Making Italy Great Again!

#hoi4 #rome #italy
A comprehensive guide for Italy in Arms Against Tyranny! ROMA INVICTUS!
Strategy adjusted based on ‪@MachiavellianStrategist‬ : / @machiavellianstrategist
Focus Order:
To Steel Industry in Terni
To Triumph in Africa
To Balkan Ambitions
Pact of steel
Italian Irredentism
War with Greece
Claims on Turkey
Army Primacy
Fiocchi Munizioni
Increase Artillery Production
Brescia Small Arms Industry
Redirect Alfa Romeo Production
Ministry of Italian Africa
The New Emperor of Ethiopia
To Expand National Universities
Increase Production
Albanian Occupation
To New Industrialization Program (Choose Strengthen Northern Industry)
Preserve Army Traditions
Culto del Duce
Superesercito
La Battaglia del Grano
To Mare Nostrum
Research:
Electronic Mechanical Engineering
Basic Machine Tools
Construction 1
Range Improvements
Mechanical Computing
Support Weapons 1
Dispersed Industry 1
Radio 1
Machine tools 2
Construction 2
Dispresed Industry2
Inter-War Artillery
Recon Company 1
Improved Infantry Equipment
Support Weapons 2
Artillery upgrade (wait for focus)
Synthetic Oil Experiments
Infantry Equipment Upgrade
Improved Small Airframe
Engine 3
Artillery Upgrade
Survivability Studies
Heavy Machinegun (Air)
Dispersed Industry 3
machine tools 3
Construction 3
Engineer company 2
Rocket Artillery
Infantry Equipment upgrade
Support Weapons upgrade
Artillery upgrade
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[@MachiavellianStrategist]

Hey there Bitt3rSteel! You are an absolute legend in the HOI4 community, I am really honored that you were inspired by my strategy and mentioned me in the description! Great Video!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I commend your dedication to the numbers and spreadsheets. I suck at math, and play by vibes, so it was very gratifying to see we came to similar conclusions and I adjusted using your excellent optimization! Good catch on the turret for the Fighters, I always used to dismiss it out of hand, but the math doesn't lie

[@Glitchy455]

@@Bitt3rSteel can u pin

[@williamtherambling3334]

Annex core tool

[@FilipMikulic-u7d]

@@williamtherambling3334 I installed the game a few days ago, so I am a beginner, how do you demand Sultanate Of Aussa to annex their territory without war?

[@Catanddogs1342]

27 width is kinda big, i try to stay between 18-20 ​@@Bitt3rSteel

[@mikaelsix2443]

It's very wholesome to hear you happy about spending time with the kids, thank you for the good work and glad you get the support you deserve!

[@mr.hedado741]

When I heard that he had kids, I felt happy that KZbin is a good way to get money while still being with his kids, that part melts my heart

[@diobuthesconfused7507]

that was the best part of the video for me

[@alejandromanuelpalomomarti8594]

Sí wholesome, i love It 😄

[@NoahLeaega]

Fr Man, Nothing Beats Time Spent With Your Kids

[@paso_oyun]

Now he has to play Kaiserreich Redux and go Nationalist path and suffer

[@totalwar1793]

Latin Union path is actually fun bc you’re fighting France with cores against the Internationale lmao

[@Castorea_]

Yugoslavia had a civil war because you joined the Axis. Yugoslavia has a sprit called "Anti-German-..." something like that, which means if they have that spirit and they join the Axis they will get a civil war

[@ahmetberkkuntasal4949]

anti german military is the spirits name, and i think you are correct

[@idontlikerome2744]

Funny i believe they have this since the game launch and some people still doesnt know it

[@vinex1755]

Crazy that many people don’t know this, i was confused too when this first happened. Btw there is a focus which cancels out the spirit

[@tran2mm]

that is actually what happened historically

[@canis858]

​@@vinex1755 when does the AI take that focus when they are a puppet of Italy?

[@error_404_lamb_sauce_not_found]

I somehow got recommended this video 17 seconds after it released.

[@philippan9252]

17 minutes after

[@thatoneoshawott5826]

You lucky b*stard

[@Dayvly]

Yea me to

[@ringthatbell9597]

I somehow got recommended this video 30 mini after it released. Edit: also solid name

[@robertharrington703]

Isn't it great when KZbin works as its supposed to for once?

[@Draconatus24]

11:20 enough to make a grown man cry.

[@NoahLeaega]

Fr Man, It's so Wholesome

[@Crazyred-fox]

bros an great father… 🫡🫡🫡

[@Particle3223]

Its a perfect day for rain🥲

[@512TheWolf512]

yugo's antigerman military spirit is the cause, if yugo somehow ends up in the axis.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Yeah, I figured that. I was caught off guard because I hadn't had it happen in all my test runs

[@exeticm4k]

​@@Bitt3rSteel I have a question: When we conquer Ethiopia, why not puppet them into 69 smaller states? I remember you once said we should do that...

[@nv32aaf98e]

​@@exeticm4k You can puppet every state of Ethiopia to then integrate them after they have done the economy focuses so you get some extra factories but since you are going to core the entirety of Europe you really don't need the extra factories as you'll probably have around 700 factories at the end of the conquering

[@mateuszoracz4487]

This is a nice change, membership privileges letting me see the video early :)

[@bosadam8141]

Upload time doesn't matter. Its a Bitt3rSteel video, uploaded for memberships and I need to watch it

[@adisonsmith2633]

So important to see your kids man. Have a great day!

[@shironee_2384]

Fun fact: the 2nd Italo-Ethiopian war on Hoi4 tutorial are WAY harder than the 1936 start because you will start with no assigned military factories and you have to start gun production with worse production efficiency.

[@willywonka6487]

you can just overrun ethopia by clicking all the border units there in straight lines...its no effort required auto win

[@BrightWendigo]

Lmao if you play on easy maybe. What do you people get out of lying so badly?

[@Stormleon8]

I love the fact that there is a focus and research order in description and I hope we see this in future vids too!! ⚔️⚔️⚔️

[@alaricvis09]

> Yugoslavia submits >Request forces >Yugoslavian civil war Can't join; can't return forces >Italian Yugoslavia loses because no army >Decision available: send Yugoslavia ultimatum >Send ultimatum Welcome back, Italian Yugoslavia!

[@sidddhaarthsrikanth]

memberships are a godsend cause im able to watch a Bitt3rsteel video early (feels like im travelling time). Bitt3rsteel dropping a updated Italy guide at the best time. After glory to the Germans and the French, it is now time i deliver some much needed glory to the Italians too, thanks to the Belgian

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Boom!

[@antoniomoreira5921]

Thanks man! Not sure it's the right niche at all but if anyone's very much into an intro to the period and warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt on the topic. Keep up the amazing work! Love, Antonio

[@FortuneZer0]

44:00 Wait did Switzerland just blink out of existence?

[@XaviGoncalves]

They did too😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@itslowdefinition]

Really hit close to home with how you felt about your kids. My dad was a writer and worked from home, always telling me something similar; that he was so happy to be able to be around for all of my siblings and my firsts compared to when he worked his previous job

[@russellblose4228]

Love this video and the Germany guide! Can't wait for the historical Italy guide! You're my favorite you 4 KZbinr

[@DeD_emeLbka]

I just rewatched your first Roman empire guide, clicked away, and the second thing i see is new Roman empire, youtube really knows how to make good recommendations

[@pimo21yee10]

Glad that you get to spend more time with ur fam, love the content

[@Jan-lb9ks]

I love you for your Videos and now I love you even more for how mutch you value your family and I thank everyone who helps him to spend more time with his kids.

[@daragamer360]

Been Waiting for a updated tutorial for Roman empire for months 👍

[@Zelandia-ow9lc]

Very nice that you're now putting focus and research that you took in the description now for those who missed it. Thank you!

[@Fidel1812]

29:47 "It starts World War One by attacking Poland" This part made me laugh a bit lol

[@Kydenius]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed

[@julianrojas6009]

X2

[@p4trik579]

Also a bug to watch out for that i didn't see get mentioned, but i saw that even in the end was there with yugoslavia. When you annex a puppet while building in them to lower their autonomy, that building "order" will remain in the queue after you annex them, building in a country that doesn't exist, with the civs being assigned to them, while not actually building anything. You can fix it with deleting the construction from the queue. On the newest patch i tested this now, you wont be able to lower the level of the construction to reset the order and not build it in a non existent country, it will just automatically delete it aswell, with the progress already built up to it, so you lose the progress anyways. If you want to min-max and keep the factories or whatever you'll have to wait for it to finish construction, before you annex the puppet. But I remember you could just reset it with lowering the level of the building and you would keep the progress.

[@12gark]

All correct except one thing: if you have more than 1 building slot in that state, you can just increase or decrease the amount of factory and the bug will disappear without losing you the building progress.

[@p4trik579]

Yeah that's what i remembered aswell and I know for a fact that i did this in the past, but I went ingame when i wrote the comment to test it just to confirm it and when you decrease it and unpause, it automatically deletes it from the queue. It is maybe because I don't have all the dlc's just the free ones, but i doubt it. I think a recent patch just ruined it. If you have all the dlc's or just the free ones, i would appriciate it if you tested it or smth.

[@p4trik579]

also, i tried it with coring the state, before i annex the puppet, because maybe it deletes it because you lose building slots when you occupy a state and don't have enough room for it, but no. Even when you have the slot for it it gets deleted. Weird

[@12gark]

@@p4trik579 I have all DLCs, I'll check ASAP and come back to you.

[@ManuelSchulte007]

Before it was patched queues did complete and I've been surprised to have some territories having more factories than the territory itself allows... 😂

[@bejaminmaston1347]

Got my daily roman empire thoughts in at 8 am, thanks bitt3rsteel

[@vishnuakundi4766]

I tried doing this btw and had the most insane game. For some reason, Germany declared on the US and USSR around the same time. I may have conquered France too quickly (Germany hadn't even declared on Belgium yet and that may have messed up the AI a bit. But anyways, I ended up taking out Germany and was at war with Japan for a bit. Then, for some reason, I got a peace conference with Japan included for free?? So I basically took everything. Then, I noted that it was basically just the US and USSR left. Since it was only like 1941, I thought it would be best to deal with the US right away. So I set up and start my invasion, and it's going well. But then suddenly, the soviets declare on my Japanese puppet and I get pulled into a war (basically no troops on the border with the USSR). I scramble to get units out and use my colonial troops to try to minimize the damage. It gets really bad as the soviets pour into Germany, the balkans, and the Middle East. The colonial divisions are no match even with my air superiority. So eventually, by around 1943-44, I take out the US. but by then, I have basically been pushed all the way out of the Middle East and only have a small force in Constantinople. The western front is somewhat stable but I am basically stuck in France and northern Italy. As a result of losing so much territory, the civil war broke out and the other Italy had like 250 divisions on its own apart from the soviets. Once the American armies got back to Europe, I starter pushing back. It was brutal but I eventually took out the soviets by 1947. I think I inflicted somewhere around 25 million casualties on the soviets and another 7 million on the Italian puppet in that last war. Most insane game of my life!

[@RebellionXyz]

Discovering Your channel helped me discover once again joy of playing this game to the point I am not paying enough attention to my studies, don't know if I'm glad or sad because of that

[@marcomonticelli1954]

30:41 "we only need a feew thousand men to sit on the winning table is a real sentence said by mussolini

[@ManuelSchulte007]

@marcomonticelli Entirely correct it is indeed what he said to justify his (disastrous) attack on France in 1940.

[@toko099o]

Thanking for seeing your kids firsts is super sweet. Hope things keep going good for you for a long while.

[@Needmoreair]

You're saving my day man. Since I don't have much time to play hoi4 I can just watch someone at my lvl which is you. Thank you G.

[@Arkticus]

30:49 - I recently played a game as France to get the "Vive le France"-achievement (easy, but kind of tedious to get, I figured I might as well), I got the Italian puppet event, and after the Germany was capped, so during peace time, Sicily rebelled twice. Not a big issue, fast to clean, and I annexed Italy soon after the second civil war. My only theory is that, as your puppet, the new government doesn't get all of the cores. So some of the territory counts as occupied, event though it really shouldn't. Or, if the puppet tries, for whatever reason, to go down a different ideology path than your country, that fires a civil war. Since it was an Ironman game, and I annexed them I can't verify if that's what happened, but it seems they seem plausible. something to keep an eye on in future games. Good job as always, really enjoy your videos.

[@MrRecycle1]

Im pretty sure its the anti German military national spirit it says that if yugo joins the axis it triggers a civil war

[@GrapeFaygo959]

I love your videos bro keep up the hard work 😁

[@StevenKringer]

Keep it up love the content

[@ole182]

I come here for strategies, not to feel. When you said the stuff about seeing your children more and spending time with them, it hit me really hard. I am on the opposite side of life right now and I can completely relate. Cheers mate.

[@daconday]

Really like how you put the focus and research order in the desc， always lost when it comes to choosing focuses and research. Please do more of this!

[@plaguepug2091]

As a dad that really made me glad. I get to watch awesome content that I love and in return a fellow dad gets to enjoy time with his little ones.

[@KAKUN_DESU]

i really like you making guide videos for different scenarios. please make more!

[@GamerNimrod]

Nice video idea! Keep up the good work.

[@m0vnt41n5]

Trajan: *_happy Roman sounds_*

[@erictownsend4125]

I really enjoyed this video

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@salve_23ita91]

This is the video we all needed❤

[@gratefulguy4130]

From Rome to Australia, the Roman Empire is strong again 💪🍝

[@Viro_is_great]

:3 Love your stuff ❤❤❤

[@catsi563]

looks great B well try it some day as a side note and suggestion Id really love to see you go back to your german and japan guides and add the focus trees and research priorities in both as they would be really helpful to be able to follow

[@truelightningstriker5803]

I'd like see the focus and research priority listed in the description in every future country guides.

[@kurodai556]

im new on hoi4. this video help me a lot. i tried to replicate this play for few times but no luck. the Yugoslavian civil war happen in my game. then Romania started pumping their army. so I'm too late when i annexed Romania.

[@oltzu5206]

Hey i have an idea for a challenge! In the challenge you release the republic of karelia (except it's finnish cores) and then try to conquer Finland and your cores back on your own. You can either release karelia as trotsky and then play as or then use commands to release it. Doesn't matter if its historical or non historical.

[@jhrb5136]

Just a message to support the GOAT

[@LeoMajor1]

I never needed to make trains as italy, you get them conquering stuff, also you seize trains during ehthiopa war and it doesn't hurt you later on

[@robwark7554]

Love the fact that you mention spending time with your kids. I semi-retired in 2014 to raise my family and it was the best decision ever.

[@samg5463]

This was such a cool guide

[@Spielkind104]

16:01 i've seen a video once where someone testet all planedesignes and his result was that you take 5% less IC losses when you have the torret in 1936, with the 1939 tech it is the same IC loss and has no significant impact

[@tudor7746]

Yo shout-out to the members of the channel. Seeing bittersteel so grateful for being able to spend time with his kids made me shed a tear :')

[@BZZZZZZtium]

Bitt3rsteel, have you ever played Eight Years War of Resistance? It's a really good mod that focuses mainly on China and Japan, it's really hard, atleast on your first playthrough, i think China has a deficit in everything, espescially guns with -12k at the beginning, and Communist China is really tiny and basically the weakest nation in the world, while Japan is fairly easy. I feel like you would enjoy it, although if you play Commie China, you should be prepared for a long playthrough. Day 1. I guess.

[@dyn9726]

Our great leader Bittereno Steelolini will make Italy great again!

[@winstonzhou4595]

You know what, Mister Bitter? Seeing you live in person just made me like you're videos 25% better instantly

[@NguyenPhantomhive]

At 13:30 you mentioned the event in which Republican Spain relocates their gold reserves. With Historical AI Focus on you always get this event if you send volunteers to Republican Spain. No luck involved. I think Spain prefers the player over the Soviet Union.

[@mitchotoole9876]

Italy is a lot of fun to play honestly, even the alt paths.

[@georgiee622]

Got me crying on 11:05 😢

[@santiagobarreto9357]

Love you bald boi, glad you can spend more time with the kids! ❤❤

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*“NO WAE! Soviet Australia’s a major? NO WAE!”*

[@mostafaakbari8619]

Hello Bittersteel. Love your videos. I enjoy Hoi4 a lot. I’m from Iran and been trying to play as Iran in Hoi4. My main focus is to recreate the Persian empire but sadly with the current changes it’s almost impossible. I have seen your guide but the tactics that you used are not applicable now. Would really appreciate it if you made another video for Iran. Thanks 💙🙏🏻

[@eMeM_KE]

45:16 Holy cow!!!😮 That's a chunky Romanum!

[@ManuelSchulte007]

@@eMeM_KE Roma invicta, Roma aeterna!

[@NoahLeaega]

"Famous for Making Its Trains Run on Time" is the Most Unreal Thing I've Heard Today as an Italian.

[@isaacgriffin5690]

And it's not accurate. Say you get on a train in Rome for a 2 hour ride. After 2 hrs, your watch, set to Rome time, is two hours ahead, but the local time at the destination you arrived at is not 2 hours ahead. It's either a few minutes more or less then 2 hours because stations went by the local time. Mussolini made a standard national time. So that "made the trains run on time."

[@_-Wade-_]

Italy is a delightful change of pace

[@ambatukamomaygot6358]

Thanks for the method, it's work well

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad it helped

[@hasanerimilgun3921]

Nice gameplay. By the way you pronounced the name of Turkish provinces very well.

[@SpartacusTheHumble]

When I get back to working again ( Ah the American job market, how much I despise you lol ), I have been huntin for the past 3 months. I will definitely support the channel via the membership. I recently got into HOI IV ( My first HOI game btw ), and I have been watching you, Alex the Rambler, iSorrowProductions for the past few weeks now, I have learned a lot from you guys. Best HOI content creators out there imo. If possible at all Bitt3rSteel, would you be able to make a "How to Navy" guide thats up to date for nations like Germany? ( or if a commenter can provide me a channel that has said guide, I'd be mighty grateful ) I am having a rough time with the Navy stuff, I get the jist of ground and air, but Navy is a pain in the ass lmao. What I have been doing thus far since starting HOI IV, is letting the starting ships finishing building, combining my surface fleet into one large fleet, toss the subs into their own thing, and basically wish them the best of luck lmfao. I would like to try and be more competent Navy side, but the whole thing for the Navy is just too confusing for me.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Not a bad idea, I'll see what I can do!

[@SpartacusTheHumble]

@@Bitt3rSteel awesome, thanks for the quick response m8. much respect from the USA.

[@muscalaur6807]

"I get to spend more time with my kids" i almost fucking cried

[@BiNumLi]

Mind... Blowing.

[@krzysztofsowinski3726]

thanks for sharing around 11:20 :) This was wholesome

[@kingofkingsthatsright2077]

First thing to do when watching a bitt3rSteel video ? Leaving a like

[@chef4025]

Historical guide sounds cool

[@lycan6432]

Tip: try puppeting every small tribal nation in ethiopia, all of them go down their own focus trees which gives free factories, and you dont have to bother with italian east africa puppet or losing your annexed ethiopia to the UK

[@12gark]

And don't forget to get resource rights on the states that have rubber! Any free rubber as Italy is VERY welcome.

[@alessandrodamico6434]

Beautiful Thumbnail ❤

[@Dendrass]

I wonder if achivement guides will come back, I really enjoy other videos as well but I remember I found this channel few years ago when struggling with achivements and I really miss those videos

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I hope so too

[@Dudewithguns-ww7wc]

I'd really appreciate a Historic Italy (Greater Italy) run

[@sheep7]

Rome in *1940* is actually unbelievable

[@John-li6sk]

This video is good

[@nathaneddolls4126]

Keep up your brill videos, there a 1930 mod which is out now I've been playing really good

[@scottruch76]

See I follow him but a little different. To me Italy has a huge equipment problem at the beginning of its war with Ethiopia. So I tend to prioritize the focuses that give me industry. I never thought about using the focus trees to gain territory and industry at the same time as going to war

[@jareddragus5069]

fml got me :D what a pleasant surprise!

[@Sir_MooseCAN]

damn i messed up, after i finished greece i went straight through bulgaria and stalled in romania, now i know why to go through turkey first

[@Sir_MooseCAN]

attempt 2:

[@Sir_MooseCAN]

i didint declare war on bulgaria greece and turkey at the same time and britian guarunteed the independence of bulgaria

[@Sir_MooseCAN]

attempt 3:

[@Sir_MooseCAN]

things goin good, its 1939 i have half of yugoslavia (because i fought there civil war), i have turkey, greece, bulgaria, romania, and ethiopia is under the itallian africa thing, im currently fighting france just before germany invades poland, the english have a sucusful naval invasion on turkey and greece, the turkish naval invasion is rapidly being pushed back however i am struggling to handle the greek naval invasion, its not to late to save this though

[@poshbow4462]

how it went for u?

[@louiswinterhoff334]

Being there for your children is the most important thing a father can do

[@Rolo1507]

I found a quote in the forums for the yugoslavia civil war, "Yugoslavia still had the Anti-German Military spirit when you brought it into the Axis with you, triggering the coup event. The Yugoslavia AI chose the fascist side, but when it asked Germany for help, Germany chose the Invasion option instead. Since it's your puppet, Germany can't kick Yugoslavia out to DoW."

[@Menzostanley]

My ethiopia keeps joining the allies. I can't seem to be fast enough

[@brycezales2288]

I can't get Ethiopia with out haile selassie getting in the damn train bro

[@HenryAnder-wk6cm]

That shity Ethiopia mechanic is ruining the Italy experience.I feel like a dumb person when I ask on Reddit they just say it’s easy and that I’m a noob.

[@regnumbospori]

regnum bospori mentioned

[@kumbul9099]

I loved how you said the Turkish cities names. Love from Türkiye

[@viocrane]

Og’s will remember the first thumbnail

[@xristosimprezas5006]

i JUST thinking in my mind i was at work and i was like what if italy was usefull what should i try and i swear i didnt only saw the video but the actions bittersteel took was exactly my thinking!!

[@dawsontan9265]

With and without bittelsteal’s face feel like two different channels 😂😂

[@Goosetavos]

I dunno how the hell i end up watching all your videos without skipping a minute

[@NguyenPhantomhive]

Tried this again today and it appears that you can bypass Pact of Steel by manually joining Germany before doing the focus. Saves 35 days.

[@spookygloberotter05]

Aw man don't go making me all emotional. Love how you're there for your kids

[@oowens7476]

LETS GOOOOO ROMA INVICTA

[@endridishs7707]

W

[@renasistcool]

Nice video

[@freelancepear87kakkoka11]

i knew you missed the isle of man! what i usually prefer to do is just take all in the peace deal and work my way down from there so i wont be missing any coreable territories.