Swiss Softlock

[[82AD] Blu Het]

Playing as the swiss and trying to maintain neutrality ive found myself stuck with no advisors except the incompetent one that you get every ten days. is there any way to control my politics now or am i stuck creeping towards fascism ?

[Bored Peon]

I made another attempt with the Swiss today. The key to having Unaligned support advisors is to NEVER elect them as president. Once any advisor becomes President they can never be elected to the council again. So you have to pick VERY carefully which ones you make President.

I was able to absorb Austria as the Swiss, but then I spent the next two years trying to get Fascism under 15% and Democracy factions under 60% to be able to absorb the Alps from France and Italy.

It also seems bugged because at the full left advisors were costing 150, plus another invisible 50 for a total of 200 political points which basically neutered spending political power on anything else.

[HappySack]

It's about not going over to full Federal Council power before you're prepared for it because if you did the Alpine Protectorate then elections stop completely and you might get stuck with a president you don't want.

So the Adopt Rumantsch Language focus to tick power to the Canton side should be considered before you do anything drastic unless you're sure you know what you're doing.

Edit: disregard this post

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by HappySack:

It's about not going over to full Federal Council power before you're prepared for it....

Moving the Council in either direction is not the issue. You have multiple options for moving the council in the Balance of Power.

We are talking about manipulating factions, NOT the council.

The problem stems from the fact out of the 20 or so advisors you only get TWO that have unaligned. If you make a mistake and elect them as President you can no longer move your faction %s, unless you want to go communism.

In other words they lack an easy mechanic like other countries of spending political power to manipulate factions or to be able to freely select advisors to manipulate the factions.