R.5: I wanted to see what you can achieve with the Soviet Union one last time before Barbarossa and No Step Back. As per usual, I tried to accomplish my goal as quickly as possible in regards to ingame time. This was done in Ironman, 1.10.5 with all DLCs and no paratroopers. But of course there’s cheese involved.

The basic idea behind the strategy is to justify against a puppet of Japan first thing and plan naval invasions into Japan and Germany. In the meantime, kick Tannu Tuva and Mongolia from your faction, delete Comintern and create a new faction with Turkey. This will allow your Black Sea fleet access to the mediterrainian. Use the access to Turkey to plan naval invasions into Italy.

For some reason, Japan will join the Axis as soon as your divisions make landfall. If you already have your Baltic fleet in place and naval invasions prepared, you can and should immediately launch. Same with Italy. They’ll join sometime after Germany does. It is vital that you slow game speed down to one to be able to unassign and reassign divisions onto your naval invasion plans to get more than 10 divisions across at a time.