/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Are there any nice submods to install along with HIP in CK2?

will putting margaret on the throne fuck my PUs?

anime portraits

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something wrong

you heard the man
do it you FUCKing bitch

What's my goal from here, /gsg/? The original plan was to create Sicily but the Byzantines cockblocked me. Italy and East Francia are both super strong, I got independence from East Francia by allying Italy (but that alliance is broken now).

I'm considering trying to take Apulia from Italy but that will take a lot of super expensive wars.

"the holocaust"

make a save and revert if it does.

Them PU's how? I hope you fucking blob like a mad man

it breaks them if their opinion of you is negative

also if you have negative prestige but I've seen AIs ignore this

should I keep these guys?

>ally Aragon, Castille, Austria from the start, marry them
>France asked me to give them Maine
>told them to fuck off
>they declare war, I get union cb on them
>fuck their shit up with Aragon&Castille
>Aragon's king dies and is replaced by a Lancaster
>claim Aragon as soon as French war is over
>Aragon attacks Navarra which is in a trade league with Genoa and a whole load of others
>force myself on them too, get Naples with Aragon because they were in a PU beforehand

what's the mod for that map and UI? Looks nice. I keep using Theatrum Orbis, but it's starting to strain me.

HIP

>they declare war

YOU delcare war. England is always the attacker in that event.

Every time I read Lancaster I think Lannister

>what is self defense of our honor and rightful clay

thanks for telling us, coming out is never easy

this late in the game and I still have all my cores on this desert

fascists will take over mexico and install a regency and then lead the reconquista against liberal usa, with the help of whichever european power becomes fascist

fun country to form, but pretty challenging because of disgusting frogs next door

delet this

gringos and their illegitimate mongrel culture will be genocided

especially the mormons

EU4 easily has the worst interface in existence.

How does diplomacy work in DH?

I can't do fucking ANYTHING if the game doesn't have "anyone can declare war" on

?

Well, I thought taking Apulia would take many wars, and then the Italian King because a heretic. So that's a thing.

no shit, otherwise france will be dowing germany in 1933

you need to be a fashy goy or a c*mmunist and wait for 1939ish to have enough belligerence, and crank interventionism all the way up

I don't think it's that bad.

DF UI is bad.

>arbitrary constraints because devs can't make naturally working believable worlds

Great, so basically my options are to play meme countries or enjoy 20 years of nothing as anyone else.

This is so fucking shit, everything takes too much time, the policy changes should at least be once a year

proper iberia

>2k strong peasant revolt in Toulouse
>9k strong Muslim army cutting across Toulouse to invade Middle Francia lands on them 2 weeks after they pop
>stack wipe
>100% warscore

paradox does not want to make games
they want to make historical simulators that you must play "correctly" according to paradox
this is not news

>well except for that one game not based on history but we don't talk about that

babby's first dh game

>not invading North Africa before Iberia to be a cockblock
>not uniting the British Isles before either

Why doesnt CK2 allow homosexual marriages tho? Seems like that would be a more correct history than what the game currently allows

hits too close to home?

>they want to make historical simulators that you must play "correctly" according to paradox

Have you ever fucking played their latest titles; ck2, eu4 or hoi4?

Not one of them will provide a remotely reasonable historical outcome in a thousand runs, with a possible exception of hoi4

they want to, that doesn't mean they did a good job of it. that's why things like vickymod exist, since paradox can't even make their own thing correctly.

is there any like beige sort of map mod for vic2? I know it's mostly out of the timeframe for that aesthetic but beige eu4 and ck2 map mods look good and I want to see one in liqqy

2bh liqqy would look really awesome if some graphics weren't so pixellated and shit and words were higher res.

>invading north africa
also a cockblock for what?

>they want to
They literally don't. It would be very easy to implement some very deterministic events like v2 has.

EU4 is nowhere near a historical railroad simulator, its a literal map painting boardgame on par with risk

>War of the Roses hits at same time you are fighting France during the Hundred years war

wew lad

why doesnt anyone ever respond to my posts I think they're cool but i guess not

In EU3, Castille or Aragon steamroll North Africa ASAP if you deliberately get in their way

Given what it is, that's what it should be. The game mechanics don't even simulate warfare in the period before the late 17th century. If it were to be more of a simulation, the time period would absolutely need to be broken in two.

>Imperialist Tacofuckers

>54.3 literacy at 1896
how do you even fuck up this bad

what exactly do you mean, that the kaiserreich mod on steam right now isn't from or sanctioned by the guys who made the dh version? the mod whose team was invited to pdx con isn't the real deal? I can't find anything on this so I'm actually interested to know what you mean

shut the fuck up. I annexed all of central america. it's their fault. mexico city and other mexican provinces are all around 80-100%. annexed cuba too, it's not a colony. I have 3% intellectuals, a growing clerk population, and education slider on 100% always. and of course it's always comforting to know real life mexico was a failure far beyond this campain's universe's mexico.

we are restoring the borders of the viceroyalty of new spain as our national right, the manifest destiny land will be a spiritual aztlan, we will return to it soon

LAST TIME ON "AMERICA V COMMIES"
>JAPAN ATTACKS THE USS PANAY
>THE PHILIPPINES ARE LOST TO THE JAPANESE
>THE JAPANESE CONQUER THE PACIFIC UP TO PEARL HARBOUR
>THE BRAVE BOYS OF THE US MARINE CORP CLAW THEIR WAY BACK ACROSS THE OCEAN
>THE ROYAL MARINES HAVE LANDED NORTH OF MANILA
>THE USMC HAS TAKEN OKINAWA
>CURTIS LEMAY BEGINS BOMBING THE HOME ISLES OF JAPAN

MEANWHILE IN EUROPE
>GERMANY ANNEXES IRAQ, SYRIA, TRANSJORDAN, AND PERSIA
>GERMANY HAS REACHED THE SUEZ
>THE SOVIETS ARE SURROUNDED IN LENINGRAD AND MOSCOW
>THE JAPS ARE BEGINNING THEIR PUSH SOUTH INTO INDIA

INTRODUCING IN THIS EPISODE
>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
>REINHARD HEYDRICH
>LT. COL. CHESTY PULLER

>3rd of May
Someone explain these NEWFAGGOTS that making a new thread actually requires more effort than c+c, c+v

>INTRODUCING IN THIS EPISODE
>>J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

It's literally based on a boardgame.

Warner Brothers

Everyone hates peasants, but we need them for taxes

when's a good time to dev push renaissance?

Is it necessary in India?

this is what cuckery looks like

Not as green as I hoped it would be.

How big of a travesty would it be to move my capital to London?

It's the strongest province in the english channel, so you're gonna definitely want to move your trade port there, so moving your capital there would save you the dip

>The United Kingdom of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Haggis Ireland, Industrial Ireland and Bucktoothed Ireland

I don't see British Gibraltar on that map user

If I vassalize my rival (not historic) does it remove the riviarly between us?

This will be a tough nut to crack

Giving the AI bonuses was a mistake

subjects can't have rivals, so yes

I'd try to be ready asap in india.
Don't tech dip.
Most of the dev'in should be with dip since you can fall behind with that.

but it's right there, user

In CK2, if a building gives Morale of Armies +10% is it being applied for my entire army of only to the troops I recruited in the province with the building? If the latter, does it mean different units in my stack have separate morale stats?

The units from the holding with the building get the bonus

how the fuck is operation overlord even real hahahaha like nigga just drop the bomb hahaha

A surprise invasion by a large number of Naval Landing Forces has seen the loss of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The Strategic Bombers were successfully evacuated but the Marines were not so lucky.

>Overlord
It's Downfall nigger.
Step your game up

I see. I guess retunes don't get the bonus retroactively?

ummm... back off?

Oh fuck you're right, I had my naval invasions confused

Retinues spawn in your capital so they get whatever tech you have there, not sure if they also get whatever % modifiers from your capital holding.

No, I mean retinues exist indefinitely, so they miss on all the bonuses from the building I've built in my capital after I recruited them.

fuck if I know don't ask me

babby's first operation sealion

>HoI4
Cancer

>HoI4
Kill yourself

it's actually pretty fun, less obtuse than DH

Please don't bully the HoI4 players

el artesANO: es feo, produce bienes inutiles, no puede competir con las fabricas, vota al partido socialista, come cemento, tiene mal aliento, tiene bajo alfabetismo, muere de hambre si no le bajas los impuestos

The Germans have entered into India before the Japanese and blocked off any possible Japanese axis of advance. They are expected to cross the Indus in a weeks time

>draw a line
>win because the AI can't properly do anything
i've played hundreds of hours, the game is complete shit

If I hold the Empire of Britania, where should my holdings be?
I started out Northumbria so I want that and Cumberland, then Middlesex for LONDON, Kent for muh Canterbury, Dublin for Ireland. What are the historical capitals that I should hold for Wales and Scotland?

How does AE work if I declare war on a province that my vassal has a claim on, and annex it?

the claim doesn't apply to you, only your vassal

The AI is horseshit, but mechanically I like it.

>have 699 gold
>need 700 to fulfill war chest ambition
>vassal offers me 200 gold for a favor that normally costs over 8 times that ammount
>if I refuse he hates me for 3 years

Fucking hell.