gsg - Catalog

This thread is for glitches, bugs, etc etc. I was playing the Ultimate mod as the Mughals, and the Taiping rebellion fired three hundred years early for some reason. Since I'm pretty much the only unciv that's able to actually afford an army, it's been at a standstill for years now. Whoever gets out of their deficit first will win the war, I guess.

Second image is me now, just in case you're curious. Taiping war is still going, btw. Not a single battle or occupation.

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'Stellaris thread?

What are your troughts about upcoming space parajews game?

Also release date 9 may

No male mammal portraitdropped

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nigger

fine African-American gentleman

Just a test, don't mind me

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COONS

just testing something

fine African-American gentleman

negro

pickninnie

fine African-American gentleman

fine African-American gentlemans

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fine African-American gentlemans

fine African-American gentlemans nignog

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Liang Mod

Hey, remember this?

I've been taking a break from making it for a while, because I can't really put much work into it. I still think about it and have ideas for it, though. However, I also tend to forget them because I've never really gotten around to keeping an idea document or whatever. This is what this thread is for; it's a sort of idea deposit where you can tell me if something is shit or if it would work. Also, point out stuff that is shit in the current mod, as there's a lot of shitty shit in it.

This'll also be the development thread when I get back to actively working on it rather than slightly changing something every odd week or so.

To prove it's me: https://www.mediafire.com/?amgq1v3zy37er32
This is the unfinished dev version that is currently what I have, with the changes to Japan/the Cherokee.

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THE ALBANIAN BADASS STRIKES AGAIN

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Are we ded yet?

Does anyone still play HoI3?

also tfw no canadian flag

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Is Conclave shit?

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why is this place so slow bros?

4chan gsg gets all the traffic and good modders while we have nothing

it's not fucking fair

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/0g3sv8aajiddhgq/Germany1936_01_01%20world%20war%202%20readyy.v2?dl=0

i found this savegame and love the borders so i wanted to check it out in my game and work on converting it to hoi3 and maybe even turn that into a mod but im having trouble opening it. does anyone else have a problem with this save or is it just me?

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tfw banned

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Any thoughts about HOI IV?

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What's going on?

ITT we discuss our game progress.

I started playing my first EU game, and I chose EU3. Playing as Teutonic Order.

I just spent all day beating Ukraine out of Lithuania instead of blobbing over it (That comes later). Denmark, with it's Scandinavian bros declared war on me early on, trying to take Gotland, but I managed to survive by choosing the 50% off naval building Idea and spamming Carracks right before they had enough manpower to take me down. Used the war to beat Denmark into unvassalizing Holstein.

Plan is to take Russia and/or colonize west coast of NA up to Alaska and down to Mexico. Haven't decided when I'll do which.

I'm currently allied with Bohemia. I was allied with Scotland, because I thought I might be able to help it out before England wages it's war of conquest, but that didn't happen. I kind of feel bad leaving the Scots to die like that, but I was in no position to fight a England/Portugal/Austria(HREmperor) alliance.

Hungary is getting scary big, but I hope I can ally soon.

What about you guys? How are your games? Let's keep each other updated.

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ITT: Finished Games Thread

Post finished games that you find interesting/are proud of. This is my recent CSA game from the Civil War bookmark.

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little mac is a fucking faggot

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CK2 2.4.5 - Ultimate Performance Gameplay Compilation

http://pastebin.com/fBgwd00t

Currently working on test build v4, which should be ready by next Friday, as I have many things to do right now IRL.

Changelog and link is in the pastebin.

It's for 2.4.5 and I will never update it any higher, for I have to use my shitty notebook only and it already runs slowly.

tl;dr of the changelog is no india, performance mods, many mini-gameplay mods, no bloating stuff

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Fall of Rome mod

I'm just gonna make a thread to post all the mod progress here

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Weirdest world/most unhistorical world you've got

Or is it ahistorical? Anyway

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So…

I'm making a mod somewhat based on the book "The Peshawar Lancers" by S.M. Stirling. I've done all the provinces and pops by now, but there's still a long way to go before it's playable. Would anyone be interested in it when it's done, or does it seem eh to you guys?

For reference, the main GPs will be The British Raj, France Outremer, the Caliphate of Damascus, Japan, and the Dominions of the House of Braganza. I haven't edited names yet. Do feel free to make suggestions if you're at all interested. I have some events planned out, but haven't added them yet.

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EU: Rome

Thread for Rome.

>How do I play it, what should I install?

I recommend downloading it here:

https://kat.cr/europa-universalis-rome-gold-v2-3-2-repack-vol1-t9005315.html

>Latest Patch v2.36c

>Mods

>Reign of the Ancients

http://www.mediafire.com/?uwo69ue70dd7be6

>Features

- No empty provinces, all filled in with new nations. Most of these new nations are tribal in nature.

- Large number of provinces, but all placed within the original area used in vanilla Rome

- Also has barbarian invasions from off the edge of the map

- Assaults on fortifications removed, thus preventing stupid AI from making suicide attacks when they could win by just waiting

- Number of events added in relation to states paying tribute to you, including the possibility of peacefully annexing long-term tributaries with good relations

- Overland trade possible without needing roads, making requests for trade access actually relevant

- Character traits have more effects, some good and some bad

- Republics now elect some positions (not generals) automatically for you, but you can veto any choices you don't like

- Easier to ally with other nations not part of the same religion as you

- And more.

>Epigoni

http://www.mediafire.com/?aam74nul6byjmxj

>Some features

- you can build the wonders of the world

- you can annex any country up to 10 provinces big

- you can divorce

- map expanded to Central Asia

- barbarians invasions

- more trade goods

- climate

- starts earlier with the antigonid kingdom

- more provinces

- you can mark a man who will be hunted and eventually go to jail

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Why am I so bad at this game?

I'm not sure why, but for some reason, I'm appallingly bad at EUIV.

>First Game: Portugal

Tried to take on Castille with Aragon and England. Managed to take Galacia, but went massively into debt. Not too much later, England gets involved in the 100 years war and Aragon joins Castille in a union. When Castille comes back for their land, they steamroll me and take several provinces, take all of my money and then some, and leave me a bankrupt mess.

>Second Game: France

Actually finished the whole game this time. Got to say, it was pretty boring. By the end, I had more or less recreated the current irl borders of France. By the 1600s, England, Italy, Austria, Savoy, and the Commonwealth were all in a giant alliance of death against me, so there was almost nothing I could do. I colonised America, but then they broke free! I spent the last 10 - 15 hours of the game just waiting for 1820 to come.

>Third Game: Portugal again

Decided to give it another whirl this time. Instead of going for Castille, I went for Morroco. Got a good chunk of land too - the whole coast, from Mellila to Infi. No sooner than I had started coring them, and then BAM! 50,000 separatists crush my army, set me back to square one, and put me into bankruptcy. Again.

Why am I so bad at this game? What do I keep doing wrong, that if I don't give up hope of expanding, I go bankrupt and am torn apart? How is it possible to do well in this game!? Please send help!

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What do I do here family. If I annex the turks, Greece gets Adrianople and Gallipoli, but they won't accept my peace offer for handing over the provinces to me, even though it costs 11% war score.

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ITT: HOI4 DLC IDEAS

>Soviet MPL-50 Latrine Digging Sprite Pack

>Wotjek the Bear Unit Pack

>Sons of Abraham 2

>Songs of Mystical Navajo Chanting

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Anons, for the past year I've been working on the engines and tool necessary for me to develop a Grand Strategy game set in space.

My final engine + tools will be geared toward procedurally generated universe with adjustable levels of realism (i.e. habitable planets etc). I'm aiming for billions of celestial bodies.

I originally started development because I always wanted to play Hearts of Iron and Victoria in SPACE. And then Paradox announced their own game, so fuck them I'll make a better one.

I also want to put in events and event sequences with criteria and randomness.

I also want to put in random alien races and cultures.

I want some ideas on direction.

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challenge thread

i had an idea to bring the board more active with posting

anon 1 challenge anon 2 with a gsg run on a specific game. anon 2 have to do it and post each 1/5/10 years depends on the game an update of how is going

if anon 2 win, can challenge anon 3 with something and so on if lose he will be a scum and have to post on steam a cancerus/shilling comment on the losing game page posting proof

>ironman mode to avoid save scum

>cheat bar off

>anons can fix a little the rules with both consensus relative of the game

are you ready Johan?

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Just wanted to say thank you to the guy that updates he meagaupload archive all the time. You're doing an awesome job, man!

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Did you know that in EU4 if you do random new world it can occasionally generate Jewish Kingdoms in the New World?

Strange. Well what Paradox is trying to explain is that the so-called Negroes, Mestizos, and Native Americans are the true Israelites. Notice how White people enjoy playing Paradox. And how early in the game it is filled wars with wars and revolutions and civil strife in Europe?

That is how the White man, esau rose into power. They were the serfs of Europe and they started having rebellions and taking over in high places as Israelites died off from… THE BLACK PLAGUE.

One of the first Nations to become Edomite was Spain. By 1700 all European nations were Edomite ruled and majority. Israelites came to the New World as either slaves, indentured Servants, or were conquered. An example of indentured Servants that are Israelites are the Pennsylvania Germans named the so-called Black Dutch along with the Irish. You can witness in EU4 England when King James was overthrowned, who was a Black man, the English invaded Ireland.

This is what Paradox is trying to tell you. EU4 is the fall of Jacob and the rise of Esau that is why either White Israelites (There are plenty of Israelites that think they are Edomites and a lot of them today are White Nationalist, such as George Lincoln Rockwell or Louis Beam) or Edomites like playing it.

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I need help getting the French cores achievement. I know it should be easy but I just can't get it. I get my ass kicked every time.

Please help. ;_;

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What are some good strategy games coming in 2016. All I know is Hearts of Iron IV which I'm excited for. Anyone know any others.

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[diversity intensifies]

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I'm looking for mods that change minor things in gameplay but will make big difference such as

All countries have European tech

Byantine empire AI allways forms (or attempts) to restore the Roman empire

Anyone know of any like this?

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Vickymod thread #2

Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/MHswMhZi

Previous thread >>1169

New version out, probably will last for a long time unless anyone has any really good ideas to add. Or if there are any major bugs.

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Are 4x games allowed here if they're not necessarily grand strategy since there's not a dedicated 4x board (at least I haven't found one).

If so should I get Dominions 4? I've been contemplating it. Anyone mind telling me more about it? A youtuber I should check out to get more of an idea about it?

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Fuck Johan

I've been reading the dev diaries for the Europa Universalis IV Cossacks expansion and it's just amazing how many "paid features" are there just to fix broken systems or improve bland ones.

Additions to the Espionage tree to make it worth taking? You gotta pay. A balance fix behind a paywall. Nice.

Less opaque and schizophrenic alliance system? You gotta pay.

Make AI-started wars actually worth joining for once? Pay up, or else get constantly embroiled in useless wars just to keep your alliances.

Make protectorates not entirely useless? Pay us to fix this feature you previously paid for us to implement.

You get the idea. Meanwhile you read through the "free features" and…well, let's just say they are less than impressive. They are adding a feature where the loser of a war in an MP game, if stripped from some core territory, can be blocked from fucking up their country through butthurt (truce breaking, manual loans, releasing vassals, etc). That's incredible. Another allows you to see which trade goods you can get in a colonial province and their chances of spawning. Wow. That should have been in the game in v1.0.

Paradox' DLC policy is getting worse every time they release one. The "free features" used to be alright, but now it's mostly dumb little shit and very slight, mostly QoL changes. To get actual fixes for broken or completely uninteresting systems, you have to pay, and it's very likely the expansion is going to break the game in one way or another, making it nearly unplayable for months until a patch is finally released.

I remember that one time where they wanted to make automatic Papal Influence spending a paid feature. If you didn't pay, you got to keep clicking that fucking button every time you had 5 points or so. There was so much butthurt in the forums (rare for Paradrones) that they changed it to be free, thankfully, but that they even thought about making it paid is fucking stupid. It only got worse from there it seems.

I know they can be pirated but it's the principle more than anything else that disgusts me. Paradox fucked up with their DLC policy. One day they will fuck up to such an extent that even piracy isn't going to help.

It's too bad, I was excited for Stellaris, but with how much they are exploiting EUIV (and CKII to some extent), I only fear the worst. It looks like it'll be casualized too, which will make it even worse than semi-mainstream EUIV and CKII. Fuck Johan and fuck his retarded DLC policy. I'm just going to play Distant Worlds and hope they make a second one.

Also general EUIV thread I guess.

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This is grandstrat.

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If I buy a grand strategy game from Paradox's site, is it DRM-free or do I get a steam key?

If it isn't DRM-Free, where can I buy Paradox's games without DRM?

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Did you remember to make your Paradox account, /gsg/?

:^)

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guys raid on 4chan /gsg/ today at TIME 18:00 (timezone GMT +0)

be there

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Essential mods for Victoria 2?

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We have an official steamgroup http://steamcommunity.com/groups/RadicalYugoslavia. If anyone posts in the thread about any "official" or not steamgroup, promising MP or not, be sure it's a nice group of lads known for organizing great multiplayer and discussing /gsg/ games in the thread. They are known for fun games and great posts.

Join and play!

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CK2 error message

Keep getting an error message on CK2 saying "failed to create graphics device. Exiting" which I've never seen before. Anyone have any way to fix this?

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>Great ruler dies

>Tons of factions begin to form

>Realm looks like it's about to collapse

>Get the message that the Swedes are coming with a prepared invasion

>think that it's the end

>Swedes arrive with a 17k deathstack

>Assaulting everything, cutting through my holdings like butter

>but it's not over

>every ruler in the area, even those that hate me and that I've done nothing but attack, flocks together to help me

>all the factions stop fucking around and unite

>Knights Templar come bursting in with 7k men

>Still outnumbered

>Lose several thousand men, think it might be over

>Miracles happen and I come out on top

>The realm is saved

post good feel stories

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gsg threads on /v/

What happened to grand strategy generals on /v/?

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YAMDaM v0.54

I've been trying to get it to work for most of the day, Is there something specific that i've gotta do to get it to run?

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Hey guys I just downloaded the vic2 ultimate mod. Where do I put it so it launches.

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How are the older GSG games, such as the first two EU and Hearts of Iron games, or the first Crusader Kings and Victoria? Is there anything they have that the sequels do not, or do they do anything better?

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You have 5 seconds to explain why Rome II and Attila didn't use the exact same [flawless] mechanics as Medieval II

>huurr duuurr muh innovation

Trying to fix something that isn't broke isn't innovative

Let's go into detail…

>you can't change the tax rate for a settlement without controlling the entire province

Completely retarded gimmick that doesn't correspond to reality. If I'm Rome and I control Syracuse and Carthage owns western Sicily, then why can't I raise taxes in Syracuse?

>"Sorry governor, we want to tell our tax collectors to tax the Sicilians more, but since the border with Carthage is over that way, we can't. We just can't"

>You can't decide what units are garrisoned in your city.

If I have an extra unit of archers in my army, why can't I just send them to bolster my garrison in a nearby town?

>"B-b-b-because they need to stick with the general."

Why? They're trained soldiers, there's no reason they can't form a detachment and still remain loyal. It also ruins the mechanic of coming up with good garrison combinations to protect settlements. I think CA did this just because they were pandering to casual faggots who are too lazy to garrison settlements

Which segues into my next point

>Why can't I have small forces that aren't connected to a general?

Yet another retarded gimmick to casualize the game. You can't send a small number of reinforcements to help the general, and you can only pick generals from a retinue rather than just promoting some petty officer to lead the reinforcements to the main army. CA are utterly and hopelessly ignoring reality to push their faggy gimmick

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So I've been trying to see the best way to play as Manchu

Ming bascially has everyone around me as sphered and will never ally me.

Plus them getting broken apart is rare, meaning that im going to be outnumbered.

What are some good ways to get around this

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ASSBURGER APOCALYPSE

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Why does /gsg/ prefer EU3?

in the image infographic it says EU3 is more balanced and finished. is this still the case? EU4 has quite a number of expansions under its belt already and definitely plays pretty well.

Though i havent compared it to EU3 which i loved but haven't touched in a while.

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Ok /gsg/, so I know that there aren't any actual "gaming laptops". Are there any that can at least smoothly run grand strategy games? I'm thinking mainly of EU3, which will probably run better than newer titles. But I'd like to be able to run other grand strategy games as well, such as CK2, Vicky 2, and HoI3.

I'd prefer something that isn't very expensive, but I'll take what I can get. I just want it too run smoothly. General specs questions thread, I guess?

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Is breeding a race of super-courtiers who have been educated to serve purely as councilors feasible?

Pic unrelated but highly triggering.

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HEIL HITLER

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Europe Universalis IV

Hi /gsg/, sorry for being a newfag but I'm trying to get into these games and the sticky recommended EU IV as the easiest to start with.

Thing is I read up on the game a bit and people seem to agree it has been broken since the Common Sense DLC, and the devs are lazy about fixing it.

Apparently, until now they have been churning out DLC regularly, breaking the game for those who lag behind and don't own the newest $20 DLC and whatnot.

This is my impression of the state of the game.

So I come here to ask if it's worth buying.

There's a complete package on Steam with all DLC but there are about 50% negative reviews now due to the new game mechanics that apparently broke other parts of the game.

Is it worth buying at its current state?

Is it feasible to wait until they stop making DLC and then count on it being fixed by then?

Is there another alternative that is not too punishing for someone new to the genre?

Thanks in advance.

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Refugee influx from /vg/

Now that 4chan is dying with Hiroyuki's keylogger on the reply system that makes you reply the same shit 5 times in order to send it people should start moving to here. So it means we should start updating the infopic thread with the following:

>removing Aurora and replacing it with Europa Universalis Rome

>removing Robmod and Ultimate Mod

>putting HPM 0.3.1.7, AFP v6, YAMDaM v0.54, Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.1.4 and MMMM on the OP

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Hi,

What should I expect out of Black Ice mod for HOI3?

Anything counterintuitive I should know before I start?

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Why won't those fuckers just vote for me already?

Can I vassalize them even if they are the emperor?

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Has anyone ever completed a 1604 to world dom in vicky ultimate mod? i keep getting to around 1750ish with europe under my heel then it just crashes, just when my final clash with russia/china is supposed to commence for world dom

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Victoria II Ultimate MOD

why does this mod get so much hate? I understand the point that it's broken as fuck, but holy shit, it's fun to start a game from the very beginning and then enjoy it later when you're a world war against Mexico who owns almost all of North America, with millions upon millions of troops.
I won the war by the way. I dismantled their empire and humiliated them. I can post the body count of how much people died if you guys want.

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Playing as France, year 1521; see pic (in coalition war against Bohemia, but that's happening far, far away from me).

What's an actual issue is the fact that England still has French territory.

I'd love to go to war with them; I have 50,000 men at my command ready to take these two measly provinces back. But there's one problem - international diplomacy.

I have lots of allies, but the only one willing to join my in my righteous crusade is Trier. England, however, has Venice, Flanders, Muscovy, Savoy, and Portugal all ready to lay down their lives, and my attempts to wage war I end up getting overwhelmed by their huge combined armies.

Do I wait? Will Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, and Holland all someday come to their senses? Or am I permanently buttfucked and should give up hope on ever regaining French ground?

I'm still very new at this game (I don't think I've ever gotten this far), so any advice on how to proceed or what to expect is much appreciated. Thanks in advance! :)

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Paradox Sale

Round up your shekels goyim, Paradox has a sale, until the 5th of October.

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Geheimnisnacht

How is /gsg/ not talking about this?
Warhammer Fantasy mod for CK2 is out
http://www.mediafire.com/download/l6umpm31fi6upo1/geheimnisnacht+0.1.3.zip
Of course, it's only an alpha so far, but it already looks interesting

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How the hell do I get CK2 running?

Hey gsg, I've downloaded the archive and I'm trying to get CK2 to run, but there's no .txt with instructions that I can see. How the hell do I get it to run?

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Can halfchan's /gsg/ refugees from yesterday's /vg/ purge settle here? Apparently the janitors have decided that fun is not allowed anymore on any general.

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Why HPM is trash

This mod is very historical and I hope people play it with me

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Question

How do I not die as Mexico

Regards. Portifio Diaz

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Am I the only one who gets extremely horny when I play grand strategy games? Seriously, when I'm playing Crusader Kings II and start conquering land. I get a huge boner and then have to jack off.

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>mfw conquering lands as the ummayads while listening to saleel al sawarim

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Grand Campaign

So I got all the big Paradox games Ck2,Eu4,Victoria 2 and HOI3 and was thinking of doing a grand campaign any suggestions?

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KAISERREICH 1.6

IT IS OUT
IS
OUT

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?529944-Kaiserreich&p=18950763&viewfull=1#post18950763

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Un-Ironmanning a save in CK2 v.2.3.6

So I have a pretty cool Ironman save pre-Horse Lords that I want to mod a bit (ok…a lot) and see if I can't get a half-decent converted EU4 game. But of course Paradicks, in their infinite wisdom, STILL hasn't implemented any apparent method of removing ironman from a save. I mean really, do Steam achievements matter THAT much? I know it's a lot to expect any sort of good sense from Paradicks, but come on.

Has anyone found a concrete method of un-ironmanning a CK2 save? I guess if all else fails I'll just mod the exported game itself but having the console in CK2 would be so much easier.

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http://steamworkshopdownloader.com

if you find a nice mod on steamworkshop and want it for your pirated game then use this to download it. if it doesnt work with firefox then try something chromium based that worked for me

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Is there a place where I could find more gsg-related content?

This board is pretty much dead and there's rarely a gsg thread on /v/.

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big benis :-DD to fug lithuania

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Today EU Rome was suddenly updated by… 0 bytes. What the actual fuck?

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>Playing Vicky 2 w/Liang Mod as Czech Republic

>Shits going good, building industry, building a respectable military

>Research is great, budget is balanced, only problem is stupid Liberal government and its Laissez-Faire+Pacifist policies

>Weird things happen in this game though

>Liang Civil War fires, Jin beats Shu, destroys Liang

>Surrenders to Mongolia 6 months later

>Mongolia had no army

>1890 rolls around, a crisis war over Aragon reclaiming some Spanish Clay gets turned into the first Great War, with Russia+Germany+UK vs Burgundy+Italy+Spain

>B,I,&S get cucrbstomped

>Russia goes batshit, fucking annexes all three enemy powers

>In one swoop, takes 1/2 of Europe and 2/3rds of Africa

>Now has ~5000 pts total in 1890 to Germany's ~2000

I'm scared /gsg/. This is the first game I've played where Russia has gotten its shit together, and it is terrifying.

Pic related, world map in 1893

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wryyyyyy

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Non-Paradox grand strategy?

Any non-Paradox gsg worth playing? Why does Paradox dominate this genre? Where are the indie gsg's?

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Memeth decided to be a faggot and implement this kind of shit in his mod.

What do?

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>yfw this happens

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this just popped up

wtf?

link - http://ge.tt/11TO2mM2/v/0

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PDS announces Stellaris

Paradox just announced Stellaris, a real time strategy game in space (a 4X from the looks of it). I had hoped for something historic, but perhaps I'll be turned around if the gameplay looks promising. The game is to be released in February 2016. What do you think, is PDS making a mistake by departing from the safe confines of history?

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Schism mod guy here.

After Meme horse lords dlc my mod pretty much is defunct and I'll have to go through it all again. I can't be fucked tbh

anyway if anyone has the autism to continue it then I'd like seeing it get done in the future. here's the files, I'll answer any questions you have about it

https://mega.nz/#F!VMpgGZQB!lwe-878yfukFJYY6Ddqpkw

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I present to you a concept of a mod for EUIV, with a working title of "Serious Business".

>as in The Internet is Serious Business

You can play as the chans (with varied traditions and ideas), Google or Facebook.

It would include:

>a normalfag immigration mechanic that would use the piety/patriarch auth system

At high levels, your troop morale and discipline (basement dwellers are more likely to do raids and attacks IRL) are shit, and your legitimacy (gained by making nerdy/btarded choices in events) goes to the shitter, but you get a discount on fiction and bonuses to relations with Google and Facebook (and after a certain start date, 4chan), as well as a hefty manpower bonus. It can be decreased by decisions, events, and traditions, while it cna be increased by the same + bordering the normal empires.

>fiction?

Manpower would represent your general population. It would be necessary for projects, such as anons writing a book (think The Well-Cultured Anonymous), a copypasta, or a video game (think Katawa Shoujo). Negative levels of normalfaggotry favor the latter two, of course. Low prestige and legitimacy decrease it, to simulate dead chans.

Discuss

>inb4 it won't get off the ground because we're on the chans

Pic unrelated, my Milan->Protestant Italy game.

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i am clueless about naval battles on Darkest Hour, i dont know what ships are good for what (i know is that cruissers are good for killing subs and air defence), also how i dont know should fight a naval war, is there any guide or a tutorial out there?

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is there a way to play the cracked version of crusader kings 2 in multiplayer over lan / hamachi?

ive been trying for a while but didnt have any luck

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HOI III for newfriends

>WHAT IS OOB, WHAT DO I DO

http://imgur.com/a/Nygv7

>ARMY COMPOSITION? ALL INFANTRY!!!

http://imgur.com/a/z3P5n

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This is probably my 15th try at Jihad…

This is one of my most promising playthroughs, but I know I won't get to 500 in time.

I spent the last 70 years going to war with Bahmanis and QQ over and over for a few cities at a time because their combined manpower is insane. Not even the Ottomans have been able to crush their armies.

Ethiopia has proven to be a useful ally, but I know I need their land if I am going to get any where close to where I need to be.

I have been doing my best to avoid sharing a border with the Ottomans to prevent them from taking a mission against me for Mesopotamia.

Tell me, /gsg/… Can I pull this one off?

Does anyone have a protip for this achievement? I have over 500 hours, but I'm far from being as good as Arumba or Shenryyr2.

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Countries you miss playing as

>EU4

>Milan

>Conquer whole of Italian region by 1550

>Strong as fuck allies

>Economic value of provinces and development ridiculously high

>Barely any rebellions

>100% religious unity

>Defeat Ottomans, take their provinces which make up Greece, release them

>Make them my ally, royal marriage etc

>Help them fight off invaders/take territory

>Prestige near 100 constantly, power projection 100

>Ottoman empire fragments into lots of different powers, nobody even comes close to my strength

>Some fucker is sowing discontent

>Eventually they get caught, it's Ethiopia who owns the Eastern side of Africa excluding Egypt and lots of the Arabian peninsula

>Me and France go to war with them, absolutely #reking their armies

>Going to force them into releasing a shit load of nations

>Game ends before I can

;_;

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TRY TO TYPE IN GSG

404

DOES ANYBODY ELSE KNOW THESE FEELS

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Any Dom IV players here?

I need tips on EA Atlantis - their spammable units (atlanean spearmen) all suck and the Basalt Kings take too long to recruit, while the Deep Mages can't lead too many troops… even the more expensive troops like shamblers seem to melt.

I am relatively new at this game so any tips would be appreciated.

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>When you're posting on halfchan and the janitor is actively censoring your discussion

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Horse Lords Discussion Thread

CK2: Horse Lords came out today. Has anyone tried it out yet? Is it a steaming pile of shit?

Against my better judgement I'm looking forward to playing it. The extended map and the silk road mechanic actually look pretty interesting. I'll give Paracocks a few days to iron out the bugs first though.

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ITT Counts who don't deserve it so hard.

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Sup, /gsg/, I have a question for you guys. I'm a bit of an aspiring game dev trying to get all his ducks in a row before he embarks on a project. So since I'm new to this: are there any publicly available engines (free or not) that would work well for building a grand strategy game, or would I have to build one from scratch?

Pic, more or less unrelated.

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Music

What do you listen while playing your favorite gs?

For me it varies, according to the game and nation. Right now, on my HRE playthrough I'm listening to the embed.

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ded broad

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Hearth of Iron/Darkest Hour discussion.

I want to play Hearts of Iron 3 or at least try some Darkest Hour (I was advised to try Darkest hour before any HoI game)

But whether is DH or HoI3, im blocked in what to do. I more or less know how to control the games, but dont know how to start a game…

Any advise? What country should I play?

In the case of HoI3…Is the AI automatizacion good? If yes, in what should I let the Ai control?

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Why everytime someone posts the charlemagne made of gold meme on 4chan's /gsg/ the person gets his post deleted and possibly banned?

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https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/augustus-teaser-2-24th-of-july-2015.872646/

So, what do you think Project Augustus is going to be?

I'm pretty sure it's gonna be set in the Migration Period.

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How does it feel knowing that the steamgruppe faggots graduated from fucking over /gsg/ to fucking over 8chan?

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I installed Darkest Hour using the Archive link in /gsg/, then added NWO 2 mod and then patched it up to 1.04 RC1 . When I play the mod I get an error while loading saying the excel file not found?

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EU4 Common Sense

Woop! Woop!

Johan and co. finally pulled their fingers out of their arses and made it so that countries can improve internally without having to constantly conquer clay and challenging those of us with border OCD.

The trade nodes have been messed up again, removing Bordeaux and Sevilla as end nodes and instead turning Genoa into a trade node, completely screwing up the balance of power in Southern Europe.

Forts are less common, but have a much greater strategic value. For those who have played March of the Eagles, they've made a move towards that system of forts and supply lines. This has obviously messed up the AI pathing, which they'll probably fix in their next expansion, titled "We fucked up again, give us 15EUR/20USD/10GBP"

Europe has finally gotten some more love. Meaning that border gore is less problematic if you want to do the partitions of Poland and the Balkans. The new borders and provinces has also moved the balance of power in favour of middle sized nations, making Savoy, Milan, Brandemburg, the Scandinavian countries and so on, far more valuable as allies.

All in all, this is a fairly good expansion when considering the shite those of us who play the fucking franchise has had to deal with. As we all know, a fuckload of this should have been added earlier or just been there from the start, but we all know and love Paradox for Jewing our money harder than any politician or bank could.

So unless nobody gives a shit anyways, I'll start a game as the duchy of Holland, and I'll try going for a trader/colonial thing with upgraded provinces in Europe.

Also, am I the only one getting female ruler events all of the time? I turned off their free "Put a fucking woman in charge" DLC and still I get more female rulers than ever before.

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Okay, so new EU IV player here trying out Castile. I've played a bit of CK2 (about 25 hours).

Here's what I don't get:

>Recently conquered Granada.

>Core Almeria

>Separatism prevents me from changing the culture

>EUIV Wiki states that separatism only happens to non-core provinces

>Almeria is core'd, so why can't I change the culture?

Is there any real advantage to changing the culture anyway? I assumed it would help with lowering unrest, since separatists are my rebel factions there.

Tried to upload a picture explaining.

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Savegame Converters

Are there any good savegame converters for Victoria II to Hearts of Iron 3?

I can't find anything that works.

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Hey, I know that some of you like to listen to Dan Carlin's hardcore history - I noticed that, by seeing some of his podcasts in the Meaupload archive, under /gsg/ related stuff. But - not all of them are there, and they're awesome. So, here you go, all the DC HH podcasts, that are not available for free on Dancarlin.com right now. (I found Dan through this archive, so am just doing my duty to share.) They're on a Latvian server right now, so the people responsible should move them to Megaupload, if possible.

HOWEVER - I seriously would recommend sending a buck or two (or ten) to Dan - so that he can keep making these and his other show Common Sense, which is BY FAR the best political podcast out there. Go listen to that as well.

And if you haven't heard Hardcore History - do so. It is awesome.

And if you do listen to it already, I'd also recommend Mike Duncan's History of Rome and Revolutions, and Robert Pierce's The History of Byzantium. I'm sure y'all know how to google, so no links here.

Sharing is caring. Blob hard, and never look back.

Hardcore History 1 - 20
http://failiem.lv/u/dhejvuu

21 - 40
http://failiem.lv/u/kbxultb

41 - 48
http://failiem.lv/u/ijgawgz

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Starting up a CK2 game to test out Charlemagne. Goals for the run

-form Kingdom of Lappland
-reform Suomenusko
-spread culture and religion without blobbing
-when our eastern Mongol brethren arrive, convert them and breed with them to ensure a master Mongol race

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M&B thread

Post Mount and Blade shit here.

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How fucked am I

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Stupid Question (thread)

Will Russia go out of it's way to fuck me and should I go for Oceania or North America?

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Paint the World ( Fantasia styled mod for EU3:DW 1.3)

I am making a fantasia style mod for the latest version of eu3, will upload soon. If you have any suggestions, please tell me.

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Is this game worth playing /gsg/?

Have anyone played it?

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Victoria II - Rassenkampf

Hi. Someone recommended that I post a mod I have been working on on this site. As you can see from the pictures, Europe is primarily divided into three cultures - the Nordic, Alpine, and Latin. There is Nordic cultural union which allows the formation of the Nordish Kingdom. Thanks for looking.

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mod

What mod for victoria 2 should I try out first?

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In HOI3 what fleet compositions do you use?
I am experimenting with different ones, such as CA/DD SAGs, DD/BB ones, and I am considering a CV/DD CTF instead of CV/CL.
It would give much needed average fleet speed, likely resulting in more dead enemy ships, but the DDs would obviously be weaker and have a lower range.
Which do you use, and does anyone know how well DD/CVs work?

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So paradox just changed their logo like this, are they officially faggots now?

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I just accidently the windows 7 and it will no longer boot up. Anyone know a gsg game that I can run on GNU/Linux?

I can't believe I fucked up my windows. Now I'm stuck using this faggot nerd OS for good.

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https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/613052193185398784

so now the pope plays victoria 2

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Is there any mod that adds chemical weapons and the swastika flag in Hearts of Iron 3?

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Tips to make /gsg/ better

>post often

>browse at least once a day

>favourite /gsg/ so you can always see it

>advice the cuckchanners to migrate

we need to speed this up. btw board owner remove the two lower stickies plox. they're useless now

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Schism Mod

Posted on halfchan's /gsg/, but might as well discuss it here

Basically, seeing as CK2 now starts in 769, I thought it was quite inaccurate that there still is Orthodox/Catholic as two separate Christian religions. What's more is that when it was discussed on the forums, Paradox's answer was basically "too hard, it's never happening". So anyway I've decided to make a mod that recreates the Schism. So here's the main features
>In Old Gods and Charlemagne starts, all Orthodox and Catholics are now "Chalcedonian Christians", the basic form of Christianity before the schism occured https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedonian_Christianity
>Every Chalcedonian character has either a "Latin Rites" or "Greek Rites" trait, which symbolises which set of Rites they use, Latin Rites being the Rites followed by Greek Christians and Latin Rites being the official Rites of the Church.
>Second Council of Nicaea event which converts the Byzantine Emperor to Chalcedonian from Iconoclast. This is to prevent the inevitable Iconoclast railroading.
>All Orthodox heresies are now Chalcedonian heresies, and will change to Orthodox heresies during the schism. Catholic heresies shouldn't appear until later so there's no point making them Chalcedonian
>A number of small events that lower moral authority of Chalcedonian. Some decisions and events, including the final schism, will only be available once moral authority is low enough. This is so it is possible to prevent the schism (hard, but possible)

the mod will be compatible with all graphics mods and any mod that doesn't alter character/province history, religions, or landed titles. I'm trying to make it as compatible and simple as possible.

All opinions/criticism are welcome

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>he doesn't intervene on the side of the Confederacy

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the situation of the empire

don't mind me

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Victoria II African Colonies

Here's an idea.

Post your country next to your African colonies in this thread.

Here's a game of mine from a couple of months back, I had pictures of it, but just came with the idea right now.

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I suppose I should post this here, too.
The rules are:
If a country borders another country and doesn't have a truce, they automatically declare war on that country.
If you occupy a border province, you immediately take it.

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How kill England please

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Is it possible for USA to ever join axis if you are playing as it? I'm playing on custom game, hoping that I would get some alternate history, but everything is EA leveled scripted.

Japan goes to war and I lend them 100IC and we have a good relationship. Germany goes to war and I lend them 400IC and we build up a good relationship as well. I have been aligning to their faction since day 1 and it is impossible since it slows down to a halt when you get close and it automatically turns around back towards allies. I try changing what party is in power by raising dissent and for over a year I have 40 dissent and it only goes from democrat to republican. i go on another 2 years of 40 dissent and the dumbass voters just hop on back to democrat.

I have over 100 relationship with japan and germany and then all of the sudden the relationship drops down for no reason what so ever and these pop ups come up, forcing me to lower my relationship with japan. My relationship with japan is still over 50 and then they declare war on me for no reason. (My threat to them was .02% and their neutrality was at 15%. Declaring war should have been impossible).

So I was far closer to axis in diplomacy than I was to allies and the fucking game automatically put me with the allies without my permission to do so (Japan declared a limited war). I am still friends with germany and it looks like I will have to go against them in the future because of this idiot game.

Pic related is where I was diplomatically before the game decided that I MUST be in allies

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You ever get so tired of rebels you just let them win

Fuck revolutions.

I've never played a communist country before, so it'll be a new experience. I plan on installing communism everywhere in the Americas

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY

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Am I a massive faggot for bailing myself out of the worst situations with console commands? Playing EU4 and it became such a bitch making so much progress and then still getting rekt that I started justifying giving myself little boosts.

Does anyone else do this or am I awful

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>finally get around HoI3 after years of miserable failing

>I'm da man

>blob entire Europe before 42

>"I should research atomic bombs, idk"

>game crashes

>no autosave

Well, an entire day to the garbage can.

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I had to downgrade to a 1280x720 screen, so now I can't play CK2 properly, as the screens are cut. I tried lower resolution and windowed mode, but it still cuts (I can't see lovers, siblings, etc).

What can I do?

>pic related as I needed to cut my bills

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>paradox now has DLC for DLC

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CK2 crash issue

So I'm getting these weird issues when trying to save games on some mods. When the game tries to autosave, it just crashes. If I try to use the quicksave button, it doesn't create a save file. If I try to go into the save game menu, it either crashes before it even enters it, or it opens up and I can try to save it, but it doesn't create a goddamn save file. I have no idea what's causing this issue. I don't get it on vanilla, but I do get it on CK2Plus and GoT. Pic unrelated.

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Darkest Hour/Kaiserreich wiki/manual

>Install Kaiserreich

>Die Wacht am Rein.

>Tried the game some. all good.

>But then I try to search for any manual or wiki for the mod.

>Surprisingly, there is one wiki! With enought & (more or less) completed articles!

>But still, the wiki is still incomplete & outdated. And it looks ugly too.

To the owner/creator of the wiki, PLEASE, CONTINUE YOUR WORK! Your work is too valuable to let it rot.

Besides, to all kaiserreich veterans, the wiki should be worked on. Icant do anything now ( I barely started the game), but I hope that some of us make the wiki better.

This is one of the best & most worked on mod I have see. But, being a complex game & full of stuff, It needs a wiki or some kind of manual or guides.

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So I bought Victoria II yesterday and I'm completely overwhelmed by the game. My only other GSG is Europa IV. Is their a guide or channel anywhere that can offer assistance to a new player

pic related is just a an old Japan game I played in EUIV

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Migrating from /vg/

So I and seemingly many others on /vg/'s gsg are pretty sick of selecting sushi (as well as generating sjw-cuck rent money)

Not too sure what the culture is here or if this board is even active but I thought I'd make a thread to discuss the possibility of moving everyone over sometime soon

We need to make sure one - that we're welcome here and two - that we can migrate everyone over without creating some massive aspie fit

Thoughts?

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Hi

Does anybody here plays Galactic Civilization III?

It came out not so long ago and i must admit that its pretty cozy.

And it has build in ship builder so you can spend hours expanding your autism

What do you guys think?

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Could someone explain the differences between PDM Divide by Zero and RobMod? I know about all of the new factories and shit for PDM, but are there any large gameplay differences? Pic unrelated.

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PDM Divide by Zero

Does anyone have a link to the latest version?

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Does anyone here have hope that HoI4 will be good? I- I just don't know anymore, and I don't want to play the same three games over and over again forever. Pic unrelated.

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Do Hearts of Iron 3 and Victoria 2 require Steam and if not where can I purchase the DLC for it.

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HumbleBundle

Hey humblebundle is having a sale on paradox games http://humblebundle.com/

If you dont have something I recommend getting it now

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Whatever happened to the guys who said they're gonna disassemble East vs West and make it work?

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mod request

Can anyone make a mod for EUIV that plays "Do You Hear The People Sing?" from Les Mis every time a revolution breaks out?

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Okay, what now?

Considering the support option as my infrastructure is shit and Finland has harsh terrain.

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I can't seem to stockpile goods in vic2. I own a shit ton of the worlds rubber, and I don't want anyone else to have any because fuck them.

I also have problems with the entire trading system, it doesn't provide much feed back

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So what do you do as a Native American tribe before the Yuropoors arrive, hell I haven't even come into contact with the Hurions yet

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Mount and Blade Board

I come here as to propose an alliance between this and the newly-made Mount and Blade board, /mnb/.

—.. —..

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Ultimate General general

what do you guys think of this game, should i spend the 15 bucks to buy it? is the multiplayer any good?

http://www.ultimategeneral.com/

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So wait, when did Paradox decide that HoI4 was going to be a shitty wannabe-Esport?

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I'll leave this here.

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Seriously, FUCK coalitions.

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anyone play masters of the world geopolitical sim 3? the game is a bit ridiculous with protestors. just say "deport illegal immigrants" and all of the sudden the whole country hates you and puts up road blocks. they say that leaving the bar in the middle is realistic, but protests like these never happen unless you're in brazil

also i can't seem to ban judaism when i play as germany. the game pretends judaism doesn't exist and wont let you ban it

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Anyone here playing GPS?

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/gsg/ humour

Amusing grand strategy image/story thread general.

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/gsg/ - General discussion

We need a general-general topic so people have somewhere to have a broad topic to put input in. I propose we keep a general /gsg/ topic here, even if it is in theory redundant. Better than making a new topic for every play through, no?

How fares you empire, /gsg/?

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Did I accidentally skip the Civil war by outlawing slavery in the 1840's? Did I fuck up bigtime?

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>yfw even on 8chan the shitters of the old days still haunt us

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how the fuck does this happen?

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADOLF

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Help me, /gsg/, you're my only hope!

Once I finish uniting Britain, I want to try to do a reconquista of France with Brittany as my launching pad.

However, as you can see, Hispania is kind of fuck hueg right now.

How do I DEUS VULT properly and kick these mudslimes back into Iberia?

Save up money for mercenaries? Wait for Holy Orders to pop up? Hope a Crusade will weaken them?

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How's my Germany looking?

Currently working on tidying up my borders by grabbing all the little OPMs that are still around, then gonna try to take the rest of South Germany.

Should I also try to take the Netherlands?

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Vickymod thread.

Pastebin for latest (unofficial) version: http://pastebin.com/MHswMhZi

Post any suggestions you have or any bugs you've found.

Vickymodguy, if you're here tell me if you are still modding and if so whether you want to combine efforts or you want me to split things off.

Also, what's the consensus on adding Commiemod in? Is Commiemodguy here to talk with us?

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inheritance

I'm pretty new to GS in general, and I've noticed something weird in my ck2 game. With gavelkind succesion, my children inherit titles that I don't have. Is this supposed to happen? How do I play around this?

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Why didn't Rome II have the same good old fashioned mechanics as Rome I and Medieval II?

It wasn't broke and didn't need to be fixed

>cluttered battle interface with stupid icons over walls and gates that won't go away
>cluttered interface also has tons of stupid menu options that won't just slide away like in Medieval II
>you have no way to control or view settlement garrisons
>men on transport ships can jump 15 feet to board actual combat vessels, then defeat them
>All of the Ptolemaic units STILL look like dynastic Egyptian ones, not Hellenistic ones
I'll admit Rome I made this mistake too. But that's a thousand year history gap. That's like giving William the Conqueror and AK-47. But "hur ancient history is all just one period durrr"
>You can't station your army too close to an enemy army (even though in real history opposing armies would only camp within a couple of miles of each other before a battle)
>If you retreat even a small distance when an enemy is making a turn, then you lose ALL your movement points the next turn.
"We can normally walk 300 miles in a season. But since we retreated 20 miles last spring, then we have to stay here all summer."
>Rebels have almost all high end units
"The government can produce a few hastati each season, but somehow a rabble of homeless slaves magically transform into an entire stack of hoplites overnight"
>spies and assassins folded into one type of character for no reason whatsoever
>to recruit a unit, you must have a general. You cant recruit one unit and send it to join a bigger army

Okay, so to be fair it had a few merits (unique settlements, naval battles, port assaults). But still, what the fuck were they thinking?

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Does anyone have a link to a newer version of Napoleon's Legacy mod for vicky2? Or does anyone have a pastebin of updates for it?

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USA gone crazy...

In this game, I was hansa, created a colonial state, took insane amount of loans, gifted all the money to the colonial state, gave them freedom and started playing as them for shits and giggles. Turned into USA, gave myself the event for the government form, because why the fuck not, let's be the cool USA-only governments.

Now I get all the USA events all the time, although that's not supposed to happen. Have signed the constitution three times, debated about impeachment laws twice and both allowed and prohibited slavery. The ride never ends…

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Normandy mod thread?

I started playing it because why not. Although it's still obviously pretty early on (no technologies researched for some countries, pops being there that shouldn't exist [British pops in India, Boers in Africa], Form Indonesia decision causing a crash, etc.) it's a pretty fun and different scenario.

I started a game as Burgundy and amazingly both Guyenne and Normandy managed to crash so hard that I could sphere them.

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Favorite Leaders

So /gsg/, who's your favorite military/political leaders? Mine have to be Robert E Lee, Otto Von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler.

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Victoria 2 & Industry help/guide needed.

First time playing Victoria 2 as Japan. I need help as how to make a good industry.

I more or less know how to play the game, but the industry & factory part is dificult to me.

How do I make the right factories? Should I make in a region only the factories that require the RGOs that the region produce, regardless of infraestructure? Or what?

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CK2

I've made a little Workshop mod for changing Welsh title localisations in CK2 ("Dragons of Camelot") but I can't upload any pictures! I hope a bunch of people download it thinking it adds actual dragons, that would be funny to read in the comments.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=415639991

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Rate my grosskebabium. Borders not yet final.

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Our own archive?

4chan's /gsg/ is shit and we all know that. We should set up our own archive to further move away from them and build a new community without all the useless drama and bullshit concerning mods.

We could steal most of it and add some new stuff, like Darkest Hour and some non-Paradox GS.

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L'ALEMMANIA EMPIRE

>finally got the Ultimate mod to work
Of course I will dominate the world with the Glorious Empire.

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Hey guys - a question. I'm trying to mod EU4 now, to make it less "Politically Correct" - seriously, when they nerfed europeans, so that everyone could play their favourite indians, it pissed me off.

I want to make a mobilization feature, supposedly as a country decision, available to western nations after 1700 (?) or something. How to best handle this? Okay, you get free armies, depending on your province size, then get "Mobilized" modifier, which gives penalties to economy, trade, ect. But I'm conflicted about demobilisation. I want AI to do this, if it's losing a war/getting into a really dangerous war. I don't want this to be a cheap way of spamming troops, and I have no idea on how to make the armies go away. Reduce manpower to 0 upon demobilisation? Any suggestions?

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https://kageshi.com/rooms/peoplesembassyofbestkorea

Break out your webcam faggots.

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The Albanian Badass returns

One of you guys posted over on /int/ the other day that you wanted to see more of this, and so i shall oblige. I'll try to make more frequent updates as well. I haven't played this save for a while, so I'm a little rusty. Currently, the kebabs, backed by their allies in Russia, have decided to invade. More only allies are the Nazis, and as you can see, they haven't exactly been competent this game. I can only hope my huge navy will be able to stop a large-scale invasion, but I'm not sure. I don't even know how good an ally Germany will be, since they're on horrible terms with Austria, meaning they probably won't be getting access through them.

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let's share and talk some underrated grand strategy games.

here is the only grand strategy Star Wars game based on it's expanded universe version, the space ship combat is pretty fun since it counts the positioning and maneuver of the space ships (like a naval combat on 3D) and their condition (parts like the shield generator or the weapons could get damaged/destroyed)

it was fun to overwhelm imperial destroyers whit rebeld dreadnoughts, frigates and cruissers

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Well, how fucked am I when the Europoors arive?

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Not bad for 70 years…

Now the question is, do I form Italy or not? I sort of prefer Milan's national ideas, especially the -10% idea cost.

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So somehow this happened to France by 1530… and Saxony is the Emperor…

This is unmodded ironman, by the way. Never seen anything like this.

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Defeating the Heavenly Kingdom, /gsg/. Where should I expand afterwards?

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/gsg/, I'm CIA. We come from /Bane/. Dubs decide what board me, Smee, Maimen, Dr Pavelher and Juan do next on our trip. Trips will make Bane crash this plane

WITH NO SURVIVORS

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Hello guys. I'm kinda new here (some serious reasons sent me here). One of them is that I don't know how to get the latest veritas et fortitudo mod version for EU4. I tried to download this through steam workshop downloader. But i get one corrupted (it seems) file that don't let me play this mod. So can anyone help and write a link to where i can find the VeF 2.0.3 mod. I would be grateful for your support :)

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Do I really want that semi-shitty heir?

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Multiplayer Arranging Thread

Well, the board seems so dead and slow paced, that it might make sense to make a thread for organizing multiplayer games in the future.

I've got this weekend free, 07-08 of March, so if anyone's interested, I can host some EU4 with all DLCs or maybe some Vicky2, got both HoD and AHD. I have HoI3 and EU3 too, but I kinda doubt their appeal in terms of multiplay.

I haven't got any mods, but if need be I can install some.
Am Europoor though, so if you're not on the continent, you might experience some ping issues. My connection and hardware should be sufficiently strong for hosting though.

If people are up for it I have Civ5 too, though I never got into their expansions.

Otherwise, if people want to request any games or times I can take a look at it, or others can look into hosting their own sessions.

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Oy vey, goys!

Post your custom nations from El Dorado.

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It's time.

What should be my game goals?

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Is it just me or is EU4 really laggy after this patch?

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Alright, what is happening here?

And is there a way I can unite Japan without becoming shogun?

Pic related: I occupied all of the provinces of the former shogun, but I can't unite japan.

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Elder Kings mod

Hello /gsg/ and specially to the CK2 fans here i need a bit of help with something that the other fans will surely apreciate.
You see i heard rumours that the mod Elder Kings (based in Elder Scrolls series) is having its update 1.6, something that rarely happens (so to the fans of the mod it is a big "ITS HAPPENING) to the present version, but i cant access to the paradoxplaza subforum of the game because i have i pirate version and because i live in a third world shithole and i am not able to buy the game so if somebody could confirm that this mod is really updating and if that is the case then upload a link here, all the fans of CK2 would thank, so please /gsg/ help me and the other fans to get the mod if it is really being updated.

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Why is /gsg/ so dead? How can we increase our exposure?

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>halfchan's gsg chases away vickymodguy for (among other things) adding a useless OPM puppet for historical accuracy
>HPM guy does the same thing and no one gives a fuck

Well, this is when I realized that leaving that place for a relatively dead board was the right move. We need to get more people though, if we want to surpass them.

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Post great victories.

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German-American Bund Wins the 1940 Election

>This will never be the world you lived in

Why even live?

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>banned from cuckchan

is this place kill? i need a place to discuss map games

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it is just me or the battle mechanics of Victoria 2 sucks?, they seems straight recycled from EU3 and doesnt cound if one of the parts fighting surrounded, overwhelmed by quantity and also doesnt cound troop atrition (just had a war whit germany and the UK and the UK sent some troops from Afgaanistan to Ukraine walking all their way through the steppe)

also seems that everthing on the battle is counted as a line battle, so doesnt matter the direction were your troops came from.

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Hey guys. Time for a Distant Worlds thread.

I've just picked up the game a couple of days ago and, after getting a bit more used to it, really enjoy the dynamic. Finally gives me something a bit more complex than EU4 but still interesting enough that I'll put time into it.

Question though: Anyone here have trouble making money early on in the game? I decided to be a masochist and play as a standard empire in the age of shadow and am finding it hard to really get my empire to start taking off economically. Anyone got any suggestions?

TL;DR:
Distant Worlds thread. How to make money. show ur maps fagets

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:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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j00t resigning

This is off topic, but it's kind of important. m00t is resigning from halfchan, as many people /pol/, predicted. This will probably mean an influx of users. That means I'm going to have to recruit more volunteers. I'll post my official email, and some of you can apply. The application is simple.

1. Experience with moderating
2. Timezone
3. Time spent playing Grand Strategy games in general Not a requirement, but will help you in regards of getting recruited.

I'm not sure how I'm going to moderate the administrators, but I'll think of something.

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r8 no h8

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>find hoi3 latest patch
>thought it was a good idea to install it
>start reading the changes they made as it is installing
>"oh fuck no, i don't want this"
>install complete :^)

FFFFFFFUUUUUUCCCCCKKKK

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Anyone got a link to download the 1.4 patch for DH? I don't have access to the Paradicks forums and I can't find it anywhere else. Not even in /gsg/'s old archive. We should really make a new one that includes this shit.

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Full Paradrone mode activated

Okay, after El Dorado, I decided to for a bit OP Latvia to have fun. But the custom nations, especially in the baltics, just don't work - in the historical perspective, they're basically a rape of your vision. So, I went full paradrone for complete shits:
Random new world
Random game setup (you make a custom nation and the world is populated with completely weirdo nations)
Random lucky nations
And I designed my own Latvia, because why not. This is how the world afaik looks now. And yes, the scandinaviablob is western tech. Also, Poland is kebabs. Just like in real life.

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>tfw everyone hates your Roman republic

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In CK2 I am the king of Connachta but one of my sons is the heir to the high lordship of Connachta and the other son is the heir to the castle in the province of Breifne. How do I make my eldest the heir to both?

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Hello, /gsg/. I come here from half chan's /vg/ looking for answers, since my freedom of speech has been under attack by an Orwellian janitor with major authority issues - I have decided to come here and hopefully find out exactly what is going on.

I was recently banned for 13 days for criticizing HPM in a small, but rather eloquent post. My main concern was how railroaded this mod is (seems?) and how Germany is extremely overpowered. My posts, those critical of HPM, have been deleted in the past but this was the first time that I was handed an outright ban, ever.

This would not bother me that much if this janitor had any consistency. Posters "criticizing" Robmod and other mods with spam are never banned and their posts are never deleted. The endless wave of "fuck off rob" or "fuck off back to your steamgroup", their so called "criticism", is routinely ignored by the janitor while well thought out posts criticizing HPM or defending mods, such as Robmod, are deleted.

I've decided to post here, not because of my ban. But because a couple of hours ago, I witnessed a series of posts defending Robmod being deleted - while the "fuck off rob" and "t. rob" posts remained. It would seem that not only criticizing HPM is a bannable offence, but defending mods that aren't HPM is just as illegal. It would seem that it's okay to criticize mods, even with contentless posts - as long as that mod isn't HPM.

It is no longer a question if whether or not this janitor is curbing freedom of speech in favour of HPM. It's a matter of why. Why is he doing this? What's his goal?

Thank you for your time. God bless and have a great Friday.

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if you could fantasize about any mod for any paradox game, what would the mod be?

i wish hearts of iron III had the same elements of masters of the world III geopolitical simulator. when i play hearts of iron III i find myself playing at the fastest speed possible and just sitting there waiting for my spies to raise a country's thread before going to war and waiting for my research to develop only for its proficiency to go away in a year if i stopped researching it. there's not much to do in hearts of iron III other than to fight which takes many years to wait for

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/gsg/'s New Owner

Since the old owner decided to neglect this board and not log in, I've claimed this board and now will keep a vigilant eye for shitposters. There will be no new changes to the rules, just who's running the board. Sorry it had to be like this old board owner, but actions have consequences, and you neglecting this board and not assigning janitors to take care of the occasional shitposters has led to this.

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Leinster and other small nations

I died in one generation

My king died on november 1, 1399. It took 13 years for the next king to arrive. Thankfully, we at least had an heir.

Then england declared war and that was that.

Any tips for leinster and other small nations?

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Peasants Kings II

Let's discuss mods.
I'm personally fond of Rebels and Warmongers, Crowns(changes anachronistic crowns) and the minimap thing by Korbah.

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alright im going a lil tinfoil hat here but hear me out
what if parajews axed EvW so that they could instead make a cold war dlc for HOI4?

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Anyone know the fastest/best way to have a Fascist revolution in Victoria 2?

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>searching for Dom4 reviews
>found this gem

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Steam Group

Should we create a steamgroup? The fourchongochanga group was pretty nice, but it had some retarded kids.

Mostly for organizing MP sessions.

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Persuade me not to buy Superpower 2.

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>Robmod

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So little content in base game

I need victoria 2 dlc, someone supply my demands

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Infopic Thread

Refer to this thread for the infopic (I will be updating it whenever a new version is released) and for asking any general questions that you feel don't deserve their own thread.

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>Germany and Japan invade
>install democracy
>ruin all the hard work I'd spent building a communist paradise for about 30 years
>tfw

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New darkest hour patch!
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?833439-Darkest-Hour-Dev-Diary-33-Patch-1.04-beta
also die syndie scum