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i'm just running a basic hands-off game to get a feel for the new patch.

Very Hard/Normal; i'm "observing" the world from El Salvador.

no storytelling -- i'll just be reporting the in-game happenings as they occur, in 6-month chunks.
 
JANUARY 1936 - JUNE 1936

not much happens in the first six months, as expected.

Germany re-occupies the Rhineland on 8 March.

Nationalist China allies with the Commies on 7 April -- a bit unfortunately perhaps, because they had already taken one Communist China province and were about to grab the other...

Italy annexes Ethiopia on 26 April.

elections: Chile (Left, 13 March), Philippines (Right, 7 June), Mexico (Left, 19 June)

WORLD MAP -- 1 JULY 1936
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detail of Europe and Africa
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JULY 1936 - DECEMBER 1936

nothing to report for these six months other than elections...

France (Left, 13 July), Belgium (Right, 11 August), Romania (Right, 20 August), Panama (Left, 21 August), Czechoslovakia (Left, 1 September), Netherlands (Left, 28 September), Poland (Right, 1 October), Canada (Left, 3 November), USA (FDR, 4 November), Norway (Left, 13 November), Denmark (Left, 16 November), Liberia (Right, 20 November), Sweden (Left, 6 December), Spain (Right, 25 December (Christmas elections?)).

no new map because there hasn't been any border changes.
 
JANUARY 1937 - JUNE 1937

starts to get a little more interesting...

Communist China refuses to give into the territorial demands of Nationalist China on 7 January.

Stalin begins the Great Officer Purge on 2 March.

Japan declares war on Communist China on 23 March. three days later, finally realizing they have no border with the Commies, Japan declares war on Nationalist China, too. ;)

The Soviet Officer Purge strikes back on 2 June.

elections: Japan (Right, 18 March), Luxembourg (Right, 3 May), UK (Conservative Party, 21 May).

WORLD MAP -- 1 JULY 1937
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war in China
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doesn't look like Japan's getting off to a good start there... ;)
 
JULY 1937 - DECEMBER 1937

return of the Soviet Officer Purge on 2 August... and again on 2 November.

elections: Finland (Left, 14 July), Ecuador (current government, 7 October).

other than the stalled war in China, not much is happening...

WORLD MAP -- 1 JANUARY 1938
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war in China
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JANUARY 1938 - JUNE 1938

Poland joins the Allies on 22 February. (this was a regular joining alliance thing, not the British Guarantee event.)

on 21 March, Germany presses for unification and Austria complies. however, four days later, Czechoslovakia refuses to cede Sudetenland to the Germans.

one election: Venezuela (Left, 23 April).

WORLD MAP -- 1 JULY 1938
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war in China
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still looks stalled...

German Reich
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JULY 1938 - DECEMBER 1938

things are picking up, i think...

the Nanking Massacre occurs on 7 August.

the Treaty of Munich is signed 30 September, ceding Sudetenland to Germany after all...

on 15 December, El Salvador chooses to not outlaw Fascist parties. ;) (i just chose the "A" option...)

elections: South Africa (Left, 6 July), Turkey (Right, 13 July), New Zealand (Left, 22 August), Ireland (Left, 24 October), Siam (Right, 14 November), Colombia (Left, 18 December).

WORLD MAP -- 1 JANUARY 1939
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German Reich
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war in China
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looking a little better for the Japanese. for a while there, they had a beachhead at Xiamen too, but the Chinese drove them back into the sea.
 
that's my guess.

i'm no expert at reading event files, but it looks like Spain needs a dissent greater than 20 in order to fire the Civil War event.

maybe electing Right gave them enough of a drop in dissent that they're out of the danger zone.
 
Question: how could the right elections that Rep. Spain had on Christmas 1936 prevented the Spanish Civil War? IIRC, the events for the war are coded for July 18 (w/July 19th the Nat. Spain - Fascist Gov't. and intervention events), and the AI has a notorious problem dealing with dissent.

The only way for the civil war not to have happened, therefore, is for dissent to have been lowered (by the AI!) to the level below the trigger condition in the civil war event (20), or if they were at war, or if they got couped and became fascist anyway.
 
Originally posted by Thufir Hawat
Question: how could the right elections that Rep. Spain had on Christmas 1936 prevented the Spanish Civil War? IIRC, the events for the war are coded for July 18 (w/July 19th the Nat. Spain - Fascist Gov't. and intervention events), and the AI has a notorious problem dealing with dissent.

The only way for the civil war not to have happened, therefore, is for dissent to have been lowered (by the AI!) to the level below the trigger condition in the civil war event (20), or if they were at war, or if they got couped and became fascist anyway.
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Didn't they say that they have tweaked the AI dissent handling?
Intresting developments. I'm not playing 1.05 because I'm finishing a current game with Germany, after that....who knows? :cool:
 
I started a handsoff game also. It's crazy. The germans got in a war with the soviets in 38(italy and nationalist spain were fighting the soviets when italy joined the axis, spain is still nuetral though) Soon after hungary, romania, czhechslovakia( they chose to join axis instead of giving up sudentland) , bulgaria. The soviets annexed all of the minor axis powers. then the soviets shot straight through chzechslovakia into germany. The advanced as far as the gates of berlin. their offensive then stalled due to the winter. the germans then drove the soviets back into czhecslovakia. This is as far as i have gotten. Meanwhile the brits do not guarantee the independence of poland so it could be interesting how the danzig event turns out as well.
 
No, It's probably this "better dissent handling" - if AI is SO good in that, than all events based on dissent heve to be revisited - strange that in was not noticed on the tests...

BTW, it will totally screw German development - they won't get their initial doctrines, and later in Munich they won't recieve those either, thanks to not having prerequsites (from the Spanish War). :(
 
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