/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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>>173951802
BASED

Ming is ABSOLUTELY BASED

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>>173951802
Every time

Does MEIOU and Taxes work with 1.20?

is there a mod that completely removes mana in EU4 and works?

>>173952131
uninstall.mod

>>173952118
Depend on how much the different between 1.19 and 1.20.

>>173952131
No, EU4 will never be good.

>>173952131
MEIOU remove that development button in province UI if that mean something.

>>173952131
No
No

>>173952118
No

>Paradox will never hire composer that Aplitude uses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XRzW-WVZY8
Why even live

It is now nearly 5 months since HPM was updated
Anyone else in favour of replacing it in the archive with Vickymod?

https://www.strawpoll.me/12743502

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>>173952552

>>173952461
>Wiz
>DDRjake
>Johan
Paradox will never hire anyone good

>>173952552
trob

>>173952461
>2017
>not making your own soundtracks

>>173952706
>2017
>not sucking your own dick

>>173952876
It has been 4 hours since I successfully sucked my own penis. Things are different now. As soon as mouth-to-penis contact was made I felt a shockwave through my body. I have reason to believe I have super strength and telekinesis now.. 3 hours after contact I noticed a van parked on my street but no one has entered or exited the car since its arrival. I fear for my safety, I'm not sure what sort of power I may have stumbled upon but it's possible that the government has found out. If I don't update this again please send help.

>>173952935
k.

can you release MEIOU and Taxes 2.0 please

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>>173952935
Good for you

I can't play these games but enjoy watching them, any suggestions for Youtubers that play CK2?

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what now?

>>173953115
Expand into India and then dismantle Russia with German help.

>play utrecht
>take friesland
>unironically get 30 AE with everyone in europe
what le fug

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>Convert CK2 game
>See this

What do?

>>173953256
>high value province
>part of HRE
>same religion
>same culture
What did you expect

>>173953552
>using a version of the game with square Memel
You deserved it

>>173953256
>he takes a princes sovereign land
>>173953552
Use console commands you spas

>>173953256
>be agressive
>get AGRESSIVE expansion
woooooww
nothing i could do haha

>>173953552
Pray to Allah

The AI in EU4 can't colonize shit. They usually take 150 years more than what they did IRL to colonize Mesoamerica(sometimes they just don't colonize it). Or they focus on colonizing fucking useless shitholes instead of colonizing coastal areas. They usually don't conquer tribal nations and instead leave them in peace, giving them time to catch up in tech levels and convert to Christianism...

Meanwhile in Victoria 2 it takes the AI 15 years to colonize all of Africa.

I wish we had some kind of colonization railroading in EU4, so that colonization went more or less like it did in real life.

>>173953739
>remove F R E E casus belli on primitives and savages
that's literally it

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Meanwhile, in the British Isles

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>>173953698
Sweden yes?

>>173953739
I've been wanting some sort of ai control on colonizing too. It bothers me a bit when I see "english brazil" or whatever, for example. If the AI countries could have some sort of preferred region which they would colonize then it could've looked more historical.

>>173953854
Is there some sort of problem I'm not seeing? Great Britain controls Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Makes some sense at least.

>>173953739
EU4 is just pure garbage. Inca never gets conquered, Mesoamerica almost never gets properly colonized. However in the 15th century they'll create ahistorical colonies everywhere in the Ivory Coast.

The increased aggressiveness and ferocity for Ivory Coast natives doesn't deter the AI from colonizing there far too early, mainly because that bullshit native policy which completely removes native revolts exists.

Vic 2 is superior.

>>173954036
Does MEIOU address this?

>>173954081
The only thing MEIOU address is adding more useless bloat

>>173954036
Vic 2 is ugly as shit though. I wish vic2 had some sort of graphics overhaul.

>>173953997
I just thought it was cool that, without player intervention, Britain ended up controlling northern Ireland like that while the rest was independent.

>>173954081
Yes, it's better with M&T and it's also railroaded so Iberia gets a bonus colonist earlier than everyone else if I'm not wrong

>>173953739
>colonial casus beli is gone
>deus vult is last idea
Wonder why they don't expand anon

>In EU4 you can create colonies all over coastal Africa as soon as you get the colonial range for it, which can be done in the 15th century
>In Victoria 2 you need to wait until the late 19th century to get the techs required to colonize these same lands that could be colonized in EU4 with just the enough colonial range 400 years before

Explain.

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>>173954217
>railroading
>>173954353
>In EU4 you cannot create colonial nation in Africa, not even the Cape colony

>>173954353
You need to develop advanced medicine to survive in the depths of the Dark continent.

>>173954114
Vicky 2 has comfiest music man

The main issue with Vicky 2 is that it ends too early. And mods that add an expanded timeline are broken

>>173954394
Railroading is great, the player should be the only force able to change history in the games

>>173954408
So why the fuck can a 15th century country colonize much of Africa with the technology that was available to them in that era?

>>173954442
HPM wanted to expand the start date to 1815, what happened with that?

>>173954525
HPM got a job and nobody was autistic enough to pick up the torch.

>>173954525
I don't know but there was a PDM submod that allowed you to start in 1821. Sadly, PDM sucks.

>>173954525
HPM is ded

>>173951802
W&B

>>173954586
>DoD is designed quite well for a mod
>Its PDM based
Life is suffering

>>173954525
>1815 start
>Spain will manage to hold Bolivia and some other colonies in the Americas forever unless they get a doomstack of rebels
>Belgium will probably never exist because Netherlands will swallow it
I'm not sure if that would work to be honest. I am probably forgetting some other things

>>173954081
They take longer to colonize in MEIOU desu (like late 1600s) but they usually colonize the right places

>>173954523
Lots of European countries established colonies on the African coast during the early modern era. They tended to just be coastal fortresses, though, or islands just offshore. In EU4 game terms, they would have just been toeholds for the Europeans to influence trade in the nodes there and have easy access to the trade goods (ie. slaves and ivory). The Dutch, British and Danish all had coastal holdings in Africa in the 1500s and 1600s.

>>173954719
Spain has a civil war against united hispanic Americas
Ottomans have a firmer grip on its stuff

Naples had that crazy guy going all in vs Austria.
>>173954797
They literally had same purpose as Caribbean islands- trade and resupply

Also reminder nobody played this gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FfKbSvWPDU

>>173954992
I thought the purpose of the Caribbean islands was so that the Europeans had somewhere to grow all their sugarcane.

>>173955036
That too.
Based sugarcane.

>>173953552
Remove kebap

What idea group should I get if Im playing uesugi? I own around 60% of japan at this point but I was thinking of getting some millitary idea. Im rich as fuck 300 ducats right now

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Shogun took my rival's provinces, but does that mean I need to worry?

>>173955552
Quality is good as japan

>>173955552
You pretty much always want Quantity as one of your first two idea groups, manpower is just such a scarce resource in EU4.

>>173955982
>>173955908
Isn't it better to go with a diplomatic idea because diplomatic technologies aren't good early so you can afford to be a little behind in them?

>>173955982
With rich enough nations, should you use 50% merc armies?

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Im gonna do it im gonna fuckin do it. To bad Sikh is mechanically one of the weakest religions its got such a nice color and no one converts to it but today is the day.

>>173956142
You should use as many mercs as you can afford as every nation, only infantry though.

>>173956065
Yeah that's part of why I find colonial nations so comfy, but you should be able to get military ideas and tech with advisor priority and national focus. It's only really an issue if you're coring a lot in the first 50 years.

>>173955908
>>173955982
Took you too long to respond so I took defensive ideas. Quality is mostly naval bonuses desu, only one or two bonuses seem useful. Kinda regret not taking quantity, After a recent war Im quite drained

>>173954523
>complains about Africans colonies when you still can't set up the east India companies

>>173956481
Even without a navy, quality is one of the best groups there - if not the best. You basically get 15 discipline with it, and more army tradition too. 10 of that 15 discipline will count and do damage even in a defensive battle. It's extremely good.

>>173954992
>carribean was trade
No carribean was sugar and tobacco plantations you took slaves to
You took luxury goods to North America to sell to the middleclass and buy furs from native helpers
You took weapons and clothes to Africa for slaves
How do people still not know how the triangle trade worked
>>173955036

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check out this Red Roman Realm

>>173956824
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAlMaVYIzqw

BASED

MP when ?

>>173956871
this desu

>>173956824
W&B

>>173956254
>Sikh emerges by event whenever a Hindu nation borders a Muslim one

Does that mean I could get Sikhism as Majapahit or Sunda if I managed to get a border with Malacca or Siak?

>>173955552
Get colonisation first and colonise the Indies, then quality as you need those naval buffs so it's not a waste like for most other nations
>>173955786
Ally uesuegi as they have revanchism
Imawaga
And hyuga
Then you'll be able to take the shogunate if you have the bigger navy
Remember to take shogunate you have to own kyoto so send your stack there first so your ally doesn't occupy it
Your allies auto join wars vs the shogun

>>173956934
Well, somebody needs to host it, and it's not going to be me

What's the difference between giving merchants a province and giving it to a trade company

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>>173956254
Pretty cool desu. What are you end goals?

Quantity is the best group overall, because as some other anon said, manpower is so scarce, and it gives you a bajillion force limit too. It doesn't win wars on its own but it goes a very long way towards it.
Offensive/Defensive/Quality are all gucci too. They make your dudes fight better, while quantity just makes more of your dudes.

Economic, Expansion, Admin and Innovative are ok too.
Influence can be ok too I guess.

Trade is a meme.

Colonial only if you plan on colonizing the shit out of things.

Most of the naval ideas are shit in singleplayer since the AI can't into fleet building and no one can rival you.

Religious is still one of the best groups too.

>>173957373
>3
>6
>6

>>173957415
>implying you can even compete with US 3k+ prestige

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>>173957131
Hmm, revanchism?

>Imawaga
>And hyuga
They're not here anymore. I am allied to these three.

So you think I can take the shogunate now after I ally a couple of more of them? My mil tech is low though.

>>173957407
>best idea group
>no free casus beli straight away
>still takes forever to convert Muslims
>quality
>trying to be gamey whilst also failing
>RP failure
Kys kiddo

>>173957373
Unite India make a march out of afghanistan Indochina and Tibet. My main goal is I wanna see if I can beat super Ming going sikh is just cause its fun.

>>173957591
>revanchism
If you lose territory you get buffs
>take shogun now
They just had a war, they won but their manpower should be low whilst yours is high
How many more Diplo reps can you have? As I said allies auto join and cannot break alliance in war
>mil tech
>mattering
Just have one more troop, fight in plains and a general, then you'll be fine

>>173951802
absolutely liquortastically FUCKIN' hella white and based

>>173957617
>kys

Bereft yourself of life.

>>173957752
They became independent somehow... I can't ally them.

What do I do then?

Is liquor W&B?

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>>173957975
file

>>173951802
You can fuck my bitch Report & Ignore!

>>173957975
Reset and play Uesgi, don't know how you lost with the second easiest daiymo
>>173957938
Fucj you burger, don't corrupt The language

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Where's the full version of this game?

>>173958130
Too pale.

>>173958050
Warring the shogun makes you independent until you make peace. If you take Kyoto you become shogun, if you remain a vassal then you become a normal daiymo via event

>>173958225
Have I lost?
I was doing really well, then suddenly the shogun took uesgi clay and now they are stronk.

>>173958291
Okay. Well, I don't know who else I could ally. I can always ally a couple of other daiymos, but they are all small opm anyway. It's going to be me against the shogun with many more opm daiymos.

>>173958412
>stronk
>this little progress after 30 years
Do you want an upboat as well?

Why are EU4fags so obsessed with blobbing as fast and much as possible?

>>173958753
Because there's no mechanic for building tall.

>>173958672
Yes please.

>>173958753
Because if you blob effectively you will be able to blob more. Duh.

>>173958753
Because EUIV sucks and theres literally nothing else to do except blob.

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The Mexican raiders are essentially finished,but I don't want to annex another partisan ridden shithole like Canada.
I will just puppet them.

Reminder that which game is the best game is completely subjective on an individual level. If we are going to make a somewhat objective statement on which game is the best, we therefore have to measure it on how many people enjoy the games in question. In this case, EU4 is a way way better game than Vic2 because EU4 is way way more popular.

Thank you for your attention.

>>173959127
>what is popular is good
nice meme, made me bite.

>>173954119
Blasphemy

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The superior civilization shows its strength once again

>>173959182
It's actually the only way to measure it, because it's a subjective matter. Therefore popularity is the way to say whether it's good or not. Whatever else criteria you want to go for is only your subjective interpretation of what is good or not.

tliquor

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>>173959391
Fuck off

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>Alex Grandi litteraly eating monkeys

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>>173956824
>He goes into worthless germania instead of taking control of the mediterran trade zones
maximum plebeus

>>173959630
He's a bit too black to be Alex

>>173959691
What do you think those red stripes mean, pleb? Besides, coastal Carthage is mostly grain and wood, both of which I have an abundance of.

>>173958753
Because you can't play tall nations.

>>173959767
Alex is w&b

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I have a problem with my HOI 3 mods.
When I choose a mod in the launcher and press play, the vanilla base game starts for whatever reason no matter what box I check.
Any help?

>>173959797
You can actually.

It's not like vic, but you can develop your provinces, build buildings, optimalize your whole nation like that, and be the biggest power of them all in the end without being too big a blob.

>>173959630
Please don't speak ill of the dead

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What do you guys think? Do I stand a chance against korea? I want ainu which is their tributary. This is a great chance to fuck up korea and by reducing their power maybe even fuck up Ming indirectly. I have naval force limit reached but can still build quite a lot of regiments. Only thing that worries me is that Im level 6 military and they are level 9

>>173958753
Because I must unify the nation against outside threats, then we can live in peace and prosperity
>>173958852
New mechanics make this poIsn't null

>>173959972
You have to spend an ever increasing amount of mana to go tall. It's significantly easier and cheaper to attack your neighbor and collect 20 development from 4 new provinces than it is to develop your own provinces 20 times.

>>173960142
Yes true.

My point was merely that you CAN play tall.

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The next plan is to industrialize a few provinces in the southern part of Mexico and then migrate Caesar's Legion trough land exchange.
Essentially re-doing the same thing the US did to the Mississippi Indians back in the day.
Migrate them elsewhere.

>>173951796
Why is Stellaris not included in the Thread image?

>>173958753
Because some countries require you to blob so you can form a stronger country, i.e. Brandenburg, England/Scotland, etc.

>>173960012
Anyone?

>>173960354
You will receive an event to annex the korean peninsula in 1910, just wait for that.

>>173960012
>not coring
>not skuttling inactive ships
>ainu is a trubuitary of Korea
>Korea is independent
How the fuck did that happen
Also people don't always defend their tributes
Declare war on Ainu anyway for reduced cost
Humiliate korea through separate peace

>>173960142
>he doesn't pick the correct ideas
>he doesn't use the development edict
>>173960268
Because it's 4X

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>>173957591
>>173957752
>>173958050
>>173958225
I went for it and I won.

k lads

>>173960710
Congrats, now focus on diploannexing the big vassals first, and offer vassalisation to any exiled daiymo

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Is this humane enough?
They served me well,but I don't want to outright kill them.
I will industrialize the new "homeland"

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>>173960880
What are you doing, YOU are the enclave, You are the new Rome.
Vaporize them

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>>173960827
I just diploannex them like I would any other vassals in eu4?

I think actually none of them are exiled?

Will it be cakewalk from now on?

As a total modding noob, how do i go about integrating the ExtraElecetionEvents event file from PoD into HPM? Not surprisingly copy pasting causes a CTD

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>>173960989
I'm only interested in US territory.
You can't get cores on non-US states and they all have a 40-50 chance of partisans popping up.
This is the reason I puppeted Mexico.
It's a nightmare to keep territories like this.
At least the Legion willingly submitted itself and never attacked me.

>>173961052
Ashikaga will be an independent daiymo probably, so make sure they're all vassals
Diploannex like others, but annex the biggest ones first so they're less likely to have 50+ liberty desire
not a cake walk as you have China to deal with

>>173961167
Ok. How will I deal with China? Are they going to care about me that much?

>>173961318
Im other japanese anon, I have entire japan under my control. Right now Im in war with ainu and korea. If I win this war it will probably boost me to the level of ming. Try looking for neighbours to fuck up or ally with

>>173956254
As long as they have gurus it's not that bad.
Some gurus are shit though.

During two of the gurus it's argueably one of the best religions since you get 5% disc and 10% morale.
I think during the 18th century you just stop getting gurus though and then it's just 10% morale and 10% tech cost, which isn't terrible, but inferior to just going Shakti as hindu.

>>173957407
Quantity is a meme unless you're playing mp for score, if you're playing for score it is absolutely essential.

Is it a good idea to pick Colonialism as your first idea before 1500?

>>173962148
Yes, if you can get within colonial range of the Americas before 1500. If you manage that, you have a chance to spawn the Colonialism institution in your home provinces.

>>173955908
>Quality is good as japan
Yeah.
Generally Offensive>Quality>Defensive imo, but a lot of japanese daimyos have army tradition decay which buffs quality and defensive a bit since those two have yearly army tradition.

>>173962320
Sound good. I'm going to beat the fuck out of Moortugal to take that shitty island.

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>>173961420
Okay. Picture of your Japan, please?

Also, what would you suggest I do with these?

>>173959383
>Not taking Thapsus, Theveste and Hippo Regius in the first 20 years
The gods are wrought with you

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>>173962720
>implying I'm good at EU:R
Why do you think I'm playing babby's first blob to begin with?

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>>173962928
I've been working my way through the History of Rome podcast and I desire nothing more than to dive into a Rome grand strategy game but EU:Rome is unplayable with those fucking cascading alliances.

>>173962928
>legions dont have roman numbers
reee

>>173962969
>do good as illyria
>minor wars in the east, colonize a lot in the west
>think i'm doing pretty good
>macedonia conquered all of greece and is allied to the seulecid empire who conquered all of anatolia and the bosphoran kingdom who conquered all of crimea
>get gangbanged, peace out through the console like a bitch
>expand a bit west, start sucking up to rome
>they declare war as soon as we get a border
t-thanks

>have a 70 year old ruler
>have a 50 year old heir
>heir dies
>new heir is 0 years old
Why the fuck does this happen? Surely people other than the ruler are having sex, or the ruler is having more than one child.

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Time to get buttfucked on two fronts.

>>173953115

Get rid of disgusting gommunism in your country

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>Peasant rebellion in an island
>2k strong
>Send a 3k against it
>Amphibious landing despite the fact that I landed the ships in port
>Rebel stack defeats my army
>It got stackwiped

>>173962539
I just turned the game off. I won the first korean war but got fucked in the ass in second. Literally just conquer them. Instead of becoming shogun I conquered every single clan and then took ashikaga clay so ainu were already tributary when I united japan

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Is there any EU4 mod that reduces AI blobbing spree to some extent?

>>173964091
see>>173952189

>>173964091
no, but you can add a triggered modifier that increases coring cost only for AI

>>173964091
Yes. Plenty. Workshop has them.

>>173964091
>Granada
o shit

>>173964251
How?

>>173964275
Examples?

>>173963305
Your heirs grandson

>>173964091
but thats the point of that timeline, ending the game with imperialistic world is comfy

>>173964405
Sorry I misread. Thought the question was about reducing AE.

As for your real question, I think this would help you a lot: >>173964251

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>>173964091
>Granada

>>173964415
How does he have a grandson without a son?

>>173964707
His son also died.

>>173964383
throw this into a txt file in eu4\common\triggered_modifiers:
fuck_you_ai = {
potential = {
ai = yes
}
trigger = {
exists = yes
}
core_creation = 0.5
}

the 0.5 is +50% core cost, you can change it to whatever you want
captcha: nevers route

>>173964707
son died

>>173953552
>2015-01-17
???

>>173964950
Nice, thanks. What if I want to do this to a particular country, like ottomans?

throw this into a txt file in eu4\common\triggered_modifiers:
fuck_you_ai = {
potential = {
tag = TUR
}
trigger = {
exists = yes
}
core_creation = 0.5
}

Would this be correct?

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I am getting annoyed with EU4's mana system. Wanted to go back and give EU3 a chance instead. What are the necessary mods to have so that it doesn't feel quite so dated? Also, what are some just generally cool mods that you guys like?

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>spend four years Death > Dishonor-ing asia
>Germany and Italy lose in Europe because they are made of stupid
I'm scared guys, what do I do?

>>173965917
absolutely, you can change the effect to whatever you want. just look into the ideas files for possible effects. +3000 envoy travel time, +60 shock damage received, whatever

>>173966189
And the "fuck_you_ai" will appear as a non-localized name for the modifier in the "country modifiers" thingy in government section?

>>173966071
>mods
rawdog it

>>173966520
only if you're playing the country that has it, yes

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>>173951796

Help a beginner out, /gsg/.

I decided to compare my Ottoman troops to the Russians and realized that I have a shit ton of cavalry while they literally have pretty much none.

As a matter of fact absolutely no one had cavalry except for Pooland.

What is the correct rate of soliders:cavalry:cannons that I should work with? I'm guessing that it changes during the ages.

>>173966682
Thank you, you've been of much help, anon.

Out of curiousity, do you use it yourself for anything?

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Does the event for the War with Peru and subsequent puppeting of SA works in HPM? The event says you need to own "Ica" but in the files it's wrong and I don't know which province it is.

>>173966083
You're already dead

>>173966775
nwm im dumb

>>173966696
ideal is around 10 inf, 2 calv, and 8 arty or 12 inf, 2 calv or 6 arty.
I prefer 10/2/8 because arty gets much stronger as the game progresses

>>173966083
Create your own block of alliances.

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>>173966696
In most techs cavalry deal more damage than infantry, but cavalry is far more expensive and in some techs infantry even deal more damage than cavalry, and in some the difference isn't that big.
Counting fire+shock phases.

Unless I have some heavy cavalry bonuses I tend to just use cavalry for the flanks, the infantry can flank some, but since flanks don't need to reinforce as often I tend to go for full cavalry flanks, which depends on the tech.
Starting at 4 cavalry per army and ending at 10.

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>>173966696
eventually you want to have full front infantry with a cav or two per side with the back row full of arty. but the cavalry/infantry ratio is different for different tech groups, unless you are a steppe horde and before mil tech 12 or so (small/large cast iron cannon) i'd keep it to half the allowable limit for your tech group. so if 50% is allowed, put 25% cav because your infantry drop like flies and the ratio will change during battle.

>>173966882
this guy's is good, but remember that cav is a fuckton more powerful than inf at game start so mix some more in if you can afford it before arty gets good

>>173966773
no problemo, anon. personally no, but that's solely because i'm shamefully playing ironman for cheevos right now, i hate it but my autismus maximus just can't stand having 0 cheevos

>>173966083
>russian front
nah u ded

W H E R E

I S

H P M

>>173967360
In China

>>173967360
dead in Syria

>>173967360
Getting invaded by China? Just go look for it you fucking autist.

>>173966071
i like death & taxes, it adds a lot of provinces which fixes issues like switzerland being weird 2 province country and make it so that thrace and constantinople aren't merged. It also extends timeline from 1356 to 1900 but you probably shouldn't play so far into the game

Any common strats to claim Japan as Ainu? The daimyos declare conquest wars much earlier now

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I'M NUCLEAR

>>173953059

wtf is this photoshopped?

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>>173959946
pls help
The modules start but mod content doesn't show up, they look and play just like vanilla

>uninstall.exe

HAHAHAHAH

>>173968129
>Trump told N. Korea to surrender
>Kim said "Nuts!"

>>173968129
USA now got cb on NK and Trump's not wasting it

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JOHAAAAAAAAAAN

>>173966696
cavalry are good early but be less good when infantry start getting fire values
ideally you want enough full strength infantry to be at full combat width with as many cannons behind that

Ottomans to Byzantium, still possible?

>>173968627
What's your problem, lad?

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What the best Pagan country to try if I'm playing Pagans for the first time?

>>173968627
Ottoman rivals?

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>>173968602
please respond I'm confused

>>173969159
Ottoman>Romania>Byzantium

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How am I doing? I want to ally with Austria and eventually I hope to ally Denmark and Muscovy to take out Poland.

>>173968627
yeah i have no idea why anyone can join a league if they're not catholic or protestant

>>173968627
They historically supported the Protestants, so it's not totally out of the question that they would join the Catholic League.

>playing brandenburg
>trying to recover my manpower because it hasn't been above 10k for like 60 years
>austria keeps calling me into wars
>the ai keeps trying to invade me even though I'm like 13 years ahead of time with full offensive and a discipline adviser
Stop I just want peace so I can convert to protestantism.

Has anybody ever done a communist Cuba run in hoi4?

>>173969649
well to be fair 30 years war was not just about religion but also about whenever countries were either pro or anti-hapbsurg

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this is a thing now

>>173969704
but they didn't join the war directly, they just used it as proxy to fight poles and would secretly finance protestant forces while also aiding them with mercenaries (poland did the same to support hapsburgs)

>>173969950
Didn't Russia get involved, or were they dealing with the Time of Troubles?

>>173969917
What did you do?

>>173969591
How's your AE doing? I think it's time to DOW some neighbour. But you're doing fine.

>>173970074
they dealt with time of troubles by 1612, and the war itself began in 1618
i assume russians were also fighting poles

Decide who I play as and what my goals are in eu4

>>173970336
Ok. You are going to play as Russia. Your goal is actually a huge one. You will conquer ming, preferably all of Asia but that's not necessary if it becomes too hard.

>>173970336
play as the steam client

you're goal is to delete local content

>>173970336
Some native american tribe. Conquer England

>la plata

HAHAHAHA

>>173970336
Play as Aztec
Goal is to get colonized

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>>173970487
La Plata

>>173969846
I understand but in the EU4 sense of war where a country will never, ever try and cut their losses and you need to siege down their entire nation to get a proper peace deal the ottomans or russians wouldn't have involved themselves in the conflict regardless

>>173970437
I pick this one, the rest are shit

>one of my forts is being sieged down
>move a stack to go and fight it
>the stack is in the fog of war
>the enemy moves off the fort
I thought they made it so the enemy pretends there if fog of war, like how they pretend they suffer naval attrition, or pretend they suffer land attrition.

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>>173969704
>>173969950
>>173970616
>400k soldiers in 17 century
are we supposed to believe this

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excuse me

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post empires you are proud of

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>>173970254
I think it was high because I was taking out a few HRE cities. I think I might try fighting Bohemia. They just lost a war and are fighting another against Poland.

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>>173971014

>tfw they'll never make EU Rome II

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>>173968627
and then France gets RNGed to being emperor and this happens

fuck this game

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Wtf is this incorporating cost? Its any discount for this from tech? I mean, 560 points for 4k pop state is bullshit.

>>173970637
Good choice, lad. Keep us posted about it.

>>173971793
It's about how far it is now how many people it has

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>>173971745
ksdaikm09w328

>>173972026
Abandon the game

>>173972273
done

>>173970909
>ottomans
>being hard pressed to find men
You do know their historic borders right?

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Holy shit that was way too close.

>>173963613
>the rebels didn't own the town
Have you never played total war atilla
>>173963305
RNG
sometimes you get 0 Age heir, sometimes 20 age heir. Look at the source code for further details

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The deportation area for the Legion is almost ready.
Decided to expand the Canadian puppet too.
It frees up a lot of shitty divisions from anti-partisan duty.
I have 340~ combat ready divisions now,200~ less than the west coast raiders.
But they spammed irregulars.
As soon as the new tanks roll out,I will roll over them.

>>173972753
What game is this?

The fact that it has the town I grew up as a Provence name makes me happy for some reason.

>>173961318
Become their tribuitary so they can't War you
Build light ships up to force limit, privateer, so when it comes to war you will instantly blockade
As long as they never land you'll win alll wars
Also colonise all of Oceania

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>>173972918
Fallouts Doomsday for Darkest Hour.
It has a pretty detailed US map.

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Where is the guy that added shit to HPM a couple days ago? Anyone got a link?

>>173973016
Nice, will have to check it out after the payday when i get Darkest hour

>>173960238
link to mod?

>>173973031
http://boards.4ch an.org/vg/thread/173901335#p173901335

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Playing a comfy game as Pagarruyung right now. I've allied, tributary'd or subjugated pretty much everyone in Indonesia/Malaysia/New Guinea.

I might be able to form Malaya before 1820 if I pick up the pace a little.

>Already played EUIV for two weeks straight and still not burnt out even though I have only been playing Japanese
Finally I found a timesink that isn´t a fucking moba game

>>173972026
>play meme game
>get memed on

>play custom nation
>get abused by the AI
You wanted it anon
>>173971119
ugh pomerania? also stop playing windowed

>>173972583
What are you catholic prussia?

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>>173972963
How to take Ryukyu and Korea? They are ming tributaries.

>>173973924
become a tribuitary yourself

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>>173973616
I also managed to avoid letting any Europeans colonise Indonesia/Malaysia/New Guinea/Australia/New Zealand. Britain and Portugal managed to get Fiji, Christmas Island and Cocos Island, but between me, Ternate, Tidore and Brunei, everything else got taken.

The Ottomans colonised part of Taiwan, though.

>>173973924
Try and finish conquering the Home Islands, become isolationist for 200 years and wait for America to show up with Gun boats.

I don't play EU4 for a couple of months and when I come back, I don't know how to play the game anymore...

>>173974219
Consider yourself lucky

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What are the best pagans to play if you're playing them first time?

>>173974513
If you want to have fun steamrolling everyone, Norse pagans, 867 start.

If you want to torture yourself, Zunists.

>>173973786
I'm not?

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Only 2 fucking battles during the whole war. They had 100k men, yet they didn't attack me.

>>173974776
Then fuck you.
>>173974219
Zoroastrian for wincest.

I forcibly expelled ronin and took the legitimacy drop, but the -500 liberty desire isn;t in the subject screen so I can't annex a vassal, help

>>173974838
Are you going to go Revolutionary when 1710 rolls around so you can remove kebab and replace kebab with a gyro client republic?

>>173974732
What if I want to kidnap civilised princesses and make them have 20 babies?

>>173975007
Norse. Definitely Norse.

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>>173974970
I have never actually gone revolutionary. I know the balls strats, to go bankrupt and run on -3 stab, but I'm kind of scared to do that this game. My income is really shit, since I don't have many profitable trade goods and don't control any of the nodes. Maybe things will look better when I take over Venice node and get some money to actually build manufacturies.

>>173975602
Just develop your provinces.

I honestly don't understand how people can enjoy Eu4. It's the most fucking boring and braindead game in existence. I'd rather play a spreadsheet simulator like Rule the Waves or Aurora than Eu4.

>>173975938
It's playable after $500 of DLC.

>wonder how I can get Useugiu to think I'm more powerful
>decide to vassalsie Ainu
>IT ACTUALLY WORKED
Truly, by heaven I have ruled for.

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>They had 600+divisions
>It got reduced by hundreds
Why?
They can't supply them and the divisions get dispersed?

>>173976209
>dog bone divisions

>>173976363
Irregular shit.
It's militia.
They only built militias.

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Catholic HRE controlled by Catholic Brandenburg dismantled by Catholic Serbia.
Truly the Good Friday.

>>173966083
IF it's against base ai then no problems and you'll win

>>173974513
Rurik is really fun. You are stronger than all your neighbors, so forming Rus is easy and after that you have a lot of room to expand into

>>173973990
Honestly best way. I did that, ate ryukyu, korea, and manchuria. After that Ming removed me as a tributary because I had also been claiming land around their coast. Needless to say I DOWed ming with 80k troops while they are at war with bengal.

>>173975761

just ward their jungles

Which Daimyo is /ourguy/?

>>173977592
Uesugi. Entire time I had image of uesugi from Sengoku rance in my head

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lads I'm streaming making a mivvi mod, come have fun

twitch /buttsong

>>173977592
Nobunaga obviously

>>173977592
all of them, as long as you convert to christianity

>>173978052
But which sect of Christianity?

>>173978093
the most holy roman church, of course

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>>173978373
*uses technological mandate provided by the lack of religious curtailing of advancement to create a golden era of science and developement*

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>>173978609
*blocks your path*

>>173978609
"fails to do so because lack of religion prevents defusion of stored and salvaged texts hoarded by the holy church upon rome's fall and sends him back into the dark ages."

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>>173977245
Well, I'm Japan now. Just have to take on Ryukyu. I guess I'll become a tributory.

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>Muscovy already crossed the Caucasus
>lead by Semen
>allied to Ottomans
<AND BOHEMIA
Can aI austria just do no PU or something?

>>173978768
*uses printing press to store texts of scientific, cultural and religious merit down forever in regional languages*

>>173978925
>unironically speaking in tongues

>>173979264
>le dead language not understood by 95% of the people face

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>>173978771
They won't fucking let me...

>>173979612
ally with anyone not tributary. Since they don´t have 100 heavnly score yet ming may be really deep in debts

>>173979612
Just take it, you fucking pussy.
I have no idea why every casual Japanshitter becomes a tributary the moment they have to attack a tributary.
Use your fucking brain. You are on islands. He is on mainland.

>>173979964
*tips fuck off ming navy*

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There are only two countries left.
A fundamentalist church state in New England and Canada,
And the Legion,who will be pupeted and deported to Mexico.

>>173980021
I guess you CAN'T use your brain after all.
You only have to make the landing and then you won't use the navy until the rest of the war. You won't fight a single naval battle if you know the Ming patrol route.

>>173980021
He meant that you can easily break their invasion forces before they even get on land. You can see where their troops will land. Move your troops and fuck them up really good.

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>inb4 no gold

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>>173980209
Like so.

>>173953115
>Swedish Africa

>>173980423
Yeah, it should be African Sweden

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>Easter in 2 days
You guys know what this means right?

Just like Jesus Christ, the lord and saviour of /gsg/, HPM will rise from the dead

You guys need to try the latest version of CWE on github

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Ebin?
Ebin.

>>173980423
>African Sweden

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From Coast-to-Coast
Should I use my nukes in the final war?

What are the best mods for HoI3?

>>173981125
black ice

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STOP DECLARING WAR ON ME WHILE I'M ALREADY IN ANOTHER WAR

>>173980934
talex

>>173981371
Yes sir, from now on we will only declare war when you can beat us and never when you have a disadvantage, ever

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I think this is very good timing
didn't get overthrown once

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>>173981670
it auto-inherited some of my vassals

now how do I stop the warlord era from happening

more importantly if I can't stop it from happening who should I tag switch to to unite china with

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alright how do I do this guys?
>Can´t chase and finish the korean army because forts
>No manpower left
>Not enough time to take forts before koreans come back to fuck my shit up
I can already feel AI using cheats to get another 30k manpower. Also do debts actually do anything? They are apparently 200 ducats in debt but doesnt seem to have any effect on anything

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>>173981906
oh shit I fucked up. Here is the right pic

Can someone post a link to Africamod which isn't on Mega? I'm getting download rates in the bits/second range

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>>173977814
stream is sill going, just returned from a 5 minute break.

just finished getting navigable great lakes set up and proper custom terrain booted, now going in to do some assorted edits, add a releasable nation or two and port in and fix the EIC minimod for HPM.