Alex the Rambler challenged me to save this... 

GG SIR

i like how the most offensive part of this setup was Rommel being an infantry leader rather than all the other awful things 😂

POV: Steiner had enough men and guns to successfully counterattack.

Glad to see Bitt3rsteel helping small hoi4 content creators like Alex 👍

Imagine being an allied/soviet soldier thinking the war is almost over and you hear about the second fall of Paris

I love how throughout the whole video, the Allies didn't even try to liberate ungarrisonned Ireland, British moment

"I inflicted 20 mil in casualties, I'm so proud of that" - taken out of context it sounds disturbing at the very least :D

When you lose massive amounts of men in battles, such as in encirclements you should lose war support. To Allies should have halved their war support after those massive losses. Nice addition to the game imo

Allies naval invading mainland like hell but since start of the game, Ireland is in german hand.

I like how the player originally sealion’d to Ireland, and then gave up after that. Meanwhile AI Allies didn’t bother liberating instead they kept invading mainland Europe.

I remember there was also a British Europe save file too that was quite interesting

Ah yes, suffering bittersteel, my favorite

If you remember to put like 15 factories on anti air from the start of the game you can equip like 2 to 4 anti air in each division and really do a number on enemy air

Rommel as infantry general right into my feels. I love to see these vids. Thank you for making these.

24:00 Theoretically, convoy raiding along your own coats would catch the naval landings and either severely weaken or entirely sink the invasions before they can reach the beaches.

Love your work Steel the best in the HOI4 scene.

Wow I really like how much you are describing your naval gameplan. It is not often that this aspect of the game is really featured.

Steiners counter offensive worked so well, he forgot to push west

You really deserve more subs. You’re such a good player and RU-vidr and you really brighten up my day!

I see Steiner’s counterattack worked well

"Try this yourself:" *Nothing there* Can you please update the description I want to try this so bad

people in multiplayer: figuring out what tank they will build. Bittersteel in Singleplayer: what should I call my Operation? Operation Steiner?

Bittersteel I can’t believe how you managed to save this, very well done!

Rommel being an infantry general genuinely made my eyes burn.

At 19:43 when you question a lack of supply, you can see on the naval map the convoy lines are red, meaning they are endangered, if yiu forbid traffic in the zone your logistics will use trains instead of convoys and likely fix the issue.

I really like the way you work your Videos. The short Zooms, the Spongebob "meanwhile" and the music when you fasten. Great work!

Beautiful. Had a ton watching a master at work. Thank you.

Erwin Rommel was brilliant infantry leader in WW1. He even wrote book which you can buy: "Infantry Attacks" So his assignment as Infantry General is very accurate ;)

Nice bitter! If you could answer I would be thankful, what is a decent port/shoreline guard division you recommend? 4 inf+eng is a good one or overkill?

This is a perfect example of late game HOI4. You just punch and punch and punch until you've gone trough or broken your fists trying.

I have thousands of hours in this cursed game and yet it took until now to learn that shallow seas exist! Thank you!

oooh I'm excited for this one. I saw Alex's video and I can't wait to see if you can take it on

I watched his vid just 3 days ago. Dang this was a hard one. Bitter Steel I just found your content and I'm impressed man. Nice job man.

I like how the allies never invaded Ireland even though for some reason you owned it

Soo cool to share the saved game with us, Thx Bettersteal :)

I get pretty hyped when I see a new video of yours

Great video, I didn't realise you posted the save game files as well with your disaster saves so I gave it a try and I managed to defeat the Allies, Russia and China by 1949. It did take me 3 attempts though.

Could you imagine this happened in the real war? germany just bounced back against all odds? man that would've been severely demoralizing to the allies

the only vid i saw from Alex in the last year.... and it ends in a challenge for Bitt3rSteel.... i was REALLY REALLY REALLY waiting for this lol

You can't deny tho that Italians are good at cuisine

MADLAD DID IT! So down for more collabs like this

love the way explaining the aspect of the option and moves without boring it , I hope you do some CK3 content also so in can finally play that thing lol... GG

You sir are a legend among mortals! Truly a masterclass on HOI4.

Solid vid, enjoyable as always !

this video was the greatest comeback in the history of comebacks maybe ever

I can describe this hoi4 situation in one sentence… Don’t bite off more then you can chew.

Great work mate!

Wait, you only have 72.000 subs?!?!?!?!? Wow, you deserve a lot more.

Steiner counter attack is successful

I love this my favorite 2 ho4 RU-vidr Doing same disaster save

I like how all the meta nowadays is "no tanks they are useless" and this whole video is carried by a couple of tank divs. Also meme Dear Panzar, it's time to clear out another allied invasion in the other side of the Europe, fifth in this month. -Yes, Hilter

This was an amazing save

Great work mate i thought you would crumble lol!

Good work bitt3rsteel 👍👍

Now I'm waiting for the Italy revamp dlc

Mit dem Angriff Bitt3rSteels wird das alles in Ordung kommen

i think the best way to repell allied naval invasions is with 27 width infantry on garrison order, if you had around 70-50 divisions you could keep the entire upper area of germany under control (from estonia-the netherlands)

16:45, I called the operation “Operation Weinhaus”. I don’t know why but that’s what came to mind.

Amazing work

Quite a good video so far. Haven’t finished it yet, nice job tho.

Oh man I never knew that thing about the shallow water, that explains what happened in my last game

Bittersteel x Alex Collab let's gooooo!

go get this bread Bitt3r ! Beneath the gold...

its just BEAUTIFUL AHH GOD

11:14 and this is the moment when the Steiner counterattack universe begins

Surprise naval invasions can be a run killer but also an opportunity for beeg encirclements.

The non-DLC game is such a different....game. I'd say it's a lot harder and buggier than what i've seen on this channel as well(just a random thought)

Steiners counter attack really did work.

Most epic save ever

As far as I'm aware, 10, 15, and 27-width infantry divisions are the most recommended templates. For Germany, I typically go 27 width with 12 infantry battalion, 1 arty, and logistics, engineers, arty support, AA support, and cavalry recon. You certainly have the industry to do this as Germany. Jusy be sure to produce trucks and build your own rubber. For tanks, you typically want to go 30-width with a roughly even ratio of tanks and motorized/mech. Sometimes I even put SPAA in there, but I wouldn't really recommend that unless it's for support companies. For heavier/special units, I typically do 40 or 42-width. This specifically applies to larger infantry, mountaineers, and marines. One of the best things you can go for is the research that essentially doubles your special forces limit. Essentially just spam out 27-widths to get your special forces limit high enough to get at least a full army group (24 divisions) of 40/42-width special forces divisions. Note: This all applies if you aren't trying to save a game like this lol

This dude Chose Porsche as his tank production company, what a chad

Allies: How did we lose? Axis: Hitler wasn't in command. Allies: Oh, that makes sense.

How do you just wake up and say, "I'm gonna make the most famous tank commander in all of history into an infantry guy"? I would like to say it would explain a lot about the state of this save, but it just spawns more questions.

The allies could only watch in horror as their only chance to end the war was steamrolled by Major Steiner.

"Don't attack with your infantry, you'll take lots of casualties". 20 seconds later "Let's activate battleplan so my whole army group attacks"

I’ve been watching your channel for so long I forgot to subscribe!

I really feel like peace deals are fun-ruiningly bad in a lot of cases. 90% of wars are not fought to the point where you’ve lost 80% of your land, and peace deals don’t usually end with a country no longer existing or being outright puppeted. They modeled how peaces go solely off of the peace deal of the end of ww2, which might sound stupid for me to complain about then, but it wasn’t exactly your average peace deal. For every other country that isn’t fanatical (you know, like, everyone besides the ussr, germany and japan) there should be options for conditional peace earlier into a conflict, wherein the “loser” retains sovereignty, loses some territory or adheres to a demand within reason, and the “winner” gains some benefit for a while. Unless of course it’s like a focus wargoal specifically meant to annex a country. And also the tension systems needs refining. When a war is over, it should go back down, especially if it is resolved without warmongering tendencies. And war score and wargoals should be more strict, like you can’t get more infinitely, and you can justify war for other reasons, and the defender has chances to adhere to the justification, ending the war goal.

Kick some ass steel I know you can do it!

Been waiting for this

Rommel in WW1 was actually an infantry Lieutenant. So it’s not entirely blasphemy to have Rommel as an infantry officer even though his role changed to leading tanks in WW2. Read the book “Attacks”

Would love to see you save south sudan in the millennium dawn mod, one of my hardest fought battles.

When Bittersteel tells Alex what template's bad🤣

I can tell you one big secret about naval invasion build 1k naval bombers put them on the English Channel or North see no fleet no naval invasion :D. I just put 3 factories on naval bombers in 1936 and never think about naval invasion. I leave coast undefended sometimes I leave 12 divisions if I don't kill Italy next :D.

NAV bombers are the key. If you can strike the landings before they ever hit the beaches, that gives your garrisons a fighting chance.

can you do a ultimate japan guide? loved the germany one

While it's less than ideal and they'll suffer some losses doing it, CAS can make a pretty decent stand in for Naval bombers and will fairly quickly chew through the outdated ships that make up the royal and US navies at the start of the game. If you don't have the research/ production to field both it can definitely slow down and heavily damage the Allied navy and prevent their constant naval invasions.

Field marshal frontlines i think you have to unlock with waking the tiger..

Steiner counter attacked lol. Also, operation vaterland would be a good name

Hilter would like to Time Travel you back top 1939 lmao

Bro was playing historical historical Germany.

took me a while to see that in this safe file germany owns ireland

About Rommel being an Infantry leader Historically speaking, he was. Yes he is way more famous for his Panzer commanding in WW2 But he was actually a very VERY good Infantry commander in WW1 I bet he could have saved the Bismarck AND won the battle for Britain if he wasnt serving in the Heer xD

18:32 German opinion on Allied landings in Southern Italy, 1943 (other than month and place of landing, it actually checks out)

Pretty easy. First, I tried your method and failed, but with my strategy, it was easy. :)

10, 21, 27 and 42 are the best widths

Bittersteel is it even possible to beat Soviet as Finland in no step back ??

Wish you could save my Byzantium game. Lolol.

22:20 I defo don’t agree, allies are still a ton of fun to play against. I mean nothings changed naval invasion wise so I call bs. Gg tho

Straight Endsieg

I honestly would enjoy a harder AI that can actually make me fall back and cause me deaths, since I can just chose a tank template and go BRRRRRRR