Spain is Pain - HoI4 Disaster Save

So this is what the battle of Kursk was supposed to look like 😂

Fun Fact: The only reason Vichy was chosen as the capital of the rump state was because it had a post office 🐢

Does bro have a new editor?,sorry for asking late

this man can invade the world as vitican city in only 30 mins

Spain Is vanish

God wills it!

The Germans stacked troops in neutral angola, can you just turn off allied supply to get them to leave???

Spain is spin






Spain - a = spin

Ima be honest with you I think people purposely seriously fuck up their game so they can watch you suffer trying to save it

"you kiss ass wherever you find ass"
Such wisdom

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Hi!

As a lithuanian, i always get so mad when everyone confuses us with latvia 😵

“we are outnumbered outgunned” “guns and boats” so close to hamilton references!

Your Disaster videos made me turn on notifications on your channel haha

Why is the soviet union sending you guns but also volunteers to your enemy?😂

PRC winning the civil war be like:

"The axis feels weak this patch" ignores the years of imports they sent to you, likely being the main reason they died lol

try playing as malta

Did he just said about liberating Kola peninsula while playing as the Axis

Considering how fanatical the Carlists are, this sudden turnaround in the civil war must have felt like divine intervention.

At this point I’m convinced that bitter steel can turn ANY situation you throw at him. There’s no stopping this man

Every time u make disaster save vid it gets even worse

Am I the only one who noticed that after the war, he became Iberia, THEN back to Kingdom of Spain? Lol. I suppose KoS is better than Iberia.

I clicked off the video but saw "sike" before it loaded the next haha

if you remove the S in well be pain

I've recently gotten HOI4 and i love the game and i always wonder how you do it! You've just earned a new subscriber 😄

The one thing really sucks as Carlist Spain is also that you can't get a brilliant strategist general (which might be less bad now that you can get them from army / military academy "focuses", but it sucked in early variants of the game), because even if you can flip over someone like Rojo Lluch to the nationalist side, all the really good generals stay with the nationalists.

It's also ridiculous that they'd have people like Astray flip over. Astray was VERY close with Franco IRL, there's no way that he would flip over to the Carlist side. Varela owed much of his standing in the Nationalist army to Franco also, because Franco took away command from Yague (who initially lead the Army of Africa columns from Sevilla towards Madrid) and gave field command to Varela, and gave him field command for many of the most important battles & offensives.

Lluch, on the other hand, was somewhat of a Republican (actual one, not like most of the leftoid scum on the "Republican" side), and he was probably the most capable (staff) officer IRL on the "Republican" side. If he were on the Nationalist side, then more likely than not he'd be more inclined to fight alongside Carlists or Alfonsinists (the "other"/main monarchists) than a Fascist junta under Mola or Primo de Rivera.

So imo you should at least get the option to try and flip generals to the Carlist side. But oh well... Also Finland needs a tree already... it pisses me off, that a country who fought not only the Winter War but also the Continuation War almost never enters the latter (despite this feature working just fine in HoI2 & Darkest Hour, as well as HoI3 - didn't play that one nearly as much as 2 / Darkest Hour - if I remember correctly) and still has no tree, but the most irrelevant nations (to WW2) like the Baltics, Ethiopea, Switzerland, et cetera all have a tree. Even Sweden and such. Or Mexico, who did fuck all other than send a squadron of volunteer pilots, and a minimal troop contribution...

Winning the civil war as carlist spain and winning it relatively fast is the easy part. What sucks is trying to get France and breaking through BEFORE they either join the ALlies or before the Germans can grab anything for Vichy (so then you have to join their faction), is what is more sucky.

I tried the run multiple times, and each time I had a gap (several months) between the initial SCW and then the attempt by the nationalists to squash the carlist uprising, but when I try to drag it out it always gets fucked up by the volunteers (but without them it's much harder).

The trick to winning fast as Carlists is positioning your troops in fallback lines and not investing too much in the southern provinces at all, plus investing PP and watching the timing on the decision to switch over states (I think you can only do 3 or 4 anyway, if I remember correctly). You can surrender the Republicans/Anarchists very fast that way, and the fight against the nationalists becomes easier.

I tried with 2 heavy tank divisions as break through, I tried other shit. I always get the timing wrong, and the terrain in southern France doesn't help either. Maybe I should just mine the shit out of the bay of biscay and channel during the SCW, to make it easier to get naval landings. Idk.

But the heavy tank stuff was prior to blood alone, and prior to there being 1934 mediums, so that might be a viable alternative as they're faster and you can produce more of them + better breakthrough than light tanks.

Heyo Bitt3rsteel ! Thank you for all the great content ! Thanks to you I'm improving very fast at the game :-) Have you ever think about doing an A to Z + releasable countries of HOI4 ? I know others have done it but I'm sure you're expertise would make most of the campaigns interesting !

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I an game where the other four factions just spawned and i was nacionalist spais retreating to Galicia saved me

germany/Italy: That's a nice plot of land you got there, it would be a shame if tanks rolled over your backyard.

I recently managed to survive as Anarchist Spain, took till 1942 at the cost of about 2mil total casualties but I still managed it lol

Lmao i remember the first country i played was spain (because im spanish so like, force of habit) and i was so confused because i had no idea how wars worked, then i played germany and god it was so much easier

"hover i like to suffer"

I live in Spain without the s

"Trains? No, no trains"

literally a second later

"I notice we don't have any trains!"

really good spanish, muy buena pronunciacion

I seem to recall that in the actual Spanish Civil War, there were two monarchists movements, but for different royal families. And yet they fought together against the Republic.
Like, what?

The Republican side also had staunch Stalinists fighting alongside anarcho-communists, and what could be considered Trotskyists. Also makes no sense.

All these people hate each other. With their ideologies in mind, how could anyone expect them to peacefully negotiate the new government after the war?
Apparently the Falangists did though!

Furthermore, I find it infuriating how militia is only recruitable by certain nations. No Spanish faction has this option despite unorganized militias being highly prevalent in at least the early war.

Imagine being a German or Italian "volunteer" fighting the Carlists for the nationalists in Spain. When suddenly the Carlists start shooting back at you with new rifles straight off the assembly line... from Germany and Italy.

Played ahist democratic Spain with Franco as my field marshal, it was an experience

Your pronunciation of Spanish cities is better than average 👍

how can i send in a disaster save to you. i had a normal good actually great austria hungary game until romania suddenly joined the axis. would love to see you try saving that game but i dont know how to send

you cannot write spain without pain

When i did a Spain run, i chose the nationalists and tried to speedrun the civil war. I failed to pull it off as fast as envisioned, but by august 1938 i was done with the war. I rebuilt and as the Axis took the mainland and was somewhat succesfull in the east, i decided to join them and see what i could do. I joined the war against the allies as soon as i had 3 full armies, 7/2's with some support units. At first i tried to win the Africa theatre, but supply and accessibility made it so i was running around alot and reconquering alot. So i decided to help with the naval invasions as they were growing from the west. Tried to also cover all the islands in the Mediterranean to kick out the allies completely from there. All but Malta and Cyprus were in Axis hands when i started to run around in west Europa killing beach heads from South France to Denmark and north Germany. I had my fun and wanted to actually make gains as they just kept coming. So i decided what was needed was to kick out the Soviets using 2 of my 3 armies. When i occupied a stretch of frontline and gave the order to move the front forward, i was quite surprised when i saw the red letters pop up very frequently: OVERRUN. I wasn't encircling any armies, they just were infantry moving forward, melting divisions in their path. Never have i seen it and never have i reproduced this.
The campaign went on and as the Soviets were pushed back, the naval landings started to threat my cores, so i abandoned the eastern front to retake my cores and that of Germany. Again, but this time USA, British and Free French troops (and then some others) were melting away with red letters announcing they were overrun...
At the end of the campaign, around 1957 when i invaded the USA, after struggling to advance (no air superiority, supply issues and AI completely swarming the front) i gained at some point decent enough supply to move forward. As supply got better again, the OVERRUN started to appear in red again.

My question is this: can it be replicated. I had historical on and regular difficulty.

Idk why but I keep coming back to the Spanish civil war, I genuinely love the micro and the playing field is relatively fair without having to do anything cheesy. Amazing recovery though!