HoI4: Albania Stands Defiant with King Zog!

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[@Bitt3rSteel]

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[@helix1016]

No

[@GG_1318]

I already have it

[@edoardobaia7927]

You could have used the school for leaders mod to make your campaign a little painless

[@Theover4000]

Would love to see you do a Portugal run where you do Macau my day. Or whichever achievement gets a Portuguese China. I’ve been struggling with that one for a long time.

[@plebisMaximus]

@Dusty Daimler Thank you, you're keeping the internet diverse. Reject Chromium, embrace a free internet.

[@squiggles5640]

so basically the entire albanian male population is dead or maimed but at least zog got to rule from rome for a bit and that's a pretty good meme

[@kianvandenberg6364]

And not just the men, but the women and the children too

[@acon70]

@@kianvandenberg6364 The reason Mussolini killed them was that his Pasta had died.

[@NotRealBill]

@@acon70 yes

[@gabrieljoseozanan6989]

A fun thought crossed my mind! If Albania managed to get some 12 factories from occupying Italy, Bittersteel could've tried to hit up Italy with Collab Governments and released it as Albanian Italy, keeping most of it under Zod.

[@kingbrennus1580]

So Zog basically gets a harem? What a chad.

[@Birdsharna]

Albania: *Takes Rome, takes Sofia, takes Bucharest, takes Budapest, liberates Paris, and takes Berlin* Allies: Yeah, that's about 9% of war participation, buddy.

[@yoanawramow8809]

Germany in hoi4: *Conquers half of Europe and Takes Moscow, dominates the british in the air and does "Sea Lion" * Paradox: 40% participation Italy: *loses 3 Million to Britain* Paradox: 60% participation

[@soviet_doge1263]

This why the update to peace deals is going to be awesome, dealing casualties should give warscore, not endlessly grinding with no supply against mountains like the ai does.

[@yoanawramow8809]

@@soviet_doge1263 I also want them to fix the historical peace deal, I'm tired of Uk puppetting Vichy France and taking Savoy or the ussr annexing Morocco, parts of poland and Zara

[@soviet_doge1263]

@@yoanawramow8809 the historical peace deal is interesting, Poland can be annexed if they capitulated, but the only other thing it does is make east and west Germany releasable

[@yoanawramow8809]

@@soviet_doge1263 Yet the amount of gore that is unleashed is immense. Also, the allies won't stop liberating

[@thewalkingtree7077]

I can hear the conversations from this timeline "Oh but if the nazis had the Albanian tactics they would’ve easily won the Second World War"

[@fryboi4896]

@milk facts

[@oidz4848]

@milk but like, if the nazis had albanian tactics they easily could've won ww2

[@yeetionary]

@milk wrong! if the nazis had the Albanian tactics they would've easily won ww2

[@wolfyCRO]

I can see you been arguing against ww2 Germany supporters for quite a while

[@pumkintheboi7545]

God: did you win? King Zog: yes God: what did it cost? King Zog: (stares at manpower pool) everything

[@lolifico_banzago]

CAD- erm... ALBANIA STANDS!

[@mateiduma646]

@@lolifico_banzago it’s just the territory and the leader that stands cause the people are now dead lol

[@stalingaming9304]

*Allah ✌️

[@yeetionary]

@@stalingaming9304 *Lord Mickey Mouse ✌️

[@LeInternetcockroach]

He’s gonna repopulate the Albanian population by himself

[@teodork06bulgaria4]

Zog, after hearing that the army has taken over Rome: *"Red and black I dress, eagle on my chest! It's good to be an albanian!"*

[@isaiahmott7847]

You finally won as Albania. Yes What did it cost? 1/3 of my population.

[@alvinlin8140]

Man pulled a Paraguay lol

[@b3ygghsas]

@@alvinlin8140 Paraguay lost even more, 2/3 and 90% of male population IIRC, plus they didn't win

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

@@b3ygghsas Disputed

[@drixtrix]

Fun fact: the area he took in the peace deal actually has a sizeable Albanian minority and even in some areas a majority! Clearly all planned out ;)

[@FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod]

Greater Albania based.

[@emin166]

Source ?

[@drixtrix]

@@emin166 source is i made it the hell up. But no seriously, check italy majority ethnicity maps, it is true

[@mrbisshie]

@@FarmerSlayerFromTheEdoPeriod Missing Kosovo.

[@aleksanderdervishi8067]

@@emin166look up the Arberesh

[@Rider_Deez]

Alternate title: 30 minutes of steel saying “I’m out of manpower”

[@Nanoarciere]

but he never had manpower since start lol

[@Rider_Deez]

@@Nanoarciere true lol

[@sigmaboost3000]

I was not prepared for massive power plays like the albanian capture of Rome and the albanian D-day, Zog must've grown a titanic adamantium back carrying the entire allied campaign.

[@saoirsedeltufo7436]

Just trying to imagine the war rooms in the US and UK as they try and explain Albania singlehandedly taking out Italy, and rushing to try and support them... or Germany reacting to Italy being capitulated by tiny Albania!

[@thatguy3421]

Imagine military historians trying to understand

[@pashauzan]

@@thatguy3421 The Story of Albanian Stormtroopers

[@deelightfullp]

Stalin: Comrades, how does your front go- What is he doing her again Churchill: Zog has been fighting sense the beginning Stalin: still doesn't explain why he is here Degaulle: Albanian forced eliminated Italy

[@ereynolds72]

hitler, and Churchill in unison “WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALBANIA BEAT ITALY?! THAT’S INSANITY, ITALY IS USELESS BUT THIS IS BEYOND COMPREHENSION, OH GOOD JOB ZOG/MUSSOLINI YOU HAVE ME AGREEING WITH CHURCHILL/HITLER!”

[@danielk5780]

Even moreso, as the fresh young american GI's in their modern tanks are desperately trying to catch up to the albanian infantry divisions, made up of old men and children that have only learned to hold a gun a few days before.

[@mocod_2402]

Just imagine the reputation of the italian army after the war in this alternate reality.

[@dantemcmillan6337]

Lmao they would’ve been the laughing stock for decades

[@MyVanir]

@@dantemcmillan6337 No different from our timeline then?

[@Young_Nationalist]

@@MyVanir At least they have logical explanations in this timeline

[@Chewyshoot]

lmfao Albanian capital in Rome is the most meta joke I've seen in HOI4 in a while

[@Bluesonofman]

I had a game as Germany where the Soviet Capital moved to Kazan. That's worse.

[@emin166]

@@BluesonofmanNah thats pretty normal actually

[@Bluesonofman]

@@emin166 Kazan once ruled over Russia

[@nnoktalivirgul]

I love these "historical disasters". Please do more. Try 1939 Baltics or Finland maybe and win against Soviets? Or 1939 Philippines?

[@rugbydaan523]

1939 luxembourg.

[@natem1579]

Count me as a vote for Philippines. Pacific front is always fun to watch.

[@buddermonger2000]

This was 1936 though

[@Tom-oj7si]

Agree, another real challenge is releasing Macau, tag switching, and trying to unify China as that OPM. It is possible due to Japanese war Machine

[@ardaegeerdogan5749]

39 netherlands or belgium

[@goose93]

"Red and black I dress, eagle on my chest, it's good to be an Albanian! Keep my head up high, for that flag I die, I'm proud to be an Albanian!" - King Zog

[@hitomisalazar4073]

With all the "No one can say Albania is useless" mentions I'm almost expecting the Peace Deal to give you like... 0.01% war participation and 7 score for the peace conference. That's definitely how the game treats me when I pull off miracles like that.

[@temkin9298]

Kill+ Occupation+Casualties Good+Bad+Bad= %8

[@Worgrunner]

My request, a Portugal campaign. I've dug into the Brazil-Portugese Empire tree, and it's a nerve-wracking and wild start that gives you fairly early wargoals against Nationalist Spain, Italy, Japan, Germany . . . and America. You get to take a part of the map that usually does little in World War and forge them into a peer great power. Flag looks awesome too.

[@Vaelosh466]

He could do Go ahead, Macao my day at the same time.

[@Wheels-of-terror]

I tried it a couple months ago, haven't finished it but pretty fun.

[@thomasflakker6124]

To think that it was Italy demanding Albania that cost them the war.

[@KaiserTwo]

Sigma King Zog has been blessed with the Spirit of Skanderberg

[@Anonie324]

29:43 Several months before you actually finished, in which thousands more were surely KIA, crippled, captured, or missing (casualties), you got 349 thousand casualties. Albania's total population in 1938 was 1,048,000. I'll call it 390k to capitulation. 37.21% of Albania's total population in the war was killed, wounded, captured, crippled, or missing. That's almost halfway to the Paraguay War in which nearly 60% of the population was killed. Jesus wept, Albania deserved better than that lol

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

So they don't have males now?

[@Anonie324]

@@blackandwhitecats4243 well, probably on average around 60-80% of the male population of Albania is just gone in that context. There honestly would realistically have been absolute regicidal outrage that he got so many of them killed when the threat to Albania itself passed, but, here's a fun tidbit. Albania, while never especially pious about it, has been majority Islamic since Ottoman rule. I expect that polygamy (nominally allowed in Islamic law) would be temporarily encouraged to help rebuild the postwar population

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

@@Anonie324 We got Zog,a coward in OTL.Then this Zog got killed by regicidal outrage for actually serving his country instead of taking the national bank of Alabania then fleeing.Don't know what's worse.

[@Anonie324]

@@blackandwhitecats4243 This Zog might have realistically faced at least some danger of a coup, revolution, or at minimum a referendum on a republic in this scenario after the war. Like, holy shit bro, the immediate threat passed, why didn't you demobilize the country and save tens of thousands of our precious remaining men while the rest of Europe handled it because you wanted the prestige of being the one to bring down Hitler and occupy parts of Italy we could never spare the resources to control?

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

@@Anonie324 He's a king,they like prestige over peasant issues that think it won't lead to their demise.How about the minority(albanian)in southern italy?Would it cover 40% for garrisoning or a quicker demise?(There's a funny thought of me thinking if that timeline happened,Hendway maybe wouldn't exist as a channel or a person.)

[@Horizontalvertigo]

"Call an ambulance... But not for me!" The playthrough

[@James-712]

I'm not Albanian but this makes me feel patriotic

[@yoanawramow8809]

He unlocked his true nationality🇦🇱

[@Quickshot0]

I see, So Albania was involved in many of the important operations and liberations in Europe. Truly pulled above its weight there, did cost it just about everything I guess, but got a few things out of it in the end.

[@ancaoraathasach]

Kneel before Zog.

[@ahmetzog9593]

BEST VIDEO EVER!!!! also for playing as ZOGU in albania or albania at all you should use king of the blood feud mod. it adds a pretty good focus tree for albania. also your pronunciations were great :)

[@krasnamerah1926]

So his correct pronounciation of Vlorē was the first one, second, or third?

[@elioyaboi4407]

@@krasnamerah1926 the first one was close enough

[@dejvimeto2414]

@@krasnamerah1926 In Albanian we pronounce it Vlor (without spelling ë at the end) or Vlora. It depence on the lexicon of the sentence.

[@viclorenzo5016]

*Proud to be an Albanian intensifies*

[@jimmymahfety7918]

RED AND BLACK I DRESS

[@drearyplane8259]

EAGLE ON MA CHEST

[@xander.2609]

GOOD TO BE AN ALBANIAN

[@dardanianaxe9772]

KEEP MY HEAD UP PROUD

[@dardanianaxe9772]

FOR FLAG I DIE

[@friedsoap4641]

Southern Italy is basically Albanian anyway

[@myeyesfeellikecrap3510]

legit

[@akkiaddizone6889]

Least nationalistic Albanian

[@friedsoap4641]

Im not albanian My family is actually from that region in Italy lol also there are a ton of ethnic albanians there

[@buddermonger2000]

27:08 That is the most cursed map I've ever seen. That much Balkan progress is just... horrifying

[@gengarzilla1685]

The splintered pieces of Hungary and Romania plus a fully occupied Bulgaria with that massive Yugoslavia and Greece would be cursed enough without that Albanian-controlled Italian peninsula. It's such a freakishly huge mess.

[@OverlordMalarkey]

Honestly OperaGX is a God send for PC Gamers. The ability to control RAM/CPU usage on demand while the browser is one is fantastic! No longer I'll be cursed with unbearable fps drops because of damn Chrome eating my RAM like it's a feast.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

To be fair, RAM is delicious

[@OverlordMalarkey]

@@Bitt3rSteel yeah if WE are the ones eating it not the damn software

[@emmiplemmi2000]

tbh i cant say ive ever had a problem with chrome eating my ram, is it really that bad?

[@precious0_0]

@@emmiplemmi2000 as a chrome user i can say for sure that sometimes its REALLY bad unfortunately

[@sugarsenpai8432]

@@emmiplemmi2000 yes especially if you have a bad pc

[@alexschmidt443]

All Albanians ever: "This is canon now" And yes, Skenderbeg would be proud of you.

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

Had a "fun" try at this myself. The Axis proceeded to kill the Soviets and get all of Africa. Me as Albania was just sitting on my 5 provinces with lv 9 forts.

[@sto1238]

Hoxha would be proud of all those bunkers

[@MrVitek-ut8jq]

There is a way to get more manpower. Idk if you tried this, but you can request garrison support from your allies to free up the manpower used in policing

[@lptomtom]

This is one of the best you've done in a long time, I really love smaller countries like this!

[@bummm7065]

Fax, sometimes minor powers are more fun to play especially as allies

[@soul0360]

Imagine in this timeline, how the Italian army would have been the laughingstock of the world for generations. Ohh wait... never mind...

[@glauberglousger6643]

I’m probably not the only one who watches these videos, but doesn’t play the game

[@federtataefutbollitekosove4709]

I TRULY APPRECIATE FOR BELIEVING IN ME FELLOW FRIENDS AS THE ALBANIANS 🇦🇱 SPIRIT SHALL NEVER DIE AND WITH MY PEOPLES STRENGTH AND SCANDERBEG’S BLESSING WE SHALL RULE THE WORLD 🗺

[@user-dd5kw4tz5x]

Enver Hoxha in 1967: 9:08

[@samuelzachariah8739]

I remember learning in US history class when Albania D Dayed

[@Bitt3rSteel]

For Zog

[@hellbach8879]

more like king pog amirite boys

[@operationmeh]

Zog over all! Rally to Zog!

[@matyasfukk3270]

My favourite part in hoi iv is when you carry the whole war end get nothing

[@akkiaddizone6889]

Hopefully they fixed the peace deals in By Blood Alone DLC

[@itzs1mplebro914]

"Guys I just dont have any manpower left" meanwhile he is walking in Berlin

[@Cornan1980]

I'm excited to see how games like this work out with the Peace Deal rework. You definitely did more than 9% war participation there.

[@MatthewZzzz0]

it is the burden of Zog to lead the allies to victory

[@KlaustheViking]

I feel like using a 15-width division (6 inf, 1 art) template for such a small nation could of been better. Get more divisions out and they can hold out pretty well.

[@mixererunio1757]

I just gotta say, I LOVE those thumbnails. They're awesome. The content is good as well ;)

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

You know its weird when albania has commmited 8% of the axis casualties

[@kevinsworldK.w69]

Wait im dumb its 10%

[@itsame12345]

This would be a sick achievement.

[@KittyFaerie1]

30:55 - "British forces have advanced into Berlin..." Somehow that just doesn't seem fair, lol (even though I get why the game reads it that way)

[@erti4531]

In this scenario Zog isn’t a traitor

[@blackeagle016]

In this scenario he is a hero, who followed our tradition to fight the enemy against all odds, as he should had done in real life.

[@Stiann86]

11:35 "To any Italian viewers, its not personal" *Frantic hand gestures intensifies*

[@andrewvoisine5607]

King zog was the only reason albinia survived the 1920s and 30s as a country

[@zman1064]

The editing has seemly improved randomly, very swag!

[@Wheels-of-terror]

This was one of the best playthroughs I've ever seen! I really like alt histoy.

[@Shmuklidooha]

The peace deal looks like the Italy boot stepped in a puddle of jelly.

[@tacobowler]

Lol at your description of putting everyone in the army. Weekend at Bernie’s: Albania Defense

[@Chewyshoot]

Ohhhh going for the "Albania or Iberia" achievement?

[@absolutelionel8854]

Man you're literally the best hoi4 youtuber ever dude ur videos are so fun and soooo soo good Love from croatia

[@godgoku8716]

Going on tours in the western europe was already an albaninan thing.

[@oneesama3421]

Nice as always! Now do a non-aligned Austria and deny Anschluss! Bonuspoints for restoring Austria-Hungary!

[@wcrq_drift7972]

Austria hungary can only be restored if you play as hungary

[@oneesama3421]

@@wcrq_drift7972 uhm... nope? Just look up the videos of Bitt3rSteel - he already did it even as croatia! So all of the former austro-hungarian states can do it: Hungary Austria Czechoslovakia Croatia

[@emin166]

@@oneesama3421 Can't bosnia do it aswell?

[@oneesama3421]

@@emin166 good question, should look into it by releasing it

[@thomaslobley7355]

Lmao Albania has so many bunkers irl too. There is one every 100m

[@EnclaveEmily]

"The Albanian capital is in Rome" *you have provoked a gang war*

[@comradedarkness5589]

I love the new way you make your videos

[@culannthehound94]

Defied all odds once again, another great video.

[@kababyenoh]

At least you are now in control of the Tyrrhenian Fleet!

[@fluffycommander]

This is the underdog story we all needed

[@ivanemilov522]

I tried doing something similar with yugo, had fighter 3s and released Croatia and slovenia to use as buffers before the war but oh well they attacked them anyway and my fighters (around 1000 were shredding theirs but the CAS destroyed me :/)

[@Nilboggen]

Best Albania play I have ever seen. I probably would have given Italy to one of the allies to garrison though ;-)

[@Misky447]

This is one of the best hoi4 video I have seen

[@RunRiot_]

haha mate that peace deal XD i cant wait for the peace "rework"

[@bigmeowster99]

I really like the stupid challenges a lot. Please do more!

[@Cyanide_Infused]

life doesn't get easier, you just get albanian

[@relenltlessgoat7603]

That Darth Revan is my Lovkscreen

[@casualboomer3593]

Zombalanians...best doctrine theorycrafting ever Edit: did you make any attempt to request garrison support from the Allies since you were occupying so much of Italy?

[@robbiepaterson4535]

Used to be a ritual in my uni dorm to do the Zoggist salute and chant "ZOG ZOG ZOG ZOG" infront of a Zog portrait.

[@aetu35]

That 2 minute long ad tells me this guy actually uses Opera GX I use it too, and I can say it is very based

[@x3cion]

Ho, ly, sh*, talking about drama! This was insanely intense!

[@detroitdave9512]

Oh shit I was waiting for this one!

[@irelandcountryedits416]

“That is going to cost a lot of Albanians” Bitt3rsteel-2022

[@lioninjawarloc]

What a sick Revan background

[@gengarzilla1685]

“Until now we used to say that the Albanians fight like heroes. Now we shall say: Heroes fight like Albanians.” -Winston Churchill in this timeline

[@matt_at_midnight]

Hearts of Iron doesn’t get easier, you just get Albanian

[@EliasDeFilippo]

Really nice game bro keep at it i love it and have great fun with you!! Love to you and your family from Argentina!!!

[@grandmagertrude6358]

Bro lost 400k soldiers as Albania...

[@leifolsen9515]

zog followed in the steps of skanderbeg

[@patricklennon5195]

“We still have guns we just don’t have any Albanians” oof

[@nikidabiscuit946]

Bitt3rSteel is the only Ytber that I watch in video ads, *all the way*

[@Me-zj4fd]

Suggestion: For manpower make air wings. If you go to total mob, you can invest all available manpower into air wings. Once you have demobilized manpower for total mob, you disband the air wings and you just saved so much manpower. (They might’ve patched it, I haven’t been able to see in around three months due to my computer being broken).

[@some_gh0st]

Small countries are so much more fun to play than the world powers. Very cool!

[@hukkaera1439]

I think I just watched one of Mussolini's nightmares. Amazing.

[@calebsoot5540]

We where just trying to share our cuisine

[@dolcinofavi6368]

it has now become personal ! E ora diventato personale !

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

I really wish Albania got a focus tree in By Blood Alone. It'd be really cool if Albania had some funny trees like reclaiming Egypt like in Road to 56 n such. Doesn't have to be big, but a small one.

[@noldo3837]

"We have two divisions now, that has doubled our army." Lol, thats a way to play HoI 4...

[@schiefer1103]

„The Balkans are a mess“ European history, in a nutshell.

[@vonchelis8482]

Thank you for making my day better, keep up the good work! How can I get the latest patch of the game though? :/

[@chippen1985]

Bitt3rSteel: Did you ask for garrison support from your allies to deal with Italian supression?

[@davidjames1993]

some times as Germany i stall in Greece because the allies will pile there instead of focusing on ddays

[@kd3045]

Allies: Hey uh, can you help us with Japan?