Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg

[Md139115]

If you want to avoid the civil war, you need to meet with Reed, concede to some but not all of his demands, then have Long assassinated and hope it works.

Yeah, I found that out by accident last night while trying to look up why the war hadn’t been declared over despite all hostilities having ended (there was like a 72 hour gap and I thought I screwed up something big).

Out of curiosity though, how does this whole McArthur or Pacific States thing happen? I keep seeing references to it elsewhere but nothing like that occurred in game. Does it have something to do with me not moving the capital from Washington? That’s the only thing I can think of.

 

[GDIS Pathe]

Yeah, I found that out by accident last night while trying to look up why the war hadn’t been declared over despite all hostilities having ended (there was like a 72 hour gap and I thought I screwed up something big).

Out of curiosity though, how does this whole McArthur or Pacific States thing happen? I keep seeing references to it elsewhere but nothing like that occurred in game. Does it have something to do with me not moving the capital from Washington? That’s the only thing I can think of.

Elect Long or Reed

 

[Worffan101]

Yeah, I found that out by accident last night while trying to look up why the war hadn’t been declared over despite all hostilities having ended (there was like a 72 hour gap and I thought I screwed up something big).

Out of curiosity though, how does this whole McArthur or Pacific States thing happen? I keep seeing references to it elsewhere but nothing like that occurred in game. Does it have something to do with me not moving the capital from Washington? That’s the only thing I can think of.

No, if you elect Reed or Long, or IIRC the coalition doesn't form and anyone but Garner wins, MacArthur coups. IN which case the Pacific states secede in the name of democracy and "MacArthur you prick you just broke America".

 

[Godwin]

No, if you elect Reed or Long, or IIRC the coalition doesn't form and anyone but Garner wins, MacArthur coups. IN which case the Pacific states secede in the name of democracy and "MacArthur you prick you just broke America".

Landon or Garner.

 

[Worffan101]

Landon can prevent the coup? Huh, fair enough, I stand corrected.

 

[Godwin]

Yup. MacArthur is a Republican after all.

 

[Vince]

My usual playthrough of the US in the civil war involves massing everything in Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland anyways (Fortress Washington). For some damn reason, I can't get the Long assassination to kill Long. I gave up after eight re-loads of the event.

 

[Godwin]

My usual playthrough of the US in the civil war involves massing everything in Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland anyways (Fortress Washington). For some damn reason, I can't get the Long assassination to kill Long. I gave up after eight re-loads of the event.

I haven't actually done an Olson run yet, so I can't speak on that. However on Civil War Strategy, I make sure I retain New Jersey and New York City typically and begin with an aggressive Pennsylvania push, before pulling a defensive position on the Eastern Seaboard (with small offensives against Long in the Carolinas. The issues here are the rivers.) The rest of the time I spend massing troops in the West and hammering Long into submission while making a quick capture of Chicago and Michigan. By then the War is basically over and all I have to do is take care of the pacific.

 

[Vince]

I haven't actually done an Olson run yet, so I can't speak on that. However on Civil War Strategy, I make sure I retain New Jersey and New York City typically and begin with an aggressive Pennsylvania push, before pulling a defensive position on the Eastern Seaboard (with small offensives against Long in the Carolinas. The issues here are the rivers.) The rest of the time I spend massing troops in the West and hammering Long into submission while making a quick capture of Chicago and Michigan. By then the War is basically over and all I have to do is take care of the pacific.

My strategy is similar to that. I'll cover the border on Kentucky and Tennesse. As soon as the war starts I push Pennsylvania to take Philadelphia and NYC then turn around and push through the rest of Penn and Ohio. I can usually get through to Detriot and Indiana then take Chicago to annex the CSA. Once that's down I push through the south taking the Carolinas, Atlanta and swing over to the Mississippi. Pushing through Texas will take care of Long by that point. If the PSA exists I just march to California as by this point I outnumber them 3 to 1.

If you start the game and put all your factories toward guns you can usually have around ~30 or so National Guard divisions deployed before the start of the war making it that much easier.

 

[Godwin]

My strategy is similar to that. I'll cover the border on Kentucky and Tennesse. As soon as the war starts I push Pennsylvania to take Philadelphia and NYC then turn around and push through the rest of Penn and Ohio. I can usually get through to Detriot and Indiana then take Chicago to annex the CSA. Once that's down I push through the south taking the Carolinas, Atlanta and swing over to the Mississippi. Pushing through Texas will take care of Long by that point. If the PSA exists I just march to California as by this point I outnumber them 3 to 1.

If you start the game and put all your factories toward guns you can usually have around ~30 or so National Guard divisions deployed before the start of the war making it that much easier.

Typically while I recognize it's strategically better to focus on guns, I rush out a light tank division. Even just that little bit of mobility in the early war is beyond useful. I also like to ensure air supremacy.

 

[Lord Insane]

The Music Mod has been split up. There's a main required music mod (if you want Kaiserreich music), and - currently - two modules that can be mixed and matched, one for Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and one for Asia and Oceania.

 

[Md139115]

Question: once the US wins the civil war, how do I get the seceded states back as core territory? Right now they’re colony states which isn’t helping my manpower or building slots all that much.

 

[Halocon]

Question: once the US wins the civil war, how do I get the seceded states back as core territory? Right now they’re colony states which isn’t helping my manpower or building slots all that much.

There’s a reconstruction tree I’m pretty sure, or decisions

 

[Worffan101]

I forgot how insanely fast lategame USA and successors can build nukes.

The Commonwealth of America now has enough cobalt-salted province-busters to take out half the planet.

Question: once the US wins the civil war, how do I get the seceded states back as core territory? Right now they’re colony states which isn’t helping my manpower or building slots all that much.

Should be reconstruction decisions for 80 pp.

 

[Strategos' Risk]

*totally unprompted* I just remembered a few months ago someone posted on the subreddit that the Spanish Civil War is getting reworked in favor of plausibility. I hope it preserves the three-sided nature of the conflict, otherwise I will be much sad. Someone make a meme about all of the ideas (La Plata, Syndicalist South Italy, Khan Ungern-Sternberg, etc.) that have fallen to plausibility over the past year.

 

[1SaBy]

*totally unprompted* I just remembered a few months ago someone posted on the subreddit that the Spanish Civil War is getting reworked in favor of plausibility. I hope it preserves the three-sided nature of the conflict, otherwise I will be much sad. Someone make a meme about all of the ideas (La Plata, Syndicalist South Italy, Khan Ungern-Sternberg, etc.) that have fallen to plausibility over the past year.

According to the Q&A the devs did, the Spanish Civil War will be a bit different, more like the OTL one. It'll start with three tags - Monarchists, Republicans and Socialists. Republicans and Socialists will cooperate at the start (don't remember if they form a short-term faction or just a non-aggression pact), but if the Monarchists get defeated, they will turn on each other. The Reichspakt, the Entente and the Third Internationale will each have their horse in the race as the Monarchists, Republicans and Socialists, respectively.

Not sure how the Entente helping Republicans who are cooperating with the Socialists will work though.

 

[Strategos' Risk]

Funnily enough, I was thinking of a similar configuration for a Canadian Civil War infobox. Though monarchism-republicanism-socialism is sort of the set up for the imminent Weltkrieg anyway, so that's unsurprising.

 

[GDIS Pathe]

Not sure how the Entente helping Republicans who are cooperating with the Socialists will work though.

IIRC it's less the Entente backing the Republicans than the Portuguese backing a nascent Carlist faction in the Republicans who have thrown their lot in with the Reps because the Kingdom hates their guts

 

[Landser03]

IIRC it's less the Entente backing the Republicans than the Portuguese backing a nascent Carlist faction in the Republicans who have thrown their lot in with the Reps because the Kingdom hates their guts

I was under the assumption that the Carlists were under the monarchist tag and had the opportunity to overthrow the Alphonsists post civil war. Similar to how they sided with Franco OTL. I think the Entente just has the opportunity to support the republicans or the Monarchists, and not exclusively tied to the Carlists.

 

[GDIS Pathe]

I was under the assumption that the Carlists were under the monarchist tag and had the opportunity to overthrow the Alphonsists post civil war. Similar to how they sided with Franco OTL. I think the Entente just has the opportunity to support the republicans or the Monarchists, and not exclusively tied to the Carlists.

Yeah sorry, Monarchist, not Republicans. The Spanish dev said that both the Carlist and most of the Republicans parties are Pro-Entente. The kingdom is pro-RP and the CNT-FAI is a bunch of woke anarchists