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Don't fight so hard for the land against Japan. You mess up the peace deal.

This looks amazing. I'm not near good enough at basic HOI yet for this but I look forward to the day...

Bittersteel: wants to create Alexanders Empire. Bittersteel five minutes later: lets kill italy

Great mod. 👍

I am actually sad that the beginners guide is an hour long

"Stalin hasn't done a horrible job here." XD

I had a USA game where I had to invade Italy and I cut off half of the Italian invasion force in France after they took 3 tiles, after that it 1.8 million dead italians

Neat mod, but I've never got to like it. Too much focus on economy in a game that's about war with a hyper compressed timeline. Feel like it would be amazing as a mod with, say, Victoria or EU4 where you are guiding a nation over decades as opposed to ten years at most.

I like black ice to play sometime, wish they have tanks, air, ship desinger like in vanilla so everyone can make something, just black ice production, and other things. Wish to see that some day (Never probably) xD

First time, I was holding back the entire German army. I mean.. As is of course historically accurate for any single Belgian to do. And the damn Dutch messed up completely, letting them Blitz through in a few days. I annex them now. All that peanut butter has made them weak.

Great video 🫡 I like that you include us brokies who dont have any dlc ( its a point of principle for me ) The dlc looks good but 95% of it should be part of the main game or atleast alot cheaper. I have bought and played every hearts of iron game, started on og hoi back on 07/08, how much these games have changed since then, its great.... except the greed of dlcs on hoi4 upsets me a little. I still refuse to buy any dlc for any game, Gtfoh with the scam. Each to their own, ill stand my ground on it.

Come do this in MP with us on the BICE server :)

This mod reminds me so much of HOI2 and 3. HOI4 is definitely more streamlined and 'user friendly' - but there is a charm to the ridiculous complexity we used to have.

Can you try eu4

Can you just imagine Allied command when they hear Vichy France is back

You could’ve made a 40 minute episode of just setting up with this mod lmao

Then turned Hoi4 into Vic3. Thats real bad.

Black ICe is what hearts of iron 4 should be. Great Hoi3, and now hoi4 for kids...

You make it look so easy! I just started learning the game and get absolutely annihilated by Germany every time I try, while you just conquered 3 continents by taking ONE TWENTIETH of the casualties of the actual war…😢 Awesome video.

This is just sad rip china 🪦 dang I wish it was real life🙏

I just cheat

So followed this guide but on no dlc ... a few days into the Poland invasion, denmark, belgium and switzerland all invaded with american troops ?? i have no idea where i messed up .. historical and iron mode so need to restart and secure all my borders this time

EVE Online players would love this mod

Crossbows Are not Good to use in open battle, but extremly Good When defending a city

For some reason I get the feeling you like Futurama...

meanwhile, switzerland:🫥

Looks easy ngl

My God man it's "bork-site" please I am begging you

Im the only one who actually love bice? Its just perfect, the belanced complexity

I would love to see a continuation or series of him taking over the whole world.

Black Ice is the Greg Tech NH of Hoi4

22:10 as a belgian i feel offended

There is absolutely no way the AI understands how to use all the new systems added in this mod. So of course to compensate, it cheats. That's the answer to how the AI is doing so well. No matter the debuffs, they just cheat.

I remember asking you to play BICE a long time ago. BICE is actually my favorite mod, and you did pretty well for your first time, especially playing germany. Industry is key for winning, so finding the perfect balance of your industry (how much energy, engines and specific resources it need) is key. You can make the argument that and 'economy simulator' has no place in HoI4 (a war game), and that's ok, it' not for everyone. For me, I like how it makes 'meme strats' impossible. I get it, they're fun because they are absurd and I enjoy seeing some meme strats/alt history here and there. But for a more serious game, BICE is your pick. You seem to have enjoyed the mod, so may I suggest a challenge? Germany but you build Navy. (not exclusively, of course, or you'll lose, you focus on army and air force as usual but you try to build up a respectable Navy in parallell. for this I reccommend trading Danzig for Slovakia, it'll stave off the War and buy you some time. With luck you can even make the Allies fight the USSR while you help and/or build up in parallell) Other Majors are also pretty cool, Japan, Italy, USSR... I don't enjoy USA and UK much, USA is just too easy (basically sit back and build up) and UK I just don't like. I haven't played the mod in a while, but I heard they've been working on minor powers. Try Brasil, I heard its fun!

Heya! I just looked into the Hearts of Iron IV Files and I DID find that Yugoslavia CAN say yes you the annex ultimatum. I hope that question is answered now.

The capital was Viena and Budapest at the same time irl.

Now you can graduate to Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2

The HoI4 UI is just not built for those many production lines. Thank you for playing so we don't have to lol

Hey bittersteel can u pls use the nucleair research

I always wonder when wil he research nucleair stuff

I have a genius idea for a video... let ChatGPT make your attacks

Well I don't like cheap destroyers, yes you can produce a lot of them but I'm in battle they will be destroyed so I'm making them stronger, yes they expensive but they will do a lot of damage and have a lot more victories and but I recommend to do with nations with developing navy like Germany. And you know what I sunk half of Royal navy but came with the cost to build more dockyards

Bro made America a land locked country.

Bro made America a land locked country.

Bro got minus social score because of this video xD

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Really love the extensive intro! Now I sort of slightly less don't understand the mod ;)

I'd really like you to do a Japan video of this mod. For more attritioning in Asia ^^ and a more navally focused gameplay. Anyway thanks for the video. That was amazing.

BICE = A Historical Take of Hoi4 Gameplay wise Players = Picks the Country that Lost in Real History = Profit