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This day in history, September 13th:
1229 – Ögedei Khan is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire in Kodoe Aral, Khentii: Mongolia.
1541 – After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine known as Calvinism.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
1922 – The final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, commences.
>News
EU4 Rights of Man DLC announced

EU4 DD18/08
forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-development-diary-18th-of-august-2016.963425/

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# Archive (mods only)
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#Where to get these games
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# Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
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>>[HoI4] - More Music Mod
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>>[HoI4] - Après Moi, Le Déluge
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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 V8
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>>[V2] Many Houses Divided - v 0.0.1.1
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Old Thread

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Based

2nd for Nicky was better then Willy.

Is this realistic?

Yes

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No

updated MEGA where? last one is down

Well I managed to fix a few things, it's not perfect but it's almost there. Right now you get 100 lashes or stoned to death if you are an unimportant character, but as a noble or a close relative of one you will be judged. There's 2 more options that appear if you have high diplo, high learning + piety or Faqih.

If the character confess, he will be usually banned. If the Qadi is zealous though, he will probably execute you.

To carry any of the justice actions you need to have a chief Qadi appointed, and every landed character can appoint one. It's also a major title like Regent or Physician so if you don't have one the game will remind you.

Wait, would you get a less severe punishment for confession?

release soon?

where's the archive at lads ?

If I'm going to play as a kingdom without planning to blob outside of my de jure kingdom territory, is it a good idea to destroy all duchy titles (except for where my capital is) and have all vassals only control one county? Is this a meme playstyle?

No new duchies should be formed by any of them since they don't own enough land, there should be no relation penalty either. Everyone would be my direct vassal and benefit from the same vassal relation boosting modifiers. If I include barony-level vassals I would end up having 70 of them, and 20 count-level vassals with decently high centralization while I end up with ~13 personal counties later on.

Stability should be more than guaranteed most of the time unless I get tyranny modifiers which make everyone mad, and there's no real need to do any of that once I get good borders. I would end up getting a lot of direct vassal taxes too since it's really easy to keep most vassals happy (use the pledge peace to vassals ambition, go to hajj/pilgrimage, business/theology focus, low vassal obligations etc.).

I believe that the only real bad thing about such a playstyle is that tech distribution might fuck me over since vassal counts don't generate tech points, but the tech spread from my capital might make up for it. Or it could keep them even more controlled since they get less techs to keep up with my own might.

After the accused gives his version, the chief qadi of the lord that's holding the judgment will decide on the punishment: death by stoning, being flogged and banished, only being flogged or being declared innocent.

Right now I didn't do any feedback to clog the liege, once the sentence is declared the accused is punished and that's it.

It increases the chance of being flogged and banished, but it also completely removes the option of being declared innocent or only being flogged. It's usually a bad idea, but a pious or repentant muslim might do it.

Probably no, I still want to do rape, cutting the hands of those that steal from you and demanding compensation if someone was assassinated, either by having the killer executed or the or by receiving monetary compensation.

Won't work if you play with Conclave though due to all of your Count-level vassals wanting council positions

Wait, is this a mod you're making? How Islamophobic.

But whats the point? If you're a small kingdom its super easy to keep your vassals happy, theres no reasons to do this.

This should work. Your vassals won't have enough power to fabricate claims outside of the kingdom, nor enough of a levy to actually enforce them.

I'm still experimenting with the best way to facilitate eugenics in the nobility. I always invite lowborn courtiers with positive congenital traits and then marry them to each other. I matrilineally marry my daughters to young bucks (always look for Strong or Genius if possible) and let them produce dynasty members that I then hand out land to. Not sure if I'm approaching this in the best way, but the ideal goal is to have well over half of the population with positive congenital traits within 100-200 years of the game's start. My main issue now is ensuring there isn't any inheritance overlap when I'm handing out landed titles to my superhuman stable of courtiers and then praying that their genius + strong wives don't die and they marry a hunchback.

The text also changes to reflect what the accused said. The first part until the "he stands accused of zina" is always the same but the text below it will tell you if he confessed, denied, or use any of the special options. If you are a Qadi you need to know before passing judgment.

Once executed, the Qadi won't be the one that's known to being the killer even if he's the one who decides the sentence. He's acting on the orders of his liege. I still need to think if I will deal with bribery, though someone who's imprisoned is really not in position of bribing anyone.


Technically, once someone confessed he shouldn't be spared. He should always be stoned to death, that's it. You wouldn't be flogged and banished, you'd be put to death. There's also no concept of "doubt" in old sharia, so he shouldn't just be flogged and released.

But seeing as actual punishment was also rarer because you can be free just by denying shit 4 times and you'd be considered innocent, and that doesn't happen here, you can be forgiven and escape with a minor punishment.
If someone committed a crime again after denying it he would probably be declared a takfir and executed, so I may just change this to a "one strike" policy: you can be free by denying it, but if you end guilty of any other crime you would become takfir and be executed.

I don't know, there's also the problem of someone who recognizes a bastard, he's basically admitting guilt.

based
have you considered making an HPM for ck2

Yes it's at lads.com

>Venice loyal to the ERE

Really makes you think

what's the based map mod?

Basically I want to have absolute power in the kingdom, everyone else being so weak that even if they get mad, they can't do shit on their own. If a stronger duke somehow gets mad, it could potentially be something more of a problem.

Several small counts would have to get mad enough to start a faction against me, and unless all 20 counts get mad, it's absolutely futile. Even then I should have a large retinue and personal levy, while the counts are so small they can't even build any retinues.

It also helps if I want to use a succession law that uses high ranking titles for voting (elective gavelkind/monarchy), I would be the only person who can actually vote, giving me total control over succession.

I was making this as a minimod for HIP, I like EMF but playing as a muslim and a christian feels too samey.
I couldn't imprison and execute adulterers and sodomites, even decadent members I could only banish. So I thought about doing something about it.

Right now I'm just doing muslim stuff and doing a few more character interactions that are missing, such as rape. I thought about doing something more complex such as separate laws that you enact that deal with murder, rape, stealing in your realm as well as the punishment and maybe stuff for inquisition, but I'm not sure yet. I still have other shit to do.

so is no one talking about HOI4 because "le nEw gaMeZ arE aLwAys bAd xDD" meme or what

i haven't been here since release so i wouldn't know what is it with the lot of you special retards this time around

It's mini SWMH.

I dont know what to do anymore beside raiding and building more holdings
I purged my kingdom of all the irish, scots, and english, I removed the few counts who werent of my dynasty except one who is a vassal of my heir, and I have the biggest army in the world.
Also England and Wales will have finished drifting de jure in my main title in a few years

Do the colonies' POPs count towards the national average literacy?

No, only for national clergymen %

I'd also really like to do trial by combat for Germanic cultures and Barbary pirates/slavery for berbers, they should probably be able to raid, and the Yassa for the mongols. Make so that different cultures feel more different.
Kidnapping in HIP has no fucking downsides at all while it historically was a reason for trial by combat.

That's too much stuff though, doubt I will ever do it.

Berber cultures can already raid

how did we go from this

Well shit never mind then, I never saw them raid.

Though I'd still like something for raiding, capturing prisoners and selling them in slave markets. Some traits to match viking traits too.

to this

shitposters and reddit memes

to this?

liquoria 2 is the only accepted game here, even hoi3 gets shit on
the reddit infiltration has succeeded sadly

Who's the guy?
>Reagan supporting him
Fuck off

An American citizen who is White and Based

Which Native American nations are the most fun/unique/curated/good in EU4? I've been learning the game and I thought I might try out the other hemisphere.

The first one on the sedond row is legitimately the hottest of them all though. I'm guessing based Aryan Persians?

As for your question, pic related.

The game's shit but I really like the time period so I play through the suffering.

tbigbenis

Historically the Iroquois were the strongest, and they were the dominant power in North America until the end of Queen Anne's war

I don't play EU4 though

>actually liking eu4
Are you retarded or just a paradrone?
>implying the two concepts are mutually exclusive


In other news
>looked up picture because unironically liked it
>turns out she was BLACKED
LITERERALLY every time.

There were no dominant powers in North America, just regional powers throughout the continent
I wish there were though, then maybe I could visit ruins instead of "historic" buildings that are only one hundred fifty years old

>he isn't living where his ancestors came to North America 350 years ago lived

Wew

Stone henge is fucking shit
t. nocturnal bong

any lewd mods for ck2?

I look forward to seeing this completed, I agree that HIP lacks religious flavour, so I'm looking forward to this submod.

Keep it up pal.

wtf is this

tortuemod lets you rape prisoners

I expected at least one (You) for this. Depiction of black gang rape on whites in ancient Greece, you should be swarming to give me (You)s.

is it detailed or just "lol you rpae dis person"? I want graphic romantic lovemaking with choices and consequences but historical and without fantasy elements

fuck off

i dont know maybe just watch porn

Can you faggots take a break from shitposting for a second and tell me if the warhammer mod is updated for ck2 2.6 yet?

>warhammer mod
>accuses us of shitposting

i can only get off to immersive ck2 roleplay

dead like elder kings

r8 my borders

Why is this thread so fucking based?

>all those blobs

>blobs everywhere
Nice game

>Sicily is under rightful Germanic rule
I like this.

Blame the bongs

Why is eating with your left hand so hard? Are there any ambidextrous people here and does it help in playing grand strategy gaems?

The former is a myth.

Honestly, just kill this general. The shitposters won fair and square.

Welcome to 3 years ago

Where is the DLC archive at ?

Just join our ranks, buddy. The victor has already been decided

october 11

narcs killed it

Atleast then you could just go do something else whilst garfield/simpsons porn was spammed. Now it's perpetual grandiquor is white and turk, the fucking twelve yesr olds genuinely find it funny.

What's the best CK2 map mod?

swmh

Bosnia is white and based

Doesn't that change a lot of things? I just need a map mod.

>~50% of them are muslims
>white or based
LMAO

It's not about religious flavor, it's about differences in general. Shit feels and acts the same, if you cheat on your wife as a german duke or a bedouin emir, the results are the same. In game, it feels you are playing the same shit with a slightly different paint of color. While it's true that the german duke rules absolute in his land and his king wouldn't be able to do shit against him, the bedouin emir could be tried and killed by his actions.

CK2 focus too much on religion and only makes them slightly more different, while there were big cultural differences. For all that HIP does with the added flavor, I found that it doesn't really differentiate between cultures well. A spanish count plays almost, if not completly, the same as a german count.

>Islam
>A race

>islam doesn't automatically make you an honourary shitskin

You automatically lose your whiteness when you take part in a shitskin death cult.

So east asia is the only place that's white?

Islam is the whitest religion
>hates the eternal jew
>stands up to NATO globalists
>was founded by a white man (not a kike like cuckstianity)
>true arabs are white (palestine, lebanon, etc)

Jews are a myth. They have never existed at any point in time before the end of the second world war.

epic

No place on earth is actually white. Even one honorary shitskin taints the whole continent.

Why is bait so fucking shit these days? I remember when Steven Hawking wouldn't even be able to figure out the ruses people came up with but now I'm watching ten year olds bait themselves.

This is actually triple layer ironic imaginary posting. You just fell for it, congrats.

t. ایران pro

So is the moon white?

airan?

atlast i truly see

Depends. I would argue it is pretty white since the only people who've been there were non-muslims.

Yes, because nobody's been to the moon yet

>implying the moon is a real thing
lmao