/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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Who else here fell for the comfy meme?

>CK2, play as the Strategos of Cyprus in 1066
>get the whole island for myself, sounds pretty comfy
>build castles and cities in the empty holdings
>upgrade everything else
>just focus on expanding my dynasty
>realise that my realm laws reset every time my character dies since the duchy is a viceroyalty and I don't actually inherit it
>have to hire mercenaries and fight a war of independence to be able to have any real progress, which defeats the whole purpose of this run
>get bored ~90 years in and delete my saves

An absolute waste of time.

Another one:

>Vic 2, play as Uruguay, not sure if it was PDM or HPM
>get a shitload of immigration since the first day, + natural pop growth since I start with 35 life ratings
>if I recall correctly, my capital reached 1 mil pops before the end of the century
>industry is sadly doing fairly shit since I don't produce many goods with industrial applications
>can't become a GP but don't care much since I'm in the US' sphere
>instead of blobbing into my neighbors, decide to expand into africa and develop it with colonial migration from my crowded mainland
>realise that for some absolutely retarded reason, new world pops won't move out of the continent under any circumstance, even if they're unemployed and starving, and unable to do anything else with their lives
>delete all my related saves and decide to never play a small country in this shit game again
>later see that the immense majority of /gsg/ unironically supports this broken colonial migration """"system""""

At least I don't mind playing GPs all the time now.

>>151746686
>play as greek
>complain about viceroyalties
Is this bait?

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Daily reminder that La Plata is the rightfull capital of Argentina and the United Provinces

>>151746824
It's time to stop Anotsokindanon/HitlerMod/unHPM

>tfw chileans and argentinians will never be brothers like in the past once more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7d55WpKKyA

>>151746686
>>realise that for some absolutely retarded reason, new world pops won't move out of the continent
Absolutely retarded reason which can be changed in one minute with notepad++

>>151746998
Memes are for children and the mentally impaired.

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Reminder that the Falklands are rightfully British.

>>151746998
You're the only one who even gets behind this meme. It's like that one autistic kid in class snorting glue in the last seat. It's time to stop.

groß/gsg/vic2mpiums when?

>>151747147
Tell me more about British lands lad

>>151746721
I am but I am I always get stuck on just studing it. very annoying

>>151747229
I know I'm the only one. But who cares desu

>>151747240
Grob/gsg/ would have to include Stellaris and Civ.

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Undoubtedly due to her sloth, Bourgogne II was a surprisingly thrifty ruler. Although wealth had flowed into her realm from the silk road and even from the Hind by means of Jerusalem's port at Elim, the mad Queen had hoarded it all, only rarely and with great reluctance deigning to spend even a pittance. It was this thrift which gifted Reynaud with the wealthiest Kingdom in Eurasia upon his inheritance, although this fact was wisely well-concealed. Even the corrupt Papacy, with all of its many tributaries and immense influence even in its waning days, could not even come close to the staggering riches of the Lord of Jerusalem.

It is all the more important, then, to realize that King Raynaud willingly parted with the vast majority of his inherited wealth, plus the lives of tens of thousands of Jerusalemite faithful, to guard the realm of his weakened brother.

All of Eurasia--from the court of Khan Yedi to the frozen keep of Grand Prince Vysheslav Rurikovich, from the seat of Alvar de Barcelona, first of all Catholics, to the hilly demesne of the Dunkelds of Scotland--all knew the selfless sacrifice of Raynaud in the name of his faith and his family. It is no surprise, then, that when the court of Jerusalem finally received word that Pope Damasus had cravenly called off the Crusade for Aegyptus--a sure sign of the favor of Lucifer in the eyes of the faithful--they immediately acknowledged Raynaud as a Perfect, one of the Sinless, the great teachers of the Messalian faith. He remains one of the most deserving of all who have ever been honored with the title.

Fireden's fucked from the server move so I can't even link to my last post, but this is the beginning of the AAR send-off I promised ages ago.

>>151747702
what

>>151747702
It's sad to see this end, but at least we'll get some closure.

1-2: vanilla DW EU3
3-4: MEIOU EU3
5-6: DAO+Miscmods EU3
7-8: MEIOU&TEXAS EU4
9-0: kill myself aka vanilla EU4

how do i play a cracked ck2 in multiplayer?

>>151746528
reporta e ignora shitpostia

Are multiplayer games ever hosted in this thread ?

>>151747893
Where is Voltaire's nightmare?

>>151748150
It's as laggy as MEIOU, only I don't get any of MEIOU's perks to compensate for that lag and it only affects me if I'm playing in the HRE to begin with.

>>151748415
>implying HPM isn't Report and Ignore

>>151748382
What perks does MEIOU have?

>>151748415
Feels bad man

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>>151747702
As a Perfect Messalian King Raynaud is free from the shackles of morality, able to undertake any action without being judged by law or opinion. For how might a man who has accepted God within him sin?

Many who become Perfect lose themselves, ruining either their bodies, their minds, or their spirits with their newfound freedoms; even the greatest of men oft fail to control themselves when given the power to do anything they wish. True to his humble nature, however, Raynaud's acceptance of his Perfection is somewhat muted. Although he spends the rest of his life fully enjoying the pleasures of his position, he does not break with the tenets of his faith, nor with the bonds that tie him to his sister-wife, Bourgogne: he never lies with another woman. After Raynaud's new dedication to pleasure the couple certainly spend more time in their chambers, but it is a pleasant price for Bourgogne to pay in return for her husband's continued loyalty.

"And who knew you could even perform at your advanced age?" Bourgogne joked, her sweat-covered form shining in the moonlight. It was the night after Raynaud's victory over Damasus, the same day he had been publicly acknowledged as Perfect, and they had spent hours already in their chambers, sampling wine, food... and other, more pressing matters.

Raynaud chuckled as he poured them both another goblet. "So says my elder sister. Am I now to insult your fertility, my dear, elderly wife?"

"Oh, well," she played at offense, "you might insult it all you like, but nine months' time will tell the true tale, hmm?"

He laughed again as he passed her goblet to her, sliding into the bed as he did. As she curled up next to him, Raynaud could not help but wonder how long it had been since they had truly enjoyed themselves like this. Had it been when they were still teenagers, when responsibility seemed so far away?

"The wealth of my Kingdom is a small price to pay for this," he announced.

Anyone know how to get House Customizer from AGOT CK2 Mod into regular CK2?

>>151748415
I would only watch the first one desu

>>151747075
how?

>>151748561
Making mana less important, for one. Also watching the day counter tick by offers some interesting opportunities for philosophical contemplation.

>>151748849
cultures.txt ctrl f is_overseas

Is HitlerMod white? Whiter than HPM, at least?

I want to play white mods ONLY.

>>151749087
Yes im white.

What should I do?

>>151749087
No, he shitposts and is Argentinian. That makes him a nigger

>>151748870
Sorry, I don't get EU4 mod memes. Does it mean there is nothing to do?

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>>151748930
>hitlermodguy is unironically gay
epic

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What happened?

>>151749229
MEIOU runs in realtime

>>151749229
MEIOU lags into oblivion unless you're running on a Xeon or some shit and even then it's not fast by any stretch of the word.
It's a very good mod if your comp can handle it.

How do I make EU4 fun?

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>>151748930
Awkward post to respond to, but I finished more flags.

This one's for Nizhni Novgorod. It's the flag of Nizhni Novgorod. Not much to it. Also you never told me what you thought of the Archangel one.

>>151749581
MEIOU is a good bet.

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>>151748635
Although Raynaud and Bourgogne were destined to spend the rest of their lives pleasantly thanks to the great strength Raynaud had bought the realm by winning the Aegyptian Crusade, the same cannot be said for his opponents.

Already terribly weakened by the desolation of Latium and the betrayal of Damasus, the Roman Pontificate was dealt another harsh blow when Damasus drank himself to death a few short months later. Although the Church attempted to cover matters up, supporters of Lucius V, Pope in Aragon, were able to expose the hedonistic death of the prior Pontiff. A further insult to Catholics everywhere came a few short days later, when yet another German, Lothar von Schrapelnau, was proclaimed Gregorius XIII. Already accused of being a German institution, the ascendance of Gregorius and the German nationality of his widely-anticipated successor, Cardinal Erhart von Freiberg, does naught to instill confidence that the Roman Pontificate is anything but a corrupt institution ruled in virtual perpetuity by German Catholics in exile from the now-Messalian Reich.

With their levies and coffers depleted from participation in the "Traitor's Crusade" and their faith shaken by the corruption of the Papacy, many Catholic rulers undertake the first steps toward a formal break with Rome. Carlo Angelos, King of Sicily, marries the daughter of the Messalian Kaiser against the express command of Gregorius XIII, whilst King Thibault de Blois of France enters into an alliance with the Reich without even a marriage as an excuse. The most demoralized Catholics begin to see Messalianism, or at least some syncreatic middle position between it and Catholicism, as the inevitable future faith of Europe. Even those who still cling to their Catholic faith, however, acknowledge that the moral superiority of the Roman Pontificate is over.

The Second Schism begins.

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>>151748930
And this one's for Veliky Novgorod. The horse is supposedly the emblem of the old Republic of Novgorod, according to some Russian site.

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Turns out you can avoid the Spanish Civil War in HPP if you can keep the Social Conservatives in power.

Helps make a huge difference for the Allies.

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The meme event is done, now you can release this and not genocide Russia, if you want to be a bit more realistic.

>>151749684
>>151749845
The flags do their job, i like them.

You wouldn't want me to suck your dick?

Does anyone want to play some 2 or 3 player eu4 multiplayer?

>>151750139
Source? Image search gives nothing

>>151749960
I live in Buenos Aires so don't get your hopes up.

Does your Saratov have Russian or German primary culture? I saw its wikipedia article and apparently there used to be an autonomous Volga German Republic there at some point.

>>151750351
Si vivo a unas horas, si quisiera puedo ir a chupartela

Yes, some anon mentioned Volga Germans, but it looks like they got sent to Siberia for the most part, so its Russian primay culture, everything past Poland and the Balts will stay autonomous, and Poland and the Balts will get annexed by Germany after a couple decades.

>>151750542
Obviously the Poles will get gassed while the Latvians and Estonians will just get accepted in Germany, I don't know what to do about the Lithuanians though, would they be hostile or friendly to the Germans?

>>151749975
no

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>>151749736
The Second Schism is not as simple a shift in Catholic politics as it might have been in another era. Deciding upon allegiance between Gregorius XIII--who, nigh-total mistrust of his office aside, is far from a model Catholic himself--and Lucius V, who is a misshapen, insane puppet of the King of Aragon, is far from simple. Loyalty to Gregorius implies spiritual, monetary, and even political support of a Pontificate which has been shown time and again to be almost wholly corrupt, whereas support of Lucius is equivalent to swearing allegiance to King Alvar IV of Aragon, who is already the mightiest Catholic in Eurasia. No Catholic ruler wishes to be vassal to another, and neither can they support the Pontiff in Rome after the betrayal of Damasus and the election of Gregorius.

Because of this impossible position, and because of the ascendancy of the Messalian realms in European politics, many rulers begin to distance themselves from direct subservience to Rome. Carlo of Sicily and Thibault of France accomplished this by allying with the Kaiser and accepting Messalianism as a sister faith, but other rulers, such as King Balint of Magyarorszag, decided to denounce the legitimacy of both Pontificates, instead proclaiming themselves the final authority on matters of the Catholic faith within their realms. They claim that the last legitimate Pontiff was Benedict X, who died in 1336, and that no true Catholic successor was ever chosen. Worryingly, an inherent implication of this statement was that no worthy Catholic successor would EVER be chosen.

In these conditions--an internal Catholic schism with two Pontiffs, both incredibly weak and both regarded as corrupt, fighting against one another, with a rival Christian doctrine simultaneously achieving unprecedented success--heresy was an inevitability. Out of the Second Schism would grow the Second Reformation, and, eventually, the permanent collapse of Catholicism as a doctrine.

>>151749960
hitlermodman, I notice that you've still lfet the UK as a bit of an afterthought, and I -really- don't see the BuF actually winning any elections or germany installing a government like that because of hitler's bongland fetish.

Instead how about making the UK have an event which lets them side with either America or revive the anglo-japanese alliance?

anglo-japanese alliance revival is my alt history fetish

>>151750669
What the fuck, you have to gas all east yuros

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>>151750542
Es cierto, podrias.

Here's the flag for Smolensk, based on these old CoA of Smolensk.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Smolensk_(Smolensk_oblast)_(1570).png

>>151751026
You can gass everyone in Russia (Russians, Ukranians, Byelorussians, Estonians, Latvians, Estonians, Tatatars, Georgians, etc.) If you keep the Reichkommissariats, but obviously It's supposed to be harder, with more rebellions, and will take longer. Though i dont really know how hard it is right now since i haven't really had time to actually play the game, only test if things work or not.

>>151750996
In this world, Germany was less incompetent, and so was Italy, so they mass produced more, and/or better things, and they won againts the Soviets quicker, so when only Britain was left, I think it's logical that they'd surrender as soon as a Paratrooper lands or something. And actually, you can pick between allying Germany or taking back your Empire, wich would get you to fight the Japanese, to take back India, Australia and New Zealand, then from that, you could fight Germany with the shit you would get from colonies + puppeted Japan

Latinos are white

>>151751273
El fin de semana que viene lo tenés libre?

Looks pretty neat

>>151751551
Also, obviously America didn't help Britain or the Soviets.

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>>151750682
On the eve of the Second Reformation Catholicism was, by far, the largest religion in the world, well over three times as large as its closest competitor, Orthodox Christianity. Yet Catholicism's size was to prove its downfall, for it became impossible for either Pope, weakened as they were, to maintain effective control over the tens of thousands of Bishops below them.

Whereas previous Pontiffs had been able to rely upon their Bishops to act in their own self-interest by supporting the Church in times of hardship, the incredibly tumultuous conditions of the Second Schism created an environment wherein loyalty to the Holy See was virtually absent even among the most zealous. Those Bishops who were zealous saw both Pontificates as corrupt; those who were themselves corrupt were furious at both Pontiffs for the manner in which their successors were chosen (appointment in Aragon, and the requirement for German blood in Rome), which served to isolate them from the avenues of power. Aside from loyalists to Alvar of Aragon and an ever-dwindling supply of Catholic German Bishops, loyalty to either Pope was hard to come by. Soon enough, newly-made cynics, well-meaning reformers, and those Bishops who were merely greedy came together to tear Catholicism apart from the inside.

The reform movements came first, springing up almost immediately after Damasus's betrayal. The two most notable were revivals of the older Fraticelli and Waldensian heresies, both of which advocated a significant reduction in the power and wealth of the clergy and a return to asceticism. Although diffused, both began to gain wide traction, to the extent that many minor lords began to embrace the Fraticelli faith (it allowed lords to forego paying the Pope taxes whilst still nominally acknowledging his authority), whereas commoners tended to favor the Waldensians, whose lack of religious hierarchy allowed their local Bishops to fully and independently administer their spiritual needs.

>tripfags unironically discussing visiting each other to have gay sex
I want off this ride

Daily reminder that the "localized names are ugly" crowd are literally just too retarded to say things like Firenze instead of Florence

>>151751979
No, they're annoyed because they have to open landed_titles.txt when they want to cheat.

>>151751938
>unironically
>>151751273
Si te sentis solo avisame papu

>>151751551
>I think it's logical that they'd surrender as soon as a Paratrooper lands or something.

You underestimate the feeling of the people in the UK. You also VASTLY overestimate the german navy's ability to ever land on the island. It's infinitely more likely that Hitler would just treat with the UK and leave them to it, partly because he personally had something of a fetish for the UK and partly because there is no way germany could fuck with the RN. Which is why it makes sense for the UK to aim to side with one of the two other naval powers to protect itself from Germany.

We're a very butt hurt people, we'd never accept being Germany's friend if we lost the war. And Germany was in no way incompetent, it was super competent for what it should realistically have been able to achieve, not losing in 39 was a miracle. But obviously we're ignoring that because fun mods.

>>151749960
You should make it so if the player decides to simply balkanize Russia and not genocide/deport, that there will be nearly Zero rebel problems for Germany in the East, and that it would be nearly impossible for the Soviet Union to make a comeback
>>151750669
Lithuanians should also be accepted

>>151749701
do you have a link for it?

Fucking spics, what about gsg attracts them?

>>151752132
trump mode when?

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>>151752049
El fin de semana estoy libre. Conocer a alguien de /gsg/ suena interesante, aunque da un poco de miedo.

That's interesting, according to Russian wikipedia:
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the Lokot autonomy used St. Andrew's flag. So I guess you should use that for Lokot.

Spanish is a shit language

>>151752353
truf

>Want to finally update ck2 to 2.5.1 and over for all the dlcs and features that are added
>don't want to update cause cause the updates are shit

Is it worth it guys?

>>151751818
To be honest I think if Catholicism just implodes, people should randomly flip to Orthodoxy. I mean if the Catholic Church loses authority then I expect the Orthodoxes to sweep in, they obviously have SOME level of authority by virtue of not being on that list

>>151752121
http://www.mediafire.com/download/lxda4xx6g9rcj1l/M%26T_v1.25.7z

>>151749960
>no autistic central asian republics
c'mon

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>>151752353
rude

>>151752032
>cheating

>>151752103
>And Germany was in no way incompetent
Germany was not incompetent, Hitler and his lackeys were:
>Dunkirk
>Stalingrad
>Not pushing for Moscow earlier when they had the chance
>Battle of Britain
>going for Crete, not Malta
The list goes on...

>>151752487
Exactly the same sort of person that gets annoyed by Magyarorszag.

>>151752424
just stay pre conclave
everything got worse after that

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>>151752353

>>151752119
Yeah sure, that sounds good, but i think there should still be a small chance for the USSR to make a comeback, since i think there would still be commies in Russia.
>>151752103
>Paratroopers
>The German Navy
I'll take that into account though, but I think It'd maybe be a bit to broken, since they could just ally with the Americans and fuck Germany, maybe I'll try to keep the UK neutral under the threat of bombing everything (since Germany would have air superiority in this universe) and later nukes.
>>151752215
Sabes que? Mejor no. Quizas cuando sea el 10mo aniversario del mod :^)

What about using this ensign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.S._Sturmbrigade_R.O.N.A.#/media/File:RONApatch.png It looks kinda nice.

>>151752593
Dunkirk maybe, but pushing for moscow would have ended in complete disaster. The battle of britain is pretty much the only way that hitler could do ANYTHING to the British.

>>151752621
How about you do that in english?

>>151752447
>http://www.mediafire.com/download/lxda4xx6g9rcj1l/M%26T_v1.25.7z
For what version of eu?

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>>151752215
Hey man, I'm making a mod where Afrikaners moved into the Matabele land and founded Rhodesië there, an Afrikaner Boerstaat. What do you think of the flag for it? I'll need a Communist, fascist and monarchy flag as well.

>>151752669
Without the words on top obviously

>>151752792
...latest w/ all DLC?

>>151752669
>I'll take that into account though, but I think It'd maybe be a bit to broken, since they could just ally with the Americans and fuck Germany, maybe I'll try to keep the UK neutral under the threat of bombing everything (since Germany would have air superiority in this universe) and later nukes.

I don't imagine it happens until the cold war really kicks off. And paratroopers can't do shit, the planes would never manage to get over the channel, the RN could beach destroyers and they would be almost impossible to get rid of and would be the bane of German planes. Coupled with the RAF, a few paratroopers would just be slaughtered.

>>151752669
What a tease.

I think you should use St. Andrew's flag though. If not for Lokot, then at least for whatever you think is the major Russian collaborationist state, since I've been reading more russian wikipedia articles and apparently St. Andrew's flag was a flag used by the Russian collaborationist movement, so you should really include it in your mod one way or the other.

>>151752718
>but pushing for Moscow would've ended in complete disaster
No it wouldn't have, Hitler could've sent Guderian straight for Moscow in August/September and the way was completely clear, instead Hitler went tasked Guderian with helping with the Kiev encirclement

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>no anarcho capitalist mod for vic2
;_;

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>>151751818
The cynics came next. Led by Bishops who saw the collapse of Catholicism at hand, the cynics believed that the only defense against Messalian Satanism lay in a syncreatic faith which acknowledged some core Messalian tenets--such as the equality of women--without their hedonistic undertones. Almost entirely confined to western Poland, these cynical Bishops began to preach in favor of Catharism, which was itself a distant cousin of Messalianism, itself being a Gnostic movement. They acknowledged the equality of women, decried the power of the clergy, and acknowledged the concept of religious Perfection, although they argued that Perfection required total asceticism, as opposed to Messalianism's oft-hedonistic allowances. They found, surprisingly, a willing audience in the Polish peoples, and accelerated their preaching in the hopes of bringing about a Cathar Europe which might achieve permanent, although tense, peace with the Messalians.

As these heresies began to spread throughout Europe and the minor nobility and rural Bishops even began to embrace them, it became alarmingly obvious to secular rulers, ever conscious of their own power, that the squabbling Popes could no longer maintain the unity of Catholicism, and religious anarchy might well be at hand. Here entered the final group, the avaricious, themselves lusting for power which they believed was closed to them in mainstream Catholicism. They promised to uphold the reigns of their lieges and their heirs, as well as to quash all heresy in the countryside, but this support came at a price. For the hesitant, they wished their lieges to name them Archbishop of the realm, knowing that the Popes would be too weak to contest even an appointment made by a secular ruler; for those unparalleled in greed, they demanded to be raised up as the true Catholic Pope by their lieges.

In the name of stability, many lords agreed.

>>151749736
Whats the mod for those cool helmets?

>>151752949
And the russians would have pulled back and the germans stretched out further. It's commonly accepted that there is no way the germans would have ever had a chance at victory against the russians because of how willing they were to keep the fight going.

>>151752980
That's pretty much what Anarcho-Liberals are.

>>151752991
>Apostalic
What the fuck

>>151752103
I think you'd be feeling a little bit less stubborn after months and months of firebombing and being threathened with nukes :^), but yeah, I might add that choice later on, not for the first version though, everytime i change something, i get more requests. I think i need to set a goal for what i want to get done and release the mod when it's complete.

>>151753079
>tfw no mod that renames anarcho-liberals anarcho-capitalists
Sad!

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>>151753079
"anarcho liberalism" is a made up ideology

>>151753004
It's one of the modules of HIP, I don't know which one does it.

>>151753083
Why yes anon, the entire Mongol Khanate is Apostolic :^)

>>151752617
He's right, Conclave made everything trash

>>151753150
>what was the blitz
>what was 1940-1944
>what is not being retarded

>>151752936
Maybe I can use St. Andrew's thing for the Free City of Moscow? (I was thinking of using the Muscovy flags, but they're not the same tags, so maybe i could do that?

>>151753150
That's reasonable, and also again, there were too many ways for the UK to deal with bombing, and we did have months of bombing, all it did was make people more angry at the germans.

I get that entirely, and that is a good idea to organise yourself more, but I'm saying that the UK in the 40s were a vengeful lot, and after a bitter defeat friendliness with the Germans is probably the last thing we'd be looking at. Hell I could imagine blackshirts getting assaulted in the streets for being sympathisers.

>>151753074
>And the russians would have pulled back and the germans stretched out further
No they couldn't have, you're greatly overestimating the Soviet military capability in 1941
>It's commonly accepted that there is no way the germans would have ever had a chance at victory against the russians
Perhaps on r/Communism, but not in actual academic circles
>how willing they were to keep the fight going
Something which Hitler could've prevented with a stricter wartime policy

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>>151753389
Could be, but remember, it'd only make the most sense if this Moscow tag is collaborationist. Would Hitler keep a Free City of Moscow?

Also here's Saratov, it's the flag of the Saratov District.

>>151753418
>Perhaps on r/Communism, but not in actual academic circles

I talk to military historians on a daily basis m8. None of them think there was anything hitler could have done except not declare war.

>>151753203
>third world education

>>151753327
>what is not being retarded
I actually don't know

But didn't the RAF have air superiority for most of the war? I'm saying that in this universe germany would have air superiority, so they could bomb Britain like the Germany was bombed IRL, but yeah if you really want the UK to not be part of the Axis then I'll add it next version

>>151753553
I made a Free City of Moscow tag because I didn't want to use Muscovy, as that would feel like they should controll more land, and I would want to give Muscow to fucking Ryazan, you know? Nice flag

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>>151753720
anarcho liberalism does not exist outside of victoria 2, murrifat

>>151753784
*wouldn't want to give Muscow

>>151753784
I wasn't him by the way.

Also, how would Germany get air superiority? In real life Britain were the pioneers of the aircraft, as an island they felt they were as essential as the navy.

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>>151752991
By 1380, there would be fully 20 Archbishops who mediated religiosity between the Popes of their choosing and their liege lords; at the same time, there would be 17 men who claimed the title of Pontifex Maximus, 15 of whom had been raised up by secular rulers and used to support their own reigns, as Lucius V had in Aragon. The constant fracturing of Catholicism would soon reach an untenable position; by 1410, all semblance of religious hierarchy not tied to a particular realm would collapse. Archbishops of the realm would cease to align themselves to any Pope, and Popes themselves would become irrevocably bound to their secular lieges for protection and the continuance of their reign.

What few realms still clung to Catholicism by 1410--many by this time having either embraced one of the various reform movements, been conquered by Messalians in their own Crusades, or having willingly married into Messalianism and converted to it--existed in a maelstrom of constant petty intra-Catholic Crusades, rampant heresy, and highway brigandage. Gradually each would experience accelerating lawlessness, and, eventually--barring conquest by their neighbors--the total breakdown of their feudal systems. By 1567, the last man to claim the title of Catholic Pope, Alexander IX, would be hanged in Cairo, having been captured by Aubry III Aleramici, King of Aegyptus, in Ethiopia.

Such is the future, born of the spite of Bourgogne I, the weakness of the Roman Pontificate, and the selflessness of Raynaud I. This, however, is the present, the world as Raynaud saw it as the new year following his greatest victory dawned.

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>Reinstalled PC ages ago and lost copy of old-ass vanilla Crusader Kings II
>Decide to reinstall it with all the DLCs that have come out so far
>"Pft, please. Tutotorials? I've played 500 hours of this shit. I don't need no damn tutorial."
>Start new game
>20 new panels
>500 new types of rule
>reworked UI
>I don't even know where to click to show things
>"Aaay aaay aaaaaaaaaaay"
>"Aaay aaay aaaaaaaaaaay"
>8000-man army shows up in my lands on day 4 of game
>Metal starts playing, while some guy sings about viking gods
>vikings
>in east Europe
>in my capital
>17 things pop up
>everything is on fucking fire
>I don't even know how to select more than one army at a time to send into the meat grinder
>Can't do anything at all
>Country splits into 4 factions out of nowhere
>Everything is still on fucking fire
>It's been 15 in-game days since I started

I may have slightly overestimated my abilities. On the flip side, this new version of the soundtrack is bitchin'.

>>151753903
Yes it does third worlder. If you actually had a good education you'd know it sprang up in the 19th century.
Not that your third world shithole knows anything that isn't authoritainism and populism since your people are too dumb to have proper democracy.

>>151754041
Stop. don't play anything after 2.4.5.

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>>151753903
this is getting out of control

where did all the shitposters go?

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>tfw no anarcho monarchist rebels in vic2
why even live?

>>151753927
What im saying is that basically, Germany mobilized fully, earlier in the war, and focused on mass producing things properly, I don't know, how else could they have won otherwise?

Also, this video talks a bit about production of german tanks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tygk9-aneC4

>>151753987
oh, he is still alive

>>151754190
A bit too late for that now, but why?

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>>151754253
Here's the new Lokot.

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How important is infrastructure in Crusade Kings II? Can I just ignore province improvements?

>>151752424
>>151754041

Don't go past 2.4.5 at all, conclave and pretty much everything after fucked the game

>>151754432
Paradox fucked everything up with feminist shit, coalitions and infamy.

Conclave sucks.

>>151754463
Good job

How are you so good at this?

>>151754556
It's his aryan genes

>>151754556
Two years of practice. It's not that hard once you get the hang of whatever image editing program you use.

>>151754554
Elaborate. How the fuck does a studio, which makes things historically accurate with autistic determination, add feminist shit to a game about history? Also, the fuck's wrong with coalitions and infamy?

>>151754720
I can't wait for the responses to this post.

>>151754720
SWEDEN YES, thats how

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>>151753987
The situation in the British Isles has shifted considerably since Baudouin Aleramici was raised up as King of Jerusalem 173 years ago. England had experienced a great waxing of power from 1186-1210, but in that year King John took the throne by means of intrigue, starting the decade-long Second English Anarchy, annihilating the power of the House of Plantagenet, and, eventually, leading to the independence of Somerset from the Crown, which, in turn, would eventually lead to the independence of most of England's French territories and the loss of the northern marches to Scotland.

In this incredibly weakened state, with the authority of the crown negligible and succession to the throne determined by election, the power of England's vassals was absolute. Disenfranchised Plantagenet rulers in Ireland were able to launch dozens of minor campaigns to unite the island, then were able to successfully fight for their independence, crowning themselves Kings of Ireland in place of their lost throne in England. In Albion proper, House Percy, too, was able to take advantage of the weakness of the English crown to lead campaigns against the Welsh, eventually securing their own independence as the Kings of Wales. Thus, while England herself has suffered tremendously, the English have not: English dynasties rule all the lands of the Isles save for the untamed highlands of Scotland, where the Dunkelds have ruled in unbroken succession for centuries.

Yet, although England has suffered well over a century of disunity, that age has finally ended. Her previous King, Henry III, was able to reunite the last independent duchies in southern England prior to his death. His successor, Geoffrey II--the first Plantagenet to rule England in over 100 years--is left with a strong realm and a potential ally in his Irish relative, King Congalach. It might well be his destiny to retake the northern marches from Scotland and to reassert England's dominant position in the Isles.

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>>151754720
>historically accurate
>autistic determination

>>151754527
>tfw new ck2 is practically unplayable without console commands

Ok, I think I'm done for today, Now, what do i do with the NWO economy? I already removed (((Credit Money))) and the (((Bretton Woods))) system, now i need to add more Gold provinces, and change the price of most goods.

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>>151754720

>>151754527
>>151754920
>>151754778
>>151754805
Why? Explain. USE MORE WORDS!

I am not up to date with the latest may mays, I haven't come to this general in maybe a year. I literally know nothing.

>>151754720
Basically infamy stops you from being a bit of a dick cause if you do apparently cunts all the way from the other side of the map forms a coalition against you

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>>151755113

>>151755053
Poland should be gold RGOs, because concentration camps

>>151755053
Really you should leave economy alone until you finish everything else

>>151752669
>breaking up AFP's heart
That's low, m8.

>>151755175
Finally some words. Thank you. So, basically it's like the old claim bullshit where someone you've never even seen before claims your land, like how Portugal wanted Irish land, except jacked up to 11. Correct?
>>151755206
I'm not even gonna try to unwrap the 17 layers of memes and inside jokes that thing is covered in.

>>151755113
Check your laws tab, look for "status of women"

>>151755113
Things you need to knw

1. The steamgroup no longer raids
2. A new gruppe was made by a teenager called Cobra but he got doxxed and deleted it
3. CK2 and EU4 were ruined by shitty patches and DLC
4. pls buy stellaris goy

>>151755220
wew, now seriously, i need gold mines, theres only a couple in South Africa and Siberia pretty much.

>>151755274
I really want to change it because literally every country looses money, even with max taxes and almost no spending, and the only countries that make money are the ones that produce (((Credit Money)))

>>151755282
Everyone here is literally autistic, I wouldn't talk to anyone here IRL, and he might be a creepy 50 year old, or he might be 15, also, i could be a cute girl, you don't know.

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>>151754813
Whereas England's tale has been one of unparalleled dominance which was shattered, leaving the realm broken and weak, France's tale has been entirely the opposite: a tale of a realm on the verge of destruction which, at the last moment, seized opportunity and reasserted its historical dominance.

In 1186 France barely existed at all, clinging to its easternmost territories while the mighty and aggressive Plantagenets of England ruled most of the Kingdom's rightful territories in the west. The two last Capetian monarchs of France, Philippe II and Baudouin I, were far from powerless to stop the English--Philippe II seized Normandie from the English, an incredibly critical victory for the beleaguered Kingdom--but they were nevertheless hard-pressed to match England's expansion elsewhere, most notably into Brittany and Ireland.

Two events occurred almost simultaneously which reversed France's poor fortunes: King John came to the throne of England, beginning the Second Anarchy, and King Baudouin Capet died (some say under suspicious circumstances). His heir Robert de Dreux, a prior vassal of King Aubry Aleramici and friend to Jerusalem's ruling House, took the throne as Robert III and quickly managed to capitalize on the weakness of England to seize all his rightful territories and more, in the process creating a massive, centralized demesne and expanding French monarchical power to heights never before seen. It was during the reign of House de Dreux--which lost the throne in 1310 due to the Black Death--that France was at its most powerful; although its new ruling dynasty, House de Blois, is hardly weak, they have failed to conquer the myriad minor Comtes, Ducs, and petty foreign lords which still rule much of the land previously held by House Plantagenet.

>>151755175

Pre Conclave
>Start a war for no real reason no one really cares all too much
Post Conclave
>Everyone loses their shit when you start wars and somehow guys in africa and india are forming a coalition against you

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The United States of America
Act I, Part I: A Union Sundered

Our Glorious Union enjoyed a sharp economic rise in the beginning of the century, the long standing peace and industrialization enjoyed by our European cohorts fueling our own improvement. All this changed with the slaying of Archduke Franz and the invasion of Serbia. The war that followed saw a demand for American goods disappear as the jingoistic armies of Europe clashed once gain and factory after factory shuttered their doors, from Syracuse to Seattle. In 1915 the RMS Lusitania was torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by the Germans, bringing our nations to the brink of war. 1919 saw the election of Leonard Wood, and 1924 saw his reelection. The economic turmoil and radical new world order proved too stressful for President Wood, who died of a brain tumour in 1927. 1932 saw President Hoover narrowly beat out Roosevelt in the general election, winning only by the vote split caused by America First and the Combined Syndicates of America. As the economy worsened and tensions ran high Roosevelt was assassinated by a radical member of the America First Party. Now, on the eve of the next election, America finds itself on the brink of civil war. The Combined Syndicates grow bolder every day, and in the Dixieland Huey Long rallies the America First Party to arms. Rumours swirl that Chief of Staff Major General MacArthur is being groomed and funded by wealthy National Populists to take Washington by force.

Playing OpenTTD at the same time, I'll be slow

>>151755513
It's more or less something like that

>>151753265
I have HiP I only disabled VIET and Arko interface but I still dont get it.

>>151755591
The nightmares are coming back now

Do you guys think Paradox is going to fix HoI4 ever or should I just go back to HoI3?

Also why doesn't this thread ever talk about HoI3? Is it because you're all a bunch of casuals?

Well whatever, I'm pretty tired, i'll turn off my trip and go do something else, please stop talking about my mod

>>151754673
hasta mañana querido

>>151755591
You forgot to mention the council system that the AI cannot deal with and that causes massive internal instability in any non-player-controlled realm.

>>151756125
>Is it because you're all a bunch of casuals?
Actually, yes

>Evens
HoI3
>Odds
Ck2

>>151756151
Hasta mañana.
Next time you want me to make flags you'll have to remind me which ones I haven't done yet, I lose count very easily.

>>151756125
Modern paradox can't fix shit

Might as well go back to HoI3

>>151755798
You have to be of a certain culture group (I think) and need to have a certain martial skill. Closed-faced helmets only begin at about 17 martial, I think.

>>151755523
This seems like a very minor thing. Something I wouldn't even notice normally, cause I don't care for laws, unless they give me more shit.
>>151755591
Oh, so we Civ V now. Great. I can get rid of it just by unchecking it in the list of DLC, right?

>>151756227
Don't even get me started on that shatteredretreatbullshit

>>151756125
HoI 3 is very nice and all but it's has little re playability since there are not that many mods for it.

>>151756646
nope, that feature comes with the patch, not the DLC

with the 2.6 it will become optional

>>151746686
You want Comfy Greece?
Be Norman, year 1071, Bend the Knee to the Emperor or don't and have war with him with your three thousand men while the Empire enters another civil war

>>>151755591
Nope
You're gonna have to go back to a previous version

Just stay on 2.4.5

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>>151755113
this is all you need to know

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>be charlememe
>form HRE
>suddenly Papal-Byzantine-Wessex-Umayyad-Asturias-Bengal-Suomi-Molgol-Abassid-Seljuk-Nubian-Entire rurik dinasty coalition forms againt me

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>>151755576
The final lord of note in France is King Otto de Barcelona of Brittany, ruler of that Kingdom by marriage (Brittany having originally been created by House Plantagenet in one of the many aftershocks of the Second Anarchy). Otto is the last representative of a trend which was, until recently, common in Iberia, and which contributed to the German-influenced corruption of the Roman Papacy: although his House was originally Iberian in blood, Otto, like the vast majority of House de Barcelona's rulers for the past 100 years, was raised in the Imperial court, speaks German, married a German lady, and only appoints German vassals.

Although the trend will die with him, later historians will argue rather successfully that the pro-Imperial tendencies of the Iberian rulers of the mid-13th to early 14th century--which was undertaken in order to secure Reich support for their land claims in ex-Plantagenet territories within France--inevitably contributed to an overabundance of prominent German Bishops. This, the historians argue, significantly contributed to the Roman Papacy's favoritism for German Cardinals, and in time led to Rome's corruption.

>>151756893
Was meant for
>>151756646

>>151756765
For fucks' sake. Well, time to go find a previous version, then. Fucking hell.

>>151757025
>be the duke of champagne the crown prince of france
>dad dies inherit the kindgom
>suddenly spanish-portugese-german coalition against me

>>151757187
2.4.5 is the last one before this changes

I find CK2 super fucking boring. Half of the game is just sitting on max speed waiting for something to happen or your character to age 10 fucking years.

Am I doing it wrong?

>>151757025
Can't have you blobbing too hard lad

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>>151757025
>be burgundy
>declare war on ottomen and take their land and convert heathens to the one true faith
>suddenly ottomen-polish-muscovian-austrian-swedish-dutch-palatinatian-lithuanian-french coalitions form against me

Lads, why don't the history files in CK2 show Muhammad's 6-year-old wife?

>>151757435
you can become a paradox employee and mod that in

>>151757290
>Inherit anything
>Byzantine-Umayyad-Mongol-German coalition forms against you

First time I played EU4 in ages but what the fuck did they do to the HRE?

I get AE out the ass even if I only take a single province and IA is fucked

Anyone got a link to the rectangular frames mod for V2? Or does the alt. flag pack in the op include it?

>>151757435
Can't start the game to check that but I'm sure it does

>>151757705
someone post a screenshot to disabuse this fool

>>151752871
crashes at loading flags do you maybe know how to fix this?

>>151757607
i don't know lad, i started playing eu4 rather recently and i shit all over the hre as brandenburg without coalitions starting to form against me

maybe you're just going too fast? the way i did it was to just declare war on and delete coalition-ready powers while improving relations with those on the fence

>>151757306
Great, I can't seem to find a torrent with a version history. DLC-wise, that should be Horse Lords, right? If I just get one that says it's got Horse Lords and all the other shit before it, that should be fine?

>>151757827
Stop hiding all your spyware-ridden snuff porn in the flags folder

>>151757827
Try clearing out the flag cache

>>151757025
>be youngest son of the king of norway
>inherit iceland
Mongol-Wessex-German-Abbasid coalition forms

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>>151757025
t.

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How do you guys keep large vassals under control?
i am annexing France because its getting too powerful and disloyal

>>151758139
Lads, stop making fun of paradox and buy their DLCs, they need your support to stay afloat and keep making great games like HOI4

>>151757896
Yeah you should be fine

>>151758320
It's true, people forget that they're just a small indie game company and it's hard for them to compete with big triple AAA publishers out there!

>>151758289
Your annexation won't even progress while they're over 50% liberty desire, cuck. You have to spend prestige mana to make them happy or gather opinion mana by increasing relations

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>>151757046
Unlike with either France or the British Isles, the tale of northern Iberia has not changed overmuch in 173 years: The Kingdoms of Leon and Castile, both with horribly weak and hated Kings, continue to fight one another over control of their minor Kingdoms, all the while ignoring--or occasionally falling victim to--the power of the mighty Kingdom of Aragon to the south.

Until very recently--only twenty-four years ago--Aragon itself shared in the history of northern Iberia, existing merely as a petty kingdom desperately attempting to hold its own against its much more powerful neighbor to the south, the four joined Kingdoms of Portugal, Al-Andalus, Mauretania, and the Maghreb, ruled for over 125 years by Plantagenet family members who had seized Andalusia in the Third Crusade. In 1335 Aibilin Plantagenet, last Queen of the four Kingdoms, died. Her lands were inherited by her son Alvar of Aragon, creating the largest contiguous Catholic Kingdom in Eurasia.

Alvar did not use his power for the benefit of Catholicism, however. Even in spite of his personal capabilities, the King of Aragon was left ruling a realm almost too vast to manage. Militarily mighty but lacking in stability, Alvar used the weakness of the Roman Papacy to proclaim a vassal Bishop, a lowborn man named Joan-Alfons, as the rightful Pope, thereby buying his realm stability, but ultimately contributing to the collapse of Catholicism in Europe.

Alvar is currently fighting a rebellion against his reign led by Roman Papists who hope to capture and kill Lucius V to end the impending Schism prematurely. By the time their rebellion reaches fruition, however, the state of Catholicism will already have fractured too much to be saved, with two other anti-Popes already proclaimed in other Kingdoms. In spite of his power, Alvar stands behind only Damasus in the company of men most responsible for the collapse of the Catholic faith.

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>>151758476
That's Tunis, i already spent prestige to keep France under 50%

>>151758320
>HOI4
This is where I stopped reading.

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>>151758320
Pffffttttt
Barely

>>151758476
>opinion mana
I don't know if you're trying to be funny, but you shouldn't denigrate everything by calling it mana, you're using the same reasoning /r/paradoxplaza use when they say "victoria 2 has mana! Look at all the colonisation mana you can get from building up your ports and shipping industry!"

Actual mana is the ticking meme points that control literally everything, like admin, diplo and military points, "opinion mana" only represents and controls one thiong, so it's not a mana.

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>>151758857
???

>>151759079
What's good newbud

>>151758873
I'm sorry, you're right. Tell me you reddit username so I can give you some upboat mana.

>>151759079
Man idk
Just found the picture while in the stellaris general

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>>151759164
It's a shitty crop, meaning it doesn't make any sense int he wider context of the image. Had he included the whole title and meant it to be part of the collage it would have made sense, but "East vs West ha Paradox announ" doesn't make any sense.

Tell me: it definitely WASN'T common for states in the past to not permanently give up their land when most of it was occupied, and have it returned to them after a peace treaty? Prior to the 19th century, at least?

For example: one country declares war against another one to reconquer one specific province, but the war goes well for them and they manage to not only occupy their province, but all of their land.

In the games, they would just be able to annex that province, but what about IRL? It's hard to imagine them going "oh yeah we conquered your entire country but we're only annexing that bit of territory, we'll do the same in a few years since we can't annex this entire country at the same time".

Basically, Paradox has been memeing me too much.

>>151758020
is it located at documents paradox eu 4 gfx flags if it is it doesnt work

>>151759557
you can add wargoals though

>>151759578
did you try launching EU4 without MEIOU first

>>151759750
yes and it worked

>>151759715
Due to how the warscore point system works, you might often not be able to annex their entire country that way. You get 100 if you occupy everything, one state might cost 50, another 70, another 80.

IRL blobbers had it easy since they didn't have to bother with infamy or war goals/score.

>>151759876
Well I don't know then

>>151759557
19th wars don't work the way you think they do.

>>151759897
You are a fucking retard.

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>>151758509
The tale of Italy, like that of Spain, is violently divided between the north and south. Northern Italy's tale has been a struggle of independence from the Reich, and then a struggle of culture as Germanic rulers--who still ruled these now-independent duchies--struggled to retain (or forego) their cultural identities in light of their separation from the Reich. In the south, on the other hand, the struggle has been a singular one, wherein the Kingdom of Sicily has internally struggled over court culture, dynasty, and even religion from the very start.

Northern Italy took advantage of the weakness of the Kaisers quickly, revolting against the Reich in a series of rebellions which culminated in the 1220s, when the entire north Italian peninsula (with the exception of some isolated holdovers) declared independence. This shift of power not only began the long decline of the Reich, but also served to bring several new dynasties to the fore in Italian politics, among them the Italian branch of the House of Aleramici, which held several duchies and significant lands in the north. Unfortunately, these new dynasties were incapable of doing much anything with their power because of continued infighting; they belonged to the Reich long enough to assimilated much of its culture and of its court expectations, and even with independence remained largely bound to their adopted German traditions. The past 125 years have largely been a struggle over identity for the north of the peninsula, wherein land, rulers, and court customs have changed as rapidly as the breeze.

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>>151758857
>>151759079
>>151759164
>>151759361
>>151759406
That picture was annoying me so much I decided to fix it, so the top right corner made sense.

>>151760107
Yes, I'm mentally retarded. You still didn't explain anything though, despite being a person with a normal IQ you still resorted to shitpost.

How do you get Mieou and Taxes to fit on one screen?

Hey guys I found out a bug in EU4, if you sell port rights to someone and then they get absorbed, they dont cancel it so you get to keep the income forever. It also expands based on the number of ports you have.

>>151760807
I wont educate you on "why countries didn't annex other countries entirely during the Victorian era I mean if you occupied its yours anyway".
I suggest you finish high school.

>>151760907
What the fuck are you talking about

>>151761085
When I play it my screen is too small so it doesnt fit and I need it shrunk.

>>151761085
He's a cool reddit gamer who has duel screens for his ebin lan parties and want's to know how he can get Meiou to play on both of his dad's computer moniters at the same time.

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Ages ago, I set out to create a grand strategy game using only c++(no graphics). I talked about it briefly here as I originally wanted to work along side with you guy to craft the perfect game with the best mechanics. However the we hit a road block immediately after starting, how in the fuck do you create a grand strategy game without graphics? How do you represent a map, combat, neighboring nations, resource gathering, etc? Europa, Victoria, Hearts of iron, CK2, they all have the luxury of representing all that information at a causal glance, where a text-console text box fails miserably at conveying information without becoming a tedious mess. I played around with a few ideas, maybe I could draw up a map, upload that with the game, and it could be like an board game. However that comes with a huge trade-off, my map would have to be incredibly huge to simulate the complexity's of a modern grand strategy game(and the bigger the map is, once again, it becomes too overwhelming to even attempt to play the game, not to mention the coding I would have to do to connect all tiles.)

Then I finally figured out a better format. A way to simulate a bigger gameworld then actually exist's on the map.

1) Each tile on the map has a territory amount assigned to it

2) Multiple nations can own land within the same tile

3) The percentage of territory they own correlates to the ratio of resources they receive from the tile, modified by there government/tech/policy(all tiles have natural resources values)

There is more, I have an idea of how wars will be fought, I have an idea of how populations will act, and more.

Now that I have finally navigated around the idea of how to get around graphics, I'm here to start working again on the this project with you anons. Let's make the best fucking game ever, there are no limits, we have a fresh canvas to add all the mechanics we could ever dream of having.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0yVoxUQ7Q8

What's the best strategy game to simulate ww1?

>>151761313
>non real world GS
fuck off

>>151761178
Google is your fucking friend, I even spoonfed you the link. If you're playing on anything lower than 1080 you should fuck off anyway, MEIOU is highly likely to just not run period.
In fact I'm certain I spoonfed someone else, who was less of a retard who sounded like he was 13, the patch for tinyscreens a few weeks ago, so fuck off to the archive.

>>151761378
HoI3 with WW1 mod.

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>>151753621
>I talk to military historians on a daily basis

>>151761313
map looks like aids

where's the aesthetic my man

>>151753621
Might want to feed us proof and give a few links to papers.

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>>151760253
This same identity crisis has occurred in the south, to a more violent extent if anything. The Sicilian peoples were originally ruled over by the Norman House de Hauteville, but their dynasty was shortly replaced with a Greek one, the once-mighty House Angelos. After the Angelii took the throne, there has been nigh-constant fighting in Sicily: dynasties have changed hands between the Hautevilles, the Angelos, and other Norman rulers frequently, as the original conquerors of the peninsula struggle to oust the Greek Angelii, in spite of their rightful claims to the title. More recently this conflict has quieted after the Angelii adopted Italian court customs and thereby pacified most of their native populace and rulers, but it still continues even today between the Duc of Zab--the last of the Hautevilles--and King Carlo Angelos, the last major landholder of his dynasty, who continues to attempt to regain total control of his Italian holdings.

>>151761546
He means /r/askhistorians.

Post shameful /gsg/ related things


I love playing Charlemagne and have probably done so over 30 times already

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>>151761313
>>151761391
>>151761548
You don't realize how fucking difficult it would be to create a game as a one man team simulating real human history. The best I can do is create a world and have if follow exaggerated themes that humanity went though.

>>151761749
Not to attack you, but what do you need help with, because I doubt incredibly that /gsg/ would even care about a game with a poor map. I personally wouldn't mind that much since it'd basically just be Civilization but eh.

>>151761749
>le island world
Fucking sick of this meme.

>>151761990
>what is Earth

>>151761919
>i play civilisation
fuck off

>>151761313
>>151761749
Oh shit man, I've been wondering where you went off to. I remember spitballing a few ideas with you months ago, glad to see you're still working on this. Don't let the grandi-tier memers get you down, this is a cool project and I want to see where this goes.

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>>151761749
If you want to create a realistic map start with a single continent and then take it apart and delete come of the coastline etc. Also hope this image kinda helps. Visit /tg/ we're a helpful bunch

>>151762262
>being excited about a grand strategy with "tiles" that are "% owned" by multiple "countries"
Sounds like shit, m8.

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>>151762131
Earth is how maps should be, a few big landmasses and then some islands inbetween like Crete, Japan and the Caribbean.

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>>151755640

President Hoover's rule has very little support among the American populace, as political leanings begin to move away from the centre and into the extremes. An idea shared by both the AFU and CSA is the ideal of a union based on liberty, and freedom. While it cannot possibly be said that the AFU looks favourably upon the redskins, surely some of their more moderate members may take well a positive stance if we were to grant them full citizenship rights. The Combined Syndicates, meanwhile, see themselves as champions of multiculturalism and see America as a land of equality and would support this bill.

Regardless of how he believes how the people will react, Hoover cannot get over his own personal bias. A personal aide reports hearing him have exclaimed "Fucking firewater drinking Chugs! Over my dead body!"

Hoover has summoned his closest confidant, the autistic mastermind known only as Ge'Ess'Gi to help him decide

>Pass the Act, hopefully this will gain us some sympathy
>Veto the Bill

>>151762406
After 1000 hours of liquoria, anything new is welcome to me.

>>151762521
>le new gsg shill is also part of the discord
its like poetry

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>>151762441
this is what a world should look like desu

>>151762564
I hate the discord, liquor is a universal meme at this point

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>>151761710
A full history of the Reich and of its long decline would fill the pages of several volumes and still be far from complete. It is sufficient to state that the Kaisers before the conquest of the Reich by Saint Bourgogne were often incompetent, elected by means of family connections and familiarity with the court over personal skill. Their incompetence led to the loss of Italia, which, in turn, surrounded the Reich with potential foes on every side. Poor Kaisers, frequent rebellions, a lack of potential for expansion, and constant involvement in foreign conflicts left the Reich destabilized, its bureaucratic infrastructure almost nonexistent, and its Kaiser frequently at the whim of his vassals.

Following the invasion of Saint Bourgogne the Reich was radically restructured into only a few major Grand Duchies, which was meant to keep the position of Kaiser eternally weak in exchange for greater centralization on a level below that of the Emperor, which Bourgogne believed would permit the Reich to weather any defensive crises in exchange for continued weakness in foreign affairs. Unfortunately, Bourgogne's conquest did little but to destabilize the Reich further, and while her Grand Duchies are effective in concept and practice, the German princes do not like the degree of power which those Grand Dukes wield; already the system has begun to atrophy and collapse (in the north especially), leaving the Reich as weak as it has ever been before, and its Kaisers subject to constant foreign invasion and domestic rebellion.

Yet there is a slim chance that this period of long weakness might be averted, and the Reich might once again be strengthened by means of an Aleramici intervention. As the grandson of Saint Bourgogne, a well-respected administrator, and a Messalian Perfect, Raynaud is eligible for election to the Reich, and in spite of his great distance from the court is highly regarded there. It is possible that he might be elected Kaiser in the future.

>>151762505
Veto, we don't want white women getting addicted to Native cock at communal theatres and parks.

>>151762505
Pass it, it's 1936 after all.

WEW
http://cyorir.com/Vic2Industry/Vic2Industry.html

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>>151761919
Well the good news is that I already did all the code linking all the tiles on the map together(including sea tiles), even better news is that I created over 200 country's and codded them into the game(I assigned them land). What I would need help with is mechanics, the resources that exist, how population growth would work, really I would like to have a back and forth with you guys while I put the game together.
>>151762262
It really has been along time, getting around graphics has been the bane of my existence
>>151762321
I really should have asked along time ago, I already coded the whole map. But I truly believe that the depth in the game mechanics will make up for the shitty map.

>>151763220
Don't forget to add thing like danube or the volga aka big fucking rivers that actually support sea traffic. Those become really important in industrial age because you can just ship the resources up and down the river since it's faster and easier.

>>151763121
Thanks for the free virus

>>151762505
American Indians are descendants of ancient pure blooded aryan nordic settlers, pass the bill

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>>151763121
>if you're playing as englad take picardie, if playing as france take granada, if germany take bohemia, if russia take schlechen

WEW did fucking shen write this?

>>151762505
The Nazis considered them to be Aryan, pass the bill.

>>151763006
>>151763102
>>151763507
>>151763665
After consulting with Ge'Ess'Gi and his multiple personality disorders, a 3:1 vote in favor of the Bill was delivered. It's 1936.

>>151763220
>anon from /gsg/ declares he's going to make his own game free from Johan's bullshit
>not just an idea guy
>actually knows how to code
>already coded shit
>actually delivers
absolute madman

>>151761724
>r/askhistorians
>r/
>reddit
Yeah, just as credible as citing Stormfront

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>>151762969
Prior to the 1290s the Balkans were a byword for stability, with strong Kingdoms in Bulgaria, Serbia, and a unified triple-Kingdom of Hungary, Croatia, and Bosnia, all of which had successfully resisted multiple campaigns from both Empires. All this changed with the election of Andronikos II Branas in 1294--he, and his son Basileius Sergios, led major successful campaigns against both the Serbs and Bulgarians with the help of King Baudouin VI--and the death of King Tvrdoslav of Magyarorszag, last King of that land to rule all of his family's historic Kingdoms in personal union. With the Magyars divided and the powerful Serbs broken by the last of the House of Branas, the Balkan powers have begun to be swallowed up by their much more powerful neighbors.

It appears likely that only a reunified Kingdom of Hungary-Croatia-Bosnia would be mighty enough to resist renewed foreign invasion, but no Lanik ruler has rightful claims to the Kingdom of Bosnia. It appears that, at best, a union of Hrvatska and Magyarorszag might be hoped for in the future, and with much of Hrvatska's coast annexed by the Sicilians, it is unlikely its levies alone will be sufficient to defend the Magyars from further invasion.

Will Paradox release Focus Trees for all minor nations? I am enjoying community mods.

>>151763442
Will do, at this point, there are no terrain status assigned to the tiles.

So this is how I plan to do this(I didn't get much sleep last night, so I know I'm all over the map) from here onward I'll be popping into the tread and asking questions on how game mechanic should work in the game. I don't have anything to ask right now because I've spent the last few days working on setting up the code for the map.
>>151763831
Fuck Johan, him killing east vs west is what got me to start learning how to code, that and all of paradox's games could use a little bit more in the way of actual gameplay mechanics

>>151764063
only for tje low low price of 79.99, goy! :^)

>RGOs produce goods every single day of the year at the same rate, even for seasonal stuff like crops
>small provinces that contain large cities still have huge pops working in the fields or mines when it doesn't make sense

Why can't Paradox, or any modders do anything right? Ricky had a few climate events that affected production and that's about all. Simsulla is probably the worst offender.

Obviously individuals like HPM fuck up at this too. Just so you know how retarded all of this is, for the latter, HPM added an event that changes RGOs in the northwest US to iron. I didn't know that New York City was employing hundreds of thousands of iron miners in 1935.

But I don't need to mention that, even if you don't enact that decision, these miners will just end up being grain farmers instead. Did New York City have hundreds of thousands of farmers by 1935, producing more grain in that province than in any other area in the US?

And before you come up with the "but provinces aren't supposed to just be cities!" meme, it's the same shit. These small provinces shouldn't be able to produce that much, or support as many people. Mainly because it's just implausible.

How would you fix this? Give larger provinces a bonus to RGO output and give smaller ones a large penalty (it would mainly represent how much arable land/ores are available, the larger the region, the more), especially if they're supposed to contain large cities so the pops there can become craftsmen, artisans or whatever the fuck they did historically.

That way, New York City won't be producing as much grain as the entire corn belt combined or even more (well into the 20th century when these regions were already developed).

It's a shame that HPM is so clueless. He DID change some RGO sizes so shithole desert provinces can only support a few thousand pops, but city provinces are still fucked up. Maybe he plans to change this sometime soon but he should have done it months ago.

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unHPM link please

>>151764260
What a boring pasta

>>151764260
fuck off with this stale copypasta

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>>151764054
The Basileia Rhomaion has continued on as it always has, impervious to suggestions of change or current events; were it to have lost all but a sliver of its land in the past 170 years rather than regaining most of their historic fiefs, the rulers of the Basileia would not have changed their methods. Its dynastic shifts have continued on as they always have before: the rise of a promising new dynasty followed by mighty achievements and an eventual collapse brought about by intrigue, leading to another new dynasty and a repetition of the cycle.

While the Basileia Rhomaion appears to be politically strong, it is, like as with the Reich, truly only the strength of the Basileius's vassals giving an illusion of power to the Emperor. Although its lands expanded, constant poor rulers, intrigue, and court infighting has left the bureaucracy of the Basileia as atrophied as that of the Reich, and even as with the Reich, the Basileius is now elected by the common consensus of his vassals rather than by dynastic ties: truly, the position of Roman Emperor is at the weakest it has ever been in the east.

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>>151764260
>the province of new york is new york city only
too obvious, stopped reading there

>>151764652
>>151764786
Talex

>>151758289
Every time i see converted save in EU4 it makes me want to puke. Why the fuck those color are so bad?

>>151765169
ttalex

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>>151765021
Unimportant as it is, little need be said of the doings of northeastern Europe. House Piast rules both Poland and Sweden, but their control of both realms is significantly threatened, with both rulers imprisoned and with the current Queen of Sweden's heir belonging to the ruling House of Wendland. In Finland the Teutonic Order has established its own independent state and grossly interferes with the politics of the region, whilst in the Rus the Rurikovich--who have far and away been subjected to the greatest loss of power in the region--continue to vie, mostly unsuccessfully, with Novgorod for supremacy, all the while attempting to hold off attempts at expansion from the Mongol Khanate. The Crusader State of Livonia, although bankrupt and weak, cannot be fully ignored: ruled by House de Barcelona, it sits on the borders of much mightier powers, yet has managed some minor expansion in the past several decades.

Figure I'll try again for the heck of it.

Anyone know if it's possible to change the Terra Incognita texture in EU3 and anyone know how to do it?

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Panic today in Central America. While touring a local banana plantation the president of Panama, Madrid, was viciously slain by a Syndicalist terrorist. The terrorist, reportedly one Samuél Hydeozales, detonated a vest strapped to his chest when the President passed by. The nation of Panama has gone into panic, and an insurrection is brewing against the conservative government there as Syndicalists take to the streets. The United Provinces of Central America has made their intention to cross the frontier known to our ambassador there, letting us know they intent to annex Panama outright into the Provinces. According to the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty we will retain the right to the Panama canal and its immediate vicinity. If we fail to give the UPCA the greenlight then Panama will certainly fall to the Syndicalists, and the status of the canal will hang in the balance. On the other hand, Hoover fears the criticism he will receive from his fellow Democrats and from the CSA over encouraging a foreign invasion.

>Give UPCA the green light
>No! Violence won't stop anything

Gentlemen, question here:

Why's Distant Worlds so difficult?

>>151764175
Do you have anything that actually runs yet? Any screenshots you could show us?

What's the best army composition for NWO?

>>151766085
Because you're not colonizing enough planets.

>>151766048
Green light of course, the canal must stand free

>>151764312
anybody

>>151764260
why doesn't tech make your RGOs smaller anyway? i think it was like that in vanilla but it was changed in HPM or NNM for some reason

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>>151765901
The realms of the Caucasus remain mired in their seemingly ever-accelerating Anarchy, with no clear end to the constant struggle in sight; the strong, unified period of the rule of Jarji, although it is only just a decade out of memory, seems long absent to the feuding tribes of the mountains.

Here what is perhaps the strongest branch of the House of Rurikovich duels against local Caucasian dynasties for control of the entirety of the mountains. While fighting for the loyalty of tribal hillsmen might appear a waste of time to some, Jarji proved that a unified Caucasus could be among the strongest states in all of Eurasia, and the weakened Rurikovich, ever-eager to regain some measure of their lost power, are certain to fight for any realm which might provide their House some influence once again.

Although only King of Kings Koba Grigolisdze of Arran holds claims to all of the mountainous Kingdoms, he is the weakest of the many Kings, and unlikely to enforce his unity. This is especially true in the case of Hayk, as Raynaud Aleramici has promised an alliance to King of Kings Zurab, thereby effectively guaranteeing the permanent division of the mountain kingdoms.

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Rate muh Europe

>>151766776
t. blob pro

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>>151766124
Nothing as of yet, all my effort has been into setting up the code for all the nations/tile connections(I had to do it by hand since the map was by hand that I took pictures of). I did tests to make sure that everything was correct and it is. At the moment, all there is to do is add the game logic.

For example, if say you wanted to give every country 3 mana points for the number of tiles they have territory in, then a country that owed territory in a two tiles would gather 6 points a turn, I could do that in a few seconds. The game is a blank slate in terms of actual game, but the set up is there.

>>151766776
Looks pretty good desu

>>151766175
No one in /gsg/ talk about DW, is just paradox, paradox and paradox. It's kind of disappointing.

>>151766630
Because it doesn't make sense???

>>151767121
Then talk about it yourself

>>151767180
Ok.

Why's Distant Worlds so difficult?

>>151766776
How can you run that mod? do you live inside a NASA building or what.

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Prester John is literally impossible unless you get one of those rare and magical runs where the Mamluks achieve dominion over the Ottomans.

Also, the Ottomans being able to squish equally-sized stacks at equal tech in less than a week is one of the most ridiculously garbage things I've ever seen in my fucking life.

Why is EU4 called the easy one? I've tried to do Prester John like four times now. I've never had this much trouble doing anything in CK2.

>>151767298
Because you have a low IQ.

>>151767298
It isn't. Read guides and watch youtube let's plays. And please, always have all automatization turned off. Don't be a fag.

>>151766973
What time frame are you thinking of? I seem to remember earlier you were pretty ambitious about it, like vicky timeframe into modern day or even more. Are you still thinking of doing it that way?

>>151767325
I have a pretty powerful i5

Is there a blank province map for HPM?

>>151766973
Alright, I'm going to start thinking of game mechanic questions that I need some input in. First major thing to tackle is how technology will work, I like the idea from victoria 2 in the way that population education levels generated research points, but I want to model the idea of economic incentive(things like how governments handle patent rights, do they just take them? do they allow private organizations to have an monopoly? Stuff like that.)

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>>151766717
In spite of the legacy of the Khanbreaker, the Mongols still live and still thrive. Although they never again troubled the Kingdom of Jerusalem following the defeats of Jamugha and Ukhuna at the hands of Aubry, and although the loss of so many Mongol riders inevitably destabilized the Khanate and perhaps even saved most of Europe from invasion, the Khans of the Horde are a hearty bunch, powerful enough to hold their vassals together by force of will and of arms alone if they cannot gain their loyalty. It cannot be denied, either, that their practical conversion to the Apostolic faith and their conversion of the majority of their previously-Sunni vassalage helped to stabilize the Khanate and fuse what was previously a realm held together by arms alone into a relatively stable whole.

Yet the Khans have so far refused to settle down from their nomadic ways of life, and to cease expanding their realms. Constant wars in Ethiopia undertaken by their vassals in that region--many of whom are Aleramici, descendants of King Payen of Yemen--have expanded the Khanate even further, so far that the Khan of Khans struggles to maintain the unity of the Khanate.

Although the Horde is still mighty and still huge, time has begun to turn against it. Its vassals grow more powerful more quickly than the Khan does; they centralize their realms faster; they develop new technologies and tactics more quickly. In spite of the efforts of the Khans to forge a unified whole in the east, the time is rapidly approaching when a Horde held together now more by the popular will of its vassals than by the strength of its own arms will no longer be tenable.

>>151767728
or any ideas on how to make one that isn't terribly tedious would be appreciated

>>151767359
EU4 got a lot "harder" since release

>>151767728
There was one a while ago, look in the 4chan archive for it.

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B O R D E R S

>>151767154
But it does and it worked like that historically, as tech improved, less people were required to produce as much. By the time tractors are implemented, RGO sizes in agricultural provinces should be cut down to some extent. This would also represent rural exodus better, despite that is also happened earlier.

It's why current developed countries only have a small portion of their population working in the agriculture or mining sector, because with less people you produce as much as the terrain allows you to. If you got more people working it wouldn't really accomplish much if all farmland is already being heavily used up, or if your land doesn't have a lot of ore.

Although by the first half of the 20th century, most people were still employed in agriculture and it went down gradually. The game not only doesn't represent this, but the numbers do nothing but go up until the RGOs are filled to the rim.

>>151767649
I'm still as ambitions as ever, honestly I know enough about coding that I could get many cool mechanics to work. I'm aiming to simulate exaggerated themes from human history, the religious conflict of the middle east, colonization, the fall of monarch's and the ideological governments that fill the place of having a king, to the age of globalization, nuclear weapons, proxy wars, decolonization, mega super corporations that threaten the balance of national governments, anything and everything between the 1700's and the future.

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>>151767832
Such is the tale of the world in the modern day, a world which was lived in--and largely brought about by--the Aleramici Kings of Jerusalem. Now we revisit them, and remember the tales of our dynasty.

The first Aleramici King was young Baudouin V, who came first to singular rule in Jerusalem at the tender young age of nine. Son of a father he hardly remembered and a mother who was his own vassal, Baudouin ruled over a realm divided both in loyalty and in culture. Presented with a choice, the young man chose to navigate the avenues of power not by playing politics, but by refusing to: pious to a fault, Baudouin V trusted in God to preserve himself and his House, maintaining his pure faith at all times, even to the extent that he would not lie with a woman who was not Catholic.

This deep-seated conviction led Baudouin to divorce his first wife Eirene Angelos--beginning the long dynastic rivalry with House Angelos--to marry Eirene Komnenos, sister of the Dux of Chypre. Although their love for one another was deep, Eirene miscarried several times, and by the age of 40 had only succeeded in giving two daughters to Baudouin, effectively spelling the end of his dynasty's rule. At the last moment--or so it seemed--Eirene became pregnant once again, giving birth this time to a boy, Aubry. Yet to give Baudouin the son he so desperately desired she had been forced to pay the ultimate price: she died in her childbed, her husband weeping over her body and damning himself for pressing her for a son.

In his later years Baudouin became distant, living only for God and his children. He undertook the first Catholic Crusade for Aegyptus in the hopes of granting a realm to his daughter (she was married to a member of the Italian branch of the Aleramici dynasty before being installed as co-ruler of Aegyptus), but after returning there to stabilize her reign he took ill along the Nile and died a short while thereafter, leaving Aubry to rule as a minor.

Why doesn't Paradox release Darkest Hour 2 to appease everyone who hates HoI4?

>>151767730
Are corporations going to exist as independent entities alongside nations? That would be pretty cool, perhaps start them as landless or near-landless "states" early on, but as the game progresses into the 20th century they start expanding independently into land occupied by poor nations. What you could do, maybe, is give nations a tech boost if they own a province that also has a corporation in it.

Now that I think about it, what you could do is have a seperate tech tree for corporations. Inventions that only they can research, that sort of thing. This would incentivize nations to trade with certain corporations in order to acquire their technologies, IE products, whether by diplomacy or just by outright conquering the province with a corp's headquarters.

>>151768593
Because Paradox didn't make DH

Why do aristocrats and capitalists only give you such a small bonus to output? Is this socialist propaganda?

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>>151768501
Although Aubry's reign began in sorrow and uncertainty, the young man would go on to prove himself one of the greatest tacticians in the world, a famed romantic, and a pious lord in his own right. Far from living up to his father, Aubry Aleramici surpassed him in almost every respect; although he was no administrative genius, Aubry is certainly the greatest King Jerusalem ever had.

When Aubry took the throne the Khan of the Horde, Temujin's son Ogodei, had already converted to Apostolic Christianity and was beginning the long process of converting his many riders. Although this did not guarantee the safety of any Christian realm, Aubry did believe that the Khan of Khans might now be willing to entertain a marriage with another Christian Kingdom, and his fears that Jerusalem would be swallowed up by the Horde if he did not secure an alliance pressured him to try. Yet Ogodei took no notice of Aubry, even after he had sent myriad envoys and set out on many campaigns of conquest in an attempt to gain his attention. Dispirited, Aubry returned to Jerusalem and prepared to arrange a marriage with another realm when disaster struck: due to Jerusalemite unfamiliarity with the succession of the Horde, when Ogodei Khan died he was succeeded by an unknown, Jamugha Khan, whom Aubry had never sent envoys to. Jamugha desired precisely what Aubry feared--the conquest of Jerusalem--and declared war just days after his ascension.

Yet, with the help of one of the greatest tacticians the world has ever seen, Svietislav the Bulgar, Aubry was able to accomplish the impossible. Hiring tens of thousands of mercenaries and sacrificing as many of his own men, Aubry was able to trap the Mongol riders in the mountains, continuously smashing them, driving them back again and again until, finally, they broke entirely.

Jamugha Khan surrendered to Aubry Aleramici, earning him the name "Khanbreaker" and opening the door for his great romance with Botokhui Borjigin.

>>151769002
>Swedish company

Gee, I wonder...

>>151767529
>always have all automatization turned off
But isn't that a problem when you have a fuckton of ships and planets?

>>151769302t
i salute you

>son and heir is homosexual
Wew. But he did manage to get his wife pregnant so let's hope its a male.

>>151769483
Yes, in the late game. Once you know what you're doing you can let the AI handle stuff.

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>>151769302
Although Aubry had failed to gain the attention of Ogodei Khan with his conquests, his brutal defeat of Jamugha gained him the attention of the entire Horde. Many Aqas scrambled to offer him their daughters' hands in marriage, yet Aubry suspected that Jamugha's days were numbered, and that the title of Khan of Khans would return to Temujin's House. He thus chose to marry the youngest daughter of Temujin himself, Botokhui Borjigin. It was to be a fateful choice.

Jamugha did indeed die shortly thereafter, and by his marriage to Botokhui--who respected him before she even laid eyes on him--Aubry secured an alliance with the new Khan, Arkhai, and security for Jerusalem. He used this security well, enjoying a long and pleasant life with a wife whose fiery spirit and fiercely independent will he soon grew to love. Her support of her husband was absolute, from the number of children she bore him to the dressing-down she gave to her own nephew, Ukhuna Khan, when he foolishly attempted to attack the realm of the Khanbreaker. There was nothing she would not do, none she would not cross, in support of her husband and family.

Yet that spirit of fire was, in the end, too much for a mortal body to contain. Botokhui grew sickly before she even reached the age of 50, and shortly thereafter, though her flesh remained strong, her mind fled her. Her beloved Aubry could not live without her, and in the end he died of grief after a year without his Boto.

>>151766272
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