Capitulate All Major Nations in 1936 - Hoi4 Germany Speedrun Commentary

#Hoi4 Germany #speedrun guide with commentary to beat Hearts of Iron 4 in december of 1936. The run was played with all DLCs, on Ironman and historical. No DLC is needed to replicate this strategy, although Together for Victory is quite helpful.
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Full segmented run: • Hearts of Iron 4 Speed...
The intro was made with material from Call of Duty: WW2.
There are plenty of exploits involved, so it might very well be that this guide won't work in future versions. But you can always rollback to 1.11 if you want to or check my channel for an updated guide.
Chapters:
00:00 - 00:34 Germany Speedrun Intro
00:35 - 09:01 Yugostrat Explained
09:02 - 10:33 Faction Control Explained
10:34 - 12:00 Order 66 and Resistance
12:01 - 13:36 Fast Naval Invasions Explained
13:37 - 14:25 Major-Minor Mechanics Explained
14:26 - 22:57 Allies Reloaded
22:58 - 26:49 Capitulate Japan
26:50 - 33:02 Capitulate USA
33:03 - 38:57 Capitulate Soviet Union
38:58 - 40:58 Strategy Talk & Outro

[@m3an]

I finally took the time to work out an All Majors strategy. Hope you guys enjoy! If there are any questions left after the video, please go ahead and ask! Thank you guys for your support. It took plenty of time to make this so I really hope you enjoy it.

[@2905liflaf]

game over, impressive!

[@urbsoce]

amazing video, thank you for your time and effort in doing this. I really like your explanations. I'm going to have a lot of fun doing something similar.

[@ipuny9774]

Nice run!

[@weifengzhang6490]

Imagine being a german cavalry officer, enlisting in January wanting to protect your country, coming home by Christmas after participating in the ambitious false flag operation in Yugoslavia leading to the dual naval invasions of the UK and France, the strategic overthrow of Mussolini's Italy, the 7 day war against Poland that was won on a technicality, before being ordered to ride all the way down through Africa only to be stopped half way and shipped off to Madagascar, joining the Chinese war against Japanese aggression one year too early because hitler allied the Chinese and declared a preemptive strike against japan, immediately after which your unit is disbanded and you plus your horse is somehow moved too Cuba for the naval invasion of the US, finally returning to the fatherland, given a rifle, and sent to the eastern front for the final war against Bolshevism.

[@m3an]

I love this. I also have a pure cavalry speedrun coming up which is magnitutes more absurd.

[@kepler4739]

A trip around the world

[@blubb9004]

@@m3an How can the 'absurdity' of this be even greater? :-D

[@IkarosVonVoid]

Damm the soldier saw all the world in one year.

[@reservoirdogsbae9053]

Fuck that, imagine being the official in charge of garrisons.

[@reeceshugrue6167]

Don't let this man near a time machine

[@qaz120120]

None of today's problems would be imaginable if he got into the machine

[@DeutschSozialUnion]

Actually no, please let him

[@unique00925]

He is the only one who can say "Germany could've won if..."

[@eluc_s2510]

@@DeutschSozialUnion You wish Germany won ww2?

[@DeutschSozialUnion]

@@eluc_s2510 Of Course

[@El_Presidente_5337]

"Hoi4 is a reasonable realistic strategy game." Hoi4:

[@creeperminecraft294]

hoi4: luxembourg defeats the uk and germany

[@dison1172]

“Every problem has a solution if you waste enough hours of your life” words to live by lol

[@Tom-oj7si]

Words to waste your legacy by, you mean

[@jifeng2429]

Not love

[@legolukeskywalkerstromtrop2517]

That making Czechoslovakia faction leader strat is so smart, Canada is always a pain to invade. Amazing video I always learn something new whenever I watch your vids.

[@m3an]

Thank you!

[@rogofos]

navally invades you occupies the entire country refuses to elaborate moves on, leaving no garrisons

[@Pribumi1]

The soldiers that invades you suddenly become farmers and factory workers in the local town There are also overpopulation of horses all accross the world

[@sephikong8323]

Stalin when hearing that Geermany conquered the entire world whilst he was on holidays at Sochi :

[@bubblebum7860]

My brain has a hard time processing all of this happening in early 1936. I was like "Is he gonna battle plan through Czechoslovakian lvl 7 forts? Good luck with that!".

[@m3an]

I hope I was able to make it less confusing with my explanations or do I skip to much of the basics?

[@bubblebum7860]

@@m3an no, your explanation is on point, its just my brain refusing to acknowledge its still that early in the game

[@archer8849]

in 1936 they don't have lvl 7 forts yet. they have to do 3 focuses by 1938 to get them to 7

[@hatless_spider]

I'm one of those people who doesn't like order 66, but IMO this is its proper usage. because you are utilizing it as part of a well thought out strategy rather than using it as part of a regular game where you use it to shut off your brain and auto-win

[@rokloknita9494]

All majors before 37? That's impressive.

[@m3an]

Thank you! I have another strat to do it faster, but haven't had the time to record it yet.

[@Magicninja01]

​@@m3anWhat did you change? How is it possible to improve it? My record was 1942, you can do it in 1936 and explain it so well that i could do it.

[@trendisty6160]

This is insane, when you were invading the US i thought they'd have too much divisions, but then remembered it was still 1936 lmao. Amazing stuff man, watched the whole thing.

[@m3an]

Thank you! Glad to hear it was worth the effort.

[@chowder130]

Very high quality production. Listening to you explain anything in this game is endlessly entertaining, to say nothing of just how much I learned in 41 minutes. Your hard work and dedication paid off immensely.

[@m3an]

Thank you very much! Honestly means a lot, since it's not easy to make time inbetween work and family so your comments are really what motivates me to keep at it.

[@thijsbloem2119]

This whole channel reinforces the prejudice that germans want to be as efficient as possible

[@urbsoce]

this video is so good, all by end of 1936 is shocking, feel like ive been playing this game the wrong way

[@leanders.8880]

Thank you so much for this amazing run. The video was really fun to watch, especially with the great editing and the detailed explanations. You definetly deserve more attention. Keep up your great work!

[@m3an]

I'm happy you enjoyed it! I'll probably experiment with thumbnails and title a bit in the future to see if I can get some more views on this video before it becomes more or less useless with the next big update.

[@ac4694]

Its very first video of yours that I am watching. Honestly I am so glad to finally see a serious commentary witohut memes and so on. Great job!

[@letsplaypetrus4802]

Really nice speedrun and explenation and congrats on the intro, that was very well made.

[@jinjimar]

glad to see you back, looking forward for more vids

[@maximemonin3725]

I just wanted to say that you're part of the amazing people who explain something really hard the easiest way and it just makes your video so enjoyable Amazing gameplay, made me understood how airforce works lol

[@m3an]

Thank you very much! I hope to follow up with a new video next week if all works out.

[@smacky101]

Love your speedruns. Absolute gem of a channel. Hope the growth continues. I recommend you to my hoi4 loving friends :)

[@m3an]

Thank you! Much appreciated!

[@125discipline2]

this is not ordinary blitzkrieg.... this is.. advanced blitzkrieg.

[@Avalanche_Mudder04]

I appreciate the time and effort you took with the editing, and all the info you provided.

[@m3an]

Thank you! I enjoyed making the video, but it's really motivating to know that you actually like it!

[@janslavik5284]

What an incredible video. I might have 2000 hours in HoI4 but if you asked me if this was possible I would have said a hard nope. You explained everything very clearly which is quite rare for a HoI4 video 😆

[@romulusnuma116]

Great Video never knew HOI4 speedruns could be so interesting

[@thecirclegamer2118]

Super smart and well done!

[@Cris1Mac]

Found this video by chance. Wow very impressive. Video is really well done. Good explanation as you go. You have a new sub sir!

[@m3an]

Thank you and glad that you found your way here =) If you don't mind, I'd be very interested to know how you discovered the video. I'm still rather inexperienced in expanding the channel audience.

[@Cris1Mac]

@@m3an Well I was watching a video from Feedback and finished it was looking at the recommended videos and it had your fastest Allies capitulate video. Never seen it there before and watched it. Liked it a lot and started watching more videos of yours. So I thought I leave a comment how much I enjoyed your videos. Hope this helps some.

[@m3an]

@@Cris1Mac It very much does help. Thank you!

[@HolgerLovesMusic]

Very well explained. I like it!

[@ladasgaming874]

Great Work!

[@michaelf7093]

Really enjoyed this one. Good commentary.

[@m3an]

Sorry for the late reply, took some time off. Glad you enjoyed it! I hope to release new stuff soon.

[@Voland1871]

Could you imagine if this was like a real scenario. Like the experience of a average person in this world. And the history books and stories of the war. I can imagine the OKW trying to explain their plans and then just reeling and celebrating endlessly when actually works. And the combat was so fast it be nearly bloodless. I would love to see a story written in the world of 1 speedruns, where in the span of 6 months the Roman Empire comes back and conquers the world. Just a thought.

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

Pretty awesome run

[@ragenorock7346]

This video demonstrates all of the complex maneuvers possible in HoI IV. The level of game understanding it takes to make this video is just "wow".

[@m3an]

Thank you! I tried to squeeze in as much knowledge as possible without overloading it. But I still have some stuff up my sleeves that I haven't showcased yet ;-)

[@Jawshuah]

this video is criminally underviewed

[@ErossMcCloud]

Just an fyi, to create multiple copies of the same air wing. Use the 'F' hotkey to duplicate. Saves LOADS and LOADS of clicking when you're making a bunch of 100s fighters and what not.

[@m3an]

Very good to know! Thank you!

[@dkylezoeckler4694]

nice and informative. Thank you.

[@chippen1985]

This video deserves way more credit than it already has. I really enjoy your speed runs, and I've seen your old HRE video a few times already. Looking forward to more content.

[@m3an]

Thank you very much! I hope it won't take me too much time to release the next video. We'll see =)

[@TheManWithTheFlan]

I think they changed world tension since this video came out, now it ticks up slowly over time while the wargoal justifies instead of instantly flaring up.

[@vewayy]

i’m just sat here wondering how you found out this much knowledge on the game

[@zoolz1186]

Nice job man.Followed your china tutorials and it worked pefectly and now this looks insane man.Can you do a capitulate all axis speedrun? I can't even defeat the axis in normal runs and i searched online and there are not many runs dedicated specifically agains the axis.Maybe this would be a challenge for you?

[@m3an]

Thank you. You mean for example a speedrun with France?

[@zoolz1186]

@@m3an Yea.Those allied nations are pretty weak.Maybe you can give it a try?

[@mikechaffin8100]

@@m3an UK might be more fun....

[@gothia6515]

The slander "Huns" really does fit to the germans in this run :D

[@MuhammadRafy]

i don't even play hoi4 (eu4 player) but damn that is crazy good. watched the whole vid

[@m3an]

Thank you! Glad that you enjoyed it =)

[@Tteltt29]

Hello, nice speedrun. Is it possible to show the keybinds you use to make the naval invasion ? I'm kinda lost and can't do it the same way.

[@noneofyourbusiness3288]

All that cav... dont underestimate Germans larping as Mongols. xD

[@xModerax]

I usually do this by the end of 38, mid 39 with a chill run. Its too much micro for me otherwise to enjoy. So well done mate. My opening move is going through the maginot line in autumn 36 via a regular justification. I am so gonna steal that Czechoslovakia strat though as Canada is exceedingly annoying to deal with 😂

[@bycracket7295]

Me being happy to get every major nation in elite. Meanwhile him 1936

[@accurategamer7085]

Your a mad man

[@Mag_ladroth]

Damn thats fast

[@ADULFGETULER]

AWESOME

[@kaffe68]

"Home before Christmas"

[@JinFX]

Wow I always had problems with order 66 in Italy because I thought the units couldn't retreat.

[@CommanderTavos99]

Where did u get the picture at the very beginning? It looks really awesome =D

[@m3an]

It's an artwork from COD WW2 that I messed around with.

[@erthicc3002]

Nice

[@Reichsritter]

The game is no fun being this unrealistic

[@hobohabsburg8447]

Literally home by Christmas

[@matthewstiles8718]

Hi really great video! I don't understand the fast navel invasion part tho. How do you assign all these navel invasions without getting a 70 day penalty? I'm don't know if it's been patched or I'm just not getting it

[@m3an]

Thank you! Naval invasion orders recieve planning time no matter if they have divisions assigned or not. So if you just place the orders in advance, you already build up the planning time. Obviously the first invasion happens before the orders can recieve the full 70 day bonus, but if you look closely, you'll see that I never assign more than 5 divisions per order in that first invasions, because that's the limit with only 35 days of prep time. On top, if you unassign divisions that just left port and assign another batch of 10, you can send out more than just 10 and recycle the invasion orders.

[@matthewstiles8718]

@@m3an Thank you I will give it a try!

[@arkadiuszrenc1498]

Mein Fürher you need to see this

[@TheOnlyMonroni]

I thought you were Dutch until you said you're from Northern Germany. Guess I'm not used to hearing such a chill German

[@artemgololobov6399]

Hey man! How are you able to launch naval invasions without naval supremacy? I have seen countless of your videos doing this , including the one of you explaining it, however I can never replicate it.

[@m3an]

I do have naval supremacy and you do too, but only for a very brief moment. You need to pre-launch the invasion before the war starts and declare war at 1am on the day that you get the war goal. In the case of Yugo, where we have to wait a couple of hours, do it in the hour the UK guarantees Yugo.

[@galilelollel9658]

Can you please Tell me what PC or Laptop you used? I need one Just to play games like hoi4. Not the Super ultra best quality games.

[@Neko_014]

the true form of blitzkrieg

[@pasci_lei]

Then there is me who can't even capitulate Belgium with over 220 hours of game time.

[@ceffe]

Authentic war simulation

[@liammozza2330]

When you really want to be home by Christmas

[@Awtora]

I'm just so thankful that you weren't born in Germany in 1910's to become a military officer in the 30's...

[@m3an]

I'm extremely thankful as well to not have been born in that era.

[@Bluesonofman]

Speed run the Thunder Dragon Empire while doing Artillery Only

[@Cormonkey18]

I'm having trouble getting the fast naval to work any tips?

[@DabaksolGuardPost]

If only The Moustaches Man could see this video.

[@pytheas222]

Home by Christmas

[@Bigzthegreat]

great now do a world conquest in eu4 before 1500s

[@kingdrew3rd32]

How can people dislike Order 66? I love doing Order 66 to nations

[@Kyle-uz1rp]

Paradox needs to fix the alliance flaw, there needs to be a check for each nation involved - either it can surrender or continue the war factionless (obviously the decision would be based on the current capitulation status.)

[@m3an]

It got way worse in 1.12. There aren't any checks anymore. As long as a nation is in a faction, it's up for grabs if all majors surrendered.

[@alexmcjuicy]

@@m3an this means that the entire british commonwealth can be seized by capping the UK right? cuz in my Italy games (following ur Roman empire speedrun, with some changes) i cap UK in 1937 and can puppet canada, that's how I invade USA. im kinda new to the game but ur speedruns are really fun to try.

[@m3an]

@@alexmcjuicy Yep, that's why. I go into more detail about the mechanic in my World Conquest speedrun.

[@EdwardNorrie]

Do you have any tips on getting better at hoi? because I've just started

[@m3an]

It depends how you learn best. Some people like watching a ton of KZbin tutorials, but personally I recommend to only do that for the stuff that you don't grasp after trying to understand it yourself. Everything in the game has extensive tooltips. Read those and look up everything that you need more info on in the Hoi4 wiki. The hoi4 subreddit is great to get questions answered as well. Ignore navy in the beginning and focus on understanding industry, production, combat, terrain, armies, generals and templates.

[@EdwardNorrie]

@@m3an Thanks I will take that into account also great video very underrated👍

[@Hoaxe72]

You able to do this without nsb? Or does the strat work for la resistance?

[@m3an]

The only DLC that is really helpful is Together for Victory. But afaik you don't even need that one if you instead do some more manual war goals. I do build an agency, but it's just a gimmick. You find out in the video if it paid off or not.

[@yaboi672]

@@m3an cool, im not really a fan of NSB so a lot of guides ive avoided recently

[@dominikthemachine2560]

I want to see a speedrun with the united staates of america.

[@thatworksmedia]

So Speed Lvl 5 is different depending on the computer HOI runs on?

[@m3an]

That's correct. Up to speed 4 it's capped, but speed 5 is only limited by how fast your PC can manage it. Hence why RT speedruns are limited to speed 4 tops, just to keep it somewhat fair.

[@thatworksmedia]

@@m3an Fascinating - I never knew.

[@LucaS-zb2yq]

Hi, I don´t know if you see this but Im new to this game (yeah its old I know) and I´ve wanted to challenge me but when I wanted Yugoslavia to form a Faction I couldn´t do it because of the negative modifire of "Neutrality -50" what is the problem?

[@m3an]

Did you delete Axis beforehand?

[@LucaS-zb2yq]

@@m3an yes

[@LucaS-zb2yq]

how is your discord? Do you have time?

[@m3an]

@@LucaS-zb2yq All steps necessary are shown in the video. Improve relations with Yugo to +11, spike WT by justifying against US, delete Axis and form a new faction with Yugo. You need to wait until the next day after justifying against US for Yugo to chance its stance. I won't be home until later this evening, but if you still have issues with Yugostrat you can ask on the Hoi4 Speedrunning Discord

[@LucaS-zb2yq]

@@m3an sry, but what´s the discord name?

[@herbsandspices8611]

Hi I don’t have any DLCs so don’t know if this is why but when I justify on the US tension takes ages to increase. Is there anything I could be doing wrong? Thanks

[@m3an]

Nope, the devs changed it to a gradual increase.

[@jsheridan1980]

Love it. But probably you have an idea why the polish are not in the peace conference with czech - did it twice same result. The war with poland continues. War against albania started 29.3. war against poland 21.4. - but if i captitulate czech (5.5.) as only major nation in the war poland is not in the peace conference. You mentioned 7 days - that should be sufficent, shouldn't it? And bringing poland to capitulation takes me forever so i end in a spiral of failure ;)

[@m3an]

How did you try to create war score for Poland? If the time is so short, you basically need to hold at least a tile to guarantee their presence in the peace conference. 7 days is sometimes too short for combat to produce casualties, same for strat bombing and building damage.

[@jsheridan1980]

@@m3an i had their capital and around 17% warscore (sneaked in from below) - also danzig - in the last attempt; i checked in the running wars and saw both wars - if the wars are joined there should be only one entry - correct? confusing, will do another try in the next days - the hardest is always france, you were very lucky with the defended tiles :) - ah by the way i loved the advisor popup in the video - really creative - and again thanks, i have played this game for years (world conquests many achievements..) but i think i learned more in your video than in months of playing

[@m3an]

@@jsheridan1980 I have to guess, but there are a couple of possibilities that I can think of. Did the faction leader loose plenty of territory? In that case other nations are hesitant to join that faction. I would postpone Poland for the next big war with a stronger major, like the United States.

[@jsheridan1980]

@@m3an mh - territory could be - Czech had in the runs lost some units due encirclements, south africa never joined the war and in one attempt even left the allies; today i tried a "lazy attempt" (ending war in june) and Poland was in. Any reason why you haven't started army innovation already after creating alliance with Yugoslavia (moves to -8 but back at 8 (9 required for albania) when war breaks out)? i am trying that currently out - due i think the 10 army points could speed up the 1 cav template and that can speed up recruitment for cav vietnam. That will delay advisors but i guess it could be worth it. Anyhow - many thanks :) i haven't played hoi for some months and your video dragged me in again ;)

[@JohnDoe_75]

Does DLC affect the Yugoslavia options because as Germany I do not get the option to invite them into the faction unless they are 30% fascist and then when the option does appear they refuse by default.

[@m3an]

You need to form a new faction, not invite them into Axis.

[@JohnDoe_75]

@@m3an Thanks for the content and for the quick response. Subscribed !

[@TheBest-bq8ot]

Did they cange something with world tension? Because mine only tiks up slowly after the justification

[@alexting827]

Yeah new update messed up world tension

[@user-fh9oc9jw2j]

Every time i am trying i am getting civil war in Yugoslavia, what should i do?

[@qqwince]

does the strategy with Yugoslavia work in the latest versions?

[@m3an]

Not like this, no. It still works, but takes a lot longer to execute, because tension spiking has been patched.

[@orrorsaness5942]

Germany Conquers the world December 25 1936?

[@synthelione3714]

A voice!

[@user-tq7tk3nt1u]

Dude, could pls try to do it on newest Blood Alone DLC as well? Cause it seems this one won't work as war tension is rising slowly after casus belli is started to US. :(

[@m3an]

The update messed everything up. I doubt this will be possible in the current version for multiple reasons.

[@user-tq7tk3nt1u]

@@m3an That is not good news mate. :( That was grat option to defeat Allies in 36. Hope you find out some new way in future. :)

[@m3an]

@@user-tq7tk3nt1u Oh don't worry. It still works, but it takes a bit longer to set up. I'll make a video about it eventually, but want to do some other stuff first.

[@aisbbes3165]

capitulate Nepal with a nation from Europe in 1937

[@Caroleeeh]

Be fascist or non aligned Britain, retake India, justify on Nepal, cap them.

[@fakename2229]

How did you force ally Poland in previous version?

[@m3an]

Just like with Yugo. Improve relations, spike WT and form a faction with them.

[@fakename2229]

@@m3an Okay, but why can't anymore? Is it because of the added stragetic reason to be hostile?

[@m3an]

@@fakename2229 Yep, hardcoded modifier -1000.

[@GFM_90]

This is not Blitzkrieg. It is Blink Krieg

[@geemcspankinson]

Definitive proof that Germany could have won WW2 in negative time with proper management

[@oliverbrinker8730]

Do you think this strat works with all the dlc and on the newest patch?

[@jylehansen7328]

I think there was changes with paratroopers and some of the other strats he used no longer work, you can just roll back to this version tho if you really wanted to do this

[@7thSmurf]

so within 8 MONTHS germany overruns teh whole world ? ..thats realistic..

[@sannikovbobik]

What is background music?

[@korey9498]

how did you skip invasion prep timer?

[@m3an]

Ah, there you are. Wanted to reply to your other comment, but wasn't sure what you meant. I don't skip the prep time. If you look closely, I never assign more than 5 division per order when I unassign and reassign units. Only half of the 70 days prep time is done, hence only 5 out of 10 divisions per order can be assigned.

[@kevincrowley7582]

Tried this and was unable to form a faction with Yugo. I improved relations with Yugo, justified on US. WT was at 62% but the option to form a faction with Yugo was greyed out. Ver 1.11.11

[@m3an]

Did you delete Axis?

[@kevincrowley7582]

@@m3an Forgot that, thanks

[@JohnDoe_75]

@@m3an Thanks, had the same problem.

[@jv_16]

Someone dare to explain why he converts all his divisions to cavalry and only recruits cavalry units?

[@pluto6383]

They are very cheap, take a very short time to recruit and move quickly

[@f3tsch906]

Home before cristmas, while having annexed most of the world...

[@j.r.i.d.1805]

Can you remake the roman empire run with nsb? Thanks a lot anyways

[@m3an]

It should still work overall. The only thing that does not work anymore is Anglospike. Or is there anything else that you had issues with? I will think about it. Thank you for the suggestion!

[@j.r.i.d.1805]

@@m3an the main problem is army xp in ethiopia... you have the choice to not grind enough or to delay everything and mess up the timing. Because of that, I haven't continued the run any further, which makes me unable to explain in depth all the difficulties new updates and dlcs may have caused. Thanks a lot for the quick response too (or even for having answered at all, which is quite rare of its own)

[@m3an]

@@j.r.i.d.1805 I'll give the strat a go myself next week. If the guide doesn't do it for NSB, I'll think about an update. Thanks!

[@civares8609]

Someone tried this IRL before. He failed 😭

[@SkaffaS]

why is hitler's portrait blacked out, i don't have this in my game.

[@klemenpipananicic5187]

German version