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The Revenge of Prester John

Revenge of Prester John: An Alternate History for Ethiopia

What the heck is this?

RPJ is an alternative history mod which seeks to make Ethiopia a playable nation by restoring its order of battle, population, and state to their historically accurate values as of January 1, 1936 just after the failure of the Ethiopian Christmas Offensive. Since historically Italy wraps up the war a few months later, we had to conceive a set of semi-plausible scenarios unfolding which might give Ethiopia a chance to survive and even turn the war around.

1. What's New

* New Focus Tree for Ethiopia with early ideas that trigger events to shape the outcome of the war, and mid-late game events which provide opportunities for expansion
* Increased population of Ethiopia to proper 1936 levels (16 million)
* Restored full order of battle for Ethiopia circa January 1, 1936
* Start Ethiopia with correct manpower value and recruitment laws since they start the game at war but with base political power
* New time-limited ideas representing the conditions of the conflict for both Ethiopia and Italy (poor supply, political pressure, war crimes, etc.), most penalize Italy in some way if the war drags on much longer than its historical end-date
* Added one extra civilian factory to Ethiopian starting state (now can actually trade for steel)
* In-game events allow for the seizure of Eritrea and/or Somalia depending on how player does in the war
* 4 new historical force leaders with appropriate traits (will look into Italian side at a later date)
* WIP capability to support colonial independence in Africa (currently spawning Kenya, no flags, improper naming so use with caution)

2. To Do List:
* Finish focus descriptions
* Finish triggered events

3. Version History
V0.9
+ Copied over most of the generic political focus tree, made some tweaks (Selassie Doctrine now grants temporary neutrality status)

V0.8
+ Started fleshing out event chains

V0.7:

+ Allowed player to take construction tree during the war (removed blocking idea)
+ Removed triggered events for ending war, now the only way to do so is to finish the diplo branch in the Italian War tree
+ Expanded Iron Horn, Arabian Menace now unlocks Middle-East conquest line a bit later but offers a tension bonus if you want to start conquering before WW2 breaks out but don't want to switch ideology, added a center-line for province improvement should you fail to take the coastal states in the Italian War
+ Reduced some unfair tech bonuses


V0.6:

+ Added event for "John Brown Brigades" if you choose to go with any foreign nation (will be adding USA as an option). This is just a template for now, each country will offer its own benefits.
+ Some of the Italian supply triggers were not properly configured, fixed

V0.5:

Fixed up the End of war events, spawnable nation names, and some overpowered ideas

V0.4:

+ Cleaned up the triggering conditions for several Italian events,
+ Restricted all non-war trees until peace event fires
+ Corrected some improper focus rewards
+ Gave ethiopia cores on Eritrea

V0.3:

New;
+ BIG CHANGE: Overhauled the main trees and added roughly 15 more foci (added)
+ locked all the development chains till the Italian war ends (forces the AI to sometimes go diplomacy rather than wasting time)
+ Added a test focus/event combo for nation spawning (Britain can now spit out Kenya, albeit with no flag and non-localised name)
+ Did some basic clean-up on the Italian faction so it eventually lose "incompetent officers" by 1938.
+ More compatibility fixes

V0.2: Fixed up tooltips and did some compatibility work for mods which alter Italian events and ideas

V0.1: Alpha Release