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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!
 
The CSA is only a different tag when you go communist and fight against it.
When you go fascist you get a CSA cosmetic tag but your real tag does not change.
To Arms in Dixie requires you to start the civil war as the CSA.
There isn't much point to arguing about this anyway, we'll find out soon enough if you can do all of the achievements in one run.
 
To Arms in Dixie requires you to start the civil war as the CSA.
There isn't much point to arguing about this anyway, we'll find out soon enough if you can do all of the achievements in one run.
Yes let us see. I am as excited as a maid on her wedding night.
 
To Arms in Dixie requires you to start the civil war as the CSA.
It doesn't say you need to have the CSA tag though, it's probably just a check whether you got the "oh shit we have civil war nao" event while having the CSA cosmetic tag.

So far, PDX hasn't done anything with in-game tag-switching (which is a shame, since it'd allow for tricks like switching sides in a war, see my Michael's Coup mod), so I doubt they'll do it that way with the CSA.
 
You mean the one Twitch yesterday? I can’t find it on YouTube neither.......
Was just announced that there would be smth, but no time or place.
 
This is just a filler as in there us not much more to say. The testers are testing, the devs are squashing bugs and the product owner can't wait to make the announcement. Happy Days ahead!
 
Damn Dutch moved :p
A ship moved? Who would've guessed? :)
Is there somebody who can confirm it was an Irish behind the cannon? :p
 
First game will be as Trotsky in Mexico.
 
It's bad enough that you have Edward VIII deciding to assert himself and rule without Parliament, but his brother doing this is about as likely as Japan going communist. ;)

Well i'm thinking if Edward VIII is not so popular it may be possible for him to be assassinated, and the next in line is George VI. In real life i believe there was an attempt on his life, early into his reign.
 
Well i'm thinking if Edward VIII is not so popular it may be possible for him to be assassinated, and the next in line is George VI. In real life i believe there was an attempt on his life, early into his reign.
Oh I completely understand the 'Edward VIII is a Nazi' meme, and I get why he'd be an obvious choice as a fascist or non-aligned autocrat, but the same cannot be said for his brother. George VI only makes sense as a purely constitutional monarch (a national spirit in-game).