I couldnt find any lately so i decided to make one of my own.Are there any up to date Guides?I tried techmaxxing and it got me until 1993 before i collapsed.Also, is it even worth it to play as a Reformer? My best runs have always been Chernenko -> Grishin/Gromkyo
for example this guide is outdated: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561918846 and the rest are in russian
My Union ended up looking like this before it all collapsed, i honestly did a pretty good job. But my killer was that i ended up unable to control my vassals, which led to me losing political influence, which then just spiraled.
I kept the Soviet Union and Warsaw pact strong but wasn't able to knock out NATO or the EU. France also influence blobbed into Africa.A few riot events fired for the US and I bought the Panama canal from a bankrupt USA, but other than that nothing happened to them.That Iran-Iraq war tho...
>>2415676all of the doctrines in that guide are still optimal choices. If you want to flip the world, you really can't afford to deviate from them. The game is, like, 90% options that are just straight-up bad and should never be taken except when you're pursuing achievements (best example being Birdcage as the only market economy type that doesn't suck ass).
what determines the second chinese civilwar? In my last game they liberalized after tiangmen-square but then had a civilwar between the liberals and military junta
>>2415858thank you, i will try and follow it
>>2415725how is Iraq still at war? They can usually win it if u embargo iran and support them with aid, in my last game i was able to get a socialist Iran
big new update>>2416017among other things, you now have a modifier that tells you about China's stability.
Yugoslavia DLC coming soon? I would have liked a 1991 Scenario like in the classic version but i cant lie when i say a Yugoslavia Scenario sounds pretty interesting.
>>2416017Several things, but mainly if you don't move away from planned economy and accuse China of revisionism. If you don't liberalize, and don't go for Friendship with the West, China is heading for civil war.
For a moderate run, do you trade the lower Kurils to the Japanese? What economic policy do you take? I personally prefer the Planned Economy with Market Elements but you cannot choose that straight away with the economic reform event which is somewhat annoying. It's kind of annoying how with the Neo-Stalinists you cannot likewise choose the Planned Economy with Market Elements seeming as that even gives you an option to reinstate the Stalin-era Artels. It can be a little schizo trying to go Soviet Nationalist with the Stalinists whilst not committing to a full on Juche system as well. Is it worth holding off the Soviet EU decision until you have everyone you want to get in ComeCon? I can't remember if you can puppet the Chinese after their civil war and force them to join.
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>>2425900I never trade the Kurils with Japan, regardless of what run im doing. For Economic policy i usally take Planned Economy with Market Elements aswell, but sometimes i take Birdcage Economics. Also is it possible to go Nationalist and get someone like Zhirinovsky in charge?
>>2432909yes, Zhirinovsky is a National Democrat, you can get him relatively quickly.
>>2432916Whats the fastest way to get him? The only way i get National democrats is either by going Neo Stalinist or via Democratization
>>2432943start as Gorbachev, legitimize NatDems, then pump them in the faction screen and fire everyone who isn't one whenever you get an opportunity. If you democratize (I think going with Yakovlev's plan can get you to Western Democracy, which gives NatDems more power and influence), switch your allegiance from Reformists to NatDems. Zhirinovsky's not too deep in the politician deck, you should get him relatively quickly and he's got okay stats.
>>2432946>Western Democracy, which gives NatDems more power and influenceSovereign Democracy*
>>2432946Is Major Economic liberalization needed for a Nationalist run? I have never played a game with Free Market Economics or the different sub types of it.
>>2432949no doctrine, economic or political, is *required* for any faction. You can be market Neostalinists and planned economy LibDems. Having certain factions in power allows you to pick certain options (such as doctrinal changes) during events, but you can override them manually if you can't be bothered playing a certain way.Personally, when I play market, I just pick Birdcage when the event for economic retooling comes up and leave it at that.
>>2432955Thank you for your help, i will try and get the Natdems in my next run.
Played Gorbachev and ended up relatively successful, was able to colonize the Moon and Mars by 1997, prevented the Yugoslav wars and liberalized into a Market Authoritarian Government. From my experience with this Run it does seem like Keynesian Economics + trade deals with western States is the best for Reformer runs.Gorbachev somehow died at age 61 in 1993, Dolgikh in 1999, and my latest Vice President died 2 months after i got him in Government. Are there any Tips on how to collapse the USA? they have been at 0 satisfaction and around 30 Economic stability for nearly 5 years, they had the California unrest and the storming of the Capitol aswell.
>>2433302I think it might be tied to what president is in office
>>2433340I was able to get Ron Paul as President in America after doing the Joint Internet Project, which led to him instantly leaving NATO.
Though i couldnt collapse America, this seems like the next best thing.
>>2432909>>2432916>ZhirinovskyAmusing because I use his Red Dusk portrait for Crisis. Can you get Zyuganov or is it a little too early for him? Same question for people like Lukashenko and Putin. I remember getting Scherbina but I don't know if that is tied to me avoiding Chernobyl.
>>2433399I thin Zyuganovv appeared as a Politician in the late 90s or in 2000, though i cant say what ideology he was as nearly every single Person in my Game was a Reformist. I havent seen Putin or Lukashenko even once, i assume Putin could maybe come into play in a successful/post 2000s Moderate run? Im surprised at the lack of lukashenko however since other SSR leaders appear all the time.Also you can change the portraits of Individual Politicians?
>>2433404*think *Zyuganov
>>2433404I know you can get other modern Russian Leaders as i got Yavlinsky as my President. So i assume there is a way to get people like Putin
>>2433404I meant I use his portrait as my custom General Secretary, along others.>ReformistI'm a little uncertain on what determines that beyond conspiracies as one game I had a bunch of moderates and conservatives become Stalinist without my input which was cool but unusual unless one of the Stalinist doctrines I enacted did that. I'm guessing Zyuganov would be a Stalinist if we are going by otl beliefs.
>>2433407I got chad Rutskoy
>>2433411Im assuming it has something to do with whichever Party is dominant, and or maybe the intrigue of the Character? In my game Yeltsin went from Reformist to Libdem to Natdem and then back to Libdem.
>>2433412Social Patriot?
>>2433414That's just classic Yeltsin honestly>>2433415Genuinely can't remember, I think he was a Reformer but I was running a Moderate-Conservative politburo at the time.
is the game any good?
I hope the Yugoslavia DLC will be released soon, a Scenario similar to the original 1991 one would be nice aswell though.
>>2433435Its fun if you enjoy messing around with numbers and different strategies, you will probably have a tough time when you first start playing it but overall its a good experience.
>>2433435You have to be into late era Soviet politics to be interested in any of it but if you are weird enough to like that to begin with then the game becomes very manageable. There is a cheat mode if the economy filters you but unless you are a hardcore larper (soviet colony on the moon in the 80s) it makes the game way too easy to stimulate the aforementioned autistic interest so be warned. It is better then the first Crisis and infinitely better then the devs other simulator called collapse. Ostalgie is good but different, along with their Mao game.
>>2433411What Traits did you give him? Im planning on playing him aswell.
>>2433399I've seen screenshots of Zyuganov in the game as a Moderate, but I'm not sure if he was a custom character. Looked real enough.Putin is off the table. Not sure about Lukashenko - I know Nazarbayev is in the game but hidden behind destabilization of Kazakh SSR, possible Lukashenko has similar hurdles you have to overcome first.
>>2433415Rutskoy is NatDem, Khasbulatov is LibDem.
>>2433585From what i have seen, nearly all Post Soviet Republic Leaders (post 1991) can appear.
How do i avoid a game over when i try and end the Soviet System?
>>2433649You kys.
>>2433399>>2433411>>2433585found Zyuganov, he's a Reformist, not a Moderate, my bad.
i wish i wasn't a retard and i could budget. every single game over i've gotten has been bankruptcy
>>2433714What difficulty, what leader and what economic policies? Depending on your run, there are a few decisions you can make which really help with that regarding religion and consolidation of the economy. Though for a general rule of thumb, I gradually decrease the envelopes and use that funding for anti-corruption and anti-forgery before fucking with anything else. If you are steady then slowly lower imports whilst investing that money domestically.
>>2433719>difficultyrealism and last hero>leaderright now i've just started a new run as chernenko and so my economic policies are default but i'd like to try and do an ultra-stalinist state planned economy runbtw does pumping nuclear research funding up make the proton collider and modernized reactors research faster? i've been trying to avoid the chernobyl disaster but now with how decisions take time to implement (a good system, i'm not complaining) i can't ever get it done before graphite starts appearing on the roof
>>2433744>Chernenko You should be able to rehabilitate Stalin instantly, provided you have the political authority.>ultra-Stalinist state planned economyWhen you get to the oil crisis, place the economy on a war footing by taking the option which raises working hours and lowers trade union powers. This should give you a very large cash injection, use this to utterly crush your corruption by investing it into law enforcement and the secret service. Make sure the envelopes are at the bare minimum to not raise corruption, watch out for region loyalty and political authority drying up. Try to throw some cash at state propaganda and ideally accept Christianity as property of the State for some more cash and societal stability, Neo-Stalinists are split on the issue of religion so this should be acceptable. Reform the judicial system to allow for gulags for free labour.>btw does pumping nuclear research funding up make the proton collider and modernized reactors research faster?Absolutely, choose those two technologies for research and then raise the money to speed up civil and physics. Pic related is what I usually run with until I get those previously mentioned cash flows coming, it is by no means optimized but it should get you Chernobyl avoided without destabilizing everything. If you need to throw some more money at the science departments to get the tech before early '86 then cut environment some more but don't forget to rebalance stuff after you click the modernizing decision.>i can't ever get it done before graphite starts appearing on the roofImpossible, you are delusional, graphite is only found in the core where it is used as a neutron flux moderator.
>>2433750excellent, thank you comrade anon for the help.>Impossible, you are delusional, graphite is only found in the core where it is used as a neutron flux moderator.forgive me, i was clearly delusional and had to be taken to the infirmary.
>>2433750>place the economy on a war footinghow do you get that consistently? I remember getting that once or twice ages ago but in my recent attempts I wasn't able to get the required 200 Neo-Stalinist support in time even after rehabilitating Stalin on month 2, picking every tankie option in events I came across and retooling my budget specifically to make sure that I would be able to meet the monthly payments to the faction.
>>2433757Sometimes it stops supporting them without telling you which has happened to me before, that may be the issue. Using a custom Neo-Stalinist General Secretary, though sacrificing Chernenko's earlier rehabilitation, really helps raise the faction's power and popularity. I usually go custom leader for my Stalin runs. Don't forget that some doctrine changes make parties more influential as well.
How to get a successful detente with China? No matter what i do or what our Relationship is they decline.
Also would it be better to save all of my Space decisions right before the American Election to get Ron Paul? Or to just do it whenever i finish researching
>>2433435It's complete garbage. I would say it's even worse than the first game. There are basically no content and events and the only ones there are are the meme shit like "teehee look trump gets elected president" and "teehee push this button to become stalinist monarchy" instead of anything that could realistically happen. Mao is much more better in every way
>>2435016Peaceful space? That's science points, my guy.
>>2435055You sound upset over Trump. Much less than you are over Ron Paul, who hasn't been a relevant meme for over a decade. Curious.
>>2435311>for over a decadeDo you realize that the game sets place in the 90s and Ron Paul had a presidential campaign back then you dumb fuck? Him being present makes more sense than shoehorning orange man and IRL events due to complete lack of originality and respect the devs have for their own setting
>>2435318Ron Paul didn't have a presidential campaign in the 90s. 1988, 2008, 2012. He backed Buchanan in the 90s.Donald Trump is a reasonable choice for a populist hawk, both in-universe and in regards to the average player being able to recognize his name. Since you were wrong on Ron Paul, I should also mention that Trump did position himself as a presidential candidate in the 90s, in the lead-up to the 2000 election (he had no intention of actually running at the time, of course, he just entered politics to attack Buchanan).>>2435055>There are basically no content and eventsagain, this is just a straight-up lie. You get a shitload of events in the early-to-mid game.>meme shit ... instead of anything that could realistically happenMost events address the state of your economy, society, institutional rot, foreign policy. And Trump being the president of America in decline is definitionally the most realistic thing in the game.The only thing I think was too much is the colonization of Mars, the last research in that tree should have dealt with the Moon.
>>2435318So sensitive. A real Trump-tard would remember that he was always this way. Yammering about politics and being delusional since 70's. A threat from rising Soviets could've pushed him into politics.You really should be flattered. Trump gives the US a lifeline. Ron Paul just kills the US immediately.
>>2435424>Achkshually it was not in 90s but 1988Kill yourself animal>Donald Trump is a reasonable choiceNo he's not. He's a lazy choice of someone who's completely creatively bankrupt. Even if we grant that Trump somehow becomes president he would be a completely different person and wouldn't do the same things he does in 2026. In real life the butterfly effect would completely change everyone's future, but that's too hard to imagine for pea brained retards like you, isn't it? >again, this is just a straight-up lie. You get a shitload of events in the early-to-mid gameTherefore you just admit that the late game is completely empty and I was right. I don't count early game events since most of them were imported from kremlin 1 and made even worse. >And Trump being the president of America in decline is definitionally the most realistic thing in the gameAh yes, OTL guy from 2026 being president in this setting and doing the exact same things because I couldn't be bothered to make up any creative scenarios of american collapse is definitely realistic. I didn't realize I was talking with someone who's braindead, my bad. >>2435466>A threat from rising Soviets could've pushed him into politicsThat's a sure sign of low intelligence. It's like a question "what would do you if hadn't had dinner this morning" that breaks blacks brains, you cannot separate reality from fiction and imagine that a world that went off the rails wouldn't end the same as it does otl because you're as creatively bankrupt as the devs of this game which is why you shouldn't bother with alt history if you don't have anything valuable to offer or say.
>game scripts an event chain about a Trump presidency, when the US is eating shit>US is currently eating shit IRL>and Trump is presidentOh, didn't realize it was uncomfortably real for you. :^)
>>2435475>it was not in 90s but 1988Yes, I know how decades work. Highlighting your inability to differentiate two decades does you no credit.> Even if we grant that Trump somehow becomes president he would be a completely different person and wouldn't do the same things he does in 2026.Your orange nigger was a slave to Zion when he came out against Buchanan in the 90s and he's a slave to Zion today. Nothing has changed since he was taken under Roy Cohn's wing.>Therefore you just admit that the late game is completely empty and I was right.No, I didn't. My post was a refutation of your obvious lie that the game has no events, which anyone can check by booting up the game and unpausing it. I felt no need to talk about how many events the late game has since the further you go, the more reactive they become. If you stagnate in the 90s, yes, you'll have fewer events, though you'll still receive a handful each year, especially since the recent updates added two late game crises.>you cannot separate reality from fiction and imagine that a world that went off the rails wouldn't end the same as it does otl because you're as creatively bankrupt as the devs of this game which is why you shouldn't bother with alt history if you don't have anything valuable to offer or say.Stick to HoI4 mods.
>>2435424>MarsI would have been utterly fine with a manned mission to Mars similar to Armstrong but I think they went way too far with the whole Moon colonization thing, that takes too far. Though I am not an expert of Space travel or rocket science, I can conceive of some changes to otl where a resurgent Soviet Union focused on scientific power causes a new space race and manages a manned Mars flight but that really should be the end goal of the tech, the creation of an actual colony on the moon was just too fantastic for me and kind of ruins that tree personally.>>2435424>>2435475>>2435485Regarding events, there are a fair few if you imitate the actual Soviet collapse but it does definitely get sparser, particularly around the historic collapse of the Warsaw pact constituents, if you are doing well. I would really like to see some more events for a Soviet Union going into the nineties that do not have them be some indomitable world power which I think the current system with the collapse of United States seems to gear towards.>Trump and the USAI think it is reasonable to assume a Trump presidency was possible given key differences but it does definitely show the devs lack of understanding of the USA in that era, ironically similar to Western pop-history understanding of the Soviets. A lot of this comes down to personal taste regarding alternate history scenarios, like space exploration, but I really do think the US could be reworked here. Honestly the idea of the USA collapsing, in my mind, should not even be possible, it just was not on the cards in the nineties the same way it was in the USSR. Isolationism certainly, perhaps even withdrawing from NATO at a heavy HEAVY push, but dissolution? That is just nonsensical. I also do think if we are going to discuss whether or not presidential candidates are realistic or not then we should at least admit that Perot would get his head blown off by the CIA within the first few months of his presidency.
>>2435491*I meant Paul instead of Perot
>>2435485By being a pedantic faggot you immediately concede the argument >>2435491There's basically no replayability and no country has any agency due to lack of any events. In Mao Turkey could start invading everyone if you brought wolves to power or USSR and USA could team up if you became too strong. In this game you either collapse or conquer everyone with no in-betweens in an empty world that doesn't react or challenges you in any way.
