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Old Thread >>147476936
Reminder to report and ignore shitposting.
Incoming butthurt.
How big is the learning gap between HOI4 and HOI3. Got tired of HOI4. Can I just jump in and play HOI3? Or should I do a lot of research?
>>147545223
w-what are you?
>>147545368
Pretty big
>>147545509
For you
>>147545396
water is wet lad
How am i supposed to defeat Ming as Mandschu?
In earlier versions they often lost the mandate of heaven and broke into smaller kingdoms, but now they are always stable and expand to the west
So I conquered the Pyrenees and Guyenne from France. Should I go for option 1, 2, 1 and 2, or 3 and give Italy access to the Atlantic?
ARUMBA
>>147545851
you aren't
>>147545442
It's just OP posting it before linking to the old thread.
Must have mods for HOI4?
>>147545428
What is the Merc company trick?
>>147545930
A rumba?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxcqoCjRPTE
>>147545930
Arumba is a pussy, fuckin faggot can't take ýoutube comments
>>147468850
Both Baudouin and Eirene had their birthdays in early January. Before her death, they usually celebrated them together. Yet now January merely passed in a haze, one filled with books and little Ildegarde, who still did not fully understand that her mother was not returning to her. The little girl oft looked out the windows of the palace, gazing at the road leading to its base for a sign of a noble woman--her mother, no doubt--approaching. Baudouin continually attempted to explain that she would not see her mother again on this Earth, but the little eight-year-old could not--or would not--understand. Baudouin did not blame her overmuch. He wished he, too, could hide from the truth.
He had changed in the months since Eirene's death. He had stopped taking care of himself as rigorously as he had in the past, for one; his hair and beard, previously perfectly trimmed, was now left long and unkempt, and he now sometimes drank himself to inebriation. He had never been drunk before in his life, yet since Eirene's death he had gotten drunk thrice. He beat himself up over falling to pieces almost as much as he beat himself up for pressing Eirene for another child. Her death was his fault, he never doubted it.
Yet he saw her each night, as he had swore to her he always would, and remembered his promise to her: to love and care for their son, Aubry, as if he were her. He could not fall apart, could not be anything but strong, if he were to raise their son. And so he grieved in his own way, a slow, long grief which would eat at him until he, too, died. Then, and only then, could he see his beloved, and finally forget the pain he felt.
Yet, in the interim, he still had responsibilities. The management of the Kingdom he largely let slip, but in caring for his children, especially Aubry, he never wavered in the slightest. From the youngest possible age Aubry was raised with the full knowledge that he was to be King.
>>147546050
Better political map.
>>147545893
don't blob
>Play as a viking
>Raid anything
>Capture women, impregnate them and then abandon them
>Masturbate too much during to process
Fuck sake, I need to uninstall ck2 else all my skin on my cock will be ruined
>>147548010
>steal Byzantine Empress
>impregnate her
>get claim on the Empire
>conquer it
>>147547125
Damn the House of Lusignan to hell thrice over! None other than Baudouin's half-brother, Amaury de Lusignan, was discovered by Duc Boudewijn to be plotting against the life of his youngest daughter, Ildegard! In a mad fury, Baudouin ordered Amaury captured and brought before him.
"DID YOU BELIEVE YOU COULD HIDE YOUR ACTIONS FROM ME, BROTHER?" Baudouin raged at him as he knelt at his feet. "DID YOU BELIEVE YOU COULD STEAL FROM ME THE LIFE THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY SHE WHO I BELOVED MOST?"
Amaury was silent, and for a long time Baudouin, too, stood quietly. When he began again his voice was calm, but held within it was a cold fury all the more terrible than his screams. "Your father evaded justice once when he should not have; you will not find the same mercy. You will be removed to the dungeons, where you will be tortured, starved, dehydrated and beaten. Every day you will wish for death, but it will be long in coming, Amaury de Lusignan, I shall make sure of that. Such a price is the only recompense from attempting something so base as you have."
"Brother, I--"
"CALL ME BROTHER AGAIN," Baudouin screamed as he stood, spittle flying from his lips, "AND I WILL BEHEAD YOU HERE, MYSELF, BEFORE THIS THRONE!"
Amaury knelt, stunned, as Baudouin once again struggled to regain control of himself. Eventually, with an errant gesture, he signaled for Amaury to be removed to the dungeons, for the beginning of his torture. The young man went in silence, and was never seen in the outside world again.
A short while after his imprisonment Baudouin's mother Sibylla arrived to beg for a reduction in the sentence of her only other son, but Baudouin refused flatly. "Your husband should have burned for his plots against me long ago. I am sorry it is your son, sorry it is my brother, who must now suffer in his stead, but he is as rotten as his father. He threatened my family. He must, and will, die."
>>147548243
Based Bauduoin
>>147548406
I don't know why you thought this was funny.
>>147548010
>>147548198
How do I play that game?
>>147548757
Play CK2+ and pick raiding culture/faith
>how do i conquer empires
Capture the Emperor in combat for that sweet sweet 100% score. If you kill him its all ogre.
>>147548198
I've done this
>playing as zunist pagan
>capture a bunch of women
>concubine them
>have a bunch of kids
>years later I notice she has a claim on half of india
>wait until a child inherits (women can only push claims on children and other women)
>push her claim, the king was busy fighting a bunch of wars so I didn't have to fight much
>too old to have any more kids
>change to ultimogeniture, child inherits afghanistan and india
>>147549008
Sometimes you can also put your concubine on weak empire then swear fealty to her and plot to replace her because you are male.
Because she lacks provinces she will accept it every time.
>>147548979
Back to l.eddit you go phamalam
>>147549274
*teleports behind you*
not so fast, kid
>>147548243
After the aborted plot on Ildegarde's life, several years passed with few changes in the Kingdom. Sibylla (the Queen Mother) stayed far away from the royal palace and remained chilly to her son over his cruel treatment to his half-brother, whereas Sibylla (the daughter) returned from her long stay with... some northern baron under whom she was tutored, but little else about the daily events of the palace shifted. Baudouin was happy to have all that remained of his family present with him once again, but nothing, not even his children, could ever fill the void that the loss of Eirene had created within him. If he was less distant with his offspring around him, it did not mean that he was once again the same man he was before her death.
Finally, in the summer of 1221, an event took place which forced Baudouin out of his melancholy routine: Pope Sergius V, upon hearing of the weakness of the Ayyubid Sultanate due to a conflict with the powerful Nubian tribes to the south, called for a Crusade to seize the heart of Aegyptus from them. All Christian lords were called upon to participate and, as usual, remission of sins was offered for those who did.
Baudouin had never forgiven himself for the death of Eirene, and remained certain to that day that he had somehow been its cause. Perhaps he had sinned, and her death was his punishment; perhaps it was punishment because he pushed her too hard. The particulars did not matter. All that mattered to Baudouin was his certainty that his wife's death could be lain at his feet.
Then came the Crusade. It offered not only an opportunity to grant something of permanence to his children, but also the remission of whatever sins he had committed that saw his wife dead, and the assurance that he would see her once again in heaven, whatever his crime had been.
Baudouin could not refuse such an opportunity. He pledged his loyalty to the cause of the Pope the same day he received word of the Crusade.
>>147548979
not a game
thoughts on the new ck2 dlc?
>maimed replaced with "lost left hand", "lost right hand", "lost right eye", and so on
>bunch of new quests
>more events for pagans + defensive buffs
>>147549409
Could you show a map of Europe?
Noob question, lads.
How do I select multiple wings in a province? I try to press ctrl+click, shift+click and nothing works.
I'm playing EU4 as Austria and I have force converted all protestant princes in the empire. The game still tells me there is religious unrest, so I can't enact reforms. THe protestant league is still up and as members who are now catholic again. It also has a bunch of outside powers like catholic France, fucking islamic Ottomans and Denmark. How do I make this shit go away?
>>147547325
Define blob.
>>147549842
What group might that be?
>>147549842
No one cares, fuck off back to your group.
>>147549842
yeah it's fucking bullshit
>>147549956
>>147549956
The steam group of course.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/grandstrategygeneral#
>>147549860
You had beautiful bordercrafting material at your disposal and you ruin it by making that. Please don't ever post in my general.
>>147549998
>being a moody riled up c*ckold
and you wonder why you're such an abyssal failure
>>147550013
Why the fuck are you even paying attention to the steam group. It's full of faggots anyway, and playing games with or associating with people who browse 4chan outside of 4chan is just fucked up.
>>147550048
Burgundy wouldn't actually accept my offer.
>>147549495
can't wait to download it!
>>147548979
will someone get b& for anti-aryanism?
>>147550221
That's terrible, it would've been a groundbreaking, conceptual piece of border art. I wouldn't even bother if it were achieved by using the console.
>>147550327
Shut up shitlord, /vg/ is containment and so is this thread.
Reminder that we are currently undergoing a steamgroup raid
>>147550485
>>147550048
>le borders xDD forced meme
fuck off reddit you're not funny
>>147550350
Peace of Wesphalia
>>147549842
Based Turdslayer
>>147550592
>>147550350
you don't want the peace of Westphalia. you want victory in the league war in Catholic favor
>>147550554
>talking and thinking in 4chan memes
man, I can tell you don't go outside a lot
>>147549495
>maimed replaced with "lost left hand", "lost right hand", "lost right eye", and so on
>bunch of new quests
>more events for pagans + defensive buffs
Literally shit modders could do.
I mean that's ok for a patch, but the maimed stuff is behind a DLC wall. From this kind of shit I expect new mechanics and content that modders can't do, not something any fucking modder can do.
>>147549618
Not without spoiling things, mind, because I played a little bit ahead last night. Click at your own risk.
>>147549842
turkslayer is trolling you hard you demented autist
why do you guys keep falling for steamgroup bait
It's getting too Groß
>>147550674
Yeah, but how do I trigger this? Just attack the Protestant League leader? I have converted all Protestant princes in the empire now, so I don't understand why a number of them are still in the wrong League.
>>147550821
they have to declare war on you. if they don't Catholic will become the dominant faith in a few decades
>>147550721
Great retort son, now get in the steamgroup and circlejerk over your mother getting fucked by a nigger with the rest of your sjw cuck friends.
>>147549409
Unfortunately for Christendom--and particularly unfortunately for Baudouin--the Sultan of Egypt was able to call upon more than just his own troops; he also had access to the soldiers of the Turkish Sultan of Rum, 12,000 well-trained and exceptionally-drilled men, with an overwhelming number of horse archers which Christian forces had always struggled to adequately counter. Worse still, these forces were marching through Jerusalem on their way to Egypt, and it was left to Baudouin to stop them.
Thankfully, Baudouin's treasury was overflowing with gold, and, in addition to receiving the support of holy orders, he was able to call upon a mercenary company of Turkish horse archers to counter those of the Sultan. Over a month of hard-fought skirmishes and pitched battles, Jerusalem's new chief commander, none other than Comte Alchamil, was able to crush the Turkish forces in St-Abraham, force them to retreat into Ascalon, and break them there in their entirety.
Now, however, comes an entirely different test: Ayyubid forces now march across the Sinai en route to Darom. Furious with their Ayyubid brother for turning his back on them and leading Christian armies, they hope to break the back of the Jerusalemite endeavor here, and to string up Alchamil by his neck.
>>147550821
>>147550879
and I should add that League membership is not tied to religious affiliation. countries will join leagues opposite of their rivals for political reasons
>>147550897
>being this easily provoked
and you wonder why girls at school ignore you and your friends make fun of you. great job you irrelevant non-male
>>147550897
you seem pretty obsessed with this interracial stuff anon
its only a meem
>>147550897
>Getting this upset over Turkslayer jokes
Embarrassing.
>>147550814
Literally never seen this happen before. Please show me more.
>>147550879
Great. There are no heretic princes in the empire, so now I just sit on my ass and wait? Need to enact reforms man.
>>147551157
yeah you can do fuck all but wait at this point lad
>>147551242
So really what I should have done is let Protestant/Reformed spread all over the place so the League Wars would trigger?
>>147551329
the wars will trigger either way. you did the right thing
>>147551329
you should quit the game and take a walk outside your basement
>>147551006
For the Mohammedan, it was a dream not to be. Dug in at Darom and still receiving support from multiple holy orders and his mercenary horse archer company, the Ayyubids could not hope to break Baudouin's lines at Darom. The way into the heart of Aegyptus is now open, and is already being flooded by zealous Crusaders, chief among them Geoffrey II Plantagenet of Somerset, who is the greatest lord, aside from Baudoin, to pledge himself to the Crusade.
In mid-March, Baudouin's forces reach the delta of the Nile river in an area the local refer to as Ushmun Tannah. "I have set out on Crusade," Baudouin proclaimed solemnly as his forces began to invest the local fortress, "and in so doing I have purged myself of my sins. God above, hear my prayer: keep me on this earth only for as long as I must remain! Let me see my son grow into a man, then take me from this hellish place and return me to the arms of my wife in paradise above! Amen."
>>147551443
The wars don't trigger if you keep all the electors catholic IIRC.
>>147551514
Do you get laid often? Just curious.
>>147550814
I spent five hours yesterday to play 24 years and you zoomed through most of the campaign in a couple of hours. Why is the world so unfair to linux cucks?
>>147551606
>>147551329
even so, it's only going to take a few years longer to auto-win. never let opposing faiths spread in the empire
>>147551514
You should write a romance.
>>147551719
Guess I can focus on taking rightful imperial clay from France in the meantime.
>>147551143
Not sure what you want to see, though.
>>147551678I had a break of about 1 hour in there as well
Don't forget to join Grand Strategy General, /gsg/'s official steam group and the best place on the internet for the discussion and enjoyment of grand strategy games.
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>>147550345
Someone will get gassed for anti-aryanism
So, considering South-Western Europe is looking decent at the moment, I think I'm going to move on from Italy at this point. They've restored the bastion of Catholicism.
Any suggestions as to what to do next? I'd like to try and clean up the British Isles first, but I'd like to hear your suggestions.
>>147551938
France seems quite interesting
Do some colonizing with em
>>147551514
On the 28th of June 1222, the Sultan's palace at Damanhur was successfully breached. His family was absent, but the symbolic victory was all that was necessary to proclaim the Crusade successful. With Rumite forces shattered and Ayyubid forces divided along three theaters, the war is, for all intents and purposes, over. All that remains is to divide the realm.
Initially Geoffrey Plantagenet attempts to assert his claim to the Kingdom, arguing that he was the one to seize the palace at Damanhur and that he is the only major lord involved in the Crusade who lacks a Kingdom. Yet, although Geoffrey is a pious lord, his piety pales in comparison to that of Baudouin V, whose name is known as a synonym for a good Christian throughout Europe. The Pope sides firmly in his favor, pointing out especially the money that Baudouin paid from his own coffers to raise mercenaries for the fighting, and his single-handed defeats of the two main Mohammedan forces, which otherwise would have crushed Geoffrey's own troops. Pope Sergius V, therefore, hands over the Kingdom to Baudouin, and the very next day he is crowned Baudouin I of Misr (the official documents of the realm did not change the Kingdom's title from the local Arabic to the proper Latinized Aegyptus for several months) in Cairo.
Geoffrey is at the verge of leaving Egypt feeling cheated, but at the last moment Baudouin reveals to Geoffrey that he does not intend to keep the Kingdom for himself. "I am merely its steward," Baudouin assures him, "waiting for an opportunity to present it to one I hold most dear. I know that such a thing does not console you from the loss of the realm, but take solace in that fact that I, too, will not profit from these lands."
Although he is indeed not consoled overmuch, Geoffrey nevertheless appreciates Baudouin attempting to mend things between them before he leaves. The young Plantagenet lord sails back to Somerset empty-handed, but with a slightly lighter heart.
>>147551938
Please just try to break the big green blob.
Or try to, at least, restore Eastern Europe.
What should I even do at this point? Spam prestige techs while racking up the immigrants?
>>147552246
I'll try do this as the Byzantines. Two goals at once, though considering Persia's strength, it'll probably end in failure.
>>147552136
They're still Zoroastrian and also haven't unlocked the exploration idea yet, so it'll be another few decades before I can have them start colonising. Galicia's the only one that's actually exploring the new world.
>damageless void losing
>again
who'd have thought
>>147552976
Wrong thread
>>147553104
baited for this exact reply
Things could be worse I guess. Can't expand for another few years as Persia's sent a warning.
>>147553349
congratulations?
>>147552195
Baudouin was not lying to Geoffrey when he told him the Kingdom of Aegyptus was meant for another; in truth, he meant it for his eldest daughter, Sibylla.
When he had last seen Sibylla before Eirene had died, the young girl was willful and headstrong, and her mental illness had been debilitating. Her moods swung violently and without any warning; she could easily change from a smiling, perfect little girl to a furious lioness within minutes. When Baudouin sent her away to be tutored in the diplomatic arts, he and Eirene both had considered it a dim last chance for the girl to regain control of herself.
Yet when she returned to Jerusalem following the death of her mother, Baudouin was astounded by the change that had overcome her. Her moods still swung, undoubtedly, but far less violently than before, and when they did she was better at controlling it. She was a kind, humble woman who had formed fast friends with almost everyone in the north of the realm, and not merely because she was the daughter of the King. Baudouin spied within her a new nobility which he had not seen before.
When the Crusade was called, he went merely with an eye to absolving himself of its sins... yet when it concluded successfully, he began to think on Sibylla, how she was his designated heir for well over a decade, and what she had left now with the birth of Aubrey. She had in her the same quiet dignity of her father, yet also the fiery spirit of her mother, something which Baudouin could never deny.
While she was still being tutored she had traveled to Italy to meet her extended family for a brief time, and in the process had come across a distant relative, Pagano Aleramici, who she had become quite close with. Before the Crusade had even ended Baudouin politely requested that Pagano come to Jerusalem to accept her hand. At first Pagano politely declined, but when Baudouin clarified the stakes of the marriage, Pagano rushed to Jerusalem to be joined to his young relative.
>>147552195
You better take the whole Levant for yourself though.
>>147553368
Is that a Byzantine Hungary?A similar thing happened in my CKII game
>>147553592
>that face
Why Cairo your capital, lad?
>>147553768
Yep, and it's neighbour to the right is the Carpathian Empire.
>>147553529
thanks this means a lot to me
>>147553629
I'm going to be taking aesthetic and functional borders for myself. The plan currently is the majority of the Levant, though.
>>147553876
It automatically moved it there when I won the Crusade. Probably some dumb HIP mechanic to avoid new crusade winners being out of diplomatic range of their holdings thanks to their original capital or some shit. I moved it right back.
Hey guys, just wanted to say that I finished my last exam so until august I'll be completely free to devote myself to the flag pack, mostly to re-do the flag meaning PDF into a new format that looks better.
I can't promise that I'll release it before august, but I'll sure try!
>>147553592
>Giving a crusader state to a woman
>>147553592
The marriage with Pagano, although Baudouin did not necessarily disapprove of it, was nevertheless a step made mandatory only because granting Sibylla direct control of the Kingdom on her own, as a woman, was not feasible. Although Baudouin wished it were not so, she required a man to rule beside her--yet, by choosing Pagano, who was not only her friend but the lowly son of a Bishop, Baudouin knew that he could effectively raise Sibylla as a co-ruler of the Kingdom. Her far more noble blood, coupled with her diplomatic nature and friendly disposition, would give her all the bearing she needed to rule as Sibylla I alongside her new husband, Pagano I.
Therefore, on July 4th, 1222, while Pagano was still en route to Jerusalem for the marriage, Baudouin had them preemptively proclaimed co-rulers of the realm of Aegyptus. Pagano I and Sibylla I date their reign from this proclamation of the first King of Aegyptus, Baudouin I, the King who ruled only one week.
As if his reputation as a pious lord required any more bolstering, his willing parting with the Kingdom of Aegyptus to a distant relative (for that is how the courts of Europe saw it, not as a sly bequeathment to his daughter), and a lowly one at that, was almost too much. For his victory in the Crusade and his utter humility in its aftermath, Baudouin V gained the epithet "the Apostle" for all time.
>>147553878
I'm guessing this is a conversion then?
>>147554335Toucoleur flags when
>>147554443
Yeah, I will, but there's so little to go by it's really hard to come up with something sensible.
If you happen to have information I could use, please tell.
>>147554440
Yep, hence the massive Zoroastrian Persia, and the reformed pagans.
>tfw no non-meme christian middle eastener nation to blob as
>>147552285
Couldn't you just have done this with the FRCA?
>>147554979
I bet he's a nica
>old king dies
>16 year old shit king occupies the throne
>dies 2 years later
WHY IS THIS ALLOWED?!
>>147554389
Elsewhere in the world, the heir of the Byzantine Basileus, Prince Photios, has inherited the realm of Sicily from his deceased mother (and Basileius Timotheos's first wife), Queen Lesceline de Hauteville. From his mother's death the young Photios has been tutored by his maternal grandmother, the Princess Joan Plantagenet of England, and has absorbed much from her. Indeed, in addition to converting to Catholicism, young Photios has even taken to behaving like his grandmother, who was raised in the far northern marches of England. More plainly, Photios has the manners of a Scottish tribesman.
How the succession in the Empire will pan out is questionable at best. Were Timotheos to die at present, he has four sons to succeed him: young Photios, who is ten years old and controls a Kingdom, yet would most likely unite the entirety of the Basileia Rhomaion against his succession; five-year-old Helias, who is the Duc de Sicilia and has "proper" Greek manners and still follows Orthodoxy, yet is a vassal to his brother Photios; and two young sons, babies Georgios and Ignatios, who are still in the palace of Timotheos. It is likely the situation will change significantly before Timotheos dies, considering the Basileius is only just over thirty, but with his primary unlikely to convert from Catholicism, it appears the succession will be violent no matter how the situation changes.
>>147554335
The flag PDF is pretty interesting
I admire your brand of autism, AFP guy
>>147555369
>Scottish Byzantine heir inherits Sicily and may inherit the Byzantine Empire
Believable Worlds.
Why is it playing a semi-historical approach impossible in HoI IV? Either one of the Axis blows up world tension or, by the time you research the necessary national focus for say conquering through the Benelux, everything gets clogged down by 5000 enemy aircraft and a sudden stream of divisions from elsewhere in the first three days of fighting. Cheesing the system by fabricating claims outside the national focus trees are far more beneficial by comparison.
Fucking why. How did they even stay neutral for so long? Im going to have to try and kill Japan and then get my ass across the world somehow to kill germany, and then if there is any time left take back the rest of my rightful clay.
>>147555735
It's an arcade game
>>147555369
Albannaich sounds suspiciously a lot like Albanian
>>147555735
Because history is railroading and we can't have that in these games
>>147555886
It's not, it's Scottish culture. Albanian culture is Arbereshe in the mod.
>>147556021
Who the fuck thinks localized names are a good idea anyway? Fucking SWMH
>>147555860
Superior chinese design I guess.
>>147556021
>>147556189
the installer has an option to turn on English names
>>147556189
>>147556335
I like the localized names, they add some much-needed flavor. It's a bit hard to properly convey what/where I'm talking about sometimes, but that's about the only problem I have with it.
>>147556189
If your name is George, do you want some mexican calling you Jorge, or some dane calling you Jorgen or some russian calling you Yuri?
France has been beaten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy2qvq7eg9I
>>147556532
>one way video games are the same as interpersonal communication
>>147556189
I do, kill yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNnftFxh1I
>>147555651
>Nordic-French heir inherits france and england and may inherit parts of Scandinavia
Believable worlds
>>147556658
fuck wrong thread
damn you old moot for removing the delete function from almost all boards
>>147554335
Hey, sorry to bother you, but you never got to doing the Beta Israel monarchy flag I had asked the other day for. If you have the time, could you make it? Thanks a lot in advance.
>>147556842
What is "beta" israel monarchy
>>147556842
Yeah, I've been thinking about it some more but I'm still kinda blocked. Did you get the republic flag I posted though? If it didn't look too much like the actual republican flag I'd tell you to use it as a monarchy flag.
>>147556949
The Israeli monarchy that lets the Palis live in peace
>>147556532
Exactly this. With localized names everyone and everything is called what they should be.
>>147556969
Yeah I got it. For the monarchy flag, maybe a variation of the Solomonid lion?
rate my USA endgame borders, I own pretty much all of Japan's pacific islands which is offscreen
Spain is blue because I made a 2nd civil war because the Soviets somehow puppeted them despite the UK alone conquering them.
I used setowner to fix Yugoslavia, because for some reason despite it being a part of the allies it got split into Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Serbia (the latter two only had 2 disconnected states each)
>>147556443
>not understanding shit is flavor
No nigga, the game is in english, everything, if not most shit in it, should be in english
It's stupid to see that the whothefuckcanreadthis of Magyarorszzzzzzzbzeeepzág declare war on your for the province of Międzyrzecccquyiihicz
>>147557251
Maybe stop being such a plebe
Amazonie stronk!
>>147530870
>forming Tartarstan as a Muslim
Gross
>>147535141
We know it's fucked up, it would be better if you lads simply didn't play HoI4.
>>147529398
You'll have neither the time nor expertise to get a KR tier mod together by yourself, let alone alt-history. Find a project and offer your services, and shape the lore that way.
Also that scenario sound like utter shit.
>>147536980
Play a mod that lets you form Aryanam.
>>147541207
>>147542008Violated Heroine
>>147555369
A few short years after the conclusion of the Fourth Crusade, and mere months after the birth of Pagano and Sibylla's daughter and (current) heir Almodis, Pagano requests Jerusalemite support for a push on the last Ayyubid stronghold in southern Egypt, at Aswan. Baudouin, overjoyed at the birth of his granddaughter and eager to see her, happily agrees to send forces to support Pagano's attack. He knows he can use the war as an excuse to stop in Cairo and spend some time with his daughter and granddaughter.
>>147557248
this is the alliances, I by far did the most, invading and conquering mainland Japan by myself and then conquering Northern France and most of Germany half me half the UK
>>147557251
Typical amerilard that never stepped outside his country attitude.
>>147556616
This
>>147556532
Well then ask paradox to put in arabic and cyrilic support so we can have the proper names for everything in their proper language.
>>147557353
>not speaking some subhuman language
>being a pleb
The modder could stop being a retard and realize that in a video game made in the english language shit is written in english.
>>147557415
>>147557248
closer look on Europe
>>147557512
>not speaking some subhuman language
You're already speaking english though
>>147557386
Shortly after leaving Cairo, on the march south along the Nile, Baudouin catches a fierce illness. The King fights for his life for almost two full weeks before finally pulling through, but it has left him terribly weak, so weak that most of the camp doctors do not believe he will ever fully recover the vigor he had previously. At forty-eight years old, Baudouin knows that, finally, death is approaching; he has taken the first steps toward seeing his love again.
Although reluctantly, Baudouin acknowledges that he cannot continue on the march with his men following his illness, and instead sets back to Cairo to rest with Sibylla.
"God," he rasps one night in his tent, long after sleep had taken his small retinue, "I know you have sent this illness not out of hatred, but out of love. I ask only that you allow me to hold on a little longer, Lord. Please do not have me leave my son as my father left me. Let me see Aubry grow, as I promised my wife, before I go. Please, Lord. Amen."
>>147557251
ENGLISH ONLY, USA
>>147557512
>no arabic support
isn't that a capital crime in sweden?
why is johan so racist lads
>tfw I've got Norse characters ruling Frankish empire, Sunni Caliphate (Umayyad borders), India and British Empire
>>147557512
>transliteration is the same as translation
just stop dude, I'm embarrassed for you
>>147557432
pretty sweeping assumption to make about someone solely because they don't want to play a game in literally dozens of different languages
>>147547125
>but the little eight-year-old could not--or would not--understand. Baudouin did not blame her overmuch. He wished he, too, could hide from the truth.
>He beat himself up over falling to pieces almost as much as he beat himself up for pressing Eirene for another child. Her death was his fault, he never doubted it.
>And so he grieved in his own way, a slow, long grief which would eat at him until he, too, died. Then, and only then, could he see his beloved, and finally forget the pain he felt.
Why...why are you doing this to me AARnon. It hurts inside. I feel it, here, in my heart.
>>147557585
>German republic
>controls austria
Not very believable worlds
>>147557670
>english only game
>lel let's make random things in other modern languages, what a bunch of flavor
Shit nigga, there's literally an anon who couldn't tell if a char was albanian or not.
When you get to the point the players or the ones observing are confused because you are using a bunch of different languages, you have a problem.
>>147557780
No we should have everything in the original, I mean can't you read arabic pleb?
>>147557927
google maps does it, does it trigger you?
>>147557849
I'm sorry senpai, it turns out Baudouin's life is a very sad story.It's only going to get more sad before the end.
This elector walks by and brushes the back of his hand across your maidens behind.
Wat do?
>>147557889
I left them Austria because the Soviets immediately started to fabricate on people before the war even ended so I wanted a stronger Germany for that event.
>>147558009
>google maps is a video game written in the english language.
Are you retarded?
Google map does what btw? I see "Cyprus" not "Κύπρος " or "Kıbrıs"
>>147558262
Genuflect
>>147558262
Reveal certain documents to my friendly cardinal about what my spies have collected and have the man excommunicated.
>>147558262
beat his honkie ass
>>147558338
?
>>147557640
Not long after Baudouin's return to Jerusalem from Cairo, his spymaster, Duc Almuzzam of Antioch, reluctantly reported to him that he had the gravest of news: he possessed clear evidence that Bauouin's middle child, Ildegard, had intents on young Aubry's life.
Baudouin burst into her chambers, screaming at the top of his lungs, "YOU WHORE! YOU DAUGHTER OF SATAN, YOU WOULD KILL YOUR OWN BROTHER?! YOU WOULD DISHONOR YOUR MOTHER SO?!"
"Only because you leave me nothing!" she screamed back, hardly even taken aback by his discovery. "I was once to be a Duchessa, and what do I have now!? Sibylla has a Kingdom! Aubry will have his own! What am I left with, father? No husband, no lands of my own; you have made a beggar of me, all for the same little fuck who killed mother!"
"You are lucky you are my own daughter," Baudouin answered, rasping now, "or I would have you tortured as I had your half-uncle. Do not doubt it. You will be imprisoned for four years, after which time you will be sent to a nunnery. You desire power so? You will spend your life permanently divested from it. And do not let me see you, ever again."
"You would do this to me? To your own daughter!?" Ildegarde screeched as guards stormed into her room and grabbed her. "Now it is you who dishonor mot--"
The slim girl reeled back as Baudouin punched her with all his might. He was old now, and weak, but Ildegarde was light, and she tumbled to the ground, stunned, at his strike. He had never hit her before in his life. "Eight years in the dungeon," he amended, before leaving a sobbing Ildegarde alone, to the mercy of the guards.
>>147558690
This will only get worse right?
>>147558690
>>147558690
You could probably turn this into a Game of Thrones-esq thing if you were autistic and rich enough
>>147558679
Yes that's exacly what I'm talking about,
See? All names are in FRENCH. It isn't سوريا and יִשְׂרָאֵל It's not even Sūriyā and Isrāʼīl
It's Syrien and Israel
That's called consistency.
If you pick your game english to be french, then you expect shit to be in french. If you pick english, you expect it to be in english. But if your king is called "roi" and the other fucker is called "mbret" you have a fucking problem, no consistency.
>>147558995
>implying it isn't better than GoT
![[HorribleSubs] GATE - 24 [720p].mkv_snapshot_02.40_[2016.03.25_19.08.35].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/R9Gnpn0.jpg "[HorribleSubs] GATE - 24 [720p].mkv_snapshot_02.40_[2016.03.25_19.08.35].jpg")
>>147558690
A nunnery?
>>147559052
It's called flavor lad
>>147558690
Not long after Aubry turns twelve, Baudouin V orders his last independent act when he requests his vassals to be present at an introductory banquet with their future King. The banquet was not only the last time the vassals of the realm would see their King in control of his own body, but the last time Aubry, too, would see him as a man tall and proud.
"Son," Baudouin told him that night, "you're away from Jerusalem often, and I know we do not see each other so often as either of us would like. I know that you also know I'm ill, and that I may die before you're ready to take the throne."
"Father," Aubry began, "you won--"
"No," Baudouin interrupted him, "don't assume, son, that I will live forever. I thought the same of your mother, and she was taken from me far too young. I made many mistakes, and lost a great deal of time I could have spent with her. You must learn now that a man can die at any time, whether it is the right time or not; God works in ways of mystery. And I have never recovered from traveling the Nile, Aubry. I am not so strong as I used to be. I truly may pass before you are ready to reign in your own right.
"I just want you to know, son, that I love you, and that I'm proud of you," the old man smiled kindly. "I wish your mother could have seen you grow, but I know that she, too, looks down on you with pride from above. You will be a good King, my son, I see it already. And if I die early, always know that I love you, and that you need merely to trust in God and live a life of virtue to find happiness."
"Thank you, father," the young boy muttered, blushing slightly.
"Ah, I remember youth," Baudouin said with a reminiscent smile. "Go; have fun. I will see you another time."
Baudouin would see him again, but by then he would not remember him. A relapse of the illness took him in November, one which stole from him his mind, and from which he did not recover. From November, the realm fell into the hands of his spymaster, Almuzzam.
>>147559171
it's shitty diarrhea flavor that's intended for communists
>>147559171
That isn't flavor. It's breaking up consistency and it's pretty much retarded.
Flavor doesn't make a player not know if a character is Albanian when looking at his culture.
>>147559280
Good thing you're not forced to use then my autistic friend
>>147559206
>A relapse of the illness took him in November, one which stole from him his mind, and from which he did not recover.
It's W&P all over again.
>>147549409
>he Crusade's in the name of beloved, to seek forgiveness of his sins against her.
JUST
>>147551006
>deathstack in your country right off the bat
Sheeeit son, you did good. Would have really sucked for Baudouin to die there, without even getting the Crusader trait.
>Let me see my son grow into a man, then take me from this hellish place and return me to the arms of my wife in paradise above! Amen
;_;
>>147553592
And now your daughteru too turns out not that bad. Bless your heart.
I really shouldn't read this. Heart gets sad feelings.
>>147559206
>From November, the realm fell into the hands of his spymaster, Almuzzam.
That better be one loyal spymaster.
>>147559387
That's not the fucking point you autist
>>147559206
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>>147559480
You don't have a point, only (shitty) >opinions
>>147558262
Remove my masquerade mask revealing myself to be Albrecht Achilles von Hohenzollern, his brother; and that he just brushed his hand across the ass of Anna, the Princess of Saxony.
>>147554335
Hey AFPG, you don't do just flags for HPM and such, do you? Would you be able to do flags for other projects? I can do pretty extensive flagwork, like simple layer and SVG use, but can't do anything involved drawing new artwork very well.
>>147559564
The two aren't mutually exclusive, monkey
>>147559171
If I made a mod that changes every HoI country name to it's native name, so the USSR is called Sojuz Sovetskich Socialističeskich Respublik and china is called Zhōnghuá would you think that adds flavor?
>>147559206
>fell into the hands of the spymaster
This is why you use designated regent
>>147559206
On the 1st of March, 1230, Baudouin V Aleramici died after a protracted battle with his illness. In spite of all his prayers, he did not live to see his son old enough to take the throne. The most that can be said for him is that, at last, he was reunited with Eirene in Christ.
Baudouin V will be remembered as one of the best Kings of Jerusalem, but not because of any particular skill of his own so much as by circumstance. Baudouin's refusal to spend money improving his own holdings, his complete lack of effort to force French as a court language in Jerusalem (preferring to allow each of his vassals to speak their own languages in their own courts), and his failure to opportunistically expand in favor of mild, "safe" expansion (poor areas, such as Maan, the Sinai, etc.) are all criticisms which will be levied at the King over time. In spite of this, the Apostle will be remembered as a bastion of Christendom and a truly Christian King for all time.
Yet, at the time, his death left the throne to Aubry at the tender age of twelve and a half, also under the regency of his Spymaster (as Baudouin in the final months of his life had been), Almuzzam. Aubry is faced with the dilemma of being old enough to understand his father's death, but young enough to truly mourn it, in a way he cannot hide from his courtiers and nobles. It, unfortunately, makes him appear weak, and Aubry loses much of the respect his father had helped him build up within the first months of his ascension.
>>147559718
In that case they are
>>147559720
Yes.
>>147557202
>Solomonid lion
I'll try something like that.
>>147559579
Yeah, I do flags for whoever comes asking me to. I accept pretty much all comissions. I may take a while to complete them though, specially if they are a lot of flags, but I should have lots of time this month.
>>147559776
Can you show Almuzzam?
>>147559872
Then you are a clinically diagnosed retarded. congrats.
>>147560037
Thanks.
>>147556291
Thank fuck, maybe now someone will do something useful in this war.
>>147559915
Non memey Czechoslovakian monarchy flag when? The vanilla flag would be fine in good quality
>tfw Toady got in the 64bit era before Paradox
Is this fucking hard Paradox? Really? Is that fucking hard to make 64bit games?
>>147559959
Sure.
>>147560278
>64 bits DF
>>147560278
Fuck off rob, I saw you posting in that other thread, you're still not fooling anyone.
>>147560330
>Sympathy for Judaisim
is there a mod that fixes hoi4 yet?
DOES DIVERGENCES ALREADY WORK WITH THE WIZ MEMEPATCH PHAMILY
>>147560420
>playing DF
What are you an autist or something
>>147560549
Yes, it does. Download fix.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gp6khtm8ehn7vy9/interface.rar?dl=0
>>147560330
Damn, that guy looks like a badass. Aside from his fondness for alcohol, the realm should be in good hands.
>>147560614
Bold words coming from someone posting in /gsg/
>>147560636
Based, thanks lad.
>>147559776
Although Almuzzam is a Muslim convert and a member of the Ayyubid royal house, he is one of the few vassals of Aubry who remains wholly loyal to the son of Baudouin V. That loyalty is what leads him to realize that Aubry, young and inexperienced as he is, is now ruling a Kingdom in grave peril.
The Mongol hordes, the same force which Baudouin had dismissed some decades earlier, have shown themselves to be no idle threat. They have conquered not only the vast majority of the Central Asian steppe, but have also forced Persia under their boot heel. Many of their vassals are Muslim and, because of this, their realm is not terribly stable, but when tens of thousands of horsemen will take to the saddle at the mere call of their Khan, it does not particularly need to be. It is undeniable that the Mongol Khanate is the strongest force in the world at present, and small Jerusalem, grievously weakened after the death of Baudouin, might yet need to stand against it.
Unfortunately for Aubry, his sister Sibylla is unwilling to support him at present (perhaps predictably, as soon as her father died the unstable Sibylla decided that Jerusalem should be her own), which only leaves Jerusalem more vulnerable in the face of the advancing Mongol hordes.
Therefore, Almuzzam has undertaken the only step he can think of to potentially save the realm: he has dispatched the best diplomat Jerusalem has to Constantinople, to beg the Byzantine Basileius Timotheos to grant the hand of one of his daughters to Aubry. Almuzzam believes that only an alliance with Byzantium, the only power even remotely nigh to the Mongol hordes in strength, can guarantee the continued existence of Jerusalem in the face of their aggression.
He prays to his new God, Jesus Christ, that the Basileius will be receptive in spite of the hostility between the Angelos and Aleramici dynasties. Now is a time for solidarity.
>>147560614
By the time Toady is done, or at least in about 10 years perhaps, DF will be a grandstrat in it's own right will all the ways that civilizations will be able to interact with one another.
>>147560330
>content
Oh nvm you should have no issues
>>147558129
>>147558690
This is it, isn't it? This is where the true turn to darkness begins.
I have bad news for you Badouin. Iriene has been watching the whole time. Will she even deign to talk to you again when you pass from this life, at this rate?
And his son...what will he do when he learns his sister was put away on his account?
>>147559206
>and that you need merely to trust in God and live a life of virtue to find happiness."
At what price though, dammit? At what price!??!
>"Ah, I remember youth," Baudouin said with a reminiscent smile. "Go; have fun. I will see you another time."
L-lewd
Is he going to start fucking around with wild abandon to mask the pain?
>>147559776
To Eirene, my friend. To Eirene.
It's here lads.pls seed
>>147560853
rip
>>147561745
Plenty of seeds for me.
>>147561745
>>147561962
Who cares about some shitty weebgame that barely even qualifies as a 4x, let alone a grandstrat? I want my Rule the Waves torrent already, damnit, it's been a year!
I still have no fucking clue what I'm doing, but we have acchieved Der Schweizer Küste
>>147562240
Who cares about some shitty grandpagame that barely even qualifies as a 4x, let alone a grandstrat?
>>147560228
Yeah, I went a bit too baroque with the one I did.
>>147561745
>>147561745
does the skidrow version have all the dlc too?
>>147560853
>not pledging vassalage to the Khan in return for the hand of one of his qt loli daughterus
>not being the trusted ear of the Khan, that gets him to eventually convert to Christianity
Come on Aubry!
>>147560549
What country you gonna play as famalam?
>>147562240
Just go buy it if you want it so bad.
>>147562279
Why does your flag look like some african country's?
>>147560853
Going to stop updating here for the night. I might do some more overnight, but I'll post everything tomorrow at roundabouts the usual time.The Mongols are huge. I'm so worried that I'm fucked.
>>147562554
Aubry isn't zealous like his father, so if it looks like they'll fuck him that's a possibility, but I'm not going to go that route without at least trying to fight them off first. If I can build a Christian Ring in the Levant (Byzantium/Jerusalem/Egypt), which admittedly is looking increasingly unlikely just now, we might be able to win.
>>147562608
no clue desu
>defending port city attacked from land
>surrounded on all sides, I have the sea, but no transports
>plenty of supply and supply routes open
>paradrop some reinforcements
>paratroopers never join combat, just sit in reserve
>defenders retreat
>everyone gets instantly destroyed, including 100% org paratroopers
Really makes you think...
>>147562589
>35 dollars for a video game
"no"
If it was 20 bucks, or even 25, I'd do it, but no more than that.
>>147562240
>Chinese
>weeb
>literally more gs than anything Paradox has made since 2013
>>147562852
Certainly more GS and better than rule the waves
>>147562852
It's sad t.qh fa.m
>>147562737
If you're gonna try to marry a Mongol girl, pls pick an extremely cute one. I want to see their beautiful children.
Also, for shame, work tomorrow, so I'll miss out.
>>147562943
Rule the Waves sounds autistic and nice though, I also wish there was a torrent.
>>147562943
Rule the Waves is just a Hearts of Iron game with a more focused timespan and with a focus on naval combat.
>>147562989
Oh shit I didn't even think about that, if I marry one of Ghengis's heirs' daughters I can get a non-aggression pact with them. Assuming they'll actually be willing to do it, that is. That would honestly be better than buttering up to the Angelos clan, or vassalizing myself to the Mongols for protection.
Hmm. I'm not sure what I'll do yet, but I might consider that.
>>147560182
>Tfw you are doing the entire allied war effort
>Everyone else is losing Africa, camping in Sweden or eating yogurt in Greece
Its because Im fascist isnt it?
>>147563356
>getting a non-agression pact with pagan/infidel Mongol hordes
why was Cuckclave allowed to exist
>>147563076
Doesn't matter, it isn't GS. Go buy it if you want to play it.
>>147563218
Rule the Waves is a game about naval combat. It's not grand strategy.
>a Hearts of Iron game with a more focused timespan and with a focus on naval combat.
It has no land combat. You use no diplomacy. You are an fleet admiral. It's a naval sim, it's not GS.
>>147563496
You're right, Rule the Waves is a good game well worth the money unlike HOY4.
>>147563496
How can you say how the game is? Have you played it for yourself?if so pls upload
>>147563792
Then go buy it and post in the wargame or simulation general instead of crying here about how you can't have a game for free.
Is Liang Mod still being worked on? It looks decently interesting senpai.
>>147563356
Your duty is to Jerusalem first. There should be no price you are willing to pay to see God's kingdom survive.
>>147563076
>>147563865
>>147563915
I'm not crying about anything, I wasn't the one who asked for the torrent.
>>147563989
>Is Liang Mod still being worked on?
No, but Legacy of Slovenia is.
>>147563865
Yes I did.
>he doesn't even know how the game is and he's here shilling it and asking for it
Consider suicide.
>>147563989
Don't worry senpai, I know. I'm still going to proceed trying to get the alliance with the Angelos, at least until Aubry turns 16. If he comes of age and still nothing is coming from that, I'll need to look elsewhere for an alliance, and that might necessitate a deal with the devil to protect Jerusalem from the Mongols.
>>147564015
>>147564128
GIVE ME THE LINK YOU GRANDI-TIER MEMERS
>>147564015
Unnecessarily complicated and railroaded, Hearts of Iron 4 remains as the best WW2 game!
>>147564359
>doesn't like HPM
>it's a steamgroup shitposter
Not even surprised.
I sure won't help you now, but thanks for letting me know before I could help you.
Fuck off back to your steamgroup.
