HoI4 By Blood Alone made Switzerland an ABSOLUTE BEAST!

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In this new DLC, By Blood Alone, as Switzerland, we will see if the new Focus tree can help us get some more mountains and achievements!
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[@Bitt3rSteel]

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[@andrzejrybickiToOn]

How is this comment 1 day old and the video only 1 hour old?!

[@CuSu-333]

Panzer 58 Mutz is the only Swiss tank (IIRC) in World of Tanks.

[@DreadMaps.]

Dankus Memecus he is good fight him HOI4

[@DreadMaps.]

@@andrzejrybickiToOn it is 3 hours old

[@operationaltactics1006]

It's "like a hot knife through butter"... Not "like a knife through butter", because cold butter is very hard.

[@H3lios227]

The Swiss: I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire

[@crusader2112]

Your New Empire?

[@Athrun82]

you forgot the chocolate. Never forget chocolate ;)

[@mrr9636]

@@Athrun82 Maybe we replace freedom with chocolate?

[@aerosdacillo1227]

The Switzerland shall be Reorganized Into Swiss Condeferate Empire

[@carltonleboss]

I see through the lies of neutrality, I don't fear belligerence as you do

[@Boybala]

"It feels like I'm beating a harmless child." -Bitt3rSteel, 2022

[@mister_dadstersays_hi7372]

Talking about the German Reick mind you.

[@genralgaming5317]

wait a minute how does he know what beating a harmless child feels like

[@pixelchrome2]

the funniest thing is that he knows how beating a harmless child feels like

[@pixelchrome2]

@@genralgaming5317 lmao, that's what I just said, great minds think alike

[@genralgaming5317]

@@pixelchrome2 yes they do

[@Chorutowo]

tbh the neutral swiss tree is the most fun, thought the balance of power really makes Switzerland unfriendly to beginners. You really need to make very specific choices to rush down that path before anschluss.

[@thedarkthing1157]

if you do it right you can get the empire and then get the neutral military. I did this in a game and it was a lot of fun

[@GamePilLP]

Yeah honestly I really dislike the balance of power system. Especially because often it can just get you stuck on one side. For Ethiopia its basically completely unused (apart from the bonuses it can give you) but I think the way its done with Italy is pretty good. You still need to watch out for it a little bit but nowhere near as much as with Switzerland where almost every focus requires a specific balance

[@plebisMaximus]

@@GamePilLP I feel like they did a pretty good job of keeping the balance very easy to manipulate for the most part. I've never felt like I should be moving it somewhere without being able to and it's adds a lot of flavour. One of the best additions imo.

[@dryhad9253]

I actually think that Switzerland presents the greatest challenges to established players, since it works so differently from every other country that 1000+ hours in the game will do little to prepare you for it (contrast Ethiopia, where although you start the game under existential threat from a more powerful invader, managing this is largely a question of employing the standard combat mechanics well). Stuff like the council mechanics and the balance of power are very different to the way the standard political system works but this is not so unfriendly to beginners (who will not have learned a different system yet) as it is to established players who attempt to approach Switzerland as they would any arbitrary country and overlook the specialised mechanics.

[@poyloos4834]

@@plebisMaximus well, for italy, you lose like 10% bop to the fascist council for every state occupied by an enemy in a war. Not just cores, mind you, literally any territory. It works fine if you try to stay as faithful as possible to history (except for the part where they lost the war obviously) but map painting becomes super punishing for no reason, because if you manage to take france or some other major early, and don’t want to have to puppet all of french africa due to lag/clicking all the buttons to set that up, you are screwed if you go to war the uk, because they will almost always have the army to be able to seriously contend africa, and Italy really does not, not in numbers, tech or ability, so it’s very possible that you have a civil war and lose before they even touch one of your cores. They absolutely need to change it around so that you only lose balance of power if you lose a core state of *mainland* italy, not just cores, because that’d then punish you for gaining cores.

[@jaysvideos9107]

Switzerland: *suddenly demobilizes their 400+ Divisions after getting territory* Italy and France: "Wait--no what just happened"

[@buttjohnson]

switzerland: psych, got ya

[@John-li6sk]

Cabt is cok and ball torcher it allows easily accessible to the priv army

[@robinbus5277]

I had more. Than 400 divs and they BOTH said no

[@edgingjogo]

I love how you explain the mechanics of the game to new players and beginners in your videos. It's absolutely lovely, and you're probably one of the few youtubers that do it, so thank you.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@kedronmallia939]

11:05 YES they should def start having collapsable trees. Maybe they could add a feature where there's and arrow bottom right of focus icon that you could click to hide too but if they do it like some mods do it that is great too. Would be lovely with spain focus tree

[@Tom-oj7si]

Agree

[@fraulens]

There is already the option in the game settings. I know it works for the Polish and Soviet FT.

[@Mememaster12345]

They have that "hide inaccessible trees" setting but paradox and modders barely use it

[@ancaoraathasach]

You need to demilitarise both Rhineland and Mosselland for that achievement.

[@kleinerprinz99]

Secret or not so secret cooperation with the Allies gives you also one research slot down the line. It if it was possible to flip easily the balances of power one could research the secret path to to get access to that part of the focus tree as well. And if there is enough time.

[@aliakbas8997]

🤐

[@achallor]

“Hyperrealistic Swissball isn’t real, they can’t hurt you” Hyperrealistic Swissball:

[@EricThyKaiser]

That background screeching PAIN

[@NeonBeeCat]

I thought my new headphones were breaking down and I was about to cry

[@amadeusmozart8021]

Bro I came here looking for that comment thinking I was the only one

[@dryhad9253]

Important: In the current version of the game, nearly everything in the Armed Neutrality and Buero Ha branches require the Balance of Power to be in favour of the cantons, so you cannot pick up these focuses after beelining Preempt Anschluss etc. unless you go through the entire business of flipping the Balance of Power back. Also, I haven't actually played with Furrer as president for life but my reading of the script is that his extra research slot is *not* a one-time thing, like all presidents for life you can take his presidential initiative about once a year and there's nothing preventing you from getting an extra research slot every time. Again, haven't tested this but you may want to check your save game since this is pretty big if it pans out.

[@piotrpaczoski4991]

also u cant do fight until death after switzerland in the offense

[@Therecreep]

27:08 This would actually make for a really neat achievement The Sounds of Our Torpedoes - As Switzerland, have Georg Von Trapp as a Naval Commander.

[@ChrisVillagomez]

Switzerland in our timeline: "Who cares what they did, they'll give us gold if they don't invade us!" Switzerland in this timeline: "A L P S"

[@MrWestdickens95]

there was once a tank which was only in use in Switzerland, the so called panzer 68. which was based on the panzer 61 and his older brother mittlerer panzer 58. Greetings from Switzerland

[@LeroxYT]

The tanks sounds more like german development 🤔(im german lul)

[@teraschnitzelxd_5731]

​@@LeroxYT LOL XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@harjutapa]

@@LeroxYT nope, it was built in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, by a Swiss firm.

[@LeroxYT]

@@harjutapa ohh now i looked again, yeah i thought it would be a bit like the ru251 or the german m48 super

[@forresterscalan3921]

Ever since bba came out I've been doing concentrated industry and i can feel the difference with the amount of units I get out.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*The Hills Are Alive...* *With the Sound of Gunshots!*

[@14baustin]

Dispersed is better if you keep switching equipment to newer equipment. If I remember correctly, It's about a 5-7year payback period that makes concentrated better

[@complexquestion3601]

Maybe there wasn't in the version you're playing, but to answer one of your questions there is an additional research slot at the end of the democratic tree, under weapons of democracy, meaning Switzerland can get 5 total.

[@Orphan-Be-Gone-2000]

“I say the whole world must learn of our peaceful ways - BY FORCE”

[@schadowizationproductions6205]

Have a good look on that map at the beginning. They still didn't include Schaffhausen (up North) as a part of Switzerland and Liechtenstein (in the East) as a country!

[@mrr9636]

Liechtenstein gets acknowledged in the Swiss focus tree After taking Vorarlberg you can create a VP for Liechtenstein in the area, meant to show that the principality is now annexed into your nation.

[@ertrick3693]

The odds of the target nations accepting any of the expansion stuff from Switzerland all are dependent on the same factors. Namely, if A) Switzerland is a player, B) if historical AI is off, C) if they have a good relation with Switzerland, and D) if Switzerland have a colossally larger military than the target. For the last one, it's two factors. First, if their division count is less than 80% of yours. And two, if their division count is less than 30% of yours. Also, the relation modifier is *massive* - like, it multiplies whatever total chance you have by a factor of 15 for the Austrians, and a factor of 10 for the other two. With all combined factors checked off, there's still a chance they'll say no because there's always at least 1% for the alternative outcome so long as nothing modifies the AI chance factor for that outcome to be outright zero (which in this case, it's always a flat 10 factor, compared against factors as large as 3,000 or 10,000). You can check this all in the event file BBA_Switzerland.txt - specifically, the events "BBA_swiss_expansion.9" and "BBA_swiss_expansion.12" (also "BBA_swiss_expansion.6" for the Vorarlberg focus, which interestingly also includes outcomes for if Hitler controls Austria). Also, I want to point out that in this campaign Italy essentially handed over 16 military factories (probably more due to the territory being uncored until the Alpine Protectorate focus) for no reason whatsoever, lmao.

[@reynardolympia536]

Time traveller throws rock The timeline:

[@JamesSomersetActor]

I played as the Swiss on my first game of BBA. I managed to get all their achievements practically by luck as I didn't really understand the mechanics of the balance of power at that point. I managed to get both the French and Germans to guarantee me after the Italians started hating me. In the subsequent war it was very easy to hold the Italians in my southern states while the Germans moved in through Austria and the French moved across the French Alps. The Italian overthrow of Mussolini happened and what remained of Fascist Italy capitulated not long after. I took a couple of states in the peace conference but not enough to get Swiss Cheese but I did get You Shall Not Pass from the endeavour. Then when Germany kicked off WW2 They were bogged down in the low countries for years with neither country capitulating - as they had too many forces committed to fighting in the Austrian Alps against Italy. Also for some reason one of the many odd things that started happening was that they went to war with Lithuania even though they already had Memel. This caused Lithuania to join the Allies which will be important later. Eventually my militia troops were strong enough, and the Germans on my border weak enough that I felt comfortable chancing my arm against them. Once world tension had reached 100% (which took far longer than I expected) I justified and declared war on Germany and pushed through their exposed southern flank helping to capitulate the Germans by May 1942. I took some more stuff in the peace deal but somehow still not enough for Swiss Cheese (I can only assume the 5 states had to be annexed in the same conference as I'm sure I had more than 5 states outside of my country not contiguous at this point) but did get You Shall Not Pass. Now this is where the Lithuania joining the Allies becomes important. At some point during the mess of Germany's war the Soviets did their attempt to eat Lithuania causing the Comintern to go to war with the Allies. I joined that war and then waited. My military strength was negligible at this point so gave my army to the UK as expeditionaries and spent all my resources on keeping the territories I already had and providing lend lease to other allies. That war dragged on but eventually the Soviets collapsed in 1945. My war participation was just enough that I was able to annex some of their cheap east Russian states separate from each other and get Swiss Cheese but I was still just short of Everybody gets a canton. Thankfully the new peace deal mechanics meant that some of our old adversaries were still kicking around. Mr Hilter's Germany still existed in Moravia so I justified and took it for myself. Did the same against Nationalist Spain and called my allies in. The US turned most of it into a puppet but I did snag western Aragon which was just enough to get me to my final 24th state... though Franco somehow still ended up owning Catalonia when it was done. The border gore was disgusting, it was a total mess, but it was satisfying enough that I felt the need to share it all in a KZbin comment.

[@154Kilroy]

After 4,500+ hrs of playtime, I'd say dispersed industry is better in most cases. The biggest part is the production efficiency retention. Anytime you upgrade to a new tech, you loose efficiency. With concentrated it's way more noticeable. The only time I've found concentrated to be the better choice is when playing the Chinese nations. This is because they already have a massive debuff to retention anyways, so you shouldn't be switching production around. Pure numbers are what matters. Basically every other nation dispersed is the better option.

[@HLGAM3R]

Don't know if it has been mentioned, but if you struggle with the absolute neutrality mechanic, you can just do this: Improve relationship with the countries in question.

[@EarthKuma]

When I did mine, I didn't have to worry about the size of my army. I just use spies and improve relations, which seems to work most of the time. Got all the Swiss Achievement in one playthrough lol.

[@DeathEatsCurry]

You also get a boost when you form the actual confederation, which you can do twice (once through a decision and once a focus), so you don't lose out on any cores. Least, that's what it was like for my playthrough, but for all I know that was a bug.

[@Bluebean698]

Great content :) def gonna play Switzerland after this

[@splatterkay]

So in the latest version of the game, you can't get the Canton focuses all willy-nilly while being on the Council side of the Balance of Power bar like Bitt3r did here. The compromise I found was to switch to Free Trade, do 1 Council Diplomatic Effort, and by selecting the bottom of the three guiding principle options, this will be enough so that you can get Partial Mobilization by the war support increase from the balance of power shift shortly before Reaffirm Spiritual Defense nukes your war support. Then you do Fortify Border with Italy, 1 more Council Diplomatic effort, Armed Neutrality, and rush over to Allied Gold before you lose the required 70% democrat support. After this, just save up political power, MAYBE use 100 to get more military readiness (+50 Command Power). At this point you *should* have enough time to do Pro Helvetia (I do it first for the PP boost) and then get down the Frontier Defense Plan tree to Total Defense before the balance of power shifts over to the Council. As soon as you get when you have 60-ish of the 70 days of Fight until the Death (or Buero Ha if you left that path for last instead), do a Council Diplomatic Effort which will take 50 days to complete. The focus finishes, and you begin Total Defense (or Pro Helvetia, respectively) When you're 6-8 days into that focus, do Strengthen Military High Command. The effects of the two should go off after Total Defense is finished, and should put you at just enough or nearly enough Council support to do Gotthardbund. Finally, if you saved enough PP for it, do Council Diplomatic effort, Strengthen Military High Command, and Consolidate Council Power and viola, you should be at Full Council Power in time to do Anschluss with an extra 35 days to spare (On historical AI Focuses), firmly on the path of the Alpine Protectorate while having a few significant buffs from the Canton focus tree. You're free to do as you like from here. How strong this actually is, I have no idea. But it's the path I figured out to get the +20% division org and the political power gain + consumer good factory reduction. Edit: If you skip either Increase Defense Budget or National Defense Fund (Idk how recommendable this is, but I might suggest skipping National Defense Fund first as you'll need the mils for your guns in the early game.) you can also dive down into Patriotic Shooting clubs and possibly Train Swiss Women.

[@SektorFire]

The bonuses for the military branch are really nice, but I manpower could end up being critical. As an alternative, you could instead do the Patriotic Shooting Clubs & Train Swiss Women to get +20k pop & +25% pop bonuses respectively. You also get one less -10 opinion modifier for what that's worth. You could even do Adopt the Rumantsch Language + Train Swiss Women + Frontier Defense Plan. A .40 daily army XP gain + 15% army XP gain for a 10 CP Chief of Army might be a worthwhile tradeoff for 20k pop. Downside to this option is a 10% move to the canton side, which I don't think is insurmountable. Both options should align within the same time frame and gives some extra options depending on priorities. Whether someone wants stat buffs, pop, or slightly less pop with some army XP gain. Ultimately, I think it's kind of dumb that you're bound by a balance of power with a power that effectively no longer exists once you change governments. If I have absolute power over my country, why can I no longer improve my military?

[@blakemueller5899]

Thank you for this

[@theafinaman7260]

"If it's stupid and it works, then it's not stupid." -Bitt3rSteel

[@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle]

Great video as always! I'd be really interested in countries history 💕💕

[@timothyhouse1622]

I've seen one run where the war in Ethiopia dragged out so long they joined the Allies and France capitulated Italy before they even joined the Axis. LMAO

[@MyVanir]

Oof

[@PhilFightmasterRavrov]

I really dig the new focus trees for Switzerland and Ethopia. It really opens the game up considerately.

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

italy be like ight i'll sign over the most delvoped part of my country

[@Stouzough]

Great manual! Good job! At 22:51 I didn't catch how you assigned the complete army to 2 different countries, did I miss a shortcut? Edit: or maybe you assigned the army to one border, and then (video edited) you manually selected 2 other divisions and assigned them to the 2nd border?

[@Quatschkopflolxd]

i have to say that they even changed some of the focuses because in my game it doesnt says "Cantons is the active side" so i cant take a lot of focuses

[@leocarter1355]

me too. I'm having trouble with the Frontier Defense Plan.

[@Bastian81O]

Is it possible that there is a bug with the tree in your video? You where able to do Frontier Defense Plan even though you had 0% Canton support but 38% Council support, should be Impossible to take that focus, correct me if im wrong please

[@amogusmaster3674]

Cool video, now I can finally play switzerland properly

[@Megaultrahero100]

as a tip if you wanna split 120 units into 5 armies press s twice then remove 6 more units with control-click and then you are left with 96units witch can be split into 48s and then 24s rly easily :) just wanted to say since i saw it at 22:45

[@frankunderbush]

Switzerland challenge: own every mountain tile on the map

[@matheusdiastelo5373]

NO

[@yeetionary]

swiss tibet

[@nanamitin]

it doesnt allow me to take most of the central focus since for me it locks them out as soon as im lower than 0% of canton power

[@Henribb786]

i just discovered your Channel and your Videos are GREAT,keep up the goodwork👍

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you like them!

[@BenoitLuers-ss5et]

that transition to the ad was smooth🌬

[@Sooper-Pumpkin]

Bitt3rSteel talking about Ethiopia winning against Italy, it reminded me of a recent game I played where the Italian Ai just sucked and got pushed by Ethiopia out of the south and lost the war

[@__pirate__1228]

I love this video keep up the good work!

[@obrien4217]

The fact that Vorarlberg has the most industry per capita today proves that Austria made a good decision back in the day

[@andriesbakker4861]

Hey Bitter, question... i followed your steps but for some reason i am completely locked out from doing either part of the military focus tree due to my Canton power not being big enough :| Anyway to fix that?

[@unstoppable1727]

The buzzing in the video made me feel like I was outside at dark

[@meandtheboysofficial8252]

Did no one else notice the high pitched rattling???? My ears feel like theyre gonna bleed

[@Minnka_]

That must have been done on the different version of the game. At the current state going all the way for the left side blocks all military and militia related focuses. You can't get that recrutable population modifiers anymore if you rush for anshluss

[@splatterkay]

The compromise I found was to switch to Free Trade, do 1 Council Diplomatic Effort, and by selecting the bottom of the three guiding principle options, this will be enough so that you can get Partial Mobilization by the war support increase from the balance of power shift shortly before Reaffirm Spiritual Defense nukes your war support. Then you do Armed Neutrality, 1 more Council Diplomatic effort, Fortify Border with Italy, and rush over to Allied Gold before you lose the required 70% democrat support. After this, just save up political power, MAYBE use 100 to get more military readiness (+50 Command Power). At this point you *should* have enough time to do Pro Helvetia (I do it first for the PP boost) and then get down the Frontier Defense Plan tree to Total Defense before the balance of power shifts over to the Council. As soon as you get when you have 60-ish of the 70 days of Fight until the Death (or Buero Ha if you left that path for last instead), do a Council Diplomatic Effort which will take 50 days to complete. The focus finishes, and you begin Total Defense (or Pro Helvetia, respectively) When you're 6-8 days into that focus, do Strengthen Military High Command. The effects of the two should go off after Total Defense is finished, and should put you at just enough or nearly enough Council support to do Gotthardbund. Finally, if you saved enough PP for it, do Council Diplomatic effort, Strengthen Military High Command, and Consolidate Council Power and viola, you should be at Full Council Power in time to do Anschluss with an extra 35 days to spare (On historical AI Focuses), firmly on the path of the Alpine Protectorate while having a few significant buffs from the Canton focus tree. You're free to do as you like from here.

[@plebisMaximus]

Every time you use mediums, I tell myself I need to start using them too, but then when I do play with tanks, I still just stick to lights. Maybe one day I'll learn.

[@DuxSanctiHadriani]

I always rush down light tanks and when I remember mediums existed I've already taken over half of europe, lol

[@sweettaters243]

I’ve seen on a bunch of older videos people asking for this sweet boy to remake them because of the new DLC since no step back would be nice to have

[@bigbo1764]

I can’t play a non-historical game without Germany and Hungary forming the central powers, Switzerland annexing Italy, and the U.S. becoming the CSA anymore

[@Timmybean]

I have also found the Austria does not need to be intimidated. I played multiple games without building my army up at all before going for the focus and they accepted every time.

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

You could have gotten both the Axis and Allied Gold, which gives ridiculous bonuses to Civilian Factories.

[@potty6239]

@Bitt3rSteel. I can't do the central focuses because it locks them out as soon as im lower than 0% of canton power. Is this a bug? Any help?

[@yunusvardar207]

ı hear the earrape fix it!

[@nimabardeh296]

I've totally watched it 5 times to route Switzerland properly 😂😂 Thank you

[@devanzummallen5677]

BitterSteel, I yet struggle once more on the new update from the Austria Hungary achievement, after so many attempts

[@emberfist8347]

I love the look of Swizterland after annexing all of Austria but for the opposite reason. It looks like it would be easier to cut in two than AI Italy. At least until you get your Italian claims.

[@macgyver1854]

We don't sat on the Mountains we sat in the mountains

[@KptKosmit91]

I wouldn't say there's 500+ historically accurate tanks in WoT, a lot of them were just blueprints or were completely made up. There's one swiss tank in the game btw, but it's in the German tech tree. It's the Panzer 58

[@polllopp9899]

How did you get back to the Canton side to take the Shooting Club focus after you reached full Council?

[@ethanviktor]

The waves will be alive with the sound of our torpedoes

[@theingeniousone5141]

27:09 Germany didn't annex austria in this game tho YOU DID XD

[@dwightk.schrute1998]

Italy, I am about to come at you. And come at you hard 😂😂

[@acy5836]

It is better for single player early game agression to take dispersed, majors on the other hand generally gain more if you are going for middle-late game from concentrated

[@delano4526]

the next dlc will probably be scandinavia but I really want one for south america, they got tons of stuff they can do with Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia and maybe Honduras as well (banana republic), they should also focus it on money and introduce currency into the game

[@FlowerGuy32]

More Swiss content please :) love your work sir

[@roboticshulk9468]

The huge alps united Switzerland, is just Switzerland plus vorarlberg. But giga and much more mountain Am I the only one who sees it because only some of my friends see it

[@ihmeheepo]

Dispersed industry is way better in 99% of the time. 71cloak made a video showing how much better it is.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

My gut always tells me Dispersed, but I'm not good at maths

[@ihmeheepo]

@@Bitt3rSteel Well the production efficiency retention and base buff you get from dispersed is so big that it will take years for concentrated to start out producing dispersed. + the factory bombing vulnerability is nice.

[@French_Carlm]

how you can do the national focus of the center without the canton modificator ?

[@dachshundyt9085]

i have actual tinnitus so i didnt notice the beeping until i checked the comments

[@Myjacob99]

Swiss: I wasnt neutral for my own protection I was neutral for yours.

[@grudig]

did they make a change to the focus tree? because i can't get most of your focuses because it says "the balance of power hast to be more than 0.0% on the cantons side" and not "cantons is the active side in balance of power" like in your video (and you can click the focus although cantons is NOT the active side)

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Sadly, they changed a bunch of stuff

[@Timmybean]

A little exploit I discovered for when you have full Canton control is that until you fill the vacant seat after electing a president, you can replace the other two guys for free as well. You're only locked in once the vacant seat is filled.

[@magicmorris1692]

Can anyone explain to me the "Anschluss"-mechanic? I did a few runs as Switzerland and I always did it with "Improve Relations" and Spynetworks on "Diplomatic Pressure". It worked perfectly fine, but was this a coincidence (and its just based on military power) or does it work this way too?

[@starminor5682]

they always accept

[@manuelafernholz]

@@starminor5682 No they don't always do

[@Zerousesunscreen]

0:27 “full of mountains and toblerone” is going in my vocabulary

[@heyvischan7622]

I think the game is fixed between you recording and now, because I can’t progress down the middle path since the balance power is in the council’s favour.

[@N00BY40]

10:20 I once had a run where Italy was in a stalemate in Ethiopia at the start of ww2 and had to white peace lmao

[@xr0ninx569]

So, he was at 100% fed council but could still get focuses tht required 0%+ on cantons. How? Bc I’ve tried this and I’m stuck wth half my tree blocked.

[@harvbegal6868]

The hero of Canton the man they call Jaaaayne.... Oh, not that canton?

[@TheMBeats]

At 1:48 you go for frontier defnese plan.. but you are on the Council side? how did you enable that to unlock? Mine is locked out cus we went to council side...

[@TheMBeats]

Sorry 15:48

[@timcurtis1601]

Bitt3rSteel: "...otherwise, I'd be here for 20 minutes." Me: *looks at video length* "An hour long hoi4 video? Sounds amazing."

[@carltonleboss]

I love the Sound of Music reference

[@theovereditedarena5672]

On the topic of industry, I always use concentrated cuz I mainly play small countries and I have to squeeze my factories for all they’re worth

[@staebchenbub]

on what did you spend 150 pp between 8 August and 11 November?

[@Not_Evil_]

26:03 tbh those borders would look waaaay cooler without lower and upper Austria, this would be a true *CHAD* Switzerland

[@juicebox6581]

How do u go from having full council support which is required for "Preempt Anschluss" to more than 0.0% in favor of cantons for the "frontier defense plan" tree segment? Considering the two ways to increase canton support are locked once u go full council support

[@wizardofloth]

It seems he's playing some pre-release there and the check is bugged or he's cheating - which won't be the first time. The only reason his defense held in the north while he killed off Italy was because of the buffs in that part of the tree but if you delay so long to get those, Germany will annex Austria so it's game over.

[@juicebox6581]

@@wizardofloth ya I did some slow motion viewing and noticed some differences between focus requirements when he hovered over focuses. Ig devs changed certain requirements so now switzerland is a lot harder to play cuz u have even less access to ur focus tree depending on choices

[@ericcartman9538]

​@@wizardofloth how can he cheat if he has ironman on?

[@granguz345]

The swiss:thats it.the geneva convention will be violated no more

[@lukevandevenis9780]

"Swis tanks pound down the brandenburg gate" gives a totally different meaning to the Red Army hahaha

[@SchokoAprikose]

Konrad Adenauer ruling over Bavaria is truly the most blessed timeline

[@Mankorra_Gomorrah]

Alpine protectorate flag is the Swiss alps literally going super Saiyan

[@sleepless9994]

Can’t wait for the next update so I can buy the DLC on sale.

[@andrzejrybickiToOn]

The bordergore in the thumbnail looks amazing

[@BaccyBoi]

There is this weird mic static sound for me on your videos for some reason, and its only on yours and i hope it goes away soon it suddenly started for me from one of your videos. Though i love your videos, keep up the good work.

[@SanderDoesThings]

People have been talking about Ethiopia so much that I forgot Switzerland was even in BBA

[@oxlynz7328]

It's important to mention that it seems that the country ideology once you do the protectorate focus seems to be the one of the presidnt, mine was unfortunately communist.

[@snuggers]

what is that pain full sound