La Veille des Dictateurs

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

As of 22 November 2025, development of this mod has ceased indefinitely, most likely for good. If you wish to know the reasons as to why this is happening, join the Discord server linked below. Also in the Discord will be information on where I plan to take this universe I've created next - as I'm not throwing the whole thing away. The mod will remain here, ready to play, for archival purposes - a snapshot in time, if you will. However, I can only assure its playability on the 1.16 version of the game, and whatever stupid things the British, French, Ottoman, or Hungarian AIs do with their janky milquetoast focus trees won't be remedied. So if you wish to play this mod as it was, please keep that in mind.

Below is the original description for this mod.

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** WARNING: ** can become very chaotic at times depending on how the AIs of each country blend.

Welcome!

This mod explores an interesting scenario. What if the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia allied with each other on the premise of family? (George V, Wilhelm II, and Nikolai II were all cousins.) This stops France from ever forming alliances with the United Kingdom or Russia, meaning the Great War is waged between these three powerful monarchies and a loose and hastily-formed coalition of France, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. This loose coalition is defeated, and the world is free to be shaped by the British, German, and Russian Empires.

However, troubled times are ahead. It’s been almost twenty years since the guns fell silent across Europe, and many across the defeated nations have had enough time to sulk and rebuild. In the other camp, the monarchs that fought the Great War are in their old age, and few know how long they’ve got left to live. With this situation, many important questions are still left unanswered by 1936;

• • Will the era of their global dominance come to an end with theirs? *
• • Will one of the humiliated states seize the burgeoning opportunity to enact revenge? *
• • Could another power emerge from an unlikely location? *

These are left for you to answer.

I sure hope you enjoy playing through this little passion project of mine as much as I enjoyed making it over the years! Also, if you, by chance, make a YouTube video or whatnot about this mod, please leave a link for it. (Because sometimes y'all forget.)

Credits

• ** conglomeration ** for contributing to the creation of Mongolia's focus tree

• ** AllKnowingCosmicTurtle ** for creating some custom flags

• ** u/Mstae67 ** on Reddit for the portrait of Rubén Piedrahíta Arango

• ** ❂ Bismarck ❂ ** and ** Бесплатников ** for translating the mod into Russian (русский)

• ** Jozef ** and ** Artéfact ** for Imperial German military portrait reworks

• ** Saric ** for the redone portrait of the Angry Austrian Man

God Bless!

• thezombiecreeper *

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A collection of videos about the mod, be they reviews, timelapses, or let’s-plays, can be found here.

Russian Translations: “Vasus” and the Russifier