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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, August 15th:
636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between Byzantine Empire and Rashidun Caliphate begins.
717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
1945 – Effective surrender of Japan in World War II, Korea gains Independence from Japan.


>News
EU4 DD11/08
forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-development-diary-11th-of-august-2016.962333/

CK2 DD 18: Optimization and Modding
forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-dev-diary-18-optimization-and-modding.962057/

>Random Country Picker
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# Archive
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# Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
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>>[HoI4] - More Music Mod
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>>[CK2] - user Music Mod
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>>[EU4] - Expensive Warfare Mod 1.0
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>>[CK2] - After The End
github.com/notalbanian/postapoc

>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.5.5 - 29/07/2016
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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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>>[V2] - 7 Years v4.1
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Nicky

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RIP by bullets.

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R8 my Greek blob(work in progress), still ruled under absolute monarch. How do I turn facist, tho?

incoming grandiquor corps butthurt

Very nice. Needs Lebanon, obviously.

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>not having standardized armies with accurate names
Shit tier famalam

nth for Shrek
event 60110

>flemish culture
>wallonian culture
>swiss culture
Seriously, what the fuck?

Nicky is based

>flemish isn't a culture

t. american who thinks all muslims are a-rabs

>putting maronites under the byzantine yolk again

Swiss is real though and was a result of numerous wars and relgious problems.

Belgium is a non country. When you say that people think you are just being funny, "haha little belgium xDxD" but it is literally not a nation. It has no single language, it has no single people, it has no single anything, it is two nations welded together and federated.

Jesus christ I'm getting so many immigrants that my focus literally can't keep up

just wait for the chink flood lad

>not accepting your mistake and saying "forgot pic"
Fuck off back to /r/paradoxplaza

Almost all GPs are socialist scum apart from Japan and USA. Russia got cucked hard by rebels constantly that they aren't even a GP, at least they ain't socialists.

Post politics screen.

Thankfully I was able to push through a ton of reforms right at the start, thanks to the fact that even 1 militancy event pisses off your entire population enough to pass a reform. Not to mention the fact that you start with half of them passed anyway.

I downloaded EUIV and the DLCs from the archive, how do I activate the DLCs?

send help

How does /gsg/ feel about the next CK2 patch?
I feel like its promising with the options to turn off shattered retreat and coallitions.

>promising
that is how i feel, but I know that china is coming and my processor weeps

Arumba is based.
Watch his videos.
youtube.com/watch?v=Am6-VmVDFf4

>falling for the liquor meme

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>my processor weeps
Why can't you day "and I know it'll make the game run like shit" or literally anything else that's not reddit tier.

Well,there will be mods to remove that shit just like there are ones that remove india.

ok

that is how i feel, but I know that china is coming and I know it'll make the game run like shit

happy?

My central nervous system rejoices.

I thought this was pretty good, I mean, I didn't expect a (You) from the devastated antagonist but I must say I expected so much as a pat on the back from my fellow old guard for ousting this vile reddit filth, no?

I am playing yugoslavia, pic related. I got the rest of the sahara and have been working on my literacy and everything else. Im allied with russia, france, and every slav nation.

Italy has so far forced me to save scum, I cant give them dalmatia, that will prevent the great war but make my borders look like shit.

When the great war starts its 1100 to 1000, but the italian troops kick my ass even if I gang up on them.
What techs actually help win battles? Because I cant win this if I lose 2 against their 1.

Ive gotten machine guns and breech loading artillery. Everything else is t2

My unit composition is 2 cannons, 1 engi, 1 hussar. Im mobilizing to get infantry

SMALL empires OUT.
Latin America/Area
8.135 million mi2
Roman Empire/Area
Image result for area of roman empire
1.699 million mi2

Depending on who you are fighting you could place stacks of 48 or 60 units on your Italian border and then the ai won't attack there. Check what their military tactics are and what yours are.

>mfw the Hohenzollerns became the rulers of Austria in the late 1400's in my game of EUIV

British empire beat this, only it was real.
Spics BTFO. Es lieyk anora falklands señor

Maybe that will work, but I still need to win some battles to make sure the war goes my way, they kick frances shit in too

The biggest problem is that my 60 stack gets wiped by their 45 stack, and they have 7 of those.

Try making the war just you vs. Italy and co. If the war is just over Dalmatia then ticking war score will be in your favor

How do I into Austria, /gsg/

BTFO Hungary, then take Northern Italy. From that point, the world is your oyster.

why would i form the german nation apart from posting a screen here for ebin grossgermanium?

prussian empire already accepts all the german nations as their own
plus i get 7,5 disc, 20 infantry and 20 morale bonus
money is not an issue since if you get there, youll be having more ducats than you can spend

Are there any countries that can feasibly form Indonesia in HPM? Johor seems like the best bet, but still really bad

aceh

Go Malaysia>Indonesia for maximum memes

>Britain didn't intervene
We're in now boys

Mali is taking it too far im going to kick them out of Europe

If i don't die fighting their hordes

How do you DH

if you fail you have to uninstall the game

how the fuck did they get there, what is that meme map anyway, is it converted from ck2 or what

>warscore after beating their army is still too low for Britain to join the war
>annex them as soon as the siege ends
>bongs can't get involved
Now just to civilize before they can sink their hooks any further into me

What are the requirements to get the free CB against African uncivs in the scramble in HPM?

It's a Converted save with Shattered World
i wanted to see what kind of memery would come out if i started a mega campaign from that

Be an european, don't be russia or turkey and don't have slavery

Oh OK thanks I was wondering why I didn't get it as the Ottomans.

Brunei has also been acquired

I checked the decision, and GB needs Revolution and Counterrevolution to annex me, so I should be able to westernize before then

Turks are white and based

The culture map is probably the most fucked up thing in this save

Ottoman Empire/Area
Image result for area of ottoman empire
695,000 mi2

Spanish Empire
7.49 million m2

LITTTLE OSMAN

>52 minute episode

He really has to get off those pills.

How do you make money in eu3 without taking a shiton of inflation?

due to the nature of the rival system youll have a few major powers
just alot sooner than in a normal game since you start with semi gigantic countries

i really wish ck2 wouldnt be just medieval drama series game
>muh children and wives

Is Flash a facist?

Is this one of the videos where he rants about his life and tortures his son?

faScist not facist you complete and utter moron

>this isn't your everyday incest
>this is advanced incest
>game of thrones
>xD

any eu3 pros????

And he releases like 10 of the fuckers a day

No, flash is facist as in he hates faces.

is that why he wears a mask?

Actually when i started the save in EU4 there were few Major powers me and Rus i think i could only have one rival, Major Powers started rising out in the 1400s, and since i was the only coastal power the colonization of the new world started really late

Gotta feed the family somehow if you leave your 6 figure job to play video games on the internet.

What did he do before he became a professional child abuser?

No one cared who he was until he wore the mask at an incredible high speed.

Insurance merchant.

T-that's what I meant, obviously...

Sounds like some top notch American nepotism at work

This is going unexpectedly well. Johor doesn't have slavery or serfdom, so pops promote pretty easily, they aren't very militant, and I get loads of money from precious metals and tropical wood

>2.95 mil and 7.81 con
I see. can't you conquer Lanfang before westernizing?

I must reply to this because R&I will boost his autism levels after this defeat so it will most likely never happen again

The 2.95 is mostly from Brunei . As long as militancy in the mainland is below 2.0, I can't get annexed by Britain via decision

Lanfang has as many brigades as me so I don't really want to mess with them too much for now

Shouldn't having longer draft in Victoria 2 lower starting experience and not raise it? That's how it is in HoI.

Why would spending more time drafted before returning to your normal life reduce starting experience?

report back in 1750
i would be suprised a trio of AIs plus you wouldnt take over most of europe

colonization doesnt matter apart from score

We universities now

I think I'll go for Order. This game is going to have a lot of war I think

Which version of MMMM?

INV_MMMMstrong

Neato

I'd go production desu, if you're going for Malaysia>Indonesia you'll have great RGOs and population, will have great industry

Because you have more men to train at once so they will not be trained as well. And forcing draftees to stay in longer would lower morale.

I doubt Russia with four year draft and more men to mobilize would have better soldiers than Britain with a one year drift and much less men to train. And especially a volunteer only army would have much more willing soldiers.

I was thinking I'd need to do a lot of fighting to liberate all of Indonesia, but maybe I can just prestige my way to becoming a GP, then sphere the Netherlands, then form Indonesia

Experience isn't really morale.

You have all the time to train them though, having more people to train doesn't equal shit training unless you are in a rush, which is why HoI does it that way I guess.

What should my goals be as France in Victoria 2—besides taking the Rhine border? Is taking all of India feasible?

>having more people to train doesn't equal shit training unless you are in a rush
That would be accurate with regular soldier pops but the experience gain is seen in mobilized units as well, which is really what the draft law is about.

>India
Only after you take Quebec, New Zealand and as much of Napoopan's gains as you can.

If the draft lower experience is also lowers from regular units.
Everyone getting military training also increases their experience when they become soldiers pops.

Why would you want to do that, cuck? You hate Glorious Germania or something?

I want to take the Channel Islands from Britain as France. Would it be fair to annex Southwest England and then changeowner all but the islands back in exchange for say, British Guyana—or more?

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