HOI4: Commie Economy done right! Outproduce Germany and the world before WW2 with this strategy! 

Indeed!

Never let the game know your next steps

I would have also kept Vorochilov. He is level 1 everywhere and consdering all the wars you're doing, he will level up and gain xp really fast.

Zhukov is an armored officer id rather have him as a general and rokosovsky as his field matshal

@@axels3619 It depends what kind of commander you want. Defensive or offensive. Voroshilov have two bad traits: Old Guard and Politically Connected. Combined it gives you -35% experience gain. Cuiykov, Popov and Rokosovsky are way better offensive field marshals with Brilliant Strategist trait. Zhukov is a great tank commander. I use him in my tank army to make breakthrough. But if i need a defensive field marshal, i rather use Semyon Budyonny. He have cool mustache.

Guy Fieri can point you to the best diners, drive ins, and dives though! I pick Guy Fieri 😂

You dare questioning Stalin on steroids? Off the Gulag you go!

Thats what I'm aiming for. Although I do notice when I do longer videos with more explanation, less people actually watch it. So I have to carefully balance...

I never actually looked at this, but usually choose for local production or designers. In some cases, like Bulgaria, foreign designers require you to be at peace with certain foreign countries - and soviets aren't very good at peace ;-)

Will do!

My pleasure!

Annexing usually gives less factories due to low compliance, although that builds up. Liberated workers as occupation law is also very good for that. The puppets are all to make maximum use of the COMECON benefits. @1: not if you justify asap. They need 25% world tension to guarantee - the german and UK guarantee are added in 1938 I think when Turkey does certain focuses. Don't let them @2: I fully agree that these quick naval invasions are an exploit. They are also the only way a minor nation (or at least with a minor fleet) ever gets to do a naval invasion against UK or Japan. And there's a high risk of interception. I'll allow it :-)

Ставь паузу, когда оправдается война с Ираном Афганистаном и Ираком А по Японии такая же схема В моменте Япония просто не успевает выставить флот.

Yeah combining this with Right opposition is very tricky. I've done Tsarist once, but had to postpone invading Japan until after my civil war. Hardly any navy left by then so that was very diffficult

What do you mean? I do manage the paranoia, but thats different each game so I don't show too much of it

Yeah that was a brutal ‘wait, what?’ moment.

I seriously believe thats how its intended - a post WW2 preparation for a showdown with the Allies

Pdx has done that with most of the new focus trees, but also along with a lot of problems and debuffs you have to solve. So many choices to make....

I retried this this week and it went fine. But its in the details. I do not capitulate romania and turkey before the focus with the wargoal finishes. And when the focus does finish I declare immediately with no delay. Goodluck!

To get enough Naval Supremacy on day 1 of the war, make sure your Naval Intelligence on Japan is 40% or more. If you have 40%, you receive no intelligence-related debuffs to your supremacy. You will still need to make sure your fleet is on Invasion Support (or Patrol or Strike Force, but Invasion Support will let them provide you with shore bombardment until the Japanese sink them) and that your invasion plan is engaged before you unpause after declaring war, because the Japanese will quickly retake supremacy in the sea tile. In order to achieve the 40%, take the Naval Department and Invisible Ink agency upgrades, decrypt the Japanese cypher, and plop a spy to build network in Japan. You can also infiltrate navy if you want but this isn't necessary. If you have to delay a collaboration government in China to do this, that's fine (you'll still be able to get 100% compliance before the China war finishes), because in my experience you won't be able to launch the invasion without the 40%, and sparing just one spy for the network is fine (you'll want the intelligence to help with the fighting against Japan anyway). I'm not sure if Antasil just didn't show his Japanese spy network, or if he didn't do one and got lucky, but you'll do better with one. Trust me - I tried following the guide and got stuck with the invasion too! But I got it on my second try.

Also, don't have your navy engage the Turks and Romanians after the initial naval invasion of Anatolia. You want to take the Turkish battleship in the peace deal for a little extra help in Japan. You still can't go head to head against the Japanese, but every bit helps to get that initial supremacy.

@@roberttreder7534 yes i get turkish and romanian navy but it is not enough

@@ziya805 Do you get the spy network on Japan too? With that, the invasion should launch as long as your invasion order and your fleet orders are in place and activated before unpausing from declaring the war.

Robert's advice is good. I didn't pay attention to naval intelligence myself. But I always follow these steps (even if I don't always show them explicitly): 1) declare war immediately after getting the wargoal. Let not one hour in game time pass! This is very important. 2) Set navy to strike force. Only switch to naval invasion support once your troops have launched from the port. With Strike force, the navy will sit in the port; with naval invasion support they possibly engage other fleets too soon.

If you're using flame tanks for their bonuses then the cheapest will do. In some cases you use them for armor and hardness as well, they give a little as support company. In that case you can get more armor which makes it a little more expensive

Speed matters too though, if it’s too slow it will slow your tank divisions down

I have many good generals, but my field marshal who was the other option, had levelled up like a boss with logistics wizard and skilled staffer.

@@antasil5768 oh ok then i guess the field marshall was a better opinion I usually just make Zhukov a field marshall as he has higher stats than my field marshalls after the purge

Yeah I've seen them join Allies sooner in a lot games....

@@antasil5768 yea the reason is arms against tyranny. After turning off that dlc They dont join allies so esrly any more

Warm

@@antasil5768Nice video, I wasn’t expecting eating China and Japan so early. Another fun snowball strat is going Trotsky and getting NKVD primacy in order to spam 10-day war goals

Same, they intervene after turkey/Romania and if leave the war going too long Romania joins the allies

I made a tutorial just for that!

@@antasil5768Hi. I have replayed this multiple times in AAT. I cannot get "zero day" naval invasion trick to work. Wondering if it has been patched. I've tried every variation I can think of - early invasion (May 1938), late (Jan 1940). Whichever I go for the Japanese navy is already out on patrol and on declaration of war, I only have 30% superiority. Because of all USSR debuffs, air superiority is extremely hard to get early, so I don't get a positive multiplier there to naval supremacy. I prioritise spies in Japan over being China to ensure I have some Intelligence superiority to add to naval. Even with decryption active, best I have managed is 33%. If this part of your strategy fails, then whole Comecon strat fails. Any ideas? Zero day just doesn't seem to work any more. (Your video is not in AAT, so wondering if its me or AAT has killed zero day naval invasions.)

@@RichKPhotosI'm going to try and do this in a live stream!

In short - medium tanks with medium howitzer. I'll make a seperate video on my tank builds soon!

Once you start doing southern thrust, they just guarantee them before I can ever get them.

Not to my knowledge, and I played this run two weeks ago. The important things are 1) not to capitulate Romania and Turkey until Southern Thrust is done and 2) to pause the game on the completion of Southern thrust and declare all those wars at once. Turn on pause on notifications for that. Good luck!

Thanks!

Ah yes I did. I didn't notice it at the time but i cut out a lot of coughs during editing

@@antasil5768 oh🥲 I wish you a quick recovery!

Ah.. its dlc content

Ah yes, this is with all current DLC's.

Can you get 'desperate measures' and 'lessons of war' done before Barbarossa?

@@antasil5768 I was talking industry wise

They were always just the excuse to go to war...

Because, a war with a major disrupts the original 5 year plan. Completing that war opens up this focus (says so in the tooltip). I think this was meant for before and after world war 2

As I recall they were motorized divisions with only 2 or 3 tank batallions. I always just start with the motorized, then expand them with tank batallions as I build them.

@@antasil5768 thx man, another question: i have trouble navel invading japan.. if i set my fleed on navel invasion support they instanly lose navel supremacy in the sea of japan.. what am i doing wrong.. i think u set your fleed on strike force pre war decleration, maybe thats why.. or do u have to send ur airforce there aswell..

Sorry! I'll do better next time :-)