No.1815004
Found this small game about Weimar Germany's SPD and its efforts to strave off the rise of the Nazis.
https://red-autumn.itch.io/social-democracySee if you can be a good Rosa killer lol.
No.1815126
How did you get KPD to win? I was able to defeat Hitler in a civil war, but only as SPD.
No.1815167
What difficulty did you play on, OP?
No.1815204
>>1815196Maybe it didn't appear for you because I stayed in opposition instead of forming a unity government and attempted to fix up relations with the communists, but they hardballed me into supporting him even though I had 2% more votes than them.
Behold the power of social democracy with paramilitary characteristics! Not sure if having a paramilitary the size of the entire right means I'll win, as the communists are being stingy with the Soviet aid.
No.1815205
>>1815203I mean to be fair it was kind of his fault too.
>>1815204Godspeed!
No.1815230
>>1815126You got to be able to get thalman as president
>>1815167There is only one difficult.
No.1815254
>>1815250Oh i just checked, they literally just had an update.
No.1815357
>>1815352need to improve center party relations with one of your advisors negotiating with them
No.1815469
>>1815230>>1815250I just ended up playing on normal
>>1815402The civil war ends on a cliffhanger
No.1815522
>>1815469>>1815402You can win the civil war by beefing up the militias and police, repair relationship with the KPD and hold a general strike.
No.1815530
>>1815522I did, had 2.3 million in my paramilitary, 1 million in steelhelm and near million SA
No.1815536
>>1815530You need Austrian street fighting contacts as well and Soviet aid if you can get it.
No.1815537
>>1815536I had them all. How did you have Thelman elected by the way?
No.1815542
>>1815522>>1815536Sad, I did all of this but obviously not enough. Probably spent too much on the radio station and outreach centers kek
>>1815528Oh yeah, I guess it just doesn't tell you the conclusion if it drags out too long and you basically destroy Germany
(secret good ending)>>1815537KPD will always(?) strongarm you into making him president
No.1815545
>>1815542>KPD will always(?) strongarm you into making him presidentI supported Thelman but he lost the second round.
No.1815546
>>1815545you need to have enough votes/support obv
No.1815556
I managed to tank the SPD's support to 1% on easy lol (deliberately)
second round on hard ended with Hitler as chancellor and a bitter civil war with the USSR supporting the KPD. Thälmann almost won the position of chancellor though. I had very low internal dissent so I suspect I could have gone with even higher dues
No.1815557
the biggest hurdle I'm facing so far is militarizing the Reichsbanner. I put damn near all of my resources into it and get assistance from the Austrians but still cant win the civil war. At least I can prevent Hitlers rise to power
Also how much of this game is just RNG with regards to getting enough funding to do anything
>>1815545AS far as I can tell even if he wins he's immediately couped and the civil war starts
No.1815651
>>1815557even on easy it is difficult. improving loyalty of the police helps, because then you can have the police train the Reichsbanner
No.1815653
>be doing really well, election result is 40%
trust the WTB plan
>support Thälmann for chancellor because I don't have enough resources to support Braun and relations with KPD are decent
>Hitlerite coup, get rekt because I don't bother with the Reichsbanner
oops
No.1815716
>>1815532This is the real revolution demsocs should be working towards tbh. Use the electoral system to destabilize the state and agitate for class struggle, force the Right to stage a coup, and use the opportunity to reshape the republic as you see fit.
No.1815720
>>1815557You can try training the Reichsbanner with police and trade union members and making peace with the KPD.
Strengthening the Reichsbanner is important, but dont forget to use state apparatus, Prussian or national, to weaken your enemies.
No.1815728
Holy shit, we enacted the public works program!
>>1815720NTA, but I just ended up forming the Iron Front and the three arrows stood for the SPD, the Reichsbanner, and the big workers' union. We had 2.6m soldiers to the right's 1.5m, and all the Prussian police joined us. Also Thalmann is president again lol, the KPD were tempted to back the SPD but the wording of it was ambiguous so I just backed the KPD instead. Ironically the SPD would probably be more powerful in this arrangement since the centrists just sabotaged everything constantly and this is the result of something like the third or fourth election so far lol
No.1815791
>>1815728Yes, enacting the WTB plan basically guaranteed the SPD's position as the most powerful party.
>Ironically the SPD would probably be more powerful in this arrangement since the centrists just sabotaged everything constantly and this is the result of something like the third or fourth election so far lolYes, I have ended up in similarly situations with the SPD at 35+% and the KPD at 15% with or without a coup.
No.1815830
>>1815791Ha I think the major difference between our runs is that I had already paid off the centrists once before the WTB plan and got pissed off with them trying it again so I collapsed the government shortly after it passed. Immediately resolved to do nothing but fundraise and expand the paramilitary.
No.1815922
>>1815893Dear reactionaries
You claim to want dictatorship but get upset when Chancellor-President Otto Braun gives it to you. Curious.
- Turning Point Prussia
No.1815980
Just had a funny game where I didn't even end up in government, and the right wing ended up in power early and mismanaged the country so much that 40% of the population became unemployed, so obviously they decide to sperg out at Prussia
Coup in Prussia
A crisis! Chancellor Papen has ordered the dismissal of the Prussian government in a procedure known as the Reichsexecution. His argument is that the Prussian state government is unable to maintain order due to the battles on the streets between the SA, Reichsbanner, and other paramilitaries. This is despite his own government legalizing them. (gottem)
The legality of the action is questionable. Many of our members are ready to resist.
The Reichswehr and Stahlhelm are already surrounding the left-leaning cities, and the SA is supporting them. This will be civil war. We do realize that, correct?
The Array of Forces
Our enemies are the nationalist Stahlhelm, with 1000 thousand troops, and the Nazi SA, with 930 thousand troops. The loyalties of the Reichswehr, with its 100 thousand regular soldiers, and Prussian police, with 170 thousand members, are unclear.
On our side, we have the Reichsbanner, at 2850 thousand members.
We have spent quite a great deal of resources on turning the Reichsbanner into a fighting force. Let us hope that they survive.
What else do we have?
We have urged the Reichswehr to stand down, to avoid killing their countrymen. Some officers and troops heed our calls to not fight against us. Some even join us.
There are 180 thousand fighters with the Communist RFB, in addition to the workers who support the KPD.
Most of the KPD is on our side, due to their good relations with us.
A general strike stopped the Kapp Putsch in 1920, and it can stop fascism today. There is some dissent within labor, but a majority of workers support the general strike.
Since we still control the Prussian government, we can call upon the Prussian police. Most join in supporting our efforts. Our efforts in cultivating republican loyalties in the police have proven their worth.
Victory for the Republic
The battle lines hold, and the SA, Stahlhelm, and pro-coup Reichswehr forces are defeated. Today, the forces of the republic prevail over the fascists and the reactionaries. There is a new revolution in Germany. Let us hope it produces a longer-lasting peace than the previous one.
No.1816021
>>1816020You get what you pay for
No.1816045
>>1816039This is why I'm a Braunpilled neorevisionist social democratic autocrat now
No.1816046
>>1816045BASED! I love social democracy now!
No.1816055
Only objectively Marxist way to play:
>expel all centrist advisers except Wels, only use him to get extra resources, replace with leftists
>never take power, propagate class struggle, bury hatchet with KPD, build up the Reichsbanner
>alternate between funding welfare (when unemployment goes up) and Reichsbanner
>keep increasing dues
>campaign only among workers until crash, then only among unemployed
>purge bureaucracy of reactionaries
>support Thalmann for president, make the bourgeois parties your main enemy
>crush the Nazis
Basically just play as a non-braindead KPD
We need a KPD simulator though because the SPD would never do any of this shit in a million years and would rather end up in a KZ than see a Soviet Germany
No.1816068
>>1816055Marie Juchacz from the reformists also lets you earn funds if Wels leaves, she can also do mutual aid. Honestly all the reformists are good but Braun > Severing since Braun can do anything Severing can do and more (turn Prussia into a fiefdom). Wladimir Woytinsky from the labor faction lets you adopt WTB early which sounds OP.
The explicitly leftist faction isn't particularly good because Levi just straight up fucking dies and it's hard to tell how effective Toni Sender is because women aren't their own demographic.
No.1816131
How the fuck do you guys manage to increase vote shares from election to election?
No.1816143
>>1816124You should try normal again, here's the big two protips for getting the hang of it:
>Raise your dues as often as possible (if it starts warning you use your judgment)>Get advisor Wels to do emergency fundraising every 6 monthsIt's that simple, the difficulty comes from needing to do other things with your advisors but being stuck fundraising. When you start the game get three cards up and see if you can raise dues, and if so do it, and then either way go to Wels for emergency fundraising. Wels will always give you whatever your dues are, so if you can't raise them you'll just have to suck it up and get +2 resources.
>>1816131You end up in a death spiral in some situations, but I target the unemployed when it starts going up which helps because the Nazis heavily recruit from them too so it's basically 2 votes difference when you take one off them.
Bruning is a cunt and often you're fucked if you end up in the position where you enable his austerity autism.
No.1816230
>>1816131Do left wing thing in government, use funds to get social democrats elected by building media and doing outreach.
No.1816257
>>1816068True. I assume you need low dissent to convince your party
>>1816131I haven't done much comparing of results but I find the rallies are important and always pick that 5th option where you talk about the issues the audience cares about for a 1% increase to vote share everytime. Once I pass WTB I campaign on that for 3% increase. Still haven't won the game (playing hard) but I can get to the end screen with 30+% vote share
No.1816285
>>1816257Just tried playing on hard, hated it. Literally nothing else to add lol, the whole game rests on being able to raise funds
No.1816497
>>1816055>expel all centrist advisers except Wels, only use him to get extra resources, replace with leftists>never take power, propagate class struggle, bury hatchet with KPD, build up the Reichsbanner>alternate between funding welfare (when unemployment goes up) and Reichsbanner>keep increasing dues>campaign only among workers until crash, then only among unemployed>purge bureaucracy of reactionaries>support Thalmann for president, make the bourgeois parties your main enemy>crush the Nazisi did it all in my playthrough
>>1815402 except for making nazi main enemy instead, but failed to win the civil war
No.1816650
>>1816285Lol someone should do a DSA simulator and include their funding crisis as a significant event.
No.1816685
>>1816650glowie simulator would be funny
>invest in outlandish avant garde art>undermine socialist organizations>support leftist academics over socialist/communist ones>push subjectivism and postmodernism in academia, art, popular culture etc>finance reactionary freikorps and lone wolves and goad them into acts of stochastic terrorism>sell narcotics to the poor and use the money to fund your operations>sow racial tension wherever possible>recruit fascists of all stripes>assassinate journalists who expose your plots, bribe coroners to say they're suicides No.1816700
>>1816685Glowie simulator would have some good dark comedy, like when they failed to kill Castro so much they moved on to wacky schemes like trying to poison him so his beard would fall out
No.1816714
>>1816700oh yeah entire branches of spending that lead nowhere
>research into the occult and the paranormal (the men who stare at goats)>trying to kill Castro for the 300th time>funding secret societies that do nothing but partying and having kinky sexa lot of fun could be had with glowies over time coming to believing their own subjectivist nonsense
No.1816717
>>1816685>most concise summary of western intel ops I've ever seeno7
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