/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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>>174148903
W&B

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>>174148903
Based

>>174149108
Not based

>>174148903
White

>>174149108
Not white

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>>174147320
I think I'm gonna try Castile again, but I'm just gonna focus on modernizing my military and conquering muslim nations. Long term goal will be rebuilding the Roman Empire.

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>>174149108

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>Tfw cute character dies
>Reminder that she killed her husband with amazing sex

>>174149227
Do a different nation you tard, you need a different experience. If you really want something similar, try Portugal or Aragon instead.

Why is playing a tall Netherlands in EU4 so comfy?

>>174149840
>tall netherlands
>not tall switzerland

>>174149749
>Do a different nation
y

>>174149875
Tall Netherlands is comfy because you can colonially expand and become a huge trade power with trade companies scattered around the globe.

I was thinking of making a meme nation in Victoria 2.
What about a nice Caribbean Federation?

>>174149227
I think a good fun game is England. England is a bit harder than Castille but still leaves you lots to do and room for mistakes.

Always surrender Maine.

My goal when I play England is to form GB and to reclaim the land Henry V had underhim in France.

If I'm feeling it, I'll go and try to own all of France.

Dieu et Mon Droit

>>174149997
Conquer Latin America as Texas.

>>174149960
autistic management of colonies is not comfy at all

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>After the cute Duchess dies her son and only heir immediately gets syphilis and dies
Well shit, where do I play now?

>>174149907
You should be trying to learn about the game in your first games, doing the same thing over and over will limit your knowledge and experience. Castile is one of the easiest nations in the game as well, so you're limiting your skill.

>>174150108

uninstall this mod

>>174150313
>great strategy
>skill

>>174150647
What mod?

>>174150734

meant for him
>>174150287

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what was my fucking problem
did anyone succesfuly take mandate of heaven as japan? I cucked myself with institutions because i didn't realize how they work and wasted a lot of time catching up with tech so i fucked up but it was fun anyway

What do people mean by tall?

>>174150826
having small developed country (for example italian countries) is playing tall

blobbing and having huge empire full of shitholes (for example: russia) is playing wide

>>174150826
It means to expand in height instead of width.
Few provinces with good development.

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>>174148896
IS this anon here yet?

>>174151130
>>174151147
That's viable? I was always under the impression that outside of dropping some diplo on gold or valuable trade good provinces developing drained too much MP

>>174149227
Play England
Ally Austria, Castille, Papal States and maybe burgundy
Surrender Maine, but apart from that the game is pretty comfy, just focus on colonising not wars in Europe, but always honour the call to arms

>>174151301
ayy

Yup, but not for much longer, it's 23:00 at I'm pretty tired.
>>>/his/2670658

>>174150810
>taking Manchu lands
You need to let Yeren take Manchu lands so they can form Manchu, from there you let them conquer, the other tributaries, from there they should be able to fight ming
Then ally with someone else like Persia or Russia and partition china

>>174151301
>>174151549
Here's the link to the mod's suggestion page if any anons want to contribute anything:
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/631545981/412448158141568140/

So, how do I play as Ashikaga? Just force and diploannex everybody as usual? Should I let my daimyos liberty desire rise for easier conquest? I want to have a colonial game going later on.

>>174150810
Im actually surprised you won against ming. How? I played Japan for two weeks and couldn´t fucking do it

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Do you guys care for achievements?
If yes post your last one you got in a gsg

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I hate that Paradox is pumping out one DLC after another but i'm happy i dont need every DLC to get the achievements done

Are there actually people who unironically think that Total War is better than grand strategy?

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>>174151969
>dlc achievements
I care about cheevos but I'm bad at getting them

>>174151629
i actually never became tributary, i wanted to but ming never trusted me
>>174151963
my start was shaky, managed to unite japan by 1510 and then my strategy was:
>declare war on korea or someone you want to conquer
>wait in your island and destroy chinese armies that will come to you through boats one by one
>wait until you can white peace ming
>proceed to conquer korea when it becomes 1vs1 war
also taking war reparations from ming is pretty huge

>>174152001
Because they're completely different games. Total War campaign gives context to battles, while battles in Grand Strategy are in context of a political conflict with aims, goals, and strategy.

>>174151717
>working on the beyond the pale development team
Nice, this is the one mod that really helps EU4 be less shit without requiring an complete overhaul.

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>>174151969
I'm a sucker for achievements. Just really bad at them

>>174152001
i always became bored of TW games because every single session goes like this
>fight 3-5 first battles manually
>then start to automatically resolve more and more wars until gameplay becomes shit version of paradox game

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>>174151969
I've only played Ironman sparingly for two reasons, one is to see whether I'm actually decent at the game, and two is that it's slow as fuck after 100 years or so.

>>174152273
This may sound arrogant, but I'm kind of hoping BT becomes more regularly used among /gsg/, like how the most used mods are HPM and HIP.

It would have to compete with MEIOU, but there will always be stragglers who prefer one mod over the other.

Are there any reasons to use "Coptic" over "Miaphysite" in EU4?

What is latest checksum for Extended timeline?

do you need to annex entire ming to get mandate of heaven or what
im not a horde btw

>>174152680
You need at least 1 province in either North China, South China, or Xinan to get the causus belli.

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>>174152680
no
we wuz dragon emperors n shiet

>>174152680
>>174152740
You only need to be their neighbour.
Also ET fucked up again and Buddhists cant claim mandate there.

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>>174152740
Lies, there must be more to it.

>>174152567
I can't really think of any in particular unless you want to split up Miaphysite into the specific church for every region like having the Armenia apostic church, Coptic Orthodox Church, and Ethiopian church all be seperate.

>>174152809
WE WUZ pops in my head when I conquer Morocco or play in Africa and makes me laugh like an idiot at my computer, don't make me associate it with Asia too you mother fucker.

>>174152857
must be far eastern religion, so catholics and muzzles cant do it

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Is EUIV better than EUIII yet? I'm not hating on the business model, but it's hard to keep up with Paradox games now that they release a new DLC every few weeks. I don't even know what the fuck is going on with CKII, I stopped playing like 20 DLC ago.

>>174152857
>taking that much Chinese land

You should have just taken treaty ports anon

>>174152857
Oh yeah, you need to be in the Eastern religious group (Buddhist, Confucian, Shinto).

>>174152889
So Paradox was just being stupid with that decision?

>>174153054
Too many DLCs for me to keep up with

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>>174152980
Why must ERE always be cucked out of something?

>>174153062
>Empire without borders
>having borders
wew

>>174153113
I don't know anon, I am not an expert on the religious structure of those faiths.

>>174153054
>>174153125
The answer is yes

>>174153169
At least set up a cucked vassal state while keeping the ports under your control then.

>>174153169
>Why must ERE always be cucked out of something?
Because you're christcuck.
If you had reformed Rome as proper polytheist you would be able to claim mandate, for some reason.

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How to raise militancy?

>>174153389
You don't want to.

Does gsg ever play EU4 together?

Or Vicky II?

>>174153620
I do though
I want 4 militancy to form the empire

>>174153054
Shitposting answer: no it's shit eu4 fags btfo

Real answer: Yes, but temper your expectations. It's a map painting simulator and the entire game is about spreading your color

>>174153751
Seconded

Moar info needed on how to form Mexican Empire

Im playing as byzantine and my rebels have risen in genoa. They took the one island province they have and now nothing is happening. What will happen now? What can I do? Will genoa come under my control if they win somehow? How long will it take?

>>174152567
Big differences, but researching now for you kind anon so this nation can be made soon.

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Drunk Russian no match for might Nihon steel

To the anon from the last thread that was having problems with After the end; It seems the github version is broken. The one on the forums works.
I hope you have a legit CK2 base version because I am not uploading it.

>>174154054
If they enforce demands yes, but more likely than not they will be defeated and Genoa will keep on blobbing. How did Genoa even get Byzantine land anyway.
But if you funded them then you should have the 'support rebels' cases beli
>>174154280
reminds me of my kiwi penal who got alcohol poisoning last night as he was all alone

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>>174154054
Ahaha holy shit, they defected to me and the 8000 rebels are now also under my control. I have 20k army, how insane would it be to declare war on Roaches?

>>174153054
Haven't played eu3 so don't know, but a lot easier to RP now, not least because of more events and decisions for nations, also more unique national ideas, however Japan still has no missions most of the time.
>>174153169
>Why is the empire who's emperors were actually cuckolded multiple times getting cucked
I don't know anon?

>>174154338
There are small islands that they control since start of 1444. They weren´t funded by me they simply appeared

>>174153389
Change parties if you can, if not then just spam elections and take whatever gives the most militancy

>>174152680
Getting the mandate is easy, just be eastern and border china. But, unless you have two accepted chinese cultures, you'll get a disaster

Someone help me understand pressing claims
So I invite a guy to my court with claims to a Welsh Petty Kingdom. I'll give him some land that I acquired in Wales, so he's my subject. I'll then press him claims for his petty kingdom and win it, but, then he's suddenly independent. Is this because I'm also just the Petty Kingdom of Northumbria? Is it because I'm gavelkind/earler imperial succession?
How do I manage to expand as a Christian agaisnt other Christians without just faking claims all the time?

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>>174150810
>>174150810
start as shimazu and keep their traditions, get combat modifiers and have a golden age and you'll shit all over them. You'll nearly go broke buying mercenaries, but you'll win.

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Fuck me I'm retarded.
Does this mean I need to decentralize a level or centralize a level?

>>174154723
What small islands, Crimea? I thought those weren't byzantine cores anymore. Shame Ottomemes core removal did fuck all.
>>174154571
What alliances do you have and will they join wars, also post map
>>174150810
You know with Institutions you just invest monarch points, also just don't get the new techs and keep on investing MP until it's like 100 to embrace, as if you embrace straight away your asian neighbours will get it super easy and then it'll be hard for the Westerners to help you take down china
>>174151969
Last one was uniting Japan, now I just need an event and then I can go Krystian
>>174155125
Yeah he needs to be a lower rank than you and be your vassal

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pay up yellow boi
>dat power projection
also say something nice about this ugly europe (although i appreciate how they kicked ottos who were deep into vienna 200 years ago)

k lads

>>174155463
>needs to be a lower rank
Well, I guess I'll have to conquer Mercia, but I have a non-agression pact with the Picts who took it over

>>174155463
Nope genoa has islands in greece. Anyway I tried my luck to blitz cap while ottos were at war and aragon came to fuck me up. I was allied with walachia and hungary but they wouldn´t come because right after I allied them they got three wars and got raped three times in a row
Gotta have to start anew, that one was doomed since hungary looked like it was ready to fall apart with approximetely 30k rebels everywhere

>>174155561
I like how Italy turned out

>>174155229
>he fell for the Mandate meme
>he blobbed all over Asia
m8 just ally with the Manchu's then make them a vassal once they take beijing
>>174155561
>Castille partitioned like Poland
>Poland but no CW\
>Goth achievement
>china beat russia
Shamefur dispray
>>174155796
Always help your allies with Rebels, yeah Aragon is an ass, did you ally Austria? Just let Wallachia die

>>174155561
i like how france doesn't own the english midlands and cornwall like they usually do

>>174155757
based

>>174155796
If you have a NAP with them they'll probably ignore it, you allying with Francia at all, I'd recommend it
>1741557796
Yeah only war Ottomans when they're fighting the Mamluks or when you assembled the holy league

>>174155954
>Help with rebels
Can´t pass roach land. I was allied with hungary as I said. For some reason polland and austria never want to ally with me. I have fresh run and allied serbia, now Im trying to get either poland or austria

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it begins

>>174156529
Check the exact reasons why and make sure they haven't rivalled each other
>>174156639
Why do you keep the high liberty desire
Also who is england allied to

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Ottoman soon

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>>174155561

>Sweden

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wait so reformed inti can't increase autonomy? that's really annoying

>>174156895

i converted Xiu. they'll calm down well before i'm ready to annex them and it's not like i need their tech 9 troops.

>England
>Allies

What´s the best colonial policy? I´m inclined to go with the first one.

>>174157464
the one that gives you the most population increase

>>174157

kill all natives if you have the money to keep army maintenance up

>>174157330
Did he win his vote?

>>174157464

situational.

coexistence is good when you really don't want to keep garrisons either because you're in some significant war, or to cut down on micro later-game

repression is best early-game since it basically doubles your growth rate then

trading gives a noticeable increase in goods if your colonizing africa or indonesia since native pops are huge there

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>>174157651

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>tfw 3000 in debt
>tfw need 1000 to get printing press and global trade has already appeared
>tfw ottomans are 15/16/16 and I am 11/8/13
>tfw ideally situated to conquer india, russia, and east africa right now but I want to get my debt and technology under control
>tfw poor planning

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>Oh yeah finally my ally didn´t get raped literally day after allying them, now it´s time to kill these roa-
Someone please tell me how to play byzantium already

>>174157806
>all the shitholes voting yes
As excepted, same with Trump being elected

>>174157806
What does this mean?

>>174157806
>They went yes
Excellent, now we can finally gas them to ((protect democracy)).

>>174157978
>>174157972
>>174157924
Erdogan will become sultan of the Ottoman Empire

>>174157924
Still haven't gotten over it?

I want to play a game of EU4. I have neveer playeda Horde and would like to play one, which one would you suggest with the new DLC.

I'd like one with a clear goal in mind and isn't too hard.

>>174158058
>There will be a crusade to destroy the Ottoman Empire in your lifetime

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>>174158058

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>>174157915
>actually being bad at Byzantium
Tell me what your first moves are.
As in, before you unpause.

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>attack shogun to take Kyoto
>ally fucking bolts to Kyoto and occupies it
>have to settle for gold and wait 5 more years

>>174157241
Why does England always fail, I thought the AI could never do proper naval landings, or is it because it's AI vs AI
>>174157464
Native coexistence, or whatever gives +50% integration chance and -50% uprising chance, combine it with New World missions and you colonise super fast if events fire

>>174157157
Suleiman did nothing wrong.

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>>174158656
kys t*rk

>>174158731
Turks are the legitimate successors to Rome.

>>174158406
Well, first thing I do is starting improving relations with austria,hungary,poland. Austria and poland never want to ally with me so I end up with hungary. Of course when that happens and hungary is stable roaches will NEVER declare war on me, so I have to do it and call hungary. Hungary being retarded mongol descendants wait until roaches merge all their armies together and then rape us both

>>174158759

>>174158785
Have you tried not declaring war on the roaches?

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>>174158759
>>174158810
No, that's Finland.

>>174158785
>relying on powers larger than you
That's your first mistake.
You literally only need Albania to win.
If you need more specific help than that, then you haven't learned the mechanics and how the AI behaves well enough to do it.

>>174158852
>Just sit around doing nothing for 400 years until someone decides to crusade against roaches
Thanks for the tip

>>174159003
>No, that's Finland.
You've got it backwards I think m8, Rome is the successor to the Old Finnish empire.

>>174158634

i've seen some decent landings. this game i had france drop their entire army in mexico, which was entirely the right thing to do.

shame for them i had tech parity 10k more troops than they did

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Hey /gsg/, I'm new to these games. I was gifted the paradox interactive pack on Christmas and these games seemed pretty fun so I got the dlc for victoria 2. anyways, when i was commanding some troops i noticed i could "click" on a battle and it showed what was going on in there and I started to wonder, are there any GOOD battle-type games with a roman/early medieval theme?

>>174157806
>still using commas for percentages
Just another reason why the Ottoman Empire became so ill
>>174157852
>using meme mod
Try and form an allaince with Poland to partition them, also surely you're the same cult so attacking will lower piety
>>17415871
Hello newfag
>>174159018
You know you're supposed to annex athens right?

>>174159520
>good
no

>>174160235
Yes and then what? How does that help anything. You annex them, gain three regiments (which you will have to disband unless you want to go bankrupt). Let me rephrase
>Annex athens and do nothing for 400 years

>>174153620
Ramping up your militancy all the time when you're westernized is literally how you play victoria 2 in order to pass reforms

>>174160373
http://www.eu4wiki.com/Byzantium#Strategy

what's the best mod for eu4

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>tfw all my Hudsonian crypto-Hollander vassals are revolting against me
>revoking their titles one by one

soon the old nobility in Hudsonia will be gone, and a new, young Deitsch guard will rule over these lands

>>174160931
MAYO and TALEX or
Beyond the Pale

>all the games in the links require you to register to a shady ruskie website.

any other links?

>>174161343

lmddgtfy net

Discord Link please

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>popery

>>174161343
the site isn't shady desu

i use it all the time

>>174161526

t. severely owned man

>>174161343
It's literally the only safe place to get them from. Stop being a pussy and appreciate their service, that shit's not easy.

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>Carter dynasty successfully bleached themselves into near-German genetics

still muddied, but they look alright now. even have red hair

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Late-Plata

Just realised something
One thing Mandate of Heaven added was that the Shogun could take development from his Daiymos
But this was already in MEIOU + Taxes, as proved by anon's babylon run, between normal governments and vassals
So yeah just another reason to not buy DLC

>>174162525
Modders are honestly just pirates and hacker at this point. If you want to support that kind of bullshit then feel free to, but I certainty won't

>>174162271
WE WUZ WURTEMBURG N SHIET
>>174162525
Also all shogun vassals count as daiymos for liberty desire

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>serious discussion

>>174162461
>146 posts in
not based
not white

>>174162695
t.cykaman

>>174162689
What portrait is that?

>>174161343
>posting in a shady nip website

>>174162695
>posting when I get home from my job at McDonald's
>this makes me not white
Bet you're an African-American as well. I'm all American before you ask.

>>174161343
>posting in a website which you can still get child porn in via various boards
>not shady
Even the blue boards get smut, like here with the girl using a shit banana as a dildo
Also the Japanese government has access to all data posted here

La Plata is not based.

>>174162868
>I'm all american
So only 40% white.
Got it.

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>>174163018
You take that back.

Can the orthodox church declare a crusade in ck2? I'm going for Christendom passthrough and I think Abassad duke with a secret religion would be a good start

who is the most redpilled EU4 let's player on youtube?

>>174164354
no

>>174149593

What mods besides after the end?

>>174164540
Florryworry

>>174164540
>le red pill

>>174153054

It removed some features, but added a lot others, the development is one of the best features.

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>>174163920

>>174163018
HERESY

>>174164625
Fug, do you think it's better to just go Catholic Charlemagne then? I'll Deus Vult pagans then move to Hispania

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door hinge you idiot

>>174162774
Anglo portraits

>>174164821
Cartographic Map Remix

https://mega.nz/#!nwo3BSgA!hHiqOw3NVtkuIfA2AgWYNRpSD5fneklXxpuavxQS_W8

delete the font folder in After the End, or all the on-map text will be garbled

How the fuck do these east africans have the same mil tech level as western europe???

>>174165412
BASED ERDOGAN

BASED ERDOGAN

BASED ERDOGAN

BASED ERDOGAN

can I get a link to the liquord

>>174165412
what were the results of the thing? does he have less limitation now?

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Where were you when you heard the last vestiges of the Ming empire had been crushed?

>>174166842
Yeah, he can basically appoint whoever he likes in the government now, the prime minister is gone, it's like an American president only without the power to veto executive orders.

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There is literally NOTHING wrong with this Europe.

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ah yes

>tfw no accepted pops to employ in my industry

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>>174167064

>>174167064
>austria-hungary
>serbia alive
fuck off you memeloving fuck

behold! the empire of the Nicv

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one of the Ursuline crypto-papists are trying to take the Hudsonian crown

fuck off

>>174167286
What the fuck is with these colors. Knock this off.

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>>174167608

forgot mah pic

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Lebanon Brethren coming to help

nice

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>>174165412

>>174166361
Play Vic 2 instead

>>174148896
>>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.6.1 - 27/11/2016
Still keeping mememods in the OP I see.

>>174168020

>out of coal simulator

Nope.

>>174168295
fuck off, Rob

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>character dies a month after his heir turns 16

rate new king

>>174168295
trob

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It only took twenty resets but finally Im doing well in my byzantium run. What should I do now?

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>>174168434
>stealing the identity of the dead

>>174168506
Can I unironically play as the CIA in this mod?

>>174168506

>16
>that beard

I had neckbeard when I was 14, but is because I'm a fucking hairy monkey.

>>174167286
Aw fuck you.

>>174167326
That land belongs to the Serbians.

>>174168601
open the gates for turks and play superior anatolian nation instead

>>174168837
German Ubermensch Genes and Testosterone

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Wew

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>>174167043
Tributaries finally sorted, will need to make Yarkand bend the knee one day, but for now I fenced them off with Delhi and Oirat.

>>174168795
talex

>>174168954
>Carlist Spain
>Silesia

>>174168954
lol hpm is fucking shit

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>>174168771
im unsure if you can play monastic orders, but the Men in Black are in the mod

>>174167064
>austria-hungary going past the carpathians

>>174169217
Check what his items are

>>174169217
What are some of the US remnants you can play in that mod? Wiki says there are some, but which ones seem to claim they are literally the old USA?

>monks & mystics
>The Reaper's Due
>Conclave
>Horse Lords
>Way of Life
>Charlemagne

Any of these worth it? Besides everyone saying Conclave is shit all the others seem mixed.

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>>174169460
remnants of the old US government are non-existant, though there are swaths of land at the start of the campaign that are 'Americanist', a cult that worships the great American figures pre-calamity

>>174169301
dude has the Declaration of Independence lol

>>174168601
The Byzantium opener is to ally Albania and get called into their defensive war alongside Hungary, and win. If it works you should have all your cores from Turkey back by 1450.

>>174169652
BASED

Find out if he can be played as

>>174169475
monks & mystics is good if you want a laugh but not if you want a challenging game
repear's due is just generally good
conclave is a nice addition i guess
horse lords is fucking awesome, do it
way of life is good
charlemagne is pretty much mandatory

>>174169475
Way of Life and Charlemagne are somewhat mandatory (Charlemagne .

The Reaper's Due is very helpful if you want to better experience the Black Death.

Not sure about Horse Lords, Conclave, and M&Ms because I don't have them.

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Japan is a monster

>>174166361
Because white people sold them weapons, if you count slavs as white

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>>174168965
>axis of evil declares war on my tributary, dai vet
boi you boutta learn today

>>174169835
Yeah Conclave seemed like a cool Idea but I've seen things where the child-raising mechanic gets rid of born traits like genius/attractive. Which would piss me off.

People were also complaining that it puts your realm into perpetual civil war but they might have just been shitters.

>>174170242
>
>

>>174170131
>not being a GP
>not playing as Partido Socialista

How much of an improvement is EU4 over 3? I thought EU3 was p boring compared to vicky hoi3 & ck2. Is 4 more of the same?

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Unrestricted idea groups don't break ironman cheevos and therefore doesn't considered as "cheating".
What is your excuse for not running innovative->administrative->religious every game?

>>174167043
>colonising Taiwan
DISHONOURED
>>174167064
>Istanbul not tsargrad

>>174170336
i've noticed that ai underestimates player all the time
i had some shithole declare war on my tributary while all they could muster was like 20k troops

>>174170508
It's really shit

>>174170526
my last japan game ended with like 6 military idea groups and 2 diplomatic
and i still was lacking paper mana all the time

>>174170580
pretty sure the AI doesn't take into account the tributary's overlord. I'd guess the reason why is because they couldn't figure out how to get tributaries to declare war on each other if they did take it into account.

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considering i had nothing to do it, that's a big pope

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lol this dude looks straight out of the Planet of the Apes

>>174170508
>Is 4 more of the same?
yes
different mechanics, but the same feel

>>174170710
You realise that every idea will give you 2% tech discount for their respective groups?

>>174170339
once you revoke council war authority, you will be dealing with a revolt for increased council power every year since almost every vassal that doesn't have like at least 60 relations will join the faction. Favors are dumb as there's no depth or detail to it, you just pay money for a favor and then force them to vote with you to revoke council authority. Conclave doesn't make playing as on the council or dealing with vassals more fun or engaging, just more tedious.

>>174170978
ain't nobody got paper mana for dat

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Wew, I zoomed in and found this massive flag on a mountain.

>>174171281
>ain't nobody got paper mana for dat
>as japan
You w0t m8?
Can't you just sit on your ass for few decades and diplovassalize and then pay 342 papaer mana for tech instead of 600? And 25% lower core creation and tons of mana events from innovative?
>6 mil idea for japan
You're failure.

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frogs please leave

KICK OUT TALEX

>>174171719
>EU4 pleb trying to call anyone a failure

lmao

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>>174171863
>licky baby
>pleb
>lmao

>>174168954
What order did you conquer shit in?

Happy Easter, /gsg/! Does anyone have a link to the DLC for Hearts of Iron 4? Can I just pirate the dlc like with previous Paradox games?

>>174148903

I genuinely can't stand shit posting. I really can't. It's the most autistic, pointless thing a person could actually find "entertaining". The idea that you think it's hilarious wasting hours of your "life" trying to bait people into replying to your shitty half arsed posts speak numbers about how lonely and pathetic you must be to get entertained doing this

It probably seems counter productive for me to write this, because shit posting genuinely makes me angry. It seems like it's near impossible to have a genuine discussion on this board without some fuckwit chiming in to say something stupid like "freshcunt" or "newcunt fresh off the boat from facebook or reddit detected".

I know that this will probably get a bunch of you stupid cunts replying to me calling me the "autistic" one for actually speaking up, because I genuinely want to have a discussion about something instead of being barraged with retarded responses that will no doubt have me reply to you about your stupid pointless comments.

Moderation is largely pointless because you all seem to use dynamic ips anyway so no matter what you'll continue your shit posting like it's some normal part of your everyday life.

The fact that anyone ever calls you out on your bullshit and you try and defend it, or continue replying in a shit posting fashion is childish as fuck considering most of you on here are at least 18-30 years old.

Fuck all your shit posting antics. Kill yourselves. You're not funny, or witty, or original, or entertaining. You're literally all rehashes of one another trying to be unique and funny, when you're all doing the same thing. Your pathetic "lives" while you sit here day in and day out shit posting are being wasted away because you find it hilarious to get people worked up 24/7. It's like you cunts are addicted to shit posting. Like you get a dopamine response from it or something.

Rant over cunts. Fuck off.

>>174171719
>6 mil idea for japan
>You're failure.
that didn't stop me from conquering and landlocking chinks and coring their land is damn expensive
and i didn't start as shogun

>>174172132
This
And there's only one way to get the shitposters out of /gsg/, that is, banning vicky and making a /v2g/ as a containment general for them.

>>174172132
Brown and not based

>>174172329
t. manapro

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>>174171521

>>174172601
t. liqqybabby

>>174172132
did you not learn anything

simply ignore what you dont like, this is common practice

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FUCK

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>>174172105

>first rheinland, since bigges territory i could take with minimal infamy, also free westfalen

>after austro-prussian war of honor pic related happens, so next was palatinate, it was no longer divided between 3 countries.

>next i blobbed into belgium, meanwhile i sphere all the remaining german states.

>now a grotesque germany has formed and has eaten luxemburg, wants to make germaniums groß, so i defend and take luxemburg

>Finally grab zeeland from netherlands.

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should i start settling Vikings in provinces with undesirable cultures? I dont want any Anglos in my realm

>>174173061
>forming Qing
>Making the same fucking mistake every nomad did after taking chink clay.
>forsaking ability to restore roman empire.

>>174173061
I laughed

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I genuinely can't stand HPM. I really can't. It's the most autistic, pointless mod a person could actually find "entertaining". The idea that you think it's hilarious wasting hours of your "life" trying to integrate Wallonia into France and failing speak numbers about how lonely and pathetic you must be to get entertained doing this

It probably seems counter productive for me to write this, because HPM genuinely makes me angry. It seems like it's near impossible to have a genuine discussion about it on this board without some fuckwit chiming in to say something stupid like "trob" or "treed" or "b-but there are no better mods".

I know that this will probably get a bunch of you stupid cunts replying to me calling me the "autistic" one for actually speaking up, because I genuinely want to have a discussion about something instead of being barraged with retarded responses that will no doubt have me reply to you about your stupid pointless comments.

This thread is largely pointless because you all seem to shill for free so no matter what you'll continue your shit posting like it's some normal part of your everyday life.

The fact that anyone ever calls you out on your bullshit and you try and defend it, or continue replying in a shit posting fashion is childish as fuck considering most of you on here are at least 18-30 years old.

Fuck all your HPM shilling antics. Kill yourselves. You're not funny, or witty, or original, or entertaining or even informative. You're literally all pathetic beings who don't even get a paycheck for it. Your pathetic "lives" while you sit here day in and day out shilling for a brazilian are being wasted away because you find it hilarious to get people to play a shitty mod. It's like you cunts are addicted to HPM. Like you get a dopamine response from it or something.

Rant over cunts. Fuck off.

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Don't quite like this gimmick

>>174173390
>the Huns were the true Roman Empire
Really make you think

>>174173889
>Fucking up roman corrupt christianized senators and wage war to rescue his roman wife from old bald fatmen.
Attila was true roman on par with Caesar.

>>174153753
>It's a map painting simulator and the entire game is about spreading your color
thats every paardox game

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>>174173061
Okay, the imperial frontiers are almost completely restored now.

I'm still pissed off about Yarkand, warred them for tributary, got a 20 year truce and then they immediately declared they were no longer a tributary, and I can't war them to say "oh yes you are" because I have a 20 year truce.

This is what you get for playing straight after the expansion comes out.

So I'm trying to siege Corfu as Byzantium but it's not sieging. What do?

>>174173196
feelsbadman

my france has a big ugly luxembourg shaped hole in the middle, and I'm near the infamy limit

need to fix the bordergore but don't want to get DoW'd by the world

console commands?

>>174174471
literally why, its a reddit mod by now

>>174174663

declare war

>>174174781
fucking THIS, we should kick HPM out of the OP.

>>174174867
>>174174663
nvm I figured it out. Needed more soldiers.

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>>174174665
I got pretty lucky with my my statesman bonuses, got 3 times great statesman, so i got borders nice and clean in the 90's

changeowner FRA 397
i've also added integration modifiers for the non-core territories.

>pops

>>174174781
>by now
It has always been
In fact the whole game is reddit, only based and redpilled NWO is decent

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>>174169715
Doesn´t work anymore honey. Anyway they declared war on me and after 20 years of guerilla war capturing provinces without fortresses while austria was capping cities we won
>Austria sents rented hungarians to recap constantinopole
>Literally days before we get it back they cancel the rent
>MFW
war could have ended so much sooner

>>174175427
>redpilled
>>>/pol/

>>174175742
>>>/qa/
>>>/soc/
>>>/lgbt/

>>174173795
I agree, and I need to ask. Which mod has the 1861 start? I'm bored of the constant 1836 stale run because talex is too autistic about some German pops in Tibet.

>>174175845
>>>/r/the_donald
>>>/mlp/
>>>/mlpol/

>>174175427
>NWO

PDM mods are the redditest of them all

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>>174174628
>our soldiers have a belt of grenades/artillery rounds

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REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

if hpm is bad which mod should i use for vicky 2

>>174175937
I could make one, but why bother to make mods when the r&i just censors anything that wasn't made by talex.

>>174176010
Use your ships to destroy their convoys, they'll run out of supplies eventually

>>174175978
NWO and CWE are based on HPM with a mix of Vickymod.

>>174175978
talex

>>174176147
Does it exist in unHPM, is there any way to get it enabled in Grandimod by removing a # somewhere? I really want to play as the Confederacy.

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>>174176179
>nationalism is the same as authoriarianism

>>174176430
They don't think that, they're just so retarded they think Nationalism is the worst thing in the world, worst than Islamic extremism. To them, Trump's America is worse than ISIS.

>>174176012
You should stop playing reddit games entirely

>>174176597
t. manapro

>>174176405
The last unHPM was made for an outdated version of HPM back in September.

>>[V2] - unHPM v1.5*°
http://pastebin.com/zK3YrpNx

That was just before he got run off by pro-HPM shitposters who for some reason had to kick him and many others out

>>174176228
k

>>174176662
Does it include 1861 start?

>>174176004
>0 Meritocracy
>29 mandate
oh shit nigger what are you doing

Just started a nice Holland game, going for my inderpendence. Austria dies straight away, Bohemia elected. Like 3 days max. Bohemia dies and Austria is elected again.

Looks like the HRE is cursed with the Von Habsburg

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man this event made me sad

im going to hang out with Paul and find him a nice wife to have children with

So I'm playing a game right now and Brazil has managed to become a GP in 1846

>>174171832
>>174177515

Bobling other SA cunts?

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>>174177023
I tributed Yarkand and they immediately cancelled it, whilst I still had a 20 year truce, so I couldn't go beat them up.
>>174087082

So it's early game in Vicky, and I'm drowning in money. What do?

I'm building factories literally faster than craftsmen can man them, and have all my soldier pops in the army. Max spending in all areas

>>174178069
Nevermind I build a couple of basic border forts and now I'm bankrupt

>>174177794

>canceling being a vassal

Rofl what, at least there should be a event giving options for a war or for letting them go.

>colonize Trinidad as Dutch
>it becomes Neu-Kurland instead of Nieuw-Walcheren
delet

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what mod is this? a link would be great

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Smuggle your willy, lads.
>>174178246
I wouldn't mind if it broke the truce and I could just declare war on them again but it literally left me losing .30 mandate a month for 20 years because he was a big guy.

Hey lads, where can I download the heirs to Aquitania if I priated Vicky 2

>>174178857
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7di22jpc5bj7r13/HtAv035.rar?dl=0

>>174178793
is the simple solution to just make him lose their border with you?

>>174178570
That looks cancerous

>>174176579
ISIS probably has less negros tbqhwy

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The Sino-Indian war is over, the frontier has been well and truly pushed back, China is almost completely surrounded by tributaries, apart from the minor territory of Lan Xang in Vietnam.
>>174179391
Aye, there is no border, it just looks like there is because of the coloured wasteland.

>>174179714
im a degenerate, i just want to know what it is.

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>Vikings in James Bay

beware, Inuits

>>174178857
>>174179278
Redpill me on this mod. Whats it all about?

Are there any interesting overhaul mods for victoria 2 besides HPM and Napoleon's legacy?

>>174180957
CWE

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theocracies seem to be doing pretty well

mega-verden is especially curious

>>174179278
Thanks, ur the best

>>174181292
dont compare shitty theocracies to crusader states and papacy

>>174181074
CWE stresses your computer when compared with NWO, though it feels more complete with flavour and decisions

Autism time:

every time i play CK2 as a british noble house, i always make sure to de jure drift the kingdoms of scotland, wales and ireland into the kingdom of england, purely because i hate their bullshit different legal jurisdictions and think they should be subject to the same legal code as england and wales.

i like to dream that the county court system extends north and west and i can go into the county court in tipperary or arbroath and quote the CPR at the district just sat there.

>tfw you cannot take momentous decisions about the nature of the legal, civil and constitutional institutions you put in place in your sprawling empire or minor realm

>tfw you cannot appoint learned courtiers to be judges or, based on a setting, call a parliament where all the nobles are split into the lords (temporal or spriritual) and commons (mayors and patricians) and pass laws or raise taxes for a war or crusade

>>174176662
The fucking latest version link is dead

What the fuck redditors post a link

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i don't suppose trust resets if i force-vassalize them?

forgive if this is dum question but will the vicky 2 africa mod in the op work with hpm?

>>174181634
>CWE stresses your computer

If you're running a toaster, sure.

>>174181917
I couldn't get the mod to work with HPM neither

>>174181074
Thanks for the suggestion.

Should I play buy HOI3 or HOi4? Which one is better? Also what does Flavormod for HOI3 do?

BigBenis finally got famous and loved!

https://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/65qna7/guess_atat%C3%BCrks_dream_is_dead_now/

>>174182305
hoi 4 and buy every dlc to support based paradox /ourguys/ praise kek!

>>174182305
I played hoi3 long ago and compared to hoi4 it's much more complex. Hoi4 seems more polished, but still lacks many features like the several distinctions in commanders' ranks that was replaced by only two ranks and thus only two types of groups of units in hoi4

>>174182305
Just about everyone here agrees that HoI4 is a buggy, unfinished mess with abhorrent AI.

Flavormod adds a bunch of events and decisions that make WW2 more historical and less railroaded.
t. flavormodanon

I need my MEIOU fix now.

>>174181917
>>174182280
It is made for HPM

Are armies of 6 inf 2 art 2 cav good early game?

And should I swap any out for engineers?

It it worth it trying eu3 if one has played eu4 and found it to be extremely simple as a game after playing victoria 2 after? And how is eu2? What are the recommended mods for the older eus?

>>174182750
IT was fun but after helping a new anon code Copts I really want to try beyond the pale

>>174182907
Thats shit, you should alwyas try to do 4 inf/ 4art/ 1 hussar/ 1 enginner, if you're not going to siege anu forts you can swap the eng for an inf

>>174182936
Forgot to ask about EU: Rome

>>174182907
6/6/2/2