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@This_is_a_burner8 ай бұрын
Well you got me, gonna try this MMO. Not expecting much but hey, maybe it'll be fun because I've never heard of it before. So naturally that means it couuuuld be good I guess. Thanks for the free shit, although I mean I know you make money for the channel so it's not like you gave it to give it but still.
@This_is_a_burner8 ай бұрын
Yeah nevermind, battlepass and a long running history of their (I think parent?) parent company pushing P2W shit into it. Unfortunate, but still gave your link a click.
@spiderhouse98098 ай бұрын
Bitter you know the cheesy tactic of assigning the field marshal to a plan and then assigning the general a garrison order to a neutral country you can use it for the port encirclement so you support attack the units in the port in that way they won't move into the port and they will get the advantages of the planning bonus
@handsomelyditto42158 ай бұрын
yeah no don't play that game. its pay2win garbage you're clearly making plenty of money from youtube and you still choose to promote this trash, sad
@zacky10108 ай бұрын
If you're frustrated with the way railways go wonky, hold shift and then click - the railway will snap automatically to the shortest route from start to cursor
@prinzoyro68868 ай бұрын
Fun fact for HoI IV gaming: if you hold "shift" while building railroads it will build them in the most efficient (and usually straight) path possible, and if you let go of shift after you get your mouse to the end of the rail you're building, it will still build the railway on the most efficient path but at level 1! No need to thank for that (rather convoluted) advice Feedback, honestly thought you'd know that by now 😅
@atypicalprogrammer57778 ай бұрын
Wow thanks, it actually works. (If someone else can't get it to work, try to hold shift while placing the start of the railway)
@TheForeignGamer8 ай бұрын
While I do enjoy building railways manually, that's actually super nice and more people should know about it!
@ambol74508 ай бұрын
2900h in hoi4, just realised that you're right
@me3478 ай бұрын
shift does that on every type of building and if you press shift when adding troops in training it adds 6
@mattd75668 ай бұрын
@@ambol7450to be fair, more than half your time I’m assuming the supply system wasn’t a thing. If it wasn’t a thing when you were learning the game, you are less likely to know the hotkey. Speaking of, I’m about 1k hrs in and didn’t know the shift key for railroads trick either. 😂
@EoinJoyceMapping8 ай бұрын
Tip for the Qingdao exploit: delete the frontline but keep the troops there. When troops land, control right click on them. This will do a support attack (blue arrow rather than red) and your troops will destroy theirs but won't accidentally walk in.
@warinanutshell.8 ай бұрын
if i do this with all unit it will automatically change it for a normal attack unless there are at least one division attacking, very annoying
@mreevee77858 ай бұрын
He knows, but no one needs such exploits to make the game so easy
@alphaundpinsel24318 ай бұрын
you get planning bonuses if you have a frontline
@USELESSDCK8 ай бұрын
I have tried doing support attacks this way but troops always walk in anyways, even when the arrow is blue. Is there a second method to do support attacks?
@wojciechsmolenski46207 ай бұрын
is there any icon in the game that represents support attack, because i couldn't find it. (i always forget the key combos)
@amamzing8 ай бұрын
chinasaurus
@minatomadara34368 ай бұрын
Guys is that chinasaurus or or or
@ratwithafork8 ай бұрын
chinasaurus
@LetMeBe38 ай бұрын
chinasaurus
@donpollo31548 ай бұрын
chinasaurus
@CoolPerson59648 ай бұрын
chinasaurus
@unifieddynasty8 ай бұрын
"I'm trying to make a guide for you guys to follow." **Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek furiously scribbling notes in heaven**
@BryanSeung8 ай бұрын
Watching Bittersteel butchering the mandarin pronounciation is both painful and hillarious
@R3GARnator8 ай бұрын
The rōmaji equivalent for mandarin is atrocious garbage, causing most people to mispronounce. Gotta wonder if it was some passive-aggressive act by the British.
@lovelylavenderr8 ай бұрын
@@R3GARnatorWades-Giles definitely was, but Pinyin is done mostly by the Chinese themselves.
@ShirakamiKaiser8 ай бұрын
he's actually doing great when put to comparison with other hoi4 youtubers, saying "Qingdao" like "Chingdao"
@lovelylavenderr8 ай бұрын
@@ShirakamiKaiser you'd be suprised with how many can't get at least BASIC chinese pronunciation properly
@ShirakamiKaiser8 ай бұрын
@@lovelylavenderrthat's why i said he did great, because other hoi4 youtubers do worse on pronouncing these chinese
@CountDoDo8 ай бұрын
I literally just watched your old guide this morning, now you release another today lmao. Keep up the epic content!
@Bitt3rSteel8 ай бұрын
Hope you enjoyed it!
@matheusdiastelo53738 ай бұрын
@@Bitt3rSteel Will you do a guide for the warlords?
@Rat_88688 ай бұрын
@@matheusdiastelo5373that’s boring
@matheusdiastelo53738 ай бұрын
@@Rat_8868 but I need the damn warlords achievements
@LeroxYT8 ай бұрын
@@matheusdiastelo5373 idk maybe cheese it
@unity43288 ай бұрын
China, the only nation in hoi4 that requires a guide on it being made every time a new dlc releases.
@ICXC078 ай бұрын
21:00 Control right click on the enemy division in the port, should have a blue attack arrow, your division will attack the enemy without moving tile
@Mici8 ай бұрын
That doesn’t work for me
@TimothyNguyen-ux6ug8 ай бұрын
I have to ctrl alt right click for some reason
@HDHVAhmetCem14536 ай бұрын
you have to click on division icon
@The_Marttrix8 ай бұрын
Yippee Kay yay, a new entry in the a-z series! As well as the country I’m struggling with! Very cool. Keep up the great work Bittersteel
@The_Marttrix8 ай бұрын
Wait no nevermind I just realised this probably isn't A-Z. Great video anyway!
@arks77458 ай бұрын
@@The_Marttrix it looked funny how a moment of recognizing came to you and you just accepted it. No blame, just a comment
@Dzulian8 ай бұрын
Deng Dong became the new San Tzu
@nooneofconsequence38478 ай бұрын
4:14 if you shift click on the target province in railway construction, it will automatically snap to the shortest route. It's in the tool tip if you hover over the railway icon in the construction menu
@demonwario65268 ай бұрын
What if japan just never touches qindao ?
@greenkoopa7 ай бұрын
Could you do a challenge that has you control Germany in 1943, but... Your rail efficiency reflects the real world, where up to 60% of the rolling stock and engines took priority to move people to the...winter...camps... Could you win with that massive handicap?
@frankunderbush8 ай бұрын
The spy cheese is funny because that kind of diplomatic delay is sort of what Chiang was going for (big reason Manchuria was ceded without a fight). In game, Marco Polo also gives you a choice to cede land to further delay and allow for a bigger military build up. In reality it was political suicide and executed very poorly but what is historical accuracy in HOI4?
@ancaoraathasach8 ай бұрын
I'm so happy to see you doing guides again!
@MatveyPobyvaylo-ri4ny8 ай бұрын
too be honest you basicly taught me hoi4 and your my fav hoi4 youtuber Keep It Up
@chef40258 ай бұрын
Omg thank you for covering by merit alone. I could never get that without your help. I barely know anything about general xp. It would be awesome if you did a general farm guide or something like that. I never really know what to get besides infantry expert, logistics wizard, improv expert, and offensive doctrine
@zaph80158 ай бұрын
I actually keep the coastal supply hubs disconnected so they have to use convoys. While I am defending I mark the sea zones as "no access", this will prevent your convoys from travelling through the sea zones but the supply hubs will be disconnected (unfortunate but necessary for what follows). Once I have the Japanese pushed out of the mainland I start producing a good amount of NAVs, and once I have around 200 I let the convoys have access again. This baits Japan into convoy raiding the shallow sea zones, and if you put the NAVs up you will absolutely SHRED their subs. Once I paradrop mainland Japan they have no subs and so they can't convoy raid me anymore (the AI will never use surface ships to raid). So I get to move my troops in without worrying about them getting eaten by subs or having no supply once they arrive. I've used this to reliably cap Japan by mid-41 which means no USA in the Allies, so it becomes much easier to fight them later on if you want to keep playing.
@stickmananimations34528 ай бұрын
Amazing another video from bittersteel thanks to your videos i have gotten in to Hoi4.
@lantredasphodele58588 ай бұрын
Oooooh I finally spotted my name in the members divisions !
@TheLostLibrary8 ай бұрын
There is a lot to enjoy in your video, and I can relate to the struggles of overcoming the language barrier. It's quite funny, haha. Thank you for making another great video. As for your next one, I would love to see you play Crusader Kings 3. I have already voted for it on your community channel.
@marrs10138 ай бұрын
Would love to see a long version of this.
@255omega98 ай бұрын
Ive said it before and im going to say it again, GBP is stastisticly better then superior firepower, if your doing tank pushes go left, if doing inf defence/attack go right path
@VynalDerp8 ай бұрын
ok but what if i love artillery more than trenches
@smokeyplane32858 ай бұрын
@@VynalDerp >napoleon.mp4
@VynalDerp8 ай бұрын
@@smokeyplane3285 canister shot in hoi4 when
@kyallokytty8 ай бұрын
it maxes out better and you have a doctrine that take weeks between each attack to properly use, yes SPF is easier to use since it's just raw stats. but most importantly it's very frontloaded with bonuses not saying it's bad, just that there's reasons to pick one over the other
@smokeyplane32858 ай бұрын
@@VynalDerp one day... 😔
@79419_QuantumComputer7 ай бұрын
"I hate how those railways are stupid zigzag..." Well, welcome to the real world of building railways in that area in China lol.
@friendlycat41708 ай бұрын
The video description references the use of the DLC No Step Back. Maybe it should indicate the use of the DLC Arms Against Tyranny. Nice run and fantastic editing. I really enjoy your HOI4 videos. Thank you for making them.
@Girellgirell8 ай бұрын
4:26 hey bitter if you press control before clicking for the railway it will create the shortest route possible ;)
@doubleskulls8 ай бұрын
Nice video. I just did this recently, and its a minor point, but to get the Romance of the Three Kingdoms achievement you just need to integrate the puppets, this can be done with the regular mechanics OR the special integration events.
@Buzzy_Bland8 ай бұрын
Ah, China. Watching your old china videos was how I finally got the hang of playing this freaking game, happy to see an update.
@theexplosive10628 ай бұрын
It would be amazing if you made an updated Ultimate Spain guide, It's the one country I simply can't play
@panpsalt67578 ай бұрын
You can sign the non aggression pact while Japan is completing it's focus to get a wargoal
@africanchild3784Ай бұрын
I know I'm late but I think building a supply hub at the start is wrong, the 2 warlords in the north never have enough divisions to cover the front line so you just walk past them
@pandus28368 ай бұрын
Nice video keep up the good work
@evanwilliams18398 ай бұрын
I just made some cornbread to have with my dinner
@BrentonMarch15th8 ай бұрын
hey bittersteel, i saw you have problems with railways, you know you can just hold shift, click the starting point, unhold shift, and then clicking on the end point, and it will automatically give you the optimal path?
@BrentonMarch15th8 ай бұрын
and also you can ctrl+right click the port trap instead of stopping the attack every time because with the ctrl+right click method your units just attack, they don't walk into territory
@red_seven_8 ай бұрын
Good news: The 'ghost divisions' after annexing a country which you got expeditionary forces from will get fixed with the next patch (it's already in the 1.13.6 beta patch).
@executioner2817 ай бұрын
You can update the old guns
@parmesancheez60874 ай бұрын
13:50, im doing this guide right now, and japan still had a -4 opinion of me and wouldnt take a non aggression pact, so improve relations with them so they will accept on top of providing diplomatic pressure
@ssoto37675 ай бұрын
Was going great until may 1936, was asked by the japanese to join their faction🤣
@andrewdopple69468 ай бұрын
i see the best way to patch the qingdao exploit is have Marine troops not get a disorganized penalty when doing naval landings.
@kyallokytty8 ай бұрын
they dont afaik unless you mean transport, in which case the issue would stay because they rarely ever use marines on ports
@Airland-xx3pr8 ай бұрын
@@kyallokyttyThey have the penalty on both occasions. Also others.
@endzor8 ай бұрын
14:34 first, and most needed pick is 200 pp exp farmer (defence advisor)
@obeytrinity29878 ай бұрын
Awesome video bro, I learn more and more about the game with every video of yours I watch (:
@Ryuko-T728 ай бұрын
I love when deng dong got promoted and said "Its time to dong. Deng Dong" and then Donged all over the place
@walnzell93288 ай бұрын
As I recall you can control + click to have your divisions attack the enemy in a tile, but keep from moving into the tile.
@ChezzyDRMlol4 ай бұрын
This China became Ai in my game after defeating Japan and declared war on my puppet. It’s hell to defeat in the East
@dexter36877 ай бұрын
Deng Dong carried
@BSideWasTaken8 ай бұрын
I am now singing DENG DONG THE MAO IS DEAD and it's your fault, Mr Steel.
@OliverHayes-oe5mj8 ай бұрын
ROC and PRC moment
@KINGofdoomyt8 ай бұрын
who has been waiting 4 this vid 4ever?
@Peter333388 ай бұрын
Playing "Animal Crossing: Wild World" while watching Bitt3rsteel playing HOI4
@ibrahimozen58238 ай бұрын
Instead of stopping units manually like you did in Qingdao you can instead “control+ right click”. This way your troops automatically stop after beating the enemy.
@MrVineEye8 ай бұрын
That doesn't work for me. The attacks start off blue but turn into a normal red attack arrow with movement as soon as they engage.
@TheRealNecron4 ай бұрын
Personally, I think as a meme they should make it so only leaders who have 'Sun' in their name qualify for the achievement
@desperadoscres99155 ай бұрын
it took me until jun 14 1937 just to get the 2warlord i needed, while i was just passing throught the country
@jiensayyer8 ай бұрын
You can join Japan's faction if you are in the same war as them. I used it to play tall china, and it's basically broken
@RenneVangr8 ай бұрын
"Who is this dingdong?" "It's pronounced Deng Dong, sir."
@harrisonbridgeman84388 ай бұрын
Napoleonic France run?
@hko20068 ай бұрын
If only KMT won in RL too
@ElUnaVex8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!! I was finally able to get those two achievements... now... Could you make a video with a warlord? 😁
@hendrikmons42318 ай бұрын
Now i feel like a total noob cause trying to win with China since the supply patch and never winning :( thx for the guide!
@merk24978 ай бұрын
I loved this one so much! Still hoping for a current day roman empire guide!!
@dannydacheedo15923 ай бұрын
17:50 Chinese history be like
@wiffle_snuff15108 ай бұрын
wake up, bittersteel uploaded a new banger
@AMOGUSISUJISUJISUJIJIJIJI0_08 ай бұрын
Can you try millennium dawn?
@danielsantiagourtado34308 ай бұрын
Your videos are amazing 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
@Impoxium8 ай бұрын
You should steal ISP's rat
@andreasottohansen73388 ай бұрын
I can't say why, but when it comes to forming Nationalist China, i am always drawn to Xibei San Ma to do it.
@TruePolishGuy8 ай бұрын
Good this guide got update. Shame I'm still missing DLC, this time I don't have the new one!
@rob25408 ай бұрын
Amazing vid one thing is that I dont do is build a supply hub I just walk past guanxi army
@Bustedkuhnuckles8 ай бұрын
Hey bitter I’ve been subscribed and watching forever I have a question. Why do you usually have la resistance turned off on your play throughs? I have all them turned on and was wondering if the game is better without it?
@johnmcmanus24478 ай бұрын
If I remember correctly he usually has it on so he can get spies
@killedbyfrank63188 ай бұрын
Could you do one for Mexico next? It has become a lot harder in recent patches to defeat the US and get the revenge of montezuma
@hanulu18 ай бұрын
I just rage quitted China a few hours ago and now this pop up. 😂
@wojciechsmolenski46207 ай бұрын
the port cheese tactic is so OP - also AI is so not able to do naval invasions. makes the game kind of stupid frankly since AI D-day only works very late in the game after Germany takes like 12 milion + casualties
@mrbeen46628 ай бұрын
Saving this vid only downside don’t have Al the dlc’s 😅😢
@asdfjklo-xg8xk8 ай бұрын
uih i found chewy :D u absolute grand strategymonster :D i learned so much from u in both games !!
@SilentSalty8 ай бұрын
This guy makes my day
@casiancret27068 ай бұрын
Almost at 200k subscribers. Are you gonna do a special?
@154Kilroy8 ай бұрын
@bitt3rsteel Can you now play a the 2023 but 1936 mod, play as Nationalist China and retake China? Obviously you're stuck on Taiwan. And the mod gives the PRC a decent fleet. The cruisers are a bugged template and are worthless, but it's still enough to make getting naval supremecy difficult. So you'll probably need paratroopers. Not to mention they make a massive army pretty quick. I want to see how you make it work. Oh, and also the Japanese don't seem to attack the PRC until the Nationalists are defeated. So they can't even be somewhat helpful and be a distraction to the reds. It's a tough playthrough. Should make a good video.
@CommanderTavos993 ай бұрын
Wtf did they change the achivment of unifing china??? Because, back then, I did trigger the even and had all of china but didnt get the achivment o.O
@hobiewilliamson61868 ай бұрын
A please do more guides like this
@Pokephosgene7 ай бұрын
I know this technically doesn't fit this video, but I have a few questions I'm hoping @Bitt3rSteel could answer. I'm playing as Xibei San Ma transitioned into Nationalist China- it's April 1944. As I was mopping up Manchuria with the United Front, Communists declared war. I'd beaten them later, but they had been accepted into the Allies and called them in. My UF allies are holding firm in Burma and I think northern Pakistan judging by province flags. I've taken down Japan with paratroopers in Feb '44 since I am lagging behind on navy research. I want the Battlecry achievement, and maybe even I'll Make a Man Out of You. The problem: every warlord refused to submit after Subjugate the Warlords finished. My question: *is there a way to puppet a country without having the country's divisions vanish upon capitulation, or should I simply let the wargoals expire and fight the war alongside my faction members* ? Wargoals expire in late September '44. Axis has taken Baku and Moscow, but not Leningrad and Stalingrad. Italy had its pro-Allied turn, and Axis forces in central Italy are cut off. No D-Day yet, though. Is it maybe wise to attack the USSR?
@mitchellline42426 ай бұрын
Could you please do a 1939 China. China is the one country thats more fun to play in 1939
@chris6ix.8 ай бұрын
Overall pretty ok video, but I'm really not a fan of abusing that encircled port exploit. It's not just super unrealistic and only works because the AI is stupid, but makes it way too easy and boring to win.
@yemreged8 ай бұрын
I wish China had a decision to demand Hong Kong and Macau. It'd just make things easier…
@Bitt3rSteel8 ай бұрын
Absolutely
@TheLordNovo8 ай бұрын
Not enough people play nationalist China, so this is very welcome
@sahilhossain82048 ай бұрын
Lore of Ultimate Nationalist China (2023) momentum 100
@endzor8 ай бұрын
7:10 how do you fill the trait queu?
@ZeroDarkOmega7 ай бұрын
Has anyone had the issue when you subjugate the warlords that those who agree sometimes break away anyway even after investing in integration?
@Strategic_Brilliance6 ай бұрын
Best alternative history scenario in asia ✌️👌
@blazerayanami59798 ай бұрын
Nice. I actually played this China for the first time yesterday. Somehow, I got Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Awake and Angry first attempt. I wish I would have known BitterSteel would release a video about China just today, lol.
@Bitt3rSteel8 ай бұрын
Hope you enjoy it!
@blazerayanami59798 ай бұрын
@@Bitt3rSteel of course! :D
@SamuelMaluco3798 ай бұрын
you could make a warlord guide with yunnan, why Yunnan? It has fascist fascist support enough to enter a civil war and for some reason, civil war removes all of warlords national spirits, and japan tends to give you a lot of land if you join it's faction, it will also try to create the chinese puppet, but if you have cores on china you can contest pretty easily
@magnegrandelag76878 ай бұрын
Deng Dong the method of warfare
@Moriyama_Alice8 ай бұрын
excited as foreigner who support Chinese nationalists
@DrFerk28 ай бұрын
Less go another video
@efjddu8 ай бұрын
can you do a guide for empty puppet countries conueor the world like playing as a puppeted algeria no factories at the start
@vladtheimaplertepes8 ай бұрын
No way Sabaton reference 24:43 😳😲🤯
@waitwhatlol92138 ай бұрын
Me getting the achievement a few seconds before the video comes out 😅
@purplemeloon19238 ай бұрын
Japan lost the war goal against me lol thought they keep it till end of the game
@uziloka8 ай бұрын
Never played hoi4, just DH. But i like then anyway.
@Tsukuri1238 ай бұрын
So I've just had an issue... and I don't know if it's because of my scrub methods or not. Playing Historical, Civilian difficulty (shush), and followed this guide roughly enough that it shouldn't be an issue. I... can't cheese Qingdao... I've had a total of 4 naval invasions since the war started, it's been just over a year now, and none of them have gone to Qingdao... I'm sat here waiting for something to happen so I can milk and cheese the Japanese armies to reduce their numbers, but I'm not being given the chance to do so. Aside from changing difficulty, is there anything that could cause this? (I have some mods, but nothing AI changing) EDIT: After 2 years... it finally happened -.-
@m1ghtypotat0748 ай бұрын
Field Marshal Den Dong that Name alone🤣😂
@AAAAsian8 ай бұрын
Deng Dong Truly the best general in the world. Sun Tzu will be proud