Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The "Sheep's Mod" improves the Hearts of Iron IV AI and gives a more challenging experience for the player. In this video I will be playing as Germany using pro strategies to defeat the mod's AI. This guide is for players who want to improve their HOI4 Germany build as well as advanced players. If you learned anything from this video, please consider subscribing. Cheers!

Focus Tree Order:
1. Rhineland
2. Fuhrer Prinzip
3. Fritz Todt
4. Four Year Plan
5. Autarky Efforts
6. Pirce Controls
7. Accelerate Rearmament
8. Establish Production Targets
9. Albert Speer
10. Concentrate Armament
11. Reorganize Werhmacht
12. Reichsautobahn
13. Ruhr Dam
14. Rudolf Hess
15. KDF Wagen
16. Research Slot
17. Expand The Luftwaffe
18. Jagdwaffe
19. Joseph Goebbels
20. Manuever Warfare
21 . Adopt New Panzer Doctrine
22. Panzer Troop School
23. Anschluss
24. Reassert Eastern Claims
25. Sudetanland
26. First Vienna Award
27. Fate of Czech
28. Coal Liquidization
29. Buna Werke
30. Advanced Panzer Research
31. Aeronautical Institute
32. Uralbomber
33. Molitov Pact
34. Danzig or War
35. Around Maginot
36. Develop The Knickebien
37. Operation Weserbung
38. Zentrale PLanning
39. Loyalty To Der Fuhrer
40. Kummersdorf Capacity
41. Auftragstaktik
42. Panzergrenadier
43. Afrikakorps
44. Armament Rationalization
45. Swiss Gold
46. Nationalize Ford
47. Rosenberg Office
48. Establish The Reichswerke
49. Seize Foreign Industries
50. Military Motorcyle
51. Salvage Captured Equipement
52. Demands To Sweden
53. Autaruky Achieved
54. Improved Logistics
55. Demonstration of Military Achievement
56. Anti- Commintern Pact
57. War with the USSR
58. Kriegslokomotiven
59. Autobauhn South and East
60. Germany Army Invincible

PP Buys
1. Kietel
2. Hjalmar Schacht
3. War Eco
4. Reinhard Heydrich
5. Organization of Todt
6. Price Controls- upgrade to keep consumer goods around 0 percent
7. Reichs Minister of Labor
8. Hermann Goering
9. Eric Raeder
10. Von richtoven- battlefield support doctrine
11. Gunter Von kluge
12. Erwin Rommel
13. Fedor Von bock
14. Gerd Von Rundstedt
15. Heinz Guderian- Mobile Warfare Doctrine

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Rule Set
01:01 Tank/ Plane Build
03:59 Setting Up The Mod
04:52 Set Up Phase
08:31 Intel Agency Build
09:23 Build Continued
11:09 Tank Convert Template/ Conversion Tank
12:08 Build Mils/ Price Controls
12:32 Inner Circle/ Build Continues
15:40 Start Fighter/ Promote Generals
17:58 Tank Converts/ Tank Finalized
19:52 Start of War
24:26 Can We Win?

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