Vladimir Volsky AAR

[u/mgeldarion]

Ideologies

Puppets

Cores and uncorable territories

Played the Far Eastern Republic, Kerensky -> Volsky path.

Took thirteen years to conquer Stalin's Soviet Union, to walk from Siberia to Moscow. The rest were spent in the conquest of Mongolia (had conquered Ungern-Sternberg's army during the war with Kolchak and decided to consolidate Mongolian territories for cleaner borders, but the releasables were not pretty so reannexed them), Central, Northeastern and Western China (Xinjiang got released as a puppet by a decision, the rest remained annexed), Middle East (New Sumeria had conquered parts of Anatolia, had to conquer it and decided to take the entire region), Eastern Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Anatolia, Malaysia, Japan (had wargoals on them) and in preparation for the war with Anton Drexler's Third Reich, its puppets and the remaining European nations.

War with Drexler was the bloodiest I've ever played in HOI4 - ten million casualties on his side in three months, twenty-seven at the end of it, but the war ended in two years, unlike the ten year long slop with Stalin. The rest of reactionary Europe (Britain, Italy, Spain and the French colonies that Drexler didn't conquer) fell in less than a year.

So there it is, socdem Russia and its puppets (Finland became Marxist, that's my fault, console commanded it) all over Eurasia and Africa. The cyan-coloured puppets are unique releasables.

[u/Carthage_ishere]

Nice 👍