@@johnuthus yeah India's biggest problem is really poor alt history. I mean there is really no benefit or interesting gameplay when you flip ideologies.
@@bltsevdallarfanclub641 i mean you expect them to become a power but they just sit around... I would make a mod if I knew how focuses were done. There so many factory spaces there, kaiserich even is a better india
Here's an interesting strategy ive found: - Usually Mexico will have the blue junta uprising so you can ally with it with Skewer the Eagle focus - You can temporarily justify on the US or other major to get 50% tension to join the civil war and then cancel justification after joining - Request all their forces as expeditionary - You can pretty easily win the civil war in time for USA war - You can do war bonds and maybe defense of canada regulations early - The US will garrison the Mexico border even if you dont call them in - ??? - profit
My personal strat for this achievement would be to go with Germany and quickly justify on the Dutch East Indies. In the interim period before you switch to fascist and break free, however, you need to research fighter I’s and paratroopers (as you won’t be able to contest the Dutch navally). Declare on the Netherlands and when it’s over, puppet the Dutch East Indies for the manpower. Use their manpower for your divisions and take the focuses which buff your economy. Sit there for a few years, build tanks, and quickly overrun the US
Thanks, Bitt3r! As a Canadian, this is one of my favorite achievements (No hate to Americans though it's just a meme). Your videos have helped me earn more achievements than I ever did in 400 hours of doing my own thing as well as helped me learn better strategies in both battle and the homefront.
@@mjxw Oh, believe me, the souther ally of the Canadians in the soon American conquest is the one who you really have to worry about... they already have more horses... and infinite tacos
That seriously is a random strategy picked up by the ai so don't just stack in Labrador it's too much pain to fight there anyway, in some other game US just might hammer your position at Alberta or Buffalo-Detroit-Toronto triangle
@@eliaslopez2740 the English wanted the French out of Canada and as such they did lots of bad shit. I’m not sure what exactly because nowadays nobody really care, but at that time the memories we’re still fresh.
One of the painful achievements i had.Go for france first.Just capitulate her or create a vichy kind puppet for their navy(i recommend).Then go for americans and both Germans.Do not call Axis for battle of america.Leave Axis and backstab Germans while they focusing on Soviets.Hardest part is manpower little pain in the ass when you fought a lot.But with that industry that won’t be so much problem.In 1944 i had all factions under my heels.Btw japans will be really problem but hoarding both american and france fleet with yours you will crush them Ah btw go for fascist
Go for King's Party. Rush the political focuses and be ready to foment imperialist uprisings in all 4 dominions together. Puppet those uprisings and defeat Canada then take out Ireland (should be easy unless France guaranteed, i haven't seen them do so, you can do this while war with Canada is raging). Then Unite the Anglosphere and defeat USA&take Philippines. Meanwhile use the focuses to join Axis (so you don't have to fight them). Focuses after this should be going for Imperial Federation (save your pp for imperial conference; before Imperial Federation finishes create Dominion of North America through decision so they will be cored along the focus). Don't bother with India cuz they won't get cored anyways and they can be problematic in the imperial conference. Germany will take care of France and USSR. After conquering usa (feel free to puppet them in Guam, Panama, or Puerto Rico only, i recommend Guam) move your military to Italy and take them out asap before Japan guarantees them (you get focus wargoal for it; ignore this if they are in the axis even with your focus). After Italy is gone fight Japan next and defeat them. Once all the majors are gone you can start justifying on everyone left, it's grinding at this point. Before the Soviets capitulate, do the focus that gives wargoal on them so you can do the next focus which allows you to puppet Iran and Afghanistan for free. Also pump out divisions and factories (you get lots of manpower from cores on usa) and take over the axis (otherwise you'll have to fight them which is tiring).
@@equilintogo5378 You can just directly invade Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand with the forces you start off with as long as you use everything from the home islands. You have bases within naval invasion range or have land borders with all of them. This is faster and cheaper. You can get on with France and Ireland, then India and the USA earlier. Directly invade, make good use of your cavalry in areas with poor supply, and build lots of motorized for everything else. Maneuver is your key to success.
The thing I always like to do when invading England is to send 6-8 scout ships to their southeastern shores to look which ports are garrisoned. 8/10 times Dover and the port east of London are empty and Norwich is only lightly defended. I invade there and encircle London. From there it’s a piece of cake since their troops will be out of supplies. Having 2-4 motorized divisions really helps to envelop their capital quickly before all their units come back. Oh and sending 1 division feint-invasion to, for example, Plymouth tricks their whole navy to intercept it leaving the seas wide open for the rest of your troops to arrive quick and safe. Plus for some reason the ai knows where this 1 division is going to land making their whole army regroup in that area. By doing all this I’m sea lioning 🦭 the brits 10/10 times effortlessly. P.S. I’ve just remembered that I always managed to invade them no later than ‘39. It might be a bit different later on when they spawn more divisions.
I only wished that Paradox added for the formable nation North American state a decision to unite North America as Canada or Usa. You must own Canada and usa except labrador and newfoundland.
I wish Canada didn't have possibly the worst focus tree on planet earth. You start with the depression as does America and Australia, but they start with only a depression. You also start with a massive conscription crisis, which both are historically accurate, but you can only fully get rid of one. You can either partially get rid of the depression and fully get the conscription crisis fixed plus some more recruitable pop factor or you can barely fix the conscription crisis and fully fix the depression. There's also like nothing political to do in the focus tree other than Defense Scheme no 1. And turning fascist and communist. If they added intervention in Europe and Asia focuses as well as decisions to form different nations and to "reclaim the 13 colonies" and gain cores on the 13 colonies as well as maybe the rest through a focus or decision it would be fun. They could also have a molotov-ribbentrop pact focus where you promise Mexico all of their former lands + maybe Florida or something and you take all of the northern USA. There is so much they could do with Canada that they didn't do.
Hey for all of you scrolling, if you are making progress right now, save and start a new game, become fascist, get paratroopers. Set orders to land on Washington and set orders to go. Get some air and transports. Make the transports idle and set them to no mission. Send fighters Washington for air superiority. For some reason the AI doesn’t send any enemy planes until a few minutes in the war. The troops shall land. Easy achievement. Then join axis. Two achievements. P.s. to get paratroopers you must research them. If this doesn’t work then go back to your save and continue with this guy. He is great at guides. I just thought I should share how I did it before seeing this.
His Canada straight up has more manpower than mine... at 22:30 having same policies, templates and on same date (6 July 1938) he has 92 divs with a spare 20k manpower; I'm at 0 manpower and 53 divisions...
Bitt3rSteel the two lakes that surround Buffalo Ny are Lake Erie to the south and Lake Ontario to the north. Lake Michigan is in between Wisconsin and Michigan. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that doesn't border Canada.
Speaking as someone born (and currently living in the state of Michigan), we've culturally claimed the whole area of the Great Leakes as ours. (Edit: Yes, I know it doesn't make sense...)
If you want to do this playthrough now, note that breaking free is not viable in 1.12.x BBA until 1939 or 40. Instead there are two options: 1. Roll back to 1.10/1.11, and follow the steps as shown in the video 2. Just trigger the civil war and then declare on USA. Yes you'll be weaker fighting them this way, but you can get their navy without gobbling with puppet system since you can do it through new peace deal system. Also saving that 300 pp on something else which is quite expensive for paying american navy only imo.
i love making grind y achievements myself { ALL ROADS lead to Rome} as Italy re-form Rome then MAX BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE in ALL territories you control the faster you do it the better
So I tried doing this myself, first run went really well fighting the USA, but France and the UK decided to jump on me in 1938. The next two attempts I haven't been able to capitulate the USA before 1939. So I'll watch this again and see where I'm going wrong. Ok looks like, I'm not rushing the middle of the USA fast enough
sometimes i dont get this game. when i declare war on a nation they attack me like cannibals. but here americans just stood. they didnt even mount a sizeable attack to force your lines. weird.
Needed the achievement rule britannia, decided to follow this cause big usa navy, went through cancer capitulating the US. Then my puppet usa got invaded cause of the treaty and it was in ironman mode so like 3 hours (cause i had bad internet) was wasted ffs
This video and your comment on thenred ideology makes me want to suffer and try it with the Reds anyway ;-). But this was a cool usa conquest. Didn't think you would do it without civil conflict though
Canada’s manpower should be far higher, irl we had 1,000,000 Canadian men fighting in Europe and Asia. In hoi we can barely man a fraction of that. The mission tree should be larger and I shouldn’t have to choose between man power, but no industry, or industry, but no manpower. We had it all irl. Canada is stronger than hoi makes it seem
a lot of countries aren't in HOI4 as they were IRL. It's a game design choice, just as you have no subtility in diplomacy, it's either peace, war, or brainfuck border conflict.
I've always been trying to reform the Mongol empire and I haven't been successful, that would be a very interesting challenge and as far as I can tell no one else has a recent video on it.
I would try that in a similar way I play commie China and that is to first conquer the neighbouring weak warlords but as Mongolia I would puppet them instead because you don't have cores like PRC. Then I would fight actual China with Japan, try to puppet PRC in the peace treaty and feed it as much land as possible. Then use your chinese manpower pool to expand into rest of China and fight Japan with soviet help or I would turn against the soviets instead and just snowball from there on. A good idea would be to annex your puppet warlords and then return territory to PRC puppet because they get good national spirits and have cores everywhere.
I saw this in the comment section of another youtubers video so I'm not sure if you have done it, but play as Chile and your goal is to occupy the entire west coast, all the way up to Alaska. You're not allowed to annex any territory inland, just along the coast.
Technically you could use the Portrait of Marx as a Communist. Don't know if that was a thing already two years ago. But these days you could solve the Manpower thing that way.
Nice video! Suggestion for a next video, could you make exclusivly tank divisions (it can have mobile infantry and support divisions)? I see many videos i which ppl use infantry divisions, but it would be nice to see your take at mobile warfare :) and i would be eager to learn from you ofc!
I'm very late to this video and new to HOI4 but why can't I edit the infantry temple like Bittersteel does in the video? Even with artillery researched and produced.
Hello there! I myself started this yesterday on a whim and got both achievements following this guide. Unlike Bitt3rsteel, I did not quit when the UK declared on my USA puppet. I sent my units to Wilhelmshaven and naval invaded Hull and northern Scotland with two full armies. My template was 9 infantry, 1 artillery and support artillery, anti-air, logistics, recon and engineers. Works a treat. Don't do collaborations governments and try to occupy all of the UK before taking London so you can get the achievement without fighting the Axis. I had a lot of fun though keeping the USA's autonomy down is a nightmare and requires almost your whole economy. They make up for it with manpower and resources. Feel free to ask me any questions.
I got memed on by the UK in early 1939 right as I was about to annex the US, but I think it's not a failed run if you can quickly organize your fleet to protect your coast from naval landings and then just train whatever you gotta train. Managed to leech about 1 million manpower off the US, so that should be enough for a few armies.
A few days ago，i play Canada，In the first civil war，Canada still inBritish Commonwealth ，but in the second civil war ，i win the war and independent.it can get early to the focus tree to fight with USA
I think they upped the amount of divisions the US has. I cannot for the life of me make them surrender, they have troops friggin everywhere Update: I finally managed to do it. You literally need an entire army group of 24 infantry units, at least 48 1 division-horses and a lot of free time.
i just did an axis canada game last night, managed to capitulate usa and mexico while the rest of the axis got their asses kicked somehow. i don't want to do it again for this achievement lmaooo
Any reason why you didn’t drain US manpower (spam a bunch of tiny divisions, switch to their template, etc) as much as you can before that first integration?
47:40 You have three different fronts, wouldn't it be better to have three armies, one on each front? I guess if you micro everything it doesn't matter, or does it?
If you're running out of challenges, you could start doing formable nations :) Also a great video as always. Question though, isn't Alaska a US core or why do you control it?
Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico (and the Panama canal) are not us cores at the start, no. There's a decision to core all those except for the Canal, but I doubt the AI takes those
Nice guide! Canadian focus tree can be strong, but it is very slow - I tried to speed it by civil war and joining Axis, but really - I conquered USA just one, maybe two months earlier, I not sure its worth it. What are You thinking about "The house of Kurds"? Idea is great and fun - I see, that a lot of people are doing this as Germany, but I think, that non - aligned UK will be more efficient?
Given the massive buff to the AI, I have found that 90% of all older guides no longer work for me. Maybe I haven't gotten used to the new mechanics or the AI difficulties, but it seems like so. I haven't tried this particular guide again, but I know that many others fr Bitt3rSteel no longer do
More like superior land doctrine lol! In my case I joined the axis and let the reich hold the line while I pushed with the good old 9/1s for supply depots. Secured the USA with a specialised MP cav division then took over the rest of the americas and little islands, and farmed Britain for war contribution by baiting and destroying their divisions and strat bombing them for a few years, that let me have all of the americas, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and some of the little islands north of Australia. I find that tends to work well with minors XD
Dont know if they patched it, but after the event i go pack to being a dominion of the UK and need to wait for my 1000 autonomy again, any idea what i can do?
usa: "canada why are you purchasing 72 division worth of horses?"
canada: "oh ,no reason"
The Kentucky derby
"Hum huuuuuuuuuh........ Canadian horse..... breeding program ? Yes, Canadian horse breeding program. Don't worry about it"
-We're... going on a roadtrip through your country mate... but not with cars, actually... and we won't take any roads either...
The facist Canadian leader looks like a slightly more friendly palpatine
something something canadian side of the force
I am the house of commons
Ngl the first time I played Fascist Canada and I saw Adrien's portrait, I legit got scared for a sec. Made me jump.
Looks like a psychopathic John Waters to me.
I'm the Senate, eh?
Canada had so much potential but focus tree really limits the gameplay.
True
meanwhile in india
@@johnuthus yeah India's biggest problem is really poor alt history. I mean there is really no benefit or interesting gameplay when you flip ideologies.
@@bltsevdallarfanclub641 i mean you expect them to become a power but they just sit around... I would make a mod if I knew how focuses were done. There so many factory spaces there, kaiserich even is a better india
pretty much all the commonwealth national focuses are awful except maybe south africa
Here's an interesting strategy ive found:
- Usually Mexico will have the blue junta uprising so you can ally with it with Skewer the Eagle focus
- You can temporarily justify on the US or other major to get 50% tension to join the civil war and then cancel justification after joining
- Request all their forces as expeditionary
- You can pretty easily win the civil war in time for USA war
- You can do war bonds and maybe defense of canada regulations early
- The US will garrison the Mexico border even if you dont call them in
- ???
- profit
My personal strat for this achievement would be to go with Germany and quickly justify on the Dutch East Indies. In the interim period before you switch to fascist and break free, however, you need to research fighter I’s and paratroopers (as you won’t be able to contest the Dutch navally). Declare on the Netherlands and when it’s over, puppet the Dutch East Indies for the manpower. Use their manpower for your divisions and take the focuses which buff your economy. Sit there for a few years, build tanks, and quickly overrun the US
@@Trezooo you need to be canada for the achievment
Thanks, Bitt3r! As a Canadian, this is one of my favorite achievements (No hate to Americans though it's just a meme). Your videos have helped me earn more achievements than I ever did in 400 hours of doing my own thing as well as helped me learn better strategies in both battle and the homefront.
Too late, you're on a list now. We know you're all up there, watching, biding your time, planning, conniving.
@@mjxw We don't know what you're talking about.....
Most Canadian response lol
@@mjxw shut up and sell me your horses
@@mjxw Oh, believe me, the souther ally of the Canadians in the soon American conquest is the one who you really have to worry about... they already have more horses... and infinite tacos
This video was in my recommended even though it was uploaded 8 minutes ago
Rt
same
Same here, and I didn't get the notification
@@cruzdesangre2850 im actually not subscribed to him so idk why it recommended it so fast
@@susactivities_ RUclips algorithm is broken.
You technically got 2 other achievements by joining the Axis
Friend in Needs
Canada First
and It's 1812 all over again
@@andatwsk2810 also the one where you become independent if you haven't already
@@jplegend98 no you will have to be on autonomy level 'puppet' first, then go to dominion and free
@@pcgaming7680 strange I got that achievement. I did the align mexico route so I dunno.
@@pcgaming7680 I got it when breaking away from Japan as Manchukuo by focus so I dunno
Pro-tip from when I did the ‘1812’ achievement: Make sure to guard your ports in Labrador, because the US will naval invade you a lot.
Didnt happen to me but the war is so annoying still cause they keep taking back what your cavalry took
@@loaf8879 That’s why you gotta be quick, I capitalisted the us in 100 days with this method. Just manually went for the victory points
no you want to garrison them to avoid uk naval invasion
That seriously is a random strategy picked up by the ai so don't just stack in Labrador it's too much pain to fight there anyway, in some other game US just might hammer your position at Alberta or Buffalo-Detroit-Toronto triangle
Bitt3rSteel, you just angered french canadians. -you get a notification of Parti Quèbecois showing to display your location-
What's the deal with french canadians anyways?
@@eliaslopez2740 They are french 😂
@@Finlzz that Is true
@@eliaslopez2740 the English wanted the French out of Canada and as such they did lots of bad shit. I’m not sure what exactly because nowadays nobody really care, but at that time the memories we’re still fresh.
I'm happy that I'm finally getting good at the game so I can get achievements before you do a video on it :D
Love your videos by the way!
Glad to hear it!
To think just a couple months ago you celebrated 1000 subs and now you almost have 17k well deserved. Love these videos
Thanks! It's been a wild ride!
@@Bitt3rSteeland look at you now, more than 200k
One empire achivements guide would be amazing
One of the painful achievements i had.Go for france first.Just capitulate her or create a vichy kind puppet for their navy(i recommend).Then go for americans and both Germans.Do not call Axis for battle of america.Leave Axis and backstab Germans while they focusing on Soviets.Hardest part is manpower little pain in the ass when you fought a lot.But with that industry that won’t be so much problem.In 1944 i had all factions under my heels.Btw japans will be really problem but hoarding both american and france fleet with yours you will crush them
Ah btw go for fascist
Go for King's Party. Rush the political focuses and be ready to foment imperialist uprisings in all 4 dominions together. Puppet those uprisings and defeat Canada then take out Ireland (should be easy unless France guaranteed, i haven't seen them do so, you can do this while war with Canada is raging). Then Unite the Anglosphere and defeat USA&take Philippines. Meanwhile use the focuses to join Axis (so you don't have to fight them). Focuses after this should be going for Imperial Federation (save your pp for imperial conference; before Imperial Federation finishes create Dominion of North America through decision so they will be cored along the focus). Don't bother with India cuz they won't get cored anyways and they can be problematic in the imperial conference. Germany will take care of France and USSR.
After conquering usa (feel free to puppet them in Guam, Panama, or Puerto Rico only, i recommend Guam) move your military to Italy and take them out asap before Japan guarantees them (you get focus wargoal for it; ignore this if they are in the axis even with your focus). After Italy is gone fight Japan next and defeat them. Once all the majors are gone you can start justifying on everyone left, it's grinding at this point.
Before the Soviets capitulate, do the focus that gives wargoal on them so you can do the next focus which allows you to puppet Iran and Afghanistan for free. Also pump out divisions and factories (you get lots of manpower from cores on usa) and take over the axis (otherwise you'll have to fight them which is tiring).
@@equilintogo5378 actually yes Great Britain and Imperial Federation much more easier than fascist.
@@equilintogo5378 You can just directly invade Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand with the forces you start off with as long as you use everything from the home islands. You have bases within naval invasion range or have land borders with all of them. This is faster and cheaper. You can get on with France and Ireland, then India and the USA earlier. Directly invade, make good use of your cavalry in areas with poor supply, and build lots of motorized for everything else. Maneuver is your key to success.
You always upload right before online class starts, so perfect
The thing I always like to do when invading England is to send 6-8 scout ships to their southeastern shores to look which ports are garrisoned. 8/10 times Dover and the port east of London are empty and Norwich is only lightly defended. I invade there and encircle London. From there it’s a piece of cake since their troops will be out of supplies. Having 2-4 motorized divisions really helps to envelop their capital quickly before all their units come back. Oh and sending 1 division feint-invasion to, for example, Plymouth tricks their whole navy to intercept it leaving the seas wide open for the rest of your troops to arrive quick and safe. Plus for some reason the ai knows where this 1 division is going to land making their whole army regroup in that area. By doing all this I’m sea lioning 🦭 the brits 10/10 times effortlessly.
P.S. I’ve just remembered that I always managed to invade them no later than ‘39. It might be a bit different later on when they spawn more divisions.
"We have to be fascist" no more yt censorship ey
"because fuck em, that's why"
Thanks, I really needed a guide for Rule Britannia :D
Glad I could help!
That Canadian dictator gave me nightmares for days.
I only wished that Paradox added for the formable nation North American state a decision to unite North America as Canada or Usa. You must own Canada and usa except labrador and newfoundland.
It isn't? Or you can get it only as Great Britain?
And it would be cool if you got decisions afterwards to core everything north of Columbia, eg from Panama up to Mexico. That would be really cool imo
form the C. U. M. (Canada, United States, Mexico) zone
newfoundland would make it more challenging
I wish Canada didn't have possibly the worst focus tree on planet earth.
You start with the depression as does America and Australia, but they start with only a depression. You also start with a massive conscription crisis, which both are historically accurate, but you can only fully get rid of one. You can either partially get rid of the depression and fully get the conscription crisis fixed plus some more recruitable pop factor or you can barely fix the conscription crisis and fully fix the depression.
There's also like nothing political to do in the focus tree other than Defense Scheme no 1. And turning fascist and communist. If they added intervention in Europe and Asia focuses as well as decisions to form different nations and to "reclaim the 13 colonies" and gain cores on the 13 colonies as well as maybe the rest through a focus or decision it would be fun.
They could also have a molotov-ribbentrop pact focus where you promise Mexico all of their former lands + maybe Florida or something and you take all of the northern USA. There is so much they could do with Canada that they didn't do.
9:58 Was that your horse impression?
I will deny it untill the day i die
I’ve got all the achievements months ago but I still enjoy watching these videos
Might be the first time I've heard someone say Hull was their favourite spot, love these achievement videos!
Hey for all of you scrolling, if you are making progress right now, save and start a new game, become fascist, get paratroopers. Set orders to land on Washington and set orders to go. Get some air and transports. Make the transports idle and set them to no mission. Send fighters Washington for air superiority. For some reason the AI doesn’t send any enemy planes until a few minutes in the war. The troops shall land. Easy achievement. Then join axis. Two achievements. P.s. to get paratroopers you must research them. If this doesn’t work then go back to your save and continue with this guy. He is great at guides. I just thought I should share how I did it before seeing this.
Challenge: No infantry. Dont use infantry. Infantry is, well, infantry groups. Motorized also counts as infantry.
oh good lord. I love and hate it
@@Bitt3rSteel :)
@@Bitt3rSteel Are you gonna do it? : )
Does cavalry count as infantry?
@@jimthesoundman8641 I need to know this. Because it's the perfect loophoke
Thanks for helping me for this achievement. Have been wanted to do it for a long time
His Canada straight up has more manpower than mine... at 22:30 having same policies, templates and on same date (6 July 1938) he has 92 divs with a spare 20k manpower; I'm at 0 manpower and 53 divisions...
I’ve really wanted to do this achievement but I never knew how to thank you good sir
I love that the facist leader has a menacing aura
Tried following this guide with the current edition and not surprisingly it didn't work due to so many changes but it was good for a laugh to try
Bitt3rSteel the two lakes that surround Buffalo Ny are Lake Erie to the south and Lake Ontario to the north. Lake Michigan is in between Wisconsin and Michigan. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake that doesn't border Canada.
Speaking as someone born (and currently living in the state of Michigan), we've culturally claimed the whole area of the Great Leakes as ours.
(Edit: Yes, I know it doesn't make sense...)
Woops
I had to see if someone said it lol
@@alexandercaires5921 As a Indiana citizen I would like to establish the Michigan City sea zone.
If you want to do this playthrough now, note that breaking free is not viable in 1.12.x BBA until 1939 or 40.
Instead there are two options:
1. Roll back to 1.10/1.11, and follow the steps as shown in the video
2. Just trigger the civil war and then declare on USA. Yes you'll be weaker fighting them this way, but you can get their navy without gobbling with puppet system since you can do it through new peace deal system. Also saving that 300 pp on something else which is quite expensive for paying american navy only imo.
A yes who doesn't remember the Canadian Conquest of the USA and Great Britain very historically accurate btw
That description of Mexico was very accurate
This looks suspiciously similar to a kaiserreich run :D
i love making grind y achievements myself { ALL ROADS lead to Rome} as Italy re-form Rome then MAX BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE in ALL territories you control the faster you do it the better
So I tried doing this myself, first run went really well fighting the USA, but France and the UK decided to jump on me in 1938. The next two attempts I haven't been able to capitulate the USA before 1939. So I'll watch this again and see where I'm going wrong.
Ok looks like, I'm not rushing the middle of the USA fast enough
Actually dc is located within maryland its just that when creating dc the us designated a part of maryland (and originally virginia) to be the capital
US: ey mr Hat, you lovin' the horses a bit much huh? Winkwinknudgenudge
Canadia: ...I'm aboot to rooin this man's career
Thanks for this Guide. A nice and Fun Gameround 😊
sometimes i dont get this game. when i declare war on a nation they attack me like cannibals. but here americans just stood. they didnt even mount a sizeable attack to force your lines. weird.
they have undisturbed isolation and great depression and cant really build an army
Needed the achievement rule britannia, decided to follow this cause big usa navy, went through cancer capitulating the US. Then my puppet usa got invaded cause of the treaty and it was in ironman mode so like 3 hours (cause i had bad internet) was wasted ffs
I tried this and forgot how bad I am at this game, I was doing well then my entire army got encircled and immediately overran and I had 200k losses
lol he literally admits to save scumming here.
Absolutely, guides are a bitch to record. So I plan for contingencies
This video and your comment on thenred ideology makes me want to suffer and try it with the Reds anyway ;-). But this was a cool usa conquest. Didn't think you would do it without civil conflict though
Canada’s manpower should be far higher, irl we had 1,000,000 Canadian men fighting in Europe and Asia. In hoi we can barely man a fraction of that. The mission tree should be larger and I shouldn’t have to choose between man power, but no industry, or industry, but no manpower. We had it all irl. Canada is stronger than hoi makes it seem
a lot of countries aren't in HOI4 as they were IRL. It's a game design choice, just as you have no subtility in diplomacy, it's either peace, war, or brainfuck border conflict.
I've always been trying to reform the Mongol empire and I haven't been successful, that would be a very interesting challenge and as far as I can tell no one else has a recent video on it.
Fight China with russia russia is not intrested in land there.
I would try that in a similar way I play commie China and that is to first conquer the neighbouring weak warlords but as Mongolia I would puppet them instead because you don't have cores like PRC. Then I would fight actual China with Japan, try to puppet PRC in the peace treaty and feed it as much land as possible. Then use your chinese manpower pool to expand into rest of China and fight Japan with soviet help or I would turn against the soviets instead and just snowball from there on. A good idea would be to annex your puppet warlords and then return territory to PRC puppet because they get good national spirits and have cores everywhere.
I saw this in the comment section of another youtubers video so I'm not sure if you have done it, but play as Chile and your goal is to occupy the entire west coast, all the way up to Alaska. You're not allowed to annex any territory inland, just along the coast.
L O N G CHILE
Technically you could use the Portrait of Marx as a Communist. Don't know if that was a thing already two years ago. But these days you could solve the Manpower thing that way.
Fun video watch on Victoria Day.
Nice video! Suggestion for a next video, could you make exclusivly tank divisions (it can have mobile infantry and support divisions)? I see many videos i which ppl use infantry divisions, but it would be nice to see your take at mobile warfare :) and i would be eager to learn from you ofc!
Impractical. Most countries don't have the necessary industry to support this, tanks and support equipment are expensive.
I'm very late to this video and new to HOI4 but why can't I edit the infantry temple like Bittersteel does in the video? Even with artillery researched and produced.
Dominion of Canada is now just Canada and doesn’t have that focus tree anymore.
I think playing the WW1 mod could be pretty fun. Qing china was pretty challenging IMO
God, I love you.
its fun to see the Canadians not used as meat shield by the british this time around, this video should be called No raid on Dieppe Mr. Montgomery...
Hi. Do you think it is still possible to do it under new supply rules from No Step Back?
Hello there!
I myself started this yesterday on a whim and got both achievements following this guide. Unlike Bitt3rsteel, I did not quit when the UK declared on my USA puppet. I sent my units to Wilhelmshaven and naval invaded Hull and northern Scotland with two full armies. My template was 9 infantry, 1 artillery and support artillery, anti-air, logistics, recon and engineers. Works a treat. Don't do collaborations governments and try to occupy all of the UK before taking London so you can get the achievement without fighting the Axis.
I had a lot of fun though keeping the USA's autonomy down is a nightmare and requires almost your whole economy. They make up for it with manpower and resources. Feel free to ask me any questions.
I got memed on by the UK in early 1939 right as I was about to annex the US, but I think it's not a failed run if you can quickly organize your fleet to protect your coast from naval landings and then just train whatever you gotta train. Managed to leech about 1 million manpower off the US, so that should be enough for a few armies.
Do a game to take the Celtic lands as Ireland.
I would just like to say BS this achievement is very hard! If you try this achievement now a days the US AI isn't dumb let you snake around so easy.
Your leader looks like Walt Disney. And someone said "Jeeeeeeeeew"
do the artillery only challenge
good quality content thanks!
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A few days ago，i play Canada，In the first civil war，Canada still inBritish Commonwealth ，but in the second civil war ，i win the war and independent.it can get early to the focus tree to fight with USA
is that possible at AAT?
Only thing with Canada is, you can have an economy or manpower, not both. Lol
You can call a referendum without opening political discourse for 100 at 60% popularity.
Lake Michigan???
I think they upped the amount of divisions the US has. I cannot for the life of me make them surrender, they have troops friggin everywhere
Update: I finally managed to do it. You literally need an entire army group of 24 infantry units, at least 48 1 division-horses and a lot of free time.
i just did an axis canada game last night, managed to capitulate usa and mexico while the rest of the axis got their asses kicked somehow. i don't want to do it again for this achievement lmaooo
Any reason why you didn’t drain US manpower (spam a bunch of tiny divisions, switch to their template, etc) as much as you can before that first integration?
I planned to leave them as a puppet after stealing the fleet.
You are so powerful!
Guide of Turkey pls?
conquering the UK in HOI4 is always tough
40:56 what song is this?
How 'bout an update on this video with the reworked focus tree?
Thanks!
47:40 You have three different fronts, wouldn't it be better to have three armies, one on each front? I guess if you micro everything it doesn't matter, or does it?
It doesn't matter unless you exceed the army limit or if you really lose oversight.
Could we see the Warszawo walcz achievement in the future?
damn the game really changed within a year
If you're running out of challenges, you could start doing formable nations :)
Also a great video as always. Question though, isn't Alaska a US core or why do you control it?
Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico (and the Panama canal) are not us cores at the start, no. There's a decision to core all those except for the Canal, but I doubt the AI takes those
You need to replace the portraits of the King with portaits of Marx to conjure up more Canadians.
I am not able to get free ok UK controll untill 1940.... what am I doing wrong?
Second time in a row that I've struggled to get an achievement, only for the guide to come out within a day or so ;-;
Are you sure I'm not watching you from the window?
That would explain the weird noises I keep hearing in the middle of the night when I play!
Nice guide! Canadian focus tree can be strong, but it is very slow - I tried to speed it by civil war and joining Axis, but really - I conquered USA just one, maybe two months earlier, I not sure its worth it. What are You thinking about "The house of Kurds"? Idea is great and fun - I see, that a lot of people are doing this as Germany, but I think, that non - aligned UK will be more efficient?
Heyy is this guide still good in 2024?
Does this approach still work with all the changes made with No Step back? Seeing the AI is a lot more aware of encirclements ?
Given the massive buff to the AI, I have found that 90% of all older guides no longer work for me.
Maybe I haven't gotten used to the new mechanics or the AI difficulties, but it seems like so.
I haven't tried this particular guide again, but I know that many others fr Bitt3rSteel no longer do
Yes, it was easy to puppet US using this cavalry trick
FINALLY! Someone pronounced it correctly, ke-bec not kwe-bec
I took over US as Canada and never got the achievement. I held DC and everything, not sure what happened
Hey do u research the doctrines, is this something removed in the game?
I got it by rushing the capital and then proceeding to die a horrible death
when i declar war on usa, britain go war against me. i try 3 times and its always the same, pls help me
Well i got a achievement for you and its the crusader kings as you got to go capture Jerusalem as south Africa by going the facist route
It crashed with me too anything i can do to make shure it doesnt happen again ?
Huge-oslavia and Miklos Horthy and the Habsburg Prince???
He has already done those
for its 1812 all over again you just need to occupy the city Washington nothing else which is good
More like superior land doctrine lol! In my case I joined the axis and let the reich hold the line while I pushed with the good old 9/1s for supply depots. Secured the USA with a specialised MP cav division then took over the rest of the americas and little islands, and farmed Britain for war contribution by baiting and destroying their divisions and strat bombing them for a few years, that let me have all of the americas, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and some of the little islands north of Australia. I find that tends to work well with minors XD
Dont know if they patched it, but after the event i go pack to being a dominion of the UK and need to wait for my 1000 autonomy again, any idea what i can do?
Those poor, poor, British divisions that were encircled and died in Wales. Feel bad for them, to end up dying whilst hungry in Wales.
I thought if you switch goverment you break free. Did they changed it?
Only if you do it via civil war
How come I didn’t get the achievement? Do I need to own all of England because Italy has a tiny part of it