/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

>>168827479
Fucking based.

>>168827479
Fucking white.

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>>168827380
At first light on the cold morning of December 2nd, 1937, the entire Guomin Geming Jun begins Operation Yanqiu. The Second Sino-Japanese War has begun in earnest.

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>>168827465
Use the proper op pic next time lad
>>168827479
>>168827549
>>168827712
quality maymay

>>168827479
W&B.

>>168828010
>nemfags get out

huh?

>>168827479
W H I T E
B
A
S
E
D

>>168827479
FUCK YOU SERIOUSLY JUST FUCKING KILL YOURSELF PLEASE

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neat

it's a shame I'm gonna dismantle it into puppet states later

>>168827479
White.

>>168828127
>outing yourself as being an illiterate nigger

>15 years planning to assassinate my childless liege
>15 years trying to fabricate claims to his land
>No one comes ot my feasts
>I can't bribe anyone to join my plots
fun.

>>168827479
OH MAN, I was about to reply to and not report shitposts but luckily your post reminded me to be a good citizen and do what you said. Close one.

>>168828393
me irl

>>168827479
Childhood is idolizing Steamcord, adulthood is realizing R&I made more sense.

>>168828393
t.stannis

>>168828270
Expand Guangdong.

>>168827479

>Sometimes it is said that cobra cannot be trusted with /gsg/ himself. Can he, then be trusted with the steamgroup? With the discord? Or have we found angels in the form of R&I to remind him to report and ignore shitposting? Let history answer this question.

- Thomas Jefferson

Should I do my first HoI3 playthrough vanilla?

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How is this for a partition of the Levant?

Also, how do you release the dynamic tags?

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Reminder >>168826473

>>168828959
Same answer as with every other game ever, with exception to maybe Arma 2, yes.

>>168828994
bretty gud

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>>168828994
>Not releasing Palestine as a secular Arabic republic

'tis shit-tier laddddddo.

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Reminder.

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>>168827968
Initial operations are highly successful, with minimal losses for the Guomin Geming Jun and major defeats for Japanese forces. Although Jiang does nothing to quell the sense among the men that victory is inevitable, he knows better than to draw any great conclusions based off of this: the soldiers encountered so far by the Second Juntuan are mere scouts, a few brigades of soldiers prodding at the extreme ends of the lands which fell under their control when Taiyuan fell.

Although the early victories earn rousing cheers and keep the spirits of the soldiers high, he knows that the true test is to come. Only more Japanese will be encountered as they march forward.

>>168827479
test

>>168829224
>p*lestine
>>>>reddit

>>168829238
Add another tier for Aurora 4X

>>168829265
How can any human being play Hearts of Iron 3 and have fun with it? I tried to get into this game several times but there are too many layers of autism.

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>but theres no such thing as a

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>>168829396
>Israel
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>/r/the_donald

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>>168829553
Rate my perfect europe?

>>168829553
le epin grossgermanium blob meme is so hilarious xd

trully never gets old after being overused since the beginning of /gsg/

>>168829396
>israel
>>>/r/leftypol

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>>168829607
Stop posting this.

Whats a good cultural union to play in EU4? I tried playing Irish but got bored when no one would war with me.

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>>168829764
You just jealous?

>>168829508
Well anon, the first trick is to be an incurable autist.

I don't know, I enjoy it quite a lot. But I also actually have fun with the OOB; even if I find it a little tedious, I usually do really like doing it. That's where most people trip up.

As for everything else, you just need to know how the different command levels work, how supply is likely to fuck you, and other things like that (to be successful, anyway). Oh, and having garrisons to put down revolts, of course.

So long as you play smart and play aware it's actually really fun, until it gets too simple. The one major downside of HoI3 is that there really is a "proper" way to play, so long as you have the IC to pull it off, and it gets quite boring because of that. All the best divisional types for pretty much any situation are all mostly identical.

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>>168829553
>2nd

>>168829596
>>168829396
>Palestine
>Israel

Jerusalem is rightfully a UN-administered territory in cooperation with all Abrahamic religions

>>168829780
France.

>>168829875
I unironically think it would be better off to have everything in that region bulldozed, the people cleared out, and have the Chinese come and build a confucian qingqong metropolis in its place.

>>168829826
Yeah and the fact playing as any nation outside of Europe or Asia (Excluding Australia, the US and Canada obviously.) is literally impossible. It's railroaded as fuck.

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r8 my Grande Cuba

>>168830073
>not resettling all the closeted Zoriastrians from Iran, India and Zanzibar there instead

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How do you make a country use a different flag for a constitutional monarchy? I used the govt_flag = theocracy like HPM told me, but it still doesn't work. Does anyone know? Pic related is supposed to be absolute monarchy flag, but is the only one that shows up. (ignore the name, i fixed it in the flag files)

>>168830095
You need to liberate the British and French colonies and create a Carribean Federation

>>168829891
Meiou France is a shit show. You have to wait 100 years just to drag it all together or 50 if you want to organize the vassals.Then you have claims of all of Naples you have to force, large parts of the HRE to take... I tried it once. Once I got Naples the game was just wait for

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>>168829607
This is the perfect Europe

>>168830078
Yeah, in many respects I prefer DH. I think a DH system with HoI3 combat would be a perfect game, but since we got "muh abstraction simulator" 4 that's not likely to happen in the next decade.

>>168830095
>6.8%

>>168830095
Now use the US to reclaim Cayman and the Bahamas.

>>168829508
I find it to be too simple, it lacks depth to satisfy my autism.

But pretty much im a naziboo and i like ww2, thats enough to like the game.

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>>168830224
and pic related is what i want to be the constitutional monarchy flag, but doesn't show up at all. govt_flag = theocracy doesn't work (again, ignore the name, i fixed it in the gfx files)

>>168830285
>Game starts in 1356
>complains that feudalism is still a heavily present institution in France

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Perfect Europe

>>168830510
SIMPLY EPIN XD

>>168830510
kiss yourself

>>168830372
literally me

t. certain memesupremecord user

>>168830569
>>168830586
Not an argument.

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Ok, do I give parts of the CAR to the neighbors? Congo to the Congo, West Cameroon to Nigeria and Gabon to Gabon.

Or do I leave the blob? (it's all African Minor accepted anyway)

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>>168830510
only acceptable europe

>>168830727
Release Congo as a puppet, keep Gabon to yourself (it has like 20k pops anyway, right?) and keep the Chad-Cameroon-CAR blob.

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>>168829265
By the evening of December 5th, Taiyuan has been retaken by the Japanese, and forces under Yan who had defected to Mao in the region north of Taiyuan have been cut off by a Japanese armored push to the south. Isolated and with the only major city in the region captured by their enemies, their destruction is certain; even if it wished to, the Guomin Geming Jun cannot reach them in time. Yet there is hope that it will be able to retake Taiyuan, at least, and do justice to their fallen leader.

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>>168829265
how many (you) do you need to continue lad?

>>168830792
>cheating as germany

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>>168829553
:-DDD

>>168830937
The Seleucids did nothing wrong.

>>168830792
don't post my blob

>>168830792
>Any darky existing
>perfect

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>>168830792
I beg to differ.

>>168830439
Only complaining about the speed it takes to put everything under control. At little to no reward. I mean you get alot of Italy but other then that... A legitimate claim on the entire kingdom of Sicily from ck2, all of England, distant claims of Spain. Probably make Italy England and Spain into Vassals in a long game.

>>168830792
>ottomans

>>168831095
>T*rks in the Balkans
Dropped

>>168830248
Is there actually a Carribean Federation nation? I don't have any unique decisions as Cuba so far. Just generic stuff.

>>168830323
I'm working on it, geeze.

>>168830353
What's the best year to do that?

>>168830994
that may be true

but Carthage did even less wrong

>>168829676
>israel
>left
pick one

>>168831095
>No Kars
Also """""""""dismantled"""""""""" France is a fucking meme, HPM really needs to put Occitans back in.

>>168831217
No idea if there is a CF, but just pretend there is desu

>>168831294
Tel Aviv is literally the LGBTBBQETCETC capital of the world lad

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>>168830921
The first major Japanese force is encountered the following evening at Hejian: a group of elite infantry, two tank divisions, and three infantry divisions, all grouped south of Tianjin. The surprising amount of armor is both worrying and frustrating for Jiang, who had hopes to capture Beijing before the Kwantung could reorient.

Nevertheless, it appears that the Imperial Japanese promise of reinforcements to the Kwantung were at least somewhat facetious; the highest-ranking officer that Jiang's subordinate General, Xu Yongchang, can identify is a Captain. It appears the Kwantung is operating largely without Imperial support, despite last year's proclamation.

Even so, two tank divisions are nothing to trifle with. Jiang orders reinforcements to Hejian, although the ultimate goals of Operation Yanqiu are maintained.

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find a flaw

>>168831493
Gays are mainstream western culture now, maybe not in eastern euro slum nations. Also, not world, regional
Don't forget leftist and international condemnation of any and all israeli military actions. Just because Haaretz wants refugee cock doesn't mean israel does

>>168831095
>you will never live in the Free Catalan Province of the Northeastern Pyrenees

Where's the best place to get cracked DLC for genuine EU4? Does the old activator still work?

>>168831692
Me on the right.

>>168831582
How did you do this anyways, play, take a screenshot, and pause to write? Or take the screenshots and come back to them afterwards and write.

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>>168830095
>>168830353
I'm using the US to take minor's land right now, if Denmark breaks their alliance with England I'm eating their islands too.

A bit torn about the Dutch East Indies there, considering it's a state of the Netherlands and not just a colonial province.

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>>168831692
>Ale Mania

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>>168831582
From the 6th of December to the 13th of December, under the operational command of Yang Aiyuan of the Eighth Jun, the Eighth and Ninth Armies move into position south of Tianjin and begin simultaneous assaults at Hejian. Although all forces are unfortunately attacking over rivers, they are also doing so over an incredibly broad area, and even Japanese tanks begin to have trouble holding the line against the mass assault of militiamen.

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>>168830919
What about this? Do I make GrossNigeria and GrossGuinea or GrossNiger and KleinGuinea?

>>168832381
The United Kingdom of Grosse Shitskinistan

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>>168832381
>independent guyana

>>168832381
Do you still have AL at 17th place for military

>>168832381
whatever you're doing, it looks bad

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>>168827479
Who is R&I?

>>168832018
Typically what I do is play long enough to take a couple screenshots, write, and go back to playing. The way that I like doing it is to play at night and get 5-10 screenshots ahead of where I am during the day, then gradually post and play during the day until I catch up to myself, then put posting on hold again for that night.

For this AAR though, because I had limited time, I played the whole AAR through ahead-of-time and am just now writing it. Right now I'm about 25 written posts ahead of where the posting is at right now, and I have probably somewhere around 125 posts left to write up.

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How am I doing for my first CK2 game guys?

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>>168832775
>I have probably somewhere around 125 posts left to write up.
Jesus Christ anon why do you put yourself through this?

>>168832775
Good shit man

>>168832539
where?

>>168832676
of course

>>168832985
How? I wanted to do a klein franciums run, but with AL. Do you have an annual kraut rape?

>>168832973
>Cropping

>>168832974
>Jesus Christ anon why do you put yourself through this?
Because, for some completely unknowable reason, I actually like /gsg/

Also I just like doing AARs. I've gotten to that point where just playing Paradox games isn't fun anymore, so I have to construct a narrative to have real fun with it. It also challenges me to put rules on myself and how I play, like in the CK2 AAR where I had house rules I had to follow.

It does get ridiculously tedious by the end of an AAR though--by that point I'm always happy that it's over.

>>168833353
>I actually like /gsg/
Have you been evaluated?

What exactly does having a puppet get you in Victoria 2?

I puppeted Panama instead of annexing them as Cuba. Thinking of puppeting more nations, but I don't actually know exactly what it does.

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Cont from last night
>The afternoon of March 11, 1936

Reactionary elements within the government made their moves before President Zapata had given up the ghost. Quickly securing key installations within Mexico City the counter-revolutionaries marched into the Chamber of Deputies and announced the end of the Socialist Republic of Mexico. Generals Garza and Treviño took control of the situation and a military junta convened by sunset.

Resistance to the Junta is light and scattered as the leftists struggle to form a coherent command structure.

>>168833610
I want to play KR but the UI annoys me.
I know how reddit that is, lads, you don't need to tell me.

>>168833584
A little more economic shit than just sphereing. Mostly it ensures you'll never lose them, they'll ally with you, role playing purposes and you can changeowner their provinces with other puppets

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>>168832363
In the meantime the northern pocket of Shanxi troops has been isolated and destroyed, but there is hope yet for Taiyuan: under the operational command of the excellent General Fu Zuoyi, the Japanese mobile forces in Fenyang are broken, and the First Jun moves into position, alongside communist forces, to exploit the breach. Although the tank division which served to pocket Mao's north group is still at the edge of Taiyuan, it's hoped that forces of the Second and Third Armies, rushing from the east, will be able to capture mountain positions in time to engage and pin it until Taiyuan can be secured.

Yet this hope is becoming more and more illusory, as masses of Kwantung forces, many with tanks to support them, roll into the fields south of Beijing. Although the Armies fight well for now, they are already becoming exhausted and tied down. Whether or not the full extent of the defensive line called for in Stage 2 of Operation Yanqiu can be achieved is uncertain, much less the capture of Beijing, or the launching of Case Bai Qi.

>>168833805
>cheating

Lads, is using HPM + MishMash Mapmod bugged, or is it something on my end?
I get several provinces in their wrong regions (1 province of Inner Mauritania in Northern Macedonia as an example).

>>168833912
Anon, I've gotta admit, it's pretty ahrd to get engaged with this as it's all pre-done
I'm liking it, but I just can't take that bug from behind my ear

Are your future AARs going to be made in this style?

>>168833353
>It does get ridiculously tedious by the end of an AAR though

Do you play an AAR all the way through a game's time frame?

If so, you have more patience than 99% of players here. I usually stop once I've blobbed to my maximum aesthetic borders or I just get bored.

I fucking HATE the fact that in CK2, rebels will not surrender if they're also at war with someone else and that third party has occupied some of their land. Even if you have 100% war-score, if some nigger county in bumfuck nowhere is occupied, they won't quit.

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>>168832381
1 trillion hours on paint

>>168834145
It means the MMM isn't up to date with its regions.txt. Make sure you've got the most recent version of both mods (and there aren't any other mods interfering with them).

>>168834145
I think MMMM has its own region file, so I'd suggest deleting it

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Ok, maybe I should combine the Toucouleur Republic and Guinea.

>>168833096
I edited the save to take the cores out :^)

>>168834457
>>168834494
That's odd, I have MMMM and use it for both HPM and NWO with no province problems.

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>>168833805
Interesting.

>>168834586
eww

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>>168833912
Unfortunately, the Japanese predicted the movement of the First Jun. An entire corps of soldiers has arrived in Taiyuan, far too many for the First Jun to shake without additional support. For the time being, it digs in and waits for better news from the east, if it is forthcoming.

With the exception of the First Cavalry Division, that is, the only cavalry group in the entire Guomin Geming Jun. Its commander, Feng Yuxian, takes the initiative and launches an assault on Japanese positions in Fangshan, in the hopes that surrounding the Japanese forces in Taiyuan on multiple sides will allow the First Jun, with support from communist forces, to capture Taiyuan on their own. It is a dim hope, but with little else to do, Feng makes the decision to do whatever he might to push the Japanese back.

>>168834214
No, this was done as a test to see whether or not it was a feasible model, but I don't like it and I'm not going to do it in the future. It will restrict the amount of AARs I can do, because I have less free time as I've said, but I'm at least not going to play all the way through before releasing again.

>>168834285
>Do you play an AAR all the way through a game's time frame?
It depends, sometimes I do but most of the time I just try to complete a strategic objective, or go until the point where the AAR gets boring to the audience. I finished the Napoleon AAR, but the CK2 AAR I stopped after it got too easy, and this AAR I just had a strategic goal in mind.

>>168835230
stop, that's not very kind of you anon

Is Realpolitiks gud?

Will most likely buy CKII in the next steam sale. What DLC is worth the money?

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>March 12, 1936

Despite being a god sent blessing for the Reactionaries the murder of President Zapata is still a crime that cannot go unpunished. Working on information from witnesses and anonymous informants we have received intelligence that leads us to believe the assassin is hiding in Coyoacan, ten kilometres south of Zocalo Square.

The interim President made his first official announcement today. As the citizens of Mexico stood on edge crowded around radios nation wide General Garza confirmed that the 1936 General Election was suspended indefinitely. Mexicans whisper in the streets of middle of the night raids against suspected socialists and of so called "death flights" being flown by the Mexican Air Force.

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>>168834793
After two weeks of constant hostilities and thousands of lives lost on both sides, the Republic of China has finally crushed the Japanese defenders at Hejian, freeing four full divisions for operations to the north.

For his rapid thinking in encircling the enemy and keeping Xu Yongchang's forces in the fight, Yang Aiyuan is granted the Order of the Sacred Tripod, Red Grand Cordon and Medal of the Brilliant Light, A-2 in a special ceremony on the grounds of the fighting two days later, after Jiang was flown in especially to present them to him. He is the first officer decorated for action in the Second Sino-Japanese war, ahead of even Jiang himself.

>>168834586
Don't give the brits those states, CAR looked aesthetic with cameroon, and hausaland just looks cancerous on nigeria

What are some good Colonies for a gross SwissReich ??

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>March 13, 1936

The assassin of President Zapata was captured in the early morning after police kicked in the door of 23 year old immigrant Ramón Mercader. Mercader, a radical socialist, was disillusioned with Zapata's policies and believed that the Presidents death would spark a second revolution - or so he claims. The police have been searching his home for hours but it appears he expected to be captures and set about burning any documents that tie him to foreign governments. The singed remains of British and French stationary were found in his fireplace and the murder weapon, an ice pick, was found stuffed in the back corner of a crawl space.

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>>168835983
Yang Aiyuan wastes no time proving to the Premier that he is a man of determination and action, worthy of the awards with which he has been decorated. On the morning of the 27th of December, just a day after the ceremony, elements of Aiyuan's Eighth Jun ford the Yongding and seize Tianjin from a skeleton force of Japanese defenders. A message is sent to the Premier, who had already flown back to the Second Juntuan after a brief inspection of the troops: "I have crossed the river and seized the gates. Beijing awaits the coming of our arms."

>>168836615
GroBcongoiums

>>168831849
Just use the one on the Hastebin.

>get attacked by polish one state vassal
>defend myself
>start attacking their only state and capital
>poland shows up with 4k men and ends my armies life because they're hostile due to raiding
What the fuck man? It's not even a raiding army, I'm literally just defending myself. They're not even in the war? Fucking CK2 is just constant frustration. I can't go a single year without getting attacked by some asshole.

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>>168837215
The First of January, one-thousand nine-hundred and thirty-eight years since the birth of Christ. Thirty-one days yet remain until the Year of the Tiger, yet this is nevertheless an especially auspicious day.

The unexpected victories of the Guomin Geming Jun, especially in the fording of the Yongding and capture of Tianjin, has galvanized support for Jiang. The peasants are now silent on his decision to delay while the war engulfed Shanxi, politicians smile and obey, and his Generals nod approvingly.

And so the first of the many days unlooked-for have arrived: the day when the Kuomintang is unified behind a single man. In this time, in this day, there is no room for traitors. Chen Guofu is seized in his small home in Nanjing, paraded before a sham council of the judiciary, and hanged as a traitor for stealing money from the peasantry.

In his place arrive two men loyal to Jiang, and the new Kuomintang: Bai Chongxi, a man with many production connections able to gather resources to slow China's mounting rare materials problem, becomes Minister of Armaments, while Kong Xiangxi, a born leader, is chosen to chair the Ministry of Internal Security. Not only does this assure that the Republic is well-led, it breaks the last dangerous power-bloc within the Kuomintang.

>>168837215
love what you're doing anon

I've noticed something in EU4 that might be helpful if you want to move from Europe to colonial regions. If you just move there and colonize you'll not get tordesillas claim (assuming you are catholic nation) and later some other country can get it and slow down your colonisation and destroy your realations with papacy. So better way to move to colonial region is to first create colonial nation/nations there and later after you move conquer them - this way you will have tordesillas claim on those colonial regions.

Are the bookmarked dates in EUIV still broken pieces of shit? Shan't be playing again until I don't have to play the cunting early game for the 6 gorillianth time.

Has anyone tried going stae by stage growing their HRE country like it was the actual country in real life? I cant fine any good timelines/maps. Either they arent detailed enough or they skip too long.

>>168839030
Generally, the further you get from 1444 the more fucked up and imbalanced the game gets.

I usually play 1453/1492, anything beyond that is hopeless.

>>168839030
They are broken. I attempted a napoleon start date and it was really shitty.

>>168839449
>1453/1492
Why do you play those? Why not just 1444?

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>>168838947
More good news arrives in the early hours of the following morning: beset on three sides by divisions under the First Jun, a Japanese tank division in Taigu has retreated with heavy losses. This bypasses the river to the south of Taiyuan, potentially opening the city for an assault by members of the First Jun alone, without support from the rest of the Second Juntuan.

Jiang gives orders to reorganize, resupply, and prepare to attempt an assault without support as soon as is possible. He still hopes to secure the body of Xishan for burial in Beijing as a symbol for the Guomin Geming Jun.

>>168839775
I'm an autist when it comes to countries following their historic railroading. Generally the closer I can get to certain tags being 'nudged' into their historical path (but without the game breaking) the better for me.

It's one of the reasons I like Vic II and hate CKII so much

>>168839030
They are only decent if you want to win the titular war in the historical starting positions. Outside of that they aren't worth it. Just go from 1444

Why the fuck can't I ever win a war in EU4

>Start a battle
>going fairly even for the first few seconds
>Suddenly AI going 900mph gets all of its forces over somehow despite me having forts
>Cant recover because manpower is rarer than gold so I just end up losing

Did anyone try CK2-EU4 save conversion? How imbalanced is game after that? I would assume Europe is even stronger in comparsion to the other parts of the world. And what happens with CK2 HRE and India?

>>168839449
Yeah I know.

>>168839667
Shame. I wanted to do the same thing.

>>168840285
Not even good for that. Literally impossible to win the Eighty Years War as Netherlands.

Really wish that Paracucks would just fucking fix them. Really all they would need to do is standardise the province dev and armies. I WANT TO LARP AS NETHERLANDS IN THE EIGHTY YEARS WAR REEE AND NOT BORE MYSELF TO DEATH FORMING COUNTRIES REEE

>>168840271
Did you try turning off lucky nations? How much does this affect 'historicness' of the game?

>>168839775
I have to say if there is any reason to start with 1492 its to force the burgundy inheritance. Its frustrating that such an important early game event is 90% rng.

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>>168840040
News of two more critical victories arrive shortly thereafter. Later on the same day, news that Yongqing, just south of Beijing, had been seized with heavy Kwantung losses is met with elation in Nanjing, as all that remains to begin Phase 3 of Operation Yanqiu is the securing of the ford to the northwest of the city.

Two days later, equally good news--if of a more muted nature--arrives: although suffering heavy losses, Chinese forces from the Second Juntuan seize the highly-defensible mountain passes at Laiyuan. This not only shortens the front, but will make it easier to hold and free up forces for the eventual launching of Case Bai Qi--provided, of course, the fords at Beijing can be secured, and the city can be properly encircled.

>>168840847
Forcing that from 1444 makes more sense, doesn't it? Why is it easier in 1492? I've always made it whenever I wanted.

>>168840587
Lucky nations makes the countries whose power waned over the game's timeframe powerful all the way from 1444-1821. It can lead to ridiculousness like France and England being absolute powerhouses in the 15th century and the Ottomans having a continent-spanning and technologically-advanced empire right into the 19th century.

Although it technically makes historically-significant countries perform well it does this at the expense of game balance and by giving the AI retarded bonuses. It's basically a crutch for poor coding.

My ideal solution for the issue would be to replace lucky nations with game mechanics or events that allow for countries which follow the same criteria and techniques as the great powers to fulfil their historic ambitions, instead of just tying it down to specific tags.

>>168841627
>not just divorcing then live how you want

>>168840401
don't attack defensive terrain.
if you are sieging a fort with defensive terrain and you are attacked, the game will act as if you are attacking.

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>November 9, 1936

The United States of America is shattered. It began with Douglas MacArthur and his men crossing the Potomac River and announcing that the 1936 Election would not go ahead as planned. The western states quickly met in Sacramento and announced their secession from the Union. Within hours Huey Long declared the United States a dead nation and Louisiana seceded from the nation, bringing most states south of the Mason-Dixon line with them. Seeing their chance the Combined Syndicates of America declared an open revolt against Washington and sought to ally themselves with the American Union State to no avail. Canada, Japan, Cuba, and others have taken this opportunity to seize American possessions abroad including Alaska, Guam, Panama, and the Pacific Islands. New England itself has been occupied by Canada.

Now is our chance for revenge. For decades the Gringo have oppressed us and kept us under their foot. Now with their nation in disarray they cannot possibly prevent us from restoring that which is rightfully ours. From San Francisco bay to the Gulf Coast, Mexico will rise once more.

>>168838590
You were hostile due to being at war wit their vassal

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>>168840515
also this is a common problem with late starts

>>168840401
Don't start what you can't finish

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>>168840938
Disaster! Although garrisons were prepared to defend the coast, it appears they are so undermanned, and the Japanese marines so well-trained, that they are simply being cut through as a scythe cuts through grain. The beleaguered Qingdao Zhubingshi desperately attempts to hold, but they are slowly but surely being thrown back from the coast.

He Yingqin orders three emergency divisions held in reserve to Qingdao immediately to hold off the Japanese and secure the port--should it fall before they arrive--but he and Jiang are both nervous. Should the Japanese land significant forces to the south, a full Jun or more might need to be diverted from the assault, and Case Bai Qi, and the critical encirclement of Kwantung forces that it represents, might fail.

Yet Jiang will receive worse news before the night is over: the Republic has run through its entire rare materials stockpiles. It will now be forced to survive on its own production alone. Before the end of the week factories grind to a halt, and tens of thousands of workers are out of work, requiring government compensation.

>>168841979
That would be logical technically but the game said hostile because of raiding.

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>>168842050
Mongolian Buddhists in the north caucuses.

>>168842586
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmykia

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>>168842586
>what is kalmykia

Is there a mod for CK2 that basically expands it with more options and shit? Like being able to rape prisoners and stuff. I want to put 'dark' into dark ages. I don't want reddit meme-mods which puts cringeworthy eastereggs into it though.

>>168842181
Good luck little Qingdao Zhubingshi

>>168842753
That is cool I didn't know that was a thing.

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>>168842181
With hostile landings in Qingdao and a worsening supply situation, an infuriated Jiang orders Yang Aiyuan, the "Marshal of the East," to attempt to encircle Beijing on his own, using just the position of Tianjin which he has secured, without further support. The order is borderline suicidal, but Aiyuan understands how dire the situation is and agrees to proceed with the operation.

To everyone's surprise, he is successful: despite a major supply shortage and simultaneous assault in Tianjin, Aiyuan's Eighth Jun breaks the Japanese defensive position at Jixian, inflicting almost two-to-one casualties in the process. Although his men have suffered major losses and are disorganized, he reassures Jiang that they will be ready to proceed in attempting to close the pocket within a matter of days. Although the Premier is still distressed, if Beijing can be encircled and the Qingdao assault repelled, the Republic will be in a much stronger position.

>>168830792
Is that Super Germany + the PLC? Was PLC via the Annex trick?

>>168841963
>DarkestHour.exe has stopped working
Well that's the end of that.

>>168842805
The """Dark Ages""" never existed. There was nothing dark about the centuries immediately after the fall of Rome. De-urbanization is not dark.

>>168843289
Oh god. I forgot this place was teeming with autists.

le
>dark

le
>holy
>roman
>empire

Look mom I can history XD

>>168843289
>De-urbanization is not dark.
It does lead to technological decay

>>168843664
>technological decay
>dark

>>168843664
>technological decay
Is that a meme?

>Beidras seeks to kill Beidras.

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>>168843005
Yet the situation in Qingdao is rapidly falling apart. The city itself, with its critical port, has fallen to a large invasion force of Japanese marines, who are now being supplied by the IJN. The emergency divisions which were being routed from He are still distant, and Jiang is pressingly concerned about the status of the front and the potential necessity of recalling divisions to deal with the breach.

He constantly reassures the Premier that the situation is well under control and that Qingdao will return to Chinese control before the end of the month, but even if he is correct he cannot efface the obvious: the Republic's garrison divisions are insufficient, and if the coast is to be struck again, at least one Jun will need to be rerouted south to protect the critical ports surrounding Nanjing. It is a bitter cup to drink, especially with Case Bai Qi so close to potential execution.

>>168843921
I am liking these, keep them coming

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>>168843289
>>168843664
>>168843797
>>168843817

This is getting out of hand

Bls answer
>>168842805

I wanna rape QT's in my prison

Is CK2+ a decent mod? I doubt there's rape, but if it's an overall good mod I can keep my dick in my pants.

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>>168843289
>near total depopulation of urban Europe
>moslem pirates controlling the Med, leading to the enslavement of millions of Europeans
>can't even make fucking aquaducts any more
>the french will be pissing in the halls of their cold, dank castles for the next 1000 years
>not dark
k lad

>>168843664

Not really technological decay either. Weak political forces moving in and the inability for the government to administer an empire caused the collapse of empire-wide infrastructure projects which supported large cities.

Rome could not survive a population of hundreds of thousands without extensive supply networks to ship grains from the breadbasket of the empires. So people left the cities, because no government existed that could wield that level of political strength. Its why few cities in Europe acquired that size until after a thousand years of centralization.

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>>168843797
>Europe not being dark

>>168844205
>>168843464
>>168843664
>>168843797
>>168843817
You are all assuming technology is the only thing that matters.

It isn't.

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What should I play desu

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>>168844503
>possibly the (read: the) only thing separating us from the beasts of the earth
>not the only thing that matters

>>168844743
Life is Strange you fucking sjw

>>168844743
>Meme simulator
>Lesbian Dykes™
gas yourself
>Putt-Putt
ur alrite

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>>168843921
With supreme reluctance and regret, Jiang is forced to admit the strategic infeasibility of Yanqiu. The front line must be immediately shortened to free up a Jun to travel south, not lengthened further. And the strategic resource stockpiles of Beijing must be seized as soon as possible to put as many factories in the Republic to work as they might, not after long delay.

Although Aiyuan worked a miracle in assaulting from the besieged and devastated Tianjin, the city behind him has not gotten any chance to repair, and his forces sit in the hilly terrain north of Beijing frequently out of supply from Nanjing. Aiyuan continues to reassure Jiang that his forces will be able to move with but a little more delay, but the Premier realizes these are merely the words of a General who does not wish to disappoint his commander, especially after being entrusted with so many critical operations; the Eighth Jun is effectively immobile.

Therefore, reluctantly, Jiang orders Xue Yue of the Third Jun to assault Beijing from the south, at Yongqing. After a full and furious week of fighting, it is done: Beijing, the city of the Manchu Emperors, has been captured, and the Yongding forded again.

>>168844884
already did desu, Chloe worst girl desu

>>168844743
Easily Putt-Putt

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How does this work
>Area is 55k pops
>95% farmers
>only 12k employed
>Bedouins primarily employed that existed there before
>Zero unemployment subsidies

What?

>>168844164
HIP is the best all-purpose mod, IMO. CK2+ is alright, but HIP has more features and SWMH, which I think is HIP-only, is probably the best reason to play CK2 at all. Obviously it doesn't include rape though.

Although it includes a fair bit of religions that think incest is a-ok.

>>168844986
>the Yongding
Kek
Chinese is funny

>>168844743
Running with Rifles. We need more people playing it.

>>168844836
>the only thing
the humanities my mang

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will they be able to hold it?

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>>168844986
Although He would much rather keep the situation in Qingdao as far from Jiang's ears as possible, Jiang's Juntuan HQ is directly in the path of the traincars of troops rattling by, and his friend at the Guomin Geming Jun HQ cannot hide that even further emergency divisions have been routed to Qingdao in an attempt to keep control of the situation.

Although the Qingdao Zhubingshi has been entirely encircled and cut down to a man by the Japanese marines, however, the emergency divisions have arrived in time to prevent the Japanese forces from spilling out from the peninsula, which would have been the greatest threat. The generals move toward Qingdao, and unless significant Japanese reinforcements arrive the city should not only be retaken, but tens of thousands of Japanese troops will be taken prisoner.

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>>168845094

>Hit 75% province admin
>Suddenly RGO slams full
Anyways slammed over 200,000 pops into those two areas before I had enough bureaucrats to make it into a state as my only colony. Nice.
??

>>168844982
Lesbian Dykes™ a cute

>>168846463
dp

>>168846310
Post overall pops

>>168844743
Oblivion

>>168844743
Putt-Putt

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>>168846197
News arrives on the final day of January that Tianyuan has been captured by a combined army of communists and the First Jun... and turned over to the Maoist forces.

Jiang is beside himself with fury, until he hears the conditions of the city's surrender: the remains of Xishan will be turned over to the Guomin Geming Jun for burial in Beijing, as per Jiang's initial intentions. Although he still silently fumes that the communists have gained yet another stronghold, the terms are at least reasonable; his Generals have saved him from being embarrassed, as he would have been had Xishan's remains not been taken to Beijing per his orders.

With Taiyuan captured, the Premier allows himself time to reflect upon the status of the advance. Although Yanqiu has been deviated from, save for Phase 3 it has largely been accomplished. Beijing is in Republican hands, Taiyuan has been secured, and although the Japanese yet hold the mountains, the Yongding is largely held in force by the Guomin Geming Jun, providing a strong defensive position for the armies.

Yet the front is still long, and must be shortened if there is any hope of pulling even just a single Jun south to defend the coast. Much of Jiang's time is invested in thinking on one key matter: how to remove the Japanese forces from the mountains.

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Reminder that the Vistula River is objectively the best Eastern border for Germany

>>168847258
thats fucking disgusting desu senpai

>>168847258
Except it completely leaves out Prussia. Also, what are they going to do about all those Poles?

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>>168847445
>what are they going to do about all those Poles?

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>>168846609

Guide me through this early game and let me end this war over Waffles and Bongs and I shall show you anything you would like to know

>Bongs keep demanding we not reclaim our clay
>Militancy rising
>People begging for reprieve from the king

SEND THE TRAITORS TO INDONESIA

>>168847258
That's not how you spell Volga

>>168847393
Not with Bohemia included in the GrosseGermania it isn't lad

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Absolutely disgusting.

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>>168847864

>>168835878
pirate it all

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>>168847069
The solution Jiang hits upon is a modification of Case Bai Qi. The initial Case was, he now acknowledges, over-optimistic. Its execution is simply untenable while the Kwantung is able to mobilize the amount of forces against him that it clearly is, and while one of his own Jun must be placed on coastal defense. But if the mountainous region to the northwest of Beijing were captured to secure the flank, then the Guomin Geming Jun could launch from Taiyuan and the southwest of Beijing to encircle the Japanese defenders in the mountains. If they moved rapidly, they might even be able to encircle one of the Kwantung's tank divisions--a mighty prize indeed.

This would shorten the front, capture tens of thousands of Kwantung forces that they cannot afford to lose, and fully and finally free a Jun for operations on the coast. And, perhaps more importantly, since the prior version of Case Bai Qi was never announced to the public, it will not make Jiang appear foolish to revise it in such a manner.

As such, the Premier announces the effective success of Operation Yanqiu, officially closing that operation, and informs his generals of the immediate execution of Case Bai Qi.

>>168847864
No, they should be further. Europe is more fractured then it was in real life giving them a larger push into Europe. Maybe making it all Islamic this time.

>>168847864
>Australia
KYSKYSKYSYKSYKSYKSYKSYKSY UNINSTALL.EXE

>>168845131
What does HIIP include?

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>>168827465
>conquered the Uralic gold mine province early as part of standard Muscovy/Russia orthodoxy blob playthrough
>2 production, not enough states so it's a territory and getting <0.1 ducats per month
>pic related happens while I'm coring it
>540 ducats
sometimes rng is on your side

>>168848201
Epic, just epic my son.

>>168845131
Why is there no rape to begin with? There should be rape in my medieval simulator. I want to rape my mother.

>>168848460
t. freud

>>168848221
There are a lot of sub mods, including portrait mods like CPR+, but I can't really summarize. It adds more events, balance, SWMH adds a beautiful map with a shitload of provinces, etc.

Just don't use VIET if you're going to use it. And I wouldn't use the ARKO interface either.

>>168848460
Look senpai I agree with you but that's what mods are for.

pls lewdlad

>>168848585
I prefer caveman.

>>168845131
>HIP
>BEST
Its a buggy slow piece of shit that only really adds extra provinces. The events just come out blank or with no words on the choices.

>>168848965
Only if you have a mismatched version of HIP with CK2, or you installed the mod wrong (which would be a fucking accomplishment). I use it and it works fine.

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>>168848965

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>>168849151

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>>168848109
The two main Jun operating in the revised Case Bai Qi are the First Jun and the Sixth Jun.

The First Jun were the operational group which stabilized east Shanxi under the Maoist forces, and are under the command of German general von Falkenhausen. When HAPRO was recalled from the Republic, the one concession that Hitler's state permitted was von Falkenhausen's staying behind as an "adviser." In reality, Falkenhausen is very fond of the Chinese, and he refused to sit back and permit the Japanese to attack wantonly, so long as his government did not formally support them. While Jiang was initially uncertain about him, his expert leading of the First Jun has transformed them into one of the Guomin Geming Jun's ace formations. For his contributions to the war and his capture of Taiyuan, von Falkenhausen is indeed one of the first foreigners to be awarded an Order of the Republic of China: in his case, the Order of the Sacred Tripod, Special Cravat.

The Sixth Jun under Liao Lei has been more quiet, but in some ways even more efficient. Liao is an expert General, although he has yet to gain much respect for his operations. He took part in several major assaults into the mountains already performed, and his men are well on their way to becoming experts at assaulting rough terrain. Although his selection was made largely because of his Jun's position rather than his own prestige, it would have been difficult for Jiang to select a more competent man to execute the northern pincer.

>>168849092
Im fairly sure I put it in right, must be the version, Ive got a pirated copy and I just grabbed the mod not checking.
>>168849151
Probably my fault for the bugs but its just a tick above Meiou so slow is slow.

>>168849331
>HIP is slow

lol what? HIP is really fast ever since Meneth optimized the game.

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>>168849456

>>168849456
Ive probably got an older version because Ive got the latest game and they dont match so... Meiou is a day per second and this would be like if Meiou was 1/4 beats then this is 1/6 and without the pause on months.

>>168849331
>>168849456
He's running a pirated copy so it's probably fucking ancient, before the optimization.

Anon, get a new version of CK2 and the most recent version of HIP, and don't use VIET. It's actually really good, and the speed is pretty decent at least for 300 or so years, too. It's tolerable after that as well, still way better than MEIOU and Texas.

>>168849656
I got the CK2 from the 2nd to latest update and the HIP from the mod folder. The steam downloader doesnt work it plays the game but then its like the mod isnt active, you have none of the choices so I have to use the mod folder. I can update the game but cant do anything about the mod.

>>168849317
How did the Commies get that big?

Does the "as long as you know what you're doing" option for treatments ever fail in CK2? I don't think I've ever seen it fail, and it seems like there's no reason to try the other options desu.

>>168850030
>Not >accidentally getting castrated during an experimental flu treatment
Jeez anon live a little

>>168850030
If youre old or have like 1-2 health left the risk on the top most is worth it. If it fails youre dead, if you get it (around 70% of the time) you wont die and it will end faster. Going through a year with 1 health is almost a death sentence in and of itself past 30.

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>>168849317
Over a week later troops are still moving into position and accumulating supply stockpiles for the execution of the revised Case Bai Qi, and Jiang is left with no recourse but to gnash his teeth. Even with the surveys of land he ordered, movement through the mountainous territory west of Beijing has been tortuously slow, and supply routes are virtually nonexistent. Even along the coast, where infrastructure is high and towns and cities abound, the movement of supply to centers such as Tianjin and Beijing is agonizingly slow.

As such, Jiang orders the Kuomintang National Congress to centralize the industry of China even further, instituting full production order and seizing any trucks and transports available if necessary. What little industrial power the Republic is able to manage despite its shortages must be used to the utmost effect, and, most importantly, any civilian materials which can be used to speed the transport of supply to the army are now considered state property.

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>British fighting force stranded in an island chain
>inability to bring a navy to free them
>Lay a trap in the mountains with crack team of brownies
>Slaughter a british expeditionary force to the man

Question is how am I going to save Burma from the British.. They have an awful tendency to get eaten should the player try to sphere them.
>Collapse back on the island in vengeance

>>168849914
This is Downfall, they start with Xibei San Ma under control. But Downfall is ass and I have no idea why they did it that way.

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>playing as friesland
>burgundy forced to release flanders and brabant before the event
>they instantly rival you with no allies and shitty half finished armies
So lucky, all that clay all that hamboigahs. Start as one province and now super power by 1600, shiet.

>>168850493
>, all that clay all that hamboigahs
>shiet.
>euiv
see >>168848201

>>168850462
Downfall is certainly complete dogshit. Play Fox and Lion or whatever it's called instead.

>>168850607
>>168850607
>being a vicky/crusader kings pleb
murda urself my man

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Step one in the rebuilding of the mighty and cultured Al-Andalus: kicking the Infidels out of North Africa.

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>>168850324
The revised Case Bai Qi is proving just as frustrating to implement as its prior vision, however. After Cheng Qi's Jun in Tianjin operated independently and attempted to press forward against what it believed were undermanned Japanese divisions, they were thrown back forcibly by the rapid arrival of Kwantung tanks, leaving Tianjin under-defended. This forced Yang Aiyuan and the Eighth Jun remaining in place to guard the north, which has stalled the assault everywhere but Huailai.

And Huailai is not going well.

Although guarded only by poor garrisons, Huailai is violently mountainous, overwhelmingly defensible, and commanded by a proper General, Tatsumi Amamiya. Although Yu Jishi does his best to break the defensive stranglehold, the overwhelming number of Republican forces sent into Huailai--necessitated by the poor supply that means that some of them are likely to simply be forced to stop attacking now and then; the Guomin Geming Jun has rapidly learned that overwhelming numbers that ensure a continued assault are superior to risking an assault's failure due to lack of supply--prevent effective use of the narrow mountain passes. The encirclement of Japanese forces to the south cannot begin until the mountains are held, but when they shall fall--and how many Republican soldiers it will cost to take them--is the great question.

>>168851080
t. alberto barbarossa

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>>168851080
Should I trust these Wattasid fellows, /gsg/?

Wat do

>>168851423
show effects

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>I play Liquor sim

>>168851423
if you want a massive revolt later, don't crush them

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>Of course Fascism is the best ideology irl, it gives the player the most control in Viccy 2 after all

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>>168851565

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>>168827465
So in EU4, colonial flags are dynamically generated by taking the left half of the colonial master's flag, and the colour of the colonial territory for the right half.

Are there any mods which exist, or which could be made, to slightly change this process? To instead make it so that the dynamically-generated flag is produced by putting the whole of the colonial master's flag in the top left, and having the remaining three-quarters be the colonial territory's colour, like on the right side of this pic?

I think I'd like something like that a lot better.

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>>168851215
The following day, however, some good news finally arrives: Qingdao, one of the largest ports in China, has been retaken for the Republic. It is unlikely the Japanese will risk sending additional reinforcements into Weihai, a relatively small port; while another Jun still needs to be diverted south so the strength of the individual garrisons might be augmented, it appears that no serious threat will come from the Qingdao assault.

>>168851959
That would be a much better system, yes.

Why not make a topic on the forums?

>>168851080
How did you beat them when they had those numbers?

>>168851856
>tfw the best ideology (anarcho communism) doesn't exist in game but anarcho capitalism does
Wtf ancapism wasn't even invented in the timeline of vic2 fuck johan

>>168852447
>anarcho communism
Isn't that just communism technically speaking

>>168852595
No, Communism needs a huge state to back it. Anarco communism is anarchy where sometimes people give things away as charity.

>>168852707
Communism is stateless

>>168852707
>>168852595
Oh and if you try to sell or barter anything to someone theyll hang you. So basically hell on earth where everyone must fend for themselves. Worst anarchy. And thats saying alot since all forms of anarchy are hell.
>>168852812
This is bullshit and you know it.

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>>168852109
Although the situation initially seemed hopeless, it appears the Japanese garrisons are no more well-prepared for sustained defense than the Chinese. They fall with surprising rapidity, and despite the difficulties of assaulting the position, Huailai, the great thorn in the side of the Guomin Geming Jun, is finally under Republican control. While more territory in the north must still be captured to prevent a flank, with a position across the Yongding under control it will be much easier to force the Japanese out of the highlands elsewhere.

>>168852707
>Communism needs a huge state to back it
That's socialism lad. Which is supposed to lead to Communism, a classeless, stateless, global utopia.

t. reddit argument pro

>>168852707>>168852843
This isn't what it is if you want to know what it is use the internet not 4chan and i cba to explain it cuz its 2 in the moring over in bongistan

>>168852851
>supposed to lead to
Why did Marx think an all powerful dictator would simply pass power to the people? The only way to establish the stateless classless end goal is international syndicalism

>>168852950
>communism means no one can own property, no one can sell things because everyone owns things
>anarchy means you have no back bone leading it because that would be a state and states are bad
>States are run by the people so you cant have people leading it or it would be a state
>therefore you have a world where no one can on the land and no one can use it because its everyones and no one can band together to use it because that would break anarchy
So no one can use anything to creaate anything

>>168853104
This tbqh fuck vanguard parties they usually go to shit

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Why isn't this naval invasion working? No meme responses please.

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I guess this is what happens when the holy land and most of north africa are owned by christians.

>>168852851
Everyone claims that communism never existed because it never made it past socialism, and thats the problem, youll never hit communism so stop enslaving everyone saying youll set them free later.

>>168853164
You are retarded anon if think rhis is what it is if you want to know what it is don't assume you can just use the fucking internet to look this shit up

>>168828575
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>168853272
I do not want this game posted here, it is neither grand nor stratgic, please go somewhere else, I recommend>>>/r/paradoxplaza.

>>168853104
I thought Marx thought industrializing capitalist societies would transition naturally to communism or something. It was only after he was proving so fucking wrong that its kind of hilarious and sad that people like Lenin showed up thinking that the proper way to go about bringing communism is making sure every state in the world is a "Marxist" dictatorship (of the """"""""""""""""""""""""""masses"""""""""""""""")

>>168853307
>Anarchist communism (also known as anarcho-communism, free communism, libertarian communism, and communist anarchism) is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, capitalism, wage labour, and private property (while retaining respect for personal property), and in favor of common ownership of the means of production direct democracy, and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle: "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need"

Great so Im a slave to the masses. They vote and force me to do shit or I dont eat. They take any extra labor I do and give it away because I dont need it.

torrenting HOI4 right now. Haven't played since June, and I was pretty shit back then. Any tips?
Also how the fuck do I get a country to fully surrender? I invaded and conquered France, but their colonies in Africa and elsewhere kept going. Same with Britain.

>>168853707
>>168853307
This also sounds like a large government thats just like the United states if it had direct democracy and communism. So not anarchy. more like Democratic Communism. So Anarcho communism still sucks. This is like saying that Switzerland is anarchist.

>>168853505
The thing is, communists claim that communism was only bad because it failed, as if the dictatorship phase would be any worse than the anarchist phase.

>dislike amount of grain community has provisioned for you
>ask for more
>get lynched for being a bourgeoise capitalist
>but you die of starvation before the sentence can be carried out so the community votes for your family to be killed instead

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>>168852848
And so it proves. von Falkenhausen and Liao Lei are given the orders to execute their pincer maneuvers shortly after Jishi's forces capture Huailai, and by March 9th they have fully encircled upper Shanxi.

And what a prize it is: five divisions encircled, including three of the Kwantung's preciously rare tank groups.

Reminder that Communism only works in labor dominated agrarian societies
As soon as you industrialize, you either need a totalitarian state, or you gradually privatize capital
both resulting in "not real communism"

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With automation we could all live as NEETS forever, to each according to his want, from each nothing.

y/n?

>>168853469
t. cobrah

building liquor factories is grand and strategic isn't it?

>>168854339
Cobrah is the one posting liquor memes, you fucking newfag, lurk more.

>>168854302
Y
>>168854339
Newfag

>>168854339
hownew.ru

>>168852848
How many men did you loose taking Huailai?

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>>168854008
By later that same month, the divisions waiting in eastern Shanxi have pounced, breaking the Japanese defenses and isolating their forces in the pocket to just the territory surrounding Hunyuan. Isolated without further Kwantung command support, the pocketed troops and tanks fight ferociously, but they are soon out of both food and fuel: on the 21st of March, 1938, the entire pocket surrenders. Case Bai Qi is labelled a success.

>>168855036
Since this was months ago I don't remember exactly, but it was thousands. And the Japanese lost very little, just a couple hundred. They only lost because they got disorganized.

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>>168854598
Didnt know we had pony fags here

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So I killed the Wattasid fags, they had a 20k army so I had to hire mercs to overpower them and even then I still lost the first battle, and now my military is fucked. If the infidels attack me now I'll be shafted, and hard.

At least I can get free cash from raiding coasts, not that I have anything to spend it on this early in the game.

>>168855315
>but it was thousands. And the Japanese lost very little, just a couple hundred. They only lost because they got disorganized.
going full Stalin ehh? good job anon

>>168827465
Playing as Russia in Vic2 HPM, and I haven't gotten the event to annex Khiva. Is it coming? Or should I cheat.

>>168855353
wtf i love rob now
Enjoy your virus, you dumb shit.

What is the best retinue to get starting out? Im Asturias and Im going to launch the reconquista against the Umads.

>>168855472
It is their privilege to die for the glory of the republic

>>168855472
I had to take the mountains, there was no real choice. Front line's gotta be shortened.

But I'm not going to lie either, since I'm China manpower isn't a worry. As long as it gets me what I need I will assault recklessly, although I try to be strategic where possible (see: Case Bai Qi).

>>168855550
>getting a virus for visiting a website
Literally never happened and I check my computer once in the morning and once at night. Its only happened from downloads. Browsers ask for verification now by law. That whole cookie thing.

>>168855757
>>168855550
I know youre going to say that viruses arent cookies, but they were included its not just cookies.

>>168855452
>He has Mare Nostrome

>>168855617
truer words have never been spoken
>>168855718
definitely i'm very much enjoying reading this anon

>>168855050
Nice. How many were captured?

>>168855757
>I check my computer once in the morning and once at night
That's not how viruses work, lad, they're instantaneous, they're not on a time release, they act the second they come into contact with your computer.

>>168855050
>DH fags will NEVER know this feeling
Enjoy your doomstack simulator, lads!

Any vids on youtube where i can learn hoi3?

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>>168855050
A few days later, after careful consideration, Jiang decides to give his Generals the instructions for the original Case Bai Qi, and to label it as an expansion of the successful operation rather than the initial operation that was scaled down. Not only does this give Jiang the appearance of being a military genius, but it also makes him appear much more tactically flexible than he actually was; in reality, most of the positions necessary to launch the original Bai Qi had been taken already before the revised proposal was executed.

Even with this omission, however, Jiang has so far led the war excellently; a few unspoken words to protect his reputation might be excused.

One Jun must still be assigned to port defense, but Jiang believes sufficient forces will still be available to execute the operation, provided the front line is shortened. Jiang orders that portion of the operation to begin immediately, with the encirclement on temporary hold while the remainder of the Guomin Geming Jun's forces reposition, regroup, and reorganize.

>>168856140
Whatever, in all honesty its a 6 year old toaster and I plan on replacing it whenever. The only info it has is my steam account and that doesnt have a credit card on it so Ive got no worries.

Going back to EU3 after all these years.
Should I play MEIOU, Blind in Missouri, or DAO-Misc?

>>168855939
Thanks!

>>168856063
I think it was about 30,000; that sounds right for 5 divisions, three tank, that had taken significant losses. I'm estimating though. Either way it was a major victory, though, especially because of the loss of the tanks. I don't have enough anti-tank capabilities to really fight them without isolating them, so their destruction was huge.

Just because you're a fellow Muslim, doesn't mean you aren't a fucking fag. The Granadans have proven themselves to be utterly incompetent warriors, getting Reconquista'd all the way back to their little enclave on the southern coast of Iberia.

Truly pathetic. Sad! Today we continue the process of Making Al-Andalus Great Again by taking matters into our own hands.

>>168855931
>playing PDX games without all available expansions
I bought this game when it first came out and it was utter shit back then. These days with all the added features it finally feels like an improvement on EU3.

>>168856696
I'm enjoying it, but only through pretending you're playing as a white country.

>>168856423
You sound like an extremely anxious person.

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>>168856787
>tfw you forget the screencap
brb praying to Allah for forgiveness

>>168856973
That map mod is cancer, lad. Install >>168829553

>>168855514
please

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>>168856348
Meanwhile, with the front line shortened, it is finally possible to send a Jun south to take over the defense of the many ports around Nanjing from the undermanned garrisons currently holding them. The overwhelmingly average 5th Jun is selected for the job, and is sped south at once.

Simultaneously, the recently commissioned 50th Infantry Division is redeployed to Qingdao, which was only just recaptured fully from the last Japanese holdouts on the peninsula. It's hoped that the fully outfitted 50th, along with its artillery support, will be able to hold the port better against sustained assaults.

>>168856919
Am I worried that all my cash will be taken if I put it on a computer I had back in highschool where I was a total moron and would download anything including viruses and leave them on my computer for months? Yea and I think thats notmal. This computer cant be trusted and if I had a better one I would use it. Im probably going to keep this for downloading porn but thats it. Dont want those sites on my new computer.

>>168857165
What mod?

>>168857194
I mean you should probably look into therapists for your anxiety, it isn't normal or healthy to worry this much.

>>168857226
Downfall. It's ass, never play with it.