That Time I Became A Dictator Of A Small Asian Communist Nation
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Good, very good
HeroCooky
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Oh wait, reading comprehension.
Ya, still need more housing.
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So what is the focus on this turn y'all? More housing and industry and focus on home?
I'd like some work on rockets and that nuclear deal was really cool.
I like that it's called the special relationship between us and the USSR, makes me feel like we're parodying the US-British relationship. Hopefully the USSR doesn't fall like it did OTL.
I'd like some work on rockets and that nuclear deal was really cool.
I like that it's called the special relationship between us and the USSR, makes me feel like we're parodying the US-British relationship. Hopefully the USSR doesn't fall like it did OTL.
or at least they only fall after we get enough to hold on without them to counter balance China. The USSR needs at a lot of fixing to be a nation you want to surivie on its own merits.
on another note should we get the Fairy into mass production so we can start exporting? because if its that cheap then its a boon to get the stuff we need to further devlop our nation. ALso who wants to make a gunpod for it that the Iron tigers can also use?
KhazintheDark
May or may not be insane...
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I'm side-eying that Light Industry 'Meh' status. Also a suggestion for HeroCooky but Services should also be tracked to keep an eye on our burgeoning tertiary & secret quaternary industries.
Barondoctor
The things I chase come to me.
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Guangcho Starcraft continues apace. "You must construct additional housing."
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Ok, then under the circumstances, our next plan is pretty clear:
[] Plan: Victory Lap Part 1
-[] [Commiewood] The Last Voyage
-[] Infrastructure
--[] Build Your School-System (Mega-Project - 35/40 Actions - +5 Per Turn Automatic Progress) (2 Actions LOCKED)
--[] Create New Housing (Helpful)
---[] Use Large-Scale Energy Efficient Housing (Helpful) (+2 People's Opinion) (+2 Reputation) (3 Actions) (Bonus: +1 Popular Demand)
-[] Agriculture
--[] Develop Fish Ranching (-1 Reputation)
-[] Military
--[] Airy Might (Mega-project - 0/6) (+1 Reputation) (Harmful) (Requires Airy Modernization) (6/6 Actions) (Bonus: +4 to your first Military Plane Factory)
-[] Wei Jungming - (RP)
--[] Personal: Ok, you've been going about this the wrong way. Arrange for a meeting with the admiral commanding the fleet China sent over. You'll get straight answers from a military man, right?
--[] Lover: Walk down the red carpet together, attending the premiere of Commiewood's next production.
All that's really left is working out the Commiewood, Personal, and Lover Actions.
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KhazintheDark
May or may not be insane...
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- Not where you are. Probably.
Personal could be taking the kids canoeing, fishing.etc not much to burn on a river or laKe. Lover could be a joint art project.
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Actually, I came up with my own ideas for that. Edited in above.
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[X] Commiewood: Red Son In The Morning, Capitalists Take Warning
Following in the footsteps of CommiePop, Commiewood has turned its eyes on graphic novels as a niche to expand into. Lessons have been drawn (he he he) from American superhero comics and spawned a entire genre of deconstructions and reconstructions, often grappling with topics such as the political ramifications of so much power invested in individuals for good an ill. A particular standout is showing American heroes like Superman or Captain America having to deal with systemic injustices that can't simply be punched, but the propaganda is no less incisive when it comes to critiquing communist projects. Natchnik for instance is a thinly veiled Batman expy that features the billionaire son of an oligrarch assassinated for his philanthropic efforts in a corrupt and dystopian Russia where the Soviet Union stagnated and collapsed under the mismanagement of a gerontocratic elite.
[X] Plan: Real Strangereal Hours
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Build Your School-System (2 ACTIONS LOCKED)
Fairly self explanatory. Almost done now.
-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
--[X] Pemmican Production Factory (-2 Reputation) (Helpful)
Pemmican is a nice way to both ensure that less of our food spoils, and to guard against poor harvests. It's also dead easy to store and manufacture. It's -2 Rep compared to other Helpful actions, but 1 RP isn't going to make or break the bank, and diversity in food is important.
-[X] Military
--[X] Airy Might (Mega-project - 6/6) (+1 Reputation) (Harmful) (Requires Airy Modernization) (Bonus: +4 First Airplane Factory)
Oh yeaaaaaah. Time to secure our native skies. Start rolling out the jets.
-[X] Political
--[X] Reverse Rainbow (+/- 1d5 Reputation) (+1 Any Spy Action, +1 Omake)
Now that we've improves our espionage and gotten contacts in the West, we can begin pursuing our real plan: preemptive infiltration of high tech industry. Specifically, we can make a damn good prediction that revealing Iron Tigers will cause a surge of investment in mecha research, so we can position our agents to take advantage of the resulting chaos of rapid program spin-ups. Turbines, electric actuators, computer hardware and software, microchip fabrication and development, aerospace grade allow metallurgy, are all topics where we have an excellent lead.
We need to be careful here: we want to give our agents just enough information to make them valuable and get them promoted to position where they can feed us juicy industrial intelligence, but not so much that we're letting them catch up to us.
@HeroCooky, can I get costing for this action?
--[X] Food for Tractors (+3 Reputation) (-5 People's Opinion) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
Our deepening ties with the USSR cost us 2 CO, and we need to build that back up before we try Sino-Soviet Reconciliation because that will definitely require we spend CO. This plan also gives us decent RP gain and help Guaofeng's administration which we care about because he's the likeliest to like our cybernetic communism thing. He might also like our Agricultural Councils action on ideological grounds as a Maoist.
I know we have a refugee integration situation we need to get on top of, and ignoring it hurts... but getting into the PRCs good books is just straight up more time critical and important right now. If we want to push for SSR. If anyone wants to make a competing plan this is the action you should swap out.
-[X] Secret Projects
--[X] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 2/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation per Turn/25 Reputation for 8 Actions spent in one turn) (Bonus: +5 Chinese Aid)
A little more setup before the big push next turn.
In the interest of hopefully generating more discussion, why don't we break off Jungmin's RP actions into their own thing separate from the plans?
Ie:
-[X] Wei Jungming
--[X] Personal Action: Take your kid to work day. In hindsight, maybe leaving Ma Li with Wei while you toured some of the higher risk areas was a mistake. The later has discovered an untapped well of pedagogical talent, and the former has discovered how to build jam-jar pulse jets.
--[X] Personal Action: Learn Lao, if you're to appeal to the refugees to put aside their biases against queers, you should do it in their language.
--[X] Lover Action: Play M&M with Mai.
Following in the footsteps of CommiePop, Commiewood has turned its eyes on graphic novels as a niche to expand into. Lessons have been drawn (he he he) from American superhero comics and spawned a entire genre of deconstructions and reconstructions, often grappling with topics such as the political ramifications of so much power invested in individuals for good an ill. A particular standout is showing American heroes like Superman or Captain America having to deal with systemic injustices that can't simply be punched, but the propaganda is no less incisive when it comes to critiquing communist projects. Natchnik for instance is a thinly veiled Batman expy that features the billionaire son of an oligrarch assassinated for his philanthropic efforts in a corrupt and dystopian Russia where the Soviet Union stagnated and collapsed under the mismanagement of a gerontocratic elite.
[X] Plan: Real Strangereal Hours
-[X] Infrastructure
--[X] Build Your School-System (2 ACTIONS LOCKED)
Fairly self explanatory. Almost done now.
-[X] Agri-, And Aquaculture
--[X] Pemmican Production Factory (-2 Reputation) (Helpful)
Pemmican is a nice way to both ensure that less of our food spoils, and to guard against poor harvests. It's also dead easy to store and manufacture. It's -2 Rep compared to other Helpful actions, but 1 RP isn't going to make or break the bank, and diversity in food is important.
-[X] Military
--[X] Airy Might (Mega-project - 6/6) (+1 Reputation) (Harmful) (Requires Airy Modernization) (Bonus: +4 First Airplane Factory)
Oh yeaaaaaah. Time to secure our native skies. Start rolling out the jets.
-[X] Political
--[X] Reverse Rainbow (+/- 1d5 Reputation) (+1 Any Spy Action, +1 Omake)
Now that we've improves our espionage and gotten contacts in the West, we can begin pursuing our real plan: preemptive infiltration of high tech industry. Specifically, we can make a damn good prediction that revealing Iron Tigers will cause a surge of investment in mecha research, so we can position our agents to take advantage of the resulting chaos of rapid program spin-ups. Turbines, electric actuators, computer hardware and software, microchip fabrication and development, aerospace grade allow metallurgy, are all topics where we have an excellent lead.
We need to be careful here: we want to give our agents just enough information to make them valuable and get them promoted to position where they can feed us juicy industrial intelligence, but not so much that we're letting them catch up to us.
@HeroCooky, can I get costing for this action?
--[X] Food for Tractors (+3 Reputation) (-5 People's Opinion) (+1 Chinese Opinion)
Our deepening ties with the USSR cost us 2 CO, and we need to build that back up before we try Sino-Soviet Reconciliation because that will definitely require we spend CO. This plan also gives us decent RP gain and help Guaofeng's administration which we care about because he's the likeliest to like our cybernetic communism thing. He might also like our Agricultural Councils action on ideological grounds as a Maoist.
I know we have a refugee integration situation we need to get on top of, and ignoring it hurts... but getting into the PRCs good books is just straight up more time critical and important right now. If we want to push for SSR. If anyone wants to make a competing plan this is the action you should swap out.
-[X] Secret Projects
--[X] Experimental Nuclear Reactor (Mega-Project - 2/10 Actions) (+3 Reputation per Turn/25 Reputation for 8 Actions spent in one turn) (Bonus: +5 Chinese Aid)
A little more setup before the big push next turn.
In the interest of hopefully generating more discussion, why don't we break off Jungmin's RP actions into their own thing separate from the plans?
Ie:
-[X] Wei Jungming
--[X] Personal Action: Take your kid to work day. In hindsight, maybe leaving Ma Li with Wei while you toured some of the higher risk areas was a mistake. The later has discovered an untapped well of pedagogical talent, and the former has discovered how to build jam-jar pulse jets.
--[X] Personal Action: Learn Lao, if you're to appeal to the refugees to put aside their biases against queers, you should do it in their language.
--[X] Lover Action: Play M&M with Mai.
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You may also be forgetting that HeroCooky just said we still need to produce more housing to meet the plan requirement, so there's that. My thinking was we'll save that for the second half of the month, along with Rationalizing the Language.
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No, that's accounted for. I did extra housing actions last turn to free up one (1) action this turn for Reverse Rainbow. We're still on track for meeting the housing quote that HC told us about.
That's why I was asking if we needed to make up for that one low roll this turn. We'll go back to our regular housing investments next turn.
Working Abroad
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Working Abroad
---INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT---
Detroit, MI, United States of America
June 17, 1978
Interviewer: Good morning. We'll be recording this interview for documentation purposes. Please state your name, age and desired position here at Stone and Dawson Industries.
Interviewee #46: Good morning, comrade capitalist! My name is Sergei Smirno--- Smith! My name is Sergei Smith! Age thirty-seven and ready to begin my first day as manufacturing technician here in your fine, capitalist factory! When do I start!? Did I also mention how I love capitalism!?
Int: Now, hold your horses, Mr. Smith---
I46: Please, comrade! Call me Sergei! We're fellow capitalists, no?
Int: Right, Sergei, about your name---
I46: It's a European name. A capitalist European name!
Int: Okay, well, we do have an opening for your desired position. We just need to make sure you working here in SnDI is the right step in both the company's future and yours. Don't take this the wrong way, bu-
I46: I love money. I came to this company because I know you will make lots of money. And I want some of that money. In return, I help you make even more money! I get the job now, yes?
Int: I--- well, I don't see anything wrong with making more money. And your documentation seems to be in order. So... why not? Welcome aboard, Sergei.
I46: Thank you, comrade!
@HeroCooky this is how Sergei's interview happened, yea? Say yes.
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So should we just formalize the "generic submarine solution" for future design actions?
@HeroCooky Out of curiosity what's our oil and fuel situation look like strategically? Are we importing everything we need, do we have enough to feed our current military but will need to expand it once we get the fuel hungry stuff like our navy up and running? Or are we swimming in oil and exporting to China and others?
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To be fair, Janice is totally spying for Mossad.
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Janice is spying for the company rival, the bitch. 😬
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
1d5 decides with a 2+ that you gain Reputation, a 1 makes you loose it, with an additional 1d5 for Reputation gain/loss.
Also, further worming into the US' industry even if negative Reputation.
Do Note that Mega-Projects like this take the average of all Dice Rolls as their final counting.CyberEnby said:
No skipping to fusion like that, unfortunately.
Both Canon and have a +1 to any Spying Action this Turn.
Also, still sad nobody caught the acronym for your intelligence agency.
You are importing about 60% of what you need, but can potentially decrease that uf you survey for oil and find some of that Forbidden Cola.
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Also, still sad nobody caught the acronym for your intelligence agency.
This?
"Collective Representative Union for Internal Security to guard the Revolution"
CRUISR???
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
FFS, there is supposed to be an "Eternal" in there. Can't even acronyme anymore, shm.
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1d5 decides with a 2+ that you gain Reputation, a 1 makes you loose it, with an additional 1d5 for Reputation gain/loss.
Also, further worming into the US' industry even if negative Reputation.
Do Note that Mega-Projects like this take the average of all Dice Rolls as their final counting.
No skipping to fusion like that, unfortunately.
Both Canon and have a +1 to any Spying Action this Turn.
Also, still sad nobody caught the acronym for your intelligence agency.
You are importing about 60% of what you need, but can potentially decrease that uf you survey for oil and find some of that Forbidden Cola.
What's the current level of infiltration we've achieved? And what would a further level get us?
Heh, I'll do the big nuclear bonus next turn then.
Barondoctor
The things I chase come to me.
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I agree; for presenting as a three-currency system there's a metric shitton of back end complexity that we continue to need to ask about before it becomes a problem.
@HeroCooky , can we get like "housing" and "food" and "health care" markers by the light industry / heavy industry markers?
HeroCooky
Unverified Monstergirl
Communist Infiltration Level 1: Immigrants in Tertiary Industries and Households of Importance. Aka: boost to your technological level and civilian research.
The next level will get you a better insight into what the West is doing by adding little (~10 words) blurbs about their current foci.
I'll give them to you once you get that statistical bureau up and running.
Hint hint, nudge nudge.
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Communist Infiltration Level 1: Immigrants in Tertiary Industries and Households of Importance. Aka: boost to your technological level and civilian research.
The next level will get you a better insight into what the West is doing by adding little (~10 words) blurbs about their current foci.
I'll give them to you once you get that statistical bureau up and running.
Hint hint, nudge nudge.
Would Reverse Rainbow give a minor increase to our infiltraiton that grows over time/jumps up with major R&D investments by the west?
And this is where I'd put Statistics Bureau - IF I HAD ANY ACTIONS FREE!