/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, 30th of July:
762 – Baghdad is founded.
1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.
1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.


>News
CK2 DD 55 - Nurture vs Nuisance
forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-dev-diary-55-nurture-vs-nuisance.1030752/

EU4 DD 20/06
forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/eu4-development-diary-20th-of-june-2017.1031010/

>Random Country Picker
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# Archive (mods only)
mega.nz/#F!plMxFYTB!sn9MTrvJ0tYjWSHgM8CZow

#Where to get these games
hastebin.com/raw/moqugasume

# Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
pastebin.com/cCdcev76

>>[HoI3] - Flavormod 1.1.1
pastebin.com/7ZBm2K3V

>>[CK2] - After The End
github.com/notalbanian/postapoc

>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.7.1 - 18/07/2017
pastebin.com/66gpxbKk

>>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.1.7
pastebin.com/sN1g69sr

>>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V10
pastebin.com/PRQH8vcV

>>[V2]Africa Mod
pastebin.com/kyMpRZcQ

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This day in history, 31th of July:
1009 – Pope Sergius IV becomes the 142nd pope, succeeding Pope John XVIII.
1201 – Attempted usurpation by John Komnenos for the throne of Alexios III.
1423 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Cravant: The French army is defeated by the English on the banks of the river Yonne.
1498 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
1588 – The Spanish Armada is spotted off the coast of England.
1913 – The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
1932 – The NSDAP wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
2006 – Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
2007 – Operation Banner, the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland, and the longest-running British Army operation ever, comes to an end.

# News
CK2 DD 17/07
>forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1035735
EU4 DD 27/06
>forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1032543

# Random Country Picker
>randomcountry.gbasood.net/

# Archive (mods only)
>mega.nz/#F!plMxFYTB!sn9MTrvJ0tYjWSHgM8CZow

# Where to get these games
>hastebin.com/raw/moqugasume

# Mods
READ THIS FIRST.
>pastebin.com/cCdcev76

>>[HoI3] - Flavormod 1.1.0
pastebin.com/7ZBm2K3V

>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.7.1
pastebin.com/66gpxbKk

>>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy 0.3.1.7
pastebin.com/sN1g69sr

>>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V10
pastebin.com/PRQH8vcV

>>[V2]Africa Mod
pastebin.com/kyMpRZcQ

>>[CK2] - After The End
github.com/notalbanian/postapoc

Old Thread:

When we will get good mods for EU4?

Yeah, but was it worth it? Don't you spend more in war?

Never

Doing a protestant Italy run in EU4

Should I do it as Florence or Milan?

Pinochet wasn't spanish

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we have two new threads and the old one isn't even at bump limit great work fellas keep it up

Florence

Milan, the florentine are scum

Milan

Thanks

>protestant Italy

>protestant italy
KYS

Based

The AI just tried to land two armies from naval invasions to ignore my forts to the North. Quite cute imo

>You didn't take Quality, Culture and Humanist - most strongest ideas in this mod.
Quality is not as strong when you have forts and play attrition wars. Leadership however is the strongest so I took it, followed by Admin for merc maintenance and overall cost reduction, then Trade for money, fort for defense and so on. I didn't have the mana required to waste on anything else sadly

Yes, definitely. I maintain all my forts for far less than they should cost

t. catholicuck

Hold up, are you using a mod? I'm really digging the graphical style, what's it called?

Why do people love Admin ideas so fucking much
Why are mercs infinite?

FUCK NIGGERS
FUCK KIKES
FUCK SPICS
FUCK GOOKS
FUCK ARABS
FUCK WOMEN
FUCK SJWS

/GSG/ BELONGS TO THE WHITE MAN

14/88 MORE YEARS FOR GOD EMPEROR TRUMP

--------------------------------------------PRAISE KEK--------------------------------------------

That's bloatmod

Where was your fleet? How you steering trade w/o light ships?

>I maintain all my forts for far less than they should cost
>paying full maintenance on forts
why

Nice false flag Robbie, calm down now

M&t

Okay, so I've just united all of the Iberian Peninsula under a single Christian ruler, yet now I kind of lack the urge to continue playing this save - sure, I could just continue building up my lovely Golden Square, getting involved in foreign wars and all that, but it just feels... Hollow, you know? Like it's a whole lot of Speed 4x with my only real interactions on the outside being marriage.

So... What do you recommend for my next campaign? I'm entertaining the idea of a Byzantine run since I haven't actually played the Empire in two years, but I'm also kind of toying with the idea of playing Russians or the Polish.

Saladin or any muslim really, they are the most fun to play as

I know it's a little late to give you advice (XVIII century lol), but Humanism and Policy of Tolerance OP in current version of mod.

Protestant Italy

>29 posts
>11 posters
really made me think r&i

>playing bloatmod

I decided to walk out before my manpower starts dropping too low. 300k casualties is more than satisfying to me, along with the huge chunk of land I took up there. The AI also paid for everything I spent in the war plus 1k

M&T

>Why do people love Admin ideas so fucking much
Inflation mana cost reduction, merc maintenance reduction, state maint. reduction, land maint. reduction, fort maint. reduction, inflation reduction per month AND -0.10 corruption. All of those ideas are excellent

>Where was your fleet? How you steering trade w/o light ships?
No fleet because no coasts, and I'm not steering trade from trade nodes which I don't have provinces inside

>why
The Ottomans attacked me twice earlier at random times so I decided to just let them sit like that. Now that I decide when the wars happen I can mothball them

>but Humanism and Policy of Tolerance OP in current version of mod
I'll try them out in the next campaign, thanks

>Protestants in EU IV.

humanism is good in any version of eu4

They are the most OP religion by far
Plus protestant countries are the best IRL

Try Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, it's look much better.

>Inflation mana cost reduction, merc maintenance reduction, state maint. reduction, land maint. reduction, fort maint. reduction, inflation reduction per month AND -0.10 corruption. All of those ideas are excellent
Yeah but economy ideas makes you more money

desu typus is the best and only needed eu4 mod

what CKII mod do people use to add other nobles' sisters/daughters to their harem as sex slaves?

Wrong

Game of Thrones

Dark world

Probably Dark World by loverslab

Ok guys I've got a question: Playing Vic 2 with HPM as Wallachia, went down that nationalism and imperialism, united the provinces and took western Transylvania with the help of Russia. Now, AUS-HUN allied Otto and Two sicilies and declared on my. How TF do I beat those fuckers (Note, I don't have almost any forts, the ones that I do have are all lvl 1's). Also, any tips for improving the economy? I tried to get the socialists in power (it's getting there) but I'm a bit confused by the factory system. What factories should I build?

thanks guys but does this mod also let you add other nobles' sons to your harem i'm not gay just wondering haha

>that
>good
are you fucking blind?

Can we all agree that hoi4 is worse than 3 but better than DH?

DH is better than HOI3 so uhh no

One word: Russia

Ottos is very good country for looting. With heavy restricted looting (5% disc - OP) you can take 10 000 ducant of loot.

>What factories should I build?
Profitable ones, like car, clothes, consumer goods, stuff like that. Military goods are only good for your army. Try to build according to your resources.

Yes

>ou can take 10 000 ducant of loot.
Nice balance gigau

Ally Russia or Germany,

>looting that much money late game
I thought M&T was supposed to be historic?

Wrong
DH is shit

Yes

The problem is that HOI4 is unfixable, having the National Focuses be the backbone of getting things in motion doesn't leave much to improvement.

that much gold pays for like 3 buildings, its balanced considering what you need to do to get it

>having the National Focuses be the backbone of getting things in motion doesn't leave much to improvement.
why?
I thought they are pretty good

Restart and hope that the Crimean war ends with you uniting Wallachia/Moldavia. Otherwise, restart since this sets you back more than 10 years easily.

>M&T
>Balanced
lel

I can't take this money to treasure without huge loss of stability. So they go to my provinces.

sounds really cool is it a good mod?

So looting and keeping the money makes your country unstable?
What the fuck

lmao epic keks my dude. 20 upvotes to you, for the win!!

fuck off, you would never get to build these "mere 3 buildings" without war.
war is supposed to be financially devastating and something worth avoiding, not a looting fest, gigau practically made all nations into ck2 vikings effectively turning m&t into trash that encourages even more blobbing than vanilla

fuck off back to your steamgroup nigger

This

>soldiers spend years fighting in enemy territory
>finally break into somewhere, rape and pillage
>haul all that shit back home
>king decides that he deserves a massive share of the shit you just spent months breaking into a fortress to get despite doing fuck all in the war

>soldiers don't work for the king
>they don't have commanding officers or anything like that

>When your family in CK2 becomes big enough that incest starts happening on its own
#JustCrusaderThings

>war is supposed to be financially devastating and something worth avoiding, not a looting fest,
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_theft_and_looting_during_World_War_II

>encourages blobbing
>when you can't loot land you own
What did he mean by this?

>trash that encourages even more blobbing than vanilla

Have you actually tried to blob in M&T? It's not as easy as it seems

It's not *my* (king) money, it's my soldiers money. They would be really upset if I take away more than tenth of they prize.

>war is supposed to be financially devastating
For the losing side, just lmao loot everything and then demand tribute/reparations

yeah i'm sure if hitler told his troops to loot more they would get enough billions of gold coins to hire another army group and win the war.
if you declare war somwhere and occupy (=loot) a couple of provinces, you might as well annex them after if you can afford it to maximize your gain. see the persian user for reference.

>arguing with the M&T drones that think bloatmod is perfect

>encourages even more blobbing
Blobbing? No. Looting? Yes.
How else I can develop my Milan?

The loot pool is 'owned' by the soldiers who looted it in the first place, if they get the keep it then they take it home after the war is over and spend it in the local economy, improving provinces. If the king decides to take a lion's share of the loot then the soldiers get uppity. It's a perfectly reasonable system, I don't play EU4/M&T but I like it a lot.

>bloatmod

Buy a PC that's not $300

t. gigau

>Protestant
>warmongering
Like pottery

Explain how it's a bad system.

Did you see how much buildings cost in this mod?

>yeah i'm sure if hitler told his troops to loot more they would get enough billions of gold coins to hire another army group and win the war.

literally has nothing to do with your original claim which was looting isnt a normal activity and doesn't happen during war

>if you declare war somwhere and occupy (=loot) a couple of provinces, you might as well annex them after if you can afford it to maximize your gain. see the persian user for reference.

stupidest post I have read today

annexing land requires manpower, resources, communication lines etc to make sure the previous owner doesn't take it back. Why bother when you could just steal his shit?

This is the real world, you don't get a popup when that guy wants his castle back. He just marches in and takes it.

Maybe it's because you're not supposed to get all of them?

Looting destroys buildings and kills population off, so you want to raze the shit out of countries you aren't taking and avoid looting the ones you are.

Hi gigau
Lurking the thread again?

>88 posts
>20 ips
REALLY made me think r&i

...

kys trash, your bloatmod is shit and will always be shit.
unless i play somewhere isolated like scotland or spain you get random 10 sec freezes whenever 34958 modifiers need to be updated.

>34958 modifiers
Excuse me we call these "pops" in M&T
Thank you

>somewhere isolated like spain

>somewhere isolated like western europe

>your original claim which was looting isnt a normal activity and doesn't happen during war
i never claimed that, but i guess m&t kids need to lie to defend their trash bloatmod

>This is the real world, you don't get a popup when that guy wants his castle back. He just marches in and takes it.
so now you're on a mental breakdown and can't even speak normally

>3.2 GHz
heh

spain, bordering 3 countries, is isolated compared to byzantium or austria that border 10-20 countries.