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Chapter XXVIII: The spoils or the burden?


The war-exhaustion from this six years long war was high: 9.63. Having mobilized the poor workforces of Japan and held them under arms for four and a half years must most certainly have a telling effect.

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I can't see the impact of the half-million casualties I must have suffered during my latest adventure. The soldier POP is as big as when the war started, the total population even increased. And when I take a look at my industry I see all of the factories are doing fine, not all have their full compliment of workers but all are making a profit, I even have some unemployed in various provinces. Of course Japan suffered from the war, the mobilization gave us a -10% in production as well as taking many a farmer of the field but I had expected a ravished poor-strata. The only thing which might be a sign of this is the income through tax which is now 2/3 from what it was.

Anyhow, there are some other interesting things. First of all the Japanese reactionaries are militant once more and have grown considerably in size. Just before the end of the war I also notice the division of the Upper House as well as the Peoples' Ideologies has changed. We now have a considerable part of socialists and before long these would have played a part if not for the influx of 110.000.000 Chinese.

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With the annexation of China everything changed. All of a sudden only 7% of the population was Japanese, the liberals were reduced from 23% to 4.6% and the number of bureacrats dropped considerable not to speak of the capitalists, the later POP I immediately promoted in the two most populace province (the Shaghai and Beijijng regions) which both held a population as large as all of Japan.

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At the same time the rebellion wasn't over yet and the prospects were not exactly bleak but happy neither.

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What, half of China and more to boot, is NOT in a revolting mood?
 
MMM This may be the first and last time I say this but:

I wish they would revolt more.
 
What, half of China and more to boot, is NOT in a revolting mood?

Well as I see it the Chinese rebelled already once in 1864 and if that puts the MIL of the pop to near 0 then the green patches are ok? I'n more worried about the fact that most rebel stacks seem to be only 3k. Have you seen larger stacks appear?
 
What, half of China and more to boot, is NOT in a revolting mood?
The revolt risk mapmode shades by the AVERAGE militancy in a province. Suffice to say that you can easily get revolts in a province that is green in the mapmode if you have the situation that some POPs have high militancy and some low.

In most well run realms with the occasional minor rebellion or with rebel tendencies limited to specific classes or ideologies (that aren't dominant), the rebel mapmode will show up entirely green.

When the mapmode shows large parts of your realm as shades of red, you have got a seriously pissed off populace.
 
By the way, shouldn't Japan be written over Japan and "Japanese china" over china?
 
Are you still not planning on releasing a bunch of states?

:(
 
Are you still not planning on releasing a bunch of states?

:(

If not, I hope he goes into the release puppet screen to see what he can release. Probably Yunnan and the like.
 
The revolt risk mapmode shades by the AVERAGE militancy in a province. Suffice to say that you can easily get revolts in a province that is green in the mapmode if you have the situation that some POPs have high militancy and some low.

In most well run realms with the occasional minor rebellion or with rebel tendencies limited to specific classes or ideologies (that aren't dominant), the rebel mapmode will show up entirely green.

When the mapmode shows large parts of your realm as shades of red, you have got a seriously pissed off populace.

Well, he is Japan and they are Chinese. I'd say that right after the great Chinese Empire has fallen to an upstart like Japan, there should be some unrest.:D
 
What, half of China and more to boot, is NOT in a revolting mood?

The part which is green did revolt just two months before, which seriously reduces the militancy for a while. They will build it up for the next rebellion however.

Are you still not planning on releasing a bunch of states?

:(

Next chapter I will discuss the released states. Didn't unpause after the war.
 
The fact that China fell and that revolts don't appear to represent a huge threat lowers my opinion of the game's balance. There is no way Japan should be able to simply invade China early in the game and annex it thus becoming the third most powerful nation in the whole game.

Don't give me the "oh! But this doesn't have to be 100% realistic excuse!", realism isn't the same thing as game balance, and this is anything BUT balanced. :(
 
Next chapter I will discuss the released states. Didn't unpause after the war.

Don't do it! From the demo, it seems like you can't actually get vassals/puppets, just people in your SoI, which are only mildly helpful.

If you can industrialize China, game over for everyone.

Disappointed to see that in this build, the casualties are similarly meaningless as they are in the demo. Even a huge bloody war like this has no noticeable effect on your soldier POPs or population at large. That's FUBAR.
 
There are no satellite/dominion statuses? That's disappointing.

There is. I released Canada, New England and Cherokee for fun, and they all became my puppets.
 
There are no satellite/dominion statuses? That's disappointing.
There is.

Releasing a dominion is as simple as opening the political panel and selecting "release nation" on the entity in question. You end up with a loyal (200 relations) satellite.
 
There is. I released Canada, New England and Cherokee for fun, and they all became my puppets.
There is.

Releasing a dominion is as simple as opening the political panel and selecting "release nation" on the entity in question. You end up with a loyal (200 relations) satellite.
Oh, good. Do they automatically end up Friendly and in your SoI as well?
 
By the way, shouldn't Japan be written over Japan and "Japanese china" over china?

That only works on other continents, if he had taken over the USA it would probably say Japanese USA. For example in the demo I took all of Denmarks colonies and in Greenland it said American Denmark.