The New Order: Last Days of Europe

Nixon's role in the mod is a huge missed opportunity Annoying write-up ahead. I want to say first I love and adore this mod to the ends of the earth. But this aspect of it really frustrates me. Lately, I've been reading and watching a lot of Nixon-related stuff and feel more and more that his role in TNO both makes little sense and misses what could be a really interesting presidency. ​ In short, Nixon and the Watergate scandal could only have happened after 1968. It was sort of the crescendo of his whole life. He was a deeply paranoid man who felt excluded from elite society and forever bullied and humiliated by people like JFK. The 1960 loss and the 8 years he spent in the shadows led him to completely reinvent himself, hellbent on revenge against the people he perceived to have worked against him. He reimagined himself as the hero of the downtrodden middle America who'd been betrayed by preppy East Coast new dealers and the New Left. It's very unlikely he would sanction what the plumbers did had these 8 years never taken place. These aren't particularly obscure facts. Most online videos about Nixon delve into this a little. It's why he's such a fascinating president. Which makes TNO's presentation of him all the more bizarre. ​ In TNO, Nixon enters the White House as an extremely young president who's had a rapid rise to the top. He's not been on the end of any significant betrayal, and the chaos of 1968 hasn't happened to alter his political character in the way it does. And yet, you start the game with the Nixon of 1969 straightaway. Engaged in sabotage, paranoia, and total fear of a society that doesn't even exist yet. It makes no sense whatsoever and doesn't attempt to. The only viable justification for any of this is that JFK was forced onto the ticket with him, and Nixon is embarrassed by how much JFK steals the show. The whole thing feels rather forced and unimaginative. (As a side note, the depiction of JFK as some lost angel who could've saved America is patent boomer mythos. Was this written by Oliver Stone?) The end result is a really forced watergate that is neither half as interesting or as politically juicy as the real one, nor as climatic. It doesn't feel paced, and it wastes someone who is probably the most interesting President in terms of Alt History possibilities. ​ There's so much more that could be done with Nixon if he were a 1964 or 1968 candidate. The mod is already scarcely lacking interesting moderate presidencies. The potential for a White House plumbers GUI. A 'List of Enemies' similar to Stalin's purge, gradually shutting up everyone from journalists to actors with interesting events for each one. A realpolitik system of counterbalancing Japan against Germany. Secret FBI Operations to sabotage the Left-NPP. I guess what I'm saying is, that it's a real shame the way Nixon is in the mod right now, and there's so much room for something more interesting to be done if a new candidate was put in for 1962. https://redd.it/186owuz @tnomod

Boys, I am please to announce my OFN patch has arrived https://redd.it/186tj03 @tnomod

Damn https://redd.it/1861uzd @tnomod

The good ending: https://redd.it/185dtsq @tnomod

British Einheitspakt Propaganda Poster https://redd.it/1853osn @tnomod

Ok hitachi is just…..horrifying I am of course not suprised that the fascist corporation is extremely evil, but Jesus fucking Christ some of those events are mind bogglingly disturbing. I mean the one about removing the suicide nets is so well written. I love how the worker is like “why would we do this?! It doesn’t cost anything to keep the nets up!” Very well written. Dare I say, genocide by working conditions? https://redd.it/185apjx @tnomod

Don't play with fire, Fountaine https://redd.it/184mwzu @tnomod

Fuhrreich but for TNO: What The Germans in TNO think would've happened If They Lost The War (feel free to ask questions) https://redd.it/1850s7b @tnomod

What do you get when you mix purple and green? https://redd.it/184c7am @tnomod

Was Fiddling Around With Outcomes to Cameroon's Collapse And Found This https://redd.it/183r8ig @tnomod

This Will be TNO in 2024 https://redd.it/183xz6u @tnomod

He's in the "Find Out" Stage of "F'ing around" https://redd.it/183n3o9 @tnomod

What are the rarest occurances in TNO? Some examples: OFN Paraguay (requires Brazil to join the OFN, which requires it going a specific path, and the bill actually passing, which itself isn't guaranteed even on that path, and Paraguay going communist). OFN East Africa (requires Italy to democratise, go neo-fascist, and join the OFN). I don't think I've seen a screenshot of anyone actually achieving maximum OFN yet, because usually these or Dominican Republic are missing. I myself tried to get max OFN with custom country paths but missed East Africa because I didn't know dem Italy could invade it. https://redd.it/182zcaf @tnomod

"An example in the West https://redd.it/181a462 @tnomod

The future of Germany is extremely bleak. From what I can tell, the future of the German people in the world of TNO is extremely bleak and depressing. Every single possible outcome seems to lead to either a tyrannical government holding on to control indefinitely, or Germany collapsing, never to recover. It seems that no matter what anyone, either in Germany or outside it, does, Germany is just doomed, the Axis victory forever sealing its fate, with Germany as an identity and concept forever synonymous with the atrocities of tyrants. https://redd.it/181x5z0 @tnomod

Map of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (1962) https://redd.it/181w6zv @tnomod

I've just realised that I've completely forgot how "normal" HoI4 is supposed to be played Today for the first time in, like, 2 years or so, I've tried to launch the game without TNO (not vanilla, but a different mod), and I've just got completely lost and confused. I am so used to the TNO UI, TNO mechanics, and TNO gameplay in general, that not seeing all of this in the game, and instead having all of these vanilla mechanics I'm completely unfamiliar with, just feels wrong. I think, I now understand why so many people in the HoI4 community actually dislike TNO. It's because TNO is not a "HoI4 mod" - it's a completely different game which just uses HoI4 as a game engine. In fact, it is probably even in the entirely different genre of games. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing - in fact, that's why a love it so much. However, the cost of it is that I just can no longer enjoy a "non-TNO HoI4" anymore https://redd.it/181ia5i @tnomod

Thiefonomics??? https://redd.it/180l7nx @tnomod