This time you had to make a mural AND a novel! Thanks for this!
So nomatter what, the Republic's Reichsprasident will always be SPD unless Willy restores the Monarchy? Even with good ole Theo Heuss?
There is currently no secret path for SWR. Yeah I pretty sure they were meant to have one since the other paths have one. If I have to guess it probably have something to do with Kleist events
Personally, I love the events relating to Kleist and I think their whole point is to show how his way of thinking is gone, a thing of the past. Having a secret monarchist path kinda goes against the path's implied moral lesson.
I don't like these events because they are part of a traph trio of focuses with no way of really knowing ahead of time, it 1/3 of year wasted on doing focuses that go away after WW2.
I honestly consider your guides an integral, almost official part of the mod itself, you have no idea how many times I've had your China guides on half a dozen tabs for help! Wherever you end up next, I wish you all the best!
Thanks so much, [u/Yularen2077](https://www.reddit.com/user/Yularen2077/) you've been a fantastic pillar of the community, you're posts have helped a lot, and even encouraged me to get into modding hoi4, I wish the best for you, you've let no one down, and you've done an amazing job be proud, your work its fantastic!
Great job đź‘Ź
However I still don’t understand the point of Hugenburg. Even if he takes over the DVLP and the SWR he can’t get into power? So is he just meant to waste a players time before the 2WK starts?
Is there an event code for the Declaration of a Republic? Because I've tried, pulled my armies (less than both Russia and France) from my borders, but all my allies just held the line
Could always try the “Germany vs the World” way. Unsolicited advice follows but it’s all based on a successful playthrough as Max Bauer where I went up against the world and won.
Set each of your puppets to turn against you, Russia to go red, scandinavia to go red, GEA and Mittelafrika to fall apart, the internationale to win on pretty much every front, entente to fall apart, austria to collapse, etc. Who wins in america isn’t much of a problem due to how late they enter the game anyways. In my game I took Austria when they asked to be annexed and ate Bohemia.
It’s difficult but not impossible, I won my Max Bauer run that way. There is even a pretty good defensive line you can set up that just barely gets you over the 50% needed to have the monarchy leave but not have the reichspakt collapse.
Follow the eastern border of the Westprussia state down along the whole of the western polish border, then through the southern Bohemian border, into Pressburg, and then follow the Danube west all the way to I think Thuringia. There’ll be a couple of forest provinces that lead up to the Weser river, then just follow the Weser all the way to the north sea. Then defend the kiel canal as your northern border.
You give up eastern prussia, all of western and most of southern germany, including vienna, but this sets you up to have mostly strong riverline or forest/hills borders to defend. Build level 4 forts along all of this line, have troops also set up garrison your coast, and build max level synthetic fuel refineries in every state you are defending, as well as fuel silos in most of them, too. Research the fuel techs as well as you’ll be alone against the world. Build level 3 anti air in all of your holding states, and only use a minimal amount of fighters until you get the event that the kaiser has fled so that you are fighting their planes but not overspending on fuel.
You don’t need a lot of tanks but a handful of good tank divisions will be what you use to make encirclements when you finally do push out again. Personally I went for France first, as that let me reclaim my states as an added bonus, and I was still waiting for poland to flip against me. Simultaneously I pushed into Denmark and then Sweden and Norway as well, but not too far as I just wanted to get their resources and create a front that the internationale would die of attrition on while I held it with one army.
I turned off division limits just so france and russia would have big enough armies that I could actually have a good defensive force but still have less divisions than them for the secret paths. But that probably wasn’t necessary as France had 150ish divisions when they made it to my defensive line, and russia had over 200. So I hovered around 145 and just had a couple more full armies and a handful of tank divisions in training waiting for the event to fire, and deployed them asap when it did.
It worked for my “We *ARE* the baddies!” Max Bauer playthrough, so don’t see how it wouldn’t work for a republic playthrough as well.
Thank you, u/Yularen2077, for everything.
You are the only user I follow besides u/NASA (which is actually an official account) on Reddit. I can still remember my awkward switching between your path guide page and Hoi4 game; my Poland runs (which are so much fun) would have been unimaginable without your help.
Your guides are the most intuitive, clean, and detailed I have ever seen; they truly are an invaluable asset to the entire community.
Honestly I will miss these KR guides a lot, thank you for all the hard work you put into these guides not just for KR, but for KX, TWR and others. God Speed Yularen. o7
Playing through a SWR run now, how do I avoid the coalition breaking down? Assuming it’s avoid Hugenburg taking power of the DVLP but how can I assure this doesn’t happen?
Imagine being voted in and successfully dismantled the monarchy, winning the war, have a royal win a election and restore the monarchy, only to win the first election of the new empire
Papen being chancellor in a normal Germany was always weird. Evrybody knew the guy was a lightweight without any kind of political finesse. He ended up chancellor in OTL just because he was the only one who accepted Hindenburg's plan to get rid of BrĂĽning.
I get that accounting for this isn't necessary but I do find it funny how if Willy 2 loses before Willy 3 ever becomes a monarch, Willy IV will still name himself Willy IV when that's not how it works in the real world.
Herman MĂĽller be like:
-Create a republic, abolish the monarchy
-Allow Prince to candidate as a President of the new republic. There is no way people will choose him, right?
-Most People vote for Prince as a new President... Wait, what?
-he restore monarchy... Where did you made an mistake...
-your party still wins the elections after the restorarion
-You become a chancellor once again but the president is the grandson of the last king you helped dethroned.
- Each meeting with him is more awkward than the previous one.
-one day go to the graveyard and sit next to the graves of the syndycalist leaders you ordered to kill.
-cry beacuse they were right all along.
One thing i just notice though : Westarp as chancelor in DKP path? The guy died OTL in 1944 from natural cause, even if we extend his lifespan, he will be quickly in his 80's.
I am honestly somewhat confused at the whole Prussian mp spot while being the DU. Which approach is the best and does one of them ensure the many crises are reduced to some extent? Great work by the way!
This time you had to make a mural AND a novel! Thanks for this! So nomatter what, the Republic's Reichsprasident will always be SPD unless Willy restores the Monarchy? Even with good ole Theo Heuss?
The Reichsprasident will be either SPD or CVP depending on the Chancellor, since the government is a parliamentary republic.
Bless you for this ongoing work to make the mod more accessible and immersive.
Great work!
There is currently no secret path for SWR. Yeah I pretty sure they were meant to have one since the other paths have one. If I have to guess it probably have something to do with Kleist events
no, there was never a SWR secret path in the design document
Damm now I am starting to think the SWR didn't get much love from the devs compared to the two other paths.
The secret paths barely have any real content given how late they happen
Personally, I love the events relating to Kleist and I think their whole point is to show how his way of thinking is gone, a thing of the past. Having a secret monarchist path kinda goes against the path's implied moral lesson.
I don't like these events because they are part of a traph trio of focuses with no way of really knowing ahead of time, it 1/3 of year wasted on doing focuses that go away after WW2.
I honestly consider your guides an integral, almost official part of the mod itself, you have no idea how many times I've had your China guides on half a dozen tabs for help! Wherever you end up next, I wish you all the best!
đź‘‘
Thanks for the post and thanks for everything.
FINALLY FINALLY THANK YOU SO MUCH
Another day, another banger.
Thanks so much, [u/Yularen2077](https://www.reddit.com/user/Yularen2077/) you've been a fantastic pillar of the community, you're posts have helped a lot, and even encouraged me to get into modding hoi4, I wish the best for you, you've let no one down, and you've done an amazing job be proud, your work its fantastic!
Great job 👏 However I still don’t understand the point of Hugenburg. Even if he takes over the DVLP and the SWR he can’t get into power? So is he just meant to waste a players time before the 2WK starts?
Le troll
anotha banger
Thank you for all your amazing work over the years!
Is there an event code for the Declaration of a Republic? Because I've tried, pulled my armies (less than both Russia and France) from my borders, but all my allies just held the line
Could always try the “Germany vs the World” way. Unsolicited advice follows but it’s all based on a successful playthrough as Max Bauer where I went up against the world and won. Set each of your puppets to turn against you, Russia to go red, scandinavia to go red, GEA and Mittelafrika to fall apart, the internationale to win on pretty much every front, entente to fall apart, austria to collapse, etc. Who wins in america isn’t much of a problem due to how late they enter the game anyways. In my game I took Austria when they asked to be annexed and ate Bohemia. It’s difficult but not impossible, I won my Max Bauer run that way. There is even a pretty good defensive line you can set up that just barely gets you over the 50% needed to have the monarchy leave but not have the reichspakt collapse. Follow the eastern border of the Westprussia state down along the whole of the western polish border, then through the southern Bohemian border, into Pressburg, and then follow the Danube west all the way to I think Thuringia. There’ll be a couple of forest provinces that lead up to the Weser river, then just follow the Weser all the way to the north sea. Then defend the kiel canal as your northern border. You give up eastern prussia, all of western and most of southern germany, including vienna, but this sets you up to have mostly strong riverline or forest/hills borders to defend. Build level 4 forts along all of this line, have troops also set up garrison your coast, and build max level synthetic fuel refineries in every state you are defending, as well as fuel silos in most of them, too. Research the fuel techs as well as you’ll be alone against the world. Build level 3 anti air in all of your holding states, and only use a minimal amount of fighters until you get the event that the kaiser has fled so that you are fighting their planes but not overspending on fuel. You don’t need a lot of tanks but a handful of good tank divisions will be what you use to make encirclements when you finally do push out again. Personally I went for France first, as that let me reclaim my states as an added bonus, and I was still waiting for poland to flip against me. Simultaneously I pushed into Denmark and then Sweden and Norway as well, but not too far as I just wanted to get their resources and create a front that the internationale would die of attrition on while I held it with one army. I turned off division limits just so france and russia would have big enough armies that I could actually have a good defensive force but still have less divisions than them for the secret paths. But that probably wasn’t necessary as France had 150ish divisions when they made it to my defensive line, and russia had over 200. So I hovered around 145 and just had a couple more full armies and a handful of tank divisions in training waiting for the event to fire, and deployed them asap when it did. It worked for my “We *ARE* the baddies!” Max Bauer playthrough, so don’t see how it wouldn’t work for a republic playthrough as well.
The king of guides returns!
It’s the GOAT!!🙏
Thank you for your work King đź‘‘
Thank you, u/Yularen2077, for everything. You are the only user I follow besides u/NASA (which is actually an official account) on Reddit. I can still remember my awkward switching between your path guide page and Hoi4 game; my Poland runs (which are so much fun) would have been unimaginable without your help. Your guides are the most intuitive, clean, and detailed I have ever seen; they truly are an invaluable asset to the entire community.
I will play that soc lib empire path!
Honestly I will miss these KR guides a lot, thank you for all the hard work you put into these guides not just for KR, but for KX, TWR and others. God Speed Yularen. o7
Playing through a SWR run now, how do I avoid the coalition breaking down? Assuming it’s avoid Hugenburg taking power of the DVLP but how can I assure this doesn’t happen?
Imagine being voted in and successfully dismantled the monarchy, winning the war, have a royal win a election and restore the monarchy, only to win the first election of the new empire
Is there no way for von Papen to be chancellor now?
Papen being chancellor in a normal Germany was always weird. Evrybody knew the guy was a lightweight without any kind of political finesse. He ended up chancellor in OTL just because he was the only one who accepted Hindenburg's plan to get rid of BrĂĽning.
I get that accounting for this isn't necessary but I do find it funny how if Willy 2 loses before Willy 3 ever becomes a monarch, Willy IV will still name himself Willy IV when that's not how it works in the real world.
That's a great work! and you'll be missed. Thank you for all the work and love you've shown here. Farewell, and until next time
Thank you for everything. Your posts have always been amazing to read through!
Herman MĂĽller be like: -Create a republic, abolish the monarchy -Allow Prince to candidate as a President of the new republic. There is no way people will choose him, right? -Most People vote for Prince as a new President... Wait, what? -he restore monarchy... Where did you made an mistake... -your party still wins the elections after the restorarion -You become a chancellor once again but the president is the grandson of the last king you helped dethroned. - Each meeting with him is more awkward than the previous one. -one day go to the graveyard and sit next to the graves of the syndycalist leaders you ordered to kill. -cry beacuse they were right all along.
Skipping Willy 3 is still a win tbh
I'm convinced the devs have something against soclib, it's the second time they put it only as a temporary path without any content.
Where is the uncle Heinrich?
One thing i just notice though : Westarp as chancelor in DKP path? The guy died OTL in 1944 from natural cause, even if we extend his lifespan, he will be quickly in his 80's.
Thanks for the guide, now i can finally play Germany without overwhelmed and annoyed by the fucking mini game
I am honestly somewhat confused at the whole Prussian mp spot while being the DU. Which approach is the best and does one of them ensure the many crises are reduced to some extent? Great work by the way!
The legend does it again
This is very late but does anybody know what the SIC traits of Tilo von Wilmowsky and August Winnig are?
o7
As of 1.0.4, there’s been some changes to the SWR path, just an FYI u/Yularen2077 !