HoI4 Challenge: From NO Factories to a Pacific SUPERPOWER! - Majapahit Empire 

I love when people decide to build a navy and use it, not just steal the great power's navies or spam subs. Thanks, and keep up the great work!

Fun fact of the day, Thalassocracy is a combination of words derived from the Greek language which translates to “rule of the sea” in case anyone was wondering.

“If it looks stupid, but it works, than it’s not stupid.” Words to live by x)

It's still upsetting me that British Malaya didn't get a unique focus tree, unlike the rest of British Dominions.

You get 2 factories from trade, which are stacked on top of domestic factories - of which you have -1 (capped at 0). So, math actually checks out.

Always love formable nations

10/10. as an Indonesian I'd love to see you fight the Allies as Majapahit and realize the Maphindo idea

I love how you glossed over the Philippines, knowing it's master lives a thousand miles away and you have no hope of reaching them XD

YOOOOOO, HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR BRITISH MALAYA GAMEPLAY! 10/10, love from Malaysia!

That was a fantastic run. I've never seen that formable done before. The ultimate challenge for formables is to start as Yugoslavia, release Croatia, and form Austria Hungary. You should do this. I think you're the only RU-vidr good enough.

Malaysian and Indonesian language has direct and simple pronunciation. The word is pronounced directly based on spelling. It's pronounced "Ma-Ja(Ja not Ha)-Pa-Hit". In case anyone is curious :-) Good video anyway!

Would love a part 2. Always satisfying to end a HOI4 game where you get to the point that you could fairy easilly wc :)

I would absolutely love to see you take on Allies as Majapahit Empire! This was one of the best Hoi4 videos yet!

Damn, I wish I could build a good navy too but it’s waaaaay to complicated for me

I got you. Ma-Jah-Pa-Hit, thanks Bill Wertz.

Yea this was a satisfying game! I allways struggle with the navy, its abit hard to know what to do. It was nice to have some explanation as to how to do it in this vid. I would love to see you go against the allies, but as a challenge: you cant invade the uk untill the very end! 1ste usa so we can see a reverse island hopping and a reverse midway? :D

2:35 : I don't think the AI actively deletes buildings. Rather, the game system deletes a certain amount of factories when the owner switches due to an event or something like that. I think this also happens when starting as Republican Spain and building up an area that you don't keep (or say, you build up a Nat. Spain province because you want to play them). Verification may be required though...

Achievement unlocked: offend every indonesian by playing bri ish malaya despite majapahit is from indonesia not malaysia Heres some short history: Majapahit is a javanese kingdom( an Indonesian island ) As majapahit conquered other islands like borneo, sumatra, maluku etc. Unfortunately for the malay kingdoms (those who has opposed the majapahit rule) were victims to majapahit invasions. And the sultanate of malacca defeated majapahit. Indonesia is one of the few southeast asian nations that glorify the majapahit empire as it is forgotten in some parts of malaysia and Philippines. Although majapahit are not able to conquer sunda and some pacific islands. It inspired unity in Indonesia during the independence war.

Actually Malaysia was the best choice. With Indonesia you would have to take on the allies

I think a part 2 for this video would be really cool, fighting to take Japan and to push out the British.

Will you do Austro-Hungary as the Independent State of Croatia? 👉👈

I always use a similar naval strategy in my games. The only difference is I go for battlecruisers filled with light guns, instead of the heavy cruisers. A bit more expensive but more bonuses for them in tech and doctrines. As the older models get to be noticably out of date, I turn them into battleship deck conversion carriers. They don't have the best deck space but they're faster and better than keeping the older models around.

I think these more freeform videos are a lot of fun and a nice change of pace from achievement stuff. Keep it up! Also love to see some naval stuff lol

Bitt3rSteel has graced us with another video! Praise the lord.

Just for your information: the strategy still sorta works but not really anymore since the Nazis will not let you join their club until 1939/start of WW2. To capitulate the Dutch you have to use a similiar tactic to the one Bitter used in his Crusader Kings II achievement guide: declare war on Republican Spain asap (take Murcia as war goal since that one takes a while to fall to Franco), ask Franco for military access and use his ports for a naval invasion into the Netherlands. I also recommend going Communist since Malaysia starts with 30% communist support. Plus Stalin is very VERY generous with lend lease in the first phases of your glorious Pacific conquest. Also also: i recommend taking out Portugal and taking Timur since thats also core territory of the Thela-Thel-Thelacross-Malay Empire. All in all Malaysia is probably one of the most fun minors to play in HOI4 in my opinion.

i would love some more naval gameplay, its a rare sight from all the tank and infantry games.

This was a really fun video to watch. I would like to see a part 2 if you won’t suffer too much

Your editing has gotten better, keep it up!

Liked the focus on naval combats in this play through. Nicely done.

I like the focus on the navy in this one, matches nicely with the pacific country theme

1:44 you are getting 5 factories from trade. The minus 1 means you get 4 factories for yourself, and 2 are used for consumer goods while the other two you can build with. The reason why you have -1 civilian factories is because of the British, who are taking your factories. The calculations include all of the civs you have access to, but it is displayed as only affecting your owned factories. Because you have so few owned factories, they go into the negatives when the British are taken into account.

pretty nice video! i would love to see u fight the allies!

This is one of my favorite videos on your YT

Nice video. I'd say the Flemish/Dutch words are harder than "Majapahit" but that's just me. Would love to see more of this. For some reason, these islands are quite alluring. I always have to abandon my China games when I fight the allies so I'd love to see you have a go!

I actully love when people do a proper navy, please do more of these type of videos

I’ve been a fan of your channel for a little bit now and I love your save your disaster Campaigns, and boy do I have a challenge for you.

Sadnly you can't make this kind of cruiser anymore. you should redo this nation again for an updated version, it's a great vid!

Great upload as always. I would love to watch your take on the 'La Vittoria è Nostra!', a new mod for Italy.

I love your attitude towards the navy. It's fun!

I don't know if someone can select the ubication on a YT video when uploaded, but if you uploade it while you were on Malaysia that's so based and if not good detail anyway.

Thanks! This is what I'm waiting for!

One of the few things these fast boats can do without taking damage is convoy raiding. Put them around the occupied coastline of China and basically afk watch the Japanese convoy count go down. There is a point where Japan runs out of oil, then you can put your fleets to patrol and always engage. It's a bit of a cheese strat, but it works perfectly.

Amazing video, I really enjoyed.

I really wish I knew more about naval compositions cause honestly it seems really complicated. But I loved this campaign, gonna try one for myself!

I had no idea ships could be upgraded. Thanks mate.

that's neat! you could have done a little better on the peace deal but i've learned a lot navally

I love your vids maan what a pro

dude i love u video if u can do a long story for malay it will me nice...

Love the navy stuff!

No Loli Boate were harmed in the making of this video! On another note: @Bitt3rSteel Of course I would like to see how you take out the allies! But would also like to see if you could build a austro-hungarian-surface-fleet which contains super heavy battleships and take out the allies!

The reason as to why you got so many factories is because you get alot of your puppets, factories based on what kind of integration level their at. 25:03 The notification takes alittle bit of time to show up.

Thanks for the video! Sure, go for the total pacific ownership, continue!

I know this sounds weird but when im drunk ur my favorite thing to watch

Built a navy and enjoyed the game what...... love the content man

Like the navy stuff in this video :)

You can actually better your naval experience with tbis nation: have the naval dockyard focus play selected while the civil war fires. The ai enemy will not delete those dockyards because they are from a focus. Civil war might take a while longer because of shipbuilding though.but that would be easy +3 dockyards

'we gonna research paratroopers' 'you know where this is going' To me closing the video, yep

You probably got those 20 factories at 25:04 because you had many puppets doing the focus tree and did construction things.

Love the sounds 😁

Ah yes, the mapajahit or whatever empire Thanks for tip, you need to see the boats to attack the boats, very helpful.

Yes! You could try to take out the Allies and start as Dutch East Indies.

Now that's what I call a navy tutorial

impressive gameplay as always!

Honestly it's easier to form this as British Malaya so you got lucky with your coin toss. Great video as always!

As a Malaysian, I liked this

now its time for the hre speedrun

I would like to see the majaphit empire beating the allied navy actually. Need a part 2 to this one.

Lovely piano background music

This was fun. Go after the allies

i’ve been waiting for the majahapit- mapajahit- mahapajit- majahapit empire

Would love a part two

Yes please more naval runs!!

a nice video where someone finaly do something else than subs as a navy

AMAZINGNES!!!

Finally😆

Based Majapahit empire

I’d like to see you take the allies but here’s a tip for that: The British are coming. They have a focus to declare on Japan and they will use it. That’ll put you in a defensive war so I’d suggest taking some Chinese clay to bulk up before that happens. On second thought without Japan attacking the Philippines it shouldn’t be too hard.

I would really like to see you take on the British and US navies as Mahjapahit

Yes, thank you BitterSteel. Zero to Hero indeed, my friend.

17:37 your capital ship in czech means f*ck XD

I want to see a Majapahit vs. Chinese empire video. The Chinese with there soon to be annexed Allies will be quite the opponent

Great vid once again. I'm trying the same naval setup as Sweden but I won't get it working very well. Is the British fleet simply way better than the Japanese as in your vid? Whats your basic setup in the example at 26:22, besides alot of French obsolete boats. Is it 4xCA with load of light attack (one have battery), 20xfleet fodder DD and 20 x torp spam DD?

I Loved the Navy plays in this video! I find it to be the hardest and most neglected part of this game. Its always nice to learn some tips and tricks on the navy.

Starting from nothing, as a country with no focus tree, that did not play a huge part in WW2, actually building a navy and proceeding to have a bunch of fun with every major front of the war?? This is probably the most enjoyable way to play this game.

I never actually knew you could delete buildings lol

I wish that we can choose to form Srivijaya Empire (Malay) when playing as British Malaya instead just Majapahit Empire (Javanese).

Love the navy Focus for a change

Too bad paradox patched out your strategy here with the distance modifier to joining factions.

This was cool can you do more

Would like to see you taking on the allies

I love this video

Don't worry Bit, I also like playing navy and produce beefy DD's

im new to this game and i follow your way as best as i can..but 1 thing keeps me wondering is how did you send para to europe?i try to send via sea but it need sea supremacy everywhere..i still not try to send via air as i think it will not enough range to get them there..any tips that i missed?

Ah, A Campaign after my own heart. I did an MP as Bulgaria to Balkan Federation. The USSR player and I were having a grand issue getting to the USA, so my solution wasn't 'Submarine Spam' as would have been useful, instead I rushed 1944 Crusiers, stacked light attack, and used 20 of them to Sink the Entire British-American Navy of 740 Ships. It was glorious, but most importantly, *satisfying* something that Sub Spam definitely isn't.

Hey bitter, can you play this game again till a sort of world conquest but with NSB activated?

Mapajahit? Majahapit? Mahajapit? Ma...ja...pa...hit?

Ma-Jah-Pah-Heet I think it's a phonetic pronunciation that people screw up because Civ 5 pronounces it wrong (the narrator calls it Mai-ya-pit) Sort of like tall lady from Resident Evil 8. She's Lady "Dih-mih-tres-ku" but they pronounce it wrong in the game. That's what I've heard from multiple sources online anyway, I don't speak any Indonesian language or Romanian.

The ai: THAT'S ILLEGAL

You must complete the great trial against the collonizers who dared to set foot an Malaysia.

How do you get them icons in the devision templates?