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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

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1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika, a dog, as the first living creature to enter orbit

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# News
CK2 DD 23/10
>forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1051663
EU4 DD 24/10
>forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1051799

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

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

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

>>Updated Waggle Pastebin
pastebin.com/33A7wXdB

>[V2] - Victoria 2 : Bronies Crusaders, A alternate History
indiedb.com/games/victoria-ii/downloads/bronies-crusaders

>[V2] - Make Liquor Great Again by Liquorlad
dropbox.com/s/o42kc4rjg24rtiv/makeliquorgreatagain.rar?dl=0

>[V2] - Legacy of Slovenia v1.01
pastebin.com/72Yhqm5i

>[V2] - unHPM v1.5
pastebin.com/zK3YrpNx

>>[V2] - 7 Years Mod
pastebin.com/fMCvXaAA

>>[V2] - Vickymod v2.5
pastebin.com/MHswMhZi

>>[V2] - New Liangmod
mediafire.com/download/fm7kgwo9m83yqxu/New Liang.rar

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

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

>[V2] - Cold War Enhancement Mod
github.com/settintotrieste/Victoria-2-Cold-War-Enhancement-Mod-CWE

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

>[HoI3] - Flavormod 1.1.2
pastebin.com/7ZBm2K3V

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

>[CK2] - When the World Stopped Making Sense
github.com/loup99/WtWSMS

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someone should make a middle earth mod for ck2 that isnt dead

will Alex finally post today?

>no warhammer in op

I'm going to sound like a heretic, but i'm really liking the sound of Pelagianism.

anyone?

I'm posting an SS-20 Saber in honour of the defunct East vs West until we get a good Cold War game.

>expecting to learn anything from Paradox tutorials
>expecting to learn anything from gsg

should i just get into a game?

paradox tutorials are infamously shit, you'd honestly be better off watching (((let's plays)))

just play the game senpai
if you've ever played any strategy game you'll be fine, half the mechanics hardly matter for new players

Need some help here

My friend just bought CK2 and I want to play my single player load game in multiplayer - which I know is possible.

But my question is; Can he still pick any already existing character he wants and put them through the Ruler designer?

Thanks in advance

I don't think you can use ruler designer once you have started playing a game
Just cheat in his stats because you can't so it ironman, anyways

My most successful Texas game.

Still shit compared to many other games.

I agree, Paradox really doesn’t deserve all the hate about their dlc policy. Honestly their policy on this is one of the best ones I see in games. If the price is an issue to someone, don’t buy that dlc or get it on sale

>t. Johan

I disag- I mean respectfully disagree my good sir

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sure, let me just play vanilla

aaand it's a broken abandonware mess that only gets worse with every dlc

So this happened. Doesnt this generally go against what France tries to do anyways?

Think they will hold onto it? The Protestant wars havent happened yet

A player France would use this to add their lands to the HRE and get massive empire mana, allowing them to push several reforms at once. Knowing the ai, France'll probably find a way to fuck that up tho.

New Carolingian Empire soon

Just play the game user, if you have any issues, watch a let's play or youtube tutorial. It's the modus operandi for all Paradox games.

it is bugged in HPM, you should play the tutorial using the vanilla game

The AI Emperor will always add the land to the empire.

nice b8, m8.

Vicky 2 tutorials have broken themselves because of gameplay changes in patches. You're better off watching a few youtube videos.

>That feeling when you are still blobbing even though you are just getting Russian borders
>That feeling when no colonial maintenance
>That awful feeling when the Ottomans shitsmash your armies and wipe out an entire stack at the beginning of the war


How do I even compete at this point? they are allied to France, and France just got reelected as the emperor

nice

show africa

watch some youtube beginner guides, its a good place to start. Jumping into it will lead to a boring experience because you will have absolutely no idea what any of the numbers or buttons mean.

When you are that size colonial maintenance wouldnt be noticeable anyways. In my Japan game after colonizing just Indonesia and southeast asia I was pulling in 50 ducats a month via trade alone.

ah shit, alright thanks user.

So i can't use Ruler Designer at all if I want to Ironman?
I've never actually played Ironman before but I think im gud enough to give it a shot now. Seems like it makes the game more fun.

No, if you get the Russia DLC you get colonys for free if you spend 20 dip power.

i actually somewhat agree with this, but only because the free no drm version torrent with the complete game is always available.

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Oh how the tables have turned Ottomans. They are probably still going to win

Why does France always go into Iberia in EU4? Every single fucking game they expand south, I mean its France, they expand everywhere, but EU4 almost always ends with half of Spain being French clay.

"siberian" frontier OP pls nerf

You can do ironman with ruler designer, but no achievos if you're autistic about those like I am

volkssturm campaign here.
dh is installed on my e drive, which i am currently defraging so i don't think playing would be a very good idea. why the fuck is it taking so long

My favorite run would have to be my Suomenusko Finnish Hyperborean campaign.
So I was Finland in Charlie start because I needed as much time to reform Suomenusko. However, the Norse Reformed first and Charlie became a herertic, and so the Vikings took over Western Europe. In my corner of Finland, I was slow to reform as I had to deal with Slavic shits all allied to one another through some loose tribal means.
However, upon becoming the Republic of Karelia, the Jomsvikings formed, and, with complete moral authority and a full host of heavy infantry, my only saving grace was the gulf of Finland, winter attrition, and my defensive pagan bonus.
Still, I lost Finland, abandoned hopes of retaking my homeland, and instead focused on the Kingdom of Rus. There were great victories and there were great defeats against the Norsemen, and the Mongols rode in as Christians, but never touched my domain. The Aztecs landed in Brittany (I knew they wouldn't touch me in Scandinavia), but they never attacked anyone.
Finally able to seize Perm from the Mongols after a dozen failed holy wars, I formed the Empire of Hyperborea (Rus, Finland, and Perm), reclaimed Finland, and the Sons of Kaleva took Sweden. With the Norse floundering, I was able to claim Norway for Suomenusko.
You can read all 36,811 words of autism here
docs.google.com/document/d/1HPD3CSQ_fCC0Atw6k5Gkaj7u541oDFrttkhjb86QVaE/edit?usp=drivesdk
I'm still working on my Northumbria->Britannia->Western Roman Empire journal, which is over 100k words at this point, but I'm at 1423

>over 100k and still not done
How do you manage something like that?

hmm...

based reddit mods dropping the REAL redpills

this is the quality autism i come here for
how many hours per day do you spend on ck2, i you dont mind me asking

hehe pwned!!

Shit, son, that's some serious autism. Are you also the guy with the Wales run google doc?

My favorite run was roleplaying the Frankish conquest of the Levant as the House of Boulogne (Godfrey, who doesn't die). Didn't start screencapping until I had already conquered Egypt and established a cadet branch.

Because I started writing more in deoth. What was just "I got a heart attack and died" became "I died whilst watching a tournament celebrating my nameday. My successor witnessed the death of his nephew, and burried his body by the sea, as the depressed lad had written poetry about the topic. Now, the king died after the railing collapsed, and so we must put the carpenters on trial. Coincidentally, my grandfather befriended and chastley kissed the carpenter's daughter in his youth (before his series of unsuccessful and spiteful marriages) so it will be that woman's company now, and he'll find no fault with the carpenter's based on the former king' s known heart condition (As the new king was just), and sympathy (As he was also kind) for his grandfather's childhood friend."
>how many hours per day on CK2
Its not always constant. You can see I put the dates on my logs, and there are large delays. I would say it's a 1:1 ratio of hours spent in game to hours spent writing
>Wales run
No, I have an Eadricing run out of Northumbira

>Eadricing run out of Northumbira
That's what I'm thinking of. I'm the guy who dox'd himself on there by accidentally holding down 'a', btw.

Here's my current status for that
NaNoWriMo is making it hard to finish before Jade Dragon drops
docs.google.com/document/d/1syVzNITq6_ddv7zHvjuesHv4jxXepzk3AiUMTBXkp-Y/edit?usp=drivesdk

What about modded SuperPower 2, user?

Neat. I'll check it out in a bit, reinstalling CK2 because I'm in the mood for some RP myself.

Do you play in the current version with all DLC? Or in a previous version? Do you have a favorite previous version? It's been a while since I've played (1 or 2 major DLC) and I don't feel so much like learning a ton of new mechanics, etc.

why did your serene republic flip to a feudal kingdom?

The immigrant attraction NF now gives +20% global immigrant attraction to the region in CWE.

>he still plays V2
point at him and laugh

So when I got kicked out of Finland, it was the time when the Republic didn't factor if your successor had any holdings. He had a barony in Pskov, so he inherited the Kingdom--but he was a already feudal, so he couldn't be a republic.
I play with all DLC, because RezMar is a fun dude (check fireden), but I don't use mods because I need that goddamn achievement for Charlemagne to 1453

how often do you write these?

For every CK2 game I've done, and after every play session

Not even joking, I'm probably the most avid vicky poster here and I've been on vacation ever since last sunday, that should explain a lot.
Also I haven't been posting as much as O wanted even before that because I REALLY need to enter this university if I want o quit Law school.
These last months I was the one with the Spain, FRCA, Toucoleour, Japanese Madagascar, Brazil (+3200 industrial score, #2 overall, dismantled the US, +20m pops) and a shitload of HPM/CWE (secular Iran, Brazilian Empire again for example). I also made the Partido Socialista game as Chile like 2 years ago.

>RezMar is a fun dude (check fireden)
could you elaborate a bit for folks who don't spend as much time here/don't know as much about pirating?

I sincerely admire your autism. I have never been able to commit myself to mastering anything like this.

How do I get good at DH?

Has anyone here played march of the eagles? Whats it like?

He puts up links
You download them
You run the activator or whatever
And then Johan is sad

>if not for dlcs we wouldn't continue fixing bugs
this kills the "johan is an autist" poster

Would you like to live in this timeline?

>there are retards who will unironically fall for this
Expansions back in the day used to completely overhaul the game for 10-15 shekels. Now they add a single new UI and call it "China" for 20 shekels. What sort of idiot wants to pay more for less?

Yes, i would

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How did you play as Greece? Cheating?

Where's HPM?

banned
You can form it

I mean the link

Started as The Knights. These are oldish screenshots from probably around a year ago or so, I never got around to posting them.

Here's an earlier screenshot from when I was fucking around in Japan. Using the Japanese manpower I reconquered Greece and Asia Minor.

>You can form it
Yeah, I'm asking if he formed it through cheating.

can't he just ban evade? or can they delete his trip if he does?

>plebu4 posters
Come back, AARanon, all is forgiven!

never come back cheat*r

Ban evading leads to another 30 days (or is it permanent?) ban. Him ban evading while using his trip would definitely end in one of those bans.
Or maybe he's just taking advantage of this whole story to leave /gsg/.

The question is though, if not on /gsg/, where will he post updates for HPM?

>maybe he's just taking advantage of this whole story to leave /gsg/.
All we need to do is get Bomber back and he'll post an update, just like last time.

Everyone on this general plays Vicky because EU4 and Goy$ are unplayable boring trash.

posted in the wrong thread Whoops.

>being a brainlet
just google "victoria 2 hpm". moddb is the first result.

Does this count for internal migration? I never allow external.

He has a moddb page, he posted his last update there

CK2 is fun for eugenics and incest.

ive always wondered what happens when your heir is female in CK2? do you just end up roleplaying as a girl?

Depends if you've got anachronistic matrilineal marriage on.

CK2 is way better than EU4 and Goy$ because there's actual shit to do in it. In EU4 and Goy it's just blobbing and blobbing and blobbing, no depth to it.

No, you use cheats to change succession to agnatic primogeniture

Yes; It has no real differences besides that you can get pregnant so you don't need to worry about someone else fucking your wife (Unless you are commuting adultery with another man). Your pronouns change and you can chose to be a lesbian instead of a gayboi if you are young enough
I hope you have a martilineal marriage

Amazingly EU4 manages to somehow be worse than HoI4. HoI4 has absolutely no AI whatsoever but it still at least has some political memes and focus trees. EU4 literally has nothing. Everything around it is just that shitty blobbing and mana system. Take provinces, spend mana, wait for truce, repeat. Are the people who play it developmentally challenged or something?

Just marry your own dynasty.

What are some comfy borders for an isolationist Totalist Union of Britain that doesn't side with France nor the Internationale and just watches the chaos? An*rchists are in charge of France and I'm not helping those fags, just gonna fight off Canada if it comes for me.

/gsg/ if you were transported back in time to 1789, would you support the revolution?

"no"

What's the decision to annex Madagascar? I'm Italy and have them in my sphere. Or did HPM remove that.

Yeah and I'd help Napoleon rise to power. Bourbons deserved everything they got.

Hell no. Absolutists for life.
I'd be a reactionary in pretty much every society except post Christianized Rome, because I wouldn't want society to degenerate back into homosexual paganism.

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