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Strizimon said:
Hungary would join Mitteleuropa, they were on good terms with Germany i guess.
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Alright I'll remove István Bethlen from the event I wrote yesterday. There's basically no event flavor for Hungary if that's something you're interested in
 
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Alright I'll remove István Bethlen from the event I wrote yesterday. There's basically no event flavor for Hungary if that's something you're interested in
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Hungary can join Mitteleuropa to be protected from those who wants its territory (Serbia, Romania) or stay neutral but then it would be suicide to not help Bulgaria.
 
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Fantastic work albeit I had a little confusion when playing it with Kaiserreich version of 2020 :D
I like a lot the fact that Russia practically always attacks Mitteleuropa when war between Germany and Syndies begins, it's great. I also like that while playing as Poland I have more claims than in KH and there are way more paths. Can't wait to try playing as Russia.
 
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Martinoz1 said:
Fantastic work albeit I had a little confusion when playing it with Kaiserreich version of 2020 :D
I like a lot the fact that Russia practically always attacks Mitteleuropa when war between Germany and Syndies begins, it's great. I also like that while playing as Poland I have more claims than in KH and there are way more paths. Can't wait to try playing as Russia.
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Big patch incoming tonight. I'd wait before starting any new games.
 
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What i noticed so far regarding the Balkans:

-Bosnia doesnt become free, they stay puppet of Austria. They should be free and join or fight with Serbia for independence.

-Romania should annex whole of Bukovina if the Poles take Galizia, Bukovina would not willingly join Poland.

-Ukraine having the one (dont remember the name right now) White Russian core in the north messes borders up if territory from Russia is taken, dont know if its Kaiserreich lore or not :p

-Greece would try to improve relations with Germany even after fighting Bulgaria, historically Greece had no issue with Germany.

-If Bulgaria gets puppeted by Serbia they should break free if Germany and Serbia are at war somehow, Greece probably would peace out if faced with Mitteleuropa.

-Germany should have the option to mediate peace in the Balkans (Some sort of light peace for Bulgaria, no puppet and maybe South Dobruja staying with Bulgaria)

-A non puppet Bulgaria should get the option to take Adrianople when the Ottomans are attacked.

-Serbia could try to annex both Bosnia and Bulgaria to form a somewhat different Yugoslavia.
 
Another round of feedback from the additional playthroughs:
  • When the continuation war between Russia and Syndies starts in Europe, the Syndies stand no chance. The additional help from Greece, Romania and Serbia/Yugoslavia and Russia's unlimited manpower simply steamrolls through Europe (I had this always in my five playthroughs, even Bhartiya Commune and Japan are helpless when attacking in Far East Asia). The biggest issue is France's manpower that is already depleted during the war with Germany.
  • Russia destroys Mitteleuropa with relative ease when it's occupied dealing with Syndies. IC gained from Central Asia, Caucasus + Industrialization events and huge manpower pool makes it a piece of cake
  • Austria currently serves as a ground of free IC and manpower for its neighbours. The Bulgarian claim of Bosnia looks is really out of place (quite a map gore :)), cannot find an explanation why it happens
  • The Greater Germany is a powerhouse with that free IC from Austria and Sudetenland, Syndies without help of Russia are an easy and fast prey for Mitteleuropa.
  • As above, I'm not sure is it possible for AI simulated wars to Syndicalists having a chance against Mitteleuropa. Syndicalists have the worst manpower pool from all factions in war (especially France, as united Italy has more manpower afaik).
  • Civil War in Italy - ends up most likely in stalemate (Sicily) till a war between France and Germany (as I see it's designed tho)
  • Radical Socialist Ukraine in Mitteleuropa/Reichspakt looks out of place, ideologically it's closer to Syndicalists
  • Releasing Turkey as Greece makes Ankara surrounded by Greek claimed and cored provinces
  • While playing as Greece I was automatically dragged to Russia's side during the continuation war in Europe (without event to pick a decision)
 
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I need to stop promising releases. I fix 1 thing and 4 new bugs pop up.

Good news: USA AI is nearly perfected. You WILL fear MacArthur!

Did you know a non aggression pact can be active even if you're at war with someone? Drove myself crazy for 12 hours figuring out why the USA and Canada would stare at each other for years before moving
 
Strizimon said:
What i noticed so far regarding the Balkans:

-Bosnia doesnt become free, they stay puppet of Austria. They should be free and join or fight with Serbia for independence.

-Romania should annex whole of Bukovina if the Poles take Galizia, Bukovina would not willingly join Poland.

-Ukraine having the one (dont remember the name right now) White Russian core in the north messes borders up if territory from Russia is taken, dont know if its Kaiserreich lore or not :p

-Greece would try to improve relations with Germany even after fighting Bulgaria, historically Greece had no issue with Germany.

-If Bulgaria gets puppeted by Serbia they should break free if Germany and Serbia are at war somehow, Greece probably would peace out if faced with Mitteleuropa.

-Germany should have the option to mediate peace in the Balkans (Some sort of light peace for Bulgaria, no puppet and maybe South Dobruja staying with Bulgaria)

-A non puppet Bulgaria should get the option to take Adrianople when the Ottomans are attacked.

-Serbia could try to annex both Bosnia and Bulgaria to form a somewhat different Yugoslavia.
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Which province needs to change hands? Gomel?
 
TomorrowsHerald said:
Good to know, will the issues you mentioned regarding French re-unification with Algiers be resolved as well?
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You're lucky chat gpt can grab all this stuff
 
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Alpha Release 004
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France is blue again! The dark brown-red for Italy and Spain was just.. yeah.

Belgium, France and Germany get more forts, bigger forts. Been meaning to do that for a while.

Police, Engineer and Super heavy artillery brigades heavily buffed to make you consider choosing them. Need feedback.

USA will win their civil war 99% of the time.

Will fight Mexico a 2nd time for conquest. Will conquer Canada and rest of North America. Still working on their invade Europe and Japan AI.

AI Russia nerfed into focusing a bit more on navy

Colombia now conquers Peru

Argentina will conquer Chile and puppet Brazil.

These two form an alliance after blobbing.

Austria division chain mostly complete
Bosnia and Montenegro now join Serbia instead by default. Bulgaria can actually hold out longer with less territory to defend.

Britain will send tons of troops to France now in addition to their Denmark landing. No free troops just good ole AI manipulation.

Egypt will integrate allied Libya.

France will annex Nationalist France if:

1. Canada no longer exists
Or
2. France is fighting Russia in WW3

All Nationalist leaders now wake upon this inherit/annex event.

France gets cores on Algiers and Tunisia. Will try to liberate Morocco.

*Eventually I will make an event chain where they elect Petain or DeGaulle but lets focus on balancing the world wars first.

If Germany escapes to Africa they will get huge morale buffs. I need to work on this more.

Mittelafrika will intervene in the South African Civil War by just attacking everyone involved. I know the UK wouldn't let this happen but it makes late game Germany more fun to watch.

China and USA provinces received a major IC rework and buffs.

AI fixes everywhere. Every day I learn a little more about the mystery that is Hoi2 AI files...

In the rare event that Cyprus revolts it will join Greece.

Greece and Egypt no longer "liberate" Turkey. One claims to be Rome 2.0 and the other claims to be the leader of Islam.


Did you know the Cavalry brigade got replaced by rocket artillery in the game files for KR? I just found that out and it only took up 3 hours of my life. Ugh haha.

Tons of other stuff I need sleep


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To do:

Bring back the United Kingdom

Orthodox nations still automatically join Russia. Consider it to be for your own benefit right now lol. France wants to destroy your monarchy anyway

Make AI USA invade long distances. Russia will invade Madagascar so idk what's happening here. Wasted 12 hours of my life on this already haha.

Mobilization events

German Asia might need its own tag so Japan can just conquer it. Weird border things happen

Need to investigate endless Russian manpower.

Could create a conflict where Serbia and Greece fight over Macedonia and Romania is left to her own civil war.

Need to create German funded rebellions in Russia during WW2. Has anyone won ww2 as Germany? I've still yet to actually play my own mod lol.
 
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Martinoz1 said:
Another round of feedback from the additional playthroughs:
  • When the continuation war between Russia and Syndies starts in Europe, the Syndies stand no chance. The additional help from Greece, Romania and Serbia/Yugoslavia and Russia's unlimited manpower simply steamrolls through Europe (I had this always in my five playthroughs, even Bhartiya Commune and Japan are helpless when attacking in Far East Asia). The biggest issue is France's manpower that is already depleted during the war with Germany.
  • Russia destroys Mitteleuropa with relative ease when it's occupied dealing with Syndies. IC gained from Central Asia, Caucasus + Industrialization events and huge manpower pool makes it a piece of cake
  • Austria currently serves as a ground of free IC and manpower for its neighbours. The Bulgarian claim of Bosnia looks is really out of place (quite a map gore :)), cannot find an explanation why it happens
  • The Greater Germany is a powerhouse with that free IC from Austria and Sudetenland, Syndies without help of Russia are an easy and fast prey for Mitteleuropa.
  • As above, I'm not sure is it possible for AI simulated wars to Syndicalists having a chance against Mitteleuropa. Syndicalists have the worst manpower pool from all factions in war (especially France, as united Italy has more manpower afaik).
  • Civil War in Italy - ends up most likely in stalemate (Sicily) till a war between France and Germany (as I see it's designed tho)
  • Radical Socialist Ukraine in Mitteleuropa/Reichspakt looks out of place, ideologically it's closer to Syndicalists
  • Releasing Turkey as Greece makes Ankara surrounded by Greek claimed and cored provinces
  • While playing as Greece I was automatically dragged to Russia's side during the continuation war in Europe (without event to pick a decision)
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Alright bud just for you:

Russian Orthodox alliance now allows you to decline, Greek players.

Manpower buffs for everyone except Russia. Russia starting manpower nerfed in half. Restored a bit of Russian infantry build AI

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From what I understand from your posts and the video you linked, the political set-up of France and the UK is expected to change. I think the UoB should defiantly go back to being the UK and perhaps start the game with the commonwealth intact. France still makes a fair bit of sense in its KR set-up, though the video has a point that Germany would kick out any radicals from power (in KR law the reason they didn't was that they were too busy in Russia) Perhaps France can have a socialist government and get a reconciliation event chain with National France determining the future politics of the country and alliance membership with the Entente. Or perhaps the French civil war can become an event chain at the start of the game determining who won and what is the diplomatic/political set-up.
 
Redwolf915 said:
Belgium, France and Germany get more forts, bigger forts. Been meaning to do that for a while.

Police, Engineer and Super heavy artillery brigades heavily buffed to make you consider choosing them. Need feedback.
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I guess my typical motorized speed train won't work. I will try a more artillery happy playthrough and see how that goes.
 
While I haven't got to the war phase just yet, I can already say that the Franco-German Border should have its fortifications further increased on the German side as well. In KR, when playing the France (which I do far too often) I usually go for a rapid knockout blow of Belgium, a crossing at Liege before the Germans can reinforce it, and an encirclement around Alsace. The extra forts make Belgium a tougher nut to crack and an advance on Liege necessarily slower, making Nancy a more tempting target for a breakthrough. Nancy borders three CoF controlled provinces, meaning I can assist the attack from all of them, plus even the mountain defense advantage can be curtailed by attacking (at least initially) with mountain infantry. Once that point is breached, there's nothing stopping me from getting to Cologne.

Rank 6 forts might not be enough, so I'd at least raise Nancy to 9.
 
Regarding Germany:

-(I know its not really an issue but i will mention it anyway) 26. Infanterie-Division is missing among the starting forces, should change 41. or so to 26. And Feld-Artillerie-Regiment 'Großherzog' makes no sense as a division, should be renamed Infanterie-Division 'Großherzog'.

-Playing on very hard german ic is so low with all the dissent you can't decrease the dissent and supply your forces at the same time. Building anything is also not possible (This is a problem because you need to build up your airforce to stop the bombing armada from destroying your whole navy lel). Maybe give German Indochina its own tag (And maybe German Pacific Islands too if there are enough open tags) and name it Deutsch-Indochina or so.

-Mittelafrika should give Germany military access from the start.

-Eisenstadt should be an Austrian (and if annexed a German core)
 
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And some core/claim suggestions for other countries:

-Pristina (329) for Albania
-Greece should also claim Ankara (1075), Konya (1074), Sivas (1059), Malatya (1061) and Antakya (1054) for clean and realistic borders if Ottomans are utterly trashed. That would roughly correspond to most of the territory East Rome held in Asia Minor until 1071 and it looks ugly if there are a few provinces inside their claims they somehow dont want :D
-Thailand could claim whole of Laos if at war with Germany / Indochina if it gets a tag
-Peru could have cores on Bolivia and Rio Branco (2002) for meme greater Peru
-Baltic Duchy should have a core on Daugavpils (266) - btw i dont understand why they do not own it in Kaiserreich lore, Russia would not lose Ukraine and somehow part of Latvia not but oh well
-Option if France is defeated for Germany to keep southern Belgium permanently and instead compensate Flanders-Wallonia with Dunkirk (51) and Lille (52)
 
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