Hoi4 Guide: The Ultimate Japan in 2024

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A comprehensive guide for Japan in Arms Against Tyranny! Glory of the Emperor guaranteed!

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Outro Music: Wild Pogo

[lolifico_banzago]

BitterSteel is so cool I wish Belgium as a concept was real

[Mongelt]

I like to imagine how Bittersteel suddenly becomes the emperor of Japan in 1936 and tells his generals "OK your tanks divisions? They're shit, get rid of them. See those planes? They're also shit, get rid of them. Now, those submarines..."

[TMG-Germany]

14:55
It is not dependent on the amount of airplanes you have deployed, but on the amount of airplanes you have. So just having airplanes in stockpile is enough, you don't have to deploy them for it to count towards the volunteer limit.

[Charles-In-Charge]

Came to this video because I hit a wall against China outside of Changde. Turns out I didn’t know about the “escalate the war in China” decisions; I got them 70% capitulated with a 40% debuff the whole time

[Emdertainment]

Great video, wonderful that you went a little bit deeper into naval and air - I realy like your longer more detailed videos

[SirArny]

This used to be called the Ultimate Japan Guide 2024

[nibistewgamer]

>sell weapons to italy

>send volunteers to ethiopia

sigma grindset

[olslimy]

47:56 "I prefer heavy machine guns..." Well at least that was historically accurate af lmao.

Many post-war interviews with IJN ace pilots seemed to conclude that they too preferred to the 13.2mm HMG compared to the many iterations of the IJN aerial 20mm cannons (the type 99 no. 1 and 2) – simply for the better velocity which meant pilots would have to lead their shots less and the shots won't just fall off after a certain distance.

Also yes, the type 99 no. 2 did have significant increased velocity compared to the no. 1, but I guess the pilots were much more used to the trajectory and handling of the 13.2mm HMG.

[eduardcardenas]

52:25 that luxembourg leader portrait 😂😂😂

[The_Marttrix]

Finally, the countury which I find the most glorious, yet the one I struggle the absolute most with! Thank you as always Bitt3rsteel for keeping us entertained and passively teaching us the game. Absolutely LOVE your content. Cheers from Colombia!

[giahungnguyen]

5:40 but the basic carrier naval has full efficiency, you will still have plenty and better planes
Also 11:06 Italy bought from the nation that just send volunteer against them :))

[stonedtowel]

It’s fun to rewatch this months later and re-absorb the information, thanks for the guides dude.

[aceapache]

Hi Bitter! Brilliant video, although I have a quick guide to pronouncing the city of Dalian. Im from there, so a quick assortment of history. The city was taken by the Russians before being taken by the Japanese, and then being taken by the Communists in the Civil War. As a result, the city has sections with very Russian architecture, and is relatively diverse (sadly changing with time) with Mongolians, Manchus, Koreans, Russians, and normal Chinese. Another notable fact is that Grigory Seymonov was caught hiding there.

Now, to the star of the comment: Pronunciation.
Dalian can easily be sectioned into three different ways to say it easier. Da should be pronounced like the Russian yes (Da) but lighter, although that doesnt quite matter. Lian should be pronounced like Lee-An, but faster, to sound like one syllable. To summarize it:

Dalian
(Da Lee-An)

As always, thank you for the great video bitter, and your guide will serve as my favorite Japan guide!.

[KAPTAINmORGANnWoeva]

34:35 - It's pretty silly how with this older Focus Tree Japan has to choose between the Zero and the Yamato. Two historical things you can't have both of via the Tree because the older trees were more around specializing your strategy for a historical war rather than larping.

[Vismark]

I still expected the Japan focus tree to be updated by now. But there still my favourite nation just for fun of land and naval battles

[juliusbechtler]

When the panay incident comes, you should pick the event where you get 100 pp. Yes the Us gets a wargoal against you, but they wont use that. I have done it always this way and the us never declared on me

[eltharnox]

Continuing my Bitt3rSteel tutorials - this guide is great! Worked great up to the part where I decided I didn't want to cap the Allies. So I tried to go pure historical. Here's some tips if you follow the historical focus path...
- Build Anti-Sub Destroyers. A lot of them. Think you've got enough? Wrong. Triple it. I think 100 might do it though.
- Take Singapore ASAP. Then don't lose it again.
- Focus on the big Islands. I was losing garrison divisions so quickly just isolated on random pacific islands. That's the Americans strategy not the Japanese.
- Don't go mental on the Army. I think you could expact on the tutorial a little bit. I think 120 Garrison infantry for your ports around Japan & S.China Sea. Maybe 4 x 24 good Inf and as many Marines as possible.

Anyways, again, good guide Bitt3rSteel. Looking forward to the next one!

[DupeisTaken]

Actually assigning the whole fleet strike force (29:10) doesn't work. They just stay in the ports until someone is in combat with an enemy fleet (which is impossible in this situation). Instead, its better to separate all of the subs in to smaller fleets with the size of 6-7 subs per fleet under the same commander. Assign them to raid convoys. This action would lure the escort fleets of China to attack, then hopefully the big fleets attacking the escort fleets, then the Chinese fleets joining in, resulting in a big victory. Also, I personally recommend buliding destroyers with only the cheapest engine since they are cheap and they can shield the battleships and carriers in a relatively low construction cost. For carriers, there is a penalty if you have too many carriers in the same fleet, so it's best to assign 4 of them to a fleet. If you want 5, then you need one wing of cas and one wing of fighters in order to make sure that your naval bombers take off sucessfully.

[Wheels-of-terror]

43:58-47:30 Tokyo Dreaming by Particle House is one of my favorite songs! It's a shame they haven't come out with new songs since 2021.

[BortBortson]

I feel proud knowing this week I basically finalized the same strategy in China. Finished in October 38. I found the drive from Nanking to Wuhan can be a little far without supply, but if you take the supply depot south of Shanxi and drive to their wartime capital, while using your marines to take those last ports, the line gets stretched too far and you can walk to the last cities you need. I also used armored recon with 4 armor on my 15 width infantry and grand battle plan and we attack bonused and armored our way to victory.