Establishing PEAK HABSBURG As Austria in the new DLC!

[@waddleking_]

I can't believe otto von habsburg just shows up and basically every country in the region falls to their knees and just joins him immediately because he's just that cool

[@tingtimson1281]

Would you not do the same thing?

[@andrewwilcke9378]

The habsburg chin he could create has such high reach, it obliterates every politician

[@complex3297]

Can you blame them?

[@simonnachreiner8380]

I mean I can. You gotta remember that right around this time both Austria, and Hungary were in the shitter economically and Czechoslovakia was an ethnic ticking time bomb. If Otto seized power the Czechs would probably fall in line just to get some sense of legitimacy to try and prevent the collapse of their artificial state. After that Horthy would be easy to dispose of by bribing the people around him with government jobs in the reborn empire as his political situation while more stable in the macro sense was very knives out in the micro sense.

[@Posty-vw9jc]

IRL he was pretty fucking based

[@daconvertible640]

Fun fact: if you go down "the better german state you can also choose the 1st Option which allows you to core all of germany ontop of coring Austria-Hungary which is just insanity, especially because it goes state by state. Meaning if you went to war with germany and the Allies took some Land in the peace deal you can still core the states of Germany you took for 100 pp each

[@visyxl]

I am so dissapointed that czechoslovakia did not get a rework, they could have really fun potential with a Premisylad path or moravia path and Even a habsburg path where they form the holy roman empire.

[@asgardplays7139]

I am from Czech Republic and no new focus tree for Czechoslovakia is the HUGE shame...

[@visyxl]

@@asgardplays7139 best options for now is rise of the lion or czechoslovakia overhaul

[@YounessChourfi]

You still don't understand ? Czechoslovakia Romania France Yugoslavia and some countries will get a rework in the next dlc , they didn't include Czechoslovakia in this one but will do in the next one

[@visyxl]

@@YounessChourfi wrong, next dlc is the middle east, india.. afghanistan.. iran etc...

[@YounessChourfi]

@visyxl nothing is confirmed rn , but the moderators didn't give Czechoslovakia a rework because they want to save it for an other dlc

[@sander0209]

@bitt3rsteel If you subjugate Albania early they are going to do a lot of the shared focus tree, due to them having a basic focus tree. allowing you to just let him to that and giving you easy access to the bonusses

[@Isometrix116]

Its funny to me that the country with the second largest focus tree is one that usually ceases to exist in early 1938

[@schynobonk]

seeing members only comments is crazy

[@drossant2591]

It feels really lonely

[@jakeplayz_ytoffical]

wild

[@Gamer-is6ew]

not anymore 😮

[@Luke_the_Luk]

Its noz

[@zman14]

Indeed

[@oneofmanyjames-es1643]

"Big economic boom! How's our economy now?" [has 4 factories] "Still shit"

[@josephcola9662]

25:32 Half a decade and we STILL don't get an option as an overlord to refuse to hand over a subject's land.

[@commander91st41]

Very good video! It would be awesome to see austria hungary becoming liechstein too reminding them the good old holy roman empire days

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Maybe one day

[@L_LGBTQ]

@@Bitt3rSteel they can become licheinstein i belive

[@maditalgat3560]

If you completed the focus on creating Central Powers, you could've dodged Anschluss. The event will pop up saying that Austria sought allies and it was too risky for Germany to attack them, which will completely remove the Anschluss decision from Austria and Germany will skip the focus

[@braddlesharris3577]

Thank you, no youtuber has figured this out. Clearly states it in the anschluss focus for Germany

[@DumbguynamedThomas]

40:16 Looks like Chiang Kai Shek beat MacArthur to it by 7 years.

[@tokul76]

I think habsbug jaw was specific to other branch in the south. Austrian Habsburgs survived till ww1 by not having that jaw.

[@krism.6598]

Funnily enough, the Austrian Habsburgs rose to prominence because the other branch of the family made itself extinct through excessive inbreeding.

[@joshleblanc1]

Funnily enough, if you WOULD have waited for the SUddentenland focus to fire and told germany to fuck off, you would have witnessed a German Civil War as the Oster Conspiricy fires off

[@charley2714]

please don’t curse 🥺

[@154Kilroy]

​@@charley2714 new to the internet?

[@Yrosk]

0:16 "Widespread unemployment"👍

[@pimentaze2886]

14h ago?!? 😡🫵

[@lielshonayev6078]

@@pimentaze2886 we are too broke for that

[@witherblade7558]

How bout widespread oiling up?

[@carlmcintosh8057]

@Bitt3rSteel if you do the central powers focus it cancels anchlus. then give away the sudattenland and magic, no war with the Germans. this is espes true if you the annex route. If you go the annex route, though, the real trick is to annex Romania and Yugslavs 40ish days before the Germans demand; that way, you can fo the Austrian Empire focus and get all the extra cores.

[@VivBrodock]

I love breaking apart my enemies into smaller puppet states that have the vanilla focus tree, it's literally free factories.

[@pimentaze2886]

@@VivBrodock say you're noob at hoi4 withouth saying it

[@JaZaLupina88]

25:14 Ahh, yeah, the 13th Battle of Isonzo.

[@MrCalls1]

3:04 @bittersteel I suspect the English term you wanted is “credit-union” if you mean a bank where it’s some part owned by its members

[@SasuBlack]

Be me: waiting for more than a week for a bittersteel video Me again today: Hell yeah, finally Austria 🔥

[@savasciaga]

41:33 What is Bulgaria doing 😭 (Their leader is a kid as well)

[@warioman6183]

it sounded like you were having a lot of fun thats awesome, i think the austria tree is really fun too but im not as good as you tho so normally it takes me all game to take germany lol

[@freelancepear87kakkoka11]

you just know it's a good dlc when bitt3r is actually having fun with it.

[@bobthered313]

Yes. I would love to see the Lichtenstein forming.

[@MrKhamul93]

incase noone said it. The gost battalion problem got solved. You just get to keep them as your own

[@johnteixeira1791]

I'd actually love to see a Liechtenstein run lol.

[@getsomeboy321]

This method is really strong. improve relations and diplomatic pressure for nonaggression makes this all super feasible. To have a large faction to defend against Germans then Italy then USSR.

[@TheOnlyBloke]

If you do end up doing a liechtenstein playthrough, you should try spicing it up by having one of your goals being to take alaska, since historically it's been speculated that the russians were considering selling the territory to them instead of the US

[@qwinn9963]

We need that Lichtenstein video!

[@MatthewZzzz0]

I think a Hungarian Admiral-King Horthy using a land cruiser "navy" would be interesting

[@outlaw_pope]

You can actually shave time off those "neighbor events" by using your spies to diplo pressure them for a NAP

[@e.corellius4495]

yeah didnt need any of those extra things and can do the decision to core the old empire, got the otto general event and became Lichtenstein without doing anything other than the Lichtenstein focus, and being at war with the soviets.

[@raihanchandra3572]

i played the facist austria to create grossostereich and i surprised that my anchluss risk is very high and cannot be anticipated and declared war realy early, and then when i saw the beginning and video realized it was semi historical so it was meant to be anchluss.

[@ritvikupadhyay7120]

Brother. Despite numerous warnings you are continuing your heresy of not giving us Belgium for 6 months. I may have to begin the purging process.

[@johnteixeira1791]

Brother. He made a Belgium video 12 days ago and streamed Belgium 3 days ago. I may have to begin the purging process.

[@ritvikupadhyay7120]

@johnteixeira1791 Brother.. he mentioned that he will be playing only Belgium for 6 months. But the video title speaks of grave heresy commited by our fellow brethren.

[@johnteixeira1791]

@@ritvikupadhyay7120 🤦‍♂Wait, do you actually... forget it... Good luck with that.

[@horrigan495]

I got accepted into Axis as Austria... And still Anschlussed a years later

[@johnteixeira1791]

If Germany and Austria are in a faction together, Germany gets an event to Anschluss them for free. So if you haven't tag switched to Austria-Hungary yet, don't join their faction.

[@YurikoKinai]

Form Liechtenstein sounds awesome, do it!

[@alexanderrombauts4951]

Form Liechtenstein!!! Fun to see again Futurama memes

[@bettongie]

Waking up, watching bittersteel. My morning routine

[@12345DJay]

can you core austria hungary and then still core germany through better german state? That sounds OP as hell

[@MonkeWithThaZa]

I love 48 unskippeble ads

[@TheOneAndOnlyEali]

As an Austrian, I find it a little unfortunate that you went for the Austria-Hungary path first. I'm personally more of a fan of the Austrian Empire. Austria-Hungary sucked ass tbh. Still an incredible video though!

[@Jman16007]

Chin up, it's habsburging time

[@SPYROUS-wi1fn]

on my ironman game 39:00 u do not need to own any nation from what u mentioned since i got the event when all i had annexed was germany

[@mitchotoole9876]

The viewers yearn for the Lichtenstein.

[@chickeninasuit1596]

Spamming out one battalion divisions and doing the non-aggression pacts and other decisions to make them join you will guarantee a quick annexation and will save at least 50 pp. Edit: On „likely“ with a lot of divisions it will always work

[@melkyyt7548]

WE WANT LICHTENSTEIN WORLD CONQUEST PLEASE

[@edwardhutchinson4207]

Lichtenstein world conquest!

[@BlueStellarGaming]

Ok as a hungarian, cool video

[@aigarskauls9200]

Ahh yes this run.... for me 1939-40 pupeted germany(when i got Poland as PU germans had NO troops on border), 2-3 months later soviets came for polish land, 1946 soviets end where I pupeted them... inbetween pupeted italy oh and 1946 USA did manual war goal on me... there wasnt city left in USA that wasnt hit by Habsburgs ICBM with H-bomba. 1960s war ended. I had "Crawl out Through the Fallout" while i invaded usa from ocean... since usa was wasteland.

[@jawlesspepper6103]

Bitter is so good that he shows a noob (me) how to do it.

[@JoseLopez-hs3yw]

Every excuse to play and form Austria-Hungary, it's a good excuse!

[@r1zzl31990]

I completed the axis focus and they accepted me ( I went full on facsism), this will NOT save you from anschluss, unless it's a bug. Later in the game they still demanded it, I said no and you automatically leave the axis..

[@Pythagoras180]

Goes to show that Hitler wouldn't have gotten far if all of central Europe had immediately teamed up to fight him.

[@Venator77]

We need Liechtenstein world conquest.

[@Mr.CheeseB]

Where can I submit disaster saves?

[@c2shuriken925]

I managed to somehow peacefully annex the whole Soviet Union through the new old lands decisions because they had Poland 😂

[@eme_hd]

I try it too, but failed😂. Nice Video

[@pimentaze2886]

15 HOURS AGO?!? 😡🫵

[@eme_hd]

@ okay, and What ist the Problem ?

[@fernandolugo3338]

Bubblezest defeated the germans with 9/1 artillery suport comp, i saw it but i still don't know if it's really doable

[@simoneroberti5948]

Video of the year 😍

[@R-BGamingUK]

AUSTRIANO HUNGARIANo

[@overlordmateus407]

Could there be a chance to grow even bigger with the focus 'beyond our lands'???

[@theplaylock2359]

Could you do Hungary going Austria-Hungary next to see which one ist stronger?

[@shironee_2384]

34:15 Victoria 3 Italian states border

[@Jimmyhoffa_1234]

You Flemish or Waloonian?

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Billy

[@braddlesharris3577]

Omg how has no youtuber read the focus tree if you join a faction Germany cannot annex you, just make the central powers straight away and it cancels anschluss

[@frantschou2369]

Regarding Lichtenstein: you can core the Austria-Hungary territory. I cored it as soon as i could and i could still form Lichtenstein. On a side note: i hate it when you try to pronounce german words “properly”, it sounds so wrong.

[@kknnetty]

Bitt3rsteel you were my top watched youtuber and apparently watched your videos 16 times more than an average viewer, am I cooked?

[@commander_cole17]

Does the Dlc change the "Kaiserin Viktoria" run? I try to get her multiple times, didnt get this "Foreign titles" thing.

[@ct-454]

Is this the game play of the Livestream?

[@aaronpeeters3366]

Germany got what they wanted, austria anslusch-ed. Just not in the way they thought.

[@vikingman5384]

Liechtenstein! 🇱🇮

[@liammorriss]

Big chins everywhere

[@savasciaga]

bread 🍞

[@Dread_God]

Yes

[@kaitok5304]

What happens if you accept the anchluss when you have all those puppets?

[@randomperson-sc6ui]

20:00 bittersteel: wow how's the economy now, never mind it's still shit

[@Rich-MarsEco]

liechtenstein YES!

[@M-e-n.]

Naval Austria when?

[@aotmoments7410]

aww, nooo i thought u were gonna upload 10 belgium videos in a row

[@PrestigiousWarrior6500]

Pettition for bitt3r to form lichtenstein 👇👇👇

[@jedidiaheben1707]

Lichtenstein WC got a lot easier

[@WexeF]

how tf turkey got in this situation lol

[@Francis_I-1805]

The real challenge is coming up with $40 for this dlc

[@Hilter420]

All for content that mods have done better

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Honestly just grab gotterdamrung I doubt the middle east dlc will have much to write home about.

[@Francis_I-1805]

@@simonnachreiner8380 it's $33.33 for me in my country but after taxes it's almost $40

[@AdmiralXeon]

i came when i saw the italy

[@1tsbag134]

Try liechtenstein.

[@ManutronRedduel2010]

Danke, dass du Österreich spielst! 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹

[@AlexKS1992]

Can you still form the Holy Roman Empire with this update?

[@BosNass]

Yes

[@tomsmith247]

Bavaria is free again

[@connorb.4790]

Is there an Austrian Empire option or just Austria-Hungary?

[@Masterchief117hi]

please make video about lichtenstein

[@bagrbagrovsky]

wait you cant core galicia and silesia?? why i want my good borders

[@nolanasd6092]

Please form Lichtenstein then the HRE at some point

[@hardysimpson8199]

Make Lichtenstein

[@riccardovillano6828]

20 seconda ago is crazy

[@mr_man_in_the_white_van]

bruh i hate members first😭

[@samueltrusik3251]

Inbreeding time.

[@tokul76]

Those are other habsburgs. Inbread ones died 300 years ago.

[@AuzzyGotFuzzyChannel]

I only just asked for this and boom !!!

[@johnmcmanus2447]

What the hell happened to Turkey?

[@tilen.radovcic]

🫏

[@porkchop693]

Bo

[@johnacer1727]

Time to add the incest timeline again. Sigh.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

Wrong Habsburgs. The inbred ones were from the southern empire and they predictably died out letting the Austrians branch claim the imperial throne.