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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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Please keep playing the same stuff over and over! I like repetition!

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Total Members Voted: 34

[Sheb]

Wait, how is Tunisia part of the Soviet WTA if it's a capitalist holding of Italy?

[Tok'ra Operative]

Wait, how is Tunisia part of the Soviet WTA if it's a capitalist holding of Italy?

I am not totally sure why that is the case. Tunisia became Communist the year before after getting couped by the Soviet Union so naturally they were on the Soviet WTA this year. However I am not sure why Tunisia and the other Communist states I defeated so far would still be on the Soviet WTA. Maybe some sort of bug. Another apparent example of this bug is the fact a rebel takeover in Mozambique made that country Developing Capitalism and yet they are still on the Soviet WTA for the rest of 1995. Those countries should switch over to the U.S.A. WTA the following year... unless someone pops a nuke, in which case they will more likely join the German or UK WTA as the U.S. will probably be reduced to a third rate power.

[Tok'ra Operative]

The Third World War -- October 7, 1995

Troop Deployments
I may have prevented a very serious disaster for the United States. Since the Soviets have been indicating possibly increasing their deployments wherever they already have troops, it was clear to me that any allied country bordering a country with Soviet troops could be in serious trouble down the road, including the United States. When I clicked on the United States and went to visit the War Room to see how many troops I had in the region, I was shocked to discover I had only 54,000. If the Soviet Union had invaded at that time and was backed by Cuba, it is possible I might have fallen victim to "insta-surrender", especially if the invasion didn't cause a maxed out deployment of US troops to appear in the U.S. to fight the invaders. Due to the possibility of invasion because of current operations in Japan, Soviet Union, and Angola, I have doubled my troop numbers in the region by raising troop levels in the allied nations adjacent to the U.S., such as Canada, American Samoa, Guam, and French Polynesia. That would likely help me last longer but likely will redouble my troop numbers in the area. Also increased deployments in Western Europe due to the considerable number of troops stationed in Germany & Eastern Europe. Also increased troop numbers in Iraq plus deployed over 100,000 troops to Ethiopia to prepare for possible combat operations against Somalia.

CIA Reports
The CIA has reported that the Soviets may attempt to assassinate the leader of Israel on October 15. Also Angola plans to assassinate me on the 9th, likely because I just kicked their ass with more surgical strikes.

China
While the conflict with the Soviet Union rages, I am now debating the possibility of invading Communist China due to their surgical strike against Taiwan a couple months back. I may choose to invade either this year or early the following year. I have already decided that India is very important for an invasion of China since I would prefer for India to be the one to actually take charge of China since occupying China in the past has always been a strain on my QofL. The only drawback to waiting until next year is having to renegotiate with India to get them to temporarily align with me. But that is really no problem for me.

[Donuts]

This game never works for me, i get an "cannot open queue.run"

[Tok'ra Operative]

World War III Updates

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Soviet Union launches surgical strike on the United States!

Angola is finished.

Super-Zaire?

Capitalism Rising

Edit 1:
Cloak and Daggar

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The leader of Israel is dead: Killed by a Soviet assassin!

My press secretary confirms that the Israeli leader is now dead. Ivan will pay dearly for this!

The new Israeli PM is indifferent with the US. This could be a potential problem.

Luckily Israel is still on my WTA

Edit 2:
Start of November--Month 6

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U.S., France, & Ethiopia invade Somalia. Soviet back the Somalis... big surprised. Don't let my Current Popularity fool you. I have figured out the trick to recovering in the Polls.

Uganda's restricted government & Soviet-backing can no longer be tolerated.

[NotAQuisling]

This game never works for me, i get an "cannot open queue.run"

Did you use and configure DOSbox?

[Donuts]

Yes, did everything but nothing works, the game starts, i can get by the "who said what" screen by Googling, but when the president says "praise the united states" and ends the speech, it goes "cannot open queue.run"

[Tok'ra Operative]

Yes, did everything but nothing works, the game starts, i can get by the "who said what" screen by Googling, but when the president says "praise the united states" and ends the speech, it goes "cannot open queue.run"

Hmm... are you using an Admin account on Windows or Limited? Shadow President in my experience refuses to run on limited account.

[Donuts]

Must be that then, trying. Tnx!

[Tok'ra Operative]

Must be that then, trying. Tnx!

Anytime! Let me know how it turns out.

Current game update
I have now reached the start of 1996. The United States and the Soviet Union are still at war. Centralism has become the third most powerful ideology thanks to power struggles in China and Vietnam resulting in the governments of both states converting from Communism to Centralism. The United States has increased its defense spending bill as a result of World War Three. Capitalism has absorbed half of Africa. Relations between the U.S. and Mexico are now in a state of indifference. (which means I can invade Mexico without triggering my defense secretary's resignation)

World Status Maps

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I am surprised peace levels are so high despite 8-month long conflict between U.S. & Soviet Union.

Start of 1996 Budget

Centralism replaces Nationalism as 3rd most powerful ideology

The U.S.A. WTA now has two rivals to contend with instead of one

India is on its way to super power status and likely leader of the Nationalist World

Low Ambition levels are much more common

U.S. ethical behavior a bit low thanks to failed coup in Vietnam & successful coup in South Africa

U.S. leadership still in green but not perfect due to failed surrender demands toward Somalia

Just look at the colors

Wouldn't want to live in USSR or China right now. Time for reform talks in Africa.

World War Three

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Manpower is virtually even--military spending, not so even.

Wow! Mega influence for me!

Half of Red Army has been vanquished but I still have a long way to go as USSR is not one for surrendering easily while having more then a million

Soviets still trying to take over Japan

My troops must be using some really good cold weather gear to still be holding out after all this time

Most of Somalia military beaten but the Soviets won't let them surrender

Looks like defeating Somalia will be much harder now thanks to China

Mexico

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The U.S. has 3% oil reserves

Mexico has 5% oil reserves

Looks like Mexico will be harder to defeat this year but I do need the extra 5% oil reserves

Note: Do not worry about my non-existent popularity. I have played this game enough now to know how to avoid impeachment plus I learned how to recover my polls with ease. I simply go to a country where I have troops and go into the war room, make sure game timer is stopped, select to change troop levels but don't actually change anything, and then select "Do it", which strangely results in the host country "agreeing to allow me to deploy troops to their country." I spam that a few dozen times. Obviously this only works if the people are not concerned with the deployments.

Edit: World War III Stats

Warring Nations
U.S.A. World Team Alliance
United States, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Norway, Zaire, Libya, Italy, Greece, Ethiopia, & France
Soviet/China World Team Alliances
Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Somalia, China, Cuba, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Uganda, & Tanzania

Casualties
U.S.A. World Team Alliance
United States: 506,987
South Korea: 51,000
France: 59
Poland: 105,000
Soviet World Team Alliance
Soviet Union: 2,052,000

Note: Casualty figures are not shown for smaller countries not appearing on list provided by my Defense Secretary.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Take out the USSR and Afghanistan, then China.

[Corai]

Make the USSR burn, then claim the chinese for the USA!

[Tok'ra Operative]

Take out the USSR and Afghanistan, then China.

Yeah, that does sound like a good idea. May as well take out Guatemala & Cuba while I am at it. As it stands, the USSR, Afghanistan, Cuba, & Guatemala are the only remaining Communist states. I will very likely hold off on invading China depending on further votes in the poll as well as whether or not I can get India to cooperate with me again in which case a new poll will be posted.

Make the USSR burn, then claim the chinese for the USA!

Actually, I planned to have China be controlled by one of my allies so as not to strain my QofL.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Make the USSR burn, then claim the chinese for the USA!

Actually, I planned to have China be controlled by one of my allies so as not to strain my QofL.

Give them to Korea for the sake of irony.

[Tok'ra Operative]

Make the USSR burn, then claim the chinese for the USA!

Actually, I planned to have China be controlled by one of my allies so as not to strain my QofL.

Give them to Korea for the sake of irony.

Sadly that is not possible as South Korea has no troops on the China border since they withdrew their troops from North Korea a couple months after the Second Korean War. AI countries always withdraw their troops gradually after conquering a territory. Some sort of bug I guess. And I don't know how to edit troops with UGE.