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That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation

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CyberEnby said:
I'd rather not go off half cocked on the IT reveal - our best bet RN would be to support Vietnamese ops while making sure China doesn't take offense at the whole thing.

The ITs aren't ready for prime time yet - we haven't even started manufacturing them yet.
Through at some point I definitely want to squeeze in designing a engineering mech that can also be used on the civilian side of things.
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Realistically, no this is not the time to deploy ITs, narratively? If the Vietnamese efforts get bogged down or things otherwise go poorly I feel like narratively this would be the best time to reveal them. It just feels like the right time, I can't quite communicate why but that's what my trope senses are telling me, and the Iron Tigers will make a massive splash if we reveal them like this. Probably not a full deployment but a small loan of a squad or two of ITs and their operators to the Vietnamese could be excellent for PR for ITs. It might also make Vietnam want to buy ITs from us later. Disguising them as Vietnamese in origin could also help redirect suspicion from us.
I just start hearing This Music blasting when I think about deploying the ITs against the Khmer Rouge.

As for the manufacturing thing, I thought that raising an IT formation would also include beginning the manufacture of ITs?

We would still want to upgrade our ITs, but they are highly modular, we can design upgrades and roll them out as we figure out what we need from combat data.
 
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[X] The Khmer Problem
-[X] THINK, Pol Pot! THINK!

[X] Plan: Judgement Day
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] [LOCKED] School Support (2 Actions)
-[X] Light Industry
--[X] Develop Industrial Automation Hardware (Mega-Project - 2/2 Actions) (-10 Reputation) (Bonus: +1 Focus, +2 Ambition, +6 Automization)
--[X] Develop Basic Software Ecosystem (-4 Reputation) (Bonus: +1 Focus, +2 Ambition, +2 WEISOFT, +6 Automization)
--[X] Twin Hammers Institute of Applied Industrial Automation (Mega-Project - 2/2 Actions) (-10 Reputation) (Bonus: +1 Focus, +2 Ambition,+2 WEISOFT, +6 Automization)
-[X] Military
--[X] Initiate CyberSyn Test (Suspicious) (Extremely Helpful) (Bonus: +1 Focus, +2 Ambition,+2 WEISOFT, +6 Automization)
--[X] Raise A Iron Tiger Formation (Organization/Loadout) (Sub-Turns) (Secret) (Suspicious)
-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
--[X] Evaluate and Develop Insect Farming (Mega-Project - 2/2 Actions) (-3 Reputation)

So when can we have kalibr missile ? i just wanna freak out the russian in our missile boat if we make missile boat in the future.
 
CyberEnby said:
I actually totally forgot about those - do people have any suggestions? I'm kind of drawing a blank.
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For the personal, what's the point of being Great Glorious Comrade Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Free Guangchou if you're not going to be massively immoral and corrupt? You know what I'm talking about: smoking American cigars, reading Japanese manga, privately owning (and eating) a candy bar. Our sinfulness must eclipse all other communist dictators.

For the lover action, I'd like to see the family participate in whatever kind of religion Guangchou has. It'd be nice to see a little more of that aspect of the nation's culture.
 
Andres said:
For the personal, what's the point of being Great Glorious Comrade Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Free Guangchou if you're not going to be massively immoral and corrupt? You know what I'm talking about: smoking American cigars, reading Japanese manga, privately owning (and eating) a candy bar. Our sinfulness must eclipse all other communist dictators.

For the lover action, I'd like to see the family participate in whatever kind of religion Guangchou has. It'd be nice to see a little more of that aspect of the nation's culture.
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I will vote for a plan that does that, even if it continues to skip Military Leg Day.

CyberEnby said:
We're in the 'grow economy' part of the plan right now. The bonus from the plan focus only last for the first four turns, so it's better to front load all our cybernetic planning and industrial automation stuff.
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Mechanically, this is optimal.

Storywise, it means that if we want to do anything about the Killing Fields that involves military muscle, we will find that our military has spent six years skipping leg day at our direct orders.
 
Simon_Jester said:
I will vote for a plan that does that, even if it continues to skip Military Leg Day.

Mechanically, this is optimal.

Storywise, it means that if we want to do anything about the Killing Fields that involves military muscle, we will find that our military has spent six years skipping leg day at our direct orders.
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As far as I know we have an adequate military that's actually fairly professional? At least, that was picked at character creation. And, I don't really want to get bogged down in a land war in (South East) Asia, so for the purposes of commando raids in support of a larger Vietnamese invasion like OTL our military is sufficient.
Covertly deploying some Iron Tigers to gather field data is definitely an option tho.
 
Imagine if we militarily intervene and the dice declares that china fumbles and our army carries the whole thing.
The rest of the world would probably take that sheer luck as confirmation of what they suspected about the competence of our military.:V
 
HeroCooky said:
[X] Military
-[X] Re-Found Your Anemic Navy (The People of Guangchou's Liberation Navy (PGLN)
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HeroCooky said:
-[X] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[X] Personal Actions
---[X] Personally vet the bodyguards that will be assigned to Jing Mai and our future children. After they make it through the intel department's inspections, of course.
----[X] Invite Mai along if she'd like. She's probably more qualified for this anyhow.
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...holy shit, you wanted bodyguards, not another special operations unit! Well, you have them now, so you'll have to get used to them. Other than your wife designing a ruthless course of tests to bring out the best of the best within the candidates for both of your protection, you are pretty sure that the military at large has taken notice and altered the training of your spec-ops teams. You are just glad that you don't have to go through the gauntlet!
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HeroCooky said:
-[X] International
--[X] Send volunteer trainers/observers to NV to act as a training force when, in actuality, they would instead assist our comrades in their liberation against the imperialist Americans
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I have spent the last hour or so digging through the treadmarks for military actions taken and any other actions taken related to the military excluding the iron tigers.
 
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Some other reasons to deploy ITs against the Khmer Rouge once we've raised an IT formation.
Currently ITs have never seen combat use, we have only theories about how they perform and the optimal way to use them, the Vietnamese campaign against the Khmer Rouge offers a relatively low risk way to get experience with how to use ITs in combat, and information about what sort of upgrades and systems would be most useful for them. Plus it does so in a way which is relatively low profile but good for PR. I doubt the US has significant intelligence assets in the region, so they would likely just learn that ITs exist, and not much else. The PR effects and also the reveal of what Guangchou has been working on should get us some reputation to spend on various things.

Additionally, deploying a secret weapon like this should help get us a good relationship with Vietnam, and access to such a weapon would hopefully shorten the war, reducing loss of life on both sides.
 
[X] The Khmer Problem
-[X] THINK, Pol Pot! THINK!
[X] Plan: Judgement Day
[X] Plan Cambodian Refugee

either this will be glorious or would properly blow up in our face but either this will be one for the history book
 
Added to following personal actions to the plan:

-[] Personal Action: Start writing a Manifesto detailing Guangchou's path towards communism and it's stregths and weaknesses compared to other revolutions. Just a rough draft for now, but it's the sort of book you're expected to write, you know?
-[] Lover Action: Teach Mei how to blend in and go have some fun incognito. See what the average couple might do for fun in Guangchou.
 
CyberEnby said:
Added to following personal actions to the plan:

-[] Personal Action: Start writing a Manifesto detailing Guangchou's path towards communism and it's stregths and weaknesses compared to other revolutions. Just a rough draft for now, but it's the sort of book you're expected to write, you know?
-[] Lover Action: Teach Mei how to blend in and go have some fun incognito. See what the average couple might do for fun in Guangchou.
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Still gotta put in one more personal action.
 
Andres said:
My read on this is that Wei Jungmin's gotta be doing two things, and my understanding of your action is that he only does one thing.
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Good catch. Here's what I added:

-[] Personal Action: Practice your Russian. You're conversant at this point, but fluency will come in very handy in the future.

@HeroCooky, do we get any bonus from the Universal Building post?
 
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