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The options for the Go4 often sound like the gang are actively walking over Speer, but oftentimes it's at least trying to be in a Gorbachev-style way of "well I don't want this exact thing but I wanna change stuff and it's better than what the Party's trying to get me to do." Then there's Erhardt, who outright bullies Speer in multiple chains of events. I remember one in particular as showing Speer softly, almost meekly speaking up in the middle of one of Erhardt's mini-rants only to be ignored entirely. As fun as that scene is to picture, it's not at all how things would work during the first decade of the game, at least imo. Am I the only one who's seeing this?
Effective 4/1/2022, CCI, Federal, Hevi–Shot, Remington, and SPEER ammunition will take the following price increases:
- Primers – 5%
- Powder – 5%
- Handgun – 2-8%
- Rifle – 3-8%
- Shotgun – 3-12%
Additionally, due to continued demand, NO new Primer orders will be accepted until further notice.
Disclaimer: this might be flirting with Rule 3, but I'll try to avoid it as much as possible.
Let me get this started with a personal perspective: after graduating school, if you had asked me who Albert Speer was, I probably could have told you that he was a Nazi, but nothing specific. It's a name you have heard in history classes, and even though I was already very interested in history at that point, the focus of the classes in the context of WW2 was simply different. The focus was on the war and the genocide committed during its course, specifically the Holocaust and everything connected to it, for example the ideology of the Nazis and the persecution of Jewish life in Germany even before the war started. (For completeness: Talking about history classes in 11th/12th grade in Germany.) So we learned a lot about context, and then of course we discussed the aftermath of WW2, such as Denazification. Individual actors, aside from the most important ones (e.g. Hitler, Goebbels, Stalin, Churchill), were not given a huge focus. That is why Albert Speer was only a name you may have heard during classes, and I think that's the case for most people (if they have heard it at all).
Fast forward to now, after having played TNO for some time. TNO introduces four potential Führers, all of which are therefore given a bit of a spotlight. Three of those are straight up absolutely terrible. Bormann, who doomes Germany to a slow death, Göring, who dooms it to a death by war, Heydrich, who dooms it to a death by itself. Only Speer is able to repair the damage, he is, at least in the beginning, depicted as maybe even somewhat of a savior, listening to the protesting people, abolishing slavery, cutting away the worst excesses.
TNO made me want to know more about Speer, and what I found is that this very neatly fits Speer's IRL endeavours to try and redeem his image, as the "misguided idealist", the "good Nazi". He spent much of his life after WW2 with PR like that. I guess most people on this subreddit are at least vaguely aware of that. If you were to naively look up Speer on e.g. Wikipedia, one might even get the impression that this is not entirely wrong, and if you were to ask certain people, they would also try to whitewash him. Arguably, this means his efforts were not entirely unsuccessful - depicting Speer in an ambivalent manner would probably not be as much of a scandal compared to, say, Hitler. However, this is again where TNO comes into play.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡So, I want to do a Germany game, already played goring and bormann seems boring, I just can't decide between Speer and heydrich. Which of them is more interesting(no spoilers pls)
Hello fellow passengers,
For any musicians out there, I’m curious what I need to add to get close to that sexy tone Mark gets out of his guitar. I currently have a Fender Reverb Deluxe tube amp and a crybaby wah wah pedal. What else should I/ could I add to my pedalboard/setup to get close to that kind of sound??
Thank you for input,
Yes.
I do not know if it's my game bugging out or something, but I can't seem to get Dengist Speer.
Now, I have done most of what came to mind first. I picked Speer's path in Oil Crisis tree thinking it would get him more power than GO4, and then picked the necessary options during the negotiations (Accepting the first two conditions and refusing the others with Speer's men).
Regardless of what I did Speer was couped by GO4. This led to me thinking that it was because my regime leaning was too reformist since the option for Schmidt to go alone was still available to me. Am I right here or is there something else missing?
Aside from how long it could last, I would like to talk about how Speer's Germany essentially validates fascism and racism, so long as they are hidden under sufficient shrouds. It gives a far more insidious picture for the future than a Bormann run Reich, as at least with that, it shows the rampant inefficiencies of the Nazi system.
I’ve seen the event for Heydrichs body being discovered after he was executed by the burgundians, but I don’t recall ever seeing anything about Bormann or Voring. What happens to them if Speer becomes fuhrer?
Don’t get me wrong, Speer is pretty easy as a player. But the AI is, as we know, really dumb. I have never once seen AI Speer win. I’ve even seen AI Heydrich win (granted, with my support as Burgundy) before seeing Speer. What I’m saying is that Bormann and Göring get old fast. Bormann just kinda sits in Germania drooling, while Göring attempts to conquer Norway but is so fat he sinks the boat and fucking dies, causing Schörner to take over, and pretty much game wise do nothing different from Bormann. It would be very refreshing to see a Speer victory now and then.
He's supposed to be the Reich's Deng Xiaoping, right?
Well, IOTL, Deng removed the cult of personality around the PRC's paramount leader.
Does Speer do this as well? And does it lead to a more decentralized authoritarian model of government, like that of the PRC in the 2000s?
Looking to try this load out in x39.
I know this is mainly a 300 b/o bullet but the shape and flat base is similar to the 110gr vmax that is listed by Hornady.
I’m thinking on using the 123gr load data and keeping the same max OAL. Hornady lists the 123 SST with a flat base.
I’ve found next to nothing on this combo online so I know I’m in uncharted waters here. I thought I’d ask beforehand to see if anyone else has tried it. I really wish I had an OAL gauge for the x39 but hornady has been out for…. Forever on if
Thinking on 20.6 gr H4198 and a solid crimp which is a good middle starting load.
Thoughts?
Why would you limit the player with how high the GDP can go? What’s the fun in that? Personally I removed the event’s effect
For Poland I'd say its the Speidal plan, for Ostland I'd argue Landrut (despite him being a genuine reformist, Landrut's reforms would make Ostland a useful colony.)
But what would be the best outcome for Speer in Moscow and Ukraine that makes them effective economies yet still subservient to the Reich.
What are your thoughts on Albert Speer, Hitlers prize architect and along with Erwin Rommel, considered to be a “ good German” or at least not a bad one.
He admitted guilt at Nuremberg and was able to at least gain the sympathy of the western allies.
After his jail sentence he became sort of a weird celebrity in the American press before his death in 1980.
Was he good? Bad? Complicated? Your thoughts.
Could someone please be so kind, to share a list of Speer Friendly RK Moskowien unifiers?
So, will the Go4 change flag of the Reich after Speer passing.
And how this flag looks?
