Hearts of Iron 4 - World Record: Allies capitulated on Feb 21, 1936 

Exactly. West first, east second. After all the Soviet Union was fighting with western weapon and economic support

@@paulmcgreen US would still support SU even if Britain fell.

​@@Carl-Gauss Did you know that Germany spent more iron producing submarines (fighting the UK) than tanks (fighting the SU). The next obvious step playing for Germany was cutting off the Eastern supply chains (US - SU) in Pacific Ocean. You need naval bases for this, so Japan becomes the key component for the Axis. Also put into account the amount of civs which the US wouldn't get from trading with the UK and consequently the US wouldn't have built its economy that rapidly. Trading with the SU is easily blocked. So basically the US and SU were fucked by any chance without the UK.

@@paulmcgreen And how was Germany actually going to invade the UK? Sealion? How were they going to defeat the largest navy in the world?

@@paulmcgreen that would have to include germany getting enough troops on the british ground to occupy a nation of almost 50 million people when the uk navy was good enough to colonize half of the fucking world and germany had basically nothing in comparison. Its a fever dream at best.

Though IRL if the Germans wanted to do this they could just do away with the formalities and land their entire army on the British mainland in the dead of night without declaring war and seize the entire country illegally because why the hell not at this point...

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 well, apart from british intelligence agencies that would be watching, the immensely Superior british fleet assets and the fact that in general you can't really hide the preparations for such a giant invasion, all of whom would have resulted in a massive bloodbath of sunken german transports and warships

​@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 that probably wouldnt have worked. unlike in the game in irl navies always out on patrol so germans would have been spotted and destroyed

@@albinskold8792 And That's Why They Should Use The Entire German Navy To Habe An Opening. If The Germans Make It To Shore It's Over. The Germans Just Need To Occupy The Royal Navy Long Enough To Land Their Troops After That They Retreat And Support The Invasion By Air.

@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 why do you write capital letters in all words

Cowabunga IS underrated. 😂😂😂😂

You have to be 10 iq to not be able to take Poland easily

You have witnessed a master at work

Oh shit I gave up on this game because i've been playing for 20 hours and still can't win on the Western front. I guess I'll go try some more then!

@@thatguy4360 this is maidenless level of godliness

You know that a new player is under 1000h right?

That's the greatest joke right there xD

@@AimlessSavant That's ok. Italy is used to being the joke.

And spanish civil war

Mussolini would admire the Fuhrer more

@@Barwasser they weren't uses to it but they switched sides

I did this too on my first game.

@@markhunter6837 cap

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@@markhunter6837 Possible if you followed this and got lucky.

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Wouldn't Work. RL Politics Work Different. *Realpolitik*

Imagine if Germany has him in *2022*

@@HomTolland0 I think I rather take the reboot card of the mad austrian guy

@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 France is possible but the UK would rather fall under social nationalist party and voila you got yourself realistic (kind of) alternative timeline

It's all about how early you can do it.

If you had attacked Czech when they declared on you could that have given some participation to have taken them as well?

@@Klemeq in theory it should

It’s already there

@@Willzadl He is probably talking about those Czechoslovakian Frenchmen with their Czechoslovakian Maginot Line

is that Russia Ukraine ref?

@@BLACKxOPxPRExTARGET now i Imagine Putin as a HOI 4 player ahahaha

@@jacopofolin6400 What do you mean real life isn't like my Hoi4? Paradox lied to me! *throws his PC with pirated Hoi4 out of a Kremlin window*

@@RAAM855 *types annex UKR and debug_nuking*

@@BLACKxOPxPRExTARGET Except Russia failed at it, unlike this guy.

The Allies are still around. Romania is faction leader ;-) And taking the US via Canada is a pain, rather plan naval invasions from the Bahamas. And yeah, you can get pretty fast WCs with this, not the fastest possible, but faster then any other regular Germany run.

You're welcome! Just know that this run was in 1.10. The strategy for 1.11 is a bit different. I have video on that on my channel as well.

In less then 2 weeks, not months. 8th Feb - 21st Feb. ;)

@@hanswurst6712 oh I see but I was referring to the game starting in January and not the beginning of the end for the allies

Watch even older HOI4 videos when paratroopers were beyond OP (no elite units limit), you could literally have 1 plane for air superiority, 1 transport plane and land 1 division in Paris and they’d surrender instantly. Not a single bullet fired

@@loganamurray64 Of course they'd surrender, German paratroopers just landed on the Elysee Palace and captured the French government instantly. 😂

Imagine releasing game so shit that it's even remotely possible.

Was made impossible in v1.11. If you want to replicate this, you need to go back to 1.10. It can be done in 1.11 but works differently, I've got another video on that. 1.12 completely killed naval spam.

Their unity is tanking at the start of the game due to diverse factors. Turning historical off can give all kinds of different results. Commie, Monarch, Democratic, Fascist France Edit: I mean quickly. And quite randomly and often.

Hocam adam dahi

Depends on the version. Prior to 1.11 you just needed to be fast enough. If you hung around too long or used slow divisions, they could get caught. Since 1.11 France is actively defending its coast which requires a slightly different approach. I've linked a run in 1.11in the description of this video.

@@m3an sir, I see you have other speed runs. I have officially subbed. Would you by chance be able to make videos explaining your thought process or the techniques and exploits involved?

My best time is Feb 16 which ties World Record for Capping the Allies on speedrun.com. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HScy9b3y5aA.html

Oh you can do so much worse stuff with naval invasions. See my recent video in which I launch all of the German army at once instead of just 10 divisions :D

@@m3an wait, what?! How's that possible?

@@m3an "quick mein schützen! To the seas!"

@@m3an Bit of a joke how busted the game is.

It is the only way to beat the Uk though, it is perfectly ok for that to work considering nobody wants to sit for 12 irl hours using dockyards to build a fleet to naval invade UK on multiplayer

Secret Nazi tech

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Pretty easy.. I've played as Germany and capitulated Poland and France with about 6-10k casualties (the traditional way/times) when they've had upwards of 900k. There a few ways. 1. CAS is very effective, and while it doesn't make this big of a difference, it helps prevent your own casualties. 2. Armored offensives. Easily cuts through enemy lines with the right division..People saying tanks are useless are WRONG. 3. Naval raiding. Optional, but without losing a single man you can sink allied divisions and comvoys in the atlantic, north sea, and african coasts if your sub techs allow. USA and UK are affected most obviously. It is possible to get 150-200 submarines by 1940-1941 4. As soon as a bubble turns red, losses skyrocket. If you look at the theatre overview tab, you can look at battles and their casualties. Any battle won will usually have 20-100 casualties pre-1941 and gradually rises afterwards. Lost battles/long contested/expensive victories will have 500-2000. This is most of what causes soaring casualty counts. Hope this helps

@@impartialinsanity what is cas?

@@PapsOSk19 simple your airforce

You gotta do it first thing after getting the war goal and it needs to be an indirect war goal (from focuses or via puppets/guarantees). Otherwise the navy will react and block naval supremacy.

@@m3an ah got it. So if you justify a war goal, the AI just instantly get superiority. Interesting. Thanks!

@@AP-PHOTOS Not exactly, but if you do it the slow way the AI get triggered by that and sets up a patrol ahead of time. If you "suddenly" drag them into the war, they haven't had peacetime preparations (for some reason) and have to wait for their next "AI thinking action" to set up defensive patrols (instead of being ready to contest your naval superiority as soon as the war starts).

@@nikolai877 cool, thanks!

It works a bit differently since the Barbarossa update. France has garrison divisions in the area now, so you'll need to slightly adapt where you land and push. Good luck =)

if you navalinvade hour 1 of the attack, navy won't be out

It’s still pretty wonky, if you have naval supremacy and start the invasion before you declare war, your convoys have a decent chance to take off. But sometimes the Royal Navy will already have strike force/patrol active in the area if you have an active war goal on them. I ended up obliterating the Royal Navy using an endless stream of bombers over the English Channel for a couple months while I planned a second invasion of Hull. But that was just because I’d already committed to that run. I think I capitulated the UK by spring of ‘37. Could’ve been much sooner if the initial invasion of Hull worked out better. But it’s doable.

Thank you! Not many. It's all about the RNG with the Yugo event. Totally different story in version 1.11 though. It's still possible but a lot harder.

He got the strategy from one of our runners.

Keybinds?

Hold shift to make waypoints instead of a single destination.