What if Austria-Hungary wasn't terrible in WW1? 

My man just called a historical event a sabaton reference.

I love how excited he was when he saw "Crush the Serbian Terrorists" in the focus tree.

6:19 Playing as the Ottomans is like playing a disaster save.

WWII Italy: I'm completely worthless, no one could be more worthless. WWI Italy: Hold my beer

I think a peace event fired with Italy capitulating due to the fact that in a realistic sense, with Russia gone and now Italy gone, you have one gargantuan front on the German border to defend with uk, France, and america, but now you have this mountainous front in the Alpes plus massive areas of the Mediterranean to contest now that Italy has fallen. The fact the ottomans are still around makes the situation untenable.

Time for a rebrand into the Austria Hungary Hoi4 channel I think, you made this niche yours.

As grindy as this was... it was still an unrealistic amount of maneuver warfare for WW1 era tech. Granted the Eastern Front always was more dynamic. Still, the complete failure to break through the Western Front was accurate, at least. Lol at the idea of Austria-Hungary successfully pulling off a naval invasion of Italy though.

"This is a sabaton refrence"-which is a refrence to real life

I’d love to see more of this mod…especially the nations that actually have completed focus trees. Also historical focuses definitely matters for this mod.

"This can't be that hard, right." "I may have underestimated how hard this war is gonna be." "I'm gonna regret this, aren't I?" Going through all stages of the summer 1914.

I always like seeing the post-war event chains, especially when the Entente loses (mostly because I coded a shit ton hehe)

7:30 - I think Franz Joseph should have a Resistance suppression and/or Compliance gain multiplier instead of the Ideology Drift stuff. A lot of the national groups in Austria-Hungary had no loyalty to the empire but had some loyalty to him personally for his reforms in the 19th Century.

"magically they somehow made some divisions appear" Quite honestly that is the exact thing the italians did in WW1. They thought if you had to fight near your home you'd fight harder to... well... not lose it. so they kept their divisions close to their home to fight.

"...between 1 January 1913 and 1 January 1914 he proposed a Serbian war twenty-five times". -Conrad's wiki page Very based

6:35 "just to see how strage that country was" says a belgian

“What if Austria-Hungary wasn’t terrible in WW1?” Also Austria-Hungary: Having to deal with fronts with the Russians, Serbians, Italians and Romanians all at the same time.

8:21 “We’ve inadvertently created Albania” -God

"This can't be that hard...right?" "I may have underestimated how difficult this war was gonna be." - Franz Joseph

Thanks so much from austria that you did the austrian empire

Bro really saw “Save Franz Ferdinand” and chose tyranny

As an italian i can confirm, Italy is the most important member of the entente

I can't count how many times i've attempted trying to fix Austria Hungary in this mod.

The Attack of the Dead Men was a real thing my man, Sabaton makes their songs off of real events…

*ww1 begins* Bittersteel:Oh,thats a Sabaton reference!

For the opening sentence, I want to say my conversations with my family are worse.

The Austro-hungarian empire had a colonie in afrika near Madagascar but it was really small and they lost it really fast in the ww1

i was listening to a sabaton song about ww1 and then you did this wtf am i blessed? ps. it was attack of the dead men

Love your channel, came for the tutorials, stayed for the accent and some of the best hoi4 content out there! Cheers mate!

im glad to see bittersteel doing more mod content, it adds a lot of 'flavour' to this channel's content

Been waiting to catch a video early. Great one, enjoyed it!

Man i love this mod, and i love your playing! Thanks for all the videos!

Ah the Scripted Peace Deals. I"m... not sure how I like it. It feels weird when Austria did all that heavy lifting, completely crushed Italy, the Balkans, etc, that they basically got just a couple tiny slivers.

I usually play TGWR and I like the effort the devs made!

"Yeah let's suppress some minorities." -BitterSteel 2022 MY MAN! 😎👍🏻

...Should probably watch through the video before commenting, but I'm irrationally annoyed by seeing the game describe Austria-Hungary as an "Authoritarian Regime", and was already in a shaky mood, so I feel the need to rant. The empire (and the German Empire too, tbh) was way more decentralised than modern countries. (And what meaning does "authoritarian" have beyond a buzz-word if it doesn't mean "centralised"?) To give an example from both empires; In WW1, Ludwig III of Bavaria hoped that Bavarian victories in the war would give him leverage in an eventual peace deal to keep Bavaria powerful enough to rival Prussia, to keep Germany from becoming too centralised around Prussia. Even in America, one of the most decentralised western countries (due to the federal system), it'd seem pretty ridiculous for any of the states to have enough power to rival the national government. And in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Emperor had little enough authority in Hungary that the Hungarians only had to pay taxes to their nobles, who in turn were tax-exempt. Imagine if modern countries just didn't tax ~40% of the population...

You really deserve more subscribers I love your videos man!

Bitt3rSteel: Franz Joseph can be proud! Franz Joseph who wanted Federation not Austrian dominance:

This was fun to watch! :D

0:00 to 0:05 It isn't one of the most it is the most bloody conflict in all of human history, though not in the amount of deaths but how they died.

how did you design your basic infantry template? love your content BTW

5:52 - I feel personaly attacked

despite everyone's thoughts, joseph was a competent kaiser that had very good plans of a federation with equal rights for everyone and he didnt look forward for his holy country to fight the bloodiest war of all time.

10:09 "Oh, this is a Sabaton reference" *Joacim kneebanging intensifies*

Can we get more of this Mod? I really enjoyed this video!

“This can’t be that hard right” “Oh I underestimated how hard this war is gonna be” -Austria-Hungary, 1914

10:10 AND THATS WHEN THE DEAD MEN ARE MARCHING AGAIN

2:57 *literally everyone* Autonomous stuff... I DONT WANNA DO THAT!!!

I always leave a like if there are timecodes for ads. But you have gone farther - you made actually a bar that indicates length of an ad. Thank you.

I love playing Bulgaria in this mod.

You should do The Ottomans in this mod and go down The Third Rome path. Ive done it and its real hard to get the ball rolling (The Balkan War inpreticular) but once you do you are unstoppable especially when you start coring everything.

Imagine playing as a Balkan nation: Italy is at war with the Ottomans. The Continent of Europe supports you politically and gives you guns. ( Bulgaria had the same fate as the Ottoman Empire )

Ayooo more ww1 content plss

Happy new year

Super video :).

Finding out BitterSteel listens to Sabaton is a surprise that made my day. Thanks for that BitterSteel

first time i have been one of the first 1000 viewers on a vid. another great one bitt3rsteel

What’s funny is you had Franz Joseph has your leader and reformed the Austrian empire when he was the technical last emperor of Austrian empire irl

Hey, von Hotzendorf had awesome hair and an awesome manly mustache. That has to count for something.

Would love to see more Great War Redux vids

The Webnovel is really good read is actually high quality translation

Finally, a mod review

WW1 "TO THIS MOMENT" is one of the bloodiest conflicts... does this guy know something we don't?

I donť know if you did it on purpouse,but Franz Joseph was basically holding the empire together

Finally! Competent A-H.

I had actually finished reading the legendary Mechanic haha

Incredibly anticlimactic peace conference

Bro you made my Great Great Grandpa go to war not cool🤣. Jk great video

Bitter got into the austro-hungarian gameplay

Great Video.

If you just want a division that can cheese the mod, just do 6 infantry with 3 howitzers. Cheap and effective

Can you do more of these ww1 videos

0:08 why? Totally unexpected 😂😂 beautiful* 😂😂👌🏻👌🏻

I'm a simple man. I see a video of Austria-Hungary, I click it.

We inenvirtably created Albania is my favourite quote

pov: attack of the dead men was bother a sabaton song and an irl event

"this is a sabaton reference"xD

Should do more mod games or mod disaster saves

Do you plan on updating the rest of your guides?

Just an aside... The novel you talked about, The Legendary Mrchanic, ic complete at 1463 chapters. Considering the outcome, I'm guessing this mod doesn't use a contribution score to assess gains/losses when peace is declared.

I am begging you to play the Ottomans caliphate path

"This is a Sabaton reference!" Oh yes, like how Shiroyama and the Night Witches are just Sabaton references xD

I played as germany and austria-hungary capitulated literally 4 months after the great war started. It was on unhistorical tho

When you play this mod again, make subs. They are incredibly overpowered in this mod. And I mean it. Basically nothing can attack them. Depth charges are a 1917 tech. They just massacre surface ships if you set them to attack at high risk. Normally I don't support sub spam, but it's the only realistic way to beat the British navy is with them

I would have love to download the app by using your link but how is that is on Chinese all the page? While you is English...

austria hungary got to survive, thats all you needed from the peace deal

10:10 I'm sorry did you just call that a sabaton reference? Sabaton did sing about it but it happened IRL. look it up, it's really cool

The attack of the dead men wasn't just a reference to sabaton it actually happened look it up

They announced a new austrian tree in the next update!

He got 80k lets go I wish I had that much

this mod crushes. all the time...

Hey if ya haven't done it yet, can you do the Ottoman Empire from this Mod? Try and hold Libya and the Balkans

This mod was just purely grinding especially as Germany I wasn't able to move at all till I managed to get cas

Banger

I like ur vids

ahem the attack of the dead men did happen and its not a sabaton reference as it happened

i skipped a few times to skip the intro and got thrown into an anime recap O_o

Perfect

Austria Hungary actually had a small colony in China

5:52 ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Imagine if someone like tommy or dankus was there