Easy game, don’t bother playing liberal instead prep for the inevitable civil war:
Nab the interior ministry and anything else defence related, militarise the reichsbanner, purge rightists in reichswehr and police, ally with communists, shore up union support, form the iron front (but swerve it away from anti-communism), and just coup Hitler the moment he takes office. The most useful foreign relations thing you can do is training with Austrian socialists (no anarchists nor USSR for some reason). When the civil war popped off I had the police and military helping the communists crush nazi skull while the unions’ general strike paralysed the state.
The game seems to treat this as the worst out of potential ways to prevent Nazi Germany which is cringe on its half.
started an arduously long civil war and turned Germany into a failed state
Thats actually the solution i think… Hitler leading the Bavarian republik against the Thuringian Union or something is kind of a Solution to the hole hitler thing ,and the germany thing.
Got the Civil War ending by just going full left all the time, which while it’s obviously supposed to be the “bad ending” still strikes me as an improvement over WWII.
oh no the dark terror of war has dawned on the weimar republic
wait how many Soviet divisions are being ferried across the baltic rn? the Italians could help the fash but the French & English would sit out like in Spain, very meaningful and committed support from the USSR was very practicable and infinitely more appropriate in Germany’s case.
Umm actually it is viewed as an internal matter and no foreign powers get involved, this is basically the same as the nazis winning.
the dastardly KPD get their marching orders from the Kremlin but also would be abandoned the moment great opportunity for the Soviets arises
after trying the game for a while it reaks of lib brain … the obvious option is forbidden… even if historical the soviet -weimar relations where pretty important … you can not build relation with them.
Maybe you should play the SPD in 1914 and prevent WW1. Or play the SPD in 1919 and join the communists instead of sending the Freikorps after them. Or play the SPD in 1920 and use the momentum of the general strike against the Kapp coup to crush the Freikorps and have all the leading figures of the Conservative Revolution shot. Or play the SPD in 1923 and just kill Hitler after his coup attempt. Or play the SPD in 1925, not make von Hindenburg chancelor, keep the NSDAP illegal and disband the Stahlhelm and the SA.
This game actually gives you the choice to disband the Stalhelm but they just come back later anyway (at least, they did in my playthrough).
without playing, is the joke that the game is unwinnable because the moderate wing of fascism cannot prevent the extreme wing of fascism?
i certainly couldnt , wierd thing i noticed , theres “building international relations” but you cant with the Commintern , only embedd a spy … like wtf…
Lol yes this game was posted on TikTok by a radlib with a very grave and self-important messaging. He was pilloried in the comments by leftists for not considering that maybe the KPD was correct.
My biggest criticism of this game is that you can’t throw support Thälmann at the end unless you’ve put substantial effort into building relations with the KPD. It says something like, “They won’t allow us to support them,” like what?? Meanwhile, even if the bourgeois parties hate you, you can still support them into government to “maintain stability” while getting nothing in exchange!
I guess if you could simply support Thälmann, it would make stopping Hitler too easy and wouldn’t be much of a game.
Meanwhile, even if the bourgeois parties hate you, you can still support them into government to “maintain stability” while getting nothing in exchange!
Well, that actually is what the SPD did historically.
social democrat bullshit, never trust a 3 arrows symbol user
But I have a 3 arrows patch 🥺…
Not because I fuck with the anti-communism bit. But because only other leftists will have any lick of an idea what it means.
Does that work out well? I see the patch and I avoid those people.
I’ve gotten to talking to at least a few people about leftist politics, of varying sorts because of it.
Honestly, most people who recognize it aren’t immediately seeing it and thinking “THE THIRD ARROW MEANS ANTI-COMMUNISM! AAAAHHH!”
Hell, more obscure than that, do even most leftists know that one of the arrows stands for anti-monarchism?
No. They see it, divorced from its original usage, as a general anti-fascist symbol. In that sense, I use it because it’s a way to dogwhistle my politics rather than using a antifa flag logo (which chuds know about now) or a hammer and sickle (which interestingly, was the other patch in the two-pack I bought off etsy, with the three arrows patch)
It’s like the save icon in your word processor. The picture is of a floppy disc, something we don’t use anymore. But the image has grown to have a more general, related meaning, beyond just being a picture dead media format. Time has sanded off the specificities of the symbol’s meaning, and simplified it to a more abstract essence.
Interesting. I guess I always saw it and focused on the anticommunist part, probably because I’m used to running into Western leftists who don’t support AES. If it’s being used more widely the way you use it, then maybe my knee jerk reaction was wrong. Next time I see one, I’ll have to strike up a convo.
Lol at the patch combo, I wonder if that was on purpose?
Leftists: “Uhh, that guy has a youtube or something, right?”
Where’s the “Let Stalin take over the country” option?
i tried to get supermajority with the KPD didnt work out… even when i replaced my hole leadership …
Also whats up with Building “international Relations” but the option with soviet union is just “embedd a Spy” wtf …
lol @ how all the best strategies I’ve seen for it are abt transforming the party into an effective socialist entity that the KPD can agree to ally with
Wer hat uns verraten?
the programmer that gives only the option to “embedd a spy” with the soviet union , instead of building relations with it.
I have no idea what I’m doing.
historical accurate SPD gameplay.
