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!

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@znn_]

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

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thank you so much 😀

[@cc0767]

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

[@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 👍

[@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.

[@sanderwabelsen]

Love your vids bitt3r always so helpful!

[@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!

[@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.

[@hendrikmons4231]

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

[@CrimsonJ3ster]

I'm a fan of the guide content keepem coming

[@elksus]

Whenever i see ur video i feel happy

[@starhugo9023]

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

[@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.

[@PC-xc1ur]

love the editing in this video

[@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%

[@victorchaston4954]

Love your vids

[@RetiredRhetoricalWarhorse]

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

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

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

[@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

[@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)

[@dannydacheedo1592]

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

[@mausexx2459]

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

[@some_gh0st]

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

[@victorchaston4954]

You deserve 10 million subs

[@Chewyshoot]

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

[@KelgorothTheFinalShape]

Blitzkrieg?

[@Chewyshoot]

@@KelgorothTheFinalShape knife through butter

[@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.

[@microwave_corporation]

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

[@markuseppacher7269]

I love your videos!!!!!

[@kmonk99]

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

[@bradynewbold3763]

Great Salvo into the advertisement

[@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

[@letsplaypetrus4802]

Yes, Antasil has great vids.

[@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]

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

[@CraigVanderGalien]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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)

[@Roketsune]

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

[@justlolztah9798]

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

[@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

[@IsaacAndre19]

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

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmm yes lore moment of hre in no step back

[@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?

[@stevebootgaming1144]

This felt like a speedrun

[@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)

[@salcinttarb3010]

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

[@iielysiumx5811]

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

[@DevinPurcell]

Can you do an updated Queen Elizabeth play through?

[@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

[@hawksnebula1506]

20:10 nice touch

[@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!!!

[@bagelman2634]

When I try this strat now, everything works up to getting victoria, but afterwards there’s not enough world tension to get everyone in my faction and give out guarantees

[@bagelman2634]

I tried to keep the run going and it went in a very strange direction. Japan declared war on Yugoslavia which let me get Yugoslavia into my faction. Italy never did anything until it somehow got in a war with the allies and didn’t annex Albania until it had almost lost Rome.

[@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

[@probower4726]

Bitt3rSteel 100k! Bitt3rSteel can into play button 🥳

[@LetsAMP]

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

[@nickseraphin3988]

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

[@sokowirowka2965]

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

[@jaxgaming6456]

I love how Hungary joined Japan's faction

[@Comrade_Blanc]

Early squat less gooo

[@martin9202]

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

[@CARL_093]

its really hard bro to make this in reality good job

[@longiusaescius2537]

Huh

[@liammozza2330]

Everyone would simp for Victoria

[@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

[@connorthegreat6958]

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

[@jakkuhl6223]

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

[@Thomasjes77]

Norway played a really big role too

[@davidpolasek2023]

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

[@korahagi]

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

[@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.

[@viclorenzo5016]

Very cool 👍

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@YurikoKinai]

... felt like replaying this myself and Alliance with the Shade did not trigger for me... back to the start.

[@ChristopherRx]

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

[@miserycrown.]

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

[@ggstartup]

Could you do a how-to on handling the navy, ideal tech variants, and template planning?

[@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?

[@oihanix]

Can u do a falangist tutorial (Spanish civil war)

[@williamhanes160]

i wish i was this good :)

[@JIopemUncym]

9:50 "Also our land... Po_land" 💀💀💀

[@Pseudoscorpion14]

It almost certainly doesn't matter in the long run, but you could start the initial war with Poland 5 days sooner if you justify at 50PP and just wait to get 10 more PP before taking the next focus. You're burning the same amount of focus time either way but the time between 50PP and 60PP is basically wasted.

[@achievers2u]

Can you recreate Mongolian empire, it seems like near impossible!

[@gyreon440]

bittersteel you should totally do the slavic empire as poland. its not an achievement, but if you decline all of the crown candidates 2 - 3 times then you get a 5th candidate called The Last Romanov, and i wont spoil anything else ;)

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I've actually done that one, a few weeks ago

[@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.

[@EnderGraff1]

11:08 Cheers!

[@brennengelinas2358]

Could you do this run again with the new update? I can’t get Italy to justify against me and world tension doesn’t get high enough to justify against them til after 1940 and then they go into civil war once you invade

[@crazywarriorscatfan9061]

nice