And going into advanced occultism would probably work pretty well with ATE Occultists.
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Chaos cults?
Suddenly imagining an event box popping up to tell me that my providence is now worshipping Khorne
New theme music also a box
That all you got?
It would be something that Geheimnisnacht could use. Unfortunately considering that the game seems to love turning everybody into Satanists on the sly Chaos wouldn't even have to use the End Times to take over the world.
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Huh, apparently Kaiserreich treats CAV as leg infantry instead of a weird limbo between leg infantry and MOT\MECH.
Well, it is leg infantry, just four-legged.
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Jade Dragon's new silk road mechanics
Also, Jade Dragon adds the silk road to your game even if you don't have Horselords, while Horselords will have all of Jade Dragon's updated silk road mechanics (presumably excluding the Chinese diplomacy stuff of course).
In the interest of trying to make the 2ACW a little more interesting, I've given the USA the maximum buffs (nothing indicates that the buffs also apply to the other parties to the war). Also, as the Internationale usually rolls all over Mitteleuropa and the Entente, I've given maximum buffs to them, as well.
Basically, I really like playing as the Combined Syndicates, but they're really, really powerful and as such, pretty much the whole rest of the world needs to be buffed into low earth orbit to make up for that.
Courtesy of said massive buffs and the fact that I didn't do anything like deliberately sabotage the USA by doing something like not building any weapons, converting all non-CSA factories to CIC, dismantling the whole navy (the naval defections don't actually come out of the US Navy, they just appear out of thin air), or elecring Long to boost the CSA with a free Minnesota, the USA did something new to me - it beat the Pacificans and took all that land back, meaning they have lots more industry and manpower than before and since I took out the AUS, they'll probably be a volunteer magnet for everyone who wants to stick it to the Syndies.
And yet, they can't really counter all my industry or the fact that every division in the CSA has support artillery and is soon to gain line artillery, while the USA can't afford such extravagances.
edited 5th Sep '17 4:34:03 AM by Balmung
That all you got?
So does anyone have a good idea of how to beat the Syndicalists as Germany?
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Interesting. I know that 2ACW is one of the things (alongside a China rework) that people have wanted the devs to work on for a while so the rest of the world needing buffs doesn't surprise me.
That all you got?
Yeah, that's one of the games I most want to do with Kaiserreich, along with winning the Second Weltkrieg as Germany (and actually being allowed to expand into France aside from the Occidental Duchy without the Entente and any other allies in the war being allowed to take everything) and dominating Asia as the Mongols: making the Qing rise again.
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Part of the problem is that the CSA gets ~550k manpower in the field from events, while the AUS and USA each get ~300k. In exchange, the AUS and USA seem to get a little more proper INF, but that also puts more infantry equipment on the line in battle and when marching, which the small industries just can't handle. On top of that, the CoF, Mexico, and often several other syndie states (eg. Syndie Brazil if it happens) send lots of aid and volunteers to the CSA, while the USA gets some help from the Entente and nobody other than Germany seems to aid the AUS.
Odd things that happened elsewhere in my game - the UBD was actually going for Germanization instead of giving the Germans the middle finger, but then, all of a sudden, Pribaltica, so they'll instead join themselves to the Russian Republic (for once, both Russia and Transamur restored democracy
Other playthroughs I really want to do: Brazil, full criminal Legation Cities once 0.5 is out, another round of Transamur, Mittelafrika + Native Stadthalter, National France (but kings GTFO, all democracy, all the time), Baharatiya Commune, and taking the AUS and making L I T E R A L L Y E V E R Y M A N A K I N G.
As I understand it, the big thing you want is no syndies in the Netherlands. Also, if the UoB goes full devolution, that ought to be a big help, as it greatly weakens the British component of the Internationale.
edited 5th Sep '17 2:16:50 PM by Balmung
That all you got?
Full devolution like breaking up into individual syndicalist republics?
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Yep, if they elect their Radsoc party in the first elections, the Union of Britain eventually devolves into the Unions of England, Wales, and Scotland, the later two of which depending on other choices, will be either puppets of the Union of England, or fully independent.
Eww gross. Decentralization not even once.
If I recall correctly, they actually said that they want to rework that focus branch at some point because devolution is a completely stupid choice to make.
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Definitely. Either there needs to be some upside or it ought to be replaced.
Then again, the game lets yoy take all kinds of bad choices, like not taking free PP or letting that asshole Pelley take over the AUS. Then again, none of those are quite as bad as tearing apart a strong country into two weak ones and a medium one.
That all you got?
If it weren't for the fact that Syndicalism is so rabidly expansionist (not to mention the means that they came to power) that ideology might actually be welcome in our current world. It's a much Lighter and Softer version of Communism after all.
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To be fair, it's not like anyone in Kaiserreich isn't incredibly expansionist. International politics are still very 19th century and nobody's gotten together and said that conquering other nations and overthrowing their governments is doubleplusunbueno like we have in our timeline.
Also, we'd have to keep the fucking totalists from betraying the revolution.
edited 5th Sep '17 3:49:57 PM by Balmung
Are you suggesting that Totalism isn't the one true branch of Socialist?! Someone's going to a labor camp 
Which kind of proves my point.
He said, going down the market socialist path in the CSA focus tree.
I actually really hope they rebalance consumer goods modifiers because theyre often used in very large amounts as penalties, and meanwhile, it's really easy for a nation like the CSA to hit 0% consumer goods demand, though the stability system lets pretty much everyone do it (very good stability + total economic mobilization = 0% consumer goods demand).
edited 5th Sep '17 4:21:40 PM by Balmung
I think we should reflect on the hilarity of the fact that the Totalists are explicitly called Totalitarian Socialists. The lack of pretension is kind of hilarious. 
edited 5th Sep '17 4:40:13 PM by Fourthspartan56
"Sandwiches are probably easier to fix than the actual problems" -Hylarn
Though I think it's also worth remembering that Totalism doesn't just mean Charter Totalism - it's also often used as a broader term for other authoritarian socialist movements like Marxist-Leninism.
And speaking of socialism (of sorts (okay, so democratic socialism isn't actually socialist at all)), holy shit Austria. I don't think I've ever seen the AI manage to form the democratic socialist Danubian Federation, and they're on their way to forming the 2 1/2 International (and yes, that was a real thing).
And on the subject of betraying the revolution, Mussolini is in charge of all of Italy, the Bharatiya Commune went Totalist, and Sweden's flirting with Totalism, and the surviving Bolsheviks are worthless buffoons who can't even be bothered to revolt again.
Oh wow, that's a load of bullshit. Apparently, Germany can take over Mittelafrika and fight on from there, even if it's someone else's puppet.
edited 5th Sep '17 5:31:49 PM by Balmung
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Its official release date is September 21.
So, it turns out that the Conducator has more balls than brains, as he lead the entire Belgrade Pact to ruin against the Danubian Federation, which also allowed the Ottoman Empire to finally beat them. Meanwhile, the Axis has been surprisingly accommodating of the Ottomans, allowing them to focus on one war at a time instead of dogpiling during the Kurdistan Crisis.
Meanwhile, in the CSA, the last reactionaries have been rolled up, but I had to modify the event file to allow my Constitutional Convention to conclude, as the event does not account for every possible combination of choices like Sweden's does. The new government is structured much like the old, as we were wary of the ineffectualness of the old Articles of Confederation, but we ain't no Totalist scum.
Had the 2ACW dragged on a few more months, it would have seen the advent of a new generation of mechanized warfare - by the end, I finally had enough MIC to build enough tanks to create the first true armoree divisions. What's more, in accordance with my focuses, I was able to replace the militias with true infantry and bring large amounts of artillery to bear. The final thrust against the reactionary Garner regime was the first action of a true CSA army, rather than the ragtag militia that had paid so many lives for the victory of the revolution. However, the revolutionary air force and navy still need to be built, and built well, as even in defeat, the USA showed what a huge advantage naval and air superiority could be.
I think that, had this war been entirely in AI hands, the USA would have achieved total victory. Those national buffs were a huge deal.
They work exactly the same way and it doesn't make much sense outside of the Abrahamic religions in the first place.
I mean, both Slavs and Balts had practices like human sacrifice in the first place - why would they have an "evil" cult doing that as well? Not to mention that apparently Czernobog shows up as a name for for their "devil" - which is kinda annoying, considering Czernobog's role as an evil deity is mostly an invention of Christian chroniclers and missionaries.
Honestly, the only society I actually use most of the time is the Hermetic one - mostly because the tech bonuses you can get are really good.
The secret believer societies might be neat if you're doing a Zunist run, though.
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