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

First I wonder is China counted as minor?
I also wonder if this achievement can be cheated by sitting out of war in a losing faction. Axis to be best candidate since it has to fight a two front war, and all members have to be involved to be included in peace deal, unlike New Zealand etc, in Allies and Mongolia in Comintern.
So after peace deal, you are automatically leader of Axis because all other members are forced out.

And you can speed up Axis's demise by non-historical AI and rack up world tension to ensure a early war start
 
China is considered a major.

And no; it requires you to be in a faction with ENG, GER, or SOV and have assumed faction leadership.

You can be in Axis and refused to be call into war
The assume part is depend on how code is written. From the wording, it sound like,
All of following must be true: (may not be exact the keywords)
  1. Any nation has not major_nation flag
  2. In any factions of ['Allies', 'Axis', 'Comintern']
  3. Is faction leader
This doesn't need to kick out take over faction leader events. Like those "Win civil war as Republic Spanish",
you just need:
  1. Start Nation is SPA
  2. Current Party is communist
  3. win a war
 
You can be in Axis and refused to be call into war
The assume part is depend on how code is written. From the wording, it sound like,
All of following must be true: (may not be exact the keywords)
  1. Any nation has not major_nation flag
  2. In any factions of ['Allies', 'Axis', 'Comintern']
  3. Is faction leader
This doesn't need to kick out take over faction leader events. Like those "Win civil war as Republic Spanish",
you just need:
  1. Start Nation is SPA
  2. Current Party is communist
  3. win a war
To be able to take over leadership in the faction they are in, a country must:
  • Have more than twice the deployed manpower of the faction leader (subjects count, but at varying strength depending on autonomy)
  • Have more than 150% of the factories of the faction leader
  • Be in every war the faction leader is currently in
  • Not having capitulated already
 
Putting the Raid on the Medway to Shame

It Should be Putting the Raid on Pearl Harbor to Shame

Because the Japs Raided Pearl Harbor but Attacked Medway.


EDIT: I was wrong, I confused the battle of Midway with the raid on Medway so disregard everything i said above. Also i didn’t even know about the Raid on Medway.
 
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Putting the Raid on the Medway to Shame

It Should be Putting the Raid on Pearl Harbor to Shame

Because the Japs Raided Pearl Harbor but Attacked Medway.

I'm 99% sure that the Medway reference is to the Dutch attack on the English fleet at the Medway - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway

The Battle of Midway/Midway is spelled differently :).
 
I'm 99% sure that the Medway reference is to the Dutch attack on the English fleet at the Medway - see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway

The Battle of Midway/Midway is spelled differently :).
yes that picture is of the admiral Michael de Ruyter, who commanded the dutch fleet in that operation.
Some of my dutch friends are all giddy about that particular achievement
 
Thanks for letting me know!

No worries at all (and figured it was much more helpful than a random disagree), I wouldn't feel bad about not being up to speed with 17th century naval warfare when following a WW2 game :D*.

yes that picture is of the admiral Michael de Ruyter, who commanded the dutch fleet in that operation.
Some of my dutch friends are all giddy about that particular achievement

Hahaha, I'm sure they are - I wouldn't bet against it being one of the most sought-after achievements by Dutch players :D.

* But don't let me stop you - there's no such thing as a boring period in naval history :cool:. Noting I may be slightly biased :eek:.
 
China is considered a major.

And no; it requires you to be in a faction with ENG, GER, or SOV and have assumed faction leadership.
All the Chinas or just nationalist china?