CNTO Plays Heart of Iron IV

Events
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Yo,

For a change I’ll go straight to the point.

Us. Playing. HOI4. Multiplayer. All DLCs experience provided by yours truly including the upcoming 8th March "Waking the Tiger" DLC.

First game will start on week 11 (12th March to 18 March), on the day that will have the most "Yay".
Game will finish either on faction major victory, upon reaching 1st January 1946 or at the end of the 5th session. Whichever comes first.

Each weekly session will last for two ingame years. At speed 3 (which we’re expecting to run on) this represents 2 hours 30 minutes of playtime a week, which should be long enough to enjoy it but short enough not to become cumbersome ([sub]like my dirtle[/sub]).

We will start at the earliest start possible, agree on rules such as AI and player non-aggression timers.
Hot seating will be possible but original owners of a country will have priority over others. Don’t show up? Get your country run by an AI or another player for two years.

Fill in the poll with the days and dates you’ll be willing to play, only the most popular option will be selected.

Poll will be closed March 8th

As a reminder, even if you don’t have any DLCs you’ll still be able to play, as only the host’s (yours truly) DLC ownership is taken into account.

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Any mods we plan to run?

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Excellent idea! Any ideas for which countries? We could take minors and work together or just pick the majors randomly…

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I think it would be fair to let people take what they want, surely? Unless Mikoi has an idea already.

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It will be Vanilla. Maybe quality of life UI improvements but nothing gameplay related. No BlackICE :wink:

We’ll use dice to choose the people that pick then they’ll pick whatever they want, unless we all agree on forbidding a specific country.

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Who’s actually playing thus far? some kind of list would be nice

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I’ve refrained from asking people to give their names because it’ll be only set when we’ll decide of the actual day. We’ll know by next week !

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Less than three days left on the poll. Wednesday and Saturdays are battling together, I’ll be bringing two non-CNTO players so we’re looking at a whopping 7-players HOI.

I’ve been thinking of the following rules:[list]
[] USA must be AI-controlled
[] No boosting influence in player-controlled countries unless permission is given from owner
[] No fabricating against other player nations until 1st January 1938
[] No cheesy stuff (such as disbanding units that are surrounded)
[/list]

Watchathink ?

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[quote user_id=“17128302” avatar=“https://assets-cloud.enjin.com/users/17128302/avatar/medium.1476712345.jpeg” name=“Lastmikoi”]Less than three days left on the poll. Wednesday and Saturdays are battling together, I’ll be bringing two non-CNTO players so we’re looking at a whopping 7-players HOI.

I’ve been thinking of the following rules:[list]
[] USA must be AI-controlled
[] No boosting influence in player-controlled countries unless permission is given from owner
[] No fabricating against other player nations until 1st January 1938
[] No cheesy stuff (such as disbanding units that are surrounded)
[/list]

Watchathink ?[/quote]

Rules look good! I especially like the AI USA. Might I suggest No Historical AI focuses? I like the idea of a more unknown order of events, unless you think that might make the game too confusing.

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Yes. If no player USA then no historical focus or it’s too easy to get the USA on side.

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Yup, no historical foci for AIs.

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POLL IS CLOSED, SATURDAY WINS.

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Next event: Mar 17 '18 Event Calendar - Carpe Noctem

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This is the session report of 2018-03-27. Session #1.

In-game start: 1936-01-01 12:00:00 (20:30 IRL)
In-game end: 1937-09-18 23:00:00 (23:16 IRL)

Attendees (Username, selected country, player status), by order of attendance:

Current rules:

  • USA must be AI-controlled
  • No boosting influence in player-controlled countries unless permission is given from owner
  • No coup d’état against other player nations unless it is a focus.
  • No fabricating against other player nations until 1st January 1938, including focus.
  • No cheesy stuff.
  • Each player is granted a two minute tactical pause (single use) for each session.
  • No historical focus for AI.
  • Speed 3 on peacetime, 2 on wartime.

The following important events happened during that game session (player-induced events):

  • Rhal has founded Japan, with the intent of making it democratic.
  • Teddy has founded Italy.
  • Lastmikoi has founded the Soviet Union.
  • Skippy has founded the German Reich.
  • Flo has founded Spain, then got abducted by aliens describing themselves as "desync issues".
  • Shortly after the alien abduction, the spanish civil war was triggered.
  • Teddy has crushed the Ethiopian invader
  • German, Italian and Japanese volunteers have been facing Soviet volunteers in the spanish war.
  • Aliens have dropped Flo on top of Francisco Franco, replacing him as head of state for Nationalist Spain.
  • Republican Spain has been crushed by facist nationalists. Heroic Soviet volunteed led by Georgy Zhukov made it back alive.
    War photograph of the stunning Japanese blitz against Barcelona, nearing the end of the war.
    https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/939437324582598154/BA14CE19DA1A8E7A3B598F64F3182127C0AA5952/
  • The Japanese Civil war begun, opposing the newly formed democratic state of Japan against the Emperor. Italians volunteers have been spotted fighting alongside loyalists.
  • Taking advantage of the turmoil in Japan’s sphere of influence, Soviet forced have declared war against the now-independent Imperial Kwantung Territories, in a pure act of self-defense. Italians horse-mounted volunteers have been reported in the front, helping the chinese aggressor.
  • The Imperial Kawntung Territories have been conquered by the Soviet Union, alongside their Mengkukuo puppets, who have been puppeted back under communist rule.
  • The democratic state of Japan has won the war against the (now former) emperor.
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This is the session report of 2018-03-27. Session #1.

In-game start: 1937-09-18 23:00:00 (20:45 IRL)
In-game end: 1940-01-01 24:00:00 (23:19 IRL)

Attendees (Username, selected country, player status), by order of attendance:

  • lastmikoi, Soviet Union, Country founder.
  • Skippy , German Reich, Country founder.
  • Rhal (mikoi’s buddy), Japan, Country founder.
  • Teddy , Italy, Country founder.
  • Sallal , Turkey, Country founder.

Current rules:

  • USA must be AI-controlled
  • No boosting influence in player-controlled countries unless permission is given from owner
  • No coup d’etat against other player nations unless it is a focus.
  • No fabricating against other player nations until 1st January 1938, including focus.
  • No cheesy stuff.
  • Each player is granted a two minute tactical pause (single use) for each session.
  • No historical focus for AI.
  • Speed 3 on peacetime, 2 on wartime.

So much stuff has happened. Big headlines are:

  • Italy goes YOLO and attacks Yugoslavia, triggering world war 2 in 1937.
  • AI Romania attacks AI Hungary, getting the Axis to defend Hungary
  • Manchuria liberated by Soviet Union to Japanese puppet
  • Poland eaten by Soviet Union and Germany
  • Romania eaten mostly by Soviet Union
  • Soviet Union annexes the Baltic states
  • Turkey attacks France for Syria
  • Turkey joins the comintern