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HoI4 Dev Diary - Achievements

Hello, and welcome back to another Dev Diary from the snow-stricken city of Stockholm. Today we will be talking about that quintessential feature completionists like myself simply crave whenever a new DLC is released: achievements. :D

This batch consists of 21 new achievements, most of which relate to the new countries and mechanics, though one is dedicated to the 2018 PDXCon HoI4 Challenge (30 Minutes of Hel), and another was a brilliant suggestion by a viewer of Daniel and myself's playthrough of the new British focus tree (Britzkrieg).

In addition to adding these new ones, I've made some adjustments to the more 'grindy' achievements that were added to Waking the Tiger. Having myself completed every single achievement in the game, none annoyed me even nearly as much as Battlecry and Awake and Angry. To make these less of a 'conquer the whole world three times over' pain to get, I've added exclusions for the European enclaves to the requirements of these achievements. It now will no longer be necessary to reclaim Guangzhouwan, Macau, and Hong Kong to get them :)

Now, on to the new achievements:

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Team America
As the U.S.A., drop a nuclear bomb on Paris.

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History Repeated Itself
As the U.S.A., win against the Confederate States. Again.

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Georgia On My Mind
As the U.S.A., own and fully control all three Georgias.

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To Arms in Dixie!
As the U.S.A., start a new civil war as the South.

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Arsenal of Democracy
As the U.S.A., have more than 300 military factories.

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Underpaid, Undersexed, and Under Eisenhower
As the U.S.A., assume faction leadership of the Allies, and have over 50 expeditionary divisions from the United Kingdom.

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Last for a Thousand Years
As the United Kingdom, accomplish the federation of the entire British Empire.

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Britzkrieg
As the United Kingdom, put Edward VIII in power, ally Germany, and fully control Paris.

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Nothing Wrong with our Bloody Ships
As the United Kingdom, have at least 9 battlecruisers.

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William Wallis
As the United Kingdom, put Edward VIII in power, enforce an American monarchy, and have both it and Scotland as subjects.

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Crush the Dream
As a Communist United Kingdom, crush the American Dream by puppeting the U.S.A.

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Treading the Narrow Path
As the Netherlands, do not cave to the Germans, continue the Zuiderzee works, and do not lose control of any of your continental European states until 1945.

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Putting the Raid on the Medway to Shame
As the Netherlands, ensure the United Kingdom has no capital ships (carriers, battleships, battlecruisers, or heavy cruisers).

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Bevrijding
As the Netherlands, liberate the continental Netherlands after relocating the government to the East Indies.

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Mi Casa es tu Casa
As Mexico, host a government-in-exile.

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The New Home of the Revolution
As Mexico, put Trotsky in power and puppet the Soviet Union.

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Assuming Direct Control
Starting as a minor power, assume faction leadership of the Allies, the Axis, or the Comintern.

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Vive la Jeune Ecole
As France, have at least 150 Destroyers and research the maximum torpedo launcher technology, before 1945.

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30 Minutes of Hel
Try to beat the record set at the 2018 PDXCON HOI4 challenge by inflicting over 1,800,000 casualties to Germany in the 1939 “Blitzkrieg” scenario start, as Poland. Extra bragging rights if you do it in 30 minutes or less!

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Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Sink the British Pride of the Fleet.

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Do You Mined?
Lay at least 1,000 mines on the coastline of an enemy nation.


That was it for today (though not for this week ;) )! We hope you'll be enjoying hunting for them. Let us know which you're most excited about, and don't forget to watch Daniel leak more stuff in today's stream at 4PM CET!
 
You can become the CSA as fascist USA or you have to fight the CSA as Socialist USA.
The fascist USA will probably NOT be the CSA, especially considering that CSA will now be its own tag. I hope that they will at least have some custom decisions (there were 3 shown in the American DD but that's not nearly enough imho) and events, to make gameplay for them somewhat more redeeming and interesting.
 
I'm really sorry, but most of the achievements are either jokes or bullshit.
In most cases achieving the current Achievements the game will destroy any effort through Bugs. I bet this won't Change with the new Achievements, because they are way more complicated for game flow. I'm Talking About surrendering Bugs (mandchuria has many of them) and crashes.
I'm quite annoyed, hence I surely will try to get them.

But still I'm waiting for more National Tasks for finland, spain, argentinia etc. and EVENT TREES for this nations!
 
The fascist USA will probably NOT be the CSA, especially considering that CSA will now be its own tag. I hope that they will at least have some custom decisions (there were 3 shown in the American DD but that's not nearly enough imho) and events, to make gameplay for them somewhat more redeeming and interesting.
I think they talked how through the honor the confederacy you can become more and more CSA if you want to. Well we will find out soon...

To quote Disco Stu "The South shall boogey again"
 
The fascist USA will probably NOT be the CSA, especially considering that CSA will now be its own tag. I hope that they will at least have some custom decisions (there were 3 shown in the American DD but that's not nearly enough imho) and events, to make gameplay for them somewhat more redeeming and interesting.

Wrong.

The CSA is only its own tag if the US chooses the communist path, so it's intended as non-playable and has the generic tree unless they changed that.

If you choose to go fascist as the US, then there's no tag change and you keep the focus tree. The Democratic revolter is the new tag, not the player. This was already shown in a stream.
 
The Confederate States of America could in fact rise again because the Confederates were not fighting for slavery but for more state's rights so the idea of the CSA rising again is far from a fairy tale and here is proof that the CSA was indeed NOT fighting for slavery: here. Most of the South just tolerated slavery, only around 4% of the Southern population owned slaves and the start of the civil war was due to the fact that the south thought that Abraham Lincoln's election was a declaration of war on them and their state's rights while in reality the North would've preferred that the South stayed in the Union over abolishing slavery and just keep slavery contained in the South.
I never mentioned slavery.
 
I never mentioned slavery.
Sorry I was just stating the real reasoning for the US Civil War and got a little carried away (I am a history buff).
 
The Confederate States of America could in fact rise again because the Confederates were not fighting for slavery but for more state's rights so the idea of the CSA rising again is far from a fairy tale and here is proof that the CSA was indeed NOT fighting for slavery: here. Most of the South just tolerated slavery, only around 4% of the Southern population owned slaves and the start of the civil war was due to the fact that the south thought that Abraham Lincoln's election was a declaration of war on them and their state's rights while in reality the North would've preferred that the South stayed in the Union over abolishing slavery and just keep slavery contained in the South.


Edit: I am just stating the facts versus the false truth that has been put into American education for a long time like the fact that they teach you that the Democratic Party was the Northern Party during the Civil war now even though the Democrats were the Party of the South during the US Civil War.
The only "state's right" the rebels were fighting for was slavery. The rebel leaders themselves explicitly stated this, repeatedly.

The only significant difference between the rebel constitution and the US constitution was that it forbade states from outlawing slavery. So strictly speaking, the rebels wanted fewer state's rights.
 
The Confederate States of America could in fact rise again because the Confederates were not fighting for slavery but for more state's rights so the idea of the CSA rising again is far from a fairy tale and here is proof that the CSA was indeed NOT fighting for slavery: here. Most of the South just tolerated slavery, only around 4% of the Southern population owned slaves and the start of the civil war was due to the fact that the south thought that Abraham Lincoln's election was a declaration of war on them and their state's rights while in reality the North would've preferred that the South stayed in the Union over abolishing slavery and just keep slavery contained in the South.


Edit: I am just stating the facts versus the false truth that has been put into American education for a long time like the fact that they teach you that the Democratic Party was the Northern Party during the Civil war now even though the Democrats were the Party of the South during the US Civil War.
tHE ciViL wAr wUz aBoUt sTaTeS rIgHtS

So winning a free and fair election is a declaration of war and a violation of states rights?
 
I never mentioned slavery.

But the Confederate constitution did. In fact, one of its six articles is dedicated almost exclusively to enshrining slavery as a supreme law.

This mythology that it was a myth that the Civil War was about slavery is very irritating just because of how counter-factual it is and how thoroughly debunked the claim has been for many decades now. It's true that the Civil War dramatically changed the scope of federal power, but it's rather strange that if the war was truly about "states rights" that the Confederacy itself became a mirror image of the North in this regard.

Sorry for quoting you specifically James because I doubt you really had anything to do with any of this, but it was a useful sentence to begin from.

Anyhow lets not let this thread get derailed by a debate about the Confederacy, there could be another thread on that.. a dev diary isn't the best place for it.
 
The only "state's right" the rebels were fighting for was slavery. The rebel leaders themselves explicitly stated this, repeatedly.

The only significant difference between the rebel constitution and the US constitution was that it forbade states from outlawing slavery. So strictly speaking, the rebels wanted fewer state's rights.
Actually President Lincoln and Congress were working on passing a bill to make it illegal to abolish slavery so that the South could keep slavery but it would not spread to any other states and this was just before the Civil War but it was still being considered so that the South wouldn't resent the North.