/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

>>163387190
You really are autistic, aren't you? 11 seconds after the thread was made.

>>163387190
BASED

>>163387190
kys

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Fucking Castile colonizing islands on my turf, but they're allied with the Ottoman Empire and France so I can't bully them away from them.
You'd think it'd be easier to take isolated islands in a war versus taking provinces located in a nation's heartland.

>>163387530
I'm sure you can take it. But can you hold it?

>>163387530
>malayan malaya

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Castles or cities in a large realm? adopted Feudal, reformed pagan here asking

Is it better to hold lots of counties or focus on holding the capital castles(baronies) personally to increase levy size?

I'm at a point where I wanna focus on making holdings, just not sure what to make and whether to hold them personally, but then I'll be missing out on the baron level vassals. But then there's the vassal limit that you gotta worry about...

I'm gonna play Kaiserreich for HOI4,wish me luck.

>>163387729
I wish you a slow and painful death.

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>>163387530
>Malayan Malaya

>>163387701
I started as Sulu and initially just held the Philippines, maybe that's why.

>>163387709
Lots of cities on the coast, elsewhere balanced

>>163387793
Edgy

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>>163387530
Ottomans have 0 ways to reach you and would be almost irrelevant in that war.
France might be able but czech their transports. if they have less than 40 they are also a non factor.

Waiting out for ticking warscore and beating a few stacks as they come is easy.

Is Random New World worth turning on or nah?

>>163388197
90% of the time it's shit

>>163387530
>>163388058
Any tips and tricks on playing an Indonesian nation? Was looking at Ternate in particular, they seem to have a good starting point and good ruler.

>>163388197
No, they're all retarded. The fantasy nations are a cool idea, but the random world tiles are all shitty as fuck.

>>163388239
Yeah I saw all these cool screenshots online, but in my own game I was immediately just alt-f4.

There's a workshop mod that changes the whole world to be like that, though, and it might be neat.

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>>163387709
More castles at your capital if you own 5 castles 1 church and 1 city in your capitral you will get around 3-4 k troops just from your capital. Also use a province that on the silk road to make capital dosh. Pic related.

>>163388395
Rush yourself a colonist. 95% of territory in that region is uncolonized, so if you're a one-province shitter you need to expand the slow way at first. Ally the biggest, friendliest neighbor.
As Sulu, I was allied with Brunei for ~200 years before stabbing them in the back for Borneo/Kalimantan. Now they're my vassal, colonizing eastern Australia for me.

Also, Ternate? Annex Tidore ASAP for that sweet Spice Islands income.

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The Russian MG position makes running down the road to get into position a rather risky thing to do as the Germans. Instead they decide to head north behind the cover of some woods and buildings to cover the exit from there while slowing inching eastward to make sure the Russians can not sneak to the exit behind cover.

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Are these good borders for a German Pacific? Pretty much exactly OTL.

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>>163387709
>>163388639
Actually pic more related. As you can see every castle on your capital gets the capital country bonus.

>>163388639
thats cool, but then all of my demesne limit will be going towards those baronies i hold in my capital, which could all be counties i can hold.

and if you have a really large realm, most of your troop count will be vassals anyway so your personal troop count doesnt matter much.

idk it seems like if you have a lot of vassal limit, then it makes more sense long term to hold counties and make city holdings (since they will be vassal controlled) rather than taking up 4-6 demesne limit to control simple baronies for a somewhat larger troop count.
my realm is not on the silk road so that isnt a factor atm. im just trying to find the optimal balance of troop/tax along with demesne/vassal limit

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>>163387530
>>163387853
Bonus older screenshot because it's still kind of funny to me.

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>>163389491
Well yes your demesne limit would go towards their baronies but having high troop count keeps your vassals in control so they don't get uppity and with high levies you really don't need retinues which is usually the biggest money sink. If your castles are actually on a trade route you can make mad dosh from all the castles.

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Is there a more aesthetic border for Germany than at the Vistula? Is there?!

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>>163389979
>Is there?

The Dnieper.

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>>163389103
With nothing to fire on the Russians do some crazy Ivan shit and simply runn over the open ground en masse.

Their MG positions itself in a more favourabe position in the woods.

Then they send a squad north west around the woods to go on a, what looks to be, full frontal assault.

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>>163389935
Retinues are objectively stronger than Levies though. This is why I always go for a coastal capital with loads of Cities, infinite money not only lets you hire retinues, but it also lets you upgrade holdings faster or hire mercenaries when needed.

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Who should I be and what should my goals be for the Großest nation?

>>163390386
What makes the retinues stronger? Do they regenerate faster?

>>163390416
Host mp lad, ill join

>>163380064
>grandiquor memers unironically like hoi4
pottery

>>163390416
Großchadiums

>>163390476
They regenerate, period. With levies you have to dismiss and re-raise.
On top of that, you have more control over Retinue composition. This means you can ensure more optimal firing of tactics, which wins battles. You can also avoid using shitty units like Light Infantry.
On top of that, every Culture has a Cultural Building that boosts one unit type in particular. Retinues let you build that unit en masse if desired. A full stack of Norse Zunist Heavy Infantry running around and regenerating is pretty scary.

>>163390493
Nah, this is my first run of the game. If someone else hosts it, I'll join, but I don't want to be a fuck-up.

>>163390684
Dont worry just host

>>163390476
they are better in several ways:

>they have bonuses over regular troops of the same type as levies
>you can influence what tactics trigger in combat (this is a big advantage because certain tactics are so strong that they can beat literally armies twice as big)
>certain cultural retinues are even better than generic ones which further increase the first two points
>and lastly, the fact that they're readily available

>>163390672
Oh, and I forgot to mention, you can just park a Retinue on the enemy's border and declare war. No need to declare before raising levies and then waiting until they're amassed, just waltz right in and sit on their capital.

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>want to play a comfy britain game
>too powerful

>>163390720
Fine, fine. Do I need to open any ports up to host?

>>163387182

It is me or does everyone one of the Paradox games in the OP pic look like same game 20 times over?

>>163390386
>all those fucking green icons on the province view

>>163390825
5555-5557 TCP & UDP

>>163390940
I'm a retard who's never opened up a port before, how do I go about it?

>>163390880
Yeah but you keep buying them so I guess it works.

>>163390386
>infinite money lets you hire retinues

but you are still bound by the retinue cap, which can be increased with castle holdings upgrades, money for retinues isn't that big of a deal usually.

>>163391047

command prompt
ipconfig
put default gateway in browser
login
go to port forwarding options
port forward

done

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>>163391087
Son, I haven't bought any Paradox "grand strategy" games since For the Glory.

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r8 my europe

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>>163390269
German HMG and MMG open fire on the crossing Russians. they break 4 squads and eliminate a 5th, however 5 squads and a leader managed to cross unscathed. The Russian leader to the south however has bound forward too far, his broken troops need him to rally them, but at this rate that is not going to happen.

When did /gsg/ stop being good?

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>>163391093
Like I said, you can spend that money on more than just retinues. Castles are only really good for one thing, conversely.

Granted, I might be biased from playing a shitload of Merchant Republics.

>>163391349
The release of CK2

>>163391349
"stop" implies it was ever good.

>>163391248
>he actually converted into Vicky 2

THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN

>>163391370
I'm always debating on which strategy to go for

Hold a single duchy with 5 castles in a single province abusing the %levy multipliers
OR
Hold as many counties as I can with single castle each maximizing my city vassals.


I personally believe the later is stronger strategy but I like to mix things up depending on what kind of nation I am roleplaying.

>>163391248
Other than the grobjerusalem, not too bad for a converted save

>>163391632
I do the latter most of the time. Coastal cities are crazy shit.

VICKY 2 MP WHEN

Jerusalem faggots are the worst. Catholicism is for illiterate untermensch. Protestantism and neo-Paganism are the only acceptable choices.

k lads how should i do it, nembutal or by helium?

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>Jerusalem faggots are the worst. Catholicism is for illiterate untermensch. Protestantism and neo-Paganism are the only acceptable choices.

Why are they fucking waiting til Christmas to release 1.8.

>>163392040
?

>>163392002
t. paddy di barbossa

>>163391927
Protestantism is just watered down Catholicism without all the cool traditions.

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>>163391219
A goodie, a fellow hexbased wargamer, I was starting to think i was on my own and merely shitposting 0 interest games (I still reckon this is the case)

Pic:
Russian broken units retreat into the surrounding woods. One however is eliminated has he can not retreat out the line of sight of the Germans.

The southern Russian leader takes a step back to link up with the squads that survived the crossing. The leadr that was directing the MMG in the woods has decided to step back and rally his retreating troops. A second attempt to cross the street with even more units seems likely.

>>163391927
>christians shouldn't own the holy land
t. rabbi moishe

>>163392040
Another one go out, lads. Help get him back home to >>>/r/paradoxplaza!

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What nation and in what /gsg/ would he play?

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>>163392132

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>>163392220
I've been following your posts with interest. Never played the game, but I did play a lost of Close Combat back in the day. That isn't a hex-based game though.

War in the Pacific is like crack (especially in PBEM form) and I can't get away from it.

>>163392220
I'm following lad it's pretty interesting

wanna get into eu4 or hoi as a long time ck 2 player, but just never did because i didnt wanna go through the whole learning curve again. can somebody redpill me on this?

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>>163392370
Ottoman empire, but he'd probably be an EU4 shitter because his subhuman brain can't comprehend the intricacies and depth of Vicky 2.

>>163391201
>>163391047

you fucking done yet laddo?

>>163392220
You are shitposting since small scale warfare isn't the purpose of this general, just remake the wargames general.

>>163392426
>eu4
>learning curve
>>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>163392610
>going against steamcordplaza in occupied /gsg/
You're a braver man than I am.

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>>163391248
>>163391513
>>163391715

now r8 my asia

indus dei was a recently established client state by me as a jerusalem in eu4. only has 1.8% french people as their primary citizens with 58+million poopeople under them. all bengalese are considered subhumans according to the convert which accounts for about 1/4th of poo in loo land. all of them are fleeing to the templars in persia or their poo brothers in australia

>>163392610
Fuck off with your shit paradox games. They have no strategy.

>>163392918
Please tell me you're going to edit the fuck out of the save to make the borders better and give actual flags and not just start playing

>>163393027
your game is about tactics retard not strategy

>>163393027
Whatever your opinion is, it's the de facto general for those paradox games, not for wargames. Just make a new general and stop coming here instead of trying to kick out everyone here. Also see >>163393090

>>163392591
Decided to do something else instead. If someone else hosts, though, I'm in.

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>>163392591

fuck it I'll host ree

Superpower 2 MP
name:/gsg/
pw:1

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>>163392401
I love that series, I should really get war in the east next. I am a sucker for (hexbased) wargames in general.

Pic:
German HMG uses the opportunity presented by the Russian MG not being directed by a leader to bolt down the street and take up position in anticipation of the coming Russians.

The northern German squad moves in to cut of the assaulting Russians, 2 Russian squads will occupy nearly a third of the German forces. Ignoring them completely will likely cause them to be an even bigger headache.

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>he'd probably be an EU4 shitter because his subhuman brain can't comprehend the intricacies and depth of Vicky 2.

>>163393653
get the fuck out this isn't on topic for this general

go make a tactics game general or something this isn't for you

>>163393270
>trying to create account
>stuck on "Creating..."
>probably dead

What do?

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>>163393081

Nah, there's some serious problems with this save like Russia having russian culture be "noculture" so half of its population just doesn't get counted. Genoa has random provinces in Germany. Ming is civilized with 300 million people along with 90% of asia.

EU4->Vic2 fag has been taking his sweet time updating to a 1.19 converter version, but just wanted to see what my jerusalem save would look like in vic 2.

as for flags, I have no idea how to make them and the only flags I really need to edit are for a christian indian crusader megastate that has relative autonomy from Jerusalem.

also cultures map of europe.

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>tfw no atheism religion in HPM

>>163393653
See >>163393864

>>163390619
>Großchadiums
>not Großcongoiums

>>163390731
Unless it's changed the tactics part is more because the AI is retarded. If you have 5000 knights and one archer there's now a dwcent chance that the AI will use an archer tactic (which benefits one unit) uersus knight tactics (which benefits 5000) this is compound by the AI almost always using mixed units so you not only get a bonus the AI also usually gets a malus

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>>163394027
>tfw to smart to pick a religion

>>163393864
Why are you so upset and rude?

Pic:
Russians only have 1 German unit within their line of sight, the HMG running down the street. They engage it, but at such a long range and without the directions of a good leader the fire is ineffective.

>>163393653
Neat looking m8. ignore the autists and keep posting if you want they're triggered by anything that's not liqtoria 2

>>163387729
Is the mod out? The last I saw it was still in development.

I can't wait until it comes out, it'll make me actually want to play HoI4

>>163393921
Yeah looks like account creation is borked right now, fug

hamatchi? :^)

>>163394325
sugoi image aniki

>>163394325
nice pic retard now get out

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>>163394325
Pic*

>>163394403
Nah, too much work for bantz. Just going to do something else instead.

>>163394483
Do these hedges and stuff actually give bonuses/penalties to units hiding behind them or is it only for show?

>>163393771
>animefags unironically like eu4
pottery

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What's the commander trait combination lads? If you were to tier them how would you do it? I'd go.

>Best tier
>siege leader
>organizer

>good tier
>all unit traits
>all terrain traits
>direct leader
>flanker
>aggressive leader
>defender
>inspiring leader
>unyielding

>meh tier
>holy warrior
>winter soldier

>avoid at all cost tier
>trickster

>>163394692
What the hell does Trickster even do and why is it bad?

how 2 defeat eternal anglo?

I'm playing victoria 2 and how do I annex the Indian Puppets?

>>163394483
>tfw to dumb too understand these games

>>163394830
It adds experimentality meaning your general might pick a tactic that good for an all infantry army while you're a fucking steppe nomad and have nothing but cavalry.

>>163394692
trickster can give you the clever ambush tactic which is godlike.

pretty much just avoid literal bad traits/low attribute

>>163394540

tch...

>>163394882
if you mean as the UK than you get events every so often to annex one of them

>>163395015
sorry I mean as an independent Mughal

>>163394861
which game

>>163394982
That's too much of a gamble for too little in my opinion it would be better if the tactics system was a little better.

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Which dynasty is best dynasty?

AFPG
>>163388294

>>163395073
never played in india so I wouldn't really know. I assume you would have war the UK to annex them, I think you get gross cores so that helps. If you're asking for actual strategies I have no idea

>>163395140
Vic 2

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>>163394427
Why though? Also why so hostile?

Pic:
Situation at the end of German turn 2. Northern troops spread out so as not to get destroyed by the Russian MG nest. The leader hangs back, he can't direct fire, but he won't be taking any fire either, furthermore he can rally any troops that break under fire nad get them back into the fight ASAP.

The German HMG in the south moves into the wooden house, it isn't a great position, but it gets them closer to the Russian objective. It also gives them a good clear shot at the Russian MG nest.

Russians can now exploit the (temporary) lack of German vision on the right section of the exit to try and get some units close or even off the board.

>>163395313
Trick their fleet to leaving, then sneak a bunch of transports in and conquer the isles

>>163395256
Khunzakhal.

>>163395295
I have the cores but for the puppets when I try and add war goal it shows nothing, the only thing I see is using release puppet war goal a fuck ton of times

>>163395336
because your game/text simulator doesn't belong here. This isn't /v/ where you just post whatever you want there are specific generals for specific topics. If Stellaris isn't allowed in here your shitty game definitely isn't.

>>163394692
Organizer and siege are the only ones that matter, the rest are memes that don't matter if you bring enough men.

Vicky 2 is the only game that accurately portrays combat of the era, which is incredible as it has to feature three different eras of warfare.

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>if a country is a dictatorship of any kind and has a ruling party with an atheist religion, it gets a "ban all religions" decision to change its state religion to atheism, adding an 20 atheist pops to every pop equivalent in all provinces you own
>a decision to revert back to your original religion shows up if you get a ruling party with any religious policy that isn't atheism
Would this work? What do you think, /gsg/?

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>>163395463

>Vicky 2 is the only game that accurately portrays combat of the era

>>163395535
pointless desu

>>163395601
Prove me wrong, you steamcordplaza faggot.

Oh wait, you're an EU4 retard who probably is going to bitch about gas attack and mountain defence, despite that being 100% accurate in the Italian front of WW1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)
What went wrong?

>>163395730
He picked the wrong time to invade.

>>163394598
They all give bonusses. I am merely not mentioning them because it would bog down the posts into massive TL;DR posts.

Stone:+3 def
Wooden:+2def
Woods:+1def
Open:0
Moving in the open:-2
etc.

Hedges and walls (the green or grey lines on hex spines) give cover to the hex directly behind it, and block LOS to hexes further behind (unless your unit is directly behind the wall/hedge in which case the unit is deemed to be using it as effective cover and it can fire from behind out to whatever range that unit has).

Then there are things such as smoke, burning buildings, destroyed buildings, multistoryed buildings, hills yadayada, that all have ffect on LOS and engagements in general.

The scenario I am playing here is one of the smallest and is really more of a showcase for complete beginners than anything else. As such it doesn't show much more than basic infantry maneuver and fire.

In victoria 2 why is it when no one spheres Egypt for the scramble, the land becomes a clusterfuck

>>163395793
Because no one has sole rights over the entire area, you retard.

>>163395535
fug this is shameful
>if a country is a dictatorship of any kind and has a ruling party with an atheist polocy, it gets a "ban on religions" decision, which changes its state religion to an "Atheist" religion, adding 20 "Atheist" pops to every pop equivalent in all provinces you own
>a decision to revert back to your original religion shows up if you get a ruling party with any religious policy that isn't atheism, also adding 20 equivalent pops of your original religion in case said pops don't exist already

>>163395730
Things started going wrong LITERALLY the moment Hitler stopped giving his generals full control, which coincides with the battle of Moscow

>>163395535
>>163395887
>>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>163395698
>send +5 attack general at anything
>win

gee what accuracy

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>>163395865
So this is fine

>>163395730
>all we have to do is kick in the door and the whole structure will collapse
>doesn't collapse
>oh fu

>>163394942
Eh, most of the game is intuitive, it is abstracted yes, but intuitive nonetheless.

Running out in front of an MG across an open street, not using smoke or cover? Expect to die.

You didn't scout out that perfect look out on the hilltop and are now advancing your troops in a big blob? Better prepare your anus for some artillery and AT raining down on you.

Think hiding your units in a stone building will do much good against that assault engineer throwing in satchel charges and readying his flamethrower? Think again.

Common sense honestly goes a long way in understanding a game like this.

>>163396080
>mughal empire
most certainly not

>>163396080
>So this is fine
Who the fuck are you quoting, you little bitch? I never said it was fine or good, I just explained why it happened. Fuck you.

>>163396070
Except you almost never get those gens and even if you do gas attack and mountains beats it.
>gee what accuracy
Yes, because literally no general ever has excelled at combat.

>>163395445
/GSG/

Grande strategy general

the game I am playing is played on both a strategical and tactical level, and while it may not be as grande as "the entire globe" as in HoI1234, the battles in general are on a large scale. This particular game I am playing functions more like a tutorial, German forces are about ~50 (a heavily reinforced platoon) facing off a Russian Company.
Most scenarios play on the company level and above.

So as far as I am concerned the game I am posting about fits the description of this general.

Also it still isn't an excuse to be rude, I have been civil and have been making "quality" posts from the start without even attempting to harass people with posts along the lines of "your games a shit, check out my games".

>encircle enemy army in vic 2
>they still receive supplies
gee how realistic

>>163396618
then can't retreat so that is useful

>>163396618
>planes can occupy provinces
>commerce raider spam > high tier ships
gee how realistic

>>163396550
Keep posting it lad

>>163396746
>>planes can occupy provinces
paratroopers?

>tfw no /gsg/ taking place in the modern day with modern geopolitics

>>163397021
literally superpower 2

>>163396746
>planes are raised just like infantry as regiments from single provinces

Taking /gsg/ in a bold new direction boys
>>>/soc/24717548

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>>163396080

>>163397115

>planes come in units of 3000

>>163397151
How many levels of retard are you on right now?

>>163397161
>reddit memes
/gsg/ 2017 is going to be even worse

>>163397151
Time to get a /gsg/ gf/trap

>>163396767
Ya, my buddy who I am playing against is taking his sweet time making food.

Worst case scenario is that we pick up the game again later/tomorrow. I am sort of teaching him as we go along, so the rounds take longer. I have played this scenario with "more experienced" people in the past and you can blast through it in about an hour.

>>163397352
thats not a reddit meme

>>163397409
what game is it called? i'd like to try it

>>163397409
>it's another anon with severe psychological issues posts here desperately seeking validation but makes sure to post something that isn't allowed but is similar enough not to get himself banned because he thinks causing as much shit as possible is a healthy way to get attention due to his latent mental health issues episode
ah yes

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>>163397352
Oh, okay, famalam, I see what your tastes are like. Don't worry, I gotcha covered :)

>>163397818
This is actually much better, because unlike your previous post it is at least ironic.

>>163397903
irony is the cancer killing 4chan

>>163397903
>anything with rage faces, ironic or not, is better

Holy shit, can you kys already.

>>163398023
>he doesn't understand that irony automatically makes bad content good
heh, thanks for the downvote

>>163397903
As the person who posed the original image, that ism't me

>>163397279
Man you don't wanna know

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>>163397151
>looking down the /soc/ catalog

I kinda want to barf right now 2bh.

>>163397151
bump

>>163388395
Do what >>163388762 says, but you're also free to play it a little more aggressive if you want to. Tidore must go, and the palopo trio can be played off each other into you vassalizing and cannabalizing one of them. Hopefully kutai survives if not wins any early wars with brunei allowing you to ally the weaker of the two and gain a foothold on borneo. Turn that foothold into a stranglehold and majapahit and anyone else won't be able to fuck with you. My favorite play through was as ternate, it is a comfy little island

>>163398182
They are truly the most disgusting of normies

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r8 my grobyzantium lads

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What's a good native policy for poortugal in EU4? I want to grab Africa ASAP, but I can also get Quest for the new world idea

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>>163398182
I always thought they were just normies doing rate threads

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>>163397660
Squad Leader, although I am playing an older version, basically everyone who plays is on Advanced Squadleader. You would probably have to get into a community of sorts to play, as most people don't do pubs with randoms, since they usually plan out these games in advance and arrange a date/time beforehand, which is in part the reason I am posting. I figured if enough people were interested it could get more people to play, in the worst case I kill some time showing a game most people are unfamiliar with.

Here the last move of the evening from m current game, my buddy has to leave.

Russians fire at the German LMG position causing it to break, meanwhile they rush forward on the south now the German HMG is out of position.

In the north the 2 assaulting Russian sqauds move adjacent to the broken German unit (who can not return fire) and into a blindspot of the rest of the German units.

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>>163397409
That's awesome that you are playing with someone.

>>163398413
Is that on the latest version?

>>163397743
We can't all be paradrones anon.

>>163398620
Yes, 1.19, ironman on

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>>163398371
>I really wanna eat my fresh cum but always wimp out. If someone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.

No, they're not normies, they're desperate fucks looking for trannies to fuck.

>>163398708
How'd you get the alliances to work out?
Favors keep ducking me up, since I haven't played the game in a while. Poland seems to not want to do jack shot with me for at least 30-40 years

>>163398413
Looks great, now take Sicily and the boot

>>163398602
Looking at this I really REALLY should go out and get the admiral's edition.

>>163389979
The Volga

vicky 2 mp when

>>163398850
I managed to ally Hungary, Poland, and Austria (in that order) at the start of the game, and they all joined me in an offensive war on the Ottos. Unfortunately after me messing up in trying to claim Hungary's and Commonwealth's thrones, they're now both my rivals.

The only DLC I have right now is Conquest of Paradise (I haven't really played EU4 seriously in over 2 years) so I don't have favors or anything like that enabled. Not sure if that changes anything.

>>163399069
wut mod u want senpai

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>>163399201
HPM or Napoleon's Legacy

or whatever will get the most amount of people to join

>>163392918
That's an awful name and an even worse flag.

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Where should I establish pacific colonies?

Using Isaac's empire as a bit of a base for reference

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rate my europe

>>163399563
>pacific colonies
You haven't even restored Alexander's empire yet.

>>163398946
It is very good; and now is the best time to get it with the Xmas sale.

>>163399563
>Isaac's empire
Japan, Taiwan, Ceylon, Madagascar, and various islands throughout the Indian Ocean, Kenya and Zanzibar

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>>163399282
napoopan then I guess

ZLFF

68.226.105.20

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>>163399563
>>163399643
>>163399712
I'll have access to the red sea soon. I'm going as far west as Italy and Tunis

>>163398448
Assimilation is the only good policy unless you're some indonesian memer who might actually lose a fight to natives.

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What are the proper borders of Hispania, lads?

>>163399961
Red.With colonies in north africa.

>>163399961
Iberia, Morocco, Oran, western Sahara and central Sahara. That way you can make it all Spanish by end game.

>>163399796
t. redditor

Join up m8s
Napoleon's Legacy
ZLFF

68.226.105.20

can any of you guys download this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=820260968 and put it on mega pls

>>163399192
Yeah, favors means allies will only come to help in offensive wars after a certain period of time has passed.

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>>163400380
Why do you ask friend?
Surely you've already bought Hearts of Iron 4™ ?

>>163400160
Do you even know what the policies do? Assimilation often ends up fully colonizing a province faster than Repression due to a higher frequency of assimilation events, the only downside being that you still have to fight off the natives now and then (less frequently than Repression; Coexistence removes native aggression altogether but is slow and useless). You also get lots of events for free development.
You could always just use Repression and exterminate the natives with your army, but you lose out on the production bonus which can be relevant depending on the province.

>>163400504
>Coexistence removes native aggression altogether but is slow and useless). You also get lots of events for free development.
Why? South America was coexisted and wasn't developed at all.
>multiculturalism is good, goy

>>163400503
of course i have bought Hearts of Iron 4™, i just have some issues with the way steam manages mods thats all.

>>163400503
What happened to /gsg/? We used to make anti parajew memes and now people unironically post goy4 here.

>>163400504
t. redditor

>>163399961
All the african parts and red + Sardina and sicily

New version of HPM when?

>>163400721
turns out that playing old games that add no new content for years is not in anyway sustainable for the userbase.

>>163400612
>South America was coexisted
kek

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>>163400658
Ah, that's no problem friend!
Just post your unique paracocks code, and I will make a mega link!

>>163400721
pic related is for you

>>163400863
t. 100% white argentinian

>>163399784
>romania
>not in romania

>>163400658
Ah ha brother! I too have purchased the Hearts of the Iron 4! With money!

>>163400813
>>163400925
The new games are cancer, lads. Ifmyou like them I pity you.

>>163400612
You misread what I said. Coexistence doesn't give you development events. Coexistence is useless and should never be used unless you literally have no army and would get your ass kicked by the natives. The only perk it has is no native aggression, but you might as well just kill off the natives if that's the problem. It's slow and shitty.

Assimilation gives you the events, which makes it the best one. It can turn a shitty 3 development colonial province into a 5 or 6 development one when combined with Missions, which does count for something with EU4 being a dumb mana management simulator. Or it can add a few more points of Production to an already good province with a valuable trade good.

Native Repression is the more linear policy, and will spawn native attacks more frequently. Of course, you could just exterminate the natives to reduce attacks to zero anyway, but this way you lose the Goods Produced bonus from surviving natives after colonization is over.

Now stop projecting values onto me when I'm talking purely about game mechanics and efficiency.

>>163401050
>implying i enjoy playing games anymore

I have just returned to Victoria 2 after playing EU4 and HOI4 for a while. There is just a lot of things that are inconvenient, strangely designed or outright bad. I love the game, but it can be frustrating.

1) Lack of cities
When I think of the time period 1836-1936 there is three terms that comes to my mind.
Industrialization, Democratization, Urbanization.
The first two are represented fine in the game. The last one isn't there at all. One of the biggest impacts on human life ever, but it is not in the game. Simply because the concept 'cities' does not exist.

2 )Influence and sphering.
Anything about it is wrong. You set the priority between 1 and 3 and wait. Then either improve your own position or damage the others. That's it. It would be cool if influence could be used to other things. Getting basing rights, Lucrative exclusive trade deals, supporting specific parties, getting them to boycott specific nations etc.

3) Colonization
According to the game Africa was almost completely empty, there was no interaction with local chiefs and colonizing only meant building a fort. And when two nations coveted the same lands, it came down to who could build most forts quickly. Why is it not possible to make deals with other nations? Saying 'You get Congo and then I get Kenya. Deal?" France and Great Britain might make a deal that they split eastern Africa in two, but Italy is not included and they turn to conflict. Interesting scenarios to play out.

4) The region system
Why are regions a concept? What are their purpose? I don't know but I know that they come up with some serious issues. Why can't you take half a region in a war? As an example look at the danish-german border on a map. Then look at the regions of the game. The border that was agreed IRL during the time period of Victoria 2 cannot possibly happen due to the region system.

>>163401050
>implying I don't play all of paracocks games.
How much of an angry jaded /v/tard do you have to be to only stick to pre-2010 games?

>>163400925
Of course my friend here it is so you can see that i bought Hearts of Iron 4™.
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?members/johan.2/

>>163401178
HPMeme and >cheating fix the last one somewhat, agree on the others specially on the sphering one.

>>163401178
It breaks my heart to know with absolute certainty that Paradox will take heed to none of the actual flaws of the game such as the ones you pointed out and instead take the HoI4 way for Vicky 3 and make an abortion of a game. I wish it never happens.

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We need only one or two more people, join up!

Napoleon's Legacy
ZLFF

68.226.105.20

>>163401178
Cool ideas m8, but they are pretty unfeasible to implement especially for paradox.

>>163401410
>official EU4->Vicky3 converter
After they fixed up the CK2->EU4 converter, I kinda want it.

>>163401697
>After they fixed up the CK2->EU4 converter
Wait, they did? Is it good now?

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m8s I wanna waggle her Willy if you get what I mean

>>163401178
1. Cities are there. If I'm in a war I'll target them as they both give more warscore and make the pops in those provinces angrier, the only "solution" to this "problem" you have is to double the amount of provinces, having one as a "city" and one as a "countryside", where 90% of the pops go in the city, which doesn't make much sense as then the countryside would be useless.

2. It's bland and repetitive, sure, but I don't know what else you expect. You can build shit for them to make them like you more, it's pretty realistic.

3. Vicky 2 is actually quite accurate in it's simulation of colonisation. It's a common misconception Africa was colonised by people drawing lines on maps in Europe, lot of people died from malaria and other diseases, the "building fort" and "assembling outpost" messages are true to life what happened. If you don't believe me simply look at a map of colonial africa. Other than deserts there are very few straight lines at all.

4. Yeah, they're shit. The alternative was EU3 tier bordergore though.

>>163401318
>not supporting newparadox is /v/
t. redditor who doesn't understand what that term means and is trying to fit in.
/v/ are casual gamers, exactly the sort of people who'd like eu4 and goy4.

>>163401410
b-but it might be good?! *Aignores last 4 years of paradox shitting down our throats

>>163401823
It's still not perfect, but it's actually pretty damn good now. Scandinavia doesn't start in muslim culture group for retarded reasons, forts aren't preset, ruler traits inherit properly, CK2 tech/prosperity levels carry over as development, etc. Also lots more support for CK2 religions and heresies.
They gave it a big overhaul around the time Rights of Man came out.

I've installed Kaisereich on my new computer (for Darkest Hour, not HoI4,) but it's not working. Whenever I start a game it just loads up regular Darkest Hour.

I can't believe the /soc/ thread is still alive

>>163391047
t. Madagascar

>>163402037
did you make sure to choose on the pop down Darkest Hour?

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>>163398413
>republic

>>163402516
>he doesn't want 6/6/6 rulers

I'm making a mod and ran into an issue with a new bookmark. Whenever the game loads, I can't select anyone. I bothered to check if going into /history/provinces and adding the whole [new date here] = { etc etc} but that didn't change anything, as I expected. Anyone know what's going on?

>>163402516
Roman Republic was objectively superior to the Roman Empire

>>163402787
Except in every way.

>>163403017
> every
innumerate it then

>>163402787
>>163403017
Mid-period Republic>Early Empire>Early Republic>Late Republic>Late Empire

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>>163402632
.
>>163402787
.

>>163403142
>size
>wealth
>power
>influence
>respect
>stability
>gay sex
>pedophilia
>graffiti
>architecture
>roads
>concrete
>boats
>controlling egypt
>grain production
>harnessing of water power
>slaves
>colonization
>wide scale commerce
>suppression of rebels
>peace

>>163402787
How?
Are you perhaps retarded?

>>163403421
>stability
really lad
>respect
what does that even mean

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Alright lads, where to?

>>163403740
Every direction

>>163403728
Nobody cared about Rome until they put on the laurels.

>>163403740
All of Russia

>>163403740
uninstall.exe

>>163403843
Perhaps they were wondering who'd rule a nation without infinite hereditary authority

>>163404305
Well at least you have a constitution that lays out the process of succession of governmental control and accountability to the citizens. Who are you?

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Beleibable worlds :DDDD
meanwhile Argentina doesn't have cores on the Falklands

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>>163404742
>Argentina doesn't have cores on the Falklands
Why should they?

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>>163403740

>another prussia eu4 game where prussiaboo player needlessly blobs everywhere but rightful german clay

>>163405214
>Ostland isn't rightfully German
>>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>163405115
a) they do in vicky
b) they went to war for it (I checked in the 1946 start btw)

>>163405509
>>163405509

>ostland
>prussian outside of riga
>even considering baltic states ostland by eu4's timeline

not every german state in history is nazi germany you know.

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>>163405746
What legitimate claim do they have to the Falklands?

>>163405801
Lad Willy wanted the Baltics to be under his full control once WW1 was over.

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>>163405938
those reasons are enough, dumb frogposter

>>163399961

Spain does have a lot of infamy they can spend on taking over Portugal. Plus they get 10 years on their puppet cbs for latin america, and it only costs 3 infamy to start those.

I would quickly release satelites in africa once you you organize the colony though.

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>>163406058
You didn't answer my question.

>>163405938
Kichnerism and Peronism

>>163406058
>not including the colonies won in WW1
Why?

>>163405801
Lad, I started as Riga, I just united Tera Mariana which is rightful Rigan Clay, then instead of forming Kurland I went for Prussia.

Victoria 2
Ok I have rev&counter rev but it isn't letting me use my focuses to increase tension

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>want to play as Armenia
>can't roleplay if I release myself from the Turks
>can't play at all if I release myself from Transcaucasia

>>163406315
Because it was made by a butthurt German on the day we left the (((EU))).

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>>163406623
Not really
>>163406315
ask whoever made it

>>163407020
>saving memes
god pities you

>>163406049
Willy has full blown autism.

>>163407376
Fuck you

>/soc/ thread still alive
but why?

>>163407452
He just wanted to blob everywhere.

>>163407336
>plays gsg
god pities you

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

>>163407853
Good post

>>163407827
im atheist

>>163407928
Why would you post "god pities you" in the first place, then?

>>163407853
I know man. Stupid mod deleted the sad panda thread on /a/. I swear they are retarded.

>>163407921
He's right, though.
http://time.com/4616114/japan-defense-budget-spending-china-military/

>>163407987
To mess with you.

>>163398593
I assumed VSQL was something to do with SQL (as in databases), but I guess this is somehow connected to a board game from the 70s instead.

>>163408171
ok lad

>>163408264
I'm sorry, anon.

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>>163406058

>falklands

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>>163395463
>dice based combat
>accurate

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Napoopan back up

ZLFF

68.226.105.20

>>163407921
>>163408021
haha! thanks

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>>163403421
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTzZlOKnYlw
England HAS FALLEN!
The Spanish Empire rises!

>>163410809
>43
>soviets still exist
into the trash it goes

Can I talk about that 4X game called aurora here? It's a space grand strat/4x game.

>>163411074
Is it made by Paradox?

>>163408235
It is a boardgame that started in the 70s and expanded over the course of a decade or two. Then computers came around and people wanted to play it on them, so they did. Then "quite recently" they decided to unify all the modules and expansions that had come out over the course of decades with one rulebook. The original series was starting to add rules in the newer modules that would negate rules in the older modules, so shit started to get confusing. You would have to agree with your opponent on what ruleset to use and worse still, you would have to remember what rules they were, it was very easy to mix up the rules from module X with the rules from module Y.

That is all in the past with advanced squad leader in which (more or less) there is one ruleset.

The (board)game is arguably one of the best and most popular hexbased wargames, as in, if you think yourself a wargamer but you haven't played or know of Squad leader, you are doing it wrong.

>>163411074
Yes

>>163411307
no

>>163411074
>>163411307
maybe

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vassals can actually colonize
wow

>>163412140
they actually can't, your game is probably bugged. I suggest you ____uninstall.exe______

>>163392509
Victoria 2 and HoI3/DH are more popular here than you think

Anyone have a link to the CK2 DLC activator?

>>163412582
Steamcordplaza have been trying to stamp out anyone who play the good games for the past year.

>>163412985
It's native /gsg/ers tb h
t. vickylad

>>163412701
pls

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>>163413094
Why do you cannibalize your own kind?

I want to create a decision that allows a Communist power with uncivilized puppets to civilize the puppets, either by simply giving them techs if possible, or by giving them enough RP that they can rapidly civilize on their own. Problem is I'm shit at modding decisions and I don't know how I would go about doing it so the player could choose to do it on a puppet-by-puppet basis, all without giving the puppets too much RP (ideally they should only get enough to get them civilized, and no more). Anyone have any ideas for how?

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After taking revenge for Peipus, it's back to fighting Bohemian.

>>163413526
uninstall.exe
>>163413404
That sounds pretty epic, you should recommend it to HPM when he next appears.

>>163413570
>epic
HPM already heard the suggestion, anyway. He agreed something needed to be done about it and that uncivilized puppets under communist regimes should be able to civilize more quickly with a monetary investment, but he disagreed on extent and never did it anyway, as usual.

I want to do a gommies civilize the world game just to see what it would wind up like, but for that I need the decision, and I'm not good enough to write it on my own.

>>163413404
It should lower your literacy.

>>163411408
Thanks for the explanation m8. If I had heard about this in high school or something I probably would've gotten into it.

>>163413950
>and never did it anyway, as usual.
Easy there, anon. He was VERY busy working on new NFs that let you increase the amount of tea produced in a treaty port by a single fucking cup.

>>163413950
>I want to do a gommies civilize the world game just to see what it would wind up like
Well wouldn't international gommunism seek to keep these under one country, like central asia was incorporated to the USSR? Just increase intellectuals in the colonies.

>>163414030
What do you mean, lower your literacy to civilize the uncivilized puppets as a measure of exported specialists to the puppet? So long as it wasn't too major (and coincided with a small population loss of intellectuals) I think that would be pretty good, actually. Hamstringing yourself to drag the others forward.

That said, it doesn't fucking help much if I still don't even have the basics of writing the decision.

>>163414409
I respect HPM, and I get he sometimes needs to fuck off and do his own shit to keep his sanity. I just hate that he agrees to something and yet seems to keep AWFUL notes about it, so he forgets half the time that it was ever discussed.

>>163414409
excuse you, he was very busy fighting ISIS in Syria

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About to start a HoI4 game. Is building AA regional upgrades or divisions worthwhile yet, so do I just have to spam fighter production in the off chance the AI decides to attack me from the air?

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>>163414491
>Well wouldn't international gommunism seek to keep these under one country
Depends on the state. The USSR had a lot of reasons for doing that, mostly imperialist in the economic and military senses, and it was mostly feasible because there was a land connection to those states. Depending on circumstances, not all gommie regimes would have wanted to/been capable of doing the same. I was specifically thinking of doing this with GB, colonizing hardcore until about 1900 and then going gommie and releasing a shitload of states.

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>>163414557
I think the best way to keep air superiority since the last update is to uninstall the game, I find it really helps keep that cancer at bay.

>>163414506
HPM is great, I just wish he wasn't so stubborn on certain shit. The motherfucking Waloons spoke a dialect of French so France should clearly be able to integrate them. He could even make it dependant on his "French language schooling" mechanic, but no, he chooses to be retarded.

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what country should I play in liquoria 2? And what goals?

>>163414953
>>>/r/steamcordplaza

>>163415025
unhealthy post.

>>163414740
haha my dude epic meme
why cant we just add planes to an army that give +1000 defence and support am i right my dude? Because that would add so much more depth and strategy to using aircraft. May as well simplify all planes to one type aswell, and how about they can be build in a liquor factory that makes up 100% of a nations industry. that would make hoi4 way better imo