The Russian Tsar is having a bad day - HoI4 Disaster Save 

@Erik Sauer and all doubters: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wbH4zGUIcP0.html RAW FOOTAGE of this segment. Did I cheat? No. Is the AI competent? Also no

You could say he was *Royally* screwed

"I'm just roleplaying NATO please" is a sentence said at almost every hoi4 game.

missed Carpathian Ruthenia and memel but it was good enough

Great Video man !

14:55 The Great Trial

What was that fork💀

How can you activate only one offensive of the army group. When I try to do it the whole army group starts attacking?

I am a chinese player and I saw a trick that almost every chinese streamer/uploaders use but almost never saw any uploaders here in youtube using it. That is: including a medium AA tank battalion in your infantry divisions. The reason you should use this is that it gives you a 50% damage reduction(might be 60/70/85 depending on armor/piercing ratios) to both org. damage and equipment/manpower loss(that is, unless you are completely encircled) while providing defense, breakthrough and attack bonuses. The AI usually have low piercing early and mid-game, so 30-40 armor usually works and gives you the full 50% damage reduction(You get full reduction if the enemy piercing is less than 50% of your armor). You shouldn't use this in multiplayer since the other player would see that you are using medium AAs to get damage reduction and would just stack piercing to destroy them. Stacking piercing is a lot easier than stacking amor. You should choose medium AA instead of medium tank for these reasons: 1. Medium AA is a lot cheaper per unit compared to the average medium tank. Since we are only using armor, every other value does not matter(except maybe speed and reliability, speed should be the same as your division speed). 2. Medium AAs only require 36 instead of 50 per battalion for every other type of medium tanks. 3. AAs would also deal damage to enemy planes(obviously), which is especially important if your airforce is sht and is facing countries with a strong airforce. It is way easier to do this instead of building up an airforce for yourself and defeat the enemy airforce in battle. 4. Choose medium tanks since light tanks are too weak to give you the 50% DR unless you stack armor very hard, and heavy/SH tanks are way too expensive to be used(You will need 1 battalion at least per shock division) Using this may give you a large advantage in all situations(as long as the enemy does not have ATs/lots of tanks) for reducing your org damage, saving manpower and equipment and increasing your attack. It's not expensive at all and you could try including it instead of an extra artillery battalion.

I love it

How about you do a peaceful hoi4 campaign? You can't declare war or launch a offensive campaign. Defense only

Can someone help me and tell me why do I not have the Intel agency icon?

This has got to be the best disaster save Ive seen, the guy clearly pre-planned everything before everything went wrong. I love it!

At 14:00 there is a river crossing, but its hard to see. You see that the river is running parallel to you on your left side just before Astrakhan and than it splits around Astrakhan, making it into an island. You can see that the river flows left and right around Astrakhan if you look closly. But it is something I wouldn't have seen myself if I was playing at that moment.

Wait, so this guy won tsar civil war and still had more factories compared to when I was playing against AI as Stalin. Just WOW

I like how he has more factories than ai soviet before barbarossa

Bittersteel one min into the video: “what I like about this save is not so much that it is terribly set up” Bittersteel literally 20 sec later: “I hate the way your army is set up!”

well actually a Astrakhan is in delta of Volga river, it's really surrounded with little rivers, greater rivers, swamps and deserts

Oh hey its mine, also i didn't do third rome because i was trying to get romanovs last laught which third rome invalidates, also the caucasus was lacking oil because german factories win civil wars but going to war with Germany doesn't give you therights back. Wait now i remember why i chose st petersburg, i was at war with Ukraine and Belarus and Kazakhstan when the soviets fell and they controlled Moscow and tsaritsyn when the decision came up so st petersburg was my only option.

Bitersteel OnlyFans release when?

I literally only bought this game because I saw that there was a sale on it. I knew nothing else about it but I bought it because I had nothing else to play. So far it has consumed about 1500 hours of my life. Best and worst purchase of my life

A small tip i have for tank pushes is to leave a couple behind incase enemies try and cut you off. Usually leaving lowest org

It's a bit hard to see but there actually is a river to the east of Astrakhan as well as the west, so the city must be inside a river fork. So it makes sense that this is a river crossing

Those end of the war German casualties were brutal, I don't think that would leave a whole lot of fighting age men at the end of the war.

poggiewoggies

Can you make a video on what the best tank templates are? I can never really figure them out

Nobody: Bitt3rsteel on his way to pronounce Kutuzov as Kututsov

Always fun to watch your disaster saves …thanks Bitt3r keep it up 🔥👍🏻

Your tanks move slowly because they are constantly out if fuel dude. NSB has been making it way harder (and more fun) to do tank encirclements. You gotta plan your offensive around supply hubs. That's also why infantry is the queen of the battlefield

I actually choose St. Petersburg on my russian empire saves, easier to defend bc of the river

This counter-attack was… really, really historically accurate Edit: territorially at least*

3:16 I hope nothing's broken lol

Can you do modern day Germany to conquer poland

Боже, Царя храни!

Huge move

We all know how the russian czar saved the empire in 1944 by appointing that belgian guy as his commander in chief. If only he wouldn't backstab the monarch and gave the crown to Santa Claus, our history books would look a lot different 😞

Love the weird number of factories (So many for post Tsar Russia)

Check max speed on thet tank desine. I thing they have 4km max speed.

Waiiiiii-- Mr. bittersteel said “we dont need that many airplanes!” Like in almost every Desaster save he complains not having enough and here he finally has enough ;)

I've always been unsure if you were Walloon or Flemish but hearing you say Rostov I can pretty safely say you're Flemish.

20:20 that voice crack💀💀💀💀💀

Great work as usual! I think that we can agree though that the usual "stabilize, build a small amount of tanks, push them somewhere and encircle" is getting a bit old. I'd love to see you take on some disaster saves where you are not allowed to use this tactic, because the AI clearly can't handle it. It's starting to get a bit boring since you do the same thing literally every game. Also, the tanks moving at 1km/hr because they don't have the supplies for the fuel shows the danger of using this tactic.

Good video

I try to play this game and then I watch yt and see how miserably bad I do. I just send troops into the land and pray I win. This is on a whole other level of good 😨

Nice to see these Soviet style offensives. Trapping the German in the Caucasus. Worked in the past and still up to date

So if you are ready for it, it's more of a challenge than a disaster save (mainly because erm..it's slightly edited in the favor of the enemy to make it harder for you so that we can finally watch a failed disaster save saving) If you want a slightly tampered save that is so ridiculously difficult I would consider it a lost cause before I even see the armies.. Then go ahead, I'll submit it later this week when I'm on my computer.

There actually is a river between Astrakan and the tile you were attacking from. The river is hard to see, but in 14:20 it's clearly visible.

Why does your video have a strange noise in the background?

Hmm yes lore of momentum of Hoi4 Russia but historically accurate somewhat

How can you make the group of armies frontline united? I mean not divided on army 1, army 2 at each sector, but mixed?

Its slot not shlot btw.

woah 2 mins, gotta get in fast

I am sick (as in too sick to play in bed) and this has the effect of chicken soup on me.

18:57 is it going to show up in a British museum later?

Hi, can i ask you, why i shouldn't use cavalry recon for infantry? And for what unit is cavalry recon?

對你來說，真的太簡單了吧，敵人都跟紙糊的一樣碰到就破 但是一般來說，AI 都會布置 AT部隊作為步兵的武器，不知道為甚麼，你的坦克就從來沒有遇上過呢

Solution is almost always Supply -> Equipment -> Amount of divisions -> Lack of armor. Then -> Stabilize front until defense and deploy armor to make encirclements.

3:16 was such a coin-drop moment

A Encirclement Compilation of this video would almost just be a reupload

Can you pls do a challenge were you get 30 mil dead enemies Love your vids

i just love. how the guy who made this disaster. have more factory that me when i played with the ussr. XDDDDd

great video, really love your enthusiasm about encirclements haha, makes it very fun to watch. i would love more content like this

I can't believe you did not retake Constantinopole as Thrid ROme, when Turkey was right there, in the war. Very disappointed, will be unsubscribing 3 times !

Why can't whole of Europe and US not defeat one country?

Bro you don't read it as Krak - OU, you read it as Krak - OV

You couldve continued trading with US and just set convoys to not use any Atlantic sea tiles

Only 3 research slots in basically 1945 lol?

"Axis minors are starting to fall" *includes Italy in that statement*

I just love how something falls in the background at 3:18.

The states of Kraków Lwów Zaolzie Stanisławów and Bucovina weren't controlled by russia but Austro hungary so if you were trying to rp you failed because they also had Finnland Vladivostok north sakhalin and all that but close enough

Lithuanian medium armor at 20:56? How? I'd understand the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth having armor but this is historical non-aligned Lithuania. Very historical as it seems.

Tsaritsyn? Vital to your strategy? Even in an alternate timeline, bogging the Germans down in Stalingrad is effective.

The holy patrik strikes back at the German inveders!

What is the word, when you feel cringe about forming the hre or something like that. I used wehraboo or something like that, but you know when you are doing something cheesy for a map gamer. Whats the word

The Waffle House has found its new host

Quick, find a crazy magic homeless man! He'll save us!

Thanks for calling gdańsk gdańsk For what you left of Poland... Not so much

Best belgian ever

How much can you build supply lines or railway systems? Is there only dedicated spots or.

I am convonced that ww2 was just an okay hoi4 player that needed a disaster save

5:00 It's should be "Gvardiya" I have no idea why it's named incorrect.

There's no save game listed. It's just a blank 'Try this yourself:'.

3:17 Eyyyo??

Killing blow!!? You use Tau empire (Dawn of war game) as weapon masters?

I'd like to ask you to play without historical. I bet it will be much more of a challenge

So, when your country is about to lose a war, just say you're the next Rome, and you'll win? lol

its so funny to see the italians having 80+ divisions in Lithuania while the allies are pushing Rome

3:18 plan was so crazy, it’s got objects falling off your table

My PC would have exploded 😂

Love the thumbnail keep up the good work

I wanna see bittersteel play against other people

These videos are back. As always, the only person to actually explain what they're doing

These are my Russia games. Didn't know they were this bad...

I think you forgot to attach the link for us to try it. Could you upload it? :)

At 14:52 it show something from the RU-vid channel smg4

The one disaster I would love to play yet it’s not linked ☹️

15:24 almost thought you were gonna call him Sinterklaas

Stupid challenge play Czechoslovakia

Why the hell does it look like the same way I was rushed by Germany

Almost at 120k!