/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

>1290 – King Edward I of England issues the Edict of Expulsion, banishing all Jews (numbering about 16,000,000,000,000) from England; this was Tisha B'Av on the Hebrew calendar, a day that commemorates many Jewish calamities.

>numbering about 16,000,000,000,000

>16,000,000,000,000

>000,000,000,000

They're all broke to shit

Talexios Comnenos

unHPM, LoS and Rob are playable and fun. Liquor and Visegrad are just mememods

Oh christ

No, they are all mememods, broken or complete shit

t. steam group falseflagger

t. R and I afraid that people may download other mods than HPM.

t. steam group

ultimate shitpost heres your (you)

They are all great !

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FUCKING STOP THIS

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who /steamgroupandproud/ ?

This is a Grandipost

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literally all me

Getting sick and tired of this fucking meme game

>Play as Germany
>Pick my allies carefully,only puppets join my faction,no shitaly no Japan
>Nips declare war on the US and is getting BTFO
>Italy does nothing
>Spain asks to join my faction
>Ok not like it happens often,ill let them
>Declare war on Allies
>Can focus my armies on the west since I took out the SU already
>France capitulates
>Almost ready to invade Britain
>Suddenly Spain declares war on El fucking Salvador out of nowhere
>They were guaranteed by the US
>War was supposed to be over next month,now Im at war with the entire planet because Spain felt like declaring war on fucking this

Me

>doesn't just play Liquor sim

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>he fell for the faction meme

I might as well,I can't have a single ally in HOI4 because they ALWAYS go full retarded,every single time.

these posts are me

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R&I BTFO

Based janny
Based Cobra

>play as Italy
>decide to keep good relations with nazi germany and have an on agression pact
>i'm expanding and have turkey and the balkans in my faction (romania soovus smth) and conquered greece
>justify war on iraq
>UK and france guarentee it
>okay
>make a coup communist coup in france and send my best light tank divisions to it as volunteers
>almost to paris as my panzer + blitzkrieg doctrine annhilate everything while the commies help defend the land
>germany declares war on USSR
>ok
>french commune joins commintern
>fuck but okay this cant get worse
>nationalist spain joins axis (coup was mostly based in the southern half
>fuck
>france joins the allies
>germany declares war on the french
>I watch as the commune are annhilated and idk how to withdraw my volunteers who were my best troops
>im just sitting here
>dreaming about rome as the world is on all out war cuz of hitler going full retard
what should i do? i don't think my faction is strong enough to defeat anyone...maybe the USSR but still i don't want to get attacked by the UK from behind

wew mass reporting actually works

*willy waggler rally call*

Hearts of iron 4 is good
with friends

>still wrong op

Cobra isn't even online right now

It's just too early in Colombia

You don't need to be online on steam to post

bumpa cars

>not allying Italy
In HOI4 they are very strong, almost as strong as Germany. Way too much manpower, and any difference in tech is quickly covered in only a few years.

>Spain doesn't join Axis often
Happens in most of my games desu, though often not until at least 1942.

>Suddenly Spain declares war on El fucking Salvador out of nowhere
Never happened to me, but that's fucking hilarious. Possibly even realistic, I mean all of the countries on the Axis were after territory. Did you think you could just string Spain along without them wanting to reclaim territory of their own?

tred slow

Sounds like you're new at this game. Italy should be able to defend itself against any major power really, if it's in the hands of the player.

It's your own fault really. If you don't want to pick fights because you think you're too weak, and you refused to ally with anyone with decent military strength, what did you expect to happen?

>Can't declare war on anyone
>Can't even guarantee
>Retarded limitations on joining and inviting others to factions
>Can't Lend-Lease
>Can't get any experience other than through le ebin squats and oats
Is there any reason to play a democracy in HoI 4? Start in 1936 and you're literally only building factories. Start in 1939 and prepare to get your shit pushed in.

yeah its my first play through without rage quitting
i have like 150 divisions
and like 30 tank divisions (light tank with motorized and support towed artillery maintenance recon and engineer companies plus a line of light SPGs)
my navy is decent
do you think I can take on the USSR or UK?
all the balkans except hungary are in my faction btw plus Turkey

Honestly I wish there was an option for some sort of custom ideology or just remove that "non aligned bullshit"
since when did the king of Saudia give a damn about world tension?

puppet them

I don't know what you can do m8, I'm not in your game.

I would advise not taking on the UK though, because it's very difficult to naval invade. If your navy is comparable then it's possible, but still difficult.

The USSR isn't super hard to beat. They have a lot of dudes but it'll be a good way for you to learn the warfare side of the game. They'll also be spread across two fronts, fighting in Armenia and Ukraine. And you said they're at war with Germany, so you can give them some help.

how am i doing

I understand that they try to mimic the real life history in which some countries tried to make hell break loose and others tried to ease tension, but this is a bad way to go about things. It makes democracies boring until someone else makes a move. SOMETHING gives me the impression this was designed for multiplayer games.

On top of that, it's historical but boring. But considering that fucking Singapore alone has many times the resources of ALL OF FRENCH AFRICA COMBINED (which, I remind you, has ZERO OIL) Paracucks aren't concerned with historicity past the setting of their games.

You just have to wait a few years for the tension to pick up. And if oyu don't like building factories well go play EU4.

not this again we get it, you didn't cheat

epic grobgermania mein brüder xDxD

its so retarded Iraq has less oil than USSR and shit
its like only Europe and the pacific islands had resources
its so hard to get rubber too which is retarded

it's not legit m8

Yeah, that pic is actually really old

Reminder that the R&I wants to drive out Darkest Hour because it distracts people from Liquoria.

What the fuck is unHPM?

It's a mememod created by the steamgroup to create drama around hpm

>Germany exists
Shit game senpai, better restart as Farnce.

>its like only Europe and the pacific islands had resources
Don't you know that Africans are brilliant and hardworking people that only never advanced because they have literally zero resources at their disposal, you bigot?

What are you, some kind of Shadow-Hitler?

Okay, but what's actually in it?

Someone make a years of rice and salt mod for V2, thanks me lad

memes

>developed an inferior double pincer movement 2000 years after Hannybail and Bai Qi
Mhmm

You can make grossfanciums by doing the release trick with Prussia against Germany but then you run into the problem of having kr*uts in your empire

Systematic Extermination?

The unHistorical Project Mod. It adds some meme stuff to HPM. It's quite fun

pic related

i'm ironically Libyan
Italy tapping Libya for oil in the game is ahistorical itself but Libya also has very little oil in the game (and 2 rubber somehow??) its triggering

i don't get what this means

You're ironically Libyan? Are you like those people who waifu entire nations?

Waifus are haram 2bh
I'm actually Libyan and living in Libya posting from Benghazi rn

>pop wont improve literacy because no writing system
>cant get writing system because I need 4% literacy
Oh uh I guess playing an unciv isnt allowed in HPM

wtf kind of civilization had less than 4% literacy? ancient egypt?

I've seen ai Ashanti take the decision several times nigga, you can't be worse than the ai

Many of the African nations included in Vicky 2, especially in NNM, are barely post-tribal. Some are arguably still tribal. As such, it's not surprising that fewer than 1 in 25 can read and write.

I wanted to be great Zulu empire
But they start with 1% literacy
Then I lost all my clay to Boer republics railroading

what's the name of the mod you're talking about?

Bought EU4 and all the expansions (not the unit packs and music crap though) and just started playing my first game.

Picked Holland but I am having trouble breaking free from Burgundy, it's already been 25 years and I'm still their bitch. With mercenaries I am able to field a force of 20 regiments or so but even after them getting their tits slapped by France they still have an alliance worth 45-50 regiments.

Should I just be patient or what? They're allied with Gelre who took over Friesland and Utrecht with their help, I'm like completely boxed in.

Just trying to make money now and getting England/France and all of the HRE to like me (went with Diplomat ideas).

The battle of the red river is nnm stuff and its pretty easy to get literacy that is to the boers

He was talking about HPM. I was talking about NNM, which is integrated into HPM. New Nations Mod.

>Italy tapping Libya for oil in the game is ahistorical itself
But not entirely impossible. It would've technically ben feasable at the time had they tried it. That's what the game reflects in its decisions (or should reflect): viable alternate histories. Things like Italy looking for oil in Libya or France extending the Maginot Line.

you paid hundreds of dollars for EU 4?

yeah but why does Libya only have 8 oil while persia has 200+ oil?
also why is the oil only in sirte?

why was the ignore deleted??? this is a travesty!!

Got it in a sale like a few weeks ago but I had to go on holiday. I think it was 60 bucks or so

>Still no torrent for this game

Looks like Aurora, which probably means that it's brilliant but will be forced out of here by shitposters embarrassed that they're too dumb to play it.

It is pretty close, but not as deep as aurora

Looks mad? Does it run natively on Linux?

Anyone got some tips for plays as Buddhist in CK2?
I'm playing in the area above India above that large impassible terrain.

>try shot with manpower nerfed EU3
>lets do Knights, i remember Ottomans being bastards every time i did them
>ai cannot handle lack of manpower
>perpetual ai wars
>game ruined because EU4 design choices are being pushed in
>MP balance

Thanks Paradox.

>EU4 designs choices being pushed in
What they still fiddle with EU3? Why?

Ottomans can't handle anything in the 1399 start

>have to devote all their troops to battling the timurids
>all the christians around them are guaranteed by france and castille
>big european power always ends up being DoF
>venice guaranteeing everyone
>can't handle the bosphorus strait or it's constantly blockaded by castille

It's a pretty hard start. 1453 is more balanced.

They don't. The 5.2 beta patch predates EU4 as far as I know and manpower was broken in singleplayer as well.

They reduced manpower growth a while ago...50% was it? 15 years to gain manpower pool back.
Thats the funny thing, they didnt have issues with Castille or anyone beside Timurids for 30 years. Even with conscripts they simply couldnt handle the manpower costs.

And then Regency happened and well...go figure.

They doubled it from 5 years to 10 years for complete manpower recovery.

Is it acceptable to play Victoria 2 completely naked?