/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Oh I don't forget, it's deliberate that I don't pay.

Fucking faggot.

Which country (or countries) should I turn into a full republic (merchant republic with republic vassals) and play as?

You're scum

In case you missed the post in the old thread

Either way, here are the files if you want them. I don't think Paint.NET is the issue but if you could try resizing them for me in GIMP that'd be great.

puu dot sh/r5AjW/ff8d38ca96.7z

>not pulling communism on paracox
lol fag

I'm not even a poorfag. It's just that when it's literally as easy to pirate as it is to buy, buying seems retarded.

You're scum

I'm aware and okay with it.

Whats your excuse for playing a mod where mongols are pinnacle of humanism and don't kill conquered tribes but must gently convert them to their culture and religion and then gently absorb them?
Is this the ultimate example of "realism is not an argument" where it sacrificed for perceived "balance" to stop nomads convert provinces instantly?

Should i keep my capital in cairo as egypt or change it to alexandria in ck2?

Hmmm how about....no wargoals available/10

Lolno

>still playing paradox games

wew lad

Byzantiums.

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>I'm going to roleplay this game and not blob!

That's exactly what Genghis did and a major reason for his success, minus the culture and religious conversions.

He adopted defeated clans as his own, swelling his numbers, encouraging less diehard resistance and earning the loyalty of the dispossessed.

Yeah the River and Terrains weren't Indexed. Hopefully this helps. I couldn't test though. Clear cache and try again

puu dot sh/r5BXd/0b0a2c5dc5.rar

Sometimes you blob when you don't even mean to. Feudalism lends itself quite easily to border gore.

Ok. What should my goals be?

>romisk rihhi
>swerike
>puille

what fucking language is this

There is a reason why culture corversion in EU4 coloquially refered to as genocide you know. There is no way to convert culture of an entire province as quickly as game let's you with tribals/hordes.

As for why it's actually there - it's there so you can't just freeboat as nomad and have to put some effort into your genocide.

Roman Republic?

That's what happened in history though:^)

Why it isn't de jure part of my empire yet? Rules say it should only take 100 years.

Make every single county in the world into a republic.

I can assuage your concerns. You are not blobbing, not even close.

There is a colour discrepancy, one or two provinces right next to wasteland, on that screenshot, why?

You mean going full Mare Nostrum and pic related or just the Eastern territories?

Once you went full mare nostrum on the Med, there is very little reason to keep playing, unless you have defensive pacts on and see how much you can roll over the pitiful defenders, which is fun

That didn't work unfortunately, now it crashes on creating rivers again. The file sizes are way too small to be indexed, they should be around 6MB while the GIMP rivers is only 600ish kB

So how do I beat Japan as Natty China in HoI3?

I merged my units and am sitting divisions on my borders with Japan and all of my Ports.

My industry is horse shit though and I doubt I'll be able to produce any infantry in large numbers before war start

Looks like every country is named in its native language.

I can also give kingdom and duchy tier titles to local culture courtiers. That way every time republic ruler dies there is a civil war just like in old Rome.

I'll need to disable the "x is a powerful vassal and is angry for not being on the council" because every vassal will be basically have a kingdom tier title and will be angry anyways.

The dark color says "becoming independent in 125 years" and the light one says "becoming de jure part of in 125 years"

Is every game of Victoria going to devolve into endless waves of rebels?

Nah, Number of powerful vassals can't exceed number of consul slots, even if they are king. Hell you'll sometimes have dukes with more bite than kings, because Nikea and Armenia Minor are just that awesome as duchies.

Show me direct vassals map of Egypt up close, that might clear things up.

Yep, that's HiP for ya. This is optional btw before someone starts bitching.

Only the good ones.

I'm using HIP and it doesnt look like that

Is there any way I can prevent it? I'll admit, despite playing Vicky for years I have no idea how the economy actually works or how to manipulate it other than increasing taxes and tarrifs. I'm guessing this is why everyone wants to be gommies...

Only Gizeh, the province that was light, is owned by the king of Abyssinia, which should also be integrated already since it says it's part of my empire for 105 years.

Well there's only 2 colors in it. There's no rivers themselves in the file, just land and ocean. I didn't touch topology and it's just 1.28MB and it's index, and Terrain is just over 2MB while Index with many more colors.

If you want you could upload the whole thing so I can test myself. I also found a stray grey pixel between the boot and sicily in the provinces.bmp, so that might explain why it thinks max_provinces is 5 instead of 4

Where the fuck do I get started with BICE? I thought HOI3 was complex enough, maybe I shouldn't try this mod only after 3 vanilla playthroughs...

BICE sucks, don't start it at all. Get that other mod, the Fox and Lion battalions or something. Gives you the BICE depth of division formations without the historicity hard coding.
Try to play BICE as Germany and laugh as your immensely superior in any term troops get smashed by russian children with sticks with all those winter and patriotism debuffs

Somewhat More Historical Map module for hip with Regional names On. Is what you need. Playing HiP W/O SWMH is kinda pointless, you might aswell install CK+

It's kinda by design, you can mitigate it with reforms government forms etc etc, but getting rid complitely? Proably not. Altho I'm not an expert myself either, so, what do I know.

Situations like that, especially where direct control vs vassal control conflict, fuck with integration a lot. Just revoke/retract it, you'll proably integrate within a year after that (I don't remember when it ticks or if it ticks on the same date for all kingdoms)

What do you mean? Only /leftypol/ and memesters want to become commies and go full Ctrl+click every 6 months autism.

The economy is simple: the bigger your prestige is, the higher priority you have to world market goods. Spherelings will buy goods from you before anybody else. The more lucrative goods you produce the more money you'll be able to squeeze from capitalists.

I guess I'll just let memeclave turned on then. Time to prepare the Great Politeia.

>not mentioning USSR with 13k IC buff

>Government Nationalizes the Private Sector

Haven't played hoi4 since release has anything changed for the better?

>nationalizing anything ever

I meant all the rebels want to be commies. First its Jacobin's then Communists.

But I wanna le ebin Kaiserreich

No

>all the pixelhunting I've done and there's still one hiding in plain sight in italy out of all the fucking places
Removing it didn't fix the crashes entirely, but thanks for that one. I'll upload the entire mod folder for you, with the original (and properly indexed) CanOmer files in a folder in the map folder.

puu dot sh/r5Ecs/0d028d4ccd.7z

>all the rebels want to be commies
That's historically accurate actually

Yeah, but not nearly on the scale that it happens in Vicky 2's endgame. Literally a million rise up every other year. Even in colonies.

alright I'll take a more in-depth look

are you playing a mod right now?

Yeah, HPM but this happened to me in vanilla was well.

That's hardcoded and not even HPM can do anything about it.

Aren't the revolt chances modable variables?

More like Allahu Akbar! The greatest has guided my hand.

This simply isn't true. It's just hard to do something about it without radically altering the game and he's not down for that.

If you wanted to you could pretty easily make it so that unemployment doesn't make people angry, nobody cares about reforms, nobody wants to join rebels and communism doesn't even exist.

>If you wanted to you could pretty easily make it so that unemployment doesn't make people angry, nobody cares about reforms, nobody wants to join rebels and communism doesn't even exist.
That'd be even worse.

Vanilla is completely fucked in term in rebel mechanics. An example would be socialist rebels when you have a full welfare state.
HPM tries to deal with it, but there still is the need for more work.
i have added bullshit modifiers here and there to lower militancy in my colonies and in my treaty ports as an attempt to help.

Try not to enact any reforms, also your pops should be letterless as fuck. Zero taxes on capitalists and about 100% on lower species. Make it all happen and your realm will prosper, my friend.

Is there a way to disable the province construction animation in CK2?

>construction animation in CK2
what

>You offer yo help your vassal conquer one county and it turns in a huge war with half of the christian world.
Fucking christians could at least have the guts to face me.

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I've added a Turkish focus tree
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698650453

How I do dis?

Not based enough. Where "Claim Germany"?

Where's "Appoint Based Erdogan as Leader"???

This, to be quite honest with you, familia.

HIP or CK2+ lads?

spam infanty and militia

I mean.. you can probably delete/replace with empty file that has that particular model within itself.

Maybe this pic should be added to OP or something.

They ain't even next to one another!! Some kind of "Gates of Vienna" news event if Turkey occupies the city might be cool though

This is just inconclusive as fuck I want a straight answer

Actually someone on ModDB asked me to add Ataturk as a level 9 field marshal with all the traits, which was pretty funny so I added him and made an event that fires a few months into the game to kill him.

Stop being a baby troll and either try both or evac the thread.

this is shit, why do you keep reposting it

CK2+ is a meme mod with shit like female claimants able to take agnatic titles and unless you're some sort of a neurotypical, you also have to live with garbage vanilla provinces and de jure duchies/kingdoms

>/r/paradoxplaza

You have to go back

/r/paradoxplaza is based.

the poor man was so disturbed by his father's passing that when he broke into his crypt and stole his skull he had completely forgot about it by the next day

Spam all the infantry you can. Militia is good too but you have to spam a lot more of it. And garrison THE WHOLE FUCKING COAST

HIP is probably better just because it's highly customisable. However if using custom ruler and playing ancient religions is a big thing for you or the Charlemagne start is then go for CK2+. Otherwise overall I would personally say HIP is superior, having experienced both. If a pretty map is a big thing definitely HIP.

I'm trying. I'm actually hanging in more than I thought I would. They don't seem to be attacking the coast, just throwing men in from the north.

But if they take Shanxi to the east, that'll open another front, I'm already moving troops from the south in preparation.

Fucking cowards.

You'll cowards don't even smoke crack

>Dicking around in the middle east from a viking age start
>Look over to the Europe and see a White Sunni Hispania with all of Iberia and parts of Africa

hmm.

So it turns out Simsulla didn't fix shit. Saddening.