First I’d like to say I’ve enjoyed playing this more than the actual game itself and continue to hope that this mod will be deemed complete. To that end I’d like to post a few suggestions - please don’t take these as negative as it is my intent to improve my own gaming experience through the hard work of others
Germany and the Solomon Islands – Presently Germany tends to occupy each island with what turns out to be a majority of its army. As these islands are merely eye-candy for the Kaiser (I have the BIGGEST empire in the world) my suggestion would be to turn the whole area (pacific islands + New Guinea) into a German protectorate - i.e. puppet - maybe with 5 off board IC to maintain a small fleet and odd division. Might improve Germany vs France, Russia, and Japan.
Minor change – Japan still has garrisons on two pacific islands; and wherever there is a Marine (German or otherwise) there should be a transport and naval squadron.
France and Russian armies – presently both have ahistorical (in terms of the starting techs) modern mobile forces (tanks/mobile Inf) – replace both with cavalry (and in Russia’s case lots of cavalry – If game balance is the reason maybe free units when certain techs are discovered would be a better solution.
Britain – Assuming such major losses would the ‘people’s committee’ allow such a large navy – specifically Carriers and Battleships – let them keep the techs but not the ships – spread those out as reparations or just sold to finance a public health plan . A Swedish Carrier or Brazilian Battle Fleet. If an invasion from Mother Canada is a rational, then costal forts; garrisons; nav. bombers and submarines would be a cheaper alternative. – like the ship name btw
USA – I really enjoy the crumbling and fragmented war but it needs to last longer – the AI seems to do well with the building of ground forces as well as using them but I haven’t seen any air or naval builds – perhaps a split of the US navy and army airforce is in order and/or ‘donations’ from abroad from the respective power blocks France=Syndicate; Japan=California and maybe Germany=Union State. Also my thought is that the partisan activity needs to be felt by removing the cores from the respective parties on the rest of the states and returning them once certain goals are met (like the surrender of the defeated power) – ex. CSA territory remains hostile to the USA until the CSA is no more (cores are removed from both at creation of the CSA and returned to the USA in this case when the CSA is defeated) maybe with periodic events i.e. ‘uprisings’ (decent hits). And maybe tie this in to another suggestion that the USA needs to have its intervention moved every so often as those powers from across the ocean are supplying our enemies.
Also maybe Mexican intervention when the Union State is on its last legs (gaining cores on the southwest USA) and a war (need to build up Mexico abit)
China Unification event tree – maybe as the Quin? Empire – maybe linked to Russian intervention events as well as wars of conquest.
Ottoman Empire and the Arab world – needs a good war
India also needs a good war
Military Doctrine – perhaps France, Britain, and the USAs should be able to ‘choose’ their doctrine tree like Russia (only earlier) as the losers their military would look for answers.
Thanks for reading this very long post.