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Don't join at the moment.
The moment will be when you have your army, airforce and navy builded up enough to match the capitalist armies.

So wait a bit more, you're on 37 no?

Wait to late 38 and join, I think that it is a good date.
 
That pick of RNS Chainbreaker, is it a pick of a George V? It looks too old to be a 1939 George V, too long and pointy to be a Elizabeth, is it a 1916 George V?

Anywho, hopefully the right ideas will spread fast! This really is one of the major reasons i keep checking up on the AAR's section, i demand your revolution spread into more updates!
 
DarkReborn said:
Don't join at the moment.
The moment will be when you have your army, airforce and navy builded up enough to match the capitalist armies.

So wait a bit more, you're on 37 no?

Wait to late 38 and join, I think that it is a good date.
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January 1938, but your point stands. The Army is modern (building 1939 already) but it has leaders for 12 more units maximum. :eek: I may have to copy-paste vanila ones.

Gigalocus said:
That pick of RNS Chainbreaker, is it a pick of a George V? It looks too old to be a 1939 George V, too long and pointy to be a Elizabeth, is it a 1916 George V?
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I found it old too, but it's a photo from 1939-lauched Prince of Wales.

Anywho, hopefully the right ideas will spread fast! This really is one of the major reasons i keep checking up on the AAR's section, i demand your revolution spread into more updates!
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First, I'll have to play again! :D AARs make for slowpaced games when you have to write updates as you play - who would have guessed? :eek:o
 
Gigalocus said:
ewww, no wonder they sunk so damn fast, that HOI pick does glorify the ship abit to much, as do most picks, oh wait i meen our socialist brothers will power the ship to glory agaisnt all!
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That's better. I was starting to think you'd have to be sent to the scotish re-education camps. :mad:
 
Two cents

I would go with Mosley (Syndicalist). Every resource wasted in Corruption is a resource taken away from the Revolution. Plus the Technical and IC gains are good. The Union may not have the largest Armed Forces but it should have the most advanced. By the way, what is happening with Bengal?
 
Definitely the Resource Industrialist.

Plus he's a good Syndicalist, not some Radical Socialist...
 
I would say: don't join the Syndicalist Alliance until they invite you. Britain has her great Navy and Air Forces - it's enough to protect yourself from possible future attacks of monarchists and capitalists. Also, joining the alliance would lead the Republic to dependence from France and their extreme view of socialism...
If there will be war in Europe, you could consider siding with Sicilies and France - but otherwise - avoid it at any cost.
 
SnichtheWalrus said:
I would go with Mosley (Syndicalist). Every resource wasted in Corruption is a resource taken away from the Revolution. Plus the Technical and IC gains are good. The Union may not have the largest Armed Forces but it should have the most advanced. By the way, what is happening with Bengal?
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RGB said:
Definitely the Resource Industrialist.

Plus he's a good Syndicalist, not some Radical Socialist...
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My fellow comrades, I thank you for your opinions, but unfortunatly it's not my call to make. Oswald, the Radical Socialist, is our comrade President; while Oswald, the Syndicalist is our Armaments Minister :wacko:

Bengal has had no noteworthy events, but they have a healthy amount of IC, and our relations are continuously increased by ocasional envoys and constant trade.

Jan Skrzetuski said:
I would say: don't join the Syndicalist Alliance until they invite you. Britain has her great Navy and Air Forces - it's enough to protect yourself from possible future attacks of monarchists and capitalists. Also, joining the alliance would lead the Republic to dependence from France and their extreme view of socialism...
If there will be war in Europe, you could consider siding with Sicilies and France - but otherwise - avoid it at any cost.
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Neither those two are "great" nor is France's policy so diferent from our own.
But it seems the majority stands with you - and truth be told it's unlikely we'll be atacked before France or Sicily.

DarkReborn said:
It is in those camps where they transform you into an highland's pure scottish?
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Times are hard, and one must make the People's Favourite Drink our of anything we can... :eek:o
 
OnwAARds Britain!

A Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg 1.0 AAR.

Part X - The Indian Civil War

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It was decided: The Union of Britain would not be formalizing it's alliance with the syndicalist forces of the Continent, unless direct agression occured.
So as to make it clear to the World, formal garantees of independence were issued on behalf of France and Sicily.
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The very next day, the need for Worker's Solidarity becomes evident as Bulgaria once again sends it's people (and those of it's allies) to another war of agression.
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Knowing full well many other Peoples were in danger of seeing their lands invaded by their former opressors, UoB decides to declare their commitment to the freedom of Mexico, Brazil and Bengal aswell.

The very next week (February 23), fate calls us to the table...
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Bengal enjoys a slight industrial superiority, but it's location is awful.
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And to make matters worse, the puppets of the Royalists in Delhi, who waste all but 1IC in decaden corruption, declare a fake war - an escuse to allow the white man to try and conquer India once more.
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Bengal enjoys early success, and completly refuses all diplomatic atempts to join them in our common fight, probably due to fear of seeing armed Britons on it's soil once more. But that leaves us with no friendly harbour anywhere near them!
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But their terrible location ends up causing them to lose territory to the "Federation". They are still able to conquest Dehli though, an cause an uprising on all it's former pseudo-controled territories. But with no army to secure that territory, how could it last?
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On a symbolic manner, the Royalists use their nearby friendly harbours to land and conquer Karachi, right on the 1st of May! The hit is felt in Calcuta...

Battles inumerable are fought for the crucial Jabalpur - the concting province between Delhi and Calculta, and the months of May, June and July are heroic ones for the Workers of India.

But has August arrives, it's far to clear for everyone that Bengal will not win this war alone. The "Federation" controls all major provinces, and keeps conquering the Bengali industrial centers, having now reached parity. Even if they were agaist the south, however, Royalist and reactionary interference would certainly spell their doom.
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Britain feels powerless! Bengal refuses to accept our alliance, or even giving us military access. And while this could be the perfect excuse to atack the Royalists in their Canadian home, we have no place from witch to lauch the atack from. Mexico will not give us access, fearful of potencial American retaliation, and all other powers are hostil to the Worker's Cause.
Our only option, as long as the Americans don't revolt, would be to conquer a base in the Atlantic closer then Newfoundland.

The obvious options are the Azores, held by the Portuguese (16IC) and the Bermudas, part of the Caribbean Federation (2IC)... What recomend thee ho readers?

Meanwhile, the Russians have seen Siberia defect, and the Balkan powers continue fighting agaist the 200IC Habsburg monster, with diminishing success...
 
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I would say that The Azores is a good option because Portugal's independence isn't guaranteed by anyone.

But all those Portuguese VPs arround the world are too far from Britain, at least, you will have to conquer The Azores and all Portuguese mainland, to make them secede the Azores.

All this can be easily done, unless you regret on invading your homeland... :D

Nah, it was a joke :D

The Caribbean Federation it's a bit more dangerous, because DoWing them will make you going to war with the Royalist and the rest of the Entente, they are on that alliance.
 
In my opinion, the Azores are better than Bermudas - in the very middle of the ocean - if you control them, you will control entire northern Atlantic, comrade. And there is virtually no possiblity of bombing raid form U.S. or Canadian mainland, so it's a good starting point.

And one word about India - although our Bengali comrades may lose this war, there is still a possibility that we make temporary alliance with the Federation - I nkon it sounds like heresy, but the Royalists must not introduce their opressive regime once again. The working masses of India count on us, even if their governments don't.
 
OnwAARds Britain!

A Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg 1.0 AAR.

Part XI - The Great Leap Forward... into the dark (post 1)

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August 1938 was beeing a dire month for Britain. As the war in India progressed with no possibility of international progressive intervention, and as we looked at ourselfs powerless to effectively strike Canada when it was urgent, the Goverment felt action was needed and the sooner the better. The Americans weren't any closer of actualy starting the Revolution then they were during the Third International - if anything they were suffering increased repression now - and the Roylists were moving towards regaining their lost power. We could not aford to continue giving them the benefit of innitiative, or the price could very well end up too high.

Action was needed and it was needed now!

The preparations for an atack on Portugal were started. Opressive as their regime was, it didn't felt was a good thing, atacking the Portuguese - long time allies of the English - to exploit their Azorean base, but if we didn't move now we could very well end up seeing a Royalist flag over those islands, by conquest or alliance.

It's a great Armada, with the best ships of the Union, that departs for the shores of Portugal in early August...
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War is formaly declared on the 00h00 of the 15th and a disenbark on the Algarve takes place.
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Even before the troops have finished their disenbark though, recently-Cazarizied Russia cuts their supply of rare materials, leaving the current stocks under great preasure to finish the war quickly and resume safe trading with... someone else.

The very first lesson we take from the war is that we lack in transports more then we thought. 3 TPs (later 5) are seriously not enough to bring enough troops fast enough overseas. Also we should remember to send the HQ sooner. Speaking of wich, preparing a new one would be in order.
These minor issues bring an even worse mood to what was already an unconfortable agressive war, but at least we're finding these things out on a smaller adversary.

The first battle of the Portuguese Liberation War is fought for the city of Evora, in Alentejo, and honestly proves more dificult then we were expecting.
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Controling the small but workable local harbours allows for a quick arrival of the HQ, wich in turn left the homeland rather undefended. The situation you see here is that of 1st September.
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And to our great missery, we'd learn another lesson of war: the Tagus is freaking impassable. Assaults on Lisboa fail miserably and a stalemate is reached. 2 weeks into the war.
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Portugal offers it's colonies. We refuse.

Another plan is devised - atack lisbon from the interior of the country. An atack on Guarda (ho dear lord Paradox Map Makers!), wich also fails, as the Portuguese re-inforce it quickly.
...rather to eagerly in fact.
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Lisboa is quickly taken by the armored divisions, secured and re-inforced.
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Using Lisboa as a base, finaly a disembark on the Azores is possible on the 9th of October. While that goes on, we also secure Porto. With all of their army in the mountains of Evora, with hardly any supplies, we belive peace could be settled, and insist on recieving control over the Azores and the exile of Salazar.
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With the weeks passing and an inflexible goverment, while our rare materials run short and with the homeland less secure then we'd like, a military solution is seen as the only exit.
 
OnwAARds Britain!

A Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg 1.0 AAR.

Part XI - The Great Leap Forward... into the dark (post 2)

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With the weeks passing and an inflexible goverment, while our rare materials run short and with the homeland less secure then we'd like, a military solution is seen as the only exit.
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With Continental Portugal and the Azores secured, but still no solution from the remains of the portuguese goverment, more preasure is exerced by taking Cape Verde, the last province where the white portuguese were comparable in numbers to the locals. The taking of these islands causes the goverment to send a last and final dsperate offer. Wich we refused.
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After so much more effort then we had bargained for - and with India in a situation that coudn't be saved - we demand no less from the Portuguese then the forfiting of almost all of their colonies and instaling of a friendly goverment. With the near totality of the (white) portuguese population within 1km of a british soldier, it was an offer they couldn't refuse.
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British controled territory after the peace settlement:


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On the 20th of November, the Free State of Mozambique is established. The first Syndicalist state of Africa.
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And 6 days later, the workers of India pay the price of our joint insuccess in building the conditions to protect Syndicalism, Socialism and all other progressive efforts, worldwide.
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Our recently adquired bases are thus pledged to the cause of Workers everywhere! And thus garrisons are quickly dispached to all of them, before the Royalists or their Australian allies have a chance to respond. Notice the state of the war in the Balkans.
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With our new bases, two more nations added to the rank of the free Unions, and the capacity to strike almost anywhere in the Planet, Britain faced the future with renowed confidence. We had adquired some image problems - but then again since when did the old regime respect the workers? December 1938 ends, onwards with 1939!
 
Fantastic! Did portugal end up retaining ANY of its colonies? It seems like you took them all.
 
He needs the islands for maritime bases.

Hah yes, Portugal! I WONDER why you brought the glory of Socialism to them?
 
germanpeon said:
Fantastic! Did portugal end up retaining ANY of its colonies? It seems like you took them all.
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Guine, the dark green near Liberia. I might end up giving Angola back aswell since I can't liberate it.

And it was all about the bases! No seriously! Really! Ho, why won't anyone belive me? :eek:o
 
Good, you've liberated the Portuguese people and its colonies from the opression of Salazar.

Remember, both Timor and Macao are good bases to liberate China and India from the monarchist yoke.
 
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