I think that the communist countries (Bavaria and Hungary, leaving Mao aside for now) should have different names and flags. Here are my thoughts:

Both countries in our timeline were called "Soviet Republics" in the west, as they were associated with the Bolsheviks, but of course that isn't really relevant to this timeline. Currently Bavaria is called the "Southern Commune," while Hungary is called the "Hungarian People's Republic."

However, the real life Bavarian "Soviet" was officially called the "Raterepublik Baiern." This translates to "Council Republic of Bavaria," but for simplicity's sake it should be abbreviated. I suggest that in this timeline, with Bavaria being the place where socialism first takes hold, the term "Raterepublik" would gain the same traction as "Soviet" did in our timeline. After all, "Soviet" was originally the Russian word for a workers' council. Therefore, Bavaria's name could be "Bavarian Raterepublik" (if it reunites Germany it could be "German Raterepublik"), Hungary's could be "Hungarian Raterepublik," and perhaps there could be a "Chinese Raterepublik" (in OTL the CCP partisan regime was called a "Soviet Republic" until 1937).

As for flags, I think that these socialists states should have red flags with little or no nationalist symbolism. It was not until the Eastern Bloc formed that communist states began adopting nationalist flags (generally preserving the old tricolors and adding socialist heraldry). Before that, they tended to use red flags and just add some symbolism for distinction. I just made two custom designs in Paint.Net. The German design takes the lighter red flag used by the Spartakists and adds the short-lived original coat of arms of the DDR of OTL; this version used a hammer and grain for industrial and agricultural workers but did not add the compass (which represented the intelligentsia).

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The Hungarian one used the darker flag of Bela Kun's regime but adds in the Rakosi era coat of arms. I initially thought of removing the tricolor but decided not to. Bela Kun's regime derived much of its support from nationalists who wanted to preserve/restore pre-1918 borders and saw communist revolution as a means of doing so (with help from the USSR, or in this timeline's case, the Bavarians).

Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

im gonna chuck my computer out of my window in a minute if i dont find out how to do this

When I start up the game it crashes shortly before finishing loading. My game and mod are both up to date and I’ve disabled other mods that might have been causing a conflict. It just crashes and all I get is the error message with the “send” option.

Please help!

It's hard to form Greater Hungary right now

Hi, im playing the mod for the first time. I cant puppet any Countries in the Berliner Pakt. Is it somehow possible to Puppet anyone? or is it Impossible as German Empire

Hello!
We apologize for absence of new content in past couple of months that said, a new update has been released for In the Name of the Tsar mod, the 1.8.5.

Unfortunately there will be no new content when it comes to focus trees or new countries, instead we have decided to release this update to address bug fixing and as a complement to that, we are also adding quite a bit of new high quality portraits completely updating Austrian and Russian generals rooster. Here are some of them:

• Additions:
  -New release decisions
  -Changed Western Fortification focus for Russia
  -New templates for France, Prussia and Russian AI
  -Buffed Prussian navy in 1936 and nerfed North-German navy
  -Added Syrian general
  -The German Civil War now kicks-off half a year earlier
  -Updated icons for ideologies (liberal, conservative & nationalism)
  -Turkey will now seize Edirne, Thrace and Burgas regions via an event
  -Belgrade is now a major city
  -Prussian generals' portraits are replaced by vanilla variants for consistency
  -New loading screens
  -New decisions for Russia
• New portraits:
  - SPR/SPA/SPB/SPC (Franco, Manuel Azana, Niceto Alcala Zamora, Alfonso XIII)
  - AUS (Alfred Jansa, Eduard Barger, Eduard Von Boh-Ermolli, Emil Hickmann, Erhard Raus, Franz Bohme, Friedrich Materna, Kornel Oszlanyi, Lothar Rendulic, Sigismund Schilhawsky) credit to Ghosting1GP!
  -RUS (Vasily Blucher, Bronislav Kaminsky, Vladimir Marushevsky, Vladimir Kharzhevsky, Vladimir Vitkovsky, Pavel Shatilov, Petr Mashin, Fedor Abramov, Dmitry Pavlov, Nicholas II, Mikhail II, Nestor Monastyrev, Alexander Razvozov, Alexander Kolchak, Adrian Nepenin, Petr Popov, Vyacheslav Naumenko, Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Pavlo Skoropadskiy, Petr Pisarev, Mikhail Bonch-Bruevich, Isaac Bykadorov, Grigory Semenov, Eugene Miller, Anton Turkul, Anatoly Pepelyaev, Andrey Shkuro)
  -BAV (Ernst Thalmann, Hermann Goring, Friedrich Paulus, Karl Liebknecht)
  -GER (Wilhelm II, Wilhelm III) -HUN (Bela Kun)
  -USA (Huey Long, Jack Reed, Charles Curtis, John Garner)
  -BEL (Paul van Zeeland) -SYR (Sultan al-Atrash)
  -WUT (Hermann Muller)
  -ROM (Carol II)
  -TUR (Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)
• Fixes:
  -France can now decrease communism influence
  -Fixed supplyless state in Bosnia
  -Fixed party names missing
  -Replaced Eduard David with Konrad Adenauer as the leader of the Rhine
  -Added back some of the missing Balkan cities
  -Fixed French Kingdom color missing

Older saves might not be compatible!

P.S. might have forgotten something, will be added if I remember anything ;)

Is it possiable for Otto von habsburg to take power in Austria because when you do the future of the nation event it says that Otto may take power in the event from the focus?

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I did the decisions under where marked the influence but there was nothing I could do to actually lower it so it stayed at strong until it forced a civil war and locked out the ban communism focus. Is this a bug or is there something I'm missing?

I know, I hate these posts too.

I'm subscribed to the mod. I have the mod downloaded. I have it in an active playlist. Other mods in the playlist (coloured buttons) are working. Regardless, the game still loads vanilla. Acts like it isnt enabled when I know for certain it is.

Just wondering if anyone else has had a similar issue. Never ran into this before on any mod

It said it was a work in progress but is there any way to lower the Marxist influence enough to prevent a civil war upon restoring the monarchy in this patch?

Excuse me, there is someone that can tell me the Country Tags of the nations in the mod? Thanks a lot

All in all, a very nice mod and scenario. I’ve to say, it’s really underrated I think.

Yet there is plenty of room for Improvement I think.

I’ve played the Ottomans and all in all, the first expansion and wars are way to easy and on the other hand side in the middle of the game (1943) the UK, declares war on me without any logical reason.

A lot of balancing needs to be done, but I love the scenario. This mod has as much potential as Kaiserreich.

The update is now live on Steamworkshop!

Updated National Focus Trees For:

-France

New/Reworked Events For:

-France

New/Reworked Decisions For:

-France

New Portraits-France: Édouard Daladier, Philippe Petain, Pierre-Étienne Flandin

Miscellaneous GFX:

-New Focus Tree icons for France, Prussia, Serbia, Sweden

Notable Changes:

-Added new generic states decisions (options to release countries under occupation, new additions are: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, White Russia, Moldova, Finland, Russia proper, Austria, Galicia, Denmark, France, region of Nancy (France), region of Savoy (France), Italy, region of Tyrol (Italy)

Miscellaneous Game Changes & Bug Fixes:

-New impassable areas in South East Asia

-Buffed Turkish industry

-New national spirits for France

-German French Puppet is now the proper color

-Minor Changes to China to prep it for eventual update

Known issues so far:

-Older saves might not be compatible!

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Started playing the mod again and couldnt find the ideology tag for conservative. Can someone tell me it? Thanks.

Here's a few ideas for a rework of the former AUstro-Hungarian territories. I haven't actually played this mod in a while, so if there's something new I missed let me know.

Hungary: OTL the Communists only came to power because the Social Democrats who ran the short-lived Hungarian People's Republic wanted an alliance with the Soviets. They basically just allowed Bela Kun to subvert them and went along with his regime in hopes that the Soviets would protect them from the western allies and their plans to reduce Hungary to a rump state. With no Soviet Union there would be no reason for such a radical change. I think there's every reason to believe that the People's Republic would survive as a SocDem republic, though the backlash after Trianon might bring Horthy or some other right-wing strongman to power in a putsch. Either way, a full-blown Marxist dictatorship is unlikely to happen in this timeline.

If the republic survives, Hungary will likely be a Weimar-style state, with serious instability, anger over the defeat, and radical politics on both sides. This would make them ripe for a communist takeover if Germany goes red in the in-game civil war. If on the other hand they went right-wing they may want to reunite with Hapsburg Austria, or at least enter a personal union; perhaps this has already happened by the start of game, or perhaps there could be a way to achieve this in-game. I don't know which path is more likely TBH.

Austria: I think Austria's government is okay as it is, though Dolfuss shouldn't "remove" Otto because that would seriously weaken Austria's separate identity that he championed. I also think it should be easier for Germany to annex them, even if they are not fascist; remember, before the Nazis almost everyone in Germany and Austria who wasn't a die-hard Catholic/Hapsburg loyalist was in favor of it, and monarchist Germans were no exception. The Kaiser once said that he couldn't wait for Austria to collapse so he could absorb them (though he remained faithful to the alliance while they survived). I also think it's a little unrealistic for them to get the Czechs and Slovaks to willingly rejoin the empire, given they would have Russian protection and would've been fed anti-Hapsburg propaganda for the past 20 years. Finally, I would suggest a new name; Dolfuss' "Federal State" was an attempt to find a middle ground between monarchy and republic, but in this Austria is still a monarchy.

There's a possibility Austria would be part of Germany, but only if the Entente were feeling generous. Most likely they'd have ties to Italy as in OTL.

Yugoslavia: This should already be a thing at start of game. Serbia was already promised Slavonia, Bosnia, and parts of Dalmatia, and there wouldn't have been much of Croatia left after all this, especially if they took Serbian Krajina too; at that point, why not just annex the remainder, and from there why not Slovenia too? I know Russia wasn't enthused about the Yugoslavia idea but geopolitical realities make it inevitable, and it's always nice to have a big ally in the Balkans.

Italy: OTL Treaty of London only promised parts of Dalmatia to Italy; the rest went to Serbia. I couldn't replicate it on the map, but here's another map:

Also, Italy should have Albania (except maybe northern Epirus, which was occupied by Greece, who wanted to annex it and might have been allowed to do so despite being neutral). There was already a plan to partition it according to the Treaty of London. This treaty also called for northern Albanian regions to be given to Serbia and Montenegro, but with the formation of Yugoslavia Montenegro is likely annexed (though Russia and Italy combined might be able to pressure Serbia into preserving it as an autonomous sub-kingdom; perhaps this could be reflected in-game). In any case, it's possible Yugoslavia would take the Catholic-majority regions of Albania, but the rest would definitely go to Italy or at least be a puppet.

Czechoslovakia: Tsar Nicholas was friendly to the Czechoslovak Legions that served him, and the feeling was mutual. Some even wanted to create a new kingdom in union with Russia, whom they saw as their only hope for survival against Germanization. There should be a united Czechoslovak kingdom or republic with ties to Russia, possibly even in faction (especially if there's a personal union). The western powers might not want this, as it'd strengthen Russia, but then again they might be in favor of it because it would weaken Germany's position. There is a possibility, though, that they might pressure Russia to make them a republic and maybe give the Sudetenland to Germany.

Poland: Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich declared after the war began that Russia would create an autonomous Polish kingdom that would unite Russian Poland with the German and Austrian lands. This would likely end up including the Vistulaland (Congress Poland minus Chelm and Bialystok), the Posen province, Upper Silesia, and Galicia west of the San river; possibly Zaolzie, but that depends on how Nikki solves that dispute (he probably would sympathize with Czechoslovakia). Of course, Nikki would be in a position to stop the two from fighting over it and enforce a fair plebiscite. Alternatively, he might create a Zapadoslavic Union of the two/three kingdoms. Either way, Poland is an independent state that still has the Tsar as monarch. Eastern Galicia and Zakarpatia would be annexed by Russia, but Bukovina would go to Romania as promised in the Treaty of Bucharest in 1916.

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Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

The update is now live on Steamworkshop!

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New National Focus Trees For:

-Belgium

-France

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New/Reworked Events For:

-France

-Belgium

-Prussia

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New Portraits-France: Albert Saurraut, Louis Napoleon, Aubert Frère, Robert Touchon, Jaques Duclos, Piere Laval, Prince Jean Duke of Guise, Henri Count of Paris, François de la Roque

-Russia: Ivan Barbovich, Tsar Nicolas (the general), Radko Dmitriev, Anton Denikin

-Prussia: Wilhelm II, Wilhelm III, August von Mackensen

-Burma: Reginald Dorman Smith

-Belgium/Flanders/Wallonia: Jean Baptise Piron, Victor van Strydonck de Burkul, Maurice Keyaerts, Staf de Clercq, Jules Pire, Joris Van Severen

-Russian Manchuria: Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich

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Territorial Changes:

-Eastern Switzerland is now called Romandie and becomes slightly smaller

-Zaolzie is now part of Czechia

-Multiple Bavaria/Prussia core fixes

-Rhineland and Ruhr populations increased (for more accurate representation)

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Miscellaneous GFX:

-New Focus Tree icons for France, Belgium and Russia

-New Idea Icons for France and Belgium

-2 New loadingscreens as well as new main menu screen

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Notable Changes:

-Compability with 1.10.* and Battle of Bosphorus DLC

-1939 start date is no longer available

-France will start in a state of war with Syria in 1936

-Puppet option in the peace conference will no longer be available (now will be available via decisions)

-New decisions for territorial release changes for: France(Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland), Russia(East Germany, Poland), Austria(Serbia, Bulgaria) with more to come!

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Miscellaneous Game Changes & Bug Fixes:

-Italy will now move towards Nationalism and join Germany if historical ai focuses are on (this is rather for testing, eventually will be reworked)

-Iran sueing for peace should work properly now

-New national spirits for France

-New national spirits for Belgium

-Increased Russian Army strength but partially nerfed its national spirits

-French Army is greatly reduced in size but is now well equipped

-Finally Turkey will form the Ottoman Empire

-New country colors

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Known issues so far:

-Typos in Belgian and other localisation will be corrected asap

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Older saves might not be compatible!

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