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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, July 9th:
1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepare for the Battle of Long Island.
1944 – Finland wins the Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in northern Europe. The Red Army withdraws its troops from Ihantala and digs into a defensive position, thus ending the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive.


>News
HOI4 DD17/06
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CK2 DD 13 - Warrior Women
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# Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
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>>[HoI4] - More Music Mod
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>>[EU4] - Expensive Warfare Mod 1.0
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>>[CK2 - 2.5.2] - After The End
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>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.5.1 - 20/06/2016
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>>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.1.7
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>>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V7
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>>[V2] Many Houses Divided - v 0.0.1.1
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Incoming steamgroup butthurt.

>10 seconds after the thread was made
nice bot, r&i

4th for historical waifus.

Nailed it

Is this a good landmass shape?

Howdy, Germanic servants! Check it out, I'm made of gold!

t. Charlemagne

Reminder to pay for the games you play

Give me a campaign idea for ck2

What's the purpose of the commerce techs in victoria 2? They seem like a waste of time until the end game when everything important is researched

prussia

>Republican Party
>not Partido Socialista

Admin/tax eff techs can be pretty good

>just fought a 3 year long war as the Netherlands against France
>we both achieved nothing but wasting thousands of men

Will my army recover? How long does it usually take?

Like said, if you are a poor ass country that doesn't make much money (if any), then those techs can make all the difference.

20 years

HOL UP

He has a point, the British are scum and anyone would feel sick and disgusted by playing as them

REEEEEEEEEEEEE

It's completely normal.

Anyone playing UK without releasing India should feel bad

Should I choose isolationism or western influence? Assuming the goal is to be grob and westernized ASAP but also not fall apart to rebels that will reset my civilizing progress mana

>mfw i liked his ck2 game of thrones aars

Play the British Empire, and sublimate the Indians. The world will thank you.

Always western influence unless you are China.

What if virtually all of your soldier pops are going to be from conquered territory

I literally don't see what's exceptionally funny about this post, it's not like he's complaining about Fascism or the way that other people play the game--he just feels weird about roleplaying the people that raped his family

is the joke that he's indian?

>mfw waiting for MEIOU&Taxes 2.0 to be released

i swear, i will reveal my power level concerning China and make an AAR once its released

liangbro, watch out

I don't know if you're aware of this but these games are not real.

would you like to roleplay the men that raped your mom

imagining that you were a normie

Is it possible to play an open hoi4 mp game? I keep getting instabanned from servers.

you're playing as a country you child.

>England

>a country

>>>>not a mongoloid colony of inbred sheep fuckers and noted mother rapers

Please don't, we have enough autism going on with only one AAR user, doing another just tells those weebs and queers they're welcome here.

Would genuinely like this

>liangbro, watch out

You're going to have to match his own autism, friend.

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looks awesome user.

>NO LE KINGDOM OF G-D

this is like a time capsule

What should my first idea group be lads? I'm leaning towards humanist for my inevitable eastward expansion.

Pasanen is Finnish you faggot

krautchan calls germans a bunch of serious discussion autists

Your ones are now zeroes. In the end, no one was hurt.

I'm British and even I feel uncomfortable playing as the eternal anglo.

does Liangbro even browse /gsg/ anymore? I thought he fucked off with his boyfriend to Europe or something.

Liangmod (real name Liam Lalonde) doesn't post here anymore.

I'm not Liam, that's the guy who posted the docs/helped me with the mod. I'm still around, also.

Is Liam the guy who bought the rabbit?

t. Liam

What? What rabbit?

This guy is completely natural, I can barely bring myself it look at the Eternal Anglo without vomiting blood. I don't see the problem here

he bought a rabbit i thought

Im still working on that grand strategy game. I am trying to make maps of menus right now and go through the logical progressions of governments based off national techs.

As such if your say russia you have a russian tech tree, and if your communist you have a russian tech tree. Certain techs like Stalinism require some techs from multiple trees

Now the big question. Say soviet russia doesnt take stalinism and decides to fill out the full Marxist tech branch.

My idea was that at the end of the Marxist tech tree it just says "The Final Step" which makes any nation that takes it stop existing. Becoming a Stateless Socialist Commune. All provinces owned by it become semi autonomous 'nations' and all are allied to one another and share resources produced by pops and rgos.

However this means that the player now either game overs or picks a new nation.

Is this idea too memey and would this even be desirable for players? Your my main demographic so I want your opinions.

I already am trying to make it as in depth and obtuse as possible, par your suggestions.

just fix EvW lad

he's a Putinite slave, that's what i can tell by his Google avatar

>Playing Victoria 2
>Estonia calls me because Russia is bullying her
>Accept without a second thought
>Russia is secondary power
>Russia is #1 military anyway
>No problem, I'll just mobilize and call my other buddies, it'll be fine
>Save game & close because it's really late
>Realize I'm going to war against fucking RUSSIA, the bane of conquerors
H-help /gsg/, I'm afraid now.

>>Playing Victoria 2
>Russia
You'll be fine lmao

No
Im too autistic to limit myself to that

just form a defensive line and get warscore from the waves of Russians breaking upon your shores

his facebook i mean

>2nd in industry as the US of A

that's what filthy socialist protectionism gets ya lad

Find a flaw.

ples

[Spoiler] my game goes from 1688 to september 11th 2001. You can cold war in it. Im even putting a bookmark for it. [/spoiler]

use Ctrl + S to spoiler on computer for future reference.
Also I've been quite hype to hear about anything that spans the Cold War.

that time frame is far too long

>playing lux invicta trying to restore the roman empire
>sieged a castle, took 5+ prisoners
>the enemy duke's wife and their two kids, plus a bunch of courtiers
>sold the kids into slavery for 15g each and killed the wife because no one wanted to buy her
>they were the last members of their dinasty and the duke is too old to have anymore kids
>gets depressed and commits suicide 3 months later

top kek

It could be achievable, but it'll feel more like many games glued together because certain features would come in the longer it goes on.

North of Greenland wouldn't be this accurately drawn. Obviously a fake.

Who the fuck made this map it's retarded

How important is developing provinces? It costs monarch points, which is so useful for everything else, but it seems like not doing it will leave me kind of weak.

Also, are churches worth building? 40% local tax modifier doesn't seem that great when it costs 100 ducats.

>don't know the details of the coastlines
>just draw squiggles the whole way around

NGL, as a meme loving communist I think this is a genuinely awful idea.

I don't mean to be rude or a shitter I just genuinely think this is a horrible idea, and there's no way you can accurately depict the time period you hope to depict. I think you are better off trying to make a wargame that is exceptionally deep. Maybe make a very complex wargame base that can easily take modules for different wars. I'm sorry.

I have legit never touched britain in Vicky 2 because that's when they've become the eternal anglo.

They're fair game in CK2.

R8 my plans for my EU4 German borders

What should I take beyond this? Anything to leave out?

>What should I take beyond this?
All of it

take the world

Where would the line between USA and Canada go?

Take all of Venice and the dutch provinces.

annex future Americans

Its meant to be long as hell
Simply enough to make things harder for me, that and I have a really snazzy way of making warfare change over time based on tech and this will allow me to do it.

It goes regiments -> fronts -> insurgencies and occupations

Regiments are like any gs game
Fronts are lines with a thickness that acts as one gigantic unit in how it occupies. But like a trade route in how resources are distributed.
And insurgencies are pops that wreck shit for other pops and can eventually rise as a regiment. This is the only one that can attack rgos directly rather than just make them less efficient from occupation and looting.

nah id rather vassalise them

Oh no dont worry. Any input is good input, even if its "your in way over your head" because it makes me change perspectives
Ive already made a wargame, its on tabletop simulator (well was, i took it off so i can make custom pieces) it is deep in that you have to worry about supply and morale.

I want to take it the step further with this.

Show culture map of the region

I knw I shouldn't judge since I asked, but
>all of it

I'll probably leave the lowlands alone aside from Luxembourg. I might try and colonize "Venezuela" though.

What about the Swiss?

Pic related

...

What?

Ya, annex Canada and assimilate the English. Leave the Quebecois alone.

Also convert the Louisianians and Mexicans, and wipe more of the eastern natives from your lands.

Huh?

SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP SCRUMP

Uhh??

hmm

Damn...

fuck off back to your steamgroup

But who are you playing as? Pls be Qin and play as a grill

You don't even play as characters in EU

Yeah well
You can edit your nation to mostly produce Queens
Make sure to name her Ying Zheng :^)

CK2
Bulgaria or Finland?

prussia

greater oldenburg

I'm still catching up with the thread from AAR user's posts but I have this book and figured I'd post the damn page.