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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!
 
If we had done things for Italy you'd have heard about it months ago. No matter which countries we selected to re-work for MtG there'd be people dissatisfied with the choices. Italy was not included because it wasn't a democracy. You can't have it all - the only way we'd have been able to do Italy as well is by delaying MtG's release for another 2-3 months. I dare say nobody wants that.

It just felt like a natural choice because of the naval focus as well as the whole oil strategy...But now that you put it this way, it makes total sense - of course nobody would want to wait that long for it! Thank you for explaining this!

Nevertheless, I bet a lot of people would appreciate if it was given somewhat of a higher priority in the next expansion, as it is clearly lagging behind all the other majors in terms of how fleshed out it is.
 
"Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway

Treading the Narrow Path is no reference to anything, other than an indication of how risky this strategy is, and how remote your chances of survival while attempting it are.

Ahhh. Good to know. Thank you @Bratyn :)

Did not know that the Dutch defeated England in a naval war before, though. :O
 
"It now will no longer be necessary to reclaim Guangzhouwan, Macau, and Hong Kong to get them :)"
Finally! To bad I already cheesed these ones, but a welcome change nonetheless.

And on "Georgia On My Mind" besides the US state and the modern day country which other Georgia are we talking about?

South Georgia, southern Atlantic.
 
It's not Kaiserreich, it's Mass Effect 2.
The glowing eyes represent Harbinger who could basically mind control and buff your enemies.

Why can't it be both?

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Twice, even! The Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars! Only times the Royal Navy was defeated this extensively in its home waters, AFAIK (though correct me if I'm wrong, anyone).
This is correct, The Raid on Medway is ranked on par with the Battle of Majuba Hill and Fall of Singapore as one of the most humiliating defeats the British ever suffered.
 
This is correct, The Raid on Medway is ranked on par with the Battle of Majuba Hill and Fall of Singapore as one of the most humiliating defeats the British ever suffered.

The problem is the English were pretty good at rebuilding their ships.

Incidentally, if you visit the city of Bergen in Norway you can still see a cannonball lodged in the side of the church there, which was fired by an English warship at the Dutch merchant navy that was sheltering in port there, during one of these wars.

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The English lost that fight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vågen
 
Twice, even! The Second and Third Anglo-Dutch wars! Only times the Royal Navy was defeated this extensively in its home waters, AFAIK (though correct me if I'm wrong, anyone).
this sentence is filled with dutch pride just as comment sections are filed with questions about the release date

on a serious note, nice to see de ruyter! now if only a certain yi would find it s way into the game...
 
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).
I have a question about that one.

Assuming I play Netherlands and for some reason the Kriegsmarine and Regia Marina with help of the IJN accidently manage to send all those British vessels to the bottom.
Do I get the achievement? Or how will it work?
 
this sentence is filled with dutch pride just as comment sections are filed with questions about the release date

Now, now, no need to downplay the Dutch pride... :D

I have a question about that one.

Assuming I play Netherlands and for some reason the Kriegsmarine and Regia Marina with help of the IJN accidently manage to send all those British vessels to the bottom.
Do I get the achievement? Or how will it work?

The Dutch were nothing if not adept at taking advantage of opportunities that presented themselves as a result of the efforts of others. :rolleyes:
 
Cool stuff. :)

By the way, could someone enlighten me on (possibly Internet-related or cultural) references to "Nothing Wrong with our Bloody Ships", "Putting the Raid on the Medway to Shame", and "Treading the Narrow Path"? Thank you.

PS: I like the "Vive la Jeune Ecole" icon and reference.

The raid on medway was a raid during second dutch anglo war. During this raid the dutch navy sailed up the thames estuary and destroyed a lot of British ships. After the raid they captured the flagship of the royal navy: the hms royal charles and took it back to the Netherlands as war booty. The sturn piece still exicst today in the rijks museum

Edit: here is a link if your interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_on_the_Medway
 
The Dutch were nothing if not adept at taking advantage of opportunities that presented themselves as a result of the efforts of others. :rolleyes:

You should've added an achievement for the Dutch to reclaim "New Amsterdam" and to "liberate" province 9758 (Delaware south of Philly) to Sweden.