Building the Ultimate MONARCHIST Finland!

[@flameguy3416]

Finland has always been enigmatic to me. The Finno-Korean Hyperwar of 8328 B.C cements the nation as a truly unique place with unique people.

[@DogeMonke-31]

🐀🐀🐀🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Aakkuli]

Fingols unite!

[@lordodin5755]

Truely Yakubs finest

[@RADSIKEGORILLAGEM-pz5qr]

Wow

[@RADSIKEGORILLAGEM-pz5qr]

I didn't know about that war, thanks

[@Keisari.]

fun fact, you can core the entire world as finland. If you give estonia everything in a peace deal, and then annex em (viron kansa) the game gives you cores on all estonian states

[@nicezombie8054]

Well seems balanced

[@Stepbro_Im_Stuck]

Are you sure? I just tried it with console commands and only got their core states as core states

[@davemiller638]

But without an Estonia, who will the Finns buy alcohol from?

[@Creakko]

@@davemiller638 Sweden. Folk living in Lapland already do that.

[@randorider4447]

Hey, not sure if you don't understand how core states works, misread the wording and simply did it 'on paper' without console commands, but if you read, you get cores on ESTONIAN CORES. This means that even if estonia owned the world (as someone else mentioned), you would only get cores on the OG estonian land. However, another example is how falangist spain can core brazil and iberia. If falangist spain annexes the kingdom of brazil and portugal, it gets cores on all portuguese cores. Since brazil is cored by the original tag of portugal, falangist spain obtains this. However, this does not apply to finland and estonia.

[@joejohnson8789]

Noticed how you're doing your railways, if you press shift when you select your starting point, then it will automatically find the shortest path to your end point instead of snaking all over the place

[@MintsClassic]

Thank you very much!

[@sara-hc7wb]

hoooooooooooow does this game have an infinite amount of small QoL things like this that you won't learn until you have 1k+ hours played?

[@foreignfat6009]

Well... But if you want to build them fast, you do one tile per stack of factories

[@satekoi]

Finland has 2 secret focuses, but many times that second focus is skipped because its coming too late. It's name is Innovative Designs, and its hidden until you do Militarized Society, and National Armor Focuses. Its adds random fully controlled cored state: 1 Building slot, and 1 Military factory; also create Hyökkäysvaunu Super Heavy Tank variant on gaining technology Super-Heavy Tank Chassis.

[@Brabantian]

7:15 finnland should have more air bonuses, historically they were op af

[@perfectlynormalhuman5473]

Yeah but at the scale presented in the game it wouldnt make much sense

[@oro88]

I mean, historically Canada had the 3rd largest Navy at the end of the war as well as insane amounts of aluminium - most Ally planes were built with Canadian aluminium. Yet that's nowhere to be seen in the game.

[@perfectlynormalhuman5473]

@@oro88 Most of the canadian ships were light corvettes and frigates designed for escort duties. I guess it is not worth showing them for the sake of optimalization

[@oro88]

@@perfectlynormalhuman5473 I know, but they could at least do something about resources of manpower

[@perfectlynormalhuman5473]

@@oro88 I think that national spirits would be better fit for that. Like the bulgarian nuclear production one, but every major in a faction with canada gets -xr% resource need for planes

[@umut9107]

Finnish Him!

[@Notexactlydat]

Finnish himmm!n

[@jhawk25]

Nice pun mate😂

[@michellegaris3819]

Finnish him!!!!!!

[@jksilta9335]

Such a Swede pun but needs more Polish.

[@michellegaris3819]

Let me POLish the jokes for ya

[@Anders_Lund]

Looks like achievements are back on the menu, boys

[@michellegaris3819]

WAGHHHH

[@sergentspuddy8637]

The first patch notes after the Finnish DLC had so many balances and debuffs to Finland. And it’s still this powerful

[@josephcola9662]

As a quick aside to anyone who's unfortunate enough to get a good run but then have to fight the allies, I got this achievement without having to cross any oceans by just sitting on speed 5 until i could make collab governments in Sweeden and Norway. Because the collab government owns the land and is a new country, when you annex the collab government via puppet management, you take ownership of the land. It's a significantly longer time investment, and a lot more boring, but when half of the achievements in this game end up becoming "as X minor power, capitulate the Every Major Faction so you can be listed as the 'owner' of Y province in the arse-crack of Siberia," its nice to not have to do that every now and then.

[@hydro_zone]

Always a blast to see Finland get some love

[@anton33779]

26:36 you only get them if you researched it before, I learned that the hard way

[@Bitt3rSteel]

No, they actually pop up later! I found out!

[@anton33779]

@@Bitt3rSteel oh cool they changed it

[@Cornan1980]

I LOVE achievement videos. I know a lot of people don't care about them, but they're my favorite content, and my favorite way to play HoI4. I've only got 132/211 so I'm always a fan of new "guides".

[@wastelander89]

Thank you for making longer videos. Longer the better. I love your videos. They make my day better

[@Pomsoneer]

Just bought the expansion pass with your link, glad i could support you :D

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@ライテス]

Loved how you pronounced/tried to pronounce some of the finnish words, made me smile thanks for that!!

[@alessandromilan50]

You read my mind. I was playing with Finland but I can't do anything good....I really need this video! Thank you so much, I love your content!

[@thephilosophyroom5587]

Holy hell, five minutes?! Glad to be early, I love the content! Keep up the good work, mate PS: Belgium was one of my favorite countries to visit when I traveled Europe this summer :)

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

Keeping Pehr at the start is better in my opinion because it lets you hire the Lutheran Priest with no worries about him undermining your Sisu Spirit. In fact the [Brown] popularity growth he provides can help you get out of Pehr's danger zone faster.

[@Vuosta]

Has to be one of my favourite achievement diary runs. Not too RNG heavy, decent challenge without being a headache and cool premises.

[@brotherhoodz97]

i just failed this run not 2 hours ago because norway went communist, immediately joined my war and took a single province before my army could cover.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

39:00 Ladies, Gentlemen, and those inbetween; Exhibit A), B), and C), for why I REFUSE to use field marshal frontlines.

[@JohnSmith-zl1tr]

At 50:05 can see the battleplan result in a relatively large encirclement on the right of the screen. It's great.

[@vivolimo1137]

Would like to see the manpower cost for Germany

[@JohnSmith-zl1tr]

@@vivolimo1137 if you go back to 50:00 you can count the divisions and its about as many division as Germany had at 49:24, which puts it at a bit over 200,000, 49:27.

[@teemuauvinen5319]

I always love when a non finnish speak finnish its just so fun to hear

[@Vuosta]

48:40 bittersteel discovering the power of GBP dec 1942 (colorized)

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

Dig in and wait , stack planning , execute plan , problem ?

[@lyonvensa]

For real, I was thinking "Who are you and what have you done to Bittersteel" when he picked GBP doctrine lmao

[@lologramme4425]

Love your videos, I like when you show focus tree and research, maybe you could continue do it during all the video!

[@catzoran]

Svinhufvud is a Swedish name in old time spelling, and it quite literally means "Pig-head". And somehow that fits his portrait like a glove IMO. He looks like an angry boar 😂

[@kaloyankirov8937]

There is nothing wrong with your voice and great video!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I appreciate that

[@inductivegrunt94]

Always nice to see some Finland love! Perkele!

[@AnimeFreak40K]

Thanks for this particular guide. When all of the stuff for Finland came out, I was wondering how some of those achievements would even be possible and had been poking around for some guides. With the new update coming Soon(tm) and having no idea how it would impact the rest of the game (above and beyond killing any older save files), I had started working (and mostly failing) to get all of the Achievements noted in this video. I managed to get 'Finnish Him' first, but because Sweden never joined the Comintern, as soon as the war ended, they went right to the Allies... not optimal at all, as I would have no way to end that one and fighting Germany was out of the question. So, I tried again. Several times and after many failures (and a massive amount of Save Scumming); did you know that the Soviet Union may not always eat Latvia or Lithuania? I didn't... Anyway, last night, I was finally able to get all of the Achievements...so thanks for this achievement guide!

[@Sqoope0]

Finnaly you’ve done a Monarchist guide for Finland!

[@Wheels-of-terror]

I just watched Britannica's video on Finland. Super interesting place that's got a very unique culture compared to the countries around them since they've been ruled by Sweden and Russia for so long.

[@felraksis]

Petition for Bittersteel: Take the top comment under your most recent Video when making a new one and name your Agency the in the comment proposed name. (More community interaction is always good, right?) Example: Central Mustache Removal Agency (CMRA) - "Specializing in Dictators"

[@naggrr]

as a finnish person you made me proud

[@Poki3]

"Shameless Plug" I guess, but I made a small mod called "Unalive Pills" that you might want to use for your videos.

[@WorkersofAmericaRise]

I wonder what it does

[@dippadai]

Big sleep

[@ownsmax]

You can disband spies by hitting that little X in the top right of their picture, and when you do the pool of spies refreshes after 30 days so it's possible to fish for seducers.

[@Montgomerydu14]

Alex the Rambler will be proud

[@BosanacBosanski]

Hmmm Weird there wasn't a Futurama clip at the start of the video

[@totolias2010]

yeah wrong series

[@RoRo559_on_Xbox91]

43:43 Komi republic mentioned. Verify your clock

[@andreasottohansen7338]

17:04 Ah yes.... The "Almond" pills.

[@MrSamrussell90]

So I have tried to follow this video several times and i keep just getting over run. How do you place your divisions? As this is not shown in the video

[@vulcanjoe8258]

Literally just did all these after multiple restarts and pain… didn’t realise you put out a video. At least I get watch you in pain now 😂

[@Ore_Keeper]

Just recently joined as a member and the next video I watch I am in the army, happy times.

[@vikk3]

Your pronunciation was almost spot on. I was impressed.

[@hereis_Tiff]

Great content man, enjoyed it 💪 Finland really is the best Nordic country to play as

[@larikauranen2159]

What is this. Im making a typical finnish sausage soup, those ones gramma used to make since i felt like it and this pops up as one of my video recommendations.. i like it

[@walnzell9328]

I have a possible strategy. If you release Sami and Karelia, when you take their cores in (eastern country), Norway, and Sweden, they will gain all the manpower. You can then demand their divisions from them as well as garrison support. For the Sami, maybe save that until you go to war with Sweden and Norway, just so you don't lose half your country. You can release them in the Kola peninsula region. Then give them their cores in Scandinavia. Sorry for posting this same comment with multiple variations each time. If I say the name of the eastern nation, problems happen. Edit: Test test Edit 2: Okay it works now.

[@walnzell9328]

You should also utilize maintenance companies to steal enemy equipment. Yes, they cost support equipment, but you'll be stealing enemy support equipment which at least partially pays for them.

[@LFR_21]

SUOMEN KUNINGASKUNTAHANKE FOR THE WIN!!!🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@krzysztofsowinski3726]

Really fun to watch! I hope for more achievement runs in the future :)

[@thegrumpyraccoon]

You can resolve the manpower issue with Mobile Warfare. Also there are couple of divisions hidden in the naval tree.

[@karhukoira]

Your pronunciation of Finnish is actually surprisingly good!

[@DandyCZE]

Ooo "we will have generated none" future perfect tense. Cool English.

[@heathdionne7717]

future pluperfect is the only superior tense. I love verb tenses

[@Džavotistan]

New video? And after work? And is 50 minutes long? Fuck yeah!

[@noice-z8l]

@Bitt3rSteel, hope you feel better!

[@furinaseyreas]

New Bittersteel video spotted

[@joonasnaski9513]

Seeing my hometown Harjavalta mentioned is so nice that I forgive you butchering the name.

[@InkleBingspot]

A bittersteel video rather than live? Impossible

[@Brahm-r2b]

He FINNISHED most of the FINNISH achievements

[@jhawk25]

R U SERIOUS!😡 Finnish your puns off better bro

[@qeevythekiwi]

Ain't no way they forgot to include Taymyria into the achivement of uniting Uralics

[@tommy439]

49:57 the ai actually did something good lol

[@assatgames9567]

Gotta nitpick the opening focuses and PP spending: Finnish-Swedish Peoples Party is a better early focus than Align the Agrarian League, in order to get Ernst van Born. *Especially* since you're delaying mobilizing the economy while also opening with Mil Factories. The -10% Consumer Goods factor does not have an appreciable impact at this stage: it would be far better to mobilize first (for the consumer goods base reduction and the mil factory speed buffs), and pick up Ernst van Born second (for the precious PP in a balance-of-power country).

[@Tommy-qc4rj]

The fact they haven't added Ski troops and Stormtroopers to the game but have added irregular desert soldiers, camelry, jungle specialists, Paras, Mountaineers, Marines, Militia, and so on... Just breaks my heart.

[@Pokephosgene]

I am surprised you managed to hold out against the initial Soviet push without forts. My attempts to get Uralic Brothers United always get stuck on attempts to beat Germany. Way too many divisions.

[@mmmm88-l8c]

I am a finn, and you pronounce very well finn companies and military things

[@alaricvis09]

I am also sick today. I will definitely be suffering through if with you in the most literal way.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content ❤❤❤❤

[@Dendrass]

Achivements hunting is back Let's gooo

[@Ňapoļeonic_ĎogÐay]

Finland is the Goat

[@rogueemerald]

Would you every consider trying autumn begonia? It's such a cool mod!

[@b0nes-u4l]

First time i've seen you pick Grand battleplan

[@anton33779]

Do you stream every Tuesday or other days as well? I enjoy watching live streams more than just watching it after

[@karlschmidt7383]

I was just playing the Noridc League when it came out haha

[@brysoncrisp7914]

first member vid for me

[@wvdonkelaar]

BitterSteel when are you gonna make a guide on the Icelandic achievements ?

[@TheJudge2017]

Now I can fail to get this like how I failed to get Rome a few months ago. Thanks!

[@charlespetit1545]

Video Idea : As Democratic France, form the EU. You can do this by not joining the allies and joining the war after the Benelux capitulation. if you occupy them before britain lands, you can take them in the peacedeal. pretty fun !

[@zarinth]

With MIO concentrated industry produces more than disperse even with constantly changing production. The MIO compensate for the efficiency gains lost when changing.

[@FEELEZED]

Yes a finland video

[@Dustin017.]

As an Monarchy enjoyer, Me likey

[@QuentinousX13]

Man i don't know why something goes wrong everytime i play this, my lines gets inevitably broken when i try this strat :/

[@Purpleskull64]

My Great Grandfather fought for Finland but didn't like talking about the war likely due to who the Finns allied themselves with :/ Unfortunately, I never got to know him. I was very young when he passed.

[@chobez271]

lost the achievement where i dont lose a single tile because the russians invaded beside the port near Turku sadge :(

[@lennartvath3420]

50:10 you encircled 20 divs and didn't even realize it

[@TheDogThatBarks]

Perkele! Finland mentioned! Torille!

[@RayPall]

Hey Bittersteel, how did you repel naval invasions? I saw you didn't change the port garrison template, yet you were never naval invaded. I tried your strat and it worked well until Soviets staged a naval invasion, swept those weak cavalry garrisons away and then captured half of Finland before I could even respond.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I changed the port guards to the line Infantry as I got enough manpower and equipment to do them one at a time

[@RayPall]

@@Bitt3rSteel Ah, I must've missed that. Thanks for the correction, I'll try again!

[@Ace-64D]

Dude It is all right everyone gets sick You don't need to apologize I hope you get better.

[@UnstablePyro19]

there's 3 men in the washroom, one of them is in a hurry because he's Russian, one was in the process of relieving himself because he's a European, the third guy was coming out of the toilet stall because he's Finnish.....

[@anugerahprada5348]

Been a long time since i play HOI4! Last time during Battle of Bosporus and i see many changes in the game that kinda overwhelmed me... Recently your Vids appeared ( bcs recebtly i play eu4 again i guess) and make me play the game again But there's so many things new like the old 10/20/40 division template not being used and other stuff, even i try playing Japan and can't win againtd China hahah... Could you make Japan Guide? Really need some help here, Thanks!!

[@wargamesmaster]

Have you ever thought of doing a run with any country you want but either your mission tree or achievements decides your frontiers?

[@culannthehound94]

Good thing there are videos on secret trees because I won’t find them.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

To be fair, it's not so much a tree as it is a single hidden focus....but, we are monarchist none the less!

[@Monkeytheforth]

​@@Bitt3rSteelyo you should totally do the Kalmar Union ngl it's op

[@Minidog-g8y]

I like how you pronunce kriken

[@Mr.CheeseB]

Get well soon

[@Spielkind104]

5:59 why aren't you picking partial or armyxp guy?

[@misterangel8486]

Can we have a moment of silence for the ruzki kitchen sink that froze it's sifon off in the brutally cold Finnish winter🥶😜🤣 Posthumous non human meatshield red star 19th grade awarded🎖️

[@LevelUp_Clips]

Finland mentioned raaaaaaaaaah🇫🇮🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣

[@juliushardware7760]

What do you reaserch if ur in base game?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Infantry Equipment lines, Artillery and AA line and medium tanks. Obviously, those all come after the industry

[@josephthebig2889]

bro made it so much more harder than what it had to be... missed the anschluss of Estonia (you get cores if you do and you can get around 30 factories from it), didn't main the army buffs, wasted manpower, didn't go for the long-range recon, didn't main gun research (could of easily got guns 3 before the war).

[@Sioviel]

Regarding pronounciation and "embarrasing yourself", you're reading Finnish words very slowly (as you have no idea what they mean), but pronouncing correctly and understandably. Finnish is easy in that way, everything is spoken EXACTLY as written! Finnish Black ICE when? :D

[@Mr-blrd]

does tank reliability really matter?

[@jep1st]

Depends. Large industry, no. Small industry, yes.

[@JosTheMan1]

Great borders.

[@Jack_The_Ripper_]

Fin fin fin fin fin