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RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Flavius Aetass posted:

I wouldn't worry too much about RPing good people or bad people in an alt-history scenario. It's interesting to see how things go either way.

Does anyone remember the name of the LP where in Wiz's turn he became increasingly racist and paranoid and created Croat containment zones for our old ethnic enemies? It was honestly hilarious.

I believe that was Serbyzantium.

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RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
If we're still literally 50 years behind the curve in most industrial tech I'm voting socialists anyway gently caress borders

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
Socialists, even though I really don't like some of their policies I don't think I can handle voting for moderates when we have basically zero reforms

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
I just realised that in a lot of ways (especially politically) Al-Andalus is like OTL Belgium, only the game hasn't been spamming strikes at us caused by our horrible voting system and massive exploitation of what I imagine would be quite a radicalised industrial working class.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
Al-Andalus for the people, death to the oppressors, starting with the Sultan :anarchists:

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Rodyle posted:

The party rules are pretty much designed to gently caress us over no matter what we pick, is the reason :shrug:

This guys, the Socialist foreign policy doesn't need to make sense, it's just a rule that exists to make some downside to voting for the "get reforms" party much in the same way that if you want to have a decent army you need to vote for the "actually we love the 17th century" reactionaries

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
Socialists

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Crazycryodude posted:

Nah I paid pretty good attention to how we finally have railroads more modern than the 1860's and rapidly progressed to being only about 35 years behind the rest of the world instead of 80 in terms of social and political development.

:same: our reforms are still shockingly awful but they're less awful now

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Patter Song posted:

The Italy comparison works quite well. Victor Emmanuel III was an effective symbol for the nation early on in fascist Italy, but as the years went on, he basically fell into a golden-cage house arrest and barely ever left the palace except to be photographed with Mussolini occasionally. King was still on the throne, but was completely irrelevant.

It's almost like everyone who thought that they could co-opt fascists of all shades or compromise with them was completely loving wrong, what a novel concept :thunk:

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
A and make sure all the liberals get sent to the firing squad as well as the fascists and monarchists

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

habeasdorkus posted:

liberals who decided that they cared more about political rights than property rights.

:thunk:

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Yvonmukluk posted:

Also, didn't the Germans just win a civil war against (proto)fascists? Maybe some of them are still willing to take up arms for the gallant cause of punching fascism.

There could well be some good German comrades who join the fight against fascism, the German government is going to look on in horror and hope that the fascists win

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
Best Paradox LP ever :ussr:

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
IIRC Kerala has one of the best quality of life ratings adjusted for GDP of anywhere in the world

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Red John posted:

Anyone who’s justifying the garrottings is a bad person

Worst post / username combo in history

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Morrow posted:

Like in all corrupted worker's states the chief investment will be in human misery.

So probably the army.

It's not entirely impossible that this time the charismatic leader actually relinquishes power when it's appropriate. A communist Cincinnatus would be neat.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Archaeology Hat posted:

Given everything else that's happened in this LP I would be extremely surprised if this happened

With everything else getting either deus ex machina'd or RNG'd into being poo poo I agree but it's theoretically possible!

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
Obligitary comment for everyone to watch The Death of Stalin, simultaneously one of the funniest and most brutally realistic movies I've ever seen

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
I basically imagine them to be like IRL Yugoslavia except the two opposing power blocks that both hate you are just as bad as each other

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
I want to know about that OPM which has been bordering us forever. I can't even remember what it's called but its continuing existance enrages me.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
I'm totally rooting for making amends with our fellow communists and then spreading the revolution across the Mediterranean. Preferably starting with Narbuna and Palermo.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
I assume we're going to get at least a vague run down of the various options but based on the descriptions I'm not really liking either of messrs. "ok let's pal up with one of our mortal enemies" or "let's just conquer poo poo"

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
C

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

GSD posted:

The Balkan Federation is swiftly becoming an inaccurate name.

Unless they plan to make Anatolia a client rather than directly annexed.

They will become Socialist Byzantium because you can't have a Paradox game without a Byzantium :v:

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Agean90 posted:

wow a bougie democracy supported an authoritarian movement that would act in it's nterests instead of another democracy. I am shocked, shocked I say

:hai:

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
Liberate the Congo

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!

Crazycryodude posted:

The more I think about it the more I like the idea of trying to ally with New England. It'll get the critical resources and manpower of North America united on our side in opposition to the fascists. Yes they're capitalist dogs but they do represent the most progressive element of the bourgeoisie and are an acceptable temporary ally against their more reactionary cousins.

Ideologically impure but it's always nice when your enemy fights each other, approved.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
A, shoot the capitalists and aristocrats and put Morocco into the hands of the workers!

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
In retrospect, in a lovely hell world with even fewer states being even nominally democratic it's not exactly surprising that the fascists did better than expected.

gently caress you, though, Russia. Without them loving with Austria things could have been totally different and they didn't even do a decent job of slowing down the loving French.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
If we could get Benin on side it would be great, they can have literally all of the rest of Africa as far as I'm concerned. The ideology argument kind of went out of the window when New England joined the full fascist world domination team, apparently it doesn't matter as much as it should.

RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
A, sometimes you need to let people do a nationalism

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RabidWeasel
Aug 4, 2007

Cultures thrive on their myths and legends...and snuggles!
B let's not depopulate the entire continent eh chaps?

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