/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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New CK2 dev diary when

>>137113737
only $4.99 :^)

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Has Germany gone too far?

>>137114021
you should have used to opportunity to ally Germany and annex France

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>>137113510
There can be no excuses for the crimes committed by the bolshevik murders for violently and cruelly murdering God, the Tsar, his family, and Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN2JUMrCFe0

>>137114482
no one cares fag

>>137114482
fuck commies

>>137114638
At least they are better than monarchists

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>>137114778
I'm sorry. You're a traitor.

>>137114778
at the end of the day they are all Russians.

>>137114778
there's nothing worse than a commie with the exception of anarchists

>>137115069
dont forget about jews

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Fucking weebs

vote
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>>137114021
>Has Germany gone too far?
No that is all rightful German territory you silly anglo

VOTE. Best and most important poll in the history of /gsg/, guaranteed.
>http://poal.me/y3dae6

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I'm starting an Austria>Germany game (with HPM) and I want to grab a colony right off the bat so I'm not missing out on any colonial migration. What's a decent colony which I can acquire quickly and easily? I want something which won't be too difficult to turn into a state, and I'm allied to France, so I'm thinking either Spanish Equatorial Guinea, or Omani Kenya. For what it's worth, I'm trying to min-max my infamy—within reason.

>>137116397
take Sinai so you can build the canal.

>>137114482
Nicholas II probably deserved it.

>>137116397
You can take Iceland & Greenland from Danes. Their population is shit and they only have fish, but you can turn them into state pretty quick if that's what you want.

>>137116463
I'm playing my first campaign and have just built the Suez Canal by sphering Egypt. My question is... Now what? It doesn't seem to give me any discernable benefits other than a port and a path to East Africa.

>>137116750
You can build a naval base there, should help with your colonial range

>>137116750
>discernable benefits other than a port and a path to East Africa.

lad

>>137116871
>>137116879
B-but all the life ratings of the provinces are too low. Do they increase over time to make them colonisable?

>>137116976
First time colonizing, lad? You lower the life rating req. for colonizing with techs. There's probably a guide for it somewhere

>>137117076
Yeah. I see, I'll need to read the techs more closely I guess.
Colonising was a lot simpler in EUIV

>>137116976

The minimum life rating you need will drop based on the research of 4 new techs. You need to wait until about 1880 to get some of them.

>>137117156
Ah ok. I'm about 1875 just now.

>Colonising was a lot simpler in EUIV

Yeah, but there were eternal wastelands in EUIV. Vic II lets you colonise everything, but doesn't allow you to do it all at once.

>>137117205
Are you in vanilla or HPM? If vanilla, full annexing Ethiopia and Sokoto (Or only taking east hausland) helps with colonizing a lot.

If you're in HPM, if you sphere African uncivs they randomly join you via event, at the cost of 2 infamy. Also IIRC GPs get Scramble CB on every African unciv, so choose the method you like I guess

>>137117205

Make sure you've researched the required technologies though. You wont have colonisation unlock unless you researched the prerequisites in advance. If you mouse over the colonisation button it tells you the techs needed . You also need to move really fast when you get the chance because other nations will pile on as well (hence why it's called the Scramble for Africa). France has an easy path into West Africa, and Britain has an easy one in the South. Keeping all the other countries away is a good idea.

33rd for meme venice

>>137117359
Vanilla.

>>137117370
Okay. I'll start looking into that now. I've been distracted by wars with France, Austria and Russia since I unified in 1868.

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>Marco Polo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

>>137117483

I suggest you slow down the game speed and spend most of your time looking at Africa from 1880 to 1890.

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pls rate

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>vanilla
why do people still do this

>>137118045
Believable worlds.

>>137114021
What is that green country in the Balkans?

>>137118657
Kingdom of Balkans

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>>137117903
>so i told Private Shimura to get lost and he actually did it
What an absolute madman

>>137118045
How has this occurred?

>>137118702
What are its accepted cultures? I presume its primary culture is Serbian and it's Orthodox.

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Rate my Manichean levantine Assyria.

Jesus fucking Christ. What the fuck is wrong with EU4

Munster game,England invades I have all of Ireland excpet Meath and all of Scotland. I had a 20k army into a 14k Portuguese one, with 3k extra cavalry and a 0/6/2/1 leader into their 0/3/0/1, get fucked destroyed for some reason, get wiped out in the same fucking province before I can leave it while retreating. My whole army just disappears, England and Portugal walk province to province taking all my shit. France is my ally so they fuck up Portugal so hard the warscore balances out some. Then, out of nowhere, France didn't accept peace separately or anything, the game just decides the war is over and gives all of Scotland, 100 gold I don't have and now never will, and Ulster to England. What the fuck. I just don't fucking get how these mechanics are supposed to work. Same fucking bullshit double tap army wipeout retreat just happened in Sweden. I'm just completely out of fucking ideas as to how to work around this shit. I was equal forces with the Portuguese, but I decided to be safe and hire a fuckpile of mercenaries. lolnope, they have magic on their side, go fuck yourself. Feels like if I want to actually be able to control an outcome I have to double their forces and their general and have them attack me in mountains.

The game is fun for hours, then it just pulls some fucking retarded hogshit that sets you back all the fun hours.

Oh look at that the heretics that were in England before the peace deal are in my capital. What the fuck.

>>137119449
Probably something to do with terrain and combat width. The stack wipe is a bug related to fort zone of control I think.

>>137119449
Get a mod

>>137119074
>those random green blobs in Arabia
How the fuck does that work?

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I've been having fun being Anglo Saxons in the Winter King.

Are they ever going to add more to continental rulers? I'd love to see some Nibelungenlied flavor or something for Burgundians.

>>137119801
oases

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>>137116082
I've decided you're wrong.

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>>137119917
There's something so satisfying when you actually manage to kill a King. Though I would prefer killing Arthur (he's like sixty something years old now and had Guinevere executed because she was in a plot of mine to kill him)

>>137120180
KILL YOURSELF

>>137120518
>Guinevere executed because she was in a plot of mine to kill him
Savage.

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Lads, next patch of EU4 allows any Christian or pagan nation to reform the Roman Empire and have a unique "Roman Culture". EU4 has officially become a meme game.

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>>137120518
>>137120692
Turns out that Arthur had been killed in a duel against the current Regent of Dumnonia. I made sure to specifically sack the provinces he owned. I also captured Mordred II and had him blinded before I released him.

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What do I take from Russia?

I'm a constitutional monarchy under the Habsburgs with Vienna as my capital.

>>137120856
100% memes

>>137119917
We are indeed planning to add more flavour once we reach the Rhine at least. Gundahar and his dealings with Siegfried and Attila will almost surely be implemented in some way or another.

Also, nice anarchy you got there.

>>137120993

Pull that thing out of your rear

Then simply expand east in a nice border autism line

>>137121084
>Pull that thing out of your rear
What?

>>137121040
Oh yeah, I was gonna ask what laws you needed to have that because I've never seen Anarchy before.

Also, if we're going to get Nibelungenlied stuff are we also going to see Dietrich von Bern and Beowulf make appearances. (I love my Germanic epics)

>>137120993
release Hungary and Croatia from the Germaniums, let them have Alsace Lorrance

>>137121124
>>137121040
You mean Sigurd and Attli right?

Saga of the Volsungs > Nibelungleid

>>137121208
Sure sure, of course. I love all versions of the story, myself, I think it's probably the greatest story created by humans up there with Hamlet.

>>137121124
Dietrich von Bern was based off Theoderic the Great of the Visigoths, and he'll surely be in-game once we start filling in the gap 410-479 with events. As for Beowulf, he and Hroðgar are already playable in game, but we'll probably add some events for them as well.

>>137121208
Seeing how they will have Burgundian and Hunnic culture, respectively, it will just be Sigisfridu and Attila, though we probably will use a mixture of the Völsunga Saga and the Nibelungenlied for the character and province setup.

>>137121114
Poland.

>>137121513
What?

>>137121570
South Prussia.

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>>137120636
I'm good, thanks.

>>137121752
eternal kraut BTFO

Give me a fun minor power in Kaiserreich

>>137121921
Serbia
Poland
Ireland

>>137121921
new zealand

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Fun (?) Fact: the Continental Congress will constantly relocate any British pops that end up on USA cores.

This doesn't apply to Irish pops.

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>clerk island

there should be a decision to accept Greek culture as italy if you control all of Greece

>>137119608
Was woods. I had won more or less the exact same battle before against rebels after I took the other Irish OPMs

>>137119614
Temporarily forgot about this absolute bullshit, and wanted to get achievements. Ironman, no mods. What a waste of my fucking time. Fuck I'm mad about this

God damn how many times do I have to click post before it goes through

>>137122372
there should be a decision to accept english culture as italy if you control all of England

>captcha: canterbury monticello

>>137122372
There should be a decision to accept Mexican culture as the USA if you control all of the USA.

>>137122531
ur mum

Starting Distant Worlds for the first time lads

>>137122601
got him lad

>>137122630
I know right XDXDXDXDXDXD lol rekt XDXDXDXD

>>137122372
There should be a decision to become a Muslim nation in NWO UK.

>>137122152
Post Mexico's stats and pops

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>>137122594
>>137122789
Epic

>>137121430
do i need all the dlcs to play?

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why can't this retarded airplane fly off of this nigger strait instead off having to be loaded onto a flippin transport
FUCK THOSE PARAKEK JEWS NOT DEVELOPING THEIR GAMES PROPERLY

>>137123461
Because the aeroplane is actually a giant guy with a gun and three thousand model planes.

He can't swim.

>>137123343
It is advised, but you have to mind that:
-Without TOG, you won't be able to play most characters
-Withough the portrait dlc, you HAVE to deselect the portrait submod on the startup/mod&dlc selection screen.

>>137123813
Even Rajas is required?

>>137123343
just pirate them m8
its very easy and paradox can't do shit about it

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>>137123461
Why can't I build these tanks even though I own half of the world production
IT'S BEEN LIKE THIS FOR YEARS
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>137124026
Are your tank factories empty? Encourage craftsmen there.

Also what's the best focus in CK2 lads?

>>137123854
Of course goyim, indians have always been in Britain! What are you, a racist?

>>137124026
because in vicky2 even a planned economy is still a market economy where goods are put into the world market and then bought from there by everyone, even the original country that produced the goods. Vicky's economy is a fucking mess, simply put. You can micromanage it to be decent, but that's 10x more autistic than micromanaging your troops in hoi3.

>Run DLC activator for CK2
>Doesn't work, as in it crashes instantly without even getting to the loading screen
So, what's going on? I'm assuming some file somewhere remembers that I activated a bunch of DLC ages ago and now it doesn't want to activate the new lot.

>>137124124
micromanage your economy as in completely turn off automatic trading for every single good so that your own goods go to the stockpile and aren't automatically sold to the world market, and enable pops and factories to use stockpiled goods. And then manually buy/sell goods when you need/don't need them.

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Okay so I defeated the entire world but how the fuck do I into industry and economy. I'm gonna collapse under the weight of these massive army and bureaucracy costs.

>>137124213
that's normal. you run it 2-3 times (it will crash, that's okay) and then use the launcher again and enable the DLC there. that's how it works.

>>137124297
Build factories and subsidize them. And if you have trouble with money either raise your tariffs or increase your tax efficiency tech.

>>137124102
>>137124124
*calms down*
even though the production isn't as efficient as it could be, I'm still producing tanks, and none of it is going to my units

>>137123854
Don't worry, RoI isn't required.

>>137124354
It crashes before it even gets to the loading screen.

>>137124507
disable autotrading tanks in the "trade" window

>>137124535
yes that's fine it still works
do that a couple times then use the normal launcher and you should see the DLCs on the list as long as you actually have them in the DLC folder

>>137124818
I'm sure it works now. But I'm trying to install HIP and it says I need the South Indian Portraits for CPR+, which I assumed was in the Conclave Content pack.

>>137124297
What mod?

>>137125206
HPM most likely

>>137124507
Have you got tanks automated, or non-automated and locked at buying no tanks?

I had the opposite problem playing NWO, actually. I had to mod weaponry to be four times as expensive and take four times as many goods to make because 2k a day wasn't enough and the excess was being thrown away.

/gsg/ should get a bunch of modders together, give them each one part of the world and have them work on a mod together trying to outmeme eachother

Cobra, unHPM, newpoopan, 7yearslad all those guys

>>137124631
>>137125246
I'm retarded, had no idea you the production was going to maintaining tanks

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LADS...

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Holy shit it's kicking off!

>>137125491
what does Johan even mean, will he add pops instead?

>>137125245
Shit I thought HPM was actually the one *without* events to put you back below the infamy limit. Time to go past it.

>>137125620
its a parody account m8

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>>137125491

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>>137125601
It begins...

>>137125491
>>137125601
Fake and gay

>>137125695
HPM just makes breaking 50 painful if you can't maintain autarky.

Why are only Greek portraits attractive in this game? Everyone else looks like shit

>>137125269
You already posted this last thread

>>137125968
>greek
>attractive

>celts, some slavs and norse
>unattractive

wtf is wrong with you, greek girls look like fucking lizards

>>137126117
I didn't see it so I'm glad he posted it again. You do realise that there is more than one timezone in the world, right?

>>137122627
Same here, started yesterday. After going through most of the tutorials, I still have no idea what to do. There is too much buttons everywhere.

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>>137126209
First one is the wife of the emperor of Byzantine, second is wife of Sweden ruler, third is wife of some Irish count since they're not united yet, fourth one is the prince of Kiev

Tell me how they're more attractive than Greeks m8

>>137126719
They are more attractive than Greeks m8.

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I did it lads, I edited my save file so that Greek is now an accepted culture

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>>137126719
>>137126816

I fucked that pic up, this is the current wife of Byzantine emperor

Yeah I know, spending 50 million hours in paint and I still fucked that up

>>137126828
>0 infamy
Tell us all about how much you cheated, lad.

>>137126719
That wife is Russian ethnicity, not Greek.

>>137126835
They are still more attractive than her.

>>137126828
>no Hispania

>>137126850
>I beat up the turks pretty bad (although over 5 or so wars to be fair) and I thought I deserved more than a few states
>also prettified a few borders
>also did some infamy cheats because allies always betray you in a containment war which is stupid

>>137126994
Spain is in my sphere of influence, I think it's fine

>>137127174
>cheating
Now start over again and do it properly.

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r8 Memes

>>137126828
>No Occitania as a whole
>No Iberia
>No North Morroco
>No land link through the Caucuses

shit desu lad

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>>137127379

>>137126835
HA HA :^)

I said some Slavs and Norse are pretty. I didn't mean all of them are pretty, I mean Greeks aren't pretty at all while they sometimes are.

>>137127379
>Nyilas-Fier union
t. Visegrad Mod Lad

anyone anons here from wollongong?

>>137127814
>unironically being Austrian
Is getting raped by giants spiders fun?

>>137127379
>no celtic union meme
for shame lad

whats that vicky 2 map mod everyone is using?

>>137128528
Either Mish Mash Map Mod or coolmapmod. Both are in the archive.

For my baltic game as a Lettigallian chief should I call my petty kingdom...

>A
Letgale
>B
Latgale
>C
Lettigallia
>D
Lattigallia
>E
Letland
>F
Latland

ty

P.S.

I've assimilated the Livonians. They are no more.

>>137128773
Lattigallia, tbqh.
Or you could make a poal.me poll like a normal person.

>>137128773
Letland.

Convert to Catholicism and a German culture.

>Kushite Restoration: As a Nubian culture nation, own the entire Egyptian region as core provinces.
WE WUZ

>>137128949
sounds like a good idea if you want to be a literal cuckold

>>137128940
>>137128949
Latland it is then.

I will convert to Christianity but not to German culture unless there's significant German influence in the region. Right now its mainly been Swedish, though thats been more with the Estonians and Finns.

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>>137129035
Then convert to Orthodoxy and become a Slav.

>>137127379
t. cobra

>>137129236
To deny own culture and convert to another is cuckoldry, though I can understand you misunderstanding my statement as to imply germs are cucks, as they are.

>>137129181
>Danish Estland and Letland

muh dick

>>137122152

What mod and how?

>>137129416
>What mod
Another 7 Years mod. It's in the OP.
>how
But he explained that in his post.

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>conquer basically half the world
>still have way less resources than amerifats

this is retarded beyond comprehension

>>137129650
>.jpg
Why do people do this?

>>137129650
What do you think is better at extracting reousrces, a well fed white american with up to date tch, or a poo in loo with a shovel?

>>137129378
Remember, if you become Catholic you can prevent the eventual socialist infiltration if you get that far.

Yo Winter Kings guy, I started playiung as Arthur and when I moved back to Dumnonia I kept getting the event giving regency to myself every couple of weeks. Might want to fix that.

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>Chinese army composition
>6k arty pieces on 1 million soldiers
Dear god...so i have to build ...144 arty brigades.
What should be my second brigade (SP-arty cannot be attached and China has no oil) for standard infantry?
36 cavalry sounds reasonable except its kinda expensive to produce? Maybe engies?

What is the best CK2 start, and why is it Old Gods?
Charlemagne a shit

>>137130310
>he builds brigades
Unless you want short term power they'll be wasted ic in the long term.

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>Le Achievement Dev Diary face.
>Roman Empire
>Timeline only decent feature

Guy who mentioned working on some extra events for Portugal in Kaiserreich earlier here.

I'm making slow, but steady progress on the event chains. German reactions to the Portuguese and Germans refusing to peace out, the different peace deals, etc.

However, couple questions I have about something.

One idea I have is that, if the Portuguese win the Colonial War and get Zambia/Rhodesia in the peace, they later get an event to release a unified, contiguous continental African colony similar to how the Dutch can release and puppet Indonesia as the "Dutch East Indies.

So, if I had a similar thing happen with Portugal, then:

1. What country to use as a base before renaming it, fucking with its cores and giving it a new flag?
2. Where should the captial go?
3. Should they get industry and infrastructure development events?

>>137130334
It's 1066 William the Conqueror start.

Anything before that quickly devolves into "believable worlds". Though with the current version, I've seen some ridiculous shit happen to the HRE. It's super unstable atm. The Mongols Khaganates fucking suck too.

I haven't got to the Mongols yet though so I'm wondering how they fare? Anyone know if they wreck shop or if they're as incompetent as the nomad turks?

>>137131214
Also, what the hell would you even call it, and what would the flag be?

>INB4 t. Alberto Barbosa Land

>>137131002
Its World in Flames mod so brigades and doctrines have been rebalanced.
I could stack 1 million infantry in 1 spot but 12 unit command limit is a big thing.

>>137130310
I like armored cars.

>>137131252
1066 is pretty neat too but it misses the fun and malleability of the Old Gods - it just feels like there's more to do while England is fractured, the Scandinavians are still everywhere raiding, there's pagans to bully/convert with and the whole Rus/Kiev thing in Russia.

>>137131381
Are you Swiss?

>>137130310
Cavalry.

>>137131214
I'm not sure KR has even free country tags.

What was the strategy for getting Persia early on as Russia?

>>137124951
I have this same problem desu

>>137131214
Rename it to Bloco Africano IMO (just ran African Bloc through portuguese translate)

>>137129650
well duh look at what you've conquered you dumby

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>>137131352
Maybe the Portuguese flag with the coat of arms of Angola and Mozambique on it.
>>137131610
no

>>137131171
Now that's what I call a meme

>>137132398
do you lads puppet Persia or something?

Has anyone played CK2 with the latest patches? Does shattered retreat completely ruin the game?

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>>137131610
Whoever made this mod really hates Swiss.
>free 15 IC

>>137133553
Shattered retreat is fine, its the coalition system that's retarded

>>137133964
Oh right, I forgot they added that too
So is it like EU4 now and you get attacked by all big powers around you as soon as you take 2 provinces somewhere?

>>137134046
No its not even that, if you get another kingdom via dynastic shenanigans without doing any war, the all world will want to see you and your entire realm burn

>>137131252
You don't need to quotation mark believable worlds, me lad. You're not on /r/paradoxplaza now.

>>137134202
And don't forget even civil war inside your kingdom trigger this shit.

>>137134202
So I guess Paradox just wants you to be a republic and play it like EU4 then

>>137133964
>>Shattered retreat is fine
>le run from lisbon to calcutta face

>>137134217
The memes move so fast here, I can't keep up.

>>137134363
What's even the point of shattered retreat if your units cannot reinforce on the way back anyway? Doesn't it just make both sides of the battle mad?
>have to wait 3 months to destroy troops you just beat
vs.
>have to walk back 3 months just to have your troops destroyed again

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Never had such a high base diplomacy

>>137134498
If you don't stop and look around for a while, you could miss it.

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Reposting from a previously thread: Does anyone have the Deutsches Wehrmacht Immersion NATO counter submod? I can't find it anywhere.

>>137134548
It is literally a MP mechanic.

In SP the AI would either stomp you or leave you alone, just like real life, but in MP everyone always stomped, so people always got stackwiped, so Johan got mad and ensured they couldn't. Same reason for the forts blocking movement. They are literally destroying SP for their comfy in house MP games when hardly anyone except ebin livesteamers and paradox themselves play MP.

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

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Will Canada / USA ever do anything against the Commune of France in Kaiserreich? Like D-Day? Me and Russia are getting wrecked. I'll hold out for a year, tops, unless someone else intervenes.

>>137134758
I'm only talking about CK2 here, m8
My question is what the point of shattered retreat is since you cannot reinforce levies anyway

>>137134931
It is literally a MP mechanic.
In SP the AI would either stomp you or leave you alone, just like real life, but in MP everyone always stomped, so people always got stackwiped, so Johan got mad and ensured they couldn't. Same reason for the forts blocking movement. They are literally destroying SP for their comfy in house MP games when hardly anyone except ebin livesteamers and paradox themselves play MP.

>>137134931
You can now, its just painfully slow

>>137135053
Sorry, I fail to see how shattered retreat prevents you from getting stomped?
>>137135073
What? How are levies different from retinues then?
Why can't Paradox stop ruining their fucking games

>>137135175
>Sorry, I fail to see how shattered retreat prevents you from getting stomped?
it sends your army long way away from enemy so no enemy can enemy attack them because they no near

>>137134931
In theory now that you can reinforce levies with the patch you could be shattered and come back.

In practice you actually take attrition damage for some reason from shattering and since your enemy is also reinforcing and because your reinforcing is so slow at best you can come back a year later to get destroyed again.

>>137135175
And then you have an ineffectual army because you can't reinforce 30k men a month like in EU4

>>137135053
It literally doesn't even work for MP. It's useless.

t. MP pro

Best part is that it actually screws players retreating intelligently (in the 1 in 100 chance that you can actually still win a war by avoiding damage as much as possible by staying out of melee and getting to another province with mercs or more levies) since normal retreats don't get the magical protection field that shattered armies do.

>>137134569
all the characters in winter king have absurdly high stats, you could cut them by a rough 1/3rd to get results more in line with the base game

>>137134569
>>137135709
Why is that minimap way off?

>>137135709
If everybody has high stats, nobody does.

>>137134789
>Germany lost the war

At that point you just have to accept it's all ogre.

>>137135882
That's clearly not true for diplomacy specifically since high DIP just gives you a straight relationship boost

>>137135830
We're still working on making the minimap the right size.

So I'm back to my FRCA campaign and yesterday people gave me a lot of shit for not having industry and poor literacy. I've been encouraging intellectuals everywhere, and I can't build any fucking industry because I haven't unlocked the socialist party yet. It fucking sucks and I don't know what to do

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Recommend me a country to play, boyz.

Got no mods or DLC so..

>>137135951
He has Russia on his side though, he might have a chance.

>>137136118
Brandenburg in EU3

>>137136118
Najd

>>137134774
Did Germans get less attractive due to the transition to capitalism?

>>137136118
Navarre

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtzgE9mJD8
Well, not USA this time but Stalin will have to do.
I assume i will get stomped though because Barbarossa didnt happen. Not a single Russian on the borders too.

>>137136118
mega archive in OP post

>>137136276
Naw man, they just filmed the attractive ones there
Believe me, I've seen enough pictures of the older generations
t. East German

>>137136118
venice

>>137136504
I feel sorry for Germans desu. Under Communism they were bullied by the Russians and now under capitalism they're rape victims to cheap labour. RIP my friends.

>>137136587
the left wing is really cucking them to hell

>>137136118
Brittany.
Colonize the Americas.
Get rich enough from your colonies to conquer the so-called "Great" Britain.

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Who should I play in bloat and fortitudo?

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So what are my goals?

>>137136091
also what the fuck is the tag for FRCA

>>137136689
Calling everyone who doesn't want a million refugees to buttrape up "OMG NAZI" is really driving people to the right wing though
The left is fucking itself over in multiple ways

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>>137136587
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-DEt85uVU

>>137136736
What does some of the shields glowing green mean?
Also, play one of the greek states and form a united greek nation separated from the Byzantine Empire completely.

>>137136797
UCA.

>>137136739
Unify Islam

>>137136912
Challenge countries, the mod author just gave them honourable mention as hard to play

>>137136739
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKVVqP2foY

what's the best mod for EU3?

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>>137136912
Greece is a bit boring, I chose to unite the Balkans and greece as Bulgaria.

>>137137210
steppe wolf

>>137136091
You grab Panama and Mexican stuff you can get cores on. If you become GP somehow invest if your neighbour then conquer that same province and work from there.

>>137137334
Get the fuck out.

>>137137210
MEIOU

Bloat only exists for poor people.

>>137137334
This is still regular EU4 gameplay though, right?
>I chose to unite the Balkans and greece
What will you do when you're done with that in 30 years?

>my character dies
>had 3 sons but elective gavelkind caused my shitter half-brother to inherit the main county (playing as him now)
>I took that half-brother's county in the past so now I'm roleplaying as a vindictive piece of shit
>2 of the sons had their counties so I warred them, they're on foreign courts now
>the last one is 6 year old and at my court

what do I do with those sons? I get only 70% plot power when trying to assasinate them. I know I can just ignore them but I wanna be evil lads.

>>137137359
I actually found that entertaining as hell for a while but it takes itself too fucking seriously for how terrible it is
>>137137390
I have a pretty good PC but I just can't take those 10 second months at x5 when waiting for a truce to end or something

>>137137435
German pronunciation isnt that hard once you have actually listened to people speaking german.

>>137137443
It'll take longer than forming Greece as a greek minor.

If you have a better game idea suggest it, I'm happy to play whatever people are interested in.

>>137137659
I don't, I just blob infinitely in all my games

>>137137435
>walk up to prof after class
>lean in close
>whisper in her ear
>WAGGLE YOUR WILLY ME MATES

>>137137435
>not telling them the truth and saying you were studying to be the next Hitler
Everyone would have laughed and some cute chick would suck your cock after class for being so funny and smart.

This is why betas like you will be lonely.

>>137137435
What was the word

>>137137930
>Are you studying German, anon?
>N-no, I am studying Hitler though
>Class is silent
>Anon sits back down

>>137136739
Cause 9/11.

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Reminder

what are the cheats to insta westernize as china I want to see what I can do

>>137138463
So what you're saying is... Richer nations were able to afford reasonable education?

Shocking!

>>137138058
>Are you studying german, anon?
>No, actually I spend hours in fascist training simulators and can recite Mein Kampf by heart, so pronouncing German words comes easily to me
>teacher laughs
>rest of class starts laughing
>become well known personality on campus
>pretty much automatic A for the class
>everyone admires you for your wit
>eventually after realizing what a personable person you are, you go into politics and revive NatSocialism.
>Europe and America are saved forever.

>>137138618
The funny part is that European literacy skyrocketed during the 1900s while MURRIKA stayed pretty much the same

>>137138463
Palestine had 36% literacy in 1800?

>>137138701
USA literacy rate for white Americans was like 95% by the time of the civil war anon. European literacy skyrocketed to catch up with America

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>>137138463
>posting a fake chart

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Bulgaria is dull.

I will unite the German peoples as Hohenzollern.

>>137138618
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(PPP)

Not really, although somewhat.

>>137138701
>European literacy skyrocketed during the 1900s while MURRIKA stayed pretty much the same

That's because we could already all read. If you ignore immigrant ESLs and Southerners it's been 95%+ for centuries.

Even fucking Japan was more literate than Europe back then.

>>137139009
>Even Japan
wtf m8. Japs are literally the Aryans of the Asia

>>137139009
Even non-whites in the USA had a 70% literacy by the 20th century. Dindus literally went from having literacy be illegal to better than Europe in one generation. Not that it helped them a ton.

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>>137138463
>dat 2000 Italy

>>137140271
>being on the same level as Germany, France and Japan is somehow bad
What the fuck are you smoking, m8?

>>137140478
I mean that 2000 Italy was better than 2010s Italy

>>137140627
Oh. That's indeed shit.

>>137140271
Italy's still in the top 10 largest GDPs as of 2014.

You're not in the top 10 CNP, though.

>>137140627
It's about 35K now, m8.

>>137140778
>>137140756
comparatively Italy had the shittiest economic "growth" 1995-2015

>coffee
Why is it such a shit rgo? Wasn't coffee profitable as fuck in the 19th century?

>>137140627
>>137140756
>tfw France is going to fall off the top 10 too.
Either we're going to get swarmed by sub70 IQ subsaharan africans, or it's going to be sharia, or it's going to be the Front National propping up their retards (but hey, they're white! Still sub70 IQ though) in important positions. There's no winning. rip France

>>137141085
It is profitable in HPM.

>>137141156
France is a shit country and I don't weep for you.

Please try to drag Quebec down, too, I hate them even more.

>>137141156
they need a napoleon figure but instead of military genius he's pro at economics

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>Italians were the richest people in the world from 200 BC to 1600 AD

Where did it all go so wrong?

>>137141249
t. Willy

>>137141382
ANGLOS happened

>>137141336
They get one every 129 years.

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>>137141382
soon

>>137141336
Unfortunately, Strauss Khan got burnt. Probably because they knew he'd get elected right away if he presented himself (desu, I'd still vote for him as president). Just like they killed Coluche.

>>137118045
back2reddit

Okay, guys, we're going to implement a new major religion. Guess which one it will be?

>>137141382
Monarchy and the unification of Italy. Italians are master Jewlords when they're Republicans and have city states. You've gotten rid of your King, now you need to split up.

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Fuck you Yankee scum. Stay out of my islands.

>>137141657
TAKBIR

>>137141657
Mithras?

>>137141657
Zunism.

>>137141240
I'll just play it then

>>137141716
>invented banks
>italian banks are in the shitter

>invented public debt
>italian public debt is out of control

>italian discovered america
>major trade routes don't pass through the peninsula anymore

JUST

>>137141545
I see a friuli and savoy flag
What are the other ones?

>>137142263
Blue one is Venice

>>137141657
SAY IT YOU DENSE CUNT

>>137142141
>>italian discovered america
I mean not really though
Italy didn't fund his trip

>>137142345
thats the friuli flag
>>137141657
Romuva?

>>137142345
Lel no that's an ealge.
I think it's something like tyrol

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>burgers keeps allying with sokoto against me no matter how high my reputation is with them

This has never happened to me before any of the other times I conquered sokoto. Why is this happening and more importantly, how can I stop it?

>>137142345
that's Friuli

>>137142263
white ones are "padanian" flags, "savoy" is piedmont and a shitload of northern italian towns use St. George cross as a flag

>>137142451
I didn't say fund though

>>137142694
St george's cross is red on white, any other colours with the same dimensions is just a cross

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>>137142141
>italian discovered america
Sure thing pastaboy.

>>137143021
yes, a lot of italian communes share that flag

>>137143107
siberian people came there first, you're right

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>>137141875
>>137141913
>>137141920
>>137142394
>>137142516
WRONG! It is Manichaeism. Seeing how we are nearing Spain, and Mani's faith thrived there, we have created the religion and now we are thinking of features to implement. Do you have any ideas?

>>137143514
I hope those stats are WIP.
The description clearly is

are the events to annex Mongolia and Xinjiang as Russia if you have them as puppets?

>>137143656
They are, which is why I am asking you guys for suggestions.

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>>137143514
When will you fully represent Judaism in your mod?

>>137144089
I dunno shit about Manichaeism, I guess you already checked wikipedia didnt you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism

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Get your shit together Stalin, it took them 2 months to encircle you
2 months!

>>137143514
Thats...half implemented extra mod.
Its more fleshed out in CK2+, events, traits and all

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First proper game of EUIV. Will I die?

>>137144518
how did you get 350 IC as china

>>137145475
it will be extremely painful

>>137145720
for who?

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>>137145591
I subdued warlords and planned ahead.
Russians are still though me and Germans arent attacking them.

>>137145775
whoever's playing eu4 for the first time

>>137145792
Still outproducing me,my bad.
By a large margin too.

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>>137143514
Are you going to add Carantania? You should add Carantania tbqhwyf.

>>137145792
>All dem imports.
I hope for you the wars don't go bad for your trading partners.

>>137145775
For EU4 instead of EU3 casual.

New DDRJake series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms1WMksjZ00

>>137146430
Thanks DDRJake.

>>137146087
EU3 is just as shit as EU4

>>137146430
I really, really like your series, Jake

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>>137146430
why do all the youtubers only play EU4? what is there in it that is interesting?

>>137145948
>Slavic Peloponnese

i know it's legit but sounds like a dank meme

PLEASE FUCKING BUY STELLARIS FUCK BUY IT YOU FUCKING PIECES OF FUCKING BUY IT PRE-ORDER IT ON STEAM RIGHT FUCKING NOW

BUY STELLARIS

PLEASE

>>137147197
The story goes the Justinian plague took out most of the people in the Balkans so for some time, Slavs were the majority until the Byzantines brought more Greeks from Anatolia and the islands. Albanians were quite numerous for a long time, too.

>>137147246
t. Johan

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>>137146072
Who needs trading partners if you take out USSR. I also cannot fight Allies at any date because i have barely existing (1 skill level) naval teams and 1910 ship tech.
Also

>USSR pulls EVERYTHING on me, 230 divisions
>130 divisions hugging pacific
>15 divisions between Germany and Siberia
>Hitler just stands there, waggling his willy

>>137144134
We will soon. We already have ideas for the Radhanites (look them up) and new events for Jews.

>>137144418
We did.
>>137145948
It is within the area we plan to portray, do eventually, yes.

>>137148635
How are the works proceding? Any estimate for next relese and stuff?

>>137147736
>Loading up as other nations to check on their army.
Weak.
Your game is now uninteresting.

>>137149313
Not yet; it'll probably be a while. We hope to make some good progress, though.

Join up, lads.
https://discord.gg/0tjeeNJ437FXuYpp
https://discord.gg/0tjeeNJ437FXuYpp
https://discord.gg/0tjeeNJ437FXuYpp

>>137142538
please respond

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I just started an Austrian campaign in eu4 and I was wondering about good ways to keep the shadow kingdom event from firing
I know I need to get the papal States in the HRE, but how would I get a CB?
I'm not looking at a map right now, but I don't think the PS has and land adjacent to the gulf of Venice. Its 1451 right now and I'm getting ready for a PU war with Hungary. I'm afraid that I havnt done enough with Italy

>>137150028
unban me please

>>137142538
The answer is obviously conquering Burgers. They can't ally Sokoto if they don't exist