This is Iraq's starting industry and Iraq's starting cavalry template next to each other. Not sure if this is the fault of vanilla (I don't have GOE), RT56, or Expanded.

Turkey has a set of decisions to claim, develop, and integrate a bunch of states around them. (I think they're exclusive to using the mod's alternate version of their focus tree. The above screenshot had me annex all concerned areas to myself with cheats to display what it looks like.) All you need to do to be able to do them is control the state in question, be Fascist, or complete the focus "Restore the Imperial Borders".

Each integration is different:

• Thrace and Cyprus are roughly the same, with you having the decisions to encourage Turkish settlement (decreased PP and monthly pop for some time in exchange for compliance and a one-shot burst of population in the state when it's done) and directly core them once compliance is high enough (50% for Cyprus, 55% for Thrace) and resistance is under 5%.
• Crimea has Pan-Turkic Propaganda (unlocked by the focus Village Institutes Program, that's the one in your economy tree not the similarly named ones in your political tree), which takes political power / day for 110 days (how much depends on the state in question, for Crimea it's -0.15) in exchange for giving the state an occupation modifier for 100 days. Crimea's coring decision is visible right away and requires 40% compliance.
• Tabriz also has Pan-Turkic Propaganda (-0.20/day), but there's also a decision to connect it to your rail network (unlocked by the focus Expand the Eastern Railway Networks). This uses 2 civs for 165 days before building a railway and some infrastructure as well as increasing compliance. You can only integrate it after doing so, and it requires 40% compliance in both Azarbajyan-e Gharbi and Azarbaijan-e Sharqi. (Note that the game only pays attention to those two, but you'll also claim and core Ardabil.)
• Azerbaijan has a similar rail decision, but it takes 180 days and can only be done after Tabriz's and is not required to integrate it. Its pan-Turkic propaganda takes -0.25 PP/day. Integrating it requires 40% compliance. (This will also claim and core Nakhchivan.)
• Mosul also has a rail decision (which takes 120 days). Integrating it requires doing the Turkish Language Classes decision, which gives the states a weaker version of the Kurdish Separatism modifier and eats up -0.15 political power for 180 days. Completing it doesn't do anything but let you integrate the states, which takes 55% compliance in both Mosul and Erbil and still slaps you with a lingering resistance modifier for another 140 days. Ouch.

Finally finished that Poland run I mentioned that I would do in a post earlier today.

I had intended to do an armor build, but only managed to get 1 medium tank div out as well as 4 crappy light tanks. I would've made more, but I was in a crippling deficit of guns, trucks, or tanks depending on the timing.

The 2WK never got Kaiser-maker level disastrous, in fact Ukraine managed to hold back and counterpush Russia pretty hard, but Belarus collapsed and it took me until a while after Russia lost Moscow to be able to close the Belarusian pocket and turn north. Funnily enough, it was me who managed to take out Petrograd and finish the war shortly after. (Quisling's Norway refused to surrender, but all it took was a quick push and he fell.)

As for the Western front, the Germans sliced up France fairly quickly but it took a while to finish them off and then Britain launched a bunch of naval invasions. While we were still dealing with the naval invasion on France, Spain joined the Pakt and launched a naval invasion of their own into Britain, which finished off the 3I. All that the Entente did was kill Mexico, and I don't think that they got any war score.

Also, I had a weird bug nearly cripple my run when the popularity of socialism and republicanism under/overflowed to a massive amount. I was able to hold the revolution off for long enough for Germany to offer autonomy, and taking that caused the monarchy popularity to go up and the bug to fix itself. (They actually delivered, despite being led by Schleicher. Neat.)

(All I got in the peace deal was Olonets, I'm not allowed to return it to Finland because the Pakt is stuck in a forever war with Japan... well Japan and Cyrenaica)

I didn't set this up and I've never seen this before!

AFAIK the concern with Rend is that it's expensive and that it sucks up freeups for marginal gains. Attack freeups don't help me much any more since the only thing they can go into is damage/meter and I could max that out in WS if I wanted to, it's just expensive as well.

For those unaware: there are checkpoints now, I must've missed the announcement.

The story behind the Clash

The year is 1940, and the new decade is only intensifying the bloody trend of the last one. From the Brazilian Revolution in the first year of the decade to Germany's recent slew of wars, conflict and bloodshed have spread all across the globe. Just a few months ago, the British Empire started the Second Great War by invading Ireland after the young republic rejected its demand for a return to submission. Despite the short timespan so far, the war has spiraled out onto a global stage with the United Nations Alliance, an unholy alliance of America and Britain, against Germany and the Berlinpakt, its big-tent antifascist coalition.

After the utter failure of the Kriegsmarine to contest UNA dominance in the North Sea and the defeat of Portugal and Belgium, fighting in Europe proper has ceased for now. This only means that the two factions can focus more on the other fronts, namely:

• The MENA front, where Pakt forces are steadily closing in on the Suez from both sides as the British Mandate of Palestine buckles under the weight of continued Arab uprisings.
• The Sub-Saharan African front, where the many colonial borders have coalesced into one long front between Darfur and Nigeria, with the UNA controlling everything south of it.
• The South American theatre, where the UNA-aligned Peru struggles to fight back a loose coalition of its neighbours while the nations of the Treaty of La Plata desperately try to stay neutral.
• Last and certainly not least, the Southeast Asian theatre, where British and Dutch forces struggle over Malaysia while the Indochina protectorate has already fallen to Thai incursions.

The other two superpowers and their blocs, Russia with the Commonwealth of Free States and Japan with the Co-Prosperity Sphere, look on wary. Both of them could theoretically attack any of the others: Russia has the goals of retaking Karelia from the UNA and their former west from the Pakt, and Japan could prioritize either faction's Pacific holdings. However, they are considered most likely to be distracted by each other due to conflicts over the major concessions the White Russians had to make to Japan for enough assistance to survive the Red onslaught.

Depending on the actions of the four blocs, the current order could collapse in countless ways. No matter what happens, though, it will die. The endless revolutions of the interwar period have shown that for sure, and this war has pushed it far beyond its limits.

The story behind the map

This took a while to make, but that was mostly due to difficulty finding a base map to use. Once I had one, the map was done in about 2 days.

I wish I had more to say here so it was similar in length to the first section, so here's some random trivia.

• This is my first try at making an Inkscape map of an entire continent, and I have to say that I think it turned out pretty well.
• I had to ignore a bunch of Aegean Sea islands for the sake of time and parts of the Aegean coastline might've come out a bit sloppy. Please don't castigate me, Greeks and Turks.
• I experimented around with how to showcase the names on the second version of the map. Part of that is due to me genuinely wanting to and the other part is due to me forgetting how to rotate text in Inkscape.
• On the topic of names, the British Empire and Nordic Rike's names were more legible when I was making it... oops, should've made them white.

I have way too much free time so feel free to ask any questions in the comments.

At least on certain maps, because this thing is a more painful thorn in my side when it comes to black/whatever border cleanup than CHIMPS.

(I know this isn't the original meme template and that the person who made this misspelt "villain" but I can't be bothered to find the original)

I was playing Germany and decided to yeet all of my black-colored divs at the French State for fun. (Except the 3 that were off defeating constitutional Iran.) One pretty easy war later and apparently the Free French were so embarrassed that they retreated out of everything but Gabon and Congo. (For extra irony, I decided to leave Vichy as the very last tile that FF controlled on the mainland since I had reduced them to a pocket around it and Lyon.)

I was trying to make an alternate-history map using the Division tool to split countries from the mainland. I've done this before without any issues, so I know it should work.

The division tool worked the first time I used it and I was able to use it on the smaller path I split off without any issues. When I try to use it to split up the original path again, both the original path and the one I'm trying to use to dissect it both just vanish without a trace. No new paths are created.

I can use all other tools in the Path menu just fine. Closing and reopening Inkscape does not fix the issue.