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How fares your empire, /gsg/?
This day in history, October 2nd: 1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule. 1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. 1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. 1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow. 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
Reminder that R&I is a severely autistic and obsessed NEET, he seriously needs to seek psychological help of some kind, although preferably he should just be euthanized humanely.
He has been doing this months or years now: prepare /gsg/ threads every day, update them all the time, constantly check the current thread so he can make his own one about 20 posts early and then post the signature reply "Reminder to report and ignore shitposting" which makes no sense since it's an oxymoron.
Just think about it, think about all the effort he's investing in a shitty general that could easily be maintained by just about anyone else, not to mention that pretty much everyone here hates him.
And he does this every day, multiple times a day even. Sometimes he does miss threads, but it's still ridiculously obsessive.
As I'm posting this he probably has already prepared a thread for later today and is anxiously waiting for this thread to reach the bumplimit so he can continue the cycle as always. He's clearly a NEET who probably hasn't done anything worth of any note in months or years, so he can afford to do this 24/7.
What a sad creature. Please put him out of his misery, anyone. No one deserves to live like this.
Josiah Morris
>using the singular We all know r&i is a group of multiple NEETs living in different time zones.
Aiden Taylor
Proof?
Jaxon Carter
kill me
Jayden Reed
what is the best retinue composition for the ck2 mod HIP?
Ayden Torres
Rebind your steam screenshot button.
Lincoln Harris
4 Guards/1 Tank/5 Airplanes.
Andrew Long
thats victoria 2 you retard
William Perez
The POP system in V2 is not as interesting and doesn't affect gameplay as much as its fans try to pretend, and in some ways EU4 is more complex than V2.
Complexity doesn't equal fun however but I'm just tossing that out there.
Carter Thompson
All cataphracts. All defense if you're not Greek.
Ayden Campbell
He does it the exact same way every time. Something like that would require an organized group, which is exactly what R&I is opposed to.
Elijah Morgan
Trust me, when you're running guards, tanks and airplanes in CK2 you're unstoppable.
Brody Johnson
>thats victoria 2 no cuz people don't recommend that many guards relative to normal infantry anymore
Blake Garcia
>I'm just tossing that out there. Next time you want to toss something, I'd advise to start with your keyboard.
Implying hipocrisy has never been commited by anyone on gsg.
Colton Lee
Could you perhaps help me, /gsg/?
I played original EUIV with DLCs downloaded and activated from your pastebin last year. In the meantime Steam updated my game and none of the DLCs works anymore. The old activator doesn't seem to work either.
Is there an activator or crack for DLCs for version 1.17.1?
It's not supposed to be fun. Taking a country and industrializing it is hard work and so it should not be easy.
Nathan Cooper
Complete retard here, first grand strategy game.
Is it better to have dedicated divisions of fallschirmjager, or have them incorporated into infantry divisions?
If I make a change to the infantry division template, not necessarily to add paratroopers but perhaps an artillery regiment, will it be retroactive to other divisions in the field (imagine it would take time to reinforce and resupply them)?
How does the division template work? What do the horizontal/vertical stacks mean? How do i decide what to place where?
Parker Bell
>Next time you want to toss something, I'd advise to start with your keyboard. desu this is one of the funniest generals on Veeky Forums and your response made me laugh
Landon Allen
You are thinking too complicated. Just build tanks and draw lines.
Jace Evans
placement in the division template doesn't matter at all. horizontal vs vertical has zero effect and is completely irrelevant.
>If I make a change to the infantry division template, not necessarily to add paratroopers but perhaps an artillery regiment, will it be retroactive to other divisions in the field (imagine it would take time to reinforce and resupply them)? yes. be careful replacing light tanks with medium tanks for example if you haven't been producing medium tanks for a long time and happen to be in a war.
Matthew Turner
The only advantage HPM infantry have over guards is being pulled from undesirable POPs and being a bit cheaper, they're a strict upgrade.
Jack Hall
>HPM nobody plays mods because there is no steam workshop
the vanilla V2 experience is THE experience.
Jaxson Moore
This isn't technically correct. Army expirience cost is lover for moving vertically, so long as you stick to the same type as top unit, than horisontally.
>Is it better to have dedicated divisions of fallschirmjager, or have them incorporated into infantry divisions? It varries but generally dedicated regiments with combat width of 10/20/40 are better than anything else because of movement speed. Two notable exceptions is that you want some mot/mech infantry in tank divisions to give them some HP (6tanks/4inf) and 7inf/2art for line infantry to get more soft attack than 10inf gets you.
Asher Gray
t-thanks.
Fallschirmjager probably aren't going to be particularly useful until a full war breaks out, since the countries I'm looking to gobble up don't have enough land to make aerial flanks onto their VPs worthwhile (provided I understand how the mechanics work)
Mildly perturbed that Belgium is able to muster up 30 divisions along their border. Wondering if it might be better to just not gobble them up until I'm ready to liberate the fuck out of France, as France will probably react by garrisoning the north eastern border, whereas at the moment I have all of their free troops straddling the Maginot line. Got a couple of field armies on the Eastern front not particularly doing much that I can move to the West if needed, with this being my first game I'm not sure how aggressive the enemy is so I'm keeping my vulnerable borders manned.
I've been building a series of 5-10 infantry divisions continually since the start of the game, after about a year or so (once I had enough factories) I began with light armoured divisions, wondering if there's some ideal composition I should be striving towards, or if that doesn't matter either? My army is about 75% infantry divisions, with the other 25% being alpine infantry, a couple of motorised divisions, but mostly armor.
Eli Cooper
p-pls respond
Hunter Ward
you could literally conquer france in a day if you paradropped / navally landed in to the right provinces
Charles Miller
I'm afraid invading France will trigger 100% world tension and start the war, not sure if it's better to do that sooner or later at the moment. Worried about my SEA ex-dutch provinces that don't have a garrison yet.
Although with the Sino-Japanese war raging on, the treaty signed at the end of that could start WW2 (Spanish treaty caused about 20% tension), although that entire theatre looks like a massive stalemate, regret sending any volunteers since they're just stuck reinforcing a static front.
Benjamin Cruz
don't forget that france also lost to vietnamese rice farmers
Grayson Reed
The American pasta doesn't want to mention that one, for obvious reasons.
Kayden Mitchell
EU4 has never had a DLC activator.
Cameron Moore
>Independent Aro
Based.
Asher Nelson
Give me a Vic 2 country to play.
Justin Wilson
...yes it did?
Wyatt Rivera
The stuff in the archive (OP) works for me to activate DLC.
Colton Rodriguez
prussia
Cooper Taylor
Prussia and form Germany before 1845 after sphere-ing Austria.
Ryder Price
Excuse me, my fellow gamerites, but would anyone be interested in a civ multiplayer game come launch day? I think it could be excellent fun
Cooper Sanders
r8 meme goals for meme blob
Austin Powell
Playing USA for the first time. Am I missing something or is there no point in enacting this decision as there aren't really any yank pops for most of the dixies & texans to assimilate to?
Anthony Wilson
wrong thread
Cooper Lopez
Not at all. I'm asking /gsg/ if they wanna play a 4x game because 4xfags are history illiterate
Tyler Wright
Play the UK, nobody else does.
Nolan Adams
It's still the wrong thread, go ask the 4x general if the want to play a 4x game
Dominic Wright
you just put them in folder and they work?
What version do you have?
Jordan Diaz
No, you use the activator provided in the archive. I have the most recent version.
Angel Ross
Why did Hpm become the "official" mod and not Pdm?
Gavin Hernandez
HPM died.
Asher Walker
Addendum: It's normal to get an error message. Also, remember to activate the DLC in the launcher, after using the activator.
Asher Evans
I don't play farmville ripoffs.
Kayden Wright
>HPM >the official mod lmao pick one. Maybe if he didn't go and get himself killed it would be but lmao my friend top lmao
Christopher Mitchell
did he really? last time I saw him was like 6 weeks ago, or maybe he posted when I wasn't here?
Jayden Brooks
>thirty thousand minutes on paint for no replies
Hunter Morris
Lets' say I wanted to do a for fun Pomerania EU4 run where I control the Lubeck node and pirate the fuck out of other nodes would it be worth colonizing anything? Pushing Chesapeake into Canada and collecting in Canada too, would that be worth doing? Or Cape/Zanzibar and pushing SEA into it?
Jeremiah Thomas
I mean pretty much everyone who plays the game today plays Hpm.
Jacob Ramirez
Managed to survive as greece,making mad dosh and investing a fuckton into trade. How are my borders? r8?
Hudson Murphy
fuck blobby ottomans
go tall and culturally enrich yourself abim
David Campbell
speak 4 urself leddit
Matthew Cruz
Yes, certainly, because there isn't a bunch of people who prefer finished PDM to an unfinished HPM. No sir, that would be impossible.
Oliver Jenkins
Ayyyyy
Benjamin Davis
...
Jace Torres
>pre-DW EU3
0/10
Alexander Myers
La meaux
Christopher Clark
The German AI is awful
Also, Germany is secretly much weaker in 1936, so the sooner you get an excuse to attack, the better
In real life, if France had declared war to enforce the Rhineland DMZ, Germany would have completely folded because it was a 10:1 fight military wise. The reason this didn't happen is "muh appeasement"
Adam Sullivan
Because pdm is shit while hpm is good
Asher Rivera
Who are you arguing with?
Joseph Torres
>The German AI is awful
Lad, all the AI is awful.
Noah Kelly
Probably, but Germany gets the blunt end of the stick
Their AI is supposed to manage everything it's bad at. A two front war (Poland/Allies), attacking into forts (Maginot Line), defending against air superiority (Bongland), performing an overseas invasion (Operation Sealion), suddenly refocusing on the invasion of a major country which re-opens a second front (Operation Barbarossa), leaving significant defenses to prevent an invasion of France (Atlantic Wall)
The odds of AI Germany and the AI Axis winning, especially if historical focuses are on (no weird spot where Germany kills Poland for free, and then fucks up the "French Alliance") are slim, let alone if you play a country against them
The only thing the Axis has going for them is annoying ahistorical shit, like Italy holding onto Sicily alone (naval invade that while you're still stuck in Naples, or it's gg no re) or Japan jumping in to help Germany (historically was different faction, Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, and war "for them" ended later than Germany)
Ryder Taylor
Daily reminder that """grand""" """"""strategy"""""" is literally lebbit commie tier while /egg/ is the true white man's choice.
Nathan Howard
it's called grand because it is on a grand scale encompassing a whole lot of history i could say """engineering"""" """"games"""" to convey an equally resounding message about your proposed general
Robert Brooks
Can someone spoonfeed me tech tree for HPM France?
Andrew Robinson
>France ugh
Just play prussia instead
Jordan Bell
>France ugh
Just play prussia instead
Owen Ortiz
But I can't dismantle prussia while playing as prussia.