/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General - Lazy cunt edition

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Nicky

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Johan

usa > russia

>edition
>wrong date

>>168255967
White
and
>>168255991
Based

>>168255876
How do you make these?

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This is not the best thread
but it will do

Now what do I choose for this. Does it matter?

>>168256246
Source?

>>168256395
Just keep it in Tehran, I love watching how the province grows up to Tabriz' tier by the end of the game.

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Why does everyone hate me ;_;
I just want to be Groß

>>168256070
I take it it's the lazy edition because they didn't change it

>>168256463
The modder posted a pastebin with the changelog, can't find it atm

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Well, shit. The war lasted 6 months. Now what do I do?
Unfortunately, I'm now also stuck with millions of niggers.

>All these CWE games
>Nobody wants to host a CWE MP

>>168256732
>using V2 for different timeline
kys

>>168256616

I guess it would be important, if you were worried about people trying to take portions of your empire right? Moving it to Tabriz, would protect it from being capped by the russians. Shiraz a shoreline etc..

But other than that, dont see a point really. Maybe a small flavor effect would be cool.

New CK2 DD for secret religions
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-dev-diary-41-secret-religious-cults.999496/
The Jews can plot against you if you convert them, and it's available with update, not dlc

Is anything good going to come from Monks and Mystics?

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what comfy goals?

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>>168256325
Literally just paint.net plus a lot of free time and some motivation. This one took about 45 minutes and was sort of lazy, I could've added New Ireland and some African trade posts/colonies but I decided to just go for the obvious as a full Celtic Union existing in the first place is already a bit surreal. The French one took over one hour and a half, plus 3 relatively quick edits over time IIRC.

>>168256948
So the Swedes are encouraging us to persecute jews?

>>168256325
>>168256979
Oh, and I skipped the most important part, I use HPM's province.bmp as a template. You can find it in HPM's map folder.

Why does the ai always forget to build electric gear factories causing the prices of electric gears to go through the roof? It's almost cheating to build them because you're guaranteed to have massive profits and you can build automobile, telephone and aeroplane factories later guaranteeing that you become rich

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La Plata

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Would anyone be interested in a multiplayer game of HPM?
I can host for the next 4 hours.

>>168256957
channel islands and quebec

>>168257647
I can't, I have uni tomorrow morning.
t. 4u

>>168257647
Sure, I'd be up

>>168257647
Yeah I can play in 5-10 mins.

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Prove to me these aren't the natural, and therefore best, German borders.

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>>168257664
already done that before, not comfy

>>168257647
No, host poopmod

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I keep him right? I want to build a railroad to Shanghai this game, recreating the Silk road

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Can someone test this server?
PGSK
72.231.253.219

>>168256727
Well? Does /gsg/ not have an answer for me?

>>168258302
Game not found.

>>168258171
You keep him. The last version of HPM is bugged and the modifier never go away. You have to dl the fix.

>>168258495
Just reforwarded the ports, is it working?

>>168255967
Too pure
>>168255996
Factually wrong
>>168256627
Have you thought of improving relations?
>>168257213
Post link?
>>168258069
Subtle

>>168257647
I join but we play speed 2 and only I play Brazil

>>168258069
>not seine to urals to danube

>>168258629
Still game not found.

>>168258629
Use this to check the ports
http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

1630-1641 on both networks

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>>168259123
They're blocked, what's wrong with this config?

HELP
E
L
P
So I've fallen for the Prussia meme and now join everywar to stop it forming, current situation is Brandenburg allied with GB and Gelre. Whilst in Austria allied with Russia, Milan, Bohemia, Denmark.
GB only has 5 provinces for Newfoundland, and like 7 provinces for lousinia,and like 6 for Brazil. My Brazilian colony and Spain is currently BTFO'ing them in Brazil, and I'm quickly capturing their Louisianan colonies. However they just dropped a 30k stack in the 13 colonies, and my highest there is a 20. Should I just try to take as many of their colonies as quickly as possible to white peace them, or should I take troops from Europe to fight there. Not sure about naval superiority so that's why I'm wary. Also might offer up some money, war rep or break an irrelevant alliance once I'm sure they won't give up colonies.
Meanwhile Brandenburg is basically the NGC but without the provinces to form Prussia. And despite myself, Bohemia, Milan, Russia and Denmark fighting Brandenburg we seem to lose every single battle.
TL;DR advice for fighting Brandenburg in Europe and GB in America pls when I have 0 manpower but +20 income

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7 decides.

>>168259663
release UK

>>168259663
Release United Kingdom Please

>>168259663
Release only scotland. Build a wall on the scottish border like the great romans.

>>168256727
>Eat Belgium and the Netherlands
>Remove gommie
>puppet Britain

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3 decides.

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>>168258512

When do I need to get rid of his modifier?
Do I get an event down the road that tells me he is gone?

Its 1863. Managed to use my couple months of GP to stop Russian intervention in Kokond, reducing their influence to Cordial and discrediting them. Bukkhara also took their cores from them as well leaving them but a small OPM. Bukhara is next on the Persian intervention train. Khiva will have to wait until we can deal with the Russian influence there.

Also, I forgot to show the colonial conflict me and Russia had over the coast. I managed to delay them long enough until Nat-Imp and took it

>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-38962931
>tfw you're a British nationalist but worship the people that ended your nations monopoly of power

>>168260202
no way.

>>168260202
Don't return. Annex all of their Occitanian territory.

>>168260202
give em the land

>>168260202
return

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>>168260220

Oh shit. I think the stuff bugged. I will let it play out though, should be interesting.

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Hey lads, has anyone made any addons or anything that simulates mass migration and the rise of the far-right in either NWO or CWE?

>>168260202
Take france hard and deep

>>168260202
give back

>>168260202
Gib land

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>>168259484
Someone bls help

>>168260202
R E T U R N

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Successfully cucked all the Germans. Today is a good day to be French.

>>168260781
Halp me first >>168259612
>>168260981
The delegates Donald

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Captured the Bukkharian territory, but Russia centralized Khiva.

>>168260981
REROLL

>>168260781
Try making an exception in windows firewall?

>>168261075

Why did Austria go eastward instead of raping Northern Italy?

God damn it Austria

>>168261251
Last try.

>>168261406
Here, let me help you out.
KEK, GIVE ME THE POWER!

>>168259663
>whales

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>>168261159

huh. so now gsg is /b/ tier
.

>>168261557
This general will go the way of the general that shall not be named, soon.

>>168261292
The fuck you on about?

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>there's a mission to annihilate the jew
based johan

How to remove Amir Kebabs modifer from my game? Its 1870 and his modifier is about to be broken as fuck.

Can somebody please host since the other guy seems to be having problems?

>succession crisis in HRE
>just keep holy warring every time a new ruler comes to power
>do this 4 times in a decade
wew

>>168263120
>not supporting Cossack rebels and puppeting the resulting Cossack hetmanates
Shit blob

>>168261805
>M&B broke off
>TW broke off
>a few people calling dubs will break the internet
You're an ass but not a fat one

>>168263120
dont do it, goy
the venetians are one of the only bastions of republicans and freedom! let the turks reconquer your lands. removal the antisemitic empire of the sodomite hadrian was a blessing in disguise!

Where to find standalone pirate DLCs for a genuine copy of EUIV? I can only find repacks that bring all or most of the expansions to date.

>>168261849


What? Look at your pic than look at my post

>>168263583
Meanwhile I gain the holy war casus beli when getting ready for war and then lose it once I have my reserves ready

>>168260781
You want a quick rundown on how to fix it?

>>168263939
https://mega.nz/#F!p1lXgawa!iXykFM2CYVe1VtJys4NJXw
Download all those files then paste in directory, if you get a message from cs.run you've got it right, cheevos sometimes work and sometimes don't work for me on it so be wary

>>168264145
Thanks mate.

>>168260202
Return the land or everything will look like shit

>Watch a few EU4 idea comparison and what not videos
>Start getting reccomended lets plays of them
>Litterly everyone is the guy blobbing like a madman in all directions at max speed with no concern for borders
Why why do people do this I mean ya its EU4 but at least go for reasonable land. No UK should not own a polish strip from Danzig to the black sea what the fuck is wrong with these people.

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>dull AND erudite
Bravo.

I guess it might make sense, just look at Reddit.

>>168264896
I honestly don't know how you can play UK in EU4 and not have plenty of historically accurate or plausible places to blob. I mean shit, take all of North America, all the west indies, all of india, the middle east, most of Africa, australia, nz.... at that point what more can you want? If you really want to conquer Europe, take France, England used to own land there and fair's fair after the norman invasion.

>>168263272
I'll have a crack at setting one up then.
Not hosted before though.

>>168265124
why is wearing beanie

How do I pirate train simulator dlc?

>>168264896
>its another "those borders aren't historical" post
Lad, do you really think you'd say the same about historical things, had they not happened?
>what the fuck why is serbia blobbing into slovenia
>what the fuck why is america blobbing into alaska and hawaii
>what the fuck why is russia stretching into fucking north east china

For the example you gave, UK in continental Europe, you do know England blobbed into half of France at one point?

>>168265124
>reddit
>erudite
>dull
It's literally the opposite. They pretend to know about shit just to appear exciting.

>>168264896
EU4 is poorly designed.
Pondering to reddit and youtubefags with multiplayer balancing, swedish muslim cock sucking and sjw cancer on top, made it a complete shitpile.

>>168265184
The video in question.
>All that shit
>No New Zealand
>No Canada
>>168265318
Look me in the fuckin eyes or post number or whatever and tell me that horror show in Eastern europe makes any sense or looks good in anyway.

>>168265613
>that horror show
Which? You haven't linked the vid, laddo.

>>168265193
Ok, if someone can try and join 80.5.171.178
checksum PGSK

Reminder that the United States is rightful British clay

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Rate my flag

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>>168265613
>When you forget the pic and look dumb

>>168265719
I assume from no-one joining that it's not working?

>>168265823
could happen with a good old fashioned personal union with Poland

>>168265823
Not too bad if he inherited Poland rather that took it through conquest.

>>168265782
AFPG would be proud

>>168265719
Can't join yours either.

>>168266181
I was gonna try, put it up for like 5 minutes and I'll try to connect

>>168265782
meme/meme

>>168259123
Make sure to remember this when hosting

>>168266324
>>168266347
Ok, if try and join again.

>>168266852
Nope, didn't work, make sure to check every port for both networks
http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/

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It's getting interesting

>>168268338
>tfw when the finnish western front has pushed to Colombia by 1947

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>>168268338
Muh "democracy"

>>168267036
I don't think this is going to pick anything up unless you're actually running a server.

>>168268814
Oh, sorry then, I just thought that might work.

If anyone has actually been able to host before, please host if you can

>>168264896
What else are you supposed to do in EU4 though.

>>168269027
Well it may be just me but I always play as very weak nations. The first century is me just building up and becoming strong. After that I take all the land I consider true clay which provided your not a very small nations can be quite alot and still be "reasonable". Then I cut down my rivals make a few custom marches in land I dont want. I rarely play past 1700 though.

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>>168268514

Eastern front is doing fine also

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I'm giving this one last try guys

PGSK

72.231.253.219

>>168268879
Ok I've changed some settings, if you try 80.5.171.178 one last time I really can't think of any other reason why it wouldn't work.

>>168269468
THIS ONE WORKS
Get in here

>>168269468
>>168269459
Move to this one, this one works (Not sure if yours works, but this one works for sure)

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Multibenis, get in here

80.5.171.178

>80.5.171.178

80.5.171.178

>>168269762
Are you saying that the top or bottom one works?

>>168270086
>>168269954
This one works

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*ragequit*

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>>168268338
>>168269408

I started from here a few weeks (two years) ago. A poster here commented would put my chances of going fascist and taking on allies at this point at exactly zero unless I couped USA. Didn't need the coup to win but it was a good idea so thanks.

>>168270409
This still isn't the right site, friend.
>>>/r/paradoxplaza

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>finally have a mp server
>no one joins

>>168270805
>he fell for the steamcordplaza memes
Lad, they frequently come here and spam "som1 host", it doesn't mean anything, you're supposed to ignore it.

>>168270805
no one ever joins. the age of spontaneous /gsg/ MPs is dead

>>168270513

It was a total of 11 fronts at once. Well, good night.

>>168271025
Fuck off.

I think what I hate most about EUIV is how fucking useless the Carribean and how impactless privateering and pirates are.


i just want a more expanded carribean for fucks sake, every single paradox game makes 5 rabbit shits in the carribean ocean and calls it a day

>>168271434
They're irrelevant as fuck, though. I bet you can't even name the islands east of Puerto Rico and their location without gogoling it.

>>168271434
what?

Caribbean is a fucking gold mine for anyone who can get a significant hold of it

>>168271547
St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. John, Antiqua, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Tortola just to name a few


t. pirate autist

>>168271091
fuck off laddo, goy4 is much more of a gsg then liquoria 2
go back to 2007 you autistic grossgermanium liquor building sped

>>168271434
Just go play Sid Meier's Pirates! again.

>>168271727
Literally just play a pirate game.

>>168271434
all trade from new world passes through carribean before going back to europe, it is very important for trade. If you can get a good hold on trade their you get steer much more gold home. It also tends to have higher quality trade goods which are worth more

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»168271803

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>>168271434
>tfw navies could be so much more impactful if the AI even bothered to pirate trade nodes, since you would be forced to protect your trade other than just spamming one gorillion trade ships

>>168271806
Now there is a proper Grand Strategy Game!

>>168271974
just because of the dancing mini game alone this game belongs here


it's true grand strat

>>168271941
The provinces themselves are better as well, most of the Caribbean islands are like 9-10 development.

UPDATE NIGGER MOD PLEASE

WHERE IS NIGGER MOD (the person) ANYWAY?

>>168272291
He is studying in China with AFPG, HPM and Liangmod Guy.

Official Grand Strategy List:
All sid meier's games
football manager
loli sim
ricky
liquoria
distant worlds
victoria vn
ck2
EvW

First time ever playing EU4 after like 600 hours of CK2, is this just a bad game? I feel like I'm being railroaded hardcore into doing the same shit that the AI would do. Also what the FUCK is up with the pathing in this game?

>>168272670
>loli sim
Which one?
Also you forgot KoDP.

>>168272670
what about chrome offline dinosaur game

>>168272670
>loli sim
What?

>All sid meier's games
pls no, 4xg is dying already

>>168272826
What is this? Does it have pops?

>>168272943
Yes

>>168271091

I feel stupid for giving you an answer and therefore making you get your gratification for being so fucking elitist. Go kill yourself.

>>168272746
>>168272867
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/search/text/loli%20sim/page/

>>168272746
>Also you forgot KoDP.
I am only man sorry lad

>>168256627
Are you playing on iron man?

What was your strategy? Noob here.

>>168272993
>it's "elitest" to dislike casulised cash cow games mass marketed towards imbeciles who like flashy graphics and simple mechanics
Yeah, fuck off back where you belong, lad.

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r8 my empire

>>168272670
>no Life is Strange

>>168273436
><9001
an hero m8

>>168273518
>><

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>>168265124
Finland life isn't that fun

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Where the FUCK do I go from here, and what the living fuck am I supposed to do.

I had no idea I was gonna get Jerusalem but Daddy Jesus gave it to me.

What the fuck am I supposed to do.

>>168273518
haha OVER NINE THOUSAND!

in case anyone didn't get the hilarious reference:
https://youtu.be/SiMHTK15Pik

>>168273648
try uninstalling

>>168273704
Now this comment is still funny.

>>168274091
No, it isn't. You are wrong.

>>168265124
What's that portrait model mod?

>>168274132
try uninstalling your life next time

>>168274187
http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/52168

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>>168274294
Ahh yes...

>>168274265
try uninstalling your scents of humor next time

>>168274412
try uninstalling your english skills next time

>>168271434
Caribbean ain't useless and privateering and pirating is good in multiplayer where the AI isn't shite.

rip /gsg/ 1998-2016

>>168273436
gross
post liquor factories

>>168274812
>1998

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>when it accidentially becomes a great war

At least I seized Iraq! If I am forced to Capitulate, it will be Fascism time.

>>168274491
try uninstalling your ability to add a space before a spoiler tag next time

>>168275059
post liquor factories
>>168275068
can you retards stop shitposting useless rants, you are both autsitic manchildren get over it

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>>168275020
congratulations you noticed an obvious joke

>>168275168
>post liquor factories
>can you retards stop shitposting

>>168275059
Those borders are cancer, take more of the Levant.

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>can't accept Bulgarians and Armenians as the Ottomans

>>168275168
>you are both autsitic manchildren get over it
>post liquor factories
NICE ONE LAD

>>168275252
>stating something objectively false is a joke, in your view
haha grass is orange amirite /b/ro!!?!?=_==_==_==_=

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>>168275168
>retards
>autsitic

>single sentence posts
>rants

>>168275340
>cant accept jews as Nazi Germany

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Best Persian borders, prove me wrong.

>>168275391
I never said I thought it was funny. What defines it as a joke is the intention of the Creator.

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>>168275262

I just finished getting my economy on track. Started spamming land techs. I managed to hold off france and seized Iraq, like I said. BUT. Fucking russians, "my allies" joined a war the turks declared on me. The next month they accepted a surrender treaty. I WILL BECOME GREAT AND TAKE OVER RUSSIA FOR THEIR INSOLENCE

>>168275529

I already said, by the end of this game, I will have a railroad from Tabriz to Shanghai creating a nusilkroad.

>>168275529
10/10
u are a good lad

Am I doing something wrong or is Victoria 2 basically unplayable because Jacobin rebels pop up every 2 years?

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>>168275835
>playing vanilla
>expecting the game to work just fine

>>168275835
What version are you playing?

>>168275835
Just save and reload any time anything mildly inconvenient shows up. You'll be impressing /gsg/ and girls with groß Ecuadors in no time.

>>168275340
>Bulgarians are Ottomans
God bless M&T

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How do I break up the Bohemians? Also
>Pomeranian-formed Habsburg Prussia

>>168275529
>over 60 million people
muh dick

>>168276079
>cromwell owns ireland
>hussites rule east europe
Best timeline.

>>168275835
playing with HIP.

>>168276173
>pops will be removed, or even worse """"""""""streamlined"""""""""" in V3 to attract casuals
it hurts lads

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>>168275529
>British Chad

>>168276007
>>168275960
playing with HIP, sorry.

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Better start revving up them fascists

I really need a bigger military.

>>168276348
>liquor will be removed, or even worse """"""""""streamlined"""""""""" in V3 to attract casuals
it feels good lads, lqiuoria 2 is a shit game

>>168276849
Did we ever determine whether it was steamgroup autists or redditors still spamming this meme last night? It's a tough call because it requires a retard and they're both retarded as all hell.

>>168276348

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Austria Hungary finally reaches a breaking point, after we refused their outrageous demands they now seek to destroy us.

How fucked am I?

>>168277000
trips confirm :(

How do I play HoI3? Just went through the tutorial and I don't feel like I learned anything

>>168276849
>streamlined
For Me, this was the tip-off that You're a moron.

>>168277313
Streamlined is the term casuals use to mean simplified, but they mean it as a positive.
Example: OoB was "streamlined" in HoI4, sliders were "streamlined" in EU4.

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>>168276939
its not steamgruppe lad, and if anything leddit is liquoria safehaven, pretty sure it is the most popular game on paradoxplaza not that i would know because i have never been on that website in my life and a friend told me that it was called that.
Dont just use "uh shit meme spammers fuck yiu uhhh" as a defence for the valid critism of ur shittier outdated game. It has so many half completed and dogshit mechanics that could make it great, but at the end of the day it is just a liquor factory building france allying shitshow of a gsg that really shows its age
>>>/leddit/

First shots of World War 1, Austria-Hungary has been standing around doing nothing, I'm surprised they actually started attacking.

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>>168277740
Fuck, forgot pic

>>168275960

But /gsg/ says vicky 2 is the best

How can it be the best when its a broken mess?

>>168278120
>>168275960
srsly though, why am I getting so many rebel pops when im playing HIP?

>>168263953
Not my pic but where the fuck is Austria "going east"?

>>168278348

Cause the game is inherently broken

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first eu4 game i've finished. venice -> italy.

>>168278729
Why starting as Venice?

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Wtf

>>168278729
ANOTHER shitty Italy blob

I feel like I'm fucking terrible at industrializing in Vicky2, despite having logged a ton of hours in it. I know the more intermediate shit - Laissez Faire is king once you get enough capitalists, Liquor out the ass, late game factories are fantastic, etc.
Any other general tips?

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How do I convert to my liege's religion?

>>168279757
If you shift-click the expand factory button it will automatically expand all factories near full employment.

yeehaw

>>168279882
This is a feature!

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>occupy all of India
>zero war score
>Not even 1! to add CBs.

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An army of the Polish make a cross Siberian trek, penetrate the Tibetan mountains, and begin to learn from the masters of squatting for PinL efficiency squats.

>>168275059
just defend in the caucus. you'll be fine.

>>168280929
You have to occupy land they care about

>>168281324

Lost that war. The KUKs invaded me through Central Asia after they occupied Siberia, and the French went through the Caucasus. Didn have the military then, was just building up.

>>168282092
how are you doing now?

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>>168282181

You will see in a moment.

>>168282000

Think this will do?

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So if I wanted to meme it up and do a game where I just blob into anywhere inhabited mainly by Germanic peoples historically or in the present, would I need to take anything beyond the below?

Holy Roman Empire
Scandinavia (including Iceland)
England, and thus Great Britain as a whole because fuck letting those Scots and Irish on my island
Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg/Frisia/Low Countries
Normandy
Bits of Polan to aesthetics
Bits of France to aesthetics/taste

I know you could make arguments for Burgundy, West Francia, and Aquitaine, more or less, but they long abandoned their Germanic roots desu.

>>168275529
Iraq, Syria, and Jerusalem are all rightful Persian clay.

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[SCREAMS INTERNALLY]

>>168282590
Theyve been doing that every game to me.

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Remember: Always slaughter Turks.

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This is a pretty groB HRE

>>168278729
Is this a multiplayer game or some shit?

>Mega Prussia
>Mega Riga
>Kiev exists and has more than a few provinces

>>168275529
Is Iran the greatest white country of 2017?

>>168283561
>Islamic pariah state
no

>>168276079
What mod is this?

>>168283708
Third Odyssey: Back to The Motherland
Basically You play as Byzantium and flee into the new world, you can be hellenic or orthodox and bring more people or more usefull shit (like Greek fire) and then you colonize all over the place and eventually you take back constantinople from the t*rk
There's also vikings and albanians

>>168265726
Our nations should reunite DESU. British Empire 2.0 would be pretty strong.

Or the USA could just join the Commonwealth of Nations.

>>168284067
US is too proud to do it unless it gets to be the big dick in charge, so commonwealth is pretty unlikely.

>>168284067

Both the U.S and the bongers are cucked beyond repair. Politics have gone their course, and its unlikely to result in anything good.

>>168282482
The entire world, you fool.

>>168283641
Name one better white nation then.

>>168279182
no particular reason

>>168279558
fag

>>168283554
no, it seems like it. ai formed prussia, egypt, the united states. pretty interdasting game.

>>168265726
>>168284067
TORIES OUT!!!

>>168284320
Anything is better than Islam, even Sweden desu.

>>168282482
Wait, why England?

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So should I pick up this edu tech first or wait another 400 years to get the university tech one?

>>168285213
>Sweden
>not islam
pick one

>>168285526
Not yet friend. They still have ten years.

>>168255894
uesugi kenshin was raped to death after i defeated her uncle? what happened? wiki says that you're supposed to save and recruit her.

alright serious need guidance

event to claim saxony war triggered when i had a huge defensive pact against me

these heathens have pretty much every relevant pagan and even a muslim in on this shit

now if i surrender ill be over -200 gold

if i go straight for saxon capital can i get a white peace?

>>168285451
University is objectively better

>>168285451

Always the University one. 50% more RP's is godlike. Military techs can be okay too.

>>168285642

When you get a messenger offering surrender you are supposed to kill the messenger then defeat the Ussegi within 2-3 turns to avoid her being punished. They are very easy to take over anyways, since you only need to take over Sado which you can use Rance tactically to avoid fighting any actual hard battles.

Shit actually, anyone interested in some Rance? Im doing a paper right now, but I could post some from my current campaign.

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MEIOU AND TAXES 2 WHEN????????????

Lucky nations modifiers are bullshit and should be nerfed

>>168285642
Is this Sengoku Rance? Where can I get it?

>>168286013
>2-3 turns
oh... thanks buddy. it took me way more time since i was fighting a war of attrition.

but since only sado is enough, i think i can do it.

>>168286329
piratebay, or see the pastebin at /rancegeneral/

>>168286329
sukebei.nyaa.se

>>168286584
>>168261918 this one?

>>168286373

Essentially this is what happens fighting them
>You start attacking their western province
>If you can, you blitz the two smaller outposts with small forces
>you only need to get past 50% score to win
>Last one is always defended by Kenshin, send rance for insta win
>Let them take back some territories there if need be
>next turn take a province in their eastern area
>Night battle happens
>Ignore them for a bit, make sure they dont take back a province
>Once you get the messenger, kill him
>Siege them down easy since they lost their best commanders

After Kenshin and her buttslut are gone, you only have to deal with Toraka and the other named girl that they will still have which have huge unit pools. (>1k) but they are easy to deal with.

>>168286705

Its actually amazingly fun and tactical since you can start with extra bonuses and planning your conquests out.

>>168286861
is it very lewd?

>>168286861
not him but are 5D and VI worth playing and do I have to have played the other ones

>>168286925

Yes, and funny,

>>168286967

Not sure.

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>tfw you were the first to find and post the Sengoku Rance image and now people are playing it and posting about it

Post rance freely. It is closer to /gsg/ than hoi4 will ever be.

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State of my rance game right now
Started with Honjou and Mouri house bonus.
Shooting for Takeda blitz so I can get their house bonus next game, as well as doing Kenshins route this game.

I actually had a question, how to do things with absurdly high search events? Like 45, and I have seen one at 50?

>>168288463
i also didn't know, so i looked it up. and they stack.

for example, a 30-skill event. just put two 3-skill retainers at it. next turn, it's going to need 24-skill. keep going until it's done!

>>168288463
This level of shitposting takes a lot of commitment.

In Vicky 2 if an unit has 100% support and 3 attack it means that it will deal 6 damage to the enemy units or just 3?

>>168288802

What, really?
HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS.
HOW DID YOU FIND THIS?

Shiiiit, I could have beat the Takeda blitz last game then. Had put it off since I didn't have the high search for it.

Anyways state of this game currently
>Can't break the Tokugawa base
>currently waiting for them to attack so I can seize commanders
>Thinking about expanding the conflict with the Miko institute
>Idol slut has a popularity staff, in 10 turns or so she can become a permit commander

>>168289010
If in the back (those units auto move to the back if at all possible) it will boost the unit in front of its attack by 3.

>>168289010
3

>>168289127
i found it at 2 faqs from different sources, so it's probably true.

since you obviously know more than me, what's up with the racoons and ghosts? they seem harmless. do i need to attack them?

>>168289316
Racoons are great commanders to take and they are a medium power that you can attack early on. After beating them you get either Tokugawa, a decent warrior (though you will have a ton of them), or you will get Senhime an amazing footsoldier. But she is annoying and has to be used carefully until you character clear her. But there's a couple of ways to character clear her.

Ghosts.. You talking about the Haniwa?

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>>168289127
>>168289165
Thanks, lads

>>168289457
yes, those little fucks. i find them adorable.

>character clear
i don't know what this means.

>>168289612
>>168289457
Okay laddies, fuck off.

>>168289472

Support units dont look on paper to be amazing, but what they do is make the infantry in the front line better at their job, which saves more lives since your artillery dont take damage during that time. Also when you are deciding on pops to use, if you can you want to use non-accepted pops as frontline soldiers and hussars. Save your primary pops for the backline because they will stay alive more while the shitskins die.

>>168289457

A very easy power to knock over that gives +5 sat bonus that give a decent amount of national power. If you let their events go through all the way, aside from being hilarious, they also allow you to recruit an okay warrior for three action fans. She has a high level, but is slow and only has 3 actions.

Character clearing are essentially event chains where you explore the character. When theres a purple icon next to a character it means there is a non-generic event for the character waiting. For some characters, doing their event chain is the only way to rank them up to higher trust levels to gain bonus abilities. Also character clearing boosts your pts for next game by 2 per character, and when you boost their trust you can for most of the roster choose end-game points that will boost your end game score further by 2 if you beat them game with them in your roster.

saxons cant keep getting away with this

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dios mio
it never ends

>>168289991
With what?

>>168290236
>18.1% literacy
The problem is you're educating them. That's not going to help you keep a nation of reactionaries.

>>168290247
pulling men out of their ass and their vassals asses

making me take event claim that triggered apocalyptic defensive pact

i should be shedding the blood of the saxon men

>>168290345

You can keep a mostly reactionary country with suppression and passing unrelated reforms like Trade uniions to boost dem programs.

>>168290247
>>168290505
oh and they forced my hand into surrendering just before i was going to burn down their christmas tree

>>168290236

You need to take steps to reduce your militancy down to 2-3 so you stop getting mass rebellions. Whatcha using your infamy on? Have you been cock blocking the US influence in South America?

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>>168290573
>You can keep a mostly reactionary country passing reforms like Trade uniions

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>>168286967
VI is worth playing but is a JRPG.

Kichikuou Rance is my favourite though

>>168286329
>>168286584
Rance General

>>168290779
Fuck off.

>>168290702
I don't know how I'd be able to do that besides putting education spending low, I don't want to be a shithole

infamy has been spent on puppeting greece and freeing all their cores, as well as blobbing into portugal. I've got colombia sphered, I'm scared to sphere mexico yet because the US has not manifest destiny'd them yet and I highly doubt I could beat the US to let mexico refute manifest destiny

>>168290745

Well alright, yeah never mind fuck that. Slavery is aids on promotion even in non-slave states. You have to get rid of that to even have a chance of passively increasing your soldier population without using NF.

>>168290990

Hmm. Decent use of infamy. Better than what I used my infamy on before the satellite events kicked off. desu, I would have just satellited Portugal. But I think you were trying to annex all their colonies at once or something?

Definitely let Mexico go. Since the events that prompt you and give you a satellite cb also reduce your influence so you no longer are their sphere leader yes sphering them all is a good option. You'll want to make sure as well that you reduce US influence below Friendly so they cannot intervene. Brazil is a good puppet target as well, you can use them to fight your wars for you in South America.

>>168291273
Why does slavery effect promotion in non slave states?

>>168291407

Not sure but it is crippling. Even freedom of the womb doesn't seem to make a difference enough.

>>168291407
Because of hidden modifiers that the slavery brings to your country. It slows down POPs promotion and most importantly it slows down slightly your industrialization rate

>>168291273
>events to puppet

wait what's this about?

>>168291601
>>168291582
Industrialization makes sense but why promotion? I don't see how slaves would effect social migration of other pops.

>>168291660

In the 60's-70s after some shitposting over a cave and bats if Peru does not apologize and allow you all the guano by right you get an event to puppet all the former Spanish colonies in south America. ALL OF THEM. For 3 infamy. With a ten year duration CB.

Yes the US can intervene, but if you have been managing your influence you can essentially block them from being able to ever intervene in the conflict since they can petetition the U.S for assistance which boots their influence, but they still need to reach Friendly before they can intervene.

>Reduce their influence down to Neutral
>Ban their embassy
>Launch your war

>>168291950
>using 4chan terms for real life conflicts
Describe the Falklands war.

>>168291950
>you get an event to puppet all the former Spanish colonies in south America. ALL OF THEM. For 3 infamy. With a ten year duration CB.
what the fuck hpm
>france integrating the walloons is out of the question but spain going grande is justified

>>168292087

Perfidious Albion strikes again leaving a nation of brown people (not white) cucked and in disrepair that they can only respond by posting the immigrants living in Buenos Aires as representative of their dangerously swarthy and unreliable native population.

>>168292187

Technically those were states in revolt not even a decade before the game began. HPM is actually very reserved since the dynastic line that the Carlists use would be the same line that would inherit bourbon France.

>>168291950
wait but like, this just comes up automatically?
what if I'm not a monarchy anymore? there's a 40k ancap revolt in madrid right now and I'm seriouly considering just letting them win, I'll still stay carlist spain technically as far as the tag goes, which means I get the cooler looking fascist flag later on.

>>168292440
>HPM is actually very reserved since the dynastic line that the Carlists use would be the same line that would inherit bourbon France.
When I told him about that he called me a raging faggot that should just play CKII.

>>168292440
Is the puppet SA thing only for the carlists?

>>168292985
Well he's fucking right

>>168293135
f-fuck you!

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Playing CK2 and Charlemagne has already got GG'd barely 2 years into the game.

>>168293097
Just go to SPAFlavor.txt and search "talambo" to see the conditions.

post eu4's

>>168293245
I didn't even notice that Karloman is dead too.

RIP HRE

>>168292620

Pretty sure if you lose the monarchy you swap tags to republican Spain through one of the Christenos events. Spain in general is pretty cucked since they will lose Catalan/Basque as accepted cultures if you want to put an end to the Christenos spam.

You probably want to restart and try everything over again and maybe choose some better techs? The factory improvement line is less important than pop growth, navel base size, RPs, NF, and literacy improving techs since you need 30% literacy for your craftsmen to auto promote at a decent rate without spamming NF on it.

>>168293097
Yes.
>>168293135
Because his chinese girlfriend ran off with a big strong basque man with a huge cock he doesn't want to make spain fun. That's why Christenos spam still exists, and there is no dynastic dispute issues between Spain and France. Albion and the Germans ganging up to stop the union AGAIN would have made for a truely kino sequel to the first installment.

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This was way easier than I thought it would be.

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How can I best go about taking territory this from France?

>>168293535
The power of Jah makes all things possible.

>>168293781
Ally Prussia, join them when they fight France over A-L and try to occupy a bit of French territory so you can add it as a wargoal.

>>168293781
Wait for the Führermana to kick in and then invade

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>>168294037
Indeed

>>168293781

>Being Belgium
>When you can be the superior Netherlands (Complete)

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>>168293245
>uses 'gg' in 2017

>>168282482
Is this what people mean when they say gross germiums? Blobbing everything?

>>168294729
gross germaniums is a state of mind where you delusionally idolise germany so much you think it's acceptable to spam my general with pictures of it and not get bullied