France has the "Victors of the Great War" national spirit when you hold the line at the Alps. You ended up in a gruelling static war in the Alps for a while... something that did happen in said war. Makes me believe that your fortifications at the fallback line was less building and more reactivating those of the Great War.
A decent looking peace deal in Europe for once. That tiny sliver of Lithuania in Memel appears in every allied peace deal I've ever encountered and it really annoys me.
@@hitomisalazar4073 My favorite version of this is when somebody else (usually Soviets, but I've seen the Brits do it too) puppet Occitania in just Savoy, so America just directly occupies the rest of southern france
I have no idea how, but a year or so ago I ended up with a game where the allies had released Libya but was somehow a puppet of itself, "Libyan Libya" being a puppet of "Libyan Libya"
Germany: Danzig or war Poland: Neither Germany: You made me do it *Swarm from all sides* Poland: Arghh Germany: Alright Italy, what you need to do is hold France at the bottom while I attack from top through the lowlands Italy: Got you! Germany: *Blinks* France: *Occupied all of Italy with troops at their southern border* Germany: What the f-
France: you though it is fun to invade others? how about i show you why historians call my army the best in History and invade your pitful alliance and alliés
Fun fact: on a Bulgaria "Fate of the balkans" campaign I was playing I invited Italy into my Balkan faction. The Germans took Poland and the Low Countries, but they can't push France and are stuck. 1942 and they haven't invaded the Soviets
I had one run as sowjet union where I wanted to do the not a strp back achievement but i had so many troops at the german border that they didnt declare war. I justified on them in 1942 but i forgot about japan because they garanteed germany, i had troops in japan but i forgot about north saca...how over the island is called and didnt get it
as a Frenchman i find the instrumental in the marseillaise to be good but the lyrics to be shitty and not really representative of the modern shape of the state, but there is objectively worse
Subtitle time 0:56 "marginal" Maginot 2:15 "hold on to Saddam" 3:14 "I'll force Josh army maneuver speed" Alphonse Georges 3:20 "Army of friends" 3:46 "marginal" Maginot 3:54 "national" Maginot 4:11 "way going on" Weygand 6:31 "The beleaguered colonial can stay." 8:05 "Maybe I can go to LA, spits out Bologna." 11:04 "a massive organ damage" 12:02 "I don't have the maps research." 21:31 "machine" Maginot A lot less subtitle shenanigans than expected.
The reason your videos are superior to any other HOI4 content creator, is that you play like you are fighting a war, while the others play like it's just a game.
Hey just so you know, if you don't have mp's it literally doesn't matter at all how big your garrison template is. Cuz the territories just draw however many divisions they need to reduce resistance automatically based on your occupation law. 6 of one half dozen of another sort of thing
@@symphonysystem4846 Bigger. Because the amount of supplies used for support companies is flat for the whole division, and not based on each regiment. So if you have small divisions with mps, it will use more support equipment.
The only garrison divisions you will ever need are a division of one single cavalry regiment, and a division with mps made of as many cavalry regiments as you can fit. Also, late game, and depending on the country you're playing, the same thing applies but with armored cars instead of cavalry.
The fact that you were stacking so many units on the mountains was propably the sole reason why you were taking same amounts of casualties as germans and also losing equipment, a lot of it
Also the fact that he had so many units bunched in a small area of Africa. I hope he remembered that logistics based attrition is a thing at some point.
Hello everyone, I am the the Bitt3rSteel and today we are going to survive as france and conquer Italy. Ah, one encirclement...two encirclement...and finally capitulation! And to show that that wasn't a fluke, I shall do it Again.
switch the supply hub in Venice to motorized, delete your motorized divisions if you have to. the preexisting suply system is sufficient in the alps if you use them right. also consolidate your units, under supplied divisions take huge a debuff and if there're too many some wont even be able to fight in the battle.
I have a challenge idea: Play as Ireland, turn facist, take over Iceland, release them and then play as Iceland, then take over mainland Europe. Shouldn’t be too hard.
The long brutal and attritional war in the Alps makes me remind the WW1 front where Italian and Austria-Hungarian forces fought in that miserable conditions and lot of casualties on both sides.
this acualy feels stratiegic and tactical better than the steamroller would love more of these not just set plan and attack prepare and adapting is really fun and a very good change of pace
love watching the videos, feels like you can almost win in any scenario/situation (and have seen you win in some insane ones). do you ever do any videos at either of the two harder difficulties? even if you dont win, its intresting to see how the outcome goes
Since the release of NSB ive been setting a line of 5 factories on Basic equpitement for the whole game, no matter what. Its a wonder how many more guns you can get from the 0.1 production difference
It's a very scum way to do it, but if you do no garrisons as france your territories, you get a TON of manpower and guns. The colonies cannot rebel either (they max out a 40% resistance) you get something like 30k guns from it so it is very helpful for a run like this.
You could also have thrown those troops you were using in North Africa into a landing on the north German coast, to further stretch them out. England might also have thrown armies in, too.
I ended up getting insanely lucky during one of my French runs and Germany ended up having to deal with a democratic coup and a bunch of Frenchmen running around
Just one idea. When you do Czech/Little Entente. You can have as Yugoslavia 40 mils in like 1938. Just rush puppet releasing focuses (every time go for more puppets) after you done france need to do "Invest to weak ally" after thet just reinstade the empire and voala you have 2 mils for puppet. (Its posible do thet solo but you need to console swap on France and Czech and manage they focuses. For bigger boost you can also do thet with puppets going full industry focuses.)
I'm 2 years late to the game but I've tried doing this several times and not once does Italy get called into the war before Poland capitulates. It results in the Germans steamrolling through the low countries and then steamrolling through me and I'm defeated in about 2 months. Doesn't matter what my templates are, I'm absolutely crushed.
when I tried this, germany attacked the benelux in january 1940 and I barely held paris (but won eventually because I'm a pro gamer ) (nah just joking I died 3 weeks later)
Releasing Tunisia to buffer the Italians in Africa would be a good idea. It is the only land route into French Africa and the Italian navy would be in no shape to support a naval invasion after the capitulation of the mainland.
in my 1936 game Germany just refused to help Italy it was really weird because when I took a German tile they had about 40 divisions rally to that single tile, they pushed 1 tile in back to Italy and immediately turned around and went back that weirdness only end when italy capitulated, then germans flooded into Venice
There just be a French focus to secure their borders and take land from and puppet low Landa and take the Rhine to better defend france and their should be a focus on the focus tree where you can get an offense buff to push germsny back to the Rhine but it gives you some debuffs after
Don't know if this has been patched by now. But in my recent game, I noticed, that to see how much enemy equipment my maintenance companies have captured. I had to hover over my own losses up top, instead of enemy losses. 23:04 FYI, I don't have all DLC.
@@Bitt3rSteel Hmm.. my bad then, I must have been confused and actually played another country. I swear that those countries usually easily give out guns, so often that in many plays I don't even bother producing guns...
@@postvideo97 in the 1939 start, the countries you reference do not have a surplus of guns and are entirely unable and unwilling to provide any for a long time. I'm not an idiot, I've done this a fair few times.
Honestly invading Austria/Germany thru Italy is probably the most historically proven Strat vs Austria/Germany. France literally did it during the Coalition Wars when they murked the Bourbon monarch and all the monarchs of Europe got angy.
The other issue is that I couldn't send troops over immediately after the initial naval invasion. They just wouldn't go - had to prepare a new invasion even though I had a port and that would take 70 days.
God the AI using force attack for 2 months continuously, I swear even in my games the AI cheats, if you aren't actively in some areas 2 AI will just kinda sit in a holding position and take years to finish off a war, like the UK and Italy in Somalia. I often see the AI have 0 man power but their units still have men in them even if I'm pounding them or they're just grinding into me
Aux armes, citoyens!
Formez! Les battalyons!
@@_Sterdam les bataillons
@@mirdav3648 alright then
@@_Sterdam cause only one bataillon for the French army is a lot of French
And nobody is ready
Vive la France
Starting in 1939 is like starting a disaster save from someone who fell asleep playing the game and did nothing.
Very accurate
To be fair, that does describe real life France in '39 very well.
Oh Yeah ! ^^ +1 Fight For ! For Country ! - Charles De Gaulle . Plus Gangsta Paradise - De Gaulle
💀💀💀💀
germany is pretty decent in the 1939 start date
"Nothing is happening!" *Finland Fighting For its own damn liFe while Bitt3r is just chillin in the alps* 💀
22:07
*Just like real life!*
If you call constantly getting hit with force attacks “chillin” sure…
@@alatamore yeah your right...
Oh Yeah ! ^^ +1 Fight For ! For Country ! - Charles De Gaulle . Plus Gangsta Paradise - De Gaulle
lol. It sure took me a while to realize this was a 1939 start.
France has the "Victors of the Great War" national spirit when you hold the line at the Alps. You ended up in a gruelling static war in the Alps for a while... something that did happen in said war. Makes me believe that your fortifications at the fallback line was less building and more reactivating those of the Great War.
A decent looking peace deal in Europe for once. That tiny sliver of Lithuania in Memel appears in every allied peace deal I've ever encountered and it really annoys me.
Still not as bad as the Independant Polish government in Zaolzie that used to pop up every other game, but close
Or for me American Occitan.
@@hitomisalazar4073 My favorite version of this is when somebody else (usually Soviets, but I've seen the Brits do it too) puppet Occitania in just Savoy, so America just directly occupies the rest of southern france
I have no idea how, but a year or so ago I ended up with a game where the allies had released Libya but was somehow a puppet of itself, "Libyan Libya" being a puppet of "Libyan Libya"
@@sircasscade6000 this is some good material for those "hoi 4 cursed pictures" videos
Germany: Danzig or war
Poland: Neither
Germany: You made me do it *Swarm from all sides*
Poland: Arghh
Germany: Alright Italy, what you need to do is hold France at the bottom while I attack from top through the lowlands
Italy: Got you!
Germany: *Blinks*
France: *Occupied all of Italy with troops at their southern border*
Germany: What the f-
France: you though it is fun to invade others? how about i show you why historians call my army the best in History and invade your pitful alliance and alliés
Lol
so funny i forgor to laugh 💀
Having Italy as an Ally was Germany's Greatest Mistake
@@jaredjosephsongheng372 Better no allie than Italy as ally
Fun fact: on a Bulgaria "Fate of the balkans" campaign I was playing I invited Italy into my Balkan faction. The Germans took Poland and the Low Countries, but they can't push France and are stuck. 1942 and they haven't invaded the Soviets
I had one run as sowjet union where I wanted to do the not a strp back achievement but i had so many troops at the german border that they didnt declare war. I justified on them in 1942 but i forgot about japan because they garanteed germany, i had troops in japan but i forgot about north saca...how over the island is called and didnt get it
@@dinozocker_lp1465 sakhalin
You know a national anthem is good when it even sounds banging on a kazoo
pff thats what they intended when making it, actually supposed to be played on a vuvuzela
as a Frenchman i find the instrumental in the marseillaise to be good but the lyrics to be shitty and not really representative of the modern shape of the state, but there is objectively worse
min?
@@red-vg2dsmec c'est un chant militaire à la base
“What if we go on the offensive?”
A very Ahistorical run then
German: Blitzkriegs
France: Blitrkriegs as well
*You were not supposed to do that.*
"You dare use my own strategies against my allies, France??"
"insert Uno reversd card même"
Germany: *Wait that's Illegal*
France: Foudre de guerre!
Unless an actual french speaker has a better translation...
@@Thebudgeismetal it Guerre éclaire. we change it to lightning war.
Subtitle time
0:56 "marginal" Maginot
2:15 "hold on to Saddam"
3:14 "I'll force Josh army maneuver speed" Alphonse Georges
3:20 "Army of friends"
3:46 "marginal" Maginot
3:54 "national" Maginot
4:11 "way going on" Weygand
6:31 "The beleaguered colonial can stay."
8:05 "Maybe I can go to LA, spits out Bologna."
11:04 "a massive organ damage"
12:02 "I don't have the maps research."
21:31 "machine" Maginot
A lot less subtitle shenanigans than expected.
The reason your videos are superior to any other HOI4 content creator, is that you play like you are fighting a war, while the others play like it's just a game.
I like this perspective.
holy cringe mate you did not just say that
@@youtuberobbedmeofmyname Huh?
@youtuberobbedmeofmyname what is your deal?
History: Phony War.
This game France: *sharpens Baguette aggressively*
Hey just so you know, if you don't have mp's it literally doesn't matter at all how big your garrison template is. Cuz the territories just draw however many divisions they need to reduce resistance automatically based on your occupation law. 6 of one half dozen of another sort of thing
if you do have MPs, is it better for the garrison divisions to be bigger or smaller?
@@symphonysystem4846 Bigger. Because the amount of supplies used for support companies is flat for the whole division, and not based on each regiment. So if you have small divisions with mps, it will use more support equipment.
The only garrison divisions you will ever need are a division of one single cavalry regiment, and a division with mps made of as many cavalry regiments as you can fit. Also, late game, and depending on the country you're playing, the same thing applies but with armored cars instead of cavalry.
Lowlands: We are free.
Bitt3r: Not exactly free, more like under new management.
Netherlands: "f word" you naz‽
The fact that you were stacking so many units on the mountains was propably the sole reason why you were taking same amounts of casualties as germans and also losing equipment, a lot of it
Also the fact that he had so many units bunched in a small area of Africa. I hope he remembered that logistics based attrition is a thing at some point.
What even happened to have such a low factory count by 1939?
Like was the build queue dockyards only?
That's just 1939 France for ya
@@Bitt3rSteel oh I see, I thought this was a submitted disaster save!
Well I guess it is, of a sort
@@hatless_spider Leon Blum be like:
Ey yo, bitter, I am in quite a disaster here
It always seems that in 1939 scenarios, Paradox just deleted loads of factories for each nation.
@@theperson8487 well ya know
It's just the fact that we all do it the most optimal way for factories, which isn't really realistic
France: Call an ambulance, call an ambulance! *pulls out naval invasions on Italy* But not for me!
Germany: *Wait that's Illegal*
Hello everyone, I am the the Bitt3rSteel and today we are going to survive as france and conquer Italy. Ah, one encirclement...two encirclement...and finally capitulation! And to show that that wasn't a fluke, I shall do it Again.
Lpl
" insert meme"
21:54 He was so hyped to announce how well the game was going it that goofy took over for a moment
This version of the marseillaise is beautiful 8:49
5:12 “it will be a glorious strike” said the French workers
switch the supply hub in Venice to motorized, delete your motorized divisions if you have to. the preexisting suply system is sufficient in the alps if you use them right. also consolidate your units, under supplied divisions take huge a debuff and if there're too many some wont even be able to fight in the battle.
Problem is the never ending logistics bombing. It really cripples your ability to hokd
I have a challenge idea:
Play as Ireland, turn facist, take over Iceland, release them and then play as Iceland, then take over mainland Europe.
Shouldn’t be too hard.
Riiiggghhhhttt
Wait,why ireland
@@mattblack909 because they are close?
The long brutal and attritional war in the Alps makes me remind the WW1 front where Italian and Austria-Hungarian forces fought in that miserable conditions and lot of casualties on both sides.
When in doubt, start another battle for the Isonzo!
@@Bitt3rSteel And Cadorna will take over command
On sky high, when I die,
I'll be inmortal!
Forever, I never,
I won't return to...
Blood Mountain, I am the:
_SOLDIER OF HEAVEN!_
bro i sat waiting for germany to attack, only to see ive been on pause for like 15 MINUTES
"We've taken Anzio aswell, uhh,"
"Uh oh"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI'm about to get one of my boys encircled"
Fucking killed me.
this acualy feels stratiegic and tactical better than the steamroller would love more of these not just set plan and attack prepare and adapting is really fun and a very good change of pace
i suck at this game but i absolutely love watching people that are good at it. great video!
8:50
Probably the best part of the video
What was the sound being made half of that video? A kazoo? God I was dying of laughter when I was hearing that.
That is a kazoo yes
gotta respect this guy for the hoi4 content
Bro I'm new to the channel and I really love how u played majapahit empire, can u do Philippines next? Hehe
I'll have a look!
Why the Philippines? Its pretty boring to play the Philippines in hoi4
every france player in hoi4:
BIGGER MAGINOT LLIIIIIINNNEE!!!!
I love the idea, I’d like to see more videos like this. I.e. challenges that aren’t just achievements
Agreed!
I’m sure Bokoen would be very happy to hear that you stopped Denmark from being invaded by the Germans in this game.
love watching the videos, feels like you can almost win in any scenario/situation (and have seen you win in some insane ones). do you ever do any videos at either of the two harder difficulties? even if you dont win, its intresting to see how the outcome goes
Thank god for the French army
-Winston Churchill 1933
Toot toooot tooot toooot toooooot XDDDDDDD That trumpeting caught me by surprise.
3:30 Bitt3r's gonna hold on to our PP. I thought this was a family channel!
9:00 As a French, you killed me XD...
Beautifully played mate
9:00 I'm half paying paying attention, mind ing my own business, then suddenly: kazoo.
Is it just in my games the Italians don't join the war until after like Around Maginot?
Its great to see the french make the axis "sauve qui peut" for a change 🤣
Since the release of NSB ive been setting a line of 5 factories on Basic equpitement for the whole game, no matter what. Its a wonder how many more guns you can get from the 0.1 production difference
It's a very scum way to do it, but if you do no garrisons as france your territories, you get a TON of manpower and guns. The colonies cannot rebel either (they max out a 40% resistance) you get something like 30k guns from it so it is very helpful for a run like this.
Oh Yeah ! ^^ +1 Fight For ! For Country ! - Charles De Gaulle . Plus Gangsta Paradise - De Gaulle
Hey! Lithuania was on the map at the end!
You could also have thrown those troops you were using in North Africa into a landing on the north German coast, to further stretch them out. England might also have thrown armies in, too.
"Slow the game way, way down" to three. Dying over here.
Okay, listen, that joke at around 9 minutes was funny for like three seconds :D.
I ended up getting insanely lucky during one of my French runs and Germany ended up having to deal with a democratic coup and a bunch of Frenchmen running around
Epic Kazoo solo.
as italian id rather die then becoming baguette
Someone's watched Ferris Buellers day off recently.
The reason why the AI is able to do constant force attacks is because they have 1-2 division armies and it would be cheap too
those are only really for garrisons
Just one idea. When you do Czech/Little Entente. You can have as Yugoslavia 40 mils in like 1938.
Just rush puppet releasing focuses (every time go for more puppets) after you done france need to do "Invest to weak ally" after thet just reinstade the empire and voala you have 2 mils for puppet. (Its posible do thet solo but you need to console swap on France and Czech and manage they focuses. For bigger boost you can also do thet with puppets going full industry focuses.)
Well you can't do that if going for achievements and well...1939 start lol
Just a tip, you can set occupation law per *STATE* so you could have had it super strict in the alps to help with local supply
Very impressive kazooing man
I'm 2 years late to the game but I've tried doing this several times and not once does Italy get called into the war before Poland capitulates. It results in the Germans steamrolling through the low countries and then steamrolling through me and I'm defeated in about 2 months. Doesn't matter what my templates are, I'm absolutely crushed.
That trumpet at the beginning woke up my entire neighbourhood
The strategy in this was basically.
“In the shade of olive trees they said Italy could never be conquered”
after all, someone remembered about Poland!
when I tried this, germany attacked the benelux in january 1940 and I barely held paris (but won eventually because I'm a pro gamer )
(nah just joking I died 3 weeks later)
u have to rush maintenance support in defensive war. they replenish ur gear everytime they retreat.
Sad to see, 1 year later, you are not over 100k
Soon, Belgiumball...soon Belgium will rise
@@Bitt3rSteel ok sir
I'd be interested to hear where 29,000 infantry equipment appeared from in just a few months.😂😂
Releasing Tunisia to buffer the Italians in Africa would be a good idea. It is the only land route into French Africa and the Italian navy would be in no shape to support a naval invasion after the capitulation of the mainland.
in my 1936 game Germany just refused to help Italy
it was really weird because when I took a German tile they had about 40 divisions rally to that single tile, they pushed 1 tile in back to Italy and immediately turned around and went back
that weirdness only end when italy capitulated, then germans flooded into Venice
Oh god, that minuscule Lithuania in Memel XD
Don't blaspheme
You did something amazing, but maybe France is the only country that provides a decent 1939 start... Anyways, let me just say... chapeau!
My fav nation going stronk
*Edit: Can you make a 1936 France guide
imagine playing hoi4 as germany and the person as france is bitt3rsteel
a belgian saving the dutch madness
Great Video , would love to see a UK one next followed by USSR.
There just be a French focus to secure their borders and take land from and puppet low Landa and take the Rhine to better defend france and their should be a focus on the focus tree where you can get an offense buff to push germsny back to the Rhine but it gives you some debuffs after
"So after the war the allies saw Finland just standing there all sweaty like, and they were like 'Thanks, Dicks."
Oh man you don't have to hit the gym in weeks after pulling all that weight :-)
Can you make a guide of the '' Nobody expects... '' achievement
Ik zie u graag "Scotty". ;)
Dank u zeer!
I think the Germans could spam force attack because the ai puts all their units into really small armies, and then it costs less command power
Don't know if this has been patched by now. But in my recent game, I noticed, that to see how much enemy equipment my maintenance companies have captured. I had to hover over my own losses up top, instead of enemy losses. 23:04
FYI, I don't have all DLC.
For the garrisons you can just hand everything over to the british
Thanks ! Have a good weekend Bitt3r!
.... and the true winner is Memel :D
Their own country after the war. Nice
That kazoo caught me so off-guard 🤣🤣🤣
Don't waste factories on guns, ask for guns from UK, USA, Turkey, Canada, Sweden etc.
No one will send you guns. No one. It's not like I haven't tried
@@Bitt3rSteel Hmm.. my bad then, I must have been confused and actually played another country. I swear that those countries usually easily give out guns, so often that in many plays I don't even bother producing guns...
@@postvideo97 in the 1939 start, the countries you reference do not have a surplus of guns and are entirely unable and unwilling to provide any for a long time. I'm not an idiot, I've done this a fair few times.
This is awesome. Great job twice!
If this was the real time line, my home south tyrol would be a wasteland after this meatgrind😂
That kazoo really caught me off guard😅
Honestly invading Austria/Germany thru Italy is probably the most historically proven Strat vs Austria/Germany. France literally did it during the Coalition Wars when they murked the Bourbon monarch and all the monarchs of Europe got angy.
Nice video! Can you make a guide for France democratic before no step back please?
Looking at it today, France has less divisions in France proper than in this playthrough, so perhaps it is patched
The other issue is that I couldn't send troops over immediately after the initial naval invasion. They just wouldn't go - had to prepare a new invasion even though I had a port and that would take 70 days.
They wanted to go overland and not by sea, even though sea was green. RIP. I don;t know how to play this game lololol
God the AI using force attack for 2 months continuously, I swear even in my games the AI cheats, if you aren't actively in some areas 2 AI will just kinda sit in a holding position and take years to finish off a war, like the UK and Italy in Somalia. I often see the AI have 0 man power but their units still have men in them even if I'm pounding them or they're just grinding into me
1:05 bro go those hanibal strategies 💀
8:58 bro the trumpet anthem 😂
Germany-Starts ww2
Germany-Hold france out, italy
Italy-I got u bruv
2 seconds later
Italy-I SURRENDER TO FRANCE
Germany-*whAt tHe fU-*
Ladies and gentleman he did