Crushing the Allies in May 1936 - Hoi4 Germany Speedrun Commentary

Hoi4 Germany speedrun guide on how to defeat the Allies as fast as possible in By Blood Alone / v1.12. I'm working on a longer video rn, so this is just a quick fix until it's ready.

This Hearts of Iron 4 campaign was played with all DLCs, on Ironman and historical. Technically there's a faster way by waiting for the UKs guarantee on Yugo before declaring, but you'd have to secure a port in Britain and defeat France with a single naval invasion wave of 10 divisions. Doable, but requires a lot of luck and grinding.

Why is Mr Mustache censored? - This is the German version of Hoi4 and it comes like that. And as you know I play without mods.

If you're curious about Hoi4 speedrunning, feel free to check out the leaderboards and Discord community. But please, for the love of god, read the rules before recording and submitting your runs!

[dvtch]

i rush germany and poland as ussr at mid-late 1937 and this man defeats the allies without paratroopers at mid 1936

[AndersonNeo]

General in WWII: "my Blitzkrieg is so fast, it will be done in a couple of years!"
Speedrunner: "too slow" 🤭

[Linesweeper]

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.

[NikitaKartomin]

Glad this guy wasn't in charge in 1936

[Tyler-nhop]

When you learn more in a 12 minute speed run video than you did watching 50+ hours of tommyk

[man]

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.

[ed_goblin]

This is perhaps the most mathematically perfect play I've ever seen.

[EnduringGamer]

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.

[evill]

I just defeated the allies as Italy in January 1937 thinking I was fast and then I see this lol

[MariuszWojcik-rwub]

Your approach is exactly what was missing in all speedrun I ever watched. Great job.

[fakharhayatadil]

that array spiking was really interesting! Great Video as always :D

[johnyvanbaxter]

I finished my construction research and this guy conquer the world. 😅😂🤣

[strake]

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 😅

[gasbilll]

Very pleasant watch, well produced video man, thoroughly enjoyed!

[timbizi]

This always motivates me to pick up HoI4 again. I very much hope that you can stay motivated as well

[AldiePezeh]

I'm always highly entertained by your shenanigans.

[MariuszWojcik-rwub]

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.

[RehanKhan-ewok]

Bro defeating allies-
Transmission from the United States of America: USA joined Allies💀

[austria-hungary]

The Austrian Painter has been real quiet since this dropped

[nimroddragon]

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!