This is the hardest start in HoI4. Can I beat it?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Check out War Thunder to support the channel and score free stuff: playwt.link/bitt3rsteel2024 Available for a limited time only, so make sure not to miss it!

[@keyeater]

Ah yes, I am sure irl Germany also trained their soliders War Thunder and they only begun loosing because their Premium Subscription ended and H1tlar was too greedy to renew it.

[@RNKel1]

THE SNAIL CONSUMES 🐌

[@baribari1000]

hope it's not realistic enough to cause PTSD

[@adamplayz5955]

why am i seeing war thunder sponsors everywhere ot of a sudden if this keeps up we will start 2nd revolution

[@loganmayer3671]

I'm glad you did this sponsorship! I was averse to war thunder until I played. It's really a decent game for free and you 100% do not need to spend money to have fun or win. The vehicle historical accuracy, and modular damage system is what I (a fellow war/history nerd) love the most. I.e. you can only penetrate certain parts of tanks with certain caliber or penetrating ammo. Pretty much anything under 10mm wont do any damage unless the crew is completely exposed. Its one of the only good sponsors out there I feel.

[@Magnic_]

Bittersteel:"I have a plan" *Viewers hear a sound of 10 cans opening and a bottle being unscrewed* Bittlersteel:"Alcoholism"

[@thespectre5403]

10 hour standing ovation.

[@TactfulWaggle]

Man, if only hitler didn't kill himself, teleported his men and equipment out of encirclements, summoned millions of soldiers out of thin air, recaptured lands they had already lost and got more soldiers out of those lands that have already been tapped clean before, asked nicely for the soviets and allies to just leave their equipment in their frontlines, he could have saved the war

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Simple mistakes, no?

[@marifrit2490]

Skill issue

[@thenewsonatrain]

Tbh it was doable. Waffen ss recruitment drives, soviets would've likely left a lot of equipment untouched purely because they thought they were finished. They managed to evacuate staligrad Still very hard though

[@SanePizza]

@@thenewsonatrain Kid named Little Boy

[@deesen.4815]

​@@thenewsonatrainDoable? That's insane to even think of.

[@kopazwashere]

26:40 that chinese division sailing all the way from china to germany to save germany

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Chiang was a real one

[@eancloud3529]

@@Bitt3rSteel the realest

[@SgtHawk45]

Now that's an ally for life.

[@marifrit2490]

The idea of the entire remnants of the German army just moving themselves near the border with Denmark holding out till the allies and soviets suddenly decide kill each and then reconquering their entire country with the threat of nuclear annihilation at any moment is quite the cursed timeline.

[@KnownNiche1999]

That was unironically the historical plan of the Germans. Hitler was hoping and constantly talking about the 'fragile alliance' between the Soviets and Allies eventually breaking due to their differences. He hoped that them attacking eachother would allow Germany to pick a side (the Allies) and sign a conditional peace.

[@lmperlum]

Just like in the history books

[@felraksis]

Now someone should make a 7th of May Mod. That sounds "fun" doesnt it Bittersteel?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Please don't

[@Number16-10]

​@@Bitt3rSteelWhy not?

[@Panzersoldaten]

@@Number16-10well if there’s a scripted peace treaty then you can’t even win cause you can’t take back Germany in 1 day

[@catfacecat.]

so fun...​@@Bitt3rSteel

[@Darklordnl]

from the dutch perspective this was a bad day. a german man used his machinegun to shoot at celebrating people on the dam in Amsterdam. a lot of people died there that day.

[@umut9107]

mein fuhrer, steiner has attacked!

[@mysterioushomoguy]

Aber der Führer ist tot...

[@jewiesnew3786]

How do you think Hitler would react to that?

[@MrEdioss]

@@jewiesnew3786 💀

[@umut9107]

​@@jewiesnew3786 he will shot himself thinking he lost his mentality and started dreaming about war is won

[@crusaderspace4220]

the bad ending. (for the allies)

[@arminiuscherusci4410]

I really enjoyed the live streams you did. I genuinely love watching how to get out of such a dire situation, especially if the videos are longer(like hours lol). Great content bittersteel!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@carterlok]

​@@Bitt3rSteelI sadly only was with one livestream :(

[@-Credfield-]

this mod is cursed, in my game, sweeden declared war on me, the soviets declared war on turkey the british, french and americans keep naval invading neutral, yes, NEUTRAL spain (and walk tru their land back to port to keep naval invading), democratic australia is on the comintern, and china and prc is at war with the allies; its 1953 and i keep getting nuked every 2 weeks, they dont even nuke my units, they nuke hamburg over and over and over, i recover all my core territory just to get pushed back again, the usa has 51, yes, 51 divisions per tile and they are aggresive as fuck, my modern 30w tank divisions cant push usa inf, i think its too late at this point also the soviet ai give up at some point and they dont even move units dunno what happend

[@ultrabeargames314]

sounds like a disaster save

[@pology4618]

ya just gotta keep grinding until USA runs out of manpower while on scraping the barrel

[@jakkuhl6223]

Even the AI hates the late game.

[@NoNameforreal]

Late game experience

[@Yorkington]

the continuous nuking of hamburg got me bro

[@walnzell9328]

Nono Germany: **Basically on its death bed.** Norway an Denmark still under German occupation: There is nothing we can do.

[@karloveliki5373]

You know you can say the word "Nazi" and nobody will judge you? Please stop censoring historical words.

[@AdamantLightLP]

Germany using nothing but Denmark to survive and turn the tides

[@viligerm6592]

Bittersteel: Kaiserredux is too weird for me, I don't like it Wait till bro hears about Red Flood

[@Torantes]

Don't let bro play Red Flood 💀

[@coltydoodledoof8237]

Advisor: Ummm... H-hello general secretary... Stalin: How is the battle of Berlin's going? Advisor: You mean the 2nd battle of Stalingrad? Stalin: Yea-wait what!?

[@Sloth_YTMemez]

Stalin:😮😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@LeetleToady7]

“General Secretary… Zhukov did not have enough forces. The counterattack did not take place.”

[@dzimi9281]

War thunder ad almost made me cry. I just got a chance to get off it for a few minutes

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Get back in the fight, soldier

[@tovarisch_stalin5380]

Your life is short, but the grind is long. It never stops

[@petrakristalova6089]

Who do ya'll grind, in half a year Ive got br 3 Japan, air

[@tovarisch_stalin5380]

@@petrakristalova6089 i got rank VII Rússia going to VIII, and from USA to Japan have rank V, all tanks

[@Aetherblade-z4o]

​​@@tovarisch_stalin5380I have f15a in the USA tech tree max grinded yes I am insane (I grinded to the F15A in two weeks by using the power of not having a life)

[@loccakho]

BitterSteel is the first and probably the last person i know to ever pull a sucess defense on not collapsing as End-game Germany, then pull a Barbarossa and Sea Lion

[@cartridge876]

When I first saw germany I did a genuine spit take, cause like, what the hell

[@蔡林翰-v2m]

這是結束，也是不可能的戰鬥

[@Goodgodneedmahtea]

"Saving Germany" 💀

[@theorangeoof926]

Yeah uh what Germany

[@countingtls]

43:10 exactly 666 factories before the invasion of Briton.

[@foxycomtoddy2343]

"Disaster Sent By: AustrianPainter1889"

[@Sloth_YTMemez]

😂😂😂😂😂🎉

[@saltTERR]

Hey! I'm that guy that did countryballs for your first videos. Looking back at them, they are pretty ugly (and I think you shouldn't have paid me). But also I was 14/15 years old back then so you helped me a bit. I just wanted to say that I still watch your videos and they are pretty cool! So I wish you all the best!

[@comelevi2995]

Good for you

[@I_am_a_Portuguese]

Nah, they are great. Very cool you can do it. Now your countryballs must be even better ig

[@prohacker5086]

28:00 Miracle of Karl Dönitz

[@Grubnar]

29:41 "Hier kommst die Sonne!"

[@spoinkje]

Loved the Killzone refrence at 30:30

[@radec5437]

Its great!

[@Grubnar]

29:41 GOTT IM HIMMEL!!! That is not the alt-history I was expecting!

[@pietpanzerpanzer5335]

7:49 he did the counterattack that steiner was supposed to do!!!!

[@Willing_Herold]

Steiner’s Counterattack! Literally Steiner, it’s just Steiner.

[@Commander_Ray]

Gets nuked repeatedly "ehh that's annoying" continues on aa if nothing happened boy is that a poorly implemented feature and a bad job by the AI

[@MrMolecule]

as a person who has beaten this mod twice i see this as great content. btw i never lost berlin and mustache man saw the fall of uk,ussr and uncle sam.

[@mostafakhalil6030]

How on earth did you beat it on April 1945 twice!?

[@user-db4lk7yg3o]

post it. if you're telling the truth thats insanely impressive

[@MrMolecule]

@@user-db4lk7yg3o well i actually did it while having 10 fps constantly so i cant post it lol my pc can hardly run hoi iv

[@kiriseraph9674]

@@MrMolecule Was it an older version?

[@karloveliki5373]

Just say "Hitler" ffs, it's so stupid to censor historical words

[@ryankline1164]

That sponsor video face reveal 😂

[@DönerMann1]

He also uses a face cam in his streams

[@Kuwaiti_with_gun]

He’s shown his face a lot though

[@order8510]

Baldersteel

[@LeroxYT]

Agent 47 steel

[@natem1579]

I feel so uncomfortable, I've always envisioned him as a sentient countryball

[@kazakhstanisastate4614]

black ice version of this mod when?

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

Last thing I would expeact here is an ame-chan pfp, lol.

[@kazakhstanisastate4614]

@@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding i just have good taste

[@quedtion_marks_kirby_modding]

@@kazakhstanisastate4614 True.

[@Mc-machanical]

Dear GOD NO! NOT BLACK ICE WITH THIS SITUATION!! 😨💀

[@dolgulduripostaszolgalat7010]

Been waiting for someone to make an endsieg mod for black ice, altough I'd prefer a 1944 maybe 43' start date.

[@Homeminboss]

37:45 who is going to tell him?

[@zephyrna6249]

Mussolini was busy as a Christmas tree decoration at this time. God rest his soul.

[@helelele649]

As a German- I'm pretty impressed by your pronounciation of our words!

[@emperorgiz1]

Steiner's counterattack really outdid itself

[@bjek343]

They should make a mod called Heir to the Reich, where you play as Grandadmiral Dönitz, with the start date being the Flensburg government, and then you have to try and survive. Perhaps instigate a war between the Soviets and the allies.

[@ajuntapall8860]

I'd play it

[@tomasdariuspaun7586]

Thanks for the video BitterSt33l! I'll proceed from here to NOT try the mod.

[@superduperlayne977]

Hitler from the grave: “Man wtf. Why’d I shoot myself.”

[@bloodbonnieking]

He went to Argentina dw

[@birisi916]

Agartha*

[@visyxl]

I would like to see what hitler would think of doenitz after seeing him conquer more than he did

[@kiriseraph9674]

Probably think he checked out too soon lol.

[@AnagarGatughanYT]

I can smell the Steiner jokes from a mile away...

[@xXxMonkeyBoomxXx]

*Jozef Tiso is back said with little bit happy voice* , is a sentence i would have never guessed someone ever was to say 😂😂

[@ghostblade7061]

Truman hearing that Soviet relations had deteriorated so badly that the allies are Comintern went to war, allowing Germany to make a spectacular comeback

[@tamenightmare44]

The only game to exist that makes you scream out 'THE REICH IS BACK!'

[@Madmanof]

Saving a real life disaster save.

[@X.M_Mapper]

I love how you literally grind your eyes in screen just to save Germany multiple times

[@culannthehound94]

You say you don't have my kind of endurance but you waited out two years holding out for the perfect time to attack. You sir have the endurance that the rest of us mortals can only dream of.

[@cc0767]

Hats off to you, seeing some of your livestreams I did not think this would be possible. I can definitely see the dev patching the allied soviet war out next.

[@mazowszan_mapping]

28:07 You:"We're back in CONTROL!" My head: Sabaton refference?

[@moishesdeluxeshekelshack8576]

10:09 does this mean in theory you could create a template that consists of 1 infantry and then swap all encircled units over to the template in order to recover more equipment?

[@loganbrick69]

This is literally the plot of Wolfenstein, where the Reich initially lost, but with the help of Dr.Totenkopf won the war

[@spielfieber6908]

imagine beeing the soviets in this scenario. Pushing the germans all the way to Berlin and beyond all while loosing 13 million people just to effectively get barbarrosad again

[@worms136]

Happy to finally see the glorious run that you alluded to in the streams. Shame that one got bugged out so badly.

[@deanmckellar619]

Going from Losing Wars to inciting and intensifying other Wars Man is one Nuked Mountain Range away from the Belkan Dream

[@Mark00266]

4:00 that advertisement was actually pretty cool instead of saying "ToDayS SpoNsOr Is WAr TUdNSr"

[@ashthompson6981]

44:39 Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania

[@yudhat1700]

that was V2 for

[@ashthompson6981]

@@yudhat1700 hwat?

[@suldawbatireidui7072]

Big brother is watching you

[@mateuszoracz4487]

Still disappointed the game had to magically whip out millions of imaginary equipment to stop you from winning :D

[@quarreneverett4767]

Thats paradox games in general they cant make ai work so well so they cheat

[@iMajoraGaming]

​​@@quarreneverett4767 i still love how they maintain *MILITANTLY* that the eu4 ai doesn't cheat on dice rolls and whatnot, because i was there in like 2015 when someone put together a massive statistical table and it showed that on average, the player rolls objectively worse than the ai, to an extent that cannot be excused or explained in any way save for the ai having weighted dice. some of the individual composed battle-sequences of rolls were Dream-levels of unlikely if you assume the dice aren't weighted to favour the ai. honestly eu4 in general is essentially one of the worst-made games from paradox because they absolutely loaded it to the gills with dice. almost every mechanic is RNG-based, and if you want ironman on, you have to genuinely just accept that the same 8 nations are going to have artificial buffs that make them drastically outperform both you and all but 7 of the other ai nations. this is *including* the fact that the ai is specifically designed to target the player, even in instances where it doesn't make sense. the ai will genuinely ruin itself and destroy its own economy and ability to survive if it means it can even mildly inconvenience you. it will fundamentally disassemble itself and be fully occupied by another ai and *still* sail 1 regiment across the globe to burn a colony in arctic alaska that has 42 people and a single cantankerous walrus inhabiting it, but only if it's *your* colony. the ai also gets just... outright cheats, like disabling *naval attrition* for *all* ai nations. they don't even hide it either, that's intended design for them. the ai will proudly and defiantly sit in range of naval batteries where it says that it's taking 5-15% attrition, and just... chill there. forever. because they, and i am serious, didn't want to do that work on the ai. the ai just ignores an entire aspect of something and they didn't even attempt to make it pretend to be adhering to it. they genuinely just said "yeah we thought it was too complicated for the ai so we just turned it off." ???????????? this is what we put 4000 hours into. we are but hamsters, on the wheel of turmoil and tribulations. we cannot get out. drums. drums in the deep. they are coming.

[@quarreneverett4767]

@@iMajoraGaming i noticed alot of games just devolve into death match no matter what they claim. For stellaris for example there are mods for more diplomacy options. Disables how the ai gets turned off when they your vassal and tries to circumvent cheating ai to make them not get cheated resources Yoh look into ai and stuff of their games. The setuo and layouts can be unsustainable and manage to keep empire running and resources

[@quarreneverett4767]

Games as in paradox games. There are several games that have legit ai and restrict the chesting to player enabled options and difficulty settings

[@strawbunnyfps]

​@iMajoraGaming the ai certainly does cheat a lot and i really don't like lucky nations as a mechanic either buttttt at the same time the game is already really easy once you get past the steep learning curve of ur first 50-100 hours so the ai kinda needs it

[@lukaade1089]

I can't believe Steiner's attack made all this possible

[@AvarageYoututbeUser]

In this timeline,is Mein premier,german troops has entered moscow.

[@Theepicspartan55]

Glad you managed to fix the integer underflow issue

[@Saaarmbii]

Ive never watched a man completely unravel before on stream. Sensational content.

[@Rusfor_Airsoft]

36:40 “oh, oh.” 😭

[@carpet163]

I forgot how entertaining your videos were. I swear you have a power that sucks me into your videos and I can't stop watching until it's over.

[@Arpads_Legacy]

Once again, thank you for your suffering throughout not just this run, but also the one you made in the streams. Sooo unfortunate that it got corrupted, you could had finished that easily.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*Truly, this was the Triumph of the Will.*

[@AftorZ]

I like how in the end your puppet f soviets still got eastern Poland due to the script. The game logic is beyond reason 😂😂

[@chelovektm5180]

"Hopes and Dreams" is one hell of a theatre name

[@Gulitize]

Funny that you probably got the same bug that killed you stream run, but this time it helped you

[@maxkaufmann833]

Hey Bittersteel! In Polish, W is like a V, and a L with a dash through it is a W. So Lwów, is "Lvov", and Lodwz is "Woodz" (roughly).

[@Mr.Viridian]

Love the Aldrahill style sponsorship very nice really would love to see more. Also I would really like to see more cooperation of you more "tiny" HoI IV KZbinrs it's really fun especially it really feels like you all (Aldrahill, Florious, you and so in) really feel good together. Beet wishes and hold it up😊

[@YorkshireNachteinbruch]

I love the futurerama edits, it just works

[@yigitkeles3217]

28:58 efe our heart with u my turk brother!

[@YiannissB.]

An oversight of the mod is that German manpower doesn't simulate the millions of loses Germany had gone through by 1945. Bittersteel took retook a Germany that was unscathed

[@eliasthememelord]

13:47 Roleplaying Donuts very well here

[@zootoon1gaming288]

And Bittersteel took a final gamble, a final blitzkrieg, in the hope of absolute victory.

[@Mr_Godmode]

You should've saved the game just before the soviets died and then saved them

[@-w-6323]

as a german , you dont even understand how nice it is to hear a yter pronounce german names and cities correctly ( at least most of the time)

[@spahgaming69420]

"yay Josef Tiso is back,the slovak republic has been restored in bratislava! Oh..."

[@t_y8274]

I love the endsieg videos, please keep making them!

[@XtremedudeX]

Imagine this was a para-universe History Books be going crazy

[@goreignak]

That was absolutely AWESOME! Your pain was worth it, my friend!

[@nashandra6634]

The nuking of East Berlin after you took it back had me in tears, they were tired of you 😂

[@ErikKnoll-im6wl]

When black ice combined with ragnaröck

[@GavinDeYoung]

I like how Hitler kills himself thinking all was lost with Berlin 😂

[@kaydenpeterson9942]

Not inherently the war but his own life, he would have been tortured or flat out killed if the Soviets captured him

[@dabbinghitlersmemes1762]

I like how you think Hitler killed himself

[@tokul76]

Bold dude with big hat and neck tie is back in Italy. Mod forgot where he ended IRL. On day 2 of this game when Germans were demobilizing to their Alps in Denmark. Palanga having a better port than Liepaja in HOI4 is some pipe dream. Libau/Liepaja even had subs base. As far as I know Lithuania started working on port in Palanga only after mustache man finished his focus.

[@Apolli0n-168]

And now the creator will be making the mod 10x harder. God have mercy on us all

[@raffaeledivora9517]

Loved the Douglas Adams quote

[@NeroPiroman]

the world if stainer was successfull

[@Friedrich687]

30:29 Holy based using Scolar Visari quotes like that

[@Ongezellig_American]

28:54 Moloch: 👹

[@eligarza9184]

Ngl when he took his capital again and was like "WE ARE BACK IN CONTROL" my mind went straight to Sabaton 😂😂

[@RadBruce.]

"FORCE THEM TO SURENDER"

[@sparks3430]

Sabaton sucks

[@RadBruce.]

@@sparks3430 I hope you have the day you deserve.

[@Grubnar]

"Hier kommst die Sonne!" - Die Amerikaner

[@AdamantLightLP]

@RadBruce What a nothing comment. What you wrote means absolutely nothing.

[@samg5463]

That Killzone reference 30:32 is just supreme

[@paul.facciolo6985]

the dankus vernacular is infecting other hoi youtubers

[@gunterhunerbein9510]

This is peak disastersave.

[@Bobclone350]

The news must go crazy

[@regnoditalia2014]

Steiner's counterattack

[@scottandcoke1342]

I wash myself with a rag on a stick

[@threatbear]

Me too

[@Arselpang]

Would love to see a Courland Pocket mod for HOI4, where you try and defend and hold off the red horde for as long as possible. Could be called The Courland Reich.

[@aquatic-protogen]

Hey congrats man. I watch you struggle with this mod on stream. Glad you finally basically beat it...... Though now the mod dev is gonna modify it now and make it harder.

[@GunGoBoom]

ngl the broadcast leading to the war thunder sponsor was pretty cool

[@PhantomFly_Br2]

That killzone quote, N I C E.

[@Dan_Mak_21]

"Call an ambulance! But not for me!" Karl Dönitz

[@Draconatus24]

I absolutely loved this one, well done!

[@erqadezz]

That went much better then during stream. Fun to watch, i can only imagine the pain on your side of the screen 😅 cheers!

[@jzrgrmm]

28:10 bro can't even hide his ideology preferences lol

[@IshijimaKairo]

Bro might be Steiner.