Conquering Soviets and Allies in July 1937 - Hoi4 Finland Speedrun Explained

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10 ай бұрын

Hoi4 speedrun to defeat Soviet Union and Allies as Finland in 1937. WARNING: Lots and lots of exploits ahead. Nordic Union & Finnish Him!
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Links:
Unedited video: • Finnish Him Speedrun U...
rts_jacob on SRC: www.speedrun.com/users/rts_jacob
Feedbacks Red Finland strat: • This Is Why FINLAND Is...
Taureor Order 66: • What you NEED to know ...
SRC Hoi4 Leaderboards: www.speedrun.com/hoi4
Join my Discord: / discord
Strategy talk:
In case you want to attempt this run yourself, here are a couple of additional things that didn't make it into the video. There's a small element of RNG in the strategy. Sometimes Sweden doesn't land-lease, increasing the justification time to 40 days. It's worth trying to go for Denmark first in that situation. If you're lucky, Sweden has set up a land-lease by the time the justification against Denmark is done.
As always, just go ahead and ask in the comments if there's something unclear. I'll try to respond to everyone who attempts a run.
Make very sure to stick to the plan meticulously or risk deviations. Especially the pattern of paradrops for France is by no means random.
It's designed to prevent accidentially encountering a division in Paris.
Music:
Hearts of Iron IV Soundtrack - Heroes of El Alamein
Hearts of Iron IV Soundtrack - Main Theme
Hearts of Iron IV Soundtrack - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
Hearts of Iron IV Soundtrack - Arsenal of Democracy

Пікірлер: 126

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Big oopsie in edit! 1:55 justifaction against Yugo accidentally edited out. See the unedited run, if needed (linked in description). Super busy with work and family rn, but didn't want to leave you guys waiting. Hence why the video isn't as polished and reviewed over and over again. Hope you enjoy it nevertheless.

@creatorsfreedom6734 10 ай бұрын

Finish Them

@cnarbaba905 10 ай бұрын

Turan speedrun please

@notlucas6859 10 ай бұрын

love your vids man. very high quality and entertaining to watch, along with the way you narrate things. great work

@romulusnuma116 10 ай бұрын

To defeat the Soviet Union one must first conquer the Allies

@hamburgerhamburgerv2 10 ай бұрын

depends on who you are

@arkadiuszrenc1498 10 ай бұрын

So that's why the painter failed

@DrewPicklesTheDark 4 ай бұрын

Makes sense why Hitler failed IRL then. He conquered France but not the UK.

@commandershortsight 10 ай бұрын

Bro is speedruning Finnish Him while I struggle to conquer Canada as UK 💀

@Somekidthat56 2 ай бұрын

That's because of their dogshit supply that's nearly worse then Siberia making it hell itself if you didn't build infrastructure beforehand

@Pollypinolly 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely love how I was just following your tutorials yesterday and asking myself when the next video would come out! Thanks so much for these videos

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for sticking around! =)

@wet_owl_ 8 ай бұрын

hello brother

@chaoticflorius 9 ай бұрын

Good video as always mate!

@etminan9458 10 ай бұрын

Tbh I frequently check your channel if I am missing a new video, despite subscribing. Your uploads and contents are beyond imagination

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

That's so nice of you to say! It's hard to put into words just how much comments like yours help me to stay motivated! Thank you!

@MrClintEast 6 күн бұрын

Just imagine war works like that: "Monsieur, finish paratroopers landed in Paris, Lyons, Marseille, Orleans and a few other large cities..." "What - how many are they????" "We don't know exactly, but around 1000 men per drop... all in all maybe 10 to 20.000 spreaded over all france" "Do they have air superiority?" "No" "Do they have supply?" "No" "Do the get reinforcements via sea or land?" "No" "Mon dieu, we are done, capitulate! But wait at least two days to make it look like we fought honourable"

@Erik_Arnqvist 10 ай бұрын

Now this brights up a rainy day

@alatamore 9 ай бұрын

I particularly enjoyed the relative time reference there, where the Marco Polo Bridge incident fired, and Japan attacked China just before you capped the Soviets. Impressive as always!

@Thonieler 10 ай бұрын

Always a great day, when I see a new video and another crazy strategy! Thanks for the amazing content

@thenoobplays4432 10 ай бұрын

Great vids that always keep me entertained. Keep it up!

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I hope to have a bit more time for new videos soon, but I can't promise anything.

@jessicapottte7970 10 ай бұрын

My man always à pleasure to see you acheive runs i can only dream of

@AtarusArchive 10 ай бұрын

Absolutly amazing video, really helping me 100% the game

@danielmoran3578 10 ай бұрын

yet anohter banger bro keep up the good work

@leoehlers22 10 ай бұрын

you know its gonna be a good day when m3an posts🙏

@agevp6063 10 ай бұрын

Sehr gutes und interessantes Video!! Ich schätze deine große Mühe!!!

@DaveFeedBackGaming 10 ай бұрын

Impressive!

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@zialist4348 10 ай бұрын

Wie immer ein Brett👍

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Danke =)

@SerPivo228 9 ай бұрын

Hello from Russia. Cool content. it differs from what Russian KZfaqrs do on hoi4. Usually they write passages or guides for construction and achievements, or what 100 players will do in the game. Speedrun by hoi 4 is something new for me.

@glt198 9 ай бұрын

Вроде кто-то делает спидраны и у нас

@SerPivo228 9 ай бұрын

@@glt198 1 канал есть, но уже как 2 года забошен

@ericdanielski4802 10 ай бұрын

Nice world record.

@32Vache 9 ай бұрын

If anyone wants to get Finnish Him in a more relaxed way, and also create ultra Finland, best thing to do is make collab governments against Soviet before going in. Its slower, but soviets capitulate much easier and you get max compliance on all soviet states, meaning a ton of manpower and factories.

@Salking85 10 ай бұрын

Good video man, love ur speedruns. 🎉 How do you feel about the new DLC alot of new achievements to hunt ? Or that is just a biproduct of speed runing ?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

I'm always torn on new DLCs. I love new content, but it often means that a lot of my strategies break 😭

@jugcage7634 10 ай бұрын

Wow, Imagine an alternate timeline like this, amazing.

@KilroyNoBrain 10 ай бұрын

Trying Right now! Thanks!

@Erik_Arnqvist 10 ай бұрын

Love the StarCraft joke

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! Hope it wasn't too cringe. My humor is ... very German 😅 I initially wanted to use the Kerrigan speech from the SC2 trailer, but couldn't get the audio cleaned up. It would've been so fitting!

@helenos_152 8 ай бұрын

Hello m3am! I like your HOI4 speedrun videos and the narrating. I would like it if you could please do a speedrun on the formation of the Byzantine Empire (play as Greece and take over Turkey). Could you also try playing more as minor nations? I think many people would appreciate it.

@sirkiz1181 7 ай бұрын

This is incredible. My only complaint about your videos is that they always end 😢

@gramps6016 10 ай бұрын

good video

@Carlos-tx8jx 10 ай бұрын

Great video!!!!! Can you do a Manchukuo kind of guide ? I mean a way to form the Chinese Empire but more easy. Thankssss!!!!!

@Earthandbeyond905 4 ай бұрын

Is it still possible to do Yugostrat and form the HRE as Germany in the latest version? If yes, plz make a guide to that. Thanks a ton mate 👍

@hydronpowers9014 10 ай бұрын

I heard Russia is nice during this part of the year - Armed Finnish and French Tourists wearing Finnish military uniforms

@endzor 10 ай бұрын

yoooo, nice one

@diegodoesnothing6092 10 ай бұрын

pls give this guy a Time Machine

@geninn558 8 ай бұрын

Great Video. Love it. I have a question: Which DLC you need to take the Navy at a peace conference?

@m3an 8 ай бұрын

You need 'By Blood Alone' for the extended options in peace conferences.

@geninn558 8 ай бұрын

@@m3an Ah ok. Thanks

@cnarbaba905 9 ай бұрын

24:00 15 Jul 1936 finish

@Shorts_maker1555 10 ай бұрын

good video! could you do one day the same but with portugal if its possible ? tyyy

@SashaPorada 10 ай бұрын

Please, do speedrun for Austria-Hungary achievement

@kaiserjzuziv6018 10 ай бұрын

Ehrenmann !!

@Nikita-qx8os 10 ай бұрын

Ive been looking everywhere I am new to the game, how can I edit the front line so that I can mirco easier (example make my tank div front line smaller then expand my infantry front line to cover those tiles) hope that makes sense.

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

There are handles on each end of a frontline that appear when you draw or edit frontlines. Just drag those to adjust the frontline.

@YourPapa 7 ай бұрын

Now do the same but without any DLCs

@larsprophitius2968 9 ай бұрын

@m3an you should do a speedrun on romanovs last laugh.

@YungIsyan 10 ай бұрын

What are the triggers? I dont know how I got the Achievement, but I remember struggling back then. I held all territories in the winter war, until the surrender of the soviet union. I also captured moscow, however it didnt fire. Do I need to lose the Winter war and declare a war myself?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

If you're not the only participant in a war against the Soviets, you 'only' need to control Moscow and have more than 15% war score when the war ends.

@YungIsyan 10 ай бұрын

@@m3an Ok thanks it was probably the war score. Got the achievement in some random A Historical game anyways 😂

@Urbosa 9 ай бұрын

Any tips beating the Soviets without Order 66 and still getting Finnish him? I followed this till I capitulate the UK and annex all the countries. Im struggling with the war with Soviets because the German's declare on me after I leave the faction. Great video though!

@Urbosa 8 ай бұрын

@m3an

@isimperialist 10 ай бұрын

I love your voice!

@kvlt1349 10 ай бұрын

excellent run! why only release france and no others? wouldn't you get more short term factories and manpower from puppets?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Thank you! I needed France for the subject templates, but I can't use foreign manpower for the 2w template - not enough XP to make a template for that. I didn't plan to continue the run after the Soviets fell, otherwise it would've been wise to make more puppets instead of annexing.

@user-qe5kg7bi3u 3 ай бұрын

Ey M3an I have a challenge for you, you can try make arestauration a empire Qing but you must that conquest all Asia and take all cores again, often of 1939 or 1940 you see!!!

@gtatoti 10 ай бұрын

I don’t know if it’s just me, but by the time I end the civil war, I end up wit a 2.3k deficit on guns, which prevents me to train the paratroopers without diverting production from transport planes to guns. Am I doing something wrong?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Never had that happen but another commenter said something similar. You can just delete the cav divisions if you have equipment deficits and hope you get plenty back from capping France.

@gtatoti 10 ай бұрын

@@m3an Unfortunately, even when deleting the cav divisions, still have barely enough guns to train 5 paratrooper divisions. Is it possible that I am taking 5 more days to end the civil war and therefore, the AI is creating some more divs, wasting the guns?? Still, managed to capitulate France, but the problem is still there since I can’t either train the remaining paratroopers nor the 6 infantry or cavalry divisions due to a 7.0k deficit

@cassius8449 10 ай бұрын

how did you manage to get the paradrop off in UK without air superiority? i got stuck at that point and lost to UK :(

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

No air superiority. Same as with France. You rely on the UK not putting their air force up quickly enough. That's why I move the paratroopers to an airport in the north-western air zone, because the UK has planes up in the eastern one. Still, I only ever expect to get one or two drops of into the ports that I then send reinforcements to. Anything more is just a bonus. But there is a chance that it all goes down the drain when those first two ports are guarded AND any further drops are denied. That's rare, but can ruin the southern offensive.

@MDRstudi0s 10 ай бұрын

Taureor didnt come up with order 66? Mind blow

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

That's a misunderstanding, sorry. Order 66 is absolutely from Taureor. I was merely refering to the Red Finland strat.

@TankBoii 10 ай бұрын

Is it possible without Man the Guns?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Yes. You only need TfV for releasing France. And WTT for Nordic Empire, I think, but that's optional anyway.

@TankBoii 10 ай бұрын

Thanks

@larsprophitius2968 10 ай бұрын

You should do the peoples republic of china speedrun.

@kiriseraph9674 8 ай бұрын

You can still do order 66 in this game?

@unbekannteruser2418 10 ай бұрын

You are the type of guy who works 25 hours a day.

@user-tk7ui3ny6d 10 ай бұрын

Respect in Korea.....

@futboltime12 10 ай бұрын

Fastest full Ottoman restoration please

@EHardTV 10 ай бұрын

I tried this run for like 4-5 times now, and i just cant cap the uk. They always have a lot of troops ready to answer the invasions, and cant get them, and soon the divisons from poland and yugo and romania arrive, than its over. How could i overcome this?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

It's all about speed. The southern invasion needs to spread out fast and take as many ports as possible and encircle London. The naval invasion is primarily used to take the VPs in central and northern UK. Do you restart from scratch each time or reload a save? Did you watch the unedited video for more details (linked in description)? It is crucial to not get pinned down when the reinforcements land in the south.

@EHardTV 10 ай бұрын

@@m3an I restart everytime from the beginning to be able to get the achivement, and my paratroopers just seems to die almost instantly because they land on defended areas. In one of my recent runs i almost capped them.. only needed 1 percent, but than the other nations naval invaded. I watched the unedited version too to do a step by step follow guide, but the ai randomly organizing their troops and i even managed to get stuck in the invasion of france since they put up air quickly.

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

@@EHardTV Hmm. It's weird since some other comments said something similar. But there hasn't been an update since so I'm rather sure that it should still work. Too bad I'm on vacation right now, otherwise I'd replay the run just to make sure. But there absolutely is some RNG to it, just like you said. Sometimes the AI has divs on the UK ports in the south, but rarely on all three.

@magosanty2352 10 ай бұрын

i wonder how much this will change with the incoming nordic expansion

@maxxgrumpy 10 ай бұрын

what is the fun on cheat in game?

@Shepo04 10 ай бұрын

Can you please do a Speed run of capitulating the German Reich playing as the Soviet Union?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

You mean with Stalin? Because I just did a World Conquest with Trotski.

@Shepo04 9 ай бұрын

@@m3anYes, with Stalin please🙏. I've been getting my time down but no doubt you could find an even faster way!

@sandercohen5543 7 ай бұрын

transport... ships? lulwut

@lordodin5755 10 ай бұрын

I keep getting fewer guns i think im fucking up the civil war. i get like 400 making it impossible to train up enough paradroppers to get italy

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

I assume you mean France, not Italy? Hmm. Never had that issue. Have you checked the unedited video to find differences? It's linked in the description.

@lordodin5755 10 ай бұрын

@@m3an Lol yes sorry i'm so used to playing as the me Netherlands with a buddy where we take italy to get a fleet and production they're in my dreams. I think im taking the wrong provinces causing them to spend guns that are ofcourse rightfully mine. I'll keep trying i plan to become less of an idiot.

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

@@lordodin5755 In case you keep running into this issue, just delete your cavalry units. You don't need them.

@lordodin5755 10 ай бұрын

@@m3an .....How did i not think of that i'm terrible at this game lol. Thanks man i'm actually aiming to continue the game so i can get my first world conquest off in a cool colour.

@iuliili5263 10 ай бұрын

What happened to the communist Finland strat in which you placed divisions in all the Russian vps?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Wdym? That wasn't mine. I talk about the Red Finland strategy at the end of the video, it's also linked in the description. But it takes a lot longer compared to this one.

@iuliili5263 10 ай бұрын

@@m3an Oh, ok. I didn't watch to the of the videk.

@DoDo-tl1bu 10 ай бұрын

for me after civilwar i ended it half a month later than you i got minus guns

@fadehz2404 3 ай бұрын

please do it with bulgaria

@gaspy2458 10 ай бұрын

How is your game so fast lol

@Yoshi-uz6nd 10 ай бұрын

Why not puppet france in the peace conference?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

You miss out on captured equipment if you do. If you puppet them during the PC, they retain parts of their stockpile instead of you capturing it.

@endzor 10 ай бұрын

9:24 aren't stockpiles going into garrisons?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

After annexing France, I switched to no garrison before releasing France as a subject.

@endzor 10 ай бұрын

@@m3an why you produced support equipment?

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

@@endzor The French inf template needs it iirc. But it's not absolutely required. You can produce whatever you like at that point.

@dominikthemachine2560 28 күн бұрын

Super strategy, but booring too play! 😆😲

@zeri5261 10 ай бұрын

this worked for me, im trying to get the forge of victory achievement which means having 50 factories as belgium, i tried the same turning fascist and airdropping france thing but for some reason it always only launches 2 of the 8 divisions, does anyone know what mechanic is stopping the other ones? (its not their air planes)

@spacecox8045 10 ай бұрын

why put albert fish in thumbnail

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

I was just looking for an old dude, shrugging. Didn't know who it was. I'll change that when I'm back from vacation, thank you.

@Kowalski69691 10 ай бұрын

Blud ist zu 100% deutsch

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

Sehr gut analysiert, Kowalski!

@cnarbaba905 10 ай бұрын

Turkey turan speedrun please

@shad0wrune 10 ай бұрын

IMPOSSIBLE!!!! If you follow this guide, don't expect it to be easy. You will grind and fuck up 90% of the tries. This guide isn't working! Do justify against Romania, not Yugoslavia.

@shad0wrune 10 ай бұрын

This guyr tried tis for 10x+ times before posting this. So don't expect much

@m3an 10 ай бұрын

You could ask for help, you know. It's pretty easy if you know how to apply the strategy properly, but if you're not used to them, much can go wrong.