So, the winning strategy as Tannu Tuva is to use Karl Marx's portrait as a catalyst to use communist black magic in order to summon Tuvans from an alternate universe to fight your wars

The amount of HOI4 achievements that require the player to become an illegal arms dealer/buyer continues to surprise me.

“The Soviets are really helpful, they wanna send us zero convoys.” And to make sure you get the point they sent it to you *4 times*

Man, bittersteel really starting 2022 with the strongest nation in the world: TANNU TUVA

This is the real fun of hoi 4, when you can dominate the world with so much powerful country like Tannu Tuva, Luxemburg or Puerto Rico.

Small tip: Improve relationship with Italy. No matter of your ideology, they are always willing to give guns in crazy amount. After 40% world tension improve relationship with Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Because of there's army restrictions they have a thousand of guns and free supply, before they actually can spawn troops.

I saw in a TommyK video that the wiki recommended a strat for one of the achievements that involved turning off historical focuses but then putting specific countries on historical. It lets you have most of the predictability of historical while potentially removing specific problem countries like Germany. IDK about you but I suspect there’s more nonsense we can do with that.

One thing I did with my spare IC was building up railways in western Russia, so that the Germans had an easier time when it was their turn to invade.

Easier method, made at first attempt: 1) Leave Comintern. Improve relations with USSR and ask for military access. 2) Get enough xp to have the +500 weekly manpower idea (Ideological Loyalty) and to make 2 width infantry division. Produce only weapons. 3) Make a TON of divisions and put them in the territory you need to form Siberia. I put them in all the provinces I could, but you need the majority of the territory. 4) Justify on Mongolia. USSR Joins. You have the territory now. 5) Click on decision. Profit. Cheesy and easy.

Hey Bitter, this was my last achievement to get and you made it super easy and fun ! Thanks a million for all the guides over the years you’ve been amazing ! Keep up all the good work man, I’ll still watch future guides just for you !

this was my first achievement of the DLC im almost done just a couple of soviet ones Also this strat is the same one all the way back from Taureor playing Tanna Tuva

25:48 you have a frontline with an inactive offensive line and as such you allies will hold off on attacks until you activate it. this is demonstrated by how in the following clip you have the attack order activated and the soviets are doing an offensive of their own

Ideological Loyalty is so good that I think I'm comfortable enough to start Paraguay world conquest.

Finally the hardest legit achievement ever!

"To ask for something, you need to have it researched." Tannu Tuva: Hey Russia, that one, the one that goes pew pew, I want one.

I've just got this achievement, super super easy with your guide: It's my first comment on your channel, but I saw every guide you've published, I've learned so much thank to you! Keep up with your great work!

Getting a shoutout from Bitt3rsteel on my birthday...feelsgoodman

I think this start is simply not usable anymore(since by blood alone). I mean the soviets just puppeted sinkiang in my run.

Didn't watch the video yet, but just wanted to say this was one of the first achievements that I did since the DLC and I didn't use a guide, and never had more than 8k manpower at any given time LOL. Love your videos, please keep them up!

*laughs at how comically hard the achievement is just by the lenght of the video*

*Behold!* *The great and glorious Tannu Tuvan empire*

I've tried this 4 times!!! The first time I wasn't able to get enough war score when invading the soviet Union and germany took everything. The second time I did really well until I ran out of manpower and the front line stalled for me and germany, with the soviet Union at 99% toward capitulation, then D-day happened and everything went worse from there. The third time most of my divisions got encircled in China but I still got a decent puppet, but for some reason they weren't giving me factories, meaning I couldn't face the Soviets as I wasn't prepared. The last time, the Soviets cut off japan in China, but didn't give them military access, meaning that the front stalled and the war still wasn't over when the axis invaded the Soviets. I am getting frustrated with this achievement, but I still want to see it to the end. This video is still a life saver though, even if I can't pull it off effectively. Edit: I finally managed to get the territory I needed to form siberia along with the rest shown in the video, despite me losing all my manpower the second I flipped ideology.

51:12 "Oh Oh Liberia 😭" 💀🙏

Be careful to not turn the siberian tiger into an economic tiger.

... it doesnt work for me when i killed sinkiang the soviets took everything

HIJ HEEFT HET GEDAAN HOOR! Letsgo, you are my favourite HOI4 KZfaqr

I love the fact that you like "good looking railways" more than random ones. I do totally the same. I love projecting the railroads xD

Found myself stucked when papa Stalin don't want to lend me any convoy, and though Hirohito is willing to help, no convoy actually received for unknown reason, thus naval invasion never happened

Man don't you just love starting off with two factories and 127 manpower

In my game, I had to wait till 1948 to capitulate soviets, and allies did d-day like 12 times (counted) and every time germans crushed d-day. Last d-day (beggining of 1948) had 200 divs and germans countered it in 3 months Edit: I just was doing endsieg and waiting, i did 2m casulties to soviets, 4 % participation

Tried this a couple of times on my own (Before seeing this video). I didn’t realize the Soviet A.I. won’t annex any Chinese states, so I did some paratrooper cheesing and avoided calling them and Mongolia into my war with Sinkiang. It was quite the headache, and my progress was extremely mediocre. Needless to say, I didn’t come relatively close to actually getting the achievement. Really appreciate the guide; definitely going to be putting it to use in the near future.

"I have to do everything myself" hoi4 in a nutshell

I already watched the video of the guy doing it first. You need amazing stamina to even think about doing a Tanna Tuva run, let alone forming Siberia with it.

Nice video, keep the formables coming :D (would love to see you form Transcaucasia if possible)

Bold move to make the people Stalin disappeared reappear just to go into your army

Ah yes the mighty Armor Expert of Tannu Tuva the undeniable greatest tank power in ww2

oh, dude i just did this achievment yesterday after long struggle. if i knew that i would wait for the video:(

So many RNG on this run though. 1. Xibei San Ma joins CUF as Bitter mentioned. One less of the two puppet is a lot on your manpower. 2. Naval invasion: it is not guaranteed Japan or USSR would go for naval immediately and Japan could take Qingdao very early. It would led to Japan took a lot of land and affect war score massively. Better place I found (twice) is near Fuzhou or Xiamen where less coast guard is present. But still, no guarantee. If you didn't grab enough war score and build a strong puppet, Japan is likely (no hard data, just a feeling) to justify on your Chinese puppet very early. See point 4 below. I'm also surprised to see Japan took mid-western China for themselves in Bitter's run, my experience they always puppet warlords. 3. A later Soviet declare Finland is RNG unless war with China could finish very early. All 3 times I tried Soviet started winter war late 39' historically and Finland joined Japan and got took out at the end altogether. 4. Most annoyingly!! Japan WILL justify on your Chinese puppet at a random time. At least the 3 times I tried, they always do. Seems regardless whether you are in Axis or Commintern, or whether they are at war with the Allies, or whether you join Axis offense or justify USSR by yourself. It will totally mess up your ongoing offense as Manchukuo is very very close to the Siberian railway. One tile cut, whole front starves. Only way to go seems to be pushing very hard and finish USSR quickly. Little tips too, cut through Mongolia and trap 5-10 divisions would cripple the Siberian army group, then just push push push before Japan's inevitable meddling.

I can´t even beat poland´s AI as germany and this guy can annex the entire ussr with tannu tuva.

Great video! I got It using your guide, thanks!

Tannu What? Lol

Love this types of videos!

Absolutely cracking video! I had tried this for a laugh myself but quickly got stumped by manpower issues. Now I've seen this, it's time for another go.

Ha this one I got before your video came out which makes me happy. Good job on the Great Game.

Can you please do a tutorial for the current version of Hoi4

nice guide. took me 3 trys but eventually everything worked out verry smooth thx

I just came back from work and boom video from my favourite youtuber

Thanks forgot about lendleasee since :D So at time of attacking soviets i had 180k guns... 2k support and 2.2k cars.... man it was nice. Thanks for video since i was originaly waiting when pdx will do some tech tree.

In the grand scheme of things, you now have cores on a sparsely populated frozen hellscape.

Giving leand lease is better than training units

So this is why the Soviets want to annex Tannu Tuva

Wow juat wow

I like that the Chief of Army is just called Konstantinov. No first name. It's like this guy forgot to fill in the form when they applied for the job and no one ever noticed lol

finally, I was waiting fir this because i had no idea how to do this

Like that little crack at "axis access" ^^

“Oh no! Liberia!” Is a phrase I’ve never heard before

Just complited this alchiement thank you bittersteel ambushing ussr was major so huge

paradox should release a Middle Child DLC where they give focuses to Belgium, Austria and Tanu Tuva

Bitter for future reference, you wanna prioritize the territories of Guangxi Clique (and Sichuan) when feeding your chinese puppet in the peace deal . All that steel and tungsten (and mp) is juicy af, plus I would assume they have decent building slots.

Oh most powerful overlord Tannu Tuva, have mercy

Great video, Bitt3r! I was wondering if maybe perhaps you could do a re-vamped "The People Have Stood Up!" achievement, as the last one doesn't really appear to work anymore. From what I've gathered on the forums and Reddit, supply has become much more of a pain in the region, and because the ai's aggressiveness has been roided to say the least, most are in agreement that it's almost virtually impossible to play as Communist China... I was thinking if maybe you could disprove that claim? Seems like it'd be a fun new challenge. Keep up the great work!

Hahahahaha I live in Kyzyl , I am a Tuvan !!!!

5:04 Xibei San Ma is the new Belgium with how many days it takes to justify a war goal!

Game: Liberia joined allies Me: * Kaiserredux Menu Theme - "Liberia Land of Liberty" at max volume*

Ah yes the old use a portrait of Karl Marx to summon the spirit of communist Tanu tuva in the form of soldiers strat

I don't know if it is because of some update, but Soviets never gave me anything in Land Lease, although they had +100 on me.

With the new peace deal update i really can't puppet these countries

Amazing guide, got it first try, thank you

Of course the Soviets have a non-aggression pact with China in my game

BitterSteel: "Historical events on, Trust me this will makes things much easier." Historians: "Heheheh"

superior firepower: art + infantry + CAS = all the things you love mass assault: You're either a small country like yugoslavia or you want supply bonuses mobile warfarae: you're an industrial giant who loves tanks grand battleplan: polish player trying to get no more partitions

Tannu Tuva, The Nation of Throat Singing

Interesting play, I don't even have the guts to try this achievement. BTW, Sinkian is pronounced as shin - jiang using english phonetics. K has more of a J/G sound when used in Chinese pronunciation.

Luxembourg: Finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary

"Chief of the airforce" "What airforce?" "Chief of the navy" "What navy?" Based Tannu Tuva

GG on the tournament and always family first

What a sexy Siberian flag! The black, green, and white look great and the insignia for added style! Mmm! So good!

thank you bro ive tried doing this like 5 times

Can you do so some more NSB information videos. Your supply video was amazing! I would love to see a tank designer video done by you along with the attack trains and other unit additions. The tech tree changed so much with all the new modules etc, like fllamethrowers. Not to mention the landing barges etc. Perhaps a doctrine update too? You get the point... An updated shop designer would be cool too.

Operation B.E.G: Beseech the Enemy for Guns.

Tannu Tuva: I think I will cause problems on purpose

43:40 Yes, you’re right, Mongolia DOES have more victory points now! Your resident Mongolia player has come to tell you they have added more states in Mongolia since NSB dropped.

Tannu to the moon? Yes...They went beyond the moon...

I did it, thanks to you but... germany just did not wanted to conquer Leningrad. It was a pain in the neck. Just conquer the far east and from there ALL the way to Ural and beyond. Sometimes the AI just want to troll you.

Instead of going for war economy first you can also do free trade for more output, research and construction.

here i am tryna figure out how to do operation barbarossa as germany and my dude is winning as tannu tuva

Strong start to 2022

Nice video keep up to good work

if there was 1500 tecnology they would still research cannons and cavarly units lol

I finally did it, took me fricking 5 tries but it has been done!

Well, at least Soviet supply lines aren't taking some kind of weird '2nd Pacific Squadron' route around the Cape of Africa.

The madlad did it, he finally lost his sanity

3:59 "To smash down some chinese minors" is WILD

The leader of Tannu Tuva sure is ambitious

fuck yeah just came home from skiing perfect timing

with the new and the stupid peace deal update, I failed to puppet sinkiang

-Let other people do the hard work Bitter steel 2022

I like how he saying a fake deficit my man i think you indenyl about the state of your nation

haha "if we can't, you wont be seeing this video"

There's this little exploit with planes when you are really desperate for manpower. Where if you can deploy air Wings no matter if you have reserve manpower or not and when you disband them you get the manpower from it even tho you didn't put any into it.