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zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Ouch, the Pacific States declaring war on the US is usually a death sentence given the massive border the US has to defend with every other front, but the addition of that AND Mexico declaring war makes it a near certainty.

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zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

CommissarMega posted:

Yeah, it sounds to me that instead of voting for representatives from Colorado, Florida etc, you're getting people like the Senator of the Automobile Industry clashing heads with the Senator of the Banks, with various brands being the governmental level below (can't remember at the moment).

Actually, that's more of how the specific Corporatism of the American Union State is stated to work:

quote:

The Congress of American Union State has two chambers: the House of Representatives and the House of Corporations. Members of the House of Representatives are chosen on direct elections whereas those of the House of Corporations are chosen by interest groups, who also choose the Speaker of the House of Corporations

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Crowsbeak posted:

After this we need to make it so that the nation is the Combined Syndicates of the Universe. :unsmigghh:

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

And if I remember correctly the coup is done with the help of T.E. Lawrence, which can branch off into an even-more insane event tree wherein Lawrence can try to bring back the royal family and ignite a new civil war.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Speaking of a moderate Huey Long, what are the American Union State's options if they win the war? I know the ministers are largely German-American Bund and Business Plot people, but is it possible to dial back the fascism?

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Rincewind posted:

What are all of the different results of the civil war and its aftermath?

A multitude, it's probably best to list them by country:

    USA
  • If the war started with either a democrat or republican president leading the USA, they will still be leading it when the war ends, though the initial republican guy will die at some point if the war goes on too long. Elections resume as normal after the war.
  • If elections were suspended prior to the war, MacArthur is running the show, and can choose to remain dictator after the US wins or transition the country back to democracy, wherein he starts as president with elections to resume on schedule. MacArthur can also rise to power in the US if Long or Reed win the 1936 election, push their respective policies too hard, and resist when MacArthur leads the army to unseat them.
  • Whichever path the US takes, after they win the war they have to contend with reuniting with New England, reuniting with California, and trying to get Puerto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, and the Panama Canal back from the Entente.
    CSA
  • The CSA has a similar election system to Britain, France, and Southern Italy, which means your choices of government range from social democrat to totalist.
  • If the event fires where the CSA and the AUS ally out of desperation, you have to deal with them after the US if gone, which means more war.
  • In addition to the usual deciding what to do with New England and California, the CSA also has an event that allows them to declare war on Mexico if Mexico isn't syndicalist.
    AUS
  • The AUS faces a coup that can put Fritz Kuhn and the other hardcore fascists in power, which the player can either let happen or stop. If stopped, and with more moderate choices in other events, the AUS can end up as kind of a way, way more right-wingish populist version of the US than the outright dictatorship it starts as.
  • As always, the usual stuff about trying to get New England and California back.
    California
  • If California survives the war, it can be a military dictatorship or just another democracy in terms of government.
  • In terms of foreign policy, California can throw in it's lot with the Entente, Germany, or get on good terms with the US as a puppet state.
  • Uniquely among the American factions, California has claims on two Mexican provinces, and can go to war over them.
  • In the event California conquers the entire country, there is a reconstruction event for other areas of the country. It's all very unfinished though, so there will probably be more in a future version of the game.
    New England
  • New England can choose to throw in their lot and ally with the US, which aside from being attacked if one of the other factions goes to war with Canada, is the only way they usually end up fighting in the civil war.
  • Most of the factions want New England back, but New England can choose to remain independent, in which case they will stay that way, but unfortunately there are not many events for them.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

TheMcD posted:

It was so loving stupid that it ended up being brilliant.

Kaiserreich in a nutshell.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Chief Savage Man posted:

I think the lore is that Trotsky is a miserable failure in exile in Paris or he might be dead. Either way Bukharin is the guy this time.

He would almost certainly be dead, considering the number of exiles that appear as military leaders in other Syndicalist states. Hell, Nestor Makhno even shows up as a general in the Commune of France!

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Strayed posted:

In my last game as Austria, France decided to wait on Damocles but ended up in a stalemated war with the Entente for 20 years, thus never declaring war on Germany. Before I finally attacked Germany myself I loaded up as France to check what their situation was and they had over 70 nukes just sitting around.

They were just waiting to get enough for every city in Germany :v:

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Grizzwold posted:

Also does anyone have another link for the KR unit cards? Mediafire's not working for me.

Reuploaded it here.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Kavak posted:

Funny thing, I'm working on an event chain right now where whoever controls the right provinces after the war builds the Hoover Dam- depending on the regime, the name could be Boulder, Kaufmann (The architect), Reed, Jedediah Smith, and MacArthur. The last one gives you dissent instead of dropping it :v:.

I get the Reed and MacArthur dam names, but which regimes/countries get the other names (assuming Jedediah Smith isn't an automatic PSA pick)?

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Kavak posted:

Boulder is a Democratic USA, Kaufmann's PSA (He did a lot of work in California, and it's part of them emphasizing their own identity), and Jedediah Smith's the AUS. They'd be big on old pioneers- nostalgic romanticism for the frontier era fits from both a nationalist and anti-socialist/urban perspective.

Now you just need a name for when New England controls the provinces in question :v:

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Kavak posted:

Pretty much. Every faction, virtually every country, has equal potential for tyranny and liberty. Personal politics are going to color how you see things, of course.

Speaking of which (and because I can't remember the events in question) what exactly is the AUS's path to anything other than tyranny? Are there specific events for it or is just a matter of not doing the most fascist option possible in the "after the war" events.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

oystertoadfish posted:

Fake Name Generator Theory rules this alternate universe

Fake Man Theory

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

SIGSEGV posted:

Since we have Von Ungern-Sternberg arround, I kinda want to "restore" the Hwan Empire now. I mean, conquering almost everything as Japanese occupied then magically liberated Korea can't be that hard?



It's just like Francis E. Dec's global Polish/Slavonic Empire :allears:

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Chief Savage Man posted:

Yeah I could, but it would take a long long time because it only hits on the max effect every so often and even then it's not a great chance it'd be left/right or auth/dem.

Time for a coup :getin:

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Given the number of free divisions and militia you get as the CSA, are there any similar amount of forces for the American Union State? I know each side gets foreign intervention but it would be cool if they also got free units for taking certain provinces.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

How the hell does Germany have 40 battleships and 19 battlecruisers :psyduck:

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

One of my favorite minister cameos in a mod was in the pre-Darkest Hour New Nations Mod (which adds a ton of new countries to the game). One of the new releasable countries was Ingria (basically Leningrad and two surrounding provinces), which had the easter egg that if the government turned into Market Liberal it would get Ayn Rand as its new Armaments Minister.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Kavak posted:

General Melchett is in Canada

He was also in vanilla Hearts of Iron II, but in the UK.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

The appalling loses that France has suffered again this time around makes me wonder if they would start pushing for something like the Morgenthau Plan for a post-war Germany.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Chief Savage Man posted:

And Sweden, Norway, Poland, Bohemia, White Ruthenia (Belarus), Hungary and Ukraine. Of these, Hungary and Ukraine are the most serious.

By the way, I am putting together a WordPress site for various things and I am going to be cross posting this LP to that website because there's been people in this thread and elsewhere who'd like to see it off of SA. I'd normally tell them to buck up and get an account but some of those people are quite old and not tech savvy. I'll still post everything here of course. Once I am done uploading everything there, I'll post the link.

Have you considered compiling the text and screenshots into a book and self-publishing it through Lulu.com? Hosting it off of SA is great but I'd definitely pay to have an offline option, normally I wouldn't say that about any LP but this one is amazingly good.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Lustful Man Hugs posted:

Maybe Turkestan? Or Japan? One of the countries that gets to get really big and crazy on it's own.

Is Turkestan the one that can make the Caliphate? If so, totally do that one.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Chief Savage Man posted:

Turkestan seems like it would be very similar to Mongolia, a Central Asian land power that would go after pretty much everything that Mongolia got in that first one.

Japan would be a lot of fun, particularly since Japan in the main game chose the isolationist path and thus we didn't see a lot of the potential for Japan. I almost am tempted to save Japan for HoI4 though since majors would probably be the first to be fleshed out and enjoyable to play I imagine.

What about the German corporation in China, the Allgemeine Ostasiatische Gesellschaft? From what I've seen of them they have a lot of unique events and are somewhat difficulty at the start, but with a certain event path and conflicts they can dominate China. It's an East Asian focus but with a somewhat different and more difficult path than you get with Japan.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

You could always go with National France as a choice. For a nation that starts out fairly weak and unimportant they have a pretty big amount of events and ways that they can go. National France can even restore the monarchy with more than one choice of which royal family to put on the throne :france:

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Crowsbeak posted:

I am asking because I cannot seem to find the music pack online. I was considering giving it another go, but I always like to play with the socialist music.

Kaiserreich's optional music packs? You can find their download links in the Paradox Forums Kaiserreich thread.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

B
A

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

A/A/A

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

A
B, C, A

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

A B

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

A

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Is there a specific mechanic for stabbing Russia in the back here because as a democracy we can't declare war on them unless them have a crazy high belligerence score and we have the intervention slider maxed out, and given that they have an alliance with Germany they aren't about to get into conflicts large enough to rack up the required belligerence. Also, why would we want to stab them in the back after giving them more land and a longer border that we would have to defend?

zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 13:19 on Jun 3, 2017

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Yes

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

1. C
2. C
3. B

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

A

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Option A

With the defeat of Germany so near we need to strike while the iron is hot before the European Syndicalists become too strong. Give them enough time and the combined industrial might of a post-Germany Syndicalist Europe will be too much to defeat.

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

D

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

A

zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

A

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zetamind2000
Nov 6, 2007

I'm an alien.

Vote #1: The British Question
Option B: Hand the Territory to Canada


Vote #2: The Irish Question
Option A: Maintain Irish Independence Under Japanese Influence


Vote #3: The Algerian Question
Option B: Reaffirm Japan’s Previous Policy


Vote #4: The Mexican Question
Option A: Give the Go Ahead

zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 07:19 on Sep 24, 2017

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