Roman Empire in 1936 By Blood Alone - Hoi4 Italy Speedrun Commentary

Hoi4 Roman Empire Speedrun, and it's the last one. But I was too obsessed with it. I just had to give it another go.
I won't play Italy in Hearts of Iron IV for a while and instead take on some other challenges. I still have some strategies on my mind that didn't break with version 1.12 and the DLC By Blood Alone. And some new ones as well. The new peace conference system as well as other changes to the game makes some new shenanigans possible that I will definitely make use of.
Stay tuned!
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Unedited run: • Roman Empire Speedrun ...
Music: Hearts of Iron IV Soundtrack

[@m3an]

I didn't do as much editing and visuals this time. Let me know how it turned out!

[@Erik_Arnqvist]

I think is good overall. The focus is Roman speedrun but would be nice to have things like the mentioned buggy transport planes expanded upon. Perhaps adding a short explanatory text or linking to another video about the topic in the corner of the screen (i annotation icon) or in the description.

[@stevepirie8130]

That is mental how powerful Italy is without realising it for me

[@FxTR22]

No unnecessary blabla and right to the point. I absolutely love it. That's why I subscribed to you. I am here to learn exploits and strats on Hoi4. You explained it well and i will try to replicate this new strat to form Rome myself :-)

[@Stouzough]

You reached a great balance, and thanks a lot for providing the unedited version, just in case.

[@NZIGNANTI]

This guy does to the clauswits engine ai like neo does to the matrix

[@beanz6970]

Rome wasn't built in a day, it was built in 26 minutes.

[@sheacorduroy5565]

BEANZ

[@vextronx]

Good comment, did laugh.

[@user-gy7pv4vm1d]

Tell Musk that

[@ardakarasu953]

Yes

[@cringe7391]

"Mussolini wake up, they've landed on Sicily"

[@helenos_152]

Relatable

[@belfastplant1852]

Germany watching Europe fall before even taking Austria is funny to me.

[@pandemiclegion8660]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂

[@StarNeverDoes]

This guy can form the Roman Empire in 26 minutes twice while I'm still stuck trying to win a scenario where the Axis wins... in general.

[@JoinThe_BingvinArmy]

Pro tip: just ignore the english channel and get medium **p a n z e r**

[@JoinThe_BingvinArmy]

Usa is also just soviet union x 2, invading will incite sounds you have never heard from your pc

[@doctorothon]

21 width infantry, concentrate fleet for a naval invasion to cap uk

[@SnakeInAShoe]

​@@doctorothoni prefer using naval bombers combined with my fleet to bait theirs out. If you have air superiority you can damage their fleet enough to gain naval superiority

[@doctorothon]

@@SnakeInAShoe sometimes that’s needed depends on who you’re playing

[@heylolp9]

Mussolini waking up on January 1st 1936 realizing Ethiopia ain't important then turning to casually rebuilding the roman empire before the end of October 100% Historical Focus Tree let's go

[@matthewlazaric3543]

Thanks for making this video, 26 minutes is insane. I really enjoyed learning about how the new peace deal mechanics are working.

[@juanmendez3290]

The fully cored empire would be fun to see, I haven't seen anyone do it yet

[@1mol831]

Considering he already has cores on UK, France and the Mediterranean. He should be able to take over the rest of Europe rather easily. With all cores of the Roman Empire he has similar amount of manpower as China does while having more industry than late game USA does. He can now do a world conquest without problems. Basically infinite manpower and weapons.

[@7XQO]

It’s really easy, I got everything apart from Germany (the last one) by 1941 and I’m just an average player. I’m sure if I could be bothered I could also beat up germany

[@tomirk4404]

Do it as democratic Italy and you get EU cores as well

[@lais9612]

i got fully cored roman empire besides saudi arabia by dec 37 and i messed up and lost about 6 months so it can be easily done mid 37@@7XQO

[@7XQO]

@@lais9612 ofc it can lol but I'm not a speedrun player lmao. I'm not fast enough for those kinds of runs

[@mrgreenbean5933]

The small touches you add really improve the videos! I love the supplemental info you give!

[@m3an]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoy it!

[@Stouzough]

Lots of interesting points, great game. That's really efficient strategy. Now, I'd be interested how you could achieve world conquest from there. It took me until 1944 (in 1.12.5), you probably cut at the very least one year by rushing mare nostrum. Of course, I had issue with stabilizing the resistance / recruiting troops. Cheers.

[@pietervanderzwaan4295]

half of europe gets cored if going full roman empire and the rest shouldn't be much of a problem since he had australia and parts of canada which is the main bottleneck of a world conquest.

[@Stouzough]

@@pietervanderzwaan4295 try it, you’ll see that also struggling with resistance isn’t simple feat. Note that I’m talking annexing all countries, not just puppeteering

[@m3an]

I'll cover that in my next video!

[@northernleigonare]

Literally just stumbled upon this video and I liked it. Very insightful, even If I don't prefer to take as much territory as you did in the peace deals.

[@franke3723]

edits are so nice and clean. love ur vid keep up!

[@zacharytaylor2423]

I like how the devs nuked your wargoal/unassigning units naval invasion cheese strat but they still haven't taught the British AI to defend itself.

[@SadisNic]

Got it. Forgot to justify on Greece, didn't want resistance getting out of hand so I got garrisons back up, got stuck in a weapons shortage pit, the Carlists rose up before I could get Franco taken care of, but at the end of the day this was super effective. Definitely got a sub outta me for this one.

[@ezganks71]

Awesome video very interesting and informative great sound quality and just an overall great video.

[@mateos0754]

The editing of the video is so good!

[@TheEdoe]

Fully cored roman empire run sounds fun to watch :)

[@David-jb2qk]

C'est Parfait, je ne l'aurai pas cru si je l'aurai pas vu !! Un grand merci ! j'en veux d'autres. Merci !!

[@Ra7aello]

Bro, really great job !

[@elduquecaradura1468]

Can be anything more cursed than Mussolini with a laurel on his head? XD

[@Givat-cd6os]

Great video illustration new mechanics and tactics. I gotta try a couple

[@hello_im_tomas8089]

really cool video dude!

[@eduardomonteiro6294]

Gonna try it out! great vid

[@chaos4395]

good video, i'd love to see the fully cored speedrun too!

[@JMcCaffery02]

Brilliant video. Definitely sticking around for more :)

[@HOUDINI12]

i don't speedrun, but damn this was fun to watch, keep it going!

[@galilelollel9658]

bro you just did roman Empire in 26 minutes while i tryd it in the last 7 hours and germany had to take turkey...... i had to try to take him be he didnt let me and i just left....... i really learned alot how thank you veeery much i will try some of youre ideas and train more. im kinda a new player but understand alot things in the game. i have like 400 game hours or 200 but for real for some players thats nothing..... whatever thank you for the tipps they look very good.

[@johnmoreno1239]

Nice content. Subscribed

[@finmin2k]

definitely would be interested in seeing all of the territorial claims met

[@iglaggmania1800]

Welcome back

[@BigSmokeTF2]

Absolutely smashing great guide

[@Hoaxe72]

Impressive, very nice

[@investigadorscp-relatosref5705]

Wow, Incredible bro

[@MBP1918]

Nicely done

[@red_seven_]

Great run, also easy to replay yourself. I've tried to turn this into a papal state run (maybe achievements, too), but you'll sit on the 100% BoP to the right after the Britain/Albania war even after deposing Mussolini. Winning the war will even bring him back as he isn't removed from the BoP. Additionally the balance reset from 'Seeking papal support' only works if the BoP is on the left side. If only there was a way to prevent BoP changes through war results...

[@red_seven_]

I managed to get it going by losing control over some core provinces during the war against Yugoslavia. With some timing you'll get 0% BoP after seeking papal support and up to 65% papal support soon after with the focuses and a hierarch advisor.

[@Shepo04]

Allow all your provinces to be taken, always take decisions to more the BoP to the Left and then every year you can take a papal decision to move it further to the left. Usually Conquered the world before the Pope returns

[@sveko7633]

Spectacular, tried it out with slightly changes for are more long-term game, worked as intended, early 37 I would have gotten it....don't forget Corsika.

[@supafart]

As sun zu said yeet or get yeeted

[@Herion99]

thx ! it was amazing ! I dis it tonight ! Awsome !

[@feetsniffer87]

you are so skilled, i'd like to play at least half as good as you

[@Radvin7]

bro best video ever

[@Robochuck]

I heavily based my playthrough of the Pope's roman empire on this video. Balance of power and timing were tough, but I made it. Thank you

[@ferenc4460]

Dude, wtf Completely epic

[@JA-yw5by]

Insane run man, I thought it was clickbait. :D :D

[@tannerl3614]

Begging you to make a holy roman and an empire achievement speedrun as I've been attempting to use this guide for it but have had much less luck than you've had in this video!!!

[@m3an]

I'll put it on the list =) Don't have much time at the moment, but will give it a shot soon.

[@b1nfz]

amazing video

[@simoneschieri]

To rise tension you can also enter and exit axis. It doesn't work by itself if you try to reach the full 25 but if you justify on the US and also do that you can reach the UK gurantee limit and declare war in time to justify also on spain(i think late may) and capitulate them in the first war (just like in the old tutorial)

[@m3an]

That's a great idea! Thanks for sharing =)

[@m3an]

It's been a while but I finally got around to using this tension spike method. Would you mind if I show this comment and your username during the commentary?

[@simoneschieri]

@@m3an ofc thanks

[@sohrb]

bro you should be narrating a documentary with that voice

[@m3an]

Aww, thank you!

[@tylershane96]

Flawless Victory

[@hatless_spider]

Ohh yeahh i made the shoutouts! Cool video!

[@nd6274]

can confirm still works, thanks bro! just did holy roman and an empire

[@B4sicKnowledge]

UK did not to Albania's independence tho

[@nd6274]

@@B4sicKnowledge you prob didnt inflate the World tention enough

[@DefaultSkateTrick]

This man has done it again!

[@thewarriorspirit4820]

Just earned a sub!!

[@m3an]

Welcome aboard! Happy to have you =)

[@saltsome]

i hope we will see the fully cored mare nostrum video some day

[@lordcherrymoore5252]

Neat. Good job.

[@Erik_Arnqvist]

very video 👍

[@Hoodpartisan]

Very very)))

[@denis-bn9xr]

Much alot 😁

[@SmashingCapital]

Cant wait to watch

[@KilroyNoBrain]

Excellent!

[@KrylMcDoingleBoingle]

For normal people, they’d spend over an hour building up a massive industry and revamping their infantry templates and making a larger navy. But you have bypassed all of that and just shat on all the largest HOI content creators. Yet I could not respect you more.

[@NZIGNANTI]

Try obsessive real time days, entire weekends, ruined relationships, etc. This guy does to the clauswits engine ai like neo does to the matrix.

[@error5202]

this is insane

[@whatisthis839]

Commenting just to give some extra credit. Solid video.

[@legend6018]

Oh wow! That was very fast!

[@outofideas9985]

I wish we could get a video on a world conquest following this

[@m3an]

Well, you know how it is with wishes. Sometimes they might actually become true ;-)

[@thedw8582]

absolutely bokers dude

[@neilnoren5009]

Nice vid

[@dfopharp]

good job!.)))

[@Cdeseco]

Indeed a full cored roman empire would be really nice

[@OxKingMusic]

would love to see a fully cored run

[@ttt-cz3mt]

ty was able to get it in november although it as my first time doing this army transport ship thingy

[@01midniqhtdreams19]

Best tutorial im srsly, 1000x better than most streamers how smart can someone be😂 and its very fast only 26 minutes, ill still conquer the rest and how did you stop the ethiopian war?

[@m3an]

Thank you! To abandon the war with Ethiopia, simply pull back your divisions so that their units can take territory. The decision costs 15pp.

[@rj4416]

thank you ~~

[@jamesk400]

well done

[@joskarifinaukr6503]

I don't dig speedrunning for my own playthroughs, but it is fun to watch. Funny this popped up just today, since I'm in the middle of a Roman Empire run myself. Instead of going fast, I play like a rat, trying to pick up whatever territories I can in ahistorical mode without waking up any majors until I'm good and ready to beat them in a stand-up fight. When Britain flips commie, that makes things much easier because it stops guaranteeing minors and it releases all its colonies, usually as free states. The only other variable for me now is whether Germany manages to found Vichy France, since I leave most NS nations on historical settings. I make it even harder on myself too with my own personal restrictions on play. I can never declare on a European nation directly unless it is communist, with the exception of Spain and Portugal, or countries which hold my cores (So I could start The Troubles as Ireland, for example.) And I must form my own faction if at all possible. No piggy-backing on the Axis to pick up territories I want or need.

[@FurgusFungus]

It was going perfecty until I forgot to delete the fall back line order when invading UK so as soon as I made it to Hull all my other troops went back into Germany which gave Britain enough time to push back

[@cyanfloy2473]

You lose Ethopia but you form Roman Empire,it is worth it

[@pollowka]

You are genius

[@yad9135]

thank youuuuuuuuuuuu

[@EnduringGamer]

Patch 1.12.8 gives the AI some brain so that they won't guarantee if they are in no place of defending others, and minor countries won't join a faction if joining would result in going down with the faction leader. Can't wait to see your new strategy around that.

[@m3an]

Didn't read anything about that in the patch notes. Do you have a source on that so I can read into it or was that something the devs slipped in?

[@EnduringGamer]

@@m3an Unfortunately, the AI behavior change mentioned above is NOT documented. The devs have made undocumented changes before so it is nothing new. You will have to see it in action. Just reproduce the steps in this video and you will see less powerful Allies leader not guaranteeing others and minor nations not joining Allies

[@m3an]

@@EnduringGamer I'm rather concerned now about the video I have currently in editing 😕

[@EnduringGamer]

@@m3an Maybe do a quick experiment to see whatever mechanism you use in the new video still work? Smallest experiment I did was to play Germany and use nocb command on the UK at the very beginning.

[@m3an]

@@EnduringGamer So, I did some testing and I did not get the same findings. They still all just brainlessly join factions, no matter the strength or surrender progress.

[@MrDoyle-ky4he]

3:46 well shit didn't know that was a thing.

[@rolandbernath8810]

first reaction: bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i thought my 1937 Roman Empire Strategy was good..... i must try this out, this is amazing and hilarious at the same time, GG WP , GG WP

[@vendetta9348]

That's a nice speedrun, i wonder why britain is always undefended, they barely have trops there and almost all their navy is concentrated in the English channel lol

[@Niehm]

I've tried this a few times now. I do the war in Ethiopia and get to the UK pretty quickly, usually within a week of your timeline. But every time I capitulate the UK, Canada becomes the allies leader and I'm stuck

[@m3an]

Hmm. That shouldn't happen, but I haven't tried in the recent patch. I'll give it a spin later to see if anything changed.

[@darkezpro6131]

bro is pro

[@erthicc3002]

Nice

[@rylueb5702]

Omfg ive just wasted 5 hours of my life through countless playthroughs to get this but i keep messing up ahhhh

[@m3an]

You'll get there eventually =) Good luck! Hit me up if you need help.

[@BrokenOlive]

You would make the SPQR proud with your work.

[@hexalot4277]

Why didn't Italy just do this irl?? So incompetent

[@dahunter437]

One problem I encountered is that neither spain nor turkey would join the allies, therefore requiring me to capitualte them individually

[@Frank-ed7hj]

I wonder: is it possible to use cavalry viably for any offense in the game? I've tried it a few times in the past, but they weren't very successful. How would you design a cavalry division to be any use?

[@Schnekko]

Hehe I can still watch it :D

[@piekmien]

Hy I am doing a german game and used some of your tactics you explained in this great video. But for me the UK doesn’t guarantee yugoslavia. World tension is above 25% and they do guarantee other countries I justify against but not yugoslavia. Any Idea why this is not happening? I am on 1.12.6 version

[@matija21]

12:28 omg I was wondering why my paratroopers didn’t launch i tought the game was glitched or something I completely missed that you now need 50 transport planes to launch

[@tombstone3echo]

idk if it is because of a new patch, but conquering england just doenst work, especially with the garbage cav divisions, i get london and 90% cap, but never manage to conquer them since they always have enough troops around brisol and liverpool and never leave them unlike u said. after some time they get enough units to push my garbage back sadly. tried it twice now and its really frustrating

[@Shroej]

Same thing happened with me maybe we meed to delay it a month after changing the cavalry back to infantry i m goin to try it this way

[@Tonio445]

Benito : Hey Adolf, what about that? Adolf : MEH ! 🤣🤣

[@nathanleech4933]

Full Roman Empire please!!

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmm yes lore of rome speedruns momentum 100

[@DefaultSkateTrick]

Is it still possible to form the HRE early. If so could you do a video about that

[@kagemarudono]

holy shit

[@can22711]

WOW

[@panose6542]

Wouldn’t a fully cored Rome be just an extra war with the soviets and clicking the like 5 buttons to get the cores

[@xXxMonkeyBoomxXx]

My man, how in the flying f r i c k you get so much war score ? Last time i tried i fought UK, France, all uk dominons and with 90% war participation paradox was like: the best i can do, is one Island of Malaysia (there are two)

[@m3an]

Solo conquests don't have this issue, since your total score isn't divided into rounds, province cost don't increase, etcpp. If viable, I would always try to avoid shared conferences.

[@gocool_2.0]

If you would have annexed the British navy before you take land. Then you'll face this issue. I've faced this too.