Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Empress Theonora
Feb 19, 2001

She was a sword glinting in the depths of night, a lance of light piercing the darkness. There would be no mistakes this time.
Yeah, tons and tons of CK2 tags that aren't in EU4 are generated as Z## whatever tags by the converter, so they don't need to add every possible tag specifically.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Riso
Oct 11, 2008

by merry exmarx

Darkrenown posted:

Just in case people aren't following the CK2 thread, Charlemagne is live now. As is the 2.2 patch.

You broke river navigation for Norse :golfclap:

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


Well turns out the answer to my "I've liberated Britain in KR now what the hell do I do?" question was solved by Germany declaring war on the Kingdom of France (my ally. There's two Kingdom of Frances thanks to the outcome of Weltkrieg 2).

Now, I've got the US on my side thanks to intervening in their civil war. Do they ever invade anything in KR (like a version of DDay?) They've got 50 divisions sitting in Boston I'd love to use but since I'm no longer leading the alliance I can't take control of them.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

Well turns out the answer to my "I've liberated Britain in KR now what the hell do I do?" question was solved by Germany declaring war on the Kingdom of France (my ally. There's two Kingdom of Frances thanks to the outcome of Weltkrieg 2).

Now, I've got the US on my side thanks to intervening in their civil war. Do they ever invade anything in KR (like a version of DDay?) They've got 50 divisions sitting in Boston I'd love to use but since I'm no longer leading the alliance I can't take control of them.

You could switch over to the UK, like I did, you will be the leader of the Entente and your IC should grow large enough to control most of your allies, though if its the actual US and not just balkanized puppets like in my game it is very likely that their IC has grown pretty big already I'd say so you won't be able to control them.

Westminster System
Jul 4, 2009
The AI does tend to do amphibious invasions in DH - a lot - if their AI file tells them to do it. Most of the time you never notice when its your allies because they tend to fail. In KR, National France tends to do it pretty well to the Commune - and I've had Canada land in Britanny, Australasia land in Normandy and Canada also leading an amphibious invasion of Sicily without my involvement. You'll also tend to notice people like Italy are pretty good at invading the Balkans via beaches in Albania and Dalmatia because their AI tells them to.

Which is why the UoB always invades everything it can land on.

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


Randarkman posted:

You could switch over to the UK, like I did, you will be the leader of the Entente and your IC should grow large enough to control most of your allies, though if its the actual US and not just balkanized puppets like in my game it is very likely that their IC has grown pretty big already I'd say so you won't be able to control them.

If I tag switch to the US and grab those forces as an Expeditionary Force, will they just grab them back when I switch back?

If I switch to the UK, I think I'll lose the nukes I'm stockpiling as Canada. And I'm pretty sure those will come in handy.

Drone
Aug 22, 2003

Incredible machine
:smug:


loving hell, I forgot how difficult it can be to invade Germany as the Commune of France. I went through Belgium, but the Germans have an extended Siegfried Line that runs all the way up to the Dutch border. And I wasn't really thrilled with the idea of declaring war on the Netherlands just to thin out my lines even more.

I finally got over this chain of forts, but goddamn did it drain my manpower. The Germans took about twice the casualties I did, but this is rough. About to take the decision allowing women to serve equally in my armies for that huge manpower boost, to help top me off a bit over the winter.

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


Westminster System posted:

The AI does tend to do amphibious invasions in DH - a lot - if their AI file tells them to do it. Most of the time you never notice when its your allies because they tend to fail. In KR, National France tends to do it pretty well to the Commune - and I've had Canada land in Britanny, Australasia land in Normandy and Canada also leading an amphibious invasion of Sicily without my involvement. You'll also tend to notice people like Italy are pretty good at invading the Balkans via beaches in Albania and Dalmatia because their AI tells them to.

Which is why the UoB always invades everything it can land on.

Well hopefully they join in once I invade because Germany and their France have left large parts of the north French coast completely unguarded so let's see how far some forty odd divisions can get me. If I can ramp up nuke production and get lucky with some encirclements, maybe I can pull it off. My worry isn't taking France, it's the apparent 120 or so divisions Germany has...somewhere according to my intelligence. Figures this game Russia decided to not poke around it's western neighbours for once.

But yeah, now I think of it Entente France did invade Italy on its own. Got stuck half way up the boot and needed me to bail them out with half a dozen motorised divisions, but they did get it started.

Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 18:13 on Oct 14, 2014

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Does Spain have any cool events after the Civil War in KR, or am I just gonna wait and jump in on whatever alliance wants me? What should I be building in peacetime to prepare?

Guildencrantz
May 1, 2012

IM ONE OF THE GOOD ONES
Oh god. After a successful game as Socialist Italy, in which I rode France's coattails to victory, I started a game as National France so I could play around with air and sea power more. Of course what happens but Soviet Russia attacking Germany in 1938, after which France dogpiles the distracted Germans and rolls them up like a stolen rug. By early 1940 the German Empire is gone, Europe is mostly Syndicalist and, free from distractions, the UoB and CoF concentrate all of their air and naval power on bombing the poo poo out of me, making it impossible to do basically anything.

Time to restart, I guess. Second-rate powers can be rough if you get unlucky.

GrossMurpel
Apr 8, 2011

StashAugustine posted:

Does Spain have any cool events after the Civil War in KR, or am I just gonna wait and jump in on whatever alliance wants me? What should I be building in peacetime to prepare?

There's some stuff for claiming France (I think if Vichy France exists?) or joining the Entente and that's it.

In general, once you reach 1940 or so KR tends to turn from railroaded alt history to blobbing simulator.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Also, how can I get dissent down outside of "lots of goods"? It's hovering in the 30s after the war.

TheMcD
May 4, 2013

Monaca / Subject N 2024
---------
Despair will never let you down.
Malice will never disappoint you.

StashAugustine posted:

Also, how can I get dissent down outside of "lots of goods"? It's hovering in the 30s after the war.

You can't. It's lots of goods and events, and odds are you have no real events left for that. High dissent can really grind a nation to a halt, not because it's so damaging, but because it takes ages to get rid of it.

GrossMurpel
Apr 8, 2011

StashAugustine posted:

Also, how can I get dissent down outside of "lots of goods"? It's hovering in the 30s after the war.

At that level of dissent you should disable production IC and focus on consumer goods. No other way to really get it down (though with the massive amount of money you make from consumer goods, you can do the decision for research speed which also reduces dissent a bit).

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Not too long after taking up the PM post on the resignation of Henry Page Croft, Archibald Ramsay approaches King Edward with a proposal.
Acknowledging the precarious state of the nation and the ever more difficult military situation on the Franco-German border the king agrees with Ramsay for the sake of victory, peace and stability.
(I forgot to take a picture of the new cabinet, the thing is its not really new (and I reverted to the military ministers shown in the previous update), the only different being that I'm now almost fully closed society and National Populist)



Soon after the war effort is boosted and politicians and generals delighted to learn that the Italian government has surrendered to French forces, who have brought Pope Julius back from exile to once more take his place on the throne of St. Peter.



As long as they are not syndicalists, London could care less about who the French prefer ruling Italy, what's more important is that this frees up nearly 500,000 soldiers from the southern front who can now be brought north to reinforce the beleaugered front lines on the western front and maybe even allow Entente forces to go back on the defensive after nearly 4 months of vicious German attacks.



Not all news are good though, the IRA are still waging a terrorist campaign against the British government and people. This latest attack is answered by mass arrests across Ireland and indefinite suspension of the right to assembly, though secretly most strategists know that this move is mostly for show and can do little to effectively stop the terorrist group.



Potentially worrying, though not immediately so, elections in Canada and France bring respectively liberal and republican regimes to power, in Canada it is noted that the return fo Mackenzie King to politics who, though he has always been loyal to the Emprie, has always favored a Canada first policy and it is exactly this sentiment exemplified with the frequent conscription riots that brought the liberals to power as Canadian casualties in Europe have been rising steadily in the last months.




I may end up writing in some events to illustrate this situation I have cooked up here, as the Entente members are becoming increasingly politically distant from each other exemplified by Britain's cancelling of elections just as the French and Canadians hold theirs, and the war is becoming ever more brutal and reminiscent of the first Weltkrieg even though the initial wargoals have been reached.
If anyone has some suggestions as to what could unfold here I am all ears, I just kind of want to do some events at this point.

What I'm thinking is that Canada has a lot of leverage with its importance to the Entente war effort (they have the navy and airforce and many of the best ground troops, they have also taken quite a lot of casualties recently), they might demand the British government to be more clear as to what the Entente war aims are at this point or something like that. I was also thinking that the new liberal government might end the rule of the authoritarian regimes set up in its American puppets and allow them to hold elections and even vote for re-unifcation, possibly end their puppet status admitting them as full members to honor the commitment they have made to the Entente in terms of troops (I am pretty sure more than half the troops on the Franco-German border are Americans). As for France I'm not really sure, except they probably really hate the Germans and syndicalists, then they also have the weird situation of having a republican party voted to power in a monarchy..

Top Hats Monthly
Jun 22, 2011


People are people so why should it be, that you and I should get along so awfully blink blink recall STOP IT YOU POSH LITTLE SHIT
Canada could send a diplomatic warning to the UK, and begin moving troops towards borders of the American republics. Maybe even seize Minnesota or Michigan if diplomacy goes awry

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Unrelated to my UK game, I was just playing around a bit in KR and in that game encountered the worst named nation in the mod



e: also their head of state has a unique trait and the description is basically a mini bio

Randarkman fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Oct 14, 2014

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

So on the plus side I probably am in the midst of my most successful HoI-3 run, with France knocking out Italy October 5th, 1939 just ~5 days after Germany reclaimed Poland. Also managed a breakthrough on the German front and and should be able to take Strausborg(?) and hopefully kill off a few divisions of their southern garrison before the Germans can set up a new line. Could be interesting to see how the AI reacts to this. They're still invading Denmark so IDK.

On the downside, I think I made a mistake. When I invaded Italy (which I did after German declared war on Poland) I went in to diplomacy and declared war on Italy- I figured it was the right thing to do to send a telegram ahead of the Marines? I had to set a war goal and selected Democracy, figuring again that seems like the gentlemanly French thing to do. But sadly when Italy surrendered they just become an independent nation again and I'm alerted by the game that I have troops in foreign soil. I kind of thought maybe they'd become a democracy after I was done using their resources and northern border to finish the war?

Should I have not selected a War Goal? Conquered it? This is the first time I've made a difference and I'm lost and scared!

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012




Interesting choice of strategy AI Russia.

They've built exactly one infantry division on every single drat province they own. From the western border to the other end of Siberia

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:



Interesting choice of strategy AI Russia.

They've built exactly one infantry division on every single drat province they own. From the western border to the other end of Siberia

I'm not familiar with the differences between 2 and 3's combat/troop depletion rules, but that seems like a pretty good deterrent to ever invading.

Pornographic Memory
Dec 17, 2008

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:



Interesting choice of strategy AI Russia.

They've built exactly one infantry division on every single drat province they own. From the western border to the other end of Siberia

It's called "defense in depth" :rolleyes:

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Randarkman posted:

Unrelated to my UK game, I was just playing around a bit in KR and in that game encountered the worst named nation in the mod



e: also their head of state has a unique trait and the description is basically a mini bio

Oh my god, this was actually a thing.

BBJoey
Oct 31, 2012

Randarkman posted:

I may end up writing in some events to illustrate this situation I have cooked up here, as the Entente members are becoming increasingly politically distant from each other exemplified by Britain's cancelling of elections just as the French and Canadians hold theirs, and the war is becoming ever more brutal and reminiscent of the first Weltkrieg even though the initial wargoals have been reached.
If anyone has some suggestions as to what could unfold here I am all ears, I just kind of want to do some events at this point.

What I'm thinking is that Canada has a lot of leverage with its importance to the Entente war effort (they have the navy and airforce and many of the best ground troops, they have also taken quite a lot of casualties recently), they might demand the British government to be more clear as to what the Entente war aims are at this point or something like that. I was also thinking that the new liberal government might end the rule of the authoritarian regimes set up in its American puppets and allow them to hold elections and even vote for re-unifcation, possibly end their puppet status admitting them as full members to honor the commitment they have made to the Entente in terms of troops (I am pretty sure more than half the troops on the Franco-German border are Americans). As for France I'm not really sure, except they probably really hate the Germans and syndicalists, then they also have the weird situation of having a republican party voted to power in a monarchy..

With the election of a liberal government, I'd think that Canada wants to get out of this European war right now. Canadians are probably sick and tired of dying for the British who mostly turned their backs on them once they got their islands back. Canada has nothing to gain from a protracted war in central Europe and everything to lose. In addition, the post-US puppets are likely to be seeing increased agitation for a free and democratic society, and the Canadian government probably doesn't want to damage relations with a potential future USA any more than they have already with their interference in the civil war.

I'd suggest that Canada immediately takes steps towards the reunification of the democratic USA, at the same time as they send an ultimatum to the UK: establish clear and accomplishable wargoals in the war with Germany or Canada will withdraw both its troops and its American conscripts and perhaps even hold a referendum on splitting entirely with the monarchy and becoming a republic.

As for France, I'd say that the socialist bloc probably joined with the Republican party to create a strong, democratic left-wing government. They're probably content with instituting (or maintaining) a constitutional monarchy in which the monarch is merely a figurehead, as after all it was under the king that France was restored from German occupation so there's probably some goodwill there. I don't see France accepting peace with Germany without at least extracting huge territorial concessions and reparations - I doubt there's a single politician in the French government that would support anything less than total war.

Of course I don't know if any of this would be conducive to a fun game for you, but that's my :spergin: reading of the situation.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:



Interesting choice of strategy AI Russia.

They've built exactly one infantry division on every single drat province they own. From the western border to the other end of Siberia

With 51% dissent they're probably doing that to reduce partisan strength.


The russian civil war is filled with random nations that lasted only for weeks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Post%96Russian_Empire_states

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


Pornographic Memory posted:

It's called "defense in depth" :rolleyes:

Upon further investigation, literally every single one of then is on anti partisan duty because their dissent is at a mind boggling 50+ percent.

Guess that explains why they aren't doing anything much like invading their neighbours...

Kavak
Aug 23, 2009


Yeah, it's an AI strategy when dissent gets out of control to put a unit in every single province. I don't think unscripted revolts can happen when a province is occupied.

Ms Adequate
Oct 30, 2011

Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling



Randarkman posted:

If anyone has some suggestions as to what could unfold here I am all ears, I just kind of want to do some events at this point.

What I'm thinking is that Canada has a lot of leverage with its importance to the Entente war effort (they have the navy and airforce and many of the best ground troops, they have also taken quite a lot of casualties recently), they might demand the British government to be more clear as to what the Entente war aims are at this point or something like that. I was also thinking that the new liberal government might end the rule of the authoritarian regimes set up in its American puppets and allow them to hold elections and even vote for re-unifcation, possibly end their puppet status admitting them as full members to honor the commitment they have made to the Entente in terms of troops (I am pretty sure more than half the troops on the Franco-German border are Americans). As for France I'm not really sure, except they probably really hate the Germans and syndicalists, then they also have the weird situation of having a republican party voted to power in a monarchy..

Canada will clearly be losing a lot of goodwill towards the UK. They were overrun by upper-class British exiles who then used Canadian treasure and blood to wage several wars in the restoration of the Empire. So far so good, but with things turning ugly on the German front, and the return of German troops from the Soviet theater, I would imagine the Canadians are going to be very vocally and strenuously advocating a negotiated peace with the Germans. They could probably be persuaded to stay in the war for awhile if set wargoals are outlined, but there's no way London could realistically secure a commitment from Ottawa to keep fighting a total war.

The Americans will be even more angry about it all. There's probably a mixture of feeling in general, because they were invaded, but the invasion did stop a brutal civil war and put an end to the radicals involved in it. After several years though, the Americans will be determined to go their own way(s), and though it's probable Canada could secure favorable agreements, the UK will have much less power to do so. To Americans, London is just the place a lot of their sons went to die at the demand of foreign masters, whilst the PSA will be pretty unhappy about the whole affair as well even if they weren't invaded themselves.

So in short, I reckon there should be some events about increasing North American unhappiness with the UK, who are going to either have to negotiate peace with Germany or achieve some MAJOR breakthroughs very soon. They'll have to either risk the Empire leaving, or risk the French leaving to pursue the war alone.

e; ^ Provinces can still revolt when garrisoned, however I believe the national unit counts as the defender and so the fights rarely last terribly long, given their general superiority of techs, doctrines, and leadership.

Ms Adequate fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Oct 15, 2014

Punished Chuck
Dec 27, 2010

Kavak posted:

Yeah, it's an AI strategy when dissent gets out of control to put a unit in every single province. I don't think unscripted revolts can happen when a province is occupied.

So the AI itself is using gamey strategies to take advantage of the rules? That's kinda funny.

Don Gato
Apr 28, 2013

Actually a bipedal cat.
Grimey Drawer
So I'm getting into Vicky 2 again, and I just want to know is there any way I can accurately recreate the Monroe Doctrine? I've never played as the USA before, but I feel like I want to create the GREAT AMERICAN EMPIRE, but sphereing takes too drat long and England is making my life harder by discrediting me at every turn :argh:. I want to be an imperialist rear end in a top hat in my own backyard, why is this so hard damnit :911:

NEED TOILET PAPER
Mar 22, 2013

by XyloJW

Don Gato posted:

So I'm getting into Vicky 2 again, and I just want to know is there any way I can accurately recreate the Monroe Doctrine? I've never played as the USA before, but I feel like I want to create the GREAT AMERICAN EMPIRE, but sphereing takes too drat long and England is making my life harder by discrediting me at every turn :argh:. I want to be an imperialist rear end in a top hat in my own backyard, why is this so hard damnit :911:

Just keep influencing, the British will give up everywhere except maybe Brazil and Mexico. And you only need to get to Friendly status with a country in order to intervene in a war, which is convenient for what you're trying to do.

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012


So a couple invasion attempts later and I'm not sure I can do it without the US or UK AI helping out.

Landing 40 divisions is easy, and I can usually take Brittany or most of Normandy before the Germans can respond.

The problem is when they do they bring a shitload of armoured divisions. After landing my units (except for the paratroopers I used to take the undefended port I landed at) are at yellow to red org and don't have time to recover before they get smashed by the armoured pain train.

Also, despite nuking Berlin and several industrial centres, it doesn't seem to affect them all that much.

Mr Luxury Yacht fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Oct 15, 2014

Vichan
Oct 1, 2014

I'LL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR CRIME

Randarkman posted:

Unrelated to my UK game, I was just playing around a bit in KR and in that game encountered the worst named nation in the mod



e: also their head of state has a unique trait and the description is basically a mini bio

This is why I both love and hate Kaiserreich.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

I haven't gotten to writing my events yet, instead playing around a bit in the American Civil War, which is really fun as the AUS as somebody said earlier. I managed to secure victory by making an unintended feint attack into Texas and the Midwest which I abandoned when it became too risky but it caused the US and CSA to focus fighting there for a while while I could concentrate my forces in the north east and conquer the east coast which I exploited to win the whole thing.

Interestingly if you consistently choose to implement Huey Long's policies after the war is won you can cause the AUS to take a hard turn to the left, the problem with that though is that once you cross over into Social Democrat or Radical Socialist it replaces all your ministers (mostly with market liberals for some reason), which is lame and a shame. Firing an event that forces the old ministers back doesn't seem to work either, so I guess the only solution is to make leftist versions of Long and his ministers.

Randarkman fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Oct 15, 2014

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Looking at the intervention options for the Spanish Civil War, and as France my leading party has to have popularity and organization of 50. I start with about 35 in each and I don't think there's any way to really raise them? I don't know what raises organization, and I know I can raise party support using domestic spies, but I'm pretty sure I can't gain ~15% in the 8 months or so between Jan 1936 and Summer when the Civil War starts.

What's the point of a decision like that when it's basically impossible to activate? And I'm pretty sure all it does is provide the Republicans with an extra 3 infantry divisions?

Samolety
Jan 27, 2008

I have returned from negotiations with Comrade Ignatov and have found him to be quite agreeable.
I believe it is peace in our time.
Randarkman's Canada playthrough suckered me into playing through KR again as my go-to favourite, National France. While I don't want to steal Randark's thunder (and I'm also not nearly as good a writer as he is), I took a bunch of screenshots and figured I'd post my results as well. I've made it to 1941 now, so I'll break things up a bit rather than make one stupidly huge post.

1936 was a pivotal year in the history of France. The world was tense, the shadow of war lay over Europe once again. While there had, as of yet, been no hostile actions, everyone could feel that this post-Weltkrieg time of peace was soon to be over. In French Algeria, this tension gave way to a series of riots by the local Algerians. However, these particular rioters were joined by many Pied-Noir. The demand was clear: The provisional military government must end. In response, rather than start a violent campaign against its own dwindling population, the military government of France relented. Marshall Petain agreed to step down, and left the planning of the first election since the Weltkrieg to Paul Reynaud. In a stunning turn of events, Reynaud's committee decided to allow everyone in France to vote in the elections, including the native Algerians.



Many of the more conservative French upper class accused Reynaud of using this move to secure his own political power. Indeed, Reynaud and his Democratic Republican Alliance won the elections in a landslide, with over 80% of natives voting for the DRA.

The next two years were quiet for France, but the tension only continued to mount. Meanwhile, that tension broke in other parts of the world. Civil wars erupted in Spain, Russia, the USA, and Austria. France sent what troops and supplies it could spare to aid in the fight against the Syndicalists in Spain, Russia, and the USA, but otherwise could only watch and wait. Reynaud's government began a series of economic reforms, including a survey of the French Sahara and an airway from Dakar to Algiers. Meanwhile, the army continued to increase in size, with elite Pied-Noir marine and mountain units being reinforced by Foreign-Legion infantry raised by Charles DeGaulle's recruitment program. Then, in February of 1938, Morocco declared independence from the German Empire. France wasted no time, the debate was short. While Germany would undoubtedly be displeased, the Moroccan territory would be invaluable to the French Republic.



The war lasted only two months, and the fighting only a week. The elite Pied-Noir commandos swept the rabble of Moroccan militamen away with hardly a second thought, while the Pied-Noir motorised infantry and Nigerian cavalry made for Casablanca.



In the winter of 1948, the taxation of the Tuaregs turned violent, as a horde of Tuareg cavalry attacked Pied-Noir throughout the nation. In the resulting panic, Guinea declared itself independent from France. The war was so short and one-sided, that French historians barely even bother to record the revolt. Pied-Noir commandos and motorised infantry swept in from the north and pacified the Tuaregs, while Nigerian militia and cavalry, combined with the Liberian infantry, made short work of Guinea. Meanwhile, the Carlists won the Spanish civil war, and the Russians pacified the Soviet revolters. Both nations were thankful for French assistance. The Carlists offered France the opportunity to build a 'Mediterranean Alliance', but France refused. The alliance with Canada was strong, and would be needed to defeat the Syndicalists.

Finally, in the autumn of 1939, the tension broke. The Commune and Germany went to war. The French army was mobilized, and the ships were prepared, everyone knew this would be the only chance France had of retaking her homeland. Two weeks later, the Canadians formally declared war on the Syndicalists. The second Weltkrieg had begun.

While many in the French military were eager to return to French soil and take the fight to the Commune, DeGaulle and Admiral Darlan, two former enemies in the French military structure, came up with a different plan. Darlan knew that without the Mediterranean secure, French supply lines could not be guaranteed for the invasion. DeGaulle knew that the Sicilians were not prepared for war, and had come up with his own plans, approved by president Reynaud. So, in October of 1939 French troops left Algeria and landed, not in Southern France, but in Sicily. There was next to no resistance. The Socialist Republic of Italy had scrambled to garrison their beaches, but they were woefully unprepared for the war. Their untrained, underequipped troops were no match for the battle-hardened, relentlessly-drilled French commandos and foreign legion. Union of Britain troops arrived in Sicily to aid in the defense, but they were overwhelmed by French numbers. The Sicilian and British troops were cut off in Siracuse and forced to surrender. With the first line of defense broken, the Sicilians were in full retreat as the French began their invasion of Calabria.



The war with the Socialist Republic lasted only two months. French troops entered Napoli on December 19th, 1939, and accepted the surrender of the Sicilian government.



Darlan's supply lines were secure, and DeGaulle was now able to put his plan into action. The government of the Italian Federation was presented with an offer, which they eagerly accepted.



Now, with a new front opened and a new ally secured, everyone could agree. It was time to return home, time to take France.

Don Gato
Apr 28, 2013

Actually a bipedal cat.
Grimey Drawer

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

Looking at the intervention options for the Spanish Civil War, and as France my leading party has to have popularity and organization of 50. I start with about 35 in each and I don't think there's any way to really raise them? I don't know what raises organization, and I know I can raise party support using domestic spies, but I'm pretty sure I can't gain ~15% in the 8 months or so between Jan 1936 and Summer when the Civil War starts.

What's the point of a decision like that when it's basically impossible to activate? And I'm pretty sure all it does is provide the Republicans with an extra 3 infantry divisions?

HoI 3 has a lot of decisions and events like that with almost impossible to achieve triggers. I mean, according to the game files it's possible to have Germany ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm II or Wilhelm III, which is a bit :psyduck:.

In theory you can get lucky with events that increase your organization, or an allied country helping you out by supporting your ruling party but 999 out of a thousand it's not going to happen.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Jesus, I'm gonna have to do something about this issue I'm having where implementing Long's own policies cause him be replaced (due to game mechanics switching out your ministers when your ideology switches over and there are replacements) because they almost invariably cause the sliders to move towards political left.

Fidel Cuckstro
Jul 2, 2007

Don Gato posted:

HoI 3 has a lot of decisions and events like that with almost impossible to achieve triggers. I mean, according to the game files it's possible to have Germany ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm II or Wilhelm III, which is a bit :psyduck:.

In theory you can get lucky with events that increase your organization, or an allied country helping you out by supporting your ruling party but 999 out of a thousand it's not going to happen.

At least for France's choice there, it'd probably be a reasonable fix to remove those requirements and instead simply give a National Unity penalty to them since France already starts w/ a very low unity and need to rely on The Popular Front decision to even get them out of the 30s.

Also noticing the Blitzkrieg movement bonus is insane for Germany. I'm surprise-invading Italy the day of the war with Poland and I feel like I'm seeing German infantry reinforcements pull from the Maginot Line down to Milan in the time it takes me to get from Nice to Milan...

I both really want to love and hate Hearts of Iron so, so much.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

I've begun writing the wrapping-up events for my Canada-->UK playthrough. I'm going to have to find some pictures that look better for those event box, but this is mostly what I'm going for. Thinking of doing events for the UK, Canada, Germany, France and the American puppets, as well as a possible peace conference chain involving various countries with varying outcomes.





e: pretty much done with one of the event chains, ending in this.

Randarkman fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Oct 16, 2014

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Guildencrantz
May 1, 2012

IM ONE OF THE GOOD ONES

Samolety posted:




The war with the Socialist Republic lasted only two months. French troops entered Napoli on December 19th, 1939, and accepted the surrender of the Sicilian government.



Darlan's supply lines were secure, and DeGaulle was now able to put his plan into action. The government of the Italian Federation was presented with an offer, which they eagerly accepted.



Now, with a new front opened and a new ally secured, everyone could agree. It was time to return home, time to take France.

Awesome, I'm doing Nat. France too, so it's great to see how another goon handles it! Although I'm playing the Third Empire in Bonapartist "make Europe burn" style :france:

Also I had no idea giving Italy the south causes them to join the Entente. I would've done it rather than puppeted Two Sicilies, maybe with a strong Italy on my side I could be able to spare Berlin from atomic fire in the upcoming invasion. Oh well :getin:

  • Locked thread