/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

BASED

finally a good meme
what does it mean

boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/145623605/145631102

Did the site glitch?

So I was feeling nostalgic and decided to check the archive for a random thread from mid to late 2015, just before Veeky Forums was born.
To my surprise, the first I picked is pretty shitty.
boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/113973295/
There's some shitposting about turkslayer and adus, some spurdo talking, people posting memes that were also posted in the very last thread, partido socialista but in the end it's just as childish as the threads we've been having, only without the annoying brit-wannabe from Vladivostok posting 24/7.

is the shitposter

is op

The power of rose tinted glasses.

A postmodern take on sublime causality of the modern shitpost. Notice how the watermarked white lines draw the eye right into the core of the turd, into the dark depths of the digested cow feces. How many stomachs has this turd scene? How long was she gestating before birth? In short, it's an abstract expression of the quality of this thread as seen through the eyes of the innocent: behold, a man!

Scrolled down and found a load of MCL posts too, that's one poster I miss.

Yes, I see it now. It's quite impressive.

Who?

Reminds me of the nostalgiafagging over on Veeky Forums when one of the largest threads there on day it was created was shitflinging over Africa.

MCL created the the More Cat Lactation mod, which adds lactation events onto the cat events in CK2. Sounds silly, but really it's a make or break for the game.

Amazing how the same people who hark on about "the good old days before the shitposters" actually love shitposting, but only their patrician kind that everyone else is too stupid to understand.

People nostalgiafag about Veeky Forums? It's the newest board and was shit from the day it started, how can such a thing even exist?

These were all mine, btw

People desperately wanting to believe that a history board would ever work in practice, despite all the evidence to the contrary and warnings from everyone, including jewt.

Tbh this They want people to believe there was a time when Veeky Forums didn't suck because they're the ones who though it would work in the first place. It was always destined to be a shit-flinging contest between /pol/ and /leftypol/

Dear /gsg/,

2 questions lads, I expect an answer within 10 minutes or we'll have some problems here.

1. Did the new HPM update fix the mistake he made with genocide?

2. Does the new EU4 patch improve it in any way?

I thank you for your time and effort

Sincerely,
user

1. That really depends on what you're calling a mistake here. He never reverted it or changed it from the new version that kills between 5% to 40%.
2. Improves it like a kernal of corn improves a mound of shit, yes.

Playing Assyria in HPM, what would be the best way to encourage Assyrian pops to grow but not all the Arabs? I know they will never assimilate so better to outgrow them, but is it even possible?

rate

what are good memegoals for CK2 no reformed pagan extreme incest shit

Dear user,

Thank you for your prompt response. I was impressed with your attitude and helpfulness, if you have some sort of employee ID I'd be more than happy to mention you in the survey. Unfortunately however, you did not completely answer my first question to the fullest extent of the meaning.

1. I was more referring to massive emigration push from every pop in the country. It was clearly a mistake and not representative of historical responses to genocide by the general populous. Does the new update fix this?

Thank you again

Sincerely,
user

La Plata

Pops of primary/accepted cultures tend to grow more than remaining pops naturally I think, just look at how Natalia goes from less than 15% to around 30% Boer within their 1,5 decade of existence.

Just spam the baby boom event in the console every 5 or so years.

>cheating

When the threads segregate themselves they're pretty good. You have leftyfags whining on one side and then the redpilled discussion on the other, like pic related.

Hope you're right
>cheating
Also wouldn't that cause birthrates of other cultures to grow too? I want Assyrian to become majority in their cores is the point

You can't just grow your own, you assimilate them or you genocide them at the end.

I'm not reading all that desu, it's nearly 3am.

honestly kid this is pretty reddit and im cringing rn @ 1. To some extent. The huge emigration push is reduced, note, not removed. It also nullifies the "closed borders" reform, so you'll still get a lot of ahistorical "mistaken"emigration, but it's not quite as bad as 0.3.8.2 was.

Nah, it's just an example of a proper right wing poster owning a leftist who tried to claim all colonialism was evil white men killing blacks and stealing their resources.

Dear user,

I almost didn't have the heart to right this, I'll have you know other people have feelings too! Have some sympathy, who do you think you are? You can't just go around calling people names and whatnot. I hope you were not expecting a good review after such a remark, because you'll get none from me. Please stop responding to my posts, because I will not be reading them.

I'm sorry things couldn't work out between us
:^(

Respectfully,
user

Reading about the Persian Campaign and it's making me feel awful.

yeehaw

>kurds slayers
First and last time they've been on that end of the gas.

Bazinga

did you know about the man who went to the store and bought a gallon of poss after he fucked his wife, he wasn't in a good mood but went down to the forest later to watch the big game

>not carlist spain
>not re-establishing your vice royalties in south america before going after yankee land

reminder that this is why the CSA is an administrative and military backwater in HPM

Re: Re: Re: Re: IMMIGRANTS

t.

Hey, I'm trying to form an alliance with my second cousin in ck2 and it wont let me

Don't really get why, she is betrothed to my brother and heir. When I arrange betrothal it says a nonagression pact would form, but when I go to form alliance it says there is no nonagression pact

This is annoying the shit out of me, I literally just want to help my dynasty on a foreign throne put down revolts

is a mexican empire and confederate states in the cristino sphere good enough?

does the USA have cores on Mexico still?
I know some mods let Mexico refute manifest destiny if they win the war but I don't know about HPM.

HPM does, but now you've brought it up he'll probably remove it.

HPM does but Mexico needs to actually not lose the war.

He tweaked it himself, it used to need GP status before.

Huh. That's pretty based. Is HPM secretly /our guy/?

they don't

I might have to try a mexico playthrough.
do you have to savescum a lot in order to actually win the mexican-american war or is the AI shit enough that you can blitz the east coast and peace them out?

based

I had to savescum mine, no matter how well you do in battles the USA has such a large advantage in manpower and tech that if you don't have an ally you usually get rolled over. This is one of the few times where the UK can be helpful, since they have a border with the USA and some armies there.

Not really.

Does anyone have any ideas? Search results turn up nobody having a similar issue. I have a regency and it's HIP btw

...

where the fuck are they

never played vic2 b4 who do I play as?

Who?

who do u want to play as

Oranje and Transvaal, they won't show up already.

Because you're pkaying HPM instead of niggermod.

How am I doing? I would have had East Galicia if Russia didn't snipe it before I was ready to fight Austria. I just beat Austria and released Czechoslovakia as a buffer state. France is my ally.

How do I beat russia?

Who'd you start as and what is that map mod?

I released Congress Poland from Russia. The map mod is something I've been toying around with for a while. I never really got it to look the way I wanted but I don't feel like downloading another map mod and its better than vanilla.

all poland playthroughs that don't start as krakow are invalid

I've never seen a Krakow game that doesn't involve stupid shit like getting a GP to take one of Portugal's colonies or something like that.

Does /gsg/ like grand strategy games?

But, you can't even get a cb if you're landlocked

using your great power alliances to work for you is how you play as any landlocked secondary power

>he can't single-handedly beat Austria as Bavaria

And that's exactly what I did here. Except I started as Congress Poland, because it's less tedious and more fun.

>man i would like to try out a new paradox game or maybe one of the DLC's, let me just take a quick lo-

its easy tho

>research the NF tech first off, encourage intellectuals until that's done, then switch to soldiers until the war and through it
>build up soldiers, mostly art and cav, mobilize peasants for inf
>attack their armies in the plains and texas, expect them to occupy a decend chunk of the mountains, but only with one army
>never go too far into enemy territory until towards the end of your genocide of their soldiers

usually you don't even have to fight the last stack, battles plus them not accpomplishing their goal means you lead them in warscore by like 40 points at the end. White peace and you're done

I thought the default cores for a dismemberment were pretty shit, so here's my changes

opinions?

>encourage intellectuals until that's done
Are you implying you can get 4% intellectuals in every state in less than 10 years?

Still pretty shit. Give Red up to the Rhine and Wurzburg, also give Alsace Lorraine to tue Rhineland.

no, just until you get that first technology. shaves like 5 months off

But the point is to split them up into near equal blobs so that one can't threaten you again. That would make red too powerful

Well culutrally and aesthetically that's what would happen. If you just want 4 equal blobs then you've done it already.

fantasyfags killed the Total War general, can I post in here lads?

I'm going in

I do. As I aleready said, I merely integrated africamod itself, had no time to properly test it so I released. As for those decisions for nonexistent countries, it's an HPM issue - IIRC decision potential based on country flags or something whatever, I'll fix this stuff later

>no ally
user...

Is Cyrenaica part of Egypt or the Maghreb?
What culture should it be?

Again? Didn't Empire Divided give them the idea that they are no longer welcome?

Got you lad!

Greenskin colonisation was a mistake.

I will get Russia soon

but russia is who you have to take the congress poland provinces from