Last Stand of Freedom, America against the world!

[@cuberrt]

"People of Miami, Florida, I shall return" - Gen. Mcarthur, 1942

[@iwantcrawfish6110]

General, I got a settlement that needs your help. here I'll mark it on your map....... bring the ladies

[@badorisama9482]

@@iwantcrawfish6110 fallout 4 refrence right ?

[@felixcatus3367]

Funny how BitterSteel said on stream that he will never play this mod ever again and well here we are again

[@SYMBI05IS]

He's a Masochist, what did you expect? The temptation of suffering through the pain is euphoric for him

[@potato88872]

It's from the twitch stream, not a new video

[@moritzk3004]

@@potato88872 it isnt, in the stream he didnt stopped after loosing south america, and iirc he didnt loose a carrier

[@蔡林翰-v2m]

只是編輯後，再次撥放

[@smallragdoll9]

@@蔡林翰-v2m陳生又係你呀

[@qbNone]

Good sir, the number of times you say, "please don't yell at me", "I know it's suboptimal, but i don't care", "it's a game, please let me have fun", "I know it's not the best way", "I know it's not the best doctrine by the numbers, but i like it", etc... has grown to an almost comical frequency. If it were a drinking game, we'd be dead of alcohol poisoning before the end of the video. I know I can't speak for everyone, but i like the way you play, and the content you make. Constantly hearing how pissed viewers are at you for trivial things is really starting to hurt my own enjoyment and seems to be hurting your enjoyment as well. Haters gonna hate good sir; you don't need to devote time to asking them not to hate. I truly love your work!

[@erikhanseisenheber]

To be very honest, do these haters even exist? I rarely see them

[@chasem1214]

Its actually incredibly frustrating that he hasnt learned the lesson all the other streamers and youtubers have: to just ignore and not give attention to those people.

[@qbNone]

​@@erikhanseisenheberI occasionally see random upset in the comments, but not overwhelming, but I don't have my career online so I'm probably not as sensitive. Keep them trolls skinny! Let them eat elsewhere! ;-)

[@mordreek]

there are so few of them on the stream that i rarely see them, I think that's mainly just bittersteel being very hard on himself. Usually if someone is being a goober, he'll say them by name.

[@JanvanRooijen-sk8hp]

well said

[@theexplosive1062]

For anybody who wants to know, the music he uses is mostly found on the album "Dust it off" by Golden Age Radio, it's on spotify

[@ToasteddPancakes]

thank you so much bro

[@theexplosive1062]

@@ToasteddPancakes No problem!

[@Noobpro9982]

I did not know that, thank you!

[@Arpads_Legacy]

You're a life saver!

[@katieheys3007]

I've been curious about that for a while. Expected to see it in the descriptions but nada.

[@Syrath101]

IMO, the mod would be much more interesting if, > It had custom events and custom focus trees > Custom models (for US militia) > An actual modicum of flavour That's the biggest issue - outside of being a perpetual cycle of naval invasions, the mod has no flavour at all.

[@dulguunjargal1199]

Cool Scenario right?

[@DickerMax18]

I think the purpose of the mod is to be a simple quick "scenario" start akin to the vanilla 1936 start date and 1939 start date for people who wants a quick action (reason why we have a 1939 start date) and to play a high castle scenario I don't think the mod wants to be seen as an "actual" mod with new focuses, decisions and models

[@charliebasar9068]

There's a submod for it called Defying the Axis (or something to that effect) that adds a pretty significant focus tree to the US and at least some events.

[@martinsoelsepp5569]

And maybe an event/focus or by default, have South America (except Argentina and Chile) be part of the Allies. To and some flavour, make Argentina and Chile be part of Axis.

[@mattwalker5689]

There needs to be events to restore allied governments like the British and the French. Would make the Europe push less of a slog.

[@amhuman5138]

Bro just won Wolfenstein

[@diegolopesme]

well at wolfenstein the invasion was on very late 1948 and also japan was invaded by germany

[@iMajoraGaming]

​@@diegolopesme iirc from the newspapers on the wall, it was like, germany was garrisoning manchukuo alongside the kwantung army, and also tsingtao (which it essentially said "give me this hirohito, or i will glass your nation") had caused friction. after the italian betrayal when germany overnight invaded with no warning, japan was getting disconcerted after the tsingtao cession, and without warning germany, in the early 50s, maybe late 49, landed south of kyoto after order 66ing the kwantung army. iirc they made HEAVY use of cyberhounds and essentially, by the end, had erased the japanese as even a population and had begun settling the habitable parts of japan. so germany had zero friends, it indiscriminately demanded absolutely obiesance.

[@iMajoraGaming]

​@@diegolopesme iirc by 1960 germany had rebuilt and renamed tokyo and was dealing with, ironically, ainu resistance. go figure the japanese equivalent of ewoks would be the only true foe.

[@serpens_6969]

this shit made me feel so patriotic lol

[@helix5441]

@@iMajoraGamingits also implied Germany never pacified Russia, so Russia, the Ainu, and America go hard

[@bros1183]

US Army: Struggling, no equipment, getting thrown at enemy tanks like the Chinese did the Japs US Air Force: Also outnumbered, getting slaughtered US Navy: Outnumbered, outgunned, but never outmaneuvered *Boss music begins*

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

USN be like: *Ugh, call an ambulance! Call an ambulance! But not for me!*

[@SYMBI05IS]

Bittersteel literally took the quote "No Pain, No Gain" too literally. Man's a total Masochist at this point.

[@mrjohnboiiiiiiiiiiiii]

My marine was lost in the disastor of Dumfries. Pitbull is now dead in a random scottish city.

[@Rownoscc]

o7

[@quintomalley1196]

o7, RIP

[@ShalaJC]

Whatever this sentence means, I approve

[@ShalaJC]

Yeahhhhhhh o7! I too, love James Bond (until the ones after Golden Eye)

[@shrgien8602]

What's a disastor? Never heard of that before

[@lolloblue9646]

This mod is way too artificially difficult. It wants to be an endsieg without the logic of endsieg. On top of that they didn't even update production. America is building its 1936 shit

[@glauberglousger956]

It's definitely clear that it was quickly made, without considering much, just deleting some of the navy and giving enemies ships, and landing points It's definitely artificially difficult

[@anthonyh3898]

I was going to say its too easy. I think Mexico should be on the side of the axis to reclaim their old territories. :)

[@lolloblue9646]

@@anthonyh3898 yeah no. It's absurd enough that Free France is nowhere to be seen and the Commonwealth has entirely collapsed.

[@War_is_cool]

@@anthonyh3898that’s retarded

[@NoobWoofDog]

@@lolloblue9646 he just used toolbox i bet

[@ShalaJC]

"im not locked in here with them.. They are locked in here with ME!" Now THATS the American Spirit I Wanna See!

[@raidermaxx2324]

Sadly, in real life America just let the fascists anti-american authoritarians hijack our country, and allowed them to murder the 'arsenal of dmocracy" that America once was, as the shining beacon of light on the hill, and has brought the darkness and turned us into selfish, xenophobic trash people who easily throw our allies to the wolves, deport millions of people because of their skin color, and simp for dictatorships like Russia, China, and North Korea, because our God Emperor is a make-up wearing weirdo oligarch who worships the strongmen of those countries.

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

That England invasion force mjst have gone deaf from the constant Stuka sirens

[@aryamannpaliwal306]

Map looks like "Man in the High Castle: Freedom Edition"

[@Noobpro9982]

Your videos are very entertaining I have been watching them for around 2 years as I bought hoi4 on December 22 2022, I just wanted to thank you for your guides and your videos, your videos take me out of life's stresses and let me relax, again I just want to say thank you keep up the work

[@davebaker4629]

Not related to this video (which was also great btw) but just wanted to say thanks as last night I finally managed to do the Bearer of Artillery achievement and it was due to learning so much from watching you play and especially watching you save disasters haha! Almost had one in my final push when it looked to be going well and then the Axis somehow counter attacked late, was forced to set up the classic Bittersteel stabilising fallback line along a river and some mountains before being able to finally win it and get the achievement - probably would have just given up or restarted the attempt prior to watching your videos over the years! Top man :)

[@josephcola9662]

37:38 If my various runs as Poland for all its achievements have taught me anything, its that if you are entering a scenario as the disadvantaged party in an air war, AA becomes a mandatory investment (at least in Singleplayer. I'm not weighing in on MP). It might not have the same soft attack as arty, but it does 3 things: 1. add piercing for a cheaper and less resource intensive investment than building AT, which after AA-2 is almost always enough for armor fielded by the AI. Even just support AA filled with AA-2 can give some much needed piercing to your divisons for a low investment, while simultaneously giving you some air attack. 2. Reduce the stat debuffs from enemy Air Superiority. If you know you're going to be under red air, mitigation of the speed and attack/defense penalties that incurs can go a really long way. 3. Shoots down CAS. It might not be many CAS each battle, but when the AI throws literally 10000 CAS at you, and you shoot down 5-10 per battle per day, that starts to seriously add up over time. Any CAS shot down is no longer bombing you, requires replacement, and costs the enemy manpower. And even if you still argue that the CAS shot down by AA is peanuts, the alternative is those planes not being downed at all and just continuing to bomb you. I fully get where you're coming from, where the vast majority of the challenge is an exercise in tedium (and as someone who's routinely had to play games past 1947 for some of the more annoying achievements, I really do understand how frustrating it is to have effectively won, but be stuck slogging through a campaign because you haven't ACTUALLY won yet), so let me instead phrase it as thus: as soon as you could have afforded the IC to build AA for your divisions, you should have done it, as it would have made your campaign easier and thus reduced tedium. I hope this advice helps for future scenarios such as this.

[@Hellhound23691]

Italy: Germany! Something is disrupting communications on the front. Sounds like singing. Germany: What? What do you mean? Italy: Here. Listen. *Germany puts phone up to ear.* America: I’M STILL STANDING BETTER THAN I EVER DID!

[@beendeen4696]

LOOKIN LIKE A TRUE SURVIVOR

[@TheHalofan3]

10:23 Clearly you just need to train some gators to act as mules. Perfect way to deal with difficult supply. Obviously there's no other easy way.

[@Ajet_]

If I had a dollar everytime he said "Bhaston" I'd have atleast 1 dollar

[@SpartanO86]

The Eagle may have broken a leg but that’s why god blessed it with wings

[@Cornan1980]

I really love your videos and your content in general, but man, you gotta stop worrying about haters in the comments. It brings the entire vibe of the videos down when you spend so much time saying "I know it's not optimal, I know this isn't the best way..." etc. Just play how you play. You get out of almost every disaster save ever, you succeed against the most insane mods, just do what you do and enjoy it and let us enjoy you doing it! Fuck the haters. Don't waste time addressing them. Anyone who tries to play a game like HoI4 in the "most optimal" way never leaves their basement anyhow. Just play the game, make the content, and let us enjoy your enjoyment of it.

[@qbNone]

Couldn't have said it better myself!

[@cc0767]

I have not even seen any of the haters really. Its worrying about nothing.

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Day 1 of asking Bittersteel to play one of the most insane and cursed Hoi4 mods (The Fire Rises)

[@ایرانتوپ]

signed.

[@thediamondkittygamingmore6614]

SIGNED. Do the socialist paths... Catgirl brigade!!!

[@TreverFriesen]

Facts

[@glauberglousger956]

Not that difficult, just tedious The hardest thing is definitely defending against the beginning landings

[@thehoi4standard8915]

Bittersteel definetly got a new edditor

[@fizzletrie1592]

noticed that too, it's not too much, but it'll take a bit to get used to it.

[@Bimmer_bum]

Hi bittersteel i really enjoy wachting your videos i hope you keep making videos and grow❤❤❤

[@WarThunderBalkan]

bitter be spoiling us with the best possible weekend

[@axaloltlygaming286]

Agreed

[@kaxmo69]

italians that landed in florida definitely got turned into gator bait

[@N7-WAR-HOUND]

Thanks!

[@propernoun1583]

I’m surprised they set this mod in 1942 and not in 1945 or later.

[@kaxmo69]

i think its so you have a major naval disadvantage at the start

[@itsjustfun0142]

i will never be this early again to a BitterSteel vid... Mark my words.

[@vietanhnguyen4218]

yes brother

[@itsjustfun0142]

@@vietanhnguyen4218 thanks i guess lol

[@AlexanderTavarez-Texas]

38:03 “doesn’t matter how much you prepare” Sends non-fully trained divisions to invade the enemy.

[@star2playsstarcraft219]

19:55 you are right, this does seem like an exercise in tedium, and 2nd time you are right, not necessarily i want to see you suffer but it showed me a scenario i might want to do, maybe even coop it with like 3 friends lol so TY bitt3r for showing me this

[@ComfortsSpecter]

“Fine then.” “I’ll Freedom The Man Myself.”

[@Voxelgd]

Honestly, last stand for freedom is a sick ass name.

[@joko2882]

I've been playing the mod after seeing your struggle on stream. Its imo ideal for a scenario to build up without alot of pressure to defend the borders because pushing them out of boston and california seems really easy and holding novia scotia isn't that difficult. Florida was so annoying that i deleted the troops there via console. After that it was actually fun. Island hopping in the carribean and dunking on navies is my favourite way to play hoi

[@speedy01247]

this could be an epic alt history mod, if they did anything to it other then setting up a scenario. Like if the US had a a new custom tree for promoting revolutions/revolts in the old allies and had some special focuses on defending themselves and calling upon the America's to fight back against fascism. (also some explanations about where the American fleet went, like maybe Germany heard about what Japan was planning told them to hold off and planned a much more massive attack from multiple fronts on both oceans at once) they should also add focuses for the American nations, perhaps a bit generic with the exception of Brazil and Mexico due to them being the largest outside of the US on the continent/continents.

[@NCR-National-Reclamation-Gov]

As a fellow carrier naval enjoyer, try the Kaiserriech naval rework mod, makes the ai design realistic ships and task forces that depending on the settings can make naval fun

[@rogofos]

"all that's left is America" Siberian Army:

[@Spyduhmahn]

I was like "why does this look like a fun game/simulation" and its the same creator of a game Im painfully addicted to, Surviving Mars

[@Dave-zq8wx]

“It’s 1942 and we don’t know what a tank is” that’s a good one 😂

[@oowens7476]

Awesome video. Super cool !!!

[@Magnic_]

I actually enjoy you playing and seeing you turn around a hopeless situation.

[@ML8443]

All these years later, and the ghosts of Italian Soldiers still haunt Miami…

[@timber_wulf5775]

I remember when I saw the mod creator post on reddit about the mod. My biggest problem was how he essentially vaporized the navy but gave the German, Italian, and Japanese navy needless buffs. Like yeah sure you can still include a pearl harbor deficit but the entireeeee rest of the San Diego and Norfolk fleets would still exist. I just told him he was fucking stupid to obliterate the navy while buffing the rest of the axis navies for zero gain. (Like serious the NCs or Dakotas weren’t even at least in the production que)

[@ThisisAhe]

Its crazy how fast the game runs in 1947

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

If u want a challenge, you could play as the pacific fleet in maa. You have to defeat all the west coast as just hawaii and alaska.

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

This will be chaotic

[@tuukka7249]

Happy fathers day Bitt3erSteel and thanks for an amazing video!

[@JakobWasTaken__]

You won my heart by declaring, no matter the meta, your love for Aircraft carriers. No matter the game, or era, even Sci-fi, carriers will always be my baby

[@jaskapenttila7644]

Carriers are goated tbh. If only they had the ability to ferry units to do naval based naval invasions

[@erikhanseisenheber]

They probably should. Right next to the naval invasion option there's an option to do it from a "floating harbor", which sounds like what you're describing. The big question is, how do you even get floating harbors

[@Dazy312]

​​@@erikhanseisenheber it's like a temp port but it has to be produced

[@jaskapenttila7644]

@@erikhanseisenheber You research naval invasion tech 2 and the game gives the production for the harbours. Its only really useful if youre planning to do any invasions that have more size than Operation Overlord or 2x24 divisions (any more units will take ridiculous amounts of time to prepare) because of the supply.

[@ThatGumGuy]

42:42 bro just formed Oceania, ig big brother is watching

[@atlassian76]

"..and they also have the Russian ships." Wow... what a great acquisition by the Germans.

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Hey, at least they HAVE ships (Unlike the Chinese)

[@sui1162]

​@@jaredjosephsongheng372 I dont think thousands of wooden canoes count.

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

@@sui1162 Better than the fishing boats the Chinese used

[@sui1162]

@jaredjosephsongheng372 I was talking about the Chinese. Im pretty sure the Russians have been converting their entire fleet (or at least whatever sorta worked) into submarines. Unfortunately for them, they dont understand how a submarine works.

[@caboosehelpsu2840]

You could also name capital ships after members, when you're doing a navy heavy game

[@microraptor1155]

I got really lucky with this mod, the germans basically vacated the ports, but the italians and nova scotia were problems for me

[@蔡林翰-v2m]

太離譜了，這 AI 就像是缺了幾組的邏輯，海軍?空軍? 進攻計畫? 裝甲部隊? 明明只剩下一個國家一個戰線，但AI 就是沒有把軍隊部屬到前線，試著做任何事情 10:53 所以為甚麼AI要離開?也許他沒有贏下戰鬥，但撤離部隊是沒有理由的

[@theunitedstatesofamerica3556]

Me not knowing how to play HOI4 in the slightest: “yeah”

[@NotBedwarsDad]

The fact that u say baston but u say Los Angeles in a pretty good spanish accent is crazy to me

[@Dr0346]

Hello mr Bitt3rsteel, there is a new Version of the Mod with a unique Focus tree for the us

[@briand5170]

I did indeed watch this to gauge my interest in playing this mod. My interest has been sufficiently snubbed, thank you bitter

[@Isometrix116]

I like that the mod seems to not even pretend this is mildly realistic and just says "Here is a fun scenario to play!" We don't need a "Somehow, Palpatine returned" fanfic at the start to fight an interesting scenario.

[@JohnRhaizel]

Let's spread freedom and democracy for AMERICA AND THE WORLD!!🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥

[@ImbuedHunter]

Sadly the democracy part of that will expire soon...

[@Aaron067]

Well the recent developments in America kind of make me doubt in that...

[@righteous.environmentalist]

@@ImbuedHunterOverdramatic

[@righteous.environmentalist]

@@Aaron067That is literally part of democracy. Get over it

[@jordothe1st835]

American citizens are not free, and America is more like a republic. If you can't see anything past your false opinions, then you really are an American

[@mystudios1052]

Enjoyable gameplay! Keep it up

[@AtomicSalamander]

Germany took "Don't Poke the Bees Nest" very literally

[@JCDenton2012Modder]

Resistance II Fall of Man was always my favorite Resistance game.

[@SnakeonLSD]

Hitler when he successfully defeats the west, achieves lebensraum, and has the last Allied power in the world on the ropes, only for that power to singlehandedly bring down his entire Axis and completely undo his entire life's work:

[@ShalaJC]

0:29 Yes. We are Americans. And we get shit done.

[@NotInterXX]

I’m not even sure how to feel about that pronunciation of Boston. is that how we sound?

[@QuisUtDeus828]

Im a carrier enjoyer as well. Thats whats awesome about playing against AI you can play sub optimally and still be fine.

[@Cosmoteering908]

The amount of dopamine in my bloodstream is reaching critical mass

[@Atomictrooper]

@5:23 Moncton mentioned! Moncton born and raised!

[@sui1162]

Certified Monc moment

[@bruha8307]

8:30 ermm small correct its pronounced "Loss-An-gel-Is" not "Loss-Ankle-is"

[@bruha8307]

"baston is secured"

[@DKforever24]

This mod really missed out on having a Star Trek Enterprise easter egg. Specifically referencing the 2 part episodes where The Enterprise get sent back in time to WW2 to stop time travelling aliens from helping the Germans from conquering the US.

[@merafirewing6591]

That would be an awesome Easter egg.

[@MohammadIqbal-n1g]

It was gonna be man in the high castle shenanigan until BitterSteel come 🗿

[@yugoslavball1945]

Oh how the tables have turned.

[@jksilta9335]

0:51 This is the only correct way to pronounce "Baaaashton".

[@doid3r4s]

Hey, Bittersteel, don't you know that carriers are not optimal!? What a goober

[@Blader445]

I’ve watched two other expert HOI4 KZbinrs try this same mod and either get somewhere and stop, or barely claw on. That was ISP and Aldarhall.

[@krokodile6611]

From this video i've learned that carriers are suboptimal

[@Brotannia]

today i found out how to naval invade while playing road to 56

[@smcilia]

This is Naval Invasions The Mod 😅 and I'm here for the rage

[@harryspapadopoulos21]

The Man in The high castle ah scenario.

[@primepersephony]

bittersteel being bitter. while ISP is having a great time.

[@Coltslax]

So in this mod, the Axis killed off the Commonwealth, France and the USSR, stole their navies, sunk the US fleet and at no point did the US spool up production prior to being invaded?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Caught napping

[@semibigbraingamer]

Bittersteel getting consumed by the slop within 3 seconds of the video starting? Is he going to become isp

[@lontongstroong]

0:55 De Sanctis vs fellow Italians loooooolllll

[@KK-my6hw]

Bittersteel made it so that Goering was the most competent part of the German military.

[@Leviathangaming217]

I'm playing this rn not because Im insane because I enjoy a challenge. Ehh maybe a little cause I'm insane @19:34

[@Mowraq]

Can we pit one "It's not meta"-Guy versus a artillery/tank only enjoyer? I'd get popcorn for that discussion.

[@therealgaben5527]

2:38 what’s the point in doing war bonds when you are already at 10%, since you can’t go below 10% consumer goods?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Makes me feel good about myself

[@therealgaben5527]

@ that’s fair ngl

[@saftmelone3267]

I don’t want to know how many ships are on the bottom of the sea after this

[@Barbarossa-k8s]

I'm just putting a question out there: Why are you only able to put like 5 dockyards on ships? Why isn't it like infantry equipment where you can put a lot on it.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Gameplay balancing. Slows down the proscutionrate of capital ships. Screens can have 10. Again, to balance things a bit

[@Barbarossa-k8s]

@Bitt3rSteel thanks!

[@NeroPiroman]

i remember you on stream saying i will never play this again

[@johnloman4164]

19:42 battle of Washington DC, do you think the president was evacuated? Where would FDR have gone to?

[@MDMssHypNoTiZe]

Next video sneak peek to Belgium focus tree :).

[@Kuklzs]

he's able to do that and i can't even beat germany as the usa in historical

[@danishkfd]

25:28 you know it would helpyouby adding that port to railways for more supply than just 8

[@JohnofPA]

Wait how do you cycle units when doing a naval invasion

[@saithedemon4916]

Freedom rahhhhh🦅🦅🦅🦅

[@axaloltlygaming286]

Agreed

[@brodude3868]

Not sure who told you carrier groups are bad, they’re one of the best ships to have especially loaded with mostly NAVs

[@Brahm-r2b]

I wonder what a civil war mod would be like