Hello!
Here is the first content patch for the topics you selected in the first poll.
The Guangdong scenario has been reworked and deepened, and many actions and interactions have been added with the Superpowers.
List of changes introduced with the last patch (scroll down to the sections that interest you the most)
- Interacting with Foreign Powers
- Southern Guangdong faction reworked
- List of new characters
- 中文！我需要中文
- What's next?
- Boring long list of bugs corrected (the game is quite clean now)
Interacting with Foreign Powers
A lot of new actions have been added to buy weapons or borrow money from Foreign colonial empires.
That won't come for free: you will certainly have to sell away some sovereignty to benefit from foreign aid.
The relationship of your faction with each Foreign Power is the main variable here. As your relationship increases, you will unlock new actions.
But beware!
Colonial Powers are competing with each other and you can't befriend everybody.
Worst: Chinese patriots won't be kind with traitors and you may earn the infamous title of "running dog of Foreign Imperialism".
Soviet-British power play in Guangdong
The Soviet will support the GMD and the CPC to organize a boycott against British held Hong Kong, ruining its economy.
Local warlords will have there a unic occasion to gain the British Empire friendship by supplying goods to Hong Kong.
The British will search for some able faction to counter the GMD and end the strike, providing it with $ and rifles.
All that is now in the game!
The CPC AI has been reworked so the strike can get really damaging to Hong Kong.
If ever the Guangzhou is taken by a warlord faction, the strike would immediately end.
Southern Guangdong faction reworked
There is a nice not well known faction in Southern Guangdong. It has been reworked with added events, and more characters (they are 3 now).
That faction controlled Hainan, so the island has been added in the game as a new province.
A starting event will give you an opportunity to influence the game to suits your playing style.
New characters
The Southern faction gained two characters including one with a bandit background.
Those of you who have already used bandits characters from the Old Guangxi Clique know how useful they can be.
The Guizhou Clique faction leader is currently fighting in Sichuan. He is now in Guizhou characters pool.
It won't be easy to gather enough face to have him back. But with the generalissimo/overlord role, he will certainly boost your faction effectiveness at fighting bandits and enlarging your domain.
The Guomindang was not lacking characters, but some important figures were still missing.
Tan Yankai is a very able character you can use in mist of your strategies.
中文
You have been many to ask for a chinese version of the game.
You will be pleased to learn that the translation into chinese by community has started.
This is a long process: there is as much text as there would be in a big book.
So be patient.
We have done it before for Cauldrons of War Stalingrad, so we know this is an efficient way to have a great quality translation. Efforts are coordinated from the Discord: you can join if you are both fluent in Chinese and in English.
A profesional translation would have been totally out of reach of a small indie dev (And it would have costed more than this game would ever earn), community translation is the only way to do it while fact checking history and quality.
What's next?
Next on the poll was the scenario opening of the Northern Expedition in Hunan. So Hunan will be included in the next content patch.
I will also pursue the deepening of the Guangdong Revolutionary base scenario.
Answer this news to tell me which faction I should rework now:
-Chen Jiongming (with Anarchist inspired policies and army actions, and relationship with the merchants and the gentry special events)
-The Yunnan Clique (with some Opium stuff, and tribal minorities)
Boring List of killed bugs and reworked features
-Save files have been cleaned: no more living dead armies coming back while you have destroyed them.
-Saved files: no more events popping endlessly after loading
-Characters limit: now that's 7 characters and no more!
-AIs: most of the AIs have been reworked.
-Tons of typos have been corrected (You read the texts, don't you?)
-The "alt" shortcut to display the numbers of actions on the map works fine now
-Non CPC factions can no more send back Borodin to Moscow!
(CPC faction can still do it, and that may be useful to reclaim a free character slot to recruit some more relevant character)
Add to that bugs nobody reported and those cleared in the previous patches and you have now a pretty decent build.
I hope this news was not too lenghty :)
Have fun!
Maestro Cinetik
PS: so Yunnan or Chen Jiongming as next reworked faction?
Tell me!