/gsg/ - League of Legends Edition

Reminder that a new version of Kaissereich will be released soon.

See you then Fritz

changelog where?

This time I decided to do a historical scenario.

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Someone got into my League account after I quit and stopped playing for 2 years. A friend wanted me to play it again, so I humored him. I was permabanned for botting. Riot's support treated me like a criminal, and acted like the account was doing the awful bad things, not me. For someone that spent over $200 in the lifetime of that game, they sure weren't eager to retain my customership.

So, if that's somehow okay, and the company that owns them is okay with it, I am not okay with them having profiteering interests in Paradox, and own't be playing any of their games, either.

I might as well write some notes on how I did it. I made 24 divisions of inf/inf/ac/ac/at and 14 divisions of cav/cav. I accidentally built way too much cav which gave me manpower problems. I built groups of 3 cav instead of 2 and split them up later. I only wanted 10 divs at first. I got AC over ART because they make lots of garrisons and special forces, so it's a cheap way of getting the armor advantage. Infantry was the worst to deal with because it can pierce AC. Even while increasing threat the whole time, it's impossible to declare war until mid-early 1941 when the USA is about to go to war. For some reason, Canada can do it a lot sooner. Invading Canada first may have been a huge bonus with the extra front, but I wanted to go 1 on 1 with USA. Since you can only DOW when their neutrality is almost 0, I'm not even sure if it's worth using the spies. It may be a better tactic to DoW some other country in South America. I didn't want to join the Axis at first because I wanted to do it without, but by the time I joined, I was winning anyway. It's a good idea to align to a faction even if you don't join it so that you can get production licenses. It's a good idea to have transport planes for supplies. Paratroopers would be great but I never made them.You can join and not go to war and still get LL. I got it but could have won without it. There was too little MP anyway. I neglected to research agriculture until too late which was a mistake. If you do answer the CtA, the Allies will send troops. Also make sure to research destroyers and make some docks. USA tends to have huge stretches of land that have no ports which makes it hard to get supply, especially since in a game like this, you will often have long and narrow supply lines. Two good places are Charleston and somewhere between SF and Medina.

This pic shows how I advanced. Red is the line of my first encirclement. Notice the positioning relative to the rivers. Once that was taken care of, I took out all the ports on the Pacific side and split the country in half to do another encirclement. Once I had everything to the west of the Mississippi, the rest was a cakewalk.

I wonder if this is doable as Cuba. They might be able to declare war sooner but having to make transports and landing would be a big problem.

What are some good eu3 mods?

I thought we agreed on 19 UTC?
Either way I'm going to have to be off sooner than normal. Only two hours in fact (I have to leave at 22 UTC). If you want to continue past that point (I certainly would if I were you) you could recruit someone to step in as France for the rest of the evening.

Also for anyone interested, there is an extra spot on the Entente as Italy if you want to jump in the WW1 multiplayer session.

I don't remember how it. Maybe someone said they couldn't make it after you left. If everyone shows up early, we can start early.

Man, fighting off armoured divisions in Black Ice is a bitch.

If I'm not mistaken, you can declare war with 20 neutrality if you join the Axis.

China is taking over
They need to be stopped

China v Israel v Islam when?

Ottoman Empire guy here, warn me if you'll start the MP earlier today

Hosting. Won't start before 20 UTC unless everyone is here. We should consider setting it an hour back due to daylight savings.

71.239.121.92
my.mixtape.moe/qqgdil.hoi3
mp_German_Empire1916_06_18_11.hoi3

We're still missing UK and Bulgaria. Where are you two? Also, Italy is open if anyone wants it.

Someone please come play Italy

Relevant: hoi3wiki.com/Random_Scenario

For how long do you usually play? I would like to start joining in a month and a few weeks?

HoI2 or HoI3 or Darkest Hour?

EU3 or EU4?

What other "or"s should I care about?

All DLCs included, because piracy.

Tencent also owns Unreal engine 4 or whatever to give you a scope of their reach. Tencent pretty much has a hand in every tech branch, i'd worry less about games and more about having Tencent in our internet and house hardware, they are clearly in bed with the Chinese government spies.

maybe even more relevant
I've put the mod up
my.mixtape.moe/zbyxlj.rar

EU4 is trash. HoI2 is superseded by DH. EU3 and HoI3 are great games.

Thanks. I'll try to get a game going.

So I upload my history and countries folder for you guys?

from the looks of it yes.

Remember everyone put those in your mod folder, not the TFH one.

There it is.

filedropper.com/randomhoi

I'm generating a map. I'll upload it when it's done.

The history folder should be pasted inside inside Hearts of Iron III\tfh\mod\RandomHoi

The countries folder, inside Hearts of Iron III\tfh\mod\RandomHoi\common

What are some of the important differences between EU3 and EU4?

Also is there a mod that allows you to move the map on EU3 with click and drag? How is colonization different?

Wait, which version are we playing? I just came up with this: my.mixtape.moe/sftmoz.zip

2.7

The major differences you can learn about on each game's wiki. I don't think there's dragging but you can shift click to due queues. The difference in colonization is that in EU3 you have a certain chance to succeed before the colony is made while in EU4 you just place a minister there and wait. This might not be true anymore as I haven't played with any addons.

Mine is 2.7, I'm fine with either. We should check if the MP is working first.

I meant which map.

Use yours, since you put more stuff in the .zip, so less chance shit happens. Check if the MP work, I'll be back in 10 min

Map took ages to generate. Checksum VGTB. Hosting.

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I've seen tweet exchanges between Paradox and Riot Games.
Imagine if those two shitty companies that basically ruined a whole genre were to get owned by the same entity.

I'm planning on buying a shitload of stocks to be quite honest seeing how good they are at scamming the goyim

Where is everyone? Can you not join?

Having checksum issues

died during map generation

Host down for a bit. Going to reconfigure some stuff.

Not a big deal, Paradox is already a turbojew company so it's no real loss if they get fucked by the chinks

I'm back. Pasting your stuff in my game folder, let's make this work.

Now I'm having checksum issues too.

The checksum in my vanilla game was wrong although it was correct in the WW1 mod. I'm trying to get my vanilla checksum to be GSKH to make sure everything works properly. Having some problems extracting my game but it should work. Need a few minutes.

I can't seem to get this to work on my end. I'm going to eat and come back to it later. I'll join later if that's okay

By the way, would it make sense to set the number of countries to the number of players?

I'm having the same problem as . My game crashes during map generation.

what error report do you get?

it just crashes, here.

hm not the one I had.
at what point exactly does it crash?
history,mapl logic, database, checksum etc.

Loading databases II

I think this mod doesn't allow for MP. A shame, since it has a lot of replay potential.

either those are not at .
If that doesn't work you might wan't to try using the other mod version or>>9487812
whichever it is.

I used his, since he was hosting.

then it's nost likely the countries folder not being in the common folder

Give me just a bit more time. I'll get it up soon. I'm generating a new map.

If you guys are still up for it, we could try the south america brawl.

I'm up for it, let's just try it one more time with his files.

Please upload the entire mod folder.

I'm just going to reinstall my whole game. I can't get the checksum to change.

I'll upload my files soon. Just give me a sec to get myself together.

Just in case this doesn't work, discuss the South America game. How are we going to deal with the USA? and their navy?

Could someone play the USA, cancel the guarantees, and then switch back to a SA nation?

Here's the new mod: my.mixtape.moe/pxeqsn.7z

Trying to host this but I'm still generating the cache. I'll post the checksum when it's loaded.

Would that work?

Could be done with savegames, yes.
In any case, we should decide what we want to do in said game. Just a free for all among us? Pissing every side of the WWII conflict at once?

I don't think the US will be a problem until 1941, they'll only have their starting troops until then

The navy is the problem. They send carriers down. And we'll probably still be fighting in 41.

Checksum KGBX. Hosting.

It's getting kinda late so I won't play for to long, which means I can play the us and end all guarantees and the ai takes over after that.

From the test games I had in SP they build their own troops in the newer version.

I'm having the exact same problem as before, so SA game it is.

Really? It's been two months, but I remember taking over all of the US in '39 with three corps.

Darn.

Okay, hosting vanilla. Get in here, everyone.

I've tried a custom game as japan last week and after a while they started shitting out ground troops.

Guys one question, does anyone know if the Victoria II from the mega folder has the sprite packs and the music DLC included?

We have 3 players. Anyone else coming?

My Checksum is stuck with KMLR now.

We ditched the mod and now we're playing vanilla GSKH.

Did you delete the mods? Restart the game?

mp_Argentina1936_05_24_21.hoi3
my.mixtape.moe/svepmy.hoi3

BEfore we rehost it might be worth ending the guarantees in the save game.

yes and yes

mp_Argentina1936_05_24_21.hoi3
my.mixtape.moe/lfchkn.hoi3

without guarantees now.

mixtape.moe/lfchkn.hoi3

file not found

sorry fucked up
my.mixtape.moe/lfchkn.hoi3

That doesn't make sense, they're the market leader, who are they going to steal ideas from? Gameplay mechanics from Order of Battle, or Command?
Would have made more sense for Tencent to invest in Slitherine and steal Paradox's IP.

wagglers unite

Petain here. Did you guys get the random game to work?

No. We did a South America brawl instead.

Just checked, Venezuela was receiving 61 IC from the USA. Wtf.

VENEZUELA NUMERO UNO

With Jews, you lose.

UNO
N
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Come on France, I hold Belgium and the Sedan for two years and then you lose at the Maginot Line.

So how does this actually affect LoL and Riot? Riot's always been a sleazy company.

Given the state of France I'm pulling out these forces, fuck the frogs.
Also, encountered the Gneisenau and an escort of pocket battleships, this will be a great fight to win, but I fear it will be costly if it continues.

I doubt it will have any effect on Riot at all, on paradox it gives Tencent some say in the company and gives them the ability to gain a majority of shares in the future if they buy out the other investors.

Did the UK even send any troops?

Nope.

Perfidious Albion

A question, IIRC Luxembourg accepts all Germans + French. If I form Germany with them, and if I have both Austria and France in my sphere, will I inherit all of them and make a fucking gigantic Germany?

Not sure if you inherit France and Austria has to decide how much will join but aside from that, yes.

You can't inherit France, but you will retain French as an accepted culture so if you war France you will get low militancy + high admin efficiency + guards.

HPM on the other hand flat out disallows forming Germany as Luxembourg, but you could still invade the North German areas by force. (Same goes for UBD).

How does one make the Randomhoi mod produce something good? Units spawn on all accross foreign territory and sometimes can't reach their own country. Provinces are scattered nonsensically all over the world. Countries have claims on their neighbors and small patches of clay on different continents. It doesn't make much sense.

Never saw units spawning outside borders, but again I just looked for where my country was and played it. Having claims on your neighbors is a way to create conflict with the AI and allow it(and you) to grow a bit.

Nonsensical provinces, clay on different continents? Can you expand on this?

The provinces are not in a single blob. It looks like they are scattered using the spray tool in MS Paint. As an example, there was a country that has most of its provinces in Japan, but also has a handful in the middle of Poland and Brazil along with cores on provinces in India and France. The units spawned on foreign countries and it was difficult to bring them back. They had to be walked to a coast and picked up without a dock, which takes forever.

Were you part of our attempt to play MP with randomHOI? Because I've never seen this happen, maybe your install is screwed up.

You're using version 2.7, right?

Yes and yes. Here's a screenshot.

Yup, your files are fucked. Delete everything and reinstall.

I think you have to delete your history folder in tfh/mod/RandomHoi

It's supposed to look like this.

We tried to copypaste the entire mod folder in our attempt to play MP. Delete the entire mod, that install is dead.

That's better. The old map was totally broken.

What makes a GSG for you? Is it simply the scale or scale and specific mechanics? Would you play a GSG-like game that took place in a smaller scope?

I like the depth of these games and how they allow the player to be creative.

Scale and mechanics, and yes definitely. Do you have a recommendation or are you thinking of making one?

Apparently playing Random Scenario HOI3 MP is possible. I still wonder where exactly we fucked up though.

I may have just found a mod that makes EU4 a good GSG. The MEIOU mod has, for the longest time, been an overdeveloped, fucked up mess, but it seems like they have finally unfucked their shit with the latest update. The most cancerous and nonsensical mechanics have been either removed or reworked, there are many new decisions and events, the performance actually improved, and much, much flavour was added.

In case anyone's interested, here's the link to the latest version:
mediafire.com/download/lxda4xx6g9rcj1l/M&T v1.25.7z

and here's the link to the latest patch to it:
mediafire.com/download/11eo2tt292awaw9/v1.25.02 Patch.7z

I'm considering taking a crack at one, or at least prototyping one and seeing where it goes.

V2 MP when

Whenever you want to host

What would be the aim/theme of the V2 MP? Co-op? PvP? In a particular region?

My upload speed is horrible.

PvP with the main countries, one player (GP) ally until great wars, no hugbox, no permamobilization, no blobbing, especially not into China etc.

Detail. A smaller world is ok as long as it has even more detail than Vicky 2.

I'm 95% positive that in-game mechanics make that impossible anyway
What does that even mean?
That just sounds like a bad idea. Do people really do this?
You can prevent blobbing by intervening for status quo if you so choose. I'm not going to concede to self-imposed restrictions like that.

HPM blocks chinablobbing anyways, until later in the game, and still severely restricts it then.

It also imposes penalties on permamobilization (you'll accrue war exhaustion and shit), and hefty penalties for going way over the infamy limit.

Thats for AI only. Players can have as many player allies as they want to.
Hugbox is when a bunch of players gang up on another. For example France, Russia, A-H preventing NGF to form Germany. Leddit loves doing that shit, because they think Germany is some sort of invincible superpower, yet I've never seen Germany winning an endgame great war in MP.
The guy who made robmod did that all the time, he loved abusing the game mechanics.
Shit like France going for the left bank early (or ever, I fucking hate that shit) when Prussia can't stand a chance has no place in MP. Colonies are different, but blobbing into China is really disgusting, unless you are Japan and you want Manchuria.

Ah. I wasn't aware of that. Makes sense then to have the self-imposed restriction.
Fucking reddit. Do those idiots seriously think the collective might of Bavaria, Baden and Wurttemberg are enough to push NGF to superpower status? If anything people should be (if it's going to happen) ganging up on Russia and especially A-H since they lack the internal weakness they had in real life, making them late game rape monsters in the hands of players.
What is the benefit of permamobilization? It seems like it'd be a major drag on the economy.
I agree but I think a player should be able to try, knowing full well that the other players won't take kindly to the expansion.

Does anyone have the GSG mega folder link? Also is there any good remove india mods for CK2 on the the latest patchs, I've rolled back to playing 2.16 with HIP just to even play without India killing my toaster.

mega:///#F!WZZFXDyT!yyb25ZuLdLs0B8vhoKS3LA

Bump

Feels good man.

Now liberate the entire Baltic.

Kinda fucked that one up, I used Germany to help me take the Livonian parts from Russia early on, but they ended up taking Lithuania in the peace deal.

More to fight France, to be honest. Russia in HPM has amazingly shitty troops.

I played HoI3 with a ramdisk and there is a huge difference in speed. I've never seen the game load so fast. Highly recommended if you have spare memory.

HOI IV coming out in four days.
Are you excited, Holla Forums? I know I'll be pirating it from day one.

I don't have the time right now anyway, so not really.

Some features look neat enough to warrant pirating to check out, like the production lines and enacting battle plans. But there's a lot of stuff I find highly dubious like no fuel, civilian IC being exchanged in lieu of money, the English Ocean, fucking mana - the most complained about aspect of EUIV that has even less relevance in a HoI setting, among a litany of other things. Honestly if it weren't for the allure of drawing out battle plans and then having the AI enact them (which I'm sure will be broken beyond belief at launch, especially with the planning bonus) I wouldn't even bother pirating this pile of shit.

Just finished forming greater Germany in Vic2 HPM (Don't have a screenshot available, tho). GG isn't as OP in HPM as in vanilla since half of the Austrian empire gets split off into spherelings, but I'm still at a solid second place in about 1850-60. Where does an HPM GG usually go from here? I'm thinking of forming Yugoslavia from a bunch of sphere buddies after the Ottomans get fucked by the Balkan treaties, is that a good idea? Does Yugoslavia become usually become a great power when it's formed by the AI? Will it refuse to be my ally if I have some of it's cores?

Hoi3WIKI was unlocked, after a LONG time.

hoi3wiki.com/

So how's EU$ after cossacks? I stopped playing it a year ago but I feel like picking it up again.

Rotten Structure (Russia) here, won't be able to make it Saturday.

Someone can take my place in any of the games if they'd like.

Well that's disconcerting.
It may be extremely short notice, but could everyone do Friday? Or even Sunday?

On Sunday I have work until 4:00 EST which is around when we start anyway. Friday would be too short notice for most people I think, since they probably won't check the thread until Saturday. And even if everyone can't play Saturday we can always try to get the Random mod working and play that

The random mod idea sounds fun. I'll need a link to the mod and detailed instructions on how to get it all sorted since I wasn't there when you guys were figuring it all out.

cool, its ea games all over again

how does owning an enormous cash cow make them incompetent?

Raviollius(Turkroach) here, today I can only play after 23:30 CST, on Sunday I have the entire day free.

We haven't been able to sort the MP thing yet. It's possible, according to people on the forums - the method they give is copying the entire Random Scenario mod folder.

I think it's best that someone with a working single-player random scenario mod upload their entire folder, and everyone else delete what they have and put said folder in it's place. Then trying to run the single player campaign to check if it works before going for MP.

Friday isn't a good idea. Can we play on Sunday?

Britain here, Sunday 4:00 EST should work for me.
23:30 CST today might work but if you haven't heard from me until 24:00 CST I'll probably be still asleep.

Retard question, best version of HoL 3?

Jake blobs the entirety of South and Central America in two years as an OPM by just spamming fabricate claim -> attack and the "world tension" value causes Germany's events to fuck up? Who in their right mind thought this was fine?

What a fucking meme game.

Come on user it's not like that's some new shit paracuck came up with.

Anyone got a link to HIP for 2.4.5?

I think Vicky 1 was a better game
God I'm so old

hip.zijistark.com/releases/HIP_-_HL_-_2016-01-24.7z

The latest version of it is always hip.zijistark.com/releases/latest.pl

If you want to download previous versions it's hip.zijistark.com/releases/HIP_-_[FirstLettersoftheRelevantDLC]_-_[ReleaseDateOftheMod]

Save this somewhere, perhaps it can be useful later

I uploaded the mod here: filedropper.com/randomhoi27

Just extract the zip into Hearts of Iron III\tfh\mod, then open the RandomHoi folder and execute RandomHoiv2.exe. You'll see pic related, where you can edit stuff to your tastes, like the number of countries on the map. For now, just click "Do it" to generate a randomized map with the default settings. If you receive an error about the # of countries, just select a number higher than 70, it's the first thing on the first tab.

Wait for the message saying "Finish! Enjoy!" to appear. Then just open the mod as you would any other(launcher>select mod) and wait for the game to load(the first time always take longer).

Will there be a MP game today?

Apparently, no. Wanna help our quest to set up a MP with randomhoi?

It's not looking like it as far as the WW1 game, since Russia is out.

Hosting with this:
71.239.121.92
UZRW
my.mixtape.moe/pteenc.7z

Nice, someone managed to join. Is anyone else interested?

Is that a random game?

For future reference: if you already have randomhoi installed, don't overwrite the folder. Make a backup of yours(if you wish), then delete it and the randomhoi folder in Documents/Hearts of Iron III/mod as well, BEFORE putting this one in the tfh/mod folder and running it.

If you still have problems, do a clean install.

It's a mod that scrambles the nations around, giving them random territories in random places. Terrain remains the same, everything else is distributed in a controlled-random way. Each nation have some tech trees already researched, and have some units of said tress form the start. The map ends looking more or less like this.

It's main attracting is that you can reescramele the map/nations and a lot of other options as you like.

Yes, that's why we have to share the whole mod folder.

So I just have to unzip the my.mixtape file to my tfh mods folder and it's good to go, or do I also have to download the mod itself first?

The mod is in the download. You just have to drop it in your mod folder and that's it.

Alright, time to boot it up and see if it's working

It's consistently crashing upon getting to "Creating World" in the startup load.

Have you made sure to delete everything related to any previous installation?

I've had no previous installation of this mod

It's in the tfh/mod folder, right? And your vanilla installation is TFW GSKH?

Yes it's in the tfh/mod folder. Let me check the vanilla checksum

Did you unlock the RAM use of your HOI3, wither with Podcat's thing or with CFF explorer?

The checksum is GSKH

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

my.mixtape.moe/kqtvql.zip

The exe file is modded to allow it to use more memory.

Do I unzip this to tfh/mod also or a different location?

This is going to substitute the vanilla hoi3 TFH shortcut.

It's the exe file. You use it in place of hoi3_tfh.exe.

RandomHOI3 worked.

Commie Poland stronk!

Are we playing the WW1 game tomorrow?

Can we get everyone on board? I can play on Sunday.

Oui.

Ottoman empire, germany and france confirmed so far.

I'm Austria, Britain said he could do it , so the only person we need is Russia. However, I'm not sure if he'll stop by the thread since he said he couldn't make it today

Russia hasn't posted since Thursday . Let's hope he reads the thread by tomorrow.

What time we talkin' here tomorrow?

4:00 EST

Most likely 20 UTC.

Sphere Austria before forming Germany and you can occasionally (like, really fucking hard to get them to agree) get the entirety of Austria to join, although basically all of Europe will try to contain you (not a problem as long as you have a big navy to kick Britain's ass).

Also, with regards to Yugoslavia, it'll be created as your puppet and I believe it won't get cores on any clay that you own directly (Slovenia anyways) even if it accepts the pops living there.

It can become a great power but won't necessarily become one.

Been watching streams of HoI IV.

People are being fucking morons and still kicking everyone's ass. Quill is sucking at grand strategy as usual, lost all his navy to the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, but still can do overseas conquests and maintain them. Supplies? What's that?

People are already picking inconsequential minors and conquering bunches of shit with them and the game's not even released. It actually seems pretty par for the course instead of something that requires lots of gamey shit.

AI is weak as fuck, pic related, Maginot Line is wide open when Germany declares on France.

In fact, even Paradox boards are going rabid mad over what we're being shown over streams, and that's saying something. Stellaris was already a huge disappointment, maybe HoI IV will be the game that will finally dispel the illusion once and for all. Paradox is done for.

Tencent having any influence on Paradox at all means that this is just going to get worse, along with the DLC/monetization bullshit.

Honestly I think Paradox could show tencent a thing or two about DLC shekelgrubbing.

Nigga if u want to see real a grand strategy player then watch DDrjakes streams on twitch, he shows how easily you can fuck up and using the games mechanics make up losses through STRATEGY.

But then again everyone i've seen play hol4 was on normal so…

You trolling or just illiterate?

This is also in the game.

Yeah I know exactly what you're talking about. I was watching one guy do a USSR playthrough and he was consistently making fairly large mistakes (not due to incompetence most of the time - getting acclimated to the game sort of mistakes, but mistakes nonetheless) but was able to absolutely plow straight to Berlin in fucking 1941 with almost no resistance, and the little resistance he did encounter melted without too much effort.

ffs why the fuck isn't it called the Eureka Empire.
Stupid Swede fags.

Even if Russia doesn't show, we could mess about in the Random game.

I probably won't be able to make it, just do whatever without me.

Yeah, that's why they've abandoned AI development and worked on getting multiplayer ironed out.

It's a real shame they can't get the AI right, but I think the real strength of HoI4 is going to be the multiplayer.

I'd love to see the retarded youtubers (besides maybe that sperg Arumba) watch in horror as their shitty "plans" (which is only ever as complex as WW1 Broadfront) collapse before their eyes before a player that actually understands how to use the new planning mechanics.

It's a shame they didn't go into even farther detail with the equipment numbers. I notice that when a nation is taken over the victor only gets basic infantry equipment. I'd love to see things like tanks, planes and maybe even convoys be taken over. They should also work on getting small nations able to buy tanks, airplanes and other advanced equipment they otherwise would not be able to research and build themselves. The amount of planes the USA supplied European secondary powers is staggering, How the fuck is Finland supposed to win the air war (as it fucking did irl) against the Soviets if they can only rely on handouts? Why is it that they can't buy tanks from say Germany to avoid having to research and build their own?

Only until these problems are addressed will Paradox get my sheckles. Till then I'm just gonna torrent it. They don't wanna put in the effort then I'm not gonna put in the money.

The only circumstance I can think of that would justify purchasing HoI4 would be:
-the game itself is solid even in singleplayer (highly doubtful)
-the multiplayer is incredibly good (plausible but not likely)
-the multiplayer cannot be done between pirated copies (probable)

If condition three is not met, then there's no reason to buy it since we can all play together on goy-friendly versions. If condition two isn't met there's no reason to buy it because accessing the multiplayer wouldn't be worth it. If the first condition isn't met, then Paradox has once again proven itself unworthy of an income.

Fucking retarded, it would never be called that it would still be Australia.

You should not buy any game that does this as a matter of principle.

Of course, but the Government would still be apart of the Eureka Rebellion. Eureka Australia.

Anyway Its a better name than fucking Platypus.

A fascist Australia would just be called Australia, there's no reason for a name like that.

As was the case in Vicky 2 and HOI2 and HOI3 as well so yeah.

I'm just saying when people reference the country they'd call it Eureka Australia in the same way people reference it Nazi Germany.

How its actually displayed in game would obviously be the same as in previous games. Its just annoying that Paradox lacks an understanding of Australian history, use a flag but fail to include the flags context.

This is pretty much how they've done all nations, fuck Turkey when fascist is the "neo-Ottoman Empire". What the fuck does that even mean? It's either the Ottoman Empire or it's not, there should be no neo to it.

Most of this shit just feels like inside jokes and placeholders they forgot about and left in the press release copies.

Can someone give me some tips on playing France in DH ?
What are some good army comps ? What should I research ASAP ? What's a good tactic to contain and overpower the national socialists ?

This doesn't make any sense. I don't follow HoI4 so I don't really know about the game, but AFAIK it has only 3 political parties. And the fascists in Turkey would be Turanist not fucking Ottomanist, they would be reactionaries or something like that.

It really looks like trash, I wouldn't even bother with pirating to be serious. I don't see why would anyone play that instead of DH or HoI3

top-tier logic you got there mate.

Make sure your infantry techs are up to date, make sure your fighters are up to date, make sure your anti-tank is up to date.

The German tanks are going to be what kills you so if you occupy the rivers in the lowlands you can hold them off reasonably well but you need to make sure their bombers don't fuck over your units or reduce your forts to ruin.

Don't build much motorized, use 3 or so motorized divisions as re-enforcements to back up fights you are losing.

While you can win, your best bet is to hold off until the Soviet Union involve themselves in the war and from there you can make encirclements around the netherlands and push up.

After you're paused the German and Italian armies you need to build Armour to hold flat territory and to counter attack when you need to.

The only thing I'm looking forward to in HoI4 is the Kaiserreich mod anyway.

so I need to build a lot of infantry with AT support ?

absolutely based
archive.is/gA6kK

X RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE

DH doesn't really have AT support outside Tank Destroyers, which aren't a bad idea but they're 1940, just get Infantry with Artillery as your primary focus.
Don't bother building your naval units in queue or more industry, just hammer out infantry divisions until your manpower feels low, then build support units for your infantry, like medium armour.

what's the point of permamobilization ?
It would just ruin you, wouldn't it ?

I leave for 2 weeks and the stellaris thread dies. wew lads

Because Stellaris is only fun for two ingame weeks.

Oh wow, it's fucking nothing.

Black Ice is great except some BS things they added, like the fact you can nuke a country until tomorrow and it will never surrender.

indeed, fellow whitu pigu.

I'm wondering whether they got preferreds or regular stock.

what's the difference ?

Different voting rights on shareholders' meetings (with regular common stock usually having more rights). However, preferred stock owners get their dividends paid out before anyone else. Same applies to the situation where the corporation is in liquidation process with exception of bond owners getting their shit paid out before preferreds.

It all depends on the legislation (whether it's Swedish or American) and Paradox's articles of association (which is what usually defines the terms of preferreds aside from local laws).

tl;dr Depending on laws and Paradox's terms, preferred stock owners have less influence on the company in terms of voting rights, but have more guarantees in terms of dividends, etc.

Do you think there's a slight chance the investors actually tell them to stop being so fucking jewish and release games worth playing ?
who am I kidding; right ? But it could happen if Plebbit's backlash is huge enough after that joke of a game that is HoI4

Eh, it means they have an interest in the company which is bad enough news, all it would take is them buying up the other small parties and then Wester or Spiltan selling out for them to have over 50%.

Investors don't really matter. Like I said, according to the article that OP posted, Wester and Spiltan together hold the controlling interest (63.8%). They alone hold enough voting power to ignore everyone else.

Chinks got themselves 5%. Whether the rest of 31.2% are in still in freefloat or actually owned by someone else, I don't know and I can't be arsed to look up right now. Might do later out of sheer curiosity.

But yeah, if people were to actually back the fuck up and actually start cancelling their pre-orders and refunding the game en masse, the board would definitely feel that. But it's like you said, it's nigh impossible - their fanbase is too loyal and the rest won't care. Especially considering that the game is coming out tomorrow.

And why would Wester and Spiltan sell their share?

archive.is/Z6BI5
Right, it turns out that their IPO consisted of mere 15% of their total equity. Yep, this is definitely fucking nothing, lads. Aside from HoI IV being a trainwreck, nothing's gonna happen.

Also, check that fucking RoE.

Everyone gets greedy at some point.
From what I know of the remaining share, Swedish investment banks own a portion but that's the extent of my knowledge.

Well, like I said, it's nothing really care about. 15% of their total equity is not going to do much. From what I understand, 21.2% is in hands of Paradox employees.

Paradox follows Swedish law and isn't even registered with the FTC so if you're murrican, you're not allowed to own/buy the stock from what I can remember from the IPO.

Then as it is Swedish law and I have seen nothing about A and B shares (most common way to denote if shares has different rights in Sweden) it should follow "Likhetsprincipen" loosely translated "Equality principle". That means that each share has the same right to the company.

Oh, cheers for information. I've never really looked into Swedish corporate legislation until now.

Re-reading the prospect I can safely say that each share has the same rights as the shares offered came from previous owners and no new equity was issued.

Pic, who sold stock and what they had left after the IPO.

It was a good move for an investor to invest in Paradox a few months ago since paradrones are guaranteed to buy anything they shit out like hotpockets.
Good thing EastGermanyJake is showing the world how crap the game actually is.

*had
According to that list, after the IPO, Johan has exactly 1%.

Sorry, I can't read somali.
Still 1% is a fair share for someone who doesn't even enjoy what he's doing anymore.

Neither do I. But the picture was posted to show what happened to stocks before and after the IPO. That and the Swedish words for before and after (före and efter) sound similar to English, as far as I can tell.

To be honest, I'd be more interested to find out what sort of investment company that Spiltan AB is.

Investment AB Spiltan is a Swedish venture capital and private equity firm. The company, which is based in Stockholm, provides multi stage financing to businesses based within Sweden. The company will invest between SEK1 million ($125,000) and SEK10 million ($1.25 million), with a preferred investment amount of SEK2 million to SEK4 million ($240,000 to $490,000). Potential portfolio companies may come from any sector of industry, as it is more important that the business is a viable investment opportunity. Also important is that the management team is committed and has a strong track record. Businesses will be able to leverage the extensive network of angels and other relevant professionals who can contribute expertise for the development of the portfolio company. AB Spiltan will invest roughly 60% of its capital in private companies and the remaining 40% in firms that have already been listed. Private portfolios will need to demonstrate that there will be realistic opportunity for Spiltan to exit within three to five years. Most of the investments in public companies are done through affiliates such as Health Cap and Procuritas.

Isn't there supposed to be a HoI3 game today ?

Which is why I bought some in the IPO, now the crazy race it had during first days of trading almost made me sell them, but nah I take too much pleasure of getting money from autistic people.

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Same here. It's funny how easy you can make some quick buck out of retards just by looking up at what's coming.
I should've bought some Ubi shares before the Division came out.

Well I hope you'll have fun

I just roll with it. In any case, game is in 4 hours, 43 min.

I wouldn't mind playing earlier tho.

Too late for me sadly, I have to go wageslave tomorrow.

Host here. It looks like we can't get everyone in for the WW1 game. We should just play on Saturday.

Let's see if we can get people to play that random map.

Reread it m8. I'm saying the MP would have to be good as one of the conditions to warrant a purchase.

Agreed. We could play on the random map. Not that it's crucial since its a throwaway, but the three original people from yesterday are here and willing to play. Anyone else who wants to is more than welcome obviously, but if us three are here and willing to play then we might as well do it. I do have to go run an errand though so I'd be available in roughly 2 hours, probably less.

So the conditions have to all be fullfilled.

Yeah it wasn't one of the following, it's all three. If it was just one of the following that'd be euthanasia-worthy levels of retard.

It's like you never went to 4/gsg/

Who day 1 Pirate here??

It's gonna be just like Stellaris.

I regretted doing that with Stellaris to be honest, waste of time

Im expecting that as well.

forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi-iv-black-ice.923395/page-9#post-21329853

Apparently the Black ICE guys will be porting the mod to HOI4. Hopefully that'll make it a bit more enjoyable.

They'd have to fix Black Ice if they expect it to save HoI4.

I think I'll pass. Kaiserreich is the only thing I'm remotely interested in and that could possibly save HoI4.

Just mod it goyim ! We have worked hard enough !

I haven't. How bad is it?

Also I've finished the errand and can play whenever everyone else is ready.

At least reddit talks about the games, even if their tastes are shit.
There it's just a giant circlejerk that constantly spouts memes and post grossgermany games/

I am ready, playing that map SP to pass the time. No wonder you're having a hard time as Lithuania, Italy has 3 easy allies at it's border.

I'm Johan, not Endall. But yeah I noticed that too and knew he was going to have a rough start.

The problem is that I thought the county to the South West of me was going to go down much faster. I expected to take them down quickly before they could mobilize and then focus on other fronts. Instead I struggled to make them surrender while continuously losing land and organization. Once they did finally surrender, I did have the resources to hold the other two fronts. I think I could have won eventually, but that's just by cheesing the AI. From a purely strategic perspective, there should have been no way for me to win. I was surrounded by enemies from every side. At least based Japan came to help me.

Are you hosting rn?

I wasn't planning to. I was only interested in playing the WW1 game. I have my own time constraints. Can any of you host?

I've got to go at 4 (1.5 hours from now) for lunch anyway so a short little 1 hour or so session wouldn't be bad

We could try. Can you upload the save?

mp_Lithuania1937_03_21_18.hoi3
my.mixtape.moe/rhqflu.hoi3

Thanks. Let's try.

179.176.141.62

That's either the wrong address or you aren't hosting. Or I simply just couldn't connect.

Strange, I am, and the firewall is off too. Wanna try?

Has anyone else joined? If so keep hosting and I'll try again.

Nope. As far as i'm aware of, it's just the two of us.

Well shit. I thought Lithuania was going to play too for a bit

I tried joining again to no avail. Not sure what the issue is.

Host it then, i'll join you.

I have to leave soon actually, so there's not really any point. We'll have to play some other time.

Why is he so fucking bad at GSGs?

Here is my Egypt playthrough

Also, both Italy and the Two Sicilies coexisted until the redshirts showed up

But you didn't remove kebab at all. They have the entirety of their European holdings.

is there a torrent of hoi4 up yet

It is not out yet. It is shite anyway.

Due to severe depression (and severe autism) I have hundreds of hours in all Paradox games but I suck at all of them because I never properly learnt how to play, I just fucked around (in easy and/or with cheats), and now I feel like I can't go back to just learning from scratch.

But do tell, Holla Forums, where the fuck do I start?

PLEASE HELP ME

isn't it out in australia, or any of the countries ahead of me?

Shit don't work like that.

EU3, some minor German prince. Your goal is to form Germany. I learned with Hesse.

I remember feeling like I was learning faster in EU4 than I did in EU3, but I shall try.

Play Germany in HOI3, then come play with us in multiplayer next Saturday

Hey lads, I've made a club called 'Holla Forums' on EUW in the hopes of getting a bunch of regular (8ch or 4chan I don't care) Holla Forums browsers who play League together in the game. Add 'Glaswegian' if you'd like to join.

I wouldn't mind letting someone else run the club, I just started it to get the ball rolling. I figure we could chill and chat Holla Forums related stuff and maybe even play some games together. Would be sweet to play with some uncucked lads who know the man with the stache did nothing wrong.

I've asked myself that a lot, and I don't know. For someone who has so many videos of them on his channel he sure is terrible.

I can't get HOI3 to run on my computer, get a lot of blinking UI elements, and some crashes if I remember correctly.

Most of the talk in the threads was mostly complaining anyways. You can always talk about it here though since it is somewhat like a gsg, or just make a stellaris thread yourself.

It drives me crazy how loyal these fans are. Stellaris was a major fuck up and I see some people around the net praising it as if it's the second coming of Christ and how it's better than DW:U.

It's not surprising. I lost interest in the game after a week of playing, and most people probably feel more or less the same.

Too true. It's sad really. A friend even justified his purchase saying the game is "Just awesome" and never replied to my list of key complaints when I dared say it was mediocre at best.

Good luck then user

Details and managment if the size is small

I forgot about the bullshit web of alliances thing this game has where allies of allies of allies of allies of allies of a nation you declare war on get to join in the war against you.

I can't even tell if this is a bait or not, well played.

It's definitely something you have to remember to be careful of, but if you play it right you can use it to your advantage.

Are you ready to have your kids become Hitlers, Himmlers, and Goebbels'?

I saw that earlier. Pure fucking gold

So how bad is the game?

download in progress. Will report later

Is it confirmed that Hitler's portrait is removed?

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I'm gonna bet swastika mods will be banned

Why do people do this? Put it half in one language, half in the other? Either use German, and call it Deutsches Reich, or use English, and call it German Realm.

"German Reich" is almost as cringeworthy as the faux-cyrillic they used to use for commie nations.

pic

Guess Idownloaded the german version, because my Hitler is censored

How in the fuck? There is only like one version online and of course it is not fucking German. Did you actually buy it? Are you German?

No to either. I went on pirate bay like ten minutes after it released because there was nothing on kat, and there was this one sole torrent for a HoI4 mod uploaded literally just then.

holy shit I meant game*

I haven't seen that. The CODEX version is fine. IGG also have the CODEX one.

Nah if Hitler is censored it only means you need the codex crack, the §DM one doesn't unlock the dlcs

Codex crack: my.mixtape.moe/obchqv.7z

doesn't matter now, I already downloaded the correct version. Still, how much cucked can germany get that they censor even fucking faces?

B…b..but user if they see Hitler face they turn into ebil nadsies.

Are you implying Hitler is dlc?

They don't, paracocks did it for some reason.

Yes and no, the game, with the exception of the german regionlocked version, contains a "dlc" which unlocks Hitler and skull emblems for the SS.

German law prohibits showing Hitlers face in portrait, except for documentations and etc.