This Germany was played so poorly...I had to save it!

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[@ErikaWeiss633]

I'm imagining that every disaster save is literally the commander in charge of the military being fired or "fired" and you're his much more competent replacement. Mildly amusing.

[@pavelslama5543]

Yeah, but in this case he fired himself :D good riddance probably. Its hard to screw up so badly even if you want to.

[@lolloblue9646]

​@@pavelslama5543I think they call it retiring or stepping down

[@DISLIKEPRIDE]

I had this exact same thought xD who ever was in charge gets fired and Bittersteel takes over the position.

[@talosisoursavior3061]

mr h had a stroke and stopped fucking everything up

[@insignificantgnat9334]

Less firing and more of a the Fuhrer having a bunker party.

[@goin2kilu]

the guy who sent you this fucked up so bad dude it was only 1940 in game 😭😭

[@gaemeer895]

it kinda looks like he did it on purpose ngl

[@Open89182]

Yeah​@@gaemeer895

[@JustFloppa1410]

@@gaemeer895 fr

[@poophere278]

@@gaemeer895yeah who don’t love disaster saves

[@user-zk2by7fs9y]

Definitely on purpose. Bro used air, navy, actually created SPAA, I have never used SPAA even after hundreds of hours. Looks like a troll @@gaemeer895

[@Janosaltaccount]

he said "lets show them bittersteel" and then bittersteeled over all of them

[@Alienmeth]

His troops say Under the Gold, the Bittersteel. 😂

[@mickethegoblin7167]

Actually goes hard af

[@spahgaming69420]

17:27 Mustache man honest Reaction when Italy loses in Africa

[@MrGhostastic]

LOL

[@josiahm.8711]

Bro got reduced down to Prussia instead of Germany

[@yaboikindabored9831]

17:27 *ITAALLLLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY* Italy and Germany every HOI4 timeline

[@catsi563]

read my comment above on and those are just two of the examples of how in the 14 attempted playthroughs of germany italy has scewed me over in 10 of them through some form of stupidity or shenanigans

[@bachtruongson9408]

"NOOOO ITALYYYYY! I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE WHEN DID THEY JOIN THIS WAR????? ITALYYYYYYYY *angry Bitt3rSteel noises* but on the bright side😃

[@PurplePerpetrator]

The craziest thing is that the moment i read this comment he said that in video. Pretty funny!

[@haikalmiftah2529]

I put the timestamp here just in case I want to hear that again 😂: 17:21

[@hydranmenace]

Hoi4 is one of those weird enjoyably hated games where you have a good time when you start but want to die the longer you play. I love it no matter how much I suck.

[@govindsundar]

Exercising his navy in 1940 while at war. Holy shit how bad is

[@simonnachreiner8380]

With no fuel, good god. The first thing I do when fuel hits 200 days is cease all non-strike force naval operations 100 days the navy becomes decorative. You can survive without a navy, without fuel you're screwed.

[@Mert_Adnan_OYU]

I just bought membership just to whach this video

[@Mert_Adnan_OYU]

Also where can I send disaster saves ? I have ton of it with austro hungary since I forked by germany a lot

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I have added a link to the form, in the description!

[@Karakanow]

L

[@bukanIqbal375]

​@@Karakanow*W

[@Karakanow]

@@bukanIqbal375 *orst decision

[@mr_man_in_the_white_van]

when new disaster save: WOOO when no disaster save: aww when submit disaster save: WOOO when no play disaster save: aww

[@Blackandwhitecat-to5ll]

17:27 that made me ROFL, with that gritting tone shift!

[@acertab3730]

You know it's a good day when Bittersteel posts a disaster save I'm glad to see another entry in this series!

[@ErikaWeiss633]

Could be that researching further in research speed isn't so much the research speed but rather the modules you get from it and the fact that the most advanced fire control is locked behind it. Only reason I research that far anyways.

[@Erclair]

My question is: How tf you could lost this much in 1940!??

[@12gark]

He even had the UK on his side as GERMANY. I thought I was bad when I struggled to take down France as Belgium, and this guy managed to get obliterated as Germany!

[@mariadinoraaraujodossantos9891]

Skill Issue 🎉

[@Qwertyui606]

Probably because he had space marines with 0 fuel.

[@War_is_cool]

@@Qwertyui606those were actually some of the worst space marines I’ve seen

[@seanm241]

11:10 "I'm not gonna tell you how to play" he said in the video about telling people how to play

[@Idunooo]

omg i havent played hoi4 since jan 2023 and this vid came on my recommended and i just got so much nostalgia from ur channel and this game

[@FSSRTNO]

i dont even play hoi4 but holy shit that looks like pain

[@awesomeness9824]

Grand Battle Plan being beneath you is Based, also for me when I play non-historical I am almost always (75%

[@mordreek]

I gotta roll my eyes on Grand Battleplan being a 'crutch' as that's such a subjective attempt to invalid the doctrine when you can apply 'crutch' to anything that works consistently in this game.

[@Hyde_Hill]

He went for the space marine strat which is a good one with medium SP AA and somehow F'd it up. Quite impressive. Guess because Ahistorical and the French went to war over Sudetenland. As Germany is still weak early game.

[@ColonelPeppers]

17:14 Bottom right corner notification. Ooh, Bitt3rSteel isn't going to like this.

[@moriorinvictus9054]

This channel got me to buy Hoi4 and a ton of DLC.... Dear God I hope I know what the hell I'm doing when its finished installing. Thank you Bitt3rSteel for all the great content you smooth salesman you.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@strategygamemike]

Amazing how easy you make this game look. I see it's on steam sale, I'll probably buy it.

[@jordanprince2441]

Thanks!

[@Mark16757]

Bittersteel sounded genuinely agitated when he said “Why are you selling things” 10:14

[@DieNutcracker1977]

I always look forward to a Friday every week because I know Bitt3rsteel posts his videos. Its one of the little things that keeps me going.

[@glauberglousger956]

This feels like a beginner game, with some idea of what's going on Mine was similar, except the in game tutorial sucked so I fumbled around with research and eventually lost due to declaring war on a nation that had allied guarantee on it (Poland or Yugoslavia, I think the latter, and while I can handle two fronts now, I barely knew how frontlines worked, so was stuck and eventually capitulated when the US started nuking me) Your game tutorial video definitely helped me though

[@jellevanalthuis5289]

Hoi4 playerbase: this is a disaster!! Bittersteel: Not to worry, were still flying half a Germany!

[@francescoboselli6033]

Judging by the SPAA in his division, I think that he aimed to use "space marines" like Chaotic Florius 😂

[@deluxehipster8714]

You know what, Im gonna go play an absolute dogshit Yugoslavia game and send it over. This seemed too easy.

[@kaios26k90]

17:21 it’s not a bittersteel video until he gets mad at Italy for existing.

[@Kinkedorpheus74]

Bitt3rsteel new video just dropped 🥳

[@raginasiangaming910]

I am impressed. It probably took more work for this guy to fuck it up than it took Bittersteel to fix it.

[@hephsmith3738]

I think this guy was trying to use Space Marines, but he made Spac Marnies

[@peteclark6838]

Bittersteel - I deliver drive for a living. I enjoy listening to your adventures in HOI4. Thank you!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@wrtekcz538]

7 years war borders lol

[@mustafabeyazitayata2558]

Hi Bittersteel I love your videos those is just too good! I especially like videos with Germany. Can you please make a tutorial video about navy with Germany please.

[@astrobat4142]

The thing with Engineering research is that you get a really good tank module for Improved Computing Machine, which is worth going for. This is probably the reason the person who submitted went so far in the engineering tree

[@kopazwashere]

this save is reason why I will never turn off historical focus.

[@Citieskylines]

@Bittersteel, can you make a tutorial on how to send disaster saves?

[@0ld_Scratch]

He named everything Elite for the Moral Boost of course, think about the scene from Kingdom of Heaven, when Balian declares his soldiers to be knights. He had still held Prussia, so I think it was absolutly justified.

[@cyriell]

You know something will be wrong with bittersteel if there isnt a futurama meme at the start of the video

[@TheAexitus]

I'm really impressed you can pronounce Ö . How long you trained this ? :D (Like your Hoi4 vids a lot)

[@starborn6239]

Hey! I'd love to see how you deal with using mods and changing them according to the disaster saves and how you even recieve and use the disaster saves in the first place...

[@ElMota-mj1yn]

I really liked your videos playing with the Ottoman Empire and Germany.

[@berkdikmen95]

You could have converted interwar med aa to med flametanks since you already had thousands of them

[@user-wx1iv1fw3d]

這位兄弟像是第一次玩這遊戲，錯過了所有應該做的事

[@ancaoraathasach]

Yayy! A normal video.

[@itslowdefinition]

No matter the timeline, italy always finds a way to screw over germany

[@unaiibirriaga2354]

Hey BitterSteel, could you make a guide for uk pls? I tried playing it but I mostly don't know how to play them

[@lorenzmaut3708]

The disaster save i think was 100% caused by making a template and not having enough equipment for it, he forgot to put the ships back to port, and he had no fuel or synthetics. And i think there is no need to say that Battle plan is bad, but in this case if you don't have fuel, you don't have tanks. You can defeat the AI easily with any strategy, you just need to have a stockpile, supplies, something to stop enemy Air, and good soft attack. Germany for new players is really hard because you are forced to design multiple planes, tanks, divisions, managing more than 100 units + the naval combat, Multiple fronts.

[@francescofurlato1478]

17:03 when you get naval invaded

[@mottenfreak]

Feels weird watching this video knowing that i had a similar playthrough a few months ago. Same division template and faction name. I managed to get 5 Generals full of these Elite Divisions cause i dismissed air completely and sold it to get even more factories. And i had the whole world conquer'd in 42-43 cause spacemarines to brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[@serisothikos]

That frontline unit is so expensive, and for what!

[@gagezi11a]

Bro recreated the Prussian borders In 1795

[@florianbielawa2919]

AA tank? Someone has been watching Florius.

[@Fireburnin21]

I swear to god these people are just sending you their multiplayer saves

[@kirb1111]

are you taking modded disaster saves (rt56 plus other convenience mod)

[@swaggerog7284]

Another Spider-Man movie be like Uncle Ben’s back on the menu boys

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

I simply don't understand how someone could suck this badly with Germany. In my friend's first ever game, he made a lot of mistakes, but still won the land war, only failing to launch naval invasions. All you really need is a good division and understanding of the economy.

[@tiraniadelpueblo3215]

"Boomers rules The world! As in our Timeline i Guess" 🤣

[@rocketlyy1504]

You can play in the next video with romania in bice?

[@kerkonig5102]

elekltronics tech is only relay viable if you tech rush ahead of time technologies. like engines 3 or mechanized infantry. then its awsome. if not then its useless.

[@connortheandroidsentbycybe7740]

Ain't no way in hell that this is natural. Maybe the player was playing as France & switched to Germany before submitting? Because to fuck it so badly is a galactic oof

[@lolloblue9646]

BS before being proven wrong: "Grand Battleplan is bad, not worth it." BS after being proven wrong: "It's a crutch, it's beneath me." Dude, you're great but for the love of God just take the L and say "I don't like it, thus I won't use it." THAT is a valid reason.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I don't like the icon and thus reject it out of hand.

[@lolloblue9646]

@@Bitt3rSteel fair point. Personally I mostly use Superior Firepower. If I expect a very defensive and methodical game, with long planning and a lot of entrenchment required, that is when I pick Grand Battleplan

[@Cheesburger1009]

​@@lolloblue9646grandbattle plan sounds so lame compared to how Superior Firepower sounds like.

[@rmsthunder7872]

HOI4's greatest Masochist

[@user-zn7nd5ti6w]

Not even close. Kristibbs is the one

[@sahilhossain8204]

Lore of What if Roman Britain survived? Momentum 100

[@konstantinospopotonasios7342]

17:25 How i feel when Italy cant conquer poor Greece

[@knutderklein9994]

Have you ever played as Turkey because you wanna chill with slow development style. And then you revive Ottoman Sultanate, defeating Greece and you think Yugoslavia would be easy. But, it is 1940 and the Germans declared war on them too and triggering endless naval invasion on Anatolia.😢 I felt violated and it traumatize me to this day. Only Bittersteel's suffering that could console me😢😢

[@bringbackpolandball]

Bro went from Prussia 2.0 to German Europe

[@kakkakapwppwow]

Bittersteel Q&A when

[@bigbison6593]

Someone should make a disaster save where they are a majority navy Canada.

[@ProbsNotLiam]

I saw the Reddit post where he said he’d try it

[@VonPlanter]

Babey dont hurt me...💀💀

[@soratonin]

So Reddit never lets you down by always letting you down (in these disaster saves) and that means you’re never gonna give it up and run around and desert it like Denmark did to their nation here?

[@RitterVonHohenzollern]

epic vid

[@ughuggy3848]

Ireland is united? This save is bizarre

[@Feldwebel.freidrick]

Bruh, this save looked almost impolite at the beging

[@anon9469]

0:48 Why do I suspect that IRL Germany would/did try this?

[@Grozbaff]

Dude got rekt in 1940 what the hell :x

[@unifiedhorizons2663]

someone like bruh me who got beat by netherland in 1938 since i was tried to cap uk stop playing after that

[@dangerousnoodle8779]

You have bigger balls than I, trusting the frontline AI with your "offense" divisions instead of setting them on an empty garrison order somewhere random and microing them manually The AI these days is way better at countersnaking my snakes and encircling my tanks before infantry can strat redeploy in, and this is not helped by the frontline AI deciding half of my tanks are better suited 300 miles away

[@German_empire19147]

Haters:there is no one that is a goat at hoi4 Bittersteel:

[@Saloman4ik]

is it failed space marine army run? medium tanks into walking inf - LMAO

[@randomguy-3.14]

Germany is the king of disaster saved, and the soviets arent far behind. However, no one ever does Japan, wouldn't it be fun? A disaster more focused on navy

[@gabrielsylar3404]

15:24 What is this soviet tank divisions?

[@viligerm6592]

That ain't Germany, that's Prussia from 1797

[@user-wb5rv2np2y]

Could you try and play as Italian East Africa?

[@sjlbean]

He was cooking

[@jadeorbigoso5212]

bro became Prussia

[@sora3]

@23:23 that reeeeee due to Spain XD

[@marcograssi8448]

man this was difficult XD

[@mazaluo]

Play in the state of Libya and rebuild the Senussi emirate from central Africa to the coasts of the Mediterranean

[@rahabsuliman757]

Yes!

[@Buddyboi49]

Yo the ace pilots actually do something? I thought it was just like a thing to let you know your wining in the air.

[@AveragePakistaniChild]

I haven’t been in my house in 4 weeks.

[@RuanLopesOficial]

Por que ninguém está falando sobre a qualidade máxima do vídeo ser 144p?

[@Donlot_]

It's nice to see the disaster saves be back, although personally i would find it a lot more interesting if, instead of just instantly converting everything to how you would do it, you try to run with the general Idea that was going on in the save. In this case maybe using the medium tank AA in some elite divisions, staying grand battleplan, keeping the tank companies that were already invested into, and just rolling with it, etc.

[@Imagoober1195]

Huzzah

[@paulrasmussen8953]

The guy making a new faction rahter then keep axos screwed Bitter over. Japanese shogunate always joins the axis