Iberia
* My previous unreported playthroughs of Iberia included the rise of Opus Dei following the end of the dictatorship, as well as the collapse of Iberia following Salazar's death despite me doing almost everything right. I plan on torturing myself with an additional playthrough of Iberia to give a final assessment of how well the content holds up to contemporary standards. My end goal will either be to reform into a liberal democracy and to push as hard as I can with further reforms while avoiding a coup or civil war, or the easier to achieve Carnation Revolution. I don't have high hopes for my Iberia run.
Brazil
* Brazil is an underrated country with an overlooked history, and one that I've actually taken an interest in playing... mainly in Victoria 3. With that in mind, I'll either wait a good long while for Adhemar to get content, or I'll just go with the flow and see what happens in the four years that are already playable.
China
* The full decade of content for China. I did two playthroughs prior: the first was derailed by a shrimp boat causing World War III in the summer of '67; the second one was much better. I haven't played China since before the facelift that came with Toolbox Theory, so I want to do another campaign to see how well the narrative experience holds up.
South Africa
* The focal point of its namesake war, the South African War. I for one am not really good at fighting wars in HOI4 but I think my skills are sufficient enough to prolong the conflict enough as to where I can exhaust the focus tree and give my updated perspective.e.
The Southern Urals At-Large
*
Orenburg, the
Ural League,
Magnitogorsk, and the
Dirlewanger Brigade. There's definitely been facelifts/touchups/minor reworks since the original release of TNO, not to mention the two demos. Orenburg was a personal favorite long before the Siberian Black Army was playable. I intend to see how they hold up as we approach five years since the release of the Old World Blues demo in the spring of 2019.
Japan
* Specific campaign TBD, might either go for Takagi again or might play Ikeda instead. Japan getting a facelift in The Ruin means I absolutely ought to try this again. I don't expect things to be as interesting or as exciting as my original AAR/retrospective, which is still one of my favorite things that I've posted to this site.
Guangdong
* I played a Fujitsu campaign last Autumn, linked below. I plan on doing a Sony run, and I plan on improving my personal experience to the best of my ability by using the Sony Plus mod. Because I can, that's why. I'm actually looking forward to this one.
United States
* It's been too long since I've done a proper full-length US campaign. I tried a few times with Hart but his content was far too buggy for me to enjoy. I'll either give Hart another chance or I'll try something different, like a Bennett campaign or a two-term Wallace Presidency where he avoids advancing segregation. Or maybe I'll try and get Hall elected and give you my thoughts on his first 100 days. Nothing's set in stone, of course, but I'll take the opportunity to go over the revised proxy conflicts and the CIA mechanics while I'm at it.
A West Russian Warlord
* Obviously gonna play
Komi. Not Taboritsky though, he's been memed to death and there's enough grimdark stuff going on in real life as it is. Instead I'll either maintain a liberal democracy under Ivan Morozov or I'll bring in one of the leftists.
A West Siberian Warlord
* I'll flip a coin: Heads, I play
Omsk and see what the whole fuss is about the
Great Trial. Tails, I do a somewhat more uplifting
Sverdlovsk run under Batov.
A Central Siberian Warlord
* The Siberian Black Army is my favorite Russian "warlord" "state" and my first game of TNO at release all the way back in 2020. As such I... will
not be replaying them, but I'll stick in a blurb about how much I enjoyed the nuanced narrative of a large-scale organization of society on anarcho-communist lines. I'll probably play
Novosibirsk.
A Far Eastern Warlord
* WerBell and Sablin have been memed to hell and back, I'm not interested in following fascists, Alexander Men's content remains skeletonized as of the current version, and both puppet monarchs and tyrants aren't my thing. This therefore means my relevant campaign with either be
Irkutsk with the Party empowered, or
Chita with Tsar Mikhail II empowered.
The Others
Campaigns for
Onega,
Zlatoust,
Yunnan,
RKs Zentralafrika and
Ostafrika, and the
Republic of Ukraine may also happen, or they may not. Any campaign options that are on the losing end of a coin flip I'll either play anyway, try out in 2025, or I'll simply never get around to them. I won't play Germany until after it and its Civil War gets reworked, whenever that happens to be. Also won't touch Italy until after Penelope's Web drops, whenever that happens to be as well.
Needless to say, between my focus on trying yet again to get my life sorted out and my interest in other games more than HOI4 this year, don't be surprised if i don't even cover a quarter of this list. But you have my permission to be disappointed in advance.
