Just be aware that you cannot unlock this achievement if you do the "National Steel Car.". In order to get states to join your faction via decision it is important to have more manpower deployed to the field, and puppet expeditionary forces contribute to this number. An easy way to do this is, after rebelling against the Japanese, ask all the members of the Chinese United Front for Military Access except for Communist China - if you didn't answer Japan's call to arms, you will be at peace with them, and since you're fighting on the same side as them, you'll be given it. Once you have established the Federation, attack whoever still controls land in the Balkans and capitulate Turkey (if it made its own faction, annex it and release it). This will make faction members move divisions to your border with Germany, thus making your defense somewhat easier. Let them bleed themselves on the border. Never take "Unleash La Cagoule" decision. Easiest way is to disable La Resistance and start boosting non-aligned to Russia and USA from the beginning of game and right after concluding civil war against Kemalists. One full army should be sufficient. The USA starts with the first Georgia, while the other two; Georgia and South Georgia, are owned by the Soviet Union and United Kingdom. This achievement requires Hong Kong and Guangzhouwan to be taken in a peace deal. It is recommended to use spies to create a Collaboration Government. Take Jerusalem as Ethiopia and move the capital there. Once you have annexed/puppeted the USA, a decision will appear to install an American Monarchy. When the war starts focus in the south on securing Aden and in the north on conquering Northern Egypt (ports and Suez Canal). If France hasn't flipped yet by the time you get Danzig, support a fascist coup in France. because you can core part of it yourself with the last focus of the Facist Path. When in the allies, move your planes to the airfield on the British Isles and set them on mission to Northern France when the nuclear tech is ready and one nuke is available. Restore the old borders with the USA as Mexico. Organize your troops on the frontiers with France and Poland, but create one army with all your light tanks. Making them an easy target for uprisings. Habsburgs everywhere as you will have already crowned a king and be able to get to Jerusalem easily by this point. You have to become a puppet to join the Axis or Comintern and while you can become independent quicker with the fascist path, you won't be able to get your cores back later on. Do Lithuania-Belarus SSR focus, and then get war goals and cores on Baltic's. When Germany demands Danzig give it to them, but don't select the fascist option in the event that follows soon afterwards. Note: if you are going for the Pizza achievement, this is a good time to go after the USA, do it before the next step. There are several decisions in the focus tree, giving claims, but to make Miklos Horthy a Naval Commander you need to take the Habsburg Prince Focus Path. Now you are safe from Germany. Alternatively, you set Historical Focuses to Off as Guangxi and reload a few times to get the best outcome, where China doesn't try to annex you and Japan doesn't attack soon - or even at all. As the Netherlands, ensure the United Kingdom has no capital ships (carriers, battleships, battlecruisers, or heavy cruisers). Joseph Stalin is the current country leader. When you have nukes, release the US and go to war with them. Finally, and I am sure everyone knows this. No one should declare war on you, so you can sit it out for as long as you want to build up a large army. "Mainland" France includes Corsica. 8/10 times the German Military Junta wins that war (1/10 they lose and 1/10 the civil war lasts for years). Take Anti-Fascist Raids decision whenever available to reduce Fascist support. When you feel that the Soviets have lost enough equipment and troops, counterattack. Put a few divisions on port guard duty to defend against a Swedish naval counter invasion. Your starting army and fleet will be enough to destroy them. Control all states belonging to the United Kingdom in Europe that is not a core of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Take all of France and puppet the Netherlands and wait for them to have bicycle divisions. Join the Axis, which will consist of Germany alone. Doing it with "Holy, Roman, and an Empire" is also a good choice, after forming Rome, you have enough industry and manpower to grind your general to max level. You just need to hold your line and not let non-aligned Russia get capitulated(you don't need war participation, rebellion will have all Russia after Germany capitulates Russia). The United States is a subject of The United Kingdom. Tip: It is better to raise resistance in small or even one-state nations like Rwanda, Burundi or Gambia, as this will lead to an uprising much faster because of fewer states that have to meet the resistance threshold. It will be easier to push into Germany when they are distracted by Poland and Czechoslovakia, but you do not need them to survive so don't fret if they capitulated. Set some factories to build Transport Planes. With historical focuses on, Turkey will join the Allies in 1943. And for this achievement you are never allowed to lose control of any of your states. After the civil war ends save up 190 political power to justify on Denmark and Norway then cancel justification on Denmark and redo it, this will give you concurrent war goals to avoid them getting guaranteed by the UK, while this is happening devote your spy agency to first 'Propaganda' in Finland and then once the civil war is over switch to 'Boost Ideology' to get ready for a Fascist coup. You can view the full list of Hearts of Iron IV achievements here. Accept the call to arms and invite the rest of the Axis. When War Support reaches 35%, take Seize Cuba and Eliminate the Southern Threat for Cuba and Mexico. Vichy France is guaranteed by Germany. However, the Soviet path does have the risk of ending up as a Soviet Puppet. Capitulate Albania and take all their land, It is viable to begin justifying the moment Franco takes power, win the civil war, and then go one of 2 routes. Prince Paul will be replaced by Peter II in February 1941, and Germany will attack Yugoslavia soon after. You only need to occupy the required states for the achievement to trigger. Achievements can only be gained in single-player Ironman games, with the 1936 start, on regular, veteran or elite difficulty. You just have to win a small civil war to get to the focus. The fastest way is to start as any Fascist Central or South American country (Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Venezuela, or Peru) and set historical to off. (Note: There is no "end date", the game can be continued indefinitely). It should be really easy to get enough war participation to demilitarize the Rhineland and more. number of infantry equipment in armies > 2200 They will need to be able to hold for about a week, so make sure you send enough divisions and also put a few on a port for safekeeping. (have between 48-72 good divisions). The "DI" column is for difficulty as assessed by wiki editors. Make sure you have 5 free Civilian factories, and immediately use them to Form Agency on the top of the Intelligence Agency menu. As Hungary, have Miklos Horthy as a Naval commander and build a battleship. Pretty much every other achievement can be done either by lucky rng or exploiting game mechanics, but in the current version of the game there is no way to exploit dont die for your What in your opionion is the hardest achievement in HOI4? Historical Yugoslavia will have him in power before that date, while historical Bulgaria will not have formed the Regency Council. Faction leadership is also transferred to the next most powerful member if the current leader capitulates. Remove the Fascist Demagogue once Romania flips to Fascist. When Landon becomes President, go straight to America First. Controls all western coastal Turkish states. Successfully stage a coup in any nation using a spy with the Seducer trait. Attack Italy and Germany when their troops are deep in the Soviet Union. The first option is to launch naval invasions against Paris. It might be easier with historical AI turned off. As soon as the civil war fires begin justifying on Sweden (so ensure you have around 53 PP when the event triggers) this will let you declare war on Sweden around mid November, half a month before they could get guaranteed. By Turn Fascist - that will prompt your allies to leave faction, Justify and Declare War on one of these: Canada/Australia/New Zealand/South Africa. Do the whole left side of communist focus tree to get rid of debuffs (up to "Crush the Forest Brothers" and "Realign the Paramilitarists"). Send each one to a different coastal province of France, the ten closest to Belgium. Puppet or annex Romania. Don't pick a focus yet. After you are secure the fastest way to gain autonomy points is to mass produce infantry weapons and convoys, then to Lend Lease them to the UK (it will give you more points if you have better tech than them so rush those next level weapons). For Vichy France, your first country liberation is certain to join your faction as Vichy will not be at war with the Allies. Pupetting your targets is not difficult, as Germany prefers to take land for itself. Germany should not ask for Danzig. This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 09:54. Change your government, use the Hispanic Solidarity decision to invite Guatemala to your faction, then use the March Southward focus to get a war goal on El Salvador. While in the war begin "The Comintern", "Baltic Security", "Claims in Baltic" and "Secure Leningrad". If a General becomes level 9 before your main field marshal, you may promote the General to field marshal and you will get the achievement. Annex everything except for Romania, just take their lands except those 3 provinces that will be claimed by the USSR. Then, position your army along the Canadian border, and make sure to train lots of 10w 1 unit cavalry brigades, since the US cannot man their entire border with their starting army and the cavalry can simply overrun their entire country with the US not being able to do much to stop it. Don't forget to change the regions of the planes to help your troops. As Imperial Germany, conquer a Caribbean island. joining a faction), while some are more difficult (e.g. Requires the Restore the Bolvar Union decision. Train up at least 72-96 troops (because of the US's starting conscription and economic laws, if tension isn't high enough, the US won't have a lot of troops by 1938), and also 10 cavalry divisions to secure the Alaskan-Canadian Border (Imperial Conscription + going to Extensive Conscription, as well as taking Reassess Continental Commitments should give you more than enough manpower). Once the war has begun, you will want to take advantage of the 15 days justification, so you want to do just that and declare war on them immediately. Puppet France (this will flip them to fascist) after capitulating them, and then capitulate the UK. When Fascism reaches below 20%, take Ban Fascism to be able to take the Neutrality Act for factories. Get Fascist, justify on Hungary, leave Allies/join Axis, wait for Anschluss, paradrop from German Austria to the three Hungarian cities. After the Civil War go down the path of the Kaiser and then follow the path of "Focus on the true Enemy" You can speed up your Non-Aligned popularity by doing the Anti-Fascist, Democratic en Communist decisions (giving you over 40% non-aligned before the "Revive the Kaiserreich" focus is finished. As Communist China, have over 100 military factories. Then declaring war on them. After defeating the Allies, you should have a large enough army and economy to take on China and Japan yourself. You might have to run propaganda missions to lower their stability. Build a few levels of infrastructure to supply your troops, and focus most of your production towards guns with a few on artillery. Build better infrastructure and railways on your east border. Lay at least 1,000 mines on the coastline of an enemy nation. Huge-oslavia is the rarest at the monet. Puppets may only change ideology via 'Paramilitary Training' Decisions or war. The United States is a subject of The United Kingdom As Australia, own all core territory of Hungary. Go the Kemalist route through the Etatism and Peace at Home focuses. Try to poke holes in the US line as they will have a tough time manning a long border and encircle their troops. As of 1.9.0, there's no check that the French and British operatives are not the same person. With Historical Focus Off, the UK has a chance of becoming fascist or non-aligned. After the first liberation, Vichy goes to war, joins the Axis, and is at war with the Allies. achievement strategy from this wiki. Use your forces to mop up the Turkish forces trapped in the Bosphorus, then have them retreat back to the starting border. As Romania, own a slice of all your starting neighbors. To trigger the civil war do not arrest the king and go down the focus "The Right to Rule". At some point the allies will gain air superiority over the two sea zones and Italy. At the start of the game create your spy agency and unlock all cryptology tech, you only need to decrypt Germany as they are the only member of the Axis. If Iceland gets released, it may be necessary to justify against them. An easy strategy is to go down the God Save the King path, and after defeating the United States, go after France (as you went off the rails, Czechoslovakia will always refuse to give up Sudetenland; if you do Pre-Empt the Ideological Threat and Expose the Belly of the Bear while fighting the US, you'll be able to justify, and since the US is a major, you can quickly justify on France and another country - Luxembourg is a good choice; don't justify on Mexico, Japan, the USSR, or Germany, since you can get war goals on those countries through events or focuses). Setup a naval invasion, making sure to include your light tanks and motorized infantry, from Germany to Dieppe and put your navy on naval invasion support. It is possible to see the achievements sorted by the percentage of users that managed to complete each achievement by going to the game's global achievements at Steam. If you have time it is possible to coup Albania communist before Italy annexes them but your priority should be Greece and Yugo. Once the civil war ends you can send ultimatums to the Baltic countries and Finland, defeating them and taking the land if they refuse. It takes time for resistance to rise to the 90% liberation point. Do this early so you can attack them immediately after defeating the first two warlords. This allows you to hire the advisor which increase non-aligned popularity. Via focus "Claim Livonia" You get wargoals against other Baltic States. Access to the focus "Towards African Unity" is, as before, possible through "Rebuilding the country" focus. If it's Oppose Hitler: Justify a war goal as soon as you can on Austria. You can get Republican Spain to join you if you choose to get involved in the Spanish Civil War but be mindful of your stability to not start a civil war of your own. Rush Fascist and justify a war goal on the Philippines, if you try to justify on a major country like the United States world tension will skyrocket but because the Philippines is a puppet the US will automatically join when you declare war upon them, with far less world tension generated. If you keep sending your operatives on missions, or indeed just have them perform various activities like Build Intel Network in other countries, eventually one of them will die and the achievement will trigger. Making sure your armies exactly surround the small tile between Katowice and Krakow. The straightforward, but boring and slow, approach is to defeat the Axis, then go to war with the Comintern and defeat them (note that the PRC will declare war on China one year after the end of the war with Japan, so you can use the focus to get China democratic and add them to the Allies before that war starts) - this should add lots of countries to the Allies, and then trigger coups everywhere you can. Depend on how far to the left the balance of power have been pushed, this can possibly make the Pope take power. As France, occupy Moscow while Napoleon VI is your country leader. If that's the case Italy will take Palestine so ask for control over it (if you don't have enough war score just kill more Allies). At the start of the game, get both a fascist and communist demagogue and switch to fascism via civil war. Follow the "Return of the Kaiser" and the "Focus on the True Enemy" path in the "Oppose Hitler" tree until you get to the "Assassinate Mussolini" Focus. After they have offered peace, accept it, and kick Communist China from your faction. This can be done as any country but is most straightforward as any of the major nations, particularly Germany, United Kingdom, France and Japan. 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