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Wait for Soviet Storm Rising to be released.

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Don't bother continuing the let's play, but document anything modding related.

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Just lock it, it has had its day.

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Wait for a new scenario, or create one yourself.

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[Angel Of Death]

I actually tried Super Iraq mode once, decided from the start to pull an AoD world death plan and launched ALL my nukes at them.

They were still able to retaliate.

I once did that to the USSR. They were crushed. The game glitched up and gave me so much money it went offscreen and over 6000 nukes. It crashed about 5 minutes later.

[Tok'ra Operative]

My current game:
1990-1991: I decide to not intervene with Saddam Hussein's conquest agenda and allow him to take over Kuwait, Saudi, and Jordan. However I still vow to defend Israel and deploy 120,000 troops to Israel. Cambodia, Libya, Syria, & Burma all become Capitalist (or Developing) on their own. Zaire and Guatemala becomes Communist.

1992: I decide to stage Coups in Iraq and Iraqi-occupied territories, successfully switching the ideology of said countries over to Capitalism. Iraq is now Capitalist and still has their territorial gains. I then help Iraq take over Iran. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union is growing in strength and holds 27.9% military influence while I only hold 19.5%.

1993: Soviet military influence drops to 22.5%. Zaire and North Korea both leave the Soviet WTA which I find peculiar since both nations are still communist. Due to this unexpected development, I realize I am able to help reunited the Korean Penninsula without starting World War Three. (I still can't surgical strike them since they border the USSR but I can invade) First I sabotage their assets until their ambition is 6.0 and their ethics is 1.0. I then deploy additional troops until I am only 1,000 shy of the number of troops owned by South Korea. I send South Korea all the Military and Political Aid they need. At the start of June, the United States invades North Korea. South Korea invades as well. The Second Korean War lasts for over three weeks before North Korea surrenders upon demand. The United States lost 454 troops while South Korea lost 460. North Korea lost well over 100,000 men. As the larger invader, South Korea assumes control of North Korea. As for Zaire, I simply Coup them since occupying such a poor country tends to eat at my QofL very quickly.

1994: Burundi becomes Capitalist on their own. United States cuts troops in South Korea to 300,000 while deploying 300,000 more troops to South Korean-controlled North Korea.

Current Events: Okay, now I am confused. Despite having my military spending at 1,000 billion, the military & nuclear aid now stands at "zero". Even my nuclear spending and nuclear influence is at total "zero". The Soviets now have 60%. This is unacceptable.

[Tok'ra Operative]

My Current Game: (Continued)
1994:
Well... its seems I overlooked Albania earlier... they switched to "Developing Capitalism on their own.

Decline of Centralism: Seems the balance of power is shifting in Africa big time! During the first two years, it seemed as though the Soviet WTA might dominate Africa since Zaire had become communist by the start of 1991. However, things have shifted in my favor. Liberia and Djibouti had switched to Developing Capitalist at the start of '92 as did Libya the year before. However while I made my new allies have excellent ratings in regards to human rights, ambition, ethics, and peace, I didn't do much in that area since I was kind of focused on other matters described in previous post on this topic. That all changed in 1994. Since Ivory Coast had caused Liberia lots of grief after the latter whiched from Nationalist to Dev. Capitalist (such as surgical strike exchanges), I decided to help Liberia take over Ivory Coast. I then decided to unite the Congo by helping my new ally Zaire take over Congo. I only lost 12 men total in the two conflicts. About a month later, I decided to resolve the territorial disputes between my ally Libya and her neighbors (Algeria, Niger, & Chad). I helped Libya take over all three of those countries at the cost of only 15 US troops total.

Brink of World War III: The Soviets were once again causing trouble in Japan. First they tried to supply rebels in Japan but failed. Then they successfully sabotaged Japan's economic assets, which I condemned the former for. Since this seemed to repeat every year, I decided to show the Soviets that I meant business. I launched a total of four surgical strikes against the Soviet Union. For some reason, their only response was one surgical strike (which failed) and a few condemnations (most of which failed). I think the reason they didn't nuke me was because before the crisis, Soviet ambition was well below 4.0 which the CIA conciders the "red flag" point. Later the sabotaged successfully the assets of France. During the Crisis, I also rose my troop levels in Japan to 200,000 and later did the same in France. (I made a point earlier in deploying some troops to every friendly country bordering the USSR and any friendly country bordering those countries. I did the same for states bordering Germany due to the large Soviet troop presense in that country). In the end however, the conflict cooled down and World War III has been averted...this time...

[Angel Of Death]

Well, here come the images. I don't have the slightest idea of what I was trying to do.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Any action that lowers ambition is a good one. The high-ambition autonuke means you basically HAVE to win wars.




Thank GOD. Our ambition isn't in the autonuke range yet.





Come on now. I don't even understand why the Soviets would want to screw around with Denmark.



Apparently I thought it would be a good thing to try to overtake Iraq. I hope I was severely sleep deprived.



And the condemnation works? Pffft.




Not interested.



Maybe it wasn't all that bad an idea to ramp up the troop level.



Ok, I need some advice. How do I stop the Chinese/Soviet aggression? In most of my other games, it turned into a Soviet invasion of China. And when the Soviets take China, they become nearly unstoppable.











There's not much of a point. If we succeed in getting them away from Saudi-Arabia, they'll just end up nuking us. If we don't, our popularity will drop.





They can bloody TAKE it for all I care. It's just Taiwan, it's not like it's a superpower.



Popularity increase!













Because there are over 100 images, I'm cutting out statements of condemnation to non-important nations and some diplomatic crap.





I assume I was checking before I invaded them.



BUT DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM USUALLY MAKES THE SOVIETS THE MOST PEACEFUL NATION IN SHADOW PRESIDENT!



Because of the Soviet's extreme aggression, we decide to cut our funding of their secret police.







Hm? That's a pleasant surprise.





FUCK! What did I do!?



Phew







Oh, shit







This could very well lead to China invading the USSR before the USSR invades China.





I believe I was checking if we were at hot war, yet.







Hmm. The lack of money we have is concerning, but I have faith that Grand Comrade Growth will assist us in this time of need.



I honestly expected Canada to try to overthrow us. It's not uncommon.





President Madagascar! A man in Brazil is sniping!














Military threat didn't work. How about a trade threat?



Nope.



D:



Damn





WHAT!? Why would they do that!?





More troops. This aggression will not be tolerated!



At least one of them wants peace.





FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY!? China wanted to be peaceful!









 

[Tok'ra Operative]

Angel of Death: Despite what you may hear about from other players about not sticking your nose into other people's affairs, I strongly suggest that you try to defuse the tensions between China and the USSR. If you don't and they nuke each other, the United States will suffer as well. In an earlier game when I nuked Iraq with ten missiles in retaliation for invading Saudi and somehow managed to avoid nuclear retaliation, I still lost millions of people to the fallout the following month plus my troop numbers went down from 2,100,000 to 1,700,000. Four years later, my QofL had fallen greatly and there was still conciderable fallout.

[LoSboccacc]

is there anything similar for other platform, like iphone/android?


I like how this is complex but manageable. super power like is too complex

[NRDL]

So much international intrigue...

How would one go about curbing the warmongering of the two Eastern powers?  Use diplomacy and stuff to lower ambition, raise ethic, maybe? 

[Angel Of Death]

So much international intrigue...

How would one go about curbing the warmongering of the two Eastern powers?  Use diplomacy and stuff to lower ambition, raise ethic, maybe? 

Diplomacy is the way to go. War would be crippling, due to huge military losses and the chance of retaliation of the nuclear kind.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

We select the Soviets.



To send some peace envoys!



We also (accidently) encourage military spending. Oops.



Yeah, I was pretty shocked and disapointed when I realised I had encouraged military spending. Still, better than the time I accidently took over India.



This time, I do it right.



YES!







Hm? Usually Canada sits silently, plotting to assassinate me. No, seriously, everything is peaceful, then suddenly BANG! A Canadian agent kills me. That has been the end of at least a tenth of my games.



The sabotage attempts are becoming more frequent. I'm begining to hope one of them invades the other instead of just resorting to nukes.



Hopefully this works.



NOOOOO





HA HA HA!



This probably isn't a good idea, because China invading the Soviet Union would help me a LOT.



Fuck.



We strengthen economic ties. Or at least attempt to.



Oh boy, I didn't take screenshots of the results. Yay.



Anyway



GODDAMNIT!

AND I FORGET TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF IT AGAIN! Good god.



Anyway

Ok, you've got to be fucking kidding me. I believe I've been pressing ctrl+F4 instead of ctrl+F5







*sigh*



Those silly Shadowpresident Soviets sure do like civil wars.



Hm? I must check to see what their new government is like!



Come on, load!



Oh. I was hoping for developing Capitalism.



I like this new government! First thing they do is promote peaceful things.



Why would they do that?



Appears as if the Chinese people don't appreciate random acts of aggression. Hopefully the Soviets will be too occupied with their civil war to attack China and hopefully China will be too occupied with their riots.



Hm? Another riot?



China likes the new government, too!







OH, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! So much for peace.



Germany has the right idea!



SOCIAL VIOLENCE AND RIOTS EVERYWHERE! Good god.





I guess the men in Brazil were sniping again.





Low ranking officials? Damn



Oh, shit.



Oh, double shit



I don't trust Canada.





MORE riots.



And even a coup attempt! I wonder when the world will go into hot war.



First time I've ever seen that.





This will not end well.







I'ma check our budget.



I forgot to get a before shot of our budget, but I've modified it a bit to raise growth.



WHAT DID GERMANY EVER DO TO YOU (recently) TO DESERVE THIS!?











This will not end well. It's like the Soviets have some deranged Stalin clone as their leader.



FUCK! If we let them do this, it may, and probably will, end in nuclear war.

[NRDL]

It has to be Germany. 

But, Germany isn't as powerful as you.  Not like say, Iraq.  They might actually back down if you threaten them. 

[Sheb]

Well, the question is: Why would we want to prevent a nuclear war? Better to back down, and get ready to invade the smoldering ruins of Eurasia.

[NRDL]

Hmmm...you might be right.  A nuked USSR is much easier to invade.

The problem is, when the bombs start dropping, EVERYONE gets in on it.  Countries like Iraq will most likely nuke the U.S. out of nowhere.  So far, AoD's slow and steady approach to this game is working.  Not preventing the "German Air Strike" is like rolling the dice over the whole world.

...I smell a poll! 

[Angel Of Death]

Small update time!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Because Germany isn't an enemy of the USA, a diplomatic protest could help us.



AND IT DOES! Phew.



Bombs were replaced with words. Explosions were replaced with loss of leadership effectiveness. Thank Seitan.





Hm? I'm very interested.



First time I've seen a nation grant Most Favoured to someone!



Now it is time to see what happened in the Soviet Union



Ooh. Civil war is taking its toll on the leadership effectiveness of the Soviets.

I just realised that our popularity was going up quite a bit. I assumed our economy had done it.



Oh boy, how wrong I was.

[NRDL]

Don't cut back on the military.  Don't leave yourself vulnerable to Iraqvasion. 

[Angel Of Death]

Well, I've most-favoured most of Europe and Africa. I've also recieved a lot of cultural exchanges and strengthening of economic ties.



They must want all of the Black Metal for themselves!



Well, did it help us?

[NRDL]

I...guess?