Byzantium gone HORRIBLY wrong...No Step Back 

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Historical Focuses Off is so close to being amazing. Once Italy has a tree and stops dying in 38 trying to invade Yugoslavia I think it'll be a really fun mode~

Bitt3r when someone doesn’t use superior firepower: starts going on a 30 minute rant on why superior firepower is the best

Do you want a Greece guide or a disaster save. Literally everyone:YES

So incredibly based

31:37 Excuse me but WHAT THE FUCK? Let's do the math here real quick : You had 10 submarines in that battle and you sunk 73 enemy targets. One of them is a convoy, let's be real generous here and say it was sunk by a deck gun. So we have 72 enemy ships torpedoed to Davy Jones locker. So 72 divided by 10 gives us 7,2. So each of your subs sunk 7,2 ships. You were using sub 3's from my understanding, tech based on the later U-boats which had 6 torpedo tubes which take quite some time to reload and reflood. So essentially, in however much time that battle took, each of your subs fired a full salvo of torpedoes, each tube aimed at a different target, all of them hitting their targets perfectly. Then they reloaded their tubes, while presumably, the British fleet started cooking water for tea on the wrecks of their burning ships, and either all of your ships took another extra shot, or three captains decided to yolo it and fired another full salvo hitting once again ALL targets in a sea zone LITTERED with burning and sinking ships. And the madness doesn't end there! Battleships, Aircraft Carries, some heavy cruisers, those boats have bulk heads! One torpedo hit usually doesn't send them to the bottom. So either your fleet expended Greece's yearly production of torpedoes in one engagement, hitting every shot while perfectly avoiding detection and enemy counterfire, or, sub 3's are actually Ohio class SSGNs with 24 ballistic missile tubes. Fuck, subs are stupid in this game.

31:26 Who would win? The strongest naval power in the world or 10 underwater tubes?

I feel like it's my birthday new vid from bitt3r back to back

Pure epic spartanness. I honestly love seeing the manpower go up after the decisions are taken. I hate when people end the video before all of it’s calculated.

A note about static AA, with max AA in the districts, plus a Radar position or two, and some fighters on intercept, you can actually do really extraordinary damage to the enemy airforce. I did so as France in a war against the Axis, with no UK involved. My airforce was utterly outmatched, but the static AA got a ton of kills.

Seeing Bitt3r get excited every time he starts to claw back a save never gets old. These seem like they may be tiring but they're very enjoyable thank you. o7

Haven't watched yet, but my byzantium instincts are tingling, telling me Bulgaria must fall first, then a hard push with CAS and Tacs into turkey to capitulate them and form byzantium

That motorized naval invasion was actually nuts. Well done once again man

I notice that you cannot join faction with USA when USA is the faction leader or they cannot join with you when you're the faction leader because they have national spirit "Home of the Free" unless if you and USA both have the same ideology and can join faction together. You can't join that because you and USA have different ideology! You need USA has the same ideology as you if you have a chance. Alternatively, if they goes in the fascist path to make a civil war and then that national spirit is gone and you're free to join with USA regardless of different ideology. That's the fact.

Hi Bitt3rSteel! What are your thoughts on Feedback's video on the perfect combat width?

that was insane, bloody impressive and good job!

From my little bit of toying around with it, in order to get static AA to be worthwhile you also need to have Radar and keep it up to date. With radar and static AA you can do an ok job of taking out enemy airforce. With JUST static AA, they're essentially worthless.

I’m not sure this still works but there’s a zero supply exploit? Strategy that lets you have troops with 0 or near 0 supply. Because the supply factors are additive and not multiplicative in hoi4, each factor has huge effect. So logistics wizard + good logistics level on general + logistics company + deep battle doctrine can get you a -100 supply use everywhere. Really helpful against strat bombing.

I see what they we’re planning, a motorized rocket artillery army to obliterate infantry

Thanks for another great video! I learned a LOT from your disaster saves and I'm very grateful to you, bitt3r!

I'm pretty sure Greece felt the same way about Thessaloniki, as you did during the Balkan wars. lol

I love how Lithuania is like Switzerland in eastern europe. P.S. Really good video! Kept me hooked to see how the industry rehabilitates itself.

That thumbnail is *chefs kiss*

Hi Bittersteel, how are you? As an Half-Italian Half Cuban I would reeeeeally like to see you conquer the WHOLE america with Cuba. If you want to make it more difficult you can play as a Communist Nation. Cheers, Crokodile

When that Bulgarian attack happened I was deadass holding my breath for Bittersteel. HoI4 is a hell of a drug.

This one was definitly quite intresting, and sadly most of my greece campaigns end like that, just becouse of Italy and their bad focus tree

The unstoppable trio of Greece, Canada and South Africa.

Oh my god Bitt3r, you've fucking done it, you've restored the glorious Byzantium. I was NOT expecting this. It seems that struggle and necessity really is the source of human ingenuity.

Finally a person that says the word hoplites like how it is said in greek.

*Don't build a supply hub next to the coast, just build a port!!!* its waaay cheaper

Spartans never die. They just go missing in action.

The way you pronounce Thessaloniki is so bad. Other than that I love you. uwu

dude there was such an easier way of doing this, turn off iron man and take a note from Alex the Ramblers book and open the console!

when greece tries to make byzantium but it's modern day greece

You could have gotten green air. Ligt aircraft designer fullu upgraded fighter 2-3 and then 10 factories on it and in 43 air would be green. Would have required you to drop cas trucks aa and trains but would have been worth

That Zap Branigan reference was on point. "Hold girdle hold"

epic

32:07 me too bitt3r me too. Don’t know how you managed it but you did it again. Always a great time when u upload👍

Spartans never die Gonna make it to the finish line

14:00 If America is the faction leader and you are NOT the exact same ideology as them, you cannot AT all join their faction or have them join a faction not of their ideology.

whats up with the voice quality for bitter steel? no hate or anything it just seems like its gone down in recent videos

Ah yes, turkish war of independence

Bro what are you feeding those subs

This was amazing to watch, i tought it was lost the moment you opened the game but my god the catharsis when you beat the germans .... i was on the edge of my seat! Unsure how you won witth those subs! I have this game where i played communist sweden, conquered all of scandinavia at the cost of war with the allies, but have like 4 full fleets of 1940 subs + 2000 naval bombers and the dont do nearly as well as your sub fleet :D is it imba or do i suck :D

Greece often has impossible changes

How i can send disaster save ? I was playing uk I lost 520k soldiers in North Africa i was encircled and i fuck dup. That was my main force 30 CW with 2 artillery and alot support companies. so My African colonies wil be dead and other forces will die

Wasn't there an option to let Turkey have those Anatolian territories? Strengthening your primary enemy (for the time) seems counterproductive.

This really shows how it feels like to lead the eastern Roman Empire, hair-brained scheme after hair-brained scheme to desperate hold on.

Maybe first kek

Absolutely incredible!

Yugoslavia's massive border against the Central Powers might have saved you, actually, as faction members do get a negative modifier towards joining wars if they "share dangerous borders" with the enemy side. The Yugoslav AI agreed with you that entering the war with Germany's faction would be a mistake.

Best morning now

I’m curious about the area around Gjirokaster, just north of Greece. In 1914 for a bit, there was the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.

The first time hearing Bitt3rSteel. I wonder how will react to 1945 Endzig (sorry if I misspelled it) Germany

Love all of your content

You Know What The Most Non-Historical in this Gameplay?!?!?!?!?!?!? 31:25

31:37 got a bit german there with the numbers (85 destroyers)

what da tube’s doing ? 10 vs 72 its like one of those german tiger stories but underwater its the meme im not stuck with you you are stuck with me

11:43 Interestingly, though, supply in Izmir is actually not bad. Hmmm.

1922 #2

To be fair to the guy they were trying to build a mobile army they just didn't know how to do that.

Isn't Last Stand really bad? Like the divisions can get wiped?

I humble myself before you sensei! ... How many times did you try?

you can tell its a great sponsor because the video they sent looks like, or is, in the wrong resolution

Unless you're making strat bombers strategic destruction is not good

“We are no longer on our own” SA and canada being kicked from your faction:

Bro why did this guy go mobile warfare was he larping?

I rly dont understand so many things. But love your video :)

Romania pulls a funny grease why you do me like that!

When you got on to seeing his doctrin it sounded like you were about to cry

"Sofia is wide open" - no HOI4 Player ever

I mean I see why he went down mobile warfare because he was making katyushas, lots of trucks and going down the left path is actually pretty decent for motorised infantry (the doctrine isn't just for tanks btw) but he just didn't have the industry and didn't use it in his template properly. I guess he just didn't expect to be fighting the entire axis with the UK on the defensive in which case the doctrine isn't great.

Me release Turkey eastern borders to stop the German waves

Going for the fighter 3's early, and making sure they have the designer that gives them a 20% agility bonus might just about have been enough to deter alot of the Cas on interception. Maybe 200 planes?

Can you do a no step back Germany guide?

That was some sparta spirit if I've ever seen one

Hey dude, you sound a bit tired in this one. Remember to put yourself and the family before HOI4. All the best and thanks for the video!

That's a halo reference. It must be

My italian ethnicity is proud

Even the AI is able to reinforce meme

You're The LegendofTotalWar of HOI4 HOLY SHIT that was tough!!

What cursed timeline is it? How did the author messed this up this big? This is not even funny, it's surrealism

Honestly wanted to see it keep going

Che bitt3r Steel me saludas xd

Part 2 cheering squad

AA is actually really strong this patch, small nations are just not very forgiving of mistakes :P

I have found that static AA literally DOESNT WORK if the fighter agility is high enough

Perfect timing, byzantium is exactly what I'm messing with currently. 😍

That was one epic video

can u make a vido about crotia

I dont usually watch hoi4 gameplay videos but your content is amazing. Love it!!!

Why do such a lost game?

Please go to peace deal please

I love these challenges.

In real life anti air guns actually stop air assaults but when I played static aa or adding nothing but aa guns still feel useless

Spartans never die!

2023 someone here?

what a chad gameplay!

THIS IS SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

why does nobody use field hospitals? its manpower and xp, seems super useful to me.