Put Trotsky in charge and you’ll find yourself in civil war with Stalin’s forces, attempting to rally the factions of the left. While your choice will determine your nation’s political allegiance, it’ll also throw up different events, military opportunities, and political stand-offs. There’s a lot of branches, but you’ll have three primary pathways to choose between: align yourself with ‘the centre’ and keep Stalin in power, side with the left to support Trotsky, or opt for the right-wing of the party headed by Bukharin. Detailed in a dev diary posted on the Paradox Forum yesterday, the expansion will add masses of new alternate-history pathways to explore in the nation’s Focus Tree, centring around the communist power vacuum that emerged in the wake of Lenin’s death.
Hearts of Iron 4’s upcoming No Step Back DLC is making some meaty changes to the Soviet Union.
