Time to fix the Balkan Powder keg once and for all! 

I forgot to add the files to my drive. I'm currently at the hospital with my youngest and I won't be able to upload the files until we get home. I'm sorry, I'll sort it out later. For now, I recommend you check @antasil for the strategy

I like how at first he hovered over the Soviet Union 😂

Bittersteel has got to be one of the reason most people here got hoi4, he has teached me so much, gotta love him

Love these Saturday morning releases . Feels like Saturday morning cartoons for Dad's.

I think the Turkish tree has been patched. All the Create/Join faction focuses under Reconfigure Foreign policy branch have a "Bypass if in Faction" line added. So they should not complete these focuses

2 minutes in and I'm already reminded why I love your vids; the 25pp with spies is something I do almost all runs :)

Gotta say. Bulgaria had alot of wasted potential in our real history. Edit : Woah that’s a lot of likes.

Awesome as ever ^^ hyped to see how you will save the day ! Also I love when it's not just full annexation everywhere :-) Make more sense to not make entire countries disapear like that wich IA in peace treaties be less greedy

That cliffhanger just hurts man. But now really want to do that Bulgaria run before the new DLC comes out - because I imagine a good Finland winter war run with mottis will be difficult to resist then.

Great video! Thanks for making my Saturday a little better.

Cant believe pdx still hasnt fixed the greeks and turkish focus trees. Like seriously ? It takes literally 14 lines of code and 8 minutes to do that. I know because I modded it myself. Just hotfix it ffs, they really need a custodian team. And the fact that puppets ultimatum dont get sent to their overlord, like for Bessarabia or Albania. Or Yugo in this video as well. For real this would take 1 day of work with 1 dude on it to fix it all.

The Bulgarian tree is so broken it's funny 😂 Although I've got to say I hadn't noticed that strategy before. Definitely the strongest and best worked on in BTFB

You're in for a colossal task and wish you the Best of luck!🎉🎉🎉🎉

You taught me so much about hoi4 and even introduced me to it! Thank you!!!

Pretty much half of all my hoi4 knowledge came from you, thanks.

Love your vids keep up the good work and I am sure the members will lead you to victory!#

No one is more entertaining than this man

Its really nice to see you playing as my fav nation of whole hoi4. If I could recommend, you could get after Hungary also Czechoslovakia so Germany is even more weaker. Then you just hold Slovakia and they´re unable to push threw the mountains. Its just funny thing to see they´re offensive crushing there against your units and in the meanwhile you destroy german units in Poland :) Alsoo you can try to hold Czech lands, make a push and encyrcle all units in Poland. But its almost unable to do (I achieved it once i 7 games so its pretty frustrating :) but the feeling of getting 60 german units encyrcled in 1939 is just the best)

Oh, this video is actually from today. I tended to see videos from years ago, now having to wait how develops... this feels like when I watched series as a kid in the tv: I had to wait, and that sucks xD

If my ally is going to capitulate like Poland might I'd usually put a line of troops on the rail lines I need and on ports so those tiles don't flip and the enemy can't move troops in, then let the enemy capitulate them. Then you can keep holding your line and use a couple divisions on garrison to retake the area behind you and you don't need to worry about the land flipping again while the country is already capitulated.

Small countries concentrated big counties dispersed unless u go air heavy then always concentrated by 1939 u get that 15% bonus to production really helps small nations but i think mostly depends if you go air or aa heavy and the enemy u face

Love the videos where bittersteel doesn’t do a challenge or mod or anything, but is just chilling and playing the game

Thanks for the video! I haven't watched any HOI4 content in a while due to RL stuff, but this vid has definitely been a pleasure to watch

I usually pick concentrated if I'm fighting the axis and dispersed if I'm fighing the allies bc of the better defense against bombs

Making his own disaster save I love it

That thumbnail gonna piss off a lot of people

As a Bulgaria Stan, I appreciate this

Big props to the editor, they’re right on with the memes and their frequency

My home country. Thank you for playing it!

Thumbnail Bulgaria looking devious

As a Bulgarian I really appreciate this

Dang, i thought you were gonna re-play ww1 mod bulgaria, but even tho this is gonna be a great video!

Great video again like always but just a little thing: if you ban fasclsm after you get the italian influence the influence will disappear 😁

What a cliffhanger ending! Can't wait for the next one!

If i remember correctly, combining the Zveno and NatSoc to get the "Integrate the Ratniks" focus gives you +500 manpower per week in addition to recruitable pop. Combine with Prussia of the Balkans for 145% recruitable pop calculators.

Who else thought Poland was just gonna cap and get his entire army encircled and he was just gonna end the run there because of the outro music?

Mom wake up bitt3rsteal uploaded 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

@Bitt3rSteel I have heard on another channel, that one Infanterie-Template is faster to train than one Cavalary-Template.

"We need Boris' dad energy... So we brought Boris' dad" lmaooo

Bittersteel spoiling us with a two-parter

yooooo for concentrated industry it’s really only better if you go past 1944 for the boosted factory output. So unless you’re going for a long game like world dom it’s usually worse

Please do more videos with Bulgaria

OK, so there is a unique thing that you or your editor do where you quietly start outro music ahead of the end of the video which is weirdly eerie if the video doesn't seem to be coming to an actual end. I've noticed it before but this time the end wasn't even an end...it felt more like the end of Empire Strikes Back, where things are on a cliff hanger...

Hey bitterstreel, how did you come up with the logo for your channel?

I think they fixed Historical Turkey going rogue while a puppet. I recall seeing that in an update and was able to have them as an puppet as Stalin without them breaking.

17:35 ah yes me and the bois about make it into the world stage ✊🗿🇦🇱🇧🇦🇧🇬🇬🇷🇭🇷🇭🇺🇲🇩🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇴🇷🇸🇸🇮🇹🇷🇮🇹

Damn that cliffhanger :D

nice video

Can't wait for you to come to Brasil.

Any video on Bulgaria is a W video

In all my play through a Bulgaria gets blitzkrieged burned pillaged and set to brutal oppression because of the time they sent me a request for some territory I had 15 times a minute

Bitt3rSteel earlier in the vid: Should be fine Bitt3rSteel at the end of the vid: Oh god why

The crap the end of the video literally became a disaster save for Bitter

No Left, No Right, only King. Very fair and balans.

Was watching this while did world conquest with fascist Bulgaria , by far my favorite play !

Our Independence Day (independence from the Ottomans) was just on the 22nd. You missed the Bulgaria upload being thematic by one day :D

Keep up the good work!

He has delivered!

Turkish re-run for Alex, and actual Bulgarian disaster save for Bitt3rSteel Not a great day, but we shall preserve!

As major power I always go for concentrated industry. But as minor, or just smaller nation I pick the other one…

Insane question, for some of the trickier achievements, would it not be slightly easier to do a world conquest with a superpower, balkanize the entire world to the max extent possible, with the exception of, say, all of Greece getting released and played as, which is now a sapling amongst splinters? I'm very bad at this game

New challenge: Do a world conquest as Zar Boris III. of Bulgaria for his honor!!!

Dispersed is good for all the majors and if you want to play a long game whereas Concentrated is better for minors & small nations who start out in a very handicapped spot, such as Bulgaria, Spain, Netherlands etc.

Im an always concentrated no matter what guy, theyre one of the few options in the game with no real right answere, pick what ya like

What music do you play in your videos? (backround)

If you ever do mods, do rt56 base game. It’s broke AF if a minor has a civil war they’re either stuck in a perpetual conflict or the old regime wins

tfw you save a disaster save of your own making.

I love then someone plays my country on a video

Maybe you should have built some armor, to crush the pocket faster.

hey Bitter if you're still doing older achievement updates, can update the anything sevres? I would be ecstatic.

I would love the next video to be just 5 seconds long and it being a still picture of a German occupied Bulgaria

For Bulgaria it is best to pick Concentrated Industry cause your economic national spirits have efficiency growth. So it is almost as grabbing both economic techs at the same time.

20 sec ago uploaded and already watching

@Bitt3rSteel Hungary is not part of the Balkans. The northern border of the Balkans are the Sava and Danube rivers.

There’s a Sabaton song somewhere in this video

bittersteels 4d chess, now he makes his own disaster saves

i wonder when will he revive rhodesia, the land of free and fair and defend it just like how the god emperor defends the mankind

17:35 ah yes Ferdinand I's hopes and dreams 🗿👌 😎👍 💀✊

Can you do a collab with someone to do 2 vs all the wolrd with two nations?

Watching this video as someone whose extensively played Fascist Fate of the Balkans Bulgaria has certainly been interesting since I am quite familiar with Bulgaria. For example, at 3:02 you mention about the worrys of Zveno staging a coup, but I can tell you from experience that it is pretty much impossible to have them coup you. I crush the socialists first, then integrate Nationail socialist movement, then Agrarian Union, then Zveno. When you're about a third of the way to fixing Zveno the coup timer may pop up, but every time you do another decision supporting the Zveno the coup timer gets extra days added to it, making it impossible for it to fire unless you want the coup to happen. I dont crush NSM because I want the advisor, I don't crush Agrarian union because I also want the advisor (sometimes- the NSM is superior obviously for -5% consumer goods)

W intro

Aaah yes. Bulgaria. Got chunk by the Balkans, but they are still alive.

I would argue going for the "Restrained Paramilitary Organizations" than the "Ban Far-Right Organizations" as it gives 500 weekly manpower which is strong early game for Bulgaria. Love the vid tho

Love the hoi vids

Are you against the 1 division training trick or is there a different reason you didn't use it?

Gotta love that he committed 100 divisions to take Prussia and is annoyed when the rest of Poland starts to fall...

You should collaborate with ISP

Finally the country I live in

17:35 Son: dad can we restore roman empire in HOI4 Dad: no son we restored the roman empire at home *HOI4 Roman Empire at home:*

THE IMAGE

dispersed is useless unless you do navy 20 f output is just too good

My biggest achievement in nearly 2000 hours is learning how the navy works☠️

The Bulg is my favorite minor nation. You can clearly see the inspiration behind the soviets design tree.

concentrated is only worth it if you play RT56

Lore of Time to fix the Balkan Powder keg once and for all! Momentum 100

Hungry Bulgaria moment

Yeaaa that is my boy!!!

One hour ago I`m done WC as Ferdinand. Bulgaria STRONK!

Mein Fuhrer we have reports that Bulgarian soldiers are in Poland and slowly marching into Berlin Field Marsahl Jodl 1939.

Haven't watched you in a while.