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[@NiluferARICAN]

"did we got nuked? omg we got nuked twice" -Hirosteel

[@umut9107]

My emperor, strangely there are 3 suns in Empire of Japan now

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Japan is just that great

[@L_LGBTQ]

@@Bitt3rSteelMy emperor, i went you and watched the sky at the clouds! But i saw mushroom clouds, is that normal my emperor?

[@tylerredforge5563]

land of the dropping sun

"My emperor, can it be that the war has not neccessarily developed in our favor?"

[@nnanna0013]

Lmao this was the funniest

[@Dedelblute3]

Japan in this mod is like a cat on a beach trying to build a sand castle to survive a tsunami.

[@jrezecordero7943]

Coudn't find a better analogy to put it, especially when you can't fix any of the debuffs

[@ruansteenkamp4289]

Concentrated and Dispersed? What is Japan doing? Concentrating on dispersing the industry?

[@miguelgameiro8063]

Neither

[@Dedelblute3]

A bunch of dispersed clusters with highly concentrated factories in those clusters.

[@zolls1537]

Its a bug of the mod

[@andresmartinezramos7513]

Isolated megafactories

[@dimas3829]

the best of two worlds.

No artillery, no kempetai, but concentrated and dispersed industry and scraping the barrel. Huh.

[@mickethegoblin7167]

Broken mod

[@86eightysix01]

100% accurate historical japan

[@przemysawkrzekobrzegoszczy6332]

Admiral Ozawa carrying the entire war effort on his shoulders there.

[@jrezecordero7943]

Bro is Japanese Admiral Yi fr

[@powersomething8060]

Man is playing Azur Lane

[@chillguys6546]

Bro is the lebron James of naval warfare commander

[@WilhelmsRepresentative]

He’s building the ships single handedly

[@culannthehound94]

It’s crazy Japan doesn’t have artillery in this mod.

[@dulguunjargal1199]

Post Leyte Gulf Japanese Logistics

[@projectpitchfork860]

Real life japanese artillery also mostly didn't exist (for the army). And those that existed were almost all 75mm.

[@esequieltrindade9244]

​@@projectpitchfork860 this is wrong, japan would have batteries in it's armies wtf, ofc is not to the german level of bringing a 150 mm gun, but a light arty is better than nothing, at least arty 1 or 2 to their tech is good, but nothing? It's just bonkers

[@AstinCrow]

​@@esequieltrindade9244 It's actually right, Japanese artillery was non-existent with the 75mm designs being the most produced but not even hitting the double digits. The war was very much a strain on Japan as they had to figure out what was more pressing to make with the little resources they had. Even their small arms production was a risk and it's amazing they managed to field the Navy they did, even if they couldn't afford it.

[@maxwhite4177]

If you think that's crazy, in the vanilla 1939 start they dont have any either.

[@Speedshine-zed]

Disaster save from Hiro84848HitoxX he said everything was going so well and he was destroying the chinese but then the americans started attacking and half his navy dissapeared, so lets try to fix this guys!

[@stonedtowel]

These hour long videos are such a blessing of content brother. Between your family and us goblins, we really appreciate you🤝

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you like them!

[@SqicK99]

@@Bitt3rSteel We DEMAND more 1h+ videos! (ik its time consuming but man i really like it)

[@kzazazazk]

"all they have to do is deal with China" is basically what Japan thought for like a decade 😂

[@vedsingh-bp2ke]

They bombed the us pacific fleet because the US "wasn't letting them invade china properly "

[@commander91st41]

US HQ after winning the war: We won! but at what cost.. (remembers the all of the sunken US ships)

[@vistagreat9994]

One of the realistic things about the outcome of this video (honestly its too realistic for my liking)

[@FilipBurovski]

There should be a mechanic that allows one to win via defensive war if at least allows you to peace out like if your nation inflicks a certain ammount of damage on the enemy units or ships the combat will stop and the war would be over i think that would be fair.

This sounds like something that makes too much sense.

[@avisdunrandom]

Like in stellaris when every camp will keep control of the land they occupied?

[@egoalter1276]

War exhaustion technically allows you to capitulate an enemy without taking any VPs, bht it is really not an intended mechanic.

[@darthrevan618]

Eu4 type peace deal

[@rogerr.8507]

It's not historical though 😂

[@a_person_of_all_time]

1:19 Japan in 1945 apparently had 0 Artillery, Anti-Air or Anti-tank in the army. Insane historical accuracy

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Lol like actually insane historical accuracy

[@ns_gefolgsmann6156]

​@@jaredjosephsongheng372no

[@nitrocharge2404]

I tried Seelow Heights Japan once. As in, I loaded the game, looked at the situation, said "I'm screwed," and alt+f4'd.

[@janhumiecki2827]

19:23 that's not him dying, that's him winning his 4th term

[@VladMelis]

Funny how you still have the Fuso which was sunk in 1944,but not the Yamato,which was still afloat untill august 1945 Edit:I wanted to say April 1945

[@magnum6763]

and the Mutsu, which blew up in 1943

[@totalwar1793]

@@magnum6763 Junyou should also be in repair queue

[@ultimatewarrior733]

Yamato sank in April.

[@heliogt1961]

my jp naval brain kicks in here. yamato was afloat until 7th of april 45. august were the nukes i believe

[@General_Dane]

Yes, but it’s probably for balancing reasons

[@rogueemerald]

For some more pain you should try surviving as poland in magna europa.

[@Polska_gamerr]

Nah in Blackice 👍

[@rogueemerald]

​@@Polska_gamerra black ice style magna europa mod would be the purest form of hell

[@zolls1537]

​@@rogueemeralddont give the crazy modders a idea

[@EvilmindStudios]

40:49 Recovered rare audio broadcast from Hirohito in 1945:

[@WitherMCPVP]

LOL 😂😂😂

[@timber_wulf5775]

I didn’t even notice he got nuked and then is promptly never nuked again

[@KonigHoff]

Americans and British watching as their entire war fleets get sunk by some ragtag Japanese ships from 10 years ago: "They've got to run out of ammo eventually, keep throwing hulls at them!"

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Uhhh they're Americans and British, not Soviets. They aren't the type of people who say "When a battleship falls, two shall take it's place".

[@korhol2065]

@@jaredjosephsongheng372then you have not met the hoi4 AI

[@crazyduck156]

@@jaredjosephsongheng372*stares in sinking of the Bismarck* That was text book "you sunk one ship, heres a fuck ton more to ruin your day" by the RN

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

@@crazyduck156 Yeah but they only did that one time instead of the one billion times that it happened in the video. If the US and the UK were so reckless with their fleets like that for the entire war on the Pacific Front they'd be negotiating a ceasefire with the Japanese in less than a year's time of fighting them (due to the loss at Midway, the siege of Hawaii and the Subsequent bombing of the West Coast)

[@ivanmayorov5252]

@@jaredjosephsongheng372 literally the British saying about ships sinking: "King has many" :\

[@playerone740]

37:46 - Loses Supply Hub to Tank Division - Attacks Back - tank Division has 0 org and bubble is Green 95 - bubble goes up to 96 - "We have no hope of getting that back everyone evacuate"

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Yeah, it's was getting reinforced with Infantry from one tile over. I saw it moving in

[@kieran8921]

You should do a coop endseig with a player on Germany and another on Japan as the main turning point is when one falls it frees up a lot of units for the allies. Maybe chaotic florius.

[@felraksis]

New editor or style? I like it. Done very well. Keep it up :)

[@jakeplayz_ytoffical]

Agreed! Maybe he’s trying to spice it up a bit

[@jakeplayz_ytoffical]

Just confirmed, new editors

[@L_LGBTQ]

@@jakeplayz_ytofficalew

I may be a simple man, but I like the talking cat representing the viewers in the beginning. That made me chuckle.

[@felraksis]

Agreed

[@yuzhuocao5663]

This mod doesn’t allow AA or air superiority to counter the terror bombing??? It just there? Forever???

[@frauleinhohenzollern]

Yep. Isn't that stupid?

[@Jacob-pu4zj]

0:57 Bitt3rSteel confirmed smarter than Winston Churchill.

[@Jacob-pu4zj]

@@sh-kq4ro “Poverty of spirit, which believes that Hitler is sufficiently grateful to be bound by a promise. Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler. He was wrong. But I don’t think I’m wrong about Stalin.” ~ The fat, drunken chainsmoker

[@kakhasukhitashvili5617]

Yes, I get it. There is no decision to turn debuffs off, but since you lasted one year, just turn it off manually and finish the game..

[@lek4a]

This really needs to become a world record, this is the most painful start date and situation you can find in hoi

[@rat_ratratratrat]

thank you bettersteel for making long videos and a very relaxin voice so i can sleep while watching ur vids keep up the great work

[@Saiun95]

This run be like: Japanese Army 👶 Japanese Navy 🦍

[@amirfallah6580]

Tbh it was like this in real life. Japan wanted Siberia's resources but the army sucked so hard at fighting that they switched focus to navy and getting resources from south

[@icymcspicy6684]

Bittersteel: It’s impossible! There’s too many planes, ships, and enemy units! Tojo in 1945:

[@octavianhughes4493]

If you keep your troops around the port(s) in Manila and Luzon the Americans almost always leave only the Paratroopers in the northern port, and if you get the two remaining units in Mindanao to hold the strait the Americans almost never break through. You can reasonably hold the phillipines for a long while. Borneo can be defended and dug in if you move troops from the other Indonesian islands esp if you have the scripted naval invasions on. With a cheeky last stand and a withdrawal from some of the other nonimportant islands (such as the ones not needed to remove the bombing spirits, holding Iwo Jima/Okinawa etc) you can beat back the scripted naval invasions and get the Setting Sun down quite a lot. The only thing is that China has Sinkiang so (and I tested this) even if you occupy all of their other land they BARELY hold on in Sinkiang... Also the Soviets CAN be held back but it's a nightmare and if you lose Mukden and other parts of Manchuria you're pretty much hosed. doing the border forts focuses helped a good bit but with such low equipment it's still a tight thread.

[@jordanprince2441]

It’s not even sad, it’s magnificent.

[@JustFloppa1410]

damn, i really like these more edited videos, good to see your channel changing for better

[@zhiquanchua7897]

I think if you survived to 1946, you deserve to have the debuffs turned off.

[@batu_cagan]

hosho sinking half of combined allied fleets is something i never thought i would see

[@louiswinterhoff334]

You know you're cooked when you're HAPPY that the enemy is launching naval invasions against you

[@llama878]

Yeah, this need a rework

[@USSENTERPRISE-D]

51:45 "I've sunk the Enterprise!!!" 😂😂😂

[@NapoleonVIII]

The Grey Ghost is gone.

[@lynxfirenze4994]

I don't really play HOI4 despite enjoying YT content of it. But I do agree that it's something that needs to be fixed that the massive debuffs can't be removed no matter how much ass you kick. Though the sheer madness of the Allied navy is honestly sensible. There was a ridiculous disparity in industrial capacity and thus naval replacement.

[@eswizzle3893]

Thank you for the amazing videos! Especially the futurama clips ❤

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*Now we know who won the Army-Navy rivalry in Japan.*

[@solo6045]

By the way even if you take very single chinese province in mainland china, they still dont capitulate because you need to take the provinces behind Xibei San Ma which there is no supply in that area so its impossible...

[@thewidow7864]

"Did I get nuked?" Is a phrase I've never thought I would hear.

[@timurdemetres5041]

I miss that one patch several years ago when they made AI so busted Germany trashed most players.

[@unfortunately_fortunate2000]

I love how in HOI4 you can do things like reduce the American Pacific fleet to basically nothing & take a massive swathe out of the Royal Navy and that still doesn't change how aggressive the AI are with naval warfare also I thought the the game didn't actually list naval losses with the casualties in the war report, meaning those 500k were just from sheer AI stupidity.

[@Nylonical_Nonsense72]

so glad i became a member and now im able to enjoy another bittersteal 5 star meal of a viseo early :)

[@dawsontan9265]

You trying to close the sea zones and let supply go through china is actually what Japan tried to achieve in real life

[@totalwar1793]

I still think it's crazy that Ichi-Go technically worked but they never were able to get supplies to go through China bc of all the infiltration in the countryside.

[@vedsingh-bp2ke]

​@@totalwar1793 it was pointless anyhow. How are you going to realistically produce something with those raw materials when the firebombings began

[@haydnphilips138]

Love the content brother steel. For guns maybe try to slowly build up a production of the cheapest guns. Yes I do know they are shit and make your bad troops worse BUT you can reduce the deficit and MAYBE build a few more to shore up the coast and home islands.

[@Seal100-c2x]

You are a savior I just got in the car and saw you uploaded now i have entertainment for a hour

[@doomsdan9486]

Watching hoi4 while driving is mental

[@hexoslaya3696]

@@doomsdan9486I suppose it’s better than playing hoi4 whilst driving though.

[@Seal100-c2x]

Dw i wasn’t driving

[@fakekirion]

you are actually insane (liked the cat gifs more of them pls)

[@sirjmo]

The mod has been slightly updated for japan, as of yesterday. Change nodes say added arty to japan OoBs and experience. Haven't looked deeper, but I'm hoping for debuff removal/reduction to be in there too.

[@visyxl]

I love the new editting style!

[@wrtekcz538]

pro strat: let americans land and with their industrial might let them repair your industry and then retake it

[@guncolony]

Bruh having both concentrated and dispersed is literally 75% free buff to factory output and more than outweighs the negative modifier

[@buddermonger2000]

Doesn't outweigh construction debuff.

[@maridoot]

India gets a railway from a 70 day focus from the vanilla focus tree lol

[@tundrawolf5127]

That naval game was lit. Try again without the debuffs, can you beat the allies and the soviets? Would be super cool to see

[@juanpablomolina1523]

The mod has been updated so you can get rid of bad modifiers.

[@Gufo64]

Now it's time for the best mod crossover, black ice and seelow heights

[@imbanan9297]

You could have added maintenance company in the start when the chinees had equipment and then remove it when they run out

[@PAcifisti]

Wouldn't it be better to have the ASW as convoy escort? That puts them mostly to combat subs and reduce convoy casualties.

[@benjaminvago3302]

I like this new editing style 👍

[@propernoun1583]

You should have about 90 days from the fall of Germany before the Soviets declare war and invade Manchuria, if the game follows the real sequence of events.

[@ramirezrodriguezangelrodri8442]

This game resumes in the next Mexican phrase : Me vas a ganar pero nada te va a quitar los madrazos qué voy a dar. 💪 Nice video, we got peak content with this one

[@valentinotto88]

21:20 a strike force without a patrol fleet is useless tho. You either send them all as patrol or you split off some spotting cruiser to patrol

[@Bitt3rSteel]

It projects naval supremacy

[@Ihavelowbattery]

No artillery is fr crazy

[@Leunatic08]

Your content is awesome man.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you think so!

[@Jacob-pu4zj]

48:39 There's an East German Division in there! 😂

[@g-money9009]

I could never last as long as BitterSteel in this scenario.

[@thenugget1991]

What if you turtle at the start of the game, pull back as far as you can. Stockpile guns and equipment. Stockpile planes. Focus even more on the navy. Aquire complete, uncontested naval dominance. Move from there.

[@BlAckH0le-f7y]

Bittersteel in the historically accurate late-war Japanese situation. This is gonna be fun to watch...

[@Saoped]

Hey bittersteel ur a really good hoi4 player and I recently downloaded it because of u and I’m having a lot of fun

[@jonathanfabela739]

0:58 Not gonna lie that edit was smooth af

[@Baconboy-r2i]

And funny

[@andromidius]

Seems like this mod/scenario needs a little fine tuning still compared to the Germany version. But still a fun concept to see how long you can last.

[@subbot9540]

The Navy doing there last dance to empress the Emperor

[@RyuakiraX]

If only there was a BICE Endsieg. Even playing as the Allies then would be a struggle.

[@EnduringGamer]

The destroyer Yukikaze survived despite everything just like she historically did.

[@Flora_Strahlen]

Great Video with much suffer but enjoy your way to got the most of it

[@Potato_Guy-wi4gl]

I like the new editing!

[@sirvilhelm2360]

I think when the Germans surrendered you should've allowed yourself to remove the debuffs.

[@JohnWasAPrettyCoolGuy]

I'm commenting to help with the algorithm! This video is good! I like this video! Awesome video! Great video!

[@ikeglinsmann9759]

44:44 Bitter really leaning into the historical Japanese roleplay.

[@FischAraber]

turn it off when you have complete air supiriority

[@barretmusselman9977]

It would be cool to see a multiplayer game and see if you have a competent player in Germany if you could hold then.

[@xXxAngryBird101xXx]

I'm hoping the next big DLC is Japan and Navy focused. Japan was the reason the US entered WW2, yet their focus tree is smaller than the generic focus tree....

[@electroninja0]

If he only had had the +5% stability and war support.

[@MilkTea101]

A Bitter Steel upload? Means a nice a day

[@firebugmercenary]

Hmm, for the emperor? I think i’ve seen this one before…

[@SnakeonLSD]

This mod is really realistic. The Americans pretty much were building ships faster than Japan could sink them.

[@otten5666]

i finished this scenario with the debuffs on by abandoning the main land.

[@knureksun6306]

t=2725 45:25 So in the beginning of the game you diagnosed the lack of artillery and started producing and capturing it and after 45 min of video time you haven't deployed any of it having over 700 barrels. Also you have in stock over a 1000 tanks and trucks and they don't do anything. You are a magnificent player, I really enjoy your work, but so stupid mistakes make me very frustrated.

[@knureksun6306]

18:10 At start you even had an ultrabudget space marines with those light tanks. They had 9.7 armour. Could China pierce it? Could landing troops with all that debuffs pierce it? Would a crap light tank deal more damage than infantry with NO GUNS? Why built trucks (and artillery) for the whole game when you don't have a lot of equipment, and you still don't use them?

[@djangodjango5694]

This means the comeback potential is huge for the next run

[@lorenzmaut3708]

@@knureksun6306 the stats are even worse than the regular unit of infantry, there is barely any hardness, and because it has tanks the unit gets a lot of negative modifiers for attacking rivers and mountains.

[@Platypus2814]

​​​@@knureksun6306 Dude, on top of what the other guy said, it doesn't even matter because they will never have org. You'll be able to push with them for a week max, and their org recovery is, as he showed, incredibly low, even in the mainland fully supplied territory. Especially with the way space-marines are now, light tank space marines really wouldn't change that much... You can't make arty shock troops either because you get de-orged in 2 seconds, especially in China, nor do you have enough arty for support arty to make a difference

[@fgreen21]

The crying about losing convoys is extremely historical

[@jadeorbigoso5212]

I hope you will also cover the Minor Axis Nation of Endsieg and even the Socialist Republic of Italy

[@eisbergsyndrom5010]

Authentic Japan experience.

[@davidsargsyan3416]

I have a question Couldn’t you try to use Japan’s mechanic when you give more power to military and get some buffs for military factory production but debuffs for dockyards. Like you already had a fleet which won every battle

[@strategygamemike]

Dang, a rare loss for you. But wild that you have 13m Manpower, but can't come to close using any of it. Will keep watching, thanks!

[@birwelunaerickalejandro878]

Hopely the mod get fixed, I enjoy the video, I want to see a next part

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Me too!

[@jokubaspeciura2328]

Hey that's me! 6:13

[@HeadlessZombY]

Man, tbh, the starting mills being so low is more than enough of a penalty, terror bombing is kinda lame. Also Japan has some artillery, even if it was outdated.

[@purplekalmar2897]

not being able to get rid of the debuffs is kinda stupid ngl

[@Hero-van-Bonn]

The Soviet Union edit 😂😂😂 Nice Video

[@SteveRadermaker]

Do it without the negative modifiers, I promise I will watch a full hour again !