Austrian Reverse Anschluss in Hearts of Iron 4

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The challenge is to play as Austria and refuse the Anschluss by Germany. Then we need to defeat Germany. We start with a small army and very little time, because the Anschluss happens in early 1938. We have to be ready by then. Pulling the reverse card on Germany!
Hearts of Iron IV Austria challenge.
Rules:
- Play as Austria
- Refuse Anschluss
- take over Germany
- Ironman
What did I do wrong, what did I do right? What should my next challenge be, if any. Let me know in the comments.
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[@rileywilsonepicarcher9995]

Evil Taureor be like “Non-historical, Ironman mode OFF”

[@hamper6511]

Speaks like a cowboy

[@bruhmoment3478]

"Research all, annex *insert country* "

[@Flow86767]

« Using civilian difficulty and custom game rules »

[@Prauwlet213]

Let’s STOP

[@5nhyfiery]

So evil

[@mahimahi42]

15:01 Taureor: Shouldn't Hungay be flipping to fascist about now? Hungary: *immediately flips fascist*

[@XochiCh]

Love that, its almost like the AI listened to him.

[@siyacer]

Hungay

[@someguyontheinternet604]

Hungary: Shit you're right

[@electricVGC]

finally taureor doing a challenge again, love to see it. want to see you win the Spanish civil war as the Carlists and retake France, that would be cool

[@IzZMiDNiiteZz]

Do this!

[@cowsgobark]

I want to see an anarchist Spain raj puppet!

[@henriquemachado9941]

World conquer as Anarquists. They can core everything. Right?

[@extremify]

This is cool

[@Prussia_]

Before Germany steamrolls them

[@rbjensen530]

I can't even imagine how paranoid Stalin would be if there was signs there was an intelligence network this extensive in the USSR...

[@samuel.8250]

He'd have a heart attack...

[@lordmilchreis1885]

@@samuel.8250 Oh wait...

[@andyhx2]

29:43 Soviets probabaly didn't get scared. You can rarely scare historical AI... They have non-agression pact with your faction leader so they cannot attack you.

[@gamerdudegalaxy9490]

Taureor: **Annexes Germany as Austria** Me: **Can't even defeat Germany as France**

[@mikev4135]

Dont worry dude! It's definitely a challenge. The germans always fight to the last man

[@TSP05]

It is not that easy.

[@pels_stacked]

France is meant to lose the Germans are crazy buffed

[@zacharybaker770]

you think thats bad i cant even beat france as germany.

[@Jacobulous]

I couldn't even invade Poland as Germany

[@ShirakamiKaiser]

Taureor's reverse impossible events goes like >Turn Right >Join Axis >Conquer neighbors >Take down Soviets >Leave Axis >Atttack Germany

[@Telenil]

40:30 "Go take me Stalingrad, nothing else matters. Gogogo. I know the supply situation is difficult, you'll figure it out." "We're being pushed back. If we lose now, I'm going to be really pissed." - Taureor, and also real German leaders in WW2.

[@joehartoon]

I love Ironman, Historical...because when me and my friends play that's what we practice for.

[@silent4775]

as an austrian it makes me proud to see that here take my SCHNITZEL

[@simpli_histori]

None of my friends play hoi4

[@ahmetzog9593]

hey taureor! love your videos. maybe someday you could do a bitt3rsteel collab or mountain general. i loved those videos with the multiplayer, and these single player videos are always great. keep up the good work

[@hussainq80]

Imagine all 3 collab. Goddamn that would be too good hahah. Maybe throw in isorrowproductions too :)

[@ahmetzog9593]

@@hussainq80 ofc isp as well. the best collab

[@thiccchungo1041]

I love how while Germany was encircled at the end the allies kept lobbing nukes at them, basically just held the Germans down while the Allies slapped them around

[@grandly2214]

I would love to see more non historical gameplay. It adds a bit more randomness and silliness to the game which might not be ideal for challenges but would surely be as fun to watch as historical is. Keep up the nice content Taureor love from Greece 👍

[@shinyaltaria1388]

Remember spaces for dots on KZbin, as if you don't it creates a useless link.this is an example.

[@grandly2214]

@@shinyaltaria1388 fixed it so thanks for the heads up

[@rinaldoongeri4826]

I am glad that PDX is reworking the peace conference system. It is desperately in need of a rework!

[@mYnAME-ww9iv]

Say, they rework it completely to make 2 times more tolerable, but: 0 * 2 = 0 In short, still shit.

[@monkeydetonation]

You should have formed Austria Hungary at the end. It would have been as simple as annexing your puppets and walking into croatia during war with germany

[@hallowseevee]

Taureor, keep doing what you’re doing :)

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

He already did this He conquered only continental Asia but I fail to see how a full world conquest would be too different. In fact I think a full conquest would be more boring as just annexing South American countries becomes very boring very quickly.

[@hallowseevee]

@@aidenbooksmith2351 oooh ok sorry

[@Kurock1000]

Historical for this, achievement runs, and random for stuff like the last episode and red Greece.

[@tessfairfield6435]

I really enjoy random and non-historical runs, keeps things interesting

[@jellyrolls2765]

42:00 factory repair speed increases the speed that civ factories repair things at, free repair speed increases the speed that buildings heal themselves at automatically

[@tableprinterdoor]

Challenge: Ethiopia annexes Italy Also btw 16:15 quandale dingle

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

I have always been a fan of challenges where you have to influence the world. So I have two ideas in mind: Challenge 1 spread two different ideologies (for example, turn all Allies majors communist and all Axis and Comintern members democratic) Challenge 2: be the best sidekick there is! As any nation, make an ally very powerful. You must always make them constantly more powerful than you, and always ensure to annex more territories to them than to you. The trick here is that you have to rely on their competence and not yours, and we all know relying on the AI is crazy difficult.

[@bbc_news9348]

Always a good day when the number 1 polish person uploads

[@taboret3280]

He isnt Polish

[@asmunlu3689]

"Soldiers! Exercise!" "But we don't have anything, any guns or.." "Just play call of duty or something..."

[@darthsidious1004]

Amazing content Taureor keep doing what you do best 👍👍👍👍

[@jessethrasher7487]

I think a mix of historical non historical and full random at differing times would be best because it pleases all parties but it should still be fun for you. Thank you so much for these videos taureor your awesome!!!!!❤

[@FelipeTempestad17]

The Most border Gore scene I have seen in a while and I love it!!

[@dorktriogamer2865]

I like the idea about challenges being historical, makes me think I might be able to follow suit, which apparently isn't true lol

[@LukasBlack2003]

Finaly, your firstz austria video is one of my favourites.

[@thekorv95]

I always greatly appreciate your videos

[@asmunlu3689]

"We have the best guns." "Where?" "We researched them. Just didn't produce them yet😁"

[@asmunlu3689]

"Come on guys, go to the frontlines!" "But we don't have any guns or equipments?" "Guns are on the way, guns are on the way!"

[@shivanshverma2825]

Keep it up mate!

[@Duffy997]

I think in terms of historical or non historical. It would be cool to see the non historical as a major, because there's a greater chance your traditional allies go against you and you will end up fighting harder or unexpected opponents. For smaller nations I think historical is best because you have a actual chance of knowing where the enemy will go

[@anondescriptbullet]

I love this return to your roots. reminds me of the Albania video

[@user-pn7jz9vr2z]

You could have sent volunteers to axis members to help them defeat D-day and restore Italy If you send them to each member, with the amount of divisions you had , you prob could have made a difference

[@peoplesrepublicofliberland5606]

Austria Should have the ability to Core all German Claims and all Austria-Hungary claims

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

I think they can claim AH can't they

[@ciprianhreniuc3320]

22:07 As a Romanian myself I can confirm this.

[@Isa_C729]

1:52 I love how you say forming the Austria Hungarian empire will be unrealistic when you are literally anschlussing Germany as Austria

[@fritz7558]

I like it when its historical so its easier replement

[@Jordan-fp8fc]

I love your content!

[@AmazingMan5982]

I think you should do a mix, so you start with historical, then non-historical, then random. Then repeat in that order

[@monkeydetonation]

Personally I do historical if I'm playing a minor who is particularly vulnerable to the ahistorical paths, and I have a specific goal in mind. If I'm playing a major I'll turn off historical as I'm pretty confident I can take whatever the game might throw at me, and I find the chaos can be quite funny at times

[@bodhisfattva7462]

you really need to look into using max armor light flame and recon units in your inf divisions even if it is just 1-2 armies worth and use that for your pushing and everyone else just holds the line...mostly unpierceable infantry means you dont near nearly as many units and the extra firepower helps to melt opposing infantry.

[@AureliusmonkGuitarGarage]

You should do a Siam Run (challenges, Political Shifting, Exploits, etc.) Love the channel! Hope to see my request :)

[@youtubeman1]

i would love to see you play non-historical every once in a while, i think it will be very interesting and fun

[@iGamezRo]

Fun-fact: The name for the Fascist Austrian leader is correct. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was Chancellor of Austria for the last 2 days before the Anschluss and the Reichsstatthalter of Austria for one year. And as another fun-fact, his name is also used for RK Netherlands, because he also was the Reichskommisar for the Netherlands since its creation to the final Nazi surrender. He was also Deputy Governer-General of the General Goverment (occupied Poland). He would be judged at Nuremberg and executed for his crimes.

[@KrylMcDoingleBoingle]

why do you talk so soothingly and in a whispering tone? i like it

[@qazxl123]

"Perhaps I should suffer more casualties."

[@mrsigmagrinder8737]

this is epic

[@NormalPerson45]

love tour videos!

[@epicness5732]

It would be cool if you did a very navy heavy challenge. It seems that you don't play around with navies very often!

[@anubis0REAL]

Taureor, been watching your channel since the iceland no factories challenge, and loving every moment of it! I also have a challenge. the Love Train challenge (like the song). Play as USA, go communist, and then conquer ONLY (and in this order): England, Russia, China, a decent amount of africa, egypt, and what would be israel. Nobody else (this means liberate uk puppets), and puppet the countries in the list of you want to

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

Interesting. Why this particular list and order?

[@anubis0REAL]

@@aidenbooksmith2351 Because in the song Love Train by The O'Jays thats the order in which the countries were mentioned

[@pontos1677]

Yey Upload

[@wouterkootstra9972]

Liking the video on principle!:D

[@madde9456]

I like historical more but mixing with random somethimes is also fun

[@drosso4956]

Utter chaos please, makes it far more entertaining

[@lanarid]

Germany did not do Danzing and War because you stole their manpower as Austria and by stealing Czechoslovakia :D

[@Ekoperation]

You should do a series where you get every achievement

[@taurian133]

HI man, nice vids you keep giving us, waited long time for another "challenge". BTW, I know that many people over the years said that "order 66" doesnt work anymore, but I am afraid that now its true, with new DLC and with new rework of suply, your units can stay in enemy teritory but will slowly lose their HP until they die, is there any work-around for this?

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

If you have mil access, shouldn't you be fine?

[@opthree3]

True

[@JayPeePee13]

Taureor, I have a challenge for you, as Algeria, Tunisia, or Morocco, form the Caliphate of Cordoba... all of the Caliphate

[@annurissimo1082]

Historical, Ironman is basically a catchphrase at this point. You can't just drop it like that!

[@QuarbitGaming]

and here I can't even do the austria-hungary achievement like a normal person

[@rndomclipz2431]

Challenge: Austria needs to take germany. Taureor's Adaptation: Conquer all the balkans, russia and THEN germany

[@thecynicpyro]

This might be the most convoluted way to beat Germany as Austria

[@mses0012]

Hi taureor, always glad seeing you upload a video!

[@NotKnafo]

a bit funny how the bohemian empire dont even own bohemia

[@ronstoppable5198]

24:45. The national animal of Austria is the Black Eagle.

[@kennethmitchell1418]

That’s gotta be the best faction name

[@YouTubeisgettingworse.]

A bit ironic that Taureor struggled for so long with Stalingrad. 40:33

[@gmodgrunt]

next time can you do a historical playthrough of Switzerland?

[@zeliospetkoglou1009]

Even if u attack a country that isnt guaranted by the allies, and u are in the axis they will still join when u declare war on them.

[@romanpetryshun6426]

You should do historical for reverse anschluss, because you need germany to be able to do an anschluss

[@rubiepie1158]

Ngl I hope in the future where, Austria got a focus tree. There's should be an option. If your are facist, Nation. And Germany is having a civil war. There should be a option to recruit exhale/escapist Generals or staff. When the civil war ended.

[@autoclockk]

Taureor you know you can disable the tutorial tool tips in the ESC menu right?

[@poopandbacon]

Hey @Taureor, could you try this challenge again but instead fight germany when they try to annex you?

[@6th_Army]

I will say this everytime. If you control Bessarabia and the other Romanian lands the Soviets wants. You loose nothing by rejecting their demands. They get a war goal on Romania. Even if Romania doesn't exist.

[@rumo893]

Maybe you could improve training divisions by disallowing them to use anything except Basic infantry equipment

[@mbogdan]

Hello Taureor! I think it would be nice if you make a video as Germany and try defeating the Allies, Soviet Union and USA.

[@colinmucksavage7362]

Can you possibly do an updated version of Spain taking the Americans I cant get past the civil war

[@guardianx51]

One other suggestion regarding non-historical gameplay: Aside from using it for when you're just messing around, you should also use it for when you're playing a path you're already familiar with. For example: You've yet to tackle the UK's Fascist Path (at least, the one they got in Man the Guns), so I'd say that would justify playing with historical focuses turned on. However, if you decided to play another video where you went monarchist as Poland and put Friedrich Christiansen in power, you should go non-historical.

[@ven7165]

i prefer historical because i want to know if something is actually possible (like tsarist russia winning against germany), but nonhistorical is alright too

[@greaterbelgiummapping1266]

hi taureor im a huge fan

[@justinchase6666]

Its more fun going max entrenchment and beating the germans 1 v 1. the soviets start ww1 by going on poland. its fun af

[@lorenzomautino3708]

I think you need to use more the supply system, if you have two unit's with half of the equipment that is consuming like two entire units, instead you should focus on having all your troops with supply's, also the fact that you didn't solve the supply issues, like you need to plan the advances focusing on cutting the Soviet supplies and instead of taking more land you should stop the advances after you conquered a supply depot, also of course you need to upgrade the trains and check if the soviets destroyed the supply on an area, you could build train lines on german land and get more supply that way. Wasting ten seconds looking at the lines of supplies is better than wasting all of your manpower.

[@rockstachpl99]

New challange: in another challange launch coup in poland and success (dont forget about location)

[@marrowkaiproductions7053]

Non historical please I love the randomness

[@MatthewZzzz0]

always forget to select target for coup's lol

[@MapletreePaper]

I find the best way to avoid the Anschluss as Austria is to turn communist and join the Comintern as soon as possible. I'm not sure why, but that prevents the Anschluss event from even firing. At least it does assuming Germany hasn't started the Anschluss focus when you join.

[@lgpa565]

A true uno reverse card

[@aidan9411]

Taureor: Unofficial challenge, called paint it all red, become communist and have either collab or puppets for ever nation as a communist government. Preferably communist Italy

[@thecrowproductions3777]

The best part is that austria has Trento

[@xxTheWhiteTiger]

i like your videos, play more random and non historical if not trying to achieve anything

[@ronkaufhold6253]

could someone tell me which DLC i need in order to assign my generals traits. like the one where i can decide which they get. i have lost complete oversight over all the DLCs and dont wanna make a mistake

[@kedronmallia939]

28:30 The soviet union doesnt get a war goal on you if romania doesnt exist. I think because they would only get a war goal on romania and not who owns the land. Which is weird.

[@sprites75]

Germany forgot to give back Alsace-Lorraine, it seems

[@Notazomb6319]

I've done this on my like 7th play through

[@TimothyCrain322]

Yugoslavia : yeah Croatia is never gonna break away. Croatia :yooooooooooooo Yugoslavia! Yugoslavia WTH🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 Yugoslavia * kills Croatia * Austria* puppets Yugoslavia* Croatia* breaks away wall Austria puppet Yugoslavia* Croatia perfect revenge😈

[@disasterratio1388]

Why don’t you try anarchist Spain? I think it’s fun to play

[@urlocalmonarchist7716]

This i love, this I dream abt at night

[@XiaoPrimate]

Ironman + Historical