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Right - time to come back to this! Writing (decent) updates is a pain, sorry. Hopefully some more readers will flock to the AAR now. In the end, I took another course of action - likely for the worse, but maybe it was the only option.

So, let's conclude this war.

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After the Peruvians in Iquitos have been eradicated, the Venezuelans have reorganised, high on morale, knowing that they can now likely take Lima. Or can they? In the next month, the Army prepared for an assault on Lima, and then attacked - only to find Peru wasn't out yet. In fact, Lima was still defended hard enough to be unbreakable, thanks to the mountaineer division holding the positions in the Andes, heavily dug in. Wave upon wave of attacks would be unleashed upon the capital, and be repelled.

So what would Contreras do? He had a crazy plan. During the war, he had already ordered the construction of transports, only him knowing the reasons - but they could come in handy at this point as well... Two mountain divisions, led by Lt. Gen. Angarita and Mj. Gen. Toro Key respectively (the latter being a very experienced commando leader by now) embarked upon Venezuela's two transports, taking care to avoid the Peruvian destroyers as they arrived at the beaches of Arequipa.

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Although mountaineers are primarily trained for mountain combat, they also receive some training in crossing shallow bodies of water - mostly rivers. And really, an amphibious assault is not much different. Some low hills dotted the coastline, just ideal for mountaineers. The defending infantry division had no chance.

Attacking from two sides seems to have made the difference as the defenders of Lima crumbled under the assault from two sides. The attackers, formerly occupying Trujillo, immediately rushed forward to take Lima. And that's when disaster struck... unfortunately, due to the complete lack of a Venezuelan convoy systems, the mountain troops were soon out of supply. And when Peru's military intelligence realised this, it acted quickly. The Peruvian destroyers attacked the transports on the coast, who were patrolling there to make sure Angarita's and Toro Key's soldiers could escape if need be. Unfortunately, they had to escape instead. At the same time, Peru's reserve divisions counterattacked into Arequipa. The mountaineers defended bravely, but were captured - only Angarita, Toro Key and about a hundred men managed to escape towards Lima. And luckily for them, as Lima fell the Peruvian government also saw the futility of further resistance - once again, poor enemy communication systems saved the day for Venezuela as the former President didn't know about Peru's victory when signing the treaty of unconditional surrender.

All the better for Venezuela, of course...

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February 3, 1939

The general staff was called together again the day after Peru surrendered. It was time. Through his domestic intelligence, Contreras now knew where their ministers' loyalty lay - by him, of course. Even Isaías Medina Angarita, Contreras' most feared nemesis seemed to be in order - and that was all the President needed.
"Gentlemen!" he began. "Let's not kid ourselves. The last three wars were more than just self-defense. By conquering Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, Venezuela has drastically increased in size and is now a power in its own right. We would be fools not to capitalise on it. La Gran Venezuela shall rule over the northern part of Venezuela!" Pausing a little to let this sink in with his ministers - some of who didn't hear this as a surprise, but most of them did, he continued: "I'm sure you have several thoughts in your head now. That I promised to turn Venezuela into a peaceful, democratic nation. But we would be fools to try that. Brazil and Argentina, the two giants of South America, are definitely plotting to take over as much of the continent as possible. Colombia's, Ecuador's and Peru's fate was inevitable. It's eat or be eaten, and I don't intend to be eaten. You will see gentlemen, our country has potential. And I just know what to do to exploit it to its fullest."
Contreras, President of La Gran Venezuela, stopped again. He examined the members of his cabinet, gauging their reactions - the smiling Urich, Escalante nodding in approval, Angarita's expressionless face, Ayala's "Oh, I get it now"-look and the rest of them. And he was pleased.
 
A heavy prize paid with 30 manpower loss. Looks like that is the sacrifice required. I see your manpower is 47 in 1939, any modification on that one? How's big your total army now? I guess Bolivia is next? :D
 
Thundergate said:
A heavy prize paid with 30 manpower loss. Looks like that is the sacrifice required. I see your manpower is 47 in 1939, any modification on that one? How's big your total army now? I guess Bolivia is next? :D
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I might add some manpower to represent the fact that more former Colombians, Ecuadorians and Peruvians join the Gran Venezuelan army. I won't go overboard.

As for who is next, that looks like a good one to put up to a vote! Which course of action shall Venezuela take, then?

1. Go on to Bolivia and possibly Paraguay?

2. Try to take Chile - getting us a nice long coastline in the process?

3. Or go island hopping now (Dominican Republic, Haiti, maybe Cuba)?
 
By the way... I have an event problem, can anyone help me with it? Namely, why doesn't this work? I have added the Venezuela file to the event.txt file and the name, description and action names to the event_text.csv. According to the HoI2 Wiki, there is no other event 4600. This is all I've put into the file:

Code: 
#
#
#
#
#

#####################################################################
#La Gran Venezuela!
#####################################################################
event = {
    id = 4600
    random = no
    country = VEN
    trigger = {
        AND = {
            owned = { province = 813 data = -1 }
            owned = { province = 815 data = -1 }
            OR = {
                owned = { province = 815 data = -1 }
                owned = { province = 654 data = -1 }
            }
        }
        headofstate = 38001
    }

    name = "EVT_4600_NAME"
    desc = "EVT_4600_DESC"
    style = 0
    picture = "Rhineland"
    
    date = { day = 1 month = january year = 1936 }
    offset = 1
    deathdate = { day = 30 month = december year = 1947 }

    action_a = {
        name = "EVT_4600_ACTA"
        ai_chance = 99
        command = { type = addcore which = 803 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 812 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 813 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 819 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 867 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 868 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 890 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 814 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 815 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 816 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 817 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 818 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 821 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 829 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 830 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 831 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 654 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 655 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 656 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 657 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 827 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 828 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 832 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 833 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 836 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 838 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 837 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 846 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 892 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 893 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 894 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 822 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 823 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 820 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 824 }
        command = { type = addcore which = 872 }
        command = { type = dissent value = 820 }
        command = { type = relation which = USA value = -100 }
    }
    action_b = {
        name = "EVT_4600_ACTB"
        ai_chance = 1
        command = { type = relation which = USA value = 50 }
    }
}
 
Maybe this can help realise Gran Venezuela!
Just rework this below if you want to add some cores. Remember to change the date accordingly. The codes below looks simpler than yours and I know it works.

############################################
##### Rebirth of Greater Tibet
############################################
event = {
id = 124564
random = no
country = TIB

trigger = {
exists = TIB
}

name = "A dream calls for the defence of the ancient..."
desc = "Dalai Lama is having a recurring dream foreseeing that in less than 20 years, the Tibetan way of life will be no more. Looking around at the situation in the east with warlords running havoc in China, it could be so true. What can he can do to avoid the prophecy? The decision is his alone. Should Tibet secure her borders including all of her ancient lands of which her influence has been waning to ensure survival of their culture or nah, it's just a bad dream?"
style = 0
picture = "anchsluss"
date = { day = 03 month = january year = 1936 }
offset = 1

action_a = {
ai_chance = 3
name = "We shall control our destiny!"

command = { type = belligerence which = TIB value = 3 }
command = { type = relation which = CHI value = -2 }
command = { type = relation which = CYN value = -3 }
command = { type = relation which = CXB value = -5 }
command = { type = domestic which = democratic value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = free_market value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = professional_army value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = defense_lobby value = 3 }
command = { type = domestic which = interventionism value = 3 }
command = { type = manpowerpool value = 25 }
command = { type = addcore which = 1440 } #Jinchang, Xibei San Ma
command = { type = addcore which = 1441 } #Dunhuang, Xibei San Ma
command = { type = addcore which = 1442 } #Golmund, Xibei San Ma
command = { type = addcore which = 1443 } #Xining, Xibei San Ma
command = { type = addcore which = 1444 } #Yushu, Xibei San Ma
command = { type = addcore which = 1276 } #Lanzhou, Nat China
command = { type = addcore which = 1281 } #Ya'an, Yunnan
command = { type = addcore which = 1282 } #Kangding, Yunnan
command = { type = addcore which = 1455 } #Bhutan, UK puppet
command = { type = addcore which = 1454 } #Riang, UK
command = { type = addcore which = 1284 } #Dinapur, UK
command = { type = addcore which = 1878 } #Ledo, UK
command = { type = addcore which = 1474 } #Srinagar, UK
command = { type = trigger which = 124565 } # This'll work better.
}
action_b = {

name = "It is only a bad dream, no more than that."
ai_chance = 97
command = { type = dissent value = 1 }
}
}
 
I think your location where you put the code is different from how I do it. Add that into hoi2.txt file in the db\events\ folder.
 
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