/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

If france lost so many wars why do they still have that much land? Shouldn't they be extinct?

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More magic in CK2 when
I want Sims tier magic

>>175779696
W&B

>>175779696
BASED

>>175779936
They are importing niggers for past 70 years,what do you think.

>>175779696
White

>>175779696
w&b

>>175779696
R&I you need to update the infopic, EU4 and CK2 sections are both missing the latest DLC

>tfw no workers paradise

>>175779953
why

>germans unironically just lend me 20 IC

how greedy can you be

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Should I just give up?

>>175780586
Yes

Is HoI4 good yet

>>175780706
no

What is in your opinion the worst mechanic of Victoria 2?

In my opinion, it is the commerce system based on prestige. That's just plain retarded. Since resources are limited in Victoria 2, the country with most prestige will get access to the resources before the rest. But that's just not how things work. The country with the most money should be the one who gets things first. For example, Russia is supposed to be a poor shithole in Victoria 2's time frame. But pops in Russia will get all their needs because they start as the second country with most prestige in the game(or was it third?) So a Russian pop will have better life quality than an American pop in 1836, when that obviously did not happen in real life.

>>175780636
Alright.
West or East Iceland?

>>175780895
West

>>175780586
How did you manage to fuck up an Ireland run of all things

>>175780885
Wars become intolerable and far too large in lategame, a very dumbed down HOI3 would be more fitting than 500k+ soldiers fighting in a province for a year

>>175780960
I accidentally misclicked and allowed a preacher into my country, which converted my heir, turning my country Catholic
Yet still the Irishmen rise against me

>>175781336
>500k+ soldiers fighting in a province for a year
Wasn't that what happened in WW1 though?

>>175780706
no

>>175781515
Not in the way V2 represents it. If there would have been a possibility to just march around the trenches and hit them from both sides they'd fall much easier. In V2 however all that happens is you add more pops to the meatgrinder

>Birthplace of colonialism in Japan
Have I crippled Europe a little?

>>175782664
yes

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>mfw 50+ monthly income with Netherlands and it's only 1600s
Those national ideas are beautiful

Is playing the CSA fun?

Also, which nations in Africa start with a Euro minority and are mildly playable, is it just that one South African one with boers?

Thanks lads

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I got foreign universities, what now?

>>175779696
BASED

Are Uesugi national ideas better than Japan's?

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So much for the eternal anglo

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New game is starting out well

Best start date in CK2?

>>175783163

please responbonebonodnoenreobonde

>>175783576
>Arabia as unciv
>1849
I call bullshit

>>175784097
1111

>>175784097
1204

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>>175783576
it was easy after this

Does anybody have a download link to the player-led peace conferences mod for HoI4?

>>175784097
whichever has the most interesting scenario and opportunities to you

How do I stop rebel suppression from turning itself off? It's a useless feature right now, because you've gotta turn it back on every 2 seconds.

>>175784814
What game, HoI4 or CK2?

>>175785028
Eu4

>>175785097
shit turns itself off, on all armies, the moment any army finishes a battle

it doesn't even do anything, your armies don't even fight rebels or keep unrest down, they just unseige stuff rebels have occupied

>>175779696
He's back

>>175779696
white and based
i missed you

yeehaw

>R&I comes back
>thread quality goes back to shit again
Really makes you think.

>>175786298
see >>175786132

>>175782664
Paradox crippled Europe anyway. It should be a serious challenge for anyone outside of WE to keep up to date with technology because EU4's timeline is precisely when Europe built up its massive tech lead over the rest of the world.

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Aryan and Based AI

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Well that went to shit fast

>>175786776
Instead you have China embracing the Enlightenment before you're even 4% there

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Croatian fascists have awoken.

>>175786918
Man HoI3 makes the war maps look so beautiful and glorious. HoI4 just makes them look like shit.

>>175786918

tried playing this game but the OOB is too autistic to me

>>175786969
When does the counter attack against Srpska start?

>>175787068
Only OOB too autistic for me to handle is SU because of their fucking theater HQ's. fuck all that noise.

>>175787158
Worst is that could have been fixed with a small patch to make it easier to keep track of and organize OoBs. Instead they ripped the system completely out.

Ello lads. I haven't played EUIV for a few months because my computer's been busted. I want to get back into it and noticed that there are some new DLCs out. Which (if any) of the following DLCs are worth getting?

Mare Nostrum
Rights of Man
Mandate of Heaven

wtf is with my v2? i installed hpm and some minimods but none of them are working right, i know because the little kurdling states dont exist at the start of the game and also theres 2 start dates instead of just 1836

this is like my 10th time redling and installing hpm too

my documents/pdox/vicky2/mods right?

>>175787552
Have you tried checking the HPM box at the launcher?

>>175787552
>my documents/pdox/vicky2/mods right?
no
it's the actual game folder

>>175787158

I can't handle having to rearrange it everytime the battlefront changes

seeing an ugly OOB web triggers my OCD

>>175787552
based brainlet

>>175787598

yeah i was worried about that at first but i did the 2nd time for sure

>>175787630

b8?

>>175787467
mare nostrum is shit, other two are good

>>175787791
I don't even remember what mare nostrum was about. It was a completely pointless DLC.

>>175787878
all it gives are trade leagues, shitty berbers always raiding your coasts, and a bunch of useless naval orders

>>175787791
I'm a bit strapped for cash - is Mandate of Heaven or Rights of Man more worth it in terms of mechanics? Is the "Ages" mechanic any fun?

>>175787727
If its in the right folder and is checked than try redownloading it and seeing if the problem persists.

>>175788037
>buying DLC

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>>175787727
no you retard, that's where you install fucking mods

>>175788089
there is literally nothing wrong with supporting a game company you like

>>175788108
>the marseillaise and god save the queen
>france libere toi

Do you have something to tell us, anon?

>>175788108
>dodhpm
link pls

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>>175788108

wtf im so fucking retarded

ive played hpm for ages now and ive clean installed it like 10 times

why was i even confused about this

thanks lad

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>>175788186
>liking Paradox

>>175788314
n-no
>>175788325
it's work in progress
>>175788356
probably because you actually install at the document folder in newer games

>>175779696
>>175780014
>>175780080
>>175780127
>>175780225
>>175785761
>>175785761
>>175783584
white men

>>175788459
The hell is that character
It's disgusting I tell you hwut

>>175788186
>liking paracocks

>>175788186

theres no point in buying eu4 dlc, you just enable the kike devs to keep shitting out content less trash that could barely even pass as a patch anyway

buy the game legally on steam or wherever, just make sure its activated on steam, then just pirate the dlc and activate the dlc + the legal game

DO NOT BUY PARAKEK DLC

>>175786969
croatians and poles are worst slavs

it's turkslayer's birthday

>>175788691
They're literally the best Slavs. Catholic and W&B

>>175784210
>start as Nejd
>get friends
>invade Hedjaz
>form Arabia

>>175788691
Fuck off S*rb, Polska pride worldwide

>>175788945
Oh that kind of Arabia.
With no Egypt.

>>175789142
As a Serb i second this, Poles are bros.
Croats can burn on stake though.

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any reason why I would wait for universities when i can just take this? it's the same education bonus

>>175788823
only orthodox slavs are relevant
catholic slavs are german rapebabies/colonies and irrelevant larpers

>>175789347
Universities give you the basic research modifier of +50% and have a few events that can give you a bunch of RP and revoke slavery

>>175789347
You cannot take university unless you take that first you goof.
Also you pick univ because it gives you research bonus tech.

>>175789495
>>175789504
right, forgot about that
thanks

>>175789504
You can take universities before the education reform, based disinfo lad

>>175789448
>I don't know anything about Slavs: The Post

Poles are the original Slavs, or at least closest to them. The whole "rapebaby" meme doesn't really apply either when you have the Mongols and Turks fucking over the East and South even more than the Germans fucked over Poland.

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Oh no, Prussia is blobbing

>>175789737
based blob

>>175789448
t. chetnik

>>175789737
>playing USA in V2

what is the fucking point, there is literally 0 challenge and you have no control over the industry

>>175789706
>Poles are the original Slavs,
that makes them even worse

>>175789706
Weren´t they originally from a few tribes located aeound the danube or around present day romania? They multiplied rapidly after the migratin period.

>>175789448
Serbs have more Turkish DNA, on average, than Turks because most Turks are descendant from Bizzies.

>>175789979
Slavs migrated around 7th century when Huns came around from Asia through Russia and intermingled with the local populace.

>>175789849
>Slavs are bad
Sorry lad, didn't know you were baiting

>>175789979
They were original from the Vendi tribe, which later settled in Poland and brought forth all the slavs

>>175790214
>They were original from the Vendi tribe, which later settled in Poland and brought forth all the slavs
No Wends are only ancestors of some of the West Slavs. Slavs themselves started around in Ukraine and then moved east, south and west.

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The OP said to check the pastebin for DLC but I'm not seeing anything..

>>175789737
That's really pretty blobbing, though. It's aesthetic and reasonable since Baltics were in the German sphere anyway since the High Middle Ages.

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>>175790335
I'll be damned, I forgot all about the Antae.

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>>175790904
All that matters is the arrival of the best Slavs to their new homeland.

>>175791110
based serbs

>>175791162
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>175789737
I don't know why but in HPM Prussia always fucking takes Lithuania. I really don't know why, but it happens in every single HPM game I've ran.

Friendly reminder
namefags > tripfags > anonymous

Has anybody ever converted to March of the Eagles in between EU4 and Victoria 2?

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How to play as China in HPM? I just want to unite it and make it fascist

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>>175788550
She's my wife, take that back!

Does Eu4 keep defaulting to "Hard" for anyone else?

Exra friendly reminder:
namefags < tripfags < anonymous

>>175792395

I

will actually assassinate you

>new version of HIP CTDs as soon as the game is done loading

ebin

>>175792531
U

shud do it

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>when you lure a 20k ottoman stack into your 30k stack in mountains over a river but they still win anyway
I love videogames

>>175792763
>play meme game
>get memed on

I'm playing Sokoto, should i extend slavery or no? I kind of feel bad since we african brothas n shit nigga but pressing the extend slavery button on every territory i conquer is fun

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KR4 progress report for any interested.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kaiserreich/comments/693brj/progress_report_23/

>>175793136

>point arrows simulator

Why? Garbage game even if it is KR.

>>175793157

why did turks wear that retarded hat

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>>175793136
Seems pretty okay desu

Friendly reminder not to respond to namefags.

>>175793136
>no hitler as the leader of the fascists for germany
fucking dropped.

>>175793392
We are all hoping that HOI4 will get better as time goes on, the team plans on making tech and AI improvements along with the modding community if possible.

>>175793810
Doesn't Hitler canonically die during the war in KR?

>>175793838

>we

no

>>175793920
Yep, but in universe he is regarded as a war hero and mein kampf is published by his sister, but just with war stuff and its more of a diary.

He dies in the German offensive against Russia.

>>175793838

good luck to them, the dumbshit paracuck devs have an excellent game in DH to look at and draw inspiration from and made an abomination so im not sure how much anyone could make it better

>>175793985
Not /gsg/ we, the players and devs we, but I am not a dev, just a fan who hangs out on the discord.

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>when you reach that point in eu4 where minors dont exist any more and its all just super states trying to meme on each other
its so fucking boring

Victoria 2 worth getting? I've only Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis and Stellaris.

>>175792062
Oy laddie.
I fucked yer wife.

>>175793920
aka it doesnt make fucking sense since hitler was the reincarnation of odin. right now im just waiting for his next reincarnation so we can start purging this world.

>>175794202

>a fan of goy4
>member of steamcordplaza

please >>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>175794281
This is why liqqy 2 is superior. the game mechanics let you keep minors around and still benefit from them

Is there a working converter for EU4 to Victoria 2 right now?

>>175794307
It's the most well-rounded Paradox game by far. AHD and HoD are mandatory.

>>175794673
Is there a "tutorial island" for it?

>>175792046
answer me please

>>175792046
china is unplayable in vic2 or HPM
it's one extreme or the other, either it's grinding shitty awful rebel suppression simulator or it's a complete joke where you break the economy and steamroll everyone

>>175794817
French>Germans>Sardinia-P>Japan

Also USA because you dont control economy for shit.

>>175794817
Yes, Haiti.

>>175795150
Probably Prussia, if not them then the States.

fuck, marry, kill: HPM, R&I and t.urkslayer

>>175795032
How do I get the complete joke where you break the economy and steamroll everyone? Is that only vanilla or can HPM be like that too?

>>175795287
meant for >>175794817

>>175792062
You know it's a Japanese salaryman, right?

>>175795387
If someone gets you in their sphere it breaks the economy. Also if you westernize it basically breaks the game too. HPM attempts to fix this by just making it harder to westernize. This means that playing China is pointless but at least it won't westernize on its own somehow.

>>175795292
>fuck, marry, kill:
>HPM, R&I and t.urkslayer
In order exactly.

>>175794817
United States is a good tutorial game. You don't really have to touch industry at all, no one around you can actually threaten you, your first war is really easy, and then later you can fight the civil war which is a little harder but still really easy. You're in a position to try lots of different things if you want to.

>>175794817
Not really. There are a few countries that outline specific aspects of the game. Prussia teaches you about spheres of influence, France teaches you about holding territory and colonization, Netherlands teaches you about diplomacy and econ, Japan teaches you about uncivs (because they're barely an unciv), Argentina and Brazil teach you how to minor and educate pops, Sardinia & Piedmont and Sicily teach you how to union. USA is the best overall teacher, but it can teach some really bad habits because of how autopilot it is. Prussia also teaches bad habits but is usually the go to starter nation.

>>175795521
/wgg/ is for SDN44.

>>175795521
go to wargames general

>>175795567
Is there any mod that has a playable China? Maybe Napoleon's Legacy?

Is playing as Korea possible even though it's a puppet?

>>175795889
China is broken on a fundamental level. I don't know of any mod that actually fixes it. You should just play a different game if you want to play China, honestly.

EU 4: I am currently Greece and control the requisite provinces to form Byzantium. Should I?

Pros:
Free cores.
Free Upgrade to Empire

Cons:
Uglier Colour
Garbage unit models
Many of said cores are held by my strongest ally, Russia.

Ideas I'm not sure about. Seems about even.

>>175795889
NNM. Honestly, Qing is very playable in HPM if you know what you're doing, but like anon said it's instawin once you westernize. 20k score guaranteed end game.

>>175795968


>China is broken on a fundamental level

Explain.

>>175795889
china it's not that bad if you choose to go heavenly kingdom

>>175795973
Depends what year it is. If it's late enough you should just stay Greece.

>>175796113
It is pretty late; mid 1600s.

>>175796052
There literally are not enough RGOs on the Vicky 2 map for a westernized China. Westernizing China is a guaranteed way to cause constant world revolution because no one elses pops can get anything. On top of this, it also means that enemy militaries are just a waiting game to starve out (very quickly) because they won't have supply.

>>175795973
stay as based greece
fuck those roman larpers

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>>175794365
No :)

>>175796052
In Vic2, China has way too many POPs to function normally. As an unciv they sap up all the industrial goods which the world produces and keep them from all the other uncivs, and as a civ they sap up all the raw materials for their ludicrous factories, while simultaneously managing to overproduce some raw materials (grain, cattle) to such an extent that the market simply crashes. And the player is subjected to both of these problems, whether he's playing China or not.

HPM is the mod which comes closest to trying to address the economic issues with China, but he died before he took on the political and social situation so China is a rebel-infested shithole in the mod. There's really nothing that ever dealt with it holistically.

HPM p-please come back, we need you

>>175795968
China is only interesting to me in Victoria II's time period desu. People's Republic of China is boring as fuck.

>>175795985
>Honestly, Qing is very playable in HPM if you know what you're doing
That's why I was asking how to play it. What do I need to know going in so I can become a steamroller and fuck up the economy?

>>175796213
Yeah way too late for Roman revival. Be a pioneer for nationalism instead

>>175795973
Byzantine is dead, Greece for life.

>>175795973
>not restoring the byzantine empire
Is there even a choice? Do it faggot.

>>175796052
In Vicky 2, pops from countries consume goods from RGOs. Countries get priority for getting goods from the world market based on their great power ranking. Once you westernize as China, you instantly skyrocket to #1 because of your insane population. Also, your incredible number of pops basically drink all the resources from the entire world and leave nothing for anyone else. So every country will break down into chaos and revolt, their industry will grind to a halt, and everything will end up in China.

TL;DR All under heaven belongs to the son of h heaven.

>>175796301
>>175796226

Wouldn't the solution just to be set limits on what the Chinese economy can take in and produce, to save the economy from always crashing?

>>175796301
He died in Syria.

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>>175794313
You are lying because she's a war heroine and she's with me right now and she's giving me hugs and kisses.

>>175795530
I won't let you disrespect my wife that way, you cunt. Take it back right now!

>>175796537
No, because then the Chinese economy would be undersupplied and China would constantly be crashing instead, thus defeating the purpose of westernizing in the first place.

The more effective way to limit China is by, surprise surprise, keeping it uncivilized.

How do you de-ironman an EU4 savegame?

>>175796537
Not really, that just makes China unplayable too. It would be fine for everyone that is not China, but they're already fine as long as China doesn't westernize.

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>>175796621

>>175796537
Yes, but how do you do that? HPM's solution was to make a lot of the Chinese populace at game start serfs, so that their needs would be lower and their production of certain goods would be higher (so therefore more goods would go to lower uncivs), but how do you fix it beyond that? It's almost impossible to; China's population would need to be kept ahistorically low once it civilized to resolve the problem.

>>175796636
>>175796694
Why not just add an event that gives two choices to either westernize or not and have the AI always pick the latter?

>>175796828
The AI will already never manage to westernize, so it doesn't matter. It only breaks the game if you play China and manage to do it.

>>175796303
>What do I need to know going in so I can become a steamroller and fuck up the economy?
Option 1: Westernize normally through pops, probably somewhere around 1890 if reactionaries don't buttfuck you
Option 2 (recommended option): be a gamey faggot and play catch and release for CQRP thus sating rebels and westernizing at a reasonable pace.
Option 3: Cheat RP for the university tech and westernize in 1870ish thus not having to worry about rebels at all outside of Heavenly Kingdom

>>175796537
There's no realistic way to keep the economy from crashing either way. It's purposely designed to crash in end game to mirror the Depression. RGOs are either under or overproduced along with manufactured goods such that by 1920 the economy no longer makes any sense.

>>175796621
>>175792062
>she
>>175794313
>wife

Can't you people accept you are homos

>>175796621
Fuck your wife and fuck anime. You won't do shit to me.

>>175796636
>>175796694
>>175796810

That sucks, has anyone thought of a legit probable solution or is it impossible without say engine changes?

>>175796621
She loves taking it up the ass too.
Real classy slut.

>>175797028
It's theoretically possible to do with base RGO tweaks, pop consumption tweaks, production tweaks etc, but it would be so painstaking that it's just not worth it.

>>175796948
>play catch and release for CQRP
Releasing conquered countries reduces militancy from reactionaries?

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>>175796692
Anybody?

>>175797369
Going to war sates reactionaries since they're jingoist.

>>175797028
The obvious solutions would be to make it so the industrialization of China can be accounted for by increasing RGO output to reach demand, making westernization more gradual, and replacing the "first-come-first-serve" system for resources. But those are huge changes just to accommodate a single country so no one's bothered.

>>175797438
Enable different mods on the startup screen, play the game.

>>175798161
The savegame is still ironman after doing that.

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FRANCE NO

Anyone know what these characters in HPM's localization files are? I'm trying to copy that red text effect for an important thing in my mod and opening the file in Notepad++ seems to result in Chinese characters.

刪
劬

>>175798802
Strange. When I enable a different set of mods and then attempt to play my Ironman save games, it tells me that I can play them, but that they won't be able to be Ironman, and thus will have to establish new non-ironman saves.

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>>175797028
I did break China couple times but HPM plugged the holes and kinda retired before he thought up how to balance it out.

You can still go ultra fast civilized with Mughals if you want, he didnt touch that one.

>>175799002
Well I have a converted game on it right now, and I tried enabling another mod and it didn't work, but if I disable the converted game wouldn't it just irreparably screw everything up?

>>175799075
how do you civilize fast as mughals?

>>175798948
You might be opening it improperly. Those characters mean "deleted" though.

>>175798813
It's like a terminal cancer.

>>175799515
Any idea what program to open it with, then?

>>175799587
Notepad++ should work fine, the encoding or something with your system might be off though. What file did you find that in? I'll look on my copy. Already searched in files for the characters but found nothing.

>>175799674
00_HPM-Misc.csv, line 565. Right next to the newline (\n) character.

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>>175799075
And to add on this there is no peaceful way to transition Qing to modern China or give rights to Chinese pops except for North Hans.

HPM basically said "yeah nah i dont see how it would ever happen, Chinks hated Manchus" and refused to implement it.

Here is Qing modernizing how it historically went though.

>>175799350
You got 1 province that will get shitton of RPs because your literacy will go up the ass, you get tech bonus from being in a sphere and once you declare Jihad you get bonus RP like you conquered back those provinces from civilized Brits.

Also if you menage to force Brits to surrender to separatists during a war you get all your cores back for free and if the game is paused it will count you as 1 province for the last reform since the day didnt pass.
On the other hand Mughals get cores on alot of stuff but they only get 60% of pops as accepted. Half of India will become your cored colony and HPM...well he didnt want to let Mughals turn those into states by event.

>>175799749
I see what the problem is. If you have the character set set to default then it interprets the character data as being the Chinese characters, e.g. 即 and 劬. But if you change the character set to what it SHOULD be and what it was probably typed in, ISO-8859-1, then the characters render as §Y and §W, or §R, or whatever. So basically if you want to insert a color use the Section symbol (§) and then a letter. If you want to change character sets in NP++ then go to encoding > character sets > Western European > ISO-8859-1

>>175800290
Thank you very much! I would've never realized. is there a list of acceptable values for other forms of formatting?

>>175792763

>what are ottoman traditions

>>175800404
Not sure. You can probably just change one localization to a bunch of §Y §R §B etc. to test which characters are which colors and what's available. As for other formatting I don't know.

>play EU4 even though I should really know better
>start as an Irish minor
>rubbing palms together as I imagine uniting the island into one nation
>
>half the island starts out allied to England

WHY. How are you even meant to form Ireland under these conditions?

>>175801394
Play as Sligo since they get an immediate mission to kill Clanricarde

after that it is pretty luck based, try to prey on the ones that ally scotland or other irish, eating non-belligerents is fine because they hardly have any dev

>>175800402
W&B

>>175801394
Just become Ming's tributary lmao

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I'm looking to reform germanic, i'm thinking i might just try retaking the holy sites, though it might be hard. I easily outnumber east francia but west francia will be a problem i think. Should I go for that?
I don't have any experience fighting something so large so i'm a bit intimdated.

>>175801564
>>175801564
Also Tyrone might get a mission as well, which is probably better since they border more sea zones, so your claim options are wider

England only tend to ally/vassalize the irish minors that border them, except ulster who they tend to hate for some reason, so getting rid of them asap usually stops england from getting in your business.

Scotland is for killing, never allying. Once they're dealt with use the ulster strait to your advantage and England should be doable with some heavy mercing

>>175801925
Capture king in a duel and immediately end everything.

>>175802629
this is off topic

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What are the odds i'm going to get raped by super caliphate if I keep playing this game?
Haven't played EU4 since release but decided to run grand campaign.

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d-do you guys wanna have an EU4 lan party at my house?

my mom is gonna make us brunch

>>175802827

it isn't, I found it in his myspace

>>175802936
sure, what country will you play?

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>>175803116

I'll form prussia as bradenburg

>>175802892
>Great Britain
What the fuck, man?

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>>175803231

>>175803231
Uhh never mind my mom said I can't come, sorry

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>>175803421

ok then

can we be friends in school tho?

>>175803650
no don't talk to me at school

>>175802892
What are the odds that I'll get cancer from looking at this map?
Guaranteed

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>>175803314
It was a surreal game.

>HRE not formed because kings are bulgarian heretics
>duke of wessex declares a war of conquest on france, takes it over while pseudoHRE is shitting itself
>PseudoHRE recovers and declares war for France, takes it back and submits duke of wessex in process
>few generations later king of pseudoHRE rebases to wessex
>decides that he doesn't give a fuck about pope approval and forms titual empire of great britain

Great Britain stays heretical through entire game and gets bullied the fuck out of Britain. My vassals raped them in Europe too, which is the reason for random slices of occitania everywhere.


>>175803759
I'm experimenting.
All EU4 maps seem cancer to me, i don't like it very much either.

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what do

>>175804345
Side with austria then get annexed into danubian federation

>>175804345
>suck dick
>suck dick
>Le Penn

Take a big guess.

>>175804457
allons-y, then

>>175804345
Declare your independence, annex everyone else. Form Slavic Austria-Hungary.

(does Kaiserreich allow that?)

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>>175804512
progress is being made

>>175804942
Why is Hungary black? I thought their usual map colour was orange.

>>175804942
why is Hungary black?

>>175805000
>>175805028
>>175804942
Why is Pope black.
They didnt elect Argentinians back in that era.

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Lindos

>>175803791
>>175803892
i guess it was not meant to be

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>>175804942
ayy I get southern provinces for free, neato

>>175805395
>kingdom

who the fuck was Czech pretendent anyway?

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>>175805532
>choose German proto-EU comissioner or choose one of your own

what kind of choice is dis

>>175805689
Gerrys

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>>175805689
>Zdeněk Sternberg
That guy is still alive and kicking senpai

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>>175805689
>Kingdom of Czechs

>>175805230

alex o que você tá fazendo com essa piranha ai

>>175805980
Your map mod is fucked.

>>175805689
>Sternberg
Are they related to Ungern?

Why does HPM feel so railroaded?

>>175806770

cause EIGHT-PEE-EMM is br*zili*n

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>start a war with Hungary
>push 2 provinces in
>peace event
ayy

>>175806770
>HPM
>Historical Project Mod
>Historical
>mod that focuses on portraying pops and history accurately
>why is it so railroaded

Really makes you think

>>175807018

talex

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>>175807186
>asks a question
>salty on answer
Cheers.

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>ask a question
>get an answer
>some other retard responds to the guy answering my question
>he thinks it's actually me

>>175807539

cool blobby, grandi

now update your mod

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*blocks your path*

>>175807639
Stop asking questions.

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Seems like I became new Switzerland: France conquered everything from Belgium to Ukraine and turned it into socialist shithole, even Switzerland :(

I know my map is fucked.

How do I proceed?

>>175807837
better hope for the Prussian coup or the USA helping out

Benn a while since I've played CK2. Picked up (downloaded) all the DLCs, what should I play?

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Hey can someone tell me about PAVLOS mod?

How do I get access to it?

>>175809663
Need to reach at least level 3, you should find the right contacts then if you're on the proper wavelength and you pass the checks of course. Don't call us, we'll call you.

>>175809781
Please anon... I want to restore Byzantium

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>>175801998
Thanks for the tip about the strait bro, England kept suicide rushing into me over and over again.

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Delicious Outer Manchurian oilfields.

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Don't mind me just chilling on my island

>>175810054
breddy gud

ally france if you haven't already, and kill scotland when you get the chance

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N-no

Who would do such a thing

>>175810510

>playing as a w*man

>>>/r/paradoxplaza

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>ck2
>shopping for qt aryan wives by traits
>trusting so i can cheat on her
>chaste so she cant cheat on me
>midas so she has lots of babies for me
>genius so babies are perfect
Why isn't real life this easy?

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>waiting for Northern Ireland to quit being a little bitch with their defensive pact about me having them by the balls because I've formed Great Britain so I can declare war on every single one of the shits simultaneously
>notice a peasant revolt in German central England in the one county a duchess under me needs to complete her de jure, which would be handy cause I've got a claim on the duchy just to the south and that's the rest of their British holdings except a church in Leon
>grab popcorn cause Germany's out on the Reconquista and won't be back for a while
>88% warscore and the fucking German's show up to ruin the fun
>they've got 10k to my 7k troops in the ledger (fucking bullshit they at least had 13k)
>also all my commanders are shit
>fuck it, declare war for the duchy anyway
>they immediately start sieging my shit, giving the rebels enough time to win their independence and my duchess an easy new county
>5k of my 7k troops dead and buried later and I've reduced the German presence on the British Isles to a fucking church in Leon, stolen Karling's longsword, and ransomed him back half his family
>would have gotten my ass handed to me if I hadn't gotten an event where a vassal priest raised their personal army in my defense and caught the main German landing force before they could gain too much morale
>and if rebels I helped hadn't completely wrecked the German defenses in their capital
>and if 3k Germans hadn't gotten tied up sieging my shit in Toulouse
>and if Karling hadn't gone full retard and retreated his entire army to Ireland TWICE
so I could cockblock them with straight and mountain bonuses even though his massive martial score and fat stacks of archers and heavy infantry in his center column should have torn me a new asshole
On a related note, FUCK the French Aquitaine Germany megablob and the entire Karling line.

>>175811012
>defensive pacts on
nigga you made a grave mistake

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>>175810886

There's actually no men in my dynasty except for the boy king of Abyssinia

>>175811113
Do you have martilineal marriages on? If not, you're fucked, if yes, >>>/r/paradoxplaza

>>175811012
>>waiting for Northern Ireland to quit being a little bitch
100 years and counting now, laddo.

>>175810376
Working on it, though Scotland is allied to France so it'd going to be... complicated.

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>socialist Anschluss
>nothing happened in Europe for 3 years now
>im Switzerland of this timeline

help me gsg what do, it's getting boring - will leftist be challenged by something, or I'm doomed to sitting in the middle of hell and waiting for nothing?

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>>175811324

>>175811092
It's my first game of CK2 in years and I barely got anywhere in the last one and don't remember any of it (not that it matters since all the mods and patches have changed so much).

I have no idea what I'm doing except that I'm pretty sure rushing tech and economics was the smart play (On a related note, as long as my spymaster is alive, will they keep researching tech in a province I've already surpassed tech wise in every conceivable way? I'm about to surpass Constantinople and I want to keep those 50 free point events firing on all cylinders cause I'm still 800 points away from Imperial Administration.)

My only problem with the defensive pact (it was just those 6 counties and I was planning on attacking all 6 anyway) is the fact they autojoin the war the second you declare instead of waiting a few days to be asked and then deciding whether or not to respond to the call. So I can either take 1 county and wait 10 years for 5 truces to expire or wait 2 years and take 6 counties.

It's kind of a moot point though cause it will be a while before my levies recover from the assraping the Germans (followed immediately by a 2k strong Viking siege in my homeland) put them through

There is LITERALLY nothing wrong with Paradox's DLC model

>"Says man who wants (You)s"

>>175810908
It is, but you're not a player character

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lol
by the way, how do I stop my vassals from leaving command of my armies?

>>175812387
What DLC do I have to buy to become playable?

Spent hours and hours playing a ck2 to EU4 save game just to realize that you can't convert an ironman game from EU4 to Victoria 2.
Anybody know if I can fix that?

>>175811428
Unlike IRL I'm feeding Norn Iron to the vassal Irish republic I've got going.

>>175810908

>trusting so i can cheat on her

/gsg/ is a monogamic general

go back to >>>/r/paradoxplaza with your polyamory

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>invading atolls with armor divisions

>>175812980
BRAVO GAY
Post end od battle stats.

>>175813263
No ending stats because I blew up their fleet : ^)

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>yfw

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>>175779690
how do you get rid of these?

>>175813607

stop being 388 in debt holy shit

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What are some /gsg/ approved podcasts?

inb4 Dan Carlin, Mile Duncan, Lars Brownwortb

>>175813734
but i wanted a sword and jewels

tell me how to get rid of those, I thought someone of the council could do it. Is it the steward?

>>175814476

you get rid of them by not being in debt

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did I do good /gsg/?

I wanna finally try for Great Khan but I have no idea how to deal with ming

>>175814931
Dealing with Ming as a horde is easy. Just border them while having greater than 300 development while not being a tributary. They'll get a disaster event and their Mandate will tank pretty quickly.

>>175815093

>being a gamey slut

fuck off arumba

>>175815093
I know that, first thing I did when mandate released was Qing. But I don't know how well that works when they start getting hueg forcelimit and mil ideas.

>>175814931
also just remembered you have to start as GH or Mongolia so nevermind.

>>175814449
John Green

>>175814931
Just Zerg rush dude lmao.

this day in history, 5/4 (or 5/3), the queen of england dies

>>175815481
Stop baiting

>>175815272
They get -10% discipline, +50% Fire damage received, +50% Shock damage received and +10% Revolt risk, if you can't beat that you're retarded.

>>175815628
Yeah I guess I'm just being a bitch. Besides I hear the new patch makes them fall apart after losing mandate, maybe I should finally go for a Mongolia game

>>175815796

do a Kara Del run you memester

>>175816547
Kara Del and Sarig Yogir always get big in my games and I have no idea how they do it

>>175816628
The power of international Jewish financiers!

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Press F

>trying to play Burgundy
>France either never breaks its alliance with Provence, or keeps guaranteeing them

Why does every patch make the first 30 years of this game more and more passive

>>175811763
KR is literally a sperg meme for a meme map and meme mod (i mean """variant""") of HOI2
everyday for 4 years a stupid new event chain is triggered (often bugged) and then nothing despite the scenario being set too end at 1964
>either colors csv is fucked or half of the map has fallen to rebels
which is it?

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>>175780885
>>175780885
Trade shouldn't be a global thing. Russia for example, should try to import from every single neighbour at base price. If that doesn't saturate the market, then they can have private trade agreements with other countries, at prices that benefit the exporter. If the Russian market is still not saturated, then they import from the rest of the world but at huge prices that the people might not afford due to transport costs.

This will add 3 nice mechanics.
Embargo does not mean that you are just losing on 1% of the world market, but on an opportunity to import cheaply from a neighbour.
You now have a reason to keep good relations with your neighbours and not blob mindlessly, since if you have high AE, own their cores and bad relations, they might refuse to trade with you.
Famines can be implemented naturally and without -% growth events. If Ireland lacks food production, in V2 they can simply import from Britain or the rest of the world at the exact same price. With such a reformed system perhaps the poor Irish pops, unable to afford overseas imports, are completely at Britain's sake for food

>>175812980
Are carriers implemented good in goi3?
In DH they are pretty much battleships with huge range and low attack.

>>175819842
They're amazing. You can use them as in real life, park them 4 sea tiles away from somewhere and bomb it to the ground. They can also be used conventionally in battles and they're simulated as just really good combat ships.

>>175811012
>not playing with Sunset Invasion

LMFAO

>>175819950
i could easily search this but since you're johnny on the spot:
was missile_carrier (e.g. SSBN) implemented in clausewitz?

>>175820094
I am playing with sunset invasion though. It's fucking 897.

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>1066, Aragon
>Jimena brothers killing each other
>Muslims beating us
>really need a reliable ally
>king of france is willing to give me his 15yo sister with decent stats
>good
>she comes of age
>mfw

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>>175820141
No. That's the one thing that doesn't work. It works in EvW, but they never bothered doing it properly for HoI3, because they don't feature, really, until the cold war.

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>>175820289
can't handle a real high test woman i guess

>>175820483
This looks so fucking cool.
Why we can't have it?

just discobered that my first and only gf cucked me, give me the most cucked country/objective/dinasty in cuck kings 2 with HIP

>>175820483
>just cuck my chit up senpai
do you know of a working link of /gsg/ mod complete for EvW?