This Land Is Your Land: Let's Play Darkest Hour: Kaiserreich

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Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Looking forward to this. Is this just going to be a USA > CSA game, or do you plan to show off other nations down the line?

# ¿ Oct 30, 2014 19:12

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 23:05

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Interesting that you went after AUS first - usually in the AI's hands they tend to crack down on the syndies. I like the political backstabbing spin it puts on MacArthur's motives.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2014 21:37

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Guess Mexico's gonna get a taste of the revolution sooner rather than later. Can't let that slide.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2014 21:39

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Very interesting result! Mexico practically owes it to themselves to join the Entente at this point...

# ¿ Dec 1, 2014 17:51

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Rincewind posted:

Also, I've only ever seen KR in LP-form since I don't have DH, but I assume that in KR-world all of these huge global wars aren't also paired with vicious industrialized genocide, which makes it rather less dark than our own history right off the bat.

I feel like a lot of that is sorta sanitized simply cause you're playing a game, at the end of the day. There's precious little reference to the holocaust in Hearts of Iron (and I am definitely not pushing for there to be,) and I imagine the same might kinda hold true for KR - atrocities simply happen behind the screen of game mechanics and events. It would take a storyteller, in a format like this, to really flesh that sort of thing out - and honestly, who would want to think up their own alternate history genocide, or a slew of monarchist purges in French occupied Germany, political death squads marching around second Civil War era United States wiping out whole towns who don't agree with them...

Erwin the German fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Feb 5, 2015

# ¿ Feb 5, 2015 21:03

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

John Charity Spring posted:

There actually are events in KR for atrocities and the like, from anti-semitic violence in French North Africa to various 'Terror' events for factions that have civil wars. There's an event chain for the Dominican Republic massacring Haitians, and the aforementioned concentration camps in Mittelafrika. But no holocaust.

HOI2 and vanilla Darkest Hour certainly gloss over the atrocities (except for the Rape of Nanking) in the interest of making the game as much about the nitty-gritty of fighting the war as possible, but KR doesn't take the same approach in general.

Ah, I stand corrected, then. Unfortunately.

# ¿ Feb 5, 2015 21:22

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Niclas, eh? That's a rare result. What's going on with Britain, anyway?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 21:34

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Damocles project? I might've missed this if it was talked about earlier. I'd have to assume nuclear weapons, right?

# ¿ Mar 1, 2015 22:03

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

John Charity Spring posted:

Yeah those racist imperialist monarchies sure are the good guys when set against the modernising leftists, good analysis.

Well, they can be modernizing leftists. They can also be hideously oppressive Stalinist (RE: totalist) dictatorships run by secret police and state paranoia, which would certainly make them a lot less appetizing as good guys. This is, again, the thing about Kaiserreich - anyone can be the "good guy," anyone can be the "bad guy," or neither, or both, etc, in our historically biased democratic-leaning perspective on things.

I agree though that it's a little skewed to automatically chalk up the communist stand-ins as bad guys.

# ¿ Mar 9, 2015 20:32

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

This could be from any one of the AARs I've seen with custom events, but I think North Italy, Carlist Spain, and Ireland have the potential to form a Catholic League. Am I wrong, Kavak?

# ¿ Mar 13, 2015 17:40

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Yeah, and none of those countries are exactly heavy weights. I can see them as being an attractive ally to the Entente or Mitteleuropa, though. Sorta like a package deal.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2015 17:49

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Pretty sure the guy just declares himself "Napoleon the whateverth."

# ¿ Mar 28, 2015 13:51

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

If it were the main game I'd agree with re-declaring war, but this is just an intermission, and a hilarious turn of events, at that.

(but seriously yeah that should be fixed)

# ¿ Apr 19, 2015 13:32

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Mister Adequate posted:

Saw this happen in an AAR, actually - I think the PSA gets the chance to re-declare the United States. Not sure what other options there may be.

# ¿ Apr 24, 2015 12:54

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Great to see this return. I keep sorta hoping for something to come along that the CSA can't handle, though. I hate it when games become steamrolls.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2015 21:26

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Look, are there gonna be boats or not? Jesus.

# ¿ Feb 6, 2016 17:23

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

The Crown Atomic is pretty much the gold standard of Canadian LPs, so I'd prefer to see something non-Canadian (or Entente, for that matter.) Let's go Japan. :japan:

That, or a Mitteleuropa aligned Australasia.

# ¿ Oct 8, 2016 00:15

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Changing my vote to Carlist Spain. For maximum Catholicism.

# ¿ Oct 11, 2016 16:22

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Loeb CL posted:

Thanks! You were 100% correct!

If anyone's curious, here's what happens:

Once Goering is out, you choose between Ernst J�nger, the German author, and Joseph Kasa-Vubu. If you choose the latter, you can then choose between aligning with the syndicalists, staying in the German sphere of influence, or isolationism.

Regardless of your choice, the country is renamed Centroafrika. The flag is the red-black-green Pan-African flag with a red star in the middle of the middle (black) stripe. The HoS is Joseph Kasa-Vubu and the HoG is Patrice Lumumba. (Incidentally, the chief of the army is Mobutu, despite being six years old in 1936.)

If anyone wants to play this through, start as Mittelafrika and enter event 55605 into the console. It's pretty cool that even after hundreds of hours of playing, Kaiserreich still manages to surprise with things I've never seen before!

While we're on this subject, that exact event chain cropped up, incidentally, in a pretty good CSA AAR on the Paradox forums. They broke up into Bantu Federation, Benikongo, and Namibia. Most, I think, promptly joined the Internationale.

I'll reiterate that the AAR is pretty well written, depicting the SACW as a messy, traumatic affair filled with bloodthirsty militias roving the country, not dissimilar to the Spanish Civil War OTL.

Erwin the German fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Oct 27, 2016

# ¿ Oct 27, 2016 18:17

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

B, A.

# ¿ May 1, 2017 17:48

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Honest ABE.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 13:25

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

A
BAC

# ¿ May 17, 2017 20:03

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

# ¿ May 25, 2017 15:30

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

ABC, and join the Entente when possible.

No compromises with enemies of democracy. You should all be ashamed!

# ¿ Jun 6, 2017 13:32

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Obviously yes.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2017 13:02

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

One of the more realistic results I've ever seen for Lawrence's coup - of course, maybe I shouldn't speak too soon.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2018 03:23

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 23:05

Erwin the German: May 30, 2011; :3

Mister Bates posted:

That sounds worthy of an AAR itself!

# ¿ Nov 6, 2018 01:43

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