/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

>>180380967
CK2 will never work in modern scenarios

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>>180380041
James Hardie, in reward for his support of Keane, is granted the title of Foreign Secretary by the Principal Secretary, and is immediately tasked with a policy of colonial reorganization intended to strengthen several colonies by federating them under centralized communist leaderships.

The colonies as a whole are in a tumult over the communist takeover at home, and many threaten to break away from British control, which the internationalist-minded Keane is willing to permit. Yet he demands the peoples of these colonies accept communist governments of their own, continue to labor for communism worldwide, and likewise demands military support for internationalist interventions. Consequently, Keane orders Hardie to find ways to federate what troublesome colonies he can to ensure their continued participation in the Commonwealth (which, in its broader sense encompassing both the British Isles and her colonies, is referred to as the Communist International, although this infuriates the minor proletarian states like Serbia, Bolivia, and Greece which have no affiliation to Britain).

The first of these states which Hardie tackles is Turkestan, the plans for which originated as far back as the late 1830s, when Lord Auckland initiated the East India Company’s conquest of the northern Khans. Long under British rule, the Khans have nevertheless proven very resistant to change, and the newly-released Ataman of the Kazakhs has proven even less capable of civilization, roaming the steppe as his great-grandfathers did, unwilling to modernize his people at all.

Thus, with the assistance of government officials already in place in Turkestan and the intervention of two armies from India, Hardie arranges for the Khans and the Ataman to be deposed and for a communist from Kzyzl-Su, Mir Ali, to be raised up as a “temporary dictator serving the interests of the proletariat,” with the goal of urbanizing and civilizing the Turkic peoples.

>>180380623
Vickycrew in the back

>jew launcher
>jew price gouging
what's next

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holy shit rip R&I

>>180381784
>tfw you go to play any gsg and realize you need to spend 20 bux to get patches

>>180381452
>>180381918
COMING SOON: a free patch™ mandating you use this with every game

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How am I supposed to defend ports in HoI4 properly?
The AI is buttfucked retarded so when you use the garrison command over a large area with many ports (like China) it divides divisions in absolutely retarded ways. Like, one port gets four divisions and another port that is a state away only gets one division.
There's gotta be some way to fix this that isn't manually assigning them to ports, right? It's infuriating when the japs fucking invade and of course they invade next to that one port that only has one single division.

>>180382627
build aircraft carriers and wipe out the enemy navy lol

>>180382627
I do it manually for China.
if they have naval superiority they can recon coasts and check which port has least number of divisions on it. I think. So, you could use this to your advantage by understaffing a port, but having armor just one province to the rear to stack onto the province.

The salacious LIES and FALSITIES show the weakness of the bourgeoisie! Is AARnon a Communist? Is THIS the business of the elites of /GSG/, to SCANDALIZE the lives of HONEST and DECENT folk?

NAY

I say to you, my friends and colleagues, that AARnon deserves our RESPECT and ADMIRATION. Who would seek to SLANDER such an UPRIGHT individual? Who other than the INSIDIOUS and UNTRUSTWORTHY men of the STEAMCORD cabal! These VIPERS and FIENDS seek to destroy AARnon as they tried to destroy HPM, he who reigns from up high!

Trust in the HONESTY of the GENERAL. Trust in the RIGHTEOUSNESS of the GENERAL. Trust in R&I, for he is WHITE and BASED.

FOR ONLY HE REPORTS AND IGNORES US ALL

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>>180381698
Hardie similarly proceeds with plans to create Pakistan, a religio-lingual offshoot of India, and for the federation of the Malay peoples under British control in the Malay peninsula and Sarawak. Although both decisions come under fire by hard-left communists (including Keane) for their preference for religio-nationalist borders, considering the Malay people could easily ethnically federate almost all Dutch lands in Indonesia and the only real support for a Pakistan originates in their religious differences from the Hindu, Hardie stands his ground on his decision.

He rightly points out to Keane that it will be difficult enough for these people, uncivilized and unindustrialized as they are, to adopt communism, and that attempting to create mass federations will only result in greater instability--and, more importantly, nations which are even harder for Britain to control. Keeping them relatively large but ethnically-aligned will assist their local communist parties in keeping control, and will likewise help to ensure that the Commonwealth is always strong enough to enforce its dominance over her proletarian allies if they “slip” and elect a non-communist government. With this strong argument in mind, Keane agrees to Hardie’s proposal for the two new federations.

>>180382825
t. Al-Communisti

>>180382749
>China
>Anything that isn't a land-based meatwall

Besides, I'm playing Road to 56 so China gets assfucked by an "Incompetent Navy" and "Incompetent Industry", one carrier takes almost two years to make. It's horrifying.

>>180383037
one is all ya need, especially against Japan

tfw you mod your religions file just so messalians can have concubines

>>180383037
is road to 56 any good? tempted to redownload, get mods, yoink the mod from folder, pirate full copy.
any music mods for vicky2? tempted to make one since it is fairly easy

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ok, how the fuck am I supposed to break through this shit...?

>>180383289
try splitting your armies up my dude
it also looks like you have a serious lack of armor, considering you're germany

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But its hardly a complete loss for the French. With the Balearic and Canary Islands under French control, their hold over the Mediterranean is fulfilled. Additionally, the city-states of Melilla and Ceuta are brought under French control, along with the profits that come from them. The French Republic turns its eyes towards the still independent, formerly international zone of Tangier. The Dutch decide to honor their agreement and defend Tangier, despite being disarmed and suffering a liberal rebellion, which gives the French a chance to establish a puppet government by 'saving the proletariat under bourgeois siege'.

The Republic is now under a troika of General De Gaulle leading the Army, Georges Valois leading the Party and Leon Degrelle leading the Committee of Public Safety as President Vacher de Lapouge's medical condition continues to deteriorate.

I'll finish this game off tomorrow, most likely. Time to watch BASED AARnon's AAR.

>>180383120
I don't know how to Carrier though

>>180383215
It's pretty much a collection of mods, it adds a shit tonne of focus trees and reworks some of them. It also reworks and makes additions to the tech tree a lot. Two new tabs of tech (Special research division and some misc stuff like camouflage, winter clothing, flamethrowers, snipers), the addition of fighter bombers and lots of other stuff.
It only needs the base game and it's free, just try it man.

how good is hoi4 with expansions?

>>180383451
IIRC you build like 60% NAV bombers and 40% fighters, just make sure you have the naval variants researched. it's the tiny button within the research markers

i also played on 1.0 and nothing else so idk what is still broken

>>180383289
do you have air superiority?
naval superiority?
if air, paratroop to rear/port, delete port once you've taken it.
if naval, naval invade rear to supply port and delete to cut supplies.
Delete all ports you cannot adequately defend.
>>180383443
cannot believe Austria ate Swiss.
this makes me mad.
>>180383451
thx


unrelated sidenote:
if anyone is interested in a vicky2 music mod with music from 1836-1936 (but more than base game which only has about 75 minutes of music) just throw me a (you) and I'll get to work.

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I don't know why I'm taking this many fucking casualties, is there anyway I can see why so many are fucking dying?!

>>180383979
Music that would actually fit in with the game's base soundtrack?

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>>180382881
With these matters settled, decolonization begins.

Keane is unwilling to wait to decolonize, as Henderson had been, until native governments and state systems were truly ready for it. “Colonialism is imperialism, and imperialism is a capitalist pox upon society; it is our duty to be rid of the colonies as rapidly as we can be, leaving behind organized proletarian allies--not subjects!--whom we may call upon in need, and whom we will aid in their need. Only in this way will we raise up the laborers of the colonies rather than casting them down into darkness, despair, and slavery.”

The consequences of Keane’s decision will prove far-reaching. Although many nations released during the scramble to decolonize had leadership which was well-educated and quite pleased to adopt proletarian ideology, several did not. These governments were forced to organize around structures wherein local chiefs answered to British communists who temporarily formed the leadership structure of these ostensibly free countries, which would prove troubling to the CPGB for years to come. This is not even to mention the previous British administrators and settlers in many of the new nations who violently resisted the loss of their power, and the consequent guerilla wars that were waged in these new states, sometimes for years.

Nevertheless, decolonization is now a fact. New nations and old ones reborn have sprung up across Africa and Asia, each in their own way espousing a proletarian ideology, and loyalty to the International and what it represents.

>>180384158
Yea. 75 minutes is pretty short considering how long a normal game of V2 takes.

I'd probably make a /mu/ thread with the V2 examples as guidelines and check out what gets suggested.

>>180383979
(You)
Music is very much needed, especially if you can make it country specific. Holy fuck I would play every nation with country-specific music to death, even if it was Algeria in 1836

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>>180384348
Yeah, I'd like that.

Really all you need to do is take the LOGH soundtrack and stick it in there.

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>goy4 in the op

>>180384526
I don't actually know if it can be made country specific. There might be triggers like in hoi4 (if war=play songset) that can be used, but I really don't know.
HPM or modders, can I get a verify on this?

Adding music generally would be very easy, considering you drag .mp3 files into the music folder, but the triggers, (if they exist) wouldn't be too difficult to implement. If there aren't triggers, then RIP.

(it'd probably be space saving/simpler to simply have multiple music mods for each different country. eg. if you know you are playing germany, use the german music mod. this way the mod folder wouldn't be 25GB for EVERY country and their respective music track)

>>180382881
>a religio-lingual offshoot of India
Commeis would probably just merge them both and distribute anti-religious material to both sides, intending to end the conflict forever. But in actual fact exacerbating it to levels never before seen as both Hindus and Muslims reject attempts to force them to be atheist and become even more entrenched in their religion.
See also: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

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>>180384243
Decolonization only fails to touch two types of territories: islands, which Keane and Hardie both agree are best suited remaining under central British control (albeit with “sympathetic” local governments) due to the lack of support they would likely provide otherwise, and areas wherein a significant number of whites and natives have mixed.

“We hold that these territories where significant racial mixtures have taken place cannot merely be turned over to the natives who previously occupied these lands, because the rights of whites in these regions must be represented. Likewise, we cannot turn the governments of these regions over to whites without considerations for the natives. Therefore, racially mixed zones such as Canada, South Africa, and Australasia will remain under the direct control of London, and London will administrate local affairs to best suit the needs of both white and colored colonial citizens.

“It should, however, be recalled by everyone in the Commonwealth that the policy of this government holds that all races are invariably equal in potential; there is to be no racial bias in our decisions, and any who suspect a fellow comrade of holding racial biases should report him to their local branch of the Party. It is our job to help these people, not to criminalize the color of their skins.”

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>>180384937
I know that you can make songs country specific in fucking For the Glory and in CK2, so it should be available in Victoria

Is there any way to make a puppet unciv more likely to civilize?

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>not listening to anime music when playing any gsg
lol

>>180385858
>rhodesiums under black rule
*sniff*
fugg you aaranon i fuggin believed in you DD,,:

>>180384243
>>180385858
based

People actually listen to the music in strategy games? I often play in windowed and just watch a video on youtube or podcast while the game is running and nothing interesting is happening.

>not listening to your asmr waifu whilst playing solely victoria 2
how can plebs compete

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>>180386248
>not watching anime when playing any gsg
lol

>>180386198
Their primary culture is British, actually, with Boer accepted, and those are the only cultures they accept. Which is a problem, actually, given what the roleplaying is trying to do here, but most native governments are actually British primary, and there's a lot of assimilation in some places like Buganda and Nigeria. They'll probably be about 20-30% British by game's end at this rate, although obviously they'll be black Britons.

>>180386549
HPM should fix it so NIGGERS can't become ARYAN, it's not only DISGUSTING but it's also BIOLOGICALLY IMPOSSIBLE, a GORILLA born in a stable isn't a horse.

>>180386740
Black people are white.

>>180386549
aint no black in the union jack you treasonous bastard

>>180386549
Black Britons are white and based.

>>180386549
so normal british people is what you mean

>>180386549
LONDON
O
N
D
O
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>>180385858
In Asia, Hardie’s plan of weakened allies is carried out in India, which is sub-federated from the greatest extent that the Indian nationalists had been calling for by quite a degree. Assam, the Bengal republic, Hyderabad, the Rajputana, and Pakistan are all split off from the Indian main, which is only permitted to keep the “core of the subcontinent, unhindered by troubling ethnic and religious minorities such as the Sunni in Bengal and Pakistan, or the Tamil in Hyderabad.”

Decolonization in India in particular is chaos, for even hundreds of years of British rule did not provide the education, infrastructure, and government necessary for independence. The governments which result from the Indian decolonization (with the curious exceptions of the Muslim Pakistan, which organizes itself supremely well, and the Rajputana) are absolutely primitive, with the civilized leaders in the capitals of these new states often incapable of extending their authority even so far as the suburbs of their sprawling centers of government. Communism is not well-understood in the populace, and those who do understand it often spit upon it for its antipathy to caste and privilege; the Brahmin, in particular, rage against the lower-caste government of all of these colonies, and rely on subjugated locals in virtually autonomous villages around the countryside to protect them from government attempts to round up and disenfranchise the elite.

The horrid administrative and technological situation within India--which the last Minister for Indian Affairs, Sydney Olivier, attributes to “ill education and superstition”--encourages Keane to call for an extraordinary session of the cabinet to respond to the poor development of many of Britain’s new “allies.”

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>When white people chimp out

>>180386549
Quintessentially British.

What's the name of the modern times mod for DK or HoI2, dunno which one. I know that DK has modern scenario mod but it seems outdated

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>>180386549

>>180387461
>DK

Wat

>>180387461
What the fuck is DK, do you mean DH?
NWO2 is probably what you want.

Here is /mu/ thread for Victoria 2 suggestions on music mod.

>>>/mu/73496586

victoria 2 HPM shit player here

are there certain reforms for partially westernized nations i should take every time? or is everything good in different situations?

>>180386549
But the question remains, will they be fucking the few white women who couldn't afford to flee the colony/were stopped by border guards?

>>180379887
>>180380623
Is r&i dead?

>>180387279
Oh shit. Mosley is PISSED

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Am I a cuck now?

So did Death or Dishonor make Hoi4 a bit more playable?
Keep the shilling to a minimum please.

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>>180382881
>>180384243
>>180385858
>>180387235
>flag clearly implies this is an internationalist communist superstate
>instantly release any non-British territory
oh shit lad wtf you doin

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>>180387582
I'm dumb, DH obviously

>>180387602
>NWO2
Nah not it. There was an anon on /v/ or here, I don't remember, like half a year ago or so who kept posting the screenshots from some kind of modern times mod. Maybe he edited it a little, because one of the screenshots included him doing a land invasion in Syria against ISIS as Russians, but quick googling tells me that none of the modern times mods are that updated. Am I missing something

>>180387660
always go for army reforms. I know some nations don't get it, but most get bonus RP from conquering and wars once you get foreign weapons and training.

>>180387853
goy

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Rate my empire lads.

>>180387892
The Worker's Commonwealth is internationalist, Keane just holds the view that imperialism is a necessary symptom of a colonial conditions where there is not a large white population, because racism is socially ingrained. The released states are members of the Commonwealth and the International both, they merely have local autonomy to manage their own affairs and their own industry, to prevent imperialist practices. Their governments are communist, they send representatives to the Commonwealth parliament, and their militaries are co-opted by the International whenever the Commonwealth goes to war.

In other words, this isn't national communism, it's international but anti-colonial communism. If it were national then Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa would have been released as a minimum, but they weren't.

>>180388215
>tfw i'm doing national communist France
>AARnon's doing international communist Britain

thoughts AARnon?

>>180387983
As a rule, gross germanies are, well, gross, unless they started as Austria.

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>>180388215
You don't understand, lad, you have to directly rule the niggers, they aren't ready to establish communistm for themselves because they're too fucking stupid.

>>180387983
HAHAHAAHHA EBIN GROSS GERMANIUMS XDDD UPBOATED

>>180387983
>no banat
>unaesthetic blobbing in the west
>no direct control of crimea
>all eastern european nations aren't your puppets
>ludicrous balkan borders/claiming rightfully Italian clay
>blobbing over all of poland, but not being Natsoc

shit/10, try harder.

>>180388350
It's a nice coincidence that there are two opposite commie runs going simultaneously. I can't lie, I've spent most of the past few days writing posts so I haven't been keeping as close an eye on yours as I would've liked, but I really like what you did with the French government in exile.

>>180388505
The problems of decolonization and the states that aren't ready for it are definitely part of what's about to happen.

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>>180387235
The solution, as the Worker’s Cabinet sees it, is to massively invest in the people of those colonies which are struggling to industrialize. Through mass literacy programs in the natives’ own languages, translations of Marxist literature and distribution throughout the country, and European-led attempts to root out hiding elites and proletarianize the economy, it’s hoped that the Commonwealth can generate major support for the new governments of these post-colonial nations, and quite possibly result in an extension of central authority throughout the entire nation at a greatly accelerated rate.

The cost will be great, and all in the Cabinet are well aware of that fact. “Yet our nation is the very reason these people struggle,” Keane sighed. “We must help them, at any cost to ourselves. To be internationalists, we must have an international. These measures will construct one.”

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>EU4 year of our lord 1670
>China and native americans are on par technological with Italy, France and whole western europe

So /gsg/ how would you fix teching up issue in EU4?

>>180389079
what memeing you with taxes does

How do I into Serbia in Vicky II?

It's really difficult and Russia is shit at war. I just lost Bosnia so the KuK is going to annex it in the Balkan Conference.

Pls halp.

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>>180388350
>>180388908
>tfw IM doing quasi-national communist Australia
wtf is happening

HPM check out the following thread, I heard you were doing something similar/planning to do something similar. Suggestions would be welcome, and if you are already working on this I can cease so we don't both do the work.

>>>/mu/73496586

>>180389293
Communists are really powerful in Vicky II. The "expand revolution" event is really helpful.

>>180388690
>but I really like what you did with the French government in exile.

Yeah I was hoping BOTH would survive until endgame to have a PRC/ROC kinda deal, however with the lack of international support for Imperial France. there was really no choice but to annex it and release parts of it as an international of sorts. And then the less legitimate Bourbon France fell to local communists, so it was to be integrated. I also ditched the Party-defaced flag because when the other governments fell, there's no reason to keep it with the communist French Republic being the only real France left. The hammer, sickle, wheat, party flags etc would still used in parades much like the Imperial eagle used to be.

I did give Napoleon IV a Stannis-tier end after he died though, he kept on trying to fight alongside the exiled Windsor monarchy to free Quebec from the communist British. I guess if there was a Napoleon V born in time this game, he'd be a total mirror of the one from your France AAR.

>>180389293
>>180389426
In my game fascism doesn't seem to exist other than occasional uprisings in Germany, its weird. It's national communism vs international communism vs conservative democrats vs liberal democrats. Habsburg Austria is somehow still a thing. It might've lost Hungary but it's still the most relevant and powerful monarchy. It's literally the last prussian constitutionalist/semi-constitutional monarchist state.

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>>180388908
The final cost happens to be approximately 5 million pounds (an absolutely enormous amount, given that the pound is still tied precisely to one pound’s worth of gold) invested into colonial programs and 330,000 intellectuals either purged for anti-Marxist beliefs or forcibly shipped to the colonies for education of the natives. The purge was originally to be handled by the propaganda ministry and to be largely peaceful, but was forced to move forward ahead-of-schedule to ensure the intellectuals sent overseas were loyal to the state. The purge, despite Party efforts to clamp down on newspapers reporting the sudden disappearance of many of Britain’s foremost professors, becomes well-known throughout the Commonwealth and sparks a great deal of fear for the future.

Yet, for the time being, intellectuals are the only ones purged. In a statement issued a few months later acknowledging that “some intellectuals in our society deemed to be the most dangerous to Marxist ideals were… forcibly shipped to penal colonies,” Keane’s minister of the interior, Philip Snowden, acknowledges the purge, although he does not admit that many of these intellectuals were killed and that only their families were “safely” deported.

Shortly after the purge, short-staffed universities begin accepting professors directly from the Party. Although many are at least partially qualified, having themselves attended university, they are undoubtedly a step down from the intellectuals which the Party purged, and it will take decades for Britain’s university system to truly recover.

“If that is the price to pay to ensure that the proletarians of the world are educated and armed against capital,” Keane confided in Snowden, “then I shall pay it, sorrowfully but eagerly.”

>>180389892
What mod is this?

>>180389426
I'm surprised there's no "Conservative Order" esque mechanic where one can request ideological allies to aid vs rebellions.

>>180389892
Fascism becomes a thing if communists revolution fail. If Russia becomes Soviet Union and then immediately shits itself and goes through a series of revolution, fascism wins.

>>180388908
>Make a Biritsh Empire more powerful than ever
>Communists ruin it in a few years
JUST

>>180390006
Yeah. That happened in ALL the russian revolutions, specially in the October Revolution. Many countries sent soldiers to help the government. At least there should be an event to send them money.

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Usually when I acquire an empire I immediately savescum my way to world domination in like 200 years.
This time I'm on ironman so save scumming won't be possible.

How can I do all of the following without ruining everything and instantly losing?
>ensure that my son is elected to be the next emperor
>prevent faction wars
>switch to primogeniture succession
>press my son in law's claim on west Francia
>conquer the fractured Muslim lands in Arabia

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>go to play victoria 2
>press launcher
>start victoria 2 button greyed out
>hover over it
>"Your account lacks sufficient privileges to proceed with this action."
>try to press button anyway
>does nothing
>only thing in the launcher is it telling me "You haven’t added any items to your cart yet. Check out the Games section and we’re sure you’ll find something you’ll like."
What the fuck is happening here? Do I have to buy something to play my fucking non steam copy of Victoria 2? This is a legit version I have from before I got steam, it's from a CD-rom for christ's sake, I bought and paid for htis game and have beena ble to play it up until today, now the button is greyed out, what do I do? I don't have an account on their shitty forum so I can't even report this.

>>180390529
AAAAHAHAHA
Paradox is now officially worse than microsoft/bethesda

>>180390529
lmao
That happened to my "legal" copy of Vicky II as well.

>>180390529
>I bought and paid for htis game
Heh, well done goyim.

>>180390529
Fucking kek. My pirated copy does the same but the button isn't greyed out.

>>180390529
You have to register for a pdox account and then add your vic2 game key (from the box the cd came in) via the website. Then login through the launcher and you'll be gtg.

>>180390864
WHY

Can we riot on their rebbit or something

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>>180390529
It seems your shopping cart is a little light, goyim. Why don't you add some DLC, only for 29.99$

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>>180389953
The first weeks of the Commonwealth’s existence are tumultuous, as continued fighting wracks the Isles. The Navy is forced to fire on and sink several vessels which refuse to profess loyalty to the new state, over 10,000 soldiers and officers are court-martialed (and many executed) for reactionary deeds, and ongoing battles within many of Britain’s cities, particularly London and Manchester, result in martial law being temporarily imposed while the “forces of reaction” are systematically identified, hunted down, and eliminated.

Although the fighting will not truly die down until the middle of 1903, by early October it is clear that the Worker’s Commonwealth will stand, and that the forces of reaction have failed in their attempt to prevent the communist government from seizing power. It is at this point, in the midst of the first breakout of news regarding the intellectual purge, that Keane first articulates what is to be done with the privileged classes. Contrary to what was expected throughout much of Britain, they are not to be eliminated; the vast majority of their wealth is to be seized and redistributed to the poor natives living within the few colonies which Britain still possesses, but the privileged themselves will be permitted to continue living “as common laborers rather than agents of capital.”

Many, predictably, commit suicide. But others are more than willing to temporarily (as they see it) accept a life as an artisan or craftsman while they await an opportunity to topple the government, and most are simply happy that their lives and the lives of their families are secure. Following on the heels of knowledge about the intellectual purge as it does, the decision not to exterminate the nobles and capitalists helps to encourage a state of passive acceptance of the revolution among the middle classes, who were previously growing rebellions due to its perceived spiral into violence.

Taking a short break, be back soon.

>>180390995
It's to normalize the requirement of internet for otherwise offline strategy games, in preparation for Vic3's inclusion of microtransactions.
For example, if you want to kickstart industrialization as anyone other than UK, USA, or Germany, you can buy Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin for $0.99. Or if you want to enable the console, you can do that for just $2.99 per save file.

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>>180390529

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>get home from work
>launch liqqy
>settle in for a nice game of encouraging bureaucrats and stockpiling liquor
>see this
Lads?

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>>180390710
>>180390731
>>180390831
>>180390850
>>180390864
>>180390995
>>180391037
>>180391258
What the fuck. It's on all of my non-steam games, and I can't play any of them, it's all locked out.
I tried to add some shitty HoI4 cosmetic DLC to my cart and it still says this, that I don't have enough in my cart and redirects me to continue shopping, when the value goes about to $20 it stops saying this and lets me go to the checkout, but I don't want to pay $20 just to get games I own back.

>>180391419
You're literally a child rapist, Anon.

>>180391472

Weak ass bait nigga, go back to school

>>180391472
You're too cheap for 20 dollars? :^^)
Lol poor lad can't afford 20 bucks a month 'DLC' to play a 7 year old game?

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Can someone help pls? I have to click no 15 times before I can even start the game...

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TODAY
ON "ITALY AND POLAND'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE"

>The Turks are pushed out of Anatolia
>Nova Roma is reclaimed
>The Rhenish Crisis comes to a boil
>Bukharin desperately clings onto power
>The 1936 All American Socialist Elections, will Foster cling onto his Socialist dreams or will the Communist hardliners bring about the Commune of America?

>TODAY'S EPISODE
"Revenge of the Marble Emperor"

>>180391808
I can, for a mere $20 dollars goy- lad.

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fucking finally... that was way too costly...

does anyone have tips for unit builds? Infatry, tanks, etc.??

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>>180391639
I tried to launch it from the .exe in the main directory, but then I got this warning message and when I clicked ok my cart opened up again.

>>180391997
>HOI IV
Lad..

>>180391846
>Nova Rom
Get the fuck out, there is only one Rome

>>180391997
Now try holding the coast lol.

>>180392142
>Paradox is now locking your files beyond a paywall

>>>Literally a ransomware company

>>180392142
Literally ransomware.

>>180391808
i'm getting a similar thing, it says my credentials are invalid but they aren't when i try to login through the launcher

if i press cancel it just gives me an http error but i can still play the game

>>180391997
>unironically having trouble with the western front
Literally how?

>>180392142
Is this shit legal?

>>180391472
This is bait but would be funny desu
>>180389426
What does the event do?
>>180391053
>tfw hpm will never implement democratic communism like council communism, libertarian marxism etc
Interesting AAR so far though lad

>>180392551
Of COURSE goy! Reminder you don't own any of your steam softwares, you just rent the right to use them for 99 years!

>>180392541
>hoi4 players

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>>180392142
>>180391808
>>180391472

>First victoria 2 game with brazil
>Instant budget problems, no matter what i do

What the fuck am i supposed to do?

>>180391846
>Darkest Hour.exe has stopped working
Oh boy here we go

>>180392763
BUILD LIQUOR FACTORIES

>>180392763
The same thing we always do laddo, liquor factories! And raise bureaucrats to 1.1% Raise tariffs if you have to.

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>>180392598
It's not bait, I'm getting this as well

>>180393280
BASED AND WHITE YOHAN

>>180393280
>error de script
jajajaja

>>180391997
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=839579512&searchtext=pro+tips+for+division+designer

>>180393372
>>180393393
It's not funny

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>>180391053
As the world’s first major proletarian government takes its own first shaky steps forward, the world nevertheless moves along at its typical pace. The international horror caused by the proletarian revolution in Britain and the forced evacuation of Victoria and the royal family causes widespread fury and calls for a coalition to invade Britain and lay it low, but Britain’s navy is so much larger than any other great power’s, even after the loss of several ships to friendly fire during the first stages of the revolution, that all agree that the effort would be futile. At best Russia might be able to occupy Britain’s Asian possessions, but with the losses Britain has inflicted upon them even that is questionable, and although the Tsar is terrified of the proletarian government of Turkestan now to his nation’s south, he proves unwilling to launch an offensive strike without the full support of Austria-Hungary, Germany, and France, which he does not receive.

This is because France sees the situation as beneficial to her, at least in the short-term. President de MacMahon, his administration stung over the fiasco of the Futa Jallon some years before, sees the ultimate coup in striking against the now-weakened Germany for the reclamation of Alsace-Lorraine, previously impossible because of British support. But now that Wilhelm II and his Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow have broken all ties with the British, they are left entirely unprepared for a French attack on their territory, which de MacMahon orders begun in late October, as soon as France’s armed forces could be prepared for offensive operations.

Even with the Spanish presence in the war dividing French attention the Germans are caught off-guard by an attack during a time which should have encouraged unity, and quickly begin falling behind in the war. It appears likely that de MacMahon’s government will truly manage it.

>>180392881
>>180392973
I can't build factories

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>>180391846
>>180392242
The good news is I have a close by save that might work.

The bad news is that I'm in a bad tactical position in it and I only lucked out of it.

>>180393482
it is if you aren't a spic

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how do i do a baselius?

>>180393280
t. hitlermod

>>180392598
>hpm will never implement democratic communism like council communism, libertarian marxism etc
It's unfortunate, but to be fair so far as I understand victoria's government and ideology system, it would be impossible to properly model sub-ideologies like that without adding new parties at a minimum, and potentially new government types, which as far as I know is entirely impossible. Roleplay will have to do.

>Interesting AAR so far though lad
Thanks senpai.

>>180393642
Get the depressed trait then suicide over the realization that you're not actually Roman but just a LARPing gayreek

the hoi4 shitposting is making me want to give in and play
should I just play hoi3 instead? i've played both and i already know what i'm getting into.... help....

>>180393562
Of course you can comrade. Right? Comrade?

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Right, I launched the .exe in the main directory as an admin and used task manager to get around the store redirect, it all loaded up smoothly and now I have this. What do I press?

>>180393885
Is this fucking real

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>hearing the melody of "God save the Queen"
>"Wow my gf is into this? I'm so proud of her!"
>Heil dir im Siegerkranz

That's the last fucking straw, I'm dumping her.

>>180386549
Considering the last time a white guy went to Bongistan, it was 1066, it won't be much of a difference

>>180392598
>What does the event do?

You spend money so communists win. I don't know what exactly it does, maybe it increases their militancy.

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>>180393610
It's not funny unless you're Jewish
>>180393712
OwO what's dis

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Pressed Yes, closed down my game and opened up the store, what the fuck?

>>180393968
just open for yourself lad

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>>180393969
Introduce me to her

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>>180393594
Oh god this AAR might be over

>>180394227
RIP

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What should I call my American colony?

If your force limit is huge, how big do you make your armies relative to your manpower?
Say I have 230K manpower and 300 force limit... 300 seems way like too many.

>>180394329
le bbc breeding camp

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Right, this is it, I am fucking done, I fucking hate Paradox, I fucking bought this game and now it does this shit. I loaded the fucking game back up, pressed that no, I don't want to fucking re buy their fucking shit and then I got this pop up. Couldn't press off the screen, couldn't do fucking anything. I tried to press the x, wouldn't work, tried to use ctrl-alt-delete, wouldn't work, the only thing I could do was press this fucking okay button, so I fucking pressed it, thinking it wouldn't do anything.

My fucking Victoria 2 is gone. It started a fucking automated deletion program that I couldn't stop, I kept trying to use task manager to stop it but it just fucking deleted my game, this is fucking disgraceful, I'm fucking crying now, I fucking loved this game and now it's gone, how the fuck do I get it back?

>>180394329
Hi bud, what mods are those? I really like them.

>>180394329
Somalia
Memes aside, something like King [Insert nam here]'s Land or somethineg

>>180394227
F

>>180394329
Diversity is our strenght

>>180392142
>Paradox is now ransomware
OF COURSE THEY'RE FUCKING SWEDES SUBHUMAN TRASH

>>180394513
Is that even possible?

>>180394329
Karland

>>180392142
The Jews did this

>>180393280
>Le ha comprado un juego a (((Paradox))) en vez de piratearlo
JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA EL SPICO QUE BUENO

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>>180393491
Aware of the landing of a Commonwealth army on the isle of Cyprus, capitalists and wealthy Pashas within the Ottoman Empire use their wealth to orchestrate the strongest general rising they can. Although decentralized and frankly minuscule in its threat, the anarcho-capitalist revolt in the Empire, although rapidly put down, tells Keane one clear thing: the capitalists of the world are terrified of the Commonwealth, and of communism and what it represents. They fear what it will do to them, and rightly so.

But, for the time being, the Commonwealth is not interested in the Ottoman Empire, although its time would come. No; for now, the Commonwealth’s interest is with Greece, a proletarian nation which would prove a valuable ally against the Empire, if they chose to join the international. Unfortunately their national-socialist President resists, and it appears it will come to a war to install a new Greek leader, one loyal to the tenets of international communism.

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>>180394513
LITERALLY RANSOMWARE

>>180394406
You still want to build up to that 300 force limit cap, because a country's effective fighting force is it's currently fielded army + manpower reserves (and also potential mercenaries they could hire).

Since manpower recovers you want to use it to build armies as long as you can field them. Even if you sustain losses you can simply consolidate the armies later.

>>180394526
The map mod is ToT with blue water and increased opacity.

>>180394531
Magnus IV is my current king, so I guess something like that could work.

>>180394592
Not entirely sure what this is referring to.

>>180394513
I pressed yes around 10 or so times and it took me to the shop. Couldn´t buy the DLC because they where already in the library though. Clicked back on games and they where all there, still functioning. I don´t see the problem, except for this ridiculous pop up bullshit.

>>180394817
Do NOT press no, it uninstalls your game.

>>180393885
NO REFUNDS GOY

>>180394729
This campaign is getting disgusting desu; Are you going to keep wanking yourself or actually let your country lose once in a while?

what mods for hoi4

>>180394329
Johanland

>>180394513
Ransomware intensifies

>>180394749
What about the interface?

>>180394929
The fuck? Glad that I didn´t do that then.

>>180394965
>Great Britain
>losing
AN EMPIRE WHERE THE SUN NEVER SETS
EMPIRE
WHERE
THE
SUN
NEVER
SETS

>>180394513
Take this to pdoxplaza, the fanbase there will throw a shitstorm if you show them all this. Save all these screenshots too.

>>180394729
>national communism vs international communism

Based.

>>180394965
>being this autistic that for once it isn't a fascist state blobbing

That said, it'd be great if the Worker's Commonwealth collapses from within, and a presidential dictatorship British Federation rises from the ashes with a British Putin. Since he hasn't released Canada and Australia, it'd be a much larger and influential neo-British nation.

>>180394513
Do it, throw plebbit into choas by posting what happened there

What is the new patcher? My games don't have them, through Steam

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>buying games
Thats what you get

>>180395187
>That said, it'd be great if the Worker's Commonwealth collapses from within, and a presidential dictatorship British Federation rises from the ashes with a British Putin. Since he hasn't released Canada and Australia, it'd be a much larger and influential neo-British nation.
This

>load up EU4 save of opponent
>max mana
>shitty, unfilled ideas
>low development
why

>>180394513
>>180395164

Respectfully disagree x 1

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>>180395063
Literally just this fampai:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=570256235

>>180395001
Johan
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
Johan is out.

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Do you like my new Launcher lads, maximized profits

>>180394513
How is this even fucking rreal

>>180394513
How is this unironically possible?

>>180395572
They are reaching levels of Jewishness that shouldn't be possible

>>180394965
If I were presented with an actual challenge then I would have a hard time of it. If Russia and Germany allied and fought me, for example, I would be almost certain to lose to them, at least in Asia. I'm far from the best player, and even two GPs against me could win it, especially since I've lost most of my armies thanks to decolonization. Frankly it's not my fault that the AI is retarded and can't put up a common front.

That said, things will get interesting in the future. There's a major war at the beginning of the 1910s which is incredibly challenging, and in the 1920s (which I'm nowhere near yet), after some army reform, I intend to break the infamy limit.

>>180395187
>That said, it'd be great if the Worker's Commonwealth collapses from within
A plurality of the population supports communism, so it'd probably need to happen via a revolution at home while the armies are off fighting. We'll see what happens, though.

>>180395641
Alright then, guess It feels silly that even America hasn't reacted to Canada going commie

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>>180394227
I'm gonna keep going backwards until I find a save that works.

If it doesn't, what should I play instead?
As far as I can tell there's no Mosley or White Russia pathchain.

>Orleans Restoration France
>Osmanoğlu Restoration Turkey
>Russia, see what happens

>>180395780
The 2nd one

Is a satellite of your satellite subservient to you or your satellite?

>>180395641
Eh I'd have it fall much like the USSR did. It doesn't WANT to fall, but it dies from years of economic mismanagement once it all sets in. The post-communist British state would still be quite supportive of both the Worker's Commonwealth and the old British Empire.

If communism sticks, which I don't mind honestly, could you send over the save once you reach 1936 so I could continue it?

I'd accomplish this easily by extending the end date or converting the save to CWE/NWO

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>>180394513
Your fault for buying only once, goy

>>180396006
To your satellite, but you will get part of the benefits your satellite gets from his satellite

>>180394513
This cant be real.

>>180396006
Really makes you think...

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>>180394729
The war, once declared, is rapid. A single Commonwealth colonial army puts down the entire Greek state, even when mobilized; the outcome is humiliating for the Greek Communist Party, which, following the ascension of their new Commonwealth-backed President, is purged several times to shift its focus from national to international communism.

On June 21st, in a show of solidarity, the Worker’s Commonwealth cedes the island of Cyprus to Greece in return for Greece’s formal inclusion in the international, the first non-anglosphere nation to join. It is a moment of celebration in Britain (and if you did not like it, you celebrated anyway), as it signals that the Commonwealth is well and truly the crux of global communism.

The Ottoman Sultan, for his part, is infuriated and terrified by the move on the part of the Commonwealth, and seeks support from the house of Sa’ud, Emirs of Arabia, to help fight the British off. The Emir of Arabia is better aware than any of the weakness of his position in relation to the Commonwealth, however, and refuses the Sultan’s offer; he, like the Shah of Persia, and the Trucial Emirs, hopes that it will be possible to keep his head down and avoid the fury of his communist overlords, maintaining life as it has always been in the sands of the east. It is a futile hope, but it is his.

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>>180387983
Needs to be like this

>>180394513
>plebbit will defend this.

>>180395201
>>180395164
I tried to post this on >>>/r/paradoxplaza but it got deleted.
https://www.reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/6ioy2r/paradox_just_deleted_my_game_because_i_wouldnt/


Can someone with an account that's allowed to post there please post this imgur album? They won't let me.
http://imgur.com/a/p81eU

>>180396271
HAHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT

>>180394329
sissy training center

>>180396186
see >>180396035

>>180396271
Avoid the reddit, post it on the actual website. Reddit has tools that can remove posts without any evidence that they were removed.

>>180396561
Don't have an account there.
Again, if anyone has an account please post this, either on reddit or their forums, I can't do it on either as I don't have a reddit account and new ones don't work.

>>180396271
L m a o
How is this real

>>180391846
Well fuck, it's all corrupted back to at least 1928.
I'm sorry it had to end like this. I'll keep trying to salvage it at some point. The goal was Mare Nostrum/Full Roman borders with a puppet Scotland/etc.

>>180396771
>Don't have an account there.
Make one, that'll probably let you log in to vic2 as well so you can play the game.

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There is no turning back

Why is my checksum different now?

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>>180396271
SHUT UP GOY AND PAY

If I really like CK2 and HOI4 which would you recommend first EU4 or Vicky 2?

>>180396848
>a puppet silenced of his autism
What the fuck is this shit?

>>180396992
Angry Birds

>>180396035
If the economy is mismanaged, yes, I'd contemplate having it fall like that. For the time being, though, the government is actually doing a pretty good job for itself, increasing industrial strength far faster and synergizing industry far better than what the capitalists did under the constitutional government. Although I haven't done army or naval base extension yet, though, and that might lead to crippling costs which I might not be able to fight through. If that's the case then I could see the government collapsing on that basis.

I always upload saves when I'm done, so yes, I'll upload several when all's finished.

>>180396830
Don't have the code anymore, didn't think I'd need it because I assumed I could always play off line, and I didn't/don't want to register it with Paradox anyway, not after this.

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>>180396993
Johan is but a puppet of Paradox, a mere mask worn by a conglomerate of greedy swedes.

>>180397198
>increasing industrial strength far faster and synergizing industry far better than what the capitalists did under the constitutional government
Nice meme

>>180397198
>I always upload saves when I'm done, so yes, I'll upload several when all's finished.
What makes you think we want to eat your sloppy seconds?

>>180396271
how the fuck is that even possible?

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Self-deprivation. That's a new one.

>>180397295
Is that even a legit sentence? A Puppet living a Lie would fit better

>>180397398
>tfw you die from blue balls
chastity was a mistake

>>180397458
idk lol

paradox needs competence badly

>>180397623
You don't need competence when you have a monopoly

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>>180396186
After almost a year of fierce fighting, the Fifth Franco-Prussian War concludes in a surprise French victory. The defeat humiliates Wilhelm II, whereas it sweeps the previously unpopular de MacMahon and his pro-Bourbon party to a massive legislative majority. Although the monarchy is not restored--opinion on that count is still quite lukewarm--his popularity at least ensures governmental stability in France.

On the account of war, however, stability is far less certain. Following the loss of Elsass, Wilhelm II turned to his cousin the Tsar, traditional ally of France, and signed a surprise alliance which has many within France worried. Although France also maintains an alliance with Nicholas II and de MacMahon hopes that the two states sharing an ally will help prevent war, it could also signal a move from Nicholas II’s government away from the French state and toward a pro-German policy, now that Germany is no longer “tainted” by alliance to the British.

For Keane, the matter is frustrating primarily because of its interference with his plans for Germany. He had intended Britain’s long-time ally would be the first nation on the continent which would be forcibly proletarianized by the Commonwealth Army, to be used as a base of operations to strike the other major powers throughout Europe. This now appears out of reach, at least for the moment; the Commonwealth is not mighty enough to take on Germany and Russia simultaneously.

Keane’s eyes thus shift from Germany to Italy, and the Directors. An abhorrent government ruled by capital, they have been supported by Britain for far too long, and an end to their government through a proletarian dictatorship would be justice made manifest. Plans are laid--tentatively still, for the army will not be ready for months--but lain nevertheless.

>>180397886
Lad, RP that the commies re-organise your armies.
Come on, lad, you need 4/4/1/1s.

>>180397398
>tfw you can't have sex in heaven

>>180397623
fuck
competiton*

>>180397623
They are very incompetent, that's true. But they have no competition.

how did parajew rationalise this?

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FROM THE PRODUCERS OF "AMERICA V COMMIES" AND "ITALY AND POLAND'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE" COMES THE NEW HIT SHOW
"YOUNG TURKS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ41hqlV0Kk

STARING
>Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
>İsmet İnönü
>Ali Fethi Okyar
>Mehmed VI
>Abdulmejid II

GUEST STARING
>Anastasios Papoulas
>Benito Mussolini
>Drastamat Kanayan
>Henri Gouraud

TODAY'S EPISODE
>"FUCKING GREEKS"

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>>180397886
As 1903 rolls into 1904, Keane’s Secretary of War, none other than Frederick Saxe, grandson of Victoria and long-time colonial commander, works in conjunction with the Secretary of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (which now manages colonial affairs as well) to reform the local garrisons of Britain’s remaining colonies to increase the total number of soldiers which can effectively be managed from London. This has the added effect of reducing the burden on many natives who previously had no opportunities outside of agricultural work by providing an alternate career path through service in the armed forces.

Although the effects will take some time to become evident, Saxe is hopeful that the measures undertaken--which include the laying of undersea telegraph lines, the construction of telegraph infrastructure in the colonies, and the closure of the Suez and Panama canals to all vessels which are not part of the International—will eventually result in a larger colonial army which can garrison Canada and South Africa independently, and which can provide supporting troops for the International from other locations. The move is hailed as foresighted and well-timed by Keane, who is quite pleased that this power of observation and command was not available to the monarchist governments which proceeded the Commonwealth. Since Keane is pleased, naturally the people are as well.

So, does this >>180394513 only happen if you bought the game? Because I pirated it and it doesn't show up.

>>180398803
>greeks got this far into Turkey
>Brits abandoned them completely
DEFEND THIS ANGLOS

>>180397398
Weren't Cathars all about fucking?

>>180398030
No, I'm not going to min-max. I'm going to wait for airplanes and tanks to reform them, then I'm going to experiment around a little myself and find a layout I like. It won't be the best possible, though. I never want to min-max, since it would make the game easier. If I break the infamy limit I want to have a hell of a time of it.

>>180398892
Cathars believed that one could only absolve themselves of sin once, and that the Catholic practice of continuously sinning and then routinely 'absolving' oneself (through confessional) was not only invalid but distorted the very concept of sin.

In practice this means that many Cathars sinned it the fuck up in their early life, and then later on performed the Consolamentum and lived a life of celibacy and holiness. Oftentimes this occurred when the person was about to die or in that general timeframe.

However, some of the extremely devoted take the Consolamentum earlier and live essentially as an active monk for the rest of their lives. My character had performed the ritual at age 39, shortly before I took control of him.

>>180399262
>In practice this means that many Cathars sinned it the fuck up in their early life, and then later on performed the Consolamentum and lived a life of celibacy and holiness

Isn't that even worse though? Pretty sure it is a mortal sin to cynically do that.

>>180394073
>MODEM age mod
beeeeee-errrrr-ka-crsh-ka-crsh-boing-boing

>>180389403
Shamelessly self bumping to grab people who didn't read through entire thread.

It's been 2hrs tbf

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>>180390529
>>180390731
hey, I made a launcher mod a week ago which disables the launcher browser

paste into victoria2/launcher

https://mega.nz/#!7wwxSQxK!JXnADt3e58S7rqwump-6j3FY4Ylyd6NWe-yGw8e6JTk

>>180399486
Don't do this it creates mustard gay

>>180394073
Fucking post what you made so far hitler mod

>>180399403
Perhaps, perhaps not. The Consolamentum was a much more serious affair than normal confession - those that go through it are required to become vegetarian and, if able-bodied, theologians in their own right. Like several other sects Cathars believe that the physical world is entirely a product of the devil, and thus the person that exists post-Consolamentum is of divine nature and perhaps separate from the pre-ritual individual, as he has become semi-angelic due to the receiving of the Holy Spirit within his soul. At that point the Perfect is seen as a vessel of the Lord and is able to guide other souls into the Consolamentum and perform other religious rites.

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>>180398825
On May 3rd, 1904, the Communist International, represented by its chief nation, the Worker’s Commonwealth, initiates its first offensive move against a non-communard country when it declares war upon the Directorate of Italy for the “destruction of an anarchist government ruled by capital and abhorrent to the worker.” Their stated goal is the forcible investiture of a communist government with power in Italy, and they provide no further casus belli.

This has France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary in an uproar, but the divisions between them, again, prevent a response; France, socialist as its government was for so long, also despises the Directorate, even if its hatred for Britain is worse. Germany refuses to cooperate with France thanks to its capture of Alsace-Lorraine, and Austria-Hungary, ever hateful of Italy’s pretentions to so much of their land, is far more concerned with the presence of Commonwealth troops on their border, and refuses Wilhelm II’s call to declare war on the Commonwealth on behalf of the Italians. Thus, once again, divisions prevent a united response against the British threat.

To the surprise of Keane, however, both Sardinia-Piedmont and the Kingdom of Sicily are willing to fight with them against the Italian Directors, despite the ideological gulf which divides them. In return for an assurance that the Commonwealth will never attempt to proletarianize their countries--an empty agreement, easily given--they are willing to fight to horribly weaken and destabilize the “Italian” nation, which has proven a continual threat to their independence and whose leadership have, time and again, proven barbaric in the extreme in their treatment not only of their people, but of other Italians.

“Now’s the time!” cries Field Marshall Arthur Lyons, commander of Commonwealth forces in Italy. “Up and over the trench, lads; for the workers of the world!”

>>180398435
fucking false friends

>>180399262
lmao how about not sinning at all?

>>180399902
Considering that the Cathars held copulation in any form to be averse of the Holy Spirit, humanity wouldn't have lasted long.

>>180399902
This, or at least trying not to

>>180400048
wat

>>180400132
In general Catharism took the relationship between God and man much more seriously than Catholics do. Cathars that have completed the Consolamentum ("Perfects") are said to literally carry the Holy Spirit within themselves, which is why they are must live with such rigor - any brush with sin would 'dirty' the vessel and thus damage the ability of the Spirit to remain within it.
That doesn't mean that Cathars couldn't breed. It just means that they couldn't breed when Perfect.

>>180400421
Why would they even want to breed if they thought it would just be trapping more souls in the Demiurge's prison?

>>180400824
Same reason anyone else would want to breed.
Cheap source of labor, extension of the bloodline, contraception is illegal, etc.

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>26th of January, 2504 AH
The Greeks are knocking on the door of the Provisional Government, the French control the south-east, and the British march through Istanbul.
The Great War ended in disaster for our great empire as the Entente broke apart by the pen what they could not break by sword. Just as the Germans have their Versailles we have our Sèvres. Syria, Tripolitania, Armenia, Arabia, even our own Turkish lands - all were stripped from us by the British and their Arab lackeys. The Greeks landed in Smyrna last year and the bitter fighting drew out into the winter. Now with a new central government and leadership we are ready to push the Greeks back into the sea. Meanwhile, whispers from Malta have reached Ankara that that exiled Mehmed Osman seeks to march on the capital with his reactionary loyalists.

The counter attacks against the Greeks begun at Eskişehir. A combined assault of 15 divisions under the command of Mareşal Fevzi Pasha. Taking Eskişehir will threaten the southern Greek flank and leaves Smyrna open to attack.

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Alright boys.

The good news is we can get control of "Istambul" if we defeat the Greeks.

The bad news is no one among the General Staff can locate "Istambul" on a map.

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>>180399814
With the vast majority of Commonwealth forces concentrated to the north, the Directors deploy the fullness of their fury directly toward the International’s positions, sending in armies of paid professionals as well as citizens paid ludicrous wages in order to fight in the northern trenches. Yet the Commonwealth forces prove that a well-trained standing army wins out against highly-paid conscripts every time; although the few professionals the Directorate send in prove difficult to defeat, once they are exhausted and the peasants take over, the war is all but won. The peasants, wielding guns they can hardly point straight, are constantly run through by the crack Commonwealth forces.

What Comintern soldiers find as they trudge through Italy is horrifying; conditions that surpass slavery, with anything and everything available for the right price. Physical maltreatment is not punished by the law, and labor and sexual slavery are common. Many villages, especially in the north, are deserted as Comintern forces pass through them; a silent reminder of the horrors of the Directorate, which Britain had so long supported. Many soldiers, unwilling to wait for just retribution, begun a policy of forcible wealth redistribution as they pass through towns, and the army gives sanction for capitalists to be summarily executed in major cities like Firenze.

By mid-July much of the north has been secured, and a provisional Socialist government under Filippo Turati (founded because no credible communists can actually be identified in the labor-repressed conditions of the Directorate) has been established in Ravenna, ready to take the reins of government as soon as the Directors negotiate their surrender.

>>180401597
>spreading communism
W&B

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"FRIENSDHIP" ENDED WITH GERMANY
NOW RUSSIA IS MY NEW BEST FRIEND

>>180399902
>sins
HAHAHAHE Nice spooks nerd

>>180401597
>Aaron is now a commie

I thought you were based...

>>180402035
reminder that literally everything communists believe in is a spook

>>180402223
Of course communism is a economic system and economic systems are a spook

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>>180401597
That agreement comes in early September, as Commonwealth forces in the north wipe out the last of the Directors’ paid peasants, and the single operational southern army closes in on Naples. Although Italy’s official government capital is Rome, the “government” of Italy is such only in name, and in reality it is merely the Directors who matter. They are overwhelmingly based in Naples, the heart of the old Kingdom of Two Sicilies, and therefore the approach of the 7th Army accompanies a horrifying realization that the time of their reckoning is now.

After permitting hundreds of thousands to die and allowing untold suffering, then, the Directors finally surrender on the basis of a deal to save their own skins: they will take their wealth, and their families, and leave Italy for America. The government and all remaining institutions will then be handed over to Filippo’s pro-International provisional government.

To the surprise of Parliament, Keane agrees to the proposal. Many viciously castigate his “betrayal of communist principles,” in letting the Directors live, much less keep their wealth, but he advises them to simply wait to see the ultimate result. Graphic photographs which arrive in London a few days later tell the true tale: they display the swinging bodies of thousands of Directors and their families, hanging from the mansions and villas of the countryside, with the cheering masses of their once-enslaved people laughing below their corpses.

“I do not make deals with arch-capital,” Keane told Parliament that afternoon. “I will never make deals with arch-capital. This is capital’s ultimate fate in the world we are building; never doubt that this is what I work towards.” His words were met with standing applause.

>>180402820
Why no Mosley?

>>180402829
Is this Ck2

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>>180402829

>>180402829
people don't sneeze when they're sleeping

>>180402897
Because Mosley was 13 in 1909.

>>180402972
I do.

>>180403112
...and?
Didn't stop Pol Pot in HoI4

>>180402820
I'm unironically getting pissed off by this

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>30th of April, 2504 AH
The Greeks have been driven from Anatolia. The small remnants of the Greek Expeditionary Force is retreating across the sea to Mytilene. The Turkish Navy has been interned in Izmit by the British, otherwise their avenue of retreat would have been cut off. Such a victory will likely lead to a peace treaty with Athens. This show of force may allow us to renegotiate with the Entente in regards to our occupied territories.

>>180402829
I read in an issue of the Cosmopolitan that sneezes are 1/10 of a tenth of an orgasm.

Question. Is there a way to increase a unciv puppet's odds of civilizing other than helping them fight reactionaries and keeping them sphered? Vicky 2 of course.

>>180403248
did it take into account how hard you sneezed?

What exactly is the craftsmen assimilation bug, and how can it be avoided?

Where can I get the latest version of robmod?

If only…If only…the Ottomans hadn’t been cheated out of Their deserved victory in Vienna all those years ago. This would have allowed the Turks to control europe forever. No one would question the truth of Turkish superiority. We could live happy lives as Your sexual slaves and rapemeat. But that time will come again and europe will lose.

>>180403215
This

>>180403321
no

>>180403595
Turks are based and white
t.unironic turk

>>180381698
Oh fuck I missed you yesterday

What in the FUCK happened

>>180403675
He went full gommie

>>180403286
If they have a westernization when conquering reform you can help them get any cores/cbs they have. Otherwise no.

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>17th of May, 2504 AH
Peace has been negotiated with the Greeks. The Turkish Republic has been named the sole legal successor to the Ottoman Empire. Full sovereignty over Anatolia has been granted to the Provisional Government, however the treaty comes at a price. All claims to former Ottoman lands were renounced and our military has been limited to 20 divisions. Istanbul and the south-east are still under the yoke of Entente control but these regions will likely return to us soon.

>>180403806
DELETE THIS

>>180403165
Yes, but HoI4 is garbage.

>>180403215
>>180403612
If so then I'm doing a good job roleplaying it.

>>180403675
I didn't post yesterday, I think last time I did was Sunday. Basically a socialist-communist coalition won elections, the CPGB got the Prime Minister's seat through political dealing, and at the beginning of today the old PM died and Labour and CPGB agreed to effectively merge, leading to a general rising and the proclaiming of a communist state.

>>180403946
>If so then I'm doing a good job roleplaying it.
You really are, props to you on that

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>>180402820
As Turati’s caretaker government is ushered into office in Rome and British armies patrol the Italian countryside, putting down any signs of reaction and redistributing wealth in accordance with Turati’s policy initiatives, the new Premier of Italy is informed that there is another concession which is requested of his government: the cession of Eritrea, Italy’s lone colony, to Ethiopia.

WILL NOT BE NEEDED STOP INTERNATIONAL MANDATE IN AFRICA REQUIRES ADDITIONAL TERRITORY STOP CESSION TO ETHIOPIA CRITICAL TO ETHIOPIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION STOP

Such was the message Turati receives from Keane, whose demand for the territory was both terse and somewhat without justification. With that said, however, Turati is well-aware that his present government is one of stewardship, and that a communist will replace him in time--and that that time can come much, much sooner if he does not cooperate. The territory is therefore ceded to Ethiopia without any resistance.

>>180403338
It's not only for craftsmen. Here's the gist of it:
>conquer prussia as poland
>prussia has lots of polish pops, but all of them are farmers
>encourage soldiers
>polish farmers turn into german soldiers because there is no available polish soldier pop

If you are REALLY autistic, you can edit your save each time you get new land. Otherwise your only option is assimilating atleast 1 of the foreign pops, which is nearly impossible if foreign pops have a core.

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>>180382881
You will pay for this

Your empire was built by them

It will be as easily taken away

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>>180404087
>Communist Ethiopia
Rip WE WUZ SOLOMON dynasty

>>180404087
AARanon stop it I can only be so erect

>>180404270
REEEEEE HOW CAN YOU WANT THIS
SEE
>>180404219

>>180404292
>caring about monarchs
Hello brainlet

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>>180404392
>not wanting meme dynasties that claim 2000 years of continuation
>being racist against non-european kings

>>180404127
But anon, this is communism! Even if the nation is constructed primarily upon religious lines, state atheism is mandated. Aside from the (illegal) religious superstitions of the pesky peasants, all are equal in atheist Pakistan. Of course, you Sikhs have to be atheist too, you know.

You are, aren't you? Just take off that turban and let's make sure.

>>180404270
I can't tell if you enjoy that I fixed cancer Eritrea or that I'm International'ing everyone's shit up.

>>180404392
t. amerifat
enjoying your political dynasties?

>>180404546
It's not because he's black
>>180404597
Both

>>180404648
No
I'm a brit

>>180382881
Is it possible to form and play as Pakistan?

>>180404802
you may as well be a yank you blue shirt

>>180404810
Form it, yes. It's in my game currently as a puppet, so I suppose you can play it as a puppet too. But to form it as an independent nation, I'm not sure. A Muslim GP in India might be able to form it under some circumstances but I don't know, that's a question that's better suited for HPM than me.

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The Soviets have refused the Japanese peace proposal. The Japanese have taken a great deal of Siberia and are progressing steadily west. The Polish defeat and the Treaty of Riga mean that the Soviets are now able to shift a great deal of troops to meet the advancing Japanese. Eager to right the wrongs of the last war the Red Army is storming along the Trans-Siberian Railway towards Mongolia.

>was going to include a telegram
>AARnon does it first
FUG

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>>180404087
As troops begin to be ferried back to Britain from their temporary stations in Italy, the Commonwealth government is wracked by a scandalous report. A French socialist newspaper has published conditions of what it calls the “Heart of Darkness,” the British South Atlantic Islands, where apparently orders from the communist government in London had been almost entirely ignored. With Africans shipped from the continent to wait on the whites of the islands, the South Atlantic had become a haven for British industrialists, capitalists, and the otherwise wealthy to hide from the government, and the atrocities they committed in their disenfranchised rage were mortifying. Africans used for target practice; institutional rape as a policy for producing a mulatto workforce; the reinstitution of plantation slavery; and, worst of all, systemic bribery which kept the system entirely out of view from the central government.

In a statement made the next day, Keane acknowledges the the total fault of the administration, in the event that the atrocities reported are accurate. He sends the entire United Fleet to the South Atlantic to investigate the situation and--if the report is founded--to mete out summary justice to any whites living in the territory, and to return any natives, if possible, to their original homes. All officials related to the South Atlantic in the Foreign Office are immediately rounded up, interrogated, and tried, and an examination of all other Commonwealth territories overseas by the United Fleet is ordered, to take place over the following year. There will be no more atrocities; there will be no more reaction; there will be no more havens for the elite in this, the Worker’s Commonwealth.

>>180405093
Maybe I'll try it as Sindh.

>>180404802
convert to Islam then, quickest way to get rid of the queen

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Should I get rid off him?

>>180405332
Oh wow the cuckoldry is strong in this AAR

>>180405529
truly the most white & based slav

>>180405529
based.

>>180405585
Yes, Jews shouldn't even be in Ireland yet

>>180405585
No convert to judaism

>>180405537
It's a proper pain in the ass, I tried it before.

>>180405529
W&B

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>>180398803
Ye gods it's happening

Take me off the gopnik's wild ride!

>>180398825
>and the closure of the Suez and Panama canals to all vessels which are not part of the International

Laddo, tolls. Tolls. Paid in gold.