Building ships is terrible and pointless! My Ships Don't Lie!

[@ahmetberkkuntasal4949]

always remember: colombia starts with a higher module of destroyers researched than japan does

[@Ian501st]

pffff well I didnt see that cominh

[@arctrper4870]

COLOMBIA NUMERO UNO 🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴🇨🇴

[@YoungFreakDiddy]

Wait really?

[@sto1238]

Lmao Japan seriously needs to be reworked 😂😂

[@7XQO]

@@sto1238 fr the focus tree too

[@Theover4000]

I got this achievement back in the day; it was pain waiting until 1949 for carriers to build because I didn’t realize I could’ve just built some cheap garbage quickly, I had to build powerful, expensive stuff. Argh!

[@ryanreid3141]

Least you prob had strongest fleet possible XD

[@Theover4000]

@@ryanreid3141 yup

[@NexusGaming857]

Unfortunately for me, I can't NOT build a proper navy, one that isn't cheap.

[@Theover4000]

@@NexusGaming857 me either, OCD requires the big man-sized Navy!

[@NexusGaming857]

@@Theover4000 If I have the industry, I'll create two separate fleets. One for the high seas and another for escort. 400-ship navy Germany is truly a sight to behold.

[@cheekychunkSR]

When Bitter returns to My Ships Don't Lie: A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

[@pudanielson1]

I appreciate he comes back to achievements with newer videos

[@james2529]

Bittersteel's videos always make me laugh. This and Albania are my favourite two recent (non-disaster save) videos.

[@juanduiribero]

I see my country. I upvote, thanks bittersteel

[@RNKel1]

Colombia and Brazil should be the first South American countries to get focus trees

[@nosferatustg7675]

@@RNKel1 Agreed

[@jellyhonut1583]

@@RNKel1 Peru would be cool too like making the Inca empire or something

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

¡Vamos Colombia!

[@samueltunjano6774]

Quiubo vamos por Colombia

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

One cool thing about Colombia is that I think their fascist leader Isidoro always has a trait that reduces Garrison damage, and they have two advisors that reduce it, _and_ in the Nationalism Focus branch there's a further reduction, so you can stack extremely high Garrison damage reduction. Would probably be useful for some kind of world conquest attempt.

[@dwightd.eisenhower2031]

I like how most hoi4 players probably don’t get the reference in the achievement 😂

[@MUCM]

what’s the reference?

[@plebisMaximus]

@@MUCM Shakira made a song called my hips don't lie and iirc, she's from Colombia

[@nickcoryell2516]

@@plebisMaximusohhhh makes sense

[@MrCalls1]

@@MUCM that hurt dude. I’m not old yet. Please!?

[@jakeszedetzki2373]

@@plebisMaximus had no clue lol.

[@maxmeng1145]

Btw to play Communist, the “Retake Core” option in 28:28 is a handy way get military access to Germany. You can prepare your troops in USSR, quick declare on UK, then roll into Germany and do funky stuff

[@TrondelagianPatriotsriseup]

Remember to split your fleet into multiple instead of one big deathstack as the penalty for that is way too high to justify with laziness, it's just as important as supply on land and way easier to fix.

[@silver535311]

Hey Bittersteel, would love to see some more mods, even if they are really dumb like "Special research Division" or fomable nations and then you can try to form some crazy nation

[@superrelic64]

I just watched your first playthrough of this extreme achievement not even 24 hours ago and now you post this. Nice to see you learned about the falling back idea when taking Ecuador

[@johndi16]

did you know? Most of the borders in south america are wrong, especially Ecuador-Peru one, most mods fix it but paradox doesn't want to touch it.

[@samc1033]

Hey bittersteel, would love to see more achievement guides for BBA, but I’m loving the videos!!!

[@edoardoscp9274]

I remember playing Colombia in multiplayer once and didn't know that i needed 30% fascist support, so I ended up having a civil war after another constantly for like 2/3 months, was very fun 😊

[@samueltunjano6774]

Nice to see a Colombian play through, I love my country

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

That’s the second time I’ve seen Colombia successfully naval-invade the UK in a paradox game. The first time was in Vicky 2 somehow

[@fishystales]

yoo, i literally did this achievement 2 days ago haha but I was so bad i couldn't beat Peru, but held enough territory to form Gran Colombia so I just finished it while still being at war 🤷

[@culannthehound94]

As a dedicated metal fan, I feel doing the achievement with your SO making fun of you for jamming out to Shakira is the proper way to do the achievement.

[@noutwf]

Superior Firepower is not necessarily better than Grand Battle Plan, since GBP has some crazy planning bonuses (+80% attack) along with supply consumption, and defense (you don’t need defense but still).

[@madiaw5553]

Don't forget the 25% night attack, which nearly make up for less soft attack gain from sf Edit: it 25 not 45

[@noutwf]

@@madiaw5553 haven’t studied it that well, but you’re probably right

[@loganamurray64]

Ngl i basically only play minors so i always go for superior firepower

[@elbeto191291]

This achievement got infinitely better with BBA and is no longer a bore fest until 1950, nice!

[@ventusastrea3850]

9:27 ah yes the fearsome Ecuadorian navy in the jungles and mountains of Colombia.

[@probower4726]

Hey bitter, best of luck with your newborn! Enjoy time with family! Take care!

[@GustavoGplay]

The Vichy "exploit" maybe isn't an intended mechanic, because it does feel like an exploit, but it's definitely realistic, since it is very common for an invading army to use a neutral country's infrastructure to supply their own troops. Germany used Sweden as a way to supply troops in Norway, and more recently, Russia used Belarus as a launching ground for their invasion of Ukraine.

[@antasil5768]

This might be better than your original video on this campaign. I'm a big fan of doing achievements the coolest way, like this one!

[@Yuri_Arlov]

What do you use for your background music?

[@zachariahjonahmaldonado5897]

Hardest part pf this achievement for me was waiting for all the dockyards to fart out the requisit battle boats. Took me to 1952 or something, by which point I was mostly catching up on My Hero Academia while checking to ensure I wasn't DoWed or something.

[@hernanmme520]

How did he get those first 12 sqads so fast tho?

[@SerggiusParadaeTheGreater]

I am venezuelan. Not exactly colombian, but eh, it's next to colombia. Nice to see bittersteel playing a south american country for once. 😄

[@andrew3203]

Your people are basically identical. Sure, one is better at football, but the other has oil so...

[@Dimitrishuter]

I remember creating and spearheading the axis invasion of the USA doing this achievement. Kept me busy whilst slowly building up a naval industry from the conquests lol

[@scubandym1941]

Glory to grand Columbia! Very cool video. I like challenges better then disaster saves. They are just painful. Have you thought about playing in some esports tournaments. In Korea people put money to see pros play one another. I would pay money to see you play Dankus.

[@zeliospetkoglou1009]

i remember doing this fairly easy with producing them as cheap as possible, but this is much more interesting so that's better to be honest

[@kristijanveljaca1687]

I remember when I did this challenge, I just reformed the Bolivars legacy and left the game open overnight for the ships to build lmao

[@ssach7]

21:14 "South America isn't really resource rich, is it?" It always annoyed me that they made South America like that in HOI, but I guess it's better for gameplay or everyone would try to conquer SAmerica if they put the actual amount of resources they have

[@shashwatsinha2704]

I think they only put the amount currently exploited

[@matnorris8]

New Bittersteel video 🙂Bittersteel chooses Colombia 😃Bittersteel forms Gran Colombia😁 also, i've done this run a lot for fun since I am colombian so i'm excited to see how you do it

[@michaellaliberte5489]

So I don’t know how tuff it would be but could you from gran Columbia then naval invade the United States to complete the achievement?

[@sneedtzsche]

I remember doing this achievement, it was so so painful... Never again

[@RyuakiraX]

Ngl I've played HOI for like 700 hours and I still don't understand anything regarding the navy other than that convoy raid good and put the big ships on strike force.

[@pillbox2079]

Well, that's definitely a way to refresh a boring achievement. Thank you for the video! I did not expect it to be so fun!

[@kommandantgalileo]

Laughs in building the largest fleet in the world every single game

[@androop122]

Fat W, I've always loved Colombia! First nation I played in HOI4!

[@CellularAustralian8222]

Loved it! I did notice that the Japanese still had another carrier that you could've taken as well, that being the Hosho!

[@TheStanislavson]

Are the naval pontons any good for naval invastions? They might be the key to Japan for example.

[@Havok0159]

They are useful when invading tough enemies who actually defend themselves. So it doesn't apply to Japan since their army is always stuck in China. What you need against Japan is a strong navy to ensure your invasion goes off, once you're on the Home Islands you're golden. When invading through Kyushu you may run into resistance by the time you reach Osaka and will likely have trouble getting bogged down due to supply if you don't take Osaka, and failed to advance through the north, but generally floating harbors will have expired by the time that can happen. What you want them for is when naval invading somewhere there's no existing port or when you need to have multiple armies supplied but the local port is insufficient.

[@tohosein]

W Country W achievement refrence to Shakira

[@commissarkordoshky219]

do civil wars still delete factories?

[@AMooseAteIt]

Good morning bitter steel

[@ProvinciaCGA]

I demand a new achivement related to: "Las mujeres no lloran, las mujeres facturan".

[@jebbroham1776]

You're the only person I've seen that can truly just troll the AI in everything you do.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

You haven't seen much have you?

[@jebbroham1776]

@@Gustav_Kuriga I have, believe me. I have over 2000 hours in HOI4 multiplayer. I've seen a lot of good players, but none on the level of Bitter1steel.

[@RedLogicYT]

I'm gonna be honest- I'm too stupid to even understand the navy system. I just assign orders and do automatic break off and train them. I also just throw whatever tech on my planes and just spam planes but dont really underrated air combat fundamentally. Hell I hardly even understand tanks, most games I never even use them. I've reached a point in hoi4 knowledge where I know just enough to know that I know nothing about navy, air, and tanks. I'm just too small brained

[@richardew8717]

If you are just playing single player, in opinion to shouldn't bother with learning navy. Just use them to naval invade and convoy raiding and that's it.

[@kosratbaway3119]

I love how you spell so well the name of these countries in their Tongue accent

[@memphissander3512]

this achievement is easy, civ greed and unite gran colombia, then build dockyards and jsut sit for about 15 years

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

Working as intended. That's the kind of political shenanigans that many proxy wars thrive off of. "Oh technically we're not fighting you. We're only providing every support barring direct attack to your enemy. So we're totally not at war with you."

[@luritdurit]

The funny thing about Britain is that its either really easy or really hard

[@Pulstar232]

I got this achievement when you could...let's say 'take advantage' of the naval production bonus.

[@nk9437]

@Bitt3rSteel I have a challenge for you: Can you reach world conquest with Bulgaria under Boris III. rule?

[@Markmarki-nj7te]

actually you could start as peru and make the gran colombia somehow

[@Hackee-fs9gh]

I don`t understand why you not using "escort convoys" while the naval ivasion, it helps to get your troops fresh while being caught by japanese fleet.

[@undefinedbhvr]

I forget that some people still choose SFP over GBP, SFP is great but GBP is just ridiculously OP

[@zionmolina3039]

I built ten each instead of stealing them. It took awhile. I got most of my cores except the canal and curacao, a few colonies in asia and the pacific.

[@stevepirie8130]

I hadn’t read the achievement properly and built ten battlecruisers instead of BBs and once I realised I barely built them in time for games end. 🫣

[@PokerRageAH]

I did this achievement before stealing ships was a thing. Yes I built all my own ships. Yes I played until 1948, why do you ask?

[@chezlonian]

Bitter, do you ever do private tutorials or over the shoulder help? Maybe something similar to WinterStarcraft's Angry Coaching series?

[@CrackJoris]

since when can you modify planes like that?

[@samuelzachariah8739]

I had to do the exact same paratrooper meme for Australia Hungary😂

[@DirkusTurkess]

Who gets sealioned better? The AI or Dankus? OMAN!

[@marvinwoods4556]

Did Bitt3rsteel ever recreate the "Man in the High Castle" scenario with Germany or Japan?

[@tomfizze]

in my few games where i tried this, france puts all of their units on the border.... is there another way to do it Bittersteel?

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of Colombia steals ALL THE SHIPS! My Ships Don't Lie momentum 100

[@amendoim_zinho6308]

When i play random games the uk always have over 200 carriers. Is that normal?

[@harunkuf7055]

I swear bro I had to get this achievement before the peace deal update and I had to sit there until 1949 or something.

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

Can you try millenium dawn sometime?

[@vixen878]

i love how you pronounce the countries properly

[@ifver2.0tjenamos51]

there are many ways you can pronounce countries, I dont know why he is saying it in the native language.

[@thenewbie21]

new nickname for bittersteel: *bittersteal*

[@Finn_the_Cat]

Wouldn't the game give you the achievement if you made cheapo carriers and battleships, like the cheapest stuff you can make. Granted this way would be more fun but my stated method would be less ball bustingly tedious I guess

[@existinginaspace8347]

I'm not buying the new dlc that allows ship taking. I usually get bogged down trying to break ecudore and peru

[@SuperMarioBales10]

Question For All In The HOI4 Community. How do you switch from cadet hoi4 to vanilla hoi4. It’s a real problem for me. I can’t get everything in by blood alone. Please help

[@ahhno4662]

What do you mean, ‘Cadet HOI4’?

[@rebornpheonix1016]

@@ahhno4662 One of the earlier content packs for HOI 4.

[@ahhno4662]

Pretty sure it’s not, Cadet HoI4 is (iirc) the name of a steam bundle with a couple dlc in it?

[@MemeMan69]

You should get stockpiles for capitulating the enemy, so mils are probably worth it, i would say

[@santicraftmcesp.9178]

Great video, very entertaining! See you on the next one!

[@dedos206]

Weird to see someone actually playing my country.

[@Guns_Blazin]

Congratulations on your new kid Bittersteel

[@deefvandermeulen1621]

if you swear irl do you swear in english, dutch or french?

[@eflex8543]

Yesterday i tried Navy germany, in like 3 days half of my navy was sunk so thats that

[@R-BGamingUK]

Gran Columbia, returned!

[@Smoking_Lupo]

Can you do the video for Burma(Myanmar)? It's under control of British Raj, you have to release them and play them. I know it will be a pain but i just want to see it :-)

[@blackfear6711]

you should try and play the mod: infantry designer it would be a cool video!

[@Mongelt]

Can you please focus on combat mechaniscs a little more? Coz when I was invading Japan the way as the US, I got crushed 😁

[@alroy43]

I was going to say "why don't you just lend lease some oil for war score?" Then I remembered your navy.

[@yorkofski4197]

Could you do another mexico video?

[@elbirri]

greetings from Colombia Bitt3r :)

[@SantiagoLopez-us7oc]

Thank you for playing my country

[@poroto4185]

Try the mod "En Union Y Libertad"

[@DavidRodriguez-ux5ye]

You had the opportunity to do this with Bolivia the joke was right there!

[@royale7620]

The MADMAN has done it!!! Viva Bolivar

[@yolyromero4626]

What mod is that to have that many dockyards??

[@Gabeslicor]

What about Panama into Gran-Columbia

[@verdun5869]

It's an good an original video!

[@princeoftherealm]

Bittersteel saying retarded took me out for no reason 😭 18:00

[@johnmarston5383]

Watch out at 18:00, youtube monetization doesnt like the r-word

[@lactoseintolerant7074]

Bro was to scared to try the USA LOL

[@Flattithefish]

My hips don’t lie reference?

[@raippakeisari2342]

In all honesty, it makes zero sense that Vichy France is not a German puppet or in the Axis by default. It's a fun trick to take them out but realistically Paradox should do something to prevent an Axis member declaring against Vichy.

[@k9nate219]

This is the first time I have ever noticed the ambience music in one of your vids wtf