Anyone still play them?
>>1947032>EU3not really, no, I'm addicted to EU4 at this point>Vicky2fuck yeah, Vicky3 is trash and there's really no other alternativesI had hopes for the open source Vicky2 clones, but so far they've been disappointing
>>1947032Oh and HoI3>>1947036I'm going back to EU3 because I didn't play them much before moving to EU4.
I recommend playing EU3 without Divine Wind, that DLC made the game really unfun.
>>1947152what does it add that makes it unfun?
>>1947298not him and I don't remember but did it add endless Magistrate spam? or was that Heir to the Throne
>>1947032I still play both. There's quite a few things I like more about EU3 than EU4, I hope EU5 has the best of both worlds between the two.
>>1947298>>1947300Not that anon but I assume he's referring to Divine Wind adding cascading alliances which meant that you would end up at war with almost half of Europe if you decced on another country.Magistrates aren't really an issue if you upgrade your government type and build government buildings.
>>1947032Just make this a vintage Paradox thread.Eu3? Sank a lot of hours into it in the past but these days? Not really. While 3 has some neat stuff like the sliders, Eu4 is generally just 3 but more which is somewhat rare for Paradox.Vic2? Yes, although it's mostly for the Cold War mod these days which I think is still the best Cold War experience you can have in any of the Paradox games, I tried the mods for Darkest Hour and HoI4 but found them lacking in comparison.HoI3? Never was a fan of it so no, but I still go back to Darkest Hour every now and then, also partly for the loads of great total conversion mods.Just for the fun of it, I also recently did a Spanish run in Vicky 1, surprisingly fun game still, very arcadey compared to the later entries as well.
>>1947438Can you play Darkest Hour in windowed mode?
>>1947438Cold War vic2 is such jank. But it's fun...I wish East vs West didn't get scrapped, it had good fundmentals.
GFM is bloated to hell and the dev is a jew, HPM is dead, Crimememod is a meme. Why can't there be a good Vic2 modddddd
>>1948074>HPM is deadThe active version of HPM is called EEM, Ending Extension Mod. Also, as the name implies, it extends the end date 20 years with techs and unit types to match. Comes with a lot of extra China flavour.
How can I get Communists to overthrow my government? I'm playing EEM, and they're the ruling party, but I want the Proletarian Dictatorship government so I can spread the Revolution via war.I know I could crash the living standards of my country, but I don't want to. I just can't find the event id # for commies overthrowing the government
>>1948088hummm... yes I see a lot of chinese stuff. Why is this weirdo obsessed with China.>>1948103If it works like the fascist coup event, you need 5 militancy for it to trigger
>>1948104>why is a Chinese person putting China content in the modYou retarded, my dude?
>>1948106how would i know he was chinesenow that event about nanking makes sense, chinese propaganda
>>1948104>you need 5 militancy for it to triggerWould you happen to know where I can find the event id? I'd rather just pop the event manually rather than wait, it's already 1900
>>1948121why don't you just add militancy through the console?
>>1948129Oh yeah, I forgot I could do that
>>1948121Those events are in CleanUp.txt on the events folder. For EEM it's event 60000
>>1948168Holy shit THANK YOU anon
How's MEIOU mod for EU3?
>>1948187it's the best modded experience for eu3
>>1947032vic2 yes i play, my favorite country is colombia and i know its out of theme but i have never have a gf in my entire life, during my teens i spended all my freetime playing paradox interactive and creative assembly games, i form empires and destroy them, meanwhile people were outside learning how to behave in social interactions to not look autistic, i am socially retarded and i genuilly fear being a genetic dead end, now im focus in eu5, because lately this games have not been helping me escape from reality like they used to do when i was younger
>>1948187there was a MEIOU for eu3?
>>1948563it's where MEIOU came from
>>1948536You're not missing anything by not interacting with normalfags. If anything it makes you less of a degenerate and also gives you more time to improve on yourself like reading or exercising for the moment you do.And don't bother learning EU5, it will still be crap on release.
>>1947032No, but sometimes i play comfy For the Glory aka upgraded Europa Universalis 2.
>>1948187Extremely jank but I enjoyed it
>>1948645Jank how?
>>1948187what's the best mod for EU3 in general?
>>1948715Depends on what you're after. Some like MiscMods or D&T are just "enhanced" versions of the original game that still plays a lot like the original, then you have things like EU3+, MEIOU or MM that can pretty dramatically change how the game plays.
>>1948536lmao wtf
>>1947032Look at my Mittelafrika.
>>1947043It's insane how badly they fucked up the map projection. What the fuck is going on with Bulgaria?
>>1949026They didn't bother making each tile individually like in HOI4
>>1948987What does Europe look like?
>>1949063I have nothing to do with what you see in southeast France I swear. But I have everything to do with what you see in Greece and the middle east.
>be France>install Communism in Russia>my army doesn't get exiled >the game doesn't say I have military access in Russia, so I can't revoke it>nobody is going to give me access because my infamy is too highHow do I get my men home? I'd rather not have to sail them all on transports
>>1948187WOW that map looks pretty
is crusader kings 2 any good? I didn't like ck3
>>1947498In my experience, no, it's sort of there but I couldn't get it to work even back then on Win 7.>>1949173It's different enough that you should give it a try unless you're just completely turned off by the character management aspect. The game is great and had a good send off as well, it's quite a bit harder than 3 too. The most notable difference I think is the government types, 3 is extremely samey regardless of where you're playing but in 2, the minute to minute gameplay between tribals, feudalists, hordes and merchant republics is very different depending on which one you're playing as.
>>1949077Beautiful looking game
anyone else remembers the Anon's historical bloat mod?I suddenly remember it and I was searching its github to download it but it seems that it was taken down
>>1949305Nvm I've found it
>>1949305>>1949319What did it do?
>>1949403It was just a version of HFM but with even more bloat and random cultures
>>1949436so basically GFM
>>1947043I didn't touch it much but I remember the game being extremely railroaded
Is there anyway to disable cascading alliance in EU3?
>>1949861uninstall divine wind
>>1949861No, it's unfortunately not a setting or AI behavior that's part of the modifiable files, so unless you get your hands on the source code you're out of luck, or just don't get DW like the other anon said.
Adulthood is becoming a FrancophileI just finished a 5 year war where I rolled over all of Europe. My final army was just over a thousand brigades and I converted the NGF, SGF, UK, Russia, Italy, and Sweden to Communism. Partway through the war, the "install Communism" CB disappeared, so I couldn't also flip the Ottomans and Poland.
Damn, EU3 look like this?
>>1950059>childhoodprussia/germaboo>adolescencefrancophile>adulthoodalt-history frankish holy roman superstate enjoyer
eu3 looks cool, then you play it and every time you try to do anything, the most random of craps starts happening and you have no idea what and why and then you rage and give up.
>>1950339Random crap like what? EU3 usually only fucks you over with unlucky monarch deaths, bad events like peasant wars are avoidable with the correct sliders, so are religious wars. Like any other Paradox game it becomes pretty easy to powergame once you understand the mechanics and know what builds to go for.
>>1950250I can accept this development only because I once saw a CK2 screenshot that had a German HRE, a French HRE, and the Byzantine Empire. I VGHed so hard at that
>>1950342i dont understand how battles work and sometimes I lose and have no idea because i felt like i should win and vice versa. game is kinda just confusing, but i also dont have all dlc
>>1950390EU3 uses dice rolls, so sometimes you can just get unlucky and get many awful rolls in a row while they get many great rolls in a row, but for the most part you're not going to see statistically unlikely streaks of bad luck and the way you win battles is like in most Paradox games:>bring a bigger army>use terrain to your advantage (don't attack over rivers, into hills, ESPECIALLY not into mountains, if you can then bait the AI to attack you when you're defending in terrain like this)>bring a good general>use correct army composition>eu3 specific: get military national ideas like bonus morale, move your sliders towards land and qualityI initially wrote a much longer paragraph going into things like battle phases and combat widths, but I realized it's dumping too much info that's probably just confusing for you. What you should at least keep in mind is that cavalry is most expensive but deals A LOT more damage in the early game. Land tech 18 is when you'll get your first gunpowder infantry and then you'll start powergapping non-gunpowder armies - the early artillery units aren't very strong but eventually you'll want to field armies that have a 1:1 infantry:artillery ratio. The infantry act as a frontline for your artillery which can attack over them, doubling the amount of units doing damage. Early on in the game national ideas like Military Drill makes a massive different, to the point where you could have an army of 4 inf 1 cav and attack an army with 1 inf 2 cav and still lose if they have MD and you don't, combined with an unlucky roll or two.
>>1947032Since I wont start a thread for that, I'll ask here. I just downloaded For the Glory, what starting date should I choose classic 1419 or new 1399? And what cunt for a new player?
>>1951205>>1951724 IS THIS TRUE I NEED TO KNOW IF IT IS TRUE IS IT BROKEN
>>1952240It works on my machine.
>>1952571US state borders are disgusting, they look even worse in EU3. V2 does a decent job at hiding the internal borders.
>>1952647The internal borders are hidden in that image...
>>1952689You're right, that just leaves the borders themselves being disgusting
>>1952692It's even worse if you consider geography, like wh on earth are west and east Washington in the same state?This is some africa-tier border drawing.