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Since this is both the HOI4 thread and I was talking about After the End for CK2-3 a couple weeks ago, it seems like the right place to mention that Kaiser Cat Cinema is branching out to do their own 'medieval America' setting with greater input from their community (albeit it's actually set in the medieval period, not a post-apocalyptic setting that regressed to medieval tech & socio-politics like ATE). As far as I can tell, their Kaiserreich-based 2ACW series is not only no longer tied to the KR setting but also functionally dead atm, having gone at least a year without updates since they ditched the direct KR connection, and this new project will probably further take priority for the foreseeable future.
 
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Chuckwagon said:
Since this is both the HOI4 thread and I was talking about After the End for CK2-3 a couple weeks ago, it seems like the right place to mention that Kaiser Cat Cinema is branching out to do their own 'medieval America' setting with greater input from their community (albeit it's actually set in the medieval period, not a post-apocalyptic setting that regressed to medieval tech & socio-politics like ATE). As far as I can tell, their Kaiserreich-based 2ACW series is not only no longer tied to the KR setting but also functionally dead atm, having gone at least a year without updates since they ditched the direct KR connection, and this new project will probably further take priority for the foreseeable future.
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Considering how shit the 2ACW series looked before you even get into the politics, I'll chalk this up to blessing in disguise. The Medieval America thing is beat for beat American history but if it had knights, nothing unique or exciting about it for me. Redcoats again, Statue of Liberty somehow, Indian wank, etc. Too bad Pathfinder already did something like that, and it sucked ass. Let's see how the "Chairman" of the studio is doing:

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Fuck's sake.
 
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RA-5C Vigilante said:
Considering how shit the 2ACW series looked before you even get into the politics, I'll chalk this up to blessing in disguise. The Medieval America thing is beat for beat American history but if it had knights, nothing unique or exciting about it for me. Redcoats again, Statue of Liberty somehow, Indian wank, etc. Too bad Pathfinder already did something like that, and it sucked ass. Let's see how the "Chairman" of the studio is doing:

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Fuck's sake.
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Honestly, what little has been said of the world outside America sounds more interesting to me than what they've said about the alt-USA itself, England winning the HYW and building a reverse-North Sea Empire (which goes way beyond the wildest fantasies of the real-life Henry V) is a more creative & actually different-from-IRL thing to do than - as you say - what basically sounds like a copypaste of real American history but with a lower tech level.
 
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Chuckwagon said:
Since this is both the HOI4 thread and I was talking about After the End for CK2-3 a couple weeks ago, it seems like the right place to mention that Kaiser Cat Cinema is branching out to do their own 'medieval America' setting with greater input from their community (albeit it's actually set in the medieval period, not a post-apocalyptic setting that regressed to medieval tech & socio-politics like ATE). As far as I can tell, their Kaiserreich-based 2ACW series is not only no longer tied to the KR setting but also functionally dead atm, having gone at least a year without updates since they ditched the direct KR connection, and this new project will probably further take priority for the foreseeable future.
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>using the stars and stripes instead of the Washington coat of arms
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One of the leaked TNO versions @Happy Camper posted here has focus trees for Iberian splinters. To my understanding these haven't been released so I'm going to tweak them and throw them in.
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(Some light testing.)
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And here's the super event:
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Unironically looks more fun than 2WRW
You should make post-reunification Soviet Russia just the RSFSR (because territorially that's what it is), and make post-Vengeance War Russia the full-on Soviet Union
 
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Back from a 5 day ban after making janny seethe because of me extolling how great India is, bloody bich behenchodi.
Anyways, I've been eyeing up Red World as of late, the fanfork is dead but some guy forked the fanfork (lol) and has made sure it's up to date. RW trees seem to vary in quality a lot, France has a huge focus tree for example but the Soviet Union has one that's slightly or moderately smaller. The original fanfork devs were working on a USSR update but the laptop with the dev build got stolen. I'm going to try making a focus tree for Germany with 10-12 years of content first, with two main paths, one for communism and another for fascism/right wing extremism.

Each path will have three subpaths, commies get wholesome chungus 100 demsocs that are still a dictatorship, the next one will be Revolutionary socialists/standard communists who tow the line with Moscow. Both of them get to federalize the EUSR (European Union of Socialist Republics, RW's version of the EU) if the USSR collapses, abandons communism, or chooses Putin and goes full totalitarian. Third path will be NazBols who have to placate Mosow to not get couped and fucked in the ass before declaring TRD and trying to conquer all of Europe.

Far right will be nationalists (Basically AfD-dominant democracy), fascists/NatSocs, and maybe a Kaiser path, but I absolutely despise Kaiserboos so I'll make it a bait-n-switch that locks you into the AfD path. You'll have to hold out against the USSR and Commie Europe for maybe 150-200 days. After that, depending on if you hold Prague, the Lowlands, Breslau, and Alsace you get more land in the final peace deal. Nationalists will get a chance to liberate the land they conquered, except Western Poland and Alsace, fascists will annex it all outright. Conversely, if you lose Austria, it will get puppeted. The Nationalists will get defensive bonuses whilst the NatSocs will get offensive ones. After the peace, you get a chance to ally Turkey, Spain, and Britain depending on their political alignments and from there have one big climatic war in Europe against the Russians. I could move the Nazbol path here to act as a third path and make it so the third path for the commies is going Trotskyist and trying to overthrow Moscow.

After that, I could try updating the Soviets, giving more content to post collapse nations and brushing up the communist content. I haven't tried doing extensive focus tree or focus icon modding before, but I can learn as I go.
 
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Rapesputin said:
You should make post-reunification Soviet Russia just the RSFSR (because territorially that's what it is), and make post-Vengeance War Russia the full-on Soviet Union
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That's a good idea and you are correct. The weird thing is though that Kazakhstan can be invaded at the superregional stage if its unified at that point. So I guess sometimes it would be a union of the RSFSR and the KSSR. That's a bit funny to think about.

Anyway if I can find the time, I'll go and swap the localisation around, and maybe make some new flags though I'm really no good at that.
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After that, I could try updating the Soviets, giving more content to post collapse nations and brushing up the communist content. I haven't tried doing extensive focus tree or focus icon modding before, but I can learn as I go.
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Don't worry about focus tree modding it's probably the most basic and easy to learn part of hoi4 script. The worst part is probably just going through and writing all the focus descriptions, and I don't even do write anything fancy for those.
 
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Man we were so close to the TFR Timeline for real right guys?
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Sometimes hoi4 mods makes me feel like we could have lived in a much better timeline. Instead of our world we could of had TfR. Lived and died with purpose in the second American civil war hellscape. Be a hero or be a rambunctious rascal and nair do well. It could have been hard and devastating but a meaningful life for all. But instead we are living in the mostly nothing happens bland The Turbulent Waters: a millennial dawn continuation mod.
 
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