Saving Mussolini from game mechanics.... 

Fun fact: the 'lost cores' modifier doesn't go away even if you win the war. It never goes away... I had a game as Italy where I played until 1949, conquered every major nation formed Rome... and still had the modifier just because I lost Sardinia in 1940... Edit: Wow, I did not expect this many likes, thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!

Weren’t there three cores lost? Sardinia, Istria and Piedmont? Because isn’t Piedmont occupied along with Sardinia and majority of Istria? Wished you showed the balance of power after you liberated your cores to really show that the modifier was still there

The more I watch these disaster, saves the more things I learned about division, design, tactics, and things that help prevent me from sending in a disaster save. Thank you, Bitt3rSteel. I should send in more saves sometime 🤔

"Mussolini is in trouble..." Yeah he's so bald he gets mistaken for a lighthouse

Unfortunately, Paradox seems to pretend that the ridiculous balance of power modifiers upon losing even non-core states are intended. It has been reported numerous times and no dev has ever adressed it. But now that a big youtuber has complained about it, theres a slight chance they might do something with it because that seems like the only case they bother to fix a bug that had been around for months.

25:30 "They're already dead they just dont know it yet." 🎅🏻🎅🏻🎅🏻✨

1:00 the great council of gamers you mean

I remember this one game i did i was just trying to bring back the pope, and i was doing a co-op. It was non historical and we forgot to put troops on the "alpine confederation border" after we denied them. They then invaded all of northern italy. after 2 years the allies joined them just as i almost gained all my land back. I held for like 5 years in total it was actually kinda fun

Top tip for that encirclement cheese tactic. Instead of what you're doing right now you can press control + rightclick instead. This makes your units attack but not walk in to the tile. So you don't have to manually halt your divisions from entering the tile.

I play Italy all the time and have no idea how he had that many generals with that many units with that much manpower in such a short amount of time with half the manpower focuses still locked

Its not a paradox game if the code doesn't break

"theyre already dead they just dont know yet" -Bitt3rsteel 2023

Wouldn’t be PDX if every “main” competitor of ww2 didn’t have either a small, boring focus tree, broken mechanics or some annoying “feature” that they implemented. Oh well at least you can play ww2 Vikings now.

6:45 isn't military police after arms against tyranny has some bonuses to regular infantry? I remember them giving like 20% more division org recovery rate which is really useful for defence

21:42 The Bittersteel Squeal 😂 I hope he sees this and trademarks that

Hey Bittersteel, here's a video idea: Try redoing this disaster save or some other of your choosing but try to "win" without changing industry, template, research, doctrines. It would be a good way to show much these things can affect the game or on the other hand it could show that pure micro skill can win the game with bad choices in other areas

New ideas for the next videos: 1. Rush Roman empire (or Imperial federation with US cores), core all states possible, tag switch to another country, and no war declaration for 1 year. Then, fight the Empire 2. Planes only (which we know usually doesn't work), but you are able to get all plane techs with console 3. 0 casualties. Choose any country, and build the way you want. Then declare war against a major and win with less than 1k casualties (no parachute exploit against France or letting allies win) 4. Italy Max Cores: Play with italy, do Roman Empire and core everything, then loose territy civil war and go democratic. Form the EU, and abadon colonies to get African cores.

this title is the most accurate thing ever said in human history

That’s the biggest encirclement I’ve ever seen

6:44 Bittersteel! With the new DLC, the military police now increase recovery rate so it can be useful in line infantry

Bittersteel Although you won’t see this,Ever since I started watching you,you have made me love HOI4 and inspired me to start my own RU-vid channel,You are very inspiring,thank you my friend.

Oh, there is one thing that Fleet in Being is great for, so don't knock it! The last doctrine in the tree gives you +20% naval AA effectiveness. It's actually really amazing for me when I play Silver Legion USA because I still have to deal with a bug where the game crashes if I try to access my air force during or after the civil war, but if I completely disband my air force at the start and scuttle my carriers, and if I don't touch the air force interface until after the civil war ends, then I can build a fresh one from scratch. At that point though, I don't want to spend the time and dockyards on new carriers, so between FiB, the high command AA guy (Spruance, I think,) and some dedicated AA cruisers plus copious use of DP secondaries on everything, I can still really shred Japanese or British carrier fleets depending on how RNGeezus blows up my game.

15 width is great, this recent update really favours smaller widths, the bigger width all feel really clunky to use well

40 seconds ago. I'm already here. Bittersteel Is addictive 😂

Kaiserreich got an update for Germany recently, and there's some really interesting paths like the secret NatPop one, maybe you should try playing it as Germany is way more complicated now

Good News! They fixed the Lost Cores modifier bug! like a few weeks ago

27:00 sound of happiness

It figures this would be another one of those games with a weird but necessary strategy like doing a Reverse Schlieffen plan, lol.

15:02 heavy cruisers

that professor farnsworth meme was the worst thing ever lol, horrible quality and low volume. it was perfectly cursed, thank you

0:20 all of them

love you videos keep uploading shortly

hello people am i blind or he missing core territory one top left itally isnt that the 3rd core ?, pls help

Love your content 😊😊😊

Bittersteel you should show how many losses the enemy took in pockets by using booklet you were using to see how much equipment you captured. Would be interesting.

Hat looks awfully much Like a Situation I was in not so Long ago

As someone who has seen the game code, Paradox forgot to add a code to remove the final Lost Cores modifier because the effect is different between first core lost and following cores lost.

143 divisions in the magino encirclement

"This Belgium is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. 🎅🎅🥕"

I always like to make a port on rome so I can auto port-garrison it instead of manually defending it. Works 9/10. Wish the ai could build ports or at least rome starting with a port.

Idk i like using MP support on assault divisions for the recovery rate boost

Military police do have a use, they are in of the few things that increases recovery rate for infantry divisions

Yeah I immediately guessed it was b/c the Italian power of balance system is broken

a combination of all three

Did he just reverse the Schlieffenplan? Now i´ve seen it all.

Finally, someone points this out! I refuse to play italy until it's fixed, you can form the Roman empire, get everything as cores, and then have a civil war because you forget to garrison some random beach in the middle of nowhere. If it's a bug fix it, if it's a mechanic it's a stupid fucking mechanic.

"The game says we lost 3 cores, we only lost 2 : Sardinia and Istria !" Meanwhile the French holding Piedmont : Am i a joke to you ?

bittersteel with another banger

25:30 🎅🎅🥕

they also must give a rate because 1 tank division can not hold an entire army of infantry

13:33 Is artillery guy finally working? I always thought that this adviser is bugged and didnt do shit for your army

Speaking of building: for air superiority or at least try to contest down enemy bomber, I never seen you built AA and radar... Are those so uneffective, or you simply don't built then since they aren't in your play style?

i wanna go with the secret third option and say d: all of the above

"Mussolini is an idiot" How is that an suprise. Every hoi4 player knows he is.

D) All of the Above.

Challenge suggestion: using only general/field marshal orders; fallback lines, frontlines, etc. Moving a unit manually instantly fails the challenge.

Whoa whoa whoa, waitaminute ... Did you just say that a light tank can be designed specifically for garrison brigades? Damn, and here I've just been trying to optimize the best SPAA to augment my infantry brigades. What tank modules help with suppression, or is it that the hardness makes them almost impossible to be destroyed by insurgents?

CROSSES GROW ON ANZIO~

You claimed additional AA is not worth it. I was pretty sure thats not the case so I quickly tested the effect of AA. No AA = -35% modifier Support AA= -25% modifier Support + 2 Line AA = -10% modifier Conclusion: If anything, even 2 line AA isn't enough to completely get rid of the negativ air superiority modifier. And to claim more AA than 1 support is never worth it is definitely not true.

Mr. Steel i have a question. Every time I play hoi4 my units always have no organization, what could be the problem?

D: you are playing the Soft underbelly of Europe 😂

I remember my first Game of BBA as Dino Grandi and ending up in Civil war because i lost some random pieces of lands in Russia Yeh Italian Power balance is Broken for any fascist path

sad, btw all three of them

25:30 IdkSterling refrence?

Don't you have a core in Zara too?

What about France marching halfway through the north of your country. Just didn't notice?

My guess is A and C

that views are tcking fast.

i have a challenge for you i want you to play elite difficultu then choose uk and release egypt as a puppet then gain freedom and declare on both the allies and axis and comintern and chinese and japenese faction and defeat them all if you can do that youy will be officialy crowned the best tryhard hoi4 player but since it will be too long make the video as a 200k subsucriber special were almost there

Hello Bitt3rSteel.Can you tell me how to add divisons to an alredy existing army

All of the above

Would you do a Habsburg Poland video?

You need to make more total war videos!

Mama mia!

I’m quite damn sure that you are sometimes incompetent so it must be B. /j, you are great.

When the UK wants a new dominion they made one out of the balkans.

sussolini

isnt france occupiing the 3. core in the north of italy? (they are standing next to milano)

Probably unfair to call that a game mechanic, looks like a pretty obvious bug. Impressive content, by the way. Learned a lot watching these videos and they're quite entertaining to boot, though that's probably down to charisma and nice editing.

howcome your fighters are only 30 production cost with that engine, normally mine end up at like 45 even with near same template

D all of the above 0:08

Italy is always incompetent in my games, I once saw Britain naval invade Italy and they infinitely attacked and they lost every single battle. And they counterattacked and before civil war happened Italy divisions were all overrun and Italy surrendered.

Hey good morning bitter

How much manpower was lost during the 140 division pocket

When has mussolini not been in trouble?

I thought you were talking about the current politician 😂😂😂

big manki

D) all of the above :P

I’m going to guess all three 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉 0:25

What are our favourite pizza toppings?

fun tip u can supply thru impadible turain if u build a railway thru it

was he ever never in trouble?

Is Italian Dodecanese a core?

Answer to the beginning of the video: 4. All of the above

so i was curious what your national/ethnicity was and googled you, 1st thing that popped up was YOUR face reveal, so i clicked it. 1st three words of the video was " hi, im taureor." found it amusing thought you may as well.

why he researched the rocket before even reaching 1943?

i just hate the balance of power shift in italy. Even when you don't play italy and just want to conquere it you get a useless puppet without even any chance to take all the land.

Is Zara a core of Italy ?

Isn't Turin a core?

IIRC one of the north african states counts as a core despite it not being one which has messed me up many times when i ignore Africa and full commit to invading UK and France.