Australia sucks and that won't stop me
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2023
- In this entry in my A to Z series, we play Australia and try to make it not suck
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I always had an opinion that Australia is wasted potential. It would be so cool to create a pacific empire like Japan
Seems kind of counterintuitive considering how much of Australia's land mass is barely inhabitable desert but the player should have to grapple with that on their own terms XD
@Arrogant Savant having the ability to core eastern british empire lands would fix the manpower issue
And so do the entire southeast asia
@@boomerharris2965 Maybe coring New Zealand, but coring Malaysia or the Raj is completely unrealistic.
@@simont.4633 I mean Liberia conquering the world is too but it can be done. This is hoi alt history after all
True story Bitt3rSteel is only the guy I know who could enjoy playing Communist Australia for 24 hours straight.
lmaooooo
It's the legend, Bubbles Zest. I wonder, Luxembourg run on Vicky 2?
Bubbles is one of those RUclipsrs I really enjoy but didn't remember to subscribe to, until now.
@@XSpamDragonX lmaooo
@@XSpamDragonXthanks for reminding me to sub to him!
As an Australian who enjoys playing Australia I am offended by the title but am very happy to see you play Australia
It's just...not a great tree
As a New Zealander....
@@Bitt3rSteel when new zealand has a better focus tree than australia. smh my head
lol same…
Australia is my main country in mp, and i love it still
Other countries: Fight against foreign powers with their focus tree
Together for victory countries: Fight against foreign powers and also their focus tree.
Australia desperately needs an update.
No update since 2017
You need a life
Not as desperately as real world Australia 😂😂
Many countries do
I think there are many more important nations that need better trees. Even if its to add more depth. Like America, Britain, France, even Germany.
Australia: Was one of the most important Minor allied nations. Who literally played a large role in almost every theatre before going behind Churchill's back to change the course of the war in the Pacific.
Paradox: Ehh lets spend 5 minutes making their focus tree.
Without the brave men of Australia sacrifice from themselves fighting the Japanese on land The war in the Pacific could have certainly been much longer and bloodier. Bitter stubborn defense turning to offense in some of the most inhospitable jungles of the world from fine fighting men from Australia is what shaped the early part of the Pacific War.
As an Australian, We need a better focus tree.
You need less huntsman spiders :D
@@lordhoden LMAO
@@lordhoden we need more huntsman spiders, only things that kill the actual annoying crawling insects. If I spot one inside, he gets a name and left completely alone.
¿ ǝɹǝɥʇ uʍop lǝǝɟ ʇᴉ sǝop ʍoH
@@1Velaxis1 If i saw one of those face to face id need a life time of therapy. The 5 cm abominations we have here are big enough ^^
Australia storming French-controlled Normandy in 1943 after annexing UK is possibly the most cursed D-Day scenario possible.
Never in Churchills wildest nightmares did Australia almost single handedly destroy the Axis before attacking the UK and the Allies
In Poland you can make a bear your king. It would be funny, if in Australia you could play as an Emu Empire.
you can, it’s what happens when you switch to fascism
@@christianthompson7915I think he means for an literal Emu to be your leader portrait.
No.
Well we have actually had a magician as our prime minister before, in Australia.
Wait how??? I can just choose between 3 kings
We desperately need an Emutopia and Kiwiland update.
Well I found a new way to prod at my Emutopian friends today…
love the Perun reference
Naval Australia… my god. The criminals are fighting back. GIVE THE AUSSIES A BETTER FOCUS TREE GOD DAMNIT
I have an ungodly amount of hours on ironman Australia because it feels like the perfect underdog story plus as awful as the focus tree is there is some gold in there (2.0 years a head for small frame, destroyers, subs & cruisers), really nice industry bonuses.
Colabs and annexing Indonesia is vital for industry, resources & non- core manpower.
Always did civil war in the Netherlands but that trick with getting the invasion off from Russia is gold, will use the hell out of that.
Great video that I will take a bunch of ideas from!
You sound so giddy when you mention the ships you'll build, it's adorable
Bittersteel: this is a terrible country
also bittersteel: kills the entire world in 5 minutes flat
The image at 0:03 got me to subscribe. I never get tired of that joke
I cracked up so hard the moment he said "The Australian Army's already outside Berlin" and it's just 1941
As someone who really enjoys playing New Zealand, this video inspired me to give Straya another shot.
just HOW do you manage to enjoy New Zealand? I tried to enjoy it, believe me I really tried. But I can't it's just so underpowered
@@aidenbooksmith2351 cheat
@@aidenbooksmith2351 Big bob
You play NZ for one of two reasons:
B I G B O B
You're a kiwi and just want to play your home country
With the power of six research slots you can become Wakanda of the Pacific pretty quickly and be an absolutely annoying dbag to the Japanese. I find it very chill tbh.
Australia was so fun to play in hoi3, being so tough to stop the japanese before america came in made it feel like a genuine struggle to help hold onto places like singapore
I like these "sub-optimal" videos! You laugh more and I laugh more. It's just as interesting watching a virtuoso be technically impressive (grinding out wins, fixing bad saves) as it is when they tell us a story and roleplay out a concept. Keep up the great work!
Paradox this is a petition Australia needs a better focus tree
best video from the series so far.
no mods and no boring standard approach
The title should be every Australian's life motto
My great grandfather is from Australia. I remember during worker day of how he told me how he marched through tokyo, ending g the Asian war truly a war hero.
Democratic Australia on historical AI focuses is actually really really fun. It's similar to Canada in that you're really far away from all the fighting so if you just abandon infantry and planes, and go all in on medium tanks you can put down like 12 really good tank divisions and just zip around North Africa, Italy and later Germany because you don't have enough units on the front line for the AI to think of you as a priority. Single handedly won the war for the allies multiple times as Australia, even saved Poland from being yoinked by Stalin once
“I don’t do armor”
Immediately puts armor on the cruiser. 😳
Yeah what's up with that? I noticed it too.
I think thats attempting to avoid them immediately be annihilated.
As an Aussie, this brought me tremendous joy, and as an Aussie girl, I don't even mind that you pledged to kill your own, Aussie men (2:44). [sips.Vegemite.smoothie]
Girls play hoi4????
@@Konichu35 What's a girl?
@@Konichu35 No girls on the internet. Only feds.
Vegemite smoothie? Monster.
@@Konichu35 yeaa we do :)
The absolute slander as an Aussie (I still agree our tree is garbage, but still)
Australia
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You totally got me turning the image upside down at the start. I just rotated the phone for full screen so I rotated again to get it oriented just for you to trick me again! I've been had 😂
I know what you mean when you say super optimally, the Malaysia play through was honestly the most entertaining video you made👍
I think you need like 1 set of fighter wings for every certain amount of bombers in order for the bombers to actually want to go on their missions. I tend to go for 1 fighter and the rest bomber wings.
Australian fan here. You did well mate. Cheers for that. 🍺
kind of late to the vid as always nice video Bittersteel! Keep the work up!
Best. Australia. Run. Ever.
(or at least that I have seen)
Nice to see that you’re still in charge of Belgium as well
他用實力證明了這遊戲，只要有足夠的陰謀就可以贏
不管你是多麼偏僻又貧弱的小國家
只要你會搞掉那些沒有軍隊的國家，就可以壯大然後繼續贏下每一場戰爭
該死的，他讓整個社群的人難堪
Very inspiring
Carrier Fighters actually slap because they still do naval attack damage (very little damage, but still) and they will wipe out an enemy's naval bombers. It is still a good idea to put at least one squadron of naval bombers in each carrier, but I always prioritize the fighters.
hey that was a nice & refreshing video :D
The flag isn't that bad steel! It's a lovely Kangaroo jumping toward the sun, looks pretty nice ^_^
Oooooo knew bitt3rsteel video, haven’t watched it but I know it’s going to be good love your content bitt3r keep it up don’t burn out. :)
Historically accurate title is historically accurate. Australia went from swol doge in WW1 to wimp doge in WW2; we did bugger all despite the war being on our doorstep. WW1 it was 4 divisions at the tip of the spear, WW2 was couldn't even defend new guinea properly, and that's a place still 80 years later still isn't tamed/is extremely rugged and difficult.
Australia during the WW1 mod is kindof interesting because in my playthrough Germany actually tried to defend its colonies in the pacific. It actually was quite the challenge for me to oust German forces out of the pacific.
I bet Bittersteel is going to rant before every Commonwealth nation!!! Excited to see you play the Raj tho XD
"cheap destroyers, cheap fodder" you just described the scrap iron flotilla.... it was extremely successful.
0:50 bitter sounded like he was really happy lol
Great editing
As an Australian and someone who usually only plays Australia, you have offended me good sir! haha great video as always!!
i had an relativly fun game as australia, focused on tanks and got 2 of their achivments. The thing was that i dont have the dlc, so i had just the base tree and i think that made it more fun
I swear I was just checking if you had played any Australia games when you uploaded
Sure brand new focus trees are cool and all but jesus they need to do a sweep of quite a few of the old dlc trees and bring them up to par with their more recent work so selecting them doesnt feel like a mistake.
Unless you're Bittersteel of course. Then its only a geographical inconvenience.
I would like it if someday paradox goes through the older focus trees and gives them an update. Some of the older ones suck.
Hey i got a challenge for you for the next video: play as Germany but you can only use horse divisions and you can edit them as you want templates to be.
yeah the focus tree sucks balls but im glad they updated the amount of territory you can actually build on. It was crazy small for one of the largest land masses around.
0:50 he just got so happy talking about the navy
It's funny you promoted Thomas Blamey to being a Field Marshal: to this day, he's the only Australian (or at least the only person actually born in Australia) to ever hold that position.
what makes Australia such pain to play, is no doubt the lack of research slots. as despite having great point to become a naval power, you have no research slots to research pretty much anything.
Out of all the things the soviets could have done in the japanese peace conference I'd really expected them to focus on taking at least south sakhalin and the kuril islands. Anyways, great run!
This was a fun one.
i know the saying a bit differently..."if its stupid but it works,.. its still stupid...you just got lucky"
but great video ;)
That aircraft carrier isn’t that left field. The HMAS Melbourne was a majestic class aircraft carrier and it operated in the 50s
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS
Together for Victory countries: Literally untouched for 7 years. Reminds me a lot of EU4 where 50% of the countries haven't been updated after missions were added.
Paradox: start a game from one of the interesting states!
Interesting states: Australia, New Zealand
Getting powerful navy ships is perfectly lore-friendly, provided you try to home-brew them from an outdated Swedish design even though you don't have a domestic ship building industry and spend decades trying to get them up to speed while the project costs balloon far beyond expectations and delays use up most of their service life. Then years later you learn your lesson and buy from the French instead, but cock up the process so bad it causes an international incident, and you have to pay a nearly billion-dollar fine to break the contract so you can go running to the Americans instead (who definitely didn't exert pressure behind the scenes to ensure exactly that outcome).
Its a shame really that the focus tree is kinda mid, considering how Australia played a big roll defending from the Japanese. Also id love to see a Populate or Perish focus for Australia.
Hey! I've seen that the member names always start with the same names (maybe it's supposed to be like this, idk), but it would be cool if the names list could be randomized before every video so more members could have their names as divisions. Anyways, great video as always, keep it up man :)
My mod knowledge tells me that this is sadly not possible. HOWEVER. it is possible to make two mods that have opposite orders.
@@aidenbooksmith2351 Could he not spend the time to type them in? It's the least he could do for the people allowing him to make playing video games a job.
you can actually plan an invasion with just military access without joining their faction, you just need to plan an invasion from your country to theirs first, then plan the actual invasion (which is now possible), and then just delete the previous invasion and assign your units to the actual one
You can already sense that he is becoming more unhinged, just like ISP
Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi!
Bloody hell I was watching on my phone and thought that there was a problem with it during the first 10 seconds of the vid lol
I’m an Australian and seen the video title and got excited thinking it was a video ragging on australia not realising it was in fact a game 😂
Bruh when i loaded the video my screen was upside down so Australia was upside down lol
I read this as a dig on australia itself and I was like "yeah he's right" and then it turned out to be a hoi4 video.
If the enemy used naval bombers you should absolutely use antiair on carriers, as they're the first to be targeted and aa reduces the damage taken (so you spend less time in port repairing)
It will also shoot down a couple of planes, but that's basically meaningless
As an Australian, the title is Uhh… not pleasant but I’m happy to see you play the great commonwealth
Time traveler: Steps on a flower. The Timeline:
Was a very fun video.
I remember an aussie playthrough where I kicked Italy out of east Africa. Stole a German rail gun that was in british Somalia and named it THE BIG ONE. Occupied all of italian Libya and Sardinia. Then turned my army around to go kick Japan in the rice balls. That was a fun game.
THE FLAG IS EPIC
I always like the idea of playing an aggressive Australia or South Africa but it doesn't work
The first 3 DLC's they did are really showing how restricted they are these days, been itching to do a Japan game but each time I look at there focus tree just makes me sad.
At least they are "slowly" updating these older trees, Yugoslavia got a ton of new focuses a while back, India can now finally gain access to its full manpower, and Canada can now have a large army and a good industry. No sign of Australia, New Zealand or South Africa getting any TLC yet however...
Also from my own Experience from Carrier Fleets, secondaries are useless unless using Dual Purpose, extra Anti Air is handy especially if patrolling waters where the AI throws up Aircraft, same goes with Radar down the line, as it will help find enemy fleets much easier.
Aircraft wise "I think" better engines and survivability massively reduce combat losses, when engaging ships with any sort of AA, especially Armour Plates. Also Fighters are great when dealing with enemy carrier fleets as Carrier Planes tend to go for Carriers more often than not, as well as Carrier Fighters also have some Naval Attack themselves, I tend to split my Airwings with a 50/50 split between Torpedo Bombers and Fighters.
Also bit of an interesting note, if you got down the Ballistic Rocket technology you can gain access to Anti Ship Missiles for Naval Bombers, and they hit much harder than torpedoes, bit of a hidden tech that most players never see thanks to that line being useless otherwise.
John Curtin is basically tf2 sniper
I was expecting Austria but this is better
You should get Coloured Puppets for future videos. It's Ironman-compatible and makes the overall map situation a lot clearer.
I remember trying Australia once thinking I could make a strong local navy and snatch south east Asia but uh...yeah the focus tree
I miss those days when bomber only Australia would get insane war score.
Focus tree is much better in road to 56 for Australia, had a blast conquering all surrounding territory, getting all of the rubber and oil and completely blocking all allied trade routes there
it’s terrifying to hear a very experienced hoi4 player say “i don’t know” so many times
I'm also running some carrier-based France fleets with full-on stacked carrier bombers and nothing else. It.. works! Let me see how you do it :)
“Not carrier goodbye bomber”
“Carrier naval bombers” “that reminds me”
Honestly, this is probably as close to meta for Australia as it currently gets, lmao.
When looking at those borders, remember that this is the “fixed” peace deal system! 😂
This could be used to get Australia-Hungary, the long way around though. I never got the paradrop strat fully working
i think the best naval bombers are ones with guns too, im not sure tho. i just play battleships
As an Aussie in reality our biggest army is the Salvation Army. We have a few row boats and a bi-plane in a museum in questionable order. A few noisy cold war designed subs round out the defence force.
“Fun” that’s an alien concept to a HOI4 player
I tapped this not knowing it was hearts of iron and was ready to lobby the government into sending a few drop bears to you
I was gonna send it to Tride XD
the nicest hoi4 australian gameplay be like:
oh look, he formed the HRE as australia, just like me in my tweet a year ago (do you remember it, bittersteel?)
I do like your channel ❤
I did a world conquest as Australia once