/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, 12th of December:
884 – King Carloman II dies after a hunting accident. He is succeeded by his cousin, emperor Charles the Fat, who for the last time reunites the Frankish Empire.
1911 – King George V of the United Kingdom is enthroned as Emperor of India.
1915 – President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
1935 – Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
1936 – The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek, is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.

# Waggle Pastebin
pastebin.com/33A7wXdB

# Random Country Picker
orph.link/random

# News
DH DD 03/12
>forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1058632/
DH 1.05 Patch 03/12
>forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/1058633/

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

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

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

>[V2] - Niggermod
mega.nz/#!KwYTTbzT!Q8uO8riuDrx1LA1hTUgJ4AkACOKaG0qWoRg2a2clH4U

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

>[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

Old Thread:

Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.

La Plata

Good job on the OP
Remember to add aurora though!

while this thread is a step in the right direction, where is HPM and wtf is that shit in the infopic?

>aurora
>gs
you fags have been shitting up the general for years but no matter how hard you try aurora will NEVER be gsg

Good job on the OP
Remember to add sengoku rance though!

Great, now we have niggermod as a potential OP, HPM and t.gsg. When will this shit end?

Reminder that Huey Long did nothing wrong

aurora was a part of this thread for a long time and will forever be a gsg.

could someone make a proper thread

also this

Why are you people so autistic about OPs? genuinely curious

t. long time lurker first time poster ;)

you redditors have been shitting up this general for years
no matter how hard you try aurora will ALWAYS be gsg

Aurora has been here for longer than your 6 months stay, geejunk junior.

>1915 – President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai, announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
Is this a meme? Can PRCanon give me a quick rundown?

t. 4x kiddies
back to r/paradoxplaza

Has anyone played africanamericanmod yet? How is it?

Because these games promote dangerously controlling behaviours.

Now tell me why exactly can't you copy that name and paste it into this website called google point com

Wait a second, how am I a secondary power if I'm in the 8th place?

your in it pal

>Why are you people so autistic
you answered your own question

baited for this EXACT response
I did that, wikipedia wasn't actually very informative, it just told me he proclaimed himself emperor of China, it didn't tell me any of the circumstances surrounding it.

>includes CK2 but not EU4
wow...its almost as if youre all gay.........

>can declare war for ANY coastal city as merchant republic
well playing a merchant republic with ck2+ seems like it'll be fun
what should I focus on first? Spamming trade posts around my capital sea zone and upgrading family mansion?

Do you have less than 2 states?

It was real. He was an old Qing general that Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the Republicans had to negotiate with so they could successfully topple the regime. The deal was basically that he would get to be the first president of the republic until they got a constitution in place.

With how these things always go, the guy who had a lot of friends and admirers in the military (Yuan Shikai) got to basically ignore any semblance of republicanism they were trying to bring to China and once he got the chance he tries to restore the monarchy. He died pretty quickly though.

haha look he plays EUIV he is a redditor lol

but can you FUCK your own family in your pressios manaversalisfour kid

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Did he have any royal/noble blood or did he literally just call himself kang?

Seriously what does this post mean?

W&B

No, it seems there's just a delay. I have transitioned properly.

I only started playing Victoria recently, haven't turned into great power before that.

newfag spotted

It takes about a year to go up. There's a brief "danger zone" period for the other GP to get back up, so they don't immediately lose their sphere.

it's the foot of a lady that was injured

Ive been here for 11 years now answer me

yeehaw

buggymess/10

I'm planning my borders for when the next version of Niggermod is released (the one with the Meuse border)

What do you guys think? Is Switzerland okay or should I get rid of it?

Yeah, I noticed because I slipped back into 9th place.

Then you walk around and it's just ugly brown goblins and trash everywhere

proofs? Post pictures

Hello, HPM! Still on the damage control I see, good for you!

Any of you guys have a download link for Kaiserreich for HoI 4?

>Kaiserreich for HoI 4

Wanna get into gsg, kinda confused.
Can I get a list of must-buys? And things to stay away from?
Excuse my ignorance.
Im guessing everything in op is buy-worthy and apparently EU isnt good? Is there a reason for that?

what is this gross shit

Just wanna try HoI 4 again but Vanilla sucks donkeyballs

>Just wanna try HoI 4 again

helb bls
first time playing merchant republic

I'm not completely sure. The sort of sense I get from his archetype tells me that the extent of his nobility was probably something like he had a regionally prominent family that could support him enough to get into the civil service exams and also to government positions.

I am not sure if he had any royalty in him. That seems unlikely.

do this as bavaria

No, I shall do it as the only true German state, Prussia!

It's south america. That's all there is down there.

This is Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga, Emperor of Brazil. Say something nice to him.

die prod shithead

almost made a shithole good but Brazilians only exist to be subhuman

Hello Pedro de Alcântara João Carlos Leopoldo Salvador Bibiano Francisco Xavier de Paula Leocádio Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga !

You were the chosen one

You were supposed to lead Brazil into a golden age to last for decades after your death, not let some "we wuz presidant and shiet" retards fuck everything up, not go into exile without a fight

He was rather based. I say he deserves to be regarded as honorary white.

For the life of me I will never understand why the fuck changing Capitals in CKII means you lose all your previous technological levels.

I mean, fuck, it's the 800s AD or some shit. What the fuck even IS my accumulated trove of knowledge? Some dudes with apprentices and fourteen books that can be read by seven people total in my court? You're really telling me I can't just load that shit in a cart and bring it with me?

So I move from bumfuck Ireland to the mainland or something, but Bob the Mason really wants to hang back and take care of his magnolias, and he apparently was the only cocksucker in my entire realm aware of the concept of "slightly bigger wall." So he stays behind and everyone just has a lobotomy by the time we reach Paris and need to re-learn all that crap all over. The best one though is everyone respecting laws that I set with my previous technological level, but that are apparently incomprehensible to everyone now until I re-learn them.

I dunno, I think it's more about being able to integrate this or that advancement into the local society, more of a "logistically do it this way, not that way" - still kinda silly you lose all the progress though.

>another 8 hour CK2 game in the bin because of that fucking garbage Mongol CB
Yep, the Holy Roman Empire would surrender the entire empire after losing two large battles and Istria. Epic Paradox.

But he didn't want to be emperor anymore

No one wants to lead a bunch of monkeys.

he never wanted to because his dad was a deadbeat fuck and his kids died

this timeline is so unfortunate

ck2 has the worst tech system in the history of strategy.
they could completely remove the feature and the game would still be the same. to me it looks that they added it out of obligation (huurr strategy games MUST have tech!) and not out of necessity.

>they could completely remove the feature and the game would still be the same.
How would you get a bigger demesne/retinue if there would be no tech?

The total war occupation system is quite frankly better.

are you prc? where are your anime shitposts

hmmm

I'm pretending to be a tranny in another thread, he took the bait with the first picture of Mayaka, can someone post the one with wet hair?

>bigger demesne
centralization tech
>retinue
would be tied to crown authority and/or vassal obligations

white men

Ive returned from my comfyposting ban to ask: will goy4 get gud after this new DLC? Im looking forward to avoiding johans jamble on DLC by pirating, but what are y’alls thoughts on the everymans choice?

>centralization tech
>remove completely the feature from the game and it would still be the same
You can't really remove tech from the game even if it is stupid. I agree that retinue should be tied to crown authority tho.

I don't even usually mind, it's just they've programmed the mongols with a special conquest CB with inflated warscore because before it they couldn't leave Siberia because of Paradox fucking incompetence. And the ai NEVER goes independent on succession apart from some shitty small states with high negative relations.

hahaha I reply to this person without using to the reply function aren't I sooooooooo funny

"wew" as they say

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I am not PRC

shite

men

hmmm

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>cheating
>blobbing
>savescumming

Is anyone familiar with this meme? Are they exposed or should I stay put?

They had half as many men, seemed to retreat rather easily.

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I wish tech helped scale over the game, giving new advantages but presenting new problems
Like the only times i really care about research is upgrading buildings, army organisation, or dumping points in legalism for late/imperial organisation
Sure, positive feudal opinion +4 and +15% light infantry/archer attack and defense are dandy, but those don't factor into my calculations as much as "is my army bigger" than "does my tech outnumber them"
But I, pretty much, you set the laws you like and they're good. Besides feuding with council power from Conclave, everything else is static
Like building universities could give rise to "educated" peasants revolts, or trade tech makes you have to deal with guildsmen causing trouble to drive down prosperity as they attack eachother

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Is AI in Vicky more likely to honour alliances if the war is just?

I can't really take on the entire Russian Empire alone as Sweden, maybe I shouldn't have given up on Finland?

I meant the centralization-decentralization law. Don't know why I typed tech.

>can't really take on the entire Russian Empire alone
do it faggot

Well, they lose ten men for each of mine, but they just won't fucking stop coming.

If you have a superior navy (which you really should) you can make sure they have to attack you from the north, and the attrition will fuck them up

Is HFM any good?

If you like playing as european microstates and having laws about climate change sure