[Screenshot gallery!]1936 Total Global War FFA Chaos

[Dyacorum]

Greetings! Through some coding and a bunch of saved game editing in an older version I used to make things work better, I finally did a 1936 Global Total War FFA game, in which all countries are locked into war against all other countries, observing the chaos from the safety of Madagascar. It took around 12 hours. First 4 were exciting, I checked in occasionally after that. I deliberately weakened USA and SOV, latter a bit too much. I wrote up a guide on how to do it, can post it later. I figure the screenshots are good fun. I had fun doing it, at least. Had planned to do this a long time. Can post a 2nd batch of screenshots. (I had an account, Eregos, last posted before the 2016 forum transition, but I couldn't recover it.)

1. Everything up for grabs! 5 finger discount!

2. Early movements in the east

3. Germany v France looks close. Surprised by Norway

4. Scrambled eggs!

5. Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Partisans throw a big party in the USA

6. Reshuffling in Asia, Brits take Southeast, Japan into Siberia.

7. Let's change up the African colors a bit.

8. Surprised Hungary lived that long. Will Germany or France win?

9. Fun fact: Germany actually took Paris & central France earlier.

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11. I like this South America more.

12. Germany and France getting serious, Germany in trouble now.

13. Ethiopia humiliates Italy, cool

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15. Mussolini and Hitler got too enthusiastic about settling their own scores

16. USA starts taking away the punch bowl, removing the speakers and turning off the lights. Party's ending.

17. 6 Flags over Moscow! Not quite what the Russians had in mind though. (Soviet, Finnish, Polish, German, Romanian, Latvian)

18. Cops showed up, all the beer is confiscated, all the cake is gone. Party's over.

19. Oh, Hi Napoleon.

20. The eggs keep getting scrambled. Turning into an omelet.

21. The Russians have a strong opinion about all this migration into their territory after all

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24. Think I like Paraguay's migration the most. Greater Colombia looks nice too.

25. Finland, the official tribute from District 12, makes it to the final 4.

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27. By now I realized I'd weakened Russia a little too much.

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29. British begin getting the African situation under control again.

30. Well this can only end one way. Brazil and Argentina sure took their time winning.

31.

32. Can anyone stop the French?

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34. Short lived British invasion

35. The infinite war raged between the UEF, Cybran Nation and Aeon Illuminate for over 1000 years.

 

[mccarty.geoff]

Based French. You should post the console 'savestats' .csv. Bet France has 800IC and 200 destroyer flotillas by 1940.

 

[Dyacorum]

From a 1953 save (Infinite War drags on a while!)
Tag;Country; TotalIC;Coal;Oil;Steel;RareMaterials;
ENG;United Kingdom;106;889;5;313;90;
FRA;France;-------------263;3421;190;1326;548;
POR;Portugal;-----------0;0;0;0;0;
JAP;Japan;---------------77;265;35;281;340;
CHI;Nationalist China;137;412;0;209;75;
IRE;Ireland;--------------15;33;0;19;5;
NZL;New Zealand;-----7;18;0;6;4;
AST;Australia;-----------26;75;0;70;12;
USA;USA;----------------328;2296;927;1384;470;
MAD;Madagascar;-----8;0;0;0;0;
REB;Partisans;----------0;0;0;0;0;

I think France got too focused winning the Infinite ground war to focus on IC.

I’m still having fun captioning this silliness, so it’s time for episode 2.

 

[Dyacorum]

36. The best holding action the British seem likely to manage.

37. Took Japan and China surprisingly long to consolidate East Asia.

38. Yanquis aggression nears its manifest destiny

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41. USA will have a lot of time on their hands now…

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43. Surprised by China’s resiliency. Could they actually win?

44.

45. Yanquis aggression reaches Hispaniola

46. Infinite war enters a stalemate.

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49. Moment of Danger for China.

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51. Yanquis attack Cuba

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55. French War Machine slowly grinds forward

56. Breakthrough in India, at last.

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58. I re-enable diplomacy, triggering a little consolidation.

59. The Chinese bend but they don’t break. France has to win the hard way.

60. USA dominating Atlantic

61. France, Japan finally dueling helps China but not enough.

62. Japan finally tackling the Australian threat

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64. USA invasion is half-hearted but something to look at.

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67. USA attacking probably triggered Brit AI flag

68. Brits invested heavily in defending Africa.

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70. Hopped in as USA to invade Spain, to commit a Eurasian war. Japan still struggling in Australia 2 years later.

 

[Dyacorum]

71. I force a USA invasion

72. British want to push Spain again, bad timing!

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74. China running low on Mountains to defend, need relief soon.

75. French TC too overwhelmed to move troops back quickly.

76. USA succeeds where France failed, takes Gibraltar

77. French lines break in Europe

78. Blue wave crashes over Ireland and France.

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80. .

81. China can hold the French again.

82. Japs can’t beat Australia. Huh. Guess they had all game to prepare.

83. France sets up a secondary line in Russia, holds for a bit

84. French get sandwiched in Suez.

85. Blue wave reaches Australia, something those fires could use about now.

86. Brits take an interest in Levant

87. Would be about the shittiest place for 75,000 troops to fight for 20 years.

88. The Japanese never give up on India do they, even when it makes no sense.

89.

90. Whoops, Brits caught off guard.

91. French sandwich gets devoured.

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93. British start recalling troops from Africa, at the cost of losing Port Said.

94. Britain holds toe-to-toe against the Yanquis.

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96. Would be about the shittiest way to go.

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98. I gave China oil to make things more interesting.

99. Brits wisely abandon Africa to secure the homeland.

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102. Aaand France is done!

103. USA picks up where France left off.

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105. Chinese have a lot of experience.

 

[RobbieAB]

The USA has the best cores, so I would expect if they can get a properly established foothold in Europe they will eventually win.

I wouldn’t have given them the beachhead in Spain given it was France they were fighting, by the time the French AI responded they were likely to be well into the French cores which would disproportionately hurt the French.

But cool screenshots and idea!

 

[Dyacorum]

Yeah, in hindsight I think West Africa would've been the more compelling beachhead. Would've given the French more time to respond. They had troops in Spain to fight the British, but too few close reinforcements.

 

[jdsmith575]

Greetings! Through some coding and a bunch of saved game editing in an older version I used to make things work better, I finally did a 1936 Global Total War FFA game, in which all countries are locked into war against all other countries, observing the chaos from the safety of Madagascar.

This looks like a lot of fun to play.

What did your coding involve? I was thinking of replicating the same thing with a bunch of custom events that set each country at war with the other and relations to -200, and one event to trigger them all.