Hearts of Iron 4 Challenge: Nordic Empire

hello everyone I am tor and welcome to another one of my hands of iron for challenges you keep asking for the Nordic Empire so yes we're going to play as Sweden and unite all the Scandinavians which is actually a very easy challenge but I need something to challenge me in a challenge so I'm going to not just try and do this but I'm going to try and do this very simply comprehensively so that each and every one of you can replicate that if you want to so let's place Sweden and create the Nordic Empire I am an historical regular difficulty oh let's go now that we are oh why don't I click France we are democratic which is going to be a bit of a problem first we need to change our ideology so our first move has to be this start political effort we started 12 years let's put them all in one army move each and every one of them to Stockholm and switch them all to this template here now for factories let's build some civilian ones in the north and why not south well because the civil war is coming research spots electronic mechanical engineering machine tools and the superior firepower doctrine this is my production queue I suppose I'll add some more ships to it speaking of ships let's take all our units and move them all to Stockholm and combine them all into a single Navy and it's time to unpause and speed the game up now we wait for the focus to finish merge all the ships into one fleet and give them an admiral we're gonna lose half of them in the Civil War but that's not really a problem right our focus is complete protocol effort is complete and the Rhineland has been de minute re militarized so what we do now is not take any more focus it's for a while instead we just hire a fascist demagogue and keep banking political power the fascist demagogue will increase our fascist support slowly so that we can start and the civil war and yes this is intentional I really don't want to select any new focuses isn't gonna need some extra political power soon we might want to hire a silent workhorse next research mechanical computing of 150 political power we needed banked for the civil war however it will pay off if we write a silent workhorse now he will generate samples go part on his own which is great and should be enough to do the Civil War stuff hmm we might be delayed a little bit doesn't matter Italy and next sto Pia now we are at a 10% support we can do prepare for Civil War let's do that now we can't ignite the civil war if our stability is too high so what we need to be doing now is expand civil support as soon as we get enough vodka power so three days of a delay expensive of support and we need to keep doing that because this decreases stability continuing with a doctrine and with our industry still no focuses for now see this will consume a lot of political power so we need to keep doing that and we need to have enough political power to ignite the civil war and start just to find our goals so no more focuses and no more advisors for a while the moment this finishes we need to start it again expand civil support again we need to bring our stability under 50% it's a pity but we have to and again it's about to finish and one more time this should be enough I think we should also get the election events soon which will didn't decrease our stability a bit as well right wait 51 as soon as we go below 50 we can start up here this fascist and the government yes please and we're at 49 stability which is enough to start the civil war but before we do that we need to send all our troops off to sea so that they're not stolen in the Civil War so let's do that on pause as soon as they are out at is sea we can ignite in the Civil War look at the ships will lose some of those which is unfortunate but necessary right let's reassigned into an army we are left at war in general send them all over here and attack aggressively there you go oh so we just started justifying workers this sooner the better first we're going to attack Denmark and justify we'll go and simultaneously we also justify on no way it is crucial that we do this early which is why we're doing the Civil War and not the referendum and now we can finally started doing focuses again let's do collective status so that we can go down to militarism and get extra manpower see we did not go into the negatives which is important ok everything is set and activated we even have some planes we could use why not I mean you don't have any troops so it won't matter but let's do that anyway and yeah go Oh some of them were caught by the enemy fleet well I can't really sacrifice my fleet I will need it to be to Denmark now let's let's send them all out here yes they have repairs enabled this way perhaps our units can survive just hope our fleet doesn't get destroyed ok we're winning and they have been annexed so the battle automatically ended we do have four heavy cruisers which should be sufficient to beat up Denmark now our constructions got interrupted so let's continue with civilian factories with the provinces with the most infrastructure now we start preparing for the fight with a Denmark let's wait a bit so that they can get manpower reinforcements yes civil war ends we're now fascist and we can attack people however we want we'll go after Denmark Norway and then after Finland but we can't go after Finland immediately this is important because the Allies will step in let's automatically send all the ships to our fleet maybe produce some more I am splitting this into many documents you know one ship each so that if we are temporarily out of manpower and not a lot of production will be wasted all of them have full manpower which means I can exercise them so let's detach the ones I have already trained up to different army and exercise the ones that are left this is going to include naval invasions collectivist death is done let's move on to nationalism focus all we need from here is militarism and military youth use manpower is a bit of an issue for us next research we want support weapons 1 and we also want our own radio yes we are questioning the motives of Denmark and their ideals and I comment on fact yes enjoy whenever a unit is trained up to the rigors are level you can detach them from the training army so you're not wasting resources on them anymore and we have enough political power to hire someone and now let's go to the chief of army and get the guy with the old guard descriptor who's gonna give us extra extra political power unfortunately our stability is very low can't really do anything about that right now and militarism focus no Spanish Civil War ended who won Republican Spain I'm also new research next doctrine now should be preparing to attack on Denmark already but let's just finish training them up to the highest level so I have 12 units that are well trained up this is going to be sufficient to beat and then mark what we're going to need to do is prepare several naval invasions we don't have to reorganize the armies a bit five armies put them all in in the same army group promote our only general and give him some skills charismatic organizer and offensive he's going to lead the whole army group has been recently promoted so he's gonna get a bit of a of a penalty we could have done that earlier I suppose two units over here attacking Copenhagen four units launching a naval invasion right next to Copenhagen two units watching the invasion over in or den say actually the Denmark twice I think odenza was were consistent understand lived yeah I even visited his house on that trip he's a fairy tale he was a fairy tale a writer write another one here actually if some of you don't know how to do naval innovations you select an army click this then left click on your port and then the right click on the province you want to invade so arm I suppose will invade here now let's take our fleet which is not great but it should be sufficient and send them to patrol over the Baltic Sea also we do have some planes so let's make sure to send them to Denmark as well militarism is complete let's also do military youth just so I don't forget about it now let's invest in our industry a bit more you know it actually changed my mind I'm going to decrease the amount of the invaders here to two and send them over to the regular attack instead now going over the straight will be difficult but once we separate them and surround them it will be quite easy now I could spend my protocol part on hiring generals for the armies but will actually be better off if I hire an infantry expert and then if there's some vodka power left we invest in generals now I actually should have invested in military factories a bit more Anton Berg disaster and our goal is complete that's immediately declare war here you go and our naval invasion should watch me Italy they have launched see they are already sending reinforcements to Copenhagen if I can look that that should be enough for us to win and also I'm not accepting the volunteers because that would increase world tension and we want to keep it as low as possible all right we have landed so you guys have to attack here you guys stay in Odense actually because we don't want them to take it so at least one unit has to stay here see now they are not going to know the level you get them at all right let's do a strategic read apartment order yes you have to stay here I'll just cancel the orders on this army do you attack there we don't want them to you know take or than say from us well we hold this and conquer this and that should be enough to make them capitulate alright all of you attack Copenhagen from the other side they should not stand a chance there you are Denmark is ours take all states we now own and Denmark now it is time to prepare for the attack on Norway our border with Norway is very long which is why we're going to change our approach a little bit we're going to need a lot of very small units so let's edit this template here and reduce it to just one unit of cavalry just tag normally like that but we're also going to need quite a lot of tiny instead hit fill all the gaps in the front lines because if we can cover the whole front line then they can't will almost automatically win even if their troops are stronger which is why we need a lot of those tiny and weak units let's give them the highest priority and train tons of them and keep deploying them as soon as they are ready now we don't really need to do paramilitarism so let's do industrial effort instead we have also taken over one military factory from dan mark well it's going to speed up our unit construction a little bit I suppose we could cancel the artillery and support equipment from now will re-enable them later we only need infantry equipment at the moment and as soon as they are done training to the minimum required level you deploy them just keep clicking this Japan attacked shang-chi this is going to increase world tension hopefully not enough to have no weight guaranteed and all the other Chinese things are about to happen and there we go world tension has gone up they did not get going to eat oh but we're running out of time we're almost ready to attack how many units did I manage to get 11 that is not enough I feel I'm going to have to switch some of you over to this tiny template in order to recover some inventory equipment and manpower it is important that we have a lot of them very important now if we were on mass assault we would be able to deploy them faster but I still do prefer superior firepower now they're not going to succeed they're weaker than the NAS units well it doesn't really matter what matters is they will keep them occupied well we can slip in all the gaps in the front lines and take over their country actually you should make another army yeah one more army one more general activate all of them and make all of them very aggressive and of course keep deploying we're going to be reinforcing these armies with the newly deployed units let's reinforce the armies they'll automatically get assigned to the orders and the war goal is ready okay let's not deploy anymore cancel the rest assign the newly deployed ones and yeah you guys are ready let's attack oh did I forget to take a focus now damn it well that's a bit of a mistake let's now follow this path until we get the extra research slots let's also go to free trade okay let's declare war on Norway now you will see that the amount of troops is very important mmm much more so than their strength because we'll just be slipping between enemy lines see they just don't have enough troops to counter our attack which is why this is going to be a very easy victory in the places that are defended we can't progress but not all the places are defended let's do this because we have the bonus and concentrated industry 3 is going to be quite up for take a bargain with that we might have enough victory points to win okay any more of the three points that you have oh yes there is a victory point in trondheim in the meantime I can do some manual orders to you know just take over some territory and once Bergen is taken I'm sorry that's the tenth time we will take all states and now we want to attack Finland but we can't not yet because the Allies will guarantee them we have to wait quite a long time to do this but now we can actually restore the Karma Union which is going to give us tons of manpower well now we have formed the Scandinavian Empire restoring the combat union but we still need to Finland let's see how our manpower will change we get quite a lot of manpower unification of Scandinavia has happened and we're going to now what we want to do is fill our army with the good units neither the small cavalry units so we're gonna be switching them or I could just disband them because we're gonna need to wait two more years before we can attack Finland unfortunately but that's the reality of the situation so what we should do now is this band all of the cavalry units and instead train as many of these as we can now we can return to producing support equipment and artillery normally I wouldn't do it like this I would just deploy them ahead of time and train them manually but since we will have to wait almost two years to attack Finland we might as well you know conserve some equipment buying just training them like this and having them deploy once they are already trained up this is doing proved to work at conditions so we can restore some of that stability we lost in the Civil War I would also want to go to at least partial mobilization but we don't have enough war support yet hire a captain of industry unfortunately now we have to wait for Germany to start attacking people in order to attack Finland and we will have to you know and do that before the Soviets attack them or beat the Soviets afterwards both strategies are valid we could actually join the axis now if you wanted to this is your improved infantry equipment one everytime sameen is deployed I signed them to a new army and start exercising them extra research lot as you can see we have quite a lot of manpower thanks to militarism and making all this Canadian territory our cores we finished some researchers do support weapons to next and the next bit in the doctrine makes research thoughts done now time for another one I'm not going to do computing machine yet we're waiting for secret weapons to do that mother current research set up France and Britain announced Alliance one armies fully equipped and trained extra research those two and down and now we'll do secret weapons the end we're gonna invest in some support companies so let's reset scania vabis however you pronounce that let's research other truck the secret weapons focus it gives us bonuses and that are gonna be quite helpful in getting amazing research quickly so now yeah I've saved up one us a lotta just for that we're gonna do computing machine very very quickly and with the other spot atomic research for next focuses in no longer matters of that much but I suppose we could get extra factories or speed up our doctrines let's maybe speed up our doctrines we're almost ready to start justifying on Finland world tension is is 44 already we will soon be able to go to partial mobilization and the better gun has been researched with Computing Machinery search complete we advanced to improved computing machine let's go down this path together doctrine bonuses and then we can get some equipment bonuses as well now I'm not spending for the copper because we want to start justifying a war go on Finland and also go to partial mobilization at least once that becomes an option documents till each also vaca submits to Germany what you're doing now you're doing multiple even stop and then you will attack Poland and once you attack Poland we are going to do an attack on Finland Italy joins the axis shock and all centralized a fire control now with all the doctrine efforts complete we're going to pursue equipment efforts so that we can get the best guns quickly all the time we're producing new units and then exercising them Poland refuses German ultimatum ok this moment is crucial Germany attacks Poland in the moment they do end in now at war with France and Britain this is the perfect perfect moment for us to start our attack on Finland so we justify a war go on Finland it's gonna take 180 days hopefully the Soviets don't attack in that time no guarantees as you can see because our eyes are busy we're not going to interfere with the invasion of Poland unfortunately right and we can start the research of the advanced computing machine now we wait for our war go and observe what the German is doing Finland won't stand a chance against us but it is important that we do that quickly because otherwise the Soviets might get some ideas so also now we can go to partial mobilization Poland is almost done for now they're doing the focus that gives them war goes on Denmark and I think Norway is well I don't remember but Denmark and Norway no longer exist and we should be safe all right sir research the signal companies also start producing some trucks something like that should be sufficient I need to get more military factories really Luxembourg joins the AI is not a problem let's monitor Finland still no guarantees Luxembourg capitulates and so will the Netherlands Belgium is still standing nope Belgium is under attack as well fortunately we don't need to be concerned with that and Soviet Union took part of Poland I never remember when they strike against Finland which is why I'm trying to monitor them and Germany got an attack on Denmark and Norway but there is no longer Denmark or in Norway forward observers done now advanced for her bases Belgium capitulates France Oh actually the attack on the barracks seems to be unnecessary because Italy taking France I did equipment effort so now we can quickly do improved infantry couldn't - then the best gun end and even this one just be sure to not waste your bonuses on something else France has capitulated and Paris has fallen yeah Italy got most of the stuff but do support weapons three but make sure you don't use a bonus on that if you use the bonus here well that would be a waste how is Finland still no guarantee is perfect always the Soviet Union just fine on the Latvia good for us now we wait for the next infantry weapons bonus and use it on this and they'll be done in 128 days also we have a ton of political power and that we don't really know what to do with so can we improve work conditions yes we can can you do war propaganda yes we can let's do both of those Latvia and Lithuania have been by the Soviet Union see when the Soviets were just fine to get an event and ultimatum and they can accept or die okay that this is a bit of a problem because the Soviet Union is just fine and Finland however I am further along in my justification on Finland so the important bit is that I can defeat them before the Soviets even attack them so let's take all our troops that we currently have deployed and send all of them over to Finland because we're about to attack I suppose I could do a naval invasion as well mmm a small one from Stockholm over next to Helsinki he'll take them 28 days which is about as much time as we have so let's make sure all our troops are aggressive and the justification is ready see the Soviets are also working on attacking Finland so we have to be quick about this where's the Clell war now we could have joined the axis right before attacking but we didn't really need to this should not take too long and we will certainly be able to defeat them before the Soviets even get involved you guys just focus on the victory points let's make this quick long rejoins the axis that was rather quick oh crap so between the Cold War in Finland how you didn't have your war goal yet no but we have landed perhaps I can get that before the Soviet Union does anything okay fine and rejects of it demands yeah all right that's an event war go I could have been faster in this but perhaps we can still be victorious if we play our cards right at the peace conference we might be able to deny the soffits whatever they might want all right here's the Peace Conference we have way more points okay let's take everything next to the Soviets from this we can't afford this then pass a couple of times we are getting more points per turn turn down so the crucial bit is to be able to take this before the end we are able to take that oh right so let's take this yeah this is because we had way more warper to space and they did unfortunately they might take these now let's pass actually I am occupying them so it's going to be very expensive for them to take it say writing to pass again they might take one they might take one which would ruin our plans all right one more pass let's hope it goes well and it goes well oh right see we take everything and they get nothing and it's it's kind of important to play our cards right at the peace conference see they did occupy a bit over here so it might have been cheaper for them to take these states and it certainly would have been cheaper for them to take this one which is why I did what I did this is a point in which you might not be able to replicate my strategy in that case you'll just need to conquer the Soviet Union which isn't that difficult done so there it is Scandinavian Empire is gonna be Nordic Empire now we've proclaimed Nordic unity were ruled by the same guy doesn't really matter but now have cause on everything in Finland yay that is that is what the challenge was about we got that now how this could have gone wrong was the war with Finland with the Soviets taking over stuff so how could you improve that I was a bit careless what I should have done was sent a lot of small naval invasions over here to speed things up so that's it challenge achieved challenge complete and victory is ours we're back in the menu and because I turned the game off already but I forgot to say a few things I wanted to say at the end so essentially let me know how you like this different kind of a challenge a shorter one just focusing on the opening strategy without you know the large war in the end because I've done that so many times that for me the most interesting part is the opening and there is another upside to such a short challenge video well essentially I can make more of them so if all goes well I might do another one this week I still have some Christmas preparations to do but I should find enough time so most importantly this is a bit of an experiment let me know what you think about such a limited short challenge video if you like it or if you would rather have it you know spam a larger amount of time and have me conquer Germany and the Soviet Union for example or beat up the Allies but it seems to me like we've done that so many times already but the most interesting part is at the beginning of the preparation and the achievement of a limited goal in the simplest and most efficient way possible you might disagree with me so please make sure to let me know after all I aim to make these videos as interesting to you as I possibly can and that's it for this video thank you for watching and I will see you soon goodbye

Channel: Taureor

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Id: 5Vndej7jFr4

Length: 25min 43sec (1543 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 18 2018