Applies to all "lose the 1st war" paths (except Japan).
IIRC the leak was that Schflay is not only a conservative Catholic (accurate) but somehow is as bad as Nazi Germany as though she’s executing homosexuals and communists in the streets, but has to step down because her son gets outed as gay, then that flowchart happens. I assume “finding out” is a blowout in the next election, a series of events about legalizing gay marriage and passing the Equal Rights Amendment etc.
The cause might be as innocent as the fact that making interesting "normal" content for liberalism and Europe wouldn't be all that easy. Think democratic Britain and USA in vanilla, not exactly a thrill to play, especially if WW2 wouldn't happen.
I think it's a widely known fact among the players that Russia simply can't win in any realistic scenario ingame (it's just pure math, though 1EW might be closer than one would think), so to avoid a mod where Russia loses both wars every time, they have to give it unrealistic power, be it ridiculous buffs or magical troops appearing out of thin air. Related to that is that Sweden and Finland have been banned from participating in the 1EW since a Russian AI (and most players I imagine) simply could not deal with all that additional frontline.
Again I reckon this is either out of necessity or the devs writing themselves into a corner. For whatever reason (probably for interesting gameplay), TFR has decided that the 2EW absolutely must happen, so they have to make it happen one way or another. Honestly, it would be more interesting if there were even one or two paths where the 2EW doesn't happen, I don't think it would really break anything if the conditions are right. Maybe like you said, Europe winning 1EW and Navalny coming to power might be the perfect setup for a post-1EW peace, or at least no all-out war.
Oh, it’s very explicable. TFR is written by Ztards using “umm, everyone is written sympathetically from their point of view” as a thin cover to wank off Glorious Mother Russia/Tiny Tom/Big Burt.
Didn't ADW literally dissolve because they all fucked the same tranny and got upset at eachother?
I genuinely have no idea why you would add that. The US and Britain were pretty amicable and I doubt Officer would give the order to chuck people overboard. This also pretty much fucks over any idea of a free britain ever integrating with the allies again. All the germans really need to do is just keep bringing up what the US did and there is not gonna be any popular support for a "free" britain ever.
How would you rate Mike Ma and Bob Avakian?
In the one thread I linked they even rightfully point out America saved fucking zipperheads in Nam, throwing choppers off of carriers and such to fit more people to get them out of there when the commies started to come. And those were again zipperheads. These are not only a wartime ally of the U.S who share a language, history, and culture. They don't even have to be in America. They can just shove them in Canada if they really want to. The U.S' leads reply to this was "Well uh.... America turned down Slavic and Jewish refugees in WW2!" That's not the case especially as its already TNO lore a lot of Russians fled to America and most Russian warlords aside from the fascist ones are a bit Ameriaboo in this timeline. Even so the only one I heard about is FDR's administration or maybe it was Hoover's? Turned down a boat full of kikes once in the 30s and that was it. That's way different from a wartime ally with Nazis on the war march. They also mention that America did not want to build refugee camps for them cause... reasons! Even though again Canada is right there. Its just comically evil as even the fascist Italian and the fucking Japanese respected drowning sailors and especially civilians when they could. IIRC only Nazi Germany had a problem with rescuing sailors at sea which the Italian admiral mocked Donitz for. Having America legit just chuck Britbongs into the sea is fucking ridiculous.
It's literally taking stories from Dunkirk where the British who were conducting the evacuation having preference to their own men and ramping it to 11 you'd presume if someone was on the ship regardless of their nationality they'd keep them on board. I'd buy maybe an event saying that US ships preferred to save US men first but actively chucking off British sailors is just an insane scenario.
Honestly I think this and would have been the best solution, or just have the Patriot Front and NSM both in a position in the southeast where they'll duke it out before moving on to fight someone else (probably the better solution honestly, given the Southern Army Command could serve as an endgame boss). Rogue intel state in New England with a power struggle between CIA and FBI members while trying to puppet both sides would unironically be kino, and New England would be a good place to throw some commie faction too.
I remember there was a focus description in Germany using “orcs” to describe Russians. Not even before Medvedev defeats Europe and they become NAFO, like the starting focus tree meant to describe the POV of a moderate and “sane” Germany.
While I agree that there’s a mild Z bias I think it’s pretty reasonable to think that Russia would have a head start in military power and that European NATO (except France and Turkey) would have severe military shortcomings and would have to catch up after the US goes kaput. I pretty easily defeated LDPR Russia as Commie Germany with no allies (MVP of the Revolution achievement). On the flipside, taking on Fehlinger’s EU as Medvedev was a severe pain in the ass. If any faction deserves the title of “absurdly powerful” this takes the cake.
I think that this is also due to gameplay reasons. Most NATO countries don't have focus trees and they also have that hidden debuff that makes it so that have no manpower to build divisions with (it's there to prevent lag I believe). As more EU countries get trees the 1EW will become harder for Russia and easier for the Euros
I was thinking that if Taiwan gets a tree just for the war and Australia gets a GAW tree then having a 1EW tree for Ukraine and/or Poland would be awesome.
Totally irrelevant to the thread but if you showed this paragraph to anyone Millennial or older they would have a stroke.
Damn that text box is actually empty. I thought the joke would be that the focus text is in black that's intentionally unreadable against the dark background.
