Rise Of The White Sun News

-Some typos have been corrected.
-Units in Shanhai now appears again

Please do not hesitate to report bugs, typos and other issues on the Discord, so that game improves faster.

[h2]What's in the Early Access?[/h2]

The game contains 4 scenarios.
The deepest scenario features all Southern China provinces and 9 different factions.
You can already play the Eastern Expedition against Chen Jiongming's stronghold and the epic Guangdong-Hong Kong strike against the British Empire.

That's enough to guarantee you hours of fun, playing very different factions facing different challenges.

The content you have not seen in the demo includes Guangdong Province, the cities of Guangzhou (Canton) and Hong Kong, and new mechanisms like the Government management, Komintern actions and mobilization of the peasant masses.

[h2]What the final version will look like?[/h2]

The final version will display also central and northern China, and every faction and important war from 1924 to 1927. The big piece being the Northern Expedition.

Some more important cities will also be added like Hankow.

[h2]3 good reasons to jump in now[/h2]

1. The price of the final version will be higher
   
2. Your voice will have more weight to influence the evolution of the game
   
3. This is by far the best way to support my work
   

[h3]Give your opinion : what do you want to see in the game next ?[/h3]

Answer this poll

March 1925.

The great revolutionary Sun Yat Sen just died.
In Guangzhou, his followers inspired by his thought are keeping his legacy alive.
Tang Jiyao, the powerful Yunnan Warlord has long been a staunch supporter of Sun Yat Sen's party, the Guomindang.
Tang claimed the leadership of the party, but as been turned down by the new Guomindang rulers.
Tang is not a man you can disdain: he rallied his allies in Yunnan and Guizhou and started a military campaign to reclaim the power.
In his way stands the small army of Guangxi, lead by bold and competent generals: how long will they be able to contain the onslaugh of the mighty Yunnan army?

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[h2]What is new on this demo?[/h2]

Character management: you can now recruit new characters from a pool of historical characters or from a role of your choice (officer, spy, diplomat etc...)

Diplomacy: The diplomacy system is still in its infancy, but a tleast it exists

Multiple province actions: The new demo scenario covers 3 provinces and will give you a better feeling of what the complete game will be.

I hope you you will enjoy it enough to put it on your wishlist!
Anyway, I will need your feedbacks.

==>Download the demo from the steam page

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[h2]Cold War 2 5th birthday[/h2]



If ever you like my games, you may also enjoy cold war 2.
Cold War 2 is a free browser game and it celebrates its 5th Birthday.
So far, 100 000 players have enjoyed this game.
For the occasion, more playable content is available.
You can play it here
(That game is perfect to play at work during summer)


Have fun!

Maestro Cinetik

May 1924

Guangxi, although a very poor province, is coveted by its powerful neighbors to the North, West and East.
Lu Rongting, the current governor, has not been able to make sufficiently powerful allies and his power is contested by a new clique from Guangxi won over to the republican ideals of Sun Yat Sen.
Arriving from Hunan, General Shen Hongying, supported by the powerful warlord Wu Peifu, also claimed the province.
Which faction will rule Guangxi?
Only the results of bloody fights and bold treasons will tell.
You have 23 turns to take control of the whole province with your faction.





This faction has some real weaknesses but also some unsuspected strengths.

Usually, corruption, fraud and smuggling will be very high in the districts controled by this faction.
This can be partly fixed by policies to fight corruption like training the magistrates.

Old Guangxi clique leaders have strong local ties: they can use their strong relationships among the Zhuang ethnie to quickly raise irregular armies. It can be done with the action "Zhuang Self Government". use it wisely because this action will also strongly reduce your income.

If you play with this faction, don't forget that your characters are former bandits!
They go along very well with smugglers and bandits. These sympathies give them bonuses for actions like "smuggling rifles" or "recruit bandits".





This faction has some real strengths and no real weaknesses.
The New Guangxi Clique has a unique combination of complementary and useful characters.
LiZongren and Bai Chongxi are very competent strategists while Huang Shaohong will be perfect as Civil Governor.
If you play this faction, your army can be organized on the nationalist model.
The Chinese Nationalist Republic you support is trained and organized by soviet advisors. This gives you many more organizational actions than your enemies. Try to create a "Political Department" in each of your armies as soon as you can, it will unlock other useful actions to make your armies more efficient.





-Recruiting bandits
-Bribing enemy armies
-Smuggle rifles to equip your troops
-Torn down buddist temples to pillage their treasures
etc...

You will be able to access provincial policies and infrastructure building, but, to be honest, this scenario is too short and too violent to let you playing at nation building.

If you play it, I would love to have your feedback!

Have fun!

Maestro Cinetik

Hello, I hope you enjoyed the demo.

Now it is time to show you that the game won't be only about organizing uprsings.
Next scenario I am actually working on is called "The Guangdung Revolutionary Base".
It will feature the eastern expeditions and the 1925 fightings in South China.

So I am working on new things like Province management or armies management.



The player will have a vast array of policies to develp his provinces, including social reforms, infrastructure building.

Each district of a province has 2 main statistics:

-Tradition
-Vitality

The higher the tradition score, the less the influence of revolutionaries movement.
Tradition has many other side effects : a high score will limit the economical efficiency, and increase the chances of mystical rebellions (like the Red Spear movements for exemple).

Vitality will also impact the revenues, but also the recruitments.

To developp your economy you can make patient and costly efforts, but you can also take faster and more nefarious shortcuts (the opium trade).




Players will rarely have a whole Province for themselves: they will have to disput the territory to bandits, pirates, rebels and local minor warlords.

In Guangdung or Guangxi alone, several factions are fighting for the control of the Province.
Sometimes players will just invade a territory so their own huge warlord armies don't ruin their home country.



Of course that scenario will also feature some important strike and boycott actions with 2 city maps available : Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

Your feedback about this new step in the game development is important for me, so please share your expectations.


Have fun!

Maestro Cinetik