pu7fd]

Me 40% iranian and 60% iraqi Me:

[@BisexualPlagueDoctor]

Atleast with Iraq annexing iran Kurdistan will be under less governments lol

[@gabrielberetov9941]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh he's back again with another one

[@Bitt3rSteel]

There will always be more HoI

[@gabrielberetov9941]

@@Bitt3rSteel never enough HOI

[@hippugamer6689]

This is actualy not the hardest thing: attack iran attack saudi arabia then attack yemen then oman then attack uk because you Will have to because they quarentee and quickly take syria and eqypt The only proplem is iran and uk and france here but you can usualy get syria and eqypt befode they send troops

[@BubbleTheSigma]

I actually want to fucking smash my own head open when I see the paper letter unit icons

[@warrick1280]

Yo pls do more challenges like this I enjoyed this more than disaster save's

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Poor Dave

[@warrick1280]

@@Bitt3rSteel meant to say save woops

[@aleksandarvuchkov9154]

Hey there, are you having this in plan as an updated guide with no step-back logistics? Love your videos!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

That's the plan!

[@IrishWarrior1]

Awesome, been trying to do this!

[@dr_kk_5460]

i love your videos from iran

[@SuperAzoz99]

The middle east needs a revamp. Maybe after USSR and Italy DLC ??

[@AhmedMostafa-ir2bl]

The dev talked about the middle east in one of there Q&A and said they will make a dlc about the middle east and hope they will include Italy bc there are a lot of inaccuracies in the game like Egypt was not a colony in 1936 it was free except the Suez canal and Iraq joined the axis in the war and Saudis Araby give the axis oil during the war especially Japan and many things happened in the middle east from 1936 to 1945 that the game doesn't have

[@SuperAzoz99]

Ahmed Mostafa Saudi Arabia didn’t give oil to the axis. Actually they gave it to the allies. Aramco (the oil company of Saudi Arabia) was an American company.

[@SuperAzoz99]

Even Italy sent a bomber squadron to bomb the oil fields of Saudi Arabia.

[@AhmedMostafa-ir2bl]

@@SuperAzoz99 really I heard a different story but I will make research about that anyway I still believe that Italy must be put with the middle east dlc bc Libya and Egypt were a pain to the Italian in the war

[@jimbo2227]

I've always used the NATO symbols. It's easier for me.

[@pandabear4565]

Bruh. What a civil war that was

[@ironbloodxiii]

I had some training involving NATO symbols, I quite enjoy them

[@sababugs1125]

You should've sent volunteers to Italy

[@observer0083]

My god you don't wanna know how many times I tried this idk everything just goes wrong I'm new but it's the game as well sometimes silly mistakes cost the game

[@kaddy1112]

i wish you do more tutorial videos regarding designing army templates tanks and airplanes and navy with all dlc, please consider it

[@yaseenalsamirai2670]

Hey will be there an update on this with NSB? or any other Iraq challenge/guide :D?

[@jakedickson6646]

Before I watch the video I’m going to make a prediction that you are going to get border war memed in Syria. I hope I’m wrong though

[@jakedickson6646]

I’m happy to see I was wrong

[@Bitt3rSteel]

That would have made me flip my desk at that point

[@mister4701]

very nice video mister

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

I dare you to Play as Free Puerto Rico and puppet the US and Spain

[@CHLOS-4]

Am I the only Iraqi watching this clip?

[@Lvl10gyatttttt]

America is probably crying now

[@adonis7169]

I did the same thing as egyipt and it was fun.

[@AlSurayeMXM]

Yay my country Iraq

[@hydronpowers9014]

Challenge: Conquer US as Afghanistan without getting demonitize

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I'll just get them to lend lease me all their stuff

[@ardaegeerdogan5749]

and capitulate us when you are at civil war

[@hfmexe0657]

Sianking it can form China and unite the Urals (and appease the occupation in half of the Soviet Union).

[@DragonHunter24]

now do Al andalus with all its cores

[@orashitaneshi359]

he already did it, if i remember well (as Marocco)

[@DragonHunter24]

@@orashitaneshi359 well he didn't get ALL the cores, just north africa and the islands

[@orashitaneshi359]

@@DragonHunter24 it was already a hell hardcore game, i don't think he wants to do it again xD

[@brownehawk7744]

I did this type of play before. Called my faction the Sword of Arabia. Pretty tough to do, hopefully when they give them focus's they buff them a bit as well.

[@boonspoog4340]

me: copies video uk: guarantee iran

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Bruh, how? There can't be enough WT by that point

[@MaskofPoesy]

Ewww n*to counters. REEEEEE Am I doing my part, is this funny enough Dave?

[@pasanaator9874]

You should've used paratroopers

[@bruhtime0800]

Now do that with Kuwait or quatar

[@paulrasmussen8953]

Issue with Iraq is brist hace a focus to end you

[@C.A._Old]

Best Ever ! +1

[@anominousfigure]

Dude united the Arabs 💀

[@sauronmordor7494]

yup

[@WolfeHowles]

I honestly don't get the hate with 7:2's I find them really good and cost effective, I've ran nearly an entire campaign on 7:2's alone and destroyed the germans with them as france. A lot of the bite from 7:2's does come from using superior firepower

[@Bitt3rSteel]

It works, but other stuff works better. They just cost too much for their value, excepting niche uses

[@WolfeHowles]

@@Bitt3rSteel do you have any videos on better templates I can use? I do love running powerhouse templates

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Even going from. 7/2 to a 14/4 is a remarkable improvement due to how stats and attacks work. Ideally, you'd use tanks of course

[@MDMssHypNoTiZe]

I love NATO counters I hate helmet horses and other childish stuff.

[@ruffnexs4470]

2:06 whats the song? i love it