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How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This day in history, June 27th:
1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
1743 War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: in Bavaria, King George II of Britain personally leads troops into battle. The last time a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1929 1st color TV demo (NYC)
1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London


>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] - More Music Mod
https://mega.nz/#F!v5wXURpJ!TvoBinBVQWJbaYJsluyoFA

>>[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 >>146695260
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Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.
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>>146755372
Good hoi4 when
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>>146755489
Never
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When's the new CK2 DLC dropping?
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>>146755571
See >>146755558
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What did he mean by this?
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>>146755676
Wew wiz
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>>146755676
Based Wiz fighting for equality
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>>146755676
Or this.
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>>146755676
Is wiz retarded?
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>>146755793
>>146755676
Wiz really has lost isn't it?
What happened?
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>>146755816
yes
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>>146755676
>he doesn't put on sunscreen just because his hair is on fire
>he thinks burning hair will protect him from sunburns
Lmaoing @ wiz's life
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>>146755816
Very much
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>>146755816
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>>146755847
Paradox happened.
You need to have a SJW credentials to work at paradox.
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>>146755962
So fucking salty
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Literally what the fuck are you talking about wiz
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>>146756126
>Dog catches car, gets in driver seat, makes suicide run on the European economy.

I don't get it
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>>146756159
>>146756126
I think that was an attempt at s metaphor
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>>146756208
But what the fuck does it mean?
Britain is a dog and the EU is the car and britain rode in the backseat, hijacked it and crashed?
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>>146755962
>respectfully disagree x30
>respectfully disagree x12
>all those agrees on wiz low-class banter
Why are pdoxforum posters such stockholm syndromed cucks?
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>>146756126
>Dog catches car, gets in driver seat, makes suicide run on the European economy.

huh.. now THAT really made me think...
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>>146756293
But what does it mean.
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>>146756260
Wiz is retarded, it doesn't make any sense.
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This has to be the most boring great war ever. At least Austria and France got btfo'd so now maybe Russia can help me take back some Serbian clay.
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>>146756360
>vanilla neon flags
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>>146756360
Its looks more like a curbstomp
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>Just playtested Victoria's Secret. Well I am hyped! Ludwig-sempai will protect his dear little spherelings! <3

Weebs, not even once
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>>146756360
>literally the whole world vs austria and france
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>>146756360
SERBIA BIG

Only problem now is that the Ottoman Empire is in the Russian's sphere, and so am I. The rest of Serbia is going to be super hard to get, and I've been trying to get a crisis there since the start of the game.
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>>146756602
Terrible borders
God vanilla is an eye sore
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This is where the DLC money is being invested.
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>>146756602
>prussia conquers bohemia
>can't form germany
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Would it be possible to mod battles in EUIV so that armies are far less likely to have a broken retreat and instead perish under most circumstances?
Battles as they are currently in the game feel almost irrelevant to the outcome of any war as any defeated army just comes back two months later at full strength and it makes defeating powerful nations as small ones almost impossible.
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>>146756658
Download where
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>>146756658
Is he really working on that shit?
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>>146756728
I think so, did you check defines.lua?
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>>146756336
Wiz is too euphoric for you, your lesser mind can't understand him
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>>146756752
See >>146756486
I have no fucking idea what that was about but it does seem like a waste of time.
Time that could be spent doing better things like adding jan mayen to every game or zombies to ckw.
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>>146756789
Then explain to a lesser mind because I literally can't understand his dog shit.
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>>146756697
Oh you are so wrong. This Germany is properly Groß.
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Anyone know when the final 1.1 patch for hoi4 will be released?
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>>146756990
Jesus christ
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>>146756990
That looks awful.
>Germany will never take poland.
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>>146757046
Before their vacations in july
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>>146757046
Sometime this year
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>>146755430
bump
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Hearts of Iron IV confirmed shit

>AI can barely create new divisions, just spams hundreds of infantry divisions without support so if you as much as add a brigade or two of artillery to your infantry-congrats you're undefeatable, build some proper armour and you'll conquer the world. It's easy as fuck to conquer half the world with Poland.
>AI apparently has no priorities at all, Italy will send a hundred divisions to Ethiopia and Lybia, conquering half of Africa, while their core provinces are invaded by the UK. Thus the UK has the same problem, will invade shit but wont defend what it already has
>The AI will send troops by sea no matter if it has a navy or not, losing dozens of divisions, cue Italy sending shit trough the English channel for no fucking reason
>At the same time the German AI will ignore the obvious threats from, lets say, Italy being invaded by the allies, it will instead just let Italy be over run while it garrisons the Yugoslav border with 30 divisions a few provinces aside
>"Historical focus" box apparently does nothing, US, Japan, Italy, etc regularly enter the war in 1939, everyone declares on everyone, everything just turns into a clusterfuck of wars involving the entire world, hardly if ever they're even close to being historical, instead you get shit like 100 soviet divisions moving trough Axis nations to attack the allies (the fuck?)
>the AI is using its "planning bonus" before invading province that literally have no troops. Thus divisions are chilling on an empty province waiting to invade with the all important bonus.
>the AI is busy strategically redeploying half of the army along the front at all times anyway so they're at low org constantly
>AI can't even keep ships together, most are in port anyway and can be killed with NAV's even if you don't have a single fighter, bombs are teleported anyway.
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>>146756990
>doesn't own all of AH
>doesn't own the lowlands
>doesn't own all of northern italy
>properly gross
You still have ways to go me m8
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>>146757250
>the most effective airwing is 3 fighters per squadron, lmao you thought micromanaging was bad in hoi 3? Tough luck, now go reorganizing your airforce in 1000 airwings of 3 to max your K/D
>lmao you thought the plans would reduce micro? Tough luck, now instead of controling individual divisions you can unfuck the fronts/armies every 5 minutes, especially if you create a pocket, and you can do all that while your divisions and armies are just fucking blobs on the map with allies mixed in, just to make it more fuckable and tedious
>The AI is busy strategically redeploying half of the army along the front at all times if you so much as take a new province so they're at low organisation anyway at all times
>Naval strategies? You don't need them, just mass every ship together and kill everything that floats
>Supplies? What supplies? You don't need oil to fuel tanks silly or food for infantry, or ammunition or anything else, just some arbitraray supply limits in provinces do the tricks.
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>>146757270
He's playing as Serbia you teenager retard.
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Is AARnon here?
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>>146757393
I think he's american so he's here usually later.
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>>146756658
What is this?
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>>146757393
He was playing Witcher 3 last time I saw him, look him at its general

He's probably the Trissfag
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>>146757453
It's victoria's secret, by martin "Dog catches car, gets in driver seat, makes suicide run on the European economy" Anward
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>>146757330
Doesn't change the fact that Germany isn't "properly gross".
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>>146757453
A joke game some autists here are taking too seriously.
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>>146756990
Austria-Hungary is now basically gone. They were really strong up until they lost the Great War. Now Romania, Russia, Italy, and myself have been taking pieces of them in subsequent wars.

Is there any hope for me about reclaiming the southern Serbian lands from the Ottomans? Should I break off relations with Russia and try to align with the new German state instead?
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>60 posts in.
>Thread is mostly on topic.
Been a while since I saw /gsg/ this good.
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>>146757627
>a-h turd sitting on Romania's heas
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>>146757330
>he doesn't changeowner Germany's rightful lands if AI Germany fucks up
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Hey senpai. You may remember me from a few threads ago. It's 1954 and the Netherlands has been sucked into Allies vs. (Axis and Comintern). I plan to finish this game tonight.

So far:

Military Casualties:
Axis Casualties: 42.68 million.
Allied Casualties: 30.996 million.
Comintern Casualties: 10.847 million.

Civilian Casualties are probably around double the military casualties according to actual WW2 figures, so let's say 170 million.

That's 11.07% of the world's population, compared to WW2's actual 3%.

For the Netherlands in particular, I'm at 0 manpower and I'm using scraping the barrel, so that means a quarter of the population is dead _not including civilian deaths_ (although there will be proportionately less of those, because by Scraping the Barrel I turn civilian deaths into military deaths).

L I T E R A L L Y the end of the fucking world.

And we're not done yet.
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>>146757627
You are taking croatia, right?
Right now your borders are shit.
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>>146757739
>making germany even more OP
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Should I keep the Philippines under direct control or puppet them?
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>>146755430
>>146757643
>>146757234
t. r&i
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>>146757627
What is going on with that independant Italian state? Why is that a thing?
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>>146757753
That'd completely unrealistic
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>>146757837
Direct control
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>>146757768
There's very few Serbs living in that area. Seems a bit blobby if you ask me.
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>>146757941
Croats are Serbs you mong
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>>146757838
>Literally samefag 30 posts in your autistic thread.
>Comes here calling samefags.
Wew.
Go back to your thread, this thread is much better when your steamgroup is spamming your childish shit in a dead general only for you to see.
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>>146757941
All I see is a place full of serbs
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>>146757941
Your borders will look like shit without croatia
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>>146758006
Just report and ignore them m8.
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>>146757992
t. milošević
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>>146758006
>implying
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>>146757941
I'll probably take Croatia just to make my borders a bit more nice.

In other news Communists rebels just broke the Ottoman Empire, removing them from Russian protection, meaning a war for southern Serbia is near at hand. Lady luck smiles on Serbia today.
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>>146758284
>that protusion in montenegro
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>>146757884
Any history game that doesn't turn out as a 1:1 replica of history is unrealistic. History can only happen the way it did.
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>>146757753
You could consider changing your land doctrine to the ones that give man power if you already haven't. Though it takes time but undermanned divisions are pretty much useless.
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>>146758284
You can't experience a few potato famines without picking up a few tricks.
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>>146758431
There are levels of unrealistic, that's just retarded
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>>146756658
Someone post the picture of the EA building across the street with the tank, I think there was a Girls und Panzer figure on top of it
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>>146758436
So the war is going well enough that I can actually expand a bit further than I planned. I already added goals to take my cores of Southern Serbia and Northern Macedonia.

What else?
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>>146758586
Montenegro
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How long is it going to take for Indonesia to get cores on Borneo, Celebes and New Guinea? I want to liberate them for muh coprosperity sphere
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>>146758434
That's a good idea actually. I've completed the tech tree anyway, so time's all I have.
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>>146758701
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>>146758681
Yeah that makes sense. I can still take another state, though. Is taking Albania from them acceptable? Corridor to the sea and all that.
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>play hoi3 Poland
>let Germans have that fucking Gdańzig
>they don't sperg out
>they don't care about Alsace-Lothringen
>ww2 never happens
Yeah, sure...
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>>146758848
Yes but you will need macedonia too if you get it
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NIPPON STEEL
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I have played HPM like hundreds of times but I've never genocided anyone, I don't even know how the system works. I want to try it, who should I play and who should I genocide?
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What the fuck happened with HoI IV. How the fuck is the AI absolute dogshit, can't deal with naval Invasion or just declares war on everybody? Whats with the 3.000 fighters the UK has by the start of the war?

What the fuck happend, why is this game so god damn shit, I thought they worked on it for 3 years
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>>146758954
avoiding ww2 was that easy, but the anglos wouldn't have it.
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>>146759053
Russia has lots of minorities to kill, and you start as an absolute monarchy
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>>146759053
You just need to become a dictatorship of absolute monarchy
Play someone multi ethnic like russia or A-H
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>>146759108
realism is not a meaningful argument
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>>146759118
t. lord haw-haw
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>>146759197
Its not even fun. Its just a pile of shit. I was actually looking forward to this. Thank god I didn't pay for this joke.

Any meaningful updates on the Horizon?
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>>146758848
1907 was truly the year of the Serb.
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>>146759428
Nice Montenegro lake you have there
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Here goes!
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I'm playing Italy in HOI4
what should I do?
As soon as I take Yugoslavia the whole alliance is on my ass.
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>>146759428
Time to jump start the industry in these poor areas in true Victoria 2 style. The Turks did nothing to industrialize them.

>>146759541
Wasting 22 infamy to take one province feels a bit daft, tbqh senpai.
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>>146759428
t. debug yesmen pro
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>>146759705
Just changeowner then. Or fight Ottomemes again and free Montenegro from them and simply sphere them, but don't leave them under Ottomeme rule
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>>146759657
Just befriend them. Then join Germany. Then conquer africa and enjoy the shitty game as Germany declares war on everbody except the Sowjets.

Pic related
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realism is not a meaningful argument
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>>146759785
If you actually read the thread you might have noticed the part where Turkey was left without allies and severely weakened after a revolution.

>>146759814
They're completely independent at this point.

Also what's the trigger for a Great War? Because right now there's a war with a great power on each side, but it doesn't count for some reason.
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what factories should i build as a shit secondary nation in start in hpm?
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>>146760256
What are your RGOs? Shitposts?
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>>146759829
>Then join Germany.
but I want my new Roman Empire
and the UK and France keep fucking up my factories with their insane air superiority
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>>146760051
I absolutely cannot tell the difference between A-H and serbia. Am I colorblind, lads?
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>>146760256
Why do you even have to ask?
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>>146760325
Really? The UK never bothers with me as Italy.
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>>146760301
timber, grain, little bit of iron
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>>146760256
liquor factories
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>check on Europe
>see this
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>>146760368
they always guarantee Greece/Romania/Albania
maybe I should just be happy with Yugoslavia
and get industry going
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>>146760373
>grain

you know what you have to do
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>>146760430
map mod?
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>>146760430
That Ireland is disgusting
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>>146760486
the one in the archive
don't remember the name

>>146760521
I agree, it shouldn't exist at all
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>>146760430
>Slovakia
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>Refunded Victoria 2 on Steam because it would just freeze on 'Adapting History' after selecting a country and never even let me into the game.
>Decide to download the version of the game in the MEGAUPLOAD in the OP.
>Literally the exact same problem.
I just want to play the fucking game. I spent 4 hours yesterday browsing the Paradox support forums and none of the common fixes worked. I installed the MEGAUPLOAD version of the game to the C Drive directly too and I haven't seen a single difference. It's still stuck at 'Adapting History'.
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>NA
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>>146760110
Fine? The only "cheating" I've done is taking the Slavonian provinces when Russia white peace'd out in a war for them that we were winning, for no reason, and taking montenegro right now, for prettier borders. Are people on /gsg/ this insecure?

https://mega.nz/#!OoVDnR7T!cSQJXRmjHdQGPPLkAWQ7KFRMX5oCqQ6i6IrXeODvlD8
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EU or HOI?

Finished my stellaris play through but I'm still itching for more. Which one seems like a better transition?
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>>146760681
make it stop
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el peruANO
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>>146760753
>unironically playing bad games
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>>146760753
EU plays more like Stellaris.
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>>146760753
eu4
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>>146760110
>>146760642
Did you actually delete your post? This is autism on a whole new level.
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>>146760810
HPM seems to have fucked Brazil pretty hard, every one of my games in the latest patch Brazil fails and releases pretty much every minor nation he has because of nationalist rebels
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>>146760998
Who are you replying to :^)
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>>146761018
Make that everyone south of texas
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>>146760998
Are you ok pal?
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>>146760998
who are you quoting?
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>>146760663
Delete the map cache in the game's install directory and then run the game again.
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>>146758006
Not him but that thread was first and therefore by rights should be the legitimate thread.
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>>146761273
me
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>>146760663
>>146761380
Delete the map cache in the documents folder too.
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>>146761436
>going against the will of the R&I autist

m8, he'd just get both threads deleted

It happened countless times.
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Reminder that the steam group would be irrelevant if it weren't for the massive advertisement in every OP
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>Italy fears our might
Serbia confirmed for mighty.
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>>146761380
>>146761596
I've done both of these things about 50 times because it's the most common advice. It doesn't work.
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a question about the OOB:
Does it make a difference when I add more than three units to an HQ division or do I get a malus?
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>>146762095
Did you disable all DLC?
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>still no HoI 4 1.1 patch in the archive
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>>146762062
>Italy
no
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>>146762062
I forgot the game even had newspapers
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>>146762101
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>>146762062
>Slovenia declares war on me with no allies
What do they expect to happen? Unfortunately I don't have enough infamy left to just annex them outright.
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How can he shit like this on the fanbase after the beta release and still get agrees
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What are the best countries to play as in HOI4 as a new player?
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>>146762907
Fascist USA
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>>146762101
No it doesn't.
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>>146762907
best is uninstall.exe
the game is a mess right now, wit till they fix the shit with their dlc, pirate then
In the meantime either learn hoi3 or darkest hour, which is way easier to get into then hoi3
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>>146762907
Australia is basically tutorial island. You won't get to do anything except maybe fight a few tiny battles in Europe, but you can learn how everything works without anyone breathing down your neck.

If you want to dive straight in, Germany. It's the best major to play as because you control the pace of the war.
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>>146763056
if i do play DH, should I just go straight for Kaiserreich or play the base game first?
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>>146763264
KR is a meme mod, play the base game
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I need some help with CK2 succession laws. I'm on agnatic elective monarchy as Ireland. Most of my direct sons or brothers are absolutely terrible so I nominated a cousin for the throne.

After founding the Kingdom of England aswell, he won't show up in that list, just a huge bunch of sons or other family members including actual children.

I was thinking that it might work if I give him land in the kingdom and grabbed a county for him. The guy still won't show up in the list; how can I ensure the person I want is available?
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>>146763264
I would start with tha base game
>>146763331
Kaiserreich is somewhat a meme mod, but a pretty good one. Can spice the gameplay a little up with another scenario
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>>146762693
based podcat
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>>146763331
Out! OUT!!!
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Alright, can we put the memes aside for a moment and all agree that, for what it set out to do, HoI4 is a success? It gave us a WWII grandstrat free from all the archaic bullshit of Darkest Hour, and also much easier to get into than HoI3. Can anyone here honestly say they enjoy wasting an hour to fix their OoB every time they start a game of HoI3? Not to mention that, rather than needing to tediously micromanage industry like in other HoI games, HoI4's industry is both streamlined as well as more intuitive than the previous games. Yeah, it's true that HoI4 leads to more "ahistorical" scenarios, but isn't that the point? Why even bother playing the game if the outcome is predetermined form the start? Moreover, from a pure gameplay perspective, giving the player more options, whether they be historical or ahistorical, is a total success. Sure, Mosley ruling Britain never could have happened in reality, but it's fun to have the ability to easily do so in video game form.

Overall, I feel that HoI4 is getting a lot of undeserved hate simply because it isn't a total copy of HoI3 with slightly better graphics. Of COURSE the game is different - HoI3 already exists, there would be no point to making the same game again! HoI4 may be different, but that's by design, not by some unforeseen flaw, and it should be celebrated for the changes it made, not hated on.
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>>146763556
epic meme mind if i post it on /r/paradoxplaza?
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>>146762693
Is the entire Paradox so fucking socially uncalibrated? Are they seriously THAT autistic to not realize that constantly shitting on their customers chatting on the forums with passive-aggressive posts is definitely something they should not do? Didn't they see what happened to Bioware and their army of autistic employees who shat on basically every single negative feedback for TOR?
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>>146763761
Fucking hell, all they had to do was take a trip down to the Overkill offices to see how well this shit works.

Fucking Swedes.
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>>146763761
realism is not a meaningful argument
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>>146763889
Overkill eventually said they fucked up and apologized for all the shit they did.
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>no oob in hoi4
>no hq's
>you can't organize aesthetically pleasing command chain
>you either use generals or marshals
>can't put generals under marshal and assign them different orders
I get it that micromanaging and babysitting every single division can be tiring, and that's why you assign them to different commanders doing it for you, but placing 200 divisions under a single fucking commander, drawing a line and pressing a button is no fun at all. Where's the "strategy" part of this game?
>invade everyone in 1937
>win
>wait untill 1939
>get raped by 1 mln british planes
>strategy
Uninstalled.exe so hard I formatted my hard drive.
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I want to get into DH but its engine feels too clunky and the map is shit. Finland doesn't even have its lakes for fucks sake. Is it worth still playing it anyway?
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>>146762680
>Germany annexed Austria-Hungary
There wasn't even a war. Is there an event for Germany to annex them? That's awful
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get fucked /gsg/ Wiz just BTFO your bigoted asses


/GSG/ BTFO
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>>146763937
Reject reason to make the impossible possible!
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>>146764150
fun for simplicity and alt history

i recommend the grand campaign mod so you can play from 1914-1991
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>>146764154
Now we're getting closer to grobgermaniums
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>>146764154
>Hungary exists
That explains it.
If Austria doesn't have Hungary in it they can petition to join Germany.
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>>146764215
that actually means that Wiz enjoys getting buttfucked by muslim niggers.

Wiz, I know you're reading this. Come out of the closet m8
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>>146764215
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>>146764154
>krakow in the middle of germany
Fix that shit
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>>146764154
Well the first election ever in Serbia resulted in a Socialist party. I've passed three times as many reforms in the last 4 years than I did since 1836.

>>146764516
Germany is ridiculously big in this game though. Like huge.

>>146764690
I will probably go around and clean up some borders right before the end of the game just to satisfy my autism.
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>>146756486
What the fuck is wrong with his ear?
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>>146764849
>no healthcare
>not wanting that sweet free pop growth bonus
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>>146764849
>2nd Great War
I thought these wars were supposed to be called "World War" after a certain point in the beta patch. I also thought they'd be somewhat balanced, instead of just curb stomps.
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>ck2 zombie dlc

What were they thinking?
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>>146764849
>Vanilla
>Going for fucking minimum wage and pension reforms before health care reforms
When are you going to kill yourself
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>>146765263
Well, the first one was called the Great War for a long time, no?
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>>146765263
>Wiz
>patch
>balanced
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>>146765349
This is my first game of Victoria 2 ever. I'm no expert, I said that when I started posting.
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How do we fix Portugal?
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>>146762240
Yes
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>>146765943
Make Spain annex it, the invasion alone would fix Spain's economy especially considering Spain's unemployment.
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Hi I'm /newfag/.

How do I create new division templates without having to spend +80exp to duplicate and edit pre-existing templates?

Sweden doesn't have armor division by default, and i don't want to spend all those bennies to make an armored division.
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>>146765295
what
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>The Franco-Russian alliance is actually winning with a third of the number of brigades of their enemies.
wew
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>>146766175
>tfw HPM will never add an Iberian union when there are much more ridiculous ones already in the mod, such as the Arab Union in which half of the nations aren't even Arab
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>>146766295
>The war is actually evolving into a proper world war with several smaller declarations
This is turning out better than expected. I'm even going to try to puppet Wallachia to get in on that sweet, sweet world war action.
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>>146766295
I've always found it to be a bitch fighting against someone allied with Britain because they have a fuckton of navy and plenty of brigades on their island yet never fucking use it, so it just lowers the overall battle score and makes winning more tedious
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>>146766524
>Sweden alone has nearly twice the military strength of Germania

I can see why Willy is losing the war
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>>146766413
>you can diplo annex Persia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Cyprus, Kenya, Ethiopia, Malta, Crete, Aceh, Bangladesh, Somalia, free Kurdistan, Central Asian Stans and the Maldives as the Arab Union via the Pan-Arabism decision and get cores on them in """""H"""""PM
WAKE ME UP INSIDE
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>>146766643
Yeah Groß-Germany is getting BTFO'd at this point. Unfortunately I don't think there's enough time left in the game to see their full collapse.
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>>146766227
pls respond
this is for hoi4
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Business idea: create a religion that justifies stoning and lashing casuals and degenerates to death for doing trivial things they do everyday and spread it to the regions that have the most powerful natural source of energy in the world
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>>146766852
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>>146766852
>>>>>>>>>>>>Prussia
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>>146766852
convert it to HOI3
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>>146767104
Why does the AI always release Prussia as a war goal? They did the same in my game.
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>>146767240
>HOI3
>3
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>>146766228
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck2-developer-diary-11-the-end-of-days.950847


Does anybody still play ck2 ITT or is it just me?
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>>146767418
I don't read the DDs tbf, everytime something big happens it's just crossposted here anyway. Dunno why no one is talking about this.
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>>146766227
>>146766860
You don't need an armored division as Sweden since it's mostly hills and winter. Go for a couple of mountain divisions and infantry spam for the rest. If you're going to conquer Scandinavia/Baltics/Northern Europe in general, focus on air superiority as most of those nations suck at it and having it is a huge plus

As for the division template, when you research the light tank, you get one for free if I'm not wrong
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>>146760663
Alright, I guess it's better to list off what I've tried

>I've verified the cache while I had it on steam
>I've ran from the .exe directly. With administrator privileges on.
>I've cleared the Map cache from both the Victoria 2 directory and the Documents one. I also completely deleted the Documents one before to no effect.
>I've moved it from Program files to the C: Drive.
>I've uninstalled and reinstalled multiple times. I downloaded the pirated version in the MEGAUPLOAD Archive in the OP and am trying to get that work to no avail
>I've delete half the contents of my C: drive because apparently according to one autists on the Paradox forums that might be causing the crash, once again to no effect.
>I tried an old vanilla download that has an older patch, does not work.
>I installed it to another drive as well.
>Disabled my firewall and anti-virus just in case.
>Searched around to see if I had a HOI3 installation to delete since trace files apparently can fuck with Victoria 2. Could not find any.

I'm on Windows 7 64 bit. I've tried everything short of installing on another machine. This is my desktop however and I don't want to be forced to play the game on my shitty laptop. I've never had this much trouble getting a Paradox game to run before and it's pissing me off.
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>>146767418
>131

paradox on suicide watch
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>>146767104
>Those massive fucking emigrations to the US
>Almost 20K pops
Looks like GroßGermany is getting less Groß by the day.

It would be kind of interesting to continue this in HoI, but there is no way I'm doing a manual conversion. As far as alt-hist goes, I think a Germany growing large and then getting fucked would be interesting as a setting.

There could even be an "integrate Prussia" decision
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>>146767693
Might be an issue with a missing package of one of those c++ things that usually come with the programs you install. c++ redistributable 2007/08 or something like that

Also, close any app that shows FPS or any other similar shit in games. Also, purge the entire paradox folder from your documents
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>>146767838
Even with these revolts there will never be an independent Poland. Kinda makes me sad.

Balkanised Russia is best Russia
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So I had the Free Balkans casus belli against the Turks. I went with freeing Bosnia and Montenegro. Montenegro got nothing and Bosnia got south Serbia even though there are no Bosnian cores there... why
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>>146763761
heh.. at least it beats ur post anyway ;)
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>>146768069
Germany is now losing wars against Switzerland. Fucking Switzerland. They're literally being kept on life support by the UK.
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>>146768131
They have 2 cored provinces in Montenegro and 1 in Southern Serbia, the CB apparently just gives them all states that have at least 1 cored province. Did you add the Bosnian wargoal before the Montenegrin?
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>>146768260
Rate my 1930's Europe. I have to say Serbia was surprisingly fun, but only after 1890.
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>>146768331
Yea Bosnia first, makes sense I guess.

I fixed it though and gave Serbia that land. They're Russian sphere anyways.

Rate my Europe.

>>146769069
Disgustingly arousing/10
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>>146769069
Should have attacked Slavonia 2bh, do the Germans even have a core there? P
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>>146765778
This is a pretty important thing, always rush Health reforms and education reforms first. Health reforms are the most important ones, get every one of them and then start education ones. If you have to raise the militancy to get them, do so
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>>146768223
>agreex158
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>>146767657
No, Sweden gets Light Tank 1 without getting a default template.

Might consider tacking it onto my motorized or infantry divisions.
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>>146768058
Alright, which C++ distribute would I need.

Oh I forgot one thing: Music doesn't play and when I set Music to Musicx the game immediately crashes and doesn't launch. I wonder if that might have something to do with it but I'm not sure.
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>>146769458
>not going with transportation first and foremost to spread superior European seed across the colonies
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>>146769585
Shit, I think I used to have the exact same problem. It has something to do with the codex for the video player you've installed (however retarded that sounds). Check if the codex icons appear in your taskbar notifications area once you launch the game
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>>146769645
Penal reforms don't even exist in vanilla
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>>146769564
>No, Sweden gets Light Tank 1 without getting a default template.
That's pretty stupid. A country with less technology gets free templates when more advanced ones have to make one from scratch.
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>>146769274
There's no way for me to reach them. Germany refuses to give me military access. I probably will take Croatia before the end though, since Germany is so weak at this point. Just waiting for my infamy to decay.
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>Tfw Knights Hospitalers become the 5th largest realm in a single crusade for Andalusia
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>>146769730
Huh, that may actually be it. I got rid of Windows Media Center because it was shitting on hard for a while and causing Crashes. I only have me Foobar200 for music right now.

I've also had some similar problems with old 2003 RPG Maker games where it won't play music and then freeze after a bit.

What should I install to fix it?
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>>146770231
Completely uninstall every single codec/video player/music player, then install a fresh package to replace them. I'd recommend this one

https://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

>inb4 this thread turns into "muh media player > your player" /tv/-tier autism

Also, update all your drivers.

At this stage if I was you I'd simply wipe everything and install a fresh win8. Who knows what retarded shit you might have piled up over the time
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I've put the HPM mod shit into my documents/paradox interactive/mod folder, I see that the launcher detects the mod but when I launch it the game is still fucking vanilla

what the fuck?
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why on Earth can I build synthetic factories just to have a portion of it exported?

That seems pretty silly because I am fairly certain the point of synthetic factories was to provide for your own shortages, unless anyone can show me otherwise. i'm actually kinda curious.
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>>146769996
isn't there a decision that gives you cores on Croatia?
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>>146770748
don't put it in documents

put it in the install directory, only new-engine paradox games use the documents directory for mods.
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>>146770748
Don't put it in the Documents folder, put it in the game's mod folder
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>>146760330
yes you should kill yourself
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>>146770861
>>146770886

oh
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>>146769069
So I finally took Croatia from the Germans. One thing I've noticed is that the AI is way, way more likely to accept peace deals compared to EU4. Usually a couple of battles and maybe an occupation or two is enough.

I didn't even have Russia with me in this war. Me and Sweden literally beat Germany, Turkey, and Spain on our own. We had something like 400 brigades to their 500.
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>>146771062
You're welcome, faggot
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>>146771137
that wasn't very nice
t. not him but the other lad who replied
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>>146771094
Oh shit. Is this good or bad? I've basically been in their sphere the entire game.

t. new to the game
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