/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

White and based

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First for FUCK JAPAN

black men are superior

>>173282824
nothing specific, i just rushed biologism and got a couple early school reforms, after getting most states to 4% intellectuals i started encouraging craftsmen and it blew up to first

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>>173284010
Do it for her anon.

>>173284010
>There still no decision to restore power to the Emperor and conquer Asia in the name of Jinmu-tennō.

>>173284010

upload the DLC

>>173283767
Didn't realize I had to rename original steam_api.dll so it was overwriting the original. Works now

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>Be Kongo
>At war with Poortugal and Castile
>Mali offers me free army
>Accept of course
>They leave to cross the desert and fight in Portugal lands
>While I just chill in my Kingdom

GODSPEED MALI !

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La Plata

>>173284265
nice pic

>>173283915
I'm kinda disappointed in the recent price increase of Paradox DLCs

>being 1st rank great power now gives a baseline power projection of 50

Now you don't have to keep a valid rival just to get that extra +1 MP per month.

>african shitholes with cannons in the 16th century

BELIEVABLE

>>173284232
Apparently Marrakech is the end of the road... Meanwhile Morocco is still fighting on, 35 years of guerilla.

>>173284184
My headcanon is that the Emperor is the official head of state still but symbolic.

Sort of like how Churchill is listed as the leader of the UK in HOI4, rather than the King.

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>>173284570
pic related

>>173284425
It only give me 25 as Kongo. Maybe because the game is a pre-DLC save

>>173284010
Okasareru!

>>173284748
Are you a French frog or a colonial frog?

>watching Arumba's ryukyu run
>he talks about his ADD and him taking medications
>finally can relate to him

he's truly one of us bros ;_;

HOW can a tribe in the middle of Africa have a higher military tech than an European country

Johan needs to be executed

>>173284457
>tfw Majapahit invent cannons again.

>>173285005
WE

>>173285095
WUZ

>>173285204
SPACE MARINES

>>173285095
Raised development to embrace institutions... n' shiet.

>>173285204

NUMBER

>>173284890
neither

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>>173285005
WE EMPIRE, WE SMART

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>Add 20 countries to Japan
>still no Couto Misto

I'm starting to lose hope that it'll ever be in any Paradox game

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does anyone know why fucking with the start date gives/takes cores from nations?

moving the start date forward and back gives Ottomans core on Bihar for example

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>>173285721

fuck this game

I'm gonna play with the cool & non-virgin blokes at /twg/ now

>>173285826

Date switching is fucked is CK2 as well.
If you move throughout the entire timeline and then go back to the first one half the rulers are theocracies.

>>173285826
the province history files give the core but never remove it, it's something that paradox could fix in a couple hours with barely any effort

I WANTED TO PERISH LAD

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>Reformation
-30% shock damage recieved as spain
>Absolutism
+20% fire damage dealt as france
>Revolutions
-20% fire damage recieved as prussia

Forming france as spain once absolutism hits shouldn't be too hard if you wanna cheese combat bonuses

>>173286253
Spain and France can't form each other

wew

>>173286346
Ah.
Guess a detour in England would be needed.

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>>173286253
stop being a gamey faggot

>>173286253
What is this screen? dlc?

So how come when the AI rebels and I take their holdings, they can still surrender to their liege at 90% warscore, but when my vassals rebel, the AI can take their land and I cannot force the rebels into surrender until I kick out the AI?
I'm sick of all this council wars while the Picts just claim everything north of Hadrian's Wall

>>173286253
The fuck? This is some Civilization-tier shit

Does Shimazu have the best ideas in Japan? I can't seem to find any better.

>>173286686
>>173286768
yeah it's mandate of heaven

>>173286826
I've only looked into combat ideas and how good they are for turning into merchant republics in coop games.

Shimazu is #3 in combat, only like 3.5% worth of discipline behind #1.

>>173286253
>>173285721
>>173284010
Oh, wow. Is this EU? I've playing V2 and CK2 for so long that I forgot what graphics are like.

>>173287018
Who gets more than +5% discipline ?

>>173285753
What's the smallest micronation Paradox added to a game? I don't see Monaco or San Marino.

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>>173287372
No one.

I compare values of infantry combat ability and discipline by how much they affect damage taken and damage dealt though by a single number though.

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Reminder we got Iron Cross back and Johan is doubling down on his booze tonight.

>>173286826
They're up there.

I like Amago.
Good mil, and they have +2 tolerance of the true faith, 10% goods produced and yearly inflation reduction.

what's a good vicky 2 nation to play where my country elects a total retard

>>173288187
USA. Especially in EU4 where USA is one of the only few democracies.

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>>173288494
USA! USA! USA!

>>173288494
john mccain soros funded took over mind of trump destroy russia save motherland aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA`

>>173288797
Here, offtopic for you.
>mfw USA never annexed Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f7MH3BLaek

Paradox games are 50% off and I can only afford two, which two should I buy? I was thinking EU4 and Vic2.

gonna meme greater bulgaria/gross bulgariuns in hpmeme what should be my endborders ladds?

>>173289203
Pirate that shit.
>not using Kinguin/G2A

guies We're all going to die

>>173289285
proofs

>>173289264
I am pirating them, but I'd prefer to not be.

Could someone spoonfeed me on where to get DLC for the steam version of EUIV? Just copy pasting it from a normal cracked version does nothing unless I'm missing something really obvious, which is all that I can find.

I'm still not paying over $100 for the DLC.

>>173289264
>G2A

>>173289430
there was someone that released the codex version over at the russian forums,

>>173289285
I hope they do fucking nuke us. Fuck this retarded fucking country. Please fucking liberate us Putin

Do vassals outside of Japan become daimyos like any others in Mandate of Heaven?

>>173289706
WE WUZ DAIMYOS AN SHEIT

>>173289615
>he thinks Putin will liberate us
>he thinks Putin will use nukes at all
>he thinks Putin even cares about this country

russia specializes in defense and nobody is that stupid to launch nukes because the moment you do is the moment you lose. - COALITION

>>173289706
If you annex and release them.

>>173289748
I dont fucking care

>>173289615
Putin is shit SHIT

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r8 my Japan progress. I think I figured this out

Are there any games more modern focused where we can play out the current political climate but a little closer to Civ/TW/Wargame?

>>173290254
wrongdaimyo/27

We tried to warn you

Join /leftypol/ before it's too late

>>173290439
strasserism is the only leftist ideology i would die for

>>173290439
i'm a centrist though

>>173290439
Fuck off back to your trail of tears

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How does my empire look?

Should I head north for the Kingdom of Finland or prepare to head south for Hungary?

Hungary will be tougher because of their alliances but I have the Byzantines, Sweden and maybe France on my side.

I think this is the furthest I've been in a CK2 game too, its fun.

>'oh look a new eu4 dlc'
>download it
>plays livonian order
>attack a novgorod with no manpower and half of my troops
>suddenly they have tens of thousands of man
>tag over
>he has dozens of loans and all of his troops are mercs
>quit game
>literally uninstall
>open victoria 2
reminder that no dlc will ever fix that game

>>173289254
pls lads

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>Try Ottomans for first time
>get general from estates, recruit another
>this

I don't want to play Ottomans anymore

>>173291179
are you just really shitty or really stupid?

>>173291120
Why not get those smaller states first, like Pomerania, Croatia, Venice, and finish conquering Italy?

>>173291517
i'm just not used to playing that shitty game

>>173290439
dictatorship of the proletariat when?

>>173289254
all of your cores + thrake
puppet the rest

>>173291749
Pomerania also have tricky alliances.

I'm not really a fan of taking territory that isn't connected to mine. It's probably autistic but it seems more realistic to me. Though Italy is tempting.

Also I'm the Wendish Empire, not HRE.

Another Paradox sale, another attempt at seeing that Russian link with the DLC.

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Mandate of heaven is pretty fun desu senpai
other than ming constantly asking me to be a tributary state.
united japan real quick, already colonizing asia. Pretty fucking cool.

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>>173292618
And i did it.

fun game, dont know how I'm gonna get over Ming tho. still havent seen a mingplosion.

>>173292785
mingplosion isn't as common now

Should I buy HOI3 or Darkest Hour? I'm looking for a WWII game that isn't shit.

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Should I play After the End, y/n?

>>173292298

>>173292820
>>173292785
This is my first time playing in asia. Trying really really hard to get Institutions to spread, is it normal to wait for a really fucking long time for that? Also, got the new MOH Christianity event for japan and actually ended up converting to catholic lol.
I did that so I could probably royal marriage European powers and shit.

>>173292890
Darkest Hour, uglier graphics, much better gameplay

>>173292890
Darkest Hour

>>173293117
>This is my first time playing in asia. Trying really really hard to get Institutions to spread, is it normal to wait for a really fucking long time for that? Also, got the new MOH Christianity event for japan and actually ended up converting to catholic lol.
You develop for institutions.

>>173293043
rezmar quit shilling your torrents here holy shit

>>173293117
develop for renaissance, try to origin colonialism, give up hope for printing press, and the rest should come about as easily as for anyone else

>disable trees
>get like 10 more fps on EU4

what gives

is mandate of heaven good, what's the verdict

>>173293754
Trees are heavy on the graphics card, Anon.

>>173293523
lol

can i have the torrent please

>>173294032

glad I turned them off, I could only run speed 3 now I'm on 5

Someone save my autistic ass and show me how to make CWE work for Vic2

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>>173294030
It's fucking great, best expansion since Art of War. I might even buy it at the next sale

is the russian site down for anyone else

When the fuck is the CK2 patch going to come out? I want to know when I lose magnum opuses on succession

>>173294531
yea

>>173294531
wew

>>173294531
ww3 started now no more fucking free DLC SWEDEN YASSSSSSS

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Guys what am I doing wrong?

>havnt played ck2 in 2 years
>got it with all dlc and fully updated
>playing after the end, Hudson kingdom
>can't holy war neighbors
>stuck fabricating claims individually
>cant get any claimants into my court

Is there something I'm missing? I like the rp focus stuff, but has conquest been nerf ed? I want to form empire state and just need a bigger realm.

>>173294743
i hope we all die soon desu

Being the HRE emperor ain't fun at all.

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>Chagatai declares war on my tributary
>defend them
>see their opinion of me is negative
>-40: Overlord meddled in our war

Am I getting rused?

>>173294783
Anabaptist religion cannot holy war

I'm about 5 minutes away from just getting Darkest Dungeon if this site doesn't come back up.

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When the moon is full my ass gets a flying number 65. right in a beer and the white woman sucked me so good that i got hard though my asshole on i could feel myself hitting a rock in my lovely oil rig. Can i say one thing about the moon so nice, yes. Oh god i could fuck a black girl in my class. she has the fatties ass. GOD she has the fatties ass. Like the porn star "Mz booty". I wanna fuck a black girl and tell her shes a fucking dog and eat her phone 78.

My mother left me

>Hey listen can I have the torrent for MOH please. The update thing is not working

Whats the ideal military composition in NWO?

>austria
>heirs keep dying and become a shitty trastamara as bavaria becomes emperor and I become unable to win a war for a PU with Bohemia because Poland was helping
>bavaria blobs all over bohemia and locks me from the rest of the HRE for expansion
>muscovy somehow becomes muslim and now got eaten by Poland that became the commonwealth
jesus christ why

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Do I need to colonize those two provinces in the Malaya region to form Malaya?

>>173295113
>>173255880

>>173295428
http://www.eu4wiki.com/File:Formmalaya.png

I have Stellaris on Steam but if I torrent the DLC am I able to play online? This is just a theoretical question for science.

>>173296406
Yes.

Where do i get those extra-extra big flag frames for v2, not the ones in the mega

How to kill Ming as Manchu?

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>>173292785
Impressive, I gave up trying to do it as a Daimyo. Kept getting 1/3rd then running out of manpower and getting bullied by everyone else. Even if I had the next strongest Daiymo and several OPMs allied, we couldn't hold them, and if we held the first a second would follow before I could properly recover.
I'm taking a different approach, now.

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How do I eliminate an entire dynasty? These guys are know for a grand duchy they had since the beginning of the game.

Not that big of a deal, but with 72 members they have landed counts spread all throughout my empire and I really don't want to see them overthrowing there lieges who are usually members of my dynasty.

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THE SPICE MUST FLOW

honestly though, trade empire campaigns are max comfy

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Should I keep my northwestern borders as is or should I release the nations in pic related? I have cores on the area since I made them slave states and thus got cores from event, but I don't know if I like having the Confederate border that far north.

Also, I intend on taking West Virginia and Maryland+Delaware once the truce is up. The rest I'll leave as an American rump state. If, however, they break apart, green is how I plan on partitioning them.

>>173297678
Literally pray ming explodes before Korea annexes all of you

>>173298376
Couldn't you just volunteer to be one of Ming's tributaries so he couldn't kill you? Or does he still interfere on the defender's behalf?
It would at least prevent the other tributaries from killing you.

How can i know if Austria will intervene on wars of HRE not allied while I'm an HRE allied to them?

>>173298243
I love SE Asia and India games.
>get all the trade nodes
>starve europe and me of trade income
I kek everytime.

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>>173298376
I can beat up Korea just fine when my horde isn't imploding but Ming is very strong. I'm running out of neighbours I can raid to keep my unity up though so I need to form Qing soon before I just collapse.

>>173298639
again in english please?

Can any kind anon provide me a link to the latest versions of HIP and CK2+?

>>173284010
>Have a comfy little Daymo as the Jap country with the fan for a flag
>Retarded ally declares war for emperor
>Get raped
I don't blame him. The Emperor had literally no resistance when it was gobbling up Daymos and it had eaten half of japan in 50 years.

HISTORICAL ACCURACY

Is Sterilis still shit?

>>173300319
no

>>173300360
Really, Utopia saved the game?

>>173300319
the new update is bretty gud so far, but I'm only 12 years in so maybe that's an early opinion

the game definitely feels a lot less empty with the perk trees and better government system, haven't gotten to factions or ascension yet though

>>173300319
it is less shit but as usual needs more expansions. Hive minds need to be fleshed out more.

>>173297678
Develop the shit out of the northern gold province, get ahead in tech and do everything you can to wipe their armies in flat terrain like Beijing.

>>173298243
Conquer the Phillipines ASAP, you get incredible amounts of dosh with little competition.

Can you use other EU4 mods with a converted CK2 game? I'm looking at this Extended Timelines and it seems like it'd be neat to do a run from 769 to present day.

Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, I'm new to all this and have no idea the scope of modding these games.

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fug
Ming got pissed at me for not paying tribute and declared war while I'm a tech level behind.
I'm scared /gsg/

>>173301217
Well, you're not playing as an Island so all I can say is. You're fucked.

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>>173301301
Well three battles down. A lot more to go.
My horde unity is dipping low so I'm afraid that is going to fuck me with rebels while this is going on.

>>173298514
oh right new DLC

>>173298681
>ming not allied with korea
what is going on?!?!?!!

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>Abbasid Jihad for Byzantine Ascalon

This shit is fun

>>173284010
I thought Japan was supposed to be better

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>>173301662
Well shit.

Swedes need to patch CK2 now before the world ends

>>173301492
You might have a chance, they have way too much cavalry

Can you take emperorship from them in peace? I haven't gotten a chance to play in china yet

>>173301813
>open news
>it's real
It feels weird to know we've been memed into WW3 by another board.

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Well the Ming have burned through 60k manpower and are now at 0 but chagatai and Oirat are taking a beating and I have no forts along my Western front so I think this will be down to lucky dice rolls for the siege of Beijing.

>>173301925
I can't take it now but I'm not sure if it becomes avaliable after some requirements are met or if I need to declare a war with a sepcific CB. Regardless I'm sure as shit not ready for that. If I win this I'll take Beijing and Shenyang so that I can form Qing and get rid of the nomadic government and if I lose I guess I'll accept being a tribute and go beat up Korea.

>>173302163
Just banner up and you'll be fine.

Ming is food after all

Is a Transcaucasia blob fun

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I am so fucking mad.
I engaged this army of 40k and won but for two weeks the Ming sat there at 0 morale without the battle ending and then these faggots marched into it and I lost.

I've been playing an older version of CK 2 for ages now and recently updated to the most recent version to try out the new dlcs. Now vassals keep rebelling one after another like wtf? Even when my troops are clearly superior and outnumber any rebel troops, more stupid fucks rebel against me whether they like me or not.

>>173302431
Oof. That's a ragequit moment right there. Don't blame you senpai, sometimes it feels like battles hang on longer than they should just so reinforcements can arrive doesn't it?

>>173301202
Anyone?

>>173302061
>>173301813
What's this new Sweden-Russia meme?

>>173302538
make a copy of the savefile and try using it with the mod

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>>173302494
If I wasn't already winning the war by a lot I probably would have quit right there. Luckily I was winning though so I grabbed this neat peace deal. Now I can form Qing if my horde unity starts to fuck me.

>>173285005
>believable worlds

:^)

>>173302061

Worshiping a god of chaos was a mistake

>>173302061

Implying Russia will escalated ogre Syria

>>173303404
this, Russia won't escalate because that would be a death sentence to them

>>173298681
>>173298376
I know how you feel senpai.

Had to disband most my army and debase just to repay all the loans I've been getting. Ming is just walking around with 80k and I don't think I can crack them even with banner troops as good as they are.

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Why can't I form this kingdom?

>>173302630
burgers bombed the shit out of a syrian airfield with icbm's

>>173303685
But what about the meatballs?

>>173303665
looks like title is not titular
whatever that means

>>173303665
the title is not titular

>>173303516
>decide to go all in on one war against ming
>raise all my banners about 40
>32 cav stacks

Economy be damn it's time to eat Ming

>>173303665
Holy fuck is that a shattered world or something?

>>173304212
He's using Direct vassals mapmode

>>173304302
Ah shit, yeah I'm retarded.

http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/MwgCwBQ2/file.html

>>173303665
Probably because the duchy of Austria is your titular title.

>>173303665
It's probably formed by decision, in whichever mod you are using.

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>tfw the world could start ww3 tomorrow.
anyone /comfy/ here?

>>173305805
dumb memer

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The only good bug is a dead bug! Would you like to know more?

>>173306093
Cleanse it with nuclear fire

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>>173306093
>>173306112

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>>173306093
It is done. Reduced the bugs to a single planet on the far side of the galaxy. Many soldiers and sailors earned their citizenship

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To deal with whats going on in a Grand Strategy sort of way, I ask you /gsg/ patrons this:
>You're in Presidents trump shoes about 12 hours ago
>Hear about Syrian gassing
>People still believe you're a Putin Puppet
>China and NK over-stepping their boundaries
>GOP neo-cons hating your every breath because you're an 'outsider'
wat do?

I'm trying to play HR emperor and I got into a PU with an elector.
This made every other elector hate my guts, is it worth keeping them with me before the religious wars?

>>173306853
give a speech condemning "syrian gassing" and move on.

>>173306853
I'd condemn it and then warn the public about the previous attempts to spread propaganda and generate sympathy for Muslim extremist organisations before.

>>173306853

Declare holy war on Mexico

>>173306853
Glass Damascus.

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R8 my galaxy

>>173307250

Not a grand strategy game/10

>>173307250
go here:
>>173268695

>>173307250
Could be worse.
Who's the purple in the south?

>>173307312
>>173307317
Wew! Refer here >>173283915
for accepted games in /gsg/

>>173307470
>Stellaris...
>Go to /civ4xg/ - for assorted reasons, it's been de-facto exiled. /civ4xg/ has more players and will provide more answers.

>Stellaris - Go to the /civ4xg/ thread

What did they mean by this?

>>173300463
how many ai empires are you playing with? I want a realistic nearly empty galaxy but i dont know if it will be fun for the type of game it it.

>I'm only 12 years
release stellaris was good at the beginning then got really bad

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>>173307356
God damn rats. They have a higher military score than I do (the only empire that does) but would get crushed in war from tech disadvantages.

>>173306928
>Putin-puppet narrative almost solidified

>>173307067
bretty good, but you will be attacked for not doing enough

>>173307132
my image was a meme as to not get b& by mods. nice meem though

>>173307185
>literally all your original supporters leave you to die in dust

>>173302819
You know, Ming would've won the war if they'd kept going.

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>>173307250

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I'm about to stomp all over the Ashikagawa. Do I still get all their land automatically?

>>173307759
>>173307905
Turn their worlds to cinders.

>Guns of Urban + Offensive

Forts literally don't exist what the fuck.

Anyone who says Ottoblob was nerfed is lying

>>173308147
I want to say yes? You should be able to annex them pretty immediately. Or is there a mechanic I'm forgetting?

Not sure what you mean, you have to full annex them to become shogun, so it's kind of irrelevant if that's what you're referring to

>>173308604
>>173308147
whoops

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I have never seen a stronger Poland than this. They're going to dominate everything this game.

>>173308604
I though you had to only take Kyoto to become Shogun

oh well

>>173308764
actually you might be right about that one

pretty sure there's a paradox video explaining that

>>173307790
>literally all your original supporters leave you to die in dust
Have you looked around?

/pol/, r/the_donald, twitter, Breitbart, Infowars, etc, are all praising Trump for his 5D chess. The worst they've said about him is "it's too early yet! Trust le God-Emperor!"

They've got Stockholm syndrome worse than a Paradox buyfag.

Anyway, thinking of starting a new CK2 campaign and want to try something new. Already done Magna Roma & Zoroastrian revival, any ideas?
>>173308718
Poland's weird as shit sometimes. I've had games where they managed to spread all the way to China and colonized America.

Under the AI no less. It was pretty impressive.

>>173308818
>bombing one airfield with minimal casualties is the same as glassing one of the most important cities in the conflict
wew

>>173308887
I'm saying that nothing is going to make his supporters turn on him. Remember when he ran on the promise that he'd leave Syria the fuck alone? You think they'd be calling Trump out on this, but they're not.

>>173308718
Hungary is weird sometimes, feels like every game I play they get a different dynasty.

In my current one they have a Trastamara, really thinking about breaking up the Iberians to prevent a a spanish version of your pic

>>173308961

But plenty are

>>173308816
yeah, just watched it. You become shogun but dont get any other ashikaga territory

>>173308961
Remember in 2013 when Lord Cheetus said that Obama needed to get Congressional approval before bombing Syria?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/373146637184401408

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/373581528405905408

>>173287597
ravensburg I think, that place was actually a jumbled mess they just represented the most significant principality in that area.

>>173308818
>>173308965
Hungary has a random event where the Magnates choose a foreign successor if they don't like the dynastic one, which is how foreign nations often inherit it. But Bohemia is out of left field, as is Poland successfully vassalizing the Teutonic Order so early. And that's not even touching on the ludicrous expansion into the Horde (although I wonder if Sunni rebels will make them regret that).

Still I'm looking to ally Poland and France once Italy drops out of the HRE. I'll need huge allies if I'm going to try to form the Kingdom of Italy.

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>>173298354
Nah mate you should conquer what you call the Midwest Alliance and establish Grossconfederatiums.

Also do you have cores on cuba and Hati? Did you take them before the civil war?

Also are you guarantied to get cores on all lands you make a slave state?

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Is he really based?

>>173308961
>they're not.
Wrong.

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Can Assad help plan reprisal attacks against the US on /gsg/ like his father did?

>>173308961

This is already being said to be a one off thing, the Russians were warned in advanced and they will have warned the Syrians. It's just dick swinging and will achieve nothing.

What are some good nations/strategies for getting high army tradition?

Found myself with 100 in my current ottoman game and these generals are absurd

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>>173278529
>1er armée

>>173280262
>Criméenne Caucase

>>173309781
Prussia is the easiest.

>>173309616
>This is already being said to be a one off thing

Tillerson is posturing about getting Assad out of Syria. This isn't WW3, but we're kicking doors soon.

>>173309848
looks like it, everyone else needs a policy with >espionage

one of these days I'll have to git gud and go through with a brandenburg game

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tfw can't catch Ming in tech because of the new tributary system

>>173309905

How many times have the US said "Assad must go", give me a break, there will be no invasion of Syria.

You are no longer the god of the world, Russia has caught up again and are showing their influence, the US can't do whatever it wants without losing a lot more than they could ever gain.

>>173310112
Why the fuck have they not collapsed? They did lose the mandate, right?

>>173310192
>How many times have the US said "Assad must go"

How long has Trump been in power?

>>173309781
Custom Nation

>>173310232
Why would they lose the mandate? They just war on every single neighbour until they have 20+ tributaries and then have spent half of the game sitting on max mandate.
With all that mana they have coming in Ming is a consistent two tech levels above me so not even I can defeat them.

>>173310241
Why do you think he'd be more determined than obama against Assad when he wants to bomb terrorists?
Also how certain is it that Assad did it anyway, the regime is a patchwork of factions and his gas stockpiles were destroyed under international supervision.
Plus Trump's busy with Xi now, which is something his supporters care more about, that alone is enough of a distraction

>>173310461
>Why do you think he'd be more determined than obama against Assad when he wants to bomb terrorists?

Because he just sent 80 tomahawks into Syria.

>>173310494
Nice, now the american public is going to forget about his ties with Russia, just like they forgot what he did last week.

The imperial reforms that the Chinese emperor can make are kind of lame. They're all okay, but nothing very interesting.

The HRE reforms are way better, there's actually some challenges to completing them, and thy make you stronger.

>>173310241

This is a one off attack, the Pentagon have already said so, fire a few missiles at empty planes.

Well done, if that is the best you can do it's laughable.

>>173310576
>This is a one off attack

Yeah, sure.

>>173310494
They're in cahoots

>>173310337
Don't you need their capital to become qing?

>>173310232
Mandate is like Imperial Authority now. Ming rarely drops to the point where it gives negative benifits. They also start with about 3x the income of Ottomans and 100 fore limit.

>>173310112
>>173310337
I think you really need to cripple them early on and get the help of Oirat to kill them.

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>>173310787
Yeah I grabbed Bejing as Manchu but I had to peace out when they stopped sending piecemeal armies and marched one hundred and fifty thousand men into my lands.

I think I'm done with this game. Ming are retardedly strong now.

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Why yes I would like half of Italy, thank you.

This new transfer subject business is something else.

>>173310987
scorch provinces

>>173291179
>he has mercs
>not just running around to make him lose due to attrition thencancle because bankruptv

>>173310987
You took their capital without using the "take mandate" cb or whatever it's called then

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>>173310987
>>173310967
Gotta abuse those retarded strong Banner Cav units.

>tfw didn't even have general advantage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

Here's a tutorial for you silly barons.

>>173294907
>not using the superior 'send diplomats to all' option which is the only reason to buy this DLC

>>173295235
>heirs keep dying
>not making your king a General to farm IA
WEW lad

>>173298235
Mass oubliette and mutilation

Did !!rqwPnTvelLn ever upload MoH and all the other DLC? I looked through the last threads and he only uploaded the game.

>>173311178
How are you not getting rolled over by 80k+ angry chinks?

>>173311346
I've been mostly leaving it automated, but the thing is absolutely retarded. Since tributaries are subjects, they can get +200 improved relations, and the auto-diplomat will sit on one subject until he's at +200, even if his net relation has been maxed for years.

Got to 1964 in Darkest Hour using New World Order 2 and all my generals retired and no one has replaced them REEEEEEE I thought this was a Cold War Mod REEEEEE!!!

>>173306874
Yep, you want to have 4 PU by the holy wars

Is there a good tutorial for how to spread a heresy, or just spreading religions in general? Messalianism appeals to me.

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CKII post. Welcome to the Jewish Fatimid Empire. Still Sayyid so kebab has +5 opinion of me. Also Jewish mamluk vassal mercenaries. Yessssss.

Ironman save

what first idea should i get for france?

>>173311794
Proselytize with your court chaplain?

>>173309420
Can you explain how I get a PU over them as Austria
Their heir is 10 so I broke the alliance
Do I need to claim the throne when he's 15, and war, and if i claims the throne but he dies I assume I lose the claim

>>173311940
if a ruler dies without an heir they get the dynasty of someone they have a royal marriage with

you can only claim their throne if you share dynasties, they don't have an heir, or the heir has a weak claim, age being irrelevant

If they get a strong or average heir you lose the claim, but if they die without an heir you automatically get PU over them, unless they have a PU of their own

>>173311794

if you're talking ck2, give temple holdings to characters of your chosen religion. Also the county, and if possible make sure they have zealous trait.

>>173309420
one upside I suppose is that they can't form PLC since they have multiple PUs and Lith definitely has more than 31 provinces

>>173312091
the latter also may trigger a succession war with someone else with a royal marriage with them, or one of your rivals, but since they're the attacker they usually don't contest if you have strong allies

>>173312179
Poland doesn't need to integrate lithuania to become the plc

>>173312278
yes but those are the requirements to take the decision

unless those don't apply for AI Poland?

>>173311198
Stupid. People are loyal to more than money and power. Regimes such as NatSoc Germany and the USSR have been purely ideological in nature. From the perspective of third world shitholes then sure, but the nations of the world have been driven by more than just power and profit.

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>>173313075
>Regimes such as NatSoc Germany and the USSR have been purely ideological in nature.

What did he mean by this?

>>173313147
The ruling class of NatSoc Germany didn't rule for the sake of ruling and having money, It genuinely wanted a Gross Germanium for the Aryan race. If it was only about money and power to them, they would've just taken power, anchlussed Austria and the Sudetenland and went 'we've had enough' and the regime probably would be around to today, but they didn't. They genuinely believed in what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf.

Early USSR was also similar in that they wanted a world-wide communist revolution. And the pragmatic Stalin debunks the video completely when even if ideology can't be applied to him he killed 'keys' and replaced them whenever he liked. He even killed extreme loyalists because he thought they weren't loyal enough and there was no massive uprising to have him removed when he did that.

>>173310035
Easier to go with the Teutons if you manage to join the HRE, youll probably lose some land to poland, but it's worth it.

>>173313075
It's not like the nazi depended on loyal rich industrial families or that the most loyal to the USSR were also the most priviliged, right.

>>173313339
>The ruling class of NatSoc Germany didn't rule for the sake of ruling and having money, It genuinely wanted a Gross Germanium for the Aryan race.

You're missing the point. This isn't about what rulers inherently *want* to do, this is about the compromises that rulers are required to make in order to keep power.

>>173313452
>depend

No, they really didn't. Hitler ditched a rich banker as the head of the Reichsbank and appointed an ideologue. No one did anything about it. The rich were either integrated into the regime, like Krupp, or dependent on it rather than the other way around.

As for the USSR, like I said Stalin killed people as he liked and no one stopped him.

>>173313470
The examples I've listed have made no compromises. Hitler ditched the rich moderate conservatives from the coalition he had with them as soon as he stopped needing them.

>>173313562
>Hitler ditched the rich moderate conservatives from the coalition he had with them as soon as he stopped needing them.

So... he discarded the keys which were no longer necessary to his continued success?

Did you actually watch the video?

>>173298007
the key is to try and kill everyone you can and go over your forcelimit
and dont rival anyone for those cheeky alliances

>>173313562
I also want to bring up his point on revolutions. The Bolsheviks completely eradicated the former 'keys', they didn't just reuse them. They were removed, entirely. Same case with the French Revolution where the old aristocrats had absolutely 0 influence in the Robespierre regime.

>>173313607
The video implies you are completely dependent on your keys which no, Hitler wasn't. The NSDAP and ruling class of WW2 Germany were an Adolf Hitler Fanclub. If he wanted x y z and done despite it being against someone's interest, it was done.

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the AI has changed. Now I have to wait 30 years to white peace this stalemate

How do you become Japan? I had the Ashikaga declare war on me presumably for getting to big so I beat back the alliance but now I've lost the Daimyo CB.

>>173313730
>starting war with ming as nippon without having superior navy
uhh

>>173313798
become Shogun by taking Kyoto. You get all the vassals that the current shogun had, but the former shogun becomes independent

The Shogun will have a unify Japan decision which changes your tag to Japan, causes all Daimyo vassals to become independent, and gives you the new ideas and traditions event (not worth it usual), plus changes youre government type

>>173313694
>If he wanted x y z and done despite it being against someone's interest, it was done.

The implication is that he therefore had *many* keys and none were not expendable. It's not that he didn't *have* keys. Hitler had the mob.

>>173313837
secret is in the first sentence. Last time I played the ming would just dump troops on Japan. As long as your army was larger than the number of transports they had you just stack whiped them on landing until Ming white peaced, then Korea was free picking.

Now the seem content to just blockade

>>173313947
That's precisely my point. The video makes it out like the mob/people and the ideology behind them doesn't matter when they do. It makes it out like revolution/change doesn't matter because the exact same people would be behind it when the keys of Hitler's Germany had nothing to do with Weimar Germany's keys, same with the USSR having nothing to do with any of the Tsar's keys.

>>173313837
>Not relying on divine winds to sink the enemy fleets.

>>173314190
>The video makes it out like the mob/people and the ideology behind them doesn't matter when they do.

The mob *itself* is the key, in that case. Or, rather, you, by unlocking the mob, are your own key.

>>173312091
I mean specifically for Austria and Hungary, as according to the >>>r/eddit guide im trying to follow there may be an event but it's really badly worded

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>>173313837
>>173314086
No problem. AI is back to normal

>>173314234
>not creating dragon twister for 50 sword mana to destroy entire chinese army
baka

>>173313694
>if he wanted it done it was done
Except the main thing we have learnt from Holocaust studies is how weak a dictator hitler was, officers were left to their own ideas. For example 16 different bureaus dealt with 'the Jewish question', which is one of the reason why the 'holocaust' was so backwards in implementation and Jews died by a variety of means

>>173314410
Wait really? I don't play EU4.

>>173314410
>sword mana
No you use Kanji-mana to summon storm spirits, although it may spawn an event which gives -20% development in the nearest coastal province to the transport ships

>>173314509
The holocaust was an afterthought done during a time of war. The fact that it was done at all proves that Hitler's regime was founded on ideology.

How is the new dlc? Seems like trying to meet all age criteria would force you to play a certain way and leave even less room for fun

>>173314735
eh its shit. what do you expect.
>lets expand some of the most boring parts of the world where is always a stalemate until ming blows up.
>some op banner units for early game
>and more objectives for the op nations aka buffing op nations
shit

gibe dee el see pls

>>173315959
http://store.steampowered.com/app/538020/

Here you go!

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eternal latin btfo

>>173316315
>eu:rome in 2017

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>become shogun
>two OPMs don't ebcome my vassals for some reason
>they immediately become tributaries to Ming

>>173315959
Alright I'm tired of fucking Johan and his cronies coming to shit up this thread and boast about how they're so rich to afford a piece of shit DLC so let me present to you both the full game and new update with DLC

http://igg-games.com/europa-universalis-iv-rights-of-man-free-download.html

>>173316315
They lost provinces to barbarians? I recall them not having holes in an earlier screenshot.

>>173316730
That's a civil war, not barbarians

>>173316486
It's pretty neat, but there's unfortunately not that much content.

Anyone else feel like the massive state reduction has made late game EU4 really shit? Especially in areas outside of Europe.

>>173316782
Oh! Yeah, my bad.

Also there's more content when you have a senate and more npcs, desu.

russians uploading a new full repack of 1.20, should be up in few minutes

rezmar i just want the dlc thanks <3

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>Commies win American civil war
>Commies win Russian civil war
>Commies everywhere
How do I get off the Deutsches Reich train?
I don't want to fight the commies.

>>173317220
IIRC your independence depends on Germany entirely, you can't start anything.

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Guy guys

I tried playing Victoria 2 but it says i can only field 1 brigade of soldiers and at the start i could field 11
What's going on, what should i change to get it back to 11

>>173317364
So I will get rammed in the ass,no matter what I do.
That is great to know.
I de-germanized the state on purpose and everything.

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Thoughts?

Is there any way I can revert the change to states and keep playing Ironman and getting achievements?

>>173317765
Update only is ~27 mb.


also
>>>https://www.skidrowreloaded.com/europa-universalis-iv-update-v1-20-incl-dlc-codex/

>>173317423
uninstall and play reel gsg like hoi4
also
>>>/a/
we dont accept degenerates here

>>173316830
Yes, they did this in Stellaris as well (if states = core systems). I don't know why they are desperate to bring the CK2 demesne system into all their other games.

I don't understand the logic behind their decision on this either but I'm guessing it's to make the late game harder/more grindy.

>>173317423
You ran out of soldier pops anon.

>>173291179
What's the limit on loans?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEyDNTLlRgU

Ho ! Bongo ! Bongo ! Bongo ! I don't want to leave the Kongo ! No no no no !

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>>173317765

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I hate this

>>173291179
>merchant republic
>getting mercs

What's the problem ?

>>173317997
>(if states = core systems)
Not really that comparable.
no autonomy equivalent for the research in sectored systems, and you still get 75% of the energy/minerals, so like having 25% autonomy for those things, but not exactly since the sector still uses at least the energy so in practice only 25% autonomy for minerals in the sectored systems.

As far as logic it makes sense that you have a harder time to have direct control over a vast interstellar empire.

>>173318080
these screens make me want to change localization to french even thought i dont know the language itself too well
is it the power of baguette

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>>173317765

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>>173318184
It's a fun way to snap up a few words, if not help learn a language.

>>173318158
>As far as logic it makes sense that you have a harder time to have direct control over a vast interstellar empire.

Emperor did it just fine with his galaxy oh wait rebels.

Yeah, as far as what you are saying I agree with you though, I think I just meant that it's a rough equivalency ie - you're not getting the stuff you've conquered 100%

I want to add a mod that just gives me more states but I like getting achievements.

>>173318184
I'm whoring with my screenshots a lot lately, enjoy.

>>173316681
Become Ming's tributary yourself, attack them and then break the tributary with Ming