/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Please help, I decided to play as France in EU4 so I could have a nice comfy game. I followed the Italian Wars decision/event lines to take control of northern Italy thinking there'd be a preset event causing it to come crashing down but didn't so now I control half of Italy, I won the colonial race for Brazil and now I just inhereted a PU with Sweden who had blobbed all of Denmark and most of Norway.

I can't seem to stop succeeding, what the fuck do I do this is no fun.

Yes because Basques can't be based on the grounds of their colouredness, same with the fonkisj

Stop playing easy nations like france.

>pick second easiest nation in game
>why its easy and not fun?????????
i have no fucking idea
eu4 is trash until they release mt 2.0

>mt 2.0
>Trash and Bloat mod 2.0
Oh boy

Whittle and paste

Sad!

>play meme game
>get meme'd on
I fail to see the problem your having.

And now York is once more part of Mercia, this will be really fucking interesting to writeup

How is this allowed we'rethe same faith

>a quote on the 4th crusade

I started planning this war during a crusade, but that does not make it fiar how you are using these men
but by then the schism was official, which is why it's amazing it happened after the patriarch adopted almost all papal teaching but still couldn't be protected from the eternal (((merchant)))

Help me out with CKII here.

I want to declare war on Hungary for a couple of counties, their troop count is a bit lower and I've got money. However, they're allied to the HRE which would surely fuck me up if called into the war. So I went ahead and formed an alliance with the HRE as well.

Question is - which side will the emperor join? Hungary's, since I'm the aggressor, my side, since the emperor has a higher opinion of me, or neither side?

i think ai joins defending side in pretty much every game when it comes to that

W&B

Ahh yes when the moors come to invade why don't my vassals who are both on the council fight

forgot to mention
alternative solution: declare war on some shit tier duchy or province or pagans and call HRE to help you, then after they join declare war on hungary

Whiteness you're born with, but basedness must be earned.

- Alex Grandi

this dude gets it
gsg games are so fucking easy, I can't deal anymore

Never mind I killed the king of Hungary and his depressed, lunatic, theologian, heretic son ascended to the throne.

Try getting an alliance with the HRE now you fucking imbecile.

Great programming there Johann

rate my eurasia

What i'm looking at?

What new world country isn't fucking boring?

My vassals in civil war decide to siege down provinces rather than kill eachother whne they have the chance before one of them hires mercs

How to survive as Manchu when Ming and Korea ally up and turn aggressive?

And just when things were getting comfy, I just needed one more son or daughter to secure the NAP with Austrasia and then Wales would have been mine

Rate my Puppet State /gsg/

Maybe one with upper hand tries to accomplish war goal to get ticking warscore, while other just tries to do whatever it can and waiting for miracle?

capable hands of (((regent)))

Is there anyway to revoke power given to the council once I'm an adult?

What you said

Which flagmod do you use?

Is this even worth putting time into?

Do it faggot

KEK VULT

"a revolutionary flag mod"

Is it because I'm in a regency this is a thing, becase that civil war I posted just now was about avoiding a council vote on this

Be aware that this will have to be vanilla since HPM removed that meme country.

>Prepare for 0.9 release
>A day ago
I WANT IT NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW

Revolution runs in this families blood

>EU4
"no"

>tfw everyone from Germans to Khans are asking for your Mums attractive pussy but the person who is really important ignores you

After this welsh war we'll definetly go on that

>cheating

my start date was 1356 :^)

There we go, now I just need to fill it in.

Painting is fun!

JERUSALEM WHEN

Yeah I went into HPM and released myself only to realize i had 15 farmers, no income or expenses, and my literacy was declining.

Am I doing okay?
I know I'm way behind tech, but I'm getting tons of land and it doesn't matter as long as I stay up to mil tech.
Also, what the fuck is this shit? I can't get a PU over Poland now?

Hello, everyone! And welcome to the first developement diary for Victoria III, today we'll be talking about the map in Victoria III and the changes we've made from Victoria II for the new release.
In Victoria II the map was boring and wasn't very helpful so in Victoria III we've merged the political and terrain map modes together so that it's easier to see what time of year it is without having to look at the date.

We haven't changed everything though, the game still has it's great power system, allowing you to see which nations are the most powerful and which nations you need to defeat! More often than not these will include the three main countries in Victoria III, Ryuku, Ulm, and Jan Mayan, this is a big change from our railroaded and uninspired Victoria II which just used to follow a single path. Now every nation will be able to become a GP if they complete the "become GP" focus, which requires you to build 20 industry, but more on that later.

You'll also see on the map how weather matters much more now, and you never know how it'll be. In Victoria II it only snowed in cold countries which was very racist and railroaded, so we made it so in Victoria III it will also snow in desert countries and Europe can become desert if it doesn't stop being misogynistic cis white males and embrace liberal socialism.

Liberal socialism is the combination of Liberals, socialists and communists, in Victoria II there were too many political parties so in Victoria III we've streamlined it so there are only two, reactionaries and progressives. Having too many reactionaries will make you technologically backwards and having progressives will make you advanced, Europe starts reactionary and Africa and Asia start progressive, to represent the technological advancement their diversity brings. Europe can embrace diversity to get the technological advantage the rest of the world gets though, but they need to have a revolution against the reactionaries who rule all of Europe in 1836.

>not new palestine
>no *coincidental* adjective

>The reason I chose EU4 for this is because it's the only moddable game.
Are you fucking kidding me lad? There is no point in making this mod in EU4. At least it makes some sense in Victoria. For god's sake man.

One of our major complaints with Victoria II was how needlessly complex the industry was, which many players on /r/paradoplaza and the forums found too confusing, so in Victoria III we've streamlined the industry so instead of the way it used to work factories are now individual buildings that you place in the provinces manually than give you industry power and some money per day.

Industry power is the most important feature of the game, when a player gets 20 industry power he becomes a great power, which allows him to stop being a reactionary and adopt progressivism. Progressivism is a mechanic that allows you to become a utopia, but it's very difficult to properly achieve. If you get less than 50% white culture provinces you will become progressive which gives you huge tech bonuses, but at the start of the game you can't simply let non-whites in because you're still ruled by reactionaries.

Having more industry power makes your country more open to immigrants, which gives you more progressivism, the perfect country is a globalist, internationalist, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural utopia, if you get to this your industry power will skyrocket at your cheap third world immigrants will allow your Jewish upperclass to get more money, the white population will naturally resent this but through radio propaganda and supporting communism you can kill all these reactionaries.

Reactionism as a political party replaces conservatives, reactionaries, anarcho-liberals and fascists, as these are all inherently reactionary ideologies. If you don't lower your reactionary bar then your people will become too homogeneous, start inbreeding, and become racist to all people unlike them. The Jewish upperclass are reactionaries, but as they promote the globalist internationalist agenda amongst your reactionary pops, turning them into useful idiots, they are a helpful building block in creating your utopia as their racism is targeted at whites, NOT the minorities you want to bring in.

What goals?

Technology has been reworked in the game, so instead of you needing literacy to research more things you instead use smart power. Smart power is increased through doing smart things, like buying more DLC, completing positive steam reviews and verifying your purchase of the game through our official forums. It's impossible to get full smart power as we keep releasing new DLCs but provided you keep buying them your smart power goes up.

You can lose Smart power through doing stupid things, like criticising our games, posting on /gsg/ or buying Gary Grisby's War in the East. The less smart power you get the more laggy your game will be, eventually shutting down and needing to repurchase it for the minimum 10% Smart power you get from buying the game.

There is also a mobile micro-transaction clicker game we have coming out with Victoria III to increase your Smart power on the go, 10 SEK (the app only works with Swedish currency) will increase your Smart power by 2, there are discounts if you buy these combat packs in bulk though, so 100 SEK gives you 50 Smart power, which allows you to conquer Ulm and Jan Mayan, which is usually reserved for players who order the "good goyim" version of the game for 6,000,000 SEK, so whatever the case you can weigh up your options and see which is the best deal for you, remember, you don't have to buy them so you have no right to complain about our pricing.

If you get 100 smart power then your technology level will get all the way up to African, which is the highest possible level in Victoria III, once you've done this you will instantly become a kingdom and become an unstoppable powerhouse akin to 14th century Mali under Mansa Musa. There's an achievement for getting this but it requires you to buy either the "believable worlds" DLC or higher.

You can't buy Smart power in the game, because that would be too railroaded, instead you need to either get them on Steam or send a cheque directly to Johan's mansion home in Tel Aviv.

It's a shitpost, based on some anons idea from two threads ago

The way military works in Victoria III is different to Victoria II, Victoria II was extremely euro-centric in that all the white countries, including the ones not in Europe like America and Argentina were more technologically advanced than the rest of the world, particularly Africa. So we've overhauled how it works in relation to the continent.

Now Africa is the highest technology in the world, followed by native America, then Arab, then Chinese, then Japanese and finally White. (These are the 5 cultures in the game, but we may add more in our next DLC) White are the lowest as they have the most reactionism in the world, which makes them dumber. From the start their literacy is rock bottom but if they have a progressive revolution they can get up to Arab levels.

Turkey starts in a unique position, they're half White and half Arab. If they choose to try to become White then their literacy will plummet to White levels, but if they choose to embrace their Arab roots then they'll get a huge boost which allows them to flood Europe with Arabs who will make the stupid White pops there smarter.

Any culture will become smarter if they allow women into their armies, because this means the female population, who have bigger brains than the idiotic men can help the men to stop being so stupid. It's very hard to complete this mission though as men are drawn to feeling faux superiority due to their phallic organs, any male society that does accept that women are equal do get huge bonuses though, and because the women are so smart they don't let the men become dumb again because they use their superior brains to divert the nation away from male supremacy and towards a better future.

African tribes will civilise and can then colonize Europe post 1880 if Europe is still a reactionary white cis male society, the Africans will bring rocket technology to Europe which depending on how the Europeans respond (usally with hostility) can either be used to found NASA or to kill whites.

You can never get a PU over Poland, but Poland can get a PU over you

We've also been working very closely with Steam and the EU counter terrorism authority to help stamp out cyber hate crime. Players found attempting to mod the game or even playing mods designed to promote White supremacy will have their IP adresses, name, age, measurements and thought crimes sent to the respective policing agencies to ensure the game isn't used as a tool to spread extremism amongst teenagers who may be susceptible to fake news.

As of March 2017 we have reached this agreement with every government in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, but Donald Drumpf has refused to endorse this, stating it goes against the first amendment. As such the game shall not be sold in America and anybody playing the game there will be liable to copyright infringement charges until such a time as Drumpf is impeached and Hillary rightfully wins the election as she won the popular vote.

Additionally, anyone playing inside of Europe shall have to agree to be monitered to check he is not playing in an illegal way, if he attempts to fight off the African enlightenment for example, or tries to keep reactionaries in power.

Players attempting to hide their location through proxies will also be assumed to be using the game for malicious purposes, and charged with premeditated hate crimes. We shall have a network of people monitering suspected racists as they play to make sure they aren't attempting to commit virtual hate crimes and are playing in a respectful and egalitarian way.

Players who don't try to do this shall receive money from the fines right wing players have to pay when they are inevitably caught. You can then use this money to buy more DLC from us. Our schedule so far is to release a new cosmetic DLC every week, a new gameplay DLC every month and a new music DLC every day. Anybody who pirates any of these rather than buying them legitimately will have their steam account banned and legal files brought against them. That's all for this week, folks!

This is amusing, but the "economy" just being building that give you +1 moneymana is something I can see happening, and that's scary

They don't have the same dynasty though. What should my first idea group be? Obviously I'm really behind tech, but I do plan to keep on expanding, Livonian order and Nogai are next. When the time comes, I'll break alliances with Poland and fight them w/ Ottomans.

obligatory reminder

What did you do to get there in 1502?

W&B (Wallonia & Britain)

anschluss to obtain danzig when
also
>spain
kek

>conservatives

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Rate these borders.

What do you mean?

I mean how did you take so much lands?

Some user already said it but Poland has a unique government that no nation can get a PU over it. So conquering poland has to be done the old fashioned way.

Unpleasant

>grob rome
noice

janny deleted cricket noises

Posted.
reddit.com/r/ParadoxExtra/comments/61v6rd/

I attacked novgorod and odoyev at the same time, odoyev was guaranteed by hordes, took some provinces from them, about half from novgorod, all of odoyev. Tver and ryazan were allied, so that was an easy one war.

I took the mission to take Kazan, took all but three provinces in the first war. Crimea was relatively easy, as he attack horde after I did, so his manpower was low.

But now I'm about 6 admin techs behind, and don't know if I should continue expanding or not.

>saying where it's from
>posting it to paradox ectra instead of plaza as not to trigger the cucks

>he made a fake BIG_BENIS account just to post this

>implying I can post it to They autoremove anything from an account with less than 100 karma.

You should slow down your expansion a bit, I think. You need to get to your idea groups. You can still expand, but you should do so by vassal feeding instead of using your admin points.

>1650
>Renaissance still hasn't spread
JUST

>not expanding images
pointless tbf (to be fair)

>They autoremove anything from an account with less than 100 karma.

i fucking hate reddit so much.

True. This is what happens if you try.
Shows up, but not in the actual subreddit.
reddit.com/r/paradoxplaza/comments/61v95g

there is literally a button in Vicky2 to become a GP for free, I don't the the meme

The devs at Paradox must really think they're gods..
Whenever I launch one of their games, it takes 6 days to create the world.

reminder

Anyone have a link to that mod that adds Pornstar Plumbing if you have enough inuit/Wendish pops?

I know it takes a while to load up the game, but how long is yours? if its around 20 minutes for you, then you should probably get a better processor.

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