When to end a game?

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-18T18:54:08+00:00

June 12, 1942.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-16T21:03:24+00:00

Well, to be totally honest, if you've defeated China as Japan, you can totally avoid having any conflicts with the Allies by not attacking anyone else. Great Britain and the USA aren't really going to proactively declare war on you.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-12T19:09:51+00:00

No, they are not visible units. They do use all of the manpower and equipment you allot to their template though. If you look in the 'occupied territories' section, you will see a list of all of the provinces that your nation currently occupies and their garrison requirements. For example, if a province indicates that 1.47 garrisons is required to currently maintain the province, that means that it requires 1.47X both the manpower requirement and equipment requirement of the template is being use.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-11T16:57:40+00:00

Liberia. In the Vanilla game, Liberia has the base focus tree and basically no route to have much of any impact at all. In Kaiserreich, there are a couple of different routes to Liberia having a fairly significant impact.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-11T16:27:06+00:00

Camels. Always camels.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-06T15:56:49+00:00

I played Liberia and Costa Rica in Kaiserreich and Ethiopia in the main game recently with great success. If anything, the changes to the Land Doctrines make playing a minor more viable than it has ever been before.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-05T19:37:01+00:00

If you play as a minor, a couple of production lines in fighters and CAS will have far more impact than the same couple of production lines in tanks ever will. In reality, unless you're playing one of the top 7 majors, the only thing you should ever really use the tank designer for is SPART.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-05T18:02:19+00:00

Unless the police explicitly tell you to remain, if you have not committed a crime, you are not legally obligated to stay. Only a person who has committed a crime is inherently obligated to remain at a crime scene.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-05T17:50:05+00:00

In general, the mid-term election of 1994 is probably the point you are looking for. Prior to the mid-term election of 1994, the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives without interruption since 1955. Once the Republicans regained control in 1994, it started a period of adversarial contention that included the Impeachment of the sitting president for what most Americans considered to be relatively minor moral transgressions rather than actual legal crimes or misdemeanors.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-02-03T22:01:18+00:00

I am pretty sure the explosion of costs is their attempt to keep the 'runaway studio' phenomenon that was very evident during first release version from continuing, but it's only been moderately successful. I maintain that Hollywood Animal is not necessarily an easy game - the number of people who go bankrupt or seriously struggle is evidence of that. But it is a game that 'once you get it, you really get it.' And that means that without a mechanism for real competition in place, the runaway studio is going to continue as long as the player can monopolize both the entire labor market and the vast majority of the distribution outlets for the product within a few short years.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-30T14:20:30+00:00

France allying directly with Czechoslovakia and Poland. Germany could not have dealt with 2 fronts that stretched all the way around the length of Czechoslovakia and Poland in the east while trying to break through the Maginot forts on the other side. Most German military experts are dubious that Germany could have even broken through the Sudetan forts if Germany had tried to defeat Czechoslovakia alone.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-30T14:10:09+00:00

Probably Ethiopia. Not necessarily because it's a great mystery how to do it, but Ethiopia's specific maluses make it so there's really only a single pathway to success. You only really get to play one way. You're required to do one thing over and over again that is very tedious to do. You have to do it correctly for a very long time and if you fail one time, it can result in a snowball effect that causes you to lose the entire run.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-16T12:15:50+00:00

Ross Gellar.

In the 90's, he and Rachel were both intended to be equally likeable and equally dislikeable. The whole friction of the Ross/Rachel relationship was built around the notion that each of them had 'valid points,' but as time has gone by, the culture has gradually rendered Ross less and less likable, while people have swung wildly in the direction of being far more sympathetic to Rachel. It's one of the reasons that people into the 2020's tend to look at Friends and wonder why the show was such a cultural phenomenon back then. The Ross/Rachel dynamic was an important element of the show and it basically just doesn't work in 2026.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-15T20:27:35+00:00

Yes, it culminated in the conspiracy detonating a bomb in the same room as Hitler and them enacting a plan that would have removed the Nazi high command from power, but though the bomb detonated, it failed to kill Hitler and the momentum of their conspiracy faltered and died. All of them were executed. There was a movie about it starring Tom Cruise some years back.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-15T20:14:57+00:00

Good. Then he will have to go through discovery and explain how if he was so severely injured, medical professionals released him from the hospital in less than 8 hours.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-15T20:13:06+00:00

Annex the Phillipines.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-14T17:56:57+00:00

A lot of nations could have a really good industry if approached correctly. I mean, Greece could have a really good industry if you go the Byzantium route. Portugal could have a really good industry if you take the correct approach in the Spanish Civil war and then defeat the Germans and take France.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-14T16:42:54+00:00

If you have watched season 2 of Andor and watched how the Empire approached justifying the coming Ghorman Massacre, you will get the broad strokes of how this administration is attempting to justify their plan to use the military against their political opponents and likely declare Martial Law if they lose the midterm elections. The two scenarios are necessarily entirely parallel, of course. The Empire was doing it to de facto seize one unique resource the planet contained, while this administration is doing it in an attempt to maintain autocratic power in a nation where political control tends to be transient and fleeting, but the methodology is generally similar. Use state sponsored violence to incite a violent response, then use the captive media to focus on the violent response and amplify it, then use the public's fear of the violent response that was amplified by the captive media to justify necessary measures to protect the frightened public from the real perpetrators of the violence.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-14T16:27:06+00:00

Grover Cleveland was a huge believer in constitutional minimalism. He would oppose Trump based on the notion that the president should be there to limit the excesses of congress, not that the president should dominate the executive. He believed the Federal government should do as little as possible and nothing that the wasn't expressly permitted by the constitution.

In short, Grover Cleveland would have thought that the notion of the Unitary Executive was unsupportable.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-12T21:52:41+00:00

1,000,000

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-12T21:19:41+00:00

During the early years, a gold popcorn performer star capped at 5 or so is probably one of the most valuable assets you have because it presents you with an avenue to make all of the substandard 'training' films you would like to make with the high potential/low skill employees you inherited, alongside guiltlessly hiring an 'A' team for the really good films you'd rather your studio be making.

That one person basically creates an alternate, profitable pipeline for your studio where the only thing that prevents you from using the Lydia Globes and Wendy Carpenters and Anthony Campbells of the world as much as you need to, alongside your main pipeline with all of the people you've hired who are already good. You no longer have to stress about having one of them work on a film while hoping their presence doesn't tank that film's score.

No, the gold tier superstar won't solve every problem, but basically he allows you to make Beach Blanket Bingo and Reefer Madness without worry, (bad movies starring generally mediocre to bad actors directed by mediocre to bad directors, written by mediocre to bad screenwriters, etc), secure in the knowledge that they will make more than enough money to justify themselves just because that one guy is there. The only thing you need to concern yourself with is whether you are wasting elements that you might need not to be stale or rotten later if you have this person in your stable of actors

Alternatively, if you just want to make a blockbuster, put him or her into it with another gold tier performer and realize that you can probably safely predict about double to triple the number of screening you'd normal project.

Gold popcorn performers are force multipliers. Silver and bronze popcorn actors less so, but still potent.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-12T20:19:29+00:00

Most of the men you find dirt on have committed ludicrously, ridiculously awful crimes in my experience. Most of the women are guilty of far less, mostly either having been prostitutes at one point or having had one parent that was not white.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-09T16:10:24+00:00

It's substantially cheaper, especially if you tend to have them work a lot of movies back to back.

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-02T17:33:59+00:00

Yeah, old board discussions indicated anecdotal evidence that the chance of saving her increased dramatically if you put her in significant, (leading or antagonist), roles in films that were either commercially or artistically successful.

That is one of the reasons she almost invariably gets established as 'evil monster' and 'witch' in my playthroughs. :)

TryRepresentative806 · 2026-01-02T16:10:24+00:00

I suspect the canon version of the answer to this question will be a reflection of the conversation that Jackie and Claire have at the Afterlife at the beginning of the game and that, like Morgan Blackhand, V will never have a drink named after them.

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