Kaiserin Victoria restores the HRE! HoI4 Guide - No Step Back

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A comprehensive guide for the HRE in No Step Back!
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[@Bitt3rSteel]

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[@DunkTasticMan]

Glad you keep getting sponsors, keep doing what you enjoy.

[@linkfromzelda1002]

No.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

@@DunkTasticMan thanks, trying to keep paying the mortgage O.O

[@DunkTasticMan]

@@Bitt3rSteel lol

[@Hjalle_Gaming]

From someone named Hjalmar it is pronounced jalmar. (Looks a bit weird I think)

[@BubblesZest]

I find it funny how the HRE/Victoria is meant to be an easter egg but you'll still find people who want Germany to buffed more to make it easier, like bruh they already suffer from main character syndrome in this game. They don't need more.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

But cute waifu :(

[@BubblesZest]

Waifus are temporary, achievements are forever ;)

[@wilhelmrk]

I miss the era when you could do the oppose hitler skip Rheinland exploit. Unlocking both focus branches was Glorious

[@senatorstevenarmstrong2807]

@@wilhelmrk how did people figure that out

[@alisso23e]

@@senatorstevenarmstrong2807 pretty sure you just declared war on someone and it would bypass rhineland. Then you were free to go down oppose hitler

[@JIopemUncym]

19:55 Literally every other German leader: "Two front war is not that terrible"

[@esense9602]

HRE literally fought 30 years of war in every front and inside their territory.

[@matthiuskoenig3378]

The power of decentralised industry!

[@PravusGaming]

Ah, I remember this challenge. It's an absolute blast!

[@fodetraore6666]

Hi pravus love your vids too!

[@eli8922]

Why hello there pravus you got me in to hoi4

[@abbasaliyev1751]

Hey Pravus! Was watching your videos in Plague Inc. days! Basically, you taught me the meta

[@p.sgaming2653]

Pravus HRE, go!

[@rutger5000]

Tip for the civil war. If you disband the axis before hand than you can create a faction with Austria the moment you click on the decision that starts the civil war. Doing so will give you Austria for free as the referendum will trigger shortly after you won the civil war. It will also make the civil war easier as it will cause the AI to send troops to the border with Austria.

[@overclocked5422]

not enough world tension to make a faction

[@simplypepe1732]

Don't simp for the Kaiserin my brothers. You must always rebuild the high seas fleet! We shall never accept the British Naval Dominance!

[@malocuillandre1344]

Sorry but I prefer to simp and still invading the UK than not simping and invading the UK easily.

[@crusader2112]

@@malocuillandre1344 Nah, never Simp.

[@jaishwnd8609]

Simp for the British so you can simp for the Kaiserin.

[@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn]

High seas fleet, yes, naval dominance>air superiority? No, theres a reason why its called "superiority" ," BOMB THE BOATS

[@whitezombie10]

Yeah

[@schmerzencheese]

Thank you for fueling my love for HOI4! I used to be terrible and tired of it, but now I’ve learnt so many techniques and smashing through enemy lines like a knife through butter.

[@beastdeas7250]

My boi cas+medium tank best technique

[@Tom-oj7si]

You should still touch grass

[@schmerzencheese]

@@Tom-oj7si Who needs grass when you have HOI4

[@runatic2864]

@@schmerzencheese so true my brother

[@GalacticTitan57]

is this still the best technique?@@beastdeas7250

[@fritjoflarsson9817]

I find it annoying that it's not possible to get rid of "Redirecting Naval Production" national spirit debuff that you get from doing "Accept British Naval Dominance" focus. Not even after capitulating the UK. And it never expires. Great video BTW.

[@antasil5768]

Thanks for the credits! This is one of my favorite campaigns. And yes, the crossing into the alps is always a challenge. Hannibal would agree ;-)

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thanks for the tips!

[@kyletravis7158]

Gotta tell you man, found this game on Xbox Gamepass for PC[I've played CK on console but had no clue this existed until this year] struggled endlessly to succeed at this game in any capacity & randomly came across you posted some strats on Reddit, decided to look you up on YT afterwards. Man, without a doubt one of the best subs I've made on YT in a long time. Super helpful, clearly knowledgeable about even the smallest details of the game/history, and probably the most subtly implemented sponsors lol. The way you just quickly incorporate whatever sponsor for the video into what you're casually talking about it is great. Anyways, thanks for literally single handedly teaching me how to play this game & keep up the great work. Idk if tons of subs is the goal, but if you so, imagine you'll have that in no time all. Cheers

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@justsaychloe1060]

i just watched m3an's speedrun of the HRE a bit ago, and i was hoping you'd make a guide of your own :) thanks for the content!

[@Charles-In-Charge]

I came here direct from m3an’s new Rome world record run!

[@ToadG]

hi bittersteel, love your videos. well done on 100k subs!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you like them!

[@Rottenflieger.]

I like how despite being in a massive alliance, Romania was bullied into ceding Bessarabia to the Soviets AND then Transylvania to Hungary. ol' Carol clearly didn't have a lot of confidence in the Germans.

[@potato88872]

If you put historical on, no matter how strong is the faction, Romania will alwasy cede land

[@Rottenflieger.]

@@potato88872 oh I'm aware, I just find it pretty funny how the AI doesn't take into account the factors I mentioned.

[@C.S_Brown]

Thank you bittersteel, I was watching your old video in order to figure it out, nice you revisited one of the tougher achievements.

[@eli8922]

7:24 asmr with bittersteel

[@cc0767]

27:40 Luxemburg is like "Stand still, its vision is based on movement"

[@sanderwabelsen]

Love your vids bitt3r always so helpful!

[@znn_]

congratulations for 100k subs!!!ur my favorite hoi4 youtuber😁

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thank you so much 😀

[@CaiVanDoorn]

That's funny, I was just watching your first videos and I was thinking, wow he's come a long way. I was also hoping you would make another video because in that one you didnt turn down the in-game music volume. It Wasn't too bad but it got old lol. Glad you made a new one.

[@radmehrbeygi719]

Hi, I love the videos you make, they are really fun to watch and I enjoy them a lot.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thanks for the good vibes!

[@hendrikmons4231]

Glorious :D the trick with Poland to ease tention on the border in the civil war was a great tip!

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

1:09 I love that subtle salty tone in his voice after his sentence ended lmao!

[@starhugo9023]

Hey man love yoyr vids, keep up the good adn fun work.

[@CrimsonJ3ster]

I'm a fan of the guide content keepem coming

[@thomads3890]

Paul von Lettow Vorbeck was literally called up by Hitler to become Ambassador in London, and as the legend goes, he told Hitler to literally "kiss his arse" and eff off :-D What a Chad!

[@thedoodindoing3931]

Literal chad funny mustache man no, Kaiser yes 👍

[@PC-xc1ur]

love the editing in this video

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

Bittersteel doing Victoria. That's maximum entertainment :D.

[@elksus]

Whenever i see ur video i feel happy

[@victorchaston4954]

Love your vids

[@dannydacheedo1592]

11:42 you just sent the FBI to Mar-a-Lago

[@victorchaston4954]

You deserve 10 million subs

[@fodetraore6666]

You passed 100k do you have plans? Also you, Alex, Tareur, and ISP are my favrote hoi4 youtubers.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I do...many plans

[@fodetraore6666]

@@Bitt3rSteel Okay cool! Wish I had no step back, but stuff that should be in the base game are made into expensive dlcs. Wish paradox was not so greedy.

[@Roketsune]

Is one of them world Domination? Playing HoI4 so often surely has given you lots of preparation for the real thing.

[@Roketsune]

Taureor is funny because he has this graceful professorly kind of voice, and will occasionally casually and abruptly curse or make some sort of aggressive or perverted remark. I also like the way he says, "Sure!" more than anyone else.

[@Roketsune]

Alex has the best teeth of any KZbinr I've ever seen. His incompetence is entertaining.

[@Maxuras]

Wow, I was just returning to a HRE game just hours before this popped um in my recommendation. In my game I justified for the British Raj first and then went straight to civil war. After mopping up the Nazis there was enough time to rebuild and then take on Britain, puppeting them, so I did not have to think about Alliies guaranties and the Opinion limit for the Title Restoration Decision anymore. (Not justifying on UK directly seems to be the best change that their Navy is in the port on hour 0 of the war, allowing you a brief window to send your naval invasions forth)

[@hawksnebula1506]

Weird I was doing this as well at the same time you post video lol

[@markuseppacher7269]

I love your videos!!!!!

[@mausexx2459]

Hey Bittersteel could u make a video about the best division templates

[@karimmouawad2031]

Hey bittersteel, I have a suggestion, do a us world conquest by 1939(1936 start), to help you, 71cloak made a video on how to get rid of the great depression and get war eco by mid-late 1936,with a war declaration on Japan, and what's basically but not actually a war goal on Italy

[@TrondelagianPatriotsriseup]

If you establish vichy france (or in this case, bourbon france) and then create a collaboration government in france, you will get around 75% of the french factories instead of 20%

[@Chewyshoot]

Bitt3rsteel cutting through Czechoslovakia like what.. SAY IT! SAY IT!

[@KelgorothTheFinalShape]

Blitzkrieg?

[@Chewyshoot]

@@KelgorothTheFinalShape knife through butter

[@letsplaypetrus4802]

Yes, Antasil has great vids.

[@bradynewbold3763]

Great Salvo into the advertisement

[@Havok0159]

I've had Romania do the exact same thing. They were in a faction with me, Poland gave up its eastern half to the USSR so I now had a direct border with the USSR. The Baltics didn't join my faction so I only had Romania and Finland in my faction. (Romania joined after the war kicked off and wouldn't join the war because of dangerous borders) I blow through the USSR from my border and am almost at Crimea. I call Romania in the war after I secure its border and just days later they cede Besserabia while we were at war with the USSR and winning so hard it wasn't even funny... I was maybe a month away from capitulating the USSR because I also had max collaboration set up. And Finland white peaced even though I was almost at Moscow. Oh and of course Romania gave up N. Transylvania (even though the popup said they refused) while they were in a faction with me and Hungary wasn't. All three events where Romania loses a chunk of territory is based on German support of those demands. Why the hell do they still accept them when Germany is in a faction with them? The only one I could influence was the Bulgarian one but all three should be based on German decisions. Besserabia on Molotov-Ribentrop, N.Transylvania on German support and Bulgaria is fine as is.

[@qr8440]

It do be like that.

[@microwave_corporation]

I have to say, as someone who speaks German, the fact that you pronounce German names correctly makes my day!

[@taylan3862]

what are the chances? as a new player I followed your normal germany guide and "perfected" it and was looking at your old HRE guide and wondering if it is still viable and now I dont have to wonder.

[@some_gh0st]

I didn’t even know this was an option.. very cool

[@ThomasArkwright]

i literally fell asleep last night while watching the last video you did on the HRE in hoi 4, the timing here is amazing XD (thats a compliment btw, your voice is quite soothing)

[@kmonk99]

taking the RNG out of the Hindenburg event is a nice touch.

[@felixbeth767]

Hi Bitt3rSteel it would be nice to see a world conquest with a nation of your choosing. I know it would be a long game and tough to edit but it would be cool to watch :)

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

Luxembourg world conquest

[@felixbeth767]

@@aidenbooksmith2351 would be really cool

[@kingkfc1352]

He did One with Great Britain

[@SasafrasYT]

i would recommend total mob and service by requirement, much better and all you have to do is forsake the industry designer to afford the extra 150 pp.

[@hawksnebula1506]

20:10 nice touch

[@eli8922]

I must say Paul von letto is better than the desert fox he is literally called the lion of Africa dude destroyed the Raj troops with bees its amazing and his treatment of tribals was amazing they were his main force he is a amazing general Edit I know it was a mistake with the bees but it sounds cooler

[@CraigVanderGalien]

Bitt3rsteel ruthlessly destroying his own country every time, not a moment of remorse. Just hits different

[@wwg8320]

Hey Bittersteel! Ive watched a lot of your videos and I notice that you like to use tanks quite often, ive always mainly used infantry with artillery support instead but your motorized and tank divisions look like they absolutely obliterate everything, what kind of template/tank designs do you use?

[@LetsAMP]

Eyyy, 103k subs. Anything planed for a special?

[@justlolztah9798]

13:08 Indeed... Cool guy try to search him too

[@Roketsune]

20:34 "I'm gonna do what I do best- kill everyone." -Bitt3rsteel, 13 August 2022

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmm yes lore moment of hre in no step back

[@Roketsune]

You are the master of HoI4 guides on KZbin! I'm curious, what inspired your choice of KZbin/HoI4 moniker?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

It's been my gamer tag for ages! Also love the blackfyre rebellion

[@Comrade_Blanc]

Early squat less gooo

[@davidpolasek2023]

Ou baby!!! Theese are stats!! Totally killed me xD

[@probower4726]

Bitt3rSteel 100k! Bitt3rSteel can into play button 🥳

[@KonigHoff]

They should make it like the Byzantine Empire where you can core different parts of the empire (maybe further expansion, HRE had a claim to southern Italy)

[@kianvandenberg6364]

Hi, I really love your channel and you’re my favorite youtuber. I had 2 video suggestions, an updated guide for Austria Hungary and for Napoleonic France

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Fortunately, one of those is planned this month. I just hope BBA doesn't instantly invalidate it

[@kianvandenberg6364]

@@Bitt3rSteel Oh nice, what does BBA mean btw?

[@DirectorReiuji]

@@kianvandenberg6364 It means "By Blood Alone", the next DLC.

[@kianvandenberg6364]

@@DirectorReiuji Thanks

[@DevinPurcell]

Can you do an updated Queen Elizabeth play through?

[@shad0wrune]

@ 14:13 start way earlier with improving relations with the UK! My run was killed due to that and the alliance was denied, so start improving relations before 1938!!!

[@jakkuhl6223]

Watching the historical AI derp out when the player goes VERY alternate history is always funny.

[@kanishkmogha]

Could you make a video on nsb division templates?

[@iielysiumx5811]

To this day this is one of the most weirdly absurd things ever in a paradox game

[@viclorenzo5016]

Very cool 👍

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@hungolomghnonoloughongousg5548]

When I do the German civil-war I like to cheese the AI by deleting all unit templates except for a single AA unit template. The ai will only use this template in the civil war so after deleting the army all new units instantly break making the ai break on the front lines.

[@korahagi]

Can you show us your late game inf/tank templates and tank desings?

[@stevebootgaming1144]

This felt like a speedrun

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

nice

[@IsaacAndre19]

If you’re interested in Lettow-Vorbeck there’s an excellent book about his life called African Kaiser

[@EnderGraff1]

11:08 Cheers!

[@nanbreadunited8098]

What division templates did you use? I'm not very good at making them

[@CARL_093]

its really hard bro to make this in reality good job

[@longiusaescius2537]

Huh

[@sokowirowka2965]

Could you make updated achivment guide for portugal "Macau my Day"

[@scottholcombjr.4099]

love your vids and it fun to see tham i like to see you make the 3ed Riech to the 2ed Riech and end it with the 1st Riech Nazi Germamy and the German Empire fall becuse of war the HRE fall thanks to the France Empire

[@johannchristian2551]

9:58 🤣🤣🤣 i exploded

[@martin9202]

Hey Guys! I was just wondering... What's better? keeping a country annexed with 90+% complience or creating a collaboration government?

[@oihanix]

Can u do a falangist tutorial (Spanish civil war)

[@monikawasherelol]

What division templates did you use for this?

[@williamhanes160]

i wish i was this good :)

[@rockymoose1235]

Lets go

[@combrade-t]

15:03 what does actually happen if they all die, I've never seen it selected? I mean beyond being locked out of the path for HRE, I presume you get a new leader? Probably one of the least common leaders if so. And also, Congrats ok 100k Bittersteel. Well deserved, love your content.

[@gocool_2.0]

We'll get August von Mackenson back. He'll rule till 1945. After that I have no Idea. I got this scenario once I tried to form hre but clicked the wrong button.

[@viclorenzo5016]

If they all die, you get August Von Mackensen as your country leader again.

[@sol_in.victus]

@@viclorenzo5016 but doesnt he die at some point tho

[@viclorenzo5016]

@@sol_in.victus I don't know, in my failed HRE run he's immortal.

[@sol_in.victus]

@@viclorenzo5016 based

[@salcinttarb3010]

I paused during paul and went into a wikipedia spiral. thx

[@JoseLopez-hs3yw]

Tips with the new actualization: You need, for sure, a 50 of pp for the envoy, if u have little bit less, it won't trigger. Also, if u have Negative PP, United Kingdom will say no to the restoration of the titles. I have done this run like 25-26 times in a row. So, I know... hahaha.

[@miserycrown.]

"I am not gonna tell you what to research" Proceeds to tell me exactly what to research

[@Thomasjes77]

Norway played a really big role too

[@crusader2112]

Hey, can you play the mod Großdeutscher Bund and get Kaiser Willy II in charge? It’s a really great mod, May test it out first before recording it, or not. It’s up to you and no rush. Peace ✌🏻 and keep up the great work. P.S. You can form the Monarchist (Semi-Constitutionalist) EU and it’s very OP.

[@nickseraphin3988]

11:41 accurate after Mar-A-Lago got raided 😥

[@liammozza2330]

Everyone would simp for Victoria

[@connorthegreat6958]

Could you do the one where you dont take casualties as germany in 1939

[@Drazja]

@Bitt3rSteel how in the heck do I get past the lack of fuel I always run out with germany

[@jaxgaming6456]

I love how Hungary joined Japan's faction

[@sarahd4784]

What infantry template do you use? Does some one else know it?

[@ChristopherRx]

I did this and am stuck with August Von Mackenson like what lol

[@Beef_Master_Flex]

i approve

[@juicebox6581]

Curious. Ur 1938 medium tank is nearly done before year 37. Before even soviet treaty. While mine still takes 400 days. What am I missing?