You and me both, I look forward to playing this MP. I am not sure as to what country I want to play as right now. Russia is very appealing as I am playing it now and having a great time, lot of choices and paths to choose from.
I only played Germany for a little while, but I do not like the whole overseas empire thing, I hate managing overseas colonial territory, all those convoys and all, not my style, but other than that, Germany seems like great fun.
Now France is a possibility, I haven’t tried playing as France, but to me it seems like they are in a position as Germany was in real life. The French are coming back with a vengeance to punish Germany for what it has done, could be fun.
I definitely want to play this mod MP, this weekend we will for sure.
Btw, my game as Russia right now is going very well, and rather intriguing. I reinstated the Monarchy; my alignment is towards the right with a somewhat open society (Authoritarian Democracy). With the army reforms I took the mobile arm course, focusing on mobile/armored warfare, moving my slider all the way to the left (Standing Amy).
However with all these events, the dissent hits are insane, I ended up with dissent in the 40% at one point, took me a whole year to bring down to 0. However I did build some serious cash, some 8000. I recovered the economy, reestablished Russia’s dominance/control over the Trans-Siberian railroad and re-acquired the far eastern provinces of Vladivostok without firing a shot.
Another Balkan war broke out with Romania, and Greece on the same side, they managed to defeat Bulgaria. I managed to join their alliance, and soon thereafter Romania DOWed Serbia whom they overran fairly quickly. The AI actually did very well; Greek and Romanian forces working together to take on Serbia.
I been quite busy on my end too, Turkistan DOWed the country north of them, whose name I forget. But for a while there it was back and forth, however in the end Turkistan prevailed and annexed the other country, so they bordered me.
A year later, Turkistan thought I was still too weak or something, and DOWed me, lucky me I had stationed half my forces on their border a year before when they were at war with the other country. They chose the best time of year however, at the beginning of fall. All my border battles resulted in victory, but as soon as I occupied the initial provinces it was tough to make any more headway due to the weather and some provinces being mountainous.
Long story short, by July of the next year, I annexed all of Turkistan, now I border Persia, and Afghanistan.