/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

>>127372247
You probably won't assimilate easily a land with 20-10 million people.

Anyway, the effects are pre-annexation.

>>127372634
Hey, since you're working on Africa right now, you should implement the Hobyo sultanate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultanate_of_Hobyo
They were the first ones to sign a protectorate treaty with the Italians in Somalia, so it's probably a significant enough reason to put them in

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Reminder that /gsg/ is a designated Sharia zone.

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>>127372792
I actually have them in but I didn't decide on how to deal with it yet.

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:^)

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>>127372634
No, I'm only talking about colonial migration. Assimilation doesn't really happen in Vicky because of cultural cores.
Having those 10% accepted culture pops that usually takes to muster 1% bureaucrats is piss easy after you kill most of the natives.
Pic related was without genocide, I had up to 20% North German in some provinces. And I know, I know, grossgermania, but after genocide you should be seeing similar results even as something as small as Belgium.

Many Houses Divided - v 0.0.1.1
Download link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/jso7qa1c4ystej7/MHD.rar?dl=0

Contents - Independent US states (and D.C. which is a releasable puppet which starts out as a part of Maryland).
It is recommended that you play as nation in the Americas because all the extra tags cause lots of unnecessary strain.

NOTE - Many states have around 10,000 people, meaning that you won't be able to make soldiers for a long time. It is recommended that you play as a nation in the southeast or northeast because they have the population to support a military.

TO DO LIST
-Make political variants for each flag (Except for Virginia, fascist Vermont, republic flags, and a hand full of communist flags)
-Make Canadian states
-Make Mexican states
-create CSA state league to prevent slavery from being abolished
-set up literacy for each state
-Create a war for the independence of West Virginia
- When the war kicks off, West Virginia gets a decision to ask Kentucky to the war, which triggers an event for Kentucky to decides whether or not they join
-Greater "X" decision for some states - Massachusetts (core on Maine), Virginia (Kentucky and maybe some midwest states, Florida (core on Cuba), New England (NY, NJ, PN), Michigan (Wisconsin) Texas, etc.
-Event for Maryland that releases D.C. or keeps it at the expense of militancy in the province
-Insure that Greater Texas/Texan Empire can't form the Confederacy (possibly, still on the table)
-Insure that Greater Virginia (Midwest owning)/Virginian Empire can't form Confederacy
-Better color scheme
-Better political pops or something like that
-Make British states
-New cultures for certain regions
- Wisconsin = Cheesehead
- New England = Yankee
- CSA = Dixie
- Nevada & Utah = Mormon
- etc.
-Kansas starts out with slavery, but they also start in the middle of a revolt, representing Bleeding Kansas. Just earlier.
Always up for more suggestions

>>127371264
???

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>>127372862
>designated Sharia zone.
Damn Straight.

Granadas looking a bit healthier now. Castille has lost a massive amount of its trade power in the Andalusian node, due to its ships getting wrecked and the Granadaian provinces, which will cripple them for a good long while. their manpower got completely decimated too, which will cripple their development.

France took a bad deal on it though, the combined might of Aragon and Castile was a bit much for them and they got a bit ruined (the AI walked a 57 Stack into a 40 Stack in the Mountains across a river....), but what do I care? If the stupid heathens want to help me fight other heathens, so be it. Theres always other people to ally.

Tlemcen is getting annexed now, only 5 years on that.

>>127372947
HPM could you consider adding my mod to your pastebin?

Also gonna drop my trip since my mod is 1 text file and isn't worthy.

>>127373569
Also, HPM is required for this mod to work

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Too bad I'm gonna be poor 5ever because I'm in UK's sphere.

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>>127373649
Also no-one likes the Ibadis, everyones just playing pass the parcel with them. I've already removed my lot and they're not getting back in. fucking troublemakers to a man.

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>>127372947
Can you PLEASE make great war dismantling hand over colonies based on regions instead of the individual fucking provinces? Historical colonial dismantlement didn't just give out individual ports to everyone haphazardly, it was all in chunks

>>127371990
>complete dissolution
I was thinking more of a partial incorporation of the mod which add SOME tags, but not all. The East Coast in particular could use more than 2-3 tags (depending on whether or not the FSA pops up on the East Coast). Like the West Coast, you could have one state encompass several states, like Virginia containing Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Kentucky.

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remove sunni REMOVE SUNNI

>>127374008
What mods are you using?

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>>127373569
heres a suggestion: learn to spell

>>127374730
FUG

>>127374730
>>127374773

>Colbumia

fucking lmao

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>>127374764

>>127372947
HPM, why doesn't Denmark own the Andaman Islands at the start date?

They only sold them to the British in 1868

>>127373569
>>127374730
Okay, I think it's alright now. You should be able to download it from the link and it shouldn't be fugged up

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Wish they would just convert but this works too.

>>127372862
>not liberating Turkmenistan before the filthy slavs take hold of it

Shit

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>200k redshirts spawn
>know that if they win, SP gets gutter crown
>move armies into position
>attack 40k stack on capital
>win, attacked again with low org
>lose in defense of capital
>retreat, reinforce, attack again
>win, win another defense, and another
NOT. THIS. DAY.

>>127374594
Meiou. the map is Theatrum Orbis Terrarum with its patch for Meiou. Dei Gratia is built in so the religious side of things is decent.

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>>127376175
"FUCK OFF"
t. Francis II Bourbon

>>127376175
Should have mobilized you fool.

>>127376175
>>127376405
Are you going to unite Italy or just take the southern Italian states and go your own way, senpai?

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In remembrance of old days.

>>127376646
jesus christ which patch was that

http://poal.me/s0dkfh

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>>127375770
still broken

>>127377274
Luxury need t b h

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>Cholera and Sharia in Pashtunistan

Jesus my poor pops.

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>>127377403
tea is an everyday need, why shouldn't coffee be too

>>127377383
w-whats in that text file, anon?

>>127377638
Because of the time period senpai

Are paradox posting on the forums yet? Is their month long vacation over yet?

>>127377705
it isn't there

>>127377789
look at the graph pham, there's not a large amount of craftsmen until late game anyways

>>127377638
Coffee is a meme drink

>>127377854
>>127377383
I can load the game, no problem at all.
Is your game version 3.04 because I am using 3.03 for this. Heard that 3.04 isn't that good

>>127376646
almost definitely multiplayer

>>127378127
Than merge it yourself like memehpm did with the previous update.

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A few years after you get the Congo, this event will pop up. The last option will leave the Congo as a uncolonized state. I will also make it so it's not normally releasable to avoid releasing it and inheriting it through normal events.
The second option does the effects shown in the pic and the first option, the historical path, still has no defined effects.

Most likely it will make the congo the same primary culture as the overlord (or add it as an accepted culture), move a few pops to Boma and trigger the events that should benefit the owner somehow.
Then the exploitation can spiral out of control or it can end up being mostly controlled and covert, with an eventual annexation for less infamy and less consequences than the outright annexation.

>>127374141
I want to redo the whole distribution system at some point. I will take a quick look and see if it will cause too much trouble to change for regions for now.

>>127375245
IIRC they owned half of the islands in the province and the UK owned another part. That's why the UK has it.

>>127374491
I can't promise anything, I will think about it when I get to the second ACW rework.

>>127373707
Sure, it would be my pleasure. Thank you for your work.

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Alright goys, newbie at eu4 and gsg here, I've already tried the "starting" nations (castile, ottomans, a bit of portugal)
I don't know what to play next, give me a nation and a goal, preferably not "colonize x" cause the iberians tired me out

>>127378636
uninstall.exe
installvic2.exe

>>127378636
Teutonic order, annex everything to ukraine and convert/change culture

Yess goy- i mean guys buy coffee from our farms, i swear we are not torturing the nigg- err i mean POC individuals and making them work to death, seriously don't tell this to the english.
t. João Berguer

>>127378127
either im retarded or you forgot to mention you need to have hpm running with it

>>127379252
nignog >>127373734

I'm still going to make a separate download for 3.04 though

>>127379002
bottom left is Aral Sea

>>127378549
Actually all you have to do to make it region based is just replace secede_province = THIS with
state_scope = { any_owned = { secede_province = THIS }
}
in events 96017,96016,96011

>>127376592

Staying as two sicilies > italy
Free romagna, annex papal.

>>127378709
I've already got it installed, but I can't be arsed to get into it right now.

>>127378778
that actually sounds pretty interesting, thanks m8. I've got no idea if there's a meme to it, gonna try it out and see how it goes

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My Shia brothers will be freed soon, Inshallah.

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>>127378636
Oman is pretty good. Become the Caliph, spread Shia, and you're in a good position to take the cream off the top of a lot of the trade flowing through your area to Europe.

Plenty of expansion oppurtunities, you can either go via Africa, , and put your Trading city down on the Cape of good hope somewhere, and dominate the node so that its all yours. Your other lands should be steering it down that way, and if you've expanded sensibly you should have a massive ability to deprive Europe of trade.

Alternatively you could keep your Trade Post somewhere in the Middle East, and route all Trade through it. Your expansions should be eastwards towards India, Philippines, Vietnam area, grab all the Provinces with Centers of trade and just good trade figures there (way before the Euro's have a chance to get there) and really pump the figures of the Trade running into the middle east. Potentially this is more profitable as you will be working with everyone else to pull trade through the middle east, and if you own the lands, you get to take the lions share off the top.

Omans a good fun nation, would recommend it to anyone.

>>127380029
>Oman
>Shia

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>They're sieging libya with 100k troops
>They have 70k troops stationed in Cyprus

My fault for trusting the eternal anglo.

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France is under a personal union of Austria, and was defeated in a independence war as well.

Spain was splintered because spain sided with france and subsequently fucked. I gobbled up galicia and leon.

How fucked is my europe?

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>>127378549
I think it's a bug but since Flanders gets cores on Belgian Picardie, it only makes sense that Wallonie should get cores on Belgian Champagne when France is dismantled since Belgium itself gets a core

>>127376646
>Y

>>127373569
without even playing a country i found a couple mistake.
>Delaware us spelled wrong
>New Mexico is missing 3 provinces
>YOU KEPT THE ORIGINAL POPS
other than that pretty cool i guess

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>suck fucking balls at EU4 but decide to try an iron man game as an Indian minor
>keep having to restart because my wars against other minor kingdoms fail
>decide to try one more time and declare war without a casus belli before my neighbour can get an alliance
>select the Hindu god of discipline and siege ability
>our armies are even but I'm training more cavalry
>they attack me head-on, which is a big mistake
>I LOSE THE BATTLE
>they're about to siege my capital
>because of low stability, I get a noble rebels event
>pop the rebels and they defeat the enemy
>I accept the rebel demands and start chasing the enemy army
>right when I destroy their army, U-Tsang declares war on them, too
>fuck, I siege two of their provinces before U-Tsang gets there
>half their country is occupied by me, the other half by U-Tsang
>decide to peace out, but vassalize them instead
>I'M NOW THE LEADER OF THE WAR AGAINST U-TSANG
>FUCK
>now I can call my other two shitty allies
>I click the "attach to this unit" checkbox even though it never works
>IT WORKS
>mfw 16k stack vs 7k U-Tsang shitters
>mfw destroyed the stack
>mfw my allies are giving me the occupied provinces
>mfw I'm about to take down their capital
>mfw heavily indebted with no manpower but I don't care because my country is about to get two huge vassals

Am... am I... gittin gud?

>>127381267
>two huge vassals
enjoy 100% liberty desire

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>>127381267

I'm glad you're so involved.
But this shit isn't as fucking romantic as you think it is.
Shit is actually pretty lame.
You moved some soldiers around and had better rolls.

Am I supposed to be impressed?
Do something interesting.

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>play vicky for years
>play a game of ebin grossrussiums
>man russia is so ez, but those anglos keep getting in my way
>never played england, since eternal anglos, but decide to do it
>AYYYY LMAOOOO MILLIONS OF CRAFTSMEN
>BILLIONS OF POOL IN THE LOOS FOR MILITARY+RESOURCES
>#1 GP 4 LIFE
>puppet/colonize half the world
>industry greater than the rest of the world combined for most of the game
>positive modifiers out the ass (raj gives you -0.1 militancy? what are rebels?)

Man no wonder the anglosphere is full of shitposters, they pretty much shat away the most dominant position any nation has ever attained.
Feels good being a slav.

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>>127380813
>>YOU KEPT THE ORIGINAL POPS
>NOTE - Many states have around 10,000 people, meaning that you won't be able to make soldiers for a long time. It is recommended that you play as a nation in the southeast or northeast because they have the population to support a military.

>Delaware is spelled wrong
Thanks mate

>New Mexico is missing 3 provinces
What? I have all of the provinces, but I did notice that Russia has a core in New Mexico. Strange

HOI4 is still in Alpha. Might explain the lack of leaks

https://twitter.com/producerjohan/status/682918444329775104

>>127378549
small bug I found, you cant build a lv 2 port in the west indies state since there are two provinces with a port

>>127381934
should note, playing as britain

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IT'S TOO SOON

>>127381813
lmao

>>127382372
White mens burden to bring civilisation far and wide

>>127380029
That's pretty informative m80, thanks. Going after the arabic peninsula hadn't occured to me before, although Yemen looks bretty good too.
Oman isn't Shia btw

>>127380563
There are no walloons in Champagne. Flanders get that mainly because of them and the small flemish in dunkirk.

>>127381934
Sorry, it's a problem with the region rework I did before. I will return it to the vanilla regions.
Thanks a lot!

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A-alright, here we g-go...

>>127381786
why don't you add more pops and make them all yanks and dixies
Also i found out i was using the version of hpm for 3.0.4. After that everything but Animas belonged to New Mexico

>>127382536
>>127380357
Yeah, sorry, Ibadi.

>>127382372
What mod is that/where is that french flag from?

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>>127383030
>add more pops and make them all yanks and dixies
Working on that tomorrow. By the way, I'll be making new cultures for certain states (Deseret states get "Mormon", Wisconsin gets "Cheesehead", etc.)

I'll try to make the mod compatible with 3.04 tonight.

>>127383504
dont bother with 3.0.4 most people dont use it

>>127383454
That's HPM, hell if I know where the flag comes from

>>127383504
>All those ruler borders

This will never not make me laugh

>>127383504
So you're going straight into memeland.

>>127383621
I know where the real life flag comes from
I wanted to know from what mod does that mod come from

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>>127383504
do bother with 3.04 please

Name for Qing poll.

http://poal.me/veahw7

>>127378549
>you get 5 infamy for fulfilling what you promised
>every nation who backed you and your arguments over bringing humanitarian policies and ending the West African slave trade will get mad at you for properly colonizing it instead of having your king ruling it the way described
I'm sorry but that makes absolutely no sense

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In HoI4, if you live in Germany you get a censored version of the game. The chap in the image will be called "Barolf Hoppler" for German players.

Barolf Hoppler, that well known leader of Germany from WW2.

>>127383931
buenas noches mein fuhrer!

>>127383931
It could use a ban in Ukraine instead desu~

>>127383504
Yea, bother with the nevest version.
Also, you should work on the assimilation for your new cultures too.

with love from burgerland, t. UnHPM

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>craftsmen are supposed to be an upgrade over farmers and laborers
>can't even meet half of their life needs
wew

>>127383931
mein fuhrer, imagine if someone irl told you to smoke UNA vela

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>play Darkest Hour as UK for the first time
>decide to hide on my island until 1943 because I hate combat in Africa
>Germany as usual annexes Poland and other minors
>they go after France
>actually steamroll France in like 2 weeks
>they go after Spain, annex them too
>annex all Balkan minors
>May 1941, they have over 550 IC compared to my 220 and USSR 330
>they go after Ruskies
>actually capture Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad before november
>in December they are about to be pushing into Ural
>land with around 100 divisions in Spain
>conquer it, push into France
>retake France, encircle and destroy at least 60 divisions
>get stalled on French-German border, can barely advance now
>check out how is my nigga Stalin doing
>Germany is still actually pushing forward on Eastern Front
>USA nowhere in sight
jesus christ

>>127383831
You didn't promise to do colonial exploitation (which is what colonies are in the game), you promised to help them civilize through a philanthropic association.
That's why the option that adds the infamy is called
>We don't need to keep the facade anymore, annex the Congo.

and the promised one is
>The Congo Free State is a philanthropic endeavor.

>>127378549
That art is horrible, don't put that shit in.

>>127384448
Oh, that makes more sense.

>>127383931
Yes. Rupert Heß, Goddels and Reinlich Hinnler.
Of the German Fascist Workers Party

>>127384234
You must be subsidizing some really shitty factories.

>>127383931
>>127384709
Because HoI4 couldnt possibly get any worse.

>>127384526
Art is pretty good
>>127383931
>Fdola Ritleh
>Sebbelg
>Rimmleh
>Furolr Sesh

>>127383931
>>127384709
Wait, you are not memeing ?

>>127384526
frig off

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>>127384448
Hey HPM, I was just wondering, does it take longer for pops to migrate across the sea? I was playing uncivilized and I cheated to take the US and none of my African pops migrated for a long damn time, do you know why that is? How do I make them migrate overseas?

And something concerning the CSA, or my african game or any Slavery allowed place to enslave the state or province I take over?

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>>127384526
I prefer contemporary images for the mod and political cartoons do just fine.

Fuck me, theres something seriously wrong with the type of people that post on Reddit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nekwgQme9E&feature=youtu.be

Posted on that cesspit subreddit Paradox Plaza. Always good to have a browse there now and again for a laugh.

>>127383931
Andy Hitter
Gobbler
He-man
Ruddy He-SS truppen

>>127384997
>Wait, you are not memeing ?

No, I was actually being entirely serious. theres a thread somewhere about it. Some uppity German was asking if his copy of the game would be crippled and some Paradox guy replied with examples they'll be using.

The flag is also pure ghastly.

>>127385098
The rest of the game doesn't look a thing like that. Might as well go full retard and make it anime.

>>127385057
Your capital needa to be on the North american continent to get the US immigration bonus lad

>HoI 3 too autistic
>DH not autistic enough
lads...

>>127385303
Well I was wanting my pops from Africa, while they were uncivilized to move acrross and migrate there. Fug me.

>>127385283
>google barolf hoppler
>its actually true.

KEK of KEKs.

>>127385294
why don't you post an alternative and see if he likes it better?

>>127385740
It's not my job to make his mod not look like a turd. Why should I do his work for him?

>>127385283
Jesus Christ, what the hell

>>127383931
Adolpfus Schekelbruegger
Rudolfstein von Hessen
Gobblersten the Jew Nose
Heinreich Himmelssturmer

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r8 europe.

also will i ever form romania y/n?

>>127383931
Are they retarded?
Atleast make a cool sounding name
Like Friedrich von Thornstahl
Not some shittier swedish faggotry like Bern or Benjamin
Fuck you paradox, with your shit memes
Only propagation is banned, not history.
Imagine if all history books had fake names like these, that would be insane.

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>>127385294
Political cartoons (and in the case of vanilla, outright drawings) were used in other events both in HPM and vanilla, so it fits just fine.

>>127385057
No, the game uses no notion of distance.

>How do I make them migrate overseas?
I imagine we are talking about a regular state, not a colonial one. Basically unemployment, militancy and needs are the main factors. Cores help too IIRC.

>And something concerning the CSA, or my african game or any Slavery allowed place to enslave the state or province I take over?
You mean enslaving? There's a decision for that, only works for monarchies with serfdom.

>>127386402
You can't give them a cool sounding name or some Germans might become Nazis again.

>>127386353
I for sure will buy your game, kind sir.
Do you make house deliveries?

>>127386628
Could you make it work for the CSA? If you could? That would be pretty cool.

>>127386628
>Political cartoons (and in the case of vanilla, outright drawings) were used in other events both in HPM and vanilla, so it fits just fine.

If you can't see the difference in art style between those and the crap you posted then you need to get your eyes checked. It's an appalling blight upon anything decent.

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r8 my europe

>>127386353
I really like grand strategy games, especially paradox ones.

why does the new vic2 patch with hpm and the map mod from the OP crash every time I open the decisions menu?

>>127387107
do you have the right HPM? the 3.04 one?

>>127386353
I also like grand strategy wargames.

>>127386868
Chiming in to say it looks fine and it should stay in, if only to spite this anon.

>>127387204
yes I believe so

>>127386353
I like both 4x and gsg.
They are really fun and worth every penny!

>>127387304
We already know you like it HPM. Why did you take off your trip to post this?

>>127387475
Because I am devious.

>>127386868
There's a difference between the artstyle. They are political cartoons from different sources, so different styles. In all of those. It's just that you don't like that one. It's just a matter of personal preference.

The Vanity Fair being the most distant one and the one in the first column third row being the best example of dissonant cartoon.

If you want I can make a poll but judging that just you have strong feelings against one of the political cartoons, I don't really think it's necessary.

>>127387107
You are using the wrong HPM. You are using the version for 3.03. That or the mapmod you are using isn't updated.

>>127386834
Nah, that one wouldn't make sense. Maybe one for the CSA to re enslave the freed afro americans.

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since that's bestest place to ask:

What are some games set in the times before the Romans and the Greeks?

There's pic related but the critics didn't like it.
And there's Age of Empires 1.
& everybody likes Age of Empires 1.
I wish I knew some other titles.

>>127387847
alright thanks HPM!

>>127387887
sauce?

Is HPM guy here? I think a Germany formed by Austria needs a different tag. If only for a change of it's flag. I'm pretty sure a Habsburg led Germany wouldn't use the colour of Prussia and the Hansa.

>>127387887
Is that the game where you can literally boil another nation's diplomat alive just because you don't like them?

HPM have you had a look at Ausmod yet?

>>127388392
why would the habsburgs want to create unified german nation-state?

>>127387449
fucking brutal lol

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>>127388074
That is chariots of war, developed by a pair of ducks more than a decade ago.

>>127387887
There is Pharaoh which is a godlike city builder.

>>127387887
THIS IS A 4X AND HAS ITS OWN THREAD IT SHOULD BE IN GTFO, OFFTOPIC.

>>127388882
woah calm down there autismo

>>127387847
Are you ever going to make it so a nation with slavery like Spain or the CSA can enslave the fuck out of Africa?

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>EU IV
>Venice
>Vassalized Byzantium (after it lost Constantinople)

How large can I let my vassal grow before it becomes impossible to annex it? It would be profitable to easily take back territory from the Ottomans, but on the other hand I don't want a vassal too large to manage.

>>127389182
But one of the main reasons to colonize Africa es to end slavery. Going into africa to enslave the africans wouldn justly bring down the wrath of the Great Powers on your little slaver head.

>>127389420
I'd be okay if it gave me like 10 infamy and gave all the Great Powers a CB on me but I just want to make a slave empire.

>>127389420
*was

is the big frames mod supposed to have the names of the countries go through the flags and crash when i hover over them in the diplomacy screen

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They'll agree to these demands soon enough.
Should I risk a civil war firing from my low legitimacy and overextension?

>>127389238
Feed Byzantium their cores and the Balkans. Try to diplovassalize the Knights and feed them Anatolia. Since the Knights are your historical friend, their liberty desire will always be low. Keep Constantinople for yourself.

Should I bother with EU4 or go straight for Vicky 2 after CK2, since it's the last steam sale day?

Well?

http://strawpoll.me/6445334

>>127390391
Don't buy EU4, not worth the money at all.

V2 is shit without the 2 expansions.

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>>127390469
>strawmeme

>>127390469
Yeah, but only when the AI pulls some total bullshit on me just because I'm the player or when a random even totally decimates my pops when I'm playing a minor nation in V2.

>>127388882
i have no idea what 4x is ought to be but the Chariots of War are a p-dox title done very much in the spirit of Imperialism and Knights of Honor.

>>127390226
Yes, the Civil War fire a bunch of events where you trade mana and gold for legitimacy. Beware the noble rebels, tho.

>>127390503
>>127390391

Vanilla is shit, with or without the expansions.

>>127385294
t. rob

>>127387847
Hey HPMate, did you have time to take a look at HPH? Any criticism - especially about the Bear Flag Revolt and the Persian Constitutional Revolt?

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Ming is being torn apart from within and from the East. I have a weird situation with Korea but I have my sights set on Southern Yeren and Manchu so I can claim the title of sole ruler of the Manchu.

>>127391085
Just got Vicky2, Vicky1 and the expansions for both for $9.99. Which mods should I be grabbing?

>>127391386
HPM

>text all over the place, decisions covering up the event text, random crashing all the time

I wanted to like HPP but I just can't be arsed t.bh

>>127390391
DH is similar complexity to Vic2, has god tier mods, no DLC needed and is £1.99 in the sale

Is there anyway I can get Divine Wind to play on a mac? I bought it on my pc, and Im trying to play EUIII on my gf's laptop but on the original game is available.

Any help is appreciated.

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Shit.

>>127391412
HPP?

>>127390345
>Feed Byzantium their cores and the Balkans.
Alright, but how long/much until they become impossible to diplo-annex?

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le reverse Khuzestan face

>>127391720
Historical plausibility project for hoi3, when it's working it's decent - not as stale as vanilla and not as memetic as black ice but it just never fucking work properly

>>127391550
DH is fucking shit, looks like shit, its mods are shit
Fuck off DH devs, stop shilling here

What mod is considered the best here? Pop demand was a meme one last time I played, has it been made better?

>>127391978
Robmod

>>127391849
Vic2's economy model is fucking shite and it's combat is just fucking standard eu/ck pdox bollocks. It's not even a 'good' game lmao, literal vic2 and HPM shills populating /gsg/ for a LONG time

>>127391978
gsg-mod

>>127391978
I'd say 90% of the people who play V2 on here use HPM.

>>127388552
No, sorry. I will update the minimods and take a look to see why it isn't working.

>>127389182
As another anon pointed out, that was the whole point.

Making them enslave pops is a little more complicated, but I thought of a way that maybe work. I will do something about it when I get around the international consequences for having late game slavery, like a CB to force countries to outlaw it.

>>127391194
No, still didn't do it yet. Sorry. I was trying to tie the loose ends with the Congo stuff before I take a look at the stuff.

>>127391978
HPM

>>127392119
Can you post this ausmod and HPH?

HPM is updated for the beta patch isn't it?

>>127392056
At least vicky 2 has an economic model
Unlike DH

> combat is just fucking standard eu/ck pdox bollocks.
So it DH, except the stacks actually go really high
DH has even less provinces than victoria 2

>>127391751
You can see this pressing the 'annex vassal' button, lad. The finish date, the quantity of mana necessary to annex them and how much of it will be used per month.

>>127392439
>muh number of provinces

march of the eagles has tonnes but it doesn't make it good

How the fuck am i supposed to keep liberty desire down playing as Portugal?

>>127392332
Yes

>>127391978
Caleb's Political Titles

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>>127392543
>but it doesn't make it good

>>127391386

>>127391410

>>127392543
March of the Eagles has better combat than DH and it is an overall better game

>>127392589
Don't colonise too much in one colonial region, it makes them too strong and you get better bonuses from having muiltiple colonial nations.

Colonise african + asian provinces/conquer suh sahara + india from the technologically inferior countries

Then you can build a land limit +1 building in each province, liberty desire is calculated from how big your army is compared to the colonial nations.

>>127392735
>>127392275
downloading. Thanks.

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>Huh, Pashtun? What's that?

>>127392760
it's a better game than vic2

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>>127392815
oh right, i can increase force limit, thanks senpai.

>>127392589
Diplomatic reputation. Pick both Diplomatic and Influence Ideas if you want to keep your colonies loyal.

>>127393041
How can people stand those fucking textures?

before the sale ends: is Eu: rome a good game or not? no memes

>>127393498
It's a Paradox game.

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wew

>>127393305
It looks like an actual map instead of the horrendous 3D shit paradox makes now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7elW08GgKgo
daily reminder kosovo is rightful part of serbia

>>127394859
*Albania

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>mfw thinking of the huge uphill struggle that learning HOI3 will be, let alone mastering it

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>tfw whoring myself out to UK

All worth it for those sweet sweet Shia pops.

>>127395097
I used to feel the same way but then I found out it's the same simplistic, easy trash that all Pdox are after 10 hours of play.

>>127395097
Its really not that hard.

If you can play Star Craft you can play HoI3. If you can't play SC but could play SC if you were able to pause it in order to micro, then you can play HoI3.

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Time to persecute some Christians! Thanks, UK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8NbhmkL_1c

>>127395505
Try AGEOD titles. They are at the least superior when it comes to warfare including being much more satisfying with regards to that. PDOX games are mighty fine though.

>>127395829
Shouldn't you be working on Liang mod instead of jerking off your boyfriend under the covers?

>>127395778
They're pretty fun 2bh not gonna lie. But HOI definitely does get a LOT simpler once you break the surface.

>>127395942
cant he do both?

>>127395097
It's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be

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Might be an absolute madman and do it

>>127393041
غول وخوره

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>>127397548
>tfw google translate won't translate Pashto

Assuming it's Pashto, because Google translate assumes it's Persian and translates it as "Giant vrkkvrkvr"

The HRE is taking much longer than previously expected

I'll have Europe done by tomorrow

Not much changes in Northern Europe, Denmark-Norway still exists and in the east the Ottomen are chipped away at slightly, but nothing too big,

Poland is still a grey area for me, the 3rd partition borders would have stayed the same, but I'm sure some rebellion would have rose up, so I might make a tiny polish state if anyone wants to form the commonwealth.

The Italian peninsula is fractured and Italy no longer has any nationalist revolts. Genoa and Venice both still exist.

And finally, Austria and Liege own parts of the lowlands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ_YUJ4vXvA

My favourite song from any grand strat, what's yours?

>>127397842
yeah I said "eat shit" in pashto

Ghul Wukhoruh would be how it sounds

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JUST

>>127398376
Bannable offence for saying 'reported' t.bh lad

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35209185
>For the first time in 70 years, Adolf Hitler's Nazi manifesto Mein Kampf is to be available to buy in Germany.

And no one can stop it.

How long until gross germania rises again?

>>127398997
>implying the EU isn't just a gross germania under another name

>>127398997
the greater german caliphate

>>127398997
Never, because they are all cucked beyond salvation.

>>127398997
Adolf Hitler? Who is that?

Sounds very familiar to Barolf Hoppler, the leader of Germany from my historical grand strategy games. Are they related, or might you have misspelled something?

>>127398997
>Kein Mampf by Alois Hilter

>>127398997
>yfw neo-prussian socialism had its chance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM

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whats the id for this province that hpm added? need to change owner it until theres a fix

>>127399729
provid in console

>>127399729
provid in the console to find out

>>127399835
>>127399846
holy shit i didnt know you could do that, thanks a ton

>>127392119
>>127392119
No problem, Im gonna put out an update in 4/5 days anyway. Mostly code fixes, localizations changes and some more flavour (Skansen, the bagne de Cayenne, Paulet affair, etc.). I'm working on experimental events for FED to simulate the difference between a confederal communist state and a totalitarian communist state. Mostly playing around. So all in all, there's no rush.

If only France didn't put its entire military in Africa and Pondicherry, maybe then it'd have a fighting chance against Prussia.

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Hey guys, cool little fun fact.
The Habsburg house take their name from Habsburg Castle. A fortress built in Switzerland. Dated to be built sometime between 1020-1030.

So in 4 years, at the earliest estimate. The Habsburgs will have been around for an entire millennia.

>>127399835
>>127399846
>helping out newscum

>>127401239
upvoted

>>127401418
I try.

>>127395097
Just pause plenty, and start out with a country like Hungary.

>>127398581
Changeowner m8.
Fixing the bordergore in Africa is one of the only acceptable uses of cheats.

how do you change factory construction times

>>127402240
delete system32

>>127402395
t.igan

>>127402395

Holy.
FUCK.

Alright, I updated all minimods. Some of the stuff was pretty old. I even updated the validator to the latest version I did.

Pastebin is fully updated. Now I just need to clean and organize some files.

The only minimod that's missing is the Swiss culture minimod. I discovered that I accidentally replaced it with the regular culture minimod last time updated and I can't find the files, so if anyone has an old version of that mod so I can update it would be much appreciated.
Now I will get back to modding.

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>>127402586

>Europe well never have cute, crazy, but still hilarious as fuck characters like this ruling ever again
>All we get are fuckers in shitty suits talking about global warming

I guess Napoleon II is better off.

>>127402617
thanks so much, cant wait till the next update

>>127402617
based HPM

>>127402617
#based

Hey HPM, what's your favourite colour?

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For the most fun colonial game in EU4 should I go pootugal, castile, or anglo
or someone else entirely

>>127403221
Go German

>>127385709
Well no, that was just an example someone gave of another game, that isn't what they're going to call him.

>>127403221
>fun
>colonial
>EU4

>>127402240
blease resbond

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>this article was written by a venetian jew

>>127403221
You should totes play as uninstall.exe

>>127385956
German Laws. The Non-German versions will be fine minus Swastikas

>>127403386
>>127403350
I'm just out of ideas senpai... I guess I will just reform the caliphate as ottoturks or something

>>127403597
Make Turk Colonies :)

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Janitors deleting posts just because they aren't talking about HPM or posting game shot screenies?
Jeeze. When did this place get such cunt moderation.
I always figured all history related to the time period of these games was postable.

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Ello lads. Just a quick check-in to tell you that Legacy of Slovenia is on-track for an alpha release by the end of this week. What to expect:
>Dozens of new and changed countries set up with proper units, cores, etc.
>HPM mechanics and generic events/decisions integrated
>A few (only like 3 or 4 ar this point) custom events/decisions of my own. Expect more in future releases
>Memes? We'll see.
>Großsloveniums
Coming soon to a /gsg/ near you

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I vomited a bit in my mouth

>>127402240
defines.lua
Don't think you can change it in any other way, so factory construction time bonuses by event and such are impossible, sadly.

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>>127404667

>>127404756
what is the value called? I've tried searching for "factory" and "construction" but found nothing.

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>>127404214
>when
It's always been like this. Sometimes the jannies allow historical discussion, sometimes they go on autistic rampage and destroy a 100+ post discussion while shitposting goes on uninterrupted in the same thread.

Has HPM come out with a patch for the glitch where AI never honor alliances or grant military access in the new Vicky II beta?

>>127405164
That's clearly unfixable without source code, why even bother asking?

>>127404998
That means there's two competing janitors, one who likes the discussion while the other hates it.

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>>127404998

I just don't want to wake up banned tomorrow because some janitor was building up a tab to tell a moderator how much of a bad boy I've been.
I just want to meme a bit about old european rulers.
Can't be too much harm in it.
Better than the t. x posting or people just constantly asking. "LOL WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY JUNK EMPIRE NEXT?!"

I guess it can get pretty /pol/ and /his/ is around for a reason. But katawa shoujo general has been around for a very long time, and what the fuck are they discussing? I can't be hurting shit.

>>127405329
senpai did you play three games at once

>>127404948
sorry lad it's defined per factory under buildings.txt
jesus did you even look for it

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>>127405474

Yes. but that's the only session I've ever done. I really wish I could have taken it to 2000, but now the save is gone.
I was just playing it for the microfun at a constant 3 speed.
It went pretty well, I just used hamachi.

I'd suggest trying it if you've got multiple screens.

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>>127405705
>>127405329
>Playing three countries at the same time

>>127405316
I don't know anything about modding.

So why exactly does the money in the national bank disappear periodically?

>>127405924
Because pops take their money out of the bank

>>127405705
>>127405329
glorious lad desu

>>127405924
you're loaning to other countries

>>127406092
>t.bh becomes desu
I swear to based Syndie god

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unthankful cunts. Nothing makes them happy, they aren't even giving me money.

I need a CB to slap my subjects shit or something this is dumb.

>>127406196
but the bank went from 1 mil to 0 and after checking the loans given to other countries it just doesn't add back up to a million

>>127406242
how new are you sempai?

>>127406312
Not new, just been away/lurking.

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>>127406272
>Austrian France

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Would you give yourself onto him?

>>127406441
Only if EvW gets made and is actually GOOD

>>127406413
Austria somehow managed to get a PU on them, then won two independence wars against them.

>>127406521
too soon, STILL TOO SOON
;-;

Does anyone here actually listen to the music in the games?
I don't, I normally have my own music or some video playing on my second screen

>>127407206
after a few hundred hours of the same few songs you generally are expected to turn it off m8

>>127407206
I usually just play this on repeat.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Beda3kFNjo

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>>127407206
after hearing the same songs over and over it just becomes too headache inducing to listen to anymore.

>>127407445
>>127407319

So you listened to them at some point then, so you liked them? At least until they became annoying?

I've never actually listened to the CK2 or EU4 soundtracks. I listened to the HOi3 and HOI2/DH ones for a while, until you know, repetitiveness.

>>127407445
I turn it off now, and generally listen to something period some other classic music I like. I tried keeping stuff period specific, but you end up with shittons of baroque in eu4, and I prefer stuff like Schubert

>>127404667
AEIOU
E
I
O
U

>>127407734
I sometimes still listen to it but after about an hour of it I turn it off again. EU4 soundtrack is shit even without having listened to on repeat. CK2 is pretty alright though tbqh (especially dlc soundtrack).

>>127407383
>ywn listen to this in late game evw

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In which direction should I point my growing Koch?

I have some pretty solid Indian alliances (Jaunpur and Orissa) and India is still mostly Hindu, but SE Asia is far weaker.

>>127408385
Tears shed anon.

>>127409053
Make it look most Koch-like, go look at provinces.

>>127409053
invade Ming :)

>>127395738
>blobbing into the caucasus

what the fuck

persia can blob north but only if it's east of the caspian and no further north than the aral and no further east than kashgar

>>127409734
Breaking fucking news, Persia can blob anywhere the fuck the sandniggers decide they want to! Holy shit prepare for a new world super power!

>>127410181
persians are only half sandnigger though from the arab raping

the other half is mongol from the turk raping

>>127409734
Azerbaijan is shia so that makes sense
>>127410296
but Persians did their own raping of middle east so it evens it out

The treaty of trianon oh god i'm cumming!

>>127410403
The Arabs are all from Arabia, mainly the south. Levantines are totally different.

>>127412080
They are all Semites. No?

>>127409734
It looks good if you blob equally along both shores of the Caspian
Azerbaijan is rightful Iranian clay anyway.

>>127412303
They speak an Afroasiatic language, yes, but language does not define where one is from and what one is. The Turks are most closely related to Greeks because of their Anatolia/Hittite/Pontic blood. Are there Turks with purer Central Asian blood? Of course, but that does not mean that they are so easily defined as a people. It's the same with Levantines.

Egyptians spoke an Afroasiatic language as well before they spoke Arabic.

Culturally they may take a lot from the Bedouin who were the main spreads of Islam, but they're still not the same thing.

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Anybody here know anything about constructing languages? I need some help concerning an idea.

Over the last week I think I've identified SARTORI DR as a fucking street sign at least 30 times. Jesus Christ I just got it again for this post.

>>127412674
>but language does not define where one is from and what one is
It helps with defining origins of people pretty well. So Arabs in Iraq are distant cousins of Egypt.
Also Persia raped the whole region so this argument is pointless

>>127413220
True. I was just pointing out that a lot of the 'Arabs' in Syria and such aren't actually Arabs but just people who speak Arabic.

>>127413305
well let's just all remember that the bedouin made the whole world less white and a much shittier place

>>127414194
this 2bh

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>respectfully disagree

>>127415004
Finally, a spammed shitpost I can agree with

anyone got any juicy tips on passing reforms at lightning speed? i want full health care by 1880

>>127416419
go full JUST

I'm playing HPM for the first time as the Ottomans. What's the most efficient way for me to entirely annex Egypt?

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Any reason Uber-Austria wont move its death stack over to remove the mudslimes from my lands? They aren't in any other war, they have had their armies lined up on that northern border for like 3 years now.

What would be the easiest country to play as for someone who has never tried HOI3 before?

Also, what is the best mod?