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I am loving the narrative style of this LP and how quickly you're progressing through the worst campaign in Kaiserreich. Before I burned out on developing it I wanted to make the ACW optional or at least have some way of changing to the AUS or CSA without saving and tag switching. Maybe when Hearts of Iron IV arrives, if enough new people get back into development.
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GSD posted:He's in there somewhere, I don't remember what his alignment is though. Tolkien is in South Africa, writing an alternate version of the Hobbit imagined by someone who buys into that World War allegory horseshit.
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Nov 29, 2014 02:48
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New England and PSA are both Canadian allies. New England is never not part of the Entente, IIRC. Round 2 of the Revolution is going to be a bitch.
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Dec 1, 2014 08:42
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GrossMurpel posted:Eh, he should have inherited enough units from USA and AUS (and PSA in the future) to beat Canada and New England three times over. No, they're still part of the Entente. I say we wait and integrate our new territories, then retake Texas and the southwest and put Toledano or whatever his name is back in charge of Mexico. We'll need help to fight a three-front war, because even if we can build up a ridiculously superior force we don't know when the poo poo's gonna hit the fan.
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Dec 1, 2014 12:38
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Samolety posted:Mexico isn't in the Entente so he should have been able to avoid a three-front war. Western, northern, and north eastern fronts (Or just one really loving big northern front if you want to call it that).
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Dec 2, 2014 01:14
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The PSA and New England will come in time. In 1939 (or '38 if we're unlucky) the International is going to end up at war with one of the alliance blocks, quite possibly both. Chief, is tech team inheritance on? The CSA's teams suck so I won't blame you if it is.
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Dec 2, 2014 08:08
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I'm glad to see you're moving towards Open Society on the policy slider. It'd be tremendously depressing to see this LP end in another Goonocratic Dictatorship. Also, what does the government of Russia proper look like right now? Is it still two stripes of leftists fighting each other or have the SR-Mensheviks moved to the right? Kavak fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Dec 4, 2014 |
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Dec 4, 2014 17:36
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Crowsbeak posted:Have the Nationalists in China risen up yet? Also could you show where are sliders are? The ROC has casualty figures in the menu but isn't on the map- they rose up and lost, apparently. East Asia's kind of weird in Kaiserreich, as it's the one part of the globe where syndicalism is basically nonexistent. The men who would've founded the Chinese Communist Party are either MIA or working for other groups, and Japan is totally devoid of serious leftists. Korea can go Social Democrat if they become independent, but that's about it.
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Dec 4, 2014 20:03
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Beamed posted:Isn't there a significant chance Japan becomes the one right before Syndicalism around when the Korean independence war starts? I'm not really sure what you're saying, but they never get father left than Market or Social Liberal.
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Dec 4, 2014 20:43
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Zeroisanumber posted:This is a dark world. Kaiserreich in general or what The Mad Baron is building right now?
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Dec 11, 2014 17:54
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So how far are we gonna push this, until we run out of conquest objectives? I'm enjoying the batshit nature of this campaign, but I miss the in-game documents and storyline of the CSA run.
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Dec 14, 2014 23:52
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Chief Savage Man posted:I haven't finished the game yet but I am getting close to where I think its natural end would be. Thinking maybe fifteen updates in total though that might get condensed more because I'll cut down on the detail of minor wars because there's nothing interesting to say about me stomping out weak nations. I'd rather save the updates for bigger more interesting wars. Another motivator is that I could use a break from the more creative writing. December is a busy month and I don't want the quality of updates to suffer because I'm trying to finish it quickly. Sounds good, I understand wanting to avoid burnout and especially being busy.
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Dec 15, 2014 01:39
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Besides, as this LP is showing, von Ungern-Sternberg actually is Genghis Khan reborn.
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Dec 17, 2014 04:08
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RZApublican posted: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? Yeah, but you have to stomp out a coup. According to one guy a few months ago (May have actually been Chief), choosing those options dislodges Huey Long from government and breaks the event chains. I have the sinking feeling he may have been the first person to win the war as the AUS and see those events as they were intended.
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Dec 17, 2014 07:01
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sullat posted:As long as he doesn't die and the hordes need to return to elect a new khan, the only thing stopping the Mongols will be the sea. I'm sure he's written an order to allow that to be carried out via conference call to avoid it happening again.
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Jan 4, 2015 21:57
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I'm trying to imagine the lot of a cartographer in a Kaiserreich world, especially this one. I can only picture a map of Eurasia with the words "gently caress THIS" scrawled on it in arterial bloodspray.
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Jan 6, 2015 07:19
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To be fair, no-one on the team expected Mongolia to actually conquer most of Eurasia, either.
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Jan 11, 2015 07:10
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I can't wait to see the casualty figures for this game. Genghis Khan killed somewhere around a fifth of the entire worlds population, lets see if his reincarnation is up to speed. 
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Jan 20, 2015 13:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeXG9-wyzw0 Goddammit I love Kaiserreich.
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Jan 23, 2015 06:01
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Chief Savage Man posted:The Yankees have not played in Fenway Park all year. It's good to see all this violence and suffering will truly produce a better world. 
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Jan 28, 2015 06:49
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Zeroisanumber posted:Yeah, "Dugout" Doug can go either Cincinnatus or Caesar. Though if left in the hands of the AI he should always go Caesar because MacArthur was a Caesar-y kind of guy. The choice may not be entirely his- the restoration of democracy may be more the rest of the government and military may go "Nuh-uh, gently caress you" and making clear they'll shoot his rear end if he doesn't step down come election time.
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Jan 29, 2015 00:03
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Rincewind posted:Poor Boston, still living under the oppressive rule of capitalist reactionaries. On a similar note, could you do your best not to gently caress up Connecticut when you march on New England? I'd prefer my grandparents not dead, thanks.
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Jan 29, 2015 07:42
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Chief Savage Man posted:Civil war made our fighting men and women tough and ready for anything. Connecticut traffic might break them. I don't get it. (My family left in 1993 and hasn't driven around it since the late 90's, has poo poo gotten worse since then?)
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Jan 29, 2015 09:09
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Zeroisanumber posted:I'm actually a bit surprised that the Germans aren't reacting even more strongly to the rise of Syndicalist America and the Reds in Russia. Like Chief said IC, they have so few ties to North America that there's very little they can do to affect it except cut off trade. Another thing is that the Soviets almost never actually win if they fight- I don't know the exact reason in-game, but they're facing the same problems the Germans faced fighting Russia (lovely weather, fuckton of territory) and IIRC the army stays with the government. I chalk a lot of it up to Germany being tied down across Africa and Eurasia and the standoff they've got going with the International- neither is quite willing to make the first (direct) move when the possibility of finding a better time to strike exists.
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Feb 2, 2015 07:52
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Zeron posted:The Soviets in KR have very little common support if I remember the events right. The Russian population isn't really looking for a revolution, if the government makes even the slightest compromise the Soviet position crumbles basically. It's not really supposed to win 95% of the time without direct intervention. Siberia gets away a lot more often because well...even the AI doesn't want to deal with that. Yeah. Maybe things were different in All the Russias, but the Soviets are there so somebody playing the leftist faction can bonk them over the head, remind Bukharin they're on the same drat side, then inherit their tag and join the International without tag-switching and bullshit. We are putting in surrender events so anyone fighting Siberia no longer has to trudge all the way to the Pacific Ocean, so that won't be as much of an issue anymore. We would've had them sooner but the last guy who asked for them called us insane for defending Siberia's existence in the scenario in any way then stormed out, which kind of killed conversation for a while.
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Feb 2, 2015 09:39
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Drone posted:In the next version of Kaiserreich, is there any way you guys can take a look at / possibly streamline the path to forming Scandinavia? I had a game not long ago where I formed a syndicalist Scandinavia (had to save-reload to get the very delicate event chain to actually happen), but it was incredibly underwhelming because a unified Scandinavia has far less IC than it should (seriously, why does Turkestan have more IC than Scandinavia) and the tech teams are utter trash. One of the devs wants to revamp the whole of Scandinavia, before and after unifying, but that'll be the version after this one.
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Feb 2, 2015 09:48
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theblastizard posted:What would the Mongol version of Ride of the Valkyries even be? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_LGaK3oxIk The manul is a necessary part of the performance.
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Feb 3, 2015 14:21
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The Syndicate Guards is a stupid name. Once the reclamation of our rightful territory is over and done with, can we rename it something normal like the American Red Army or Combined Syndicates Army?John Charity Spring posted:German Social Democrats are perfectly suitable villains for the revolutionary left, as Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht would tell you! Considering how unfree our slider situation is getting and the lack of warmongering on the part of Japan and Germany, I'm starting to think we're becoming the villains, just like every other Paradox Mega LP. 
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Feb 5, 2015 08:59
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Lustful Man Hugs posted:In KR, there are points in the game where you get a ton of choices that affect slider positions. It's possible that we just haven't reached that point yet. There aren't any more for the CSA that I know of, but Chief did say he was modding in some things. You get to adjust your sliders yourself, but that's only once every two years, and there are a few random events that let you move them, but I'm not sure if those fire for dictatorships (Which the CSA isn't, though according to the hard coding it is).
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Feb 5, 2015 15:49
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Raskolnikov38 posted:There should be some more actually as Reed is still alive. Unfortunately, none of the events related to that affect the freedom slider, just democratic.
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Feb 5, 2015 16:57
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John Charity Spring posted:You mean the closed society/open society stuff? Yeah, that's what it's called in the game files, sorry.
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Feb 5, 2015 17:17
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Chief Savage Man posted:Big rear end post about KR I basically agree with all of this, especially about the sliders. As for KR as dark, as best as I can tell civil liberties are not going to come as fast and as well as they did in real life for many countries, but it'll still trend upwards as time goes on, and for most nations there won't be as high a cost in blood and suffering, so it kind of evens out on depending on your perspective. Honestly, the key theme of Kaiserreich for me has always been instability- every faction has equal potential for tyranny and liberty, and every country can change its regime for better or worse. This is a world in chaos, and the order that emerges could be nightmarish or utopian depending on how the dice roll. I also have my own personal "canon" outcome in my head that is probably way too happy and moderate to be realistic, but when you're one of the developers you can make things happen 
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There could've been a lot more and bloodier wars in real history as well.
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Feb 5, 2015 18:37
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TheMcD posted:The greatest thing about South Africa I saw was when I was playing a Commune of France game, SA went syndicalist, requested entry into the Internationale, I granted it, and right after that they went "NO NEVER MIND WE CHANGED OUR MIND" and left again. It was so loving stupid that it ended up being brilliant. I played a game as Russia (or maybe it was Japan) where Transamur was traded for an alliance, which the Russians broke literally the next day. It made total sense-"Why the hell would we help you fight the Chinese? We just wanted Vladivostok back you idiots. Dibs on Sakhalin when you inevitably crash and burn." Also Chief, the thread title's got my curious as to when and where Woody's gonna show up. EDIT James Garfield posted:It looks like Portugal has to complain when they demand Angola, then Germany makes Göring resign and if they pick the leftist replacement he can go syndicalist. Lots of random events for three nations and some are unlikely. Honestly, Goering being arrested/executed is the most reasonable outcome. This is a German colony trying to start a war on its own with a European nation. Can you imagine if the Viceroy of India had threatened to invade Goa and never told London about it? Kavak fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Feb 6, 2015 |
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Feb 6, 2015 04:29
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Goa was a Portuguese colony.
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Feb 9, 2015 17:24
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I don't like the Syndie Mexican flag anyway- doesn't Mexico take its flag really seriously compared to America where we plaster it on everything?
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Feb 15, 2015 01:30
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Our official position on Trotsky is that we don't have one. He disappeared in the chaos of the Russian Civil War, and if he is alive is hiding very deep in a hole somewhere remote. Capitalists want his head for the nice fat bounty the Whites have posted on him, and socialists want his head for loving up the revolution and possibly a different bounty. I'm content with him becoming one of "history's mysteries" in the Kaiserreich universe.
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Feb 20, 2015 00:58
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V. Illych L. posted:what happened to lenin? Lenin got shot a little after Brest-Litovsk, destabilizing the Reds enough for the Whites to gain the upper hand. Rosa Luxemburg is supposed to be living in exile in Britain and is one of the HoGs for the German Union. The problem is that she'd be almost 70 by the time she could go back to Germany, kind of old for running a government. She'd probably stick to less strenuous activism. Also, don't take the wiki as gospel. We shift backstories and people around a lot, and we don't like setting things in stone too much. The only canon is what's in the game files for the current release. EDIT: ^^^ Or that. With how the war went for Germany she may never had had a chance to become infamous enough to be a target.
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Unaccounted for. This is what happens when not a single American works on your mod for years, if ever.  At least Smedley Butler is replacing Marshall next version.
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Chief Savage Man posted:Well whoever decided to throw in the minor event about Ronald Reagan is okay in my book. I don't know what specifically prompted them to kill him off, but I'm sure it was a good reason.
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