As tension rose between the King's government and the Greek communist guerillas, civil war became inevitable. The echoes of gunfire reverberating in the hills and the olive groves, this could all have been so different.

The beginning

Signing the Percentage Agreement with the Soviets, guaranteeing the United Kingdom a "90 % influence in Greece", the British army tried to disarm the Greek communist resistance movements. Lacking the funds to take care of the situation themselves, the UK government told the United States that they would withdraw financial help within six weeks. From that moment, the Americans became responsible for the situation in Greece.
It's at this point, the US starts to deal with the situation in various ways, including using the Mediterranean fleet to provide support to the Hellenic Army. Meanwhile, the reactions of Yugoslav Marshall Tito and of Moscow can dramatically change the situation.

A Soviet conundrum

The Yugoslav leader is eager to help the Greek Communist Party (KKE), dreaming of his own ambitions for the Balkans and turns to the USSR for support.
The Soviet Union must now chose between respecting the Percentage Agreement with the UK by keeping Tito occupied, sending the matter to the Cominform where it can be properly "debated"or in better terms, delayed. The rise of Tito must not threaten the monopoly of the Soviet Party, represented in by the ELITES. They will be wary of Tito and support those opposing him. Alternatively you can directly deploy Red Army troops in Greece in order to retake control of the situation, even if it can put your forces in Western Europe in an exposed forward position.

A two edged Sword

Letting Tito act, the situation can develop outside of Moscow's control, as in his quest for self reliance, Tito may agree to a Western peace plan and abandon the KKE. Then again, the Americans might choose to invade Yugoslavia in order to get rid of Tito altogether or perhaps, the good old fellow might slip in the shower assisted by some CIA concocted soap.
Achieving the latter option will all require strategic use of your on map troops or a lucky strike by using intelligence. As this process is a difficult one, accomplishing this objective within the focus turn limit will grant more victory points. Greece must not be forgotten however, otherwise that extra advantage would be entirely negated. Should Tito have been eliminated, however unlikely, Yugoslavia will still try to get involved but naturally from a Soviet point be much easier to control.

The end game

Once the Communists have secured Greece, the American will have to consider a tactical retreat. However they will also be offered the opportunity to make a come back and reconquer the country.
With the failure of the American counterattack, the Greek communists Yugoslav and Soviet forces can parade side by side in the streets of Athens.
This decision concludes the Communist side of the war. Should the Americans have deployed boots on the ground for the conflict, they will crush the forces of the KKE as the guerillas stand no chance without outside communist support. Similarly, opposing the communists, the monarchist militias and Greek government will reconquer the country as long as the Americans are providing much needed support. At the end of the day the conflict will have to end and the region can finally be rebuilt. Fortunately for the Greek peasants, Missouri has a surplus of mules that can replace lost beasts of burden and kick-start the Greek economy.
For a full overview please see the following chart:
Best Regards, William "Thiking_waffle" Bois d'Enghien *********************************************************

Upcoming Development

POLICY SYSTEM: The update will bring more details into the improved policies. Besides the main character of on-map Leaders in the game, historical characters (off-map) are going to be making a grand entrance. McCarthy, Molotov, Batista are among some of the many awaiting to sway your favor.

CHANGELOG

AI

• Better management of disarmament INFLUENCE placement, turn estimate should be fixed for root ANY conditions
• Fixed an issue where the AI would not properly take some INFLUENCE issues into consideration
• Various AI selection improvements

GAME

• Corrected various victory conditions not rendering #EnemyFaction in their own color
• Added logic for policy replacement
• Added enemy detected sound effect
• Molotov related triggers updated in yEd
• A CHINA CARD: Scenario 8 updated with new text
• BALANCE OF POWER: Scenario 10 updated with new material

FOCUS

• Updated Focus Treaty of Osimo triggers now require only Presence instead of Control
• Updated the Free Territory of Trieste
• Corrected Sarawak Insurgency Focus to the right Theater

POLICIES

• Previously implemented policies have been updated
• Preparatory implementation of various Policy Characs

DECISIONS

• 'THE HAWKS NEST' - Added Government interests chain for USA
• Setup set for Chiang Kai-shek
• Chinese Civil War reorganized for Main Game
• Updated and standardized narrative decisions for Chinese Civil War
• Updated Zhu De decisions
• Updated decision chain for the Free Territory of Trieste
• Improved dynamics of the Greek Civil War
• Improved and shortened the narrative text for several decisions for the Greek Civil War
• Tito Decisions bonuses reordered for better overview
• Standardized effects not to grant more than 1 Turn / option as to not tilt the balance in favor of one faction to heavily

EDITOR

• ImmediateEffects for Characs fire when a Charac becomes Selected
• Added optionsl CharacPower property to Decisions
• Added PolicySelected, CharacPower decision Triggers
• Added ChangePolicySelected, ChangeCharacPower, SetCharacPower decision Effects
• Decision json now loaded in a single dictionary instead of being split up in decision/narrative/policy list
• Editor correctly references decision entries instead of creating new ones when f.e. accessiong decision IDs of already existing but edited decisions

OTHER

• Adjusted texts where turns are used for easy comprehension
• Fixed various typos