Ranking ALL 9 Chinese Focus Trees in Hearts of Iron 4 

This video broke my record for the most amount of video/audio clips used, with 115. Now, to be fair a lot of those are unused takes/retakes. But still, when you consider that the previous record was 110 with MvM 24, which is double the length of this video. It does stand out. Also, I realized extremely late that I did forget to mention the difference between assert our authority and offer vassalization, but there's very little to say there. AoA allows you to annex the entire united front in one war, if you're skilled enough. While the other allows you to effectively open up multiple fronts depending on which warlords chose to bend the knee. How did I forget this? Well as you can imagine I did have other priorities.

Sinkiang joining the Republican government while staying communist is the best way imo

Bubbles Zest sold me fent

1:47 I was wondering why japan didn't peace out when i played a few weeks ago, what a bummer

Im glad you did this like this, becouse i think these focus trees should be treat more as branches of one big "China tree" - remeber that what we see in game (with warlords, japan puppets, two central regimes) is more or less a representation of fractions of civil war, not individual nations

I am glad this series is continuing! I can't wait to see an Italian version.

2:40 If you join the united front it will be even more bugged Japan gets like all the land back

I LOVE BUBBLES ZEST

That portal 2 co-op reference in cooperation with nationalists intro card was perferct.

Dude as a new players those videos are amazing! Whenever I try out a new nation I am just completely overwhelmed. Your videos not only teach me about the specific nations but also what to look for, if that makes sense!

if japan goes communist you get half of japan s navy, im not exactly sure but i know it works i did it myself

you can bypass the bug in assertiveness path by helping Japan conquer China first and then breaking off

Wow, this is pretty smart... Have you done a Video about Bulgarian Paths? (I'm to lazy to check)

"this should be interesting" All your videos are interesting my friend.

I am thinking that the 40% consumer goods reduction makes it one of the best focus trees of any nation in the game.

Me half the way on Manchuko achievement gameplay (spent 12h and its my thrid try) Me seeing Bubbles Zest says there is a bug in the peace deal after kick Japan out of Korea Me releasing I wasted 12 hours in my weekend thinking i have to invade Home Island Me feels sad and angry

cant wait for ranking all 12 polish focus trees In HOI4

For Manchukuo, if you aren't afraid of a little ahist runs (most of my runs are ahist because I enjoy pain for some reason), you can reset till Japan does the unthinkable option (which you can see them do, as a puppet), where they give you Korea, Taiwan, Iwo Jima, all the Pacific Islands, Dalian plus a whole metric load of good Japanese General and half the Japanese fleet. All this and you still get to do the focus for the Attack Bonus on Japan, it allows you to not export civs to overlord because they usually do it very quickly and finally, you get to bypass the Independence war focus which means you can get to the China stuff even quicker

Please rank every French path

Ah yes in the power struggle one really has to contend with famous Nationalist leader Ah Ren Chi

I dont care what anyone says. Manchukuo assertiveness is my favorite focus tree in the whole game Also where would assertiveness rank if it was fixed? 6-7?

I LOVE BUBBLES ZESTY

You need to rank all polish or italian paths, i need someones opinions to follow

Bubbles I just played Manchucuo yesterday for tithe 3 achievements and what I did is fight China first with the aid of Japan, take all the land I could and then fight Japan. It worked well but I had to wait for Japan to remove their ships of the area to launch the naval invasion.

Qing should have the opportunity to get all of its historical territory

I really like these rankings especially since you get a different point of view on many things. Nevertheless I've never disagreed more with your opinion as on this ranking.

I remember playing Manchuria and joining the United front, and after the peace out event, the borders got completely reset. Japan keeping all their Chinese territories and Menguko as a puppet. Meaning you can’t even go to war with China because you don’t have a border.

The iron burger

They need to make social democracy actually democratic. Like give SocDem CPC a national spirit that gives daily dmeocracy support and make Zhang Lan the Democratic leader (he was the leader of China Democratic League irl and only defected to the communists late in the Civil War) and LET THEM ESTABLISH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC. But then also make 'Socialist Market Economy' (worked out very well under Deng irl) give actual industry and construction buffs, not just Deng (at that point he's useless pretty much). Then, revamp the Welfare tree to not be a war-support joke. Or just integrate 8 Years War of Resistance and (parts of) Kaiserreich into base game.

Assertive Manchu is my favorite :(

Manchukuo can be op when you go non-historical and somehow japan goes communist, you can even get half their army and navy if things go right for the communists. Manchukuo is my 2nd favorite chinese nation behind the Guangxi clique

Your list is wrong. It also forgets the other Chinese paths. #11 Submissive Manchu #10-8 Warlord trees, literally interchangeable #7 SocDem PRC, removed the only late game objective #6 Fascist Nationalists #5 Assertive Manchu #4 Stalinist PRC #3 Continue Tutelage Nationalists #2 Maoist PRC #1 Democratic transition Nationalists