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HOI4 Dev Diary - Achievements

Hi everyone! Release of La Résistance is closing in and we are busy fixing, testing and polishing. Today its time to present all the new achievements we are adding, so that the achievement hunters among you can start planning :)

Without further ado, here is all 20 of them (I apologize in advance for all the young whippersnappers who wont get the movie and tv show references ;) ):

One King, Two Crowns
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As Bourbon Spain, hold all Spanish and French core states.

We will Rock you
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As Spain, own Gibraltar.

Well, I didn't vote for you
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Win the Spanish Civil War as the anarchists.

...our chief weapon is surprise

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As Spain, have at least 5 spies and stage 5 coups against other nations.

Die, Perfidious Albion!
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As Fascist France or Vichy France, occupy all of Great Britain.

Second Time’s the Charm
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As France, occupy Moscow while Napoleon VI is your country leader.

Tour de France
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ccupy all of mainland France while having at least 20 fully equipped Bicycle regiments.

Go ahead, Macau my day
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As Portugal, create a collaboration government in Macau and have it own all Chinese states.

BFFs
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As Portugal, join the same faction as Great Britain.

Warszawo, walcz!
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Stage the Warsaw uprising and succeed.

Play it, Sam
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Have a spy network of at least 50% strength in Casablanca.

Spies Trade
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As India, become the spymaster for the Allies.

You Will Never Kill Me Alive
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Have one of your spies take a Suicide Pill.

Why Die For Danzig
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As Germany, have France turn fascist while at war with Poland.

I SEE EVERYTHING
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Get over 90% intel in each category on a major without using code cracking

Shaken, not stirred
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Successfully stage a coup in any nation using a spy with the Seducer trait.

Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once
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Have a French and British spy work together on the same Operation

Man of a thousand faces, every one the same
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Have the same spies be captured twice (so needs to be successfully rescued)

Turing Complete

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Fully decrypt all nations in the axis

Don’t die for your country
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The challenge from PdxCon 2019 - As Germany in 1939, occupy all of Poland and France without taking more than 475 in casualties. No paradrops allowed!

See you all next week when we will be doing an AAR writeup of what its like playing as a spymaster of your faction. Also, don't miss out on our stream at 16:00CET today if you want to see LaR in action.
 
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Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once
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Have a French and British spy work together on the same Operation

"Hello Hello this is nighthawk"
Brilliant
 
I had wished the Perfidious Albion challenge could be done with Spain too:(
Shouldn't that really require you to own the (Spanish) Netherlands first (to invade from) and be called, maybe, "Second Time Armada-round"?
 
Does France still start with 3 research slots? Historically, they were at or near the forefront of military technology during the 1930s up to June 1940

One of the indications that France was near the forefront of military technology was the number of aircraft that French planes French aircraft manufacturers experimented with...many more than other nations.

French aviation factories built a variety of planes.

Perhaps the new (or future) focus tree will reflect France's experimentation with planes.
 
As Germany, have France turn fascist

How will Germany be able to do that?! I hope it's not another RNG-based achievement, these are not fun at all...
 
Unrelated: Will the Soviet AI be improved to iron out the most blatant mistakes it makes during buildup before the war?

Also, more related: The Dev Diaries are sometimes not (or only much later) presented on the forum main page. Could you check on that?
 
How will Germany be able to do that?! I hope it's not another RNG-based achievement, these are not fun at all...

Isn't there an option in Germany's diplomatic tab to influence France? This should result in a daily increase of fascism.

The endstate is that France turns fascist when there are > 50% fascists in France.

No random-number generators required, AFAIK.
 
How will Germany be able to do that?! I hope it's not another RNG-based achievement, these are not fun at all...
They probably want you to use the new espionage system to start a fascist coup in France as Germany, or something of that sort.
 
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As many above have said, nice Allo Allo references.
 
I have just created this forum account to say how thankful I am to the devs for including not one but two great "Allo, Allo" achievements. This is all I have hoped for with this DLC, now I can say that I don't regret preordering it.
 
Don’t die for your country
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The challenge from PdxCon 2019 - As Germany in 1939, occupy all of Poland and France without taking more than 475 in casualties. No paradrops allowed!
Seriously? 475 casualties? Don't you think thats a bit extreme? This is just an achievent that requires 0% skill and 100% cheese.
Not exactly "fun" in my books at least....
 
Cheers for the DD Podcat and the extra in fo Da9l :D. Some interesting-looking achievements there, nice work on the selection (a good mix of hard and easy as well).

...our chief weapon is surprise

My favourite :cool:

Go ahead, Macau my day

But only just :)

Play it, Sam

Even you're a bit young for this one (unless you're extremely well-preserved!), very classy :D.

Seriously? 475 casualties? Don't you think thats a bit extreme? This is just an achievent that requires 0% skill and 100% cheese.
Not exactly "fun" in my books at least....

If I recall correctly, this is a 'thing' that Paradox do with their acheivements - they have a challenge at PDXCon, and then make it an in-game achievement - so the 475 isn't an arbitrary number, but rather the number with which the PDXCon challenge was won with. It's a nice way of linking in the event with the game, and it's just an achievement so it doesn't have any in-game impact.

Edit: And a DD-related naval-themed pic! Here's a pic of Gibraltar, with some British ships in front of it - that's who Spain'll have to knock over to get the achievement with the best musical reference :)

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If I recall correctly, this is a 'thing' that Paradox do with their acheivements - they have a challenge at PDXCon, and then make it an in-game achievement - so the 475 isn't an arbitrary number, but rather the number with which the PDXCon challenge was won with. It's a nice way of linking in the event with the game, and it's just an achievement so it doesn't have any in-game impact.
I know, they did the same with the 30 minuts of hell acheivement. But at least in 30 minuts of hell if you fail to hold the line against the germans, you at least can use governemnt in exile troops to further your goal. But with this? one wrong attack, or even a bad roll, will squash your acheivemnt. Its pure cheese that will pritty much have one "correct" way to do it and i don't like that.
 
Loved the Allo' Allo' references. Also the Sabaton one.
 
@krios41 My thread with guidelines how I did it on PDXcon was already linked here by someone else. You can do it either with cheese (Naval Invasions of UK an France) or with lots of patience and skill (especially without the 30min timelimit). In both cases the fighting force is the same either way: Lots of Light Tanks. As long as your Infantry never fights and only your tank divisions you have extremly low casualties numbers, especially if you can destroy/discrupt all enemy CAS, which is easily done with your starting airforce as Germany in 1939.

So either push trough against Poland and France (maybe using Benelux) and deafeat them manually, or cheese it with Naval Invasions of France, driving to Paris and capitulating them and then using the equiptment for either Poland, or directly do another naval invasion on UK instead to just capitulate the Allies, which is quite cheesy, but not how I did it live on PDXcon.