My first full AHD game (2.1):
Allies: The Russian Empire (barely a GP, and in fact formerly a secondary power for a decade or so), Austria-Hungary (GP, including Abu-Dhabi), Japan (GP), The Empire of Mexico (GP), Cambodia, Luang Prabang, Bolivia, Uruguay, and all my sphere and satellites except for Atjeh
Sphere: Most of South America, Central America, Yunnan, Guangxi, and Atjeh
Satellites: Panama (the Canal Zone, released to reduce my infamy), Brunei (released to reduce my infamy), Qinghai, Mongolia, Xinjiang (technically 90% toward defeat in a war for puppeting them when the game ended)
Map of the world as a whole.
- There were no Communist nations and no ruling socialist or communist parties ever (
I was perhaps the closest). There was one Fascist nation (Sindh, I think).
- Iceland gained independence. I don't remember how.
- Germany seized the Helgoland from Britain in a war, I believe, but Britain then took back the entire region, hence the pink smudge in Germany.
- Sokoto is still independent, mostly because the Germans sphered them. Zulu's actually pretty well developed.
- The American Civil War was pretty easy for me, mostly because I had unintentionally placed several Southern armies in Venezuela before the war. All the good generals went there to command the occupations of American South America.
- I was coexisting perfectly fine with Mexico for a long while until they became a GP.
In revenge, I enacted Manifest Destiny and proceeded to take my cores and sphere them again (although eventually they rose back to GP status).
- The Two Sicilies was a GP for a long time. They colonized a lot of East Africa.
- Korea is divided between independent Korea, the Two Sicilies, the USCA, and Japan.
- France used to be my ally, but they got
hit by a few nasty rebellions and several back and forth wars with Germany. They went Absolute Monarchy for awhile, but reformed slowly out of it.
- Pretty much everyone westernized:
That's all the unciv natios left (including Siam, which is barely visible from here). One of the first to civilize, and the first of all the Chinese states, was Xinjiang. The remaining nations don't really seem to want to civilize any more.
- Pretty
much everyone loves me (the only other major dislike area is the former Chinese Empire, for obvious reasons).
- Russia dragged me into some wars with China (over the Daming region), so I decided to go all out. Here's China right after my final blitzkrieg protectorate war.
I had just gotten tanks, airplanes, and gas iirc. After the first few wars, Yunnan and Guangxi were in my sphere, which was really beneficial since they had a huge bulk of the military strength of China.
- I don't know what I did in 1931, but it really angered everyone.
Confederates and
Anarcho-Liberal revolutions burst out, my only major rebellions.
- To fuel my huge army buildup right as tanks and airplanes were invented (and in low supply), I basically turned my sphere into a giant arms factory - tank and
airplane factories for everybody!
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Nobody messes with my Easter Island.
Originally I was the top in prestige, but in the end France beat me. I managed to climb up to 1st in industry (with Germany and Austria Hungary close behind) and military, though - mostly due to China, probably.
Sadly, I never got to see if taking Xinjiang would have improved my rather pitiful map title.
