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.
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Full unedited run: • Capitulating Allies in...
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[@dvtch]

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

[@khongo1018]

I tried to do this and Germany eventually knocks out my airforce and my units bog down. Any advice you can give on units and production?

[@dontask865]

@@khongo1018 fighters and cas is what you need to focus on in your Air Force

[@dontask865]

@@khongo1018 fighters and cas is what you need to focus on in your Air Force

[@khongo1018]

By 37 you have enough to cap germany?

[@dontask865]

@@khongo1018 yea

[@AndersonNeo12]

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

[@flakcannonhans6170]

“We’ll be home by Christmas!” “Too slow”

[@accountusername7900]

@@flakcannonhans6170”How about June?”

[@Progamerguy101]

@@accountusername7900 "We'll be done by 2, just in time for lunch."

[@naufalabyan4078]

A little reminder, the speedrunner know the weak and strength of allies and axis But its very impressive what this man did

[@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.

[@Tyler-nh6op]

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

[@krugerstan]

Heresy. Tommy K is the alpha and the omega ;)

[@AmalekIsComing]

tommy k likes getting pegged

[@realtimestatic]

honestly true tho, bc he doesn't show the mechanics

[@lightgreen3479]

​@@krugerstantommygay is cringe

[@m3an]

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.

[@cryptjet4169]

to anyone who is trying this in elite difficulty: it's possible, but it will be slightly slower due to the reduced political power gain and production efficiency cap (i have tried this strat in elite, it works but like m3an mentions it is quite rng heavy)

[@tapio1989]

THIS IS CRAZY :D I am 840H in hears of iron and dam i soooo bad still .... Well i been playing it On / off for kind of nearly 5 years BUT this video is NUTS :D i love it

[@reedeek1473]

Impressive work! What run would you suggest for a new runner to try with less RNG?

[@MistaFadora]

Im having a problem wherein the uk joins the allies but doesnt join the war which makes it so that they get naval supremacy first and then joins the war, not giving me that small window of opportunity to invade them.

[@m3an]

@@MistaFadora Might be that they finally fixed it. I'll look into it later today.

[@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.

[@Frank-ed7hj]

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

[@evill01]

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

[@reiforsale2]

As Italy, that’s impressive considering that you played the most goofy country ever

[@MariuszWojcik-rw7ub]

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

[@gasbilll]

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

[@m3an]

Thank you =)

[@timbizi3519]

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

[@fakharhayatadil349]

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

[@m3an]

Thank you! I hope it won't take too long until I can release my next video =)

[@AldiePezeh]

I'm always highly entertained by your shenanigans.

[@nimroddragon8797]

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!

[@m3an]

Aww, that's so nice! I'm glad to read that I could help you get better at the game.

[@TajaBaja]

@@m3an hello, i am noob in this game i didnt understand half of the vid🤣🤣

[@arthurcooperman3106]

Well played, I just got into the game and have thrown hundreds of hours into the game but always keep playing the same scenarios as the US thinking it will be different lol. I need to try stuff like this. Looks like so much fun.

[@binouboss]

One of the best tutorial that i have heard!

[@MariuszWojcik-rw7ub]

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.

[@strake3484]

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 😅

[@WbDM0001]

-Average nationalist dev behavior-

[@davidg4789]

I made luxembourg the leader of the allies, one tile and I control a lot of new stuff

[@asmraxel9060]

Love the videos!!! Great content. Keep it up😂😂

[@RehanKhan-ew3ok]

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

[@leonidaslancelot180]

This is gonna be so useful thanks so much for the tips

[@detroitdave9512]

Fantastic content!

[@ChalleonPlays]

What an Insane run

[@chargingmystik2032]

from my perspective this is insane because i always struggle with allies and extremely rarely navaled the britains this is mind breaking i will defenetly try this

[@turkishgamer23453]

In my playthrough, france capitulated at the same day they joined the allies and didnt call britain to war then i had to manually justify afterwards lol. Thanks for the video

[@m3an]

Very nice! Congratulations, well done!

[@gutter1]

i thought this said contacting the aliens in may 1936

[@etminan9458]

Goddamn dude, you never disappoint

[@btmwastaken]

Hey, i love your videos and voice so much. Keep uploading the content, and well done for this speedrun ❤

[@PSPbrtag]

You have been embargoed by Cuba

[@bright7522]

Ive done this so many times, every time a patch got rolled out I expected this to dissappear, I expect this video just sealed its fate lol

[@leontes]

Great video! Do you plan on moving into more general hoi4 min-max guides, or are you planning on strictly sticking to speed-running? I would love to see some videos on optimal divisions, eco micro, and maybe nation guides as well!

[@m3an]

I'd love to do so much more, but my time to strategize, record and edit is very limited due to family and work at the moment. I'll see what I can do!

[@andylau5587]

I respect u. I try to play this game because of you.

[@paulnoll7785]

glad he’s on our side 😂

[@thenorwegiangamerr]

I hate how they patched surprise naval invasions

[@jce7358]

lol i just started actually playing this game and iv had it for a bit and im still learning like normal stuff. sea power invasions still confuse me and my mouse doesnt like drawing lines. this man just took over the damn world in like a lunch break.

[@vidiveniviciDCLXVI]

You missed Merica. So you didn't beat the allies.

[@jimigrill]

Not a speed runner myself but learned a lot, thank you.

[@kiriq4415]

Довольно интересные видео! Респект за спидраны!

[@polllopp9899]

This is great, thank you

[@Gamer-jg8is]

This is fire bro

[@big67sandundertailgamer]

me after returning back in time and showing this to ad0lf HltIer

[@user-he4if8ou4r]

Glad this guy wasn't in charge in 1936

[@charmyzard]

Maybe there's a reason higher powers decided time travel isn't possible...

[@opghost77g22]

Blitzkrieg tactic damn never thought i could see it in real life

[@austria-hungary4981]

The Austrian Painter has been real quiet since this dropped

[@heitorm]

May 1936... Damn.

[@Cherb123456]

Thank you!

[@DamoAiFT]

bro could have been the funny mustache guy advisor

[@Artixx317]

CROATIA be like: give me everything🔫 OR ELSE

[@rockmetalfan7885]

And that's what can be called a blitzkrieg

[@faintsmile363]

rlly wish my laptop could run the game this fast

[@Kio_vidz]

Wha i learnt today: to do naval invasion, pick 1 division per invasion so it takes less time then when you take over ship base send convoys to reinforce

[@hlopplopp7066]

Hope my comment shows

[@irwainnornossa4605]

Imagine this being an actual history.

[@lajbox9663]

it's been patched

[@MangoMan523]

Nuh uh

[@Vipers_Pit]

No Horses was seriously injured in makings of this video.

[@theweirdclasher3955]

HE UPLOADED

[@Spoudey]

very nice strat, can confirm it works but i did cap france too early so i had to justify on malaya

[@WappleFan]

i am actually speechless

[@Karottenregen]

I see what he is doing but i cant comprehend and understand what he is doing

[@user-wx1iv1fw3d]

事實上， 電腦 的劇本只有跟著基本國策的時候會有基礎的戰鬥力 過早的戰鬥，基本上沒有國家"準備好"的，實際上大部分的國家連基本的軍隊都沒有 剩下就是裡用系統的漏洞 或是取巧的方式偷工直接"取得勝利"

[@kane2754]

I tryed Trotzki the normal way and still unable to defend from Germany. So great job.

[@_Healing_Spirit_]

Die wahre Definition von Blitzkrieg. Danke für die detaillierte Erklärung, mach weiter so King 👑

[@unorthodoxpickle7014]

If only the Furher knew about this

[@Simpilot99771]

bro could have won world wars 1 and 2

[@natjam2000]

Bro why didn't the Germans try this in real life, they probably would have won

[@ViktorEnns]

Great video. Please don't do these fade to black cuts. They make me feel like I'm getting a stroke. Just do a regular cut.

[@MagusLay]

Germany: War! jk, no war. War! jk, no war. War! jk, no- USA: Is their telegrapher busted? Oh well, we have to take each one seriously.

[@Electronzap]

Nice.

[@juancavalo3425]

pov: blitzkrieg was really blitz

[@Erik_Arnqvist]

The Hoi4 mad scientist returns

[@charmyzard]

Probably not the way Paradox ever imagined someone would beat the game.

[@terribleauthority]

Worked for me first run, just tried it today after not playing since 2022. People gotta git gud.

[@BigMackWitSauce]

Hitler was such a scrub, he took 6 years to lose when he could have just done this and won in 12 minutes

[@orrorsaness5942]

Speedrunner completing a world conquest by October be like Speedrunner: Behold, the Nazi Oktoberfest Revolution!!!

[@zioming]

Yugoslavia: We won't join the Axis. Nazi Germany: Well, how about if we change the name to 'the A-team'? Yugoslavia: Sure, that would work.

[@Quatschkopflolxd]

Maybe am i wrong or im out of luck ... but is it possible that the 70/30 chance for a war goal has been patched? out of 20 runs just 1 was the Derektiv 25 ....

[@m3an]

To my knowledge it wasn't patched. Remember that the 70/30 is an average. But 20 runs and only successful once is indeed unluckly. I'll give it a go this evening.

[@leoastner888]

Bruh, you made me cancel the naval invasion of France to early. 💀

[@m3an]

Gotta wait for those ships to leave port and delete the order, not halt it 🚢⚓

[@leoastner888]

@@m3an Yeah, I understood that later on. Thanks for the guys anyways, I'll probably try it some other time.

[@muckian2112]

This is how Germany could of won ww2, Why didn't Hitler have a HOI4 player on his council!

[@candlecalderondiaz7786]

uniting the low countries as the netherlands speedrun?

[@mavfin8720]

I'm wondering how long it will be before they put a minimum date on Anschluss. So many cheese it early this way.

[@outofideas9985]

Poor Kurt had to take out France while he had the flu, cant even get sick days as a general

[@Parvian93]

All those Speed Runs are about cheesing the shit out of the game but paratroopers are somehow Off Limits.

[@adolfhipsteryolocaust3443]

Proving how fucking easy this game easy

[@dillsdarkness4754]

You should try to speedrun taking over the balkans as Albania. (The smallest Balkan country) (Baltic States are optional)

[@Pajtikak]

Will you do austria hungary speedrun?

[@trythis2006]

game intrigues me but oh man shit its complex, i thought stellaris would blow my mind lol

[@yugimuto9970]

You , made an Axis D Day

[@Earthandbeyond905]

But is it still possible to use the Yugostrat to do the oppose hitler focus and get Victoria to make HRE?

[@tomi3544]

Very good, and interessing video! Can you make Soviet Union speedrun?

[@m3an]

It's on my list!

[@tomi3544]

@@m3an i dont see

[@m3an]

@@tomi3544 Sorry for the misunderstanding. It's on my list of runs I want to cover. Haven't made a video on it yet.

[@cyanfloy2473]

Hey m3an!I hope you read this comment.Can you try to speed run as a warlord in hoi4?

[@zaeta522]

Very random... but how did you spinned the cam at the beginning?

[@SilverScarletSpider]

please show sweden world conquest

[@josemanuel947]

Pretty bored. Is posible to do ir before? and barbarossa included?

[@ADULFGETULER]

ur good

[@kristaqvin]

Can you do an USSR speedrun? That would be awesome

[@leejenkins7184]

He has one. It’s epic.

[@Vipers_Pit]

I’m always pupping UK.

[@F0rever04]

Is this still working in the latest version? I brought this video to my HOI4 community, and one of them said array spiking doesn't work anymore.

[@m3an]

Yes, it works. I assume your guy was thinking about the old tension spike method which was indeed patched a while ago. I've recorded this very recently and tested the method again prior to releasing the video.

[@F0rever04]

@@m3an Thank you for answering!

[@BullworthAcademy4]

Well i cant do it...there are always fechies at the beach or near the beach that interrupt the forces to walk into any city. just like that 7:02 "Dinkirk Distraction" is needed at almost everywhere at the beach.

[@m3an]

Took me plenty of attempts to succeed, but a concentration of forces always works better. You can spread the invasion across multiple provinces, but then you only have few divisions to push towards VPs. You can make it easier on yourself by targeting 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.

[@Emperador2225]

Joder era tan facil que alemania ganara si te hubiesen tenido como estratega con todo tu conocimiento la historia hubiera cambiado.

[@Ealdorman_of_Mercia]

The accent adds to the realism.