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Autonomous Monster posted:Now, isn't there a Lawrence of Arabia event that can fire and blow up the UoB? They have to be at peace and victorious in the war with Mitteleuropa, I think.
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Autonomous Monster posted:Launcher? Option menu? Makes it hard if I don't use the launcher due to having to run it with special Windows 8 settings.
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Drone posted:I remember there being a way in Darkest Hour to change the format of the post-battle casualty reports to be somewhat more readable, but I can't find the option for it anyway. There were like three different formats for it? Anyone know where this is? Right click the time and date button.
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Invasion has been going smoothly, though resistance was a bit stiff in the beginning and the out of supply ANZACs and Americans in Portsmouth were in danger of starving to death or being encircled and cut off my mobile divisions deploying from Manchester and my American reinforcements have the Syndicalists in full retreat on all fronts with casualties routinely 10:1 in my favor. London is encircled and will fall when I desire it to.    However, there's been a most trobuling development in Scotland, seems the Germans started an attack on Glasgow just before I did and it seems I helped them accomplish this..  Goddamnit! Just to illustrate the situation here is a picture of Europe.   They just had to it. This is gonna end in nukes. I just know it.
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Oct 11, 2014 16:42
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The worst part about liberating the UK is how they take back many of their leaders and some teach teams if I remember correctly. That and they become leader of the Entente.
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Westminster System posted:The worst part about liberating the UK is how they take back many of their leaders and some teach teams if I remember correctly. That and they become leader of the Entente. I won't become the UK? Because I want to keep playing as Britain.
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Oct 11, 2014 16:45
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Randarkman posted:I won't become the UK? Because I want to keep playing as Britain. Britain gets released and you become her puppet. You'll have to save and tag switch. Sorry. EDIT: Wrong on the puppeting part I think, but you will have to tag switch if you want to control the UK directly. Kavak fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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That's not really a problem. But will I have to attack Germany in order to accomplish this? Also seems I have to grab the Azores and maybe some other islands that the UoB snatched up from Portugal.
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Oct 11, 2014 16:57
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Randarkman posted:That's not really a problem. But will I have to attack Germany in order to accomplish this? Also seems I have to grab the Azores and maybe some other islands that the UoB snatched up from Portugal. If the war ends and they're still occupying parts of Britain, they will keep those parts and you'll have to go to war to get them back.
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Oct 11, 2014 16:58
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In previous KR campaigns, I've found that the AI will get around to giving cores back to their allies after a while.
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Oct 11, 2014 17:21
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He's not allied with Germany, though.
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Germany is not an ally though, so I'll have to take it back. It seems that after releasing the UK they get a few units and some stuff and then a number of events fire eventually. I think I might just give the UK many of my units before I tag switch, to make it a bit stronger. I wonder if it would be better to just attack and take Glasgow outright and weather a war with Germany for a while either until I can peace out or until I can be strong enough to bring the fight to them, I should be able to keep them away since as far as I can tell my fleet is much stronger than theirs. Anybody have any thoughts on this? War now or war later? e: Goddamnit I can't give more than 5 divisions at a time?! Is there a way to make this quicker? e2: Guess I can just assume military control of Canada... Wish it could have been simpler... e3: Nope, can't do that. Guess because I have less IC than they do. Might have to cheat this one so they don't completely gently caress up my defensive situation. EDIT: I'm gonna jump back to a slightly earlier save and see if I can grab Glasgow before the Germans. That way I won't have to do a whole lot of nitpicking and such in order to ensure I can defend myself against the Germans immediately and I can instead focus on rebuilding Britain, which should hopefully give me enough IC to assume military control over Canada which I can then use to wage war against Germany. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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Oct 11, 2014 17:25
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Maybe demand your cores back from Germany? I don't know if they would accept.
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dublish posted:Maybe demand your cores back from Germany? I don't know if they would accept. You can use the acceptall cheat to make sure they do.
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Randarkman posted:EDIT: I'm gonna jump back to a slightly earlier save and see if I can grab Glasgow before the Germans. That way I won't have to do a whole lot of nitpicking and such in order to ensure I can defend myself against the Germans immediately and I can instead focus on rebuilding Britain, which should hopefully give me enough IC to assume military control over Canada which I can then use to wage war against Germany. Don't do this, declare war on Germany and take Glasgow from them DEATH IS CERTAIN 
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Oct 11, 2014 18:00
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ThePutty posted:Don't do this, declare war on Germany and take Glasgow from them Yeah, you know what? You're totally right. It doesn't feel right to cheese it like that. I guess I can hold off on annexing the UoB for a little while see if I can stabilize the situation, maybe even force them to accept a peace. God save the King  e: wonder if I can bring the Soviets into my alliance if I raise them to +200 relations. Though I guess the ideological difference probably is way too great for that to be possible, if they'd only declare war on the Germans.
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Restore the UK, and then look for continental allies to suck into the inevitable war against Germany in World War 2.5. Did Austria and the Ottomans ever get sucked into Mitteleuropa? I'm not sure if their AI code is as deadset against the UK as it is against Canada, so you might be able to befriend them after liberation and get them into the Entente. Are the Soviets Totalist, Syndicalist or Radical Socialist? Maybe you can woo them somehow, or hope Germany gets sucked into a war with them and gets distracted while you land troops in Normandy or Wilhelmshaven or whatever. Wait, is Italy controlled by the Syndies still? If the Soviets and Syndie Italians are around, go hard left and then lead an Entente-Internationale monstrousity against Kaiser Bill.
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Ofaloaf posted:Restore the UK, and then look for continental allies to suck into the inevitable war against Germany in World War 2.5. Did Austria and the Ottomans ever get sucked into Mitteleuropa? I'm not sure if their AI code is as deadset against the UK as it is against Canada, so you might be able to befriend them after liberation and get them into the Entente. Are the Soviets Totalist, Syndicalist or Radical Socialist? Maybe you can woo them somehow, or hope Germany gets sucked into a war with them and gets distracted while you land troops in Normandy or Wilhelmshaven or whatever. Yeah this would be fun to do. Socialist Italy is not around, but Austria and Hungary are NOT part of Mitteleuropa, also Japan has been at war with Germany for years without much at all happening. I just really, really, really want the Canadian military (at least the Carrier Fleet, the Atlantic Battleship fleet and one marine and armour corps, is that really so much to ask for game?!), I built that for the express purpose of returning the King to his rightful place as sovereign of the British Empire. Is save-editing to transfer units to the UK feasible at all? Because if I could do that then I guess it's fine and dandy and I can prepare for war against Germany without having to wait like 2 years for a new fleet to be ready or wait for my IC to be high enough to command Canada's military. e: Nah, I'll slowly request to have my military handed back to me by Canada and in the meantime see if I can get some bros for a showdown with Germany. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6gyUgPl1SU (starting a petition to have this play every time you lose a battle in a Paradox game) Randarkman posted:This is gonna end in nukes. I just know it. Exactly as it should be.  Let Berlin burn
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KR, Canada-->UK Trip Report Britain has been liberated from the clutches of syndicalism. To ensure the saftey of British citizens and allow rapid reconstruction and return to stability a military provisional government is set up to govern the country until the first general elections. Formerly exiled aristocrats, miltary leaders, industrialists and politicans are returning with their king.       The provisional government undertakes a variety of measures to root out syndicalism and rebuild the economy and administration, in general ordinary people are not punished that being reserved for the Syndicalist who could not escape the fall of their government, non-syndicalist unions are allowed to operate and POWs are pardoned, leftist intellectuals however are NOT allowed to organize a new progressive party, this being deemed too dangerous to continued stabiltiy and prosperity.       With the election coming up the issue of Canada's future is settled as well with Edward III remaining its head of state to facilitate close bonds between the two countries, the Canadian armed forces are ordered to be kept at high alert and deploy to Europe under the overall command of Field Marshal Auchinleck. To appease the Canadians who have lost many of their leading industrialists and scientist as they returned from exile, the government introduces various subsidies to support Canadian industry and commerce as a reward for their loyal service in returning their King to his birthright and for services required of them in the future.    There is anger among many of the returning exiles, particularly the King and his closest advisors, and the patriotic portions of the populace, due to Glasgow still being held by the German army. The situation abroad also turns more serious as Germany declares war against the Kingdom of France (formerly National France) because of their support of French nationalist insurgents within their own puppet kingdom and duchies in the former Commune of France. The coming election shall have to decide the course of action to be taken, accept the loss of Glasgow and German hegemony of Europe or restore British rule over all Britain and the European balance of power.  The election soon comes around, though many question its true legitimacy since the military has introduced harsh requirements banning most who are thought to have supported Syndicalist rule from participating either as voters or candidates. It eventually becomes clear that the winners are a new party of revanchist exiles drawn mostly from the upper class and the military, they promise that if Germany fails to return Glasgow it will be war and they pledge to commit all the resources and weapons the Empire can muster towards this task.    The new British government keeps it word and sends a threatening message to the German consul in Britain where he is informed of the American divisions ready to seize Glasgow if it is not handed over peacefully. Predictably the German government refuse the demand, and preparations are made for a declaration of war against Germany. Vengeance must always come before peace.   I chose the National Party because I want to bring in allies against Germany, most of the best candidates (National France, Japan, Ottomans, etc) are Authoritarian Democrats or Paternal Autocrats, I am going to try to improve relations with the Soviets though them being Totalists probably makes it impossible for me to bring them to my alliance unless I can find some very good ministers and luck out. In the meantime it should be noted that Germany is a lot stronger than me ad appears to have been focusing on the Mobility doctrines, however the Canadian navy should keep them from my shores and might even enable National France to survive and take out Mittelafrika and for me to send some marines to take potshots at the German Empire overseas as I build up my forces for an invasion of Europe, as well as consider unconventional means to win this war (somehow I did not get the nuclear techs I had researched as Canada, but I have blueprints now, so I should be building reactors in 6 months or so I hope). Also I just accepted that I could not effectively transfer the Canadian military to my direct command and just waited for my IC to overcome theirs so I could assume control of them and the American puppets. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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The thing I like most about Kaiserreich is that every ideological alliance can either go full democracy and butterflies, or turn into a dictatorial police state that would make even Stalin proud. So I wouldn't really call it "dark", but more that it has the potential to become it.
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PBJ posted:The thing I like most about Kaiserreich is that every ideological alliance can either go full democracy and butterflies, or turn into a dictatorial police state that would make even Stalin proud. KR is really the other way around, it is dark but has the potential to maybe not be so. Any world power/power-bloc going democratic/not-full-on-police-state is an off chance at best, so must of the time a good scenario will be having only a handful of countries that are democratic surrounded by a sea of dictatorships/pseudo-democracies/absolute monarchies.
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PBJ posted:The thing I like most about Kaiserreich is that every ideological alliance can either go full democracy and butterflies, or turn into a dictatorial police state that would make even Stalin proud. I have a feeling that I might have led the Entente in the "dark" direction. What with my liberation of Britain and my intervention in the American Civil War and such. Also I was looking up the bios of my ministers again and my current minister of security wrote this on the second day of WWII to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance: Archibald Ramsay posted:
The Internationale didn't seem to be that bad, as far as I could tell they never voted in any Totalists in their governments and France and Italy kept electing Anarcho-Syndicalists and such, who might be considered much more liable to be reasonable unlike Nazi-Communists. Ofcourse the Internationale was destroyed by the Entente and Mitteleuropa, and now the world's foremost Socialist country is the Totalist Soviet Republic. e: minister of security, not foreign minister (fixed it). e2: Also, I think the Entente always feels pretty dark and authoritarian because of how revanchist it is, these are leaders who are not going to "be soft on their enemies" because they consider this to be where their exiled predecessors failed. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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I know you replaced him after the election event, but I like the idea of an alternate universe where Lord Mountbatten doesn't get blown up.
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Well you can make the military government more permanent. EDIT: Uh, Mittelafrika just changed into Centroafrika - Syndicalists under the likes of Patrice Lumumba, oh my. I've NEVER seen this before. Westminster System fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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So, despite my long standing distaste for HoI, I've decided to give Darkest Hour/ Kaiserreich another go because of this thread. I've found how to mod the game so spacebar pauses, which is the most important issue, and now I'm moving on to font legibility. At 1900x1200 the micro event font of black on smeary grey newsprint is unreadable me. Is there any sort of font size or UI mod? I assume not, and that I will: A.) Need to play at a lower resolution, and B.) Probably mod out that smearey grey newsprint for events. Anyone else already have a solution for this? I'll probably go with Russia for my first try, I understand they're fairly easy/forgiving?
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Russia is fantastic, they're probably the most developed with the most branching paths.
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uPen posted:Russia is fantastic, they're probably the most developed with the most branching paths. They really are. You get politics, internal development, even a few small wars to into the swing of things.
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I'm noticing some event choices are way too long for the boxes and bunch up or something and are partially illegible. Is this fixable or just the way the mod is?
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I don't know, Kaiserreich can end with democratic anarcho-syndicalism spreading across most of the globe. I consider that a more positive end than the real World War 2.
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Fintilgin posted:I'm noticing some event choices are way too long for the boxes and bunch up or something and are partially illegible. Is this fixable or just the way the mod is? That's just the way hoi2 is.
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uPen posted:Russia is fantastic, they're probably the most developed with the most branching paths. What are other strong developed nations with a lot of story/events/things to do?
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uPen posted:Russia is fantastic, they're probably the most developed with the most branching paths. Best choice for a beginner, since it's almost impossible to gently caress up too.
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SkySteak posted:What are other strong developed nations with a lot of story/events/things to do? Japan is basically Russia lite, it has a lot of branching paths and can do pretty much everything it sets it's mind to. Brazil has a lot of events and it's pretty much the king of it's area, so it's pretty cool. Chinese nations have a lot of events and can pretty much do whatever they want. Italy can be fun but it relies a lot on what other nations do. India is fun to play, but lacking in events.
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SkySteak posted:What are other strong developed nations with a lot of story/events/things to do? MONGOLIA von Ungern-Sternberg is possessed by the ghost of Ghengis Khan and you conquer the world. uPen fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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I've never seen that happen before   I'm having a really fun game of Kaiserreich right now as Commune of France. The Balkans have been at war with each other for the past two years, the American Civil War is wrapping up with the Combined Syndicates and the American Union State coming out as rough equals (with the Pacific States as a neutral party), and Japan/Transamur are at war with a massive Mongolia (who annexed Siberia in the Second Russian Civil War). Meantime I intervened in the Spanish Civil War and the Germans didn't do a drat thing about it. Man I forgot how much I loved this mod. It just has so much character.
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Drone posted:I've never seen that happen before I think that happens when the USA is winning, i.e. you have to deal with it every time you try to win the Civil War as them. EDIT: Looking at the file, it seems to happen when AUS is losing. Does anyone know what "lost_national" means in the triggers? Zeron posted:Japan is basically Russia lite, it has a lot of branching paths and can do pretty much everything it sets it's mind to. Brazil is the best nation in the mod because you can go full authoritarian full free market 
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GrossMurpel posted:Brazil is the best nation in the mod because you can go full authoritarian full free market This is the problem I have with KR; I love playing as syndicalist nations, but drat it I want full free market and standing army so I can get cheap upgrades 
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