Hoi4: Soviet Union - Not One Step Back Achievement

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[@BlackBronyGaming]

I am pretty certain that you only loose the achievement if they take control of a state, not just one tile. I got this achievement by attacking poland at the start of the game and puppeting Ukraine and Belarus, than accepting the Baltics in the Commintern. This leaves a tiny border in Romania (and maybe Turkey) and the coast to be defended. By not calling in anybody in the commintern, the Axis can only attack over the large river in Romania, which is very easy to defend. I just sat back and relaxed till 1945, ate away the german air and let the Allies finish them off. They did take a small island in the Arctic sea by naval invading from Norway, but that didn't cancel the achievement as I was still in control of the state on the mainland. A bit cheesy, but it works.

[@guydudedudeguy9030]

How would you get the achievements for not losing any core territory if you sacrifice cores to being a puppet? I feel skeptical but don’t have my pc rn to test

[@umapessoaaleatoria905]

@@guydudedudeguy9030 He didn't sacrifice any territory: he puppeted Ukraine and Belarus only in the polish slice of their territories, while maintaining all of soviet core territories

[@kaarelkarku3817]

33:12

[@hello_im_tomas8089]

great one, but how could you puppet ukraine and belarus when you need Trotsky for that one?

[@DefaultProphet]

This was also what I did when I got it. Very easy strat but loooooong because requires running a bunch not at 5 speed

[@Matteo-hp7gx]

If you take rome on the peace conference you also get the "the pope? how many divisions has he have?" achivement!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Yup. I mis licked and didn't want to start the recording again

[@conrailquality1999]

@@Bitt3rSteel mis licked bitter i'm sorry

[@randomperson774]

@@Bitt3rSteel YOU WHAAAT?!

[@iRON90111]

​@@Bitt3rSteel Kinda sus bro, there are kids watching, you do not do that ever

[@L_the_II]

@@Bitt3rSteel yeah hate when that happens it's very annoying when you mis lick

[@rockytech3658]

Warning to everyone: I made a mistake and declared on germany. This made japan enter the war due to the tripartite pack, taking Vladivostok and making me loose the achievement. Don't make my mistake.

[@jaredjosephsongheng372]

Why did you declare war on them. The longer they take to declare war on you the Better

[@valentinblue1952]

​@@jaredjosephsongheng372 Well, if you are smart you can simply steamroll Poland and then germany. Soviet starting Army is more than enough

[@azertymoiloi]

​@@valentinblue1952did you heard of "britain say no" ?

[@thefederalbureauofinvestig6467]

@@azertymoiloipoland doesnt have british guarantees at the start

[@nachbarstein8807]

15:30 You don't lose them, they change accordingly with your doctrine. E.g.: Tip of the spear (Grand Battleplan) changes to the respective spirit of Mobile Warfare

[@SoraTheHappyEmo]

Something I learned is shift+click the "Divisions waiting to be assigned" button automatically selects all divisions that are not assigned to an army, allowing you to organize within seconds.

[@Azachor]

This isn't common knowledge?

[@SoraTheHappyEmo]

@@Azachor Apparently reading tooltips is for nerds. xD

[@AR-rg2en]

Knew but thanks

[@andreykravchenko6829]

I have 1,500 hours in the game and I had no idea 🤦‍♂️

[@archhiveoftwitchstreams5782]

Took me over 100 hours to work that out, saves so much time and frustration

[@Iambent]

appreciate you for making this guide! first playthrough with the USSR and was able to push back the axis with ease

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Nice work!

[@matheusexpedito4577]

The motherland is proud

[@Daniel-rh7kh]

The AI has been greatly improved, but I swear, if they fix its behavior of smashing its head against the frontlines, things will get handy

[@zans4018]

It still works fine dw. Same tactics apply from before but ai uses more command abilities, thats about it.

[@martinnimcevic565]

tbh, head smashing works when you have air superiority and a ton of CAS, but AI does it anyway. Only when it has millions of casualties finally realises that it is not a good idea.

[@zans4018]

@@martinnimcevic565 you only really need that if your army strength is much lower than your enemy. Even then i find it better to build 13/4/2 since in those cases you are probably a minor and AA is cheaper.

[@martinnimcevic565]

@@zans4018 I hate line arty with a passion lol

[@whitezombie10]

But the soviet AI became easy to beat

[@chippen1985]

Regarding supply issues: Prioritise motorised logistical support by pushing twice on the "cavalry button" next to the select all button. Be sure to have enough trucks in store though. Combine this with a logistical genius in the high command, logistical support company, logistical wizard trait on your field marshals and using transport planes as logistic supply then you will never have any issues with supply again!

[@Hutcho72]

Yep I have been doing that as the British Raj in Africa. I have established a solid front, and am building railway lines behind the lines to maintain supply. I have also built a few airbases as well to allow the Allies to pile extra planes in. I have 2 Submarine Wolfpacks operating, one in the Red Sea, and the other one off the West Coast of Africa. They are giving massive losses to the Axis forces. Plus I have been sniping their supply Hubs and making sure I have enough forces to hold them. That is really grinding the Axis down. But the British AI insists on doing a 1 Division attack on a territory where there are 5 Divisions waiting for them.

[@lolo9999ization]

I don't even get the point of logistics companies anymore; logistical genius is very situational. If you maximise motorised logistical support, it will work fairly well even if you have like -4k trucks in stockpile due to redistribution and prioritising, and once you build like 20 transport planes, the supply issue is solved forever.

[@owenhardy7035]

“Ahh yes, I’m sure Tukhachevsky will be around for a long time.” *winks at camera*

[@fortusvictus8297]

I have always wanted a game that would allow for a Trotskyite USSR. Trotsky was a natural general and very oriented towards war, which is part of why Stalin was so paranoid of his generals...Stalin was an administrative clerk while Trotsky led the revolutions and single-handedly saved the USSR against the White wars.

[@americancommunist6076]

@@fortusvictus8297 trotskyite lies

[@sacrieur7899]

I gave up my first run after failling to assasinate Trotsky for the fourth time in a row ... I had sent enought equipment for a small army and i'm now convinced that my agent worked for Trotsky and was helping him assembling his army.

[@sethyboy0]

Another nice thing under the cominterm section: the focus to buddy with up sinkiang. It unlocks decisions that help them out and give you -1% consumer goods on your 5 year plan spirit (for like -3% in total). After that you use another decision to puppet them.

[@bubbubthealmighty9240]

42:41 So just wanted to say how crushing of an encirclement that was, a division contains around 6,000-25,000 soldiers and that was an encirclement of 51 of them, so the average best outcome would be 306,000 captured/killed and the average worst would be *1.27 million* soldiers captured/killed. At this point this isn't a war- *it's pest control* . Also great video as always!

[@chaoticscripts7345]

yeah and whats crazy is germany inflicted mass encirclements like these in the world too.

[@valentinblue1952]

We are 1,27 Million Nazis! How many are you? 4! You want to destroy the Germans with 4 Soviets?! A Single Soviet would be enough to destroy the Germans! You are superior in only one respect! That is? You are better at dying! Cease communications.

[@henryviii267]

1:50: start of guide 3:30: Railways and construction 4:05: Not the tanks! 4:15: Production 4:30: Purge the Navy 5:21: National Focus

[@void1n]

blud forgot abt 90 % of the video💀💀💀

[@Stouzough]

Another great montage, good job. I like the way you cut the war to keep it short, while referring to other videos for content: I think it's smart. We're not all at same level, seeing a pro running through the details is so useful. One idea: maybe to help, you can make some short tutorial vids about attacking/encircling, spirits, research... and refer to them during your achievement runs? Anyway I like your stuff the like it is, continue the great work.

[@panossa.6019]

Lovely guide, thank you BitterSteel, once again on point!

[@jasondetata8098]

Got these achievements the other day. It took me a couple of tries to understand the focus tree. Thanks for the guides.

[@BubblesZest]

Hmm, those green bubbles. Always nice when the AI does what they love to do.

[@cowsgobark]

Glad I found your channel bubbles

[@BlackHammer3]

Latest patch finally fixed the Montreux Convention, as Soviets you can now freely use the straits and not worry about you fleet being stuck in the Black sea

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Finally!

[@justacarpet6227]

Oh my God finnaly! I won't have to use the naval production exploit anymore

[@WellHiFellers]

Used this as my guide for my first Hoi4 play through. One of the funnest gaming experiences I have ever had. Thanks for your video

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad I could help!

[@sejimun3821]

lol that small detail with the peace deal " now you just have to wait for 1945 for the achievment" while the USSR (you) have 1945 points in the peac deal... that is just the icing on the cake XD btw love the video :)

[@KovaSyncia]

In Spain if you have spam planes at the start of the game, put the tank division on high priority, and focus on producing tanks trucks and infantry equipment, you can send 3 air volunteer squadrons and 6 tank division to Spain. Get Zhukov and any good field marshal you have and focus on encircling Sevilla or just the Southern front general, focus on railroads and supply hubs. Your tanks are OP in Spain and can make encirclements work. Eventually if you have good micro you can win the war in Spain and gain Spain as a puppet

[@albertarutlets]

I just finished my campaign following your tutorial. It worked great!

[@hamzaraza4860]

I was waiting when you will upload achievement videos

[@ricemouse200]

I found it quite helpful to convert around 6 divisions of the nkvd to support a romanian naval invasion as it drags away a few romanian divisions on the frontline wich makes it a lot easier to pierce the river on the frontline and commit to a full-scale invasion.

[@512TheWolf512]

i got this one by never going for bessarabia and baltics, and stacking 5 million men on the border. the AI wasn't able to cancel the non-aggression pact xD

[@Bitt3rSteel]

The might of mother Russia

[@VampiroGaming]

Really cool run, very informative.

[@hzcyd101]

I've ran as Soviet for these achievements for a couple of times, they always cede Slovakia to Hungry if the situation is looking bad on them. Naval invade will make Finland you puppet very easily within 2 weeks. Plus, you could rush to Luxembourg before capitulate Germany to get the Race to Germany as well. They always core Loraine and Luxembourg before I can get there... ps. Could you please make a guide on Tannu Tuva? My only achievement left to be done!!!! The guides on PRDX wiki isn't particularly helpful...

[@krasnamerah1926]

>Siberian Tiger Attack Xinjiang, Xibei San Ma, and then gobble up the rest of Chinese faction with Japan and puppet Communist China. Always call the Soviets since they didn't have interest on taking Chinese lands. Get 35 Army XP and get Ideological Loyalty ASAP to create your army out of thin air. Declare war on Japan and take Southern Sakhalin, Kuril, and Hokkaido. Puppet Korea and the rest of Japan and give the Chinese lands to Mao. Quit Comintern, beat Soviet Union by the time Barbarossa happened. Take Soviet Central Asia and Siberia in the peace deal. Annex your Sinkiang puppet after Soviet capitulates. Form Turkestan first and then form Siberia on all tiers. Essentially you have cored the entire North and Central Asia and becoming the Mongol Empire reborn. Annex Japan for their navy after you've formed Siberia. Good luck.

[@hzcyd101]

@@krasnamerah1926 The war in mainland China doesn’t appear to be difficult, but I’m not sure how to get Japan that way… without US navy help

[@krasnamerah1926]

@@hzcyd101, you need a lot of luck with the airforce, the navy not so much. Paratroopers works best. Just wait until Japan puts all of their airforce above China and you can hop off from Vladivostok to one of the ports, then you can ship your army there.

[@hzcyd101]

@@krasnamerah1926 yeah after like half a dozen tries I decided to ask Bitter for help. Even the second step to take Xibei San Ma had a risky RNG of dragging China in before Japan attacks. Not sure it's a bad thing cuz it does mean I can get a tad more war score. But surely isn't great as I've lost a whole puppet when I needed most...

[@SmallPotato2313]

@@krasnamerah1926 i wouldnt bother invading japan...just make sure u got sinkiang puppet and get as much score in war against china as possible to make chinese puppet with manpower then u wait until germany attacks (june1941) and in meantime train as many troops as u can with your limited factories (i made 16 7/2 divisions and that was enough to push into russian supply depos once u took those near you= u cut the transiberian railway=they wont be able to supply their troops in mongolia)...attack the ussr AFTER japan declares war on philipines (for some reason if i go to war before that moment japan always justifies on my chinese puppet) and try to connect in mongolia with chinese puppet (big encirclement is possible there cuz soviets love to funnel a lot of troops there but if u cut the transiberian railway they will be out of supply most of time) i personally used sinkiang units to hold and later push into turkmenistans countries and chinese troops to push into mongolia (snaking is possible because soviets wont have enough troops for every tile) just make sure to cover your frontlines with any division available(i got like 60-70 from chinese puppet just by taking control over their divisions) and make strategic push with your 7/2 divisions Its based on luck a lot cuz the ai randomly can decide to abbandon front against the axis and focus only on you but i think u should still be able to have enough warscore to get 5 provinces u need to form siberia (they are very cheap)

[@davidmunozquintana2645]

love the achivement runs, and also the 30:34 notification XD

[@sld1776]

After-action report! Finally did this, with some changes: 1. Sent air volunteers to Spain for that sweet speed. 2. Disbanded the armored divisions after the first war. We are going to turtle up. 3. This is very important: created five puppets out of the first war; the two from Turkey and the three from Romania. The three puppets from Romania confuses the Hungary and Bulgaria paths, but forces Germany to go through it's usual path. Sent volunteers and air volunteers to China. Air XP gain was enormous. Then did my built. Two army groups in the German border, one extra army in the Hungarian border. A thin line of forts in the border, and... Nothing. No war until December 1941. Didn't lose a single tile. Shot down the German air force with my upgraded 1940 fighters. Absolutely wild to recreate the Maginot in the steppes.

[@CoALOILgAs]

Recently just did this and puppeted Turkey, had no problems with them and were stable throughout my run. Only issue I did have following this guide is my airforce got absolutely smashed to begin with due to the starting debuffs, but problem was solved by building max static anti-air along the border while I fixed the debuffs through the focuses. You should have enough civs for this to not cause major delays

[@faulkner146]

Keep ‘‘em coming

[@jaredcarpenter6498]

Great video as always Bitt3r, and thanks again for working with Salad - you did almost as good of a job on that ad as you did defending the Motherland ;)

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TedPoll4ever]

Ive found that if you annex transylvania you can actually prevent hungary from ever joining the axis (or significantly delay i dont know) allowing you to do a preemptive invasion and letting you stack two full army groups on the german border (though theres a chance they'll never declare if you're too strong, first time i got this achievement i made it to 1945 without them ever declaring war, even though they had capitulated france and were winning in africa)

[@MediPL]

8:30 These focuses don't really do anything to paranoia - with the starting 2/week growth they're basically neutral and pay for themselves.

[@DarkBean34]

This really helped me out in my Soviet Union play, thanks!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad it helped!

[@fortusvictus8297]

Every game my starting subs kill more divisions than my army does the entire defense phase. Assign them only to the two seas in the Baltic, put the 'shallow sea' admiral on them. If Romania joins early (they always do against me) use the Crimean subs in just the Black sea and maybe Agean. SO MANY troop convoys down. Like 100k casualties of total division loss, equipment and all, in just the first month.

[@stevozegreat1669]

Merry Christmas and a happy holidays to yall

[@mistertwo6113]

Achieved using 1.11.13. Excellent job Bitt3r. Thank you.

[@ManofPeel]

Order No. 227 (Russian: Приказ № 227}, romanized: Prikaz No. 227) was an order issued on 28 July 1942 by Joseph Stalin, who was acting as the People's Commissar of Defence. It is known for its line "Not a step back!" (Ни шагу назад!, Ni shagu nazad!), which became the primary slogan of the Soviet press in summer 1942. The order established that each front must create one to three penal battalions (Shtrafbats), which were sent to the most dangerous sections of the front lines.[3] From 1942 to 1945, a total of 422,700 Red Army personnel were sentenced to penal battalions as a result of court-martials.[4] The order also directed that each army must create "blocking detachments" at the rear that would shoot "panic-mongers and cowards". In the first three months, blocking detachments shot 1,000 penal troops and sent 24,000 to penal battalions. By October 1942, the idea of regular blocking detachments was quietly dropped. Intended to galvanise the morale of the hard-pressed Red Army and emphasize patriotism, it had a generally detrimental effect and was not consistently implemented by commanders who viewed diverting troops to create blocking detachments as a waste of manpower. On 29 October 1944, blocking detachments were disbanded by Stalin's order No. 349 citing the changed situation at the front. essentially a piece of paper that said retreat is cringe

[@fortusvictus8297]

A piece of paper written in blood, just to say retreat is cringe. But not as bad as the late war orders that deemed any freed Soviet POW was not fit to return home and Soviet soldiers were sent straight to the gulags after the war and their families just told they had died or deserted in shame.

[@americancommunist6076]

@@fortusvictus8297 reactionary lies

[@fortusvictus8297]

@@americancommunist6076 Solzhenitsyn was a reactionary...a rather uninteresting take. But anyone with that name probably knows nothing of Solzhenitsyn.

[@marcriba7581]

@@fortusvictus8297 He got put in the Gulag for arguing that the USSR should have allied with the Nazis and become fascist. (Because he was a fascist) He then got his cancer treated in the Gulag, and went on to write a fiction novel about Gulag folklore and say it was true, meaning he became the darling of western education systems. The fact that his own wife said that the Gulag Archipelago was based more on "folklore," rather than truth speaks volumes.

[@fortusvictus8297]

@@marcriba7581 So, we already have a term for holocaust deniers...what would be a good term for Gulag denial? Or purge denial? Or mass, organized, starvation denial? Or heck lets just sum it up as Commie Simping... Whats next for your portfolio, "Only bad people died from communist action"?

[@danielbohan165]

I like the little rock meme you threw in there!

[@greynand8466]

43:45 tbh i was expecting you to say "gone, reduced to atoms"

[@oscars4608]

When I play Stalin in NSB I always grind generals on Romania and Turkey, having a good set of level 6 generals with adaptable is very useful. Not to mention the army and air xp for doctrines and tanks

[@javiermagana6364]

How long can you grind before Romania joins the Axis.

[@oscars4608]

@@javiermagana6364 you go for an early war either by the Turkish straits event, putting your armies 1 tile back from each countries so there’s an increased chance of war, or justify on turkey. Then you can grind for a long time, if needs be capitulate Romania and keep grinding Turkey.

[@KaiserCrocer]

Hungry: if I stay still, he can't see me

[@zola3559]

Happy to see you're getting some sponsorship!

[@jaredcarpenter6498]

Us too! Bitt3rsteel has been great to work with.

[@jpf196]

He said: "Hey guys! Bittersteel here today we.." - already dropped my like, the remaining 45:48 are just bonus now. :)

[@swietyboze1792]

Glad youre getting sponsors bro

[@freshsnuggles3350]

i think something is wrong. turkey has zero gurantees

[@marcocorsini4054]

30:35 Didn't expect to be pranked here

[@noandno1126]

I've been recently trying to get this achievement but struggle with pushing out enough equipment to fully supply 2 army groups AND get all the medium tanks out even with 120+ civs and 90+ military factories since I goes really well at the start then the germans break my line and it all goes down from there

[@KarakuraRiser]

"Tuchsevski is gonna be around for a long long time." Death of Stalin flashnack intensifies

[@steffiguffens2016]

Love this!

[@robson1400]

I love your content ❤️❤️

[@Theradomcreeper]

While probably not the best idea, for fixing the problem with turkey you can always satellite Kurdistan and give all of turkey to Kurdistan. This basically gives you a weaker turkey puppet but one that won't be glitchy. Not sure how world tension exactly fairs though in difference between giving all the land to Kurdistan and taking it all, so might not be worth it long term due to allies.

[@ekonomija8718]

Turkey would eventually revolt and you'll have to kill them again, perhaps in the middle of the war

[@konbkob4156]

Also just turn off BoTB if you can for achievements, Turkey never does anything weird since I didn't buy the DLC

[@abdulmajidi7416]

As a Turk *SOUNDS BAD*

[@KingAGBozz]

​@@abdulmajidi7416Biji Kurdistan

[@klm0016]

I invited Sinkiang to the Comintern and abt 3weeks after Japan declared on them. So I got abt 30 Join wars requests over a couple of months.

[@josephstalin9046]

This, this does put a smile on OUR face

[@mofiros2000]

Can you do a guide on "Siberian Tiger"? I already did all the achievements but this one is killing me, wouldn't mind some help from the pro like you :D

[@Risviltsov]

Bittersteel's gonna jack these guys up as soon as he can.

[@Cazline]

at 3:40 how are you bringing up that menu over the supply hubs? I have been individually clicking rail networks for a long time...

[@bigmanted9864]

31:54 “finland is easy enough to overrun” 2 seconds later: NJET MOLOTOFF

[@projectpitchfork860]

I already did that trice before NSB. You basicly only need sufficient defensive forces (infantry), aor superiority and armor to create some pockets.

[@commscan314]

I've done that too, but I went as aggressively as possible, rushing NKVD Primacy, then boosting the US to be unable to do The Giant Wakes, sweeping through the Allies, Low Countries, France, and Poland, puppeting major naval powers then obliterating the Berlin-Rome Axis by invading from the Benelux. You are now unstoppable. The US is easily steamrolled because they don't have enough democracy support to mobilize, and congratulations, you have brought the Free World to its knees!.

[@Tux-rs7rp]

One time nationalist Spain lost on historical and I was shocked I thought I turned that off at first

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

The hits keep coming! This was a goodie. Couple of things to consider, though. First off, It's not optimal to start building railroads right at game start. You can and should save that for as close to right before you declare your wars as possible. The earlier in the game it is, the more important your civilian factories building more civilian factories are. The investments compound on each other, positive and negative. Not a big deal at the end of the day, but minor inefficiencies add up! 9:10 If you're going tank, the anti-tank branch is JUST as important as the artillery one, if not more so. It has your medium cannons which were MAJORLY buffed soft attack and cost wise in the latest patch and are the only tank weapon that gives you a bonus to breakthrough for minimal cost in resources, at least when it comes to the first model. Naturally that branch also has your heavy and high velocity cannons for your TDs which SHOULD be included in your division (1 battalion) to insure your tanks have the piercing they need to deal with any armor the AI produces with ease. Artillery has horrible piercing and while you could say "just go around enemy tank divisions" supply doesn't always afford you that luxury. A city with a hub that needs taking isn't going to wait. I also use the TD to be the battalion that gives my division 30% of its armor as the highest armored unit, maxing it out with sloped, cast, skirts, etc. This gives it *two* incredibly important roles and because you literally only need 24 tanks per division, the resource and production costs are trivial. Now you might say I don't NEED the armor against the AI that doesn't really stack piercing but you use that armor to include more motorized in your division without being able to be pierced that effectively allows you to field more tank divisions. Yes, you heard that right. Motorized until an upgraded mechanized II for its speed and hardness. Don't even bother producing the first mechanized equipment although you should research it when you get the spare slot relatively quickly because it does increase the hardness of your motorized divisions significantly.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

1. You start off with a construction penalty to civs. So I'd rather make a few railroads. 2. Medium canon is also in the artillery branch. 3. You don't need TDs. The AI still hasn't figured out what an armoured thrust is. It takes fewer of them to fill a division, and is economical. But not required.

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

@@Bitt3rSteel Fair enough. Although you could invest that into infrastructure instead in your states with high slots! I didn't know that! You're still missing out on the high velocity and heavy cannons, however. But it's better than not to have a TD, though. Yes, the AI is terrible at managing tanks, but it only takes one unpierceable one in the right spot to jam you up. Combined you get the efficiency of needing fewer tanks overall, piercing and the second role I mentioned as your designated armored unit to maximize the 30% bonus to your division. That means you don't need the sloped armor on your medium tanks! Not bad if I do say so myself for some not overwhelming research investment.

[@jasonmiller6761]

@@MundaneThingsBackwards Does anyone else use the move industry focus to effectively construct infinite industry in Moscow?

[@user-xh9pu2wj6b]

@[Mob Inc.] Robert technically in single player you don't need tanks either, the AI is just braindead enough to be neutered with CAS and taken with infantry.

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

@[Mob Inc.] Robert You need AA much less if you're a major with a competent air force and non-pacific theater navy. Like a lot of things in the game AT makes your life easier for the reasons I laid out and a few more.

[@derpman116]

I wonder what the final division template you use as the Soviets, I'm sure you may have mentioned this in the video or in another but I do want to know what the layout is

[@TheBusbyBabes]

Bitt3erSteel: "finland is easy to overrun" Fins during WW2: hold my beer

[@radishindependent146]

another problem of puppeting turkey is that the italians seem to naval invade them and if youre not quick enough the reach stalingrad

[@getoutofherestalker2441]

The way I did that achievement was by declaring war on Poland and then Germany as soon as possible (1936/37) and just rush them by having a number advantage and for the rest of the game sit AFK. Got some other achievements like Just Proper Gander and One Step Forward as well as the other AFK achievements like Trade Tycoon, Time is on our side, Master of war and such during the time I did absolutely nothing thanks to no one attacking me or anything

[@sheshgamrt6945]

I like how every start of bittersteel ussr run is like: an army on romania and turkey

[@leonardosaffier1705]

I like to justify on finland for the claimed territories (after ribbentrop-molotov) because it works the same, finland will still offer you territories after some time and they can't "concede to your demands". If finland accepts your demands via focus you just get karjala (instead of karjala and salla) and it will skip the winter war, which is terrible because you can use this war (timed just right) to get the war economy focus without the stability hit. By justifying a war goal you also can skip the "secure leningrad" focus and use these 70 days on another important focus. Really, it might cost more pp, but it's win/win

[@strafniki1080]

Really good youtuber thanks!

[@Bitt3rSteel]

I appreciate that!

[@user-gg8zs7nu6t]

Just a general tip (this applies to all nations), make sure tanks are 8km/h from 1936-1942, then 10km/h afterwards. Also, support your 42w armored divisions with motoroized shock forces or use light mechanized divisions (the starting one is decent, slap on a high velocity cannon with tons of armor and speed so you dont get pierced) to support your armored corps. Also, CAS spam is not that OP (max you can do is 25 for an entire run) and send volunteers to china and help them, or id recommend puppeting Sinkiang, theyre really good when you play lategame and invade Japan. Otherwise, decent guide Bitt3rsteel, w guide other ones were trash.

[@7pan7pan93]

I got hearts of iron 4 and I have been trying so hard to learn it this is the video I will now look at this has taught me more than any other video on how to play this game by far

[@saxaren1133]

I accidently gave away the island to Japan because I didn't think about it, but Germany wouldn't declare aswell... maybe it's something in recent updates that they won't declare when they see many troops.

[@henryviii267]

“Komsomsomolomosom” - Bitt3rSteel (2021)

[@parkerpeter8068]

You can make HOI4 run a little bit faster with FPS map and for those launch options in the steam thingy you can put in -debug_smooth=no and it'll lower your FPS in exchange for making the game time faster. Still works with ironman mode if you do this.

[@noorbi4569]

At the start of the game you can go for poland too. I did that with my achivement run. After I completed all the purge events i rushed down for the comiterm part of the focus tree to send an ultimatum to turkey. At this time Romania still guarantees Turkey. Since the focus only give decisions to send referendums, the UK and France can't defend Turkey. With this opening (ofc I spammed a lot of airplanes too) Germany was very easy to defeat.

[@steelpanther88]

What i learned with airplanes buildup deploy planes and hit shift k. That trains your planes and stops training them once fully xp'ed

[@steelpanther88]

This is so good to reduce babysitting airplanes when building up as majors

[@BritishColonist]

i did everything the same as you, but somehow managed to get an additional 70 factories by mid 1942 lol

[@killerwhiteplayz5673]

This achievement makes players paranoid as there worried to make steps as it could cost then the run so this achievement makes people into stalin

[@Borel-nv5bq]

Not sure how, but I tried this and initially had all green bubbles until they broke one unit through in the north. Then everything broke down from there. Bunch of huge encirclements and decimated me

[@Felix-dv9wn]

Not one step back Bittersteel: you mean step forward?

[@Spagghet]

"Annnnd we have a War Economy in 1936. You tried stopping us Paradox, but nothing can stop the Soviet Union."

[@emre2642]

37:17 AMOGUS

[@wilsontheknight]

I don’t recommend ignoring the focus tree path that reduces the paranoia. Unless you want 3 more purges. You use those focuses to reduced the paranoia of Stalin plus they give some decent buffs. DO NOT IGNORE THEM!!! The decisions are somewhat costly and in my opinion not worth the PP or loss of advisors, generals, and loss of effectiveness and XP. You can’t simply rush down the paranoia path. That’s why those other focuses are there. Use them strategically.

[@pedroprass106]

I just came from a game as germany, and the AI got this achievement against me

[@501stadvisor]

I did this along with race for Germany, Don't Like Statistics, Pope Divisions and Proper-Gander all in one run. Played historically with the factory conversion strategy at the start. My industry went crazy by 1940 - I was building like 7 or more military factories on full speed at once. Managed to completely outproduce Germany in fighters and CAS. Didn't attack Turkey nor Romania. Grinded Zhukov to Ranger and Infantry leader in Finland. Also managed for the first time in a looooong time to win the Spanish civil war with Vatutin. Didn't really matter, because Spain didn't play a role in WW2. I only made flame tanks but with the latest medium tank chassis and gave them to my mountaineers and my 20 width Katyusha division which I used for pushing with Vasilevsky. Went with Superior Firepower doctrine both right sides. My infantry divisions were 10 width with support art, support rocket art, engineers, recon, support aa. With the crazy amount of civilian factories I had I was building a fort line from the Baltic sea to the Black sea. Had at least level 5 forts (didn't even take the Molotov line focus). Then just sat down and waited until I finished my focuses for improving the military - Lessons of war, etc... Also improved the airforce. From that point on I went on the offensive. A few major encirclements later Germany didn't stand a chance, though I did have to step up because UK took Italy and I had to rush to take Luxembourg and Elsass Lothringen because Germany did the focus for getting cores on them and you need to occupy them before they capitulate to get the Race for Germany achievement. In the peace conference I annexed Latium for the Pope Divisions achievement.

[@emin166]

I cant do dont like statistics I always lose a lot of men in the defense against germany. Can you explain how you do it?

[@501stadvisor]

@@emin166 I haven't played in almost a year. Don't know what's changed in the game since then but I recall my strategy revolved around building very powerful defensive line on the very border. High level forts, entrenched infantry e.t.c. One thing that might help you mitigate casualties is Field Hospitals, but I didn't use them. I never let any of my divisions get encircled. This is key in regards to preventing casualties. My casualties start to go up during offense for obvious reasons. But even then I only push with tank divisions in areas that I know I can make a breakthrough followed up by a successful encirclement. I would rarely attack with infantry divisions unless I want to pin down either to prevent enemy reinforcements or a retreat from an encirclement.

[@Tolands]

Watching this to relearn how to play as USSR and you have War Economy in 36... This is the reason why I am here!

[@raulmunoz2181]

Did you swtiched you infantry division template? and what are your medium templates? Tanks!!!

[@quantumquail8516]

well the salad app... in the end your energy bill will be higher than what you get out of it i guess. not to mention the attrition your computer endures.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Well, power is a concern but will depend on where you live (Bulgaria has notably cheap power for instance) wear and tear only really applies to you fans in modern systems and unless those are spinning at 100% 24/7, it won't be noticable. There is no silicone degrading on you CPU or GPU. They simply do not get hot enough

[@quantumquail8516]

@@Bitt3rSteel Hm yeah in those Countries with low power cost it may actually make sense. But here in Germany the prices are insane high and are rising every day. If you want to know why? Its because our stupid Government demolishes Nuclear Plants and Builds Wind Plants. These Wind Plants are good in delivering Power but the Output is Random and depends on the Wind. So at times we actually have too much energy and are forced to emergency "sell" it for a negative price. Like we actually lose money. At other times it is not enough energy and we need to import with expensive costs again. And guess what. The French are one of our main Import partners and they actually build more Nuclear Plants because of Germany. Because we demand so much energy. Its comical.

[@jaredcarpenter6498]

@@quantumquail8516 Yep, some countries will fare much better with Salad than others - it comes down to how much electricity costs and how much the markets are paying out at a given moment. Thanks for keeping an open mind, and sorry about your nuclear woes!

[@comradekat6394]

13:40, you can also make a Transylvania as its own country if you are particular lazy/psychotic like me

[@dhanushsuryaa646]

I did exactly what you have done in this video. The german AI, however went to clever mode. It had very less troops guarding the northern flank but heavy and good troops in my south, and worst part, Hungary was also called in. They even started an offensive in Turkish border, as I am unable to hold them there as Soviet. Would try it again to complete several achievements in one run: 3 said in here, take Rome, capitulate Germany before allies take a core state, surrounded by puppets. Help me out with the templates you had used

[@garethlloyd9603]

I'm getting the same problem. I've run this scenario 3 times now and every time Hungary & Bulgaria have joined the Axis and swept through Romania and on to Moscow while I'm locked in battle with the Germans 😞. I've tried putting 2 full armies and land-forts on the Romanian border, but the combined force of Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria eventually smashes through. @Bitt3rSteel - how come that doesn't happen to you? Has the AI been changed recently?

[@garethlloyd9603]

I'm a bit of a noob to the game - just seen a comment about "not calling in" Romania. I let Romania join my fight - maybe that's the mistake?

[@SerLagsalot]

@@garethlloyd9603 yeah that'll do it. Romania gets kept out of the war because it limits the Axis's approach significantly.

[@justinokraski3796]

@@garethlloyd9603don’t call any of your allies/puppets because they can call each other to war and suddenly your barrier nations are invasion vectors

[@hendrikmons4231]

Bittersteel, when playing as sovjet union, do you also get super hyped when "katyusha" kicks in when defending against Germany? :D or do you play without ingame music?

[@marcusappelberg369]

When does it kick in?

[@joesphmathews1744]

One step back.two steps forward.

[@akixhunfn5096]

9:10 i tried heavies with the soviet union and they were amazing i made good armor (about 100-150) and good speed (about 10km/h) i couldnt make a lot of them beacuse i was focused on fighters to destroy the luftwaffe but like 6 of them (force deployed so they werent well trained) did so well against the germans they just broke through (i had 30 width with 10 heavy tank battalions and 5 motorized infantry battalions with of course support companies) i really recommend heavies

[@SCLHP666]

They are good but recommend for defending, I got 80 - 90 armor on medium and just annihilated the German panzer force

[@bp9696]

30:34 i thought that notification came from me lmao, i was confused when i opened whatsapp and saw nothing new

[@unitedfloridamapper7669]

Paradox needs to fix the peace deals at some point.

[@pussy_tracker_6931]

When I get attacked they always manage to push my troops back and I think its bc of supplies. Despite improving my railways and building additional hubs I dont get enough supplies.

[@fortusvictus8297]

If you look closely there are a couple of tiles that can be attacked by like 4 other tiles, the AI spams in divisions that have no org but it prevents your troops from resting or repairing forts. That is how the AI is able to push back your 12 divisions of better units with their 7 lesser divisions that seem to insta-lose. AI is king of micro. Have backup forts or extra fortify those tiles to like tier 6. Those tiles are the open plains down the south (which he lost) and a little nipple further north near Brest.

[@pussy_tracker_6931]

@@fortusvictus8297 thanks

[@commscan314]

Eh, just flood Western Europe red with communism and invade Germany from the Benelux.

[@pussy_tracker_6931]

@@commscan314 zamn 💀

[@ura172]

"OG mustache man" XDXD

[@grzegorzszymanski2076]

@Bitt3rSteel what was the template for the infantry and the armor divisions?

[@Aeradom2000]

I'm curious about this as well, it seems like the INF is 30 width so maybe 9/4? Armor I have not clue on.

[@stefanciubotaru5273]

did u make new tank divisions or you transformed the small ones ? and can you tell me the template?

[@krasnamerah1926]

Oh great, a good one already, dude!

[@krasnamerah1926]

Yep, a nice one indeed. Though i would occupy Denmark first and steamroll into France before getting Vienna. Even if i could, declare war on Spain so that Franco and Salazar joins and i can get more warscore, haha. Id love to puppet France at the end.

[@krasnamerah1926]

Also, i'm trying to do Arabia as Iraq on No Step Back. Wish me luck