Bitt3r owes a piece of his sanity to more or less every historical world leader by now

We're raising our social credits with this one lads

I was actually watching your old communist China and thinking "bitter needs to update this guide" and you uploaded this, like it dropped from the sky

By holding Shift before you click to draw the railway, it automatically builds the shortest route.

Pro tip: starting with Invite Foreign Investors first is huge for the economy, giving 2 offmap civs literally doubling the PRCs starting industry. Its only 70 days and helps out tremendously getting in the early game. I tried it one time and did a world conquest in 1948, demanding Mongolia and with the help of Germany it was really easy to defeat the USSR, then having military access to the Allies, I order 66d them, and then the Axis. Also picking Liu Shaoqi (the Silent Workhorse) at the very beginning is also really helpful, though after assigning the laws, advisors and military high command, PRC has not much to spend pp on, so its optional. I preferred Grand Battleplan for the PRC since it gives really good supply bonuses as well as unlocking Theatre training, making it much easier to get Adaptable on Lin Biao. I also just teamed up with the nationalists and defeated Japan first, then using the Infiltration mechanics, declared on China suddenly and the war was over really quickly. Maybe it takes longer this way to get the achievement but I found it to be really easy, and also fun at the same time (I focused on FeedBackGaming's new space marines template).

I never expected this guide to come out now. I honestly thought it would've taken a couple more weeks until it would come out.

Actually by the time the armies arrived to Yan'An after suffering through a series of encirclement campaigns, they had already left most of if not all artillery during the Long March. Not wanting to flame, just wanted to educate people on the historical conditions that led to the lack of artillery.

It's crazy how good at this game you are dude. I find the learning curve really challenging as I don't really have the time to dedicate to it to get good to the point where playing is just fun and not simultaneously a massive exertion of will and brainpower, but your videos make it so I can have a fighting chance, know why certain decisions get made, and actually enjoy playing. Even if I don't do the same things you do because I want to try something different for immersion or other reasons, at least now I know what's possible and why I might make one choice versus another. Idrc about achievements so with Communist China for example I might try to follow a strictly historical path (with deviations to account for the natural unpredictability of playthroughs even on historical) and not immediately rush all my neighbors, but just from the start of your video I know what production and focuses to prioritize, etc. Another example: I love playing as the USSR because I love doing the communist thing, but getting invaded by Hitler is hella scary and stressful when you're not actually that good at the game, but your No Step Back video really helps give me a fighting chance (even though I'm taking many steps back lol. Then again, if Stalin, one of the greatest military leaders of all time, had to retreat all the way to Stalingrad, then I won't feel bad that the g*rmans pushed me out of Poland. But that's neither here nor there. Thanks for your excellent guides!

I also uses Mao's hygiene routine to really immerse in the playthrough

Had a blast doing this. The war dragged on for me until 1946 to defeat the axis and then finally 1947 to get a foothold on Japan and end the war. I ended up joining the Comintern after China was defeated and got guaranteed by the Soviet’s which stopped Japan from invading me. I then went down the focus to trigger Japan invading me which dragged the soviets into a 2 front war against Japan and the Germans. Helped the soviets survive Germany and they helped eliminate what was left of Japan on the mainland. I realized I didn’t prepare a way to invade the japanese island and had to slowly build up to get there. In the meantime, I turned my attention to slowing down the Germans from steam rolling into Moscow because the soviets committed quite a few troops and air power to help us with Japan. A few years in and after a couple of failed paratroop invasions, we finally had a big enough navy to launch a lucky naval invasion, snapping up a port and funneling in our special forces mountaineers to clean up. The stage is set for a Comintern/Allies standoff in 1947! Sometimes I love this game thanks for the play through it really helped!

So ther IS an attritionbug in the game! had the same with the german civilwar, which dragged on and on, because regardless of the encirclement they didnt run out of supplies. Good to know there is a solution for it.

Just completed my 2nd communist china run might be my favourite playthrough 💜

As a newbie player, this gives me some ideas. There's a lot that I need to learn. So far, I've only had a few successful runs, such as taking over Europe with Germany, recreating the Swedish Empire minus their German/American landholdings, and recreating the United Central American Provinces. As for what I'm focusing on right now... Fascist Ireland taking out the U.K., Venezuela recreating Gran Colombia, and Spain (I can't even win the civil war for crying out loud). Anyways, thanks for the new idea Bitter! Love your videos!

I love Mao's hair in the hoi4 portrait, shame he lost it. Ig I'm just gonna need to make my hair similar as a sign of respect

It’s a great day when Bitt3rsteel uploads

I'm very happy to see this guide remade, that's how I got to your channel, and after a few retarts I got the two achievements for Mao, and you do a great job!

Just a little tip for anyone who wants to play communist china: bittersteel builds infrastructure here at the start... now i'm not gonna criticise this in it of itself, but i wanna implore you to queue up something else to build, because you can't build infra while you are fighting in that state, but the game doesn't wanna let you know that your factories doing nothing, so just be aware of that.

Clean and cool video, I canno't stress enough how good is the rework of commie China in road to 56, I really encourage people to play it, PDX should watch, learn, and work

I formally request a Nationalist playhtrough in the 2020 but 1936 mod. It's not easy to retake China. In fact, I haven't yet. If anyone can, it's the man himself.

Bittersteel is the only reason I still play HOI4

17:36 15 mip manpower!!!!!??

Great social credit score guide

Ah, one of the few nations where you barely need guns, you have millions of men, sure most of them might be missing guns, but... (Changing all your 2 combat width divisions to 50 ones, needing only enough guns for the small divisions...)

Gotta increase that social credit score.

If this is a a-z video then you forgot Columbia which comes in between china and communist china

Thanks for making this Bitt3r I have been trying to get the communist china achievements for a bit but the old guides failed me in one place or another. Once again thanks.

I was just playing PRC. Everything was going well, but at a point the whole world turned against each other, the Soviets started fighting Japan and the Allies at the same time and I was right in the middle of it lol.

For You Page squad! (KZfaq really out here not giving me notifications, damn you YT) Love your content Bitt3r!

Bittersteel and Feedback are racing to see who can make the most OP guides

You should do another Great War redux video

21:45 social score +9999999

0:30 nice ironman mode

I was concerned that my Colombia gameplay was denied, but it looks like the A to Z playlist is just missing it for some reason, Costa Rica too. Can't imagine why.

I'm going insane I can't take it anymore

And behold, the big red chicken has been created

Dude literally dropped the vid a day before I wanted to play THE RED CHINA

I'm new to Hoi and I'm learning how to play with this guide, trying to follow the guide. Everything goes fine until i get to fight China. I'm unable to make any gains, instead China even captures my capital. I'm sure there are things I'm doing wrong (for example only on second attempt i noticed i should cancel training few days prior to war), but cannot grasp what. Can someone point me specifically to sth? For example a lot of my armies stand on Japanese border even though im not in war and i clicked Chinese border to ma front.

I honestly love playing as Communist China. Its a fun little challenge

We're getting elected head of the local worker's council with this one, boys

It’s a beautiful day when he uploads

What about the strat where you fight alongside the nationalists against the Japanese and take Manchuria?

Can confirm does not work in 2024, or I'm bad, but mostly China definitely has all the equipment they need to defend against both Mao and Japan

I guess with the new DLC and the weapon market, this has became way more easy haha

+2000 social credit 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳

7:28 Breaking: Bitt3rSteel can't perform basic addition!

14:50 It could also be that they have enough supply in the state, since state supply is based on population (which is rediculously high, cause china). Then again, japanese divisions are enormous, so they should eventually run low on supplies in that scenario, especially if they don't own the full state.

communist china is my favorite nation to play as; thanks for the video 💪

In 2024 I'm using this and wondering how the heck he trains units so fast

Now do Qing China

bro the attrition thing happened to me as I was playing Estonia Latvia wasn't taking attrition I had them encircled and they were having the time of their life breaching my lines

I thought the genius army chief will give more xp (0.4/day) than army reformer (0.3 + 10% = 0.33/day)? Maybe the reformer will give more from the war but then I'd prefer the army defense guy more

Good guide and all. But the japan in my game declared war in 1937. Way before the one in this video declared. And china weirdly never abandoned their border with me despite following this video. Big ouch. Never stood a chance.

17:20 This is way funnier than it should be

lol imagine being a member and the whole game bitter talks about how garbage his units are and then when he does push, uses generic units and relegates his members to port guards🤣

tell ISP to bring back randy the rat plz

I am not even a hoi4 player but i loved your video and by seeing it i also want to play hoi4.

Bitt3r makes my day cuz I love hoi4 cuz I got it like in august this year

you should try to have the experimental mechanised division from the soviet focus route b4 you attack central china, as no chinese unit can even scratch it.

Can you try Eight Years War of Resistance?

When are we getting our new/improved guides? Can't wait!

We makin it outta the social credit debt with this one 🗣️🗣️‼️‼️🗣️🗣️‼️‼️

Nice video 👍

Bro’s on the social credit grind

Ever since playing Eight Years' War of Resistance, I cannot take vanilla's China seriously. I'm glad at least others have fun with it

I never did this but I thought the capital of China changed to Beijing after taking the decision to proclaim the PRC? Why does it stay in Yanan?! Literally unplayable.

so relaxing to watch your videos

Bing chillin

Yeah this one doesn’t work either. Shanxi just parks a unit on their capital and it’s impossible to break with these garbage units

I have to ask, do you have a strategic reason for drawing the railway lines without pressing down shift?

Chingdao: This machine kills Imperial Japanese Armies.

Brooo, the Thumbnail would be perfect if you added Mongolia and Vladivostok on it...

What’s our favourite pizza topping?

0:03 Best China

An new masterpiece made by bitt3rSteel

Bittersteel being the best walkthrough gude (sorry Feedback and ISP). Also a much better voice. I wish i was born in Belgum and be bilingual.

my only complaint is that when I invaded china, china had divisions there and my divisions lacked equipment and i failed to push and the chinese instead piled divisions against me while the japanese rolled in, resulting in me getting very bad war participation and me falling behind well its not really a complaint....its just me telling everyone about my skill issue

Yessir.

Why did KZfaq not recommend this video as much?

1:44 *Literally the PRC:*

Tea, Victoria Sponges and Bitt3rsteel uploads. Noice.

You didn't unite all of China, you left Mongolia 😥

Wazzup been chillin

Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today!

Nice vid next one manchoukuo ?

Play as Poland and make again wojtek as your country leader

Is anyone able to give me a more exact research order or a few tips for this run. Trying to follow like the guide shows but I always seem to be getting the draft dodging event by the time I annex that other communist Chinese warlord and my 3 armies never seem to be anywhere near well enough equipped by june 38 for the war against the nationalists

So Mao can evade the bad hairstyle by passing the curse to Japanese Puppet

Did they buffed the yan ma??? My battle against them lasted a f year, all the front was fully guarded and the top corner strategy was trash bc my 8 divisions were unsuplied with attrition

Holy smokes, the communist leader for Japan, isn't he the guy that got assassinated at just the right moment for the greatest photo post-WWII to be taken?

Love your content 😊😊😊❤❤❤

bitt3r can you do a reguide on communist or republican china please?

How about an updated Manchukuo guide Mr. Bitt3r?

Guys I did this before this video and it took me 4 runs to get the "The People Have Stood Up" achievement. You owe me one guide steel, and my sanity... please?

Is it viable to build train tracks instead of infrastructure at first?

Amazing content i love this

Ah, I see your Social Credit score skyrocketing right now.

12:20 How did you get that peace deal with only 18% war score?

Ultimate Shanxi guide when

"...comprehensive guide for ..." heum, it's a bad joke ...

Honestly these videos are more fun if you don't port cheese anyway.