Hearts of Iron IV

A lot has happened! I successfully pushed through China and capitulated both the Ethiopians and Japanese! I also dealt with Venezuela joining the African Union, which was surprisingly easy. The final peace deal is...not great. China is split into a bunch of pieces again, with my own puppet (in two pieces) mostly in the coast line, and Communist China (in two pieces) was resurrected by the Soviets, and a lot of Central and Western China is just Soviet territory now. Xibei San Ma (in two pieces) still exists. I have puppeted the parts of Ethiopia but not all of Ethiopia. I puppeted South Korea as Stalin insisted on annexing the north.

The Soviets really liked annexing everything this game, with much of Western Europe, the Raj, parts of China, and even bits of Yemen for some reason were all annexed. There is a teeny tiny "Soviet Raj" puppet as well in one very small state, but the rest was just annexed. Indochina was also given to my American France puppet, which only held parts of northern Algeria.

The Comintern pretty much dominates the whole world now aside from Brazil and a few other places. I could go to war with the Soviets, but with they have a bajillion puppets and huge amounts of territory. no thanks. Playing until 1956 really made the game chug, my poor single fan laptop got really hot and it was LOUD. I'm going to stop playing HOI4 for a bit now, I'm tired and need to go study.

p.s. I turned to Comintern into NATO...

Quite a bit has happened! I am defending the coastlines of the Americas and Western Europe to prevent any annoying naval invasions. I have also successfully pushed through the kingdom of Siam, capitulating them, and am currently pushing through China (which became a Japanese puppet) and Japan.

I have also capitulated the Allies by successfully naval invading Britain (and also nuking London...), and I have puppeted most of Latin America, the U.K., and the majority of Africa. I have also taken Canada, Mexico, Iceland, and the Carribean. Peru is still occupied as it joined Japan's faction...

Ignore that there are two portugals (one soviet one american that has been left in a part of angola) and american france . Also, the Soviets interestingly didn't puppet France, Spain, and Italy. Even the Raj stayed part of the Soviet Union, except for a tiny bit that the Soviets allowed to become independent. The Soviets puppeted a few others parts of the world, like Australia and New Zealand, much of the balkans, and weirdly one state of Colombia.

Currently, all I need to do is push the Japanese out of China and SEA, defeat Ethiopia, and naval invade Japan. Nearly there! (and now that it's 1955, the game is really chugging...)

This was my very first playthrough where I was "winning"! (excl. games where I played with commands)

After winning the civil war and switching to communism, I invaded Canada relatively quickly, with the british only holding out on an island (think it's called Newfoundland but I might be wrong). I joined the Comintern and helped the Soviets push the Germans out. Casualties were not great for me and especially not for the Soviets, but we managed to capitulate them and the Italians, and the Soviets puppeted and took over much of Eastern Europe and the entirety of Germany. Strangely, the Brits fought to make two states of Germany independent, not sure why.

I was still at war with the Allies since I invaded Canada, so after the Axis capitulated, I helped take out British Italy and France. I had to fight the Spanish as well since they joined the east asian co-prosperity sphere for whatever reason. Also, did I mention I was at war with Japan? I don't even know how that happened, but here I am. I also tried naval invading Greenland, but that failed.

So what now? Well, I needed to capitulate the Allies. France is dead so that means I only need to take London, right? Nope, Turkey and Chile are majors this late in the game, so I had to help the Soviets cross the Bosphorus and capitulate the Turks. Unfortunately, the Soviets lost Turkey (but still hold onto Istanbul, meaning they're still "capitulated") so I'll have to intervene. The Soviets were constantly naval invaded in France, Italy, and Iberia, so I had to help them out a bunch. Very annoying. Interestingly, at some point the Soviets were able to capitulate the British Raj with Iran.

Then I had to capitulate Chile. I did my focus to enforce the Monroe Doctrine to get a bunch of war goals on Latin America and pushed downwards. A lot of them joined the Allies so they didn't become puppets. Interestingly, after I took Mexico, Japan invaded the Yucatan so I had to deal with that (El Salvador joined the co-prosperity sphere I think). The only countries that did not join the Allies and became puppets were Guatemala (and they also expanded into Honduras and El Salvador) and Nicaragua (which expanded up to Panama). I crossed Panama and continued pushing through Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and then I got to Chile and Argentina.

I used pretty much my entire army (that wasn't in Europe saving Stalin) to push so it was pretty easy. I quickly capitulated the Chileans and the Argentinians put up more of a fight but I was able to brute-force towards Buenos Aires. Meanwhile, a part of my army had to go deal with a british invasion (liberation really) of Canada. After that was dealt with, I quickly took out Bolivia and Uruguay because I happened to have the war goals. I didn't have enough war score to puppet all of Bolivia so now there is two. I am in the midst of invading Paraguay, but they are putting up a really good fight. Maybe my army is tired after conquering half of south america. I had to give Alaska to the Soviets as I really didn't want them to get a war goal on me (Europe is under Soviet control)

By this point, the Soviets have had many incursions into Iberia, Italy, and France that I had to go deal with. Most of that is sorted now. Turkey will be a pain to invade again. But the only major left is the British, so I need to work on gaining naval supremacy and doing that. Then I'll FINALLY be done with the war against the allies...but I also need to go take out both Japan and China (I'm at war with both of them for some reason...not sure why)

I called in the Soviets, but then Germany did Barbarossa and China annexed Siberia! I'm surrounded!

uh oh

uh oh, I got encircled and lost loads of division. Peru and now even Boliviahave pushed me back. What do I do???

After I deleted some of my divisions and changed back to the default infantry divisions without artillery, I was able to break through to assist Peru in the north and am very close to its capital. I've gained significant territory, and the only bag thing that heppened is bolivia getting longer for some reason, but I'm very close to pushing them back.

Next steps: probably taking back the air bases to gain air superiority + taking Lima

Playing as brazil, I have declared war on venezuela and peru. Venezuela isn't doing much, I've taken one tile but nothing is really happening there. Peru was difficult, I had some initial success pushing in, making Peru very skinny. However, Peru managed to take to push to become HUGE. I then declared war in Bolivia and quickly took most of its territory, but Peru pushed me out. Even with ~100 divisions working together, I can't seem to defeat any of Peru's divisions.