HOI4 Sweden Guide
What Sweden starts with in Hearts of Iron IV, what its national spirits cost it, where the focus tree leads, and the openings the wiki's own editors recommend. Written for a nation with almost no video coverage, from the game's reference wiki.
HOI4 Turkey Guide
What Turkey starts with in Hearts of Iron IV, what its national spirits cost it, where the focus tree leads, and the openings the wiki's own editors recommend. Written for a nation with almost no video coverage, from the game's reference wiki.
HOI4 Poland Guide
What Poland starts with in Hearts of Iron IV, what its national spirits cost it, where the focus tree leads, and the openings the wiki's own editors recommend. Written for a nation with almost no video coverage, from the game's reference wiki.
HOI4 China Guide
What China starts with in Hearts of Iron IV, what its national spirits cost it, where the focus tree leads, and the openings the wiki's own editors recommend. Written for a nation with almost no video coverage, from the game's reference wiki.
HOI4 Romania Guide
What Romania starts with in Hearts of Iron IV, what its national spirits cost it, where the focus tree leads, and the openings the wiki's own editors recommend. Written for a nation with almost no video coverage, from the game's reference wiki.
HOI4 Canada Guide
What Canada starts with in Hearts of Iron IV, what its national spirits cost it, where the focus tree leads, and the openings the wiki's own editors recommend. Written for a nation with almost no video coverage, from the game's reference wiki.
HOI4 Imperial Federation Guide
This plan covers how to rush the Imperial Federation as the United Kingdom, including the fast fascist route and a more normal autonomy-lowering route. It is for players who want the earliest workable formation date and the tradeoffs that come with it.
HOI4 Sea Lion Guide 2026
This plan covers several ways to invade the UK in Hearts of Iron IV, from straightforward naval invasions to air-superiority drops and more abusive setup tricks. It is for players who want a reliable path to Britain with majors or weaker nations.
HOI4 Siam Focus Tree: Every Path in Thunder At Our Gates
Siam in Thunder At Our Gates is built around managing two rival factions of the ruling People's Party while carving territory back out of Southeast Asia with time-limited wars. This guide walks through every branch of the national focus tree — fascist, monarchist and democratic — plus the two industrial paths, the resist-or-submit decision and the naval choice, for players deciding which route to commit to.
HOI4 Dutch East Indies Independence and Conquest Run
An optimised Dutch East Indies path in Thunder At Our Gates that raises autonomy fast, forms the Netherlands Indonesia Union in September 1938, and ends with the United Kingdom capitulated in 1941. It is aimed at players comfortable with focus ordering, template design and naval invasions who want a repeatable route rather than a sandbox.
HOI4 Soviet Union Guide: Purges, Industry and Encirclements
A historical, Iron Man Soviet Union playthrough covering the Political Paranoia purge mechanic, a purge-avoidance focus order, division and tank/plane designer builds, and the mass encirclement tactics that break the Wehrmacht once Barbarossa starts. No ship designer appears in the source video.
HOI4 France Guide: Napoleon Path and Munich Conference
A single continuous France campaign that rushes the Bonapartist 'Third Empire' monarchist-restoration branch for free war goals on the Low Countries and the UK, fixes the Disjointed Government national spirit first, then uses the Munich Conference decision to fight Germany on France's own timing. Covers the focus order, the only equipment design shown (aircraft — the source has no division templates or tank and ship designs), and the war through Spain, the UK, Italy and the USSR.
HOI4 UK Guide 2026: Focus Tree, Navy and Division Templates
A political route for the United Kingdom that engineers a war with France to trigger an early George VI accession, then runs the King's Party and Empire focus branches in parallel to core the United States through Canada and the Imperial Federation focus. Covers the France-war trick, the Create Pan-North-American State decision, one fully-specified late-game infantry template, and the eventual succession to Elizabeth II.
HOI4 Italy Guide 2026: Every Focus Path (By Blood Alone)
A tour of Italy's 314-focus By Blood Alone tree across twelve distinct playthroughs, from the historical Axis collapse and a competent-Mussolini Axis Victory through diplomatic, republican, papal, socialist, communist and novelty endings. Explains what triggers each path, what it becomes, and the two mechanics — a fast Ethiopian war and the Italian Civil War reset — that gate most of them.
HOI4 Japan Guide 2026: Focus Order, Doctrines and Strike South
A full Japan build for the No Compromise, No Surrender DLC: the creator's posted focus order and political-power spend order, the new doctrine-mastery and naval-dominance mechanics, a captured division template and ship/aircraft designer, and the pivot from the China war into a Strike South world conquest. Screen-only numbers and comment disagreements are called out separately from what the video actually says.
HOI4 USA Guide 2026: All Five Focus Tree Paths Compared
Every branch of the stock American focus tree explained side by side: staying neutral and banking industry, an earlier interventionist war, a democratic-socialist revolution, a MacArthur-led fascist coup, and a Confederate-revivalist civil war. Covers the shared opening, each path's key focuses and decisions with timestamps, and the only production and division-deployment numbers the source video shows on screen.
HOI4 Germany Guide 2026: Focus Order, Templates and MIOs
A historical-focus, Iron Man Germany playthrough covering the full focus order, the MIO (Ministry of Industrial Organization) equipment picks for tanks, planes and ships, and the division templates used from the Anschluss cavalry rush through Barbarossa. Includes the exact stats and IC costs pulled from Division, Tank, Ship and Plane Designer screenshots, plus what the top comments dispute.
HOI4 Soviet Union Guide 2026: Focus Order and Research Order
The reusable half of VijoPlays' Soviet run, in text: all 44 national focuses in order, the research order slot by slot, and every tank and plane design broken down to components — plus where the singleplayer and multiplayer paths diverge.
HOI4 Kaiserin Victoria: How to Get Her, and the Holy Roman Empire
The non-aligned monarchist Germany, not the fascist one: honest civil war, Kaiserin Victoria on the throne, the European Union and the Holy Roman Empire formed by mid-1939, and the USA annexed by December 1940 on 1,338 factories. Every gate, deadline and political-power threshold in order.