/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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>>150274976
Why do you make threads so early?

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Lü Feng Xian

Incoming butthurt.

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Arumba

>the thread would've likely not gotten a dozen posts for at least another thirty-sixty minutes
>still makes new thread 20 posts early

desu I no longer feel any excitement to play these games. I tried to stop playing them for a few months but it didn't change anything. Everything is so... meh. I open one of the games, choose a country, play for a couple of years, and quit.

Any advice?

>>150275414
Play some other game for a month or two.

>>150275447
That's exactly what I said I did.

>>150275414
You've finally broken the cycle, run from this place and don't look back.

>eu4
how do i claim six states from saxony while being at the threshold for everyone forming coalitions against me?

i have some setup time, i'm currently improving relations with everyone in the realm to +100, how likely is it that it is sufficient to get all of my rightful clay with less than 3 coalitioners?

Havn't touched a grande strategia in a month, Havn't lurked the thread in like 3. Have there been any big updates to anything in that time? Thinking about doing either a Quebec or Canada run in V2, any new minimods or stuff that I'd want for that?

>>150276036
Yes, Vickymod is a must.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/s4v7wtt4kyv0n31/GSGVickyMod.rar

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Removed Spain from the Far East, Philippines declared on Sulu for their core, Portugal had a reactionary rebellion so I took back Macau, I beat down the Japs, and now the Dutch are getting BTFO in Indonesia presumably because I sank their fleet in the war with Spain and they're still rebuilding. Pretty happy desu.
Now if only I could revoke that Portugese core on Macau, I know they'll be back for it and then I'll be screwed.

>>150276190
You'll be screwed anyway when Russia comes for you

>>150276036
I'd system check out the new HPM version.

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>Haven't played EU4 since Res Publica
>Decide to try a newer version
>Everything is nerfed into oblivion
>No matter what you do you always get penalized
>Every new game "mechanic" is either a punishment tool or a useless monarch power black hole
Sweet mother of Big Blue Blob, what have they done to this game?

>>150276280
I got them above 100 relations so they won't. Unless you mean the Manchuria concession, obviously I'll just give that up. I can get it back later.

>>150276349
>EU$

lad...

>>150276190
conquer vietnam, korea, and japan

>>150276190
conquer russia, india and germany as a colony XDDD

>>150276349
Monarch power always ruined that came for me

>>150276417
Korea is rightful Chinese clay, it's basically a meme country with the way it hovers out on the peninsula like that. I can't do it until after I westernize though because it is my puppet and by the time the frogs come for it there won't be enough infamy left to get it all before I westernize, so I'll just make it a protectorate afterward. Vietnam I will leave for the frogs as they can consolidate the area by event into a proper Cambodia and Laos which I can puppet afterward. Japan I have not decided whether to puppet or protectorate, so I am keeping them in check with reactionary rebels until later.

>>150276190
take back the ebin talas river clay if you haven't already

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Does anyone have the pic illustrating the U.S. suggested partitions for the Ottoman Empire?

It even included Constantinople- I can't find it.

colonists are useless until i get explorers?

>>150276813
yes

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>>150276738
?

>>150276913
then why the fuck do you get a colonist before you get the ability to explore

>>150276928
>doesn't include a kurdish corridor to the Mediterranean

>>150277013
fuck the Kurds. The entire culture is a reddit meme

>>150276928
>The Commission Report was skeptical of the viability of a Jewish state in "Syria". The logic of the Commission went along the lines that the first principle to be respected must be self-determination. It pointed out that a majority of "Syrians" were against the formation of a Jewish state. It concluded that the only way to establish a viable Jewish state would be with armed force to enforce it. This was precisely what the Commission wanted to avoid, so they dismissed the idea, saying that Zionists anticipated "a practically complete dispossession of the present non-Jewish inhabitants to Palestine, by various forms of purchase". That said, there would be nothing wrong with Jews coming to "Israel" and simply living as Jewish Syrian citizens, but noted "nor can the erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". The latter statement was based on the assumption that an army of at least 50,000 would be required to establish Jewish ownership by force. In respect to the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East, the report cautioned "Not only you as president but the American people as a whole should realize that if the American government decided to support the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, they are committing the American people to the use of force in that area, since only by force can a Jewish state in Palestine be established or maintained."

>It began work in June 1919 and produced its report privately on 28 August 1919. Its publication was suppressed at the time as it was considered by the State Department that publication "would not be compatible with the public interest". The Commission's report was ultimately published in the December 2, 1922 edition of the Editor & Publisher magazine.

Can't make this shit up.

>>150277081
t.urk

>>150276692
Russia blobbed south enough that they are my only western passable-border neighbor, so no blobbing into central asia for me.

>>150276928
I think I saw one with more blue and citations at the bottom, but that's close enough what I wanted regardless. Thanks much.

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Really makes you think

>>150277156
oy vey why didnt they give us that land goiym

>>150277420
>il y a 8 heures
épique

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What grand strat lets me play as Monster Island?

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>>150277156

>>150277813
None.

>>150277813
Probably eu$ in a few years or even ck2; when they release the inivetiable China and then Japan DLCs there will most definitely be anime and Godzilla flavor events for Japanese cultures.

Anyone got a link for the EU3 Savegame Editor or EU3 Save Suite? You need an account to download them from the paracocks forums

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/614457/

>>150278561
>EU3 Savegame Editor
It's called notepad++

Fill in the blank:
Eu4 is _____

>>150274976
>white americans will do as he says

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>>150278903
Very memey

>>150276349
It's to appease anons who say "waaaaah, this intentionally entry level grand strategy is too easy."

In a word, autism happened.

>>150278926
HAHA, great post, nigga! Gotta put the law-abidin white man down!

>>150279170
>law abiding

>>150276349
Get a mod like MEIOU or some shit

>>150278313
screencap this: there will never be a japanese/ chinese dlc for ck2

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>>150279229
>meme arrows

>>150278313
>anime
They wouldn't. Godzilla is a normie meme but anime is 'le weebshit :(((((' even among (or maybe, especially among) Paradoxplaza normies.

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>>150279313

>>150279243
Of course it won't. Parakeks can't make an engine able to run it and they can make more shekels out of it as an independent game

>>150279313
According to one of Paradox's devs, "we're game developers, of course we're weebs XDDDD"

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>>150279308
>he says, as he uses them

>>150279346
Doesn't matter, if they're jewing then they're not going to turn off a huge chunk of their fanbase of mature players of mature strategy games such as those made by Paradox by introducing anime.
If they ignored what the normies wanted, they'd be based by the definition of the word "based", but they're not based, they're memes and will instead add BearHasLanded and even more shitty comet events to CK2 as well, although I have no fucking idea where.

>>150279447
>implying they're actually weebs
They're weebs the way Polygon and Kotaku are gamers.

>>150278561
http://eu3-savegame-editor.software.informer.com/5.0/

This work?

inb4 virus- use caution, this site seems shady.

>>150278903
A game ruined by mana.

>>150279651
I tried that. It eventually just redirects you to the thread on the forums.

>>150279674
>le mana meme

tired of this shit desu lads

>>150275093
>having pain receptors on your butt
Pleb

>>150279753
Care to provide a counterpoint? The fact that so much hinges on these arbitrary "points" that can be spent like money to instantly get what you want and saved for as long as you want before that is what drags the game from what it could be to what it is.
That and shitty office multi balancing I guess, but yeah.

>>150279832
other games have mana too

>>150279731
That sucks. Why not just make an account with cockmail?

If it just needs you to be logged in.

>>150279891
They're not as all-consuming as they are in EU4.
Yeah you have political point mana, leader mana, and influence mana seriously fuck the influence minigame, I guess it's supposed to mimic the tedium and annoyance of trying to influence shit historically? in Vicky but it's not as ridiculously everywhere as it is in EU4 and they're only relevant in their little section of the game.
HoI3 had IC which you could say is 'mana'-ish because where is it even coming from, but it's only really relevant in one sector of the game which is more of a wargame anyway.
I can't think of any real mana points in CK2 or EU3.

>>150280063
money prestige etc

>>150280012
Did you forget about our deal, Donald?

>>150280119
How is that mana though? A main annoyance of mana is that it applies fucking everywhere and is incredibly arbitrary in how it's applied or how it's gathered. Oh, so you want to improve your navy? Costs the same points as it does to hire an admiral to lead and think about your navy. Oh you want to integrate a vassal? Say goodbye to your newest trade ships. Like what really? Oh shooting troublemakers somehow makes it more difficult for me to get a rifled barrel? Huh?
Money is logical in how it's gathered and spent. Mana is not and that's the problem, and mana is as all over the place if not more so than money.

how do i enjoy hearts of iron 4?
making arrows isn't very fun I would much rather build liquor factories

>>150280370
You fucking don't.

>>150280370
You play a better game
Even EU4 is unironically better of the newest gens or you could just play DH or HoI 3

>>150280012
>Ted tried to buy delegates with ground-game- mana

>>150280320
fuck off

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>>150280370
I don't think it's possible.

>>150280476
Pic related.

>the government mana in hearts of iron 4 is unironically called fuhrer mana
did they do this to meme us?

>>150280584
That's not what it's actually-actually called though is it?
Isn't it technically political points

>>150280584
They just love dem meems

>>150280625
open the console and type in fuhrer_points

>>150280674
Epic
Johan lurks among us

>>150280625
Political power, but the cheat to add more is "fuhrer_mana"

>>150280719
It's no secret that he does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muqYPFCJhM0

>>150280786
>we call this field experience
>it's fucking mana

>>150280786
Holy shit kek
Also why are both of them so fucking nervous would it kill them to hire some lady who can speak eloquently or not like an asbergers

>>150280851
>hire some lady
But they already have Johan

>>150280786
Johan unironically looks like a teddy bear, even his fat face is the really squishy looking type and not the greasy type
On the other hand Wiz
WIZ

>victoria 3 comes out
>factories replaced with civilian factories, naval factories and army factories
>now have to invest political mana to sphere things
>if you invest your mana you don't have mana to upgrade your factories or buy tech levels
>combat in victoria 2 was too complicated, now you just have a single doomstack and smash it into each other then shattered retreat all the way to your capital

>>150280919
t. Johan

>>150281238
Where da Pola Beers at?

>>150281252
t. Wiz
You're ugly as fuck.

>>150281238
>combat in victoria 2 was too complicated, now you just have a single doomstack and smash it into each other then shattered retreat all the way to your capital
but you just described how combat currently works in victoria 2?

>>150281364
More like you defend.

>>150281316
Uuuurgh

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>>150280119
Money and prestige are not mana.
Mana is when you have points that accumulate over time and are used to perform seemingly unrelated tasks instantaneously, and also when these tasks are not tied to each other in a logical fashion.
So using money to build something is not mana. Using money to bribe someone isn't mana.
Diplomatic points in V2 are not mana because they are just used for diplomacy. If they were used to tech too, then they would be mana.

The closest thing you have are the system used for diplomacy/research/intelligence in HoI3, but that's still not mana because it doesn't accumulate.

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>>150280919
Wiz is by far the ugliest creature on this Earth

>>150281643
yes, money is mana, building don't appear out of thin when you throw coins at it. And you literally use prestige to build stuff as a tribal lord

>>150281643
I'd argue that V2 diplopoints are mana because they seem incredibly arbitrary.

>>150279753
i thought of it as mana before i knew of the meme, it is literally mana and it doesn't benefit the game in any way, simply serving to make you progress at an anticipated pace with a magic resource appearing out of nowhere that can do anything

every time i improved my gain i thought of it as mana regen

it's also dumb to have events say "your ports suffered some catastrophe, minus fifty diplomacy points!"

>>150281721
They aren't arbitrary, you just use them for diplomacy. Arbitrary is lagging behind in naval tech because you have too many royal marriages.

>>150281710
Just because a game doesn't simulate the building time or even minutiae of something doesn't make that mana. Money is still closely linked to building something.
Though most games simulate the time it takes to build something, even CK2. I can't think of one that doesn't.

>you literally use prestige to build stuff as a tribal lord
Now that's an example of mana. You can say CK2 and EU4 have mana, though CK2 use of prestige as mana is much less ubiquitous than in EU4, where it's the central core.

>>150281710
>building don't appear out of thin when you throw coins at it.
That's basically what governments do though. They throw money at people to get shit done.
Prestige is a different matter but tribal lords often had their peoples just randomly build shit.

>>150281857
>They aren't arbitrary, you just use them for diplomacy.
Nah but like
They generate at a weird pace and I don't follow why I have a limited amount. Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing against EU4 mana, but diplo points feel like mana because why are they even there what do they represent that the cooldown doesn't already?

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>>150281857
>I can't think of one that doesn't.
Civilization if you have enough population or a great engineer
Literally finish the Pyramids overnight
>responding to actual, unironic bait

>tfw gas is already starting to go back up to 4 mana points a gallon

>>150282034
Why do you keep ruining my memes ;-;

>>150281951
They represent the diplomatic investment your country gathers to spend on other countries. It would be better if you had a fixed number of diplomats to send around, sure, but as much as you feel you get them at an arbitrary pace, they are used ONLY for diplomacy and therefore can't be classified as mana.

>>150282034
We aren't really talking about Civ here, we are talking about these games. No sense in complaining about unrealistic shit in Civ.

>responding to actual, unironic bait
I'd argue he's just retarded.

>>150282075
Because you cannot cheat on me and expect to ever escape.

can't believe they're seriously charging 15 mana for the conclave dlc

>>150282129
But I wasn't that shitposter

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>>150282121
>They represent the diplomatic investment your country gathers to spend on other countries. It would be better if you had a fixed number of diplomats to send around, sure, but as much as you feel you get them at an arbitrary pace, they are used ONLY for diplomacy and therefore can't be classified as mana.
I guess you have a point, so in lieu of having diplomats on missions that take X amount of time you lose points that need X amount of time to regenerate? I can see that working.

>>150282185
>>150282065
I'll give you twenty mana each to stop posting this meme

>>150282205
Prove it~

I have been traveling the past few months in regions that I could not access 4chan. How is HoI4? It does not seem too bad on the surface but I have not looked too deeply.

>>150282537
It's bad, bland, and extremely shallow with poor balance and implementation of features, but believe it or not it was worse on release.

>>150282537
Where have you been travelling, anon?

>>150280476
Pls buy my Renaissance game

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>>150275209

>>150282637

Africa.

PS never ever ever ever ever go to Malawi.

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>>150275209
I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it with my own eyes

>>150282602

So will patches/DLC fix it or is it unsalvageable and Paradox is kill? Because if Victoria 3 ever comes out with their track record it will be shit.

>>150282834
Like, I'm sure it'll be salvageable, eventually. EU4 was said to be irredeemable shit at launch but now it's essentially strictly superior to EU3 besides >mana and the lack of >sliders, and shit like MEIOU promises to get rid of mana entirely eventually and is working right now on adding POPs.

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Hi, HPM could you please mod Portugal's sates to something more historical like pic related?
if no, please tell me how to so I can do it

>>150282934
>strictly superior to EU3
Not like this was a hard thing to do

>>150282934

Shame really. It looked promising from the previews I saw before I left.

>>150282745
What's wrong with that place?

>>150283018
Yeah but it was almost strictly inferior at launch and called hot fucking garbage by everyone, even the people who wanted to like it or tried to defend it.

Why is there no decision to form unite Iberia in HPM?

>>150283069
It's the poorest most backwards part of Africa. Lilongwe makes Johannesburg look like London and Kinshasa look like Paris.

>>150283280
Why were you even in Africa?

>>150283069

Think of the worst African shithole you can imagine. Then make it somehow worse. You have Malawi. Apparently they have a tradition where a guy is paid to rape children.

Like when I got back to Zambia I was so happy because I saw civilization. As horrible that was in comparison to the West.

>>150283280

the only decent country in Africa is Equatorial Guinea

>>150248545
wew

>>150283341
>Apparently they have a tradition where a guy is paid to rape children.
*fire pit chanting intensifies*
*persistence hunting intensifies*

>>150283334
I'm a security contractor, got shipped out to do convoy duty for an NGO.

>>150283489
Are you uh
Serious, or rusing?

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>Brutus
Its like pottery

>>150283419

Not even joking

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36843769

Luckily I did not go south west of Blantyre.

>>150283489

I loved you guys. The only vehicles that were not 1980s Japanese pre-owns. UN guys were the best.

>>150283523

Apparently there were two of us who suffered Malawi in this thread.

>>150283523
I'm serious but to be clear I'm not >>150282745 this anon, I was in Malawi 2 years ago.

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What did he mean by this?

>>150283618
>with the way ISIS are razing cities I can see a space program in the near future.
Agree x1

>>150283583
Holy keking shit
*Fertility Dance intensifies.*

>"We are not going to condemn these people," says Dr May Shaba, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Gender and Welfare. "But we are going to give them information that they need to change their rituals."
>we're not going to tell them they're disgusting and need to stop
>but we'll give them information that say so instead

>>150282996
States are defined in map/region.txt, not sure how to add new ones though

>>150283618
GREASY
DISGUSTING
VIRGIN
BAKA
WIZ

>>150283775
To add a new one you just a new line in region.txt that looks like the others and put the proper province ID's in it/delete those ID's from their current state's line.
Also add a line in any localization file that says the_name_you_put_in_region.txt;INSERT NAME HERE;shitload of semicolons if you care about the name it displays as in game.

What is the difference between accepted and main cultures?

Does everyone gets assimilated to the main culture anyway?

>>150284439
it means tajiks are an accepted pop

If you form Netherlands do all the cancer "joins the republic" events still happen to everyone else?

>>150278903
the best paradox game ever made

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>playing as duke of Verona
>comfy af, slowly increasing my north italian holdings, working towards the Kingdom of Italy
>suddenly inherit the crown of the HRE
Help me lads, what do I do now? I never asked for this

>>150285624
exterminate germanics
italy first

>>150285624
Release all the german dukes and conquer Italy

>>150285710
Northern Italy is Germanic, tard

>>150285845
But what if he meant exterminate germanics starting with italy?

>>150285845
exactly, they're already encroaching on your rights and trying to stamp out the proud italianese, you have to stop them!

>>150284439
Accepted ones get much less militancy/concs than unaccepted ones

>>150285913
>!

>>150283618
What was the context of this argument? Link to thread?

>>150285710
>>150285845
>>150285896
>>150285913
>implying he didn't start as the Duke of Verona precisely because he's German
Let's not kid ourselves here, forming Italy is nice, but not as a spaghetti-nigger

>>150285990
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-dev-diary-september-24th.883301/page-13#post-19990076
This I think

>>150285896
>>150285913
I think I'll mod in the north Italian cultures into a Germanic culture group, and form Germany. Thanks lads

>>150286124
Just culture convert to lombard lad

>>150286124
Fuck off

liquor

>>150286531
DUDE

>>150286531
>>150286594
good posts

>>150274967
can someone give me a fascist revolution event id

>>150286773
>playing hoi4

>>150286773
3252

>>150286773
event 60000

>>150286964
>>150287135
>>150287160
Is it that hard to spend 30 seconds filling the boxes on paint?

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>>150286964
>>150287135
>>150287160
>Israel
Americans waking up, I see

>>150287207
Too lazy
>>150287221
>supporting mudslimes over Israel
Hello Mohammad, how are you enjoying Europe?

>>150287221
Palestine causes the worst real life border gore outside of this abomination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Angle

>>150287508
I'd support maneating aliens over Israel, you dirty kike

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>that glorious economy
Maximum comfy

>>150288117
Your people don't seem to be finding it very comfy
What are they lacking?

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>>150286839

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>>150287818
>he sides with the t*rks and chinks every time

What is the last playable CK2 version?

>>150288230
They cant buy for some reasons, not sure why since I have most goods except tea in my sphere. Probably the minimum taxes doesnt help but I dont want capitalists building useless shit in my states

>>150288373
the one before the old memes

>>150286106
Why are employees at game publishers/developers such manchildren? Seriously, with the shit they post, only trained, professional PR people should be allowed to post on the forums. It would save everyone's sanity

>>150287626
Lmao you seem way too upset about people supporting Israel over some filthy dunecoons

>>150288230
>>150288452
The chart only shows pops getting everyday goods when they're getting 100% of their everyday goods. They could be getting 90% of their everyday goods, not being able to buy the remaining 10%, skipping straight to luxury goods and being able to buy +50% of their luxury goods, it'd still show them up in the green section of the pie chart.

>>150286839
Man, EU4 is my favorite game ever.

>promise Gaeldom land to get them to fight England with me (It also weakens England so it helps me out)
>Gaeldom suddenly doesn't want any fucking provinces in the peace deal
>even the ones that it EXPLICITLY MARKS as "province of vital interest"

what the fuck do I do
yes I gave them control of the occupied provinces in question

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Would've been a better future desu lads.

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are you FUCKING serious?

Literally the war to take the last province needed to form it

>>150289719
Hitler promes Poland former Commonwealth land like Lithuania so your map is wrong

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Pick a country, /gsg/

>>150289963
Source?

I couldn't find anything on that. I'm looking for sources on Turkish claims too.

>>150290074
post mod

>>150289719
What the fuck with those colours? Denmark light blue? England pink? What am I missing?

>>150290184
It's in the op lazybones

How do I use tanks and planes in late game HPM?

>>150276190
you left those pacific spanish islands

>>150290558
You build them like any other and put them in your army. I don't get your question

>>150290817
The question is what ratio I should use, do I just replace cav with planes and engineer with tanks or build armies full of tanks/planes

>>150290074
H A B S B U R G

>>150290074
Venice

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Poor Austria. Romania will probably make them sink even deeper.

Alright lads I'm bored as fuck and want to get into these games. Do I start with EU4, like it says in the FAQ? You guys seem to meme it into retardation so I'm not sure.

>>150293847
EU4 is definitely the easiest, and has the most crossover into all the other games, so I'd definitely recommend it. It gets memed because everyone in this general thinks it's too casual.

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>>150291326
Goals?

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>>150293948
Unify Germany.

>>150283561
what mod senpai?

>>150293941
Alright thanks man. Hope this gets me through summer, EDF and Terraria are starting to get boring.

>>150288373
I use 2.4.5, it's probably the comfiest patch, prior to infameme and coalitions

>>150283362
I know this is bait, but modern Rwanda is actually doing things pretty well.

>>150293847
Start with EU4. Make sure to only play it with MEIOU+Taxes

>>150293941
How is EU4 the easiest? That game confused the shit out of me. Then I tried CK2 and things made sense.

>Still 3 weeks til Reaper's Due
>Grad school starts up the same week
Reee

I know I'll be underwhelmed in practice but I have built up my expectations in my head of how much Prosperity and Depopulation will improve the game.

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>Be Valois
>abuse Italy through Aragon fingers
>form Italy
>Aragon hate me
>i have 200 relation with Plantagenet so they ally with me
>Plantagenets allied with Valois
>Aragon decide to take back Italy
>Savoie cannot call Plantagenets for help because theyre in a war with me

Its like poetry

>>150295604
>paradox adds another meme features
>meanwhile, actual crusades are still shit

Do the carlists get something different or is it just a different flag?

>>150295787
>playing during the crusader era
I never do this desu. Start up games during Charlie or OG and play for 2 or 3 centuries.

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>another episode of Germany versus the world
And as is the tradition we have -50 warscore from battles against Russia.

>>150296414
So start in the worst time periods, with the most border gore and paradox filling in historical gaps with fictional characters?

>>150296697
Try not being such a fucking scrub then

>>150296697
Do I get to break up the germs if I dismantle them?

How does it look?

>>150295581
Wow really? I started with EU4 and everything was very clear and made sense to me at first (except trade). When I tried CK 2 I was completely confused and had no clue what I was doing or what I had to do

>>150296812
Ah I see, so you only play the first character you choose on the select and quit when he dies, because you don't like fictional characters?

Well, you ARE a pleb, but I guess plebs have a right to play grand strat if they want to. It's a free country after all.

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>>150297002

>>150296829
They lose AL, Schleswig and their polish provinces, nothing really serious

>>150296857
Yeah trade was the weirdest for me too, and still is. I'm sure once I go back to EU4 the skills I've picked up in CK2 will largely carry over and I'll get it. In fact I keep meaning to do this but I'm still having too much fun in CK2.

Precisely when does "Germany" appear instead of "The German Empire" in HPM?

>>150297335
Yeah btw, there is a conversion (((DLC))) that you can download where you can play your CK2 save in EU4

>>150294215
Looks like extended timeline.

>>150297002
Not that guy but I dislike bordergore too.
And karlings being absolutely everywhere is annoying too.
I had some fun with shattered world or whatever was the mod making all counties independent caled. Usually, the kingdoms looked kind of neat after a few centuries and you could observe a nice alt-history setting... but I got usually bored of the game by then.
>tfw never finished a single game in ck2

>>150295698
What is this mod?
It looks quite cool

>>150297431
When you're no longer a monarchy?

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>>150297532
Divergences of Darkness, aka border gore the game.

Also no special decisions for Burgundy, im dissapointed.

>>150295005
>MEIOU+Taxes
What does this do? I'm pirating it first to see how it is btw.

>>150297592
When does that happen?

>>150297592
The Weimar Republic was still called Deutsches Reich

>>150297707
It's a massive overhaul. It changes nearly everything about the game

>>150297754
Well Deutsches Reich is more akin to German realm.

>>150297721
>>150297592
Please, when does a country stop being a monarchy in HPM?

>>150297453
Hell yeah I have that. Planning on carrying over my Großesuomi

>>150297896
Why would I want that though? Shouldn't I try to expierence it vanilla first?

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>>150297997
Make sure it's the properly Groß

>>150297953
When you are no longer a monarchy. You're an idiot if you don't understand this.

>>150297953
Never. Alex doesn't approve of democracies. The closest you can get is constitutional monarchy with a parliament.

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>>150298485
What reform do you pass?

I think it's one of the suffrage ones.

FUCKING TELL ME I CONTRIBUTE OC ALL THE TIME GIVE BACK TO ME GSG

>>150298026
NO.

How do you guys retake Gibraltar early on?

There was someone here who said he did it but I just can't figure out how he took out their navy

>>150298546
But when does your name change to Germany and not German Empire?

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Are minimods still incompatible with latest HPM? Please tell me if there are any that will work, thank you.

>>150298594
Yeah it's pretty easy, all you have to do is _________________________________________________________________________________git gud____________________________________________________________

>>150298628
When you take the "Change name to Germany" decision.

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>>150296697
Slowly regaining battle warscore. They are starting to run out of men now, carpet siege time soon.

>>150298628

I think it only changes if Germany becomes a democracy, like I did here >>150298646

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so you can not only marry siblings but your own children too?
>that pious daughteru

>>150298813
When do you become a democracy?

It changes when I've just taken reforms before, but you keep the Black/White/Red flag.

>>150295005
>>150297707
>>150297896
>>150298026
>eu4
>meiou and taxes
you mean eu3 right
the eu4 mod was garbage

>>150298919
When you open your borders wide for rapefugees

>>150298919

I let Jacobins take over and they abolished the monarchy. So if you keep your monarchy but pass political reforms you will only ever be a Semi-constitutional Monarchy and eventually a Constitutional Monarchy.

>>150298628
You have to download Caleb's Political Titles mod

>>150299008
>t.steamgruppe
No, the EU4 mod is fantastic. They've been moving away from Mana and will introduce pops soon

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>take Native Protection Act
>now my pops all assimilate into Aboriginals
HPM pls fix

>>150299210
Why do you even take native protection act

>>150299210
t. robe

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>>150276928
>constantinopolitan

>>150299265
so i can make my colonies into states easily

>>150299052
But eventually you stop being German Empire.

I think it's when you become a Constitutional Monarchy and not a Semi-Constitutional one.

So... when does that happen?

>>150298581
O...okay.

>>150299412

I don't remember then, maybe it doesn't happen anymore if you use HPM.

>>150299325
So because you didn't have enough Australians in your colonies you decided to accept Aborigines to turn them to states? In this case of course your immigrants will assimilate to aborigine

IIRC, there's nothing HPM can do about that. The game is coded to enable assimilation to accepted cultures, and you can't fix this shit with modifiers or pop_types

If you don't want aborigines, you have to not accept them

>>150297228
That sucks.

Dismantle needs to break a country completely.

I was pretty disappoint when I dismantled Russia and they didn't lose Siberia and came back as a GP few years later.

I hope the archive isn't a virus

>>150299749

I wish there was more control over what happens after you dismantle a country. I'm tired of seeing whole swathes of Africa being given to the US or some country that didn't even participate in the war.

>>150299749
>Dismantle needs to break a country completely.

Millions died in WW1 and Germany wasn't hit hard enough to knock them out of GP. Not even WW2 was really.

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>>150298774
Krautland finally give up after losing their last few men.

>>150299749
You always have to change stuff manually after dismantlement anyway its always a nonsensical mess with spheres and colonies

>>150299971
>You always have to change stuff manually after dismantlement anyway its always a nonsensical mess with spheres and colonies
CHEATER DETECTED

LEAVE GSG FOREVER

>>150299870
Is there no way to make it so the major contributor of the war gets most of the stuff?

>>150300079
Wiz decided we needed more Jan Mayen bear memes isntead

Why does my HIP install in CK2 always crash when its initializing map logic? This happens no matter what instalation i use.

>>150300079

It's one of those many things I wish HPM could add to the game.

Another thing is being able to see the full statistics of a conflict, e.g. total losses for both sides. My dick would be diamonds.

Can I become civilized as Persia before 1870?

>>150300235
You don't

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Well Venice,sucks to be you.
Italy is best blob.

>>150300235
yes

in HPM you can do it in 1860 with the right reforms

just encourage intellectuals and max edu and reach 10% literacy for an free university reform

>>150300486
Do I need to conquer stuff or can I just focus on that?

>>150300472
blacked

>>150300607
I conquered all states with persian minorities after being civilize to avoid big infamy

also low relation with the UK down to -200

>>150299412
You become a constitutional monarchy when you pass voting for everyone (weighed universal) and enough political party reforms

>>150300472
what mod?

>>150300472
What are your accepted cultures?

What does the population look like?

Is Greece a republic now that Venice has set up camp there?

>>150300819
>>150297705

>>150295809
pls respond

>>150299717
Or he needs to accept aborigines only AFTER all his states have australian pops.

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>>150300893
Yes Greece is a republic.
Pops are mess.

Cultures are HPMs nightmare.
6 months before i invade Occitane.

>>150301518
How's the religious population?

I understand that Provence starts Protestant, but what about Italy?

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>>150301597

Are negative tariffs ever useful in V2?

>>150299790
it's not

>>150283707
>being a cultural imperialist

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3TxSngy6oI

>nobody likes Dual Monarchy

>>150301718
>not being in favor of allowing child rape in a shithole to continue and try to get them to stop makes you a "cultural imperialist"
Fucking kill yourself, Green scum

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>>150283596
are you blackwater?
tell us some ebin merc stories please

Does anyone have a link to a download of V2 Ultimate which doesnt want to rape my face?

>tfw no ck2 mercenaries mod
>you will never create "the masked men" group and lead them as bane

>>150302129
I mean it's not like they don't have a point, maybe you're the one who needs to grow up
>"There's nothing wrong with our culture," Chrissie tells me. "If you look at today's society, you can see that girls are not responsible, so we have to train our girls in a good manner in the village, so that they don't go astray, are good wives so that the husband is satisfied, and so that nothing bad happens to their families."

Are there any good mods for Hoy4? Is it worth pirating at all?

>>150302129
>imposing your cultural views onto other people
>caring what happens in some irrelevant shithole

maybe when you finish college you'll stop being such an obnoxious bleeding heart liberal who wants to fix the world

>>150302519
>being against child rape is now "a difference of """""""""culture"""""""""
Seriously, go kill yourself. Or just move there if you're such a fan of it>>150302519

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>still a Dual Monarchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k0SmqbBIpQ

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>>150302821
>implying it isn't

Next thing you gonna say is that morality is an inherent human concept you deluded cuck.

>>150303093
>0 infamy
Show your cores

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>>150303578
Everything.
Literally everything mate...up to London.

>>150303990
wew

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>>150304048
But wait!
Theres more cores later!

>>150274967
>10k mudniggers come attack my 5k regiments of crusaders
>pope's 7k regiment in the next county that could have easily came in and help just stood their and watch
>Anihlites my regiment and the pope's right after

This game can get so fucking infuriating sometimes stupid ai

>>150304173
Holy fuck. What's next, European union?

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>>150304267
Well you can form HRE as Bohemia.
Also you can keep Dual Monarchy alive, i did that last night.

>>150304436
What's the most recent version of this?

>>150304859
t.rob

>>150305202
I don't mobilize

unHPM, does your mod already include minimods like cultures minimod?

Also felt like playing a small releasable nation and checked the major powers and didn't find any new releasable nation here, are the nations you added formable?

>>150304436
>didn't bother setting a picture for one of the most important events in the mod
holy shit seriously?

>>150305671
He didn't even bother to set up localization for the modifier either.

newish to EU4 - ~150 hours

How do you form Mughals as Timmurids? Every time I try my horde unity gets fucked and i collapse before i get what i need

>>150306914
Well, first you need to get your stability to 3 then you have to ____________________________________________________uninstall.exe

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>Few people tell me to try Crusader Kings 2
>Sorta enjoy EU4
>See pic related

Nope.jpg

>>150307740
>buying parajew's games
What are you? A shill?

>>150307740
if you play eu4 then you know that most of that shit is visual

>>150307737
fuck off elitist faggot

>>150307794
>Implying it's not me covertly asking for a good link
Don't hurt me, I can't open the archive on my phone to see if ones in there

>>150307737
fuck off back to your discord group

>>150307740
literally download it from the OP
it takes 15 minutes at most

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How would you rate this meme?

>want to conquer south western middle east sihtholes
>die to attrition while enemy caliphate barely takes any losses
>jihad on my land
>enemy dies to attrition while i barely take any losses
how the fuck do i remove shitskins from egypt and south western arabian peninsula in CK

Which of these GSG's is the best?

>>150308523
Liquoria

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>>150304859
Dunno i googled it and there it was.

Anyway...who the fuck designed these borders?
I reclaim France but i cannot reclaim all of it?

Its so fucking ugly

>>150308523
Stellaris

>>150281238
>combat in victoria 2 was too complicated
exactly what is complicated about building 50k artillery doomstacks with a few dragoons for recon?

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>>150308723
it's a meme you dip

>>150308523
Unironically EU4, preferably with the MEIOU and Taxes mod, though I recommend vanilla for your first game so that you learn the mechanics before playing a more complex mod.

>>150308523
Victoria 2

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>>150308523
Funnily enough HPM is only one who actually cares that his stuff is good nowdays.

>>150308723
Whats the big deal about adding recon anyway?

>>150308407
disgusting/10

>>150308407
>No Deutsch Texas
???

HPM please make it to where if you're hosting the olympics but your admin efficiency is low you lose prestige instead of gain it for things that go wrong

>>150307737
what do you even talk about in the discord?

>inb4 historical ERP

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wew/10

>>150310789
D'aww! How cute to see the liberals living in their made up, fantasy world.

Fucking degenerates...