u/Pyotr_WrangeI

I reinstalled the game this week and downloaded several mods, everything worked fine until today. The game does not start after pressing "Play" in the launcher, instead nothing happens for a while, then an error appears saying that the game can't connect to server which then opens this.

Seems more than a little suspicious to me, but if workshop mods really are to blame, then why did this happen now, days after i downloaded or updated them? I also reinstalled the game, verified files, deleted mods, nothing helps.

Well, unfortunately the "bug" that allowed Lombardy to rename itself back into Lombardy after unifying Italy is being fixed. Learning this made me want to play one last Langobard Revival campaign and let me tell you, Lombardy may not have a whole lot of content, but it's still a very fun campaign with great feel of starting out as a rump state and developing into one of new Europe's great powers.

My personal advice would be to make sure Belgrade Pact beats Bulgaria for this campaign, as it is imo the most interesting and fitting faction for you to join. Italy is exceptionally rare in that it allows you to be a european power while still doing your own thing and not aligning with the major factions.

In this campaign however, BP lost to Bulgaria despite help from my volunteers, so I originally joined Entente, as Venice had joined them already and Canada wouldn't let me integrate Venice without me teking their place. This didn't last however, as during war with the Internationale I claimed Savoy which resulted in me getting kicked out of Entente, didn't even know that that was how it worked. I thought I would be able to join Moscow Accord after that, but no, even after the Internationale (I actually tegged to UoB and deleted all their troops to arrange that) was defeated the decision to join MA never reappeared. So after invasion of South Germany Lombardy now exists as an independent power, and with Russia graciously ceding all of Germany to my puppet (for some reason) she is far mor than a mere buffer state between the Entente and Accord.

As for the future of Kingdom of Lombardy, I understand why it is being "fixed", but can we at least keep the cool unique flag? And if in the future a portrait of Marcello actually wearing the Iron Crown is added then all will be forgiven.

I was in the entente before this, but they didn't like me claiming french land mid war and kicked me out

Honestly, I'm not certain something hasn't broken. I got no events about all my territories rebelling, including after beating the rebellion and Egypt is just a normal puppet despite Khedivate mechanic being active.

While other generic warlords *can* unite china, only Liu Xiang gets the badass "Grandiose Plan" subpath with special cosmetic tag to directly compete with the major Chinese factions and I really just can't find anything about him that would warrant this special treatment.

A dedicated generic unifier is great to have imo, but it is a little funny how Chinese unification can be an ideological battle between complex factions with decades of history between each other, and also Liu Xiang and his Chongqing industrialists whose story is pretty much that he's really pissed that he got passed up for a promotion ten years ago.

No ideology, no allies, no foreign backers, no influence outside of Sichuan, mans just starting his own national government from nothing because he can and he wants to prove that bald fuck Wu Peifu wrong.

i guess what i'm basically asking is: what is "Grandiose Plan" based on and why is Liu the only warlord with a path like that?

To me LKMT Hunan has been the toughest china unification that I ever completed. Took me maybe 5 attempts, in many I feel like I was screwed by how other chinese tags picked their paths. But at the end of the day it's the end of the day and the White Sun still rises no matter what.

I really wouldn't have expected this run to have been the one, not after both other south chinese tags went RKMT, tried to puppet me and then got completely bulldozed in a month by the Zhili blob completely denying me any hope of taking Guangzhou for a very long while.

Still, the war with Japan happened before long and yeah, it seems quite hard in this patch when playing a minor warlord like Hunan, especially without any expansion. But you still have the chinese manpower and KMT Hunan gives some decent buffs to irregulars, so I just built those with a litle bit of artillery. Not a single armor tech was researched in this playthrough.

I feel satisfied finally achieving this, but man is post unification content disappointing, generic warlords are more interesting imo as the political situation does evolve with them. LKMT Hunan however is just stack as a social democracy with no elections and maybe 1 or 2 events that don't do anything. For some reason I actually thought I would be able to change ideolgy post unification, but no, there's absolutely nothing. Tang feels like an interesting leader with some complex contradictions and I hope that he gets fleshed out some more in the future. In particular, it'd be interesting to see him cooperate even more with the Chinese Syndicalist Party should LKMT fail in the east.

Anyways, I have now unified China as Grandiose Plan Sichuan, Zhanng Zonchang's Shandong (in kaiserredux), kumul khanate (also redux) Anqing, and Sternaberg (though that was a very long time ago). Of all these LKMT Hunan has been easily the hardest playthrough. As you can see, I prefer playing as more niche factions, so I'd appreciate if you recommended me some more of those, bot in KR and KX. I'm planning to try out Yan Xishan and Zhang Tianran next, though not for a while.

I don't recall ever seeing Qing just peacefully unify most of china. In fact, almost every time everyone just gangs up on them. I think rigging multiple other country paths may be mandatory as Hunan