/gsg/ - Grand Strategy General

>>3473

>That's the point. China doesn't need mobilization and it breaks the economy in half when it does it.

How does China mobilising break the economy anyway. I really feel like I was robbed of my victory by that "mandate of heaven" malus. I mean I started as fucking Yunnan in 1836 so I feel like my right to take over the world is kinda earned.

>>3490

>How does China mobilising break the economy anyway.

Imagine you are #1 as china. You mobilize. Suddenly demand for Canned Food and other goods outstrips supply because of the 2000 new infantry that are created, and everyone else in the world suddenly can't supply their armies.

Nationalist China can have a standing army of 1500-2000 units. If you can't take over the world with your standing army as China then you are doing something wrong.

Also there are plusses to mandate of heaven in terms of stability. You won't be fighting many 100M+ rebels in the lategame.

>>3520

I guess they don't like you.

>>3520

Abyssinia is doing pretty bad if they aren't civilized by 1895

>>3527

But they are, that's why it's retarded. I also got events to directly inherit other african civilized spherelings (Warri and fucking Egypt), I inherited them to see and got all of it as states, thats completely retarded

>>3535

>africa

>culture

>>3544

Read the post again.

>>3551

Not the other Johan, but you implied that Africa even possess something that can be called culture.

>>3534

It would require some huge workarounds to force them to be uncivilized, annex them, then properly civilize the nation again. And they would also lose their techs and stuff.

You shouldn't be inheriting them often though. IIRC they should have a high chance of fighting you.

V2 would be better off with some kind of inbetween status where they provinces wouldn't be full voting provinces of your empire but also aren't dirt-trash unciv and without the ability to make factories, but sadly this isn't an option.

>>3557

You need to click on the checkmark box, then set the stockpile slider to 2000.

I'm getting really annoyed by how AI Sweden usually manages to retake at least Åland but then with no checks to see if they actually own any Finnish cores then fire the Abandon Finland decision.

>>3561

You want me to change the conditions for Sweden taking the Abandon Finland decision, or you want me to modify the decision to not remove Swedish cores from Åland if they control it?

>>3563

Hey Rob, are you ever considering to extend the game's timeline?

Or is that not possible?

>>3574

Its certainly possible, but not practical.

Extending it earlier messes with the breakup of the Spanish/Portuguese Empires and the Napoleonic Wars. V2 can't really model these at all except through high railroaded events/wars that basically remove the actual gameplay. Otherwise France would never lose, UK would turn the US into a wasteland in the war of 1812, and Spain would find it almost impossible to lose against colonies that would only be able to field 5 regiments max. You could move it back, like, 2 years max before being forced to deal with these issues, which wouldn't be worth the effort to redo huge amounts of pops

Extending it forward has problems because the end game for V2 is insanely messy already with all of the dismantling, and there's no non-shit way to have cold war mechanics, nukes, proper combat, etc.

>>3578

Well, you don't have to put any events, or new technologies.

Just extending the timeline. The greatest problem for me is, I want to play my empire for more than 100 years. I don't know if that'd be a thing you'd add to your mod. I do enjoy how POP demand mod Divide by Zero does technologies after 100 years.

>>3584

If all you want is to extend the end date, its right at the top of defines.lua

>>3585

Really? Well shit I never knew that.

Thanks.

>>3609

Another thing that I noticed.

The weight for AI choosing to release Hungary in the revolution instead of fighting for it seems to be whack. This is the 3rd game in a row that I see this shit happening.

Perhaps you should make AI Austria fight for Hungary more often, rob.

Rob, please make african rebels more likely and fix their fucking borders. I'm tired of seeing tanzania in only one region.

>>3618

Speaking of african rebels, I'm not sure if this is intended or not, but I had a communist rebellion in my current game, and a shitton of rebels spawned in Africa as well. I had a turn of colonies, so naturally some of the states got fully occupied. However, despite the fact that they were communist rebels, the african countries still started popping out anyway. Is this intentional?

>>3605

Will fix

>>3610

It's should be a 95% chance for Austria to fight Hungary unless Austria is already in the middle of a war or heavily occupied by rebels. Are you sure they aren't fighting and being beaten?

If they are being beaten too often then thats still a problem though.

>>3618

Can't really fix rebels, what they occupy is hardcoded. And revolts weren't a huge deal within the time period, so I see no reason to make them much more likely.

>>3624

It's how the rebel system works. The alternative is that communist rebels spawn in africa and literally do nothing because the only way for them to flip your government is to occupy your capital.

Kaiserreich and Ultimate keep launching the game in an odd windowed resolution (Windows 8 and my screen res is like 1600Xsomething). Any idea why it's breaking? Vanilla starts up in full screen, correct resolution.

>>3640

For some reason it stays windowed on successful launch, but can be resized appropriately. Fucking hell, Paradox.

>>3641

>>3640

That just breaks the game more. If anyone could tell me why these two mods seem to make their own goddamn settings please do tell me and how to fix it.

>>3642

>>3641

>>3640

I feel like a fucking retard, looked in my documents folder and there were seperate setting for the mods there, I fixed the resolution and shit.

Goddamn.

How do I into tanks/airplanes?

What would be the best army composition lategame (all techs researched)?

Tanks replace infantry and airplanes replace artillery/cavalry?

>>3644

Tanks replace both Infantry and Engineers, Airplanes replace both Artillery and Cavalry.

The more important thing to know though is that in vickymod both are much more offensive-focused than in vanilla. They are both better than infantry and artillery, but are MUCH better on offense while only slightly better on defense. This means to use them for attacks and encirclements, since they can attack dug-in enemy units and still win rather than being slaughtered horribly.

Also just tech isn't enough, you need the post-WW1 inventions as well.

>>3645

To give some numbers:

Tanks on Offense deal 48 damage and have siege 5 (negate up to 5 levels of fort). Planes on Offense deal (30 * 600% support) = 180 damage, and 6 recon reduces the max dug in the enemy can have to 1.

Infantry on Defense deal 28 damage, Artillery on Defense deal (27 * 550% support) = 148.5 damage. They can also defend on a province with a max fort level of 6, which gives +10% tactics per level (but 5 siege will reduce that to a fort level of only 1).

So it's 228 damage per turn vs. 178 damage. Of course there are still potential river and terrain penalties.

Normally if you were using Infantry/Artillery on offense you would only be able to do (30 + 19*550%) = 134.5 damage vs an enemy defensive damage of 178. Plus Siege from Engineers and Recon from Hussars are lower, making enemy forts and dug-in stronger.

>>3555

Of course it can.

1. invade

2. slaughter all negroids

3. replace with caucasoids

4. build cities, dig mines, pave roads

Simple.

Oh, yeah, will there ever be an event in Vickymod to have Liberia vote to join the US?

It’s historically accurate, after all.

>historically accurate

Wrong thread

Wrong board

Wrong mod

Go suck HPM cock elsewhere

>>3661

>I am this retarded

K.

>>3534

>he hasn't modded his game so that westernisation is impossible

>>3714

I think Austria should be added to Germany's sphere after dismantling, and then get the option to join Germany.

>>3719

Nah. The only reason why Austria was not annexed during WW1 was because the allies did not like that. Otherwise everyone in Austria wanted German annexation. You should get that option only if you're playing as Austria.

Also, fix South Africa.

Some realism changes you should make:

Poland and its substates should not have a core on Danzig. When Poland gains Danzig it should remain uncored unless it gets slavicized

"Western Slavs" should be an accepted culture in Prussia, like it was in reality.

Austria should not reject annexation when it does not own any provinces that were outside of the HRE.

Any news?

>>3884

Not really, mostly been taking it easy. Also fixing HPP for HoI3, in the pastebin.

>>3719

Will do.

>>3723

>fix South Africa.

What specifically is wrong?

>>3866

>Poland and its substates should not have a core on Danzig. When Poland gains Danzig it should remain uncored unless it gets slavicized

muh Gdańsk

I'm inclined to keep it as it is. While their claim might not quite qualify at the standard to consider it a core, if Poland defeated Prussia/Germany and took the state then they would certainly not hand it right back to the Germans, which is what happens to non-cores after the AI wins an acquire core war.

>"Western Slavs" should be an accepted culture in Prussia, like it was in reality.

That would prevent them from assimilating though, which is also unrealistic and arguably worse.

>Austria should not reject annexation when it does not own any provinces that were outside of the HRE.

Don't see why the HRE is important when by the time Germany is attempting to annex them it would have been dead for almost a century. I'd simply say any non-austrian core lands. I'll check the conditions for austria's joining. Haven't really played a SP Prussia game, not familiar with how it all works.

>>4012

>What specifically is wrong?

When you release yourself as South Africa as Britain it gets buggy.

>Don't see why the HRE is important when by the time Germany is attempting to annex them it would have been dead for almost a century. I'd simply say any non-austrian core lands. I'll check the conditions for austria's joining. Haven't really played a SP Prussia game, not familiar with how it all works.

That means that if Austria only owns South Tirol, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Southern Silesia it should just be annexed by Germany when in Sphere.

>I'm inclined to keep it as it is. While their claim might not quite qualify at the standard to consider it a core, if Poland defeated Prussia/Germany and took the state then they would certainly not hand it right back to the Germans, which is what happens to non-cores after the AI wins an acquire core war.

Then the dimantlement of Germany should not remove their claims on West-Prussia.

Why is there rubber in kursk? Is that a historical thing?

>>4078

Kursk getting rubber is an accident. It's missing a 1 or something at the end of its province ID, the correct province ID is somewhere in the Congo.

It's a bug in the vanilla as well.

Are people supposed to be emigrating en mass out of Prussia around the time Liberal Agitation is making the rounds? Kinda new to this mod and my military is constantly short of troops cuz of this shit.

>>4028

>When you release yourself as South Africa as Britain it gets buggy.

All I noticed was that SA had a random core out of place. Is there more? If so a save game would be helpful.

>That means that if Austria only owns South Tirol, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Southern Silesia it should just be annexed by Germany when in Sphere.

Yes, although I'll have to add at least a small infamy amount. It's just too much extra pops to get for free.

>Then the dimantlement of Germany should not remove their claims on West-Prussia.

Plan for next version is for Germany to have 2 dismantling phases. First phase will be ww1-esque, second phase ww2-esque.

>>4079

fixed

>>4106

Nothing is "supposed" to happen, but they emigrate based on consciousness and militancy as you can see in the pop screen.

Emigration from Europe is increased overall (while emigration from Asia/Africa decreased).

>>4108

So outside of keeping militancy and consciousness low, not much can be done?

>>4108

I don't know man, it feels like pops'd rather emigrate instead of revolting since the last few versions.

>>4116

I'll do that right after I split the USA into 50 puppet states under the control of DC.

>>4118

That sounds badass, but how would that happen?

>>4118

Is this to simulate extreme decentralization? Sounds really great, good luck with all the flags though.

>>4119

>>4120

I'm not splitting the USA into 50 puppet states.

thatsthejoke.jpg

>>4121

It would actually be pretty rad if you put in a 'Re-instate the Articles of Confederation' decision with that effect, though. I'm not sure what exactly the requirements would be, but it'd be rad.

>>4121

Wasn't that great of a joke then

>>4118

Just wanting an Ugrian state.

>>4108

Africa is overall broken. Especially the cores.

is there some reason Belgium has one good RGO of sulfur yet the Netherlands has no sulfur and produces the worlds biggest supply? this must be a mistake.

>>4190

Netherlands has multiple colonies that produce sulfur, a total of about 650k pops working them

Belgium has one province that produces sulfur, with 185k pops working them.

>>4197

ah. forgot about the colonies. thanks

>>4268

also is the Modern Age mod good?

>>4268

>>4269

No, it has Argentina as white.

>>4271

how do I install the mod though? Also I want to try Kaiserreich but I have no idea how to install mods really.

Victoria 2 is my first gsg game so I'm a totally new to this type of things

>>4276

You just drag and drop the folder and the movie clip file into the mod folder in the victoria 2 directory. It's that simple.

>>4282

this is an online version of a startup screen. I can't take screenshots of mine for some reason. The bottom left corner of my screen has V2 v3.03 (VSNY) written rather than Beta

Hey Rob, question: do you ever still go on halfchan /gsg/? I ask because I go over there to shitpost with the gold charlemagne meme from time to time, and will browsing through the thread it seems that most people honestly believe you're STILL going on there to shitpost about HPM.

>>4318

Sometimes, but basically any post I make gets me banned instantly, even for completely innocent shit. The janitor has the thread on lockdown.

I think the Satsuma rebellion is broken. If you click the option that declares war on them, it's a straight Conquest CB and gives you the full 22 Infamy. If you click the option that let's them be independent, you can immediately declare war on them for acquiring cores for no infamy penalty. Bug or deliberate?

Is it worth it to start as some state in japan in 1830? Which one? Will i have to way 30 years at 5x speed before i can westernize or do anything intresting??

hpm tbh lads ngl smh fam

Bump for interest. You still working on this mod Rob or have you about gotten to as far as you think you can go and such?

>>4674

this, bump

>>4674

He's dead.

Maybe add a casus belli to transfer a puppet? It's kind of counterintuitive to declare a humilate war on Russia just to steal Congress Poland and peace out. This has happened several times and I've done this several times. I feel like it would be more fair if it was a CB because it would be harder to steal puppets rapid-fire.

There’s a new beta update to Victoria II. Does anyone have a direct download for it? Guess VickyMod will have to be changed to jive with it, right?

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/victoria-2-3-04-beta-patch-merry-christmas.898844/

>>4844

>implying Rob still posts here

Rob, when are you updating VickyMod?

>>4852

Refer to >>4846

>>4854

Well I remember him posting on /v/ less than 2-3 months ago.

>>4844

From what I can tell, the update works fine. All of the technical and mechanical changes from the update remain in tact but very minor things (like Siam turning into Thailand) were probably overwritten. Me and some buds will do some extensive testing with the mod and new update over the weekend if we have time.

I also can't seem to get borderless windowed mode to work for vickymod.