You can actually press shift while creating a new production line to put it on the top of the list, instead of having to move them from bottom to top every time

Imagine being a soldier in the Carlist army. It seems all has been lost, and you will soon die. Then, with the arrival of a new general, things start to change. Fighting off a naval invasion. Seizing Bilbao. It would have been crazy

Fun Fact: The only reason Vichy was chosen as the capital of the rump state was because it had a post office 🐢

10:25 either you don't get a warning, or if you are in a faction, you get a warning that on the other side of the world, where you have nothing, the enemy is invading an empty island

Can this be the norm for this series? Save it, then just savage the rest of the map to the best of your abilities? You’re a very good hoi4 player to watch, your strategies and advice is the only reason I have almost 500 hours in hoi4, which made me realize you’re basically the sensei to our grasshopper brains 😂

Bitt3erSteel, I've seen your previous videos, and through this I know how much you hate no manpower and bad equipment. Combined with 92% CAPITULATION, I honestly wasn't sure if you were gonna pull it off. Then I saw there was still almost 30 minutes left and was like "Okay, hes got this."

bittersteel calling the axis weak after leeching an ungodly amount of infantry equipment from the axis

"Trains? No, no trains" literally a second later "I notice we don't have any trains!" 😂😂😂

I mean, it's literally S-Pain, that S tier rank must come from somewhere

you're my fav hoi4 youtuber bro

Oh my god i've just resently played Carlists and I cant even describe how poorly this was executed. How did this guy pick like the worst provinces to core, mess up the original rush i mean the Spanish have like 0 divisions on your border when you break free, plus the Spanish civil war debuffs. Plus how the actual fuck did you not kill Bilbao.

The title=Spain is pain Me translate it=spain is bread

13:21 POV: Papa Stalin sees you're a staunch monarchist and approves the sending of guns anyway

As someone who just did a Carlist run a few days ago, I can relate to this title on a spiritual level. I felt physical pain trying to get this show on the road but was eventually able to save the axis and win the game in the end.

Love your content bro! Your practical thinking in solving problems is truly inspiring and not only in the game but in everyday life. Thank you from Greece!! Im sure whatever content you make you will make it special!!

Idk why but I keep coming back to the Spanish civil war, I genuinely love the micro and the playing field is relatively fair without having to do anything cheesy. Amazing recovery though!

I appreciate you taking on these saves, especially the ones where they have no business continuing the run. Watching you attempt to save these helps teach skills to not get into the situation to begin with. Cheers!

haven't watched you in a while and gotta say I love the new editing style

22:20 steals all the guns in the first half of the game and then say the axis feels so weak I WONDER WHY ?XD

You can actually press shift while deleting a production line to delete all production lines. This is especially useful when setting up. Speaking of setting up, as long as the game is in the first hour of Jan. 1936 when you create a new production line it starts with significantly more efficiency.

Absolutely love your videos man! Been watching for quite a while and I really appreciate your vids!

At this point I’m convinced that bitter steel can turn ANY situation you throw at him. There’s no stopping this man

his was so chill with the music. Keep it up man!

Your pronunciation of Spanish cities is better than average 👍

I really like the way Spain looks on the map with Vichy France's territory.

Love Disaster Saves!

really love the funky music you are using in your videos!

I really love how you went beyond after you won the civil war, and see how much you can deal as Carlist Spain.

Spain is Pain has quickly become my new catch-phrase when I play Germany.

So this is what the battle of Kursk was supposed to look like 😂

Considering how fanatical the Carlists are, this sudden turnaround in the civil war must have felt like divine intervention.

0:28 this is the first time i've seen the conditional surrender having a green checkmark

Heyo Bitt3rsteel ! Thank you for all the great content ! Thanks to you I'm improving very fast at the game :-) Have you ever think about doing an A to Z + releasable countries of HOI4 ? I know others have done it but I'm sure you're expertise would make most of the campaigns interesting !

“we are outnumbered outgunned” “guns and boats” so close to hamilton references!

"Trains? No, no trains" literally a second later "I notice we don't have any trains!"

That huge pocket was basically a reverse Stalingrad

I remember my first Spain run. It was a Carlist run. Didn't core anything except Burgos, Bilbao and Western Aragon. I was relentlessly charging the lines as the Republicans so I lost all my equipment before I broke off and I lost almost instantly.

Javier was the true Carlist pretender, you have chosen wisely :)

Spain was literally where I started my HoI4 career, but as the Republicans instead. I can confirm that if the SCW goes wrong, it tends to do so "gradually, then all at once". Eventually, it gets to a point where you can't regain control and will just lose.

I clicked off the video but saw "sike" before it loaded the next haha

YOU SHALL KNOW sPAIN!

I've recently gotten HOI4 and i love the game and i always wonder how you do it! You've just earned a new subscriber 😄

Your Disaster videos made me turn on notifications on your channel haha

The save game we deserve

Bro imagine the allies, i mean there is Vichy and Free France in them XD

germany/Italy: That's a nice plot of land you got there, it would be a shame if tanks rolled over your backyard.

this man can invade the world as vitican city in only 30 mins

@10:26 you got warned when your country detected the invasion/incoming troops. To get more warning you need to have greater intel on your enemies (or have intercepted or somehow interacted with the invasion). I noticed the mechanic between NSB and BBA. No longer do you have omnipotent knowledge about your enemies naval invasion plans without effort.

Thank you for suffering for our amusement! Much appreciate your skills :)

truly spain whitout the S (sure do hope no french people read this)

"The axis feels weak this patch" ignores the years of imports they sent to you, likely being the main reason they died lol

the first one reminds me of alex the rambler's first carlist attempt when LR came out

26:50 POV: You encircle the entirety of Belarus

I recently managed to survive as Anarchist Spain, took till 1942 at the cost of about 2mil total casualties but I still managed it lol

"you kiss ass wherever you find ass" Such wisdom

Plot twist! He was playing as The Repulicans and then tag switched over

You know, my friend There are easier ways to be a masochist on the internet Probably cheaper than all the PDX DLC too

Bittersteel 2021: saves intense hard games Bittersteel 2022: saves disposed games Bittersteel 2023: cheats in ironman mode just to take over 99% fallen AI SU to save game against his own units

how can i send in a disaster save to you. i had a normal good actually great austria hungary game until romania suddenly joined the axis. would love to see you try saving that game but i dont know how to send

Am I the only one who thinks that Bittersteel is slowly seducing us with the BGM? Bit of Spanish spice inbetween

It's always fun to watch the civil war, but it's never fun playing it.

"You kiss ass, wherever you find ass", love it :D

Does bro have a new editor?,sorry for asking late

I an game where the other four factions just spawned and i was nacionalist spais retreating to Galicia saved me

If you justify and puppet Portugal before you do the focus they'll say yes when you do the focus.

Spain is spin Spain - a = spin

"hover i like to suffer"

Looks like a Spanish Taliban no one expected them to win

Played ahist democratic Spain with Franco as my field marshal, it was an experience

Did he just said about liberating Kola peninsula while playing as the Axis

Hey, Bitt3r, since i will get BBA for christmas, could you please do a tutorial for Germany?

The one thing really sucks as Carlist Spain is also that you can't get a brilliant strategist general (which might be less bad now that you can get them from army / military academy "focuses", but it sucked in early variants of the game), because even if you can flip over someone like Rojo Lluch to the nationalist side, all the really good generals stay with the nationalists. It's also ridiculous that they'd have people like Astray flip over. Astray was VERY close with Franco IRL, there's no way that he would flip over to the Carlist side. Varela owed much of his standing in the Nationalist army to Franco also, because Franco took away command from Yague (who initially lead the Army of Africa columns from Sevilla towards Madrid) and gave field command to Varela, and gave him field command for many of the most important battles & offensives. Lluch, on the other hand, was somewhat of a Republican (actual one, not like most of the leftoid scum on the "Republican" side), and he was probably the most capable (staff) officer IRL on the "Republican" side. If he were on the Nationalist side, then more likely than not he'd be more inclined to fight alongside Carlists or Alfonsinists (the "other"/main monarchists) than a Fascist junta under Mola or Primo de Rivera. So imo you should at least get the option to try and flip generals to the Carlist side. But oh well... Also Finland needs a tree already... it pisses me off, that a country who fought not only the Winter War but also the Continuation War almost never enters the latter (despite this feature working just fine in HoI2 & Darkest Hour, as well as HoI3 - didn't play that one nearly as much as 2 / Darkest Hour - if I remember correctly) and still has no tree, but the most irrelevant nations (to WW2) like the Baltics, Ethiopea, Switzerland, et cetera all have a tree. Even Sweden and such. Or Mexico, who did fuck all other than send a squadron of volunteer pilots, and a minimal troop contribution...

Why is the soviet union sending you guns but also volunteers to your enemy?😂

Spain was good but Spain is better but Spain didn't have a chance however Spain was ok

"Spain is Pain" Frenchies: Spain is bread>

Hello, Bitt3rSteel I’ve always wondered were you’re from or is it secret, my guesses are either France Germany or Belgium or Sweden

I have kinda cravin an updated SCW guide

Lore of Spain is Pain momentum 100

*PAIN*

Man what the hell is this song? I'm vibing innit

13:19 Soviet war profiteering, yaaaaaaay

PRC winning the civil war be like:

I'm kinda bad at the game, I have over 100 hours but started playing decently just recently, and this video just gives me hope lol, how tf could you win that.

Looks like someone new to the game wanted to try one of the harder route

I began to believe that you are a masochist

Legend

Even spain doesn't like to spain - a.

Have you played Victoria 3 yet? You should try it out if not and maybe make a video on it in the future.

Hi Bitt3rSteel, will you make something like "tutorial video" for airplanes ? After BBA and new air designer my planes dont work and I totally lost taste for this game . Especially navalbombers are total trash and I dont know how to fix them. Thank you very much.

When i did a Spain run, i chose the nationalists and tried to speedrun the civil war. I failed to pull it off as fast as envisioned, but by august 1938 i was done with the war. I rebuilt and as the Axis took the mainland and was somewhat succesfull in the east, i decided to join them and see what i could do. I joined the war against the allies as soon as i had 3 full armies, 7/2's with some support units. At first i tried to win the Africa theatre, but supply and accessibility made it so i was running around alot and reconquering alot. So i decided to help with the naval invasions as they were growing from the west. Tried to also cover all the islands in the Mediterranean to kick out the allies completely from there. All but Malta and Cyprus were in Axis hands when i started to run around in west Europa killing beach heads from South France to Denmark and north Germany. I had my fun and wanted to actually make gains as they just kept coming. So i decided what was needed was to kick out the Soviets using 2 of my 3 armies. When i occupied a stretch of frontline and gave the order to move the front forward, i was quite surprised when i saw the red letters pop up very frequently: OVERRUN. I wasn't encircling any armies, they just were infantry moving forward, melting divisions in their path. Never have i seen it and never have i reproduced this. The campaign went on and as the Soviets were pushed back, the naval landings started to threat my cores, so i abandoned the eastern front to retake my cores and that of Germany. Again, but this time USA, British and Free French troops (and then some others) were melting away with red letters announcing they were overrun... At the end of the campaign, around 1957 when i invaded the USA, after struggling to advance (no air superiority, supply issues and AI completely swarming the front) i gained at some point decent enough supply to move forward. As supply got better again, the OVERRUN started to appear in red again. My question is this: can it be replicated. I had historical on and regular difficulty.

Winning the civil war as carlist spain and winning it relatively fast is the easy part. What sucks is trying to get France and breaking through BEFORE they either join the ALlies or before the Germans can grab anything for Vichy (so then you have to join their faction), is what is more sucky. I tried the run multiple times, and each time I had a gap (several months) between the initial SCW and then the attempt by the nationalists to squash the carlist uprising, but when I try to drag it out it always gets fucked up by the volunteers (but without them it's much harder). The trick to winning fast as Carlists is positioning your troops in fallback lines and not investing too much in the southern provinces at all, plus investing PP and watching the timing on the decision to switch over states (I think you can only do 3 or 4 anyway, if I remember correctly). You can surrender the Republicans/Anarchists very fast that way, and the fight against the nationalists becomes easier. I tried with 2 heavy tank divisions as break through, I tried other shit. I always get the timing wrong, and the terrain in southern France doesn't help either. Maybe I should just mine the shit out of the bay of biscay and channel during the SCW, to make it easier to get naval landings. Idk. But the heavy tank stuff was prior to blood alone, and prior to there being 1934 mediums, so that might be a viable alternative as they're faster and you can produce more of them + better breakthrough than light tanks.

If this was the real life scenario, modern Galicia would be one of the most hated regions in the world 😭

if you remove the S in well be pain

Game for a inepts in history

Why was Republican Spain's capital not Madrid... but Badajoz?

really good spanish, muy buena pronunciacion

Imagine being a German or Italian "volunteer" fighting the Carlists for the nationalists in Spain. When suddenly the Carlists start shooting back at you with new rifles straight off the assembly line... from Germany and Italy.

you cannot write spain without pain

feedback, i mean uuh beatersteal do you have all achivements in hoi√16??

indeed