r/Kaiserreich

Decided to try every Italian nation to see if the Italian Republic was an outlier in how toxic it is, but this one just confuses me.

I thought you were meant to focus on the navy so I went full naval invasion focus, but the SRI navy was able to instantly delete mine. Am I just that bad at navy, are you meant to paradrop them, or are you meant to get war score due to fighting on the ground?

I have recently tried a fairly unusual strat as several chinese warlords (the weaker the better) that i call the 0 civ strategy

Basically, your civilian industry is so trash you might as well not have one, except to connect or upgrade railways when absolutely vital (or maybe i am doing something wrong)

So my strategy is to basically try to always be at 0 civs because my civs are used nonstop to buy equipment on the market. This allows me to get quite significant amounts of gear, which i would have never produced myself, allowing much larger and/or higher quality armies to beat the japanese

Is this something someone has ever tried? I rarely see discussions around the arms market, so it left me wondering

So I’m currently in December 1939 fighting Japan and Fengtian as the Kuomintang with the united front. They’ve made no ground, have lost 10x more soldiers and are basically just throwing bodies at me to no avail, but there’s absolutely zero chance I can make any breakthrough either it’s just a complete stalemate instead I’m letting them take the losses not me. What do I do now? Just stick it out? I know they’ll go to war with Germany eventually but I’m not really sure that does much to help me I don’t really know where to go now. I am building towards some tank divisions right now to maybe help with breakthrough at a later date but apart from that I’m clueless. Any advice appreciated.

What are some good NatPop paths

it acts as an extension of bukhara which means that it loses cores on kazakhstan even if it was made by combining those two, and it can only get them back at really high compliance

please just give it cores on kazakhstan if it was created in that way

This will be more of a ramble with all the randoms thoughts i have on the country ever since the revamp than a properly structured post and also some annoying bugs i found (am too lazy to do a proper bug report).

For starters there's a lot of people that die well during the game's timeframe whose deaths just don't get adressed namely John Buchan who's one of the two choices for governor-general (died in 1940) and James Robert Manion the starting leader of the conservative party (died in 1943) speaking of Manion right now you can't get him this is more of a bug than anything else but John Bracken is made the hog instead of Manion after the conservatives win so you can't do the "wholsom" path with Quebec and back to Buchan and the governor-general content if the restored UK selects to let Canada choose the position your leader doesn't actually change and you are stuck with Buchan or Makins for the rest of the game.

There's another more important thing that's been bugging me tho. I feel like the unionist path should have far more important consequences on post-war politics than it currently does (yes i know it allows Canada to go independent but so does Edward having a low popularity) to recap in that path the conservatives get taken over by the hardline branch of their party and they either lose control and have the government fully become a puppet of the british exiles or secure their government reuniting the conservative party but also joining with the liberal unionists and that should be a way bigger deal, i know party popularity and slots are abstractions and shit but the few events and the party description seem to suggest that the liberal unionists become the main liberal group while Mackenzie King and more progressive liberals are marginalized, post-war politics should be a mess i'd argue the conservatives should be pushed further right instead of the hardliners just randomly giving control back to the moderates of the party and the liberals should be either pushed left or discredited for participating in the unionist government also aside from a small event that im pretty sure is the same without distingushing between exile parliament and unionist gov the game doesn't really acknowledge the whole unionist government like the party descriptions go back to being the same and the only possible impact is completely optional.

Also i think prince Albert's portrait is weirdly bad like he just looks really small (idk how to finish this post).

Regionalists:

Lu Yuguang: Died in 1951. The height of his power would be under his father, Lu Rongting who had been grooming his adopted son to one day take over the Guangxi clique. However, these plans would be foiled by defeat in the Guangdong-Guangxi War where he was defeated by Sun Yat-Sen. Li Zongren would later appoint Yuguang into a minor officer role in Guangxi where he reportedly led a life of idleness and boredom. He died peacefully in his home town of Wuming.

Ma Ji: Died in 1927. He was a commander for the Wuwei army under Lu Rongting. However, this army would face a massive defeat when Ji tried to reinforce the defense of Guilin to help Lu Rongting against an attack from Shen Hongying. Later he would retreat to Wuhan to assist with its defense but then he would leave it to work under Zhang Zongchang in Anhui. He would die from assassination in Jinan.

Shen Hongying: Died in 1935. After losing control of Guangxi province due to attacks from the New Guangxi clique he and his family woul flee to Hong Kong where he permantely retired from military affairs. During his retirement, he would go on to build a giant estate with farmland and a mansion. Apparently when he arrived to Hong Kong, he would meet Li Fulin (李福林) who got him in contact with a Feng Shui master to help direct the building of his estate.

Zhu Jiahua: Died on 3 January 1963. For about a year he would serve as Secretary-General of the Kuomintang and would head many departments of the KMT where he would run into conflict with the CC clique and Whampoa clique which would force him out of office by the end of ww2. Between the end of ww2 and retreat of the KMT, he would help as minister of education where he sought to rebuild educations after the war. After the retreat of the KMT, his health would soon deteriorate.

Li Yaohan: Died in 1942. The peak of his career would be in 1917 when he became governor of Guangdong province. This would prove short lived as he soon lost power in 1918 from fighting the various cliques in the south. After this defeat, he seemingly retired from warlord politics where he retired to Hong Kong. However, his time as a warlord and governor of Guangdong allowed him to get rich where he would use this to build a residence in his hometown.

Chen Lianbo: Died in December 24 1944. He was the leader of the Canton Merchants' Corps's uprising against the KMT which would be cruhed soon after. To flee arrest by the KMT's NRA, Lianbo would flee into Hong Kong (wow where have I heard of that). During this time in Hong Kong he would hold various positions in Tabacco companies, and hospitals. When Japan occupited Hong Kong, he argued and succed in creation of a Chinese collaborator council. He died from a US bombing raid.

Liu Zhenuan: Died in 1972. After being defeated by Chiang Kai Shek, he would flee into Hong Kong to escape capture and likely death. However, this retreat to Hong Kong would not be permanet as Long Yun would request he join his local government to help run Yunnan. During ww2 he would help use various forms of media to support the war effort against Japan. He had a fairly decent connection with communists as he worked with the CCP and USSR to aid the war effort. After ww2 he fled to Hong Kong again where he would stay in isolation until his death.

Federalists:

Chen Jiongming: Died September 22 1933. After the Canton merchant uprising mentioned in Chen Lianbo's description, Jiongming would attempt armed opposition to the KMT but was defeated by Chiang Kai Shek's soviet trained army. After this defeat he would flee to Shanghai where he would continue to advocate for a federalist china despite federalism having been defeated by now. He later became the first chairman for the China Zhi Gong Party, a minor democratic party in the PRC today. He died of typhoid fever.

Chen Qiyou: Died on December 10 1970. Qiyou was the personal secretary to Chen Jiongming during Sun Yat-Sen's Constitutional Protection Junta. Later in 1931 he would join the China Zhi Gong Party at their second congress. He was a vital member to get his party to support the CCP with his attendance at the first Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. His work in the PRC would involve various diplomatic committees.

Zhang Junmai: Died on February 23 1969. In 1933 he helped organize the China Democratic League which consisted of various minor parties in China besides the KMT and CCP to provide a third force. Junmai would join the Low-Key club which wanted peace and a ceasefire between China and Japan. He was arrested after a protest of an air lift of dogs with the offical reason being he was sympathetic to the Nazis. He would maintain a vague relationship to the Democratic Socialist Party but mostly lived in San Francisco.

Ye Ju; Died in 1934. Closely worked with Chen Jiongming an attempted to remove Sun Yat Sen from power when he and his troops attacked the Presidental palace in Guangzhou. This attack failed and led to the later collapse of the federalist movement. He would later work with the Zhili for some time but would eventually retire to Hong Kong of course. He seems to have enjoyed a decent life in Hong Kong where he kept good connections with Chen Jiongming.

Li Jishen: Died on October 9 1959. Before the end of ww2 he had a on and off working relationship with Chiang Kai Shek but afterwards he would be expelled from the KMT for calling for the CCP and KMT to work together. This would lead him to founding the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang, a non-oppositional party in the PRC. He would head a decent amount of important positions in the PRC and even helped draft the first constitution. He would die from stomach cancer and a cerebral thrombosis.

Kuomintang:

Chen Jitang: Died on November 3 1954. He was one of the major commanders for the encirclement campaign against the CCP but let the CCP escape through his controlled areas to prevent Chiang Kai Shek from seizing the land from him. After Hu Hanmin's death, Chen would face a weakened position and Chiang Kai Shek would try to remove him from power. The resolution to their conflict laid the groundwork for the Xi'an Incident. He later headed the agriculture and forestry ministry during ww2 and became a presidental advisor to Chiang when they retreated to Taiwan.

Chen Mingshu: Died on May 15 1956. A fellow leader of the Fujian Rebellion alongside Li Jishen, he would also rejoin the KMT after the rebellion's defeat. His role as a general was also seen in his service in the northern expedition and the defense of Shanghai. He also served as a representative of the KMT to Jawaharlal Nehru. He later joined the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang but he would later be called a rightist during the anti-rightist campaign.

Tan Pingshan: Died on April 2 1956. He was an extremely early member of the CCP but was expelled after the failure of the Nanchang Rebellion. He tried to make a splinter group of Marxism with Deng Yanda but this went literally nowhere. During ww2 he helped the KMT by joining the National Political Council. After he helped form the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, he would stand in the State Council's Supervision Commission and other staff positions.

Peng Pai: Died on August 30 1929. Was a leading figure in the CCP in its early years. He would be later praised by Mao for being one of the first intellectuals to view the issues of the pesantry as the main issues facing China. During the first united front he worked with the KMT to send idealists into the countryside to help education the pesants. He led the Hailufeng Soviet after the KMT purged leftists. Pai would die from betrayal when his personal secretary which would lead to his kidnapping and death.

Hu Hanmin: Died on May 12 1936. He was a bitter rival with Chiang Kai Shek with Hu leading the south of China where he sought to create a rival government free of corruption (didn't work). He harshly critized Chiang Kai Shek for his lack of action against Japan when he stated, "his spineless failure to adopt a strong policy towards the foreign power which has torn and ravaged our homeland!". He later died of a cerebral haemorrhage which led to the Liangguang Incident.

Ju Zheng: Died on November 23 1951. He spent most of his political life as head of the Judicial Yuan. He opposed cooperation with the CCP which led to him founding the Western Hills clique of the KMT. He ran against Chiang Kai Shek in the presidental vote inside the National assembly where he only won 10% of the vote and Chiang was reelected. Afterwards, he was assigned to the Control Yuan and cofounded the Tamkang College of English.

Sun Fo: Died on September 13 1973. For a single month he found himself the Executive Yuan but found his government basically spineless without the backing of Hu Hanmin (arrested at the time), Chiang Kai Shek (Hated him), and Wang Jingwei. Despite being an outspoken liberal against Chiang, he could not be purged for he was the son of Sun Yat Sen. He would stay out of Chinese affairs for a bit after the civil war but returned as an advisor to Chiang.

Lin Sen: Died on August 1 1943. After Chiang's purge of the communists, Lin would partake in the calls for Chiang's resignation after Hu Hanmin's arrest. While he did hold onto the role of president of the ROC, this was mostly a powerless and ceremonial position with real power laying with Chiang. However, he was respected by the population for being above politics and corruption. Something he did actually do was combat concubinage which became a felony (IDK if the woman or man was punished).

Li Zongren: Died on January 30 1969. Li became acting president after a string of defeats to the CCP forced Chiang to resign from the presidency. He led very brief but fruitless negotiations with the CCP by offering some concessions. When Guangdong fell to the communists, he fled to NYC to treat his duodenum illness and met with Truman to gather support against Chiang. With the support of Zhou Enlai, he would actually make a return to the communist controlled mainland and encouraged other old KMT members to return with him.