The Five Elements
A Nationalist ChinAAR.
Welcome! Some background, expectation-setting and ground rules:
My first AAR and my first real Doomsday game. I’ve loaded it a few times to poke around, but never played through before. Using version 1.3.
Will not be using any cheats or modding, except may go nofog from time to time mostly to show situation elsewhere in world.
I plan on this mostly being a loose gameplay AAR, with some story elements tossed in to set the stage. While I’m interested in this period of Chinese history and have done some reading on the subject, I am hardly an expert and the writing will doubtless reflect that. On the plus side, the writing will doubtless spur more research. Chinese personal and place names may vary frequently in spelling.
My meta-goal is to try to play the game as if my foresight is in fact limited, and in some cases may be wrong. I will try to play my part in the world as it is and can be inferred – everyone knew chance of war in Europe was growing, knew Japan was a threat to China, knew US didn’t like that, etc. but I will not base plans around specific Events or try to game things like knowing X Event will cause Y dissent drop at Z time, I will not start 1936 plans based on Germany and the Allies going to war in Sept 1939, that Vichy will form and will likely cede Indochina to Japan, etc. Some political and strategic surprise should be evident. Some bad choices will be made that may seem right at the time, militarily, politically, etc.
Sometimes I will work Events into the story as being in part due to NatChi intentions and actions through poetic license. For example, the Xian Incident may become the Xian Conference. It is possible that I may go back and edit prior posts to re-write parts of the story, especially to inject some retroactive foreshadowing.
In game goals will be first of all survival, then uniting mainland China including beating back Japanese out of Manchuria. If can secure that, would like to see about getting peripheral areas such as Tibet, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Korea etc. events, world situation and time willing. I do not plan on trying for World Conquest or taking over India, etc. unless somehow drawn into a war with the Allies or something. Who knows what will happen though?
A Nationalist ChinAAR.
Welcome! Some background, expectation-setting and ground rules:
My first AAR and my first real Doomsday game. I’ve loaded it a few times to poke around, but never played through before. Using version 1.3.
Will not be using any cheats or modding, except may go nofog from time to time mostly to show situation elsewhere in world.
I plan on this mostly being a loose gameplay AAR, with some story elements tossed in to set the stage. While I’m interested in this period of Chinese history and have done some reading on the subject, I am hardly an expert and the writing will doubtless reflect that. On the plus side, the writing will doubtless spur more research. Chinese personal and place names may vary frequently in spelling.
My meta-goal is to try to play the game as if my foresight is in fact limited, and in some cases may be wrong. I will try to play my part in the world as it is and can be inferred – everyone knew chance of war in Europe was growing, knew Japan was a threat to China, knew US didn’t like that, etc. but I will not base plans around specific Events or try to game things like knowing X Event will cause Y dissent drop at Z time, I will not start 1936 plans based on Germany and the Allies going to war in Sept 1939, that Vichy will form and will likely cede Indochina to Japan, etc. Some political and strategic surprise should be evident. Some bad choices will be made that may seem right at the time, militarily, politically, etc.
Sometimes I will work Events into the story as being in part due to NatChi intentions and actions through poetic license. For example, the Xian Incident may become the Xian Conference. It is possible that I may go back and edit prior posts to re-write parts of the story, especially to inject some retroactive foreshadowing.
In game goals will be first of all survival, then uniting mainland China including beating back Japanese out of Manchuria. If can secure that, would like to see about getting peripheral areas such as Tibet, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Korea etc. events, world situation and time willing. I do not plan on trying for World Conquest or taking over India, etc. unless somehow drawn into a war with the Allies or something. Who knows what will happen though?