For those who want to attempt this: You need to have the grindset! Please know that I mean it when I say that there's lots of RNG involved. It's probably the most luck-based run I've done so far. Yugostrat can fail, landing in France can fail, invasion against UK can be blocked. And reloading does NOT yield different outcomes, sometimes even makes it worse! If one of the steps goes wrong, you need to start from the beginning again. I'm more than happy to help with questions, but do not assume that this will work on your first attempt. Some tips: Scout ahead with submarines to see which ports are garrisoned. The divisions don't shuffle around that much and you can always change the targeted provinced with the 'edit order' button before launching the invasion. Just be careful to not accidentally delete the invasion order right before the war and losing all planning progress. (Thank you, Mariusz Wojcik!) You can make it easier on yourself by targeting French ports specifically and have reinforcements ready in the Channel. You can achieve that by asking Italy for Mil Access and sending divisions to one of their ports. Time it so that they are in the Channel when your invasions make landfall. You than just have to reroute them to the captured port. And, just in case, saving and reloading does not change the outcome. The French divisions only have different positions if you restart from scratch. You can circumvent RNG by aiming the first invasion against the UK and dealing with France in a different way, for example paras to take a French port after the UK has fallen. In order for that to work you need to wait a couple of hours after getting the war goal on Yugo to let the UK guarantee them.
to anyone who is trying this in elite difficulty: it's possible, but it will be slightly slower due to the reduced political power gain and production efficiency cap (i have tried this strat in elite, it works but like m3an mentions it is quite rng heavy)
THIS IS CRAZY :D I am 840H in hears of iron and dam i soooo bad still .... Well i been playing it On / off for kind of nearly 5 years BUT this video is NUTS :D i love it
Im having a problem wherein the uk joins the allies but doesnt join the war which makes it so that they get naval supremacy first and then joins the war, not giving me that small window of opportunity to invade them.
Array Spiking: because world tension value and associated data is stored as a list, one source country can create multiple entries in the world tension list, instead of overwriting previous value.
With the old version , I think the one before this , sweden was for some reason considered a major nation and I abused it and kept conquering more and more countries but I honestly didn't know you can make Belgium the leader of the allies . Imagine Luxembourg 😅
Hey m3an! I hope that you will read my comment. I just wanted to say that I thank you beacuse you helped me a ton in this game and it is really fun to watch your videos. I hope that you keep up the good work and reach your goals in life! Have a great day mate!
In order to pump up faster the number of the army in the field or numeber of the spam spam units you can convert infantry into panzer first and then back to the infrantry as panzer uses less inftantry equipment than cavalary. The draw back is bigger lost on experience. The spam deployed early can be as well converted immidietly into panzer and then back to the infantry. by doing so you can send more units to Ethopia and increase a bit word tension faster.
Well played, I just got into the game and have thrown hundreds of hours into the game but always keep playing the same scenarios as the US thinking it will be different lol. I need to try stuff like this. Looks like so much fun.
from my perspective this is insane because i always struggle with allies and extremely rarely navaled the britains this is mind breaking i will defenetly try this
Wha i learnt today: to do naval invasion, pick 1 division per invasion so it takes less time then when you take over ship base send convoys to reinforce
Great video! Do you plan on moving into more general hoi4 min-max guides, or are you planning on strictly sticking to speed-running? I would love to see some videos on optimal divisions, eco micro, and maybe nation guides as well!
I remember a run with Spain where somehow, Finland and USSR become friends and Poland and Dutchland conquer germany. Then, Itaky conquers half of Africa alone and then surrenders :/
lol i just started actually playing this game and iv had it for a bit and im still learning like normal stuff. sea power invasions still confuse me and my mouse doesnt like drawing lines. this man just took over the damn world in like a lunch break.
In my playthrough, france capitulated at the same day they joined the allies and didnt call britain to war then i had to manually justify afterwards lol. Thanks for the video
Maybe am i wrong or im out of luck ... but is it possible that the 70/30 chance for a war goal has been patched? out of 20 runs just 1 was the Derektiv 25 ....
To my knowledge it wasn't patched. Remember that the 70/30 is an average. But 20 runs and only successful once is indeed unluckly. I'll give it a go this evening.
I tried this six times and france always has too many divisions on the coast, resulting in my troops being killed. Is it because I‘m missing the two newest dlcs?
Did you reload six times from a certain save or restarted from the beginning six times? I've collected some notes in the sticky comment under this video for people who want to attempt this. Reloading never changes the outcome so if the French divisions are placed unfavorably, either restart or adapt the strategy a little.
@@sarahd4784 I haven't tried without DLCs so I can't say for sure. But it shouldn't effect the placement of the AI from my understanding, at least not for France. Do you spread your divisions out equally or focus certain provinces? There are some spots that usually are not defended and allow for a quick drive towards the main VPs. Alternatively, you can just split the war into two and use the divisions that are prepping for the UK to reinforce the naval invasion against France. For the optimal outcome, get mil access from Italy and send the reinforcements to an Italian port after the invasion has launched. That way the reinforcements travel more or less parallel to your invading divisions and can be rerouted to a captured port. If they are too fast, you can send them back and forth between German and Italian ports until you'e taken a port. Justify a war goal against a democratic nation before the war against France ends, prep naval invasions into the UK, prelaunch them when ready and declare immediately after the war goal is ready and the UK guarantee is in place.
Yes, it works. I assume your guy was thinking about the old tension spike method which was indeed patched a while ago. I've recorded this very recently and tested the method again prior to releasing the video.
UK always guards their coast with their navy + they have radars + intelligence, etc. Impossible for me to get naval supremacy either on the east side of UK or in the Channel.
For the second invasion? Like I said, there's plenty of luck involved and you need to start from scratch, not reload, in order to reroll your odds. You can circumvent RNG by aiming the first invasion against the UK and dealing with France in a different way, for example paras to take a French port after the UK has fallen. In order for that to work you need to wait a couple of hours after getting the war goal on Yugo to let the UK guarantee them.
Well i cant do it...there are always fechies at the beach or near the beach that interrupt the forces to walk into any city. just like that 7:02 "Dinkirk Distraction" is needed at almost everywhere at the beach.
Took me plenty of attempts to succeed, but a concentration of forces always works better. You can spread the invasion across multiple provinces, but then you only have few divisions to push towards VPs. You can make it easier on yourself by targeting ports specifically and have reinforcements ready in the Channel. You can achieve that by asking Italy for Mil Access and sending divisions to one of their ports. Time it so that they are in the Channel when your invasions make landfall. You than just have to reroute them to the captured port. And, just in case, saving and reloading does not change the outcome. The French divisions only have different positions if you restart from scratch.
i rush germany and poland as ussr at mid-late 1937 and this man defeats the allies without paratroopers at mid 1936
I tried to do this and Germany eventually knocks out my airforce and my units bog down. Any advice you can give on units and production?
@@khongo1018 fighters and cas is what you need to focus on in your Air Force
@@khongo1018 fighters and cas is what you need to focus on in your Air Force
By 37 you have enough to cap germany?
@@khongo1018 yea
General in WWII: "my Blitzkrieg is so fast, it will be done in a couple of years!"
Speedrunner: "too slow" 🤭
“We’ll be home by Christmas!”
“Too slow”
@@flakcannonhans”How about June?”
@@accountusername7900 "We'll be done by 2, just in time for lunch."
A little reminder, the speedrunner know the weak and strength of allies and axis
But its very impressive what this man did
@@Progamerguy101 "Too slow"
m3an would walk into a job interview and end the interview by informing the interviewer that he has been let go as his services are no longer needed.
For those who want to attempt this: You need to have the grindset! Please know that I mean it when I say that there's lots of RNG involved. It's probably the most luck-based run I've done so far. Yugostrat can fail, landing in France can fail, invasion against UK can be blocked. And reloading does NOT yield different outcomes, sometimes even makes it worse! If one of the steps goes wrong, you need to start from the beginning again. I'm more than happy to help with questions, but do not assume that this will work on your first attempt.
Some tips:
Scout ahead with submarines to see which ports are garrisoned. The divisions don't shuffle around that much and you can always change the targeted provinced with the 'edit order' button before launching the invasion. Just be careful to not accidentally delete the invasion order right before the war and losing all planning progress. (Thank you, Mariusz Wojcik!)
You can make it easier on yourself by targeting French ports specifically and have reinforcements ready in the Channel. You can achieve that by asking Italy for Mil Access and sending divisions to one of their ports. Time it so that they are in the Channel when your invasions make landfall. You than just have to reroute them to the captured port. And, just in case, saving and reloading does not change the outcome. The French divisions only have different positions if you restart from scratch.
You can circumvent RNG by aiming the first invasion against the UK and dealing with France in a different way, for example paras to take a French port after the UK has fallen. In order for that to work you need to wait a couple of hours after getting the war goal on Yugo to let the UK guarantee them.
to anyone who is trying this in elite difficulty: it's possible, but it will be slightly slower due to the reduced political power gain and production efficiency cap (i have tried this strat in elite, it works but like m3an mentions it is quite rng heavy)
THIS IS CRAZY :D I am 840H in hears of iron and dam i soooo bad still .... Well i been playing it On / off for kind of nearly 5 years BUT this video is NUTS :D i love it
Impressive work!
What run would you suggest for a new runner to try with less RNG?
Im having a problem wherein the uk joins the allies but doesnt join the war which makes it so that they get naval supremacy first and then joins the war, not giving me that small window of opportunity to invade them.
@@MistaFadora Might be that they finally fixed it. I'll look into it later today.
When you learn more in a 12 minute speed run video than you did watching 50+ hours of tommyk
Heresy. Tommy K is the alpha and the omega ;)
tommy k likes getting pegged
honestly true tho, bc he doesn't show the mechanics
@@krugerstantommygay is cringe
TommyK is junk content for idiots.
This is perhaps the most mathematically perfect play I've ever seen.
Array Spiking: because world tension value and associated data is stored as a list, one source country can create multiple entries in the world tension list, instead of overwriting previous value.
I just defeated the allies as Italy in January 1937 thinking I was fast and then I see this lol
As Italy, that’s impressive considering that you played the most goofy country ever
Bruh I thought I was fast and I just beat the UK and france by November 1937
Also as italy btw
Your approach is exactly what was missing in all speedrun I ever watched. Great job.
With the old version , I think the one before this , sweden was for some reason considered a major nation and I abused it and kept conquering more and more countries but I honestly didn't know you can make Belgium the leader of the allies . Imagine Luxembourg 😅
-Average nationalist dev behavior-
I made luxembourg the leader of the allies, one tile and I control a lot of new stuff
I finished my construction research and this guy conquer the world. 😅😂🤣
Glad this guy wasn't in charge in 1936
Why?
@@Tetragramixits a joke, bc he would destroy the allies
@@germanfishing5835 thank god the British/French ships wouldn't just randomly decide to ignore approaching German convoys
@@TetragramixBruh :D
Unfortunately
Bro defeating allies-
Transmission from the United States of America: USA joined Allies💀
that array spiking was really interesting! Great Video as always :D
Thank you! I hope it won't take too long until I can release my next video =)
Hey m3an! I hope that you will read my comment. I just wanted to say that I thank you beacuse you helped me a ton in this game and it is really fun to watch your videos. I hope that you keep up the good work and reach your goals in life! Have a great day mate!
Aww, that's so nice! I'm glad to read that I could help you get better at the game.
@@m3an hello, i am noob in this game i didnt understand half of the vid🤣🤣
This always motivates me to pick up HoI4 again. I very much hope that you can stay motivated as well
In order to pump up faster the number of the army in the field or numeber of the spam spam units you can convert infantry into panzer first and then back to the infrantry as panzer uses less inftantry equipment than cavalary. The draw back is bigger lost on experience. The spam deployed early can be as well converted immidietly into panzer and then back to the infantry. by doing so you can send more units to Ethopia and increase a bit word tension faster.
I'm always highly entertained by your shenanigans.
Imagine if this happened in real life
The Austrian Painter has been real quiet since this dropped
I think he's been quiet for the better part of 90 years now 😂
@@-amraliantar-7820Yep
Austro hungarian communist pfp is crazy
Very pleasant watch, well produced video man, thoroughly enjoyed!
Thank you =)
Well played, I just got into the game and have thrown hundreds of hours into the game but always keep playing the same scenarios as the US thinking it will be different lol. I need to try stuff like this. Looks like so much fun.
me after returning back in time and showing this to ad0lf HltIer
What an Insane run
事實上， 電腦 的劇本只有跟著基本國策的時候會有基礎的戰鬥力
過早的戰鬥，基本上沒有國家"準備好"的，實際上大部分的國家連基本的軍隊都沒有
剩下就是裡用系統的漏洞 或是取巧的方式偷工直接"取得勝利"
Germany: War! jk, no war. War! jk, no war. War! jk, no-
USA: Is their telegrapher busted? Oh well, we have to take each one seriously.
They patched it now sadly😔
Ive done this so many times, every time a patch got rolled out I expected this to dissappear, I expect this video just sealed its fate lol
This ain't even blitzkrieg this is HYPER-TURBOTOTALENKRIEG
from my perspective this is insane
because i always struggle with allies and extremely rarely navaled the britains
this is mind breaking
i will defenetly try this
I respect u. I try to play this game because of you.
You have been embargoed by Cuba
And that's what can be called a blitzkrieg
Imagine this being an actual history.
This is gonna be so useful thanks so much for the tips
Wha i learnt today: to do naval invasion, pick 1 division per invasion so it takes less time then when you take over ship base send convoys to reinforce
Goddamn dude, you never disappoint
Great video! Do you plan on moving into more general hoi4 min-max guides, or are you planning on strictly sticking to speed-running? I would love to see some videos on optimal divisions, eco micro, and maybe nation guides as well!
I'd love to do so much more, but my time to strategize, record and edit is very limited due to family and work at the moment. I'll see what I can do!
No Horses was seriously injured in makings of this video.
Love the videos!!!
Great content. Keep it up😂😂
glad he’s on our side 😂
Maybe there's a reason higher powers decided time travel isn't possible...
Bruh, you made me cancel the naval invasion of France to early. 💀
Gotta wait for those ships to leave port and delete the order, not halt it 🚢⚓
@@m3an Yeah, I understood that later on. Thanks for the guys anyways, I'll probably try it some other time.
One of the best tutorial that i have heard!
Blitzkrieg tactic damn never thought i could see it in real life
This is a work of art if you ask me.
Speedrunner completing a world conquest by October be like
Speedrunner: Behold, the Nazi Oktoberfest Revolution!!!
Probably not the way Paradox ever imagined someone would beat the game.
Die wahre Definition von Blitzkrieg.
Danke für die detaillierte Erklärung, mach weiter so King 👑
If only the Furher knew about this
Hey, i love your videos and voice so much. Keep uploading the content, and well done for this speedrun ❤
this is sick, man!!! very epic
Fantastic content!
it's been patched
Nuh uh
Yugoslavia: We won't join the Axis.
Nazi Germany: Well, how about if we change the name to 'the A-team'?
Yugoslavia: Sure, that would work.
I remember a run with Spain where somehow, Finland and USSR become friends and Poland and Dutchland conquer germany. Then, Itaky conquers half of Africa alone and then surrenders :/
May 1936... Damn.
lol i just started actually playing this game and iv had it for a bit and im still learning like normal stuff. sea power invasions still confuse me and my mouse doesnt like drawing lines. this man just took over the damn world in like a lunch break.
Zu gut bearbeitet
i thought this said contacting the aliens in may 1936
In my playthrough, france capitulated at the same day they joined the allies and didnt call britain to war then i had to manually justify afterwards lol. Thanks for the video
Very nice! Congratulations, well done!
All those Speed Runs are about cheesing the shit out of the game but paratroopers are somehow Off Limits.
Not a speed runner myself but learned a lot, thank you.
I tryed Trotzki the normal way and still unable to defend from Germany. So great job.
At least you left my beloved ireland alone
i am actually speechless
HE UPLOADED
I hate how they patched surprise naval invasions
bro could have been the funny mustache guy advisor
Poor Kurt had to take out France while he had the flu, cant even get sick days as a general
I see what he is doing but i cant comprehend and understand what he is doing
You missed Merica. So you didn't beat the allies.
Somebody needs to make this guy a general
I claim Austria in 1938-1939 and this guy just beat the allie in 1936
This is fire bro
Hearts of Iron, the only game I have and never learned to play in 30 years of gaming. Maybe one day I will have enough free time for it.
Worked for me first run, just tried it today after not playing since 2022. People gotta git gud.
This is great, thank you
Lore of Crushing the Allies in May 1936 - Hoi4 Germany Speedrun Commentary momentum 100
Thank you!
CROATIA be like: give me everything🔫 OR ELSE
Maybe am i wrong or im out of luck ... but is it possible that the 70/30 chance for a war goal has been patched? out of 20 runs just 1 was the Derektiv 25 ....
To my knowledge it wasn't patched. Remember that the 70/30 is an average. But 20 runs and only successful once is indeed unluckly. I'll give it a go this evening.
This is how Germany could of won ww2, Why didn't Hitler have a HOI4 player on his council!
Dang. You got my vote for president bro.
bro could have won world wars 1 and 2
Joder era tan facil que alemania ganara si te hubiesen tenido como estratega con todo tu conocimiento la historia hubiera cambiado.
Great video. Please don't do these fade to black cuts. They make me feel like I'm getting a stroke. Just do a regular cut.
uniting the low countries as the netherlands speedrun?
i dont understand anything happend from the start but i watch the whole video
please show sweden world conquest
how do people do this when i cant even beat poland in 1936 as the soviets
Can you do an USSR speedrun? That would be awesome
He has one. It’s epic.
You should try to speedrun taking over the balkans as Albania. (The smallest Balkan country) (Baltic States are optional)
I tried this six times and france always has too many divisions on the coast, resulting in my troops being killed. Is it because I‘m missing the two newest dlcs?
Did you reload six times from a certain save or restarted from the beginning six times? I've collected some notes in the sticky comment under this video for people who want to attempt this. Reloading never changes the outcome so if the French divisions are placed unfavorably, either restart or adapt the strategy a little.
No, everytime was a new game. I don‘t know if I‘m extremely unlucky or if it‘s the missing dlcs.
@@sarahd4784 I haven't tried without DLCs so I can't say for sure. But it shouldn't effect the placement of the AI from my understanding, at least not for France. Do you spread your divisions out equally or focus certain provinces? There are some spots that usually are not defended and allow for a quick drive towards the main VPs. Alternatively, you can just split the war into two and use the divisions that are prepping for the UK to reinforce the naval invasion against France. For the optimal outcome, get mil access from Italy and send the reinforcements to an Italian port after the invasion has launched. That way the reinforcements travel more or less parallel to your invading divisions and can be rerouted to a captured port. If they are too fast, you can send them back and forth between German and Italian ports until you'e taken a port. Justify a war goal against a democratic nation before the war against France ends, prep naval invasions into the UK, prelaunch them when ready and declare immediately after the war goal is ready and the UK guarantee is in place.
@@m3anThanks, I‘ll try it. I sent the same divisions to the same place you did in your video.
Is this still working in the latest version? I brought this video to my HOI4 community, and one of them said array spiking doesn't work anymore.
Yes, it works. I assume your guy was thinking about the old tension spike method which was indeed patched a while ago. I've recorded this very recently and tested the method again prior to releasing the video.
@@m3an Thank you for answering!
UK always guards their coast with their navy + they have radars + intelligence, etc.
Impossible for me to get naval supremacy either on the east side of UK or in the Channel.
For the second invasion? Like I said, there's plenty of luck involved and you need to start from scratch, not reload, in order to reroll your odds. You can circumvent RNG by aiming the first invasion against the UK and dealing with France in a different way, for example paras to take a French port after the UK has fallen. In order for that to work you need to wait a couple of hours after getting the war goal on Yugo to let the UK guarantee them.
The accent adds to the realism.
You , made an Axis D Day
Very good, and interessing video! Can you make Soviet Union speedrun?
It's on my list!
@@m3an i dont see
@@tomi3544 Sorry for the misunderstanding. It's on my list of runs I want to cover. Haven't made a video on it yet.
But is it still possible to use the Yugostrat to do the oppose hitler focus and get Victoria to make HRE?
Well i cant do it...there are always fechies at the beach or near the beach that interrupt the forces to walk into any city.
just like that 7:02 "Dinkirk Distraction" is needed at almost everywhere at the beach.
Took me plenty of attempts to succeed, but a concentration of forces always works better. You can spread the invasion across multiple provinces, but then you only have few divisions to push towards VPs. You can make it easier on yourself by targeting ports specifically and have reinforcements ready in the Channel. You can achieve that by asking Italy for Mil Access and sending divisions to one of their ports. Time it so that they are in the Channel when your invasions make landfall. You than just have to reroute them to the captured port. And, just in case, saving and reloading does not change the outcome. The French divisions only have different positions if you restart from scratch.
The Hoi4 mad scientist returns