We don't have an official list of mods or OP image. If anyone posts in the thread about any "official" or not mods or OP images, promising economy fixes or not, be sure it's a shitposter namefag known for organizing raids and shitposting in the thread. They are known for false-flagging. Report and ignore it.No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5. On the otter hand, Project Caesar is /gsg/-approved kamige and you should preorder it now!How fares your empire /gsg/?Random Country Pickerhttp://orph.link/random
>>1906053You there, boy! More exteremely niche Iraqi discord drama images! At once and there'll be a shilling for you.
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too much lag on my dogshite wireless internetsomeone rehost it
>>1906121>>1906068>>1906054All me :)
feelsgoodman
looks like a fat person struggling to fit in their pants
what a retarded op image if not so literally-fucking-who-tier obscure
dead thread
back THE FUCK OFF ALREADY*shoves you*fucking bitch you think you bloody can bloody cyberbully my /irq/ friends you bloody have another thing bloody cooming bloody benchoid
https://youtu.be/mYnenIWZjwE?=ygWUygNWkCHotkAZ
>benchoiddamn zoomers
I've gotten bored with CK3. Which paradox GSG would you lads recommend moving onto next? I only ask because there's the steam sale atm.
>Which paradox GSG youre saying it like ck3 has been your only paradogs game so far.in that case play vic2
imagine how comfy this harbour was back in its hay day
imagine how comfy this empire was back in the day
>oirat not deadpussy
classic kilwa moment
rare early two sicilies
Germany actually should have won in 1915
germany would have won if kikes didnt incite socialist revolts (and if the nigger cattle didnt let itself be incited to revolt)
answer me>>1906041
>CWE 1992 start>USA starts crisis for the liberation of Kurdistan>jokingly support the USA hoping nothing happens>fucksomethinghappens.png>WW III breaks out for the liberation of Kurdistan>USA & puppets + Russia & puppets vs China,Germany,France and GB>win after demolishing Turkey and slapping China a little bitThank God nobody used nukes for turko-kurdish beef
>>1906611I wish so much that there was victoria 3, the game is fantastic but it lacks so many features even EU4 had, stuff like army macro builders, proper hotkeys etc would be a godsend to this game
nigga i literally have stated my meme goal in the exact post you have replied twiceso i'll just play normally until i get dip tech 22 that enables client state. because i dont really know about the ethiopian or coptic lore
>>1906618To me vicky 2 with some eu4 features like its characters,armies and custom vassals would be the perfect gsg.
We have a first female president in the USA! And she´s going to war just like Obama did before her to spread gay pride in Africa.
That's it? I thought you were just meming or had some larger goals in mind.
Are there any mods that fix arbitrary cultures? Like Karelian being Russian or Oromo being Amharan?
managed to get yerevan and antiochottermans not gonna like this one
oh no is this a lost cause? will i be able to use the return province if their opinion is in the negative
they'll break alliance when the war is over, but they'll eventually do that no matter what you tryjust kill him
like instantly or will i get a day or two to use that return province favor
you get like a month or so and they probably swap to hostile.maybe you can do it immediately after the peace, but i never use that feature so idk
gsg with similar hostile diplomatic action?
>>1906053Is Mount & Blade gsg? And if not, why?
your mom is a gsg
Can anyone recommend me a game / start for a nice chill empire building experience?I wanna become the second coming of caesar, but I want the process to be chillLike netflix and chill, but with gsgLike that meme with the cartoon dog just chilling, but with gsgLike a stoned teenager who doesn't want to hear his mom bitching at him about doing the dishes, but just wants to chill and play gsgAny games / starts for that feel?That chill empire building feel?
>>1906904It is, but it's a poor one. Half of its mechanics are designed to support an RPG experience.>>1906945>I wanna become the second coming of caesar, but I want the process to be chillChoose one.
>>1906949>Choose one.Choose one for me, anon
>>1906945Imperator Rome with comfy usage of console commands.
castile and chill start date 1544
>>1906953OK but I've never played it before. Is rome so easy that it's impossible to lose, or should I do something like Ptolemaic Egypt or is the meta some random germanic tribe or something?Or is it Isreal?>>1906954That does sound pretty chill desu but maybe not as chill as Imperator Rome what do you think?
antigonids but you declare war on macedon on day 1 and then rebuild the empire
>>1906951The former. Considering Caesar's legacy, and the fact that you'll likely want a long, conquest-filled campaign, I'd recommend Songhai, focusing on the Askia dynasty. Your goal here is to take over the continent.
>>1906887Shadow Empire
wth how are they this confident will i get memed on...?
ulm
March of the Eagles.
Someone told me this is a really weird rare game because how Europa is looking someone can give a qrd so how weird Europa is in this state of the game? Austrian Italy, Danish Britain and no France is really that weird>>1906990what graphics mod is this?
you're like the third person to ask me thatall disabled except forbordersriversstate bordersmods: graphical map improvements and performance friendly flat map
>>1907028>Burgundy and Lithuania surviving to 1717>Denmark cucking England out of GB>Austria taking Napoli and Southern France, but not Venice in a game with Aragon present>Aragon living to 1717>Poland taking parts of Carpathia without Ottoblob or Russia pushing deeply into Eastern Europe>Brittany bordering Austria in 1717>EU4 game lasting until 1717It's pretty weird, yeah.
I like you guys so I'll give this for freehttps://youtu.be/dww8Hekngmg?=W2v11mFSNY_VuCQY
>>1907028Those 3 things are the big weirds, Aragon expanding is also weird but at least sort of expected in the 1 in 10 games where they don't get absorbed into Spain. I suppose Denmark got Scottish inheritance, Castille didn't get Aragon or got it and lost it, while Naples broke free and then got inherited by Austria which also inherited Provence. No idea how that France thing happened though, maybe they just got gangbanged by Burgundy and England which is rare since Burgundy should also dissappear in most games thanks to the inheritance.Pretty weird game, especially sine you don't seem to have fucked with Europe too much as the player.
>>1907055>I suppose Denmark got Scottish inheritancemore likely is that they just conquered the place starting from Norwegian-owned Shetland, and England was too busy in France to fully evict them
>>1907038>EU4 game lasting until 1717What you mean by that?>Pretty weird game, especially sine you don't seem to have fucked with Europe too much as the player.Yes, i didn't mess with Europe in any shape or form, just tried to maintain a diplomatic and good relation with the threating countries and to be friends with Castille, i just declared war in north and center african nations, to expand my territory, and made colonial Brazil declare war in castille's SA colonies which ended our friendship and alliance, i have 250 hours of game, and was juat playing this run to learn about colonial and trade mechanics, i spent almost the entire game without any points in 60th or something position, just chilling trying to conquest west africa and colonizing Brazil. What i should done to be a great power and be at least in the score list?
Anon if you really want the game to be enjoyable I would just dick around in it without trying to learn all the 'meta' strategies or hyper optimize gameplay. EU4 is it's best when you're playing suboptimally imo
>>1907078>What you mean by that?Most people drop the game during the 16th or 17th century and start afresh.
Another game where I get to '38-'39 and waste months getting no progress done on any front while the Allies are bombarding the shit out of me
golden sun in da sky.
>liberiaheh
based liberians avoiding getting killed simply by not joining any factions or doing anything else in the game.
boys shill for GermaniaMen shill for Rossiya
non promoting pops with rigid statsgreat man theorynotable popssemi-auto cultivation of the landsimulated economythorough treaties and peace termsintricate diplomacy
i am an aristocrat; you people are serfs
hey what's up? i'm looking for a game set in the 19th century, a good game plz
I give up trying to learn hoi4. I seriously cannot understand it, every time I try to fix a problem in my playstyle I just get fucked more, am I just retarded? I can thoroughly play and understand basically every other paradox game.
goy4 has such a shitty ui&ux
>ui>uxwe're talking about a video game anon we call it a gui
gui is what i usually refer to as your moms nipples faggot
i call it hud
fkn hunting accident man
I think hud implies youre in third or first person
suuuure
>>1907116Why are you in Yugo in april of 39? Just start the war in autumn of 39 by killing poland if you are bad>>1907226Most likely
>>1907274>Why are you in Yugo in april of 39?I took the focus to release Croatia and annex Yugoslavia but they refused. Independent Croatia spawned and I went to war for it thinking I could quickly take it. The UK, France and Romania all joined the war on the Allies side but all they do is bombard me.Eventually I got the Poland focus and declared on them as well as I had like 30 regiments on the border doing nothing anyway.Since I was low on fuel, tanks, trucks and supplies, I consolidated my tank and truck regiments, things are looking better now that I have enough fuel and all equipment stocked up, but I'm not getting much territorial gains still.
>>1907282I would just restart and play historic instead. You lost a state to poland and allies have had year+ to build up with their war focuses by now.
>minor setback happends>just restart brois gsg really that mich of a pussy?Saving this is how actual fun challenges begin
>fun things are fun
>>1907293He could grind to victory yes but what's the point. He struggles with basic things there's no reason why he should grind away when he could start again and practice the fundamentals instead which is best done when you aren't in a meme war from 38 or 37.
>>1907292I was tempted to restart but I've already restarted so many times because I get to this point in every game and the same thing happens so I'm just going to run with it and hopefully learn some thing. It's never going to be an optimal run anyway with how much I'm doing wrong.
new swastika just dropped
>>1907296If you are going to continue then try to actually finish the fronts off. Bring the tanks to Poland and finish that first, use air to support the troops, especially in balkans because the terrain is tough and then go trough the netherlands for France once you have poland and either beaten Yugo or have the front in a place where you can just leave it with few infantry to guard while you move most of the forces out.
I love moldavia so much I prefer to see 4 of them
Would you guys recommend HOI4 to someone who has never played a GSG before?
only if that person has a cerebral palsy to begin with
>>1907298
>>1907315Ehhh, it's a good deal different from the others. There is crossover in the audiences, but if you liked one specifically I don't think you would necessarily like the other. Plus they are different enough that the skills won't really transfer that well either
Have you ever personally seen a woman playing a wargame? In twenty years, I have not.
>>1906053So, I want to make my own gsg.One of the ideas I'm playing with is having each unit have Discipline and Morale.One being the willingness to fight and the other being the willingness to obey.A lack of discipline caused many military disasters despite no shortage of morale.Essentially player has to balance the two. E.g. every time an army moves, it's morale decreases but its discipline increases, the reverse happens when the army stays idle.If unit's morale reaches 0, it will desert, while discipline determines their battle performance.
why bother i will make the gsg you've been waiting for howevermorale > discipline in pre gunpowder battlehistorical morale hit doesn't translate well into a game, no one wants to micro such thingi guess it could work with holy wars, general with morale booster, promise of plunders, good wagesbut in the end, how good the general is and how well drilled the army is are the things that feels more rewarding for the players
>>1907466What timespan?
>>1907491medievalishI don't know what will come out of it, but I thought it'd be interesting to create a blend of Crusader Kings and Mount & Blade.Basically, M&B has a unique in-person point of view, while other map games are all omnipresent.Basically where you only control the army led by your character.
>DUDE GERMANICS ARE RACIALLY SUPERIOR AND INTELLIGENT >Germans, in their intelligence, choose liberalism >NOOOO NOT LIKE THAT
germans chose fascism though, they were only forced by the world to choose liberalism
how does political belief affect you personally again
idk man it seems like they chose liberalism on their own and only went for fascism after the world beat them up
of course, the kaiser monarchy, known for being a beacon of liberalism
number of liberal regimes the Germans invented before getting their ass kicked: 1 (Frankfurt Constitution)number of fascist regimes the Germans invented before getting their ass kicked: 0
damnhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Gem-Rotterdam-2014Q1.jpg
>>1907505Every single Germanic country is superior to everything else especially non-European. Even within the communist bloc the one Germanic country was the best. The system is more of a bottleneck. Ethnic percentage of an area matters more than political and socio-economic factors. Can even use the USA comparing Detroit with Midwestern areas etc.
wth they can do that?? they're still duchy rank though?
after an hour of farming army tradition...be very afraid ottermans...
that 33,8k stack is happy that they're western now
they were winning actually and i got easy >0.5 army tradition from doing that. no need to chase my enemies, just had them chill at the coast and they will fall in line for the obvious b8
How fares the campaign anons?
what's the fun in a ming campaign? you start as the #1 great power, why not do a qing or yuan campaign? toppling the ming dynasty is always fun
Honestly it's very chill, managing tributaries and trying to keep them all alive. Already doe a qing and yuan campaign and I want to get the copium wars achievement.
You talking to me ?
>How fares the campaign anons?still in thinking-about-it stages but soon i might finally start my "crusader privateers" eu4-vic2 megacampaign idea
so is the new vic 2 youtuber girl a tranny or no
you should watch the osp tropetalk about itit's really good
>>1907315Yes, it's lot easier than the others and being new it has quite a good UI and lot of modern mechanics (regardless if you think that's a good thing). It doesn't hurt that it's the best paradox game as well but it's lot more aproachable than EU or vicky and lot easier to have fun with than ck unless you love larping.
can't hear my asmr over the sound of thousands of brown bugpeople screaming outside
>>1907736What´s happening?
>unite west africa as oyo>download institutions via released maghrebi vassal>make a formidable army >beat up mamluks and make them a tributary>they then become war leader against ottos/persia>plays like utter shit through multiple wars and white peaces when we're both heavily in debt>gets eaten by ethiopia in the interimtributary mechanics are shit
OyO
why do i even bother
>>1907921grandly strategizing your soccer team?
FINALLY IT IS DONE
>>1907981Very nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOqfuBgItDI/gsg/progress
>armored cars>cost 4 productions and 2 steel>shit stats>light tank>costs 3 production and 1 steel>has much better statsDid they just forget to adjust armored cars cost?
>>1907986There are a lot of inconsistencies with them. There is a final AT upgraded variant of armored cars (Like the Puma) but it is in effect the same as taking a light tank and giving it wheeled suspension.
>>1907989Now that I think about it, no one ever bothers researching armored cars for marginally better garrisons. They should make it like flame/arty/at/aa tanks where if you give a light tank the right modification (wheeled suspension) then you can designate it as an armored car. This way people would pick up the techs to create it organically and it would just take a little army xp investment to get it up and running if you felt like you wanted to start putting armored cars into your garrisons.
>>1907992yeah, it'd be nice as I'd like to utilize them, but it always feels like I am shooting myself in the foot getting them. Plus, in actual uprisings armored cars made a massive difference historically.
just watched that johani actually like how simple the army looks just like in the m&b gamesi guess you will add some unity particle system™ for the easy game juice laterso a battle will only last for a single day and they seem to have immunity when fleeing can't wait for the econ/logistics part ps seeing how it comes together motivates me into resuming mine (:
>>1907985I am going to be honest with you this look horrible
>>1907998cheers ladthere will be lots of things to be improved upon, combat the way i envision it will be a lot slower and more methodicalhistorically it took russia 10 years to secure the baltics during the great northern war and only after that did they slowly begin to make gains in finlandfor the time being i just wanted to bring some things together, test pathfinding, ensure the map shader works perfectly (that one was a real bitch), and have some basic mechanics to expand upon in the future>so a battle will only last for a single dayyes battles will generally last 1-2 days, 3 in rare cases, as was the case for that period. don't like how you can reinforce battles for weeks or even months in paradox games>and they seem to have immunity when fleeingthat one is just things not being complete yet. also for the time being AI doesn't take supply lines into account
>>1908003Rude
>tfw still no culture expanded update
post the dlc updated files THANKShttps://steamdb.info/patchnotes/16613894/(gottermeme and historical portraits of germeme)
>>1907985Armies need more weight and presence. I'm not asking for custom XIX century hussars for Dahomey, but some sort of marker definitely would be an improvement. Maybe add a frame around the army flags too, Swedish one melts into the background. Round up displayed army numbers - 100k rather than 100489 -it's just easier to read at a glance.
>>1907986Armored cars have always been bit of a meme and after tank designer entirely superfluous. That being said it's still good idea that they included them, it's better for DLC exclusive things to be larps and memes that modders can work with rather than mandatory things and powercreeped core features.>>1907992>They should make it like flame/arty/at/aa tanks where if you give a light tank the right modification (wheeled suspension) then you can designate it as an armored car.They would but armored cars are in another DLC (sold separately)
Me again with another epic pacifist run.Playing as Ulm, I got to 50ish provinces and 1400 development at this point in 1672 without fighting any wars throughout the whole game.
>>1908293It was just deving until tech 14 when I finally got enough ideas to start diplovassalizing my neighbors. Had to become a monarchy for marriage bonus and switch to reformed, because they get +3 diplo reputation compared to catholic with just +1. Considering Ulm has nothing in its national ideas, there was no other way than to turn away from God. I had to time it with the generic missions which gave +2 more diplo rep and it was just barely enough to vassalize Wurttemberg and Baden in 1580. Then it was smooth sailing.
Must have been really tough not falling asleep
>>1908293show what the world looks like
nuts
>>1908251>They would but armored cars are in another DLC (sold separately)That isn't the issue, the issue is that it would require the dlc that added in tank mods.
>>1908414Presumably if you can make tanks with the tank designer you then already have the tank designer DLC
>>1908437Yeah but that's tied to a dlc, hence why they can't move the APC to it.The new special research feature doesn't require a dlc to access by itself.
check out this ligma
who's steve jobs?
i don't knowwhy are you asking this?
stfu thanefag retard
literally who?
>it only takes one or two complete fagmunches to drive the girls away from any gathering.That's a good thing. Women should stay the fuck out of male spaces.
why is /gsg/ in /vst/ now?
we did a lil labensraum
https://youtu.be/llquJck7D-0
>>1908311No Iberian wedding, no PUs for Austria, lovely burgundian west africa, and most importantly no protestant league. Not a single elector flipped from catholic. I don't think I've ever seen that with no player intervention since they introduced them.
cool. are you going to transfer the save to vic2?
>>1908767oh btw since you seem to be such a pro at the diplo game - i was going to play a campaign as the knights of rhodes and for my campaign idea its crucial to ally aragon and get malta peacefully but somehow i cant get them to ally me, i restarted several times, even rolling new starts until aragon has ottomans as rival (for the +20 from "threatened"). not working out. maybe ill try again later today.
>vic2lol, all the cool kids play vic3 now>>1908807The biggest hurdle if someone's not friendly is military power. Get tech 4 before they do, hire extra troops and insult their rival.
>>1908807nta but you can ally any ai easily by just keeping relations over 100 and setting attitude to friendly. it might take a while but they will flip eventually. scornfully insult their rivals, send gifts every 5 years and set common rivals if you really want to speed it uo
>lol, all the cool kids play vic3 nowthere must not be any cool kids thenlol
>vic 3economy and finance mod seems pretty cool. thoughts?
>all the cool kids play vic3 nowif by cool kids you mean retarded paradrones, yes
>replycaps>ulm >lol, all the cool kids play vic3 nownigga just die
>>1908744This dude was born 2000 years too early.
>>1908815thanks man, didnt know being ahead in military tech makes such a big difference.still took two restarts and it was a really close call.the "crusader privateers" campaign finally begins.
how did it become a republic
>>1908806Do you use vanilla or HPM for converted saves? I tried HPM a few times but performance is always shit on converted saves.
https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Aragonese_events#Sindicat_Remen%C3%A7a
i don't use either one. i wasn't actually being serious about you transferring your save to play memegame 2
>>1908936vanilla
>>1908767>hussite lubeck?
never keep your military maintenance at 0
>Assad.jpg
How the hell do I learn how to play HOI4?
>>1909037It's gotten slightly more complicated with every update. Just watch some youtube gameplay where there aren't any cuts and you'll see everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbBjywJmcEM
>>1909037>>1909062
>Germany actually used u-boat transport ships in WW2>still never even mentioned in-game because they would be super OP
>>1908968I wasn't watching the north that closely so your guess is as good as mine. But the most likely theory is that it was Denmark who converted thanks to a royal marriage and Lubeck conceded to hussite rebels when they took over danish lands.
>Playing England in EU4>Vassalized Scotland and Norway>PU'd France, Aragon, and Ireland>Took all Iberian and Moroccan coastal provincesWho else do I gotta fuck up so that no one colonizes? It's always so annoying to deal with colonial nations/colonies. Will the Dutch minors colonize or only a formed Netherlands?
>>1909120AI's pick their idea groups with weights, any country can and will pick exploration or expansion. Dutch minors will colonize.
after meddling in iberian affairs, hospitaller spies have brought home maps of a whole new world...the knights set out to explore.
portugal quite established already
cringe larp
not larp, i just gave a bit of context as to how the knights of rhodes got to america, thats all
sorry i was just trying to get a reaction out of u
it's not even that much larphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospitaller_colonization_of_the_Americas
>every island named after a saintbased
>>1906053>Playing as democratic paraguay>Click the RP button that makes the general my leader and changes you to non aligned>"democrats start a civil war!">Well, fuck. I am at 90% democracy support and 0 stability though so I guess it's my fault>Cheese the civil war since their capital is in Sao Paulo>Close call, back to my war with Brazi->"democrats start a civil war!">what the fuck>0 change in democracy support when you start/win a civil war>0 change in stability when you start/win a civil war>Guess I'll just have to beat brazil and hope the peace stability is high enough to stop this happening>Beat brazil>But the democrats walk into my capital since I only have like 7 units at this point including the 3 from my puppet and cap meThank you paradox, very cool
>>1909037the minimap in goy$ is paid dlcthat's the only thing you need to know about playing it
>>1909037>>1909235yeah darkest hour: a hearts of iron game is just way superior
did grandi ever show up again after disapperaring?i haven't visited /gsg/ in 3 years
he calls himself granda now and wears skirts with frills
stop misgendering her you stupid fucking chud
>How fares the campaign anons?just colonise&chill for now.aiming towards the inca goldcatholic greek panama
she calls herself alice now and is trying to recreate victoria 2 from scratch
it must be quite taxing on someone to recreate a memegameeven moreso if you're trying to figure out how you can make it even more meme-er
xe calls xemself Ezra now and is trying to create the fourth reich
>still no CE update
Forming the Angevin Kingdom feels like such a noobtrap. I think I'd rather keep attack-dog France as a PU to fight my wars in the continent while I go take over the rest of the world.
>>1909337>tfw you form the angevin kingdom and it takes 2 years off your one culture world conquest
yea france is a good PU to have, but forming the angevin kingdom makes your name and color bigger, which is the point of eu4 in the end
How difficult is it to keep France in PU after giving it all its starting lands back?
so far no one has ever managed it but you could be the first
>>1909373You're not supposed to give it all its lands back, in fact you only give them like 3 or 4 if you want to inherit them for free via the mission/decision parliament issue. If I gave them even one province more then I'd have to manually integrate or hope to inherit upon monarch death.
all the values are busted in genie scout after the latest fm update i'm afraid... impossible for me to post traditional 'gsg' at this timenice england it reminds of quill18's circa 2013
my ally france is in top condition and at 75 trust but refuses my call to arms.whats the point in allies then?i guess its my bad, i didnt play the diplo game well enough huh.literally whats the point in having allies if they refuse to join defensive wars for no reason?makes me not wanna play this shit
and they wont accept me giving them rhodes either.yeah fuck this im out. dont know if ill resume the campaign.
>hes baiting again
>>1909464Dogshit4 is very unfair to the player, you should have known that by now
you should expect at least one of your allies to abandon you in a defensive war because more often than not the fact that your ally would abandon you is the reason you're in a defensive war to begin with
theyre the yawn
im sooooo boooored of all of the current GSGs... when are we getting eu5
i heard in an other timeline tranjan is still banning all mention of the thaneryke on /vg/
i heard in an other timeline you were employed and had a girlfriend instead of obsessing over drama on an incel tranime site
death to thanigger
>>1908293Brought my ulm pure diplo all the way to the end. #1 GP with over 10k dev. Not a single war, no colonization, no charter company, no threaten war. Pure and unadulterated fun.
>>1909574Political map with like 17 vassals just in Europe.Spain, France, and Ottomans all went revolutionary. France dismantled Spain and Russia dismantled Ottomans.
please use a graphics mod the default eu4 map is so fucking ugly
Complete map. Free PU with Portugal was very juicy.
>>1908293>without fighting any warsJesus, not even defensive?
latest albatross playtest just landed on the discordremember men, don't show off the anime tiddies until the NDA is lifted
>>1906053Differences in province size bother me.Like having huge province doesn't really represent the army's ability control the area.In theory all provinces should be about the same size, even if it's most of the are is poor, because it would depict the difficulties of controlling large sparsely populated areas.I guess Project Caesar is going to improve on it with the location system dividing some areas to be empty and stuff, but I still doubt it will give me the results I want from a gsg
wiz and johan both completely suck at game developmentthomas johansen single-handedly made gsg a commercial venture with EU4 and now he's releasing imperator patcheswhat's he cooking?
i don't agreein a province-based economy, a province is only justified for size based on its economic/cultural/spiritual significancethis is why russia have giant swaths of nothing just like real lifeinteresting to see how t.johan corrects this issue with its devolutionary total war style army-movement systems
>>1909618>Like having huge province doesn't really represent the army's ability control the area.Well, yeah it basically does.If anything the less urbanised a province is the fewer soldiers you need to control itDo you think even armies of 30,000 people can fully control even small provinces when they're marching together? The resolution of provinces represents the areas of land within which simultaneous occupation is impossible
Just realised you need to keep king Carrol as a party animal to get "death or dishonor or cake" so that run is now dead in 1942.Any recommendations for another run? I kind of want to play as a country that turns itself into a puppet through it's focus tree for some reason.
the concept of province being a rigid border is just retarded in the first place, it scales badly with development and such but it's convenient to convey borders, make map modes and not having to visualize countless villages, towns and other types of settlements
>having to visualize countless villages, towns and other types of settlementsWill the "locations" of eu5 be this? They are so small that you could theoretically depict every single village in the world as anon >>1909618would probably be glad to see.
>>1909639is this an american malady?there's something civic about defined-border provinces, in my view
>>1909641dear Godimagine having to individually manage each of these provinceslike, if there were a good reason to WC within a rp-esque setting, when are you ever building n Shilovo, slovakia ???grand strategy peaked with eu3
>>1909639>the concpet of provinces is retardedtell that to literally every administration in history
my house should be its own province
retard the entire point of administrating a region is that it can be flexible and not a pre defined one that can't be changed at all in paradog games
and im not talking about province (as in the real life administrative term)
>>1909634no, it doesn't, development does>>1909641many of those are still very large
>Do you think even armies of 30,000 people can fully control even small provinces when they're marching together? nigga you only need like 10k troops max to pacify a large city from utter chaos. case study: aftermath of caesar's death, nika riots, the fall of Tenochtitlán etc, virtually every sack of a city ever since the looters would be outnumbered 1:2 at least
>>1906053My another issue with Paradox gsg is army speed.When I first played EU3 20 years ago, I was so excited because I thought army speed was actually impacted by army size, I thought only made sense. 20 years later, and they are still not impacted by it.All armies regardless of their size move the same speed, with two exception:>in Imperator, different units have different speeds, and army will move according to the slowest unit>in CK3,some characters have a trait that make their army move 10% fasterRealistically, it was hard to keep large armies moving and together. Only that many people could walk on the road at the same time, if you kept waiting for every wagon, the speed would halt.So, it might be weird, but I'd like there be "traveler capacity", so that only X amount of soldiers can travel from A to B at any given time.
>>1909665>>in Imperator, different units have different speeds, and army will move according to the slowest unitisn't this also a thing in HoI? or did 4 remove it? because it was definitely a thing before that
bro is mad his 20k army barely moves faster than someone with 40k armywhat a clueless dumbass
Rhodesia is gonna make it
>>1909643>imagine having to individually manage each of these provincesThe upside of that is if you want to play small countries within a group of small countries you can create an interesting microcosm of them all interacting with each other. But it needs interesting internal politics and economy for that to be fun.
>>1909643you would do what IMP doesprovinces are grouped into areas, and areas are grouped into regionsRegions have governors, and you don't have to deal with invidual provinces, in most cases you only have deal with areas
>interesting internal politics and economythere's this mobile game called "lapse" where you decide things and for example get a malus on economy but get a bonus on the armywould be a cool little mini game
>>1909602The AI doesn't really attack you if you play the game well. The only spot where the AI will actually attack you is you are a micro state which you won't be after 10 or so years in the game or if you are blobbing badly and get coalitioned, which if the guy is playing as pacifist he definitionally won't be so I think him not fighting once can easily be true. I can't even remember the last time I was attacked that wasn't intentional.
>my king! our local jewish community has offered us to finance our efforts in the crusade! in return, they would be glad to receive rights and tax exemptions on every levantine port that we'll conquered!kino
alright folks what are the ideal borders for grobromaniums (Vlach)? don't fuck this up
yall think anyone who hasnt been to gsg in like 5 years or more suddenly had the will to relive it and now thinks its dead because the jannies kicked us out of vg
>>1909602I was enjoying the protection of great powers for large portion of the game. You can simply make an alliance defensive-only with a click of a button. Though that will be a constant drain on favors from that AI, so it sucks if you want to buy provinces from them for favors. Another solution is to improve relations and then switch to attitude to friendly relations with everyone nearby that your ally might call you in against. The AI will never call you in then. If your ally gets attacked, you can simply decline call to arms. Though that never happened this game. I only had to decline calls as the defender of the faith.
no because everyone that wasn't born yesterday knows about the bunkersong this yapper skibidied on that gyatt like chat couldn't see
Damascus has fallen... vgh...
literally how corrupt and inefficient bashar regime must be to lose hole country in just a week.
>>1909859No matter how wars start if they end decisively they end quickly
>>1909859its all trolled and controlled nothing is real anymore
>Always gotta remind the nips that they can't have shit
Army movement speed depending on army size would be a neat thing if one couldn't stack hella modifiers and instead had very few, very strong bonus one could get through specialization.A small, elite Carolean army should outspeed a large malnourished Russian army, allowing you to run circles around them. Unfortunately force limit modifiers, morale, and discipline bonus are handed like candy, so in the end both will have comparable armies regardless.
losing three major cities including damascus and fleeing the country in all under a week is all part of assad's plan, just you wait, in 100 years from now he will be known as the biggest military genius of the 21st century
damascus? eh, i'll deal with that later
damascus? but what about them?
This might be dumb question, but is there actually any proof that small armies are faster than the large ones? At the end of day, I don't think ten thousand men with cannons and supply wagons is going to be significantly faster than fifty thousand men with cannons and supply wagons.
quick mods are asleep post damascussy
dawg what the fuck is the spoiler image on this boardthis fucking sucks
yeah it really sucks. its not even strategy related.i still remember when /vst/ just opened and there was a thread to contribute a spoiler image and i was considering making one but i thought eh, cant be arsed.my mistake.sorry bros.i let you down.
No, Damascus has been saved
>>1901180With Richard leading the soldiers of Strymon in defense of his mother-in-law's lands, Sarrazine tried to turn her attentions to her own court, particularly that of her husband. She and Loup had had a well enough relationship, but had only had one child. While Sarrazine was far past childbearing, she aspired to rekindle the spark that they had tried to share 30 years ago. However, against a chaste man, her aspirations were for naught and it seemed that they would continue to share separate rooms. Similarly regrettable, Richard would return from Serbia with little else to show, for Judith, annoyed with the difficulties of combat in the mountains, had negotiated a settlement with Duke Miroslav: status quo ante bellum. This had included fighting against Duke Visarion of Raska, seeking vengeance for his father, but nothing conclusive had come from their battles.
Though the spoils of age were taking their toll upon Sarrazine, she could at least take pride that Strymon was prosperous... but there was always more that could be taken to make it stronger.Speaking with her lords, they wished to put their time in Serbia to good use and seize Raska, acting upon her previous papal dispensation against Duke Prvoslav as a way to seize Visarion's lands. However, this battle would have to be fought without any help from Carpathia, for Judith had now turned her attention east to Ruthenia, for the Russians had become slaves to the Mohammadan lash.
Facing against the Raska-Duklja alliance, Richard and the other commanders aimed to prove Strymon's worth by achieving what Carpathia couldn't do. Thus began the precious game of positioning and the strategy of obtaining the advantage, which was eventually claimed at Novo Brdo. Aiming to pursue the scattered parties, however, the Strymon forces found themselves caught in a pincer after crossing into Hvosno, and were forced to fall back in defeat. Considering her options, the Serbian forces now outnumbered her own and so Sarrazine turned to her mercenary contacts and back to Master Batury of the Panthers of the Greave, paying for their provisions so that they could join the war on time.
With their numbers and Bautray's skill, the Serbian forces were defeated at Naisos and Pomoravlje, and, soon enough, Raska was taken and rewards were gifted out.
>>1909908Depends on the time period, in premodern settings definitely, in modern ones they are still faster on the micro scale such as faster to react to a change in situation and then turn around fast for instance but there's no reason why a larger army can't split up into operational units and march just as fast as one smaller one when moving from A to B.
With that conquest completed on her own, Sarrazine levied the support of her realm that she was more than just a mere duchess, but that her realm was worthy of a Despotate. This then included the quick seizure of Vratsa while Empress Judith's war against Ruthenia was won the next year.Receiving confirmation of her despotate from Fasti, the Emperor also granted her the support of the Imperial Church to bring the proper faith to her new subjects.
Her trip to Constantinople was followed with a soujourn around the Aegean, trusting Mysonopolis to Richard, as he would, one day, have to take her place. Arriving back in Strymon, Sarrazine received news with her daughter-in-law of Empress Judith's passing, and, while Gizella's elder sister Etel took up her mother's mantle, worries struck the Gasmouli court when Despot Barthemelmi's pox followed his foul air from Nikaea. With eyes wary for Sarrazine's fate, God made the ultimate decision: it would be Richard who would ascend to heaven first, leaving Sarrazine with his only child, a daughter named Eunike.
There was only one justifiable action, and that was revenge against Barthelemi. The Despot was busy in a war against the King of Frisia, who had long claimed a portion of northern Anatolia since the days of the crusade that liberated Constantinople. Though the Nikaean had a strong army, it was the right time for Sarrazine to seize Serres, a county the Despot had inherited that separated Strumica and Mysonopolis.While Emperor Fast fought against the rebellious Duchess of Athens, Sarrazine's march into Serres was unopposed, and her sieges progressed as she consoled Gizella for her sister's passing, as Etel's Carpathia had been split between her two eldest sons, teenaged-brothers Borisz and Bogumil. However, her attention was needed elsewhere, for the Despot's men had finally arrived, but, with the help of some "Norwegian Pillagers" (no idea how I received those troops), the Nikaean naval landing was easily repulsed.
As Barthelemi was forced to retreat back to Anatolia, Sarrazine's forces followed him, ecnouraging him to sign the land over to its rightful owner in return for peace--as the Despot still had the Frisians to deal with. Taking her rewards and incorporating its cities into her royal demesne, Sarrazine's loveless marriage with Loup finally ended, though the worries for the end of her own time were soon approaching.With Duchess Mathilde of Athens starting a new doomed-to-fail rebellion, Sarrazine instead took to gifting Eunike the strongest realm she could, expanding further along the Danube, wherever Strymon could conquer. (last post)
lmao
>>1909924post your other art.
>just put two brick walls between each other lol
>plays on the shittiest quality possible>complains when the graphics look like shit and aren't detailed
ok let's see your suez canal mr. graphic bloat
bro thought it was the people's crusade
Sad!
fell in lava and lost all my diamont gearsknowing exactly how assad feels at this momentGod bless
israel is literally invading syria with no oppositionwhats the GSG equivalent of this?
>>1910196Reminds me of that Imperator diadochi wars mechanic, where land flips to whoever occupies it
imagine fighting over a piece of land you threw all intelligence and psyops and false flag and evils to obtain, only at the end of time where God is going to obliterate everything anywaykinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
dont care, you're getting blobbed on
and memed on...?
Just opened a box of cinnamon toast crunch, it's so fucking good.
This thread gave me chin cancer
cereal is disgusting
for mwah, it'syoghit n' oatsand some honey if i'm feling special
i could live off of yogurt and oats for a hundred years
They're really inconsistent now, sometimes it has like a peanut butter taste, sometimes they are toasted too long. I got a really good box though, it's delicious.
make sure you dont choke on it little guy
>>1910196>government of a country gets toppled>loses all alliances>you can invade with no qualms right now>be quickThis is only possible in vicky2
>>1910328problem is usa support both isreal and syrian opposition so they don't really care who win this conflict.
>>1910353Yes. I personally hope that the opposition pulls a Taliban move to cause as much seethe as possible.
what concerns me more is that erdogan fellerhe's a sneaky sneak, can't trust him and his flirtingeven putin can't figure out how far this feller's gunna' go before he trip 'n slip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVIs1msEO0
they found the assassinall the lefties cheering for him because they thought he was a communist revolutionary are now mad he's a fitness "tech bro" that wants humanity to colonize space and credits Christianity with western civilization
>>1909666Yes in railroads4 division moves at the speed of its slowest battalionWhich makes perfect sense and should be the case in every other parakike game too, it's just retarded how a 600k deathstack can easily catch up with a 5k one
>>1909859russia has been keeping the rebels in check via preventative carpet bombings and then just (((suddenly))) stopped doing so overnight for no apparent reason whatsoever. it's all 100% controlled, they'll probably get a good modifier for the ukraine peace deal in return
>>1909934It's a question of throughput. If a province has enough infrastructure to support 10k men moving across it per day, then a 50k army should take 5 days to cross it
actually it's already been stated that the syrian army has been rampant with corruption motivated by poor wages/sanctions/no oilin the end, the russians stopped giving a fuck minutes after the syrian forces said ggan airforce nomatter what nation is only so strong if its allied army has no drive anymore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgiyWGyJcIc
>dude deletes my bashar clip and then posts his own>in his own dead thread>is a janniedoes it get any more pathetic?
cheers for the song tho keep the party rockingi bludy LOATHE the antichrist
i too hate the antichristthat is why vladdy daddy is my guy
I'm just having fun in stellaris because it's the least gamey game pdx currently hasAs in, the least amount of artificial restrictions/"""features"""/excessive abstractions
we call it modifier bloats
had a strong foundation of like ~30 a-class custom civsit's on a USB somewherethe price of having to remake them keeps me away from wiz's masterpiece, and i could be glad for that
The worst part of playing the byzantines in ck3 is constantly going over your domain limit because some random fuck in the empire died with you as his heir and you have to stop what you’re doing and find the province to give to someone (the new owner will die in 3 months and give you the province back immediately)
meme restriction defying historical reality
can never play ck unless it's starting as a lesser //thanedom//,,especially ckiii game is so undertuned for difficulty it's quite bizarre
>>1910656Stellaris became boring the instant I started seeing the same exploration modifiers. Turns out I only enjoyed it when I managed early game development while my science ship larped as Captain Kirk
fuck stellarisi'll take distant worlds 1 over that any day
say that to /civ4xg/
i'd rather not converse with those lot, they're not bigoted enough for me
wanna play the free geoguessr again?
no but if you have a pistol ill gladly take it
well it could be a lifestyle issueit's time for you to start making a serious decision or two in changing yourself
I have always thought anime was pretty cringe, the only ones I ever watched as a kid were because I wanted to have sex with one of the characters.
always thought you were cringe retard
is this based or cringe?727watch Chi. -Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite- it's a kino af dramatization about medieval astronomy
its miserable thats what it is
tranime is cringe except for naruto
naruto is like the old testamentand boruto the new one
dragonball z is the old testamentnaruto is that catholic filler that i disregarded
When I was small I thought all the other anime is just bullshit wannabe Dragonball Z.
>HoI4 adds helicopters>they don't have any suppressionWhat the fuckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1IFv3R46lY
>>1910635Well yes and no. But consider what happens if you have a chain of 3 provinces, one with 10k, one with 8k and one with 10k again. How many days will it take an army of 50k and 5k to move trough that? It should be fairly obvious why the smaller army can move faster trough the bottleneck.More importantly, there's no such thing as a "throughput" in real life. If a roman army of 10k shows up to a village of 500 it's going to drink the wells dry and eat the fields bare, the "throughput" is gone. When the next day's group arrives out of the 50k total men they won't find food and water in the village but have to forage further to get the same amount of resources the first block had. This is just going to get worse for the next 3 groups that are supposed to follow. There's several things like this that hamper pre modern army movements, from low development in comparison to army sizes to low amount of usable routes to poor supply logistics to bad maps and communication technology to more chances of ambushes and surprise combat along the way. All of these disproportionately effect bigger groups of people and slow them down, it's not just the fact that the road can only take so many men marching at the same time (which certainly is an issue when talking about tens of thousands of men and animals).
https://youtu.be/cKGQ5tbA3DMimagine coding 'wildernessrise' back int othe game months or years after it was already in the game and you forgot to backup the files and 404'd yourselfhope somebody out there ends up giving two flips about 'wildernessrise'
https://youtu.be/cKGQ5tbA3DM?t=1303should have been linked to timestampnobody wants to watch tisuebox in2024 they want 'fishtank' *spurts piss*
whoever made the post about softcore japanese asmr might have reignited my interest in zionic post-revival grand strategyi retire my minecraft world in good faith(parked @ Thane Ridge atm)
'sure, i might not be as speedy as i used to be..., but at least i got Thane..."
dude. i just puto **eastmarch** back into the game so quick like...those aoe (<-taken acronymn, bad marketting) developers dont' stand a changce!!!*goes back into a deep, uncommunicative-catatonic asmrstate*
ah, yes... harthfield...for your elvish nagrandswhat goes on in harthfield?heck knows mate...maybe that's the greater part of its charm
does having a full-formed mod in an older game make it easier to import into future titles i.e wiz-ups 5:catalonia ?
>>1906053>>1906087were these posts unwitingly prophetic concerning 'our man' bashar?
...and, on that note, is there a better flag than this one?
not to say that this is a bad flag except for the dog-poo muhammed-stain iconography on it
half of my Vicky 2 campaigns are based solely upon how cool I think the flag looks
your random country picker made me realize how many countries there are in v2some very cool flags alsodynamic flags in eu might end up being pretty large same with productionbuilding-tradegood thingie
the thing is, gsg's will never return to a predominately 2d format the pivot to a classic grigsby-esque (without the gronkitude) throwback to what made gsg real is contigent on indie effortsand indie efforts (as in music,. as in everything) rely on the brown-art, which is; throwing things at the wall and seeing what stickswhich of course relies on a kind of agency and fearlessness but where does it come from? in my natural mind i would say it comes from amphetamines, but in reality it comes from the LordGod bless our efforts; even if its wiz-ups
what's your favourite liqtoria 2 flag?mine is commie DNB.I would like to give an honourable mention to a lot of the Chinese minors (especially when monarchist) for having flags way cooler than they deserve considering nobody is going to stay as them
this one
or this one if you've had too many beeahrs
why cant i play videogame
you must retain your juju unless it is for beautiful black woman
oh we use dollars here
baldwin looks so fucking gay in ck3, the metal face mask looks so stupid, it makes you look like a fat-nosed fatass that can't put down the fork, compare it to what baldwin wears in kingdom of heaven
>>1910668I suppose you only enjoyed the exploration part of it and not the 4X partIn which case I suggest checking out any of those space wanderer games like NMS, Elite, XYeah yeah they are all shit but we don't really have any *good* space exploration games so you'll have to bear with these ones and curse the universe for having been born this early
>nationstatesonline>discordinitiated>cat ears headsetwornyup it's gaming time
for me its dominions
for me its skyrim with sex mods and a bluetooth buttplug synced to the gametruly the apex of gaming
>>1910998your Christmas came early anon
>>1911011holy based
Hoi4... it is late 1942 WWII is happening, Hitler has completely stalled before hitting the Baltics, the westwall looks like wet cardboard, this is how it usually is after the DLC. When is Germany getting fixed after what the DLC did to them
>>1911036Forget that part about the west wall looking like anything, it doesn't exist any more. Brazil manage a D-Day
omg based! fuck nazis!
I was going to accuse the man above me of straw manning, but then I remembered that one Extra-Credits video where they suggested longer queue times for people who choose to play NAZIs or Terrorists (wonder if he would hold to that statement considering how popular the Palestine "army" is to the far left) and that some people actually resemble that remark.
yeah
I was exploring in Google Maps today and I saw that Berlin was so far East in Germany and I thought "Wait what? That doesn't add up".Then I looked it up and my mind was blown.I'm 22.
You should look up the Berlin Airlift
it used to be the heart of the german empire
>>1911129How's weather in Buenos Aires?
>>1909942{Despotissa Sarrazine Styrmoni of Strymon [1328] - 1353} Receiving the submission of Duke Arpad Hadik of Macva, Sarrazine was pleased to also receive Duke Stefan of Raska, who was pleased with his honors and titles, but wary of his Serbian peasantry. Proposing a celebration that could show how much the Latins and Slavs of the Balkans had been intertwined over the past hundred years, Sarrazine saw the benefits in not having to fight peasant uprisings in the mountains. An unintentional benefit was that it was attended by the neighboring Duke Miroslav Simeonic of Duklja who, with the proper rewards, was willing to bend the knee to Mosynopolis.
However, it appeared that this had all been a political scheme of the Duke: not even a year later, he was leading a coalition of other Serbian and Bulgarian noblemen to remove the Strymoni administrators who brought the wealth of the Balkans to the Aegean. However, Sarrazine's agents were quick to share this news and, preparing her forces, they quickly dispatched Miroslav's army when he tried to gather them outside of Moraca. However, the rest of his allies had marched on Mosynopolis, and so Sarrazine contracted out Captain Josip of Bulgarian Band of Pirinto to lead her forces to victory, for the sturdy walls of Serres and kept the rebels at bay. With Josip leading Sarrazine's forces to victory at Drama, the war was soon over and the dissidents quelled--and, now, Dukllja could be given to a more trustworthy subject.
Considering all of the titles to redistribute, Sarrazine made a critical decision that Duklja would not be divided, but wholly gifted to Averardo Medici, a well-educated Florentine accountant who had been leading Strymon's bureaucracy (some could argue the reason for the rebellion, but that discussion was never fully brought before the Despotissa). Promising to reorganize the land of the Black Mountain into Strymon's jewel on the Adriatic, Sarrazine was pleased with the service of the Florentine and the wealth he brought back from his Italian connections. They were connections that Emperor Fasti Beauffremont would've preferred himself, for the Drunkard of Constantinople was having enough problems maintaining his own rule.
With the rule of Strymon almost eclipsing that of the Emperor's, more rulers were turning to Sarrazine for safety and protection: one of them would be Duke Poul of Oltenia, who would gift the Despotissa solid lands in Wallachia, bordering the newly-established merchant cities of Vidin to secure trade along the Danube. And money would be important for Sarrazine, for the armies of Strymon had to be ready for the newly declared crusade for Syria, as the heartlands of Baghdad and Egypt were too defended, but Damascus was but a short march away from Jerusalem. Her faith in the Horned God long diminished after decades of inactivity, Sarrazine knew that she didn't have long before her fate would be read to her by Saint Peter. Unfortunately for Sarrazine, she would not know the fate of this glorious mission, passing away in her sleep as her soldiers gathered at the dockyards. With Strymon passing to her 19 year old granddaughter, Eunike, our tale will now follow those who joined that expedition, and the infamous debacle that came of Despot Andre of Nikaea. {Despot Andre Chatenois-Nikaea of Nikaea [1353] - [1355]} While the Beaufremont-Nikaeans had won their independence from Constantinople decades ago, Andre had inherited a weakened realm from his father, Barthelemi II, reduced to two castles in western Anatolia, while powerful magnates ruled the rest of his domain, circled by Frisians in the North, the Latins to the west, south, and northeast, and then Muslim states in the east. He barely had enough funds to supply his host against the Zengids, but, with his brother Zenon and uncle Gilles, could muster up some faith that he could try to make a name for himself.
With Antoich just across the Latin Empire's holdings in Cilicia, Andre set forth for Alexandretta and, hearing of other Crusaders passing through Cilicia, was quite peeved when most of them took the inland route, rather than assist in the coastal siege. As such, the Nikaean forces were isolated and alone when Atabeg Kilic Saltukid's army, led by Cumano-Mongol horsemen, attacked! Terribly outnumbered and outmaneuvered, those who hadn't taken the captured fortress were slaughtered or captured--which, unfortunately, had included both Andre and his brother Zenon! Despite the arrival of more crusaders, who resupplied uncle Gilles of Ephesos' remaining troops, Captain Sotan of the Turkmen Band took the Chatenois brothers across the Syrian desert to Gaziantep, where they would linger for many months. It was most cruel that Andre and Zenon were separated from each other, and could only communicate through another captured crusader, a Vlach named Tepes Diamandy.
>>1907498>giving each state a unique government type in its common nameDon't do this, it's retarded and it screams "baby's first worldbuilding project". Countries are normally not referred to by their full official name. We don't say "Federal Republic of Germany" or "French Republic", we just say "Germany" and "France". Also, you would typically have a lot of countries with the same government type, not a unique government type for every country.
With what little news Andre could collect, uncle Gilles was still leading the war effort, which had overwhelmingly turned in favor of Christendom, for neither Egypt nor Mesopotamia had joined in defense of Damascus. Some disheartening to Andre was that Gilles managed to afford Zenon's ransom, but not his, and so heartfelt words were exchanged between the brothers, Zenon promising to act as regent and ensure the lingering rumbles from Duke Matthieu Thorotte of Rum would be addressed. While it sounded like Andre would at least be able to continue with negotiations, Captain Sotan shared the grim news that, at 56 years old, Gilles had died of his age, and so it was now up to Zenon to earn his brother's freedom.
However, Zenon won a much larger prize, as, taking up Gilles' army, had marched on Damascus and seized the city: he was now the King of Syria! {Despot Zenon Chatenois-Syria of Syria [1355] - [1355]} While the whole world was in awe of the Chatenois' achievement, Zenon's redistribution of lands and titles in wake of the conquest was quickly conferred to the Papal legates who had tallied the actions of the crusade, Zenon was more concerned with his brother's realm, which he, quite frankly, hadn't even returned to. While a portion of the Nikaean army would join him in Syria, the remaining troops made back for their homes, which were currently under threat from two forces: Duke Matthieu of Rum had allegeldy raised troops in absence of his brother and their uncle, while a number of Egyptian corsairs had started raiding the western shore of Andre's realm!
Ransoming Andre from Atabeg Kilic, his brother was quick to return to Pacatiana, for not a moment could be wasted. Having told him of the loot that his soldiers had brought home, Andre was quick to pay crusader veterans to deal with the threats to his land, rather than use the few men that Zenon could keep for himself. Trusting that his brother had the ability (and the funds) to lead his own realm, Zenon would tend to his new crusader realm and what would be the fate of Damascus... (last post)
name dropping your fictional characters is cringe and off puttingdo it without the namedrop
nothing wrong with him talking about the characters in his campaignthe game itself isn't going to make sure anyone historical (other than genghis khan) is born into the story after the start date anyways, so everyone that does get generated is fictional/ alt-history
>>1911159it's supposed to evoke sense of clash of civilization of the bronze age, rather than neutered world where all factions are part of the same civilization
>>1911295Well, it doesn't.
>>1911159kingdom of x and duchy of y do actually sound better than nowadays soi republic of z or le people's democratic of soimaliland
>>1911295It doesn't evoke that. It just evokes "this world was made by an amateur who has no idea what he's doing.">>1911373Except nobody refers to them that way, they just use the name of the country without the government form. The only time government form is used is when you have a fractured country and the government form denotes which half you're talking about (i.e., People's Republic of China vs Republic of China, Democratic Republic of Korea vs Republic of Korea, etc., but even then you usually see either directional forms like North Vietnam vs South Vietnam, North Korea vs South Korea, East Germany vs West Germany, or other name choices like China vs Taiwan).
bro it's literally just a legend label on the map
>>1906053What's the point of this thread when there's already generals for all the games discussed in it?
/gsg/.. home.. where legends are made...
>>1911380> "this world was made by an amateur who has no idea what he's doing."You are representing your personal preferences as factual truth as if you were some sort of authority on the matter.I have been worldbuilding for many years and have seen hundreds of fantasy maps, and I have concluded that most of them are not interesting to onlookers. They tell you very little about the state of the world they are depicting. Most people don't read your lore no matter how much effort you put into it. So, if you want to convey quick information to the people, it can be via details on the map, which might make it interesting to them. Therefore, the map needs to tell a story and indicate dimensions. One aspect of it is the naming, you can name your factions: Alaphia, Batatia, Celatia, and Dilatia. But those names wouldn't tell you anything about them. The same persists if they are all "kingdoms of X", as they don't stand out. This is why giving a unique government name at least implies some chaterization.
>>1911384It's for retard containment it keeps the other threads more civilised
>>1911396You are correct and he isn't
>>1911396You are wrong and he isn't
First time seeing this event. The granddaughter of Skanderbeg, a leader as godly as he was, patron of the arts, joins the battle against the t*rk on the front lines. Long Live Blerta.
what the heck where did you get +14 on mil that early from
i love this fucking tag
3 (base) + 6 (ruler) + 2 (focus) + 2 (advisor) + 1 (noble privilege) that early isn't unfeasible
i hate how they have stuff like this in their code. how does that happen
NTA but I suspect it's something like "any political philosophy after Plato's Republic is liberal."Or maybe including Republic, since it's arguably pretty liberal in the actual sense.
>>1911380>The only time government form is used is when you have a fractured country and the government form denotes which half you're talking aboutthere are a few other times but ironically in those it's not uncommon to see the country referred to only by its governmental title and the actual country part skipped over entirelyfor example, nobody calls it the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but just calling it the United Kingdom without any further elaboration is at least not much less common than the more metonymic (Great) Britain (or even just England). or, for historical examples, La Serenissima versus Venice, or the Commonwealth versus Poland(-Lithuania)...then you have the United States of America versus just the United States versus just America, where it's anyone's guess>>1911494if it makes you feel any better, in the file the option is followed by "##Commit Soduku", so they can't even be bothered to spellcheck their meme commentary
BY THIS SIGN I SHALL CONQUER
niggers
it depends who's calling it that"hungary", "budapest", "the hun state", or some mispronunciation of "magyarorszag" are all valid ways to refer to hungarydeciding which people call it what is a big part of good characterization and worldbuilding
wrong. the only valid way to refer to it is as the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, or some translation of it
crown of literally fucking who???
Stop saying the nigger word
HuN
make me, kike
>>1911187Like my {character headers} or something else?I was mostly using those for my own typesetting in my external document, but I can understand how they're wonky here
other thread got purged by the modscheck this out
wasnt oyo the name that one really shit android console
>lowkey admits I'm rightOkay, but why do leftists (i.e. you) always have such violent, disturbed fantasies?
>other threadwhat other thread
League war won, turkish menace defeated.The job here is done.
the turks are winning irl right now
official balkan unifier ranking1. srbija2. byzies3. bulgaria4. turks5. hungary6. svyatoslavps rome doesn't count since the balkans didn't exist back then
3 4 and 5 are the same thing
>roman>conqueror>robust>quickgod, it's so much fun being an ubermensch
if its romania then why arent you vlach
741 what about the Dalmatians
>>1911741Where is the Latin Crusader Kingdom option?
>>1911396Look at a map of Middle Earth, you triple nigger. Gondor, Rohan, Mordor. You do not know better than Tolkien.
ok that was so uncalled for
is it possible to teach a dummy foid how to play hoi4? if so would you do it?asking for a friend
>>1911864Watch a youtube video where there is no gameplay cut out.
how about i circumcised your dick you reply using faggot
>>1911884I’m already circumcised.
finally a circumcomrade
>>1911864Just play the game? Start as low effort country like Italy or UK and explore different parts of the game over the course of multiple games
>>1911933Italy is a terrible beginner choice now with their stupid balance of power system and broken lost territory mechanic.
>>1911934Fair point, I haven't really played vanilla at all for the last two DLCsWhat is currently the most beginner friendly nation then? I heard USSR also got some bullshit mechanic where you need to constantly press decisions and cripple yourself or else civil war?
>>1911942Germany.
>>1911864Start with Germany first. They have good templates and industry to ease you into the game so you can play on autopilot. Once you get a feel for combat, terrain debuffs and supply management then try other nations.Biggest tip that no click farming grifter will tell you is pic related. Put your armies on carefully execute battle plans and the AI will only fill a province if it will not go over supply capacity, unless you manually order them to move there. They will stand next to the province or nearby instead of causing you endless frustration with out of supply penalties on your front line.I haven't played with cohesion much but that's the next thing I'll be experimenting with to see how your armies behave on different settings.
>>1911964>Biggest tip that no click farming grifter will tell you is pic relatedExecuting battle plans is for after you've already broken the enemy with micro'd troops or completely overwhelming supremacy. In which case you might as well set them to aggressive.
>>1911934i played the hoi4 tutorial as italy vs. ethiopia (and lost)
>>1911972As I said, Italy is a really shitty tutorial nation (and nation in general) now.
>laugh it up you ugly hungarian macaque. your destiny is to be obliterated into nothing by a chinese dongfeng missile.
update on the crusader privateers campaign.i picked it back up after ragequitting - when ragequitting i didnt save the game so i went back to an older save and because of this the france-brittany war and the ottoman war didnt happen at the same time so in this timeline ottomans never attacked me for rhodes (yet).so yeah, coming closer to the incan gold. castille is also close, they are south, im north.it will be a race over who can beat up the american shitters the fastest.
the race begins
castille was faster damn
kwab
castille is losing control
>>1911864Yes, the game is very accessible. If you are at least somewhat familiar with video games or have played some paradox games or other strategy games then just pick Germany and start doing things. Follow the historical path, declare war on poland in summer/autumn of 39, go for France trough the lowlands after that and soviets in summer 41. Pick up the other countries as you see fit/have time, Norway in particular is probably not worth the hassle but a good target to practice naval or aerial invasions on.If you are literal video game baby and this is your first game then pick something like Hungary and just fuck around until the game ends, join Axis with your focuses and watch what happens and what Germany does so you can play them in the next game.Just fuck around trying to do things, learn what the buttons do and don't expect to win on your first round and you will be fine. If you lose to Poland you are ultra bad, if you lose to France it's not that bad but even beginners should be able to roll France, Soviets will be a test on how well you did. When you can win against Soviets play some of the other countries. Soviets and USA are good picks afterwards for an entirely new game.As a general tip, try to have at least 2 types of divisions, cheap defensive ones and expensive offensive ones that you hopefully control yourself. Battleplans give your units an attack bonus when the units get ready to attack (or plan as the game tells you) but actually activating the plan is not that great of an idea.>>1911933Italy and UK are terrible starting choices, having weak industry, no clear goals on what to do and having to engage with naval invasions and/or Africa. If you just want to not play the game for a while and be safe then pick USA.
GayAssGenerallmao
haemos mons my fellow byzpedophiles
>>1906184Kleindeutschland borders are so much better it hurts, I think only way to make GroBdeutschland look as good is to blob into poland.
>>1912090yeah
the romanization of the mediterranean is going beautifully, having the pandidakterion and culture conversion speed game rule being set to 4x speed really do wonders
Cheating nigger
I'm just doing it for fun desu, I love spreading my culture in every gsg. And as far as I'm aware, it hurts me more than it helps me, as all of the shitty low-dev provinces I'm converting only makes the average dev of provinces of my culture lower, slowing down cultural fascination progress
>actual footage of aliens (real)guys don't watch or the government is coming after youhttps://youtu.be/j0S4lQwRKng?=N1PHP2yGHp8_nTWQ
now do it without cheats loser
>barely got half of italy to become romanlame!
I’m still mad my Latin Empire game was ruined because of the broken fucking CK3 ai that can’t keep the strongest empire in the game alive for 150 years
>>barely got half of italy to become romani played with default culture conversion rate. you can amp it up in the gamerules but i didnt.
even with normal game rules you can get far beyond that in ck3, ck2 just sucks
uhh no it doesnt suck it felt like a pretty good pace.culture conversion is a slow process.
You talking to me or the other guy ?
>>1912157You mean that Strymon game? What exactly ruined it?
Okay I think finally I actually went insaneI want to play ImperatorThey said the rewooorked version is good right? Any recommendations beyond the usual one?
That wasnt me
I love cock
I also say that
>>1912198No, this one. I can't get the 3rd Crusade if the ERE fucking kills itself immediately. I even went back a hundred years and it fucking happened again.
^not an issue in ck2
>greek takes control of kingdom>starts converting roman provinces to greekFUCK these niggers, I'm so glad I can depose governors
>>1912209If you played EU before most things should be familiar. Rome is a beast you either want to slaughter early, or be far enough to ignore.>>1912221Right, Norman guy. Shame, your campaign had a fun premise.
>>1912226I've played Imperator pre-rework and it was nothing but a painting simulator (at least Rome has that Senate stuff, but I played Egypt and there was quite literally nothing to do but to declare declare declare in all directions), did that part change? Any worthwhile mods?
>he plays with plagues turned on
Hey anons, I'm thinking about getting into Hearts of Iron. Should I buy HOI III with all the DLCs for about $4, or should I wait for the HOI IV Steam Sale?
My pronouns are she/her
>>1912243>HOI IIIShit>HOI IVAlso shit but less soYou only need to buy the base game, DLCs are to be piratedIf you don't care about mods and/or don't mind having issues when installing them then don't buy the base game either
how is hoi3 worse than hoi4i heard it was better btw
i also heard its map was broken into more pieces, which as a war game this makes it better
Just try playing it, it really didn't age wellIt's very different from railroads4 but for once this isn't actually a good thing
It aged fine you're just low IQ
>>1912264>but for once this isn't actually a good thingDepends on your level of autism. It is a way better wargame simulator if you aren't a normie and can handle the OOB
first treasure fleet
begging you to install a graphics map mod so we have to stop looking at the butt ugly default map every time you post a screenshot
but eu4 is ugly even with graphics mods so why bother
show me a map that you consider not ugly
the ck2 map is literally the ugliest map in any gsgyour opinions are dog shit and nobody should listen to you
crusader privateers...damn i need a lot more light ships to steal castile's gold i guess
>>1912260it's comments like these I know no one on gsg is actually playing any gsg games
said right after two people post their campaigns
wrong, the eu4 map is the ugliest pdx game mapnext is the hoi4 mapand then ck2 mapvic2 has the best-looking map, unfortunately that game is a memegame
how can you have such terrible opinionsi bet you jack off to furry porn
seconding the above post
no, i actually hate furfaggotryyou're terrible at guessing my sexual interests so far
>furry hater has shit tastestypical
actually kill yourself
>>1912298Second ugliest map after hoi3, just kys yourself you tasteless lout
>shapes Hungary like an egg for 8 years
I think this is my most aesthetic map
>>1912355Also it's kind of like France and the HRE swapped places, which is neat.
ck2 would have been an all time great game if they didnt fuck up the map this badlylooking at the med makes me want to rip my eyes out
I look away for 2 seconds and these niggers are hugging my borders all around, just declare war on me lil bro
wait fuck he is
>>1912224dumbass
the moment the roman empire became greek was the moment its history was a slow and terrible decline
catholic golden horde and muslim white horde, how we feeling about this bros?
just realized the development of rome is 24what in the world happened to this poor city
very strangemy version of pirated ck3 is still 1.5.1 and i can't figure out which part of your ui is different from mine due to mods alone and which is different due to version differencei just know that yellow cup icon on the left is vanilla
on the right*, excuse me
write a book about it
today i discovered vijay and chill..
>nagars
so cheap lol
theeggghhnnn restored the rike with minimum CtD'ssharing it with all my (AI/non-AI) friends on discord as we speak
(now is the part where you beggar on bended knees, hands clenched)i may show you seeland later on if i make it down the highway without my failing brakes giving way
special thanks for giving it to the gujuRATians btw i felt the release from across the grlobe
>>1906053Think all map-painter suffer from the same issue.After a certain point, you are able to beat down the strongest empire, and after that, it's just repetition with no risk.Some games introduce mechanics to slow down expansion or shattering mechanics, but is it really fun to see your empire collapse?I think it's just a fundamental flaw with map painters. The GSG shouldn't even be about nations but individual people.Countries are vehicles for politicians to improve their own interests in pursuit of their happiness. That is what history is all about.So, instead of a game where you play as Ottoman Empire and select which province you conquer next, you should play as Ottoman sultan and focus on selecting which wife you are going fuck next, and occasionally you can conquer something. Like Genghis Khan 2: Grey of the WolfYou'd think that would be the bread and butter of CK3, but nope, it's a thinly disguised map-painter with Tinder events.Either way, that was just a random rant.
>The GSG shouldn't even be about nations but individual people.true. are you a newfren who hasnt touched ck2 because ck3: new = better?because ck3 still cant hold a candle to ck2.and ck2 is very much like what you described and its less blobby than ck3.
^this anon has not played ck3 since release
honestly nothing pushed me away from nazism like gsg knowing i shared blood with all of you made me significantly less proud of it. Once I was firmly pro natalist but now I see the awful truth. No Jewish demoralization project has ever been as effective as the internet. :(
>>1912618I have played CK2 for 1000 hoursI will say character gameplay is better in that like I could just sit my one-county island for centuries, and do society stuff and occasionally deal with my son trying to depose me. But CK2 has other issues.I will say the weirdest thing CK3 did was get rid of Ambitions from CK2. So, in CK2 your character could select ambition, such Get Married, Get a Son, Conquer a Kingdom, etc. Very simple stuff.Granted they didn't do much with, but I feel the ambition system could be expanded to something really sweet.One of the problems with CK3 is that you can play essentially the same character every generation. Your son has good chance of having same traits if they were mentored by your previous character. Even when they don't your gameplay doesn't really change.What if every character had their own ambitions and dreams? Like they would be randomly assigned Ambition, and player would have complete their ambition or suffer stress penalties.
I love the ability to customize titles in ck3, I think it's one of my favorite parts about it. Really makes roleplaying and immersion a lot more fun
>Galiciabut why
Wait fuck I didn't even notice that, I think I got Galatia and Cilicia mixed up since they're right next to each other in the region and ended up with Galicia because of how similar it is to the two
i just thought of a really cool internal mechanics. eu5 is so over.
>>1912772don't get it
the meme or my post
>>1912684cilicia is smol and doesn't fit your big blob conventionsplit the east into cappadocia inatead
oh no no no no, he's having a meltie
the memefirst off, who is the slut on the right
man what's up with all them drones
52then keep wondering
bros will i be able to vassalize and core them?? imagine vijay britain vghh...
had to lose half my income by ditching trade ideas for explo just so my boats could get to europe and no cb 2x just for this moment
check it out i came 4th
>restored the roman empire>legendary figure>conqueror trait>title was "the great">conquered big swathes of land>fought and won 34 wars>has sex outside of marriage ONCE>"he will be remembered for his uncontrollable and insidious lust"I like this concept of talking about your character's legacy, but the implementation just sucks, your character can literally conquer the world but step on a cat once when he was 10 and it'd just be a paragraph on how he was a cat-stepper and will always be known as onealso, the conqueror trait seems to be inherited? I don't know why this is or if I have some option/government thing that makes this be, but it seems completely unbalanced
Louis VI was the first French king in years to actually rule and saved the monarchy from complete collapse, laying the way for France to gradually become the strongest country in Europebut he's still called The Fatthis is just how this stuff really works
>>1912953map looks good meneth
mod almost makes ck3 look like a grand strategy game
>>1912953it is inherited by default, yeahit's pretty fucking whacky and personally I would wind it down to lowest frequency and no inheritancewith the possibility of someone rolling the scourge of god modifier, of course
>Have to get 37 more prestige before England embraces the Renaissance to get FacetingGuess we go to war then. How fares the campaign anons?
Wow so it was literally all for nothing. Very cool game
A dub is a dub I guess
>200k dead >Bohemia in ruins>Had to let Byz and Epirus die to Venice and Turks respectivelyWe got our diamonds albyit
>>1912953play meme game get memed on loser
what gsg that's not a memegame
darkest hour: a hearts of iron game
*yawn*>inb4 haha i wuz riteFaggit.
>>1912953you can't expect a game to boast about your conquests you lazy neetyou have to become an aar wiz and put your writing skills to the testit is then that you can consider yourself worthy :^)
why do i have less than 200k manpower max with quantity completedalso thailand is apparently the emperor of china
>New civ trailer drops>Everyone is either a seamonkey or a dinduWhy is every historical strategy game trying to distance itself from "eurocentrism"
will eu5 be easy to mod for plebbeiansasking for a mate of mine... he's a bit of a thaner
because video games can now be used as propaganda tools to push your political agenda?why do you have to ask when its so in-your-face?why do you even follow this crap? its quite literally trash in digital form.and these games have nothing to do with sid meier anymore either, he is only a mascot at this point.
how about learning the lesson of rome, which burnt out its core population of romans (and assimilated peoples of Italia) on retarded wars against Parthia and such and resorted to hiring G*rm mercenaries, then collapsedwhat about the fact that multi-ethnic societies do not work except under a system of religion-based feudalism or hardcore "we will genocide half your population if you try to revolt or refuse to pay taxes" shit that the romans did
oi i just installed age of enlightenment from some new-age russian 'freeware' site...it came up showing multiple trojan and bitcoin mineris this the fault of the thane?
what happened to rome was a good thing, god wills it
620k turks in swiss mountainsno fucks given
GSGs need some hard limit for the amount of soldiers in one province, there's a difference between having too many soldiers in a province that are taking attrition, and having over half a million soldiers on one fucking province in the highest mountain ranges of europe
How does vicky 1-3 simulate institutions?
what do you mean, only vic 3 have institutions
it only has thought guilds
the english civil war was about communism
Has Joe Rogan ever talked about this
joe rogan doesn't care about british history
>>1913497read >>1912347
joe rogan doesn't care about white people
if I tax liquor in vic3 and lower normal taxes will my population have higher sol? Will it help them gain qualifications or am I overthinking it?
vst mod literally put a 150 image limit on an only general that frequents 150+ image uploads
>line go up>dopamine go brrrhow fares the campaign anons?
As a home owner you are allowed to join the HOA and participate instead of sitting in fear of the local lord and his footmen coming to burn down your unlicensed turnip garden.
>>1913147Done with my Granada playthrough. Late game was a slog as usual but fairly balanced considering all the european great powers including me hover around 1 million troops. The start was really insane though. I went bankrupt twice in the wars against iberians. Then I didn't blob into the easy regions because I wanted to stick to only conquering what the mission tree says. Had to wait for a golden opportunity to finish off the crippled states of castille and portugal, who kept being allied to france/GB or protected by defender of faith Commonwealth.Late game France whooped my ass in several huge battles thanks to morale, but Ottomans were then a total pushover. I still can't decide if I want to keep playing very hard or lower is to hard. On one hand, I like these strong countries that the AI builds, but the early numerical advantage is frustrating to play against sometimes. Having to go to 70/30 force limit to fight a war is nuts.
>get dumpstered scrubsunholy alliance btfo760embrace the vhpill
forgor my captionbased or cringe?
you force capitulate from low war exhaustion even if you occupy entire enemy nation in vic3… epic
I wish the scope of HoI4 wasn't so out of wack.In real life 5 American naval assault divisions participated in D-Day.In my current game 5 Brazilian divisions just invaded Phoenix Island.
r8
strategy games were a mistake
I successfully grabbed all the ports behind the Allied landing in Canton. The chinks are slow to capitalize on it but I think they will get there eventually.
>notice bongs have 18 divisions on a tiny island that doesn't have a port so they can't leave>jump on the island>pop last stand because i'm technically defending I guess>instantly wipe 180k bongistanis
meme gameplay darkest hour: a hearts of iron game instead bro
meme hour: a memes of iron game
ottomans are for bullying
>tranimedidn't click
>>1910994Speaking of which, I remember reading long ago that accuracy would shift based on the height of the attacker vs the height of the defender (modified by weapon length), so giants would strike men in the head more often while men would slash giants in the legs unless they had longer weapons like pikes to make the difference up. I used to notice it back in Dominions 5, but in Dominions 6, my horsemen keep lancing humans in the ankles.I suspect there is a bug in Dominions 6 where mounted units are using their own height for attacks, which results in their swords flying out of the horse's belly and stabbing barbarians in the knees.
still not playing that ugly ah meme game
>>1912615>Some games introduce mechanics to slow down expansion or shattering mechanics, but is it really fun to see your empire collapse?I think it can be, as long as you have ways to interact with the world besides map painting.If your empire disappears and it's as if it never existed then that's boring. If the influence you had shapes your former colonies in a way that continues your legacy or creates interesting future interactions then that's interesting
>>1914757The reason why I love Imperator so much is because your empire actually leaves a legacy.If an empire is constantly getting occupied, its population begins to drop significantly. Its pops are enslaved, while other pops start migrating out of the country because they are unhappy.You build roads and cities, not to get more money, but to keep pops happy, otherwise, they will start migrating out.And demographics are constantly changing, a kingdom can only have one or two ruling cultures, and the rest will have to be assimilated. Slaves are not eternal, if you stay in peace your slave population will disappear, because the slaves pops will assimilate into the ruling culture so they can become freemen.It's the complete opposite of CK3 and EU4, where you pay mana to convert a culture and build buildings to get +2 more income. And where constant occupation only grant temporary negative modifiers.
>>1914766CK2 was also like that to an extent, where because everything was statistical and your influence over individual provinces was so removed religious/cultural conversions were a much more gradual process.Also it applies to both, but obviously being able to leave your dynasty on another kingdom even when it split left some kind of legacy (and gameplay opportunities for reintegration later on)
they just need to combine football manager and gsg ffs
Decided to come back keep going with my Kiwis a bit more. I would be able to form the Polynesian Empire right now but Japan gave Germany Saipan and some other islands for some reason. Once Germany capitulates I'll be able to request the land from Japan.I'll probably just stop once I do that. In the meantime, I guess I'll help out Japan and jump on Vladivostok.
kiwi's are insufferableyou genuinely reckon kiwi's are gonna go into borneo and annex it?look up the demographics of NZ current-year and tell me what you think
miles is trying to force me to mid-table for a year while the wunderkinder level upat least i got chicken
I had an idea for a gsgI can definitely build it from scratch in like a year, right?
And if you weren't aware, the whole reasoning behind the Kiwi game is that they are one of three focus tree nations that have access to one of these advisers. So I'm going all-in on paratroopers. But with their limited resources I cannot unlock their full potential. It might be funny to just keep playing this one, building up a nuclear sub fleet, nuclear ICBMs, and turning every island in the Pacific into a giant fortress. But the last update really fucked up late-game performance so I'll probably not go that far.
can you at least update the map colour to black or the like here are the RGB values:https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=708953695
can you believe they let you ride on donkeys in this game?imagine the thrill of itjeb is insane
Can New Zealand even get any more than their starting cores?
>It's good to be kingHow fares the campaign anons?
donkeys sound boring
>>1914864Originally no, but whatever update added tags in Oceania gave them the ability to form Polynesia. They also get one of those non-core manpower advisers.The new peace deals were really fucking me over.I had gotten most of the other countries in Asia into the Chinese faction to capitulate all of them, not knowing they changed the way peace deals work. I wanted to release a chunk of Southern China as a colab government originally which probably would have been the best path for NZ.
Jumping on Vladivostok worked out very well. Would have been even better if their airport was actually in Vladivostok and not up in the fucking mountains to the north. I'm starting to build up an actually decent number of divisions so after this I think I might start looking towards knocking out India.
What's the goal kiwianon?
What's the best tutorial nation to learn how to play Vic II?
prussia
Why aren't they forming romania? There isn't any tech requirement on the wiki
>>1915154I didn’t have a set goal to start with other than effectively use paratroopers. At this point though I think I’ll be happy with taking India.Kind of irked though that I could have been getting a colab ready years back but I didn’t think there was any chance of taking actions like that. Or that I could have managed the Chinese peace differently.Hopefully I’ll reach a satisfying end point soon and I can move on to either a Germany or Romania campaign, the other two nations with insane paratrooper advisers.
release a vassalfight for their cores backwait at least 20 years to annex and 0 autonomy the annexed landhas got to be the most retarded concept in grand strat verse
gsg that will end all gsgs
>>1915169You gave them the wrong province south of the Danube. They need the one you own there
>Secured Silesia and the hereticsTime to go back and reclaim R*mania308Yeah I ended up figuring it out, was going off the wiki which hasn't been updated.
Alright, I've destroyed a good chunk of the Soviet forces in the East. I could start doing jumps in Kamchatka and even use that to open a front in Alaska if I wanted, but I'm not sure creating more low-supply frontlines are in my interest. I've pulled everything back to Sri Lanka. I've mentioned this before, but I just want to point out that I used the peace deal mod to prevent Japan from utterly fucking up the Chinese peace deal every single time, and I gave all of China to Manchukuo. Unbeknownst to me, they just refuse to take their focus that would core everything, even though they seem to meet the requirements. Which as you could imagine ultimately ended up being a huge hindrance to our faction. A collab or even puppet China would have been so much more effective.
Autism x2 (two)
That was actually really easy.
Even their modern tank is a tractor
I picked up like 800k manpower just from occupying India, before I even raised compliance. That got me to reform my industry and prepare to begin training on hundreds of garrison divisions, which will increase my army size, which will eventually increase my SF limit, which will then finally allow me to get more paratroopers.In other news, the Axis finally fell, which allowed me to grab Saipan and form the Polynesian Empire.
>>1915426>to reform my industryInfantry*
The most decorated military organization in the world, the Polynesian Paratroopers, have just completed the most impressive feat in perhaps all of military history. Four divisions, totaling 47,600 men, jumped on Wake Island against a force 14 times larger than themselves, instantly destroyed or captured the enemy force upon landing. And they did so whilst taking zero casualties.
gsg IS over. if its not vg slash gsg (the vgsg, as we call it), its not gsg
eastern gsgeers empire
we'll wagsgle our willies on the beaches, we'll wagsgle our willies in the forests,we'll wagsgle our willies in public
>>1915491never seen thaner do anything like this...victoria 4 is gonna be crazy...
silly willy wagglers
indeed it is
does anything escape the attention of the clearsight thane ?
i suppose, like any decent man, he would turn a blind eye to some the goings on in joyglean and slobswae...
playable version when thane
the imperator version or the eu3?
*wiggles your wally* ^___^
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I have such a hard time walking away from those games as a stupid minor power that I play into the 50s.
Submarine fleet is operational
maori nationalists are everywhere
sposed to represent some kind of turkish germania origins i sposeabundant land
With all the divisions I was able to get my paratroopers up to 50 width, and doubled the amount of divisions. Now I can just look at a large concentration of enemy divisions and just jump on top of them and they immediately stop existing.
very cool you got the bob tanks yet?
'hey thaner, begin transplanting thaneryke:,,flight of the albatross, into imperator rome. cheers thane.' *rolls up a dodgy leftover smoke*'
I did the research but production isn't really a priority when I don't even have enough steel for guns.
https://youtu.be/OEFPpD_yvl4
vassal forcelimit stacking is pretty op
>11 vassals>27 provincesmethinks blobbing is better
NEVERMIND i'm retireded
german church and russian church side-by-side in revalkino or what?
>>1915491this is cute wtf is it
>>1915832anon YOU are cute!
I am here once again to shill Orb otherwise known as heliocentrism the anime. It's very kino. Please watch thank you
legend of the galactic heroes is very kino and a must watch if you fancy yourself a grand strategist
919Have been hearing about this anime for almost a decade at this point. Haven't touched it yet worth a watch you say?
absolutely.consider watching the OG laserdisc version because the blu ray remake is kind of a downgrade.
Ok anon I'll watch it with my dinner but in exchange please watch orb it's criminally slept on
oh also you gotta watch the movie "my conquest is the sea of stars" first which is really just a prologue and can be considered the first 3 episodes (its 1 hour so that equals the runtime of 3 episodes)926yeah ill check it out
>>1915789It's cool
>start in Ravenna (or any other neighboring county)>only blob into lands that would have become Italian city-states in XV century, not a single county beyond that>play tall, build up economy, fight with mercs>basically become a Renaissance Doge a few centuries earlyCk2 or ck3?
eu5 will save us
ck2 of course
>789i like the ramparts
why do the russians love to design such a goofy ah basilica
832bros ikr. i was just doomscrolling when i bumped into a football news and i instantly knew that it will look cute to make gpt copy its news style and i will definitely incorporate this into my meme gameprompthttps://pastebin.com/fUEvT9rj
ever play eu4
Oh no! the Allies have launched D-Day #37 in India! What will I do?!
post casualties
The last couple invasion attempts have been pretty anemic, so I didn't bother getting a screenshot. The earlier ones were much larger.I have sunk about half a dozen carriers recently. Though it would seem I still have a ways to go.
ask gpt to write an imaginary campaign in the style of AARnon...
Here are some overall stats.The Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere has 8.5m men in the field, the Allies and Comintern have at least 21.4m.We've taken 15.3m casualties, the enemy has taken 51.3m casualties.
Finally beat up the Allied airforce enough that I could jump on the front line in Eastern Persia.
And the casualty stats from this jump. Not pictured; one additional 120k stack wiped in Kerman.
>>1916123this is how you do flavour texts.
>>1915162Prussia
Japan has been losing ground in Manchuria, but we managed to greatly relieve the pressure with a massive airborne operation which dismantled Mongolia and destroyed a significant amount of Warsaw Pact troops in Inner Mongolia.However, Manchukuo is out of manpower, and I see that it is now urgent that I expel the Soviets from Manchuria and push them back to Buryatia.
Finally got supersonic jets. Don't know much about Polynesian culture so I named them after things in Moana.
>japan instead of koreacringe
such severe inconsistent naming in a game about painting maps is really irritating. Every "other" ideology has some interesting full government name while the "main" ideology for a country is just the generic name.
The arrival of the Soviet's new T-52 tanks on the battlefield likely played a significant role in the turning of the tide in Siberia. It is up to the Emu Rangers to show them who is the true king of the battlefield.
godspeed you crazy kiwis
>>1916123i seen each one of these and checked them each timeit's good pusci--like what vic2 HoD tried to do but actually immersive
Oh also for anyone that knows meta templates better than me, is this how you should be setting up naval bombers? There are armor piercing bomb locks but you get a little message that the modules aren't additive and it will only use the more effective one for naval attack. And you can't use multiple torpedo modules so I'm left with this.
>THDTHD>THDTHD
Another combat jump completed, another 5 Modern tank divisions destroyed.Right now, the plan is to push the Soviets to Bratsk. My hope is that their supply will be so shitty that they won't really be able to do anything on that front anymore, and that I'll capture the aluminum in that region and be able to allocate more factories to my supersonic jets.
Additionally, we've got two of our own modern tank divisions finally about ready to roll out. Yes, I know medium flame companies are slightly better, but I already have a surplus of light ones because of the paratroopers. And the armored engineers seem like a decimal is in the wrong place or something because their use cases are very limited.
Alright, I really need to get to bed. >key updatesOur casualties have climbed to 19.25m. Enemy casualties have climbed to 72.24m.We integrated the Empire of Siam, and converted their army to our infantry template.We released Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and the Philippines (just Palawan) as collaboration governments. The Soviet lines are getting thin and we've seized major railways which has greatly affected their forces ability to resupply.
5ambruhfix your shitty sleeping schedule
The army is bankrupting the state
that's actually really cheap for a 120k army that's currently reinforcing
Most of it is cav as well, currently trying to get cav cost down as it's the main limit to having full cav armies
historicallyyou can only counter cavalry with an entrenched position or a highly trained infantry with proper equipmentseu4 does have army professionalism however it's a dlc and there's no mechanic to fortify yourself other than camping at mountain province alikes even though it could work on plains like agincourt
the other 26% being the HoloCure i bet
how did you know this
>>1916394Try raising your taxes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtu8HU0kXio/(o_o)/ \(O_O)\\(T_T)/
not as good as www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD3kCxMqjuk
emus are from australia
today i learned about oliver the congolese wonder chimp
Playing as a republic is coolest when e everyone else is a monarchyPlaying as a monarchy is coolest when everyone else is a republic
no such thing as republichttps://youtu.be/Jo-uUqeFjik
yeah you're rightwhat do those cringe maori warriors call themselves?
>52 minutesnot watching allat
i only posted that link because for some reason an anon was mad and called the goytuber an idiot and it just lives rent free in my head...
https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/461907157/#462080218damn it's been a year already.
okay schizo, but you still have to take your meds
>>1916790what gay ass fucking franchise are you ranting about
pre-thane gsg was shambles
hawk tuah spit on that thane
i heard she killed herself
I landed my only son in ck3 and he went family focus and had 10000 kids. Me and him both died to a plague and now I have 1 county and lost all of Brittany and Flanders :D
So did they add any gameplay to imperator other than painting the map entire regions at a time
>painting the map entire regions at a timemy cock grew
sadly you run out of regions really quickly in that game>>1916903rome at least has some senate and patrician family crap to untangle while waiting for infamy to tick down, but if playing something like the diadochi then yeah it's just afk painting while watching porn on the second screen
>>1916832funny
redpill me on hawk tuah controversyno I'm not watching a 15 minute video that will explain everything in detail
some whore said hawk tuah spit on that thang on camera and it got a lot of views and then she made a podcast called talk tuah.but its just jewish money laundering so its kinda whatever
What's a good portrait mod for ck2 that makes people not painful to look at
every single post itt is redit save this one
i could get behind your minecrap posting if your builds were good but this is shit
game was made in anger at the thanecalled it 'Nod', but he still bless iti don't care whether you like it belongs on the autism domain
cheers for the spur but
>harriet tubman gets >100 replies but anby get's none...
>>1917023how can you be this extra?are you a pretty princess?
ten fell off since day one if we're being brutally honest
a turnbased eu/civ hybrid would be ...
>>1917163because she is a rank and no longer being shilled, the truth is gachajiggers love nothing not even their own waifus
>>1916981I think he meant the memecoin that scammed a bunch of people followed by the rumor that she killed herself
>memecoin what about it. dumbasses get scammed by memecoin all the time, nothing new.
yeah but it's usually a bunch of jeets that no one is going to find doing it, not an e-celeb that can get prosecuted for fraud
>>1917167not him but it IS an ugly game to look at
>>1917461Better than most alternatives
>>1917480No it's not, even its gameplay is kinda outdated by now and for vast majority of playthroughs you're better off playing heavily modded ck3, but when it comes to the visuals and especially the UI holy fucking christ of nazareth they aged worse than a rotting corpse
>>1917559>No it's notIt is though, everything else is in uncanny valley territory.>even its gameplay is kinda outdated by now and for vast majority of playthroughs you're better off playing heavily modded ck3Oh I see you must have just been joking around.
yeah I play /gsg/s for the graphics, how could you tell?
i make gsg for the money how did you know
807ackshually i have wanted to make this op with this image for at least a year now and only got around to making it nowso yes, i have prescience vision and you may call me kaiser out of respect and fear
Allies were starting to get aggressive again so I detoured back to Persia to jump on their front line. I left one province they could escape to which was already a bulge in the line, going to reform at a closer airport and try to jump on them again before they can escape. I've built enough airports that now if needed I can just divert fighters into the region I need to control and they usually stop contesting it pretty quickly. On the subject of planes, our supersonic jets are doing fairly well, usually pulling in about a 1-5 ratio. Annoyingly, the supersonic CAS is a different type of plane than the other CAS for some reason. So while the naval and fighter wings will gradually just be phased out by supersonics, all the veteran CAS wings are getting merged together as they die and don't get replaced and I have to raise up new supersonic CAS wings that need to be retrained.
cool post but i dont play goy4
>one underequipped division is sent to secure an empty rear province to complete an encirclement>lands on 20 divisions>wins
We've pushed the Allies and Soviets apart. I think I'll liberate Iran and take the Euphrates, leaving the Allies on the other side sweltering with no supply. Then with the West secured we'll bust North and seize Baku since my oil supplies are dwindling a bit and I don't want to have to trade with Venezuela. Plus it would be a narrow, defensible position to hold. I think it will be doable because so much of the Soviet forces are currently tied up in the East with minimal supplies that it will take them a significant amount of time just to man the front in the West. And then after we take the Caucuses and hold the mountains, I'll paradrop across Southern Arabia and sweep North, cutting off the Allies manning the border along the Euphrates.
how many do you think browse page 10 gsg and read your postsin vst of all places even
>he posts for other peoplenpc behavior
why are you being rude for no reason chill
nothing wrong with being an npc
Soviets reacted more quickly than I anticipated, and with the lack of a rail line heading north I quickly found myself out of supply. Pushed back to Tabriz, I now need to regain control of the air to resume paratrooper operations and destroy the Soviet line from the rear.Fortunately, it would appear that control over the air will very soon be achieved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy4eeni6igs
trvthnvke or nay? >>1917896
eh, colonising is kinda nice.its nothing exciting, why would it be.just colonise&chill bro.
>>1915302remake in better framing
903TruePeople (I use that term very loosely) who mainly play german tags in dogshit4 have their understanding of the game twisted and wrong and shouldn't be allowed to propose or suggest anything for dogshit5
literally nobody plays german tags in eu4your mind was twisted into a parody of itself by reddit memes
935but how is eu4 colonising bad and what do you think would make it better?
people joke about ck3 being a cookie clicker but actually it's eu4 that posses the most amount of memegame mechanicsthere is nothing grand about eu4it's just a game of waiting and picking your favorite modifiersthe game is so arbitrary you'd be better off with painting the map yourself (there's tons of websites for this) and have gpt make up a well written campaign for you
4/10 bait
i mean yeah eu4 is based on a board game, its intentional.which is one reason why i think "project caesar" wont be eu5 but a new title because its not based on the europa universalis board game.
>needing 1000 settlers to establish a colonial province even doe pops don't even exist>arbitrary trading design>you ships can easily travel anywhere in the world without wind >3 dev """ trading outpost""" can repair and sustain a fleet of 500 ships indefinitely as long as you have the money and sailors that can magically cover the cost even doe this province is in the middle of the pacificyour mom is a 4/10 bait
criticising a game thats not trying to be a simulation for not being a simulation is not very smart
my mom is at least a 6/10 for catching my dad kiddo
exactly so you admit eu4 is just a retarded cookie clicker with map painting and arbitrary playthingscool
yeahits not that big of a deal brorelax a little
where did he admit that?
>goods produced>no goods are actually ever being produced>why do you get 100% of the income from goods being produced??>republic>what's the difference? player still makes the unanimous decision anyways>estate land / crownland>so the estates quite literally own 2/3 of your country but actually not really?? you still get full goodies from a province literally the same income as having 100% crownland>parliament>like most dlcs, it only exists to give you a bonus>corruption>is just a plain debuff
957I mainly hate how ridiculously gamey and arbitrary it is. You need a colonist unit to colonize a county. What does this abstraction even represent? The only quadruple digit IQ gigamind in my entire nation that managed to grasp the concept of colonization? Why can't I have two, three, fifty counties being colonized at once?You need to pay upkeep to settle in a county. Except the price has nothing to do with what you are trying to colonize, it's only there so that they could add a modifier attached to it.Same with 1000 settlers required, why exactly 1000? Why is the speed of this number growing depends on one modifier that is entirely isolated from the colonizing nation, its characteristics and current situation? And where do they even come from if the game has no representation or even abstraction of population?The entire colonization system in dogshit4 is just a stacked heap of increasingly vague and illogical abstractions
i mean vstdrones have been creaming their pants this past year just because project salad will have abstractions that are just slightly make more sense than in peepoopoor
it represents the logistics required to colonize a province you triple retardthat's why you can go colonize beyond your means and overdraft your economy in exchange for more established colonies at a timethe number is 1000 because you'd piss your pants if it was 100.0 per cent and nobody gave a shit
Exactly what logistics are you talking about and how come an OPM and a blob the size of Eurasia get exactly the same number of said logistics (assuming they picked the same idea groups)
> how come an OPM and a blob the size of Eurasia get exactly the same number of said logisticsto simulate the netherlands bumfucking the orientand no, they don't get the exact same number even if they did pick the same idea groups due to the first come first serve mechanics
You seem to have misunderstood my post, please re-read it and try again
allow me to correct myself theneu4 is a video game
Fair enough, but it's an extremely poorly designed game and I really hope project caesar will end up better
>a game trying to be a spreadsheet simulator without a spreadsheet uii wouldn't get my hopes up
>poorly designed because its based on a board game and not a simulation and doesnt try to be onek dude
>>1906053What is the appeal of coloring maps with different colors?
>>1918110did you not have childhood or what
It's so over bros... this bitch has been like 10-15 techs ahead and on top of that she's on the other side of the map so I only have been able to start deathwarring after fighting Russia. She has planes and modern infantry while we're still dicking around with riflemen and lancers. Current plan is to find a source of oil and then rush for panzers and aa but it seems hopeless. I'm not sure I believe in the final victory anymore.>feelsbadman
>Demographics screen
>hexesewhh, please delete
>send a cheeky lancer to get a peek at rk. ostland (formerly vilnius)>see this staring back at mebros... the final victory...
how do you feel about squares
>they just completed the manhattan projectoh ok i guess fuck me then209idk they're pretty cool i guess
nice day for a walk
squares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ0x4sL05sA
Squares over hexes any day
i'll take a hex, but only if the map is filled with hundreds and hundreds of them
forgot pic related
where's the real next /gsg/ thread
whyre you so eagerwatchu gonna post
I spent this afternoon writing more of my AAR
that's good, when are you posting it?
not him by my aar will be better give me an hour
but
how about a new thread before anything
no thanks
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FU## i forgot to fill the subject
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