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If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.

No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.

How fares your empire, /gsg/?

On this day in history, the 8th of July:
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It won't be long now
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=D
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just fixing herstory right?
Sell Danzig to Prussia once they are done.
but thats it for today. have to mow the lawn
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what went wrong
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>you can't just post a germany when it's willy wagglin time
mandatory best-groBgermania postin' time
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>>polish timezone
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62
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I didn´t mean that gsgs should have exact historical outcomes. But rather typical historical fragmentation and collapse of empires that lead to the creation of new nations. There should be a time of consolidation and then a time of collapse. The second part always falls short.
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but the early modern period was one of consolidation
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Yes. But the games can never portray something like the Ottoman ascension and decline. In short, you can´t have a country dominate for 300 years and then decline for 100 years. Never happens. The Ottomans either get stopped early or they become unstoppable.
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you cant design civil wars, secessions, disloyal governors or anything without making the game anti-fun at a certain point
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you say that but my ck2/3 campaigns always get cooked once i have to play one bad heir
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that's one of the joys of crusader kings
witnessing the cycle of rise and fall
the chaos
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therefore ck3 >>>>> all other gsgs
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Deaths are still aplenty, we're still suffering, a debate needed to be had... And this is what they came up with. What we need is God.
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I lowered their taxes in preperation for the parliment and i didn't end up giving out the privelage because I realised last second that it's very close and i need their support.
hehe, i didn't tell u cuz it was a blunder on my part, showing that I'll give it out but then not doing so... I thought I'll just give it out in 2 more posts and that'll be that, whoops :o

Also another thing I didn't notify you of because I forgot, here's a little scheme I've come up with... I noticed that assimilating these people would take a long time, espeically since they would need to be converted also... BUT... if we're to "move" them to somewhere more suitable, where we have more control... they might just assimilate themselves...
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I love when the nobility gives me this one, Poland has and always had exactly ZERO naval tradition, it's actually free
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>mieszczanstwo
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sportschuddery making its way into this general has been a disaster for gsg culture
anyone with me on this?
>mieszczanstwo
what's funny/amusing about this? in your own words

New development, muscow hates Poland just like IRL, believable worlds.

The nobility have decided to stop supporting us it seems. We can panic press either the +10 or +12 buttons, but there is no way we're passing another law or raising taxes with these. A very uneventful and lame parliment this time, barely got anything done.
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>UNGSGESELL
>UN/gsg/ESELL
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Serfdom is already nearly at almost 70, I would benefit from boosting it but not enough to lose the 5 prestige it would take to boost it, IMO.
>but could be written way more elegantly in cyrillic
how is spelling something in poverty runes "more ellegant"?
here's an event just for you. they give us -5% support, hanging on by a thread.

Ghost ship, we're not touching that one, it was clearly abandoned for a reason.
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TURN BACK
NO FUCK OFF WE'RE FULL
TURN BACK AND DON'T COME BACK
See, we needed that prestige for something.
also, we're doing the thing i said we will do earlier.
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eu5 1.3 The patch introduces new mechanics, quality-of-life improvements, performance optimizations, and content such as new bureaucracies and government reforms.
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a game patch that reads like gubmint promises kek
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Now that we're
>i wonder if complicated polish writing was the catholic church's attempt at hindering illiterate polish ubermensch from complete cultural and military domination
I have yet to hear 1 pole complain about polish spelling, it just works.

here's what's going to happen, sickness is almsot gone fron the country, what the population now needs is Jesus. let's stop blaming the germans and start turning to the Lord, this way society may recover at least a little bit. (+2 stability?)
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>eu5 1.3
... what? i literally have a pirated version of 1.3.4 running
why do you not have access to one?
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>i've yet to hear one armenian complain about the genocide (i never spoke to any armenians)
system of a dawn came back together just to cry about kharabakh, remember that?

Nobility were indeed needed for this one, we barely made it but with their help we pulled it off.
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>no, i don't remember that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqmknZNg1yw
now u remember
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Oh you thought it was over? Our lovely vassal has decided to have ANOTHER rebelion. This one isn't supported by foreigners so it should be easy, but I have no way of telling a vassal not to participate in a war, so they will all get armies, march around and spread pestilince. Great!
There's only one thing we can realistically do in this situation...
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>>peace deal is signed
yeah just like when they got rid of all their nukes in that other peace deal :)

Sorry i had to fast forward a month, i'm cooking a suprise for you guys :)
Here's what we've all been waiting for, the clensing of heresy on our border. We might not be fond of the teutons but their mission wasn't terrible, just the way they handled it. We'll do God's work and thank him for sparing our King and relenting in the pestilence! Amen!

Also they broke their allience with Kyiv so i'm scared they'll get another one and the CB expries next year, chop chop
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> a grand total of 0 reader
and yet you noticed and replied to my post, curious
>take her
if that was a mechanic i absolutely would, if the opportunity comes up i'll let you know
>prestige
it gives you market advantage which is not nothing, i do agree it's not super strong but i wouldn't say it's worthless.

pictured: cabinet member having this happen to him AGAIN, might get rid of him and wait for my son to come of age in 5 years, as good of a time as any I suppose.
middle: the lepper colony that is our army, they cought the plague and never recovered. keeping them near the lithuanian border in case it wants to jump over

right: prestige. obviously the nonuses scale
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kill the rebels by spreading the plague...
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Never mind, turns out that actually, he can stay on the council, i can't appoint peasants but they can remain on if they're already there. Good to know
New development, doubt this will ever come up, nice scripted event, we're moving in on our enemies.
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Finally those 2 villages are cored, now for the general assimilation plan... people are no longer being expelled and look at all the ethnic poles moving in to take the tribesmens' place. What a sight... there's even a singular jew
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those poles sure love their jews
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I'm such a tactical genius
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Honestly? not thrilled about the losses.
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i'm about to busk
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what do your vassal borders look like? i know you were complaining about that the other day
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Can´t stand it anymore. All new gsgs suck. Might try the football games to satisfy my gsg urges.
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That's a complicated question, each one of them has their own reason for looking like that.
All the polish vassals other than Łomża, that is vassals Poland starts with, look like that because that's what they look like at 1337, with very minor changes of a few provinces that I gave to them.
Łomża is a vassal i created out of cofiscated Rawa provinces because I was hoping that they would be able to change a few conquests into Mazovian culture (which is polish and accepted), since i knew that if i released them from that province, they would be polish primary culture. BUT, lithuania supported independence of their rebels, and that dragged us into war with them... that the AI got control over the peacedeal thereof, which is comically shitty. their bordeers are horrendous.
Kaunas, Livonian order and their vassals (yes, my vassals have vassals) look like that because they already looked like that when Teutons were ruling over them, I just inherited their vassals. Kaunas is a knightly order also.
All the other vassals look like they do based on population, it may look like random border gore but it's actually calculated. I gave out land based on primary culture All of the southern former teuton vassals have prussian as their primary culture. Pomesania and Warmia each got land which is majority prussian, in Warmia's case a single province. Samland got a single province that has no majority culture (melting pot of a bunch of them), i figured since nobody can full core it, they might as well have it and at least convert it to christianity
Łmoża was given that much land because that has about 10% mazovian (their culture) in each province, and I don't want poles being assimilated away from poledom.
Really it's just that AI peacedeal being ass that fucked this whole thing over, borders weren't bad before that IMO.
There's a bigger problem anyway...
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thanks i try my best :)
idk when, game didn't tell me this beyond a little easly ignorable pip at the bottom right of the screen, had to scroll down to find it, but... Kyiv joined the war.
I only found out after disbanding my armies. Vassals are still going strong though, and honestly, idk if the vassal swarm isn't enough at this point. What do? Their capital, unlike that of Volhynia, has a fort, but it's the first fort that we see, right in the open. What's the play here, occupy a bit for more warscore, or try to siege them down and get money out of them too?
Then there's the meme option of making them convert to catholic, which isn't such a meme option because it'll either make it so that they're no longer a threat, or they succed and at some point, when this is ours, we don't have to convert it ourselves. I'll let you decide, has this war lasted long enough?

Keep in mind the CB is pretty bad so I can take at most like 1 province, this was really meant to just be a quick money+warreps type thing
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quick stackwipe in the meantime, wish i could take prisoners, i know that's am echanic but for some reason i can never actually get it to work
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It might be over, you guys SUCK at replying on time, i wanted to do some tactics here and there and fucked up badly. Vassals are behind lines, I lost a lot of good men to attrition, at this point they're starving and without intervention will likely get killed.

This is where I leave you. This is what you've done by not replying on time. Next time, I'll wait longer.

What's next? Cut losses and get a peace deal, or ignore the vassals, raise more levies and continue fighting? If fight, then for what?
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Hi guys, new to Hearts of Iron III. I have some experience in CKII, CKIII, and Imperator, but this is the first time I've played HoI. I'm enjoying my campaign so far, but I'm at something of a standstill and not sure how to proceed. I've managed to stall the German offensive here, and there hasn't been a major battle in eight months or so. They can't attack into my positions along the river but I also can't really attack into them. It would make my life a lot easier if Germany had declared war on Belgium, but Belgium are still neutral for now. Italy and Japan are also uninvolved in the war, but Italy is slowly adding soldiers to my southern border. What do you advise I should be doing here?
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he is bold. but i´m already over this game
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>New world order in the Horn of Africa
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>EU4 with anti-blobbing mod
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It made colonization a little bit slower. And revolts are often catastrophic but not for the Mamluks and Catholic military orders.
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Rip my economy. Yemen betrayed too
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Nvm I have an idea. Misr just went bankrupt a few months ago as well.
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>forgor
60 army tradition btw and 3 mil points for the king
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dongola is shia, beja sunni, rest are coptic
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Got what I needed; with Qara Qoyonlu out of the war I decided to peace out for aruond ~60% ws. It's a shame as 100% would have been all of Egypt and then some but I'm not too confident I can keep advancing with 170k turks now focused on me. At this point even if I have to concede Hejaz this seems like a fair trade
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Idk bro when I have the wargoal unsieged warscore isn't that bad
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Also I got colonialism out of it which is pretty sick
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>peace deal
Finagled around with the peace menu and came up with this. I could have continued and deathwarred but I figured this is very recoverable/the losses are minor and this way I don't nuke my economy. We'll be ready for round 2 though
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>loans
objective will be to scale and finish off quantity ideas
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>hre can form rome in ck3
cool. thats an improvement over ck2.
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tits hehe :)
get it :)
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trying out ck3. so, coming from ck2, because this game doesnt have crimean goths and because i want to see what this game has to offer over its predecessor i decided to go all the way and start as a custom landless adventurer - an asatru goth, also a little bit of a self-insert with the traits, humble traits and stats but not too humble.
the plan for this campaign is to travel to italy asap and conquer some land, then swear fealty to the eastern roman empire. and the long-term plan is to conquer all of italy as vassal of the eastern roman empire to let the ai emperor restore rome. and eventually revolt against rome and break free and create a gothic western roman empire, maybe hellenised gothics.
no clue how feasible this is with ck3 mechanics, ill just find out
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as it should be
compare that to eu4 where a 1 province cunt has literally the same power as a 5 province cunt because the base income/manpower/forcelimit dwarf the income/manpower/forcelimit you get from provinces (which is why vassals are so strong in euiiii)
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Terra Invicta DLC releasing soon
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terra inshitca
well the problem i faced in eu5 is that when i allied with a bigger nation, and they went up against the nation i wanted to annex, they also went and steamrolled my enemy's ally
at the end of this war, when i went to distribute the lands in the peacedeal, i was actually forced to inherit the enemy's ally's lands instead of the wargoal i was focused on
my ally took what i desired, and left me with a huge exclave with little to no control
as a result, my income was in the negatives and my people were actually migrating out of my one-county capital and into the fucking lawless exclave land that i didn't even want
meanwhile my ally kept what i wanted
what a jerk
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>my people were actually migrating out of my one-county capital and into the fucking lawless exclave land that i didn't even want
oregon trail, 1869, oil on canvas
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3359110/Total_Victory_World_Conflict_19391945/
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I don't get some parts of this game.

Why does urbanization reduce the size of non-food/organic materials NGOs? I get why it would reduce food and organic NGOs. Both urban sprawl being built over arable land, environmental destruction and a general legal and economic move away from farming and gathering, but why would building a town/city/megalopolis on an iron producing proving reduce your ability to mine iron, for instance? It seems like the meta is to build a bunch of towns and cities on the food producing provinces and to leave non-food producing provinces rural, which seems to me like the opposite of how it should work. At the very least, mine RGOs shouldn't be reduced by urbanization.

Also, it seems to heavily favor capital economies over traditional feudal economies. That's appropriate in Victoria, because that's the time period when industrial capitalism completely overtook feudalism and agrarian economies as an economic system, but in the Early Modern period, which is when EU takes place, this really shouldn't be so stark. In fact, in the very beginning when the game is still in the Middle Ages, the feudal economy should be straight up better than the capital economy, with capital economies only really starting to take off with the discovery of the New World and the age of colonialism. I really don't see why a land-locked country with no New World colonies like Hungary, Bohemia or Austria should be city-maxxing and trade-maxxing over developing their rural RGOs.
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>>2447730
>>2447731
>NGOs
Whoops.
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fuck eu5, at least for now
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you build your town/city on top of the ironmine obviously
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asking ai for strategies in ck3 and eu4 seems to work very well now. not so much for hoi4.
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>>2447413
too many guns in europe already. Imagine if you had diverted these resources into displacing tribal Africans instead who fought with sticks and couldn't defend themselves. White africa was possible

>>2447543
theres plenty of resource abundant fertile land in Africa
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wow, people sure are friendly in this place
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nubiums looking thick
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he's beelining the holy sites
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you get 1 of these bonuses for taking 1 holy site
holy fucking powercreep worse than a trading card game
now you get a bonus like that for simply devving your capital 5 times in and turning in a mission
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no, core creation is a retarded thing in general
euiii handled the matter better when it takes many decades for a non-accepted culture province to become one of your cores, but at the same time the penalties for not having a core are not catastrophical like in euiiii, but more like a territory in eu4
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yeah but it also had the absolutely retarded decision of allowing anything to become a core if you held it long enough, even if it was completely isolated half a world away
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At least I got a warning in advance this time
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i am made of solid brick
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august 8th... another spanish victory
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Continuing where I left off, this time there is a big coalition of shitters backing us
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Same plan as last time, hopefully everything will go as well as before
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good luck
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>the forts in yemen cockblocking bro from using the djibouti stackwipe strat
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The spanish memes on facebook from this series are very funny, theres tons of NTR edits
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Made some food and continued the campaign. Thankfully Misr is an absolute pushover and after rushing their capital I can make an acceptable peace deal if things start to go south. I'm going to try to push for 100% though. Meanwhile the Ottomans are attritioning to death in the desert and the multi-ethnic coaliton forces are amassing in Yemen
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In the third change of hands in 20 years, Coptic control is resasserted over Alexandria
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We're all unc now anon I had a gf when I first started posting here 10 years ago. Grim desu, good luck with your lady friend though
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The war situation has developed not necessarily to the Sultan's advantage. In the end, the giga-nigga coalition has overwhelmed the Turks through sheer numbers
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Shoutout to the tech 7 indian literally-who who's been sieging down Syria for me
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>peace in the middle east
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puh all set up 81cheats. Goslar Silvermine is owned by a chick
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whats with the carrot lol,
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and why this guy has an even tinier carrot? do they have to form Noobia first?
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i think the "pondering what to play" will last until this evening.
this dynamic family portrait is nice down there on the left.
little niglet
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maybe i will
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the Question is, with
"Crusader Kings III: By God Alone",
will the Teutonic Order be playable?
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ck3 republics are not playable yet and you expect them to add playable clergy?????
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>ck2 dlc that make republics playable release date: 15th of january 2013
>ck3 release date: 1st of september 2020
>current date: 11th of june 2026
jesus
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ck3 is an advanced barbie dress-up sim pls understand
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By God Alone: "playable Theorcracies" 30th september. the pope will be playable

Silk & Silver: "playable republic / Merchant Governments" quartal 4


maybe we are feasting good later :s
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ugh it only took 6 years to bring back basic cicky2 features... we're eating good...
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it is what it is :/ a better alternative than playing Eu5
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20 in-game years later i finally got my hands on a piece of italy.
probably could have done it way sooner.
next objective: swearing fealty to the basileus. then, conquering italy for the eastern roman empire.
to swear fealty i have to share a border first doe.
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vgh... my liege... i will conquer italy for u.
like the foederati of old... just like the good old times, mein caesar
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>>2445898
this post aged poorly
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hmmm Camelot - Arthurian Legends
yes/no?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3713293256
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Why do those fags always sound like they have a stuffy nose?

lmao mission trees coming ck3
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3737882104
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it´s called being on a diet you fat fuck
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just link to the post you nigger
had to scroll like 50 posts up to see who your shit tarded reply was directed at
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Nubia is GP now
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trade offer
you receive: crop rotation technology
i receive: nubian kweenz
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i know what i got
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Trade deal accepted???
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lol
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i woke up in the middle of the night(2:44am) to play HoI4 and Vic3. Drank a good black espresso and i'm on the grind, life is good.
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>>2448690
First HoI4, after a few hours Vic 3.
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why not finish your campaign of hoi4 first?
me, when i stop playing a campaign due to real world distractions i find it difficult to come back to said campaign
also post screenshots
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cool. really worked his way up from landless adventurer.
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ugh... he can rest in peace now
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you were supposed to play goy$ first
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you're right i will finish my HoI4 campaign but that means no Vicky 3 :( also i'm too ashamed to post screenshots because i'm shit at it, realy shame right there
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>>2448587
lmao this post wasn't deleted
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see ya later switzerland
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imagine having only to play ingerland & france and calling that a world cup
automatic seed to the finals is crazy, as the youthes would put it
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manna lords won
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https://youtu.be/6dVFbSX_0NI
guys
plole5fag just released another rvideo
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>playing gsgs at night
based and comfy.
but why play the two most shite games on the market right now?
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if your favorite gsg is in the top 5 played on steam, don't ever talk to me
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the closer a gsgame's playerbase to zero, the greater it's quality
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eu5 and vic2 says otherwise
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trvke
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>the closer a gsgame's playerbase to zero, the greater it's quality
then imperator rome must be one of the greatest. which honestly i could see because i picked it up on summer sale and booted it up and on a first look it made a decent impression. maybe it is underrated. im planning to give it a try soon.
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How long till i reach 1k hours? This is not a game, it's drugs.
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is Hoi4 easy to learn? i mean, can i lose as Germany? i dont want to lose as Germany
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u are like little baby
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tell me you're playing with blackice at least
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I wanted Dominions 6 so fucking bad but i overspent on other slop. But you're right, i'm still in the tutorial phase, but i can see it from afar, those games will consume my neet life.
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where do i pirate eu5 1.3?
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that russian counter strike forum
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im gonna do it bros im gonna conquer rome right here right now
one final task before this great gothic king can kick the bucket
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VVGGHHH
i just chilled in mountains and ai kept attacking me. bit weird how my 1.6k stack can consistently defeat a 6k+ stack but ill take it.
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damn, nice. ai never does this to me, they just go and shit up my capital right away.
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r u proud of me, mein caesar
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>that russian counter strike forum
okay waht about somewhere that isnt shit
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>spoonfeed me pirate sites
>no, not like that
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yes
spoonfeed pirate sites that don't have malware
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fitgirl :)
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both of the suggested sites only go up to 1.2.5
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are you sure 1.3 is released yet?
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https://eu5.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_1.3
reasonably sure
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that last ck3 post looks comically retarded, including the image
i'd post an edited close-up shot of anon's ruler side-by-side with a clipped shot of don ramon if uhhhhhh my radioactive webbrowser wasn't on a 24 hour water cooldown from imageposting unstable nuclear isotopes
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good to see ck3 is still posted in here
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what can i say ck3 is still the goat
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no, it's ck2
ck3 is still good with mods though
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how to get eu5 1.3 then? none of the suggestions actually work
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have you tried ur mom's credit card?
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i only possess the 1.3.4 version, which is i guess some kind of beta version
i think it was from that russian site and i also think it was this link
from that poster insane18
https://link.insane.x10.mx/c/HnXRW7Wm
results may vary for you, i think? because i remember my brave browser not allowing me to access the above link, so what i did was i used my tor browser which magically allowed me to access the link
>none of the suggestions actually work
also i hope you're not an idiot and searched "europa universalis 5" instead of "europa universalis v", as only the latter gives you results
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>i only possess the 1.3.4 version, which is i guess some kind of beta version
thanks but that's actally 6 versions behind
current version is 1.3.10
1.3.4 is indeed a beta version and a bugged one at that
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yea' i don't really give a shit about 1.3.10 since for all i know that is probably even buggier
i'll wait until 1 or 2 hot patches after it
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how do you have 1k hours in dom 6 instead of 5 you mutant
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dominions 6 has been out for two and a half years now, unc
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first time i'm hearing this literally who game series however
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didnt ask dont care
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We're in a shitton of debt but Nubiums is prosperous. I realize we're way past this point in EU4's lifecycle but you really shouldn't be able to keep your alliances with muslims after conquering/converting Mecca. It should give like -200 opinion or something like that
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dominions is a game that got shilled in here by nfag and maybe some other guy for years now
it is by no means a map painter, and fantashit ontop of that, so it doesn't deserve any of my attention whatsoever
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>but you really shouldn't be able to keep your alliances with muslims after conquering/converting Mecca
I oftentimes spot such things in paradox games and it always nails down just how fucking lazy and incompetent the sons of bitches are. It's the easiest and most logical fucking thing to implement, and they didn't do that over the course of 10 years, and even if they did it would be locked behind a dlc. The moment a slightly decent competitor who cares about their games even a little appears on the gsg market, paracucks are going to get blown out of the water. Shithole fucking company.
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dominions looks like an alright game but it has a passing resemblence to this genre at best -_-
>so much seething about countries using realpolitik instead of religious zeal in a game that covers the englightment
yeah dude and christians should give all their wealth to the poor lmao get real, saudi arabia is a decadent joke of a "muslim" state and every muslim knows that yet world leaders, muslim or not, still kiss their ass
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yeh, kid. the real world doesnt work like that you dont just break a valuable alliance because they occupy some useless desert shithole
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the portuguese did try to take mecca after aden, the rumors were wide spread but nobody really cared iirc not to mention their known reputation of atrocities to the muslims in the indian ocean
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unless israel tells you to
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if the real world worked like the "shithole company" poster thought it did, no muslim state would be willing to ally themselves with israel either, since they took their third holiest city... and yet morocco and saudi arabia both suck their dick
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Bro maybe in "current year" you could make that argument when the world as a whole is much more secular but there is no fucking way in the 16th century there wouldn't be a massive fucking coalition of all muslims against Nubia.
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Yeah it's a shame there is no serious competition in this niche
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I mean did they make a serious attempt or was this more of a meme plan like Spain's plans to conquer China?
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>but there is no fucking way in the 16th century there wouldn't be a massive fucking coalition of all muslims against Nubia.
what was the size of the coalition against the recoqnuista? people were just as apathetic then as they are now, with the added benefit of information travelling slower.
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Admittedly I'm talking out of my ass but you don't think the conquering/conversion of a border region on the edge of the muslim world is different from this happening to the holiest city in Islam and the 'core region' of Egypt as well? Especially given that I'm rapidly expanding into Arabia and threatening to take Jerusalem ?
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the pope issued bans on venice from selling timbers and iron stuff in alexandria but the doge and the mamluk sultan were so far up each other's asses not even the jews of both cities got the dog's share
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holy fuck nigger that's a lot of debt.
stop with your expansion for a while you know
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Yeah it's getting pretty bad, the wars against the Turks have been very costly. After this campaign I'll chill for a bit but I wanted to get some conquering done before my truce expires as I'm sure the Otters are going to come for my ass
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>>2448983
Dominion is a wargame, retard
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call of duty is a wargame
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Should I play anbennar?
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it is? it looks like shit lmao
if i wanted to play a fantashit wargame (which is literally never going to happen) i'd ummm maybe try that warhammer total war or that age of wonders 4
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yes, it fixes eu4 (but not in the way you think, it fixes it by making it more gamey)
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yeah if you like fantasy
no if you're a historychad
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you seem to have this stupid idea that those two things are exclusive
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anbennar is hmofakino
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zamazywanie
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>revealing yourself being a polack
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>fantasy
>history
yes, they are mutually* exclusive
fantasy is orcs and trolls and shooting pink fireballs out of your cock
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i mean, a lot of fantasy can be good and its lore be very much heavily inspired by real world history. you're probably reading the wrong fantasy
t. 18, was kind of kidding on that one
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>>2449015
Historical fiction is fantasy, let's not kid ourselves
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gothic king of rome died. kingdom was split between two sons, one king in sardinia and the other in rome, im playing the one in rome of course.
pretty cool, my brother started an independence faction while theres a civil war brewing, see the claimant above.
i think im joining my brother here, he is my friend and my ally and my plan is to break free from the eastern roman empire anyway. i think im in a strong enough position now that i dont need the caesar's protection.
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a lot of widely accepted historical facts are fantasy as well
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>you're probably reading the wrong fantasy
well i know there's tiers of fantashit, where it's like
high fantashit = anything is possible, there is magic everywhere, dragons and world of warcraft races everywhere, think harry potter or lord of the rings or baldurs gate and diablo, maybe narnia but i never watched narnia so i don't know
low fantashit = no ridiculously abundant displays of super powers, maybe like a few here and there, like how in final fantasy tactics only half of the unit varieties use some form of magic (disregard the fact that game has loads of fantasy creatures), i'd say conan the barbarian is a great example of low fantasy because the only magic in that is when conan gets resurrected by a sorcerer's magic, or thulsa doom being the only guy that can literally turn into a snake, everyone else in that movie is magic-less
game of thrones is pretty much wedged between high fantashit and low fantashit
sci-fi is in almost all cases not fantashit, a run of crusader kings 3 where you destroy the holy roman empire right after charlemagne passes away is not fantashit, altering history is not fantashit, zombie apocalypse is generally sci-fi unless the zombies are literally caused by voo-doo
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like the rape of berlin
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most science fiction is fantasy because it's not based on science at all
but i think the guy just meant the simple classification all writing follows: good writing and bad writing
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I think anon is retarded and is afraid to be belittled with the realization that alternate history is just as cringe fantashit as modern Blizzard
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for me it's pregnant anne frank in dixieland
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>most science fiction is fantasy because it's not based on science at all
everyone almost unanimously will unanimously disagree with you, they will not think of sci-fi as fantasy because they like that there is a universally accepted distinction between the two
"if i want to fly a spaceship through galaxy i'll look for sci-fi game, if i want to climb giants and stab them in the neck i'll look for a fantasy game"
you trying to dismiss them as the same thing is just silly, most people aren't going to bother giving you ear for long
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careful buddy, my dad worked at blizzard
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those people are simply wrong
and fantasy in no way implies generic late mediaeval/early renaissance evropa with magic missiles
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>anyone who doesn't go by my definition is wrong!
i rest my case
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Most 'historical' sagas have fantastic elements like prophecies and curses and other weird shit
People believe dumb fake shit all the time to end up doing dumb irl shit so what matters
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The first fantasy novel has space travel ya troon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story
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>>2449045
Sci gi has to have the backing of this is possible, fantasy doesnt. You can have a fantasy story set in a space faring setting.
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also known as star wars

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look, i don't make the rules. i didn't choose to name the genre 'science fiction'
if the author doesn't base his fiction on some sort of science then it's not science fiction, pretty fuckin simple
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What is the science of star wars or doctor who lel
Hell what's the science behind Hyperion or Dune
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I think everything is fiction except in my general vicinity desu
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ugh what coulda bene
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>written in the second century AD
>in an age where electricity would be considered magic
who cares faggot
everything was viewed as whatever term they used to describe whatever people today conventionally define as "not real"
>Sci gi has to have the backing of this is possible, fantasy doesnt. You can have a fantasy story set in a space faring setting.
i know, dune is part sci-fi and part fantasy
the fantasy part being that paul atreides can see the future through le magic drug called the spice melange, the sci-fi part being spaceships and energy shields
i never said that there aren't stories out there that combine both sci-fi and fantashit
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but i just said star wars is just fantasy in space
and i haven't watched doctor who i'm not british i also'ven't read dune or hyperion (i dont even know what latter is)
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Dominions is the best wargame out there but it plays more like Warhammer tabletop than an rts or HoMM
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>Dominions is the best wargame out there
could you come up with bait that's just a tiny bit funny next time please
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uhhh goth bros did we get too cocky??
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Can you name a better wargame then that's not just a variation of advanced tactics or war in the east then
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Is there a quick and reliable way to acquire a second commander trait?
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battle of polytopia.
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>>2449073
That's where you convert and lead the Crusade into Egypt
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>What is the science of star wars
the spaceships in outer space and zoom zoom hyperspace, that's about it
just like how there's "high" fantashit and "low" fantashit (like how i explained earlier), there is "hard" sci-fi shit and ummm i forget what the proper terms are for at least one other sub-category for sci-fi shit
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woah this guy really hates fantasy novels for some reason
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oh and of course the laser guns and laser swords and hundreds of types of ayylmao coming out the ass
it's literally WoW with sci-fi, or some tame version of warhammer 40k
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uhm, they're blasters and totally not lazers, chud
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I honestly don't think you know much about fantasy or fiction in general outside of what you've seen in movies and memes desu which is fine since admitting ignorance is useful to start learning
Just say you don't like overtly fantastic genre elements and cliches then
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i never watched lord of the rings, only narnia and i find fantaslop to be so repulsive
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narnia is an amazing book wtf do you mean
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>crusade for sicily
ok cool ill keep my rome then yeah
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sorry but percy jackson series >>>>>> your fav novel
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Everything before the invention of film photography might as well be fantashit desu
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>Just say you don't like overtly fantastic genre elements and cliches then
not sure who you're replying to
me personally i'm kind of just tired of this topic, so my serious posting has slowly turned to shitposting during the last few posts i made
i don't know why you're posting gene wolfe soldier in the mist, my argument was originally with the retard that was saying sci-fi shit and fantashit should be considered the same thing, which is a laughable view
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the eternal y.a.slopper reveals himself...
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isnt percy jackson that series with male pregnancy and retarded fanfics
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I think you're thinking of the Aenead
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>I'm tired and confused and obsessed with genre convention
Slav confirmed
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Got tired of waiting so I declared war myself, most of the debt is paid off and our army is the largest it has ever been. Our generals are absolute dogshit though, hopefully we can slog through this by throwing bodies at the problem
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>Quality comparison
Ottomans got hit with the 'enforce sefdom' event which gives -10% morale. Lucky timing.
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>shit generals
>less infantry
>like 2/3rds of the enemy cav
>still somewhat less morale
>army seems to be more split between different allies vs the enemy's being more centralized
is it just me or is this an absolutely shit war? either you're much better as eeyufor than me, or you should've waited.
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I quit the game to make some coffee and smoke but the wargoal is Egypt's capital so worst case I'll just assault the fort and then play defensive until warscore ticks up. Khorasan is expendable and are really just there to eat up Ottoman troops from attrition, I'll mainly be fighting in Arabia defending Yemen's mountain forts or near the Egyptian border/the wargoal. I beat the Turks previously as well so I'm not too worried
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>>2449074

hoi3 is the only one that i played so far
but honestly i never played dominions because i don't have the patience to try things that already look like shit
i know that a lot of people heap praise on the game SHADOW EMPIRE, but that's not going to be me because i haven't played it yet
there's a shitton of wargames published by matrix games and slitherine among other more standalone/indie publishers
i could link you a lot of examples from my wishlist, most of them i have not played, but you'd find that they are almost all world war 2-themed which you probably wouldn't like simply because it's ww2 and maybe you wouldn't like that
there are world war 1 wargames out there, too, and i've noticed at least 2 american civil war wargames as well
again, do you want links or no
i'm only now thinking of diving really into the genre
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insightful
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>>2449074
uh, okay, WDS Danube Front '85. there. happy?
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>>2449112
I am fine I have been playing Angola '86 since since Every Single Soldier seems to be the only wargame dev that doesn't want to wank over the Eastern Front endlessly
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>>2449119
Yes
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>only wargame dev that doesn't want to wank over the Eastern Front endlessly
check out WDS bro, you have got to. fucking amazing games set during all historical eras possible. peak wargame autism. also why are you replyfagging? kill yourself. i love you and you should try out wds but you also have to kill yourself right after.
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>>2449112
(continued)
but of course there are also non-turnbased wargames out there (which again, i have not yet tried), but they are more graphics demanding perhaps?
there's warno
there's wardragon
there's broken arrow
there's call to arms gates of hell ostfront (long name, i know)
there's still division 2
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steel* division 2
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goh ostfront isn't really a wargame tbdesu, it's way too arcadey for that. maybe with a few overhaul mods.
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>>2449126
>wardragon
wargame: red dragon* holy shit i'm typoing badly
there's also wargame: european escalation which looks like it's not that hardware-demanding, was released in 2011
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still pondering who to play in ck3
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what region do you want to play in, first of all
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just select random character, if you think you could have fun with him, click play
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we should've hit bump limit ages ago but janny said
>"nah senpai, this place belongs on the page 1"
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>deleted
>449 results
nah, not even close
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>>2449123
Shut up you annoying autist
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449+254=703 you dingus
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>nooo you cannot discuss a topic which slightly differs from pairofducks grand strategy games!!!
seek some help, you seem mad at nothing
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but we've been stretching /gsg/ threads up to like beyond 1100 posts though, and only making new bread when we hit the 300 image limit, so who cares
i don't even know what the bump limit in this place is and it doesn't matter really because we've never fallen off page 10
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didnt axe
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i want to play in wales, normandy, prussia, savoy or sicily, or france or persia or nubia or in aragon or something. everywhere
as a hot aeon flux girl, my blonde big titted sister in law or mysel.
i sleep a round as i have fully eaten
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guy doesn't even look african but a wypipo with black skin
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>aeon flux
woah haven't heard that shit in a long time
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also why does your map look like it's experiencing a sunset
>that tiger icon
what trait is that
if you're going to play as a monkey that has no business in europe, i can't really help you, sorry
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Ultraviolet
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i wo not play the monkey. no worries.

the traits are well rounded so far.. but they all have animal-depictions:/ i would try them
from
"Immersive Personalities"
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3596393244
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3729669618
this map right here
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very interesting map mod, thanks for sharing
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although actually it seems like it's a little bit more than just a map mod
some things in there like ai adjustment of title preference, france over brittany
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i dislike alex grandi
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>dark skinned coptic culture
Is paradox now all in on the "we wuz kangz" psychosis?
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no, nevermind, he was talking about country color
>"we wuz kangz" psychosis?
i'm 99% sure anon was just goofing around
you can custom-make your starting ruler at the start of a run, you can make him look whatever race you want
you can make a japanese ruler look like a viking, so long as you're the one controlling him
i still think paradox doesn't let you do this to more than one ruler, but i'm sure there is a mod out there that lets you do it
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cough
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>>2448973
how could you say something so cruel?
are you even human you heartless piece of shit?
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You´re right I forgot about the character creation of ck3 letting you do that. I want to apologize to Paradox.
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he's nubian culture doe, look at sudan today, they call themselves arab but they're ethnically afro-african
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All I wanted to do was form Norman Culture. Why does CK3 hate me so?
I went back 80 years to re-do this and ensure I became landed while it was still Neustria and the decision is still nowhere to be found.
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>>2449015
>(which is literally never going to happen)
okay, i take it back
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2572400/Kingdom_Dungeon_and_Hero/
i remember wishlisting this game a couple years ago and considered that this might be a good game
i'm simple, i see 2D hex grid and i click
one day though, just not now
songs of syx might also have a good war system, but no idea though, because i didn't get far in it because everything felt so slow from all the micromanagement i was doing from building shit up so i was starting to get bored and something else distracted me
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>>2449200
It's not good having played it, it's mainly just fucking busywork
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i see
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The only glory to be found is in async multiplayer games
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does ck3 have console command yet or you have to enter debug mode exe?
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nu paradogs requires you to open the game in debug to use console, its gay
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*sad semi-cheater noises*
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Continuing the war, here is the current situation on the front :
The wargoal has been sieged however the Ottomans sent an overwhelming force down into upper Egypt and won a few large battles, prompting me to recruit an extra 20k men. Our allies and a small force of Nubians have rolled over Arabia and are currently putting pressure on the Turks in Mesopotamia, which should relieve the main front somewhat. On a more positive note the Ottomans are already at 0 manpower coming off their invasions of Ajam and Qara Qoyonlu, our losses are replaceable and we should be able to wear them down through attrition and continuous fighting
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I've also spent a considerable amount of mil mana recruiting generals and finally got at least one decent candidate. I'm currently using Central African warriors and should really have switched to West African before the war to maximize defensive bonuses but at least this offers us some flexibility in choosing our battles
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why does your character look like steampunk. btw your hre reminds me of an epic ck2 campaign of mine, pic related.
also
>alba
how come its so strong in ck3? also how did the byzzies blob so much in your campaign? what are your gamerules? me, i always do total exclave independence and i reduce the frequency of the conqueror trait.
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>>alba
>how come its so strong in ck3?
anti-english sentiment
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>40 vassal limit with 12 stewy in 910
nice cheat bro
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why are you taking the full weight of the ottermans instead of vassalizing byz?
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it annoys me you cant make duckies actually stick to their borders as a king or emperor, they will fight and inherit and shit and it makes the mappies ugly
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>40 vassal limit with 12 stewy in 910
pretty sure hre gets a bonus, no
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>BREAKING NEWS
Massive victory over the fort in Buhaira, relieving the siege moments before the walls fell
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ok so the crusade for "kingdom of sicily" does include rome.
seems doable doe. they just send their stacks one by one.
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>bro graduated from mcdonalds geography university
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bros look at the pope oh no no no no he is so bitchmade
>mcdonalds geography university
well akshually in-game rome is de jure part of the romagna kingdom, not the sicily kingdom.
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Making headway deeper into Ottoman Syria, we have captured the fort in Sham. After scorching the earth on the fort I'm taking another large battle in Aijloun to give the garrison time to reinforce/so they don't instantly siege it back in 2 months
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>wrong pic
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>rolls only 0s and 2s to their 6s
Love this game
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noooo it didn't work
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>Still playing ManaEU4
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It's a good thing the AI is braindead and you can bait them off 42% sieges with battles
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Gonna need mercs soon
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Kind of anticlimatic but I just realized I can separate peace Egypt without ending the war as they're an Eyalet
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Why?
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>w for political
lets get you to bed granpa
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This also means the wargoal is now stuck behind 2 forts, Ottoman century of humiliation really. I think I'll finish this later
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There's a save-bricking update every 2 weeks and nobody can even run the game as we're all 3rd world shitters
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Mana Gameplay is better than slider Gameplay
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keep in mind 290 still lower pplayercount despite there just being a big promoted patch
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>>2449294
Yawning @ ur Boring contrarian post
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>you would understand this if you were aryan
or you could just eat humble cake and try to be clear next time
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Where the FUCK is the become Norman decision?
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play memegame
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This is like the third fucking time that this same campaign goal has been ruined by shit that is completely out of my control.
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what is the criteria for forming normandy? list them right now
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also, show your culture map
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Yes At peace
Yes Own and fully control the Duchy of Neustria
Norse culture
At least one county de jure part of Duchy of Neustria has French culture
No Norman culture exists
>>2449358
It's all French
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i don't know what's causing the problem then
maybe try making at least one of the counties norse
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>4/3
or maybe it's because you're over your county limit?
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Nope. I should be able to see the decision without even meeting the criteria, I've done it before.
What a waste of time. All of this was just the prelude, my campaign plans were
>fully explore adventurer features, collect artifacts, and build an army
>become Norman, maybe rename Brittany to Normandy and then de jure drift Northern France into it
>Third Crusade into the Latin Empire
>melting pot again into Greco-Norman
That was it. The first campaign was bricked when the Byzantines went fucking muslim when I wasn't paying attention. And now this time I can't even go Norman.
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Just console it when you meet the requirements?
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seeing this failed Normandy guy here, i decided to play as Rollo and helping my boy Harald beautiful-hair out and unite Norway.
Huscarls counts more than 10 of those other Bondis
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don´t know if its from a mod, but i could always buy me Alfheimr (and become his vassal)^^
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Which game should i dedicate my time to right now?
>HoI4
I have 100 hours the past few weeks, should i continue that?
>Vic3
I'm also in the mood for some Victorian Era wokeism, internal politics, economy and comfy building
>CK3
Always in the mood for medieval kino
>EUIV
I'm not too inclined for that atm, HoI4 is complex enough
>EUV
same as above
>Stellaris
I have difficulty booting it but when i do i play for 6 hours straight
>Nobunaga's Ambition: Awakening
feels like a breath of fresh air
help(?)
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rise of the hwite sun
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minecraft gregtech new horizons
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this guy that keeps saying eu4 is complex doesn't have any idea about eu4 whatsoever
>estates is complicated
it's literally just taking a self explanatory bonus for some maluses (malusi?) in return, hell if you have all dlcs enabled, you can even play the game without seeing that screen at all, but burghers loan is S tier that massively outweighs its little to no maluses
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nta but how do you even balance privileges with crownland and other negative bonuses? most vids and streams i've seen of eu4 they take like 4-5 privileges per estate at the very beginning of the game, but don't most of them take some crownland from you? or at least absolutism which is also bad?
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who said estates are complex? lmao
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who are you quoting?????
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yes, many privileges make you lose crownland but not all of them
you can deal with that either by taking them a little later, when you already devved your capital for renaissance or just tank the low crownland or let it fall below 5% and accept the estates general event (the latter two are only really worth it when ur a small cunt)
>or at least absolutism which is also bad
are you insane? 99% of eu4 games are won 100 years before the age of absolutism. just revoke the privileges at that point instead of gimping your early game for a very very very late game advantage
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can you stop?
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@grok
how do i go about acquiring a trans /gsg/ gf?
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find a tranny and teach her how to play grand strategy games
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grandi is a state of mind
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so i had this test thing at university, not an exam but to let you take the exam. you were supposed to code a thing, measure a temperature and display it on a display, easy stuff but everyone is new and retarded
i didnt finish in time last time so i had to be there at 8.15 today but of course theres 40 other neegers also trying to get in so i have to wait 2.5 hours for these mouthbreathers to finish
im a retard so i made a tiny mistake and because i was too lazy to go to lectures i didnt know how to fix it, asked 2 of the people in charge, including the lady professor who then exploded on me
they wanted to close at 11.15, she got increasingly pissed and got louder telling people it's time to go, at 11.20 i got over my retardation, fixed my problem and showed it to her sheepishly and she just barely let me pass but with big sighs as she went through my code and visibly pissed and then instructed the like 7 or 8 professors who assembled in the room since they had nothing else to do to get people to finish NOW or make them leave with no chance to retake it this year
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that lack of compassion for doing a well paid easy tutor job is crazy
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>>2445894
>No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.
What's wrong with Vic3? I heard it's good.
Also, what's the hate about EUV? I heard it was great from the beginning.
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gothic rome vgh
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Eu5 is alright, not sure why is the op pissed about it either. vicky3 is just absolutely retarded. there's zero depth, zero historical gameplay or flavor, the warfare system is literally fully automated and in the most atrocious way possible. the gameplay is literal cookie clicker number go up shit. every country feels the same. it's genuinely the worst paradox gsg title ever to date.
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neatly lived up to its meme predecessor then
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25 having 0 crownland for the manaprivileges is completely no problem as you get enough crownland back from the first provinces you conquer
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only if youre an opm othersiw you are better off waiting to seize enough crownland
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It depends on if your estates are loyal or not actually. It can be better to seize crownland after the war to get the max bonus from conquest
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pscht. i want him to man upo and go 0 crownland as big nations too as i do
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i want him to share the mapgirls
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i don't like enacting the mana privileges
they make keeping estates loyal difficult because they increase their influence but lower their loyalty. much better to enact the privileges that give you money, prestige and combat bonuses and as you approach the governing cap you slot in the +100 govcap privileges
+1 mana is really not that important since you'll have more mana than you can spend with inno/espy/offensive
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Mana privileges are good early game but fall off later, loyalty should never be an issue if you're issuing monopolies, using supremacy of the crown for free diets + loyalty or the 2 privilegews for clergy/nobility that give more loyalty than influence (fort defense bonus and dev cost iirc). Most privileges are situationally useful the actually useless privliges are things like the gov cost reduction for centers of trade or the one that increases all power costs for a -0.1 yearly inflation
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loyalty is only ever a broblem in the early game bt mana is eternal
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loyalty should never be a problem bro unless your country has specific disaster for estate loyalty like mali. it's also far better to have estates with 100 influence (extreme example) and 60 equilibrium than 30 influence but 40 equilibrium for the bonuses you get alone never mind the fact that plenty of gov reforms/ideas/etc that give loyalty
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Imagine if real monarchs from 500 years ago heard about all the made up shit paradox made up.
>building based country
>society of pops
>estates
>managing every single building in your whole empire
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i don't mean that loyalty is in assue as in they will rebel on their own or something, it's just that i like the loyalty trending above 60% so i can do the sale of titles and seizing land on cooldown then reinvesting that money into my cunt
it makes your economy grow real fast and you never have problems with money and with -90% advisor discount you can run lvl 5 advisors real early
when you compare that to a measly +1 mana in all categories i know which is the better choice
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I know… we're all supposed to be in Ingermanland right now… right?
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But you can do both is what I'm saying. No disagreements selling land really juices your eco and it gives more the less crownland you have so it's beneficial to give out crownland privileges early anyways. When I say it's bad for the estate to have 40 equilibrium it's not for the revolts but the negative maluses you can have for 5-10 years until loyalty recovers after seizing
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>>2449587
why was this post delted!?
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because the janitorial staff doesn't play this game let alone understand the general culture
say what you will about grandi but at least he understood us
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it’s always funny to see a man that hasn’t been there for the grandi days…
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i was doe
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ahem see 559
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you're a lying bitch and all women care about money the most, without a single exception. i've seen too much shit to know this as a fact. hope he gets away from you
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>PLEASE STOP SCHIZOPOSTING IN THE GENNY, THANK YOU
PLEASE STOP SCHIZOPOSTING IN THE GENNY, THANK YOU
t. janny (instrument of globalism)
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since when is a classic talexios grandipulous quote schizoposting????
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i didn't know he was a supreme gentleman
t. janny (instrument of globalism and the UN)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5s2o8a9A68
good afternoon fellas
a great day for posting my campaign
alas, my webbrowser's nuclear reactor went hot again so i gotta' let the water cool its fuel rods for twenty or so hours before i post images
meanwhile, i'll be around
just playing my videogames
how's that new version of eu5 going for you lads anyways?
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Here's the estates I setup for France. I'm going to grant some more privileges after loyalty ticks up so I can actually use them. I also gave the Burghers the Force Draft privilege, which gave me a free heavy ship, then revoked immediately on start
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>>2449587
lmao fucking amazing that the tranny janny doesn't know that memegame2 is ontopic
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but that's vicky 2 not memegame2
also don't reply to me ever again
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vicky 2 is memegame2 howeverthitherhithertoalsoalthoughbeit
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nuh uh it's not
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ehhhh i think i'll play excel spreadsheets instead of this stuff for the moment
i would post my game but i can't update eu5... ehhhh... ill just wait until the next patch i guess
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i invaded the steppes in my last videogame campaign
saw that warhawk's corpse grow cold as i was building up my offense
i'd post images for you, but uhhh maybe later?
so here's some music to my ears instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZiafypuZ0
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does this make you wanna play eu5?
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no
i'm annoyed that i can't win as a one-county ruler
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yes actually it does :o
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>>2449632
now Imagine if real monarchs from 200 years ago heard about all the made up shit paradox made up.
>planetary sky vending machine more advanced than amazon the company
>shapeshifting pops that gleefully consume dark matter for breakfast and are immune to human biology & psychology
>aristocrat pops that don't even own any land estates
>managing every single doomstack because the concept of a frontline hasn't been invented
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>noooooo you can't post videogames here go buy an ad
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whats the most feminine tag you can play in a gsg-approved paradox game
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i'd tell you but i don't like where this is going
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byzantium, duh
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>courts full of trans folx with chopped off cocks
it really is byzantium huh
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>late evening
>ck2 open
>snacks nearby
>music on
this is peak comfy. what's your comfiest gsg anon?
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what snacks are you snackin and what music are you musicin
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ck3 is pretty comfy
stellaris is a little further back
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how is ck2 comfy when there are a bajillion things you need to keep track of that
eu4? now that's comfy since it's actually wargame focused in between "idle times" where you don't need to pay attention at all, just waiting for your mana to be replenished
in short, ck2 has too much text to read and uncertainties to attend to, meanwhile eu4 has none of that and you can enter the flow state easily
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maybe he's just so used to ck2 that it became comfy for him
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*meanwhile in eu4, you can just turn your brain off since everything is more visual than contexual.. lets you easily enter le flow state
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and text shouldn't be a problem for anyone if they've already read an event's text 1-2 times already
if i read an event a third time, all i do is read the first few words or a whole line and then just hover over the choices for the effects and click through
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maybe you aren't exactly turning your brain off with ck, but i just find the setting/atmosphere to be comfy. in eu4 you're some abstract spirit of the nation that constantly either blobs or spams econ shit. in ck2 you're an actual person, you do everything from this perspective, you arrange marriages and stuff, you get attached to your characters in game. idk man, maybe we have differing perceptions of what's comfy, for me turning my brain off completely isn't needed.
also yeah, text isn't much of a problem since i remember most events as the other anon said.
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ck2 is just fabricate claim build buildings when you have cash and chill
eu4 is just wait for gold, make army, spend mana on tech and fight battles
both games are easy
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the emperor of france is such a fucking nigger. if not for him grabbing one of the independent counties here, i would have had my pretty fully united brittany right now.
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>Uncs still playing CK2 in Anno Domini MMXXVI
It’s time to let her go.
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are you playing without dlcs
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no, i have most of them, why?
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isnt that small province south of you also part of bretagne
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>>2449795
Finland in Vicky3. You get to play as a totally feminized, buck broken sissy slut locked, caged, and plugged, dominated by Russian chads who just won the napoleonic wars. It’s a perfect submissive scenario for any little sissy slut.
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>i have most of them
are you playing modded then? or is it one of the dlcs that you dont have that make the ui look different
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Reminder that /gsg/ chads invented the based and x-pilled meme, which evolved from the “based and white” meme into the “based and redpilled” meme.

Never forget your heritage kings.
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yeah it is but at least my kingdom would look much better if i didn't have just that one province
no, i actually disabled all the mods this one time because i wanted to change something about having like 3 achievements in my almost 200 hours played. maybe it's one of the dlcs? i don't recall ever seeing the ck2 ui looking different from mine.
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no way blud disrespected the finns like that
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What’s a good country to play while locked, caged, plugged, totally femmed out, and listening to BNWO sissy hypno? Can be from any game.
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you have coloured buttons and the bloatmod style coat of arms
neither are like that in vanilla
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>locked, caged,
fake tranny, thats like saying annexed and conquered
on the other hand playing mapgames with a locked tranny on my lap would be kino
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ohh right, yeah, those are the two i have enabled. patrum scuta is for the coat of arms and coloured buttons is precisely what the other mod is named. why bloatmod nigga? it looks cool. if it's bloat i guess i like bloat now.
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did a super small crowning ceremony with a literally-who bishop due to not having the funds, and this absolute chad has somehow heard of it, arrived, and pledged loyalty
fucking hell
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i call it bloatmod because i forgot the name of the bloatmod, it includes your mod
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your mom's lips turn into a bloatmod on my dick if you know what i mean
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Garmon, destroyer of Franks and Saracens.
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i have been cucking my weak-ass bitch husband so much that his mother is now taking things into her hands kek
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do you even know what an african looks like
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Your humble Spymaster,
Roger a Muirebe
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>want to play eu4 again
>immediately compelled to play Genoa for the 42938234th time
theyre just too fun
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Ibrahim Traore a real one
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long time since i've seen a meme as strawman as this, congrats to the anon above me
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Some people just post things to post them. Happens quite offen here. Don´t take it personal.
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To the Unc who I laughed at after he told me 11 years ago to touch grass instead of playing the charlememe DLC and posting on /gsg/ or I would end up a virgin like him:

If you’re still here, i’m so fucking sorry bro. You were completely right. I never left this shithole and ended up becoming a 20 something loser incel. I should’ve taken your advice, touched grass, and made some real friends.
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one of us! one of us!
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Good morning /gsg/
Hyped for Espiocracy if i'm being honest
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so
panzer strike is a bretty fun game so far
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>kino event timing
morning anons
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If you touched grass would be more broke and less sane right now.
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whats the point of playing a blob thats already blobbed
and not even playing to win, you should have taken pale so you can blob ireland into britain
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Idk I just like France
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>>2449991
>look it up
>it's literally just another mod for blitzkrieg but this time with a soulless ui
i wonder how much they will charge for it... reminds me of this new trend of making a gzdoom mod and charging money for it when it gets btfo'd in quality by arcane dimensions or ashes 2063...
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all of germany's ferdinands are in that screenshot
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Why are there no games where you play a dude in a world where AIs play 4x strategy?
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but you're playing one right now, did you forget?
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What the fuck do you mean eu5 is rated mostly negative on steam
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>>2449989
don't think it'll ever come out, even if it does it'll probably be shit
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>playing a dlc made him a virgin
it was trvly over from the start
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who are you quoting?
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Johan made a Faustian deal to ensure nobody else can ever release a grand strategy to compete with paradox
Grey eminence? Never coming out
T.johan's gsg? Never coming out
Espiocracy? Never coming out
Until the day you die the only way you can ever experience being a historical leader in a semi-realistic simulator is through the clausewitz engine and you will not complain about it
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Bloody benchod war
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>125k 71k
lol
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Casualties in eu4 are absolutely meaningless, not to mention allies love trying to charge doom stacks with their 1k unit stacks
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>all military aged men die in a war
>10 years later it's as if nothing happened
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bohemia is playing tall
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Why didn't Napoleon just stack manpower recovery modifiers? Was he stupid?
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but he did, he took quantity ideas for levee en masse



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