/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

Truly the overthrowing of R&I, much like the overthrowing of the church in our history, has been a net negative for this online society.

>(its literally (just because its from reddit (edgy kids hate it))).

Sorry if I sound like an ass, but do you really need to make your sentences look like Matryoshka dolls?

I haven't played CK2 in ages but why is HIP considered shit? Is because it doesn't support Charlamagne start?

It's no, HIP is the best mod out there.

guys listen to my rad new idea. Paradox could develop a neural network for their upcoming games and pit it against experienced players for a long while to make the AI not absolutely shit

I went with Ck2+ because it changed the map without adding really stupid wasteland and provinces in the Sahara, because it didn't needlessly remove the Charlemagne start and because there were no retarded dick events. But now ck2+ doesn't work and all that's left is this garbage.

>Allies
>The Great War
Why am I even baiting this?

The Sahara is optional, so is disabling Charlegmagne, VIET has been removed for a long time. CK2+ works fine. Now stop being retarded.

Guys help I have absolutely no idea how to viking king. I want a good congenital trait to try and pass on to my offspring, but I'm worried 36 is too old to start with. Any advice?

>Any advice?
Dont play vanilla
Dont use RD when theres already a shitton of norse on the map

Last I checked VIET went out the window months ago. Also, you can disable a lot of unnecessary provinces by instaling performance friendly SWMH.

I'm playing vanilla because I have no idea what fucking mods to get. Is it really that bad?

Also, what the Christ is RD?

It's pretty bad, get either HIP or CK2+. I'm guessing RD means Ruler Designer.

RD = Ruler designer, there's already a bunch of epic VIKANGZ with crazy stats on the map
The 2 big mods that arent fantasy are CK2+ and HIP

Ruler designer
And vanilla is only bad if you have certain rules unlocked
>Lucifers sekrib club
>Jade dragon CBS
>China's invashions
>sunset meme

All these things make the game a bit cancerous.

>so is disabling Charlegmagne
I thought they didn't add it back

>CK2+ works fine.
I tried the one version linked in the previous thread and it didn't work with Jade Dragon

It cuts of India from the pics I've seen, how does that work with Tibet?

Huh. CK2+ actually looks hella neat. I think I'll give it a whirl! I was only running with a couple of little cosmetic mods and one that slightly increases the chance of genetic traits being passed on.

>Jade dragon CBS
>China's invashions
CBS? And uhm... Is it really that bad? I literally just got Jade Dragon.

>Lucifers sekrib club
If I could disable this without losing the other secret societies, I would. Fuck that mechanic. Seems like 90% of the chucklefucks in my kingdom are Satanists at any given time!

>sunset meme
Already turned it off.

What is Jade Dragon CBS?

The CBs are fine.And you can disable satanists without disabling other societies (although you should disable secret religious societies as well)

Border disputes and subjugation
>ugh I need a CB to blob? fuck this shit game! Im back to EU4!

Because kingdoms fighting dozens of wars, each for a single county makes a lot more sense? War diplomacy/CBs has always been the worst part of CK2, at least this makes it a little better. Just don't blob.

>Just don't blob.
Could you tell this to the CK2 AI pls

Sure, just edit the files.

Border disputes are shit but thankfully you can turn them off separately. The rest of the new CBs are ok.

Eh the subjugation is pretty retarded too
>start in 1066
>after 50 years any independent realms bordering a kingdom has been annexed

>provinces all over Sahara but no India and Tibet
>no Charlemagne start
I see HIP is still shit

Another treaty port captured from the Chinese. Should I take Ningbo or Kwangchowan? I think Ningbo would go nicely with Taiwan and Jeju personally, but Kwangchowan is part of SEA, so would perhaps be better for that reason.

(You)

I have a problem. I only have fun playing Germany in Vic2. Why is that? Almost the same with EUIV, though, everything out of the HRE is super easy/boring. Had some fun playing Pagarruyung and removing Islam from Indonesia, but thats about it. Japan is just boring, India is boring after the initial struggle, France is too ez, England too, Spain has no place to expand without offending my border gore senses... what do?

>removing Islam from Indonesia
What's the point if you're replacing it with an equally brown ideology?

Just my personal hatred for islam shining through

Both, but Ningbo first.

Tibet was half the reason I bothered downloading Jade Dragon. i guess I might as well try playing vanilla if CK2+ won't work

White and based.
Hope you became a proddy and finished off the remaining umbermansch though.

It's been years since i peeked into one of these threads. Why is eu taken off the sticky? Not technically gsg, or is there like some kind of boycott going on here?

Re-posting my autism
Islam:
>Sunni Arabs
>Shiite Turks, Persians, maybe Europeans (like Bosniaks)
>Ibadi SEAsia

Christianity:
>Catholic Western + Northern Europe
>Orthodox Eastern Europe + Slavs
>Miaphysite Caucasus + Africa (Berbers, Nile, etc)
>Nestorian Arab/Asian territories

colonize as a euro, save and then load the game while playing as that colonial

What does this mean?

Uh, I litterally don't understand what you are talking about. Whats proddy? Umbermansch=Untermensch?
I did nothing special. United Indonesia (stayed Pagarruyung though for the colour), colonized every pacific island + Australia/New Zealand, was bored and stopped playing.

Did something like that recently. I am missing that expansion that lets you play as a colonial nation, so I played Theodoro, conquered a province in Ireland, colonized greenland, moved my capital there and colonized North America.
But thanks for the suggestion.

We have risen again.
t. /t. gsg/

Shit you want announced at pdx
>bronze age or early antiquity too migration period game
>victoria 3(scared that they'll fuck it up with focus trees or some shit)
>cold war game

Would Indonesia really be called indonesia is malaysians formed it? Should i change this in hpm?

What's the difference between regular Artillery and the Rocket artillery?

one uses rockets (i think)

also probably supply consumption

The 1904 treaty of Luang Prabang was drawn up between the Laotians, the British, the Japanese, the Spanish, and the Chinese. The treaty not only dictated the territorial changes in China (including the secession of the Ningbo treaty port) but also pertained to maritime borders in the South China sea, long since a source of tension for the powers. The Laotians, as a relatively minor power had to give way to the Japanese on many of these demands, but it also came with the guarantee that Japan would respect the Laotian right to rule the Jeju island, and the Taiwan concession, that had been taken from China many years prior.

Donezo

>Be Halsten of house Austmadthr (fucking inferior latin keyboards don't even have a key for a good honest eth so I'll have to make do)
>31 years old, chief of a tiny little territory in Norway
>Realise I need kids to run the tribe after I'm gone
>Chief of Mann over in Britannia has a daughter. 6/10 but a nice girl
>Bitch won't put out
>Fuck this, I'mma just have to steal a wife like any honest viking
>Plunder pathetic Anglo-Saxons. They don't know what the fuck
>Bring back trinkets for wife. Girls like shiny things, right? They're basically magpies.
>Gods dammit, she still won't put out!
>Fuck this, I'mma go raid the Franks and get a better, hotter wife
>Oooh, Zeeland! That's holy ground that is! No-one minds if I just burn down your pathetic cross-god's house and steal all his shit right?
>"Uh yeah, actually I do?"
>Holy fuck that's a lot of soldiers nope nope nope- Wait, you don't have boats..
>Ha ha suck my viking dick, Frankish bitch. Can't kill what you can't catch!

Reminder that Huey Long did nothing wrong

see the stats nigger

I'm guessing it'll be East vs West and maybe EU Rome 2
I'm hoping for EvW but at the same time I don't think I'd be happy if it didn't have a CWE timeline length and that shit runs into modern day so paradox would poz it to hell

we're here

>vanilla
>dude why
Because the only things I want in the world are the Charlie to 1453 (done twice, achieved once), Old gods to 1453 (done once, will achieve in this playthrough), and 1066 to 1453 (never done) achievement stickers

It's called Malaysia in EUIV

>Charlie to 1453
Can you post your game my man?

do I want reliability at 96% or over 100%?

This is fucking disgusting.

>irish congo free state
white, but also, based

yes

Why do the irish own the congo?

There was my Hyperborean Finland where I learned how to roleplay in the latter half
docs.google.com/document/d/1HPD3CSQ_fCC0Atw6k5Gkaj7u541oDFrttkhjb86QVaE/edit?usp=drivesdk
Then my real playthrough was Northumbria to BRITANNIA which eventually became the new WRE
docs.google.com/document/d/1syVzNITq6_ddv7zHvjuesHv4jxXepzk3AiUMTBXkp-Y/edit?usp=drivesdk

is lategame iron supply supposed to be fucked in hpm?

Reminder: I need a justification to stop the end of ottomanism event for communist turkey

No idea. I just liberated them 20 years ago, but they shot up to secondary power immediately and claimed the Congo before the Belgians could.

literally just happened to me as Russia, completely stalling my industriallization

And it's not a journal autist post without a Spurdo/Gondola
Pls no bully

It's HPM God punishing you for not being Spanish.

Why can't modders just pickup the leaked EvW and fill in the gaps? looks pretty late in development to me.
Like, I'm literally fucking dying for a cold war gsg.

So what should I do?

>only 350 units produced
>21% of world production
global demand is at like 6500 in 1910, shit is fucked

The nature of the Laotian regime was a unique and fascinating one. Following the apparent one party rule that had come about following the King's appointment of the fascists the state set about winning "hearts and minds" through a series of populist reforms unheard of anywhere else in the world. While most countries failed to acheive reforms due to bi-partisan politics constantly at war with one another the small Laotian state need not worry about such trivialities. If a reform was judged to advance the needs of the nation it was enacted, if it did not it would not be so.

The regime took influences from the policies of Bismarck in Germany, who had unified the German people and won their support through the enactment of various socialistic policies. While the Laotian regime had no desire to align itself to the forces of communism -- such as those that had been seen in the USSR and various European labour circles -- it did take note of the effect such reforms could have on the moral and the well-being of the people. To that end a proper minimum wage was finally acheived in Laos, despite it being denied for so long under the supposedly more "democratic" regime that had come before it.

How good is it? Does it last from 1946-1992 or what?

True, I have noticed a significant lack. Even having so many Iron RGOs, I can only supply 1/4th of my own needs. Rest of the world is fucked.

the code is incomplete. unless paradox releases the source (aka never), someone would have to hack it and then fill the gaps using programming. in other words simple modding is not enough.

>CBS are fine

I disagree. Force vassliaztion is insanely over powered and not to mention that among t he other cbs makes it less important to gain lands via marriage and inheritance.

I think border disputes are fine but the rest are shit desu.

What's your fuckers issue with HoI anyway? It's a decent game with some mods.
And it lets you finally hunt down that fucker and sink her.

Don't know, I'm unpacking it right now. Supposedly it is playable.
Yeah that's what I saw, some guys even went and tried to port it to HoI3, but itseem like they're dead right now.

It's basically just a mod of HoI3, shoulnd't be too hard.

...

Are you the same user who did Russia and that pan africanist play through?

Fuck, I forgot the two paragraphs of nonsense I post along with this to give some semblance of being a quality contributor.

To acheive the desired result, an industrialised state, the Laotian economy would undergo rapid change. The focus would be switched from conventional novelty items such as pianos and the ever popular booze to "new" industries, in the hopes that the "small but efficient" Laotian economy could finally compete on the world stage, as more powers would seek to buy items that were not being freely developed in the few areas of the globe less advanced yet still industrialised as Laos.

This mass industrial drive was done by the state, but it was expected the main beneficiaries of the factories would be the Laotian capitalists, who would re-invest the money wisely and bolster the industry for generations to come. This dual-pronged approach to the economy was hoped to revolutionize the nation and usher in a new era of both profit and better rights for the downtrodden coolies who had so far been made to labour for little more than a pittance.

The Biafra one and the Agrarian USSR? Yeah.

>telephones
>liquor
Why are you building shit factories lad

>Minor update
>Apparently angry Dorsetshire huscarls hurt.
>Fucking ow, lost over a hundred of my men, but still got away with half his gold.

From my experience telephones make a good profit from being relatively rare, as the AI builds nothing but clippers. Not as good as automobiles and actually good factories, but I don't have them yet.

Eh real
Autos and telephones are always unprofitable for me, there's never enough demand

>The Biafra one and the Agrarian USSR? Yeah.
WHY THE FUCK DO YOU ONLY DO GENOCIDE RUNS XDXDXDXDXDXDXD

How are China's South China Sea claims handled, or did development not get that far

ok let's make a MINImod /gsg/
what should it be about?
alternate history?
some changes to the map?
flavour for one nation?

>Get back from raiding the shit out of Cornwall
>Little bastards tried to fight me off, so I burned their shit to the ground. Reputation as a true viking: Get!
>Enough loot to damn near sink my longships
>Seriously though, where the fuck all the Christian girls at? I need to get my concubine on and I can barely find anyone with a pair of tits!
>Haul the swag home, maybe the planets have aligned and the wife's horny for once
>Old wound is acting up
>Acting up badly in fact...
>Oh shit, it's infected

Guys? I don't have a physician. How fucked am I? If I hold a Great Blot, will the gods have mercy?

One of the primary problems in the Laotian empire was its abundance of other cultures, most of them uneducated fools not brought up to the standard Laos had dragged itself up to. While the Laos worked hard to bring about his own empire, his own success, his own meaningful existence the other peoples of the South East Asian state had not. All the work over the decades had been done by the Laos and now the feckless Vietnamese, Khmer, Thais, all of them, they all sucked from the teat Laos had so benevolent offered to them.

"No more!", came the chilling decree from the Parliament. "No more shall these wallowing pigs grow fat off of the efforts of the Laotian people!" Roving gangs of government forces and citizens stirred from the rabble-rousing demands of the government paraded through the streets in search of those who were not deemed worthy of an existence in this great realm. The subjects of Laos were not to be hurdles which must be jumped over in the pursuit of glory any longer, a new war took place in South East Asia, a race war.

I just like seeing the culture map change colour. I don't genocide when I'm in the new world, for obvious reasons.

Wait, except that time I played Argentina and made half of Brazil Platinean.

I don't see how you could do a minimod for Alt-his unless its some event chain. I'd love to see that Napoleon wank mod brought to its completion though.