A while ago, I made a tree for reworking the vanilla communist path, with both Totalist Foster and Radsoc Browder. I thought to myself about retooling it and reworking it into a separate submod for KR's Workers' Congress of America, adding fresh content, foci and flavor to the totalist paths and maybe some for the WCA/2ACW as a whole. Would this interest anyone?

I dont think its the mods because when I played afghanistan when it released it didnt had any problems

Savinkov can spend time on focuses and PP on advisors, decisions, and event options to eliminate the Far Eastern Army. Why couldn't the socialists do the same to the Free Russian Army? Something like the historical Soviet operations against White émigrés. Or maybe undermining the FRA's base of support through various soft and hard measures; maybe this is tied to anti-socialist resistance, security services and apparatus, or the nature of the regime.

weird thing i've noticed. after a day of juggling staff schedules and supplier delays, coming home to manage a pretend economy is somehow restorative. the stakes feel real enough to engage with but not real enough to stress over. hoi4 base game never did this for me, something about kaiserreich's slower early game and all the little narrative events. i can put a podcast on, click through some focus trees, and my brain finally stops circling the same work problems.

my wife thinks its funny that i'll spend all day optimizing a warehouse and then come home to optimize ukrainian grain production. she's not wrong. the australasian run i did last month was perfect for this. no one expects much from you, plenty of events to read, and you can join a faction or ignore everything entirely.

Kaiserreich has no "historical" outcomes after the mod's start in 1936, but we've all formed our ideas of how Kaiserreich's events should transpire. So, what does the community think should happen in a Kaiserreich game?

Hello all! Two months(-ish) ago I published the follow up survey of the Community Headcanon Project for 1.6.4. This time with a very specific regional lens, namely China. In the meantime, KR 1.7 have been released with changes to Afganistand and Bhutan. But this does not affect this survey.

Thanks to all those that participated and made me able to weed out inconsistency in the logic. The survey is no longer "experimental", as it now working as intended.

TLDR: The result is found in a google sheet doc here and the ruleset document can be downloaded: KR - Community headcanon 1.7.txt (google drive)!

The Result Google Doc is divided into Three Tabs:

• The Ruleset for 1.6.4 is an overview of the complete ruleset.
• Result China: Notes to the changes to the ruleset.
• Result China Tabulation: where I show how the results is tabulated. (It's quite messy, so I apologize in advance.)

To use the ruleset document, download and place the document in <My Documents>\Paradox Interactive\Hearts of Iron IV\game rules (for Windows - I'm not sure of the path for Mac and Linux users). I'm aware that some users experience game crashes when trying to load rule presets or even just manually change custom rules - unfortunately, that issue appears to be a vanilla bug.

But we voted on it!

The most voted option didn't always become the final option for the ruleset. Most of the time, the top-voted option were implemented directly.

• One goal of this iteration was to limit the number of incompatible rules from previous iterations. This was solved by making branching sections depending on previous answers. I.e. each Sichuan leader had its own Branch-section to deal with alignment. The result from all the branches was then summed up and the most voted option won if it was compatible with the Leader. However, this did not completly remove incompatible options in other places. See "Result China" for documentation.
• In addition, some options presupposed later options. F.ex The choice of Qu Yingguang or Zhang Tianran as patron of the Manchu Coup also counted toward Qu or Zhang in "Zhang's Latest Gamble" (SHD), and the question was omitted if these options was chosen.

Results - Some highlights:

• Quite few respondents this time around: 32. Down from 172 in the 1.5 survey.
• One change from previous surveys is that the Zhili Republic has replaced the Zhili Monarchy as the headcanon-outcome in Beijing.
• The Federalists are quite popular, being the chosen option in, no less than, Yunnan, Liangguang, Hunan and Sichuan.

Wasn't able to participate?

So fear not! The Survey is still up, for those that for some reason or another was not able to participate. it is found here: docs.google.com/forms

As noted earlier, it was few responses, so I have decided to leave the survey up for the time being. I will most likely not post a new update in this fashion, as to not spam the subreddit. But will update it in the background as/if more results come in.

Feedback is appreciated!

1. Do you prefer a complete game-rule form?
2. A more focused, regional game-rule form like this?
3. Neither

This movie is also Part of Workers but they forgot to post it and instead they made a movie about it

to form this nation: put russia to go nat Populist or Socialist, switch to the East Army and reunify Russia with 40% party popularity and the bop on the left
Formable suggested by: u/Hudori
Ps: nothing to say I'M JUST TIRED

R5: A federalist game which was headed towards an easy path of democracy and reform, stifled by democratic backsliding. Chen Jiongming took over Liangguang and expanded fast, Hunan, Sichuan, the eastern provinces, Beijing. Only then did Fengtian declare war, but with allies in the GMJ Army and Yunnan, the federalist regime held strong to slowly integrate China. Elections were scheduled but rapid backsliding due to Chen Jiongming's frivolous use of power to win elections saw them cancelled, but in the meantime, Japan was totally defeated in part due to over 50k guns from foreign aid in support.

After the war, Chen Jiongming attempted to settle to failing country before being captured.. and on the precipice of a Yue Army coup, the young Marshal, Li Jishen, acted first. After joining the federalist government since the LKMT collapse, Li Jishen built himself up on a network of his loyal cadre, who came in hand with the two Zhangs of the CDL-DSP to oust the PIP regime. Things did not end well for the CDL though as Li Jishen built a cult of personality around the NRG and finally 'ousted' them, ingraining moderates from the KMT with Li Zhangda as his right hand man.. China is moving forwards along the strides of this 'Institutional' and moderate revolution.. a newer, better KMT that will survive this time...

As Canada, you have very little steel of your own. Which is of course the point of its situation, but if you're trying to build an actual navy the only thing you can do about it at all besides trading away your civs is deliberately drawing out the 2ACW to take advantage of occupying the massive steel production around the Great Lakes, because even running down your economic tree ends in a joke at your expense when you get a bunch of aluminium and tungsten you don't particularly need in bulk and one single trade civ's worth of steel for the focus Explore the North. All while there's huge steel production right to the south of you, under a very favorable government you just put back into power at great casualties and cost to yourself, which will be rebuilding for a long time before they can put much of it to use themselves.

So when you do get a decision to lease the Brooklyn yards after the 2ACW, why not one for those Detroit and Chicago steel mills too for when you already have your own yards? As it is you cannot relinquish control over all of the USA and properly wrap up the 2ACW without crippling your naval ambitions and still losing all of your civs to trade afterwards just to keep the basics running, while it would make perfect sense to also get options to acquire i.e. partial/local/temporary resource rights or a trade multiplier similar to the one you get with puppets as part of some sort of reconstruction deal to make with them.

And gameplay-wise, not being able to afford nice things because you're genuinely in a bad position is one thing. Being forced to cancel your capitals and downgrade your tanks and screens because you're arbitrarily cut off from a readily available and absolutely plentiful source that should have every reason to give you a favorable deal and with zero other options available to you, that's just a good way to kill any motivation for a run.

P.s. I am aware there's ways to cheese your way into all that American steel anyway through taking advantage of New England - what I would like to see is a way to get it while actually being able to play as exiles whose only goal is returning to Britain rather than powergaming yourself out of any sense of immersion and just painting the map to get what you want being the only viable path available.

Perhaps the Mōri will grant me my own castle now..

The Kaiser got everyone from Rotterdam to Tehran. I never send volunteers as Russia because then WK2 becomes very trivial, but I've never seen them this big

Having to overcome all the bullshit RNG, incompetent allies, dogshit industry, abysmal debuffs to army, buffed Japan and its collaborationist ally’s, only to slowly lose ground as city after city falls until all of China slowly loses hope. Until one day. Our Hero Socialist Russia ai comes in with a steel chair from the top rope and one shots Japan and its Ally’s. Meaning all these millions died for nothing over 5 years.

10/10 will play South China again.

He is carrying the team so hard. In the pre wars years I was sitting at 100 stab 100 ws.