Try to do puppetmaster challenge as Communist Italy, because all your puppets get a industry buff.

A little factoid about the "egg-headed" leader you got for Sanation Left. This guy was actually pretty close with Piłsudski (who created Sanation) but got marginalized by the late 30s, and actually commited suicide in April 1939, so he shouldn't be available as a leader in the 1939 start date (since it starts in August)

My favourite part of the video was when he said ”can we survive for 30 minutes as poland” and then survived 30 minutes as poland all over the place

You can que up divisions before you lose land so you have a stockpile of manpower in training divisions and when you need it you can delete the training divisions

The first time I managed it was actually in By Blood Alone. Held on and held on but got to about 200k shy when I finally got beaten. But as a government in exile with high legitimacy, I managed to get my army to Denmark, kill a few more, but before I got wiped out, I pulled out to Norway with like my last 6 divisions. Germany finally got ontop, but I set a ring around Oslo and killed the final 100k there to get the achievement.

once i was playing Austria against Germany and Italy, and then cuz I joined the Allies and the Czechs were in it, I got the same frontline glitch too and then capped, but keeping my 36 divisions in Slovakia. i feel the pain too.

Slawek, Churchill, and de Gaulle agree to a conference in, say, London. Churchill and de Gaulle are early. Some minutes later, they hear large footsteps and feel the ground trembling. Slawek knocks open the door half a minute later with his cane he needs so his pure steel balls dont pull him down and, seeing Churchill and de Gaulle cowering in a corner, he says "Smells like bitch in here". He spends 3 hours of the conference listing the newest victories of Poland and then asks the two others what progress theyve made. Churchill and de Gaulle look at each other. Realising that they havent made any advances, Slawek gets up and leaves.

Tbh the easiest method to this achievment is to just capitulate (yes you can) and then on other fronts cause 1.8mln casualities. Its very easy that way

I'm so sorry you had to go through this lol

Do you know why it has Hel with 1 L? It is because there is a tiny peninsula in the north where there is that little bulge, and its called Hel

2 Germanies? What a bizarre timeline

Brilliant work. I Saw creamylou back in the day and i didn't manage to replicate it yet. Your defense was a lot more solid, and your counterattack was epic!

Anyone else notice that the quality of Bitt3rSteel's videos has increase massively?

Tip: if you end up having to choose between being pushed out of any tiles, always hold on to the cities. You can survive with just the cities, and if you lose the northern two tiles, you can use Czechoslovakia as an alternate cycling base

Wow amazing game! Such a nice defence! What a way to end your 2022 content! Thanks for the many awesome content in 2022 and best wishes for 2023!

12:38 ROBLOX RISE OF NATIONS REFERENCE!

This was awesome! Just attempted it and managed to complete it on my third try. I eventually just slapped the 48 divisions on full frontlines and placed the remaining 16 across three sections that seem to get completely bombarded much more than others. I found for the most part, letting the computer manage the frontlines was pretty sufficient almost the entire way. Aside from that, I didn't do anything differently aside from making the mistake of using the other field marshal. The other one gets kicked out when you go Left so... I wasted all that xp... haha. Would've certainly made me succeed sooner. I do feel like I was bombarded a bit more hardcore than you in my playthrough, I was drained of manpower even with Scraping the Barrel (and trust me... I never take that unless it's desperate) -- I figured the lack of manpower would force me to capitulate moreso than the lack of guns. Seemed to work but I do wonder if I made the right choice. Maybe having the extra factory output would've helped with defense with my guns. We may never know...

You can easily just hold in Warsaw and a few seperate provinces- honestly not that hard to get the achievement. Eventually ended my game after I tallied up seven million German casualties after the Allies lost Africa for the second time and the Soviets died. Probably should've kept historical focuses on, lesson learned, since without it, the AI just sucks even more against the Axis.

Nice run. Here's to you and yours, Happy New Year and many more to come.

I have one more tweak - assign Stanisław Sosabowski as one of the generals for your armies. His stats are not that good, but he starts with the Commando trait. Which allows you to assign him the trait Camouflage expert for 50% reduction of the damage from CAS right from the start. And when he reaches level 4 you can assign him to Military High Command as Concealment Specialist for reduction of the enemy air support. As he will see lots of action in the trenches he will get to 6 in no time. In my game he got to 8 actually. The Commando trait is due to his role in Market-Garden operation - he commanded the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade that landed in Driel near to Arnhem. Gene Hackman played him in the movie "A Bridge Too Far".

LOL Creamy Lou sounds so pervy.

I would love to see if you can still do the Siberian Tiger achievement with the By blood alone DLC due to the changes in the Peace conferences, I have attempted it but it seems that getting china is no longer possible as the Soviets will take the land now. I feel it would be a good challenge and I have yet to see an updated tutorial for it. Good luck.

Thank you for this guide! I got the achievement right now, i thought this achievement was really difficult but it was easier then expected!

Ohhh a fresh take on some old lore, interesting

Imagine the history books of this universe and how enshrined the polish high command is, liberating itself, taking berlin, and wiping the flow with the soviets

So just a tip, at the beginning of the game, if you que up 1 fort in the tile north of Katowice, 2 forts in the forest tile north of Krakow, and 1 fort in Krakow, and 1 in Katowice (in that order) you have just enough time to get 3 (4 if you're really lucky) built before the Germans start attacking (as long as you scorched earth everything). When you unpause, also make sure to hit the strategic redeployment order so your units get to your fallback lines ASAP and get those few days of extra entrenchment (don't worry their organization fully recovers before the war starts). Also pick up the scavenger trait if you can, it makes a big difference early on to get that bit of enemy equipment. Hold off hitting the desperate defense decision for a month or so if you can, it helps tide you over until prepare for the inevitable is completed.

First thing I've done in 2023 is watch a Bitt3rSteel video. Happy New Year everyone!

I’m so glad you made this video. I was literally trying this last night and failed at 1.6 mil casualties

I wasn’t able to get the achievement using other guides, but I was able to do it using this strategy! Thx!

I am very glad to see you struggle with front lines so much, that its not just me :D

Ultra based western KZfaqr making Kraków the unofficial capital of Poland in 30 minutes of hell

Finally a video I've been waiting for your video and happy new year guys

Hey man, I really like your videos. I find them relaxing. Good shit my guy

I was watching one of your disaster save's video and now new video!

Thanks for this achievement guide, really helped me. Though J did find in my first attempt I pushed out way too early and that ended my run. You do get really low on guns again but this can be solved with I think army in exile

Oh man the only thing this video is missing is it being 30 minutes long lmao, you were sooo close

This was a really entartaining video idk why but i think u should make more of this content cus i would love to see it

You didnt need to give up Wilno. It was placed between Belarus and Lithuania with no border to Germany. You would be further from the brink. Also, you could have put a bunch of men into training to save a bunch of manpower.

Just got the achievement in the 1st attempt, thanks Bitt3rSteel! I've tried it before using "horseshoe" tactic, but next to Warsaw (I think Feedback did video about it), but failed few times and gave up. But I did few mistakes, so I barley survived and had red bubbles between 15-30 till late 1940. I think I didn't rotate divisions enough in the early game, so I had huge casualties and constant lack of equipment. So if someone is gonna try it, make sure you move your units manually

a tip for poland is to spam a shit ton of unit into training but never deploy them so when you retreat you delete the training divs then you get the mp

You have no idea how glad I am someone else struggles with front lines too :)

Always great videos. Respect for you

Oh Bitt3rSteel posted my day just became better

*Inside the Fuhrerbunker* Keitel: “As you can see here, the Allies have landed in southern France, Northern France. They have pushed inland rapidly and overwhelmed Mohnke and Whitmann’s division. The Allies also landed at Anzio, pushed inland to take Rome, and Mussolini is hanging on a limb here. Our attempted landing in the Middle East was thwarted and now Rommel and Fegelein are trapped against the Turkish border while the Turks watch and laugh. Also we’ve still got that annoying Polish pocket to deal with.” H-Man: “It’s no big deal, Steiner will crush them and move on to reinforce Steinhof and Guderian in France.” Keitel: “Erm…Mein Fuhrer… Steiner…” Krebs: “Steiner…he…um…” Jodel: “Steiner was encircled and killed in Breslau, the Poles are marching on Berlin as we speak.” *Explosion in the distance shakes the room, followed by very muffled gunfire and angry Polish screaming* H-Man: **Downfall Rant**

you can do the focus "Prepare for the inevitable" even after capitulating

when I did it I did the warsaw strategy still which I think still works fine, the German AI is a bit smarter and doesn't fall for the encirclements as often but you do get to keep way more industry around.

a small thing i noticed usingthis strat: at the start, if you queue up divisions and then release belarus and ukraine, you get to keep a good amount of the manpower from there. if you queue up divisiosn while the germans are taking territory, you get to keep some of the manpower from the land you give up as well.

For those that do not get the joke in the achivement title, Hel is a polish peninsula.

Happy New year Bittersteel 🍾

That is all I ever wanted. Thank you.

Next hoi4 challenge: As France in 1939 scenario take out germany in less than 2 months

I came here to listen to Polish names pronunciation. I wasn't disappointed

Thank you for playing as poland

use the rivers around warsaw, krakow kielce and lodz and build forts where there isn't a river protecting the defensive line

Tried to follow this guide and found that zoalzie can do the same job as that center tile while also allowing for a slightly smaller defensive line.

I was dreaming of an update to this!

I thought, "wow this looks like a fun challenge and with this guide i should be able to do it." The British got navaly invaded by germany in 1941 and being in the allies means i lost.

happy new year bro!!

wow, this is so amazing how this works. i have to try this

This reminds me of the old way of playing Ehiopia, just defend 2 or 3 provinces and survive until you got elite trops and high level generals to counter atack

Mościcki's new portrait looks like tom hanks and no-one can convince me otherwise.

Maybe bank manpower up by training units so manpower no longer issue? Perhaps also regain control of Poland (as much as possible) and grab manpower whenever you can? Idk if its a good strategy but I see feedback gaming doing it

Did anyone else notice the 1300 pp at the start?

You almost got back all the territory Poland-Lithuania had before there royal Union Glorious

*Germany declares war and all of Poland just blows up

happy new year bro

24:14 Paradox: we've updated the peace deal Hoi4 community: oh yay! So you fixed it? Paradox: we've updated it Hoi4 community: 😮‍💨

Well I managed to get the achievement and not once during the 2 in-game years I played before getting the achievement did Germany or their allies stop attacking me. It was absolutely horrible and I had zero breathing room the entire time. Thank you for the guide because I feel like I would have gone mostly insane if not inspired to actual completion.

You should try again the bad romances achievement since bba change a lot of mechanics

You can also use desperate defense decision until you get prepare for the inevitable

Side note for people with the latest version: the extra land for Belarus does not matter, in the newest update, despite the extra land lose too belarus, you will be at 98% towards capitulation instead of 99%

Can someone explain to me how the garrison order in neutral country "strat"/cheat I've never heard its mentioned at 9:20

I have nothing to say really, but I appreciate your content, and wish to help with the yt-algorithms.

17:14 wait until he finds out what Germany done to the Poles in occupied areas

21:55 Danzig is Gdansk! >:D Also omg that border gore :(

Bittersteel's insanity has grown substantially after the release of this video...

I don't have MTG, so I can't prepare for the inevitable. DAMN

I like the "Poland is not yet lost" accent :)

Yes

This feels like the siege of constantinople by the ottomans.

Best strategy is to delete your army so germany will annex everything but zaolzie. You have op focuses that allow you to develop zaolzie enough to make lvl 6 forts. You can hold zaolzie with 3 20width infantry divisions with support arti and air, shovels and recon per tile and germans will endlesly attack you. In my playthrough my casualties where only 56.

Oh my god he finally did it, every stop panicking

It worked, super easy actually, little bit of micro to not lose territory but that was all

Hey! Just noticed you’ve made a typo in your video description ! "I upload new video's frequently” there’s no apostrophe between the o and the s in “videos”. Just wanted to let you know! have a good one!

Weird challenge idea: stop producing anything but air after the war begins and rely entirely on captured equipment (or lend lease). I recommend using the Asymmetric Warfare doctrine from rt56 because it early on gives scout companies massive bonuses to equipment capture.

I wonder if you can build a railway gun in that amount of time and move it to the horseshoe

Try the same on elite setting

LIBERIA HOI4 THAT NO OTHER KZfaqR EVER DID LIKE ALL DLC

Ive tried this challenge like 4 times now and the closest i got before capping is about 1mil casualties

I was wondering why you consider the fieldmarshal order with garrisons cheating? All it does is stop your units from moving like idiots and it's not like you're using it to get around the unit cap for generals. Also is there actually a need to give away the Lithuanian territory? There isn't a land connection after creating belarus and i don't think the germans ever use their one paratrooper

I think one useful strat is just before Germany invades, start training as many units as possible. When they make it to the horseshoe, cancel them all. This takes a pool of manpower from your entire country and adds it to your new pool in the horseshoe

you can release Lithuania like puppet and using the focus you can form a Commonwealth, i don't know if that work with decision

Happy new year

My best run Ever was with poland, a few years ago lol I somehow managed to invade and Capture Germany by like summer 1938 (starting in 36) Then Russia fell by '41 or '42 and of course the game just dragged on to '45 with out much else to do

If only this took 30 minutes

Great guide i had it up to 1 million dead germans when out of no where "london has Fallen" poped up and 2 min later the allies where dead and since i joined the faction i died aswell :C

Good thing he didn't attempt this challenge now, after the update to special forces Germany would quickly overrun him due to the one paratroopers doctrine path selection that lowers org when a paradrop trooper lands (if the ai is even capable of doing so, of course...)

"Guns. LOTS Of Guns." Bittersteel, January 2023

Could you try don’t die for your country again, I’ve been trying to get it lately but the old strategy doesn’t seem to work.

Did nobody notice that he put Help Me as his division name