Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg
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So, the "saner" bits of Savinkov's regime lore as it stands should be transferred to the military regime (or the absolutist Romanov path) with Savinkov transformed into a psychotic lunatic, that's what you're saying?
I think so. It would give some more flavor to each of the right-wing authoritarians. Some of them SHOULD be better or worse options than others IMO (for example, one tsar should be more effective than the other, Savinkov should be stronger than a military dictatorship up against a Europarat Reichspakt, that kinda thing), but they should each have a distinct flavor and a slightly different playstyle.
I also think the Vozhd should be the AI's most likely option for Russia, like 50% of the time or something like that, because the idea of a psychopathic revanchist boiling out of Russia trying to drown everybody within two thousand miles of the Russian border in their own blood is a really good villain concept IMO.
Speaking of the Tsars, it would be great if we got some events describing Russia's coversion back into a monarchy and the obstacles that have to be overcome during this process. Such obstacles include:
--Resistance from the Bolsheviks
--Dissent within the army (this becomes a smaller problem if Wrangel does his coup beforehand)
--Unrest amongst the Russian people (especially with the peasantry)
--The collapsing economy
And the ways these problems are solved can depend on what path you take with the restoration of the Tsars. For example, if you go down the absolute monarchy path, this allows more extreme options to be available, but runs the risk of further destabilizing Russia and even leading to the 2nd Civil War. If you go down the consitutional monarchy path, this allows you to push for reforms in the monarchy in order to prevent a repeat of the mistakes of the last Tsar, as well as empowering other parts of the government such as the Duma and Senate, which can lead to these obstacles being solved in a much safer way.
What would be second most likely? Neo-Soviets? Tsarist Autocracy 2.0? Military Junta under the true Vozhd Wrangel?
how do you see each of central America pathways? and do you see Costa Rica and Panama joining central America?
I just like the detail on them, I don't have a favorite. I like the republican and socialist paths politically but the military junta one is interesting.
what makes the military one interesting? and what set the other paths from the rest?
All of them are interesting, they have lots of variety. I like the socialist one because I'm a dirty syndie, I like the republic one because democracy is good. The junta path is just an interesting take on such a state and has a good amount of variety and detail.
which one do you see might realistic happened? also which Italy is the most interesting and the one that would unite in the war?
Not sure. Red Italy and the Republic are pretty neat, especially with the clusterfuck of the natpop-induced civil war in the latter.
Papal state is the most minor of minors and two sicilies is IMO kinda generic, but I like how they can basically do a reverse risorgimento.
Personnally, I tend to think that National France at the start should be in a pretty bad shape. The government is currently in the hands of the military, which many don't like, and there is also a heavily divided political class who can't agree on what form the new French government should take to oppose the Commune. Then there is the fact the National French have been ousted from the mainland for nearly 20 years by this point, which should really REALLY be upseting. Last but not least, National France's territory basically only consists of Corsica and French Colonial North and West Africa: in other words, a minority of white people dominating natives. I think you could have the French colonies having stayed relatively calm since the end of the Weltkrieg but by 1936 tensions could be reaching a breaking point, especially since the Commune likely would have agents trying to stir trouble.
Basically, if you don't take the right decisions, National France should be experiencing a collapse or at least serious revolts.
Russia is in need of some serious love but my biggest issue is the play style is the same no matter what path you take. I think really it's important to give the various paths serious implications on play style on a revanchist vs isolationist spectrum.
So at one end you have Savinkov, you should get some fairly massive military bonuses, major boosts to unity and war justifications all around but no one should join you willingly, you're just too mad, you also shouldn't get too many factories and no civilian factories. Military giant with feet of clay so this path has clear costs as well as bonuses.
On the other end of the spectrum the Democratic Republic (DR) should give you some fairly massive economy boosting events and the prospect of peaceful reunification but outside Central Asia you shouldn't get any war justifications. By 1940 DR Russia should be an economic powerhouse with armed forces to match but a defensive one.
In between you should have a Absolute Monarchy, Military Junta, Constitutional Monarchy, Aristocratic Republic in order of decreasing Revanchism and strengthening Economy.
So at one end you have Savinkov, you should get some fairly massive military bonuses, major boosts to unity and war justifications all around but no one should join you willingly, you're just too mad, you also shouldn't get too many factories and no civilian factories. Military giant with feet of clay so this path has clear costs as well as bonuses.
On the other end of the spectrum the Democratic Republic (DR) should give you some fairly massive economy boosting events and the prospect of peaceful reunification but outside Central Asia you shouldn't get any war justifications. By 1940 DR Russia should be an economic powerhouse with armed forces to match but a defensive one.
In between you should have a Absolute Monarchy, Military Junta, Constitutional Monarchy, Aristocratic Republic in order of decreasing Revanchism and strengthening Economy.
I'm posting this here since the general HOI4 thread have been dead for months.
I may be weird but I like to read progress reports on HOI 4 mods which are in development in spit of me not playing or even owning the vanilla game. Because of of that I wanted to ask if anyone could point me to all active HOI4 mod subreddits od discord servers so that I may satisfy my bizarre cravings.
Here are the mods which I follow:
- Kaiserreich (obviously)
- Kalterkrieg
- Krasnacht
- The New Order
- Calm Before The Storm
- Führerreich
I may be weird but I like to read progress reports on HOI 4 mods which are in development in spit of me not playing or even owning the vanilla game. Because of of that I wanted to ask if anyone could point me to all active HOI4 mod subreddits od discord servers so that I may satisfy my bizarre cravings.
Here are the mods which I follow:
- Kaiserreich (obviously)
- Kalterkrieg
- Krasnacht
- The New Order
- Calm Before The Storm
- Führerreich
Mind you, these links expire in a day, but here you go:
Fuhrerreich
Calm Before the Storm
Kalterkrieg
The rest I can't seem to invite you to and I'm not on the Krasnacht Discord server, but as with the ones I've already linked, if you simply look on the mod's respective subreddits you should be able to find a link to the Discord server - if you can't, try checking on old Reddit.
I also recommend Godspeed: A Flame for Winter.
Old World Blues has a subreddit. Equestria at War puts its dev diaries in the main HOI4 subreddit, but has a discord (I'm not on it, but the link in one of the dev diaries seems to work). There is nothing bizarre about wanting to follow development of mods, says the biased fellow who found that one of the greatest losses of the Kaiserreich forums being abandoned and then going down.