Hello, and welcome to the fifteenth Dev Report for Spartakus. Here is the link to last weeks Dev Report.
BlazedSoulofHate
Indian Leader Portraits and Overview Part 2: Mountainous Boogaloo
Hello everyone! I’ve not done much with regards to focus trees due to something big me and Sparkz are working on, but I can say that the rest of the Raj leaders are done, as a continuation of those that were revealed in Dev Report 6
Continuing right where I left off, I present arguably the most well known of the princes in India Osman Ali Khan of Hyderabad.
While Osman has been heavily featured in other projects, he will not be as powerful as usual, restricted to the smaller, albeit fantastically wealthy, lands of Hyderabad and Berar he controls directly. Osman, when faced with the collapse of Britain will face many threats to his rich lands, from Travancore seeking to purge Muslims in the south, ancient enemies of his dynasty the Marathas in the west, and the remains of Britain, none too pleased at his supposed independence, in the east and his family’s former masters the Mughal Emperor in the north. Should Osman succeed in preserving his estates, he can expand outward, and maybe even form an Empire of his own across the Deccan plateau.
Next, the Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wadiyar who will be the primary opponent of the union of Dravidian speakers proposed by Travancore.Mysore will need to radically innovate her military to overcome the larger, more equipped and more radical Travancore. Perhaps the past holds the key to where the future of war lies…
Now, onto the Focus of this report, the mountain Kings. Being a subcontinent, India has mountainous borders to its north and East. In the Kashmir valley, Hari Singh Dogra, ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, must face the Islamic juggernaut, which oppressed the Sikhs his family once supported.
To his west, the kings of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan vie for dominance of the sacred Himalayan mountains. If Tribhuvan Shah crushes his smaller neighbours,
he can create a Greater Nepali Empire, but if Sikkim’s ruler Tashi Namgyal can emerge victorious he will form the Himalayan Empire,
and if Bhutan, led by Jigme Wangchuck can outwit their larger foes, they will establish the Druk Empire, or as it is translated to English, the Thunder Dragon Empire.
Finally, I will end with the easternmost princes. Both Tripura and Manipur were very similar, with rulers of similar rank and strength. To reflect this, I have decided that neither Tripura nor Manipur will be guaranteed to be in every game. Rather, each country has a 50% chance of spawning from the Raj’s corpse, and this is random from game to game. Charuchandra Singh is the ruler of Manipur, and the Imphal valley has important ties to the Himalayas to his northwest, meaning his efforts will be to secure the area for himself.
His opposite number, Vir Vikram Manikya was once a vassal of the Burmese kings, and with his former overlords crushed, Vir Vikram may seize the chance to attack a weakened Burma with the aid of the Lords of the Shan Provinces, to halt any sort of Communist neighbour.
This concludes the leaders of every successor state when the are first created from the dying goliath that was the British Raj. I will be working on more foci, and maybe some events, and I wish you luck if you choose to carve a path for a nation in India upon release.
sparkz
Baltic Victory Points
Earlier this week I showed off quite a lot of my recent work on Livonia for fleshing out the generals list...
...completing the economic tree and doing some event work. Thankfully, I still have some other things to show off: the overhaul of victory points for Livonia/Latvia & Estonia:
Livonia:
As you can see for Livonia, all names are in German. If Latvia & Estonia manage to reclaim this land, the VP names will change to their native names.
Estonia:
As expected, all names are in Estonian. Additionally, you may notice the extra bit of territory east of the Narva River under Estonian control. When I originally showed off the Livonian & Estonian states in Dev Report 6, this was not yet modded in. This bit of land was captured by Estonia during the War of Independence and was formed directly along the front line when the war ended, and in OTL would later be re-annexed by the USSR.
Apologies for not having a whole lot to show off this Dev Report. If all goes well I will be able to show off the new subideologies next week & more.
NoahtheBoah36
Sweden Intro
So far, I’ve decided on the path to take Sweden. The focus tree will start off with a single political focus and be a massive branching tree. Essentially, it will begin with all seeming moderately well. There will be allusions to political discord being somewhat high, but otherwise everything is normal with the exception of people asking for an early election. What could possibly go wrong, is exactly what the player will be told. At which point, they’ll be notified of riots in the streets of Stockholm, allowing them to more or less follow the path of Italy and Germany in their real-world Communist uprisings, with the choice of letting the Communists win, or siding with the “Heroes,” the right-wing militias that spring up to defend Stockholm.
If the Heroes are sided with, there will be a path to restore the King to power, and another path to allow for some right wing extremists to come to power under a wannabe Viking ideology. The left-wing path will just be a basic Marxism path. Overall, the player’s choice of politics will affect the policy options available later in the focus tree. Haven’t done much more than this basic planning and a few test focuses, but I’ll be getting back to you in the future, as I only joined the dev team a few days ago and so haven’t had a ton of time to do work on the mod as of yet.
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