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This day in history, 14th of June:
1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Continental Army is established by the Continental Congress, marking the birth of the United States Army.
1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm to Isma'il Pasha, general of the Ottoman Empire, ending the existence of that Sudanese kingdom.
1940 – World War II: As part of Germany's Fall Rot, Paris is occupied and Allied forces retreat.
1940 – The Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Lithuania resulting in Lithuanian loss of independence.


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3rd for Palle Palle Palle

I have two things to say.
1:/gsg/ is terrible and I hate you all.
2:FDR best girl

Well 3 provinces not giving their fullest in an empire like the British is hardly a problem.

Anyway, the idea sounds good and plausible, so I will do something about it.

We are talking about expansion for the dismantlement of the OT, during a GW, when the allied GPs didn't give a fuck about stability in the balkans anymore. In this case, the territorial expansion should be represented in a harsh dismantlement of the OT where Greece is on the winning side, irrespective of their status as a GP or not.
When I redo dismantlement something like that is planned, though to be fair, a defeat in a GW for Greece should also mean a final nail in the coffin of their irredentist ambitions.

I can't tell you why Paradox did it like this, you'd have better luck asking them.
If I had a to hazard a guess is to balance the fact that every ideology has a moderate and a radical variant.

>or of them seizing power?
France during the reign of terror.

That would involve some pop reshuffling, I'd rather leave as is as it's not strictly necessary for the deal.

>Also, I mentioned already that Senj should be mountainous, due to Velebit and the Dinaric Alps. You said you'd look into it, but it wasn't mentioned in the last thread when you were changing terrain in "Italy and neighboring regions". If possible, also reshape the province a bit (see pic).

Yeah, the whole place should be a bit more mountainous, maybe. The balkans are a mess even when we are talking terrain-related issues.

sasuga

>They ARE accepting if they have elected a liberal/socialist/communist party
Not really, especially since communists don't get in power and do a revolution peacefully in most cases. And it doesn't mean the bosniaks accept the deal.

>the conditions that led to the communists getting in power also made the people accepting of Bosniaks
Minority tensions (and the accompanying nationalism) in Yugoslavia is one of the main reasons it broke up and that's why it was a very fragile construct. What you are implying is that the communist party succeeded in making everyone live happy and accept each other, effectively destroying one of the main reasons for the break up of the state. That's a spurious claim.

>Yugoslavia was fine for decades
Which doesn't mean it was a paradise of love and tolerance. Authoritarianism combined with totalitarianism and USSR support (for a time) kept nationalism/religious/cultural tensions in check. It's already easy enough to keep it together without the bosniaks, and the most radicalism-inclined pops such as serbs are accepted.

I think they can even accept Albanians, which is also complicated. What I could try are events that gradually remove accept pops from Yugoslavia until only the primary culture remains, if a certain pop militancy/CON gets too high with religious/citizenship policy also playing a role. But since late game pops get pissed because of ideological differences (and wars), this would mean Yugoslavia would end up more fragile and the result would people just complaining they can't keep Yugoslavia stable for a decade without it starting to lose accepted pops.

>Remove any Italian claims on Senj (774) since Italy never tried claiming that region, then change the province from Dalmatia (AUS_780) to Croatia (AUS_771).
Those are part of irredentist claims in Dalmatia, much like lots of countries have irredentist decisions. It's not supposed to be strictly historical.

W&B

Based HPM btfo'ing Bosniak scum

>R&I and HPM show up at the same time
>IP count didn't go up when HPM posted
Hmm...

Yes it did.

Everyone knows that HPM is at least one of the R&Is, this isn't news.

Based legend.

Fuck off back to your discord.

>Based legend.
Is this a cringe thread?

any speculations on the release time for third rome cash grab?

is it 4chanX? or what addon do you use for that?

>redo dismantlement
Shit, you're redoing dismantlement? Nifty.

Now that you're here it is.

4chanX, it marks each new IP as they post, unless two posts show up in the same refresh, in which case it doesn't.

is performance the reason why you haven't added the German microstates (Reuss etc.) into the game?

What option is that? Call me dumb but I can't find it.

>France during the reign of terror.

France could be called a bourgeoise dictatorship at the time, but ancaps were certainly not in power. The closes thing to having ancaps in power was early USA

Anarcho-liberals should be removed from the game. They don't add anything, they don't have a historical precedence for the 19th-20th Century. Liberals don't need an extreme ideology. Fascists don't have a moderate counterpart, for example.

Rebels in general should be reworked. Right now they're all around stupid

Should I develop one province for both Renaissance and Printing Press, or two separate provinces, one for each?

Agreed. You shouldn't have Jacobins over your fucking voting system. FPTP has been maintained from the 19th century to today in many countries without there being huge rebellions over it.

what mental illness do you have that turned you into this much of an arselicking sycophant
you must be 18 or over to post here

More like you shouldn't get Jacobins or really most rebels as long as your country is well-off and the people have at least some sort of say in political matters. People don't just go revolting in the streets as long as their needs are getting met and their daily lifes are bearable

>Ahmad ibn Fadlan ibn al-Abbas ibn Rašid ibn Hammad was a 10th-century Arab traveler, famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars. En route to the Bulgars he fell in with a group of Viking marauders. Here he describes them in a letter:

>The Northmen

>"They are the filthiest race that God ever created. They do not wipe themselves after a stool, nor wash themselves thereafter, any more than if they were wild asses.
>They come from their country in the North, anchor their ships in the Volga River, and build large wooden houses on its banks. In every such house there live ten or twenty, more or less. Each man has a couch, where he sits with the beautiful girls he has for sale. Here he is as likely as not to enjoy one of them while a friend looks on. At times several of them will be thus engaged, each in full view of the others. Now and then a merchant will come to a house to purchase a girl, and find her master thus embracing her, and not giving over until he has full had his will.
>Every morning a girl comes and brings a tub of water, and places it before her master. In this he proceeds to wash his face and hands, and then his hair, combing it out over the vessel. Thereupon he blows his nose, and spits into the tub, and leaving no dirt behind, conveys it all into this water. When he has finished, the girl carries the tub to the man next t him, who does the same. Thus she continues carrying the tub from one to another until each man has blown his nose and spit into the tub, and washed his face and hair"

>A Viking Funeral

>I was told that when their chiefs die, they consume them with fire. When I heard that one of their leaders had died, I wanted to see this myself. First they laid him in his grave, over which a roof was erected, for the space of ten days, until they had completed cutting and sowing his funeral clothes.
>At the death of a rich man, they bring together his goods, and divide them into three parts. The first of these is for his family. The second is expended for the garments they make. And with the third they purchase strong drink, for the day when the girl resigns herself to death, and will be burned with her master.
>When one of their chiefs dies, his family asks his girls and pages, "Which one of you will die with him?" One will answer: "I." From the moment he utters this word, he may not go back. Mostly, though, it is one of the girls who volunteers.
>Regarding the man of whom I spoke, one girl answered "I will." She was then entrusted to two other girls, who kept watch over her and accompanied her everywhere she went. The people were preparing the dead man's funeral clothes, and this girl gave herself over to drinking and singing, and was cheerful and gay.
>When the day had come that the dead man and the girl were to be committed to the flames, I went to the river where his ship lay, but found it had already been drawn ashore. The dead man lay at a distance in his grave, from which they had not yet removed him. Next they brought a couch, placed it in the ship, and covered it with Greek cloth of gold, wadded and quilted, with pillows of the same material. An woman, whom they call the "Angel of Death," came and spread articles on the couch. It was she who was to slay the girl.

>They drew the dead man out of the grave and clothed him. They carried him into the ship, seated him on the quilted covering, supported him with the pillows, and brought strong drinks, fruits, and herbs to place beside him. Finally they brought a cock and hen, slew them, and threw them in, too.
>The girl meanwhile walked to and fro, entering one after another of the tents which they had there. The occupant of each tent lay with her, saying, "Tell your master I did this only for love of you."
>It was now Friday afternoon, and they led the girl to an object they had constructed which looked like a door-frame. They lifted her and lowered her several times. Then they handed her a hen, whose head they had cut off. They gave her strong drink and admonished her to drink it quickly.
>After this, the girl seemed dazed. At this moment the men began to beat upon their shields, in order to drown out the noise of her cries, which might deter other girls from seeking death with their masters in the future.
>They laid her down and seized her hands and feet. The old woman known as the Angel of Death knotted a rope around her neck and handed the ends to two men to pull. Then with a broad dagger she stabbed her between the ribs while the men strangled her. Thus she died.
>The family of the dead men drew near, and taking a piece of wood, lit the ship. The ship was soon aflame, as was the couch, the man, the girl, and everything in it.

Why are anarcho liberals against political reform anyways? Arent they supposed to be like liberals but more radical?

In order to protect the individual freedom, they need to restraint political freedom. Look at UK to see what happen when you have excessive political freedom.

What's the fastest way to kill my leader?

I tried using seduction to make a bunch of rivals and then dueling them but this son of a bitch just keeps on winning.
I replaced my spymaster with a cuckold who desperately wants me dead but his assassination attempts keep failing.
I keep sending him into battle commanding at the front lines but he keeps becoming braver and more skilled at combat.

This fucker just won't die.

Just savescum until he die.

Execute your wife, hope to get depressed then commit suicide

I was trying a combination of these methods when I found a new way to kill my ruler.

Apparently if you bail out of the Lucifer's Own initiation sex by saying you're a married man then Lucifer's Own hunts you down and kills you.

>playing with meme cults

> they don't have a historical precedence for the 19th-20th Century

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_de_Molinari

I like the hermetic order and treasury items too much to disable them.

Plus supernatural events are off so it's not like they can do anything too problematic.

Victoria 2 is shit, honestly. The only things I would salvage from it are the wargoal and economy systems.

Everything else is sort of a shitty dumbed down real time equivalent of Civ.

SJW Alert. Go back to your Discord. Victoria 2 is Based. Praise Kek.

Why is /gsg/ so obsessed with pops?

IS there a way to remove all the fucking undesirable immigrants in Endless Space??

> space probe picks up a signal
> finds random aliens
> we will migrate to your home planet now lmao!
> colonize new system
> get an event for more random ass aliens moving in
> a third group of random aliens just spwans two pops in your home planet
what the fuck is this shit? Before you fucking know it 60 turns into the fucking game there are more aliens than natives and imperials are a minority in their own fucking empire.

>Chinposter not getting any (You)s
You make me proud /gsg/

insecure white boy triggered, I win again

Just downloaded Darkest Hour and kaiserreich after being prompted by this general guys. I've played HoI3 and have restored A-H borders as Hungary(Romania was the hardest enemy, since i had to do 1v1 because i did not want Germany stealing clay)

What the fuck am I in for?

>the thread is being made at bumb limit
>instead of multiple threads being made 50 posts early
is this our redemption ark?

based chinposter

How fit are you though? I always shy away from talking to girls because I'm just skinnyfat. At least I'm tall though. I don't feel like I deserve a gf because I'm not fit so I never talk to any girls in class or whatever.

Who are you quoiting?

I mean, I'm a bit of an outsider, but I just like that they result in there being consequences for me going and having stupid disastrous clusterfuck wars. In ck2 or eu4, I have a disastrous misadventure, that's not really worth worrying about, but in vicky 2 if you fuck up a war real bad you can drop from great power to civilized nation, even if you win the war.
Don't be stupid, this thread is cancer.

it's kind of beautiful

Not only, they are too small to either be represented on the map and/or have so few people they can't raise a brigade, so their only function would be to fuck the AI.

As , there are examples. I thought about removing them before but always decided against it. Maybe after the end I can make a version without them, would be pretty easy, or I can make an option if you'd like to disable them at the game start, which would also be the preferable option.

What I will (probably) do for the next update is move the starting event and a few other options to a separate "options" decision, which would unlock all the game options from the normal "vanilla" HPM. It would include the option to ditch the Crisis thing in HPM, enable the fantasy tags (Byzantium, Babylonia), and disable anarcho liberals.

Later on I can add more optional things if they come up and can fit in a decision.

Eventually, yes. Might do after I finish China.

HPM custom launcher when?

I do not like decision clutter

if you cant report and ignore one autist spamming his shitty meme pics then ill kindly advise you to return to wherever you came from

I thought about something like that, but it would create different checksums so that would probably create some problems.

Neither do I, that's why it would be all hidden under a decision like the decisions to release puppets. I'd also include a decision to make the options go away so if you picked what you want or simply doesn't want the options anymore, you can do it.

Or I can make it naturally disappear in 1837, so you have a year to pick up options and then it's gone.

>>YOU CAN EDIT THE LAUNCHER

WHY NOBODY TOLD ME THIS

>enable the fantasy tags (Byzantium

How will Romaboos recover from this?

...

woah

perfect

>finish China.
Wait what? You're doing something for china now? Is it going to become like, actually playable?

talex

This is a bit old but I just remembered it and there's no time like the present to bring it up. Should I be getting this event when I'm a great power? How do I make it go away?

based t. poster bringing the t-s

>One artillery regiment is 1k men
How many cannons is this though? Surely not 1k.

about 25

Pretty sure you can see that when you build arty division how much arty you need to buy

ur mom

Eh, how are you doing?

pastebin.com/JPDFjDVi

Some stuff I want to add, don't know if you're interested - I'll probably start to work on it again now that you're back:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjdeh_incident
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallenstein_Brothers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Sui_Fun_Cheung
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno

Cheers.

Artillery pieces are operated by what, 8 man teams? Bump it up to 10 for rounding. Then divide one by the other. You get 100 cannons, give or take.

Wrong.

There's more to an artillery unit than just the guys operating the guns.

youtube.com/watch?v=auceDl-XMmk

So like 20-25 cannons per regiment?

WELL WHERE IS IT PARAD*X?

Did you ever step your feet on the street? There's plenty of unfit/skinny/manlets with a good social life/gfs. What do they have that you don't?

Damn. Thanks for that user, it looks interesting.

EU4 patch just came out, but the DLC isn't out yet.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno
Fucking based

straight outta reddit

Paraguayan War and War of the Pacific reworks when

Do any of you fine gents have a download for the latest Kaiserreich mod, or know where to find it outside of the workshop?

Where is my overpriced no content DLC?

reddit.com/r/hoi4/comments/6gtp15/patch_14_oak_notes_what_they_actually_mean/
This is actually pretty funny for Reddit

For what game?

I should have specified, HOI4.

>leddit nation gets leddit meme ideas
based

No,sorry. I only play it on DH.

>Removed mobile template designs, because the AI cannot handle them properly.
Seriously, Paradox?

Guys,

Friend of mine and I have the base versions of CK2.

I've always played with pirated DLC. I'd love to play multiplayer with this friend of mine, is there any way to play CK2 with pirated DLC in multiplayer.

Thanks lads.

np

It should work fine

What activator did you use?

>no fixes to diplomacy so you won't need to kill New Zealand for small piece of Yugoslavia as Hungary
>no fix that you won't need to march to Vladivostok to win against Soviets as Germany

They should also be significantly reduced in fascist/communist dictatorships. Those had an initial round of rebels but they were killed off pretty quickly. From 1942 to 1991, the USSR had absolutely no militarized internal dissent.

Reminder to reduce requirements for that persian decision which colonizes turkmenia

Oh yeah, that one's fucking nuts. You need to have like, nationalism and imperialism before russia somehow, iirc.

Lets do one for the Horde!
I'm gonna create a custom nomads horde in CK2 with an immortal ruler and bring chaos and keks to Europa.

I'll let you chose some things:
1. Do we make our god emperor male or female?
2. Is he going to be a badass or an utter incurable autist?
3. What stats are we gonna focus on? (Diplomacy/Intrigue/Stewardship/Military/Learning)
4. What will be our name personal/clan/horde?