I Tried Getting The Not One Step Back Achievement On HOI4 (0.1% of Players Have This) 

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“I don’t give a shit if my units survive” alex is a true Soviet leader

Alex “imma do one of the hardest achievements” Tommy “oh that ones easy”

Not a Step Back achievement? That was easy for me. Go historical and build a massive Maginot Line. German AI won’t dare to attack you

"Look at this breakthrough we've made against the *Soviet* forces isn't this astounding"

Offense is the best defense! just get Poland before Germany does when they are weak yet and get your fleet up in the black sea and the baltic, shit ton of AA and after then just be AFK. If they have too many mediums, AT infantry is the way to go :)

I played with unhistorical focuses on and because the German Kaiserreich and the Allies had a revival of WWI (trench warfare with no breakthroughs) and democratic Japan wasn't able to win the civil war I got this achievement basically for free because nobody declared war on me until 1945.

Jesus christ that 21 tank division encirclement was painful to see

I’m so glad to see this! Been waiting to see Alex get that achievement. Can’t wait to watch in full tonight.

When you lost that tile to the Germans i litterally got an warpath ad saying “In 1941 a KV2 Heavy tank defending a bridge managed to defend the bridge destroying a fleet of 300 german tanks” Im not joking

Ussr soldiers can't take a step back cause they are so underequiped and hungry they can't walk.

The Stalin Chonker mug is the most powerful mug.

When you are still 1 of the 0% who have an achievement: *signature look of superiority*

"Summoning our inner Soviet chonk" Nikolai Vatutin: "You rang?"

Not one step back? 15:16, making Switzerland join the war should be an achievement itself…

This must be the first Video where Alex does well as the Soviet Union

Just fyi, the achievement only fails when you lose a state. Not a tile. As long as you don’t lose a core victory point you’re good (defend against the fucking Italian northern naval invasions, oh my god).

This was so stressful achievement to get I cant remember the details when it comes to allies but i loved when the enemy allies iran somehow and i need to rush down there to block them from getting any states. And also the lag after 43 was so painful

Zhukov getting 21 Tank Divisions Encircled... The Purge found a new Victim

0:13 never had I expected W I D E A L E X

I'm planning on trying this soon and I currently feel like rushing flame support tanks would be the best. Give infantry insane armor and soft attack. Let germany break themselves and walk into Germany. Taking Poland early would be a big help as well to create a buffer and deny Germany Poland.

2:04 "you can not stop the purge the purge stops you"- Alex the rambler

The key is doing superior firepower and grinding one of your level 3 infantry leader generals like vatutin or meretskov to be an infantry specialist advisor.

Damn, I really should've played my USSR game in Ironman. Would've gotten that achievement. The Axis managed to make it one state into Poland, which is to say non-core territory, and no further. Not even because they pushed me back, I pretty much let them have that state. Ended the war in 1943 after the Germans grinded on my border for a while.

I love the fact that you said "Who tough i was going to do it" yeah far easier to count those ngl...

1:30 sounds like stalin is thinking

Alex personally directing a giant blunder and proceeding to blame his general is a very Soviet move if I've ever seen one

If you do the air war as Russia: there are focuses you can take that modify your airforce and give ridiculous good bonuses

You might not go a step back, but the hairline will...

Rambler is within the .1% of HOI4 and in Mustaches? very impressive.

Would be interesting to see alex doing the achievement run like tommykay

8:56 that hurt........

"Hey don't question the Purge it just works" Nostalgia Critic

0:03 mad Dankus noises

Alex looking like a Mount and Blade Warband character

Romania managing planes and artillery : what is soviet union ? We dont see it on the map

Loving the WW1 trench mustache mate

This guy looks like your overly friendly uncle Pete. Literally.

Honestly its a pretty easy achievement. It just needs a few things to happen for it to be basically impossible not to get, looking apart from the fact that you first need to REACH 1945 - a thing basically impossible since dlc release because after 40 it runs on Eoanb speed (before i was easily reaching the 50s)

8:23 me in Clash Royale when I destroy my enemies forces with a rocket

Alex i luve uur vids and urryourer mustash apologe for bad englis i wa sdropped on my head as an infant so thats why i cannot form coherent sentences

I'd like to see alex play as any releasable nation from the Soviet Union

The funny thing is that he could just take the Turkey,Romonia and Czechs, before germans do that. And then you take the Baltic countries including Finland. By that moment you should have 75k guns ammassed at the moment (1940-1941 on Elite). The last step is to deploy sterlykova divisions with anti air guns and some Arty.

The HOI4 wiki has a guide for this achievement that basically amounts to "turn off historical focuses, force Japan and China down historical paths, and hope Germany chooses Oppose Hitler", lmao

me over here just chad af making 40 widths and scrolling through reddit and checking in every now and then to do focuses, research and production and construction. It was pretty easy since after their initial push, which failed to take a single state, although they got close to Minsk ( i didnt take eastern poland ), so I just held doing the thing above, pretty much afk, then got some 10 Medium Tanks, the good kind, and encircled them between Estonia and Lithuania in Northern Eastern Poland, and I also got We dont really like statistics, 2 in 1 yay

Light tanks worked in my Germany game but thats because I took out Britan and France right away.

alex brightens my day

I got this achievement and I have no idea how. I think I killed a tiny Socialist Republic of Germany in WW3 and it counted. I also got the "don't capture stalingrad" as Germany by annexing a two-state SSSR in Siberia. The achievments are busted.

Great video! Lovely Jubilee! keep it up!

This is as entertaining as watching Hamilton blunder against verstappen in the last lap of F1 and claim the championship lol

Does anyone know where Alex got the chonker cat mug from?

This achievment is super easy, you just need to conquer poland ASAP, take just Danzig (Germany looses his focus for it) puppet rest of Poland, take bessarabia through focus, don't bother Finland and Baltic states, leave them alone. And thats it, you just need to deffend Romania border (dont call anybody to war). If you are Lucky, you might even turn Romania communist, so it becomes even easier. You can put some Unist on soviet-japan border, just to be sure. Oh, and i forgot, put some Unist on baltic shoreline, just in case some naval invasions.

I like how the war ended exactly on the 1th of January

He has a glorious moustache, like Stalin

That 0.1% who do the achievement true legends. *change my mind*

gustav was 1 gun but the model of gustav was dora

I honestly thought he couldn't do it

Oh my giddy aunt the Iron Rambler strikes again!

Maybe do an achievement series?

I did this achievement just to forget to turn off player led peacedeals

Stalin the rambler, military genius.

Got on my first iron man no step back , No more Partitions. Don’t know how hard it is, but basically just used mechanised with rockets soon as I could afford it

i once accidentaly did this by geting over 100 infantry divisions whit every slot filled 4 Artilary 2 rocket artilary and 4 anti tank the rest infatry supported by a massive airforce the germans stood no chance

i take pride in being one of the 0.1 percent of people before this vid came out

Ah yes my daily after work ritual of smoking and watching Alex huzzah

He's the PHILZA of hoi4

I was able to achieve this. I uh.... may have cheesed it a bit. I turned off historical AI and let the german empire go monarchist. Things went off the rails when the allies started declaring wars. This lead to japan allying all of them.... including the now monarchist germany. I was able to make it to June 1943 as the soviets without a war. I was a freaking powerhouse at that point. I did come close to losing 1 province. If they would have taken 1 more VP in that province the run was over. Luckily they were out of supply because chinese mountain ranges. In the end I capped europe then turned and almost capped china. Then Jan. 1 1945 hit and I got the acheivement. I promptly quit because there was nothing left for me to do.

Uhhh, hard? Well... Either go no research immediate war, and have a decent chance to win (Unless a bad purge happens) Or for guaranteed wins, fortify the German-Soviet border in Poland, also Romania, and watch out for naval invasions, and don’t take all of Finland if you choose to fight them If you’re fortified well enough, you can just leave, take a nap, and come back to Germany being mushed by the Allies As for the Baltic’s, that’s an unnecessary border extension, but it could be fun

Gotta question for some chat goers What DLCs besides No Step Back are good?

rambler moment with 20 tanks being encircled by AI...

Flattened USSR and germany as finland with light tanks, light tanks are best tanks.

Look at this Breaktrough i make against the Soviet Forces. Damm Alex still play as Germany in his head.

Cry myself to sleep: another taysway reference, is it a coincidence?

I Got the achviment on accident… i was the sssr declared War on poland and germany was just Old germany… the demo one and Then they gaunteed poland ans Then they JOINED ALLIES AND NOW AM OFFED LOL

Not a step back! - Some racoon I found

Confirmed: Alex better than Tommy

Nice...... It's all I can say after watching a man suffer hours....... 😀

I got that one it’s weird I was imperial Russia

if you turn off historical AI Germany ALWAYS goes monarchy/ democratic so you could just chill with the only threats china or japan

Shoutout to alex the rambler

I did this a few days ago but I never got the achievement… forgot to check Ironman. Got it the next day.

of course 0.1% people have this achievement since the update just came out. every new achievement has 0.1% people owning it.

I got it by accident. Just stopped the Germans in Poland, then didn't trigger the hot Cold War until after Jan 1, 1945.

Me who did it before Alex could do it: Weak.

Holy fucking shit 8:57 was so painful.

i think i have a achievement that tommy does not have i have the soivet onion (0.1 have this)

Good on ya

I miss the music he used to put in his videos

I have it aswell it was easy to get

I just tried some ironman hoi4 the other day. I don't know how anyone can enjoy it like that...

Take over the world as norway in hearts of Iron 4

Found an easy way to get it. Scorch earth all of the parts of Poland you get. Germans don’t attack because it isn’t a good idea cause of how ai is now smart

Huzzah!

Omg wtf 21 tanks encircled. Deaathh

Light tanks are great from 36-40ish. After that, they get obliterated. By the time Germany invades, theyre a complete waste of time.

favorite youtuber yes mm

this achievement is very easy indeed. The way I did it was; Focusses -> Marxist lening -> address internal affairs -> New Soviet Woman (save up all PP) Immediately upon completion of new soviet woman, declare on Turkey -> declare on hungary -> cancel turkey, redeclare on turkey. This way you fight in early 1937 (beginning of feb) Romania (who guarantees Turkey) Turkey and Hungary. However you need to capitulate Romania soon, because you need to take out Hungary before june 1937, because they will join the axis and fuck you over. By doing this and puppetting everyone, you can create a corridor over poland, as with molotov you get eastern poland. By attacking lithuania and puppetting them, you can decrease this even further, the frontline. Then you just sit and wait, and in mid 1941 Germans can finally cancel the non-aggression pact. Because you will put on the frontline a field marshal with 5 completed stacked generals and add some transportplanes. Doing it this way, also allows you to get the " we do not really like statistics" achievement, Race for germany, the Pope achievement and ofcourse no step back. Cheers ;)

Peak soviet preformance

When Alex The Rambler doesn’t use console commands 😎

Quite a difficult achievement