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>black monday
Black monday doesn't even nuke your economy, the Vast Public Works national spirit makes it so that black monday actually buffs your economy while it's active once economic health is above -8 or -7 (takes 3 months). And the card game is super easy because it's badly balanced; you just ignore inflation and spam cards so that you win every round and never draw/lose a round.
>war unpreparedness
Narratively I think it's good that the German military is resting on it's laurels after it's victory. It makes it more believable that the Internationale can score early victories despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned. If Germany was completely prepared for the war with up to date doctrine, the war would be over by Christmas. Historically, Germany was also massively outgunned in 1940 but could overcome France due to doctrinal superiority. Mechanically, it isn't too hard to get Lacking Preparedness to it's minimum value, and Schleicher can reduce it even further to the point that it basically disappears instantly and has no noticeable effect on your military. I do agree it would be nice if Schleicher could completely avoid the debuff if you did all the Wehrstaat foci, but it should be unavoidable for the SPD and SWR.
Overall the 1.0 update was a pretty major buff for Germany with the exception that you can't get free tanks anymore. And for the record I do think that the devs engage in copious syndiewank and the internationale is basically wish fulfilment for people who subscribe to an ideology that was only relevant for it's contributions to fascism, but this only comes across in the writing rather than the gameplay. The gameplay is very Reichspakt biased.