at least 6 of the following is a subject of Bulgaria: After completing "The Fate of the Balkans" you get the ability to peacefully puppet any nation with a Balkan capital who is in your faction, as well as the capacity to force them into your faction if they are not already in one. But for some reason this function seems to be broken. As Poland, install a Habsburg monarch and be in a faction with another Habsburg monarch. 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. Let them wear themselves out attacking you for a while. The Justification should be done around October, declare war and then do the focus: "Oppose Hitler". Access to the focus "Towards African Unity" is, as before, possible through "Rebuilding the country" focus. It will take a while to annex your puppets but you should be able to do it without much difficulty. It's the only quick way to lose because it will take ages for Allies to get to you through land (way longer than your troops going for Palestine will take). Launch the naval invasions and Rush the French victory points, and push through the United States - as France will still have Disjointed Government, they'll capitulate after taking Paris and a few others. the Landsturm regiments are pretty damn useless. While some have advised that a garrison order is sufficient the AI will not accept a mere garrison order under most circumstances, so better to use an invasion order. If you defeated Poland before civil war breaks out and the Allies failed to take it back, in another word, it is occupied by Germany after you declare on Germany, you will even have a peace conference to partition Poland. As for how to become a major, I believe it has to do with faction leader status, as well as factory count. At the start of the game focus on building military factories in Valencia, since Catalonia has the "Autonomous State" modifier that reduces construction speed by 25%. Call in the USSR to get naval supremacy in the Black Sea and naval invade the province. After defeating the US, select the "Install American Monarchy" decision (said decision will not pop up if you haven't completed Unite the Anglosphere), and release Scotland as a puppet. After subjugating warlords, a series of Integrates the Warlords decisions will be opened; just make decisions for Yunnan and Guangxi. If you are really struggling and tension is low enough (below 25%) invade Ireland first. A civil war is gonna be more difficult late game tho since the other side might call in a major power due to WT. hoi4 what to do when capitulate. Karelia is easy enough to reconquer that ceding it causes no real problem. Don't ask for help in the war. You may even get (temporarily) invited to The Allies. As Communist Bulgaria, form the United Balkan Federation and own all Balkan states as cores. As Greece or Bulgaria, own both sides of the Bosporus. The order in which you let those African Nations revolt is up to you. Alternatively you can temporarily fight in the Allies' side. Can be done relatively easily by defeating the Axis together with the Allies and simply taking Latium in the peace deal. Dock in Morocco for range. As the Soviet Union never lose 1 core territory to anyone before 1945. The main targets apart from those you are already at war with are: Turkey, Greece, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Take the "Appoint Pro-Axis Government", take the Fascist Demagogue and flip to Fascist. Annex France by lend-leasing them everything, and right before the UK capitulates, justify on the Soviet Union, and take Oppose Hitler while still justifying on the Soviets. Note that if you have Battle for the Bosphorous installed, if you join the Axis, you will lose territory to Bulgaria, so go down Balkans Dominance, Puppet Bulgaria, and then annex them through the Puppet Mechanics before joining the Axis. Basically you can copy what Germany did historically and it should work. Can be easily done as the United Kingdom since already own all the territory needed, except Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen. From the beginning build a couple of dockyards to increase your convoy production, and maybe some extra submarines too. After this series of easy conquests, you will have the decision to form the Roman Empire. If possible, ask your faction members for as many expeditionary forces as possible. However, the Soviet path does have the risk of ending up as a Soviet Puppet. . Declare war (you will get embargoed by a lot of countries for this) and simply defeat them. Eventually, you should reach Construction V. The required global flag: kill_me_alive_flag is set when a player's operative dies if the player has completed the Suicide Pills agency upgrade. The game is available on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS. The US will automatically join, now all that is left is to drop a nuke. 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. And that is my point - Even though the country had surrended, you still had pockets of resistance fighters hellbent on fighting till their death, and some commanders with some final plans they desperatedly tried to go through with. As Romania, own a slice of all your starting neighbors. You can manage several things from here, including leaving the faction. If China falls you can alone keep Japan away at the border and look out for Siam because it can turn Fascist by Japanese Focus. If Iceland gets released, it may be necessary to justify against them. After that pick "Towards the new Europe" branch. Go for the Plot Against Boris focus and pick the decisions to kill him, then choose a pro-Axis regent and join the Axis. After Molotov-Ribbentrop pact signed and Poland capitulated, Soviets will take Eastern part of it. They will need to be able to hold for about a week, so make sure you send enough divisions and also put a few on a port for safekeeping. Make sure you have enough war score so they will allow this. Join. controls all cores of Poland and France, excluding cores that are islands or outside of Europe At this point, it should be trivial to conquer the rest of the world (you can also just join the Japanese faction if you annex Siam before they get the chance to ally them, thus eliminating the need to conquer them). If you like it, I would very much appreciate if you'd follow me on Spotify. In the meantime, start to build forts on the border with the Soviets - they should justify on You in autumn 1939. Merge all your ships in one single fleet and place it in one of your ports near Denmark with the order, Start the war. 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). Your Italy is probably still alive, if they were to capitulate as well, a peace deal would fire. I would also like to be able to make peace with nations after they have failed in their invasion against me. Don't invite your allies and, After getting Danzig, move your light tanks to a port near Denmark and prepare a naval invasion against France with ten of the eleven divisions. If you spot a mistake then you are welcome to fix it. This prevents you from "taking territory." If so, how? Having even a few provinces lets you win the civil war easily. If you want more divisions, train your army and use the xp to make small 2 regiment cavalry divisions for fast capture of VP's. Remember: Press the button below the army to ask for expeditionary units. As South Africa, finish the A King for our People focus and take Jerusalem. Taking Curacao from the Dutch will not give the achievement, as it is counted as part of South America. Soviet Union: One of the following must be true: Can be done in conjunction with "This time it will stick". You are using an out of date browser. Attack the Allies immediately after the defeat of the Axis, You have to own the provinces, not just occupy them - watch out for them in a peace treaty, do not let AI take them or you will have to go to war again. Took about 5-8 months them to throw in the towel (depending do you count the time when they stopped having divisions or the time they actually capitulated). Build up your army to about 15 infantry to naval invade southern Sweden (produce cheap submarines to ensure naval supremacy) and create some cavalry divisions for defending naval invasions and the Swedish border, which can also be built up with forts. Good luck and feel free to ask any further questions :). This achievement could also be done with "Neither Death nor Dishonor" one, just take Moscow at the peace conference. If you take some ports in the Balkans, ask the Allies for military access and prepare a naval invasion on Latium. You only need to occupy the required states for the achievement to trigger. Immediately justify on The United Kingdom. As Carlist Spain, after the Spanish Civil War, rush towards the. 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. As Greece, capture Istanbul and rename it to Constantinople. An easier way to do this achievement is to turn fascist as a warlord, then join the Japanese faction. Which is the last focus in the communist tree. You may time your guns decision to complete when the state is at approximately 65% resistance. Germany will control Paris. A few months into 1941, Italy should be stretched thin. Produce some units to fight Italians in Africa. Once you are done with Ethiopia, you can start justifying on France, switch your mountaineer to normal infantry template and train 7-8 paratrooper divisions as soon as you are done with paratrooper research. I believe 50 factories or more makes you a major. The main objective is to rush towards Paris. Join the war. Play defensively and slowly push out. Micromanage your army into London and annex the UK in the Peace Conference, With sufficient fighting strength, leave the Comintern, attack the Soviets (During Operation Barbarossa) and take the necessary provinces. A third way is to play as France, go down the Napoleonic Path, release as many of your puppets as possible (don't release Algeria or Vietnam - you can gain cores on the former, and the latter has much-needed rubber) conquer Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain (and satellite as much territory as possible from each - Belgium gives you 5 puppets from their African territory, the Netherlands gives you 3 - the Indies and both of their South American territories, and the UK gives you 40). Once you declare war on Germany and Italy is called in, the achievement you should trigger after no more than 7 in-game days. Then, form the Chinese United Front and accept all invites. Basically I like to play as minor countries and see how much of a wrench I can throw in the greater chaos of WWII. Justify on Poland, then declare war. Can be done as any ideology, but going down the King's Party path and fomenting imperialist revolutions in your dominions will allow you to create integrated puppets, eliminating the need to reduce autonomy. You can also complete "The Abuna" focus to get an advisor that slightly increases legitimacy gain. As Germany have both Poland and France surrender before January 1st 1940. You just need to hold your line and not let non-aligned Russia get capitulated(you don't need war participation, rebellion will have all Russia after Germany capitulates Russia). Take King Michael's Coup to flip to Democratic and wait until Poland capitulates and the Soviet Union takes Eastern Poland. HoI4 focuses on a very short period of time between 1936 and 1948 and tries to emulate the world around World War II. Without massive losses to the Soviets, the German army will be quite big. After making a beachhead, put your entire army on French shores and conquer them. You have 2 focuses giving you boost in that area. When the Soviets declare, hold the defense until Germany attacks the USSR, then launch a counterattack. The Focuses "The Belorussian Army" and "The Ruthenian Army" can help you get a few of those divisions if your manpower is (to) low. Since you have taken the Believe, Obey, Fight focus, you should be able to hire Dino Grandi as advisor. Conquer Belgium and Luxembourg as Netherlands. open.spotify. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. achievement strategy from this wiki. Then declaring war on them. Rember to click the demand recognition decision (which appears 24 hours after the revolt), otherwise, they won't join your faction. Use templates from. Flip to Fascism (unlike Utilize the Leagues, Right Wing Rhetoric is not mutually exclusive with Review Foreign Policy), form the Little Entente, and take the focus to Invite Italy to your faction. An other option is to follow the communist branch of Bulgaria and at the very end complete the focus 'The Unification of the Balkans'. As Romania, change sides in the war and capitulate a former ally. So once you declare war on them through a "Demand recognition decision" they'll join the Axis. Has full control of Albania (44), Confederacy of American States: Does not exist. Can be done in conjunction with the "It's 1812 All Over Again" achievement as Canada. on Paradox technology, Legal Do not do the building quests while Roosevelt is in power because when you make Alf Landon president, The Congress Support will be high. If Hungary refuses, win the war and puppet them. You want to make sure you take them before the Allies, so you get the puppet collaboration government. Controls all western coastal Turkish states. Grind during the Sino-Japanese war as much as possible. In 1938 Germany will declare war and drag the Allies in even before they declare on Poland or Czech. The Soviet Union in 1.11 has an increased chance of capturing foreign operatives. Furthermore, you could start taking some of the focusses from "Plan East". Do NOT puppet Belgium, as Germany will attack you if you do. They will have no way to grow their military until they remove isolation so it should be trivial to win this way. Via focus "Claim Livonia" You get wargoals against other Baltic States. How to use nukes in Hearts of Iron 4 In order to deploy a nuke in Hearts of Iron IV, ensure you meet the following criteria: You must have at least one bomb in your stockpile You must be at war. It can be done before WW2 1939. Lend-lease to Netherlands until you can annex them. After the Civil War go down the path of the Kaiser and then follow the path of "Focus on the true Enemy" You can speed up your Non-Aligned popularity by doing the Anti-Fascist, Democratic en Communist decisions (giving you over 40% non-aligned before the "Revive the Kaiserreich" focus is finished. The war keeps going until all major powers in a faction capitulate. Build units to hold that line, Hungary, and to attack Albania. Do not join the war when Germany attacks the Soviet Union, and wait for them to capitulate (as of 1.10 the Soviets on historical will likely lose). With the BBA peace conference system, that should be enough to grab the required states (Buryatia, Chita, Yakutsk, Dudinka, Kolyma, Udachny, Verkhoyansk) plus a few others so the border isn't so gory. 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. With that many fronts opened up against China and all of the cavalry units you should have, you can set up your army and quickly take all the victory points. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. As Fascist France or Vichy France, occupy all of Great Britain. This one requires one to be in the winning side against both Axis and Allies. Puppet Bulgaria and follow up with Terror and Fear to start the war with Turkey and Romania. Sign NAP with Italy so they don't declare for their Yugoslavian claims. Take the Move to Secure the Dominion focus as soon as you switch communist, and start justifying on the Philippines, since that won't raise WT by much but still make sure the US gets involved. WARNING! Invade the Soviet Union shortly after Germany declares war on them. Pick Organize the peasant's strike, then the two communist options. Build a defensive army. The achievement will also trigger if the United Kingdom has been fully annexed and no longer exists so it is possible to also just stage a naval invasion and finish off the UK that way. Use long range carrier to reach German coast, then merge rest of fleet to ignore range modifier. As Nationalist Spain in Axis manage to take Paris before the Germans. (have between 48-72 good divisions). If you do it right, you won't run into an equipment deficit. Justify to retake core state on Sinkiang. Move your army to Canada, making sure to spread the divisions out and declare martial law to prevent it from seceding. By this point it should be early 1937, so focus your efforts on preparing a front line against the Japanese. This focus gives war goals for the UK, France and the USA. Replace the templates of your 16 stack army with the 16-width Engineer & Anti-air and the 2 24 armies with the 16-width with Engineers. Then, position your army along the Canadian border, and make sure to train lots of 10w 1 unit cavalry brigades, since the US cannot man their entire border with their starting army and the cavalry can simply overrun their entire country with the US not being able to do much to stop it. Take all the territory. The focus "Subjugate the Warlords" gives a fixed 50% chance to puppet each of the warlords (even if they are in a different faction).