How a BEAR can be KING of Poland! Hoi4 Guide: Bearer of Artillery + He Who Bears the Crown 

+50% ideology drift defense. Yeah... I don't see many people arguing politics against him...

Fun fact, the bear in the game is a real bear: Corporal Wojtek was an enlisted bear of the polish 22th artillery supply company. From 1943 to 1945 he was their mascot and companion. He was reported to help carry 100lbs QF 25pr ammo boxes during the Battle of Monte Cassino mimicking the men granting him a promotion from private to corporal.

Find a woman who loves you as much as Bittersteel loves encirclements.

Imagine being the general that got replaced by a bear lmao

In poland you have the right to arm bears and bear arms in the name of the bear

bear leading the union of slavs is such a poetic thing

Best thing about Bittersteel guides is any time he mentions a possible setback that "almost never happens" it is 95% guaranteed to happen. It's great because it means he gets to show us what to do when things go awry.

"We Will expand Poland to it's natural borders". Bro, I'm subscribing.

Everybody gangsta till a bear deposes an impostor from the Polish crown.

I got the achievement with pure luck with the “No more partitions” And the lucky part was the Yugoslavs accepting my ultimatum in 1940 and having Romania as an ally through the Miedymorze once France falls. (So no allies with me against USSR) My path goes towards the industry first and do some political focuses with Romanov after getting the 5th research.

33:06 The horror of world war 2 is over! *Happy bear noises*

Huh, didn't know Poland had a 4859 reference in their agency. Cool little nod to one of the badass resistance fighters at the time

I just imagine the reunion with the counsil General: *My King, we are the most powerfull country in the world and se defeated all our enemies, all Thanks to your management and ideas, God Bless you, My King* Wjotek: *_roar_*

Estonia at the end just trembling in the corner in fear of being consumed, hoping to stay unnoticed as not part of the slavic union xD

8:00 the fact that hoi4 has a reference to Witold pilecki is absolutely amazing to me he was a polish hero

I got this one yesterday. Through sheer luck (and German threats) Yugoslavia submitted to me, which was the perfect starting point to naval invade Italy and reclaim Eastern Europe and the Balkans. If you got Slovakia too, you can get a really juicy encirclement of every Axis division between Yugoslavia and your Western border! EDIT: In fact, you can pretty much take over the Allies faction through the sheer amounts of manpower and industry you get from defeating the Soviets! Which means, A BEAR IS LEADING THE ALLIES

Wojtek was a real polish solider during ww2, so this is the best focus ever, as it could technically be real

“Russians coming back with a sledgehammer” Ok so it’s still historical

I love this video because i dont know if its real but i read in a book, some polish fled the USSR after they took east poland, and when there in iran they buy a bear of a boy, so then they join the british army with the bear and help with the invasion of Italy

I HIGHLY recommend googling Wojtek, He was a real bear that served in WW2. I love him

I have been waiting for the update of this guide for so long! Thanks, Bittersteel, you rock!

Should let you rename Berlin to Bearlin.

For some reason I was always in an infantry equipment deficit, and I got stuck in Romania and Yugoslavia so then Soviet invaded before I was prepared.

im glad you made another poland guide! with barbarossa and no step back its probably my favorite nation to play

Never even knew there were hidden paths in hoi4, interested to see if there are anymore

I really enjoy these guides you make probably more than the disaster saves, have you ever thought about doing a guide on playing historical Poland or at least going down the first historical focus for Poland to see if it’s possible to fight off the Soviets and Germans from the 1936 start date?

Thank you for your guide, it worked perfectly for me. Germany gave me Pomerania, and lithuania went down without a fight. A few notes : if you annexed lithuania, consider pupet it to allow restore the commonwealth focus. And you must change you conscription law while you are at war (not possible while at peace) with yugoslavia, otherwise you will never have enough divisions in time to fight the ussr.

I love your enthusiasm for this run. Well played!

I really hate how Paradox made all the monarchy paths for Poland so op that nobody ever plays historical, and in that tree you don't even have enough time to do all the historical focuses before the war breaks out.

Thank you for this, recently thought of doing this achievement

That allied radio in the background is great, the allied radio is good in general

"sir, please observe this new treatise" *indistinct bear noises* "wa-war? war made us strong and shall keep us strong my king...."

You posted this right after i finished He who bears the crown

I've been waiting for that👍

Bro, you are amazing youtuber and you are making almost everyone happy you deserve more subs

At the end: He is bearing with the army under his command and bears the country under him [both commander and ruler]. He bears a lot...

Love your guides Bitt3rSteel. Just to help anyone who may have missed it, you need to switch to Extensive Conscription as soon as you Declare War on Yugoslavia and Romania. It’s not mentioned directly in the video, but after rewatching and pausing on the political screens I worked out when it happened. I just had a run which was going really well until it came to the period between defeating Yugoslavia and being attacked by the Soviet Union because I couldn’t recruit enough troops. Nor could I change the conscription law during peace time (unaligned) to get more manpower. I ended up being able to hold the Soviets back and even make some minor territorial gains: taking Minsk and the border supply depots. I just couldn’t push any further and had issues with resistance in Yugoslavia due to lack of manpower and not being able to fill the garrison. Was going so well until then! I’ll be restarting and making sure I hit that conscription law change in time!

I did the achievement alongside No More Partitions and Crusader Kings 3, it took me till 1947

bittersteel uploads make my day 10x better

Just a tip: if you do invade Latvia and Estonia as Poland, make sure to keep your army small enough and declare on the same time. This allows you ti get extensive conscription.

Mr.Bittersteel I have to ask what is the jazz-type music you use in the background of your videos? I would definitely chill to this music and I have been wondering forever. Thank you and have a good day.

To me I wanted to first slope armor instead of bolded armor because both when you get hit by shell well the bolt starts flying around everywhere damaging crew members and equipment scoped armament is much better has better chances to reflect bullets I mean tank shells and for some reason at an anguish relatively thick at an angle of slope turner

...if only we could replace all politicians with bears.....

I'll probably never play HOI4, but i cant stop watching these videos

Woah this thumbnail style is beautiful!

As a Scot, we are proud to say we took care of the bear for his final years. We love you, Wojtek.

Btw. one thing that is worth considering doing that run is to create an agency at the start of the game and rush for 2 agents and then do as quickly as possible collaboration gov in Lithuania - this allows you to very quickly proclaim Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth and resolve some pressing issues with manpower

From my exerience you dont need localized train canters for espionage in russia, you just need real live spies usually the ones on the bottom of the list and poland has one from the start

"What could posibly go wrong a brown bear rule the slavic union" is the most funniest part *that i think*

Romania is an absolute beast, probably tried 6 times and never even got close.

Ugh. I hate it when the AI spams last stand as soon as it realizes it's losing.

I haven't watched it yet, but I like it already :)

Hey Bitt3r, could you please make a video on how to make the HRE? Please :(

This has been the 2nd hardest one I've attempted, I've had to restart so many times, Bittersteel makes this look easy but it's carefully planned and timed. Follow the guide pretty carefully and it's totally doable. I got discouraged in mid 1940, wide open western borders, unable to push the soviets for fear of suddenly running out of manpower and guns, no tanks to open up breakouts. As BS did, just focused on small encirclements, whittled down their numbers to the point that a rush for moscow became viable. I'm done with them, prepping for germany, expecting things to be much easier at this point.

3:35 I never thought that a chair would make a great ruler.

At long last Got it And done Many thanks

Lol these days I'd probably vote for a bear

Great Video! I must have missed something. How did you prevent italy from justifying war against you mid ´39?

Thank you!

I'm so glad I subscibed.

all this time I thought you couldn't take Moscow before you get Wotjek. This makes things much easier

Hey bittersteel, what are your pc specs? You hoi4 runs incredibly smooth

When doing espionage if the agent is from a country with the same ideology as the one you're spying on there is almost no chance of the agent getting captured I did it multiple times and not once was an agent captured

“Extending Poland to its natural borders” litteraly all the poles watching imeaditly subscribe

I very much approve of this video. Enjoyable and representation to the greatest of bears.

I love your videos even if I rarely play hoi4

Great video 👍 . Please make a video using spies only .

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the Poland focus tree looks pretty OP

Curious how many restarts are hidden between the edits. Cause when I try my hand at things from ur videos I get the most unluckiest events. Like czech denying me or romania joining axis as im attacking them. Plus ive never ever had an ez war against romania. In any game or faction. Something about them makes their front lines hard. Im not even fighting them on the mountains

One tactic I always use as Poland, I always hold off on demanding Slovakia until the Germans got the Sudetenland. The reason is that I then get an event handing over a piece of Slovakia to me including a core, which I don't get from demanding Slovakia myself. Obviously this doesn't apply to many paths but it is something to keep in mind.

Holy cow amazing ever. ! +1

Ah lol, just finished this achievement yesterday :p

Amazing video!❤️Witch DLC is that?

31:50 Taureor is gonna explode if he hears that pronounciation

time to follow this old guide

19:44 like a bear sitting down and ready to take Berlin.

Mr Bearington is a very respectable member of our community and a great ruler!

The bear necessities, just the bear necessities - - - (Yew knew someone had to!)

and what makes it even better is that it is completely something that the commonwealth would have done just for the lols

can we talk about how cool the slavic union flag is? just dang they put refrence from very old slavic kingdoms

Great vid but i've replayed this run like 20 times now and still cant manage to take those two supply hubs in romania as fast as you did 😭soviet unions invades before i finish off yugoslavia

can you do pan slavic union? i havent seen many tutorials on it am im struggling to achieve it

this is what got me to play hoi, but i only could get hoi3 as the moment.

Im very late to the party so unless this guide doesn't really work what infantry template do you end up with when declaring on Romania and yugo because the basic one really struggles against them

“Speed is key, speed is ALWAYS the key” The Germans: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

Awesome game. Could you suggest a CPU to make the game play more smooth? I have a AMD Ryzen 3 2200G. Thanks and keep the great work!

I think this is amazing, but I'm curuious to what infantry and tank templates you use!

Heya! I just looked into the Hearts of Iron IV Files and I DID find that Yugoslavia CAN say yes you the annex ultimatum. I hope that question is answered now.

Agent 4859... Easter Egg reference to Witold Pilecki perhaps?

Nice videos

Very good

Here we have the channel of Bitt3r "trust me" steel.

nice video

18:44 The key is speed... Thats what the Germans also thougt

I saw 4859 and then remembered Witold Pilecki is in the game xd

Can you do more small countries that are doomed

31:18 59 divisions encircled!!! (if my maths is up to scratch)

I should try watching the video properly🤦🏻‍♂️ Great insight

could you play historical Poland? I want to see someone try to balance the Sanation Right and Left and secure the Castle

Estonia at The end:maybe if I dont move, he wont see me