This video was edited by my new editor! I quite like it, let me know what you think!

Now we need Bitt3rSteel's son to play Taureor's son in a game of HOI4

Bitt3rsteel: -Likes dispersed industry -Using tanks almost every single run -Makes a navy even though not necessary in that run -From Belgium -Has a baby son Taureor: -Likes concentrated industry -"Pure infantry and nothing else" -Barely ever cares about the navy -From Poland -Also has a baby son

I was bored out of my mind, now I have something to watch. Thanks!

15:35 Just be aware! Sometimes, germany does strange things. Sounds historical to me.

Bitt3rSteel:say hello to the people His son:Niet, ik moet slapen

Baby Bitt3r must gather his strength. Baby Taureor got a head start on learning HoI4 so if they're gonna play multiplayer together hes gotta rest. (Edit) 1:30 He also sounds ADOOOORABLE!

0:20 Son reveal when Son only Son plays hoi4

If you go to war with Czechoslovakia instead of dividing it, if you time it right and save enough PP, you can ramp up to War Economy / Extensive Conscription due to size of their military/economy. I found this helpful for facing the soviets later. Great guide per usual, too bad I figured out most of this a few weeks ago on my own.

Still being processed and here I am waiting for it.

I have tested your strategy and it is really working perfectly for me to the point of giving Besserabia, there even with your preparations and your templates I can't keep the Soviets out without them controlling northwestern Romania. Do you have any extra advice other than what was done in the video? Very good content and congratulations to the editor for a good job.

Can we get "Now this is Getting Childish" and "We're Putting the Band Back Together?"

I got these two achievements today, with all DLC, including NSB. Some tips for anyone who tries them: -You can release almost all of Yugoslavian puppets and if you turn them into integrated puppets you can get a lot of mils for free. Just be careful to not release Serbia as it has to count for the achievement. -Be aware of naval invasions from the Soviets. In my game they invaded the Aegean Islands and Greece, but then retreated through the ports (weird). But since they controlled the states for a while, resistance and compliance got really messed up and it took me one more year to keep it under control. -Whenever you can, use armored cars for garrisons and complete the garrison template with cavalry. I had to go for Service by Requirement anyway, but you can save up a lot of infantry equipment for frontline divisions. Having 10 or 15 factories on them can give you 1k surplus easily, and you can use the compliance you get for factories and resources to eventually build on Bulgaria and Hungary, in order to annex them later. -You actually don't need to annex your Slovakian puppet; in my playthrough Hungary controlled Southern Slovakia , which is a Czech core. Just build and lend lease on them, then annex them. -Research tactical bombers and use them to strat bomb behind enemy Soviet lines. Factories and supply depots are good targets. -Regarding tanks, Medium tanks with armor value of 9 are almost impenetrable for the Soviets. Just be aware of supplies in the region you deploy them and try to always go for the supply depots and attack along the railway lines. -By capturing the Caucasus, the Stalingrad area and Kazakhstan, and pushing through the Urals, you can have almost 40% war participation. If you don't have enough, puppet Ukraine in the Polish occupied territories and then annex them.

Hi! Bettersteel congratulations on the baby! ^^ and thank you very much for the guide! Many things have changed since the last time you did it! you are the best! B)

Nice video :D

Soviets: Give us Bessarabia. Romanians: *Best I can do is Verdun on steroids.*

This BS epoquè was beautifull, Dude I miss your guides to get archivements. Nice job!

That travesty of a tank division at 24:28 tho XD

Bitt3rSteel in case no one said it to you, your voice is amazing. Wish I could speak like that instead of sounding like a sandpaper wiping an ass.

I was following this guide, and the mustache man ended up declaring on Slovakia well before Danzig or War, which given my shield of puppets let him with exactly two tiles he could attack. In a turn of events best suited to that domino meme, Italy capitulated to France in 1939, and the game ended up me and the Allies vs Germany and ussr.

Romania is actually super powerful if built up correctly. You can get 1944 fighters in 1940 if you go down the aviation focus tree.

15:22 I believe that only happens when Czechoslovakia denies the split and you have to go to war and get a puppet out of the peace deal, in which case Germany's focuses still apply.

Well, I've just started watching these videos, and I really love your style of presentation...it is very informative and entertaining (not an easy combination). I did think perhaps an appropriate suggestion for a video would be for you to play as Belgium, in The Road to 56 (they actually have a unique tree in the mod) and go for forming the Benelux to make the world safe for Bruyerre.

As a French, watching you extend your fort line and stop at tiles thought to be impassable gave me PTSD

Great guide as always! I did this two some time ago and Germany never declared on the USSR. Way more difficult, but still doable. Just don't join the Allies or you won't be able to get a Polish state.

I love your descriptions lmao. Full of hidden gems

I guess they changed things in all the updates over the last 2 years since I had all the major cities, Collaboration government all the way researched, and all it gave me was 90% capitulation, with us at the base and steps of the Ural Mountains before the Germans crumbled from England invading through Rome (As usual) and the Soviets countered attack, wasting yet another run after 6-8 hours of playing. Amazing tutorial, I love your video's and always follow them! I guess the RNG kicked in and told me to (beep) myself as usual with this game.

3:08 i think maybe get 400k soldiers then delete 2-4 divisions so that number goes down after u selected the focus maybe they wont accept and u can annex them idk if it works tho

I tried to follow the steps..... ended up in a war against Italy because they made a faction with Hungary before I took them, I eventually won the war in 1943. Then, I went for Germany since they were weak, I won in about 4 months, so I got the achievement "neither death nor dishonour" pretty easily. But I had to fight the soviets, I won, in 1947 because of the colaboration governaments. I wish I never played this game :D

I'm so bad at this game but your videos always make me want to reinstall it and try getting better.

Was watching your endsieg streams and was going to comment there but I can’t imagine you would see it since they are older vods. Incase you ever play endsieg again, you can defintley get the courland pocket out. I’ve played the mod 4 times and have only not been able to build a port once

Nice Music Bro !

Great job my brother in christ for recreating the greatest thing ever

Love the video man thanks for the great content per usual.

He is baaack. The afternoon is saved.

Hi, may I request a gameplay that may look boring for you but could be of a great value for the noobs like myself? Could you make a video of a "classic" play-throughs, without hunting for special achievements, but rather just sticking to (more or less) the storyline? So, let's say, playing as a democratic US, fighting in both west and east, then taking over the USSR, playing as USSR vs Germany, then Japan, then Allies? The cheese videos are very fun, don't get me wrong, but it would be rather valuable to see your "normal" play. Thank you and - again congratulations on the birth of your son!

You don't have to occupy all of Yugoslavia. You can still get the achievement if you hold one of Yugoslavia's core states e.g. Montenegro or Macedonia. Nevertheless another great guide and another achievement down the list :)

In Jan 1939 I got Italy into my faction (as I created one earlier) before they joined the axis.

"Now all we have to do is cap Russia." How the hell do you keep doing it so quick? Playing Axis Poland now, even with a full army group of infantry it took me until August of 1945. It didn't help that when I joined through the focus tree I lost most of my production until I could gain back my autonomy, but still. I had the troops and micromanaged as much as I could without dying of boredom, but every province past Moscow was a bitter slog. Now that I think about it, conquering in tandem with the Axis rather than as part of it is probably easier. I love spy stuff, so I payed the 50 PP to become Spymaster as soon as possible, and promptly discovered that Uncle A prepared precisely zero collaboration government contacts. Here's the kicker, though. It's August of 1945. We're fighting off Operation Overlord and trying to liberate Italy, beating back advances in the Balkans and marching through Turkey to cut off Allied supply lines. We finally beat the Soviets, I manage to take a healthy amount of new core territories for mighty Poland. No sooner do we leave the peace conference and muster our armies to take the fight out West, but Germany's brand new puppet Russian Empire, operating out of some cave in Tannu Tuva, turns traitor and joins the Allies! I have to check the war screen to find out for sure, but I'm almost certain that there are no other fascist nations working with Churchill. The world is going off the rails, and if nothing changes before October I'm just going to declare war on Russia and finish them off once and for all.

How many attempts does it usually take to record a video?

love all your hoi videos, i think i watched every one. some multiple times

I ended up guaranteeing Finland, was pushing into Russia hard, but the Germans cut me off at the caucuses.... No Moscow So I snuck my armies to the Hungarian border region (my puppet), and made a great noodle march with tanks to Berlin after justifying on Germany Lost my tanks... All of them... Lost 2 armies... Lost the war........ GOT THAT DAMN ACHEIVMENT THOUGH!! (many attempts... Many, many attempts lol) What a frustrating achievement... But rewarding when you pull it off... Especially if the guides don't work, which I tried, but you end up just fumbling into your own path of success lol

Sound guide. Helped me a lot :)

You sound tired man dang I enjoyed the video tho I may be doing this later today

Coming back after taking a break from hoi4 for a few months and having the new dlc and playing Romania for the first time was an interesting experience. Didn't get the achievements, didn't join any faction though both the allies and axis invited me at different points. It's 1945, I'm huge own Siberia as puppets, own the caucuses and some weird caucus states as puppets, and southern Russia as well. Germany took most of Russia though. I somehow managed to get the third strongest army with Germany being #1 and Japan #2. The axis is insanely strong, so much so that I don't think the allies stand a chance. I'm probably just going to end the game there since I'm now at peace after conquering ussr alongside germany and Iran. Trying to fight Germany would be extremely tedious given my now super long border with them and the fact that they're at least twice as strong. Joining the axis to fight the allies and conquer the US and UK are things I've done before and don't really feel like doing again with the new logistics system. So I might start a new campaign and try again. But getting both achievements in one run is nearly impossible.

Actually this achievement has become a lot easier now because Bulgaria won't steal your land anymore when you join the Axis. I just tried it out and got it on my first try

I didn't catch it in the video if you mentioned it but I usually take out turkey as well. Is this a bad idea or does it not matter?

Nice one. Its inspiring me to try out Romania again (finally). Shame about the Bulgarian shenanigans. Point of opinion: against a weakened Soviet Union I think 20 widths mediums are more than enough

I personally feel that you absolutely don’t need to keep using iron man mode! It sounds INCREDIBLY time consuming to have to re-record entire videos because footage failed. I believe that you wouldn’t cheat or save-scum the RNG in a tutorial, and I’m sure plenty of others feel the same

It's maybe the pinnacle of dumb ideas... but if you need war score, can't you try to strategicly bomb the sovjets to get up to 1000 points of war participation. I obviously never tried this tho.

I have just gotten the achievements. Bulgaria refused being puppeted (possibly because all my army was training at their border and the IA thought i was weak ? Possible exploit ?). So I could annex them and join the Axis when the Czech also refused and we attacked them with Germany. In the end Germany déclared on USSR to protect Finland in 1940 before they even reclaimed Bessarabia. Pretty lucky run indeed !

I don't know how to to put this. But what do you do when Germany loses against the Allies over Danzig and War? Poland took Berlin/Brandenburg, gave it to the British, Germany managed to get big encircled and is now fighting for its survival :O All my stuff is set up perfectly. Time to take on the mighty Stalin Union on my own :D

0:34 is it supposed to be tonks in the corner or is it just misspelled? Just wondering.

Ah, another video. A good day... Also i got kinda used to the break so the increased content pleases me.

could you provide your specs? thinking of upgrading my 2016 rig soon and at the very least want to get a new cpu and mobo. wondering what youre running because i personally get massive slowdown in the lategame

My God you forgot the Research slot will be very helpful

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We love those guides

Never had countries fall this easily for me

You need to do the "Our other places in the sun achievement"

i don't know why but in Thrace state when i wanted to build some military factories it said that i can build a max. of 20 military factories

Wdym king Carol II's lifestyle remains unaltered? Does it even if I take the focus?

Instead rushing moscow, I would rather rush to minsk and join the axis, that would make german forces fill the gaps on the rushing zone and the territory after minsk would come to me not germany, still has the bulgaria problem tho, but I think it could be solved by focusing really hard on annexing after puppeting

Just completed this. I went without tanks (sorry) I just find infantry easier to get the resources for. I used the Royal Guard template for my 7/2s. It worked fine. I managed to cut out the Germans taking Leningrad then went East. Having completed the achievements things went badly as Turkey then declared without warning on me, joined the axis and before I was prepared Italy and Germany were charging in.

As of March 1938 I only have 2 civs in use, and so can't keep up on trade, any remedies for this?

Personally I like going non historical, where Hungary will often go Austria Hungary. Wait until they unify with Austria and then invade them, that way you get Austria for free, and when you demand the Czechs and they say no, and you win, becuase Austria Hungary has cores you can give them everything for really cheap except for Sudatenland. Also if the Soviets have a civil war which is quite common on non-historical, and they don’t start in Odessa, you can invade the og Soviets side and try and take Moscow in that peace deal. Even better if it’s the White Russian civil war, because they can’t start their post civil war focus tree until they have Moscow, meaning it knocks them out as a major power entirely

I just achieved it today :)

Thank God

Thanks for doing my country

What does taking that King Carol focus do/not do? I don't understand that part.

My puppet Hungary refused to come to the split Yugoslavia thing, and now I'm having to restart for the second time :(

Awesome video, as usual. But that's a lot of effort for a problem that could have easily been solved by turning off the BfB DLC.

germans declare war on my pupets all the damn time...

Do more Kaisereich videos!

Theoretically, could you have the troops to start the Bulgaria focus, train 24 infantry without setting a deployment, delete your whole army so Bulgaria says no, deploy the 24 troops right on their border and then attack to annex so you can join the axis?

Very good video

Hello, I'm here for great content.

Bitt3rSteel i have a diaster save game with germany and i am a little confused on how to send it

Can you do "Putting the Band Back Together?"

Not so consistent, but if you generate enough world tension justify on Finland so the allies will declare war on the Soviets

If bulgaria joins a faction they loose army restrictions, just make a faction with them

Recreate Austro-Hungary as Czechoslovakia ;)

the allies were guaranteeing me still so I have them involved against the soviets...

please, please please make an update video for this one, i believe it's quite the challenge now NSB is around, unless non-historical cheeseness could exploit the new DLC somehow

Idk how this happened but in 1939 when germany did around the Maginot they got a war goal on Slovakia i tried again and the same thing happened

Is it possible to do in totally not cool bromania in this guide?

how does you annex your's puppet?

I've never met your son but I love him

Death this, dishonor that, I just wanna cede Bessarabia for Kings sake

Do I build coastal forts?

How did you get Stanislawow from poland?

if you know where they put 1 unit and you can exploit that ALWAYS - isn't that "cheating"?

I think I have a better guide: Wait until they fix Bulgaria so you can do it the easy way

so... what if bulgaria refused and i annexed them instead? edit: made it by the skin of my teeth. was able to join the allies and was working on getting the soviets to capitulate. when the soviets almost capitulated turkey decided to declare war on me and they were in the allies so it became a race against time

Romania and Greece are one of minor op nation

has anyone ever told you that you sound kinda like ole gunnar solskjaer?

imediately going after hungary this is funnyer that it should be

I was doing great, right on schedule when Germany declared war on my puppet Slovakia and drew Italy into war s well. Needless to say lost Slovakia and most of Greece but hanging in there. Mid 1940 and waiting for Russia to attack. Alas I fear I'm doomed and may have to restart. How do you prevent Germany from declaring war on you or your puppet?

I don’t know if the Devs patched this within minutes of this video going up but when you divide Yugoslavia up it won’t allow me to start placing claims on any territory when I invite Hungary, only after I invite Italy does it allow me to start placing claims

So Bulgaria did get a brainfart and actually refused to be puppeted... What do I do now xD I annexed Bulgaria, can i join now Germany? :D