/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

FIrst for Willy

>>168423912
How the fuck do you overcome massive British naval forts in DH kaiserreich?

>>168424134
Because I'm thinking I'm just gonna nuke everything to ash.

>>168423919
Based

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4th for more ideologies in Victoria 2

>>168424438
>no National Populism
plsno

>>168423919
Absolutely based.

>>168424438
>no anarcho-monarchism
>>>/trash/

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MP?

>>168424728
>anarchy-monarchism
So pretty much anarchy in general?

Atatürk

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>Put forward a plot to murder a minor count
>Get 550% plot power
>Plot fails and I am discovered
>Twice in a row

JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY

>>168424823
The only type of anarchy that was tried before and worked.

Tips on what to do as a newbie in CK2?

Overwhelmed!

>>168425014
>implying it wasn't feudalism/proto-reactionism

>>168425183
Yes, it's the same thing.

>>168424134
>>168424238
bump, need answers.

>>168424438
>anarcho-primitivists have won the election
>mandatory demolition of all factories, railroads and ports

>>168425295
Just doomstack CVs, NBs or lure them away, the AI is brain dead

>>168425284
Feudalism was by no means anarchy. There wasn't a state in the modern understanding of the term, but there was still a strict, consistent hierarchy upheld over long periods of time by cultural and religious norms and traditions (As well as levies, militias and orders, of course). Anarchy implies that the "system" in place would allow for new dominant forces to take prominence by pure virtue of being richer/having more military strength/some other qualifier, which is not necessarily the case here.

>>168425036
Play as an OPM next to a couple of other OPM's, blob out into them and use your new demesne to forge a great kingdom

>>168425573
Explain, your strats sound interesting.

>>168425607
Anarchy without hierarchy is how commies view it, which is complete utopia.
Ancaps see anarchy as a system without a state and especially without democracy, so by their definition feudalism would be consistent with anarchy.
I just wanted to meme though, so I don't really care tbqh.

>>168425856
I'm not sure you'd be willing to find many ancaps willing to admit it, but the natural result of radical anarchy is the creation of informal despotic regimes.

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Both of them are my allies. Who do I help?

I'm thinking of going for neither

>>168426436
Freeing the Rhineland will prevent Germany from beating the shit out of France and getting OP, for whatever it's worth.

>>168426436
What the hell kind of flag is that

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>>168426573
I have most of Europe as an ally except France, but its not like I want any of them to get strong (t. eternal anglo)

>>168426663
Based AFPG made me one.

>>168426774
Germany's fucked, no use trying to save a sunk ship.

>>168426774
What does it represent? UK under control of the house of Brabant?

After building up a massive invasion force, it seems I won't be able to touch Britain until I acquire the ability to atomize them into lumps of glass. So I've decided to invade Brazil due to pent-up sexual frustration after being blueballed by the ETERNAL ango.

What should I name the operation?

>>168427335

Operation Hue

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Who dies? I doubt I can make India or Africa Anglo at this point no matter how many of them I kill and I have slavery enabled so it might be good to have African women around for British officers to colonize.

>>168425295
Start one amphibious assault so they move all of their divisions there then start another one somewhere else.

>>168425036
Starting as a viking in 867 makes things a lot easier until you learn your way around.

>>168427380
Done.

>>168427335

Operation t. Alberto Barbarossa

>>168427390
Just the colonies lad, killing white people for nothing was where we went wrong in our timeline.
Inb4 >Irish >white

What else do you have besides in Africa?

>>168427540
Newfoundland, Iceland and Greenland, Northern Territory of Australia and South Africa as states. India, Cape to Cairo Africa and most of Australia and New Zealand as colonies.

How are the graphics in Victoria? They´re the main selling point for me to get that game.

I swear to God there would be no other system other than Democracy in the world if the Jacobians were as uppity in real life as they are in Vicky2

>>168427728
Gas em all I guess, you could get some abos in those states.

>>168427730
It's literally a fucking map m8

>>168427795
Jacobins need to be nerfed and even disabled in certain occasions. I can't imagine a Totalitarian fascist or communist state still getting like a million Jacobins revolting after they've been crushed several times. It just doesn't make sense.

>>168423919
W&B

>>168428041

>Be danube
>pass all the social reforms
>Have only transportation ones left in 1920s
>still making Africa german
>Have gommie revolutions every year and 5+ militancy

Learned my lesson to only slowly push dem programs aside from health care and some education

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>>168427728
ahh...

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Budget pro right here. Even my fucking slaves are getting luxury needs.

>>168428365
>johor still independent
what are you doing

>>168428365
Literacy, we hardly knew ye

>>168428629
>budget pro
>education spending at 50%
>administration spending at 100%
>military supplies spending 100% while at peace
>100% tariffs
>losing money
Are you memeing me

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>>168429472
Sweden cucked me when I let them get Germany's colonies from the massive gangbang on them. They have Johor nationalists now though so I'll annex it right after.

>>168429503
Didn't affect it all for some reason.

>>168429680
For some reason the budget went full red when Germany and KuK were having that war of their's. I have no idea what's up with that.

Also yes Bulgaria I can see this working really well.

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>Have spare gold
>let roll for military advisor before war
>fort defense
>manpower modifier
>force limit
>maintenance
>fort defense...

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>>168429817
>they're actually doing it

Where is Romania's army?

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>>168428629
>

>>168430490
That's how it's done lad

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>R&I nigger made the thread 50 posts early again
epic

Anyway what is a fun country to conquer shit as in NWO? Not blob necessarily

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kys

>the problem with being allied with literally everyone

Are we being raided?

If I play as the Netherlands is there any way I can seperate and/or annex Flanders from Belgium?

>>168430490

>Not owning a bit of everything and maxing out tariffs so your pops can max max $ while no taxes

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ah yes

>>168431920
>1914
Should've expected this desu

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>>168432558
I'll come back for you later Serbia.

Eh, no balance of power lost. I'll have the Balkans in my sphere within 2 years anyway, after I've dismantled gigantic democratic Turkey[/spoiler[

ded general. ded board. ded website.

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>>168432785
>I just remembered I'm war leader

Should I do the ol' Anglo double switcheroo?

>>168432934
>Fucking over allies as the Eternal Anglo
Of course

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>when your brother kills you in a personal battle and becomes the new chief giving you more levis in the process

Are Guard regiments just better Infantry?

>>168424438
>anarcho anything
get on le cross

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>>168433138
No hard feelings eh Serbia... also I can add commie Greece to my sphere. Can I force a regime change on them or am I mixing this up with NWO?

>>168433296
Yes but they're a more expensive. Also I think you can only make Guards out of your primary culture pops.

Seeing as it's on sale, has EU4 been modded/DLCed enough to be more than waiting for mana to tick up to do everything?

Might just get Cities: Skylines instead desu

>>168433164
>be viking
>set up inheritances so the first born is immediately stronger than the brothers
>put everything in place for the firstborn to assassinate the brothers as soon as he's king

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After many successful years as a comfy socialist republic, the fucking communists finally managed to overthrow our beautiful democracy.

The new goals from here on out:
>subvert this bullshit dictatorship from within until we get our republic back
>make friends with the FSA
>take GroßCaliforniums from the CSA

>>168434681
>macfag playing as california
poettry

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>>168434681
Maybe these guys can pull it off.

>>168435129
It's actually a pretty fun country. My mistake was encouraging too much socialist sympathy in my attempt to get a state capitalist party elected. Had like half my country rise up in commie rebellion.

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>>168435737
Ayy thank god.

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>>168435737
These ones we exterminate though.

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>>168436131
Freedom shall not perish from the west coast!

>>168436131
That's not very tolerant of you.

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Who /Syndicalist/ here?

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>>168436289
Back in business.

>>168436321
They have to go back.

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>>168436540
FUCK YOU CANADA

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/is-ottomans-going-to-get-fixed-next-patch.999555/

>All those disagrees

Do people actually think the Ottocucks are fair and balanced?

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Can someone tell me how to deal with this militancy situation? I have literally all social reforms and practically all political reforms. The damn socialists are in power, militant socialist retards don't know what they want.

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Whoever wins this it's gonna be a fucking mess.

Hopefully I'll be able to dismantle T*rks before someone else does it for me.

>>168436487
Mosley was a populist you fakker.

I like the war names Victoria 2 makes up.

>playing as Bavaria
>have a North German Confederation state in my sphere of influence
>Prussia assert hegemony wars me
>Prussian-Bavarian Brother's War

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>>168436990
That time of the year again lads.

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>>168436487
>syndicalist

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>>168436984
I think I might have found the problem.

>>168437237
All of them.

>>168437404
>it's the Jews
/pol/ was right again.

>>168437237
What mod is this?

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>>168437404
>tfw 80% of world oil production

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>>168432378
Well this is interesting

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KuK had a good run, but it made a huge mistake in declaring war on the entire world and still deciding to defend Turkey when I move to dismantle it.

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>>168433721
pls respond
I have no ability to think for myself

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Is there any mod for Vicky 2 that lets me claim my rightful Mormon clay?

Preferably better than vanilla does.

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>1991
>1989
We're doing it reddit

>>168438328
HPM you wingnut

>>168438369
Is there like a specific Mormon pop, or is it just Yankees following the Mormon religion?

And how far do I need to go before I can release Deseret? I know it doesn't have cores from the beginning start date like it does in Vanilla, how do I make sure I can get my cores?

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pls help

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The entire fucking world is ganging up on KuK. People are coming across the Atlantic just to destroy them. I can't even occupy them to win my separate war because everyone else is.

>>168438330
Extending end date?

>>168438565
>>168438330
>>168438118
>>168438018
>>168437963
what mod is this REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>168438625
treed

>>168438786
download link?

>tfw you want to play ck2 but there's a 11 minute update
>tfw it'll probably delete all my pirate DLC

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>>168437361

The good old days when the German Empire was a rapetrain

Its a shame the commie loving fucks that are the KR devs buffed the commune too much

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Rate this Europe

>mfw have to blob nonstop to keep aesthetic borders because retarded vassals keep winning external wars

>>168436965
Here's the thing. In Europe right now, the governments are fetishizing Muslims hard and trying to push them as better than the natives and completely harmless. Turks, as a less brown breed of Arab who are generally less inclined to full on terrorism, are thus the poster child to get Europe to accept Muslims in general. Thus they can tolerate nothing that insults or criticizes Turks in any way whatsoever, and to the true believers at Paradox that includes saying the Ottomans weren't the best and most enlightened empire ever and that they shouldn't be overwhelming broken and powerful in the games.

>>168439206
civilize the savages to the east

>>168439068
Is it the South Indian portraits or is there another one?

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Why the hell does FSA have cores all the way over here but nothing in the Midwest? They won't be my friends anymore since I took Nevada :(

>>168439659
Yep DLc ois gone I got it from a mega link beofre got one for all the stuff?

>>168439206
>aesthetic borders
>Croatian Pomerania

>>168439763
>Yep
What? Is it the South Indian portraits or not?

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?

>>168439829
yep that's the only DLc I have now

>>168439572
I'm working on it, the nomads are very stronk at the moment.

>>168439780
>vassal nibbles a weird, wiggly line out from my comfy kingdom
>owns too much land to just let go, figure it'll be easier to gobble up pagans to keep my borders semi-even

Recommend me a better name than Croatia

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Nothin personnel
>>168438565
Don't really see the point desu, the game has been a huge headache in the last decades with UK's AI incompetence, Italy sphereing the entire world via Great War events and fucking everyone else's economy temporarily, Germany spending +15 years trying to dismantle Japan for the second time and so on. Oddly enough, Russia held itself decent and was the least of my problems ever since ~1890, which was when I took the Caucasus from them.
I'll post the world's results though.

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>>168439829
Don't know why it says it was added two years ago but i just saw it today

>>168438625
It's Lurk More Mod

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>>168440050
Pops including my Chinese ports and the Eritrean colony

>>168440013
groB Croatiumß

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first for house Lewisham

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AMERICA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

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Incoming shit borders.

>>168440619
GroßAmerikas

>>168440080
>>168439829
https://mega.nz/#!4gkkiACR!lnDQDHneoQH0ANG3GT4VoC5-9ixXQWYxH6LSzgmv2-A
Got the DLc from this link, before the update it was just fine. the DLc is still there but it's not in the menu
does anyone have an activator?

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Anybody understand the economy in HPM? I've been waiting over 2 years for even a single one of these railroads to start building but I can't get any lumber. I've been waiting over a year for a brigade that can't get canned food. I know prestige affects your standing on the world market but I'm 10th.

Not sure if this has been posted yet. I was on the forums yesterday, and apparently there's a mod for the CK2 > EU4 converter that's (mostly) compatible with the SWMH map portion of HIP.

https://github.com/TheMarmottin/Converter

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rate my russian blob so far, first time playing as them and this was quite the unusual game desu

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>>168440380
And pops without the colonies. Not that much of a difference really. I also have more Russians than Armenians (2% vs 1.9%) and Jews are around 0.7% of the nation and the remaining 1% is shared between (mostly) Sikhs and a minority (within the minority) of Hindus and Animists.

>>168440836
Holy fuck, now that's multicultural

>>168440790
Here's alot of activators
https://mega.nz/#!ExM0mLST!OArki-vfv9UU2g1kkwE983cdT9S822TsOnhJLaf_eSk

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>>168441189
World map.

I doubt I'll get an answer because M*c, but do you guys think this includes the base game or is it just the Heart of Darkness add on?

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/victoria-2-heart-of-darkness/id666843213?mt=12

I just bought the bundle on sale on steam but didn't realise Victoria on steam isn't Mac version.

Also the main HoI3 is mac but the addons aren't on steam, though you can get the entire bundle for Mac on the App Store.

I got a free Macbook from work so no >Mac posts please.

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With America surrendering after Turkey and KuK, the world seems to finally be looking towards peace.

I'm tempted to convert this to DH or HOI3. Could have an interesting scenario with a revanchist America, Turkey and Austria.

>>168441864
Vicky is in the app store lad.
Apparently they'll just ignore you. All I want is a little advice on why I can't get any fucking imports. Autists.

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>>168441779
And the endgame screen.
Honestly I feel like I can do far better than this, I'll start another game as Persia this weekend and see if I'm right.

>>168441153
>that Bukhara
I feel you, bro, it once happened to me, too. Not much you can do unless waging costly wars.

>not taking the Livonian Order while Poland takes on the Teutons
Disgusting.

>letting the Ottomans take the Crimean Khanate
Think of the poor girls that are still being sold into slavery in Azov because of your negliance.

>not keeping Poland occupied (kek), so they don't even think about forming the Commonwealth
Sad.

>Tver

>Swedish Finland

>Tabarestan not in Tabarestan

At least you are fighting the Commonblob, tovarish. Weitermachen!

>>168442120

It is. So I guess I'd have to buy both.

I don't understand why some of the Paradox games have the Mac versions but others don't on Steam. It's really annoying.

Like how now I have the base HOI3 but can't get the addons. WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS. I'm offering to give you money for an old game and you're just not letting me.

>>168441864
>>168442120
Sorry I didn't even read your question. It does.

>>168442535
Yea it's nonsense. HoI3 with addons is in app store too.

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r8 :^)

>>168442659

Yep I just saw it. Decent price, too.

>>168442550
Ok so the main game is included is what you're saying?

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R8 my post-war Europe. Not too bad I think.

>yfw Austria reforms a communist A-H as this timeline's USSR

>>168442709
Based Finland

>>168442932
Tbh I can't remember, I bought it like 2 years ago. Safest would be to buy HoD first if you do give it a shot.

>>168443236
>Georgia

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>>168442709
USA USA USA

>>168443294

Ok I'll try it. Thanks for your help!

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>>168438369
>>168438501
REEEEEE HOW DO I MAKE IT?

Eventually this decision pops up but I can't get Utah to become a state, which is basically the only requirement. Even with "encourage colonial migration" focus on Utah only I do not get any pops moving over there at all to even begin trying to make it a state.

I just want to be Deseret as fast as possible.

>>168443728
hover over the question mark you idiot

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I'm awooo girl nao

>>168444039
Read my post, you idiot.

>>168444136
*cringes*

>>168442348
Bukhara will be my punchbag soon enough, they're allied with the ottomemes, but besides that, they're the least of my worries
>>Tver
They're muslim and an Ottoman vassal. I fucked up in the beginning and didn't attack/guarantee all of those russian minors, the Horde vassalized Tver and Ryazan and force converted them to Sunni. Then, the Crimean succession happened and the Horde, who were at war with Crimea, lost a bunch of land and one of the vassal. then I attacked and made them my vassal. From there, I vassalized Circassia and gave their cores back, kicking Genoa off Crimea and vassalized Theodoro too, that's why these borders are really weird. Sweden and the Livonian Order are my allies since I can't really seen to be able to ally anyone else because lol Orthodox in Asia, I'll think about dealing with them later.

>At least you are fighting the Commonblob, tovarish.
Yeah, managed to stackwipe one of their armies and their manpower is lower tham mine. I can win this fairly smoothly all things considered, think I'll focus on then first, then I'll fix that ottomeme nonsense in the Black Sea

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>>168423912
Is he our guy?

>>168444474
Respectfully Helpful x 1

>>168443236
>Greece gets parts of Anatolia but not constantinople

>>168444039
Pretty sure he knows how to form it, that's not the question being asked at all. He wants to know how to get Utah to be a state so he can enact that decision.

>>168443728
If you're trying to make Utah a state, and you aren't getting any migration even with the focus you're just shit out of luck.

So I'm still trying to get the After the End mod and another mod to work, but I can't figure out where it is going wrong. The mods are listed as active and I have them checked in the launcher, but when the map for AtE isn't popping up. When I try to use the console to give my characters traits from the vampirism mod I have installed it can't find the traits. I made sure they were spelled correctly and the mod path is documents\ paradox interactive\cruasder kingsII\mod to match the paths in the mods themselves. The .mod files are in the \mod folder and not in the folders containing the mods. What am I doing wrong here?

>>168443236
pretty gud, Bavaria and Poland look ugly but Ive never seen a pretty AI-made Poland in this game

>>168445439
makes sense, there were plans to give Greece area around Smyrna/Izmir because, unlike Constantinople, it still had a Greek majority

>>168435737
Never, ever encourage socialists. Give the cunts an inch, they take a mile.

In a game as the Dutch, I encouraged socialists to get state capitalism. The socialist party was comfortably in power and I had made every single political and social reform.

BAM. Radical socialists rebel, and overtake my country in days. The people they installed in power had already been in power for 3 or 4 years.

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I can't find Johan's tirade about pirates being exactly like pedophiles.

pls post

>>168433702
>Also I think you can only make Guards out of your primary culture pops.
Primary or accepted cultures can become guards.

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Is HPM dead?

>>168438328
>>168438369
>>168438501
>>168443728
>>168445549
>Mormon Exodus decision in HPM requires Utah to be a state
>in real life Utah was only a territory during the Mormon Exodus

"Historical" Project Mod

>Tfw its impossible to have strategic battles in EU4 anymore because the AI will immediately abandon all their sieges to throw their troops into the meat grinder against yours

War is so boring at this point

>>168442127
Tips for not getting assblasted by Russia as Persia?

>>168447641
>playing europa memeversalis 4

I won the starting war against France as England and now they're in a PU under me.
I don't want to colonize and expand too much.
Should I force English culture on France and hope to inherit them later on?

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Should i let this happen?

>>168446582
Never again

Damn I just tried Sengoku Rance and it really IS grand strategy

>>168447801
Fuck yea

>>168447723
They're too big to inherit, you'll have to wait and integrate them.
I don't know if they'll culture-convert their french provinces if you force culture on them. If they don't then all you'll be doing is causing more rebellions.

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La Plata

>>168448268
I thought that converting their culture would make sense if they started to colonize so that all of their colonies would share my culture.
I want to get ndustrial Evolution (25 development in every England province) by the end of the game and I don't know if I can do that while colonizing half the world like GB would.

I am a Hellene and I am superior to everyone in this thread

The national anthem of Qing

>>168447594
he went back to his rightful home on /r/paradoxplaza

>>168447594
No, he posted here a few days ago. Just search the archive to see his last post..

>>168448487
>le spoiler joke
>>>/r/paradoxplaza

I got blacked but my kid have nice traits.
Don't know how to feel desu

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>>168447145

>>168448727
>le greentext
>>>/r/4chan

>>168447594
Worse. In China.

What is the "The National Anthem of Qing" meme?

>>168449471
the newest dank meme from /r/paradoxplaza

>>168449569
And why is it a meme there?

>>168449657
because its le random

>>168449793
Thanks
t. maymay student

>>168447687
You get the same army techs Russia usually has by the time you westernize (between 1850 and 1855) and both Germany and Austria try to ally you.

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long boy

>Primitive Nation
>Uncivilized Nation
>Partially Westernized Nation
What do these represent in history? I've been wondering for a long time.

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the potato stands triumphant

>>168450312
They don't represent anything, because every country in V2 that has its own borders is civilized. They're just technologically way behind the west.

>>168450312
McDonalds per capita

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CK2 here.

Why the fuck does my vassals adopt Feudal governments if their main government (my Egyptian empire) is Imperial?

Is it some sort of bug? I am supposed to be able to retract any titles from them as the emperor, but they get buttmad anyways while being feudal.

>>168450312
>primitive
somalia during the 1800s (and right now kek)
>uncivilized
qing during the vic2 time period
>partially westernized
persia, japan mid meiji restoration

>>168450725
What about Ethiopia?

>>168450658
there is no imperial government in CK2

are you using a mod

>>168450873
don't know much about ethiopian history other than they really wuz kangz and they btfo italishits.

>>168450312
>primitive nation
tribes with very weak horizontal or vertical structure. zulu, xhosa, kokand

>unciv
nation with strong structure but no technology. Qing, korea, egypt

>partial westernized civ
tokugawa, persia, mughals

>>168450578
good lad

t. Irelad

>>168450908
there is, are you stupid?

>>168450658
Because when you're an Imperial government you're supposed to revoke all your idiot vassal's hereditary titles and hand them back viceroys instead.

>>168451384
>tfw i got to nothing because germany steamrolled france, austria and russia alone
at least i killed 200k english soldiers

>>168451384
hey fuck you

im about to buy a dlc for CK2

im torn between soa and reapers due

which is better?

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>>168451564
all you can hope for, killing brits.

@168451639
wow rude.

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>>168451652
>buying paradox games
>buying paradox dlc

>>168451652
t.paradox shill

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>>168451516
Thanks friend. It turned out I could revoke the titles freely anyways. Huh.

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>>168449297
thanks

>>168451870
fuck off t*rk reee based trump and putin will nuke your ass of the planet!! desus belt praise kek

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>>168451846
>>168451857
i-im sorry

dead thread

>>168452361
ded gaymes

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I haven't played any grand strategy for over a year now and really want to get back into a decent game of Vicky 2 or perhaps even CK2.

Does anyone have any good ideas for an interesting playthrough or any mods to check out? I also have HoI3 and EU4 but I played HoI3 to death and I can't get into EU4 at all.

Please help, I'm bored as fuck and miss /gsg/.

>>168452628
Robmod for Liq 2

>>168452628
Westernising as Persia in HPM is the new quickly forming germaniums

>>168452628
I'm having a lot of fun with California in Vicky right now. So many immigrants.

In CK2 funnest game I ever had was taking Hasteinn of Nantes, leapfrogging my way to Crimea and setting up another Norse kingdom in eastern Europe with my boys Rurik and the other dude.

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>>168451870
?

>>168453075
Why doesn't Constantinople produce Silk?

>>168453171
Byzantine monks stole silk worms from china and brought them home.

>>168453171
>why doesn't a country with no silk worms produce silk?

>>168453282
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_silk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smuggling_of_silkworm_eggs_into_the_Byzantine_Empire

>>168453276
Yeah so it should be produced there

>>168453421
How the hell did they get a hold of Silk worms?
Wasn't it closely guarded by the Imperial palace?

>>168453851
>look wang wong ching chong, it's jesus!
>nani?

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>AI Denmark
>Great power

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>>168451741
>tfw the potato stands supreme
how long should i occupy them for?

>>168454267
what happened to Netherlands and Belgium?

>>168454516
until they all perish dismante their empire as well if you can.

>>168454267
Did they add a dismantle CB during a great war?

>>168454640
>dismante their empire as well if you can.
not enough war score for that i do wish i had chosen to take Scotland rather than free them but there still time for me to crush them again

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>>168454640
phase one complete

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http://poal.me/h0s5cj
http://poal.me/h0s5cj
http://poal.me/h0s5cj
http://poal.me/h0s5cj

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>>168455126
What colonies will you go for? Also Gaelic union when? add scottish as accepted and annex Scotland

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r8

>>168455325
i was going to take scotland but i decided they deserved freedom instead not sure what colonies i'm gonna take hopefully i can ally the us so i can feed them canada

>>168455513
>bulgarian dick into macedonia
why

>>168455513
>that disgusting germany
>that disgusting austrohungarian egypt
your map is disgusting

>>168454672
Nah, they've not been in great wars yet. They're losing GP status now as well.

>>168454640
Both have got equally cucked in wars with Germany and France, and Netherlands got dismantled in the Great war.

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Infamy to burn, not sure what to burn it on. Event hasn't fired to restore order to colonies. If it doesn't fire because Andine Federation I will fire it in the early 70s.

>>168456237
Reclaim Italian holdings.

>>168456398

I thought about puppeting two Sicilies, but 9 militancy consistently to break free would be a bit much.

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Worth?
Is this GREAT DEALS AGAIN?

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based russia

>>168457012
do NOT buy paradox games

>>168457107
Why not?

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>>168457196
Because they're j-

>>168457012
>23 Eurorinos
I got the same bundle for mere 10 Euros, 3 years ago.

>>168457196
>supporting the company that made shit4 and goy4
Paradox isn't making good games anymore.

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>>168457305
oh no

>>168457475
now pirate the DLCs.

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>>168453171
DELENDA EST

>>168457475
What a fucking retard.

>>168457550
sure

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>>168457014
goddamnit game

>>168424438
trying to understand what each of these mean and am just confused

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>>168457475
>Liqqy 2 lowest rated
>EU 4 highest rated

LIQUORIA BABBIES BTFO

>>168458073
Most of them are just meme ideologies.

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Anyone give Realpolitiks a try? I smashed Ukraine good, but the US invaded and we traded Nuclear Strikes and got engaged in a forever war. The UI is a bit obtuse but it could be amusing, especially in an african war.

Also their loading screens are pretty fantastic.

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r8 my europe m8

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Oh shit I tried pirating the games and this appeared what do i do??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEkDsUrmFC4
Why is Liszt so good

>>168458683
Cause of thematic transformation.

Is it a good Idea to do stupid shit or declare wars you can't win or make custom nations as rebels or something when you get too powerfull? (Maybe do It when you get a shit king)

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now THIS is grand strategy

>>168460172
in what game

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look Japan and CV (Aircraft Carriers)

>>168460321
Sengoku Rance

>>168460380
hehe, get fucked

Should I give some random European powers some bits of India and the East Indies (since they aren't colonizing and they're only a little bit behind Europe anyways) and should I increase Persia's development a little bit? Since they're BTFO'ing the t*rks so much and I want a decent enemy in the East

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>>168460886
for fuck's sake

about to get into eu4

any pointers?

any tips or need to know info?

>>168460886
>>168461482
>Should I give some random European powers some bits of India
No, not with Vaginanigger and co. so powerful

>and the East Indies
Post them and I'll tell you

>and should I increase Persia's development a little bit
Why not

>>168461558
Watch Arumba's 69 part beginners guide.

>>168461558
the only pointer you need is one pointing to uninstall.exe

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I have two questions

First, Am I the only one that gets a raging hard-on every time he forces a bunch of prisoners from another religion to be his concubines?

Second, I just realized I don't have any real final goal for this game, any ideas? I was thinking of conquering all the celtics but I guess I could also try to invade france or reform the faith.

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>>168461652

>>168461558
uninstall.exe and start building liquor factories and promoting bureaucrats in liqqy 2 like a normal human being.

>>168461558
sure buddy. play castile or england. and just learn the shitty mechanics of the game. they may seem complicated but in reality they are overly simplified shitty mechanics that after 1 hour you should handle all of them.

wtf guys why don't you like eu4 :(

>>168458073
autism

>>168461808
>meme start
>over demesne limit
>having concubines with gavelkind succession
>accomplishing this little with hastein
Remove yourself.

>>168461818
>three large states and Breton Moluccas
It's mostly fine, but if you'd like you could give the Yuros a few of the uncolonized provinces and maybe a OPM or two

>>168448378
sim city is not gsg material

>>168462278
But it's not fine, there's not a single European army in all of Asia, and they don't declare any wars. I don't know what the fuck the AI is doing desu
>>168462348
That's not sim city its Cities:Skylines

Is there a type of factory that benefits from having precious metals in the state?

>>168462447
>there's not a single European army in all of Asia
It ain't the 19th century yet, pal, and if the natives are in large organized states just giving land to the Yuros doesn't make any sense at all

>>168462208
Old Gods is only a meme start if you're not playing Norse desu.

>>168462953
>all the world has the same tech levels
>yuros are colonizing nigeria instead of the rich east indies
wow really activates the almonds

>>168463036
n*rseniggers are the biggest meme of them all.

>>168463094
>this is a believable world according to johan

>>168463220
You're just salty they beat you to North America.

>>168461558
If youre not at war then you're doing it wrong

>just a year ago this was one of the fastest generals on /vg/
>now its dead
/v/ has been taken over by MOBAtards and Counterstrike kids

>>168464567
Theres only so much shit you can say about 4 year old games.

>>168464567
The shitposters keeping this general alive left when Cobra got doxxed and now it's mostly /r/paradoxplaza.

>>168461890
Because they're all tryhard /v/irgins

>>168464881
tjohan

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Best country to go commie as?

>>168464973
Mexcio.

>>168464973
india

>>168464973
la plata

>>168464973
Maghreb Union

>>168464567
HPM has slowed down and the same games get old. EU4 has been raped by the devs; its not remotely fun anymore

>>168465275
This one does sound pretty interesting t bh

My pirated DLCs stopped working yesterday what happen

What's the difference between grand strategy and 4x?

>>168465740
u got unpirated m8

>>168465740
What game?

>>168465740
Oooooh you're gonna get vac banned m8

>>168465841
CK2

>>168465787
4x is about simulating boardgame type gameplay in a computer game form
grand strategy is about simulating highly abstracted real life in a computer game form

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>>168465940
The same thing happened to me desu. Just run the activator again.

>>168465958
Cool. What's a good grand entry-level grand strategy game?

>>168465958
Then EU and HOI. They're literally based off board games.

EU4 is even graphically made to look like a board game.

>>168466107
Stellaris is the easiest because it's a hybrid between 4x and GS.

>>168466107
Liquor factory and bureaucrat simulator.

Does anyone know what the difference between "a noble from house (dynasty) succeeds to the throne" and the immediate PU is? Cause France's king died. For about a year, I was set to inherit. They were the first to outlaw slavery and jumped above me in prestige. It switched to my dynasty getting on the throne. Another year later, they've fallen down to 40 and I'm at 100, but it remains "a noble from house (dynasty) succeeds to the throne"

>>168464567
Is a new grand strategy game in development?
Can someone brake paradox monopoly?

>>168466295
EU4 is Risk with some cosmetics.

>>168466689
We can.

>>168464973
play third odyssey

>>168466107
>>168466432
don't play stellaris until after the patch comes out
and then don't play until a month later when the bugs are mostly fixed

>>168467371
Who?

>>168467469
fuck off mayaka

>>168467338
what patch? are there any dlcs yet? i only played stellaris when it came out and i haven't touched it since.
Are there any good mods yet?

>>168467371

What the fuck am i watching.

>>168467596
>what patch?
google it cuck