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third for false-flagging

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3rd for Nicholas II.

This thread has been claimed as true ISIS territory and is under the rule and jurisdiction of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh) and all the laws that accompany such rule.

If you do not pay the jizyah nor convert you shall face the sword.

>>122623670
Actually, you could move out too. It's not pay up or die.

>>122623670

daesh

>>122623734
(does anyone else shake head)

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Viva l'Asse

>>122624031
l'asse?

>>122624031
Is that the Russian Republican flag?

Give me a country and a goal in V2

>>122624295
Yeah, looks like the flag of the russian federation

>>122624303
Germany
Exterminate the french and the ubermensch

>>122624605
That's redundant

>>122624605
i think you mean untermenschen

>>122624295
>>122624461
It's the flag that the German puppet state of Slovakia used
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Republic_(1939%E2%80%9345)

>>122624605
>ubermensch
lel

In Eu4 I should be buying more mercs than normal manpower ones right? Like what's the percent of either I should have?

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20th for Franz

>>122624751
So the russians stole the flag from the slovaks?

>>122624808
In the beginning, yes. Then you slowly start using your units only

At one or two stacks in each bigger stack, depends on how low on MP you are

>>122624921
No, the Provisional Government of Russia(following the February Revolution of 1917) used the flag before being toppled by the Bolsheviks

>>122624659
Yes, that's what I meant

>>122624605

>germany
>kill France and slovenes

Sounds good

>>122625050
Well I've tried having just manpower ones when it was pretty high but it got zapped at wouldn't recover fast enough.

>>122625065
So the slovaks copied the russians?

>>122625320
You still need to take care even with high manpower not to get too caught up in wars

But late game mercs are practically useless, so ideally you will cut back on their use by a lot

>>122625337
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavic_colors

>>122625672
Still, it's based on russia

>>122624303
Ukraine
Become undisputed master of the Balkans

>>122626297
Yeah, it's just helpful to understand why they would copy Russia's flag.

>>122626346
>Ukraine
>Balkans

>>122626346
>>122624659
Thanks, I guess I will do Ukraine

>>122625587
Ah ok. I do try but my blobs never end up very good. When would "late game" be like 1700s+ ?

>>122626874
Yes, 1700

I've been in hospital for a few days, what's the latest /gsg/ meme, lads?

>>122627496
>burger king face packs

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r8 my Greece game

Culture map next

>>122627496
Project Augustus mod?

>>122627726
I know the borders are arbitrary and don't represent anything but the Iraqi/Syrian/Jordanian borders are sweet.

Also, how's you get Russia to eat Ottomans?

>>122627726
>doesn't own Jordan, Syria, or Lebanon
>No kaffa
End it lad

How the hell do you Genocide properly in HPM? I'm playing Siam and I basically cleared out all of Indochina of non Thai, but these gooks won't fucking breed! Do I just have to go into files for forced pop growth?

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>>122623170
>American Near East

>>122627726
Awful blob
0/10

>>122627983
>America owns Mecca

Masturbating furiously to the geopolitical chaos this would cause.

>>122627726
free armenia b4 game end and it's ebin.

>>122624605
make sure to post your epic redditblob here

>>122627978
>I'm playing Siam and I basically cleared out all of Indochina of non Thai,
So you did genocide properly, so what's the problem?

What are your thoughts on every nation having a base manpower of 10000 in eu4?

>>122628181
He wants to rehome the area with Siamese cats but they won't migrate.

>>122628127
I will play germany exclusively and post it here to trigger you

Pops are a shitty fucking mechanic and need to be removed in Victoria 3. They add nothing to the game but needless complexity for the sake of complexity.

>>122628218
What are your thoughts on having Jan Mayen as a starting nation in EU4?

>>122628307
If you are going to bait, you need to be subtle

So, playing my very first grand strategy game other than once dicking about in game of thrones mod for crusader kings 2, and it's Hearts of Iron 3. Played tutorials, skimmed - yes I know - manual and quick start guide, and played a game as Brazil to have an easy time learning the game. My only real issue currently is that it seems to take forever to get anything done - as in, to produce a unit, to build new industrial capacity, etc - and I'm not sure if I'm just doing it wrong or if this is normal.
Also consistently overwhelmed by research options but I suspect that never really goes away.

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>>122627726
Culture map
>>122627832
Thanks, they sort of did that on their own
>>122627948
>implying they aren't my puppets
>wanting filthy Tatars in glorious Greek land
top kekold to be honest lad
>>122628124
I'll see what I can do lad, part of Albania is Armenian majority too

>>122628306
There is literally nothing wrong with posting Germaniums, the backlash is simply because a year ago posting Germaniums was so popular that it was all that was posted, people Germaniumsed themselves out.

>>122628432
>I have no argument so I'll just call it bait.
Great way to shield muh perfect flawless pops from any sort of criticism.

>>122628307
Why you gotta bait like that

>>122628272
It's an immigration problem then, not a genocide problem
Wouldn't using the right nf solve it?

>>122628474
>Istanbul
>turk majority

no

>>122628474
Post opinion map mode, I want to see who hated you and who loved you.

>>122628548
It should but next to no one does. Also I only have a population of 2 million Thai. You'd think with all this lebensraum and a glorious fascist dictator telling them to be fruitful they'd fucking breed.

>>122628474
>T*rks in Constantinople
End it lad

>>122628592
>Calling Konstantinople Istanbul

fuck off senpai

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>>122628474
r8 my congo too
>>122628592
>>122628934
They're only a plurality, orthodoxy is the majority religion in Constantinople too. I feel like I've depopulated the poor city enough though desu

>>122625193
slovenians can't kill themselves lad, everyone knows that since they founded the duchy of carinthia they indirectly created germany

>>122629034
>calling Byzantium konstantinople

ISHYGDDT

>>122629084
oh Bingo Bango Bongo I don't want to leave the Congo!

>>122628916
Genocide isn't about breeding people
>hey honey I heard pol pot killed millions last few months
>Sweet, nothing gets me hotter than knowing a múrderous dictator is in power in our country, lets have 10 babies

>playing australia
>italy takes takes egypt and the brits take ethiopia
>italy is slowly pushing the brits back towards the horn
>send in one armoured car brigade to unprotected north africa and start occupying stuff
>italy peels away it's entire line and the brits advance up to the med

>>122629126
>calling Tsargrad """""byzantium"""""

>>122629084
What mod are you playing that adds all those shitters?

74th for some of you guys are alright don't go to Mongo tomorrow.

>>122629256
Any NNM-based mod will have that

>>122629084
10/10 has kongo, mongo, congo, luba, and kuba

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>>122629084
>letting a single T*urk live

>>122629339
I thought HPM took out the krap?

>>122629203
>Implying Genocide doesn't get you hot as fuck.
The Germans figured that shit out somehow.

>>122629568
he took out some tags, but didn't do a mass removal
I do'nt even know he knows about these, or maybe they have a function

>>122629084
What is M-M-M-M-MONDO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unkZXEPCpso

>>122629664
I know he took out luba, one would assume you can't remove the luba without vetoing the Kongo.

Y'all ever have a game where Austria helps to dismantle the U.K. then receives a huge empire including large swathes of India and you just have to delete the save and start over?

>>122629874
heh goes from UK to KuK

>>122629874
Why's it unreasonable to assume Austria could manage an empire? They have ports.

>>122629527
He can't kill all the greeks, so turks will always live

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>>122630201
Pic related

Why was Zimbabwe's economy magnificent until 1979 then it completely collapsed? I'm reading Wikipedia but it seems like someone's completely trashed it, in the space of a single year it purportedly sent from the richest country in Africa to the poorest, how is this?

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>>122629084
>>122628676
Opinion map
All my tiny neighbors hate me

Montenegro is my sphere buddy so he likes me

Would anyone like to know how I annexed the Turks without breaking the infamy limit?

>>122630419
Rhodesians have died

>>122630419
Country run by white people = generally good and prosperous

Country run by literal Africans = generally AIDS(literally) and economic wasteland

>>122630596
Great Zimbabwe was good :^)

>>122630489
Go on then.

>>122630489
Yes please

>>122630419
Bait
t. bh lad

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>>122630686

>>122630489
You cheated obviously

>>122630187
Imagine how difficult it would be to handle millions of people who for years were under the yolk of the strongest nation in the world, to one just be owned by a country who in our timeline (In my game they even lost all of czechoslovakia and most all of the Italian lands including Dalmatia) could barely handle their European land. Austria would be completely fucked.

Also the aesthetic of blotches of white/brown is completely disgusting

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COMMONWEALTH IS SO FUCKING OP

WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MUCH GODDAMN DEVELOPMENT AND MANPOWER AND BULLSHIT

MY CAMPAIGN HAS BEEN FUCKED INTO NOTHINGNESS BECAUSE THEY ARE STEAMROLLING EVERYONE

>>122630846
But they were white, whites can do anything.

>>122630967
Why does a Welsh flag wave?

>>122630967
>playing eu4
End yourself lad

>>122630967
Try the uninstall.exe strat. It works great on Casual Kids II as well

>>122630968
fuc koff reddit

>>122630968
They would land, take one whiff and give the colonies to someone else. This would happen until the colonies were given sovereignty. The only reason the Brits could handle the smell is because there food is so shit.

>>122630968
>germans
>white

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>>122631397

>>122630764
It was. Rhodesia tried to revise it's history and claim it was a long lost white civilization because it was so good and was in southern Africa.

>HRE coalitions
I don't like it

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>>122631518

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>>122630489
Here's the GP ranking, Three countries went fascist and all monarchies except me have given up their absolute power.
>>122630690
>>122630708
I started by keeping my massive underfunded army and just putting maintenance to zero. After building 4 transports I put back maintenance and annexed Oyo. I built 3-4 more regiments from Oyo and shipped them back over to Greece and started research into military techs. I got extremely lucky a couple years later after the Oriental Crisis when every GP broke their alliance with the ottomemes and they had no brigades. I immediately declared war and broke up my army into 3 stacks and made a defensive line around Thessalia. Fucking Moldovia and Wallachia still have 21k to my 30k and were able to do a lot of damage before their armies finally broke. Finally the ottomemes mobilized and threw thousands of unwashed slavs/turks at my forces, but I baited them into crossing rivers and hills and had 2 techs over them. Eventually I only had 5k and they had no brigades, so I was able to take Thessalia, South Macedonia, Albania, and Cyprus. After this I built up my army even more, prestige whored to GP, and kept a 3 military tech lead of the Turks. After the Senussi revolt they broke all their alliances again, so I attacked and took back my cores+Rumelia and went Megali idea. After Berlin conference I declared war again for Megali cores and some Anatolian lands, which was pretty easy. The only roadblock came when Japan of all fucking countries sphered them and intervened when I tried to take Trabzon and Adana, The war was much longer but after that the only territory without another core the ottomans had was Ankara. I waited until 1916, dismantled them, then conquered them later. I also should mention I I blobbed in Nigeria and annexed Egypt, Madagascar, and Hawaii during all this.I normally wouldn't blob but I had severe manpower shortages from the genocides.

Anyway that's my autistic story

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>>122631693
>Being this mad that Zimbabwe was successful at two points in it's history

>>122631693
What's with the philename?

Can anyone recommend any non shit LPers? Marcoantonio/dedalus tier.

>>122631838
>limit is 134.2 MB
kek what kind of toaster are you even running senpai

>>122632171
I didn't make that pic

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>>122631838

>>122631858
>he doesn't know about surfcore

>>122632241
>using other people's pre-made memes
>not making your own memes
wew lad

>>122632393
No I don't, enlighten me.

>>122632429
I am the creator of radical Yugoslavia and recently sold the copyright for 6,000,000 GBP, ask me anything.

Post bangin' tunes you listen to whilst playing.

https://youtu.be/kbgr9cP-keg
https://youtu.be/F3vCB3YBMUo

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>commie norway
I love these dank hoi4 memes, don't you?

>>122633272
>HNoMS

What does this stand for?

>>122632615
Liar, Radical Yugoslavia was all Podcat

>>122633381
His/Her Norwegian Majesty's Ship

Is there an easy way to keep track of how many immigrants your country has received, or will I have to periodically keep track of them myself? I want to know how many people have moved into my country by game end.

>>122633694
Are Norgies really that autistic?

>>122633424
Throw enough shit and eventually it will stick, you may also remember assault ships and Nazi inspired pagans, all me.

>>122632615
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWKN4RntHk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWtORs9jnv4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHRJCcCYAF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNLuZfA4eO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAvYn0m8VQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGTlb3qOrAo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m41FRcp3fq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wREBD2og5iY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDHErN3dOkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utP3zWacL4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evk60u9dEyY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-CaP7snr0g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2sfev-gu3I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh0HXX3xApU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiuXDV6Jii8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2p8DT8SspU&spfreload=1

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVjTDCzgnb4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj91PQdTTE0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtAxja98-P4

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WsZdre_Si0

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0dWXyTa2Cw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfYKM9oluGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt3f4j_vLCE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfKHCHhp2Go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUPPz1he3sQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Sjo4ASzYA

>>122633881
kek

>>122633881
oops, meant for
>>122632521

I know the based Radical Yugoslav poster isn't a pleb desu

>>122634014
I'm not the yugo poster, I legitimately don't know what it is.

>>122634623
see
>>122633881

newfags smdh

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Is it worth it to restore Traditional Acadamia at the beginning of the game when you've got shit literacy? Since everything in the middle 3 rows is basically top priority.

And also research for Nat Focus #3 before increasing education efficiency right?

>>122634726
Yes. Try to get the one that bonuses Culture, industry and commerce, army a shit.

>>122634674
What does that have to do with the picture?

>>122634726
Don't listen to >>122634783
Try to get Military Industrial Complex as fast as possible

>>122634931
>I like no education

>>122633180
https://youtu.be/2g5Hz17C4is
https://youtu.be/vEtWdI9FByA
https://youtu.be/b4eMyOzD9UI
https://youtu.be/PWgvGjAhvIw

These songs are the only way I know the noughties existed desu, does anyone actually remember the noughties? It feels like they just never existed.

>>122627978
Any help on how to induce pop growth or assimilation?

>>122635791
>be USA
>don't not be USA

>>122635213
>I care about pleb shit

>>122636069
>I can't research anything because nobody in my country speaks the fucking language

>>122636183
>i like getting anally invaded by people with better military tech than me

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>>122634931
Austria starts with Military Industrial Complex and it's shit because 8 research points.

Also what the fuck is the point of Avantgarde Intelligentsia?

>>122635791
pop growth is solely about liferating, random events and medical/chemical technologies.

>>122636259
>I absolutely adore having a country full of mongoloids who can't spell their own names

>>122636487
also healthcare reforms

>>122636514
>hey guys, we keep getting our asses kicked by our neighbors but it's okay, at least everyone can read!

>>122636669
>sure is great we have a good army, now where's the industry, commerce and culture Tech's we could afford if we're have focused on literacy to fund it?

>>122636669
>hey our everything is shit and we're 50 years behind our neighbours technologically but at least we've got shiny guns!

>>122636780
literacy gives a pitiful bonus to research points, clergymen are much better at research

>>122636929
>clergymen

>>122637247
>woman can shill too!

I'm playing a game of EUIV as Haida, an Indian country in Alaska. It's 1511 and I still have no sign of Europeans. Getting spooked out that they're all dead from the Ottomans.

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>>122637247
>Important Issues
>Atheism

>>122637386
>clergywomen

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>people who think business schools and tycoon capitalism isn't objectively the best research school

>>122637624
You see the whole North American continent right? Hmph...

>>122637701
>clergymen
>leading socioeconomic advisors and dependable upholders of a nations scientific worth
>clergymen

>>122637624
India is in Asia.

>>122637749
>Implying Corporative Industrialism isn't better

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>>122637784
Yeah. My goals are BC/Alaskan coastal area and to set up colonies in Korea and the northern Jap islands.

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>eu4 Milan campaign
>France and Austria ally with each other
Welp, this is going to be interesting

>>122637824
it's a close second senpai

>>122637824
Feather, not dot.

>>122638070
I don't understand half the posts here lately.

>>122637824
>>122637749
>implying junkers heer and krupp isn't literally the objective best

>>122638313
ebin
b
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n

>>122638257
They're both brown.
One shits in the street and has a dot on their head.
One can't hold their liquor and wears feathers on their head.

>>122638257
feather indians are the red-skinned alcoholics native to the north american continent, as opposed to dot indians, the brown-skinned street poopers

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Trying to industrialize as Egypt and holy shit there's nothing here at all. No coal and only one iron in a 30k pop province in fucking Lebanon. Tons of cotton but not a single dye to make fabric and clothing, which would be alright if I could wait until 1870 and get a synthetic dye factory but then that requires coal too. There will be a lot of rubber down in Sudan soon, but again, with no coal or iron all I can do is export it. Tropical wood but no lumber, fruit and grain but no coal to make glass. What should I do? I'm working on sphereing Persia, but would it be a better idea to just invade Abyssinia or Korea or something for raw materials?

>>122638425
>>122638484
When you're too slow for even intolerant bigotry.

>>122638614
Increase your prestige and spam capital ships for market access.

>>122638365
theres literally nothing ebin about the truth my friend

>>122639269
but there's everything ebin about playing as prussia

>>122628474
That's a very sold Greece game. Those pops are probably about as good as you can get without cheating or exploiting.

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>>122639302
To be honest I'd be OK if Prussia and Austria were the only playable nations.

>>122638614
Egypt has some of the largest cotton RGOs in the game. Try to focus on Cairo and Alexandria and build fabric, dye, clothes, and luxury clothes factories there. Build liquor factories in the Levant since there's grain everywhere.

Expanding outside of Arabic territory is up to you. There isn't any real way to solve your coal/iron problem otherwise. Sphering Persia like you mentioned is a good start, they have some decent coal provinces.

>>122638728
>>122639753
I'll build prestige and a navy regardless, but the idea is to avoid having to buy from the global market. Actually since China's getting fucked by reactionary rebels I'm thinking of invading Fengtian in Manchuria since it has iron, coal, and timber, and will provide a good foothold for invading northern Korea. The infamy, militancy, and -50 with the UK, France and Russia is just there to dissuade me from conquering China and winning everything like in vanilla right? There are no other consequences?

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>The young in the Third Reich were growing up to have strong and healthy bodies, faith in the future of their country and in themselves and a sense of fellowship and camaraderie that shattered all class and economic and social barriers. I thought of that later, in the May days of 1940, when along the road between Aachen and Brussels one saw the contrast between the German soldiers, bronzed and clean-cut from a youth spent in the sunshine on an adequate diet, and the first British war prisoners, with their hollow chests, round shoulders, pasty complexions and bad teeth—tragic examples of the youth that England had neglected so irresponsibly in the years between the wars.
>brits

>>122640568
>germany literally lost to an army of dyel manlets

Haida again. 1525, still no signs of Europeans in North America.

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>Too many Great Power allies
>Too many Great Power allies
>Too many Great Power allies
>Too many Great Power allies
>Too many Great Power allies
>Too many Great Power allies

>France not going to war with Germany in Kaiserreich
>Netherlands not signing the London Treaty in Victoria 2
>William losing in England in CK2
>this kills the game

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>great zimbabwe

>>122641154
they busy mang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7t_GWXmgFk

>>122638728
>spam capital ships
why?

>>122642846
easy military score which increases your overall rank, which increases your position in the market order

How does claiming the Rhine border as France work in HPM?

>>122643693
You get one (1) free state acquire CB, use it wisely.

>>122643772
I choose you, Poznan!

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rate my uber grob russia imperiums

>>122644070
Take corea

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>>122644271
Vassal. Along with Ainu, Ouchi (Japan), Denmark, Sweden, Iraq, and Syria.

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>>122644491
And a little client state I made over here because I messed up ODER-NIESSE

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and heres the part that makes it a meme

>>122645331
Ruined it for me
0/10 kill yourself

>>122645458
>playing eu4
>not memeing like a pro
???

>>122645331
>jagiellon

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>>122645503
>implying there's any justification for being a pr*testant
Not even memes make this okay

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>>122645331
>reformed
>jagiellon

>>122640106
>blobbing into China
>ever
Just post map without cropping and we'll find another way out for you

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>>122646642
>not blobbing into china for infinite money and pops

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>>122646770
>playing on easy mode

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This doesn't look awful for a non-1066 game.

>>122648091
>HIP has actually some how gotten memier

>>122645331

>not doing it as Brandenburg
>not getting those sweet Prussian ideas

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>>122645592
Reformed is specifically NOT a protestent you faggit :^)

>>122648134
explain pls

So I pirated the dlcs for euIV and just dumped them into my steam copy to play Ironman mode and get achievements

Can I get my steam account banned for this you think?

>>122648490
>being an achievement whore
you are whats killing gaming

>>122648490
Yes, Johan will personally lead a no-knock raid on your home.
Source: 11 years of experience in JROTC

>>122648551
Oh sorry

>>122648440
>random patches of wasteland in central asia and persia
>huge network of provinces crisscrossing the sahara

>>122648815
Realism is not a meaningful argument.

>>122648815
>Literally desert
>Not wasteland
>what are le desert oasises + trading outposts

>>122648947
t. Memeth

>>122648815
You're just an uncultured pleb who is unable to understand the deep, complex cultural, economic and political influence that saharan Africa has had on medieval european society.

>>122648915

Realism is a memeingful argument

HPM here?

Rob here?

Wiz here?

>>122648815
Meneth literally said that the land was there to get attention and make his mod stand out while he actually thinks there should just be overland strait crossings with small patches of land here and there

Lad here?

>>122649227

At least they're shitty one-holding nomad provinces and not anything relevant.

>>122640568
They sure made great Gulag labor

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>>122649015
You know what you're right, here's an image of what a more accurate rendition of Crusader Kings might look like

>>122649529
perfect africa lad

>>122649529

Leave Mesopotamia for Roman irredentism.

This general is as dead as western civilization.

>>122629183
I refuse to go

>>122651953
Black man pls go on slave ship

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in vic 2 is there any point in taking a nation as satellite other than trying to seem like you're not blobbing?

like can you somehow integrate them if there's no, for example, national unification decisions and stuff

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I take it back, this is awful.

>>122652297
They provide you with military support, that's it. Puppets are pretty much permanent spherelings.
So no, people only puppet countries because muh borders and muh history.

>>122649242
here, lad

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Could I have done anything better, /gsg/?

>>122649242
Gidday.

>>122652694
>>122652760
Wew lads, it was me who made that post.
t.he real Lad

>>122652694
Yes, never join the army.

>>122652803
t. BCM

>>122652873
No and please don't associate my with that anti-infopic shitposter.

Okay friends even though it has such a reputation of being bottom tier casul i'm playing EU4 just because

For Castile/Spain do i do Humanism for maximum kumbaya and fully contributing provinces of different cultures or do i get religious for maximum DEUS VULT
Ironically in Spain games in EU3 i hardly ever bothered with north africa so i might not actually be doing much converting?
Or is religious still necessary for bringing all of America under the cross?

actually, what the hell combination of ideas in general do i get as Castile? Only combo that seems obvious is Exploration+Expansion

which military ideas are good for fending off the Frogs?

>>122653612
>which military ideas are good for fending off the Frogs?
Defensive, build a fort in every border province between you and them.
Whenever war comes, burn all those and wait for them to deplete.

>>122653612
Humanism pretty much gets rid of those bullshit EU4 rebels, so I'd say go for it, it makes the game somewhat fun despite Johans's desperate tries.
>which military ideas are good for fending off the Frogs?
Offensive or Quantity. Quantity if you're gonna colonize instead of blobbing.
>>122653683
Defensive doesn't actually have any bonuses to unit defense, lad.

>>122653803
>>122653683
Thanks for the tips

seems the latter points of Defensive and maxing it out gives big attrition bonuses which is i guess what the other guy was getting at

i guess i have the option to turn the Pyrenees into a frozen deathtrap

>>122653930
Don't do it, AI suffers less attrition than you and 1% is not much at all.
Take Quantity for 50% more force limit, 80% more manpower and cheaper troops. It fit your colonial trade empire fairly well.

>>122653803
>Defensive doesn't actually have any bonuses to unit defense, lad.
It's got the fort defense modifier. If you stack forts on the border provinces you can attrition them out.
Quantity also has the garrison size bonus which will help with this tactic as well.

>>122653930
i guess i have the option to turn the Pyrenees into a frozen deathtrap
This is it.

Also holy shit

Am i out of my fucking skull or is one of the war songs in EU4 a remix or something of a song from a 2 Steps from Hell song??

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Political + culture maps, what do I do next /gsg/?

>>122654054
>It's got the fort defense modifier. If you stack forts on the border provinces you can attrition them out.
Doesn't matter, the Frogs will just smash your armies with superior numbers because terrain in EU4 almost doesn't matter.
>>122654101
It's 1929, play a next campaign.

>>122654101
>51.65M
Show world map.

Still no word about the beta? I need my meme pushups

>>122653612

If you're a colonizing power, don't worry about culture/humanism. You'll be spreading thin all around the world and colonies will get your main culture, so it's very rare to get more as accepted. I did it with England but only because I annexed France. France, Portugal, Castille and Italy don't need that.

Religious is OP as fuck, if only for the first idea (the CB). Once you get imperialism/nationalism, it's useless though.

>what ideas to get as Castille

Exploration+Expansion, Quantity (for the extra colonist policy and manpower of course), Offensive/Defensive (depends on your playing style. I prefer Offensive), Trade+Economic and finish off with espionage

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>>122654401

>>122623272
replying to this

>>122654562
>That Mexico

????

>>122654562
>Italian Japan
>Italian Straya
Wew lad. How much of that are states?

>>122654554
>no naval + maritime
trash.mpeg

>>122654554
In that case it might feel awkward to me having only like a sliver of Castilian home culture in Iberia after gobbling up the Portufags
Ill also want to culturally imperialize Lisbon and Seville lol

>>122654691

France invaded me to retake Savoy, America was an ally. me + Russia beat back France, so the ticking warscore became 100 and I dismantled America. Mexico was an ally, so they took most of that area.

>>122654707

All of them, 4100 colonial power, it took me until the early 1920s to hit it.

>>122654754
>no espionage+aristocracy for that +20% cavalry combat ability
Just end it.
>>122654812
>51 million pops in states
>2256 industrial score
>4th place
Why?

>>122654754

Navies and naval combat are absolute shit in EU4. The only nice perk is filling up Maritime for the decisions.

>>122654804

Well you can fill up Religious and get the culture conversion discounts (there's also some policies that further reduce it).

What I did as England was genociding Ireland, Wales, Normandy and Gascogne, since I at one point had a great bird mana wizard.

>>122654869

China is westernized, and a series of unfortunate events have left me without any of the worthwhile spheres. I was 1 in industry in the late 1800s/early 1900s though.

Ehtiopia is also a colony, as is Tripoli and southern Malaysia.

>>122655181
That doesn't really explain the pitiful amount of score though, except maybe if you lost some major wars.
One last question, how much unemployment do you have?

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Which of should I download, Vickmod or HIP?

>>122655337
BICE

How do you add support for the ruling party in a decision?

>>122655337

robmod

>>122654101
>>122654562
Go full meme and violate Swiss neutrality. Conquer them as well as Tunis afterwards, as well as freeing Ireland and taking Alexandria + Suez. Extend timeline to 1948 and post your survival playthrough. Fix bordergores while doing so.

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>>122655298
>how much unemployment do you have?

Somewhat high.

>>122655826
Yeah, put that 6.60 million bong bucks to use and build some fucking factories man. I don't even know how could you neglect your industry that much in a game about industrializing.

>>122655826
Wew lad
Just reopen them, subsize them all and do the ctrl click, hopefully you can achieve +3k industry this way.

>>122655952
>I don't even know how could you neglect your industry that much in a game about industrializing.

I was busy containing Germany for the past several years, because a bunch of my spheres are sitting on their cores. Like I said, I used to be 1st for industry.

>>122654229

I think with defensive and scorched earth forts you can bleed the enemy dry before you even fight a battle.

It's basically Russia the idea group.

For some retarded reason, I cannot create the Kingdom of Pannonia within the Byzantine Empire in my CK2 game. Is there a workaround or a mod that removes the weird requirements?

>in b4 uninstall

>>122656007
You know you can pause the game, right? Just because you're busy with fighting doesn't mean you can't manage your industry. And what the hell have your capitalists been doing? How much are you taxing them?
>>122656048
Not if the AI cheats with attrition, and in EU4 it does.

>>122656171

>300k stack from 10 different countries in a 40 supply province
>no one takes attrition because other AI countries don't count for the supply on the province

Bravo, Wiz.

>>122656225
The best part is that these 300k troops count for your attrition.

>>122656321

And I just read something on le forums that attrition is capped at 5%. No matter what.

>>122656126

You might be missing a culture requirement, just go into the game files and edit the tile so anyone can form it.

>>122656171

35%, it's kinda high. I also got lazy and just wanted to fight Germany, so long as the money was coming in, I ignored most other things.

>>122656408
Yeah that's pretty much it. I'm in the right file already, trying to edit so it doesn't screw the game over. Thanks for the heads up though.

B-bump?

>>122656478
>bump
>literally 7 seconds after the last post
Dumb stutterposter.

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>>122656403
>>122656321
>>122656225
>>122656171
So you guys really liked my new supply system, eh?

You will love what I have prepared for HoI4 :^)

t. wiz

>>122656561
I restarted my phone and then suddenly all these posts show up (the ones I could see were from 2 hours ago)
I was suspecting, but not certain if it was a bug

>>122656703

>supply in HoI4
>manpower, resources, supply and infrastructure is useless
>when a brigade becomes shitty/damaged, just replace it ;^)

Hey /gsg/,
Why everybody think that EU3>EU4 ?
I'm really curious here.

>>122657019
Every game in the EU series is shit.

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>>122627726
>American Nejd

>>122657019

Nostalgia goggles and rose-tinted glasses.

I'm not saying EU4 is good. I'm saying EU3 was shitty too.

>>122657019
I think EU4 with expansions is genuinely way more enjoyable than EU3

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Why is CK2's multiplayer so fucking unplayable even with just two people?

>>122657172
Please elaborate.

>>122657172

CK2 is for memes. Johan steers it so he can fap and create dank memes in his office.
EU4 is for multiplayer. Johan's favorite hobby is getting rekd in Paradox office multiplayers.

>>122657049
If the EU series is shit. What are the good games in /gsg/ ?

>>122657246
The sync is just awful compared to EUIV. Somebody always drops.

>>122657335
Probably only Darkest Hour, even Victoria 2 is arguably shit.

>>122657390

>Dankest Meme
>good

>le doomstack oriented combat
>le huge ass provinces
>muh sliders
>muh mosley/willy/trotsky

>>122657390
Darkest hour is fucking shit

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>>122657390
Darkest Hour's combat is so irredeemably shit

>>122657448
Do you have anything other than memes to back up your claims?
>>122657454
>>122657503
Then every /gsg/ is shit. Might as well just give up and play Stalker.

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>>122657390

>Darkest Hour
>good

>>122657525
There are /gsg/'s with less shit combat

>>122657603
Yes, HOI3, it lacks in every other department though. Some people refuse to even call it a GSG.

>>122657679
I refuse to call DH a gsg too

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>>122657390
>Darkest Meme

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>>122657679
Yeah see this is why I'm personally somewhat cautiously excited about HoI4
Even if it has shit combat, it can't be as shit as Darkest Hour

>>122657758
But that's just you and your memes, HOI3 fits the definition of a war game.
>>122657775
>DH
>worse than HOI4
Man, what's with the DH hate memes lately?

>>122657775
You'd be wrong because so far HoI4 just looks like darkest hour with epik graphics and mana.

>Napoleon's Legacy and HIP both cause a file exception
What am I doing wrong, guys?

>>122658018
Yes, install RobMod.

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Which gsg lets me become Caligula?

>>122657853
While DH fails as a wargame and as a GS

>>122623170
Recommended nation to play for HOI3: Romania

Why?

>>122658108
all of them

>>122658071
>What am I doing wrong?
>Yes

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>>122658317
do it for him

>>122658317
I guess that because you aren't completely useless and can practice some warfare mechanics in the Balkans.

>>122658384
You're doing everything wrong, lad.

>>122658071
t. Rob

>>122658018
Clean your map cache

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hey guys

how goes it?

>>122657169
It definitely is nowadays, it wasn't on release though.

There still are things I miss about eu3 though, the slider system for tech and the trade empire mechanics for example.

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>/gsg/ hates blobs
>one of the greatest empires in history is this

>>122658535
>eu 3
>trade empire mechanics
What do you mean? If I remember correctly trade in EU3 was basically just maxing out free trade and putting as many merchants as you could in each CoT. EU4 seems like an improvement.

>>122658658
t. Finn

>>122658398
That makes sense.

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>>122658658

hello fellow spurdo

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>>122658658
nothing wrong with blobs friend

>>122658920
>>122658805
>>122658704
It's like one guy trying to be funny

trying

>>122658956
It's like one Finn trying to be not mad

Trying

>>122658920
>no Rome

>>122659057
merely a client state

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Hey /gsg/ I heard you like blobs so here's my empire for your viewing pleasure.

>>122658529
Hi there Mayaka

How finnbro is doing?

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>>122659505
i dont know finnbro personally, so i wouldn't know

>>122658694
I can't remember the exact term, but I think it was trade leagues. You could force other countries to join yours so that they'd trade in your centres.
Plus I liked being able to build trade centres.

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>tfw you favourite son and perfect heir dies
it hurts to live

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>>122659548
>>122658529
You motherfucker. Finally out of protective custody I see?