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>>EU4 - BDSM
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>>[CK2 - 2.4.5] - After The End
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>>[V2] - 7 Years v0.1
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>>[V2] Many Houses Divided - v 0.0.1.1
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>>[HoI3] YAMDaM v0.54
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Old thread >>128539565
Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.
Anime characters love good threads.
I can't wait for this to be included in HPM! :3
Should I try to form a Shia Andalusian North Africa or should I try to form a Schthian kingdom?
>>128614632
Link to the proper thread here:
>>128613893 →
>>128613893 →
>>128613893 →
This one has one of the pastebin links modified.
>>128614758
Shia Andalusia, hands down.
>tfw no way to merge wars in vicky 2
>>128614916
My goals would be hold some of Spain to keep the Andalusian title while taking North Africa to integrate it. Then I'd slowly leave Spain.
>>128615093
Why not go north?
>>128614982
hey, that's what I said
Give me a nation and a goal in V2
>>128615459
Bhutan
DO IT
>>128615197
BecauseMuslims don't belong in Europe.
>>128615557
I think it's racists like you who don't belong in Europe.
>>128615557
Europe is the muslism heartland, spread the ligh of allah until scotland
I just got gifted EU4 by a friend. What exactly do I do about all the DLCs on steam? Is the base game fine? Kind of unsure where to start
>>128615459
FOR THE THUNDERKING!
>>128615497
>
>>128615729
Step 1: Kill yourself for wanting playing that piece of shit
>>128615729
Buy them all
>>128615729
>I just got gifted EU4 by a friend.
unfriend him and uninstall the game
no wait, abandon your steam account, you cant use it anymore, its tainted with EU4
What do as united india?
>>128616030
Defeat nazi germany
>>128616056
Shitposting with Aussibros late at night is fun
-Amerifag
>>128615669
>>128615717
I have a better goal of marrying into Muhammad's family. And then becoming Christian.
>>128615729
Base game is okay, but honestly you should buy all of the DLCs to get the optimal experience.
>>128616191
If Europe is to truly prosper, we must abandon our backward ways and embrace Islam, the most progressive and tolerant religion on the planet.
>>128616715
Fuck off shitposter.
>>128616776
>>128616884
>replying
>>128614605
This.
>>128616427
It is the goal of my Shia family to destroy Islam.
>>128617345
>Not roleplaying
>>128617414
It is a tradition passed by from mother to son after she was raped during the conquest.
>>128616030
Declare war on toilet witches
>>128617962
That isn't roleplaying
>>128618832
How do I role play better?
>>128619065
Play as the religion instead of against it
>>128619065
play TERA, make an elin and do erp with other fat men.
>win civil war
>get dow'd by mexico
>MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN across the rio grande, annex yucatan+chihuahua
>USA gets dow'd by england
>USA btfos canada
>NGF dow's France to liberate alscae lorraine
>is currently blowing them out with spain
now when I annex the USA/canada/mexico I will make america great again with niggers enslaved and deported
also do any non-accepted pops get made into slaves or is it just niggers?
>>128619153
Then my goal should be to become Caliph.
>>128619438
No one get enslaved normally
>>128619691
but where do slave pops come from?
>>128619761
They grow depending on the reform
>>128619438
non-accepted pops, I had immigrants from Europe land at New Orleans just to get sold into slavery, same with the retro-spics.
>>128619843
how did these african minors show up in my pops then?
>>128620101
Immigrants. When a aristocrat migrate to your country, they can bring some slaves
>>128620101
>hiding your scores and everything else
Kill yourself.
>>128620173
>>128619851
so is there no way to put the mexicans into slavery? :{
>>128620485
Just build a good country and they will come willingly, but you will have so much you will need tight border control
>>128620650
I don't want them to come, I want the ones I have to be enslaved fug
As France, how do I prevent Prussia from forming the NGF?
>>128620931
stop them from uniting all north german provinces in a federation
Release Alsace.
>>128621000
I know, but if I take an state from them, will it be enough?
>>128621041
I don't use meme mods
>>128621067
keep one north german culture OPM in your sphere = no NGF
works exactly the same way with the SGF, which is why it's so much harder to form the NGF than the SGF, because the NGF route means you need to take alscae-lorraine from france
>>128620485
It just takes time.
>>128621425
if a non-accepted culture won't assimilate, will they get enslaved?
how the fuck does enslavement work at all in vicky2 i'd love to be able to game it
>>128621971
No, they won't
>>128623042
HOW DOES IT WORK
>>128623424
people don't get enslaved
>>128624127
that makes my CSA game worthless though
>>128624864
Complete the true destiny of the south, liberate man from slavery and then liberate mankind from authoritarian rule.
In CK2 any muslim king can just invade another kingdom? Even if the invaded is another muslim?
>>128624951
>egalitarian CSA
I almost puked thinking of it
i just turned it off
>>128626665
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>>128627803
you better have exterminated those fucking traitorous niggers
>>128627803
Probably has a lot of big-bootied qt grills
>>128628263
>Still over 70% nigger
Awful
All Hail the Emperor of Slavkind
>>128628927
cant wait for the mongolians
rate my beleivable world
>>128629548
Oh man forgot about that. He's fucked.
>>128629651
Western Europe seems fucked, but hundred years or so and it should sort itself out.
>>128630090
The scramble for Francia really made shit ugly
I'm secretly hoping the Dutch win out
>>128629548
I'm sure the HRE will protect me.
>>128628927
So is he Russian or what?
>>128628927
All Hail the Pharaoh of Slavkind
North Italy literally has 5 times the industry of South Italy.
>enemy 50+40k stack at a mountainpass
>2x35k of me next to it
>staring eachother down
>50k moves to next province
>destroy it, they have nowhere to retreat
>other army just watches
thanks i guess
I'd pay $20 for a hoi4 beta key right now.
>>128633645
>he unironically likes bad games
>>128633886
>implying I won't play as Erdolf Zimmler
>>128615669
He said "muslims", not arabs you dimwit.
r8 my europe
>>128635832
comfy zhuang republic
>>128635832
0/10
tfw steamgroup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61AAtbMGC9w
>>128635832
what map mod?
Those transylvania borders are amazing.
>>128636538
no idea, It's the officialsteamgruppe mod
This slick slavic nationalist slaps your Empire's ass, what do you do?
>>128636839
Transform my Empire into a federation.
>tfw no Austrian Empire pics saved
How do I declare independence as india?
>>128636943
Truly a cuck answer to the slavic man
Where do i put mods for Victoria? In documents they won't load in game, in the install folder the game crashes
>>128637064
We teached them how to read, gave them a stable goverment with all the benfits of Empire, but they are just like:
>muh freedumbs
Fine, give it to them, maybe they will come to identify sooner or later with the Empire as well. We got to try. (also take Constantinople)
How should I approach this issue?
I am zealot and so are all my potential heirs, so finding Allah is not an option.
>>128632758
Nothing wrong with that
>>128632758
that is quite historical
+1
Holy fuck how cucked are paradox users
>>128637301
>playing with the vanilla map and not the SWMH (HIP) one
>>128637721
Bow down to the Paradox staff
>>128637772
I'd hit the red haired qt on the left
>>128638272its a guy
Shall I do it lads?
>>128638272
>tfw I looked at the guys first to find a redhead before I looked for girls to see who you mean
>>128638319
If she looks and acts like a girl, she's a girl to me. Don't care what's in her underpants.
>>128638383
Looks pretty manly to me too
what happens if I marry two siblings?
>>128638337
Is there any way to speed up vic2 over the maximum?
>>128638782
There isn't really a 'maximum' on speed 5 it will go as quickly as your computer can handle.
>>128638782
setspeed 1-10
>>128638935
are you saying if my computer has trouble running at speed 4 setting it to speed 5 will make it go slower than speed 3?
>>128638935
Oh, ok
>>128638935
TIL
>>128628336
Hans get out you chill
>>128628927
>Using Roman names for your slav empire
>>128636209
Third time's the charm
>>128612341
You should put more countries in South America to make it more interesting. Or at least make some events that cause conflict between the nations.
>meanwhile in Sweden
No seriously, how did vikings become this.
>>128639646
>Lutheran
No wonder
>>128639646
>Protestants
No surprise here, move along.
>>128639646
Prothestanthism and socialism
>>128639210
How much of Zanzibar should I take?
Jin was consumed by ming during this war
Why the fuck is Oirat still at war with me. Did he make me a cobelligerent or something?
>>128639878
don't you get that from an event
>>128639718
>>128639757
>>128639761
What's funny is that Luther was a pretty hardline guy. He'd be even more disgusted by this than anyone.
>>128639878
All of it obviously.
>>128640034
Should I just stop my war efforts?
>>128640161
>Luther was a pretty hardline guy
Sounds legit to me. His reforms were more of a way to weed out the decadence than to broaden the religion,no?
>>128640246
One of his chief complaints was the pope literally selling salvation, so yeah, decadence within the papacy was the big thing.
Luther was renowned within his order, which was already one of the most fanatic, as being a bit too fanatical.
>>128640161
Agree, he was against the churches ubmoral way but supported labdlords and vassals, not peasants
I haven't played Victoria II in months
What mods should I use with 3.04 that don't attempt to 'balance' the mechanics of the game? i.e. bug fixes, graphic mods
>>128640995
HPM
How the fuck do I make HIP recognize my CK2 installation folder so I can get CPRplus?
>>128640995
Diplomacy is broken, be careful which patch you get
>>128640161
Please excuse me, I couldn't help but notice that your definition of "god" wildly differs from my own.
I am also of the belief that the vatican is corrupt and therefore should not receive our support. I will now engage in petty squabbles so my vision of an abstract concept becomes the most relevant.
t. Martin Luther
fucking ming. I even baited their 25 stack to my 19 stack on mountains and still lost. They have like no unrest in that entire fucking chunk of land they took too.
Ming warned me so I cant eat more of oirat who is internally collapsing because of how badly I fucked him, and I cant eat yeren because ming as well. Ming has literally shit on my parade completely.
>a year after the first potential release date we are still changing core mechanics
Respectfully Disagree x1
>>128641452
>We're improving the game following feedback from betatesters.
>It's good.
>Oh wait no it's Paradox so every thing is bad because internet people said so!
>>128641452
I like the tech tree.I hated Hoi3 one.
Is that bad?
>>128641039
That changes the mechanics of the game
>>128641246
Is patch 3.04 no good to use?
>>128641715
>That changes the mechanics of the game
suck my cock
>>128641715
Victoria Ultimate.
>>128641715
It got fixed for fucks sake people stop saying it's broken. It got fixed more then a week ago, I have been playing and haven't had any problems after the fix. It's in the goddamn archive.
>>128641715
Im not sure.
Other anons might explain better but basically all great powers ally up and jack each other off.
Also 80% of time your ally will simply say Fuck off if you ask them for anything. And you get 0% chance to ally with another GP since theyre over GP ally limit.
>>128641708
hoi3 tech is the best in any paradox game. especially with theory/practical helping to speed it up.
>>128642557
not that hard desu, just look at viccy 2 techs, very very basic concept
Yep, what a concept, I could use a little Bane myself, but only one gets to stay on my place.
>>128637209
>We teached them how to read
But obviously not how to write.
>>128637721
>mfw that was my birthday
>>128643218
>>128643218
>>128639878
Rate my plan for Africa.
Also, what lands should I take from the turks?
http://poal.me/v8wx8f
http://poal.me/v8wx8f
http://poal.me/v8wx8f
Playing as a minor in the HRE is no longer fun.
Blobstria always blobs up to you.
The elimination of other states also ensures Austria remains emperor Because if you want to expand at all the electors will all hate you again due to the reduction of targets.
Paradox fix Blobstria AI, or add something that makes the entire HRE coalition him if he eats electors, something to fix this shit.
>>128645796
>expecting Parajews to improve the AI instead of adding more bloat
WEW
E
W
>>128641451
>Get exploration/expansion
>???
?Free clay
>>128635832
>RoC ruling china
10/10
>>128645047
I'll take some more votes until half past this hour, but I think that the answer's clear
>>128645047
>>128646690
Looks like the chosen land is the winner. I'll make my move once the Scramble starts
>>128646015
Maybe they can just fix HRE mechanics so the emperor can't eat anything inside the HRE, only force return of territory.
>>128646996
Or make it SUPER painful for the Emperor to annex Imperial territory. Shit, just make blobbing in the HRE painful, period. Right now there's no incentive other than coalitions to not blob.
>>128645047
>German Empire
>taking colonies in darkie bongo land
B-boy, it's like you WANT to suffer a long, horrible death, senpai!
>>128647318
He's just returning the German people to their ancestral homeland anon.
>>128647318
>Ignoring the fact that Germany had colonies in Africa
The other thread has 720 posts
Why is this one here?
>>128645796
>AI
Johan doesn't give a fuck about AI.
His dream is seeing his games become the new competitive standard, where all tags are taken by players.
Multiplayer balance not realism ok praise Johan
>>128648303
That doesn't make much sense since their net code is broken af.
>>128648443
Swedish (in)competence at best
I think I prefer EU4 brown for orthodox, but the beige catholic is superior.
>>128646978
Should I take Transjordan as well for the complete package, or just Palestine.
I'll probably take it if the war goes well enough
how much do i have to fucking occupy to get russia and italy to capitulate fuck me
all of mainland italy and all of russia that matters
and now fucking uncivilized qing joined in on their side so they send their stacks of weak ass infantry that just get slaughtered by gas attacks
i really wanna see the number on how many died during this retarded fucking war
warscore is at 99% too
>>128641451
ye but you lost land to him in that war? the two screenshots show you losing land and oirat gaining it
>>128648918
nvm lol
>>128649059
You're going to conquer all of Poland now that you have Polish as accepted, right?
Taking all of South Germany would also be a good idea. Remember, it's not blobbing as longs as the POPs there are accepted.
>>128649059
>3 polands + danzig + silesia
believable worlds
>>128649231
I dont have anything besides German and Hungarian as accepted right now. it took me until 1900 to become a republic and do the federation event. Now I have to wait for all the extra stuff to pop up. I literally just got the one about Hungary.
>>128649059
>Austria
>not possessing all of the balkans including Constantinople
Disgusting
>>128649358
>possessing useless clay and not just letting the shitstains govern themselves while raking in the profits and troops
go to school
>>128649314
Eh, you're gonna get it sooner or later, just blob right now.
>>128649358
>glorious Osterreich
>using the Pr*ssian rhetoric of blobbing into Balkans
Disgusting.
>>128649429
cant blob because just had a great war and i really have no desire to
Thanks BDSM mod.
>>128649496
>yellow commonwealth
ugh
>>128647549
Germany only had colonies because Otto caved to pressure from the powerful right-wing faction that wanted colonies because >prestige. It was literally jumping on the bandwagon.
>>128649496
Did they conquer all that or was it by a PU?
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads%2Fhearts-of-iron-iv-40th-development-diary-15th-of-january-2016.902478%2F
>>128649491
>no desire to blob
Are you feeling alright, Anon?
And I can't wait for the war leader to white peace France and not give me shit.
>>128649616
Agree.
>>128649713
They got the PU after forming the commonwealth I think.
![JLpQvQ5[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/V4vXrmB.jpg "JLpQvQ5[1].jpg")
>>128649727
>those shitty graphics
>that fucking English Channel
wew
>>128649834
>3/4 sea zones between france and UK depending on position
>Three seazones fro France and Spain
>finally get decision
>ignore all minorities demands for autonomy
>accept all the cultures I could through decisions
>mass revolt and I lose tons of accepted cultures
but i got the slovaks, croats, and poles on my side at least
somehow I got poles as soon as I annexed Poznan
>>128650731
this look fucking awful but I couldnt take more in just one war
its only temporary i swear
>>128650731
>intermarum Danubium
muh dik
>>128650874
Why and how did you take only half of Silesia?
>>128650874
B-but Silesia is literally one state, how did you only take a part of it?
>>128650874
were winnin hearts and minds here
>>128650956
war of unification CB
but I couldnt annex the whole thing with it, it only let me pick upper silesia
>>128651001
its not in HPM, its split into silesia and upper silesia
>>128651050
Which mod then?
>>128651180
>HPM
>>128651206
>>128651050 >its not in HPM
>>128651309
might be fucked because im using a color mod along with it, dont remember which one
in other news
>>128651050
>its not in HPM
Why even play the game if you aren't playing HPM?
>>128651701
t. HPM
There are many other fun mods, lad.
>>128651309
>>128651701
I am playing HPM
you guys misread what I said, when I said its not in HPM i was referring to silesia being a single state
>>128651748
There are other fun mods but HPM is the only one that fixes fundamental errors in the base game. All other mods are essentially using a broken base.
>>128651768
Silesia is a single state in HPM. I know because I played Poland recently.
>>128651860
well then it must be my color minimod
What Vicky2 country has the biggest potential to become the grössest? Germany, China, the US?
remove baguette
>>128651826
You're not wrong, but we had fun with vanilla (even before HoD and AHD) and that was broken as fuck. I don't see why we couldn't have fun with mods other than HPM now.
>>128651894
I don't think Country Colors changes the map at all.
>>128651902
Either USA or UK.
>>128652018
well the only 2 mods I have enabled are the 3.04 version of HPM and a color minimod
>>128652018
>we had fun with vanilla
Sure but to go from HPM to another mod would be a step backwards. We didn't know what we were missing out on in the vanilla days, that's why we managed to enjoy them.
>>128652130
G-d damn it, this whole discussion is so pointless, just because you're such a miser doesn't mean everyone else is. The most fun I had in Vic 2 for example was uniting the British Isles as Beatlemania in Visegrad Mod.
>>128652245
>just because you're such a miser
What do you mean? HPM and all other mods are free to download. There is no cost associated with them.
>>128651574
show pops
>>128652401
Sorry lad, my england is bad. Meant to say grump.
>>128652401
Except for Victoria Ultimate™
:^)
This cunt can't die fast enough.
>20+ years reign
>-80% Orthodox MA from Piety
>0.0% overall
Had 5 provinces within 3 days flip to Paulican... no shit. Cannot convert any provinces I have that need it. Only two rebellions so far - could be worse considering I have 9 that need work; 5 heretical, 4 pagan.
G'damn
>>128652468
which pops
>>128651701
>>128651826
>>128652130
>>128652401
you forgot your trip HPM
>>128652018
USA because of the pops, UK because of their good starting position?
>>128652587
>socialist party loyalty
>>128652587
>encouraging socialism
Anon, I...
>>128652587
craftsmen
>>128652657
>>128652678
i need social reforms and fascists arent going to win any time soon
>>128652609
US because it's the best empire in the history of mankind. UK because of their starting position, but also because they have some sick decisions, like forming the Commonwealth.
>>128652760
Why not communists?
Communism >>>> Socialism >>>> anything else
>>128652718
satisfied anon?
>>128652850
because planned economies are fucking cancer to manage
>>128639210
Considering my border's haven't changed, should I fix 2 Polands?
>>128652882
>planned economies are fucking cancer to manage
They are the same as State Capitalism 2bh
>>128653386
No, in state capitalism capitalists can still build stuff, especially railroads. To be honest I have no idea why would someone use planned economy over it.
>>128653386
>capitalists cant build or open factories
nope
too much micro for a huge country for it to be worth, id only do it if I changed that country's communist party to have state capitalism instead
>>128652882
>shift+click every 2 years is hard
>>128653559
this assumes you have max number of factories in every state
if you dont then youre just wasting your time building shit manually
anything over 10 states and theres no fucking way im doing planned economy
>>128653523
>>128653524
To build railroads you only need to ctrl+click once per state
And you only build factories in the beginning of the game, after you conquer a state or after you get a new type of factory. In all these cases it's easy 2bh
>>128653723
its easy but still a huge waste of time
try starting off with a planned economy with China
>>128653723
I'm to busy building factories in my spherelings and colonies to bother with my mainland.
>>128653815
Well, I like to take my time when playing so it's not something bad imo
>>128653909
its just something that is not really worth doing manually at all
like trade in HoI3, the only time youd do that manually is when youre not playing as a GP
>>128654126
>trusting that capitalists will build factories to get bonuses from the other factories/products made by the RGO
>>128654263
99% of the time it doesnt matter and in the times it does you can actually do it yourself manually
again, micro managing is only worth when youre playing smaller countries
starting a spain game
what are my goals
>tfw van halen is ur general
>>128654707
Restore order to your ex-colonies, reconquer south Italy.
>>128652657
>>128652678
nazi pls go
>>128655327
gommie pls go
>>128655327
>someone is against socialism
>"they must be a Nazi!"
>"Nazi"
>aka National-Socialist
Nazis -were- socialists you cunt. Go feel the Bern back on Reddit.
Japan is literally the worst ally in EU4.
They called me into a war against Korea, with Ming as an ally. Thinking because I had a military tech advantage as Manchu, id be able to stack wipe ming a few times pretty easily.
While Japan just sits on its island. Has enough cogs, and a navy, just wont get off the island.
So its pretty much a 2v1 shit show as ming and korea double team me, and force me to peace out, leaving me crippled, with so many provinces taken away from me im surprised Korea would pay that much diplo points for Ming.
>>128652245
>being literally a jew
>>128655593
>>128655593
Oh sorry did I trigger you?
>>128655689
>playing as a non european nation
>in a game called europa universalis
>>128655689
>trusting the asian jew
They probably knew you would lose the war, using it as a way to weaken you so they could invade you in the next few years goy.
>>128655689
>trust AI in a paradox game to use navies correctly
your own fault retard
>>128655689
never ally japan or england, that's a given in any paradox game
