Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

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Simple "The weapons of the Third Emu War" achievement guide
By Ajaxe
For some reason this is (at the moment of writing) the rarest achievement in Hearts of Iron IV. Today I will teach you how to make it the most common one, for it is not hard, it merely takes quite some time to actually research your nuclear weapons to be able to nuke yourself.
   
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All you have to do is
1. Research nukes and get anykind of strategic bomber.
2. Get a demagogue of preferred ideology (make sure you do this when you either have nukes or are anticipating to get them while the demagogue does his job to seize the memes of reproduction)
3. When you are ready, let your demagogue start a revolution/civil war for power.
4. Drop nukes wherever you see fit on your core territories.
5. Don't get tried for war crimes by pressing Alt+F4 after you get the achievement.
6. ???
7. Profit.
8. Comment on this guide "Thanks, Ajaxe, you're a good demagogue. I have successfully commited genocide on my own emus in the name of Australia." to let me know you succ'eeded.
9. If instructions were unclear and you got your schlong stuck in a toaster or your local ventilation shaft, or whatever else you found attractive at the time, feel free to ask someone here to send help.

I will not go too much in-depth on achieving this, I can't see anyone bothering to read that either, because I gave the easiest way of achieving this achievement. You can do this if you have enemies on your core territories too, but who wishes to bother with that, when it's just so much more simple to start a civil war, ay?

Have fun committing war crimes and getting away with it.

Need a more complicated explanation?
Fine.

There's really nothing much to it, it's pretty obvious, especially now that I explained it in the shorter version above, it involves you just setting the speed to 5 and waiting it out.


I did this starting from the 1936 scenario (although you will certainly be able to research nuclear technology quicker by starting in 1939).

To speed up your research process, you need to:
1. Do all the focuses that boost your research (Nuclear Effort and Secret Weapons) and use them on your nuclear research.
2. Set your Industrial Concern to "Electronics Company" (Electronics Concern).
3. Research Computing Machines.

I suggest not doing a Nuclear Bomb Rush™© straight away as you could certainly use some research for your industry to be able to build Nuclear Reactors faster when you research them. I recommend to only start Nuclear Bomb Rush™© when you complete at least one of the focuses that boost your nuclear research (step 1), that way you get some sort of start for your industry.

Once you research Nuclear Reactor, the more of them you build, the faster you will make nukes (production of them begins only when you research Nuclear Bombs).

At some point you need to research a strategic bomber and have at least one to be able to drop nukes, so you must get some production working on creating at least one of these bombers. Along with that, you need some fighter planes for air superiority, although it shouldn't be a problem as, chances are, your enemies in the civil war will not have any planes, but if they would get them, make sure you have some in reserves just in case. Also, don't build Anti-Air in any of your territories to not hinder yourself when you need to drop bombs, in case the territory with the AA emplacements goes to the opposition.

It is up to you to decide when to get a demagogue of certain ideology, but you need him to do his magic to eventually get an event that can start a civil war. You should only start it when you have nukes, just to be safe. Once the civil war starts all that is left for you to do is choose a province where you want to drop a nuke (while having air superiority) and you will officially be one of the weapons of the Third Emu War.

30 Comments
HeadBasher666 21 Apr, 2022 @ 6:40pm 
forming siberia as tuva is currently rarest acheicement, something like 1 in 500 ppl
Ajaxe  [author] 10 Sep, 2020 @ 12:04pm 
I believe that, given you got to this point, you did well, Wario's Overalls.
Greggy 10 Sep, 2020 @ 11:51am 
I found the step where you said " Comment on this guide "Thanks, Ajaxe, you're a good demagogue. I have successfully commited genocide on my own emus in the name of Australia." to let me know you succ'eeded." unclear, I wound up commenting this
Dee Dee 19 Feb, 2018 @ 10:17am 
oh ok
D.C.G 17 Feb, 2018 @ 2:53pm 
Thanks, Ajaxe, you're a good demagogue
Duk of Deth 21 Nov, 2017 @ 12:54am 
Seven. Seven fricken attempts. Sixth time worked, except the game glitched, and thought I was using mods, when I'd just bought the extra sprites [Colonel pack]. But I got it now!
Duk of Deth 13 Nov, 2017 @ 5:30pm 
Well, three years later in game, and I deleted the entire Australian army and grounded the air force, all just to see if the AI might get brave. They've taken two years to recapture a small fraction of the NEI, with twice what I used to take it all, and in only six months.

I've been watching TV with my wife, for hours, and nothing. Attempt #6 is looking to be much more of an interesting thing. Maybe.

I'd have a better chance of being allowed to hunt Emu in Australia for real.
Duk of Deth 13 Nov, 2017 @ 12:50pm 
Kicked the Allies right out of Sumatra, and now I think I might have been sniking invasion fleets for some time - lots of convoys sunk in threes!
Duk of Deth 13 Nov, 2017 @ 12:33pm 
Might be soon. The US is take more of the Solomon's. They already had some of Guadalcanal. I know there's 15 divisions in New Zealand - I tried invading there and got turned back.
Duk of Deth 13 Nov, 2017 @ 12:31pm 
I may be needing to take a sixth swing at the cat. The Allies aren't doing so well, since the Soviets collapsed. I may have screwed myself by invading the NEI to secure oil....

Well... the US just invaded New Guinea. So I may still hold out some hope!

FYI, I guess the trick is to stay with the Allies, not go independent, and take part in the war, at least till you do have nukes, then do the Central Party, and get the fascist demagouge. Would have been nice to just go the Civil War route, but... Without the right focuses, you can only get the demagouge [or communist] if you back them.