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Steff991 said:
Well, I've just finished my first game as Austria. I managed to lose after trying to bring about a single monarchy and going to war with Hungary and Bohemia (My army wasn't deployed well and I lost 9 div in the first battle). Anyway, I gotta say that just from that short game it is already great, just a few points
1) One of the events seems wrong (I think its 90151 in Ausgleich) where preparing for war actually increases relations with Hungary, shouldn't it decrease relations?
2) Is it intentional that Austria has no naval tech teams at the start? My plans to invade Albania had to be put on hold because of that :(
3) Well, this isn't a problem but just a question. Wouldn't a victorious Germany have taken Scapa Flow or at least limited it to strength 5 as its a major port that dominates the North Sea (Sorry if thats answered earlier).
Anyway, brilliant work so far, keep it up :D

I'm personally both amazed both that you managed to have a game and got beaten by Hungary...! There should actually be peace treaty events for the Ausgleich wars, to that Austria doesn't get completely annexed and that the revolter countries only fight for independence/minor territorial concessions -> But haven't got round to this yet...
(I'm actually thinking of beefing the Magyars up, so they can possibly develop into a major destabilising force close to Germany!)

Answers to Questionss...
1) Many thanks - will look into this and fix it
2) I can blame this on the unchanged vanilla files, so this is something to add in the future.
3) As Britain and Germany essentially signed a 'white peace' after six years of fighting, no countries had any naval restrictions placed on them after the war. So, Britain's naval forces remained intact, until they were seized by the Socialists.
 
m45tion87 said:
Suggestion:
I started as France (Socialist) and noticed that the only land-connected neighbourg that wasn't under any outside protection was Spain. Well, I naturally deployed my troops at the border and started the rampage and annexed (and later puppeted) her in just three months...
Not that I want to complain, but shouldn't Spain be a little more stronger? Or at least have some protection (non-aggression, independence guaranteed etc.)? Annexing Spain so easily and without any sanctions afterwards, the outcome didn't felt very historical...

Keep up the good work! :)

Hmmm, another played game!

Spain is quite messed up at the moment - the lack of an AI file means it doesn't defend its borders and it probably should at least start off with a German guarantee.

There are acutally events for this timeline's 3-sided Spanish Civil War in the file, but haven't set them to load as they're not really finished or completely developed yet (and will all fire in the first couple of weeks!).
 
T-hiddemen said:
Ah, ok, so maybe then Hoover is not a good choice . .

but here is another possibility for either an independent California or Texas

Howard Hughes, Flamboyant Tough Guy, Air Minister or Armamaments Minister, and/or a Tech Team Hughes Aircraft Corporation . . .

Oh yes, very good - I forgot about Howard Hughes!

Probably better for California, as America First already has Lindbergh...
 
CCurio said:
Some Breton nationalist people...

-Rene Le Hir (collaborated with the Nazis)
-Celestin Laine (founded Gwenn ha du, and also collaborated with the Nazis)
-Jean-Marie Perrot (aboot who was very influential in the earlier 20th century in the Breton nationalist movement and was assassinated in the 1940s)

Many thanks!

Bretons were also apparently disproportionately active in the French volunteer forces that fought with the Germans on the Eastern front. Here are three more names from Wiki France...

- Yves Le Négaret
- Alan Heusaff
- Taldir Jaffrennou (he apparently became 'le Grand Druide du Gorsedd de Bretagne' in 1933 - so he may not get along well with the Vatican...!)

(they're not actually volunteers, but were part of a group who supported them from the Home Front)
 
Sarmatia1871 said:
I'm personally both amazed both that you managed to have a game and got beaten by Hungary...!

I know... so am I. I was just in such a bad position to fight them that they managed to overwhelm my forces with a classic divide and conquer (I've never had the AI do that to me before). I was also at war with Albania so that might have helped (even though they didn't get involved).
Anyway, I'm going to have another go in a little while and this time I wont get beaten so easily LOL
 
Sarmatia1871 said:
You're seem to be loading up the wrong campaign! The regular '1936' scenario won't work properly, as all the province setups and linkig files are different.

You must scroll all the way to the bottom of the scenarios list and select the 'Kaiserreich' campaign - this should hopefully work properly.

D'oh! *slaps head*
For whatever reason I just thought it was an alternate 1936 campaign and replaced the vanilla.

Thanks!

- j
 
Sarmatia1871 said:
There are acutally events for this timeline's 3-sided Spanish Civil War in the file, but haven't set them to load as they're not really finished or completely developed yet (and will all fire in the first couple of weeks!).

3sided civil war? explain :)

fascists, normal ppl, and commies?
 
Steff991 said:
I know... so am I. I was just in such a bad position to fight them that they managed to overwhelm my forces with a classic divide and conquer (I've never had the AI do that to me before). I was also at war with Albania so that might have helped (even though they didn't get involved).
Anyway, I'm going to have another go in a little while and this time I wont get beaten so easily LOL

Good good! You should also try as Russia (especially if you haven't played 'All the Russias' yet) or America, as they actually get proper events.

I'd also be quite interested for someone to attempt to play as Japan, to see how the current troop distributions in the Far East work out (it'll probably be extremely easy, but still...!).
 
CCurio said:
Will we got SCW in the next alpha...?

Well, if you don't mind events without proper descriptions, and Spain descending into complete chaos in the first couple of days in January 1936, you can get the events working now by going into the 'db\events kaiserreich.txt.' and removing the '#####' before the 'Iberia.txt' line.

This can actually spark off a German-French war (if everyone's very unlucky), so this also may be something to test out...
 
jrb001 said:
D'oh! *slaps head*
For whatever reason I just thought it was an alternate 1936 campaign and replaced the vanilla.

Thanks!

- j

:D - Glad to be of service!

By the way anyone who knows - how do I get the selectable 'Kaiserreich' scenario to appear at the top of the scenario selection list?
 
Gen.Schuermann said:
3sided civil war? explain :)

fascists, normal ppl, and commies?

Carlists (EUS), Spanish Monarchists (SPA), and Anarcho-Syndicalists (SPR). Both the Carlists and the Anarcho-Syndicalists have a chance to rise up, and if one becomes independant, the other gets militant and also decides to join in the chaos. And the major foreign powers get to send weapons (or intervene properly in the case of France) to their chosen side - although the events still say 'give arms to Franco'!

Again, events don't have descriptions, but I'm planning on using September 1936 (again!) as the date for the Carlist event - this was when the last Carlist claimant, Alfonso Carlos, died, and the legitimate succession apparently fell to the presently reigning Alfonso XIII. This will cause the Carlists to march to Madrid to demand Alfonso's recognition of the True Dynasty and autonomy for Navarre, and great annoyance on their part if he doesn't. And the CNT-FAI (Anarchists) are probably going to have some sort of Congress, unless anyone can think of anything more exciting.

Which also reminds me: I need a picture of the succeding Carlist pretender, Francis Xavier of Borbón-Parma, which I haven't been able to locate anywhere...
 
Minor suggestion: give France a single IC somewhere? :p

Just tried out the Communards...cheated ( :eek:o ) the intervention and hawk lobby sliders to maxium, churned out some tank divisions and engineers and attacked the bosche on may 10th 1936. Flanders-Wallonien was overrun by 22nd and armored corps in the south reached Frankfurt am Main in around 25th...

I can't wait to try France with the new oob! ;)
 
Sarmatia1871 said:
You're non-political candidate (Elia Cardinal dalla Costa/Stephen X), would probably reflect the Papacy renouncing its position as the Italian Head of State, and a new Constitutional setup for ITA being organised with Josef Ferdinand von Österreich-Toskana (can anyone Italianise this name as well?), the legitimate Grand Duke of Tuscany, taking up a position as the new King of Italy.

Did you mean simply making the German name sound Italian? That would be Giuseppe Ferdinando de Austria-Toscana, most likely. And, while we're on vernacularizing names...

Which also reminds me: I need a picture of the succeding Carlist pretender, Francis Xavier of Borbón-Parma, which I haven't been able to locate anywhere...

Javier de Borbón-Parma is already a Nationalist Spanish HoS: #10034. They've made him a Fascist and an Autocratic Charmer. It's a pretty good picture, too, with a cool beret and everything!

EDIT: Incidentally, France has a Carlist HoS too. Jean de Bourbon is a Paternal Autocrat and Benevolent Gentleman, minister #2032.

EDIT2: Actually, you know what? He might not be a Carlist after all. Are all "Bourbons" Carlists?

* * *

Back on the Vatican thing--if Pius XI is going to suffer an early assassination, then Donato Cardinal Sbarretti should probably keep his historical death date (1 April 1939) instead of being slept at the same time. Just a little thing.
 
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Sarmatia1871 said:
:D - Glad to be of service!

By the way anyone who knows - how do I get the selectable 'Kaiserreich' scenario to appear at the top of the scenario selection list?
set the start date to 1935
or make it start with an "a" (i can't remember) :)
 
Here is the finished, for now German techteams for you guys to enjoy.

Add the Kaiserreich_T1-13 photos to your gfx/interface/pics folder.

Add the excel file to your db/tech/teams folder.

Then start up the game.

I played with these teams till about 1938 as Germany and it was just reasrching too quickly, so lots of teams have lost 1 or 2 skill points, they will probably be weakened even more for balance reasons, look at USSR and America in vanilla having worse teams than Germany, because they have so much IC and landmass. Germany will need to be balanced similarily, but for now this will do.

"GermanyRevisedTechTeams.zip":
http://chaosrealms.org/forgottenimmortal/

I will next work on Austrian/Hungarian tech teams as well as the French order of battle for you Sarmatian.

Hope you enjoy it, I think the pictures and new teams look great in game personally, but I may be biased. Please report any errors or strange stuff occuring to me! :D
 
Berlichingen said:
Also changed it so Braun and Hiessenburg both have 1 less skill instead of 2, I think this is good to represent Germany's lack of interest, making it slightly harder for a player to get these advanced weapons even if they put time into it. It represents the entrenched beaucracy that would exsist, that didn't under Hitler's radical government.

I would have to disagree, Germany had always been a modern military country even after Bismarck sucessfully routing all immediate opponents, in the onset of the Great War Germany had the best technological weapons such as the legendargy "Big Bertha" that was used to destroy the powerful Belgian fortresses of Liege. Throughout the Great War Germany had used new weapons such as poison gas, discounting the tear gas used quite unsucessfully by the French in the Battle of the Fronteir, and the new Strumtruppen soldiers to hit hard and fast unlike the slow tactics used by Enente commanders. Germany, despite having a lazy government, would still be intrested having seen her modern forces stopped in France for over three years always have a technological edge over her opponents. Lowering the tech team skills for Germany is an unnessasary and rather idiotic thing to do and if balance is what you're looking for then balance can be attained another way.

In Hitler's government there wern't huge beuracaries however there were schemeing Generals who wanted their way and would do anything to get it; having pretty much the same effects as a beuracracy.
 
Germany of the game is unrecognizable, its no longer the steel-wrought warmongering nation it was. And you guys have to remember balance, Germany is so damn powerful already, giving them the best techteams in the game only unbalances it more.
 
Proposed New Austrian Techteams:

- Trieste Naval Yard - Naval
- Gottfried Banfield - Fighter Doctrines
- Skoda - Artillery
- Archduke Eugen - Land doctrines
- Aviatik - Aeronautics

As well a few skill/specialty bonuses may be given to austria because of its increased status in the game.

Hungary will recieve 1 new additional artillery/land team, I don't have the name handy, but I got it somewhere in my textfiles, a hungarian company that went out of business with the depression of the 1920s/1930s.

The other mini-states will be difficult, some nations should share tech teams because some companies were more national that just the home territories of Austria. Since most of these nations won't be played very quickly, I say we put this on the back burner for now. Just concentrate on hungary/austria and then move onto the other majors.

I got pictures picked out of the new teams, next is editing the excel files as necessary. Notice I'm using IDs 90003 +, as 90001 and 90002 are my two proposed events. I hope this is fine.