HoI4 Guide: Germany - Forming the European Union FAST!!
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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A guide for HoI4 Battle for the Bosporus as Germany now with up to 210% more Cheese!
Following the steps laid out in this guide will help you to quickly form the European Union with minimal effort.
and it's even good enough to qualify you for a speed run on speedrun.com/hoi4 if you can manage! Just don't dally like myself ;)
Strategy courtesy of /u/SurvivalMichi, brilliant out of the box thinking!
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France toppled in less than a week with no casualties.
German tanks rampaging across England.
Rudolph Hess: get me out of here
Underrated comment
31th of May 1936, Great Britian was annex, Italy is still fighting in Africa xD
cant we just get all the states exept london and then only puppet london? wont we get britishnavy faster that way or it will still cost 300 PP?
Same cost
@@Bitt3rSteel what a chad, comments after 7 months
24:00 i like how you can see italy still fighting ethiopia after germany has killed uk and france
New drinking game
Take a shot every time he says catch them with their pants down
@Robert Holder 25 lmao
i was literally thinking the EXACT same thing
Damnit Takei!
cant we just get all the states exept london and then only puppet london? wont we get britishnavy faster that way or it will still cost 300 PP?
I just take my pants off every time. It's light exercise
hitler : i conquer europe and you guys overthrow me?
we : yeah
For the euro's 💶!
It is time. Execute Order Valkyrie
He didn't conquer Poland, it was a failure to much big to get away
Ironic because the description for the focus is about them remilitarising the rhineland
Obviously. Hitler had promised to make Germany a country for ethnic Germans only, that would span the northern-slavic lands as an empire, and that would be self-sufficient.
What has he achieved in this term? He hasn't taken Poland, he hasn't taken Russia, he hasn't really secured oil nor grain, added hundreds of millions of mouths to feed, and made Germans a minority in their own country suffering the whims of the French, British, Italians, Roma[+nians], Hungarians, Greeks and Yugo-Slavs.
Typical dictators. Start invading countries to pretend they didn't break all their promises. *spits*
Ok but here is the true challenge, neutral European Union. Its possible with France in one of the monarchist trees that doesnt change your name.
You have to be democratic to get eu
@@lipo-tz2qn I'm actually working on this now. Almost got it. Like he said you have to play as France, start down the non aligned branch but stop at the focus that would actually change you over. Staying democratic but never join the Allies. Wait for WW2 to kick off and wait for Germany to take out the Benelux. Then you have to take out Italy and Germany basically solo. The Allies will be at war too but most only in Africa. Just never join them or give them military access. After you win, and it's not easy, in the peace deal you have to be a bit clever and lucky to get all German and Italian Cores. After the peace deal the Benelux will stay under your control because you aren't in the faction. After that form the EU then continue down the Monarchist path to flip non aligned.
I almost managed it but the Allies managed to occupy Istria making it too expensive in The peace deal. So I missed it by one provence. Trying again soon.
@@TheNolunch ohh that what you meant. That makes more sence. Although you could declare war o the allies and keep the benelux while taking istria
@@TheNolunch wish you make it into video, I will like to see it
@@TheNolunch what does the flag look like for that? Ik the communist eu is just a red rather than blue flag
3:00
- "We don't have enough trucks!"
- "No problem."
German truck enters French port, disgorge three thousand soldiers.
Efficient German engineering
The famous German Clown Truck tactic.
Can we all just appreciate his brilliant pronunciations of place names?
Additionally, you could've created 1 single Infantry division with nothing else.
Why? The AI doesn't (or very rarely) changes their unit template. You can still change your divisions into something stronger.
That, together with the Lend Lease cheese, makes this strategy even cheesier.
Delicious cheese
ALL THE CHEESE
Challenge for you since you talked about grabbing fleets through puppets: starting as any nation, collect the pride of the fleet for every starting major in a reserve fleet.
35:57 as a Turk i can confirm that this was the irl reaction of Frenchs when we wanted Hatay.
Meanwhile, Syrian officials be like...
@@leonardokawamurapiazzai4977 look at the flag of Hatay. I don't think Syrian's had something to say.
@@bltsevdallarfanclub641 ok turkish nationalist
@@rizzospastis =/
whatever you say bro. I mean if just pointing out something makes me a nationalist for your eyes I really pitty your look on life.
@@rizzospastis go cry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatay_State#/media/File:Flag_of_Hatay.svg
The way to keep world tension as low as possible to complete the mission tree is in each peace deal release the colonial holdings of each country which is why, if posdible; declare war on the Netherlands and Belgium as late as you can because releasing the Dutch East Indies and the Kongo reduces world tension greatly.
Idea: drop a couple of paratroopers into Romania and Yugoslavia and make it so both countries “fought” in the first war so you could just annex them and not have to worry about them later
reasearching paratroopers takes a while
Mussolini: Finally! I have Ethiopia!
*Looks at Europe and Africa*
Mussolini: Wait, thats not Red and Blue...
Germany: Always has been
Suggestion for a future game: Flip Germany communist, join the Comintern, become leader of the Comintern, kick the USSR from the faction, war with the USSR!
You and Taureor must be the only HOI4 streamers that don't butcher the pronunciation of german cities and names 😛 Great video by the way! Will definitely try this cheese later 😁
Taureor is polish so it makes sense for him
@@fish5643 And Bittersteel is Belgian, so they're both Germany's neighbors
@@Madmuli France is also a neighbour of Germany and they are really good at butchering german names.
@@gerdforster883 they probably do it out of spite :p
23:55 - ah, House of Westminster has decided to go revert to Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
"For some reason a fascist UK can also [form the EU]" - The UK's fascist leader Mosley was actually an avid proponent of Europe becoming one country after WWII.
Also Kalergi, an EU fore father was a somewhat fascist supporter.
Excluding Hitler, lots of old fascist believed that the only way to restore the european supremacy in the world was an strong united europe.
@It’s ya boy yes thank you. You should post a link of that book since its the origin of our woes (malheurs)
Not the one we have now 😬
"The second event doesn't happen as often"
Me who gets it 3 times in a row
I like the way you explain your strategy and approach to the game. It's really helpful! :) Would you consider doing Honor the Legacy of the Argeads in the future?
You are actually very good at pronouncing the European place names.
I started to play this game 1 month ago, I'm loving your videos it's quite helping
If you liberate nations when you amnex the European cores you can keep world tension under 15% and keep going down the Democratic Germany focus tree.
Just wanted to say thank you for the hoi4 videos! Very entertaining and personally gives me inspiration on new strategies and ways to approach the game so it doesn't get boring :)
Perfect timing was about to attempt this and got a notification
Hey uh, I have a suggestion but it may be to hard... Possibly eithiopia and you push Italy out of the horn of africa. Or possibly even better push france and uk out of the horn. Idk sounds difficult and you may use rt56 if you wanted
*Confused Greek debt screaming*
Could you try this as france? Ive heard if you can form the EU as france before committing to a political path, then going monarchist, your nation will be called the kingdom of europe
I just found your channel a view days ago, very very very great mix of informativity and entertainment. New favorite hoi4 channel :)
Petition for bitt3r steel to bring back the song he used when he was fighting japan as the guangxi clique
"Heroes Will Fall"?
Til this day i dunno HOW you pronnounce everything PERFECTLY!
44:01 h i l t e r
@@jhojanezf he says it like that because mr. Shmitler is banned.
On the german reich's hat there is a tiny swastika
Well goodbye revenue
finally a hoi4 channel that accually tries a litlle with the borders
Borders are a lie
@@Bitt3rSteel lmao
when doing a naval invasion, clicking force attack makes it much more likely to land. Not enough command power? Simply unassign all but one division from your general, then click force attack for super cheap, and then reassign all the troops to him.
This has so much cheese the Dutch just got jealous of you.
Absolutly hilerious! Awesome man!
OMG PLEASE WHAT I NEED TO KNOW THAT VERSION OF THE GERMAN MATIONAL ANTHEM THAT U PLAYED AT THE INTRO ITS SO GOOD.
23:58 Italy has still not finished its war with Ethiopia and this man has destroyed the Allies already!
Italy is a liability to the Reich!
Steam is still grinning today, you blew it off good ;-)
there is also a way to use about 300 tac bombers to really easily sink the entire sub fleet and a large part of the destroyers of England and or France, so your fleet will easily have supremacy. It will take a bit of time (4-20 ships a day), so not suited for fast rush, but very suited for ww2.
Ermm how?interested
i usually played serious strategically games of crusader kings 2, but when RNG ruins my game i sometimes start something new and cheese my way to absolute power fast
Notification Squad 👊
Awesome😀😀
World tension did not go high as yours when I justify the war goal on the USA.
Fascist UK can form the EU? It does make sense, as Oswald Gamer Mosley once argued for the unification of Europe into a single nation.
You can even form the Imperial federation before it
I think its pretty much the largest formable nation
Indeed he did, yet he had a different picture in his mind - not as globalist and culturally leftist as today. Shame it didnt happen...
1:11 I love how the Nazi polandball has an X instead of a swastika, but there's still a swastika on the hat.
Shhh, it's sneaky
Hey man, watched a lot of your videos, loving them! :D
I was wondering about something in this video: you do convoy raiding in the English channel, why is that? It is my understanding that English Channel is considered shallow water, causing Subs to have +100% visibility. It seems to me like Subs are completely ineffective there. Am I wrong?
Not completely ineffective; they are twice as easy to catch for destroyers/naval bombers, but their torpedoes are still as effective as in ocean
Could you possible play "Bosnia expanded" mod, its actually very well done for such a tiny mod, 10/10 recommend. Good focus tree too
Hey Bitt3r! I was considering how to adapt your strategy to an HRE run and would like to know if this works:
1) do the same Yugoslavia cheese but not spike world tension so the brits wouldn't get involved
1.5) hit air safety regulations to ensure the survival of the Hindenburg
2) set up a full 10-unit invasion of France, hitting Calais and Dunkirk as well, and to the same thing as you did with Italy. Yoink Czechoslovakia and Romania, possibly leaving Yugo to the italians.
3) after that, immediately go for the civil war
4) rush return of the Kaiser, disbanding the army to ensure the Dutch deny you, putting Wilhelm Junior in charge
5) do alliance with the shade and the decisions you need to do to get Victoria as Kaiserin
6) you're in the allies, so nobody is going to guarantee Austria, Italy, and the Benelux. invade, do your thing and restore HRE.
6 is the main point here. does it REALLY work like that?
interesting, I must try
UK might kick you from the allies
@@Bitt3rSteel after I tried this myself, I'll say that instead of doing the Yugo cheese (they won't join your faction since WT isn't high enough) I would justify on Czechoslovakia at first. you want to keep WT low so that the Brits will like you enough to let you have your British titles back, which is the prerequisite for the unfortunate accident that leaves the Kaiserin in charge and lets you form the HRE
@@user-pn7jz9vr2z could you drag it to a random war so that it won't? Alternatively, during the peace with France, try liberating some nations to artificially lower WT. the same could be done with Romania, but you may want to oppose Mr. mustache during the war so that you won't have to fight the Romanians
@@rontubman6953 also something that you can do is with spies force the Brits to make a non agression pact, then you myb could also get a military access, both can increase your opinion if the regular improve relations isn't enough
World tension takes too long to generate in order to do this.
How on earth would anyone ever be able to achieve unity in a game? This is the only viable option but it ends up locking out so much
Hi.I always find your vids entertaining and fun to watch but how you have managed to get naval dominance in early war against France ? I tried that many times during my attempts to proclaim kaiserreich (defeat france early for alsace of course),I only sometimes manage to land but i get attrition and they are psuhing me back ;( Their navy is sinking my convoys,that's why i get the attrition
In this situation, we get superiority because the AI isn't expecting us. Their fleet is inactive and will need time to get in position to contest our fleets. So we get a small window of time.
If you justify or do a focus, the AI will get warning and will prepare
Does the ‘unequiped motorised division’ still have its speed in current patch?
Challenge: As Oman restore the Omani Empire
Pretty sure the best part is youtube considers that thumbnail completely fine even when you look at the hat. But the big scary one was fixed so of course it's fine. I miss old youtube...
Democratic Germany when played in the way the devs intented you to play it, is propably the most OP country in the game and also at the same time one of the most boring countries in the game.
The most fun Germany IMO is the "gamers rise" Germany :D
Kaiser Germany is fun too but it's pretty much the same as default Germany anyways.
What? I quite like democratic Germany. It’s fun to gather a coalition to save Europe from communism and fascism.
@@Fulllife3.2 i guess he means its way too easy. The game is already too easy as any major, switching sides make it boring easy.
I never used naval invasion with German speedrun because i never have a single day or naval supremacy
Great video, thx
Would you be able to use this strategy but go down monarchist path to reform HRE? Similar to your other video on forming HRE but quicker?
bitt3rsteel who draws your thumbnail's
Someone in Discord iirc?
Check /r/Polandball for full comics of em
Ngl those countryballs in thumbnails are really good. I would like to see how he does it
They are great, aren't they? Thanks Zatwinki!
@@Bitt3rSteel Happy to help :)
@@turcanadian I use Clip Studio Paint to draw them, but there's a number of good tutorials on RUclips that I followed when I was just starting out. If you want more info feel free to hit me up on Discord :)
You can actually win the German civil war extremely fast because of the Yugo. strat, by like march of 1936
What is the yugo strat
@@betaplain297 i dont remember anymore as much, but i think its where you make a faction with them and then end up in a war with them because croatia spawns and they declare on yugo, which brings in france, romania, and czechoslovakia into the war
Your french pronunciation is acceptable and thats a big relief
8:12 it's call s - yham
I have probably a stupid question if that's okay. Would it be possible to claim the british titles to restore HRE with Britain as a puppet?
The friendly beer drinking german music makes everything right
the german anthem in french style, love it
The music in the beginning is a remix of the german anthem
What is that fun rendition of the German national anthem in the beginning. I need to know!
Clicked right away! Am Early!
Gute alte Volksmusik!/Good old suburban music from germany
I don't think exploit is a sin, so please keep it up :))) I wonder if you can do the same with HRE, but just not take out the Netherlands and keep the UK as a puppet until you do that focus?
GLORIOUS EUROPA
@Caleb Gutstein could be! Randomly opened up the RUclips app and saw this uploaded "8 seconds ago" :D talk about coincidence
I managed to do it in August of 39 and get all UK colonies but it is a different strategy 🤫
I thought the world tension you caused will go down after some time so if you wait a year or two or five you should be able to continue
48:58 wow, I almost forgot this was about the eu
I can't seem to get this working on barbarossa. I never get the initial naval suppremacy to launch my naval invasion 🤔
yeah barbarossa buffs the AI
yeah they fixed it so you cant rush uk and france anymore
Is there a reason why you didn't also take Ireland when attacking the UK, and why you didn't take Denmark and Sweden? Those are EU countries as well. (Near the end you said you didn't take Portugal, Bulgaria or Poland because of China, is the same true for the above?)
Cool!
wow you have a great french accent man!
Does this still work? I think the motorized with no equipment doesn't move as fast as the supplied ones anymore
Thanks for the Video! Do you thnk its possible to reform the HRE using this guide? If not, could you possible update your HRE video since the BofB changed a good deal in them?
Watching this on x2 speed, luxembourg was hilarious. “Declare, oh they’re gone, ok.”
23:32 find 1 mistake...
That naval invasion is of vital importance
But how much manpower did you recieve when turning all those countries to cores?
Portugal would make the borders more neat.
Play as Hungary and use tanks the entire game
I have suggested this before:
Communist UK guide while keeping your puppets (Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Raj)
I tried doing this but I actually went fully down the democratic branch and created the Central European Alliance. What’s funny is that France became communist and joined the Comintern and then Italy, trying to still be historical since I had historical AI focuses on, declared on France so then the Soviets invaded Italy and then I tried fighting a 3 front war and it actually went pretty well until Belgium capitulated to France as I was curb stomping them and everything kinda collapsed.
PogChamp BelgianSteel
Bitt3r: capitulates uk and France by mid March
Me: takes 6 years to capitulate Poland
#democracy
is cringe
To be honest with you I don't think this works anymore with the NSB updated UI. They push into Germany too fast. It becomes a race to cap UK/France before they cap you. I've tried fallback lines and ways to slow them but it's hard to cap both of them before you lose Germany. Out of 3 games I've only come close once. I'm going to try another but it is difficult since they push so hard. I'm capping UK in a few weeks but landing in France is difficult to get a port. I could take France first but then I'd never beat the royal fleet.
Update. On my 5th try I got it. It is much harder than it used to be and you need to have many many things go your way. I capped Paris right before they got to Berlin. I had to have some good divisions sitting in Berlin to hold them off. It also helps to have a few fast units in Reserve to cut off supply from behind.
You wrote that 3 months ago, but it should work now. But I did it a bit different than what is shown in the video. Here is what I did: I got the war goal on the US, but it doesn't go on 64% with that, it took a while. That is maybe why it worked, because with that delay, I built a biger army. The UK was captured before France, 16 Units covered the Maginot-Line (they didn:t break through or somethin', they just stayed there) the Czech got a breakthrough by me, but conquered that over time and got their own which was little, so no danger if you keep with the idea of sending permanent new troops to the border (musn't even be regularly) and the French will be capitulated around 12. October 1936 which also brings the Little Entente to an auto. fall. Hopefully, you are ok with the relatively late end of the war if you go like that, but you get the Little Entente without an extra war, so should be worth it.
Problems I had: Going Schlieffen isn't a good idea, the French will get further in your territory or you get the option to invade Spain to the faction what isn't good, 'cause they get Italy and maybe Hungary into their civil war causing Republican Spain to join the allies and everything is destroyed. You will win, but you won't get the peace conference and all that stuff. But you probably know all that due to experience.
Sehr schön hier! Doch haben sie Hobbylos schon mit 5 Sternen bewertet?
i got draft dodging 3 days after I declared war on Yugo... nice
Nice
FAST AS THE WIND
"Don't worry about it" OK dad
Nice background music.
im having trouble with this. i try to start it all by feb 18th or 24th some time early but when i invade france i get stomped, im not able to get my trucks to do a quick loop around and capitalize on them to surrender. they overrun my guys before i can do anything IS IT rng based or has something changed?
If you release as much of africa as you can then your would tension would get dropeed down to less than 15, but the game will be running at 1 fps
Frames are overrated
any momento do a guide about "crusader kings" achievement?
We need a Belgium guide!
Belgium needs a focus tree
@@Bitt3rSteel True :D Wouldn't be Belgium if there was though... We could have just one focus that lasts 700 days "establish a government".