Poland needs help, it's a DISASTER... 

That peace deal hurt. Thanks, Paradox, really cool AI you have there

Gotta love Walery Sławek hiring himself into the government

Bittersteel is now basically trying to save IRL poland in WW2, like this is so similar to the situation poland had, even with the empty Soviet border

PDX “We totally fixed peace deals!” Everyone: yeah, look at these deals…

I think this is the first hoi4 player that has willingly chosen to go democratic poland and just sit there and make a big faction, like why??

Really cool seeing you climb out of the hole I dug myself in in this playthrough. Glad you had a good time doing it. :)

Can't wait for the Hoi4 A-Z, keep up the good work, brother ❤️

"Good news, Bad news. You have a lot of friends, but none of your friends really matter" Literally my social circles

21:00 Belgium leaders:Why have you kicked me out,Poland:My plans are larger than you think.(although as bitt3rsteel is Belgian its more like they both decided this)

I am literally in shock and my jaw dropped at the sight of seeing how far this channel has come. You truly deserve the best because you produce really good content. Been subbed since "Battle for the Bosporus" days when you used to explain what to do exactly in order. I actually learnt the game through your achievement guides.

That laugh when you baited the Allies into joining the war against the sockets reminds me of when I threw Tukhachevsky into the old piranha pit.

Bittersteel called my hometown 'whatever this place is'... I'm so proud

You gotta love the HOI4's Allies roleplaying like the actual Allies with Poland.

For a Polish person like myself, hearing "Plock" the way you pronounced it, is very cute :D It's actually pronounced like Plotsk.

I really don't like people suffering for content but something about these disaster saves is just mwah!

That is the new peace mechanics. A couple patches ago paradox broke everything

Hey I just wanted to say I love your content and all you do including these disaster save's it really makes my day!

My friend i like a lot your videos, I don't have time to play hoi4, but i watch all of your content. Hugs from Brazil

I had a similar thing happen in my ahistorical game of Italy where Bulgaria had a civil while in my faction. Afterwards went to war with the Allie’s, they joined, got capitulated and though we won they were in the peace deal as a defeated country. My guess Paradox screwed up some code somewhere.

I literally refreshed youtube in the last couple of hours more often than i should, eagerly awaiting the video of the week. keep it up man

The reason your allies didn't turn up in the peace conference is because peace conferences exclude nations who are over 50% capitulation or so. Those will appear as if conquered, not as coparticipants Annoying, yes

love that it ends on 1 Sep 1945, almost to the day of the real ww2 ending

11:37 Yall rockin with the South Korea shaped Poland or China shaped Hungary???

Great to see another disaster video. I find them educational as well as entertaining, so I am not sure if I'm alone or not, but seeing the production window and logistics a bit more often (especially after big template changes or equipment additions) would be interesting just to see how you save and balance the economy

For the game, defeated nations are nations not liberated when the war end (so under a minor occupation or foreign occupation by fascist/communist). THis why your allies were listed as defeated (cause still occupied by someone after germany and italy cap)

I tought for sure when i saw the start it was unbeatable. But what a comeback! Gz on the victory even if the price was steep in the end!

Thought this was going to be an April 1st video, but the only one who was fooled this time was BitterSteel... Sometimes AI in this game is just doesn't work 🤧

Local Western Plans for Poland is great as it gives a lot of bonuses but it does cost a decent amount of political power. It also applies to every province you border with Germany. Local Eastern Plans does the same thing but for the Soviets.

11:11 Gotta love the prounciation

Thank you for your effort!

27:38 Never seen a Pole that tall.

Wow, I'm so glad Paradox improved the peace deals in the latest dlc. Totalllly not a huge cluster fuck that is worse than before.

25:07 I wonder if the czechoslovak AI would have restored A-H with the decision if you had fed them Hungary, Austria, Transylvania and northern yugoslavia

Next time I mess up, I'll try to pull the save and send it to you before I clean up my own mess

Ah yes, being outnumbered and outgunned. And being destroyed from both sides. Classic Poland experience.

27:15 Been watching this channel for years from this particular place - Udmurtia, Izhevsk 🤔🤔🤔

I don't know what's worse: the disaster itself or the disgusting peace deals.

As a pole, It's funny to see you struggle on provinces names(especially płock) :D

i always been wondering what is the reason to not build few level fort in provices that will under constant attack, or anti air

2nd Miracle on the Vistula

The reason you lost Romania, Finland, Turkey and Yugoslavia is because Allied nations walked into their territories without military acess, and since they were occupied by the Axis and they capitulated, the occupied nations also were considered "defeated" because you didn't liberate them by yourself, so all the territory the Axis held was in the peace deal, including your allies (at least Romania stayed with you lol). I thought you knew that and I don't even play Hoi4 😅😅😅😅.

Some people are asking why democratic Poland, but I want to know where the hell his industry is.

Aaaaand this is why I still don’t play for achievements and always have player-led peace conferences on.

What mod you using to get these extra researches on Industrie,planes,tanks, and the stuff in the Officer Corp? And what mod you using to Design your planes,Tanks,Ships ?

I wonder if the Yalta conference event fired for the AI, which might explain the cursed peace deal. I've had some whacky results because of it, but I usually play non-historical , so...

ok here's an odd challenge (if you'll take em) is to train your divisions to 100%, and when they're at 100% deploy them (idk if this helps with any thing but here's one none the less)

I got the same WTF with the peace deal recently as you here when I was trying to get Dracula's Revenge I played Yugoslavia ofc, got down the tree, dismantled and reunited country and released Transylvania. I played non-historical and Czech Entente happened, so they denied Germany Sudetenland and Hungary got into Axis. I was also declared war from Germany next (luckily Italy went red) and I landed automatically in The French Alliance. Romania capped and I reconqured and occupied Romania's teritory (being in another faction but both factions being in war with Germany). Czech Entente never capped because Germany couldn't defeat Czechs plus USA joined them and once Germany was defeated, I was able to take Czech entente terotories in the peace deal as well (I was occupying most of them in Europe because I reconqured these on my way to Berlin). All in all I was about to give up my take but I though well at least I'll defeat Adolf. Even if defeating Germany seemed possible I didn't want to fight USA afterwards but I was blessed with being able to meddle with my allies from another faction. So I guess maybe paradox implemented more papa-stalin-like peace deals ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

So apperantly you didnt know, but if a country is completely occupied and the nation that is occuping them is defeated, these countries will be partioned in the peace deal aswell. If you play the soviets for exampe and manage to take the benelux or even france before they can be liberated by their allies, they can be taken in peace deals. Best example would be poland after killing germany as the soviets.

I think your allies were in deal as during the surrender of the axis they are still occupied

25:36 Classic Allies moment

Try to win the Balkan powder Krieg as the Ottoman Empire in TheGreatWar mod. Btw love this video ❤

Bitt3rsteel fights to the bitter end. Ha

Everyone sleeps on Belgium, I was playing Keiserredux and it took me my entire western divisions to dogpile them before the French Syndicate would intervene

What do you use for your background music?

i have a Germany save that I'm honestly afraid to send

Honestly, Democratic Poland is a very doable playthrough, and can actually be quite strong if you spend the time to take parts from both the left and right path.

Stellar comeback! Early on I kept wait for you to say April Fools.

Why were like half of the countries in your alliance included in the peace deal?

I also tried democratic Poland. Just by looking at the focus tree you know you are meant to capitulate. Defending after the civil war is hard.

30 minutes of hell but with extra steps...

Can we all agree that the Paradox ai is fun, annoying, stupid (sometimes), AND SO DUMB WHEN ATTACKING IT MAKES NO SENSE.

Chad Belgium never capitulating

Respect the Reach reference

Yeah one of the oddest things in hoi I've noticed is which AI nations will try to naval invade you. The Soviets LOVE hitting dobrudja and Danzig ... even if they've lost Kiev.

And once again the peace deal system proves to us how broken it is.

Never forget the pro gamer Belgian thirst trap

I've been enjoying your videos and last night I was considering providing you with a disaster to save. Democratic Sweden saves the Nordic countries. Everything was going OK, I was winning at naval invasion whack-a-mole in Norway and my troops had stopped Germany from taking Copenhagen, thus keeping Denmark in the war. Japan was knocked out in record time, not sure how. I just needed to hold out for Operation Barbarossa to eventually start to help ease the pressure. But that never happened and everyone just kept expanding their armies, the majors had +500 division each and I could barely keep 60 up to strength. Instead the UK declared war on the USSR. Nukes were being dropped by both side. It was a complete disaster. So much for playing on historical mode. But in January 1952, through cleaver maneuvers and complete disregard for the lives of my fellow Swedes, Denmark and Norway had been restored. And Finland even managed to retake Nyen (Leningrad).

Płock in polish is pronounced kind of like Plotsk (with k like in "book")

hey bitter i just saw your town on the news

Imagine Belgium is very compentent and stopped Soviet landing and German attack

they never did national defense fund for the two years of -15 consumer goods

Płock - Pwotzk, Kielce - Kyéltzé

I half expected to get rickrolled

27:41 thats a pretty big pole.

Do it for Sławek!

You’ve got to admit the color of the social republic of Italy is a good faction color for the Axis.

Because they were occupied that what happens when you capitulate the germans while they still occupying the polish land

I tried doing something similar but was screwed by France falling immediately. I went back to the previous save and turns out they stationed half their army guarding their ports rather than the Maginot… Germany just walked in even though most of their units were facing me… Given France survived here, hopefully they have fixed that “bug”.

Bitt3rsteel, could you do a falangist spain video???

How is it possible that in a week from 27th june to 4th july 1940 you have gained seventeen factories without gaining any territories?

Can you play Spain and return all colonies that it once had, like Mexico, half of USA, Argentina, Philippines etc and all lands like Netherlands, southern Italy, Portugal as vassal that owns Brazil and so on...

Kazachstan looks like big Czech Republic without Brno/southern Moravia lol

Guide for Hardly Anything Severs in the current patch?

I have an idea for a video: playing as Italy in 1936, (Historical AI On) go monarchist and by the settings make Germany go Monarchist too with Hungary trying tò reform the Austria-Hungary (they are monarchist too). And make an Alliance with those two called "Renewed Triple Alliance" and then trought the focus trees of you and Germany try tò defeat the Allies and Soviets

hungary looks suspiciously like china here at 11:50

Can we get an updated template guide?

Disaster saves my favorite videos ❤

I may have a disaster save for you How do I send it?

Did anyone else notice Lithuania became very red at the end

Why didnt you produce cheap Basic Medium tanks? The AI never pierces them and you could mix Cavalry with them to save Trucks and minimize fuel usage. Cavalry is better at pushing through Forest too, plus the tanks the division will have great Hardness.

What is that background music called?

Anyone gonna mention how much like China, Hungary looks like at 11:40?

How could you do this? Give Transylvania to Hungary... this is the stepping stone to WW 3.

Lore of Poland Is Not Yet Lost momentum 100

Am I the only one who misread this iteration of Poland as "Sanitationist"? When I first encountered it I was thinking, "LOL, what? Did, like, sanitation workers take control of the government? Or was this some sort of euphemism for purifying Poland ideologically/morally/religiously?"

I thought democratic Poland were green...

Infantry equipment 1 still RIP

Did you like that paradox joke there bittersteel 🤣🤣

7:28 you changed this template unnecesarry, because this deficit was caused by these 52 divisions queued up

6:35 real voice MonkaS