gaming

[wind vector]

14-4-4

[manic mural]

:p

do like 16-4-10 at least

[wind vector]

hmm

[manic mural]

get the nice 30k stack

[wind vector]

yeah looks like it's time to spam conscription

[manic mural]

take advantage of back row fire

[manic mural]

what miltech are you at

[wind vector]

22

i might go kill portugal

[manic mural]

bruh you should have much bigger stacks

at least 30k stacks

[wind vector]

i could merge my 20k stacks

[manic mural]

It'll make your life easier

[wind vector]

then i'll probably start suffering attrition

so i'll do 30k stacks

[manic mural]

30k is sweet spot usually

and you need more arty not that much more inf

[manic mural]

you should have plenty of money from english channel trade node

[wind vector]

yep

a bit tempted to finish off great britain

but portugal's getting a bit too powerful

but so is spain

and also the poles are colonizing

[manic mural]

might need some more lvl 3 trade centers but yea

eat the british trade centers

[manic mural]

get more power projection and get more generals

[wind vector]

lol

they have like 77k soldiers

i have over 200k

[manic mural]

iirc 50 gets you the free general slot

but yea

make stacks bigger and get generals to crew those stacks

[wind vector]

imma just put guys on the maginot line and then go kill the rest of britain

i just found the entire british army

rat gaming

probably should annex scotland after i finish off england

what's left of england

[manic mural]

start putting more arty in those stacks

it helps you with faster siege times and more damage on fire phase and all

you can afford it

[wind vector]

yeah

problem is getting them across the ocean

portugal's colonies are annoying as hell

[manic mural]

take like 3 stacks back to mainland and train arty on england for the other 2 stacks

[wind vector]

nah england's pretty much dead

i'm more worried about portugal at this point

about time those two went to war

[manic mural]

go bite into the hre

[wind vector]

time to

"restore france's natural borders"

[wind vector]

so uhh

poland joined

next time i'm bringing russia

the poles need to be contaiend

[manic mural]

beat up your rivals

get power projection up and then general

[wind vector]

poland is my rival

[manic mural]

do the thing

[wind vector]

didn't expect them to join but uh

poles kinda suck this game

[manic mural]

they defender of the faith or smth

[wind vector]

we're both catholic

[manic mural]

hre emperor?

[wind vector]

i actually don't know how they joined

austria is the emperor

maybe it's a great power imbalence thing

[manic mural]

whos your ally

[wind vector]

venice

austria isn't a gp tho

[manic mural]

2gp vs 1gp another gp can join in on the 1gp side

or 1gp vs 0gp a gp can join the 0gp side

[wind vector]

yeah it's 1gp vs 1gp

france vs poland

i think they joined because there was no gp

worse decision they ever made

next time i'm bringing russia

they're also not getting pass my maginot line

the maginot line is unironically working

the have 188k soldiers but i have no idea where the polish army is

i found a part of their army... in africa

ai priorities

french east prussia

reee

i can't release prussia

[full wing]

Elon is ok person

Whoops wrong one

[wind vector]

why are you

[full wing]

What

Do you mean

[wind vector]

why

[full wing]

Huh

[wind vector]

it's completely unrelated

[full wing]

I know I thought this had a Twitter chat

I accidentally got to this

And said that

So sorry

Make sense?

I guess not

Soo….Elon do you like war Elon: No I like Peace

Gotta wake up at 4am to go lift yeeeee

Can’t wait

[wind vector]

@manic mural should i try to do the "better than napoleon achievement"

poland owns moscow

and i only need berlin from bohemia

[manic mural]

do it

[wind vector]

hehe

might kill britain first

so i can get my force limit up

[wind vector]

should i move the maginot line to baden or keep it in alsace

thinking of deleting the forts in the low countries and then redoing the defenses

actually

think i might expand into germany after all

thinking of building a series of fortresses along the rhine

as long as they don't get naval supremacy i'll be fine

[wind vector]

ok so

they wiped a few of my stacks

new strategy

literally just gonna hold the maginot

if they siege down my forts

i'm moving in

this is literally the maginot line

they keep trying to siege it down

i may or may not have rammed my entire army into a polish death stack

time to start a new run 💀

poland keeps joining the wars 💀

[wind vector]

ok time to play funny pizza nation

[wind vector]

ok so

i found out that even if you don't directly own ethiopia (i.e. through puppets) you can still form italian east africa

so basically

if you can capitulate ethiopia early in the game

puppet everything and then no need to deal with compliance

[native bone]

Hello new friend

[wind vector]

yeah so

[wind vector]

ok i give up

this was way too chaotic

ok so what happened was

i was at war with france

great britain joined allies

then the us joined allies

GB i can handle

then the us joined 💀

i blame czechoslovakia

and also a quarter of my army got encircled because i was too busy microing the other front

[manic mural]

this is why you need sudo and I to help you micro

[wind vector]

i was trying to do the pope achievement so

i also have no idea what i was getting myself into

so basically

[manic mural]

lol

[wind vector]

the game started with me cheesing yugoslavia

ethiopia*

and then i immediately justified on romania

i did the ultimatum on yugoslavia and they submitted

so i declared on romania

and then france joined

france was actually the easier part

because they couldn't get supply on the top part of savoy

so i broke through and then snaked all the way to paris

and the french was uhh

being very french

aka french high command not doing anything after the germans went around the maginot (but italian)

and then i just threw men at romania and czechoslovakia

then britain joined 💀

so i had to invade gibraltar and then sealion

and then the us joined and the game was over

[wind vector]

we should do an axis game

again

with 3 people

[manic mural]

mmm

[wind vector]

i promise i won't build motorized rocket arty again

thinking of

Germany co-op + Italy
or
Germany + Italy + Hungary/Romania

[manic mural]

germany coop going to be too boring

[wind vector]

soviet co-op would be more fun

[manic mural]

mm

[wind vector]

comintern game

commie china + soviet co-op

i could probably beat back the japanese by 1940

probably not by 1940

[manic mural]

USSR + PRC + ROC?

cursed but

maybe funny

[wind vector]

i'm probably gonna invade the roc

[manic mural]

true

buff mongolia smh

[wind vector]

a mongolia would be quite useful tbh

i mainly just need a fleet

the main problem is commie china

or china in general

is the lack of a navy

so even if you beat the japanese back you have to wait for a fleet to appear

the other way is paratroopers

[manic mural]

or accept the truce

[wind vector]

it didn't give me the event

for some reason

[manic mural]

I dunno specific requirements but it isn't chance it just pops when the requirements are met afaik

[wind vector]

it usually fires when they get kicked out of china

but it didn't last time i played

wait

commie usa + ussr + commie china

that would actually solve the whole japan problem

feel like it would be a bit overpowered tho

but then at least we could have someone to do d-day

instead of waiting for AI to actually do anything

yugoslavia?

[wind vector]

i think this might actually be a good idea

because then we can also fight the allies

without the whole

allies death stack in 1945

[manic mural]

yugoslavia sounds like fun thooo

[wind vector]

yeah but yugo will have to hold

until we can kill the axis

[manic mural]

no great options

[wind vector]

spain?

spain has no game impact anyways so

it could work

[manic mural]

fighting in spain is dictate largely by volunteer so yea

[wind vector]

soviet + prc + commie spain

sounds like a game

tho the question is

who to put on spain

spain could also be really annoying to play because of the whole civil war

trotsky mexico would be funny

and could also help out in the pacific

[slow field]

Call of Duty players are genuinely not chill whatsoever

[manic mural]

@formal tiger a 5mm piece of steel just saved this leo 1

[formal tiger]

@manic mural

[manic mural]

im getting off as soon as I finish my task

I got t80u today so Im not happy

stock heat all over agaain

[formal tiger]

Rip

[wind vector]

@manic mural i got a dumb idea

japan game

manchuko mengukuo and japan

[manic mural]

hm

[wind vector]

attempt #3 at pope rome

get this

i'll have total air supremacy over romania and czechoslovakia

if i get the yugoslavia puppet i'll paradrop all of romania's vps with 2 widths

and then prague

[wind vector]

ok so

i have to disband all of my mountaineers to make room for paratroopers

i need them to hold savoy so

ehhh

Pope Rome strategy 3.0:

cheese ethiopia, justify on romania, get rid of bald man asap

ok so

new strat

cap france

then switch my mountaineers over to paratroopers

time for a little

blitzkrieg

[wind vector]

i did the funny

[wind vector]

wtf eu4

my heir died three times in a row

[manic mural]

Too many hunting incidents

[long cloak]

finally got su-25 yeeee

[manic mural]

Lol

[manic mural]

Use gunpods+r60 for fun, use napalm for grinding rp

[wind vector]

ok so i was playing austria

i was trying to cheese HRE

[manic mural]

cheese what, the voting thing?

[wind vector]

so you know how the austrian heir almost always lands on the hungarian throne?

my first run

my heir died while he was on the hungarian succession line

[manic mural]

lol

[wind vector]

same thing second run

and then i tried for a third time

dude died agian

[manic mural]

I want to play austria now

[wind vector]

i didn't even get to kill bohemia

💀

well i did once

before my heir died

my strat was basically just

royal marry burgundy

royal marry savoy

that pretty much contains france from expanding into the HRE

if i get the burgundian succession

but i never got to see it work because

my heir kept dying 💀

[manic mural]

kek

[wind vector]

at that point i gave up and went to play hoi4

but then i forgot to declare war on poland and the war goal expired

[manic mural]

lmfao

[wind vector]

ok so

pope italy attempt #5

gonna convert all of my mountaineers to 2 width paratroopers and then just spam them all over the balkans

[wind vector]

paratroopers didn't launch

i had air supremacy and everything

thanks paradox

pls fix

[manic mural]

Had enough transport planes in that airfield?

[wind vector]

i had like 80 at least

[manic mural]

In the right airfield?

[wind vector]

yep

[manic mural]

Maybe it requires more than expected air superiority

[wind vector]

i had total air supremacy

in the balkans

[manic mural]

Launched from same airzone?

[wind vector]

no

i'm launching across 2 air zones

[manic mural]

Transport has enough range?

[wind vector]

i have air supremacy in both

yeah

they don't let me launch unless i have range

[manic mural]

Dunno

[wind vector]

maybe it's bugged

because i launched in yugoslavia

[full wing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TB79fG8WyQ

[wind vector]

sus

what are the chances that the link is a rick roll

[sacred sable]

Sup everyone
Has any one idea how to play FIFA 23 on pc by ps4 controller?

[timid swan]

Have Steam running and it can handle the controller. Most games see it as an Xbox controller so you'll need to translate the buttons.

[native bone]

https://www.thegamer.com/assassins-creed-odyssey-sanctuary-of-delphi-in-real-life/?utm_source=TG-FB-P&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_campaign=TG-FB-P

[wind vector]

jesus christ finally

are you kidding me

kills bohemia

ruler dies immediately

union dissolved

i hate this game

[wind vector]

i found out that building the westwall in hoi4 is pretty much pointless against ai france

ai won't push into germany anyways

[wind vector]

historical encirclement??

oh my god

[plain wave]

I stand by my review of warzone

I was literally top 2

and then my game crashed

not even that

my game just glitches out and boots me to menu

[timid swan]

And the game treats you crashing as if you quit

[plain wave]

idc about that

https://medal.tv/games/cod-modern-warfare-i-i/clips/Nt4rec3OI6giy/d13374ABZHwm?invite=cr-MSwyZzUsNzk5ODMzNjEs

but like

:(

[wind vector]

italy getting pushed back

but uhh

we do a little trolling

[native bone]

top 10 betrayals if yk what i mean

[timid swan]

I saw that one coming a mile off, there were several hints and mannerisms that gave it away.

[manic mural]

@formal tiger It this this ATGM 32 seconds to finally splash an a10 that was 6km away at time of impact

This ATGM is mouse aimed

[formal tiger]

what a shot

wtf

[manic mural]

The little atgm that could lol

[formal tiger]

bootyfish256*

[knotty dawn]

Warzone II just don't boot anymore lol

Three different reinstalls, reinstall of battlenet did nothing

Uninstalled using revouninstaller too

[formal tiger]

bad game anyways

[knotty dawn]

True

Only fun with the boys

But then it's still not the game that's fun lol

[plain wave]

warzone has too many issues

but also just get it on steam

[runic kindle]

yo so i f i log into someones EA account and there from south asia, am i able to play on NA servers aka apex

[runic kindle]

On apex right

[glass temple]

Yeah apex accounts are not server reigon locked afaik

But like, it's a free game. I dunno if EA cares about account sharing/selling but it would be safer to just make your own account

[manic mural]

@idle garnet swede ground op

[grave abyss]

are the akg k361 good for playing games and listening to music without an amp/dac?

[idle garnet]

nice lol

[manic mural]

2 nukes

[idle garnet]

@formal tiger got the 29

[formal tiger]

lmk how you enjoy the r27er

wanna try a stock df?

[idle garnet]

probably meh

[formal tiger]

im doing terrible with the 9ls

[idle garnet]

I know it will be outturned by the 16 stock

[formal tiger]

cant wait to get the x6 l's though

[idle garnet]

oh yeah

[formal tiger]

thatll be the cherry on top

idk if ill carry the aim7ms

[idle garnet]

I carry the 2 7M

good to try to get a few bvr kills

[formal tiger]

gonna take out the f16 in sim later though, the cockpit is insanely good

[idle garnet]

yes

it makes me wanna play sim in it

[formal tiger]

gonna pick up a stick soon for it likely

what do you use?

and what path should i go

new boosters should help me in realistic since i dont think the f16 wingrips

[idle garnet]

yeah but the f16 can wingrip

its just if you do wonky things

[formal tiger]

ngl ive gotten more teamkills on the aim9l than actual enemy kills

[manic mural]

@formal tiger heli moment

[vivid pier]

We should just rename this channel to war thunder/ war games

[digital fractal]

Anyone here play Phasmaphobia?

[timid swan]

Sometimes I do

[manic mural]

@formal tiger simply a difference in skill

[runic kindle]

sop idk

Do i keep amd freezynce on? since it came with my monitor

and for this

[manic mural]

if you want to use variable refresh rate, go ahead

[runic kindle]

does it increase or decrease fps

[runic kindle]

also this

[formal tiger]

navy... disgusting

[manic mural]

by design max fps will be your refresh rate

[runic kindle]

so it doesnt effect fps?

[manic mural]

It'll set a max fps, that's the only thing it'll do to fps

it has to do with monitor refresh rate

[runic kindle]

oohh

okay

so theres AMD opimized then off/on

which one is better

[manic mural]

doesn't matter

[wind vector]

@manic mural

[manic mural]

Mmm

[wind vector]

rate my encirclement

all this just for the uk to invade naples

1942 d-day

[manic mural]

I rate skill issue

[idle garnet]

gun do be hard to use

[manic mural]

spray and pray

[idle garnet]

except it gets only 150 rounds and they go supa fast

[native bone]

cat

[wind vector]

memes

[wind vector]

oh my god

please die

NOOOOOOOO

on the bright side

[formal tiger]

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

[wind vector]

Build a better city than San Francisco challenge [VERY HARD]

[timid swan]

Very hard? It's hard to do it any worse than reality

[wind vector]

tree spam

[vivid pier]

Bruh

I'm renaming this channel

[runic kindle]

Should I set games to high priority or nah does it cuase fps sutters

[timid swan]

Only if you're having issues with background tasks, can't close them, and you don't have enough threads for them all. Some games will crash or trigger anti cheat if you do.

[runic kindle]

yup i am agian

not smooth anymore

it has to be my gpu

[runic kindle]

Also is 97% usage of gpu bad lol on b2042 max settings

[timid swan]

Totally normal, maxing the GPU is a good thing

[runic kindle]

alright i removed all my oc setings btw

so i only got xmp and my gpu fans

wasnt stable.. and i think my ram got messed up again or idk bc when i look around in apex it isnt smooth anymore feel slike 60 fps.

[runic kindle]

Do windows 11 work better with my 12th gen cpu

[timid swan]

If you have a 12600k or higher yes

If you have e-cores it's possible for games to be accidentally assigned to those instead of p-cores, especially if you're on 10.

[runic kindle]

Soo should I switch to windows 11?

I have 12700KF

[runic kindle]

i have e cores disabled

Nvm I don’t

Which is what I should do right since I’m running win10

What about PCIE settings

Some say put on auto some say gen4

So leave it on auto(

Done

What if that was causing my stuttering was the games running in e cores

[manic mural]

@formal tiger

[runic kindle]

@proven radish specs are Gpu- Gigabyte Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB 1TB SSD MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 Cpu Cooler-Deepcool AK620 Cpu-I7 12700KF 12- core Case-Phanteks Eclipse Has 5 fans- Artic P12 HDD- 2TB western Blue- 32GB of ram 2x16 GB ram 3600mhz . sticks Windows 10 pro. Iv tried a lot of troubleshooting idk what can be next

Also should I have per cores disabled or enabled itd disabled by default@

Yea

Done

[runic kindle]

now what

Yea

[wind vector]

play hearts of iron ii

[wind vector]

i just unlocked the stuka in war thunder

i'm just gonna have an all stuka air force

[manic mural]

Why stuka when you can have bf109

[formal tiger]

Why even play germany at all

Garbage tech tree

sweden or bust

[wind vector]

ww2 larp

is the molotov line gonna hold??? place your bets now

ok time to detonate ukraine

tfw forgot to add support aa to my divisions

[wind vector]

allies throwing

china's done more in this war than the entirety of the allies

allies finally woke up

and they don't have a port

d-day is dead

[manic mural]

I hate that there's cavalry on the screen

[wind vector]

lol i forgot to swap those out

but yeah the game pretty much stalled

i got bored waiting for the allies to do an actual naval invasion that doesn't fail or get intercepted by the axis

i have legit never seen the ai throw this hard

[manic mural]

Just make arty and anti air

Put it into division

And push

[wind vector]

the axis have unlimited manpower for some reason

i pushed them back to poland but that's it

still waiting for allies to d-day

ok the front's actually moving now lol

the germans did deathcharge my line for an entire year

i have no idea how they still manage to field the entire eastern front

[manic mural]

Prob scrape the barrel

[wind vector]

yeah at this point the eastern front has pretty much collapsed

surely this encirclement would cripple the german war machine

i'm gonna march into rome

because the allies won't do it

[wind vector]

the allies landed in belgium

and then got pushed out by the germans

allies finally doing something

i look over the east and i see this

just gonna pretend it's not here

[wind vector]

we do a little bit of trolling

the russian horde

WHAT

what is this timeline

[wind vector]

comintern gaming

[manic mural]

What's wrong with it

It looks completely normal

Chinese civil war + second sino Japanese war at the same time

Happens relatively often

Especially if you killed Chiang Kai Shek

[manic mural]

@formal tiger

that felt a little sweaty but uh

Sound in war thunder is extremely important

and freelook is also extremely important

knowing where to shoot is kinda important but I shot ufp expecting a leo 1 but it was actually a magach

[runic kindle]

still same issue

[runic kindle]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Bkq9Q6

But I have 3600mhz ram instead of 3200

[runic kindle]

this

[idle garnet]

WOOO

[manic mural]

@real fossil do it?

[runic kindle]

are u freakin serious i got my 3600mhz ram a week ago
and im back to having the pc boot up then stop then boot up again and all i did was unplug a psu cable on my gpu and replug it in
and now its doing this same issue again

[plain wave]

yes

use it or lose it

[manic mural]

Ok I sell

[runic kindle]

Yo 3.0

Should I do a clean GPU driver install since I installed a new set of ram with better mhz

[manic mural]

If you are having random problems, GPU drivers are worth reinstalling because of having problems, not because of new ram

maybe run some windows debugging if you want, sfc/dism and all

[formal tiger]

NICE

[idle garnet]

goofy missiles

[plain wave]

worst tarkov player

[wind vector]

@manic mural do i do the funny

[manic mural]

Yeet

[wind vector]

i got stack wiped

new plan

gonna blocade the Dardanelles

or

lure a stack into corfu and then blockade it

[manic mural]

Just play better smh

[covert bison]

for rill

get gud

[manic mural]

@formal tiger

[wind vector]

ok so

new plan

ally austria, poland and lithuania and then kill the ottomans before they get mil tech

[manic mural]

@idle garnet Cosmoteer gaming

[formal tiger]

ft. my batwing ship

[idle garnet]

epic

[wind vector]

this is a scuffed barb

i can push the germans in 41

I'M IN

this is cursed

imagine being a italian submarine officer and then seeing the entire soviet black sea fleet show up

[manic mural]

I've decided

I'm going to try bo's heavy at strat in this version

heavy at + heavy aa infantry divisions

it's going to be funni

[manic mural]

why is ai spain so bad

gonna have to break out of this

thought about it again, I'm just going to go for my standard soviet build

because the armored variants don't benefit from left side of superior firepower

and they don't get many of the buffs from mobile warfare

a preview of how barb will look

no u

[manic mural]

time for fun

Nice

winning

[manic mural]

10.0 kd

[timid swan]

I don't think that's how it works

[manic mural]

Combat log says basically 10:1 equipment loss ratio

[timid swan]

Were you controlling all of the countries involved in those stats for your team?

[manic mural]

I'm controlling the Soviet Union

And so only the stats for the Soviet Union matter

anyways I have to stop Spain from breaking free so I just pulled them into the war

[timid swan]

And you were the only one fighting the Germans? None of those allies that reported losses count towards those kills?

[manic mural]

It breaks it down by country

out of 3mil total casualties suffered by Germany, 1.8mil is due to me, 572k due to UK, 171k due to France, etc

[timid swan]

Ohhh that's a hovering box, it's broken down stats. Got it. Excuse my ignorance.

[manic mural]

is ok

anyways my kd will be going down when I start my offensive

I've just been on the defense so far

First encirclement of the war

A casual 300k

[manic mural]

The snaking begins

[manic mural]

LOL

of course, had to get this too

Peace in our time

[wind vector]

try annexing turkey at the beginning of the game

it brings in romania too

barb is ridiculously easy with no romania

and also med access

[wind vector]

i always get all 6 of my tanks encircled

i should try the lithuanian strat combined with the turkey strat tbh

with such a short front if i build up the molotov line they probably won't be able to push at all

i'll be able to get the achievement too

[wind vector]

omg it's the camera room from among us

[manic mural]

I don't like doing that strat lol, it's easier to make moves if they have less stacked up in one place, and it's a lot easier to make moves in Romania since it's a lot of plains

Although I've had a lot of fun with my tanks

They just reinforce meme so a stack of infantry of any size doesn't matter

[manic mural]

I got Spain as a puppet for winning the war but they went down the path to throw me out :(

[wind vector]

i do it because hungary stacks their entire army on the romanian border

[manic mural]

Yea but at barb it's like 300k Hungarians 400k Romanians 2mil Germans

I'd double the size of the front to spread out the Germans

[wind vector]

hm

what if i'm trying to hold the molotov line

[manic mural]

Just me though

[wind vector]

i kinda wanna do the achievement where i don't lose any core until 1945

[manic mural]

Because you have a river line against Romania

It's easy to hold it

[wind vector]

yeah but i ditched it when the germans got past on the north

[manic mural]

Yea I got that one, I killed Germany in 44 so I just had to wait for the achievement lol

[wind vector]

is it worth building up an air force

because like

[manic mural]

I had to put a bunch of 10w infantry everywhere so nothing dumb happens like naval invasion of arkangelsk or something

[wind vector]

what if i just counter the entire german airforce with aa spam

[manic mural]

Just build fighters, you don't have enough factories to contest German air AND get cas

Cas is the longer term goal

[wind vector]

hm

i might just ditch cas and do fighters and medium fighters

probably gonna ditch the heavy tanks and do katyushas

[manic mural]

Just do light fighters with all hmg

[manic mural]

My medium tanks have been doing really good

[wind vector]

do agility even matter tbh

i think they nerfed it in nsb

[manic mural]

Especially since you get the bonus from German Soviet treaty so you can get the 1940 t34 in like 1938

[wind vector]

i might use tac for cas

[manic mural]

Agility doesn't really matter

[wind vector]

hm

[manic mural]

Use the cheaper light airframe and put anti tank gun

[wind vector]

so basically

Ju 87 G

should i build up the molotov line

i feel like it's super risky if the germans break it

[manic mural]

There has been quite a few changes since this vid but take a look at this to get an idea of what's good
https://youtu.be/Ljv2TjLuJ5s

[manic mural]

What I did is have like 6 medium tanks spread out and sent tanks in to hold the line in tiles that weren't holding

Took microing but it was worth it

I can show you the line I did and what the problematic tiles were

[wind vector]

in the romania game i did most of the molotov line was holding

the only issue i had was the south

i didn't bother sending tanks down there and the hungarians and germans broke through

i also kinda retreated early anyways to avoid overextending my lines

[manic mural]

I only had 1 tile in the south that ever had any issues, the main issue is the middle for me

[wind vector]

oh yeah

the germans immediately broke the center for me

[manic mural]

The north had 1 tile that had issues

[wind vector]

they never broke through the baltics for me

[manic mural]

The center has 2 tiles that constantly was attacked and I constantly had to feed troops in

[wind vector]

even with annexing lithuania they didn't break it

[manic mural]

And 1 tile in the center that sometimes has issues

[wind vector]

but then again they're missing an entire romania

actually

losing eastern poland and the baltics don't count right?

because it's not a core

[manic mural]

Ye

[wind vector]

hm

[manic mural]

But it's a better position imo to hold a line on the supply hubs

[wind vector]

yeah that's kinda the problem i have with uh

bukovina and the polish tile west of it

kinda tempted to throw some mountaineers on level 3 forts on it

see if that will hold back the germans

and hungarians

and romanians

but yeah i don't really like holding those two tiles

it's kinda flanked on 3 sides

the molotov line might work tho

if i build up forts behind rivers

[manic mural]

I'll look at the map later and I'll send you what my line was

I just remember there were 2 tiles in the center that were a piece of crap

[wind vector]

brest litvosk?

[manic mural]

I don't think so, iirc I let Germans have Brest litovsk

[wind vector]

my idea is something like this

why did i make the line red

oh well

or this if i want to hold bessarabia too

[manic mural]

@wind vector here's mine line iirc

Tiles circled in red are the problem tiles

if you're wondering why it sticks out at the top, that's a supply hub that's across a river, so you can hold it, you just need like a lvl 3 fort

The point of the line is holding the supply hubs and the railroads to the supply hubs while having decent defenses

[clear zodiac]

Anyone recommend a good 60% keyboard?

[timid swan]

Budget?

USA or other?

[manic mural]

[formal tiger]

https://tenor.com/view/borat-borat-very-nice-verynice-thumbs-up-gif-25080066

[wind vector]

do you need forts on the entire line?

[manic mural]

no

[wind vector]

huh

[manic mural]

I only had lvl 3 forts on the problem tiles

(accidentally built 10 on one of them but only meant to do 3)

[wind vector]

i build level 3 forts on the entirety on the dniper river

[manic mural]

spend the factories on mils instead

[wind vector]

so this would save me a lot of civs

[covert bison]

susfi and mr1111 are taking over gaming chat

[wind vector]

don't tempt me

i will start posting more hoi screenshots

[manic mural]

rommy you know you can't stop us

[manic mural]

@formal tiger rangefinder + bkan is a good time

And the firerate means you can just keep trying

[native bone]

this shot came out pretty nice

[wind vector]

average eu4 game

oh my god the genoa trade node

[wind vector]

oops

i declared on florence instead of ferrara

they called in france 💀

half of my eu4 failed runs are due to my own idiocy

[timid swan]

Not the first time in history war was declared on the wrong country

[manic mural]

Lol

[wind vector]

i was doing so well too

i was gonna kill naples after this

[glass temple]

Death Stranding? more like death from too many cutscenes

Like seriously I might as well just go watch a movie

Apparently throughout the entire game there is about 7 1/2 hours of cutscenes 💀

[native bone]

More cutscenses is nice

But it's a walking simulator that's the problem

[glass temple]

I mean I can appreciate the walking right now, the environment is pretty

But the cutscenes are pretty bland so far

[formal tiger]

@manic mural @idle garnet my first attempt at a landing in DCS with mouse and keyboard, i thought i had it under control, but i was so wrong lmfao

hmmmm

idk why the clip is doing that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DjLdDmJ2ss fixed it

[manic mural]

Rip

[manic mural]

@idle garnet mig27m obviously superior to f16

@formal tiger The real potential of zsu-57-2

[teal saddle]

7 AND A HALF?!

[idle garnet]

lol I like the 27K more

mig-27k is slightly more maneuverable

[manic mural]

@formal tiger

[glass temple]

WHAT

nahhh

against No Mans sky and Deep Rock?

[idle garnet]

no rock and stone

[timid swan]

The only reason cdpr is still updating cp2077 is so they can try to win back some of those refunds

[formal tiger]

dude is better than the people using real aa on his team

[idle garnet]

hopefully the dlc is good

for cp2077

[timid swan]

Hopefully they use a very different QC team instead of the trolls they had before

[native bone]

Never played both

[glass temple]

Don't have to have played to judge how the devs have continued support

[native bone]

No man sky looks too cartoony for me to give a try

[timid swan]

Highly recommend No Man's Sky, cartoony or not

[native bone]

Calisto protocol was a relief

[glass temple]

I will admit I've not been able to really get into it but cartoony is a bad reason to avoid it

[native bone]

Impressive visuals also was fun to play

[timid swan]

It borrows from a lot of genres without forcing you to do things you don't like

Base building? Got it

Survival? Got it

Settlement manager? Got it

Exploration? Duh

Lore? Hell ya

Existential crises? Better believe it

[native bone]

This will probably be the next game I get

Looks next genish

[idle garnet]

what game is that?

[native bone]

Warhammer 40k darktide

[idle garnet]

ah

[timid swan]

My first thought: Is that Bane?

[manic mural]

we gamin

[formal tiger]

ft me, mr, and jake

[wind vector]

played ussr again

they broke through the molotov line

but this time i was able to have total air supremacy over the germans

gonna modify the strategy a bit

no heavy tanks

shift artillery production to anti air

prioritize medium tanks

air spam

[formal tiger]

really cool shot from earlier

[manic mural]

yea don't do heavy tanks, do medium tanks, grab medium cannon and just slap soft attack on and get the armor up

[wind vector]

that's what i did

but this time i somehow screwed up since i didn't get a single tank out

[manic mural]

bro what

[wind vector]

maybe because i prematurely slapped support companies on it

[manic mural]

I had nearly 3000 tanks in 6 divisions by barb starting

[wind vector]

yeah it was probably the support companies

i should probably either just produce more support equipment or just not put any (except support AA or ART) on the infantry division until barb

now i think about it

most of my failed hoi4 game are due to me doing something dumb

and then having a massive deficit of something

and then getting rolled over

or just not having as good as a game as it could've been

[wind vector]

trying to get off the habit of making grids

[wind vector]

somalia shall rule africa

@formal tiger ok somalia is actually really damn fun

[wind vector]

somalia gaming

[native bone]

unbound cops at max heat can be a pain

[manic mural]

all you need in terms of support equipment is engineer company for the entrenchment

don't get anything else until your industry is good enough

(get maintenance and logistics for your tanks though)

[manic mural]

@formal tiger I got a bit fed up with helis

[native bone]

holy hell lol

[timid swan]

Fully loaded

[wind vector]

600 hours in eu4 and i only now realized i haven't been adding the +1 monarch power privileges to my estates

[manic mural]

lol

[manic mural]

you gonna do the bail out strat from now on?

[wind vector]

bail out?

i could just add one every 10 years if i want to keep some crownland

adding one every time i seize crownland

[manic mural]

You lose crown land to the estates giving them the privilege, at the start of the game, a strat is to just do those privileges, which leaves you with like 3% crown land, and there's an event that bails you out but gives you another privilege you can remove 20 years afterwards

[wind vector]

ehhh

if i conquer land i gain crownland right?

and every time i dev

if i'm playjng as the blobbomans i can probably make up for the debuffs by invading everyone around me

i think i can get more out of lowering autonomy and developing provinces

i always press the funny autonomy button every times rebels are about to spawn

makes them spawn faster without having more rebels spawn

[wind vector]

wait

WHAT

what's wrong with poland

they have worse mil tech than lithuania

beautiful

wait AHAHHA france lost to burgundy

[wind vector]

Austria grows bigger

[wind vector]

the ottomans decimated my manpower

at this point i'm just waiting for moscovy to win the war

ok i'm ditching the bosnians

austria will get it's revenge

[wind vector]

the great peasant war crippled me

[manic mural]

Rip

[vivid pier]

@formal tiger hows DCS?

[formal tiger]

really fun

got FC3

su33,su27,mig29a/s,f15,a10, for $25

[radiant otter]

Anyone know any storyline or survival games that are cross platform and multiplayer?

[wind vector]

gonna do switzerlake

[raven pebble]

Minecraft

[wind vector]

i hate the spanish civil war

[knotty dawn]

Minecraft

[manic mural]

Don't hate it, love it

[nocturne lava]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr0ZBOh8GO8&ab_channel=Gh0st38

[manic mural]

@idle garnet

[idle garnet]

Ooo nice

I got the tornado yesterday

I decided not to do the tank winter event

[austere ermine]

why is emode so hard

[wind vector]

back to vicky 2

got bored with vicky 3

i like vicky 3 colonization tho

less infamy penalty for colonizing

[manic mural]

Lol

Return to Vic 2 wonkiness

[wind vector]

good old franco prussian war

[wind vector]

eu4 brandenburg runs be like

starts game

wolgast is allied to bohemia

restart

teutonic doesn't sell neumark before poland declared war

restart

teutonic order is allied to denmark and wipes the polish army

[manic mural]

I mean, I've played Prussia campaigns where Poland takes Teuton tiles and I just keep playing and later just taking it back from Poland 20 years later

[wind vector]

poland broke alliance and then bohemia immediately declared on me

that kind of stuff kept on happening for some reason

[wind vector]

ok so

i'm gonna try a new poland strat

i'm gonna not take the lithuania pu

and then invade them

[manic mural]

Lemme guess you saw this
https://youtube.com/shorts/ViCTE-bgi4o?si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

[wind vector]

yeah

[manic mural]

Could be fun

[wind vector]

gonna do the funny ruthenia thing

i can also just go in on russia too tbh

ok nvm they have twice the army size

gonna ally sweden

when they eventually break free

[manic mural]

I was doing a bahamani run and I was already at a point where the only valid rivals were Ming and Mamluks lol

[wind vector]

damn

[manic mural]

There's no one that's powerful in India if you just conquer another big state

[wind vector]

how's institutions in india

[manic mural]

Same thing happens if your vij and take bahamani

[manic mural]

You get none

Until later

[wind vector]

that's annoying

[manic mural]

Meh

No one around you will get institutions

[wind vector]

what if i just take quantity ideas and deathstack

[manic mural]

And if you move west, you can get institutions somewhat quickly

[wind vector]

hm

if i kill the timurids

[manic mural]

Or go Mamluks

Take aden or whatever and grab some of those small states

[wind vector]

lmao france lost

hmmm

all the lithuanian stuff should be all i need to form ruthenia right?

[wind vector]

uh oh

moscovy declared war on me

welp

time to death war

we do a little trolling

now i'm severely in debt

💀

[manic mural]

Trade

[wind vector]

i'm gonna invade lithuania and take all their money

ok i'm gonna just

sell off crownland

and then seize it back

ok we're back

LMAO

i think i actually crippled muscovy by taking moscow

they had 46k before the war

now they have 24k

i might go in on them

gonna liberate ruthenia

[manic mural]

Probably more that the war itself hurt their economy a lot and losing Moscow didn't help

[wind vector]

now they're back at 82k

ok they declared war on me again

death war round 2

i give up

i was just about to wipe all my loans too

[manic mural]

You didn't trade hard enough

[wind vector]

muscovy declared war on me before i had time to upgrade anything

[manic mural]

Take trade ideas

Convert Diplo into mercantilism

If you really need it, grab the government reform for extra tax efficiency

[wind vector]

hmm

i wonder if i can cheese muscovy early

if i take them out before they can take me out i would be the only great power in that region

except maybe the ottomans

[manic mural]

Whenever you can, use someone else's manpower

[wind vector]

hmm

maybe i'll guarantee novgorod

muscovy start off with a worse army than me right?

[manic mural]

I mean Novgorod is probably going to be dead by the time you get through Lithuania

[wind vector]

i pretty much just need a border with muscovy

[manic mural]

A powerful independent Sweden would be useful

If Russia forms early, ottoblob support

[wind vector]

if i can ally the ottomans

[manic mural]

Mayyybe you might be able to get like golden horde to help

[wind vector]

maybe

[manic mural]

You likely won't be able to ally ottoblob but go in on Russia at the same time they do

[wind vector]

i have to take out the teutons too

unless i let the danzig event fire

actually i might just let danzig fire and deal with lithuania first

[manic mural]

Knocking out Muscovy early is probably going to be too annoying in general, probably more fun to get yourself completely set up first

[wind vector]

i'm more worried about the ottomans than the russians

[manic mural]

Like consolidate Lithuania first

[wind vector]

yeah

[manic mural]

Ottoblob takes a long time to get to you

[wind vector]

i'm pretty much gonna border gore lithuania

[manic mural]

At least like 50 years from the start of the game

[wind vector]

i might leave the prussians alone

if they take anything in lithuania i can always just take it back

if muscovy take anything in lithuania then it's a lot more annoying

[manic mural]

Or don't let Prussia form at all

Prussia is really annoying

[wind vector]

yeah

the prussian confederation usually takes care of it anyways

unless they're allied to bohemia or something

[manic mural]

Y Prussia buffs so op

[wind vector]

a prussia ally would be good

but they also get cores on my stuff

and also no danzig

actually

what if i cheese prussia and then switch trade nodes