Full game Speedrun Guide thing (World Conquest)

So, you want to conquer za warldo and you wanna do it quick huh. Well, this'll be somewhat of a guide. For starters, country pick. A minor, like Belarus, San Marino, French guiana, etc are completely unviable. It would take way to much time, albeit, in my small amount of testing (Russia and Belarus, as well as Algeria) Europe, the caucuses, Turkey, central Asia, and Mongolia took roughly an hour as Russia, including forming the Russian empire. Meanwhile for Belarus, it took an hour and a half to form the European Union, with the first half hour being forming ruthenia, the second being intermarinum, and third being EU. African Union took roughly 2 hours as Algeria too. So yeah, you're looking at about quarter of a day for this run. Next, country pick for the run out of the majors: China, Russia, Germany, Egypt, DROC, South Africa, Spain, France, USA, UK, etc. Russia is a great choice for the run, no releasables, Lots of resources meaning you can have civilian factories up quickly, meaning stability won't be a problem, or so you think. This is due to war exhaustion. You want to be at war damn near constantly for the fastest time, but this means that you get a lot of war exhaustion, even with breaks from wars *cough cough China cough cough India cough cough USA* this'll still be a problem, hence why you don't want to do it as China, Israel, or any other countries with releasables at start date. Even then, France, Germany, And Spain are good for a different reason: Colonial Empires. You have an excuse to conquer the world, and a late game stability up. This may be more helpful than you think, especially with Spain's early formable in the form of the Iberian Union, which you can save for later. Same applies for the Frankish Empire, Kingdom of Croatia, Qing Dynasty, and to an extent, even Soviet Union/Russian Empire. Never form too early unless you are on world record pace for it. Now, actual strategy for the run. As Russia and China TAKE KAZAKHSTAN IMMEDIATELY. There is a reason China players tend to rush Kazakhstan and Mongolia, they have a Lot of resources, get them early and get them Fast! For Russia, Mongolia isn't as necessary, as you have plenty of gold and copper already, but Kazakhstan is vital in any run here. Also, you're probably wondering why I'm not suggesting USA, Brazil, or India. They are all democracies, the stability drop sucks. Also, in the case of the USA, you have releasable nations at the start, so, USA may be powerful and really annoying on half the public servers, but they have a severe flaw (kinda like real life). Next up, after the first formable is secured. After you do that, either aim for the second, or continental unification, unless it fulfills both, in which case do both. As an example, as Russia, after you form, rush down Europe. Lots of resources, and also the Conquest of Istanbul/Constantinople/Tsarigrad. Afterwards, your first major war: China or the USA. Never attempt both at the same time, and don't be at war before it. You WILL be in it for a while. For China, rush it through sinkiang, manchuria, and Mongolia, and try and do it fast enough so that they do not collapse. For the USA, have Arctic Specialisation troopt invade alaska and naval invade New England and the deep south before the CSA or Texas pop out. For invading Russia you need Europe and some land in the far east. Arctic specialisation siberia and rush down through Europe. Same thing kinda extends to invading Canada and even Norway. Arctic Specialisation is king. For Brazil and South America in general, Jungle Specialisation is king, same for India and Central Africa. For the sahara, Southern Africa, Australia and the Western USA, as well as most of Mexico and Chile, use Arid specialisation. Training them up takes time, but it's worth it. In other information, Roads and other minor optimization will save minutes instead of seconds, I KNOW you can potentially take Europe in under an hour. That's it for now though. Bye, and hope you enjoy your read, and any future runs of this! Good luck!

Later Notes: In my mali run no more than a few minutes ago as of writing this section, i learned that specialisation troops cannot be stacked with troops with specialisation anymore. Use this to your advantage, especially when invading brazil, congo, the middle east, canada, russia, etc.

Optimizing your Run

Well, here is a guide where I'm going to tell you some "techniques" or game mechanics that can help you save some seconds of your RON speedrun!

𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱𝘀:
Roads help any kind of ground troops to move faster if they are moving trough one of this. They are made by clicking on a city, build road, and clicking another city on the map to make the road.

Here an example:
https://i.imgur.com/lV4M81I.gif

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀:
Sometimes you can find countries that have 2 cities that are by the border and are really close, in this scenarios you can build a fortress on the city of the country you control and move your troops there, after that, you can declare war on that country and make their troops move to that Border city to reconquer it, once they get there they will engage in combat with your troops that will have a defense boost cause of the fortress, making you lose less troops! and getting rid of the AI country troops.

Here an example:
https://i.imgur.com/9wapFTV.gif

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁:
As you may know, in RON there are biomes and terrains, that depending on which one your troops are, will get a certain debuff. You can check the terrain and the biomes on the map section. And sometimes... you can get around it! You shouldn't always take the closest distance cause it could have a heavier debuff than another route, maybe you could even choose to go by another country to get a better terrain, but quick! cause if you stay too long your troops on that country will get a debuff (supposing that that country isn't your ally).

Example:
https://i.imgur.com/aQg3jtc.gif

And for last...

𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳:
Sometimes, you just need to try to come with unique ideas to get rid of the country's troops without losing too much troops, like for an example, you could make them go through debuff zones  to weak them or make them enter the sea to destroy their troops with an boat. You will just find out by thinking and testing!

Example:
https://i.imgur.com/S4m9EW7.gif

Speedrun tips

So, you want to get the best time? Well, I’m here to help. Here are some ways that you can speed up your runs and maybe even get a record.

1. Go in with a plan

Instead of wasting time constantly jumping into runs and constantly reattempting, look at some other runs and see what they do to devise a strategy. Every run is different and strategies can change depending on what biomes you’re in, the strength of the nations you want to take, and so much more.

2. Use everything you know to speed up time

Any small features you know can hand you records. All time saving features help (forming lines instead of splitting, roads, etc.) and anything buffing your troops helps. (technology, specialization, generals, training, etc.) 

3. Experiment with your run

Try to find specific ways to optimize runs in your specific scenarios. For example, want to form Dutch Empire and Indonesia gets in your way? Navy! Find you can lure troops into mountains? Artillery and forts! Use everything at your disposal, even features you may think twice about.

4. Be prepared to fail

If you want that number 1 spot, chances are you won’t get it first time, but even failed runs are a strong asset. See and compare what you did compared to faster times and implement those newfound strategies into your runs. Your times should get smaller and smaller until you get what you want.

5. Don’t give up

You’ve heard these three words so many times, but they really help. You might just be a few optimizations away from getting that #1 title!

These are just 5 steps of many you can take. If you can’t seem to find a strategy, search YouTube. There is so much there and a lot more. To see some ways to use game features in detail, look at the Optimizing your run guide in our guides.

Happy running!

-Circle

Tiers, Releasables, and Other country related details.

From France to New Zealand (or Aotearoa), From China to Liechtenstein, From the CSA to Shanxi to Tibet, there are lots of playable countries in the Roblox game that uses assets from Hoi4 and Eu4 (fun trivia fact I noticed) known as Rise Of Nations, with a bigger speedrunning community than the game that I presume it's named after, also called Rise Of Nations. Trivia ramblings aside, the main goal of this guide is to line up general Tiers for each country, With hopefully no inconsistencies, so that newcomers to the community know what tier each place is, specifically for Releasables, as they are thier own tier on the wiki. The two currently with formables (as of writing on Saturday the 11th Of December 2021), Shanxi and the CSA are Tiers IV-V, due to thier large size and decent starting economy, like other regional powers that aren't massively strong, like Saudi Arabia, Mexico, And South Korea. For the other Releasables, it starts getting a bit fuzzy though, albeit some, like palenstine, are very easy. Palenstine is a tier 1. It is an OPM, like most other Tier 1 nations (we'll get to that later). The other ones, mainly concentrated in China, are more complex, albeit some are quite simple. Sinkiang and Tibet have a decent land area, but not a lot of cities, and especially no 1m+ cities at start, so they are both tier 2 (II) . The other Chinese Releasables all vary from 3-6. Why 6? Simple. Anhui has a massive amount of manpower and a very, Very big city in the form of a minor place, not sure you've heard of it before, It's called Shanghai, one of the most populated cities at start date, only beaten by Tokyo, hence why it alone elevates Anhui to tier 6. Qinghai is tier III, and the rest are tier IV-V. With the exception of Bavaria and Texas, Both of which are tier 3, All other Releasables not mentioned yet are tier 2. Anyway, back to the OPMs are all tier 1 side note? Well, there arev2 exceptions to this rule, Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which are tier III due to having more than 20k troops, having 30k and 40k respectively. Also, I want to see the concesus on Luxembourg being tier 1 or 2 for reasons involving more categories of benelux,and Luxembourg's lack of land. Until the debate is concluded, put your Luxembourg benelux runs in either. For all other non mentioned countries, use the wiki, as I am too lazy to write over 100 different countries and their tier. A link is found for it in the bottom most guide. Anyway, hopefully this helps!

Website to View the Tier of a Certain Country

https://ronroblox.fandom.com/wiki/Nation

Just scroll down until you find the country and what tier it is under. That's what the country's tier is.

World Conquest Guide (updated for more recent versions).

So, you want to do a world conquest speedrun, and want a 'helpful' and 'convenient' guide to do so. Well, I'll attempt to help with that, with an updated guide from my guide from a few years ago which was honestly kinda bad. This will be using my last 2 public server games as Saudi Arabia and Spain as a template, so strategies may not be 100% accurate, and will probably not work for smaller countries, however larger countries are definitely usable for it (guide is mostly applicable for tiers 4 (IV) to 8 (VIII)). Anyway, to get started, make sure you are justifying all the time, unless you are in a public server, in which case do not justify on players, or at least work around them, and for the most part, if you are in a public server, just aggressively expand into the ai,  and avoid threatening players too much, lest you end up in a very dangerous war, especially if the player you are playing against is very good. Patience is key for both private and public servers. There is no rule against ceding stuff to players, but there are rules against getting stuff ceded to you (because you could just have a friend cede an entire country to you, which would give you a massive advantage over other world conquest runs), so use this to your advantage in inter-player politics if you need to to gain an advantage. Allying players in public servers is key for defence and offence, and most servers 'die' before and/or approaching 2025-2030, so things should start to snowball by that point, especially if you are building up lots of troops. Going nationalism/fascism is also advantageous if you're going for a world conquest, due to gaining stability when declaring wars, and you'll be declaring a stupidly large number of wars, numbering in the hundreds. This also leads us into the war management section: how many wars do I want to be in? Try and be in a relatively high number of wars. Early-game this'll be reaching up to 3 wars, however once you have a large number of units, keep BELOW 15 wars. 15 is currently an arbitrary number, however I'll figure out the true optimum number of wars later. Why do you want to manage your war number? War exhaustion gain. You do NOT want to get to 10 war exhaustion, no matter the stability, as 10 war exhaustion causes your stability to CRUMBLE, no matter the number, stability goal, etc, and it will lose you YEARS. Preferably, stay below 8 war exhaustion, however going 8-9 is still an option, especially near the edge of the war limit. You will almost certainly get skills shortage during your run, and that's OK, it can go away via event after like 40 years. For stability, INVEST IN CONSUMER GOODS, or you could purchase them from other players, especially if you aren't planning on going in their direction for a long time (eg. If they're in the Americas and you're focusing on Europe, Asia, and Africa- which I'll be referring to as the world island (referencing an old geopolitical theory) for brevity). You also want to have maximum government spending, and if you're desperate, invest in the centre path of political tech. You should always take the first one of it at some point during your run. Going the top path is also very useful for policies, for which you should take as many as your political power gain will allow, but not at the beginning, because you still need to flip to nationalism for dat juicy justification speed and stability. "What if I'm playing as a country that doesn't start as non-aligned though?" If you're playing as a country that starts as a different ideology, if it's democracy, use a different country to flip, preferably that's easy to invade, like Cuba for the USA, North Korea for Japan, or even China could be a good option if you're both players in the region (eg. Playing Japan with friendly China player or India with friendly China player). If none of those are options, just flip to non-aligned using one of your neighbours. For socialism and communism you can just stay the same, they're good enough on their own. Please note that if you do flip, you will get a negative modifier for a few years that may put you into low stability. You can mostly ignore it, especially as Brazil or USA after flipping, due to them having relatively easy formables to buy you stability time (North American Union and Empire of Brazil respectively). Japan can ignore it through not having any releasable countries (yet), and same for India, though that also has a convenient formable. All this talk about formables brings us onto an important section with the advent of formable nation modifiers: What things do I form, and should I form any formable nations at all? So far, the resounding answer for this from me is a yes, form everything you can between wars/groups of wars, with one, singular exception (that I know of right now): The European Union. DO NOT FORM THE EUROPEAN UNION. It gives a modifier that part of which gives you stability cost to declare wars +2, which you need to flip over to fascism to counter, and WILL sabotage you in the long run, unless you can quickly form something else to get rid of the horrible modifier (minus the construction cost that's actually kinda good, so you can do some quick development, especially paired with the improve infrastructure policy, so there could be strats which you form eu, run a round of factory building and develop cities and then form something like Spanish empire for it's amazing modifier). Particular modifiers of note to me are Arab league and Islamic Caliphate, which LITERALLY INCREASE UNIT ATTACK/DEFENCE. If you can't tell, I'm pretty sure that it's op. Especially caliphate, it is legit one of, if not the best modifier in the game. If playing as a country that can form them, FORM THEM. Iberian Union also has a pretty good earlygame modifier which you should get early on, before continuing your expansion. Other key things of note is only invade one major nation at a time (don't invade the United States and Russia at the same time, or China or Russia, or Iran and Egypt, unless you're already most of a continent, or a full continent or 2), micro for specific countries (specifically Antarctica, Falklands, any starting naval invasion, Greenland), when invading islands use 60k-70k infantry unit stacks, specialisation for Antarctica, amazon rainforest, the Arctic circle (Norway, Russia, Canada, Greenland if you want less micro, Faroe islands, and Iceland), and the Middle east/north Africa- just use it wherever applicable. You should also use a boat for some specific countries to make them easier (eg. Faroe islands, Antarctica), and always build recruitment centers and develop cities if you have enough money (especially highly populated cities such as Tokyo), though at this point this is more of a generally skilled gameplay guide for pure infantry builds more than a world conquest guide. So yeah, hopefully this wall of text is useful for gameplay purposes.

ToxicChimney

Armedix

Cirrcle

ShinyAltaria13

ROBLOX: Rise of Nations

Czechoslovakia

Empire of Brazil

Cook Islands Federation

Kyrgyzstan

RiseOfNationsNub

Nato32

TemdoesSpeedruns

CheesyButterscotch

Private

Public

Nigeria

Peru

Thailand

Vietnam

Aruba

Germany

Ethiopia

Poland

Bahamas

Ukraine

Croatia

United Kingdom

Haiti

Netherlands

South Korea

Russia

Brazil

Benin

Equatorial Guinea

Turkey

Montenegro

Finland

Democratic Republic of the Congo

South Africa

China

Czech Republic

Greece

Kazakhstan

United States

Syria

Egypt

Spain

Fiji

Bulgaria

Switzerland

India

Lithuania

Georgia

Sweden

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Post-Biomes

Legacy

North Korea

Guatemala

Serbia

Guinea

Iran

Ghana

Estonia

Colombia

Mongolia

Albania

Guyana

Taiwan

Mozambique

Burma

Yemen

Israel

Belarus

Angola

San Manino

Norway

Mexico

Pakistan

Latvia

Liberia

French Guiana

Botswana

Azerbaijian

Algeria

Slovakia

Uzbekistan

Mauritania

Gibraltar

Somalia

Slovenia

Togo

Tunisia

Indonesia

United Arab Emirates

Zimbabwe

Libya

Liechtenstein

Italy

Cuba

Japan

Mali

Argentina

Malawi

Sudan

Qatar

Belgium

Isle of Man

Romania

France

Shanxi

Chad

Server

Starting Country

Update

A new category **Post-Leaders** has been added!

### New Formables

- Aceh Sultanate
- Bangsamoro Republik
- Chola Dynasty
- Johor Sultanate
- Raj of Sarawak
- Sikh Empire
- Sultanate of Sulu
- Tibetan Empire
- United Papua
- United Provinces of China
- United Turkic States

### New Missions

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Namn	Författare
Full game Speedrun Guide thing (World Conquest)	ShinyAltaria13 3 years ago
Optimizing your Run	Armedix 4 years ago
Speedrun tips	Cirrcle 3 years ago
Tiers, Releasables, and Other country related details.	ShinyAltaria13 3 years ago
Website to View the Tier of a Certain Country	ToxicChimney 5 years ago
World Conquest Guide (updated for more recent versions).	ShinyAltaria13 2 years ago