Kaiserreich: Favourite nations to play? (2024)

I think its time to have a peek at what nations you guys and girls play in Kaiserreich.

Here is my top five and why:

Union of Britain: I love being an air and naval power, Germany can't touch me on land at home, but it sucks when CoF fails
Austria: I love being the Danubian Federation, its a challenge to get to it, but luck can help. I like to backstab Germany as them too.
Russia: So much you can do, so much you can own with no penalties, its like easy mode.
Japan: China will be mine
Serbia: I want to form Yugoslavia and destroy the Ottomans. (I really need to plug that YUG flag event )

Germany: Easily. It's a no-brainer for a mod titled Kaiserreich

Japan: I just love the multitude of expansion options and event chains for them

Mongolia: Love that Mad Baron and his neo-Mongol Empire. Even if it is kind of difficult to get off the ground

USA: It's such a surreal (but good) feeling to play as a military junta led by MacArthur. Hell, I'm writing an AAR about it

Russia: Just so many directions that they can go in from creating the USSR to Wrangel restoring the empire and crowning himself Tsar

der Kriegsherr said:

Germany:

USA: It's such a surreal (but good) feeling to play as a military junta led by MacArthur. Hell, I'm writing an AAR about it

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You should check out the WC I did as MacArthur. It was pretty epic imho.

I like USA, La Plata, Japan, Qing, and Russia the best.

Austria: I love centralising the empire and creating the Danubian Federation. I usually fight with Germany easily defeating them but after that there's not much to do because of the lack of events

Qing empire: Reunification of China is really fun and playing as pretty much any Chinese faction has a certain charm in it. You are far from Europe, America and there are nations between you and Russia too. It creates a feel of isolationalism and safety (even if Japan's there) and you also have no where to hurry. You can expand your empire slowly while observing the rest of the world.

Japan: Japan is perhaps my #1 Kaiserreich faction because of all the great events and expansion directions you can choose: You can control the pacific with your mighty navy and invade Australia or USA, you can show the Chinese nations who's in control of Asia, you can brawl with the Russian bear in the icy forests of Siberia or you can fight the mighty Kaiserreich on sea and land.
I don't know if there are any events conserning the syndicalist nations and Japan though. France usually loses the war so I have no idea if they have any events about attacking Japan

France: I know France is rather underpowered and usually loses the war against Germany in the current build(s) of Kaiserreich but I still enjoy playing as her. France has alot of cool events and fighting the mighty German army is a challenge. You don't have much time to expand your army, industry and air force but if you do it properly, you can and will defeat Germany. After that you can continue spreading syndicalism all across the world.

French commune:
"Stand up, ones who are branded by the curse,
All the world's starving and enslaved!"

Qing Empire: "China never die!"

Hungary: the elimination of Habsburg tyranny ( imperativus )

Iron Guard Romania: I enjoy kicking the monarchists' asses, and I like the feeling of being outnumbered on two fronts by Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria.

Japan: Multitude of events and possibilities.

Italian Socialist Republic: It's nice to see a cornered republic flourish into an empire, plus it has Mussolini and I always go with the National-Syndicalist wing.

Canada: The Senior Dominion rebuilds the Empire
Nationalist France: Now that I think about it for similar reasons as above.
Dehli: Rebuild the Raj

Come to think of it, any Entente nation, it is most difficult...

Commune of France: Hands down the nation I played the most. There's something magical about French panzer divisions under Missak Manouchian blasting their way through the Low Countries.

Russia: The nation that started the very mod, a treasure-trove of a vast amount of different paths, directions and decisions. And who can argue against the might of Russian manpower backed by Markov's combined arms doctrine?

Republic of China: My baby!

Nationalist France: Always fun to restore the French Empire to Metropolitan France.

Mongolia: There is nothing as satisfying(and challenging) as succeeding at having the Mad Baron marching with his Horde into Moscow and Kiev, just like Temujinn did.

National France: Fighting an entire world of communists, retaking their home against all odds. What's not to like?

Greece: From Bulgaria to defying the crumbling but still strong Ottoman Empire, it's a hellish road towards the pipe dream of retaking Constantinople.

Poland: Which happens to be my favorite in the historical WW2 scenario for similar reasons.

Austria: Forming the Danubian Federation only to attack the German Empire, and then form a new German Empire under Habsburg leadership. (a new event from the latest KR version)

Serbia: Uniting Greater Serbia or form Yugoslavia.

Greece: Realizing the megali idea.

National France: Taking France from the Syndicalists.

Poland: Trying to get Poland as big as possible.

also both Italian states are really nice to play as IMO

Haydn said:

Austria: Forming the Danubian Federation only to attack the German Empire, and then form a new German Empire under Habsburg leadership. (a new event from the latest KR version)

Serbia: Uniting Greater Serbia or form Yugoslavia.

Greece: Realizing the megali idea.

National France: Taking France from the Syndicalists.

Poland: Trying to get Poland as big as possible.

also both Italian states are really nice to play as IMO

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Enlighten me, how do you form the Hapsburg german empire?

Conquer the German Empire (you need at least Berlin I think) and an event will pop up after some time where you can choose what you wanna do with Germany.

If you recreate the Empire under Vienna all your non-german territories will be released as puppets though, so you won't become a gigantic super-blob.

Keep in mind the event is somewhat buggy/unfinished and there are no events for the new Empire yet.

Japan- I usually laugh at my Japanese games as I go full Democracy and spread freedom to East Asia. It's like they turn into the Americans of the Kaiserreich universe

Brazil- South America isn't as different looking compared to the rest of the world in the mod but I love playing Brazil because they have so many bloody options. Restore the Empire or go full Syndie, it's all good

Russia- Same with Brazil but with cooler starting position.

The US of A and her successor states, Union of Britain, The Qing, Mongolia. Too many to count.