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Old Thread

Alright, me mates, it's your old pal genocidexploitlad here, to bring you a new tip for exploiting HPM!

1. Colonise everything you want in Africa as a GP.

2. Max out your colony mana in this way.

3. Make sure to keep other GPs hostile with whoever gets the Congo.

4. Remove them (whichever power got the Congo, who you kept hostile with other GPs) from your sphere and declare war on them to release puppet

5. Annex the entire Congo for free now they're in your sphere! WAHEY!!!!!!


>How did you form SA? Event or decision? Most instances aggressively rename the places but there are so many I might have missed a few.
I got the event in 1909, see: , 190344282, and
>I tested at the game start and it worked, I'd conjecture it's either something with another mop/map mod or a bug that starts late game. I will keep an eye out.
Just running cool map mod, checksum JRLI, nothing that changes any provinces or anything, purely aesthetic.
>Or apple juice, but the bottles could just be colored that way. I don't really care either way.
If you don't care can you change it so the sprite is the one I linked? Apple juice isn't usally that shade of deep brown unless you use rotten apples, which wouldn't be very profitable.
>I disagree, the UK already maintains a vast overseas empire in places such as India.
Yes, because they directly control parts of India. I'm saying if the Kaap is taken from them they shouldn't be able to maintain economic control over Boerestaats, who are naturally independently minded, hence their existence.
>Not doing anything basically encourages it.
True, but I would like an option to ACTIVELY encourage it, like the example I gave, where Indonesia could use some population control.

Thanks for listening, at any rate, lad. I meme on you, OFTEN, but I love you really and feel this mod wouldn't be anywhere near as white, nor based if not for you at the helm. *hugs*
pls make genocide kil more ppl pls

I'd like to release before Thursday, but I doubt I will manage. So don't count on that.

Nope.
>meaning both the Dutch and Boers agree they belong there.
Being accepted somewhere doesn't mean you will give up the blood you spilled to get your independence. Nations petition for annexation (usually) when they recognize the other nation as a national union, not as a former colonial master.

I wouldn't do it because as mentioned before, it's not really historical and nations didn't keep that much artillery around (especially countries like Russia and the OT). Also that would mean that the frontline would crumble in an instant, making the AI even worse.
That said I usually give a few pieces of artillery for GPs, but it's usually 5-2 or 5-3.

Soldiers and Officers are more likely to go fascist. Aristocrats are usually more conservative and capitalists are more liberal, but it all depends on literacy/CON. Base ideology nudges them in a certain direction, but there are other factors.

habsburgers btfo

>he didnt do this for years
You fucking idiot

Decolonised Former French colonies in North Western Africa.

Mali, Mauretania, and Senegal were released. Senegal and Mali are Dutch Primary, Mauretania isn't for some reason, ptobably because they're not a post colonial.

can you form Danubian Confederation in HPM?

HPM, not that guy you were discussing the Boer with, but what he said about:
>Yes, because they directly control parts of India. I'm saying if the Kaap is taken from them they shouldn't be able to maintain economic control over Boerestaats, who are naturally independently minded, hence their existence.
I think may be a fair point.

Sure but cultures voting for acceptance is hard and HPM made it so they can drop out and never come back.

yes but the requirements are kind of hard to fill. you need either a republic or constitutional monarchy, all rights, revolution & counterrevolution, and a few other things

HPM will never answer this

Hey HPM, where do you keep the files for the populations transfer in your mod? I'm trying to model an event off of them but I'm a bit lost.

HOLY FUCK i forgot to pause the game

Rip

last save is 100 years ago, thats how the europe look like

Did you ever do anything, or consider doing anything, about ideology support dropping very rapidly in dictatorships, even with the totalitarian state modifier? It's really annoying to take all the modifiers which increase extremist ideology support in your nation only to finally achieve the totalitarian state with only about 10% support for your ideology, and then suffer its gradual depletion over time.

Obviously this is a proper representation of people being disaffected with the dictatorship, but unlike in reality there's no way to combat gradual desire for political reform. I find it extremely annoying that a repressive dictatorship with total media control and a party bureaucracy doesn't have some mechanisms, even semi-random ones, that can serve to increase loyalty, even just among certain populations.

For example, random events that would increase fascist loyalty among the general population by 5% for an expertly-produced propaganda film showing details of the leader's day-to-day affairs, or increasing communist support by 25% among clerks, say, because they feel their only way to move forward is through the party's bureaucracy. Semi-random events (perhaps influenced by education spending?) that will nevertheless help ensure that a true totalitarian state will never have less than 10% of its population support its existence, if for no other reason than that they anticipate that their only way to move forward is by supporting the party.

Of course this needs to be balanced with countervailing events, which have been called for for a long time anyway. Events for the deaths of dictators, major destabilizations in the party, propaganda failures and failures to adequately censor outside material, all of which will result in lessened ideological and ruling party support, as well as militancy which will threaten to bring down the dictatorship. It's just important that the dictatorship not have less than 10% support outside of these troubled periods.

HPM, small request, but can you change the borders in Tanzania so they don't look so arbitrary? Give Lindi the land up to the river, and Tanzania the rest of it, leaving a nice little "Cape to Cairo strip", using Lake Rukwa as a natural border.

This way You can logically have German Tanganyika AND Cape to Cairo, and it's more true to life to how it would have been in real life rather than just a bizarre squiggle in the middle of no where.

Oh, and also, add an "Integrate Neighbouring Colonies into the South African dominion" decision, which allows you to grant South African cores to Botswana, Walvis bay, Mozambique up to the Zambezi, Rhodesia, and Namibia if owned to SA, so you can choose how much power to give them in the region.

Have these as seperate events though, as the player may want to keep Rhodesia under direct control, but grant them Namibia and Botswana.

Also, make it so British pops always go to Rhodesia, and their cores there ALWAYS exist. I don't want to release cucky Zimbabwe, but I DO want to release Rhodesia, but I can't.

I do though

bls HBM

I didn't EUIV since its early release. It seems that they implemented many limitations as a part of their "no fun allowed" policy. Is there a way to my Sunni Sweden and Orthodox Ireland fantasies without customized nations?

I care genny boy

Does anyone still play CK2?

>order a chicken teriyaki sandwich on my break
>wonder why it tastes so weird
>they put a fucking slice of pineapple in it
white men must be stopped t. bh

only redditors

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Reminder that Huey Long did nothing wrong

HUEY LONG'S LONG SCHLONG

YES HE DID
HE DIED :(

aw yeah take that you commie cuckbois riviera 4lyfe

What map mod?

what country will you play next?

genoicelad please don't tempt him further

Cool map mod with Vanilla overlay and slightly recoloured water, see pic related for exact colour.

what map mod?

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Grosssudafrikkkums revolted, so I had to go to war with them to make them fascist again. Now they have an ebin AWB flag.
umm probably ur mums cunt xDxD
I don't know, I'll probably wait for 0.3.8.5 now, so I've got time to think. Who do YOU want me to play as?
crashing this mod
hUh?

what to do if my state has colonial provinces and is not considered a colony as a whole?
It has 2,6% bureaucrats.

either Japan or the US and maybe germany

What did HPM mean by this?

Recently played both Japan and Germany. US sounds ebin though. Grossconfederaciums could be very fun.

I'll probably go Confederaciums, go fascist for the ebin dukes of hazard flag and then gas the Mexicans.

thats a vanilla mechanic though

That would be pretty cool - what about a Greece run?

play the game yourself you fucking shitter

think HPM will literally stop taking suggestions as he becomes afraid the suggestion started with/was agreed with by gee junk

will you do the golden circle?

hey
pls add genocide option to genocide in your non-cores only pls

Don't bully R&I he can't help it

HPM, if you have Manchuria sphered as Japan, could you add a decision to take the Ryojun treaty port from them? On a somewhat related note, could you add a decision for Alaska (and any other Japanese territories north of Honshu) to be transferred to the Ezo Republic if it exists?

Should I wait until new HPM version before I try to merge the minimods I was talking about? I don't want to have to fuck with merging stuff in all those files twice.

What's the average population of New York City in Vicky by the end of the game?

>make israel fascist
>this happens
Based. I'm going to give them Sinai and release Jordan and Lebanon in hopes they conquer them.
I'll try. I'm not that good at the game.

wait what minimods?

i installed hoi4 on my pc i'm having trouble with the text size

google tells me to fuck with the ui scaling but the thing is the menus are so small i can't even fucking find it

could one of you please post a screenshot with some red circles where i need to fiddle with it

Alright, lads, lets see if these kikes can establish gross Israeliums.

Can puppets even declare war by themselves? You are better off just conquering Lebanon and giving it to Israel. Also that British Syria is long overdue.

Yeah, looks like I'm going to have to. They can't even meme on other countries themselves.

See They're not conquering anything until you give them independence.

Nwm
I figured it out

what are the best units in DARKEST HOUR?
t. HOI3 player

r8 my culture map.
As you can see, everyone not German within the Greater Reich has been gassed.

Along with 3/4 of all the Americans within Deutsch-Amerika

>1948
nibba

is this white with an ever so light tinge of yellow and a long nose

That Mali has around 100 people living in it all of whom are Taureg rather than the primary pop. Either changeowner it to Mauretania or split off a Taureg state rather than Mali (if there are cores for it. I don't remember)

not white and not at all based

armor + armor brigades is as strong as you can get. but due to oil limitations, there's a limit to how much you can support.

infantry+artillery+engineers is a solid option for most environments.

Now do Jordan and that part of Syria. Be the best goy there ever was.

>crusader kings 2
>crusader kingdoms and crusading in general are the most halfassed part of the game
>adds le india and chineses instead


f*cking epic

neither white nor based

>0 people leaving
>Start the genocide
>23k a day leave
>Fascist Dutch pops getting most of their luxury needs flee

gonna try my luck at a world conquest.

Absolutely epic.

>gassing the Italians in Sudtirol

I just reread Malcom Barbers the Crusader States book and few other related to crusading period. CK2 does not make any effort to potray crusading period in any meaningful way. Even Medieval Total War 1&2 did better than CK2. Paracucks have turned whole game into fantasy viking powerjerkin. Which panders to SJWs and swedish cucknationalist revisionist same time.

Its kinda sad that so great event as crusades arent utilised propelly in game.

What's the reasoning behind everyone fleeing when you genocide? Is it historical?

agreed

>fascists
There's socialists, communists, liberals and conservatives

Also when will be freed by some better company than Paracucks? Alae Jacta Est is great and also learning to play To End All Wars. If some better company would make similiar game as Vic2 but ofc better version of it.

I'm going to gas these lads in Jordan for them, then turn it over to them.

Should I make them independent or not?

Does Israel not have a fascist party?
When I released them as a NatSoc puppet as Germany, they were a Fascist dictatorship with a Socialist Party

Another genocide, this time killed 60.8M people.


Also gave Transjordan to Israel. Their rightful land, as promised to them by G-d.

Show USA population.

Based big dipper of god

Now that I have gassed the majority of the Yankees within Deutsch-Amerika, I have re-opened the borders, and pure Aryans are repopulating the now ripe and empty land.

>stellaris
Not /gsg/, get out.

Already, Detroit is almost 70% German

I'm gonna put France mod + africamod + israel mod + some very minor changes from HFM into a single HPM submod so it's easier to keep compatibility

How come you have so much immigrants? I thought european territory on the new world didn't get any bonus.

Last update for tonight, me lads, after this it'll be pure shitposting from me.

As you can see, Israel is Gross, and most of Africa is under my control in some way or another.

I've been constantly gassing the Americans, but leaving the underworked factories open. The immigrants are moving there to fill these factories

That doesn't work anymore, y-you are using the new version, r-right Germany-kun?

>he actually updated to the new and (((improved))) version
I never updated.

nah.

I've no knowledge about Zun and pre-Islam Afghanistan; what are some reasonable borders to aim for?

Pink seems excessive, but there's a holy site in Egypt for some reason.

>Israel is gross
>lacks their syria cores
Oy vey you fucking antisemite.

*laughs in German*

HFM?

>using (((HPM))) impostor version

>Zun
literally made up religion, they were buddhists

Reddit ripoff of HPM with added stuff, not sure what. Their new flags catalogue design is itself a ripoff AFPG.