Long story short - Poland keeps Slovenia, Hungary gets Croatia, MAcedonia goes to Bulgaria and the leftovers shall be named Serbia
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There will be some spoils shared with my (soon to be) friends. I won't exactly be following the way you're describing...but you're not wildly off.
I wonder if it's not too gamey to take over some of those countries, then release them as puppets and take full military control over them. Especially those with low IC/manpower.
And of course diplomatic backlash might be problem too - with all the agressive wars you are risking Allies/Soviets starting the war against you too soon.
I actually like this strategy a lot...despite the fact that I'm not big on releasing puppets. The biggest benefit, IMO, is the ability to purchase divisions from puppets. A vanilla infantry division takes 10 manpower to build. A vanilla infantry divsion purchased from a puppet requires 9 manpower to bring up to full strength which delivers a slight discount in manpower. This effectively allows me to convert/trade resources/technology into manpower. I'm swimming in resources now so this is a very tempting option.
As for diplomatic backlash...I do need to be mindful how far up I push my belligerence and even more mindful how much dissent I take on with continual DOWs. I have the resources and cash to keep relations with key nations stable...dissent when it creeps high can be a real killer though.
Question though what happens if Piłsudski runs out of room for his ribbons?
The tailors have been alerted...and I'm fully expecting them to come up with an attractive solution. Remember, it's now how you feel...it's how you look!
Is an alliance with Turkey remotely possible? How about Finland?
I'm much less interested in Turkey as an ally....but Finland, on the other hand, interests me VERY MUCH.
i guess something like the vienna dictate might be an option, but this time yugoslavia would be the victim.
Yeah exactly...something along these lines. The Vienna Dictat is effectively nullified in this scenario...but I do have some new events I've made that will resolve issues between Romania and Hungary.
FInland had a secret agreement with Estonia (and this way with Latvia)...This long post should also make some people realise why Poland invested so much resurces in its navy - which is sometimes criticised, unfairly I could say.
I'm really not sweating the Baltics nearly as much as people would like me to mainly because the premise of my Wielkopolska event focuses on a sense of Polish lead Slavic unity justified AFTER Soviet aggression and a subsequent Polish liberation. That to me is the most compelling justification for a country like Lithuania to fall into the Polish fold.
As for a Navy, I focused every scrap of Poland's limited resources to land based forces to defeat Germany. That trend will continue as I prepare for war with the Soviets, however, I'm definitely going to be acquiring naval technologies and ultimately constructing a Navy to assit in securing the Mediterranean and a possible (very future) conflict with the Western Allies.
(the Fascist French flag is still irking me though... any plans to change it? You could come up with some reason for it to be changed within the story - 'France realises it is not a dictatorship - changes flag' say world headlines
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Doh! That damn flag...:rofl:...i just gotta remember to change it. It's a holdover from earlier gaming I did playing France. I'll change it for ya...no point irking anyone unnecessarily.
Congratulations on HoI3 contest Rob!
God that was a nail biter! It was a lot of fun to participate in that and thank you to everyone who contributed their vote to me. I feel great getting all that support and really proud to place highly in a tough field of competitors.