Beating the game in May 1937 - Hoi4 World Record Speedrun Explained
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Published 2023-04-24
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Leaderboard & Unedited run:
World Conquest IGT World Record run: www.speedrun.com/hoi4/run/zxne8wgm
Unedited showcase run: • World Conquest Speedrun - Unedited Se...
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Help & Sources:
/u/doccit's Reddit post: www.reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/12927p7/world_revol…
Soviet civil war cheese by BubblesZest : • HOI4: BBA has BROKEN the Soviet Civil...
Order66 by Taureor : • What you NEED to know about Order 66 ...
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Strategy talk:
I had to leave out some stuff in the final edit, since the initial cut of the video was a bit overloaded with information. But some of it might be important to you, if you want to replicate this run.
The purge events usually hit before the civil war break out. You can reload for better outcomes on non-ironman, otherwise you need to restart from scratch. Some purge events, at least for me, are an automatic restart. Especially those that cost 120pp to dismiss or put penalties on pp gain or army performance. You can combine dismissing purge events with territory decisions and NKVD Primacy to kick off the civil war without grinding for RNG too much.
If you encounter leader traits during the justification marathon, skip them for until after you declared on the first batch of nations or postpone until the Axis or Japan war.
You can 'steal' Ethiopia from Italy during the first peace conference, since Italy is only technically at war with Ethiopia, hence why they also aren't taking part in the peace conference.
In case Socialist Italy spawns with territory and becomes your puppet, you need to diplo-annex them through the Autonomy System (DLC-exclusive mechanic from Together for Victory). That's why I took the focus 'Long Live the Workers' Government'. It provides 100pp and makes an annexation possible more quickly. The more pp you've 'lost' prior, the longer this step is going to take. Lower autonomy by land-leasing convoys, but remember that you'll have to lower their autonomy twice - so don't send everything at once. Both steps combined are going to cost 325pp.
If you need to declare on nations before the end of a war after wiping the map nearly clean during the war with the Allies, make sure that they cannot gain significant territory or otherwise they might rise up to become major nations.
Unless you have the timing down perfectly, do not mix the war with Germany and Japan. Japan is going to leave Axis and form its own faction through a focus around that time.
I probably have missed some stuff so feel free to ask in the comments. I'll add more tips here if they come up in discussions.
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Music:
Hearts of Iron IV Soundtrack
"Heroes of El Alamein"
"Comintern Theme"
"Sacred War"
"Shatter the Empires"
"Mother Russia"
"March of the Defenders"
"Katyusha"
All Comments (21)
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When Trotsky said permanent revolution, he meant it
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Imagine you were an US citizen in 1936 and saw 200 Soviet cavalry divisions occupied your country in a single day
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Roses are Red Trotsky is Red The World is Red Red.
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Poor Mussolini, one moment he's got a notice that over 50k guns are being donated to him to help with his war in Ethiopia from the generous Soviets, to being executed by his civilians for inviting dozens of soviet soldiers into his country to hang around with their guns out.
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*Soviets march into a few cities in France, US and Britain with some horses The entire word: “Well, shit, looks like you got us!”
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Congratulations! It is rather fitting that this speedrun involves conquering Japan last, given that Japan was used in your prior world record.
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Why didn’t Trotsky just do this in real life?
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this is why stalin wanted to get rid of trotsky so bad
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13:18 deploying order 66 on France be like: "Monsieur, Soviet Union is threatening the world peace!" "Retaliate immediately then!" "But Monsieur, there are Soviet divisions in our country!" "Raise the white flag immediately then!"
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I'm not a speedrunner. However, I'll definitely cheese my Soviet Civil War like this
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Man these achievements are just... Insane. You are absolutely insane and u deserve way more subs.
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the irony of this essentially being "historically accurate" as a socialist/communist world revolution was always the goal for Trotzky is funny, it almost seems logical in that aspect
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Trotsky is now Trollsky after this speedrun
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The fact that it's Trotsky just makes it so much better
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Absolutely crazy! After 1000 hours I still have yet to do a world conquest and you did it in 1/1000 of my playtime. Insane stuff man!
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Imagine the Soviet civil war where theres just a bunch of cavalry squads shitting on the vulnerable arty squad while the arty squad can do nothing about it because the stockpile is completely dry
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I love the super cheap justifications! Absolutely insane!
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I can’t believe this run started with (usually) one of the longest civil wars in the game
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they mention this speedrun in a song called "L'Internationale"
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The method of speeding through the Russian civil war to get Trostky in power by July is worthy of a video on it's own. What an awesome vid, keep up the awesome work!
