What if Alexander the Great lived in 1936? 

Congratulations on getting it done! This is by no means an easy challenge, even following my guide :) It really requires a lot of attention to detail, micro skill and resilience to not give up after the AI does stupid things like random guarantees that shouldn't happen. A few things I'd like to discuss about the video: 2:21 - Quality of ships DOES matter, a good battleship could provide 4 or 5 times more naval supremacy than a basic sub. The reason for going for sub 1 is that they are way more cost efficient, as they provide more naval supremacy per IC, I explain this in further detail in my video :) I think joining the Axis to invade UK is an interesting an idea, but a very risky one at that. Yes, it does allow you to skip the war against Spain, but at the cost of relying a bit too much in the AI, since the North Sea tends to be more guarded than the Western Approaches and you rely on the German navy not being obliterated and helping you out, and also, it gives Italy the option to be free of your chains and go wild in Africa, creating a lot more warscore and risking your options of getting the territories you need in the peace deal since they also occupy it. But then again it might be that I have been screwed one too many times by the AI to place any reliance on it :D And finally, about the Yugo peace deal, I wholeheartedly recommend to not leave any form of Yugo or Serbia alive and being your puppet unless of course you are completely commited to follow the Axis strategy and stay with them for the rest of the game. Germany WILL declare on you because of this, every single time, given the opportunity. It's better to just annex them, you won't hurt your manpower on resistance because as soon as you get Romania and puppet them, you can get garrison support and they'll give you enough to not use any of your own. Also, nicer borders :) Great video!

A reminder: Alexander the Great conquered all this in only 12 years, and this was before modern transportation (Obviously).

23:00 Royal navy: Hey what are doing in our waters? Greek Destroyers: We're laying mines Royal navy: ...why? Greek Destroyers: because we're at war with Bulgaria Royal navy: understandable have a great day

"Improve opinion with the Soviets" >Clicks on justify war goal

37:09 "We are immediately going to improve opinion with soviets" *presses justify war goal*

Love it, because bittersteel feels like it requires the most skill because he doesn’t do crazy cheats or exploits and is efficient while doing it

The *most* disappointing part about naval invading hull in all of the UK invasion is not one time I’ve seen a joke about breaching the hull, it makes so much sense but I’ve never heard one

Finally someoene covers this everyone else just does byzantium and the ottoman empire

Came not at the call of the bell, but at the call of my heart

13:40 The new DLC is just broken, if you do the investment options as Turkey most of the time the "AI" doesn't respond or you get the event months or even years later. Especially Turkey's focus tree has a lot of events where the AI has to respond and just doesn't want to do it haha

Bitter, you make me suffer so much. Because of you, instead of playing majors on the beginning (100h in game?), I play minors to watch the world burn and tear apart all these pesky commies and painters with moustaches. Great respect to you from Polandball for top-quality content. POLAND CAN INTO SPACE!

Fun fact: this formable is literally just the Persia one, except you have cores on Greece because you already start with them

I saw greece and I tapped the notification at light speed

I like the description lol “Now with up to 200% more debt!”

Wow, originallity in HOI4? Now, I've seen it all.

After Greece, I have a real challenge for you. Their archnemesis for thousand of years. The persian Empire, but with a twist ! You got to stay non aligned, to keep the Pahlavi dynasty in power ! :D

19:03 there is also option that leads to "Spazio Vitae" (Italy creates faction and greece instantly joins)

Commenting again for the algorithm because this channel is underappreciated.

As a Greek seeing this vid i found it hilarious....it's pure madness....i just imagine a Drunk Greek suddenly appearing before Hitler saying: 'Listen this is what we are going to do... ' +1 from and a sub keep up the good work!

I like how they make you earn it, like Alexander did. With superior soldiers and tactics, from little Greece to big Empire. Although, I'd like to be able to grow it little by little like the bizantines, because you are very limited in manpower.

Your guides are all the rage in some hoi4 Facebook groups! Love your content, your knowledge and enthusiasm!

How are you just at 18k? You're one of the best hoi4 channels on RU-vid. Great video my man. Hopefully adding a comment, gets your channel into the algorithm

Btw i tried this once in my runs but even if you go for the Metaxism focuses and you change to Mercouris, you lose those good bonuses too, so you aren't really sacrificing those great bonuses for time's sake.

congrats bro, thank you for covering the Macedonian empire not much people know about it and it sure of an challenge! I watch every moment with baited breath and I will be trying out more greece(Pain) on my own in HOi4

I followed along and got to justifying on Yugo, and just at the end Italy started justifying as well and the U.K. guaranteed them, so I called it quits since I'm definitely not skilled enough yet to take them on like you. I finished the video though because I absolutely wanted to see what would happen and besides Spaniard, I haven't heard of anyone making any content on how to achieve this. Thank you and congrats on actually pulling this off!

Very concise, you get straight to the point and add some jokes here and there! Great video as always

Amazing job with this grand revival of an empire. I never would have thought of that Yugoslavian and Romanian war to ever work out tbh. Honestly, I think this also highlights another thing that I wish the devs would improve upon a bit more, and it's that the coring of these territories should be done at intervals rather than all at once. Imagine how much less of a pain it all would be if you could core even just Bulgaria or a bit of Turkey after defeating them. There are a few other formables like this that are just so demanding for even less rewards so you hardly see anyone form them at all.

Looks like my new personal challenge, your Bearer of Artillery Strat seriously helped my Poland game but I'm not feeling too confident about this one.

I didn’t even know this formable nation existed until your video. I will have to give it a try!

This is an amazing grind! Love the video!

Great piece of work!!. I can imagine that was tough game. Well done

I usually don't watch long gaming videos but i like your style of playing good job

Thank you! I’ve had quite some trouble with this one.

If you haven't already, do "Once more, mate" (As Australia, occupy Gallipoli) along with any other commensurate Australian achievements. Really enjoying the content!

Where my greek brethren at? 🇬🇷😌🇬🇷

I remember you making a poll before this, but I kind of find it funny how you and Spaniard are making the same stuff at the same time.

Does it bother anyone else that he didn't capture Cyprus?

I don’t know if you ever thought about it but personally I’d like to see some guides on states redux mode formables, up to the community but it would be helpful if you’d be done, thank you!!

If I saw correctly, the Macedonian flag in the thumbnail is a bit wrong, it should be blue and the yellow sun

Please make updated run for this in by blood alone. Will love you forever lol

How about u try forming Arabia. And be at peace at the end. U would have to fight the allies and the axis, with baiscly no manpower and no industry. Seems like a good challenge to me. ;)

I didnt even know you could form the macedonian empire in hoi4 I guess im dum

Macedonia, ottoman, byzantine border is just work of art, they are really nice

Every time i hear the Greek units talk i get the urge to play Age of Mythology

Greek Macedonia is blue... The red flagin the thumbnail is an illegal flag (outlawed by EU) that flew by FYROM.

Saw the message on discord, finally the video is up!

Excellent video and an epic campaign! I followed Spaniards method and went through Spain to get to the UK. It had the advantage of luring a lot more british troops to africa to guard their borders with italy. That UK invasion looked tough!

Hey B1tter, I just reached 1.1k hours and Greece and Portugal are my favorite nations and I was just wondering if you'd think this is easier or harder on Non-Historic? I usually play Non-Historic so playing historic is a little odd to play for me.

even tho i am greek and both the macedonian and the byzantine empires are greek , i for some reason feel way more patriotic abou the byzantine empire

32:28 that island is called Chios. I know, the game says Samos, but it's wrong. Samos is the island to the Southeast of Chios. Not to the West of Turkey's Cesme peninsula but to the South of it.

I absolutely didn't expect to watch all 72 minutes of this. Beautiful stuff. Still hate you for not taking Yugo whole though. Tsk tsk.

First time I’ve even seen this mentioned on RU-vid, didn’t know it existed until I was scrolling through formable nations for a game idea, Crush the dream achievement next?

Oh, this was tough nut to crack. Great job! I had to try for this like 10 times. Your guide is much easier way to get it :-). Will you think about my challenge?Trying to unify POland-Lithuania as Lithuania? I tried it few times and it went terribly. I bet, that brain of yours could find a way :-).

One question: Would you be able to retain the modifiers of Mataxism you get in the focus tree if you were fortunate enough to get Turkey going ottoman (as I play some games non historical).

Congrats Bitt3rSteel. But your thumbnail is wrong and should be updated. The red flag IS NOT the Macedonian's Empire flag, it's a fake flag created by Skopje nationalists claiming Alexander's The Great legacy. The original Macedonian flag is blue. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the video and thank you for doing something original. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Macedonia_(Greece)

Ah another Bittersteel video , love it.

One time I was trying to do the Northern Light achievement and I was 10 days away from declaring on Finnland when they got guaranteed by the allies the whole run killed !

I would recommend Kaiserredux AOG - You can crown Wilhelm as Emperor of China and have a German Dragon Throne. You Can Also Get Him on the Throne of Middleafrika but thats not as much of a challenge and is less fun so... Either that or the Mongol Empire is quite fun, you get insane cavalry bonuses (I'm talking like an extra 100% attack and massive speed bonuses) and its also quite fun, though the small industry at the start and the Russian war are quite hard, but definitely rewarding.

Thanks for your guide

Makedonian empire was Greek

Hi! I have a question about some of your unit strategy, as I have watched a lot of your videos (probably 30+) but am still unable to reproduce your strategies without following your exact steps. Mainly my questions are about: How do you decide what kind of template you make? I see sometimes you make anti tank, anti air, artillery, but why do you make this and why a specific amount? Sometimes Line AA, only support AA, I don't really understand. Same thing with Fighter and CAS. How do you know how many fighters to make and if your fighter are doing well? And CAS how do you know when you have enough? Also Navy and submarines, I understand about naval supremacy for invasion, but what about having enough Sub for convoy raiding? I don't really understand. How can you tell you have enough subs? So in other words, where/how do you evaluate if your unit is doing well, and why it's doing well/not good enough? I haven't really seen this in your video apart from general advise of "2 factory of fighters for air superiority". I am eager to learn more!

Nah now I need porus defence victory video

I just watched you do this, and I still don't know how you did this.

I have no idea about this game but It's nice seeing my country doing well...normally it doesn't go well

1:00:21 Another good pick is the Prince of Terror for extra non core manpower

How even this video almost goes to 1 mil view, its just wonderful

hey, i am korean so i cant speak or listen to english but i own you a lot thank you i like you

the true Macedonian Empire flag is blue not red, the red one is from the North Slavic macedonia that stole the history of Bulgaria and Greece plus they stole Bulgaria's culture

Hey man just wanted to let you know you make great HOI4 content! You should do a colab with Taureor sometime mayhaps!

Man I lose to germany as usa and you are conquering the world as minor nation, YOU RE a GOD OF THIS GAME !

A day before day of independence

FYI...I have noticed that if I delay assigning a research until I bank the 30 days I get a reduced penalty for ahead of time research penalties....you should look into that (more than 30 days ticks off the time to complete when you wait)

Day 1: Minor country with focus tree(rom, Bul, china,spain, etc. ) no submarine and level 2 surface ships only CHALLANGE. -must conquer Japan, SUA, Britain -NO SUBMARINES ALOOWED AND NO MORE THAN 600 TORP BOMBERS -can focus on ground but must have at least 5 ships be build in prod. -by 1941-40 must have 1BB-2BC, 4-2 H. Cruiser 20-CL 30DD(half must have anti-sub tech)

YEAAAAAAHHH :D just what i wanted!!

Maybe forming Polynesia as Hawaii or New Zealand would be a good challenge?

praying someday we can have the Golden run of this goal vut with with super focus ideas saved

This is crazy. I really like this game. I am just... awful at it. It's kinda to where I have to take months long breaks before I try again. Feels like no matter what I do my men just stop moving forward and I don't know why or what to do about it. Great video though.

37:09 Improve opinion with the Soviets -> goes into justify wargoal interface. Nice

I am impressed, that you can pronounce Schachtplan almost correctly (for a non german native, that is impressive)

“I hope you’ve enjoyed my suffering”

Ah, the good old bathtubs. The go-to for anyone who doesn’t understand HoI4’s naval mechanics, such as myself.

What a hellish campaign for Hellas!

Great video !

I have tried this repeatedly with no luck. Something always goes off the rails. Manpower is a big problem! Have you considered a video breaking down your micro combat skills? I’m always losing too many men.

How have things changed on this and other tutorials you made following the release of dlc?

Alexander The Great too this in 12 years, rome took half of this in 200 years.

'' Doesnt matter the quality it cares number of ships'' Why does sounds familiar

Great job, just one thing I would do, I would ask your puppets or allies for garrison support

The traditional music and the national anthem on the background's fire 🔥

Greece did have naval superiority in the Aegean, and still has.

Thanks a lot for considering my comment mate !

I have an idea for a challandge. Try uniting all the slavic countries(i dont think anione did this before). So try annexing yugoslavia bulgaria poland checkoslovakia and the soviet union but as one of the minors like checkoslovakia bulgaria or yugoslavia.

Bitt3rSteel just can't resist going with dispersed industry...

Bittersteel please do a little bit of turkey. I know you probably dislike the country since you barely play it but please make a guide on forming Turan

I finally formed The Macedonian Empire on non-historical. I knew I could follow this guide on historical but its just not fun that way for me. I did rush down the political branch to get Italy in my faction and take out Albania then Yugoslavia/Romania though still like in this guide but the rest was pretty crazy. Some things that helped me out. I got lucky and was able to take advantage of some interesting set ups. The UK went communist and decolonized so I was able to take out the entire east piece by piece so that reduced the chances of any other national taking my land. Italy went into civil war before I took Yugoslavia so I helped them end it and got alot of the communist Italian Navy in the peace deal. Now I had a decent navy. A huge help was Germany going Monarchist. They killed Mussolini while I was at war with the UK. So Germany joined the war Italy was already in. I just removed my faction and joined Germany's. Now I had a strong alliance and a steady supply of equipment and a port to invade the UK. Gibraltar and Egypt were free from the UK so the Mediterranean was free of naval invasions as well. No coastline defense was needed. Communist Turkey joined the UK. I used my Italian Navy to invade the UK from Germany to end that war and took Turkey and the UK Navy. Now I had a very good Navy and Turkey was delt with. Last big obstacles were France and the USSR. France joined the USA but that helped because it kept us in a war with a major so i could declare war every 10 days on everything east of me. The USSR had a civil war so they were weakened as well. I just took everything out one by one, used UK and Indian puppet manpower then finished off my land requirements taking out the USSR. Integrated India to get Pakistan and formed the Macedonian Empire. Alot of luck and but it was very interesting. Took alot of tries but it finally worked out.

Beer, chips and Bitt3rSteel video... what could be better?

Quick Question, for the "open foreign subsidized Factories" focus, why dont you just start improving relations with the UK and France while doing the "utilize our strenghts" focus, or just wait with picking the focus? After all its just a little more political power, but the extra factories can be super useful

The Persians: "How does this Alexander guy keep moving so fast?!" Alexander the Great at 300ms: "Goddamn shitbox."

You put the wrong Macedonia flag on the thumbnail, that is closer to North Macedonia than Ancient Macedonia all you have to do is make it blue

Pretty good content. You deserve way more subscribers.