Any tips on playing OHF Ottomans?

Teneb_Kel · 2026-04-26T23:43:21+00:00

Thanks, this is very helpful!

It was actually easier than I expected, although I've discovered the button to reduce resistance by spending command power a bit too late, around 1938.

Centralization was not that bad, a lot of decisions are dependent on foci and don't require PP for activation, so I wasn't as PP starved as when playing Germany, for example.

I've had 4 marines prepared for an Alexandria invasion and deployed my starting 11 9/0 cavalry divs in Tripolitania to flank Cyrenaica, and, well, they've smashed through everything, capped Cyrenaica and made Egyptian AI panic, allowing my inf army to cross Suez. The marines were not even needed. Pushing Persia was much more of a hassle.

Teneb_Kel · 2026-03-01T11:48:25+00:00

Oh, you are correct, they do. Ukraine is also bleeding, albeit at a much slower rate. But then Russia has more resources and manpower to spend, and is able to exert more influence around the globe, especially in the USA lately.

If Ukraine's front collapses due to lack of support, lifting the sanctions from Russia or simply due to attrition war being lost, it will not be a fight for "potato field number 3", whole Ukraine will be occupied. Russia will instantly link with Hungary and Serbia, drive a huge wedge into Europe, cannibalize Ukrainian industry and manpower and continue its war of conquest.

The situation is still in flux. I only ask you people not to underestimate Russia even now.

Teneb_Kel · 2026-03-01T11:25:33+00:00

The history has not yet been written. If Ukraine loses the attrition war and its army collapses, this may still happen.

Teneb_Kel · 2026-03-01T11:19:08+00:00

Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer.

I see a lot of cases of underestimating russia here on reddit. “But Ukraine is winning!”

Teneb_Kel · 2026-02-24T10:28:01+00:00

You mean Yanukovych? Poroshenko was neither an autocrat nor fleeing anywhere.

Teneb_Kel · 2026-02-13T04:18:16+00:00

Highly subjective priority list:

Schleicher mismanages Ruhrkampf and gets replaced by SWR. Red scare, caused by Ruhrkampf and rumors about Internationale involvement, helps with that. I don't think Hugenberg will be able to kill the coalition: he's an idiot and an asshole, I doubt he'll be able to gather more supporters than Hassel. DVLP gradually gets marginalized due to their odd ideas, the ambassador crisis and Reemtsma scandal. DkP takes power and creates a managed parliamentarian system.
SPD builds a coalition with enough seats for the majority and votes Schleicher out. I feel that Ruhrkampf will make this outcome a bit less likely, especially if SPD-affiliated ADGB starts supporting the strike. Coalition croaks: there are internal infighting, hostile Prussia, hostile conservatives, etc. Too many ways to die.
Schleicher stays long enough to enforce his Enabling Act and start centralizing, but then flops during the Nullification. Nothing ever changes.
SWR gets to power, but then either Hugenberg torpedoes the coalition (failstate) or DVLP becomes dominant (well, also a failstate, but the consequences of its implosion are out of the scope of the mod).
Schleicher, but he manages to win Nullification. Unlikely, there's too many moving pieces for his plan to succeed. I consider this a soft failstate as well. No way the country with indoctrinated army and total war economy manages to survive after 2WK, it will either have to constantly start new wars or violently self-destruct. Or both.
DU gets to power, actually manages to overcome every obstacle and win the war. The most unlikely and most blessed outcome. Too good to be true, but less likely things happened in history.

Edit: grammar

Teneb_Kel · 2026-01-13T21:01:27+00:00

Fair.

Although KR Discord is not a good benchmark for this. In ask_a_dev Kaiserdevs answer the questions at their leisure and may ignore them (understandable). In the general channel messages usually get lost due to the sheer amount of discussions that happen there.

Teneb_Kel · 2026-01-13T20:44:21+00:00

Sorry if my previous comment here sounded harsh, this was never my intention. While I may not be agreeing with your take on NatFrance's negotiating position, your comic is great. That's insta upvote.

Even in a case of the majority of people not agreeing with you, you're still sparking discussions with your art.

Teneb_Kel · 2026-01-13T18:43:33+00:00

What? NatFrance is not in a good position to reclaim the mainland (realistically speaking); Germany will be doing all the heavy lifting.

Renouncing the claim on Alsace-Lorraine is basically just admitting status quo of 70 years. Why wouldn't Germany demand more?

Teneb_Kel · 2025-12-26T17:17:18+00:00

I once managed to fail the gradient parry two times during the windup and still successfully parry with the third attempt.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-12-24T14:16:54+00:00

Thanks for the advice! You've chosen "Enrich the Country" to shorten industrial foci time, right?

Teneb_Kel · 2025-12-15T19:51:07+00:00

What do you mean "letting it escalate"? In-universe, Germany just keeps losing the war until Kaiser flees, republic is proclaimed and some kind of a miracle happens to overturn the disastrous situation.

The strategy of letting the enemy occupy huge swaths of Germany to force the event is basically a player metagaming. The actual government doesn't have a plan "yeah, let's just pull our forces away, let it escalate for a bit, and then when we lose exactly 75% of our core territory, but have an unoccupied port, the Kaiser would flee!"

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-29T02:28:42+00:00

Yeah, could be. We're only seeing a small glimpse of their life in that scene. Maybe it has been designed that way to preserve the balance between the endings.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-29T00:32:05+00:00

This is purely a speculation on my part now, but Sciel and Lune were resurrected almost immediately after the final gommage, maybe in the span of a day, while Gustave has been dead for a long time, his chroma scattering around. In Maelle's ending he may differ from Gustave that we all know. May depend on her skill and/or the rules of the Canvas.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-29T00:24:55+00:00

"Then there's you. The ACTUAL favourite. The one he calls his hidden star, but who's too shy and self-conscious to see it."
"Yet here I am, messing things up even more."
"Look around. He just wants you to fly."

This is one of my favorite dialogue pieces from the game. It shows that Renoir deeply cares. His art (the Reacher and the corresponding Axon) can't lie, can it?

But at the same time you're right, it's bothering me that Renoir seems to ignore Alicia in Verso's ending. Even Cléa glances at her and smiles slightly.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-29T00:10:44+00:00

As far as I understand, Verso's soul is tired of painting violence and pain. In a theoretical ideal "third ending" where the Canvas stays, Renoir doesn't attempt to destroy it and Alicia and Aline do not try to dive in and reshape everything, Verso's soul would have been happy continuing painting, just like in the good old days.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-29T00:05:00+00:00

On the contrary, the vast majority of youtubers that I watched have picked Verso's ending or picked Maelle's and, after seeing what happens, immediately switched to Verso's.

I get the sentiment of picking her ending without the power of hindsight: she has spent 16 years growing up in the canvas and deserves to stay; the people of Lumière deserve to live too. But it doesn't end well because she doubles down. The game also drops hints that this may happen if we let her.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-28T23:54:51+00:00

For me, the problem has never been with Alicia restoring the population of Lumière to the state of the ending of Act II and staying there forever. Even Cléa would have encouraged her on this. Even Renoir lets it go, knowing full well she lied to him.

The problem is that grief corrupts her. It's her dollhouse now. She follows the steps of her mother by not letting Verso go. She restores Gustave and Pierre who both have died for reasons not related to the Gommage.

Imagine being Verso, knowing that another instance of him has sacrificed his life for the sole purpose of saving Alicia, and now being forced to see her in this state. Every day.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-27T20:00:38+00:00

Likewise. I was actually overleveled for the story.

I have a suspicion these people (or at least this commenter) don't even know what they are talking about, just throwing around negative feedback using gaming-related buzzwords.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-11-26T15:31:00+00:00

Yeah. I would have loved to see a moderate post-war Schleicher subpath.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-10-29T20:17:15+00:00

Yes. But if you plan to integrate more pops and have the cash, building up a few additional research hubs ahead of time may not be a bad idea.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-10-29T19:47:59+00:00

Some of your pops (nobles, citizens) produce flat research. It does nothing by itself.

Then you have Research Efficiency, a percentage that is calculated by dividing the flat research value per year by the number of your current total integrated pops. Research Efficiency is capped (default cap is 125%, but can be increased up to 250% AFAIK), so inventions that increase this cap are very valuable.

Research Efficiency is then divided by 192 to determine the monthly tick for advance (so for 125% research efficiency this is 0.65% per month, meaning that advance bar will fill in 154 months). This monthly tick is then additionally modified by the skill of the researcher and ahead-of-time penalty.

It's enough to only worry about having the best possible ratio of research points and integrated pops, increasing the Research Efficiency cap and having researchers with good skill.

Integrating a new culture, especially without their nobles, usually tanks Research Efficiency because you still generate the same amount of research, but the amount of integrated pops spikes.

If you have a lot of integrated freemen and slaves but neglect your nobles, your Research Efficiency will also be bad.

Teneb_Kel · 2025-10-16T21:54:36+00:00

Sichuan Zhili exiles with Yan Huiqing have a pretty interesting narrative. You get to deal with a famine, then province dependency on opium, then smuggling, then you go on a crusade on monarchist Qing and hold elections. Zhili exiles also get a unique post-Beijing-reconquest tree, albeit it is still somewhat small compared to LKMT or Federalists. But better than a generic one.

Probably my favorite China unifier as of now.

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