Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

After losing a run as Democratic Guatemala (Pancho Villa invaded right after I established Central American Confederation) I started to play as Portugal and unfortunately I must say that their content is rather basic.

There will be some sort of rework of Portugal along with the Spain rework. Who knows when that is gonna happen though.
 
I still wonder why it was decided to remove the syndicalist and/or democratic options after losing the Mittelafrikan War in favour of adding in an absolutist path.
 
I still wonder why it was decided to remove the syndicalist and/or democratic options after losing the Mittelafrikan War in favour of adding in an absolutist path.
IMO they could add an AuthDem constitutional monarchy path and do something with the National Syndicalism as either an alternative NatPop path or a Totalist one.
 
Hooray! The Graphics overhaul of Kaiserreich is letting me in! A pity no one has updated Red World for the latest version though as I enjoyed that mod.

On the Vanilla Game I want to try and obtain the "My Ships Don't Lie" Achievement and, hopefully, form Gran Colombia while playing as Colombia; anyone got any strategy ideas for me?
 
Why does the UoB government banning the Liberals and Labour and dissolving the Parliament remind me of how the Bolsheviks shut down the Constituent Assembly the day it was convened after the SRs won elections for the Constituent Assembly?
parallelism? Not sure, not involved with the development. but from what I have seen it looks like it will be even more fun then the current UoB. :)
 
parallelism? Not sure, not involved with the development. but from what I have seen it looks like it will be even more fun then the current UoB. :)
But yeah, you could see why one could see parallels between how the UoB responded to Liberals and Labour winning big in the Provincial Parliament and how the Bolsheviks responded to the SRs being the dominant party in the Constituent Assembly?
 
If any Internationale state should be a one-party regime, it should be France.

I maintain that France should start as a Nazbol regime, and that Britain should be the more functional democracy. I DO think that they should include big segments of socdem, soclib, and pataut support in the starting wheel, with a mechanic where Mosley "converts" the right-wing vote to totalist support with naked English nationalism to reinforce the "red fascist" nature of his ideology and regime, and I wouldn't necessarily be opposed to a "reformist" socdem option.

I would definitely focus more on the TUC Congress, with each result having different gameplay options and being based on a larger series of events and decision trees. For example:
  1. Mosley focuses on state transformation, buildup for war, and making himself Eternal Leader.
  2. Horner/orthodox syndie option focuses on exporting the revolution by supporting socialism abroad and suborning Germany's world system.
  3. Mann/the compromise syndie option focuses on balancing domestic political interests (this is basically a hard-mode option there for flavor and fun).
  4. Kenney/the pacifist syndie option focuses on delaying WK2, strengthening Internationale collaboration, and avoiding war without caving to threats.
  5. y Glais/the radsoc option focuses on more esoteric anarchist theory, keeping the regionalism but focusing on a cultural revival program that strengthens each constituent of the Union with national spirits even as it decentralizes.
  6. A theoretical socdem option would try to offer concessions to a democratic and left-leaning Canada to end the stupid pissing match and allow exiles who aren't wanted for any crimes to come back peacefully.
Meanwhile France gameplay would be basically about Faure and Makhno leading anarchist resistance to the increasingly totalitarian and somewhere-between-Stalin-and-Strasser regime of the Sorellians, culminating in a power struggle late in 1936 that basically prevents France from jumping Germany while its puppets are all revolting and its economy is fucked. Makhno and Faure would democratize the nation and focus on building a defensive-minded military, while the nazbols would focus on purging opposition and building an all offense military to hit Germany as hard as possible.

Either way, I'm not fond of this change. The UoB is one bit of legacy lore that I think should be kept and worked with, rather than discarded like the old China lore (which tbh needed to go and we're better without because new China rocks).
 
A theoretical socdem option would try to offer concessions to a democratic and left-leaning Canada to end the stupid pissing match and allow exiles who aren't wanted for any crimes to come back peacefully.
Attlee or Bevan? Also, a Pollitt-led path ala the Jacobins in France (both the UoB and SRI should have Jacobin-esque paths) should be there as well.
 
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Attlee or Bevan? Also, a Pollitt-led path ala the Jacobins in France (both the UoB and SRI should have Jacobin-esque paths) should be there as well.
I disagree, the SRI politics are IMO interesting and fine as-is. The Jacobins could be part of the anti-Sorellian bloc that then makes a play for their own power?
 
I am not sure about everything being planned for the UoB, but I do believe that there is more going on and more paths then the three that UoB has now. Could be wrong though. But still this was just a tease on reddit, I recommend waiting till the Dev Diary itself comes out and the Devs are willing to reveal more information.
 
Oh yeah just realised new foundland is a place what happened to it?
According to the KR wiki, a 1926 referendum saw a majority for confederation. Given that some of the pressures that led to a reversion to colony in OTL would still have existed in KR, perhaps even exacerbated, this does not seem impossible in the context of the immediate post-Revolution environment.
 
So for the Union of Britain Fans out there, one of the Devs teased some stuff about the future UoB rework on reddit.
One thing I worry about is that there's a contingent - not on here, that I've seen - complaining about KR going anti-left (sometimes jumping on things like Ukraine's population being adjusted upward on account of no Holodomor as an example), and this will fuel that. I have thought that the UoB seemed oddly united behind syndicalism (with the exception of the Lawrence Coup, which instead became too quick and easy in HOI4 before being removed, thus in that one instance instead showing syndicalism as having much weaker popularity than it should have, and had a very binary perspective on things) without the kind of repression apparently now being introduced into the lore, but I feel that it might have been better to have more descriptions and events acknowledging that there are openly expressed opinions at least in the SocDem-SocLib range with sprinklings of the other further-right ideologies in the UoB, people expressing them just aren't in a position to come into power (well, syndicalist-aligned SocDem might have been possible, say as an option after an anti-Totalist coup/revolution). Instead the solution seems to have been to making the UoB more repressive, which does technically solve my complaint, but throwing out most of the previous This Is What the UoB Is in the process is a pretty big loss.
 
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One thing I worry about is that there's a contingent - not on here, that I've seen - complaining about KR going anti-left (sometimes jumping on things like Ukraine's population being adjusted upward on account of no Holodomor as an example), and this will fuel that. I have thought that the UoB seemed oddly united behind syndicalism (with the exception of the Lawrence Coup, which instead became too quick and easy in HOI4 before being removed, thus in that one instance instead showing syndicalism as having much weaker popularity than it should have, and had a very binary perspective on things) without the kind of repression apparently now being introduced into the lore, but I feel that it might have been better to have more descriptions and events acknowledging that there are openly expressed opinions at least in the SocDem-SocLib range with sprinklings of the other further-right ideologies in the UoB, people expressing them just aren't in a position to come into power (well, syndicalist-aligned SocDem might have been possible, say as an option after an anti-Totalist coup/revolution). Instead the solution seems to have been to making the UoB more repressive, which does technically solve my complaint, but throwing out most of the previous This Is What the UoB Is in the process is a pretty big loss.
If they seriously try to go this route, I will literally make a reddit account solely to complain, then I just won't play KR anymore. It's that cheap and nakedly pro-Entente, and considering that I already view the very idea of Canada as this happy democracy that's still single-mindedly focused on a pointless reclamation war to be a ludicrous fantasy at best, that's saying a lot.
 
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