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TOJI SUZUHARA'S TNO BRAZIL AAR
A MORTE DE UM TIRANO: LOTT TO LACERDA PATH
So almost a year after my two Mexico AARs the TNO dev team has had the decency to add actual new content to the mod with The Crow and the Bull, the Brazil update for those who don't know. I apologize for the delay as there were several technical and personal complications that prevented me from even playing TNO until rather recently, but you aren't here for that and neither am I, so I'll cut to the chase after a brief series of considerations:
A MORTE DE UM TIRANO: LOTT TO LACERDA PATH
- This is the flowchart, stolen from r*ddit.
(To any and all jannies reading this, do NOT thumbnail the flowchart. Thumbnailing it renders the already very small text in it unreadable, defeating its purpose.)
Read this in detail if you wanna get any particular path or leader and remember to save often once any of the important events here pop up) - ONLY Adhemar and Lacerda have post-1965 content:
Don't be like me and PSDmaxx by gaming the economy minigame and winning all the proxies. You are only making your Lacerda/Adhemar presidency more difficult (or fucking your whole run up if you pick either Goulart or Kubitschek and forget to save once you get the pop-up, something that I almost did).
(this is a literal death sentence for Lacerda unless you do something that I'll get into later)
The meta is actively sabotaging yourself via failing to meet the economy goals set up by the game, campaigning for rival parties on the '62 and '65 elections, and picking any options that'll lower the PSD's/PTB's popularity in all events that you come across. - You can NOT win the South American Cold War:
There's a tooltip that says that you will win the war if you get double the points as your rival (i.e. Argentina) and keep that advantage for 100 days.
This is a lie caused by the TNO dev team's abject retardation.
Nothing will happen if you achieve that goal. No event of any kind will fire, you won't unlock more content like decisions, and there aren't even unused events in the files related to this. These faggots had literal years to remove one fucking paragraph that massively affects how a player behaves and they couldn't even be bothered to do that. But why can't you win if you absolutely demolish the argies? Because, as you can read in the above ss, the just don't want you to win that early, stop being good at the mod they themselves "made", chud! - Inflation is literally the Antichrist:
Always pick any and all economic decisions and events that'll cause your inflation to lower. It cripples your construction speed and factory output even if your actual economic growth outpaces it, and having it above 25% causes your credit rating growth to basically stagnate right where it is no matter what, making the run that little harder.
(this ss are from the very end of the game, but servev as a good example because inflation will be that high throughout most of your run if you do not game it)
2-4+2+1=1. A massive credit rating progress of +1 per month, literally nothing. - Use your civs to spam power plants and only power plants:You'll bottleneck yourself if you max out your consumer goods production to have a higher gdp growth, so spam them like there's no tomorrow and assign around a third of your total pu's to civs so you can build them since day one.
A booming economy means that the amount of production units you have will basically double every 3 years if you are playing well, that'd be good if your power grid roughly at game start didn't look like this
We'll cover some of the background about the corrupt banana republic presidents and political parties who can lead the country first as well as a short history lesson and then we'll talk about the economy. There are 3-4 main parties: The PSD, the PTB, the UDN, and the PSP.
The PSD is our ruling party at game start, the party is corporatist, populist, and conservative, and was founded by Getúlio Vargas in 1945, just like in OTL. Vargas supported the Allies in the TNOTL by declaring war on the Axis, losing WW2 alongside with the rest of them. He would also get couped by the military in this timeline, but on 1950 instead of 1945. He was forced to dismantle the Estado Novo, call for free elections, and ended up exiled in the countryside, never having commited suicide in 1954 unlike in OTL and playing an active role in politics through the PSD.
The 1950 elections were won by the second-most important party, the UDN, a pro-american, pro-OFN, liberal party deadset on eliminating all of Vargas' remaining influence over the Brazilian state, economy, and society, with Eduardo Gomes as the new president. Calling it a disaster would be putting it mildly, as Gomes almost destroyed the party in 1953 due to a botched labor reform, also losing the UDN the 1955 presidential elections. These would be won by the PSD, bringing it back to power and now with Juscelino Kubitschek at the helm, basically acting as Vargas Light, getting into conflicts and skirmishes aganist the African RKs over fishing rights, antagonizing Germany as a result. Having had a decent run at it, he managed to secure the 1960 elections for the UDN and our current president: Enrique Teixeira Lott.
Lott is an army ex-general who narrowly won the presidency, having had to compromise with the pro-UDN politician Jánio Quadros, making him his VP, as well as entering into a coalition with the PTB. In the meantime, a guy called Adhemar de Barros (aka The Bull), Governor of São Paulo and incredibly corrupt man, would found another political party, the PSP, and the UDN would start to regain strength thanks to Carlos Lacerda (aka The Crow). Every single one of these guys, as well as Kubitschek and Lott's original running mate, João Goulart, want to become president in 1965, so it's safe to say that Lott and the PSD don't have it easy.
On top of this, the Argentinians also want a piece of the pie, and are currently in a standoff with Brazil called the South American Cold War.
The Argentinians are more or less aligned with the Pakt, and we are more or less aligned with the US. Their goal is to put as many South American countries as they can inside their sphere, and we want to do the same but for ours. Simple as that, and this'll be the of most of the proxy conflicts that we'll go throught. We are currently on the backfoot as Paraguay is in the argie sphere and is expanding into Bolivia. On our side we have Chile as a counterbalance.
An on top on top of this, the military is also quite disloyal, just looking for the opportunity to coup us and put one of their guys in charge. We'll have to juggle with that during Lott's presidency, raising their loyalty, lowering their nepotism, and putting #our guys (the Constitutionalists) in charge of it.
It's not all bad, however: The economy is getting better, the capital was successfully moved to Brasilia, and we managed to survive a couple of crises.
Oh, and speaking of the economy, it's basically Mexico's economy minigame but simplified. We still have the GDP targets to increase our popularity in the elections, our decisions that'll make that easier, and metrics that'll give us bonuses the higher they are. Just click a state, pick a decision, and make the economy grow faster. Thankfully, it's not as stupidly overengineered as it was in Mexico's case, which is good.
However, we also have a thing called special projects. This is basically Bormann's Breitspurbahn but with a new coat of paint, the GFX is literally the same in this one example: The Rodovia Transamazônica, the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a massive network of roads whose goal is to traverse the Amazon and connect Brazil's interior with the rest of the country, making development of the area and trade with the other amazonian countries easier.
The way it makes progress is by assigning production units. More units=more progress, simple as that.
This is the rest of Lott's tree. We can either increse his influence or Quadros' by picking the Neves or Quadros plan respectively. We also want to make the German RKs stop raiding our coasts and implement land reform, and to do land reform we have to pass a bill through the senate.
The way the senate works is that it's just a pp sink. We click on a decision, gain a more or less senators depending on if they are part of our party or one sympathetic to ours, and if we pass the threshold the law passes.
Senate elections will happen on '62, '65, and '68. We pick a party, play the minigame, click buttons to make our candidates win the seat of any given state. Rinse and repeat.
Now, onto more interesting things. The proxy conflicts: As was said before, us and Argentina are in a sort of Cold War, and the rest of the South American nations are our battlefield. The first one in the chopping block is Bolivia, who's in a death spiral after losing to Paraguay in the Chaco War a few years earlier. Basically us, Argentina, and Chile want to divide Bolivia into zones of influence as if this were Qing China.
The minigame itself is basically another pp sink. We spend pp to gain favors, while keepíng tension low so that the Bolivians don't get fed up with us and make us lose it all
. There are 5 rounds and we need to win 3 or more to make Bolivia jump to our side, each round giving us a small and different bonus after the negotiations end. Round 3 is the only one that actually matters as it'll give us resource rights over all of Bolivia, mainly their tungsten of which we possess literally none at all.
We won, but of course it's not that easy. The Chileans betray us, and it isn't as if the average Bolivian is all that eager to become Brazil's bitch, so we back General Ovando after he coups the goverment and a small-scale civil war called Las Guerras Mineras starts.
There are 5 important social groups, and we need the goverment to be backed by at least 3 of them to win. To do that we click on decisions that spend pp and make the goverment more influential in the selected faction, at the same time antagonizing another one. The key to winning is simply completely abandoning the other two groups who we don't want to convince, as maxing out their anger has no consequences while we still benefit from influence gain of the decision we picked.
Just like that, Ovando crushes the rebels.
Now onto the third proxy, the SAW. For this one we get a short tree that we have to complete before being able to send volunteers, but we still have a couple of decisions that allow us to help SA in an indirect way, like selling them weapons and sabotaging the Schild's production capabilities. I ecommend expanding your helicopter divisions and sending as volunteers to make the war easier.
However, something even more important than SA is happening, and that's the fact that President Lott has decided to establish Brazil's nuclear program.
It's just a money sink. More money=more progress, literally not even a minigame.
In the meantime, Quadros will try to coup us if our relationship with him isn't high enough, in the case that Lott has enough influence he stays and gets a new tree, if Quadros wins he becomes the president and opens up the flowchart.
Lott's new tree is basically about elminating the military's influence over politics once and for all, and he'll do this by introducing the Lott Act.
While this happens the Paraguay proxy (aka the Paraguayan Bush War will also occur. Basically after the GCW the Paraguayan goverment is experiencing an economic collapse, which allows insurgent groups backed by the Brazilian goverment as well as communist militias led by Che Guevara to enter the country in an attempt to overthrow the goverment.
The minigame itself is just the Haiti proxy. You are in a race aganist the clock, as the paraguayan goverment is preparing a masive offensive to defeat FULNA, and you have to take decisions to increase FULNA's control of either 4 states or the capital Asunción before they are able to. It's also important to be wary of FULNA alignment, to win it'll have to be in Liberal, but almost all decisions increase their alignment towards the nationalist side, which is bad for us. They'll naturally drift towards liberal, so to win we mst not go overboard with the decisions and time them correctly.
If we did everything well, FULNA will coup the fascists, begin a power struggle, and install a new democratic goverment after the dust settles.
The fall of Paraguay's fascist regime also causes Santa Cruz's to collapse, as they were their only backer. The regime that replaces them is best described as the South American Democratic Kampuchea, with mass killings and executions worthy of the Great Purge.
As a reaction to this Bolivia will mobilize and quickly declare war on Santa Cruz, easily defeating and annexing them.
After winning the SAW, you'll get a massive boost to your popularity and a large stab and war support increase, as well as lots of pp and SA's support for your nuclear progam, which makes it progress faster.
While all of this happens, Denys will try to coup Lott. Lott can either succeed and twarth the coup attempt.
(this one single focus is probably what will make or break a Lott run, so never pick Kruel)
Or Denys can gather enough support, convince Kruel to betray you, and become president until the next elections}
He has a small focus tree that lets you pick whether you want to go with Barros or with Lacerda.
Now after surviving the coup, the Lott Act passes and he gets a hat.
We'll pick Lacerda of the UDN for our '65 candidate, and after winning the election, Lott will retire and return to being a general.
Lacerda wins and the UDN is now back in power. Lacerda is an extremely obsessive and radical man, who hates everything Varguist and wants to rebuild the Brazilian administration and economy from the ground up, eliminating Vargas' corporations and giving way fir the free market, he's also a fanatical defender of the OFN, aligning with the Americans almost always.
This is his focus tree. It has its social branch on the right, military on the center, and economic on the left, as well as foreign police on the top right. Keep in mind that you don't have enough time to finish it all, so pick wisely.
His party also has a loyalty mechanic, which is a pp sink with political compass characteristics.
The most important part of the loyalty mechanic is that you get some very strong national spirits if you max you position in the axis. If you go full cooperative you get one that makes PSD senators like you more, and it's your only hope in cases like mine.
Sadly for Lacerda, Rio suffers severe flooding literally a day after he assumes power.
To rebuild it he'll start another massive project, there are also projects for a nuclear power plant and nother for a bridge connecting Rio with Niteroi, another large neighboring city.
Here are the completion events for all of them.
There's also a proxy in Colombia. It's boring because you simply send a volunteer or two and capitulate the other countries, so I'll just post the victory screen. Lacerda supports the commie Colombians.
As you can see on the previous screenshot, we can support the Free French on the West African War as well, but the proxy is just your average proxy with nothing unique to it, so I'll post the victory even again.
They'll also help us with our nukes, giving us a total of two backers.
This should alllow you to get nukes not that long after.
Pretty.
Following Lacerda assuming power, a referendum on the status of Brazil's Guyana-Cayenne military administration (basically French Guyana, but now under Brazilian rule after the fall of France) will be held. We want to annex it, and to do that we need to keep public anger low and legitimacy high, and of course have more votes in favor of annexation than for independence. All of that is basically just other terms for the word pp sink.
Just like that, we win and eventually annex it.
Right before the '68 elections, Vargas Sr. will die, with his son making a short speech.
Adhemar will also die during Lacerda's presidency.
After the '68 elections, Lacerda gets a new tree that replaces the old one, meant to deal with the Varguist labor laws.
He has this mingame, which is just the Guandong Riots but lame.
The way you win is by pixcking all decisions that lower the CGTs strength no matter what, you should be done in a couple months
In case he wins, he'll get this tree, it is focused on cementing his rule and reforms, bullying Argentina, and helping his successor, Raphael Magalhães, win the elections.
In case he does not, Távora will oust him and his vice president, he has this focus tree.
Now here are the events for a Magalhães in 1970.
In conclusion, it's better than Mexico, because nothing can be worse than Mexico, but it's at the same time bloated and empty. Lots of events and proxies and minigames with nothing to say, or show, or to be experienced while playing them. Nothing is original here, all of it are minigames that already existed but with a new coat of paint at best, and seeing that they delayed this update for years, the TrooNO dev team should be ashamed of themselves.
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