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First for Paradox ruining everything.

>>14883407

>"Holy" "Roman" "Emperor",

Fuck off with your reddit-meme

Playing Rhodesia is hard in NWO.

>holy meiou emperor when reformation hits

>other members get the "edict of $" event twice and taking the option to secretly put the reformer under your protection does nothing after he disappears

So is Dei Gratia broken again or are you supposed to be railroaded into the HRE disintegrating by the AI?

>>14884118

"Holy Roman Empire". This is a very difficult thing to say while keeping a straight face. I wonder who can, because indeed it is hard.

"Holy", you say, while grinning like Voltaire did. "Holy", it is it's name. But then, thinking of "Holy", you think about all the emperors who were excommunicated. You think about all those who tried to fuck with the pope. You think about the wars of religion and how many of them ended up as protestant heretics.

But then, the funniest is coming. "Roman". Yes, now. You cannot contain your laughter. “Roman”, it is called, despite the fact that this “Roman” body is standing on Germania, a land so harsh and poor that the Legions of Rome refused to set foot on it. A Germanic and barbaric people, yes, but still calling themselves “Roman”.

And now, here is the end of the fun: “Empire”. Now you fell on the ground, laughing so hard that you cannot breathe. An “Empire”, a body made of dozens of petty duchies and counties, all fighting for themselves, giving strange names to their position, full of Grand-Dukes or Archdukes. An “Empire” who will stay between Poland and France, while the great powers of Europe will create colonies all around the world.

>>14885502

>>14885568

>le voltaire face

>>14885568

>France

>shittiest European nation

choose both

>>14887071

Nonwhites don't matter regardless how much they clamor for us to accept them.

>>14887071

<commies

>>14887544

Would everyone blame the Jews simultaneously in an era of exceedingly spotty communication at random with the same MOs each and every time across thousands of miles? More importantly, is there any real benefit to not expelling them, even if only in the short term if the Paradox imposed maluses are too heavy?

>>14887544

The Pope says stand up.

Nice borders, though. This is a 1066 start, right? Depending on how far you are into Italy, this is looking pretty go-

>Scottish Sweden

What the fuck.

>>14887071

>Kurds

>not muslim

>Kurds

>white

>conscripting womyn is a good thing, goys!

>shilling literal, unironic commies

Kill yourself, tbh. Kurds are literally no better than Turks

>>14887709

Liberty desire is really strange. You can see the AI getting support independence from great powers vs their backwater overlord who's trying to annex them and they won't do anything for years. I think it has to do with a possible stability hit for declaring an independence war, but what causes the stability hit to appear/disappear is a mystery.

>>14884118

>he thinks he's holy

>he thinks he's roman

>he thinks he has an empirr

>>14887596

They are also the only truly secular force in the middle east along with Assad.

>>14888559

>secular

>>14888587

Are you implying that Islamic theocracies are preferable? Both Assad and the Kurds advocate for secularism, Kurds even more so than Assad.

>>14888626

They have no choice but to chimp out if they are to attain their sovereignty. Turks would be unwilling to grant them their state unless they are forced to under the threat of violence.

Anyone have a link to the newest M&T build? Apparently steam is fucked.

>>14888610

>>14888559

I don't know about him, but I heavily imply that islamic theocracies are prefferable to communism. Not to mention Kurds are just a pretext for USA to estabilish a puppet government in the region, which is another reason why Kurds need to be squashed.

>>14888648

https://bitbucket.org/meiouandtaxes/master-repository/get/v2.50.zip

Latest commit from the more-or-less stable branch of the beta.

>>14889030

thanks fam

>>14889266

Paradox has as track record of doing things like this. And technically you don't have to pay a dime, sucks to be a buycuck.

>>14889266

That is spectacular.

>>14889270

I would still have to restart the save to have the pleasure of turning the feature off even if I pirated it.

>>14889321

Oh good. Glad he's okay.

>>14889321

I read that it he ate a bee.

>>14889349

I believe HoI4 had a bee mod, so we can exterminate them. But then again, I wouldn't install HoI4 on PC every again,

>>14885502

>same cuckchan copypasta in every gsg thread

It was a hole in his windpipe and he is fine now.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/how-trevor-sausage-dog-baffled-14729320

>Each time Trevor took a breath, some of the air escaped through the hole in his windpipe to under his skin causing him to ‘blow up like a balloon’.

>>14889027

>but I heavily imply that islamic theocracies are prefferable to communism

If middle-eastern countries went communist muslims would at least go jihad there instead of in the west.

>>14889266

>>14889297

You deserve everything and worse for giving those kikes money.

>>14889266

You don't need DLC to turn that feature off. "Secret Religion Cults" rule is available even for bad goys.

>>14889266

Confirming >>14889705, I have never had to activate Monks and Mystics to turn off cults because lol fuck Monks and Mystics. I took a look at completely vanilla CK2 and it does have the "Secret Religious Cults" option, right at the top of the game rules screen. Sucks for your current game, but you should be able to turn it off on the next one.

This is among Paradox's worst features. I know there were heresies originating from rulers, but they occur way too often. In a Byzantine game it was a revolt every generation due to this shit. Not more than once a playthrough should your 100% moral authority religion be abandoned by vassals you started out with in lands you didn't conquer.

>>14889773

>>14889705

Can confirm too as I play with the last 4 DLCs turned off and that option and many others turned off too.

>>14889402

>muslims would at least go jihad there instead of in the west.

The reasons muslims go snackbaring in the West is because they are well paid to do so by the West. Have you never asked "cui bono?" about terror attacks? The only reason they happen is so that (((Western governments))) can push through legislative that allows them to invade people's privacy and strip them of their rights. Did 9/11 teach you nothing about this?

>>14890045

>implying

Muslims have been wanting to expand into europe since they first reached the mediterrean.

>>14890099

and this relates how, exactly, to my post? Terrorist attacks work against this aim as they enrage the natives – had there been no terror attacks, muslim conquest of Europe would go even faster and smoother than it already does.

how do I create a white ethnostate in Rhodesia in NWO?

>>14891406

Looks like you need some warm water ports.

any good mods for darkest hour that justs add/improves vanilla?

>>14892915

Edge of Darkness, All In One, and Total Realism Project.

>>14892915

World in Flames II

>>14892959

should i try edge of darkness or total realism project? i am gonna start playing as the republic i dont know which of those 2 mods would suit better for that playthorugh, also i cant find any mod description for those 2 mods, only download links

>>14893419

Edge of Darkness is basically a mod for Germany – it gets assloads of flavour while others don't get much. If you plan to play Germany, play EoD, otherwise play TPR

>>14894592

Does it have an updated version for 1.05?

>>14894771

yes

>>14894914

Should work. You can also try using DxWnd.

>>14894926

I never actually used it until now. Any first-hand experience with it and DH? The main annoyance I remember having with it on Win10 was that + and - did not work to change the speed, the pause button did jack shit, and the map could only be scrolled in one direction due to the aforementioned fucked up resolution.

I just want to play some good ol' scenarios again and a bit of Kaissereich.

>>14894937

You shouldn't have installed Windwos 10 then. Shut up and just fucking try it. There are people that seem to be able to run it, so you should be able to.

>>14894914

>>14894937

Fucking kill yourself, there's zero excuse for installing windows 10 even if you're the most retarded normalfag that has ever lived.

>>14894914

Umm listen sweaty, pc gaming has 30 years of backwards compatibility, time to stop lying ok? 💅💅💅💅

>>14895010

What are you on about? Newest version of Kaiserreich is for 1.05.01. By "It's not needed" he meant you don't have to do anything to get your mod working with 1.05.01 because it's just a hotfix for the 1.05 patch and it only changes DH.exe.

>>14895020

Notice where it says 1.7 and not 1.8. You must be a newfag around here if you don't realize why.

>>14895025

I don't play Kaiserreich so I don't know what version is the current one. The mod was shit 10 years ago and I imagine it only got worse.

>>14895030

After 1.7 the people that are developing are the people that are doing the HoI4 version of the mod. And they are hardcore commies than ever before.

>>14895032

Well, even the original KH dev team was full of unironic communists, but they kept their faggotry in line. Now going nationalists is a death sentence. It's an uphill battle for every inch of ground as the commie nations have insane bonuses.

>>14895723

From which video is this clip?

There's always one Wine babby in this thread, I'll be the one. Why does Darkest Hour take forever to fucking load? I can't alt tab or it breaks the game.

>>14895723

How the fuck are faggots like this even attracted to these games?

>>14895883

> Why does Darkest Hour take forever to fucking load?

it just does, thats sadly normal. deal with it, grab a book to read during loading or something

>>14895883

I'm attracted to these games in more ways than you want to know.

>>14889030

0 # LANGUAGE (0 = English, 1 = French, etc.)

1 # MUSIC (1 for on)

http://darkest-hour-game.com/patches/DH_Version.txt # Remote path of the latest game version information, used by the launcher for updates

6 # Display resolution: 0 = do not change (default: 1024x768), 1 = 1152x864, 2 = 1280x768, 3 = 1280x1024, 4 = 1440x900, 5 = 1600x1024, 6 = user specified - see below

1910 # Screen Width (used if 6 is selected as screen resolution - see above)

1030 # Screen Height (used if 6 is selected as screen resolution - see above)

1 # Display mode: 0 = full screen, 1 = windowed

0 # Start-up movie: 0 = skip, 1 = play

0 # Extra debug logs (savedebug.txt): 0 = disabled, 1 = enabled, 2 = enabled + extra map statistics

1 # Load game sounds: 0 = no sounds, 1 = load sounds

1 # Load unit sprites: 0 = no sprites, 1 = load unit sprites

1 # Load country specific unit and brigade pictures/models: 0 = load only generic pictures/models, 1 = load all available

1 # Refresh map on resolutions higher then 1024x768 when not on Map mode. Enabling this will decrease game speed a bit (on higher resolutions only!), but resolves some cosmetic problems. 1 = Enabled, 0 = Disabled

Mods # MODDIR folder. Default is Mods

DHFULL #Darkest Hour Full # Selected mod (must be a folder into MODDIR)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Darkest Hour Team\Darkest Hour # Location of the game information in the Registry, lets the launcher determine the current game version

Should work. Have your screen width and height set to slightly less than your maximum (in my case 1920x1080) or else it likes to throw errors. Also make sure you are running v1.05.1, IIRC they improved functionality a bit there. Don't use the launcher, just run Darkest Hour.exe. If you want to change the mod just change it in the file, you can rename mod folders to something shorter if you like.

>>14895883

>How the fuck are faggots like this even attracted to these games?

They play it for the same reason people get addicted to MMOs: they like to see numbers go up and gain mana points. They don't care about the historical roleplaying or strategy. Sadly, that is the target audience for Paradox games and that's why they're making their new Rome game a shittier version of EU4.

>>14896613

i agree

>>14894592

China cant even produce infantry in TPR, the technology is just locked for them along whit non-militia military doctrine technologies, still though there are events that help you in the defense aganist the japanese, but it's mostly guerrilla divisions, maybe i should stick whit vanilla and not just wait to be raped by air superiority.

>>14895883

>Why does Darkest Hour take forever to fucking load?

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3817

>I can't alt tab or it breaks the game.

Go to winecfg and use a virtual desktop at your screen resolution. It solves virtually all alt-tab problems in fullscreen games.

>>14894592

>>14897315

well, another mod that sucks for non-european countries, whitout formal infantry the brigades just dont have enough toughness to attack, they just designed light-infantry as a mobile garrison unit.

also now i remember why HoI and DH lost their appeal to me, when you understand how the game works the company units just feels like single tabletop pieces, also you can powergame just doing the math whit the units stats.

>>14895010

Based. Make sure to add the bugfixes from 1.8

help ive spent all my time conquering england and now that i've looked at the rest of europe there's a huge ass arabian empire pushing in.

>>14898695

You're a big empire.

>>14900322

>plague passes over the turks

Looks like someone hasn't sacked the Balkans enough.

>>14894592

I forgot to mention, if you play Edge of Darkness, make absolutely sure you invade USSR in 1942 or earlier and NOT later. The literally only thing USSR does all game is spam infantry while having insane amounts of manpower. It also has more IC than Germany. If you wait until 1943, they'll have so many troops you'll drown in them and it'll be near impossible to beat them.

Does el cid with his independant valencia not appear in HIP?

I wanted to play as him when 8chan was on maintenance and i couldnt find him on any date.

Also, i cant get the fanfork of after the end to work, anyone else havign problems with that?

>>14902054

That's just wartime occupation, they don't actually own in, they just made a beachhead there invading through the Black Sea.

>>14903720

Get Katsui to 1,000 men and give him an operation permit and the game almost gets too easy

>>14903720

>actually DoWing Takeda

you fool, it's probably the toughest faction in the game

>savescumming assassination

not gonna work. Rance RNG is pre-determined by a table so you will get the same number generated no matter how many times you reload (only way to cheat is to try assassinating someone else every time, hoping his treshold is lower)

If you want to know how to win then just let them blob into you to conserve your forces and then put everything into attacking their original provinces - you only need to conquer their native provinces to win, no need to take back the ones they took from you.

>>14903720

>archers

lol what a shitter

Though I guess you're exploiting Ikkyu there?

Mostly you want to go for higher quality leaders. Should have stuff like Natori, Kenshin, reinforcements, some spell casters, etc.

>>14903939

Thanks. I came to my senses and decided to pick up Natori and Himiko before tackling Takeda.

>>14904075

I'm well aware. I'm still early game in this playthrough and I'm trying to pick off troublesome countries before the Demon Army shows. I want the Takeda generals, Houjo Souun, and Kenshin + Ai on my team, so I need to take out Takeda first.

>>14903939

Is the assassination table based on the number of troops in your ninja's unit?

>>14904220

The table just gives you a random number. Assassination score is then determined by that along with troop size, skill, etc. The equation is somewhere on the alicesoft wiki, if you're interested. I think it was the ratio between the number of your troops and the enemysthat made a massive impact for assassination

>>14904370

I told you, RNG is a big factor. You are much more likely to assassinate a smaller unit, but it's never guaranteed.

Is Stellaris playable yet?

>>14905799

It's actually more broken now. Last patch/DLC fucked up the gamespeed so that it becomes unplayably slow and stuttery 100 years earlier than it used to.

>>14905985

>>14906111 (nice)

I'm fucking reverting my Stellaris, it's ridiculous. It was a mistake to even give this dumb shit a chance and hope they can work the 2.0 design into something that makes sense. The patch before it wasn't that good either, so I don't even know how far back I need to go.

>>14905985

I think Paradox is becoming more and more incompetent with each passing year. They always were greedy fucks who sucked at their job, but now they reached a new low. I suspect their older stuff-members either retired already, got fired or singly found better employment opportunities, and were replaced by women and minorities. It's the Swedish way of doing things.

>>14903720

>Turn 26

>He thinks he can beat Takeda already

Unless your willing to exploit operation permits you are shit out of luck. Takeda is worse than the fucking Shumazu infused Demon Army since at least you can sloely bleed them to death over the course of 50 turns. Takeda on the other hand does not give a single fuck about econony

>>14907707

Because a bunch of "prominent" members of it are trannies. Mentally disabled attention-seekers ruin any non-imageboard forum.

>>14887071

<implying Kurds are human

<Implying FGM allowing subhumans shouldn't be gased

<Implying racial anecdotes for retards for who get help from F-15s to steal oil from stable Arab governments and hand it over to the West

>>14907902

Activate your Windows dude.

Guys I got burnt out from playing too much gsg, what do I do now?

>>14908805

play MOBA

>>14908805

Play Hegemony: Wars of Ancient Greece. It's a GSG-RTS hybrid

>>14908805

Total War.

>>14908849

It's like you've never seen MEIOU before.

Imperator rome new dev diary:

>assload of mini-provinces, three times as many as in HoI4 (sicily is 23 mini provinces + 4 impassable ones)

>mini-provinces orgnised into normal provinces that you can set a governor to or some shit

>map starts at Britan and south Sweden and ends with India

>literally made up tribes when they didn't know what to put in the empty spots of the map

>made up vassals when the territory was actually directly annexed, just so you can start as Judea and meme on, or some other ebin country

>"It should be noted that while these have been great resources we have sometimes had to take liberties to create as full a map as possible. As such, any errors are likely to be ours and the reference materials we have used should not be faulted. :^)"

>>14908861

This

>>14908863

What's actually kind of astonishing is how weak it is. You'd think 274 development would break the game, but it's only around 12 ducats a month. That province has around 24k infrastructure in it, it will take around 2000 years to pay off the investment. In other words you shouldn't build anything, just throw all your money into more armies and conquer.

Similarly stuff like Art and Education are worthless, you pay tons of money for very minor mana bonuses along with stability and autonomy penalties. Only Courts seem worthwhile since you need them for relation slots and vassals, which are needed to keep AE down and conquer effectively.

>>14908811

lolno

>>14908838

>15 bucks on steam

Maybe later, are the devs worth supporting?

>>14908861

Which one?

>>14908890

I didn't have any hopes for that game to ever be good, but once again Paradox finds new ways to disappoint me nonetheless.

>>14908890

>>14909321

Modern Paradox games are all about giving the player busywork to do. Stellaris? Fuck around with pops, manually scan every system of hundreds. HoI4? Can't queue tech, do the same focus bullshit every time, babysit the AI every 5 seconds. Imperator? Guess we'll be pressing the "create core" button 23 times for sicily. Heck, maybe 46 times like in EU4 where you core everything twice.

>>14909238

>Which one?

Some older ones.

Don't touch newest one.

I played EU3 now. It's much better than EU4.

Mana system really doesn't work for grand strategy games.

I miss some newer nations that were introduced in EU4 though. Some parts of world map are kind of empty without them.

>>14909388 (checked)

>I miss some newer nations that were introduced in EU4 though. Some parts of world map are kind of empty without them.

You can try MEIOU for EU3. It fills the world with a shitton of small irrelevant countries.

>>14909400

>You can try MEIOU for EU3.

Will do.

Did anybody here managed to get all patches for EU3 work on pirated version?

>>14909416

Nevermind.

I found one on Turkroach website apparently.

>>14909416

What patches are we talking about here?

>>14909423

>>14908890

It's not surprising. The most popular mod for EU: Rome fills all the uncolonized land with made up nations. nu-Paradox audience is not interested in historical accuracy or historical plausibility. They're only interested in blobbing and memes.

>>14909498

By the way that mod was made by someone that is either not working with them or was already working them. Don't remember which one. Might have even been Wiz, but I don't remember that either.

That said the map is otherwise very empty. The regions are not ridiculously small and the tribes in it, I don't know about all of them, but at least most of them for sure have existed. Though I have never played the game for more than an hour once before so I can't say much else.

>>14909543

>is either working* with them (Paradox)

>>14909491

The ones released after EU3 complete.

>>14909498

>most popular mod for EU: Rome fills all the uncolonized land with made up nations.

That's stupid and kind of misses purpose for these games.

The only worse thing than that would be Paradox giving possibility to players to make their OC donut steel nations.

>They're only interested in blobbing and memes.

I don't mind blobbing myself sometimes or just test how far I can go with random duchy or tribe.

>>14909572

>The ones released after EU3 complete.

Dude, the fuck are you even doing? I don't know about "patches", but they are tons of DLs. Just download the gog version, install everything and you are done.

>>14909579

>Dude, the fuck are you even doing?

I was kind of drunk while I tried to download it.

Shit happens.

>>14909543

The mod was indeed made by Wiz.

>That said the map is otherwise very empty. The regions are not ridiculously small and the tribes in it, I don't know about all of them, but at least most of them for sure have existed. Though I have never played the game for more than an hour once before so I can't say much else.

Yes, the map is very empty but there was no need to fill literally every single uncolonized province. For example Epigoni mod added some barbarian nations but still left some land uncolonized in Germania and Northern Hispania or otherwise in areas where historical sources are scarce.

>>14887071

>sell out to Israel

>sell out to saudis

>sell out to Israel AGAIN

>sell out to the US

>"kurdistan strong, gib us independence now!"

>>14908890

They could have handled that by making emerging nations show up at a certain point in time or even a system similar to the colonization in EU4. They could also have implanted migrating tribes but I'm certain they are saving that for the $40 barbarian invasion DLC

>>14909632

Tribes would have worked better, specially if they attack you when you move through their territory like in EU4

>>14909238

don'T know much about the devs, except that the sequels they made are shit. Just pirate it, it's quite good

>>14910798

i browsed through the events and it's the 1.05 udpate that gives japan the bloody saturday event, this reduces all the max organisation of chinese divisions to 10, japan just has to press a button to win the sino-japanese war, what a pile of shit.

>>14909238

>Which one?

Rome 1, Medieval 2 and mods that come with it: Europa Barborum 2(really recommend it, nothing beats a Druid grand master conquering Britain and the continent with stonethrowers), Stainless steel, LOTR, Warhammer, Hyrule

Just don't touch anything recent. CA went the way of Paradox a long time ago.

Vid is Rome 2 but you get the gist of TW from it.

>>made up vassals when the territory was actually directly annexed, just so you can start as Judea and meme on, or some other ebin country

Just end their suffering.

>Similarly stuff like Art and Education are worthless

Lel. Those come to shine when you are an OPM with a boatload of bigger vassals. My 150% literacy rate "enlightened" Papal State with 50 years ahead of time in every tech begs to differ.

Couple that with rushed leadership and quality ideas and you've got the Pope riding a flying saucer, pew pewing the unenlightened ones from his heavenly seat.

>>14910974

>>14910798

The nerf only lasts a few months

>>14911625

Attila and the total wawas are cool though.

>>14911928

I'm not touching anything made in the Empire engine because it's more about min/maxing and rubbing stacks against each other than positioning and tactics. And the design and UI is really off putting which is really bad for RP purposes.

Feels like playing a random badly designed touch pad flash game and not a historical PC game. Same as HoI 4.

>>14885502

>Implying the Romans didn't set foot into Germania because it was poor

>Implying that wasn't just propaganda to make themselves look better after MUH LEEJUNS got #rekt by Arminius

>>14911727

yes, only if you select to retreat of Nanjing instead of defending it, later the Nanjing massacre happens for the japs and this triggers the event for the "Chinese army reorganises" event, this all can happeng whitout the japs not even touching Nanjing and it's pretty linear, if you do something different from this stream of events the reorganisation will not happen. Also retreating from Nanjing gives you like 20% of dissent, whit the other events you get like 50% of dissent that hampers your TC and IC, it's shit.

>>14912425

>>14911727

now the fucking warlords army unlock is not working, the game fucking sucks, the devs just browsed some wikipedia articles about the sino-japanese war and put some lazily done events, also now doomstacks works

>>14885502

>Romans get totally rekt by germanic barbarians and thrown out of the country

>W…we didn´t want that land anyways!

>>14911991

I'd argue that WaWa is about the level of SH2 but with much MUCH more variety. You can clearly see where they took old Attila mechanics and repurposed them but it's still neat that every faction has something unique on the campaign map. There is also not (as much) blobbing anymore except with maybe Skaven, where it's appropriate.

After all this time I'm finally getting back into CK2 again.

>>14912529

>what are the bridges of Rhine?

>who's Caesar?

I could've sworn I read somewhere that border gore was fixed for Crusader Kings 2. So I decide to play it again, but there's still some bullshit going on where disconnected territories are still counted as one empire. What is this? Am I making this up? Am I not seeing some sort of game option where disconnected territories revert to being their own kingdoms?

>>14914332

disconneced territories go independent on succession

>>14914458

Since when has that been a thing?

>>14914332

>border gore was fixed for Crusader Kings 2

They were planning on doing that for their next DLC.

>>14914514

latest DLC, I think

>>14914582

>>14914514

no, its going to be added in the (((upcomming dlc))) goy

>>14909651

I've had a good time in Hegemony 3, mostly because it's a period and setting that hasn't really been covered extensively. I'll go try out the first one, but what do you think it has over 3?

>>14914458

>>14914529

>>14915331

Frustrating. Thanks.

>>14915189

>mod for hoi4

Why do you give a shit about a shit mod for a shit game?

>>14917112

>>14915189

Because it can be exhilarating

>>14913881

>the sun never sets on us wog

if you say so mohammed :^)

>>14918255

>how are they planning to sell Victoria to the R*ddit Twitch faggots that are their new main audience?

By making forced memes and blobfests easier?

>Will it just be a HoI4 reskin?

Probably yes.

If they want to save time and effort.

>>14915676

I didn't play much of the third, but I recall it being rather railroaded and linear, without nearly as much historical autism. The first one only "locks" you dring the early tutoorial phase, then you can do whatever you want - the whole map is up for grabs. You can theoretically conquer persian holdings in asia minor before capturing Thebes (Persians will probably rape your ass if you try, though). There's loads of various objetives spread around the world that can be done in any order, many providing historical background and varying rewards, from gold to migrants (native ones) to marrying a princess so that her faction hates you a bit less and doesn't cost that much to supress after being subjugated. There's also a fairly expansive in-game encyclopedia full of ancient Greek history, folklore, biographies, etc. that manages to be informative without being exhausting wall of text. If I remember correctly, the sequels didn't give you much freedom and there was far less history involved. I came back and replayed the first Hegemony several times already – it's a massively underappreciated gem that combines GSG (well, technically more of a wargame, I guess) and RTS in a new way.

by the end of your playthrough, you will hate Athenes

>>14918255

I can imagine it already

>"One of the common complaints we've noticed across the community regarding Victoria 2 was that the economy system was unclear, in many ways broken, and simply wasn't fun. Therefore, we've decided to create an entirely new system using industiral points. With industrial points, you can…"

How come I cant declare war whole my levies are raised in CK2? seems really stupid to declare war without even having an army.

>>14918616

It's to prevent you from getting the jump on the enemy who doesn't have his levies raised in peacetime.

Any link for a M&T version which works for EU4 1.25?

>>14920090

Read the OP, read the thread. So many possibilities.

>>14920753

what are you trying to achieve anon?

>>14920890

A german nation centered around a truely german capital: Münich.

>>14921273

are you going to colonize something or stay in europe?

>>14909365

>Stellaris? Fuck around with pops

That's actually my favorite part of that game you get to enslave and genocide xenos all day.

>>14920753

France is going to rape you if you don't get huge soon (all the South German lands at least).

>>14921273

>Bavaria

>Germanized celts and slavs

>German

Lazy faggot here. What eu4 dlc can I skip as of late? Have all before and including Rights of Man. Was gonna pick some up during a sale.

>>14923383

>buying Paradox games

>buying fucking DLCs

Fucking kill yourself, mate.

>>14923396

>Playing games

>>14923393

>>14923395

>>14923396

>avoiding the question

Stop being niggers

>>14923498

You're the nigger here for being dumb enough to buy that shit. Just buy all of them like the filthy cuck you are, we both know you were going to do it anyway.

>>14924051

What's special about Lippe-Detmold?

>>14923383

>>14923498

You're pretty much done buying the DLC, you've got the essentials and none of the rest are worth paying for unless you want to play a lot of games as Russia or China or England or Ottomans and you don't think those big countries already have enough shit in them. However, there are a few mechanics locked away that Johan is a bitch and a half for not putting in as free features.

Mandate of Heaven - Age mechanics

This one really blows my horn, you've probably already noticed the big shiny Age button slapped on your UI that isn't really a button until you pay 20bux. It's so blatant, the only thing you get for free out of it is a better way to tell when the 30 Years War is about to kick off. A bunch of shit to do and a new mana bar for Golden Ages could have easily gone in the base game.

Third Rome - nothing I can complain about here, it says on the tin it's just for Third Rome larping.

Cradle of Civilization - Spending military mana and not using mercs will make your army more professional. Spending money and using generals will drill your soldiers. A lot of small features are hidden under professionalism, like supply depots to fix shitty supply provinces, getting your manpower refunded for disbanded units, severely reducing morale loss in reserve units making reinforcement juggling a laughing stock, and if you're actually trying you get a 50% sale on generals. Drilling isn't as important, but again should be free instead of being tied to the Akbars.

Rule Britannia - Every feature is either just for England or shit. I don't even know if I want innovativeness (actual name, they couldn't use innovation because why would the English DLC have good English) or the trade good no one asked for, coal, as free features. There's something for navies, it might be good, I just don't care about it.

If all the good features were in one DLC, I would still say pirate it. But for all this to be spread over four $20 DLCs is an intense level of judaism which deserves spite pirating.

>>14925003

why would anyone possibly pay for paradox games, rather than just pirate the game + all of the dlc?

>>14937757

Just kill every other sibling first before you will marry her after marriage kill her too.

>>14937790

Normalfags are too retarded for pirating.

>>14937790

Desperate devs.

I bought Vicky 1, EU3, HoI 2 and Darkest Hour. Which was more of a hat tip to the original developers that probably left the company a long long time ago.

At this point it's just supporting the cancer that completely overtook the company.

Anyone still have a link to the Putin mod 1.05 ?

>>14938396

The mod is not active any more so there was no update for 1.05.

>>14924295

Pretty much every place in Europe has shitloads of history behind it, anon.

>>14912522

fam you havent played earlier start dates

>play as china

>war commies

>defeat them

>event happens, apparently commies won and now have all the land i occupied

>>14914296

>what is the Teutoburg Forest?

>who was Arminius?

I guess no one plays grand strategies when E3 is on. Though, honestly, it should be a good way to fill the time between all the boring trailers.

>>14958660

>Kush

DUDE

But seriously what is so special about the screenshot? We knew they were going to rely on mana.

>>14958854

>That centurion icon

>Several literally who tribes

>Roman Empire looks like it was destroyed 26 years too early.

>>14959100

yeah what the fuck is wronmg with that icon? is that dolphin wearing helmet?

>>14959158

>what the fuck is wronmg with that icon?

Honestly I don't know.

>is that dolphin wearing helmet?

Looks like it.

>>14959158

It's a le platypus xD, it's so random

I TURNED MYSELF INTO A PLATYPUS MORTY!!!!! XD

>>14959238

that picture confuses me more than anything else. i simply do not understand it.

>>14959238

Fucking redditors.

>>14958660

Worst thing that's new in this screenshot it that it confirms that mana is, again, linked to either advisor's and/or ruler's skills. Basically just EU4.

How do I make money in Crusader Kings 2 as a minor baron?

>>14959500

you dont

get economic upgrades as fast as possible, or more land that has mines and shit

>>14959500

Don't think it's possible to play as a baron, so I'll assume you mean a single county count.

Simplest way is to build the economy buildings in your holdings, giving you a steady flow of cash. If you also end up with any prisoners, you could ransom or banish them for money. Taking the economy focus is also a good idea, and a few event chains give you a decent economy boost. If you have the right religion or culture for raiding, you could do that, and that usually gets you tonnes of gold.

Also, don't hand out the minor titles (keeper of the swans, etc.) unless you need to. For each minor title you hand out, you have to pay the title holder a small sum.

>>14959567

Mines? In Vanilla CK2?

>>14959631

i havent played it in a year or so gimme a break fam

>>14958854

WEED

>>14959216

>>14959216

How the fuck is that a ban worthy post?

>>14960328

That was /b/-tier humor.

>>14960283

Is it some mod for EU4?

It looks like complete trash.

>>14960328

Redditor mods have aspergers.

>>14960368

>It looks like complete trash.

Takes one to know one

It's a great mod and surprisingly balanced. Map is based on HoI 3 by the looks of it.

>>14960562

>>14960562

what mod is this ?

>>14959158

Think about it. They want another HRE thing small menu and what could it be? Probably how much you control the Mediterranean sea. And that's why it looks like a dolphin.

>>14959631

If you have a hill or mountain province you can have a random event building a mine there increasing your income by 25% from that province alone.

>>14962012

God I wish that were me

>>14961914

I know that, but the way the other anon said it made it sound like he was talking about mines as a holding building rather than a province modifier.

>>14960368

Anon it's EU4, of course it's gonna look like trash.

>>14975777

Trips for truth.

Man, the current version of Imperium Universalis is fucked. Is there an EU4 update I can revert to for a more functional IU? I don't care too much about broken food and a couple broken missions, though I'd like a version with those. No, it's the slaves that are too buggy for me. I got the 200% penalty from a slave's worth siege, reloaded, and never did that again. Just events over time gave me enough slaves to trip the 200% penalty, so I abolished slavery, reinstated it years later, and got the penalty with zero slaves. Should I just be grateful abolishing slavery turns off the penalty?

>>14975777

Can't argue with those numerals. If only the mods would recognize shit threads as well.

>>14978256

I tried that mod, picked Rome, got opportunity to attack one of my neighbors who had only one ally or no allies at all. Stackwiped the ally and them, started sieging their capital. They use CK2 Tribal Army -tier estate interaction that farts out 8k troops on top of my troops that are sieging mountain fort.

>>14978281

>>14978281

Never happened to me in this version.

The shit that becomes annoying is the spam of mercenary armies from other random countries that the enemy employs as a cheaper alternative to recruited mercs.

Another thing that is pretty game breaking is the spam of 300 schekel embassies and infinite number of diplomatic relations that you can have. Aka infinite vassals.

I basically only play cold war vicky mods anymore. Give me something fun to do lads. I have pirated all the paradox games so im open to anything

>>14981564

Unite Japan.

>>14981564

I know that feel, fam. Although personally I like the 1990 start better, problem is that CWE focuses on the Cold War and NWO is dead. Would be nice to have an NWO type mod focusing on near future stuff.

>>14984057

Good job.

>decide to update my not-quite-legal copy of HOI4 and re-download all my mods

>wonder if the hassle is really worth not paying

>decide to look it up on the steam store

>$78 for the base game + DLC on sale

>open up my torrent client

>>14984702

I don't know what you expected from Paradox - Swedish company, which has near monopoly for that kind of games.

>>14984921

I heard it was getting better

>>14984921

They made it much much worse

>>14984953

aw fuck

I played it more than a year agobut I felt like it was a bit too easy in the mid and late game. Has anything been improved in that regard ?

>>14984968

Well they somehow made it run worse and it's slow as fuck to play a full campaign.

>>14984921

It's fun for a couple of runs until you realize all the bugs, mechanics, the races and technologies, and pretty much everything else make it a terrible game. Get some mods first like more traits and trait points.

>>14959290

Fun fact: It's not a mod

>>14975777

This, ironic shitposting can be funny at times but cuckchanners will often confuse it for genuine posts that cater to their autism and feel right at home here and I don't want them here.

>>14984921

>removed different ftl methods

>can no longer fail events, harder just takes longer

>still buggy as shit

>somehow lags even more with less content

>>14985011

Doubt it. There's a race of females only (maybe futa?) in Distant Worlds but i've never read their lore so i don't know if they're huge sluts that breed with anything that moves or if their males look like traps. You could roleplay something from that but nothing with actual graphics or game mechanics comes to mind.

>>14985117

>but nothing with actual graphics or game mechanics

You can change the portraits to be all female but no game mechanics, no.

>>14985117

ah fuck it, Im gonna make my own futa mod, with blackjack and hookers

>>14984921

It's like EU IV, but somehow even worse. 2 years ago it was a shitty bare-bones experience. Nowadays it's equally crap but also bloated with disconnected features and poorly implemented mechanics.

>>14984921

>only hyperlanes are in as FTL travel now

>purge anyone = no chance at diplomacy for the remainder of the game

>late game content = megastructures = resource sinks that require you to farm bajillion gorrilions minerals

>combat still utter shit; updates to it alternate between "higher number always wins" and "all but one or two ship types are worthless"

>late game crises unbalanced as fuck; expect to get steamrolled if you set it to go off too soon or too strong (we're talking "even one of their fleets could effortlessly destroy all the combined fleets of the entire galaxy" kind of steamroll)

>DLC's just go "more is better" and implement half-baked mechanics and content bloat

On the plus side, the AI isn't as retarded as it used to be. It's still pretty dumb, but at least it doesn't seem like it's shooting itself in the head

>>14991275

also, calling it right now, one of the future DLCs will focus on the galactic core and do something ridiculously retarded with it

>>14991289

>galactic core will be able to have a super structure in it. It will generate infinite energy or allow travel to anywhere in the galaxy

>you need the dlc to build it

>ai can build it without dlc

>if you capture it from the ai, it will self-destruct

>>14959500

The cash command

>>14991382

>galactic core will be able to have a super structure in it. It will generate infinite energy or allow travel to anywhere in the galaxy

Paradox won't allow anything that could break MP balance. The super structure will provide a +10% research bonus or something.

>>14991969

Does anyone even play multiplayer in Paradox games?

>>14991979

Besides the Paradox staff? Nobody

>>14992904

make sure to expand west before Mori blobs

>>14993059

My plan for this playthrough is to get all the commanders I like (Minus Seigan because that would require vassal fuckery to keep Tenshi Sect at bay long enough for the damn route to start already). This means that I'm going to declare on both Himeji and Tanegashima at the same time so Mori doesn't blob onto the other one. Which also means that I can't be at war with a third because that might be a little too much, especially with Tanegashima handing rifles to everyone. I have to mop up the east before I can tackle the west.

Masamune can wait until the end game.

>>14992904

How do you even take that many territories without Uesugi declaring war? It's been a long time since I played, but I could have sworn that as soon as I have like 12 or so territories that bitch is all over me. Maybe I'm misremembering.

>>14993123

I think if you fuck up Takeda first they tend to leave you alone.

>>14993227

Does vassaling people actually do anything worth while?

>>14992853

I read up on some of the updates from the creator and it looks like it's typical kike trash about nazis being evil. Everything is written as though the hollywood interpretation of national socialism is how national socialism is.

>>14993242

The only point in vassaling is:

>1. saving your fans if you don't feel like conquering

>2. Letting you end the war if you're too much of a bitch to conquer

>3. creating a buffer state between you and a state you're going to be at a long war with so that they cannot attack you (the enemy must have a province next to one of yours to attack), but you can attack them at your leisure.

Out of those three, the only reason it's worth it is Number 3 if you want to play a strategic campaign on hard mode or get Seigan by staying at war with the Tenshi Sect for forever.

Your Vassals also sometimes send you generic units for battle but why bother with those when you can get actual good units by conquering.

>>14993359

So pretty much what I thought then thanks.

Starcraft 2 is the best strategy game.

>>14993470

Video gamers are dead.

>>14991979

>>14992155

I only play Victoria 2 in MP

>>14992853

What >>14993312 says, it has some interesting stuff, but that would likely be botched by the kiked mod team. Whom claim their (((historical sources))) are totally accurate and would potray what would Germany do in victory .Still thinking of doing an AAR of it here as the 3rd reich for shits nd' giggles. And after that maybe start on a mod that would portray an accurate scenario of Axis victory.

>>14994173

So you don't play V2?

>>14992853

That second image really gives me some HoI3 vibes, but with political mana.

>>14995491

Also, creator seems to have some kind of werid personal grudge against Rommel

>>14995496

Because Rommel is a famous commander that's universally respected by even the good goy.

>>14996295

Speaking of Rommel, there was a joke in my country during WW2 that goes something like this:

- How do you say in German "to run"?

- Laufen.

- And how do you say "to run away"?

- ???

- Rommeln.

>>14997999

I don't follow. Rommel wasn't know for retreats right?

>>14995491

The most irritating part is that the althistory bends over backwards to make the Axis win without modification purely by hamstringing the Allies- plausible but not very interesting in spite of unconventionality- through 'realistic' means. Bukharin instead of Stalin ruins the Soviets, Joseph Kennedy takes the presidency and slows American military development while taking an active anti-war stance (but somehow Japan still strikes Pearl Harbor in spite of no provocation or embargos because ????) and Sealion goes off without a hitch in '43 using the IRA to sow chaos. Then the Germans nuke Pearl Harbor in '44.

It then suspends reality in the interwar to have every gigantic megaproject impossibly embarked on and the biggest completed in a decade or so, but built from duct tape, wax paper and silly glue. And done in the least coherent fashion possible. Germania is built to rot when it was conceived to last thousands of years even if totally abandoned on the theory of ruin value, Atlantropa is thrown together in a decade when the work was projected to take centuries and without any consultation with the Mediterranean powers, and the Med drained in that same time. Border gore galore. Policies are totally without restraint or subtlety for even the most triumphantly victory-diseased power. Britain is broken up into multiple states with England as an occupied puppet.

And then the reality switch is turned back on, the Germans are declared to be big idiots who didn't arrange any coherent peacetime economy or engage in any transition or reform because reasons, and Europe crashes. Also, they have Slavic house slaves and a caste system, because reasons. And 'reconstructed' Generalplan Ost is applied to the letter in uncompromising colonization, but the Ural rump state still manages to force the Germans to a Pyrrhic victory. It's stupid, it's just Wolfenstein with the serial numbers filed off and a more mundane tech level plus another hackneyed 'Cold War but with the Axis!' framework.

Self-declaredly in the second dev diary, the author had this to say.

>The New Order isn’t meant to be entirely realistic, because personally, I see no real way the Axis would have won World War 2, or dammed the Mediterranean, or invaded Britain, or survived for over 5 years if they did. The mod is about being fun and interesting, and presenting the player’s with scenarios and enjoyment they can’t find in others, I think Atlantropa is a big part of that.

The mod is purely constructed around the idea of meme-tier bullshittery where they extend some faux wehrabooisms through the early timeline, quote some Wikipedia articles to extrapolate on their postwar policy, and ape various better althistories to assemble a very messy series of intersecting event trees. With the subtle underlying message of, 'fascism can't win if you resist, goyim! Status quo power! Democracy! Yay!' Nevermind that not a single one of the countries of the fascist bloc were properly, purely fascist, making far too many compromises with and incorporations of reactionary conservatives, tainting the effort, damaging its purity, and making real coordination or bottom-up societal reconstruction a doomed endeavor. No, they're already at peak capacity, and the only way they can win is if the Wallies and Soviets make all the mistakes. It's tripe.

>>15004079

No, but I think the joke basically says that when people heard that Rommel was coming, they would run away.

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>>15005542

>>15004309

Germany could not win WWII period. So really the alt history needs to come from allied mistakes.

>>15006823

>Germany could not win WWII period

You watched vid related did you not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbim2kGwhpc

Be informed that the person behind it is a communist subhuman affiliated with nu-left personalities like dan olson and the Tranny contrapoints. Don't be so easily swayed by shitty, unsourced, biased leftist media meant for historically illiterate normalfag trash.