HoI4 Guide - The Lone Wolf of the North (Part 1)

Finland got a massive new focus tree in the "Arms Against Tyranny" DLC and with the right strategy (and a little luck), this nation can become a world power in no time! This strategy works perfectly for the new "Lone Wolf" achievement, which requires forming Greater Finland and occupying loads of territory, all without joining a faction. But no one said I couldn't CREATE a faction, right? Right?
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[@schrodingerscat4237]

Nice to see winter Vietnam in HOI4, looking forwards to the snow piles speaking Finnish.

[@drakemane]

Sometimes they also speak swedish and other languages too.

[@AleboBard]

That pile on the left is Simo. Say hi to White death.

[@RhombonianKnight]

Praise Pravus! He has united the Nordic countries around the happiness of Finland in order to spread "joy" throughout the world!

[@samueltrusik3251]

The snow is speaking Finnish. The bodies under it were speaking Russian.

[@Ycekhold]

*_GLORY TO HOUSE HÄRKÖNEN!!!_* (No, really. Frank Herbert came up with "Harkonnen" by looking in the phone book, and picking that name because it "sounded like something from Soviet Russia"--but it was actually from Finland.)

[@AllenYCLau]

Glad to see you putting out another series - and one off with a strong start! Praise the Heir! Praise Gimli!

[@ParaforaD]

Love and enjoy the HoI play throughs you do!! Please carry on!😍

[@markbaldwin352]

Superb content! I’m still a newbie trying to get my head around the complexity of the game. Your videos are a huge help!!! Praise Pravus! Keep up the good work my friend.

[@hanszhou6543]

Speaking personally, I usually waited to get both Mannerheim and equipment from the Germans before I did the civil war, because that equipment is really helpful and Mannerheim's a really good FM. I usually did the industry first, but I can get going for the Nordic Empire immediately.

Thank you this is huge series for Finnish person who is also interested paradox games.

[@I_want_White_Cheddar_Popcorn]

Nice to see the series vids coming back!

[@malcolmduncan]

Can't watch yet as I'm on holiday, but got the notification for this and jumped in to say looking forward to this sure you'll do brilliantly Pravus with ABSOLUTELY NO MISTAKES. no pressure or anything.

[@danielansell577]

Been waiting for this! Thanks for doing it.

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Yesss, a new series! I appriciate you, pravus❤

[@Iflyplanes8987]

Loved the video cant wait for more of the series

[@Jarastlad]

Really looking forward to that series !

[@JaiAlaiJedi]

I think the last HOI video was a Brotherhood of Steel related from the Fallout Blues.....or maybe the Warhammer one where the Emperor rises in power. Regardless, happy to see you continuing content with this game, loved your lord of the Rings series. Now to go and catch up on some other series. Hope you're having a good day Pravus. Best wishes to you and your family.

[@solelak]

I always enjoy pravus videos, he has such a respectful demeanor and does entertaining videos.

[@Aginor88]

A good start to the series.

[@FireballGrix]

4:25 he’s a poet and he didn’t realise it

[@montymechanizedmarines]

Awesome - this is just the guide I have been searching for. Lauching my own run right now. I think you could get Uralic Bros as well if you take out Hungary ? Cheers, MMM

[@jamesturner9651]

Love these challenge playthroughs of HOI4

[@sorenschwedowski9907]

Ah, very nice to see a HOI4 run again! I love thse

[@jonathanlangdon9140]

Nice to see the start of a new campaign

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I love this new video so much!!! XD

[@GlassJoe1337]

Thank you for the upload

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Yeeeeeah, a new multipart series!!

[@officialzji1828]

Great video!

[@neptune5616]

Nice, a new series!

[@Rift_cz_sk]

I love when this dude game's hoi4

[@TheFrozenFever]

Yeah, finland's absolute powerhouse now with those stacks and stacks of bonuses.

[@President-jv5kz]

Yes was just wondering when Pravus was gunna start another run

[@Rogue0770]

Pravus, you should get one of those Greenbay Packers cheesehead hats. 😄

[@tigeriussvarne177]

PERKELE! ;D Praise Pravus.

[@SoldierGeneral64]

The way the annex focus is worded sounds like tou annex all those in your faction kind of like how it once was for Yugoslavia.

[@drakemane]

All hail emperor Pravus the lord of the north.

[@madiaw5553]

I just been doing this like 2 hours ago. And I still figuring out the best way to do it with non-align neutrality path Finland. Also Ethiopia won the 2nd Italo-Ethiopian war for some reason.

[@rsxander_casual]

Ethiopia seems to win every time, at least from every game I've played with the new DLC

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

Nice playthrough. Needs more Power Armor lol.

[@Costenyo]

I've seen NOBODY do the monarchist path, I would actually like to see it. It's only ONE FOCUS which is ridiculous, but I would like to see the finnish king just once 😔

[@gladiater56]

Just checked the achievement Finnish him. The check, according to the wiki, is that Finland is not in a faction. So idk if Finnish him is gonna work. We'll see.

[@ianthomas1560]

The wiki doesn't get updated at the same time as the game, and when Pravus checked in-game it still says the achievements are available, so I'd assume the in-game tooltip is correct. Never know though

[@gladiater56]

@@ianthomas1560 Bittersweet moment in the 3rd video. I was right but I didn't want to be

[@juanmendez3290]

Praise be

[@AlvorReal]

Imo its better to release the other countries as puppets. Their focus trees are powerful and they will crank out factories like nobodies business. On top of that, you don't need to work about the Germans. You can get a nonaggression pact or even just join their faction if you're not on an achievement run.

[@byteruler3748]

Cheers!

[@natthakitkorsawatpat4300]

would love to see Simo holding a line with one manpower.

[@OpinionatedMatt]

I wonder if Pravus will ever play Victoria 3

[@drakemane]

I approve.

[@BifrostMR]

Can someone tell me if the Finnish him achievement worked with him creating a faction?

[@viclorenzo5016]

Nice 👍

[@Achiles5th]

Aw yis, HOI 4 content, so I can watch Pravus play the game better than me cause I'm trash and bad.

[@user-wolfman_lets_play]

Please do more hoi4 series and Kaiser Reich series and mord eu4 please please please do more achievement runs I need my imperialism back

[@shepherd3522]

You lost Mannerheim because you went civil war. It gets you to Fascist much faster but you lose two officers.

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Let's go

[@niekvanderhorst6065]

👍

[@veikkomultivitamiini4858]

Torille!

[@UdonRob]

After the civil war you deleted your cavalry to train infantry, why didn't you just change the cavalry to the infantry template? No need to delete and retrain.

[@gambit5181]

When Rimwolrd?

[@comradesocalistfromaustralia]

Real

[@wachygames_and_drawling_inc256]

Do claims not act like causis bellies?

[@jeffreypeterson1364]

Normal Person: Fascism is bad Gamer: …but have you ever tried NOI4?

[@crit-c4637]

Don't the achievements require Ironman, which means no saves?

[@michaelmcdonald1983]

Ibtried doing that, abd everything went well, but right after denmark went fascist, they immediately went back to democracy. Idk why but that screwed me over

[@lluisumbert1998]

Same problem here. Every time Denmark turns fascist they eventually become democratic again (1 month max). Sometimes immediatelly. I don't know why.

[@chrispendragon1403]

Letsggooooo

[@DarkDragon357]

Pravus should play more democracy 4. i would love to see a hardest difficulty america run. day 279

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Cat

[@RedTrex9]

Hi. I dont even know this channel.

[@wyattburke1837]

hello

[@Kool__Kat]

This is the most infuriating strategy that I wouldn't have even attempted if you showed just how rng the faction set up was. If Sweden flips fascist and doesn't join the faction they join the axis, if Denmark flips fascist but doesn't join the faction you can't invite them and after a month they flip back democratic.

[@12vscience]

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[@dylanz6361]

It's been 40 seconds and 0 views and 11 people have already liked it. SUS

[@onwardsupwards4483]

First viewer yes

[@sculkwizard]

First comment nukes

[@sculkwizard]

U should be able to make a a nuke company I never played cause i can only play mobile stuff and Xbox):

[@Den_Norske_strategispilleren]

Play norway

[@hailbg91]

9:00 nothing more fascist than backing out of a trade/pact agreement

[@merijnkuijpers2960]

Day 79 of asking for HOI4 TNO

[@Echo-a74]

Fascist germany playthrough when?

[@Eirael]

The game where you only need to click and wait to go from regional minor to global power. The focus tree is cool but come on make people actually play the game.

[@wyattburke1837]

ah yes, socialism and expansionism, very right wing.

[@ookamigaming1093]

Don't paradox know fascism is a left wing ideology not right wing. Both communism and fascist is in the same wing but like any thing on same side of things wants to lead the other one and it unusually leads to war. Before anyone say fascism is not left wing its right wing, there is historical evidence saying fascist is left wing with pretty much the Nazis calling themselves left wing and socialist and not liking the right wings. The only reason they hated communism is that they wanted to lead the socialist and communist was a rival to it they got along enough to make a non aggression pact. But I guess they wanted something other the democratic to represent right wing but so many people thinks fascism is right wing and they are so wrong. No matter what people say whom mainly are left wing people who want people to think right wing is fascist when in reality it is 100% left wing the dang Nazis call themselves left wing 90% of the Nazis during that time was left wing a good amount of historians agree that they was left wing. Nationalism can be on both wings some do different things with it. Also if you want to add today's things to it then it's easy to see left wings today is more like fascist and communist for if you disagree with them they will do whatever they can to destroy you from calling you racist, a fascist (which is funny when they are the fascist), and a bigot and wide amount of other stuff. Sure some right wing do similar stuff but for sure no where as much as a left wing

[@mortemtyrannus8813]

It's right-wing socialism. That is to say, it's a left-wing ideology (socialism) except on very specific issues such as foreign policy (nationalism is distinctly right-wing and a major part of all forms of what we describe as fascism). This is in opposition to other socialist ideologies, especially communism, which are focused around a more globalist viewpoint (see Lenin and Trotsky, not so much Stalin). Those very specific issues are among the few reasons why fascism was ultimately more popular amongst countries of that time period than communism. Because communists wanted to tear down their countries and have the workers rise up in unity with their brothers and sisters elsewhere in the world, whilst fascism put forward the ideal of having the nation rise up as one. It's also (at least, in our modern usage of the term) an ideology that makes no sense, not because it's wrong, but because it's distinctly Italian. Mussolini made it clear that fascism was an ideology for Italy and the Italian people only. It's why fascist movements in other nations made their own ideologies that fit their nation specifically (Germany had Strasser's and later Hitler's national socialism, Mosley described British fascism as only sharing a name with Italian fascism, Spanish falangism had it's own ideas). The idea of a global fascist movement is something that seems to crop up amongst people, both fascists and opponents of fascism, that fail to pick up on this important point with the idea.

[@jarskil8862]

Omg another "fascism is left wing" ranter 🤡 Fascism is close to corporatism. You can't go more right wing than that

[@mortemtyrannus8813]

@@jarskil8862 Benito Mussolini - head of the Milan chapter of the Italian *Communist* Party prior to creating the National Fascist Party. Quoted as saying "Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism," and "Do not believe, even for a moment, that by stripping me of my membership card you do the same to my Socialist beliefs, nor that you would restrain me of continuing to work in favor of Socialism and of the Revolution." A socialist to the end of his life, but one who held to nationalism, not internationalism. Gregor Strasser - creator of the National *Socialist* German Worker's Party. Quoted as saying "We are Socialists, enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalist economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak," "The emancipation of the German workers will be accomplished by their participation in profits, participation in ownership, participation in achievement," and "We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism." Again, a socialist, but not an internationalist. I can play this game all day. I haven't even got into the Fascist Manifesto, where Mussolini spouts many things a socialist would happily agree with. Things like 8 hour work days, universal suffrage and minimum wage, just for starters. Fascism is nationalist socialism.

[@ookamigaming1093]

@@jarskil8862 wrong no matter what you say history say fascism is left wing. Even though all the stupid left wings try to all right wing fascist when in reality its their side that is both fascist and and communist. The real clown is someone who dont pay attention to history like your comment.