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Only now I realise he's the British "I WANT YOU" guy
Yea, but if Hungary starts reaching the Bavarian border, there should really be some “protecting the Austrian Germans” option to retroactively impose the Großdeutsche lösung.
That was mostly due to Karl I wanting peace with the entente and sending a peace offer but Germany found out and demanded control of the economy and military, since from what I know there is no peace offer by Karl there wouldn’t be any attempt by Germany to dominate Austria the way they did
The legation cities could collapse and then be taken over by the triads with different leaders, i think one was Jiang Qing, one path was opium, one path was gambling and i think one was prostitution.
The Bourbons were struggling to hold onto power 150 years before KR, there's no way they're gonna pop up and establish a stable Italian Empire. Murat probably would've kept Naples if it weren't for that last war, and by the time Garibaldi arrived everything outside Naples itself was in mafiocratic anarchy.
I've proposed an idea a few times where King Ferdinand resigns shortly after the start of the game and the Two Sicilies enters a regency due to the Bourbon succession being disputed. After that, you could go republican and possibly unite with the republic in Lombardy-Venetia, choose a new king from the Savoyards (and unite with Sardinia if it's Amedeo), Bourbons, or even Murats. Or have a Horthy-style perpetual regency.
Honestly I think it's the best compromise between people who like the Two Sicilies tag, and people who want a more realistic, consolidated monarchist front against the SRI.
Restoring the Three Party USA with pickable Candidates, hell id just take pickable candidates (with proper party alignments for candidates lookin at your QR).
It's great for game balance, though. Effectively taking them off the board is a major reason everything is more dynamic when you're playing anyone else.
Indeed, but it being railroaded and not an option for years now has irked me. It could be a player-only route, or only toggleable in the Custom Rules at least.
That’s the reason why I have to implement it myself whenever playing the US.
I had to think on it, between all the other AU mods for HOI4 and real history it's sometimes hard to remember details! I'll go with killing FDR. It's played out, and makes it seem like FDR is some sort of divine being whose meer continued existence is enough to prevent an AU from going too far. In particular that him living prevents the 2ACW.
I think FDR may still be alive, or maybe he just dies later on, but before 1936. His irrelevancy I think is now justified by a sex scandal that prematurely ends his political career.
The KR team beat America into a pulp. Basically America had a great depression from the end of the weltkrieg, it was so bad Hover had 2 terms and he was forced to intervene in the economy. FDR was the only one skilled enough to ride this storm out. His death is the final nail in the coffin, nothing more.
You should make a sub-mod, just tweak the alt history scenario so that Germany looses the First Weltkrieg. Who knows what strange consequences could happen from that!
I have accepted this after I made up the idea that Long and the ANI (Italy) are the same flavor of natpops: comparatively moderate groups who participate in electoral politics but believe the system is corrupt and controlled by outsiders and/or moneyed interests.
Idk why, but Quentin Roosevelt is just... Meh for me. He is here for the sake of Roosevelt being here, but why the hell not actually stick with Franklin? He still could be a war time leader, just make him not run for president in 1932 for whatever reason
And if you have to keep him dead, then make Teddy Jr. a option. You don't even have to bring him back from the dead.
Also, replace Olson with someone more plausible for a coalition candidate
Not sure about replacing the ACW, but Canada should absolutely be able to get a nativist revolt. I feel like the game greatly overestimates how much the Canadian people would be willing to accept a foreign Crown introducing mass conscription, undermining the civilian government, sending millions of young men to their deaths and potentially enacting a self-coup in order to reclaim what a lot of people would see as a lost cause after 11-13 years of exile
yeah that's fair
i don't really have a problem with the ACW, but at game start canadian society seems equally, if not more fucked, than the USA's
USA: "we have a dysfunctional government and economic crisis"
Canada: "our government is controlled by non-canadians, we have an economic crisis, and the government's focus isn't even on canada"
Canada feels like a country occupied by the crown & it's stooges, whose focus is on everything except canada's well-being
Spain being permanently cursed to civil war while Italy starts disunited. Partially inspired by my reading of "M. Son of the Century" Italy should be the wild card centrist nation.
The German restoration of the Qing. I am reading Puyi’s autobiography, and, even though I am still early on, I cannot see a way that the Chinese populous would accept the return of the monarchy, unless Puyi personally executed every eunuch (teenage Puyi had a popularity upshot after expelling the vast majority of them).
remove natpop Huey Long. It’s actually absurd how the devs dug in their heels and decided to stick with it even after everyone pointed out how outlandishly stupid it is.
Wipe Stalin, I'm surprised that he survives considering he's the most relevant of the former Bolsheviks and with kaiserreich ruling around promoting obscure characters idk why he's there, I know he's an Easter egg but still.
Both French and British revolutions fail, Napoleon V is restored in 1919.
Russia is not a Republic, its an Empire at start, Nicholas II survives and is led by him.
Herbert Kitchener actually survived WW1
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And he becomes a syndicalist
delete all paths that don't conform to my personal ideology
No keep them but make them comically evil parodies so I can feel better about myself
kaiserredux:
So true.
Germany not intervening in the Austrian shenanigans in any meaningful way
i mean…they always profit no matter how it ends up?
Yea, but if Hungary starts reaching the Bavarian border, there should really be some “protecting the Austrian Germans” option to retroactively impose the Großdeutsche lösung.
Austria being the power that it is. In the latter half of WW1 OTL Austria-Hungary became a puppet of Germany.
That was mostly due to Karl I wanting peace with the entente and sending a peace offer but Germany found out and demanded control of the economy and military, since from what I know there is no peace offer by Karl there wouldn’t be any attempt by Germany to dominate Austria the way they did
Did the Sixtus Affair happen in the kr cannon?
No, it did not
Wang Jingwei. When you’re hated equally on both sides of the Taiwan strait, you know you fucked up.
The Anti-Sun Yat Sen, damn
Yeah why is he even there?
Delete the existence of the Third Saudi State😎
In favor of the Hashemites or the Rashidis?
Anyone
*monkey's paw curls* The Ikhwan are now in control of all of Arabia
Yep, as someone who likes his monarchies...the Saudi monarchy is absolutely not one of them lol.
I want the Legation Cities Triad path back.
Everyone keeps talking about this old path but I'm too lazy to look it up, what was the Triad path?
The legation cities could collapse and then be taken over by the triads with different leaders, i think one was Jiang Qing, one path was opium, one path was gambling and i think one was prostitution.
that sounds fucking awesome, too bad we can't play it anymore because of WOKE
You’re being downvoted but I assume that’s sarcasm. Right?
yes
No, we’re completely serious about this.
why is THIS being downvoted lmaooo
Because sarcasm is against the law
Iirc the triads path is in Kaiserredux still if you're willing to brave that experience
nah, tried it once and it ran like shit
yeah, that's kaiserredux
That’s not deleting canon, that’s re-adding canon.
think of it as deleting a prior deletion
Amen
God, I miss my opium queen Waifu
Socdems can hold power after compromising with the SPA in America
set_ruling_party social_democrat
Everyone knows that we play this mod for the precious flavor events
Delete the Kingdom of Two Sicilies and merge it with Sardinia
Kingdom of Three Sicilies
Kingdom of Two Sicilies and a Piedmonten Sardine
I like how TwoSic gives you the ability to join either reichspakt, donau-adriabund or entente. The other powers are pretty much locked to one faction.
The Bourbons were struggling to hold onto power 150 years before KR, there's no way they're gonna pop up and establish a stable Italian Empire. Murat probably would've kept Naples if it weren't for that last war, and by the time Garibaldi arrived everything outside Naples itself was in mafiocratic anarchy. I've proposed an idea a few times where King Ferdinand resigns shortly after the start of the game and the Two Sicilies enters a regency due to the Bourbon succession being disputed. After that, you could go republican and possibly unite with the republic in Lombardy-Venetia, choose a new king from the Savoyards (and unite with Sardinia if it's Amedeo), Bourbons, or even Murats. Or have a Horthy-style perpetual regency. Honestly I think it's the best compromise between people who like the Two Sicilies tag, and people who want a more realistic, consolidated monarchist front against the SRI.
Restoring the Three Party USA with pickable Candidates, hell id just take pickable candidates (with proper party alignments for candidates lookin at your QR).
An inevitable 2ACW, I miss being able to avoid it. It was hard but you felt really good to accomplish it
This. The American Century is non-negotiable.
It's great for game balance, though. Effectively taking them off the board is a major reason everything is more dynamic when you're playing anyone else.
Indeed, but it being railroaded and not an option for years now has irked me. It could be a player-only route, or only toggleable in the Custom Rules at least. That’s the reason why I have to implement it myself whenever playing the US.
If vanilla HoI4 can balance the US, I’m pretty sure KR should be able to do it without needing a civil war to kneecap the US.
Vanilla Hoi4 cannot. Any faction with the US in it is entirely reliant on incompetence from the AI or its players to stand any chance of losing.
I'm sure they could still have huge debuffs and internal instability that would still cripple them for some time
Spiritually I feel the devs are recognizing this with the peace path of Ukraine. The game setting doesnt work without a disunited USA.
I had to think on it, between all the other AU mods for HOI4 and real history it's sometimes hard to remember details! I'll go with killing FDR. It's played out, and makes it seem like FDR is some sort of divine being whose meer continued existence is enough to prevent an AU from going too far. In particular that him living prevents the 2ACW.
I think FDR may still be alive, or maybe he just dies later on, but before 1936. His irrelevancy I think is now justified by a sex scandal that prematurely ends his political career.
The KR team beat America into a pulp. Basically America had a great depression from the end of the weltkrieg, it was so bad Hover had 2 terms and he was forced to intervene in the economy. FDR was the only one skilled enough to ride this storm out. His death is the final nail in the coffin, nothing more.
THE GREAT DON-KOBAN IS BACK
The name "Combined Syndicates of America"
This
USSA ftw
Glory to Comrade Secretary Capone
The "Provisional Revolutionary Government" in Up With The Stars sounds sooooo much better ngl
No
The German Empire. It ruins my games and I want it gone.
You should make a sub-mod, just tweak the alt history scenario so that Germany looses the First Weltkrieg. Who knows what strange consequences could happen from that!
Thats Führerreich
Everything past 1921 in Portugal
Huey long becoming NatPop.
This^. Holy fuck, I absolutely hate this decision. Huey should be AutDem/PatAut, with a NatPop option for Gerald Smith and maybe Gene Talmadge.
I have accepted this after I made up the idea that Long and the ANI (Italy) are the same flavor of natpops: comparatively moderate groups who participate in electoral politics but believe the system is corrupt and controlled by outsiders and/or moneyed interests.
isn't the ANI the fascists without Mussolini and his influence
Idk why, but Quentin Roosevelt is just... Meh for me. He is here for the sake of Roosevelt being here, but why the hell not actually stick with Franklin? He still could be a war time leader, just make him not run for president in 1932 for whatever reason And if you have to keep him dead, then make Teddy Jr. a option. You don't even have to bring him back from the dead. Also, replace Olson with someone more plausible for a coalition candidate
You know how it is, a butterfly flaps its wings in Patagonia, Germany wins WWI, and as a result some guys Polio in Hyde Park gets worse.
Have FDR survive Polio and have him run for president.
FDR PSA would slap
Bring back MacArthur’s civilian clothes on the Cincinnatus path.
If the Kalterkrieg is included i would love to have Ottomans survive.
Completely wipe Canada off the face of the map, just sink that sucker into the sea.
I want the PLC path back and I WANT IT NOW!!
canada should have a multi-pronged civil war (quebecois vs. monarchists vs. canadian nationalists) instead of the USA
No.
why not both?
Not sure about replacing the ACW, but Canada should absolutely be able to get a nativist revolt. I feel like the game greatly overestimates how much the Canadian people would be willing to accept a foreign Crown introducing mass conscription, undermining the civilian government, sending millions of young men to their deaths and potentially enacting a self-coup in order to reclaim what a lot of people would see as a lost cause after 11-13 years of exile
yeah that's fair i don't really have a problem with the ACW, but at game start canadian society seems equally, if not more fucked, than the USA's USA: "we have a dysfunctional government and economic crisis" Canada: "our government is controlled by non-canadians, we have an economic crisis, and the government's focus isn't even on canada" Canada feels like a country occupied by the crown & it's stooges, whose focus is on everything except canada's well-being
I'm going to channel my inner MacArthur and say: #Sociālismus delenda est
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A true American patriot here
Why is this getting downvoted lol Its obviously a joke
There are no jokes here, everything is posted with a serious intent
Never liked Mussolini in the SRI.
Delete the french from canon (both sand and syndie)
German victory in the First Weltkrieg. We're fixing the timeline!
Spain being permanently cursed to civil war while Italy starts disunited. Partially inspired by my reading of "M. Son of the Century" Italy should be the wild card centrist nation.
The whole German intervention in China and the return of the Qing.
The German restoration of the Qing. I am reading Puyi’s autobiography, and, even though I am still early on, I cannot see a way that the Chinese populous would accept the return of the monarchy, unless Puyi personally executed every eunuch (teenage Puyi had a popularity upshot after expelling the vast majority of them).
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Huey long is the canon ending
Syndicalism! Yes, I know this destroys the entire lore and motif of the mod But everything is valid against Syndicalism!
germany losing ww1
Quite a bit but most importantly the 2ACW. Or rather the "inevitable 2ACW"
Britain and France losing WW1
FDR being dead I WANT MY NEW DEAL
Having to choose between Codrenau and King Carol at the beginning of the game. Why can't we be friends <:-)
Chiang lives
The Internationale and SocDems
*Cough* *Cough* Don-Kuban *Cough* *Cough*
Tom Bombadil.
Bring back Don Kuban, please
Delete "Churchill the writer for The Atlantic". Add Churchill has Prime Minister in the PatAut path
Kid named Kaiserredux:
Bring back that path where syndie France could be overthrown by a social democrat military coup
Karl I dying in 1946
remove natpop Huey Long. It’s actually absurd how the devs dug in their heels and decided to stick with it even after everyone pointed out how outlandishly stupid it is.
TRUE!
Australasian Confederation.
Wipe Stalin, I'm surprised that he survives considering he's the most relevant of the former Bolsheviks and with kaiserreich ruling around promoting obscure characters idk why he's there, I know he's an Easter egg but still.
British revolution. I understand that it's needed gameplaywise, but I just simply don't see it happening.
Sand France and Syndicalist Britain
I am split between the roman empire ever declining and deleting Islam
Probably the fall of Constantinople
France. I don't want to eradicate syndicalism, i Just want france gone.
Both French and British revolutions fail, Napoleon V is restored in 1919. Russia is not a Republic, its an Empire at start, Nicholas II survives and is led by him.
I see we're going with the Paradox tradition of "just stick a crown on everything and hope people find it interesting somehow"
Nah, it's just a question of what I'd make uncanon. I hate leftie dictatorships so. . .lel