Challenge: Pacific Rim - Modern day mod - Release Cascadia from Canada and the US. - Play as Cascadia - Your goal is to conquer and annex all states surrounding the Pacific Ocean. - If the nations you defeat have additional states not adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, you cannot annex or puppet them, but you can change their government to your own ideology. - You can remove factions. - You can include a coring mod for extra manpower.
An opinion from somebody who's played China a lot in HoI4 (in case you want to play again): -Every division is useful. Anything that isn't trained can be in a few months. -Infantry equipment is EVERYTHING. -Get engineers as soon as you can. Entrenchment is godly for China. -Use the Huang He and the Yangtze as strong fronts. -Attach support artillery eventually, the Japanese are almost completely vulnerable to soft attack, aaaaaaaaand -Garrison the ports in Shanghai, Shandong and the ports on the southeast coast. If your forces get divided trying to contain naval invasions, you won't have the brute force needed to kick them out. Otherwise? This was solid! Loved the video.
CHALLENGE Play as any country you like and do what ever you like but your not allowed to research anything Goal: capitulate the other two main factions e.i allies, axis, Comintern
Good video Alex ! I've watched all your challenges so far and some other videos, and i totally fell in love with the channel, it has become in one of my favorites now. Keep it up !
Nope. you conquer Shanxi, then Xi Bei. You wait for Japan to attack, you join China. You have to win with soviet help. When you've won, you'll have an event who makes you declaring war on China. It gives you Mandchou with a lot of units. You destroy them. You ask for Tannou and Mongolia to Soviet. And you're thic as fuck.
Play as America, not allowed to join any faction and must declare war on the allies and axis and comentern, at the same time. Either survive until 1950 or ravage their lands.
Well this is very interesting. I played vanilla as China a couple times and it's actually quite easy. I have tried Road to 56 once so far and it's going poorly like your first run did. I went with external assuming forming the united front would also absorb the warlords like in vanilla but it never happened. I will definitely try again with internal focus instead. Also most guides include a "quick reaction force" (QRF) which I keep cavalry for plus some INF divisions to plug up gaps where the Japanese invade that's not a dock. I too noticed that Road to 56 Japanese AI is far more aggressive with amphibious assaults. Usually you can keep your QRF around Nanjing and have no issues in vanilla but they love landing everywhere in large numbers. Definitely good on you to go to level 2 forts given how cheap they are to build. Every guide I've seen said do not go to infantry equipment 1 because it takes more production but honestly? I'm gonna go against the common advice and say you did in fact do the right thing to upgrade. For 20% more production cost you double your soft attack. It is SO worth it. I even eventually added hospitals to my units to protect the xp but only after I had stabilized the front with enough divisions. Also note the more you research industry and build industry, the more the negative spirits go down.
Landing on coastlines is basically all the AI does. In one of my game Britain and the US dropped about 90 divisions into a single port-less tile. Surrounded them immediately, starved them out and won effortlessly.
Play as Ethiopia (Road Reccomended just so you can actually win the war) and beat Italy. Quick tip, DO NOT fall back to just your capital. Go to the province next to it as well (The one between the two rivers) and you will hold until you can push them back.
I'm not sure if it's changed since I last looked at this (probably has since this was back during 1.2.x or so) but on the hardest difficutly it actually used to be very easy to beat Italy (well at least in Africa, beating mainland Italy was less so lol).
**Make Poland-Lithuania Stronk Again Challenge** Play as Lithuania. Join whatever faction Poland does. You must survive Germany & the USSR. Bonus points if you can reconquer all the lands of Poland-Lithuania at its height.
Reserve a research slot for Mass Mob doctrine. Right side. Use the other slot for your research time, eventually use this slot on whatever else you wish. Preferably infantry equipment. Only build military factories, only produce guns and make 10 width infantry with no support. Spam these and you win. GG. By the way no matter what country you're playing you should always reserve a research slot to a land doctrine. Even France.
-The Republic is triumphant -Mao BTFO -Warlords crushed -Military, industry, economy and science of China fixed -Japan BTFO -T H I C C China Truly the greatest timeline.
I'm being generous Play as Siam, and take over the British Raj, Nepal, Bhutan (such a challenge), and Indochina. Feel free to go from there. (IDK take china or something)
I tried this as well, I couldn't do much against the warlords since China is unaligned so I buildt a fortified line along the northern border with landforts and fortified all the harbours. worked wonders. i did loose some harbours some times but could eventually reclaim them afterwards, the Japanese lost lot of divisions from landings utside harbours. The war as a stalemate for a long time until the USSR joined in and togethr with them I forced the Jpanese off the mainland.
Hi Alex, you can select all Divisions with the same Template if you double click one of them. You can then change their Template with the little green arrows under the Commander.
You can play as Madagascar Play as France then type NOCB in console the click manage occupied territories then release Madagascar then type Tag (whatever Madagascar’s Tag is prolly MAD)
China and communist china are my 2 favorite play through's in r56. Internal stability is def the way to go as China. I usually build land forts first though and follow up with coast forts. I also keep my whole army, I just put a ton of the weak divisions on the coast and use the better divisions on the front line. Very similar to how you played except without the troop deleting. I also swap to the upgraded guns off the bat. I've played this setup a lot and I can beat Japan without losing an inch of territory. But it really depends on if the warlords fold or not as to how smoothly the game goes.
I've actually done something like this before, just that I wasn't allowed to use anything except basic infantry equipment, no tanks, no planes, no artillery. Just basic infantry equipment. Ships were unlimited though. I won and it was worth all the pain.
Challenge: Millenium Dawn no factions but you can join one. Play as The Netherlands and you need to conquer former Dutch colonies and lands which are: Belgium, Luxembourg, Suriname Indonesia, Papua new Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and you need to conquer New York
take control of Argentina/ La plata. you can do whatever ideology you want and join any faction you want but your aim is to take over south and central america (including mexico) then see what happens with the USA.
That actually would be a lot easier. Just increase communist support in Nationalist China. Doing so makes states rebel and switch sides. It makes it very easy to unite the two that way.
You can play as Madagascar if you play as France, go to manage territories tab, and release Madagascar. But can you puppet the British Raj as Luxembourg? also thanks for doing this challenge. :3
Clearly you completed this challenge effectively because of my 'Giddy aunt' T-Shirt that I'm wearing. Not that you know how to play the game Or anything. Just the t-shirt.......
For a Qing (or Ming too maybe?) sized China, you need Mongolia, Tannu Tuva and Primorsk/Primorye which is part of Russia, the state which has the city Vladivostok
My fav play though sofar was me as China, at war with Japan & the axis, The allies (Including USA) and the cominterm at the same time. Japanse Assault by bejing, Naval invasion. Soviet union from the North with mongolia and sinkang and in the south Laos & Vietnam france along with british raj the americans, french, indians and british pushed in. Actully pulled through and annexed all of them. China is so powerful :)
Play as Italy and annex Ethiopia You can join the Axis if you want because I know how hard this will be you can also use road to 56 if it makes it any easier.
ey I tried to do this recently too, all I did was make trenches on border, become facist, ally germany and the most important part I kept screwing up on: DEFEND THE COAST. not with some men but a lot. at times when I was doing good (no coastal landings) I even had more divisions then Japan. the trenches allowed me to actually make my men competent unlike how the AI always seems super weak, though my men performed good without them too for some reason.
Here’s a challenge I did myself so I know it can be done: Road to 56 mod play as Germany, restore the monarchy/Kaiser, join the allies and defeat the Axis/Novum Imperium Romanum and the Comintern
HOI 4 challenge: play as Peru with the goal to conquer everything south of the USA in the American continent. Road to 56 and no American guarantee independence mods are allowed. MAKE SOUTH AMERICA INTERESTING AGAIN!
Challenge: Play as Lithuania and reject the demand for memel and defeat germany (no factions) also you can try to recapture Vilnius from the polish too
Here's one play as Iceland in millennium Dawn and recreate Scandinavia you may use no factions and coring states (You must conquer Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the faroe island, and Greenland)
Play as France, create the Little Entente, deny Germany's claims in the Sudetenland, and have you or one of your little Entente members control Berlin.
*I love it THIC*
Alex The Rambler! Mmmmmmmmmm k
I want more father
well Alexy-Aunt
You should be democratic Hungary and conquer all the balkans
my name jeff
Challenge: Pacific Rim
- Modern day mod
- Release Cascadia from Canada and the US.
- Play as Cascadia
- Your goal is to conquer and annex all states surrounding the Pacific Ocean.
- If the nations you defeat have additional states not adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, you cannot annex or puppet them, but you can change their government to your own ideology.
- You can remove factions.
- You can include a coring mod for extra manpower.
Enthused Norseman oh so it's not the one where you defend from giant sea alien monsters
Suggest this again please
:)
Play as Japan and conquer the United States
*Nuke the United States
**Thrice
I think that’s more of an op strategy than a challenge
Yes I do know this 3 years old
As Germany beat Luxembourg
ferper y Alex only picks challenges where the posibillity of him beating them isnt 0% so thats not gonna happen.
Arkose Lamekose
With his skill, that might seriously be a 0% chance.
Extreme Wolf Thats what im saying dude
R u mad?
Beat Luxembourg...
With IRONMAN MODE.
Play as my Dad and try not to leave me...
Wow.
Michael Ackers Relax, hes just buying some cigarates, Like mine!
He will be back once you have an average of 8 thousand dollars per month.
Dads are like boomarangs
...I hope
Michael Ackers Can he go fascist though?
Geez
Be Argentina, conquer the Malvinas or Falklands and defeat england in 1939. You must join the axis
9:19 *that's called foreshadowing*
An opinion from somebody who's played China a lot in HoI4 (in case you want to play again):
-Every division is useful. Anything that isn't trained can be in a few months.
-Infantry equipment is EVERYTHING.
-Get engineers as soon as you can. Entrenchment is godly for China.
-Use the Huang He and the Yangtze as strong fronts.
-Attach support artillery eventually, the Japanese are almost completely vulnerable to soft attack, aaaaaaaaand
-Garrison the ports in Shanghai, Shandong and the ports on the southeast coast. If your forces get divided trying to contain naval invasions, you won't have the brute force needed to kick them out.
Otherwise? This was solid! Loved the video.
I could do this with ease
If I used cheats.
CHALLENGE
Play as any country you like and do what ever you like but your not allowed to research anything
Goal: capitulate the other two main factions e.i allies, axis, Comintern
Good video Alex ! I've watched all your challenges so far and some other videos, and i totally fell in love with the channel, it has become in one of my favorites now. Keep it up !
PLAY AS ETHIOPIA SO YOU CAN BE CROWNED AS THE BEST HOI4 PLAYER! (Use Road to 56, it is impossible without it)
No, play as LIBERIA.
he did that
Its not impossible at all...
Without Road to 56, it is impossible to win
The Mann You just defend in the mountains
Here's a hardcore challenge
As the Democratic Philippines, take over Japan and conquer the whole of asia. You cannot call in allies.
this would be Awesome
(I'm part Filipino)
You can rekt Japan while they're busy with China.
Unite China as Mao before the end of ww2 you can use road to 56
That's not all that difficult - just boost the popularity of communism in China and provinces will start rebelling and joining you, one by one.
Herman Urus wait they rebel and join you? I didn’t know that
Nope. you conquer Shanxi, then Xi Bei. You wait for Japan to attack, you join China. You have to win with soviet help. When you've won, you'll have an event who makes you declaring war on China. It gives you Mandchou with a lot of units. You destroy them. You ask for Tannou and Mongolia to Soviet. And you're thic as fuck.
Play as America, not allowed to join any faction and must declare war on the allies and axis and comentern, at the same time. Either survive until 1950 or ravage their lands.
1:14 You can change the Division Template of a unit instead of deleting it by clicking the button right next to the delete button
Play as Argentina and retake the Falkand Islands a bit early
"retake" what did he mean by this
Snafu you're right, I should've said assert claim my bad
Heres a challenge: Play as Japan and make its dreams of creating the East Asia Empire come true
Road to 56, Medium difficulty and all that Jazz
Cant get enough of the outro music, its very much the cherry on top.
Play as Thailand
-No faction
-No mod
-Form an empire
-Regain the lost land of the old Siam kingdom to win+Stay alive ;)
When you say keep watching me suck ... Well at least your better then Drew
Well this is very interesting. I played vanilla as China a couple times and it's actually quite easy. I have tried Road to 56 once so far and it's going poorly like your first run did. I went with external assuming forming the united front would also absorb the warlords like in vanilla but it never happened. I will definitely try again with internal focus instead. Also most guides include a "quick reaction force" (QRF) which I keep cavalry for plus some INF divisions to plug up gaps where the Japanese invade that's not a dock. I too noticed that Road to 56 Japanese AI is far more aggressive with amphibious assaults. Usually you can keep your QRF around Nanjing and have no issues in vanilla but they love landing everywhere in large numbers. Definitely good on you to go to level 2 forts given how cheap they are to build.
Every guide I've seen said do not go to infantry equipment 1 because it takes more production but honestly? I'm gonna go against the common advice and say you did in fact do the right thing to upgrade. For 20% more production cost you double your soft attack. It is SO worth it. I even eventually added hospitals to my units to protect the xp but only after I had stabilized the front with enough divisions. Also note the more you research industry and build industry, the more the negative spirits go down.
Landing on coastlines is basically all the AI does. In one of my game Britain and the US dropped about 90 divisions into a single port-less tile. Surrounded them immediately, starved them out and won effortlessly.
Play as Ethiopia (Road Reccomended just so you can actually win the war) and beat Italy. Quick tip, DO NOT fall back to just your capital. Go to the province next to it as well (The one between the two rivers) and you will hold until you can push them back.
I'm not sure if it's changed since I last looked at this (probably has since this was back during 1.2.x or so) but on the hardest difficutly it actually used to be very easy to beat Italy (well at least in Africa, beating mainland Italy was less so lol).
Oh yea, its super easy to beat Italy as Ethiopia.
**Make Poland-Lithuania Stronk Again Challenge**
Play as Lithuania. Join whatever faction Poland does.
You must survive Germany & the USSR.
Bonus points if you can reconquer all the lands of Poland-Lithuania at its height.
Reserve a research slot for Mass Mob doctrine. Right side. Use the other slot for your research time, eventually use this slot on whatever else you wish. Preferably infantry equipment. Only build military factories, only produce guns and make 10 width infantry with no support. Spam these and you win. GG.
By the way no matter what country you're playing you should always reserve a research slot to a land doctrine. Even France.
-The Republic is triumphant
-Mao BTFO
-Warlords crushed
-Military, industry, economy and science of China fixed
-Japan BTFO
-T H I C C China
Truly the greatest timeline.
And the best part of this, no border gore at the end!
Take over the Southern Half of Africa as Democratic South Africa, Road to 56
As south africa he can take out lesotho
You are heccing lit, Alex
I'm being generous
Play as Siam, and take over the British Raj, Nepal, Bhutan (such a challenge), and Indochina. Feel free to go from there. (IDK take china or something)
I tried this as well, I couldn't do much against the warlords since China is unaligned so I buildt a fortified line along the northern border with landforts and fortified all the harbours. worked wonders.
i did loose some harbours some times but could eventually reclaim them afterwards, the Japanese lost lot of divisions from landings utside harbours.
The war as a stalemate for a long time until the USSR joined in and togethr with them I forced the Jpanese off the mainland.
Hi Alex, you can select all Divisions with the same Template if you double click one of them. You can then change their Template with the little green arrows under the Commander.
You can play as Madagascar
Play as France then type NOCB in console the click manage occupied territories then release Madagascar then type Tag (whatever Madagascar’s Tag is prolly MAD)
The second Chaco War challenge: Play as paraguay(1936) and take over Bolivia, which has a claim on your territory!
China and communist china are my 2 favorite play through's in r56. Internal stability is def the way to go as China. I usually build land forts first though and follow up with coast forts. I also keep my whole army, I just put a ton of the weak divisions on the coast and use the better divisions on the front line. Very similar to how you played except without the troop deleting. I also swap to the upgraded guns off the bat. I've played this setup a lot and I can beat Japan without losing an inch of territory. But it really depends on if the warlords fold or not as to how smoothly the game goes.
I've actually done something like this before, just that I wasn't allowed to use anything except basic infantry equipment, no tanks, no planes, no artillery. Just basic infantry equipment. Ships were unlimited though.
I won and it was worth all the pain.
Challenge: Millenium Dawn no factions but you can join one. Play as The Netherlands and you need to conquer former Dutch colonies and lands which are:
Belgium, Luxembourg, Suriname Indonesia, Papua new Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and you need to conquer New York
ayyy this was my suggestion :)
You know, when Alex said he got that sexual feeling, it sounded like the division he clicked on said "really?"
Wow, now i want to see a part 2 to this
take control of Argentina/ La plata. you can do whatever ideology you want and join any faction you want but your aim is to take over south and central america (including mexico) then see what happens with the USA.
9:54 the Best reaction to taiwan
Play hoi1
You meant that cool mod?
*How am I always early-hacks, always early for daddy*
Dantoxism hail trump
Question: The voices of the soldiers is a mod or is the vanilla hoi4?
*totally invested in infantry*
“Ah yes,Rommel of the east”
Thank god China doesn’t have problems with famines though
Do this as MAO
That actually would be a lot easier. Just increase communist support in Nationalist China. Doing so makes states rebel and switch sides. It makes it very easy to unite the two that way.
Du you have the 100% non vore manpower mod installed? It helps very much egen you play with smaller countries like for example Norway and Belgium. ;)
You can play as Madagascar if you play as France, go to manage territories tab, and release Madagascar.
But can you puppet the British Raj as Luxembourg?
also thanks for doing this challenge. :3
What computer do you have
As soon as I thought u were going to finally lose again u win
Play as democratic Latvia, Lithuania or Estonia. Join Międzymorze, outlast Germany. You can use road to 56.
(2nd try)
As Denmark take over the other Nordic countries, northern England, Scotland, and Eastern Canada. You can join factions and use road to 56.
Clearly you completed this challenge effectively because of my 'Giddy aunt' T-Shirt that I'm wearing. Not that you know how to play the game Or anything. Just the t-shirt.......
Oh my!
Use the Philippines to defeat the axis and control all off the commun nations in asia and more use road to 56 or any mod you like.
"They aren't suppose to land next to ports?!??" I have less than 200 hours in this game and I have played 4 games in witch they landed next to ports.
Wow Alex The Rambler actually won!
The AI next to ports most of the time. Thats why you build land forts in ports, as long as they don't capture a port they starve out.
What mod adds the bold colors to your countries
Play as brazil can use road to 56 and axis can join a faction your goal is to counquer north and south america
Just saying, I would NEVER recommend deleting inferior units, just switch them to your more powerful ones.
This was my favorite challenge.
As Sweden(Using Road to 56 and Formable Nations) form Scandinavia, including all Cores(So Leningrad, Estonia, Lithuania and Kola)
For a Qing (or Ming too maybe?) sized China, you need Mongolia, Tannu Tuva and Primorsk/Primorye which is part of Russia, the state which has the city Vladivostok
Play as democtratic Estonia and take control of the europe
İf you want you can join allies
Road 56 mod on
(Easy)
Easy....
Yes
Iron wolf Lithuania*
Blue Cat lithuania is hard but estonia easy
*Latvian SSR
As democratic UK, retake the thirteen colonies in America. Cannot join Axis.
My fav play though sofar was me as China, at war with Japan & the axis, The allies (Including USA) and the cominterm at the same time.
Japanse Assault by bejing, Naval invasion. Soviet union from the North with mongolia and sinkang and in the south Laos & Vietnam france along with british raj the americans, french, indians and british pushed in.
Actully pulled through and annexed all of them. China is so powerful :)
grr...
colenol, i'm tryna sneak around
but i'm dummy thicc
and the clap of my a-cheeks keep alerting japan
As Romania, control Rome. Road to 56 is allowed, no joining the axis, allies or comintern.
play as venezuela, and conquer all of north and south america, can use 56
One of your best games!
Hey alex, as any country try and get every other country in your faction... good luck. (You can have only 10 pupets).
you can dubble click to select all of the units that is the same unit
Play as Italy and annex Ethiopia You can join the Axis if you want because I know how hard this will be you can also use road to 56 if it makes it any easier.
What mod is this? the road 56?
Alex you shouldve only trained those bad divisions and created a horde of divsions
ey I tried to do this recently too, all I did was make trenches on border, become facist, ally germany and the most important part I kept screwing up on: DEFEND THE COAST. not with some men but a lot. at times when I was doing good (no coastal landings) I even had more divisions then Japan. the trenches allowed me to actually make my men competent unlike how the AI always seems super weak, though my men performed good without them too for some reason.
so is this a HOI4 channel now? last time i was here you played total war a lot
Do a play thru as Egypt and beT the alies you can create your own faction but can't join one and you may also use rode to 56
Cavalary is good its fast
And the "rubish" division is good to guard the ports
As Romania defeat the Soviet Union, Road to 56 allowed, Not allowed to go axis (but don't have to be allies).
Play as Austria, don’t get Anschlussed, take out the Reich, join the allies
Here’s a challenge I did myself so I know it can be done: Road to 56 mod play as Germany, restore the monarchy/Kaiser, join the allies and defeat the Axis/Novum Imperium Romanum and the Comintern
Play as Quebec (My home province) in the apres moi le deluge mod and conquer the northern hemisphere without changing ideologies.
To play as Madagascar play as France, hit manage territories and then release Madagascar and check *play as*
HOI 4 challenge: play as Peru with the goal to conquer everything south of the USA in the American continent. Road to 56 and no American guarantee independence mods are allowed. MAKE SOUTH AMERICA INTERESTING AGAIN!
damn, road to 56 is so op... no way rambler is completent enough to beat a challenge
Play as Czechoslovakia and take Berlin, Paris, and London by the year 1942(you can use Road 56)
You can play as Madagascar if you release it while playing as France. Also try playing as Israel ;)
-Alex post a video
-I see China in the title and then I see fat Alex
-now I want to know if he now the condition of the Chinese people in 1936
In Millennium Dawn release catalonia, play as it and defeat spain.
Challenge: Play as Lithuania and reject the demand for memel and defeat germany (no factions) also you can try to recapture Vilnius from the polish too
Here's one play as Iceland in millennium Dawn and recreate Scandinavia you may use no factions and coring states
(You must conquer Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the faroe island, and Greenland)
Goof-meister, just double click a unit and then you can select all divisions with the same template and delete them all at once.
A good satisfying result
What about some March of the Eagles?
what does the road to 56 mod actually do?
Play as France, create the Little Entente, deny Germany's claims in the Sudetenland, and have you or one of your little Entente members control Berlin.
You can play as Madagascar in Road to 56 by releasing them as France