Hello everyone,
Welcome to the story of the most broken and lazy thought achievement in the history of HOI4: We're Putting the Band Back Together. I'll leave some pictures to ilustrate.
At first look, seems like a non-issue, go the Ottoman route and just be in a faction with Germany and Hungary, right? WRONG! It has to be Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Ok then, no problem, you get a focus as Ottomans that rekindles imperial sentiment, so they will eventually form Austria-Hungary, right? WRONG!, by the time you get to that focus, even if you beeline it, Austria and the Czechs are gone, so only Hungary gets the national spirit, meaning they cannot reform AH even if they want to.
Well, if that is the case, maybe you have to go the hard route, defeat the entire Axis and the Allies (so they don't screw you with the absolutely not broken peace deal mechanic), puppet Germany, puppet Hungary, feed them the necessary territories and they will reform AH, right? WRONG! Since Hungary has capitulated they no longer get the national spirit, meaning they won't form AH.
Ok ok, how about this, instead of feeding Hungary the necessary territories, you puppet Austria, Hungary and the Czechs, and since you already took the focus to rekindle imperial sentiment, they will form it on their own, right? WRONG! They need to be fully independent to access the decision
Alright man, then instead of puppeting them, just liberate them with the required territories, boost non-aligned popularity with your spies in the free and democratic Czechs and the free and fascist Hungary, and they will do it then, right? WRONG! They don't have the national spirit, so they don't reform AH
Damn, you got me in a box here... wait a minute! Why don't you do something absolutely insane, the stuff of legends, and you capitulate the Axis and the Allies WITHOUT taking the rekindle imperial sentiment focus, that will lock you on the Ottoman Sultanate, not being able to access either the weekly manpower bonus nor the coring decisions, then you liberate all 3 and ONLY THEN you take the focus to rekindle imperial sentiment focus so they get it, while of course making sure Germany doesn't exist so they don't automatically annex Austria again, that will do the trick right??? WRONG AGAIN! Even if you meet all those requirements, and push their non-aligned support over 70%, they will do absolutely NOTHING.
Jeez man, it seems Paradox really made sure this time there's absolutely no way to get this achievement on historical, why don't you try it on non-historical? Of course! Who doesn't want to restart a game a million times until they hit that 0.13% of games where Germany opposes Hitler, and pray you got the one where they decide to revive the Kaiserreich instead of going democratic, and then also make sure the decide to Focus on the true enemy instead of expatriating the communist, also make sure that in the absolute madness of non-historical nothing stupid happens while you do that like, I don't know, the soviets rushing you. Why did I never think of that?
Something is definitely wrong when you accidentaly get Hardly Anything Sèvres while trying to get this.
If I could get a wish granted, it would be to see the guy who thought of this achievement and designed it obtaining it. I would pay good money for that.