/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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>>173404790
BASED
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>>173404790
WHITE
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4th for Johan

>>173405010

>sniffing intensifies

Okay anons, I've a question. I heard that you can basically just enable all DLC for the Crusader Kings II on Steam. While that sounds good on paper, since I don't have that much money to give to the jews, what are the chances of Steam catching on and subsequently punishing that?

I just started the game to play memedate in heaven for the first time and the loading screen hint I got was "the Ottomans are the strongest nation in the game, play them if you are a beginner."

Will paradox games ever go uphill in quality again?

>>173405387
as high as the chances of you dying from a car accident in the next year.
pretty fucking low
>>173405456
yes it is true they just keep on buffing them.
>>173405469
no.

Is it true that Sectors in Stellaris were supposed to be very important and huge territories that would diverge from the heartlands, really simulating an empire but they abandoned the idea and left an half-assed sectors mechanics instead because it was too much complicated for them?

>>173405561
>yes it is true they just keep on buffing them.
They reduced their coring cost national idea from 33 to 20% and also made it so the minimum you can get core reduction time down to is 6 month. Both nerfs.

>>173405586
yes. also people bitched about micro management.

>>173405387
Steam does not give a shit.

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What features have *actually* been removed from HOI4 compared to the previous games?

Don't say tedious micromanagement.

>>173405618
>Age of Discovery => 1400 -1530
>Ottomans : +33% Siege Ability

>>173405694
>diplomacy and espionage.
>money and budget

>>173405631
What did they promised about micro management and didn't deliver?

>>173405694
political parties

>>173405820
> THIS IS 2 MUCH MICRO MANAGEMENT
remember that paradox sucks up the plebbit crowd not us.

>>173405561
>>173405675

Ah, cool. Wanted to make sure, y'see. Off to grab the DLC then. Thanks for the info.

>>173405694
Coalitions

>brandenburg views you as threat to their independence
>guarantee independence
>still see me as threat to independence
WEW LAd

>>173406176
brandenburg seeing through your shallow political plays and knows you're going to turn on them to moment you get the chance

>start a kuk game
>get me free general from the nobility
>0 fire 6 shock 3 maneuver 1 siege
What the fuck do I do with this guy? I could probably go and fuck over France right now if I wanted.

xth for FUCK MING

>>173405856
What would happens if they pandered instead to /gsg/?

>>173406264
the usual austria play

take land in northern italy for shadow kingdom, enforce PU on hungary and bohemia.

you'll probably have to fight france for papal land anyway

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Sure hope the Ottoman meme is true for this update
>>173406230
the're step 4 of the current plan, and Deus Vult being at the end of the idea tree now fucks over quelling the reformation

>>173406325
SLIDERS

>>173406351
>preventing shadow kingdom
Why? you can re add it later for more Authority

>>173406325
genocide.

Why the fuck is state making in a new menu, what was so hard about being told the upkeep cost when I make it one

>>173406402
more princes means more monthly IA, it is more authority than a measily 15-20 you get from simply adding them to the hre

>>173406445
You *can* genocide aliums in Stellaris.

They had 60% war score
>>173406471
that recquires conquering it, and also means you'll suffer worse for letting outsiders attack the HRE

>>173406596
no, actual full genocide in all of paradox games.

>>173406402
>>173406554

Also, it's way easier to keep them divided and adding them to your swarm once you revoke. It definitely beats having a 10 italian province papal state meddling with your wars.

Playing a good emperor is super easy as austria and is far more effective than playing a map painting austria. At least till you revoke.

>play as cusco
>blitzkrieg the shit out of my neighbours
>pachacuti dies
>cannot expand any further because lmao mountains everywhere

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>>173406627
meant >>173406402
also fugg

And yay Poland made peace with an isolated Hungary but only made them annul treaties with the tuetons no territory was taken, not sure what's better for my succesion wars

>>173404787
funny, isn't it that HPM is the only thing keeping this general on life support?

>>173406769
the general is pretty active mate

>>173406870
Not even close to what it was 2-3 years ago "mate".

>>173406769
Used to be, now it's /eu4ck2hoy4g/.

>>173406904
doesn't mean it's on life support mate

is culture conversion genocide?

>>173406928
It absolutely is. If HPM were to announce that he was quitting modding, the general would cease to exist within 6 months.

>you now realize we've been half a year without a single HPM update

>>173406974
Not the shooty stabby version of genocide, but the elimination of a culture is a form of genocide according to the UN.

>>173406974
Cultural genocide, not ethnic cleansing.
You use bird mana so it's more about changing their customs and language.

>>173404790
W&B

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>marry Castille early on so they can fight Aragon in my papal wars
>notice their king is turning 60
>think it would be nice to have the throne
>BRMMMMMMMMMMM SUCCESION WAR
And just great as Aragon is allied with Hungary meaning I won't get that PU, as their king comes of age in 3 years, but also the Papacy meaning I'll probably get the shadow kingdom

Time for a GSG-poll, lads!

http://www.strawpoll.me/12701051/
http://www.strawpoll.me/12701051/
http://www.strawpoll.me/12701051/

>>173406974
No, culture conversion is based on Russification, basically they are forced to speak your language and you use forced ressetlement of both your people and the locals to break local communauties.

Is Johan a numale?

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Guys I want play a royalist France campaign and after much trying and failing I have managed to change the flag and the color of France.

But I feel like having two white great powers in Europe is to much so I want to change the color of Austria.

What color should I give Austria?

>>173407642
The same as austria-hungary?

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Is this a new nation from the patch, or just a formable vassal that's always been there, but never was due to Ottomeme aggressiveness?

>>173406974
They should let you choose the method. Either "nice" culture conversion using bird mana or "mean" culture conversion using sword mana.

>>173407815
It was always there

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Poor little '''''white''''' merchant
>>173407879
thanks

>>173407583
Johan is ironpilled as fuark

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>>173407932
oy vey

>>173407869
I'd like that.

AE, unrest and stuff from the sword mana version.

>>173407957
Ironpil?

>>173405694
exporting, stockpiling and trading certain resources is extremely limited
land trade appears to be impossible (convoys are required even with landlocked countries)
you can no longer exchange provinces (maybe with cheating)
you cannot take individual territories, only regions
no "support defence" button, you either micromanage or hope that the ai will reinforce a losing unit

>ally starts the siege so gets control even though I have more men
>we've had a breach since -50%
>we're now at 7%
>he still hasn't taken it despite being 10% larger

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>>173408034
It's the step right before reaching the final pill, the Bogpill.

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>>173407957
>>173408034
>>173408438
I'm sure his boyfriend would disagree

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Should I war the slavs or turks first, and is it worth preserving the Byzantines or should I let them fall

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hmm

is there really no alert in EU4 for missing electors when you're emperor?

>end Aragon's alliance with the Pope
>sends alliance to me even though he caught me fabricating claims
Shiggydiggy

>>173408687
>slavs or turks
slavs generally will never become a strategic threat, unlike the ottomans

>should i let the byzantines die
if ottomans get constantinople they get an event that makes it their capital and gives them some base tax. it might be better not to let that happen, as it will give them access to faster renaissance

>have 4500 soldiers
>18, 22 and 24 martial with good traits
>byzantines attack with 5000 soldiers
>over a mountain and over a river
>8, 15 and 0 martial
>they win

why did i fall for the "ck2 combat is complex" meme?

>>173409439
>high dev gives institutions
Silly me for forgetting
The consideration with slavs is to farm IA with them. At what date do the Ottomans become basically unstoppable without the holy allaince?

>>173409537
You are doing it wrong.
Import some Scots and make them commanders.
Make only light infantry.

That's how you win.

>>173409594
you generally want to stop them as soon as possible, before they start unifying their neighbours and their forcelimit makes them unstoppable. if you don't, other than waiting for some hundreds of years until they fall behind in tech, your options are limited.

Does adding province to the >H>R>E still increase IA, or did they patch that out, as the menu to do it says nothing?

Should i use mods for HOI3 and if so, which ones?

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Looking at the map I feel like an invasive force.
One that is an outsider.
Maybe because I'm at the edge of the map

>>173409830
>light infantry
pikemen I mean

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>>173409849
Should I focus on them more than the shadow war?

>>173409537
t. pagan with 0 tech and 4500 light infantry

get fucked by 450% offensive byzantine HC

>>173409958
Ally Poland get 10 favors, wait for the Ottomans to attack the Mamelucks and attack them.

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>>173409537
>understands the system poorly and gets schooled
>chalks it up to bad luck since he doesn't understand what went wrong
>complains that the system isn't complex enough

>>173409958
oh damn.
no, failing to keep italy inside hre would be a huge setback.

while you are doing your thing, get an alliance/guarantee with byzantium. a friendly hungary is necessary for your armies to have access there. make sure you have a casus beli when the time comes. press it ideally when they are at war with the mamluks.

>>173410151
Didn't update the steam_api so lost my RoM, Cossacks and Mare Nostrum DLC, so don't have favours. Got Castille in PU instead of Hungary so can't use Hungary's casus beli, but they are hapsburgs. If I just try and get Poland in a PU should that work, when the Ottomans focus on Egypt.
And yeah Shadow War, yay or nay, as I already have claims on some of Venice, but taking to roman provinces always takes too long for me

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>>173410075
t. norman with 3 tech (same as byzantium) and balanced levies.

>>173410262
>makes shit up

>>173410262
Teebeehacy, it's the new moral system which is fucked, I'm not saying the otherside needs to all die, but at least 60% should, and far more should be captured and ransomed via event if just 10 gold a thing

>>173410283
Ally Byzantium to be dragged into wars against Ottomemes stopping further conquest. And currently have no relations with Hungary, as I fucked up the succesion chain

>>173410398

clicking away even more trivial event windows is the absolutely last thing ck2 needs

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>play EU4 after the latest patch and DLC
>ingame
>want to return to menu
>game crashes and has to reboot

>go back to the country picking screen
>want to go back to main menu for the settings
>game crashes and has to reboot

HUURR DURR PROGRAMMING IS DIF-FI-CULT

>>173410618
>play meme game
>get meme'd on
kill yourself dumb EU4 poster.

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ah yes
fucking bohemians, the only huge protestant blob left that i want to convert

>game says king elected in bohemia
>shit pants
>still in PU with me
Nice to learn how the game codes
>>>173410618
It doesn't crash that's just how they code it so it doesn't bug out for multiplayer people. Anyway why do you have to swap between menus, have you not been planning your run for ages, researching the true borders of your nation.

Name ONE (1) ally worse than England/Great Birtain in paradox games. Protip: you cant. They are too fucking dumb to leave their own fucking island to kill some irish rebels let alone help you do stuff in europe.

>1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.

So it's really just always been like that

>>173410728
Which map/font mod are you using?

>>173410986
you need to bribe me with qt anime girl in order to acquire this information

>>173410151
yo >>173410286
>>173410283
yo >>173410471
Is this a sound plan or nay?

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>>173411041
T-this ok?

Where to download Rule the Waves? I want to try it but not pay 35$ for a spreadsheet simulator.

>>173411176
alright ill be nice
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum + some submods

>>173410728
>cropping

>>173410618
That's unironically a "feature"

>upping Tirol's dev to 7 increased income by 5
Wadda fuck, how was I not advised on that before

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Tried to go back to Vicky after 5 months away from grand strategy entirely as an original secondary power (Turkey with about the same territory shown in pic related) with the intention of just caring about internal politics, pop caring and industrial buildup, but it just reminded me how fucking atrucious the economy is with worldwide shortages of a specific good happening at least once a month, plus the AI nations being the fucktards they always are. Ended the game in 1901.
So I guess this is it then. This is the end of grand strategy for me. I wish I could say it was nice spending all these years here, but for the most part it wasn't.
Best of luck in your personal future, /gsg/.

>>173410398
you can add more casualties in the defines, there are mods that fix this already

>>173411176
>tfw you will never have someone special
i guess i should just kill myself lads.

>>173411624
Just play some gsg games or read something fun desu

>>173411602
see you tomorrow.

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what's the fucking logic behind a maximum of fucking sailors REEEEEEE

>>173410915

name ONE (1) ally worse than England/Great Birtain irl

If I have a coalition war declared on me, will my allies and PUs help me or no?

>>173411709
mp balance

>>173411746
No they only allied you as a joke

>>173411746

yes, unless they see the coalition's size and nope out (fuck you too, hungary)

>>173411787
I don't know, this is Johann's pet game, who knows what retarded mechanics he put in.
>tfw these provinces are to unfiy the HRE and the princes are fighting back

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Fucking tribals

>>173411738
that's easy
Italy, Venice, Russia

>>173411934

you smell of anglo

>>173411709
That a country has a limited amount of people fit to serve on a ship perhaps?

>>173412109
You do know how few sailors were actually invloved in the war part of the ship and the majority just brought supplies from one place to another

any sailors here know how to fix EU4 getting stuck at "creating checksum" ?

>>173412109
I mean the cap, not the current amount of sailors

>>173411709

getting a hold of competent sailors was a real concern. the RN didn't pressgang people just for the hell of it

>>173412204
Ay, matey, jus' click dat uninstall.exe

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How do I get Steam Workshop mods to work with CreamAPI?

Steam downloads the mods but they don't show up in the games mod folder or in the launchers.

I already tried manually downloading the mods which doesn't work anymore. I also can't access Paradox Forums.

Ayone have an idea where Steam downloads the file to? Then I can make a .mod file myself.

Can Any resident weaboos suggest a daimyo to take over Japan with

>take 2 provinces from venice
>AE is just on 50 so shouldn't have to worry about coalitions
>suddenly France asks for miliatyr access
>they tried to white peace Ragusa
Wew missed a bullet there

>>173412234

i'm guessing that you just conquered neva and have a lot of autonomy there

which means that your recruiters are basically running around moscow shouting "WHO HERE KNOWS HOW TO SAIL A PROPER SHIP?" and, go figure, are having trouble finding anyone

>>173412176
I don't know, and I'm sure paradox don't know either. But it seems to me that the logic behind it is that (and balance). Sure, for a country like Norway to have a max cap at 3000 or whatever, when most of their population were able to sail, is a bit of a silly thing.

>>173412234
The cap is a simplified way of saying "this country doesn't have large enough population to have more than this amount of sailors". It's not vic2, so of course they won't make a population system for it, but you can at least try to understand how it would make sense to have a cap.

>>173412337

search danbooru for the daimyo and go with the one that's cutest

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Guess PUs really do make your allies brave, well anything to remove a false Frank

>>173412493
>Sure, for a country like Norway to have a max cap at 3000 or whatever, when most of their population were able to sail, is a bit of a silly thing.

sailors and manpower both represent not the amount of able-bodied men in the country, but the amount of able-bodied men -that the state can recruit-, which can be a very different thing. getting people to sign up for rum, sodomy and the lash ain't easy.

even less so when they could work a merchant schooner going to india instead.

>>173411707
I literally didn't post here in months mate.

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>US soldiers finally set foot on home soil after 200 years
>Gubmint is already doing shady shit

>>173412332
There is several sites that allow you to download the mods on steam, except Stellaris but you can go to Skymods.ru

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Please come and save your own provinces now
saw an army led by Leinster 27k strong, but it was just one bridgade of them and the rest English, would have been nice to see a strong Ireland

>>173412698
Yes I see your point. I still think they could up the numbers though. I mean, they would rebalance it so that it will be the same balance as now.

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>>173413329
>I mean, they would rebalance it so that it will be the same balance as now.

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Should have allied Serbia not Byzantium, well there it goes

>>173413453
Hehe.You know what I meant

>>173413612

i honestly don't

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First good game as Algeria. Ranked #14 in 1899. France has been my ally for like 30 years.

>>173413647
So that you wouldn't get a shitton of ships. More sailors needed per ship. I think those numbers are low too.

>>173413663
Usually I just get raped by France of Spain or Ottomans.

Is HoI4 good buy for a noob? Asking for a friend.

When I try to update my mod on the content page in EU4 the page of my mod opens in the Steam Browser but even after half an hour nothing changes. Anyone got an idea what to do?

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I'm off to kill chinamen now.
Fuckers took out my southern province

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Based

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Is that an event general they have or just got lucky on rolls

>>173413931
It's ok for noobs but it doesn't stay fun very long. I played like a dozen games and I'm pretty burnt out. CK2 or EU4 is a lot better for newbies. You can automize most things in HOI3 and just do the essential stuff until you get less overwhelmed.

>>173414289
Thanks, I.. I mean my friend, had the same problem with Stellaris. Once they understood how the game worked, it stopped being a challenge or any sort of fun at all.

>>173414235
>1464
Probably http://www.eu4wiki.com/Military_events#A_new_champion_of_the_joust

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what does it mean?

>>173414376
The first game I started with was CK2 and it's pretty noob friendly if you just play Ireland. You don't need any DLC's for that either really I guess.

First idea group for Austria in current patch, offensive now that Deus Vult is the last idea of Religious
>>173414401
Only had that event once, thanks
>>173414468
It's wasteland

>>173414235
>5 fire
>1400
>luck
lol

Why is deus vult being last in religious ideas bad?

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The Illyrians are pretty nice, they start out with both wood and horses so you can spam horse archers all day while capturing barbarians for slaves, plus you can expand both east, north and west.

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Religious or Economic?

>>173414641
Because it means you can't easily stop the Reformation, and have to use a casus beli that doesn't reduce the cost for religiouys conversions. Also, after the colonialism casus beli was removed there's almost no way, to do the conquest of the Aztec empire, before nationalism at least

>>173414521
>Only had that event once, thanks
Never had it.
I've only had a similar end of an event chain as nahuatl.

>>173414756
Religious to convert Sunni you idiot

>>173414756
why are you at war with monarchist paraguay

>>173414946
I'm going west anon

>>173410728
>fail 2 wars religious conversion wars against bohemia
>5 years later they convert back to catholicism without my intervention
alright

>>173415003
ERE borders?

>>173415116
American Empire borders

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>>173415008
and so czechs join cool club of chad crusaders

>Utrecht is fully occupied
>its army is still marching all around France
I thought the update was suppoused to fix this?

>sieging with ally in the war he started
>just about to recapture HIS land
>we outnumber the enemy so can stand and fight
>he runs away and gets killed
>enemy kills me
And just when we had 0% chance of winning siege

Which ascendancy path has the best fluff?

>>173415280
Again Memes and taxes strikes again! That dumb mod bings only chaos. Lmfao, look at that map.

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>>173415728
Wonder how close the AE was, because we owned far more land than that

Anybody know of CreamAPI or similar for Mac to get all the latest DLCs (EU4 mostly) activated?

inb4 bootcamp etc

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And this is why you play Western nations

>>173415950

>Mac

you don't deserve it

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Yay, they took Byzantium before the Mamluks and I still haven't got a casus beli, oh joyous fun

>>173416043
enjoy your windows botnet

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>wants your provinces -152
Is there any way to counter this? I only have one more reform to pass.

>>173416376

>implying I don't use cracked windows xp

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mp when?
Also, how is EU rome?

>>173416608
Take their provinces and push them out of Latin/South America.

any mods that make vic2 not shit?

>>173416775
Vickymod
t.notRob

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>>173416649
*taxes your liquor production*
wat do

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>>173416608
Wew!
Where we're going we don't need economic reform.

Do Asian countries get to skip embracing every single institution?

>>173416860

>not combat system rehaul

hummmmmm

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>>173416879
*blocks your path*

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The goyim are catching up!

>>173416649
>Also, how is EU rome?
The mechanics are very good but the scope of the game isn't very large. Combat feels a bit simplistic too even though it has extensive unit stats and combat tactics, so far I'm just doomstacking horse archers and it seems to work great.

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Did this happen because they're the lesser partner of a PU, or just a random event that can happen whenever

>>173386006
>investment is such a small and meaningless mechanic i would rather have historical puppets
Yeah except that historical puppets would also allow you to build naval bases and have your fleets supply from there. Also there are cases in which you make puppets only for resources.

>>173416879

*blinds you*

>>173416994
>barely knows any other countries
>becomes gp
kek

>>173416649
Hopefully soon

>>173417162
i think it happens when you share dynasty with that country
and yeah, PU is also considered shared dynasty

>>173416994
Do you get a ton of inflation by playing inca?

Anyone have a good way of playing gsg in Linux? Wine seems to run like shit and half the games won't even install.

>>173417601
Why even bother with Linux, lad?

>>173417175
i meant historical as in historical ideology/government (which wouldn't exist if you had a puppet-specific government/ideology)

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Is this perfect world? Only the japs are left to be tidied up.

the new building interface is great

>>173417793
Good lad but you need to colonise Australia and Canada

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>>173416994
Surely France wants to be my friend.. R-right?

>>173417448
You get a lot of inflation, but you also get a lot of events that reduce inflation. I've never gone above 10.

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>>173417448
inflation is a meme

>>173417715
Don't like being part of the botnet

If I seize a capital in DH,does that mean that the nation will lose all of it's supplies?

>>173417874
it only took them10 dlcs to port it from eu3

>>173417945
LOL k.

>>173417070
To be honest some of the games with all DLCs are 200$+ and few people will buy some but pirate the others or just play with some or vanilla.

>>173415950
for the record I managed to fix this by using the steam api emulator from Stellaris Utopia MacOSX-ACTiVATED and modifying the app and dlc IDs

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This MP gain is slower than ass, I have a huge number of free men

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>>173417070

>>173417601
Stellaris, EU4 and CK2 are all on linux afaik bro

>>173418209
>MMXVII
>still playing EU:Rome

>>173418209
I downloaded this the other day because someone (probably you) was posting screenshots, but the interface threw me off.

Is it worth learning to play this game? How did you? Ancient history is my favorite time period, and I prefer older games to newer ones, so this might be for me.

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really makes neurons run

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mp when? pls respond SIM

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banic

>>173417926
Okay. How is forming Inca? Is it hard?

I see there's this achievement: Form Inca, embrace all Institutions and own all of South America as core provinces.

Is this very hard or is it just a walk in the park-campaign that takes a bit of time?

>>173418692
>Is it worth learning to play this game?
ye
>How did you?
Trial and error, plus its similiar to their other games. It's a mix of CK2 and EU3, but a bit more straightforward.

Ignore forcelimits, economy dictates army size, don't give rebellious governors the command of armies, hold triumphs for potentially rebellious commanders, if they keep being a problem just imprison/execute them. Internal politics is pretty much just a balancing act of being somewhat popular while you don't hand over any real power (armies and governorship) to your discontent adversaries.

>>173418891

that Iberia is disgusting

>>173418917
this, sim it's time to bring MP back

>>173418692
Seriously, I suggest you play imperial universalis mod for eu4 instead.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=679204773

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>>173418963
REEEEEEE WHITIES OUT

>>173418994
It's kind of rng but not really. Start with Cusco. You get a god tier ruler to start with that also starts as an unbeatable general, and his son has god tier stats too.
You are basically a god among mortals and everyone just rolls over but if you die early and don't get a good general (enough maneuver to counter the mountains) you should basically restart.

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>only 1541 and Europe looks fucked up beyond repair

>>173419308
>It's kind of rng
Hmm?? What does that mean?

>Start with Cusco
Yes, alright lad!

>>173414849

you can easily fill up two full ideas before the reformation hits

>>173419383
>play blob simulator
>see blobs everywhere
>complain

???

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Das right.

>>173419493
The initial alliances can fuck you over. You get a mission to annex Wanka and want to blitz them on the second month. They can either ally nobody or like half the continent. Then alternate attacking the people below you and above you. Take the manpower reform first.

I've just played HoI4 for the first time recently and I realize what I don't like about it. There's no personality to the game. It feels bloodless despite the fact that it took place during one of the bloodiest eras in human history.

There's never any sense of anything happening underneath the war. There's no in depth pop system like Vicky2. Even industry and trade seem simplistic in comparison, despite how central both should be. There's no economy at all to speak of. As far as I'm aware, there's no partisans or rebels, although someone should correct me if I'm wrong. Diplomacy seems extremely weak as well.

Civilians in general seem to be pretty much a non-entity in the game, which is surprising given their role in the war as both part of the war effort through industry, fighting as irregulars, and being targets for attacks.

The thing that exemplifies all of this the most is the utter impotence of the nuclear bomb. It seems to do nothing to civilian populations and as far as I can tell, has absolutely no impact on diplomacy.

As a more complex risk, HoI4 is a nice distraction. As a WW2 simulator however, it is severely lacking in many areas.

>yfw Black Death event triggers

>>173419628
It's not the blobs, but all the most unlikely shit happening at the same time like France dying, Aragon fucking over Castile, Polish land eaten by its own vassals, a Ragusa that managed to take over Bosnia.

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>>173413950
>>173412954
>>173409914
interdasting. What gaemu?

>>173419847
you have problem with althistory, bro?

>>173419771
>As far as I'm aware, there's no partisans or rebels

They exist, but they just fuck up your infrastructure.

What happened to the DLC crack in the archive?

>>173420204
and i think im going to kill you. i cant take this anymore, im tired and im done directing people to the fucking op and find the DLCs, Games and cracks all in the same place for them to just ignore the fucking op. fuck you.

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How do you go from this . . .

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To this.

Autistic Austrians didn't forget that shit

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wew lad
seized a bunch of their colonies too

>>173419695
Won't european powers fuck your shit up? And how about the institutions? Are they a problem to get? The achivement is listed as VH - very hard. Is it that hard?

>>173420442

i hate france so much

>>173420442
I hate EUIV so much

>>173420341
That's some top quality tism

Why is EUIV the most posted game. Is /gsg/ plebian?

>>173420548
>>173420535
The AI can't into naval invasion.

When you pass all the religious reforms you get bumped up to very close tech to the dude you reform off of. You also get all the institutions he has for F R E E. You should only increase your tech to like 5 or 6 when you are a native for the good military units and the first idea. After that every mana you spend should be on upgrading your gold provinces.

>>173420662
Because it's arguably the best game.

>>173420610
retard.

>>173420662
>why is the game with the biggest amount of content and mods available posted the most.
gee anon i dont fucking know.

>>173420851

t. kebab sympathizer

>>173420851
>bon ami i want a baguette in my asshole hon hon hon hon.
>i still havent showered in 2 weeks i guess im just going to splash some perfume HON HON HON HON

>>173420662
Eu babies always craw out of thei holes after a DLC is released

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post yfw baby sounds in the M&T2 dev videos

>>173420929
>most mods
>literally 1mod excluding map mods
hmmmmmmmmmm

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That mission sure went well.
>tfw Hungary supports Moldavian independence over forming allainces against the Ottomans
Also how the fuck do you become Pope as Austria, you start with no cardinals, and the 'influence in Curia' mission is so fucking rare

>>173421054
I can't wait until they release a Victoria 3 that is more casual than Stellaris and I play the shit out of it and post screenshots in here

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Whats a good opening idea group for Poland?

Was thinking of influence for that sweet -25% diplomatic annexation cost and -20% agressive expansion

>>173420790
>When you pass all the religious reforms you get bumped up to very close tech to the dude you reform off of.
Would you explain this? You're saying that you reform to christianity from a european colonial nation?

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>>173421307
JUST

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>>173421134
>i
really makes you think

>>173421231
>Also how the fuck do you become Pope as Austria
Luck. It's a lottery that is hardly worth playing. You should be developing Tirol and Vienna anyways.

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AHHHHH MULTIPLAYER WHEN

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And then when I'm not fucking looking the voters who hate me voted for one of my voters, just great. Annoying thing is I was waiting for Burgundy to die so I get that sweet sweet event, but now that's not happening. Really annoying as well as I just freed Burgunudy's vassals making me a true emperor

>>173421569
the joke is that someone would unironically play the UK in vic2

>>173421350
No. All the people in the Inca area follow their own faith.
You get events regarding the authority of the ruler and you generally want to build authority.
When you reach 100 authority you can pass a reform, giving you quite a big bonus, like 10% morale or 10% manpower recovery or a free colonist.
When you pass a reform you lose 2 stability and 3 noble rebels spawn.
When you pass all the reforms and border a European nation you can reform your religion. Basically westernise.
You keep all the bonuses you got from before.
When you westernise you get I think 70% of the tech that the person you westernise off of, so if they are tech 13 you get bumped up to tech 10 regardless of where you were before.
You also get any institutions they have and automatically embrace them.
When you westernise you lose your massive mana cap and when the month ticks you lose any mana over 999 that you have so you should spend it all.
If you weren't an idiot you were spending it on developing your dank ass gold provinces so it shouldn't matter.
I'm going to bed now so no more spoon feeding.

>>173422090

what's the problem

>>173421569
boiiii once summer starts I'll be able to host a ton of mp

>>173422216
You also get a separate decision to convert to Christianity if 1 of your provinces is Christian.
And if you border a western nation for about 25 years and haven't reformed you started getting really shit maluses and it's basically game over.
Seriously, open the triggered modifiers list and look at the collapse of the empire thing.

So what's the best way to stop my daimyos from waring with each other? Is there a way to declare war on my subjects without taking a huge stability hit, or am I supposed to wait until I have +3 stability before squashing the fools?

>>173422285
>not being part of the NEET suicidal master race
disdain for plebs.jpg

Victoria 3 when

>>173422397
>>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>173422393
If I don't pass my classes I'll go that route

Uni has been a harsh reality check for me tbqh and how much of a piece of shit I am

>>173422384
>So what's the best way to stop my daimyos from waring with each other?

Tell the warmongers to kill themselves.

>>173422216
>>173422334
Ok thanks for the spoonfeeding. Goodnight lad.

>>173422534
I do, but that doesn't stop the war, just kills their leader.

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Fuck you relationship limit you let this meme shit happen

>>173419850
Halp!

>>173421569

accurate; MP players usually have extremely big heads

>>173422524
its a blast for the first 4 years after that it goes downhill

>>173422524
Depending on your major, that just means you don't have a 120-140 IQ.

>see that CK2 is on sale
>think about the stories people have told about it
>buy it and all of the DLC on sale
>start up the game
>pick a random dude in the charlemagne start because why not
>nothing to do except acquire four breeding machines and pop out tons of babies
>go hunting and merry making sometimes
>my title gets usurped and control transfered to some guy who's name I can't pronounce

What the hell just happened? What is even the point of this meme game?

>>173422072

>And then when I'm not fucking looking

Lesson learned I hope? How old is the Emperor? Maybe the Empire won't do too much damage to itself in the meantime.

>>173422924
>What is even the point of this meme game?
to do to other people what happened to you

So I'm thinking of going for the Victorian Three achievement.

What's the best strategy for getting the institutions as an isolated, pre-feudal African realm? Develop the shit out of my capital to get Feudalism, Renaissance, Colonialism and Printing Press, build the right buildings for Global Trade, Manufactories and Enlightenment?

And what's the best set of idea groups for teching quickly?

>>173423068
65

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Dr Pawel? I'm HRE

>>173423229
nothing
i said nothing

>>173422924
>buy it and all of the DLC on sale

mistake 1

>charlemagne start

mistake 2

>>173423229
Fuck happened to Ottomemes
Why are you genocding Slavs and not Brandenburgians

>>173423349
He is playing austria and has the vassal swarm, which means he went into balkans and fought ottomans, and released vassals so that he would get the IA ticks.

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So they'll randomly get Burgundy, then my loyal vassal will suppourt him
JUST

What do you do if you're getting fat again

>>173423349
>Fuck happened to Ottomemes
I hit them early. >>173420442

>Why are you genocding Slavs and not Brandenburgians
A cross between truce timers and the fact that Poland is too big. Going to break it down as much as possible.

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Should I play Inca campaign (getting inca achievement) or custom nation north america campaign (getting the ideas guy achievement)?

>>173423540
start playing tall instead of blobbing like autist

>>173421569
Playing /gsg/ while high is actually great though. It's just the right amount of engagement.

Anyone got a mega link for all the DLC and both a cream_api and steamp_api

>>173423331
Poorfag detected,

Perhaps this guy isn't as poor as you, have you thought about that for a minute?

>>173423896
>tfw unable to use marijuana because of mental illness and medication

this sucks

>>173423896
enjoy your bipolar disorder

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>>173423970
t. johan

>>173423632
Ideas Guy achievement RPing the rise of a Viking penal colony (the descendants of scumbags and cowards that Leif left behind)

If you do this post screens and updates.

>>173423992
I bet playing /gsg/ on amphetamines would be rad too, but I'm too high-strung for that.

The Pharaoh fucked up.
The inevitable conquest of Seleucid lands caused demand for loyal and great men, and their sons, to govern the new provinces, and to lead armies that could stand against the unending hordes of mostly Persians. Great men that are currently unemployed and thus grow to resent the Pharaoh.
He had a great plan; make everybody not on duty an admiral on a remote island.
The Pharaoh perished at 45 and his son took the crown at 16.
He remained unmarried past his father's age. There wasn't enough pussy to go around because EVERYONE had a boat and spent all their time on Rhodos.
The problem solved itself with his father's generation's granddaughters. The 50 years old virgin married a Greek girl one month past her 16'th birthday.
Then he died. gg ptolemy ptolemy and ptolemy ptolemy

>>173423970
Are you that shitty bait dude? whether or not you have a job you must be pretty pathetic and autistic to use the same shitty everyday.

>>173423970

love how you show up to slobber on johan's dick every single time someone mentions piracy

>>>/r/paradoxplaza

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Which one is the most fun

>>173423970
kys my good friend

>>173419850
Fallout mod for darkest hour

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wew

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>>173424520
ty bb

>>173424551
How did Finland appear? Did you make that happen?

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>>173424664
by sheer will of freeedom

>>173424337
Based Wrangel

>>173424603
oh man it sure would feel good to cum inside her thousands of times

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>>173424130
Ok, lad. Vinland will rise once again!

>>173424991
I'd fuck her right in the pussy, no lie

>>173424998
>He uses the nordic CROSS

Lad...

Also the vikings landed in Newfoundland you meme

>>173424998
>He uses the nordic CROSS

Lad...

Also the vikings landed in Newfoundland you meme

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>can't get Vicky 2 with HPM to run on my toaster
I guess I'll have to shelve /gsg/ until I get a better PC

fuck drumpf

>>173425418
so brave

Is CK2 worth playing if you don't have all of the DLC? The last one I bought was Old Gods/The Republic (whichever is newer).

>>173425479
Thank you

>>173425479
Fuck you

>>173425481
pirate the remaining dlc, theres a link in the OP with a crack to verify them

>>173425481

depends -- are you a cuckhold fetishist?

>>173425602
reported
reminder that pirating is ILLEGAL

>>173425287
I need to be on a 111 province, and vinland does not have any.

Nordic cross, well I don't think the custom nation emblem will show up on the province flags. I'll try.

is mayo and Texas redpilled?

>>173425698
newfoundland does not have any**

Allah
Souria
Bashar ou bas

>>173425831
reported for racism and sexism and islamophobia

>>173424998
Nice stuff m8. Keep us posted on how it goes. This is something I would love to get around to doing if I had the time.

>>173425968
Yes, sure. I just went into the designer again, to see if I could make something else for a flag. Any suggestions? It triggers my autism that flags on each province will be blank if I just use an emblem (like the raven). But a cross is wrong if I am to have old norse as a faith.