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Hi all,

After a long break from Paradox games (and an even longer break from modding them), I've jumped back in....to the same old games, that is. This mod came from a very fun game of Victoria Revolutions that I played. Since the converter that comes with Victoria is so broken, I decided to just do the modding myself to convert it. The basic premise is (very similar to the Bonaparte Legacy mod floating around in HOI circles), that the French Empire of Napoleon III didn't fall. However, where this mod differs from the rest is that it's set in WW1 and also has a very unique setup that I think will be appreciated. The basic plan is to do an AAR and release the mod at the same time, then do a play through and see about doing a WW2 start setup scenario, then play through again and do a post-war scenario setup.
 
Progress has been a bit slower than I wanted so far, although the map, OOBs, alliances and generic things are done, I'm still working on events, decisions and more setup before going on to the AI. While we're waiting, enjoy some screenshots of the world of 1913.

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Awesome map, I have an affectation for Napoleonic scenarios and wish you the best on this mod! There are some fun ideas that I see in your screenshots:

- French Constantinople and Austrian Rome
- Megali Greece
- Mega Armenia
- Sardinia, Corsica and Malta - what state owns these?
- What's the little state in western Bavaria?
- Balkanized America
- Austrian Poland + Königsberg
- Mega Indochina
- Mega Chile and Brazilian northern expansion
- Is that an expansionist Quebec?
 
The Sardinia, Sicily, Malta state is the aptly named Kingdom of Sicily, the remnants of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies that didn't want to unify with the rest of Italy.

The little one province country is the city state known as the Grand Duchy of Frankfurt, where the world's first socialist government took power, peacefully (AI-driven), which then gave a lot of healthcare reforms and with the USA not such an attractive immigration destination anymore, drew a large immigrant population. They control a startling percentage of the world's chemical industry, have a staggering amount of IC (still to be modded in) and are the neutral third German state stuck between the French dominated North German Federation and the Austrian dominated South German Federation....they have a token military, but a ton of IC and what will be the best tech teams in the world (once I get done modding), waiting to strengthen whichever German state takes them over (or for laughs, a one province IC heavy state with very little manpower unifying Germany...)

That is an expansionist Quebec, yes, they took part of English Canada, left the rest in the middle as a rump state and took a few provinces off of the old USA (Michigan and a bit of the north-east)
 
The OOBs are done, now on to giving each country a dedicated once-over to adjust claims, starting techs, resources, etc. Then the leader and minister generator to give every country lots of each (since it's so ahistorical, nobody real is still alive except the royalty, so it'll be mostly random).

I tried to keep it as close to the Victoria game as possible, but some modification was necessary (ie, Albania's 13 under strength divisions from Victoria were clearly unrealistic...)

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Congratulations! Will be following closely. :)
 
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