The Chinese Wild Ride In Hearts of Iron 4 

Hey ISP just wanted to let you know that if you go with the five equal peoples focus, you get those 7 sucky divisions, but you also unlock the raise the banner decision, which is free and gives you 5 divisions that are about the same strength as the ones on the "staff the court with manchus" side.

Fun fact: Puyi was captured by the Soviets as war criminal and later personally pardoned by Mao and became a gardener.

for those who don't know, the achievement where you strike oil as Manchukuo is from the name of a "Korean Manchu Spaghetti Western" movie where the dad (not the rich one) from Parasite and the Asian guy from Magnificent Seven remake have a shootout with the North Korean general from Steel Rain over a bag of jewels. The shootout happens to take place right above a secret oil well, which was a McGuffin for the entire movie. Why max infrastructure? That bag of jewels was a loot from a train robbery on the South Manchurian Rail.

Fun fact: if you completed the final focus and see xuantong, he is not the real puyi per say. Basically the game codes that puyi is killed and replaced by xuantong which has no traits instead of renaming him, leads to a lot of questions...bruh Edit: k bruh thx for the info, i never looked too much into the codes

The other wild ride is Emperor Puyi’s life :Going from an emperor to a nobody and re becoming emperor

11 seconds ago this video didn't exist

I did this on non historical AI because it Japan goes communist you get all Japan's holdings outside the home islands, Mengkukuo as a puppet, some free units and generals, and a navy I think. Makes conquering China easier and weakens Japan for later but they will declare war on you by a focus which isn't much of an issue as they're really weak.

it's that time of the week... ISorrowProduction going insane yet again on a fun and entertaining session of Hearts of Iron 4... and hiding the RAT from us...

iSorrowproductions never fails to share his sorrow with us

Ah yes, Puyi. The emperor with immaculate drip

The options you get for events are determined by specific requirements. Getting two means you fulfill the requirements for two of them, for whatever reason

Mr. ISP could you spare us a rat?

When i did this achievement ages ago you did have to get macau and hong kong. But i dont think you had to win the war, you just had to occupy the provinces.

Hoping for the rat

Give us the rat

17:00 Casual 39.98M manpower pool, lol also great video as always mr iSorrow

Dear Mr. Isorrowproductions The Ratvolutionary council has chosen me to deliver you a message. We have decided to send you an Ultimatum: give us the rat on the next 2 videos or we will spread the Ratvolution by unsuscribing. We hope our demands are met. - Gravy Timmy n° 576

One thing I will never give up is that God dam rat 🐀

Where's the rat ISP? WE'RE NEVER GONNA FORGET 🐀

14:48 The two options thing is usually because either the requirements for enabling them are broken or because you manage to somehow fulfill both of them. These events have multiple options that basically say "Show this if you're X Tag/if you're this ideology/if you have this spirit etc. etc." and a last one that appears if you don't fulfill any of the other ones. This is so if a nuke is dropped on a country for example the text will read something positive for the allies of the bomber and something negative for the allies of the bombed. Sometimes the requirements for these are very lazily written however and they either break as the game is updated or their requirements aren't contradictory so you have the opportunity to get multiple.

I love when the ai just takes over that random island in Russia, my favourite encounter was when Turkey did it

Always a lovely day when my favorite RU-vidr, Internet Service Provider uploads

IBorrowedProductions makes every gravy Timmy happy with the game of ❤ of Airon 4

I wonder if there's a speed run record for 100% achievements for this game. Probably not, but it amuses me thinking how insane it would drive people.

That news event with the two options had the two options because Manchukuo is both the instigator of the event and doesn't have the flag "is_literally_china" (that second option doesn't have a condition check for if you're the instigator of the event or not, it just checks for the flag). Usually these errors happen because Paradox wasn't thorough enough with the trigger condition checks. Also, considering the people who seized power in China after the war, Puyi's fate could've been a lot worse than what it became, lmao

ISP never fails to make china great again

playing without dlcs makes me want to throw myself off of my bed onto my hardwood floor, and gain a mild concussion

The fat little emperor really kicked ass (ISP did okay as well)

Finally, not a "forgotten" or "nobody plays" china game!!

isorrowproductions going insane 🗣️ 🔥 💯 🔥 💯

10:50 I am literally sitting on a park bench with a plaque on it eating a sandwich.

the vid was good keep it up ISP!

Love the video

thanks isp!

Great vid

Zhang ZhongChang when you claim the Mandate of Heaven: Nice argument! One small issue…

hoi4! the game that makes me cry thinking about microing...

As a Mexican I can assure you that neck accurate to reality

i love playing like these DLC after released later.

Finally! I did an achievement before ISP did it! I feel like a worthy follower to a worthy channel

If you didn't know, you can just open the save folder (Documents\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\save games) and copy the save file. So you CAN make checkpoint saves on Ironman.

G I V E RAT 🐀🐁

woao Yesterday I thought to play that and now you do this. Nice

The Last Emperor is such a good movie

give us the rat isp

This is a real 冰淇淋 moment.

Bro cant relax without getting insane

The Good, the Bad and the Weird achievement is a reference to a Korean western set in Manchukuo, which revolves around a treasure map that leads to oil.

Unironically I did the good the bad and the weird bc I wanted to try to recreate the Qing dynasty bc I thought there was an achievement for it. This was before I knew how to look at the achievements

Blessed are us Timmy's.

Looking forward to the "All Achievements in Europa Universalis IV" series!

If you want to get rid of the bandits super early on disband your whole army, you'll have enough guns to hunt them all.

After this series is done, do all Stellaris achivments

Just completed the dragon swallowed the sun achievement today! Manchuoko is one crazy ride

"Good Afternoon" as I'm watching this at 2am lol

ISorrowProductions nous voulons le rat. Nous l'avons demandé en anglais mais vu qu'il n'y a pas de réponse de votre part, je vais essayer en français, ça marchera peut être

You HAD TO OWN the treaty ports to do the Mandate of Heavenfocus back when Waking the Tiger first came out but they changed that later. I remember because I needed them to do the focus the only time I played Manchukuo which was at the dlc release

ISP scales with depression

Didn't know there was an achievement called The Good, The Bad, and The Weird which is a reference to a great movie of the same name, which itself takes a lot from the legendary The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and the Dollars Trilogy as a whole. Definitely check out The Good, The Bad, and The Weird its one of my all time favorite films.

I just leave the bandits until later on as you can recruit like 9 divisions out if no where that come in handy

Fun fact puyu wasn't the emperor of china but the emperor of japan before he got kick out and send to monchou and be proclamed emperor of manchouria so that all the major nation at the time dont annex those territory and for japan to have land on the continent and opium farm

Give us the rat or A R T I L L E R Y O N L Y

Nice video

Manchuko is actually really op if the Japanese happen to go communist, you get some of their army, navy, plus Korea, Taiwan, their lands in China, and some islands. I got like 36 free divisions when it happened to me so if you want easier achievements just keep replaying on non-historical until Japan goes commie.

everytime isp steps foot in hoi4 china he loses like a piece of his sanity Every video here is just wackier than the last

you never needed to own macau or hong kong to get this achievement

No word about how the divs are 7/2s? Shows you how old the focus tree actually is

Just wanted to say that your schedule improved a lot, yea I know I'll drown in rats and insane people, but it's worthwhile to try and say something nice

If anyone else is doing the Vassalize the warlords focus (China or Manchukuo), the chance for each AI warlord to accept is 50/50 no matter what-unless if Chiang Kai-shek refuses to go Xi'an as part of the Xi'an incident event line, in which case the AI will never accept vassalization. If the Xi'an incident never occurs, this doesn't apply. This is from the game files. I don't know why the Xi'an incident is relevant for Manchukuo; I'm guessing the devs copied over the vassalization event from China into Manchukuo but never bothered changing this AI behavior modifier.

I tried this achievement recently, just got bogged down in the Center of Japan, no matter how many units I encircled and killed they just kept bringing more, also no supply Bcuz the ships kept getting sunk

Let's hope the nordic DLC comes out before ISP gets to 191, maybe even the _160 days in summer vacation_ mark

puyi actually worked as maos gardener after he was released from chinese reeducation camps

I was just listening to music trying to change songs, and then this pops up and steals me from my song.

Epic

BRING THE RAT BACK

When you can still squeeze the Mandate of Heaven.

While at war with China, don't forget to ask for guns from Italy. They are very and I mean VERY generous with lend lease aid.

14:46 probably not even intentional, one option is most likely for everyone who isnt you and the other is specific to qing china. They just forgot to remove the generic one so now it falls off the news paper

We need the rat!

This video came up on my teachers recommended section

Still waiting for unconfortable run of Freegypt achuvement

long live manchu

Release the funky little rat mister sorrow!

Just in time for me to ignore my looming deadlines

Personally I love Ethiopia as it is a challenge. After playing this game for so long it is nice when I want a challenge

Day one of asking ISP to do his next mega campaign in West Africa.

Thanks!

I guess Tibet and Mongolia are just chillin

18:11 WHY ARE THE DUTCH UP HERE?!

when i did this achievment while back i was able to naval inviade japan with 10 bathtub subs. I got no clue how but i took it

ISP this is your final ultimatum if there is no rat next video there will be war.

ISP can't wait for the new DLC to add even MORE achievements! Right?

I like the idea of an Ethiopia special.

We want the rat

I fully endorse save cloning in the face of RNG

Manchuria in R56 is one of the best countries.

Where’s the RAT ISORROW WHERES THE RAT

Nice

Lore of qing restoration in hoi4 momentum 100

ISP is proably never gonna get all achievements cuz Paradox outproduces him