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[@MistaBallGrasper]

Me whenever I hear the end music: oh no

[@rainbowappleslice]

Bitt3rSteel’s psyche crumbling every time there’s a Soviet offensive is literally German high command in 1944 colourised.

[@persianguy3081]

Broooo😂😂😂😂

[@_.spac3r._.]

Fr XD XD

[@atsn007]

Hahaahahahahahaha

[@charlesc.9012]

Unlike the actual OKB, there is no amateur painter telling Bitt3r what to do, so it is actually better than the reality of the time. The OKB had many sound ideas i.e. to reposition behind the Dnipro, but the painter decided he didn't want to give up the minerals in Eastern Ukraine among other things such as Operation Citadel

[@totallynotbill1834]

So glad Bittersteel came in clutch to end my death scroll 😂

[@pussy_tracker_6931]

Did you have any sexual relations with that FUHRER??

[@headcrabn5347]

In the same boat

[@wgplsnerfspotterplane244]

Yeah absolutely

[@anoobnoduhgaming9416]

Yup

[@howie3750]

Yup

[@hell_of_helios]

"The biggest downside is that I'll be associated with Benito Mussolini" Jesus Christ he must have left you scarred for life from all the shit he has caused in HOI4😂😂😂

[@BraydenBrown-to2fs]

He definitely has, have you seen a disaster save from about a year ago where Italy I think got naval invaded after probably getting raided and losing their navy. I don’t recall I haven’t seen that video in a while. In the message sent to him, the guy said Mussolini was being incompetent and got naval invaded.

[@Njuregen]

Here he also did nothing...

[@julianfoxall7794]

EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!!!

[@DrFerk2]

In real life too

[@Joshua429]

32:53 Bitt3rSteel moment:”oh that’s a nuke”

[@nnanna0013]

I personally think there should be a positive modifuer for the Soviets based on Operation Bagration

[@buddermonger2000]

I think that's the "Major Soviet Offensive" thing

[@ultra-papasmurf]

@@buddermonger2000 they kinda suck and arent worth setting up as a player. they should be buffed and easier to setup for the AI

[@spynix0718]

The reason why Mussolini doesn't make troops is because of what was historically called "Operation Axis," which was ehere Italian troops were disarmed, and German troops start to hold the Italian front.

[@spynix0718]

I like how the offensives are historically timed. June 6th, the Allies start D-Day, and June 22nd, the Soviets start operation Bagration.

[@lewisjennings9043]

Only naval forts provide attack penalties against naval invasions. While the land forts do guard against the surrounding landed divisions, it would have been more worthwhile for you to build up naval forts in Normandy.

[@avienated]

Why? The ports defended successfully against the direct naval invasions, so more naval forts wouldn't have made a difference. I have to think that his forts were indeed built to defend against the landed divisions on the sides, which arguably they did.

[@oddaido]

Kesselring, chilling in his office in his Luftwaffe uniform: "What do you mean I'm a tank commander now?!"

[@The_Marttrix]

My man took Steiner’s counterattack to a whole other level

[@youneskasdi]

Steiner’s counterattack was the last desperate measure, this date was way before when the germans were actually still strong but the soviets just went insane on them

[@Thedreadnought.]

Yes it did good looking heavy from tf2

[@Yodel1ngS0up]

Watching you play HOI4 and making encirclements is like watching an artist paint. Absolutely beautiful!! Amazing video as always, love all your content!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thank you so much 😀

[@YourLocalYter]

Like watching an Austrian artist

[@user-to2yb2qk5n]

I really enjoy the start dates and one of my favorite series! keep up the good work!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you like them!

[@isaackechida6532]

@@Bitt3rSteel your pronounciations of city names in that country’s language are rather annoying

[@govindsundar]

Didn’t the “meta” atleast for SP recently make field hospitals a little better and even worth running?

[@xeon39688]

It definitely helps when you're running out of manpower

[@theguy3517]

It does help to get veteran divisions + manpower. The reason he took them off is because he had plenty of manpower, and therefore its better to produce something other than the support equipment needed to maintain field hospitals.

[@Hedlum]

​@@theguy3517 Understandable. Why did he get rid of the anti-tank though? Was it not worth it to help withstand the soviet offenses?

[@trials_of_death3680]

@@Hedlum generally in singleplayer the AI tanks that get made don't have enough armor for you to need dedicaed anti-tank, where artillery (and even sometimes anti-air because that has piercing) will do to pierce the tanks- not sure what the tanks premade in this mod are though so maybe the anti-tank would've been nice

[@govindsundar]

@@theguy3517 he was short of manpower at the start

[@nikola256jerkovic5]

Germany has 500 factorys in 1944, while Russia and Usa have less then 500 combined. 💀

[@The_Marttrix]

Wunderwaffe finna be crazy

[@andrewwaldschmitt4757]

And if you release all possible puppets as France, you have like 400 in 1940 and carry the allies to victory.

[@AmalekIsComing]

the mod was made by a wehraboo chudcel so it's not surprising

[@gorillaunit23]

Actually the 'Port Cheese' Tactic is a real military tactic. You let the enemy take ground and then surround it from 3 sides, ideally destroy supply lines and the enemy will have huge losses

[@buddermonger2000]

Well the reason it's cheese is because the AI will continue to funnel it even after the units are destroyed. Where a real commander (or even player) will understand that such a place is surrounded and won't try it again.

[@whitezombie10]

Yeah but a real life army wouldn’t just keep landing in the same port repeatedly

[@user-zn7nd5ti6w]

​@@whitezombie10lmao, that's what Ukraine does near kherson

[@iegoriasynetskyi1003]

@@user-zn7nd5ti6w No Kyiv? No Kherson? No Kharkov? No victory in 3 days? You must be coping hard mate. Especially since the Ukrainian marines near Kherson are holding on constantly... doesn't sound to me like they're losing a lot of men there.

[@user-zn7nd5ti6w]

@iegoriasynetskyi1003 lmao, even western news call it a suicide mission. Poor Ukrainians are dying as a PR move to show some fighting for corrupt leadership of Ukraine to beg for more weapons.

[@govindsundar]

Was hoping to see Kesselring in charge of the Italy group for historical reasons reee

[@Qwerty-of4cy]

like m8 cav recon is so op now, it gives 25% boost to soft attack from lline and support arty which like you didnt even mention, and line AA is very very VERY useful in this situation cause both the soviets and allies will have air supremacy

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Ah, but rangers are even better. And that's what I used

[@Qwerty-of4cy]

ye fair enough im sorry to say i didnt watch the vid fully before making the comment good vid also btw @@Bitt3rSteel

[@boop7441]

25%? 10%. Also line AA is SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive than support AA with the only advantage being the ability to shoot more planes down. when you already have an air force at least capable of intercepting planes, your IC is much better spent on more fightera

[@Qwerty-of4cy]

ye sorry ma bad 10%, and i agree that it is usually better but you only build air if you have air supremacy otherwise aa is good dosnt matter that its expensive its still worth it@@boop7441

[@jessicalindo7977]

You're genuinely an amazing player, BitterSteel, thanks for the videos, they always make my days better

[@nikolaz_]

I hope you have a merry Christmas Bitt3rSteel!

[@sarmeister1699]

You videos are making me a better player tbh, I would be interested in seeing ya do more total conversion mod's that change the map/setting to see how ya do but these are great tbh! Also question, do ya prefer to just have puppets or do ya plan on integrating them over time? Cause I feel like Italy at this point would have been better to be integrated once ya pushed the allies out.

[@BonziBuddy.]

As a big time Fututrama fan since 2000, i love all the clips in your videos

[@AverageLadd]

Is it just me or did he build land forts on the Atlantikwall?

[@khnelli4918]

he did 😐

[@glauberglousger956]

That's kinda the point? Unless he didn't mean to

[@donpollo3154]

@@glauberglousger956 the entire point of the atlantikwall is to defend against naval invasions. Coastal forts boost against naval invasions, but he (most likely accidentally) built land forts

[@isaacskinner5565]

@@donpollo3154I think he built both

[@glauberglousger956]

@@donpollo3154 That'd be the case if you were defending against the invasion itself, but the goal is to defend the ports So when/if the enemy lands, because they're now land troops, it's harder for them to take the port (Or at least that's why I do it, can't tell if it was done intentionally for the same reason here)

[@H3LLGHA5T]

Every time I play Germany in Hoi4, I always plug the Vitebsk gab with forts and I build AA in the province, just to be save on that front.

[@VinnyUnion]

Where have you learned such sorcery from

[@antasil5768]

I fully understand the Sicily-feel-of-ecstacy! Other than thas, this was a work of art!

[@jwb_666]

I love this mod and here's some advice, try to form the Dnipper Line, grinding the Sovs over thr Dnipper is the best

[@sarahlynn7807]

This mod is so fun! Been loving watching it! I'd love to see someone play the soviets though and try to cap germany early and before any of france is liberated by the allies! More like an endsieg race!

[@imFried24-7]

Amazing content as always merry Christmas waffle man

[@SonOfNone]

This has been the most glorious play of hoi4 I've seen. I've played for well over 1,000 hours and you make me look like I'm stuck on the learning curve 😅

[@Nrwspg]

Merry Christmas to you all

[@abdraoufalti]

How is this possible 🤯 i had so much suffering just to hold the soviet offensive and i have no oil You are an amazing strategic general bitt3rsteel

[@combrade-t]

They get the offensive exhaustion longer than the offence buffs? Only by a few days from looking at the Feb 1944 to Mar 1944 its 20 days buff, 23 days debuff. Just seems weird since that is meant to be the main threat?

[@guncolony]

Yeah the debuffs basically allows germany to full blitz soviets with divs that are 80% tanks lol

[@rutabega8348]

Hey man I really like your videos, they are really calming for me

[@PedroMDIX]

Merry Christmas @Bitt3rSteel i love this late game start dates mods, but i'm too incompetent to play them.

[@tredbobek]

23:02 thank you for the report, Oberleutnant Kermit

[@lordlierhook3368]

I hate how ez u make it look. Like damn you make every situation look like child’s play. Good shit as always

[@Millzee117]

Another day, another banger Bittersteel video

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@TheTurkwithaPerk]

I beat downfall on my first try but it took me a week and 13 hours of speed 2 and micromanagement to hold. It was 1947 when i beat the soviets. You beating the soviets without even trying that much hurts my soul.

[@aydendejong451]

AI loses 100 divisions: meh, it’s fine. Bittersteel loses one division: nonononononono damnit my division is encircled.

[@Kio_vidz]

HOI4 normal experience: pause button and do the dishes (click every f*cking possible button that u find in that messy game to win over a city)

[@cjeppinga]

“I’ve seen some documentaries… I know what’s coming my way” 😂😂😂

[@UCUCUC27]

i really wish there is a mod/ future dlc where you get a small 5% output bonus for having factories from one state assigned to making one type of equipment .... the idea of having all my t-34s made specificaly by factories from magnitogorsk is apealing

[@14Trenlover]

The best mod out there atm that still is realistic and hard.

[@user-vf9ri2xq4i]

Must be like 12-1 pm over there cause its 9 on the East coast usa

[@Spooky_918]

every german game always ends with "to vitebsk or not to vitebsk" hahaha

[@maumaumau3929]

I really love your videos i watch every one of them and i have a question will you play any mods like millennium dawn (they fixed it it is so much better)

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your Your content! 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤❤

[@SleepyZulu78263]

Albert your tank commander now was funny as shit

[@hobbyton3575]

I don’t know why I watch this Christmas Eve just before going to midnight mass, but somehow it feels just right! Maybe a new Christmas tradition; Hoi4 and mass 😂

[@kamikazejoga3730]

Play with italy in this mod

[@shadeitplease7383]

First time I’ve seen the nuke come out haha

[@eja1731]

Crazy that d day landed exactly on 5 Jun

[@el-gamer2773]

I swear I discovered port cheese far before Feedbackgaming covered it and I called it port fishing

[@Comandercheez112]

Another goated video made by bittersteel

[@JIopemUncym]

19:17-19:35 The mustache man once said:

[@danviation]

I want to see the episode where you play Poland, and in general in Polish welikye luki means literally translated big bows

[@_Leaf53]

i had to fall back to the rhine and river next to warasaw with level 10 forts, killed 10 million and pushed everyone out of europe.

[@user-bz5fi2tn6f]

Bro when he said at Mussolini "this idoit 😂😂😂😂

[@Qwerty-of4cy]

Bro, that plane design was really not optimal 1. Fill in ALL the slots with: drop tanks/extra fuel tanks and armour plates 2. Put in 2 lvl 3 engines in it, it increases agility and thrust, dosnt decrease anything else but increases fuel usage

[@leothegiant2441]

Doesn’t it drastically increase the plane production cost?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

That's absurdly expensive

[@ColeMOSauce]

Wunderwaffen

[@Qwerty-of4cy]

but trades very well@@Bitt3rSteeli did some tests by myself and it was very ic efficient, due to the high air defence its losses are minimal and its high air attack kills so many fighters (my tests where i had an equal amout of ic on both sides testing my design against other popular designs)

[@rubenperez181]

Bro wanted to build the me262

[@Potatotenkopf]

Hoi4 really needs the Soviet Offensives to get buffed they should be like the Unplanned Offensive of the Spanish Civil War but in the opposite direction. Also I think it would be cool if they added false naval invasions.

[@beejebes1856]

I wanna see bitter do this as Japan unless he already has

[@Kingdomofitaly42206]

woah if you can save them could you save the empire in thrawns revenge (its a mod for star wars empire at war gold pack)

[@attiladerhunne2998]

Play as China in the eight years war of resistance mod. It's very fun

[@dr_amogus6616]

Does it matter if I organise my armies ? I just throw divisions into them or is it better to have separate armies for different types of units ?

[@FLUX.2226]

While the Soviet offensive buffs would be absolutely broken in the hands of a player, I really like the flavor they add when given to the AI.

[@glauberglousger956]

To be fair, being at war with the whole world, having Mr Bald Facist Italian Man by your side, and also having Internal issues is supposed to be difficult (Historically there were other issues, from everyone being high, recruiting, using, and believing psychics, and looking for Atlantis to find the progenitor race or something, along with normal Facist dictator stuff and the like Also, solving Italian issues, but that's not just historically an issue)

[@ruskiyrussianru]

Oh! I liked how Japan said "Its Japan time!" and Japaned all over the Asia.

[@YungIsyan]

the good ending

[@SuperSmith]

Watching videos like this makes you wonder how much longer the war could have lasted if Adolf wasn't so determined to never allow a retreat. Defeat was inevitable but he sure did help it come by quicker.

[@rio.francisco]

bittersteel needs atleast 1 mil subs

[@spacebeans4985]

Every time I see someone do port cheese I like to think they're just seiging the port.

[@arya.n.8252]

I've seen several endsieg mod, i wonder if there is a mod to strengthen Germany. I'd like to see you play the other side to survive the German onslaught

[@fatrat9676]

Just buff axis in 1939 start and play as soviets on the hardest difficulty, pretty cool challenge.

[@zekezoid1237]

"japan just japaning" is the most accurate way of simplifying japans history 2:49

[@dedelblute3946]

I have a question about focuses: While you have a focus selected, pp gain is reduced by 1 per day. However, focuses give you 10 days to select one without losing progress, and during that time, pp gain is not reduced by 1 per day. Are there any disadvantages to using this for extra pp aside from the micro? (It's not much but in certain situations it might be useful)

[@juncheok8579]

havent played in a while so im not sure how accurate this is, but i remember seeing a pp cost for starting focuses if you let the 10 free days build up

[@Bitt3rSteel]

The PP is deducted once you pick a focus

[@dedelblute3946]

@@Bitt3rSteel That makes sense. Thank you!

[@2Links]

​@@dedelblute3946Theoretically it can still be used in certain situations. For example, you finish a focus on 130 pp and you want an advisor, you can wait until the last moment in order to hire them quicker (for example a silent workhorse) then select the focus and deduct 10 pp from 0. The use cases are very few and rare though. The most useful scenario I can think of is if you're playing some kind of mod that reduces pp gain (if overall pp gain is +1.2 or even something like +0.8 the -1 from a focus is a lot bigger). For example if you're playing KR and you have negative pp gain (below +1, so positive when not doing a focus) if you get just below a necessary amount of pp (say 144 pp) and you finish a focus it is the difference between getting the advisor or not (and if it is a silent workhorse maybe even restoring positive pp flow much sooner, gaining you lots of pp long term). These scenarios where it lines up like this are very rare though, and in these cases you may want to just waste some days to get that extra pp. Most of the time when using it it is more of the first example.

[@Negetive2digit]

This whole thing with the offensive events could have easily been in NSB but nooooo...then Finland gets similar buffs to give them their Winter War powers in their recent DLC. Maybe this will be remedied when everyone gets revisited one day...or randomly part of the Khazakstan DLC that we'll totally be getting in 2025.

[@Oscar-jn4ry]

There gone reduced to atoms.

[@Finn_the_Cat]

25:42 looks like he didn't have good pull out game

[@SahebMohammadi-rh3id]

Good luck:)

[@justice32legends]

The nuke should've had more effects dammit!

[@lithographer]

this mod with Extended Tech Tree 1960 is 🧑‍🍳💋

[@onwardsdown1294]

Saved my death scroll lol

[@narawut]

I think AT isn't worthless, because everytime i played German Reich, the Allies(especially USA) always spam a lot of medium tank.

[@kjmaps]

Nice! I might play this mod.

[@anydaynow5595]

This game is so cool

[@achillevergnon1286]

Apart from this mode, do you use any dlc?

[@Finn_the_Cat]

I have a question, if I am playing historical finland in arms against tyranny I don't have much hope of building a worth while airforce in the short term so is it better to only use support AA in my divisions or would unit AA be better in that situation

[@Bitt3rSteel]

AA would be the better bet, yes

[@whatpach8145]

23:03 😂😂😂

[@CommanderTavos99]

23:53 you are literally looking at 4 generals with the tank trait, even guderain and you dont choose either of them???

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I misspoke, He's actually leading my mountaineers

[@kajusmarkunas2966]

in the near future could you please make guides on countries?

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I try to Sprinkle those in

[@F.R.E.D.D2986]

Mostly, Hoi4 is game of experience, you can do the exact same as someone else and have a different outcome. My personal statement: 27 width divisions Aircraft priority Fight battles only when victory is assured,,don't throw men away to die

[@swamperino8450]

Wowee another bittersteel video!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

You know it!

[@SlyCrow]

thanks for link

[@Supes38]

Lol, i thought these hoi4 videos were years old, but i saw it was uploaded 6d ago. It's been a really long time since i saw a HOI4 video.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Blast from the past

[@Canada1994]

I can see the generals telling Truman "Sir our intelligence says the Germans are going to naval invade Britain" and he says "Nuke Amsterdam as a warning maybe they will turn the ships around and give up"

[@greenkoopa]

Last time i was this early Italy still had territory in Africa

[@ciaoarrivederci5535]

He made Mussolini dirty

[@the_phantom_hellcat]

I found Bitt3rSteel on my living room television one night last week and I haven't stopped watching since. I love this guy 😃 also, being associated with Benito Mussolini somehow tops being H*tler 🤣🤣

[@SKErwin2]

Wait, US AI using paratroopers on D-day?

[@kronsbanntin2201]

I have a question: how do you make an great infastructure as an bad country as ex. Mongolia?

[@ColeMOSauce]

You mostly don't, you deal with it by supply light divisions and motorized logistics. Most of the time it is a waste of resources to build infrastructure there.

[@SuperSmith]

Without industry you can't really build much supply infrastructure. Maybe a single railway and a hub or two on the border. Otherwise invest in logistics companies and trucks to make supplies last longer/go further on the map. Small divisions that don't use much supply also help

[@emib6599]

The change faction of Italy 🇮🇹 in ww2 technically resemble more a "civil war" caused by war existion than a "switch side" but they decided to use the second term for the post war propaganda. This for persuade the victorious power to be lenient after the war. Anyway thanks to the "collaboration government" now we can simulate this event on every nation.... oh I remember, democracies still can't use collaboration government.

[@CapitalTeeth]

27:26 voice crack