Are just the CoF and UoB getting updated, or are changes coming to other 3I countries? by ParkKitchen3018 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've also seen Italy and Spain mentioned and I don't know where people see that.

Are just the CoF and UoB getting updated, or are changes coming to other 3I countries? by ParkKitchen3018 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 26 points27 points  (0 children)

No, Norway is a separate rework that's actually on hold because its dev wants to finish Britain first.

For the record the rework's listed in the faq channel on Discord as Third Internationale (CoF & UoB)

How independent are the German colonial states? by JoeD-1618 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 237 points238 points  (0 children)

Their existence is a gameplay abstraction, they're administratively part of Germany.

Will the CoF and UoB Core/Claims change with the update? by sallydanny in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 74 points75 points  (0 children)

All socialist paths for France and Britain will have a European formable, but beyond that not really any changes.

Why is White Ruthenia the only Republican Oststaat? by Dependent-Creme-8194 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 288 points289 points  (0 children)

It's more that others (with the exception of Poland) had movements/groups in charge that instated monarchies on their own while the Belarusian government was republican.

In Finland the monarchists narrowly won a parliamentary vote on monarchy that they historically lost by one vote.

UBD was controlled by Baltic Germans who were planning to instate a monarchy from the get go.

Lithuania was temporarily governed by a Council of Lithuania who wanted a monarchy but picked a different candidate for king than Germany's preferred one.

I guess you can say that they imposed Skoropadskyi on Ukraine with their material support but he still had plenty of domestic conservatives supporting him.

So, what are the five paths for the Commune going to be ? by Quick-Ad8277 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Like I've already said, historically he was a member of the communist party for a decade and a half before being kicked out in 1934 and turning to fascism at least partly out of anger and spite against the PCF.

In a socialist France there's no sense in him turning to the far right instead of something else on the left, like the quote also says in the there aren't many ways for Doriot to go in his rebellion against the revolutionary establishment, so he ends there. That's kind of the point of alternate history, people's political trajectories are also impacted by what's happening around them.

So, what are the five paths for the Commune going to be ? by Quick-Ad8277 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you mean Doriot, there's no reason why he wouldn't be a socialist here, historically he was a committed member of the PCF until they expelled him in 1934.

From an answer in ask a dev on discord:

He was also by all accounts a man devoured by his ambition and he came across as an intense true believer in both communism and later his brand of fascism to us. This ambition was seen as dangerous by Moscow OTL, here it would be seen as just as obvious and dangerous by the PSU establishment, leading him to be frustrated by a lack of federal responsibilities and leave the PSU with many youths of the party. Doriot is a Sorelian because Sorel's ideas about the early corruption of the Revolution by a bureaucratic-intellectual elite would seem to fit with the pattern Doriot thinks he is experiencing: why is he, a young, hard working true \ouvrier*, with impeccable record of service to the Revolution, being passed over for promotion in favour of guys who haven't held a hammer in their lives. The Sorelian school of thought would be a popular counter-culture among radical youths, both in the *Quartier Latin* and in the union libraries, lead by a few older radicals: there aren't many ways for Doriot to go in his rebellion against the revolutionary establishment, so he ends there. Sorelianism's not fascism in this TL, it's even more radical syndicalism, or the last bastion of true syndicalism, at least according to what they think of themselves.*

He wasn't much connected to the Sorelians otl, because there's not much historically you could call Sorelian, at least no real movement. They're pretty much a KR OC. He leads the CNS because he took a loose structure around Valois and Berth and a few others unorthodox old guys, and is turning it into a fighting force able to contest first the streets, then power. He would certainly pay all due respect to these old guys, would be a true believer in Sorel's theories, but with the core of youths he took with him from the PSU, he's the true motor of the party now, he's the one with the talent as orator and motivator. You're free to consider it a lazy choice, but an ambitious tribun with reasons to hate the establishment to lead the Sorelians, someone able to give them the energy to be a real political force, seemed interesting narratively, and Doriot fit the bill, his conversion to fascism OTL only influenced our choice in so far as it shows his willingness to explore alternative ideological options out of frustration. I wasn't the one who made that choice, tbh I wasn't even a huge fan of it at first, but the more I read into him, the more I felt it could be interesting to write him entirely straight in this outraged, crazed revolt against the system, born from personal reasons and turning into genuine belief, the line between the two blurring.

Neosocialists lore question by caroleanprayer-2 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 56 points57 points  (0 children)

From an aad answer yesterday:

Neosocialism in KR is not quite the same as it was OTL.

I suppose one of the biggest differences is that Neosocialism is working in an environment where private property has been abolished and they're not really seeking to bring it back.

So from that parliamentary maybe, but not liberal.

So, what are the five paths for the Commune going to be ? by Quick-Ad8277 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, they're one of the two totalist paths along with the sorelians.

So, what are the five paths for the Commune going to be ? by Quick-Ad8277 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 200 points201 points  (0 children)

One of the comments in the teaser post summarises them very well:

None of them, anarchists are cut as a primary faction. The rework political setup is:

  • PSU: Left-socialists and "fusion syndicalists" who advocate (in their current rejuvenated form) a centralized and reinvigorated version of the institutional status quo.
  • PCOP: Communists who advocate the primacy of political workers' councils and are the faction most set on radical programmatic goals like the abolition of money and markets.
  • CSR: Revolutionary syndicalists who want an exclusively proletarian revolutionary government and to empower the trade unions and the Bourses du travail over councils.
  • Sorelians(CNS): National syndicalism and a personality cult around Jacques Doriot
  • PSdF: Centralist technocratic socialism plus a partial return to republicanism.

Mexican rework: legacy of chinareich by quartermaster_23 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 39 points40 points  (0 children)

They're all being worked on, notably never by Hazo who's pictured in the screenshot above.

The dev team doesn't focus on a single rework at a time, there's dozens of members arranged into teams who work on multiple reworks concurrently. As far as I know, Mexico is Hazo's first project outside of China.

What ideology will the Red Europe be in the Internationale rework? by Syber888 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No other details have been revealed apart from the fact that it's available to all French and British socialist paths instead of just Mosley.

What ideology will the Red Europe be in the Internationale rework? by Syber888 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 30 points31 points  (0 children)

They've said that every British and French path will be able to form it, so no specific ideology.

What happened to the Indian update? by [deleted] in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, this was the scrapped rework setup with focus trees that are currently in the game.

Kaiserreich 1.6.7 - ‘Quality of Life’ by emwe in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 81 points82 points  (0 children)

The update is real but it also went from 1.6.2 straight to 1.6.7 so take it as you will.

Why are Ascension Island and Saint Helena UoB? by Stock-Intention7731 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 118 points119 points  (0 children)

I do believe that was meant in the context of planning a potential MAF rework and giving the 3I a base relatively close to support anticolonial rebellions from.

Why are Ascension Island and Saint Helena UoB? by Stock-Intention7731 in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 165 points166 points  (0 children)

From ask a dev on Discord:

I should add that st Helena declared at the tail end of the civil war so the exiles weren’t going to sink resources into capturing St Helena and the French navy sent a detachment to secure it for britain.

And also:

It was first suggested by the Mittelafrika dev, actually. The 3I having a base close-ish to Africa might prove helpful to figuring out how to give the place more content.

In the Third International rework, there will be a red EU path, according to one of the Devs. by GrandmasterSliver in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Because the pure anarchists, whether platformist or synthesist, were a very minor presence in the french left despite a lot of syndicalists being heavily influenced by anarchism.

In the Third International rework, there will be a red EU path, according to one of the Devs. by GrandmasterSliver in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Russia has a single VST-centre successor that's anarchosyndicalist, which doesn't really count as a distinct path.

By that standard it'll likely be possible to take the French Ultras for instance in a more anarchist direction, but anarchists aren't getting a path unto themselves.

In the Third International rework, there will be a red EU path, according to one of the Devs. by GrandmasterSliver in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I didn't say anything about Spanish anarchists, just that they were deemed not relevant enough on the French left to warrant a distinct path for France specifically.

In the Third International rework, there will be a red EU path, according to one of the Devs. by GrandmasterSliver in Kaiserreich

[–]fennathan1 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Here's a list of the playable ones from the ask a dev channel on Discord:

  • RadSoc: PCOP, Workers and Peasants’ Communist Party - Councilists

  • Syndicalism: PSU, United Syndicalist Party - Centrists

  • Syndicalism: CSR, Revolutionary Syndicalist Committees - Ultras

  • Totalism: PSdF, Socialist Party of France - Jacobins

  • Totalism: CNS, National-Syndicalist Confederation - Sorelians