+1 Set up your leadership in a way that guarantees rivalries and power struggles. Remember to act surprised when it all implodes!
See also, Imperial Japan. Probably even more of an issue than the Nazis had
Army vs. Navy service rivalry was crazy
Everyone always ignores what came before to make all of it possible.
- Have the backing of disgruntled, demoralized people
- Have the support of wealthy elites to build an organization
- Have the ongoing support of wealthy elites to maintain your organization
- Collaborate with national business leaders to secure your organization for the long term
- Collaborate with international business leaders to secure your organization for the long term
- Once you gain power, support your wealthy allies to share power and continue financing you
- Once you gain enough power and control and wealth, then you can start operating on your own and either disengage or remove your old allies because you don’t need them any more.
… everyone always likes to imagine someone like Hitler just appearing in history through the force of will. That is far from the reality. He came into being because an entire group of very wealthy people in Germany, in Europe and in North America supported or enabled him to get the power he needed in order to take over a country.
Hitler didn’t get to where he was through his personality … he got there because people either didn’t do anything to stop him … or they covertly and discreetly supported him.
The same thing is happening again … a tyrant is taking the lead and we all blame him without ever thinking of the wealthy group of people who put him there and are keeping him there.
Why does it say “stolen” for some things like Norwegian iron but not stolen for Hungarian bauxite and Romanian oil?
Hungary and Romania collaborated without being invaded. Norway and Czechoslovakia were both invaded.
Average HOI4 experience
