Rise Of The White Sun - 白日升

>hop on the game >choose some random guy stuck in the forests of idk shaanxi >dont know what to do >recruit more poorly trained peasants >1 rifle per 10 people >embark on a great expedition all the way to Beijing >forgot to pay soldiers, they stage a munity, I get defeated and forced to seek refuge in a house by a random peasant >some guy invites me to a banquet and i get killed

Instead of writing about the game mechanics or UI/graphics (which, according to a lot of players, needs improvement) or whatnot, I'd instead like to share a story from one of my playthroughs, the tale of qinghai: >at first don't care about it at all, qinghai is and always will be unsavable >some bandits popped in my famine-ridden districts, gotta get rid of em >i'll pay you $50 to ♥♥♥♥ off into qinghai and also conquer some land for the glory of gansu >place bandits under the command of my statesman character, beelines straight for xining >hey, this conquering thing is pretty easy, let's take a security zone around xining and leave it at that >statesman gets declared qinghai governor, immediately begins reforms in the capital only because the rest is under hostile control >things are finally looking up for qinghai, or at least the part that i have >missionaccomplished.jpg >rebels immediately begin spawning across the rural areas because i didn't invest into ending the famines there >also, i'm very sure i pissed off the monks somehow >don't worry, we've got a handle on this >immediately begins spawning troops to solve qinghai, we're taking the ENTIRE damn province this time >neglects developing my provinces in order to move around soldiers >encirclement campaigns are actually successful, even managed to eliminate the red ma warlord that annoyed me so much >but it isn't enough, rebels keep spawning even as i try to send food relief >some spirit soldiers take over the capital, immediately undoing all my half-finished reforms >send multiple tiny armies at it, they all fail because apparently will is stronger than bullets >the situation in the province is now even worse than when i started the intervention >am now qinghai governor in name only >missionaccomplished.jpg >qinghai is and always will be unsavable >at least i got a snazzy title out of it 10/10 would enter qinghanistan again it says something about the quality and the depth of the game that i got sucked into that sort of situation naturally, and that's just one of the many emergent stories you'll find in Rise of the White Sun. Extremely addictive and worth picking up if you're at all interested in the Chinese warlord era!