Hearts of Iron 4 Challenge: Bulgaria annexes Balkans

hello everyone I am torie orange welcome to another one of my hands of mine for challenges today we're going to play as Bulgaria and conquer of the Balkans the Balkans will be defined by this map from Wikipedia which means we're gonna have to take you go further Greece southern half of Romania Albania and stuff that belongs to Italy here as well as a bit of Turkey we don't need more than that but if I get the chance we'll get more than that what else well that is about it and then mount historical focuses regular difficulty in Bulgaria let's go we start with 12 units which is not too bad let's get rid of that cavalry and I did too early and train I need 14 more infantry units so let's train seven twice highest priority yeah we want a full army one should be sufficient what else we will want to train these guys up and do the political focuses first we'll need to switch our ideology of course and we are most suited to go fascist we could go communist but it would be a lot of work and we wouldn't get militarism or those construction was just do military factories nothing else it's for research I am an advocate of the superior firepower doctrine but we haven't done mass assault in a while and so let's do matter salt and bison steel from the Soviets and that is about it that's on pause we're only going to be producing infantry equipment political effort is it done now let's continue to collectivist and militarism later we will need a fascist a demagogue of that can wait a bit we're not in such a hurry this time let's do free trade first for extra research and factory output and construction speed punished of a war has happens we want Republican Spain to win we'll see if we get lucky with that can't really spare the resources to help them that's hire a fascist a demagogue nationalism focused and now militarism of the best focused into genetic focus tree open up political discourse militarism isn't done now we're going to do the armament efforts and switch our template move the engineer companies because we can't afford to get all that support equipment produced let's also editor this cavalry division we're going to need it to be as small as possible or for later Arab national Spain one this is going to be problematic for us I mean we'll manage anyway but Republican Spain would have simplified stuff a lot yeah right it's a referendum time or there's no referendum and we will want to did you get any skills no we will want to attack you this far there but I suppose I can wait until the focus is done to start a war go so that we have more time to prepare in the meantime I suppose going with war economy would benefit us quite a lot we might also go after China it will depend on how the situation develops armament effort three is complete I think it's a good moment to start to just to find a war go on Yugoslavia we don't have ideological fanaticism done before we start fighting it can help us quite a bit okay and Japan is attacking China we might join them once we're done with Yugoslavia will see him because having some Chinese manpower would certainly be very helpful to us but there we go therefore army I suppose I could expand this army to a twenty with the unit mm-hmm sure let's do that we have enough manpower and we will have enough equipment next thing we want to do here is hire an infantry expert yeah right a justification is complete let's immediately attack Yugoslavia okay let's see if they attack us they do attack us I should probably have let them do that for a moment because with ideological fanaticism we're very good at defending ourselves on the other hand it seems like a waste of time let's activate let's be balanced it should work out nicely and volunteers from Italy here's please those noun as we have broken through I can safely go to full aggressive and you go have a planning bonus that's also hire an army regrouping expert and this looks like a very good opportunity and you should be going here let's surround them if we can you should be coming here instead infantry expert skill anyway this is going relatively well relatively I've had better music oh crap because I have why do they have to jinx it mutinies in the Army this is horrid all right let's do the patriotic speech and should probably pause the attack all this is happening I need to wait for the mutinies to be to be done we really don't want to waste our men art and equipment while our units are so severely weakened yeah I hate those events did I mention that ever so a little bit of rest for our guys I was Japan still a lot of time to join them and get a bit of China good speech okay attack again probably should have gone with superior firepower but I wanted to you know try out a mass assault again having to done that in a while let's try and cut these guys off from supply at least temporarily seems like I might be able to get through to the remaining victory points and just win let's see if we can do that worst-case scenario we'll lose a few units and given our history of channel that would be a good moment attack Hungary but do we do that or do we get involved against China first both our other choices we should probably get involved against China first usually this is a bad idea but you can stuff it fairly weak at the moment we have most of the victory points but we still need to take Sarajevo which is why I am directing all these guys there okay and I'll take all states and it is time to join Japan in the conquest of China yes I need a man power puppet and after that I'll take care of Hungary started deploying cavalry already those are one battalion cavalry units because I don't have a lot of convoys and I need to transport them to China I have to make sure you have the highest priority so new army new general they're actually old general the assignment will take some time not a big problem and now we're going to join of the Japanese faction ask the join faction they accept and we send you guys over here once you've all been transported that we're going to join other war you guys in the meantime start preparing to fight Hungary I suppose if I started just Fang or going hungry right no yeah I think we'll be done with China before this is ready that's justifying hungary their fascist so do not get guaranteed unless they're guaranteed by Germany but I don't think Germany will want to fight us we'll see I can only switch factions after we're done with China I should probably join the war now then we could do technology sharing safely because this is sometimes problematic to do yeah let's do that let's join the war China doesn't have a Navy anyway Japan John Wars there we go and now we can start technology sharing and then we can get extra research thoughts from here as well extended the order a little bit have it activated and so on should work out nicely I'm going to need to be switching instant entry as soon as they arrive as deploy all deplaned you good from Yugoslavia and assigned them to the army we don't get us some more score who knows we've landed switch to infantry we should be getting some more score soon which will let us get a Chinese man part of it I don't need a lot just 1% will be more than enough extra research slot next we already have 1% yeah I might have gonna be too hasty with the justification on Hungary weight off your hoster back yeah that is actually good for us because we're going to be conquering Hungary in Hungary now has some more territory azox it mr. Lilly not a problem we're going to have to fight Italy anyway yeah should've gone with superior firepower it's just better damn it my justification Hungary's ready I don't want to let it expire but I want to beat up China before you know and get you hungry otherwise hungry will join this alliance here would that be so horrible though if I get unlucky the Japanese might try and take bits there but well I suppose it wouldn't really be too horrible Italy joins axis not a problem Oliver events are also not a problem at least not for us secret weapons gives us nice bonuses to all those technologies well seems like oh you will be joining the Chinese alliance and as this is enough is this enough no it is not all right then let's attack hungry laughter that Congaree activate this aw this order should work out I said we do have German volunteers and all that declare war hopefully Japan will not steal them from me we've actually used this to prevent some guys from you know joining the eyes when we attack them but I do have a different plan for this it built up a good defense but we can get here all right and now we just need bliss by spec spec patch here anyway hungry should be done for soonish how's China about to capitulate we were just like a month later probably it's like here with all these guys Oh China's capitulated all right let's see what happened Japan took almost everything but not everything and they have puppeted Zhang Xin if puppet Yunnan and sinking what we need to do is shadow puppet is the two remaining countries which is Hungary and China also satellite shows lavaca in the shuttle mana this way the Japanese won't be able to you know have a puppet in the middle of Europe now we on take all states manually and the Japanese should be unable to take anything else I can take Carpathian Ruthenia I'm okay in turn get Japanese have not taken hunger in and how they take and land here they have not so we're free to pursue our goals it's annex Hungary gradually need to pass a few times you're quite we the next Hungary now China I'm going to have to pass quite a lot here okay take all states we have annexed most of China yes I know this looks weird however the best to use for China is manpower so we're going to release Communist China as a puppet and have all that manpower release as puppet and we will have enough factories to do the last research lot anyway we're now interested in conquering Greece and Romania for which I will need at least two armies maybe three and we're going to be using Chinese manpower need to set up a template this one infantry template for copy and let's call it China that will work nicely so I'm gonna be switching on my units to that because these would deploy in China which is no good for us 4080 three armies should be enough for now and all of you switch to Chinese troops as well and said the mom to take over in Greece now the next part of our plan is when Germany starts fighting the eyes which is going to be in the moment we justify local on increase and that the Allies should be too busy to give ante them mmm just to be safe though I'm going to improve my relations with France and Britain why Greece specifically well because they're guaranteed by Romania so we'll get the both of them at the same time yeah we have a lot of infantry equipment what we're gonna need is because we're gonna be using tons and tons of Chinese inventory one joint owners we've generated enough tension for this bond has joined us already which means and the war will be a little bit more difficult for the Chairman's not too difficult though good I not really want the Germans to do well but you have quite a lot of time so I'm going to train these guys up now than Jonah I spawned refuses German ultimatum so the war is starting right there at war with Britain France and Poland this is what we were waiting for now I can probably safely justify we'll go on Greece without anyone interfering seventy days to take the claim to state if that doesn't work well I'll have to revise my plans but maybe it will is it time to start building my country in a responsible way rather than spamming military factories everywhere maybe and it's time to get the last researched thought I do love the secret weapons boosts we can get all the research and boost technologies quickly and then or other research will be just you know very very fast non aggression from Italy gladly then they shouldn't be able to attack me once I take Greek territory unless you know they change their mind important bit is that France doesn't capitulate before I attack once they do can become free France they sometimes reassess their priorities and guarantee some people thirty-one factories producing infantry equipment good we have 45,000 stored and we'll be moving up to infantry equipment I am purposely strengthening the Soviet Union atomic research just for the research boosts will have to leave and Bukovina under Sarabia to the Soviets but according to the maps that I'm using they are not part of the Balkans so it's fine I do love having Communist China as a puppet come on until the world was ready 14 days time to stop the training extra research locked - we now have 5 I need naval effort not really time to do army effort and all the bonuses here justification is ready let's see if they got any additional guarantees they did not declare war don't call the others we don't need the Japanese involved here all right if codon Romania that is what we wanted them to do taking Greece shouldn't take too long and then we can relocate all the troops to Romania that was the internal menu going not as well as the attack on Greece but it is going I'll relocate quite a lot of troops there once we're done here they relocated all the troops to this attack order which is not a good idea how women are doing Rumia is defending very well who that's slightly problematic improve the video machine now the best computing machine as soon as we take a turns we win Athens can be well defended but we do have a lot more troops and that does it for Greece I'm going to index everything no you guys can reinforce our attack in Romania let's make a turkey fascist once we do that nobody will care that we attacked them yes that should work out nicely Romania is defending very well but not much longer there it goes now we're going to NEX everything apart from Bessarabia in bucovina because we have no interest in fighting the Soviet Union at all yeah that should work out nicely I suppose I could just take the sudden bits because I think Balkans are here something that but but but but mmm we don't need more puppets and I'm just not gonna just you know leave territory not taken okay that should do it and the turn and the rest is left for the Soviets this way we should not be in any danger now we don't have much to do for a while we need to attack turkey and we need to attack Italy if it works out nicely we can switch turkeys ideology and they become fascist then it wouldn't really not be a problem to attack them she would have started out there earlier I don't know why I didn't think of it before as for Italy we'll wait for all the Germans to be in a difficult situation and then get involved in the war what chrome axes government this could actually be problematic for me if they do join the axis but I'll just get to next by the Soviet Union anyway I have decided that I will probably have to face Germany at some point because you know normally if it was a Republican in Spain here and just wait for them to be crippled by the Soviets who they're going to fight at some point but with nationalist Spain it's not so clear about the Soviet Union will prevail so I've started building some forts along our German border and once the fighting between them and the soy beans starts and you know they cover all of this already probably by then I will join the fight and I'll just put my huge infantry units on force around the area and hopefully I'm beat up the Germans or rather let them break against our defenses because one thing that infantry is really really good at is defense I should also annexed China to have all the manpower I might need as a - my sir MP 41:17 has taken this Arabia with Lord you independence by 272 Germany attacked the Soviet Union and we have to monitor the situation closely hmm let's say if Germany gets about here and then stops then we're fine we can wait if Germany keeps going then we have to oppose them or they'll just win more or less so let's duplicate this template cover the big China and fill it up with infantry might want to do support companies on the other hand no I don't want to do support companies I just do pure infantry this time and we've researched the better gun let's get producing and also send them to China we'll get them back and there are penalties from the project probably still significant but yes they're doing fine which is a good thing although when national Spain joins the axis that might become problematic the Soviets are not doing so well anymore into hastened the annexation of China and then declare war on Germany Soviet Union is just fine a war gone but it's probably Japan not us nationalist fan has joined the axis which is a bit of a problem Switzerland has been attacked all right one more lend-lease and you're mine it's time we started draining their manpower how much they have you have seven million manpower left so what we're gonna do is take all these guys and switch them to regular infantry and that should drain all the Chinese men ma don't suffer some attrition for a while but will disband them soon three million left we didn't join all of it really okay fortunately I do have a big template set up as well and that should do it zero boom thank you China has been the next now we need to reorganize our troops and get fighting so I want to disband all these guys and get the manpower back in reserves I'm gonna keep one foot army group of you and disband the rest and get all my units to the so-called big China damn right I want them all trained up before we start fighting and again it's not such a huge difference how much manpower we have in the field six million pure infantry good and the US seems to be doing well against Italy it's about time we got involved I just finished a training and joined the war I don't trust the Field Marshal never orders so I did normal ones that you know mmm cover some territory together so it's safer that way yeah I don't really have anything to research but from this thing we've researched all the infantry buffs all the doctrines that we need and nearly older encryption stuff and almost everything here after that don't really have anything to do with the research stuff let's get to war let's conquer hysteria let's check for attrition once more it's all fine right then I feel like it's time to attack the axis declare war on Italy and call eyes maybe I'll get japan involved true if that will do anything but we can get them involved at least we could did of course here okay now let's watch this I am well fortified and we have huge units with a large amount of hit points and the defense so there should not be any way they can get into our territory it's all good they are not even attacking yet and they are suffering a bit of attrition so even if they're not attacking this is actually helping defeat them how well because they have to put quite a lot of troops on our border and thus everyone who is fighting them mostly the Soviets have a much easier time I could of course activate the order but I don't think it's in my best interest at the moment see they're attacking us here but well the stats are quite clear they have no chance of succeeding oh I should probably also mention that you might be hearing a rather annoying sound at the background from I think it was about 1941 when I turned the Hat all essentially this game is very processor heavy and right about 1941 more or less it starts heating up my computer so much that they have to turn on extra fans or risk damaging it and so yeah that's about the situation maybe I'll get some new quieter fans we'll see so if I were to add a support company would we have enough equipment we would we do not have enough support equipment to add all that we can add a recall for now let's do that Japan's a joint okay cool yeah I decided to add those support companies after all they will need a lot more support equipment now this might come back as a bad thing because when we start attacking we'll run out of equipment and our forces might become weaker I'm not sure if this is a good choice but I'll try it anyway we won't be adding artillery this time just engineers a signal recon logistics and hospitals now has just add everything at once at least now we have a clear picture of how much we need normally I will be attacking now but I'm not in a hurry Oh Turkish Empire if I reorganized my troops a bit I could probably take them out let's leave them for later and unless they join the axis on their own and they did all right hmm what should we do we should send this army to the Turkish border and maybe one of the two that are covering the Italian border and go to the islands and there are naval invasions happening so I doubt Italy has naval superiority in the area now I've built up the ports in the area so they should get enough supply and let's make these two aggressive this is undefended you know let's just attack Turkey Soviet Union is pushing back we will want to activate it before they reach us then we can get more line for ourselves justification is ready let's attack taking your through great kill this way and try to secure a path for other forces half of you will go on a different route we're not super fast but we also be strong they haven't defended it sufficiently all right we're in Turkey now what you don't work out nicely the power of infantry I've missed it so much yeah these units aren't very fast but they do pack a punch unfortunately I'm suffering attrition yeah the logistics companies might have been a good choice you know I actually do need those factories let's do the harshest and I might leave one army behind to you know keep an eye on them Turkish Empire has capitulated wait a minute oh that's a lot of infantry equipment now we could invade Iraq in the ran and Afghanistan just for the sake of it but let's you know not just keep to what we need let's use this army as a garrison force for all the Turkish land we've taken let's change the others because what this orders are going to just be running around and getting attrition - all the time let's do it differently what I've done is I've made four back orders and one unit will stay in each of those provinces and even have a few spares and this should get rid of all resistance as you can see without our interference not much is happening at all well this should change soon I'll just wait until we have enough equipment I think it's time to activate our orders we almost have enough equipment I'm good if we can hopefully we can keep producing enough let's um activate everyone I'm cautious at first we won't see how well that works out we are unconscious so they should not you know exact themselves too much and those unions are powerful they're just infantry but there's a lot of them I should have done this earlier we're doing better than I anticipated we've already reached the Soviets honestly I thought this was going to be less successful I just give them some time and I'll conquer Germany for us going nicely what's my participation 28% why already allies not included in this this could be a problem for the Peace Conference bugs may happen was that an empty space here resistance oh right new country we're gonna be super harsh on Turkey should we be super harsh on the others well you know we do have the construction repair focus going on so we might as well be super harsh we'll get more resources that way this is actually great progress in Poland well we only lost a million people they lost 18 million really whoa that's quite a lot of people we've killed half a million Italians and one and a half million Germans might have sent to many to Italy had to do some other maintenance and we're moving towards Berlin now and Willman we're about to take the Baltic countries as well there must be a Slovakian version of aesthetics on Obelix in the area Slavic or Slovakian I think Slavic Stoker has capitulated finally we're going to balanced will still have to capitulate notion Isis Spain but I see an Allied landing here which might simplify matters a bit okay Germany has capitulated to me all right this is all allied territory so we can only actually focus on Italy now I don't need to redo all the orders I don't have a navy so we have to try and get through here to get to Spain activate all the orders and I think it's time to go aggressive you know the genome analysis buckin diplomatic initiative they might declare war on me so I can't buy enough steel or I'll have to switch my economy soon could use a naval invasion in Palermo come on allies do that for me oh that's a peace conference but why is Spain not in it no matter but why are the eyes not in it hmm there must have been some sort of a bug involved it's not worry about that and get the stuff we need I need Istanbul I need Albania I need the desire and I need Easter and that's all I need for the challenge but of course we're gonna get a bit more or anyway yes we are now the Soviet Union loves puppeting people we're not going to let them we're gonna do a shadow puppet on everyone and then we're going to steal land directly although it is a very tempting to make a German puppet they're just so powerful but no it's the end of the challenge let's make it look neat and take them directly we've done shadow puppets and we've taken all the lands that should amount to the Balkans mustn't turn the Soviets have taken a bit of land here not a problem all right I should probably also take roads but something is that not interested in anything else really okay then no I can't I can't resist I wanted need borders I just have to take everything just have to take everything that's available why would I not gonna be ugly but I have to that when Madagascar yeah that's so very Bulgarian place to take isn't it there it is Bulgaria took stuff Honorable Gary controller UK I'm with the UK give this back to me what the game crash now looks like the game would be crashing I don't know who told crash is there gonna be a second Peace Conference and am I gonna get nothing okay I got my stuff back I'm not sure what happened but I know we have all that we set out to get and the goal was just the Balkans and we got that and a little bit more a little bit more yeah it was not supposed to be a European conquest or a World Congress but you know if I can take something in Peace Conference it's just I just can't resist you know I'm a very clay grabbing purse let's have a look the Allies own a bit the Comintern owns a bit I owned most factory wise at least the most powerful country on earth right now most probably 658 factories total manpower of about 8 million and yeah that is about it we're going to end it here yes the goal was just to take the Balkans but you know once we got going with Germany why wouldn't we take this land Rhineland it's beautiful for example very good vacation spots ok let's end it here I hope you enjoyed this little video and I will see you soon goodbye

Channel: Taureor

Views: 290,408

Rating: 4.8998418 out of 5

Keywords: hoi4 challenge, annex italy, of, iron, hoi4 ironman gameplay, hoi4 bulgarian empire, bulgaria, hearts of iron 4 fail, hoi4 bulgaria challenge, hearts, hearts of iron 4 gameplay, hoi4, hearts of iron 4 ironman bulgaria, hoi4 meme, hoi4 bulgaria, hoi4 bulgaria world conquest, България, hoi4 annex italy, world conquest, taureor, hearts of iron 4, hearts of iron 4 bulgaria challenge, four, hoi4 gameplay, Bǎlgariya, hearts of iron 4 challenge

Id: be5GJgD6wmg

Length: 28min 38sec (1718 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 01 2018