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>>14570895

>>14570909

Cuckchanners, please leave.

inb4

>but I have been doing this epic meme on half/vg/ since 2012!

>>14570909

>Balts

>Germanic

Perhaps in Riga, but not elsewhere.

>>14572637

That's what bothers you? Balts? Not fucking Ireland?

>>14571959

Rommel was one slick guy. He was a yuge sycophant of Hitler and yet he's the poster boy for the "good Germans" in der normalfag's mind.

>>14573192

He was actually in command of Hitler's personal escort battalion prior to WW2

>>14573192

Who's Rommel? xD

>>14572770

I just noticed. That's truly retarded.

>Grand Strategy Games

Zzzzzzzzzz

We should remake the infopic. It's getting outdated again. It should also be bigger.

>decide to have a go with the Mongols

>three rebellions fire month after game start

>before managing to even start the first invasion, an event informs me the mongol invasion of China failed

>Temujin dies almost right after, half a decade early

>some random barely historical dude with 3 Martial inherits because he happened to be the only one with any prestige so early in the game

>all the dozens of proper sons of Genghis with their massively inflated stats get ready to adventure over my ass

gg

What's the best army composition in CK2?

>>14573780

Anything is good as long as you have more men.

>>14574199

>lasts for 19 days

I don't think it even does anything in terms of militancy or immigration since those are monthly, correct?

>>14574209

>those are monthly

No.

>>14573270

agreed

>>14574199

What mod?

>>14574613

CWE

>>14574586

Islam immediately makes anyone non - white though.

>>14574586

Only in some urban western parts of the country let's say up to Kayseri to invoke memories of Bernd.

But what good is whitish skin if everything beyond (and including parts of ) the Srbske is culture of Muselman and Gypsies.

>>14574764

Islam is cancer and should be eradicated.

>>14574807

What happened to krautchan anyway? It's been down for a while.

>>14574898

You can in HIP, 1018 startdate

>>14574933

Can you post an image of what their dynasty shield looks like. I want to just create the dynasty custom because I am already at about 1268 in my game

>>14574898

>>14574933

Fairly certain the Luidolfinger are around in vanilla too.

>>14574933

>What happened to krautchan anyway?

German gov't took it down over right wing extremism

>>14575079

Fuckin faggots, is it ever coming back?

>>14575079

So instead of letting a bunch of folks circlejerk in a place no one will ever see them they shut the site down and now they're all out in the wild promoting their badthink. Man they can't even get their own bread and circuses doctrine right.

>>14570885

New releaseof Anon's HIP edits, save compatible:

https://mega.nz/#!x8lzRDIK!8flmYZpScIMenP2edxMHxThcIzTNZyJ96yx3lw4y0gk

https://pastebin.com/5ArmkNAq

-V1.15a:

>Canarian natives now have Berber pagan as their religion instead of west African

>Coat of arms for the Kamateros, Kantakouzenos and Buyid dynasties

>Fixed some unit positions in Dagestan

>Fixed Tabarsaran not displaying its proper culture and religion

>Made the wife of Bulan Bulanid (First Khazar Khagan) a Mizrahi jew

>>14575070

Speaking of HIP, i started playing today for the first time as basil II and nearly went bankrupt trying to reconquer sicily, how do you make good money in this mod?

I stole some more clay from vassals and im still losing money reising only the varangian guard and levies from constantinople.

>>14575146

Glad to see youre still around working with the mods.

>>14575170

>how do you make good money in this mod?

Beats me, I always play tribals so raiding is my main form of income. I suppose you could raise vassal obligations/put higher taxes on everybody.

HPM or HFM? Haven't played non-CWE Vicky 2 in ages and I don't know how either of those are doing.

>>14575222

With HFM you have more stuff, its still being worked on and you have anon edits >>14575146

>>14575218

See this is a pickle, i need the soldiers to defend from muslim doomblobs.

>>14575091

let's hope not, it was a shithole overrun by unemployed no-life trannypol-type losers.

>>14575222

Neither, B&I

I played the Sid Meier's Pirates! game in the 2000s, and I've watched some documentaries on the different types of naval vessels such as wind jammers, and frigates.

I'm in the mood for EU4, never played it. What should I expect or know?

>>14575529

It's shit don't bother.

>>14575538

why is it shit?

>>14575565

Railroaded gameplay, obtuse menus, depricated and/or OP mechanics everywhere… They say HoI4 is a meme map painting game but the rot clearly set in with EUIV.

>>14575576

I'm going with eu3 because of the different types of ships.

>>14575529

If you want a game about navies and sailing, then dont look at EU4, paradox is terrible at naval AI.

>>14575638

Does Europa Universalis III: Collection Steam Key

Give me all the DLC?

>>14575668

I have no idea, i never played it through steam.

>>14572770

Most "Irish" are ethnically Anglo-Saxon, only the ugly nigger-looking gingers are actually celtic.

What changes does the EU3Plus mod make to the game, and is it any good? I can't seem to find any information about it.

>>14576379

>>14576201

is that making history?

>>14576800

yes

>>14577004

Is it fun?

>>14577023

I haven't played it. It's still in Early Access.

>>14570909

>no Drang nach Osten

>no Reichskomissariats

2/10, you tried, I guess.

>>14576169

Anglos have no place in German Reich either, and neither do Swedes and others. They have all developed separately since being ancient germanic tribes and developed differing cultures and genetics.

>>14575239

But where else am I going to laugh at turks getting buttblasted by my shitposts?

There's hardly any turks here.

>>14579213

Why are you doing this to yourself?

>>14579254

/pol/ is full of shitskin shills

>>14579213

Not playing the the most cancerous game of all, that's how I am doing.

>>14579261

because anyone can do fortress France, I wanted to do a spin on it.

>>14579127

This is why you're supposed to deal with the Ottomens first before picking any other fights save for getting athens away from triceneria.

Mint like a mad man until you have like a 20 or 24 units build like 20 more galleys, break your alliance with venice immediately and keep the one with Genoa since they always get into a war with aragon and if you help them out you can get magnesia and attica back through war dynamicism afterwards just blockade aragon until they offer a white peace since Genoa is going to lose the land battle.

It's pretty easy to get rid of the military debuff before truce with the ottomens is up, take gallipoli and wait until hafsids drops off their first units and goes back to pick up the next batch before sending a couple galleys out to a nearby sea to tempt the ottomens to attack the remaining galleys, unless you get unlucky you generally win that and keep repeating until they have either no or an insignificant navy.

Afterwards, destroy hafsid's navy so they can't send any more troops your way and wait to war dynamicism gallipoli and then wait a couple years as the ottomens will be like 20 or 30 units above their force limit and declare bankrupcy.

With the morale debuff they get from bankrupcy, let them trickle across the straight, crossing from ismid to constanople takes longer than it does getting into gallipoli so you only have to worry about one stack at a time, Only one of their generals will give you trouble unless you get unlucky.

After their army is gone the international dogpile will begin so occupy them as fast as possible and in the ensuing peace deal don't take the province north of Aydin so you can declare war on Aydin with a reconquest cb.

Be sure to watch your inflation because it's going to be sky high for a while but the world will be your oyster, also early game heavy ships are garbage up until sometime in the 1400s so a navy of galleys will destroy them every time in the Mediterranean.

>>14579278

I meant playing HoI4 :^)

>>14577023

It's like TGW with some added combat features and units. I like it.

You can bomb coastal weapons before invasion, armoured divisions actually throw weight around, carriers rule the waves if you use them correctly, etc.

My only complaint is that the countries don't know when to surrender. You take over all of England, France, and Russia and they refuse to give up because the US is screaming across the pond that they'll be there in a few years. I want to see countries surrendering and leaving their alliance, not holding onto nothing and dragging wars across decades.

>>14579710

The Old World Blues mod is pretty fun, but the game itself was nothing like the autism I wanted.

>>14580286

thats disgustingly accurate.

>CWO mod

>ethnic cleansing

>legitimately gets rid of pops by a huge percentage rather than cutting their number by a small percentage and converting the rest

>the entire state of Beijing is now devoid of all life

>large swaths of conquered china have majority noculture and single individuals living in many of their provinces

Fug. I'm totally screwed now. Promoted immigration doesn't work and you can't tell pops WITHIN your country to move to other parts of it.

test

>>14580947

Let me guess, you're posting from Safari 11.1?

>>14574586

I know some Turk who has white skin and light brownish hair but he has this flat-ish mongoloid head shape that makes it obvious that he has some Eastern-Asian genes. Similar to kikes, Turks can look white because they have European features but when you look closely there is always something "off" about their appearance that reveals their mongrel genes.

>>14581894

I'd go with Japan between the Onin war and the Meiji restoration. Map would cover Japan, along with Ryukyus and Ezo (maybe Korea too?). Focus would be on politics surrounding your clan, the imperial court (if you got powerful enough) and of course relations with other daimyos. Developing your realm and juggling clan relations would take precedence over war, which would be a difficult and very costly endeavour (being able to unite Japan within 400 years should be a difficult challenge), which would only grow more difficult as you grow bigger and have to handle more vassals under you, especially those of different clans. A big part of the game would also deal with the legislative, where you could try to pass various reforms at the cost of vassals or peasants being likely to revolt, pissing off the emperor, pissing off westeners (after they make contant), or vice versa and so on.

Last part of the game would be the religion, where you would have Shinto, Christianity, and Buddhism, with Buddhism being split into various sects and movements (think Jōdo Shinshū for Ikko-Ikki and the like. Different sects would offer different mechanics and the player could support and build good will with multiple ones, and buddhism as a whole could easily syncretise with pretty much any religion, making it a good choice for a quickly spreading conqueror, as he essentially wouldn't need to bother with converting anyone as long as he had good relations with the buddhist clergy). Shinto could be reformed by the player himself, provided he has the political clout for it (needs to have massive influence with the emperor and goodwill with the clergy) and go from having by far the worst stats in the early game (but high tolerance and wide spread over Japan) to giving various, pretty massive buffs depending on the reforms chosen (essentially estabilishing the state Shinto of post-Meiji Japan) but having much worse toleration with other religions. Being christian would, on the other hand, bring support from European powers (also a mechanic, starting in later dates) easily compared to buddhists or shintoists, and would take the form of sending over guns, officers to train the troops, and, if the player garnered extraordinarily high support, even getting an european ship (which could easily steamroll anything Nips could throw at it). A christian daimyo, if it played its cards right, could easily become a dominant military power, but at the cost of providing the europeans with various privileges (extraterritoriality, treaty ports, etc.) as well as pissing the Emperor off to an unimaginable degree with each such privilege granted.

The goal of the game would be to set your clan up for the future – when Meiji restoration comes, the game would determine the degree of influence you had and what governmental spots and wealth your clan could negotiate with the emperor. A player that managed to gain the title of shogun would then battle the Emperor and if he won (or if he managed to directly control over 60% of Japan before Meiji), he would become the new ruler of unified Japan (emperor would remain but a ceremonial puppet).

>>14581942

weebfag

>>14580925

I'll look into making and proposing more migration improvements in the next pop update. In particular I'd also like to regroup cultures by race and make cross-racial assimilation impossible, and add huge culturegroup-specific migration boosts to western countries if they take historic immigration reforms.

Pop growth also has to be severely curtailed at some point because it's way out of hand right now.

For now, you want to do some migration prior to extermination because pops will migrate more readily to already populous areas compared to wasteland-ish areas.

>>14581894

game focused on the Middle East, going from the 1940s to present day

While you'd have European and Mutts doing things in game, they wouldn't be present on the map, the end goal of course would be to become the regional hegemon, with or without foreign support and driving the jews into the sea

>>14581942

sounds interesting, but koei already makes games like this.

See Nobunaga's ambition

>>14579794

HOI 3 With HPP mod.

If it crashes often delete your logs.

>>14584076

Nobunaga's ambition is more in the Total War vein than a GSG

>>14584207

>HOI3

Just flip between the same couple of spreadsheets periodically taking a break to stare at coloured arrows and number counters to get the same experience.

>>14585914

>it's a spreadsheet game

Not quite. And I'm not too sure that's as much a condemnation as you think it is given that one of the games in the OP literally runs in an excel spreadsheet and is quite fun.

>>14581894

Around the same setting as CK2 but its start date would be somewhere around the latter decades of the Roman Empire or right after its fall and the end date would be around the ninth crusade.

Rather than fighting for a state and/or dynasty like you do in Paradox games this one would be more focused on defending and conquering for your religion which fits the era a bit better I'd say.

You have the possiblity to create theocratic vassals and become a theocracy yourself, declaring war on those who follow the same religion as you will be punished by the game and as a countermeasure to blobbing heresies will be more common the more your religion is spread rather than being a punishment for when your followers dwindle simply because it makes more sense historically. Small sects that were a miniscule minority were always making sure to make following their scriputes as orthodox as possible, it's only when they reach a high enough population that new "prophets" show up that demand reformation or try to turn the religion into something completely different altogether.

Outside of sandbox goals which you create for yourself, some objective goals of the game that defines your end score would be spreading the religion to as many places as possible, defending holy sites, attempting to destroy or conquer other people's holy sites and creating more specific holy orders; so let's say you're a Hindu state and your faith has spread a little in China then you could attempt to form a holy order consisting of Chinese Hindus that would fight only in lands of their culture.

What's the best mod for Victoria II for an enhanced vanilla experience? I tried HPM back a few years ago, and it seems like it hasn't been updated since. Is Blood and Iron any good?

>>14587865

>Is Blood and Iron any good?

I enjoy it. Two or three years since the last update, though.

>>14587886

Seems like it's been a couple years since the last major update, but checking modDB, there seems to be still some active development (last update was 4 days ago).

>>14587865

HPM's still being updated, just that for whatever reason it doesn't show up as news items on the main page.

>>14588972

What does B&I add? Haven't played V2 for a few years.

>>14581894

Japanese conquest of Japan, play as the Ainu and defend the isles for the white race.

>>14590637

hot

>>14590500

they said that special government types would have special traits unlocked from the start so i guess theyll just boil down specific traits to that. It's not a shit as it looks initially

i seriously wonder how much more fucking dlc jewry parajewx is going to release before going over to eu5 with even more simplistic systems

>>14588714

I guess that's normal. In my FtG game pope allied himself with Mamluks.

>>14590500

>just a few shit buttens that provide bonuses after the magic counter ticks up enough

God fucking dammit! This shit could finally be something to properly represent internal politics of the realm, but instead of making it an actual mechanic where you'd need to gather influence with the nobility, appease the clergy, bribe the merchants, etc., it's just YET ANOTHER fucking magic button! The fact they all give bonuses but no drawbacks just adds insult to injury. Just fucking stop. M&T already runs like total shit; they can't keep unfucking Paradox bullshit infinitely.

>>14590500

>>14591009

Also why in the fuck did they go about it this way instead of just adding fucking sliders, like in EU3 and DH?

>>14591010

NIH and a profound distaste for replacing, rather than reworking, existing mechanics. Same reason most things in HoI4 are dire in comparison to DH.

>>14590500

>>14591009

>>14591010

Also this is apparently going to be in DLC and not in free patch. Wew, indeed. They're selling botched features from 10 years old games now.

>>14591208

>paid DLC

>for putting in a couple of buttons

what a cushy job that must be. Spend months doing something a modder could whip up in one evening, has he the means to change the GUI like this, and then charge $20 or however much they charge nowadays for a DLC

>>14592459

>That pun

Fuck.

>>14582708

Sounds cool. I'd play it.

>>14594958

>apostolic Armenia

>Coptic middle east

What mod is this?

>>14594958

t. larping as a jew instead of following your tengri roots for a perfect finland

genghis khan is rolling over in his grave

>>14592551

Considering who the greatest enemy of Eastern Christians is in the game it makes perfect sense.

>>14596016

I'm working on it. Also that Germanic blob in Britain is actually republican England, which is why i called it LARPing, aside from the Turkish Tengri

>>14592459

>do backflips to make sure they don't somehow offend muslims

>casually shit on orthodox christians

Parajews at their finest. Kinda wishing Greekanon files a lawsuit or something over this.

CK2 is free today on steam, can you use your free copy game key to access CK2 paradox forums and download mods for your pirated copy?

>>14599526

Yes, you can. First click on install game on Steam, then make a paradox account, then go to settings and link your steam account to your paradox account. Next go to the paradox forums and login there with your paradox account, then hover your mouse over your name, and click owned items. Click on sync owned items and you can now access all the mods.. Finally.

>>14596087

>do backflips to make sure they don't somehow offend muslims

Did they? Any specific examples?

So in Darkest hour as italy, I won the spanish civil war. Do I keep the military control of national spain? I thought it would be only for duration of the civil war, but I still have the military control.

Noice, managed to get Darkest Hour working in wine. Victoria 2 doesn't want to work, I've installed dotnet 2.0 and d3dx9 39 but am at loss supposedly that's all you need, but game crashes on launch. I don't have a legit copy so I don't have hte directx files that usually come with game.

>>14601608

An event should fire that will make you give them back control, or maybe it was a decision?

I dont remember

>>14599526

Oh shit, it is a permanent free copy. That's nice. I won't ever use it to play the game, but I am going to use it for the forum mods for sure.

>>14596064

>Turkish Tengri

A large portion of Turkic people still practice some form of paganism/shamanism to this day so it's not really LARPing.

>>14601677

dotnet20, d3dx9 and vcrun2005 should be all you need to get Victoria 2 working, same with Darkest Hour. If it's crashing during loading, it's probably because of a map bug that seems to come and go with wine versions and isn't even consistent between mods and the base game, e.g. V2 and HPM might crash but NWO and CWE will work fine. There's also a music bug where the game will lock up when switching tracks - the only way to fix that is to set the ingame music volume to 0.

>>14601667

That Siu-Kang autist showed how Orthodox is actually OP as fuck with the icons. I guess paradox's solution is to buff every religion to be on that tier, since coptic is still pretty broken as well/

>>14601667

>being a very pious muslim gives you a whopping 10% discount on ALL techs

That's fundamentally wrong on a historical level. The rise of piety would normally coincide with a decrease in scientific innovation.

>>14602030

Actually in-game both sides are considered "pious", just different forms of piety. Probably because sandniggers were offended that you could get bonuses by being unpious.

CK2 is completely free on Steam now. Get it if you want easy access to the mod forums so you can stop bugging people to reupload mods every week.

>>14602438

you have to research tech that unlock amphibious assaults

also only provinces witch beach icon can be assaulted by marines

>>14601791

Turkic or Turkish?

>>14602488

>>14602487

ah, okay. I guess I've forgotten to research that stuff. oh well. Guess the invasion will be delayed a bit.

>>14575170

personally own all trade posts/expand north for three easy ones, build loads cities around crimea, trade deal with china = eternal money

>>14602438

You can't do amphibious assaults with garrison units.

>>14602863

what are garrision units and what are not garrision units? or maybe I should finally read the manual.

>>14602984

Divisione 'Tripolitana' in your screen is a garrison unit. Garrison units are similar to normal infantry units but they're slightly weaker and cannot attack or move i.e. they're purely defensive, stationary units. You can however load them onto transport ships or move them using strategic redeployment.

>>14602506

Turks have a lot of Turkic blood and their culture/language is pretty much a disgusting mix of that of full-blood Turkic people and Arabs, that's the whole reason why they call themselves that in the first place.

>>14603141

>Turks have a lot of Turkic blood

see >>14574586

tl;dr: no they don't, they're pretty much rapebabbies roleplaying as steppeniggers

>>14603190

A shitton of them have mongoloid head shapes, you and the guy that you are samefagging as are the ones who LARP since you claim that Turks are some sort of lost Greek (and thus white) tribe when in fact most of them look no different from either Sandniggers or Central-Asians.

>>14603382

Western Turks are indistinguishable from us

t.Greek

>>14603531

And eastern t*rks look just like kurds and armenians. They don't have 'mongoloid head shapes', they're just fucking inbred and malformed. Stop being a faggot.

t*rks are rapebabies from whatever baseline ethnicity their ancestors raped hundreds of years ago.

>>14603630

meant for him >>14603382

>>14603630

>eastern t*rks

You mean k*rds?

>>14604837

More ways to remove kebab is always good news.

>>14604885

I added that decision like 3 versions ago. It basically works the same way as the native american assimilation/removal/preservation decision chain but with t*rks, az*ris and k*rds and you can enact it as a south Slav, Romanian, Greek, Armenian, Georgian or Assyrian.

>>14606010

>jewish commies try to stir up a revolution

Like pottery

Would there be a point in CK2 campaign where your goal is to keep Muslims out of the subcontinent?

>>14606010

>playing as white niggers

nice post though

Is Whole World Mod and MEIOU for EU3 compatible with each other?

>>14606953

I thought these were Russians.

>>14607258

French and Italians are white niggers too if you want to believe English Military Officers

>>14607633

oh, btw, UK annexed Belgium(well the african parts) after germany conquered european parts of belgium. Is that supposed to happen? They were on the same side of the war, so I was pretty surprised when it happened.

>>14607642

UK annexing Belgium is normal

>>14607465

Support Defense command makes them automatically move to the province to help defend. It doesn't let them defend from a province away, that would make no sense*. The advantage is that they get a large movement speed boost, IIRC 2x for assisting any province and 3x for assisting a specific province.

*Actually it can happen if paratroopers come in, in which case attacking the province with paratroopers lets you take part in defending against the overall attack. Also happens in any other situation where troops are fighting ontop of each other, like in revolts.

>>14608911

Didn't know pirated DLC would work

>>14608922

It does, you shouldnt give your shekels to paradox.

>>14607296

>if you want to believe English Military Officers

should one really trust the word of white jews?

>>14606010

>Ukrainians do not have any desire to be educate

Surprised having that common ground doesn't help them and Poles get along well.

>>14607296

>French and Italians are white niggers too if you want to believe English Military Officers

The rosbif are the niggest of the white niggers tbh

t.French

>>14607296

>Lazy

>Emotional

>Hairy

If it swims like a duck..

>>14608922

>Didn't know pirated DLC would work

We should put a guide to pirating DLCs in the next OP for the newfags.

>>14608922

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=64425&hilit=crusader+kings+II

Download the DLC from there, put it in your game folder, and use the crack included with the download for playing on steam.

>>14607296

Who isn't a white nigger then?

>>14612369

Germanics

>>14612369

English (incl Australia, New Zealand, English Canada)

Danes

Dutch (incl Flemish, Boers)

Germans (incl Austrians but not Swiss)

Everytime I play CWE( I guess NWO too) I get bored as hell. I'm just waiting for either superstate descsions of my own country, or of others so I can get an actual war going that is challenging. Is there some bit I can do inside the files to give me what I want here?

>>14607633

Ally (preferably) or attack Turkey so that you can eventually use them to get into Crime and the Urals.

>>14614808

Don't go for a superstate, those are boring and easy. Figure out your country's national goals and fulfil those. Stuff like dismantling China or stamping out communism across the world.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-dev-diary-81-cleaning-up-the-map.1087927/

Nice. Looks like in next CK2 patch it will be possible to partially get rid of border gore. Finally no more Byzantium in Finland.

>>14616437

>still no naval combat

>>14616640

They gotta save something for CK3.

>>14617288

muh B-BUT THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS IN THE MEDIEVAL ERA!

>>14612572

But those are all getting culturally enriched.

What do I need to do in order for islands to receive fuel and supplies in HOI3? I'm using the black ice mod.

>>14617818

but megalii greece though!

>>14617888

Stupid Greece hasn't researched nationalism & imperialism. There's nothing I can do.

>>14617478

I wear glasses. It gets tiring quick..

>>14617648

Ports and convoys.

>>14617841

Why is it an Emirate when the character is Catholic and German?

>>14618196

Because he took the blue pill

>>14617899

Ok then, but keep on the lookout, the ottoman must be expelled in order to secure a future for polelings.

>>14617919

How fucked are your eyes?

>>14618196

Because the names are culture based, not based on religion.

Notice that hes andalusian.

>>14618356

It's not too difficult to figure out most stuff other than military, especially if you get use the wiki which has some starting tips. Military tends to be more difficult because fleets often hard counter each other and if you're the loser you have to redesign tons of shit very quickly.

>how good of a game it actually was

Kind of depends on what you're looking for. If you want to really autistically design missiles, missile launchers, missile launcher engines (potentially multi-stage), missile magazines, and missile fire controls, then do it again for your anti-missile missiles, then figure out whether you want EM sensors, active sensors, or thermal sensors, how strong they should be and what their resolution needs to be, then figure out how much of (IIRC) 6 different types of lasers/railguns you need, then research all your newly designed tech, spend months retooling a shipyard to produce these ships, then months training your fleet group to operate effectively sounds fun, it's a great game.

That said there's no real endgame other than eventually slowdown. I'd recommend 50-100 systems max, rather than the ridiculous default of 1000.

Newfag here, I picked HOI3 as my first grand strat.

Is the little man in the tutorial Hitler?

>>14618510

>I picked HOI3 as my first grand strat.

I suggest starting with CK2 and finding a somewhat up-to-date fan-made tutorial.

>>14618612

With or without the fuckloads of DLC?

>>14618612

I saw the pic in the OP and it did say HOI3 was hard, but I have little interest in the medieval side of the genre currently.

I also wasn't happy with any of the starter scenarios, I want to try to pick a small european nation and see if I can be peaceful during ww2.

I've completed the tutorial and I thought about going with Portugal, but the african territories scared me so I'm picking Ireland.

>>14618661

I haven't played CK2 in a while, but I don't think you have a choice since all of that shit is already in game regardless if you own it or not, you just won't be able to access that content. If you can pirate all of it go for it, try it figure it all out and then move on to the next titles.

>>14618482

Thanks for the answer Anon, maybe I'll try my hand at the game later on when I have more free time

>that whole military redesign

It sounds like some of the closest gsg get to the pov of an head of state.Sounds fun really.

>>14618661

With, game feels empty and boring without it nowadays.

Random question I accidentally started building a land fort at Ireland's capital, how do I cancel that?

>>14617919

wear more glasses you blind fuck

>>14619317

Okay I figured out how to fix that.

After a few hours I brought prosperity to Ireland and every single resource is growing, while I build militias everywhere (they seemed like the best defensive unit), a barebones air force and increase my manpower which looked lacking.

I'm building positive relations with all axis members + the soviet union, that seemed like the way to become neutral since Ireland swings to the allied side.

At first I had an oil crysis but it seems like I can't make more fuel so my oil reserves started growing, I'm also buying a bit from the soviet union.

Overall I'm irrelevant but I think I'm being a good leader.

>>14618661

There's no reason not to go full DLC as long as you pirate them. It's better to get used to the way modern CK2 plays than working your way up. Many of the features aren't even that important - India is irrelevant, papal college doesn't matter and even retinues can be ignored at first.

>>14617818

>That germany

Better fuck it up quickly before they form up into germany

>>14620368

Germany is fairly easy since you can just utterly annihilate france without even going through the ardennens. You can just let them pour out of maginot line, cut them off with a pincer movement from north and south and then just murder 2/3'rds of the french army, likely including all of their armored, mechanized and motorized units. Then it's just a simple matter of driving through the now unmanned maginot line and taking the necessary victory points.

I think it's quite unfortunate that battlefield losses don't affect the nation as a whole at all, and manpower number in the statistic page doesn't give a clue as to how many troopers have been lost overall. 500? 5000? Million?

>>14618696

It's not too difficult to get started in. Civilian stuff is fairly streamlined. Random tips:

Have as many ships as possible classified as "civilian". Meaning don't have weapons or specific military equipment, and have big, slow, efficient engines. This way you don't need to worry about maintenance or morale, it's abstracted.

Your economy is based on resources (extracted by mines), wealth (primarily produced by population, some by financial centers), population (runs everything but automated mines).

For resources, scan everything, then land a survey team on planets and major asteroids (whether the scan found stuff or not, you can find 5M resources with a full survey team). Your goal is to obtain a big source of every resource with decent (I'd say .4 or higher) extraction rate. Earth always has a small amount of all resources (20-50k or so), but you want a mother load.

Your population is always growing, but grows faster at small numbers. Therefore lots of colonies helps grow overall population faster.

Wealth is mainly an obstacle to heavy tech rushes since labs are expensive. You should tech rush anyway.

Construction-wise if you have CI you want to convert that to Construction Factories and Mines at about a 60/40 rate. Then you'll want roughly 5 or so more military academies and to spend most of your Mercassium (leave a small stockpile) on science labs, minding your wealth income and that you don't run out of available workers.

If you want a head start then restart until you have a Construction researcher, this is by far the best field for snowballing. Research bonus is 4x normal if on their specialized topic, you want a construction researcher with 60% (=240% effective) bonus running 50+ labs ASAP. Get all those bonuses that improve mines/construction/research. Also get the improved command tech that lets you build a sector command, which means a 2nd leader administering the system and more stacked bonuses.

The right way to do Terraforming is to build a massive orbital habitat with lots (like 20-100) terraforming modules, using a tugboat to tractor it over planets. For humans you want to start with .1 atm of oxygen (min required), then you need proper temperature (check for it, add greenhouse gasses or anti-greenhouse gasses as needed, you can use "real" gasses if you want), then make sure the entire atmosphere is less than 20% Oxygen (otherwise its kind of… flammable), then remove all toxic stuff.

Easy way to handle combat early on is to use the same massive orbital habitat strategy except with a few hundred lasers toed on top of a warp point.

So I got ck2 in that free deal, like a lot of you probably, and am trying my best to wrap my head around it. It's my first paradox game besides stellaris. Anyway, I started in ireland because thats apparently one of the easiest places to get a grasp on things. I'm going ok so far with 4 countys in my demense. A question I have though is if I war someone with 2 areas instead of one, do I need to get a claim on both of those areas, or will just one suffice.

>>14621974

Claim on both, assuming you are doing a war to press claims.

>>14602030

That's how it initially was, iirc. Negative piety gave tech bonus.

>>14601667

>>14622696

Hold the fucking phone here. Did they invert the bonuses completely, because historical facts are for bad goys? It's not just the tech bonus that's off here. Where's the dev diary for this 'feature' with the original bonus layout shown?

>10% army morale, 3% missionary strength, 20% fort defense

>-10% tech cost, +20% national manpower modifier, +20% national tax modifier

Which of these sounds like the result of fanatical, fundamentalist Islam from a legalistic perspective motivating the usual crowd of Arab butchers and spoil-takers, and which of these sounds like the much-vaunted but rarely if ever found mystical thought of Sufis and the like applied with a certain tolerance to various and gratefully less-oppressed subjects, who being able to function outside the rigors of schizophrenic Sharia can contribute further to the state in body and bond?

>>14622738

Paradox games are set in a fictional world where Islam is the one true faith.

>>14622738

They inverted them (before DoWing non-muslims gave missionary bonus which made sense, now you lose missionary bonus if you do this) and renamed them both to "piety", instead both bonuses are just for "form of piousness" your muslim nation is. I believe it was the patch just previous to the Brit DLC.

My first game as Ireland ended with prematurely ejaculating on Britain and being conquered.

I'll try Austria and see if I can remain free, join the axis and have my own ambitions. Maybe split yugoslavia with Italy.

>>14620891

>You can just let them pour out of maginot line, cut them off with a pincer movement from north and south and then just murder 2/3'rds of the french army

I knew right away that was the best way to do it but I didn't want to be cheap so I went through Netherlands and Belgium which is just as easy. Germany is the best tutorial nation there's no way to lose, it's much harder playing as a smaller country.

>I think it's quite unfortunate that battlefield losses don't affect the nation as a whole at all, and manpower number in the statistic page doesn't give a clue as to how many troopers have been lost overall. 500? 5000? Million?

It's why I love pops in Victoria.

>>14623002

I don't know if /gsg/ anons care but I'll keep posting my progress as a new player.

I actually have only played in short sessions between doing other things, so I'm only halfway through 1936.

I moved the HQs of my preexisting military closer to the Vienna, then I spread out their forces. Replaced some leaders and politicians with ones I like more, moved some guys to the Yugoslavia border.

Dabbed in espionage, I have 10 spies in britain and france stealing tech. Nothing has come up in Britain but in just 6 months I stole radio technology from France. I'm hoping I get something useful because stealing technology seems faster than researching it and just about anyone has better knowledge than me. I want to strike gold and nab France/Britain's superior military technology so I can wage war with Yugoslavia. I'll deploy some spies there too to see how I compare once I have some basic infrastructure.

>>14622112

Thanks. I managed to be king of ireland. I think I understand the basics now. Figure I'll sit back and build up the economy a bit before trying to push any further.

>>14623870

Ironically economy isn't all that important in CK2. I don't think you can successfully build "tall", at least as a feudal ruler. That said there's no reason not to sit around in Ireland and check out other mechanics first, unless somebody managed to get a claim on the entire kingdom you won't be in much danger.

>>14623870

Before constructing any military buildings, built some castle towns in holdings you directly own, to boost your tax revenue. Don't bother doing that in your vassals' lands though. Also, remember to grant any cities / bishoprics to someone else to avoid the wrong government type penalty.

>>14623876

Yes, not only is upgrading your own holdings a waste of coin, it's also a huge chore. Best strategy is just to keep acquiring more clay and shuffle your "core" counties back and forth between you and your vassals (giving your heir a "training" realm is a RP friendly option) so they do the upgrading. Though the shuffle, and the required capital change, does get less useful as the technology cap between the whole world and your capital region becomes a gaping chasm, but at that point you propably won't need anything except your retinue and the levies of your largest vassals.

>>14623946

You can totally get a lot of upgrades done and become powerful. A bunch of fully upgraded castles can make your personal levy 20k+. AI absolutely sucks about upgrading its demesne and sits on tons of money. You do want to save up all your initial money and tech points until you get your "final" spot.

Of course the easy way is to just ensure all land is controlled by family members. Either they spend it or you eventually inherit it.

>>14624169

It used to hold Istria and Dalmatia but I cucked them outta it.

>>14625658

Austria's fucking gay anyway. Krauts don't deserve to be united.

>>14625224

Hmmm..Whats the best form of succession for a small kingdom like ireland? Gavelkind is working great because I only have one son, but would be just terrible if I had another. I;m thinking elective monarchy?

>>14626472

Primogeniture or Ultimogeniture is best. Elective can fuck you over since vassals can nominate themselves.

>>14620863

It means that its sort of an accepted culture by byzantines, since assyrians are the christian people of siria, irak and the levant.

>>14620980

How strong was the revolt?

Usually with around 2k retinues, varangian guard and thrace + nikea you can outman your vassals.

>>14623876

>>14623946

>implying

A fully upgraded, neightbouring 2 duchies can make you cuck your entire kingdom with just how much oney and trooops youre able to pull out of your ass, upgrading your economy first and then military will ensure that you cant get defeated in revolts and also have money for all the fun stuff like getting jewelry and quests.

>>14626472

Celts get tanistry which is like elective but only for your family. Other than that you will want either primogeniture or ultimogeniture.

>>14626497

Yeah but getting to that point where your demesne shitskin out more troops than the rest of the realm combined is slow and tedious.

>>14626527

>>14626527

*shits out

I've been on /pol/ too much.

>>14626527

Tedius how?

Just build shit while youre at peace, thats it, its not a complicated process.

Also, a fully upgraded hospital in your capital, worth the money?

>>14626497

>How strong was the revolt?

They had 18k, I had 8k + 1k pikemen retinues and I didn't have Varangian Guard.

Almost all of Anatolia and most of Greece revolted. Only Duke of Athens, Thesalonika, Abkhazia and Sicily + some counties in Bulgaria and Crotia remained on my side.

>>14626552

Dont bother with pikemen, go full cataphract, and do get the varangians, they are REALLY usefull, since with them and your retinue you have a nice stack with full morale that you can park in your borders and blitz enemies with while their tropps have low morale and your levies are gathering.

Also, i assume youre playing with the komennos according to the facial features and dates, if so, get the duchy of nikea and ditch adrianopolis, thrace + nikea is the optimal way to be a strong basileus.

>>14626538

Clicking on half a dozen or more individual holdings every few game months isn't tedious?

Of all the qol features an automated upgrade system never occurred to Paradox.

>>14626586

I meant makedon, not komennos.

>>14626602

>game about clicking and reading

>clicking your holdings in the right side of the screen is too tedius

Youre just plain lazy anon.

>>14626586

>Also, i assume youre playing with the komennos according to the facial features and dates

No, I'm playing as Isauros dynasty and I started in Charlemagne bookmark.

And how do I get Varangian Guard? Is it even possible to get it that early?

>>14626618

It should show up in decisions, i dont know how early you can get it since i will never play in charlie mango, but i know for sure you can get that decision in the vicking age bookmark and later.

>>14626538

Hospitals are OK, but upgrades are hellishly expensive and basically just a place to dump money when you have no other use for it.

>>14626618

Wait until the Age of the Vikings event fires at about 793, you should get an intrigue decision around then to form and vassalize the Varangian Guard.

>>14626815

Do they actually stop plagues or atleast make you hold out longer while secluded without running out of food?

>>14626864

When I max out a hospital in a province, it never ever gets the plague even if black death is literally everywhere else.

>>14604837

New release of Anon's HFM Edits, non save-compatible:

https://mega.nz/#!k410VBbC!9ZDG7hACuMqn4jAe8kZVrAXhz1kYTi7cA2mMgxv3MGM

V1.41j:

>Fixed some unit/building positions on the Baltic coast

>Changed PLC’s (Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth) color from gay pink-purple to manly crimson red

>Added a new un-releasable country in Anatolia: Ikonion. This was made so the Greek pops in central Anatolia won’t be assimilated. Also added this country to the pre-existing flavor decisions and events regarding Anatolia (As with the countries of Pontus and Anatolia)

My Pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/5ArmkNAq

>>14626864

They lower the chance of it spreading to the province. Ideally you can use it at choke points to protect your entire empire. Like Britannia can have hospitals on the seazone with France and they'll be almost immune.

>>14627020

>>14627050

Oh thats good to hear, then ill invest in getting my counties fully desease resistant to avoid the slowdowns the plagues cause on the gameplay.

>>14627045

That thing of addind un-releasable countries do works pretty well, like with the llaneros, makes for more believable pop changes.

>>14627058

>That thing of addind un-releasable countries do works pretty well, like with the llaneros, makes for more believable pop changes.

Yeah, should've made the Coptic Metropolitanate unreleasable, guess it's now on my to-do list.

>>14627082

No one bombs Poland because there's nothing in Poland worth fighting for. Look at Sweden on the map, barely any bombings, but it has shit tons of immigrants.

>>14627094

That map is also spreading misinformation.

They count the ETA bombings in spain as if they were by muslims or inmigrants instead of basque separatists.

>>14627082

>Dat Ireland

>>14627082

>that big red splotch in east ukraine

that aint no immigrants i tell you what

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-1-5-2-future-roadmap-and-ironclad.1088407/

>Adjusted Polish and German provinces and states to make historical German WW1 borders possible, as well as adding Oder-Neisse line

>Adjusted Vojvodina and Serbia states to make Austro-Hungarian borders more historical

Paradox's priorities are a mess, fucking up states for their epic memes nobody plays more than once while

>slovenia is still one big state, making historical German and Italian ( even Croatian and Hungarian ) occupation/annexation impossible

>free city of danzig still doesn't exist

>historical molotov-ribbentrop borders aren't possible because of the shape of bialystok

>no eupen state which was annexed into germany like luxembourg and alsace-lorraine

>no ionian islands and albanian kebabland state for italian plans in greece

>no north slesvig state for kaiser memes

>doesn't even have the proper rhineland dmz

etc.

Does anyone know how to get a hold of EU3: Chronicles?

>>14627658

The German AI has been hapless since launch. Even Expert AI can't stop it from nearly losing East Prussia to the Poles, taking three months to grind down the Benelux to Paris, losing a hundred thousand men in naval invasions of Norway and then stalling out along the Dvina-Dnieper rivers for years against the Soviets until the Allies land 50-100 divisions in their rear.

>>14627658

>Italy-controlled France

Serves them right, they got dominated by an even worse people.

>>14627658

>playing as polish subhumans

Why?

>>14627758

It was a meme game, I built cav to see how far I could get as a joke nation with a joke army.

>>14626472

if you have no duke vassals (or only one duke vassal) then I'd say elective, because then you can just pick whatever heir you want basically(depending bit on succession laws). Otherwise primogeniture and ultimogeniture are best.

>>14626498

Main down side for me in tanistry is that unlike in elective, vasssals two ranks down can also elect, so it is not as easy to control in my experience(tho' granted, your dynasty can't lose the title, which is nice)

>>14628858

>2nd pic

If Poland has a streak of not listening to the EU at all on other things, then I would understand, but asking ANY country to take in muzzie rapists is asking too much. These are my 2 cents, sorry for off-topic.

>>14628844

>poles cry to the allies that german silesia has to vote on if it wants to be part of poland or stay with germany

>almost everyone votes go fuck yourself poland

You didn't mentioned that many people from Germany just went to silesia to change vote for germany favor and after that they came back.

Besides that Silesians just change their country, when they have more to gain from other country.

Some of them are trying to become part of Germany even today.

>>14628858

Are you even aware that Beck was just Minister for Foreign Affairs?

He was worst choice for that time.

>>14629395

>They couldnt. I mentioned the French and Italian border guards who only abonded their post when the Freikorps came in

Alright then.

>he is one of the people responsible for ww2

Agreed. If Piłsudski didn't die before WW2, Poland could fight on Axis side.

I am not sure, if it would change anything though.

>that image

They weren't that dumb.

Cavalry was just 10% of the Polish Army during 1939.

Despite media reports of the time, particularly in respect of the Battle of Krojanty, no cavalry charges were made by the Polish Cavalry against German tanks.

http://archive.is/LYna

>>14629957

Where’s Austria?

>>14629975

in our hearts

>>14629544

It didn't manage to make me mad even as Pole. Besides majority of problems in Poland were and are internal for most part.

>>14629975

In Czechoslovakia.

>>14628858

While funny we both know that Islamniggers do not want to stay in Poolan when the land of gibs and Nutella is right next door

What's the best way to kill P*les?

>>14630020

Everyone knows about it, even some normalfags in my country are aware of it.

They sometimes steal fishing boats to get to Sweden or just make short walk to Germany borders without any checking because of Schengen.

>>14630028

Leave them alone with access to guns for some years and they will do it themselves.

>>14630236

Post more of this unfortunate creature.

Is there anyway to compete with Germany military wise in Victoria II besides just getting enough allies to outnumber them? I fucked up and got into a war with the UK, Russia and Germany as Poland with France and Italy as allies, and while I can make a decent initial push into Germany, my troops eventually get squashed once they mobilize.

>>14630859

Not conventionally. You can always cheese the AI with certain army compositions or tech timings but even then as Poland it's really hard.

>>14627045

New release of Anon's HFM Edits, save-compatible:

https://mega.nz/#!ps0WzDTY!G5S2xFDBtSHBhl9imBZ1lLEjzkFMNLRuncVO7rmHe3c

V1.41k:

>Fixed even more unit/building positions

>Added a new decision to annex the western Balkans as BYZ

>Added new decision to rename the western Balkans as BYZ (Greek/Roman names)

My Pastebin:

https://pastebin.com/5ArmkNAq

>>14612367

Is it risky in any way in terms of using pirated stuff with your steam account?

>>14631609

Yes, Gabe will send the feds after you.

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