I am trying the US now too. Currently with President Bennett, who's very centrist, but leaning towards the Republicans and Civil Rights. We'll see how it goes. My hope is to turn the NPP into a regional Dixiecrat party and basically have the rest of the country for the good old R-Ds.
In...
So I played as the WRRF - Tukachevsky yesterday. To fully reunify Russia I had to use the console commands to allow war declarations (allowdiplo nocb) because the option to invade Eastern Siberia or diplomatically unify with them never came up.
Tukachevsky is a pretty brutal ruler - the USSR...
Oh , and in my China game the US and Japan started WWIII over a shrimp boat. Japan conquered Australia and New Zealand and there was a whole lot of naval war and fighting in the Aleutians, but it never went nuclear.
It was annoying that I was fighting in WWIII and Japan still wouldn't let me...
Literally a BILLION words!?!?. That's amazing. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the mod.
I had yesterday off and stayed up far too late playing. I played all the way to '72/the end of their trees as China. Then I played up to '69 as O M S K and am just about to charge across the...
It's possible, though I imagine most of it would be more client states and puppets and less direct rule. Kind of like the Princely States in India, with direct European rule on the fringes and in key ports.
OK, so the Red Army is a mess at this time and the Soviets will have logistical problems.
But if Japan tries to push into Siberia any reasonable distance aren't they also going to have huge logistical problems? It's Siberia in 1939, there's one decent railroad and that's it. And the winters...
So the thing is that the US had three good reasons to support decolonization.
1. Moral/Political: If the USSR can fully seize on anti-colonialism as an issue that only they support, pretty much every country that gains independence is going to align with them. And the US public won't be happy...
It'd be nice to have WWI end early with a compromise peace, yes.
I don't know if that's what would result from us being less willing to lend money to the Entente though.
If you're close enough to land and not having to go project power, yeah.
Though at that point just scrap the battleship and use the money to build more land-based air...
If enough bombs fell to cause a nuclear winter, well, the US wouldn't be so happy anymore.
It'd be an empirical test of whether a limited nuclear war would cause nuclear winter. I for one am glad we didn't go through that test.
Yeah, that's not this scenario. This is more a three (or possibly more) sided Cold War between the good old USA (that ranges from well-intentioned attempts to preserve democtacy to coldly playing power politics) and two sets of Fascist imperialist bastards (whose level of bastardness and...
AFAIK in terms of tonnage delivered it was something like 50% through Iran, 35% through Vladivostok, 15% through Murmansk.
But the most important stuff was often sent through Murmansk because it would get to the front the fastest.
The thing is there isn't all that much helium in the world.
So if you want really gigantic zeppelins of the sort that could carry hundreds of people in style, they'll need to use hydrogen I would guess.