Hoi4 Guide: The Ultimate Soviet Union in 2024

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A comprehensive guide for the USSR in Arms Against Tyranny! Stalin DEMANDS IT!

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Outro Music: Wild Pogo

[kyallokytty]

42:30 its denmark

when denmark declares war on the germans, *for some reason* Japan joins on every war the germans are in

[inductivegrunt]

USSR, mired by negative national spirts but with a huge industry, plenty of resources, and a huge military. Honestly it's one of my favorite nations to play in Hoi4, and having a guide for the nation is very welcome to improve my gameplay as I haven't played since Man the Guns.

[OrangeOrange]

The amount Bitt3r loves futurama is amazing

[eltharnox]

Well, the video works! I did the full setup, then my wife got home when I was supposed to be working, so I quickly alt-tabbed off the window. Realised I hadn't paused, came back in 1943 and the Stalin Line still held! Great guide.

[RhettOlson]

There is a way to minimize who dies in the purges to the absolute minimum of only who died historically, but it forces you to rush every single purge focus and you can NEVER choose any other focus until the purge tree is done (you also have to use exactly 2 falsify production reports at a specific time every time) except for a few times between major purge cooldowns. By following a hyper specific path and specific timer for falsify production reports, you can keep the paranoia below 30% at all times, negating any purge events that may ever pop up.

I love playing the Soviet Union, it's my favorite nation in the game due to their unique situation, but post No Step Back I have started branching out because I'm tried to having to do the exact same focuses in the exact same order every time I play the Soviets. I can never do the naval focuses at any point in game, and air focuses can't be done until well into the war with Germany. 75% of the focus tree is unusable until the purges are finished.

Also in the early game, I find it more advantageous to bank all political power until the SCW, send an attaché and immediately go to war economy, rather than grabbing free trade first. You should have exactly enough PP by the SCW outbreak to improve relations, attache', and war economy.

[maciekGTR]

Good video, but i have a couple of very important remarks.
The biggest mistake is paying 200 PP for Novikov since you can get him practically at the start for just 50 if you get some xp from spain and pick the Independent Air Force spirit for -75% air advisor cost. This also applies for a doctrine advisor which lets you get the most important air doctrines before germany invades.

You will need the light tanks for recon companies so it's good to keep at least a single factory on the BT-7. Also it's good to put tanks near vladivostok to ensure a victory in the border conflict and get a very important doctrine bonus.

The Captain of Industry only gets purged if another advior was purged previously. That's why you need to pop the paranoia decisions at 30 paranoia to prevent the advisor purge event firing. There are a lot of nasty events after 30 paranoia so i would recommend clicking the decisions as soon as you hit 30.

Starting building MIC at 1939 nets you a whopping 20% less equipment at 1941 than starting at 1938. It's a thing of preference but it's important to mention it.

I don't know if it was changed, but the way reliability worked for the entirety of HoI4 is that if you have any number under about 99%, it doesn't matter at all and your equipment will get chewed like crazy. So if you want to battleplan your tanks and not worry about attrition costing you tons of equipment it's good to make the tank in a way that if combined with a maintanence company, your tanks have at least 99% reliability.

You don't need to build a supply hub near Kherson, it's expensive and takes a lot more time to build than a simple port which will do the trick.

Base game AI is terrible at air warfare so you don't really need the self sealing fuel tanks, they are too expensive for nations without rubber.

It depends on if you want to go full historical but it's better, cheaper and faster to just ignore the finland focus and do a war goal against them as soon as you get M-R pact.

Also you're doing something wrong with industry because you're about 100 factories short of what you can have in 1941.

[idk_what_to_set_it_to]

A week ago returned to hoi4 and wanted to play ussr so spot on lol

[noblCZ]

Germany declared war on Bitt3rsteel
Bitt3rsteel: So you choose death.

[inflateableman]

They done the maths on the building of the factories, if you need to build 5 or more, you will do it faster if you build 2 lvls of infrastructure first (same for 4 and 1 IS lvl). More people need to know about this.

[truelightningstriker]

I've been looking forward on seeing a guide for the USSR. This is epic.

[jaredtheamerican]

Watching Bitt3rsteel is like watching Saturday morning cartoons. Love the content and would like to see a Nordic Defense Council guide.

[The_Only_Pickle]

I feel SO validated watching Bitt3rsteel do what I already do!

[muhammadaris]

Never late for bittersteel video love eveey content of your video.i know its pain playing heart of iron but you have a blast.

[wastelander]

I love long videos longer the better. Great video as always

[niku]

24:05 You can get a lot lower Fuel Consumption by using the Christie Suspension, normally you have far more Breakthrough than you need, and Oil is always needed. For speed, the best is to always aim at least over 8km/h (twice as fast as Infantry) or go even a bit higher to offset Province debuffs such as Deep Snow.

[Dedelblute]

USSR is so fun to play because the entirety of it is just trying to prepare for the invasion of Germany. Sure, I could min-max my divisions, build level 10 forts on the entire border, and just win, but it’s more fun seeing how many army groups you can fill to the brim with pure infantry and feed it into the meat grinder.
Though it does get a bit frustrating to push through 10 divisions per tile in 1946.
Also… even if you don’t invade Finland they still do the continuation war which is just plain silly.

[Sigmamale-alpha]

Challenge idea for USSR: you are only able to build infrastructure(this does not include factories from focus tree)

[heyuhmark]

Thank you for all of the guides recently. You have helped me become an infinitely better player than when I started playing hoi4. Will you make anymore videos on kaiserreich? It’s my favorite mod by far and would love to see your take on its gameplay!

[thenamestoddretodd]

Love how i open yt, this is the first vid i see, click on it then youtube gives me a notification for this same video right after it starts playing letts

[lvckymoritz]

bro why are your videos that good i allways watch them when i cant sleep