Ignore China, justify on Netherlands, ask Germany for Military Access and Naval invade from German Coast into western coast of Netherlands. Join them. Use Last Stand if your paratroopers are under attack after they land. When those reach options reach the point of getting to far ahead in the future switch to economic research. Can be combined with. After the peace conference, pass a few hours, then release the USSR in Onega and Olonets as an independent nation (not a puppet), justify a war goal and attack them. An other option is to follow the communist branch of Bulgaria and at the very end complete the focus 'The Unification of the Balkans'. The Canadian divisions will likely be in Europe or Africa, so there should be nobody to stop you securing the airfield in British Columbia. Wait until Germany is deep in the USSR, then declare on them - the closer the Germans are to capitulating the Soviets when you declare on them, the better (if you're really lucky, the Soviets will capitulate right before the Germans capitulate to you). You can wait with the "Agrarian Reform" until the last few days of the timer, this focus adds 70 days to the timer when it is selected. Defeat Soviets alone or with German help. Once the faction is created release Norway and Denmark as puppets and they will automatically join you. Break free from your overlord as a puppet. Use templates from. Deploy it in Athens after the war starts and take all victory points to quickly end the civil war. get your war goal from focus "Pan-Africanism", declare war on UK. You have to become a puppet to join the Axis or Comintern and while you can become independent quicker with the fascist path, you won't be able to get your cores back later on. Also, be aware there may be some issues caused by the central air node bug but this can be fixed by focusing your transport planes on your air field's air zone once the battle plan is initiated. As Hungary, have Miklos Horthy as a Naval commander and build a battleship. Warfare - Hearts of Iron 4 Wiki Warfare This is a community maintained wiki. Sooner or later Italy will declare on you, do not call your puppets to war. If your keyboard layout doesn't have that key, other hotkeys to open the console are SHIFT + 2 and SHIFT + 3. Setup a naval invasion, making sure to include your light tanks and motorized infantry, from Germany to Dieppe and put your navy on naval invasion support. Annex Belgium and move on to Luxembourg. WARNING! Date is > 1945.1.1. the Landsturm regiments are pretty damn useless. Only a single province per state needs a level 5 railway. You don't need to rush democracy because world tension will be under 80% for a long time. Sinkiang is an other option, as it can immediately join the Comintern and the USSR will never take land in China. Either send own divisions to conquer Qingdao or wait until Japan does it for you. If you like it, I would very much appreciate if you'd follow me on Spotify. To gain Vojtek as your commander you need to trigger the Polish event: One possible way to achieve this is refuse, This can easily be done in combination with "Holy, Roman, and an Empire", because after forming the Roman Empire you've more than enough resources and big enough of a navy (take both France and the UK's in the peace deal) that no one should be able to stop you. Grind during the Sino-Japanese war as much as possible. To shorten the border with the Axis you can puppet Moldova. CrasuMOD 4 yr. ago. Contents 1 Land warfare 2 Naval warfare 3 Air warfare 4 Capitulation and defeat 4.1 War participation 4.2 Peace conference 5 Volunteers and expeditionary forces 5.1 Volunteers 5.1.1 Air Volunteers If you get full annexed, it's game over, but the allies won't annex you, they'll probably split Germany into a few puppets, and you'll get to keep playing as a Allied puppet. Installed an American monarchy, Hidden requirement for Installed an American monarchy. For railways to connect, the provinces must be owned by members of the same faction. Some capital ships might escape to Malta, East Africa or the Caribbean, use carriers with naval bombers on Port Strike to find and sink them. West Germany or East Germany will not count, even if you puppet both. Wait out till 1945 for the achievement to fire. Declare war (you will get embargoed by a lot of countries for this) and simply defeat them. After the Soviet capitulation, you and the Soviet collaboration government should have enough manpower and production to defeat the Axis. Keep going down the focus and complete Convene with The Grand Council. Rush the monarchist focus tree, you need "Avenge Waterloo" focus. Take all the territory. If you went with Friedrich, you'll also need at least 12 divisions to guard the baltic ports against naval invasions. This is best done in a run where the emperor stays thanks to the massive boost to compliance gain that the "Elect of God" focus grants. The main objective is to rush towards Paris. All states are either owned by one of the above countries or is not a core of China and Manchukuo, As fascist Italy, have max level railways in all your core states. As Latvia, form Ostland and occupy Vasterbotten. This can easily be done by conquering France before taking Oppose Hitler; justify on France directly (while France guarantees Yugoslavia, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, if you justify on one of them, you'll call either Romania or Czechoslovakia in as well). . If Japan goes communist this achievement becomes much easier. All you need to do after, is build at least 1 Battleship, (you need to research that tech because Hungary starts without any Naval Tech in 1936) and assign Miklos Horthy to that fleet. As Finland, defeat the Soviet Union without joining a faction. From here, you need to click on the flag of a specific country to pull up their unique diplomacy screen. For more experienced players, the Panay incident random event (which fires when Japan conquers Shanghai and Nanjing) grants the player the opportunity to start an early war with Japan to acquire even more factories. Complete "The Path of Marxism Leninism", "Addressing Internal Affairs", "Expand the Agitprop", "The Komsomol" and then either "Positive Heroism" or "Collectivist Propaganda" to unlock the Agitprop decisions and expand to three slots. There is a reason why they didn't surrender in WW2 you know. As Italy, occupy New York, Chicago and Hawaii. Can be done in conjunction with the "It's 1812 All Over Again" achievement as Canada. Germany will control Paris. An easy way to do this is to take Caribbean land before taking Oppose Hitler. As a democratic nation, build a lot of planes, namely strategic bombers and fighters, and rush nuclear technology. Press J to jump to the feed. Can be done quite easily. Can also be done by rushing out paratroopers and hoping for an early war with Germany following the little Entente path, You may need to concentrate research & ministers on planes for air superiority. Send absolutely everything at Ethiopia, you do not want them to become government in exile. hoi4 diplomacy is broken and its never getting fixed, Weird, i thought players were always majors. help please. Type :yesman. Choose to purge the Kodoha faction and justify on the UK (or British Malaya) as soon as possible. What Should I do? By this point Shanxi and Xibei San Ma won't have enough divisions to cover the front line so you can walk around them. With Together for Victory DLC enabled and Waking the Tiger DLC disabled: Note that it's possible for the achievement to fire off if you declare on a member of the Allies even if the Allies are already at war, provided that one joins the Axis before declaring (although note that doing so can cause problems if Bulgaria has been granted occupation of certain zones). Puppet Japan, who will eventually unlock Bicycle battalions - then, just secure France. Unite the entire world under the British Empire. Wait for Allies to fight Italy in North Africa. If UK will not accept your demands, don't use option to go to war with UK. Take the required provinces in the peace conference. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. If not, just wait until the decisions are available again and try going down the focuses to get Mare Nostrum in the meantime. Note you may need to have some AA gun in stock, or the recomposed division may not return equipment to stock. Once justification is complete declare war at exactly the same time to avoid guarantees from the Allies and quickly rush for victory points, you will be much stronger and Norway will leave most of their land undefended, in the peace deal annex all their land for the time being as you can release them as a puppet later on. This puts you in the German faction, so you can safely keep Danzig if the German ask for it. Basically I like to play as minor countries and see how much of a wrench I can throw in the greater chaos of WWII. Hi, let me introduce myself! Any other country with the original tag of Spain not including Anarchist Spain does not exist. Concentrate on civilian factories. Once you've declared war help with defeating the Axis or simply sit back and allow The Allies to do the job for you. To prevent delays, read-ahead down the tree, e.g., have enough infantry equipment stored for Supply Indonesian Nationalists. Keep those puppets out of the war and build forts along the border with Romania, which is relatively small and has a river. Successfully stage a coup in any nation using a spy with the Seducer trait. Which is the last focus in the communist tree. As a warlord, be at war with all Chinese nations simultaneously. The "DI" column is for difficulty as assessed by wiki editors. No one should declare war on you, so you can sit it out for as long as you want to build up a large army. Increase your army up to 48 mountaineers / regular divisions and just wait until The Allies are landing in France and Italy. If you wish to also go after Why Die for Danzig?, Our Other Place in the Sun, and Monarchy is Back in Fashion in the same game as well, justify on a country France is guaranteeing (Romania, Yugoslavia, or Czechoslovakia), and train enough cavalry units to guard the borders with Poland and Czechoslovakia. Is there a console command that will capitulate a country and force a peace conference? After capitulating Poland give all polish states to Tannu Tuva. Tip: It is better to raise resistance in small or even one-state nations like Rwanda, Burundi or Gambia, as this will lead to an uprising much faster because of fewer states that have to meet the resistance threshold. For the achievement, it doesn't matter if they'll capitulate, only that you have at least 13 African Nations from the list in your faction. Begin by creating and upgrading a spy agency five times to get a second agent and deleting your entire army, start turning fascist through a demagogue and then prepare for a civil war via decisions, continually use the 'Expand civil support' decision to lower stability below 50%, once below 50% stability ignite civil war and rush out one cavalry division to b-line for Stockholm, the enemy should have zero divisions and very little territory so this will be enough to capitulate them. Hey When there are no majors in a war, you must capitulate them one by one. Make a railroad from Gibraltar to Singapore. Easiest way is to disable La Resistance and start boosting non-aligned to Russia and USA from the beginning of game and right after concluding civil war against Kemalists. As Poland, crown a King (or Queen) and capture Jerusalem. An easy strategy is to go down the God Save the King path, and after defeating the United States, go after France (as you went off the rails, Czechoslovakia will always refuse to give up Sudetenland; if you do Pre-Empt the Ideological Threat and Expose the Belly of the Bear while fighting the US, you'll be able to justify, and since the US is a major, you can quickly justify on France and another country - Luxembourg is a good choice; don't justify on Mexico, Japan, the USSR, or Germany, since you can get war goals on those countries through events or focuses). The only one to watch for is Romania: if the Turkish Straits are closed, Germany will have no land or sea route to Romania and might puppet instead. You will get decisions to march around the country which increases fascist support. Prepare two Naval Invasions to Hull and Edinburgh. Best done in conjunction with "Sun Tzu Reborn" after finishing "Battlecry" or "Awake and angry". This will splinter your nation into many autonomous puppets (which don't count towards the achievement) and a small Ethiopia. As Yugoslavia, start the Second World War (i.e. 82. Remember that to capitulate Vichy, you also have to take the part of victory points that Vichy France has in Nort -Africa. This will allow you to quickly get manpower bonuses from the fascist political tree as well as joining the Axis to avoid a German attack, while communist support builds up for later (remove fascist demagogue after civil war but ensure communist support stays below 60% to avoid another civil war). Immediately justify on The United Kingdom. Once I am puppetted can I get my independence back? Must be unified Germany. And how none faction leaders become majors I still dont understand after 1000 hours of playing, Faction leaders are majors because without a major factions will collapse immediately. Then, give all Chinese territory to Portuguese China and the achievement will be yours. Join the war but do not let Hungary and Slovakia into the war. After which it should be easy going. After that go to decisions tab and start using "Support anti-British resistance" options, which are available on the map - first do that in Tanganyika then in other required provinces. Joseph Stalin is the current country leader. Pupetting your targets is not difficult, as Germany prefers to take land for itself. Make sure that you took as many coastal provinces as you can. Britain doesn't have a chance to oppose you, so it will be an easy war. The achievement can be done controlling Moscow or Berlin after that date. Disband the Axis and join the Japanese faction. The focus "Subjugate the Warlords" gives a fixed 50% chance to puppet each of the warlords (even if they are in a different faction). Do not declare independence through the focus as the USSR would declare war on you, ask the USSR for Eastern Poland back and they should accept. Square brackets as in fow [Province ID] signify an optional argument. Furthermore, you could start taking some of the focusses from "Plan East". As the Netherlands, do not cave to the Germans, continue the Zuiderzee works, and do not lose control of any of your continental European states until 1945. They will have no way to grow their military until they remove isolation so it should be trivial to win this way. The 4 divisions from this focus should be attacking the port you target for your naval invasions. You don't have to accept the call to arms straight away once the Nationalists are attacked, so prepare as much as possible without letting them get steamrolled. Quickly rush to Korea and push them off the continent. Has full control of Albania (44), Confederacy of American States: Does not exist. Remember to defend your ports - basic District Brigade (3xINF) will do the job nicely. Game Play button - Click the game Play button after choosing the video settings, DLC, and mods. It's also possible to go (France) - Italy - Yugoslavia - Bulgaria - Turkey - (Iran) due to the Bosphorus straits allowing you to build a rail connection over them. Thus, before starting civil war, justifying war goal on Poland then Germany, as world tension rises, Poland will be guaranteed by the United Kingdom. For example, in a USA game I island hopped pretty quickly to Japan and then used the nuke events to capitulate them. Underpaid, Undersexed, and Under Eisenhower. Finally, make sure you start gaining army exp in time because you want to switch your doctrine to Superior Firepower and preferably unlocked the first few ones of this doctrine. Playing with historical-ai off has a chance of the UK going anti-colonial. This total can be reached by going fascist or communist and conquering the Netherlands, combined with normal industrial build-up. Delete all units before civil war fires, then win with Soviet volunteer forces you get. Turn off Together for Victory and Man the Guns - this will allow you to leave Allies instantly. Once they complete it and the Central Powers faction exists you should be able to join that faction (unless you are somehow still democratic). Lend-lease to Netherlands until you can annex them. The Achievement requires the decision to release the nations rather than the release nation button on the occupied territory screen. As Germany, turn France fascist and occupy Danzig without going to war with France. As Manchukuo, Break free from Japan and annex your former Overlord without being in a faction. Follow the Focus tree for free civilian factories. As United Kingdom, release at least 14 colonies as puppets at the start of the game. Rember to click the demand recognition decision (which appears 24 hours after the revolt), otherwise, they won't join your faction. Take King Michael's Coup to flip to Democratic and wait until Poland capitulates and the Soviet Union takes Eastern Poland. The army won't get the bonuses of the general due to the reassignement time, but the experience will be gained by him. Remove the Fascist Demagogue once Romania flips to Fascist. Take everything that France has in the peace deal, don't forget the navy. The Confederacy of American States appears in the same southern states as the original Confederate States. If so, how? Annex everything except for Romania, just take their lands except those 3 provinces that will be claimed by the USSR. Is a Collaboration Government All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. When you've reclaimed all your cores continue the political side of the focus tree and take the "Empower the Ras" side. During the Peace Deal, focus on taking American land - the Axis will be mostly focused on Africa and Mainland Europe (if you didn't generate enough war score, take the coastal states + Alaska and Hawaii first, then the states bordering Canada and Mexico; then, take the rest of the inner states; if the Axis manage to make a puppet of the US with one of their cores, you should be strong enough to beat the Axis if you attack while they're dealing with the Soviets) - if you want to annex the US, you can puppet them using a non-core state and still take the decision. Continue working on boosting fascist support in Finland and keeping their stability below 70%, once facism is above 20% begin preparing a coup in the land Islands, this is crucial as they will remain undefeatable by mainland Finland, once the coup is complete (and it is important to do this before late 1939 / early 1940 to avoid the Soviet Union getting involved) begin using 'Diplomatic Pressure' and 'Improve Relations' on the fascist rebels, they will survive almost indefinitely and once world tension is around 55% you will be able to create a faction with them, alternatively you can now freely justify on Finland as now they are at war which prevents them from being guaranteed, just make sure you haven't already started the faction as that could cause them to join the Allies. Eliminate Warlords who don't submit quickly by rushing their victory points or in the case of. This can be done by keeping control of the northern states (Asturias & Pais Vasco) for as long as possible as the Nationalists need them to prevent the uprising. Launch the uprising and try to create encirclements, such as by cutting across Shandong to destroy troops in Beijing. During your war with the Soviets, Germany will declare war on the Soviets as well. Then complete "Boarding the Train" focus. Turkey has capitulated I just tried to capitulate Japan using the new mechanic by just double-nuking them as the Guangxi-Clique. Try finishing the focuses Superesercito, Superaereo, and Supermarina during this war as you will not get another chance until much later. As of patch 1.6, the United States might stay out of the war entirely if not attacked by Japan. The chance that the United Kingdom agrees to your request is 50/50 regardless of player actions, so multiple attempts may be needed. hoi4 what to do when capitulate. For construction: Que level 5 (or higher) forts and on the bottom military factories. Put a few units there to guard the island. Join the war. It is only necessary to occupy the land required so it is possible to have this achievement fire whilst at war. Any combination of countries in the middle is possible though, like going through Romania and then north of the Black Sea instead of over the Bosphorus, or even via China and French Indochina instead of the Raj. Starting as a minor power, assume faction leadership of the Allies, the Axis, or the Comintern. Proceed to the focus Towards African Unity via Reclaiming Ethiopia and A Federal Empire. The achievement triggers when the peace conference ends. But don't do this yet! As Nationalist Spain in Axis manage to take Paris before the Germans. One more trick to simplify and speed up civil war: before civil war, recomposing all of your divisions to contain only a single AA battalion and dismissing all air wings, then sending all equipment to Spain via lend lease. Posted on 26 Feb in avondale redbud problems. If they do so - start justyfing, start war, win, annex. Copy their template and train the divisions. One route is to turn fascist. Now begin preparing for war with Denmark and Norway by sitting one or two units to attack the Danish strait and sending around four units behind them with a naval invasion from the north, after justifying, expand conscription and follow the collectivist tree to be able to produce a large amount of cavalry to hold the Norwegian line. Full defensive focus is advised. Continually take these decisions as soon as they are available to achieve 30 campaigns around five years after starting so make sure to start by 1939 just to be safe. When the Soviets stop pushing on you, you can strategically push on provinces where the have low supply. (hold on until you can) Push back Italy, but don't accept the peace event neither do the focus "International Mediation". Once you are able to declare war launch naval invasions in the south on and around ports, supporting contested landing with encirclements to quickly gain sea access. At least 10 Battleships I know but I think in real life the UK would think that the 500k men is a very big sacrifice just to invade a small nordic country. Assuming you're playing as historical Germany, you should be able to defeat France without strategies as complex as naval invasions or paradrops. Since a recent patch, this achievement can also be achieved if you win an offensive war without losing any core territory. Once Strengthen the Papacy focus is complete, take Utilize the Blackshirt focus. this is one of the most powerful hoiiv exploits everTo See My Story and Support Me Check me Out on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/dustinl796Check out more amazing videos here https://goo.gl/Nz9vKsSocial links to stay up to date on new videosTwitter https://twitter.com/TOPGUNGUY123Instagram http://bit.ly/1Rx03LMDiscord https://discord.gg/pxcbGaM r/hoi4. You don't have to take the focus to release Transylvania, you can puppet it in the peace deal. Go for "Proclaim Finno-Ugra" and around the time this Focus is done your war goal on Denmark should be ready. When communist Romania wins their civil war, justify and attack them, they will not be guaranteed by anyone, as they are communist and just fought a civil war. This approach is a bit RNG-dependent, but it shouldn't take more than 10 reloads at worst; just make sure to use the proper infantry templates and develop your industry accordingly. Alternative strategy: Go down the historical part of your focus tree. When the war with the Soviets is over, either puppet or annex them. B), Choose Fascist Demagogue as your first Political Power spending and turn Fascist (skip Civil War option), Join Axis and help them in wars (Germany has to survive until they research Tiger tank - at least late 1943), Get the Fascist focuses ,declare independence of South Africa, Justify and Declare War on Liberia and puppet them in a peace deal (can also be done by releasing Namibia and justifying on them. The United Kingdom starts with both. Once the civil war ends you can send ultimatums to the Baltic countries and Finland, defeating them and taking the land if they refuse. As Czechoslovakia, occupy Canberra while at war with the Allies. For advisors and such: The only chief of army you have, Marian Kukiel, Stanislaw Maczek (for Army Exp), FB (Infantry Equipment), and the War Industrialist. When fighting, push through Mengkukuo and try to get to the shore but. Get Fascist, justify on Hungary, leave Allies/join Axis, wait for Anschluss, paradrop from German Austria to the three Hungarian cities.