Anastasia Romanov becomes Queen of Poland and forms the Slavic Union Hearts of Iron 4 No Step Back

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[@Taureor]

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9:22 I believe, it’s a small one though

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And 9:31

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I found one at 9:22

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40:00

[@coldy8500]

There's one at 38:26

[@polishcowboyweeb2948]

If you do this path, and have wojtek as a general, when you get to Moscow you can depose Anastasia and make Wojtek your king,

[@DmodeOfficial]

Is it true?

[@spiderkatter8059]

@@DmodeOfficial yes

[@marxistvalorie]

bruh we need king wojtek

[@lordmeow]

thats kinda mean

[@lordmeow]

But great meme material

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

I like how a recurring theme of this video is "my borders will look better" to justify decisions that make the borders look absolutely terrible in the case of both Greece and Romania.

[@stresseddictator1849]

The bigger the better

[@anymega3540]

Romania is somewhat fine being included in the Slavic union ( i say this as a Romanian) although Greece is kind of questionable lmao

[@big_2361]

I really wish there were more secret focuses like this in the game

[@mors2846]

Thats why i love Kaiserreich/redux. Its sometimes wacky, but very fun

[@lotr15]

I don't know if it has been brought up already, but there is an easier way to "truckify" your supply network, you can tell whole armies (and even army groups) to override the local supply through a little button right below the stats/medals of the commander. It is set to horses by default, but if you change it to trucks the game automatically uses trucks to supply that army

[@AccelEng]

Oh, really?.. Wait, I actually remember this button! Thanks for pointing it out.

[@yeetboiiiiii2488]

@Matt H It automatically switches off when your army leaves

Tannu Tuva's mastered the ability of standing so incredibly still that she become invisible to the eye.

[@rogerr.8507]

pulled a switzerland

[@lordmeow]

@@rogerr.8507 pulled a liechtenstein

[@SkeletonBoiiiii]

true

[@carltonleboss]

Pulled a San Marino

[@franjay5585]

Tannu what?

[@turtek12]

I love how annexing Slovakia and Yugoslavia just has "That actually worked?" as the event text.

[@yourlocalbicronoverlord]

“Anastasia” is probably the most successful conwoman in history

[@Groud0n]

No Step Back is a really good DLC

[@TheArklyte]

Mostly. I don't like how it overwrites previous DLC for Poland instead of making a patch for it and including something else other then Poland in it's place, for example shared focus tree for soviet republics akin to warlord/chinese investment one. Now I have inactive polish DLC that is overwritten by No Step Back. Can I get the money back?

[@mr.crowgamer6250]

@@TheArklyte true I kinda want my dlc money bk now

[@nildzrecastellanos]

@@TheArklyte You do know that the Polish DLC was free right?

[@TheArklyte]

@@nildzrecastellanos you're going to tell me that it came with the most basic version of HoI4 and didn't need a different edition, right? That is your statement, correct?

[@nildzrecastellanos]

@@TheArklyte Yes, the hoi4 wiki and even it's dev diary back then said that that is was free for everybody who owned Hoi4 even the base version. Unless they changed that since.

[@mrr9636]

[Spoilers for nsb Easter egg] I’m hoping to see Wojtek take the throne after Anastasia is proven fake.

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the firs thing i was thinking of when i read nsb was the Nationaal Socialistische Beweging, which is the nazi party in the Netherlands

[@masonchristensen1392]

" I actually overestimated the military strength of the Soviet Union" *Famous Last Words*

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[@cpt7752]

26:25 You can click on your Field Marshal or General and you can select for the whole group of armies to use motorized at the top left corner when you click on them. They will then use motorized in every state they have a division in.

[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

That was a pretty good ad. Well done Taureor!

[@dikedoke5553]

Ta zniewaga krwi wymaga. - Tauror 2021

[@Popmanpraise]

I’ve done some modding and from what I can tell bringing troops to their border does not impact whether or not the AI accepts. Of course, you may as well because if they say no you don’t have to move them there anyway.

[@Luca-ok6sw]

I will still always do it just for role play to be honest

[@BeefCurtain91]

Are you sure? Specifically when attempting to annex Slovakia doing this run, I am refused unless I have my troops on their border. The ensuing war to annex them spikes world tension and brings England into the mix.

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No Step Back turned out to be pretty interesting for me. I started a Turkey game. Germany started civil war and win. then went democratic still leading axis. soviet union had a civil war and its still ongoing. the uk invaded the netherlands, iraq and iran. communist china joined japanese faction declared war on czechoslovakia. usa and france joined the czech faction. incredible things happened. i didnt even try to expand since it was already fun. i just watch the world burn.

[@c0nscr1ptx]

I don't know if this has already been mentioned to you Taureor, but in the bottom right corner of your General's and Field Marshal's, the second icon (a horse) is your supply management. You can click the horse to change it to motorized or super motorized and it will automatically change the supply hubs transportation requirement, in the locations your armies are at, as needed. This can save you on trucks and micromanagement. By the way, thank you for your content and work.

[@rogerr.8507]

i tried this and my supply truck usage was 0 worldwide, /shrug

[@hawkenparker]

As a Texan, I'm wildly upset we don't have a saying like "this insult requires blood"

[@mydloSA]

Why

[@borzmir9326]

In Polish. "ta zniewaga krwi wymaga"

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How every Taureor game goes. Step 1: Play a cool path Step 2: Cut off the enemies entire army Step 3: Invade Russia or Brittan using order 66 Step 4: World Conquest

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not this one, this one was good.

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Taking "don't be like Hitler" to a whole other level.

[@Renamatic]

That lead in to the sponsorship was EPIC! I loved it haha. Love these videos so much

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love the transition to the sponsorship. seeing this made me boot up a game and use console commands to cover everyone in spies and i loved it

[@brendanrylak5843]

if you go down the path to get wojtek and take moscow as anastasia you can have wojtek become the king of poland

[@comradekat6394]

You see I both want to believe you cause that would be amazing but I also find that somewhat plausible because of the amount of crazy stuff paradox did this dlc. Are you serious?

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@@comradekat6394 He is. Proven. Check hoi subreddit.

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[@s_gren9981]

If Poland takes over the world it should be renamed to "MiędzyOcean" as an easter egg

[@masonchristensen1392]

Miedzymorz means "Between Seas" so i guess it would make sense?

[@s_gren9981]

@@masonchristensen1392 yes that is what I meant. It's just that when Poland would take over the world it would be between oceans and not just seas

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@@s_gren9981 Miedzyocean then, nice.

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@@masonchristensen1392 yes that is what I said in my comment lmao

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@@s_gren9981 I just didn't know ocean in polish was ocean lol

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[@forlegalreasonsthatwasajok7608]

I just know Tauror is having a field day playing Poland with all the new options and paths available

[@kungfumantis97]

My slavic heart started to beat faster when I heard Slavic Union.

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[@cauyawolfe4724]

Stalin would not let that stand. If Anastasia appeared in Poland he would invade it at any cost even if it meant killing half his army

[@CoffeeSuccubus]

And Stalin gets defeated after Tanmu tuva sneak attacks and Poland gets all the credit

[@djangodjango5694]

Perhaps, but in that scenario, Poland would probably also ally with Romania, Czechoslovakia, and perhaps even Germany (they did try to befriend Poland before until they saw it didn't work and just went straight to annexation). Also, during ww2, the USSR allowed some nationalistic soldiers to wave the imperial russian flag for extra motivation, a motivation which they would lose in an OFFENSIVE war specifically to get rid of the last Romanov. I give them exactly a 0% chance to win that war, they'd probably not even reach Warsaw

[@Prodigi50]

Considering that the USSR couldn’t even beat Finland at the time, I doubt they’d win against Poland.

[@lucidnonsense942]

Not necessarily, they were pretty committed to discrediting her as a fake and as research showed this year, USSR was correct. Attacking would justify her claim. I'd imagine it would be sometime gory, like digging up her 20 year old corpse, and putting it on display.

[@lordmeow]

@@lucidnonsense942 i agree but if they dug up the real anastasia wouldnt the polish be skeptical of the new king?

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one of the best transitions into an ad ive seen in a while

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"If some of my units get cut off, that's acceptable as long as I get Stalingrad" -Taureor -Hitler

[@2wodrqwoa]

One thing I did not expect from the dlc is the new nations in Russia able to be released, the fact that they gave them the ability to form new nations depending on their location is just great, adds a little extra content in case you run out of things to do.

[@onefastsled]

Tbh, thats not new. Almost all of those nations actually existed in the files for years, you just couldn’t make them because the Soviets had it all cored, and you couldn’t liberate them because they didn’t actually have any cores

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@@onefastsled huh, neat. Well, glad they got around to it.

[@onefastsled]

@@2wodrqwoa if you go looking for them, we had all their ideology flags, they just didn’t have cores attached to anything. So without mods they were effectively nonexistent

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I have never been more emotionally invested then in this Chick-fil-A Christmas ad

[@gamiezion]

i already didn't understand hoi4 and i understand even less of it now. as a minor nation i can hold out well enough and sometimes even take over some other countries if i don't join a faction, but that's about it.

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If you can't undersand extremly streamlined HOI4 then HOI3 would kill you.

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@@naox100 probably not, but then after having wasted my money on this game why would i waste it on another?

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watched your channel for years..always manage to respark my interest in this game everytime! good stuff!

[@ARIEFRAMDHANI02]

10:36 It's Ones Of The Best "Justify War Goal Paradox"

[@lui_pgd]

42:55 "If some of my units gets cut off, that's acceptable as long as I can get Stalingrad." -Adolf (1942)

[@mr.admr1016]

No step back is honestly one of the best dlc’s of hoi4, a-lot of content in it :) !

[@tywinlannister9391]

I was desperated that Anastasia cannot became tsarina. Taureor thank for all

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Lecimy na pełnej, nowy filmos do oglądania

[@GavinLiuranium]

Tannu Tuva in the thumbnail completely surrounded by Slavic Union be like: -this is fine- **MEN TYVA MEN**

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I thoroughly enjoyed this video Taureor

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I was legit having a very bad day, very stressed, then this video cheered me up

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[@Hondarama]

47:41 Not sure why the colour is green, but what I do know is that in CK2 you can form the Slavic Union as well (with a very similar coat of arms, to that flag) that has the same green colour.. So that might have something to do with it?

[@XochiCh]

Deep/Dark Green has always represented Slavs and more specifically, Russians in PDX Games, see Russia in CK2 and EU4, Slavic Union in Ck2, Russian Empire in Vicky 2, and Tsarist Russia in HoI4. Same way as Red being Bri'ish in all PDX games, or Deep Blue being French, Yellow Spanish, Light Green Italian, White Austrian, etc.

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Finally an original sponsorship I took the time to watch. Nice

[@Deitousbeenie]

The idea of Anastasia Romanov signing the Anti-Comintern Pact is some serious alt history.

[@serdardemirkol9714]

Warning! Long reading ahead Regarding supply system: Supply is carried from your capital to supply hubs via trains and distributed from said supply hubs with cavalry/trucks/lots of trucks based on your selection. The difference is trucks move faster and cover more area so your supply can reach more provinces and reach there faster. Some areas might still lack supply since there are too many troops there, you can try to overlap that area with multiple supply hubs. And rather than clicking each supply hub to select its motorization choice you can choose your field marshall's preference and it automatically changes the supply hubs his troops use to that preference. And supply hubs actually have another button on them that denies your allies to give supply so that they wont drain your troops' supply and cause attrition.

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[@cristinmarius]

I don't know if someone commented before, but you can see the changes made in the template by hovering over it before actually investing experience in it. Also in the ledger if you hover over the missing equipment, it will give you an estimation when supply will be met. I won't comment on the supply system as surely others did before me.

[@fonotex685]

26:37 Taureor: "Finland joins" News article: "Finland refuses to join Miedzymorze"

[@nathanpangilinan4397]

Somehow, Anastasia returned.

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Love the content man. That is a super interesting run!

[@mieszkothemigrantmercenary2808]

_Says English words in a Polish accent_ _Says Polish words in an English accent_ Ah yes *P A I N*

[@hanswurst6712]

Imagine Taureor as PM of Poland in the 1930s. Hitler: Gimme Danzig! Taureor: "There is a saying in polish: 56:19 "Tas nie wagasz, pieble waga" (or so, Bla Bla for any german ear like mine) "This Insult requires Blood!" Hitler: Ok, nevermind, have a nice day.

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Ta zniewaga krwi wymaga

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Super rozegrane scenario. Pozdrawiam :)

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Due to how smooth it was, this is the first sponsorship ad that I have ever watched

[@looseends9992]

Tauror there is a secret path with anasthasia where if you do the bear thingy and then take Moscow you can get him as your king.

[@maxstirnersego]

While not a KZbinr, me and my friend actually found Anastasia last night by complete accident. Was playing Multi-player with my friend who got the DLC and he kept going back and forth over which type of monarchist Poland he wanted to be, and after cycling too many times he accidentally found Anastasia. It was kinda cool

[@DytoxPrime]

How did it go?

[@maxstirnersego]

@@DytoxPrime we both barely knew the new & old metas, so despite us trying our best with killing Germonie, we got our asses handed to us by Soviets 8/10 good game

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Thanks for the best sponsorship!

[@Pera_StokeR]

u have a button to automaticly use motorized supply, when u select an army on the division menu u have it, its directly over split button, also when u r on strategiic map u can see hubs, if u click on it and the middle button of three that pop up it will automaticly construct an upgrade for 1 level of every railway from capital to that hub to construct

[@andrefreeman7025]

43:00 "Some of my units can get cut off. But that is acceptable as long as I get Stalingrad." (A. Hitler 1942 colorized...)

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That was cool, didnt know about this secret ruler. Lets do COSSACK KING next!

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Best Nord VPN commercial I've seen yet! Frakin awesome!

[@funtagekill1e]

me following the same steps and everything works perfectly until yugoslavie refused to bow down to me even tho i had more army and better relation then taureor :), idk how you do it man big props to you :)

[@Taureor]

Were they guaranteed or in a faction?

[@funtagekill1e]

@@Taureor no they only got guaranteed after they declined my subjugation

[@davidrodier7722]

I have the same problem with Yougoslavia... currently on my 4th attempts. 1st attempt they refused with 900k troops, fought them then annexed them. The run died when I did a mistake getting all the possible allies in (stupid events I needed to do before the focus). Going solo against the Soviet wasnt pretty. Second they refused with a little over 1mil troops but they might have been garantied by france but during my hesitation the british garanteed them lol. 3rd attempts refused with a solid 1.2m fully equiped troops (thanks to land leases), I was ready tho slowed down time and attacked them on the hour they refused, fought them and annexed them, on this one my mistake was to puppet the greck on an island then Italy F me over during the Russian war. 4th attemps im at the Yougoslavian doors with 1.2 mil man fully or 99% fully equip mans will they accept? Somehow 3 in 3 they refused so Im preping that they dont accepts. My only diffrence with the current strat is I rushed the other research slot, I got both service by requirement and war economies, I also got lots and lots of land leases during the romanian war. Planning on pumping lots of troops to continue the landlease until the greek falls and get fully annex that should give me reserves by 1939 which should be the end of my Yougo and greek war. Also Im french and makes lots of mistakes (spelling as well), but I dont surrender ;)

[@cybersnake16]

The seeecret ruler. Also pretty funny sponsership transition. i like it.

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Anyone else LOVE the sponsorship not because of the brand but because of the delivery?

[@griffinhunter3206]

I really love that the commintern still stayed alive til the end lol

[@MatthewZzzz0]

i was playing around with 24 width 9 inf , 2 motorized artillery. allows for 3 in every terrain and 4 in urban. nice soft attack and breakthrough for mostly inf. and can just change out the motorized artillery to motorized anti-air or anti-tank as needed without losing much xp

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[@ALTruckerDad]

Wait. Why "Motorized" artillery (The Artillery under the Motorized divisions) vs just the Artillery in the Infantry divisions? Other than making traversing some terrain worse, I can't see a benefit?

[@MatthewZzzz0]

@@ALTruckerDad you could. I was just playing around with mobile warfare for the few tank divs i could get. Motorized gets a little better bonuses over plain artillery.

[@cmlcorp]

Great video, I still cannot crack the width. It was funny you have mentioned eating once a day, I do that between 4-5 days a week

[@willynthepoorboys2]

Good work, thanks for the video.

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Great video mate

[@kingelessar4632]

I've followed the guide step by step, but in my game Yugoslavia doesn't accept annexation and as I get the war goal they are instantly guaranteed by the UK, so I can't invade them. Any idea why?

[@porkyminchasc1150]

Just some bad RNG. Hoi4 is unpredictable sometimes

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Thank you for the sponsorship thank you really

[@EF-by1kp]

When poland got new focusthree ME: crying in Italy

[@voidman2941]

In the new DLC there is a button on generals and field marshalls near its profile picture (it is small, you can look it up to see where it is) where you can click to make supply hubs around that army or armies switch to motorized or double motorized which makes supply very easy to manage.

[@turtle9294]

beautiful another taureor video

[@saiien2]

Czech lion in the "Slavic Union" flag without owning Czech lands at all. Damn I love HoI IV logic :D

[@Stan_Vanderakt]

Giving the Germans Danzig is not a safe strategy. Poznan and Katowice are still claimed territory after the focus, and they will still justify for that territory. Unless that bug has been fixed in 1.11

[@Jeff_Reyx]

After giving danzig to germany he will revoke claim from Poznan

[@Stan_Vanderakt]

@@Jeff_Reyx So the bug has been fixed. Because this happened in v1.10.* and earlier.

[@avoider707]

reaching stalingrad is a pain, its between rivers and that is a HUGE disadvantage. i had to do all sorts of manoeuvres to encircle the city and take it from the east.

[@rogerr.8507]

Protip: use shift click on your supply hubs somehow, it will highlight the range of the supply HUB. the more you know.

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the sponsor message was so original i actually watched it

[@Sahtoovi]

With the new DLC, being out of supply is very common and poor supply massively reduces the speed of your divisions, so making really fast tank divisions is now quite pointless and instead stacking soft attack is the way to go. Not related to the video, just a general thing

[@12gark]

The only thing that offset that is transport planes. 25 transport can supply a full army of 36W tanks or mechanized even in the middle of Russia or Africa. Of course that is gonna be nerfed soon, but for the moment, is definitely worth it if you can have green air. I ended up fighting inside the soviet Union against SSSR with basically zero train access, and had zero problems. I have to check how is the minimum number of planes needed, but I think is just 1.

[@samh.6788]

Super happy to see a new baby video. I myself have been making use of paratroopers which are a lot of fun now.

[@GustavoLauria1920]

Love your videos Taureor, much love from brazil.

[@16.chapel]

great video, and loving the new dlc content.

[@davidbascom5781]

There is a button you can press under each army/field martial at the top of the viewer when you click on it that will automatically change the supply hubs it is using to the wanted level of truck so you don't have to go and click each one individually

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