HoI4 A to Z: Austria can make Austria-Hungary AGAIN!

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11 ай бұрын

In this entry in my A to Z series, we play Austria and try to make it Great again.
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@metz3351 11 ай бұрын

That moment when Poland and Hungary got their Habsburg paths before Austria

@dantemcmillan6337 11 ай бұрын

Yup I saw him pull up the focus tree first minute into the video and I was confused, at this point I would’ve been totally okay with bitter using Road to 56 for certain countries. Because Austria not having a proper focus tree is downright fucking disgusting.

@Bitt3rSteel 11 ай бұрын

True, but I appreciate a challenge

@kniazjarema8587 11 ай бұрын

@@dantemcmillan6337 This game will be close to 10 years soon. The fact that austria, sweden with norway and (I think) whole south america does not have a unique focus true is like you said, downright fucking disgusting. You pay 20-30$ for a dlc, and all you get is focus tree up to 2-3 countries. And don't give me the "paradox can support hoi4 thanks to this" crap. It helps, but this amount of money for so little is no laughing matter. mods can give you better focus trees, and much, much more for free. Why can't just paradox contact them, and work with them? literally no reason to give money to paradox at this point, they are so anti consumer.

@RandooGaming 11 ай бұрын

@@kniazjarema8587exactly this. This is why I never buy dlc full price and I would pirate them if I knew how

@theholydoggo6378 11 ай бұрын

@@dantemcmillan6337 I agree, Switzerland and Ethiopia getting focus trees before Austria and Belgium is fucking horrendous

@ancaoraathasach 11 ай бұрын

It blows my mind that Switzerland got a tree but Austria has to live with the generic one while two other countries can get Habsburgs.

@plebisMaximus 11 ай бұрын

To be fair, they exist entirely to be eaten by Germany.

@drew17210 11 ай бұрын

262 likes and no comments? Let me fix that

@ancaoraathasach 11 ай бұрын

@@drew17210 Thanks!

@terrarossa879 11 ай бұрын

Switzerland tree is so offputting when playing as them or when playing against them, on ahistorical they usually get half of my Italian puppets for free its kinda revolting

@drew17210 10 ай бұрын

@@ancaoraathasach it now has exactly 100 more

@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad 11 ай бұрын

Austria explaining why it can’t proclaim the rebirth of Austria-Hungary because they lost a single city out of thousands:

@Barwasser 9 ай бұрын

"It... just doesn't feel right, you know?" - Archduke BitterStahl von Habsburg, 1939

@antasil5768 11 ай бұрын

Haha! That emotional rollercoaster of losing czech occupation and then getting it back, awesome!

@Bitt3rSteel 11 ай бұрын

Wanted to flip my desk at that point

@catfacecat. 10 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteelI love watching you suffer more than isp there

@petoxeye 11 ай бұрын

A thing you can do to avoid germany getting a lot of war score is disabling supply for your allies in supply map mode, which will make germans refuse to have divisions on the frontline

@J7Handle 11 ай бұрын

Won’t stop the Sudetenland thing though.

@benjaminphelps561 11 ай бұрын

Austria-Hungary may have been a failed state, but it just looks nice on the map i dont know how to describe it. it just feels correct in the space

@ivanvladimir0435 11 ай бұрын

1-Yugoslavia is ugly 2-Romania is ugly

@neverburstx4638 9 ай бұрын

True

@theemperor-wh40k18 7 ай бұрын

It was a failed state AT thé end or ww1. Before that it functioned.

@KayJay01 7 ай бұрын

Aren't all defunct states by definition "failed" once they can't control their own territory? How was Austria-Hungary any more of a failed state than, for example; the German Empire (and then the German Reich), Russian Empire (and then the Soviet Union), Kingdom of Denmark-Norway (and then the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway), Roman Empire, Holy Roman Empire, the many forms of Spain over the years, the many French Republics/Empires, etc.? These all lasted for a long time until some revolution happened to where it couldn't continue existing and became some other form with different territory.

@benjaminphelps561 7 ай бұрын

@@KayJay01 yes, that was my meaning of it, i couldve worded it better in hindsight

@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva 11 ай бұрын

Seyss-Inquart should 100% have a portrait in-game considering he's also one of the Reichskommissariat leaders.

@Hilter420 11 ай бұрын

Same with Egelseer because Germany gets him as a general (a good one at that) and then you have this generic guy in the middle of unique german portraits sticking out like a sore thumb

@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva 11 ай бұрын

@@Hilter420 I'm incredulous as to whether Germany would need another "rework," but they 100% need a "tune-up" like the Together For Victory countries got. More portraits, more flavour, maybe some minor improvements to a few focuses like Form the RKs so you could have more puppets like Bohemia-Moravia and the General Government.

@32Vache 11 ай бұрын

Well for a fact if Austria gets fascist without getting Anchlussed, and Germany makes Reichkommissariat Niederlande, Seyss-Inquart will be in charge of both but will only have a portrait on the kommissariat.

@TSnake1982 11 ай бұрын

Arthur Zes en een Kwart was Hitler’s man in the Netherlands, so it is strange that he has a generic portrait. Also Ernst Kaltenbrunner with generic photo, same as Rendulic I think.

@shadelampsofficial 11 ай бұрын

@@Hilter420 hes actually the character of the default guy

@mobgabriel1767 11 ай бұрын

austria:denies the anschluss bad moustache guy:oh no anyway...*proceeds to invite to faction

@Panzerless_SG 11 ай бұрын

Fun fact, Seys-Inquart was the governer of the occupied Netherlands in WW2. We called him "Zes en een kwart" or "Six and a Quarter" this joke was made because he walked really limp, almost like one of his legs were much larger then the other.

@six6six834 11 ай бұрын

I struggle doing Austria-Hungary as Hungary, and this mf does this as Austria. You earned a like

@toddbussey5718 11 ай бұрын

Heh, I came up with the basic strategy and Bitt3rSteel improved upon it .

@Kioskettoh 8 ай бұрын

exactly what i was thinking the whole time i was watching the video xD

@MajinObama 6 ай бұрын

Me doing Austria for years 💀 I only have Waking the Tiger and Battle of the Bosporous sooo... no spy stuff or whatever etc. . I even managed to ally with Italy against them twice, holding the 2 tiles at the Mountain Range left and right, but it doesn't work! Italians are so bad somehow 😭 I would never start from Hungary. Doesn't fit

@Kioskettoh 6 ай бұрын

if you have discord i can help you with a dlc unlocker, since its so expensive i just cracked the dlcs@@MajinObama

@night9o283 11 ай бұрын

Pro tip: in case your troops are pinned by enemy, and you have an EMPTY enemy tile that you wanna take (expl: zagreb was empty, enemy was pinning you), you could do some cheese to circumvent the pinning, first pause the game, then fallback/retreat your troop into your own territory, once you have the retreat arrow shown, right click on the empty enemy tile you want to take, this will make your division 'retreat' into the enemy territory and voila it's yours

@theorange1729 11 ай бұрын

But wouldn't that make you not actually control the tile you've walked onto? I've had many instances of my troops standing on enemy territory after retreating onto it.

@night9o283 11 ай бұрын

@@theorange1729 That happens to me sometimes but if you unpause the game for a few hours the tile will swap to you

@kakhasukhitashvili5617 11 ай бұрын

@@theorange1729 click and that same tile with that division and it will occupy it

@ImJustAKwimpOfficial 11 ай бұрын

My guess is that after we get the Nordic countries we will get a germanic dlc with Belgium, Austria, improved Germany and maybe even Luxembourgish focus trees

@sebe2255 11 ай бұрын

Luxemburgish? Lol Besides Austria should have been a part of the latest one

@ImJustAKwimpOfficial 11 ай бұрын

@@sebe2255 yeah but they didnt now did they?

@user-vi1qz5um4i 11 ай бұрын

they never exactly said that Austria wouldn't receive one in this one, so maybe since austria is a snowy mountain country, they'll give Austria a tree along with the nordics? idk.

@aidenbooksmith2351 11 ай бұрын

i doubt Austria will get a tree. The right time to give Austria a focus tree was in Death or Dishonor or By Blood Alone. Same for Albania, who was skipped THREE times: Death or Dishonor (they're next to Yugoslavia), Battle for the Bosporus (they're next to Greece), and By Blood Alone (they're connected to Italy)

@KayJay01 7 ай бұрын

Nordic (apart from Finnish) is Germanic btw :) So is English... And Belgium is more Dutch and French than German. Only the tiny territory ceded to Belgium after WW1 is ethnically German. More Dutch people speak German as their native language than in Belgium... Germanic is a language family, German is a specific language. The areas we typically consider German are part of the High and Low German language groups (which does not include Belgium) And you forgot about Alsace-Lorraine (modern day Alsace-Moselle) in France, which is a majority High German area, and Trentino-Alto Adige (southern Tyrol) in Italy, also a majority High German area. Both of these areas are bigger (Just Trentino-Alto Adige in Italy has over a million people, compared to the 77,000 in Belgium) than the tiny part of Belgium that is majority German...

@mark2.057 11 ай бұрын

I would've recommended playing Austria with the rt56 focus

@ThatOneMedic 11 ай бұрын

There’s also a mod named “Dreams of Austria” where you can remake the Austrian and Austro Hungarian Empires. ( The HRE too )

@christoperwallace6197 11 ай бұрын

That would invalidate the whole point of the list. Which is to play the base game A to Z.

@mark2.057 11 ай бұрын

@@christoperwallace6197 but he played a mod with argentina

@KayJay01 7 ай бұрын

He stated in previous episodes that he could play with mods, and did so with Argentina.@@christoperwallace6197

@DieFrauAmHerd 11 ай бұрын

this run is symbolic for every hoi4 achievment game im playing. Just some weird A.I. thing happening everytime screwing me over.

@Mr_Fridge 11 ай бұрын

I been waring ages for this but another great video Bitt3r 🎉good job 👍

@Bitt3rSteel 11 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoyed it!

@Mr_Fridge 11 ай бұрын

I did . (Very good video)thanks for replying

@venicechick 11 ай бұрын

i was hoping you gonna do austria in road to 56, but this is awesome video too

@Bitt3rSteel 11 ай бұрын

Maybe one day!

@ghbobf 11 ай бұрын

we all love to see a bitt3rsteel upload ! would have enjoyed seeing a "survive against anschluss run" tho

@ayegaming14 3 ай бұрын

When I play Austria, I always use between two giants because it has a huge focus tree that has a bigger focus tree than any other country. It has basically any path that you can think of and it is extremely fun, but most are hard because of Germany

@DBPRODUCTIONS10 11 ай бұрын

I love it when you show how to play minor nations with the generics

@knightoflight8249 11 ай бұрын

*A Good Austria-Hungary run never gets old.*

@Robochuck 11 ай бұрын

Austria has a generic tree!? Wow... Paradox needs to get on that stat

@vidsforlife760 11 ай бұрын

Bittersteel never fails to fill me up with happiness

@MowThatLawn 11 ай бұрын

If austria gets a focus tree I would love an option to form the holy roman empire in the tree

@privatecanook 11 ай бұрын

Cant wait for the next episode with A for Alf Landon

@ianhogben3472 11 ай бұрын

loving the series

@Emmaria_ 11 ай бұрын

You actually ended that game in a prime position to be a scenario where someone could play any side of the war.

@ivanvladimir0435 11 ай бұрын

I would also think of one that includes France which is right after he got control of ostrava

@EnhancedEditzzz 4 ай бұрын

You just gained a sub because of playing Austria in HOI4 ❤️

@walnzell9328 11 ай бұрын

One thing you can do to prevent Germany from taking any land in the war against Yugoslavia is deny your allies access to your supply. This, I believe, will keep than from walking through your controlled territory, meaning they can't get into Yugoslavia. Unless of course they start some sort of naval invasion all the way from northern Germany all the way down into the Mediterranean. Or use paratroopers.

@dgravelo 11 ай бұрын

I was hoping for Austrian Australia but that was freking awesome, 10/10 video

@jailer75 11 ай бұрын

New Bittersteel video, Best Saturday ever!!!

@leizzy1441 11 ай бұрын

24:44 The amount of stress that you get playing hoi4 is sometimes bigger than the dopamine levels, its not worth it, but we keep playing.

@felix-olivierroy2169 11 ай бұрын

Merci!

@arthurzwachte5537 11 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Kurt Schuschnigg (Leader of Austria from 1934 to 1938) was also a fascist, with an similar symbol to the hakenkreuz, the Kruckenkreuz(Shown on the Flag when he flipped fascist). The dude actually shown as leader of the fascist party, Arthur Seis-inquart, was the leader of the austrian supporters of the ndsap, which basically wanted to be annexed by Hitler and Germany.

@Shivatmak 10 ай бұрын

2:38 "I need men, a lot more men" -Bitt3rsteel

@ermit123 11 ай бұрын

And the goat is back

@shadowfoxxie7182 7 ай бұрын

i dont know if bitter steel realized, but you can avoid germany getting war score by disabling allied supply on your supply hubs. the ai moves their troops away when this happens.

@hammotimee 11 ай бұрын

I came here to see if there was a way to hold Austria against Germany This was better than what I wanted haha

@artquimine2170 11 ай бұрын

ISP: puts mods to have fun Bittersteel: hold my bear

@ivanvladimir0435 11 ай бұрын

*proceeds to suffer*

@ytcorra.2293 7 ай бұрын

APPROVE THE PAINTERRR

@ObungaDad 11 ай бұрын

It is so sad that you only have 160k subs, you deserve as many as ISP 👍

@Bitt3rSteel 11 ай бұрын

Maybe one day!

@darthscotchy471 11 ай бұрын

@@Bitt3rSteel hey, atleast all of reddit knows you as the guy to send your disaster saves to!

@JustAskingquestions10 11 ай бұрын

You earned yourself a subscription

@emiloster2454 11 ай бұрын

Today is a big day! Why? I subbed 🎉

@niku4154 11 ай бұрын

22:54 LETSGOOO its beautiful oh wait actually, that makes this a grindfest...

@THE_ONLY_REAL_WAFFLE 11 ай бұрын

Nice 👍

@TailsFan-ix3hx 10 ай бұрын

Ngl sometimes I watched these videos just for the calming music.

@st_oop 11 ай бұрын

Bro Austria is simply biggest bird

@kadukico5657 3 ай бұрын

I like all of your vidios about Hearts of Iron 4, and I think it would be funny if you try a challenge to all the America as the Empire of Brazil 😂

@mbos14 11 ай бұрын

Soo about the ostrava thing it was owned by Germany at 24:14 wich is why the whole thing flipped to them. Also vichy France is based on if Germany gets Paris.(unless thats been changed.)

@pyroboss1013 11 ай бұрын

Do you plan on playing any mods soon? ISP did A to Z base game, Stakui is doing Kaiserredux A to Z.

@eldanaroilumbar 11 ай бұрын

I got here the moment notification appeared, let's go!

@xxassassimxx 11 ай бұрын

Maybe Paradox is reserving Austria's Focus Tree to come alongside Germany's rework?

@diegoyqulki 11 ай бұрын

Please yesssss...

@anuszbizsergetokommentek2171 10 ай бұрын

I hope they are gonna rework Hungary, romania and czechoslovakia alongside germany. Thos trees are outdated.

@Gamelpilz 11 ай бұрын

well done

@andreikovacs3476 11 ай бұрын

I think the latter part counts as you fixing your own disaster run

@frankunderbush 11 ай бұрын

0:00 you can practically hear the suffering and we're still in As

@damianmandras8283 11 ай бұрын

I love how he pronounce droboja drobeze

@jasminakorosec2751 10 ай бұрын

Respect that you said Ljubljana correctly.

@Kingswood22 11 ай бұрын

Once one of the great empires to now reduced to some mountains

@EWH2008 9 ай бұрын

You used commands to trigger that german civil war

@nono-jj9rr 11 ай бұрын

You really should finish this campaign after the emotional roller-coaster that was the Czech disaster

@TheOneWhoTrickedThemAll 7 ай бұрын

As a person who plays a aoc2 mod as austria i can confirm its pretty hard in every game to play as austria

@tgrpetruro2991 11 ай бұрын

First from Romania! Great Video! (haven't watched it yet lol)

@quasario 11 ай бұрын

13th

@baseballjustin5 11 ай бұрын

I see the paradrop counts is because it counts as a move action and not an attack order from the mikitary access country

@notagooglesimp8722 5 ай бұрын

"Artillery is the lifeblood of the army." Napoleon probably.

@Mr.Korzack 10 ай бұрын

Either I'm doing it wrong or sadly the 'Call arms then ignore Anchluss' trick doesn't work anymore - each time I try it it immediately turns into Germany declaring war which... Isn't ideal. I mean I'm probably doing it wrong (I am a turnip, after all) but yeah... At least I get to see it work through your vids, still

@sollumi3014 4 ай бұрын

pretty sure it still works. you need to be in germany faction and have germany called to arms. i think you need 1-2 days before the game realises, only then refuse also immediately join the faction again btw, bc germany still have the wargoal on you, the trick is to be im the faction. refusing amshlauss kicks you out. if you dont answer that popup om the top of the screen quick, germany is gonna attack anyway

@redschadow4887 11 ай бұрын

I really hope they give Austria some love after the arms against Tyranny dlc

@Storiedfrog9 11 ай бұрын

Actually the german civil war is something i always force when playing with UK, I land on Hamburg and then push a lil bit but I think it only happens in 1938 when you dont give the sudetenland

@Countryball_87 9 ай бұрын

at the begging i didnt think u'll even get close but... yea. congrats

@villemtallo 11 ай бұрын

Nice

@aleksandarmiljkovic174 10 ай бұрын

What mod you using to get these extra researches on Industrie,planes,tanks, and the stuff in the Officer Corp? And what mod you using to Design your planes,Tanks,Ships ?

@sollumi3014 5 ай бұрын

its the dlc content

@treddevontopratz 11 ай бұрын

Could you play Austria-Hungary in The Great War Redux Again? The whole focus tree got remade in the latest update

@matijastnc9325 11 ай бұрын

If you are an axis nation and need a navy, conquer Vichy because i think they inherit the french fleet, just don't forget to have some troops in Africa because they have some cores there

@silvestarvarivoda8500 11 ай бұрын

9:42 damn you almost paradroped on me

@muricaballprodocutions8248 11 ай бұрын

Wait I thought of an idea how about you do world conquest for where you left out on every other HOI4 game so you can basically world conquest everyone

@Wendeta-hq2cp 11 ай бұрын

Imagine you're England and, France affraid that Germany will cause another world war and instead Austria comes out of nowhere, remakes their entire empire *and* eats Poland!🤣

@TexanNative 11 ай бұрын

They updated Austria-Hungary with a new focus tree in Great War redux

@e.a9751 11 ай бұрын

I have to learn for my a levels but here Iam

@CpatDaRAT 22 күн бұрын

Concentrated seems to be the best as the trade off is bomb vulnerability it if your a major power just build planes but as a small nation you need the extra boost to production so dispersed just seems like a bad trade off no matter what

@Bitt3rSteel 22 күн бұрын

The strength of dispersed is in the efficiency retention actually. You keep more efficiency whenever you switch production. That's what makes it strong

@karitan5352 11 ай бұрын

try make the PlanZ with ONLY historical ships, whitout taking navy of other nations

@Bitt3rSteel 11 ай бұрын

There shall be an attempt!

@Phish-yz5wi Ай бұрын

22:53 it’s like the AI was trying to help you but accidentally made it worse

@roundabout3181 11 ай бұрын

yooo this shits wicked yooo

@6th_Army 5 ай бұрын

There's a way to save yourself from Germany doing the Sudetenland focus. The Czechs can't control Prague. Well the state Prague is in, but you need Prague for that. This bypasses the focus for Germany. I don't know if this still works as I haven't touched Austria Hungary since BBA became the worst dlc.

@francescoboselli6033 11 ай бұрын

28:57 if I am not mistaken to trigger the event of the creation of Vichy France, it's necessary that Germany controls only the province of Paris

@nebulaswirl 11 ай бұрын

Will you ever do disaster saves for mods? I have a disaster save from Equestria at War...

@efjddu 11 ай бұрын

HI finally im the first comment my first time so tell me could you make a tutoriel for minor nations and for tank design vanilla hoi4 please all the other tutoriels are outdated it would be greatly appreciated my name is ALI probably your only subsucriber from algeria

@bartekmasiulianec1194 11 ай бұрын

In the next update after Scandinavia, I want to see Austrian rework, where will be path to recreate Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungry and get secret path with one austrian painter

@christoperwallace6197 11 ай бұрын

He's not a Hapsburg, so it would make no sense. Plus, as is he never actually goes into exile and always dies. So it's not like we'd ever see it.

@Schmiado 11 ай бұрын

@@christoperwallace6197He never said Hitler was a Habsburger, you trippn?

@christoperwallace6197 11 ай бұрын

@@Schmiado he talks about a Hapsburg path for Austria and a hidden Hitler path in the same sentence. Which seems to imply he's talking about a Hitler Austria Hungary path. A nation that only existed due to the monarchy, which was one dynasty. My assumption is reasonable, so no, I'm not tripping. Perhaps you are?

@mreevee7785 11 ай бұрын

@@christoperwallace6197 no bro, he meant that hitler shit as a different path

@Schmiado 11 ай бұрын

@@christoperwallace6197 Man use your brain once and think. Honestly

@Dumbo8234 11 ай бұрын

How did Germany end up in a civil war?

@tokul76 11 ай бұрын

Munich does not happen, Czechs fight for their country and Austrian mustachio gets assassinated. I think it is The Oster Conspiracy event and 33% chance of getting that ending. Historical focuses probably went to the toilet once Anschluss failed.

@Dumbo8234 11 ай бұрын

@@tokul76 thanks!

@mbos14 11 ай бұрын

I think they didnt press the war against the checz when they where denied.

@dandyl1on 11 ай бұрын

Nice job. Unfortunately you couldn't conquer Bucovina for more sexy historical borders!

@DreadMaps. 11 ай бұрын

Ah “I need more men” -Bitt3rSteel

@ghusstav7625 11 ай бұрын

i hope Austria gets a focus tree!

@komar7022 11 ай бұрын

Holy hell

@Hyde_Hill 11 ай бұрын

Wasn't there a focus tree for Austria that allowed the Habsburgs before? Or was that a mod instead of DLC and I got mixed up?

@HawkThunder907 11 ай бұрын

I'm confused too.

@wojtekpolska1013 11 ай бұрын

there is one for Hungary. Austria never had a tree at all, it uses the default minor country tree

@HawkThunder907 11 ай бұрын

@@wojtekpolska1013 thank you

@Cbrown161 6 ай бұрын

Try austria in rt56, they get a pretty big focus tree with a whole separate tree dedicated to the Habsburgs

@Cbrown161 5 ай бұрын

(and you can form the HRE)

@oelergodt 11 ай бұрын

he didn't have control of Ostrava btw :P

@DDomi-rh6fq 11 ай бұрын

Good

@Hjalle_Gaming 11 ай бұрын

Even tho it might not be the best way, I would rush down to nationalism, and the do industry to flip faster.

@RealsMusicStuff 7 ай бұрын

Me 2 seconds after realizing im weaker then the nation i declared war on. "MEN! I NEED MORE MEN! IM GONNA FORCE DEPLOY THESE IMMEDIATELY!"

@brok8085 11 ай бұрын

You should have used the road to 56 mod

@CARL_093 11 ай бұрын

cool

@suchmuch2280 8 ай бұрын

If you’re looking to just make Austria annex German and prolly others and not Austria Hungary what I do is go fascist all the way down to the one that lets you make factions, improve relations with Italy and when Germany declares war invite Italy to faction Hungary and Romania will join faction if you play your cards right and defend until allies declare then just grind Germany down until u annex everything