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As the title suggests, I'm diving into my very first HoI2 game ever (or *any* HoI game for that matter) :D While normally I'd read the manual, I feel like being reckless and jumping in without doing so this time around and naturally, being somewhat masochistic, I've chosen a group that will probably get massacred inside of 2 months, making this the shortest complete HoI2 AAR on record. ;)

Or maybe I'll get lucky. Who knows? We'll find out soon enough. :D

Reading the HoI2 AARs by others on here have convinced me to get the game and I'm hoping with a more modern setting, I can create a better AAR than my CK attempts have been.

Note to the CK readers: I still will faithfully update the Agder AAR. I just want something else to play alongside it to keep me fresh. :D
 
This should be intresting :) . I tried the GuangXi Clique once but they don't have claims on china or even on their starting territory so I quit. Lets see how you do in the first GuangXi Clique - China war.
 
Sorry to say that the length of your introductory post already loses you the title of "Shortest AAR Ever." I recall seeing something of a Luxemborg in '39 AAR, which lasted 8 days.

That being said. Good Luck.
 
I played the Clique once, allied with Yunnan, and held off the Nats for a while.

I was about to ally with the Japs, until he declared war on me :rofl: , Cause at least with the japs as an ally, I would of taken out the interior provs while the Japs take the coastline...

I outta try it again, just to see how it goes...
 
durecell rabbit: Thanks. :D I have a feeling I'll get wiped out fairly quickly as I have I'm playing this entirely by ear, but here's to hoping.

Red Boxer: Ah well, I'll see if I'm one of the shortest then.. or maybe I'll shock myself by surviving and thriving. Thanks for the luck. :)

doctrellor: Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what direction I'm going in just yet... except I do know one thing for sure I'm going to do. :D
 
jose1357: :D I'll see what I can manage. I was actually quite suprised to see the Guangxi Clique have as much territory and army as they did when I started the game. I thought they were a small group, but then the WW2 lectures were ones I missed in my Emergence of Modern China class while I was trying to write a paper on proving via game theory that Chiang Kai-Shek's taking on the Communists versus the Japanese was the logical decision. :D

Schizo!: That'd be cool to have, though for the moment, I'm going to muck about and do really stupid things as you'll see when I update. :D
 
New Year's Day 1936. Hitler and his Nationalist Socialists reigned in Germany . Though he had outlined his plans in Mein Kampf, the autobiographical forecasting text was not all that well-known outside of Germany and those few who did read it failed to take it with any seriousness. Thus, while the other countries of Europe and the United States kept watch on the new government, few would have predicted the storm that was waiting to be unleashed on the horizon.

So it is that the year began for the Western world in relative peace. This was not so in the Far East, where tensions were high between Japan and China. Furthermore, the Great Dragon had lost its teeth, its scales torn off of its once glittering body, the country plunged into civil war. Regional warlords squared off against Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist Chinese and the Chinese Communists. Each faction had its own base of power and it was unclear as to who would restore stability and reunite the country.

In a small house in the province of Guangzhou, two men deliberated over the country and the future of their group, the Guangzi Clique. They hoped to unify the country, much as the Kingdom of Wei had during the Three Kingdoms period in the past. Whether or not they would succeed, no one knew, not even they themselves. Yet one of them was aware of the dangers they faced...

"Our situation as far as we can see it is a potentially precarious one, Li Chi-shen. Chiang Kai-Shek's armies remain strong and while we are on excellent terms with all of our neighbours, our transportation system remains overextended."

The air was thick with the clouding scent of too much jasmine incense as Li Chi-shen, the nominal state leader and Intelligence Chief of the Guangxi Clique and Li Tsung-jen, the real head of government, bent over their game of mah-jong and discussed their plans for Guangxi expansion.

Chi-shen, an aged man who trusted virtually no one and was considered by outsiders to be a grossly inept ruler, stroked his whiskered chin as he completed a match and took away a few tiles.

"We need an ally then, Commander Tsung-jen. Go and speak with Foreign Minister Wang Ching-Wei about possible friends. When we find a friend, then we will move."

Commander Tsung-jen, much younger, much healthier, and far more capable than his alleged superior bit his bottom lip in concentration, standing up from the game and walking towards the window, where outside a waxing crescent moon winked at him.

"Ching-Wei is an arrogant fool. We will need to choose our allies very carefully. I am also going to recommend that we declare war on Portugal and Great Britain. Foreigners have no place being so close to Chinese affairs. However this struggle for China goes, it must be decided by Chinese and not by those barbarians."

"We are in agreement, Commander. Order it done."
 
A bold move...

^^^ Now that's ballsy! Declaring war on the UK... Could be your downfall, but then again, you could show them how things are done in the far east!

Looking forward to your next update :)

*looks around for Guangxi Clique*

Where is that guy? I figured he'd be all over this by now.
 
I would love to see where this one goes. It also give me an idea for an MP game. Everybody takes control of a faction of China, and fight for supremacy, (obviously some kinda of in house rule is needed to keep Nat China from cleaning house, but i think it would be fun) :)
 
Schizo!: I agree, I'm in serious trouble here. :D Time will tell how I do.. and glad to hear you're looking forward to the next update. I'll have it up sometime this weekend. :)

biffthewhite: Hopefully it'll go well. :D And I think that Chinese factions idea would make a kickass MP game.
 
Declare war on Portugal and the UK? That's insane! Good luck- I'd just take out some of the other warlords.
 
Gjerg Kastrioti: Thanks for the luck. I'll definitely need it. :D

Mettermrck: Haha, it's not a problem. ;) Gamewise, this'll probably be the shortest HoI2 AAR, though.

By the way, I have a question for those of you who have so patient with my slow-to-update ass. Would you mind terribly if I dropped out of the narrative rpg-ish mode that I've gotten into here and switch to a gameplay-relating style AAR? I *do* want to continue the narrative style, but since this is my first HoI2 game, I'm not comfortable enough with the mechanics and whatnot to be able to pull off a good narrative AAR.

Just asking is all. :D And thanks again for being so patient with my slowness on this. ;)
 
Jestor said:
By the way, I have a question for those of you who have so patient with my slow-to-update ass. Would you mind terribly if I dropped out of the narrative rpg-ish mode that I've gotten into here and switch to a gameplay-relating style AAR? I *do* want to continue the narrative style, but since this is my first HoI2 game, I'm not comfortable enough with the mechanics and whatnot to be able to pull off a good narrative AAR.

Just asking is all. :D And thanks again for being so patient with my slowness on this. ;)
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Hey, you're the AAR author. You can do anything you want! Like keep us waiting for months for updates and say "it's coming, it's coming" every few weeks to bring our hopes up and make us wag our tongues.
:rofl:
 
I'm afraid I have to declare this one officially abandoned. :( I tried getting back into it this evening and just couldn't. CK is really the only Paradox game that appeals to me at present, though I've yet to try Victoria.
 
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