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Now this is a proper GSG thread.

Where can i get the newest version ck2+?

Best Paradox game overall if:

1.money/price/amount of DLC is not an object.

2.money/price?amount of DLC does matter

>>14086339

1. CK2

2. Vic 2 or Darkest Hour depending on which era you prefer.

>>14086362

Shit meant to say CK2 or HoI3 for that first one.

Anons, when you play vicky 2, what country do you play:

>for fun

>for a challenge

>for memery

It can be one that has all or one for each.

>>14086453

Serbia, Brunei, and Russia respectively. Interestingly enough, even after all these years I've never played a Paradox game as Germany.

>>14086527

>fascist china

top jej, do the japanese still try to kick your shit in even if you go for a similar ideology?

>>14086696

>as germany

>in HOI4

555-come-on-now, but I'll be enough of a fag to help you anyway: rush for a war against poland and then the UK, start as soon as you are able, this is to avoid having both france and the brits be massive faggots and guarantee every fucking country in the map. After doing this, france can go suck dicks or you can take them, they are optional at this point, but after your rush start to put a defensive line on the soviet border, the key here is to NOT go on the offensive and instead build as many forts as you can along the border, put some defenses on the coasts to avoid invasions.

When the war breaks out, just bunker down and wait, since the AI is absolutely fucking retarded, it will insist on launching massive assaults on battles it just can't win, then just sit down and relax as the cassualties on the soviet side reach the millions while you remain at 50K at the most. When you notice their reinforcement bars stay at half or lower you begin your push and at that point you're pretty much done. For extra dumbassery, instigate a fascist coup or even a democratic one and start again. HOI4 is a meme game m8, it's pretty easy.

>>14086592

Japan doesn't really mess with China in Victoria 2. I have never seen them taking China clay. In any case that Guangdong is obviously far too big and powerful for AI japan to fuck with.

>>14086977

Fabricate four wars against easily beaten countries. Give them a white peace at the same time to push pop militancy past 8. Implement Martial Law decision (it is not checked by default). Wait half a year for the popup. Don't do it while you have other wars going on or are in an election.

>>14086696

>buying

dude pirate it.

currently have pirated eu4 + all dlc in existence, having a blast playing it. link related.

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=63384

>try playing DH

>Crashes on start up

Well shit.

>>14087004

>Fabricate four wars against easily beaten countries.

How did you choose these? Did you release them from your own sphere first? There aren't really that many weak countries outside of a sphere of influence in 1946.

>>14086339

vicky 2

>>14086339

Vicky 2 in both categories.

>>14086453

>for fun

My country.

>for a challenge

Greece.

>for memery

Spain.

There was one Vicky 2 or HoI3 mod some anon was playing where he was basically doing a cold-war era playthrough of the Russian Federation, what was its name?

>>14086696

You can either be ahistorical and declare war on various minor nations with resources before the other countries reach the point in their focus trees where they're allowed to go against you or you could just create the highest level possible of forts near mountainous regions where you believe you're likely going to be attacked and letting the AI suicide its own troops against it; don't worry about the occasional naval invasion, the AI doesn't know how to make coordinated attacks. Another fan-favorite is to set up paratroopers to drop in onto countries, sometimes even parking the units in allies before completing a justification of war and immediately capturing their victory points. HoI4 is just that retarded.

>>14086365

>stellaris

Have they put any espionage in that trainwreck yet, cause if they haven't it is still shit.

>>14089442

New World Order mod for Victoria 2 has a cold war start and 1992 start.

Haven't played HOI4 in a while, and new good timeline or ideology mods since the last few months? I got all I need for EU4. Also CK2 is hard at, need a tutorial

>>14086453

>for fun

Greece

>challenge

Transcaucasia into Armenia/Georgia (anon's edits)

>memery

Serbia or Romania

>>14086339

Money never matters if you just torrent them.

>>14086977

>form NAFTA

No, ignore all ✡globalist✡ bullshit. Do your annexations as the USA, not the NAU (which changes primary culture to mestizo, you fucking idiot). Don’t join the WTO, don’t join NAFTA, ANZUS, or any other union. I’ve discovered that the devs of NWO and NWO+CWE are absolutely flaming leftists, by the way. You’ll get a 50 million strong populist revolt in the USA even when you have a populist president and 50% populist in the upper house. When you have populist support at all, you get events that simultaneously increase populist support and give terror attacks in populist areas. Because that’s totally how it works, right? Populists are the real terrorists! They attack their own people because that’s what they want! It’s a fucking garbage mod.

>>14090666

Fuck, forgot this. The thing is, I really like that NWO changes the map to be real (moves the Americas south and adds southern Indian Ocean islands, but hate how it changes all of the provinces around to be totally unrealistic unless you never, EVER change your borders (which, given that they’re leftists, is probably accurate…). The province additions range from unclickably small (and therefore unrealistic) to “you now have a state of 1200 people that gets two senators right alongside california with 30 million people”. NWO+CWE keeps the original map, but adds FAR more government management options (but again is leftist as fuck). I guess these are our only options.

>>14086696

west europe must fall first, use your shitty infantry divisions to gaurd the coast then move the rest of the infantry all on the border of the soviets, take your motorized and tank divisions in seperate groups let your main infantry line advanced forward, use your seperate groups of motorized/tanks to push the soviets faster and encircle them, if your divisions are running out of organization/can't push let them rest and do the same move again untill they brake and you start to truck towards their siberian strongholds, also don't attack so late

>>14090666

NWO is fucking garbage

>arbitrarily changes your culture to "european" if you're in europe, regardless of your government or decisions

>"You are a democracy? Well that means anything even slightly right wing will get -5% popular support regardless of who forms the government with every elections because fuck you :^)"

>map is beyond retarded, anything that was ever contested by anybody is a separate state

>everything railroaded into forming superstates

>>14086696

the typical hoi4 player, everyone.

>>14091337

Just go to piratebay and search for the latest version of whatever game you want and click on the magnet thing, I don't get why that faggot insists that you have to download from a russian malware site.

My fellow ethiopian kangz, I've literally raped HOI2 and CK2 however what made me quit them was the realization that all you do is blob one way or another.

How do you counter this?

>>14091419

It's probably because I'm just shit at the game but I've seen a lot of people claim that it's really easy to blob in CK2 but normally when I attempt to play such a game my realm tends to implode after a few decades or so.

>>14091419

Once you have the basics of any Paradox game down blobbing is trivially easy. The only way out assuming you want to keep playing them is to set self imposed limits on how you play.

>>14091502

>cant blob in ck2

wich realms are you playing at what starting dates?

>>14091372

site isn't malware faggot, and i linked it instead of tpb because tpb has always been late as shit with the updates; for example, it doesn't have the 1.24.1 patch uploaded at all right now, even tho this fixes a few things that 1.24.0 broke.

if you had bothered checking instead of assuming any site linked here besides wellknown trackers is malware you would've known this already, dipshit.

>>14091337

all you do is download the 5 rars for main game, then the rar for 1.24 patch and the rar for 1.24.1 patch. unrar the first of the file maingame rars and it unzips the other 4 into a single installation folder. run the "setup" file and ez done. do same thing with patches, search the thread for specific help.

I just had a thought. Would it be possible to outright block POP conversions in Vicky II between the five species of humanity? Or any other of the games, really. A Somali isn’t going to convert to white_anglo, nor will Portuguese convert to Vietnamese. It’s just not physically possible. But a Bantu could become a Xhosa, and a Lithuanian could become white_anglo. Could that be modeled in the code without having to account for EVERY POP type available? Are the POPs organized by their genetics already? I know there’s a -20% conversion flag for “African cultures”, so theoretically you should be able to organize the other four groups together and write in a -999% conversion chance flag for each of them to any POP culture outside of their own groups… right?

Have you anons pulled off a session where you go so off the rails that the countries/events/history break?

>>14092159

As Poland in HoI3 I beat Germany as a non-allied power. I then pushed soviets far enough back for the bitter peace to occur, causing half of Russia to be given to Germany and my entire army to be stuck in German-occupied Russian land without supplies.

Might have been with one of the mods, can't remember which.

>>14095256

>playing a race of sluts

For what purpose?

>>14095264

To add sexual excitement to overall gameplay and feel better when i lose. Same reason why i play victoria II as sweden.

>>14095686

>that date

Anon are you retarded?

>>14085736

Can I pogrom the shit outta undesirables in EU4's M&T?

>>14095584

Dare i ask what's wrong with the russian flag?

>>14096739

Yeah, you can literally kick them out of your country and they can try to bribe you, you will get huge revolts though.

>>14096765

How? Where's the option?

>>14096778

Also by undesirables I mean people from other cultures. Wanna kick/replace all these turks in my anatolian clay.

>>14091152

NWO's leftist governments in Democracy is meant to represent wealthy kike media promoting leftism as you'd know if you read flavour text.

NWO's dev, simsulla, was right wing and strived hard for realism. Dying white populations and mass shitskin immigration. By 2030 most white GPs would have lost GP status; victory required military expansion and new empire-building. NWO is unfortunately not under active development.

CWE is a lot more leftist but the dev is fairly pliable. He used to make all dictatorships automatically get a corruption modifier; I spoke to him reasonably and with logic and now corruption is based on administrative efficiency instead. Similarly he had autocracies unable to seize control of Internet governance; again I spoke reasonably and convinced him to instead restrict it based on infamy. CWE is not inherently leftist it just got a lot of feedback from leftists and not enough from right-wingers.

Also I find when I include files with proposed changes they are more likely to be accepted since I'm taking care of the work and not just asking for stuff.

>>14098227

>NWO's leftist governments in Democracy

Except it happens even if you have a traditionalist government, where you lose like 5% traditionalist support every election

>>14100273

HEIL ODINN

SAEL ODINN

>>14096817

you cannot. If you wait abbout for a long time, they'll culture convert, however. Of course, many a time, they won't convert to your culture but some other because of a half-baked mechanic that was never implemented properly

Is there some way to track why your heir changes in CK2? My runs in that game have always gone smooth for 100 years and then succession shits itself when my heir keeps changing.

This always happens when I am about to get Primogeniture in the next generation.

>>14100421

Well shit, in any case that happens guess I'll use the console to change it manually

There really should be a genocide option, the lack of one is utter bullshit. I mean t*rks did it, so it's historical :^)

>>14100432

wat mod

>>14100611

>>14100617

Sounds good. I also found this for EU4:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=908468956

But it needs some work, badly. IE: only empires at 3 stability can genocide, also it genocides ALL cultures (can't choose to spare provinces of the same culture group). But it works with M&T. Also for some reason the intolerance policy gives you 100% missionary power.

>>14086339

Victoria 2 and Victoria 2, because Piracy exists :^)

>>14086453

I am a huge Greekabo, so I always play as Greece.

But when I don't play Greece, I like to play as Assyria, Persia, some steppe country in Central Asia, Mongolia, Tatarstan, Argentina.

I very rarely and quickly get bored, when I play as a country that has over 1 million primary pops, because those are just too powerful. Or too high literacy, that's why Scandinavia is strong, despite low population.

I just can't bring myself to play as Prussia/France/UK. Too fucking easy, World Domination should be earned.

>>14086696

>playing HOI4

>>14086977

If the mod is similar to other mods, then you do that by having a high militancy.

And

>>14087004

that is a way to do it.

I think your nationalist party needs to be ruling party though, at least that's how it works in other mods.

>>14092099

They don't assimilate anyway, anon. Only in the new world and there you can do something like that. All you had to do is to do something like that.

>If country has primary culture yankee, dixie, french canadian, anglo canadian, etc then -1000% assimiatlion chance

But it's not a big deal anyway, because of the pop promotion assimilation and pop merging, which means they will still "assimilate" in a sense.

>>14092159

Yeah, it's fairly easy to do. For example when you steal Austria, before Germany can take it, they became peaceful.

>>14095256

I don't understand. Why play Stellaris when there is Distant Worlds Universe?

Stellaris sucks fundamentally, because it doesn't have a private sector.

>>14098227

Does CWE still massively reduce pop growth if feminist? If so, then that is good.

>>14100291

pretty sensible desu

>>14102342

>I think your nationalist party needs to be ruling party though, at least that's how it works in other mods.

What? Other mods don't have a Martial Law decision.

>>14102525

No, but they have coup mechanics, where a radical party in a democracy takes it over, when militancy is very high.

HPM has it and maybe even robmod, but I barely remember that one.

>>14102553

But CWE's martial law decision is not a coup mechanic nor is CWE an HPM or /gsg/vickymod derivative so how would those other completely different mods be relevant? Nothing to do with each other.

>>14102582

Well, I don't know exatly how it works, because I haven't really researched the mod as extensively as HPM and really dug through the events, decisions and common folder like I did with HPM, but it sounds similar so I just wanted to mention that, anon.

>>14092159

>DH

>play Czechoslovakia

>put everything into building forts, the entire border with Germany and Austria has around 8lvl forts in each province

>Münich agreement comes

>reject it and prepare for the worst

>Hitler sees the massive fortifications I've erected and is too pussy to declare war

>after a while of nothing happening, decide to conquer Poland

>Germany and USSR sit and watch like cucks while I start conquering Europe

DH really isn't ready for the player doing something unexpected before WW2 starts

>>14103175

From some other lad in the thread, apparently Paracucks got assblasted that multiplayer games went always the enslave-genocide route because it was the most efficient, so they simply made it impossible for you to do so.

>>14103175

>>14103200

Are there any mods that fix it?

>>14104714

Mostly retarded.

>independent entente sardinia where the legimate monarchs are hiding out

>national france corsica right next to commie italy and france

Papal State as a Two Sicilies puppet isn't bad but the Austrian puppet Italy has way too much Austrian support, it should either be a confederal Milanese-Venetian state lorewise or outright divided between the two as puppets. Austria giving them back their fleet and propping up the state beyond the bare minimum is the worst part of the whole thing.

>>14104771

Is it at least an improvement over

>republics and monarchies of the federation choosing the Pope as the head of state

>historically conservative south becoming a socialist republic

?

>>14104881

Probably, depends on the details of the Two Sicilies though. I really hope they aren't guided towards Mitteleuropa since the last thing KR needs is a fourway when they still can't get the seperate Entente and Mittleeuropa wars vs the Internationale to work properly in either version.

>>14104714

Socialist Italy should have been in the north the whole time, so that isn't an issue. I wonder how two sicilies will work out here.

>>14103291

nu Paracucks is all about dem focus trees today. Wish there was a competitor that made the game stop being a choose your own adventure book with historical backgrounds.

>>14104714

If the Bologna area is communist then yes it makes sense. What doesn't make sense is how Sardinia is somehow self ruling. No matter the amount of BELIEVABLE WORLDS, I can't take that shit seriously.

>>14102342

>Distant Worlds Universe

That fully automated garbage? You can't even manipulate planets properly, most shit is more efficient when you give ai order to go without you. Its not shit, but way worse than stellaris in terms of control and gameplay.

>>14105663

Why do muslim Greeks larp as Steppeniggers?

>>14106020

>what is it with jews and their desire to impose their will on the rest of the world

Gee, I dunno.

what happened to that hitler wins ww2 mod some guy was making for victoria 2?

>>14106153

Never 'erd of it, mate. You off your rocks?

>>14106232

no I'm not, I was looking for it an it's this one, sadly now it's for hoi4

http://www.moddb.com/mods/a-new-order

>>14106284

>HOI4

Into the trash it goes.

>>14106286

yep, and worst of all it's now just the typical man in the high castle scenario of germany vs japan

>form European superstate

>close down immigration

>still get a couple hundered immigrants in intake, no outgoing

I suppose it's (((realistic))) that there would be just a few on the necessity, but you would think the no immigration policy would actually work. Is it because it works in percentages and not a fixed boolean?

>>14106296

I hate that shit. Why can't it ever be something reasonable like

>british royalty go behind churchills back and accept hitlers peace offer

>uk neutrality during barbarossa severely limits lendlease, combined with the freed german military capacity this results in a relatively decisive victory with soviet remnants forced behind the urals

>pacific war still breaks out on schedule and goes as it did historically only the chinese civil war is more even without as much soviet aid

Basically Fatherland without all the ubergrossdeutschland ethnic cleansing everywhere stuff.

>>14106405

Fatherland the mod for DH or the movie?

>>14106422

The mod.

>>14106431

is the mod good?

>>14106487

Yeah, but very biased for the soviets. The germans get cucked hard.

>>14106487

It's good and bad. The effort put in is great but it suffers from some design flaws ( lack of German control/influence on events in Europe, the nonsense following Hitlers death, the resurgent strength of the Soviets ) and an awful vision of trying to guide the outcome towards the setting of a not-1984 mod.

>>14106542

>the nonsense following Hitlers death

what happens?

>>14106579

I dont know if thats what the anon means but for example in my game event was bugged and Germany got new chancellor every few weeks

>>14106579

>SS Stat Germania

if Himmler gets in control. The flag itself is enough to commit suicide.

>>14106579

>what happens?

Axis breaks up for no real reason, only to be put back together within a year or two as Germany stabilizes.

Succession crisis breaks out and is fairly reasonable except that the military faction are essentially democratic (everyone seems to Junkers loved democracy for some reason).

The whole order in the East collapses, in particular the Russian zone under military occupation is divided between the Soviets, RK leaders acting like rebellious vassals instead of the jumped-up mayors they really were, and the Banat republic which decides to unilaterally become Russia. There's also a bizarre event chain surrounding RK Ukraine and the SS state in the Crimea, where Himmler usually gets killed by Heydrich as part of a power grab, southern RK Ukraine gets handed to the SS as a new playground and they're pretty much Rohm and the SA 2.0. All of that goes on despite the Volga coalition forces and the fact that even by default most of the Wehrmacht and SS is deployed to the former Soviet territories.

>>14106341

Well illegal inmigration would still happen, apart from things like descendants of europeans in other continents migrating to europe, or legal migrants.

>>14106726

>I wish I was smart enough to make mods.

It's ridiculously simple. Spend an hour following a wiki and you'll be able to mod a Paradox game. The real issue is having the patience of a saint, because that shit takes forever – open province in text editor, change owner, open province in text editor, change owner… more than a thousand times over and over if you want to do severe changes to the map, even more so if you want to fiddle around with shit other than just province ownership. That's what it was like in EU4, at least, and I assume HoI4 will be the same. you can't even use a script because while parashitters did index provinces with numbers, they did so seemingly at random, so province 100 and 101 may actually reffer to provinces hundreds of kilometres apart

>>14106739

Are you Spanish?

>>14106726

>tfw no alt-history post WWII mod where no one country really wins, it's just varying degrees of losing.

That’s real life, dipshit.

>>14106825

>open province rinse and repeat

LOOK FOR THE VICKY II MOD TOOLS. There’s an automated system for that. It works beautifully.

>>14106882

>there are modtools

thanks, anon, I wasn't aware of that

>>14106835

Descendant of spaniards.

>>14104714

>>14105718

>yet even more useless exiles

>a fucking island left untouched for two decades

>no more national french invasion on south italy

>new frontline, austria/germany will get steamrolled

>nothing prevents soc italy from declaring war on two sicilies day one and conquer it with french help

>and that purple colour

I don't like it. At least I hope Two Sicilies becomes Entente.

>>14106726

How would a bitter peace between Germany and USSR look like?

>>14107139

>How would a bitter peace between Germany and USSR look like?

A bunch of buffer states with a mini-cold war going on?

>>14105687

>most shit is more efficient when you give ai order to go without you

I take it you didn't play past the tutorial game where the AI literally sits down and waits for you to kill it. There's quite a bit of micromanagement required to win the game if you're even playing on easy outside the tutorial. Stellaris is just as barebones as HoI4 is and its clear that they never actually had any real vision for the game. In fact their only plan left is to turn it into EU4 in space.

>>14104714

>lets rewrite a 10 years old lore because its not plausible enough

DROPPED. This is the fucking mentality that killed modding. Fuck the hoi4 devs for fucking with the lore.

Newbie at Victoria 2, tried Prussia with guidance of Wiki. Tried going with "War with Denmark" -route but could only release Holstein due to insufficient Jingoism to add any wargoals.Did I justify wrong kind of wargoal? Would the jingoism have risen if I'd kept occupying Jutland (I assume I couldn't get to Sjaelland because they had naval superiority) Also my budget stayed on deficit and my factories went bankrupt. I did give upper class zero taxes.

>>14110491

Can I have newbie-fiendly walkthrough on that? Simply Justify on Lorraine state and invade before France can get proper allies? Try to call Britain on Prussia's side? How to fix budget deficit?

>>14110789

A lot of the time I just maintain a line of troops at the French border and kill Russian armies until I have enough warscore to make France give up Elsaß-Lothringen.

>>14106114

I thought commies were betas who want to force 3DPD into everything?

>>14104714

>>14104771

>>14107139

>>14110312

Yeah it's pretty shit, but "id be willing to forgive it if it gives me one thing: let me play as a Fascist Mussolini. I really fucking hate how they made him a communist in this timeline when he had already turned against orthodox socialism, denounced it, created fascism (although it wasn't finished yet), and had violent clashes with orthodox socialists all in 1914 and only continued to work on Fascism after being wounded in action during the war. Even if he decided to try and rejoin with other socialists, either to try to subtlety implement Fascism or just power hungry, he would've just been told to fuck off and wouldn't be welcome in most meetings between lower ranking socialists, let alone become a candidate for leader of the SRI.

>>14111380

Commies like communes, so that they will have to deal less with women in their everyday life and have no direct responsibilities.

>>14111508

syndicalism=/=communism

they're scum all the same, but syndies turned their backs on the commies after their failed revolution in russia

>>14107139

the purple's the best part though

>I hope Two Sicilies becomes Entente

I looked it up and it looks like they can align themselves with Mitteleuropa, the Entente, or Austria

>>14107178

Not after years of total war and 20-30 million dead.

>>14110418

>>14110789

Keep occupying Jutland and Holstein. I think Jingoism slowly increases as long as you are winning the war. If you are running out of money, push tariffs and taxes to max. Due to your low early game tax efficiency, it will hardly matter. You'd probably want to form the North German Federation before going at the French, since it allows you to annex every North German nation. You only need Lotharingen for the German Empire.

Forming the NGF is easy. After taking Holstein, influence Hannover and wait for Britain losing them due to some event. Hannover can be safely sphered afterwards. Saxony is tricky and probably the "Assert Hegemony" casus belli against Austria is your best bet. It takes every German duchy from Austria's influence, including Saxony. Prussia + all the north german minors + some strong great power, preferably Russia should absolutely destroy Austria. Just make sure you don't lose any sphered minor nations, taking them back is a pain.

>>14113348

Whilst I'm liking the idea of a total bitter peace, you could have an element of America still rising above the war-weary Europe, and becoming this antagonistic figure for the continent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral_Moresnet

anons hfm edits where are you?

>>14117365

I think the explanation is simple. It is easier to to put a new focus tree than making real events. It is probably why Paradox took this round anyway. I won't be surprised to see it in Victoria 3 next.

>tfw HOI3 is a clunky, overly complicated, outdated, mess with short end dates even with DH

Why couldn't Paradox just remake the same game but add a better AI, engine, graphics, politics/diplomacy, and recruiting mechanics?

>>14117480

It would still require more work than what they did for HoI3. And they had to remake the game to be in-line with their streamlined DLC strategy.

>Two major Axis powers now have alternate history paths, including the chance to depose Hitler or restore democracy to Japan.

More BELIEVABLE WORLDS, I see. But, what the fuck is with

>restore democracy to Japan.

Restore what exactly again? To whom? I regret even checking the description of the damn DLC. I already heard about the gameplay chances, but this really takes the fucking cake for me.

>>14117535

changes*

>>14117216

The definition of bloat

>>14117535

I don't think Paradox even understands the history of the nations they attempt to sully.

>>14117417

>It is easier to to put a new focus tree than making real events.

In terms of the complexity of some event chains in Darkest Hour or Victoria II, I agree, but most NFs are trivially ported to events (some just trigger events themselves) and usually would work better like that. It feels like a mixture of padding out the game and working around design flaws like having no decision system and nothing to do with your focus points once your tiny tree ran out, and in typical Paradox fashion they won't remove the superfluous content that expanded mechanics have made unnecessary.

>>14117435

>You know that you are the faggot for playing hoi4?

I know, I hate it too but the Darkest Hour modding scene has been dead for years and the dev team don't have the manpower to make and support changes to fix the few flaws of the core game. Like how France is harder to conquer than the Soviet Union because the too few provinces in Belgium and northern France are massive bottlenecks, carriers being massively overpowered because their CAGs are treated as very long range guns instead of air units, needing to grab every victory point for to annex a state, having to start your campaign over if you want to mod an event into the game, the nightmare of sorting out most OOBs without any real command hierarchy and needing to manually reassign brigades yet also being able to teleport them around Europe after the redeployment timer runs out, being able to hold fully created divisions in deployment with no supply cost, strategic redeployment teleportation of whole armies, and aerial warfare being completely irrelevant outside of tactical and naval bombers and escorts or fighters to protect them.

Darkest Hour still does almost everything better than HoI4, but HoI4 does have theoretically good mechanics (ruined by terrible gameplay) like air superiority being critical for for fast armored advances and neutralizing CAGs, or the production system that allows for natural division spam limits instead of heavyhanded IC cost increases like in the Grand Campaign mod, and far easier redeployment and organization of divisions en masse.

The real tragedy isn't HoI4, it's Paradox killing EvW so it wouldn't steal the hardcore playerbase in HoI4s launch window.

>>14117615

I forgot

>navies being horribly vulnerable to naval bombers because anti-aircraft damage is only taken from the ship the bombers attack instead of the combined AA values of the fleet.

>>14117615

HoI4 will never be playable due to the shitty national focus trees replacing events and decisions.

>>14117680

>stimulating imperial sentiment in the Austro-Hungarian successor states

Ahahaha what? I can see that in Austria and maybe in Hungary, but who the fuck else had any desire whatsoever to go back to A-H?

>>14117680

>putting the kaiser back to power

fucking why?

>>14118721

All the people who have never actually lived in communist countries?

>>14113348

>Not after years of total war and 20-30 million dead.

If we are talking about both sides being unable to continue the war, what else would you think would happen?

>>14119057

is paradox following the bethesda way of lazily adding shit and let other people fix it with mods?

>>14119150

That does seem to be the strategy with HoI4. I doubt it's a coincidence that it is simultaneously their most moddable game and most barren release.

>>14087878

I had same problem, but it mysteriously went away on second try

>>14117535

>restore democracy to Japan

Was Japan ever democratic in the sense Paradox means? Even today they are basically a one party state with politics being determined inside the LDPJ (which is directly descended from Imperial Japanese fascists, literally in some cases eg Taro Aso's dad used Australian zogbots as slave labour).

Japan today is what Poland's PiS dreams of being and the west already calls Poland not democratic.

Democracy btw really just means "leftist republic or leftist constitutional monarchy" it has nothing to do with the will of the people. Many monarchies and dictatorships have served the will of their people, Thailand is a good example.

Japan has never been a democracy in the sense Paradox thinks it.

>>14117535

>>14119057

It's funny you mention the 226 Incident, because quite frankly there's no reason for it to exist. Just checking the wiki for HoI IV, Japan has 100% popularity for the Taisei Yokusankai from game start according to the wiki, presumably in 1936. The Taisei Yokusankai- the Imperial Rule Assistance Association- did not exist until 1940, and was a disparate state umbrella created around existing political parties, which weren't really absorbed as much as subordinated. The democratic party is the Rikken Minseito, which ceased to exist at the same time. Until then, Japan's diet was paralyzed by a hung parliament. The 226 Incident would be a perfect pathway to getting a one-party state & fascist organization early, with Japan starting out as a schizoid mess with unalligned rule until relatively late.

The tradeoff might be that using this focus tree line you're railroaded more towards the go-North strategy favored by the Kodoha faction responsible for the incident, with direct subordination of China being less practical than in a typical, historical roundabout Toseiha faction-Kwantung Army border crises route that justifies blobbing south and slowly gives you a more centralized government. If the Chi-Nats decide they're happy enough with ardent Nichirenists who want to help them kick the shit out of the commies and drift into the Axis rather than sticking on the Manchuria issue, then that clears up the Asian front a fair bit for a Japan player. If not, Japan ends up with a very lean local supply line to fight the Soviets on, but might avoid American embargo in the process. All this while actually being able to pass the laws they want.

But Paradox ruined this potential, because they didn't do the smallest amount of research into the fact that Japan was an imperial-colonial power with de facto constitutional restrictions in spite of de jure absolute monarchy, which made a very late transition into anything resembling a one-party state and when it did so was basically in the form of organizing all existing parties into right-wing syndicates, who continued being as locally socialist or reactionary or parliamentary as they once were in their respective regions outside of all of them explicitly supporting and somewhat coordinating Japanese wartime action.

>>14120489

The Taishou era of the 1920s saw increasing amounts of power and the general management of state delegated to the Imperial Diet, which was an elected, broadly representative body.

Japan had had these democratic institutions since the Meiji period, but the organisation of the state was such that they were only one arm of sovereignty. Notably the top rungs of the military were not answerable to the Diet, giving them the power to sanction their own adventures in China and beyond.

'Returning to' democracy in 1936 is completely implausible considering the state of the Diet at the time, but at the same time Japan wasn't an absolute dictatorship like a lot of people imagine. Even the more autocratic parts were rife with factionalism.

>>14120277

You can't Personal Union as a theocracy. Makes it utterly useless regardless of the benefits.

>>14117680

>avenging the Great War

>OR

>focusing on the communist threat

Except Hitler did both.

I gotta be straight with you lads, I don't see what angle Paradox and the Redditor crowd are coming off that they loathe nazis but are fond of German monarchism.

Both were nationalist. Both hated communism. Both hated kikes. Both enforced strict control over banks. Both were racist, German monarchists arguably more so because the nazis were ok coexisting as long as everyone stayed in their homeland while German monarchists believed other races should be beaten into submission and exterminated where convenient (eg, Namibia).

Do they honestly believe that a restored German Empire would have been some kind of nigger-loving kike-filled leftist dream of paradise? Are they that fucking stupid? And if they don't think it would have been, if they recognize that the only real difference would have been less workers' rights and more christianity, then why the fuck do they like German monarchism while hating German national socialism? It's bizarre. Just about everything they hate about National Socialism applies just as well to German monarchism.

>>14120961

my only guess it's because they just dont want to be associated with da ebul nazies

>>14117680

>In the Imperial branch, the player now gets the choice of either avenging the Great War, or letting bygones be bygones and focusing on the Communist threat

lol, you mean like Hitler did?

>>14120961

Their Will to LARP is just too strong. They can't contain it.

>>14120961

you seem to be under the impression that redditors know anything whatsoever about either the German Empire or the Third Reich.

This is your average normalfaggot's knowledge of history:

>Uh, nazis were bad because they killed people and stuff. Also were racist.

>German empire? What's that? Oh, Germany had an empire before Hitler? I guess it was just like the British empire, since that's the only empire I know of, lol.

Is ck2+ out for jade dragon? I don't have access to the paracucks forum

>>14120277

Theocracies would be useful if they gave a holy war casus belli against other faiths, but fun is forbidden in Ottoman Universalis.

>>14120961

I think its less about liking german monarchism and more about "BTFOing those nazis XDD"

>>14120711

She looks 56% white.

>>14126078

>>14120277

>paracucks still can't into healing schisms

>little in the way of religious fluff

>theocracies useless in EU4, literally unplayable in CK2

One would think that religion would be a focus in a GSG taking place in the early modern period, but the Swedes would rather just keep buffing Ottoshits instead

>>14120961

They probably bought into the myth that Nazi Germany was an anomaly rather than a continuation of German Romanticism.

>>14117680

>and the assassination of Mussolini in favor of King Victor Emmanuel III

I can understand the faint idea of the Reich returning and wanting overseas clay, but the fucking baldie and the King while not exactly best buds were in this together. I mean, Mussolini restored peace between the Papacy and Italy, something that no other faggot monarch could do in a hundred years.

>>14117680

>assassination

is it just me or many of these types of events just involve killing the leader and putting another person in power?

>>14126153

she's Spanish Andalusian :^)

>>14127159

You're correct but there was a good amount of disloyalty from reactionaries later on (20 July plot, etc).

Also the Horst Wessel Lied does mention reactionaries.

>>14086339

What the fucking christ are you doing giving money to a company that has absolutely no interest in creating a quality product or anything that isn’t outright genocidal propaganda?

>>14127159

It's just there for the memes, anon. Fucking Italy has national focuses to conquer France as part of literally reforming the Roman Empire with all its holdings, if memory serves. You can use mana to magically change a country's alignment. HoI4 is a game that does not care about history whatsoever and seeks to pander to the reddit crowd, who, if you've ever visited that shithole, consists of stupid dickwads that spout their uninformed opinions with extreme pretense, fellating each other over how "intelligent" and enlightened they are. Do you want to know how this entire scenario probably went down?

>Oh hey, I realised today that Germany used to be an empire, right (not many people know this, but I am something of a history buff ;) )?

>Uh-huh

>Well Hitler turned Germany into a dictatorship, not a monarchy, right?

>Yeah?

>Well, so the old monarch probably wanted to get his throne back! I checked his page on wikipedia and he was still alive at the time and said he would not go back to Germany until monarchy was restored. And I bet lots of Germans would preffer him since he'd be a lot more moderate than Hitler! Reactionaries would kill all the nazis and restore the monarchy!

>Whoa, you are a genius. I'm adding that shit there right now

>>14131153

I hope Achmed and his truck of peace will attend.

>>14131153

I hope someone brings up their retarded DLC policy and/or turkroach shilling.

>>14131183

>"Why do you buff kebab so much?"

>"Uh, I respectfully disagree? And how dare you say the k-work you filthy bigot?"

>>14131183

Or the mana system.

>>14131220

I wouldn't be suprised if something like that were to happen.

>>14131382

So I only want to play as Byzantium, but since EU 4 is so shit at enjoying fruits of expansion, is it a good idea to just get Basil II borders or less and cozzy up and develop a nice empire peaceful, while trying to make infinite shekels and manipulate your neighbors?

Any suggestions for a comfy Byzzie playthrough?

>>14131382

You’re banned for saying ‘kebab’ on ✡alternatehistory.com✡, so it’s reasonable that 🇸🇪Paradox🇸🇪 would be the same way.

>>14131487

For fuck’s sake, it won’t render the swedish flag here.

>>14131453

Do you play with M&T? If so, simply dismantle the ottoshits ASAP while keeping good relations with the beyliks of anatolia (so they don't form any stupid coalitions on you)

After dismantling the ottoshits completely (or until they pose no threat) get ready for maximum comfy while GLOM'ing anatolia, it's fairly easy since BYZ gets claims all over the place. I think the hardest part would be fighting the northern Italian states, high development equals more troops and a harsher AE malus, so get ready to get coalitioned against. Still, you shouldn't touch them till you've completely annexed anatolia and the balkans.

Hungary's another big threat, so try teaming up with the austrian assburgers or even Poland after hungary breaks free from their PU. At least that's what i'd do.

>>14131506

Ye I got M&T, the Italian states sound nice but AE is really a pain.

I dont like expanding into the muzzie shithole of the middle east to be honest and suffer 100% manpower losses from the fucking deserts every time.

I wanna buckle up in my anatolian mountains with high tier fortresses and be maximum comfy at defending.

Might change Byzzie nat ideas for that, like 25% bonus defence and some attrition, it will be funny.

i dont know about the danube front.

my idea is to create a huge merchant fleet and rule the seas.

The weird thing is that last time I played, everyone had heavy warships aaa long time before me, naples had them spain had them too, and I had to fight them with trading ships.

Why is that?

>>14131487

Already knew about that. They don't mind if you make jokes about how your muslim empire is genociding infidels though even though muslims are actually doing that in every country they inhabit.

>>14131553

higher tech level, also remember your're eastern tech, not western. Maybe eastern gets them later than westerners.

>>14131938

yep I looked it up, other nations need grand navy to unlock heavy ships.

Ok anons, I wanna make my own balanced national idea for byzzies, what do you suggest and what numbers would be reasonable?

Im thinking of 25% fort defence and 5 or 10% discipline for the starting 2, indicating their defensive tactics and the famous roman heritage with its well drilled and displined army.

For the rest id like something about defenders of the true faith, giving missionaries, conversion str and morale ?

Later on add some trading, so trade efficiency and global trade power?

Maybe some naval ones indicating that they were a naval superpower pretty much up to 1204? So larger navy and maybe stronger galleys?

Any other ideas?

>>14126032

no but theres a modmod patch out

>>14132507

>25% fort defence

sounds good

>and 5 or 10% discipline for the starting 2

The way M&T balances things makes it so that nations that used to have discipline-granting ideas (ranging between 5 and 10%) now grant 2.5%. For example the ottoshit janissaries grant 2.5% discipline and 5% morale I think.

Also try making use of infantry and cavalry attack, those are good as well.

>For the rest id like something about defenders of the true faith, giving missionaries, conversion str and morale ?

Sounds good, make sure it's nothing stupidly OP like 10% missionary str

>Later on add some trading, so trade efficiency and global trade power?

sounds good as well

>Maybe some naval ones indicating that they were a naval superpower pretty much up to 1204? So larger navy and maybe stronger galleys?

Good as well.

>Any other ideas?

Don't forget greek fire, the thema and their land-owning soldiers system (forgot the name though, think it began with the letter O)

>>14132568

Care to point the way? Can't find shit on google and I don't have access to the paracucks forum.

>>14132659

>theme system

national manpower modifier? development cost? national unrest? insistution spread speed? land attrition? stability?

and a PENALTY to tax income, since the theme system was renown for draining the empires finances?

>akritas guards

cheaper soldiers and maybe bonus to morale, since they are defending their own property essentially?

>>14132712

>national manpower modifier? development cost? national unrest? insistution spread speed? land attrition? stability?

and a PENALTY to tax income, since the theme system was renown for draining the empires finances?

I'd go for development cost, institution spread and maybe some low penalties to tax income (though that's kinda bullshit)

>cheaper soldiers and maybe bonus to morale, since they are defending their own property essentially?

manpower pool mod/manpower recovery mod and less maintenance (careful with maintenance though, don't make it too OP)

>>14132756

What about the ambition?

What would be suitable?

Well I wanna add some penalties because making custom national ideas is kinda op-ish.

It also adds some realism.

I assume my main source of wealth will be trading anyways later on.

>>14132774

M&T doesn't use ambitions.

>>14132800

Oh I had forgotten that, has been sometime.

Alright, good, Ill look into it the following days and try to figure out some reasonable values.

>>14132659

>and-owning soldiers system (forgot the name though, think it began with the letter O)

regarding the name in Greek we call them "στρατιωτόπια" which means the place/land of soldier.

>>14132856

I know, it hurts every day.

But I still wanna live a dream when im playing.

Just imagine if 1204 had never happened and Byzzie still existed.

>>14132877

I understand your feels even though i am not related to greece in any way, i too come from a dead empire.

Can you post some nice akritai songs?

Specially if they are mostly instrumental, since my vage understanding always ends up with mostly chorus songs, wich is ok but i wanna hear some greek instruments.

>>14132902

I can look for them tomorrow anon

I gotta sleep now.

Good night.

>>14132659

nevermind they have a new jade dragon patch but its in beta here it is: https://www.sendspace.com/file/xavk8o

>>14133101

Thanks. Do you have access to the paracucks forum?

I need the compatch for CPRplus+CK2+, but since I'm a pirate I can't access their shit.

Here's the link https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2plus-cprplus-compatibility-patch.1025356/

>>14133283

Thank you anon, can't wait to see abominations with double eyes and noses.

>>14127159

You're putting too much thought into this. HoI4 is a WW2 themed version of Mario Paint.

>>14136058

>>>hoi4

Okay, since when has it been that you can't usurp titles in the same realm as you? currently as king of sardinia and corsica, I conquered the county of genoa from dule of lombard, who is also duke of genoa. Now since genoa is single county duchy, of course I tried to usurp it, but instead of usurp option there's option called claim? like wtf. And my claim would be denied. how the fuck am I supposed to get the duchy title now? conquering entire lombardy? but I don't want to do thatyet

muslims dont take land in holy wars now they just subjugate them instead thoughts?

>>14139031

Sounds nice, although knowing Paradox Achmed and his seven brothers will just grab the land in ten or so years with revocation instead.

>>14138984

EU: Rome.

>>14132902

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3D_E-YsDo

This is about the death of the most famous Akrita, Digenis Akritas, he was half greek half armenian, thats why he was called like that.

this one is also nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2mRotEdCV4

its something id like to hear in medieval total war II

>>14139121

Thanks mate, ill listen to them.

>>14139099

ebin

Will 2.00 MEIOU work with 1.24 EU4?

Also does anyone know in which file are the idea descriptions located?

>>14139062

It also won't really help the Iberians in the Charlemagne start.

>>14138984

closest I know of are Winter King and When the World Stopped Making Sense. First is focused on Britain right after Romans left, second starts shortly before the fall of the Western Roman Empire

>paracucks shit out their six gorrilionth expansion for CK2

>it breaks all the mods

Every fucking time. I hope someone's still working on Geheimnisnacht to get this shit in working order

>>14144194

I lliked WtWSMS but the de jure duchies and kingdoms charged my autism that I couldn't switch them to more modern ones as the game progressed to the medieval period. Does anyone know how to fix this? Will I have to do some modding?

>>14144263

>Does anyone know how to fix this?

By modding, of course. Kingdoms and empires can change dynamically through de jure drift (if enabled, but I advise against it as it often leads for absolutely retarded kingdom borders), but for duchies you absolutely do have to use events or decisions. It's actually one of the best mechanics in Winter King, in my opinion – these are three main culture groups (Romans, Celts, Germans) and if one such group captures enough territory from the other, an event fires that dissolves the duchy in question and replaces it with a different one, suitable for the culture that now controls it, and connects it to a an appropriate kingdom of that culture group. They all even have different borders from each other. So it can all be achieved through modding.

>>14144318

As I know it, there are no events for duchies in WtWSMS. Any helpful modding guides for figuring that out?

>>14144213

That's a really nice comprehensive picture.

>>14144345

easiest way would probably be to get Winter King and look how they do it there. Here's an example I grabbed from their events:

# Jarldom of Lindsey

narrative_event = {

id = 414101

title = "EVTNAME414101"

desc = "EVTDESC414101"

major = yes

hide_from = yes

picture = "GFX_evt_castle_gate"

only_playable = yes

min_age = 20

max_age = 30

trigger = {

has_global_flag = lindsey_created

c_lindum = {

is_germanic_controlled_trigger = no

}

c_banovallum = {

is_germanic_controlled_trigger = no

}

c_luda = {

is_germanic_controlled_trigger = no

}

c_caistor = {

is_germanic_controlled_trigger = no

}

}

mean_time_to_happen = {

days = 60

}

immediate = {

c_lindum = { de_jure_liege = d_lindum }

c_banovallum = { de_jure_liege = d_lindum }

c_luda = { de_jure_liege = d_lindum }

c_caistor = { de_jure_liege = d_lindum }

d_lindsey = { destroy_landed_title = d_lindsey }

clr_global_flag = lindsey_created

}

option = {

trigger = {

is_ingvaeonic_culture_trigger = no

}

name = "EVTOPTA414101"

}

option = {

trigger = {

is_ingvaeonic_culture_trigger = yes

}

name = "EVTOPTB414101"

}

}

brand new /v/ edit: introducing amod

https://www.sendspace.com/file/cqn6oq

>>14145365

elaborate

>>14145365

wat

>>14145626

wow that looks really bad (i dont have the charlemagne dlc) what should slavic be changed to?

When I was in middle school I used to draw the cities "expanding" on the maps in the history books like bacterial colonies, and having wars with each other. I guess I was always made for GSGs.

>>14145864

Jainism?

>>14145626

I guess the persians were true aryans after all

>>14145626

>Jewish centred on Vilnius

pottery

>>14145365

this is for 2.7.2 by the way!

>>14103896

That was January 1890.

What does demand in the trade screen mean? POP demands don't seem to matter.

>>14148011

Pop demands absolutely do matter, stuff that pops buy will be more profitable, if your factories have access to the needed inputs and aren't getting outcompeted by foreign sources of the goods.

That's why liquor spam works so well in vanilla time period, or in CWE the big one is fuel but also heating & electricity, financial services, canned food, computers. I find computers are the liquor of CWE, they sell obscenely well, but fuel's excellent too if you have the RGOs for it.

In vanilla time you've got the aforementioned liquor factories but also later on electric gear tends to be really profitable, same with automobiles, and telephones. But you need rubber for that stuff so a bit of colonial adventure is pretty important, or maintenance of a good sphere of influence.

Does anyone know of any working CKII rape mods? I can't find any that seem to work.

>>14146484

How come?

>>14150278

I would actually like something like that. You can take prisoneres as concubines of course which kind of counts as rape in a way if you get them pregnant but you cannot release them after they have become concubines.

It would be funny if you could impregnate some enemy king's wife by force and then send her back to her home country, if she would be of the same dynasty as her husband you could mass-produce bastards who press their claim and then become allies with you for being your son and later kinsman.

>>14150341

I used to just imprison all the muslims in my empire, I'd cuck all the men and have their women give birth to my children and then execute them all when I've had enough fun creating bastards who never knew their father.

I'd then marry the rape babies to each other and create inbred lineages

>>14150360

>spoiler

That's genius. If you want to go all out you can conquer muslim realms you don't actually want yourself and then give each respective title to one of the inbred bastards until the ME is entirely ruled by inbred mongrels fighting each other, just like in real life.

>>14150645

>until the ME is entirely ruled by inbred mongrels fighting each other

But that is…

>just like in real life.

Let others finish the joke, anon.

Is there a new strategy for dealing with the roaches as Byzantium in EU4?

>>14151263

No, stop being a byzboo already

>>14151263

In M&T the closest I have been of beating them was when I was allied with Georgia since they killed themselves in their mountain but even that didn't manage to get rid of their infinite manpower.

>>14151304

never

>>14151263

I stopped playing EU4 after 1.7 or something but the turkroach empire is so OP in that game that it's just not worth playing if you're anywhere near them. Trying to unite Japan as one of the small minors on the island was the only way I could have fun with that piece of shit. I'd like to say it's the worst game that came out of Paradox but I never really played Hearts of Iron enough to be sure.

Besides, any scenario in EU4's old world can be done in the superior CK2 with the exception of some Asian stuff, there's literally no reason to play it anymore.

>>14151370

Only reason so far for me is to reform the roman empire thats the only thing left.

>>14151263

It's not that difficult, anon. Are we talking vanilla, or a mod?

>>14151482

Vanilla.

>>14151507

Ally with someone nearby, like Serbia, build as many ships as you can handle (the cheapest ones) build as big an army as you can handle (force limit should be enough) and hope you roll a leader with a siege pip. Ideally you'll get enough trust with Serbia in order to attack yourself while Otto is busy doing shit in Anatolia, otherwise you'll need a bit more luck. The key is to wait until Otto has his stacks in Anatolia, then declare war on him and siege down the shitty fort he has in Gallipoli or wherever so that you can block the strait. Then quickly carpet siege turkish holdings in greece (that's what Serbia is for) while waiting for Otto's army to come into view (Ideally, it'll take them a while as you caught them with their pants down, already at war with some Anatolian minor – they'll try to finish him off first, before dealing with you, which will give you exactly the window you need) when they start crossing the strait, wait for them to be almost done and then send a single ship into the strait. That ship will die immediately, but will reset their crossing progress (unless they changed it in newer versions, that crossing should actually take quite a bit of time to happen). Repeat this until you run out of ships (build more in the process too, so that you can stall them for as long as possible). By the time they finally cross, they should have some war weariness on them and thewar lenght modifier should be ticking down (along with the objective clock going up in oyur favour). If you got lucky, it will be enough to peace out while grabbing some provinces. If you weren't, you will need to utilise your estates to get more troops and money and get loans out the ass in order to buy yourself some mercenaries. Then wait for otto to cross and attack your stack, using the combat cheese to win it. One such victory shuld be onough to crush Otto's will to fight.

>>14150341

During the (((Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth))) Vilnius was packed with jews.

>>14151263

What version?

>>14151802

He said he wouldnt be reporting for a long time because HFM received some major updates.

>>14152328

1.24.1

>>14151802

I'm working on CK2 edits right now, should be out soon. As for Vicky2, kinda gave up halfway thru because of >>14152473, they literally remade most of the map, still gotta do a lot of work.

Anyway I'll get back to it one of these days After trying out Jade Dragon with my edits, so don't think I've abandoned the project.

>>14152497

If you're into light modding, you could mod out the t*rk's stupidly OP modifiers and cripple them (crippling as in, for example, cutting off their pinky toe). Seems like the ottoshit AI is the only non-retarded AI in EU4.

>>14152510

I have no clue how to do this. Is there an ini file somewhere that could be edited or something?

>>14152510

the AI is just as shit as any other, making all the same mistakes, only it has such ridiculous buffs that it compensates for most such mistakes. It'll merrily charge into your equal size stack parked in mountain terrain, which would slaughter any other army, and walk away victorious anyway. The best tactic against Ottomans as BYZ is to avoid battling their stack at any cost, and instead delay it and murder all the 1k armies they send to reinforce it. All you need is to win that first war and you're basically set – you get a grace period while the truce is in effect during which you can grab parts of greece, now that Otto doesn't block you on land (allowing you to ignore, for example, the venetian navy), as well as giving you the time to recover economically and build a bigger, better army now that you have a higher force limit. The second war can still be a bit tricky, but by the time of the third war, it should be a walk in the park.

>>14152574

>Is there an ini file somewhere that could be edited or something?

it's probably going to be a .txt file in common/countries or wherever the fuck they placed those files. Search for one about Otto, and edit it in notepad++ or something. It's all written in YAML so you shouldn't have an issue understanding it

>>14152510

I just remenbered, what would you think about adding the mapuche/araucania as an unciv nation in south america in vicky 2?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Araucan%C3%ADa

>>14152593

Not seeing anything but a file for events, names and decisions. Not sure if im missing something. What would you recommend changing?

>>14152681

You'll just have to dig through the files until you find one with the Otto modifiers

>>14152574

It's either 00_static_modifiers.txt or 00_triggered_modifiers.txt, forgot which. Search for OTT/OSM or TUR or anything with stupidly OP morale/discipline (talking about 40%+)

>>14152665

Sounds good, could give Chile some cores on Mapuche land and let the AI resolve the conflict mainly because I'm lazy

>>14152912

What about an event showing up with imperialism/mission to civilize?

>>14148290

I suppose the reason POPs of the high ranked countries don't buy all the coal and cement and whatever the mod added to everyday needs is that they don't have money.

I think it wasn't this way in vanilla, but HPM wars started with Pay Debts count as interventions, so higher ranked countries won't be in charge. Maybe it could be abused in combination with the World War system.

>>14152984

Could be, I'll add it to my to-do list.

>>14085736

Anon's HIP edits v1.14 is finally out:

https://mega.nz/#!R9EnkSZa!gWr1oSLrbkkIF-H9IUFjlOhF55toGpptEXLl1zNorHs

https://pastebin.com/5ArmkNAq

Nothing new has been added, it's only a compatibility patch for the newest update of HIP that came out with Jade Dragon DLC.

Any bugs and weird behavior, PLEASE, let me know. I haven't had much time to test this update.

>>14153830

>republica española

>monarchist andalucia and northern africa

>german republic

>republica italiana

>that ottoblob

wHAT HAPPENED THERE?

>>14153858

Germany, Blue Spain and Italt are all my client states.

I ignored Ottoman expansion.

>>14152510

Shouldn't have used that terrible reddit mememod in the first place

>>14154275

How's it going nofun anon? Having fu– oh wait.

>>14154069

Artillery give you a bonus to sieging based on the ratio of artillery to fort level, 4 per fort level gives you the maximum bonus. Generals help but aren't necessary, never use good leaders for generals only use them if you want to them to die.

Sieges are literally dice rolls, the system is the same as in EU4 except EU4 shows you how it's calculated.

>>14154307

>never use good leaders for generals only use them if you want to them to die

Welp, I guess I've been playing like a retard this whole time.

Oddly enough, I don't think I ever lost a leader in battle.

Thanks for the info.

>>14154337

Only your king can die in battle.

>>14158246

Make Wallachia and Moldova your subject nations. Maybe turn them into marches to make them more defensible. You can do the same thing with other countries in the Balkans and Caucasus Region. Basically surround yourself with Orthodox client states. Perhaps aim for creating something akin to German mitteleuropa but for Greeks of course.

Also I recommend Beyond Typus with associated mods. It greatly flushes out Anatolia making conquest more fun. Beware though, the sheer number of new provinces can obliterate your performance if you have a shitty rig. Unfortunately Paradox cannot into codding and optimization.

>>14086783

In HOI3 it was the blitzkreg to the extreme with forming entire pockets and advancing as far as possible before winter and getting butfucked in HPP by the Soviet buffss

>>14093144

BLACKICE or HPP. HPP tries to fix these issues usally with events and is generally sucessful

>>14151085

Loverslabs got an entire set of rape/sex/fantasy mods on their fourms.

Someone pick a country randomly out of Argentina, Brazil, Lithuania, Estonia, Lavita, Finland, South Africa for me please.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=951215306

How can I make this work with MEIOU?

>>14158541

BR

>>14153750

It works good for me so far.

>>14153706

It worked for a crisis war, but you need to make it total with a dismantling wargoal. Scandinavia signed Britain's dismantlement.

>>14085736

>>14153750

https://mega.nz/#!55d13TBQ!QZIgdP89ZBhB7tA3a0YUFPL13imap2ZXzkTAvrGZtgw

https://pastebin.com/5ArmkNAq

Another update, fixes several provinces with wrong holdings and adds a new province: Wakhan, connecting Badakhshan with the Tarim Basin. Non-save compatible.

Blobs detected! >>14161457

>>14160715

Another update. tl;dr: fixed wastelands appearing in central europe, had to do with province set-up files and mod directory files. Please use the new .mod file I've provided.

Non-save compatible, sorry about that one. I swear this is the last time this I let this happen.

https://mega.nz/#!J5kzWQhS!uQgi_6hj-uEUfFfymK2tFTDKqR9i45q76W8uyW9w4bc

https://pastebin.com/5ArmkNAq

>>14158758

Probably by ripping off every single asset and adding it on your own, the long way. Sounds like a pain in the ass tbh. Haven't downloaded the file though, but it just seems like it's gonna be that way since the author states it's not compatible with M&T.

also

>Polish hussars for BYZ

wat

>>14162314

Two potential angles; one, reborn Byzantine phoenix imagery leads to convergent aesthetic evolution. Two, the nature of the Polish hussars- that being as Serbian exile Racowie lancers- means that the alternate Byzantines have ended up with exactly the same formation in terms of initial ethnic composition and tactical evolution, albeit under differing circumstances. Instead of being comprised of mercenary exiles fleeing the Turks to the closest possible willing buyer, they'd likely have been mercenaries by choice seeking opportunity under the Roman crown.

what is the password for these files?

https://mega.nz/#F!gHx2WbaT!04bEOcHMqGl_0Y4AzzzE1w

and what are they exactly?

>>14162788

If you want to you will understand and find everything you need.

>>14162314

>>14162375

Well that sucks, because I really wanted to have some nice looking units for my byzzie army.

They look like Turks in the gunpowder era with very boring clothes, more like peasants from the victorian era with wooden sticks that go boom boom.

or did MEIOU add better graphics now?

I havent played it in some time.

Is VeF any good compared to MEIOU?

and are there any map graphics mods that are compatible to MEIOU?

>>14164863

MEIOU has a unit graphics mod, BYZ units get changed to Theodoro's cosmetics after tier 2+, it's also got a map graphic mod.

I haven't played VeF in well over a year, so I wouldn't know. Though I think M&T is the definite mod for EU4.

>>14165008

Yeah MEIOU feels like it adds a lot more while VeF just improves some aspects.

I wonder what the fuck are the mod devs doing and havent released the new update yet, I cant wait to MAGA byzantium.

also would you help me balance my custom byz ideas?

>>14158227

>>14165015

That's OP as fuck. You gonna play M&T? That mod doesn't use neither start nor bonus ideas, and the first idea is reserved for some bullshit familial core mechanics.

In defenders of the true faith, the missionary str is a bit high, I'd go with a 3%, the rest seems fine, but a bit op; I'd go for 10% morale OR cav and inf power

Theme system shouldn't decrease autonomy.

The akritas seems alright to me.

Merchant class is a bit OP too, i'd lower all to 10%

Neoplatonic is also OP lel, you already got an institution spread (which I think this one fits more the institution spread bonus), i'd either pick idea or tech cost, but not both. If both I'd go for 2.5~5% each

Greek fire seems alright, shit was supposed to be OP. Why the naval forcelimit though? If anything, it should make galleys and light ships more powerful.

In Basileia rhomaion I'd switch the state maintenance mod to the thema system and lower diplo rep and upkeep to 1

>>14165043

As I said I put a general idea of stuff id like to have but I wasnt sure about the amount which ones and the %.

Also Id like to replace the neoplatonic revival as a whole maybe?

But I cant think of any fitting theme for the byzzies.

I also intend to play them very defensively as you noticed.

>>14164513

none of the links on the sticky reference it, ive digged around on the archives and people have said that the password to some other mega links was /gsg/, which isnt the password for these

am i missing something? because i looked around everywhere i could think of

>>14091568

Nothing happens when I run the setup file. It shows up one second then disappears doing nothing

>>14151263

I played EU4 when it came out. The strategy back then was to spam galleys or whatever your fighting ships are called, so you can blockade the sea of Marmara and fight the Ottoman navy/discourage them from attacking.

Then you take back the Balkans and peace out.

>>14158227

>theme system

>minus autonomy

>theme

>minus autonomy

>minus

>autonomy

>-0.05

>>14164863

There is a reason why there is a difference between the West and the East, anon.

>>14169041

Becoming imperial w/ free viceroyalty law change is very OP. Since you get back the titles every time someone dies you'll re-grant it to the new person and have a huge opinion boost for 10 years. This practically guarantees realm stability, since they'll also find it basically impossible to expand within the realm through inheritance or war.

You get a huge amount of vassal limit from the law too. Initially you'll want to grant duchy viceroyalties but if you get bigger you'll grant kingdom and then multi-kingdoms

M&T updated

>Change farm efficiency calculation. Farm efficiency = 120 / (1 + e^(-0.05*farm_efficiency_ducat_ticker*FE_rank/(12*rural_population))) - 60, where farm_efficiency_ducat_ticker is the amount of ducats invested into farm efficiency and FE_rank the province's aptitude for food production.

Anyone else love autistic shit like this in patch notes?

>>14169121

When I grant a kingdom-tier title to vassals they will gain all the troops and cash from that land right? Won't I be fucked if a vassal with an entire kingdom under his belt creates a faction and rebels against me? I'm already having a hard time preventing uprisings from happening.

>>14169405

He'll have 100 opinion of you for a decade unless you've been caught murdering his entire family. By the time it wears off you'll have something like +20 for long rule and he'll be at 60 unless you've murdered his family. If you really need better opinion of someone, give them more viceroyalty kingdoms. They'll die eventually and you get it back.

Obviously you want to be granting the viceroyalties to characters of your religion/culture, which lowers the faction risk. Even better if they are a distant relative of your dynasty.

At your point you're probably better off granting duchies only. It looks like you don't have imperial law yet, it gives a big bonus to your vassal limit and lets you rely on duchies a lot longer. By the time you need to create viceroyalty kingdoms you'll be so powerful from retinue that you shit on everyone.

>>14169658

I can only enable the viceroyalty law for giving out kingdoms though.

>>14169726

I wouldn't do that, do the imperial law (requires majesty), it gives bonuses and automatically sets you to duchy.

>>14169926

>majesty

Is that a Jade Dragon thing? Because I'm playing without it.

>tfw you will never live in a reality where the Normans managed to actually conquer the Byzantine Empire and with their rule it would start to expand again in the Middle East

>>14169300

what was it like previously?

>>14169990

Majesty is a tech. You need Majesty 4 IIRC to adopt imperial administration, which is a law change that also forces you into duchy viceroyalties.

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>>14170193

>>14170135

>Majesty is a tech

Damn, I forgot, I just googled "majesty ck2" and the first result was about Jade Dragon so I assumed it was part of the DLC. I will focus on getting some cultural tech points then.