You can only train a certain amount of troops, based on a % of your regular forces. But you can always train a minimum amount. Make the para divisions smaller, with fewer paratroopers, and you should be able to deploy them. They don't need to be capable of standing up on a fight for long
Its pretty impressive to do this by 39 without spamming any mechanics really. While I love Taureor alot of his strats rely on timing and intrinsically buggy game mechanics. But you did this in a pretty straight and narrow way. Cool job man!
Bitt3rSteel yeah man I really appreciate it. It's funny bc trying to play Like taureor and not using tanks and edited frontline and back up units makes the game really way harder lol. Where are you from btw Scotland?
Dude this should literally be the top sticky on the reddit...you cover SO MANY things that any player, new or seasoned, should know about HOI4. How to use armor, how to make garrison templates, results of peace conferences, grinding exp...I only hope that more people watch this alongside the actual game's "tutorial" because this is valuable to new and old players alike
a "seasoned" player should know all these things, this is purely a beginner video as he makes numerous mistakes when playing as certain factions, cutting down on his effeciency once i saw him reshuffle the starting production line but then reassigning all factories back to guns therefore losing 90% effeciency for no reason lmao
@@unpuffo3481 hey so uhh since ur Italian could you confirm one thing? I've heard myths that in Italy, people call Mussolini a great warrior and strategist still to this day.. is that true?
I like the pacing and editing of this video a lot, doesn't get boring anywhere for 41 minutes with just the right amount of explanation and timelapse. Keep up the great work, the quality you put out seriously deserves a few orders of magnitude more subs.
27:50 Where have I head this before? Ah yes: "I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought" - Benito Mussolini Awesome roleplay dude.
Haven't watched the video yet but I just wanna say, i allready know it's gonna be brilliant, every other guide is either boring as hell or cheesy or old, I have no doubt yours will be none of those. Anyways you're probably my favourite hoi4 youtuber atm. Keep up the good work!
Hey Bitt3rSteel! Only found your channel recently, can't say how much I appreciate how fun and accessible these guides are, especially with the lack of cheesing. I was wondering - would you consider re-marking the Rome guide now that No Step Back is out? Are any changes to the strategies shown here needed for the new logistics system? Or should it all work pretty much the same?
I did the same thing with the paratroopers on that border. Was stuck in a stalemate for months until i dropped them in and then I was able to take france easily. That was one of my first successful major victories. I felt so proud of myself for that lol
Very awesome and detailed playthroughs! Only suggestion for this one in particular is to show off that manpower after the game registers your cores! Maybe even punch Germany a little or something as a victory lap.
I was suffering a LOT equipment and manpower losses policing France,UK and Yugo only test games so I opted for a puppet instead. But I didn't know you got cores on the UK, good to know!
@@Bitt3rSteel It is in the decision :D, you get cores on england and wales. Yeah i know garrisoning is hard. I did a different approach when i got the roman empire. Just started with austria, then into the med i balkans if i remember right. The joined germany and did kill the allies together and got everything i needed in the peacedeal
I've probably made several attempts at this now and made a few changes to this strategy. #1 Attach engineers to the paratroopers, just gives them more time wait for line infantry. Either end up deleting them to put guns into infantry or sending harassment drops onto ports, no point in keeping them after the initial drop otherwise #2 Get triumph in Ethiopia and going total mobilization when the war with France starts, releasing Ethiopia before the war starts #3 If Germany invites to the Axis, join, they'll send guns, just don't bring them in. The problem I keep running into is timing though. England will eventually join so you do have to be timely, I'm not as great at HOI4 as I'd like to be This campaign has also taught me not to be afraid of deleating units. Having divisions that can actually hold the line is better than ones which melt right away
Here i am, yet again wondering why the hell this guy doesn’t have more subscribers. (Oh and can you do the 30 minutes of hel achievement or don’t die for your country achievement? xoxoxoxo)
Hey man, big fan of your channel and love the video content you're producing, keep it up! Long shot, but I've never seen someone play as my beloved country of Wales in HOI4, it is a challenge but the goal is to conquer the UK and the Allies.
Ah a rising hoi4 player. I do hope you continue your LPs with this formatting rather than doing the generic follow through all the way. It makes it much easier to see what's going on. Imma subbed on u bro!
Just formed the Roman Empire in my 7th attempt right now. As Bitt3rSteel stated in previous comments below, the strategy has changed slightly due to some updates since this video was posted. Here is how I formed the Roman Empire by early 1940: 1. Immediately after I finished the war with Ethiopia, I joined the Axis. This is because my previous attempts at encircling the French Army at the Alps ended up annihilating my Italian forces at the border. I joined the Axis in mid-1936 so that I could use the port at Hamburg to launch a Naval Invasion on France's northern shore with my tanks (I still kept an army down in the Alps to distract the French). Just before my tanks arrived on the shore, I fired off my paratroopers who struck in Paris and the surrounding tiles. I capitulated France within six days after the war declaration. 2. However, for some reason, the UK was guaranteeing the independence of France, even though world tension was below 25%. Even so, I reorganized my troops at Hamburg and naval invaded Hull while launching my paratroopers in the Midlands. At the same time, I declared war on Austria first, and then Yugoslavia. However, I forgot about the recent updates where Romania and Czechoslovakia were guaranteeing Yugoslavia's independence. Before I capitulated the UK's last victory point, I sent my paratroopers down near the Naples airbase to land in some Yugoslav tiles so I could get them in the peace deal. However, I forgot to reserve one paratrooper unit to land in Romania, thus allowing them to escape this peace deal. This caused Romania and Czechoslovakia to become the next leaders of the Allies instead of Canada. 3. I decided to deal with Bulgaria next before they joined the Axis. The Czechs and the Romanians guaranteed their independence, so that extended my frontlines significantly and as a result my troops couldn't breach their defenses. I took a gamble and decided to call in Germany for help. Luckily, my warscore was slightly above Germany's so at the peace deal, I grabbed the Roman cores in Romania and Bulgaria while letting Germany eat the rest. 4. Canada was the next leader of the Allies, so I followed the video above for the most part until I got to Turkey. I had puppeted the UK previously, which caused them to guarantee the independence of the Turks due to new mechanics from the Bosphorus DLC. This created an issue since when a fellow faction member is guaranteeing the independence of a nation you're trying to justify against, it significantly increases the justification time for a wargoal (for Fascist nations, the justification time is increased from 15 days to 300 days). Because of the long wait, I decided to deal with Portugal and Spain first (their justification times were 80 days each while my Turkish justification was still ongoing). 5. For some reason, I capitulated Canada before my troops reached Vancouver (they were around Edmonton at the farthest). As a result, I was not able to get Turkey on the peace deal since my justification still had a month left. I declared war on them after, which caused them to join the Chinese United Front, thus causing me to divert my troops and help the Japanese capitulate China before the US joined (I did not want to risk the US joining their faction). 6. Despite some surprises and hiccups, I managed to reforge the Imperium Romanum. Hopefully, things go well for the next four years before a I drop a nuke on Los Angeles.
Yooo thank you so much, I am new to this game and I failed about 6 times using various methods and yours was the one that finally worked, good looks my guy
Love your videos, the cutting with the music the speed up wars... just a pleasure to watch and always a motivation to try yourself. Would you like to make a turorial to occupy Moskau with France? I did it a few weeks ago and would like to see how you do it :)
I asked for this and already did it the other day XD but this is cool anyway ended up owning all of china due to japan attaching me over Vietnam had Uk, France, Japan, Germany and Canada as puppets which i annexed and got a huge navy for it and finally did the Duce nuke them achievement but still somehow lost 4mil to USA when I invaded from canada
Wow are you me? Just lost 5 million attacking the US from Canada in a game yesterday, eventually started carpet nuking their troops plus thousands of CAS and tons of heavy tanks and still couldn't break through. Late game USA is a fucking monster.
I'll definitely have to retry this, I got strikes really early into the war and then when I made my line to surround savoy I didn't have enough guns to keep the line held
So this one is an interesting request, but could you do the Bevrijding achievement? There's no rush to this as I'm being deployed and won't have access to anything game or internet related, but when I get back it would be dope to give it a try and if not just have a cool video to watch. :)
Hah, what timing. Just yesterday, before bed I was thinking about another possible playthrough in HoI IV, well it happened to be "Italy forms Rome" and guess what appears in the sub-box
Love your video! Like the detail in explanation and the small edits here and there, they really add some flavor 👌🏻 Can't wait to check out more of your content.
@@rolay504 Finally managed to do it today. I worked my way through the focus tree and got a wargoal on france that way and after building up my army, sent the naval invasions over first and paratroopers straight after, trapped the savoy pocket and killed half their army, then pushed north and finished them off by november 1937. They didn’t join the UK either as it was ahistorical.
@@rolay504 No, I did claims on yugoslavia. But i’ve actually found an easier strategy for conquering france, which is to join the axis and use the german port to invade into the north and capitulate them quickly
True, the only Italy achievement is “Duce nuked ‘em” where you have to nuke Los Angeles and fascist Italy. That’s bs. They should put achivements like “restore the Roman Empire”, “conquer Gibraltar, Malta and Suez”, that would make sense
@@sfogliatelle278 I actually nuked San Diego as Italy and got the achievement anyway. It's also ridiculous how Italy cannot even truly core the basically 100 percent provinces like Corsica and Malta, and how Zara recently is no longer a core for Italy. Well, at least there are mods and cheats that allow things to be more realistic.
@@sfogliatelle278 it's just so ridiculous that places like the Sudetenland under Czech rule are totally cored and there is no unrest there, but somehow there is in Italian zara and Corsica lol and no discord in French occupied Corsica, no troubles in Dalmatia and croat parts of Yugoslavia, etc.
I just had a go at it without watching the guide. Man, Italy was hard for me. Felt like I needed to have so many things but no way to fulfil any of them. I needed a fleet to contest the med, a decent air force, and of course decent troops. Ended up getting my butt kicked in Africa once the war started, but funnily enough I wiped the floor with the British navy in the Med with only the starting ships+the ones that start in the production queue. Air power helped.
I enjoyed this video a lot. I don’t know if you like using game exploits, by what I could see in this video you don’t, but if you do I’d recommend getting a free anexation of France vía espionage. Build a collaboration government that reduces their capitulation by 50%. They have a national spirit that reduces it a further 50% so the second you declare on them, providing you have the collaboration government of course, they will capitulate because they’ll immediately reach their capitulation threshold. Good video
I think something changed between the video and today. Biggest difference is that UK declares war on me as soon as I declare war on France. Second is that now the AI does not keep suiciding trying to take the montains. Third is that there is no way for me to naval invade as they keep a gigantic fleet keeping me from doing it. And after I capture france there is no deal. I cant select the africa to keep. Maybe that's because I faction with germany and UK declared war.
For air, don't do anything untill you are ready to paradrop. France will only put it planes over central Italy,unless you provoke them with your on planes. So only use your planes the second you want to paradrop. The AI will counter but you should have a few moments of superiority. For the navy, make sure all ships are in ports bordering the relevant sea zone and set them to naval invasion support. Your navy should be powerful enough, but the ship's don't add superiority of they aren't in the right sea zone
When I tried to use your strat, I couldn't train any Paratroopers because I already hit the special forces limit with my mountain troops. Was there and update between July and now that nerfed it even further? Also UK guarantees France pretty early on.
The paratroopers cap can be moved upward by making the divisions smaller. The guarantees are WT related, so if WT stays low, UK cannot guarantee. The order of focusses France takes is fixed, on historic. So they always join the allies at the exact same time (barring AI nonsense)
@@Bitt3rSteel Hey sorry to bother, I been trying to do this over and over with the strat. Rewatching the video, as soon as my paratroopers are behind them the rest of their armies come south and my army behind them via naval invasion and paratroopers arent able to break that line. I try to stop the ones on the italian front from repositioning but it wont let me because they are attacking me while one or two divisions move away. Eventually the line crumbles and I lose all ive gained, if i some how manage to hold the line I can't push further and they call in the UK around end of 1937. Do you have any tips? Even when they lost a lot of man power my troops are still struggling to break their line.
Slow it all down and manually move units. Use fast redeployment orders to close the distance, last stand orders to keep units in the fight while reinforcemens are on the way. Start your own pinning attacks to keep the enemy from peeling of the alpine line, so you can move your won troops relatively freely to reinforce the paratroopers.
Keep doing the setups off screen, your summary is very clear, and easier to follow like this, since you're not moving your mouse and wildly clicking through the area
So I do something a bit different. I rush Ethiopia Albania and Yugoslavia dead by 37. Its not hard it just needs some blitzing. I’d say if your up to it build a bunch of infantry and tanks and prepare to blitz yugo. Send units to all 3 fronts and kill as fast as you can. Leave troops on the French border so u don’t die then bring ur units back to France. Then you want to paratroop (or naval invade) behind France. (Personally I like paradroping bourdoux and send an army to it so open a second front). Rush to the nearest border preferably Swiss border and the French will freak out and you can push with your tanks from the border. At that point your able to do pretty much whatever you want. (I rush Greece and romania(
Hmmm... some really good advice on here. I really like the idea of skipping Ethiopian War Logistics, since some Infrastructure and Naval Bases there can be ignored. Also, paradrops this early is a really nice idea. However, I've been mostly playing as Italy lately (also going communist because why not and quill18 gave that idea), and I kill France differently. 1. Definitely need to do at least two rounds of Collab government. It's a huge territory that will give a big boost to production and manpower if compliance is high right away. Typically everything ends up being timed so that two rounds of Collaborator government is done (each round gives me 45% compliance in case of France), and French cypher is decrypted. Then Coordinated strike to help the invasion. 2. Instead of simply Justifying on France, I go the Focus Tree route. It does require at least 350 days, but since I'm trying to do Collab government, it's fine. Meanwhile, I try to snag Austria and Hungary, and help the Nationalist Spain so I can demand Balearics Later. Doing a war with Austria and Hungary gives enough MilExp for unit adjustments without needing to drag out Ethiopian war (bring over tanks, punch on the East side and to Addis Abeba, and war can be done by mid-February). 3. When invading France, the whole Fall of Paris event is suuuuper helpful. Naval invasion lands fastest units (for example 3 tanks, cavalry, and infantry to bring up to maximum of 10 divisions) and they fan out, trying to take multiple roads to Paris. Typically the war is over in a month. That paradrop idea would make it even easier. Fully collaborated France plus its colonies would make life so much easier... Although I did find out the hard way, that when you switch government type, all acquired compliance in non-cores is cut in half. So in my case, I needed to switch to communism before I invaded... Because prepared collaboration is NOT halved :)
I tried to replicate this and it's been going pretty well for the most part, except for the fact Britain decided to guarantee France while I was still justifying on them in my game, a few days after the Spanish Civil War started and both sides had volunteers sent to them. How common of a problem would you say this is considering all the RNG that goes along with this? Also, is there any way to keep world tension from getting high enough for the UK to do this, despite the obvious need to justify war on France and the fact Germany will do the Rhineland (which combined bring world tension very close to 25%)? Apart from this, I really liked the thoroughness of your guide. Keep up the great work
Well, you could Speed up the justification by not taking a focus untill you have 47pp.nother than that, you could delay the capitulation of Ethiopia. That's about it really
i love this run that whenever i am bored i just form the roman empire again with the added lands that the past roman emperor wants (parthia and caucasus if im not mistaken)
@Bitt3rSteel I have to admit mate, as a NOOB to this game I really do prefer the step by step guides....I would love to see all of the off camera stuff, is there another video possibly?
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The best part of the whole video? The fact that even by the end, Germany pretty much hasn't even gotten out of bed in the morning.
Atleast they did Memel and Sudetenland. KEKW
instablaster.
Well that’s around where they normally are at that time
*1939*
@@WhosComment yeah thats adolfs birthday we know
That’s what Fd then over during overlord too
Germany: Alright italy you better not sell us out like you did in the last world war
Italy: I got it chief no worries
[laughs in Mama Mia]
Invade Greecea
@@Bitt3rSteel I need help. There is something called special forces cap Because of which I am not a le to train any Paratroopers?? What should I do?
You can only train a certain amount of troops, based on a % of your regular forces. But you can always train a minimum amount. Make the para divisions smaller, with fewer paratroopers, and you should be able to deploy them. They don't need to be capable of standing up on a fight for long
@@Bitt3rSteel the minimum amount is already there. I am allowed only 24 SF Batallions and I have 30! (The mountaineers)
The fact that he did all this before WW2 was actually supposed to start is the most impressive thing tbh
yeah, he's very good. Solid tactics *and* good micro. I can do this by 1942 at best :-)
@@antasil5768 And he knows how to use air, land and naval parts of the game to there fullest extend.
I would say that this *WAS* the WW2...
Its pretty impressive to do this by 39 without spamming any mechanics really. While I love Taureor alot of his strats rely on timing and intrinsically buggy game mechanics. But you did this in a pretty straight and narrow way. Cool job man!
And taureor use undersupplied 20 width infantry on aggressive to break through the Alps. (Btw I also love Taureor)
I love his stuff, but i wanna put out some strategies that others can follow without really gaming the system.
Bitt3rSteel yeah man I really appreciate it. It's funny bc trying to play Like taureor and not using tanks and edited frontline and back up units makes the game really way harder lol.
Where are you from btw Scotland?
@@LGSmith_3 hes from belgium
@A C H I think you can still do it if there’s no land border between the target country and your capital but otherwise they fixed it
Dude this should literally be the top sticky on the reddit...you cover SO MANY things that any player, new or seasoned, should know about HOI4. How to use armor, how to make garrison templates, results of peace conferences, grinding exp...I only hope that more people watch this alongside the actual game's "tutorial" because this is valuable to new and old players alike
a "seasoned" player should know all these things, this is purely a beginner video as he makes numerous mistakes when playing as certain factions, cutting down on his effeciency
once i saw him reshuffle the starting production line but then reassigning all factories back to guns therefore losing 90% effeciency for no reason lmao
Eh, we all make mistakes. I don't claim to be world class. I just try and present some helpful guides and entertainment
@@unowno123 bro go read a book or something what is up with you
Whenever Mussolini succeeds he puts a new hat on
That's why in ww2 he kept the same hat 😉
@@sergiuiova7609 I'm Italian and I agree
@@unpuffo3481 hey so uhh since ur Italian could you confirm one thing? I've heard myths that in Italy, people call Mussolini a great warrior and strategist still to this day.. is that true?
That’s me
WolraadWoltemade 1652 ight imma kill france
me: loses as soviet union with 216, 40 width, 400 soft damage mostly modern armored divisions.
italy:heheh light teink
Light tanks go brrrrrr
low equipment thats why
equipment can make 40 tank divisions lose to 10 infantry ones.
Sir, the Belgiumers have surrounded us!
Good, then we can shoot in all directions.
*Belgians. But I'll allow it
@@Bitt3rSteel Speedbumps*
It's a regional dialect, one within the region of Germany
@@Bitt3rSteel Also, man your channel has such high quallity for how few subs you have, if you openned up a patreon I'd be an early sub. Keep it up :)
Quote of a Serbian general in ww1
Super Denmark, and party like it’s 1520 achievement
"One weird trick, Swedes hate this"
I like the pacing and editing of this video a lot, doesn't get boring anywhere for 41 minutes with just the right amount of explanation and timelapse. Keep up the great work, the quality you put out seriously deserves a few orders of magnitude more subs.
Thanks man, I try to make these as interesting as possible without making them too long
@@Bitt3rSteel THAT WAS 41 MINUTES?? it felt so quick!! Instant sub :)
27:50 Where have I head this before? Ah yes: "I only need a few thousand dead so that I can sit at the peace conference as a man who has fought" - Benito Mussolini
Awesome roleplay dude.
Haven't watched the video yet but I just wanna say, i allready know it's gonna be brilliant, every other guide is either boring as hell or cheesy or old, I have no doubt yours will be none of those. Anyways you're probably my favourite hoi4 youtuber atm. Keep up the good work!
you hesitating to attack Greece is like Italy having historical ptsd against them :D
I recently subed and i would like to say that your content is real good.
Thanks Winter, I appreciate the support!
2020: Restoring the roman empire
2050: Restoring United states of America
Ah...ha...ha...........
O_O
HA!!…..wait
Tsss tssk
I think you meant 2277: Restoring the U.S.A
You have the most underrated channel on youtube. This content is amazing.
Glad you think so!
Just a tip: when altering templates you can hover over the 'save' button to see how much equipment youll need
Great tutorial. 11/10 for doing the Italian-flag wipe-effect transition.
Youre most defiently one of the best hoi4 channels on youtube, content is great keep it up bro :)
I'm glad to see all of these new Hoi4 youtubers popping up. I wish you luck on your journey on YT!
Thank you so much!
Personally for tutorials I like seeing everything you do, that way I cant get anything wrong
I guess I have a new favourite HOI4 content creator, and I don't even play the game. Hope your channel keeps growing, you really deserve it.
Welcome aboard!
Pls do guide how win usa as Red mexica
Make Trotsky proud
Bitt3rSteel this time ban ice picks alright?
Epic video as always! I personally prefer when you show those early game building and researching choices on screen as you go. Greetings from Finland!
Hey Bitt3rSteel!
Only found your channel recently, can't say how much I appreciate how fun and accessible these guides are, especially with the lack of cheesing.
I was wondering - would you consider re-marking the Rome guide now that No Step Back is out? Are any changes to the strategies shown here needed for the new logistics system? Or should it all work pretty much the same?
been waiting for this! thanks!
:)
I did the same thing with the paratroopers on that border. Was stuck in a stalemate for months until i dropped them in and then I was able to take france easily. That was one of my first successful major victories. I felt so proud of myself for that lol
Mussolini would not be willing to be Hitler's deputy ……After a while, "Damn it, Rome has fallen!"
Not this time, Moustache man...Not this time...
>sending tank volunteers aren’t historically accurate
>italy conquering france in the 37
Very awesome and detailed playthroughs! Only suggestion for this one in particular is to show off that manpower after the game registers your cores! Maybe even punch Germany a little or something as a victory lap.
Noted! if you are interested, after the button I had 7.7m manpower 250ish Civs and 220ish mills
@@Bitt3rSteel it could have been even more :D, because you get cores on britain too which u had as a puppet :D
I was suffering a LOT equipment and manpower losses policing France,UK and Yugo only test games so I opted for a puppet instead. But I didn't know you got cores on the UK, good to know!
@@Bitt3rSteel It is in the decision :D, you get cores on england and wales. Yeah i know garrisoning is hard. I did a different approach when i got the roman empire. Just started with austria, then into the med i balkans if i remember right. The joined germany and did kill the allies together and got everything i needed in the peacedeal
I've probably made several attempts at this now and made a few changes to this strategy.
#1 Attach engineers to the paratroopers, just gives them more time wait for line infantry. Either end up deleting them to put guns into infantry or sending harassment drops onto ports, no point in keeping them after the initial drop otherwise
#2 Get triumph in Ethiopia and going total mobilization when the war with France starts, releasing Ethiopia before the war starts
#3 If Germany invites to the Axis, join, they'll send guns, just don't bring them in.
The problem I keep running into is timing though. England will eventually join so you do have to be timely, I'm not as great at HOI4 as I'd like to be
This campaign has also taught me not to be afraid of deleating units. Having divisions that can actually hold the line is better than ones which melt right away
Lol. You can just change them to a different division template..... no delete needed
@@jasonmain6398 Deleting divisions to redistribute the equipment, not changing templates.
I just found your videos and just wanted to say that I love it!! Keep it coming!!!
could u maybe do the Sunrise invasion achievement?
What is that?
i think it was invade mexico with japan and then invade a coastal state in europe before 1945
@@denizerdogan1029 ok thanks
Here i am, yet again wondering why the hell this guy doesn’t have more subscribers. (Oh and can you do the 30 minutes of hel achievement or don’t die for your country achievement? xoxoxoxo)
@Bitt3rSteel how did you get naval and air superiority for the naval and paratrooper landings?
The Savoy front: Exists.
Benito Mussolini: Nothing personel kid *teleports behind u*
I know people say this a lot but your channel deserves a lot more subscribers.
Hey man, big fan of your channel and love the video content you're producing, keep it up! Long shot, but I've never seen someone play as my beloved country of Wales in HOI4, it is a challenge but the goal is to conquer the UK and the Allies.
UK could release it and you can then play them, I believe
Ah a rising hoi4 player. I do hope you continue your LPs with this formatting rather than doing the generic follow through all the way. It makes it much easier to see what's going on. Imma subbed on u bro!
That's the plan!
I have 1.4k hours on this game but I love the way you're explaining things
4:08 Italy's best elite troops are Paratroopers Brigade "Folgore"
i really love your content, greetings from brazil!
How can you build paratroopers that early and at the same time keep your mountaineers ? Aren't special troops capped?
I got ride of the mountaineers iirc
@@Bitt3rSteel thank you, I think I lost that part.
Just formed the Roman Empire in my 7th attempt right now. As Bitt3rSteel stated in previous comments below, the strategy has changed slightly due to some updates since this video was posted. Here is how I formed the Roman Empire by early 1940:
1. Immediately after I finished the war with Ethiopia, I joined the Axis. This is because my previous attempts at encircling the French Army at the Alps ended up annihilating my Italian forces at the border. I joined the Axis in mid-1936 so that I could use the port at Hamburg to launch a Naval Invasion on France's northern shore with my tanks (I still kept an army down in the Alps to distract the French). Just before my tanks arrived on the shore, I fired off my paratroopers who struck in Paris and the surrounding tiles. I capitulated France within six days after the war declaration.
2. However, for some reason, the UK was guaranteeing the independence of France, even though world tension was below 25%. Even so, I reorganized my troops at Hamburg and naval invaded Hull while launching my paratroopers in the Midlands. At the same time, I declared war on Austria first, and then Yugoslavia. However, I forgot about the recent updates where Romania and Czechoslovakia were guaranteeing Yugoslavia's independence. Before I capitulated the UK's last victory point, I sent my paratroopers down near the Naples airbase to land in some Yugoslav tiles so I could get them in the peace deal. However, I forgot to reserve one paratrooper unit to land in Romania, thus allowing them to escape this peace deal. This caused Romania and Czechoslovakia to become the next leaders of the Allies instead of Canada.
3. I decided to deal with Bulgaria next before they joined the Axis. The Czechs and the Romanians guaranteed their independence, so that extended my frontlines significantly and as a result my troops couldn't breach their defenses. I took a gamble and decided to call in Germany for help. Luckily, my warscore was slightly above Germany's so at the peace deal, I grabbed the Roman cores in Romania and Bulgaria while letting Germany eat the rest.
4. Canada was the next leader of the Allies, so I followed the video above for the most part until I got to Turkey. I had puppeted the UK previously, which caused them to guarantee the independence of the Turks due to new mechanics from the Bosphorus DLC. This created an issue since when a fellow faction member is guaranteeing the independence of a nation you're trying to justify against, it significantly increases the justification time for a wargoal (for Fascist nations, the justification time is increased from 15 days to 300 days). Because of the long wait, I decided to deal with Portugal and Spain first (their justification times were 80 days each while my Turkish justification was still ongoing).
5. For some reason, I capitulated Canada before my troops reached Vancouver (they were around Edmonton at the farthest). As a result, I was not able to get Turkey on the peace deal since my justification still had a month left. I declared war on them after, which caused them to join the Chinese United Front, thus causing me to divert my troops and help the Japanese capitulate China before the US joined (I did not want to risk the US joining their faction).
6. Despite some surprises and hiccups, I managed to reforge the Imperium Romanum. Hopefully, things go well for the next four years before a I drop a nuke on Los Angeles.
Yooo thank you so much, I am new to this game and I failed about 6 times using various methods and yours was the one that finally worked, good looks my guy
Love your videos, the cutting with the music the speed up wars... just a pleasure to watch and always a motivation to try yourself.
Would you like to make a turorial to occupy Moskau with France? I did it a few weeks ago and would like to see how you do it :)
I asked for this and already did it the other day XD but this is cool anyway ended up owning all of china due to japan attaching me over Vietnam had Uk, France, Japan, Germany and Canada as puppets which i annexed and got a huge navy for it and finally did the Duce nuke them achievement but still somehow lost 4mil to USA when I invaded from canada
Wow are you me? Just lost 5 million attacking the US from Canada in a game yesterday, eventually started carpet nuking their troops plus thousands of CAS and tons of heavy tanks and still couldn't break through. Late game USA is a fucking monster.
@@operationmeh nukes are useless
you're honestly one of the most underrated hoi4 youtubers imo
Keep up the good work.
I appreciate that!
I'll definitely have to retry this, I got strikes really early into the war and then when I made my line to surround savoy I didn't have enough guns to keep the line held
Me too :(
Ask some guns to Germans
Germany (gets out of bed) : I think I'll do the Anschluss today.
Italy : Sorry Germany,that ain't happening.
So this one is an interesting request, but could you do the Bevrijding achievement? There's no rush to this as I'm being deployed and won't have access to anything game or internet related, but when I get back it would be dope to give it a try and if not just have a cool video to watch. :)
It's one I still need to do myself, actually. I'd very much like to be able to offer you a clear and concise guide by the time you get back!
Hah, what timing.
Just yesterday, before bed I was thinking about another possible playthrough in HoI IV, well it happened to be "Italy forms Rome" and guess what appears in the sub-box
Ty soo much i just found ur channel it’s on of the best hio 4 channel keep the good work
This is the first video i saw of your and i really like it, keep going
Love your video!
Like the detail in explanation and the small edits here and there, they really add some flavor 👌🏻
Can't wait to check out more of your content.
Great video again, are you planning to do a world conquest at some point?
Nice vid!
Conquering france early game as italy is very hard, ive been trying to do it for a while.
Ive also been trying this tactic and successfully containing the savoy pocket is the hardest for me. My paratroopers allways get crushed
@@rolay504 Finally managed to do it today. I worked my way through the focus tree and got a wargoal on france that way and after building up my army, sent the naval invasions over first and paratroopers straight after, trapped the savoy pocket and killed half their army, then pushed north and finished them off by november 1937. They didn’t join the UK either as it was ahistorical.
@@josephlangmead8254 awesome, when you say that you used the focus tree did you befriend yugoslavia and then italy first?
@@rolay504 No, I did claims on yugoslavia. But i’ve actually found an easier strategy for conquering france, which is to join the axis and use the german port to invade into the north and capitulate them quickly
Fantastic job on the video steel, ultra informative, considering having a go at this myself now
Super cool bro^^
this is one of the best hoi4 channels! keep it up.
fresh new HOI4 content ... i like it
keep it up
Thanks man, I appreciate the support!
Great vid as always! Would love to see some SU gameplay :)
new hoi4 channel ...
NICE
Try to form the EU as quickly as possible next. Keep up your awesome work man👍🏻😁
i like it when you show what your doing it make it easier to understand
Excelent video, but why in 11:37 it said "no division" and then "5 divisions" How did you changed that?
He assigned 5 divisions to the naval invasion
Hey man, amazing work! Subbed. Could you please do a South Africa play through? Maybe annex or control the entire continent. Thanks!
Ya hear that Doyle? The Italians are actually putting up a fight!
It's disappointing that there isn't an achievement for doing this or for forming the HRE and several other nations, empires, etc.
True, the only Italy achievement is “Duce nuked ‘em” where you have to nuke Los Angeles and fascist Italy. That’s bs. They should put achivements like “restore the Roman Empire”, “conquer Gibraltar, Malta and Suez”, that would make sense
@@sfogliatelle278 I actually nuked San Diego as Italy and got the achievement anyway. It's also ridiculous how Italy cannot even truly core the basically 100 percent provinces like Corsica and Malta, and how Zara recently is no longer a core for Italy. Well, at least there are mods and cheats that allow things to be more realistic.
@@josephrichter2104 yes, there should be a claim on Dalmatia from the start of the game and I hope Italy will get an update next
@@sfogliatelle278 it's just so ridiculous that places like the Sudetenland under Czech rule are totally cored and there is no unrest there, but somehow there is in Italian zara and Corsica lol and no discord in French occupied Corsica, no troubles in Dalmatia and croat parts of Yugoslavia, etc.
@@josephrichter2104 true, or also some Greek islands that were under the Venetian rule for centuries
The most neglected challenge in HOI4 ever :(
Nice guide! I'll definitely try
*Very nice, hello from Brasil*
Hello! I'm glad you liked it!
I just had a go at it without watching the guide. Man, Italy was hard for me. Felt like I needed to have so many things but no way to fulfil any of them. I needed a fleet to contest the med, a decent air force, and of course decent troops. Ended up getting my butt kicked in Africa once the war started, but funnily enough I wiped the floor with the British navy in the Med with only the starting ships+the ones that start in the production queue. Air power helped.
Great video man!
Glad you liked it!
I enjoyed this video a lot. I don’t know if you like using game exploits, by what I could see in this video you don’t, but if you do I’d recommend getting a free anexation of France vía espionage. Build a collaboration government that reduces their capitulation by 50%. They have a national spirit that reduces it a further 50% so the second you declare on them, providing you have the collaboration government of course, they will capitulate because they’ll immediately reach their capitulation threshold.
Good video
I think something changed between the video and today.
Biggest difference is that UK declares war on me as soon as I declare war on France.
Second is that now the AI does not keep suiciding trying to take the montains.
Third is that there is no way for me to naval invade as they keep a gigantic fleet keeping me from doing it.
And after I capture france there is no deal. I cant select the africa to keep. Maybe that's because I faction with germany and UK declared war.
"italian raj"
subbed.
I have always had trouble getting naval and air supremacy for this guide, do you have any tips for getting supremacy?
For air, don't do anything untill you are ready to paradrop. France will only put it planes over central Italy,unless you provoke them with your on planes. So only use your planes the second you want to paradrop. The AI will counter but you should have a few moments of superiority.
For the navy, make sure all ships are in ports bordering the relevant sea zone and set them to naval invasion support. Your navy should be powerful enough, but the ship's don't add superiority of they aren't in the right sea zone
@@Bitt3rSteel ok thanks so much!!
When I tried to use your strat, I couldn't train any Paratroopers because I already hit the special forces limit with my mountain troops. Was there and update between July and now that nerfed it even further? Also UK guarantees France pretty early on.
The paratroopers cap can be moved upward by making the divisions smaller. The guarantees are WT related, so if WT stays low, UK cannot guarantee. The order of focusses France takes is fixed, on historic. So they always join the allies at the exact same time (barring AI nonsense)
@@Bitt3rSteel Thank you for replying. You make excellent videos!
Thanks, I hope it helps!
@@Bitt3rSteel Hey sorry to bother, I been trying to do this over and over with the strat. Rewatching the video, as soon as my paratroopers are behind them the rest of their armies come south and my army behind them via naval invasion and paratroopers arent able to break that line. I try to stop the ones on the italian front from repositioning but it wont let me because they are attacking me while one or two divisions move away. Eventually the line crumbles and I lose all ive gained, if i some how manage to hold the line I can't push further and they call in the UK around end of 1937. Do you have any tips? Even when they lost a lot of man power my troops are still struggling to break their line.
Slow it all down and manually move units. Use fast redeployment orders to close the distance, last stand orders to keep units in the fight while reinforcemens are on the way. Start your own pinning attacks to keep the enemy from peeling of the alpine line, so you can move your won troops relatively freely to reinforce the paratroopers.
My prayers have been answered, thank you
Keep doing the setups off screen, your summary is very clear, and easier to follow like this, since you're not moving your mouse and wildly clicking through the area
>Love of Pasta
Historically, he tried to abolish Pasta and wanted the Italians to eat Rice instead.
I just imagine somebody doing this in a multiplayer by 1939 and as soon as they form Rome they just say “alr ready to start the game?”
Just subbed , great video and great empire 10/10
I miss this kind of videos, details everywhere
So I do something a bit different.
I rush Ethiopia Albania and Yugoslavia dead by 37. Its not hard it just needs some blitzing. I’d say if your up to it build a bunch of infantry and tanks and prepare to blitz yugo. Send units to all 3 fronts and kill as fast as you can. Leave troops on the French border so u don’t die then bring ur units back to France. Then you want to paratroop (or naval invade) behind France. (Personally I like paradroping bourdoux and send an army to it so open a second front). Rush to the nearest border preferably Swiss border and the French will freak out and you can push with your tanks from the border.
At that point your able to do pretty much whatever you want. (I rush Greece and romania(
you forgot to but , in between Ethiopia and Albina
Great job mate, i want to see you try this in No Step Back.
How are you able to train paratroopers while you have 5 divisions of mountaneers? If I try to I have a limit and cant train them
Iirc, I got rid of the mountaineers.
@@Bitt3rSteel thank you very much😊👍
How do you create a frontline on your released nations when they are released? Referring to the beginning
Nice vid mate,hope u play as romania some day
It would be pretty epic to see a Luxembourg world conquest guide
Hmmm... some really good advice on here. I really like the idea of skipping Ethiopian War Logistics, since some Infrastructure and Naval Bases there can be ignored. Also, paradrops this early is a really nice idea.
However, I've been mostly playing as Italy lately (also going communist because why not and quill18 gave that idea), and I kill France differently.
1. Definitely need to do at least two rounds of Collab government. It's a huge territory that will give a big boost to production and manpower if compliance is high right away. Typically everything ends up being timed so that two rounds of Collaborator government is done (each round gives me 45% compliance in case of France), and French cypher is decrypted. Then Coordinated strike to help the invasion.
2. Instead of simply Justifying on France, I go the Focus Tree route. It does require at least 350 days, but since I'm trying to do Collab government, it's fine. Meanwhile, I try to snag Austria and Hungary, and help the Nationalist Spain so I can demand Balearics Later. Doing a war with Austria and Hungary gives enough MilExp for unit adjustments without needing to drag out Ethiopian war (bring over tanks, punch on the East side and to Addis Abeba, and war can be done by mid-February).
3. When invading France, the whole Fall of Paris event is suuuuper helpful. Naval invasion lands fastest units (for example 3 tanks, cavalry, and infantry to bring up to maximum of 10 divisions) and they fan out, trying to take multiple roads to Paris. Typically the war is over in a month. That paradrop idea would make it even easier.
Fully collaborated France plus its colonies would make life so much easier...
Although I did find out the hard way, that when you switch government type, all acquired compliance in non-cores is cut in half. So in my case, I needed to switch to communism before I invaded... Because prepared collaboration is NOT halved :)
This strategy still works!!!
I tried to replicate this and it's been going pretty well for the most part, except for the fact Britain decided to guarantee France while I was still justifying on them in my game, a few days after the Spanish Civil War started and both sides had volunteers sent to them. How common of a problem would you say this is considering all the RNG that goes along with this? Also, is there any way to keep world tension from getting high enough for the UK to do this, despite the obvious need to justify war on France and the fact Germany will do the Rhineland (which combined bring world tension very close to 25%)?
Apart from this, I really liked the thoroughness of your guide. Keep up the great work
Well, you could Speed up the justification by not taking a focus untill you have 47pp.nother than that, you could delay the capitulation of Ethiopia. That's about it really
You can just liberate ethiopia W/o taking any land, it decreases WT
France won’t attack me for some reason
i love this run that whenever i am bored i just form the roman empire again with the added lands that the past roman emperor wants (parthia and caucasus if im not mistaken)
How u got naval superiority that Fast?
I have 500+ hours and I still can’t figure out paratroopers.
@Bitt3rSteel I have to admit mate, as a NOOB to this game I really do prefer the step by step guides....I would love to see all of the off camera stuff, is there another video possibly?
Hello from Russia with love, my comrade!
hello comrade from germany
Greetings, my Russian friend!
@@memes4life273 Hallo mein Bruder! 🇦🇹🇩🇪