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Thank you!! Hopefully it will keep growing, it is still a fairly young channel! I am really proud of the community we managed to build around it, so new content will keep coming for sure!
You can also manage to make Turkey into a super power but the mechanics behing forming the Ottoman Empire are completely different and it usually takes me longer than by 1940. Communist Turkey is also a lot of fun but you need to focus on the Balkans mainly. The only non-super power iteration of Turkey is the Democratic path as usual... Great video as always!
Thank you! Yes, I tried the Ottoman Empire path first, and there is a lot of potential there too, but it takes way longer. The main advantage of the Ottoman Empire (in addition to being cool) is that you get more manpower from the new cores. I think I will make a guide for reforming the Ottoman Empire too in future!
Great video, I can see the improvements here and there from the last one Haven't watched the unedited version, but maybe you could allocate some time to do railways, from Ankara to İstanbul and İzmir there are bottlenecks which you could improve for the war with Greece and Bulgaria. Connecting the Edirne railway to supply depot is something missed a lot, there is a level 2 railway in the state but the connection is made with rivers, limiting it to a level 1 and creating bottleneck on the Bulgarian border as well as putting the pressure on the naval base, also connecting with Thessaloniki is nice as well if you open a front with Yugoslavia, if not, it eases the burden on convoys towards the naval invasion Also especially against Iran you could consider connecting railways between Malatya and Mosul, otherwise you suffer tremendous lack of supplies. Sucks for Euphrates I guess lol it doesn't count for level 1 railway. For pushing in Iran, Baghdad-Hamadan connection is nice as well. I hate the railway system's micromanagement but all these connections shouldn't take more than a month to construct If you find yourself in extra stability (kurdish decisions success + republicanism wink wink), you can commandeer civilian trains and sell them on the market, 15 of them is 2100 economic capacity, 2625 with high prices. Every bit helps, right? Sell the interwar planes and the starting tanks as well who likes T-26s anyway lmao
Can't wait to watch the guide with my coffee, thanks man! Also, it would be awesome if you could give us fascist Netherlands guide and show us how to deal with UK and USA without cheese strategies! My friend always complains he cannot deal with them without first day of the war abuse to get naval superiority, so he could use your help :D
@@MachiavellianStrategist puppeting all of the smaller regional tags instead of yugoslavia itself. you never integrated them so more puppets would mean a higher factory count -- multiple industrial focus trees instead of one --
@@MacronsKitten oh I see what you mean! I usually prefer to have fewer puppets when possible, as it makes it a bit easier to manage them. For example, I call Yugoslavia to war, and I import several resources from them. Despite that, I can easily keep their autonomy at minimum by buildings factories and infrastructures in their provinces. It would be a bit more annoying to have to do it from multiple puppets. It's really just a matter of preferences, what you suggested would probably grant slightly better yields at the cost of some extra micromanagement!
in some video descr you say you provide step-by-step spreadsheets for your country guides, as members-only content, but now I'm member and can't find any ref/link to it, in any members-only area, can you help with it? thanks!
Hi! First of all thank you for being a member of the channel, your support is vital for this project! If you purchased the right membership (it is the tier 2 membership, called "colonel") you should be able to access a Google drive folder with all of my country guides. The link is in the description of your membership. If you did everything correctly and you still cannot find the link, let me know and I will try to help!
@@MachiavellianStrategist thanks for the answer. I went for the Tier 1, but can consider upscaling, hopefully I need to pay only the difference? Let's see what youtube asks for it. What matters is that you put in the GDrive the spreadsheets, I mean something written like a step-by-step guide. that works a bit better for me, videos are great to see the action, but evil is in the details which usually can't go in a "consumable" video. Can you confirm is that kind of spreadsheet we are talking about? (I mean "written document", doesnt matter the format as long as they have something like "what" and "when" columns, and are detailed enough)
Hi there, sorry for the late reply! For some mysterious reason TH-cam had tagged your comment as "needing approval to be published", so I missed it. Should you decide to upgrade, you will only have to pay for the difference! And you will immediately gain access to all spreadsheets (the link to my google drive folder appears in the instructions for your perks, mind that it changes periodically, so from time to time you will have to get the new one!). I'll try to explain how the spreadsheets are designed the best I can: They are made as checklists, in which you find a column with "actions" one with "researches" one with "focuses". Researches and focuses are the same as in the description of the video, but they are better divided to chronologically match with each other. The column for actions is the real exclusive for members, it is a list of everything I do in my guide, in chronological order. For example, the first steps are the initial setup, so it might be something like: - Build full infra + civs in ... ... ... - Production to: Infantry equip 10, support equip 5, artillery 3 - Change occupation law to "local police force" - Initial setup done - Pick "Silent Workhorse" (150PP) - Pick "War Economy" (127PP) - Prepare armies to invade Greece (2 naval invasions, one in Athens area, one in Thessaloniki area) - Puppet Greece, justify Yugoslavia And so on. When I test an older guide to see if it still works, I always only use my spreadsheets, so everything you really need is included. I find them to be very convenient, but you might still have to integrate them with the video from time to time, to see how the divisions were deployed or used in detail. Also, please consider that older guides still have a less organized system for these "notes". I am gradually updating all of them, but I haven't finished yet. Please feel free to let me know if you have any further doubts or questions!@@ettoredemaio1830
In my run through, during the peace conference after taking the UK down, GER fights my claim on Brabant to the point I have nothing left to get much of the UK/FRA navy. Is there anything to mitigate this or is it just RNG? It's amazing how much peace score you had left to take all the navies.
Hi! I would say it is mostly RNG. Claiming it in the first turn of the peace conference is the only thing that really makes a difference, since it is much more expensive to take something already claimed than to fight for a contested claim. That being said, neither Brabant nor the navies are really mandatory. All Brabant does is making the war against Germany a little easier (although, the fact that they can somehow keep their military access to Vichy France makes the encirclements there less effective). The additional navies are not even needed in the war against the Axis, they might be useful later in the game, should you decide to go after the USA. But we already have a good navy, and we are going to take the German and Italian ones too.
@@MachiavellianStrategist Gotcha. I sort of figured that. There will be more run-throughs for me with Turkey, that's for sure. The variations are what make guides like yours really cool. In other words, you teach the overall strategy, but since every game with HOI4 is usually a bit different, you also talk about "what ifs" and core goals. For example, as you say is more common, I got Bulgaria, but not Hungary, who joined the Axis. In this run-through, I'm going for Hungary to kick off my Axis war and realizing whether or not I do that, Hungary is much more of a problem than BUL, because I'm basically short one army than you going after ITA. But that's the challenge for me, which makes this game and your strategies so much fun for me. I realize the Navy isn't too important, especially if you can get a few carriers (which I did), but really, the AI is so bad with their Navy that even death stacks still work, lol. After 20 years of developing this series, Paradox still hasn't figured out how to make the AI even marginally effective in managing/fighting its navy. Thanks man!
@@garyjohnson3252 thank you again for you comment! Feedback like yours is really important to me! It is true that Hungary can be an issue, since it effectively extends the front you need to cover. You can build some extra forts to help with that, and I was actually overstacking divisions in there a little bit. With our puppets it should not be too much of an issue to cover the extra front! But let me know how it goes, I'm very curious! I'm also curious as to when and why Hungary joined the Axis, did it happen after reloading the game? As for the navy, yes the AI absolutely sucks at it, but so do I hahah
Unfortunately not, the Ottoman Empire does not allow such early expansion. Which makes it significantly worse than fascist Turkey. When I made this guide I initially intended to go for the Ottoman Empire, but I then gave up and focused on the fascist path. However, I definitely plan to make a guide for Ottoman Turkey too in future!
In this video you can find all of my templates: th-cam.com/video/txUsm8JUgFg/w-d-xo.html Depending on the country and the economy you have available you can decide for one of them. That being said, if your economy is not good enough for, say, a 30w template, you can start with a smaller one and gradually add more battalions as your economy grows!
@@MachiavellianStrategist the thing i dont understand is, how you can do all these things without tanks 😂 i would be happy if you can response .. regards
@@fbfb8556 a good infantry template, with enough air support, can easily push anything in single player! Air superiority gives some massive buffs, so I would say it is even more important than having armored templates! Moreover, the superior firepower doctrines significantly buffs support and line artillery, bring the total soft attack of our offensive infantry divisions pretty close to the armored ones! The main differences are speed (tanks are obviously faster) and casualties (you'll get more if you use infantry)!
You are so helpful. I will try all these things . But tbh after i watched im a bit demotivated . 😂 There are too many things and its really hell crazy. Thank you one more time. From now on im going to watch your videos more . Salute
@@fbfb8556 don't give up!! You are right, there is a lot of stuff in this game, but once you get the basics it becomes super fun! One step at a time! I will try to make more guides for newer players too!
@@MachiavellianStrategist yes thats what i said, anyway when i use your strategy, Britain ALWAYS guarantees the state that im about to attack and its over for me. What do you suggest for this?
@@hakancentoglu7872 there is a specific focus that makes the UK guarantee you (it's in the focus list) with their guarantee the UK will never join a war against you, even if they guaranteed the country you are attacking!
Hi! I believe that is a feature of the by blood alone dlc. I'd consider getting it because the plane designer and the extra peace conference options are a great addition to the game in my opinion. Of course you can still follow the strategy even without it though!
@@gamerfromhansot2239 yes, but getting the naval superiority will be more difficult for sure. I did get the naval superiority with Brazil though, without taking additional navies. So it is definitely possible! In that guide you can also see what type of ship I was building to get naval superiority and the strategy I used to take down the UK!
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The unedited version of this guide (previously exclusive to members of the channel) is now available at this link: th-cam.com/video/5gwCq086oto/w-d-xo.html
For the other episodes in this series: th-cam.com/play/PLY4d0TUsYg8Kfl6HIIp1AmNwGIv16vW9m.html
For all of my guides I also always make dedicated spreadsheets which include, in addition to focuses and researches, a list of all the steps required in order to succeed.
These spreadsheets are exclusive to the members (Colonel rank) of the channel, in addition to several other perks!
Becoming a member is mainly a way to show your support to the channel and to help keeping it alive and active.
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I wonder why your channel isn’t bigger than it is. Solid guide!
Thank you!!
Hopefully it will keep growing, it is still a fairly young channel!
I am really proud of the community we managed to build around it, so new content will keep coming for sure!
amazing. even if i am not planning to play the countries you mKw guides on they are just so fun to watch!
Thank you!!
You can also manage to make Turkey into a super power but the mechanics behing forming the Ottoman Empire are completely different and it usually takes me longer than by 1940. Communist Turkey is also a lot of fun but you need to focus on the Balkans mainly. The only non-super power iteration of Turkey is the Democratic path as usual... Great video as always!
Thank you! Yes, I tried the Ottoman Empire path first, and there is a lot of potential there too, but it takes way longer.
The main advantage of the Ottoman Empire (in addition to being cool) is that you get more manpower from the new cores.
I think I will make a guide for reforming the Ottoman Empire too in future!
Great video, I can see the improvements here and there from the last one
Haven't watched the unedited version, but maybe you could allocate some time to do railways, from Ankara to İstanbul and İzmir there are bottlenecks which you could improve for the war with Greece and Bulgaria. Connecting the Edirne railway to supply depot is something missed a lot, there is a level 2 railway in the state but the connection is made with rivers, limiting it to a level 1 and creating bottleneck on the Bulgarian border as well as putting the pressure on the naval base, also connecting with Thessaloniki is nice as well if you open a front with Yugoslavia, if not, it eases the burden on convoys towards the naval invasion
Also especially against Iran you could consider connecting railways between Malatya and Mosul, otherwise you suffer tremendous lack of supplies. Sucks for Euphrates I guess lol it doesn't count for level 1 railway. For pushing in Iran, Baghdad-Hamadan connection is nice as well. I hate the railway system's micromanagement but all these connections shouldn't take more than a month to construct
If you find yourself in extra stability (kurdish decisions success + republicanism wink wink), you can commandeer civilian trains and sell them on the market, 15 of them is 2100 economic capacity, 2625 with high prices. Every bit helps, right? Sell the interwar planes and the starting tanks as well who likes T-26s anyway lmao
@@boran2796 thank you for your comment and for the suggestions! They are all very good I believe!
Dude you are the FUCKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING GOAT OF ANY TUTORIAL SHIT IN THE EARTH.
@@nodignity1337 hahaha thanks!
Thanks for a great guide. You can also after the soviet war can formly Turan
Thank you! Yes, there is still a lot of potential for future expansion!
Can't wait to watch the guide with my coffee, thanks man! Also, it would be awesome if you could give us fascist Netherlands guide and show us how to deal with UK and USA without cheese strategies! My friend always complains he cannot deal with them without first day of the war abuse to get naval superiority, so he could use your help :D
You are welcome!
The Netherlands was not on my list yet, but there is always room for more ideas!
Thanks for the video, as a Turk i liked it a lot
You are welcome! I had no idea Turkey could become that powerful in hoi4!
literally just a better ottoman tree :') can i ask why you dont balkanise yugoslavia? great vid as usual
Hi and thank you!
What do you mean by balkanising Yugoslavia?
@@MachiavellianStrategist puppeting all of the smaller regional tags instead of yugoslavia itself. you never integrated them so more puppets would mean a higher factory count -- multiple industrial focus trees instead of one --
@@MacronsKitten oh I see what you mean!
I usually prefer to have fewer puppets when possible, as it makes it a bit easier to manage them.
For example, I call Yugoslavia to war, and I import several resources from them. Despite that, I can easily keep their autonomy at minimum by buildings factories and infrastructures in their provinces. It would be a bit more annoying to have to do it from multiple puppets.
It's really just a matter of preferences, what you suggested would probably grant slightly better yields at the cost of some extra micromanagement!
in some video descr you say you provide step-by-step spreadsheets for your country guides, as members-only content, but now I'm member and can't find any ref/link to it, in any members-only area, can you help with it? thanks!
Hi! First of all thank you for being a member of the channel, your support is vital for this project!
If you purchased the right membership (it is the tier 2 membership, called "colonel") you should be able to access a Google drive folder with all of my country guides. The link is in the description of your membership.
If you did everything correctly and you still cannot find the link, let me know and I will try to help!
@@MachiavellianStrategist thanks for the answer. I went for the Tier 1, but can consider upscaling, hopefully I need to pay only the difference? Let's see what youtube asks for it. What matters is that you put in the GDrive the spreadsheets, I mean something written like a step-by-step guide. that works a bit better for me, videos are great to see the action, but evil is in the details which usually can't go in a "consumable" video. Can you confirm is that kind of spreadsheet we are talking about? (I mean "written document", doesnt matter the format as long as they have something like "what" and "when" columns, and are detailed enough)
Hi there, sorry for the late reply! For some mysterious reason TH-cam had tagged your comment as "needing approval to be published", so I missed it.
Should you decide to upgrade, you will only have to pay for the difference! And you will immediately gain access to all spreadsheets (the link to my google drive folder appears in the instructions for your perks, mind that it changes periodically, so from time to time you will have to get the new one!).
I'll try to explain how the spreadsheets are designed the best I can:
They are made as checklists, in which you find a column with "actions" one with "researches" one with "focuses".
Researches and focuses are the same as in the description of the video, but they are better divided to chronologically match with each other.
The column for actions is the real exclusive for members, it is a list of everything I do in my guide, in chronological order.
For example, the first steps are the initial setup, so it might be something like:
- Build full infra + civs in ... ... ...
- Production to: Infantry equip 10, support equip 5, artillery 3
- Change occupation law to "local police force"
- Initial setup done
- Pick "Silent Workhorse" (150PP)
- Pick "War Economy" (127PP)
- Prepare armies to invade Greece (2 naval invasions, one in Athens area, one in Thessaloniki area)
- Puppet Greece, justify Yugoslavia
And so on.
When I test an older guide to see if it still works, I always only use my spreadsheets, so everything you really need is included.
I find them to be very convenient, but you might still have to integrate them with the video from time to time, to see how the divisions were deployed or used in detail.
Also, please consider that older guides still have a less organized system for these "notes". I am gradually updating all of them, but I haven't finished yet.
Please feel free to let me know if you have any further doubts or questions!@@ettoredemaio1830
thanks all clear now, I think I'll give it a try @@MachiavellianStrategist
exited for next countys ur top teir
Thank you!! More guides will be coming soon!
In my run through, during the peace conference after taking the UK down, GER fights my claim on Brabant to the point I have nothing left to get much of the UK/FRA navy. Is there anything to mitigate this or is it just RNG? It's amazing how much peace score you had left to take all the navies.
Hi!
I would say it is mostly RNG. Claiming it in the first turn of the peace conference is the only thing that really makes a difference, since it is much more expensive to take something already claimed than to fight for a contested claim.
That being said, neither Brabant nor the navies are really mandatory.
All Brabant does is making the war against Germany a little easier (although, the fact that they can somehow keep their military access to Vichy France makes the encirclements there less effective).
The additional navies are not even needed in the war against the Axis, they might be useful later in the game, should you decide to go after the USA.
But we already have a good navy, and we are going to take the German and Italian ones too.
@@MachiavellianStrategist Gotcha. I sort of figured that. There will be more run-throughs for me with Turkey, that's for sure. The variations are what make guides like yours really cool. In other words, you teach the overall strategy, but since every game with HOI4 is usually a bit different, you also talk about "what ifs" and core goals. For example, as you say is more common, I got Bulgaria, but not Hungary, who joined the Axis. In this run-through, I'm going for Hungary to kick off my Axis war and realizing whether or not I do that, Hungary is much more of a problem than BUL, because I'm basically short one army than you going after ITA. But that's the challenge for me, which makes this game and your strategies so much fun for me. I realize the Navy isn't too important, especially if you can get a few carriers (which I did), but really, the AI is so bad with their Navy that even death stacks still work, lol. After 20 years of developing this series, Paradox still hasn't figured out how to make the AI even marginally effective in managing/fighting its navy. Thanks man!
@@garyjohnson3252 thank you again for you comment! Feedback like yours is really important to me!
It is true that Hungary can be an issue, since it effectively extends the front you need to cover. You can build some extra forts to help with that, and I was actually overstacking divisions in there a little bit. With our puppets it should not be too much of an issue to cover the extra front! But let me know how it goes, I'm very curious!
I'm also curious as to when and why Hungary joined the Axis, did it happen after reloading the game?
As for the navy, yes the AI absolutely sucks at it, but so do I hahah
is it possible to follow the strategy while forming ottoman empire? haven't tried turkey yet and i am aiming to get the achievments
Unfortunately not, the Ottoman Empire does not allow such early expansion. Which makes it significantly worse than fascist Turkey.
When I made this guide I initially intended to go for the Ottoman Empire, but I then gave up and focused on the fascist path.
However, I definitely plan to make a guide for Ottoman Turkey too in future!
What is the optimal template for both iran and greece?
In this video you can find all of my templates: th-cam.com/video/txUsm8JUgFg/w-d-xo.html
Depending on the country and the economy you have available you can decide for one of them. That being said, if your economy is not good enough for, say, a 30w template, you can start with a smaller one and gradually add more battalions as your economy grows!
You are a monster bro !!
Thanks man! Hehe
@@MachiavellianStrategist the thing i dont understand is, how you can do all these things without tanks 😂 i would be happy if you can response .. regards
@@fbfb8556 a good infantry template, with enough air support, can easily push anything in single player! Air superiority gives some massive buffs, so I would say it is even more important than having armored templates!
Moreover, the superior firepower doctrines significantly buffs support and line artillery, bring the total soft attack of our offensive infantry divisions pretty close to the armored ones!
The main differences are speed (tanks are obviously faster) and casualties (you'll get more if you use infantry)!
You are so helpful. I will try all these things . But tbh after i watched im a bit demotivated . 😂 There are too many things and its really hell crazy.
Thank you one more time. From now on im going to watch your videos more .
Salute
@@fbfb8556 don't give up!! You are right, there is a lot of stuff in this game, but once you get the basics it becomes super fun! One step at a time!
I will try to make more guides for newer players too!
Cool Video, love the accent
Hehe thanks!
Tysm
You are welcome!
Are you Romanian?
Hi! No, I am Italian!
@@MachiavellianStrategist yes thats what i said, anyway when i use your strategy, Britain ALWAYS guarantees the state that im about to attack and its over for me. What do you suggest for this?
@@hakancentoglu7872 there is a specific focus that makes the UK guarantee you (it's in the focus list) with their guarantee the UK will never join a war against you, even if they guaranteed the country you are attacking!
@@MachiavellianStrategist ohh okay thanks for the help :)
@@hakancentoglu7872 no problem, let me know how it goes!
I don't get the option to take navy at the conference. Pls reply @MachiavellianStrategist
Hi! I believe that is a feature of the by blood alone dlc. I'd consider getting it because the plane designer and the extra peace conference options are a great addition to the game in my opinion.
Of course you can still follow the strategy even without it though!
@@MachiavellianStrategist Oh so like can I take out the uk without it?
@@gamerfromhansot2239 yes, but getting the naval superiority will be more difficult for sure. I did get the naval superiority with Brazil though, without taking additional navies. So it is definitely possible!
In that guide you can also see what type of ship I was building to get naval superiority and the strategy I used to take down the UK!
@@MachiavellianStrategist Ok thank you so much!.
@@gamerfromhansot2239 no problem!