/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

Xth for Carolus Rex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2ylGAwBnk

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xth for Irredenta

Give me a goal and a nation in HPM

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Nicky

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Reminder that anti-Germanic sentiment will NOT be tolerated.

>>137027765
Poland, recover your cores.

>>137027765
Japan
Conquer the American west coast and make it majority Japanese

>>137027892
That's fucking impossible

>>137027863
WAGGLE YOUR WILLIES!!!!!

>>137027765
Argentina Confederation > Argentina > No Bolivia La Plata and then annex Chile

>>137027704
nnclaves dont mean a shitfest faggot

When I was a boy, niggers didn't ride bicycles.

And now they do.

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>>137027765
Lithuania, recover your rightful claims or at least the Belar*sian part

>>137027902
Now that's reasonable
Thanks

>>137027915
Not at all, just git gud. You can always release congress poland from russia.

>>137027863
inferior germanic scum

>>137027765
grob griechenland


megali idea go

help the AI's armies won't stand down in my CK2 HIP game wat do

>>137027650
Reminder that FUCK YOU

>>137028168
t. non-white untermensch

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>>137028314
>what could have been

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/development-diary-3-the-bonsai-tree.916551/
Thanks Paradox.

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>>137026847
"The Prince Regent, Alfred, advised by his cousin and great-uncle, intervened in an ongoing war between the House of Toulouse and the Karlings. Landing at Roquefort, the Anglo-Saxon army marched north and crushed the amassed Karling forces, themselves worn down by several long sieges."

>England getting boring
>vote on whether to keep playing as House of Wessex or switch.
http://poal.me/j5cihw
http://poal.me/j5cihw
http://poal.me/j5cihw

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>>137029227
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FUGGING TURKKEKS

>>137029396
dumb spurdoposter

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>>137029513
dumb dumbposter poster, all spurdoposts are welcome on /gsg/

>>137030490
Why?

If you do it for no reason all the time it loses its fun.

do you report or just wait for it to be cleaned up

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Tips for PRC in NWO mod?

>>137030490
I almost kek'd myself to death

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>>137029314
"Victory came within a year of the Anglo-Saxon forces landing in Aquitaine. With the death, not a year later, of the aged Queen of Germany, the largest Karling realm has completely collapsed into a mess of various inheritances. The Karlings control only Lorraine and France yet."

Poll will remain open for a little bit while I watch Cry fail his way through the best Half-Life mod in existence. Thanks to the faithful lurkers who have voted so far.

Also, any suggestions as to whom/where I should switch? I'm thinking Aquitaine or Burgundy, but those would probably get boring quickly. Excuse me while I search for interesting characters.

what was the vic2 mod that let me make unasul as brazil ?it is not nwo the one i'm looking for.

>>137030943
Just wait

>>137031025
Are you doing a megacampaign

>>137031682
Not him but I am

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Step one complete. Took a lot of losses, but I can always recruit czechs to fill the ranks.

>>137031734
No one asked you

>>137031931
What in the fuck are you doing lad? Just sphere annex Austria and you'll get cores on Czechia. Fucking restart.

>>137031930
i am going to die stop

>>137032160
Really now? In earlier HPM versions, you could only sphereannex austria if they had already lost Bohemia+Hungary.

What are the conditions for the sphere annex now?

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>Implying you can contain the Hue

Is there a way to expand slavery to Caribbean Islands?

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>when your nation gets raped to death

>>137032340
You can either sphere Austria as is and annex them for 20 infamy. That will release all of their non-core territory.
Or you could manually release all of those countries and annex them for only 10 infamy. If you're planning on doing that you should intervene in the Hungarian revolution of 1848.

>>137031930
This guide's a bit too complex for me, can you make a simpler guide please.

Anyone got a cheeky download link for MEIOU and Taxes for EU4?

I'm trying to install it with a direct download from steam (not a legitimate download) but it keeps crashing on processing flags.

>>137032574
So in 1848, I should ally with hungary and fight russia? That sounds incredibly bloody. I'd rather eat the 20 inf.

>>137032723
http://www.mediafire.com/download/54eltycp83bfe49/M%26T_v1.23.7z
Here you go my mate, it's all yours

>>137032873
Cheers lad, I'll give it a shot.

It seems to be installed with the one I have now, but something fucks up with the flags.

>>137032857
No, you should increase your influence with them to friendly and intervene (use specifically the "intervene in war" mechanic) in the war between Austria and Hungary. The Ruso-Hungarian war is only for humiliation, you can safely ignore that.

>>137032857
>He's scared of Slavic peasant brigades as fucking Prussia

>>137031954
I am though

>>137029278
What did he mean by this?

>>137033143
Then get a trip and shitpost the thread for the next month

>>137028601
>t. non-white untermensch
Nicholas, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod; Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Tauric Chersonesus, Lord of Pskov, and Grand Prince of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia, and Finland; Prince of Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Semigalia, Samogitia, Bielostok, Karelia, Tver, Yugor, Perm, Vyatka, Bogar and others; Sovereign and Grand Prince of Nizhni Novgorod, Chernigov, Ryazan, Polotsk, Rostov, Jaroslavl, Beloozero, Udoria, Obdoria, Kondia, Vitebsk, Mstislav, and Ruler of all the Severian country; Sovereign and Lord of Iveria, Kartalinia, the Kabardian lands and Armenian province: hereditary Sovereign and Possessor of the Circassian and Mountain Princes and of others; Sovereign of Turkestan, Heir of Norway, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmarschen, and Oldenburg, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth

>>137033203
"Crusader Kings II is just *so deep*"
"Crusader Kings II is like an RPG, really!"

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Is there any reason why can't I raise a vassal's levies? It's kind of important because he's got twenty thousand of them.

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Kings of the North guy how can one form the Roman Britannic Empire? How do I get the senate thingy its asking for in my city?

>>137033063
>>137033086
That makes sense, but won't austria still have non-core provinces after that war, meaning I'll still need to fight another war to get them to release them and to admit hegemony?

>>137033613
>Beautiful Albion has cucked your Empire out of all that clay and now they're cucking you out of levies
Beautiful

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RIP France

>>137033781
I was Albion, then I had to give it all to my son 'cause of vassal limits.

And now he's being a stubborn bastard. It's probably because I told him he couldn't listen to metal at 1 AM.

>>137033697
You have to control enough of Britain, and restore enough provinces and duchies. H
How much do you control now? Can you give a screenshot?

>>137033718
Yes, you will. But Italy should take Croatia from them and that leaves only like Galicia and Bukovina. Not much to be honest, especially considering that other GPs and crises may help you.

>tfw spent my whole day trying to install a mod to EUIV

AND PROM'S TOMORROW

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I want to start a new game of ck2 but I have no idea who to play as, can you give some ideas lads? Preferably a white country in western europe

pic unrelated

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>>137034057
That's fair. I changed my first war to seizing panama from Columbia.

^137034105
HILARIOUS joke

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REMOVE HAIDA

>>137034258
>Preferably a white country in western europe
Just play Germany you boring snownigger.

>>137034260
>Doing all these wars where sphereing would accomplish your goals just the same

I don't understand your logic, anon.

>>137034260
Oh man oh boy I sure do love to see epic Prussia games posted here, how exciting! Are you... Are you going to form the Germania?!?!

>>137034340
>Cascadia
Where does this meme country even come from?

>>137034379
But it wouldn't be as fun.

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>>137034258
Is HIP stable again? Play Provence and Form burgundy, then go heretic.

>>137034379
I want the whole panama state, and costa rica. It's perfect farmland, a strategic position, and almost completely unoccupied.

>>137034498
I know the memes, I haven't played Germany for a year or 2, and I'm tired of playing small uncivs.

>>137034258
Get HIP.

Then play as Zoroastrian Karen in the Old Gods start.

Form a new Zoroastrian Empire.

P.S the Iranians look white.

>>137034592
>It's perfect farmland, a strategic position, and almost completely unoccupied
>Decides to puppet Egypt instead of annexing it.
I still don't understand your logic, lad.

Couldn't you take some Caribbean islands from the Bongs or Frogs instead? Or even Haiti or Dominica.

>>137034641
They might look white but they aren't european m8

>>137033613
Any real answers? I've been looking around, but the dude wasn't occupied or anything else like I was able to turn up.
>>137034641
Is HIP compatible with old saves?

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>>137034258
Form Great Brittany, repulse the latin invaders.

>>137034880
Dominica would be fine, but panama kills two birds with one stone. I don't have to spend time sphering it, and I get an almost unpopulated area that I don't have to fight a GP for.

The theme of this Grobgermaniums game is sustainability, in that I want all provinces to be justifiably excluded from decolonization (ex:French Guyana). That means I'm going to favour colonizing and seizing areas with almost no pops and good terrain types. Egypt is full of egyptians, and I might end up seizing some islands from the Frogs or Bongs.

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>>137030970
Lads?

>>137035480
Don't play as commies.

>>137035020
I know lol.

>>137035053
With old HIP saves probably. Maybe with non HIP saves.

>china has infinite money

What a shitty meme. Why does it exist? I saw it on the Vicky 2 wiki but I kicked off a game now and the economy is shite

How do I China lads?

>>137034105
>prom
You have to go back

>>137032340

You need to restart. Knock Austria down to secondary power and make them release all provinces that aren't their cores (they have cores on Bohemia). You can sphere all the land they lose and possibly puppet it. When you form Greater Germany with a shit Austria in your sphere you get the chance to annex them with a huge infamy hit. Take that hit even if it puts you over the limit because it'll make you into world #1 military power and allow you to take down a double team of France and Russia without breaking a sweat.

>>137035668
I'm a new to Vicky2 and this thing bothered me too. In tutorial videos I watched, (most of them were USA) in the videos the player had much more money than how it was in my game. I guess they changed something in one of the recent patches

>>137035841
I'd rather do that 1848 strat after seizing hegemony/releasing galicia earlier. Otherwise I have to pay tons of infamy to release everything.

I already restarted, but I'm not sure if you're advocating an ASAP anti austria war or to wait for the revolution.

>>137035550
b-but

>>137036234
Republican China is best China.
t. Kuomintang pro

>>137027590

How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, March 30th:
598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro-Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague.
1815 – Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Proclamation which would later inspire Italian unification.
1856 – The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1870 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction.
1940 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Jingwei.
1944 – World War II: Allied bombers conduct their most severe bombing run on Sofia, Bulgaria.

>News
CK2 DD3 - The Bonsai Tree
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/development-diary-3-the-bonsai-tree.916551/


## Archive
https://mega.co.nz/#F!WZZFXDyT!yyb25ZuLdLs0B8vhoKS3LA

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

# Mods

>>All /gsg/ Mods
http://pastebin.com/VtDvaDL3 (embed) (embed)

>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.3.3 - 21/03/2016
http://pastebin.com/66gpxbKk (embed)

>>EU4 - BDSM
http://pastebin.com/vYbnKvK2 (embed)

>>CK2 - Historical Immersion Project
http://hip.zijistark.com/releases/

>>137036523
>(embed) (embed)

>>137036217

ASAP war to force them to release Galicia-Lodomeria, Lombardy, Venice, and Bukovina. Consider releasing Croatia also, but it's not optimal to do so immediately. Wrap up this war quickly and focus on domestic policy for a few years. Then quickly influence Hungary and intervene in 1848, keeping them released. After this you want to release the rest of the Hungarian cores, and release Dalmatia. Everything that remains should be Austrian cores iirc. That's quite a lot of infamy, but it should never push you over the limit. Then focus on German affairs, as everything else is infamy free. When you're ready to form Greater Germany you need to ensure Austria is in your sphere, and you'll get an easy event to annex them when you do form the cultural union. Every nation they lost should be very close allies of yours, making you freakishly powerful in return for the infamy you spend.

Is HPM worth getting or is it simply for elitist autists? I'm fairly new to Vicky so I still rely on vanilla guides and shit. Does it add complexity/difficulty or does it just tweak things? Vicky is probably just right in terms of complexity now but if HPM balances it out a bit I suppose that would be nice.

>>137037135
Yes it's worth getting

>>137037135
Its fun

>>137037135
It's worth getting, yes

It makes things more difficult for a few nations

When will they stop updating CK2/EU4?

They're both getting bloated as fuck.

They've almost become like MMOs.
Unless you pay an insane amount of money to initially buy them then continue buying the bi annual updates you may as well not bother because the mechanics they add are pretty much a necessity to play the game.

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

>>137037135
Yeah it's pretty good. After playing Vicky vanilla for over 500+ hours, when I played /gsg/ mod, and then later HPM, it was impossible to go back to vanilla. If you are new, you should also grab a graphics pack, located in OP.

>>137037135

HPM is probably the best current mod, better than PDM which I used to play before (which added unnecessary complexity).

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>>137037391
>pay

>>137037135
>>137037402
I also suggest Big Square Frame Flags mod. Victoria 2 actually has some good flags, but you can't see half of them because retarded Paradox made the flags fucking round.

Is HPM a good mod for a Greece playthrough?

>>137037391

CK2 in about a year, they've handed off to a dev team that appears to be inexperienced and there to wind the product down with less important DLCs and patched. EUIV will probably last another 2, although I'm long since sick of their boring new features.

Why is HPM Silesia so fucking broken

>>137037135
No its horrible. Play Robmod and unHPM

t. not HPM

The Big Flag Frame mod isn't working for me, my game keeps crashing whenever I select a unit. Running Vic II HPM 3.04.

>>137037983

No, it's fucking awful for it. Greece plays realistically in it which means it's actually fairly hard to get anywhere. Best version for Greece is vanilla imo.

>>137037948

I always thought the square flags looked like complete shit within the Vic II interface, but to each their own.

>>137037374

It makes things more realistic in many ways which means really weird and implausible turnarounds are harder for tiny nations. They removed a lot of quality-of-life maintenance events from PDM for some reason, so you often end up with weirdly shaped dominions and colonial nations instead of having cleanup events cede them provinces and give them special bonuses. I think it's the ideal mod for playing in the Americas or in Europe, but not much else.

can i get a link to unHPM patch notes

Do I have to un-update CK2 in order to properly play After the End?

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Fuck PC and the kike of Anita

>>137038656
I think there is an updated version for current

>>137038458
This happened to me, if I'm not wrong this only happens when your flag mod and HPM versions are not compatible with each other, you're probably using an earlier version of one of them.. Just delete them and download their latest versions & install them, this fixed it for me.

>>137038463
Also you can't form Byzantine in HPM.

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Post best euro borders

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>>137033613
>that map

>>137038783
>tfw no Christina Columbus
>tfw smelly gross Spanish men are the ones that colonized

>>137038889

Nor in PDM. The HPM developer team in particular seems to have a strict NO FUN policy on historically unlikely nations like that. Lots of other rare but interesting events and decisions are removed as well.

>>137038656

I found this DL link for the current version:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/1rsuvgtl4c54j5h/After+the+End+0.7.1.zip

>>137039026
>no Danelaw

>>137039048
What's the problem?

>>137039064
>The HPM developer team
What? He's one guy and he posts here

>>137039026
>Romemeia

>>137039410

I was planning to write PDM and HPM developer team but I deleted the first part, hence the quirk. I stand by the rest of it though.

>>137039726
Are you avin a ruse

>>137039410
There's like a dozen other contributers though. And HPM usually removes things because of votes in the thread.

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Can someone give me tibs on how to play this country

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>France Minimod
>overwrites your hpm folder

>>137039919
From what I know

Have fun getting rape by revolts, chinese christians, europeans and japs

>>137039919
>Westernize
>Kill the world

>>137040130
Pretty realistic.

>>137039919
Why would you want to play as china? They are literally the most boringest race ever.

>>137040310
>race

>>137040224
Well, China has been westernized for over 80 years now and they've yet to kill anyone.

>>137040428
not anyone, kill the economy with cheap stuff

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>>137040428

>>137039379
Nothing if you're a maniac

>>137040625
Yeah, I meant that too. They aren't killing any economies at all.

>>137040793
I don't get it. Graphically, or what?

>>137039965
this is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass

>>137033998
Sorry for the late reply and I only have 4 mre provinces from the starting one, how much more do I need? All the Romano-Britannic ones?

>>137041020
It's ugly as fuck

Anyone want to play Sphere,Puppet,Annex? Your playing as the USA. Your options are Canada,Mexico and Japan. Who would you pick and why /gsg/?

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>tfw tried megacampaign 10 times now and I get bored every fucking time

How do people manage it lads?

>>137041335
By being severe autists

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>>137041248
No shit. It's a map. Of a medieval HRE.

>>137041035
this is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps

>>137041321
Annex Canada, duh. It's on the same continent, filled with people of the same culture.
Puppet Japan, it's simply more valuable than Mexico.
Sphere Mexico, I don't really care about them.

>>137037391
>>137038110
I like how people can't decide whether the current DLC are less important or absolutely vital

>>137041413
Why the fuck is the capital of the HRE in Greece

>>137037948
A bunch of flags have good ideas, but I wish they were bigger than 93*64.

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What are my desired borders in ck2 as a Christian Arab?

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Rate my deseret borders. The lighter the color is the more blobby it gets, so any recommendations of where my righteous mormon kingdom should end?

>>137041998
Because I gave England to my son, so it couldn't be in London like it was before.

>>137041335
Custom mods, imposing harsh limitations on themselves and playing world police with the console.

>>137042174
Stay in Utah

>>137042085
From West Africa to India my mate.

>>137032873
It worked. Cheers man.

Here's HIP if anyone wants it:

http://hip.zijistark.com/releases/latest

>>137042174
Pretty decent. You could take that one flat province in Northern Mexico as well.
And what was Deseret's primary culture again?

>>137042085
andalusian?

>>137041335
autism

I tried it, but the games aren't hard, interesting, or dynamic enough to keep me playing long.

it's like, what the fuck else is there to do? You accomplish your goals and then you either blob everywhere, sit on your ass at full speed and wait, or quit. Blobbing gets boring and fast forward isn't fast enough to pass centuries of doing nothing.

>>137042698
Switch characters and play a smaller noble in your blobemoth.

>>137042605
I'm going to release it as USA, so Yankee

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rate my scandinavia guys

>>137042891
Could you at least change it to Dixie? Texan would be best, tbqh.

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>>137042916
>No Finland

>>137043003
I suppose, but weren't the mormons from New York or some shit?

>>137038529
this? pastebin.com/zK3YrpNx

>>137043143
They were in Pennsylvania or some shit before they moved.

>>137042916
Scandinavian africa or african Scandinavia?

>>137042916
>letting perfidious cuck you out of Lagos, Prussia out of Calabar

>>137042916
>finland
>karelia
>estonia
>orkney/shetland
These should be your next goals...
protect your ass against germany though

>>137042174
Take Arizona, N mexico, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Washington-Oregon and California

Does vanilla HoD have dynamic country names? Like if I change my ruling party will I get an appropriate country rename?

Also can I declare war for religious reasons?

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Just finished taking Cambodia away from Vietnam and annexing it. What should be my next goals?

>>137038351
t.HPM

Why is there no religious map mode for v2?

>>137043731

Maybe kick the frogs out?

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Vic II army formation should be 4/4/1/1, right?
inf/cav/art/eng ?
About to war France and Russia for A-L for the first time, so want to make sure I've got this right.

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>>137043731
GOAT borders.

>>137043731
You need to annex It Ain't Me

>>137042085
Mesopotamia, Arabia, Jerusalem. Maintain tributaries/religious vassals in Persia and Mongolia.

Nestorian or bust.

>>137044036

Can I add to this? Are 30k army stacks the best to use?

why is adus so hot

>>137043887
>>137043625

Religion is completely irrelevant in V2 because it's current year and we know that religion was long gone as a political force in the 19th century

>>137044036
4 infantry 4 artillery 1 hussar 1 engineer

>>137044213
Pretty much, yes.

commerce raiders or man o' wars?

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>>137044096
>gif

>>137044036
>>137044374
I do 5 inf, 3 art, 1 eng, 1 hus (in the beginning, in lategame i do 1 dragoon)

>>137043887
This
Taiping and a germany united by southerners really need religion maps
>>137044036
Yea, thats the basic army
I personaly use different armies and try to plan ahead a siege, similar to HoI
Big stacks of engineers on the first provinces, and regular armies to the front
And when constructing armies the only thing you need to look after is that you have more cavs and inf than engineers and artillery

>>137044374
>4 infantry 4 artillery 1 hussar 1 engineer
Wew, good save. Thanks.

>>137044036
>>137044213
>>137044374
It's hussars, for the recon, yes, not cav.
Also enjoy your infantry dying and your artillery ending up on the front line.

Just ditch an art and and another inf to avoid that. 40% artillery is still plenty enough to ruin AI armies, and it'll all be safer for your art too with the extra meat shields.

>>137044096
Try to take yunnan too

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I just played my first game as Allied Italy in HOI3. I think I accidentally won Germany the war.

>>137044464
>>137044374
>>137044493
>>137044525
Thanks!

>>137044405
What's the problem? I just wanted to post a small sized image of only the borders.

>>137044464
Then you're fucking retarded. If an infantry regiment gets destroyed another one doesn't step in, the artillery that's been behind it will still land in the front row. And in the endgame you should use tanks (instead of eng, also helpful as they are in the front row) and planes.

>>137044651
Nah, it will ruin everything. Trust me.

>>137041035
what?
>>137041417
what?

>>137044364

Pops also convert religion.
It would be good to see how religions infiltrate your colonies.

Maybe in the next DLC "Jews of Jerusalem", for only 20 shekels.

>>137044364
Religion actually affects assimilation rate IIRC, other than this I don't think they have any importance. In some mods they have events related to them though

>>137044713
>At a dinner with Churchill, Ribbentrop had said that, in a future war with Britain, Germany would have the Italians on its side. Churchill, referring to Italy’s poor record in the First World War, responded with one of his devastating verbal flashes: “That’s only fair – we had them last time.”

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Hey anons of /gsg/. I would like to give you a few pieces of advice regarding the Scramble for Africa. HPM added a lot of content but their is still a lot he missed.

First there was no uncivilized nation named "Madagascar" before the Scramble. It was called the Kingdom of Merina. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merina_Kingdom.

All the nations on the map were major uncivilized nations in Africa. They weren't just meme uncivis. They had been trading with many of the western nations like the Ottoman Empire for many decades.

>>137044887
This is what happens when you feed a stoner scrambled eggs

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>>137045223
posting best Afrika

>>137045223

WE WUZ KANGZ N SHIET the post

>>137045207
Hitler is in a meeting with his top generals when a messenger hurries into the room and says "Führer, Italy has joined the war!" Hitler replies "Damn, send in ten divisions" the messenger says "No sir you don't understand, they're on our side" to which Hitler replies "FUCK! Send forty"

>>137045223
>They weren't just meme uncivis
I hope this is bait, but if it's not, are you seriously trying to make a case for even more HPMbloat?

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>>137045223
>western nations like the Ottoman Empire

>>137045361
You can't have good africa borders because it was literally who got there first or what was decided by the berlin conference

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>>137045223
to be honest there needs to be more flavour around the scramble for Katanga and Tippu Tip and the Belgian-Arab wars in the congo, plus better borders. Also since he redid the population in the Congo it's glaringly obvious how bad it is everywhere else (4.5 million people in Bunkeya and 10 thousand in provinces right next door in Zambia)

>>137045223
>kazembe traded with europeans
its terminal son

>>137041103
You would need at least a sizable amount of Britain south of Hadrian's Wall before you can reform the senate.

I'm getting into CK2 and it's pretty fun, this may end up replacing V2 as my favorite paradox game. Who should I play next, though? My current game is Aragon and I started in 1066, are the pre-1066 start scenarios as shit as everyone says? Should I try playing any other weird religions or just stick to the regular European Christians?

>>137045789
Kazembe traded with the Swahili coast who traded with Arabs, Chinese, Indians and Europeans. See Tippu Tip on the map there? He was a Swahili slave trader from Zanzibar and it was more a commercial empire than an actual one where he extracted Ivory and Slaves.

>>137045223
HOL UP

>>137045223
>wadai empire
>kanem-bornu empire
>toucouleur empire

EMPIRE

>>137045471

>muh bloat boogeyman

why don't you get a decent computer/play vanilla/original vicky?

>>137045362
>implying

>>137045837
>are the pre-1066 start scenarios as shit as everyone says?
It's mostly shit but you can try playing Charlemagne, he has a few unique events.

>>137045720
>>137045609
>>137045471
>>137045362
Did I ironically create a new meme? I actually have an African studies degree lol.

>>137045223
WE

>>137045809
>tripfags

>>137045471
>HPMbloat
t. rob

>>137046268
>African studies degree
Holy shit I bet you're white, too.

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>>137046268
>I actually have an African studies degree

>>137046069
It had an emperor?

>>137046321
I am the legit one, check the Mod DB summary.

>>137046010
>traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with people who traded with europeans
its cancer

>>137046081
Lack of shekels, and vanilla feels way too barren now that I've tried HPM. Not that I'm against having irrelevant jungle tags otherwise.

>>137046268
>>137046495
>African Studies
But Africa's fucking huge.
>>137046623
Or even just traded with Europeans.

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>>137044264

Can someone who's familiar with Distant Worlds answer this question for me? The op image says you shouldn't start in the Age of Shadows as a brand new player, but the ingame thingy says that's where you should start. What makes the Age of Shadows harder?

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>>137046784
>this
>hot

>>137046551
How much do you guys plan on expanding the map and when will you do so?

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Playing South Africa. Should I be encouraging libs for immigrants or does that only apply to the americas? I want to have a white majority ASAP.

>>137046993
Only Americas. SA can only get immigrants by decision.

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Russia Stronk?

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WHY THIS PISS YELLOW COLOR (it's not that bad, but any recommendations on what color to change it too?)

>>137046623
Just like the Silk Road :-)

>>137045223
lad tippu tip was a person not an empire

>>137047403
Planning on reviving the Pentarchy, meaning I need to take from North Africa all the way to Rome. Then Ill just head east and oppress China.

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>>137047394
fug okay time to restart

>>137047570
Beige

>>137047570
Light blue

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>>137047570
Golden fits Deseret though.

>>137047570
213, 38, 181

>>137046961
We plan on including all of Western Europe, setting the boundary at:
-the Elbe river
-then the Danube river (so including the western part of the Pannonian Basin)
-the border of the Roman province of Illyria

This means that eventually, all of the Western Roman Empire (and the barbarian areas) will be included.

We don't have a definite date yet, but work is going much faster than even just a few months back, so who knows? It won't be too long before we release another map expansion.

>>137047608
He created a pretty big slave trade empire.

>>137045223
Now hol' up

>>137047743
That's not golden. It's like a greenish light yellow.

Is the kaiserreich mod for Victoria any good? I love kaiserreich's setting but I just can't play darkest hour, it looks like shit. Maybe I'm just a newfag, but is the Victoria mod any good?

>>137048096
Change it to golden then.

>>137046813
pls send help

>>137047976
big for who

>>137047976
Wtf what a fucking boss.
Plox google him guys.

>>137046813
Age of Shadows has your civilization start without FTL and shit.
You're supposed to slowly build up your system, trade with pirates and set out to explore slowly.

With the normal start, you already have all that. Faster, easier and way better to discover the game.

>>137047570
How do you change your cuntry's colour?

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>>137009243
I explicitly said that the Germans are refusing to ally me. That doesn't change when I become a GP.

>>137048753
Ah right, fair enough. Is the Age of Shadows still worth starting off in once I learn more of the game or is it just boring and tedious to start from nothing

>>137048775
Just edit the file of the country.

>>137039919
China/Qing in non HPM or POP demand Vic 2 is incredibly easy. You basically win the game after westernizing.

>>137048923
I enjoy it, worth trying it at least once

>>137044713
>grob hungariums
>meeting japan at the urals

I am so hard right now

>>137048115
No, the Victoria 2 ripoff of Kaiserreich is terrible. You'll have to just get over DH's graphics if you want to play it.

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Has anyone got any other questions? I'm gonna go to bed soon and if anyone has problems or questions I would like to help them with that before I leave.

>>137049664
Yeah that's what I suspected. Fuck.

Coup attempts in HOI3.

Are they ever successful or is it all just a big meme? Even when I've got the desired party with over 30% support and has 50 covert ops points to waste on coup attempts, nothing works.

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>>137047821
Lad, I'm the gauy asking about the Britanic empire before, how much more than this do I need?

Ps your mod is FUCKING AWESOME and immersive too m8, feels like CK2 should have been like this the whole time. Keep up the good work.

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>>137032374
>Huepublic
>not Empire

>>137050078
Here m8 >>137050317

>>137050317
Thanks lad. In case you were the one on the Mod DB forums who asked me the same thing there, I answered your question there. If not, just take a look there; someone asked the exact same thing in a comment.

Thanks lad, it means a lot to us. I'm really happy I put the mod up here as well.

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R8

>>137048923
Problem with Age of Shadows is that if you are even slightly decent at the game you'll effectively get a decade head start on colonization because the AI is so slow to research the right techs (hyperdrive and colonization). Game becomes absurdly easy, half the galaxy is yours before they've colonized outside their system.

>>137050751
That dick between the US and Mexico doesn't look very good.

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>>137041413
This is early 18th century HRE lad. You just went full retard.

/gsg/ Russia has already become a republic should I be scared?

>>137050663
Yeah it was me kek.
And that's actually pretty cool and realsitc, thx m8

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How to disable India in vanilla CK2 (2.5.2)? I just want to test with vanilla to see if it's doable.

>>137051512
No problem man.

I'm going to sleep now. Good night, /gsg/

>>137051607
Fairly sure there's an india removal mod

>>137050797
Yeah, this.
And contrary to standard game, you can't set empires as having already started out, because of the lore.

>>137051008
Nigga I meant my CKII empire was medieval HRE.

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>>137051729
Sleep tight, have a spurdo

>>137033613
>The French
>The Franks
>The Angles
>The Catalans
>The Italians
>The Thes
What's this terrible mod?

>>137052058
HPM

>>137052058
the mod

hol up why are the Ottomen "civilized" in Victoria 2?

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>>137052058
It's the "I renamed things because I'm an autist who likes to roleplay" mod.

I wanted it to look more like pic related, basically.

>>137053015

because jewhan is 1/50 turkish

>>137053083
The French/The Franks is fucking retarded

>>137053083
Just put the culture map on lol

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>>137039026
>germany exists

>>137053083
There's no "the" on this map.

>>137053216
Why them, specifically? The Franks were referred to as such, at least historically.

>>137053127
HPM should seriously fix that

it's not that they were that different from Persia or Egypt, especially in 1836

>>137051752
There's a mongolia removal mod too

>>137053319
Yeah, but "The Kingdom of Catalans/Croats/French/whatever" sounds borked.

I also rename conquered counties as if they were written by Angles (ish) if you want to revel in my retardation.

>>137053417
And it doesn't weaken the historical hordes?

>>137053371
Because Franks are the predecessors of the "French" which didn't exist as an identity whatsoever throughout most of CK2's timespan

>>137053607
I don't know I haven't gotten it to work

>>137054073
The Frankish and Old Frankish in the game files is more accurate, yeah.

>>137053594
I feel you. When I play as Sweden I sometimes name countries their Swedish name. Stortyskland and Bohemien will go down in history.

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How do I go about forming Poland as Krakow in HPM? I know I need to ally Russia in order to take on Austria, but where do I go from there?

>>137054073
ck2 goes all the way back to charlememe's time and people didn't speak french till after his death

>>137054638
Stop this.

>>137055081
Go outside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkcT3NdArFk

>>137055141
You too. :^)

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>wanted to play Abyssinia more than anywhere else with conclave
>those aggression tweaks

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>>137055240
I just come here to post, and to check for replies; you apparently spend enough time here to be annoyed by my posts.

>>137055628
Conclave was a mistake.

Russia is pretty comfy in Victoria 2.

>>137055190
Is there anything we havent seen so far?

>>137056348
Putting bits on the ships makes them look a bit different. And they had robopops and from 24:30 on its the tutorial, I haven't finished it.

>>137056292
I hate army management in Vicky

>>137056472
I'll just wait till the blorg game tomorrow. Angry Joe seems to be asking the basics for his audience which is fine but I already know all this shit

>>137055190
Looks pretty decent desu

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Asking here because /hus/ doesn't allow it and /pol/ and /int/ are literal shit by now
When will Erdogan attack another nation militarily for territory, and which will it be? His party does support Neo-Ottomanism afterall and he'd win in many ways by creating a common enemy.

>>137057507
>/hus/
aaaaaahahahahahahahaooo me lad im imagining a board of hussar discussion oooohhohohooeoeeheheheeh how would the janny clean that up it would be off topic all the time LMAOO

>>137057507
A couple months back, Syria.

>>137056104
Conclave itself was a good idea, the execution of it and the accompanying patch was just... horrid

hordes went from monsters to jokes, feudal realms are way too eager to take empty land from hordes, feudal realms outright match iqta in taxation now jizya aside, and berbers/nubians/ethiopians are conquered way too often.

vassal wars/civil wars in imperial realms are outright stupid as well, not to mention all the women fucking up internal borders like crazy with no way to stop it beyond excommunicating/executing them the moment they hit 16; I can at least remedy that with a mod that lets me force agnatic succession on all my vassals.

>>137057507
Hopefully Greece so they can get their shit pushed in by NATO.

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I got vicky 2 recently, its my first gsg.
I started as prussia, took german cores out of austrias influence and balaknized them
Then I formed the north german confederation, then germany directly
Then I sphere all of italy, and pushed further into france
Pic related is what I have now.
Please not that almost all of africa belongs to two sicillies, but they are under my sphere
how hard did I fuck up?

>>137057507
He's alreay attacking Syrian Kurds, I guess the only direction he can go is that one, otherwhise its either Russia or NATO "allies"

>>137057507
>When will Erdogan attack another nation militarily for territory
the '70s

>and which will it be
Cyprus

>>137057507
Are there any Turks left in Kars?

>>137056665
He has Hearts of Iron, too. Just uploaded I didn't notice
>"Poland is one of my favorite countries because it's where the make the Witcher"
- Joe

>>137057740
It's okay for a first game.

>>137057740
For a first game its not THAT bad.

>>137057938
>>137057964
sorry for name
its not my first game though, its my third
Where did I fuck up? How do I improve? Also, the game isnt done yet, its like 1880

>>137058143
You don't seem to have fucked up at all except for blobbing into France, which is just a matter of aesthetics.

>>137057881
He's not very good with history but his interviews are alright

>>137057721
>months
More like years tbd

>>137057881
>not having poland as your favorite because you identify as a winged hussar

http://poal.me/6unkgo
http://poal.me/6unkgo
http://poal.me/6unkgo

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>>137058364
>Syrian Civil War has been going on for 5 years
>Bashar Al-Assad is just starting to take control once more

on my toes

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>>137058259
Here's my africa

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>>137059063
Did I waste my time and Influence by sphering Italy?

>>137057507
Neo-Ottomanism is pretty much a meme ideology.

>>137059323
Yeah, Italy is going to form no matter what you do. You should have focused on sphereing useful countries like Colombia, Egypt (canals).

>>137059571
ah, I forgot that. I forcefully sphered and aquired panama to build the canal

Are Nazi Germany and the Russian SFSR mods?

>>137059489
til ima meme ideology ama

Which countries do you tend to sphere? Typically I like to go for relatively unindustrialized countries like Mexico or Brazil for Tropical Wood, Oil and Rubber. Wheat producing countries like Spain or the Ottoman Empire are good too.

Anything else is just not worth it unless you need it for a decision or to keep them from declaring war on you.

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>>137060051
Markets and allies desuyo, anything big is good.

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>>137060179
>that pic

>>137058751
This is the face of a man who tried to warn you but you didn't listen.