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Kaiserredux (Video Game)

Kaiserredux: A Kaiserreich Expansion (KX) is a content expansion and former sub-modification for Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, a Game Mod of Hearts of Iron IV. It began development in late-2019 as a unification of several submods into a single package, before becoming a standalone fork of the mod.

Since then, the primary focus of Kaiserredux is to introduce captivating and intriguing scenarios, sometimes at the expense of strict realism, while building upon the foundation established by the original Kaiserreich. This also includes the restoration of paths present in earlier versions of Kaiserreich that were removed.

Reworked content

Afghanistan (The Fourth Anglo-Afghan War, Mughal Restoration, Paths for British Puppet and Independent Kingdom/Republic)
Alaska (Barons, Democracy, Canadian Puppet, Japanese Puppet, Syndicalist and Bolshevik Exiles, Native American Natpops and Tots)
American Union State (Holy Kingdom [under Carroll and his sucessors or Stuarts], Pelley Rework, NPP, Huey Long Expansion, Long successors)
Arizona (Anglo Rebellion and Socialist Paths)
AOG (Folkenhausen and Board of Directors, Deutsch-China)
Austria (Fatherland Front)
Banat (Roth, Exiled Monarchy, Syndicalists, Hungarian Communists, Military Regime and Iron Guard)
Belarus (Politics Overhaul)
Black Belt Republic (ABB, Jacobins, NCL, Socialist Party, New Republicans, UNIA, Young, NOI, Peace Party, Black Jewish Movement, Sun-Ra)
Bohemia (Total Overhaul, Hussites, Monarchy, Vjalka)
Bulgaria (Bulgarists, Zveno)
Burma Rework
Canada Rework(Fleshing out of democratic and authoritarian paths, adds a natpop path as well)
Central Asian States (Bukhara, Kokand, Khiva, and Alash Orda)
Commune of France (Sorelian, Jacobin, Black Guard and Popular Front)
Combined Syndicates of America (CSA) Paths (Al Capone, Technocracy, Social Patriots, Totalists, Syndies, Lovestone coup, Butler coup)
China (Undead Chaing Kai-Shek, Dai Li Expansion)
Constitutional American Republic (COR) Paths (ODP, Fordist, Young/Old Klan, Christian Identity, Russel, Patton)
Don Kuban States (Don, Kuban, Mountain Republic, Kalmyks, Ataman’s Ride Integration)
Fiume (Admiral Horthy and Pirates)
Fengtian (Dynastic paths)
Georgia (Jugashvili and Transcaucasia)
Germany (Pataut Schleicher, Natpop Goering, Roter Morgen, Democratic Rework)
Greece (Byzantium Restoration)
Guatemala (Ubico)
Hungary (Austrian loyalty, Independent Democracy, National Socialists, Vanguardists)
Illyria (Austrian Loyalty, Independent Democracy, Tito and Pavelic)
Italy (Popes, Republic, Austrian lapdog)
Korea (Japanese Loyalty, Joseon Monarchy, Military Regime, Democracy, Syndicalist, Anarchist and Juche)
Liberia (Firestone Corporatocracy, Hoover In-Exile)
Luxembourg (Socialist Europe, Holy Roman Empire Restoration)
Malta (Intro Tree)
Mexico (Complete Rework, Mexican Empire, Estado Maximo, Goldshirts)
Mittelafrika (Complete rework; content for Westafrika, Mittelafrika and its collapse, the Congo and its civil war tags, Rhodesia, Nordrhodesien, Madagascar, Nigeria, Kenya-Uganda, Mau-Mau)
National France (Napoleonic Empire Restoration)
Native American Paths (Haudenosaunee and Wabanaki, and White Reservations formed after Towner Alaska conquers Canada)
New England (Lovecraft, Monarchy, Prohibitionist, An Cap, Federalist, Quaker, and Eugenicists)
New York City (La Guardia, Mob, Socialists, Political Machine)
Nicaragua (Updated American Mandate)
Ottoman Empire (German Expedition)
Pacific States of America (Norton II, Walt Disney, Howard Hughes, Aiso, Hearst, Commonwealth, Spiritualists Pro-Japan regime, Japanese takeover)
Panama (Foreign Occupation, Black Site)
Paraguay (Exiled Huey Long)
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Josef Beck)
Russia (Expanded politics, Socialist Rework, Democratic Overhaul, Eurasians)
Scotland (Scottish Kingdom, German Kingdom, Homeland Watch, Democracy, Syndicalist and Clerical Nationalist)
Serbia (Black Hand)
Shandong (Dogmeat Dynasty, Tian)
Sikkim (Tashi Kingdom, Kazi landlord dictatorship, Kazi democracy, Jerman Lepcha Socialism with later elections for Jermanists, Syndicalist Exiles from Indian INC, and Roerichist Buddhist Socialism)
Texas (Democracy, Garner/Texas First Party, Military Junta, Socialists and Texaco)
Socialist Republic of Italy (Evola, Mafia, Fasci, Neosanfedisti and Pio's Papacy)
Spain (Political Expansion, Carlist Empire, Mediterranean Block)
Transamur (Mladorossi Tsardom, Expanded Politics, Native Breakoff States)
Union of Britain (Lawrence of Brittania, Expanded Mosley, Counter-Revolution)
Ukraine (Crimean Expansion, Khrushchev)
USA Expansion (Norris, Landon, Curtis, Garner, MacArthur, Balkanizable America)
Wales (Welsh Kingdom, German Kingdom, Democracy, Socialists and Home Rule Army)
Western Command Center (American Pompey, MacArthur Exile)
Yucatan (Neo-Mayan Empire)
Yunnan (Tang Dynasty)

On top of all the rich, expanded content, a large variety of meticulously designed assets are present, such as alternative country flags, ideology symbols, and leader portraits.

Original sub modifications

Ride the Tiger
American Totalists
Bones of the Double Eagle
Triumph of Totalism
Alaskan Expansion
Disunited Kingdom
Rose of Texas
Rise of Korea
Russian Rework
Home of the Brave
The World Set Free
Disunited States
Roter Morgen^note

The latest version of the mod can be downloaded here. The mod's community can be found on Reddit and on Discord.

Stands to reason that this page will only cover tropes present in Kaiserredux. For tropes present in the original Kaiserreich (and its many versions), see its page. Compare with Führerreich: Legacy of the Great War and Red Flood, two other Hearts of Iron IV Game Mods based on Double-Blind What-Ifs in Kaiserreich, as well as Kalterkrieg: Shadow of the Weltkrieg, based in a Space Cold War between the Entente and Reichspakt.

Kaiserredux provides examples of:

Darker and Edgier: While Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg was already darker than Hearts of Iron IV, this expansion adds even more atrocities that can be committed in-game, under such leaders like Ante Pavelić, Marcel Bucard, Julius Evola, Nikolay Yezhov, H.P. Lovecraft (provided that he does not have a change of heart), and a Ku Klux Klan led Constitutional American Republic as well as makes existing authoritarian leaders such as Edward VIII, Douglas MacArthur, Oswald Mosley, Leon Degrelle, Enver Hoxha, Roman Von Ungern-Sternberg and Hermann Goering even more villainous.
Denser and Wackier: One of Kaiserredux's goals is to add new and interesting paths to the mod, including Lovecraftian New England, Monarcho-Bolshevik Russia, Bulgaria reclaiming Old Great Bulgaria and Volga Bulgaria, and so on.
Divided States of America: In addition to the scenario from vanilla Kaiserreich (with the winner of the USA-CSA-AUS-CAR standoff not reunifying with the PSA, New England, Hawaii or Puerto Rico), it is also possible for an independent Black Belt to emerge after the Second American Civil War, or for the country to collapse altogether into warlordism.
Game Mod: Kaiserredux originated as a submod of Kaiserreich: Legacy of the Weltkrieg, itself a mod of Hearts of Iron IV, but has since become a standalone fork that no longer requires the base mod.
Mythology Gag: Kaiserredux adds back a few paths that were present in old versions of Kaiserreich before being removed either for being unrealistic or for balancing reasons, like Lawrence of Britannia, the AOG (as a playable nation), avoiding the American Civil War, a totalist Georgia featuring Beria and Stalin, the Legation Cities falling to the Triads, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg proclaiming himself Genghis Khan II and so on.
Second American Civil War: The Second Civil War, itself the central element of the United States's gameplay in Kaiserreich, was further expanded with Texas, Alaska and New York City capable of seceding as well, or might not happen at all if the player follows the correct steps. There are also plans for a Third Civil War, in which the new American state fails to stabilise and descends into full-on warlordism.