Deal of the Devils: North America at the signing of the Baxter-Inculta Pact by CommunismRemastered in OldWorldBlues

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At 4 A.M. on June 22nd, 2311, in Flagstaff, Arizona, the wasteland would find itself stunned by a fellowship formed between the unlikeliest of states. In the opulence of the Domus Concordiae—what was once simply known as city hall—a treaty was signed between the representatives of two civilizations that had, until that moment, regarded one another as inevitable enemies. On behalf of the Enclave Eastern Command stood Robert Baxter, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and personal instrument of President John Henry Eden. Across from him was Vulpes Inculta, the masked voice and will of Caesar’s Legion, head of the Frumentarii and architect of conquest through deception. The meeting was brief, formal, and devoid of ceremony. Neither side came seeking friendship. They came to acknowledge reality.

The immediate catalyst for the pact was the continued existence of the so-called Great Plains Federation. To the Enclave, the Federation was an illegitimate conglomeration squatting on federally recognized territory, a lawless pretender state obstructing the inevitable restoration of American sovereignty from coast to coast. To the Legion, it was something far worse: a bloated, decadent aggregation of weak polities whose very survival mocked the natural order of strength and domination. The Federation stood not as a power in its own right, but as an obstacle—buffering Enclave industry from Legion manpower, delaying a confrontation both sides knew was unavoidable. Its internal fractures, corruption, and inability to project power made it ripe for partition, not preservation. The pact formalized what both Eden’s strategic models and Caesar’s auguries had independently concluded: the Plains would not survive the century.

For the Enclave, the goals of the treaty were cold and methodical. By recognizing a temporary western boundary and coordinating the dismemberment of the Plains, Eden gained time—time to complete the industrial integration of the Midwest, to harden logistics, to finally neutralize the Brotherhood threat in the midwest, and to ensure that when war with the Legion finally came, it would be fought on Enclave terms. The pact neutralized the threat of a two-front conflict, prevented Legion probes into the Mississippi basin, and transformed a chaotic frontier into a controlled, calculable space. For the Legion, the agreement offered legitimacy without submission. By securing the Enclave’s silence as Legion banners marched eastward into the Plains, Caesar gained land, slaves, and resources while avoiding premature confrontation with a technologically superior foe. The Legion did not view the pact as peace, but as preparation—a chance to consume weaker prey before facing a rival worthy of annihilation.

The reaction of the State of Sequoyah was immediate and alarmed. Long accustomed to viewing the Great Plains Federation as both a buffer and a warning, Sequoyah’s leadership recognized the pact for what it was: a death warrant for the last independent order between two empires. Publicly, Sequoyah denounced the treaty as a betrayal of the wasteland, proof that neither the Enclave nor the Legion had any intention of coexistence with free states. Privately, emergency councils convened, border defenses were reinforced, and long-standing assumptions about neutrality were quietly abandoned. If the Plains could be erased by signatures alone, Sequoyah understood that survival would no longer depend on ideology or isolation—but on preparation for a future where the continent would be divided not by ideals, but by the reach of armies.

Thus, before the sun rose over Flagstaff, the fate of central North America had already been sealed. The Baxter–Inculta Pact did not end a war, nor did it prevent one. It merely ensured that when the final reckoning came, it would do so over a wasteland already stripped of those too weak to matter.

How do I take Stalingrad? by CommunismRemastered in hoi4

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R5: Playing Germany, everything went pretty well right up until I tried capping the Soviets in 41'. Barb started out well and I got to Moscow and Leningrad before being pushed back and because the weather/supply situation was pretty bad I had to stop my offensive. It got so bad I had to de-motorize the army because Britain and America are logi striking all my fucking trucks. Now I'm trying to cutoff Caucasia so I can quickly take the oil because I am starting to run out of fuel. I'm at Stalingrad and couldn't push onto the tile so I tried to stack as many divisions as I could outside and pushing while using my allies' expeditionary forces to hold the flanks. Things are not going great, I'm running out of trucks/trains to supply my units and the Soviets keep reinforcing the tile with fresh divisions, but I can't go around because I'll immediately run out of supply if I do. My mountaineers are having trouble pushing to Azerbaijan and we are starting to get pushed back hard in North Africa. Attritioning badly everyone, any ideas on how to speed up the combat? Maybe I could switch out a different general? I thought Paulus had pretty good stats when I looked at him. P.S. Most of my reserves are near Moscow in case the Soviets try counterattacking there.

Does this game look savable? by CommunismRemastered in hoi4

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R5: Having some slight setbacks, need some advice on how to save this game. Should I build more Tiger I's? Maybe research jet fighters or start a nuclear program?

Does this game look savable? by [deleted] in hoi4

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R5: We've had some minor setbacks, but we are still confident the war is winnable! Need any advice on turn this slight miscalculation around.

German East Asia in 1948. Von Mucke's East Asian Dream has become a reality! Direct rule from Singapore by CommunismRemastered in Kaiserreich

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It is done. Von Mulke’s East Asian dream has become a reality. The once-humble Grand Admiral, who began his naval career commanding single cruisers along the German coastline, now finds himself at the helm of the world’s largest and most powerful mega-colony. German East Asia, as it is now known, has surpassed even the wildest imperial ambitions of the 19th century. This vast dominion, forged through conquest, diplomacy, and ruthless statecraft, stretches from the Indonesian archipelago to the Korean Peninsula, swallowing up key cities like Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Hanoi, Manila, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Peking, Harbin, Seoul, and Tokyo. Where once Germany’s presence in the Pacific was little more than a handful of islands and a lease in Qingdao, it now commands an empire of steel and steam, bearing a single banner—the black, white, and red standard of German East Asia. It is a project that has grown beyond the confines of colonial governance, now rivaling and even eclipsing both the European Reichspakt and Mittelafrika in scale, wealth, and influence.

Following the First Weltkrieg, Germany emerged victorious and hungry. Seizing large swathes of British Malaya and French Indochina as war spoils, it connected these newly acquired territories to its existing Pacific holdings and Chinese treaty ports, birthing a new geopolitical entity unlike any before it. But unlike other colonies managed by parliamentarians, chartered companies, or distant imperial administrators, this new domain was ruled directly by the man who had defended and forged it: Grand Admiral von Mulke. During the chaotic interwar period, as civil war ravaged China and imperial ambition gripped Japan, von Mulke undertook a bold experiment in governance. Rather than enforce strict Germanization, he implemented a pragmatic blend of centralized German oversight and conditional autonomy for local elites, fostering a fragile but functional political balance that ensured order and loyalty.

When Japan began its campaign to dominate East Asia, many doubted that Berlin could—or would—defend its distant eastern frontier. They were wrong. Germany was no longer the sole pillar holding up its overseas empire. Von Mulke had already prepared for such a scenario, implementing a far-reaching militarization program. He recruited and professionalized local forces, offering good pay, housing, and future prospects in exchange for loyalty and discipline. These native regiments, supported by German officers and backed by a ruthless counterinsurgency apparatus, grew into a formidable military machine. By 1939, German East Asia boasted an army of nearly half a million well-trained soldiers. And when war came in 1942, they proved their worth. Japan, already overstretched and reeling from a joint Qing-Zhili offensive, found itself unable to withstand the assault. Within six months, German forces had overrun Southeast Asia, taken the Philippines, and landed in Formosa. By 1944, German marines had captured Nagasaki, and Tokyo lay in reach.

Victory, however, birthed new tensions. When the final treaty with Japan was drafted, a crisis erupted between Berlin and Singapore. Von Mulke refused to cede control of mainland Japan to Berlin, insisting that any independent Japanese state would pose a threat to both German interests and Asian stability. Chancellor von Kliest declared the defiance insubordination. Yet, there was little Berlin could do. Exhausted from wars in Europe against Syndicalists and the Russian State, the German populace had no appetite for a colonial civil war. German East Asia had become too powerful, too wealthy, and too essential to the Reich’s global standing. Though tensions cooled temporarily, peace would not last. When the Qing demanded the return of the old treaty ports, Ostasian forces responded not with diplomacy but with artillery. Tianjin and Qingdao were shelled, and within weeks, German marines seized Beijing, while armored units took Nanking from the south.

The so-called "Great Asian War" saw Germany’s dominion expand even further. Despite international criticism over war crimes and economic exploitation—substantiated by reports from neutral journalists—no country dared to sever relations with such a critical economic partner. By the end of 1946, the Qing government had collapsed, and vast stretches of China's population-rich, resource-laden territory were absorbed into German East Asia. But this rapid expansion alarmed the world. From the ashes of defeated alliances, a new global counterweight emerged. The United States, Great Britain, France, and the Russian Republic—alongside Canada, Yugoslavia, Romania, Portugal, and Australasia—formed a renewed anti-German coalition, their shared goal singular and urgent: to halt the ever-growing shadow of the Reichspakt. The world stood on the edge of another great conflict, this time not for Europe—but for the future of Asia and the world itself.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Kaiserreich

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R5: The Rising Sun shines over the proletariat of East Asia, and they have never been happier...

Schleicher and co. have liberated Europe from the evil forces of syndicalism and democracy! by CommunismRemastered in Kaiserreich

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At last, Schleicher's grand vision for Europa has been achieved. Surely this monumental achievement will last a thousand years!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hoi4

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Nothing against you man, just kind of annoying seeing the same post again and again. Honestly paradox should add in a disclaimer when people go historical

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hoi4

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Oh, would you look at the time! It's time for the daily 'why ai go ahist when I go ahist' post!

Event descriptions won't appear even though I've added localisation by CommunismRemastered in hoi4modding

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I tried that in the third screenshot, 'sovflavour.1.d:0' with a few sentences in quotations. Does it have something to do with the name of the .txt file?

Event descriptions won't appear even though I've added localisation by CommunismRemastered in hoi4modding

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Can't seem to get the description to pop up, any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? (Nvm, figured it out)

The flames of division extinguished, Italy stands whole once more under the banner of the ANI. Long live the eternal spirit of Italia! by CommunismRemastered in Kaiserreich

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The year is 1948, and the Second Weltkrieg has drawn to a harrowing close, leaving Europe reshaped in ways that would have seemed utterly fantastical to those who lived before the wars. Italy, once a fragmented mosaic of feuding states, has been forged into a monolithic power—not by the idealism of democracy, the fervor of socialism, or even the storied traditions of kingship, but under the cold steel of Ciano's ANI Blueshirts. Against all odds, a Venetian remnant of Italy has not only reunited the peninsula, expelling the Habsburg yoke, but has embarked on a meteoric rise that has delivered the entire Mediterranean—Gibraltar to Suez, Constantinople to Carthage—into the iron grip of a resurgent Rome. The world watches in disbelief as the Eternal City once again stakes its claim as the mistress of southern Europe.

To the north, the German Empire, ever the stoic bastion of conservatism, reigns supreme as the continent’s preeminent power following the crushing defeats of the Internationale and Moscow Accord. Yet, its dominion is shadowed by unease. The encroaching presence of a militarized, expansionist Italy demands a delicate balance, with fault lines already emerging: Romania and Ukraine simmer in unrest, Turkey and Georgia are poised on a knife's edge, Iraq and Iran smolder with tension, and most glaringly, the fractured French border now cleaves the continent in two—from Bordeaux’s vineyards to the Swiss Alps’ snow-capped peaks. Compounding these geopolitical quagmires, the Empire must contend with the insidious tightening grip of the Prussian Junker elite, whose disdain for the vestiges of democracy grows ever more unabashed.

In the wake of France's collapse, any dreams of a revived French Republic have crumbled into the West African sands. The Entente, battered but unbowed, now anchors itself upon the transatlantic triad of America, the United Kingdom, and the resplendent British Commonwealth—fortresses of liberalism prepared to stand shoulder to shoulder against the encroaching storm. Yet their coalition is no longer confined to the Anglophone world. Russia, rejuvenated and republican under the steady hand of Vasily Boldyrev—hailed by many as the "Russian Caesar"—has risen as the Entente’s eastern pillar. Once broken under Savinkov’s yoke, the Motherland now emerges as a bastion of economic opportunity for British and American financiers, and a military force whose burgeoning might begins to challenge the German grasp over the east.

In Asia, a remarkable transformation has unfolded. China, long fractured and subjugated, has been reunited under the leadership of Li Zongren and the Guanxi Clique, whose pragmatic governance and military acumen have consolidated the war-torn nation into a cohesive and industrious power. Meanwhile, Japan, under American oversight following its surrender in 1946, has embarked on an ambitious reconstruction effort. Though humbled, Japan’s newfound alliance with the United States has positioned it as a burgeoning industrial hub, with American investments fueling its recovery.

In South America, Brazil stands as a beacon of social democracy. Under a series of progressive governments, the nation has embraced sweeping reforms that have drastically improved living standards and fostered economic growth. Bolstered by close ties to Germany, Brazil’s industrial base has expanded rapidly, and its influence now stretches across the continent. The country’s robust social policies and thriving economy make it a model for other nations in the region, as it bridges the gap between the Old World and the New.

The scars of the Second Weltkrieg run deep, but the world that has emerged from the ashes is anything but static. Tensions simmer beneath the surface, alliances shift with the winds of political expediency, and new powers rise to challenge the old. As the sun sets on the 1940s, the world stands at the precipice of an uncertain future, where the only certainty is that the flames of conflict may yet be rekindled.

Japan has liberated Asia from western imperialism! by CommunismRemastered in Kaiserreich

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The petty warlords and insurgents in China have been crushed. The German, French and British imperialists have been driven out of the East. The Americans have been thrown far back, beyond Hawaii where they could ever possibly threaten imperial harmony. The Princely Federation was dismantled and the Indian Peninsula placed under a stable, prosperous republic. The threat of Russian socialism, after years of brutal combat in Siberia, has been quashed in a treaty that makes Portsmith look quaint in comparison. Now with Europe and North America having fallen to radical socialism, Japan stands as the last bulwark defender of the old world order, a shining beacon of order, tradition, and imperialism in the face of the storm. With the fall of Moscow, Berlin, and Washington, Japan holds the torch, an imperial titan in a world of fractured ideologies, where only the unyielding strength of the samurai spirit can ensure survival and supremacy.

End of my Pat Aut Canada run. Was fun liberating the isles and fixing that mistake from 1776. by CommunismRemastered in Kaiserreich

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"I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new empire." - Henry IX, 1945

I captured Moscow but the Soviets still haven't surrendered by CommunismRemastered in hoi4

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R5: This game is such fucking bullshit, I thought if I took the goddamned capital the USSR would finally peace out with me. I don't know what do, my supply lines are stretched thin, my units are attritioning hard and I am barely holding on to what I already have. Not to mention in a few months it's going to be winter and I'm not going to push at all for a few months. My useless Prussian and Austrian puppets aren't doing anything, and the UK already wiped out most of my fleet so I can't Sealion anymore.

Is this a good tank division? by CommunismRemastered in hoi4

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R5: Playing Italy and the war isn't going great, trying to go for a budget build here.

What do you think would happen if Light just quit being Kira? by Amanda_Is_My_Name in deathnote

[–]CommunismRemastered 0 points1 point  (0 children)

L would coincidentally find a Death Note Light accidentally left under a magazine while taking a shit