The Russian Tsar is having a bad day - HoI4 Disaster Save

[@Bitt3rSteel]

@Erik Sauer and all doubters: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZOrZa19iq6WhpI RAW FOOTAGE of this segment. Did I cheat? No. Is the AI competent? Also no

[@aprender1952]

Hoi4 ai and competent ai are polar opposites.

[@sniperdude6286]

The reason why was that the divisions were on a garrison order and moved automatically to the next province along.

[@livefire5239]

Hey just wanted to let you know the company you promoted a few weeks ago "Established Titles" is actually a scam. There is a KZbin video by Scott Shafer that goes into detail.

[@Roketsune]

His About page shows several other accounts. You should try telling him on Twitter and Discord as well to maximize the chance he finds out.

[@tricot6468]

@@aprender1952 chess ai vs hoi4 ai

[@lordbonney9779]

You could say he was *Royally* screwed

[@NyakoLeaf]

LMAO

[@thespectre5403]

Bruh

[@SupBruhYT]

No just no

[@kermit8804]

Can u explain i feel i am missing a vrry funny joke

[@personexists4520]

@@kermit8804 the tsar is royalty and royally screwed means you are very screwed

[@letsplaypetrus4802]

At 14:00 there is a river crossing, but its hard to see. You see that the river is running parallel to you on your left side just before Astrakhan and than it splits around Astrakhan, making it into an island. You can see that the river flows left and right around Astrakhan if you look closly. But it is something I wouldn't have seen myself if I was playing at that moment.

[@RandomDude87187]

I thought I was going crazy. Like THERE IS A RIVER

[@kitfisto5132]

yeah its the rivers delta

[@notyourname1]

Anytime that happens i figure the devs did more research than me in this, and i double check and usually learn something new!

[@apoivre]

That's the Volga delta. There are hundreds of islands actually

[@nerfjanetreal]

I like how he has more factories than ai soviet before barbarossa

[@BlackHammer3]

because 60% of his civs are from trade, probably lots of them from Japan

[@logannoble6707]

its 1944 at the start

[@nerfjanetreal]

@@logannoble6707 but soviet ai's number of factories does not change from 1941-1944

[@tombomb47]

@@nerfjanetreal source?

[@fazi354]

@@tombomb47 i made this whole shit up 🗿🗿

[@kekw2552]

Wait, so this guy won tsar civil war and still had more factories compared to when I was playing against AI as Stalin. Just WOW

[@Litterbugtaylor]

Yes, yes i did

[@Diamond_Arrow_the_Lizard]

Well, you can stack high the consumer goods factories decreases with tsarist Russia (War economy, ministers && some focuses). I was destroying the Axis in 1940 without any industry focuses picked, fair Civil War && no army reorg, my economy was quite great and kept up with the expenses.

[@personexists4520]

This started at 1944 that’s why

[@Lich_V.]

If you play the stalin route you can have around 400 factories at the start of barbarossa (bit luck dependent if the ai buys your resources, but 370-80 should be doable every time, regardless of luck).

[@לעזאזלעםגוביידן]

probably trade factories because commie has difficult time getting non commie ai trade with them

[@ClemDiamond]

"I'm just roleplaying NATO please" is a sentence said at almost every hoi4 game.

[@OverlordMalarkey]

This has got to be the best disaster save Ive seen, the guy clearly pre-planned everything before everything went wrong. I love it!

[@mironkrylov]

well actually a Astrakhan is in delta of Volga river, it's really surrounded with little rivers, greater rivers, swamps and deserts

[@asherwoodrow7471]

so, hell?

[@Lwowski-Polak]

@@asherwoodrow7471 da

[@jeremyglass4283]

Bittersteel one min into the video: “what I like about this save is not so much that it is terribly set up” Bittersteel literally 20 sec later: “I hate the way your army is set up!”

[@Ryuko-T72]

A small tip i have for tank pushes is to leave a couple behind incase enemies try and cut you off. Usually leaving lowest org

[@Violet-Haven]

It's a bit hard to see but there actually is a river to the east of Astrakhan as well as the west, so the city must be inside a river fork. So it makes sense that this is a river crossing

[@Litterbugtaylor]

Oh hey its mine, also i didn't do third rome because i was trying to get romanovs last laught which third rome invalidates, also the caucasus was lacking oil because german factories win civil wars but going to war with Germany doesn't give you therights back. Wait now i remember why i chose st petersburg, i was at war with Ukraine and Belarus and Kazakhstan when the soviets fell and they controlled Moscow and tsaritsyn when the decision came up so st petersburg was my only option.

[@dobi2236]

You can win the civil war pretty easily without doing the shit AI support decisions

[@Litterbugtaylor]

@@dobi2236 without waiting for stalin to bleed troops in dessertions and surrender capacity to random events

[@dobi2236]

@@Litterbugtaylor ? Not really? Unless you're speedrunning, 1938 is usually when i end off but that's because I dont rush and tackle romania + turkey early game

[@Litterbugtaylor]

@@dobi2236 you cannot push if you do not have supply, you are literally pushing them towards supply, although it is easy to change all thier mills into civs then change all the units to 2 width heavy tanks because the ai cannot swap divison templates

[@dobi2236]

@@Litterbugtaylor push along railways, Building supply hubs is something ive done maybe 4 times, ever

[@gabelol9987]

I literally only bought this game because I saw that there was a sale on it. I knew nothing else about it but I bought it because I had nothing else to play. So far it has consumed about 1500 hours of my life. Best and worst purchase of my life

[@insignificantgnat9334]

Those end of the war German casualties were brutal, I don't think that would leave a whole lot of fighting age men at the end of the war.

[@idontlikerome2744]

Greeks killed more than the french

[@ahmedrashad3556]

Always fun to watch your disaster saves …thanks Bitt3r keep it up 🔥👍🏻

[@getimpaled3460]

Nobody: Bitt3rsteel on his way to pronounce Kutuzov as Kututsov

[@somewhereelse1235]

Some people just can't pronounce Z properly, ts is close enough for those people.

[@tunganhnguyen909]

Your tanks move slowly because they are constantly out if fuel dude. NSB has been making it way harder (and more fun) to do tank encirclements. You gotta plan your offensive around supply hubs. That's also why infantry is the queen of the battlefield

[@tagus100]

And he's out of supply + using tanks in terrain that they're not suited + during winter.

[@glauberglousger6643]

Love the weird number of factories (So many for post Tsar Russia)

[@finmin2k]

great video, really love your enthusiasm about encirclements haha, makes it very fun to watch. i would love more content like this

[@R4lf84-Productions]

Waiiiiii-- Mr. bittersteel said “we dont need that many airplanes!” Like in almost every Desaster save he complains not having enough and here he finally has enough ;)

[@Litterbugtaylor]

I did say in the submission i had a beefy airforce and economy, still have the save too

[@Thatsc00ldude..]

I try to play this game and then I watch yt and see how miserably bad I do. I just send troops into the land and pray I win. This is on a whole other level of good 😨

[@SnakyZHD]

3:16 I hope nothing's broken lol

[@tristanthebaut2073]

Nice to see these Soviet style offensives. Trapping the German in the Caucasus. Worked in the past and still up to date

[@Т1000-м1и]

These videos are back. As always, the only person to actually explain what they're doing

[@What-thaW]

This counter-attack was… really, really historically accurate Edit: territorially at least*

[@schützedivad]

I just love how something falls in the background at 3:18.

[@Error_code_1001]

I thought something fell in my room lol

[@schützedivad]

Fr just the same.@@Error_code_1001

[@just1it1moko]

I've always been unsure if you were Walloon or Flemish but hearing you say Rostov I can pretty safely say you're Flemish.

[@igameidoresearchtoo6511]

So if you are ready for it, it's more of a challenge than a disaster save (mainly because erm..it's slightly edited in the favor of the enemy to make it harder for you so that we can finally watch a failed disaster save saving) If you want a slightly tampered save that is so ridiculously difficult I would consider it a lost cause before I even see the armies.. Then go ahead, I'll submit it later this week when I'm on my computer.

[@thefella302]

Huge move

[@kamalindsey]

Solution is almost always Supply -> Equipment -> Amount of divisions -> Lack of armor. Then -> Stabilize front until defense and deploy armor to make encirclements.

[@Violet-Haven]

Great work as usual! I think that we can agree though that the usual "stabilize, build a small amount of tanks, push them somewhere and encircle" is getting a bit old. I'd love to see you take on some disaster saves where you are not allowed to use this tactic, because the AI clearly can't handle it. It's starting to get a bit boring since you do the same thing literally every game. Also, the tanks moving at 1km/hr because they don't have the supplies for the fuel shows the danger of using this tactic.

[@samcrea]

Can you make a video on what the best tank templates are? I can never really figure them out

[@purpleburglaralarm9712]

20:20 that voice crack💀💀💀💀💀

[@Roketsune]

There actually is a river between Astrakan and the tile you were attacking from. The river is hard to see, but in 14:20 it's clearly visible.

[@QHRRFY]

3:18 plan was so crazy, it’s got objects falling off your table

[@joaocabral3541]

Thankyou for showing the war casualties now and then

[@Arnie58]

A Encirclement Compilation of this video would almost just be a reupload

[@xavierthepaladin5966]

I actually choose St. Petersburg on my russian empire saves, easier to defend bc of the river

[@Litterbugtaylor]

i chose st petersburg, i was at war with Ukraine and Belarus and Kazakhstan when the soviets fell and they controlled Moscow and tsaritsyn when the decision came up so st petersburg was my only option.

[@jes3d]

poggiewoggies

[@complex3297]

poggiewoggies

[@REALnotsu]

poggiewoggies

[@DepressedBearsFan]

Notpoggiewoggies

[@ironstream3955]

Great video as always. Take care and getting better soon.

[@NotDmitry]

We all know how the russian czar saved the empire in 1944 by appointing that belgian guy as his commander in chief. If only he wouldn't backstab the monarch and gave the crown to Santa Claus, our history books would look a lot different 😞

[@VanBourner]

I am sick (as in too sick to play in bed) and this has the effect of chicken soup on me.

[@RELFIR]

15:24 almost thought you were gonna call him Sinterklaas

[@JagerEinheit]

idk if @bitt3rsteel knows the martians meeting the phone skit from sesame street , but that yep yep yep was on point!

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmm yes lore of momentum of Hoi4 Russia but historically accurate somewhat

[@how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44]

i just love. how the guy who made this disaster. have more factory that me when i played with the ussr. XDDDDd

[@noutwf]

Love the thumbnail keep up the good work

[@maitiv261]

Good video

[@AryanJJ]

missed Carpathian Ruthenia and memel but it was good enough

[@pimentaze2886]

This video was uploaded 8 hours ago I can't believe it 🤩

[@TankBoii]

oh yes, the great nation of Barbarossa! (referring to the thumbnail)

[@fullydark9633]

The river around Astrakhan forks but it was hard to see with the battle plan :p

[@johndancu1228]

Great Video man !

[@Yes-pd3cb]

"Axis minors are starting to fall" *includes Italy in that statement*

[@samwill7259]

Quick, find a crazy magic homeless man! He'll save us!

[@gengarzilla1685]

I wouldn't exactly call the Metropolitan a homeless man.

[@DandyDNA]

7:58 majestic

[@sammmsational]

I love how this is still the Italian war on Ethiopia

[@fem530]

Jeesus the amount of encirclements 😄

[@greaterbelgiummapping1266]

Almost at 120k!

[@sonic_speed_up]

Боже, Царя храни!

[@border4851]

Сильный, державный!

[@swampyjester7724]

woah 2 mins, gotta get in fast

[@ianhogben3472]

Learned so much from this

[@rdshorts2332]

its so funny to see the italians having 80+ divisions in Lithuania while the allies are pushing Rome

[@unitytroughsocialisam2163]

The holy patrik strikes back at the German inveders!

[@redcrown5154]

death to communism

[@enric1478]

I wanna see bittersteel play against other people

[@pedro2m939]

That was saurkraut for the Thrid Rome

[@lexi1031]

18:57 is it going to show up in a British museum later?

[@SyedHuzaifa36]

My PC would have exploded 😂

[@cargbohadredmhagn3141]

Man i was waiting for a Russian disaster save

[@dakotastrain338]

Bitersteel OnlyFans release when?

[@revenanlone8974]

Check max speed on thet tank desine. I thing they have 4km max speed.

[@nomfvideoesonmeisthatokfor6539]

It 11.9 km/h btw. Supply + terrain modifiers just slow tanks down so much.

[@kleinerprinz99]

@@nomfvideoesonmeisthatokfor6539 1 km/h might also be a hard limit , right? they cannot go slower than that, or?

[@Azaqa]

You couldve continued trading with US and just set convoys to not use any Atlantic sea tiles

[@Tinihamster]

Can you pls do a challenge were you get 30 mil dead enemies Love your vids

[@Tinihamster]

Maby moer

[@yeetermarc7190]

I am convonced that ww2 was just an okay hoi4 player that needed a disaster save

[@gengarzilla1685]

Specifically a USSR player, seeing how far they got pushed back before things fell apart for Germany.

[@guest1470]

THIS DUDES PRONOUNCIATION

[@fallanor3]

How can you make the group of armies frontline united? I mean not divided on army 1, army 2 at each sector, but mixed?

[@cometdoggo]

shift click the front line order

[@tagus100]

Click on the Field Marshal, then Shift+Click when you make the frontline.

[@yummysoul2998]

"Operation Bagration" lol

[@viclorenzo5016]

Bitt3rSteel to the rescue!

[@Drazja]

Bitter you're the best

[@thefreakingc8557]

it looks so easy when you do it

[@osloqt]

good job

[@kristofevarsson6903]

15:55 22:09 Ah, the Duality of Man.

[@NiDe500]

Tsaritsyn? Vital to your strategy? Even in an alternate timeline, bogging the Germans down in Stalingrad is effective.

[@Draconatus24]

I love it

[@WestleyBurns-u7x]

good vid

[@edtheminecraftian]

Every time he runs 21 width divisions I die a little inside

[@Bitt3rSteel]

If it looks stupid and it works, it's not stupid. I'm always listening if you have a better fodder unit

[@edtheminecraftian]

@@Bitt3rSteel >:( still annoys me tho lol It's just that 21 seems wasteful, if the area width is 80 you can only fit three 21 width divisions with a potential waste of 17. Of course I'm not exactly an expert on hoi4 meta, so feel free to ignore my rambling lol, I just like to stick to 20 widths and upgrade to 40 widths if I can afford it. 10 infantry for purely holding the line and/or 7/2 divisions if I'm trying to grind down a constantly attacking AI or need really cheap offensive infantry and can't get enough trucks for mobiles - double up for 40 widths. But you are right, if it ain't broke don't fix it, I just like my nice round numbers lol Love your vids!

[@IgnasVygandas-m2i]

What was that fork💀

[@Roketsune]

In Tsarist Russia, river crosses you!

[@Ask_Mercy]

Why the hell does it look like the same way I was rushed by Germany

[@timkaaa3125]

14:00 NO ASTRAKHAN! astrahan I live in astrakhan

[@justyes1234]

These are my Russia games. Didn't know they were this bad...

[@mirabasta2714]

Hi, can i ask you, why i shouldn't use cavalry recon for infantry? And for what unit is cavalry recon?

[@luco-3po878]

Cavalry recon doesn't give a lot of bonuses so it's just a waste of equipment

[@mrbisshie]

So, when your country is about to lose a war, just say you're the next Rome, and you'll win? lol

[@bonyatabg1847]

3:17 is it just me or did i heard a coin fall

[@someother5512]

He made a big strategic blunder by trying to invade Turkey instead of focussing everything on Germany.

[@munk6576]

disTSARster save

[@fraudfarid2361]

3:17 Eyyyo??

[@gabe75001]

3 research slots in 1944...

[@domschra]

Tsar gaming

[@蔡林翰-v2m]

對你來說，真的太簡單了吧，敵人都跟紙糊的一樣碰到就破 但是一般來說，AI 都會布置 AT部隊作為步兵的武器，不知道為甚麼，你的坦克就從來沒有遇上過呢