/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

>>145695868
Can you interact with population numbers at all? Like put percentage of them as Polish, percentage of them as German?

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Reminder to pay for the games you play.

>>145696034
That'll be in "Put percentage of pops" DLC, sir

>>145696136
I don't if it will, desu. The second they put culture in there's going to be culture genocide as well. That's fine in EU4 but is probably too controversial in this time period.

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>>145696034
Not by the looks of it.
Each province just has a number of people
If you have core you get all of them

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wtf i hate johan now

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>>145696475
wtf i hate johan now

>>145696330
Well what's most likely important is if culture is defined anywhere in code. If it is that would allow you to add it probably in the state list like "culture = polish", or something. But that feels highly optimistic. Failing that you could add it as some sort of modifier and just call it culture or something. I might actually have to watch their modding tutorials to see if that's mentioned anywhere.

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>Searching for info on fascist dictators
>come across an article named "Let’s Rank These 10 Fascist Dictators By Hotness "
>Willy is the 7th

>>145697238
who's 1st?

>>145697238
Post link. I refuse to believe in any commie list that wouldn't place glorious Willy on #1.

>>145697238
How is Willy fascist? Is it the commie meme definition where "anything i don't like is fascism"

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>>145697313
>>145697329
It looks like it's satire anyway, most of the guys in the list aren't fascist

>>145697238
tell me about willy why does he hide his left arm?

>>145697385
He's neither fascist nor a dictator so the whole thing is retarded from the start. It's a show of how politically literally the modern youth is.

>>145697238
>find the list
>Stalin is number 1
>mfw

it looks like they fell for the "I used a model to make myself look good and ignore these pox scars" meme too.

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>>145697238
Barbara from the comment section knows what's up.

does mp and achievements work for the dlc crack in eu4?

>turns the 2nd least painting simulator into the joint 1st with EU

great job paradox

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How do I play Oranje in HPM? I tried just waiting around as England but all I got was Natalia. Do I need to actively obtain some land to form it?

Why did they removed the Prima Nocta event from CK2?

>>145695884

I can play prolonged campaigns of any shitty poverse nation in HOI yet I struggle to form Romania in EU4

Is it time to end it all?

>>145698274
Build liquor factories then win the game.

>>145698276
feminism

>>145698276
its offensive to muslims

>>145698584
fuck off you aren't funny

>Playing as Nazi Germany
>Conquered most of continental Europe
>Have Italy, Spain, and USSR as my allies
>Don't have the naval superiority to launch an invasion against England
>England doesn't have the divisions needed for a successful naval invasion on me
>They try every few months and I push them back instantly
>Franco's AI doesn't want to do naval invasions
>Complete stalemate

What to do?

Please playtest my mod

http://a.pomf.cat/dgjdyo.rar
I added a fuel system but im too autistic to know how it plays on larger plays.

>>145698962
Paratroopers

>>145699013
virus

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Apparently I fucked up.
I'm fighting a war against the Axis as the USSR
A year in and the furthest I've made it is Warsaw
I switched my country over to total mobilization and now my manpower is gone
I havnt lost too much land yet, but GB is busy being useless and commie Paris is just about done for.
The US hasn't given any indication that it wants in the war
Now, I'm just holding my position and watching my manpower tick down because the Germans seem to have their claws deep into Warsaw and any attempt I make to take the city has failed. Come to think of it, I can't even take Slovakia, or Hungary, or Romania even though Germany is killing the French and being attacked by the Brits who have already taken northern italy

>>145698962
paratroopers

google how to take england in six months with six paratroopers

so fucking broken

HPM OR WE RIOT

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I sometimes like to just lower the game speed down and scroll around, listening to the clack of a bolt action rifle as it pulls back the bolt and fires again and watch the pretty little planes and boats move around and imagine the corespondence between the generals and also imagine soldiers fighting battles and liberating villages and taking their pick of the women and the german soldiers spreading their aryan genes as with a cigarette in it's mouth an SS officer drags a young girl kicking and screaming into a house to the rapturous laughter and applause of his war weary counterparts

Anyone else?

First time playing CK2 and I've been thrust into a 4 player mp game as Lombardy.

I got more or less a handle on the game mechanics but is there anything specific to focus on?

>>145699221
shit man i usually only get horny while playing ck2, this is some next level shit

>>145699221

>tfw disabled 3d sprites after five minutes

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I was doing this thingy >>145517110 >>145509970

What flags do you all think I should use? I made a couple of options-
http://imgur.com/a/kA6eg

or something completely different?

pls respoind

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emperialism was a mistake

>>145699696
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4zm9L4rIGw

>>145699389
City holding vassals give more money than temple ones and until the castles are heavily upgraded, more troops (though worse ones).
Are you using all of the DLCs? If you have Conclave added, save up money and buy favors from at least half of your council members. People who have green hearts do not need to be bought and will always vote with you. Once you have enough favors bought, call in support and move to get absolute crown authority, then spend your law changes on increasing centralization (do this first) and increasing crown authority.
Otherwise, try to save up cash buffers and make use of de jure claims and the holy war CB. Sicily should have good clay to take if you need big provinces to fill your demense with, but remember that newly taken shit is worthless for a few years; don't piss off everyone until you have troops to fight them.
Also use your spymaster to scheme and get strong vassals out of factions to prevent revolts.

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>After the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, the city was annexed by the Russian Empire and was renamed Proskurov.
The province in HPM is called "Proskorov"

Also, why does Poland get claims on it with the "claim the eastern territories" event? It seems as though they didn't control it again after Russian empire annexed it. Am I missing something here?

Also, why does Poland's eastern border look funny? Specifically referring to the bit that "bulges" out. See pic

t. retard who knows bugger all about history

>>145699828
deja vu

>>145699463

t.cobra

>>145699463
Still butthurt Rob?

Why are the steam Achievements such shit?
Most of them are memes
As some major nations don't even get their own
Puppeting Germany as the USSR seems to be the only one worth doing

>>145699673
Version 1

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>just found out there's a "friendlies can attach" button

>>145699895
i replied to you yesterday btw

>>145699897
Cobra is pro HPM though

arumba posters btfo

>>145699892
It's just an oddness with the way that province in game is shaped. I think it may be related to the Russian Empire's rule of the place, and the angles on the V2 map are not identical to the ones that map used.

>>145699892
>It seems as though they didn't control it again after Russian empire annexed it.
Doesn't mean they wouldn't claim it. It's been hundreds of years and some butthurt Greeks still claim Istanbul for example

>>145699463
>implying HPM wasn't the girl and you all didn't get rused

>>145697238
We need to waggle our Willy to the top.

Is it me or does ai Japan always do shit against China?

>>145700582
Last time I played they annexed China in 1939 and pushed Soviets/sent us help for the rest of the war

>>145700582
No, it seems to lose that front about 70% of the time. Japan can't do shit. There is no reason for them not to have invaded the spice islands by 1941-42.

>>145699013
It seems expensive. You need a lot of factories, and a lot of oil dedicated to it.

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>>145699673

Here's a poll

http://poal.me/5xk9lp
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>>145699696
>""""West"""" Germany

>>145698915
talex

>>145698274
They spawn later, like the 50's or 40's

>fall for the synthetic refinery meme
>still constructing 2 years later
>finally finish
>armaments industry is shit
>shortage of oil/rubber a month

Any way to edit refinery output lads?

>>145699221
how do you see enemy unit pics as counters?
I only can replace my own stuff

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>mfw japan demands me to be their puppet when they can't even hold korea

>>145701038
>falling for the synthetic refinery meme or late game factories meme
>not falling for the liquor meme which is actually true

>>145699076
More airplanes and change your recruitement law up by one step or if you prefer go down the Mass Mobilization line for that +5% pop

>>145701038
Refineries are always the third option after trade and conquest.
Only in dire need should you go for the refineries.

Thinking of trying to do a CK2 -> EUIV -> V2 -> HoI3 game to test my autism. That said I have never done this before so question: Do converters consider things like gold and such? Not much point in being a Venetian Jew if the jump to CK2 will completely ignore all my money and trading.

HOI4 MOD LIBRARY

https://mega.nz/#F!xwpEVLKI!CmxIJhMLDKnyCBK7VwYdWw!UkJlSSDR

Next time put it in the OP.

>>145701159
>>145701296

I realize that now. Especially since thanks to the resource '''''system''''' you can take all the rubber and oil you need by taking two undefended provinces from the UK

>be poland
>build forts on the boarder with germany, was only able to get all to level 2 with occasional level 3
>place 5 divisions on each of them
>still get absolutely des-fucking-troid

POLAND CANT INTO ANYTHING

>>145701520
you can conquer the world by EU4 what's the point of playing the rest? and your economy doesn't exactly carry over

>>145701695

>building anything other than radar and military factors
>1936+>1

>>145701695
>losing in hoi$

>>145701557
A lot of the resources don't make any sense.

I took all of Africa as Italy and still had massive rubber shortages because the Congo and Liberia have almost no rubber output and Malaysia literally has over 50 times the rubber and oil than all of Africa. Shit doesn't even make any sense.

>>145701850
>build military factories
>shitting weapons like a madman
>no manpower

>>145701695
>boarder

>>145701695
You should've just spammed mil. factories and infantry regiments. By 1939 you should have a larger army than Germany and then just push their shit in.

As the USSR, how many regiments should I be recruiting at a single moment by 1940?

>>145701991
>recruitment policies
>militarism

>Trying to make a faction of Scandanavian countries in HoI4

>Things are going well, have Finland and Denmark in already

>Germany declares war on Norway, they're ready to join my faction

>NORWAY HAS JOINED THE ALLIES

I don't get it, how the fuck am I supposed to get around this? The computer instantly invites them to the allies and I have no time to invite them to MY faction.

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r8 my world

>>145701813
>you can conquer the world by EU4

Yeah that's an issue, wish I had 4-5 friends with enough autism to join in, give some proper resistance.

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>>145701695
trick is not to protect whole border and using towns as forts when needed while exploiting rivers

you have to make the shortest defense line possible then you have a little chance to actually stop germany till their event bonuses go in Hoi3

it shouldn't be hard on 4 really

>>145701695
>losing to AI jermany
just AT support company is enough to destroy their light (((panzer))) divisions in 1939

>>145701891
>playing as CSA
>have shit ton of oil RGO's in Texas and 1 in Oklahoma
>think i probably have a good monopoly on oil
>check trade screen
>KuK is exporting more oil than me
>they only have 1 oil RGO in galicia but it has more output than all 4 of mine

>>145701891
You do realize literally 95% of all natural rubber comes from Asia right?

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i think i'm way over my head

>>145702319
how many oil RGO's are in texas tho

>>145702567
>500 gold
>not hiring mercenaries

>1942
>game runs like shit
Is this a feature?

>>145702639
Kaiser Wilhelm II has a ton of oil RGO's in Texas and 1 oil RGO in Oklahoma. Altogether Kaiser Wilhelm II has 4 oil RGO's. How many oil RGO's are in Texas?

Go back to elementary school faggot

>>145702740
a feature of your toaster

>>145702229
>capped army and navy experience
>unused factories and docks
>not researching

bait harder

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>>145702816
i7-3770k running at ~23% CPU usage.

>>145702910
how do you spend your navy experience anyway? by building carriers?

>>145702910
It's 1949 chances are he has all the research already

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anti liquormemers BTFO

I always tend to get stressed out in HoI4 that my technology isn't up to date

What's the best tech to prioritize researching? And what shouldn't I worry about keeping up to date?

>>145702740
Optimization DLC soon.

>>145703110
always rush Synthetic oil my friend

Anyone knows how can I make demilitarized zones in HoI4?
I want to make them in the african deserts so that the african theater isnt so retarded.

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>>145702910
>nothing left to research
>infinite amount of equipment
>more naval power than noah

what can i do more?

>>145703110
Depends a bit on your country but generally you should prioritize the industrial techs, infantry techs and land doctrine.
Second priority is fighter tech,support brigades you use and electronics.
After that you want to get what ever you need/use.

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Should I cut ship IC cost by a half, a third, or a fourth? It seems really ahistorically slow.

>>145703110
infantry eq.

>>145703362

One more thing, what are the best overall support brigades to use?

>>145703478
lel

>>145702320
I thought that the Congo made a fuckton of money off rubber?

Also, Liberia's main export was rubber for quite a while with the irony being that the Afro-Americans were forcing native Africans to work on plantations.

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>>145703478
Half?

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WEW LADS

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There is zero proof that Generalplan Ost was implemented on a policy level in the Third Reich.

Anyone know of a download for the new patch? Or a repack? I can't find anything.

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>mfw I've been playing HoI4 for a while now
>Mfw I'm not even having fun

Anybody know how to get the Vojtek achievement?

>>145703847
play as tannu tuva or bhutan. its really thrilling

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>>145703839
>patch still not up on GGn

>>145703839
>>145703964
it's on kat.cr migga

>>145703798
There is literally no tangible evidence that it was even a policy that existed to be implemented

>>145703695
What's wew here? why is the Western Front static? How the hell did the Ottomans survive against Britain?

>>145703901
-Is Poland
-Has completed National Focus "Artillery Modernization"
-Is Neutrality Non-Aligned
-Is at war with Italy
Italy:
Controller of state Hamadan:
Is Poland or in a faction with them
Is at war with Italy
Italy:
Has at least one division in Tuscany, Abruzzo or Latium

>>145703536
Personal favorites are engineering and logistics. Really can't go wrong with those two.
If you are operating with limited manpower field hospitals are a must.

Military police is great but separate it to dedicated guard units to hold the occupied territory.
Combat companies (AA, AT and Art) are good poor mans replacement for the real divisions.
Recon company is pretty good for the movement buff but it's best used when you are wielding the tehcnologically superior army.
Signal and Maintenance are also decent depending a bit on what kind of army you use. Maintenance is good when you have a ton of expensive equipment and signal is good if you like to blitz trough the enemy.


My personal favorite is Eng, Recon, Logistics, AA, Signal for my line infantry. Though I doubt that it's optimal.


>>145703573
Don't know but that is most likely because of synthetic rubber because it's made from oil. Most of worlds rubber is synthetic.
Even if it's natural they just flat out make way less. Especially in that time period.

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>>145704161
>instigated war after war in Europe

Is there any way to turn a state into a colonial state? I want to eat some of Mexico and Brazil as Denmark, but muh literacy.

>>145703573
Samefag express, after some minor research:

>Rubber had long been the main export of the Belgian Congo, but its importance fell[when?] from 77% of exports (by value) to only 15% as British colonies in southeast Asia began to farm rubber. New resources were exploited, especially copper mining in Katanga province.

>During World War Two, industrial production increased drastically. After Malaysia fell to the Japanese, the Belgian Congo became a strategic supplier of rubber to the Allies. The Belgian Congo was one of the major exporters of uranium to the US during World War Two (and the Cold War), particularly from the Shinkolobwe mine. The colony provided the uranium used by the Manhattan Project, including in atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

So while the Congo shouldn't put out as much rubber as Malaysia or Borneo it should produce a pretty decent amount so it.

>>145703478
How long does it take now?

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>>145704014
thank mate

>>145704479
Should probably have like 10-20 in there then.
The first sentence describes late 1800's

>>145704161
>"France's Second Republic"
*Empire

>>145704515
Too fucking long considering the United States had 24 Essex class carriers at the end of the war.

I'm doing some little experiments now to see if I'm correct but it doesn't seem possible to match the United States or Japan historical construction levels.

>>145703110
lol i do the same in vicky 2 and every HOI game

>>145695884
Is the Mega guy ever going to update the archive? HOI4 has been out for almost two weeks.

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>>145697710
Shit, looking at un-stached Hitler makes my kokoro go doki doki.

>>145704319
???

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>>145697238
His father was hotter
;_;

>>145703004
You build variants: Carriers with larger decks, fast super battleships, light cruisers with better AA, and destroyers with better ASW.

>>145699013
What does it do?

>>145702740
Maybe replacing Lua with LuaJIT would work? It does in Civilization 5. Try it:
https://codeload.github.com/luapower/luajit/zip/2.1.0-beta2

in most of my games AI Germany never attacks the USSR. Why is this? are they too pussies to do that?

>>145705645
AI is too bad at conquering Europe so by the time they get enough of their shit together to war USSR they are already more powerfull than them.

>>145704760
Where did the USA and Britain get their rubber from after Japan chewed through Indonesia?

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/learn/education/for-students/ww2-history/at-a-glance/rubber.pdf

>As Japan moves to conquer Southeast Asia, 90% of the world’s natural rubber suddenly becomes unavailable to the United States.

Does the remainder of the rubber in the world in HoI4 add up to 10% of the production of Southeast Asia?

>>145703290
is_demilitarized_zone = yes

>>145703110
I love leading the world in tech as Bolivia by 1945. This game is retarded.

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Why are Cavalry just faster infantry in hoi4?
Does this mean my army could be 100% cav?

>>145706042
cav units consume more supplies but yes

>>145705930
In the Rhineland file it is as set_demilitarized_zone = yes. Why the difference?

>>145704246
Why signal? That seems the most useless.

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>it's a "france's doomstack just won't die" episode

>>145704817
I think it took about one and a half years to build an Essex class.

>>145706042
don't infantry units get most of the upgrades from doctrines? I feel like I never see cavalry listed there. just infantry, motorized and armored

>>145706042
I guess in this sense cav is seen as Mechanized Infantry? Which is retarded, but hey the new cool thing nowadays is excessive abstraction.

>>145705821
It's about right

There is 30 in Brazil, 12 in Africa and 144 in India for a total of 186

South East Asia has 1816

At least if none of the nations have production techs or something like that if it even influences what I see on the map (provided I didn't miss any)

But ye Congo could have probably the 10 rubber to make it bit better.

>>145706042
If you walk around on a horse an dismount for battle, you are just faster infantry that eats more food and produces more shit.

HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK

I just fucking took on the combined Kido Butai of the Imperial Navy (all six carriers) with only 3 allied carriers in January, 1942. The game: War in the Pacific Admiral's Edition.

THREE ENEMY CARRIERS SUNK, NO ALLIED LOSSES. MY OWN MIDWAY.

HoI4 can never create such elation within me at such sweet, sweet, success.

Kaga - SUNK
Hiryu - SUNK
Soryu - SUNK

>oil is used once in production and never again
this a joke right? is it april fools day?

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>>145695884
Trotsky survived the assasination attempt

>>145705930
Also, tried both is_demilitarized_zone = yes and set_demilitarized_zone = yes in the Lybian desert state, and neither worked...

>>145706621
That's no joke - just be patient and wait for the Resources DLC.

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>>145706684
Does Trotsky surviving have any effect at all or is it just flavour?

>>145706621
In Hoi4, as Germany when fighting the Russians, you don't bring oil up to your new tanks to keep them moving, you instantly transport new tanks and eject from the old ones once they run out of gas,

Yes.

>playing victoria 2
>make huge doomstacks made of nothing but guards
>make sure your doomstacks are never the defender in a battle
>beat every army you come across
>build liquor factories and make tons of money to support these armies

and people say victoria 2 is complex

>>145706594
BTFO

I wish that game was on Steam

>>145704817
The Essex took 16 months between being laid down and commissioned.

>>145706221
one is setting it the other is a condition

>>145706594
cool now kill yourself

>>145706561
You would be a dragoon.

>>145706831
I think it can cause civil war in the USSR but I'm not sure how it interacts with the Great Purge NF; it's possible Trotsky surviving is irrelevant if you've completed the purge.

>>145706293
it's a replay

>>145706831
He leads the endless revolution, and can displace Stalin.

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>>145706042
>Does this mean my army could be 100% cav?
Do it for him

>>145706831
It will soon - just wait for the Trotsky DLC, goy.

>>145707073
I tried both is_demilitarized_zone = yes and set_demilitarized_zone = yes in the Lybian desert state, and neither worked...

I'm changing the \history\states\273-Italian Africa.txt file. No idea why isnt working.

The 42-Rhineland.txt file has the set_demilitarized_zone = yes and it works. Maybe it is a condition only available for germany?

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Lads, how do I get the balkan nations to retrieve their cores from the turks?

I'd be more than willing to help them destroy the turks and get their cores before they get their GP allies and friendlies back. But no one takes the initiative, and my infamy is too high!

>>145706928
Really strange way trying to equate abstraction to reality. It's like saying that if tanks run out of fuel, they don't stop moving they just move slowly to explain the type of abstraction HoI3 used.

Or that when you have 100 planes they combine into a single big plane. Trying to equate abstraction to real life is so retarded.

CK2 HIP vs CK2Plus, which is better?

Also, I've been out of the loop for awhile. Is HOI4 actually as shit as it looked pre-release? Plz respond senpai

>>145706980
Most allied players on the matrix forums will live by the creed that you should never engaged the KB in a carrier battle until 1943. WELL I FUCKING PROVED THEM WRONG.

You just have to pick and choose your battle. I surprised my PBEM opponent completely and successfully got into striking range with my combined air fleet while we used up his strikes on multiple targets.

It didn't help that he decided he wanted to push all the way into Luganville, extending his line of communication by a lot and isolation his carrier fleet.

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>>145707510
Based.

>>145707572
So why have abstraction at all? Since they've gone through the trouble of having resources and parts simulated they didn't need to abstract shit as far as fuel is concerned.

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It's beautiful ;_;

Trying to take China but the Allies decided to help them and stacked the border.

Pretty sure there's even some Irish fighting on the Chinese front.

>>145707642

What game is this?

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>>145707517
>tfw Ungern will never consolidate absolute theocratic rule over Mongolia
>tfw he will never proceed to take over Chinese warlords one by one and found the Second Yuan Dynasty

>>145707537
If you want to cut off North Africa, there is probably a file telling what provinces border it. You can prevent units from driving off into the desert.

>>145707308
That's what cavalry were in WWII.

>>145707640
all Paradox Grand Strategies are shit in single player

>>145707929
t. wiz

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>Can't even play 15 minutes of CKII before your computer starts overheating

>>145706971
t.rob

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>>145707929
All Paradox "grand strategies" are shit, you mean.

>>145707819
War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition

>>145706684
>tfw you are a dirty spic

>>145707708
Why did they abstract production, naval combat and air combat to such a degree in HoI3?
I don't fuckin' know. They did, though. Probably partially performance related and partially to keep the game manageable. A lot of mods, like black ice for HoI3 reduce abstraction for people who want that.

It comes at a cost of a more harder to manage and slower paced game and performance, but it's an option.
Also, desu HoI4 is half-baked. It's missing so much shit.

>>145708015

Is it good? What Paradox game would you say it's most similar to? Quality aside.

>>145706370
im 99% sure infantry includes cavalry

>>145707708
They probably couldn't balance it. In HOI3, you were limited with the amount in your supply, and a large, mobile army could deplete it fast. They probably also couldn't write an AI that could deal with it.

God damn, I just tried HoI4 and it's just a supply chain management game. It's basically a second job.

Is there any good politics diplomacy simulators or are all paradox games just for autists?

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>>145707992
>playing casual kings at all

>>145708114
>half-baked game for which redditors would gladly pay another $120 for a feature-complete game

no thank you.

HPM FUCKING WHEN

>no detailed province names in HoI4

Everything feels so small and pointless

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>>145707929

>>145708236
As opposed to what? Arrows of Iron IV?

>>145707640
>Is HOI4 actually as shit as it looked pre-release?

I pirated it, it isn't bad, though I never bothered to play previous HoI games. Game is too simple though, needs more depth, and you have to micromanage fronts because the AI is fucking retarded at dealing with them and incapable of managing a breakthrough.

Also, since I decided to redraw the map based on the closing borders of my Vicky II game at the start, fuck paradox for not letting me raise divisions in overseas cored provinces.

>>145708137
Um, it is a WW2 game, so I guess it's most similar to the Hearts of Iron series. However, it is focused on the Pacific War: Japan vs the Allies.

There is also War in the East (russian front 1941-1945) and War in the West (Western front 1943-1945)

>>145707906
huh. I guess I could try changing the adjacencies.csv file to make unpassable terrain through there?
Or is adjacencies.csv only for straits?
I dont have a lot of experience modding terrain in paradox games.

>>145708352
liquoria 2 is the only accepted game here

>>145704152
Uk and France didn't join the war

>>145708372

Ah, cool. I'll give it a look

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>>145695884
Dudes why did China just agree to be a puppet so easily? I gave china all their land at the start of the game and released Korea because I want to make a Pan Asia Cooperative faction against European infuence. I'm laughing so hard.

>>145707783
you faggot only took the irrelevant areas of USSR while the Germans fought the hard battles

I feel like this guy is the single most important cause of Paradox going to shit

a meme modder that introduced all these shitty concepts like monarch points into paradox games

>>145708525
RNG

>>145708465
Honestly were it not for the shitty political simulation Victoria 2 would be my favorite game

>>145708195
That shit seems like it would be great for Kaiserreich desu, instead of the endless event spam the national focus system would work great without shit like dissent spam and the wildly varying nature of the national focuses seem like they would work great with KR due to how no two games of KR are ever alike.

>>145708517
If you do, I'd recommend that once you've learned the basics you stop playing AI and switch over completely to doing a PBEM (Play by email) multiplayer match with one of the regulars on the matrix forums.

It's a nice little community without any of the toxic waste you find on Paradox forums. Close-knit and friendly. And the game becomes one of the greatest ever made when facing another human opponent. The AI is largely subject to basic scripts following historical movements with potential for some variation on the formula here and there.

>>145708625
Wiz I mean

>>145708625
Wiz, Johan, and Podcat are the worst things to ever happen to Paradox.

>>145708625
I feel like the new dudes are what's ruining the recent game. Wiz, podcat etc. are the ones causing the casualization

>>145708761

>Play By Email

How exactly do you play by email?

>>145708551
I fought side by side with the Germans against Russia. We had a joint front line marching through. I didn't want my country being isolated blobs so I picked connecting regions for the peace treaty. Germany were dicks and took most of the good provinces forcing me to just pick up the rest in the north so I could still get access to China.

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>unique event for nuking D.C.

>>145708976
>I feel like the new dudes are what's ruining the recent game. Wiz, podcat etc. are the ones causing the casualization

People have started dropping Stellaris like a rock, hopefully they'll realize that casuals aren't their audience.

Though at the same time, people on their forums are literally sucking them off and demanding DLC for a half-finished game, so maybe these retards will fund the company.

>>145709174

There's a similar event for Paris, not sure if there are similar events for other capitals as well

>>145708981
The game is turn based. At the outset of a multiplayer game, player 1 (Japan) goes in chooses his password, does his orders, ends the turn (taking him to save screen), and saves the game.

He then emails it to player 2 (allied player). Player 2 enters his password, goes in, enters orders and saves, sends save back to player 1.

Player 1 then loads up save with both orders, runs the turn, which produces a combat replay file. Once done with his orders for turn 2, he sends both the game save and the replay save to player 2...who views the replay and enters his orders...etc going on forward

The passwords are so neither can look at the other side of course. PBEM works perfect for WitP as each turn requires long thinking and orders with the usual game managing about 1-2 turns a day.

Given that the game lasts 1941 to 1945. This means PBEM matches usually last for quite some time. You can speed this up by switching to 2 day turns or longer if you want.

>>145708761
Play by email? Was this game made in 1996 lol

>>145709369
London, Berlin and Moscow also have one

>>145709174
I don't know is it unique. The game auto-generates event text for bunch of events. Apparently they spent more time developing that than any of the cores systems and/or the AI.

>>145709432

Huh, that sounds interesting

>>145709435

Kill yourself.

>>145709435
>he doesn't play domininos by email

>>145709523
It's probably why they had to delay the game for 2 years

>>145709435
Wargames (even modern ones) generally use a PBEM format. I can tell you don't play them, because the genre really isn't conducive to realtime multiplayer.

>>145707992
AYE AYE

ded thred

>>145708746
you forgot to include the shitty population and eocnomic simulation also

>>145710396
ded gaym

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>>145697238
>Willy
>A Fascist

I wonder who could be behind this list?

>>145708430
Alternatively, you could make different terrain types and add those in: high dunes, high mountains, cold wastelands

Then reduce the movement of troops through them, and see if the AI tries to path find around them.

>>145710396
dead thread, dead games and bankrupted liquor distillery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMBLT4hVTuw
look at those craftsman POPs making liquor

>>145708525
You could have taken it all, and created your own faction.

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Which one should I choose?

>>145710791
Alex Grandi just got busted setting up an illegal liquor factory in india
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLUqsue0zV0

>>145710791
Clearly not enough clerks

>>145709613
Here's an AAR you can read to learn more about the process

>http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4036421

>>145710791
>Comments are disabled for this video.
fug
did they know liquor was a /gsg/ meme?

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>>145699221
And that's why we shouldn't trust germanic barbarians.

>>145710658
You are putting waaaay too much confidence in the AI anon. For me the best solution would be to make it impassable, I just dont know how.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699397350&searchtext=

There is this mod in the workshop that basically removes the deserts from anyone's hands so they become impassable, but makes the map ugly as fuck.

I wished there was a easy way to make demilitarized zones.

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>>145710960
I'm not entirely sure, but I lean towards threaten with invasion personally, would you trust this frog?

>>145711035
Why are all these liquor stories coming from India?

>>145711054
I noticed that too. I guess a couple of autists from here must've searched "liquor factory" on youtube before we found it

>>145711089
i tried setting states in Europe like Belgium, Poland and Armenia and it all works
I'm guessing you can't set Africa to demilitarized

>paracuck coding
don't forget to not research dispersed industry because that make your retention worse

>>145710960
>AoD

Can't wait for the E3 Map mod with this.

>>145705129
>that crazy beard
>amazing hair
>nice jacket
>tiny little cross
>white neck thing
>soft yet distinct wrinkles on the forehead
This guy was fucking top tier.

>>145710806
I know that, but I want cooperation not domination.

>>145711347
Holy shit you are right... You can actually create other demilitarized zones in Europe, but not in Africa... Fuck paradox man. I bet it wasnt even intentional, its just their coding that its shit.

You know that, had the Nazis won and conquered France and the UK and the USSR and the Middle East and such and established their new world order that there would have been, eventually but there would have been, a Polish Führer, right? It just would have happened, some Pole would have infiltrated the Party deep enough and long enough that he would have become Führer, 50 or 100 or 150 years after World War 2.

>>145712134
Didn't Hitler want to kill the slavs

When the USSR capitulates against the Allies do they always form Russian Federation?

I caused a coup like a month before we won the war, or is that irrelevant?

>>145711976
you can use country_event to make it a demilitarized zone in game
you just have to use console and write the code

country_event = {
id = germany.999
title = germany.66.t
desc = germany.66.d
picture = GFX_report_event_degaulle_inspect_troops

is_triggered_only = yes

option = {
name = germany.65.a

273 = { set_demilitarized_zone = yes }
}
}

here i just make this randomly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcq1UQxTV8
How far do Alex's illegal liquor operations reach, lads?

>>145711976
What's the point? It'd be better if you could create de-industrialized zones in Europe so that you can roleplay Roosevelt turning Germany into pastoral agricultural society.

>>145712260
proofs?

>>145712318
>27 views
>Actually went digging for obscure videos on liquor factories
I normally just ignore shitposting, but come on. This is like next level shit. Honestly didn't know there were people who actually went to this much trouble. What the fuck.

>>145712260
It's impossible to kill everyone in that matter and the more zealously you go after certain group the more zealously they'll stick to their language/ethnicity/religion.

There were still like a half a million Jews in Germany in 1945 hiding among the General populace as Germans when Allies conquered Germany.

>>145712460
>typing "liquor factory" into youtube's search bar is hard

>>145712460
>implying it wasn't local news for him
there are a lot of niggers on /gsg/

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>>145712361

>>145712361
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

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>>145712602
>niggers
>on MY gsg?

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Have I reached sun-never-sets-tier yet?

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>>145712602
>there are a lot of niggers on /gsg/
Yeah okay buddy.

>>145712330
Read the rest of the thread. I'm trying to make the Sahara a demilitarized zone so that the idiotic AI never cross it.
Seeing 15 divisions fighting in the Sahara is cringeworthy.

>>145712736
Show factories

>>145712460
Its just one autistic mexican who keeps pushing this meme. He is pretty much responsible for most of the shitposting in this thread
t. steamgroup/discord insider

HPM FUCKING WHEN
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>>145712776
I'm a republic

You really don't want to see. Just waiting patiently for socialists to be available.

>>145712317
Does it work in provinces outside Europe tho? I tried hardcoding it inside the states .txt file but I cant. Why would it be different via a event?

>>145712784
proofs?

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>>145712736
Show liquor

how do you turn off the graphics for battle plans in HOI4

i can't even see the province lines in france/belgium because of all these fucking battleplan lines

>>145712775
that desert should have much much lower supply limit and more attrition so fucking 10000 men division can't just cut a line through your land when all the ports are captured

>>145712883
no idea but i used it and it seems to work maybe the .exe doesn't check for states outside of europe for demilitarizing

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>>145712879
>>145712776
>>145712946
but if you're really a sadist, here is the horror

I nabbed dye and cotton which is nice. I just need another treaty port for some silk.

>>145713053
W E W
E
W

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Time to settle the ancient debate

Willy or Mosley?

>>145713083
I know, lad. I went republic early. It's been pretty painful.

>>145713172
Mosley.

>>145713172
Based Moseley

Man, the scale of the soviet lend-lease is absolutely insane.

http://lend-lease.airforce.ru/documents/files/Soviet_Supply_Protocols.pdf

>>145713243
>moseley

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>>145713053
Not enough liquor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSnMVmNh9b4
Reminder not to oppress your craftsmen

>>145713386
Too many le berals.

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its finally here lads

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>>145713172
>like there's a debate

Mosely was a third rate Hitler wannabee that never made anything of a chance he had. Willy was glorious willy, on the other hand.

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Holy fucking shit what's with Arumbas tunnel vision?

>>145713452
>>145713535
one day reddit will find out about this meme and ruin it

>>145713562
Arumba's old pic vs new ones is like the perfect "first I was but then" meme.

>>145713742
reddit here. no thank you. this meme sucks

>>145713742
>>145713881
>90 seconds apart
nice samefag alex

Reminder

Negatives

> Total lack of flavor events and decisions
> Shallow supply mechanics
> Horrible graphics that are also hardware intensive
> Naval invasion/paratrooper mechanics are clash of clans tier
> No portrait diversity
> Defensive theory/units are OP
> AI is horrible with the exception of naval invasions,
> Can't target specific provinces in aerial raids/bombardments
> No province names, this plus the shitty graphics makes the world seem tiny and lifeless
> Lack of Ledgers and Map modes
> Peace conference system while a very good idea has been poorly implemented
> Border gore that rivals EU III due to the AI being able to march anywhere on the map with no repercussions and the shitty Peace conference system
> Peace is impossible to obtain due to you having to force every major nation you're at war with to capitulate
> Battlefront AI is horrible at combat
> Every nation in the game starts out with the same level of tech
> Inability to view the results of individual battles
> No liquor factories

Positives
> Revamped, easy to use, meaningful production system
> Much improved tech tree
> Improved nuke/rocket mechanics
> Clear concise UI despite the shitty graphics
> Manpower mechanics are significantly improved
> Aerial superiority now makes a fairly large difference in land battles
> Battlefront AI is fairly useful, removing a lot of tedious micro management

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>>145714038

>>145714263
you missed a spot you dumb memer

>>145713881
liqour factories aren't funny but boaty mcboatface, who is this 4chan and dickbutt are
>reddit

anyone generous enough to share sword of islam? its the one dlc i dont have, and i dont get paid until next week; i really want to try muslims

>>145714160
>> Total lack of flavor events and decisions
Not quite. If we grade flavor from Stellaris to CK2 there's still some flavor. There are events, even useless fully flavor ones, and they even have dynamically generated events for shit like nuking cities.

So it's not total lack.

>>145714368
in the archive

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Does any lad here know whether Pakistan can form India?

>>145714368
>i really want to try muslims
t. Sven Svensson

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Oh Yugoslavia you so silly
Cant you see im annexing you

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>>145714545

>>145714160
go for a walk

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it's 1942 and the fucking Germans haven't taken WArsaw yet. They could take it because there are just about 10 divisions there. I don't know what are they waiting for

btw those Polish divisions should have surrendered long ago since IRL they would be getting no supplies.

>>145714842

VP generate supplies.
Germany is probably waiting for attrition to work but it's never going to as they are supplied.

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>>145714318

>>145714842
Pretend its the Warsaw uprising lad.

Paradox intended this to increase roleplay.

>>145714842
>btw those Polish divisions should have surrendered long ago since IRL they would be getting no supplies.
Warsaw is a major city so it produces good amount of supplies on its own. It's reasonably realistic since, IRL, Leningrad survived for 4 years under siege with almost no supplies coming in so it's not completely unheard of.

>>145715031
>realism for redditors and "grand strategy" players

>>145715134
Are you saying it's unrealistic? They should definitely take heavy org hit and it'd be really cool if the population decreased in a surrounded zone to simulate lack of supplies but, still, it has happened in real history.

>>145714160

I love the production/focus system so much but supply system/unclear map modes ruin alot of it for me. Why couldn't they just put in a very clear and distinct political/terrain color map mode like HOI2/3

Also the Air areas are too big

>>145715031
still doesn't explain why the Germans didn't take it

>>145715295
>Also the Air areas are too big
Air areas are a mistake, in my opinion. Every type of aircraft should generate an area around an airfield it's stationed at where it can reach and those should be your air areas. The way air areas are set up right now is retarded because it means that, if you have aircraft on an airport right next to the front line but the front line is on the edge of two zones you can only fly in one or the other zone with a single aircraft but those aircraft somehow magically can't fly few kilometers across because of some arbitrarily defined zones.

>>145713562
I just don't understand how he is struggling. I mean are we even playing the same game? By 1943 I conquered the whole word as germany but this fucker cant even invade the soviets.

>>145715326
Lack of initiative, overestimating the strength/zealousness of the defenders, specific strategy some higher up officer/furhrer cooked up who knows. Why didn't Germans try to take Leningrad during the 4 years of siege?

>>145715515
Cuz he's shit at the game? It plays nothing like EU4 or CK2 or any other Paradox game that he plays. He's used to slow shit where you declare war, take a few provinces and call it a day.

with the AI research and production tweaks mod, the AI produces much more heavy tanks than what it did before. But they don't produce any medium tank divisions, only light and heavy tanks. I wish I could fix that, because medium tanks were the most numerous IRL. But I think it's because the shitty templates the AI has, and I don't know if you can change that

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El Cid, El Campeador, Rodrigo de Vivar

do take the rest of València before the Crusades begin?

>>145715281
>it's an any city can make abstracted supply without considering the need for inputs scenario

>>145715659
Nigga the game is so easy you don't even have to play it. How can you fail at drawing fucking arrows? How can you fail at just pressing a few fucking buttons. You don't even need to do any kind of encirclements to defeat the soviets since they don't produce any heavy tanks you just push them to siberia.

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>Temujin died without even taking over all the de jure Uyghur lands
>His heir is married to my daughter, we're allies and all
>He's still just sitting around on a 88k stack at the edge of the world in their little mongol shithole, not even pushing for Uyghur, Cumania or Khiva
Might as well remove kebab in the meantime. Gonna try to wipe out Islam before the end of the game.

>>145715769
In the siege of leningrad people grew vegetables in the middle of the street or on their houses, they raised some animals for slaughter in the city as well etc .And Warsaw is in significantly better climate and soil than Leningrad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5ypU2Ykto

what did america mean by this

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>>145703573
>>145704479

JOHAN HAS NO CONSISTENCY, NO STAMINA, HE HAS TO GO BACK

>>145715760
Is that Zack Galifianakis

>>145715902
It's easy if you know how to play it, fuckwad. HoI3 is piss easy if you know how to play it too, doesn't mean some clueless sod goes in and starts owning Soviet Union and Germany the first time they play it.

>>145716058
Is this every oil RGO in vicky 2?

>>145714495
No, it can't

>>145715986

That's not the supply issue though, the other guy is right. How will they produce more ammunition? Shells? Fuel? Even if basic crops can be grown, defenders will still take a hit because they won't be eating well. Medical supplies will be running low too, since factories will be destroyed by the combat. HoI IV really needs some sort of proper supply mechanic apart from soldiers randomly taking shit out of a magic warehouse and seeing a penalty to combat ability when they can't.

>>145714442
after copying the dlc in, the launcher doesnt list any of the new ones
am i missing something?

>>145716058
WHEN PARADOX RELEASE GAMES, THEY'RE NOT SENDING THEIR BEST