T. /gsg/ - Traditional Grand Strategy General

How fares your empire, t. /gsg/?

This day in history, 16th of March:
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

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DH DD 03/12
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>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.9.2
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>[V2] - Cold War Enhancement Mod
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>[CK2] - After The End
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Old Thread:

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first for publicly hanging hoi4 youtubers

Surviving mars crack when?

the silver

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good post
not a gsg
R&I this man

How do you mod pops and resources in Vicky 2?
I want to make Sweden playable so that I'll have a fighting chance against the russians without having to have allies do everything for me and still being worthless if I manage to get Finland in a lucky war.

God damn finally. Any longer and I'd have blown my head off

w-what happened to /gsg/?

GRANDI HAS SAVED US

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>pay 1000 gold to a weaponsmith for a lance
>he just runs off and gives the lance for free to the king of Iran
What the fuck, why would he get the money in advance if he can do that

What do you think the C stands for in CK?

cuck

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too soon

AWESOME posts

thx lole

Ah, yes

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crusader

you should buy more paradox games they are really good, I personally quite enjoy Hearts of iron 4 it is the best in the series.
Only dumb rural and suburban idiots play Hearts of iron 3 or darkest hour, City people play HOI4.

BASED President-General Joseph Smith

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>that africa
>germany still exists in 1942
>britain landed in Rome
>Japan has sat on its ass the whole time
>America not honoring its guarantees of independence in SA
Good game jewhan.

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wtf is the source of this

How would you classify my government /gsg/?

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Based populist monarchy

Are there any good alt-history mods for vicky 2? I've been having some fun with divergences of darkness, but it also has some pretty terrible design decisions, that reduce the enjoyment. (including being based off PDM)

Latveria

>>germany still exists in 1942
Since when is this a problem?

tekken

For seven hundred years the saracens have waged war on us. Once they are in open retreat a storm beyond reckoning will be unleashed on Hispania and Gaul.

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>1939, poland is annexed, soviet union declares war on germany
>1941, germany has pushed soviet union all the way back to the fucking urals and they still haven't surrendered???
>1942, Finland and Romania switch sides and becomes communist
>1942, entire german front line collapses due to the Fingol flank, desperate race to re-position without getting stuck in cauldrons, Romanian commies get btfo in civil war, soviets pull 500 divisions out of their fucking ass
>1943, germans manage to reposition on the ostwall and build a line of forts while fascist romanians and swedes buy time
>1943, America declares war on germany and joins with soviets because fuck nazis
>1944, French communist civil war begins, is quickly dealt with by allies, but the civil war prompts the allies to join germany against the soviets

So now I've got 16 tank divisions playing tackle to counter-attack any soviet breakthroughs in the ostwall while trying to build it up past level 3/4 forts, while patiently waiting for the americans to show up, while france and britain clean up the communists in southern france.

Soviet-German War
Axis casualties 2.4 million (550k germany - 300k of which were lost in the Great Fingolian Betrayal)
Comintern casualites 8 million, of which 7.3 million are soviets

Not really sure how to deal with the soviets desu, they outnumber my divisions like 15:1

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>Pirated windows
Why?

How do I improve at CK2 or gsg in general?

Most of the time I feel like I'm just sitting here and doing nothing, like half of my plots aren't doing anything or my plan to take over something isn't really going anywhere.

>half of my plots aren't doing anything

Most of the plots available won't provide anything*

>Ck2
add dark world reborn

why not?

It's not pirated, I turned off windows updates with a registry edit and then windows went and installed updates anyways AND unregistered my copy of windows

probably just need to re-validate with my key but it's fucking stupid

>under 100 divisions
holy hell Hans what the scheisse are you doing

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*blocks your path*

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Aww isn't it cute trying to cross the river like a big boy?

how the fuck are you supposed to do the warlord border conflicts in hoi4? or is it just another half baked feature that doesn't work properly.

uninstall.exe is how it works

>purple romania
>not roflstomping the comintern and allies by 1941 at the latest
>having under 250 divisions
try harder desu

Marry off your sons to other kings' daughters so they can eventually get claims. Concentrate your holdings and have a large demesne so you handle revolts and successions better. Kill off troublesome vassals or those with small dynasties so you can redistribute their titles

>greater hungary
woa what an empire. look out on them, might take over the axis leadership soon

>/a/, /b/, /v/, and Veeky Forums down for that long
To answer your question, save on day one, then go into the save file and edit the pops you want to and change the rgos you want to

>tfw no Pelopponesian War gs

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You can solve that by uninstalling EU4.

What's the recommended strategy for Persia in HPM?

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Time to move on Rome.

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fuck

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Restoring the pentarchy is underwhelming in EU4.
>no cb on all romancatholics and other Christian heretics
>no diplomatic options to convert

big RUSSIAN dick penetrating into TIGHT china pussy

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Why are you so weak and the borders so shitty?

is this what I have to look forward to? Arthur Pendragon is in his fifties and will die soon, he’s united all the de jure kings of Britannia and enforced client status on the Saxon kingdoms.
Will this all collapse soon?

>or is it just another half baked feature that doesn't work properly.
It's even worse, you get a whole state for winning 1-2 battles, meaning you can annex half of China without going to war.

>underwhelming
It has been, so far. All these triumphs and this Theme system thing should have some some flavour text at least. Just click for modifiers, no fanfare or anything.

France managed to annex North Korea somehow and England annexed a part of a manchuria during the opium wars
I'm a lot stronger now though, currently annexing the northern part of manchuria

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forgot image

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No, that only happens if you either have less than 20 years, stewardship lower than 5, martial lower than 10, diplomacy lower than 8, less than 400 prestige, a female, a dwarf, a eunuch or an imbecile

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how're you even supposed to win them? it seems to be incredibly weighted towards the defender.

>my heir has 9 stewardship
shit

did you reform Brythonic?

Kick the european barbarians outta there.

That's fine though

Nope, to reform it you need to find the 13 treasures of Britain and I only managed 7 before dying

Also fuck

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*blocks your path*

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if only you would click uninstall

Never

Why is silver so much more aesthetic than gold?

I just downloaded CWE and got no idea who to play as nor how you play it, is Iran/Iraq or Syria interesting? Are there any general strategies that differ from vanilla or hpm?

I'm trying to add two namesets for muh historical autism, but for some reason only one of the two works.

Pls help /gsg/

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All of my divisions are 40 width

wow why didn't you space the 10 back one space so everything lined up you are literally triggering me

I don't understand what the problem is

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I'm giving another try to CK2+ but it runs like ass.
Anything I can do to make it run a tiny bit better? Like I don't know, disabling shadows or some shit.

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Based. This is the German way of playing.

Unbased. It's not. And you're a dumbass

>powergaming

>upset over how people play single player games

Najd user here, made a bunch of progress last night. Will post a brief history of what's happened since last I posted.

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>Mamluks eating up most of arabia
ally with the Ottomans and take that shit back

>letting France bother you literally on your doorstep
>in 1907

You shame your ancestors.

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LOL

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nvm, figured it out

Damn, I think I just got nae nae'd

hello???????????????????????????

*blocks your path*

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So this is what the habsburg dynasty warriors look like

The pinacle of the male body

Alright i'm done with this rate my borders /gsg/

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Reminder that Huey Long did nothing wrong

>Didn't capture wien
>didn't killed off ethiopian people
>didn't capture mecca and medina
What were you going with, Although your conquest went nicely it doesn't make any sense except for blobbing

Is current hoi4 patch playable?

no

its playable only if you click Uninstall.exe

yes

I don't know I just like how the border looks like

oh heck

well you basically have a western and eastern caliphate so that's interesting