I love your videos keep up the great work 👍

Hello. Could you do another Qing and Communist China guide for By blood alone, please?

Hey Bittersteel you have a high pitched sound in your videos again. Starting in this video at 2:27 I love your videos but sadly i cannot watch them with this high frequenzy sound.

@@Neax10 I think it's your device (cellphone or pc) because I didn't hear any pitching sound

You should play the Great Qing again and try to get in the war earlier i think you would do an amazing job

makes sense

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I always figured it was because the mod just borrowed the railway map from the base game. Where it's not connected in Tibet or Manchuria because they're different nations.

Didn’t they also get kicked out in 1905? By WW1 that whole part of China was in japan’s sphere of influence

@@sto1238 I believe so, in the Russo-Japanese war edit: Russo, not Sino

I hate that I love the dad joke

@@Bitt3rSteel Me too, bud, me too.

Ba dum tssh

That joke makes me want to die. I love it

I wanna die

hey

And he ended up doing essentially nothing. All he did was win the civil war. And that's his video for the week - no guide, no disaster save.

@@tagus100this is how it is almost EVERY video

@@coolman4589 Not quite. Guides are guides; the majority of which need updating due to NSB supply mechanics, and disaster saves are always fun. But nothing of substance happened here.

@@tagus100 this video is a tragedy, i was ready for this war to go into the 20s

@@asherwoodrow7471 Tell me about it. All he did was win the civil war. I'm very disappointed that he is playing mods instead of updating old guides, whihc is what his channel is built on.

The modern day mods are boring to me, and kaisereich is overcovered

@@Slovensko89because it's consistently getting new content

@ok i agree for sure i just wouldn’t watch it, its like 75% of all hoi4 content

@@calebwhitetheawoken thats kinda my point

*Reworked Qing (Great War Redux Submod) v2.0

it isnt updated

@@spinoplayz2791 well then use an older gwr version

@@pwn3r1 booooring

@@StarscreamSWE We're watching a map game, the only way it could get more boring is without the funny flags moving into other nations.

You are a person who enjoys pain aren’t you? 😂

@@kosch1977 kind of, but i mostly enjoy uniting vast swathes of land fairly quickly, it's very satisfying

@Rosa! I think it because it's challenging. Like playing Yunnan in base HOI4 a beating Japan with THAT disadvantage and uniting China & Japan.

@@kosch1977 I love pain, BHUTANN

I beat the balkans every time, just naval invade bulgaria with 3 divisions, they have nothing on the ports, everything collapses from there for the balkans. But the defense..god damn.. nothing other than extreme micro without a front line order (or any orders) and continuous popping of last stands will save you.. but if you can naval invade early enough you might win. I tried this 3 times, all 3 times the naval invasion was the only efficient and easy way, going head first into them after they lose the buffs makes you lose enormous guns and also takes longer than 1918, which means, welp, austria is claiming allll that land you fought heavily for. Also avoid the central powers, you get enormous debuffs from just joining them and it locks a part of the tree which gets you egypt (VERY helpful when destroying the entente).

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 Ik, I found just buying equipment (Germany gives you the most by far) and use that to equip the army. I sometimes just disband my army after the Italian war so I can rebuild it into something decent. The two most annoying things with the Ottomans is that supply in the Balkans is crap and you often have to use civs (which are swallowed by your cgs) for about a year just to build a port and or supply hub. Btw the invasion cap is 2 I believe, did you just beeline for that tech so you can do larger invasions or did you just attack in smaller invasions. Finally, what templates are you using because that may help in my next Ottomans campaign

@@danubianfederation1672 Buying equipment absolutely devastates your economy, it's not worth it except for the occasional gun purchase when you run out, otherwise stay away from buying guns. Disbanding the army is really a mistake, because the italian war gives you quite a bit of troop EXP which made several of my divisions about twice as strong as other divisions of the same template, also the default templates are editable except one, why make a brand new army when you can just edit the existing for less time and resources? time is key, numbers are dumb, 2 divisions per province for most of the front line is plenty, except for the serbian austrian pocket, which you must keep separate from montenegro using atleast 4 divisions per province otherwise you can't encircle them easily and it costs you lots of manpower and equipment to retake that territory, but I found the supply to be fine mostly, except for that damned serbian austrian border pocket, and greece. build one port on the greece border on the eastern part of greece before the war and you'll be fine. don't build any supply hubs in the balkans, don't build more troops, the ones you start with are more than enough, you will already struggle with logistics anyways so building more makes more but much weaker troops, huge disadvantage, also a manpower drain and that's another problem you need to balance. Before you naval invade, CRUSH montenegro, encircle all the balkan divisions there and melt them, then use those same divisions to navally invade bulgaria. I invade with 2 divisions but since it's already undefended it won't matter much (don't land on the romanian border port though, that one IS defended), and the AI takes a while to move it's divisions to defend itself, but don't even let it do that, pin the bulgarian army while you encircle the only 2 ports bulgaria has, and send maybe 1 or 2 more divisions to the invaded land, then use one to close the romanian port pocket you will form and use another to defend from any bulgarian divisions that managed to get unpinned (they will unpin themselves, beware of that) then using the main land army and one division or more on the navally invading army break the front line province which keeps the last bulgarian port near edirne from being encircled and immediately crush the pocket because bulgaria will be quick to withdraw the encircled divisions there. from there the balkan front collapses, and FINALLY you can ease off of the extreme no order micromanagement and finally maybe use a regular front line, but don't just put an attack order, you will still need to micro attacks but no longer the defenses. after crushing bulgaria and before serbia collapses (it's kind of a challenge due to supply) navally invade greece in (Peloponnese I think it's called??) on the southernmost port using atleast 2 divisions on the same port and after capturing it (might take a couple tries, it doesn't work the first time often) send a large portion of the army there because you will begin to have too many divisions on the balkan front anyways and rush athens and from there bye bye to greece and the entire balkan league. As a challenge I once did it without the army national focuses and I still won, just before the great war began too, but it was so much micro it took me real life weeks playing semi daily (each ingame week is about 1 real life hour, yep, that extreme). To be honest now that I reopened the saves to write this properly, yep, it was hard I won't deny that..probably the hardest start after qing.. The best templates to me were 7 infantry 1 howitzer and engineer, maintenance (for that precious equipment), field hospital, howitzer support of course and optionally logistics company. 60 divisions that you start with are plenty, their default templates kinda suck but just add on it and after the balkan war rebuild the templates to your preference, for me I just keep the same balkan templates I just mentioned, they are good defenders.

@@igameidoresearchtoo6511 Thanks for the tips man, I will use them in my next Ottomans campaign. Btw, what is your favourite path in the Ottoman treee

Also I did what you did with Montenegro and I cannot seem to break their mountain tiles

@@azlanadil3646 just like irl after all(disagree=🤓🤓)

@@Tortellobello45 The Battle of Caporetto (also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo, the Battle of Kobarid or the Battle of Karfreit) was a battle on the Italian front of World War I. The battle was fought between the Kingdom of Italy and the Central Powers and took place from 24 October to 19 November 1917, near the town of Kobarid (now in north-western Slovenia, then part of the Austrian Littoral). The battle was named after the Italian name of the town (also known as Karfreit in German). Austro-Hungarian forces, reinforced by German units, were able to break into the Italian front line and rout the Italian forces opposing them. The battle was a demonstration of the effectiveness of the use of stormtroopers and the infiltration tactics developed in part by Oskar von Hutier. The use of poison gas by the Germans also played a key role in the collapse of the Italian Second Army.[3] The rest of the Italian Army retreated 150 kilometres (93 mi) to the Piave River, its effective strength declined from 1,800,000 troops down to 1,000,000 and the government of Paolo Boselli collapsed.

@@danubianfederation1672 i know very well about caporetto(every italian knows about it,as it was the worst italian defeat) but it has to be said that Germany heavily helped Austria, and that it’s also Cadorna’s(an Italian General)fault. Howewer after Cadorna was replaced by Diaz the Austrian Army never won again against Italy. Also read about the Battle of the Solstizio, where the Italian forces defeated both the German and the Austrians, or the battle of Vittorio Veneto where Italy defeat and disintegrated the Austro Hungarian army

@Aran_G it’s bullshit. The Italian army was just as good as the French one and way better than the Ottomans, the Austrians or the Russians. The French only had more troops due to colonies and leveè en masse

Ive added the link to the description! Its a google form where you can upload the save file, and add some comments about it

Rise of Nations

Edit: THE MOD NOT THE BOBLOX GAME

Cold war mod exists

Yes, one of my favorite mods

Noted!

it was by blood alone that broke it, but it's still sometimes fine, I've had them survive till 1919 with my personal support only arriving at 1918 Though backstabbing them seems to be very rewarding as the ottomans, because they just have nothing on the ottoman border the moment the war starts. very ahistoric in the part..

It isn't underwater It's just blue

@@republicofformosa8644 underwater

They have no focus tree or decisions, so it would be difficult with Japan getting all of the buffs and focus events.