Crusader Kings 2 Achievement: How To:

[Ishariot]

Crusader Kings 2 Achievement: How To:
After several attempts I finally managed to get that Crusader Kings 2 Achievement.
I wasnt able to find a guide/walkthrough in WWW, so I decided to „share the research“.
The following description contains the way it worked for me including some hints from WWW (Invading Portugal/England via „Sub-Strategy“ etc)...Thanks to you guys!

Dont:
1. take/free/puppet any land/state in Africa via Peace Conference
2. invite your puppets into your war (that way Angola and Mozambique are your „Shield“ to Allies)

Do:
1. get Communist Advisor asap
2. stay in Allies as long as possible but be aware:
A. in all cases: leave Allies before Germany DoWs Poland
B. DoW Portugal via PP (about 250 days for me) and go for Angola and Mozambique
(I invaded in late 1938)
C. to DoW Portugal you have to break free via PP/Autonomy-System and have left the
Allies via Diplo-Screen before, use the foci that strengthen autonomy. It takes time
to hop to Portugals Mainland so I squeezed in some more techs for the run to third
research slot
3. kill Portugal after finishing the „Anti-Colonialist“-Focus, I did „African-Peoples-Union“ right after that (better safe than sorry)
4. build up industry (early research factory-output etc)
5. Army-Template: 7Inf/2 Art, Support: Eng, Rec, Art,lateron added AT
6. build a Sub-Fleet...and some convoys
(you want to ship troops after you captured enemy-ports)
7. after moving troops in the specified territories (Angola, Kongo etc) wait for the event to fire
and puppet your african brothers and sisters :)
8. naval invade in the north of Angola and Mozambique and take those ports to drain enemys
supply
9. take the units (3-4) that naval invaded Angola and asap naval invade Portuguese-Guinea,
you need 1936-Subs to cover the seas
10. Set your 2 Sub-Fleets to cover one sea-zone each and on „Not Engage“ and high repair
frequency (thanks „Name I dont remember“, that did the job for me!)
11. repeat for Portugals mainland but this time from Guinea and have more Troops ready
12. invade Beja-Area (6-8 troops) south of Capital and take the southern port to ship more troops from Guinea
13. use puppet-templates to save own manpower
14. once you took Angola and Mozambique via event and after that Portugal via Peace
Conference your goal is that Tea-Drinker-Rock of your former „Masters“, so gear up
15. Have your invasion targets set and ready to launch, same for your Sub-Fleets, once you
DoW England
16. invade from Portugal to the areas west of Cardiff and take the port to reinforce your
Invasion-Army
17. Dont forget to research MP and use your puppets cavallery templates to build MP for
British Mainland
18. after that its just about pumpimg out more troops to get your african fronts covered
19. outmaneuver your enemy instead of fighting him. (save the lives of your fellow comrades
. ..not like those soviet folks),
this way 7(!) portuguese Armies were trapped and „attritioned to death“ near the
southernmost Mozambique port...just maneuvered around, offered some bait and blocked
their troops moving around...thinning the front
20. TaDaa....Achievement triggered on 1.1.43


„Strange“ things that happened or „works as intended“?

Wasnt able to conquer whole British Mainland as they surrendered and those parts flipped to Germany (Scapa Flow Area), but that one province near Cornwall flipped to Germany and then suddenly to me...if the Germans wanted to trade it to my communist hands I should have to manually accept it.

I conquered Kenya waaaay before Kongo but Kongo-event fired earlier.
To be honest, I did not realize that „Kenya“ is parts of Tanganijka too...
Concerning Sub-Strategy: Really? 2 Subs cover whole Gulf of Guinea to get your naval invasion done...

The US joined Allies in 1942 (I saw some of their troops in Africa before) but did not invade poorly defended England or Portugal...perhaps too far away :)

Most parts could surely be minmaxed, sorry for slaughtering the english language, feel free to comment and improve my little writedown.

[BlackSmoke 🏴‍☠]

Originally posted by Superbernd3:

Wasnt able to conquer whole British Mainland as they surrendered and those parts flipped to Germany (Scapa Flow Area), but that one province near Cornwall flipped to Germany and then suddenly to me...if the Germans wanted to trade it to my communist hands I should have to manually accept it.

This happened to me too.

Originally posted by Superbernd3:

I conquered Kenya waaaay before Kongo but Kongo-event fired earlier.
To be honest, I did not realize that „Kenya“ is parts of Tanganijka too...
Concerning Sub-Strategy: Really? 2 Subs cover whole Gulf of Guinea to get your naval invasion done...

Same.

Originally posted by Superbernd3:

The US joined Allies in 1942 (I saw some of their troops in Africa before) but did not invade poorly defended England or Portugal...perhaps too far away :)

Same.

[The_Commissar]

Originally posted by Superbernd3:

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I dont agree with:

1. justifying with PP against Portugal as it's much safer (no risk of guaranteeing) to just pick focuses to liberate their and Belgian colonies.

2. Releasing former colonies as puppets as they follow you to war (correct me if i'm wrong). It's better to release them as faction member and just never call them to war as after you have liberated Kenya (and rest already), the allies have to naval invade you and ofc thats not going to work.

I managed to liberate Kongo, Angola and Mozambique + annex Portugal before Belgium joined the allies (80% tension). i also naval invaded Ireland with 20 (20width) paratrooper divisions who the dropped to glasgow area.

[BlackSmoke 🏴‍☠]

To be sincere this time I used a different path to get this achievement. Not the usual Portugal (Beja) - UK sub-strategy. What I did.

I tried a different approach:

- Change to communist.
- Justify on Spain asap.
- Break free (but NOT leave faction).
- Send troops to Gibraltar.
- Declare war on Spain.
- Attack Spain or wait Spain being attacked by allys and win the war (no later 39-40).
- Justify on Ireland.
- Annex North of Spain.
- Declare war on Ireland.
- Annex Ireland (no later 41).
- Leave allys.
- Through focus declare war on UK.
- Invade Cardiff (UK) from Ireland.
- Simultaneously attack british colonies on Africa.
- UK capitulates (no later 42-43).
- Through focus declare war on Portugal.
- Attack Portugal from Spain.
- Simultaneously attack portuguese colonies on Africa.
- Portugal capitulates (no later 43).
- Conitnue with belgium colonies.
- Wait for events to liberate countries (a month or so)
- Achievement done.

[The_Commissar]

Originally posted by BlackSmoke:

To be sincere this time I used a different path to get this achievement. Not the usual Portugal (Beja) - UK sub-strategy. What I did.

I tried a different approach:

- Change to communist.
- Justify on Spain asap.
- Break free (but NOT leave faction).
- Send troops to Gibraltar.
- Declare war on Spain.
- Attack Spain or wait Spain being attacked by allys and win the war (no later 39-40).
- Justify on Ireland.
- Annex North of Spain.
- Declare war on Ireland.
- Annex Ireland (no later 41).
- Leave allys.
- Through focus declare war on UK.
- Invade Cardiff (UK) from Ireland.
- Simultaneously attack british colonies on Africa.
- UK capitulates (no later 42-43).
- Through focus declare war on Portugal.
- Attack Portugal from Spain.
- Simultaneously attack portuguese colonies on Africa.
- Portugal capitulates (no later 43).
- Conitnue with belgium colonies.
- Wait for events to liberate countries (a month or so)
- Achievement done.

Nice job! This seems like the most efficient way to complete the achivement. How did you justify against Ireland when still in allies (country has to cause world tension and as part of allies you are tied to democracy's rules)?

[BlackSmoke 🏴‍☠]

Originally posted by The_Commissar:

Nice job! This seems like the most efficient way to complete the achivement. How did you justify against Ireland when still in allies (country has to cause world tension and as part of allies you are tied to democracy's rules)?

Well, being communist I could do it without trouble. You can be in allys and declare war on democratic country if you are communist or fascist. (Also note WT due to previous war against Spain and other factors).

South Africa being in Allied faction (19:00 - 7 january 1939):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851139409
South Africa justifying on Ireland (19:00 - 7 january 1939):
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=851139471
Also, this part:

- Leave allys.

Can be done just before declaring war on UK. You will get intel on UK & France Army, Navy, Air Force, their deployment and movements up to the last second before declaring war. Having your naval invasion plan, fleet and troops ready to be triggered just in the same second the war is declared you can minimize all the risks. Simple and effective. Just watching their forces and waiting for the precise instant to activate the entire process.

[Visual-Novel Voyeur]

''Well, being communist I could do it without trouble. You can be in allys and declare war on democratic country if you are communist or fascist. (Also note WT due to previous war against Spain and other factors)''.
Dosn't work for me, how did you get to justify on lreland?

[BlackSmoke 🏴‍☠]

Originally posted by Weezing Weezer Fan:

''Well, being communist I could do it without trouble. You can be in allys and declare war on democratic country if you are communist or fascist. (Also note WT due to previous war against Spain and other factors)''.
Dosn't work for me, how did you get to justify on lreland?

You must be free, not puppet.

[Visual-Novel Voyeur]

Well ofc l was :) l took care of spain but l can't justify on lreland

[BlackSmoke 🏴‍☠]

Originally posted by Weezing Weezer Fan:

Well ofc l was :) l took care of spain but l can't justify on lreland

Wich is your WT?

[Visual-Novel Voyeur]

81%

[BlackSmoke 🏴‍☠]

Don't know what happens in your precise case.

[calvinhobbesliker]

Originally posted by BlackSmoke:

Can be done just before declaring war on UK. You will get intel on UK & France Army, Navy, Air Force, their deployment and movements up to the last second before declaring war. Having your naval invasion plan, fleet and troops ready to be triggered just in the same second the war is declared you can minimize all the risks. Simple and effective. Just watching their forces and waiting for the precise instant to activate the entire process.

Doesn't the Anti Colonialist Crusade focus remove you from the Allies? Then it's 140 more days to get the Liberate British Colonies focus, so you won't be able to see British troops in that period. Or are you assuming that the troops stay roughly where they are?

[PotatoSauce]

quick question, I have the liberate colonies focus and i've already taken (and liberated) some of the african countries from the allies. The thing is tho that if you free them via the dicisions you get 2 options, puppet them or have them fully independent in your faction. I puppeted 1 of them but i'm now wondering. does the achievement fail when you puppet them as they arent completely free? or does it just have to be that all those african countries have their own government? And what about that part of south africa that you start with and one country has claims on? do you also need to liberate that part? thank you in advance for helping me!