Syndicates AARise! MILF plays Hearts of Iron 2.

[Madame Adequate]

Hello friends, and welcome to my first ever After Action Report. What is that, you ask? It is essentially the same as a Let's Play, but the term applies specifically to strategy games. It's also easier to use AAR somewhere in a title which is the main reason I went with it here. I'm not sure where I'll fall on the gameplay-narrative spectrum yet, but I expect there will be plenty of both. The game I am using is Hearts of Iron 2, with the Doomsday and Armageddon expansions. Hearts of Iron 2, or just HoI2, is a grand strategy game where you choose almost any country on earth and steer them through the time period of the Second World War, and into the first years of the Cold War beyond it (Or the Third World War, if that's how things play out).

I am also using the Kaiserreich mod. Kaiserreich, or KR, is an alternate history where America never entered WW1, leading to German victory. It's now 1936, and the Second Reich stands as the foremost power in the world. Britain and Metropolitan France have fallen to Syndicalist revolutions (Communists, but in principle less centrally-controlled than Bolshevism was); Britain's royal government has fled to Canada, whilst the French are in French West Africa and Algeria. In Russia, German helped ensured the victory of the Whites, but the situation is extremely fragile, and it could go in any of a number of directions.

I will be beginning as the United States of America. In vanilla HoI2 this is pretty much easy mode, because their technology, security, industrial capacity, manpower, and material wealth makes them able to outdo anyone other individual power. Less so in KR, because the depression of the 1930s has been more prolonged and severe, and large sections of the American populace have turned towards radical answers.

[CONTENTS]
United States of America Jan 1936 - ???
January 1936 - General Meeting.
Events in January, President Hoover's Tour, and Month-End Briefing.
February through May, 1936. Third International, Fascist Ozzies, and the Great British Cockup.
June through October, 1936 - Japanese militarism and British elections.
A Day in September - MacArthur's Proposition.
October 1936 and the '36 US Presidential Election.
Election '36 to the Inauguration - the Oregon uprising and humiliation of the US Army.
Reed's Inaugural Address and the nationalization of the resource industries.
Reed's month-long tenure as President, MacArthur's coup, and the beginning of the Second Civil War.


Special/Bonus
Special Briefing on the Far East for President Hoover

(PS: I'll be double-posting some in this thread, mainly to avoid cluttering up AAR posts with chatting to people posts. Hope you don't mind, mods and modettes, but having read plenty of these things, trust me when I tell you it's better this way. )