Canada sucks, but a Disney villain might make it work... 

As a Finn, it is kind of ironic to see that Finland has lots of everything. In reality, Finnish Army in the 30s lacked everything. Finns were the ones who bought anything from anyone to make up for their lack of everything.

As a Canadian I can confirm I am a zombie

Always good to see Adrien Arcand, Canada's homegrown Dark Lord.

17:03 "Not gonna call any of our puppets in." Yes, because you have none.

I tried beating USA as Mexico in early 39 with newest update, they already had 60-80 divisions in historical. I got slaughtered. Never before I have seen so early arming of USA. This worked fine in all previous patches.

It really illustrates how disconnected from reality the political mechanics of hoi4 is when canada flips fascist and the UK just sits there while the US is invaded by mounties like 'this is fine'

Full disclosure, you could also use Join Germany to get the DEI and go the long way from there. But Bitt3r was very deep into the sunk cost fallacy by the time I worked that one out.

As a Canadian, I can confirm that all of our (censored by youtube) do indeed look like Disney villains. They say the cold build character, and since it gets VERY cold here at times, most of our pubilc servants tend to be REAL characters ;)

As a Canadian, I would prefer being ruled by a disney villain than the one we have now

Im excited for when he will eventually reach a country like Liberia or Ireland

I love these videos, they genuinely help me play the game better, and when i play with my friends they love the amount of memery

RCMP Security Service was Canada's CIA before is changed to the CSIS.

I love playing Canadian and using special forces and really good mech/tank build. I let my Allies do all the holding and I just delete enemy divs

I remember getting all the Canada achievements with your older video some time ago! That leader portrait, I swear...

it's nice that the mod is finally working in AAT now so you don't have to suffer anymore

Whenever I create a Intelligence Department with Canada, I name it "Deer Squad (RMPIC)". "Royal Mounted Police Intelligence Corp" just sounds cool to me, and I find the "Deer Squad"-nickname funny, even if it doesn't make all that much sense...

As a Maryland resident first I wanna say this is the first time I’ve heard someone not from Maryland pronounce the name correctly and secondly Washington isn’t technically in Maryland but it’s honestly still an unofficial part of Maryland crab gang lol 🦀

This is honestly one of the hardest achievements to get. I've tried this many times without success....the AI somehow counters me every time I make a move towards DC or they have divisions in DC that I can't push out of the tile before a stupid amount of reinforcements show up.

I love playing Canada. They can easily be turned into a major and they get Mechanized SUPER EARLY.

As a Canuck it bugs me that our focus tree forces us to choose between production and manpower. We had both! We built more trucks than any other allied nation, and 1.1 million Canadians served out of a population of 11 million at the time. We ended the war with the 4th largest air force and the 3rd largest navy. Feels like our MTG tree was made back when minors were still minors and the devs had to compromise to keep us from being too strong, whereas countries that were in the war for 5 minutes are now getting overpowered trees that give them infinite manpower, 400 factories and 30 national spirits so they can easily fight Germany and Russia at the same time.

Dude I love your Vids & the New thumbnail designs are amazing!

The logo you picked for the intelligence agency was either an elk or a deer. Maybe even a reindeer. Moose have bigger antlers.

Yeah, uh, HOI4 really did us Canadiens dirty lol. First nation I tried because of course, and MAN is Canada's Focus Tree underwhelming. Here's hoping you can somehow make us interesting lol.

Mans is commenting about Washington being in Maryland, when he's playing Canada and Alberta is just Saskatchewan.

13:51 he wants "Machines and factories with machines in them so they make alot of products real fast"

Imagine being an american and hordes of Canadian horsemen come charging across the border

I have no idea why they ever made you choose between having manpower and having an industry. It was such a strange choice to make that a decision and took too long to change.

I enjoy playing Democratic Canada and rushing mech. I'm thinking of rushing mech and eventually adding the super heavy tank company to them.

Canada is one of the countries in the game that I enjoy most a democratic playthrough. It's large enough to have an actual impact on the war effort but still small enough that you can let the other allies do the heavy lifting and you can just do these smaller scale operations all over the world since the US and UK will dominate the seas for you. So quite a relaxing country to play as a democratic nation and you don't have to wait as long to actually join the war like the US does.

As a Canadian, this makes me very happy, very happy indeed. Long Live the Maple Leaf 🍁

I would really love to see Bittersteel go for democratic finland! I experimented with it a little bit and it seems to have great potential

Hey bitt3rsteel love your videos can't wait for wait for the next one. If it's not to much trouble can u do a doctrines guide and mabye give examples for when to choose one over another and maybe give some template ideas for them if not no problem love the video either way

Canada is one of my favourite minors. On historical the tanks and marines you can make pre-AAT were busted. Can get mechanised 2 in 1939-1940 and good mediums or lights in 1938. In AAT you could probably buy the guns and support equipment from America and only focus on building those tanks and mechanised. Or you can do the Cav US bum rush

im having a very hard time pushing the America line, I cant get enough troops out because I don't have the civilians to buy enough guns, and I don't have the industry to produce them because I couldn't build anything due to having to focus everything on the collab governments. I think it might be better to try putting off the spy agency until I can get some civilians built. Also, the UK always guarentees the US when they see me justifying now so the US joins the allies and the British and French send all their troops to defend them so this strategy just isn't working for me!

The bicycle seat sniffer returns

As a zombie I can confirmed we are Canadian

There is something extremely funny about Haida Gwaii joining Unitary Canada in the rebellion.

Hey BitterSteel, I have noticed that you play hoi4 at 1440p resolution and your UI is normal sized, but when I play at 1440p my UI becomes tiny. Did you have that problem and if so, how did you fix it?

I remember wanting to earn some easy achievements, so I chose Canada, planning to get "Canada First" and "Send in the zombies". I decided to set historical AI off (custom rules to ensure Germany and Italy were historical). The Allies attacked Germany after their attempt to annex Czechoslovakia, and the Reich collapsed before I could join. I went the synarchist route and was defeated by America within three months. Funny times.

"Or don’t if you’re a coward" 😂😂 Love it

Canada is a lot of fun if you are willing to ignore the Geneva convention.

Given that it was Maryland which ceded the land for the District of Columbia, it is actually kind of both its own thing and yet still within Maryland's original borders and far too small to be rendered by the game as a state in itself. You are completely right but with an asterisk.

"This is good for Bitcoin" MAN. Bittersteel with the absolute deepest cuts.

Snake for victory! My last canada game was tank canada. Was fun encircling endless Italian, german, and soviet divisions.

Canada's intelligence is called CSIS or back then we used the RCMP

I bet you like to know

I still wonder what Send in Zombies focus name means. What they mean by that name

When it’s a be fascist compaction and your opponent is bittersteel

Great video aside. The thumbnail is top tier!

axis powers the whole time during ww2: i know whats wrong with it, aint got no gass in it

But you’re Canada, you have no puppets? 😂 as for Alaska, not only cleaner borders but obscene amounts of chromium

can’t believe he knew washington, d.c. is a separate entity and not part of maryland

"west of the T in sTaTes" me trying the strategy sweating profusely....

POV: You're an American who accidentally dumped maple syrup in the habour and starts hear moose noises

As a Canadian our "intelligence" service is call CSIS, Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Adrien Arcand was a great man, some people I know knew him personally.

Lore of Canada sucks, but a Disney villain might make it work...Momentum 100

3:44 Well you can't be Bitter about that! Surely

very nixce video

Bittercoin a new coin to lose my entire net worth in?

Back again asking for a world ablaze play through for Germany’s A2Z run

Washington DC is basically in Maryland. They made it its own thing so other states wouldn’t get butthurt that the nation’s capital is in another state. Pretty childish if you ask me.

Washington D.C. is it's own thing, but it's so small it'd probably be unrealistic to include it on the map.

The canadian intelligence agency is called csis

Still less evil than modern Canada

Could you make an updated division templates guide.

Usually playing as canada I beat usa with only cavs

It's funny looking up the leaders in this game and realize most of them should rightly rather die than work together. For instance, the Disney villain here was a devout Catholic French-Canadian who hated Jews. Apparently many Quebecois Catholics despised them as well. Also anyone who wasn't French or British Canadian. Including Germans. Meanwhile fascist Italy, populated by many many Catholics, struggled to gain popular support for much oppression of their Jews until the Italian Social Republic period, as most Italians seemed to have at least okay relations with the Italian Jewish community. And then Hitler wanted all Jews eradicated, but was also an atheist. So anyway they can all get super good relations and join in a faction. (Yes I know Italy and Germany actually were part of the same faction, but that's not the point.) Also the Confederate States of America being fascist makes no sense. Yes their views on minorities fits with the ideology, but not their form of governance, which was supposed to be a very small central government with all member states being mostly autonomous. Which is distinctly not in line with the fascist ideal of a powerful unified state. Neo-Nazis and neo-Confederates should rightly hate each other. But they don't because they can't see past their only common ground, that being they hate the same people.

Canadian intel is CSIS

I love the futurama clips

I played historical canada with only special troops. Made bunch of fighters and only paratroopers. Oh boy it's fun as fuck. Paratroopers are funny to play. Just drop them behind the line and don't touch it. Push from the other side with strong units and bam you vibe a whole army. It's just funnier they melt in numbers after you pocket them constantly. I can explain a way to cheese it if you would like to give it a try

6:56 An epic shout-out to Hovelax.

Not only is DC a part of Maryland in this game, so is Delaware. It's a whole separate state ffs.

Did you remember to take Attu Island when you took Alaska?

Well I just tried it and UK garanteed the US mid 38 so idk how you did it but I guess you either got lucky or I got unlucky

In the future, you could just call them Asshole Clubs

Washington D.C. was built on land that was part of Maryland.

Canada will rise up in maple syrup

We can all agree that the Commonwealth nations need a rework.

I have a suggestion, what if you play"battle of seelow heights" endsieg(I'm sure you can't save this one)

"Why do you always pick Fascism?" -"because its better" HAIL TO OUR DUCE, BITT3RSTEEL

Hey everyone, I have a disaster save as France I would like to send to bittersteel, can someone tell me how I can do that?

When I declared war the US joined allies? How Do I make that not happen?

Hey, I was wondering if it was possible to make 2/3/4/5 way war by playing both sides and taking the blue/red/brown guy and igniting another civil war, going infinitely like that ? (Making the other side user controller by playing multiplayer could help, if this is possible)

That Might Be a Moose 🫎🫎🫎

When I declared war the US joined allies how come in your video they dont?

I think Canada is one of the most interesting countries that someone can play as.

Hey Bittersteel, what do you mean with the Tree is horrible? Like it raises the difficulty of the gameplay or something else?

WOOOOOH MARYLAND WAS MENTIONED 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Keep this thumbnail style around 👌

Hello Bitt3rSteel could you please make a Beginners Guide for HoI4 but 2023 Edition since the 2021 is outdated by quite a lot. -pls

how u didnt got declared by allies after having a war with canada didnt they called uk in??

land of the war crimes

Washington DC and the state are different if I am not mistaken

Ah yes the rise of pax Canadina 🇨🇦 🗿👌😎👍

Canada also known as upper America. Fun video regardless

Yeah Canada is not great. A lot of focusses that take 70 days that dont really contribute. They have at least 3 factory focusses that actually dont add building slots. 2x 70 days focusses for consumer goods reduction however with the new changes it makes quite useless and they are mandatory for getting rid of great depression. And their land doctrine focusses are very late in the focustree. 140 days for 7% common wealth research speed etc. Dollar a year bonus is good, however you get one advisor already with 50 pp after a focus

19:58 bittercoin?! I buying that

how can i get rid of the divided govermentspirit as democratic france?

how do you tell a division when micromanaging it to go to one place and then go to another place still going through the first one? Mine just go to the newest place i selected by the shortest path.