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

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

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

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 :)

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.

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

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

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.

Bulgaria is a country I wish I could play well, but I just hate playing it. Somehow every time I play Bulgaria the world goes apeshit and I end up at war with everyone.

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

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

Great video! I learned how to play HOI4 from Bittersteel and Mordrid Viking. Keep up the good work

Thumbnail Bulgaria looking devious

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

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.

That thumbnail gonna piss off a lot of people

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

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

As a Bulgaria Stan, I appreciate this

Making his own disaster save I love it

As a Bulgarian I really appreciate this

No one is more entertaining than this man

Imagine using this strat to make everyone deal with another major which is defended by puppets and endless mountains😂

Bittersteel spoiling us with a two-parter

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 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Keep up the good work!

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

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:*

nice video

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I love then someone plays my country on a video

My home country. Thank you for playing it!

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

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

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

Please do more videos with Bulgaria

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

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)

tfw you save a disaster save of your own making.

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

About of your introduction regarding the greatest slavic nation. The Cyrillic alphabet (that russian are know for) was invented in Bulgaria, not Russia.

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

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

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

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

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...

You should collaborate with ISP

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

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

W intro

Is Hulu paying for all of these Futurama references? They should be

There’s a Sabaton song somewhere in this video

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

THE IMAGE

18:34 not sure if something changed, but immediately banning fascism after the event made it disappear entirely for me. Could have been bc I had 100% non aligned support

Damn that cliffhanger :D

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

5:53 too real

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.

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

Any video on Bulgaria is a W video

17 to 51 factories after puppeting all your neighbors

He has delivered!

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

18:01 lol

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.

i think concentrated is better since the ai isnt smart enough to bomb you on a massive scale and concentrated gives the production a bigger boost so concentrated is better unless you play a mod where the ai is buffed and made smarter

Hungry Bulgaria moment

You missed a Bulgarian holiday by 1 DAY (22nd September, independence day)

Bulgaria having a bigger tree then Germany:💀 Bulgaria having a bigger tree then Japan:💀💀💀💀💀

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

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

"Speaking of the little things, i need more politicalpower(pp)" Dont we all sir, dont we all

18:10 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it make more sense to click on "Ban Fascism" after Italy completes its focus to increase fascism in Bulgaria, rather than before? If I remember correctly, clicking on "Ban Fascism" after Italy completes its focus would remove the national spirit.

Bitt3rSteel, you could have used this piece of knowledge. If you ban fascism right when you get the Fascist Influence Spirit, you REMOVE the spirit. Is always funny screwing over Italy like that. Anyway, it was great seeing you play Bulgaria, I like that country a lot

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

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

if Italy starts losing, and you get the civil war, you get a free italian puppet as the faction leader

Finally the country I live in

"Alright, we have political power, I'm going to spend it on banning fascism... Might be controversial, but trust me" - Bitt3rSteel (16:16)