Bittersteel asking why he doesn't have any war support when the war has claimed one out of nine Russians alive in that time period- meanwhile, Germany and Spain have already hit zero stability and war support while the war has claimed one out of every fourteen people alive on Earth from military casualties *alone* by the end of this video- I'm glad that the game doesn't record civilian casualties, because I think the human race would probably be approaching an extincion event at this point.
@@penguin3540 For sure, how many civilian casualties do you figure the war would have caused at this point? Easily 250-300mil at least. I dont think humanity would ever recover from that heh
@@zombieguyproducionas a species we have bounced back from proportionally worse situations. Going to be one hell of a genetic bottleneck to add to the pile though
there should be mechanics for 1 partial peace 2 government collapse, like how is it that there's no revolution or just how are these government still existing when they have lost like half their population in the war
@@AmraithNR there is a peace deal mod that as the winning country lets you end the war early by selecting just a selection of states of the enemy, instead of having to capitulate them. The AI refuses if it sees a way out of its situation or if the player asks for too much. I could imagine paradox doing something something but in reverse, where you could offer the AI your states in exchange for peace (or the AI would send an proposed peace proposal to the player, which would be up to the player to decide if they want to accept it). The AI would refuse if there isn't a stalemate/the war hasn't gone on for years.
most of the sovjet points are between the river line and the ural, the east aldo important because of the resourches really hasn't that many citys so you can lose a lot of it
I had a game where I was forced to push westward from the farthest points east and I literally reached moscow, took it, and everything east of it, before they capitulated russia became so small almost hungary seemed larger...
BTW Bitter - For your insane pushes into low supply, I cannot stress how useful the extra fuel tanks module is. Forget the sloped armor, you're not fighting Anti-tanks head on anyway with your low armor, so why buff what you don't have. -signed some crazy tank guy, who plays
@@mountelbert4214 There's just something so satisfying about taking on the allies, axis, and commintern and doing basically a wc as bhutan or tannu tuva or cuba
@@walrusskeleton8896 well i eventually finished it and won, but yes it was a preset where i made every nation possible to be anti soviet, its pretty fun
Hear me out. This game was played by a Baltic Unitary State player (most likely Estonia-Finland) who later tagged over to the Soviets and tried to save their disaster before ultimately failing. They have control/ownership over all of Finland, something the AI wouldn't aim for. They have a MASSIVE industry which the AI just wouldn't have as such a small country. They've also taken relatively few casualties compared to their comrades. On top of that, Lithuania is mostly occupied by Germany, implying that they unified the Baltics with occupied land from the Soviets that later got taken control of by Germany (presumably after the tag switch to the Soviets). On top of that, the Soviets went down the Union of Soviet Republics path, which is quite weak and something a player wouldn't usually do unless they really wanted to larp as Trotsky. Plus, this player seems too good to get into this position on their own.
it was my save, i posted it on reddit. I played as the soviets from the start, I made a preset where all countries become fascist in the world and you have to beat all of them, cool isnt it?
By the end of this game there was 164.31 million casualties! in our world war II estimates put the death total at about 15 million soldiers and 38 million civilians if we assume that the ratio of civilians to soldiers is roughly the same we get a civilian death toll of 416 million for a combined total of about 581 million casualties. The estimates for the total number of people I've been able to find say that there's about 2 billion to 2.3 billion people alive at this time, meaning this war killed about 25% of the world's population in about 25 years. By the end of the war there would have been people who were born when the war really kicked off in 39 who were old enough to fight in the war. unbelievable.
I have found that mass assault, specifically mass mobilization (the right path) is exceptionally useful for the war in China. The extra defense and attack on core territory stacks extra with stuff like 100 regiments campaign etc.
Mass assault also increases resistance growth and decreases compliance gain in your states occupied by enemies. Gives that extra edge against Japan since they expend more manpowewr and equipment for garrisons. (also its funny having 20 million manpower in reserve)
Here's a challenge idea: Play a game of Hoi4 but you use Mass Assault doctrine. It's a very underrated doctrine, Deep Battle path gives you -20% supply consumption, -25% Org loss when moving, 12% reinforce rate. The -0.4 combat width for infantry is really strong, you can fit more troops into a division for the same combat width which results in more firepower and more HP. And besides doesn't it get a bit boring and repetitive if you constantly use Superior Firepower?
The rare BitterSteel bad take. I think BitterSteel might be mistaken about what combat width *does* in HOI4 (given that he said he "especially hates" that Mass Assault lowers combat width)... this isn't EU4 or something -- you aren't punished for low combat width, it's just a number that limits how much you can bring to the field. Having the *same* division, only with lower combat width, is a massive buff. Bizarre that the expert who saves our butts is so wrong. Edit: And I agree 100% with Bitter that Superior Firepower is the best default choice against the AI unless: a) you have infinite manpower & bad industry (Mass Assault), b) you have no weaknesses and would win anyway even if you didn't have a doctrine at all (Grand Battleplan), or c) you want to go for Mechanized doomstacks (Mobile Warfare + mobile infantry buffs tree, guilty as charged)
@@assatgames9567 bit late but it's especially true now that combat widths change per battle because of terrain and other factors, being just under 20 or 21 with that reinforce rate means you can win battles more consistently across terrain
Why don’t you ever use motorized to follow the armor? Assign them to the frontline but not the attack order so they just fill the gaps behind the tanks as soon as they appear
@sadrafarhang2328 ...you literally don't micro manage it, and since he was switching to mech he had a giant stockpile of trucks and like 5 million manpower, he could have pumped out a couple armies to follow behind the spearhead
If you ever feel like your work means nothing, just know that there was a dev at paradox who was tasked with coding the "Sue for peace" button, right at the top of te diplomacy menu when at war.
Lakes do allow supply to reach troops even if they can’t retreat to lake provinces. Same with impassable mountains and deserts, supply will cross them. Therefore, to cut off troops on a lake, you need to capture the lake by controlling the majority of tiles around the lake. This also means that supply hubs on the shores of large lakes have vastly more range than normal supply hubs, so for example the supply hubs on Baikal, Aral Sea, the lakes in the baltic region, the great lakes, lake Malawi, etc.
@@jakemarchbank Forgot to mention, default supply range is between 2-3 tiles, which includes lake tiles (most lakes are a single tile, which is why the large ones provide so much supply range, but some lakes are multiple tiles and are therefore less OP for supply range). Supply range can be boosted to 4, maybe even 5 tiles with infrastructure, level 5 railways, and supply trucks. Weather can also reduce supply range, particularly blizzards and snow, but since weather is a temporary effect, it doesn't really matter that much. But interesting to note that level 1 ports in 0% infrastructure areas during blizzards might actually get 1 tile of supply range. Incidentally, a lot of mods make really big impassable tiles for the Sahara and Siberia, in one case in the Great War Redux mod, I built a port on Kamchatka as China and got supply all the way to the Urals just because all of impassable Siberia was just two tiles, and the supply range was 4 tiles.
44:29 did you notice? his manpower jumped from 8.5mln to 9.2mln because Leningrad has that big a population it insta mobilised 700k troops from that one city I had entire games of hoi4 where 700k troops is all I ever had and soviets got that from a single tile just instantly
Tip on playing the Soviet Union, regarding the steel resources; the two states Kursk and Belgorod will, eventually, become your biggest steel suppliers, since there are repeatable decisions to increase the amount of steel in those states. It's not unlimited, but with lvl 5 infrastructure you can get over 400 steel from there (combined). Very handy in late-game situations like this; I always start maximizing their infrastructure, since that doesn't have a building penalty in '36 (unlike mills and civs)
Nothing is more satisfying than seeing what could be a loss caused disaster save only for the tides to be turned around and see the enemy fall over one by one.
is there enough manpower for the radio stations to still work, though? Porbably the ones left are just listening to some repeat messages from the Big Brother.
Thank you so much for the resource, Bitt3rsteel. I earned 171 achievements starting from your guide. I tried this save, and tried another direction. I equipped my tanks with fuel drums and ran along the trans-siberian railway to Irkutsk. Then drive south to Ulaanbaatar and Zhangbei. Use mountaineers to break the line there and strike Beijing. Push to Vladivostok, then south to Bangkok. This should severely worsen the enemies manpower problem, and I got the Chinese manpower pool. I am now at 1959.4, just reached Konigsberg. Axis has 110M casualties, 1500 divisions, while I have 26.5M casualties, 1350 divisions. I should be able to knock out Axis very soon? BTW, I found Italy so powerful in this save. They can mobilize 36.5% core population... Insane...
I don't get the issue with the lower combat width. You can use the same divisions but have a slightly lower width (that in the worst case does nothing, but which might help in niche situations), or you try and add 1 or 2 things to get them close to the preffered width and now the same width division has higher stats. I get preferring other doctrines. But how is the width thing ever a negative? At worst it changes nothing. Or am I missing something?
After this war, a new religious cult appeared in the USSR, and their gods were the generals that won this war (seriously, I think of this happened IRL, those guys would get an immense cult of personnality around them, without them having to do anything)
when you go for the howitzers on tanks you can assign them to be SPGs which gives I think 25% extra soft attack, it also lowers some stats but it means you can use a lot fewer tanks for the same soft attack, although you lose some hardness and breakthrough, however you can fill up the rest of the division with regular tanks to balance that out. Idk I found it useful at times.
This is the first video in a long time that I have actually watched the entire ad for, instead of normally skipping to the end, just because of that accent
One of my buddies emailed a disaster save we had while playing MP last week. I said there was no way to save that playthrough, however seeing this video gives me hope that if you ever do get around to playing our save, you may be able to salvage it
The main thing Mass Assault right side has going for it that gets overlooked is the Mass Charge tactic, being able to increase combat width by 50% can let you add a bunch of extra divisions into combat with flanking. China is really the only country that can make good use of that though, the Soviets would much rather make tanks and use breakthrough.
Something i’ve never thought about is that the holocaust still happens in hoi4, so that means that by the time bitt3r made real advances, multiple groups of ethnic minorities were probably already extinct.
I had something like this but with Italy once - got stuck with a useless Gernany AI that decided to pull everything off the D-day front and the eastern front. Was in a stalemate with the UK snapping at my last holdouts for nearly a decade before finally constructing nukes to kick them off every individual tile. Lured them into naval invading so many times they had nothing left. Rolled through France and the USSR and left the Axis to give Germany no help. Managed to land in the US and nuke every single victory point i came across. I still have the "Duce Nuke em" achievement to prove it. Amazing to see the before and after - Italy half occupied to the UK fully annexed. Was very fun working through the peace deal. Great video
This and the last disasters you've covered really feel like someone played the other side and sent the save to you wanting to see you push their juggernaut back :D not a bad thing, just interesting people have resorted to doing that for you to give you a challenge :)
it is my save, i submitted it on reddit. I played as russia from the start till the end, I used a preset where all countries will become fascist. I never intended on sending it to bittersteel only the people in the reddit comments tagged him and he decided to do it, which is pretty cool. But isn't this all fascist world challenge cool?
I think using a 30 width motorized rocket artillery would have been better with 1 or 2 tank destroyer ...as versus AI it's mostly infantry and the rocket artillery does a disgusting amount of soft attack and those divisions would have been much cheaper than 30 width modern tank divisions
Units actually don't attrition if there is a lake or river which connects them back to their own territory. It is one of the things that makes any invasion into Russia as Finland or the Baltics very tough
Im more surprised about AI Baltic States. I have never seen AI manage to do Baltic States without my blessings. Considering its on Germanys side its fairly certain there was no player blessings here.
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@@Jasonlonge oh no 😭
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Bittersteel asking why he doesn't have any war support when the war has claimed one out of nine Russians alive in that time period- meanwhile, Germany and Spain have already hit zero stability and war support while the war has claimed one out of every fourteen people alive on Earth from military casualties *alone* by the end of this video- I'm glad that the game doesn't record civilian casualties, because I think the human race would probably be approaching an extincion event at this point.
Lol true
@@penguin3540 For sure, how many civilian casualties do you figure the war would have caused at this point? Easily 250-300mil at least. I dont think humanity would ever recover from that heh
@@zombieguyproducionas a species we have bounced back from proportionally worse situations. Going to be one hell of a genetic bottleneck to add to the pile though
not everyone in the USSR were russians. In fact, russians were only around 50% of the total population, no more.
@@zombieguyproducionyou underestimate asias power
If there ever was a petition to add offer peace to the enemy this is the video to show to the devs
there should be mechanics for 1 partial peace 2 government collapse, like how is it that there's no revolution or just how are these government still existing when they have lost like half their population in the war
FUCKING AGREE OR LIKE A TREATY SYSTEM
There is conditional surrender, but AI will always just refuse.
@@AmraithNR there is a peace deal mod that as the winning country lets you end the war early by selecting just a selection of states of the enemy, instead of having to capitulate them. The AI refuses if it sees a way out of its situation or if the player asks for too much. I could imagine paradox doing something something but in reverse, where you could offer the AI your states in exchange for peace (or the AI would send an proposed peace proposal to the player, which would be up to the player to decide if they want to accept it). The AI would refuse if there isn't a stalemate/the war hasn't gone on for years.
@@AmraithNR wrong, it depends on how close you are to capitulation, if you/the ai accept it at the beginning it will be a white peace.
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Also Bitt3rsteel: Makachalalalawhatever.
Truely
18:52 out of context
@@jeiku5314 " I will need you boys to retake Minsk." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol I loved it!
Poor Hasbulla
I always imagined something like this happening, Never thought I would actually see a russia this small that hasn't capped
most of the sovjet points are between the river line and the ural, the east aldo important because of the resourches really hasn't that many citys so you can lose a lot of it
@@koenwaalde Not only that but the Trotsky route increases surrender limit, as does the Supreme Soviet.
@@Syrath101Yeah that makes sense
Rasiya never surrenders bro
I had a game where I was forced to push westward from the farthest points east and I literally reached moscow, took it, and everything east of it, before they capitulated
russia became so small almost hungary seemed larger...
the accent during the ad was legendary
You saw that too??? 😅😅😅 That American Cowboy accent was funny af.
@@carloschircopit is a Russian accent😂😂
@@ingmarmeester6797 probably means the second part at the end.
Avrg German and Russian accent
bro I fr just watched the ad for the accent
U deserve so much more subs man, keep grinding!
Appreciate it
@@Bitt3rSteelDo you do modded disaster saves?
Yea i just realized he doesnt have much subscribers compared to larger hoi4 youtubers like isp
true
@@Teal182 isp, bitter, dankus and feedback are the best in ma opinion
BTW Bitter - For your insane pushes into low supply, I cannot stress how useful the extra fuel tanks module is. Forget the sloped armor, you're not fighting Anti-tanks head on anyway with your low armor, so why buff what you don't have.
-signed some crazy tank guy, who plays
You, my friend, are a madman, and I respect it
@@mountelbert4214 There's just something so satisfying about taking on the allies, axis, and commintern and doing basically a wc as bhutan or tannu tuva or cuba
@@Arexsis i can see that, I just don’t have the patience
How do you do it
@@Skyesaysno mostly with my hands and eyes
I wonder what on earth happened on the road to the disaster save
i feel like the guy on ussr put everyone to go fascist so he'd fight against the whole world
fell asleep on the computer
Non-historical gameplay is all you need to know
My guess this is a customised ahistorical run. Probably player tried to a make whole world against me challenge and screwed up.
@@doctorwhat779yeah, that's what i said
Props to this guy for sticking with this campaign. I would have an emotional breakdown if this level of pressure came down on me 😂
thanks for the compliment, I eventually beat the axis aswell (yes this is my save)
@@walrusskeleton8896 well i eventually finished it and won, but yes it was a preset where i made every nation possible to be anti soviet, its pretty fun
"Mom! Can we get TNO?"
"We have TNO at home"
The TNO at home:
First West Russian War if it succeeded
The explanation for how to get a unified field marshal order was really helpful, thank you for that!
Glad it was helpful!
Unfortnatly i wont need this cus hoi4 its only a dream for me😞@@Bitt3rSteel
Think you can actually reinforce over that lake in winter, for sieges of Leningrad so you can historically reinforce over the lake
Yeah, it must be something like that. Very annoying
Respect brother! I wouldn’t have even tried this. Glad you’re still sane.
Hear me out. This game was played by a Baltic Unitary State player (most likely Estonia-Finland) who later tagged over to the Soviets and tried to save their disaster before ultimately failing. They have control/ownership over all of Finland, something the AI wouldn't aim for. They have a MASSIVE industry which the AI just wouldn't have as such a small country. They've also taken relatively few casualties compared to their comrades. On top of that, Lithuania is mostly occupied by Germany, implying that they unified the Baltics with occupied land from the Soviets that later got taken control of by Germany (presumably after the tag switch to the Soviets). On top of that, the Soviets went down the Union of Soviet Republics path, which is quite weak and something a player wouldn't usually do unless they really wanted to larp as Trotsky.
Plus, this player seems too good to get into this position on their own.
it was my save, i posted it on reddit. I played as the soviets from the start, I made a preset where all countries become fascist in the world and you have to beat all of them, cool isnt it?
@ thanks a lot for bringing me back to the past right before everything blew up in my face
Wdym ?@isaacskinner5565
By the end of this game there was 164.31 million casualties! in our world war II estimates put the death total at about 15 million soldiers and 38 million civilians if we assume that the ratio of civilians to soldiers is roughly the same we get a civilian death toll of 416 million for a combined total of about 581 million casualties. The estimates for the total number of people I've been able to find say that there's about 2 billion to 2.3 billion people alive at this time, meaning this war killed about 25% of the world's population in about 25 years. By the end of the war there would have been people who were born when the war really kicked off in 39 who were old enough to fight in the war. unbelievable.
I would argue civilian deaths would be a lot higher because of Germany's, uh, plans that they had.
70-85 million people died in ww2. Not 15. 20 million was about how many died in ww1.
Needless to say, an interesting reenactment of the Thirty Years War.
That’s like Vietnam
"...but who am I to judge?" *proceeds to judge :D
Okay it's been a while since I'm following you and enjoy it but this run man ? It deserve that I join the crew and support you even more ^^
and done
I appreciate it!
What bittersteel taught me is that a. No single player savegame is truly lost b. I can win as any nation with soft attack tanks
I have found that mass assault, specifically mass mobilization (the right path) is exceptionally useful for the war in China. The extra defense and attack on core territory stacks extra with stuff like 100 regiments campaign etc.
@@redcrown5154it's called being based 🗿
i really like grand battleplan in China. The defensive buffs in it plus the supply bonusses are quite spicy.
how is cutting your penis off based?@@nonautemrexchristus5637
Mass assault also increases resistance growth and decreases compliance gain in your states occupied by enemies. Gives that extra edge against Japan since they expend more manpowewr and equipment for garrisons. (also its funny having 20 million manpower in reserve)
(still mentally ill)
Here's a challenge idea: Play a game of Hoi4 but you use Mass Assault doctrine. It's a very underrated doctrine, Deep Battle path gives you -20% supply consumption, -25% Org loss when moving, 12% reinforce rate. The -0.4 combat width for infantry is really strong, you can fit more troops into a division for the same combat width which results in more firepower and more HP. And besides doesn't it get a bit boring and repetitive if you constantly use Superior Firepower?
The rare BitterSteel bad take. I think BitterSteel might be mistaken about what combat width *does* in HOI4 (given that he said he "especially hates" that Mass Assault lowers combat width)... this isn't EU4 or something -- you aren't punished for low combat width, it's just a number that limits how much you can bring to the field. Having the *same* division, only with lower combat width, is a massive buff. Bizarre that the expert who saves our butts is so wrong.
Edit: And I agree 100% with Bitter that Superior Firepower is the best default choice against the AI unless: a) you have infinite manpower & bad industry (Mass Assault), b) you have no weaknesses and would win anyway even if you didn't have a doctrine at all (Grand Battleplan), or c) you want to go for Mechanized doomstacks (Mobile Warfare + mobile infantry buffs tree, guilty as charged)
@@assatgames9567 bit late but it's especially true now that combat widths change per battle because of terrain and other factors, being just under 20 or 21 with that reinforce rate means you can win battles more consistently across terrain
Always love your videos, thanks for taking one for the team with this one!!
Glad you like them!
it is so entertaining to see a scenario I know for sure I would lose in but then bittersteel somehow manages to save it
This save has the vibs of, "I left the game running for 10yrs and only did research".....
yea this person knows how to build up but probably can't micro
@@Rusty_Justice Prob new player playing by guide, and then I see ahistorical path so idk...
@@raizors1331Prob a semi new player that wants something whacky
@@Rusty_Justice I mean the USSR can defeat AI Germany with only battleplans.
i honestly like mass assault + deep battle a lot as soviets, the combat width changes let you do some extra funky stuff
Why don’t you ever use motorized to follow the armor? Assign them to the frontline but not the attack order so they just fill the gaps behind the tanks as soon as they appear
It's hard to micromanage and it's kinda expensive
@sadrafarhang2328 ...you literally don't micro manage it, and since he was switching to mech he had a giant stockpile of trucks and like 5 million manpower, he could have pumped out a couple armies to follow behind the spearhead
Oder so💪
@@sadrafarhang2328how?
motorised is insasely cheap to produce
If you ever feel like your work means nothing, just know that there was a dev at paradox who was tasked with coding the "Sue for peace" button, right at the top of te diplomacy menu when at war.
Lakes do allow supply to reach troops even if they can’t retreat to lake provinces. Same with impassable mountains and deserts, supply will cross them. Therefore, to cut off troops on a lake, you need to capture the lake by controlling the majority of tiles around the lake.
This also means that supply hubs on the shores of large lakes have vastly more range than normal supply hubs, so for example the supply hubs on Baikal, Aral Sea, the lakes in the baltic region, the great lakes, lake Malawi, etc.
That is super interesting and useful to know, thank you
@@jakemarchbank Forgot to mention, default supply range is between 2-3 tiles, which includes lake tiles (most lakes are a single tile, which is why the large ones provide so much supply range, but some lakes are multiple tiles and are therefore less OP for supply range). Supply range can be boosted to 4, maybe even 5 tiles with infrastructure, level 5 railways, and supply trucks.
Weather can also reduce supply range, particularly blizzards and snow, but since weather is a temporary effect, it doesn't really matter that much. But interesting to note that level 1 ports in 0% infrastructure areas during blizzards might actually get 1 tile of supply range.
Incidentally, a lot of mods make really big impassable tiles for the Sahara and Siberia, in one case in the Great War Redux mod, I built a port on Kamchatka as China and got supply all the way to the Urals just because all of impassable Siberia was just two tiles, and the supply range was 4 tiles.
It's historic as well, during the siege of Leningrade this was the main way they relieved the siege. Terrible tragedy, 1-2M dead in that city.
34:10 sometimes "No step back" is wrong and taking a step back means going forward
44:29 did you notice? his manpower jumped from 8.5mln to 9.2mln
because Leningrad has that big a population it insta mobilised 700k troops from that one city
I had entire games of hoi4 where 700k troops is all I ever had and soviets got that from a single tile just instantly
Sovi 't manpower is wild
Tip on playing the Soviet Union, regarding the steel resources; the two states Kursk and Belgorod will, eventually, become your biggest steel suppliers, since there are repeatable decisions to increase the amount of steel in those states. It's not unlimited, but with lvl 5 infrastructure you can get over 400 steel from there (combined). Very handy in late-game situations like this; I always start maximizing their infrastructure, since that doesn't have a building penalty in '36 (unlike mills and civs)
Your videos are amazing man! Keep going!
great video my guy! you and ISP are the people who got me into this game and history in general!
Glad to hear it!
Nothing is more satisfying than seeing what could be a loss caused disaster save only for the tides to be turned around and see the enemy fall over one by one.
Wow. I have 1000 hours in this game and I’m just learning about this unified field marshal frontline. That’s insane
post war propaganda is CRAAZY in this universe
is there enough manpower for the radio stations to still work, though? Porbably the ones left are just listening to some repeat messages from the Big Brother.
the lore of this game musta been insane
The Great Trial awaits!
Thank you so much for the resource, Bitt3rsteel. I earned 171 achievements starting from your guide.
I tried this save, and tried another direction. I equipped my tanks with fuel drums and ran along the trans-siberian railway to Irkutsk. Then drive south to Ulaanbaatar and Zhangbei. Use mountaineers to break the line there and strike Beijing. Push to Vladivostok, then south to Bangkok. This should severely worsen the enemies manpower problem, and I got the Chinese manpower pool. I am now at 1959.4, just reached Konigsberg. Axis has 110M casualties, 1500 divisions, while I have 26.5M casualties, 1350 divisions. I should be able to knock out Axis very soon?
BTW, I found Italy so powerful in this save. They can mobilize 36.5% core population... Insane...
I like to think that in the universe where Bittersteel takes over, the moment he takes over is when the leaders start doing immense amounts of crack.
Sorry you got frustrated but man I love your disaster save videos and I'll always watch them
This is why I ALWAYS go for howitzers. In singleplayer, soft attack is basically the most important thing in a tank.
I know I'm in for a 51 minute long treat here, keep up the good work!
Every nation in that war was channeling the spirit of Paraguay to build up those casualties.
This war has devastated the world
"The West is falling" - BitterSteel, 2023
Trotsky's Counterattack
I don't get the issue with the lower combat width. You can use the same divisions but have a slightly lower width (that in the worst case does nothing, but which might help in niche situations), or you try and add 1 or 2 things to get them close to the preffered width and now the same width division has higher stats.
I get preferring other doctrines. But how is the width thing ever a negative? At worst it changes nothing. Or am I missing something?
It's a personal annoyance, more than anything else
After this war, a new religious cult appeared in the USSR, and their gods were the generals that won this war (seriously, I think of this happened IRL, those guys would get an immense cult of personnality around them, without them having to do anything)
I believe units don’t get the same supply penalties when they still have a lake connection to their territory but still stuff encirclement penalties
Wow, this took so much effort, I would've quit by the time I saw the starting situation. Loved the accent on the ad!
"This sucks and I just want it to end"
"Why don't I have war support?"
That is why lenin hated trotsky lmao
Is your PC a fusion reactor or why do you run the 50s so well
when you go for the howitzers on tanks you can assign them to be SPGs which gives I think 25% extra soft attack, it also lowers some stats but it means you can use a lot fewer tanks for the same soft attack, although you lose some hardness and breakthrough, however you can fill up the rest of the division with regular tanks to balance that out. Idk I found it useful at times.
This is the first video in a long time that I have actually watched the entire ad for, instead of normally skipping to the end, just because of that accent
18 million and scraping the barrel… wtf lol I’ve never had that level available, ever.
One of my buddies emailed a disaster save we had while playing MP last week. I said there was no way to save that playthrough, however seeing this video gives me hope that if you ever do get around to playing our save, you may be able to salvage it
16:50 you have generals, you just have them all assigned
The main thing Mass Assault right side has going for it that gets overlooked is the Mass Charge tactic, being able to increase combat width by 50% can let you add a bunch of extra divisions into combat with flanking. China is really the only country that can make good use of that though, the Soviets would much rather make tanks and use breakthrough.
Something i’ve never thought about is that the holocaust still happens in hoi4, so that means that by the time bitt3r made real advances, multiple groups of ethnic minorities were probably already extinct.
Ur vids are the best, keep going
Glad you like them!
Big problem is that you basically caught up in tech for free, when in reality technology doesn't just end.
I had something like this but with Italy once - got stuck with a useless Gernany AI that decided to pull everything off the D-day front and the eastern front. Was in a stalemate with the UK snapping at my last holdouts for nearly a decade before finally constructing nukes to kick them off every individual tile. Lured them into naval invading so many times they had nothing left. Rolled through France and the USSR and left the Axis to give Germany no help. Managed to land in the US and nuke every single victory point i came across. I still have the "Duce Nuke em" achievement to prove it. Amazing to see the before and after - Italy half occupied to the UK fully annexed. Was very fun working through the peace deal.
Great video
I love what you are doing.
You went through so much suffering but it was worth it! Satisfying and entertaining Video, keep it up!
Your best video so far. Would love a part 2 of this
"I don't hate what you've done, but I don't love it either" haha I hear that in every video so far
11:40 no maintenance companies for equipment capture ratio in encirclements, sad.
Fantastic video, would love a part 2 where you finish off the world
I'm quite amazed you pulled that off, congrats are in deep order.
6:53 Bitt3rSteel: Tukhachevsky need to go
Stalin: I approve, comrade, approve...
But jokes aside, amazing content and well desirved like!
6:48 It doesn’t matter what timeline it is, Tukachevsky will always be removed.
Nice video,man! I dont even know how a game can end like this like the start lol
Tell me about it
This video can only be described in one word: PAIN
It looks like one of those MP campaigns.
An MP game that goes until 1953 sounds like actual hell
The Thousand Week Offensive
Could you imagine playing with the bokoen team?
Would be funny to see you together.
BitterSteel on tank divisions: "I like 'em big, I like 'em chunky, I like 'em big, I like 'em plumpy."
I suck so bad at HoI4 that even with cheats, I would be in such an awful position that even you wouldn't touch that disaster save.
the guy who sent this save managed to get himself into ragnarok 💀💀
"Medium Tank, we go places."
I really like these disaster saves, ive learned a lot watching them
This and the last disasters you've covered really feel like someone played the other side and sent the save to you wanting to see you push their juggernaut back :D
not a bad thing, just interesting people have resorted to doing that for you to give you a challenge :)
This is way too organized and clean to be an ai controlled Russia. Tag over to Germany in 1940 and you’ll be traumatized
it is my save, i submitted it on reddit. I played as russia from the start till the end, I used a preset where all countries will become fascist. I never intended on sending it to bittersteel only the people in the reddit comments tagged him and he decided to do it, which is pretty cool. But isn't this all fascist world challenge cool?
51 minutes of disaster save? Oohhh boy
Belgian trying to speak with russian accent is the best part of the video
10:25 millions might have a tummy ache
I love how you presented the sponsor
1:08 best sponsor transition I’ve ever seen
I think using a 30 width motorized rocket artillery would have been better with 1 or 2 tank destroyer ...as versus AI it's mostly infantry and the rocket artillery does a disgusting amount of soft attack and those divisions would have been much cheaper than 30 width modern tank divisions
Units actually don't attrition if there is a lake or river which connects them back to their own territory. It is one of the things that makes any invasion into Russia as Finland or the Baltics very tough
thats some dedication to the content!
Time for the Trotsky Plotsky. Fr tho these vids go hard and actually help me learn the game!
Im more surprised about AI Baltic States. I have never seen AI manage to do Baltic States without my blessings. Considering its on Germanys side its fairly certain there was no player blessings here.
What a slog, kudos on taking it back
Good job getting out of this pickle
42:09 *looks at his 7 million manpower*
The save broke you, but your accent in the ad broke me 😂
Christie suspension SHOULD limit how much stuff you can put in your tank.
It's just a HORRIFICALLY volume hungry system.
Is it bad of me that I love disaster saves more than any other content? :(
Good job getting out of this pickle 👍
130 million people loss Axis side, LOL. "Everybody is dead, Dave. " XD