Edge of Darkness [new version]

[makiferol]

From what I recall, depending on the difficulty you might not get Bitter Peace. I recall that on hard, and perhaps normal, if you chose the options for harder Barbarossa, the Bitter Peace might be disabled or far harder to fire. The last time I played the mod with Germany, I was pushing well beyond the Urals by the time it fired on normal. I can't recall if it was late 42 or early 43.

I played on Normal and had it fired by December 1942. I had to capture Sverdslok to trigger it.

Now it is May 1943. Spain joined the Axis and I began capturing the North Africa from Morocco and I am pushing the Allies out of Iran and Iraq. In the meantime, I started implementing Generalplan Ost in Poland. Despite all the oil sources I captured, I stil have less than 1k oil. My goal is to clean the Mediterranean in 1943 and invade Britain in 1944 with the navy which is under construction at the moment.

 

[Altruist]

[edit: Oh, you figured it out, our posts were almost at the same time... I'll leave the following info nevertheless, might be helpful for other players]

Hi guys, A quick question. It is October 1942 and I hold Moscow, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Archangelsk, Baku and Astrakhan. Stalin died in Moscow. I could not yet get Soviets surrender. Do I need to push for Sverdslovsk to get Bitter Peace ?

When reading this, instantly "Vladivostok" came to my mind... weird enough to make me curious and easy enough to use as a search pattern (actionally I looked up the region ID for Vladivostok = 1191 as a search expression to avoid a failure due to different ways to write the name):

Conditions for Bitter Peace event in EoD 2.2.22 (didn't look up wether there were significant changes for EoD 2.5):

from ..\Darkest Hour\Mods\EoD 2.2.22\db\events\USSR.txt

#########################################################################
#  Sue for peace with the Germans
#########################################################################
event = {
    id = 2007032
    random = no
    country = SOV

    trigger = {
        war = { country = GER country = SOV }
        NOT = { ispuppet = GER }
        random = 35
        OR = {
            AND = {
                control = { province = 55 data = -2 } # Paris is controlled by an enemy
                lost_national = { country = SOV value = 35 }
                NOT = { land_percentage = { country = GER value = 0.3 } } #SOV has not enough troops
                NOT = { lost_national = { country = GER value = 7 } } #Germany is not losing national provinces
                NOT = { war = { country = GER country = ENG } } #Germany is concentrated on the Soviet front
                NOT = {    war = { country = GER country = FRA } }
                NOT = { war = { country = GER country = USA } }
                NOT = { war = { country = GER country = ITA } }
            }

            AND = {
                NOT = { control = { province = 663 data = SOV } } # Stalingrad
                NOT = { control = { province = 572 data = SOV } } # Moscow
                NOT = { control = { province = 713 data = SOV } } # Baku
                    OR = {
                        NOT = { control = { province = 553 data = SOV } } # Leningrad
                        NOT = { control = { province = 1151 data = SOV } } # Sverdlovsk
                    }
                NOT = { lost_national = { country = GER value = 7 } } #Germany is not losing national provinces
                OR = { #one of the following must be true
                    local_flag = SOVMoscow  #Stalin remained in Moscow and was captured
                    NOT = { control = { province = 1151 data = SOV } } # Sverdlovsk
                    NOT = { control = { province = 1191 data = SOV } } # Vladivostok
                    AND = {
                        nuked = -1  #was nuked at least once
                        NOT = { nuked = 1 } #SOV never launched nukes
                    }
                }
            }
            AND = {
                NOT = { nuked = 1 } #SOV never launched nukes
                lost_national = { country = SOV value = 15 } #SOV is losing ground
                nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 572 } # Moscow nuked
                OR = {
                    nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 8 }#SOV nuked 8 times by GER
                    AND = {
                        nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 553 } # Leningrad nuked
                        nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 663 } # Stalingrad nuked
                        nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 713 } # Baku nuked
                    }
                }
            }                
        }
    }

or the hard version from ..\Darkest Hour\Mods\EoD 2.2.22\db\events\Add_on.txt

#########################################################################
#  Sue for peace with the Germans - hard version
#########################################################################
event = {
    id = 1000557
    random = no
    country = SOV

    trigger = {
        war = { country = GER country = SOV }
        NOT = { ispuppet = GER }
        random = 35
        OR = {
            AND = {
                control = { province = 55 data = -2 } # Paris is controlled by an enemy
                lost_national = { country = SOV value = 35 }
                NOT = { land_percentage = { country = GER value = 0.3 } } #SOV has not enough troops
                NOT = { lost_national = { country = GER value = 7 } } #Germany is not losing national provinces
                NOT = { war = { country = GER country = ENG } } #Germany is concentrated on the Soviet front
                NOT = {    war = { country = GER country = FRA } }
                NOT = { war = { country = GER country = USA } }
                NOT = { war = { country = GER country = ITA } }
            }
            AND = {
                NOT = { control = { province = 542 data = SOV } } # Arkhangelsk
                NOT = { control = { province = 572 data = SOV } } # Moscow
                NOT = { control = { province = 553 data = SOV } } # Leningrad
                NOT = { control = { province = 644 data = SOV } } # Rostov
                NOT = { control = { province = 641 data = SOV } } # Sevastopol
                NOT = { control = { province = 663 data = SOV } } # Stalingrad
                NOT = { control = { province = 668 data = SOV } } # Kujbysev
                NOT = { control = { province = 667 data = SOV } } # Tolyatti
                NOT = { control = { province = 706 data = SOV } } # Astrakhan
                NOT = { control = { province = 713 data = SOV } } # Baku
                NOT = { lost_national = { country = GER value = 7 } } #Germany is not losing national provinces
                OR = { #one of the following must be true
                    local_flag = SOVMoscow  #Stalin remained in Moscow and was captured
                    NOT = { control = { province = 1151 data = SOV } } # Sverdlovsk
                    NOT = { control = { province = 1191 data = SOV } } # Vladivostok
                    AND = {
                        nuked = -1  #was nuked at least once
                        NOT = { nuked = 1 } #SOV never launched nukes
                    }
                }
            }
            AND = {
                NOT = { nuked = 1 } #SOV never launched nukes
                lost_national = { country = SOV value = 15 } #SOV is losing ground
                nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 572 } # Moscow nuked
                OR = {
                    nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 8 }#SOV nuked 8 times by GER
                    AND = {
                        nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 553 } # Leningrad nuked
                        nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 663 } # Stalingrad nuked
                        nuked = { country = GER  country = SOV data = 1 where = 713 } # Baku nuked
                    }
                }
            }                
        }
    }

or

 

[makiferol]

Thanks Altruist. That’s interesting, so if Stalin is captured you dont need to push as far as Sverdslovsk but if he dies (which is what happened after my siege of Moscow) then you have to.