HoI4 Guide: Russia - The Romanovs Laugh Last Achievement

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[@Bitt3rSteel]

For the Civil War part, check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/l327nYCBmbybp9k Video was getting waaaaay too long, so decided to cut it....

[@Cerabelus]

I hope your having fun with the DLC, I was feeling burnt out for a year now than the new Poland tree wasn't fun for me so I've uninstalled to force myself to take a break. I tried 2 Soviet games and got completely demolished, maybe it was the CAS because the second time I was much more prepared but it didn't matter.

[@christopherbailey8926]

Hey Mr bitt3erSteel I have kinda figured out the division meta 13 to 26 width for infantry and 26 to 42 width for tanks

[@noldo3837]

@Bitt3rsteel Thank you very much for the manual, good hints. It is one of the last 2 for me to go. I had to smile a bit that among victim of the war were the Russian names butchered, like Zaporozhe :D

[@patrickdaniel4902]

Hi! Need some help. Three times i played all three times germany goes war with hungary. I think its about problem of transylvania

[@noldo3837]

The manual worked amazing, except two things. First - it seems that some patch has improved AI ability to counter breatkthrus. Whenever I get the first tile, even when the wings are pinned, they somehow manage to attack on my breaking thru army, and it takes some 12 days to stop the attack. In the meantime, AI rearranges defense. Second - With 100% World Tension in 38, Romanian Dobrudja gets attacked by Bulgaria (on historical). That draws CZE and RO to allies. Munich then fails, Germany attacks too early, overextends itself , and crumbles eventually.

[@alexsilent5603]

Stalin's paranoya must rise by +100 when someone starts to build factories in Chita.

[@Jive1907]

Stalin be shooting everyone

[@thisisaname5589]

It's okay. Letting him shoot generals weakens him in the civil war and gives you a chance to flip some high quality generals

[@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong]

Meanwhile in Kremlin: "Nyet, Comrade Stalin. I assure you, building military industry in the middle of Siberia is *CRUCIAL* to glory of our homeland."

[@stuff9680]

@@SithEmpiredidnothingwrong "Its so the equipment is available to the far eastern forces defending against the Japanese"

[@benc.3128]

@@stuff9680 that’s some shit Stalin would actually believe lmao

[@torieldreemurr541]

"Ah Stalin, whoever put you in charge was an idiot." Stalin who put himself in charge:

[@TempestLM]

"Everyone is stupid except me"

[@spacexfan1281]

Guy that appoint governors, don't let stalin rule the county! But stalin is who appoint governors...

[@redcorruption4561]

@@spacexfan1281 Lenin: *Dies

[@iosefstalin6832]

For this suggestion you have been sentenced to 14 years in gulag

[@Rabid_Nationalist]

I was gonna comment this but decided to look in the comments for others who already did. it dodnt take a long time.

[@JonStormr]

6:50 - "Stalin whoever put you in charge is an idiot." Stalin: Well, of course I know him, he's me.

[@totolias2010]

Lmao

[@Stiann86]

15:35 Cutting towards Batman *Gotham is in danger*

[@Bitt3rSteel]

we live in a society after all

[@martinaustin6230]

Followed the guide, mostly went well until I capitulated Soviet Union. Then I had Turkey revolt against me because of resistance (Stalin in his infinite wisdom put No Garrison in Turkey and Romania) and Turkey joined the axis and called Germany in at mid 1938.

[@luk-128]

Classic Paradox IA making 999999 IQ moves meanwhile they play 5D chess

[@aliabdallah102]

@@luk-128 *AI

[@bubulolo207]

@@aliabdallah102 IA its in spanish

[@jackinouterspace9490]

This run is legit insane I had so many weird events happpen

[@lukaswilhelm9290]

That exactly what Stalin want, he trolled you even when he already dead. Just like he trolled people who want to visit his dead body, he crushed those mfs when he laid in state

[@dustydinoface2606]

id reccomend holding Dnipropetrovsk and kiev as part of the defensive line because it gives you some more factories and allows you a better angle to attack from. it isnt protected by the river but it is urban and you can build forts there

[@tow3842]

YES TY IVE BEEN TRYING TO TELL THIS!!!

[@martinaustin6230]

Tried this and it worked. The Germans went all out trying to take Kiev, almost lost it even with level 5 forts surrounding the city. They mostly left Dnipropetrovsk alone as they had bad supply.

[@imspudus]

You can get free forts on Kiev from the Stalin line focus

[@muremuresen3725]

in addition to it being a supply hub. This means that the enemy does not get supply. This is also why you should hold over a march northwest of grodnoor bobryansk cus it is a supply hub.

[@johnroach9026]

Then again, this was right at the release of NSB when everyone was trying different things to win as the soviets

[@kylarstern17]

I don't know how but during my run for this achievement my 20 18-width raw infantry divisions, who survived the encirclement in Italy when France got annexed, managed to conquer the entire lower half of Italy.

[@some-kh7ku]

Classic mussolini strategic genius. Like Albania lybia and Greece the italian army is the best ! ;)

[@kamieldekoning6639]

naval bases

[@brianjamesward2150]

32:40 quick tip for design companies. You no longer have to have the design company before you finish the research. If you get the company later you can retroactively add the bonus by creating an upgraded variant of the plane/tank etc, or even by refitting a ship. There's also a neat trick with ships with some countries where you take the coastal ship designer for -25% range and -25% build cost, spam a bunch of the now cheap ships, and then change designer and retrofit something cheap on the ship like sonar/radar to get the benefits of the new design company.

[@royalcinnamon]

Oh that's a real good Info

[@AseraVoid]

I noticed that you were getting annoyed at the fact you had to travel across from Romania to Siberia. Something that isn't very known is that you can bookmark an area when you click on a state and if you double click it again after pinning the bookmark it will traverse your camera over there quickly

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

Appreciated!

[@serluke2388]

You can also hit Backspace to instantly move the camera to your capital (also works in EU4!).

[@johnnyboy95101]

Is this new or am I today years old when I found out?

[@johnnyboy95101]

@@serluke2388 Handy!

[@AseraVoid]

@@johnnyboy95101 Is been here for a while

[@DefaultProphet]

I feel like the Mass Assault doctrine that reduces infantry battalion size by .4 is really strong in this dlc. Having that much more org in a equal width division is some good soup.

[@dogdog2635]

Mass Assault is very strong for the Soviets. The supply consumption, org, combat width and breakthrough is amazing for the initial defence then counter attack

[@Kain292]

Just tried this strategy out - the Kingdom of Romania broke away anyways, creating a second Romania on the map, right around the time that Ukraine declared independence. Turkey remained conquered, though. The new Romania wasn't considered one of the break-away states through the focus and were instantly guaranteed by France and Britain.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

That's so weird

[@LieutenantGruber]

Happened to me too :/

[@bismarky21]

might be better to puppet them then

[@notlucas6859]

@@bismarky21 u lose puppets in any civil war

[@Roope_]

Just started playing this game myself and I have learned so much from your videos. Keep making this great content!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad to hear it!

[@greekgeek2045]

Same

[@giannistheofanopoulos]

The problem with this defensive line is that Germany has 5 airfields in Ukraine/yellow air, overstacking aircraft and devastating soviets. In Belarus with only 2 airfileds plus some from Poland the air in the end is green. A more advanced defence in Ukraine to cover airfileds is better and viable. In a historical game Eastern Poland is massively red and undefendable.

[@pujanshah7868]

Little trick for design companies that I found out was if you research an aircraft or tank and then hire a design company and then go into the production tab and increase a stat or change a component on the tank and you automatically get the buffs from the designer. Yeah this surprised me too 😂

[@TheSepulphagist]

"We Romanovs have our legacy to consider!"

[@octopusguy5648]

there are people watching this to learn how to do the achievement and there are people who just love bitter steel

[@sld1776]

I mostly followed this guide (but completely cheesed the civil war). With tension so high, Czechoslovakia refused Sudetenland, and WWII kicked off early. Had to manually justify in 1942 because France is still alive... Pro tip: if you manage to get all 18 NVKD divisions killed in Turkey, the civil war is even easier.

[@pogochip5619]

Honey wake up, new Bitt3rSteel video dropped

[@jackgarrett6366]

The AI has DEFINITELY gotten so much smarter, and they really do acknowledge the importance of the supply network. As Sanation-Falange Poland I STRUGGLED against the Soviets, the AI really knows how defend supply hubs and they actually hold back divisions now, so essential zones are heavily protected. They even protect railways far back from paratroopers!

[@davidbascom5781]

Naval invade turkey at the start of the war on Istanbul, the province next to it, and the other side of the straight. It's never defended well, it's a lot of victory points, you can easily take all the land in Europe, and you can very easily expand to take all of turkey from there. Makes the war ridiculously easy. Sometimes you can even take a second port somewhere else

[@BringTheRains]

I tried this last night. Germany completely stomped me. I think I discovered my mistakes and will address them. Thank you for the video.

[@hussainq80]

Love your videos man keep it up. Also, have you considered using transport planes for supply?

[@TheNolunch]

They've said they're patching the transport plane bug in a patch soon so I wouldn't get used to it.

[@hussainq80]

@@TheNolunch Oh okay, thanks man

[@tobinrose2330]

Yeah

[@jonasduchateau8619]

The bug doesnt work anymore its fixed

[@Finn_the_Cat]

"Whoever put you in charge was an idiot", the hilarious part is Stalin was never put in charge by any one person, Stalin was general secretary in the civil war and that may not sound like much but he had the power to give out jobs so he gave out good jobs to allies to secure their loyalty so when Lenin died I do believe Trotsky was his chosen successor but Stalin won because he had more political allies

[@dois_dee]

I remember Lenin not wanting Stalin in power, but I'm not sute about Trostky being the one who whe wished to sucessed him

[@mikhailfilitov1479]

Oh and the supply bug you noticed in the black sea (at 18:49) has a hint that explains why it happened - when you hovered over the port I could see what the problem was. It describes the supply route as "Leningrad - Sinop". The reason that happens is that supply by default routes through the highest level rail network and it goes for the highest level naval base - unsurprisingly those are both in Leningrad. Now because you're at war with Turkey the supply can't flow through the straits, normally it could if Turkey backs down on the straits and you're not at war with them (lol). This is obviously a bug though - the AI hasn't figured out to reroute supply when a route is impossible which is such a small brain design choice. Anyway loving the video content, keep it up! I've read some confirmed bug reports in the PDX forums so they know about the issue but just haven't fixed it yet.

[@Dan-wt7jx]

Well done, your NSB videos are the best content for this dlc so far.

[@kohukesfr3840]

I love your videos, keep up with the work!

[@hendrikmons4231]

I finally succeeded with the guide !!!! Thx for the guide :D

[@xEDYx17]

At 13:16 Push to Chisnaw... 😂😂You always make my day when you pronounce romanian city names😂😂 This one is like, Kishinew

[@jeremyglass4283]

One idea for this is to put the NKVD units up on the peninsula at the furthest eastern point in Siberia, where they will get stuck and become completely useless for Stalin once the civil war begins.

[@joelker41]

They fixed the designers to where if you upgrade your tanks/planes/ships after making them you get the buffs. Very handy Great video as always!!!

[@OverlordMalarkey]

been a while since ive seen an achievement run... so this is where the fun begins

[@bigguschung3847]

“Just like romania I will steal their equipment”

[@alexokobnor9527]

Nice video. I've had that same convoy bug that you had around 19:00 while playing as the brits in redux, I was Naval invading German Denmark but I never got supply, my allies did though. That was extremely annoying, I built harbors in almost every tile to fix it somehow but it didn't work

[@billyknight8785]

You should give going down the Third Rome tree after finishing the Tsar. It's pretty cool, and you're no longer green, but purple! Otherwise, great job! I tried a different kind of strategy and got decimated by Germany because I was always low on guns. No matter what I tried to do, I could never get enough guns! Haha!

[@rondaxen88]

19:06 This is just a guess here but I'm gonna assume most of your convoys can't reach that area because it's blocked by the Bosporus Strait.

[@MarcAntonio1985]

at the end of civil war if you create a faction and invite bulgaria before she join axis (they accept cos unallineated) later they will attack romania that join allies so you kik bulgaria from your faction that join axis and involve germany in a preventive war (may1939) with allies so you can gain a bit time and germany remain slightly weakened

[@Smoke-gi2pi]

This will surely help me when I download HoI4

[@alex1sandulache]

Watching the video, enjoying the commentary, plotting the downfall of the soviets in my own head... and then suddenly a wild Dwayne Johnson appears... This sounds like that one dream I had...

[@ryanewlier185]

You don't have to wait for a plane with aircraft designer. You can upgrade a plane after hiring a aircraft designer and still get bonus, in spite of having researched that plane without bonus. Because it's patched out after NTB DLC.

[@Bakrain]

This got me the achievement, thanks!

[@user-pg6ym5xm6c]

44:53 And everything was lovely once again, wonderful

[@Enward834]

So Bittersteel I was thinking.. you always say air wings of 50 is optimal because 50 is the minimum amount needed to do sorties, but does that mean if you take any casualties the wing stops fighting until it gets replacements? If that's the case I think you can make a good argument that wings of 100 are more optimal since your planes keep fighting after taking loses. Thoughts?

[@sf2pro163]

A great and fun think to watch will be the coronation of Wojtek as king of Poland. Great vid btw keep the awesome content up

[@rps215]

The key here is to use appropriate division templates. If you choose to not abandon Eastern Poland, it is mostly forest so having 21 Width divisions will give the Germans a very hard time here, I only lost 1 tile this way. The Bulgarian border both in the north and on Turkey is all plains, so 15 width. The only tricky one to defend is the Hungarian border, some are mountains and some are plains but once the enemy push to the middle area, they will run out of supply.

[@lukefiggins6851]

Came to see how you did this achievement after getting it myself, your way was muuuuch easier haha. I didnt do any cheesy early wars, just a normal civil war, then spent 3.5 years holding off the Germans while I built an airforce and tank force. then rolled the Germans, Romanians, Hungarians, Bulgarians, etc. I resigned myself to the fact I was going to have to go to war with the allies to get Ankara, but Turkey attacked me just 1 month after I defeated Germany and rolling them before the Allies arrived proved relatively easy. Good guide!

[@BleaK1211]

Why did Turkey attack you after defeating the Germans? Were you playing on ahistorical?

[@lukefiggins6851]

@@BleaK1211 I never play on ahistorical so no. Its been a while so I can't remember tbh. The last scripted focus for Turkey on historical is 'Abuse the Office of Soil Products' so I have to assume that they just justified on me and declared due to the obscene amount of World Tension I had caused.

[@teutosoldier]

At 37', using tanks as reserves behind the front lines.. kudos for using real military tactics!!!

[@Sahtoovi]

6:50 He put himself in charge so I guess you aren't wrong

[@MrAlex_Raven]

Sadly I must ask soon to see a Trotsky run for the civil war. I've half the wars, and lost the other half. I've not gotten too consistent, but the only cases I've won were on non-Historical; normal historical just bulldoze my heavy tank divisions. So I hope to see more soon. Thanks :D

[@Lolbuster2000]

Giving you a virtual smooch for these guides

[@Ryuko-T72]

During the fight with turkey, I think the tanks that landed are trying to get supply from leningrad, and cant because of the dardanelles. Even though you have crimea the game doesn't see that as a viable option for some reason. It loves using leningrad over all other ports

[@That1kid7]

6:48 Stalin put himself in charge

[@cybersnake16]

Romanovs 2 monarchist boogaloo. Time to crush the soviets and the central powers once and for all.

[@Quickshot0]

Hmm, so if they pull troops from all over their lines to try and block offensives, does this mean if you had a secret second offensive ready to go you could then smash straight through the weakened positions?

[@mikhailfilitov1479]

At the 32 minute mark you took your fighters of research because you didn't have the design company - correct move for pre-NSB but, I've learned that in NSB once you have the designer any variant of a plane, ship or tank made while you have that designer willy APPLY THE DESIGNER BONUS (huge change so caps are appropriate) for the new variant (in the case you have an older designer it will override the previous bonus but you do not lose any other models that you haven't tweaked since getting a new designer bonus). What that means now is that you could have kept your research on planes, once you got the designer done a +1 engine modification or something and every new LaGG-3 you make will have the MiG design bonus applied to it :) Enjoy all the new strats you can do with this knowledge!

[@tagus100]

Bitter: Uploads two videos about the Russian Civil War & the Romanovs Me: 'This is where the fun begins'

[@reapsneakyrg]

oh boy just got home from work and vid dropped 4 minutes ago, time to get an achievement.

[@RainBurner13]

KZbin translator: Hey guys, “Bit of Steel” here Yeah that seems an understatement 😂

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Tiny Stalin

[@joskarifinaukr6503]

Yep, the wording on that tooltip could have been better. Where it says Stalin may start a war, I figured "Good, he starts wars all the time, maybe I can use it as cover to kick off my revolution." It worked out though, because I had everything but the church construction done up to "The hands do," and near as I can figure the game gave me that one for free when Stalin started a war with my faction.

[@OnlyRodion]

18:50 you can't get supply in because Turkey closes the Bosporus, only trade is accessible into the Black Sea because of it, same reason you can't get your navy in or out of the Black Sea.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

which makes no sense because i can just ship it in from Crimea, since i control the Black Sea

[@hanswurst6712]

But that makes no sense. Because u have your own ports in the black sea and shouldnt need to pass the Bosporus. Its stupid convoy routing bug. The convoys try to reach the black sea from Leningrad instead of any black sea port.

[@OnlyRodion]

@@Bitt3rSteel Yeah it's weird, the strait crossing says it only allows trade to come in which I would imagine is convoys, probably an oversight or game mechanics colliding in weird ways.

[@OnlyRodion]

@@hanswurst6712 Yeah that sounds right actually my bad.

[@gabrielqian9936]

"Stalin, whoever put you in charge was an idiot" *when you realize that Stalin put Stalin in charge 😂😂😂

[@jacekgedek3872]

I know, what I will be watching on evening after work :)

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Enjoy!

[@bandit2096]

Great guide. Still have trouble with it since the DLC thinks warmongering Greece, Baltic States, ect. are considered 'historical' paths. XD

[@TheHellfireCrew]

Bros a 10 star general for army’s all over the world

[@salxrn]

6:51 He put him in charge 💀💀

[@danimag3904]

26:14 im pretty sure its because theyre field marshals because the same thing happened to me in my own russia game

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

In my russia games I always build extra supply in the kherson-zaporizhzhia area because supply down there gets really bad

[@antonslavik4907]

South Manchurian Railway focus icon is straight out of Kaissereich

[@andresrivera6096]

“As Russia I have run out of manpower.” Me: wait, thats illegal

[@jesusiskingofkingsforever]

19:00 I'd imagine conveys are deployed elsewhere than the Black Sea, hence the Turkish straits blocking your access for naval invasions

[@sld1776]

Following on Bittersteel's comment about the DLC promoted through the tank designer, the DLC... 1) Nerfed tanks into the Pripiat marshes. 2) Boosted the "org wall" infantry strategy. 3) Made air indispensable. 4) Made railway guns op.

[@mappingshaman5280]

For me tanks are still op. I saved stalingrad with an army of T 34s even though I was 4000 tanks in deficit. I also conquered Germany by 1943 as USA with improved mediums.

[@Excellsk]

May i ask please whats the best defense template for infantry when you re defending against wehrmacht ? Shall i keep 18 and modify for engineers ?

[@frederickrhodes2551]

The pain I felt when you replaced the air with something else when there were 14 days left

[@martinaustin6230]

Something I did in addition to this guide was placing no garrison for Poland so they had very high resistance once Germans took over. Just don't let it get too high before the war. Can do the same with Romania after the civil war.

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

yooo that sounds smart

[@azalon2752]

Yes finaly a good guide

[@Aydjile]

6:48 he put himself there! 😅

[@sakeburyojo4218]

Fun fact: Filipp Oktyabrsky IS the head of the Black Sea Fleet in real life.

[@d438roblox]

Fun fact stalin put himself in charge

[@drcatsville4467]

5:46 Objection! After some tries bringing back Romanovs some generals will come to you because they were in fear of Stalin (at least thats what i am thinking of when they come to me) not all of them of course but some will change sides

[@hzcyd101]

I hate the fact as Russia I've got barely two and a half army group of generals/Field Marshall. The cost of hiring general is just ridiculous after the third or 4th. And the Officer corp is not helping.

[@karlthebarbarian9875]

Neat! Hadn't tried Russia since the DLC dropped. Defaulted to testing it as Germany and was rather surprised at seeing 2-3k allied fighters (including T2s) in 39. Red skies were not fun.

[@KrokLP]

The supply system is quite bugged. I had ~20 allied divisions encircled in the congo bordering Portugal, they didnt have military access and just wouldn't die. I then switched over to see and when I decided to delete them (non ironman + console) only about 5 of the divisions were "encircled" according to the unit delete popup. They were all in the same ~10 tiles big pocket with no city or port

[@Akkeo0o]

Can you do a video explaining on how to create good division templates after this new terrain combat with change?

[@commanderfox4233]

If your planes are worse than the enemy just put them on inteception and you are going to trade favorably

[@Callquick]

Bitt3rSteel: Oh Stalin, whoever put you in charge was an idiot. *Stalin starts sweating profusely*

[@michaelscholer1]

You might have no supply on that turkey N.I. because paradox might want you to use the new temp. supply docks they added.

[@Charlie-fk4ly]

You make full speedy boi Light tank divisions that can spread like Cancer in a breakthrough

[@Gauntlet_Videos]

44:00 Using tanks in cities combined with low supply really hurts them.

[@SpartanxAvenger]

Hey Bitter, could yo do Anastasia Romanov next time ? I like hidden characters playthoughs

[@lars9925]

Light tanks are great for naval invasions. There might be some debuff, but it's not a problem. I can conquer England with 10 German Light Tank divisions.

[@HazmanFTW]

15:36 I wonder if there's a Doux/Sultan of Batman in CK2/3 now

[@St_Caledonia]

How is your panzer division build? Good video.

[@TheXenomorphGuySMSE]

time to start blasting the Siberian rifleman's march at full volume

[@BringTheRains]

Paradox: Great new update Us: well here comes the bugs and annoying new features that take 3-6 months to fix

[@dawidhochul3816]

Yeeea, nów I can start playing No step back

[@Enderking-xs2zt]

Fun fact Stalin put himself on charge. Lenin gave Stalin the role of “People's Commissar” which gave jobs so he gave close friends and powerful peaple good jobs in exchange for support. So after he got the support and Lenin died (from sickness from a earlier assassination attempt) he ran Lenin’s successor out of the country (and later assassinated in Mexico) he took control Sorry if I got something wrong I’m a history nerd and just went off of what I can remember because it’s midnight and I’m to tired to google it

[@resupl]

I was going for that achivment and won with axis buti forgot taking branderburg so yea.

[@I.Cant.Think-Of-A-Name1]

6:47 Stalin put himself in charge.

[@alleythetoaster8401]

Answer to your question: Beria. Beria helped to place Stalin in charge. And He helped to remove Stalin later. Though Molotov had something to do with it as well.

[@fem530]

Isn't Italy bugged for when it starts justifying on Yugoslavia

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Yeah, sometime they are just...weird

[@jedell]

I know this is older but I still find artillery divisions to be better then tanks. Just put support anti tank and air