As a Finn, it is kind of ironic to see that Finland has lots of everything. In reality, Finnish Army in the 30s lacked everything. Finns were the ones who bought anything from anyone to make up for their lack of everything.
@quaker2636 Жыл бұрын
Yeah that felt really off to me, irl Finland had to use captured soviet tanks fitted with old British mortars but in the game they gave them so many buffs it almost rivals Czechoslovakia in exporting equipment
@descram8094 Жыл бұрын
@@quaker2636yeah, those army buffs also piss me off. Like I get it, paradox wants to represent Finnish winter war tactics or whatever. But THIS is definitely not the way you supposed to do that. I'm ok with giving stupid op buffs sometimes but pdx gave finns way too much. Though you still have zero issues with destroying finns as soviet union, so it's not as bad as it could be, I guess.
@quaker2636 Жыл бұрын
@@descram8094 I think they completely forgot what doctrine and tech research bonuses are for, and instead decided slapping a dozen national spirits and army buffs is what makes for good gameplay. So instead of a desperate defence like Finland had irl you get massive buffs just so the player can never stop feeling powerful for a second lmfao. And sadly it seems every minor country seems to follow this trend which is disappointing. Minors are supposed to be challenging to play, not stomping a major power's army like it's nothing. You don't win because your tactics are good, you win because the country you play has the Finnish flag.
@descram8094 Жыл бұрын
@@quaker2636 btw check out sultanate of aussa, it also has ridiculous infantry bonuses. My friend and played as Ethiopia and Aussa. After kicking Italy out of africa we decided to fight eachother. But no matter what my friend did, he never was able to get even a single of my provinces and I just destroyed him after a while just because those irregular infantry bonuses are stupidly good.
@doubledouble4g379 Жыл бұрын
I found that weird just as someone that's fairly into history - 'How the ----- does Finland have a lot of anything?!?' Besides snow and trees, I mean.
@squealingbagpipes1686 Жыл бұрын
As a Canadian I can confirm I am a zombie
@COMRADE_LUCIAN Жыл бұрын
Bruhh💀
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
Confirmed
@owencooney7178 Жыл бұрын
Same
@ImperatordiegoI Жыл бұрын
Do you drink or eat maple syrup? Zombie
@Caterev0038cool Жыл бұрын
a smart zombie?
@EarlSoC Жыл бұрын
Always good to see Adrien Arcand, Canada's homegrown Dark Lord.
@Lucas-gt8en Жыл бұрын
Lad looks like an eviler version of Walt Disney
@harrymorris2361 Жыл бұрын
So… Walt Disney?
@BubblesZest Жыл бұрын
Full disclosure, you could also use Join Germany to get the DEI and go the long way from there. But Bitt3r was very deep into the sunk cost fallacy by the time I worked that one out.
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
We must power through, despite the lost braincells
@DrFerk2 Жыл бұрын
@@Bitt3rSteellet's hope they regenerate
@buddermonger2000 Жыл бұрын
I need an explanation for DEI in this context. I've been at my university too long
@Qwertyui606 Жыл бұрын
@@buddermonger2000Dutch east indies. Easy way to get more manpower as a minor.
@Yorkington11 ай бұрын
@@buddermonger2000 I don't pity you
@walnzell9328 Жыл бұрын
17:03 "Not gonna call any of our puppets in." Yes, because you have none.
@jep1st Жыл бұрын
Canada is one of the countries in the game that I enjoy most a democratic playthrough. It's large enough to have an actual impact on the war effort but still small enough that you can let the other allies do the heavy lifting and you can just do these smaller scale operations all over the world since the US and UK will dominate the seas for you. So quite a relaxing country to play as a democratic nation and you don't have to wait as long to actually join the war like the US does.
@alexroberts3944 Жыл бұрын
It really illustrates how disconnected from reality the political mechanics of hoi4 is when canada flips fascist and the UK just sits there while the US is invaded by mounties like 'this is fine'
@MA-hd7ds Жыл бұрын
For some reason in my save UK keeps joining America
@mlgsty8880 Жыл бұрын
I tried beating USA as Mexico in early 39 with newest update, they already had 60-80 divisions in historical. I got slaughtered. Never before I have seen so early arming of USA. This worked fine in all previous patches.
@sjoerdbode45 Жыл бұрын
maybe you created a lot of world tension? That unlocked a lot of focusses for them if I remember correctly
@doubledouble4g379 Жыл бұрын
As a Canadian, I can confirm that all of our (censored by youtube) do indeed look like Disney villains. They say the cold build character, and since it gets VERY cold here at times, most of our pubilc servants tend to be REAL characters ;)
@cartridge876 Жыл бұрын
I love these videos, they genuinely help me play the game better, and when i play with my friends they love the amount of memery
@ooo_Kim_Chi_ooo Жыл бұрын
RCMP Security Service was Canada's CIA before is changed to the CSIS.
@Jifey Жыл бұрын
Im excited for when he will eventually reach a country like Liberia or Ireland
@dillonschroeder985 Жыл бұрын
I love playing Canadian and using special forces and really good mech/tank build. I let my Allies do all the holding and I just delete enemy divs
@gots0359 Жыл бұрын
Thats basically MP build for all of the commonwealth except raj. Due to manpower issues they’re better off creating small elite armies that pack a punch
@salxrn Жыл бұрын
it's nice that the mod is finally working in AAT now so you don't have to suffer anymore
@mikaelsix2443 Жыл бұрын
I remember getting all the Canada achievements with your older video some time ago! That leader portrait, I swear...
@xXxAngryBird101xXx Жыл бұрын
I love playing Canada. They can easily be turned into a major and they get Mechanized SUPER EARLY.
@lucyfrenchie9470 Жыл бұрын
Dude I love your Vids & the New thumbnail designs are amazing!
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
Glad you like them!
@blackduckfarmcanada Жыл бұрын
As a Canadian, I would prefer being ruled by a disney villain than the one we have now
@fiertruck14 Жыл бұрын
facts
@mknote Жыл бұрын
What, Trudeau? I thought he was really popular.
@TheWoollyFrog Жыл бұрын
@@mknote It's just trendy to dunk on him. If he wasn't popular he wouldn't continue to win elections.
@AdamantLightLP Жыл бұрын
@mknote He's controversial at best. A lot of people don't like him these days it seems.
@Deathpikachu Жыл бұрын
@@AdamantLightLP it's just very popular to shit on the PM on the internet for X or Y reason. Tends to happen when our PMs last a long time. Same thing happened with the previous one, but it was less fashionable to shit on politicians on social media back then, especially in this kind of way.
@matthewlee93426 ай бұрын
13:51 he wants "Machines and factories with machines in them so they make alot of products real fast"
@heliogt1961 Жыл бұрын
"west of the T in sTaTes" me trying the strategy sweating profusely....
@ToyotaF1502 ай бұрын
At 1:35 that is from a roblox game called rise of nations which is practically dumbed down hoi that a toddler can play
@MeanMachine1992 Жыл бұрын
Canada is a lot of fun if you are willing to ignore the Geneva convention.
@eclipse1879 Жыл бұрын
Hey bitt3rsteel love your videos can't wait for wait for the next one. If it's not to much trouble can u do a doctrines guide and mabye give examples for when to choose one over another and maybe give some template ideas for them if not no problem love the video either way
@danrobidoux Жыл бұрын
As a Canuck it bugs me that our focus tree forces us to choose between production and manpower. We had both! We built more trucks than any other allied nation, and 1.1 million Canadians served out of a population of 11 million at the time. We ended the war with the 4th largest air force and the 3rd largest navy. Feels like our MTG tree was made back when minors were still minors and the devs had to compromise to keep us from being too strong, whereas countries that were in the war for 5 minutes are now getting overpowered trees that give them infinite manpower, 400 factories and 30 national spirits so they can easily fight Germany and Russia at the same time.
@darkraven8103 Жыл бұрын
Just want to point out 2 things. 1-You get both industry and manpower now which Bitter points out in the video. 2-Canada got its focus in TFV, not MTG.
@BSH9009 Жыл бұрын
As a Canadian, this makes me very happy, very happy indeed. Long Live the Maple Leaf 🍁
@EddieZaf Жыл бұрын
As a Maryland resident first I wanna say this is the first time I’ve heard someone not from Maryland pronounce the name correctly and secondly Washington isn’t technically in Maryland but it’s honestly still an unofficial part of Maryland crab gang lol 🦀
@knightshade265411 ай бұрын
DC (before it was technically DC) used to be part of our great state!
@josh10722 Жыл бұрын
Imagine being an american and hordes of Canadian horsemen come charging across the border
@knightshade265411 ай бұрын
I remember wanting to earn some easy achievements, so I chose Canada, planning to get "Canada First" and "Send in the zombies". I decided to set historical AI off (custom rules to ensure Germany and Italy were historical). The Allies attacked Germany after their attempt to annex Czechoslovakia, and the Reich collapsed before I could join. I went the synarchist route and was defeated by America within three months. Funny times.
@HauntingSpectre Жыл бұрын
Mans is commenting about Washington being in Maryland, when he's playing Canada and Alberta is just Saskatchewan.
@AgentQ47 Жыл бұрын
The logo you picked for the intelligence agency was either an elk or a deer. Maybe even a reindeer. Moose have bigger antlers.
@Hyperion_100 Жыл бұрын
As you go through A to Z I highly recommend modded focus trees like the South America one :)
@jebbroham1776 Жыл бұрын
This is honestly one of the hardest achievements to get. I've tried this many times without success....the AI somehow counters me every time I make a move towards DC or they have divisions in DC that I can't push out of the tile before a stupid amount of reinforcements show up.
@garyjohnson3252 Жыл бұрын
Same. I'm on my 5th or 6th try now. And the US has joined the Allies each time.
@antiamenaza737211 ай бұрын
The worst part is when you somehow manage to push in the east coast and they naval invade you behind your lines ☠️☠️
@NoomiBLiNX Жыл бұрын
I would really love to see Bittersteel go for democratic finland! I experimented with it a little bit and it seems to have great potential
@rainbowappleslice Жыл бұрын
I have no idea why they ever made you choose between having manpower and having an industry. It was such a strange choice to make that a decision and took too long to change.
@HLGAM3R Жыл бұрын
Great video aside. The thumbnail is top tier!
@sergentspuddy8637 Жыл бұрын
Canada is one of my favourite minors. On historical the tanks and marines you can make pre-AAT were busted. Can get mechanised 2 in 1939-1940 and good mediums or lights in 1938. In AAT you could probably buy the guns and support equipment from America and only focus on building those tanks and mechanised. Or you can do the Cav US bum rush
@R-BGamingUK Жыл бұрын
The bicycle seat sniffer returns
@JMorbjerg Жыл бұрын
"Or don’t if you’re a coward" 😂😂 Love it
@icarvs_vivit Жыл бұрын
Given that it was Maryland which ceded the land for the District of Columbia, it is actually kind of both its own thing and yet still within Maryland's original borders and far too small to be rendered by the game as a state in itself. You are completely right but with an asterisk.
@Pseudoscorpion14 Жыл бұрын
"This is good for Bitcoin" MAN. Bittersteel with the absolute deepest cuts.
@emmetwatcher3540 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, uh, HOI4 really did us Canadiens dirty lol. First nation I tried because of course, and MAN is Canada's Focus Tree underwhelming. Here's hoping you can somehow make us interesting lol.
@icy7472 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it’s really disappointing considering how much Canada helped in WW2
@GoodHunter9 Жыл бұрын
All of the commonwealth nations are kinda ass.
@sld1776 Жыл бұрын
I enjoy playing Democratic Canada and rushing mech. I'm thinking of rushing mech and eventually adding the super heavy tank company to them.
@Arkticus Жыл бұрын
Whenever I create a Intelligence Department with Canada, I name it "Deer Squad (RMPIC)". "Royal Mounted Police Intelligence Corp" just sounds cool to me, and I find the "Deer Squad"-nickname funny, even if it doesn't make all that much sense...
@visiblefox1915 Жыл бұрын
As a zombie I can confirmed we are Canadian
@Qwertyui606 Жыл бұрын
Snake for victory! My last canada game was tank canada. Was fun encircling endless Italian, german, and soviet divisions.
@MobileNews24 Жыл бұрын
very nixce video
@MajinObama Жыл бұрын
3:44 Well you can't be Bitter about that! Surely
@not_retr0 Жыл бұрын
Hey BitterSteel, I have noticed that you play hoi4 at 1440p resolution and your UI is normal sized, but when I play at 1440p my UI becomes tiny. Did you have that problem and if so, how did you fix it?
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
Use UI scaling in the options menu
@not_retr0 Жыл бұрын
@@Bitt3rSteel THANKS!
@jeremyglass42834 ай бұрын
im having a very hard time pushing the America line, I cant get enough troops out because I don't have the civilians to buy enough guns, and I don't have the industry to produce them because I couldn't build anything due to having to focus everything on the collab governments. I think it might be better to try putting off the spy agency until I can get some civilians built. Also, the UK always guarentees the US when they see me justifying now so the US joins the allies and the British and French send all their troops to defend them so this strategy just isn't working for me!
@oro884 ай бұрын
I love the guy, but his guides are not really guides (here it's not even in the movie title). He skips LOTS of shit and takes shortcuts here and there, making them impossible to follow. And sometimes his videos are on the earlier patches - like here, justifying on USA for me brought the world tension to 79%, which probably was something they patched to avoid players, especially in MP, rushing USA as Canada or Mexico. Couple of times you will find those discrepancies in terms of speed, amount of starting factories. And at the end of the day, Canada, fascist or not, is a fucking awful country to play, especially if you take into the consideration how much recources they actually contributed to the WW2 effort.
@Darkstreets563 ай бұрын
@@oro88 he justifies on the puppet not America themselves
@linushammarkyro4075 Жыл бұрын
axis powers the whole time during ww2: i know whats wrong with it, aint got no gass in it
@serisothikos7 ай бұрын
There is something extremely funny about Haida Gwaii joining Unitary Canada in the rebellion.
@viclorenzo5016 Жыл бұрын
6:56 An epic shout-out to Hovelax.
@AfricanRituals Жыл бұрын
I love the futurama clips
@hydronpowers9014 Жыл бұрын
POV: You're an American who accidentally dumped maple syrup in the habour and starts hear moose noises
@aight4494 Жыл бұрын
Keep this thumbnail style around 👌
@WSawchuk085 Жыл бұрын
As a Canadian our "intelligence" service is call CSIS, Canadian Security Intelligence Service
@Gustav_Kuriga Жыл бұрын
Imagine not realizing that getting rid of the Quebec debuff probably gets you as much manpower as the 2% recruitable population. And that's not even going into how it affects how much non-core manpower you get.
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
Imagine not realizing you can't get there in time to deck the USA before the join the allies
@Zaza-of2gx Жыл бұрын
When it’s a be fascist compaction and your opponent is bittersteel
@shonewarrior2178 Жыл бұрын
Adrien Arcand was a great man, some people I know knew him personally.
@johnwidman6089 Жыл бұрын
can’t believe he knew washington, d.c. is a separate entity and not part of maryland
@logankellogg145410 ай бұрын
Thought it was funny you tried to look up Canadian Cental Intelligence but had troubles... must be they're doing a good job 😂
@SkYHawK2600 Жыл бұрын
I played historical canada with only special troops. Made bunch of fighters and only paratroopers. Oh boy it's fun as fuck. Paratroopers are funny to play. Just drop them behind the line and don't touch it. Push from the other side with strong units and bam you vibe a whole army. It's just funnier they melt in numbers after you pocket them constantly. I can explain a way to cheese it if you would like to give it a try
@Cromwell_ Жыл бұрын
Washington D.C. is it's own thing, but it's so small it'd probably be unrealistic to include it on the map.
@derpanimations7446 Жыл бұрын
I bet you like to know
@macaroon_nuggets8008 Жыл бұрын
Did you remember to take Attu Island when you took Alaska?
@Canada19946 ай бұрын
Canada's intelligence is called CSIS or back then we used the RCMP
@cipherskell9638 Жыл бұрын
Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to make 2/3/4/5 way war by playing both sides and taking the blue/red/brown guy and igniting another civil war, going infinitely like that ? (Making the other side user controller by playing multiplayer could help, if this is possible)
@thatscottishhistoryguy45 Жыл бұрын
Love your videos
@DrFerk2 Жыл бұрын
19:58 bittercoin?! I buying that
@TruePolishGuy Жыл бұрын
I still wonder what Send in Zombies focus name means. What they mean by that name
@NiDe500 Жыл бұрын
Some googling and wikipedia skimming indicates it was originally a derogatory term for conscripts in Canada during WWII, at a time when conscription laws only permitted them to be deployed in Canada defensively. It was an insult declaring them neither living nor dead, more literally as neither fully deployed nor civilians, among those who advocated for Canadian involvement in the war further and sensing conscripts abroad, who often heaped verbal abuse on the conscripts to get them to volunteer for active service instead. The ‘zombie’ in question specifically refers to the Jamaican superstition tradition, not the living dead or diseased husks we’re familiar with in pop culture. Obviously, mass conscription -would- do wonders for recruitable population, hence the focus’s benefit. That said, the devs finding an excuse to give a country a focus named “Send in the Zombies” is *hilarious as fuck*.
@claypots1773 Жыл бұрын
Could you make an updated division templates guide.
@truelightningstriker5803 Жыл бұрын
We can all agree that the Commonwealth nations need a rework.
@elso19473 Жыл бұрын
I have a suggestion, what if you play"battle of seelow heights" endsieg(I'm sure you can't save this one)
@yeeyee5057 Жыл бұрын
Still less evil than modern Canada
@Meatful Жыл бұрын
Back again asking for a world ablaze play through for Germany’s A2Z run
@Marmamartha Жыл бұрын
Yeah Canada is not great. A lot of focusses that take 70 days that dont really contribute. They have at least 3 factory focusses that actually dont add building slots. 2x 70 days focusses for consumer goods reduction however with the new changes it makes quite useless and they are mandatory for getting rid of great depression. And their land doctrine focusses are very late in the focustree. 140 days for 7% common wealth research speed etc. Dollar a year bonus is good, however you get one advisor already with 50 pp after a focus
@Marmamartha Жыл бұрын
Oh yeah and the fact that you cant get labrador and newfoundland the democratic way, while they were given to canada in 47, just blows my mind.
@Marmamartha Жыл бұрын
@Bitt3rSteel- but i dont like scam accs
@onlyonecannoli7537 Жыл бұрын
The canadian intelligence agency is called csis
@IceKalo23 Жыл бұрын
cool video!
@IceKalo23 Жыл бұрын
@Bitt3rSteel- ,ok
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
Big scam, don't listen to it
@vitholler2661 Жыл бұрын
how do you tell a division when micromanaging it to go to one place and then go to another place still going through the first one? Mine just go to the newest place i selected by the shortest path.
@mr.tapman8685 Жыл бұрын
You hold shift and click each province in the order you want to go in. Holding shift generally adds orders to the end of a “queue” to be done after the unit finishes whatever it was doing
@TheRavenLord1 Жыл бұрын
Canada also known as upper America. Fun video regardless
@sahilhossain8204 Жыл бұрын
Lore of Canada sucks, but a Disney villain might make it work...Momentum 100
@Anto-qv6kt Жыл бұрын
As someone who shares a land border with canada and isnt the united states, i can confirm that Diesney is a corporation that exists and pineapple on pizza is something that exists whether we like it or not
@facepalm7345 Жыл бұрын
Hey, atleast LEGO has a greater world wide recognition with kids!
@PaperMario Жыл бұрын
canada does not share another land border with anyone but the USA
@facepalm7345 Жыл бұрын
@@PaperMario you're in for a shock!
@theinterestbox8608 Жыл бұрын
ya technically shares one with Denmark look up whiskey war its hilarious@@PaperMario
@Anto-qv6kt Жыл бұрын
@@PaperMario it does with Denmark
@elpena7547 Жыл бұрын
When I declared war the US joined allies? How Do I make that not happen?
@playergasman37 Жыл бұрын
But you’re Canada, you have no puppets? 😂 as for Alaska, not only cleaner borders but obscene amounts of chromium
@jackkreacherr93397 ай бұрын
Canadian intel is CSIS
@theexecutiveassociated Жыл бұрын
Canada is certainly one of the counties of all time
@nathanielgaffney2230 Жыл бұрын
Not only is DC a part of Maryland in this game, so is Delaware. It's a whole separate state ffs.
@Nilboggen Жыл бұрын
they added West Virginia in the Barbarossa update maybe Delaware will come in a dlc eventually LOL
@ingmarmeester6797 Жыл бұрын
I was waiting for a month
@juniorfilhodejunior1752 Жыл бұрын
"Why do you always pick Fascism?" -"because its better" HAIL TO OUR DUCE, BITT3RSTEEL
@Tux-rs7rp Жыл бұрын
Bittercoin a new coin to lose my entire net worth in?
@JeffBalls-qh3mp Жыл бұрын
Hey everyone, I have a disaster save as France I would like to send to bittersteel, can someone tell me how I can do that?
@TELOSgamer Жыл бұрын
I think Canada is one of the most interesting countries that someone can play as.
@ingmarmeester6797 Жыл бұрын
I like the new thumbnails but the og hits different
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
I'm trying to make a mix of both styles. I hope this one looks better than the previous ones
@ingmarmeester6797 Жыл бұрын
@@Bitt3rSteel it is good
@enesakgumus7979 Жыл бұрын
Hey Bittersteel, what do you mean with the Tree is horrible? Like it raises the difficulty of the gameplay or something else?
@Bitt3rSteel Жыл бұрын
It's just very uninteresting and the bonuses it gives, just aren't that good compared to other treez
@funkymarco4411 Жыл бұрын
land of the war crimes
@MA-hd7ds Жыл бұрын
When I declared war the US joined allies how come in your video they dont?
@MA-hd7ds Жыл бұрын
I might have justified a month late, gonna retry
@MA-hd7ds Жыл бұрын
Started Justification on sep 6, able to declare war on 20 may 1939, and UK has the gaurantee with 54% world tension. Maybe I messed up the justification and left it on too much?
@MA-hd7ds Жыл бұрын
Coming back to this i definitely messed up the justification portion. Cancel AS SOON as tension hits 20. After that I had no gurauntees on phillipines. My War did take too long however and they joined Allie’s eventually anyway, but now Germany is coming to help so I’ll most likely win anyway.
@ryze67293 ай бұрын
how u didnt got declared by allies after having a war with canada didnt they called uk in??
@Darkstreets563 ай бұрын
he justified on the Philippines the American puppet and declared war on it which pulls America in but not the allies.
@m3marty Жыл бұрын
Usually playing as canada I beat usa with only cavs
@lafaucheuse2001 Жыл бұрын
Well I just tried it and UK garanteed the US mid 38 so idk how you did it but I guess you either got lucky or I got unlucky