Grand Strategy Games /gsg/

I want to cum inside Germany.

eww thats fucking groß you pervert

It's plataposting

you did it mike!

Reminder.

2deep4u

maybe they'll start making CK3.

I'd assume Victoria 3 would come first

Rome II anyone?

paradrones have been crying for this on forums

I don't even want to know what monstrosity Paradox will turn Vic3 into. I heard that the guy that created the pop system left, and they don't know how to remake it.

Maybe. CK2 has gone so far back in time that it's almost a Rome game now.

There's already a migration period mod so going back even further should be easy enough.

I unironicly want to see Kangz DLC

They should make Europa Universalis 5 and make it actually fun unlike 4.

Fuck it, lets get right into making HOI5 or Stellaris 2

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Just remove all of india and slavlands, who cares about them when you can have
KANGZ

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Crusader Kangz. Here, I fixed it for you.

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After all we all came from africa :^)

You be sayin we all kangz??

I want the Argentinians to leave.

Most of africa that actually matters is already in the game honestly.

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Why do you think that in came where Allah, Satan and presumably Moloch are real, homosexuality would be curable?

*that in a game

You know, it'd be neat if you could ALSO summon angels and "holy" beings, but not the pansy angels with feathery wings and babby faces, I mean the real deal that would burn your corneas by just looking at them.

Paradox clearly has a vision that doesn't involve such things. The being that gives Ottomans their ridiculous bonuses, the Jews their special rules and Satanist magic is propably the one same demiurge.

That would be a little too much for just one DLC.

Apparently even making working societies was too much for one DLC, since several of them were cut and the Hermetic's ingredient stuff wasn't even implemented.

But of course satan memes were important and fully implemented since that's what Reddit wants to buy

BRAVO PARADOX

They are going to patch in the missing content. Early access DLC, mate. Paradox is a trailblazer of video game kikery.

Never heard of it
Societies like what?

Im just waiting form"premium" patches or some shit like this
And paradrones will eat it up

/Christ/ would have a field day with a mod like that, doubly so if they would be able to easily edit shit.

That's what the DLC is. You get the free version of the patch for free, and you can upgrade to the paid version.

Just mod it in.

Is there a minimod that does either(or both) of these things?

I could, yes. That's something for my to-do list.

Probably.

A mod that will benefit greatly from this dlc is the warhammer fantasy mod.

I don't know. I know a lot of people still buy up all their shitty DLCs, but going through the HOI4 forum shows a divide in the community. It's quite clear the number of people that are fed up with bullshit games are growing.

Just wait for warhammer mod to update

Paradox actually screwed the warhammer modders hard by making all of the societies mutually exclusive. So you can't have people in the chaos cult societies infiltrate the normal societies.

can't the exclusivity be modded out?

No, it's hard-coded into how the game processes societies.

I think the Warhammer guys are going to convert only the chaos cults into societies and leave everything else as event-driven stuff so that they can interact and infiltrate properly.

Apparently the new mod tools and converting stuff over to societies does provide a lot of game speedup though.

And you can't have skaven or vampires doing shit like that too!
Remember: Paradox ALWAYS fucks up!

Will enacting this decision kill the Blowviet Union faster because of militancy gain?

I dont want to play devil advocate here but i think that was right decision

Imagine a hermetic society member infiltrating satanists, or vice versa. Thats would add shitton of additional scripting, events and triggers, it would just bloat the game, also you have 4 societies, to add events for all possible combinations you would need shitton of work as there are 4^4 possible combinations of just those 4 societies

Why wouldn't someone join multiple secret societies though? Isn't that what people do irl?

Im sorry i cant really imagine benedictine joining satanists or satanist researching some cool tech with hermetic bros

And the point is not if you would do it, the point is how would you do it so it could work, and as i stated in previous post it would require tremendous amount of work

Why wouldn't le evil satan666 guy also want secret Hermetic knowledge? Knowledge is power.

First time I've ever seen >40 in a stat by legit means. Though I'm still unsure if its actually OP.

The secret cult societies work pretty well, but its also kind of fucked for non-reformed pagans. You can be a secret pagan but can't use the societies, which means the only way to keep your children as your religion seems to be events that have a very large chance of not "taking". You can't actively educate them as secret zunists.

Well modders would have to code "infiltrations". It's perfectly fine for Paradox to add a script clause blocking this, and leave it open for modders.

It's not like you need to code every individual combination, just add event options to sabotage shit if you are part of competing societies.

GG Paradox

Why? The sole fun in playing Zunbils is staving off the muslim hordes are defending the faith in Zun

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_II

You can't do that without extreme cheese or reloading until the Abbasid's explode. I'm still a secret Zun Pagan and am fucking them up from the inside.

You can if you run off to India soon enough and the locals don't decide to stomp you straight away

I suppose that's acceptable. You get a free pass this time.

India has holy orders with 8k+ heavy infantry, it's impossible unless you get very lucky and another AI is attacking some other Indian and they are tied up.

Do you suppose this is what you'd call to the pain? I've put literally every. single. mutilation. on this little shit.

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Did he cuck you? Why the hate?

I made sure his lover wife shits herself to death. Then I proceeded to exterminate all of his friends, his cousins, and two of his other lovers. I've killed his sisters husband, and married both her and his only daughter to dindus; one's imbecilic and lustful and the other cruel, lustful, syphilitic and possessed. Both satanists. His eldest, and sole surviving son is a castrated, one-legged court jester.

He lived for five more years until he died of a virulent cocktail of rabies infected smallpox. Not kidding, he had all three before the rabies officially got him.

You tell me what else could provoke this kind of reaction? and what should I do with the whore?

I'm sure even in hell, he still chuckles about having fucked your wife.

Thinking back I should've expected as much. And I doubt he'll be laughing for long considering Cristobal Gabrielez de Vibora is a strong crusader personal combat 10 satanspawn itching for round 2.

Now, got a suggestion for the whore?

what CAN you do to her? List all the fun stuff

Torture seems bland and uninspiring; same as execute and sacrifice, respectively. And I'd hate to repeat myself and (re)abduct and (re)chop bits off her. Finding a Tyrone or a Abu Hajar would probably make the bitch happy.

I can break her mind with possession and use her carcass to carry the next generation of patriarchy but that's what I planned to do all along. Maybe reload until she gets a nasty but non lethal disease and then force her into nunnery? Depriving her of dick would be the greatest suffering, I guess? Seriously, I'm open to suggestions

You got the mod that allows you to rape prisoners?
I'd just throw her in the oubliette and fuck her continuously.
She'd probably die from it too.

What is a based fascist party/leader for the USA that existed in 1946 I could mod into NWOmod?

Your best bet would probably be whoever was the head of the KKK at that time. All the fascist parties had been purged by then.

ib4 he meant communist party.

She'd probably enjoy that, too.

Anyone who was essentially fascist without actually using the term would be acceptable. The ideology is called "populism" in the mod, after all.

Shit, none of that is particularly fun. I was hoping for something akin to the magic in the Warhammer mod, where as demon you can do all sorts of crazy shit like magically changing her gender etc. Paradox fails at everything

Martin Luther King Jr.

Charles Coughlin was still around back then, and he formed a party during the great depression(the Union Party.) However, his party dissolved before WW2 even broke out. He did have millions of fans at one point though, so he could have in theory started the party up again.

Aztecs are invading Germania.

Abassids still exist and control from me to Egypt, but I'm nearly strong enough to revolt. Unfortunately they had a decadence revolt with a 40k stack that spawn on my capital.

Why are you a vassal to mudslimes, have you no pride man? I also played with fucking azzies on because muh sci-fi expansion and the fuckers now battling Mongols and Indians over Byzantium~Five knight orders and several vassalised mercs pushed their shit in during the reconquista of southern Span during the 1260s

The strategy I'm going to try is to make a super merc band with 10-15k Heavy Cav, then move my capital near the Aztec/Mongols before DoWing. Then I summon the merc band on top of them when they come to siege me.

Is there any way to easily vassalize merc bands or has Paradox patched them all out? Would be insanely OP if I could vassalize them and pay a discounted rate

lol, Aztecs only take a single kingdom? Lame.

Fucking hell, what do you suppose will be the upkeep on that thing? And I believe the inheritance method is still the most effective out there.

I've got them all over the place but amazingly that's not the weirdest thing around.

Well I have 6.3k heavy cav there, so 15k is probably around 250 gold a month.

But if you spawn them on the enemy and kill the superstacks instantly, you don't need to keep them around for more than a month.

What method are you using to inherit them?

Mine doesn't seem to work, not sure if its been patched out or if its different for your personally-raised merc bands.

Yeah I was just playing as Hermetic today hoping to pull off some McKennaesque magnum opus but the gathering of entheogens and whatever else I could find just sits in the coffer without any use or purpose.

Also what is the purpose of having Benedictine and Dominican orders if they're essentially the same? At least let us join the Knights Templar or some kind of middle ground OTO.

First you can politely ask and they may accept provided you're a king of their culture (their leader apparently) or an emperor. Bonus points if they already have a county+ or two in your lands, are fellow satanists, same dynasty, drinking buddies or sleeping with your female ruler.

Second you can dick around with viceroyalities since they're broken convoluted by design, so they can and usually will end up your vassal no questions asked.

Third and fuck my life tier is trying to push a second duke title that falls under your de jure to an heir or even better an actual leader of some order or a band. It requires a ton of prepwork such as marriages or intentionally losing wars but at least the results are both immediate and surefire.

Yeah but how do you land them in the first place. Obviously I can make them my culture and religion because I can select who their leader is. I know about the intentionally going bankrupt and *sometimes* they attack you, but I'd rather not spend 20k just for a chance at it.

I know you can land Holy Orders really easy but Mercs are much harder and usually require the inheritance stuff.

I like this idea but what would the flag be? It would probably remain the same but this is Vicky 2. NWO makes the populist flag the stupid snek.

Honestly, even paying 20k (to be fair by this income point you can simply hire any merc you want) is easier than 10+ years required to setup a duchy or whatever and hope that from two dozen marriages one title will stick on the correct heir or how he'll remain eligible after becoming the captain. Say by using feudal elective duchy or a kingdom that you grant independence to but will remain an elector of.

Alternatively your viceroy, being the insecure shitter that he is will often attempt to attack other nearby vassals. And if he's town based chances are how he has a ton of mercs and how some of them will eventually turn on him a'lla Venice getting fucked. But you're kinda shit out of luck on which particular band ends up landed.

Something on related?

Well, the Union Party used the yellow and black coloring IRL. Extreme right American parties basically all used that color scheme back then, so maybe something like would work.

I'm not sure if that will work with the Abassid though. I can confirm that the tactics worked for me, but on a smaller scale.

I played as the tiny Jewish state within Ehtiopia from the earliest timeline. I swore fealty to the most powerful Christian king right next to me and was spared of being conquered. Then, I focus on upgrading my stewardship and intrigue. I then assassinated the Kingdom's steward and thus forcing me, a Jew, to be his steward. My liege then died (natural death) and was replaced with a 14 year old with terrible stewardship skill. Of course, as his loyal steward I volunteered to help him administers his demesne, which I then took over. Long story short, after a series of assassinations I declared independence and proceed to usurp my then ex-liege title. And thus the Jewish Kingdom of Abyssinia was formed!

Then I was bored and start a new game.

Sensible. After you get the ball rolling and manage to do your immediate goals, then CK2 becomes pointless blobbing.

DAS RITE

I'm looking to get into the hearts of iron games but I don't have any money for them right now, should I pirate or just wait until I have money. Do the devs even deserve my money, I've heard paradox has been pretty shitty/

It is usually cheaper from places like kinguin.net/ I got myself all the older Paradox games for something like 15 bucks, just make sure you get the full versions of each game. But that is if you are going to buy them.

The older games themselves deserve it, but the people that get the money in the present don't really. Go ahead and pirate them. If you really like them then you can consider buying them. Kill yourself if you download/buy HoI4.

Pirate DH, it's probably the best HOI game for beginners, once you've learned how to play you can move onto HOI3. Don't get HOI4 though whatever you do, it's cancer. If you think you don't like HOI style games you can always try Europa Universalis 3, Crusader Kings 2, and Victoria 2. They may be more to your liking.

Nope they don't, they're greedy jews and already get enough money from retarded redditors.

How do I go from Presidential Dictatorship to republic ASAP? Is militancy or consciousness more important?

Will Wrangel ever recover from such a loss? I hope so, I plan on playing him in Kaisereich later on

If I am remembering correctly, Consciousness is for political reforms and Militancy for social. Hence why fucking everything in the game ups Consciousness.

What geme is that?

revolution under siege

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Shit, you're so lucky. Now you can play an RP where you save Europe from muslim invasion.

I once did a similar thing by playing norse for a few hundred years (just long enough to reform religion and conquer the north) and then switched to BYZ and tried to combat both muslims to the east and pagans to the west (who almost immediately overran everyone else due to reformed pagans being OP as fuck). It was pretty fun.

Disgusting

Well at least europe has become culturally enriched 1500 years earlier

Is Knights of Honor a grand strategy? The only RTS element are the battles, everything else is hardcore diplomacy and building stuff. I haven't had my ass handed to me like this in a long time.

Surely you jest.

Well, in the first case you're not necessarily the father. And congenial seems to be bugged for satanists as my minor dynasty members have spent the last several generations fucking like rabbits and there's not even a hint of inbreeding yet.

Plenty of lunatics, werewolves and lesbians, though.

Calling you a fucking idiot wouldn't do you any justice.

Anyone got tips on playing Peru (and forming PBF) or Gran Colombia?
With Peru, when does Chile usually attack, allowing me to secede from the Peru-Bolivia federation?
To form Gran Colombia, should I try and puppet Venezuela and Ecuador as soon as I can or wait for the decision that gives me cores on them?

Peruvians are gonna kill you for this, m8

First of all, if youre going to reform the grand colombia, you should do it with the country tht formed it, so venezuela.
Second of all, what kind of game do you want to play, economical and research or follow the path of the warmonger?

Read it again, thats not what he said.

I like the way you think. I don't think that's even possible though.

I picked Colombia because they get a gold RGO early on and their population is way higher. Wouldn't I end up forming Gran Colombia way later if I chose Venezuela?
I generally like to play new world countries relatively peacefully once I gain all territory that makes sense. The immigrants are the ones doing the colonization in the new world.

Not really if you play your cards way, the thing is that historically it was venezuela the country tht formed, named and gave flag to the grand colombia.
Infact, current day colombia took the name from it, since previusly they were called new grenada.
Rush great power with prestige tech and then add in sphere.
The other solution would be puppeting the other countries before they get in the sphere of someone else.
Also, take into account that you will have a war against brazil as colombia almost inmediatly and you will get your ass kicked.

Militancy for all reforms actually, if you check in ideologies.txt you will see how it affects each party.

No, I'm serious. I'm forced to give all my money to neighboring kingdoms to get them off my ass for a while so I can expand economically.

Does Stellaris still suck?

Guys, I'm trying to make a submod for vic2 NWO, to add the ability to deport (and eventually remove) Islam from Europe, or Christians and atheists from ME and Africa.

Is it possible to have a modifier that increases emigration rate but only affects one religion? Or do I have to do it by events?

Pirate it and find out. I don't think their next big patch/dlc has hit yet, so…

Wait for the next paid patch and for the mods to update next month and then pirate to see for yourself. That's what I'm planning, though I don't have very high hopes. Some of the new features seem quite half-assed, like surplus food being magically instantly galactically available instead of needing automated convoys that a mod already introduces.

Seems "granting" is pretty different from "assigning" to your vassals

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Where is that in the picture?

it's obviously a MS paint edit of Memel

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Kek.

I was hoping someone would do this.

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Then post a different game faggot.

It's as Grand strategy as the total war series is really. Definitely a fun and underated game, shame there's absolutely no fucking modding scene for it and the game is piss easy to the point you can auto-resolve win all your battles. Unless you're bordering Hungary at the start, then it's slightly tricky in the sense you have to figure out where the AI hid their general to stampede over him.

Also is Darkest Hour still fun as a minor nation? Haven't played it in like 7-8 years.

How do I learn to play crusader kings 2 if I have the attention span of a baby when it comes to tutorials?

Play the game. It is on big tutorial anyway. You just have to learn how to raise your army.

Pick a random country, start playing and consider setbacks the fun of the game (as "winning" is way too easy actually).

Ireland is tutorial island. Start on 1066, so you aren't getting assraped by vikings. Explore your UI and figure out mechanics yourself over time.

CK2 is the best GS game.

I don't get it either. Nothing I've seen in that game makes me want to play it, it's like playing barbie for grown ups.

bumpo

what's their development? 300 dev and over is guaranteed high liberty desire. you shouldn't have done that.

Is this normal for an FX 8320?

YOU ARE LIKE A LITTLE BABY

So what's the consensus on MEIOU and Taxes mod for EU4?

Decent if you have a supercomputer

That's a weird looking Eastern Tur…

Oh. Oops.

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Nigger, I've got a toaster and it runs fine. It being stuck in compatibility mode until (and if) they put out the much promised version to end all versions is something else.

Also the institutions and province fragmenting in that one are mental.

You could probably push him to 50+ if you go Buddhist.

Nah, I'd lose Mu'tazila and Faqih for -8.

But I only had 2 magnum opus, if I collected all 6 across multiple characters I'd probably have 50-55.

This game was actually really fun, now that I think about it. The Caucasus is volatile as fuck culturally, religiously and ownership-wise. Much like in real life, it's a struggle to keep your own people on top.

You'd get something like +4 from base religion and +2 from the sect. And that's with no effort. The cheese comes from their events, ambitions and status modifiers you get from accomplishing them.

I vaguely remember having opened the character searcher back when that dlc came out and going the fuck at all the random 30+ learned parjeets shitting on designated corners.

The +30 prajeets are from the decision to find a guru, which spawns a courtier with absurd learning stats who is so old that they'll die almost immediately (I've seen one go in a month).

I think it might actually gimp the AI since it's a total waste of money and they probably spam the decision whenever possible.

iirc gurus used to go up to 60 back in those days

Played as Asturias 769 start. Going good, haven't lost a holy war yet, first war was Umayyads declaring a holy war on me, won it by using heavy inf pikemen mercs in the hills and caught the fucking sultan or whatever the fuck.

Anyways, taking Seville now because it's the biggest border duchy and as you can see, good for me, bad for them. Also fuck vikings dude I swear to god there needs to be some god damn way of dealing with them. Are you telling me my garrison of 700 some men wouldn't sally forth and slaughter those 200 guys in Coimbra? Fucking stupid.

Also the M&M DLC is a broken piece of shit and fun.

The tale of 2 Kangz

Anybody have the CK2 activator? Can't find it anymore

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

there is no shitposting in gsgs

IS this some sort of sick joke?

Just bought all the CK2 DLC.

JUST

Just kill yourself.

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are you retarded?

lol yurop.

They're event troops, not sure when they'll go away cause I disabled that shit dlc

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Based Erdogan

Filtered.

at least its historically accurate

I just realized how big my dynasty is. I don't think I've ever had one this big.

Just got reincarnated.

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La Erdogan is white and based

I played some HOI IV again. It's still irredeemable shit.

end yourself

>>>/kc/

GAS THE KIKES
RACE WAR NOW

yeehaw

You missed a spot

"Turks must outbreed europeans, holy wars now" Erdogan is not based and a sandnigger.

you have to grind through that,mostly by attrition in winter. On top of that, by this date you should be controlling all of Britain

Aztecs event stacks suffer no attrition. At his size the only way to get shit done is to swear fealty and kill them from the inside.

You *can* inherit the Aztec superstack if you do shit right.

Reported.

They burn through those event troops really fast though, in my game they only managed to grab Ireland, Scotland and part of kebab-held Spain before they all were dead and everyone started to buttfuck them.

The joke is that they’re pretending that americoids have the capability of maintaining civilizations, much less creating them.

The only things I’d change about Vicky II are
1. 64-BIT, MOTHERFUCKERS, FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
2. Wars can end with the annexation of PARTIAL states (so that borders can look better/be more realistic).

Other than Tropico, are there any /gsg/ or similar titles where all political choices are objectively viable with their own minor and major drawbacks and without the usual "if you go full liberal you instawin but if you allow funs you instalose" kind of deal?

Shit man, did not know the pre-columbian civilizations were a meme.

Your envy is showing

AAAaAaaaaAaAaAaAaAAAaAAa HELP MEEE PLEASEE

I WANT, no, I NEEED TO MASTURBATEEEE

Just play some CK2 or EU4
I always have a good wank when playing those

That would help nothing, the memory requirements are nowhere near the limit for 32 bit.

Mods can already do that with scripted stuff or by cores. Though I agree that a general province-by-province annexation option would be ideal.

For the player, sure. But what about the ai? If it were possible to annex single provinces wouldn't that cause EU3 tier borders? I can imagine the ai making really retarded descisions in regard to provinces during Great Wars.

I can't wait for a gsg set in Syrian civil war. Please tell me it's being worked on, at least in a mod

Darkest Hour has a mod like that

Assuming we're talking about a new game with a new AI, there's no reason the AI can't be taught to be slightly less retarded about borders.

EU4, bad as it is, is already a huge improvement over EU3. Though HoI4 is a counter argument.

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Paraguay is weird af. I wish they taught me this in burger school.

What should my goals be? I kind of want to become a monarchy because the flag is cool and I'm not getting any immigrants anyway.

Ohhh boy, get ready for the war of the triple alianza.

I played a lot of Geopolitical Simulator 4. AMA!

Which one are we talking about here?

Why are you a nigger?

nope

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youtube.com/watch?v=M5Tl-J8VXpQ

he is just very tanned

I didn't know that the black death didn't default to historic setting, I am literally panic building hospitals fucking everywhere.

Well then…

That won't count for shit.

Yep, got fucked. Only level 1 depopulation in my counties though, and no one in my court except the ones I ate.

The only thing that got me thru the bubonic plague was a liberal application of dark healing and a prodigious libido my 86 years old king had. And that's with a major hospital in my at that point still inland capital.

On the bright side it really helped me prune the family tree.

I just shut the gates, threw out people with the plague, and ate people that ate food, got through with no problems at all other than monetary issues, and my retinue taking a shit load of losses to attrition because supply limit dropped to 100 and I didn't realize.

Also, I'm a fucking idiot, I didn't know that all you had to to make a merchant republic was make them a duke, I had a republic count level vassal sitting around for so long doing nothing.

What can I say, RNG and MTH are a bitch.

You're kinda setting yourself up for pain there. Especially since paracucks in their infinite desire to fuck with the players decided how merchants prefer giving their shit levies and nobles their pauper grade tax over a ton of money and heavy infantry, respectively. Or how they'll plot, war and faction like crazy to get said laws in place.

What I'd suggest is founding Hispania or maybe usurping HRE or ERE and going for viceroyalty kingdoms.

Yea I have just a shit load of single county counts, and when I run out of vassal limit I make a new duchy. I just have noble obligation laws set to standard and mayoral ones set to taxes, I don't usually like fucking with them outside of taxing mayors.

The problem with Viceroys in Hispania which I already own is I only have Andalusia which is half the empire and a bunch of tiny shit kingdoms in the north.

I think the next move will be to lower council power all the way because yay conclave. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Finished a game as Mamluks. Kebab has been spread far and wide.

…why would you do this?

Sorry I worded it wrong, I meant to ask just for games of /gsg/ nature that have a political focus as well without being ultra right or ultra left leaning and gave Tropico as the kind of example of how to handle such a thing, I didn't mean to say it was a strategy game.

Live a little, kafir

That's a lie. You can push any policy you want. You just can't be a retard about it and implement something like that when you don't have maximum popularity.

Popularity is a kinda gamey concept there. If you continually appease the same political groups/ideologies you can get to 100% popularity, even though the other side should not like it.

Also what you said depends on the country. In my game I was able to easily outlaw abortions with no major repercussions.

If you are talking about putin mod then its shit
Not only there are retarded events that create mega blobs but also its inaccurate and outdated as fuck

Also in syria everything happens at brigade level at most, and most paradox gsg start from divisional level

Good job
May Allah (swt) bless you

Why wouldn't you do this?

I wanted to form Gran Colombia as Colombia, so I puppeted and humiliated Ecuador to boost my prestige.
Years after the war, I still have only 2k of the 18k soldiers I started with.

Wtf? I've been paying pretty much only into military, but not supply.

Is it wrong that i find nasheeds to be really cool?

Re-start the game man, the pops are low in south america, but you shouldnt be getting that low.

.t Abu Bakr al-Faghdadi

Please reread what you wrote

All they do is literally limit what they want to conquer on "historic" mode.

Are you literally me?

No, nasheeds are cool

Chechens are for bombing, not admiring.

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This should be a lifetime ban

I knew I was shit at this game. I started as a vassal of the king of Scotland back when they were a tribe. Worked my way up to take over and then converted to fuedalism cause I thought tribes would use stones and spears as weapons forever. Took over maybe around 10 counties since the beginning of the game and was afraid to attack ireland for their land because I've noticed the AI likes to wage war on me when I'm fighting another war. I really didn't want that Aztec stack on me so I've been busy building my economy and troops to match that stack. I can create 40 k troops. Not even close to that stack.
For future reference what DLC's should I have enabled/disabled for a new run? I pirated it all.

Didn't realise how fun this would be, I'm still relatively new to EU3 aswell so I'm quite proud of my achievement. I still haven't conquered the rest of my cores but I'll get to it once my manpower and navy recover, I also need to build some buildings because I haven't built any yet and I have an excess amount of ducats I don't know what to do with.
Can't believe people play shitty EU4 over this gem, unlike that game EU3 actually let's you play as BYZ without constant restarts.

The sole thing that turns me off of EU3 is the retarded land grabs and exclave border gore the AI will create. Otherwise it is a far more polished and elegant game in most other respects, especially performance wise.

I have to agree with you on that one user, the ai's autism can often ruin your own aesthetic borders and it sometimes creates difficult situations. (For example: in one of my playthroughs as Morroco, Castille cockblocked my expansion into North Africa by annexing Tunis.) If only it had EU4's ai, it would be a 10/10. I still don't play EU4 though because of it's terrible performance, I can barely run it for shit and my PC isn't even a toaster. Such a poorly optimised game.

No interest in Geopolitical Simulator 4?

If you want to play it, save yourself some trouble and ask me.
I probably got a game over 10 times before figuring out what you can and what you can't do.

Played it, it was shit

what didn't you like about it, user? :)

Sorry to say it, but it probably is a toaster.

WHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY ANNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNN

Isn't border gore technically more accurate to real life? IIRC until the 1700's countries were more recognized for the individual settlements they owned than the shape of their country. The African border gore with places like the Zambia-Congo border or Mauritania came about when they started making a coloring book out of maps. Even today there's places like that one island that gets exchanged between Spain and France every 6 months or the Spanish cities in Morocco.

Are there any western gsg developers except for Paradox and Matrix? Did the developers of For the Glory and Darkest Hour ever make anything else? I can't really find anything

eversim :)

Yes, there is "border gore" in real life, but not in For example the HRE contained a lot of what might be considered border gore, and it reflects what you said about countries being more recognized for the individual settlements they owned rather than the more abstract or cartographic idea of borders as we understand them today. However, this "border gore" almost always falls between one of two categories: regional and manageable overseas. By regional I mean as in the HRE and France's holdings within HRE borders and not connected to the rest of the kingdom, or Pheasant Island like you pointed out. By manageable overseas that would be small possessions like Ceuta and Melilla that Spain still holds onto today, or the port cities claimed by Venice in the Aegean and Genoa in the Black Sea. They are relatively small and strategically vital possessions that are easily incorporated into the polity administering them.
Contrast these two ideas with the "border gore" of EU3, and you get dumb shit like Austria owning some inexplicable north-south corridor unattached to the main territory and what appears to be Sicily owning territory on the Red Sea not even attached to its other Egyptian possessions. Border gore in the truest sense defies all logic of administrative and geographic concerns, which often results in a cartographic situation lacking aesthetically. The "border gore" of real life generally lacks these two problems and is therefore usually somewhat aesthetically pleasing (at least to me) since that gore is reflective of administrative realities - a collection of settlements jointly ruled.

but not in the same sense as EU3.
Accidentally deleted that I guess.

In fact now that I look at it some more, those colors on Egypt look more like Cologne than Sicily, which is even more damning. It's stuff like that that turns me off from EU3 and is the most irritating sort of border gore.

I can run it without issues on a 3 years old mid-line laptop. You own a toaster.

Too few provinces and no claim system is what is a minus compared to EU4. I tend to switch between them, depending on whether I want good mechanics or more content. Also, how did you beat roaches? I make fun with devising new strategies at crushing them in EU3. My most impressive one so far involved taking them on after only annexing Trebizond and nothing else.

It's shit, tbh. Gameplay consists of making a gorillion trade deals and getting endlessly buggered about MUH FAGS

1. No it doesn't.

2. No it doesn't.

FUCK YOU, there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.

Do you also have that one screenshot of various European countries being elongated tumors going from France through Russia?
Also wasn't there a "historic AI" mod that made it so that countries that historically had cores in some region or another were more likely (but not certain) to try and grab them and tried to grab as much confining territory as possible as opposed to blobbing uncontrollably?

Was this the Neapolitan nightmare you had in mind?
And if there was such a setting I was either painfully unaware or it didnt work too well.

Gas yourself

fuck you, bigot

stupid underclass pleb

Shut up fag.

t. stupid pleb

Oh my god, it's Korea Snake times a hundred.

Wew.
Back to cuckchan you go.

Get ready to be buttfucked, m8.

t. brazilian

Holy shit end yourself faggot.

I like my asshole unsullied, thank you very much.

I was using the noob-ish 1405 start where the Ottomans are even weaker than they are in 1399. My initial strategy was to quickly conquer all the small little nations in Anatolia that I had cores on so I could surround the Ottomans and increase my navy & army forcelimits, unfortunately I wasn't fast enough to conquer Adana or Candar early on because they were instantly guranteed by the Ottos and allied with loads of other muzzies. My navy was crucial though in making sure the Ottomans would never cross into Eastern Europe.

Once that was done, I set my goal to encourage patriots in Naxos and Rhodes, turns out Naxos defected to me when they were at war. I assume patriots must've rose up or something though I'm not really sure. The patriots in Rhodes defeated the knight's one stack of infantry and within a year or so it defected to me, after that I noticed Sivas was under control of Ak Koyunlu so I naturally invaded those weak cunts and stole it from them.

A couple of years later in the 1420's I began my first war with the Ottomans which went better than I expected, I was able to take a fuckton of ducats and I took Edirne, I would have taken more only for Algiers kicking my navy's shit in with their huge fleet full of carracks. After this war the Ottomans expanded for the first time, they took all of Athens in a minor war with Venice. At this point Epirus didn't exist and was a part of Athens so now the Ottomans controlled three provinces in Southern Greece.

This wasn't really alarming to me becuase I realised that Patriots would easily fuck their shit in after I crippled the Ottomans' navy to 3 galleys and 2 cogs, it was rather entertaining to see the roaches sending 2 stacks of infantry over to a 5 infantry and 1 cavalry stong rebel unit.

Epirus managed to spawn again somehow so I declared war on them before the Ottomans could get there, and by an event Achaea defected to me.

Now begins my second war with the Ottomans which is what you see in the first screenshot, I reduced them to a OPM in this war. I actually regret calling my allies in because they were more of a pain than anything, but thankfully Wallachia who was just in my way white peaced and that allowed me to annex all of Bulgaria, Athens and most of Anatolia except Bursa also Candar was in this war too and I annexed them, also that's why I have 12 infamy because they held one province which was not my core, and I couldn't annex the only two provinces I needed.
Now because the Ottomans were no longer a threat I invaded Adana and annexed it too.

Algiers was the only country in my way now because they vassalised the roaches, I eventually declared war on the Ottomans once more to finish them off, this caused fucking Morroco to attack me too for some reason and the homosexual horde to my east. I was fighting three wars and it was pretty intense with the addition of constant rebellions. But Algiers eventually gave in and let me take Bursa and Morroco took a white peace. So what you see in the second pic is me at war with the Morrocans. I only just made peace with Algiers and the Qara Koyunlus. By the way, I lost the Palaiologos dynasty to some slavic shit. Is it possible to bring back by pretenders or something?

Jesus christ man, way to make me feel like a pleb. How did you do this?

Being a cannibal should give you a way higher general opinion penalty than fucking -10.

How would people even know?

You don't need to be "x" to not be irrationally hate "x", you know right?

I can't. Permabanned.

No.

someone has to cook them and I doubt it's the character himself

WEW

Not like this… Not like this…

I like you guys.

Superior version

How is that even possible without using some retarded mod or glitching out the game on purpose?

Shoo shoo kike.

you go, newkike

Given that the player is Austria, HRE authority is 100, and everything visible on the map is owned by an HRE member, I'd assume this was a world conquest game and he had the second to last reform for a while and was feeding vassals and decided to make it look as terrible as possible.

you fags are getting baited super hard.
just spam gore.

Don't talk like that to your superiors faggot.

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fuck off with your s&m fetish

those are all bottoms though

I think it was called Death and Taxes but I could be painfully wrong

KEK

That explains a lot of things about Total Biscuit.

Triggered much faggot?

BIG PENIS

And the reason why gay people have so many sex partners is because they're driven by a T. Gondii infection to spread the parasite itself to as many hosts as possible.

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nice video games

thanks

Should I just spam prestige tech at this point?

artisans?

Is this border gore?

yes

Yes, terrible one at that.

Try MEIOU and Taxes, look at Germany and then repeat that. I dare you.

I already maxed out intellectuals and bureaucrats so they seemed like the next best one out of my choices. Do you have a better suggestion?

I'm on my first real playthrough of ck2, still on my starting ruler and I already have my tidle successions fucked up. Somehow one of my 2 counties is going to one of my son's who is not my heir. I have no idea why this is.

Do you have gavelkind succession?

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Any good video series of someone good playing any of these?

Why
I like listening to Taureor. His voice is relaxing.

I'm tired most of the time and I just can't dedicate enough effort to properly vidya lately.

Yea, I have elective gavelkind, which explains it somewhat now that I'm reading it on the wiki. I guess it is not that big of deal as it is going to a son so it says in the bloodline at least.

I'm a hyperaware about it because I had a hell of a time regaining the county from a revolt and a crazy line of successions that I did not predict.

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hwat are you talking about

I was making fun of the let's player you suggested. I see now that he's also a libtard and fedoralord.

Yeah probably. I just listen to the guy for his autistic yet soothing ASMR inducing voice. I knew he focused almost entirely on EU4 but never knew he hadn't played Vicky. What a pleb

Couldn't do anything about it, Brittany was and still is allied with Austria for the entire game.

Will it be better when I absorb all of Britain and France's colonies?

I have not seen a single victoria 2 lets player that plays on my skill level. That's why I dont watch them.

I think about doing one, but I am so burned out of Victoria 2. Maybe in another year when HPM has updated more.

saying faggot just makes you look stupid imo

If gays get a crush on their straight friends, they become their most loyal friends. Having gay friends is obvjectivally a positive thing in your life.

My character is a male butterface. He may be a little disfigured in the face buuuut from the neck down he's swole as fuck.

The fact that it gives an opinion modifier implies that people know.
The very fact that it is a visible character trait implies people know.

Would EU3 be better or worse if provincial population played a larger role in taxing, manpower, production? I find it kind of strange that if you have twice the population of a country it's possible for them to have a larger force limit than you.

Better almost certainly.

You'd need to first make population change in a reasonable manner. As it is population basically never goes down and CoTs give massive bonuses leading to every CoT having something like 99999999 population by the midgame.

You'd also need to do something about colonial provinces to make sure they aren't worthless Granted in vanilla EU3 they are massively overpowered so they could use some nerfing.

bump

Here's some disgusting Kangz screenshots from 2013/2014

Why is CK2 so boring?

I understand that it is the "Age of Civil War," but I would prefer doing with other daimyo.

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