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We don't have an official steam or discord group. If anyone posts in the thread about any "official" or not steam or discord groups, promising MP or not, be sure it's a shitposter group known for organizing raids and shitposting in the thread. They are known for false-flagging.
Report and ignore it.

How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, February 11th:
AD 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
1626 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Catholicism to be the state religion of Ethiopia.
1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890.
>News
CK2 DD38 - Visiting the Cartographer
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-dev-diary-40-visiting-the-cartographer.998368/

EU4 - 24/01
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-development-diary-24th-of-january-2017.996110/

>Random Country Picker
http://randomcountry.gbasood.net/

# Archive (mods only)
https://mega.nz/#F!plMxFYTB!sn9MTrvJ0tYjWSHgM8CZow

#Where to get these games
http://hastebin.com/raw/moqugasume

# Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
http://pastebin.com/cCdcev76

>>[HoI4] - More Music Mod
https://mega.nz/#F!v5wXURpJ!TvoBinBVQWJbaYJsluyoFA

>>[HoI4] - Après Moi, Le Déluge
http://www.moddb.com/mods/apres-moi-le-deluge

>>[CK2] - Anon Music Mod
https://mega.nz/#!PQgxyACD!bpcXXoWI3Pfu_PJ1_sz5D7wKYO2OStEWr_npgpw0B_w

>>[CK2] - After The End
https://github.com/notalbanian/postapoc

>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.6.1 - 27/11/2016
http://pastebin.com/66gpxbKk

>>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.1.7
http://pastebin.com/sN1g69sr

>>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V10
http://pastebin.com/PRQH8vcV

>>[V2]Africa Mod
http://pastebin.com/kyMpRZcQ

Old Thread >>167968924
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La Plata
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how do we fix hoi4?
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>>168073987
Just play KR. Speaking of which, is HoI IV worth it, or should I wait for a sale?
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>>168073705
Literally kill yourself.
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>>168074032
I wonder if popular right wing sentiment (le pen, trump, brexit) will actually become the predominant viewpoint in the west or if it will still be (((progressive))) until our inevitable destruction.
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>>168073712
Based
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>>168074251
But in what game
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>>168073108

Nah, i don't think so, all my Muslims are people who were already Muslims and in 70 years not a single Christian has converted. Maybe it's possible with other countries tho.

There's definitely some sort of mechanic in terms of growth of minorities that are similar to your primary culture tho, i think i said it earlier in this thread but Bosniaks in my country grow like rabbits and migrate/populate provinces they were never in before.

>>168073812

south Serbia is Albanian clay boyo, i needed that lebensraum space, my country is getting WAY too crowded.
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>>168074078
Alright, thanks, my HoI3 base game was fucked up so I;m fixing it, shouldn't be more than 15 minutes.

Where do I put the podcat lua?
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>>168074423
>Centrist Moderates
Radical centrism in the next updates confirmed
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>>168074417
Modern day mod.
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Based Erdogan
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yeehaw
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elo buds
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yeeeehaw
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>>168074417
>>>/r/paradoxplaza
>>168074423
I wish there was a 1948 start date so you could play as israel, both Germanies, and the DPRK.
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are we being raided?
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>>168074962
Just play as Brunei for 2 years you self-entitled nigger.
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>when you forget to add them back to the sphere

btw, that one factory produces more fabric than all of England, and almost more than I do.
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>>168075048
Vikings were the Jews of the 10th century.
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>>168074423

By the way, can someone redpill me on what measures - economic or otherwise - i can take to rile up minorities as much as possible? I want to provoke revolts so i can kill all the rebels. Recently I had a 300k strong Bulgarian revolt and destroying the army dropped the pop of Bulgarians like 1.5%, shit was baller.

>>168074962

AFAIK in my game DDR and best Korea formed really fast either way but yeah might be a little annoying to setup for mp.
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>>168075095
>cheating
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>>168075257
This 2bh
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m&t 2 when?????????????????????????????????
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may yohan have mercy on /gsg/
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>>168075429
>history is offensive: the mod
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meow and talex will single handedly save /gsg/
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Recommend me mods similar to pic related, doesn't need to be Yugoslavia, just extremely realistic with thousands of provinces.
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>>168075930
EU4 goy!
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>>168075429
They want to show it at cuckcon, so post may.
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>MEIOU and Taxes considers Burgundians to be part of the Dutch culture group

What did they mean by this...
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>>168074510
Alright, its done, where do I put the .exe?
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>>168076093
Nevermind, got it, it's all good.

You already started, right?
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What is a good Let's Play on Hearts of Iron 3? I understand the mechanics, but not really the strategy/tactics. I want to see an experienced and skilled player in action.

>>168074134
>Is HoI IV worth it
In my opinion, no. Maybe in the future after Johan jewed it full of DLC, but not now.
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Why can't we have a game that covers even part of EU4's time period with the depth of Vicky 2? I'm reading about the reformation and it just upsets me when I think of how so little EU even tries to represent.
Why can't a team of turbo autists step up and save up from Paradox?
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>>168075497
>>168076005
not an argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfxtOzN-2t8
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Looking for someone to play EU4 with.

>DLCs I have :

>Art of War
>Cossacks
>Common Sense

No real requirements, just be able to speak like a normal human being and we should be fine.

Amanite#3408 on Discord

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Amanite/ on Steam
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>>168076840
MEIOU would be a viable mod if it didn't take five minutes for a month to pass
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>>168076840
>lags in THEIR OWN FUCKING demo
Fuck off, gigau.
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>>168075123
wrong!
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>the strengthen government focus for france gives only 73 national unity
this really bothers me that is isn't a round number like 75 or 70
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>>168077043
>>168077008
the preview video doesn't lag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OSbub4zH_M
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>>168076940
pirate the rest of the dlcs senpai
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It's a lot of hard work to make a benin this ebin let me tell you what
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>>168077280
:-DDDD
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If you lads rehost make sure to wait a bit so I can join
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Is there an mp game right now?
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Current cultural state of the Empire
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>>168077812
Current physical empire
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Religious state

>Schismatics got BTFO by Schismatics 2.0
>Also that fucking Moroccan pocket in Iberia which the AI has yet to fix
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprsLXO0V04

This track moves me, Waldetoft is a great composer.

>Tfw you will never be as much of a patriot as the japanese soldiers of ww2 were
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>>168077994

>S&P

I cum every time I see that glorious color
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>>168078917
sometimes the AI can do amazing things when left alone

See also: The Coptic invasion of Arabia
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>tfw still no rehost
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>>168078720
waldetoft is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH_oNVzSdus
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>>168078720
>Tfw you will never be as much of a patriot as the japanese soldiers of ww2 were
>not being an ultranationalist
lad
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Meanwhile in the new world, Montevedio is the highest developed province by a large margine (44 Development, that's only 1 below Paris. Second place is the Island of Guadelupe, capital of Portugese Carribas, at 37 development) and the capital of Castillian La Plata

>Buenos Aries will NEVER be able to compete
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>>168073705
Where to get this day in history info
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>>168080026
Wikipedia the date.
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>>168079503
The V2 soundtrack will always be the best.
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Is this the part where I blob all the way to Siberia because I can?
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>>168081065
How does one become the Danubian Federation?
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>>168081162

>Pass reforms until Constitutional Monarchy
>become a kuk
>Research Rev-Counter Rev
>Research Social Science
>have low militancy and save scum unless you want satellite states
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Can you guys rehost already? I want to get gross hungariums
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is stellaris grand strategy yet?
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One brave cuck fights his way through a gang of niggers
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>>168082026
it is and always has been. post it here if you want and it will be fine, its only the autists from the summer of 2016 who hated it here
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>>168082225
>implying you'll win
You'd better mobilise, son.
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>>168082026
I feel that in its current state, it wouldn't really classify as gs, but with Utopia, it'll be much closer than it was before.
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How do I even play as Jewish in 1066AD, I honestly cant seem to find a jewish state in CK2 and I dont wanna custom create.
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>>168082620
there is one in the caucasus and one in ethiopia
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>>168082359

Dont need to mobilize, its just a slow process of playing the game 2 to make sure I catch them every time they cross the border into my territory and slaughter their stacks.

They are running into rank 4 forts.
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>>168081065
>changeowner-ing parts of Switzerland to you

for shame anon
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How redpilled is this Europe?
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>>168081065
>cheating
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>>168081065
why no serbia or bulgaria?
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>>168082620
Theres one or two ones in ethipoia I think.
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>>168082773
what did he mean by this?
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>>168082804
Zoom
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>>168082804
>>168082961
truly epic
t. epic things pro
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are liquor factories good in vic2?
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>>168082961
>DNSR
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>>168082961
>puke green DNSR
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>>168082804
>Germany
>East Germany
>West Germany
>Austria is just Tirol
What am I looking at
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>>168082773

??? Whatcha talking about?

>>168082813

I did some clean up after the Turk event that carves up their empire in the Balkans because it was disgusting. Nothing too extreme. Kept Bosnia to the territory of Bosnia, expanded the monteniggers to the rest of their territory (that they lost to Bosniaks anyways), Gave Serbia southern Serbia (it only got half of it), gave Bulgaria the parts of its cores that Moldavia (which I had deleted earlier) spawned with, and split the non-core with Russia. Gave greece Janina that it did not get.

>>168082828

I like Bulgaria as a buffer state. I really wanted Greece and Bulgaria to expand or ask me to expand for them but they never did.
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>>168082684
>>168082829
Whats a good starting gameplan for them? Seems very small and in a dangerous area.
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>>168082829
>>168083286
>>168082620

Custom create a jewish republic owner in Frankfurt etc.
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>>168083286
the problem with playing in ethiopia is that unless u get extremely lucky u will eventually just get fucked by the muslims/arabians, and you will have a rough start anyways because you're surrounded by different religions.

so i'd suggest caucasus then try to settle somewhere since I think you're a nomad.
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>>168082708
The best part is because you're already at war with pretty much everyone you can add as many wargoals as you like and go over the infamy limit.
Shame you don't have a lad on your side to make it a great war, you could take all of Ukraine.
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>>168083634

Actually it is a great war, Japan was allied with me but did not partake in the crisis resolution. Actually, lads are right. I can't take this war because Germany has gas attack and mine hasn't been researched yet or defense. I guess I probably will have to go back to 1900 and beeline the military techs.
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>>168084027
theres a higher chance to invent gas defense if you're at war with someone with gas attack
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>>168084027
See
>>168084112
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>>168078720
>>168079503
He's pretty gud, and yeah that's one of his best tracks imo. Another of his best is Stonemasons from EUIV. It really provided the great segue from the classic EUIII theme. I still remember how good and pumped it made me feel when I first heard it. When EUIV was good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdH1XMXCsmU

That said, some of the other music artists around that they had did good too. One of my favorites was from the V2 Civil War pack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quP_YS4fan0
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>>168079881
Iron man or no
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>>168084262
>>168084112

so what, play the D and try to tough it out in the early war and hope Nippon invades the british isles to steal their Cadburries?
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>>168084427
>When EUIV was good.
>>>/r/paradoxplaza
>>168084589
Just mobilise and throw 100:1 odds into every battle, then when you get GA and GD you can demobilise and devour the corpse.
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Are you guys ready?
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>>168084796
>not just using the puppets to rek others
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>>168084796
Show religion map.
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>>168084696

Sounds annoying. Gonna try to knock out Italy and Russia. France doesn't seem to have any troops in their motherland, but I am not pushing on for Elsass yet.
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>>168084796
:^)))))))))))))

>>168084891
>Implying that's not what I've been doing the last 100 years
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what retinues do i use as nomads? (HIP)
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>>168084952
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>>168085053
>doesn't own prussia
Fucking delet this
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>>168085265
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>>168085265
gib save, this would be p ebin in v2
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>>168085265
>protestant britain
Based.
>no use for missionaries post 1700
They should let you post them to provinces of your religion for - unrest.
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>Win numerous battles
>3-5 war score a battle
>70k plus causalities on their side
>lose a battle
>one army of 30k lost
>-15 war score

???
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>>168085269
Commonwealth is in a personal union under me, so I'll be able to integrate them in ~10 years.

Any final goals to go for during the final 20 years?
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>>168086313
Give Portugal their clay back.
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>>168086313

Take back the other three traditional homes of early Christianity
>Antioch
>Jerusalem
>Alexandria
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>>168086313
Feed Georgia the Caucasus. Also that's an impressive Tabarestan.
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Hey guys, just wanted to say that I'm sorry that I didn't get to do as many flags as I had planned today. Turns out the day before departure is the busiest.

Just as a reminder, tomorrow I'll be leaving for China, to return here on the first of August or so. While in China, due to tight schedule and whatnot I will likely not post, and maybe not even lurk most of the time, so assume I don't even come here until August. If I need to post something really important for some reason, I'll have a friend from abroad do it for me.

So this is basically good bye until then. Thank you all for your support of my autistic project. I wouldn't have been doing this for almost three years had it not been for you.

See you in August.
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>>168086651
>going to China for six months
My sympathies lad.
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>>168086651
you're gay
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>>168084796
>only 44 princes instead of 144
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>>168086651
it hurts so much
Why are all the modders going to "university" in "China"?
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>>168086313
take Jutland
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>>168086651
Zombiemod guy here, thanks for everything you've done for the mod
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>>168086929
The Chinese are assembling a team of turbo-autists to build the ultimate Vicky mod and use it as a bargaining chip against the US.
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>>168086313
E V R O P A
V
R
P
S
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>>168086651
;_; bye afpg, you were our last quality poster
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>>168086651

When will the Chinese quit stealing out star talent?
HPM is kept in a chinese bathhouse getting his cock worshipped by the hmong peasants instead of raising the next generation of tacticians.
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lmfao

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED
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Whats the NWO overhaul people say I should download? What does it change and where should I download it
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>>168086651
ill miss you
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wow, CWE is pretty redpilled. note the ruling party and the type of rebels.
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>>168088303
why not just play hoi
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>>168088647
because HoI doesn't have pops or politics and gets boring fast (though 3 is a good wargame)
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what the fuck
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>>168088990
why not just play steampunk zombie mod
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>>168088647

Pretty boring past the war, if i wanna play a long and DH is better anyway.
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>>168086313
Portugal, Crete, and Cyprus imo
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>>168089224
Typically things stop hurting when you die.
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>>168087574
Merkel
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>>168087962
But what if mom likes map painting games too? What if mom is the one who introduced me to map painting games?
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>>168089406
It used to be extremely painful.
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>>168089224
The game probably processes death calculations before events or something like that, so since they both happened on the same day it decides you're dead before it can include the fact that you no longer have that condition
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>>168089518
>>168089406
Makes sense
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>>168089518
>>168089576
So I clicked the event, thus removing the trait and fucking with the game's localization since the trait that killed him can no longer be referenced.
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Hey /gsg/, how did I do for my first game?
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>>168089849
post development
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>>168089897
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>>168090019
Fucking abysmal.
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>>168090287
I never said I was playing tall
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>>168090409
>not moving your capital to amerikkka so you could directly own all that shit
See
>>168090287
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>>168090509
But then I can't do the Prussian 12 province meme strat.
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>>168090614
>Prussian 12 province meme strat.
???
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>>168090409
>not naming your colonies
see >>168090287
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>>168090646
Some autist calculated how many provinces you could have as Prussia and be able to perpetually stay at 100% and it was like 12-14
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>>168090740
>Accepted cultures
>Irish
that's based and all but wtf?
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>>168090709
Give me names and I'll change them
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>>168090740

What is it about Prussia that makes every autist so obsessed with it? Literally just because it's easy as fuck?
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rate my roman empire
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>>168090895
Because it's a fucking interesting place you pleb nigger
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>>168090985
>(((roman)))
"no"
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>>168079881
HOW?
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>>168085053
wtf 3 romes
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what does playing "tall" mean?
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>>168090740
Where?
>>168090895
Because it beat literally everyone despite having a fraction of each individual nation's resources, what it did was nothing short of legendary. Simply beating Austria would have been cool, as they were 10 times the size, but they beat Austria, France and Russia.
https://youtu.be/5SWTSPFT2ls
>>168090740
These aren't really worth much, 10 discipline is only what you get from quality ideas, it should be 25, to truly represent Prussia.
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>playing france
>cannot station troops all along the german and belgian border
>when belgium capitulates it all goes to spaghetti and all the army dudes leave their provinces to go somewhere else letting germans over the border
W H Y ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Why can I not have a single army station all their troops along the borders of multiple countries? Why do I have to split up all the army groups because their stupid fucking code prevents it from happening?
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>>168091186
Putting resources into turning a smaller nation or region into a more prosperous and valuable region. Sometimes it is all you can do if you can't expand. Although it is almost always inferior to playing 'wide' ie blobbing.
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>>168091468
It's pretty much pointless/impossible in EU4 as well, due to cumulative development costing more mana, so you can either be a backwards shithole with more developement or up to date on tech and never develop anything.

Playing tall in Vicky with factories and such is fun though.
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>>168090868
That was how I was the first person in the Americas. Note Clanicrade is my March (Been meaning to feed him the rest of Ireland but have had other priorities)
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>>168091352
It's actually unplayable as France because your dudes on the borders just go full spaghetti and refuse to actually do anything.
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>>168090740
Your forts are laid out shit, if you had a level 8 in marienburg and a level 8 in Konigsburg all your provinces would be under it and they'd be near enough impossible foe the AI to siege.
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>>168092350
Those are the starting forts. I haven't had anything happen in Europe until very late game, but I'll adjust that now that I'm really fixing the homeland.
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>>168091186
Playing as New York City instead of Central Siberia
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>>168092483
Build a manufactory/university in eveey province before the institution spawns so you don't have to waste money teching up.
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>>168090740
How strong are you though? Could you beat Poland-Lithuania with that?
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>Muscovy will probably eat them anyway

;_;
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>>168093380
then go over there and kixk their asses
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>>168091346

Alright lads. Everything north of Switzerland is a puppet state. Catalonia/Portugal are puppets. Spheres on everything else.

>tfw truced with almost all of europe

so this is the path of infamy
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>>168092583
I was, though I don't remember how early I did. Institutions still spread terribly slowly until the last couple.
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>>168093746
How did you puppet all those niggers?
>no form westphalia decision
FUCKING AITCH PEE EM REEEEEEEE

>>168093939
answer >>168092974
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>>168093702
Just getting started on France, if I get to there I promise I'll save them

France has Hungary and Savoy (and Siena), you think I could take them all with Austria or should I just declare on Savoy to break up France and Hungary?
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>>168093746
Puppet Bavaria and S-P.
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>>168094092
>>168092974
Probably. I spent a lot of energy trying to cuck Europe out of trade by diverting everything to Chesapeake and collecting there, but I got kind of fucked by not paying attention to how much land Portugal and France were grabbing in the two most important nodes. I made sure I had a strong ally all game, and was in the HRE for early game protection. I tend to run out of manpower, but I can kill anyone pretty easily as long as it isn't France with their fucking retarded Elan.
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>>168094092
>>168094202

>how did you puppet all of those niggers

I went to war with the NGF by attacking Frankfurt when NGF had a truce with me and he brought all his little states in. So after wrecking the NGF I took Westfalen from him and puppeted nearly all of west germany. released everything beyond the rhine as satellites or puppeted the rest. only oldenburg stayed neutral.

>puppet Bav/S-P

can't really do that boss.
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>>168094431
You can, you just need to declare war for dismantle forts or some shit, fully occupy them until they drop, then puppet.
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>>168094431

>perfidious albion getting cucked this hard

ahhh yes
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What happened to HPM? Does he ever post anymore?
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>>168094868
I'd like to ask him why it doesn't fucking work.
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>>168094868
He posted last thread
Also in like December he said he'd be gone a while for some reason or a another, I think he'll be back at some point
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>>168094431
>I went to war with the NGF by attacking Frankfurt when NGF had a truce with me and he brought all his little states in. So after wrecking the NGF I took Westfalen from him and puppeted nearly all of west germany. released everything beyond the rhine as satellites or puppeted the rest. only oldenburg stayed neutral.
What?
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>>168093746
You do know the Rhine goes east, under Baden, right?
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>>168095370

What I mean is like image related. NGF is going to bring Oldenburg into the war. I'm beyond infamy limit, so I just add puppet cbs to every minor in the war and separate peace them.

>>168095528

Yeah, but I'm going for this instead of being a blob lord like yourself.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/First_French_Empire_1812.svg

I'll puppet Switzerland later.

I just really dislike the Catalonia borders though. What the fuck was Napoleon thinking?
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tfw no stronk islamic third rome to colonize afrika with allah's chosen caucasian race
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>>168095886

>tfw you kill so many enemies of france you're a max prestige attack general

god speed
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>>168095886
f-fuck you get your trash ass klein empire out of here
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>>168096047
>greece
>blobbing into china but not taking macau or hongkong
>somaliland
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>>168096090

Come on, lad. You stole back clay you sold fairly to the Americans and you didn't even rescue your French Canadien kin in Quebec.

>letting america bully mexico when historically france propped up the empire of mexico
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any ausfags want to play an ck2>eu4 campaign?
can host irregularly, with shit internet.
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>>168096313
That's just guandong. Everything dark green is my puppet
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>>168096047
>Third Rome
>Doesn't own Rome
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>>168097016
>only owns one of the three romes
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>>168096579
Québécois are traitors for siding with the Anglo.

I bet you didn't even make Africa a white man's colony.
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>>168097164
How is muscow even a rome? Only the roman emperor can move the capital
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>>168097389
>not making brown people serve you with globalism and capitalism

kek, enjoy picking crops in white man's africa jean
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>>168097628
There are enough left, just not enough to be subverted by communist Jews and overthrow white rule.
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>>168097628
>allowing brown people to exist
only the first of your many mistakes
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>>168097389
>>168096579

I haven't gotten to Africa memes yet. I decided to go badboy in like the 1840s/50s.

>herro we arreuu worrrduu powarr nowwuu
>>
LADS

POST YOUR MOST DISGUSTING BLOBS

GO
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>>168098132
Woah, dude, your racism is not acceptable here. We just come to have a good time and then we see this, do you have any idea how it makes others feel?
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>>168098132

>tfw you save mexico from hamburger invasion
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>>168098570
I was with you until you helped the beaners
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>>168098134

People hate kuk blobs for some reason. I hate the colour, contrasts too much with Britain. If there was border demarque colours that would be nice but my colonies in Africa touch cocks with Britain and I cant tell where mine ends and theirs begin.

>African organized nations
>your primary culture
>civilized
should I release them?
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>>168098752
>kuk
LOL
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>>168098134
This one was fucking terrible I took California, large parts of china, some random arctic clay from Russia, and part of Patagonia
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>>168098817
Fuck you.
>>168098752
That's because you're supposed to stay as Austria.
>>African organized nations
>>your primary culture
>>civilized
>should I release them?
Only if whites make up at least 10% of the pops there otherwise it'll fail instantaneously.
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>>168098570
>helping beaners against the white man
>not joining with the Americans to cuck the Anglo for all of time
fuck you
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>tfw emojies don't work
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>>168098134
not my großest germany but it's something
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>>168098919

Maybe down the line I will do a Reverse Germ game for one in my life, I would want to maximize the amount of my minors access to ports so I could feed them small overseas colonies.

>Give Croatia Libya
>Give Romania part of the holy land etc
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>>168099029
I remember this, you were the only good poster in the thread, everyone else were grandiquor posters.
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Are these the correct rebels to flip to revolutionary? Says they just want a constitutional monarchy.
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>>168099506
They have to be through the crisis.
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No one told me beyond typus had memes of this magnitude.
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>>168099327
thx bb. I would have kept posting but i had a BSoD and lost my motivation to play v2 for a while
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>>168099832
Holy shit, is this really typhus? I was going to use that shit, I thought it was respectable. Sad!
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Ck2 multiplayer:

Im trying to vassalize friend but hes a kingdom rank like me (gonna need him for empire)

Can/should I subjugate or usurp him?
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>>168091681
Did the Albanians colonize that much?
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>>168091681
Yea
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>>168099832
>>168099979
It's Shattered Europa m8s

Cthulhu isn't in normal Beyond Typus

Speaking of Shattered, how should I approach the Caucasus? I plan on having a Georgian march, but how much land should I give it?
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>>168100505
Up to that natural border.
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>>168101073
Like this, I assume?

Purple is the border of the empire proper
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>>168101594
>not going muh alexander into greece
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Is there ever a point to get maritime or naval ideas in EU4? I feel like theres no problem that couldnt be solved with more ships.
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>>168101818
No
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>>168101818
The one that gives + naval forcelimit is good for trade ships, but you can just conquer shit.
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>>168101818
england and maybe japan if your shit and cant take on france and ming respectively?
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>>168092350
>ai giving a shit about forts
Are playing the same game?
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Ne1?
>>168100154
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>>168102603
The zone of control in terms of blocking doesn't work, obviously, the AI just walks where it likes, but it works in terms of occupation. If they occupy any province it will flip back because of the fort, because those two provinces border all of his provinces he only needs forts there and the ZoC covers his other provinces.
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>>168102735
from what i hear from leddit
AI can bypass ZoC if and only if there is another valid path through to where it wants to go that isnt blocked by ZoC. So in the prussia autists game, they couldnt walk though ZoC if he had the 2 forts needed to block it.
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>>168098718
>>168098950

>The Mexican Empire (Spanish: Imperio Mexicano) or Second Mexican Empire (Spanish: Segundo Imperio Mexicano) was the name of Mexico under a limited hereditary monarchy declared by the Assembly of Notables on July 10, 1863, during the Second French intervention in Mexico. It was created with the support of Napoleon III of France, who attempted to establish a monarchist ally in the Americas. A referendum confirmed the coronation of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, of the House of Habsburg as Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.

>he would rather republics rule over absolutism

beaners or not they are curbing the perfidious anglosphere.

in other news, I finally get another chance to breathe after having cucked the germans once again. been only doing some minor changeownering on the german states that don't get cores on NGF territory within their state. sometimes I can't release them as a vassal at all (thanks HPM).

I need to curbstomp S-P soon and set up more vassals in Italy before he becomes too strong. Puppet map inc.
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>>168103085

Everything on mainland Europe is a puppet except in Italy and Poland. Iberia is completely subjugated so my southern front is finally secure. My biggest problem now honestly is my navy got trashed by some monitors and my boat tech has been slow because of my army tech rush. I have no way to get to Russia at the moment and I can feel England revving up his frog stomper.
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>yedistanian yedistan
wat
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>>168103272
>exporting grain
>not liquor
>2nd in industry
NOOOOOOOOOOOBB GET OFF MY BOARD REEEEEE
>>>/leddit/
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>>168103184

Explanation of what happened here.

Carolingian Francia conquered Hispania and then they dismantled to civil wars.

Then the mongols invaded like in here

>>168102838

Also yes the mongols were Sunni

>>168102709
>>
Did anyone else get back into Stellaris after watching The Expanse? Shame there's no mod like it for the game. Even worse is that the game doesn't take into account that species eventually "diverge" enough to no longer be culturally/biologically similar.
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>>168103028
Then they just get military access because Paradox can't code for shit.
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How do I fix Europe
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Do people still play EU3?

I liked it much better.

Minting and tech sliders >>> casualized RPG
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>>168103579
Hellnistc states everywere. That mod is hilariously broken the Eysians are broke as all hell I mean really I recall having like +30% tax 4 colonists 15% disipline all built in. Also the mid game was boring the whole part of the game after you dont care about tribes till the invasion of europe.
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Should I attack any side?
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So I've beat back every asshole who wanted to dismantle me.

When do these shitty debuffs stop?
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r8 my Europe
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>>168106984
no/10
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yeehaw
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>>168106961

based as fuck.

napoleon would be proud.
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>>168107429
Why?
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>>168101818
maritime get you access to the thalassocracy decision for a merchant and some boost. the modifier is permanent so you can scrap the idea after taking it.
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Not long until I have my heartland boarders under control. I need sicily and napoleon-island corsica too though. I guess a war against the Spaniols is inevetable.
>>
In HPM does the immigration bonus that new world nations get depend on being a republic?
Or will I get the same immigration if I switch to monarchy?
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>>168106984
This looks hideous to be honest. But what's your plan? Is Brandenburg your vassal?
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>Pomerania formed Prussia
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>>168108489
What's wrong with your screen?
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>>168108630
idk memes
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>austria
>get PU over Bohemia
>Every elector gets a -50 HRE elector bonus with me
>brandeburg is now the elector
>burgundy inheritance fires
>brandeburg inherits burgundy

JUST
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Same province got two of them. Since it's London I can believe this.
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>>168108886
based
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>>168096047
>Turks
>Caucasian
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>>168109579
Blackest man alive
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>>168106961
>60% liberal

Have sex.
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>>168103417
>Also yes the mongols were Sunni
The real reason why their empire collapsed.
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>>168109579
Literally african-american
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>>168109646
>>168109736
They're obvious Arabs. Arabs are not Caucasian. They are Caucasoid, but that's different. It's like how bears are Caniforms, but are not canines.
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>>168109792
That's a really bad analogy.
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>>168109792
Unless you're cherrypicking eastern Anatolians, turks have the same genetic makeup as Greeks who are definitely white. Mediterranean in general == white
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>>168109996
>turks have the same genetic makeup as Greeks
I don't believe this. Show me the proof.

Also, mediterranean is semi-white.
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>>168110073
>mediterranean is semi-white
lol kys
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>>168109989
Would you have preferred the canine/canidae distinction? I wanted to leave more room in my analogy so I could fit other Indo-Europeans into the caindae slot as they're more closely related than Arabs.

>>168109996
>turks have
Predominately Arab with Turkic admixture. The Anatolians were largely genocided with the invasion of Islam.

Also you realize the term Mediterranean can be used to refer to the ENTIRE coast of the sea, right? Including Syria, Jerusalem, Egypt, and all down the North African coast to fucking Morocco?
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>>168110073
>Also, mediterranean is semi-white.

WE
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>>168110131
Like, while Mediterranean Europeans are white, Mediterranean Middle Easterners and North Africans are not.
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>>168110131
canine/canidae or caniforms/canines is too different to fit as an analogy of something that is so similar as turks and europeans. I'd rather you found some analogy about grey wolves in scandinavia and grey wolves in america, for example.
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>>168110227
>so similar as turks and europeans
People with dark skin, strange hairy foreheads, sunken eyes, and massive noses are similar to Europeans to you?
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>>168110142
Sure, mediterranean people did great things. But they are semi-white. Semi-white people did great things, but they weren't all white. It's not a problem, I just don't regard mediterranean in general as white.
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>>168110282
>I just don't regard mediterranean in general as white

And go knows your opinion is valued.
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>>168110282
Anon, see >>168110175
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>>168110131
>admixture
Back in fucking 1880 over here.
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>>168110268
Yes. Your analogy is misplaced. I don't mean this to sound like SJW-crap, but right should be right.
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>>168110506
I'm so sorry, xer. What's the politically correct term for them having Turkic blooded mixed into their predominately Arabic background?

>>168110541
>Yes.
Do your eyes work? I just described to you how massively they differ.
>>
in what game?
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>>168110572
>comparing humans who can breed, donate blood and organs to each others to wholly different species

Yeah no, you clearly are clueless, better stop embarassing yourself.
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>>168110632
Get with the times, different species can breed together now. The lines are getting all blurry because people don't want to reclassify a bunch of salamanders and shit.
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>>168110572
>massively
Not in the same way your analogy would suggest. Hence my attacking your analogy and not your actual point.
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>>168110686
>polygenists this asshurt
Polygenesis was literally proven wrong in the 1800s, and ALL the records--fossil, genetic, etc.--support that conclusion. Interbreeding just seals it.

Just because you're worried Tyrone is going to come steal your girl doesn't change the fact that Tyrone has 99.5% of the same DNA you do. :^)
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>>168110745
You do know that's a textbook debating failure, right? It doesn't even really matter. The comparison is just to give you an idea, one label is for a narrower sub-classification of a larger, wider classification. They fit into the later, but not the former. That idea was understood.
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>>168110686
>different species can breed together now.
No they can't you mongoloid. At least they can't have an offspring that can reproduce too. That's the very definition of species.
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>>168110815
Scientific classification is in all kinds of flux right now.

>>168110769
>Still failing to understand analogies.

Both of you see >>168110790
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>>168110845
7/10 actually started to fall for it.
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>>168110632
To be fair, homo neanderthalensis and homo sapiens could breed, probably they could've donated blood to each other too. But his analogy is something else entirely.

>>168110790
I'm not debating whatever you were originally debating. I'm just pointing out your analogy is misplaced, nothing else. You can continue your debate and ignore me if you like.
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>>168110871
I'm getting the vibe that you might be a turk.
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how far should I blob into spartania tomorrow?
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>>168110919
I'm a Frenchman living in Brittany but okay.
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>>168110845
>N-n-no! My argument that species can interbreed with one another was an ANALOGY!
Please continue anon, this is precious.
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What borders should I go for as Putinist Russia lads?
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>>168111097
Oceans
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>>168111097
oder to amur
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>>168111097
forgot pic
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>>168111097
From Taiga to British seas
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>>168109646
>>168109736
Does this look like a white man to you?
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>>168111221
yes
t. expert on whiteness
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>>168111097
Full Dugin, make Eurasia.
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>>168111263
More like t.urk. This man is the average Turk, and they are nothing like Europeans.
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>>168109736
Why is that arab wearing a massive onion?
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>play america in hoi4
>do the preemptive strike on venezuela thing
>crush them because they don't have dudes on their 2 victory points when I attack
>at the peace conference
>puppet them and nothing else
>peace conference is over
>they didn't get puppeted
>my dudes are exiled in their lands
????????????
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Why do Turks want to be white anyway when their culture is more like their Middle Eastern neighbors?
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>tfw have to fuck half of europe to get a male heir because my shitty wife hates me and i have 6 gorillion daughters and the pope wont divorce me and nobody will help me to kill that cunt
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>>168109579
>>168109792
T*rks are descended from the T*rkmen from the Oghuz T*rks which had a state between the Caspian and the Aral Seas. They themselves are a remnant from the Mongol hordes. Turkmenistan occupies the region now.
In the 11th century they moved west and invaded Anatolia where they formed the Sultanate of Rum.
Because they were muslim a lot of arabs moved into the lands from the South.
As the Sultanate blobbed into former Byzantine lands they eventually exploded like all of the Muslims blobs into their little dynastic houses, the largest of which was the house of Osman, which for some reason became known as the Ottomans.
As the Ottomans continued blobbing into the Balkans they got a bit race mixey with the slavs and mediterraneans there.

tl;dr ethnically t*rks are a mix of mongol, arab and mediterranean and slav.
probably like 65/35 caucasoid/mongoloid
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>>168110282
Most of them were mixed with t*rks in greece and moors in spain and arabs in italy when the muslims invaded those lands
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>>168112558
They don't really have a lot of Turk left in them, it certainly isn't reflected in their features. They're predominately caucasoid, but that's pretty much entirely Arab, everything else being genocided for not submitting to Allah.
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AAAAAAAAA

I CAN'T REACH THE REST OF THE TEUTONIC ORDER
The forts basically protect each other and there is no way poland will let me through, I'm stuck in this endless war and they won't accept any peace offer because I don't control any fort in the area

help
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k lads
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>>168113157
JOHAN PLEASE
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welp, done with this game.

had a lot of fun early on making myself powerful, but unfortunately your industry really suffers due to that god awful international isolation garbage. what's worse is it refreshes and lasts like 30+ years, so even when you're below the infamy limit you're still taking massive WE without the total war buff to off set it.

Even though I'm indomitable on Europe, actually had some money problems and after getting my African colonies I'm pretty fine with where I'm leaving off. Plus some of my puppets were magically becoming GPs at the 10th or 11th slot. Weird.

napoopan would be proud.

also

>african communists everywhere

WHY
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>>168110928
Your borders should be modern US + all of Columbia
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Does this event automatically mean my immortality guru is a sham?
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>>168113523
kys lad liquor exports only 3rd
>>>/leddit/
not even first in industry and miltary as a broken meme country, good job
uninstall and play something like hoi4 that is build to a level you can play on :)
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>>168113157
Why did you cut your screenshot? What are you hiding?
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>>168113157
Wait until the fort you take first is fumoving off it
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>>168113157
can you get military access from poland?

Typically they rival teutonic order and should give you access.
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>>168113639
no
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>>168110928
What is this meme mod?
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After I form russia what do I even do?

Should I make it a merchant republic instead of feudal and just jew europe to the extreme?
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>>168111097
oceans
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>>168114042
Merchant republics get pretty boring pretty fast desu, it's just fun to roll in the cash midgame, then they're awful to play. Go feudal Russian Empire or something unorthodox like a tiny but advanced and rich Rus
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>>168114042
That isn't Russia, you know.
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>>168113827
No I can't, rivals
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>>168114185
But if he does a republic he could be like Novgorod
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Why settle for just the italian peninsula when you can have so much more?
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>>168114953
Because at that point you might as well just be playing Byzantium
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>>168114851
yeah and it would still suck ass
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I'm going to peace out now because I can't maintain this war, should I go for money, alliance nullification or land?
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>>168115119
Yes that's true. But I didn't.
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>>168115185
Go for a couple of provinces, you have lots of adm.
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>>168111198
>1992
>p*tinist Russia
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>>168115185
Historical borders of Venetian clay, Nice.
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>>168111198
100% historical
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Barbarossa is go lads.
3.3 million men (all Germans)
148 air wings
lvl 10 infrastructure over all of Poland.
On Very Hard, see >>168069502 for modifiers.
No winter clothing either to sped up the blitz.
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>>168115581
post liquor factories
also
>not playing hoi4 in 2k17
>>>/leddit/
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>>168115708
>plying hoi4
disgusting

>>168115581
is that black ice?

disgusting
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>>168115780
>not doing a world conquest as the empire of the platypus by 1937
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>>168115708
>hoi4
Had so much hope for that game
>>168115780
>is that black ice?
Oh yes. Best mod.
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>>168115474
Not for long ;^)
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>>168115817
>Best mod.
nah
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>>168115817
>Had so much hope for that game
Where do you think they dissapointed the most in? The Line drawing simulations or the linearized research?
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>>168115884
inb4 HPP hurr durr
>>168115890
The only good aspect of the game was the production system. It is amazing how 99% of the game is just straight up worse than hoi3 somehow.
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>>168115813
maybe the only good thing about hoi4 is possibility of alternative scenarios
in other aspects that's raw as fuck
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>>168115581
Holy fuck, hoi3 looks really hideous.
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>>168115995
It's modded
Yes the actual UI is worse
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>>168115581
>99999 of a resource
Lol nice cheating
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>>168116029
Dear god
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>>168115923
>inb4 HPP hurr durr
nah vanilla is ok
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>>168115923
yeah production system was the only thing in the game that was actually an improvement(maybe focus trees when all countries ahve one and they arent buggy as fuck) That being said the removal of practical and theoretical research is honestly a good improvement, if they added 20% more techs so you couldnt have every relevant tech up to date it would also be better desu
politics in this game is simplified but at the same time also shit, i miss the faction triangle lads
Air and naval gameplay is dogshit( though it was also kinda shit in hoi3), the only hoi4 game i played was as japan and doing 100 clicks to invade a single island gets really tiring.
Honestly though with 4 dlc hopefully it will have espionage and depth and improvements in the above areas
can someone explain why the line drawing is bad i kinda liked it to invade china
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I'm looking forward to lead crusades on the splintered germanic pagans as reformed slavic.
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>>168116389
>can someone explain why the line drawing is bad i kinda liked it to invade china
Taking the fun out of the fighting which is the best part about hoi.
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>>168116389
Its "bad" because the fulltime micro manage autists think that they are somehow forced to use it instead of just microing like they used to before.
>inb4 muh plan preparation damage buff
You can still get this buff if you make a plan but you don't have to execute it and you still get the modifier.

Seriously though I think its because the AI uses it, and they don't usually use it well, like how you can easily pocket hundreds of divisions without even really trying.
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>>168116502
you can still micro if you wanted to(and its even optimal to)
honestly i cant be fucked controlling every infantry division, game goes to slow
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>>168116572
Of course micro is still optimal. But you can't stop the AI from moving around all your divisions if you want the planning bonus which means hurr durr tanks in the swamps or hurr durr tanks in the Sahara etc.
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>>168116617
lad create a seperate general of tanks and custom control them
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>>168116724
Doesn't it say something about how stupid the system is when you have to go in roundabout ways just to get it to do what you want?
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>>168116806
what? this is the closest to oob and simplifies your gamepaly. Have a general with tank traits(e.g. manstein or something) in charge of tanks where you want them. Then place all your infantry on the border(if you want to custom control them use a front line to place them all equally across the border then delete individually control them).
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>tfw accidentally king of hungary again
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Are Christian Andalusian white?
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>>168117110
it depends if they have started mingling with the muslims or not
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>>168117170
Are they based?
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>>168117170
The Iberian peninsula was white before the moops repeatedly raped and intermingled with them.
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>>168117264
White = based, regardless of religion
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>>168117170
Well they're the Umayyad Caliphate, their Caliph has just decided to be Catholic instead. And he's pretty pale skinned for what its worth.
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>>168117318
Reminder that Muslims cannot be white by definition. If a white man converts to Islam, he is no longer white.
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>>168117318
>White = based,
well memed bro
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Check em pincers lads. 350km advance in less than 3 weeks. Outside of Kiev already.
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>>168117926
As someone who doesn't play hoi3, why doesn't the soviet union just attack the base of the pincer, stranding your own units?
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>>168118103
I have more troops and superior air power so I can knock them out all over the front,m exhausting them while my pincers fly into their backs. The panzers are outrunning the infantry but you know there are no breaks on the blitz train.
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>>168091681
get on my level scrub.
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>>168118269
I swear giant roman/byzantium/elysian blobs are the new Look At My Germaniums on /gsg/.
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So I've been playing total war since Medieval 2.
Played CIV 5 last summer and fall cause I wanted something more.
I tried out Crusader Kings 2, a year ago, but I became too overwhelmed and just thought 'fuck me'.

Problem I have with CiV, is that it's so small, or it "feels" small, and way too repetitive.
I even feel like Attila and Rome 2 Emperor Edition, are "deeper" than the CiV games.
And much more immersive.
But even Attila doesn't feel deep enough.

What I love is getting these so called
"Matters of State"
Like oh some group is plotting against me, or peasants not paying taxes, then given choice what to do.
If total war got more of these and every turn I'd be satisfied. But they don't.

I've heard Paradox games is this, but I've also heard they have no help, and then that there's A TON of annoying constant adjustment to micro managing trivial shit.

Help.
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>tfw marines storm Leningrad out of some seized fishing boats and actually take it. The madmen.
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>>168118431
Pick an era you like and play it. Bear in mind that CK2 is more about playing a dynasty then a country. EU4 is bout dem blobs. Vicky is about pops and liqueur. And Darkest hour is KR.
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>>168118431
>Like oh some group is plotting against me, or peasants not paying taxes, then given choice what to do.
Literally Crusader Kings 2. Reinstall that shit you filthy casual.
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>>168118269
>non ironman mode
wow look alddo you can ~annex xyz congrats
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>>168074134
Hoi4 is a terrible game.
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>>168118431
>I tried out Crusader Kings 2, a year ago, but I became too overwhelmed and just thought 'fuck me'.
>I've heard Paradox games is this, but I've also heard they have no help, and then that there's A TON of annoying constant adjustment to micro managing trivial shit.

So you want a game with lots of interesting decisions, but at the same time no micromanagement, and it has to be quite simple.

Look at the OP image you lazy cunt.

But if you're still literally retarded, EU4. Now fuck off.
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>>168118556
>force of 43k in 'fishing boats' defeats 1.7k
grats laddo you are really good at this game
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>>168118686
10k but ok lad.
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>>168118431
try euiv, plots aren't as frequent and diverse like those in ck2 but it's much more newbie friendly and has some events that give you an illusion of playing actual grand strategy game
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>>168118641
OP tells me to go to /civ4xg/
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>>168118621
>modded country
>ironman mode
huh, really makes you think.
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>>168118735
sorry laddo that always trips me up taht they go from
Initial -> final
final -> initial
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>>168116478
I can't decide if no transparency looks better or if it looks liike shit.
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Is Sengoku any good?
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>>168119220
thats one good pop right there laddo, consuming its hourly demanded quantity of liquor
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>>168118269
What is even Elysian Empire? Is this a formable nation in eu4, or is it converted/mod?
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fuck white people
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>>168119483
thats kind of hot
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Halfway to Moscow there are no breaks on the Guderian train
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I played the HoI1, HoI2 and Darkest Hour ages ago and decided to try out HoI4. Gotta say, Paradox really outdid themselves in creating a retarded AI.
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>>168119339
He basically cheated in order to get a world conquest.
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>>168119934
Respectfully agree +1
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>>168120051
I can understand how they wanted to simplify the game, assuming that HoI3 is as complex as people say, and I actually kind of dig the idea of National Focuses, but that doesn't mean that AI should be ultra dumb.

For example, in many of my games Germany does fuck all, just waiting to get pounded by the Allies. I also had a situation where UK landed troops near Hamburg in 1941 and held their beachhead for like a year or so, before Germans decided to really commit there.
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Fuck... Supply bottleneck 70km from Berlin. I think I overdid the tank situation. Also Supply/Fuel situation... Fuck.
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>Not even 1500
>Ottomans stumped
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Which modifiers should I remove first
>>168120691
>being a dirty foreigner and proud
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>>168120691
Nice. Did you help, or did the AI do this by themselves?

I'm currently swooping the floor with Ottomans myself.
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>>168120906
Holy hell, take the electorate from that foreigner.

And take the centers of reformation. Hopefully they are owned by OPMs.

Conquer provinces owned by foreigners.
>>
Is there a console command to just watch CK2?

I set up something and I want to see if the AI is capable of managing it for 100 years.
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>>168121190
yes
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>>168120971
Nothing. They lost more territories to the Mamluks and Karaman but too back epirus, feel bad.

Noice btfo of the ottomans
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>>168121132
Centres of reformation have now gone, I think because the ending of the counter-reformation does that.
Lorraine is vassalised by Burgundy, and they're currently protecting Trier from getting annexed, but once I have max manpower I will make them free.
my ally denmark holds Holstein, PLCW owns one, Ottomans own one, Burgundy holds the rest.
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>>168121251
thanks senpai.
>>
>wars after wars in my 50s as charlemagne trying to get lombardy
>youtube
>claim lombardy cb
Dont know what I did wrong but feels terrible man
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Sad!
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>>168121687
ai does that?
ive never even used claim throne before desu
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Is it possible to puppet GPs in Vic2?

>>168121190
The command is "observe"
>>
what a silly game.
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>>168121851
yeah first time for me as well. Also finally accepted an AI offer to rent condoterri, only to find out the AI controls it not you which is dumb, also why can I only rent mine and not chose to rent theirs. Also have yet to see the AI sell land to me
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>>168121904
no
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>>168119339
its a moded nation.
>>168120017
i didnt cheat i just exploited the shit out of the retarded mechanics of this game.
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>>168121687
you're a swede not swiss
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>>168122470
More amazing coding from that genius
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>>168122090
Aww, that sucks. And if I have a country puppeted, will that prevent them from becoming a GP? Or will they just stop being a puppet?
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>>168122663
no, yes
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>>168122656
Well this is going to be fun
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>>168073705

How do you fix the 0kb save bug in EU4?

Fucking played for 5 hours and I can't save.
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>>168122767
Man WW1 commanders were so old-fashioned I mean even in the 17th century we knew cav was useless
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>>168122803
dont close the game laddo
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>>168121330
I think if you wanted to revoke, you're too late. It's going to be hell to fix the mess you're having now. Better just relax and expand and have fun as Austria.
>>
What's the easiest Grand Strategy game? I've got EU4, shoudl I just start with that? The tutorial is a bit shit.
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>>168123310
EU4 is indeed (one of) the easiest, but unless you really like the period EU4 is set in, I would recommend starting with Victoria 2 since it's the best. Also, don't buy Paradox games.
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>>168122873
>-26 war score
>this is all they offer
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>>168123310
>>168123718
hes wrong dont play victoria until you get bored of euiv or ck2
>>
of venice
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>>168123984
thinking about it, the title given would mean that people within the game's world would refer to him only as 'The Lord of Venice' instead of Maurizio due to fear or prestige or whatnot.
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SNOW CANNOT STOP ME MOSCOW WILL BE MINE
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>>168124464
>1920x1010
Explain.
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How do I see how many states I can have? (eu4, that is), they have hidden that tooltip pretty well I think.
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>>168124620
Playing on windowed mode so I don't need to alt tab. Hearts of Iron III didn't get windowed borderless like victoria 2 did.
>>
>>168124747

Open your Country View > Stability and Expansion(5th from the right) it's under the stability boost button
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>>168124747
Found it.
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>>168124804
Thanks. I found it.
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>>168123792
Also my first game my allies have helped me kill rebels
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>>168114953
Why does every nigger that plays Italy feel the need to blob all over the Mediterranean? I get it, these are map painting games, but Jesus.
>>
How much time will I need to make colonies into states, if possible at all? Should I encourage bureaucrats, migration or anything else?
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>>168125146
Something something MARE NOSTRUM.
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>>168125193
what game?
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>>168125245
Isn't it obvious? Victoria 2
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What the hell is Spain doing...?!
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>>168125240
But they're not even Romans. They're fucking Langobards and Ostrogoths. Oh, that must be why they blob so much; they're fucking German.
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>>168125193
Make sure to research the education efficiency techs, since they also give a bonus to colonial migration.
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>>168125146
You said it yourself, it's a map painting game. Playing tall isn't that rewarding in EU4, so when I took the italian peninsula, I thought "what now?" then I just started on mare nostrum achievement (becoming rome). I am playing tall too, though, my heartland is pretty great right about now.
>>
>>168125193
I've found that encouraging immigration rarely works, probably due to the life rating, so I usually only try with regions where there's already a sufficient number of accepted pops (over 1%). Just encourage bureaucrats and after some time you'll be able to make it into a state, assuming you have enough colonial power
>>
>>168125469
Who did you start as? When I did Italian Ambition, I played Florence and got the shittiest luck in terms of who allied whom, so just getting all of Italy under my control was a bitch. I guess that's why I didn't feel the need to go much farther after that, other than the Adriatic coast. I just dismantled my enemies and made client states in areas I didn't want to control directly. Made sure everything was culturally Italian, too.
>>
anyone got a DLC and activator folder for eu4?
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So this is the power of hospitals
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>>168125780
explain what I'm looking at
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>>168125780
>not strategically placing hospitals around mountains and major rivers
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Dutch pricks won't know wha hit emt
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>>168125884
The Plague's spread

>>168125897
Yeah, I didn't realize you could build them in non-demesne land. Haven't played much since Conclave.
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>>168125969
what is conclave I don't see it in my DLC list
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Is HoI4 good for a first GS game? No meme answers please
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>>168125780
show world map with disease mapmode
>>168126036
victoria 2 is better but hoi4 is okay
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>>168125921
>importing liquor
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perhaps now I can finally baptise these princes
>>168125347
check allies
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>>168126018
Conclave was the last major DLC before Reaper's Due that changed up internal politics, especially with regards to the council and realm laws.

>>168126062
Sorry, this was from last night.
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>>168126036
EUIV is the best desu
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Will we perhaps see an early 7 year's war?
>>168126207
danke
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anybody ever considered how braunschweig is the best town ever?
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>>168125636
I started as Venice.

There are some good reasons why I think Venice was the best choice, and one drawback which I think doesn't really matter that much.

The drawback is that you start outside HRE, so you can't really take the italian provinces before 1490.

But what you can do is starting on balkans, and ottomans. You start with land enabling you to do so. This is kinda what you want to do anyway, because weakening ottomans takes some time unless you're lucky. And eventually you are going to take this land anyway, better do it while he isn't a monster blob. Focusing on them means you don't have time to focus much on italian clay in the start, so that's why it doesn't matter that you're outside HRE. However, when you get to 1490, you should have taken some land and become a bit stronger. You have allied austria, france perhaps, poland perhaps. I recommend allying at least Poland and Austria because they are interested in fighting Ottomans, while France is not interested once Ottomans are forced out of Europe (distant war modifiers). Having France too is wise though, and I have France as an ally myself because I have been taking down Spain so that I can get Naples. This I started on doing before 1490, between ottoman wars.

You get the snowball rolling quicker this way than starting very slow as florence or milan.

Pic related is where I'm at now. I think you can do this much quicker than I did, because I'm not the best player there is. I've had time helping allies out with pointless wars too, so that's a drawback.
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Got clowns to the west of me and jokers to the east
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>>168126462
but whos your mate?
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>>168126401
Forgot file
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>>168126505
Some irrelevant german countesses
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HEEEEEEEEIDI HEIDO
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>>168126036
HoI4 is trash and a waste of money, don't let them meme you.
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truly it is morale which wins the war
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>>168125780
>all counties booming
>surrounded by the plague on all sides
>only 1111 so it's very unlikely that the hospitals are anywhere near maxed
ebin
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I'm not sure if I like this meme or if I'm horrified.
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>>168128561
Yeah it didn't last forever, sadly.
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>>168129196
>still booming
Also you should've moved someplace cozier like Switzerland and just play super tall with a custom kingdom
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>>168129241
Oh, that was taken right after it spread to those provinces. Most of them ended up at level 2 or 3 depopulation. Yeah, that's a fun idea. This one was an achievement run as Karloman, and I figured I may as well wait it out and run until 1453 for the ultimate autism achievement.
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>>168129354
>playing for cheevos
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>>168129628
I had over 1100 hours in the game and was running out of ideas for campaigns.
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>>168129749
>has never had an inbred kid
Have I got a religion for you!
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>>168129749
I think I used to know that guy who has the Dredd avatar
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>Playing a comfy game of EU4 as Ireland
>Colonising the Caribbean, bit of competition with the Portuguese
>Next thing I know personal union with France
>At war with Austria, Aragon, Naples, Spain, burgundy, Denmark and the PLC
>A year into this war on top of my war with Portugal
>Personal union with Scotland
>Now at war with England and Sweden too

Ebin personal union simulator! Thanks for ruining my game paradox!

Pretty cool spreading a Norman Irish dynasty to Scotland and France tho, Fitzgerald reppin'
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>>168129876
I actually tried to get one of those this campaign. Had a character marry his aunt and seduce his other aunt, since he had a lustful dream about them in a childhood event, but he ended up dying at 18 because apparently God didn't like that.
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>>168130114
Maybe pay attention to disputed inheritance notficiation.
The real fault is how Deus Vult givews you a casus beli which comes and goes and cannot continously be used
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>>168130105
I recall that in one of my very first games of original CK, I played as single province vassal of Byzantium. Just figuring out the game, when suddenly I'm elected as the new king of one of the biggest kingdoms.

Said "fuck it" and took Jerusalem, even though I couldn't actually participate in crusades. Good times.
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>>168129628
Why is this a thing? Are there a group of gsg-ers who are too afraid to play in ironman mode, so they have to tease those who do? Playing for achievements is really fun, and if you don't like it then so be it.
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>>168130471
>not playing with mods
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>>168130471
cheevos are the cancer killing gaming and it makes it clear that you're a newfag
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>>168130471
>ironman gives you achievements
Yeah so fun halfway through the game says my DLC or game has been edited so i can't get cheevos
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>>168130471
Theres always been a vocal minority of people that lambaste others for going for achievements, just ignore them like everyone else does.
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>>168130603
I have literally never had this happen.
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>anno domini MMXVII
>still no management focused gsg with pops set between 1 January 1950 and 1 January 2000
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>Playing on anything but ironman

What's the point? Even if your not going for achievements, there's no point not doing it. Fucking casuals.
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>>168130693
well it's happened to me my last 2 austria games, although last time it bounced back and let me get one, then went again to blocking cheevos.
Also it took 5 games for the royal marriage one to trigger for some reason
>>168130760
Maybe I want to change borders without losing terriotry?
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>>168130603
that happened to me before
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>>168130760
>hurrr I need to use paradox's broken, buggy feature to do something I could do myself if I wasn't a weak-willed faggot newfag
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>>168130559
You can play with mods when you don't want to play for a cheevo.

>>168130596
No, it doesn't dumbass.

>>168130603
Yes this is a problem, but normally you will take the time to finish a game before a new patch ruins it.

>>168130623
Yeah, I just don't get why it is a negative thing. Just curious what's the reason for people nagging about it.
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>>168130760
>playing a game that actually has ironman
Though CK2 is cool I guess
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>>168131002
>>168130760
>>168130623
>>168130471
ITT: Paradoxplaza
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Sharing this here too if some of you are interested.

http://pastebin.com/ZQKKNvJB
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Which ideas dshould I take
>>168131002
>Yes this is a problem, but normally you will take the time to finish a game before a new patch ruins it.
No it was all on the same patch, the current one in fact. If your autism is that [conc] I'm the shitty austria poster who in 1674 only has 21 reforms
>>168131204
>t. banned redditor
We call them paracucks over here newcuck
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this is one heck of a clusterfuck
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>>168131276
You do know that Paradoxplaza is the name of the Paradox forums, right?
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>>168131276
I haven't had a problem with my patches doing that, so I don't know.
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>calling people casuals over a single-player "paint the world blurple" game
>telling people how they should enjoy their single-player "paint the world blurple" game

This is a fun thread.
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>>168131447
>not getting the joke
It is of grave annoyance that you responded to the part of my comment which was not a question, however, it is good you had the attention span to read to the end
>>168131527
>It works on my machine stop complaining .
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>>168131549
>he doesn't browse /tg
>he doesn't see the threads where people pull their hair out because GW publsihed MLP spess mehrens
>he doesn't see the armour autism threads were people will legitately attempt to dox someone simply because they glued resin and plastic parts together from different eras
>he doesn't see the threads were people tell shitty painters to strip the models in bleach then drink it
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>Smug anime faggot

Ah yes a smug anime posting greasy neckbeard virgin thinks his opinion actually matters

Kill yourself you disgusting waste of space
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what does an austrian trap look like?
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>>168131795
Funny thing is that /tg/ is the only board that I browse regularly.

>>168131830
Don't act like you're not into those animus where Germany or NotGermany is the best thing ever since sliced bread.
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>>168089492
4 u
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It takes serious conviction to actually finish a gsg playthrough
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>>168131252
Sounds interesting
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I formed an Islamic Irish Merchant Republic.

Guess I just capture all of Eire and make it my base of operation as I accumulate lodesamone
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>preparing to form large state in either mexico or louisinia
>suddenly this
A little late but it'll do
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Russia has fallen on hard times
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Can someone link me a EU4 DLC download so I don't have to pirate the entire game just for the DLC?
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Should I play EU4 or CK2?
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>>168132945
>this is your country on communism
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>>168132741
playing after reaching your goals is pointless, the game doesn't get any harde later
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>>168133237
eu4
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>>168103272
>I can feel England revving up his frog stomper

My sides are in orbit
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>>168133498
it's also your country at war with a civilized qing
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>>168132852
>Austrian cajuns/creoles

I like the sound of this for some reason
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>>168132945
sneaky chinks invading Russia after the japs already beat them to a pulp with 99% war exhaustion
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>>168132945
How did you create India?
Why are you importing liquor?
How is your industry so small with millions of potential workers at your dispense?
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>Sending the poor little cuck northerns to camp
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>>168132945
>importing liquor
Uninstall
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>>168134529

>didnt post their 70% of their army getting encircled in Mannheim
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How can I become a peasant republic in monarch points 4?
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Anyone have a link for HPM flag frames?
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>>168134890
help plz I need to seize the means of production
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>>168134890
>>168135242
google it cuckboi
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>>168134241
>>168134551
>Why are you importing liquor?
because i only have like 3 liquor factories
>How did you create India
released bengal from there i just had to westernize
>How is your industry so small with millions of potential workers at your dispense
because i've had to turn most of india from colonies to states and i haven't been united for too long
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>>168132965
anyone pls
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>>168135524
>bengal
the shittiest of pooniggers
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>>168135429
Nah
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Does anyone know where I can download the music that comes with together for victory? i am away from my gaming PC so I cannot go looking though the game files myself. so i was hoping someone could lend a hand or point me in the right direction.
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>>168136342
what music?
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>>168136569
Heroes of El Alamein, London in flames and Operation compass
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what's the difference?
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>>168132742
shout out if you see any issue, especially gamebreaking
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>>168136726
Ebin meme fuck off back to >>>/pol/
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>>168136726
Imperialism allows you to get any province without bird mana cost. Nationalism only from your culture but with lower AE.
Nationalism is useless.
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>>168136726
i think nationalism produces less aggression
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>>168137036
>Public Illumination
I thought HPM patched this out or something.
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>>168136726
Nationalism is on your culture group.

It gives less AE than imperialism.

Imperialism is a cb used on anyone, less AE than normal conquest claims.
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>>168137042
dude calm down
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>>168132836
>Not forming Ireland with your first character
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trying to make a small colony in mexico, how good are these borders?
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>>168073705
its been a little while since ive played any gsg's/vicky 2

was it HPM that gave Spain that "reclaim old colonies" casus belli for the new world?
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>>168138745
>EUIV borders
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>playing HOI4 MP
>le newfag appears ~~
>I'm new at the game bla bla bla
>instakicked
>question the host why did he do such a thing
>just because he is new
>leave the game insulting the host
such is life
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>Mythos mod
>vampire queen of Ireland
>friend I'm playing with gets Glitterhoof
>I turn Glitterhoof into a vampire
>a horse is now part of my dynasty
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>>168139134
>Papal France
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Why hasn't it become a colonial nation, the other ones became nations without coring, or is it because I took these territories through conquest that I have to core it?
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>>168139726
Batponies.jpg
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>tfw you want to play MEIOU because you like all of the historical borders in Europe and tiny little colonial ports in Asia and Africa but it takes like 10 minutes for a year to pass on your PC

FIX THIS NOW
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>>168140054
>livonian russia
>spanish italy
>austrian ruthenia
>ottoma

also to all you painters, do Brittany and Scotland just spam colonies in the latest patch or is that just my game
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I'm trying to fuck around with Vic 2 by having instant construction (or much reduced time) of factories.
Any way to do this? Perhaps by adding an if argument in buildings.txt to favour players or finding some way to make "inc" console command work for factory construction and upgrade?
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Lads, I've got the entire week off.

Should I play Stellaris, EU IV, Crusader Kings 2 (or the GoT mod) or maybe some Civilization.

I'm asking you dorks because all of them are equally appealing to me.
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>>168140282
spanish italy is legit
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>>168140252
>historical borders
U what m8, so many territories are named after teritories they included, eg brunswick encompassing hanover and westphalia which are bigger than brunswick
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>>168140445
whatever nigga its better than vanilla borders
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>>168140515
>implying >>168139134 isn't what my english dreams are made off
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>>168140329
Go try Distant Worlds if you haven't already.
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>Cant modernize military because gommie chimpout
>every 3 years

Is this the part where I go fascist to get rid of these fuckers? I'm literally already a welfare state.
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>>168140126
You need to core it, you blobbing faggot.
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>>168141375

Whoops forgot.
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>>168141569
>is danube federation
>grants the slavs ANY rights
You may as well go commie, you've already failed.
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>>168141679

I honestly wouldn't mind going gommie. But all my factories would shut down and then my industry score would be tanked since they would revert to t1.

This militancy is fucking retard. I can understand why Mussolini beat the socialists bumpkins. But I am not even running a failed state. It's perfect state!
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>>168141937
>But all my factories would shut down and then my industry score would be tanked since they would revert to t1.
What? No they wouldn't.
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>>168140327
Help pls lads this is getting frustrating.
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>>168142001

It doesn't work like a conquest if rebels siege them and take over the entire province?
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>>168142114
>ywN have american teeth
feels bad, lads
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Is "Riches of Africa" a good mod?

What are some good mods to make my Joy with Painting campaign as good as it can be?
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>>168142160
Oh yeah, sure, but you only have to let them take your capital and even if they do take states it isn't immediate, they gradually lose levels the longer the occupation.
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>>168142114
Just go into buildings.txt and set all the times to 1 day what's the problem?
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Damn, the first fucking day AFPG gets kidnapped by chinks I find a really ebin India flag that would look nice for fascists.
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>>168142297

Hmm.. But then the gommie party has a bunch of pacifists. I am still trying to take all of Poland+Ukraine+more of China+maybe all of Germoney
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>>168140329
Victoria 2
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>>168142471
The AI gets that too and I don't want that.
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>>168142484

I played that game to death, senpai.

Multiple Germaniums, a couple Japans, one long-winded USA and a not too shabby Brazil.
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>>168097390
Russia was called the successor to the Eastern Roman Empire after Constan fell
>>
forever accurate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yetx-dH1LB8&list=LLckQVk4xvAwqIwxWHzV0XsQ&index=210
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>>168142547
Make all AI countries uncivilized?

>>168142559
Darkest Hour
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>>168118431
If you were overwhelmed by CKII and arent willing to give it a shot again, this genre isnt for you
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>>168142478
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>>168142676
>Make all AI countries uncivilized?
Again not really what I'm after, sorry.
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>>168142770
ching chang chong
>>
Why do people keep saying HPM is dead? I've been away from /gsg/ for a while, is this just steamgroup faggotry or did he actually do something?
>>
Is there a way to find out who had my Emperor assassinated? I'm not that upset about it, but I'm curious. I've tried charinfo and observe, but even then when I hover over the skull it just says "suspicious circumstances" but no known killer.
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>>168143413
he is actually dead
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>>168143413
too soon
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>>168143413
He killed himself after seeing one too many yeehaw posts.
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>>168143413
He couldn't handle the banter.
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RIP HMP
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>>168143509
I'd believe you but literally every other reply to my post is t. discordgruppe so I'm less inclined to take you seriously.
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Is there a way to easily remove the meme Congo events that always grant Sweden or Denmark the Congo in HPM?
Pic unrelated
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>>168143827
honestly It's simpky been months since I've seen him here, and everytime I ask about him myself no one responds, that's all.
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>>168143969
He was literally here yesterday.
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>>168143929

D.va and Mei are cute! CUTE CUTE!
>>
is Andy Grandy alive?
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>>168143969
Come on, lad, try not to be blind.
>>168045042
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>>168143482
No, if the killer wasn't detected when it happened then they got away with it.
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>>168143929
More an issue of lack of secondary powers without colonies to choose it. I had Two Sicilies petition for it once, but failed to get it because spain had blobbed there or something.
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>>168143413
You posted the exact same shit last thread and he was in the thread a few posts later.
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>>168144319
And it's impossible to find out afterwards even with console commands or something like that?
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Why is Russia so fucking shitty in Victoria 2? Historically they were always a juggernaut but in almost every game they get destroyed in some war and never recover just fighting constant revolutions and losing great power status

Is there a mod that fixes this?
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>>168143413
He was killed by a malfunctioning elevator in China.
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>>168145292
literally second result in google, if it doesn't work then >>168144319 is correct and there is no way of checking who was behind that plot

https://www.reddit.com/r/CK2GameOfthrones/comments/3impog/no_spoilers_is_there_anyway_i_can_find_out_who/
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is their r34 of this nun yet
>>
Any mod that removes EU4 cancerous fort-block system?
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>>168145560
Both russia and germanblobs use the same ai and since russia is harder to manage it will always perform worse than ezmode krauts. Mods will never fix Russia or make anglos useful allies without making the game broken.
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Is sengoku rance grand strategy?
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It's starting to look like something, doesn't it.
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>>168145928
unironically more so than EU4 or HoI4
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>>168145928
In the loosest sense of the phrase.
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>>168145981
Like a shitty blob, yeah
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>>168145981
what's with all these shitty Italy blob games lately?
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How does everyone get such massive industrial scores? I can't even get to #1 as Germany or America
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>>168145981
>taking the inner sahara
Why?
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>>168145990
A pet rock is a grander strategy than either of those.
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>>168146705
I dunno. I just did, it was so easy to grab.
>>
yeehaw
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>>168146693
Literally just encourage craftsmen, don't tax the rich and subsidise and upgrade factories.
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>>168140329
no point playing stellaris before the next espansion. eu 4 is the same stale shit. ck2 is ok with mods i recommend you to either play the warhammer mod or mythos mod. and civilization depends on what civ you re talking about. civ 6 is a big piece of steaming shit that decided to take the dlc policiy of paradox.
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>100 legitimacy
>Strong claim heir
>Heir dies
>Weak claim heir
>Ruler dies
>5 legitimacy

What fucking dumpster did they dig this fetus out of

I'm Sunni, for fucks sakes, I don't have more than one kid we all know is mine?
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>>168147359
or ever better
>ruler lives up to 80yo
>heir takes over at 60
>if you die, you will get PU'd
>literally nobody to inherit because of shitty engine that can only support 2 dynasty members at once
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Could this be more aesthetic?
>>168138745
that river really pisses me off in Peten, I mean if Friesland's river can be changed why can't you spend 50 mana to remove a river from YOUR provinces
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>>168148003
>shit 1/2/1 heir
>disinherit him
>a new heir! 1/0/1

Meanwhile Ottomans are over there shitting out 6/5/5s
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>>168148003
Why don't they just make it 3?
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what should my first idea group be as Elysia?
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>>168140282
scotland is coded to take colonization ideas just like england/spain/portugal, except one or two idea groups later and if england vassalizes them before they take it they don't take it

brittany is rarer but it happens

the worst is the 5th/6th idea exploration ottomans, since they've usually eaten enough of arabia to get to indonesia/australia
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new hoi4 dlc when?
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>>168147336
Couldn't actually take much due to coalitions and the admin cost of coring it, I got them to release Austria and give me the based gross pruBensclaw though.
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>>168148459
>aesthetic
Stop using that buzzword.
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>>168148003
>queens taking two years is not your first point
>not having a complete family tree is not another point, so you can see who will actually succeed
>you can't propose laws for certain religions or longtime rivals to not succeed to the throne
>you cannot divide territories to prevent a succesion crisis
>your king cannot go mad and name a single heir for your entire realm
>it's basically impossible to do a Charles Vth due to 'Iberain Wedding' event firing in 1490, but reddit would call it 'railroading' to have proper Hapsburg weddings
>PU have the exact ssame monarch rather than giving the title to your brother
>even if you have the same dynasty it takes like 100 years for a PU to form
>more often than not your monarch lives to 60, killing your heir at 40, an leaving you with a 1/0/1 1 year old heir
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>>168147097
>don't tax the rich
I thought that by late game they're all loaded and don't even have a way to spend all the money they have?

>upgrade factories
Am I supposed to upgrade even the ones that are losing money or barely making any?
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What should I prioritize building in a merchant republic for raw money? Upgrading my holdings? Upgrading Trading posts? What gives the most bang for the buck

Trade value is something that goes right over my head here.
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>>168149630
trade posts tax and palace are number one priorities
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>>168148476
>you only had 1 brother at a time
>your cousin can only ever rule another country
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>>168149558
If the Capitalists are making more money than they can spend you're probably in infinite money mode anyway

What factories are losing money? Are you building your own factories, or are you letting the capitalists spam clipper convoy and luxury clothes factories when the world needs liquor and cement
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>>168149105
>wanting a spread out not fortified border
IT's like you don't understand the GRAND part of grand strategy
>>168149630
Hospitals always
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>>168150010
>eu4
>grand
hmm
Besides, the GRAND strategic part was securing alliances with France, Hungary and Russia.
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>tfw integrating a 1000 diplo ming

it'll all be worth it, right?
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>>168150540
meant 1000 dev.

I wish it was just 1000 diplo...
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>Ottomans can take half of Hungary and no one lifts a finger
>I take 3 provinces with claims from Burgundy
>half of Europe unites against me

I'm have to stop convincing myself to give EU4 that one more chance, It never ends well.
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>20 years in and Islam is almost the largest religion in Denmark
this stopped being funny a while ago but I guess I'll see where it leads
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>>168150762
It makes sense because burgundy has a lot of neighbours.
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>>168151140
It makes sense because the AI gets less aggressive expansion than you do. It's a shitty mechanic half implemented just like every other mechanic.
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There must be some solution to this Breton question...!
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does darkest hour run better than HoI 3?
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Is playing the German Empire in Kaiserreich fun?
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>>168151327
Lucky nations do get -25%, that's true. But the main difference is that you take provinces with a ton of neighbours, all of which will get angry.
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>>168145671
Unironically looks like Sasha Grey
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fuck this ahistorical russia/ottomans alliance that happens every fucking game

crimea causing historical rivals fucking when, these countries fought for 400 years irl

how do i win this?
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>>168152781
>Mughals
>Ming
>Commonwealth
>and their various smaller allies

And they still can't field as many men as Russia and the Ottomans. What the fuck are you doing, Paradox?
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1453 best year of my life
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>>168149953
>If the Capitalists are making more money than they can spend you're probably in infinite money mode anyway
Well, I've only played GPs thus far, so yes.

>What factories are losing money?
I meant like -0.50 or something. But I usually only upgrade the good ones, that are earning 20+. Is that bad?
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Nigger raiders have destroyed like 6 trade posts already, I'm not getting enough money or retinue to defend the constant barrage.

Maybe irish merchant republic is actually a terrible idea.
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>>168151805
Sure
Just remember you don't really have the time to upgrade your dudes, just keep pumping out divisions from day 1. Though I suppose that goes for every nation in KR. Also, make sure you keep some guys stationed in Vietnam so that rebellion doesn't become annoying
I'd say pretty much every nation is fun to play at least once
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>>168152931
t.
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>>168151779
please respond...
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>>168152928
No kidding. These are the developments involved, to get a sense of scale
>Mughals (me): 1984
>Ming (vassal, switched from celestial empire to constitutional monarchy): 925
>Mamluks: 41 (reduced to cyprus and alexandria by ottomans before i diplo vassalized, gonna feed their cores back)
>Commonwealth: 755

vs

>Ottomans: 1561
>Russia: 737
>Hejaz: 120

>b-but ottoman and russian ideas are balanced because their neighbors hate them
>b-b-but a russo-ottoman alliance could happen in some alternate history fanwank so we shouldn't add historical rivals upon forming russia
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>>168153513
HoI3 runs pretty well so I don't see your problem
But yes, DH runs a lot faster since it is fucking tiny compared to HoI3
It's still a great game though, especially KR obviously
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>>168153692
Thinking of giving it a go sometimes since I like the autism of HoI3 unit management but shit gets pretty slow at some point.
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>>168153632
cant you just mod that in? it's really easy to do.
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what is the seven cities eu4 meme strat?
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>>168153781
I never really felt like HoI3 army management was really that different from DH, all the people bitching about how you HAVE to offload it to the AI were just too intimidated by the scale
Plus, DH makes it easier to understand why a battle went badly imo
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>>168153692
I really hope more mods and maybe even devs take note of what KR does right and embraces it. I fucking love event chains. I love that there's flavor. It's so much more fun to feel like there's this whole political and ideological struggle over simple mechanics and numbers. I haven't played HoI 4 yet, and though I remember a lot of what I read about seemed off putting, I did think the idea of event/decision like trees tied to some sort of political system was a great idea. HoI 3 always felt barren in that aspect, which is kind of understandable as a military simulator-like game, but not very great from the whole grand strategy aspect. 20th century extreme idelogical struggle is just fun.
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>infertile 61 year old pops out kid with a strong claim
Why does this game even have dynasties when it clearly can't handle it?
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>>168154087
Pretty sure there are events that provide strong claim heirs that aren't related to actually conceiving children.
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>>168154085
HoI4 went too far the other way with making combat an after-thought
Also, you could argue that KR's political system is even less involved because you really don't ever interact with other nations, since events do that for you most of the time
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Why cant I annex Manchuria in HPM why I just wanted nice comfortable borders
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>>168153797
Not properly, at least not for me. The quick and simple way would be to add historical rivals between Ottomans and Muscovy in 1444, but that's ahistorical, triggering my autism, and would probably just result in Ottomans running up the Black Sea coast to eat Moscow. I don't need AI Ottomans getting 2/3rds of the way through Sultan of Rum by 1550.

The proper way would be to add an event upon forming Russia, where their new permaclaims in Crimea intersect with the Ottoman-Crimean march, setting a historical rival status as they prepare to battle for Crimea. Russia's desire for Crimea should outweigh any desire for Ottoman diplomacy.

All the stupid fucking buffs Paradox gave the Ottomans don't help either
>Lmao free empire rank
>Lmao pick your heirs like a republic
>Lmao Crimean Succession
>Lmao free states from Ottoman Government
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How big of an army should I have for my explorer in the Hunt for the Seven Cities?
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>>168154265
There are several events that pop up when you have an old heirless king. One of the rarer ones gives you a 5/5/5+ strong heir.
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>>168152781
yes and as we know China, Mughals, Poland, and Egypt are a much more realistic alliance
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>>168154406
KR is kind of a visual novel in this aspect, and I don't say that as a bad thing. I'm not gonna pretend to have a solution, but most grand strategy diplomacy feels very simplistic in what it can handle in its abstractions. I like the idea that you get whole events with branching paths and odds of failure or success, which themselves bring forth new paths and shit. Darkest Hour's standard forms of interaction are useless. You get a "influence nation" that costs 100 bucks and does nothing, you get a "coup nation" that costs 300 bucks and has 1% chance, you get a bunch of "sabotage x" or "assassinate y" that have no consequences and so on, and even if they had greater odds, it would still be kind of... too abstract, I don't know. I don't feel much ideology coming from that alone. Victoria 2 is a little better, though even that feels pretty pointless at times. Maybe it's just me, I just feel like decisions and events forming some sort of storytelling make a great complementation to the more standard "resource/IC/manpower" mechanics of grand strategy games. I do feel like Kaiserreich feels completely annoying at times when you're trying to do something made impossible by events, though. Like you're playing National France and when the war starts Canada just decides "Maybe there should be no war, or we attack Germany instead lel"
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>>168155554
Paradox games have always had that problem, yeah. That's exactly what it means when people complain that there's nothing to do during peacetime.
I really can't imagine a good political system that would be fun to play indefinitely while you're not busy moving your mans around.
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I like the EU4 infamy system, it's great.
I'm allied with Austria, Hungary, France and Russia, so even this coalition can't do shit to stop me. But if it was vicky I'd have the same amount of infamy with everyone.
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>>168086313
>France
Where?
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>>168156118
I haven't played EU4 in ages so please excuse me for being ill-educated in how it works these days
Some of the most fun I ever had in EU3 was while being a relatively small Brandenburg as Emperor when I had to fight off France with all my million allies
I guess the coalition system can theoretically recapture that feeling even when you're already large as fuck. On release it was terrible however, every damn patch they alternated between making it basically nonexistent and making it so strong that taking a single province would have you wait 50 years before all the AE cooled down
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Which nation in EUIV got the most flavour events?
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>>168156737
Look here. http://www.eu4wiki.com/Europa_Universalis_4_Wiki:Tiers
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How do I win, lads?

>>168156549
Oh it's still shit, but you have to give it credit for the literal one thing it gets right.
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>>168157616
Speed 3 or 2, move your troops nowhere without thinking it through, support your allies when they need it, but preserve your manpower when you are clearly not needed.

Focus on taking Lubeck, because you cannot peace out any of them, but you can peace out all via Lubeck.
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>>168157998
>Speed 3 or 2
Don't forget to pause all the time
It amazes me how many people just don't fucking pause the game, ever. Damn savages
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>>168157998
Nevermind, I just savescummed and allied Ottomans. I took both diplo idea groups so that I could have a comfy proto-bismarck run. If they still want to attack then good luck against me, Ottos, Russia, France and Austria-Hungary.
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>>168158163
Yes of course, that goes without saying I thought.

>>168158218
Lel, ok. I knew Saxony didn't have the same balls as Brandenburg.
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>>168158218
jesus christ anon kill yourself
losing is fun
>>
>>168158670
He would probably come on top of it too, which would've been super fun for him.
>>
Give me an extremely comfy EU IV country to play, I've got a big ole pot of delicious rice n' roast and nothing to do for the rest of the week.

Pls no bully, I just want to relax.
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>>168155018
ming and mamluks are my vassals, poland is a counterweight against ottomans, ayyuthuya was worthless and never moved out of SE asia to help

PLC lost the 1v1 vs russia and separate peaced out, forcing me to call the war quits

least i got the alliance annulled, everybody else hates both of them so i should be able to 1v1 ottomans for mamluk cores later
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>>168158965
donwnload Third Odyssey and colonize the americas as the white and based Elysian Empire (true succesor of Byzantium, wich is Rome btw) and then take back Constantinople, and Rome after that
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How does one baguette in Vicky 2? I can't ever seem to find the urge or inclination to really focus on a country of frogs.
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>>168158965
Genoa
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>>168158965
Muscovy? Nobody can hurt you, and you still have fun things to focus on.

Or Portugal, ally castile and just colonize the world.

Or Sweden/Denmark, make Scandinavia and possibly take UK after that if you care - or you can just take baltic coasts. Better yet, do it as Norway if you don't mind a bit of an uphill start, makes it more fun really.
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>>168159194
>attrition: 117k

It really impresses me how the AI cannot figure out that a 90 stack goes over supply limits
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>>168159254

But anon, what if I want to play the Zoroastrian Persians in South America?
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>>168160084
In that case you should kill yourself sassanid scum
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Why isn't there a grand strategy game taking place in ancient greece?
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because paracucks is incompetent and shit
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>>168160268
Because it's shit and inferior to Rome in every single way
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>>168150762
which country were you playing as?
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>>168160493
That's not how the Romans felt.
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>>168149279
That looks awful.
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>>168088303
>Trumpist republicans
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>>168159194
Mughals or persia. and how easy is it to get mughals from start date, as hard as forming GB or forming Prussia
>>168160534
then why did the victorians fetishise the mediveal era rather than the romans, and then rather than the greeks and sea peoples
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>>168160929
You're a weirdo.
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>>168138778
ayyy pls answer
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Can somebody host another HoI3 MP game?
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>Russia collapsing to chain of rebels
Consider the following
>Political awareness malus until telegraph+radio is researched

Russias very big, so it would be hard to organize a rebellion early on. Their inability to properly position armies cant be helped though.
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>>168161671
not sure what mod, but I'm going to assume it's not in HPM
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>>168161520
Mughals. Start as Timurids. Do not release Persia. Restart if you don't get the mission "Riches of India", because you need it for the free claims on Delhi. Improve relations with Jaunpur, don't rival them. Make a snake through Delhi with the four provinces you need from them. This will probably start a coalition, but Jaunpur won't join. Take the last province you need from Jaunpur, if you're lucky you can just threaten war, else you'll have to conquer it.

You now have all five provinces you need, but you probably need more development before you can take the decision. Go fight Taberestan while you pray the Indian coalition doesn't fire. Eat Hormuz, it's free money. Beat up QQ and take a whole bunch of Iraq cores, Iraq + Taberestan + Hormuz will absolutely get you over 600 development. Click button. Release Iraq as a vassal, you don't need all that OE. Enjoy busted ideas and free claims over 1600 dev worth of India. Realize you can take Admin ideas to make it 75% less Admin per core. Realize that the FUCKING RAJPUT AND CENTRAL INDIAN MINORS GET HOSTILE CORE CREATION COST

It's not hard if you're willing to restart a few times. If you can get the cheap -unrest advisor, more power to you.

I went Admin - Quantity - Influence (because I had Ming as a vassal and needed the diplo annex cost) - Offensive - Trade, and I'm still going strong. I'd probably swap Influence for Trade if I didn't get a lucky break with Ming getting annihilated, as I rushed through the Himalayas to get a Ming core and fed them 1k development worth of their own cores.

It's a bitch and a half to annex, but it'll be so worth it.
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>>168152781

Its because of the PLC

They rival Ottoman and Muscovy and the two ally each other in retaliation

Fucking polacks
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How the fuck are you supposed to play as those Jewish nomads in 1066?

Cant find any tips or guides, also dont know much about nomad play at all.
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>>168162869
Set em all to rival each other at the start

They all hated each other IRL, why the fuck not
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>>168163668
Why are the portuguese's feet dirty?
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>>168161520
>then why did the victorians fetishise the mediveal era
You kidding? They shit all over it.
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