I played as Germany first go and while it started off great it fell apart. Firstly the war started suddenly with no events. I was just thrown into war with France, UK and Russia, then I get an event that Serbia denied Austria-Hungry. So no lead up to the war. I didn't follow the nation tree to start the war either. But I get Austria-Hungry has there own and probably started it. I think it would have been interesting to avoid it tho. Just let Austria Fall.

What's the point of trying to appease Italy if they end up joining in anyways. Maybe if they like you or Austria-Hungry enough, then they should just stay out. But even they joined in suddenly with no event pop up. Austria was pushed back a little before I even realized it. Luckily I caught it in time and shored up the line. Greece also joined suddenly without warning and again Austria-Hungry was getting pushed back and I had to help.

Here's where it starts to get strange. Austria-Hungry by 1916 had 0% Stability and War Support yet was still fighting on, however very poorly. And if it wasn't for me, would have collapsed. But they definitely should have... In fact, by 1918, all other major power were 0% or nearly for Stability and War Support. France and Italy had no man power left. I had taken Paris by this point but no one wanted to give up. Hell, I started a coup in Southern England and took over UK mainland and still no capitulation. like the fuq... lol. Near the end of the war, the Central powers had only lost 3.5m while the Triple Entente had lost 10.5m. Germany had only lost 1.35m. For crying out loud, that alone should have at least gotten them to search for peace. But it doesn't matter because after France went to 0 man power, we didn't fight for a hot min while I helped shore up the lines in Austria-Hungry, France in that time mustered over 2m men... Sure.

I just suddenly won, after taking all of France and the UK except their colonies, I made a massive push into Russia and finally they went into Civil war but it now 1921. I thought that the lack of stability and war support on top massive casualties would have caused Russia to fall way earlier, but they didn't. I did notice near the start of the war that while pushing in, Russia would lose stability. However, if I stopped pushing for whatever reason even for a short time, Russia gained some stability back even though they didn't gain and territory or make any significant moves, at all.

Once I won, there was no peace conference like you'd normally see. Even though I did 89% of the work for the war according to the game, I was given Lithuania and Unified Baltic as puppets, Polish lands between Prussia and Austria-Hungry from Russia, one province from France and Morocco... I should have been given way more than that. As well as the two coups I started in Italy and the UK should have stayed in power and stayed in the Central Powers Faction. But the land was given right back to the losing governments. UK still had their vast empire.

So, since I won the war the game was somewhat unprepared for that. I couldn't progress the Nation tree any further. I had to take over lands that I didn't get for winning the war in order to restore the Holy Roman Empire. But world tension was far too low to start any wars regardless of claiming the territory and pissing off other countries. World Tension just would not rise, it only went down. If I wanted to continue down the Nation tree for WWII stuff within Industry, Army, Air and Navy I couldn't. The game wouldn't allow me to change to Proto-Fascists in any way. So I couldn't complete Night of the Long Knives to move on. And there are still some stuff that every one I sure would like to research.

I did keep the saved game and will try to continue on later. UK, France and a few other countries really hate Germany so maybe a war will start, causing world tension to rise and I can start declaring war for territories i claimed for the Holy Roman Empire. But I don't have my hopes up. Italy got Mussolini right after the war. They started a war with Abyssinia but haven't figured out how to get troops over there. So for like 1% world tension, Italy has done nothing to finish the war in the 2 year it's been going on. World tension is still even far to low for me to send Volunteers, or somehow help.

But I get that this is a beta. I'm very interested to see how it progresses and I hope my experience can help them make the mod even better.

Also ran into a bug where the first two Seaplanes you research are unusable. They can only be trained and not perform any combat duties.