Lithuania is surrounded and desperate...No Step Back

[@NIkonEX-]

imagine being a lithuanian soldier, your capital has fallen and your country is collapsing. All of a sudden the high command is competent, offensives are being made and slowly bit by bit you see your country gain the upper hand.

[@PriestOfFilm]

Lithuanian Gregory Zhukov all of a sudden.

[@Fofenho]

@@PriestOfFilm "Gregory Zhukov" 💀💀💀💀

[@MilkmanSuper]

@@Fofenho LMA

[@balijaa]

Patriotic war summary:

[@Dedelblute3]

Germany = Galactic Empire in that situation.

[@Packy21]

It's fun to look at the start of these saves and see all the mistakes I used to make back in the day like 50 different templates, bad frontlines and bad templates. "Just draw an arrow and go!"

[@rickastley538]

Hehe I still do that

[@aspielm759]

Yeah, same. Although I also like trying out new things thus creating new sillier mistakes in the process. If you have this amount of hours in single player you’re just searching for a challenge. To be fair, disaster fails might be that challenge.

[@sephikong8323]

Having several different templates in itself isn't bad, but it requires much more commitment and isn't something I'd recommend if you're not veteran enough and even if you are, unless you want to experiment (like specialized defensive infantry and others that's used to push and close pockets, Anti tank tank divisions, others meant to break the defensive lines whilst others are used to blitz past the punched holes extremely fast to encircle etc) it's not worth it. But it's fun sometimes to do it even if it's incredibly tedious

[@WlatPziupp]

I don't play anymore but micro just always felt wrong. I'm leading a whole country and deciding the movement of individual divisions hour by hour? Doesn't seem right at all. I much preferred short term plans and spearheads. Only problem is the front lines haven't worked since release and some of the consecutive plans don't happen even though they easily could just because there's one insignificant province included in the advance and the AI refuses to do anything until it's taken

[@jessicalindo7977]

I just stopped to think about all of these disaster saves. Imagine all of the alternate realities in which these scenarios actually happened. Imagine teachers in classrooms explaining how Poland-Lithuania-Romania-Slovakia was losing the war, just to then change leadership and drive all the way to Stuttgart, and then to Rome

[@Jack-he8jv]

there actually are few cases like this in history. most famouse being france napoleon, took the country from a "free real estate" to the rulers of the continent.

[@notofficialpickles507]

@@Jack-he8jv i really don't know how people can hate napoleon, he was doing what was needed to save the country from bad leadership.

[@Bruh-br7vj]

@@notofficialpickles507 he reinstated slavery…

[@notofficialpickles507]

@@Bruh-br7vj Napoleon wanted to extend the French colonial empire to control the Caribbean. To colonize the huge land of Louisiana in North America, he needed workers so he restarted the slave trade. It was a colonial strategy, explained Dominique Taffin from the Foundation for the Remembrance of Slavery.

[@notofficialpickles507]

@James T. I definitely did not embarrassed myself you should get your definition right

[@officialfish8119]

Thank you Mr Steel for saving my game it means so much that you took the time to do so and even more that you had loads of fun as well!

[@mickpalade8331]

"We just liberated our dear friends in Romania" melted my little Romanian heart. Really love the disaster saves and generally your gameplays, keep up the good work, big up

[@mickpalade8331]

@SuperduperobergruppenstuppentruppensturmStuka lmao the extreme nationalist plebian from the neighboring country. this is my only reply to you my dude: 1918/19, 1944/45. All these years saw romanians marching into hungary to reclaim land. not that i care about this, it makes me laugh how youre gonna get all butthurt by remembering this Remember the Romanian shoe flying above the hungarian flag at the parliament building in budapest? :))))))))))))

[@Eogos]

Turning on autosaving would probably be a good idea for your non Ironman games. You can set it to save pretty often.

[@154Kilroy]

This was impressive and all, but I'm honestly more impressed that the Romanian AI not only survived, but survived defending in the plains.

[@statelyelms]

"Just need to last long enough for the allies to capitulate germany" Gdzie ja to wcześniej słyszałem...?

[@foxyoner3674]

I love these disaster saves it's super entertaining

[@CoeGr]

Bitt3r: Romania's about to die! Romania: And i took that personally.

[@oneesama3421]

4:28 "This guy is a trap" Careful there, Bitt3rSteel, 'Weeb Players' may just choose him for that xD

[@haloreachmadman555]

I love playing non historical, it's fun never knowing what could happen next

[@worldwidewonders681]

Yeah

[@bp9696]

i was just busy bingewatching your disaster save videos! they are so entertaining! also it's quite impressive how much your video quality has improved over the last year, there are very noticable differences, like audio quality

[@samarkand1585]

Make sure to never disappoint your parents the same way you've disappointed Bittersteel when he saw you haven't researched infantry equipment

[@aspielm759]

3:09 My man, displaying the first template I ever made after No Step Back dropped. I love the 21 width

[@nesqquix5775]

I love how Bitter gets interrupted by the non historical things everytime he's talking

[@ADT1995]

I actually kind of like 21 and 42 width infantry, it works well in forests which is the most common terrain type in Europe, and it's decent (though not necessarily amazing) at other terrain types. It suffers a good bit in urban warfare and in mountains, but those are always a pain in the rear. It might be worth having a separate template for fighting in mountains if you plan on a lot of that. The biggest downside is that in hilly terrain it's also lackluster, and hills are very common in Western Europe, still, I find it annoying to have a million different templates and it will get the job done, but it might be worth having specialized hill assault divisions (40 width) if you are in Western Europe.... But in Eastern Europe the 42 width seems to be the best in my limited experience with no step back That's just my thoughts. You are way better than I am

[@oliverhoffmann1335]

15:40 i always went for cap first anyway but not because of the growth (that´s actually news to me but very welcome news) but rather because i thought it to be beneficial to build up the effiency first and then pop the flatout production increase.

[@emmanueljansen9896]

Instead of your 21 width div, I'd advise a 25 width div, with one arty again, it's slightly better and more support company efficient and fits into more terrain types easier, but both divs are decent if you don't want to split divisions by terrain type

[@christophers8443]

Having it on non historical gives flavor to the game. You dont know exactly whats going to happen so it makes it harder. If you only play on historical I think youre robbing yourself from more of a challenge.

[@janys6502]

Ye Kaiser comes back and the allies gang up on anyone going to do something Oh and Trotsky

[@gengarzilla1685]

Historical can get a bit samey at times, I agree. Sometimes I want to see a highly belligerent Soviet AI go to war with Turkey (and Romania I guess) over the straits.

[@Dimitrishuter]

Getting the feeling any save not set to historical is a Disaster Save to Bittersteel

[@FamousWorker]

8:40 the entirety of poland-lithuania relies on getting the resources to fund their war effort from a single man known as sweden.

[@buddermonger2000]

That deep sigh just really sells it. It's something insane, it's just THAT bad, and seeing it you just have to take the deep breath.... and slowly start.

[@mazkas1476]

I played a game similar to this. I’ m a more experienced HOI player, and my strat for minors like Lithuania is to build up entrenchment to just grind on the enemy. Worked pretty well for me, inflicted 2.7 mil casualties on SOV for just 200k for me. In short, grand battle plan OP

[@darthvader8744]

I like to imagine the North American rulers and the two Soviet ones sitting there with Popcorn watching you just clown on Mister Painter

[@GarbageManPeck]

Funniest part of this is that Lithuania isn't even in Lithuania at all at the start

[@Luredreier]

2:30 15 width is actually pretty good all things considered, but I don't think he has the manpower and equipment to spare for that. And just 3 infantery... Not exactly a lot of org there...

[@Gamerxst]

I like the way when the teams sound played on the vid u can see that everybody replayed that part cuz they thought it were theirs lol

[@Dedelblute3]

28:36 that pocket looks like Khiva

[@Gurazing]

" Don't just and sit there and let things happen to you no!, you ACT, don't react!" - Bitter3rSteel

[@cyberspac3]

Will you do a playtrough as latvia sometime? ^-^

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Well,i need to do an Ostland Guide

[@grouchypotatowolfpack5580]

Historical off is the best way to play. It's cursed as hell, and it's never boring.

[@qazaq1991]

I'm still so surprised Lithuania has a focus tree but at the same time very glad it does because that's where some of my family is from. Great video!

[@bubbatools6701]

34:10 what did I hear?

[@minuda]

Hey Bitter, love your videos, would you ever consider making a guide on how to rebuild the Spanish Empire under the Falangists (Sin Paquito)? I know you've done alot of Carlist runs but I'd love to see one with the National Syndicalists restoring the Empire. Thanks!

[@Slovensko89]

Lithuania has an awesome focus tree

[@thestriker1595]

BitterSteel: Romania is dead they only have a month. Romania: And I took that personally.

[@noldo3837]

I like the weirdness, sometimes... the aliances are completelly crazy. "Fake Russia" made me laugh.

[@quentintin1]

if the AI can't push a front, it becomes impressive how fast it start to become VERY passive leading you to be able to push them back, then some more

[@Spartan640]

I love your comments such as germany is about to go tits out, legendary

[@chengas1221]

If producing trucks weren’t a problem, and I had adequate oil+supply, would recruiting motorised infantry be better than leg infantry? I compared identical templates (one with mot, one with leg) and the only noticeable difference I could find is motorised has much higher breakthrough than normal leg.

[@andreikovacs3476]

Motorized units's speed is very good for exploiting breakthroughs. So, it's an offensive plus

[@raizors1331]

Motorized is very good to cover up for tank breakthrough, I will usually put motorized armies at the same place I am going to make a spearhead with tank (or even better, in the same army), they move as fast as tank and can hold the tile which mean they are capable enough to prevent the precious tanks from being encircled when you are doing very aggressive advance. Though I don't think it's a good idea to make a whole army with motorized since... yea, your oils won't hold out and leg infantry is way cheaper. Also they have lower of every stat except speed, armor and breakthrough (and org if you go mobile warfare). Upside is, if you can afford all that, it's fun to see the whole frontline evaporate once you make a breakthrough since these guys was so fast you just overrun everything without contest, enemies can't regain org fast enough to properly defend when you attack again. I had one army (8 tonk divisions and 16 motorized divisions) attacking France from Belgium, draw frontline, draw offensive line (yea, not even spearhead btw), set aggressive, and it took like 20 secs at 5x speed for them to drive all the way to Paris uncontested.

[@ZFire2020]

LITHUANIAN soldiers fighting JAPANESE soldiers in the battle of BERLIN How much weirder could it get

[@Vukaaaa]

Thank you.

[@samuel.andermatt]

Poland can be held rather well, by setting up defences between warsaw, krakaw and Lodz using the rivers as defence. Yes you loose most of the country, but build enough forts and they cannot break you.

[@Canada1994]

I play with non historical off BUT with a twist. I set Britain, France, the US and the Commonwealth nations to historical but the rest is anything goes.

[@SuperEmiliano15]

I love non-historical, you can see all the things that could happen, but it didn't and it's soooooo coooool! But hey, every gaucho with his poncho, as we say in my country.

[@zakokutesi2083]

Calaboca

[@Stephenproductions-uw3tf]

I would love to see you play as Greece in this mod

[@realtissaye]

amazing content bro

[@koso0423]

4:42, thought I was popular for second

[@alexanderbockmann9229]

Please do more unhistorical videos its so fun to see these crazy things happen

[@sollumi3014]

tbh the plus of non iron man is that you can save at any time - basically good for people who learn so rhat you dont have to do repeats (i suck at the game but dont use that antnore bc i wanna be getting achievements, but if thats not a thing i wouldnt use it tho)

[@thatamericangamer7230]

Played as russia first time in Iron man mode and I changed the tide in Spain making lot of encirclements and helping them felt pretty great to be honest

[@A9KKK]

Could you do a template guide for the no step back? It's kinda hard to figure out whats right anymore my 14/4's arent hitting nearly as hard now and I'm unsure what to use haha

[@1230james]

I use 9/2s for my infantry and 6/6/2 (med. tank, mot. inf., light spg) for my tanks. It's worked pretty well for me in singleplayer. 24 width is the largest you can go with the new combat widths if you want a jack of all terrains division afaik. 30w on the tank divisions above has worked out fine; fits into basically anything fine or maybe a little over the width limit except for mountains.

[@mariushegli]

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

[@martonstrenner1937]

"That idiot in Moscow"... I mean, you ARE right...

[@DandyDNA]

11:32 Michael Jackson?

[@i_elemental2189]

With the agency you have a possibility for a mission to improve trade relations with other nations :)

[@fat_pigeon]

27:27 Iceland joined the Axis ===> wat

[@PwnZombie]

Happens when UK invades them near every time.

[@DanRefhn]

When are you going to make guides on division templates?

[@yudufa7046]

Is this the save Alex played yesterday?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

No,that was my Poland save, from my November stream

[@yudufa7046]

@@Bitt3rSteel ah ok

[@the_fixer2593]

Hm.... this is very similar to the one I submitted, thought it was mine at first; though I will say that mine was a little more... organized and worse at the same time; as France was collapsing in the italian front, and the Soviets were collapsing on the Romanian front. I hope we see mine at some point, I know one mistake i made was that i got tunnel visioned and only focused on Micro.

[@curryant9379]

POV: you do 30 minutes of hel without the achievement

[@penzorphallos3199]

5:20 why not go to total mob? If your manpower is 0 already, what manpower are you losing with taking total mob?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

It's a matter of percentages, in short total mob requires a high mobilization law or wen in the workforce. I had neither

[@penzorphallos3199]

@@Bitt3rSteel 0 minus 1000% is still 0, by the time you retook anything in the baltic you had pp to take service by rec 🤷‍♂️

[@Bitt3rSteel]

@@penzorphallos3199 i was mobilizing men, about 2.5% So i was actually getting more manpower. Going up to total mob would them add a -3% modifier. Meaning no manpower.

[@SherlockHo1mes]

@@penzorphallos3199 Even if you’re not mobilising, you get monthly recruitable population so there are some reinforcements. Going to total mobilisation would make it virtually nothing.

[@plebisMaximus]

Could you do an updated division template guide? I still live in 2016 meta land where everything's busted and you can conquer the world in record time with only 7/2s

[@krasnamerah1926]

Seeing those encirclements in Eastern Poland and Transylvania, Denmark occupy Scania, and Mindaugas rules both Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Austria is just UOOOGGGHHHHH The road to Moscow is laid wide open, Bitt3rsteel. Good game as usual.

[@davidjames1993]

when the soviet union goes in to its civil war it wont declare or attack any country that's not part of the civil war it puts it on pause. i play a lot of unhistorical when im in the Baltics and im yet to see them attack during the war.

[@RexNicolaus]

Non-historical is fun when you want a more leisurely time playing instead of shooting for achievements.

[@tschark6469]

I will submit like 100 disasters all on non-historical just to hear you say "whahat???" again😂😂😂 Lost it everytime you were confused by wtf was going on

[@ytrewq182]

Your view looks different than mine, although I dont have many of the expansions. Whenever I am micro'ing an army most of my screen is blocked with info it feels

[@zakokutesi2083]

He has a good resolution monitor. Probably 1440p or 4k. You prob have a 1080p or worsr

[@exxtm]

How did that Switz happen

[@deadpanshows279]

Limburger wereldburger 💪

[@mr.neworld2031]

We cannot fight the Kriegsmarine with 2 subs😂

[@bismarck41gaming61]

I am a new KZbinr and a big fan of HOI 4, and I would love to join you to pick up a few tricks, gain experience, and make some content

[@TheStickCollector]

Pretty cool

[@janys6502]

Hey so what templates work now?

[@aaanjaaa]

Nice

[@Faolan03]

Can you upload the saves so that we can play them on ourselfs?

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

How many divisions Sweden have?

[@guard6069]

what but in the last page it said that the video was released 2 minutos ago, did i time travel?

[@benlauckner8307]

WW2 is Poland-Lithuania was the soviets

[@ytrewq182]

Cool stuff

[@spaceiscool7856]

Soviet union in WW2 was just a disaster save

[@NON155]

HAVE ANYONE TRY AUSTRIA AND TRY TO STAY ALIVE AGAINST GERMANY ????

[@foogiexd5532]

Hey

[@ambrosiogiovanni6952]

While the video was great, as always, the whining about him using Fighter I's got old fast. It was February 1940 and Fighter II is a 1940 tech. Unless he was focussing on air, he really shouldn't have them yet (there are more pressing researchs as a minor than Fighters ahead of time). Seriously, the gameplay was solid, but the whining about Fighters was annoying. Whine about his dozens of templates and all the wasted XP, at least you'd have a point.

[@whitezombie10]

Are you Steiner's grand nephew?

[@lukafulltv94]

i play non-historical cause of germany and stuff

[@13ghettoDolphins101]

Not terrible.

[@IIW4RHAWKII]

Why do the germans only have like 20 divisions on your west border thats pretty sus man

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Ask German High Command. They decided to fight halft the world at once

[@showbuster]

Hey you are not Alex the rambles

[@hhj858]

hi

[@AbdulHannanAbdulMatheen]

👏🙂

[@nehemiahkenny5027]

I find it funny how often Bitter fails to save. People are too reliant on autosave functionality. Always assume the autosave failed. Always assume your save from two minutes ago is corrupt. Just fucking save. It takes two seconds.

[@andruloni]

I mean, it's muscle memory form ironman. What good is a save if the game will overwrite it with a corrupt one? I've caught myself on that many times in rimworld, when I look at my 'save and exit button' and suddenly it just says 'exit'

[@Settinor]

:)

[@RNB_lovr]

r u slovakian

[@youtuberobbedmeofmyname]

I think PLC should have a higher surrender limit.