Short story long, after war was over Wojtek end up in Scotland, Edynburg ZOO. Polish soldiers used to visit him time to time and he never forget them, they were still going into the cage to play with him. Poland was trying to get him back to the country but somehow they couldn't (even tho he was hero for real) Around 20 years later he died in 1963. sorry for bad english
Come to think of it, Wojtek is a real-life Chewbacca, both are large and furry, both have brown fur, both shoot explosive weapons, both fought an Empire and both are equally likely to rip your arms off
I found your channel some days ago and I've been binge watching all of your videos. Not only are they in depth and helpful, but also very entertaining, I really am learning a lot about the game and have found that I became a better player. The quality is impecable too, keep up the good work I'm sure you will get a massive viewer base soon
If you wanna see the result of encirclement combat, click the ledger in your Theater window in the upper right. You see which battles have encirclements very easily as they have ridiculously high casualty numbers.
I love how I was thinking of doing this achievement yesterday but there wasn't a full fledged achievement runthrough. and you post this today. Talk about lucky, will try this later
For anyone watching this video after No Step Back came out, PDX did fix the Katowice core issue. If you give up Danzig and choose the "make them into an ally" option for the Eastward Expansion event, they'll leave you alone (although you'll have to deal with the Soviets). @Bitt3rSteel, any chance of an updated guide with getting Wojtek as king of Poland? It's not an achievement, just a challenge, but it involves getting Wojtek before taking on Russia with Anastasia Romanov on the throne.
I just played Poland for the first time to restore the PLC, and I didn't even look at the naval chief of staff options. All that pp that I left just laying on the floor... Definitely going to have to remember that guy on my next playthrough.
My advise, follow his roman empire video and knock out britain. Then just play around till you got nukes and can invade USA. Use British Island and Canada if you have it.
By the mid of 1936 try to get 48 division if possible then justify war goal on el salvador then declare war , after that The US will join the war , do naval invasion to the US , Then bring your armys to the east coast and capitulate the US , after that get your nukes then release the US and bomb them , Make sure you do test runs to get it right , Also ask venezuela for docking rights.
@@CaptainFluffle that is how I done it too. before invading England, conquer the Bermudas, then send 1 troop (to die) to Canada. this way they can be puppeted/annexed in the peace deal!
Invade France, naval invade Britain and 1 unit naval invade Canada at the same time to get them in the peace deal Then use Canada to invade the USA ASAP
just win in Europe as Italy and invade usa. i went through Florida for fun but its not hard; even rearmed usa will lose to competent divisionn templates and navy bombers cas fighters
Thank you for this guide! I'm not nearly as good at hoi4 as you are, so some spots against the Germans were a little rough, but eventually they just slammed into me over and over until I sent a few troops into Italy and got myself an achievement
A great thing about paradox games is that they don't compress the games files with all the numbers, so you can easily rewrite things that ruin your fun, like a rule about not being able to be an empire and a ruler of the HRE at the same time, that stood in my way doing a eu4 play-through, or the broken job assigning AI in Stellaris, that completely ignores pop traits.
I've just got the achievement. My first target was CS but I left the Sudets for the Germs. After that I gobbled Hungary. And fabricated on Litva. GB won't attack you because you are both guaranteed. Some of nordic nations might also throw guarantee but finish them via naval invasion. Same story with Latvia. By 1940. I had around 100 factories, 120 divisons and after three month clash 40k ded on my side and 4 milion Soviets on the other.
I did this back in 2016 by surviving a war between Germany and the Soviets lmao litterally turtled up in warsaw with level 7 forts. Then I somehow got Iran into comintern through old influence mechanics, then I joined allies to take roma and asked allies for hamadan. This video makes this a lot easier lol
It seems like you're quick to sum upp research quickly in many vids. Would it be posible to make a linear default research guide that people can follow?
industry/eletronics > artillery/planes > army doctrine > tanks if you got the industry for it > everything else is occasional that's pretty much how I always do it, been working so far
@Bitt3rSteel The Allies not guaranteeing the baltic states might be a game mechanic to avoid having the USSR at war with Allies before Molo-Ribben-Pact. I know you can cheese this somehow with the Allies guaranteeing Finland, but never have them seen do that with any baltic state, regardless of world tension
Ah, so sadly, in my run, I was able to puppet Russia, but as it turns out, the germans had a war goal on them. As soon as the peace deal was over, the germans were very happy to finally use it while my whole army was stuck in Russia. I capitulated before my army could even reach the front lines
Since i had the non-agression pact with germany i was able to put all of my army on the soviet border delaying their justification, that way I could quickly snag up both romania and yugo by justifying on yugo.
Love your content dude and I’ve binge watched a lot of them! I’ve gone to buy some of the stickers, but I have to a pay shipping on each item for a bulk order?
@@Bitt3rSteel let me know when it’s back up and running! Btw thank you so much for your videos. I must admit I’ve binged watched loads in the last few weeks!
Hey what's your preferred way of taking down the USSR? The last time i went to war with them i ended up with them having 30 million losses but they still kept fighting with no end in sight.
RNG has been the usual little B to me on this achievement run. My collaboration governments on Russia were the lowest on BOTH attempts at 30% so I had to drag the war out. They get a lot tougher when they lose the purge modifiers. I had got to Moscow by then. Then it took a YEAR to get the remainder of vp's to capitulate them. So now it is 1943. The allies have got their butt's handed to them and forced out of North Africa. Somehow German took British Raj. China is actually holding on. Italy has been running rampant all over Africa. US is doing NOTHING but losing territory. I'm afraid that the Axis is just too strong to finish this achievement on this run for me. I'll hang on a bit while I work on Poland can into space and see if the Allies can start pushing back. RNG always does this me. It took me over two dozen tries to the the austria hungaria achievement.
Is this a new issue, cause I remember playing non alligned poland many times in the past and never having problems with germany still justifying after I gave them Danzig or the soviets taking forever to attack.
I don't know if im doing this entirely wrong, but I'm following along step by step, and I can't manage to ever manage to stay at the same point as him. I've tried this like 6 times and still have yet to succeed.
why is it so specific on the requirements. "you must pray 7.4 times to papa stalin and perform a triple backflip at exactly 4:23 P.M. in the exact middle of isle of man while telling your mother how much you love her cooking"
it's so specific because Hamadan and Anzio were locations Wojtek actually fought/served in, the whole 'no Russia' thing is just to make it harder for the player :/
So question… does anyone know how to possibly build up or down Germany so that the Danzig or war event can possibly be successful in getting Danzig without war? Do you need make Poland fascist? Do you need a specific troop amount? Do you need to improve relations? Do you need a combination of the above? I have been trying for awhile and I can’t seem to find a way for them to NOT outright refuse each time so I can try a solid wall of axis & allies vs Comintern without trading Slovakia for Danzig…
Your game would also be perfect for "Poland can into space". Basically just get rocket tech, butuy obviously it's a low priority with the Soviets and Germans breathing down your neck at the start.
Hey, Great video there (as always), wojtek now can into space! Just a question though, I did not understand how did you get bucovina. PS. For the guarantee, I'm pretty sure no one will guarantee your target unless you (or your entire alliance) have generated more than 10% world tension.
It feels like everyone who sees a national spirit give them an ideology they don't like ignores the ability to ban particular ideologies. Like I always end up banning democracy after forming the ottoman empire and I still get the legacy of what's his name with its nice bonuses. Just make sure you aren't gonna want to ever switch to it or need any of it for any reason.
The Soviets were losing thousands of T34s to German AA guns. As were the Allies, especially in North Africa. A 10 killo shell hitting 40 mm of armor at Mach 3 will cause quite the damage. The tank turrets will fly off and land 100 meters away.
Another great guide, but I have ONE problem with all your advice: regarding spies, any Russia-operating spy gets caught almost immediately in all scenarios, which you rarely mention. Why do you never recommend the overseas recruit centers for spies, and hire native Russian spies when preparing collaboration governments? I'm really puzzled here, or it might be the latest patches changed this behavior so much, while it was not a big deal one year ago. So: cryptology, pills, intelligence AND localized centers seem mandatory to any Soviet invasion plan. And helps with Japan too.
Short story long, after war was over Wojtek end up in Scotland, Edynburg ZOO. Polish soldiers used to visit him time to time and he never forget them, they were still going into the cage to play with him. Poland was trying to get him back to the country but somehow they couldn't (even tho he was hero for real) Around 20 years later he died in 1963.
sorry for bad english
Why could they not get him back?
@@skyninjaslayer337 because English said they wont give that bear to a communist country while poland was puppeted by usrr after ww2
NOOOOOOOOO!!
Why couldn't let them have the bear!!
@@skyninjaslayer337 The soldiers didn't want him to become a commynist symbol
Nobody:
Poland: Hey let's just conscript this *bear* and look super badass in the future
i love it !
r/uselessnobody
@@gracjanszmyt1442 *I beg your pardon young man*
As they say, żeby Polska była Polska!
Is there a statute for this?
Come to think of it, Wojtek is a real-life Chewbacca, both are large and furry, both have brown fur, both shoot explosive weapons, both fought an Empire and both are equally likely to rip your arms off
Yeah. But its sad that he met a bad ending
@@koxmapper5706 So did Chewbacca, at least in Legends Continuity he did.
Considering Hoth is named after General Hoth Wojtek might have inspired Chewie
When you realize that Himmler has the same leading capabilities as a bear
its not just a bear, its wojtek
Is this an insult to Himmler or a compliment to Wojtek? Ha
@@JohnofPA Neither, it's an insult to Wojtek
thats because some of the resistance dont wants to fight anymore because they know the bear is a good "guy"
wojtek is superior not on the same level
Wojtek is the best commander of all history.
No actualy Mannerheim is the best
@@samuelhuittinen9839 no actualy erwin rommel
Add Mustafa Kemal to the list also
napoleon bonaparte
@@mhmmnk9865 NO
I found your channel some days ago and I've been binge watching all of your videos. Not only are they in depth and helpful, but also very entertaining, I really am learning a lot about the game and have found that I became a better player. The quality is impecable too, keep up the good work I'm sure you will get a massive viewer base soon
Pro tip for tweaking this from Tommy Kay : Put 2 factories on AA at the start as any nation = have enough AA for whole game.
*bear*-ttle of the Bosporus
To-Bear-ther for Victory
Bearth and Dishonor
Waking the Bear
Man the Bears
La Bear-sistance
Battle for the Bear-sporus
@@carltonleboss for the bear not of the bear
@@carltonleboss and now, barbearossa
No Step Bearck
If you wanna see the result of encirclement combat, click the ledger in your Theater window in the upper right. You see which battles have encirclements very easily as they have ridiculously high casualty numbers.
I love how I was thinking of doing this achievement yesterday but there wasn't a full fledged achievement runthrough. and you post this today. Talk about lucky, will try this later
For anyone watching this video after No Step Back came out, PDX did fix the Katowice core issue. If you give up Danzig and choose the "make them into an ally" option for the Eastward Expansion event, they'll leave you alone (although you'll have to deal with the Soviets).
@Bitt3rSteel, any chance of an updated guide with getting Wojtek as king of Poland? It's not an achievement, just a challenge, but it involves getting Wojtek before taking on Russia with Anastasia Romanov on the throne.
Ten times watched, 15 likes
I love democracy
i love it ! t yeah me too 1 ! is favorites. ever. ! :-)
I just played Poland for the first time to restore the PLC, and I didn't even look at the naval chief of staff options. All that pp that I left just laying on the floor... Definitely going to have to remember that guy on my next playthrough.
I swear only hoi4 tutorial videos get me to fall asleep lol, nothing can get me to close my eyes, thanks chief, i feel refreshed honestly
This channel is so underrated, keep it up man!
The timming.. :) open youtube and video published 22 seconds ago. Lets watch
Bitter Steel. Could you do Duce nuked em. There is no up to date version of it and I’m struggling with it.
My advise, follow his roman empire video and knock out britain. Then just play around till you got nukes and can invade USA. Use British Island and Canada if you have it.
By the mid of 1936 try to get 48 division if possible then justify war goal on el salvador then declare war , after that The US will join the war , do naval invasion to the US , Then bring your armys to the east coast and capitulate the US , after that get your nukes then release the US and bomb them , Make sure you do test runs to get it right , Also ask venezuela for docking rights.
@@CaptainFluffle that is how I done it too. before invading England, conquer the Bermudas, then send 1 troop (to die) to Canada. this way they can be puppeted/annexed in the peace deal!
Invade France, naval invade Britain and 1 unit naval invade Canada at the same time to get them in the peace deal
Then use Canada to invade the USA ASAP
just win in Europe as Italy and invade usa. i went through Florida for fun but its not hard; even rearmed usa will lose to competent divisionn templates and navy bombers cas fighters
Damned, I'm glad that you used my drawing in your thumbnail, but it'd be better if you had at least asked my permission first hahahahaha
Tut tut, naughty
man
Thank you for this guide! I'm not nearly as good at hoi4 as you are, so some spots against the Germans were a little rough, but eventually they just slammed into me over and over until I sent a few troops into Italy and got myself an achievement
A great thing about paradox games is that they don't compress the games files with all the numbers, so you can easily rewrite things that ruin your fun, like a rule about not being able to be an empire and a ruler of the HRE at the same time, that stood in my way doing a eu4 play-through, or the broken job assigning AI in Stellaris, that completely ignores pop traits.
you sir are a god. got the achievement because of you
just found your channel, watched (and liked) a number of your video's
Hope you found them helpful and enjoyable
Did a run as Poland once, was very fun.
I've just got the achievement. My first target was CS but I left the Sudets for the Germs. After that I gobbled Hungary. And fabricated on Litva. GB won't attack you because you are both guaranteed. Some of nordic nations might also throw guarantee but finish them via naval invasion. Same story with Latvia.
By 1940. I had around 100 factories, 120 divisons and after three month clash 40k ded on my side and 4 milion Soviets on the other.
I have never actually played this game but I am slightly addicted
It's great fun, I heartily recommend it
@@Bitt3rSteel *hardly
@@Linoran85 *heartily, pal...
@@Linoran85 are you clinically braindead?
@@Linoran85 sometimes there are words that you don't know, try learning what they mean instead of correcting spelling. You'll learn alot more
I did this back in 2016 by surviving a war between Germany and the Soviets lmao litterally turtled up in warsaw with level 7 forts. Then I somehow got Iran into comintern through old influence mechanics, then I joined allies to take roma and asked allies for hamadan. This video makes this a lot easier lol
Aah very nice video, allready wached it.
It seems like you're quick to sum upp research quickly in many vids. Would it be posible to make a linear default research guide that people can follow?
industry/eletronics > artillery/planes > army doctrine > tanks if you got the industry for it > everything else is occasional
that's pretty much how I always do it, been working so far
King Wojtek guide soon?
Yess! Thank You @Bitt3rSteel !
Great video as always mate!
Germany- Rubbing eyes
"Like WTF...?"
Great video.
German Reich be like: NOOOOOOOO HOW CAN I NOT CONTINUE THE FAMILY TRADITION OF ATTACKING POLAND!!!
@Bitt3rSteel
The Allies not guaranteeing the baltic states might be a game mechanic to avoid having the USSR at war with Allies before Molo-Ribben-Pact.
I know you can cheese this somehow with the Allies guaranteeing Finland, but never have them seen do that with any baltic state, regardless of world tension
I would love to see you do the "Go ahead, Macua my day." achievement
Poland is getting a new focus tree with the next DLC
Ah, so sadly, in my run, I was able to puppet Russia, but as it turns out, the germans had a war goal on them. As soon as the peace deal was over, the germans were very happy to finally use it while my whole army was stuck in Russia. I capitulated before my army could even reach the front lines
same here. If it takes too long to roll through russia the german wargoal will kick you in the butt
When Volibear started using big cannon :))
Ah good, the question has been answered. Poland CAN into space.
Comment for the algorithm.
Keep up the great work.
THANKS BRO ;) EXCELENT JOB ;)
Luxembourg world conquest! the memes demand a sacrifice!
YES! Thank you so much.
Keep Up the good Work!
I'll do my best!
Loved this walkthrough to help get the achievement. However...in my game i still had Russia as a puppet when the event fired.. Either way
This was so hard to bear
hey bitt3rsteel can you update this guide for no step back?
He actually did it!
As always, cool video.
"Roughly 90 days before we take latvia."Whilst looking at lithuania.
Bro is that the I Saw A Bear logo?
Sick
That's Wojtek
@@Bitt3rSteel I know, his logo is Wojtek. HOWEVER, His logo looks scarily similar to that one.
.. Down to the line kind of similar.
47:15 what is this song
Hey guys I would give 10/10 of Barborrossa if tanna tuva has a proper focus tree would you pay money for that dlc
Tannu Tuva, Luxembourg, and Yemen I would buy 100%
TANNU WHAT??
I would pay 10 dollars for focus of TANNA TUVA
Do not buy dlc if tanna tuva has not have focus
Since i had the non-agression pact with germany i was able to put all of my army on the soviet border delaying their justification, that way I could quickly snag up both romania and yugo by justifying on yugo.
Hey bittersteel you can take Memel Germany won’t have the option to get Memel
Nice. I would love to see peace conference after end.
For increasing the ammount of divisions that one general can have under his command(up to 30 for example) - is there a mod require to do it?
It is a trait generals can develop as they gain experience
@@Bitt3rSteel and if they develop it, can it upgraded even more? I sometimes saw a generals with up to 72 or even more divisions
24 is standard. 30nis with the trait. The exception is generals ordered to garrison an area. They can control 72ish units
What is the music that starts at 47:15?
It seems like a modicum of paratroopers and motorized would help with this gambit.
Love your content dude and I’ve binge watched a lot of them! I’ve gone to buy some of the stickers, but I have to a pay shipping on each item for a bulk order?
How weird? I'll have to check how that works, as shipping is done by TeeSpring
@@Bitt3rSteel thank you man. Again love your content!
@@Eehonda_again yeah, it seems to charge shipping for each item... Have no idea how to change that...I'll take the stre offline to find out
@@Bitt3rSteel let me know when it’s back up and running! Btw thank you so much for your videos. I must admit I’ve binged watched loads in the last few weeks!
i love it !
Is forming polish lithuanian commonwealth still possible or they fixed it?
i forgot that this was a achievement guide halfway through
Nice vid!! (As always) But what is the name of the song you often use, for example as outro here?
wait.. almost 1h long video for an achievement? holy fuck :D
39:53 the plc
Can you play as Canada and get their achievements?
Hey what's your preferred way of taking down the USSR?
The last time i went to war with them i ended up with them having 30 million losses but they still kept fighting with no end in sight.
well done :)
35:49 oh my gOD
Do you ever consider equipping maintenance companies on your infantry? They will provide so much equipment for your front line troops.
That's what I thought he should do, the Soviets would bleed all their equipment and he would gain it in his stockpile
RNG has been the usual little B to me on this achievement run. My collaboration governments on Russia were the lowest on BOTH attempts at 30% so I had to drag the war out. They get a lot tougher when they lose the purge modifiers. I had got to Moscow by then. Then it took a YEAR to get the remainder of vp's to capitulate them. So now it is 1943. The allies have got their butt's handed to them and forced out of North Africa. Somehow German took British Raj. China is actually holding on. Italy has been running rampant all over Africa. US is doing NOTHING but losing territory.
I'm afraid that the Axis is just too strong to finish this achievement on this run for me. I'll hang on a bit while I work on Poland can into space and see if the Allies can start pushing back.
RNG always does this me. It took me over two dozen tries to the the austria hungaria achievement.
yeah, I hate RNG...
İf you be in axis when Germany starts danzig or war germany bypasses it so you colud do that as well
Virtually impossible to do so as non-alligned
Is this a new issue, cause I remember playing non alligned poland many times in the past and never having problems with germany still justifying after I gave them Danzig or the soviets taking forever to attack.
I think it depends on how lucky you are. I played as Poland three times and in all of my runs Germany attacked me after cede them Danzig :/
I don't know if im doing this entirely wrong, but I'm following along step by step, and I can't manage to ever manage to stay at the same point as him. I've tried this like 6 times and still have yet to succeed.
Got it today(30-Jan-2021)
why is it so specific on the requirements.
"you must pray 7.4 times to papa stalin and perform a triple backflip at exactly 4:23 P.M. in the exact middle of isle of man while telling your mother how much you love her cooking"
it's so specific because Hamadan and Anzio were locations Wojtek actually fought/served in, the whole 'no Russia' thing is just to make it harder for the player :/
You should do 30 Minutes of Hel.
Should have promoted Wojtek to field marshal!
Smolensk, polish core. That really hurts on so many levels.
this is art!!!!!
Is it viable if you finish focus "go right" to get additional 2% manpower?
You really don't need the manpower that all the extra cores, plus it makes managing fascism a pain
So question…
does anyone know how to possibly build up or down Germany so that the Danzig or war event can possibly be successful in getting Danzig without war?
Do you need make Poland fascist?
Do you need a specific troop amount?
Do you need to improve relations?
Do you need a combination of the above?
I have been trying for awhile and I can’t seem to find a way for them to NOT outright refuse each time so I can try a solid wall of axis & allies vs Comintern without trading Slovakia for Danzig…
after i puppeted soviet, germany declare on russia immediately..
and my save end..
Yeah Wojtek was bear he serve in the war
Yeah, on my first atempt, Germany did took Memel first for some reason
Historical game btw
Adnef03 yeah because Memel was in their old territories they do it every time
Your game would also be perfect for "Poland can into space". Basically just get rocket tech, butuy obviously it's a low priority with the Soviets and Germans breathing down your neck at the start.
I like to imagine what the alies are thinking as Poland straight up curb stomps the Soviets.
*uncomfortable sweating*
Eyyyyyy, new vid
Hey, Great video there (as always), wojtek now can into space!
Just a question though, I did not understand how did you get bucovina.
PS. For the guarantee, I'm pretty sure no one will guarantee your target unless you (or your entire alliance) have generated more than 10% world tension.
Cool!
It feels like everyone who sees a national spirit give them an ideology they don't like ignores the ability to ban particular ideologies. Like I always end up banning democracy after forming the ottoman empire and I still get the legacy of what's his name with its nice bonuses. Just make sure you aren't gonna want to ever switch to it or need any of it for any reason.
Is that event still present?
So imagine a T34 vs an anti aircraft gun, seems like a fair fight
Fun fact: the Flak 88, main gun for the Tiger and Tiger 2 was originally and AA gun
The Soviets were losing thousands of T34s to German AA guns. As were the Allies, especially in North Africa. A 10 killo shell hitting 40 mm of armor at Mach 3 will cause quite the damage. The tank turrets will fly off and land 100 meters away.
How manay artillery do you have in your infantry template to be effective against the soviet ?
The template for offensive infantry is 14 inf and 4 art
Another great guide, but I have ONE problem with all your advice: regarding spies, any Russia-operating spy gets caught almost immediately in all scenarios, which you rarely mention. Why do you never recommend the overseas recruit centers for spies, and hire native Russian spies when preparing collaboration governments? I'm really puzzled here, or it might be the latest patches changed this behavior so much, while it was not a big deal one year ago. So: cryptology, pills, intelligence AND localized centers seem mandatory to any Soviet invasion plan. And helps with Japan too.
*I just want to watch the world burn* --Bitt3rSteel
With the power of flex tape
I CUT THIS ITALY IN HALF
1. Who is Wojtek?
2. Do I need the Battle for the Bosporus DLC for this Achievment?
1. A bear bought by polish soldiers in ww2. It carried ammo crates.
2. No
@@Bitt3rSteel Thanks
Do you have Wojtek unlocked in other Poland runs as well?
I've only gotten him when specifically hunting for the achievement
“As for our pp, I have 100 now” -Bitt3rSteel