And another Germany, iam sorry for this.
But the first time i played it till the end and i think the result is very nice-
I dunno why but i cant make a screenshot from the ending screen, so ive made one from diplomatic. If you ask yourself what 100+ infamy means = around 330.
I started as Prussia and had a very hard and annoying beginning. I needed 4 wars do throw Austria down and create Greater Germany around 1960. The first war i humilate Austria, take Bohemia and free hungary. And it could be so easy if there were not france, attacking me one month before austria fall down do secondary power status and allowed me to sphere it. They wanted Elsaß back and also call their Ally russia into the war. So i ended up, make peace with austria and throw all i had vs france and hold only the line in the east vs russia.
The war vs France ended in another occupation of their territory but i had to wait till iam able to attack austria again.
The third war vs austria was a mess, i had already loss to austrian army, a giant rebellion occur in my land. At the point i was beating the rebels, had already lost a quarter of my territory to them, france and russia again declared war. This time i had a very hard fight to overcome them both at same time. I was really on the edge of my possibilities but i manged it and was able to take again a piece from France.
In the eve of the fourth war vs austria i allied the USA and this time france was quiet and greater germany was created.
The next 45 Years i was fighting any european might (except GB, Spain or Greece(ally)) and expand whenever a CB was ready. I never had to mobilize my troops to win a fight.
At 1906 a crisis with greece went into my first war with GB, cause they supported the ottoman empire. Russia, spain and some other minor states jumped in for GB too. At this time i was allied with USA (no real intrest in USA, it was simply for fun). I wanted to see what happens and called them into the war and then send my already prepared 600.000 man army to the english main land. They fought well but had no chance. Also russia was an easy enemy. I grabbed a big part of the britisch colonies in afrika and a region in russia and was surprised by the easy and low cost of adding wargoals.
Also the 2nd great war in 1913 against GB and russia was easy won. I regret dont facing GB in great wars earlier to simply take more regions afterwards from russia.
A lot of wars i fought for trashy "dutch ....", "british ...", "french ..." areas, sometimes only one state to delete these ugly blobs in my beatiful africa or the caribeen islands.
After the 2nd great war something changed in the world. Wave after Wave rebels occur in nearly all countries for the next 15 years. In Germany i had only one minor rebellion by anarcho rebels.
Plenty of rebels appear in india and after some years britain went facistic, lost all his dominions and spheres. Also france changed from socialis, facist, communist, conservative, and everything else all 3 years. I really dunno what game mechanic lead to this but it nearly immidiatly stopped at 1929, my first rebellion started.
From that point on i got communist, facist, communist, anarcho-liberal, communist, facist, communist rebels... in only 5 years. Really want to know why. All social and political reforms were made. And while i get annoyed (never a real danger, only boring send Troop A to rebel B) the rest of the world regenerated. The last 20 years i fight vs russia i lost more soldiers to attrition and rebels then to normal troops. All i had to do was sending the army from one point to another.
But after 1930, countries i invaded really get combat ready armies. The pre last war vs spain faced me with a 240k stack. In the last year and war against russia, i had to fight a 500k stack in novgorod. It wasnt really a big deal, they were still losing much much more troops then me. But it was still nice, like a little present for the end of the game.
Additionally i watched something... weird, but alredy well kown. The problem with the coffee. I had sphered brazil for over 70 years in the game. I dunno when, but in all my region, that produce coffe, none of the farmers went to work. ZERO. Some regions had 135k unemployed farmer. Unfortunatly it was a former colony from netherlands, not able to build factories.
1928 the global coffee producion was 350, 300 from brazil, 50 from other countries and ZERO from me. Even i own several coffee regions. Global demand 250. In population screen was the information, coffee wasnt available. Even my citizen had the money for it.
1933 i unsphered brazil to test the result. One day after, the first people start to work and were still rising in 1935. Now the global production is 750, 420 from brazil, 120 from me. Global demand meets the support with 750. Strange.
2nd strange thing what happened was in Denmark. I forgot to make a screenshot but in Ylland were only living 7 people. That was around 1865. (NOT 7k... only 7!)