so whats the deal with anbennar is it a good mod or terrible or what
i heard only bad things until a few days ago when i started hearing goood thngs now im confused and confounded please help thanks cya bye

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truly, this has gone on for way too long
daily reminder switzerland was the last evropean nation to enact women's suffrage (not counting vatican) and they did so only in 1971

82
it was a war to make them my puppet, dummy

and whats the point of them being your puppet?

have you never played liqqy?
i have complete control over their foreign affairs and get to control their units whilst at war
also they will forever stay in my sphere and will not join wars against me (which they would if indep since i own their cores)

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what was that?
horseracebet-event, all in with 120 crowns on white. white power wins. the spirit is with us
yeah there cavalry was hefty. i kinda regret not pushing my own cavalry in those army reforms.

Nah, I got an event asking if I wanted to hold onto my core provinces, and it also said “may lead to war.” I thought I was cool with Jaddari. also because they had low manpower

idk i only play anbennar because eu5 is bad and i missed playing eu4, but not wanted to play in europe again

ugh
love events that allow you to repeal reforms
one of the very few ways the game allows you to feel like youre playing as a government swimming against the tide
normal gameplay makes it way too objectively "good" to enact reforms

government system in vic2 is bad for that i would say

i have yet to win a horse race and this lady wins it first try this is rng manipulation fuck

make sure look at the culture mapmode before you peace out, also pay attention to religion

>complains about vicky2
>can't even win a horse race

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>breech-loaded rifle armament
time for adoption of a national rifle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_5VTIxIrDs

hey they just did a mage estate rework, can you check what the varamhar university modifier does?
there's a probince in that blue cunt of an elven country that in the past had a modifier that increased the ahpyyness of the magic estate, does it do something different now?

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>47% of world's clothes production
this is what an export tab is supposed to look like, not importing industrial goods and exporting raw materials like a fuckin banana republic
on this note it's time to call it a night, gotta get up early tomorrow
btw my german shepherd must have had a bad dream as he was whining and moving his paws in his sleep lol

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that was lvl 3.
oha lvl 1 is sth about upgrading elementals too

no not that one, unless that's now a monument
i was talking about the province modifier. if there isn't one in any of the provinces, it means they removed it and replaced it with the monument, which makes sense, thought it means that only select tags can now use it, as opposed to everyone as was the case before(?)
most painfully, jadd now cant use it i think since they have a unique mage organisation? i think?

vgh lake liquoria

no magic province modifier nearby. nearest provnce modifier are permanent harpy ones and timelimited one through magic interactions.

but Jadd shoud be able to use it. it only needs that one Estate Privilege which they do have

>>2409926
Mod?

Would like to test anbennar for the mechanics but I hate fantasy shit.

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Thoughts on this game? Bought it yesterday, will try to find time to play it today. I've been a fan of thermonuclear weapons since i was a child.

Is Democracy 4 any good? Looks like a spreadsheet simulator which is a good thing

Throughout history, the agricultural nations of the south have always been beaten by the nomadic tribes of the north, but cavalry units are no match for a phalanx, right?
Why were they always getting beaten up by the Chinese and the northern nomadic tribes?
Didn't they ever consider the idea of a phalanx formation?
In short, Chinese people are stupid.

what the fuck is your problem
how dare you use an op pic that won't get deleted

word of the day : force majeure

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y'all niggas playing this?

this is so called "redditmod", no, we are not playing that

those are two words

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I thought GFM is "redditmod" ?

hfm is the redditmod and all forks of it are, analogously, redditmods

u're two words fgt

r-word mod

mod? crimea
pickelhaube? worn
niggers? killed
wilhelm? waggled

why is that redditmod stealing pioneers and tribesmen from a mod as racist as crimeamod?

tribesmen theoretically play a fuckhuge role because grandi added a shitload of pops to africa, particularly kongo. no seriously go boot up grandimod and look at 1836 population mapmode of africa. you'll literally see the outline of dr kongo in red, because otherwise the historical kill numbers in the kongolese """""genocide""""" would never add up
and when those millions of niggerpops get colonized they all start producing their niggerresources and flood the niggermarket, breaking the economy even further
tribesmen are by design "inert" pops that consume nothing and produce nothing

that will show us what sort of a redditor they truly are
are they the based hippie anti-racists romanticizing the "ugh... what was... the wholesome niggerinos frolocking through the jungles nary a care in the world... we must preserve this!"
or are they the modern iudaistic redditors whose idea of diversity is importing the whole population of africa into ulm and having them work in sweatshops under the threat of lashes and starvation

*frolicking
pardon moi

nick fuuuuuuuuuuueenntttttteeeeeessssssssss

who?

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i'm sorry bros... i might have to postpone mein schweizerische playthroughms because exanima update just released

okay swissfag have fun
wonder how long until another one tries a memegame2 grossgermania run

i haven't seen anyone play ck2 grossgermania yet, so it'll be a first if your wish comes true

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>Ming gaming
How fares the campaign anons?

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Also what would some kino borders be? I was thinking something similar to this

you're gonna play a game about blobbing and... not blob?

it's very doable

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eu4 fun fact of the day :
>did you know royal marriages with tributaries don't cost a relationship slot?

marriages do take a slot though, if you have a royal marriage with austria as france and no other relation it will take a whole diplo slot. tribuaries don't take a slot usually

my campaign to becoming an immobile fatass is progressing smoothly

starting as ming is kinda pointless tho, do it as japan or manchu

i've been here all along and the guy claiming his campaign to become a fatass is what reminded me that i completely fell out of the habit of mentioning my jogging days

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let´s see the (((growing opposition))) to Apartheid

that better be NWO and not CWE otherwise you're railroaded to get cucked

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>Germans revolt against communism but the Soviet Union just comes in and kills them
:(

08
This is CWE. I know it has some historical railroading this is why I chose the 1946 start. It allows for some chaos. Never played NWO. What are the advantages?

it's the mod cwe is based on, except not redditified yet
while cwe pussyfoots around many issues and sides with the judeobolshevik media's view on them, nwo reflects the real history properly

reddit would never use the term "judeobolshevik" earnestly

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>>2409736
I'm the old gsg ambition poster >>2409738 (https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/username/gsg%20ambition/ and
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/username/gsg%20amibtion/) and I've enjoyed them in the past . I haven't played awakening but the general concepts are always good, I remember not-/eag/ on /vst/ had some threads around the release time. The Koei strategy games are usually 1 step forward and 1 step back with every iteration, but that doesn't mean it's bad: I think Awakening is regarded as on of the better ones

i appreciate the thought but please don't reply to me ever again

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gomenasorry

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If you want some reddit entertainment look at this. Yes the CWE creator is a biased leftist but he seems to be an old school marxist who is somewhat nostalgic about the eastern bloc. To a modern leftist he is almost a neo-nazi because he still recognizes some differences between different peoples and faiths and he is not in denial about conflicts that can arise from such differences. Literally Hitler.

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civilization hypno...

cute...

technologically-assisted evolution

>A lot of the issues you mention here are more the result of the development of the original NWO mod upon which CWE is based. NWO originally took a much more overt fringe stance (I.e. the marriage reform included "promote experiences" and veiled references to forced homosexuality and/or bestiality, promoting liberal and moderate party popularity in foreign nations was touted as a way to destabilise other countries and make them more susceptible to becoming communist or joining a superstate, one of the github issues talked about options to let you form a "minority majority open rainbow society", and a lot of the events about demographic change were written as overly dramatic lamentations on moral decrepitude),
how could you still want to play cwe over nwo after reading such a glowing review?????

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Big South Africa and Big Rhodesia...beautiful

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I might give it a try. CWE guy removed some policy options that seem interesting.

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big zuidafrikums makes no sense to me
i still maintain the afrikaaners should have consolidated their territory into a small and cute state, shipped all niggers out of it and then maintained tight border control over something like pic related
that way they get to keep 80% of their natural riches while not having to deal with internal nigger 5th columnists like that bandit mandela (ugh i wish i lived in the timeline where he died in prison)

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>arrested 156 activists, including Mandela
>all were acquitted
Not this time my vriende

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The sad thing is that the Boer state has no cores at all in the area you marked.

im holding out hope the cape secedes soon

it's spelled kaap

where does the boerstaat have cores?
release it and show

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33% Colored majority pops....

who the FUCK would willingly choose that land with no diamonds and no coal?
whose idea was that?

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look at this fucking shit
https://www.geoscience.org.za/wpfd_file/mineral-map-of-sa-3mb/
at least around springbok there's copper and diamonds

hello post more liqqy

fr no kaap

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>Iran is communist now
>Palestine and Israel are British puppet states
>2 big Chinas
Interesting developments. I´ll take the groß-Afrikaanische Lösung.

>2 big chinae
what should have been
there's nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man

lol that map is so fucking ridiculous
too much color
>simplified geology
very unnecessary, who fucking cares if the area is archaezoic or mesozoic or yourmomzoic
>mineral commodity
>precious metals and diamonds
>metallic minerals
>industrial metals
now this shit is important

>very unnecessary, who fucking cares if the area is archaezoic or mesozoic or yourmomzoic
i asked, i care

if you want love, i got a b2 bomber heading your way
stay in your house

wow... stellaris 3.14 is definitely much better than stellaris in 2018...

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France tried to hold on to her colonial possessions for too long which got the anglo-seethometer over 25 - the USA declared war.

>austria still split east vs. west
kino

i still think its impressive how the boers just went north into nowhere with just guns and carts and mowed down tens of thousands of people and forced them into exile
my favourite era, the first ~half of the 19th century, wish i could have seen it

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>secured my first oil province by "helping" the Portuguese against the Africans
We are moving north even in the 20th century. I agree the 19th century was peak.

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>guns and carts
Imagine tanks and rockets

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>tfw the nationalists are not nationalist enough

but it wasn't tens of thousands of men they displaced and certainly not killed
you have to understand that zuidafrika was barely populated by niggers back then (cape colony was literally uninhabited when the dutch landed there first). it was a coupld small tribes they fought small skirmishes with and then just settled among them because the land was so big and scarcely populated — no displacement needed
then after ww2 when south africa truly became prosperous all the negroes from the surrounding shitholes started pouring in, hoping for a better life. so +90% of the negro population of ZA is not indigenous and all the hubbub about africa for africans is a lie

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>still using the ww1 tank sprite
can't believe the devs of cwe couldn't just model a cute little t-54

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>Sout Africa becomes sectarian regime
>Brazil becomes dictatorship
>Zambia gains independence from Rhodesia
>Czechoslovakia breaks out of eastern bloc - gets annexed by Soviet Union
>Soviet Union invades Norway
It´s happening.

*moves to argentina to avoid getting nuked*

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me when i joork my willy

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Nothing ever happens. Norway is not communist,USA didn´t lose, Soviet Union didn´t lose wtf.... except France is communist now

ussr is very happy to see poland

komrade polska, how good to see you!

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US president Humphrey seems to be a genius. >de-escalated the cold war
>kept Cuba "democratic"(dicatorship)
>no civil rights for blacks
The American continent is almost witnessing a golden age.

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Britain has betrayed Rhodesia. We won´t!

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i urge you guys to try exanima, it's really fun
just don't pay for it. it's free on gog if you catch my drift

anbennnar game was way more entertaining

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After almost 3 decades of rising tensions between the 2 Chinas it´s finally on. WW3. USA and Nationalist China vs Soviet Union and Communist China.

wrong

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Nationalist China surrendered to prevent nuclear war. The communists won and China is unified once again...prepare for a lot of unrest in the USA.

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what happens here?

it's quite funny how every zuidafrika campaign in this general (especially in cwe) goes like that vgh meme
ten billion niggers in country where they have no political rights... what could've been

vgh

>>2410401
Is crimeamod really that good?

23
Nah that was the humiliated smol republic of China.

nothing to do but blob into the dark heart of africa
whites dying to bring ever more useless bantus into the fold

>shilling a videogame
alright swissfag i'm convinced that you are nfag
anyways i urge you to finish your memegame2 campaign

not clicking that

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Remember EU V?
Me neither.

What gsg to heal from the damage eu5 has caused? I can´t enjoy anything anymore. Fucking paradox gave me depression. Help me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avJZnUyYA9E

>What gsg to heal from the damage eu5 has caused?
stellaris

are the negro population of ZA not africans?

>want an alt-history dutch colonial empire
>vic2 is set too late
>in eu5 the AI does nothing and the new world is cance
is it over for me and gsg ?

>>2411457
play eu4 cunt

what happend to openvic or project alice?

there's gilded destiny
not that i'm actually keeping track of it or anything

more like gelded destiny

>PSA, this is now known and we will be fixing this bug.
paradogs cucked out

AoH 2 is on sale, worth picking up?

>>2412164
who are you quoting?

your mother

did you pass?

800e just hit my account and I have no idea where it came from. What should I invest in /gsg/? Yes this is on topic Jan, fuck off

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Where can i discuss economy simulators?

you should invest in gsg (the thread)
the op isn't going to update itself...

i miss the "this week in history" op(s)

This week in history:
May 24, 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
May 25, 1660 – Charles II lands at Dover at the invitation of the Convention Parliament, which marks the end of the Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and begins the Restoration of the British monarchy.
May 26, 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
May 27, 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
May 28, 1830 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act which denies Native Americans their land rights and forcibly relocates them.
May 29, 1864 – 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II capture Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Roman Empire after over 2,000 years.
May 30, 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.

^ wants the bbc

you will never be me

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fricking epic wales gaming

did you start as one of the oiresh minors and form wales or did you cheat?

is it possible to start as a german opm and become a major colonial power in america, yes/no?

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man these are some trash national ideas
anyone remember the old neapolitan ideas? they were even worse than this

2026 and still not knowing how to tell whether an eu4 screenshot is using cheat or not is crazy work

are you talking about the eisenmench sign thingy? if so the cheat i'm talking about (releasing and playing as the cunt) is available in eisenmann

also i don't play eu4 it's trash

yes
and if you count the dutch as german then it's even easy to do so

not cropped = not cheated

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I released Wales in 1444 and fought an independance war with France and Burgundy supporting. Still nearly went bankrupt though, I got the Burgundian Inheritance and secured an alliance with the emperor after France started coveting my land. Current war is for Champagne's cores and as long as Austria deals with Venice this should be relatively straightforward.

i miss the anbennar campaign poster
cant wait until i get to play anbennar next month :)

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pwned

>over the ally limit
what a slut

diplomatic relations not being a hard cap is the best thing about eu5 imo

so you're saying three's no cap?

there is no hard cap
there is a soft cap of sorts

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i like that every religion has unique mechanics in eu5
i dont like that every religion other than the big 5 dissapear within 50 years of gameplay. jews are an extinct species by eu4's startdate

ugh... what should have been...

they should make a dlc where they add marcionism just so that one poster can buy it

they'll add macaronism in the italy dlc

^german post

how did you know???????

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you're very funny and you seem cute :)

is macaronism like italian catholicism

i don't get the image
please clarify

perhaps you need to relax again

or perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man, before throwing him out of a plane

>>2412831
They could make a special building(jewish charter) that prevents/lowers assimilation.

*demolishes*

you're a big guy

>>2412837
are you that one poster

+ 20% unrest

+20% unrest
-10% research speed
-10% pop promotion speed
+10% import cost
+100% interest per annum

*converts to atheism*

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>A small force of mercs and vassals holds off the Venetian army, allowing the siege of Paris to end
kino

*raises epstein island dev up to max*

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legalism won
confucius stinks

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special buildings seem like a very bandaid solution
lowering religious assimilaton rates would aslo be a bandaid solution tho i would lower them anyway
the actual solution would be something like a set of conversion policies that target different religions differently and the policies that you have available are different depending on state religion

so for example most catholic countries would start with a policy that gets bonus converstion speed against pagan pops but a very hefty malus against converting jews, spain would obviously be able to switch out of it into a "kill everyone that isnt catholic" one for free and it'd give unrest but boosts across the board, crusader states would get one that similarly gets a bonus against jews while getting a bonus against muslims, you could also have one where you get small penalties but a reduction to unrest of foreign religion pops and idk play around with that one, the point is muslims would have access to different sets of these policies where they would mostly start with a massive malus to converting christians and jews (and sabians) but bonus tax income, indian muslims can pass reforms where they do that to hindus, hindus and so on and so on. It'd be some work but it'd work wonders, lutherans would naturally switch from the default catholic jew conversion malus to total jew death by default as per luther's book and that'd be an organic gameplay reason stick with catholicism or go with reformed instead depending on what you want to do with your religious minorities.

someone screencap this and post it in paradoxplaza im a genius

but what about der poland?

just pull a vicky with if = jew = can't assimilate

wdym what about der poland?
what about them indeed? they would perfectly fit into this system, in fact they'd have the default catholic law, MAYBE there would be 2 variants, one where jews get like -90% assimilation and another one where they get like -70%

make it so that sephardim all convert instantly into state religion once violent conversion laws are enacted, but convert back to judaism instantly the moment laws are relaxed

no i dont think they should make the game into some schizo political manifesto about genetic memory like it's assasin's creed

jews should literally never convert except for specific circumstances (conversos).
they should just get expelled and move around.

69
bravo

it's not genetic memory it's just that they still practiced judaism in secret
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dönmeh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrano

>jews should literally never convert except for specific circumstances (converts).
wow what a brilliant post, truly revolutionary thinking

jews convert all the time, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism

^ this guy doesn't know atheist jews still practice judaism (demon worship) in secret

>judaism (demon worship
nobody believes this, not even anti-jewish church fathers
they would call every other diety demons but not that one

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me, i believe that

based on what? apostolic succession says otherwise

based on my cryptic dreams where i slay a payoted hydra

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xcucks are just jealous of jews becuse unlike them they actually get to keep their ancestral ethnic religion where as xcucks have to bow down to a jewish convicted criminal every week
gets even worse if you're a catholic, guess what catholic means, that's right UNIVERSAL, as in the opposite of national. ask a right win xcuck if he'll be happy going to heaven that's full of black people, watch them either shreak or fall into heresy full time

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does this guy ever get tired of baiting about religion?

>>2412882
No they just become crypto-jews

the dreaded blockchain jew...

german porn is so good
As soon as I hear German in a porn ,M y heart starts beating faster and i can’t hold back any longer I’m already cumming

i don't understand scat fetishists
could you please explain the appeal?

i have 1 inch microcock

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>peace deal

99
According to an Orthodox patriarch black people become White in heaven.

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I could have pushed for 100% ws but one of France's vassals declared war, and after this war with Scotland/Denmark I want to attack England. It would be better if they fight with Castile for as long as possible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidAAOdwa0M

wales campaign is fun
wales isn't a real country so it's almost like he's playing anbennar

i wouldn't have pushed for 100% but i would have pushed for war reps

don't worry soon he will just be a lilac england

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I thought about it but I got war reps from Venice

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i'm watching a lets play of victoria 2 and it's pretty great honestly, mass burials and shit fuck man

>guy forms germany as switzerland in vic2
>creates a unique country completely different from a prussian or austrian formed germany

>guy forms great britain as scotland in eu4
>his country is indistinguishable from an english scotland because you can just accept any culture at will
no wonder eu4babs jerk off about national ideas so much since that's the only thing distinguishing tags

but forming x as y gives you different missions and national ideas, how is that not distinguishable?

meanwhile accepted cultures is the ONLY thing that differs in vic2, to say a country is "completely unique" because of 1 variable being flipped to yes instead of no is a bit dishonest

and the fact that accepted cultures are entirely 100% predetermined instaed of being able to organically adapt to circumstances is not a boon

does it actually give you different missions? last time i played eu4 was before they added missions and the missions really don't look good (blob here, then blob there, then dev there to get a bonus for 20 years)
meanhuwhile accepted cultures (and by extension the cores) completely change your geopolitical standing. sure, you can blob without accepted cultures and/or cores but pops there will always be uppity and unproductive and you'll raise less soldiers there and end up with an underpopulated area since everyone will leave for buenos aires
compare that to eu4 where you can blob in every direction with no repercussions because as prussia you can accept polish culture and you'll treat poles better than saxons and poles will suddenly abandon all ideas of a polish state because they're paid lip service in preuBen

play as jaddari and then play as the axebellow cartel, both eu4 tags, and tell me that they're exactly the same except for national ideas.

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France fighting for their life rn, I just got an event indicating England was about to attack Armagnac too.

i will not play as jabroni they are not in europe

play as lorent then my point stands

lorent is not in europe either

name 1 european tag then

the physical shape of the country formed at time of formation is different, which affects its national character and overall population, decides what ideas are amplified and what arent, what the strategy becomes.
nothing "really" even represents these in vicky and yet it feels more solid and real than eu4 does. a swiss germany wouldnt have a prussian military character, it would be seeking completely different alliance networks and strategies, and its leaders would see themselves as the latest in a completely different tradition or line. swiss german would be prestigious, maybe the national mythos coming up to ww2 would be like mass assimilating north italians idk

france

oh but to finish my point, in eu4 there is nothing that makes you think about themes like this the goal is always the same, just blob. mission trees at least try to direct what way you blob which helps but it just becomes a guideline for how to inefficiently make a world empire of a certain shape, maybe the story i'm trying to tell doesnt include a world empire being forged in this era in time??? you have no choices in eu4

i've played maybe 500 hours of eu4 (all pirated so idk exactly) but the ai never declared war on me outside of countries like granada or rome
in vic2 i've had war declared on me plenty of times. eu4 ai is very passive in this regard and it ruins my immersion so much!

ugh the good old days when the brownest immigrant to the new world was a romanian....

if /gsg/ was a game studio, it's safe to say that half the budget would go to the immigration screen...

whole 10 dollars

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that's because in vic2 the ai is retarded and will attack you in a war it cannot win

only because i'm a pro gamer
i still remember that one mp game we did when nbro got stackwiped by the ai, ragequit, and the ai that took over his country rebuilt the army and won the war
and that's not what you're supposed to write with a cyoa image you're supposed to write "this is more of a gsg than eu4"

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Wales grows larger

I wouldn't mind falling into her astral gash if you know what I'm saying

were you afraid of losing or what happened wtf is that peace deal? once again i would push for at the very least war reprtations idk why youy hvant done this

i got scared ;-;

I was at +16 individual war score against Denmark and they weren't called in as a co-belligerent so the province I wanted was impossible to take. To get more warscore I would have needed naval superiority which would have taken significant investment and time, while I'm bleeding money on mercs. Waiting longer would have only allowed me to full annex Scotland, so I decided to cut the war short to save money and focus on other conquests/scaling

eu4 is outdated

both explenations are good i like them thanks

why does rfk keep saying big egg is evil

he played too much Sonic

Mana Gameplay is so much more fun than slider Gampeplay
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2778848226

this, but unironically

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r8 my progress for 1401

this nigga unironically playing goy5

thats so ugly you should add an extra proton to your name

reminder before his disappearance greek johan was decrying eu5sloppa as 'too complicated'
perhaps we were wrong to hitch our horses so swiftly to enlightenment age

what

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>>2410437
Is it actually fun? It looks like ass, and its been EA for over a decade. Hell, I remember seeing something about it back when I was young, in my early 20s. I'll be fucking 39 in a month, lmao

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it's really fun, just don't pay for it. it also has a really steep learning curve but to me learning is fun
and what do you mean it looks like ass? i love the art style

>exanima
might as well play le elden ring

but they're two completely dissimilar games?????

its rpg and you play a knight. dissimilar how????

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it's not an rpg but a physics-based fighting game and you don't play a knight you play a negromancer
honestly elden rang is not an rpg either

>1 year later
>paran*****s still haven't figured out how to slot country names into their borders
grim. very grim.

paranwhat?

paraniceguys

>>2413379
Why is it so small?

i-it's just cold!

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Damn I can't remember the last time I had a disaster fire on me

nice bordergore blvd
why are you playing wales in vanilla with no missions

*teleports behind you*
*waggles your willy*
;)

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big england
866
why not

>King dies
>Civil war rages on
>Few years later get this event
environmental storytelling

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>forgor

environmental storytelling is skeletons sitting on toilets
i think youre looking for emergent narrative

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Yeah that's the one, my bad. War reps from Venice expired so the economy is really in the shitter now, I think I'm going to go in on Russia to get max cash from them

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>>2413934
expire soon*

>Celts reclaiming Gaul
holy based

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Soon™

>>2413379
>-100
you alrite there m8?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GavMNR_WdoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GavMNR_WdoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GavMNR_WdoI

woah, nice you of to link it thrice so i get to not click it thrice

that guy doesnt remember the complete mess imperator was on release. the monarch point system in that game was retarded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efeshBdT5L4

Another day with no anbennar campaign
Another day i sleep

fair play to anby but i never once thought for even half a blip what the internal politics of wackbaxen were like

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the eu5 reaction is why i gave up on following this community completely and just follow anbennar and nothing else.
>YEARS and YEARS of shitposting about how mana is horrible and how vic2 is so glorious oh my g-d vic2 is perfect for not having mana
>YEARS and YEARS of complaining about mission trees and railroading, how they stifle creativity and make every playthrough of one country the same (even though victoria 2 decisions were basically mission trees)
>YEARS and YEARS of complaining about the "instant gratification" philosophy of clicking a button and something happening instantly
>fast forward to eu5 announcement, they removed mana and mission trees and replaced them with mechanics that largely make you think long term, almost every decision has consequences that will only come into effect over the course of years and you need to weigh your options carefully and make decisions, adjusting them as new information comes your way
>mission trees are removed because like everyone was saying, they want every campaign's decisions to be informed by the game's mechanics and not by stacking mission bonuses BUT they know some people really like mission trees so they provided the infrastructure for them so modders can make them at their own leisure.
>youtubers make a million eu5 videos day one, stumbling over each other to be the first at something, anything
>they quickly burn out but keep going in a desperation for views
>they struggle to milk content out of the game long term because no mission trees to read aloud and no mana-giving modifiers to stack
>leaders of gsg thought suddenly declare that mana was amazing and mission trees were the lifeblood of gsg
Personally I do think eu5 needs some work, like cores being removed from land the moment that core's population goes below 50% is horrid IMO, but those are all kinks that will be ironed out IF and only IF they don't listen to these complete clowns squaking into their ears about mechanics that they rightfully removed.

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community???

>>2414303
I thought all new Paradox games were mana heavy?

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what i personally love about eu5 is how a province 2 days walk from my capital stops sending me taxes and levies almost completely

eu5 specifically was made NOT to be mana heavy

hello tired, i'm anon

>>2414324
Shit, now you make think I should check it out.

provide an example of this happening
proximity scales with distance so if it's a province that's next to your capital it will always have some

you should
it needs some more time in the oven and there's a dlc out to be released soon but it's great overall and long-term, IF they don't listen to the youtuber bottomfeeders, has the potential tobe the greatest strategy (video) game of all time

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by 2 days away i mean a province 140km away from my capital by land. go look at poland at the start of the game
control is a mechanic that's supposed to be realistic but isn't, because whomever is controlling that land de facto (also de jure if we're talking control by vassals) has obligations towards your ruler and delays in messages arriving would not change that
coincidentally control is one of those systems that betrays how shit the eu5 ai is because the player will always jump way ahead of the ai in power by gaming the distance system and using that building that caps the floor at 20%; in liqqy the ai doesn't struggle with basic systems and poses an actual challenge

>in liqqy the ai doesn't struggle with basic systems and poses an actual challenge
crimeamod for eu5 when?
literally any mod for eu5 other than small tweaks and meme changes wheb?

play memegame
get memed on

>the eu5 reaction is why i gave up on following this community completely and just follow anbennar and nothing else
The switchup in rhetoric was interesting to see, especially after literal years as you mentioned. But tbf if you were expecting anything better/legimitately 'following' a bunch of shitposters in an obscure thread on a mongolian basket weaving forum that's on you big dog

reminder the bailiff youre talking about is a net drain on your economy for 90% of provinces but the ai will spam it. the player wont even have the problem of needing it because he knows how to interact with the system by way of making roads and ports

yes, it's expensive but you're supposed to place it in a distant valuable province and build 1 or 2 provinces of roads radiating from it

group A: "i love this game"
group B: "this game is shit"
(You): "wtf i don't get it anonymous both hates and loves this game?"

genuinely most retarded post ITT above

genuinely most retarded post ITT above

no thats the governor, you only ever use bailiff in an isolated gold mine or something like that
meanwhile big ai like france will spam it everywhere, sit on infinite noble power and stagnate

what should have been.....
robespierre i hate you i hope you are burning in hell right now

typical retard argument: refuse to name your thesis and just pretend that whoever you're replying to made a contradiction at some point but never point to where that contradiction took place
what is supposed to be "group A" and "group B"? comment refers to the same groups both post and pre eu5

i am group C and i hate NIGGERS

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i can't speak for all the other anonymeese but i've always loved vic2 and will always love vic2 (modded ofc vanilla is icky) and can't wait for eu5 to actually become good and have mods that improve historical flavour and make the ai not braindead
but taking the opinions of a collective that's more than half comprised of eu4 babs (vic2 grognards are a dying breed) as one uniform body of opinion is incredibly stupid yes ur stoopid thank you

eu5 will never be good
t.vickypro

i'm a vickypro but i have hope
but i also recognize that paradox games by definition cannot be good vanilla and no one seems to make mods for paradox games anymore. last one with a big overhaul was imperator

i remember talking to a vickyfriend years ago when i didnt know mods and i told him about how i liked to play ethiopia and when he found out i only played vanilla at the time he just laughed at me

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understandable

>>2414387
heh
>>2414388
what the heck is that real?!?

don't reply to me ever again

>>2414405
but which one is (you), this >>2414387 or this >>2414388 ???

all me

king of the romans

king in preuBen

march of the eagles

sneed of the feed

>>2414303
>YEARS and YEARS of shitposting about how mana is horrible and how vic2 is so glorious oh my g-d vic2 is perfect for not having mana
>YEARS and YEARS of complaining about mission trees and railroading, how they stifle creativity and make every playthrough of one country the same (even though victoria 2 decisions were basically mission trees)
maybe you should just stop listening to memegame2 players' complaints
then your day will go better

but i've never seen a ck2 player complain about mana

decisions & events > mission trees

fuck mission trees they are literally for npcs who need direction like ai nations

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>there is no mana in memegame2
>also memegame2:
>ah yes, my gray matter mana has reached exactly 7.000000002, should i spend it on "Legalization Of Sitting Briefly During Work Hours" or "The Right To Think About Voting Someday"?

explain the difference between decisions and missions

i don't remember those de jure laws from ck2

clearly there must be a difference if eu4 has both decisions and missions, no?

and eu5 has neither but that doesnt explain anything

eu5 lacking both of them does not help us with defining what a decision is
meanwhile eu4 having them both and having them be explicitly discrete does. it narrows down our possible definitions
basic logic you see

decisions were in the game since the start along the old mission system in the same window fondly enough so not much
in practice the only real difference is that in eu4 decisions can sometimes become available to you on the basis of say, moving a capital or becoming muslim, something that's not directly tied to the tag you're playing, where as missions are always tied to the tag. that and not having previous decision requirements.
in truth the mission tree is just a visually clean way of displaying decisions if you're going to have more than 10 or so

in vic2 most decisions that aren't mod debug bullshit or build the panama canal ect fall under the same category as eu4 missions

uhhh why is eu4 mogging eu5 playercounts

anbennar had a big update recently

eu4 was mogging eu5 before that thoughbeit

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anbennar had a series of updates thorughout eu5's lifespan

the last update also seriously fucked transbennars performance

truke: eu4 players don't give a shit about previous or following paradox games, they don't care about other paradox franchises, they just care about eu4
eu4 and ck2 and hoi4 were 3 breakout paradox hits on a scale previously unimaginable for the genre and all continued for 10+ years. players who started with those games really don't care about successors in the same series just like they didn't care about the games predecessors, they just want to play the game they fell in love with

yeah true. eu4 is like AoE or Starcraft only one of the games matters the rest of the franchise can fuck off.

>performance
vic2 culture shitposting now imported into anbennar
get a better pc

paradox's games just got worse as sweden's demographics got worse
they even outsourced goy5 to spics and that game is a dead nigger baby

why should i get a better pc for a game that looks worse than vic2 and is simpler mechanically (no pops)????
maybe paradox shouldn't have forgotten how to code

>and is simpler mechanically (no pops)
lol

glad to have made you laugh with my factually correct post, fellow gsgeer

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>can't wait for eu5 to actually become good

>paul dano
is paradox adding crude oil as a resource in eu5?

he's weak sauce man, weakest actor in SAG

*continues filming u*

any good sci-fi Grandstrategy games?

anbennar lizards

ck2 crisis of the confederation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHrrT4t1wB4
why does youtube keep recommending me videos like this? I legitemately ONLY watch victoria 2 videos and the occasional viral video a friend sends me

yeah i'm facing a similar problem, these shitty videos keep showing up in my /gsg/

shitty how?

at least keep your bait consistent amateur -____-

2 different people
you said the video is shitty, im asking in what way

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yeah definitely it's two different people
totally not the same guy posting the video then baiting people to talk about it
mhm

i was scared watching that video in case the tree hit the beaver, but the tree was actually really small

later he died to internal hemorrhage

watch out one more tranny video and you'll convert to islam