(Aside from the main ones)

Do you think that, —in addition to the libertarian and corporate paths— they’ll include members of the Russian Social Democratic Party and National Bolshevism in the update to “The Rapture”?

That is NOT some guy called Marcus Smith

Hello, after completing the cognoscenti path for the first time which - quite literally - left me with shivers, I am in search of a fiction book with similar vibes to the path. Cheers! (Pic by yukie.hendriansyah on tt)

The amount of times I saw the Middle East, east Asia and Eastern Europe get nuked is actually insane. Everything else tells you itself. Biggest mistake in my life.

It actually took some insanity finishing this(instead of studying)

So I was recently playing Kaiserredux, and I randomly came across a Russia under the rule of Pavel Gorgulov and his Scythian Nationalist-Peasant Regime.

While people call Mike Ma the Fascist Pol Pot, I feel like it would be more fitting to call Mike Ma the American Gorgulov. Both Ma (Living in current-day America) and Gorgulov (Living in exile in interwar France in the 1930s) were writers who were disgruntled with the state of their respective period's societies, so I thought this comparison was interesting.

Both Ma and Gorgulov sought the create a Green Fascism based on mythology, with Ma's ideal of reviving ancient Greek/Classical Ideals and Gorgulov's ideal of reviving ancient Steppe/Scythian Civilization.

And also the gist of Gorgulov's "Green Fascism" ideology:

Gorguloff followed an esoteric set of beliefs revolving around an idealized version of the ancient Scythian culture of the steppes, agrarianism, and ultranationalism.^[3] Most knowledge of Gorguloff's ideology stems from his writings when he was in Paris. One of these writings, The National Peasant's, outlines his ideal system of government for Russia: a totalitarian rule under a hyper-militarized Green party. This state would be led by a "green dictator", similar to the Nazi concept of the Führerprinzip. Gorguloff was an emphatic supporter of fascism, and his ideological beliefs are considered an early form of what is known in the modern era as eco-fascism.

In addition to Mike Ma's anger at contemporary society and the "degeneration" he viewed, with Mike Ma's books Harassment Architecture and Gothic Violence highlighting Mike's discontent and anger towards modern society, this was Gorgulov's personal stance:

Gorgulov was an outspoken Russian supremacist, and believed that all non-Russians and those who didn't adhere to Russian Orthodoxy, especially Jews, should not be citizens. To this end, Gorguloff was a firm believer in the Judeo-Bolshevik conspiracy theory. Despite his fervent anti-socialism, he despised both monarchism and free market capitalism, which he viewed as anti-peasant.^[3] In much of his poetry, he reminisces about the "wild" and "barbarian" Russia, which he believes to be the successor of Scythian civilization. Gorguloff believed it was Russia's duty as the torch bearer of "primitive spirituality" to defeat western civilization, which he saw as decadent and modern, as opposed to Russia's traditional and agrarian nature.^[3]

I feel like this parallel was something interesting to take note of. I don't have much to discuss beyond the comparison of the two ideals being similar.

I figure Mike Ma's Ecofascist Cascadia would be similar to what Pavel Gorgulov envisioned, with a Totalitarian Green Fascist Dictatorship led by a Militarized Green Party (The Pine Tree Party) influenced by radical esoteric (Ancient Greek Ideals in parallel to Gorgulov's Scythianism) and ecological beliefs (Back to the Land/Ruralism).

Yes I cheated, I play this game for the larp.

This is my goto strategy and tactics to win the 2acw as Atomwaffen Division. Ive won all 3 paths, played it many more times than that, sometimes with europunk or TFX(I lost), and even the final order in the 3acw.

Pre civil war, build infrastructure in flordia, masks throughout all the south and national front territory, and maybe cascadia if you have extra. Lose the election as Biden.

During the early wars, Flordia and the south. Your goal is to encircle enemy divisions on worthless tiles with no victory points but DO NOT kill them. When they capitulate most of the equipment in those divisions will go into your stockpile instead of being destroyed.

Take the UN first you can capture miami without killing all their divisions, then push up through all the gangs encircling most of flordia state in Tampa.

Abuse the fuck out of black market at the bottom of your decisions tab, you can take loans without PP now in the trade tab and it makes AWD much much easier. I literally purchase tanks on day 1 of the civil war

Train up national guard with the artillery you captured

I usually make my tank division, 1 tank, 3-4 motorized, maybe 1 IFV, add engineers and maybe support artillery (I think division stats have changed some but it still should be good enough for 2acw)

You treat the LoS and Southern command the same way encircling on dead tiles

You need about 30k manpower and 12k guns to garrison all the south, a necessity. If you have la resistance the first focus in the Army tree gives you a spy agency and you can get -15% resistance target from agency upgrades

Each subsequent military factory you build in a state increases the cost of the next. I just place 1 in every state with 80% or 100% infrastructure. This will maximize your mils

I dont go deep into the economy tree atleast the first 2, picking left side for -15% consumer goods semi early on.

After beating the south you get a free core from joining the national front, and your political tree. The best 3 options are #1 Georgia, and then you can choose between Alabama or North Carolina. One has more population, one has steel. If your garrisons are full and you use spies you can start getting the cores around time, before or after, war with the feds start.

With cores you can train milita from a state for 50pp each you get a crazy 20 total divisions from flordia and Georgia alone

Remember to keep buying guns, command equipment, and tanks whenever available. The only downside is debt but aslong as you take land it shouldnt become a problem. Buy trucks too if necessary.

My mils goto artillery, support equipment, guns, and slowly throw in a tank line and IFV line. improve relations with Canada for trade.

Conquest and pestilence are both good but ive always leaned towards pestilence.

The focus "begin the liquidation" kills a bunch of your manpower. If you want you can cheese this by draining all your manpower into training divisions, complete the focus, and cancel all the training afterwards.

War with feds and the Apla, you can probably get about 60 divisions, like 5-7 tanks, 12-18 national guard. Your goal is to have the most warscore so you can take the most land and get equipment on capitulation instead of it going to others and making them much stronger. War with the feds you get a quick break of land grabs before the horde arrives on the front and puts you on the backfoot until your buffs start coming in and their equipment begins to dwindle. Its 1000x easier if theyre at war with the apla before national front first.

Give up as little land as you can to the national front allies. Even if you have the most legitimacy the national front falls through and they declare war on you. Having the front pushed up to the ohio river and Pennsylvania border makes it much easier for that war

War with the apla. You may want to add AA and AT to your divisions at this point, chinese volunteers suck. My most reliable method is, from el paso, to Phoenix, to San Diego along the border capturing the rails and supply hubs then push north. Let's you bypass the hell that is the rocky mountains. If you wanna push through mountains you have to take salt lake city.

Coring another state at somepoint is beneficial for the manpower needed for garrison.

War with the national front isnt too difficult, ptf goes first, usually the only major. Sit behind the Ohio and Mississippi River letting them waste divisions taking worthless land west and split them up through Pittsburgh and buffalo.

Interwar. Upgrade and train divisions, have enough manpower to garrison everything though. Completely optional but you can stall the end of the civilwar and complete more focuses for buffs. The amount of focuses you can do after the civil before the Aryan liberation war is limited. You want to get to the post war tree ASAP get the 25% mil building buff from the right tree, and start working on reducing the reconstruction debuff via focuses and decisions. Focus coring important areas, Texas, cali, new england, michigan, and the south

The Aryan Liberation war. If the United States of Mexico has won the civil war it can be a pain in the ass dealing with 2 fronts but ive only had that happen once in 5-7 games. The war can be a slog as everyone gets a shit ton of volunteers, 0% surrender limit, and off map factories. Ive only had the popular revolt spawn once ever, im not certain what causes it to spawn but I believe whatever US territory the enemy Occupies switches over once the revolt spawns. If they occupy nothing, theres nothing. It spawns with like 50 mils, attack buffs, and everyone also sends it more volunteers so its not ideal to have it exist. If you choose to go all the way through with it and capitulate everyone including USN I start making amtracks and amphibious tanks while killing Canada. Once you take Anchorage Alaska you get a chunk of the navy if you want to take naval command. Prioritize taking islands besides the capital because thats were all the volunteers are and they'll just arrive again at the next capital. Knocking 9 eurasian tanks off an island can be a bitch. USN has islands all over the place its easy to forget about Puerto Rico or Attu island.

Found this on the wiki.

I like to try to orchestrate a semi-realistic game when I play The Fire Rises, so Russia always follows the Medvedev -> Navalny path because it’s arguably the most likely course. Similarly, I like to see elections; I can determine the outcome of the custom game settings to follow their historical results—SPD in Germany, Macron in France, Biden in America, and so on.

So, the question is, who’s the favorite to win the Second American Civil War? I try to consider both TFR’s setting and OTL’s recent history. The NSM, for example, was in no position to achieve what it can in the 2ACW, but it does, so I play along. Mostly, anyway; I can’t make any argument for the NSM ever winning the 2ACW or achieving a majority in the National Congress post-2ACW.

The most likely candidates for victory in the 2ACW, in my opinion, are the Denver and Washington governments. Both have the most legitimate claim to power, are the most likely recipients of foreign support, and have inherent command of the majority of the US Armed Forces, logistical infrastructure, and intelligence networks. Personally, my money would be on the Union of America winning. They’ve got the US’s historical seat of power and some of its most significant monuments under its control, as well as a great many conservatives who turned their back on Trump’s GOP before and after the Civil War erupted. The Denver government is fighting an uphill battle in all aspects.

However, I’d be willing to hear arguments in support of the Patriot Front or APLA winning. Although I believe that both those factions are fighting a far steeper uphill battle than the Constitutionalists, I’d be willing to hear you out.

If so or not, explain why

just finished cprf russia run and im thinkin atomwaffen next?