The Russian Tsar is having a bad day - HoI4 Disaster Save

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  • čas přidán 25. 11. 2022
  • In this HoI4 Disaster Save as the Russian Empire, we find ourselves at the receiving end of Barbarossa. And it seems the player gave up for some reason.
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Komentáře • 342

  • @Bitt3rSteel
    @Bitt3rSteel  Před rokem +106

    @Erik Sauer and all doubters: czcams.com/video/wbH4zGUIcP0/video.html RAW FOOTAGE of this segment. Did I cheat? No. Is the AI competent? Also no

    • @aprender1952
      @aprender1952 Před rokem +8

      Hoi4 ai and competent ai are polar opposites.

    • @sniperdude6286
      @sniperdude6286 Před rokem +3

      The reason why was that the divisions were on a garrison order and moved automatically to the next province along.

    • @livefire5239
      @livefire5239 Před rokem +10

      Hey just wanted to let you know the company you promoted a few weeks ago "Established Titles" is actually a scam. There is a CZcams video by Scott Shafer that goes into detail.

    • @Roketsune
      @Roketsune Před rokem +1

      His About page shows several other accounts. You should try telling him on Twitter and Discord as well to maximize the chance he finds out.

    • @tricot6468
      @tricot6468 Před rokem

      @@aprender1952 chess ai vs hoi4 ai

  • @ClemDiamond
    @ClemDiamond Před rokem +274

    "I'm just roleplaying NATO please" is a sentence said at almost every hoi4 game.

  • @lordbonney9779
    @lordbonney9779 Před rokem +915

    You could say he was *Royally* screwed

  • @letsplaypetrus4802
    @letsplaypetrus4802 Před rokem +462

    At 14:00 there is a river crossing, but its hard to see.
    You see that the river is running parallel to you on your left side just before Astrakhan and than it splits around Astrakhan, making it into an island. You can see that the river flows left and right around Astrakhan if you look closly.
    But it is something I wouldn't have seen myself if I was playing at that moment.

    • @RandomDude87187
      @RandomDude87187 Před rokem +22

      I thought I was going crazy. Like THERE IS A RIVER

    • @kitfisto5132
      @kitfisto5132 Před rokem +10

      yeah its the rivers delta

    • @notyourname1
      @notyourname1 Před rokem +16

      Anytime that happens i figure the devs did more research than me in this, and i double check and usually learn something new!

    • @apoivre
      @apoivre Před rokem +14

      That's the Volga delta. There are hundreds of islands actually

  • @kekw2552
    @kekw2552 Před rokem +698

    Wait, so this guy won tsar civil war and still had more factories compared to when I was playing against AI as Stalin. Just WOW

    • @Litterbugtaylor
      @Litterbugtaylor Před rokem +82

      Yes, yes i did

    • @Diamond_Arrow_the_Lizard
      @Diamond_Arrow_the_Lizard Před rokem +63

      Well, you can stack high the consumer goods factories decreases with tsarist Russia (War economy, ministers && some focuses).
      I was destroying the Axis in 1940 without any industry focuses picked, fair Civil War && no army reorg, my economy was quite great and kept up with the expenses.

    • @personexists4520
      @personexists4520 Před rokem +12

      This started at 1944 that’s why

    • @Lich_V.
      @Lich_V. Před rokem +7

      If you play the stalin route you can have around 400 factories at the start of barbarossa (bit luck dependent if the ai buys your resources, but 370-80 should be doable every time, regardless of luck).

    • @user-fi2fk2ei7o
      @user-fi2fk2ei7o Před rokem

      probably trade factories because commie has difficult time getting non commie ai trade with them

  • @OverlordMalarkey
    @OverlordMalarkey Před rokem +233

    This has got to be the best disaster save Ive seen, the guy clearly pre-planned everything before everything went wrong. I love it!

  • @NEINNEINNEINNEIN1
    @NEINNEINNEINNEIN1 Před rokem +341

    I like how he has more factories than ai soviet before barbarossa

    • @BlackHammer3
      @BlackHammer3 Před rokem +17

      because 60% of his civs are from trade, probably lots of them from Japan

    • @logannoble6707
      @logannoble6707 Před rokem +30

      its 1944 at the start

    • @NEINNEINNEINNEIN1
      @NEINNEINNEINNEIN1 Před rokem +14

      @@logannoble6707 but soviet ai's number of factories does not change from 1941-1944

    • @tombomb47
      @tombomb47 Před rokem

      @@NEINNEINNEINNEIN1 source?

    • @fazi354
      @fazi354 Před rokem +11

      @@tombomb47 i made this whole shit up 🗿🗿

  • @mironkrylov
    @mironkrylov Před rokem +89

    well actually a
    Astrakhan is in delta of Volga river, it's really surrounded with little rivers, greater rivers, swamps and deserts

  • @jeremyglass4283
    @jeremyglass4283 Před rokem +30

    Bittersteel one min into the video: “what I like about this save is not so much that it is terribly set up”
    Bittersteel literally 20 sec later:
    “I hate the way your army is set up!”

  • @mr-balls
    @mr-balls Před 11 měsíci +11

    3:16 was such a coin-drop moment

  • @Ryuko-T72
    @Ryuko-T72 Před rokem +31

    A small tip i have for tank pushes is to leave a couple behind incase enemies try and cut you off. Usually leaving lowest org

  • @chrisbeamond8826
    @chrisbeamond8826 Před rokem +28

    It's a bit hard to see but there actually is a river to the east of Astrakhan as well as the west, so the city must be inside a river fork. So it makes sense that this is a river crossing

  • @insignificantgnat9334
    @insignificantgnat9334 Před rokem +22

    Those end of the war German casualties were brutal, I don't think that would leave a whole lot of fighting age men at the end of the war.

  • @getimpaled3460
    @getimpaled3460 Před rokem +13

    Nobody:
    Bitt3rsteel on his way to pronounce Kutuzov as Kututsov

    • @somewhereelse1235
      @somewhereelse1235 Před rokem +1

      Some people just can't pronounce Z properly, ts is close enough for those people.

  • @gabelol9987
    @gabelol9987 Před rokem +18

    I literally only bought this game because I saw that there was a sale on it. I knew nothing else about it but I bought it because I had nothing else to play. So far it has consumed about 1500 hours of my life. Best and worst purchase of my life

  • @ahmedrashad3556
    @ahmedrashad3556 Před rokem +17

    Always fun to watch your disaster saves …thanks Bitt3r keep it up 🔥👍🏻

  • @Litterbugtaylor
    @Litterbugtaylor Před rokem +10

    Oh hey its mine, also i didn't do third rome because i was trying to get romanovs last laught which third rome invalidates, also the caucasus was lacking oil because german factories win civil wars but going to war with Germany doesn't give you therights back.
    Wait now i remember why i chose st petersburg, i was at war with Ukraine and Belarus and Kazakhstan when the soviets fell and they controlled Moscow and tsaritsyn when the decision came up so st petersburg was my only option.

    • @dobi2236
      @dobi2236 Před rokem

      You can win the civil war pretty easily without doing the shit AI support decisions

    • @Litterbugtaylor
      @Litterbugtaylor Před rokem

      @@dobi2236 without waiting for stalin to bleed troops in dessertions and surrender capacity to random events

    • @dobi2236
      @dobi2236 Před rokem

      @@Litterbugtaylor ? Not really? Unless you're speedrunning, 1938 is usually when i end off but that's because I dont rush and tackle romania + turkey early game

    • @Litterbugtaylor
      @Litterbugtaylor Před rokem

      @@dobi2236 you cannot push if you do not have supply, you are literally pushing them towards supply, although it is easy to change all thier mills into civs then change all the units to 2 width heavy tanks because the ai cannot swap divison templates

    • @dobi2236
      @dobi2236 Před rokem

      @@Litterbugtaylor push along railways, Building supply hubs is something ive done maybe 4 times, ever

  • @SnakyZHD
    @SnakyZHD Před rokem +9

    3:16 I hope nothing's broken lol

  • @finmin2k
    @finmin2k Před rokem +1

    great video, really love your enthusiasm about encirclements haha, makes it very fun to watch. i would love more content like this

  • @glauberglousger6643
    @glauberglousger6643 Před rokem +6

    Love the weird number of factories
    (So many for post Tsar Russia)

  • @samcrea
    @samcrea Před rokem +17

    Can you make a video on what the best tank templates are? I can never really figure them out

  • @jes3d
    @jes3d Před rokem +16

    poggiewoggies

  • @tunganhnguyen909
    @tunganhnguyen909 Před rokem +6

    Your tanks move slowly because they are constantly out if fuel dude. NSB has been making it way harder (and more fun) to do tank encirclements. You gotta plan your offensive around supply hubs. That's also why infantry is the queen of the battlefield

    • @tagus100
      @tagus100 Před 7 měsíci

      And he's out of supply + using tanks in terrain that they're not suited + during winter.

  • @R4lf84-Productions
    @R4lf84-Productions Před rokem +4

    Waiiiiii-- Mr. bittersteel said “we dont need that many airplanes!” Like in almost every Desaster save he complains not having enough and here he finally has enough ;)

    • @Litterbugtaylor
      @Litterbugtaylor Před rokem +1

      I did say in the submission i had a beefy airforce and economy, still have the save too

  • @thefella302
    @thefella302 Před rokem +8

    Huge move

  • @ironstream3955
    @ironstream3955 Před rokem

    Great video as always. Take care and getting better soon.

  • @purpleburglaralarm9712
    @purpleburglaralarm9712 Před rokem +4

    20:20 that voice crack💀💀💀💀💀

  • @igameidoresearchtoo6511
    @igameidoresearchtoo6511 Před rokem +8

    So if you are ready for it, it's more of a challenge than a disaster save (mainly because erm..it's slightly edited in the favor of the enemy to make it harder for you so that we can finally watch a failed disaster save saving)
    If you want a slightly tampered save that is so ridiculously difficult I would consider it a lost cause before I even see the armies..
    Then go ahead, I'll submit it later this week when I'm on my computer.

  • @joaocabral3541
    @joaocabral3541 Před rokem

    Thankyou for showing the war casualties now and then

  • @isometimesmapstuff
    @isometimesmapstuff Před 9 měsíci +2

    thanks for doing my save , i only noticed now!

  • @user-cd4bx6uq1y
    @user-cd4bx6uq1y Před rokem +4

    These videos are back. As always, the only person to actually explain what they're doing

  • @noutwf
    @noutwf Před rokem +1

    Love the thumbnail keep up the good work

  • @What-thaW
    @What-thaW Před rokem +12

    This counter-attack was… really, really historically accurate
    Edit: territorially at least*

  • @johndancu1228
    @johndancu1228 Před rokem

    Great Video man !

  • @kamalindsey
    @kamalindsey Před rokem +1

    Solution is almost always Supply -> Equipment -> Amount of divisions -> Lack of armor. Then -> Stabilize front until defense and deploy armor to make encirclements.

  • @Thatsc00ldude..
    @Thatsc00ldude.. Před rokem +2

    I try to play this game and then I watch yt and see how miserably bad I do. I just send troops into the land and pray I win. This is on a whole other level of good 😨

  • @RELFIR
    @RELFIR Před měsícem

    15:24 almost thought you were gonna call him Sinterklaas

  • @fullydark9633
    @fullydark9633 Před 11 měsíci

    The river around Astrakhan forks but it was hard to see with the battle plan :p

  • @ianhogben3472
    @ianhogben3472 Před rokem

    Learned so much from this

  • @just1it1moko
    @just1it1moko Před rokem +3

    I've always been unsure if you were Walloon or Flemish but hearing you say Rostov I can pretty safely say you're Flemish.

  • @tristanthebaut2073
    @tristanthebaut2073 Před rokem +2

    Nice to see these Soviet style offensives. Trapping the German in the Caucasus. Worked in the past and still up to date

  • @pimentaze2886
    @pimentaze2886 Před rokem

    This video was uploaded 8 hours ago I can't believe it 🤩

  • @chrisbeamond8826
    @chrisbeamond8826 Před rokem +1

    Great work as usual! I think that we can agree though that the usual "stabilize, build a small amount of tanks, push them somewhere and encircle" is getting a bit old. I'd love to see you take on some disaster saves where you are not allowed to use this tactic, because the AI clearly can't handle it. It's starting to get a bit boring since you do the same thing literally every game.
    Also, the tanks moving at 1km/hr because they don't have the supplies for the fuel shows the danger of using this tactic.

  • @Arnie58
    @Arnie58 Před rokem +1

    A Encirclement Compilation of this video would almost just be a reupload

  • @JagerEinheit
    @JagerEinheit Před rokem

    idk if @bitt3rsteel knows the martians meeting the phone skit from sesame street , but that yep yep yep was on point!

  • @Roketsune
    @Roketsune Před rokem +3

    There actually is a river between Astrakan and the tile you were attacking from. The river is hard to see, but in 14:20 it's clearly visible.

  • @marshaldivad
    @marshaldivad Před 6 měsíci +1

    I just love how something falls in the background at 3:18.

  • @AryanJJ
    @AryanJJ Před rokem +1

    missed Carpathian Ruthenia and memel but it was good enough

  • @xavierthepaladin5966
    @xavierthepaladin5966 Před rokem +17

    I actually choose St. Petersburg on my russian empire saves, easier to defend bc of the river

    • @Litterbugtaylor
      @Litterbugtaylor Před rokem +14

      i chose st petersburg, i was at war with Ukraine and Belarus and Kazakhstan when the soviets fell and they controlled Moscow and tsaritsyn when the decision came up so st petersburg was my only option.

  • @maitiv261
    @maitiv261 Před rokem +4

    Good video

  • @DandyDNA
    @DandyDNA Před rokem

    7:58 majestic

  • @greaterbelgiummapping1266

    Almost at 120k!

  • @fem530
    @fem530 Před rokem

    Jeesus the amount of encirclements 😄

  • @sammmsational
    @sammmsational Před rokem

    I love how this is still the Italian war on Ethiopia

  • @how_to_be_a_Old_legionary44

    i just love. how the guy who made this disaster. have more factory that me when i played with the ussr. XDDDDd

  • @TankBoii
    @TankBoii Před rokem

    oh yes, the great nation of Barbarossa! (referring to the thumbnail)

  • @VanBourner
    @VanBourner Před rokem +1

    I am sick (as in too sick to play in bed) and this has the effect of chicken soup on me.

  • @sahilhossain8204
    @sahilhossain8204 Před rokem +1

    Hmm yes lore of momentum of Hoi4 Russia but historically accurate somewhat

  • @pedro2m939
    @pedro2m939 Před rokem

    That was saurkraut for the Thrid Rome

  • @Anton-oy7zh
    @Anton-oy7zh Před rokem

    @Bitt3rSteel, could you pls place somewhere a link for downloading this save ? Try it yourself at the description is empty =(

  • @mirabasta2714
    @mirabasta2714 Před rokem +2

    Hi, can i ask you, why i shouldn't use cavalry recon for infantry? And for what unit is cavalry recon?

    • @luco-3po878
      @luco-3po878 Před rokem +1

      Cavalry recon doesn't give a lot of bonuses so it's just a waste of equipment

  • @Gungho73
    @Gungho73 Před 2 měsíci

    How much can you build supply lines or railway systems? Is there only dedicated spots or.

  • @dakotastrain338
    @dakotastrain338 Před rokem +10

    Bitersteel OnlyFans release when?

  • @swampyjester7724
    @swampyjester7724 Před rokem +2

    woah 2 mins, gotta get in fast

  • @sonic_speed_up
    @sonic_speed_up Před rokem +3

    Боже, Царя храни!

    • @border4851
      @border4851 Před rokem +2

      Сильный, державный!

  • @NotDmitry
    @NotDmitry Před rokem +2

    We all know how the russian czar saved the empire in 1944 by appointing that belgian guy as his commander in chief.
    If only he wouldn't backstab the monarch and gave the crown to Santa Claus, our history books would look a lot different
    😞

  • @fallanor3
    @fallanor3 Před rokem +3

    How can you make the group of armies frontline united? I mean not divided on army 1, army 2 at each sector, but mixed?

    • @cometdoggo
      @cometdoggo Před rokem +1

      shift click the front line order

    • @tagus100
      @tagus100 Před rokem +2

      Click on the Field Marshal, then Shift+Click when you make the frontline.

  • @thefreakingc8557
    @thefreakingc8557 Před 9 měsíci

    it looks so easy when you do it

  • @nelcraftlp9512
    @nelcraftlp9512 Před rokem

    How can you activate only one offensive of the army group. When I try to do it the whole army group starts attacking?

  • @enric1478
    @enric1478 Před rokem +1

    I wanna see bittersteel play against other people

  • @osloqt
    @osloqt Před rokem

    good job

  • @viclorenzo5016
    @viclorenzo5016 Před rokem

    Bitt3rSteel to the rescue!

  • @kristofevarsson6903
    @kristofevarsson6903 Před rokem

    15:55
    22:09
    Ah, the Duality of Man.

  • @Yes-pd3cb
    @Yes-pd3cb Před rokem +1

    "Axis minors are starting to fall" *includes Italy in that statement*

  • @guest1470
    @guest1470 Před rokem

    THIS DUDES PRONOUNCIATION

  • @Drazja
    @Drazja Před rokem

    Bitter you're the best

  • @lexi1031
    @lexi1031 Před rokem +1

    18:57 is it going to show up in a British museum later?

  • @user-ju4wz1yj6x
    @user-ju4wz1yj6x Před 4 měsíci

    good vid

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 Před rokem +1

    Quick, find a crazy magic homeless man! He'll save us!

    • @gengarzilla1685
      @gengarzilla1685 Před 10 měsíci

      I wouldn't exactly call the Metropolitan a homeless man.

  • @Draconatus24
    @Draconatus24 Před rokem +1

    I love it

  • @cargbohadredmhagn3141

    Man i was waiting for a Russian disaster save

  • @NoNonsenseNendou
    @NoNonsenseNendou Před rokem

    Any way to pull a Vichy with ol Benny or Dino or Italo guide?

  • @BesnikHawk
    @BesnikHawk Před rokem +1

    My PC would have exploded 😂

  • @__geoul1s__618
    @__geoul1s__618 Před rokem

    Yo , if i buy by blood alone i'll have every pack or i need to get every pack alone ?

  • @vladokalaba2640
    @vladokalaba2640 Před rokem

    Killing blow!!? You use Tau empire (Dawn of war game) as weapon masters?

  • @-el_bandito
    @-el_bandito Před rokem

    Well the tsar has had worse days

  • @rdshorts2332
    @rdshorts2332 Před 6 měsíci

    its so funny to see the italians having 80+ divisions in Lithuania while the allies are pushing Rome

  • @NewGuy478
    @NewGuy478 Před 9 měsíci

    14:55 The Great Trial

  • @Azaqa
    @Azaqa Před rokem +1

    You couldve continued trading with US and just set convoys to not use any Atlantic sea tiles

  • @domschra
    @domschra Před rokem

    Tsar gaming

  • @leilaelhachmi353
    @leilaelhachmi353 Před rokem

    I think you forgot to attach the link for us to try it. Could you upload it? :)

  • @timkaaa3125
    @timkaaa3125 Před rokem

    14:00 NO ASTRAKHAN! astrahan I live in astrakhan

  • @Prostitepj
    @Prostitepj Před rokem

    Please help me, I'm already desperate. I recently downloaded this game, but when I went on the map there were no multi-colored countries and borders, there was a large geographical map. How do I turn on a political map so that countries have borders and colors? Thank you very much for taking a little time to read this.

    • @Robbe-xf2pc
      @Robbe-xf2pc Před rokem

      On the right side you can see the map modes and click on them. Alternatively you can use the keys, so for the standart army map it is f1

  • @fraudfarid2361
    @fraudfarid2361 Před rokem +1

    3:17 Eyyyo??

  • @Kicek02
    @Kicek02 Před rokem

    Can you give the link for this save to downland?

  • @eli-mi3mh
    @eli-mi3mh Před rokem

    Hey do you expect mod saves like road to 56 or no

  • @eli-mi3mh
    @eli-mi3mh Před rokem

    0:10 me looking at this map
    Encircle ment time

  • @chicks-bj6jo
    @chicks-bj6jo Před 10 měsíci +1

    I am a chinese player and I saw a trick that almost every chinese streamer/uploaders use but almost never saw any uploaders here in youtube using it. That is: including a medium AA tank battalion in your infantry divisions.
    The reason you should use this is that it gives you a 50% damage reduction(might be 60/70/85 depending on armor/piercing ratios) to both org. damage and equipment/manpower loss(that is, unless you are completely encircled) while providing defense, breakthrough and attack bonuses.
    The AI usually have low piercing early and mid-game, so 30-40 armor usually works and gives you the full 50% damage reduction(You get full reduction if the enemy piercing is less than 50% of your armor). You shouldn't use this in multiplayer since the other player would see that you are using medium AAs to get damage reduction and would just stack piercing to destroy them. Stacking piercing is a lot easier than stacking amor.
    You should choose medium AA instead of medium tank for these reasons:
    1. Medium AA is a lot cheaper per unit compared to the average medium tank. Since we are only using armor, every other value does not matter(except maybe speed and reliability, speed should be the same as your division speed).
    2. Medium AAs only require 36 instead of 50 per battalion for every other type of medium tanks.
    3. AAs would also deal damage to enemy planes(obviously), which is especially important if your airforce is sht and is facing countries with a strong airforce. It is way easier to do this instead of building up an airforce for yourself and defeat the enemy airforce in battle.
    4. Choose medium tanks since light tanks are too weak to give you the 50% DR unless you stack armor very hard, and heavy/SH tanks are way too expensive to be used(You will need 1 battalion at least per shock division)
    Using this may give you a large advantage in all situations(as long as the enemy does not have ATs/lots of tanks) for reducing your org damage, saving manpower and equipment and increasing your attack. It's not expensive at all and you could try including it instead of an extra artillery battalion.

  • @LeroiAlbertpremierdunom

    I love disaster saves and tsarist russia, so this video was awesome. I'm wondering though, is there anyway I can send my own disaster saves? I don't have access to the discord as I was banned a few months back.

  • @revenanlone8974
    @revenanlone8974 Před rokem +4

    Check max speed on thet tank desine. I thing they have 4km max speed.

    • @nomfvideoesonmeisthatokfor6539
      @nomfvideoesonmeisthatokfor6539 Před rokem +3

      It 11.9 km/h btw. Supply + terrain modifiers just slow tanks down so much.

    • @kleinerprinz99
      @kleinerprinz99 Před rokem

      @@nomfvideoesonmeisthatokfor6539 1 km/h might also be a hard limit , right? they cannot go slower than that, or?