Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg - Global Alternate History Mod for HOI2

[Evans]

Well, Portugal bowed down before my force and gave up all their coastal colonial provinces (they kept the interior of Mozambique and Angola, I guess the arrangement was that they could still get raw materials but only through British territory, keeping them from future hostilities) then I allied with France et al and kicked two shits out of the Italian Federation and then Spain, liberating it under an Anarchist Regime. Now the Ottomans are next, Libya, Tunisia and Armenia are foolishly trying to help their masters... I hope Georgia can hold the line... But Germany is still sitting around doing nothing

 

[Thirdfain]

Your tech tree seems ok to me, but the lands battleships are relics of WWI mentality.

Totally fair. And like relics, they wouldn't have a lot of future. These land battleships rarely worked in testing and never worked in combat. Keep them as flavour, with the Germans in particular starting with a couple brigades and the tech to make more, but most powers wouldn't have them at all (too expensive) or would have surplus German ones. Either way, "land battleships" are going to go the way of the dinosaur in this mod.

]I'd rather replace the L-A brigade with assault guns.

Why? The brigade would be ahistorical and essentially useless. What would it provide a division? Extra hardness and soft attack? In that case, it would just be a clone of the SPA division. Assault guns were largely rebuilt light tanks, deployed to flesh out panzer divisions. They were often very similar in usage to tank destroyers, and some models of assault gun were essentially tank destroyers.

Now, consider their specialist role. Assault Guns are equipped to provide armour support and a heavier mobile gun to support infantry.

In essence, precisely what infantry tanks are going to be doing!

So, what are you going to do- introduce a whole extra section of units indistinguishable from infantry tank brigades except in terms of cost, or can we just assume that assault guns are a part of infantry tank and SPAT brigades?

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Hey, this looks like a fantastic mod, but I'm having slight difficulty getting it running. Some files seem to be extracted when I use the JSGME programme (such as flags and country tags) but others aren't, like whicheve file decides which country has what provinces, and the file that controls leaders. So as a result, countries who have had their tags changed like france and the UK are now the Commune of France and the Union of Britain, but their leaders are still King George, etc.

Is there something that I need to do? I've done the usual extraction and followed your instructions on how to use JSGME (to the best of my knowledge) -- but clearly it's something I'm doing wrong. My apologies if this question has already been asked or if I've made an excruciatingly obvious mistake :wacko:

Alongside this question, I would like to offer my services -- hardly a great aid coming after that little tech problem but I know a fair amount about Irish and British history and would be happy to do anything I can to help out. Maybe I ought to try and get the mod RUNNING before I do so, though o

Hmmm, no idea why this problem should come up, and haven't seen anything similar before! Two things I could suggest:

* Make sure you clicking on the correct scenario -> You should be choosing the "Kaiserreich" one all the way at the bottom of the selection list (again, need to move this up or block out the vanilla ones!).
* If it's the actual programme which isn't working, then I suggest you back up all of your vanilla files and copy all the Kaiserreich files into your HOI2 directory directly, and re-paste the back-ups when you want to go back to the normal game.

Help is always good - I actually haven't got much in the way of Irish events or ministers yet, so some info here could help. Or anything else you could suggest would be good!

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Also, latest new from the soviet front:

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It seems that you did something to the cores of the Arab Union...

I may have to chop up an "Declaration of Union of Arab Syndicalist Republics" event to fix the situation...

The Battle of Istanbul will propably go down as the Stalingrad of that timeline...or perhaps even worse.

Very nice - I also see a very conservative Ausgleich, and peace in the Balkans!

Not sure if I did anything to the Arab Union cores - what problem is here?

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Well, Portugal bowed down before my force and gave up all their coastal colonial provinces (they kept the interior of Mozambique and Angola, I guess the arrangement was that they could still get raw materials but only through British territory, keeping them from future hostilities) then I allied with France et al and kicked two shits out of the Italian Federation and then Spain, liberating it under an Anarchist Regime. Now the Ottomans are next, Libya, Tunisia and Armenia are foolishly trying to help their masters... I hope Georgia can hold the line... But Germany is still sitting around doing nothing

Very good! Try and cause as much trouble as possible and see who defends or attacks who...

Germany is going to be very peaceful for probably the next two alphas - the events relating to it are very important and so need to be done right! Just pretend that there was no economic disaster, and so Germany is still managing to maintain peace and prosperity in Europe.

 

[midos]

Eh, quite embarrassing -- I was trying the 1936 scenario rather than the Kaiserreich one...

But it's sorted now, thanks for your help!

As for Irish events and leaders, how would you feel about Michael Collins still being alive? The British having lost the Great War, I doubt they would have been in a stong enough position to support the Unionists in the North, especially not against a (presumably) German-supported South. Ireland also probably wouldn't have stayed in the Empire, and it seems to me would have declared a republic. None of this is particularly interesting, I'm sure, but it does mean Ireland could have its favourite "What If" -- Michael Collins.

If we allow for a small insurgency instead of a civil war (which, after all, was the product of both dissatisfaction with the Anglo-Irish Treaty AND a rivalry between different factions in the Republic movement), we might see de Valera fleeing abroad or executed (if, say, the insurgents resorted to plain ol' terrorism and lost any support from the public) and Collins establishing himself firmly as leader in the way Dev did in our time.

Collins also led the Irish army -- might a Generalissimo be in the making in the face of Syndicalism? Just my thoughts.

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Eh, quite embarrassing -- I was trying the 1936 scenario rather than the Kaiserreich one...

But it's sorted now, thanks for your help!

As for Irish events and leaders, how would you feel about Michael Collins still being alive? The British having lost the Great War, I doubt they would have been in a stong enough position to support the Unionists in the North, especially not against a (presumably) German-supported South. Ireland also probably wouldn't have stayed in the Empire, and it seems to me would have declared a republic. None of this is particularly interesting, I'm sure, but it does mean Ireland could have its favourite "What If" -- Michael Collins.

If we allow for a small insurgency instead of a civil war (which, after all, was the product of both dissatisfaction with the Anglo-Irish Treaty AND a rivalry between different factions in the Republic movement), we might see de Valera fleeing abroad or executed (if, say, the insurgents resorted to plain ol' terrorism and lost any support from the public) and Collins establishing himself firmly as leader in the way Dev did in our time.

Collins also led the Irish army -- might a Generalissimo be in the making in the face of Syndicalism? Just my thoughts.

Collins as a military strongman in charge of Ireland sounds like a brilliant idea! And he worked with Eoin O'Duffy - veeeerrrryyy interesting!!!!

I was planning on having Ireland be fairly neutral, but following on from this it could probably either take on a pro-German or Papal line. The latter would be especially good, as it would mean potential intervention on the side of the Carlists and Bretons (Pan-Celticism events, anyone...?). I also found an article on Irish pre-war Syndicalism which could add another potential political grouping (and cause for British interference).

And of course, whatever Unionists remain in Ireland could prove very useful for the British Monarchists to attempt to create a springboard for a return to the home islands...

 

[unmerged(52425)]

Very nice - I also see a very conservative Ausgleich, and peace in the Balkans!

Not sure if I did anything to the Arab Union cores - what problem is here?

AU only got core(s) in Jerusalem.

 

[unmerged(52425)]

Why? The brigade would be ahistorical and essentially useless. What would it provide a division? Extra hardness and soft attack? In that case, it would just be a clone of the SPA division. Assault guns were largely rebuilt light tanks, deployed to flesh out panzer divisions. They were often very similar in usage to tank destroyers, and some models of assault gun were essentially tank destroyers.

Now, consider their specialist role. Assault Guns are equipped to provide armour support and a heavier mobile gun to support infantry.

In essence, precisely what infantry tanks are going to be doing!

So, what are you going to do- introduce a whole extra section of units indistinguishable from infantry tank brigades except in terms of cost, or can we just assume that assault guns are a part of infantry tank and SPAT brigades?

Yes, extra hardness, some hard attack and soft attack was in my mind. And they wouldn't bog units down like infantry tanks - in our timeline the british infantry tanks moved as fast a walking man. They were also propably a fair bit cheaper to build and the IC cost between an infantry tank and an assault gun could be the deciding factor for a smaller nation preparing for a regional war. Same goes for tankettes, which are even in the vanilla game, but they are a necesssary part of the tank research which wasn't the case in real life.

 

[Sarmatia1871]

AU only got core(s) in Jerusalem.

Bizarre! Easily fixed though....

(Actually, a lot of the revolt.txt actually has to be re-done anyway, in line with new countries...)

 

[unmerged(54173)]

Ignore this, problem solved.

 

[unmerged(52425)]

Bizarre! Easily fixed though....

(Actually, a lot of the revolt.txt actually has to be re-done anyway, in line with new countries...)

Yep yep.

Now I'm just manualy giving them provinces.

Gaza will remain a Soviet base, though.

The Syndicalist block is so far on the lead, but I might launch a war against Mitteleuropa just for the fun of it.

Few years and reds will have the bomb, too...I already got turbojet fighters and tactical bombers.

BTW, what's the deal with Legation Cities getting a swath of land from AOG?

 

[Sarmatia1871]

Yep yep.

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BTW, what's the deal with Legation Cities getting a swath of land from AOG?

Lucky events - there's a chance of this happening if things get out of hand in the AlgOstAsien territories, and the Legation Cities are Triad controlled. The AOG also gets an opportunity to fight to reclaim the land, and if it does, Japan gets a chance to get involved.

 

[Kaiser Franz]

i remeber that you include August von Mackensen in your minister list etc..i found a picture of him from 1934, at the funeral of Hindenburg, probably a better choice of picture, as it shows him as he was at the time, instead of 20 odd years before etc...

quality of it ain't bad, but not brilliant...

 

[unmerged(46333)]

i forgot to ask
why is japan strong they joined the allies?

 

[Evans]

Well, in my game Greece invaded Albania and promptly got DOWed by Bulgaria, Rumania was with the Greeks. So what was I to do but restore Greece after Bulgaria annexed her? Now I've got a super Greece controlling all Hellas and Bulgaria and Rumania agreed to become my puppet after a furious campaign. Serbia decided they wanted a piece of us... they got annexed by Greece (British Armies) in about a week. It's 1945 now and Germany still ain't lifting a finger to stop Syndicalist adventures across all Europe... Balkans otherwise were peaceful, same with America since the US-California war ended. Russia was peaceful except annexing Mongolia/Tannu Tuva and finally Turkestan stopped her expansion after taking the Kazak Republic. I just got unlucky I guess

 

[unmerged(43870)]

i remeber that you include August von Mackensen in your minister list etc..i found a picture of him from 1934, at the funeral of Hindenburg, probably a better choice of picture, as it shows him as he was at the time, instead of 20 odd years before etc...

quality of it ain't bad, but not brilliant...

 

[Zuckergußgebäck]

Sarmatia, you and I had a bit of a debate further back about the status of Portugal and her colonies, and I think I have a solution (but it´s big, and before I work any more on it, I want your seal of approval).

In broad lines, Portugal fell into internal unrest and economic mayhem directly after the great war ended, and with governments coming and going, Germany was unable to negotiate a peace settlement, and hence gave up.
So in theory, Germany and Portugal were still at war in 1936, but in a ceasefire. Both nations had ny now came to a silent agreement not to negotiate for peace, but keep matters as they were.

In 1938, Göring however, declares that Portugal is still at war with Germany and demands a peace settlement from Lisbon (he wants the portugese colonies for Mittelafrika). Lisbon might agree, leading to negotiations and some loss of colonies, or disagree, and protest to Berlin.

When they protest to Berlin, Germany can choose to just make some talking, leading to an invasion of the portugese colonies by mittelafrika (and war between Germany and Portugal) or side with Portugal (to stamp down on Göring), or Göring (to stamp down on Portugal). Exactly what will happen later I´m not sure of, but possibly a yes/no choice for Portugal leading to war or loss of colonies, and a yes/no for Mittelafrika which will either remove Göring or lead to an uprising against Germany.

How does that sound?

 

[unmerged(52425)]

To me it does.

BTW, Sarmy, do you still remember that idea of mine regarding Abyssinia?

 

[Zuckergußgebäck]

Taking a look at the german tech teams, I can´t help but wonder what has happened with Einstein, who obviously wouldn´t have packed his bags and went to the USA in this scenario?

Perhaps he should replace Heisenberg as a skill 9 nuke physics, nuke engineering and maths team?