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citus334

If Paradox ever make a Southeast Asia DLC it would most likely be a rebellion/insurgency expansion

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Most of South East Asia's governments fell quickly against Japan but our biggest contributions towards the war is the massive insurgency network that took the fight to the Japanese.

Vietnam-Viet Minh was formed during 1941 and tied Japanese forces to garrison duty to much effect. Extensive OSS cooperation was happening. To a point where American OSS doctors saved Ho Chi Minh's life.

Indonesia - Japan encouraged the formation of Nationalist movements alot of the soldiers who would be fighting the dutch in the 50s were japanese trained. Though there was some level of resistance as the large amounts of labour related deaths did create some hatred.

Philippines - The Filipino insurgency was extremely effective. At it's high time 80% of the country was guerilla confirmed with the exceptions of Japanese Strongholds like Manila. The US had extensive connections with them.

Malaysia - alot of the source of atrocities and rebellion in Malaysia was revolved around its Chinese population. The Japanese treated Asean Chinese with alot of hatred. The Chinese MPAJA did alot of the action here.

Posted Aug 24, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

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All_I_See_Is_Corn•

As an American I would play the hell out of a Vietnam focus free ngl

Edit: it better come with a CCR soundtrack

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sofa_general•

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh intensifies

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Severe-Class-2174•

Ho ho ho merry chi minhmass

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lilmuny•

I think after the Nordic DLC there will be a Asia minor country pack with Mongolia, Mengkukuo, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Malaysia, DEI, and Philippines. I think that maybe Paradox will add a focus for the US to strengthen resitance in Vietnam with the condition that it is controlled by Japan and the US is at war with Japan. However Paradox seems to want to focus on giving all starting nations focus trees before moving on to releasable countries

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citus334OP•

If expanded insurgency mechanics. That would also mean expansion for Com china as a majority of their doctrine revolved around that compared to the NRAs standing army.

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lilmuny•

Yeah insurgency is crap and an expanded insurgency mechanic could lay the groundwork for playing as offmap tags, although tbh that prolly will only come in hoi5 as it'll be another 3-5 years before they have reworked all trees and given all starting minors focus trees.

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