Hearts of Iron IV has 112 different achievements, all using the Steam achievements mechanics. Achievements have no in-game effects; the achievement just pops up in-game, and is then added to the player's Steam profile. It is possible to see the achievements sorted by the percentage of users that managed to complete each achievement by going to the game's global achievements at Steam.
The difficulty of each achievement varies; some achievements are very easy (e.g. joining a faction), while some are more difficult (e.g. conquering 
澳大利亚 as 
捷克斯洛伐克 or reaching 1948 as 
法国 without ever surrendering). The below list groups the various achievements by a difficulty level as assessed by the wiki editors (uncategorized - UC - achievements haven't been assessed yet).
Achievements can only be gained in single-player Ironman games, with the 1936 start, on regular, veteran or elite difficulty. (30 Minutes of Hel and Don’t Die for Your Country can only be completed in the 1939 start date.) They can be earned while playing older versions of the game as long as said achievements were present in that version. They can also be earned with Historical AI Focuses set to off. They are also still available in games that run past the end game screen in 1948 or later.
It is not possible to gain achievements if the checksum has been changed - either by tampering with game files, or by running the game using mods that affect gameplay mechanics (graphical mods do not affect checksum), or a corrupted installation.
List of achievements
The "Notes" column lists helpful short tips/strategies.
The 
column denotes achievements which can't be completed without the use of DLC mechanics (currently 45 out of 112). Multiple expansion icons mean either can be used.
The "Ver" column indicates in which version a certain achievement was added. Achievements cannot be earned prior to the version they were added in.
The "DI" column is for difficulty as assessed by wiki editors. VE = Very Easy, E = Easy, M = Medium, H = Hard, VH = Very Hard, I = Insane, UC = Uncategorized.
| Achievement | Starting conditions | Requirements | Notes |
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BFFs As Portugal, join the same faction as Great Britain. |
 Playing as  葡萄牙
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In a faction with  联合王国
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You don't need DLC for this. Just go democratic and wait for world tension to rise. Recommend speed 5, you don't need technologies or focuses. You don't need to rush democracy because world tension will be under 80% for a long time. | 1.9 | 极易 | ||
Braaaaains! As Canada, complete the Send in the Zombies focus. |
Playing as  加拿大
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Focus  "Send in the Zombies" is completed
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Play Canada as normal but always rush down economic focuses. If world tension rises take the defensive focuses until Germany declares war on Poland, join the war and rush down the war focuses. Just be aware that you cannot unlock this achievement if you do the "National Steel Car." | 
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1.3 | 极易 | |
Canada First Join Axis as Canada. |
Playing as 加拿大
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The faction does not need be the Axis, but it must be led by Germany. Although Together for Victory is not required; the achievement is much easier with it due to the DLC granting National Focuses specifically geared for this. | 1.0 | 极易 | |||
District 9 As South Africa, have 9 civilian factories in Transvaal. |
Playing as  南非
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 Has civilian factories >8 in the state Transvaal (275)
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Convert military factories into civilian factories in Transvaal. Follow the Focus tree for free civilian factories. They can randomly give Transvaal the required Factories. If Transvaal runs out of building slots, follow the Dispersed/Concentrated Industry tech tree to get more building slots. | 1.3 | 极易 | ||
Do You Mined? Lay at least 1,000 mines on the coastline of an enemy nation. |
Any country is at war with player: has more than 999 mines on their coastline.
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Can be done immediately at the start of the game as Italy. Remove your divisions from one or both of Ethiopia's shores, and lay mines with your starting navy until you reach 1000 mines. |
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1.6 | 极易 | ||
Friend in Need Join a faction. |
Country flag achievement_has_joined_faction is set
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Choose  新疆 click on the  苏维埃联盟, click Join Faction, and click yes on the pop-up. It's that simple.
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1.0 | 极易 | |||
I SEE EVERYTHING Get over 90% intel in each category on a major without using code cracking. |
Achieve 90% intel on all categories on any major nation without activating decryption on them:
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In order for the achievement to fire, the decryption must not be complete or cracked, but if the player selects it and waits the 30 days, the achievement will fire. | 
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1.9 | 极易 | ||
Lethal Straight Have a production license from at least 5 of the 7 major powers. |
Is licensing from 5 of the below:
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As any country, preferably recommended to select neutral nations ( ), as to avoid the “Strategic reasons” diplomatic penalty (–100 value), that may block the “Request License Production” option, improve relations with five of the seven major powers then license the basic infantry weapons. (Researching the next level of infantry equipment also works, as even major nations have few problems with licensing outdated equipment.)
Yugoslavia can pick the focuses "Reinforce Old Alliances" and "Ban Slovene Nationalist Parties" to improve relations with three of the five countries. Alternatively you can also play a longer and larger game and just simply either ally or puppet all of the major nations and then get licenses from them. |
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1.4 | 极易 | ||
Listen Very Carefully, I Shall Say This... Have a French and British spy work together on the same Operation. |
Have a British and French Operative complete an Operation together.
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Check happens upon operation completion. At least 1 participating operative requires French, and at least 1 participating operative requires British nationality. As of 1.9.0, there's no check that the French and British operatives are not the same person. |
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1.9 | 极易 | ||
Man of a Thousand Faces, Every One the Same Have the same spy get captured twice. |
Have any operative get captured twice.
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The trigger flag is le_clerc2. On first capture, the operative gains le_clerc1. On second capture, the operative gains le_clerc2. |
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1.9 | 极易 | ||
Mine is bigger than yours Lead a faction with at least 20 members. |
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This suggestion requires DLC.
As This suggestion requires |
1.0 | 极易 | |||
No country for old men Reach 0 manpower with Scraping the Barrel as Conscription Law. |
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Can be accomplished by having the law after capitulating and controlling no territory (e.g. do nothing as Luxembourg). You can also spam recruitment of divisions until you've used up all your manpower, wait a few ticks for the achievement to trigger, and then cancel them all again (if you want to continue your game). You can start training a ton of 1-battalion divisions and boost the template later.
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1.0 | 极易 | |||
Nothing Wrong with our Bloody Ships As the United Kingdom, have at least 9 battlecruisers. |
Playing as 联合王国
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At least 9 Battlecruisers
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Battlecruisers are built with Heavy Ship Hulls and Battlecruiser armor. The United Kingdom starts with both. | 1.6 | 极易 | ||
Play It, Sam Have a spy network of at least 50% strength in Casablanca. |
Network Strength in Casablanca (461) more than 50%
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Establishing a spy network is avaliable even in peacetime so the achievement is fairly simple. Set your operatives on "Establish Spy Network" mission in Casablanca and the achievement will trigger once the network strength is over 50%. You can do this as soon as you have recruited your first operative but the more operatives you assign to establish a network in the same region, the faster the network will be at full strength. |
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1.9 | 极易 | ||
Romance of the Three Kingdoms As China, puppet and then annex Yunnan and Guangxi Clique. |
Playing as  中华民国
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Integrated the  桂系 and  滇系 through making them a puppet.
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Pick the "Subjugate the Warlords" focus from "Three Principles of the People" branch. Yunnan and Guangxi will either subjugate (and will become your puppet) or will refuse - then you will get a wargoal against them. You may annex the majority of their states, however, it is important to puppet them. After subjugating warlords, a series of "Integrates the Warlords" decisions will be opened; just make decisions for Yunnan and Guangxi. |
1.5 | 极易 | ||
Shaken, Not Stirred Successfully stage a coup in any nation using a spy with the Seducer trait. |
Start a coup in any nation using an Operative with the seducer trait.
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At least 1 operative participating in the Coup Government operation requires the seducer trait. This will trigger the achievement_seducer_spy flag. |
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1.9 | 极易 | ||
Spies Trade As India, become the spymaster for the Allies. |
Playing as  英属印度
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Is spymaster
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Make sure you have 5 free Civilian factories, and immediately use them to Form Agency on the top of the Intelligence Agency menu. Then, upgrade the Agency three times with anything you like, and after that the option to Become Spymaster (for the Allies) will be available next to the name and icon of your agency at the top of the window. Invest 50 PP, and the achievement should trigger. The AI will always accept, as there is a whopping +1000 positive modifier for the AI to accept a request to become Spymaster if the asking country is controlled by a player. India needs to be at least a dominion to become spymaster. |
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1.9 | 极易 | |
The Balkan Powder Keg As Yugoslavia, start the Second World War (i.e. be part of either the Axis or the Allies and at war with the other faction in a war you started). |
Playing as  南斯拉夫
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 Declared war on Axis/Allies while part of Allies/Axis (respectively)
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1.4 | 极易 | ||
Time is on our side Reach 1948. |
 Date is > 1947.12.31
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Play as any South American nation if you want to AFK. If you manage to pull this off as 法国, without ever surrendering or capitulating once, you will also unlock the Vive la France achievement.
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1.0 | 极易 | |||
To Arms in Dixie! As the U.S.A., start a new civil war as the South. |
Playing as  美利坚合众国
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The Boston Rebellion has begun.
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Abstain from Continue the New Deal until the 1936 election, choose Republicans, and Reestablish the Gold Standard. Go down the America First path and complete the "Ally with the Silver Shirts" National Focus to trigger the event chain leading to the civil war. For best results, complete the "Work with the bund" and "Recruit the Free Corps" national focuses. To actually form the Confederacy, complete the national focus "Honor the Confederacy" and all of its constituent decisions before the civil war ends. |
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1.6 | 极易 | |
Transport Tycoon Have at least 1000 convoys. |
 Has convoys > 999
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Just set all of your dockyards as the 美利坚合众国 to Convoy production and stay out of any wars.
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1.0 | 极易 | |||
Turing Complete! Fully decrypt all nations in the Axis. |
Playing as 联合王国
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As Great Britain, fully decrypt every Major nation in a faction with Germany
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As of 1.9.0, UK only needs to fully decrypt the Axis majors. Easy by rushing Encryption Updates from the beginning. |
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1.9 | 极易 | |
United Netherlands Conquer Belgium and Luxembourg as Netherlands. |
Playing as  荷兰
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Own and control the states:
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This becomes much easier with the Man The Guns DLC as it grants the Netherlands a National Focus tree containing focuses specifically geared towards this achievement. Cave to the British, then rush immediately to "Lead the Minor Democracies" branch. A focus is called "Form the Benelux" under it, and completing the focus will activate a decision "Propose Benelux Unification" for the player to take, which costs 300 political power. Taking the decision will fire an event for Belgium and Luxembourg to decide whether they should join the Netherlands. The event gives Belgium and Luxembourg a chance to avoid annexation. However, the AI will always choose to be annexed. Once Belgium and Luxembourg agrees, you will annex them both and you have successfully achieved this without a single bloodshed.
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1.0 | 极易 | ||
We'll Build it in a Day Research Construction V. |
 Has researched  Construction V
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Stack up as many bonuses to research speed (especially industrial research speed) and work your way down the industrial branch. Eventually, you should reach Construction V.  巴西 is a good candidate, being a very large minor nation that isn't likely to get involved in any wars.
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1.0 | 极易 | |||
You Will Never Kill Me Alive Have one of your spies take a Suicide Pill. |
Have an operative die with the Suicide Pills agency upgrade active.
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The required global flag: kill_me_alive_flag is set when a player's operative dies if the player has completed the Suicide Pills agency upgrade. If you keep sending your operatives on missions, or indeed just have them perform various activities like Build Intel Network in other countries, eventually one of them will die and the achievement will trigger. |
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1.9 | 极易 | ||
Arsenal of Democracy As the U.S.A., have more than 300 military factories. |
Playing as 美利坚合众国
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Current ruling party is  Democratic
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To get extra building slots, the War Powers sub-branch gives war goals even as a democracy. Save up Political Power. Do not do the building quests while Roosevelt is in power because when you make Alf Landon president, The Congress Support will be high. Take all statehood-granting decisions when Political Power reaches 100. When Landon becomes President, go straight to America First. Once complete, take the new advisor. Then go to American Institute of Sciences. When Fascist support gets to 30.10%, it will be possible to take War Powers Act. Change the Advisor to Democratic as soon as that focus is taken. Take Anti-Fascist Raids decision whenever available to reduce Fascist support. When War Support reaches 35%, take Seize Cuba and Eliminate the Southern Threat for Cuba and Mexico. When Fascism reaches below 20%, take Ban Fascism to be able to take the Neutrality Act for factories.
For more experienced players, the Panay incident random event (which fires when |
1.6 | 简单 | ||
As Australia, own all core territory of Hungary. |
Playing as 澳大利亚
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Conquered all  匈牙利王国 core territory
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Get Fascist, justify on Hungary, leave Allies/join Axis, wait for Anschluss, paradrop from German Austria to the three Hungarian cities. Don't ask for help in the war. If you do it early enough, it should be a quick conflict. Focus tree: Never Another Gallipoli down to Our Own Empire. To prevent delays, read ahead down the tree, e.g., have enough infantry equipment stored for Supply Indonesian Nationalists. |
1.5 | 简单 | ||
Better Than Szent István As Hungary, have Miklos Horthy as a Naval commander and build a battleship. |
Playing as 匈牙利王国
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1.4 | 简单 | |
Britzkrieg As the United Kingdom, put Edward VIII in power, ally Germany and fully control Paris. |
Playing as 联合王国
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Has completed focus The King's Party
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Follow the focus tree to Alliance with Germany Justify against France and launch a naval invasion of Normandy. It is not necessary to call Germany into the war. This can be combined with the Last for a Thousand Years achievement. If France is puppeted the achievement will not fire. Annex all cores, territories, and colonies to be sure. |
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1.6 | 简单 | |
Cut The Strings Break free from your overlord as a puppet. |
 Playing as a puppet
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 Is not a subject
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With / DLC:
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1.3 | 简单 | ||
Destroyer of Worlds Deploy a nuke. |
Country flag achievement_has_dropped_nuke is set
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1.0 | 简单 | ||||
En Svensk Tiger As Sweden, acquire a production license for a Tiger or Tiger II tank from Germany. |
Playing as  瑞典
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Is licensing from  德意志国 either:
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1.4 | 简单 | |
I Am the Tong Master As South Africa, break free from the UK and puppet another nation. |
Playing as 南非
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With
Without
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1.3 | 简单 | ||
Make a Man Out Of You As a Warlord, have at least 1,000,000 manpower queued up for deployment. |
Playing as either:
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More than 1,000,000  manpower in deployment queue
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1.5 | 简单 | |||
Master of War Fully research a land, naval and air doctrine tree. |
Has researched a full branch in each of the tech fields:
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If you think you should have got this and haven't, double check you haven't missed one that wasn't mutually exclusive on the same row of the tree. | 1.0 | 简单 | |||
As Mexico, host a government-in-exile. |
Playing as  墨西哥
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Any country is exiled in 墨西哥
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In order for Mexico to host an exiled country, it has to be Democratic and a faction leader needs to be Democratic. Although Mexico does not have to be the faction leader, it still needs a powerful army or economy to host exiles. Exile Calles to hire the Democratic advisor, then go down the Spanish Refugees branch to Hispanic Alliance or Bolivarian Alliance (wait until you have completed either focus to transition to Democracy). Change your government, use the Hispanic Solidarity decision to invite Guatemala to your faction, then use the March Southward focus to get a wargoal on El Salvador. Declare war, remove all your forces from Guatemala and wait for it to capitulate. |
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1.6 | 简单 | |
Monarchy is Back in Fashion As Germany, Bring back the Kaiser and ensure that Italy is controlled by Victor Emmanuel by killing Mussolini. |
Playing as 德意志国
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Wilhelm II is the current country leader
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Follow the "Return of the Kaiser" and the "Focus on the True Enemy" path in the "Oppose Hitler" tree until you get to the "Assassinate Mussolini" Focus. Wilhelm II must be your leader and he must not die before the focus is complete. | 
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1.5 | 简单 | |
Our Words Are Backed With Nuclear Weapons As India, develop and deploy a nuke. You must have the Quit India Movement national spirit. |
Playing as 英属印度
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1.3 | 简单 | |
As a warlord, be at war with all Chinese nations simultaneously. |
Playing as either:
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At war with:
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This is best with the Waking the Tiger DLC because without it, the warlords will be annexed by 中华民国 and  中共.Easiest to do as |
1.5 | 简单 | ||
Second Time’s the Charm As France, occupy Moscow while Napoleon VI is your country leader. |
Playing as 法国
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Controls Moscow (219)
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Can be done easily if siding with Germans. Rush the monarchist focus tree, you need "Avenge Waterloo" focus. Prepare to attack Britain with naval invasion. Your starting army and fleet will be enough to destroy them. Wait until Germany declares war on Poland. Britain will join the war. The moment they do this declare war on Britain. Germany will invite you to their faction, accept this invitation and annex Britain. Guarantee Finland as the USSR justifies a wargoal on them. Accept the call to arms and invite the rest of the Axis. This will make the war easier as they will not receive the "Great Patriotic War" buff. Once they take Moscow, ask them to give you control in that state. Make sure you have enough warscore so they will allow this. |
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1.9 | 简单 | |
Team America As the U.S.A., drop a nuclear bomb on Paris. |
Playing as 美利坚合众国
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Dropped a nuclear bomb on Paris
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As a democratic nation, build a lot of planes, namely strategic bombers and fighters, and rush nuclear technology. Germany will control Paris. When in the allies, move your planes to the airfield on the British Isles and set them on mission to Northern France when the nuclear tech is ready and one nuke is available. Achieve air superiority and nuke Paris when ready. | 1.6 | 简单 | ||
The Empire Strikes Back As Britain, declare war on one of your former subjects. |
Playing as 联合王国
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 At war with either:
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Any sub-branch of the tree under 'A Change in Course' causes the Dominion to break ties with the United Kingdom and leave the Allies.
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1.3 | 简单 | ||
Tojo Shot First As Japan, Nuke a core territory of the US before the US develops nuclear weapons. |
Playing as  日本
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美利坚合众国 does not have technology: Nuclear Bombs
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1.5 | 简单 | ||
Tour de France Occupy all of mainland France while having at least 20 fully equipped Bicycle regiments. |
 Not playing as 法国
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Occupy all of mainland France while having at least 20 fully equipped Bicycle regiments.
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1.9 | 简单 | ||
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. |
Playing as 美利坚合众国
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Is in faction with the 联合王国
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You need 50% more factories and fielded manpower than the UK, which shouldn't be a problem after a few years of buildup. The UK will accept to send the 51 divisions you need if they have ~160 divisions, you can send them some of your own troops as expeditionary forces to get them past that number. Remember: Press the button below the army to ask for expeditionary units. Before request UK, give an order for the new army (for example, garrison), otherwise they will refuse. |
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1.6 | 简单 | |
Vive la France Reach 1948 as France without capitulating or surrendering. |
Playing as 法国
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If you manage to pull this off, you will also unlock the Time is on our side achievement, if you haven't done so already. | 1.0 | 简单 | ||
Vive la Jeune Ecole As France, have at least 150 Destroyers and research the maximum torpedo launcher technology, before 1945. |
Playing as 法国
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Date is < 1945.1.1
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Can be achieved easily by rushing the fascist route in focus tree and joining the Axis. Concentrate on civilian factories. Wait for Germany to declare war on Poland. You can also annex Spain for more coastal provinces and factories while you are waiting. Join the war. Britain doesn't have a chance to oppose you, so it will be an easy war. Make sure that you took as many coastal provinces as you can. After that concentrate on building naval dockyards and make sure that you researched Modern Ship Torpedo Launcher technology. If everything done correctly, you can get this achievement by 1942. |
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1.6 | 简单 | |
Warszawo, Walcz! Stage the Warsaw uprising and succeed. |
 波兰 has risen up against an occupying country that you are at war with.
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warsaw_liberated_self_flag gets set if resistance hits 90 in a 波兰 state. In 1.9.0, it doesn't seem to require you to succeed, just to hit 90 resistance.
An easy way to trigger the uprising:
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1.9 | 简单 | |||
Wunderwaffen Research all rocket, nuclear and jet technologies. |
Has researched:
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1.0 | 简单 | ||||
Assuming Direct Control Starting as a minor power, assume faction leadership of the Allies, the Axis, or the Comintern. |
Not playing as either:
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Has assumed faction leadership from:
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1.6 | 普通 | |
Crusader Kings As South Africa, finish the A King for our People focus and take Jerusalem. |
Playing as 南非
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1.3 | 普通 | |
Crush the Dream As a Communist United Kingdom, crush the American Dream by puppeting the U.S.A. |
Playing as 联合王国
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Current ruling party is  Communist
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Take the Move to Secure the Dominion focus as soon as you switch communist. Move your army to Canada and declare martial law to prevent it from seceding. Attack the United States from the Canadian border. |
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1.6 | 普通 | |
Freegypt As Egypt, go from puppet to a free nation using the autonomy system. |
Is  埃及王国
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1.3 | 普通 | ||
Forge of Victory Have 50 factories as Belgium. |
Playing as  比利时
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Has factories > 49
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1.0 | 普通 | ||
History Repeated Itself As the U.S.A., Win against the Confederate States. Again. |
Playing as 美利坚合众国
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The Second American Civil War has started
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Pick the national focus "Suspend the Persecution", complete the national focus "WPA" and complete all of its successive focuses and then pick either the "Full desegregation" or "Union representation Act" national focuses to trigger a civil war with the Confederacy. The |
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1.6 | 普通 | |
Last for a Thousand Years As the United Kingdom, accomplish the federation of the entire British Empire. |
Playing as 联合王国
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Has completed focus Imperial Federation
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Can be done as any ideology, but going down the King's Party path and fomenting imperialist revolutions in your dominions will allow you to create integrated puppets, eliminating the need to reduce autonomy. Make sure to improve relations and save up a few hundred political power before starting the imperial conference. 300-400 political power is a good number to have saved before starting but if you can spare the time and effort, having around 600-700 political power will ensure success. |
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1.6 | 普通 | |
Made in China As Communist China, have over 100 military factories. |
Playing as 中共
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at least 101  Military Factories
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This achievement can be combined with The People Have Stood Up! achievement.
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1.5 | 普通 | ||
As Colombia, form Gran Colombia and have 10 Carriers and 10 Battleships. |
Playing as  哥伦比亚
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Has taken the decision to form  大哥伦比亚
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Play on Historical AI to prevent the US from interfering with your conquests until mid-1944 |
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1.5 | 普通 | |
Nobody expects... As Nationalist Spain in Axis manage to take Paris before the Germans. |
Playing as  西班牙
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It is viable to begin justifying the moment Franco takes power, win the civil war, and then go one of 2 routes. The first option is to launch naval invasions against Paris. You can join the axis faction after the conclusion of the war. The other option is to join the Axis and gain enough war score for Germany to give control of Ile de France (16) to Spain. It can be completed in the same run with the The Bell Tolls For Us achievement simply drifting towards communist or democratic after you capture Ile de France (16). | 1.0 | 普通 | |||
Northern Light As a Scandinavian country form your own faction, and have Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland in it. |
Playing as either:
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This achievement can be done with 'Med plutonium...' if you annex and release Denmark as free via the autonomy system by building in their states and lend leasing them. |
1.0 | 普通 | ||
Once More Mate Occupy Gallipoli as Australia. |
Playing as 澳大利亚
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Control the state Istanbul (341)
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The easiest strategy is to join the Comintern and attack Turkey from the USSR. If in the Allies, simple occupation will not work due to Greece having cores on Istanbul. | 1.0 | 普通 | ||
Our Chief Weapon is Surprise... As Spain, have at least 5 spies and stage 5 coups against other nations. |
Playing as 西班牙
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1.9 | 普通 | |
As Imperial Germany, conquer a Caribbean island. |
Playing as 德意志国
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Has completed focus Our Place in the Sun
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Requires |
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1.5 | 普通 | |
Poland Can Into Space Finish all Rocket Technologies as Poland. |
Playing as 波兰
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Has researched  Advanced Rocket Engines
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Option 1: Give into German and Soviet demands for territory. Stay out of WWII. Stay on speed 5 the whole time. Research rockets.
Option 2: Turn fascist and join the Axis. Try to stay out of wars as long as you can. Make sure to research rockets. With |
1.0 | 普通 | ||
Pride and Extreme Prejudice Sink the British Pride of the Fleet. |
Not playing as 联合王国
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Sank the British Pride of the Fleet
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It can be done quickly as Japan. In the 1936 start, the Japanese fleet is immediately capable of sinking not just the HMS Hood, but the entire Royal Navy if played properly. Choose to purge the Kodoha faction and justify on the UK (or British Malaya) as soon as possible. Ask Germany for docking rights, and move your entire fleet to their port nearest to the UK. Use the bulk of your fleet as a strike force, with three groups of destroyers patrolling the naval areas around the UK. If possible, you can also use naval bombers as well for added firepower. When the justification has finished, declare war on them. If Germany invites you to the Axis you should accept for the opportunity to move your planes to their airfields. From there just keep beating the Brits and building new ships and bombers (importing Oil for fuel if needed) until your fleet sinks the Hood and unlocks the achievement. |
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1.6 | 普通 | |
The bell tolls for us Win Spanish Civil War as Republican Spain. |
Playing as 西班牙
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 Is not fascist
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As of 1.9, capitulating one of the other factions(Anarchists/Fascists/Carlists) in the civil war as the Republicans, even if the civil war hasn't ended, will trigger the achievement. (Possibly because of every time one faction capitulates a peace deal is automatically made, counting as the civil war has ended) | 1.0 | 普通 | ||
The Good, the Bad and the Weird As Manchukuo, have max level infrastructure in every owned state and generate at least 15 units of oil. |
Playing as  满洲国
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At least 10  Infrastructure:
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May be done in conjunction with the Hail to the Qing and the The Dragon Swallowed the Sun achievements.
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1.5 | 普通 | ||
The Munich Disagreement As Czechoslovakia, occupy Munich while at war with Germany. |
Playing as 捷克斯洛伐克
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Can also be done by rushing out paratroopers and hoping for an early war with Germany following little Entente path. You only need to occupy the city of Munich for achievement to fire. You may need to concentrate research & ministers on planes for air superiority. |
1.4 | 普通 | ||
The Puppetmaster Have at least 51 subjects. |
Has subjects >50
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This suggestion requires DLC.
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The Revolution Triumphant Have Germany as a puppet of Soviet. |
Playing as 苏维埃联盟
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德意志国 is a puppet of 苏维埃联盟
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Must be unified Germany.
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1.0 | 普通 | ||
True Blitzkrieg As Germany have both Poland and France surrender before January 1st 1940. |
Playing as 德意志国
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Both nations need to be either in a capitulated state or annexed to trigger. Neither of them can be a puppet. | 1.0 | 普通 | ||
We Will Rock You As Spain, own Gibraltar. |
Playing as 西班牙
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Gibraltar (118) Owned by 西班牙
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As Carlist Spain, after the Spanish Civil War, rush towards the Retake the Spanish Netherlands focus and take the Benelux. Have around 24 divisions each on the French northern and southern borders and declare on France when Germany's at war with them. Capitulate France and launch a naval invasion on the United Kingdom. Once the United Kingdom capitulates, take Gibraltar in the peace deal.
Can also be done very easily with |
1.9 | 普通 | ||
Well, I Didn’t Vote for You Win the Spanish Civil War as the Anarchists. |
Playing as 西班牙
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Win the Spanish Civil War as the  阿拉贡地区防御委员会
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1.9 | 普通 | |
Why Die For Danzig? As Germany, turn France fascist and occupy Danzig without going to war with France. |
Playing as 德意志国
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Have France become Fascist without going to war with France.
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1.9 | 普通 | |
William Wallis As the United Kingdom, put Edward VIII in power, enforce an American monarchy, and have both it and Scotland as subjects. |
Playing as 联合王国
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Has completed focus The King's Party
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Hidden requirement for Installed an American monarchy
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1.6 | 普通 | |
Awake and Angry As China, reconquer all of China and Manchuria and force a Japanese surrender. |
Playing as 中华民国
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日本 was forced to sue for peace after losing all of Manchuria and Korea
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Do not accept cooperation with Communist China until the Japanese are about to attack. Then, form the Chinese United Front and accept all invites. Quickly rush to Korea and push them off the continent. After they have offered peace, accept it, and kick Communist China from your faction. Declare on them and annex them as soon as possible, before they start war against you. Do the same with the other faction members, leaving Sinkiang for last. Dismantle the faction, declare war on the Soviet Union after Germany is pushing east. Join axis. They will be easy to capitulate with all their forces in the west. Take as much territory and then join their war against the allies. | 1.5 | 困难 | ||
Bearer of Artillery Gain Vojtek as commander. |
Playing as 波兰
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Country flag POL_vojtek_commander is set
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Vojtek is a special commander that appears with the Polish event "Wojtek Never Drops A Crate". | 1.0 | 困难 | ||
Big Entente As France, complete the "Little Entente" National Focus, and have all German cores owned by you or someone in your faction. |
Playing as 法国
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One possible way to achieve this is refuse 德意志国's Remilitarization of the Rhineland while 联合王国 refuses it. This will cause a minor Civil War in France. Place Divisions on the Maginot and around Northern and Central France where the civil war spawns. As soon as war starts with 德意志国, Capitulate the civil war first and push into 德意志国. Once 德意志国 capitulates, annex everything or puppet Germany. Then follow the focus tree until Little Entente.
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1.0 | 困难 | ||
Die, Perfidious Albion! As Fascist France or Vichy France, occupy all of Great Britain. |
Playing as 法国
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Conquer all of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Rush the fascist focuses. Upon taking "Utilize the Leagues", you will have access to decisions of boosting fascist and non-aligned popularity. Never take "Unleash La Cagoule" decision. Just take fascist demagogue and spam "Rally the Leagues" decision. Because if your stability drops below 30%, the civil war will start. In the mean time you can pick any focuses you want and plan the naval invasion of Britain. Once you have 50% of fascist and non-aligned combined popularity, you can continue working on the fascist focuses. Take the "Political unity" focus as soon as possible, it will remove the chance of spawning the civil war. After that pick "Towards the new Europe" branch. Rush the focus tree until you will do "Expand to the Suez" focus. Immediately declare war on Britain and annex them. Your starting army is strong enough to easily destroy Britain.
You don't need the DLC, join Axis, paratrop and naval invade UK, eventually your paratrops will get a port randomly (just move your air units between regions), or you and Germany and Italy and Nationalist Spain will overwhelm. If you are really struggling and tension is low enough (below 25%) invade Ireland first. |
1.9 | 困难 | ||
Don’t Die for Your Country As Germany in a 1939 start, occupy all of Poland and France without taking more than 475 casualties. |
Playing as 德意志国
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Occupy all of Poland and France without taking more than 475 casualties.
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1.9 | 困难 | ||
Duce Nuked'em Nuke Los Angeles as fascist Italy. |
Playing as  意大利
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After securing the Mediterranean, it can easily be done with a small 1944 strategic bomber fleet (without any escort) by taking control of the following provinces : Gibraltar (118), Azores (698), Bermuda (696) |
1.0 | 困难 | ||
Georgia On My Mind As the U.S.A., own and fully control all three Georgias. |
Playing as 美利坚合众国
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Owns and fully controls the states of:
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The USA starts with the first Georgia, while the other two; Georgia and South Georgia, are owned by the Soviet Union and United Kingdom.
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1.6 | 困难 | ||
As Manchukuo, restore the Qing dynasty. |
Playing as 满洲国
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Has completed focus Claim the Mandate of Heaven
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In order to complete the national focus "Claim the Mandate of Heaven", you must be independent and own all of the starting territory of |
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1.5 | 困难 | |
As Greece, Form Byzantine Empire. |
Playing as  希腊王国
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Formed the  拜占庭帝国
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Only requires the Restore Byzantium decision, which can be taken by conquering all of |
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1.5 | 困难 | |
It's 1812 All Over Again As Canada, take and hold Washington D.C. |
Playing as 加拿大
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Control the state of Maryland (361)
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This suggestion requires DLC.
Pick Patriation and Swastika Clubs as your first focuses. Go for Synarchist Baja when you switch, get Mexico in your faction and attack the United States on the East Coast. The United Kingdom will be too busy in Europe to do much against you, so it is possible to declare war on the UK first to unlock War Bonds and get some of your powerful industrial focuses before invading the US. |
1.3 | 困难 | ||
Med plutonium... Nuke Denmark as Sweden. |
Playing as 瑞典
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1.0 | 困难 | ||
As Romania, make it to 1942 with all the states you started it with and control either Moscow or Berlin. |
Playing as  罗马尼亚王国
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The main goal is defending your original states until 1941.12.31. The achievement can be done controlling Moscow or Berlin after that date. | 1.4 | 困难 | ||
New World Order Make all nations fascist. |
All existing nations are fascist
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One Empire Unite the entire world under the British Empire. |
Playing as 联合王国
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The straightforward, but boring and slow, approach is to defeat the Axis, then go to war with the Comintern and defeat them (note that the PRC will declare war on China one year after the end of the war with Japan, so you can use the focus to get China democratic and add them to the Allies before that war starts) - this should add lots of countries to the Allies, and then trigger coups everywhere you can. Once there's been a civil war, the winner has created world tension and you can justify against them. It takes a very long time, and, once you've won WWII, it's obviously going to work eventually, so it's very boring.
Successfully forming the Imperial Federation with the United States as part of it, can make this a lot easier, as you gain a lot more manpower, resources and industry. |
1.0 | 困难 | ||
Operation Sea Lion Control British mainland as Germany. |
Playing as 德意志国
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Control the states:
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This achievement can also be done along with True Blitzkrieg achievement. |
1.0 | 困难 | ||
Party like it's 1520 Occupy Stockholm as communist Denmark. |
Playing as  丹麦
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Use a naval invasion to the two provinces adjacent to Stockholm, but leave one division in Copenhagen with land forts to defend the strait. | 1.0 | 困难 | ||
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). |
Playing as 荷兰
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The 联合王国 has at most 0 capital ships
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With DLC:
Cave to the German, join the Axis and take your naval focuses. Build warships and planes, use naval bombers to sink the British fleet once you have gained air superiority. Some capital ships might escape to Malta, East Africa or the Caribbean, use carriers with naval bombers on Port Strike to find and sink them. The achievement will also trigger if the United Kingdom has been fully annexed and no longer exists so it is possible to also just stage a naval invasion and finish off the UK that way. |
1.6 | 困难 | ||
As Japan, conquer Mexico then Europe before 1945. |
Playing as 日本
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Before 1:00 1 Jan, 1945
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It can be done before WW2 1939. Tojo Shot First achievement can be done after this achievement. Alternatively,
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1.5 | 困难 | ||
Sunset Invasion Occupy a coastal province in Europe as Mexico, and if in a faction have it contain only South American members or puppets. |
Playing as 墨西哥
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1.0 | 困难 | ||
The New Home of the Revolution As Mexico, put Trotsky in power and puppet the Soviet Union |
Playing as 墨西哥
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Leon Trotsky is the current country leader
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When the Trotsky seeks refuge event pops up, choose to invite him into the government. Follow the right most side of focus tree to become communist and put Trotsky in charge. Wait for Germany to start the war against the Soviet Union and finish the Smash the Bureaucrats focus which gives a puppet war goal against the Soviets. Declare war on the Soviets. To gain warscore against them, ask Germany for military access and put your troops on their front line. Alternatively, try to naval invade Soviet's far east front and capture a few victory point provinces. In patch 1.6.0, German is very likely crush the Soviets without trouble in one or two years. During the peace conference, the Fascists will focusing on grabbing land, so it is possible to puppet the Soviet Union. |
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1.6 | 困难 | |
The Revenge of Montezuma Restore the old borders with the USA as Mexico. |
Playing as 墨西哥
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Control the states:
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Rush Fascist and justify a war goal on the Philippines, if you try to justify on a major country like the United States world tension will skyrocket but because the Philippines is a puppet the US will automatically join when you declare war upon them, with far less world tension generated. With this, you should have no problem overrunning the country with either infantry or cavalry. Try to poke holes in the US line as they will have a tough time manning a long border and encircle their troops. They will have no way to real way to grow their military until they remove isolation so it should be trivial to win this way. | 1.0 | 困难 | ||
As Manchukuo, Break free from Japan and annex your former Overlord without being in a faction. |
Playing as 满洲国
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Annexed 日本
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May be done in conjunction with the Hail to the Qing and the The Good, the Bad and the Weird achievements. |
1.5 | 困难 | ||
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. |
Playing as 荷兰
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Has not completed focus Cave to the Germans
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Can be done quite easily. Start the game with historical AI and follow the focus tree down the communist route. As soon as you are faced with the choice between "Affirm Loyalty to Moscow" and "Bastion of the True Communism" focus choose the 2nd one. After that take the focuses "Enemies on All Fronts" and "Pre-Empt Western Intervention." This focus gives wargoals for the UK, France and the USA. The perfect timing for this (the Pre-Empt Western Intervention focus) is when Germany goes for the Danzig or War focus. Improve your relations with Germany. Once Germany has declared war on Poland and Poland has joined the Allies declare your wars on France and the UK and soon after Germany will invite you in to the Axis. Now you are safe from Germany. Complete the "Continue the Zuiderzee Works" focus, defend your coastline and your provinces/states. The Allies usually naval invades the part of the Germany that borders the North Sea and that is your backyard. And for this achievement you are never allowed to lose control of any of your states. While waiting out the time till 1945 you can play pure defense or just help Germany conquer Western-Europe (play it correctly and you can get all of Belgium and Luxembourg and Repudiate the Treaty of London) and perhaps the Soviet Union.
Another option is to use the national focuses and join either Allies or Comintern before Germany justifies on you (Normally 1940). This will make faction members move divisions to your border with Germany, thus making your defense somewhat easier. If possible, ask your faction members for as many expeditionary forces as possible. Also, don't forget to do the "Prepare the Inundation Lines" focus because it will give you land forts which makes it even harder for Germany to attack you. |
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1.6 | 困难 | |
As a warlord, conquer all of China and Japan. |
Playing as either:
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Conquered all of 中华民国, 满洲国 and 日本 not including the states of Hong Kong(326) , Macau (729) and Guangzhouwan (728) .
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Bevrijding As the Netherlands, liberate the continental Netherlands after relocating the government to the East Indies. |
Playing as 荷兰
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Current ruling party is Democratic
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Begin to develop the east indies, focus on planes (specifically bombers) and submarines to destroy factories and shipping to damage the German economy so the USSR doesn't loose. You will need some civilian factories and lots of cargo ships. Beware of Japan as they will likely attempt to attack and invade Indonesia so make sure to guard all ports and have some planes and ships to hold them off. Once you have safely fortified the East Indies from Japanese attacks, either focus on Germany to reconquer your home territory or focus on Japan and finish the off to gain some resources and factories. |
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1.6 | 极难 | |
Czechmate As Czechoslovakia, occupy Canberra while at war with the Allies. |
Playing as 捷克斯洛伐克
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As Romania, own a slice of all your starting neighbors. |
Playing as 罗马尼亚王国
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Has Carol II as country leader
Own at least one core province from all of your starting neighbors:
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1.4 | 极难 | |
Go Ahead, Macau My Day As Portugal, create a collaboration government in Macau and have it own all Chinese states. |
Playing as 葡萄牙
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Create a collaboration Government in Macau and have it own all core territory of China and Manchukuo:
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1.9 | 极难 | |
As Yugoslavia, occupy all your neighbouring countries (Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Italy and Greece). |
Playing as 南斯拉夫
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Every state in the world is either:
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It is only necessary to occupy the land required so it is possible to have this achievement fire whilst at war. Can be combined with The Balkan Powder Keg achievement. | 1.4 | 极难 | ||
Miklos Horthy and the Habsburg Prince As Hungary, Restore Austria-Hungary. |
Playing as 匈牙利王国
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1.4 | 极难 | |
As Bourbon Spain, hold all Spanish and French core states. |
Playing as 西班牙
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You must own the cores, which means completely defeating France's faction and get all cores in a peace deal. Remember that France may get cores on the Algerian coast. Best done in non-historical, as France might not ally with the UK or the US.
As of 1.9.0, Bourbon Spain only needs to own the French cores. |
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1.9 | 极难 | |
Rule Britannia As any British Subject state, conquer all of Britain. |
Playing as either:
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Can be done in conjunction with the "It's 1812 All Over Again" achievement as Canada. After capitulating and annexing the United States, prepare a naval invasion force and fleet to attack the UK. Annexing the US may help industrially and the Send in the Zombies focus may help with the recruitable population. If Iceland gets released, it may be necessary to justify against them. Try to take the UK before Germany or Italy tries a naval invasion. If the peace conference triggers before the achievement does, try to annex all of Great Britain as the other Axis members may take the required territory. It may be advisable to create a faction with Mexico instead of joining the Axis to make it harder for Germany to take British states in the peace conference.
With Historical Focus Off, the UK has a chance of becoming fascist or non-aligned. In that case, a democratic Canada may form a faction with the |
1.3 | 极难 | ||
Sun Tzu Reborn As Any Chinese Nation, Have a level 9 field marshal. |
Playing as either:
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any army leader:
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1.5 | 极难 | ||
With Mao as your leader, win the Chinese Civil War. |
Playing as 中共
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Conquered all of 中华民国's Starting territory
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This achievement does not require all the Chinese cores. | 1.5 | 极难 | ||
The weapons of the Third Emu War As Australia, use a nuclear bomb on core Australian territory. |
Playing as 澳大利亚
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Country flag achievement_AST_nuke_self is set
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1.3 | 极难 | ||
30 Minutes of Hel As Poland in the 1939 “Blitzkrieg” scenario start, inflict over 1,800,000 casualties to Germany to beat the 2018 |
Playing as 波兰
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The 德意志国 has more than 1.80M Casualties inflicted by 波兰
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As South Africa, finish the Anti-Colonialist Crusade focus, release all European colonies via the focus, and take London. |
Playing as 南非
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Focus  "Anti-Colonialist Crusade" is completed
The following country flags are set:
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Achievement may require the event to release the nations rather than the release nation button on the occupied territory screen. |
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成就指南
| 极易 | - |
| 简单 | Mi Casa es tu Casa • Panda-monium |
| 普通 | Australia-Hungary • My Ships Don't Lie • Our Other Place in the Sun |
| 困难 | Hail to the Qing • I Swear I'm Not a Byzantophile • Neither Death nor Dishonor • Sunrise Invasion • The Dragon Swallowed the Sun |
| 极难 | Battlecry • Death or Dishonor or Cake • Huge-oslavia • One King, Two Crowns |
| 疯狂 | Crusader Kings 2 |