/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

Is it possible to pirate the DLC for EU4 and get it working with multiplayer with mates? I have the base game on steam.

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>20 posts early

What are the odds of Paracuck bringing back the OOB for HOI IV?
Like in a future DLC or as a feature that could be modded into it?

>inb4 OOB was sheer autism.
>inb4 kys HOI3 shill

HOI3's interface was pure cancer but at least it allowed rather immersive playthroughs with the OOB.
And yes, I've played GOI IV and already spent 150 hours on it but I'm fed up with this bloat arrow drawing simulator which allows for no immersion or even the need for a planned strategy whatsoever.

inb4 nice blog

>>160200257
if your mates have the dlc just have them host it

>>160200321
Yeah but I don't always play with my mate that has it.

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Reposting this here laddos, 1 vote for Westeros so far.

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>>160200284
>inb4

>>160200453
westeros or no balls

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>>160199634
here are my suggestions

>>160200284
>spent 150 hours on it
fuck off back to /r/paradoxplaza

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The grand GSG council decided upon Aegon's path, possibly to appease their new overlord. After all, Aegon had already named his ambitions for Westeros before the council was created. Now, what kingdom should be subdued first by the dragon?

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Alright, what the fuck?

>>160200719
>m-muh sekrit clahb!!

I want /neo-gsg/ to go

>>160200786
Stormlands. Then grant Orys the Stormlands.

>>160200917
>those flags
>They don't eveneed have anything to do with the country
Back to /A/ Weeb

>>160200786
Whichever one lets you reclaim Dragonstone

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>>160200635
>befriend dracula

>>160200980
>reddit gets butthurt
>i-it's neo-gsg
Back to r/paradoxplaza you go

>>160200453

Westeros

>>160200786

Stormking needs to get Skreked

>>160201460

This, I hate these people, they are fucking blatantly reddit users

>>160200284
>>>>r/paradoxplaza

>>160200980
>>m-muh sekrit clahb!!
stop playing shitty games or kys

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The council chose, and Aegon struck. The lords of the coast were easily subdued, and the Storm King was struck in a battle, yet he still fights. What shall we do, GSG? Attack without mercy and try to kill him so our boy Orys inherits the Stormlands, or just end the war without caring if Argilac dies?

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What flag is this?

>>160201947
communist if you check the government type (Under the country name)

>>160202097
It says republic though, and I distinctly remember the Japanese communist flag was red

In CK2 how do I get succession to be eldest son only? Two generations in and this shit is getting confusing now.

>>160201947
It's republic.

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>>160201460
>>160201579
>>160201596
>>160201665
Triggered.


Actually I go on Paradox forums apart from /gsg/ and I don't even have a reddit account.
Plebbit gave me almost the same useless reaction asking the same question there.

>>160202289
Yeah I realize that but what is the real world flag's name, where's it from?

>>160202324
>blatant reddit user
You have to go back anon

>>160202324
literally drop dead senpai

>all this reddit vs 4chin autism.


I love this place.

>>160201891
Kill Argillac so that you can trigger Ory's story-line event

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>>160202712
A bit late, fampai.

Argilac the Arrogant faced his end against the dragons, falling upon the fields which shall not be named. The Stormlands surrender upon Aegon's authority, Argilac's daughter brought to Aegon in chains. Her fate, along with the fate of the Stormlands shall be decided soon. Now, where shall the dragon strike next?

>>160202893
Iron Islands

>>160202893
Reach

>>160202893
I'd say go for The Reach, though I doubt you can wipe out the Gardeners due to CKII mechanics

>>160202893

The Reach

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The council of autists has decided to invade the reach. But another pressing matter now comes to them; Orys Baratheon, the rumoured bastard brother of Aegon the Conqueror. He was a key figure in taking the Stormlands, and now the opportunity to repay him has come. Shall we grant him the Stormlands, Argella's hand, her house sigil and words... Or shall we give the Stormlands to a native lord?

>>160203368
>he has been a leal sevrant

>>160203368
Reward him.

>>160203368
Orys is a total bro and your advisor, friend, and half-brother, there is no better lord paramount of the stormlands

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With the votes tallied, Orys is granted the Stormlands. He does not shy away from offering his unwavering support to conquering the rest of the seven kingdoms, and now the half-brothers turn their eyes to the Reachmen and their fields. Valar dohaeris.

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>>160160226
>>160160136
why do the jews have to ruin everything?

how else am i supposed to win wars against armies that are twice my size if i can't use tactics?

>>160202386
There isn't a real world counterpart I think

Read AFPG pdf to know

>>160203368

reward him

>>160203368
>>160202893
>>160201891
>>160200786
>going for Westeros, a piss poor place full of mud instead of Essos, a place that is rich, ancient and more interesting
Enjoy playing you visual novel reenactment of Aegon's conquest.

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r8 my family

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The Gardener(d)s bend in one large battle and one siege, offering surrender before they are destroyed. As reward for their humility, the family is spared and left as lords paramount. Now, where shall we strike next?

>>160204193
>Queen Paula
>Prince-Consort Ivan
Sweden please go

>>160204197

Take out the Western Lords and Cut Westeros in HALF

>>160204197
Take the Westerlands, wipe out the Lannisters and put the Reynes in charge.

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Attacking the Westerlands seemed natural, after all, the country was under a civil war at the time. But Aegon stops at Oldtown before moving his army out, wishing to hear out a request of the high septon. The High Septon offers to convert Aegon and his close family and courtiers to the faith, along with knighting them. Shall we accept, or ignore his blatherings and keep to our faith?

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>>160205061
Convert, your high valyrian-ness will still let you keep the bloodline pure anyway.

>>160205061

Why abandon your meme gods?

>>160205061
don't convert dragons are based

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>>160200635
>befriend Dracula

>>160205465
>>160205554
>>160205782

1 vote for cucking yourself

2 for staying with your meme religion

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We decide to fuck the high septon and stay as our meme religion worshipping selves. The Lannisters falter easily, most of the family burning during the siege of Casterly Rock. A worm of a man is left to handle the family holdings, while we move on. Decide our fate.

We also have the option to form the Kingsguard. Do we form it now?

>>160205061
Fuck their religion, hail old Valyria

>>160206157

Invade Dorne now, also form Kingsguard

>>160206157
Take Dorne and form the Kingsguard

>>160206157
Conquer the iron islands and then form the Kingsguard

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Dorne shall falter next. While the council shall not see the recruitment of the whole Kingsguard, they shall oversee the selection of the Lord Commander. Shall we recruit from the greatest knights, or the most powerful houses?

>>160206740

Knights fuckers, do this shit on Merit

>>160206740
A mix of both, make sure you get two or three legendary warriors, then fill the rest of the spots with knights from the great houses. Even better if they fulfill both conditions.

>>160206740
only the best

>>160206740
If you conquer dorne make sure to keep your favorite sister-waifu alive

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We have decided to recruit the commander of the Kingsguard based on merit. These three are our best candidate. Humfrey the Mummer is the best fighter of them all, while the top one is almost as skilled, along with as tall as an oak. The bottom one is the worst of the bunch. Which shall we choose to be our lord commander?

>>160207220
Humfrey the Hummer it is!

>>160207220

Humfrey

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The Mummer accepts and joins as the first knight of the Kingsguard, vowing to never sire any children and to protect the king until he can no longer fulfill his duties in life. The rest of the kingsguard shall be chosen without the council's input. Now, to Dorne!

>>160207626

Gas the Dorns, Dragon War now

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After a long and gruesome war, Dorne submits without much loss to the throne, besides some manpower. Now, we have two options. To end our conquest, or to move north, to face the Iron King.

>>160207930

Move North

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As we set to north, a miracle happens! Two twins! What shall their names be?

>>160207930
Move North

Whats the best strategy for not getting my shit kicked in as the mamluks?

>>160208484

Fag 1 and Fag 2

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Russia is the only eligible rival, but we have really good relations. What do I do?

>>160208958

YOU NEED BREATHING SPACE ANON, TOTAL WAR NOW

>>160208958
>>160208958
Take Moscow, Volgograd and St. Petersburg, obviously.

>>160208958

NOTHING WILL STOP THIS TEUTONIC ADVANCE

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r8 my fylkir8

I plan on incorporating Frisia, most of Scandinavia and the southern Baltic coast, and I already have Iceland to the north. I just don't know what to call my empire. Jorvik was alright when I was just on Great Britain, but it seems off now that the majority of my empire is on the continent.

>inb4 meme norse blob

This was my only option once Byzantium decided to actually get shit done instead of implode like it does in 99% of my games.

>>160208958
you clearly need more lebensraum

>>160209181
How in the fuck does the ai form Rome
What the shit.

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HPM+Swiss cultures minimod
Catalonia and Piedmont are my satellites. I have just won a war with france to make piedmont a satellite, next time i'm going to take as much regions as possible with the war of unification cb.

>>160209181

Honestly Hoping Rome overpowers you considering how well they have done.

>>160209570

How did you fuck up those boarders so bad?

>>160208958
Release Scotland and make it a super march, building forts in every single province.

>>160209570
>as much regions as
fuck, as many regions as*

>>160209695
I will fix the borders with france in the next war, and i will annex algeria when i have a lower infamy

>>160209021
>>160209085
>>160209378
>>160209170
Done. A few things must be done before total war with the slavs.
1. I must ensure that France will not try anything while I am at war with Russia
2. I must conquer the rest of Poland before Russia does
3. I must secure an alliance with the Draculs of Wallachia
4. Before allying myself with Wallachia, I must diplo annex what's left of Denmark (they are my vassal)
5. Try to get Sweden on my side

>>160209979

k

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>>160209545
As far as I can tell, the Abbasids began falling apart after a million revolts while the Byzantines got super lucky in inheritance and holy wars. The Emperor mended the schism and formed the RE, but later died along with most of his immediate family in a plague, leaving only his daughter alive to inherit, who was betrothed to a Karling in a regular marriage. So now the Karlings are in control and the empire is catholic.

Things are a little crazy desu senpai.

>reich
>conquered entire europe
>fighting war with USSR
>got up to the urals
>captured moscow, stalingrad, leningrad, sevastopol and whatever the hell is considered important
>they still won't capitulate over some shitty desert
seriously? is the USSR unbeatable?

>>160209979
>Try to get Sweden on my side
For what purpose? You already have your own Space Marines

>>160200104
white

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>tfw the MEIOU & Taxes team is no longer worthy of respect

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>>160210378
>a full catholic Roman Empire with close to 117 borders
Get on your fucking knees, barbarian

>>160210378

Dude, you're fucked.

Time to Embrace Roman Superiority.

>>160210685

Fuck why bother with these Autism Simulators if you want to be politically correct???

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>>160210469
Try fighting through Sibera and that desert only to reach the industrialized USSR. It takes a lot longer.

> tfw Germany finally mobilized their division and got them into the fight
> stopped the allied advance East
> retook the West and put their forces in a pincer
> Allies months away from losing Africa completely

It's all aces for the glorious Turan Empire

>>160210378
I think this is immensely interesting, western civilization actually doesn't exist here as we know it. Like egypt, the levant, north africa, those places are in the same cultural sphere with italy, spain, south france, greece. But then you have your own major civilization which today we would call western but not exactly.

>>160210746
>>160210909

Naw, they are keeping themselves occupied with their constant civil wars. I also have similar manpower. Its a stalemate until the inevitable mega crusade, which is why I need to expand to try to get the upper hand.

>>160200104
based

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>>160211143
>Try fighting through Sibera and that desert only to reach the industrialized USSR. It takes a lot longer.
>tfw fighting the USSR as Japan while the Germans sit on their hands

>>160211340
I did a campaign with my friend where he went modded China and I went Japan, still took us years to reach Leningrad and finally end the war.

German AI needs to be boosted to be made more aggressive imo.

>>160210685
Just turn it on, then.

M&T team is actually endorsing racemixing as your colonists will be forced to mix with the local population, lmao.

>>160211537
When I reached Moscow the Soviets were past 15 million casualties and I was way past 5 million and a boatload of dead chinks. Shit was brutal. Luckily, the eternal Anglo didn't manage to get past my satellite China

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My armies are now positioned along the Prussian-Russian border. I now ask you, /gsg/, to name this operation which will certainly go down in history as the beginning of either the end of Prussia or the end of Russia.

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>>160208958
it really doesn't

you should go up to estonia of you want to balance yourself out

also take that little dingus from poland so your shit looks less retarded

your border with france is trash

you should annex austria

you should get out of scotland

you should take copenhagen, iceland, and greenland

you should take lower sweden and gotland

and fucking become germany when you can

in real life there is 0 chance that the prussians don't take control of the baltic by taking copenhagen and lower sweden, they would gain the ability to starve russia of trade if a war ever broke out as they do not have crimea.

>>160212638
>plays Germaniums
>invades Russia
Come on, anon, you know the name already

>>160212638
Russiya

>>160212638
operation Judentöter

Are there any Byzantine flag mods for EU4 or V2 using the Chi-Rho? Not a big fan of the tetragrammic cross tbqh

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I built hospitals in all of my provinces in preparation for this day.

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>>160213106
It's reached Europe now... very soon it will reach my realm. RIP

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Alright guys, I guess I'll try to start as Ottoman for the third time. I finally learned how to pass reforms (oh, it was so much easier with europeans). So, this time I'll finally get myself Ottomanism. What are some good ways to quickly piss off the population? Apart from switching to unpopular parties every year or so?
This is what I got so far; I'm a coward, so not much conquered - the biggest war was agains Britain when I decided to take over Persia in her sphere. And agains Russia for Montenegro, but there I had Prussia as ally, not Italy. Not depicted: colony in Tanganyika.

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Denmark has fallen to the Plague. The rest of the Empire will soon go.

>>160214461
Take your shekels and move to switzerland

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SLAVS BTFO!

How do you win the second ACW as the CSA in Kaiserreich?
I'm getting my fucking ass beat despite 400hrs in DH. What am I doing wrong?

>>160214461
>975
Believable Worlds™

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>>160214673
A certain someone got that far 75 years ago. Now do better

>>160202386
>but what is the real world flag's name
"OC donut steel" would be the name.

>>160214673
What the fuck are you doing with your merchants you dumb fuck

>>160204116
lived here all my life desu

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>>160214525
It's too late. I survived the plague, at the cost of my beauty.

I fear for my son, though.

>>160214815
It's much worse than you know.

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After an extremely bloody war, the Russians had no choice but to surrender many of their western provinces to the Kingdom of Prussia.

>>160201947

The mon is the government seal of Japan, the Paulownia Flower Seals (kiri- or tōkamon). So as a republic, replacing the emperor's chrysanthemum with the state's paulownia makes sense.

As for the three golden platycodons (kikyo), I have no idea what that means and I suspect it's madeup bullshit.

>>160215307
Please use a trip so I can filter you

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>>160215307
>he takes crimean provinces rather than making the north even

is he trying to make is blob look shitty on purpose?

>>160215761
> filtering people

Oh the joys of being a neckbeard elitist

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>>160215307
>didn't even go to the urals
It's shit

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Wow... So this... is the power... of MEIOU & Taxes...

>>160213643
Get ready to get your arab accepted cultures memed away.

>>160216684
What?

>>160216950
I don't know how it happens but sometimes I have a save game and I tag to haiti and just observe what happens, and one time I was playing ottos and got the reforms passed and reformed the empire, got the arab accepted cultures etc, then tagged to haiti. And then pretty late game I noticed the arab accepted cultures were gone. They still had albanian and bosniak, but no misri or mashriqi. No idea what caused it. I didn't actually legitimately play through that save far enough to see how it happened.

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So, /gsg/, was he, dare I say it, our guy?

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>>160218004
No, this guy was.

>Autistic
>Prussia-boo
>Played war games instead of fucking his wife.

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Doing a comfy France game.
In vic2, every time militancy was high, I passed reforms as quickly as possible to lower it. What's the fun in that? A real government wouldn't do that. This time I'm actually trying to play as a conservative and I will kill the swarms of traitors as much as I can.
I have already taken Newfoundland from the UK and I will take Quebec soon. Feels good wrecking the british navy.

How do I into natural borders? I picked the left bank decision, declared war and pulled a reverse Franco-Prussian war on them, took Rheinland and I was expecting some sort of event giving me the rest of the claimed area under Germany. Do I actually have to conquer region by region separately or did something go wrong?

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>>160217178
>>160216950

There is an event, any major or secondary power besides the tag with the #1 rank and has revolution and counterrevolution researched can take the "encourage Arab nationalism" decision when at war with Ottomans that removes Arab cultures as accepted and gives nationalist agitation on all Arab cores.

There is no way to get those accepted cultures back and the only way to avoid losing them is to sit out great and world wars or pretty much to avoid wars against GPs and SP altogether.

A SP Russia was able to take the decision against me when I had a standing army of 1000 brigades which larger than Britain mobilized and also when I had passed a ton of reforms. Did not make sense at all.

I keep trying to start as the tectonic order in eu4 whats a good strategy on how not to be BTFO by Poland and become grob

>>160219195
Rush earthquake ideas

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>>160219195
>tectonic order
>grob

>>160219334
Got it ill shake Europe to death

>>160218806
Well, fuck that faggot Lawrence.

>>160218806
Or to only war the greatest GP.
Hm.
Hmm.

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crisis
>your puppets cant join

is stellaris good yet? or is it still boring as fuck past the earlygame?

>>160220151
qwertyi :)

>>160220151
It's pretty shit.
and not gsg

>>160216240
>actually playing province hell meme mod
not sure what you expected mate

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>>160220043
fuck this shit, france added an objective and nobody joined my side, not even with offers
me (occitania) and egypt vs france, uk and russia

>>160220402

still? wow

and stellaris isnt gsg? what is it 4x? thx tho broccoli

>>160218806
What are the requirements?

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>>160220413
Who the fuck thinks this a good idea anyway?

>>160220648
Yeah 4X.

>>160220709
is there even any way to interact with them if it's all wasteland around it?

>no more easy to access archive

REEEEEEEE

why do people have to fuck shit up for everyone

fucking roodypoos

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Look at this shit. This L shaped province looks like a turd. There's micro wastelands inside the provinces.


>>160220861
There's links connecting the normal provinces to this shit provinces, like straits.

>page 10

>page 2

>page 5

>page 1

any tips for playing as an HRE OPM? it's been a while since I've played and it seems like expansion is brutal slow. I forgot how hard you get nailed for vassal size in relation to liege and it seems like if you dare take more than 1 vassal at a time for the first 50 years you'll end up permanently in the deep red of liberty desire. is it all just working as intended and I need to go slow as fuck for the first 50 years?

>>160224567
better relations over time/improve relations advisor

>page 6

We need to attract the redditors and SJW or this general will end

>>160225558
Okay, BIG_BENIS_IN_MY_ANUS.

>page 3

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are u fucking kidding me paradox interactive

its god damn 1196 anno domini and ur pulling this shit

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I fixed europe

;D

I miss Reed, how do you think his high school is going?

>>160226214
he does his homework
t. reedgruppe spy

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>>160226183
Why is this allowed?

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>>160223836
>>160224035
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>>160223836
>>160224035
>>160224329
>>160224358
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>>160225750

we /eagg/ now

>>160215307
>achievements button grayed out
:)

Are there any events for A-H to annex their historical borders in the balkans? (Bosnia, etc.) or do I have to take the infamy hits?

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beginning to colonize. gonna be a long while before I can get to the Azores. Have to recover manpower for another 10 years before taking Ceuta from Morocco first.

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Are there any uninstall map mods updated for the 1.19 beta?

I really want to tag over to Moroccan Brazil eventually but I hate the vanilla map too much to keep playing. It's so horrible.

How do I do anything as Perm in EU4?

Both Novgorod and Kazan are always hostile so they refuse to help me, Lithuania always falls under Poland so they can't help me. The only time Lithuania was not PU'd, they set Austria/Ottomans/Teutonic as rivals, not Muscovy, and thus had the -1000 modifier for Neutral towards Muscovy.

You can't ask to be a march because you're next to colonizable provinces, and you eventually get annexed, which I didn't think was possible as a human player.

What gives?

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Teutons getting btfo

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The fucking Karlings died out and apparently my dynasty was a not-so-distant cadet branch. My heir became the king of France and fucking everything else, married some worthless wench, and then someone fucking assassinated me. Now my entire dynasty is this teenager and his three kids trying to somehow rule this fucked gavelkind would-be empire. Those "siblings" are all half siblings on my whore mother's side.

I was playing dukes of holland, so of course when my last duke died I inherited everything as king, and now I'm over demesne limit and vassal limit with no one I can trust. This is my first serious game of ckII with all the DLCs (except that fucking aztec shit) and I never asked for this! I just wanted to play some comfy superdukes inside a nice kingdom or empire, maybe spread my dynasty around a bit.

What the fuck do I do? Should I try to form the empire of Francia? Change the succession law? I'm probably going to get murdered into extinction at this rate.

My personal counties situation is all fucked too. Maybe I should form the kingdom of Frisia and make that my main title, and then hold the duchies of Holland and Brabant with their counties personally. When I inherited this character he was just holding Paris and a bunch of random useless counties all over the place.

>>160231342
>make contact with Incans
>they have cavalry and artillery
OKAY Paradox, what's the explanation for this?

Seriously tech is so fucked in this game.

Why the fuck do natives get access to cannon or cavalry?

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damn I don't have the manpower for this nonsense. Morocco is growing stronger, I need to save up for that. England is busy in the Baltic but maybe Aragon will help

>>160231928
yep, AI monarchs have no idea on how to consolidate power or manage vassal titles

Flanders is one of the best duchies in the game, so make it your personal demense. If you're willing to gamble I'd say - haha, wait no, all your stats suck.
I was going to recommend killing your useless siblings, propping up loyal courtiers as vassals, then breeding a bucket of children for dynastic insurance.
As that might not be entirely feasible, I would say to make sure you are the tutor of your two half-brothers. Helps prevent backstabbing if you raise them to like you.

>>160231928
Split your demesne between you and your heir. Change the succession laws to prevent your lands from being split up. Form Francia and purge Iberia, and then go for Lombardy.

You didn't choose to wear the crown, anon. God did.

>>160215307
What's up with that Grosswallachia?

>>160232603
But if I give my (infant) heir a title, he gets his own court and I basically lose control of him. That's how my current character ended up with these stupid stats and this stupid wife. It would be nice if I could get into elective monarchy or seniority or something, but I worry that I'll die before I can get to that. The situation is pretty unstable and even if I can rule for ten years, I will probably still have vassals who hate me or who hate each other enough to fight (both of which prevent changing the succession law).

But, if I form Francia, does that mean my primary heir keeps the Empire title even if pretenders get some of the Kingdoms? Would I just have vassal king brothers, in that case? Seems like it would be easier to fight their titles back if they were stuck inside my realm rather than independent.

>>160232597
The Karling kings held Flanders personally when the primary title was still Germany, but then my current character stupidly gave the duchy away and changed the primary title to France before I got control of him.

It seems like everyone around me is devious and wants to kill me. It would sure be nice to have some dynastic cousins or something to hand titles out to. As it is I'm afraid to have too many children because of fucking gavelkind, although if I already have three at 19 there are probably going to be more. Maybe I can matrilineally marry off a bunch of daughters and send all my extra sons to a monastery or something so that in another generation my ruler will have some non-threatening but trustworthy cousins. I guess I will try to make those half-brothers like me even though they aren't of my dynasty, since they are both landed after all.

I still need to get under the vassal limit somehow though. That is going to mean handing out new duchies to contain some of the counts, which is going to make more powerful vassals that I'd care not to deal with right now. I guess I can just look for unlanded characters who like me.

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>>160231342
Name my Moroccan Brazil?

How does one say "New Tangier" in Moroccan?

>>160233510
First, consolidate your demense as best you can. Reduce it to within two duchies.
Do this partly by landing loyal courtiers with titles in unformed duchies or duchies you hold the title to, then giving them that duchy and all of its vassals.
Next step, identify vassal counts who hate you, and transfer them to dukes that hate you less.

Now, during conventional gavelkind, yes, the brothers would remain vassals if the primary heir was an empire tier character.

>>160233572
>How does one say "New Tangier" in Moroccan?
Surely you mean Arabic?

No idea what the arabic placename word for "new" is though. See if you can find a transliterated rendering of the Arabic for "New York" or something and base it on that.

>>160233874
>identify vassal counts who hate you, and transfer them to dukes that hate you less.
Oh, duh, I can put counties under duchies that they aren't de jure a part of. Thanks for reminding me. Should've been obvious because the former Karling kings kept sticking me with rowdy counts from all over the realm for apparently no good reason, but I'm an idiot.

>Now, during conventional gavelkind, yes, the brothers would remain vassals if the primary heir was an empire tier character.
Well then that may be worth a try. I hope it doesn't come to that because I think it would be chaotic, but if it does, I assume I'd still get a claim on my brothers' KIngdoms that I could press to get all the titles back in my personal control.

what happened to the DLC downloads for CK2 and everything in the OP? Was this the work of hiroshimoot?

>>160234691
The OP contains a link to a textfile that has links to another page that has all the DLCs. I just used it like two days ago.

>>160234831
is it that .ru site?

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>>160232358
was able to take Andalucia but now my manpower is shot. Morocco will have to wait, 10 year maybe. Castille is tough on lucky nations + hard

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>>160235576
damn Morocco ate Algiers. Might be even longer now.

Hungary looking good btw

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Poland agreed to support my independence. The Golden Horde was very close to do so too, but then got into a war with Kazan.

Denmark had JUST conquered that much of Novgorod, they rivaled Muscovy too, but the relations needed for them to support me were too much.

I put my fate in the hands of the Polish and their minions, and most importantly, in the hands of God.

>>160235194
Yes but it's legit

out of the 3 in the pastebin, which eu4 mod is best?

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aahh damn. I should be safe though

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>>160236710
Oops, wrong pic.

This is the right one.

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>>160236823
NEVER MIND

Losing all hope. They got into a war with half the world, and already pulled their troops out of Muscovy. It was so close.

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no mercy for the turks

w&b

>>160237326
thanks for the (you)
t. irelad

>>160235980
What the hell is waccaehia?

>>160237415
thanks for the (you)
t. me t. you

>>160237326
>>160237415
>>160237496
>>160237704
>>160210670
>>160211259

Literally and unironically all me. Literally.

this general is dead

>>160237809
yeah cant even get an answer to a simple question
>>160236785

fucking sperglords

The second coming of grandi draws near, the savior of /gsg/, he will come again to judge the living and the dead, and his thread shall have no end.

All honor and glory is yours almighty grandi, forever and eeverrrrr

Alex has died
Alex is risen
Alex shall come agaiinnnn

Our grandi, who art in brazil, hallowed be thy trip. Thy thread come, thy mod be updated, on /gsg/ as it is in brazil. Give us this day, our daily posts, and forgive us our shitposts, as we forgive those who shitpost against us. And lead us not into robmod, but deliver us from steamcord. For thine is the thread, the r&i, and the bump limit, for ever and ever. Amen.

>>160226462
It's A E S T H E T I C

Hail r&i, full of grace, the grandi is with thee; blessed art though amongst goodposters, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, alex. Holy r&i, mother of grandi, pray for us shitposters, now and at the hour of our ban. Amen.

>>160200104
W&B

Does HPM already include the alternative flags? How do I get the square flags to work with HPM?

Wondering if anyone has a link to President Infinity or any games by 270soft. Political Simulation games. Thanks.

>>160236773
alright thanks senpai

>>160238870
Those aren't /gsg/, you most likely wont have very much luck here.

anno domini nostri alexius grandios MMXVI

We believe in one modder, the grandi, the almighty, maker of /gsg/ and HPM, of all that is, deleted or undeleted.
We believe in one lord, alex christ, the only son of grandi, eternally begotten of the father, grandi from grandi, thread from thread, true mod from true mod, modded not programmed, of one being with the father. Through him all things were made.
For /gsg/ and its salvation he came down from brazil, by the power of the liquoria 2 he became incarnate from the virgin r&i, and was made poster.
For our sake he was crucified under cobrah, he suffered annoyance and left. On the third thread he rose again, in fulfillment of the changelog. He ascended into the archives, and is seated at the right hand of the grandi.

>>160238848
copy files into appropriate folder

>>160238963
What order of install? HPM > alternative flags > square flag?

>>160239018
they shouldn't conflict with one another so it doesn't matter

wow I just converted

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>>160239018
>install? HPM

>>160239316
>posting the reddit frog

You have to go back.

I say we build a basilica over aarnon's tomb

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>>160239395

>>160239423
Oh the irony.

>>160239423
>le /pol/ man of argument

It's really amazing how the frogposters are always dumb smelly /pol/acks.

You have to go back.

>>160239508
who has to go back?

Why does Italy in Vicky 2 have Military Industrial Complex as tech school even after you unify? Wouldn't it make more sense for it to have Sea power & The Merchant Marine?

>>160239540
change to it yourself

>>160239508
Let's put it this way, the /pol/acks that come here are as bad as this place, we don't send our best and brightest.

does anyone else want to convert to grandism

>>160239587
Yeah but having 10 years of wasted tech points sucks.

>>160239610
The /pol/acks of today are not the same persons that were the /pol/acks of yesterday.

I'm sorry, but he HAS to go back.

>>160239697
Not a 1% penalty for 10 years! The commerce and naval tech bonuses will never make up for it! Horror!

>>160239780
He should just fuck, we don't want that kind of shitposter either. Not like we can do anything about it anyway, thanks CNN.

>>160239886
Thinking about it isn't the penalty for 20 years? 10 years for restoring the academia and 10 years for selecting a new one? And thinking of it wouldn't Business Schools & Tycoon Capitalism fit Italy better given the fucking awful literacy?

>>160239780
it's not like it makes any difference if he stays, I frequent both /pol/ and /tv/ and honestly this board is worse than /pol/ and has even lower quality shitposts and posts in general.

>ctrl+f liquor
>only 1 result

what the fuck has this thread come to

>>160240160
>>160239780
Oh wait, I thought this was /tv/.

Honestly, I couldn't even tell the difference. That's how bad this thread is.

>>160240160
Yeah, but we're ironic:^)

You have to go back

>>160240237
you're gonna have to build a wall first :^)

Can England join the HRE without becoming the emperor first?

If a leg goes lame, it must be removed. If a kidney fails, it must be cut out. The body does not live for the individual organs. Sometimes, for the body to survive, parts of it must be lost. A good surgeon knows this. And I assure you, my people, through your sacrifices, /gsg/ will prevail!

>>160239508
That's President /pol/ack to you, cuck.

Are there any mods that make EU4 actually good?

>>160240517
>haha le cuck

You have to go back.

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Been playing nations like the Byzantines and I kinda wanna do something fresh.

What Pagan countries should I play? Or non-pagan. I'unno.

>>160240160
>this board...
/vg/ has literally no board culture. /vg/ is a container for dozens of single-thread mini-boards, each with their separate memes and cultures.
/pol/tards were actually less insufferable in say 2015 than right now, because right now a good 70% of them it seems are fresh from /r/thedonald, /r/politics, or facebook / twitter / tumblr who found it EPIK that the HACKER called 4CHAN affected the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and elected a BIGOT to the office of PRESIDENT.

>>160240668
WHY the FUCK do you TYPE like THIS it makes ME so ANGRY

>>160240618
MEIOU is okay if bloated to hell and back
Extended Timeline is cool, it doesn't really fix the problems but it's plenty of fun for a couple of runs.

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Milan and Tunis are mine. Next on my dinnerplate is Venice, backstabbing motherfuckers helped Genoa and then bum rushed my ass repeatedly with 30k stacks and retreated to Venezia each time after.

My goal for this run is to restore Rome and if possible WC. I've already restored Rome numerous times but never got the achievement because it was on old patches, how plausible is a world conquest in my scenario?

>>160240668
/pol/ is literally the fastest board right, even has more traffic than /b/.

Really makes you think.

>>160240618
EVE is pretty nice, it's not a major overhaul just some tweaks here and there. It's the only one that seems to understand the limitations of EU4 modding and the historical era. VeF is no good to me because the only start date is 1309, which is a good half century before the absolute earliest EU4 would make sense. It also runs most of its new mechanics through decision chains. MEIOU (a.k.a. province hell) is a mess due to the immense amount of provinces and nations added, as well as generally trying to make the game do things it wasn't designed for and therefore models poorly.

>>160240746
How is it bloated in your opinion? While playing M&T I feel like I'm actually playing a grandstrat as opposed of a fancy MS paint.

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>>160240980
>he plays the province hell meme mod

>>160240668
Newsflash, CTR shill. /pol/ is 4chan now.

>>160240668
It's like chanology all over again, only ten times worse, and posts like these >>160241072 aren't even ironic on /pol/.

>>160240931
If he's talking about making EU4 "actually good", chances are his problem isn't the little bits of balance or whatnot but core design issues (or is just tired of the time period).

>>160240980
It chugs on an i7 6770k running at 5.0 GHz and doesn't do well on a Xeon running 4.7 (which is what my sister uses) either, so I don't know what the fuck it's doing in the back but it isn't working.
I'm not talking about feature bloat, although I do wish it got rid of the weird 10% pops converted thing because I keep converting provinces then finding out they're not actually converted at all.

>>160241042
t. literally the only guy who calls it a 'province hell meme mod' its other faults aside, and posted his hexagon province proposal to the disgust of the entire thread a couple days ago

>>160241072
Newsflash, newfag - /pol/ is moderate as fuck right now compared to what it used to be.

>>160240513
Thanks, Stahl.

>>160241172
>posted his hexagon province proposal
that wasn't me but i'm curious to see it, that sounds like civ v levels of retardation

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All that beautiful vanilla cream filling up Persia~

>>160241172
The thing is that you really can't change the core design with the level of modding Paradox has allowed, you can augment it quite a bit but the base of the game is what it is. If you don't like it try EU3 or maybe another franchise entirely.

>>160240746
For some reason M&T won't load for me. It freezes on "loading flags" and just stays there forever. I've tried deleting flag caches and updating and etc, and I own the game, so it's not a pirated copy issue.

>>160241172
>It chugs on an i7 6770k running at 5.0 GHz and doesn't do well on a Xeon running 4.7
Are you by chance using a shit cooler or shitty run or both? It runs fine on my 2500k @4.6. It could run even faster if fucking Paracucks learned how to multicore.

>I do wish it got rid of the weird 10% pops converted thing because I keep converting provinces then finding out they're not actually converted at all.
I'm pretty sure it's like that by design.

>>160241246
Something about making the provinces have a less convoluted shape while maintaining roughly the same area. All in all it was kind of disgusting.

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>>160241281
>tfw you love the look of SWMH but the province count triggers your shitty computer

>>160241246
It's >>160009948, 160010127, 160010230. While getting rid of the squiggly borders that he termed 'messy', he basically turned the entire place into a grid of montanas and Civ V hexagons.

>>160241315
Can you open the error and setup logs and tell me what it says at the last few lines? I feel like I've had that problem before.

>>160241328
>shitty cooler
No, my CPU rarely even hits 45-50 (Celsius).

>by design
Yeah but I wish it would update faster so it doesn't display Confucian for half a year before jumping back to Buddhist when I'm no longer checking it.

>>160241464
>forgetting the arrowmemes
Oh fug :DDDD
>>160009948, >>160010127, >>160010230

>>160241312
MEIOU comes pretty close from removing mana from the equation if only they also added the stability mechanic from VeF.

>>160241464
>No, my CPU rarely even hits 45-50 (Celsius).
Okay, but what about the RAM? You can have the best CPU ever but you won't get far if your RAM is shit, check the clock level and the cycles. Chances are your BIOS is memeing you, I know it as the same happened to me.

>>160241554
more likely the chances are MEIOU is SHIT

>>160241549
I don't know how that mod works but I'm pretty sure they're removing the "increase stability with mana" aspect in 2.0. No, if only they weren't a bunch of bleeding heart brainwashed cunts.

>>160241464
>>160241496
holy shit that is the truest autism
and also a fuckton of provinces to start with, how the hell is that balanced

>>160241554
>what about the RAM
It's 32 GB of DDR4 3333 at safe temperatures and not being throttled by firmware memes.
Maybe it's the difference in what we call 'chug', I'm just accustomed to it actually running very quickly at speed 5 instead of starting to get slower by 1550.

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Is this accurate?

>tfw playing as a buddhist in HIP without rajas of india
who here /devilish/

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>>160241401
I have a pretty good rig but even then it starts to slow around ~1250 when the character counts get super high.

>>160241628
Well Sun Wu is actually supposed to be a girl right? And that post was over a year ago and you can slaughter pops (10k each) by looting and stuff in 2.0
And let's be honest it's literally impossible for you to survive on Paradox forums these days unless you're at least somewhat left-leaning.

I found EU4 broken at launch, and pretty fun around late 2014/early 2015, I played a few hundred hours and enjoyed it. Went back recently and it just seems... not fun somehow? I can't place exactly what it is, but I feel like I'm hitting a brick wall a few decades into every playthrough. I'm not sure if it's mechanics or balance changes or what.

Does anyone else feel like this? Or have any idea what would fix it? I want to have Renaissance funtimes :(

we need to rid /gsg/ of reddit mods. only mods made by /gsg/ users are allowed

>>160241668
While Italy is harder than G*rmany I wouldn't call it "medium". It's not THAT hard if you start as Sardinia-Piedmont.

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>>160241668
You forgot about this one.

>>160241769
keep in mind pdx forums don't let you say "kebab" anymore
>>160241781
/gsg/ doesn't create, we only consume. same goes for reddit for the most part, the mod makers are beyond us all.

>>160241464
From the error log:
[id.cpp:78]: Failed to create id 3500073 53. Already exists in game.
[gfx_texture_loader.cpp:386]: Failed to load image 'gfx/flags/HUN.tga': Color Maps are not currently supported in TGA images.
[gfx_texture_loader.cpp:386]: Failed to load image 'gfx/flags/TUS.tga': Color Maps are not currently supported in TGA images.

From the setup log:
[disaster.cpp:272]: Disasters loaded common/disasters/succession_crisis.txt' #1
[disaster.cpp:272]: Disasters loaded common/disasters/the_dacke_feud.txt' #1
[disaster.cpp:272]: Disasters loaded common/disasters/time_of_troubles.txt' #0
[disaster.cpp:272]: Disasters loaded common/disasters/war_of_the_roses.txt' #1
[disaster.cpp:272]: Disasters loaded common/disasters/wars_of_religion.txt' #1

>>160241668
It probably depends on who you start as

>>160241828
China isn't THAT hard depending on how lucky you get with industrialization.

>>160241849
Huh, that's weird. Try changing the name of the gfx/flags folder to gfx/flags-bck in your game directory to see if the game will load with black flags instead.

>>160241769
>Well Sun Wu is actually supposed to be a girl right?

Disgusting.

>>160241650
>It's 32 GB of DDR4 3333 at safe temperatures and not being throttled by firmware memes.
Wll thanks for making me feel like shit I guess. Make sure that it's actually running at that clock rate anyway.

As someone who's never touched the game, should I play Victoria 2 with or without HPM?

>>160241849
try replacing the two flag files with vanilla ones

>>160241982
Play vanilla first just to get a feel for the game.

>>160241982
There really isn't a reason to play without it.

>>160241946
>chart lists unifications from easy to hard
>"china doesn't count because it isn't very hard"
...

>>160241982
HoD is fine and I guess probably worth playing once or twice to see what it's like, but HPM is pretty much just better.

>>160242106
I thought you meant that it was really hard or something

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>>160241704
Pretty sneaky anon

Finland or Iceland for a 769 CK2 start?

>>160241776
Pls

>>160242230
Iceland is pretty slow, but you should make them a republic and make mad shekels off of the other vikings.

>>160242265
it's a shit game, play EU3 instead

>>160241946
crashed.

>>160242014
the weird thing is the flag files exist. Should I replace the mod's flags for those two (that exist) with the vanilla ones?

>>160242427
yes. they may have been saved improperly hence the colormap issue. without looking at it I can't say so just test it with the two vanilla flag files

>>160242265
>anyone else feel like this
EU4 has a LOT of 'no fun allowed' measures in it.
Try getting EVE, MEIOU, or ET and seeing if they help. If not you're going to have to go with EU3:DW and the mods for it.

>>160242427
>crashed
Kek as expected

>should I replace
Yes, he's questioning if the flag files from MEIOU have some sort of problem, e,g, the colormaps.
Did you get the latest version from the forums? Maybe it was a short-lived bug.

>>160242387
If someone could make a legitimate argument for this I'd try it out. The consensus seems to be that EU4 is imperfect but superior to its predecessors, no?

>>160200719
>>160201460
dumb nigger write >>>/r/paradoxplaza it looks better and has more impact on reditfags

>>160242532
>Try getting EVE, MEIOU, or ET and seeing if they help
ET doesn't seem to change those mechanics much, and MEIOU is just too much of a change imo, not to mention the province count people have been going on about. Does EVE actually balance any of those mechanics? I think as you said, "no fun allowed" feels like an apt description, every time I expand the slightest bit it's like I'm hitting this brick wall. It's easier to expand in Vicky desu.

>>160242536
the argument is mana and shitty dlc

>>160242624
"Mana" isn't an argument.
You have to prove that not having mana makes a better game than having mana if you want to say that it's a bad quality and makes it a worse game than its predecessor.

DLCs can be pirated

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wew bohemia

>>160242361
Republics are kinda eh though.

>>160242681
play it if you want to find out

>>160242681
i swear to god the only reason i haven't dropped eu4 is because i can buy the base game and still play multiplayer with all the DLC you just need the host to have them, then I just play a pirated copy when I want to play SP. literally the only way to play unless you like giving faggot swedes hundreds of dollars for subpar expansions

>>160242815
You are making the claim that EU4 is inferior to EU3 because "it has mana".
So what is it about having mana that makes it worse?

>>160242536
>but superior
That's the big issue.
There are three things that EU4 does very, VERY poorly, which can be dealbreakers for some.
The first is Mana.
The second is Trade.
The third is 'no fun allowed' and artificial caps like the diplo and general caps.

>>160242681
It is an argument, it's one of the biggest flaws of the game and one that /gsg/ has pointed at since the game came out. It's a meme, but it is a meme that is grounded in reality, similar to the /civ4xg/ meme of "it isn't production it's fucking garbage" for Civ VI or the /mbg/ meme of 'all sharpshooters'.
"Mana" refers not to the point system itself but the arbitrary, artificial, and all-pervading nature of those points which result in illogical choices and incomprehensible event choices, as well as encouraging the spread of 'click-and-obtain-bonus' features such as Boost Stability, Lower War Exhaustion, Lower Inflation, Harsh Treatment, and Encourage Mercantilism, as opposed to more strategic 'invest long-term for bonuses' that EU3 and previous iterations had, which also made it impossible to suddenly divert your plan from 'get new guns' to 'suppress rebels across the nation' or 'boost our national stability' to 'cut back on inflation'.
All in all it also makes the game itself feel more gamey (which is uniquely bad for Grand Strategy and Roleplaying games, both of which depend heavily on feeling 'real') and makes it more difficult to 'tell stories' - what the actual fuck does it mean to spend 700 adm points on something? What does it mean to 'save up' mana points? Are we having our bureaucrats write up blank cheques that we can then use to accomplish any administrative matter years down the line?

>>160242906
Mana is a core design choice like 1UPT. If you don't like it it's a huge blow to the entire game no matter how much it's spruced up otherwise, it's the reason why there's still an active modding scene for Civ IV and IV is still actively recommended by 4xg to newbies seeking 'another experience' besides V or VI, because it differs on a fundamental level.

>>160242604
ET doesn't really change the mechanics much but it's a breath of fresh air
I don't play EVE.
MEIOU is what I think EU4 should've been or the closest approximation we currently have, so I can't help you there.
tfw merging MEIOU and ET is not as easy as it appeared

Does CK2 have mana?

>>160243346
yeah, coin mana, crown mana, and cross mana

>>160243346
My dick has mana

>>160243346
Prestige kind of
Why the fuck do you lose 800 prestige for creating a Kingdom?

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>when ova 1 mirrion liberals revoltu in your countryu

>>160243504
because you are cucking the pope

>>160243595
What if you're a Viking King who just looted Rome?

How the fuck do you people play Vic2
The font literally kills my eyes.

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>>160243561

greatu purgu of liberal tokyo

>>160243753
>>160243561

>tfw you slaughter nearly a million of your own pops and have to recruit the farmers to take part in killing off liberals that threaten the grorious empire of nippon

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I'm loving this import-based economy.