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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, March 20th:
1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.


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BASED

Yes

Our final victory is at hand,once take Wien!
We badly outnumber the Austrians,this might be our chance

Is there a good strategy to survive as Poland in HoI4?
I tried allying with the Baltic states but Germany fucking ran us all down like we were nothing to them.
Trying to stay neutral and not have to go fascist and beg Germany not to kill me and I sure as shit am not going to the SU to beg them.

alas im not free but a slave to the game.

white men

Poland recaptures Lwów,Austrians trying to save Salzburg from enemy hands by regrouping.
Unknowningly,they just played Wien into our hands by moving away possible reinforcements.

Hungarian victory in the Siege of Wien!
youtube.com/watch?v=PUxgm3pWac8

But we cannot rest,we shall move beyond this city and take every inch of Habsburg land and liberate it!
Once that is done,we shall give one hell of a ride to the cunts in the east and south.

Constantinople is ours, where next for Savinkov's Russia?

Victory is at hand,should we compromise and take on the Romanians in the east or push forward and try achieving the impossible?
(Bear in mind,2 divisions are set to arrive and the Austrians probably have no supplies after losing their main depot)

Far East

My character got the title 'The Fat'.

Will he have this forever or can it change? Kinda annoying since he's won loads of battles and sheeit.

thanks

Secure the Black Sea and Caspian Sea

How do I enjoy CK2 more? I really like it but I get tired of vassals rebelling and shit

roleplay a slut that will give away her clay to a biggest chad in neighbourhood

Play as nomad or republic.
I for one cant enjoy it otherwise.
Republic is much easier to manage, since mayors never marry themselves and you always can give them your useless daughters for nap and never face any faction.

We shall have no place,no resting 'till the wicked menace to our west is stamped out.
Romania will be crushed too.

There's literally nothing wrong with being fat in CK2 times. It just meant you were rich and probably important.

It's not like today where being fat is for hicks and poor minorities.

Literally perfect Brazil game

how complex is dh compared to lets say vic 2?

While the civilians resist,the capture of Wien by our coalition is a testament to our strength and willpower.
Soon,they will break completely.

Encirclement in the province of Pola.

Did you have to cheat those borders?

I want to try Europa Universalis. What are the pros and cons of EU3 and EU4?

But nomads aren't so easy to manage. They will get pissed if you don't give them enough lands, and you can lose the leadership of the horde if you don't do things right(you are always going to lose it at least for a while)

Godspeed, hunganon

eu 3 has better music

>and you can lose the leadership of the horde if you don't do things right(you are always going to lose it at least for a while)
I play with stable nomads option. Even when i'm not nomad myself. CK2 already has enough border gore as it is.
And they are only somewhat hard at the start. Once you manage to move capital in europe and get your hands on knight and dozens of holdings to raze it becomes breeze.

EU3 is much faster

Defeat at Graz!
Bloody fights in Istria as the Austrians try to break out!
Mayor victory in Hollabrün and northern Romania!
For the first time since the the start of the war,the reconquest of the eastern Erdély region seems like a real possibility.

Two more divisions are about to be deployed.
An infantry with artillery and medium armor and a cavalry with light armor.

Pros of EU4:
>Most recent EU game
>Lots of DLCs for you to buy
>You can probably expect to spend $500 on DLCs in the next few years if you actually bought them all
>Many redditors for you to play with

Pros of EU3:
>Completely mature game, all tweaks and expansions have been released
>Vanilla is genuinely fine, but plenty of mature mods available to improve any aspect
>Complete documentation of all game mechanics available
>Visually appealing map that is styled to match the theme and time period of the game
>Once you move beyond babby nations, there are lots of actual interesting challenges
>It's actually difficult to succeed as a doomed minor, a tiny unciv, etc.
>Multiple rewarding playstyles, you can play tall or wide or in between

as much as I love eu3 i don't think that I would be able to play it after EU 4 even though mana system is garbage
Eu 3 trade is fucking horrible, it makes no sense and maps are shit because of how retarded AI is when it comes to their prioritization of provinces they take in war, but it has better (albeit still flawed) tech system.

How much better does HIP make CK2?

Also how much fun is playing an immortal ubermensch that will unite the entire world under his rule?

Eu3: HTTT is more varied, subtle and not as streamlined as Eu3: DW and Eu4.

Eu4 is more focused on being a game you can play against others, while Eu3 is probably better for simulation/roleplaying.
For example in Eu3 I once started a game as Luxembourg, I made a slider movement that decreased manpower in one of my provinces(I only had one), so my max manpower was lower than 1000, which meant that I couldn't train any regiments.
In Eu4 every opm, regardless of how shitty the province is gets 10k base manpower magically from nowhere.

Terrain is more interesting when it comes to army composition in eu3 since inf and cav have different penalties.

Victory in Oberösterreich!
New divisions on the move in the east!
Slovenia secured by Croatian forces!

>Eu 3 trade is fucking horrible
Not really, it's just a more minor part of the game. EU3 doesn't have a fleshed out economy like V2, so it's not really a problem. Trade is just a way you can play tall and make some extra money. The rules about when and where you can build centers of trade are a little bit arbitrary but are ultimately not that important.

>maps are shit because of how retarded AI is
Yeah, they tend to be, although that can be mitigated somewhat with map mods that make the shapes of provinces better, and there's even an user who posts here sometimes working on a little mod to force the AI into having better borders.

Is there any cheat table with instant movement? I'm really sick of that micromanagment.

10% Goods Produced or 2.5% Discipline?

Depends on the situation. 10% goods probably.

>select army
>"hunt rebel" button at the bottom

10% Goods Produced or 4% Discipline?

Looks like he's also being invaded by Germany though. Letting your armies auto-hunt rebels while you are at war with a major bordering power is a great way to lose entire stacks.

I can't work out whether to invest time into HoI3 or Darkest Hour.

It's been a week of me trying to make a decision now..

>always do opposite of what contrarians say
EU4 it is.

>always do opposite of what contrarians say
EU3 it is.

Right after a war with the commonwealth, a war for the throne of the commonwealth with France came up so I was stuck at 90% overextension while fighting a war.

It was a headache, but I'm pretty sure I can safely stop playing this save now because it's essentially over with this much power.

That does not work good enough.
Nope. Germany helps to remove commies.

>the state of france and russia

Victory in the battle of Klagenfurt
This will let us assault Salzburg from three directions,ending Austria.
Two Romanian divisions encircles in Transylvania.

DH seems like a more well rounded game, but HoI3 is slightly prettier.

If Germany is helping you, then what's the problem? Just select your stacks and plot a course that snakes through all your provinces.

nope, communist took power and they collapsed

>not forming grob germaniums.
we dont welcome in this general weak minded fools like yourself "lad"

It's so weird to see a healthy looking novgorod.

Taking out the trash!
They don't have much longer!

The southern branch only miles from Bucharest!
The battle of Tirol begins!

Okay even though Russia has dropped to civilized nation, it has managed to keep Romania in its sphere for 2 years now.

H O W
O
W

So what mods would you recommend for eu3 in general? And what mods if you want to have somewhat pretty borders?

I played it a long time ago and I used misc. mod and the delvit ali osram map mod.

Divisions encircled near the border!
Austrian forces annihilated in Tirol,total Hungarian victory!

The AI did some serious miscalculations here. This isn't even close.

I've made a few changes. How are things looking?
>poor Portugal

Austria accepts unconditional surrender!
Regrouping of army begins!
Last enemy is Romania!

Does anybody have a good tutorial or guide for darkest hour?

Bucharest is undefended lmao

We have won.
It is a total victory!
The plan of the government is to set up a puppet government and occupy Oltenia.

The creation of a friendly (and of course Hungarian controlled) is az hand.
We shall impose our fair rule on them.

What does /gsg/ think btw?

It is a glorious day for the nation.
Once again,Hungary is free and mighty.
She has taken revenge for everything committed against her in the past centuries!

Continued from last night.

>21st of October, Shōwa XII
The Emperor has been shot by a rabid Syndicalist after meeting with General Araki. While the Emperor stopped briefly to speak with awaiting Officers outside a lone gunman stepped forth from the crowd and fired three rounds from a Modèle 1935 pistol. One round entered the Emperor's body to the left of his stomach while another other pierced his shoulder, the third round hit a reporter standing among the crowd. The Imperial Guard, scarcely believing someone would do such a thing to the God Emperor, failed to stop the assailant. The gunman, angered at the Restorationist takeover of the government, was promptly shot dead by the Emperor's escort. Hirohito's life hangs in the balance and his fate is unknown to the general public.

>Hirohito makes a miraculous recovery!
>His Majesty is dead, Prince Chichibu will become regent for Akihito.

And now we will take back what is rightfully ours.
"Serbia" is over.

Control rightclick, faggot

But before that we need to solve a few things on the home-front.
I don't have any intentions to keep Croatia as a puppet.
It will be integrated.

canOmer map mod or whatever it's called

Is that a combined map mod? What other mods would you recommend?

I don't have any mods because the base game is fine.

Croatia is our friend

>Base game is fine

Thanks anyway mate.

Time to build my politically correct Roman Empire.

Since there's no (you)s
0-4: Hirohito lives
5-9: Hirohito dies

do it as black male instead

Piece of cake.

I'm doing that for my France playthrough.

base game looks like shit m8

W&B

>dumb shit

End of story

Now THAT is an accurate representation of the French nation.

How did that happen? Are you allied to them?

*French Urban Centres

continue

Well that's where most of the population is senpai.

you don't seem to understand that the true face of a nation is in it's rural sectors, cities are shit everywhere you go

>Castile eu4 game

>hmmm I want to roleplay an aesthetic empire and not blob

>i think I'll conquer some coastal north African cities like Spain did historically, you know, just Tangiers, Oran and Tunis etc.

>oops this game's too easy I just conquered all of north Africa

*sigh*

What do I do if I want an autistically hard game? Other than deliberately controlling myself. Any mods that more accurately portray combat and wars?

HOI3

>16th of November, Shōwa XII
The Qing and Fengtian have been conquered. The Imperial banner has been unfurled atop the Forbidden Palace and the police scour the countryside looking for Pu Yi and Zhang. The perfidious Shangqing took the opportunity to drive hard to the coast, securing much of the border. In order to strengthen the position of our puppet regime we must first vanquish the religious mountain zealots and then turn out attention to Madame Sun and her revolutionary army.

To this end High Command has drafted "Operation Sukeyuki."
The IJN will transfer Marines to Hong Kong and other coastal cities and capture all naval bases to force the Republican Navy to open waters where they can be destroyed. The Kwantung Army will first engage the Shangqing and position themselves where they can flank down into the swamplands held by the Warlord Cliques. Finally the Imperial Guard will sit along the Republican border near Shanghai awaiting the commencement of hostilities. Beset on three sides it is unlikely the southern regime will last longer than a few months.

So the true face of France is a bunch of ignorant yokels who are a small minority of its total population?

Go play Aurora, you newb.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_culture#Berlin.27s_reputation_for_decadence

exactly, the same way that the old fashioned farmers of Japan or the cynical folks in rural Canada are the true faces of the country

urbanization was a mistake