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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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Minister of Security Helen Keller is the best thing. I just imagine her interrogating a prisoner and saying "Waaahhwaahhhhh" and then two burly dudes come in and waterboard him.
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beefart posted:Minister of Security Helen Keller is the best thing. I just imagine her interrogating a prisoner and saying "Waaahhwaahhhhh" and then two burly dudes come in and waterboard him. Nah, she goes all Werner Herzog on them. Show me you are rare.
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Poor Boston, still living under the oppressive rule of capitalist reactionaries.  I guess all my family was still out in the Midwest when this game takes place, though. 
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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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Kavak posted: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. Civil war made our fighting men and women tough and ready for anything. Connecticut traffic might break them.
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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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Chapter Two: La Socialisme Éclairant Le Monde (August 1937) Speech to the Reichstag by MP Niklas Maurer (DVP), August 26th, 1937  After our victory in the Weltkrieg, the Emperor spoke of Germany atop the world, the resolve of our people and the skill of our military and a new era of peace and prosperity. We have seen anything but in the time since. Our nation is under greater threat than at any other time of the Empire's sixty five years. For fifteen years we have sat at the center of Mitteleuropa, clearly the greatest alliance of our time, and we are all right to be proud of that accomplishment. However, it is time for Chancellor Wels and the SPD to wake up to a threat large enough to destroy what we have built.  At any other time in our history, I would applaud the Empire's decision to unite the thrones of Poland and Lithuania to create a strong ally at the center of Mitteleuropa.  However, I must strongly protest at the decision to also interfere on the side of Poland and Hungary in the Austrian civil war. Clearly our once ally is not the power they once were, but at this time we can ill afford to alienate any nation that is willing to combat the Internationale. The Chancellor should have put the prestige of his office as representative of the Kaiser into resolving the conflict and bringing all parties into the fold against the syndicalists.  It seems as though every day we are discussing matters of empire, such as our focus today on the Shangqing Problem. I understand the importance of our bonds with the Qing Emperor for our Asiatic interests but I must implore you all to consider the syndicalist problem as the greatest problem this body must face.  Our Empire has rarely been concerned with North America but now it ought to garner more of our attention than Africa or even Asia. Yesterday, Reed and Faure met at the base of the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of Franco-American friendship, and agreed on terms for the Combined Syndicates to accede to the military protocols of the Napoli Accords, a level of integration that not even the Union of Britain has agreed to yet.   French experts in weapons technology and training are already in America training the next generation of dangerous revolutionaries. We have been prone to ignore the United States, as it has long been completely unconcerned with the affairs of Europe, content to lord over its hemisphere and feed on the corpses of empires past. But I fear the civil war has ignited a dangerous spark in this sleeping giant. The vast resources of that continent could be aligned against us if the Entente fails to contain this threat.  Imagine I have IC set on upgrades. I'm upgrading the least used militia units to garrisons and the experienced ones to infantry. It's not efficient given our Central Planning focus but it seems lame to have the units that fought the civil war end up doing guard duty while real infantry fights the rest of the wars. Our brave men who volunteered to fight the noble fight against the Combined Syndicates have described the Syndicate Guards as a 'rabble' and that they only had success due to the support of Britain and France. How long can that situation persist, now that MacArthur and Long have failed?   How can we hope to defeat the French if thirty or forty well trained and equipped American divisions arrive to assist them?  And even if we were to disregard the land forces of the Americans, the Combined Syndicates already have a dozen battleships and two carriers. Consider for a moment the former United States Navy and the Republican Navy sailing into the North Sea as one. I fear we will bankrupt ourselves if we attempt to match the strength of the now three great syndicalist navies as well as attempting to compete with the Japanese.   The Americans have already made their intent perfectly clear by 'paying forward' the assistance of the French, as Reed himself put it. American volunteers and goods have already arrived in the next theater of this global conflict.  The syndicalists in America and France have not hesitated to assist the Totalists in Russia. Their ideological squabbles are clearly secondary to their common goal: destroying the German Empire. How many great powers must line up against us before you all take the syndicalist threat seriously?  The idea of a Franco-American army is enough to worry about. If we add Russia and Britain to that equation, then it is clear that we are in a dire situation.  Our influence and global prestige have been curtailed across the globe. The Marxists in Bolivia have defied our good friends in Buenos Aires and we have done nothing to reassure our Platinean allies that they have our support.   Even our neighbors begin to boldly defy us! Chancellor Wels was very quick to visit Amsterdam to congratulate his fellow social democrats for their electoral victory. Did that help our cause? They receive Guerin and Faure with as much fanfare as the Kaiser himself. They even order their ships from the shipbuilding syndicates of France instead of from Kiel.  And above all, our response to the illegal occupation of Geneva has been the most tepid and disgraceful act of this SPD government yet. How can we expect to be taken seriously in Lisbon, Santiago or Peking if this is how we react to such scandalous aggression right next door?   And let's not delude ourselves that Mitteleuropa is immune to this disease. The situation in Ukraine has gotten out of hand and unless we want to hand the eastern jewel of Mitteleuropa to the Soviets, then we ought to do whatever is necessary to restore proper order to the Ukraine. Our grasp on the world is slipping and we are failing to recognize the existential threats on our borders, like many other great civilizations of history. Will we stand idly by while the barbarians of this century destroy our great empire?  We ought to extend a hand to those we have vanquished in the past. The King in Canada has the right idea about how to respond to these godless thugs. Even with Red Detroit within spitting distance of their borders, the Canadians are not shy about projecting their limited power right into the heart of their enemy's backyard. Should we not be doing the same? Shouldn't we be reaching out to all the nations of the Americas to strangle this monster in its crib?  I obviously believe we must but I am afraid the Chancellor will not. How many more of our partners must fall to the syndicalists before you all take this seriously? The syndicalists have expressed an explicit desire to wipe the ways of monarchy and Christendom from the earth and our attempts to appease these monsters will only end in disaster. Perhaps when Madrid raises the red and black you will all wake up and prepare to do what is necessary. This is why I must ask all of you to support the legislation to further cooperation with the British Empire in exile. This is not the time for petty rivalries among the good and moral Christian nations of the world, not when our enemies are so singularly focused on destroying us all. Gott mit uns! The proposed legislation failed in the Reichstag by a margin of eighty five votes, with the SPD majority voting it down, citing a reluctance to 'incite conflict'. Maurer would be killed by an anarchist two months after this speech was given. Technologies I'm going to start putting technologies into their own imgur albums and just explaining the importance of each one in the captions. Trying to write in character explanations for all the techs is going to drive me nuts so I'll periodically put one of these in an update so you can keep up. Seven techs!
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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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So this month was mostly upgrades and consolidation while poo poo happened abroad I take it? Never got an answer on the current state of the military, are you planning to address that in an update? It's pretty funny that Mittleuropa is caving to the Syndicalists across the board like that.
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paragon1 posted:So this month was mostly upgrades and consolidation while poo poo happened abroad I take it? Basically. Kaiserreich is a bit weird compared to vanilla DH because its typically a bunch of buildup followed by a huge war that takes up the rest of your game but here we have some little wars then breaks where I'm really just sitting around upgrading and figuring out what my next general plan is. This one will not be horribly long. quote:Never got an answer on the current state of the military, are you planning to address that in an update? I put all the numbers in the update, navy is solid because the Union State and Combined Syndicates mostly hid from the USN, the army is upgrading to infantry from militia and getting more artillery across the board, and the air force is apparently decent sized compared to France, since its about as big as theirs even though their stuff is a bit more modern than mine.
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Kavak posted: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. 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.
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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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Kavak posted: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. 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.
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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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As long as we're doing general Kaiserreich chat, what are the chances that you'll make an HOI4 version eventually? Some of the stuff they've mentioned in the Dev Diaries sounds like it would work pretty well with the mod.
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paragon1 posted:It's pretty funny that Mittleuropa is caving to the Syndicalists across the board like that. Well one thing to keep in mind is that the speech is from an opposition MP from a nationalist party so he's bound to do whatever he can to paint the social democrat government as weak-willed, even though Germany has contributed volunteers to each of the civil wars so far. Germany and Japan are not really shaping up to be the villains I wanted, given Germany's center-left orientation and Japan's isolationism. Maybe I'll invade Brazil just because they're fascist jerks. GrossMurpel posted:gently caress efficiency, upgrade all your units to cav and wait until '51 to join the war I'll kindly ask you to use spoiler tags if you're going to discuss the events of Mongolia II: The Sky Baron.
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I can't wait to see the Mongolian version of Wolfenstein: the New Order. "We're going to have to defeat.... The Mad Baron's Space Cavalry."
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Why do you assume the Mongolians would be the bad guys? You tell me the Khan doesn't sound suspiciously similar to BJ.
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Captain Bravo posted:Why do you assume the Mongolians would be the bad guys? You tell me the Khan doesn't sound suspiciously similar to BJ. Because the other option - France - is really boring  .Plus the propaganda art for the Mongolian Empire is only a tad SS-ish, what with all the lightningbolts.
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theblastizard posted:What would the Mongol version of Ride of the Valkyries even be? Well, these are the people who invented Tuvan throat singing...
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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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Chief Savage Man posted:Well one thing to keep in mind is that the speech is from an opposition MP from a nationalist party so he's bound to do whatever he can to paint the social democrat government as weak-willed, even though Germany has contributed volunteers to each of the civil wars so far. Germany and Japan are not really shaping up to be the villains I wanted, given Germany's center-left orientation and Japan's isolationism. Maybe I'll invade Brazil just because they're fascist jerks. German Social Democrats are perfectly suitable villains for the revolutionary left, as Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht would tell you!
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In my current game, building a DD costs the PSA 0 IC. This means that every time I try to load a save I have to edit the cost of all DDs they're building because the game crashes if something costs 0 IC. Does anyone have any idea what could be the cause of that?
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GrossMurpel posted:In my current game, building a DD costs the PSA 0 IC. This means that every time I try to load a save I have to edit the cost of all DDs they're building because the game crashes if something costs 0 IC. There's an event about the PSA's direction after the civil war that gives them a choice between bonuses. One is shipbuilding and planebuilding, which gives a flat IC discount. That's probably the problem.
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TheMcD posted:There's an event about the PSA's direction after the civil war that gives them a choice between bonuses. One is shipbuilding and planebuilding, which gives a flat IC discount. That's probably the problem. Ah I see. So the solution is to annex PSA, got it.
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John Charity Spring posted:German Social Democrats are perfectly suitable villains for the revolutionary left, as Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht would tell you! Well the German Revolution never happened so it's not quite as bitter but I'll make do. e: They did ban FAUD though. The main thing is I'd like to see the mega Japan we fought as Mongolia in this game but we won't. csm141 fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Feb 3, 2015 |
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Chapter Three: Déjà Veracruz (Early September 1937) Excerpt from Comrade Marshall: A Biography by Forrest Pogue Chapter 17: The Soldier & the Socialist General Marshall's writings from the summer of 1937 serve as a reflection of the uncertain nature of the time. In many ways, he can be regarded as an example of how ordinary Americans related to the newly victorious and unabashedly radical Combined Syndicates. The Central Committee was largely made up of ardent socialists, most notably John 'Jack' Reed and Paul Mattick, both of whom were veterans of failed European revolutionary movements in the post-Great War period. This was somewhat in contrast to the union background of many in the Continental Chamber and the still developing hierarchy of state and municipal Chambers that sent delegates to the Continental Chamber. Beyond the revolutionary Central Committee and the mostly labor-democratic Chamber were all the so-called 'regular Americans' who were neither ideologically committed to the CSA's syndicalist program nor intractably opposed to it, a majority in all of the nation except for the urban industrial centers of the Northeast and the racially divided South. Reflecting upon his writings from the fall of 1936, Marshall can be seen as a representative of this majority. He felt that his duties as an Army officer were to uphold the Constitution and failing that, to defend the popular will of the American people. He felt that the suspension of the presidential election was unconstitutional which meant the federal government was an illegitimate authority. His choice to defect to the Syndicate Guards was, as his previous letters show, the most painful and difficult decision he had made. Marshall was forced to decide which of the factions most represented the 'American values of liberty and democracy', as he wrote in one late October entry. His distaste for MacArthur's actions as well as the racist and anti-Semitic attitudes among many of the Union State elite led him to embrace the Combined Syndicates, whose radically different form of democracy still counted as democracy in Marshall's eyes. Marshall was publicly silent and privately apprehensive about the revolutionary program of the Combined Syndicates, even after he defected from the United States Army and led the Franco-American Benjamin Franklin Corps to be the most decorated unit of the civil war. Even though he never spoke or acted against Reed, he still had a large number of detractors. Certain radicals and especially Totalists on the Committee regarded him as a dangerous remnant of the former capitalist power structure. When Reed began to work with the Committee and Chamber on developing a permanent structure for the Syndicate Guards, he at first regarded the choice of who would direct the building process as a political matter, his primary concern being not to give too much power to or alienate any of the numerous factions that existed at the time. The eventual shift in his thinking can be seen in his notes from a Committee meeting held a mere three days after the surrender of the Denver government. quote:Supreme Commander possibilities: Reed summoned Marshall to Chicago to get to know him better before making his decision. After one day of discussions with Marshall, Reed canceled his meetings with the other candidates and made preparations for the Chamber to confirm Marshall as the first Supreme Commander of the Syndicate Guards, a position he would hold for nearly fifteen years. Reed found Marshall to not only be the least threatening and most humble candidate but also the most strategically gifted. Within weeks, Marshall and Reed had already laid out the blueprint for what would become the Mexican Intervention.  Marshall chose Mexico as a primary and immediate objective for multiple reasons. The Entente was not friendly with Mexico due to its Arizonan dispute with the Pacific States, so the Combined Syndicates could attack without the risk of a larger North American war. The choice also provided some common ground for the former United States Army and the Syndicate Guards to rally around. The Army regarded the Mexicans as cowardly vultures, who had attacked the United States at its most vulnerable hour. The Guards were on board because they believed the Mexican government to be an illegitimate junta that was dismantling the legacy of the late Emiliano Zapata. The Internationale gave its wholehearted blessing to the operation, happy to see their newest member taking the initiative in restoring one of the oldest socialist states in the world. Marshall also convinced Reed that the war-weary American public and even the largely anti-syndicalist population of the Mexican-occupied Southwest would welcome the attack as an act of liberation, an idea that would eventually prove to be correct.  The stars are provinces we need to occupy to annex Mexico. Marshall's plan split Mexico into four operation areas, named Southwest, Texas, Mexico and Norte. The Mexican army was concentrated in Texas and Southwest. Marshall conceived of a major attack into the plains of Texas, supported by a smaller attack into New Mexico and an amphibious attack on Veracruz. Marshall was a student of American military history and knew that the Gulf Coast port had been occupied twice before by the United States, which went a long way towards achieving American goals during both previous conflicts. This time the goal would be to capture Mexico City, depose the junta and cut the nation in two. The only sector that Marshall left out of his initial assault was Norte, which he envisioned falling to a three pronged attack from each of the other three sectors after they had been captured.  Reed was convinced by Marshall's plan and authorized the operation to go ahead in early September.   The Chamber authorized the declaration of war while the navy steamed out of New Orleans towards Veracruz.  The majority of the Syndicate Guards, split into five units, began their assault into Texas and New Mexico the morning of September 6th. The command of the corps was split between professional officers and political figures. Marshall took command of an expanded Benjamin Franklin Corps attacking out of western Oklahoma, while his close friend Maurice Rose assumed control once again of the Transatlantic Expeditionary Force in its attack on Houston. Harry Haywood and Oliver Law led the Abraham Lincoln Corps on an attack on Dallas and its environs, while Ernest Hemingway led the attack on New Mexico.   The Syndicate Air Guards had grown considerably in strength with the absorption of Union State and United States air wings. Much like the civil war, the Air Guards were tasked with weakening the most entrenched enemy positions, which led to their initial use in Houston and Albuquerque.  Marshall would have very much liked to wait to attack until his program to organize and modernize the militias was completed but the Mexican army was rather weak, poorly trained and hampered by local partisans, and so he felt confident that the militias, interspersed with professional infantry, could handle the Mexicans.  Reed left the military affairs entirely to Marshall and concerned himself with using the conflict to unite the nation. The Mexican junta was vilified through exaggerated reports of Mexican brutality against Southwestern populations published in papers across the nation.  The war marked the end of the most violent period of Southern resistance to the Combined Syndicates. The stated goal of liberating fellow Americans from a foreign power resonated as well in the South as the rest of the nation. Racial tensions were therefore temporarily overshadowed, which led to a marked decrease in support for the Klan and other smaller anti-syndicalist partisan organizations.  The spirit of reconciliation was most notable in the Air Guards, where the effective cooperation of former enemies contributed heavily to the early success of the operation. The Mexican fortifications around Houston were significantly damaged by air bombardment, leaving them ill prepared to deal with the TAEF.  Due to the battles raging across Texas, the Mexican army had left the Gulf Coast entirely undefended, believing that the Syndicate Guards were incapable of amphibious operations. They had forgotten about the Army divisions that had integrated into the Guards. Among the non-commissioned officers of these units were veterans of the 1914 occupation of Veracruz. With twelve battleships backing them up, the three divisions had barely any problems landing in the city, drawing upon their past experience and training.  The troops quickly and efficiently occupied the port, forcing out the tiny Mexican Navy in the process.  The troops did not linger long, departing immediately towards Mexico City.  The obsolete pre-Great War cruiser Anahuac attempted to interfere with the landing, only to be set upon by the dozen battleships of the Syndicate Fleet.  The cruiser was torn to pieces instantaneously by the big guns of the battleships, sinking with all hands.  While the Guards were achieving unmitigated success in Veracruz, Marshall and Hemingway had broken their opposition in New Mexico and northern Texas.  The dire reports coming out of the north led the Mexican command to decide that Texas was indefensible and to order a general retreat rather than have units be lost in an encirclement of Dallas.  Houston's warm welcoming of the Transatlantic Expeditionary Force lent creedence to Marshall's prediction of a positive reaction from the Texan population.  The Rio Grande was the objective, not only for its defensive value but also for the propaganda value of having evicted the Mexicans from American soil.  While the Mexicans were abandoning Texas, they were reinforcing the more rugged and defensible terrain New Mexico. Marshall moved the Benjamin Franklin Corps towards Lubbock in order to support Hemingway.  Hemingway was amongst the most aggressive commanders of the Syndicate Guards, unafraid to commit his men into tough battles in order to keep the enemy on their back foot.  And as had so often been the case during the civil war, the air superiority of the Syndicate Guards was crucial. The Mexican reinforcements in New Mexico were barely able to reach the front before being bombed by the Syndicate Air Guards.  Within days, the land assault and continued aerial bombardment had thrown the Mexican army in Texas into total disarray. The complete success during the opening phases of the Mexican Intervention earned Marshall the respect and trust of Reed. Even before the Mexican Intervention had ended, Reed had involved Marshall in nearly all grand strategic planning, and Marshall's loyalty and dedication helped him keep the position even after Reed's death. 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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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"Freedom" is relative. Is the person who is assigned a job relative his merits, who is free of worries of hunger, free of debt and guaranteed employment, more or less free than the person who is free to starve on the street and get shot by gangs, but doesn't have to pay taxes or gets to vote for mayor?
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Deceitful Penguin posted:"Freedom" is relative. Is the person who is assigned a job relative his merits, who is free of worries of hunger, free of debt and guaranteed employment, more or less free than the person who is free to starve on the street and get shot by gangs, but doesn't have to pay taxes or gets to vote for mayor? If you engineer a situation where this question is one that can legitimately be asked, you're the bad guy.
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I imagine post-revolution CSA would be clamping down fairly hard on dissent and whatnot in order to cement control over a country that just came out of a 6-way civil war. I'm running on the assumption that Chief Savage Man is likely keeping it pretty authoritarian just for the sake of making gameplay easier and that society goes back to being open and free after a brief rebuilding period. Edit: and I'm pretty sure nobody would mind if, for the sake of narrative, you used console commands or whatever to engineer a slightly more dangerous adversary by making Germany more .... "evil"? Drone fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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NewMars posted:If you engineer a situation where this question is one that can legitimately be asked, you're the bad guy. I'd think that a closed would be moving further away from unions and such you can freely move between (and like union councils? this is how they're supposed to operate?) towards a more Danwei like system, which has disadvantages but is a heck of a lot better than "you ten to the ghetto and lovely schools, this guy gets to coast on his parents wealth into life-long debt". fakeedit: still in chuckles over a land where you can vote for a judge but not for more than 2 parties
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Drone posted:I imagine post-revolution CSA would be clamping down fairly hard on dissent and whatnot in order to cement control over a country that just came out of a 6-way civil war. I'm running on the assumption that Chief Savage Man is likely keeping it pretty authoritarian just for the sake of making gameplay easier and that society goes back to being open and free after a brief rebuilding period. 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.
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