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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

Karl

2y↑5

So in the latest version of the game, you can't get the Canton focuses all willy-nilly while being on the Council side of the Balance of Power bar like Bitt3r did here.

The compromise I found was to switch to Free Trade, do 1 Council Diplomatic Effort, and by selecting the bottom of the three guiding principle options, this will be enough so that you can get Partial Mobilization by the war support increase from the balance of power shift shortly before Reaffirm Spiritual Defense nukes your war support.

Then you do Fortify Border with Italy, 1 more Council Diplomatic effort, Armed Neutrality, and rush over to Allied Gold before you lose the required 70% democrat support. After this, just save up political power, MAYBE use 100 to get more military readiness (+50 Command Power).

At this point you should have enough time to do Pro Helvetia (I do it first for the PP boost) and then get down the Frontier Defense Plan tree to Total Defense before the balance of power shifts over to the Council. As soon as you get when you have 60-ish of the 70 days of Fight until the Death (or Buero Ha if you left that path for last instead), do a Council Diplomatic Effort which will take 50 days to complete. The focus finishes, and you begin Total Defense (or Pro Helvetia, respectively) When you're 6-8 days into that focus, do Strengthen Military High Command. The effects of the two should go off after Total Defense is finished, and should put you at just enough or nearly enough Council support to do Gotthardbund.

Finally, if you saved enough PP for it, do Council Diplomatic effort, Strengthen Military High Command, and Consolidate Council Power and viola, you should be at Full Council Power in time to do Anschluss with an extra 35 days to spare (On historical AI Focuses), firmly on the path of the Alpine Protectorate while having a few significant buffs from the Canton focus tree. You're free to do as you like from here.

How strong this actually is, I have no idea. But it's the path I figured out to get the +20% division org and the political power gain + consumer good factory reduction.

Edit: If you skip either Increase Defense Budget or National Defense Fund (Idk how recommendable this is, but I might suggest skipping National Defense Fund first as you'll need the mils for your guns in the early game.) you can also dive down into Patriotic Shooting clubs and possibly Train Swiss Women.

SektorFire

The bonuses for the military branch are really nice, but I manpower could end up being critical.

As an alternative, you could instead do the Patriotic Shooting Clubs & Train Swiss Women to get +20k pop & +25% pop bonuses respectively. You also get one less -10 opinion modifier for what that's worth.

You could even do Adopt the Rumantsch Language + Train Swiss Women + Frontier Defense Plan. A .40 daily army XP gain + 15% army XP gain for a 10 CP Chief of Army might be a worthwhile tradeoff for 20k pop. Downside to this option is a 10% move to the canton side, which I don't think is insurmountable.

Both options should align within the same time frame and gives some extra options depending on priorities. Whether someone wants stat buffs, pop, or slightly less pop with some army XP gain.

Ultimately, I think it's kind of dumb that you're bound by a balance of power with a power that effectively no longer exists once you change governments. If I have absolute power over my country, why can I no longer improve my military?

All comments from YouTube:

Bitt3rSteel

2y↑96

Get your Tankmania on and try out World of Tanks for FREE here: https://tanks.ly/3yi2NeP

Andrzej Rybicki

2y↑4

How is this comment 1 day old and the video only 1 hour old?!

Andrew

2y↑3

Panzer 58 Mutz is the only Swiss tank (IIRC) in World of Tanks.

DreadMaps

2y↑2

Dankus Memecus he is good fight him HOI4

DreadMaps

2y↑1

@Andrzej Rybicki it is 3 hours old

Operational Tactics

2y↑1

It's "like a hot knife through butter"... Not "like a knife through butter", because cold butter is very hard.

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Katsumoto

2y↑842

"It feels like I'm beating a harmless child."

-Bitt3rSteel, 2022

Mister_dadster Says_hi

2y↑16

Talking about the German Reick mind you.

Genral Gaming

2y↑35

wait a minute how does he know what beating a harmless child feels like

Пиксель

2y↑6

the funniest thing is that he knows how beating a harmless child feels like

Пиксель

2y↑1

@Genral Gaming lmao, that's what I just said, great minds think alike

Genral Gaming

2y↑1

@Пиксель yes they do

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Furret

2y↑524

tbh the neutral swiss tree is the most fun, thought the balance of power really makes Switzerland unfriendly to beginners. You really need to make very specific choices to rush down that path before anschluss.

thedarkthing

2y↑15

if you do it right you can get the empire and then get the neutral military. I did this in a game and it was a lot of fun

GamePil

2y↑19

Yeah honestly I really dislike the balance of power system. Especially because often it can just get you stuck on one side. For Ethiopia its basically completely unused (apart from the bonuses it can give you) but I think the way its done with Italy is pretty good. You still need to watch out for it a little bit but nowhere near as much as with Switzerland where almost every focus requires a specific balance

Plebis Maximus

2y↑1

@GamePil I feel like they did a pretty good job of keeping the balance very easy to manipulate for the most part. I've never felt like I should be moving it somewhere without being able to and it's adds a lot of flavour. One of the best additions imo.

Dryhad

2y↑9

I actually think that Switzerland presents the greatest challenges to established players, since it works so differently from every other country that 1000+ hours in the game will do little to prepare you for it (contrast Ethiopia, where although you start the game under existential threat from a more powerful invader, managing this is largely a question of employing the standard combat mechanics well). Stuff like the council mechanics and the balance of power are very different to the way the standard political system works but this is not so unfriendly to beginners (who will not have learned a different system yet) as it is to established players who attempt to approach Switzerland as they would any arbitrary country and overlook the specialised mechanics.

Poyloos

2y↑4

@Plebis Maximus well, for italy, you lose like 10% bop to the fascist council for every state occupied by an enemy in a war. Not just cores, mind you, literally any territory. It works fine if you try to stay as faithful as possible to history (except for the part where they lost the war obviously) but map painting becomes super punishing for no reason, because if you manage to take france or some other major early, and don’t want to have to puppet all of french africa due to lag/clicking all the buttons to set that up, you are screwed if you go to war the uk, because they will almost always have the army to be able to seriously contend africa, and Italy really does not, not in numbers, tech or ability, so it’s very possible that you have a civil war and lose before they even touch one of your cores. They absolutely need to change it around so that you only lose balance of power if you lose a core state of mainland italy, not just cores, because that’d then punish you for gaining cores.

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H3lios227

2y↑934

The Swiss: I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new empire

Imperial Crusader21

2y↑89

Your New Empire?

Athrun82

2y↑36

you forgot the chocolate. Never forget chocolate ;)

MRR96

2y↑28

@Athrun82 Maybe we replace freedom with chocolate?

Oburstein

2y↑51

The Switzerland shall be Reorganized Into Swiss Condeferate Empire

Carl Busani

2y↑29

I see through the lies of neutrality, I don't fear belligerence as you do

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Kedron Mallia

2y↑158

11:05 YES they should def start having collapsable trees. Maybe they could add a feature where there's and arrow bottom right of focus icon that you could click to hide too but if they do it like some mods do it that is great too. Would be lovely with spain focus tree

Tom

Agree

Matteo Bosso

2y↑3

There is already the option in the game settings. I know it works for the Polish and Soviet FT.

Mememaster123456

1y↑3

They have that "hide inaccessible trees" setting but paradox and modders barely use it

Jay's Videos

2y↑104

Switzerland: suddenly demobilizes their 400+ Divisions after getting territory
Italy and France: "Wait--no what just happened"

Ben

2y↑8

switzerland: psych, got ya

John

Cabt is cok and ball torcher it allows easily accessible to the priv army

Kleiner Prinz

2y↑100

Secret or not so secret cooperation with the Allies gives you also one research slot down the line. It if it was possible to flip easily the balances of power one could research the secret path to to get access to that part of the focus tree as well. And if there is enough time.

Ali Akbas

🤐

Dryhad

2y↑41

Important: In the current version of the game, nearly everything in the Armed Neutrality and Buero Ha branches require the Balance of Power to be in favour of the cantons, so you cannot pick up these focuses after beelining Preempt Anschluss etc. unless you go through the entire business of flipping the Balance of Power back.

Also, I haven't actually played with Furrer as president for life but my reading of the script is that his extra research slot is not a one-time thing, like all presidents for life you can take his presidential initiative about once a year and there's nothing preventing you from getting an extra research slot every time. Again, haven't tested this but you may want to check your save game since this is pretty big if it pans out.

George Morrow

2y↑116

You need to demilitarise both Rhineland and Mosselland for that achievement.

Forrester Scalan

2y↑20

Ever since bba came out I've been doing concentrated industry and i can feel the difference with the amount of units I get out.

complex question

2y↑16

Maybe there wasn't in the version you're playing, but to answer one of your questions there is an additional research slot at the end of the democratic tree, under weapons of democracy, meaning Switzerland can get 5 total.

DeathEatsCurry

2y↑1

You also get a boost when you form the actual confederation, which you can do twice (once through a decision and once a focus), so you don't lose out on any cores. Least, that's what it was like for my playthrough, but for all I know that was a bug.

ActionFilmTherapie

1y↑2

I really dig the new focus trees for Switzerland and Ethopia. It really opens the game up considerately.

Baustin

2y↑5

Dispersed is better if you keep switching equipment to newer equipment. If I remember correctly, It's about a 5-7year payback period that makes concentrated better

EarthKuma

2y↑3

When I did mine, I didn't have to worry about the size of my army. I just use spies and improve relations, which seems to work most of the time. Got all the Swiss Achievement in one playthrough lol.

Achallor

2y↑38

“Hyperrealistic Swissball isn’t real, they can’t hurt you”

Hyperrealistic Swissball:

Megaultrahero100

as a tip if you wanna split 120 units into 5 armies press s twice then remove 6 more units with control-click and then you are left with 96units witch can be split into 48s and then 24s rly easily :) just wanted to say since i saw it at 22:45

dawn

This playthrough is like transforming into mastered ultra instinct. A good defense and offense

Timmybean

2y↑1

I have also found the Austria does not need to be intimidated. I played multiple games without building my army up at all before going for the focus and they accepted every time.

TBAG TPA

2y↑11

there was once a tank which was only in use in Switzerland, the so called panzer 68. which was based on the panzer 61 and his older brother mittlerer panzer 58. Greetings from Switzerland

lenn

The tanks sounds more like german development 🤔(im german lul)

TeRaSchnitzelXD _

@lenn LOL XDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

KptKosmit91

2y↑2

I wouldn't say there's 500+ historically accurate tanks in WoT, a lot of them were just blueprints or were completely made up.

There's one swiss tank in the game btw, but it's in the German tech tree. It's the Panzer 58

Ertrick36

2y↑3

The odds of the target nations accepting any of the expansion stuff from Switzerland all are dependent on the same factors. Namely, if A) Switzerland is a player, B) if historical AI is off, C) if they have a good relation with Switzerland, and D) if Switzerland have a colossally larger military than the target. For the last one, it's two factors. First, if their division count is less than 80% of yours. And two, if their division count is less than 30% of yours. Also, the relation modifier is massive - like, it multiplies whatever total chance you have by a factor of 15 for the Austrians, and a factor of 10 for the other two. With all combined factors checked off, there's still a chance they'll say no because there's always at least 1% for the alternative outcome so long as nothing modifies the AI chance factor for that outcome to be outright zero (which in this case, it's always a flat 10 factor, compared against factors as large as 3,000 or 10,000).

You can check this all in the event file BBA_Switzerland.txt - specifically, the events "BBA_swiss_expansion.9" and "BBA_swiss_expansion.12" (also "BBA_swiss_expansion.6" for the Vorarlberg focus, which interestingly also includes outcomes for if Hitler controls Austria).

Also, I want to point out that in this campaign Italy essentially handed over 16 military factories (probably more due to the territory being uncored until the Alpine Protectorate focus) for no reason whatsoever, lmao.

Stouzough

2y↑1

Great manual! Good job! At 22:51 I didn't catch how you assigned the complete army to 2 different countries, did I miss a shortcut?
Edit: or maybe you assigned the army to one border, and then (video edited) you manually selected 2 other divisions and assigned them to the 2nd border?

Gustav Kuriga

2y↑2

You could have gotten both the Axis and Allied Gold, which gives ridiculous bonuses to Civilian Factories.

DraBattle - Lịch sử Hoạt Hình

Great video as always! I'd be really interested in countries history 💕💕

Acy

2y↑1

It is better for single player early game agression to take dispersed, majors on the other hand generally gain more if you are going for middle-late game from concentrated

JaySpinny

2y↑1

the next dlc will probably be scandinavia but I really want one for south america, they got tons of stuff they can do with Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia and maybe Honduras as well (banana republic), they should also focus it on money and introduce currency into the game

Schadowization Productions

2y↑10

Have a good look on that map at the beginning. They still didn't include Schaffhausen (up North) as a part of Switzerland and Liechtenstein (in the East) as a country!

MRR96

2y↑10

Liechtenstein gets acknowledged in the Swiss focus tree
After taking Vorarlberg you can create a VP for Liechtenstein in the area, meant to show that the principality is now annexed into your nation.

Wolf Brigade

2y↑1

Honestly, your guides have saved me so many time from a mental breakdown. The only thing that makes me rage every time is the ai cucking me out of territory I need

deez nutz

1y↑16

I love how you explain the mechanics of the game to new players and beginners in your videos. It's absolutely lovely, and you're probably one of the few youtubers that do it, so thank you.

Bitt3rSteel

1y↑5

Glad you enjoy it!

S M

More Swiss content please :) love your work sir

pirate

2y↑1

I love this video keep up the good work!

NoobyDeveloper

Therapist: Switzerland cant hurt you

Switzerland:

m

2y↑3

That must have been done on the different version of the game. At the current state going all the way for the left side blocks all military and militia related focuses. You can't get that recrutable population modifiers anymore if you rush for anshluss

Karl

2y↑2

The compromise I found was to switch to Free Trade, do 1 Council Diplomatic Effort, and by selecting the bottom of the three guiding principle options, this will be enough so that you can get Partial Mobilization by the war support increase from the balance of power shift shortly before Reaffirm Spiritual Defense nukes your war support.

Then you do Armed Neutrality, 1 more Council Diplomatic effort, Fortify Border with Italy, and rush over to Allied Gold before you lose the required 70% democrat support. After this, just save up political power, MAYBE use 100 to get more military readiness (+50 Command Power).

At this point you should have enough time to do Pro Helvetia (I do it first for the PP boost) and then get down the Frontier Defense Plan tree to Total Defense before the balance of power shifts over to the Council. As soon as you get when you have 60-ish of the 70 days of Fight until the Death (or Buero Ha if you left that path for last instead), do a Council Diplomatic Effort which will take 50 days to complete. The focus finishes, and you begin Total Defense (or Pro Helvetia, respectively) When you're 6-8 days into that focus, do Strengthen Military High Command. The effects of the two should go off after Total Defense is finished, and should put you at just enough or nearly enough Council support to do Gotthardbund.

Finally, if you saved enough PP for it, do Council Diplomatic effort, Strengthen Military High Command, and Consolidate Council Power and viola, you should be at Full Council Power in time to do Anschluss with an extra 35 days to spare (On historical AI Focuses), firmly on the path of the Alpine Protectorate while having a few significant buffs from the Canton focus tree. You're free to do as you like from here.

Sebastian Kreuzer

2y↑4

Is it possible that there is a bug with the tree in your video? You where able to do Frontier Defense Plan even though you had 0% Canton support but 38% Council support, should be Impossible to take that focus, correct me if im wrong please

Timmybean

2y↑1

A little exploit I discovered for when you have full Canton control is that until you fill the vacant seat after electing a president, you can replace the other two guys for free as well. You're only locked in once the vacant seat is filled.

Matthew Morley

I’m a bit confused here, for the “frontier defence plan” Focus you need to on the cantons side right, but right after you did that focus you where able to do Anschluss which you need to be left for, on the federal council side

Ja go

I tried this rn but I guess the Swiss tree is broken rn because I tried switzerland on the offensive and it says I can’t do it unless the left is strong but I have the left at strong and it still won’t let me do it

Ox Lynz

2y↑7

It's important to mention that it seems that the country ideology once you do the protectorate focus seems to be the one of the presidnt, mine was unfortunately communist.

toast

2y↑3

Agreed, thanks so much for the playthrough!

Jamie521

2y↑3

according to 71cloak's testing, dispersed is effectively always better. you can look up his video on youtube.

BorkOn!

Fun Fact, Order Of the Sword is Swedish! Probably a little Easter Egg from Paradox

154Kilroy

2y↑1

After 4,500+ hrs of playtime, I'd say dispersed industry is better in most cases. The biggest part is the production efficiency retention. Anytime you upgrade to a new tech, you loose efficiency. With concentrated it's way more noticeable. The only time I've found concentrated to be the better choice is when playing the Chinese nations. This is because they already have a massive debuff to retention anyways, so you shouldn't be switching production around. Pure numbers are what matters. Basically every other nation dispersed is the better option.

Sweet Taters

2y↑1

I’ve seen on a bunch of older videos people asking for this sweet boy to remake them because of the new DLC since no step back would be nice to have

BlueBean

2y↑1

Great content :) def gonna play Switzerland after this

Raippa Keisari

Please do a detailed guide video on the peace deal mechanic.

Karl

2y↑5

SektorFire

Blake Mueller

Thank you for this

Romeo Paparon

Man tho i wanna see an southeast asian colony to become a world power if i could see it tho btw watching switzerland gaming was cool!

denmark ball maping (EMC) (AUO)

You made europe cool and I wanna go there!

Amogus master

2y↑3

Cool video, now I can finally play switzerland properly

Awestrike99

2y↑4

i have to say that they even changed some of the focuses because in my game it doesnt says "Cantons is the active side" so i cant take a lot of focuses

Leo Carter

1y↑1

me too. I'm having trouble with the Frontier Defense Plan.

Devan ZumMallen

2y↑1

BitterSteel, I yet struggle once more on the new update from the Austria Hungary achievement, after so many attempts

Fem

"I am neutral" Screams Switzerland before it rips Frances Alp Mountains out it's country

KOALA MASTER

52w

18:11 "its cheasy and its a little stupid but if it is stupid and it works its not stupid"
-Bitt3rSteel, 2022

Frank Underbush

2y↑5

Switzerland challenge: own every mountain tile on the map

Matheus Dias Teló

2y↑1

Yeetionary

swiss tibet

Keter kee

2y↑3

it doesnt allow me to take most of the central focus since for me it locks them out as soon as im lower than 0% of canton power

SleepLess

Can’t wait for the next update so I can buy the DLC on sale.

Plebis Maximus

2y↑2

Every time you use mediums, I tell myself I need to start using them too, but then when I do play with tanks, I still just stick to lights. Maybe one day I'll learn.

Dux Sancti Hadriani

I always rush down light tanks and when I remember mediums existed I've already taken over half of europe, lol

TheChattingSun

2y↑34

Don't know if it has been mentioned, but if you struggle with the absolute neutrality mechanic, you can just do this:

Improve relationship with the countries in question.

TheRealCountryballgmoder

When its your first time playing this then your brain goes like this: Wth i cant handle this!
1 month later: Why didn't I think of this in the first place?

frostdillicus

There is a research slot down the Join the Allies branch of the democratic tree via the Weapons of Democracy focus. I think Furrer is the only way to get the last slot. There might be a research slot down the fascist path, but I haven't looked into it.

Username.

i wouldnt find the courage to micro in the german and italian war at the start i would just battle plan so congrats man

Robert Parker

9:30 If your Upgrading A lot and Changing your line then Dispersed. If Not Concentrated Usually as minor nation I use Concentrated , You have to make sure you have a stockpile of the older models before you change the line . If not You will have to rely on lend lease and that is always iffy. Concentrated has a higher cap in the end you will more of the same Product or weapon. Dispersed is generally better for Major nations that have a Land or building slots to build more Factories.
So as a minor Nation I have plain. Max Research T3 guns asp . T3 Artillery ASP ALL (Anti-Air , Tank and Standard ART ) Your not going to change the line until you have the t3 Researched . So you will end up with huge stockpile of T1 guns . T2 Fighters A Must since you Can't Out CAS a Major Nation. and Interwar bomber is fine for CAS. It's hard to make Dedicated CAS as a Minor Nation. Generally you won't have the production For Tanks . So I consecrate on Special Forces . Which Requires infantry Equipment. Just my 2 cents

WALN Zell

2y↑1

Paradox gave Switzerland a focus tree but didn't make sure all the unit templates were in an appropriate language.

Lukas Lee

They did, Switzerland has 3 mountaineer templates, Gebirgsinfanterie, Infanterie de Montagne, and Fanteria di montagna

WALN Zell

@Lukas Lee When you get a regular infantry divisions, it's Infantry Division 1, Infantry Division 2, etc.

Lukas Lee

@WALN Zell oh

Reynard Olympia

2y↑2

Time traveller throws rock
The timeline:

Magic Morris

2y↑5

Can anyone explain to me the "Anschluss"-mechanic?

I did a few runs as Switzerland and I always did it with "Improve Relations" and Spynetworks on "Diplomatic Pressure". It worked perfectly fine, but was this a coincidence (and its just based on military power) or does it work this way too?

StarMinor

2y↑2

they always accept

WuseligeEnte

2y↑1

@StarMinor No they don't always do

The McGinger Beard

Is it worth going down The New Eidgenossenschaft path? Haven't seen many people try it and looks like it's really slow with how much political power and time it takes to do the decisions.

Kleiner Prinz

2y↑1

In my games Italy really quickly defeated Ethiopia btw.

Tim Curtis

Bitt3rSteel: "...otherwise, I'd be here for 20 minutes."
Me: looks at video length "An hour long hoi4 video? Sounds amazing."

Man Pig

I tried playing as Switzerland, angered Germany who declared war on my in early 1937, held them back until mid 1939 but then they Anchlussed Austria, a border that wasn’t guarded and finally broke though and swallowed me up in a month… Still, had a 45 k/d so Swiss Go Hard.

Truth_

2y↑1

26:03 tbh those borders would look waaaay cooler without lower and upper Austria, this would be a true CHAD Switzerland

xR0NINx

2y↑1

So, he was at 100% fed council but could still get focuses tht required 0%+ on cantons. How? Bc I’ve tried this and I’m stuck wth half my tree blocked.

Noobcake

2y↑1

Italy signing over so much land including Milano and Genova is just silly

sam will

Switzerland: "One dollar...two dollars...three- aw dammit, there's still a finger attached to this one....three dollars..."

Henrique Martins

To be fair, the swiss did show they could tenderize them... By, ya know, actually tenderizing them lately.

Josqu

Konrad Adenauer ruling over Bavaria is truly the most blessed timeline

Poll Lopp

How did you get back to the Canton side to take the Shooting Club focus after you reached full Council?

Andrzej Rybicki

The bordergore in the thumbnail looks amazing

Leo Carter

Am I the only one having balance of power issues with the Frontier Defense Plan? By the time I get to it, the Cantons have long lost their power, making it unavailable to do certain focuses.

Andrew Tate

I’m moving to Switzerland, they stick to there guns, had the best battle plan for defending their country in ww2, and it’s a very rich country

Noo Youuu

2y↑4

As far as disbursed vs concentrated, concentrated is only good if you plan on keeping a line on something for a long term. So if you're playing as China and need to keep a line on cheap inf equipment just to keep your troops supplied it works, for most situations dispersed is still best

Aiden Booksmith

2y↑1

Concentrated is also useful in multiplayer when you're meant to handle planes like Hungary for the Axis or Canada for the Allies

Alpha Numeric Key

The Alpine Protectorate is the most metal flag ever.

HoundofJustice

2y↑1

Video starts after 4 minutes thank me later =D

Simon DS

Dispersed vs concentrated industry: I tend to pick concentrated when I'm playing a smaller nation as you really need the extra boost to production and you won't be changing lines as often in the larger nations where you're constantly researching upgrades to equipment.

SanderDoesThings

People have been talking about Ethiopia so much that I forgot Switzerland was even in BBA

Re1ics

2y↑1

I think the game is fixed between you recording and now, because I can’t progress down the middle path since the balance power is in the council’s favour.

Bigbo 1

1y↑1

I can’t play a non-historical game without Germany and Hungary forming the central powers, Switzerland annexing Italy, and the U.S. becoming the CSA anymore

Jacob

2y↑1

So far Ive only been pre-emptively invaded as Switzerland for literally no reason. So... Cant really enjoy them lol

방탕탕아

2y↑2

Is it only me or does the game cancel 'Pro Halvetia' due to the balance of the power system when I follow his move one by one?

Edit ) Think Bittersteel 'Renounce Guiding Principal' with 100pp at one point, can somebody actually confirm this?

Andy Wright

1y↑3

Indeed, this guide doesn't work now as you have to be right of power (pro cantons) struggle to go pro helvetia, or frontier defence, and you have to be past the strong threshold to the other side to get allied gold and gotthardbund path. It's frustrating. I think if you just beetle for the left hand side, the guide is the same but no free spy agency or buffs for your forces.

Maximus Jacksamus

2y↑2

so I'm trying to follow this guide and a lot of the focuses he is showing have different requirements to what is appearing in game. all the focuses regarding the military focuses in the centre of the tree require to be on the cantons side, whereas in the video, bittersteel is able to complete them when very far into the federal council. not sure of this is an older version he is playing on, but it makes the majority of the guide impossible as a lot of the focuses cannot be completed in the order of the video

Keegan Randall

2y↑1

If you look in the video, the focuses actually do have those requirements...they just don't seem to be enforcing them on him. Some of the other focuses are getting correctly locked out though, so I suspect it was just a bug in whatever version he recorded this on.

InfinitY

@Keegan Randall In his video the Requirement says "Cantons is the active side in Balance of Powers", in my game it says "The balance of powers is more than 0.0% on the cantons side." So there is some difference

Keegan Randall

2y↑1

@InfinitY Sure, they probably changed the wording between the media build this was recorded on and the public release.

nathan knapp

in my opinion the alpine protectorate and Macedonia have the coolest flags

Dante Jones

A Swiss NAVY?! You're kidding Paradox!

Panos Kappos

Look i go consecrated when i have an airforce because otherwise axis or allies bomb me to pieces but i think even then might worth it because you gain 5% more stuff for its timeyou upgrade it

Mustang BR

What kind of tank was that? Max soft attack?

Mara

Spirit of st Bernard focus is apparently broken. Can get 100% trickleback?

BigJ BigJ

2y↑4

This honesty is one of my favorite dlcs

Ember Fist

I love the look of Swizterland after annexing all of Austria but for the opposite reason. It looks like it would be easier to cut in two than AI Italy. At least until you get your Italian claims.

Unified Horizons

2y↑1

italy be like ight i'll sign over the most delvoped part of my country

Ben Krick

for conentrated industry to be even worth considering, it would need several buffs. all the bonuses you get from dispersed greatly outweight the 5% production difference per level. concentrated is just a waste o time