Vanhoover Commune

A secessionist state that appears during the Lunar civil war, the communists of Vanhoover rally under Admiral Dust Hoover, breaking away from  Equestria to proclaim their own commune. Though how long this dream of the Vanhoover workers last, remains to be seen.

Lore Edit

While  Stalliongrad was the first socialist state to break away from  Equestria, it was certainly not the only place with communist support. When Caramel Mark's new radical ideology spread throughout Equestria, it found a lot of supporters within the poorly treated workers of Vanhoover. While many had sympathised with the communist of  Stalliongrad and their ideas, most were content, enjoying the eternal peace of Equestria, and their status as an important harbour and a center of trade with the deer of  Olenia, it is also close to the border with  Changeling Lands.

But now, with the sudden appearance of Nightmare Moon and the spark of the civil war, Equestrian troops have left for the front, and disgruntled citizens are left behind supporting a war they did not want. Admiral Hoover and his supporters, saw this as an excellent opportunity to take over the region, proclaiming the Vanhoover Commune. Now starts the march to the Mayor's office in Vanhoover, to deal with the last of the loyalist forces within the commune.

Surrounded with enemies on all sides, small and weak, Vanhoover stands alone. And they will either bring forth their very own paradise of the workers, or perish.

Gameplay and Strategy Edit

Starting Situation Edit

Vanhoover starts in a weak position. They have no possible paths for expansion at the start, and only start with a small army of 5 fully equipped divisions of three 10 width militia and two 12 width pegasi militia. Later on, you will have a focus to spawn more militia divisions. Their armed forces uses a total of 27K ponypower, with a reserve ponypower of 8.48K. Vanhoover only has a small stockpile of 20 convoys at the start.

Threats and Opportunities Edit

 Equestria - Your former overlord, Equestria, is more powerful than you in every way. Fortunately Vanhoover can expand via a combination of peaceful expansion and border wars, which are much more winnable. AI Equestria will always offer puppeting instead of annexation, so that overwhelming Equestrian force does not need to be the end.

 Lunar Empire - If the Lunar Empire wins, it will always attempt to annex you. An Equestrian victory is preferable.

 Changeling Lands - While they do not pose any direct threat to you, the are still useful. Most of the time, you can use the changeling invasion of  Equestria to start your own, which will make the war much easier.

 Kingdom of Olenia - While they do not pose any direct threat to you, they can still be invaded for more land. Usually, attacking Olenia same time as the  Changelings might allow you to grab some of the eastern land from Olenia, provided you have sufficient war score.

Fortress Vanhoover Edit

Vanhoover is a fortification oriented nation, needing to hold against both the Changelings and Equestria. To this end it has decisions for fort construction. At the end of the chain both Vanhoover's states will have level 2 forts and the two cities will have level 6 forts.

Forts, in conjunction with the development focuses on the industrial tree, will also allow decisions to construct off map factories - 2 military factories in Vanhoover, 1 military and 2 civil in Arcadia.

Expansion Edit

Vanhoover receives mechanics to allow it to expand. Unfortunately, there is little industry available for the taking, however the most important regions are.

• Roe Plains (Salt Lick City) - development focuses available
• Tall Tale - 1 military factory, 2 civilian, development focuses available
• Calfornia - development focuses available
• Upper Unicorn Range - 18 steel

Expansion proceeds in two stages.

Stage 1 can be peaceful via completing focuses or militarist via border wars, depending on your chosen focus path. It takes Fairflanks, Roe Plains, Upper Unicorn Range and Tall Tales.

Stage 2 can only proceed via border wars, and is available to both political paths taking Pine Creek, Unicorn Range, Tall Woods, and Coltfortnia.

National Focus Edit

As the Commune raises it's head, the workers must decide upon the future of this newly formed nation.

Starting Focuses Edit

The first focus will grant Vanhoover cores to the two states it owns, spawn five militia divisions. Fate of the Mayor will deal with the former Major, offering mercy for stability, or harsh punishment for political power. The third will craft a new constitution, grant 10% stability and remove the single national spirit.

This leads to the two choices of candidates - Strawberry Snowflake and Admiral Dusthoover.

Empower The Communes Edit

The first candidate is Strawberry, who desires a peaceful Vanhoover, preferring a step towards a more democratic institution than before, where the workers will be able to decide upon the matters of the commune themselves.

Her policies involves such things as: inviting the trade unions into the government, guaranteeing the worker's rights, and giving them better living standards than before. This will guarantee the loyalty of the workers, the backbone of the commune. These policies will lead the commune into a more peaceful and neutral nation, where every worker, with enough hard work, will be able to succeed.

They will eventually get events to integrate the regions of Salt Lick City and Tall tales, both regions wishing to remain neutral in the civil war will rather integrate themselves into the commune than to be a part of the war.

All Power To The Admiral Edit

The second candidate is the current leader of the revolution, Admiral Dust Hoover. As a former leader of the navy, he believes that the commune is threatened by all sides, and that only a firm hoof and a strong will guarantee it's safety and continued existence. As such, he will gather more power unto himself, eventually becoming a dictator with undisputed power in the commune.

To ensure the safety of the commune, he will create various state-driven organizations, such as the Military committee of Air, Sea and Land, to better organize and control the different branches of the military effectively. He will also proceed to form a well-regulated militia loyal only to the state, with high amounts of conscription. Economy wise, he will attempt to start mass-producing weapons, in order to arm the rapidly growing armed forces of the commune. This notably gives a generous -40% to infantry equipment production speed.

Through extensive use of propaganda, he will eventually manage to convince the populace the commune has rightful territory beyond its current borders, giving Vanhoover cores to all its neighboring Equestrian states. They will also get decisions to get off-map factories, and to fortress their borders with  Equestria.

Below are bonuses received from each political tree (WESR stands for "Western Equestrian Soviet Republic).

Tree Bonus	Empower The Communes	All Power To The Admiral
Complete Time (d)	452	370
Political
Stability		+20%
Political Power (Flat)	+150	+220
Political Power (%)		+25%
Political Power (Daily)	+0.50
Military
War support		+50%
Training Time		-30%
Construction
Civilian factory	2
Construction Speed	+15% Civilian +5% Refinery +5% Infrastructure +7% Land Forts
Consumer Goods	-3%
Production
Factory Output	+5%
Production Efficiency Cap	+10%
Science
Research Time (all)	-6.50%
Research Time (specific)		-10% Naval doctrine -2% Land doctrine
Combat
Attack (All) / (Core) / (Inf)	0% / 0% / 0%	+5% / 0% / 0%
Organization		+5%
Recovery Rate		+5%
Max Entrenchment		+1.0
Supply Consumption	-2%	-10%
Other Notes / Bonuses
	-30% Trade laws cost +5% Max factories +1% Weekly stab +1% Local ponypower +15% Monthly pop +8% PE Growth Cores on neighbours	+0.03 Army XP +20% Mob speed -40% Infantry equipment cost -20% Support equipment cost -20% Justify wargoal time Cores on neighbours

Industrial Path Edit

The Communist government will attempt to redistribute the land, and to build new, efficient buildings to house the workers, replacing the numerous small houses and shacks. This tree gives a large amount of both civilian and military factories, as well as few one-off research bonuses and some resources.

Army Path Edit

The army tree will at first grant five additional militia units and a national spirit, which gives horrendous debuffs to both planning speed and organization, but instead giving a big boost of 6% ponypower and +5% attack/defense on core territory. This tree mainly gives various one-off research bonuses, but will later on spawn one 10 width marine division and one 10 width motorised division.

Navy Path Edit

This tree is fairly small, giving some naval dockyards and one-off research bonuses to both destroyers and submarines.

Technology Edit

The technologies available at the beginning of the civil war are the same as Equestria. See Equestria#Technology

Politics Edit

National Spirits Edit

Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

Weekly Stability: -0.20% Division Recovery Rate: -10.0% Division Attack: -15.00% Construction Speed: -10.00% Daily Political Power Gain: -0.25 Recruitable Population -1.00% The Vanhoover Commune seems like a pipe dream to everyone involved, no one knows how long it will last.

Leaders Edit

Leader	Party	Description	Traits
Dust Hoover	Communist		Dictator: Political Power Gain: +25.00%
Strawberry Snowflake	Communist

Staff and Designers Edit

Political Advisors

Tank Designer

Ship Designer

Aircraft Designer

Materiel Designer

Industrial Concern

Theorist

Chief of Army

Chief of Navy

Chief of Airforce

Military High Command

Economy Edit

Laws and Development Edit

Conscription Law	Economy laws	Trade laws
Volunteer Only 1.5% Recruitable population	Civilian Economy 35% Consumer Goods factories –30% Factory construction speed +30% Factory (type) conversion cost -40% Fuel Gain per Oil -25% Fuel Capacity +10% Infrastructure Construction Speed +5% Refineries Construction Speed +3% Industrial Research Speed +2% Electronics Research Speed	Export Focus 50% Resources to market –5% Research time +10% Factory/Dockyard output +10% Construction speed
Scientific Development	Industrial Base	Race
Developed Science Base No penalties	Modern Society No penalties	Pony Uses Pony Racial Tree

Industry and Resources Edit

Factories

1 Military Factories

1 Naval Dockyards

1 Civilian Factories

Resources*

Oil	Aluminum	Rubber	Tungsten	Steel	Chromium	Crystal
0	0	0	0	0	0	0

• All values are the amounts extracted INCLUDING effects of negative Industrial Ideas (agrarian society, etc) and National Spirits.

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