The Swedish Lion in the North ROARS!

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[@salxrn]

The fact that Sweden is the richest Nordic country in terms of resources and industry with loads of exports and yet they have a severe lack of ammunition which no other country has is one of the most logical things in HOI4 all things considered.

[@jacksonidontwhatyoutoknowm9480]

I died in my 1st game because o forgot to hard the Norwegian ports and then Germany got past the islands because of one ensercalmef

[@hassetjifrebro8222]

To be fair to paradox. The social democrats really bought in to the whole “war to end all wars” and the League of Nations existed (lol) so why spend anything on the military? Kinda caught with their pants down in 1939. What followed was a massive militarisation and about 550 thousand trained and ready in 1943 and why schmitler decided to not invade in 43 which was planned. The idea was to save Denmark and Norway (literally called that) in June 45 to stop any soviet expansion but well… It ended before that

[@ajburling6060]

⁠​⁠@@jacksonidontwhatyoutoknowm9480I hate when I get ensercalmeffed

[@kellymcbright5456]

That is PDX trying to create balance for the player.

[@reza4795]

@@jacksonidontwhatyoutoknowm9480 me too, i always get ensercalmef

[@Nurullah1445]

We now have come to a time where the Nordic Countries have a bigger focus tree than Japan

[@pakkazull8370]

The best timeline (not biased)

[@execalibur4293]

Its so cursed, when i saw Sweden's focus tree size, i was on my knees

[@nawver4848]

I wish Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines have unique focus too like Machukuo and Vichy France have. They also participated great in WW2 plus getting Maphilindo Federation as formable nation or ASEAN would be hilarious. Alt history such as the core members of ASEAN going communist or fascist would also be good considering most of the member countries are either exploited by European nations or sick of westerners colonization

[@Nurullah1445]

@@nawver4848 Eventually every country will get a focus tree just takes a few years for the dlcs to arrive

[@nawver4848]

@@Nurullah1445 TNO and TWR did justice to many countries however something's off about the alt history or alohistorical focuses. Philippines may be a communist country if the revolution against Spanish Empire succeeded without America intervention or may be fascist if the guns purchased to fight spaniards was delivered on time and not sinked by America due to justification of war against Spanish (it's historically accurate given the Spanish-American war leading to Treaty of Versailles)

[@sunnysky7639]

NO WAY, Paradox figured out how to make focuses that only take less than 35 days! (apart from the like two Germany ones) Mobilisation of Society (1:25) is 7 days! Amazing! They should do this more!! 70 day focuses are horrible...

[@cristianbernal8009]

Mods have known how to make focuses like that for years. Paradox knows how to as well. They just want the game to take a long time to keep some semblence of history.

[@AlphaO7theone]

and so it doesnt get boring easily, trust me, i know from RoN’s unrealistically quick time that everyone gets bored of.

[@rps1276]

70 Day focus trees are basically the reason i do not play Vanilla. Those focus trees only give bonuses. Mod focus trees tell a story or something about a movement.

[@dystop_]

USSR - Path of Marxism-Leninism - 14 days

[@olivernirenberg3566]

@@dystop_ 35 days

[@salxrn]

I still don't understand how you have 180k subscribers, make amazing content even with the limited time you have balancing your family and work life on top of youtube, are incredibly skilled in HOI4 with pretty much everyone's respect but still only get around 10k likes per video. You deserve well over a million subscribers and your videos should be getting way more likes. Love every single one of your videos. Thanks for all of your work!

[@edis0088]

Facts, he is very underrated

[@ArthurMWT-lx8od]

@@edis0088yes he is indeed

[@lemonke4209]

@@edis0088yes he is indeed

[@shadeitplease7383]

Paradox games are far too complicated to pick up to have the same mass appeal as another game/KZbinr of said game lol

[@gingerbread101]

WAIT I THOUGHT HE HAD OVER 1M omg

[@sniper-monkey]

MOM WAKE UP BITT3RSTEEL UPLOADED🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@danielsundberg8511]

Lolll😂😂

[@Dw_w664]

Fr

[@mrkaiser9565]

Real

[@enderkiller97]

37:35 Hitler somehow surviving in Mongolia is mind-boggling as heck 😂

[@natem1579]

I kinda love it lmao, very Kaiserreich-esque

[@mathiasjulkunen9149]

Honestly as a Finn, Det Stornordiska Riket (The Great Nordic Empire) sounds like a great idea if we want a Nordic empire eventually 😂

[@UrjGaming-zw2cj]

I mean the name is fitting great

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

The return in spirit of Gustavus the Great and Carolus Rex! Awesome!🎉🎉🎉🎉🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@micahwest3566]

May he lead the glorious African Union well! 🇸🇪

[@ratwithafork]

I can’t believe they would focus on the nordics when they could make an Antarctica update smh

[@joskarifinaukr6503]

I would love to see that play a role. Neushwabenland allowed Germany to extend the reach of its U-boat fleet even further, and some of the biggest expeditions to the continent of the time were conducted to gain control of more resources for the war effort. While they're at it, maybe they can pop South America's cherry by giving Argentina a thick focus tree, similar in theme to Switzerland but with more focus on creating a beefy spy agency, possibly with sick bonuses for every member of its faction if/when it breaks neutrality. Argentina was a huge espionage hotspot during the war for both the Axis and the Allies. As a sovereign nation with an official policy of neutrality, it afforded all parties involved the opportunity to seed their embassies and consulates with intelligence operatives, effectively becoming the training grounds for Cold War espionage doctrines. It was also one of the few places in the world where nations on either side of the conflict could maintain communications without going through official channels, which were all but shut down in the name of national security.

[@Buzzy_Bland]

Trotsky’s penguin invasion.

[@ChatGPT_ChatbotTest]

​@@joskarifinaukr6503I like the idea of getting a focus tree being equivalent to losing one's virginity

[@joskarifinaukr6503]

@@Buzzy_Bland No, definitely not that.

[@FelidaeEnjoyer]

A new landmass in the south would be epic, along with it paradox could extend the top of the map to the tippity top of russia canada and that norwegian island. Though everything would look incredibly weird since it's a 2d map, and the upper tiles would need to be quite big for realisms' sake, 2d map mercator projection and all

[@Fusseliko]

Actually, the swedish communist path allows you to ally yourself with any of the three large european factions. The guy you start out with, Nils Flyg, was a communist who actually hated Stalin so fucking much that he'd rather work with literal Nazis. With him, you can join the Axis. You later have the option of replacing him with Karl Kilbom, a communist who was aligned with the right opposition and Bukharin. He aligns Sweden with the Allies. I also noticed when I played Sweden yesterday, there's a third option which aligns you with Stalin. I can't remember the guys name tho.

[@ChatGPT_ChatbotTest]

>be Nils Flyg >be important in Swedish communist party >kicked out of the party for not sucking Stalin's dick enough >found rival communist party >embrace naziism "death to communism! Long live communism!" >die in 1943 >refuse to elaborate

[@Anonymuskid]

communist and hating stalin? based.

[@512TheWolf512]

I find this path the most useless, you can't do anything at all to/with the other Nordics, Why'd you ever wanna play it...

[@wargames43]

@@512TheWolf512 I found the new update kinda cool for Norway, Denmark and Finland but to me it completly fcked Sweden and nerfed it into the ground. It just takes so long to get anything done as sweden that i just turn back to other countries

[@buddermonger2000]

​@@wargames43Watch Stakuyi play because he maxed out the industry in 1940

[@lucashassler]

Please do the Nordic Defense Council and a guide for it, I personally love it

[@theo-ow5tz]

I suggest avoiding it when playing co-op mp... i was Finland and Sweden puppeted me and took literally everything i had... most of my civs, all of my mils and most importantly... Mannerheim... Mannerheim gone = enthusiasm gone

[@DuplexWeevil337]

It's good in R56 too

[@JustAskingquestions10]

Yes finaly a video about sweden!!!! Im really excited

[@kova1870]

Those decisions after you hire a specific advisor are super cool. Well done, paradox.

[@AccelEng]

Thanks for the video! Sweden looks way more interesting this patch, I think I'll definitely give it a try~

[@ancaoraathasach]

What a pleasant surprise! Off for tea and this is waiting for when I get back.

[@thomasl2993]

One thing I leanrd with savescum for event in HOI4 is that the number generated is based of the ingame date (it changes for each game of course), so often, reseting the focus and delaying it for a few days helps a lot (i remember trying that sucessfully with the puppet japan focus)

[@SimonGreene]

To keep the NAP going, you can always do the Intel-Mission "place false informaton" or whatever its called. that way you spawn a 24-division fake-army (divisions immediately get deleted when they are being attacked.

[@hatless_spider]

I switched over from a Israeli-Palestinian war video to this Perhaps my priorities are out of whack 😅

[@dizzypukas8410]

You Got your priorities straight bro

[@512TheWolf512]

russo-Ukrainian war is way more important tho. Besides hoi4 of course.

[@dizzypukas8410]

@@512TheWolf512 so we should only worry about the worst war then

[@fletcherthe21st]

Bittersteel a good tank is just 3 man turret, medium canon 2 (close support if you don’t have it yet), two cannons, radios and whatever you want for the last slot but i usually do light machine guns and the bottom stuff you leave the same (christe suspension if you want) and add engines till the speed is 8+ depends on your preference tho

[@red_seven_]

Just did some swedish achievements yesterday and the first thing that came to my mind with the international market was "I should sell all my airplanes, I won't use that outdated stuff anyways...". Selling all your junk early on will definitely be a meta strategy here. Germany can get an insane boost by this btw.

[@friendlyhousenerd7548]

Fun fact from a swede here! Saab still techically exist, they are hired by the state to make military planes and equiment. But not only that, the truck Scania, is actually saab which makes them to. So you can still see alot of saabs rolling around but only like trucks though!

[@vendetta9348]

I think the generic focus tree was stronger because it boosts everything, by 1939 you already formed the nordic empire but the new options seen fun to play

[@TheNolunch]

One thing I've noticed is that Paradox seems to have changed The Old Enemy Stirs focus to be 10% WS OR 10% WT rather than AND in the release version of AAT. Which should allow it to be unlocked much faster by rushing Sieze Landsverk and taking the leader that gives WS.

[@anomalousresult]

Is there a way to remove neutral foreign policy without taking the old enemy stirs? I want to join a faction with friends playing Norway and Finland.

[@darkgodzilla7595]

9:19 Keep up the good work dude, I have some of the same dlcs as you because of your vids. Your an amazing man just keep it up.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thanks, will do!

[@lordmilchreis1885]

Can we appreciate how beatiful the thumbnail is? Bitt3r do you have someone making them or are you the artist?

[@cheeseiusthe69th99]

Glory to the ikean empire

[@mamadwael866]

Plz naem mod

[@razzy1]

​@@mamadwael866arms against tyranny

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

I WAS CHOSEN BY HEAVEN! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Gneisenau1935]

Say my Name when you pray

[@juestle_123sternchen]

Say my name when you pray

[@GlorytotheAutomatons]

@@juestle_123sternchenbruh

[@24adithyanonline]

To the Skies, see Carolus Rise!

[@opschnecke]

Would you consider playing the Austria Between two Giants Mod?

[@crusader2112]

I second this. 😎👍

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Absolutely

[@melvinw123]

As a swede, all your talk about bullying Denmark made me cry of joy

[@danielsundberg8511]

Your videos is The best keep up with the good work

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you like them!

[@danielfeinour9611]

When I did my Sweden run, the only game I've managed to "win," I turned it fascist as the Svea Rike. Naval invaded Latvia and Estonia, and set up a ton of border forts to prepare for the Soviet invasion. With the navy, I actually did very well with them. I used my crappy tier 1 subs for a long time, all the while researching up to the tier 4. My Swedish navy managed to beat the daylights out of the Soviets AND the British. It was so completely broken... and I LOVED IT! I used the army to conquer Norway and Finland. Germany invited me to their faction, and I had already been at war with the Soviets for at least two years. In those two years, I killed close to a million of them and had less than 10,000 Swedes KIA. I only had two fully-equipped armies at any given time, so I used them to do small encirclements in the Soviet north and center. I had so much war participation, and it was just hilarious. Best HOI4 run ever.

[@mattychew8752]

Dunno if your gonna see this but I have been testing out sweden and while im not good at micromanaging my mils I found a pretty reliable way to get your neighbors to do whatever you want. Just park your army on their borders whenever your doing the focuses to make demands of them and they for some reason do it pretty much every time. I highly recommend rushing the war support for the focus that requires either 10% world tension or 10% war support. You can get it much faster with going for the war support you just have to play a balancing act with stability. once I get the king I rush to get denmark and norway as puppets and then I do the anti soviet pact focus and then do the coring focus after saving up pp for pretty much the entire game. Yes its going to suck and yes your going to need to do improved worker conditions to just barely have the 65% stability hammer not land on you. My advisor I highly recommend using is the one that gives extra stability and an operative because that can stack with the illusive gentleman along with the extra stability.

[@mattychew8752]

Also as an addition for any who bother to look the germans will keep their non aggression pact with you as long as you have an army on the border with them so once you have nabbed the land you need just park an army on the border and you will be safe for basically forever

[@ericsaxon5736]

18:30 I wouldn't build that particular tank design because of the reliability. At 80%, it means anytime you move those tanks, just going from one home province to another, there is massive attrition. And yes, you suffer attrition just by moving units. Having tanks that breakdown in peace time in home territories is a very expensive proposition. But you do you, while my tanks go brrr... :D

[@SahebMohammadi-rh3id]

Thanks for your video

[@Arthion]

Do keep in mind that Folkhemmet changes as you do military foci, basically inverting its bonuses from stab and civ/infra and minus war support and factory build speed, later it will give minus stability and minus civ/infra speed whilst giving war support and mil/dockyard build speed instead.

[@512TheWolf512]

It's annoying that I can't keep it in some sort of balance, I simply have to cope with it being entirely flipped

[@FrontlineChief]

Did they make some changes to Sweden since this video? I built my construction and focuses exactly like you did and somehow have 13 less total factories when paused at July 14th and I never catch up. Im not building spy building or anything else that slows me down. Do you think your getting them from trade, because that's the only thing I can think of?

[@ExhaustedPatriot]

I WAS CHOSEN BY HEAVEN

[@meat5552]

I love your content bittersteel

[@lordodin5755]

This focus tree taught me that skf is a swedish brand. Weird to see something i work with in a game kind of surreal.

[@FilipH86]

Happy for new updtate - sad for so few achivements

[@torber5655]

The new thumbnails are great!

[@poisonousbadge126]

These thumbnails are literally the best out of any hoi4 yter.

[@Majiktoof]

Can I cause pain and get you to do an iceland playthrough!😂

[@sheep7]

I LOVE AAT 🔥🔥🔥

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

The button also gives you a lot of compliance.

[@theshattered5936]

Theres something about the fact that Hitler survived and is in charge of Mongolia thats extra wild.

[@Kermit670]

10:14 Really good cars and banzai boys apparently!

[@lomjnkhji2145643]

Hey, did you know that in the 1.13.5 patch paradox added a new decision where you can core the baltics, as well as mecklenburg and hannover after proclaiming the swedish empire? The only thing is that you need to control Ghana, new jersey and the french caribe besides the other stuff. Btw can you make a video doing that please?

[@irelandcm]

The title has loaded yet, but if it's about that Swedish empire

[@samueltrusik3251]

We will take apart the enemy, one step at a time.

[@malcolmduncan]

Can you do Norway? Don't know if my gane is bugged or I'm missing something, but I don't get the army reform decision adter the relevant focus... Anyone know if I'm missing something? Great video as always though.

[@greenitegamingchannel3052]

Bitt3rsteel:i have no manpower The 50,000 man ready to sacrifice their life: 😔

[@TenkoBerry]

Weird KZbin recommended but Good video 👍

[@natem1579]

Bitt3rSteel, we're gonna need a disaster save of the exiled Adolf Khan.

[@AdmiralOfMapping]

Waiting for the Achievment guides!!

[@pekalig0]

I followed your guide, the soviet union gave latvia and estonia their ultimatum just after i puppeted them, they both accepted... i instantly lost both puppets

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Ah that Iceland thing. Just did a recent Brazil game where I was similarly hosed by Italy. Had several puppets. Italy did that whole "Defender of Catholicism" sort of focus that lets them puppet South Americans. They just yoinked all my puppets away with no check. I keep hoping that Paradox at some point kind of provides some sort of check for those things so you don't lose all your subjects without a say.

[@andromidius]

I might try Sweden next. Norway is just pure pain. I thought I'd set up just right to repulse the Germans - and got naval invaded five times in quick succession (by Germany, Italy and Slovakia) all across my coastline and just couldn't react in time despite achieving a more then 10:1 ratio on the invaders because I just lacked the manpower to guard everything and my navy outright refused to intercept incoming ships. Oh, and the Allies landed one division in Norway - when I wasn't being invaded - and then promptly removed it (right before I got invaded again).

[@Marmamartha]

Hello Bitt3rsteel, do you have to option to suggest something to paradox? I am a big fan of Canada. But with the new way of calculating consumer goods, 2 of their focusses are basically useless (War Bonds and If Day). Hope you can bring that up once.

[@Luis_Manuel_Suarez]

HOI4 youtubers whenever a new DLC comes out: 70% plays Non-Aligned, 29% plays Fascist, 1% the other paths xDD I like your videos Bitt3rSteel, just that this thing make me laugh every time xD

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I know, but the monarchy paths just draw me in!

[@Luis_Manuel_Suarez]

They tend to be the funniest tbh

[@comradepripin612]

Still have a Saab 900s in my driveway....unfortunately it isn't running at the moment and finding parts is difficult

[@SERGEANTDORNAN1]

these new thumbnails look beautiful! keep em coming!

[@martinmuller4596]

18:24 Tank Design and fighter

[@jstoned88]

You should check out Norway's Quizling path. Its absolutely nuts.

[@GalactikEdits]

LIBERA ET IMPERA ACERBUS ET INGENS AUGUSTA PER ANGUSTA!

[@thecringemaster2382]

Bro what is the piano music that pops up in your videos? Its catchy

[@danielsundberg8511]

Its fun to se this for me because im swedish

[@ArtistMew]

Me waking up broke

[@hansson2257]

blud knows the great northern war *proud swedish noises*

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

paradox really put some Swedish bias

[@Ancient_Hoplite]

Lol, this Sweden has a stronger industrial base in 1938 than Italy has. Love dlc power creep.

[@mihaianca34]

37:16 sabaton - the lion from the north

[@muscalaur6807]

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS! LIBERA ET IMPERA!

[@resignedfaun2344]

I was doing this and I knew you didn’t want Memel so I puppeted all of Lithuania besides Memel and then Germany declared war on Lithuania which was just Memel I think my game was on crack because Lithuania won the war against Germany I don’t know how they did it but they did

[@YungIsyan]

I did that finland focus only once and they caved with 14 divisions, no improved relations. But IG that was bc i played ahistorical

[@Ghostedpeanuts]

It don’t have arms against tyranny but I can play as Finland with a focus trew

[@mostawesomeguyhere1899]

Cool fact nobody has watched the intire video yet

[@pakkazull8370]

Bittersteel probably has

[@Awesomewithaz]

I have

[@emperoraugustus4047]

how did you get Germany to wait with denmark and norway? my spies finishedthe same day germany attacked norway and denmark did you do some pact with them or something before that?

[@sebastianl8848]

Dont worry Mr. Steel, I 100% condone savescumming

[@GolemHOI4]

Im so excited to get this dlc. Im wondering how its going to change the competitive mo scene

[@theo-ow5tz]

Can't wait to see the new templates the goblins will come up with, something like 12inf+Shovel+recon+2 art

[@spacedolphinproductions8230]

the sabaton larp is real

[@panoskappos2735]

3:16 i remember this tiles had a lot of resources like in here BUT when i played denmarck and annexed sweden to form the NORDIC something the resources where gone in those 2 tiles is that a sweden focus thing or just a bug ?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Sweden can destroy the resources. You have to click a decision to repair the mines, costs 15 ivs and takes 120 days

[@rocket_ing5127]

SAAB stil exists, they mostly make jets

[@floppi7098]

Saab still exists they make the jas 39 gripen! And the truck part of their company group called scania makes trucks

[@commandercorl1544]

9:17 You wanna sell your...WHAT?!?!?!

[@buddermonger2000]

10:13 SAAB doesn't make cars but instead a very very versatile fighter jet

[@Gustav_Kuriga]

It made both.

[@Based_Blue96]

You got to get Hansson to refuse his resignation, and then you get the option to pick Wigforss as PM which is a captain of industry.

[@Marios_theodorou.]

Do the ultimate Greece mod pls❤️❤️

[@joaquindubini3681]

I find it hilarious that Hitler was exiled to Mongolia. Guess he'll be plotting his revenge from there.

[@johanolsson1233]

As a swede i couldn’t agree more with 17:37

[@hendrikmons4231]

I tried denmark today, its euhm questionable. Best thing are the designer of weapons for me :)

[@sahilhossain8204]

Ah yes the resurgence of the Swedish empire 🇸🇪 🗿👌😎👍

[@zackd1eb0hne4]

i think some is different at my game. for example i cannot hire the minister of defense O.o ?

[@MickeytheCat7]

Do Norway next pls

[@oszkarszajlai2991]

As a hungarian I learnt about Raoul.

[@joschuaw27]

What dlc or mod gives you the possibility to take navy and industry

[@Blechmamber]

By Blood Alone DLC

[@nielspoulsen6132]

*Angry dane noises*

[@Sophiebryson510]

👌

[@jakubkotas3617]

I think that Finish were not accepting the puppet thing, bcs they had a german guarantee, which made the AI cocky.

[@user-mc9xh6eo5t]

Would you consider playing the new greek focus tree on the great war redux??

[@theo-ow5tz]

New Greek focus???