>>2367566
>On this day in history, the 22nd of March

i played some eu4 again because of you guys but i just did prubia again instead of something new

burgergeld

its called grundsicherung now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1FdM9Xg8AQ

now women get to go to university to be indoctrinated and learn about lgbtq+ and socialism that is just so hecking wholesome oh my science

aaaahhhhh fuck factorio is so much fun

i like to pretend that the inserters and flying robots and machinegun turrets are my pops

what would it take for you to admit eu5 is good

It would need to be a good game.
Maybe a finished one.

can you be more specific

more runescape less cookie clicker

are you referring to important options being buried below 20 different menus like ck2? that still hasn't been fixed?

>important options being buried below 20 different menus like ck2
what important option is buried below 20 different menus in ck2?

>>2367998
Buy me a computer capable of running it

>>2368012
You can navigate to every single tab in the CK2 with three mouse clicks, usually less. Imagine being too dumb to open two tabs

>i'm smarterer than you because i LOVE opening useless tabs
don't drown in your drool mango

name a single game ever that doesnt use nested tabs

pong

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it's crazy how much paradox has regressed from liqqy 2
in it not only are all the important information and actions always 1 (one) click away and the really indepth info 2 (two) clicks away, but also you have 90% of the really important info always shown on the top level ui in the top bar
which is why liqqy screenshots are always a treat because you can make fun of a shit player even if he just shows you the map (unless he crops but then you make fun of him for cropping)

it's not crazy considering thats the design they're going for
they want more complex games with more complex mechanics (read: more numbers) and displaying all that at a glance is impossible
old pdx games were really shallow mechanics wise because they were simple map painters which isnt the case anymore for their new games

no what they're going for is the illusion of complexity, as clearly evidenced by eu4, whilst being less simulationaistically involved than liqqy

i haven't looked in depth at eu5 systems but isnt it leaning heavily towards a more simulationist approach to strategy games?
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civ 7 to its detriment

it is a step in the right direction, that's for sure
we'll see how good it is when it's finished in 10 years

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goys help me pick me next idea group, idk what to take. i have influence/quality/religious right now
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yeah it still need more time in the oven, but i'm cautiously optimistic about it

abandon all idea groups and take innovative/offensive/espionage

you seem to be struggling to defeat your enemies and have a surplus of sword mana so take offensive

missions in eu4 are the reason the game survived past 2019, the main illusion here is the illusion of story
at the same time this is why eu 5 flopped. you cant set up proper satelite states, the ai straight up doesnt do it and just blobs blobbily. any sense of realism is deleted with mass assimilation and the mission driven gameplay diversity illusion isnt in the game at all
eu5 is like eu3 expect you dont get to play the main game because theres all these mechanics wasting your time and cpu usage

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if your eco is shit go trade, if it's passable go offensive
if you dont need a better army either go divine

divine is SHIT
and it doesn't even have any good policies coupled with the garbage he already picked

thats not the point, it's a supplement idea group that does a bit of everything
the unrest and dev cost would help him here and the dmg buffs are actually pretty good if you drill

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>offensive policies
Ok I think I've narrowed it down to Offensive or Economic. Trade always feel kind of boring to me. I like Economic's policies and ideas better but we're already behind on Admin.
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Honestly you've convinced me to at least consider Divine as well, I'll let you guys know what I pick

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>eco policies

ugh.... influence>quality>religious>divine...
going for the challenge run of only picking the worst idea groups i see

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Do you guys know if I diploannex Jerusalem to get Malta back if the Great Project loses a level? I know if I seize the land back through subject interactions it will go down to level 1.

it will not lose lvl

>Province modifiers:
>Local defensiveness.png +50% Local defensiveness
>Hostile attrition.png +1 Attrition for enemies
>Hostile disembark time.png +200% Hostile disembark time
>Global modifiers:
>War score cost vs other religions −15% War score cost vs other religions
literally a waste of 8500 ducats

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I got fucking scammed. I can't tell if I'm missing something but the holy order is only available if you're Spanish culture it seems when I look on the wiki. Oh well.
>Order of San Juan
eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Local_organization#Christian_orders
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I mean WS cost vs other religions seems decent to me, especially stacked with the age ability in current age

warscore cost reductions are bait
you will just be bottlenecked by coring/integrating vassals/subject loyalty instead of warscore available to you
don't get me wrong, ceteris paribus, it is better to have warscore cost reduction than to not have it as it will let you do an equivalent of a 100% warscore peace deal without having to actually get to 100% warscore and the ai gets really obstinate at 100% warscore peace proposals, but there are better monuments to spend that gold on
or then again are there better monuments in italy even? from what i remember they were all underwhelming

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this one seems like a great way of improving your navy without spending a single mana point
you can tell this is a late dlc addition made by interns by how amateurish and straightforwardly overpowered it is

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>Ottomans declared before I could vassalize
Fuck my life
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Saint Peter's Basilica is good imo and the one in Napoli for the reform progress growth is ok if you start as Naples as they have a mission to improve it so you can get it to level 3 quickly

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I think this might actually be a good thing as it's a chance to weaken Ottos before the League War and it seems I got lucky with them getting the serfdom event

why is your professionalism so low? were you slacking?

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I've been constantly at war or in debt so I haven't really had the chance to build it up

wtf why is your net income negative with lvl 1 advisors????????

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I'm 40 over forcelimit as this is essentially a 1v1 against the Turks

why? it's not like it's necessary since you're limited by combat width

They've got 270k in the field to my 112 base forcelimit, and I don't want them annexing Jerusalem before I vassalize them. I also want to be able to defend Egypt while at the same time trying to push in either Balkans or Anatolia or defending Italy

Oh and as I'm not war leader I have to rely on Jerusalem ai for the peace deal so I want at minimum more than -9 warscore overall so they can't take land from Jerusalem

seems like 4 stacks of 30k would suffice, two per front
oh right, i forgot you don't have inno offensive so your armies are not only made of paper but also can't siege for shit
by this point in the game my armies are so strong the enemy prefers to hide their troops instead of engaging me

why is your vassal the war leader??????????????????????????????????????????

see 154

but you conquered that land from ottermans half a century ago, why are they indep now?

When you click "declare kingdom of jersualem" it makes them independant and gives them a bunch of cores and unique crusader state government reform. I was about to vassalize and got the Malta transfer event with them for some reason which put them at -6 reasons to become my vassals. Ottos declared immediately after that

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>MASSIVE naval victory in the Aegean

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>1st battle of the war is in defense of the port of Ragusa

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Good start

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Lmao gottem

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Bleeding a shit ton of money to maintain this large of an army but I think we should be fine. If this war goes well enough I might rethink our alliance with France, as we may no longer need their protection

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Religious League fired, I wasn't called in but Ottomans were. Hopefully I get called in after this war ends.

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Now that I think about it Muscovy is bankrupt, I'm fighting Ottomans already and I just dumpstered GB not too long ago. I think the Catholics have this in the bag. Going to take advantage of this to decalre on Venice, they're guarantueed by the Ottomans who I'm already fighting and Poland should be busy fighting the League

>You can navigate to every single tab in the CK2 with three mouse clicks, usually less. Imagine being too dumb to open two tabs
this the same case for eu5 though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CiS4LdSAv0

do not discuss porn here. /gsg/ is a devoutly Protestant general.

>stop playing fun blobbing simulator
why? what would you recommend over that? because i'm not going to play shittoria 2

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The war with the Ottomans is almost over, our push into Anatolia from Egypt was blunted but it required almost the entire Ottoman army moving across the straight, leaving the Balkans relatively undefended. 333k losses and they never dipped below 100k manpower btw. I think that once Jerusalem makes peace they will be called into my war against Venice, which should allow us to cripple them even further. I really thought this war would be a bit more of a struggle but it seems that the morale difference from the event they got is just too big.

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Meanwhile the League War rages on, I think the wars against Muscovy and GB as well as this one against the Ottomans really had a massive impact. Muscovy went bankrupt and I destroyed the British navy right before the League fired.

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>Economy and religious map of Europe
The economy has somewhat stabilized and I'm slowly reducing the size of our army back down to forcelimit. I killed 2 protestant and a reformed center of reformation and have been force-converting when possible. It seems our efforts have been paying off

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Decent casualty ratio for a 5-1 army size difference

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>Peace deal

bigly hungary

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Catholics won, Hungary grows larger

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As a hobby in the last months i decide to add to my CK2 HIP mods some historical accurate minor cultures lacking both in the base game and in the mod.
For example, as you can see in the pic, i added the Muladi/Mullawadi (native iberian muslim converters) culture distinti from the Andalusian One.
Which other minor/obscure historical culture can i add? For the moment i included:
>Pontic, Cappadocian, Tsakonian and Griko culture to split the greek blob
>Galindians
>Gallo culture in France
>Melingoi (Peloponnesian slavs)
>Syriacs (western assyrians) and Melkites (syriacs/greeks mix)
>Azeri (late middle ages melting pot turkish culture)
>Scots (lade middle ages melting pot english culture)
>German prussians (late middle ages melting point for both low german or norse cultures in Prussia)

karakalpaks

>>2368652
I searched and they pretty much didnt existed as a separate people before the 16th Century. Only cultures accurate to the medieval timeframe

cool it with the antihoholism

>>2368657
I considered ukrainians too to split the large russian blob. But couldnt find proofs of a separate ukrainian identity/culture existing before modern times (kek), so i didnt add them

>>2368446
Fuck off, Johan, your new game sucks balls

it's odd to me how paradox just pretended old frisians just magically turned into dutch people after the frankish conquest lilke that makes any sense

that's not the first time they pulled that stunt in a memegame
there was that instance with them turning the irish migrant waves into brazilians

>>2368122
>theres all these mechanics wasting your time and cpu usage
mad, ESL? maybe candy crush is more your speed

Kiev

it's knib chud

>Gallo
Why stop there? Even the Norman culture ceases to exist on the map on any start date from the turn of the 11th century onwards, leaving a huge "Francique" culture blob over half of the modern country + Belgium. The whole thing should be a mosaic of langues d'oil. It would help the chronic French stability I always find in hip games, too.
Similarly, "Rusisku" is one culture the entire game, from Ladoga to Szerencs, when it should exist only around Kiev and be a late-game melting pot culture of Ilmenian, Radimich, Dregovich, Volhynian, Severian, Krivich and White Croat.
But White Croats ruled by a West Slav or Magyar should melting pot with Moravian in de jure Hungary to Slovak.
My only other complaint is that all of Central and Upper Germany magically becomes Deutsch in 1170 for no particular reason.

Oh yeah the other one that makes no sense is "Angelcynn" and "Englisc" existing contemporaneously - despite one being the demonym and the other being the language they spoke - with the latter seemingly representing a Norse cultural influence for whatever reason. Then in 1100 the entire country magically becomes "English".
It doesn't make any sense, but I wouldn't mind so much if Englisc slowly spreads down to Middlesex in the late 12th/early 13th century, then the province becomes English and it radiates out from there. That would simulate the east midlands dialect becoming the standard form of English. But I don't think the game can even do that.

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>Papal quality
Divine ideas OP??

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only 400 in debt. balkan pops strong

>>2368446
why was this post deleted?

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it's over for the turk. second ottoman war was a complete wipe on our side. somehow our mamluk "friends" managed to get demolished by the 20k strong remnant turkish army and white peaced so we couldnt take all we wanted

i don't get it
you're playing as a gypsy just to form an ersatz byzantium, instead of striving to form some sort of a rumania

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we still need to fight polen and hungary to form romania and get the achievement
both have fat alliance blocks + france as dof

ok but what's ur goal?

vlachs are the true romans
zakopane is the third rome

is that the birthplace of codreanu?

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i just set out to do the achievement but since france is cockblocking me i'll just reclaim eastern rome
we're fighting wars against the muslims until we're strong enough to take on france.

>>2369094
Just ally them and make them reduce opinion of hungary and then attack them

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first time playing, what special projects should I focus on?

>>2369106
SH arty is good if you have the natural resources
Flame tank is really good because you can make a cheap template that doesn't impact the base bonuses that the support company gives

>flag
god, paradox are cowards.

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>state -90%
I have no idea what that means, is this a civil war specific modifier or what is cucking me here exactly?

>>2369128
Spain's special mechanic to make the civil war last longer.

blame germany, they're the ones that made it illegal for a resident to view a part of their history in media while being present in their country

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romanian empire is coming along nicely

I am offering MP to the good fellows of vst, you can say the n word and no discord bullshit

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rome is back

Rhomania even. Interesting they use tricolor as default. I think besides Romania, only Netherlands do it as a non-revolutionary country

i've been playing civ 6, it's pretty fun so far but i can see it becoming too easy maybe, what's the difficulty ppl usually recommend? where ai doesn't cheat to shit and back

ai doesnt cheat it just gets better start and more buffs the higher you go. theres no such thing as a more difficult ai

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germany still has its own extra-censored version of the game. it's purely developer cowardice.

age of empires 2 has a more difficult ai according to the higher the difficulty you choose

a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihGFpjMxNtg

how hard is it to manually create an eu4 mod?
my hard drive fucking exploded and i lost my imperator to ck2 save

a mod or just a custom start?
the latter is easy

>>2369402
Modding is a time sink especially if your not familiar with the syntax.

last gen paradox modding is almost all just simple scripts unless you want to redo the map. tedious more than anything

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I'll probably be publishing a CK3 mod I've been working on in the next few weeks. Outside of Steam and Nexus is there anywhere else I should post it?

>>2369471
Will all this ever get enough flavor?
>inb4 congo and mesoamerica announced

you publish it on steam then make a post on reddit

>congo
you see that huge gouge in the map in the congo region? it's clearly there waiting to be filled in.

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vghhh.,...,,. anlib hre... home

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where do i blob

indonesia, malaya, phillippines

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what soi4 mod, tag, and path should i play today?

victoria 2, prussia, eastward

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im a hackerman

chinaman

VGH is it time to convert to euiiii?
what are you doing about the horrendous bordergore in evuropa

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>Ottoman century of humiliation
How fares the campaign anons?

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2369795
I'm still thinking of what to do to evropa, ill prob remove Kanem-Bornu's remaining lands and deal with mainland england/scotland/britannia, maybe add a few christian tags in north africa/italy so the reformation actually happens

you know you could have avoided all of this if you just... if you had JUST set exclave independence to total.
do you feel bad about that?

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lol

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I don't think I've ever seen this event before. Neat.

>>2369931
https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/New_Court_Flavor_Events#A_Departure_of_Conscience
Seems like you can only get it within 360 days of declaring a religious war on someone who shares a religion with one of your advisors. That feels like a trigger that's somehow both common and very situational

when was the last time you declared a religious war in eu4? especially when you consider the gorillion permaclaims you get from mission trees

yesterday
devs vvlt cb gives less ae than conquest

it doesn't it just gives reduced cost for taking provinces and no unjustified demands for provinces you don't have claims on. taking land from different religions gives less ae with people who aren't that religion tho

i can't remember the last time i got coalitioned in eu4
inno-espionage-offensive gives you 3 extra diplomats which coupled with always staying at 100 prestige give you so much improved relations ae decays very fast. and since in the early game you're much better off blobbing with vassals reconquest is even less ae
meanhuwhile deus vult is locked behind a shit idea group that was made obsolete with all these meme decisions and state edicts that give you missionary strength

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improving relations with diplomats doesnt help when other blobs are different religion and if you're not christian you have no access to easy missionary strength

it does help
and when you're straddling two different religious groups you should never have any problems with coalitions since ae is mostly contained within religions, so if you split ur expansion between two religious groups it never gets above the limit to join coalition

you can just admit you dont blob
your strategy gives you flat +35 ae space assuming no other negative modifiers in relations beside religion but wastes all your diplomat time which should be used making claims
just the cb gives +16 off the bat + 0.6 effective from decay per year (assuming no brot but since you mentioned prestige it'll be higher than that) and keeps your diplomats unbothered

i blob, but smartly
in the early game i focus mostly on developing my capital to get the institution and get direct, 0% autonomy power. while doing that i get 2 vassals for extra +6 force limit and enable the strong duchies privilege to keep them loyal
then when i get more powerful and hopefully have annexed one of those vassals and eaten a couple provinces directly i look for vassals with a lot of cores for reconquest to limit my ae
by the time my feeding vassals have grown i usually have eclipsed the ottomans in income because i'm playing smart instead of blobbing like a retard

>diplomat time
with inno-espionage-offensive and kangdom rank you have 6 diplomats. +75% spy network construction and -20% claim cost
diplomat time is not an issue when you pick your idea groups well
add to that -20% ae impact from espionage and no wonder you struggle with coalitions. it's like we're playing different games

>>2369865
epic mod
gsg is saved!!!

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eu4 cunt for this feel?

gsg was saved when verho released

blob off when

parthicum campaign anon already won the blob off ex post facto

>>2370250
tommykay beasting

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Now that Im not dumb teenager anymore
What is the proper way to Run the economy?
Ever since I was 12 every run was a Stalinmaxing run.
>Mass force literacy for tech
>Promote anyone with intervensionism then state capitalism and then planned economy
>Build all the factories fill them with workers and pretty much 0.5% clerks
>Subsidize them all, industry score must go Higher

flood the market with cheap subsidized military goods then go to war when other countries have downsized their own military industry due to inprofitability

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>Current state of the Holy See
Got the last of Denmark's cores back and cut them loose as I needed the relations slot. What would be some kino borders to end this campaign? I was thinking Italy+Anatolia+Greece to own directly when I form the Kingdom of God. I kind of want to end the Schism and maybe expand the Teutons and Livonian Order in their respective areas

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>Europe in 1594

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>Culture map
Not really much changes but I wanted to show something I found interesting. Lubeck converted Seeland to Lower Saxon and France genocided the Italians in lower Savoy

I've been thinking about trying to play Norse Victual Brothers recently. How stupid of an idea is this?

i really like how paradox made the aq event to genocide trebizond then made canik pontic in a later patch and now it looks horrible
they really should never have reenabled ai culture conversion and the fact theres no mod to fix this is a real travesty

they call me big hoss round here

hello hoss

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>just like everyone knows what blue and green are
japanese didn't have a word for green until 1946

they said "gleen" but it's the same color

>>2370577
Doesn't sound very fun

>>2371095
I heard I would be able to raid, is that not true? That seems like it could be kind of fun.

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EU5 was boring. I will play Pokémon Pokopia now

>>2371136
CK3, right?
Of course you can raid and playing as the Viking is pretty fun. The issue is, Baltic has a handful of wealthy ports, so you will be raiding piss-poor tribes for pennies. I don't know how much you want to roleplay and expand, but the fun part of playing as Vikings is settling in faraway land and building your state with the pillaged wealth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rd8eSrsMdY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Jg3Ou-CuA
new BMSS album and EP

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>the masculine urge to start campaigns and never finish them
Check out this fat pu I'm going to get. Burgundy's heir died and I got the 'take that von hapsburgs' event to put my dynasty as their heir. From what I understand this disables the normal burgundian inheritance as it requires the de bourgogne dynasty which is why I broke alliance/forced PU instead

>>2371287
No, EUV

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>peace deal
now watch me lose them all in a month as my ruler is 50 and they have negative opinion

>an ye've got the king in Edinburgh like
>'aye lads... turns oot we own half o' France now'
>the nobles: "beggin' yer pardon, yer majesty... how did this 'appen?"
>the king: "...inheritance, lad. pure inheritance."
>meanwhile the dukes in Dijon are starin' at the map goin
>"who the hell are these tartan lads runnin' the court?"
>and some poor courtier tryin' to translate:
>aye... 'le haggis du roi'... i think that means royal supper, sire

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Actual chad in the flesh, the madman lived

>mungan flimcan
imagine having this for a name

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It wraps around from embarassing to kino

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I may have fucked up here

sometimes i wonder what goes on inside the mind of a chronic blobber

>play scotland
>do the only thing there is to do in eu4 that is blob
>become a yellow england
this is a fundamental problem and the reason why i never played scotland

>play scotland
>dont blob
now what
by the same logic ottomans are just a green byzantium and norway is just a blue denmark

you misunderstood me, there is nothing to do but blob, but if you blob you become what you were sworn to defeat. it's a catch 22 situation
same with rome, which just turns into a purple turkey when you reclaim your cores

all tags are just the Mongol Empire painted different colours, because the Mongols were destined to blob across the entire planet

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the Paradox target audience, everyone

blob blub blob

even i figured out to no cb and i'm usually wrong. but georgia in particular is in a real nice position to neighbour only heathens for free cbs

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RIP to a real one, his 25 year old wife has assumed the throne. The AE reduction will come in handy.
749
Yeah it's a shame there isn't more flavour for them or an alternate GB flag/tree where they are the senior partner in the union

"what african kingdom Alberto Barbosa come from?"
"Poortugal?"
"done"
wtf

there's nothing to the captcha, sometimes it lets you in an a blatantly wrong answer, because the answer is moortugal

>>2371136
you can become a pirate nation and steal other people's trade

TIL brown cows don't produce brown milk

the typa iq memegame2 player would exhibit

is EUV good? Just pirated it

it's fun for about 2 or 3 runs and you'll end them before 1500

are we talking about eu5 or eu4?

what do you think he's talking about? read his post

the point is that it's true for both games

eu4 is the comfy blob game
even though you usually achieve your goals by 1500, it's still good for making all your cute empire larps

The fucking mongols on ck3 man how tf can you beat them unless they fragmate into the illhante/Golden Horde

historically accurate

>>2372055
Is there a clear path to that or do I need to find some obscure guide to figure out how to accomplish that?

any niggers here

have people like tried migrating back to /vg/?

>like

i used to say like for every third word in my liqqy phase too

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lucky

and then i said that's not a cow *slaps knee* that's my wife

why are you hitting yourself

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French quality is crazy

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time for eu4

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only meaningful change in europe was removing kanem-bornu's provinces in gaul, the balkans, scandinavia and novgorod

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Is Protestant Scotland the canonical choice in the lore?

hussite scotland

ian hvs

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yuan > yuan

>spawns in
>immediately starts blobbing
so this is the power of eu4...

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>>2372448
you research the pirate techs and then enact the pirate law

636
vgh fuckin epic... btw did you manually fix the bordergore in evropa or did you just leave it as it is

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How the fuck does this even happen

hansa is a formable if you're a republic but afaik it's limited to less than (20?) cities
so thats a bug or a mod issue

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rome is bacxkvk............

wtf is that religion?????????

2372779
waldensian from ck2

sell them a province

I wonder what people must have thought when the Ottoman Empire got renamed "Turkey". That's like renaming the Roman Empire "Chicken".

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i expected worse

thats your grand mega campaign and all the regular blobs still form...?

the regular blobs like Bulgaria, Aquitaine, Trebizond, and Ireland, yes
also what the fuck is that Macedon in Belarus

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2372950
back in imperator the antipatrids expanded to belarus, poland and the baltics and survived as a rump state there, in ck2 the title passed around between greeks, estonians, norsemen and finally a roman character, so they're venedic in eu4 lul
also they're almost dead now, but i still believe they might bounce back after normandy kills germany

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Surely there is a way to become an Empire rank. I can't just get cucked out of it because the Pope says so and there is a way to change it.

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vgh.....

daily raid check

youtube.com/watch?v=G8sGmSEehi4

ddr lives and marches on

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Holy shit... PDX AI actually doing something? I declared war on Venice and called in Portugal and PLC so that Portugal wouldn't defend France when I invaded. Russia is my rival and intervened in the war right after Portugal got peaced out. Very rarely do I see AI use this mechanic

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>War participants
Austria/Hungary are in my war with France btw

should've listened to musk and voted afd, lel

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I wish I lived in Britain between Roman withdrawal and the raid on Lindisfarne

i wish i lived in the baltics a few centuries before christ's time

you can just live in a remote forest today

i wish i was an italo-norman crusader

it appears not only in hohol news outlets, from what i've read they silently changed the law and only now people are noticing

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-people-change-easter-holiday-plans-amid-crises/live-76650036

>While people in Germany debated and even took to the streets to protest the potential reintroduction of mandatory military service for men, a change to the country's conscription law that took effect at the beginning of the year has gone largely unnoticed.
>
>The Frankfurter Rundschau reported on Friday about already-enacted amendments to the legislation requiring men between the ages of 18 and 46 to "obtain an approval from the relevant Bundeswehr Career Center if they wish to leave the Federal Republic of Germany for more than three months."
>
>The paper went on to say the rule would apply regardless of whether a German man "planned a semester of studying abroad, working in a foreign country or going on a backpacking trip around the world."
>
>While the law requires German men to request the permit, it also obliges the military career center to issue it.
>
A Bundeswehr spokesperson told the Ippen.Media group of local papers that, in the event of a war breaking out, it needed to know how many men were living long-term outside the country.
>
>Acknowledging the "profound" impact of the amended conscription law, the Ministry of Defense has said it is working on new rules for exceptions to the exit permit requirement.
>
>The ministry did not answer questions regarding consequences for men who leave the country for longer than three months without the proper permit.

seem to remember it was siener van rensburg who said in latter days it would be the german military who save the west

power went down, internet was reduced to a crawl ... all of a sudden the posts on here were like magic and i was in one moment interested in gsg again. and then the power came back

>>2372985
>a non-racist, deep in thought
seen many a smarmy post around here with that gif attached you must tone it down a little

>>2372638
only intrestin thing to come out of /gsg/ in months

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/gsg/ is so dead since they split up the boards

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The Liao ride west, hounded by the Jurchen dogs.
Godspeed You! Black Khitans

as a germoid male i am le mad

just go back to turkey

>>2373145
A-AARanon!? You were supposed to be dead!

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>peace deals

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>peace deals cont

>france annuals treaties with portugal
>annuals

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The Yelu Clan pushes west into the land of the Kipchaks and secures tribute from the Muslims in Sogdia.

>he took aquitaine
literally a yellow england

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one of the religion maps of all time

>>2373190
It would be cool, if Norse had Reformation mechanics

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form rome

He's playing Byzantium

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2373194
the converter actually adds a decision to reform the various pagan faiths, no customization tho
also when converting from eu4 to vic2, if your faith is unreformed it becomes animist in vic2, if its reformed it converts as the right religion

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ming spawned from yuansplosion

so your plan is to convert to liq2 and just be a china????

2373203
pretty much yea
ill try to import qing's events/warlord era from hpm to spice it up

then you better convert some provinces to ur primary culture otherwise you'll be stuck with unaccepted pops

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2373211
relax nigga i got a secret weapon

ching chong nip nong

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all this for 2 provinces

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The Liao continues west, shattering all in its wake. It's around this time that the Khitans began practising sacred incest... Oh no wait that's ridiculous.

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Huang Di Dezong, Yelu Dashi, passes from this world. His eldest son, Udu'or, ascends to the wagon throne of the Da Liao. The man may be a dumb, slovenly brute - but that may just be what the exiled dynasty needs right now.

feels like ck3 doesnt run at all anymore once 100 years have passed
i guess it was expected once east asia was added

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The young Huangdi cuts his teeth quelling uprisings from the clans on the eastern plains (which I forgot to screenshot because revolts are tedious), before returning his attention west.

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why

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time to take the mandate for real

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~1860 years after the Eastern Empire first contacted Polydoros Xenophid's Ionians, and ~650 years since Emperor Gaozu proclaimed his rival claim to the Heavenly throne, the Xenophid Dynasty are the undisputed celestial emperors of the Middle Kingdom. Spitting in the face of the tyrannical Cyrus and Alexander, the Ionians rose from petty exiles and slaves in Ferghana to world dominance
what a wild ride so far desu, i started this campaign back in early february, hope it stays fun for the rest of EU4 and Vic2 (dont know about goy4 just yet, from my experience converted saves there are boring)

also i never played as a chinese empire in eu4, what am I supposed to do as the mandate holder?

sit there for 300 years until your dynasty declines and you get usurped by some other horsefucker

you click reforms and kill rebels
it's a nice mechanic as long as you leave the 2 flood provinces to some unfortunate ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCC9a10anTo
i hope you don't skip the breech-loaded rifles tech

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2373276
inb4 yugra conquers me and create a kino finno-ugric dynasty in china

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I keep forgetting to screenshot interesting shit but whatever.
Pushing on, stealing land and population.
HIP nomad mechanics are retarded and opaque and it makes no sense that my 2000 miles of steppe is peppered with tribal holdings of conquered steppeoid peoples whom I cannot displace.

looking forward to the interesting shit

>>2373104
there's no tribe to live with me though
there are no shamans, paganism is dead, and the mystery of the wide world is gone because everything has been mapped

don't reply to me ever again we don't even know what's past the ice wall

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oh no

google uncontacted tribe
move to Brazil or New Guinea or North Sentinel

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timurids casually invading canada

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vgh....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfVGbhizknY

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time for a little magic trick

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my dick is 4cm shorter already

also ignore my low mandate and meritocracy no one wants to become my tributary peacefully

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wtf the argeads are back

the world if alexander died at the age of 67:

what kind of seasoning do you think the iranian goatherders put when they cook birds of prey

lawry's

>>2373313
>>2373313
>>2373313
https://t.me/+DafTshq-r0BhZjJh

i will not join your ruscord, thank you very much
and like i said, don't reply to me ever again

>>2373699
:(

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i love how even when starting in imperator you just cant escape the blobomans

if only there was one common religious identity to unify evropeans against islamic invaders...

>>2373832
The land is 80% Norse, if you can check few screenshots up

as history has shown pagans are selfish and don't stick together

Unlike Christians.

poles are the only good kurishitans

>>2373832
These Ottomans are Tengri not Muslim tho

ugh... what could have been...

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Continuing the push west in a drive for population, the Liao secures the western shores of the Caspian Sea from the squabbling Cumans and Kipchaks, including the key Silk Road trading post of the Sari-Su. The campaign only cost the Huang Di his face, but there is no cost he is not willing to bear in shepherding his people.

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Roman Pannonia

Are you redoing the AAR but not doing Prussian Incest memes this time?

any raiders here

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A decade passes on the Steppe as the Khitan bides its time. The Atabeg in Khwarazm, unsettled by the growing power to his north and tired of the constant raids into his lands, declares war on the Liao, eager to put them down before they grow too strong.

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The Huang Di stands astride on the field ahead of his host, his brother on his right side, his sworn blood brother on his left, as a vast army slowly appears on the horizon. As a youth, his father told him about the great numbers that took to the fields back in China in his day, but he could scarcely imagine so many people in one place. Until now.

https://imgur.com/a/yeH4g8G

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The battle joined, the Turks charging in a fury again and again, but met with fury stronger still from the Khitan in their armour, more than familiar with their tactics. Lances bare, and the Turks shatter.

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The Khitan hound the Turks all the way back to Khwarazm, dealing a second decisive blow to their recovering forces near Urgench before moving south to Khwarazm itself and sacking the city.

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The immense prosperity of the settlement on the yellow waters at the mouth of the Idil make the area an attractive prospect for many Khitan to settle on a more permanent basis.

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...However, for most, the saddle remains their home. Those who once sat in palaces and worked as bureaucrats, administrators and philosophers now hone their archery, horsemanship and goat herding.
As the population reaches a critical mass the call comes for the Liao, denied their rightful place as the rulers of the Middle Kingdom, to finally reassert their pre-eminence among the civilised peoples of the world. Preparations are made, the horde gathers, and begins south.

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(1) The horde marches on Gurgan and occupies the region with surprisingly little difficulty. The Shahanshah, believed to have been holding court within the walls of the city at the time of the siege, is nowhere to be found. An army is sighted to the north and is intercepted and defeated.
(2) News reaches the Huang Di that the bulk of the Persian forces were organised in the west and have marched up through Adharbayjan in an effort to lay waste to the Khitans at their capital.
(3) The Khitans ride north and meet the bulk of the Persian forces desperate to return south to relieve their Shahanshah. The heavy cavalry smash into the rag-tag infantry units and send them packing back west.
(4) Despite valiant rear-guard action from the shattered Persian light cavalry, the Khitan forces harass their opposition all the way back to Sarisu, whereupon the exhausted army is fallen upon by enraged Khitans yearning to liberate their largest population centre. The Persians retreat further south, though this time the Khitans do not offer chase, instead focusing on relieving their capital.

ok but when are you updating hpm?

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(1) It doesn't take long, however, for the Khitans to catch up to the routed forces. Catching them on the narrow pass between the mountains and the sea, the army is destroyed, the few who survive scatter.
(2, 3, 4) The Khitans return to Khorasan and face down numerous disparate and disorganised armies, triumphing each time, as the region is steadily occupied over the next two and a half years. The Shahanshah is still nowhere to be seen.

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Finally, at the height of summer, after five long years of war, an emissary of the Shahanshah arrives before the Huang Di's great horde. Bowing low, he presents the Seljuk's official peace terms: recognising the rule of the Khitans of all of Khorasan, as well as Gurgan.
The peace is signed. The Liao have their new home. And they immediately turn their attention to the Ghaznavids, whose armies had offered the Huang Di the staunchest opposition in the latter half of the war.

I completely forgot that nomad invasion gives one all the land one occupies as well as vassalising any unoccupied de jure land in the title, so I only got the one extra province and unfortunately created a little bit of Seljuk border gore.

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As the Liao begin pacifying the southern lowland areas, yet another army hoves into view, flying the banners of the Karakhanids. Banners with which the venerable Huang Di is only too familiar, having spent much of his youth skirmishing with the Khanate in Zhetisu and the Ferghana valley.