Developer Diary | Alt-History Raj

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And Welcome, this week we'll be taking a looking at the Alt History paths for the RAJ, so without further ado..

Forward Bloc

If you go down the League Against Gandhist, and proceed down the Forward Bloc plan you will end up with Subhas Chandra Bose as its leader. This is a more militant stance towards the British, with the end goal of leading a war of independence.

The War against the British will start when you complete Give Me Blood And I Will Give You Freedom, and which states join you in the civil war will be determined by how big the resistance is.

The idea is that you are using the resistance system to agitate the local population against British rule, flipping the resistance system on its head. The higher resistance is at the start of the civil war, the more people will join you.

This can be increased in two ways: you can promote resistance in a certain state.

But you can also undo your own cores to further boost resistance.

These will be re-cored once the independence war starts

If you know your history, this will trigger the British government to try and arrest Bose. You can make him leave India for a time, and he will begin his famous journey avoiding arrest.

Should you for some reason not let him go on the run, he will start the civil war imprisoned, and you can free him by controlling the British aligned India's capital. In this case he ended up in Karachi

When you go to the war for independence the UK will enter against you as well, but with some tricks you can make it simpler. For example you can infiltrate the closest English possessions and try to take control.

You can also do what Bose did historically, and ally with the Japanese. They will then try and help you out, joining your side when the time is right.

This picture below is what an actual war might look like

I have also gained control of a lot of close ports, which I plan to use for my Japanese naval bombers gained from a previous focus to take potshots at convoys.

When you successfully capitulate UK-aligned Raj you get the option of white-peacing out, so that you don't need to be stuck in an endless war.

After having kicked out the English you are now free to decide between keeping Bose, or changing leaders to Vinayak Savarkar.

Hindutva

The Hindutva branch focuses on forming Akhand Bharat, or Greater India. It is an expansionist route where you try to take control of all key states, with a tiered formable.

How it works is that you target a country and instantly gain cores on all those required states. You will not be able to continue claiming more countries until you control every state that you previously claimed.

For example when I claim Burma I get cores on them instantly, but I cannot continue on my quest until I control all Burmese states.

To help with this, Sarvakar has attack bonus on cores that he claims, can justify quicker, but most importantly you are able to build up your Hindu militarism as a spirit via focuses.

Once all is said and done you can finally form Akhand Bharat

This gives him a nice trait, but also reduces Agrarian society by about 1/3 instantly.

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