Beating Japan as China in 1936 - Hoi4 Speedrun Commentary

In this #hoi4 #japan #guide I explain in detail how to break the naval invasion cap with the fast naval invasion exploit. Taking over Japan as China in 1936 is just one example. The strategy can be applied universally. Subscribe for more!
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Full unedited China run: • Beating Japan in 1936 ...
Chapters:
00:00 - 00:51 China Build up
00:52 - 01:19 Fast War Against Japan
01:20 - 01:55 Max Divisions for China
01:56 - 03:11 Speedrun Explanation
03:12 - 03:46 China Focus Tree Rush
03:47 - 04:46 Awake and Angry Achievement
04:47 - 09:45 Naval Invasion Exploit
09:46 - 11:18 Capitulate Japan
11:19 - 12:59 Japan White Peace & Outro

[@Linesweeper]

I've found that stacking pp for improved relations with wife and negotiations is suboptimal. Saving up only enough for a political advisor and getting a feline prince of terror into finishing the focus "romantic gesture" into "southern strike doctrine" usually works better in my experience.

[@JohnAnber]

the real question is which PP are yoy stacking? 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@etherealhawk]

@@JohnAnber at a certain point, probably whichever PP the wife wants lmao

[@YouTube-usr88]

@@etherealhawk Cuck

[@hatless_spider]

Nice little speedrun! Everyone always talks about how hard it is to do all the focuses to get a wife: shower, clean your room, get a job, etc. etc. But no one ever discusses just how expensive it is in PP to negotiate with the wife adequate HOI4 time...

[@user-lp1qz7gj6w]

True

[@bigbenhgy]

Doesn't that path leads to civil war and divorce automatically? or can you still take that focus and avoid it?

[@dasher787]

@@bigbenhgy it operates by chance with a 70% chance of divorce. although if you do the focus "become redpilled and based" it flips the percentage points.

[@MattCobra55]

3:05 I literally laughed out loud. Subscribed

[@anti-mate407]

+1 lmao

[@samkaplun]

I'm so glad you are reviving this channel! As far as I know there's no one else out there explaining speedrunning strategies. Do whatever you need to with your personal life and however many videos you are able to make will be enough!

[@Stouzough]

Thank you so much. High quality videos, but finally I understood the naval invasions trick. It took me so long to catch, I may not be a good speedrun contestant... But this video explained it all.

[@jinjimar]

straight to the point guide, I love it. I hope your negotiations with your wife go well so that more guides can be made

[@sarmin8008]

You are a great presenter, I enjoyed this a lot. Would love to see more of these speedrun/exploit videos in the future

[@felipearenasbarr]

Great vid, thanks for the speedrun

[@Everest3000]

It's great that you're back man

[@inwector]

Excellent video, well done.

[@MC-nv4bo]

Just found this channel and loving the content

[@eddievanhalenhoward]

Hello from NZ. I have just stumbled across your channel and these are amazing. I cant wait to get a new computer to play HOI4 again. My Laptop just cant keep up anymore. Feels like its going to melt when it gets late game.

[@hyperion3135]

3:08 lmao xD

[@christianstahl4099]

Endlich mal eine Erklärung, wie ein Landungsunternehmen gegen eine militärisch überlegene Macht gelingen kann. Genau daran bin ich regelm. gescheitert.

[@jaxkommish]

There's not enough PP in my focus tree to open the decision "Wife is ok with me as professional HOI4 player" Best I can do is to justify war goals on Hallmark movies and get a non aggression pact for football season

[@SmashingCapital]

Nice bro

[@d1nowaur377]

Over 2k hrs and I did not know you can assign the naval invasion for over 10 div ty

[@dominikdrabek4733]

I would love to see some speedrun about conquering Germany as Poland

[@TKnightcrawler]

That's sick. :-D

[@gavins9846]

F*** ing hell the devs fixed the glitch. Now planning time is required every time you shift units to ongoing naval invasions.

[@m3an]

Sorry for the late reply. Took some time off. Yes, it's fixed but I already have a possible workaround. Will test soon.

[@mortenpoulsen1496]

Hey. The mire glitches they fix. The more you get out of the game

[@sqweebel1]

You should have 100x more subscribers, at minimum. Amazing stuff.

[@Rivaldix12]

You are literally giving me inspiration and passion to play this game. Thank you so much

[@G69zLmL]

You play Hoi4 AND have a wife? Impossible! Anyway, good video!

[@philipmpampos8893]

the naval invasion trick does not work anymore sadly

[@davidkolar62]

Found this out in the middle of my run lol. Still went for it and was so close to pulling it off. Took port of Hiroshima and was one tile away from having 50 divisions in home islands but got bounced.

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmm yes accurate guide

[@user-zb2ix6np2c]

NOOOoooo... it doesn't work after BBA anymore... They fix it :( well, I'm going to wait for your next mind-blow speedrun for china. And will you mind also showing how to beat Soviets too? Everytime try to take Mongolian, Soviets rush in. And pushing it from Siberia is even harder than beating Japan. If you push it with German, German will take most of the land since all victory points are on the west.

[@yingcaili8017]

crazy

[@401craft6]

stoopid challenge idea Do the Long Chile fastest possible (just taking west Americas coast provinces)

[@user-mj3gq2ev2e]

日本に焦点を当ててくれて嬉しいです😆

[@cutebears2696]

i would like to see all chinese cores unified speedrun

[@whatsup8583]

I forget China have Navy

[@topppps]

9:20 interesting

[@aa-ze1kh]

Want a qing china speedrun for annex America,thanks.

[@FunnyMomentsTV2000]

3:03 hahaha

[@appleriverside4374]

I call this the Genghis Khan strat

[@ryanan8082]

except genghis khan didnt manage to get to japan

[@Chrischi4598]

Ghengis Khan world be proud

[@idahojack9501]

i’ve tried this method a lot, and found that there are always divisions on osaka and hiroshima, is this based on anything game-wise or luck based?

[@m3an]

I'm pretty sure that I address that in my explanation. You have to keep an eye on exactly those high value VPs and if there's a division garrisoning it, you need to bait it away from that tile or hope for it to move away by itself. It's crucial to pin any divisions trying to reinforce those VPs.

[@alted2749]

well done. next try playing eu4 and do a byzantium to Rome speedrun

[@pichitmuniinformation1170]

May I ask why, when the Japanese landed on the ground, declared war and waited an hour, why didn't the ship go???!!!!

[@anti-mate407]

is this doable with all the current dlcs? (excluding the new italian/swiss/ethiopeian dlc)

[@m3an]

Yes

[@anti-mate407]

@@m3an thz

[@matthewredman7814]

I think this is patched now, I cant unassign the naval divisions

[@risingseniora8672]

I just play hoi4 in my spare time

[@lordodin5755]

Aye justifying a game goal on the wife has a bunch of negative modifiers causing it to be very costly.

[@zyncreas6949]

I think they might have patched this because when I tried it, it only let me assign the new invasions after they had landed

[@m3an]

You need to unassign the divisions after they've left the port, otherwise the capacity for naval invasions remains fully used.

[@zyncreas6949]

@@m3an ah ok, thanks

[@Double-trouble]

Great video, is this still working?

[@m3an]

Thanks and yes it does.

[@zhivkozhivov4428]

Can you do speedrun with Communist China?

[@Claytonrullman]

I killed China October 14 1937 in a mp lobby and player China rage quit 😅

[@bartomiejpytel112]

@m3an - is this still possible to execute?

[@m3an]

Unfortunately no. At least not like this. Day-1 invasions still work in 1.12, but naval spam (sending wave after wave without delay) has been patched.

[@Ulikime]

@@m3an Actually, not fully patched. You may send 10 divisions, stop battle plan, unassigne one division that leave port, assigne one extra division, unassigne one more attacking division and launch the battle plan again. After that, it can be repeated more simple, because one invasion slot is available. It is more difficult than previous version and may not be useful for China, but still kinda work :)

[@rasyaar5124]

it worked but my army is getting destroyed on the island and japan wont capitulate

[@m3an]

Sorry for the late reply, didn't get a notification for your comment for some reason. The run is very fragile when it comes to landing in Japan. You absolutely need to avoid combat and instead try to bait hostile divisions off of VPs instead of fighting them directly.

[@rasyaar5124]

@@m3an thx for the help ill try again

[@rasyaar5124]

@@m3an OMG THX IT WORKED NOW

[@m3an]

@@rasyaar5124 Happy to read that. Well done!

[@Unknown-bu7mu]

does it still work?

[@m3an]

Naval invasion spam does not work anymore.

[@flateric-man5759]

I am pretty sure this is outdated as you are not able to do the naval exploit anymore.

[@m3an]

Hasn't been fixed yet. Have just used it in a run yesterday.

[@flateric-man5759]

@@m3an oh okay, then it might be me doing it wrong.

[@chevuzmaj9471]

doesnt work, they pathed it

[@axeldiver]

does it still work? :)

[@m3an]

Unfortunately not. Naval spam was fixed. But I'm working on an update.

[@axeldiver]

@@m3an ah nice!! Looking forward to the update then! Subbed :)

[@kianvandenberg6364]

@@m3anWhen will it release?

[@fipeke]

Idk why but this simply doesnt work for me. im doing the exact same thing as you are

[@m3an]

Can't say with this little info to work with. Find me on Discord if you want to talk it through.

[@fipeke]

@@m3an i figured it out. i used escort mission instead of naval invasion on my fleet. changed it and it worked just fine

[@isaiahhoughton3701]

No longer works

[@kuzeydemir910]

Can you do this as commie china?

[@azh698]

If you go for social democracy.

[@Mathaeus93]

Outdated!

[@lutherreeves4219]

𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕞 ❗

[@Halcon_Sierreno]

How can Ukraine do the same to Russia right now?

You are rather a hacker instead of gamer. What you doing in this video is not real. For example with 15 early chineese ships you can't reach naval superiority on 5-6 areas vs japanesee fleet LOL. But it must be admitted that you make good use of the game's flaws.