Hearts of Iron 4 Challenge: Latvia annexes Soviet Union

hello everyone I am Torrio and welcome to yet another one of my hands of mine for challenges this time we're going to be playing as a Latvia and conquering in the Soviet Union it might seem some not my let's win a challenge but I intended to follow a different strategy a regular difficulty Ironman mode and historical focuses before we start I want to say one more thing I do enjoy how to find for challenges but I do want to play different games sometimes I will strive to release one every week preferably on Friday however if you'd like to see me do some European ViSalus for challenges for example leave suggestions in the comments however you four is a much longer and slower game so if you want to suggest you for challenges make sure they are short small you for challenges I will not accept big ones all right let's start I am in Latvia one we start with five factories four units no commanders a generic focus tree let's start political effort right away and let's build some military factories that's for research just generic choices as always produce more guns and train more the units a lot more units and make them the highest priority and that is it now we wait we wait for our political effort to be complete so that we can hire an advisor that will switch our ideology and our first target for conquest will be stone yeah political effort is complete which means I can hire an advisor let's get the Communists a revolutionary we want to switch to communism that's also start collectivist ethics which will lead to nationalism which will unlock militarism we have to do these before we switch ideologies ok I'm posing and waiting for a communist government here's our first communist event it's a bit late hmm however it might be sufficient all right this is enough to get a referendum now we can get a referendum and switch ideologies of course if the event happens quickly and here it is finally a referendum all right switching ideologies let's see who we got he's a generic guy pity and now we can start justify our goals first walking is going to be against Estonia and the second one against Lithuania here we go now let's wait also with militarism are done we will have enough manpower to deploy tons of unequipped troops and this is exactly what we're going to do this is a very bad event an event that lets us become part of the Soviet Union and get in next of course we're going to refuse would you have to watch out for that event if we intend to puppet Estonia and Lithuania they might get it and get annexed well they will get the event but there are many choices but they get annexed by the Soviet Union my plans will be ruined and I might need to restart having completed industrial effort we can do armament effort and get some guns as you can see we have a lot of people not a lot of guns we're going to be deploying those um equipped units because we will beat Estonia and Lithuania with the numbers just going around their troops we managed to deploy 16 units and our work of against Estonia is already now let's attack and before we do anything else and let's check if Poland got an advisor as they tend to do so who makes it more difficult to justify on them yes they have okay if they haven't don't just fine on Poland now but they have so I'm going to start just fine on Poland when we declare on Lithuania now why numbers because they can't cover all on the borders I can just move these troops in here and hopefully I'll be able to take all of their victory points before they can anything and do anything to stop me and I will accomplish that hopefully by making sure their troops are all busy defending against my attacks also since I'm not justifying let's get an infantry expert going go they're attacking here but when they stop the attack which will happen yep see we're through and we're gonna take there the two points soonish the attacked here well I can move you instead it's also going to work the Soviet Union is sending volunteers and apparently we've got a Dockyard hmm well since we have it all ready let's get convoys also bison steel however I don't need the volunteers from the Soviet Union we can manage and taking them will probably increase rural tension so what's not accepted they're volunteers so it's gonna be enough probably come on and here we go I'm going to puppet them and hope the stuff isn't the next time if they do we'll have to restart our work against this winger will be ready momentarily here it is now we need to do several things first declare war now start the justifying the war go on Poland that'll take the three hundred and five days good now we can switch to war economy because the world tension is sufficient and let's give our guys orders I will give them manual orders these are the Mongol orders I have given my troops hopefully they're gonna be able to go between enemy units and take all those provinces without actually having to fight anyone let's unpause and see looking good and here it is okay we're going to puppet it well yeah but not just popular 20 we're going to take memo for ourselves why well let me explain I need to give it to Germany now let's get ready to fight Poland our goal against Poland is already but I don't want to attack immediately I think I'll wait a little bit longer I've just stopped training in mind guys they need to regain organization I also need to request some forces from my subjects I was hoping they would have more can you deploy some more forces maybe I've also switched some of my guys to colonial templates and start training new colonial guys I should probably deploy those too I've moved my guys around a little bit and I think we're ready to declare war but first let's join the Comintern and pause for a moment right and now declare war on Poland now I'm not going to call any of my subjects in for now this is our only border that is at war and I'm going to make sure that they move their armies to the Soviet borders which they will do since they will feel threatened by the Soviet Union and you know that's wise to feel threatened by the Soviet Union also get some free event Lee is cool and once this becomes undefended relatively okay that's a lot of stuff happening once this becomes relatively undefended I am going to call in Lithuania and attack from this area although for that I should probably extend at the front line to cover that as well this is the defensive army this is the offensive army let's give him a little bit more time right does it feel right not yet okay this should work this should work let's call in this when you and Estonia because why not not the Soviet Union and this and now we should be able to cut through here and get all the important victory points can we do that oh they took a bit of territory also let's activate the other attack order even though it is a balanced one what did you just stop your advance mint no you did not that's fine in fact them attack them that will require some manual management but if we can do this right I will take over all of this area without too much trouble there's quite a bit of manual all doing isn't it hopefully we can get all the important victory points without too much interference from the enemy that is a German volunteer force in Poland in 38 that is weird say the least as you can see if this goes well we'll be able to separate most of the Polish forces from their capital Italian volunteers well that's anyone this is looking right now if we separate of the two I won't be able to push here take dance Accord dance give you prefer the Polish pronunciation and yeah that will be it hopefully just take these as well some forces remain but now these troops are separated from the current capital and they will be attrition Inge I think we can speed this up now and at this point when we take Daisuke we should win and here we are now we're going to get some puppets from Poland first we're going to satellite and satellite eeeh make puppets out of Belarus and Ukraine that's our first move now we're going to take dice for ourselves why well because we're going to give it to the Germans why would we do such a thing you ask well probably you don't but why would we to prevent war to prevent war and they will ask for it we will give it to them and war should not happen and finally we will puppet Poland and that is the end of this war we're now a member of the Comintern but we intend to fight as the Soviet Union so how are we going to do this well first we need to be stronger we can need to get more troops with so many poppers getting more strong troops will not be difficult we'll just be requesting their troops and also making colonial ones what else well we're probably going to attack Romania but not before Germany attacks towards France was then and they will be busy and they will not guarantee Romania I have made a whole bunch of coronal templates switched all our units to corner templates and planning and I'm planning our next moves hopefully we can avoid war with Germany we'll give them memo and Gdansk and then when they start fighting the Allies will safely easily conquer Romania perhaps Bulgaria in Greece I don't know to build up a stronger base to challenge the Soviet Union unfortunately we will have to leave the Comintern because of the ribbon drop mode of pact however perhaps they will not attack us we'll see now Germany is doing the research Eastern claim focus and means they will demand memo and if they are refused they're going to attack I don't want to fight Germany at all we only intensified the Soviet Union if we can manage you that so I'm going to give them memo when they ask for it aren't they going to ask for it maybe it only happens if Lithuania holds it hmm oh and you're doing around module really oh that's a cool only works if Poland owns it that is perfect for me that is perfect for me we don't have to negotiate with them or anything we can just attack Romania probably wonderful they're not even going to next joe slovakia really interesting ok that opens up new possibilities well I have to think about it for a moment when Germany is done with around manhood we're going to start justifying our goals in the Balkans because they will attack the allies and you know stuff will go down world tension will increase ours will be busy so on and so forth although I should probably wait until Italy joins the axis that will drive the world tension up more Belgium joins allies and Italy joined axis yeah and that increases the world tension sufficiently to you know shorten to work or justification now we're going to start justifying will go on Yugoslavia why this ladder well because you go summer tends to Jane to Jo infections and that's also dude Reese you spell attends to join factions early so I have to attack them first to prevent that from happening I mean it will not necessarily prevent it from happening and but it will make it more possible that it won't happen and if they join for example axis and I have to fight the axis then I'll just lose mmm this is getting down here is necessary for this to work so we're going to first attack you can start and then we're going to attack Greece and Greece will call it in Romania hopefully it will all work out well Belgium and Netherlands are gone France is still standing let's see what Germany's doing Germany's doing fate of jehoshua vaakya ok and Paris has fallen and that means is the end of France well there's still free France not for long probably oops Germany's doing motive Ribbentrop that is very not good for us because if they finish it and we are in the Comintern will lose all this territory so we effectively have to leave the Comintern let's do it now so maybe we can get a non-aggression pact we can but we can if we population so let's improve relations just like I joined the Allies and Joseph okay capitulated that was quick right let's get that non-aggression pact with the Soviets and hopefully also military axis did I a squirt I did not oh cool Yugoslavia has been guaranteed by Romania that's actually good that means we will be starting to fight Romania immediately that is good news actually our goal is nearly ready and I have been we're going to make a run folder capital through Romania because they'll probably be undefended here well the other army is attacking Romania well let's see how well that goes shall we here's the war goal let's declare war call all our subjects here it goes and you well that's just way for Romania to join and all the others you move towards their capital I haven't even made some cavalry to make them advance faster well the other army just advances here and that's see how that goes I could send them in via different paths but this way if they encounter any resistance on that one path it is likely to be easily crushed all right I should speed this up yay Belgrad is not undefended but it is very lightly defended I suppose I should Regis to read some of these guys come on you're almost there and fans gonna get attacked by the Soviets Belgrade is now ours they should surrender and they did now will you survey we could do two things because release puppets already take them directly I think I'm going to take all of the land directly for now because we need 50 factories to finally get the file or a research slot and then perhaps I will release other puppets because I don't want you to slaughter as a puppet since you just navigate some last events that's you know make people attack them so with that in mind we're going to just annex all this territory and perhaps release some puppets later on now to beat up Romania unfortunately Romania seems to have been able to mount a proper defense although I might be able to get across here you hold these divisions and make them and join the attack a little bit of a breakthrough that is a u.s. volunteer attacking yes that is slightly concerning perhaps you can get a through here to be crushed probably not because they're Manti in defense but hey who knows yeah all right all right just a bit more we have taken Bucharest is this enough this is not enough to make them surrender but almost and here goes Romania okay with Romania we also want to take some territory ourselves we need to take this Arabian Covina and Madhavan motive as well maybe just because the Soviet Union might be interested in those same goes for this area because of Hungary now it probably will leave the rest of the Romanians you know what I don't want under Hungarians to border I don't want the Hungarians to bother Romania let's take that for ourselves as well that will make them weaker and it will be a weaker puppet but we can still use them quite well and so we're going to puppet what remains yeah right yeah I should have left Bennett to the romanians luck too late now now I hope Greece doesn't go and join an ally and so ruining my plans here's the war go let's go against Greece and call all our puppets and start justifying a war go on Turkey that should do it should probably make him a Field Marshal he won't have enough time in the field to get a high-level although if we fighting Turkey he will have a lot of time in the field oops that is a Greek naval invasion well I never all right let's get you guys over here they don't stand a chance but we should take care of it anyway go to Athens and that does it for Greece not with now with Greece I don't need to take anything directly I can just pop them it's going to be more effective that way so here goes our perhaps final puppet it will depend on what the turkic is guaranteed by anyone it is tempting to also attack Hungary and Bulgaria but we can't do that safely without being in the axis because they tend to join the axis and if they do we'll be in big trouble so our only option left is essentially touch and Turkey just God guaranteed by the UK okay then Greece is our final puppet cancel the war go on Turkey and just get all ready to finally find the Soviet Union but I have to warn you the getting ready part is gonna take quite a while dammit I need a field marshal it's just level six yeah well I have to promote him I'm going to release those small puppets in Yugoslavia we are mostly needed those factories to start the extra research slots we're not going to release Yugoslavia itself because that could be very problematic but we're going to release Serbia Croatia and Montenegro here you go and we have kept some Croatian territories now mmm they will have their own manpower they will have to start building up their troops and so on but we don't intend to attack the Soviet Union for quite a while so hopefully they will have enough time to prepare so we can use them properly and you can see our factories have gone down significantly but that's fine now that we have secured Romania and Greece and you server I have decided to switch to fascism Ally the axis and beat the image or either beat the Soviets together for now or just use our alliance with them to beat up Hungary in Bulgaria because that will leave us without these territories due to the most of a de pintura pact but perhaps we can find a way around this for now I had just fired the communist guy so that we will have increasing fascist support interesting Bulgaria is just fine on Romania no problem with Bulgaria is that if they are at war they are likely to join the axis and we wouldn't want them to join the axis that would be problem for me so do we give up Belarus and Ukraine and delay our fight against the Soviets or we do not give up Ellis in Ukraine fight them immediately while we might not be ready yet I think we'll have to give our blowers in Ukraine the guns they haven't done much to help so far and we'll take them back Ellen Hungary is also going to attack me hmm seems like we need to do the switch as quickly as possible right let's get the demagogue hopefully the switch will happen before Hungary attacks because if Hungary tags they might join the axis now we already have sufficient support so just a coup event will be sufficient I'm not sure Hungary will join axis if they attack and ya doin to join axis focus can I counter justify on them yep whoops the Soviet Union is just fine walk along us or that can be a bit of a problem Hungary joins access hopefully they will not attack us now is now I want to join the axis as well Soviet ultimatum I will refuse but that gives them a war goal and I don't have anyone to protect me in the moment and I can't do it myself therefore of course I have to refuse the ultimatum now and they're very lucky to attack me at this moment however I'd like to join the axis beforehand please know they're doing war with USSR oh cool might not even need to join them although it will be beneficial then Hungary won't use the war goals and if they are at war with the Soviets when that happens we will not lose Belarusian and Ukraine so that is a plus you're right we can get a coup now let's get that coup I'm worried about Bulgaria because they're almost done with the war goal and they'll probably attack us then and if and when they do that well they might join axis and called them in so I have brought all my troops here and if I can beat them before they can join and call the axis then we'll be fine oh they are not doing anything because they don't have political power good more time for us to switch governments oh we won't need to wait I mean we won't need to wait any longer wonderful I was just GU great I was just cool so what do we do now do we join the access or do we wait for them to attack so that we want to lose Belarus and Ukraine let me think I think I can wait but we'll have to observe this Germany now has a war go on the Soviet Union they seem to not be using it well give as justification is complete almost we'll have the time our actions are right for this to work out properly we might lose Belarus in Ukraine the moment they attack we joined the axis okay they have the war go let's slow down now element I can't join the axis when they attack they don't accept me when I'm at war one day no no I think they will okay so Bulgaria did attack after all right so now we need to join the axis our country justification is pointless now come on Germany oh crap don't accept me well if now the axis if no the axis allowed Bulgaria to join I'll be in trouble let's make sure we attack very aggressively and call in Greece move everyone all right they have not joined the axis that's good perhaps they are not too willing to fight an O and they're inviting me perfect hello I will of course except now this is unfortunately probably going to trigger the motive Ribbentrop pact which will unfortunately make these countries disappear Belarus and Ukraine will be unexploited Soviet Union and that's a problem but not a huge one having Germany on our side is more important than that oh right units were sent home since we joined a faction will have to remedy that bTW and Bulgaria and here goes Bulgaria I'm just going to puppet them now there will be a fascist puppet which is superior to a communist poet okay so will the Ribbentrop mode of whom have entered mode of trigger or not that is the question now I'd rather it didn't of course that we cannot control that one thing I know for sure we have to get ready to fight the Soviets crap well I was hoping this wouldn't happen but yeah we're okay I mean it was this all Bulgaria essentially and Bulgaria I believe gives us more now we would have we could have risked not joining the faction but Germany has the war against the Soviets and they were not using it I was hoping to have Germany attacked the Soviet Union with the with the logo that they have and only then joined then didn't the pact wouldn't trigger unfortunately that did not happen so well we lost to puppets with lost to puppets they still exist as our puppets here which is strange will they disappear from the list let's unpause you know now they do it bloody hell you know what I should probably join immediately house I can't retake my turret yeah you know what let's join immediately why not let's do this go what German help this shouldn't be too difficult but who has joined good everyone has joined what I'm really hoping for is the ability to retake the lens that we just lost and I'm hoping they will go to us immediately see we still have Belarus and Ukraine as our puppets somehow oops this is not looking too good as the touching troops form separate army and make them defend our homeland if we capitulate to were screwed this is going to Germany oh that's why I forgot to call my puppets in the Germans transfer control now it's going back to Poland I'm fine with that let me do a good puppets but well we have retaken the lost lands mostly State owner so we have puppets that don't exist which is strange they still count as our puppets I wonder if that will break the game somehow well the lands went back to Poland which is okay now this should all go to us or our puppets unless the puppets decide to specifically give it to the Germans well my war participation 26 that's decent oh now I can call them in no I can't because they don't have any lands well at least we're finally tour with the Soviets unfortunately some of their territory will have to be taken by the Germans Oh what the hell they moved at the frontline garrison have their capital instead we can't let them take our stuff we can't let them make us capitulate this is not going as well as it could but they think the Germans will eventually prevail and with them we will this is dangerous but time carries saying the capital so it should be safe at least the capital should be safe pushing back and our war participation has grown I know I forgot to use the planes they're not gonna help them much I kinda have to just leave this for a while well let it happen as you can see I've managed to surround the Leningrad and we are also making some gains I'm pretty happy with our progress but we'll still have to deal with Germany afterwards in the meantime as this is mostly undefended let's go around this might actually be the first time I'm seeing this event Pearl Harbor has fallen the southern part of the front is not looking great but with some manual management which slowly slowly inching towards Moscow love supply and generally crappy conditions anyway Moscow should soon be ours that was severely weakened the Soviet Union although that it will not make them capitulate or far away from that we're one step from Moscow but I can't get it our supply here is too shitty but we've pushed a little bit and at this moment there is only one unit in Moscow if we do this right this might be our chance log of the reinforcements by attacking other places and the rest of you there I mean this is not going to end the war it's gonna be tremendously helpful and we hold Moscow wonderful this is a long exhausting and difficult however my little puppets keep on making new troops which I can send into the frontlines so in long run we are gaining all the time as you can see the frontline is progressing but it is very very slow however at this point it is quite clear that we will win against the Soviet Union about to take Stalingrad I don't think that will be sufficient to make them capitulate well I suppose we'll see in a moment nope see that line here this is a single German tank ok come on let's finish this just a little bit longer and the Soviet behemoth should be conquered after several years Oh finally yes wonderful and there's a lot of stuff ok what do we want we want to puppet them because that will make taking stuff easier and cheaper so move on mmm Mongolia Soviet Union puppet we have the most score but Germany will want to take stuff as well let's move one Japan Papa took Mongolia ok I'm going to pass once yes they have given score let's take as much stuff as we can fold the Soviet Union let's take the lands that would normally interest the Germans to mainly prevent them from taking those lands all right let's hope the Germans don't want any of this did they take anything ah they didn't because they only want to land here good right now we can take the rest that is all the land that Soviet Union used to have and but the goal the chance was to annex it's also have to annex the puppet mothers also sinking left how about connect puppets again seems like I can yes that's what would sink yang to and that is it we have taken all of the Soviet Union even though Germany was in the war we didn't give them one bit that is quite satisfying now the problem is the ghosts and necks of them and and they're a puppet they are in you they are a Russian Empire they're our puppet we have annexed them let's switch our focus to suppress subjects to speed this up let's start building stuff in their territory if we can let's build a lot of stuff in their territory to suppress their autonomy doesn't really matter where and let's send them lend-lease let's sell and send them older than please we can while our remaining army will just secure the German borders just in case they change their mind and decide to not like us anymore I could actually fight Germany now probably well after a few years of preparation and finally let's send the Russians lend-lease because we still have to annex them starting these we can get all the stuff I have all of it at the moment of annexing Russia we win the challenge because we will have annexed all that was the Soviet Union now how did I manage to not give Germany everything well first you saw that but I'll explain what it worked first we made Russia now Russia previously Soviet Union puppet and because giving land to the puppet giving the round land to the puppet is much cheaper in war score okay they have the current at Dominion that's okay this is why we were able to take that much land and then Germany is only interested in some of the territory here so when in the next round of negotiations we were able to take all that territory Germany basically lost interest they didn't want anything up here so once this was cleared and they just let us have all the rest because there's such a good eye line as for Japan they only wanted Mongolia and they only took Mongolia so yeah there's that that is why we were successful this is different probably more difficult than the Athenian strategy that I used well we first used the Germans to beat up the Russians and then turned against the Germans and beat the Germans because this requires a lot of preparation beforehand but we don't have to fight the Germans anymore yeah we can reduce the Russian autonomy level finally okay they're gonna become every Reichskommissar yet one more and we can annex it's gonna take a while because I mean I need to keep building factories in their territory and sending them all our military production in the form of lend-lease so that you know there are Ptolemy's will go down but there's not gonna last that long just have a look it's a few points every day just from buildings and we're also going to get a lot from lend-lease because I'm sending them everything we have see that big jump that's our lend-lease being delivered you know what oh cool we can reduce poland's autonomy as well I would like to however are not to waste political power I'm not sure what the cost of annexing Russia will be I suppose I could do it Poland's now a colony again yeah because during the war they were contributing quite a lot of war score so they were able to increase their autonomy level yeah we can click the button and annex Russia as Latvia well technically for the empire of the thumb to cross how much or why but yay Latvia and Xing Russia let's do that it's gonna take a moment as a lot of land process just a moment longer hope the game doesn't crash and here it is the Empire of death on the cross let's impose let the factories update 382 a right so this is it this is it oldest challenge the challenge was to annex the Soviet Union as Latvia and we have done just and that I hope you enjoyed this video let me know in the comments what you liked and what you didn't like about it and most importantly suggest the next challenge that I should do also one more thing I am considering maybe doing challenges for you for as well maybe so if you want to see that leave suggestions as well but I will only accept short ones for you for because it is a longer game I think I mentioned that at the beginning anyway that's it for now thank you for watching and I will see you soon goodbye

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Length: 39min 36sec (2376 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 13 2018