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Shells in the Night 2: A Kaiserreich Georgian Tale

Which country you'd rather see me trying to turn into a superpower in Kaiserreich?

  • Austria

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  • Bhartiya Commune (Syndicalist India)

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  • Canada

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  • Delhi (AKA Pakistan + a piece of India)

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  • Georgia

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  • Libya (PS: Gaddafi was born in 1942)

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  • Mittelafrika

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  • Mongolia

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  • National France

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  • Ukraine (Banal, shit, boring)

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Oh yea, so the newest version makes use of the various things introduced in Darkest Hour...

So tell me, have they fixed all the retarded stuff like the utterly FUBAR balance for research ability (since in DD you have NO hope if you don't have at least 4 tech teams, with 3 being the absolute minimum) or the even more fucked up manpower system?
 

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Vaarna_Aarne said:
Why didn't you wait for the expansion event?

Except for Poland because rushing Germany in 1936 is boring, since when have my Hearts of Iron games LPs been about waiting for events to start wars rather than just start wars using the game mechanics? As much as I enjoy the fluff, I rarely bother keeping up to what the authors expected to be the "historical" or "realistic" route in the game.

Will you still get cores on Azerbaijan from it?

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This event didn't exist in the Kaiserreich version I played as the authors didn't extend on the "National France forsakes the weak and distant Entente and joins the Catholic Alliance to strengthen its goal of uniting the two Frances by force" angle.

On the same previous LP, neither the event that give cores in mainland France and transfers the capital to Paris would trigger unless every single French territory was retaken by National France. And with the shitty manpower growth from the raghead territories, it pretty much would make the rest of the game extremely boring and long.

tl;dr when the game events are limiting and force you to take only one of many possible approaches to reach an objective, rather than something to add to the experience, I edit them.
 

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Almost forgot:

So tell me, have they fixed all the retarded stuff like the utterly FUBAR balance for research ability (since in DD you have NO hope if you don't have at least 4 tech teams, with 3 being the absolute minimum) or the even more fucked up manpower system?

Not really. DH doesn't really take many deviations from being much more than an upgraded mod-friendly HoI2 with better automation(trade automation), a 1914 Great War scenario at the expense of having only another scenario in vanilla besides it: the 1936 one, a prettier map and, although I am yet to see it in bigger conflicts, a supposedly better AI base. Research still use the same mechanics, except keeping up in infantry tech apparently less expensive(I'm not sure where else costs have been lowered or increased), tech tree now goes from the early WW1 1914 tech level all the way up to early 1960s now and there are decisions, like the ones in EU3 and Vicky 2. Among them there is one for procuring foreign military tech, but I never bothered with it so far because countries like Georgia aren't really moneymakers, and also war propaganda, that gives some temporary economy and combat bonuses but is quite expensive at 500 money, fiat currency that increases reduces industrial efficiency due to the inflation it causes, purge of less than loyal military leaders for a minor +3 morale bonus coupled with 2 dissent and the loss of such leaders, and other decisions I have yet to see. IMO it's quite a bust for them to have not included the same WW2 scenarios HoI2 has. Gotterdamerung 1944 was the only one where playing as Germany is one hell of a challenge. Maybe they'll add the other scenarios through patches, but this sucks, specially when you want to run a game in 1939 to get straight to WW2.

But again, considering how much HoI2 standard stuff has been played over and over I can understand if they have designed DH first and foremost focusing on the WW1 scenario, as no previous HoI games had one as vanilla, and on using it as a modding platform. It's most likely better than WW1 in Vicky or Vicky 2, which combat mechanics aren't as good.

As for the update itself, I'll just add this first

This thread won't ever be anything without the annexation of Delhi Inanistan.

Except for Azerbaijan, every country surrounding Georgia has its independence guaranteed by Germany.

Therefore, any attempt of turning Georgia into something that isn't just an irrelevant shithole is a matter of:

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Shells in the Night 2, Chapter 2: Danger and Opportunity

The Cossacks

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: The revolution has never stopped. Inspired by our example, the Russian proletariat rose up once again, and a new Soviet Russia took the reactionary pigs by surprise, and not only that, but it riled the petty rivalries between the bourgeois and nobility of the splinter capitalist States formed after the end of the first Russian Civil War. Among them, the reactionary Cossack leaders of the Don-Kuban Union saw the war as an opportunity to grab Russian land for their plantations, safe that having their independence guaranteed by Germany will dissuade the proletariat from taking opportunity of their immense greed to spread further the revolution and gain a foothold to spread it to other reactionary nations. Germany does not scare me for the Georgian people are greater than the German Empire ever will be!

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: How predictable! Except Germany has no land borders or means of ever reaching our glorious Georgia, and even if they could, our victory would be certain and they would be put to the run all the way back to Berlin!

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: So, the Georgian dumbfuck is going on to challenge Germany's sphere of influence like a mouse that roared. I bet you'll preorder Gears of War 3 considering challenging the greatest power of the world is your take on political wisdom. "No borders?". Ukraine is running out of space for trash dumps lately, so I'm sure your shithole will be a nice addition to my country's territory.

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: Come here and face the mighty Georgian Red Army if you dare! conservative German bootlicking scum! How are you bitching about decline of entertainment and culture and refusing to acknowledge that the capitalist system is the fault of it, because the POPAMOLE is the opiate of the masses and intellectual entertainment would be too much of an indirect influence for waking up the proletariat from its slumber. Only through a State-owned Entertainment Industry the incline can return because as it's for the people rather than for fat cats, there will be no aim of going or lowering even further the lowest common denominator to alienate the masses and make them more and more cattle to prevent the revolution from happening!


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: The lack of artistic freedom and of personal liberty leads to even more decline, Liberal.


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: Don't come with this bullshit! Georgia is the only country of Earth where all are free of exploitation.


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: Your rhetoric is BANAL. SHIT. BORING. I expected no better of you than to claim the country you rule is free while you order persecutions and pogroms the same way Consoletards trying too hard to be edgy Codexers bash Skyrim while masturbating to Mass Effect and Obshittian shit games that are exactly like the ones Bethesda did but are awesome because it wasn't Bethesda but Obsidian that did the shit. Fucking fanboys and commie drones!

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: But those people are consoletards! Why do you complain about the Georgian State Police putting consoletards in their place?

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: So anyone who opposes DEAR LEADER is automatically a consoletard, how droll. Don't worry, I'll leave a footnote in the future Ukrainian history books about what Ukraine's greatest trash dump was before its annexation.

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: That is it! One day Ukraine shall be swept by the revolution, skyway, and then you shall die! Mark my words!

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: Damn skyway! With the awareness Germans could send millions of soldiers through Ukraine to attempt destroying my glorious nation through sheer numbers only, as obviously numbers aside, our army is much greater and superior to the German Army, I must make an unfortunate concession, and leave Don-Kuban Union as a buffer state between the future Caucasian Soviet Union and Ukraine. Also, getting Tsaritsyn will be the greatest objective of this war, and maybe Grozny too as besides the Don-Kuban capital, these are the two most valuable regions of under bourgeois rule. And better soldiers shall ensue soon, although I'm sure that even with outdated equipment, Georgians are so great they can fight better than any up-to-date army because gadgets can't increase the greatness of a man.

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: As the glorious Georgian Red Army brings only news of a successful encirclement and considerable victories, I receive news of a new Internationale. Of course Georgia must go to this event to spread its light to all the socialist nations. The enemy is making a foolish mistake, in the meantime, for they have abandoned their capital. Quickly this mistake is one these bourgeois pigs and their lapdogs will pay dearly for!

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: With their capital lost, several of their forces encircled facing battles they are doomed to lose and the Russians about to finish the job, I think now these pigs will be willing to thank their false god I need them as a buffer and accept the demands the glorious Georgian state impose: a corridor all the way up to Tsaritsyn, including Grozny. If they accept this deal, most of their army will remain, and they may yet stand a chance in their conflict with the Russians. If they don't, my demands won't change but they will definitively be annexed by Russia. Even as the battles are still fought, my head of diplomacy went off to negotiate the terms.

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: It seems the bourgeois plantation owners are as greedy as they are coward, and thus they cower in fear and fold to the revolution! My great and wonderful Georgia grows even stronger and takes on Tsaritsyn, which will of course be given a more appropriate name soon. I have never been so glad to see the sun rise every day and know it's the Georgian sun! And there is nothing the damn German pigs can do about it! Thinking about it, there is one coastal province that, if the Ukrainians have transports in the Black Sea, could be a problem, but one division will stay there just for prevention, and I'm sure it will be enough.

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: Russia has been even more weakened. After centuries of oppression, I believe this may be the time for my great nation to take revenge on the Russian imperialist pigs and emancipate their proletariat before the also great but not so perfect Soviet Russians do so. Yet there is this Alash Orda, that isn't fight a multiple-front war but probably doesn't have an army as numberful as the Russians do. While the glorious Georgian Red Army is being redeployed through our mint, perfect condition railroads, I consider the two options carefully.

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: I suppose I could use the same explanation, once the time is right, to justify a forceful merger of the Soviet Russia with the glorious Caucasian Socialist State.

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: I called my men to discuss the matter of a new name for this city, but most of them probably think the subject is too minor for their time. I wonder if someone will come in to discuss, otherwise I'll name it over myself. Liberalgrad or Beriagra sound just right, but I'm not so sure on which is better or why.

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: Someone is knocking my office's door. I won't have to discuss the new name for the city with myself. Good.

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: Greetings, comrade Liberal. I suppose you already know why I came here.

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What name do you suggest for this city?

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: Jughashviligrad, comrade.

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: Hmmm. I think, that considering your great duty of putting an end to the life of all traitors, revisionists, counter-revolutionaries, bourgeois pigs and other enemies of the proletariat deserves some recognition, but, wouldn't Iosebgrad sound better?

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: I want to honor the collective of my family, comrade. Honoring too much the individual is a trait of our enemies.

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: Very well. Then Jughallograd shall be the new name of the city.

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: J-U-G-H-A-S-H-V-I-L-I-G-R-A-D, comrade.

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: Sorry, my mistake. It shall be named Jughashviligrad in honor of your family.

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: Very well. Thank you for the honor, comrade, I shall return to my duties, because the class traitors don't wait to conspire against our great Georgia.

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: I have no options but to hold off Sukhumi at any costs. This sacrifice will be paid off by the countless released workers the success of our great nation shall ensue. I can only hope that once they have dug in completely, they will stop taking casualties.

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: The capitalists fund their wealth waging war against each other in dispute for workers to exploit and resources to unjustly usurp. There is a lot of danger in meddling into this massive Russian Civil War, but there is also a lot of opportunity to achieve the ultimate goal.

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: The potato hideout cannot stop the bombs in the night. Yet I fear not. The Georgians are a heroic people, ready to do any sacrifice for a greater goal. Sukhumi shall not become our Achilles heel because we have no weaknesses! Yet I haven't decided yet how to expand the revolution further. Both Russia and Alash Orda are not beyond our grasp. Despite having been defeated by glorious Georgia, even the Don Kuban Union seems to be winning their war and driving the Russians back, yet, perhaps a hidden strength lies with Russia's reactionaries, and things could turn out badly. Alash Orda is arguably a safer bet, but then, it would be a much smaller achievement for the revolution and perhaps unworthy of our glory.

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: Should I bring the revolution to Russia in revenge for centuries of their bourgeois oppression against my people?

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: Or should I bring the revolution to the world's greatest exporter of Potassium, home of Tinshein swimming pool and source of the trouser belt and toffee?


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: Or should I build up further, the glorious Army, even if by doing so I will mostly like lose a great opportunity of exporting the revolution to Russia right now?



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: I have yet to decide.


*Post-update edit:

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Cassidy said:
Almost forgot:

So tell me, have they fixed all the retarded stuff like the utterly FUBAR balance for research ability (since in DD you have NO hope if you don't have at least 4 tech teams, with 3 being the absolute minimum) or the even more fucked up manpower system?

Not really. DH doesn't really take many deviations from being much more than an upgraded mod-friendly HoI2 with better automation(trade automation), a 1914 Great War scenario at the expense of having only another scenario in vanilla besides it: the 1936 one, a prettier map and, although I am yet to see it in bigger conflicts, a supposedly better AI base. Research still use the same mechanics, except keeping up in infantry tech apparently less expensive(I'm not sure where else costs have been lowered or increased), tech tree now goes from the early WW1 1914 tech level all the way up to early 1960s now and there are decisions, like the ones in EU3 and Vicky 2. Among them there is one for procuring foreign military tech, but I never bothered with it so far because countries like Georgia aren't really moneymakers, and also war propaganda, that gives some temporary economy and combat bonuses but is quite expensive at 500 money, fiat currency that increases reduces industrial efficiency due to the inflation it causes, purge of less than loyal military leaders for a minor +3 morale bonus coupled with 2 dissent and the loss of such leaders, and other decisions I have yet to see. IMO it's quite a bust for them to have not included the same WW2 scenarios HoI2 has. Gotterdamerung 1944 was the only one where playing as Germany is one hell of a challenge. Maybe they'll add the other scenarios through patches, but this sucks, specially when you want to run a game in 1939 to get straight to WW2.
I *have* Darkest Hour, and I saw this version of Kaiserreich incorporates features from it. Now, the question I had was that has the Kaiserreich team fixed all the dumbfuck elements of Darkest Hour, like the new manpower system (which makes minor countries irrelevant), fucked up decision costs (they should scale to IC, not have a flat rate) or added tech teams so other than majors have all the absolutely necessary specialities? Similarly, they should increase the base research team slots to two, since the increased number of techs makes it so having one slot is same as suicide.
 

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the new manpower system (which makes minor countries irrelevant)

From comparing vanilla with the mod, KR reverted to the old HoI2 manpower system and stats that I believe that isn't as demeaning to minors. They disabled the "mobilization" decisions of DH too.

fucked up decision costs (they should scale to IC, not have a flat rate)

I'm pretty sure it didn't change, unfortunately.

added tech teams so other than majors have all the absolutely necessary specialities?

Georgia has only enough to develop most industry techs, build infantry, land doctrines(particularly the Soviet branch of it, although they start with the American Firepower Focus branch instead, which I intend to change as soon as possible), air doctrines and aerial tech, which I suppose is sufficient, but their teams cannot get more than two specialties matches for infantry, and thus somewhat sloppy.

Similarly, they should increase the base research team slots to two, since the increased number of techs makes it so having one slot is same as suicide.

Nope, they didn't improve on that either.

Also, just as a reminder the last update is a sort of not so blatantly obvious poll about what Georgia should do next..
 

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Cassidy said:
the new manpower system (which makes minor countries irrelevant)

From comparing vanilla with the mod, KR reverted to the old HoI2 manpower system and stats that I believe that isn't as demeaning to minors. They disabled the "mobilization" decisions of DH too.

fucked up decision costs (they should scale to IC, not have a flat rate)

I'm pretty sure it didn't change, unfortunately.

added tech teams so other than majors have all the absolutely necessary specialities?

Georgia has only enough to develop most industry techs, build infantry, land doctrines(particularly the Soviet branch of it, although they start with the American Firepower Focus branch instead, which I intend to change as soon as possible), air doctrines and aerial tech, which I suppose is sufficient, but their teams cannot get more than two specialties matches for infantry, and thus somewhat sloppy.

Similarly, they should increase the base research team slots to two, since the increased number of techs makes it so having one slot is same as suicide.

Nope, they didn't improve on that either.

Also, just as a reminder the last update is a sort of not so blatantly obvious poll about what Georgia should do next..
Luckily you can change the tech team numbers on the fly, but sadly you can't go fixing around the tech teams themselves.

But praise the lawd they didn't take the retarded new Manpower/Mobilization system. It utterly broke EVERYTHING in DH.

EDIT: I'm asking about the decisions because their first DH version already had them, and they hadn't figured out how to scale the costs yet. But it's good they only took the tech tree and left the manpower system to rot.
 

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Invade Alash Orda. Let the glorious revolutionary state of Georgia stretch from the plains of Tarashek to northern fence of Jewtown!

Also, do you think it would be possible to mod in an event to let Georgia send a volunteer force to aid the Combined Syndicates of America?
 

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I will point out though that getting Germany into war was a mistake, since their IC penalties are peace-time only (unless they changed that). This would mean France is fucked, which will eventually bite you in the ass as well.
 

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Also, do you think it would be possible to mod in an event to let Georgia send a volunteer force to aid the Combined Syndicates of America?

Can't really bother and it wouldn't really make much of a difference in the final outcome of it anyway.

I will point out though that getting Germany into war was a mistake, since their IC penalties are peace-time only (unless they changed that). This would mean France is fucked, which will eventually bite you in the ass as well.

Metagaming to make the game easier or doing nothing waiting for events to kick up isn't my style.

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I think the results are clear enough, so here it goes the newest installment in the saga of Lavrenti "Liberal" Beria(if I spelled the name correctly).

:M

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Shells in the Night 2, Chapter 3: O Alash Orda!

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: As much as the apparently innevitable need for a great sacrifice strengthens the resolve of the Georgian people, I realize it is better for a soldier to die fighting than to die by the bombs in the night while waiting for amphibious invasion that will most likely never, ever come because Ukrainistan shouldn't really be expected to have a proper navy to pull that off, and even if they could, by the time their second landing arrived, from how expectly small their fleet would be, the first one would already be wiped out by glorious Georgian Red Army, and so on.

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: Unlike great Georgia's life-filled meadows, the grass is definitively not greener in the next step of the revolution. Alash Orda's is mostly located in a vast desert, which makes me wonder how is there anything in this country that justified the formation of a bourgeoisie, but I suppose exploitation can be found even in the most godforsaken corner of the world.

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: The liberation of Alash Orda continues successful, yet I wonder on the opportunity I might have missed by choosing it instead of the crippled Russia facing war over multiple fronts. But potassium is important, and I heard Kazakhstan prostitutes are the cleanest in the region, so I am sure I won't regret it, as I was born with the gift of Georgian wisdom and strategic insight.

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: This will be an even more trivial matter than the liberation of most of the population from Don-Kuban oligarchy, because the bourgeioisie clearly sucked this nation dry and found itself unthreatened by outside forces, or just gave up and were ready to sell out to Russia at any day. How wrong they were, as the corrupt Russian tyrants are beset by an ever-growing Soviet Russia and by rivaling bourgeois forces over Siberia and Don-Kuban Union.

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: Georgian soldiers are unaffected by the harsh conditions of the desert, because they're twice any other man in the world. News of our victory will soar all over Central Asia, and eventually, eventually, the revolution shall also spread to Eastern Europe, so that finally nobody will ever again question the European heritage of Georgia. Oh how I dream of that day!

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: Greater resistance than predicted? I don't care! The enemy is still outnumbered by glorious Georgian army, there is no excuses for failure! I wonder if I shouldn't have purged certain less-than-loyal elements of the army after all. It is unacceptable for such an offensive like the battle of Aktyubinsk to drag out for so long.

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: Good! The demotivated reactionary forces stand no chance against the glorious Georgian promotion of the proletarian emancipation in Alash Orda! I am glad to know better equipment is gradually being given to existing glorious Georgian forces as well.

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: All reports I got about the revolutionary war continue to bring great news, although there have been some delays due to victories that took longer than they should, soon the oligarchs and capitalists of Alash Orda shall fall. I am particularly proud of the encirclement tactics used during the now months-long battle of Chelkar. It takes some manliness to to let the enemy pass through the allied lines only to cut them off and surround them later, and no other country besides Georgia is manly enough for that.

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: It is good to hear the modernization of infantry equipment is soon to get us up-to-date with the rest of the world in that field.

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: The brave tactical encirclement by giving the fools a false sensation of victory paid off. Fighting in the desert has led to long, blood-stained battles, but any sacrifice is worth the freedom of the worker class and the glory of Georgia.

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: The war is not won yet, but the capitalist pigs already suffered so terrible losses that I have taken victory for granted. Wasn't that Chinese guy Sun Tzu that said you shouldn't start wars you can't win? All wars Georgia have started so far have ended in victory for a reason. Time for me to take a break from keeping too much of a close eye in our now certainly victorious war and focus more of my attention in the less interesting news of the world.

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: Divergent agends on the bourgeois treaties about the decadent Austrian Empire spark a new conflict, that might as well burn the entire Central Europe, something that will fortunately keep the Germans busy for a while. That region is too far away and beyond the current capabilities of Georgia yet, but eventually, the revolution shall spread to it as well.

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: The reactionary aristocrats and bourgeois of Poland, stirring the misguided masses through nationalist blindness, extend further the conflict. I strongly doubt they will stand a chance against the full might of Germany and her allies.

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: The oppressive bourgeois regime of Romania takes it as an opportunity to try taking back what Hungary grabbed from their historical territories. All petty squabbling from those not enlightned by the ideals of Internationalist Socialist: One world only, one state only, ruled by the will of the worker class. No more nations, only an entire world guided by wise Georgians. That is the ultimate goal.

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: Were Georgia unworhty of ever having a chance at making the true war to end all wars: The Proletarian war against bourgeoisie and their division of the workers of the world through flawed nationalism, would their armies stand a chance of holding out a lifeless desert against forces that outnumber them at three to one and against the shells in the night?

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: Were they lesser men, they would have failed. But they are Georgians. Had King Leonidas seen how greatly we fight wars for a noble cause of freeing the workers of the world rather than for the unjust cause of making free men into helots to be mass murdered and exploited, he would have knelt in shame.

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: The Proletariat seizes one of the hearts of the capitalist exploitation and injustice! Both Washington and New York are seized by the Combined Sydicates of America, which although flawed in their views of the perfect form of socialism, are nevertheless our comrades-in-arms. The New York Stock Exchange, one of the many temples of worship for the market false god, where all unsavory social parasites made their living, is burn and demolished as a symbol that the revolution has come to Kwanzania!

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: I can't believe the news! Could Poland really have gotten almost to the gates of Berlin, in this war where they face some of the largest armies of the world? This shows that we Georgians are and must be capable of pulling something even greater when the time comes!

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: As glorious Georgian Red Army continues the advance towards the last large city of Alash Orda, I witness more war from the news. Nationalist rebels in Korea and Formosa struggle against the Japanese occupation of both regions. So much conflict have sparked lately, that I believe a new Great War is just a matter of time, proving how important it is for Georgia to grow ever stronger.

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(Damn, wasted slider move in Interventionism.)

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: The Second Internationale begins. The world is changing, and a new storm of yet another Great War is coming, one that will truly end all wars. The final goal of the Socialist revolution must never be forgotten, never be forsaken.

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: Reality shows it was a wise idea to ignore the Russians and pick up a possibly weaker foe even though such weaker foe isn't facing a multiple-front war. Georgian wisdom proves its perfection again.

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: I don't understand Ukraine. It just went through a socialist revolution and yet they continue licking German boots? It can only be a fake, an attempt to draw people to the wrong cause and control a false socialist party integrated as a puppet of bourgeois interests. Meanwhile, the Second Internationale is over, but the revolution is just beginning.

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: Unbelievably, the Kingdom of Spain surrenders peacefully to the revolution, after being granted that their royal family won't be persecuted or hunted by these flawed anarchist revolutionaries. Only a fool can't see there is more than just that. If these "anarchists" were nothing but petit bourgeois false socialism obviously no reactionary in power would peacefully give in like that.

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: Alma-Ata is the last economically significant region of Alash Orda still not taken. If we seize the city the bourgeoisie will definitively flee to Russia and the revolution shall be concluded! Thus, all men must do their best to take it! Regardless of whatever else happens! Yet our certain victory is tempered with horrible news abroad:

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: The manboon is the worst kind of sub-human. Too sheeple to realize he is a tool to bourgeois, ready to spew the bourgeois patriotic brainwashing and drool over the worst kinds of "comedy shows" on radio and cinema, it is no surprise the revolution failed over there. Because the POPAMOLE is way too strong for it to be defeated from inside. Without outside help, the degenerated and docile worker class of Kwanzania will never emancipate.

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: After a socialist party won the elections in Norway, reactionaries and extremist groups led by tranny-loving Zionist agents staged a coup. Of course, the Union of Britain didn't ignore these events, and went in to do the duty of all socialist States and help their fellow comrades.

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: Like the Union of Britain, we are also helping the proletarian class abroad, except with far less resources, our success still happens because we are Georgians, born in the greatest country of the world.

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: Our technology in infantry equipment is now conceptually up-to-date, although it'll take months for all divisions to be upgraded, something which won't matter in our certain victory.

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: Heroically our men hold the lines against increasingly aggressive, desperate attacks of a dying nation. Our victory will happen even if they fail to hold the ground, but having legendary defenses will of course look more glorious in future history books.

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: Perhaps I overestimated the Russian conquest of what remained of Don-Kuban Union. Nationalist rebels have seized almost everything. We might need to intervene if they cross the borders and attempt to retake the territories freed through the revolution.

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: Although they ended successful in cutting off supplies from the forces attacking Alma-Ata, it came too late, and nevertheless, the Georgian Red Army prevails! With this, now I have many options, or even hold out for a while in peace to build up further the glorious army. From Mongolia, ruled by the extremely twisted Urgern Von-Sternberg to the South detestable Caliphate of Turkestan, to the Chinese feudal warlords, or the young reactionary state of Siberia, or even Russia, I wonder what to take as the next step to unite the world under socialism.


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: But I think Georgia needs a more glorious anthem as well.

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Georgia greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Georgia number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.

Georgia home of Tinshein swimming pool.
Its length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.

Georgia, Georgia you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Georgia fight against all except Sovietistan
They very cool people with blood in their hands.

Georgia industry best in the world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Georgia's prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course for Turkistan's

Georgia, Georgia you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the might penis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
 

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This raises an interesting rhetorical question: Would Borat be funnier or less funny if it was about Georgia rather than Kazakhstan?

:M

Also, depending whether you prefer lulz or to see a challenge.

Invading Russia = Toughest and longest, and its annexation is suicide because Russia will be needed as a buffer state to prevent Germans from ruining everything.
Invading Siberia = Second Toughest, maybe. They have been gradually gaining ground against Russia, but also lost lots of territory in the Far East to Transamur and Japan.
Invading Turkestan = Gets Georgia's borders closer to Pakistan Delhi
Invading Mongolia = Average difficulty I presume.
Invading Chinese Warlord State = Easiest, but also totally worthless
 

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Cassidy said:
This raises an interesting rhetorical question: Would Borat be funnier or less funny if it was about Georgia rather than Kazakhstan?

:M
Borat is boring Jewshit.
Cassidy said:
Also, depending whether you prefer lulz or to see a challenge.

Invading Russia = Toughest and longest, and its annexation is suicide because Russia will be needed as a buffer state to prevent Germans from ruining everything.
Invading Siberia = Second Toughest, maybe. They have been gradually gaining ground against Russia, but also lost lots of territory in the Far East to Transamur and Japan.
Invading Turkestan = Gets Georgia's borders closer to Pakistan Delhi
Invading Mongolia = Average difficulty I presume.
Invading Chinese Warlord State = Easiest, but also totally worthless
Do you really need to ask? :smug:
 

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I've started a game of Kaiserreich as Russia, and done a pretty good job of modernizing the army and expanding the airforce. By taking a few diplomatic risks with the Japanese I even got Vladivostok back :D But it's mid-1940 now and Europe has been at peace the whole game (the US had a very brief civil war). Loving this mod but was that just chance? If it is chance it sounds like it could lead to some rather dull games. Funnily enough the whole of Mitteleuropa was at war with Georgia too, as well as the Ottomans, me and Azkhewhatever.

And I don't have the pretty unit pictures :( I skipped downloading the ones they suggested because I thought they were just sprites, and I use the divisional symbols, but do they give you those?

I was also a bit disappointed they didn't alter the tech tree at all.
 

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Yea, Kaiserreich has a bit too much chance in it, which means that if you play as a powerful country who'll be in the sidelines most of the game, like Austria, you'll have to send a shitload of supplies to countries like France to ensure a more interesting world war (basically, if France doesn't crush Germany = BORING).

Anyway, I vote for attacking Turkestan. Pakistan is the home of the enemy!
 

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Vaarna_Aarne said:
Yea, Kaiserreich has a bit too much chance in it, which means that if you play as a powerful country who'll be in the sidelines most of the game, like Austria, you'll have to send a shitload of supplies to countries like France to ensure a more interesting world war (basically, if France doesn't crush Germany = BORING).

Ah I was wrong. Turns out they've been locked in war for the past two years but the front hasn't shifted at all except for France taking one German province. I must say I'm having quite a fun time fighting Japan as Russia on a vast front from Korea to Central Asia.

Also joined a cool Orthodox alliance of Greece, Serbia and Iron Guard Romania but East Europe has been entirely at peace the whole game, so no chance of kicking some Ukranian and Baltic ass :(

As Russia you don't actually seem to have much numerical superiority, considering the vast amount of territory you need to defend and the horrible infrastructure of much of the country.
 

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Russia is immensily weaker than in usual HoI games, which is a good thing, since the idea is for it to descend into civil war between a massive number of factions (since Russia should end up getting the Cossacks and Kazakhs to the war as well) and several bordering states, like Finland, Mongolia and Japan (have they regularly implemented the Greater Finland choice event yet, where Finland can get cores on Ingria, Estonia and Northern Sweden and Norway?), taking a piece of it before the fighting is over.

Though the main problem of HoI2 still remains, that numerical superiority matters more than terrain and quality, and the direct link between industry and technology. Winter War and Continuation War simply can't happen historically in it.
 

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Yeah, I realised after a few days of playing that it's ahistorically hard for any low-IC nation to compete with the big boys in technology or even doctrine and that even advanced but low-in-IC nations like Canada, Australia, New Zealand have a weirdly backwards and obsolete military, when this was far from the case historically. The obvious solution is too scrap the stupid number of tech teams depends on IC system and have it purely based on the skill of that nation's tech teams and your ability to pay them (would also make the Free Market vs Central Planning slider a very important one for poorer nations).

This seems like such a simple and obvious thing to mod, but I'm yet to see it. Anyone know how I could edit this in myself?

And as for my vote I say, Turkestan it would lead to a non-retarded looking map. Or take the revolting territories to the north if possible.
 

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It's easy. In my personal fixmod for Darkest Hour, I changed the max number of tech teams to 7, base tech teams to 2 and the IC required for a new tech team to 10 instead of 20. Though it'd require immense tech team balancing as well, with a lot of additions for many advanced but minor IC countries like Finland and Sweden (though to be fair, Scandinavian IC has always been utterly fucked up in HoI).

Anyway, the fixes to tech teams can be done in misc.txt, search for "tech" and you'll find the lines and do the following changes (the #number at the end is the original, ignored value):

# Max active tech teams at a time (cannot be more then 50). Note: New Technology page layout will be auto-set for values above 5!
7 #5
# Min active tech teams at a time (available teams regardles of current IC)
2 #1
# Required IC for each tech team above the min
10 #20


I've also got a .csv with updated Finnish tech teams (with fixed images for the Darkest Hour ones and images for new ones), so in case anyone wants those two I can oblige.
 

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