/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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>>158754636
Based

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This is the paradox fanbase

>>158754636
White

>>158754636
HAHAHA CLASSIC!!!

>>158754850
>you don't have to buy it
>fucking blitzing is DLC

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>>158754636
Always makes me crack up

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>>158754850
This is the Paradox Fan base.

Someone know what to do after downloading the files for playing EU4 ?

>>158755089
I wonder if CK3 will come with all the features from CK2 + DLCs or they'll do a Sims-style scam and sell only the base game, making people pay for everything all over again later.

Send help guise
>>158750578

Im playing EU3 (sorry for no Pic cant take sreenshots for some reason) and for some reason Persia is in the Spice Islands in the 1420s. That takes and chance of me owning them as Korea away. I mean I didnt really want to own them just vassal but still. How is Persia in the fucking spice islands? How is this allowed. I mean imagine England in the 100 year war getting some province in the Kongo.

>>158755324
Take what you can for the AE and then console it so that you own those provinces and they get the other ones back.

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Let's post our biggest blobs. Took me 7 centuries.

>>158755572
how does it take you that long to blob as an emperor?
i have dozens of kingdom claims that i can enact at any time at 1100, if i wanted to blob id own everyone by 1200

>>158755572
Mine was Scandinavia and Russia in a single lifetime... Not that I capped it cause it was boring.

>>158755679
Not him, but if youre an emperor a single county gives you enough infamy to form defensive pacts.. Its best to be a large duke and hand over new things to other dukes that stay in the emperors control but you can just become emperor after youre done blobbing. Most infamy then goes to the emperor and i cools down faster.

EU4 is great aside from the combat

Why can't paradox even design forts that affect the AI also?

>>158755685
>start as pagan in earliest start
>declare dozens of wars at a time, imprison all your vassals, have -2000 gold
>conquer everything north and east of poland in one lifetime
was pretty fun once

>>158755856
>pagan
>having probems with money
Did you not constantly sack Venice and Genoa? I mean thats 2k right there. And you get 2k more every 5 years.

>>158755475
How do I make it without the use of console though

>>158755838
Why can't Paradox design AI?

>>158755838
The real problem is that they can't design AI that would understand how forts work and not have to cheat with fow.

>>158755989
Annex Georgia. Or open the province and give it to Georgias control and see if you can let them take it.

>>158755838
Might as well have just kept it the same. With the change it tricks you into thinking they are useful and burning cash for no reason

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>>158755572
Biggest blob like biggest compared to a reasonable size or general size
Compared to original/acceptable size is pic related

>>158755965
Only Norse pagans can do that.

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>tfw you don't check your province limit
So I need to get my deficit in check how do?

>>158756662
Well I do it even if Im not a pagan, just custom yourself norse. Its free money. And there is always raiding your neighbors, which if your that big should be easy, and it might take a while but just going around Poland should give you a grand.

>>158756076
It's an older save that I've loaded to try to understand the coring mechanics.
I can give them to Georgia, but the plan is for me to take Shirvan right now, not in ten years when I can diploannex Georgia. Without the need to bother with Khundzia preferably, if only it was possible.
Why I can demand Khundzia in a peace deal when it's not adjacent to any of my own provinces but can't do the same with Shirvan ?

>>158756791
Likely because inland sea and lakes are considered like adjacent sea zone or something.

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>>158756601
>>158755572
General biggest blob i have a screenshot off
disguisting, i know

>>158756759
Did you buy EU4 ?

>>158757017
of*

>>158755305
>will come with all the features from CK2 + DLCs
Of course not.

>>158757103
Only the base game for easy access to the mods. That version with all the DLC is pirated

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Is AFPGuy around?
Id need some flags for the Roman Empire and Andalusia/Granada

>>158757520
How did you pirate it ?

>>158757908
Nice try Johan
My friend bought all the DLCs, i copied his files and i cracked the game myself

>>158757569
Just got here, sorry I've been dead the last week. What do you need exactly?

>>158757908
read the OP

Is HPM guy around?

>>158758067
I just wanted a solution to my problem,though :^(

Why the fuck ck2 slows down the more holdings you have? How can they slowdown game?
Unlimited demesne practically useless. Conquered india and and game is 4x slower.
Conquered world as nomads and settled - game 0.5 fps without doing anything and giving one county takes more than 5 minutes.
Holdings arent characters. how the fuck they break the game so much?

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>>158758076
Roman Empire flags
Fascist, Communist, Republic and Monarchist
Same for Andalusia, with that that i already have these two
Also i saw in your pastebin that you want to add the Black Army Flag as an alt to Ukraine, you already made one idk if i upladed it to the mega archive

Is HPM guy around?

>>158756875
Do I understand it correctly, you need an existing owned land core province to core any inland sea province ? So I wouldn't be able to core Gilan if I own Shirvan and Ardabil is owned by my vassal ?

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>>158758304
Also, a pommegranade version if i may ask
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/La_Granada_de_Rio-Tinto_Spain.svg/600px-La_Granada_de_Rio-Tinto_Spain.svg.png

>>158758128
I read the Op, I downloaded the links on cs.rin, I extractes the files.
Now I search what to do with my files

>>158758304
>Roman Empire flags.Fascist, Communist, Republic and Monarchist
Hmmm, quite ambitious, but I'll try to do my best.

>Same for Andalusia, with that that i already have these two
Bear in mind that those are for Andalusian Mexico IIRC, though.

>Also i saw in your pastebin that you want to add the Black Army Flag as an alt to Ukraine, you already made one idk if i upladed it to the mega archive
Yeah I still got it lying around, but I think I'll make it again from scratch to make sure I make it in the best possible way. The text is always the hardest thing to get right.

>>158758476
Sure.

>>158757908
Megaupload

>>158758518
OP*
Extracted*

>>158758250
meme engine

Also probably something like it performs some checks on player provinces that it doesn't on AI stuff or does those checks more often. Vision might also have a thing with it as EU at least is significantly slower if you ally say Ming or France and can suddenly see a whole bunch more provinces

Who is a cool character or region to start CKII as?

Is reaper due an paid game booster? I heard it makes your characters die more often

Ok, I'm done with my meme. Who should i play as? The Roman Republic, the Roman Kingdom, the Greek Empire or the Latin Empire?

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>>158758532
I have some ideas for the Roman Empire tho
Caesars rome was crudely said fascism, so using the symbols of the roman Consul could be ok
Or even an golden outlined face of Caesar on a dark red/purple background
Or the symbols that were used on scutums
http://medievalcostumesandgifts.com/images/product-images/09_07_07_025.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ce/e1/cd/cee1cdcf33175ff4f249010042618379.jpg

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/73000/73097/73097_caesar_coin_lg.gif

Which r/paradoxplaza subreddits are /gsg/ approved, laddies?

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>>158759058
>>158758532
Also the serb town of Niš could be an inspiration if anything
Simple two headed eagle, laurel or olives?

>>158759058
>Or even an golden outlined face of Caesar on a dark red/purple background
How tacky.
>Or the symbols that were used on scutums
That's better.

I plan to use a fasces though, since Mussolini (and everyone who has ever used that symbol) took the fasces from Roman symbolism so there's actually no better time to use a fasces as for a Roman fascist flag.

>>158759267
Hmm, maybe, I'll see about it. Any suggestions for commie one? That's the hardest to come up with. Also, are you ok with those Mexican Andalusian flags or would you want me to at least change the [Mexican] colours of the republican one?

>>158759404
If you could recolour them that would be nice
No need to remove the star either, i can use it as a commie flag

thanks lad
Take some slovenian memes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwLSrNu1ppI

>>158759594
>No need to remove the star either, i can use it as a commie flag
That was originally a Republican flag actually, but that's fine. So just so I have it correctly in my mind, for Andalusia you'd need Republican and Fascist flags?

>>158759682
Yes

>>158759128
Please answer, lads, I need some quality content to read.

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Newbie here.

I was wondering, is there a specific design reason they chose to make these games play out in real-time?

I can't see any benefit over turn-based. I'm literally sitting watching the screen for dozens of minutes at a go, perpetually adjusting sliders. There aren't enough random events, nor could there ever be, to justify things playing out in real-time rather than condensing every major aspect of the gameplay into annual or bi-annual turns.

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>>158760174
>quality content
How about a nuke.

>tfw you blobbed hard and ruined the campaign for yourself again

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>>158759058
TACKY
A
C
K
Y

>>158758828
pls respond

>>158760424
>Of all the founders
>Judaism

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>>158754617
Does anyone know when Hearts of Iron IV will be playable? It's currently one of the worst games I've played in my life, im just playing HoI3 with mods while waiting.

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>>158754850
>>158755089
This is the paradox fan base.

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>>158759404
>Not using Romulus and Remus as the republican flag

>>158760760
Brazilians

>>158760697
Probably never sadly.
You can patchwork ai but never truly fix it.

Also India/Pakistan starting a war right now, India wrecked 4 Pakistani border posts.

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>>158760784
Something like this?

>>158760697
>Hearts of Iron IV
buy pls

>>158761004
bought ur welcome

>>158760965
>>158760784
That's actually good, does any of you have a good, clear image of Romulus and Remus I could use?

>>158760961
Any new sources?

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>>158761146
https://www.thequint.com/india/2016/10/29/pakistan-post-casualties-inflicted-keran-jammu-and-kashmir-india-jawan-killed-uri-machil-loc-attack-ceasefire-violation

>>158760697
I think HoI IV was intended for people that didn't like HoI III

>>158760901
>>158760760
I'll just state that Peter "the sleepy" II was so bad, but so bad, that the population would rather have a bunch of cannon fodder in power than him. And his father was a raging alcoholic troublemaker - not content creating some stupid blob, he went full 'GONNA RUIN PORTUGAL TOO' and threw the country into civil war.

>>158761374
HoI IV was intended for people that liked Stellaris

>>158761390
Nobody gives a shit you fucking monkey

>>158761302
>>158761146
>>158760961
>ids habbenin
Border guards fire on each other every month in Kashmir. It's literally nothing.

>>158761390
Nobody cares mate, you country could disappear from existence and nobody in the world would notice.

>>158761431
>"people" that "liked" Stellaris

>>158761669
B-but its 20-60 people dead.
They really dont care that much?

>>158761815
They literally have millions more soldiers.

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>>158761095
Its a fan flag of AS Roma
Ill try to find that print

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=romulus+and+remus.png

>>158762127
Oh shit, meant to reply to >>158761095

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>>158761937
You really should get into european football lad
Most of the flags that i made for MCGs HRE mod are based on football teams

http://www.asromaultras.org/Adesivospqrgiallooro.jpeg

>>158761675
>Nobody cares mate, you country could disappear from existence and nobody in the world would notice.
True (it applies even to its inhabitants), but people here on /gsg/ usually like history and trivia from irrelevant countries.

>>158762493
European football is 90% non-European players now.

lol why are people posting pictures of babies sucking a dog's dick wtf?

>>158759267
WE WUZ
>>158762662
Both national and league
sad 2bh

>>158762664
Small historic trivia - the legends say, that Romulus and Remo were nurtured by a she-wolf.
Kinda missing the point, since "lupa" in Latin was also a slang for prostitute... they were actually raised by a whore.

>>158762902
Romulus and Remo did not exist at all anyway

>>158762824
>sad 2bh
There's an old saying that goes "If you want to see how a country will look demographically in 20 years, look at their football team."

I have high hopes for South Africa based on their rugby team.

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I'm doing a CK II run as the Spartenos dynasty, starting as a OPM in Naples with a Greek Orthodox duke.

Should I conform to Italy and become Catholic / Lombard or should Italy conform to me and become Orthodox / Greek.

>>158762982

Next thing you're going to tell us that the 7 kings of rome never existed either. Fucking carthagians, constantly spreading lies.

>>158760363
Because making game act instead of react if better by default.

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>>158759267
Laurel.

>>158762982
Eh, we won't know for sure if they existed or not. At least is more probable than Jesus or shit like that.

Regardless, I think the original story was about twins raised by a prostitute.

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>>158763005
“Since the Australian football team is mostly Croatian, we win either way.”
~ Stjepan Mesić

Thats means that there will be even more croats in australia

IS THE NEW CK2 EXPANSION ANY GOOD?

Or should I just keep playing patch 2.5.2 without conclave.

>>158763076
One of the oldest and most overdone runs since CK2 came out

Swear fealty to ERE and blob like a madman. Restore Sicily and Africa as Roman provinces.

Guys... WAKE THE FUCK UP.
ROME 2 LAUNCH TRAILER. WAAAAHT THE FUCK NO VICTORIA 3????????????????????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kLtfM5U7SM

>>158763086
>(((carthagians)))

Guys Rome was founded by fucking Aeneas what are you on about

>>158763527
*throw potato*

Post this in a non-nigger language instead.

So from looking at other mods, from EU3 to V2, I think you HAVE to replace the vanilla font with the modded one in order to work. Which is a shame but I guess I'll have to deal with that and make a back up

>>158763725
Vergilius was literally paid to write that, as a way to shut the Greeks up.

>>158763429
i dont feel like doing the spartenos run anymore :(

>>158763527
wow... really makes you consider...

>>158763317
>romulus
>more probable than jesus
hilarious joke anon

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>>158759594
>>158760784
>>158760965
>>158761937
I'm not sure I nailed the execution of this. What do you think?

>>158764024
Bretty good

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>>158763901
>>158763725
Reminder if you dont own this book you are officially denounced by /gsg/

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>>158759594
In any case, I also finished the Monarchy one. It's was the obvious choice, it's the vexillum of the Roman Empire, the closest thing they had to a flag.

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>>158760784
>Romulus
>Remus
>Anything to do with the Roman republic

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>There're no plague survivor trait or dynamic events for surviving the plague

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When civilising, is it better to remain small in order to get literacy up faster and blob using your CBs in the last year, or is it better to blob as fast as you can to get the bonus RP immediately?

>>158764509
Blob like there's no tomorrow

>>158763976
If you find some hobo being a literal god more probable than some tribal leaders being raised by a whore, so be it.

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Should I let Bulgaria in the union, or continue gassing them, lads?

>>158764024
Do you mind if I mess a bit with it?

>>158764937
Sure.

>>158764867
Why not both?

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>>158764186
What is the list of /gsg/ approved books, like the one we have for movies?

I already know of these ones but I want more.

>>158765051
Why are you reading propaganda?

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>Get Spain as Junior Partner in PU
>They are 14 tech behind the rest of Europe, behind even Tunis and Morocco
>Spending about 3x as much as their income a month
>4000 in debt

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>>158765051

>>158765051
Not sure but that one must be added.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentarii_de_Bello_Gallico

Its not only plainly written but actually helps you with latin ALOT.

>>158765051
Art of the Deal

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Is really Victoria II harder than ck2 or EUIV? Im interested rn in this period a lot.

Thanks, im a beginner on GSG tho.

>>158765643
What does Victoria 2 have to do with the second world war?

>>158764808
romulus did more unrealistic things than jesus could ever aspire to
romulus single handedly united a bunch of criminal fucks into a coherent group, successfully populated the city, successfully brokered positive peace deals with all their enemies, never lost a battle, and was an all around great chap did never did anything wrong, so they named the city of rome after him
very coincidentally directly after he established rome's prowess in warfare, the next king established rome's prowess in piety and superstition, before once more returning to warfare and then religion combined with warfare

>>158765051
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger, the greatest account of WWI.

>>158765852
Well, that makes up for a more interesting story than "we were just a bunch of dumbfucks till the greeks came along and we copied their way of life"

>>158765051
Fatherland - Robert Harris
Imperium -II-
1984
Black Book of Communism
Arhipelag Gulag
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Starship troopers
Main Kampf
The Dictator's Handbook

But if you want to be an endy leftist, read orwells stuff

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We're back and tuscany is a bit better now

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>France form the Entente with Romania and Yugoslavia
>Poland, the Entente and the allies strikes as Germany declare war on luxembourg
>Poland ends up as having 80 warscore participation as it reaches Rome.

Wew lads.

>>158765791
It ends with WW2 starting
WW2 didnt just pop out of nowhere, it is strongly connected to the victorian era
and >>158765643 no, victoria 2 being hard is just a meme
tbqh, i just started playing eu4, and it isnt even that bad

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Started off with 355 Dynasty members. Two years of the plague and 33.33% of them are dead. Fucking whew.

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>>158765002

>>158765643
Not really harder once you know what's what. It's pretty easy when you know what to do actually, it's just the most indepth of the, with the most satisfying mechanics.

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>>158764282
Notice me senpai

>>158766423
That's really neat. The shapes are way clearer. I'm not too sold on the letter designs, though, are those the traditional way of writing them? In any case, it's an improvement over mine so >>158759594 use that one.

>>158766470
I really advise against using that design.

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>>158766470
Cleaned up some pixels

>>158765051
Here's /k/'s repository of history books
https://murdercube.com/files/History/

>>158766617
>are those the traditional way of writing them?
Yes, they used to write like this on stone and clay tablets.

Alternatively, you might want to mix our designs, using your letters with my wolf.

quality or quantity?
there is a correct answer

>>158766279
>victorian era
Uh, no. Most of ww2 happened as a direct consequence of ww1. Hell, most of the shit that would later precipitate ww1 happened during the Edwardian era.

Your reasoning for playing vicky2 is based on poor historical knowledge.

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>>158766774
>Alternatively, you might want to mix our designs, using your letters with my wolf.
Like this?

>>158765051
>all these people responding to my shitty bait seriously

What the hell have you guys done to me lads? It wasn't supposed to go like this

>>158766931
Yup.

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/gsg/ posters are this retarded

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>>158766931
I cut the Q's tail a bit so it doesn't look that modern.

>>158766367
Isn't the plague scripted to purge dynasties of useless characters in a ""realistic"" way?

>>158765229
Seriously should I just give up the PU? I can't imagine how I'm ever going to afford all the mana costs if I annex. They have bits of Italy and shit too.

>>158766670
>>158766470
>>158760487
STOP

>>158767335
Not just the plague but all events in general are meant to purge relatively useless characters. Non the less though, it seriously fucked up the stability of my empire. The inheritance of everything is totally fucked now.

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I think that ill go with these flags fascist one isnt finished so ill use the old desing as a filler
Anybody knows how to mod Icons
So, i just add another Symbol to icon_religion and it will be icon18?
HPM already modded in 3 symbols that way

>>158768057
Dude, that last one is a Romanian Empire flag. Just so you know what you are getting into.

>>158768201
I know, i got it from the mega archive

>>158768201
>Ro
>manian
>Empire

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>>158765004
yeah

>>158768201
And the middle two may as well be flags of the Roman kingdom. What's it matter?

>>158768490
Because gypsies have nothing to do with Romans and Dacians, don't fall for that shitty meme

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Castille attacked Andalusia withouth me again.

>tfw still no new Companymod

>>158768201
Hey lad did you finish those Madagascar flags yet? Take your time if not, its not a huge deal

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What should my borders be?

>>158768596
Gypsies are brown. Romans were brown.

>implying

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>>158768738
Nigger I thought you were dead. I haven't been in gsg in months, when did you come back?

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>>158768461
>Conquering Istria, and not Slovenia proper.

>>158769020
In time, laddo.

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How high can experience go, I always though it topped out at 35% or something.
I guess I'm going to find out.

>>158769020
>>158769089
>Slovenes
>Slavs

Pick one

>>158768738
Ah, sorry. I put down the names of the tribes you wanted me to make but haven't actually begun researching them. I probably won't be able to do much today but I'll begin gathering information.
Luckily, I do have quite a bit of things left over from when I did Madagascar flags for my pack so I could repurpose some of that.

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Protestant, Reformed, or stay Catholic?

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>>158768057
So this should work now?
Also, anybody knows a way to convert pops to another religion via an event or decision?

>>158769143
Goes up to 100%
Obviously

>>158769153
Last time I checked, Slovenian and Serbocroatian are Slavic languages, so yes, at least 92% of the Slovenes are Slavs.

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>>158769404
You know what you must do.
P R O T E S T A N T
SAINT WORSHIPERS GO HOME

>>158769404
Reformed.

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Catholic, Orthodox, and Monothelite empires all fighting together to take *almost* Jerusalem from the Shia.
I'll take things I never thought I'd see for 200.

>>158769404
orthodox

>>158769143
show urop

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LET'S MAKE GEORGIA STRONG AGAIN

Now that I'm BFF with Muscovy I can remove Quhaa... Qu´raaahhh Quasselwhateverfuckingfaggots from the premise, free Armenia and then slowly advance towards the ottomans to remove kebab from the roots.

>>158769641
What do you get from being reformed?
Currently playing as Prussia, switched back to catholicism mainly for the papal bonuses

Did Institutions remove the only weakness the roaches had?

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>>158768729
Working on some loading screens atm because the original modder is a cunt and still hasn't posted what he made.
Have a qt Krupp

>>158769404
>Protestant, Reformed, or stay Christian?
The later.

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>>158769153
>declare war for slovenia
>gommie turks summon thousands of brigades to kill me
epic

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>>158770146
>Worshiping Saints
Literally fucking Paganism

>>158770072
K R U P P

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>starting holy wars on a Shia empire and not realizing that all three major muslim empires are Shia

>>158769525
By your logic, aboriginals are anglo.

>>158770264
Kebab greatest ally

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Spend 20 years grooming marrying/grooming proper heirs so they can rule the Byzantine Empire. I go to war I win but costs me like 200 gold and 5000 men. I install my claimant but then some other cunt literally 1 day after usurps the title. This feature is so fucking gay it's unreal.

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>>158769416
Shieeet
I mostlikely just saved it the wrong way
Ill ask alex when he is around

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>>158769738
It's pretty normal desu. UK kept Iceland/Greenland because I was already in the war by the time they got them. Based Norway somehow turned back the nazis and held on to their heavy water for me. Finland joined the Allies during the Winter War because we were already at war with USSR, then the event ended hostilities for all parties, then I re-declared and Finland obviously got rolled over by the full weight of the slav war machine (didn't even get government in exile status). Thankfully there's a break in infrastructure in Norway that kept the slavs from driving right into Oslo. Germany never broke M-R, I've seen this happen before where they eventually declared in 1943 but I'm kind of hoping they don't do it this time because it would make me very happy to roll into Nazi Berlin via Vladivostok as opposed to Soviet Berlin.
I think I'll declare for Ireland so the UK can reclaim their rightful clay.

>>158770501
can't really usurp unless you fuck up

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>>158770407
>due to all the genocide slovenia is my most populous state
>over a fifth of it is german now

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WHY DO THEY STILL HAVE NO ATTRITION ANTI-EVERYTHING STACKS 200 YEARS AFTER THE INVASION
THEY ARE NOT EVEN TENGRI ANYMORE

>>158770592
Bad news, Alex is in the great liquor factory in the sky now. His organs were harvested by favela monkeys.

>>158770653
I'm confused, how could I have fucked up? This happens almost every time you install a claimant of an empire.

>>158758304
>>158759058
>tfw my flags for a megacampaign mod that never came to fruition are being used
Feels good.

How can I disable Shattered Retreat in HIP, they removed the option to disable it because they have their heads up their own asses and said "no, we fixed it."

>>158770329
I'm sorry, I can't hear your strawman, due to the obnoxious noise of your Luther worshippers screaming about something from lower realms they love so much.

TBQH I'm a fedora, but otherwise I'd be Catholic. Protestantism screams treason.

>>158770820
Lotharingia mod?

About to start Darkest Hour for the first time.
Anything I should know? Some tips? Thanks.

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Lads, can we win this one?

>>158770993
thats what you get for playing as a disguisting serb

>>158770993
>literally gasing islamig gommunists as serbia
Nice meme game friendo

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>Spain in charge of not being fuck ups

>>158770631
>3 way war
Neat

>>158770985
Varies by nation, IC runs pre-war never hurt.
Group your infantry units in groups of 3, attach Artillery if you can afford it. Groups of 3 are much more manageable and versatile.
If you want to be a raging faggot, a doomstack of 99x Subs is cheese-central. Otherwise a surface fleet of 15x Aircraft Carriers guarded by 15x Cruisers is a good comp, do not bother with Battleships their range is shit.

>>158770985
Instead of building motorized infantry or tanks build cavalry and then upgrade the cavalry to motorized or tanks, it's faster.

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>>158771114
>>158771167
turks OUT

>>158770735
AI is so stupid with Attrition that we had to remove it so it doesn't kill itself
T.Johan

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Cost me 1900 dollars in the surrender.
Looking real tempting right about now.

>>158770985
Use CAS or Tactical Bombers to ground support against the enemy during a battle and then ground attack the enemy units when they're retreating.

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>>158771330
Nice job.

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>>158771606
Imagine if this shit happened IRL?

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>>158771658

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>>158771858
It's over, perfidious Albion is helping the Turks.

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>Edinburgh is almost twice as developed as Vienna
Development is a fucking meme

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>>158771917

>>158771321
You can upgrade horses to tanks?!

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I finally picked up Crusader Kings 2 while it was on sale. What should I know before jumping in? What are the essential DLCs?

>>158772112
conclave and sunset invasion

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>>158772024
The Muslim forces were too strong.

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Castille just "won" their war. I guess Im going to wait for their truce to be over and finally destroy Andalusia

>>158771996
Nice job becoming Rome

>>158772094
Rise of Nations style

>>158771996
that's what you get for playing a meme mod

>>158772390
>meme mod
its not even the mod. i've seen this shit happen in vanilla

>>158772197
>sunset invasion
that's a meme so I'll avoid Conclave too kthx

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>>158772210
What the fuck. Literally everyone joined against us and we're not over the infamy limit or anything.

Question about tribals:

The Viking Age event has just fired up and I've been thinking that the best way to go about raiding is to raise Tribal Organization to high so that I can raise my vassals' ships and levys and go raid with those.

This means that I don't pay anything at all for my raiding parties, but vassals get a -20 hit to opinion with me. Is this the best course of action?

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>>158772210

>>158772390
>>158772450
What mod is this?

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Oh my god Florentia no!

>>158772607
It's just extended timeline, I made countries with the nation editor

>>158772516
Best course of action is to reform asap. If you don't have enough. Also tribal levies are joke.
>either rise 57-300
>or call ally with 1600 + potential tribal army.

>>158772450
It depend on your luck with your mana source. If scotland get good kings and Austria only get inbred retard there's not much that can be done.

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WHAT
THE
FUCK

Quarafuckmyass was at war with the Marmlucks, 90% of the fucking country was under siege by the Marmluks while the Quara army of 30k men chilled in Ganja and decided to declare war on me for no fucking reason why the entire country of them burns. Muscovy refused the call to arms, Lithuania refused and as soon as Quara declared war on my ass they lost like half of their provinces to the Mamluks like nobody ever gave a single fuck.

WHAT THE FUCK

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>>158772529
I'm going to mobilise and make this the front line, it's the only way to defend against the combined forces of everyone.

>>158772981
Ai programmed snipe human player. News at 11.

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>>158773141
>No Loop-de-Loop
0/10

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>>158773141
Oh for fucks sake.

>>158772681
Is that random nations?

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These fucks just declared war on me. Why was my ally France not called to arms? I could understand if they refused but our alliance is still there despite them not being apart of the war.

>Polotsk has more development that Constantinople
I'm really starting to hate this meme game
>>158773390
see >>158772809

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>>158773519
forgot pic

>>158773362
Its ogre

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Now our allies have gone to war against the greeks and we have to fight alongside the S*ltan*te of R*m

>>158759058
>Caesars rome was crudely said fascism

Lol

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>>158773952
I think this meme team has a few months left.

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>>158770874
Yeah

>>158774202
What's Albion going to take from you? I hope they liberate everyone.

>>158770840
Anyone?

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>>158774363
Nothing.

>>158774267
I'd play this

>>158772462
Go for old gods, rome, sword of islam if you want kebab, and way of life.

>>158774267
You were so close, making decisions and events are super easy. I can even help you or make them for you if you tell me what you want
Can you at least upload it? I want to play with that zoroastrian Persia

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>>158774585
Okay, NOW it's over.

>>158775143
Based Canadians are the best at carrying out the Eternal Anglo's will.

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>>158775490
Actually, it looks like we've won that as well.

>>158775143
It's never truly over until Germany also declares war on you laddo

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>>158774202
How is your economy so shit as Yugoslavia? There are so many great RGOs in your land. Meanwhile I'm doing better as fucking Portugal (that has 3 states in the mainland)

Hey /gsg/, looking for a screencap of a strategy game story here that was roughly about a dude who's society survived long enough to be locked in a state of perpetual war with another, and had details like there were 2 nuclear wars and the frontlines were in a constant state of losing thousands of tanks as more tanks were made to fill their places
Any of you guys have that? I await any help with the name of the game or the picture itself

>>158775719
You mean the Eternal War from Civ 2?

>>158775719
That's literally from the civ subreddit , one of the top posts

>>158775718
>>158774202

Also I'm only in 1890, you are 30 years ahead

>>158775802
>>158775885
Looks like it was the Eternal War, thanks guys
Fuck i was looking for this for months because I had forgotten it and you all found it in seconds

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Well, they've broken the line and captured Belgrade. The dream is dead, but at least we killed a lot of Turks and Anglos in the process.

>>158775651
Germany is on my side.

>>158775718
Frequent genocide.

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>>158776184
Going to lose most of Bulgaria and Slovenia for this.

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wew

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>>158776487
Not actualyl too bad. The borders actually look better.

>>158776770
>Carnaro
What

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>France

any tips for new eu4 player. never plaed EU before, only really know CK2 and Stellaris

started out as ottomans and i took Constantinople, but not sure if i should go east (levant) or west

is there anything that isn't glaring obvious that a newcomer might miss? i know i'm supposed to get national ideas or something but my technology isn't high enough yet

>>158777339
They all look based and white

>>158777373
Ottomans are super easy mode. Literally the easiest nation in the game.

>>158777373
>east (levant) or west

both

>>158777373
just go in what direction you want, if you go east and take arabia then you should focus on your navy and exploration/colonization, if you go west then focus on your army since you'll be fighting against the western powers for most of your playthrough.

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If anyone's interested I'm hosting a Commonwealth Players vs Veteran AI game in HOI4 right now.

Join for comfyness and biscuits.

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>>158776867
A North Italian meme state.

>>158762824
>WE WUZ
Constantine the great was born in Naissus.

>>158777782
Pirate friendly?

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>turn off supernatural memes
>have to play chess with Death himself for my life anyways

god damnit

>>158778743

uhh maybe?

>>158779119
more like few extra chins lmao

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Now what? Should I unify islam after ruling the coffee business?

EVERYWHERE YOU GO
ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU
EVERYWHERE YOU GO
ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU
EVERYWHERE YOU GO
ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU
EVERYWHERE YOU GO
ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU

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The Protestant reformation started in Rhodes on tonight's episode.

>>158780165
Never seen that in my campaigns.

Can the reformation center convert muslim provinces?

>>158780585
Its not a center and they havent accepted it as their religion, so I dont know.

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You guys are smart, right? Show me some 4D Chess-level machinations, /gsg/. I mean cream of the crop, next level, political/military/economic genius. Some good underdog stories would be cool, too.

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>>158774823
I'm actually working on another megacampaign right now, one which will probably be more interesting and will keep me hooked.

Here is all the work I had done so far. It was using a really old, modified version of HPM from the beginning of the year, with most of the country-specific events and decisions stripped since they wouldn't make sense in an alternate timeline.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b0nr007ub06buv1/LoC.rar?dl=0

Most of the world is done, with the exception of South America. Pic related is what I had in mind, had I continued.

>>158763179
That's borderline nonsense unless you'd like to explain

why does HIP increase duels so much?
it's cool, but it's kind of ridiculous how much they pop up.

How do I Russia in vic2?

>>158781327
>Historical Immersion Project

>>158781658
I get the immersion part, but something in me doubts that on-the-battlefield one on one duels between nobles happened that frequently.

>>158781645
delete initial fleets so you don't bleed money
raise literacy
build industry
???
profit

>>158781804
Is it unrelated to the war focus? God knows that thing is next to fucking useless, if you're lucky you'll get a bunch of prestige from it but the odds of finding many targets to duel are slim to none. You'll need to actively set out to making rivals to duel.

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Assuming that, by some MIRACLE, Parabucks decided to not only make Vicky III, but also ignore the forum dicksuckers and make the best game possible.

What changes, or what could be added or improved in this hypothetical Vicky III?

Real, well thought-out answers encouraged, though I will also accept meme answers.

>>158760424
If libtards care about minority religions and peace, why the fuck do they put above all else the worlds second largest religion with a history of violent wars, bigotry, conquest, slavery, and murder?

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>>158779119

alright lads, time to convert. hopefully i can deal with some of these enclaves in eu4 easier than the ck2 cluster fuck.

>tfw you'll never live in the correct timeline where the latin empire survives and jerusalem becomes a major power in the levant, spreading christendom and civilization to all the wayward mudslimes while other christian powers carve up the barbary states

What is there to do as Tunisia in V2 if I don't want to form the Maghreb?

>>158781076
Bumping for this.

>>158782798
What date did you start at?

>>158782807
Colonize Italy

>>158782807
Get 2m Italian Aryans as immigrants

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>>158782798

>norwegian germany
>norway evicted from actual norway due to hre mechanics

fuck me, lads.

maybe rebels will fix it through the course of the campaign. rest seems alright.

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Let's keep going and see what happens.

>>158775718
>doesn't have a liquor factory in every state
>calling others' economies shit
wew lad

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>>158782978

1206.

How far east should the Latin Empire stretch?

>>158785454
Get good borders in Persia, with trading cities for trade companies in India.
Take arabia as well

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>Bring my GF to /gsg/
>HPM is naked on his computer
>Invites her into the campaign
>Proceeds to fuck her and the shitposters go wild
>Johan joins in aswell
>Gf getting triple penetrated and impregnated by tripfags
>"That was fun anon, I love Paradox! We should totally buy Stellaris!"

WHAT DO?

>>158785454
>Norwegian Maghreb

>>158782194
The division designer and production system from HOI4

>>158785454
what ideas did the converter give you ?

>>158782080
Yeah, you can get duels anytime you're leading troops in HIP regardless of your focus. They happen a lot.