IMPORTANT!

You need the "Waking the Tiger" DLC to form it. And the division numbers in these pictures are random. Adjustment of the division number or template layouts depends on the situation so be careful.(Actually you can just simply invade these countries easily as Germany so you don`t need to be that careful.) And we will ignite a civil war in the future so build all your factories to the western side of Germany. Anyway, let`s start to form our glorious European Union!

OK. So let`s choose our nation as German Reich. It`s one of the easiest countries to play with so don`t worry it will take time but you will be succeeded.



Then we must not go for "Anschluss" or "Oppose Hitler" because if we choose "Anschluss" we can`t be a democratic country later so we can`t form the EU. Or if we choose "Oppose Hitler" we can`t declare war to the democratic countries and it will take time to justify war goal on France or Italy so it will be easier if we don`t choose them.

OK. Now we are ready to go! You must wait until you get 50 "Political Power" and then you need to justify war goal on France. We will bypass Belgium and attack through ''Maginot Line''. And don`t send your divisions to the line do it like in the picture. But Rhineland is demilitarized so as you can see in the picture just deploy your soldiers like that. Let them invade Southern Germany. Send your planes. And let them attack your soldiers. They will lose men and after waiting a little order a counter - attack against France. Send your 3 light tank divisions from Southern side. They will be so exhausted that they won`t be able to hold the "Maginot Line" when we get there. (By the way we will invade the UK later so start producing submarines.)





Nice! You invaded France succesfully. Now to the next enemy Britain. You must have got lots of land from France in Africa that means the British will be distracted because of that. Don`t try to secure your African borders.You don`t even need to send anyone. Just prepare a naval invasion. Send all your planes to the English Channel. And attack with full power with all your divisions. Send all of your navy against them. They will be unprepared. Attack to Dover and send 4 divisions to London, send 3 divisions to the western side and send 3 divisions to the North Eastern side of England. You must be fast. ( You can use your 3 light tank divisions with 7 infantry divisions in naval invasion. It would be better because we need speed.) After that they can`t stop your army and it will be easy. Send all your troops to the mainland and finish them.





Good job! You invaded them. Now the problem is if their colonies didn`t bring any of their forces to fight against you, Canada will always guarantee the countries that you justify war goal. So build naval bases and roads at Canadian border and send some of your troops. And don`t forget South Africa too. Now just justify war goal on Austria so we will invade Canada and ready ourselves against Italy. (If Canada won`t guarantee the Austria they will probably guarantee the Benelux.)

OK. Now the last part. We will invade Italy and then we will fully annex "Benelux Region". Send your troops to the borders and plus prepare a naval invasion to Rome.
By that we will finish them faster. I don`t think I need to guide you against Italy because I know you can do it. It`s not that hard.





The time has come! We will revolt against Hitler and form the EU. Just disband your divisions until you have around 24 - 27 of them and bring all your divisions submarines etc. to the western side of Germany. As you can see in the picture below ready yourself against something like this. You will get additional 24 noob divisions. Don`t make them attack just attack with your main divisions and before the civil war don`t deploy your divisions deploy them while fighting. Try to cut eastern germany to two pieces as Northern and Southern Germany. Then invade the southern one and then rush to Berlin from south.

After the civil war go for the Democratic side and make Germany democratic. Then go to the decisions menu and form the EU.

IMPORTANT!

You can expand the EU to its real size but it will take time and you won`t be able to go for "Anschluss" or "Oppose Hitler" for a long time and sometimes Soviets can declare war on you so be careful!

Sorry for any mistakes. English isn`t my native language. Please report any mistakes in the comments section and you can suggest anything to improve this guide, thanks.

And this is my first HOI IV guide. You can use it to invade these countries easily:

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