Building the Ultimate MONARCHIST Finland! 

Finland has always been enigmatic to me. The Finno-Korean Hyperwar of 8328 B.C cements the nation as a truly unique place with unique people.

fun fact, you can core the entire world as finland. If you give estonia everything in a peace deal, and then annex em (viron kansa) the game gives you cores on all estonian states

Noticed how you're doing your railways, if you press shift when you select your starting point, then it will automatically find the shortest path to your end point instead of snaking all over the place

Looks like achievements are back on the menu, boys

26:36 you only get them if you researched it before, I learned that the hard way

Finnish Him!

The first patch notes after the Finnish DLC had so many balances and debuffs to Finland. And it’s still this powerful

7:15 finnland should have more air bonuses, historically they were op af

Finland has 2 secret focuses, but many times that second focus is skipped because its coming too late. It's name is Innovative Designs, and its hidden until you do Militarized Society, and National Armor Focuses. Its adds random fully controlled cored state: 1 Building slot, and 1 Military factory; also create Hyökkäysvaunu Super Heavy Tank variant on gaining technology Super-Heavy Tank Chassis.

As a quick aside to anyone who's unfortunate enough to get a good run but then have to fight the allies, I got this achievement without having to cross any oceans by just sitting on speed 5 until i could make collab governments in Sweeden and Norway. Because the collab government owns the land and is a new country, when you annex the collab government via puppet management, you take ownership of the land. It's a significantly longer time investment, and a lot more boring, but when half of the achievements in this game end up becoming "as X minor power, capitulate the Every Major Faction so you can be listed as the 'owner' of Y province in the arse-crack of Siberia," its nice to not have to do that every now and then.

Always a blast to see Finland get some love

48:40 bittersteel discovering the power of GBP dec 1942 (colorized)

Thank you for making longer videos. Longer the better. I love your videos. They make my day better

I LOVE achievement videos. I know a lot of people don't care about them, but they're my favorite content, and my favorite way to play HoI4. I've only got 132/211 so I'm always a fan of new "guides".

Has to be one of my favourite achievement diary runs. Not too RNG heavy, decent challenge without being a headache and cool premises.

Svinhufvud is a Swedish name in old time spelling, and it quite literally means "Pig-head". And somehow that fits his portrait like a glove IMO. He looks like an angry boar 😂

You read my mind. I was playing with Finland but I can't do anything good....I really need this video! Thank you so much, I love your content!

I always love when a non finnish speak finnish its just so fun to hear

17:04 Ah yes.... The "Almond" pills.

Petition for Bittersteel: Take the top comment under your most recent Video when making a new one and name your Agency the in the comment proposed name. (More community interaction is always good, right?) Example: Central Mustache Removal Agency (CMRA) - "Specializing in Dictators"

Just bought the expansion pass with your link, glad i could support you :D

At 50:05 can see the battleplan result in a relatively large encirclement on the right of the screen. It's great.

Really fun to watch! I hope for more achievement runs in the future :)

i just failed this run not 2 hours ago because norway went communist, immediately joined my war and took a single province before my army could cover.

Love your videos, I like when you show focus tree and research, maybe you could continue do it during all the video!

Alex the Rambler will be proud

as a finnish person you made me proud

Literally just did all these after multiple restarts and pain… didn’t realise you put out a video. At least I get watch you in pain now 😂

Keeping Pehr at the start is better in my opinion because it lets you hire the Lutheran Priest with no worries about him undermining your Sisu Spirit. In fact the [Brown] popularity growth he provides can help you get out of Pehr's danger zone faster.

What is this. Im making a typical finnish sausage soup, those ones gramma used to make since i felt like it and this pops up as one of my video recommendations.. i like it

I just watched Britannica's video on Finland. Super interesting place that's got a very unique culture compared to the countries around them since they've been ruled by Sweden and Russia for so long.

SUOMEN KUNINGASKUNTAHANKE FOR THE WIN!!!🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

There is nothing wrong with your voice and great video!

Dude It is all right everyone gets sick You don't need to apologize I hope you get better.

Seeing my hometown Harjavalta mentioned is so nice that I forgive you butchering the name.

39:00 Ladies, Gentlemen, and those inbetween; Exhibit A), B), and C), for why I REFUSE to use field marshal frontlines.

Loved how you pronounced/tried to pronounce some of the finnish words, made me smile thanks for that!!

New Bittersteel video spotted

@Bitt3rSteel, hope you feel better!

New video? And after work? And is 50 minutes long? Fuck yeah!

Would you every consider trying autumn begonia? It's such a cool mod!

Finnaly you’ve done a Monarchist guide for Finland!

You can resolve the manpower issue with Mobile Warfare. Also there are couple of divisions hidden in the naval tree.

lost the achievement where i dont lose a single tile because the russians invaded beside the port near Turku sadge :(

Ain't no way they forgot to include Taymyria into the achivement of uniting Uralics

Always nice to see some Finland love! Perkele!

Your pronunciation was almost spot on. I was impressed.

"Shameless Plug" I guess, but I made a small mod called "Unalive Pills" that you might want to use for your videos.

Gotta nitpick the opening focuses and PP spending: Finnish-Swedish Peoples Party is a better early focus than Align the Agrarian League, in order to get Ernst van Born. *Especially* since you're delaying mobilizing the economy while also opening with Mil Factories. The -10% Consumer Goods factor does not have an appreciable impact at this stage: it would be far better to mobilize first (for the consumer goods base reduction and the mil factory speed buffs), and pick up Ernst van Born second (for the precious PP in a balance-of-power country).

Holy hell, five minutes?! Glad to be early, I love the content! Keep up the good work, mate PS: Belgium was one of my favorite countries to visit when I traveled Europe this summer :)

Just recently joined as a member and the next video I watch I am in the army, happy times.

A bittersteel video rather than live? Impossible

First time i've seen you pick Grand battleplan

Perkele! Finland mentioned! Torille!

You can disband spies by hitting that little X in the top right of their picture, and when you do the pool of spies refreshes after 30 days so it's possible to fish for seducers.

Hmmm Weird there wasn't a Futurama clip at the start of the video

I was just playing the Noridc League when it came out haha

I like how you pronunce kriken

I am a finn, and you pronounce very well finn companies and military things

He FINNISHED most of the FINNISH achievements

I am surprised you managed to hold out against the initial Soviet push without forts. My attempts to get Uralic Brothers United always get stuck on attempts to beat Germany. Way too many divisions.

As an Monarchy enjoyer, Me likey

I am also sick today. I will definitely be suffering through if with you in the most literal way.

Finland is the Goat

BitterSteel when are you gonna make a guide on the Icelandic achievements ?

Do you stream every Tuesday or other days as well? I enjoy watching live streams more than just watching it after

Been a long time since i play HOI4! Last time during Battle of Bosporus and i see many changes in the game that kinda overwhelmed me... Recently your Vids appeared ( bcs recebtly i play eu4 again i guess) and make me play the game again But there's so many things new like the old 10/20/40 division template not being used and other stuff, even i try playing Japan and can't win againtd China hahah... Could you make Japan Guide? Really need some help here, Thanks!!

first member vid for me

Achivements hunting is back Let's gooo

Video Idea : As Democratic France, form the EU. You can do this by not joining the allies and joining the war after the Benelux capitulation. if you occupy them before britain lands, you can take them in the peacedeal. pretty fun !

Yes a finland video

Love your content ❤❤❤❤

Have you ever thought of doing a run with any country you want but either your mission tree or achievements decides your frontiers?

Looks like we both got the same illness yet we still play hoi4 even if it drives us mad

Great content man, enjoyed it 💪 Finland really is the best Nordic country to play as

there's 3 men in the washroom, one of them is in a hurry because he's Russian, one was in the process of relieving himself because he's a European, the third guy was coming out of the toilet stall because he's Finnish.....

Good thing there are videos on secret trees because I won’t find them.

njet molotoff

bro made it so much more harder than what it had to be... missed the anschluss of Estonia (you get cores if you do and you can get around 30 factories from it), didn't main the army buffs, wasted manpower, didn't go for the long-range recon, didn't main gun research (could of easily got guns 3 before the war).

Finland mentioned raaaaaaaaaah🇫🇮🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣

I missed this video format

Toad Artillery

Great borders.

Regarding pronounciation and "embarrasing yourself", you're reading Finnish words very slowly (as you have no idea what they mean), but pronouncing correctly and understandably. Finnish is easy in that way, everything is spoken EXACTLY as written! Finnish Black ICE when? :D

Fin fin fin fin fin

We are so back

Pierre, papier, Sisu ;-)

“Ultimate”

5:59 why aren't you picking partial or armyxp guy?

Could youdo Czechoslovakia in rise of the lion?

I mean.. it depends

Why are peaple 1 day ago if the video is 42 minutes old

Why does Italy seem to alway get Norway just lately same in my games

House of kurds next?

For glory

Guess you can say you're...finnished 😎

Hey bitter steel you should play axis and allies 1942

I live in kirkenes :D

I'm very surprised how those tiny defense divisions are actually able to defend against the soviets, they look pretty damn weak. The most annoying part of playing Finland though are the constant naval invasions by the soviets.

I got the lone wolf achievement and I wasn't play on ironman? I was also cheating with the console commands