Hi
I've spent a couple of days coding new events for the Soviet Great Purge. My general aim is to give the Soviet history a bit of flexibility - from a historical Purge (which would have about 90% chances of happening), through performing a partial purge (for example, saving some officers that would normally die), up to avoiding it completely, saving people like Bukharin or Rykov, thus creating a completely different Soviet Union.
So far I've written the following events:
-> 3 civil purges (Trial of the Sixteen, Trial of the Seventeen, Trial of the Twenty-One). Party Purges remove newly added ministers (like Bukharin, Rykov or Mironov), reduce dissent and lead to further events purge events. The last Purge gives the player a chance to save Yagoda from execution - leading to him becoming the leader of all-powerful NKVD in Beria's place. The first event fires regardless of situation, but chances of further trials happening is dependant on the decision (if abandoned, the Purge is unlikely to show up again).
-> 2 variants of the military Purge - the historical one (Which is basically a copypaste version of vanilla one) and a limited one, which gives far greater dissent reduction, saves around 33% of officers. Additional feature is a reduction in both morale and organisation of army/naval/air forces.
-> Further Purge events - they reduce IC, army morale and organisation, kill manpower, increase buildcosts & time, reduce research speed and eliminate random officers. Their frequency is dependant on the intensity of the Purge.
-> Recovery events. They fire from 1939 onwards, eliminating all the penalties given by Purge events, except for irreversable loses (manpower and officers).
-> Every event has an alternative resolution, that increases dissent.
I'm planning to add the following events:
-> Removal of Yezhov - basically yet another Purge event, this time replacing Yezhov with Beria. Could be avoided - and would lead to Yezhov soldifying his power as chief of the NKVD.
-> Powerful NKVD - Would trigger once one of the Purgemasters (Yagoda, Yezhov or Beria) would soldify their power. Would reduce dissent, give slight intelligence bonuses, maybe sporadical blueprints (something like 1% chance per month). The effect would be removed once the chief of NKVD is removed.
Now, the logic behind dissent reduction. I believe in totalitarian governments dissent should reflect resistance towards the central authority. Thus, increasing it by the Purge is not a correct way. I decided to reduce dissent, with other effects reflecting what dissent does (IC reduction, loss of army effectiveness). Thus, the Purges would result in the Soviet Union being heavily handicapped in all areas, but with 0% dissent.
If the player decides to abandon the Purge, the situation would change - the Left Opposition may act if Stalin loses popular support (dissent rises too high), resulting in following results:
A) Coup d'etat -> Stalin is removed, and a Leninist Government is put in place (its composition would be decided by who survives the Purge). If NKVD soldifies its place, a brief civil war would ensure with two outcomes possible - coup successful or defeated by NKVD (situation simmilar to post-Bitter Peace Russia with NKVD forming a new Stalinist government). The victor would be decided by who controls main urban centres (Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Stalingrad, Ural industrial centres).
B) Stalin ousted by his proteges -> Would happen if dissent rises high despite the Purge. Yagoda, Yezhov or Beria would replace Stalin as HoS and a new cabinet would be formed. Civil war would be possible, but only if Stalin purged the Red Army completely.
What do you think about my concept? Does it have any chance of entering the DH, or should I keep it as a minimod?
I've spent a couple of days coding new events for the Soviet Great Purge. My general aim is to give the Soviet history a bit of flexibility - from a historical Purge (which would have about 90% chances of happening), through performing a partial purge (for example, saving some officers that would normally die), up to avoiding it completely, saving people like Bukharin or Rykov, thus creating a completely different Soviet Union.
So far I've written the following events:
-> 3 civil purges (Trial of the Sixteen, Trial of the Seventeen, Trial of the Twenty-One). Party Purges remove newly added ministers (like Bukharin, Rykov or Mironov), reduce dissent and lead to further events purge events. The last Purge gives the player a chance to save Yagoda from execution - leading to him becoming the leader of all-powerful NKVD in Beria's place. The first event fires regardless of situation, but chances of further trials happening is dependant on the decision (if abandoned, the Purge is unlikely to show up again).
-> 2 variants of the military Purge - the historical one (Which is basically a copypaste version of vanilla one) and a limited one, which gives far greater dissent reduction, saves around 33% of officers. Additional feature is a reduction in both morale and organisation of army/naval/air forces.
-> Further Purge events - they reduce IC, army morale and organisation, kill manpower, increase buildcosts & time, reduce research speed and eliminate random officers. Their frequency is dependant on the intensity of the Purge.
-> Recovery events. They fire from 1939 onwards, eliminating all the penalties given by Purge events, except for irreversable loses (manpower and officers).
-> Every event has an alternative resolution, that increases dissent.
I'm planning to add the following events:
-> Removal of Yezhov - basically yet another Purge event, this time replacing Yezhov with Beria. Could be avoided - and would lead to Yezhov soldifying his power as chief of the NKVD.
-> Powerful NKVD - Would trigger once one of the Purgemasters (Yagoda, Yezhov or Beria) would soldify their power. Would reduce dissent, give slight intelligence bonuses, maybe sporadical blueprints (something like 1% chance per month). The effect would be removed once the chief of NKVD is removed.
Now, the logic behind dissent reduction. I believe in totalitarian governments dissent should reflect resistance towards the central authority. Thus, increasing it by the Purge is not a correct way. I decided to reduce dissent, with other effects reflecting what dissent does (IC reduction, loss of army effectiveness). Thus, the Purges would result in the Soviet Union being heavily handicapped in all areas, but with 0% dissent.
If the player decides to abandon the Purge, the situation would change - the Left Opposition may act if Stalin loses popular support (dissent rises too high), resulting in following results:
A) Coup d'etat -> Stalin is removed, and a Leninist Government is put in place (its composition would be decided by who survives the Purge). If NKVD soldifies its place, a brief civil war would ensure with two outcomes possible - coup successful or defeated by NKVD (situation simmilar to post-Bitter Peace Russia with NKVD forming a new Stalinist government). The victor would be decided by who controls main urban centres (Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Stalingrad, Ural industrial centres).
B) Stalin ousted by his proteges -> Would happen if dissent rises high despite the Purge. Yagoda, Yezhov or Beria would replace Stalin as HoS and a new cabinet would be formed. Civil war would be possible, but only if Stalin purged the Red Army completely.
What do you think about my concept? Does it have any chance of entering the DH, or should I keep it as a minimod?
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