I played Germany in Black Ice, and hated every minute of it
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This mod gave me brain damage, 10/10, would recommend.
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"They are attacking my divisions in the winter, and it just doesnt phase them! They are suffering from the same debuffs as mine, I dont understand it! What bonuses do they get?" -Hitler irl in winter of 1941
It could also be Stalin in 1939
@@danielutriabrooks477the war hadn’t started in 39
Could be Stalin in Finland in '39
@@Brent-jj6qi It started the 30th of November of '39
He means the soviet German war@@danielutriabrooks477
BICE is the most historically accurate mod in HOI4. Not because of its economy and design modules, but because just like in a real war, nobody knows what's going on, how anything works, and there is a perpetual shortage of everything regardless of how many factories you have. But if you're looking for a real challenge, I'd highly recommend BICE USSR. You start off with a phenomenal army and industry, but your doctrine is hopelessly outdated, and you can do nothing but watch in horror as the debuffs make your army and air force virtually incapable of any combat. You desperately try to get all the focuses, catch up on your doctrine, and get your tanks and guns researched, but that summer 1941 is rapidly approaching and your army is nowhere near ready.
The Stalin Experience
BICE is very easy once you give it a shoot, its clear whats going on all the time not sure how people can be confused by BICE that said i play it since HOI3 and without it HOI is just a wannabe 4x arcade game...
@@michaelfinger6303 BICE is the most up its own ass mod I've ever seen, save maybe Kaiserredux. It acts like it's historically accurate, but constantly ignores the circumstances that caused historical events or division composition to occur in.
Please play it with me it's like Nickelback everyone hates it but it's actually good@@michaelfinger6303
@@Bitt3rSteel Play with bice difficulty aswell, it will be impossibly hard lol.
BICE, still trying to turn HOI4 into a MILSIM
Felt like Factorio, but Hoi4 at times
@@Bitt3rSteel That’s about how war works in real life.
🅱️ICE
Post Scriptum but As Nation Leader
@@datboi1546 its 2024
Black ice is basically if the board game "The Campaigne for North Africa" was a video game.
Hoi is based on a board game as well.
@@Txm_Dxr_Bxss he's not saying it's bad because it's like a board game. The Campaign for North Africa is a notoriously long and complex board game. It takes around 1,500 hours for a single game to finish. That's why it's being compared.
@@LiterallyMe05 a game that no one has finished
1.5k hours means 2 months and 2 days, so is very fast compared to 2/3 years from the real deal lmao @@LiterallyMe05
@@kickassgreekSuch a length would make quality control impossible, which in turn explains such a lenght
"We will probably be able to seize Leningrad, it is completely cut off from the rest of the Soviet Union" -Bittersteel, 2024 -Hitler, 1941
They recommend a easy country like Italy or Usa. SO WE WILL OFCOURSE PLAY GERMANY
Go big or go home
@@Bitt3rSteel Think of your family!
I love that XD
Germany is also easy tbh. It's just that time in history that Germany will be always powerfull in any mod.
@@Bitt3rSteel So... you didn't play this at home?
"We've won the air war, the British are almost out of planes" - Luftwaffe, shortly before losing the Battle of Britain
They almost did win though. In churchhills book he related an incident where the luftwaffe gave up at the pivotal moment when the RAF was stretched to breaking point and had zero reserves. Sea Lion would have been somewhat possible with air superiority...
@@willywonka6487 And then Churchill targetted German Civilians with a bombing campaign so that Germans would do the same and start the Blitz... which gave RAF the time needed to breath at the cost of London. Meanwhile Churchill went on holiday to his country estate away from the bombing.
@@willywonka6487Thank fuck they did give up then.
@@willywonka6487 Yesn't. The RAF was under great pressure, but Sealion wouldn't have worked. Not at all.
Here come the last fifty Spitfires again.
Funny thing for you viewers, I got to hear second-hand Bitt3rSteel's experience in a Discord chat as he tried again and again to beat this. The man was absolutely destroyed making this video.
I picture that scene from Downfall was being pretty much Bittersteel's thought process, if it was in French.
Oh hey Pravus. So... when are you going to attempt this? I had a lot of fun hearing BitterSteel suffer.
He should release those as specials
@@alexandercaires5921LOL
@@alexandercaires5921 Oh, is Bitter French?
"They get a positive modifier from the terrain? I don't know how this is working!" - average german commander on the eastern front in 1941
"HANS why cant I spam tanks in Moscow why did devs buff a random city in the middle of Russia?" -German commander november 1941
How do you produce more Horse transports? "Queue in oversimplified napoleon horse manufacture explanation "
YOU! MAKE MORE HORSES!
But I can't make horses!@@senatorarmstrong4168
@@senatorarmstrong4168i can’t,horses make horses
@@Not_ameco9 EXPLAIN HOW!!!!
@@Not_ameco9 EXPLAIN HOW!
Bitt3rsteel being utterly overwhelmed and uncertain about everything in Black Ice is basically me when I play normal HOI4
Bitt3rSteel this is an intervention, at one point you had over 130 hours in hoi4 over a two week period. We’re worried about you, this black ice isn’t healthy for you.
This... This is why I had 130 hours
@@Bitt3rSteel oh...
Wow thats 9 hours and a few minutes every day for 14 days
i remember i had 193 hours over two weeks in war thunder... I got from tiger to leopard 2...
@@tilli1514 Actual workday just to understand the game, he has to edit this shit as well. Have to respect the committment.
Hoi4 players when they realize war in the real world is 90% logistics and economy: "NOOOOOOO"
I feel like another game than Hoi4 would suit the Production & Logistics crowd better...
The BICE AI doesn’t suffer supply penalties which is dumb because the player is limited to their supply while AI is unrestricted
@@maxk3871this also happens in Victoria 2 too
@@maxk3871 The AI is mostly tied to the architecture of the game and modders can modify only so much of it, thus theres not much they can do to integrate their modifications with AI.
-plays black ice -naturaly plays hard nation -hates every minute of it
Immediately goes for a more difficult nation.
@@12gark hates it even more
>I started BICE with ussr didn't last to '42 >Played again >lost even faster becouse germany started Barbarossa in May >Played USA >Seen navy designer >Came >Unlimited ic >Ez win
"My Fuhrer. What is the plan?" "We shall execute Operation Double Wammie. General Bitter Steel shall oversee it."
Jodl: My Führer, Steiner...I mean, BitterSteel couldn't mobilize enough men. He wasn't able to carry out his assault.
I am so excited to finally watch this after hearing about your endless suffering. I only hope it helps calm my damaged soul after doing historical divisions for so many hours… Edit: oh hey, that’s my name!
Despite all the absurd and ridiculous changes to the game to make it more realistic, Germany still still sea lions the UK in 1941 and used naval invasions willy nilly. I think they just made the game more complicated, without making it more "realistic" at times.
Exactly
exactly, modders need to stop trying to make hoi4 "realistic". because you can't. you just end up with a complete slog of a mod, like this one.
I tried the complete overhaul mods BICE and Total War, and I left decidedly unimpressed. Needing to produce typewriters for Division Command, or having a Goering's 4 year plan mini game, does nothing for the game.
@@MrZauberelefanttry ultra historical mod
Well if you needed to play really historical you would have to occupy countries and letting them starve because you need food as germany, and even with that your people starve. Also you move your tanks 4 times per year otherwise no fuel. That should be the campaign fro germany, funny? Not really but that's what a game should be: FUNNY
Black Ice is the definition of Feature Bloat, also the sound effect for research is Sooooooo annoying. i cant stand hearing bubbles every time I click on core mechanic
It’s nice to see that someone looked at the godless amalgamation of UI and micromanagement that is HoI4 and went “Meh. Needs more shit I have to baby sit.”
Yeah, doesn't take a genius too play the game bub...
@@TheHuffmanator No just a couple hundred hours and multiple retries of every nation you try to play to learn its focuses, political decisions, how to build industry, what to research and when, etc etc etc.
@dabbingtoast7743 Takes about 15 mins to read the focuses. If you can read a pop up book, you can get through it bub.
@@TheHuffmanator do you unironically talk like this? you reek of a lack of female attention
@@TheHuffmanator neither of you is wrong but damn you could ease up on the condescension a little
37:22 lmfaoo Brazilian men garrisoning Europe but under a German flag and commander 😭🤣
This mod looks like an absolute nightmare to play but that tank designer is making me consider playing.
Is it?
Honest tip: Don't!
One of the most important things in BICE is the research of radios and distribution of them to your soldiers, without them and specialized research in HQ and organization, your battalions will only walk around with like 10-20 org, not really capable of winning long term battles. Learned that the hard way in an playthrough agains Italy
Noted
Black Ice: Because fun is historically innacurate
Though what if Black Ice is fun for someone?
@@mrmunchkin2181 cool for them
@@mrmunchkin2181i would imagine they must enjoy quantum physics as well
@@caydenl.4878 You would be correct, since I do enjoy quantum physics and physics in general.
Black ice is the most historically accurate, but if you want some accuracy but still enough Hoi4-ness for it to be enjoyable, i really recommend the Total War mod and World Ablaze mod.
Total war is still on 1.12 (hopefully it’ll be updated soon it’s a fun mod)
The world blaze have focus tree that are lock out until something happen.
Ultra historical mod feels more historical
Some aspects of the Ultra historical mod are nonsense For example it would take 1 year to build a single railway in a tile and The focus trees are limited (at least it was the case in my german playthrough) but in general it is a decent mod with some minor bugs @@swamperino8450
right not just the blatant cheats the ai gets for Black Ice
Hey bittersteel! I love this mod for the reason that it makes you take the same drugs that Hitler did to manage everything, but a quick tip is that if you put SS divisions into capitols/major cities in regions, they lower resistance (and also compliance gain), it's like 2x more effective than garrisons too.
Really?!
@@Bitt3rSteel"THE SS CAN MANAGE RESISTANCE???" -Britt3rSteel 2024
But all the ww2 spy movies said otherwise...
I love how they do everything they can to make the game harder and more complicated, except for combat width, which they made simpler because combat width is just annoying lol.
Tripped over that one, too. Like, yeah, we need different uniforms for different divisions, but all terrain allows for 3 divisions to fight in?
@@MrZauberelefant I think it’s because they modified divisions and division sizes so much they didn’t want the headache of figuring out combat widths for all the new stuff.
BlackICE, the realm of never having anywhere near enough research slots, focus trees so complex the AI can't handle non-historical, and artillery being so necessary and so expensive that minors physically cannot have a viable army. Or at least that was what it was like before the tank designer became mandatory and the past versions broke for some reason.
Good days /j
Wow...like reality, funny how that works...
@@TheHuffmanator Nobody ever told you that games are supposed to be fun, I'm guessing.
@@alexanderlaveau7819 Spoken like a true simpleton. It's almost like it's a mod... Which means, if you are too ignorant or stupid for it...well you have your anecdote.
@@TheHuffmanator wow, you suck
Attritional containment as Germany is the best option. Manpower is a massive problem and the general solution costs stability and army fighting ability.
The thought alone of downloading black ice keeps me up at night
Fun fact, actual generals would still use those symbols during World War I and World War II. Nito just customize them of the black dot for artillery.
Huh, you did a lot better than a lot of YTers in the recent BICE-posting trend. Good job 👍 I would've liked to see more about the focuses vs your argument that it's not a guide: I like just absorbing the info about stuff even if it's not optimal because in my little head I can simulate my own playthrough/different choices (I will not be playing HoI4 further due to lack of DLC LOL).
Thanks for the tips!
I’ve found out that BICE AI doesn’t suffer any supply or fuel penalties which allows the AI to pump out tank divisions with no reprocussions, and if you’re fighting somewhere you don’t have supply the AI just wins because they’re constantly at %100 supply.
damm, I just explained EU4 to one of my friends, then I hop on youtube to get some brainpower back and I get this
I would actually enjoy seeing more of this mod. Love your videos btw❤
Noted!
I remember asking you to play BICE a long time ago. BICE is actually my favorite mod, and you did pretty well for your first time, especially playing germany. Industry is key for winning, so finding the perfect balance of your industry (how much energy, engines and specific resources it need) is key. You can make the argument that and 'economy simulator' has no place in HoI4 (a war game), and that's ok, it' not for everyone. For me, I like how it makes 'meme strats' impossible. I get it, they're fun because they are absurd and I enjoy seeing some meme strats/alt history here and there. But for a more serious game, BICE is your pick. You seem to have enjoyed the mod, so may I suggest a challenge? Germany but you build Navy. (not exclusively, of course, or you'll lose, you focus on army and air force as usual but you try to build up a respectable Navy in parallell. for this I reccommend trading Danzig for Slovakia, it'll stave off the War and buy you some time. With luck you can even make the Allies fight the USSR while you help and/or build up in parallell) Other Majors are also pretty cool, Japan, Italy, USSR... I don't enjoy USA and UK much, USA is just too easy (basically sit back and build up) and UK I just don't like. I haven't played the mod in a while, but I heard they've been working on minor powers. Try Brasil, I heard its fun!
> bosite In English the ore of aluminum is pronounced BOX-ite. Yes, even though it’s named for French village Les Baux which is of course pronounced the way you said it.
I am one of the guys on discord ranting about the pain of this mod. Glad to see you did well.
Send help
@@Bitt3rSteel i won too, and for me it was even worse since i did sealion in 49 and allies had more than 250 div in britain.
I’m never going to even touch this mod
16:36 i see me I am unit in training I see me yay
9:43 To be exact, the question is "9 small (28cm) guns or 6 big (38cm) guns".
I like elements of this mod, but altogether, it feels like it is a bit much. I played it few years ago, and it was too much then. They've definitely added quite alot since then.
I remember I played about an hour of BICE and very quickly decided that I didn’t want to waste my week playing it
NATO icons can be changed in the icons and you click on the "default" button. Finally someone competetive and funny doing BICE!
SMH completely skipping over thatguyfromcollege
19:40 Adding the SS divisions to a theatre named "OKW" is the ultimate troll against Himmler
0:10 Yayy. Aldrahill got mentioned. Raah, what is normal game.
Ayyy ;)
im ngl, a "love hate relationship that makes you hate everything yet love it at the challenge and logistical nightmare it brings" is probably the kind of abusive relationship id get with that fucking mod and i both cant wait... and wont ever try to even attempt to tackle that monster cus fucking hell that seems depressingly stressful
I really enjoyed this mod a lot and would love to see you play different nations in this mod in the future
This was very enjoyable to watch. Wouldnt mind seeing more, provided your sanity can take it
I don't like how BIce went from HoI3 in HoI4 to an exercise in spite against its players. There are mods that add complexity in better ways for HoI4.
Bitt3rSteel gotta try World Ablaze
What aldrahill couldn't pull off as historical, you did it, praise
The historical was just too much agony for me xD
@@Aldrahill understandable, the mechanics of this mod are out of this world for anyone
@@Aldrahill now i understand why hitler was on so many drugs...
Having played HOI2 and 3 for years and BI for the last 3 or so before HOI4 came out, your perspective on BI is interesting. My take is that BI took a fairly simplistic game and made it feel more like a complex strategy game with many more WWII realistic traits. I resisted playing HOI4 for years after it came out as I then felt like all of Paradox's other games and to me, lost a LOT of what I thought made HOI3 a good WWII strategy game. I like HOI4 well enough now, but I'm looking at BI as you play it and thinking it's time to dive back into BI. 🙂
Oh, I don't blame anyone for liking BICE. I certainly see the appeal. It's just not necessarily something I personally want
@@Bitt3rSteel Sure, I didn't take it that you're blaming people for liking it, just expressing your own opinion.
Having played since Darkest Hour, BI can go fuck itself. It acts like it's historically accurate, but it's just overly complex while completely ignoring the circumstances that created history.
@@Gustav_Kuriga yeah, this
Thanks for the hard work, its appreciated!
Extreme cold counts under weather, not terrain, weather penalties are reduced by acclimatization, hence where you cope about it is reduced to -27%, soviets props get some buffs to that if i had to guess
love it hopefully to see you play it more time or the zombies mod was awseome
great play last days of europe as germany you will love this mod
if you want to change the NATO symbols back to the oryginal ones, you click on the division icons and then select "default symbols". you can then pick any of the base HoI4 symbols for your division
This looks amazing. I'm not near good enough at basic HOI yet for this but I look forward to the day...
I will be honest: On the one hand, i like these Black Ice vids. On the other hand ... man, pls think of your health ^^
Definitely interesting, might be cool to see more with Black Ice
I'd really like you to do a Japan video of this mod. For more attritioning in Asia ^^ and a more navally focused gameplay. Anyway thanks for the video. That was amazing.
Really love the extensive intro! Now I sort of slightly less don't understand the mod ;)
This is the RLcraft of HOI4
You should keep playing Germany but in the mods World Ablaze and Ultra, too. Both go updates, and they are more easier than BICE but harder than vanilla. I love them.
There's no way World Ablaze is easier than BICE.
@@badman3793 then how the fuck is WA is harder than BICE?
@@mariano98ify Maybe because you cant sealion with Royal Navy still existing and your industry gets devasted by USAF? The WA AI is 100x better.
34:56 "and they are looking very angryyy" had me in tears 😂
Tried to like this mod really nice graphics, units, focus trees and some mechanics. But you have to micro like half a dozen production lines for trucks (light, medium, heavy lorries, horses, Jeeps) four different support equipment and even uniforms (wehrmacht and s s separated lol). It isn't fun anymore, hope someday there will be a light version, also without nato symbols.
It's so unnecessary
Total War and Ultra Historical have similar tech trees and mechanics but are massively simplified production wise
@@swamperino8450 But not the nice graphics and unit art, BICE even has 3D models for the He112 and Fw187
You should check out the “World Ablaze” mod, it’s similar to black ice in difficulty, but a lot less painful to play imo
Bro made a Bulgaria shaped pocket at 41:28 😂
I'd like to see Bittersleal play World Ablaze. The extra resources and less units per general plus larger industries and economic fatigue making it so you can't just jump to total mobilization without consequences Edit: I think that also do stuff like change the combat width in battles
More of this mod PLEASE
For "normal" division icons use option "use default" (or something like that). It works at least on older version, not sure about the latest one.
Tu turn off NATO icons for the divisions you have to go like if you were to change de icon in regular HOI4 (change to a tank icon, etc.) and it will open a tab with all NATO icons and in the top left you can change it to use default icons.
4:10 HE SAID THE THING
It’s a good day when BitterSteel uploads
I would love to see a continuation or series of him taking over the whole world.
Now if only the AI could play the mod instead of ignoring most mechanics.
5 days? Good gravy! We appreciate the video and your dedication!
By the way the reason the soviets seem to be unfazed by the winter is because they get alot of buffs I'm the focus tree for it
2:02 when clicking on a symbol in the symbol selection on the top left is a button to turn it into a vanilla symbol.
Industry tycoon game, thats what i thought Every diffrent part of this mod is its own game
Woah Another Bitt3rSteel Upload??? Hell Yeah😁
I'm really impressed you got the win. BiCE is hard as heck until you really get the economy under control, it's not hard to find you made a mistake 2 years ago that is going to wreck you as Germany.
35:50 integer overflow strikes again
this mod actually looks incredibly sick and I cant wait to play it
Try World Ablaze too, its not a bad mod
Black ice terrifies me like making eye contact with a woman
Maybe you will try world ablaze next time? this mod is also very historical while being also very hard
I like black ice to play sometime, wish they have tanks, air, ship desinger like in vanilla so everyone can make something, just black ice production, and other things. Wish to see that some day (Never probably) xD
Finally the only mod where they appreciate industry. I remember going to multiplayer lobbies and flooding the market WITH actual good equipment. I have to depend on the host dlcs because dlc's here is crazy overpriced.
Ok there is a way to change the Nato symbols, go to the symbol and then select return to default. I dont remember if it fixes the on map divisions, but it will fix the in queue divisions
Uniform research. If the ai went heavy into winter uniform research it can buff the cold weather effects
Just a heads up: Snow, Mud, Extremely Cold and things like that are Weather not Terrain, that's why they had a positive terrain bonus but their weather penalty was -27.20%
I would love to see you trying World Ablaze
Dear God, have a like just for all the suffering you endured on our behalf. This mod gives me a headache.
i've seen alot hoi4 you tubers break their brains and soul on BICE and i mean ALOT, And here does Bitt3rsteel prove once again why he belongs to the masters of Hoi4 players, well done
im sorry but you must be broke if you're willing to torture you're self like this XD JK nice video and honestly nice game
On one word , suffering.
Try World Ablaze next 🙏
What version are you playing on because when I play the game it always crashes when a peace conference happens
What version are playing on? Because I always crash into the game when a peace conference happens