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11 August 2025 14:00

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10 August 2025 20:00

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08 August 2025 20:00

the first version and 2.5% for the second. Also raised the +25% recruitable population factor by 5% for the second version
- Gave a +0.5% conscription bonus to the motion "Mobilize the Free Territory" for the Siberian Black Army
- Increased the organization buff from the motion "Mobilize the Free Territory" by 5% for the Siberian Black Army
- Gave a +5% resource extraction efficiency buff to the motion "Mobilize the Free Territory" for the Siberian Black Army
- Doubled the manpower gained from the motion "Expand the Militias" from 500 per state to 1000 per state for the Siberian Black Army
- Gave a +10000 manpower bonus to the focus "Defending Freedom" for the Siberian Black Army
- Increased starting manpower by 15000 for the Siberian Black Army
- Reduced the amount of divisions the Conder Legion can send
- Gave support units to Cuban divisions
- Reduced the amount of volunteers Japan can send to Colombia from 3 to 2
- Adjusted the costs and effects of a few Japanese decisions for Colombia
- Brazil SAW equipment decision now a 2 week cooldown between
- Brazil's Lobster Trawling Operations decision now requires more than a hour worth of fuel
- Buffed the Távora-CGT negotiations to reduce more CGT fervour
- Slightly weakened various Puerto Plata related ideas
- Reduced Dominican Republic's starting divisions to 4
- Rebalanced Dominican Republic's divisions
* Replaced a tank brigade with an infantry brigade for infantry divisions
* Added a tank brigade for the "Guardia Presidencial" division
- Slightly strengthened Caribbean Legion divisions
* Replaced a light infantry brigade with an infantry brigade for the "Columna Legionaria" divisions
- Rebalanced Paraguay's Puerto Plata volunteer divisions
* Removed a motorized brigade in the "Cuerpo de Reserva" divisions
* Slightly reduced starting experience of the "Cuerpo de Reserva" divisions

**QoL Improvements**

- Bush War available action alert now reappears whenever an action is finished
- Campaign alert for US no longer has a tooltip that says it affects every state
- Campaign alert no longer appears on campaign results events, now only directly tied to the end of a campaign effect which triggered said events
- Clicking between regions in the Senate screen no longer closes the screen if you click on a new region
- Expanded location of espionage research tooltip to bar and research name

**Other Changes**

- Removed Iraqi core on Samarra to standardize it with the other Iraqi states held by Turkey that have claims only
- Updated icons on Brazil's SATW decisions
- Increased fuel given in Brazil's Buy Fuel SATW decision from 500 to 50,000
- Milton Campos, Ernesto Geisel's and Juan Bordaberry's portraits have been reworked
- Adhemar's baseball event chain has been moved forward 8 months to reduce event congestion
- Brazil, Argentina and Chile now can lose their resource rights in Bolivia if an unfavourable outcome occurs in the Mining Wars
- The winner of the South Atlantic War now annexes their opponent's Antarctic claims
- Gave the Bastion of the Crow natspirit an icon
- If Balaguer takes over from Ramfis after Trujillo's death, he gets rid of all the larp naming
- If an alert still exist for the new LATAM proxies when they finish, it is now removed automatically
- Cisplatina 70 ending event trigger is now hidden so it doesn't display the wrong event in tooltip
- Brizola now uses the Última Hora newspaper header Goulart and Edna Lott use
- Added starting armor templates for Mexico
- Adjusted long name of all Mexican parties to be in Spanish
- Rewrote Game Rules for Bormann's Negotiation with the Netherlands
- Implemented new "Admin. Titles" map mode, which allows you to view states with the same Admin. Title or Assoc. Region as the state you've selected
- Implemented Admin. Titles and Assoc. Regions for the following countries:
* Turkey
* Paraguay
* Uruguay
* Chile
* Argentina
* China
* Colombia
* RK Ostland
* RK Moscowien
* RK Kaukasien

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08 August 2025 20:00

for URC and New Granada's political changes not working due to not setting up its influence array
- New Granada/URC Colombia no longer appears twice in SACW political points
- Fixed unit spawn effect for Haitian Communists in demilitarized states when HCW turns hot
- Fixed Agrarian Reform Bill giving the incorrect Agrarian Reform ideas
- Fixed Goulart's "Voting Rights Act" not being voted on in the Senate
- Fixed Bolivian news event text clipping underneath the option text
- Brazil's monthly illiteracy trend now works properly
- The checks for illiteracy in Lacerda's 1970 campaign events now requires it to have improved
- Fixed a Liberdade Riots event that caused -50% stability for not arresting Vargas Jr. for Imperial Lacerda
- Anti-Riot Bill now displays what will happen if it passes
- Lacerda's National Security Act passes no longer displays a change in the Military Nepotism spirit
- Kill the First Horseman focus no longer requires no bills being voted on
- Fixed effectiveness display on Adhemar's Slush Fund bank policy
- Adhemar's Votes for Bribes decisions now use decisions icons instead of decision category icons
- Fixed mixed and bad econ goal events lacking effects in 1965 for 100 Days Lacerda and Adhemar
- Fixed multiple issues with Itaipu Dam event chain triggering the wrong events and not setting a flag properly
- Fixed timer for Transandean Treaty breaking for the first 2 rounds
- If Transandean Treaty ends from Tension, the timer and Argentine influence missions are now cancelled rather than continuing in the background and causing SACW tension to skyrocket
- Argentina no longer takes a single Transandean Treaty decision in the first round, mission now handles that exclusively
- Neutral Outcome from the Treaty now gives dynamic rewards depending on each round
- Mining Wars decision Send Garrisons Our Best Equipment now requires as much equipment as you send
- Fixed Mining Wars not removing Bolivian side of opinion modifiers after each outcome
- Mining Wars no longer displays 0 day timers on the first day of the proxy
- Bush War FULNA takeover decision no longer displays a 0 day timer when it first appears
- The Brazil-America nuclear negotiations now have the end effects trigger properly
- The Bunker Down decision for the HCW will now always build a bunker in Port-au-Prince
- Added names for Caribbean Legion and Haitan Communists
- Fixed Lacerda's Fifth Constitution going through the Senado twice
- Adhemar will no longer let Kruel keep his high command position after trying to coup the government
- Médici's minister bio now appears in-game
- Neves-Brizola struggle post-Edna Impeachment will no longer break if you take you choose the Brizola option in one event
- Fixed tooltip that said if the Adhemar Impeachment Bill passes in the Senado, it will introduce the Adhemar Impeachment Bill to the Senado
- Adhemar's Overtime Pay For Construction Workers now can affect the Nuclear Base and the Rio-Sao Paulo Line megaprojects
- Adhemar's Healthcare Revolution now triggers the proper event depending whether or not you work with Edna
- PSP presidential campaign button Cash for Votes now takes said cash out of the slush fund
- Rio-Sao Paulo megaproject now builds railways properly
- Aleixo world event pic now works currently
- Fixed graphical issue with SACW where Brazil wouldn't fit in the outline after Cayenne is annexed
- Fixed all Brazilian leaders getting an option to support the Central Government even if it isn't lead by the National Front due to check for Arbelaez instead of Pinilla as leader
- Brazilian Development GUI now functions properly for Amazonia after the Trans-Amazonian Highway is completed
- Paraguay no longer becomes partially DMZ after Bush War due to ongoing decisions at the proxy's end
- OAS Victory flag now sets after Paraguay falls, preventing Adhemar getting a Communist Paraguay event in Itaipu Falls negotiations
- Trujillo no longer names 2 different places in occupied Haiti Cabo Quisqueya
- Communist Coup Colombia now displays the correct name
- Fixed Madrazo portrait not appearing

The New Order: Last Days of Europe

08 August 2025 20:00

TNO Patch v.1.8.0c "The Crow and the Bull"

**The New Order: Last Days of Europe**

**v1.8.0c "The Crow and the Bull"**

**Minor Additions**

- Subidideology changes: implemented "Social Republicanism" (Progressivism), removed Liberal Socialism (Progressivism), updated Military Socialism's description, gave Fascism a new icon
- Added gamerule to toggle super event audio

**Bug Fixes**

- After changing central bank policy, the effectiveness bar now updates immediately
- Fixed Nuke Cold War UI not displaying number of enrichment plants properly
- Renaming event for Bangul, Qońirat, and Bekobod now trigger in the correct scope
- Fixed an extra option being shown for Brazil's Colombia events
- Fixed Mexico and Cuba not supporting Pinilla if he is in power
- Fixed the effects of starting or removing war taxes retriggering every month for AI nations
- You can no longer get a partial warhead in your nuclear stockpile
- Fixed a bunch of misspellings of division as divison in loc and unit names
- Percentages on expenditures pie chart now display in color of each type of expenditure
- Added missing Admin. Title in Montana
- Total Sphere Trade value calculates for non-superpowers spheres again
- Total Sphere Trade value no longer double counts the sphere leader, causing it to be much higher than it should be
- Fixed several negative reserves + spending money effects for Mexico, Brazil, and Guangdong
- Fresh Off the Presses central bank policy functions again
- Vernon Crackwell is now leader of the New Zealand Social Credit party until 1969
- Fixed a Faroe world event mentioning the English Civil War
- Implemented new CIA missions into standard USA intel mechanics, should fix agents vanishing and lack of expertise gain from missions
- Fixed a bunch of broken USA transition events for Bennett and LBJ as well as other flavor events for Harrington and Goldwater
- Hart's Checks and Balanced Budget now has a working focus icon
- Infrastructure effect from finishing an Interstate now triggers correctly
- Tooltips for Little America's trust now properly says how many weeks it's retained
- URI Benchmark events no longer use Crime Rate value when setting goals for Homelessness and Poverty
- Passing the National Education Act no longer makes education get rapidly worse
- Fixed one of Chep's focuses vanishing from the tree after URI repeal crisis is over
- URI repeals is no longer listed as an ongoing crisis in President's Desk display after the last bill is vetoed/fails
- Clicking the show states up for election button in US Voting GUI no longer causes the screen to flip back to current seats if you have predicted seats selected
- Fixed a bunch of decision category icons for the US not appearing
- German intel operation thwarted event no longer displays FBI/CIA in title and potentially the wrong German espionage agency in the description
- Fixed PPI decisions that cost both political and command power incorrectly calculating pp cost
- Madagascar pie chart no longer breaks every time the US increases it influence
- Fixed Haiti pie chart (at least somewhat)
- One of the trails in Madagascar gui not appearing when enemy controlled
- Fixed desc on Congo CW under the Mandate not appearing
- Fixed Iberian CW forpol screeen for US being entirely blank
- Fixed Homefront values not being clamped at 100%
- Jamaican Crisis Send in Peacekeeping Units decision no longer says it can be taken at lower level of violence than it actually can
- Homefront manpower depletion mission no longer cancels immediately
- Australia is no longer described as the world's fifth nuclear power when they test nukes if Argentina and/or Brazil have tested nukes beforehand
- Finnish natspirit "Supporting Onega" now gets removed after Onega is annexed
- Fixed Ostland not having cores for its territory when it gets divided in Speer's path
- Free French claims are now removed if Reclamation fails
- French Resistance is now annexed on Reclamation failure
- French State no longer gets a core on Kerguelen after Reclamation failure
- Virolainen election in Finland now properly updates

The New Order: Last Days of Europe

08 August 2025 20:00

the pie chart
- Fixed issue with RK Ukraine keeping Galicia in some cases if GGN won in Poland
- The French Resistance now joins the Free French faction properly if the French Community has formed
- UK now loses its claim on South Georgia at the same time as the Falklands
- Fixed broken state renamings after Speer forms the Reichslander
- Rihtniemi no longer retires if Finland offers ceasefire, despite it being declared as a Finnish Victory
- Fixed several Azad Hind party pop effects not working due to not summing to 100%
- Fixed Bhutan losing its leader after Indian Reunification War
- Icon for AZH's Only the Best spirit now works
- Fixed Azad Hind's Administrative Assistance and Military Advisors spirit not being removed after Reunification War
- RoI Post-War Shastri and Chavan now have next election display set up properly
- Moved some Indonesian Units that spawned outside of their states, like in Dushanbe
- Fixed Yunnan not having a faction post-Western Insurrection defeat (probably)
- Removed stray Afghan claim on the state of Gwadar
- Removed Malayan claims to Thai states lingering after the end of the Malaya-Shonan war
- Added economy subtype to Makassar and the Islamic State of Indonesia
- Carlos Garcia no longer has his name misspelled
- Fixed development decision that built naval bases in Urajio not having a province specified
- Setting the Lucknow Conference gamerule no longer bricks the Indian skeleton
- Fixed issue where MPR would spawning missing tech needed for starting equipment in OOB
- Karakalpak idea Wolves at the Door is now removed correctly when they unify with Uzbek
- Chita no longer builds a nice set of bunkers for Amur
- Irkutsk's "Finish the Amur Highway" development decision now only affects states in eastern Siberia
- Fixed Iberia being at war with the Falangists forever if they go down a certain path
- Fixed Iberian Algeria not coring Médéa when it defeats Italian Algeria
- Fixed Morocco portion of the Iberian Wars not triggering the correct peace effects
- Fixed Rif Republic not having an adjective
- Brazil's starting ship templates no longer use USA name lists
- Fixed tech bonuses in new Brazil content not have names in tech bonus list
- Fixed Brazilian alt-ideologies not displaying properly
- Denys no longer appears as leader of Constitutionalists in the period after his coup fails and before the Lott Act passes
- Costa e Silva is no longer leader of Hardliners if fired by Castelo Branco
- Promotion event for Ednardo D'Ávila Mello no longer uses a completely different general, Humberto de Sousa Melo, in loc
- Promotion event for Newton Araújo de Oliveira e Cruz to general now fires
- Fixed issue where nuke budget screen could appear twice if you unpaused during the "Code Red" event
- Brazil's Maintain Party Unity focus no longer has an background
- Added/Fixed portraits for 3 late game Brazilian generals
- Fixed a bunch of broken Brazilian event pics
- Corrected loc that referred to Guevara as a "gorilla-Stalinist"
- Fixed effects on Amendments to the Labor Law Reform Act options
- The USA will no longer push OFN membership during the Brazil-USA nuke negotiations if Brazil is already in the OFN
- Lacerda's hydroelectric bill no longer breaks if the Samba is in power and Távora accepts the edited bill
- Fixed Magalhães-Brizola debate not ending if you have high literacy
- Fixed Magalhães campaign decision trigger checking mechanization in the Northeast using Amazonia's instead
- Fixed several Magalhães campaign decisions that wrong events triggered depending on development values
- Liberal victory in Paraguay now increases Lacerda success level properly
- Fixed FULNA-controlled Cordillera and Caagauzú causing DMZs to appear in the wrong states
- Grouped several Cayenne referendum decisions that always appears regardless of which decision group was selected
- Brazil's URC collapsing timer now only appears when URC is collapsing
- New Granada can no longer get volunteers to itself if it is hosting the Condor Legion
- Adjusted placement of Colombia in SACW screen
- Fixed SACW alignment effects

The New Order: Last Days of Europe

07 August 2025 00:00

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05 August 2025 18:00

They got rid of the ugly orange Fascism colour!!!
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31 July 2025 02:00

Can anyone recognize this MANPADS in Germany technology tree?
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27 July 2025 22:00

What will happen first, new edition
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27 July 2025 06:00

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26 July 2025 18:00

position itself as a 'post-colonial' partner, offering a simple quid pro quo of investment for resources. In other states, it will attempt to wield and take advantage of anti-colonial sentiment and language, in particular as regards opposition to the white-minority regimes in Eastern and Southern Africa.

Japan’s presence in Africa will heavily shift the ideological nature of aligned states, with parties that engage with Japan often finding themselves having to shift their political presentation to fit within 'comfortable' politics in Japan. Japan will not directly work with explicit Marxist, and even non-Marxists will generally be incentivized (or pressured) to adjust how they present their regimes. 

In addition, the wider CPS will certainly participate in African affairs as well - in particular, Japan’s ally, Azad Hind, which will serve as a major backer for Japan’s sphere in Africa and do a lot of the actual legwork when it comes to organising and arming pro-Japanese groupings, alongside having much more willingness to put boots on the ground than Japan proper does. As such, the fall of Azad Hind, should it happen, will have a reaction far away from Asia.

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# Conflicts & Proxies:



The West African Independence Wars:

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The crisis that fomented in Equatorial Africa now finally visits French West Africa, springboarded by the aftershocks of the UPC's sudden lightning victory in its rebellion. The weakness of the colonial state will be laid bare by these initial sparks of fury, and within weeks dissidents will go from rural backwaters and broken strikers to presenting a direct and clear threat in many of the most important corridors of French West Africa.

For Germany, there is no expectation of preserving the whole mass - instead the goal is to refocus. Preserve control of regions for exactly as it takes to tear all of the infrastructure out of them. Empty depots, take or dispose of machines, strip wires, burn buildings. Denial is the name of the game, and Germany and France both are in it to win.

Naval access is a concern, however, and Germany must spend opportunities in the hope of expanding its access to gain more opportunities. The system is a balance of risk and reward, where the act of moving units, or infrastructure, or losing nodes, takes time as it physically traverses the map.

Move your units from node to node, gradually conceding ground as you have looted it bare - transferring units and infrastructure takes time, and is a meaningful consideration with the mechanic. The more you loot, the greater the benefits to Germany and France, boosting not simply their economy but possibly pushing France into a more reliant position towards Germany, or the exact opposite, should the wealth of West Africa be left for its rebels.





West African Cold War:

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The West African Cold War isn't a proxy, but instead a regional mechanical conflict that occurs between Ghana and France chiefly, although it will frequently involve other parties and will nigh always be on other grounds than a direct confrontation.

Beginning early in a crisis within the Mali Federation, the Cold War will continue across Dahomey's splintering political condition, or through France's attempt to retake control of a key corridor of the Trans-Saharan Railroad in Niger's Western Expedition, or in unrest in the Upper Volta, or the growing tension between Ghana and Togo over the British Togolands.

Over the course of the crisis, the status of each party will be tracked and visible to the player through their ideas. Although Ghana and France (through the Ivory Coast) are the key actors, they aren't the only ones, and other powers are capable of taking their own initiative in the

The New Order: Last Days of Europe

26 July 2025 18:00

Development Diary XXXI: Débrouillez-Vous - Part 4/4

# Superpowers:

# United States:

US policy towards Africa, historically, centered on the 'Monrovia System' built around support for Liberia & the Congo. From the end of the Second World War until 1956, the United States' support for these authoritarian and minority-ruled states constituted Washington's leading role in fostering a "free" Africa against European colonialism.

After Ghanaian independence, Accra and Washington attempted to work together, with the former depending on the latter for financial backing, but Nkrumah's demands for reform in the American sphere and his independent posturing pushed the two apart. In addition to fostering a nation-building process in the Congo, after 1956 the US-backed Commonwealth governments of the USLA gained considerable investment and constituted an expansion of the "centrist" bloc of independent African states in which Ghana did not participate. 

With the collapse of many of the European states’ colonies, the US loses its status as the guarantor of African independence, as many more states emerge, many of whom are not aligned with the US. In addition, their old sphere in the Congo and the USLA will prove not to be as ironclad as they had thought.

Of the three superpowers, the United States has perhaps the most range in how it approaches Africa. Whereas Germany favors white-led minority rule states and select reactionary African dictatorships, and Japan favors African nationalists, the US can pull from both groups while avoiding both sides' extremes. This isn't to say the US is a champion of liberal democracy in Africa, but is instead the primary soft-power competitor for both of its Cold War rivals.

The United States is fully able to pursue a conservative policy, favoring strong, stable dictatorships and minority rule states at the expense of potentially amicable African partners. In addition, the US’ policy towards the colonial ancien regimes of Britain and France is not always one of full opposition.

In other cases, the US will work directly against white minority projects, working with African-led, democratic-oriented states, anocracies, and dictatorships so long as they uphold American interests. 

America's Main Region of Concern in 1962

# Germany:

German policy in Africa is largely shaped by its other, ancillary interests. Broadly, Germany doesn’t prioritize Africa for building ties with African countries, nor even for its resources. However, Germany does care about what Africa means for its other interests; for the politics within Europe, and the geopolitics of the Cold War.

A good example is probably Germany's late 40s-early 50's policy - that is, one of wielding Africa as a way to control France and Britain. France and Britain, burdened by war debts, are driven to attempt to turn their colonial holdings profitable, a process that is immensely disruptive and drives waves of discontent throughout the colonies. Their fragile post-war governments would simply not survive any abandonment of the colonies, nor would the idea be accepted easily within the frame of politics that now govern these countries. Thus, to meet their security needs, France and Britain have to rely on Germany, at least in part. Similarly, Germany will wield its old colonial claims for its political benefit, looming the threat of invoking said past claims. This is not an honest practice; German policy has simply moved past this by the late 40s, but it is an effective way to batter concessions out of its allies and control their actions. Germany will support France & Britain, but it will do so on terms that benefit Germany. This has produced an Africa with, at times, a quite noticeable German presence, especially in areas of strategic importance or near the OFN. But, ultimately, Germany acts in Africa in the service of its European political interests first and foremost.

As the 50s proceed, and European Colonial policy

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26 July 2025 02:00

African superunion found itself a weakened confederation of disparate states.

Matters worsened for the USLA in Cameroon, the most populous federal republic, where the post-French power vacuum allowed the UPC to seize land and equipment to mount a renewed bid for power. Backed by Ghanaian aid, Nyobè's guerrillas prevented federal Cameroon from taking root in the country and instead made the Yaoundé republic dependent on USLA support. With that well of aid increasingly drying up, and the continued weakening of the Bangui-based federation's power, the future of Equatorial African unity appears bleak.



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26 July 2025 02:00

the German occupiers. De Gaulle, a divisional tank commander who had distinguished himself during the Battle for France, had taken leadership of the exiled French forces willing to continue to fight alongside the Allies, albeit with difficulties. Few men, and even fewer officers, were willing to join de Gaulle. For the vast majority of the French officer corps, deserting their commissions to fight with such a rag-tag crew was far from an attractive proposition. To make matters much worse, the attempt by the Royal Navy to scuttle the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir forever tarnished the reputation of the Free French, who were now viewed contemptuously as merely puppets of the traitorous British. From Dakar to Tananarive, colonial officials after officials declared their loyalty to the new government in Vichy, with one exception.

In August 1940, the governor of Chad declared his allegiance to the Free French, setting off a domino effect that saw all of Equatorial Africa, except Gabon, align with de Gaulle. Gabon's governor, at the urging of the small settler elite population, refused to yield, but the Free French were able to throw him out by the end of November and remained protected from Vichy's reinvasion by the British garrison in Nigeria. Despite this dramatic victory, the Free French remained an underdog. Efforts to disseminate propaganda into French West Africa through friendly Nigeria met with mixed success, and officer defections remained few and far between. An attempt to capture Dakar had failed in September of 1940, and the war in Europe continued to go in Germany's favor. 

 Meanwhile, in Vichy, the colonies played a key role in the new French State's ideology and strategy. Officially neutral, the regime had time to focus on its immediate needs, namely, rebuilding and paying reparations to Germany with funds acquired through the empire. To compensate for the loss of external trade with the Western powers, France sought to exploit its colonial resources more extensively than ever before. The use of forced labor, procured through the Code de l'indigénat (a constant feature of French colonial rule in Africa), was expanded to meet the labor needs of mines and settler-owned plantations across French Africa. Dissidents, like the unfortunate Sylvanus Olympio of Togo, were rounded up and thrown into dark cells, or else simply executed. 

While this served the immediate needs of national recovery, some in the French State looked towards grand designs for Africa. In 1941, laborers sourced from internment camps in the Algerian interior broke ground on the much-discussed Trans-Saharan Railroad. A concept going back decades, the Trans-Saharan Railroad would connect French Algeria to its key cities in West Africa, chiefly Dakar and Abidjan. The costs of such a project in terms of time, manpower, and resources had always put a pause on such dreams, but the French State was eager to prove its capabilities. This railway would provide an overland connection between north and south, while also integrating the Office du Niger, a massive irrigation project covering over 75,000 hectares of land, into the imperial economy. Coerced African laborers, Spanish Republican exiles, prisoners of war, Algerian Jews, and other dissidents were put to work, enduring horrific conditions and high mortality rates. 

The German victory in the Second World War was seen by many in the French State as vindication of their collaboration, and, following British integration into the German sphere, this Nazi peace opened Africa to pan-European exploitation. Still, the war had taken its toll on France and its once-globe-spanning empire. Only in Sub-Saharan Africa did the empire remain largely intact, as colonies elsewhere were ceded or seized by other states. What remained was French in name, but also open to large-scale German presence and investment. With peace secured in Europe, the French State, backed by the freed-up manpower of Germany and Britain, turned its attention towards Free French-held Equatorial Africa. By the end of 1945,

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11 August 2025 08:00

They Killed the Black League Flag 💔

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09 August 2025 12:00

Black League flag at Omsk (Wplace event)
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08 August 2025 20:00

immediately in El Tapado UI after he becomes a successor
- Fixed one Madrazo/Ordaz entry in El Tapado UI displaying a different texticon in tooltip than entry's icon
- Final Kabuki Crisis update trigger has been moved so it is triggered before the crisis is removed from the Leviathan
- Added click_enabled triggers to the preparation buttons in the 2nd El Tapado UI
- The Prevent Preparation Loss decision in the 2nd El Tapado UI no longer causes 2/3 chance of losing 0 preparation instead of choosing between the 2 remaining types of preparation
- Decision that says it prevents Salinas from making moves now prevents Salinas from making moves
- Mexican Debt Alert no longer keeps appearing if debt in a region falls back below 90%
- Fixed some Mexico relation effects after Croatia is reconquered by Italy
- Fixed Mexico's first couple infantry AA not displaying the correct GFX
- Fixed Mexico's tech naming not working correctly on the early interceptor
- Mexico PPI training decisions now all disabled after preparation period is over
- Fixed a couple Mexican PPI decision with incorrect costs
- Untranslated the last name of Enrique Dupré Ashtrays, the Governor of Durango
- Fixed event referring to Madrazo as the Typhoon instead of the Cyclone
- Fixed diacritics in a ton of Spanish and Portuguese names
- Corrected and standardized spelling of many Latin American characters, places, and groups
- Added traits to Brazilian vice president Ulysses Guimaraes
- Fixed Goulart's Voting Rights Act not being voted in the Senate
- Communist Haiti won't hate communist Dominican Republic anymore
- Communist Dominican Republic won't claim Hinche anymore when the state is transfered to communist Haiti
- AI Brazil now researches nukes properly
- The OFN can no longer join the Brazilian Civil War if Lacerda failed to join the OFN previously
- The Central Government no longer can be an OFN Observer
- Guiana-Cayenne can no longer call the OFN into the South Atlantic War if they gain independence during it
- Brazil now properly rejoins the OFN after the South Atlantic War
- Countries Brazil puppets after the South Atlantic War now get the OFN Dependent member faction role
- Taking the PARA-SAR focus no longer resets the strikes but removes then instead
- Brazil can no longer annex Santa Cruz if the player joins Bolivia's war
- 2 CIA USA regarding LATAM now have actual effects
- Adhemar focuses that aren't meant to be taken in his True Progress tree can no longer be taken
- The Calmed South national spirit no longer mentions the German and Eastern European civil wars as they are not ongoing at the time
- Brazil no longer guarantees Bolivia if they lose the Mining Wars
- Adhemar's Paraguay negotiations now have a different tooltip depending on if Paraguay was in your sphere beforehand
- Sawaba now gets annexed if Cameroon capitulates in the 3-way WAC
- The Cameroon Capitulates mission no longer breaks the WAC if it happens while both FMA and WAA are still alive
- Fixed Mali reverting to the Kayes Government after the Reclamation fails
- Fixed a bunch of triggers and effects for the African RKs and South Africa targeting a state in Bolivia
- Fixed Japan's Congo proxy tab not disappearing if Azandeland is defeated by Beafrika
- Fixed Congo CW not ending if Zaire is defeated by Beafrika at the same time the rest of Congo has been united under a different faction
- Fixed Italian Antarctica missing colors

**Balance Changes**

- Reduced Shonan's starting divisions to 6
- Reduced Malayan's starting divisions to 8
- Rebalanced Malayan divisions
* Reduced starting equipment
* Increased division experience
- Reduced amount of divisions Pakistan receives upon declaring war on the ROI from 10 to 5
- Increased duration of Indian and Azad Hind ideas "Administrative Assistance" to 180 days
- Increased duration of Indian and Azad Hind ideas "Military Advisors" to 120 days
- Both "Administrative Assistance" and "Military Advisors" now increase by 10% per stage of "Pandora's Box"
- Increased conscription from "Militarized Society" for the Siberian Black Army to 2% for

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the pie chart
- Fixed issue with RK Ukraine keeping Galicia in some cases if GGN won in Poland
- The French Resistance now joins the Free French faction properly if the French Community has formed
- UK now loses its claim on South Georgia at the same time as the Falklands
- Fixed broken state renamings after Speer forms the Reichslander
- Rihtniemi no longer retires if Finland offers ceasefire, despite it being declared as a Finnish Victory
- Fixed several Azad Hind party pop effects not working due to not summing to 100%
- Fixed Bhutan losing its leader after Indian Reunification War
- Icon for AZH's Only the Best spirit now works
- Fixed Azad Hind's Administrative Assistance and Military Advisors spirit not being removed after Reunification War
- RoI Post-War Shastri and Chavan now have next election display set up properly
- Moved some Indonesian Units that spawned outside of their states, like in Dushanbe
- Fixed Yunnan not having a faction post-Western Insurrection defeat (probably)
- Removed stray Afghan claim on the state of Gwadar
- Removed Malayan claims to Thai states lingering after the end of the Malaya-Shonan war
- Added economy subtype to Makassar and the Islamic State of Indonesia
- Carlos Garcia no longer has his name misspelled
- Fixed development decision that built naval bases in Urajio not having a province specified
- Setting the Lucknow Conference gamerule no longer bricks the Indian skeleton
- Fixed issue where MPR would spawning missing tech needed for starting equipment in OOB
- Karakalpak idea Wolves at the Door is now removed correctly when they unify with Uzbek
- Chita no longer builds a nice set of bunkers for Amur
- Irkutsk's "Finish the Amur Highway" development decision now only affects states in eastern Siberia
- Fixed Iberia being at war with the Falangists forever if they go down a certain path
- Fixed Iberian Algeria not coring Médéa when it defeats Italian Algeria
- Fixed Morocco portion of the Iberian Wars not triggering the correct peace effects
- Fixed Rif Republic not having an adjective
- Brazil's starting ship templates no longer use USA name lists
- Fixed tech bonuses in new Brazil content not have names in tech bonus list
- Fixed Brazilian alt-ideologies not displaying properly
- Denys no longer appears as leader of Constitutionalists in the period after his coup fails and before the Lott Act passes
- Costa e Silva is no longer leader of Hardliners if fired by Castelo Branco
- Promotion event for Ednardo D'Ávila Mello no longer uses a completely different general, Humberto de Sousa Melo, in loc
- Promotion event for Newton Araújo de Oliveira e Cruz to general now fires
- Fixed issue where nuke budget screen could appear twice if you unpaused during the "Code Red" event
- Brazil's Maintain Party Unity focus no longer has an background
- Added/Fixed portraits for 3 late game Brazilian generals
- Fixed a bunch of broken Brazilian event pics
- Corrected loc that referred to Guevara as a "gorilla-Stalinist"
- Fixed effects on Amendments to the Labor Law Reform Act options
- The USA will no longer push OFN membership during the Brazil-USA nuke negotiations if Brazil is already in the OFN
- Lacerda's hydroelectric bill no longer breaks if the Samba is in power and Távora accepts the edited bill
- Fixed Magalhães-Brizola debate not ending if you have high literacy
- Fixed Magalhães campaign decision trigger checking mechanization in the Northeast using Amazonia's instead
- Fixed several Magalhães campaign decisions that wrong events triggered depending on development values
- Liberal victory in Paraguay now increases Lacerda success level properly
- Fixed FULNA-controlled Cordillera and Caagauzú causing DMZs to appear in the wrong states
- Grouped several Cayenne referendum decisions that always appears regardless of which decision group was selected
- Brazil's URC collapsing timer now only appears when URC is collapsing
- New Granada can no longer get volunteers to itself if it is hosting the Condor Legion
- Adjusted placement of Colombia in SACW screen
- Fixed SACW alignment effects

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for URC and New Granada's political changes not working due to not setting up its influence array
- New Granada/URC Colombia no longer appears twice in SACW political points
- Fixed unit spawn effect for Haitian Communists in demilitarized states when HCW turns hot
- Fixed Agrarian Reform Bill giving the incorrect Agrarian Reform ideas
- Fixed Goulart's "Voting Rights Act" not being voted on in the Senate
- Fixed Bolivian news event text clipping underneath the option text
- Brazil's monthly illiteracy trend now works properly
- The checks for illiteracy in Lacerda's 1970 campaign events now requires it to have improved
- Fixed a Liberdade Riots event that caused -50% stability for not arresting Vargas Jr. for Imperial Lacerda
- Anti-Riot Bill now displays what will happen if it passes
- Lacerda's National Security Act passes no longer displays a change in the Military Nepotism spirit
- Kill the First Horseman focus no longer requires no bills being voted on
- Fixed effectiveness display on Adhemar's Slush Fund bank policy
- Adhemar's Votes for Bribes decisions now use decisions icons instead of decision category icons
- Fixed mixed and bad econ goal events lacking effects in 1965 for 100 Days Lacerda and Adhemar
- Fixed multiple issues with Itaipu Dam event chain triggering the wrong events and not setting a flag properly
- Fixed timer for Transandean Treaty breaking for the first 2 rounds
- If Transandean Treaty ends from Tension, the timer and Argentine influence missions are now cancelled rather than continuing in the background and causing SACW tension to skyrocket
- Argentina no longer takes a single Transandean Treaty decision in the first round, mission now handles that exclusively
- Neutral Outcome from the Treaty now gives dynamic rewards depending on each round
- Mining Wars decision Send Garrisons Our Best Equipment now requires as much equipment as you send
- Fixed Mining Wars not removing Bolivian side of opinion modifiers after each outcome
- Mining Wars no longer displays 0 day timers on the first day of the proxy
- Bush War FULNA takeover decision no longer displays a 0 day timer when it first appears
- The Brazil-America nuclear negotiations now have the end effects trigger properly
- The Bunker Down decision for the HCW will now always build a bunker in Port-au-Prince
- Added names for Caribbean Legion and Haitan Communists
- Fixed Lacerda's Fifth Constitution going through the Senado twice
- Adhemar will no longer let Kruel keep his high command position after trying to coup the government
- Médici's minister bio now appears in-game
- Neves-Brizola struggle post-Edna Impeachment will no longer break if you take you choose the Brizola option in one event
- Fixed tooltip that said if the Adhemar Impeachment Bill passes in the Senado, it will introduce the Adhemar Impeachment Bill to the Senado
- Adhemar's Overtime Pay For Construction Workers now can affect the Nuclear Base and the Rio-Sao Paulo Line megaprojects
- Adhemar's Healthcare Revolution now triggers the proper event depending whether or not you work with Edna
- PSP presidential campaign button Cash for Votes now takes said cash out of the slush fund
- Rio-Sao Paulo megaproject now builds railways properly
- Aleixo world event pic now works currently
- Fixed graphical issue with SACW where Brazil wouldn't fit in the outline after Cayenne is annexed
- Fixed all Brazilian leaders getting an option to support the Central Government even if it isn't lead by the National Front due to check for Arbelaez instead of Pinilla as leader
- Brazilian Development GUI now functions properly for Amazonia after the Trans-Amazonian Highway is completed
- Paraguay no longer becomes partially DMZ after Bush War due to ongoing decisions at the proxy's end
- OAS Victory flag now sets after Paraguay falls, preventing Adhemar getting a Communist Paraguay event in Itaipu Falls negotiations
- Trujillo no longer names 2 different places in occupied Haiti Cabo Quisqueya
- Communist Coup Colombia now displays the correct name
- Fixed Madrazo portrait not appearing

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TNO Patch v.1.8.0c "The Crow and the Bull"

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Minor Additions

- Subidideology changes: implemented "Social Republicanism" (Progressivism), removed Liberal Socialism (Progressivism), updated Military Socialism's description, gave Fascism a new icon
- Added gamerule to toggle super event audio

Bug Fixes

- After changing central bank policy, the effectiveness bar now updates immediately
- Fixed Nuke Cold War UI not displaying number of enrichment plants properly
- Renaming event for Bangul, Qońirat, and Bekobod now trigger in the correct scope
- Fixed an extra option being shown for Brazil's Colombia events
- Fixed Mexico and Cuba not supporting Pinilla if he is in power
- Fixed the effects of starting or removing war taxes retriggering every month for AI nations
- You can no longer get a partial warhead in your nuclear stockpile
- Fixed a bunch of misspellings of division as divison in loc and unit names
- Percentages on expenditures pie chart now display in color of each type of expenditure
- Added missing Admin. Title in Montana
- Total Sphere Trade value calculates for non-superpowers spheres again
- Total Sphere Trade value no longer double counts the sphere leader, causing it to be much higher than it should be
- Fixed several negative reserves + spending money effects for Mexico, Brazil, and Guangdong
- Fresh Off the Presses central bank policy functions again
- Vernon Crackwell is now leader of the New Zealand Social Credit party until 1969
- Fixed a Faroe world event mentioning the English Civil War
- Implemented new CIA missions into standard USA intel mechanics, should fix agents vanishing and lack of expertise gain from missions
- Fixed a bunch of broken USA transition events for Bennett and LBJ as well as other flavor events for Harrington and Goldwater
- Hart's Checks and Balanced Budget now has a working focus icon
- Infrastructure effect from finishing an Interstate now triggers correctly
- Tooltips for Little America's trust now properly says how many weeks it's retained
- URI Benchmark events no longer use Crime Rate value when setting goals for Homelessness and Poverty
- Passing the National Education Act no longer makes education get rapidly worse
- Fixed one of Chep's focuses vanishing from the tree after URI repeal crisis is over
- URI repeals is no longer listed as an ongoing crisis in President's Desk display after the last bill is vetoed/fails
- Clicking the show states up for election button in US Voting GUI no longer causes the screen to flip back to current seats if you have predicted seats selected
- Fixed a bunch of decision category icons for the US not appearing
- German intel operation thwarted event no longer displays FBI/CIA in title and potentially the wrong German espionage agency in the description
- Fixed PPI decisions that cost both political and command power incorrectly calculating pp cost
- Madagascar pie chart no longer breaks every time the US increases it influence
- Fixed Haiti pie chart (at least somewhat)
- One of the trails in Madagascar gui not appearing when enemy controlled
- Fixed desc on Congo CW under the Mandate not appearing
- Fixed Iberian CW forpol screeen for US being entirely blank
- Fixed Homefront values not being clamped at 100%
- Jamaican Crisis Send in Peacekeeping Units decision no longer says it can be taken at lower level of violence than it actually can
- Homefront manpower depletion mission no longer cancels immediately
- Australia is no longer described as the world's fifth nuclear power when they test nukes if Argentina and/or Brazil have tested nukes beforehand
- Finnish natspirit "Supporting Onega" now gets removed after Onega is annexed
- Fixed Ostland not having cores for its territory when it gets divided in Speer's path
- Free French claims are now removed if Reclamation fails
- French Resistance is now annexed on Reclamation failure
- French State no longer gets a core on Kerguelen after Reclamation failure
- Virolainen election in Finland now properly updates

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"The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry." - Harold Wilson
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How does one use the economy?
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It's a joke don't take it too seriously
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Why isn't Ukraine being nuked by Speer's germany already?
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conflict.

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Congo Crisis:

The Congo's experience of the 60s is one of tumultuous instability, as reform, reaction, secession and revolution will grip its every corner. The centerpiece of this experience, and a centerpiece of wider African geopolitics is found in the Congo crisis, begun by Katanga's secession but growing immensely more complicated and involved by the second.

The United States will attempt to control the terms, leadership and direction of its Model Republic, guiding the Congo between negotiation and obliteration. As Congolese politics splinter under the brunt of the crisis, it is for the United States to both take advantage of and work to reconcile its fragile condition. The United States will have to navigate the changing conditions of the crisis, negotiating with some parties and obliterating others. Each choice carries political weight in the Congo, the ramifications of which will continue to be felt well after the crisis.

Germany's interests will transition from a distant flight of opportunity to an avenging opportunity to punish the United States, as it will seek to entrench Katanga's secessionist project, defining it by terms to Germany's benefit. The involvement and sympathies of Iberian and South Africa will complicate the geopolitics, giving Germany the opportunity to drive a wedge between them and the United States - driving each closer to a German orbit.

The Congo Crisis is designed for variable outcomes, and is centered in large part around the ability for the player to negotiate on amicable terms. The player doesn't simply have a wealth of choices, their ability to fail to achieve these choices is deliberate and systemic, and opportunities to recoup one's losses are almost always available. The mechanic evolves over the course of the crisis, as the conditions in the Congo continue to worsen. In later portions of the crisis the once distant interests of the United States and Germany become more and more intimate, as the saber rattling begins to be taken more and more seriously.

The feelings of the World War have not passed, and a genuine animosity exists to be freely tapped into to justify or aid their goals should either power find it convenient. There will be time to pay the piper.



Finally, enjoy two full leader and continental maps, of Africa in 1962, and of one possible instance of Africa’s situation in 1964 respectively.

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# Conclusion:

This dev diary is by no means the only teaser you will receive for this update - in particular, you will be hearing more about the many planned proxies we have in the future. Of course, some things will remain secret until the update, and we hope to see you exploring it then for those secrets. We hope that you enjoyed this diary, and that you will be looking forward to future teasers and updates. Feel free to ask any questions you wish in the comment section or in the Discord's ask-a-dev channel, and the Africa devs will happily answer them. Good luck, and remember Article 15.

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enters a sustained (and in 1962 largely unresolved) crisis, Germany will largely be of the mind that this is directly the fault of US interests in Africa. This isn't true, but it's also explicitly what the US is trying to do. This will drive an increasingly confrontational policy in early content, where Germany will challenge the US with two not-entirely-African projects in mind. For one, Germany wants to buckle US projects in Africa - for instance, the Congo, a product of US nation-building. For two, Germany wants to define the terms of US foreign policy in Africa - it wants to alienate the US from South Africa & Iberia by driving the US to policies and actions that antagonize them. Essentially, Germany is betting on being the bigger chud, and will try to create conditions that force the US to make choices that split its Foreign Policy down the middle.

As the 1960s proceed, European powers will be forced to address the institutional deficiencies of their old-style colonial policies, as they grapple with the continent-wide crisis. This is not an even process, and may not be in any sense progressive, but colonial policy will change in the 60s. While Britain & France are engaging with (or losing) their reformed colonial interests, Germany will begin to reach out towards more stable partners, especially South Africa, and develop its Africa policy through a looser bloc of minoritarian projects. Germany may not control this bloc, but it doesn't need to, as geopolitical realities will bind them together. That said, Germany will never abandon French and British colonialism; it will instead seek to synthesize the two avenues wherever possible, and develop cooperative relationships between all states with an interest in maintaining minority rule.

In addition, it's perfectly possible that in later content, Germany and the US could find themselves cooperating in several regions of Africa - and this will have consequences. A natural US-German détente could reasonably grow from their converging policies in Africa.

Germany's Main Region of Concern in 1962

# Japan:

In 1962, Japan is by far the least involved power in African affairs. The region with the most proximity to Japan and its sphere is East Africa, but the British have proven adept at securing it for the Einheitspakt, and thus Japan will heavily benefit from the Second Great Uprising. Over the course of the game, Japan will grow far more involved in Africa, taking advantage of the cracks appearing in both America and Germany’s African hegemonies. The first major move Japan will make in Africa will be to sponsor the fledgling republic of Tanganyika, giving them extensive aid in exchange for their adopting an anti-communist posture and opening up to Japanese business.

As far as business goes, it is central to Japan’s relations with Africa, as its main driving interest is distinctly economical - it seeks market expansion to release steam within the CPS's economy through Africa, and, to a lesser degree, to diversify its resource economy. 

However, there are certainly links to the wider, global Cold War as regards Japan’s policy towards Africa, it isn’t just an economic affair, as they will use it as a way to keep conflicts out of Asia - any conflict with the American or German sphere in Africa is one not occurring within Japan's backyard. 

Japan does not actively seek African states for entry into the CPS, but will instead seek to build a loose bloc of associated states which are economically available to Japan and amenable to Japan's diplomatic hegemony. In particular, Tanganyika’s sphere is central to this effort, but other spheres will also play a key role - and those spheres may well find themselves at odds with each other in the future, creating another challenge for Japan to deal with.

Japanese rhetoric in Africa will vary depending on the target, creating a highly inconsistent reputation politically. In some states, Japan will simply

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5th Anniversary Leaks - The Norwegian State in 1962
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the federation was once again under Paris's control, and the Free French were stateless rebels tied to no territory and no viable means of success against the French State.

The experiences of the war and life under the French State had, however, left an indelible mark on all subjects of the empire. The political consciousness of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, had been awakened. For Equatorial Africa, the interim period of life under Free French rule, although far from utopian, threw the policies of the re-established French State control into stark relief. Dozens of movements across the AEF emerged in the years after the war, many led by former Free French personnel. With military training, Allied equipment, and clandestine support from across the Congo, these groups became the headache of the French Colonial Ministry. The next fire to break out was in Madagascar in 1947, followed by Cameroon and the British Gold Coast, all of which garnered violent responses from the European empires. In Cameroon, Ruben Um Nyobè organized the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), a left-wing, Pan-Africanist resistance movement. Madagascar and the Gold Coast's revolutions failed, but the UPC fought on through the remainder of the 1950s.

France's colonies stagnated during the post-war decade. Évolués were becoming leaders in independence movements across the federation, working alongside urban workers, who had suffered when the French State outlawed all independent trade unions. French colonial policy had always been wary of creating an African proletariat class, and the peasant-venerating ideologues of the Révolution Nationale found common cause with the pragmatic colonial officials in looking to ensure that the vast majority of natives remained engaged in rural occupations. As in AEF, many of those groups were successors of war-era resistance movements connected to the Free French, and the most prominent of these was Léopold Sédar Senghor's Senegalese-based Conseil de la Résistance Socialiste Africaine (CRSA).

Of course, these groups were not at all equipped to move directly to armed struggle; for years, they could do little more than organize like-minded independence seekers. This status quo changed in 1956, the 'Year of Africa.' Following a stunning revolution, the new Ghanaian government secured its independence by seeking American support in exchange for providing vital equipment to various groups across the region. As Ghana established its credentials as a leading beacon of Pan-African liberation, many of the West African movements relocated their leadership to Accra; President Nkrumah was only too happy to host them.

In Equatorial Africa, the Ghanaian Revolution had even more dramatic repercussions. Years of persistent resistance across the region had destabilized the colonial regime, and the AEF, already economically backwards compared to West Africa, was becoming a major financial liability. Instability resulting from the Ghanaian Revolution, a UPC offensive, and outside agitation meant that in 1957, after uprisings across the colonial federation, French authorities opted to withdraw settlers, infrastructure, and garrisons in favor of strengthening their presence in West Africa.

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Simultaneously with the French retreat, African-led governments, backed by Free French advisors and supplemented by the Congolese Armed Forces, organized new republics into a union led by Leopoldville's favorite, Barthélemy Boganda. The resulting five states formed a union nominally led by Boganda, the United States of Latin Africa, which counterbalanced African self-government with Free French, Congolese, and American economic penetration, as well as the increasingly centralizing and authoritarian attitudes of Boganda. Confrontations between the states and the center over the USLA's economy, military, and foreign policy favored the states and, slowly, what was supposed to be an

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become known as the Year of Africa. 


In 1962, when the game's events begin, Britain holds three colonies in West Africa - Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria. Gambia remains a largely stable colony, due to its small size, and it is well-placed to weather any storms that might come. It is indirectly ruled outside the capital of Bathurst, and the colonial economy is dominated by the United Africa Company. The same cannot be said for Sierra Leone, which is by far the most dysfunctional part of the British Empire in 1962 - rebels de facto administer much of the colony's interior, and it is well known that Liberia and Ghana are both backing their own factions within the country, Ghana backing the All People’s Congress and Liberia backing the Sierra Leone People’s Party. Nigeria is by far the largest colony that Britain holds in Africa, and it is an extremely wealthy and profitable one - but one that is fundamentally dependent on British-backed traditional elites to extract wealth and run the country, with very little direct presence beyond a few colonial officers. The Second Great Uprising in Britain proper will change all for British West Africa, as the recall of the British Army to the Home Isles will result in rebels successfully capturing Freetown, and the Nigerian colonial administration being forced to cut a deal with the traditional elites for independence, as the Cameroonian UPC invades parts of the colony. Gambia will be Britain's last holdout in West Africa, with the West African Frontier Force retreating there. The fall of Nigeria and Sierra Leone will spell a total reorientation of British colonial policy to focus near-exclusively on East African affairs.



# French West and Equatorial Africa:

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On June 22, 1940, in a railway car nestled in the Compiègne Forest, a delegation of French and German officers affixed their signatures to the armistice that would take France out of the Second World War. This elaborate reversal of the 1918 Armistice, arranged with all of Hitler's vindictive pettiness, was only a foretaste of the New Order that the German Reich was beginning to impose upon Europe. Weeks later, the shell-shocked French government met at the sleepy spa town of Vichy to hand over full constitutional power to a new collaborationist government led by Philippe Pétain. The Third Republic was dead; the French State had been born.

Abrupt as it was, the transition from the Third Republic to the French State was not quite so stark in France's vast colonial empire in Africa as it was in the metropole. It would not be wrong to say that the Révolution Nationale promulgated by the new regime was already well known to the peoples of Guinea, Madagascar, or Moyen-Congo. For most of the eminent colonial administrators and theorists of the time, men like Pierre Boisson, the Governor-General of Equatorial Africa, and Georges Hardy, former director of the École Coloniale, it was clear that, the mission to civilize aside, the elevation of natives into the position of fully-empowered Frenchmen was untenable and inadvisable. Under the new government, moreover, the previously ambivalent attitude toward assimilation morphed into a hostile rejection, where segregation and racism experienced by everyday colonial subjects became increasingly pronounced. For the small number of évolués, those natives lucky enough to have assimilated through Westernization, the dawn of the French State meant that their hard-won citizenship was now all but worthless. Instead, French authorities redoubled their attention on cultivating the traditional native leadership within their colonies: hand-picked chieftains, royal scions, and religious elite.

Of course, not all of the French were so quick to accept defeat and humiliation at German hands. Only a few days before the Armistice on June 18, 1940, General Charles de Gaulle broadcast a plea from London for continued resistance against