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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, June 25th:
1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
1940 – World War II: France officially surrenders to Germany at 01:35.
1943 – The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
1947 – The Diary of a Young Girl (better known as The Diary of Anne Frank) is published.


>News
HOI4 DD17/06
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/hoi4-dev-diary-june-17th-patch-1-1-red-ball-express.949237/

CK2 DD 11 - The End of Days
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-developer-diary-11-the-end-of-days.950847

>Random Country Picker
http://randomcountry.gbasood.net/

# Archive
https://mega.co.nz/#F!WZZFXDyT!yyb25ZuLdLs0B8vhoKS3LA

# Mods
>> READ THIS FIRST.
http://pastebin.com/cCdcev76

>>[HoI4] - General Fixes V005
http://pastebin.com/ycs3f6UA

>>[CK2 - 2.5.2] - After The End
https://github.com/notalbanian/postapoc

>>[V2] - Historical Project Mod 0.3.5.1 - 20/06/2016
http://pastebin.com/66gpxbKk

>>[V2] - Napoleon's Legacy v0.3.1.7
http://pastebin.com/sN1g69sr

>>[V2] Alternative Flag Pack V7
http://pastebin.com/PRQH8vcV

>>[V2] Many Houses Divided - v 0.0.1.1
https://www.dropbox.com/s/jso7qa1c4ystej7/MHD.rar

Old Thread >>146481656
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Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.
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>>146537141
treddit
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>>146537305
its tru tho
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Willy
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all gay
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>>146537538
Nicky
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>>146536376
what do you mean by "complex"?
the only barrier to you enjoying the game is how long you've actually played it, it's actually really simple in comparison to dwarf fortress, heck, even in comparison to other paradox games.

A better question, I suppose, would be "How were you trying to play it?". Keep in mind, Crusader Kings is an RPG, not a wargame. Conquering shit isn't a requirement, and you can gain land and titles by a shitton of different methods, e.g marriage, plotting, fabricating claims, asking your liege, getting il papa to back you up etc. A lot of times, brute force just won't suffice, so playing like military is your only option will really limit you.
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Reminder to pay for the games you play
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>>146538680
pls buy my tank game
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>>146538746
Already did, Based Podcat
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New counters mod rids the game of meme counters.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/b3mze83257xm73f/newcounters.rar

If anyone has suggestions of new ones, or needs help creating their own, post.
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>Italy's starting tank division consists of four cavalry battalions, two motorized battalions and one tank battalion
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>>146538895
>Italians
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>>146538895
>Italian tank division

Well, there you go.
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>>146538895
>light tanks end up being faster than motorized

>motorized 12km/h
>mechanized 1 = 8km/h
>mechanized 2 = 10km/h
>mechanized 3 = 12km/h

>light tank 1 = 10km/h
>light tank 2 = 12km/h
>light tank 3 = 14km/h

So two questions here
Why the hell is motorized and mechanized so slow?
And
How am I supposed to keep organization up in my light tank divisions without slowing them down?
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>>146538860
wow good job taking out the helmet with the skull on it you fag

that was the best one
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>>146539174
>>146538895
>playing a broken game
Somehow this reminds me of pic related
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>playing ethiopian jews
>hoping for form israel
>fatimid blob refuses to collapse
>win an lose wars here and there
>fatimid blob more or less explodes
>one guy declares independence and another starts civil war over crown authority
>he's down to 5k men, this is my chance (he had recently beat me in a costly war (for both sides) for blemmiya
>wars going well, I've got blemmiya annexed and am now moving on to his other shit
>OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE he gets 18K TROOPS TOTAL
>pic related, this one 16k stack is now chasing after me, with like 4k horse archers

The only way I could explain this fuckery is him hiring a bunch of mercenaries, but hes in fucking debt
BRAVO PARADOX
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>>146539174
Everything is fucking slow in this game.

>leg infantry at 4km/h
>horses at 6.4km/h

Like what the hell is this molasses game?
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>>146539708
oh wait a second, its an 18k stack which hes dedicating to me even though hes in the middle of 2 civil wars
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>>146539174
you use mechanized with medium
>building light tank l8 game
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>>146539730

Not sure if you're joking, and I don't know shit about Military and Supply Trains, but those speeds seem entirely reasonable considering resting and waiting for supplies.
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>>146539708
>what is defensive war against heathen buffs
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>>146539801
That's because Paradox's AI is designed to go after the player, no matter what.
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>>146538860
Why not use NATO?
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>>146539708
just kite him around in the desert he'll lose most of it to attrition then bait him into a mountain battle
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>>146539919
those troops appeared out of fucking nowhere long into the war
>>146540006
I've tried that tactic several times in the past, but he just replenishes his troops really fucking quickly
which probably means mercenaries, but hes almost always in debt when at war with me
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>>146539730
>When I was in the army we did combat simulation marches of about 40 km. We had a speed of 4 km/h (including combat situations and river crossings and lunch break and me being "WTF, this lake isn't on the map!")
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>>146540006
>>146540103
that and all his fucking horse archers, I get steamrolled even if I bring down his troop count to a reasonable amount and bait into the mountains
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>>146538860
>gets rid of meme counters
>still has the eagle, eagle head, bear, katana, and palm tree and crossed rifles
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>>146540103
if you really wanna form israel just play as croatia or apulia, go on the crusade, make one of your sons jewish, and give him the crown, then eventually form israel.

one of the most fun games i played tbqh
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>>146539997
There is a additional NATO counters mod. This one is for people who like counters.
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>>146540250
but you'd just get steamrolled by seljuks/abbasids/whatever muslim blob is in power right after the crusade is done
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>>146540208
There are 20 changes. Perhaps you'd like the default cats.
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rule the waves torrent where
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>>146540414
nah. the kingdom of jerusalem has some juicy af provinces. i was playing with CK2+ which does give a unique treaty that lasts longer though i think.

Regardless within 3 years my vassal levies were more than capable of withstanding the crusades, let alone the islamic blob. personal levies was icing on the cake but pricey.
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>>146540735
I'm playing with ironman
Want that cheevo
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>>146540798
okay that makes sense.
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Has the 1.1.0 patch fixed the AI or it's still uncapable of doing anything besides moving troops randomly?
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>>146541165
AI still broken, but at least it doesn't strategic redeploy as much and no more hotpocket
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Is supporting the Chinese worth it as Germany?
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>>146541556
Provided they are handling the japs on their own, yes. They have shit tons of resources.
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>>146541556
>Not sending your best divisions with Rommel to the Japanese to roll over some chinks
>Not support the Japanese so they can take care of the Soviets later
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>>146539174
Light Tanks are recon units, it's basically a fast non-combat unit designed to cut supply lines.

or that's how I use them
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>tfw there's literally no reason to ever get heavy tanks
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Strategic bombing gives an insanely high amount of warscore, but if you save and load a game the warscore resets to 0.
How does shit like this make it into the release?
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>>146541837
Just like Advance Wars.
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>>146541837
>Put one into your infantry division
>Laugh as you take literally no damage, literally
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kek
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Wait since when has Hearts of Casual 4 been in the OP?
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>>146541837
Just like real life
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>>146541992
I bet they're socialist/communist
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Are Jake, Shen, Arumba ever going to play some fucking EU4 again or just god awful HOI4 and Stellaris?

I need something to pass time
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>>146541992
>normal day in liquoria 2
rebels sure are organized in the 1800s
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Will Johan ever fix this shitty meming in the steppes?
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>>146542114
They were republicans, but the similar one that made them a proletarian dictatorship had communists

>>146542131
Yeah I think there should be a way to prevent this shit from happening late game. I have like ~500k rebels pop up in my African colony in ethiopia/sudan/etc every 3-5 years
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>>146542412
The problem with the east in CK2 is that even though the provinces are so damn big they're still just one province and the AI treats it as if it was the same as Paris next to Orleans.
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>>146542412
are steppe hordes still OP?
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>playing multiplayer
>Germany flies 1000 strat bombers over southern england
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>>146542570
>are steppe hordes still OP?
I started at old gods.
I'll leave the decision up to you.
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>Spain Civil war over by Nov 1936
>too fast for me to get the Support Nationalist Spain focus
>no Spanish-Italian Alliance
>no Befriend Portugal

Might as well restart now, not even a year in yet.
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Recommend me pop-history pls
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>>146541837
What are you talking about? 40 tigers in a division can make a big difference.
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Thinking of getting hoi4 after playing 3, do bombers actually do anything in the game?
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>>146542918
>Spain Civil war over in early 1940
>world tension never got high, and Poland wasn't guaranteed
>WWII starts when Germany attacks France
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Is it worth it to make motorized infantry divisions, or are they just for increasing tank organization?
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fucking jacobins I HATE THEM
I HATE THEM
I HATE THEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pXxoyk5wOo
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>>146543129
yes
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>>146543129
bombing is how you make warscore
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>>146543560
t. bomber Harris
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>>146543439
jacobins are child's play compared to the communists and socialists. Join the 20th century
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Are female rulers overpowered?
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>>146543560
it no longer is the case since pod(pbuh) lowered warscore from bombing and made it decrease over time in the last patch

talking about last patch, can someone up it to mega?
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>>146543762
>Aztec empire
stop playing this meme game please
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>>146543762
>imgur filename
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>>146543913
It's my own image, I use imgur as an image folder because my hard drive has like 200 mb of free space.
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Has anyone made the following argument to Paradox and the Devs (about EU4)?:

1. Having Non-Europeans have a huge Technology penalty is racist (to varying degrees - especially biased against Africans and Native Americans)
2. Makes the game unbalanced and unplayable for some regions
3. Is generally stupid in a strategy game and unprofessional. GOAT Strategy games like AoE, Civ and others didn't give arbitrary maluses to, for instance, The Zulu, Aztecs, Inca, etc.

I'm new here and trying to learn EU4 but it's so fucking stupid everyone outside of Europe is useless. Any mods to fix this problem? Thanks for any help. Any good youtubers to watch to help learn? I've been watching Quill18 and I like him and his personality a lot.
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>>146543985
I dunno about EU4 but CK2 LITERALLY tells you straight up that the starting points are horribly unbalanced, and that this is intentional for historical accuracy.
Said accuracy goes out of the window once you unpause, of course.
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>>146543985
>Aztec Empire

What?
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Do you believe in Italy, /gsg/?
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>>146544257
They had a really shit army but their navy was ok
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>>146543439
What if Alex is flying to london to fight in the 2nd Jacobite rebellion?
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>>146544257
roman embire :DDD
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I am relatively new at these games, any tips on how I can into brazil in hearts of iron 4?
I always reach a point where I cant really do anything because I am busy kicking the constantly off onto my shores every other moment and all my attempts to get them on my side before they get involved fails
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>>146544395
b-but muh horses
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>>146541746
>>146541790
Japs managed to get bogged down on the chinese border and even their two landings seem to be running out of steam

Maybe i should reload and support the chinese
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The initial round of gunfire killed only the Tsar, the Empress and two male servants, and wounded Grand Duchess Maria, Dr Botkin and the Empress' maidservant, Demidova. At that point the gunmen had to leave the room because of smoke and toxic fumes from their guns and plaster dust their bullets had released from the walls. After allowing the haze to clear for several minutes, the gunmen returned. Dr Botkin was killed, and a gunman named Ermakov repeatedly tried to shoot Tsarevich Alexei, but failed because jewels sewn into the boy's clothes shielded him. Ermakov tried to stab Alexei with a bayonet but failed again, and finally Yurovsky fired two shots into the boy's head. Yurovsky and Ermakov approached Olga and Tatiana, who were crouched against the room's rear wall, clinging to each other and screaming for their mother. Ermakov stabbed both young women with his 8-inch bayonet, but had difficulty penetrating their torsos because of the jewels that had been sewn into their chemises. The sisters tried to stand, but Tatiana was killed instantly when Yurovsky shot her in the back of her head. A moment later, Olga too died when Ermakov shot her in the jaw.

This is the mercy the communists will afford you if you let them win!
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>>146544516
>that grip
I think that picture belongs in /mbg/
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>>146513903
What is this mod?
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>>146544530
Happens every time for me
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Is there ANYTHING worse to watch that DDRJake's Twitch chat? He's great to watch, but good god are those Mods massive faggots.

I'm so sick of HOI4 and Stellaris (What a terrible fucking game, lmao) already, please fucking play EU4. His Bad Ideas Guy run was pretty great and I was p. surprised he stayed consistent with being as awful as possible on purpose. He won wars I would have thought impossible and I easily learned the most in Tactics from that series, even though EU4 is so simple and easy a Negro could master it - right, /gsg/?
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>>146544561
>tfw the same fate didn't befall Lenin
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remember to pre order 'The end of Days' expansion for CK2
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>jacobin rebels and reactionaries fight side by side
REALLY nice game paracucks
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>Frogs in charge of starting a war they can finish
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I just learned the little buttons beside tanks/aircraft upgrade the tanks/make carrier variants

is this why my tanks have sucked and my navies have been shit?
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Why the fuck does it take forever to train divisions in hoi4
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>>146545292
You only need 20% exp to deploy them early.
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>>146544257

I'd really like a new Fiat Miata (124 Spyder), but they took the easy route with the engine. I wish they made it slightly longer/wider and gave it a nice Italian V6 or small, high-revving Inline-6.

Turbo 4 Cylinders can really fuck off. Absolutely terrible sound and boring ass powerband.

>tfw when Turbos ruined German Sports cars and are now even ruining Italian cars

Too bad /o/ is the worst board ever and filled with 13 year olds, cars are pretty great overall right now.
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>>146543985
Butthurt brown people have made that argument countless times.

>muh racism
literally what happened IRL
>Makes the game unbalanced and unplayable in some regions
GS games aren't supposed to be balanced, they're supposed to be historically accurate. Non Europeans aren't for new players because they were hilariously weak IRL and got owned by Europe.
>Is generally stupid in a strategy game and unprofessional.
EU4 is a historical GS game, not an RTS or 4x like AoE and Civ which are made just for the strategy part (though you can roleplay in civ if you have the right mods). It takes place in a time when Europe could BTFO any non European army they faced. It would be stupid as hell to see the Aztecs invading Spain in 1492.

If every nation was as powerful as Europe the game would be boring as hell. One of the funnest moments i had in EU3 was when i played as the Incas and fended off Spain till the end of the game. Non europeans aren't unplayable your 4x ass just doesn't know how to play as one.

>Any mods to fix this problem?
Unfortunately paradox has decided to give in to revisionists and brown people and soon we will need mods just to make Europe powerfull like it was IRL. Sub Saharan Africans can now beat Europeans armies by the 1600's and playing as as a non European is no longer fun unless you restrict yourself to never westernizing.

You 4x cancer ruined this game.
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>>146543985
>>146544073

In private the guys at Paradox openly admit their games are racist towards RoTW for 'historical accuracy'.

It's a hotly debated topic internally between the afforementioned 'historical' and making non-Europa playable. They went too far towards history imo and nerfed the Americas, Africa, Asia too much, imo. Once you beat up Europe in EU4 it's like fighting a handicapped child when you move on to the RoTW.

Maybe there are balance mods out there, I don't know though.
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>>146545556
KEK
Europe's advantage only came to be a couple of centuries later. The system that Paradox employed for EUIV was dumb.
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I'm disappointed by the lack of "feeling" and "atmosphere" in HoI 4 and was considering writing a series of events and event chains to rectify it.

Basically my idea is for there to be a percentage chance after a battle is finished that an event triggers. This event looks at data from the battle - casualties, strength of each side fighting, magnitude of victory, length, terrain, etc. - and generate a brief description of the battle and its aftermath. The idea is that these events would mostly pop after battles over important victory points - e.g. when a "Stalingrad" happens over Paris in 1940 ending in the French routing the Germans from the capital you get some narrative out of it, instead of it just being a red blob that turns into a green blob that ends with their armies retreating one province that gets lost in the flurry of arrow-drawing and that you may not even know occurred.

I'm roughly familiar with writing events from EU4, however to write these events and event chains I need the values I talked about to actually be exposed - when a battle ends, the terrain, the strength of each side, if it occurred over a victory point, blah blah blah - so that I can use them.

My question is: are they?

And if they are, the next stage of the mod proposal would be that if particular divisions are present in big battles they might end up being "tracked" divisions, where you get little division-specific events every so often letting you know what they're up to. So you might end up with "hero divisions" with long, glorious histories that actually mean something to you instead of just being one of 800 divisions on the Eastern front.
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>>146543985
fuck off faggot, if you want to play a game where non euros can beat Europeans buy CK2 which takes place when europe was still technologically behind instead of shitting up EU4.
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>>146545556

I assumed Paracuck capitulated over time to the Marxist egalitarian faggots. There is no way in hell Africans, Natives, etc were able to Westernize or had decent units, right?

I need to go back to older Patches and forget EU4 has 20 fucking DLC (I only have Art of War, Res Republica for essential mechanics).
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>>146545890

Sorry, I was trolling and thought it would be too obvious of b8 and we would all have a chuckle at Niggers and the revisionist Marxist cucks on the Forums (from the little reading I've done).

Basically just venting about Paradox and their cancerous Forums.
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Anyone know what happened to that executable DLC activator that was in the archive for EU4? I can't play any of my dlcs with achievements on anymore.
Was it removed because of piracy concerns by 4chan?
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>>146546171
Any normal day i would've called it out as bait but right now there is a massive paradox sale on steam and we've had an influx of newfags from /v/eddit.
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>>146546171
>Sorry, I was shitposting
Fixed that for you.
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>>146546223

Wait, it's possible to pirate DLC and still get Achievements? Oh boy.
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>>146545269
Variants are handy if you have the XP, and you are not researching the next level at the time.
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>>146546289
Well it was when there was the EXE file.... I think the CK2 archive still has a version of that activator.
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>>146546329
DON'T, IT'S VIRUS
buy the game goy
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>>146546289
No steam will only give achievements to games the account has bought
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>>146546386
Well I bought the game, I just pirate some of the recent DLCs...
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So hoy4 is 20% off on GMG.
Is it worth it?
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>>146546386

Not original guy asking for it but I have legit. EU4 with Art of War and Res Republica. I want some other DLCs but am not about to pay for them.

I want to be able to get Achievements to give me direction. Fuck's sake, I paid like $10 or $15 for Res Republica solely for the Monarch Point Focus button. Fuck Paradox, I'm not buying any DLC from them ever again and certainly not buying that trainwreck of a half-finished, third-rate game Stellaris
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>>146546363
The only other place I've seen it was a russian hacker forum
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How do I assimilate this
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>>146546454
>>146546626
You have to have the content that the achievement is tied to to get the achievment i.e. if you want the Pax Mongolica achievement in CK2 you need memelords DLC
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>>146546831
That's not true, in the past I was able to get those achievements with the DLC Activator.
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Is CK2 fine as a base game without any dlc? If not, which dlc should I pick up as a beginner?
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>>146546727
you can't unfortunately

you need a core there and they can't have a core there to assimilate
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>>146546727

What would Hitler do?
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>>146546958
Start a two-front war.
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>>146546958
Turks are aryan
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>>146546886
What achievement was it and what DLC were you missing?
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>>146545747
So, nobody knows?
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>>146546905
the free of charge DLC pack in the OP which works flawlessly with steam
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>>146546727
Close any factories and neglect literacy until all Turkish craftsman pops are sub 100 size.

Start a quick factory, put soldier focus on to prevent Turkish people promoting.

Close your Greek factories when the factory is built, then close the factory in the state once more than ~150 Greek craftsmen are in each province.

Reopen your Greek factories and close your Anatolian ones for a month, watch as the Turkish craftsmen disappear, then commit to raising literacy and craftsmen in the area.

>>146546912
You're just not being gamey enough.
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>>146546905
just use the archive for the base game and use all dlc before memelords minus sunset invasion. After you get the hang of it turn on memelords for a bit and try it out. Just don't use conclave it's cancer.
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just installed horse lords and tried one of the nomads
what in the FUCK is going on
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>>146546727
rough playthrough huh
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>>146547212
They are OP if you don't limit yourself
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It took a while, and a few minutes clicking around on a russian Grand strategy forum but I've found the executable DLC activator.
I do not guarantee that its not a virus...
https://yadi.sk/d/oVOwJQ7XZ5DvX
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>>146547271
so I've heard, but jesus fucking christ
what is this clan system? what is the new pop system? why is my map such a clusterfuck with tributaries? etc etc
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>>146546727
genocide is the easiest way
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>>146546727
in this situation it's better to just have POPs of primary or accepted cultures move there.

If you're playing HPM turn fascist and genocide them.
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>>146547283
It appears to be the one that used to be in the archive, I guess who ever maintains that should include it...
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I'll give someone $100 to get Ryukyu and 1001 Province achievements for my EU4 account.
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>>146547361
Read the wiki, goyim!
t. Memeth
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>>146547152
what's the point of the 4th paragraph there?

Is there anything that gamey for colonies?
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>>146547375
How do you have pops move? Does it just happen over time? Encouraging immigration generally seems like it doesn't do shit
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>>146547658
Colonies are the same thing, except you need to turn them into a state before building a factory.

Fourth paragraph ensures all the craftsmen starve for a month and shrink in size, which means the sub-100 Turkish craftsmen disappear and all future craftsmen fold into the Greeks.
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>>146546727
>Occitanian
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>>146547808
if there is good jobs there they'll move

For example, i was playing as the CSA once and all my dixie POPs overran my Texan and Cherokee POPs when oil was discovered in their provinces.

This is why the factory trick the other anon was talking about works.
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>>146548035
Well, sort of.

The factory trick is exploiting some bizarre pop coding that essentially makes it impossible for pops smaller than 100 to coexist alongside larger pops of the same pop type, which makes it fold new pops from anyone into the pre-existing pop (unless the new pop would be over size 100, which can happen in populated provinces).

You only need those first couple hundred immigrants for every future craftsman from any pop to be the right culture.

They still initially move to be where the jobs are, so that part's right.
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black ice for HOI4 when?
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>>146548523
what's the point of that
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>>146548574
make the game realistic and playable
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>>146548663
what's the point of that?
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>>146548663
And laggy.
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>>146548663
play HOI3 for that
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How to invade Greece without getting cucked by England and France?

Fuckers invaded me from the ocean.
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>>146544530

>Doing a meme British Empire playthrough to celebrate the Brits crashing the union

>Japan somehow anachlusses China by late '39

>goes around Tibet and attacks India from two sides

>got dragged into a war with the whole fucking Comintern when Republican Spain won the civil war and got uppity for Gibraltar

>Japan just invaded SA somefuckinghow

A-at least I knocked Spain and Italy out, and Hitler just asked for a non-aggression pact.

Historical AI focus btw
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Will Paraflops ever recover after releasing:

Stellaris - 3/10 game, clearly unfinished, boring
HOI4 - meme audience, dumbed down, WOAT AI

Clearly there's no EU5 on the Roadmap since they can keep releasing awful $20 DLC indefinitely for EU4 and the cucks will eat it up and thank Paradox on their knees.

What happened to Paradox? Were they always this bad?
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>learning german
>decide to play the german version of vicky 2 to help me learn
>play as gross germania of course
>do some roleplaying to help myself learn
>write entire speeches for the Kaiser in german

this is fun lads
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>>146548773
Vicky 3 when?
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>>146548695
have fun playing the game
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>>146548787
dont learn german if you ever want to laugh at downfall parodies or the german soldiers in COD.
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>>146548773
Hyperbole
Stellaris is a 5/10, 7/10 with the 40 mods I run

DW is a 9/10 and if the UI didn't look like a windows 95 game it would be 10/10 easy
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Is HOI4 fun if I just want to paint the world as a minor nation like Ireland?
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>>146548923
what mods
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>>146548967
No because even if you conquer the entire Reich you'll get cucked out of the land at the peace conference.

Just like real life.
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>>146548974
beautiful battles, nearly every cosmetics mod, traits, no biased systems and random start to name a few.

I even tried the alpha mod, it needs balancing, but it looks promising.
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>german franche-comte
t. Alex Grandi
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pbuh
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>>146549041
Can't I just remain factionless and hope I can beat up the UK?
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>>146548923

DW? And I'm being serious about Stellaris being a boring/incomplete game past the initial few hours playing it. I think they dropped the ball hard on what could've been an enthralling game with deeper mechanics.
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>>146549268

>implying that will help
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give me 10 reasons why HOI3 is better than HOI4
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>>146549305
Distant Worlds.
I agree they dropped the ball on distant worlds, but disagree on your score.

Now when they roll out 1.2 your score might be far more accurate.
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>>146549382
>Give me 10 reasons why i shouldnt play DH instead
Johan fuck off pls
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>>146549402
meant dropped the ball on stellaris obviously
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>>146549354
You're saying I can't get territory even if I'm factionless and am unaffected by other peace deals?
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>>146549263

Dear Shen:

Please stop playing fucking Stellaris and HOI and make EU4 videos or even Rimworld or something. Nobody wants to watch HOI/Stell (Stellaris is particularly awful to watch) and return to your bread + butter content.

Shen's the best to watch in terms of gameplay pace + non-pozzed commentary whereas DDRJake has the WOAT chat and Arumba is on literal suicide watch. Any other non-'SJW' (for lack of a better term, hate the acronym) EU4 channels that don't suck ass? I absolutely can not stand Quill.
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>>146549649
Arumba is handsome desu
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give me 10 reasons why Hitler is better than Mussolini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GBct3m-pIg
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>>146549598
Yes. I was just playing a game as Romania and had occupied the entirety of Germany, but Germany had a separate war against the USSR. The USSR changed Germany's government in the separate peace, and I had to give up all my occupied territory and drop my war and have peace with the new German government.
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>>146549720
They both were cancer.
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>>146549702

He lost weight and looks good now. It was in some recent stream of some sort. Too bad he had mud babies and is so fucked up from his dad commiting suicide among other things.

Learned EU4 from him and hope he pulls his shit together, thought his commenters did 100% deserve to get nuked. It became a Reddit-tier circle jerk about making fun of Americans for being 'uneducated' in History/Geography.
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>>146544530
Jap is supposed to get bogged down by China
that's why you send your 40 width aimed with artillery and großtraktor to mow down some rice farmers
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>>146549649
>WOAT chat
those mods are on some power trips
>instant timeout for getting out of jake's feels good zone
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What flag would an Australia puppeted by Japan in WW2 have?
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>>146537208
1991 - Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia, prompting the Ten-Day War
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>>146549649
Jake needs to play more weeaboo games
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>>146550304
nm I used the naval ensign anyway
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>>146545621
>Once you beat up Europe in EU4 it's like fighting a handicapped child when you move on to the RoTW.
Man, just like it actually played out in history, huh?
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>>146545621
>>146550925
Well, if anything EU4 gives RoTW more chances than they ever got historically.
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>>146544561
Lmao, how can someone be so inefficient and incompetent?
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>>146550238

His Mods are some of the most genuinely pathetic people I've ever seen. Especially AELicious and RedArremer.

>have mom wake them up when DDRJake starts streaming
>constantly make unfunny comments nitpicking and mocking Jake
>absolutely no fun allowed even if it's not cancerous memes
>kick people for any comment right of Karl Marx

I wish he'd remove that trash from his Youtube uploads, I'm weak and can't ignore it. Apparently Paradox fans are 90% smug Euros who have to constantly signal how much smarter and more enlightened they are than Americans. It's so prevalent in comments/chat/Pdox Forums.
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>>146545747
>>I'm roughly familiar with writing events from EU4, however to write these events and event chains I need the values I talked about to actually be exposed - when a battle ends, the terrain, the strength of each side, if it occurred over a victory point, blah blah blah - so that I can use them.
>My question is: are they?
Maybe try rephrasing your question
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>>146551218
Basically, in EU4 there are certain values that you can hook into. Things like stability.

You can write, in effect, "if stability is less than 1 then there's a 50% chance of this event happening, and if stability is less than 2 then there's an additional 25% chance of this event happening". You can reference numbers and values and the game already knows what you're talking about.

My question is, are the values that I want to use to control when events happen actually exposed in the event code - values like where a battle happens, how long it lasted, who fought it, etc.

I know that these things are recorded (you can mouse over a battle to see how long it has been going for), but that doesn't necessarily mean that value is accessible from the events end of things.
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>>146551179

>Apparently Paradox fans are 90% smug Euros who have to constantly signal how much smarter and more enlightened they are than Americans

Sounds like you are taking it personally lad
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>>146551179
>watching some stream the other day and saw a new BTTV emo.
>decide to use some random offline stream to test which was jake's channel.
>timeout because the cucks were still on it for some reason

Guess they never sleep
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>>146551373
I have no idea, sorry
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Any mods to fix these retarded peace deals yet? Here's a pic I posted the other day.
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>>146513903
Second part of the Brexit megacampaign with the hyperweapon mod.

We begin with Sigeric being lucky
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>>146544561
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>>146551373
they don't even have post battle casualties, equipment loss, ect in HOI4 so you can't possibly get those data
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>>146551629
Chancellor is efficient as always, Sigeric is quickly gifted with another forged claim to push for Kent against his Lord with a possessed wife.
His average cock is no match for Sigeric
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>>146551774
Meanwhile Charlememe got keked in a triple war against Bavaria, Saxony and Blobhemia.
I suspect coalitions memes were at work here.

Anyway he's nearly bankrupt and has a tiny dick
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>>146551626
The only solution I've found is to not ally anyone and just puppet everything that you don't want to conquer so you are the only one who can do anything in the peace deal.
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>>146551857
What do?
Is Sigeric a good goy?
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>>146551462

Of course I take it personally, to some degree. These are the pathetic cucks who are destroying Europe with the enlightened 'tolerance', and they're annoying as hell think they're smarter than the Americans.

The annoying part is I don't know why Jake encourages the shit when he himself throws out the Bantz but lets his Mods b& anyone who calls out the echo chamber. This is making me sound autistic when I've never even watched him live - I watch some his stuff on Youtube and it's hard to ignore the comment box.

I've heard him drop a lot of far-right memes so I have no idea what his real political/social views are. I enjoyed his videos a lot more when he was condescending to viewers or just ignored comments entirely, shit's changed, mayne.
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>>146551629
>>146551774
>>146551857
>>146552006
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>>146551470

What's a BTTV emo?
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>>146552032
>These are the pathetic cucks who are destroying Europe with the enlightened 'tolerance', and they're annoying as hell think they're smarter than the Americans.
>uses cuck unironically
No wonder they thin they're smarter than you
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Whats better CK2+ or HIP
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>>146552128

What a fag.
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>>146552094
twitch chat emote
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>tfw created a new account because banned from ddrjake's chat
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Spaghetti magic
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>>146550637
Almost got it...
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>>146552712

What u get banned for, m8?
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>>146552712

>Taking part in Twitch chat
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>>146552128

Canadian, Swede or German detected. How pathetic.
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>>146552848
insulting the mods during a shen raid
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>>146552812
They fixed Cagliari: in 1.0 it was called Caligari.
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>>146552863
I spam PogChamp because it's like cheering for your team at a sport event desu
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>>146552919
>being a literal underage
>wondering why yuropoors make fun of you
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>>146552825
Epic
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>>146552959

What goes on during a Shen raid? What bag of memes does Shen even have?

I've never been on Twitch, it seems pretty fuckin cancer desu senpai. Why do you subject yourself to it?
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FACT:

85% of the shitposting in this general usually occurs around this time of the day.
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>>146553020
it was a while back when I used to like shen
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>>146553023
The locale steel factory has lunch break
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>>146552991

I'm 27 and my IQ is 128-132. Want to fight me 1v1 IRL?

>defending DDRJake's Mods and Chat 'culture' any time

Seriously though, what's your fookin angle here. It's straight up awful.
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>>146553023
>tfw12:32 in central europe
Merely coincidence
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Imagine if someone was new to CK2 and they didn't know the secret to winning every battle is to promote commanders until you have solid 18+ in every rank
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>>146553138
>my IQ is
Holy shit my sides I'm fucking dying
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>>146553138
>I'm 27 and my IQ is 128-132.
Ell oh ell
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6am on January 1st 1941 - Australia and New Zealand officially enter the war fighting for the Axis
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Alright everyone, post your stats
>19
>IQ: 280-325
>Bench press: 1-1.2 tons
>Pussies slain: 4500-5200
>Net worth: $8.6-9.1 bn
>Daily time spent in /vg/: 8-9 hours
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>>146553395
What are you doing here Donald? Don't you have golf courses to open?
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>>146553395
Arumba?
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>>146553395
>he's below 6'4
Manlets get out
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>>146553395
>bragging on a map simulator general.

What is wrong with you anon?
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>>146553395
>32
>Mil. Score: 924
>World Wars won: 3
>Steel output: 14769/day
>Cash 81M
>Daily time spent invading France: 24h
>>
>As of Britain's Independence Day, the mod is no longer being worked on because the game is broken beyond all possible repair. All modders feel free to modify this however you want to, because I am not wasting any more arduous labour on Johan's shekel collector 2016.

what did he mean by this?
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>>146553395
>22
>IQ: 82
>Bench press: 5 kg
>Pussies slain: 0
>Net worth: $16
>Daily time spent in /vg/: 18 hours
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>>146553332
>tfw HOI3 BI Japan is the best gsg experience you will ever get

>all those naval invasions
>naval production having to be planned perfectly so you have enough against the US but dont overproduce
>all that autistic plan drawing for the strat resources of Asia
>the grand encirclement of China by invading from their jungle below with jungle SF, and plains above with armored divisions
>having to re-adjust all those divisions later by making them lighter on oil consumption for the invasion of India
>all those blockades of UK ports and the Naval Bomber port strike spam

And all you do in HOi4 is draw a single (one) arrow to India to end up with the entire China and half of India in 3 to 4 years
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>>146553545
>Willy will never invade your anus
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>>146553395
Wow, you're so cool, I wish I was like you.
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>>146553395
>18
>IQ: 1933-1945
>Bench press: 9.11 tons
>Pussies slain: 1836-1936
>Net worth: 4.5 billion USD
>Daily time spent in /vg/: 10-18 hours pls help
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>grand arrow strategy general
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>>146553749
>net worth isn't 6 gorillion
7/10 for memes
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>>146553849
stale imo
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Planning on picking up EUIV on sale.
What are some must have major DLCs and which ones should I avoid?
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>>146554016
MODS
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>>146554140
Just buy the base game and yarr the DLCs.
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played eu4, is eu3 still worth getting?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/25800/

inb4 just pirate it XD
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>>146554270
tried this, the DLC's copied fine but didn't appear in the game's DLC list.
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>>146554270
Okay. Which DLCs should I yarr?
My main concern is if any of the newer expansions actually make the game worse.
I'm not at all interested in all the unit packs/music packs and shit.
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I think I fucked my south america, All I wanted to do was dick around to learn shit and now the place is crawling with Japanese, nazis and fascist American troops as well civil wars in brazil and argentina
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>>146554301
Some people say EU3 is better than 4. I say they're looking through rose tinted glasses and both are equally bad but in different ways.
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