Hey, guys, bittersteel here. Back with another video and today
we will be trying one more challenge before no step back releases January 36. We were playing as the United Kingdom
and on Iron Remote with historical eyes focuses on
what will we be doing? You ask? Well, let me give you a hint. I'm going to delete the army.
That's right. We are doing a no army playthrough. We are going to try and win World War two
without using our own troops. So I'm going to start off
with building close air support fighters. And what else probably need carrier naval bombers, carrier fighters,
maybe some regular naval bombers, but mostly it's going to be fighters, cast
that sort of stuff as far as the navy's concerned. No subs. I'm going to continue building
everything gets in the queue. I'll organize the navy itself
at a later point. They're not that important just yet. I'm just going to group them all up. Easiest way to do that is just select one and to and every one of these
send them all into the reserves. So right click the great bar here
and they all become reserve fleet. Then you can all select them at once
and you can merge them and just park them wherever you want. It's what I hate about the Air Force
like that so scattered all over the map. I wish there was an easier way
to just select all your airplanes. But all right,
I think I think we've got everything now doing,
probably just going to group them up. Now my plan here will be to go heavily
into fighters, cars and bombers. We are going to level Germany's
economy just completely. There goes King George,
but we will be seeing democratic, so a purely democratic playthrough and in true democratic fashion,
we will not put boots on the ground. Not a single British
soldier will die in this. We will end this war with zero casualties,
or at least we will try. It is entirely possible
that we get completely stuck here and the entire continent falls. I hope it doesn't,
but you never really know, do you? Now I do want the shadow scheme, but like a bit, just a teeny
tiny bit of royal tension short. So while we wait for that,
I will bow with a steady as she goes. Got to keep an eye on that. That goes over 5% at any point. Got a jump on that. Let's also hire our sound workhorse. That usually is a good idea early on. It's that if she goes
still can get shadow schemes. What else? What else? Home defense, I guess based war support
seems like a good deal. Like I said, are going to try to do this,
mostly historically. So I'm not going to contest
the Sudetenland crisis. We're just going to wait until Germany goes for Poland or France
or the low countries and work from there. I think that's going to be a long game
and concentrated tends to win out for the long game. Then again, I will be switching up my production
very often, and this first might be handy. I'm not sure which is going to be best,
but screw it, I'm just going to go with concentrated
Hey, the hawker hurricane is here. Let's get the first strategic bomber next. And what else do we want to pick up? It's going to mostly focus
on the industry, I think. And there goes king. Bye bye. I could start giving refuge
to my scientist friends here. That's usually a good idea
if a lot of research to do and world tension isn't going anywhere,
so it might as well and prepare for the inevitable. Seems like a good deal. 5% factory output. They go to Spain. Does that mean I can get ou
the shadow scheme? I know this is going to waste 16 days,
but otherwise we'll be locked out a shadow scheme for too long.
So we're just going to take it now. What I could also do is
I could send an attaché that will give me enough war support to potentially ramp
this thing up to a partial mobilization. All right, the at the show's end, that's going to give us
a little bit of army experience. I'm not going to use the political power
for too many things anyway. And if that allows me
to get partial mobilization early, that's going to be great. Shadow scheme industrial efforts. We've got to keep moving. 20 minutes later. All right. Partial mobilization, it's not great,
but at the best we can get and we might as well get it early. All right. See, we have the Halifax start work on doctrine also don't want to fall behind
on naval stuff too much. So I'd like to do fire
control and damage control so that what little ships
we have a little don't get sunk instantly. The Royal Navy's large,
but it's also pretty outdated. Also, I hate this, but I really need
to figure out the air wings for this. I wish there was an easier way to do this
because this is just stupid. This is absolutely stupid. All right. Industrial effort. We'll get the extra research slot
and the Royal Ordnance factories, a couple of factories.
Always a nice bonus. I Bulgaria. No threats,
Bulgaria still empty promises. Why? Why would you do that twice? Why? I'm not going to give you that now. Oh, exercising the navy tends
to drain the oil. 00, well, 150 people want to spend it
on what they spend it on. So many options, though,
I could just go to free trade. Yeah, free trade is a good bonus. John, Spain, you're awful. France wants to join the allies. Yes, no. Yes. Welcome. All right. 250 people get Bomber Harris,
and this is probably a mistake. Yes, you can scold me
all you want in the comments. I haven't played the UK in a long time,
at least not democratically. I genuinely don't really know
what I'm doing. OK, we got the world tension now to get general rearmament,
not pick up some bomber bonuses here. Now I plan here is just to flood
the skies of France and the low countries with fighters, bombers
and Carswell fighters and cast mostly and just deny the Germans
and Italians entry. And meanwhile, I'm going to use tactical bombers
to pound Germany's industry into dust. Maybe the Italian industry?
That might be easier. December 37. Mm hmm. Should I keep building sieves? I don't know. Maybe a few more. I think we'll follow these up
with military factories, though we will need to produce
a respectable amount of airplanes and also building up infrastructure
in British Guiana, British Guiana just for the absurd amount of aluminum
I can get there. All right. Austria got unjust. All right. We better start militarizing quickly. Airplane production starting to ramp up. We've got a good amount of airplanes here already,
so about 1000 cars and 1000 fighters. That's a start. I've also got my first up there
on the nationalists. I've also got my first
wing of these are naval bombers. Here we go. My first wing of strategic bombers
here, the Halifax, and we're going to use that to turn either
Germany or Italy into rubble might be a good idea to get radar as well
tends to be very helpful at sea spotting submarines, etc.. Bomber
Command Yeah, let's get bombers as well. 150 people. Let's get super marine
light aircraft designer. one thing I'm not looking forward
to is organizing this navy looks like such a gigantic mess. I'll probably just split
off the good destroyers like the Tier two destroyers
and Tier two like cruisers set. I'll just set those up
as some sort of patrol vessels. They've got radar, so they should be able
to spot a lot of the German submarines. I'll set the rest of the fleet,
the strike force. I really don't want to bother with it. It's just very bothersome. Wish there was an easier way of dealing
with it, like the Royal Navy's powerful. It's very cool to have, but it's just
so much work to deal with it. All right, Danzig or war has begun. Let's get our spies in position. All right. The French have issued their guarantee
and we keep researching. I hope we have enough air
to not fix the problem. At least slow the Germans down enough. Oh, for God's sake, pop off.
You're useless. Poland refuses the German ultimatum. Let's see if anything happens
now. It's happening. All right, I'll accept. I'll accept that it's called Poland. Then join the faction. Okeydokey, I don't think I can save Poland. Maybe I can slow down their decline
long enough for them to be decently prepared as a collaboration government
or as a government in exile. I'm going to set my bombers out as well,
and we're going to be pounding the German economy into dust if we can probably focus
on their military factories. Oh God, we are trading very favorably
with the Germans already. seven to one odds. I like that,
but Poland's probably not going to. Poland's
probably not going to hold out forever. I navies also organized, so I'm going to
sit out convoy escorts in the region and of course, will follow that up
with strike forces of the bigger ships. At least they shouldn't be able to naval
invade me this way. Shadow scheme. Thank you. I productions getting somewhere now. I want more casts or fighters
want more of everything, really. Naturally, fuel
and such is going to be an issue. Fortunately, we have very good friends
in the United States who we can trade with that is going to help
our stockpiles tremendously. Fuel is going to be a bigger and bigger
issue as we get more airplanes up. Oh, there go. The Netherlands can put up my air, but I don't think that's going
to save them at this point. We're doing
disgusting amounts of damage, though. Oh, that course, Belgium. We're doing disgusting amounts of damage to enemy divisions here,
but I don't think it's enough. Still, I'm going to give it my all and I'm
going to keep funneling stuff in there. France, why are you trying to attack
out of the national? It's just pointless. And now all of the low
countries are involved in this. It's going to be nasty, isn't it? I just hope
France has the troops to handle this. As for my navy, do I want to improve
the navy or have other concerns? I might want to go up to war economy? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm shredding b one
or nines, though, so that's good. All right. There goes Chamberlain
and with Winston Churchill the bulldog. Welcome. Welcome for this wild ride. All right.
I've got my Polish divisions here. I'm going to assign them to an army and
they will not be used until France falls. I think maybe not sure. I just wish
France would stop being an idiot and attack out of them,
I know you have other concerns, my friend. You have other concerns. Well, so far, so good. They're holding the low countries
more or less. I'm just concerned about Italy. They're not in yet, and they will join. So has another flank for the French. So I got airplanes up
in that region as well. Just wish I had more. Well, there it goes. Denmark have nothing left to spare
for you, my friends. I'm sort of out of stuff right now. Yeah, sorry about that. Oh, Norwegians in as well. I think I can protect Norway now. Italy's in now as well. The southern French flanks under attack. And it casts any casts
here to help the French. I don't have any casts.
I don't have anything anymore. Everything is committed to the North. Still, it looks like the line's green
right rear Holden. Holden. Sadly, we'll have to let Denmark fall. Not much I can do about that. My friends, I can invoke the lines of 13. I'm going to do that. I'm
going to see what that does. Oh, Portugal, welcome ice. Another ally. That's helpful. Interesting Italy. More than half of your economy
is in tatters and your plan is to go to war with Greece. OK? Oh, Italy,
do I want destroyers for bases? Sure, I guess. Yeah, this is going about
as well as you'd expect from Italy. Their entire Albanian core is in circles. You go Greece, you go. I wonder if Bulgaria is going to come in,
not in the axis. Oh, they are in the axis. Yeah, it'll probably come in eventually. Oh, OK. Belgium is actually advanced. They've taken Bitburg. Yeah, I don't see. I don't see Germany coming back from this. I have not been bombing them extensively,
so they're pretty untouched. But Italy, oh, Italy does look like the front lines moving
a bit, so I should shift my case around. What's this Prince Paul? I'm sure all objects. Oh, Greece, why are you this incompetent? Just wipe out Italy and hold this line. It's perfect defensive terrain. Just sit on those two tiles. Stack your arm and no grease. No. Oh well, oh, Yugoslavia's in. I don't have any more planes for you. Yugoslavia. Oh, I do. OK, I'll give you 400 fighters,
but that's it. Don't don't actually have any casts
for you. Oh, man. At this point, the axes have to be
incredibly overextended. No. twelve seconds later. Oh boy. Yeah, the Yugoslav
collapse is rapid and dramatic. Yeah, I don't have the air
to cover the Balkans as well. Sorry, man, I'm busy up here. What can now make fighter threes going? Well, 1941? Not bad. Not bad. Jack up the engine. Maybe some weapons. Aluminum, though? Yeah, we've we've pretty much used up
all the France's aluminum by now. That's OK. France is using up
all of its manpower for this. Oh, that's going to suck. They're still on toast to economy. France,
you have other concerns than building toasters, go up a conscription law
and an economy law. Please, even the Belgians are way ahead of you
there in total mobilization and extensive as well as the Dutch Oh,
France, oh, Japan's justifying on us. That means the US is coming soon. What do I want? I don't think there's anything really
important here except for air production. I could do fortify East Asia,
but that region is not important to colonial,
sorry imperial conference. Don't think so. I don't have the political power
to make it work anyway. Uh, could get the military training. I give me more manpower, but I don't think
I need more manpower right now. No, what I need is more airplanes. In some places,
the Yugoslavs are stabilizing now. If I was smart, which is fall
back to the south, this is all mountains. It could defend it with the troops it has,
but it just tries to cover its entire border. And yeah, that's not going to work,
my man. It's not going to work. Just fall back to Macedonia and Albania. You can defend there. You'll hold that.
I guarantee it. You can hold that,
especially with my air cover. Oh, well. Meanwhile, casualties are mounting. We're still at zero,
obviously, and 5.5 million Germans, 1.8 million Italians and Romania
and Hungary, Bulgaria as well. They're also getting up there in terms of casualties, with the Japanese still around
2.3 million. Yeah. All in all, we're doing well. Let's see how our allies doing. We've got the Belgians 300 K. That's bad. Got the Netherlands
300 kilometers as well. Nice fight. 00, the French 765,000 losses. That's impressive. France is out of manpower and the Greeks 300 K as well,
or allies have given much and the U.S. 800 and look at that number going up. Yeah, they're going for it. They're just
they're just bashing against those lines. But it does look. Yeah, that's Italy gone. Probably France is actually looking
all that spicy. Army stockpiles are pretty low deployed,
manpower is pretty low, but that's because they've refused to ramp up
their conscription laws and the economy. They probably still
don't have any political power because they still have disjointed
government. And meanwhile, France is just merrily
going through its economy focused instead of
doing something useful for a change. But I don't know what the historical air
actually does, but it could start with expanding the citizenship. Maybe do something useful here. Help start with defensive stratagems that will get rid
of your disjointed government. You'll actually have some political power. Oh, well, at least the American troops here
will pretty much solve the issue for us. Meanwhile, we have Luxembourg here
scraping the barrel 6000 manpower available. They got two divisions. They've got two divisions. three divisions, though. Wow. Oh, you're trying Luxembourg. I'll give you that a little disappointed
that, oh, I was going to say I'm
a little disappointed that the Soviets aren't coming in, but it looks like the Soviets
have other concerns . Bye bye,
Afghanistan, Iraq and Turkey as well. Oh, do I? Oh dear. Fine, fine. I like how this has completely spiraled
out of control. Well, at least the access
is going to get neutered soon enough. Really, Turkey. You'd rather be part of the axis
to think I honored my guarantee of your independence. Shame on you. Yeah, this is going to suck, isn't it? I'm going to call this after the axis folds, assuming
it's not going to take another five years. But the Russians, the Russians are making
sure that's not going to be an issue. This is pretty much going to devolve
into a slugging match between the Soviet Union and the USA. France has no manpower. The low countries
probably have very little manpower left. They're already scraping the barrel here. All adults serve. Wow, and you got seven k left Netherlands and the French are still still not ramping up
their recruitment laws. Yeah, this is going to be a long one. And why are you doing
infantry tanks France? Why you have other concerns? Take expand the citizenship
to defensive stratagems. I'm getting more and more annoyed
by the AIS unwillingness or inability to do anything. They're just sitting on their front lines
here, not taking alone. They could easily overrun whatever
the Germans and the Italians have left, but they're just not moving
and it's annoying. Another useless American naval invasion. But Italy doesn't have anything left,
so it shouldn't come on Italy. 2.4 million casualties The Germans 6.7 UK zero casualties Ladies and gentlemen, MVP. Look at all those divisions in Balkans. Just why? Why would you do this? Oh, this is so disgusting. This is so disgusting. And France, what are you doing now banning
the league's still low on power, though still on toaster economy? Belgium's almost taken
1,000,000 casualties, like 8.9 K 890,000, that's harsh scene
for the French, almost up to 1,000,000. They're out of manpower, though,
so that's that's really bad. 2.4 million for the US still,
like the Italians, 2.5 Germans, 6.9 and they're still fighting. Why just just give up, give up. You're not winning this Germany one
eternity later, don't it's this the anti Bolshevik accord? Okay, Turkey, what? Oh, oh, there we go. There it is. It's over. Happy days. Oh OK. What do I want to do? I don't think I'll be able to really do
anything. I can puppet Bulgaria. That's about it. OK. Pause. What are we looking at? Oh, no enemies. Enemies everywhere. Oh God. Oh, the Russians got all of Germany. Fortunately,
Italy isn't the allies, at least. So as there's the Republic of Croatia
as the thing. Instead of just giving that Yugoslavia,
communist Albania, communist Bulgaria, communist Romania. Yeah, yeah, this is disgusting. I don't think we'll be continuing this
run, though. It's a very interesting Cold War gone hot
scenario, but no step back is very close. I don't have the time to do
another one of these videos. I have other stuff to cover, but who knows, maybe we can revisit this
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