Anti-War Game: Starting from Normandy Campaign

In the misty rain, separated by a hundred meters.

Two pleasure boats brushed past each other.

Bowing his head to look at the newspaper, Ding Ming didn't notice the boat turning not far away, still unaware of what he had missed.

Looking at the news on the newspaper, Ding Ming was pondering where to trigger the [plot card].

But there was no useful information in the newspaper, so he just shook his head.

Putting down the newspaper, Ding Ming took out a map and displayed it in the live stream room:

"The 'Republic' is still a mess."

Saying that, he enlarged the map in his hand, the Blue Star viewers in the live stream room looked at the map Ding Ming himself annotated.

"This is the map of the Republic from 1921 where I'm starting the game, look at these forces."

"And then look at this...."

Saying that, Ding Ming posted the map screenshots from the start to 1930 in the live stream room.

"This is the map from 1930."

"My friend and I drew this map of the power ranges based on news collected within each of our plots."

"You can see from 1921 to 1930, it's been nearly 10 years of fighting."

"The internal strife of the Republic side has still not ended."

"When will this end, at this pace, won't there be less time left for development later?"

After all, according to the previous CG and the [Republic] timeline, it's known that the [Republic] will emerge in 1950, facing off two superpowers.

Yet by 1930, Huaxia Land is still in chaos.

And this disorder seems to not be ending anytime soon.

Which means the rise of the [Republic] might not even have 20 years, maybe just a dozen years or even less, but thinking of it this way.

It makes the rise of the [Republic] feel even more like cheating, the speed of this rise is considered absurd.

Saying that.

Ding Ming remembered something, switched to the [Awakening Era] section of the Celestial Shark Live platform, and then selected the 1931 timeline category.

Since the dlc of [Awakening Era] has a free choice time limit of 1931.

So besides players and streamers experiencing the timeline plots earlier, most streamers who choose the 1931 timeline keep skipping plots, trying to trigger later major events like [Four Crossings of the Chishui River] and so on.

Ding Ming casually flipped through a few live streams, quickly found one, and clicked in:

"Look, everyone."

"The 'Republic' does not only have internal chaos now, since Japan invaded in 1931, Huaxia Land also faces external threats."

"Driving Japan out by 1945, that's a whole 14 years, you could say there's hardly any stable development period."

"Just like this.... huh?"

"No, that doesn't add up."

"Based on this, there would only be a development period after nationwide liberation in 1949 for the [Republic]."

"Equivalent to from the 50s to the 60s, in just over 10 years producing a nuclear bomb."

"Wow, isn't this even more absurd than before?!!!"

Saying that, Ding Ming felt something was wrong, and so did the Blue Star viewers in the live stream room.

Previously it seemed the [Republic] started gradually rising when the 'Republic' began in 1912, but now looking at the map you can see.

Where is there time for rising?

Warlord conflicts lasted for so many years, just after the warlords ended, then there's external invasion, all the way until nationwide liberation.

Turns out it only started to become stable after 1949.

Yet under the alternating threats of two superpowers, in just over 10 years, by the 60s, they had already produced nuclear bombs.

No, something must be off!

Ding Ming looked at the colors of the forces on the map, none of them were the red factions from the third phase of the Federation military exercise.

That red faction hasn't appeared until now?

No idea.

The pleasure boat that just brushed past would bring what kind of changes to the future Huaxia Land.

....

On the other side.

In the Polestar Company's CEO office.

The new contract brought by Shen Qinghan was the cooperation intention of the Free Star Cluster Federation:

"Over there, they increased the agency fee by 10 times, asking if we can open up more slots, what do you think?"

Zhao Ming was surprised when he received the documents handed over by Shen Qinghan:

"Big spenders, huh?"

"Can they spend more lavishly than the Crown Prince of the Golden Moon Federation?"

10 times the agency fee, that's 5 billion Federation Coins.

Enough to throw to a typical gaming company to prevent dozens from cropping up, and even the Free Star Cluster military isn't lacking technical personnel, they can totally replicate and imitate it themselves.

Perhaps guessing Zhao Ming's thoughts, Shen Qinghan pulled out a chair and sat down:

"It's normal."

"If you don't earn, I don't earn, how do Free Star Cluster Federation officials earn?"

"Over at Free Star Cluster, their annual military expenditure alone exceeds that of the Great Xia Federation by four or five times, $5 billion might not even cover the Free Star Cluster's meal costs."

"But it can improve the troops' combat capabilities, where else can you find such a good deal."

"If they really go and make imitations, what do they gain?"

Zhao Ming's expression was odd as he listened, sure enough, it's the same everywhere.

He glanced at the contract, no issues, Zhao Ming directly signed it.

Anyway, it was just about opening up a few more single-player plot modes.

After signing the contract, Zhao Ming handed it to Shen Qinghan.

Shen Qinghan took a look, nodded, then put away the contract, looking at Zhao Ming as he asked:

"By the way."

"I see that not many people are playing 'World War I: Twilight of the Empire' currently, most have gone to play the dlc of [Awakening Era]."

"Do you need to make some adjustments, or start some activities or something?"

"After all, the main game is 'World War I: Twilight of the Empire', and [Awakening Era] is its expansion dlc, seems a bit like the cart leading the horse."