Can Luxembourg stand AGAINST the Axis? HOI4 Challenge

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[@Bitt3rSteel]

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[@linkfromzelda1002]

I thought you got sponsored by For Honor because I stopped paying attention.

[@Randomsass]

If this man if he have a time machine he litterally can make san marino the world 1st power

[@justtoasty979]

HH huff

[@antosqa7343]

This is why the conference need to be reworked. It is so frustrating when you need an exact state for formable nation and an "allies" took it from you

[@VanBourner]

Yeah I always love it when they liberate Slovenia when I am going for A-H...

[@datnoob4394]

Maybe a "reject peace deal" option were you goto war with your previous allies over the deal

[@peytonh1532]

They are reworking peace deals...

[@roguemerc]

The sad part is, in this case it should be as easy as 1 button where you de-legitimize the belgian/netherlandic governments in exile, but the dlc wont fix this in my prediction

[@HelicopterShownUp]

An easy fix would be adding a claims and cores round that takes place before free spending.

[@glauberglousger6643]

In an alternative universe, everyone fears Luxembourg as the one who took over Germany

[@larsbenson6947]

Just play Luxembourgreich mod haha

[@lars9925]

@@larsbenson6947 Taureor did it in vanilla a few years ago.

[@TheLeastEast]

Alternate?

[@HelicopterShownUp]

In an alternate reality, you are the leader of that version of Luxembourg

[@heinjoe6856]

why searching for an alternative universe ? 5 emperors of the holy roman empire were luxembourgish (House of Luxembourg) but they fucked up in the 15 century and disappeared

[@lialy]

Rosa Luxembourg is a reference to one of the leaders of the early communist organizations in the Weimar Republic. In early 1919, they tried to take over the government in the "Spartakusaufstand", which resulted in battles against the government, especially in Berlin. Thats also why it is called the Weimar Republic, since because of the battles, the government first went to Weimar to create a constitution. Thx for all the likes btw. :D

[@mr.pearly7478]

yeah, she was one of the leaders of the Spartacist League, an extreme socialist group who supported the German Communist Party (KPD), along side Karl Liebknecht she died in the Spartakusaufstand mentioned (Spartacist Uprising)

[@FreudRulz]

She was also one of the few "big names" in international communist circles that actively just fucking *hated* Lenin, primarily because she ascribed to orthodox Marxism rather than the centralist Bolshevism Lenin espoused.

[@98raoul]

@@FreudRulz she didn't hate lenin, they disagreed bitterly on many things, such as the national question, but they still (nominally, as neither had the means for material support) supported each other's efforts

[@FreudRulz]

@@98raoul Yeah I suppose I was being a bit hyperbolic, not gonna lie. She did write a piece that critiqued Bolshevism, and certainly had harsh words for the group of professional revolutionists ca. 1904, but you are correct that her feelings towards Lenin we're far less harsh than I implied. I may have been misconstruing her with Goldman, another contemporary revolutionary (albeit an anarchist) who I am admittedly far more familiar with.

[@reubenderry2469]

fun fact: the spartacist uprising began without the leaders’ knowledge

[@Dante-mr3rz]

Casualties inflicted should also be a factor in war participation. Hopefully next dlc will fix that.

[@ChemySh]

wait, iirc it does count towards your participation... but the value is too small for the amount of people you kill

[@toxin2396]

Maybe also a system that counts the results of battles towards war participation, like a won battle counts for double the war participation or something

[@simontapaj2313]

@@toxin2396 soviet AI would always have negative participation from all lost battles xd

[@MrDwarfpitcher]

Also one for EU4 please. I dislike it how I make good moves, beating up the enemy force left and right. All the while seeing my buddy having high war participation because they got their armies stackwiped 3 times

[@Dante-mr3rz]

@@MrDwarfpitcher Then again, it's nice to stack 40 favours with Ottos by standing on an enemy fort.😄

[@roedagardet]

Karl Marx making 500 men appear is historically accurate! In 2018, China gifted Germany a statue of Karl Marx to celebrate his 200th birthday. During the unveiling of this statue, in Marx's hometown Trier, a crowd of roughly 100 people appeared in the area. Some might say that these were people who came to watch the unveiling of the statue or to photograph the statue, but this is untrue, these people just manifested into existence at that moment - and now they are all members of the German army!

[@jmpmp_505]

Karl Marx killed more then hitler He made communism which killed up to 100 million people all across Russia and china He doesn’t deserve a statue

[@BT_et_Cooper]

What is the DLC for Karl Marx pls

[@roedagardet]

@@BT_et_Cooper no step back

[@BT_et_Cooper]

@@roedagardet tysm

[@elbeto191291]

.Bitter: Really Soviets? Taking my cores? Why? -Me, after getting screwed several times in a peace deal as the Balkan Federation: First time?

[@snaiper195]

Exacly the reason why i use tollpack to get my land back and then force those "allies" to attack me to add realisim

[@vrabb9030]

@@snaiper195 not using toolpack is a death sentence

[@snaiper195]

@@vrabb9030 i never play without it i even use it to create my own scenarios or do stuff like Playable ISP megacaimpaing 2022

[@redneckgaijin]

Yes, because Stalin stabbing his allies in the back is COMPLETELY unrealistic.

[@generalofchaos5174]

So glad they're reworking the peace deals so that we can avoid (or at least some) frustration like you experienced after having to fight the Germans as fricking Luxemburg

[@Gabeslicor]

Yeah they really need to make casualties delt to the enemy give warscore

[@Dan-wt7jx]

You have far more faith in paradox than I do, I'm convinced this will make things much much worse

[@richardbarbaros5868]

@@Dan-wt7jx Exactly, better just to do Player Led Peace Conferences mod, but just have a bit of self-control when alloting the land concessions.

[@buddermonger2000]

@@Dan-wt7jx They're doing a "bidding" system where everyone is at once. The biggest thing though is generating war score from kills and make it worth more than dying. Seriously that's basically all you need to do. If you kill off most of their army and take their entire land by yourself suffering only 20k casualties but they go full stupid and get killed for 3 million men they get all of the war score. Really not okay.

[@terralp2062]

@@Dan-wt7jx True. Remember how they tried to fix one division training?

[@lukefiggins6851]

Oh man i know this pain, made an attempt at the Crusader Kings 3 achievement (As Poland, have a monarch and control Jerusalem). I went Cossack King and single-handedly sunk the Royal Navy and conquered Great Britain and got ZERO say in the peace treaty. Run over.

[@sergioinnit]

lord vada

[@spritemon98]

That's bullshit

[@lukefiggins6851]

@@spritemon98 Yeah makes me want to do unkind things to whoever coded it that way. At least they seem to be fixing it come the release of the Italian DLC and associated peace treaty rework update.

[@buddermonger2000]

Equipment and people killed ratio to lost should be the biggest factor tbh. I mean there wasn't really a lot of negotiating with America given they lost basically no-one, had an army of 11 million and a big fucking bomb ready for industrial production. Yeah go ahead and fucking TRY to argue.

[@totalwar1793]

Order 66 your allies

[@rokloknita9494]

I'm just imagining how mad Hitler must be in this timeline.

[@apeiro3810]

Getting his ass kicked by the smallest country imaginable

[@corfile3869]

@@apeiro3810Vatican City

[@apeiro3810]

@@corfile3869 it’s an expression

[@corfile3869]

@@apeiro3810 Vatican City

[@apeiro3810]

@@corfile3869 no-father city

[@mrl2886]

3:44 This is a reference to Rosa Luxemburg, who was a Polish-born philosopher who worked in Germany in the Weimar Republic as a political activist and founded the Spartacus League which became the Communist Party of Germany.

[@Matteo-rodrigo-Fonsesca-perez]

Then got executed for the spartacus uprising

[@Loterrach]

She was also a jewess.

[@Arbiter099]

Speaking of tiny nations, something dumb and funny for the new Italy DLC would be a playable Vatican City to Papal States path

[@conrod60]

very funny

[@CarterPringle]

Or San Martino lol

[@nedenburayabaktn2981]

Foreshadowing

[@kevinboros7427]

That's why you should use player led peace conferences. I hope they fix this massive flaw with the peace deals in the next update. If you directly occupy that land AND have cores on it, it should be significantly cheaper for you to annex than for anybody else.

[@SkeetontheverycoolSkeleton]

Yeah I believe the bidding system might be good

[@Kandall05161]

If you directly occupy land and have cores on it, it *is* much cheaper for you than anybody else. You get a massive cost multiplier on land occupied by a different faction than you, and a cost reduction on claims and cores(even cheaper). However, if you have 6 warscore per turn it doesn't matter how cheap the land is for you. The AI that was grinding casualties for 4 years before you joined the war will get the 1600 points it takes to take your land LONG before you get the 80 you need.

[@michaeltomasicchio6895]

I remember something like this happening to me once. I played as Ireland with the goal of owning all of Britain. I flipped fascist, slowly built up my army and air force, and then when the UK was distracted in France, I joined the Axis, joined the war, and launched a crap ton of paratroopers into GB. It took a while and a lot of micro, but I eventually managed to capitulate GB entirely by myself. I occupied all the land, and I had inflicted a ton of casualties through encirclements and defending my ports from AI naval invasion spam. When the war was over, I literally could not even get Northern Ireland in the peace deal, which is a core state of Ireland. I solo-ed a major power and ended the war single-handedly, and for my efforts the game awarded me basically no war score. It took a while for the sting of that one to fade.

[@Nyarlschannel]

Stalin gave you that peace deal as punishment for consistently calling him "Shtalin" 🤔

[@derkach7907]

"I've mastered the abillity of standing so incredible still that i have become invisible to the eye"

[@lordluxembourg8777]

Glory to Luxembourg!

[@JulesCincis]

Ech sinn och vun letzebuerg

[@isteksizaykut9924]

I love how he tries to do impossible challanges and actually do it

[@trinxty6099]

Rosa can mean Red so its a reference in that way. Mostly though it refers to a German communist called Rosa Luxemburg. She was a leader of the Spartacists along with Karl Liebknecht as well as an author of Communist philosophy. Hope that helps

[@patrikcath1025]

I do know what "Rosa Luxembourg" is a reference to, it's one of the few things I remember from GCSE history!

[@rahulbhardwaj5546]

The most iconic line "Ironman mode on, Historical Focuses on, lets go!"

[@beagle4932]

Rosa Luxemburg is a reference to... Rosa Luxemburg. A Jew who was born in Poland, grew up in Germany, and was a communist revolutionary leader. Fun fact: she spoke Yiddish.

[@Tom-oj7si]

She and the spartakists were disgusting murderers.

[@user-uk9om2vl3x]

What Yiddish

[@stevenmichael12705]

Also, it literally just means "Red Luxembourg" in German :)

[@lafalangeespanola4519]

She also lead the Spartacist Revolt in Weimar Germany 1918 too

[@brandonsinger5802]

Wer schwimmt denn da im Landwehrkanal? Das ist die Rosa und der Karl

[@BlackHammer3]

Just yesterday I was watching a madman forming EU as Luxemburg by the end of 1942 and today Bitter is also doing some Luxemburg madness, absolutely love it!

[@flaviustheodosius5053]

Rosa Luxembourg is clearly a reference to Morbius who is quoted by Karl Marx in 'Das Kapital' with saying "It's Morbin' time".

[@BlackKnigth323]

You needed Glen for max efficiency with Luxembourg, Glen is reliable Reference: Watch ISP play Luxembourg

[@KittyThunder0824]

Man I love the industrial powerhouse of Luxemurg 0:11

[@ZWS_Link]

I feel the anger At that peace deal, I now play only modded with player lead peace because The peace deals have shafted me too often

[@reborngamer3930]

Crazy challenge! Let's see how this goes! Ty for the video.

[@datnoob4394]

9:01 USSR: *Declares war on Germany* Game: "Germany breaks the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact!"

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Pretty sure Stakuyi did a challenge like this a while back, and had the exact same thing happen to him. God damn.

[@HomeBoyOfficial]

I need to see a sequel to this save where you take on the soviets to reclaim your land

[@bigmeowster99]

You just accomplished something that even the great Taureor attempted but could not accomplish. You should feel good about yourself.

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

I wonder how a level 10 fortress city with anti air would look like IRL.

[@Anthony-jh6xt]

Look like my treehouse

[@red_seven_]

'30 minutes of hel' is for the beginners. The one REAL challenge is '4 years in ettelbrück' (until the first push) now. Great vid as always! Keep it coming like that.

[@asdprogram]

Alright, here's another challenge: Survive with Ethiopia

[@johnsider4479]

You are just the best bittersteel, keep up with the great work

[@TheeRisingSun]

This was an awesome guide and thank you so much.

[@PepperoniMilkshake]

Great job at doing something almost impossible, pretty stupid how your "ally" screwed you out of your core lands, hopefully they fix that on the next patch

[@lightlysaltedseadog6255]

Tbh thats the most realistic depiction of communism, they should leave it in

[@PepperoniMilkshake]

@@lightlysaltedseadog6255 Ngl you're kinda right about communists screwing people over

[@CallyA]

When you think about it, the peace conference makes complete sense from a world power point of view. No big power would suddenly want Luxembourg to be that important.

[@Patton1944]

Going all in on entrenchment is pretty funny. I did that for my monarchist Lithuania game and the Soviets really had a hard time.

[@clem7542]

Luxembourg has learned the power to stand so still, that they're invisible

[@bradynewbold3763]

Love the enthusiasm at the beginning of the video

[@zacharytaylor2423]

It would be a cool follow-up if you continued this save and retook the Benelux from Stalin.

[@Minyeti18]

13:09 We were on the verge of "[It ain't much], but it's honest work", we were this close.

[@hydranmenace]

Good to see these well balanced peace mechanics working as intended. Hope the new system actually works....

[@oneesama3421]

0:12 "...of Luxemurg!" Off to a great start xDDDDDDDDDDD

[@jew331]

So glad that peace deals are getting a rework

[@Bill.Andreolas]

Chad Luxembourg

[@Ahmad-fs2kt]

🇹🇩🇱🇺

[@PoorIdentification426]

🇦🇩🇳🇱

[@Ahmad-fs2kt]

@@PoorIdentification426 not that but ok

[@The-rc9cm]

3:46 I believe that Rosa Luxembourg was a German revolutionary during the postwar years and was informally executed by German Freikorps. Although this may have many holes in it so I suggest do a lil bit of research too!

[@acasualrobloxplayer1203]

1:55 oh, boy you would absolutely LOVE early DLC bulgaria. (i actually made a way to not die, and even prosper with 2 friends as bulgaria.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

This was a nice one

[@sheep7]

this was one of the first hoi4 videos I watched. 481 hours later...

[@nickstoneham5629]

Finally... after all these years since I have been here, you finally did it... I can die peacefully now.

[@ronanwaring3408]

That's why there working on a peace deal rework you can claim them on the cheap being cores

[@jumbojellyjames2329]

"Industrial power house of luxemurg" Man do I love bitter

[@stef1790]

I am not sure if it still works, but I would suggest you try firing the civil war for faster transition and as you are a one province country, it will automatically switch you with no war. Then you have plenty of time to attack the lowland counties and you can use the Dutch East Indies manpower for divisions.

[@Dennug]

Man you are so good at this game i wish i had your skill

[@boschy8842]

This video is actually quite interesting!

[@jonidymeti5396]

Great video :) Earned a sub well done

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Awesome, thank you!

[@TheChuckerChuck]

Luxemberg in history books: small push into the benelux, conscript every man who can hold a weapon and activate operation human wave.

[@Stan_Vanderakt]

Peacedeals are the reason why I always play with Player controlled peacedeal enabled.

[@flyingtoast2708]

Remember to always turn on the state transfer tool and player led peace conferences so you never get screwed over in the conference

[@Cazline]

the mod player led peace conferences is a life saver as a small nation

[@yl356]

To conquer Netherlands airdrop one division in the north, wait till they move all their divisions to fight it, and then airdrop the rest of the country. Most likely the will keep one division in Amsterdam, but u can easily bait them out by attacking and letting them counterattack u, leaving Amsterdam empty. And then just use Indonesian manpower to conquer Belgium, letting u from Benelux turning u into a major.

[@twiga2]

Rosa Luxembourg is a reference to one of the leaders during the spartacist revolt in Germany (I think 1919).

[@tomasdariuspaun7586]

N@zi germany's führer after losing to luxembourg: *We are fine, we are doing FANTASTIC* The population: Our great leader isn't as powerful as we tought... The government: *Ah ****, here we go again.* The allies: *BRO WT- HOW TH IS THAT POSSIBLE?*

[@MantasDoesVideos]

Imagine if real life wars were settled in this game

[@FoggyCheeze]

Thats why we love player led peaceconferences :D

[@luigieverlasting305]

The ending is exactly why you should always use player lead peace conferences

[@yarissathomas1816]

2:45 What he said: “get ourselves some civs Captions: get ourselves some slaves KZbin had enough 😂

[@Toastedguyig]

You should try this with the barren riech mod it’s a pretty fun and funny mod it’s basically a meme mod but it’s pretty good as far as meme mods go

[@lolbot7003]

Hey Bittersteel, could you tell me what template you used for the motorised? I am going for a similar run and yours seemed to be pretty effective. Thanks

[@HermitagePrepper]

I was expecting soviets to storm while heavy version of sacred war plays

[@donatdankhazi4049]

That's why I always use player led peace conference.

[@mannibus1571]

player lead peace conferances is the best mod going tbh.

[@knightornstein5902]

All of this effort just for the HOI4 AI to do what it always does. Thanks, PDX.

[@cheems2525]

That red bar during the ad really got me fucked up, I though that video was almost over already when I was skipping through it

[@BritishColonist]

sejozwak recently managed to form the EU as Luxembourg. he did use a bit of cheese tho.

[@Wolfythereviewer]

imagine the general having to approach Hi*ler that they can't take Luxembourg and then later have to tell them that the Luxembourgers managed to push out and took the lowlands.

[@ceyes00]

It’s a reference to one of the worlds greatest revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg

[@maxxgrumpy]

the new peace treaty is coming mate, hopefully we are going to get less angry there

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Why I"m definitely looking forward to a reworked peace conference set up. I have come to loathe how it's set up currently. I mean I understand WHY. The USSR in the AI on AI doesn't do anything really but eat rocks and die. But they want to turn that "Eat rocks and die" instead of successfully attacking into something that has a chance at creating the historical set up after the war. Thus why War Participation is so heavily weighted towards losing lives instead of successfully killing/attacking.

[@_____Skywalker_____]

7:05 Drax country I managed to master the invisibility, If I stand still i am almost invisible

[@rasmushedberg3655]

3:43 rosa luxembourg is an author. i know that because my grandma has a book written by her

[@nicktrains2234]

The Luxembourg turtle. I love it

[@bobbacon1398]

Please just use player lead peace conferences lol, so looking forward to the new peace deal system.

[@sprites75]

new system might work , but only if war participation is calculated accordingly, because with only 5 % you'll still get shafted

[@koukiss4939]

You could also get manpower by doing the exploit sejozwak did with air wings

[@aalfa5779]

that's why I always play with Player Lead Peace Conference

[@n3ct0d2]

Rosa Luxemburg, actually Rozalia Luxenburg - economist, theoretician and activist of Polish and German social democracy

[@colonelreb2688]

Challenge: complete plan z as Germany, no annexing puppet fleets other than Vichy France, no crap designs other than destroyers possibly

[@nomecognome3325]

I like the reference about the Polish Communist Rosa Luxembourg killed by far-right German paramilitary troops

[@koenwaalde]

Good that they are chinging the peace system, I always hate it when the ai takes land that I need

[@icy6672]

Another name for the peace deals, Britain

[@Psycho-go5yr]

Tried this challenge but honestly, I'm just not very good at the game. Was able to survive for a while after Europe had fallen but ultimately got ground down. I feel I've gotten a bit better since then but still don't feel like I'm ready for this one yet.

[@folk_Klaus_non-german]

You must have felt "Im the liberator of my fatherland"

[@fin6671]

hey the new blood alone has worked out that peace deal

[@Bill.Andreolas]

Next Video:Chad World Conquest

[@imbrand5040]

this video was actually just a message to Paradox: REWORK THE GODDAMNED PEACE CONFERENCE DAMMIT

[@LakeGameCreepr]

Rosa Luxembourg is a reference to the real life Polish-German ww1 and interwar era communist, Rosa Luxemburg