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remote grotto
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Full with edge lords who play the game all the time and think they know all the funny jokes and dont say anything useful.

meager lance
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Well I asked again this afternoon and I got the slightly more helpful response of "idk" from a dev 👍
How kind
I'm assuming I'm experiencing some kind of bug

meager lance
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I was wondering where the most famous SocDem in Canada (if not one of the most famous politicians in Canada) would come up in this run...
Kinda wondered why he wasn't the leader of my party yet (the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, or CCF for short)
Just like IRL though, he's starting to build political cachet from rural Saskatchewan (and yes, he was kind of a Christian socialist)

meager lance
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America has been dissolved
We have decided to erase it from the history books...

meager lance
meager lance
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(if you're not familiar, the "Arnold" in question is a certain Benedict Arnold, widely scorned in America as the greatest traitor of the revolution) troll

meager lance
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It's taken about TWO YEARS to get to the 2nd stage of American integration

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Interesting names...

meager lance
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The concept of America has finally vapourized!
Now we must try and finish a world conquest

meager lance
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Big encirclement in Brasil

meager lance
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First big encirclement in Russia comes after about 2 years of conflict

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The western half

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5 Nov 1956

meager lance
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I cycled through every electable coalition (CCF-Liberal, then PC, then Liberal, then SocCred-PC)
Before finally returning to the CCF-Liberal coalition and electing the aforementioned Tommy Douglas

remote grotto
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He looks like the guy who would be the accountant of the maffia.

meager lance
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We cleaned up India, Australia, Egypt, Somalia, Myanmar, and Thailand
The Donau-Adriabund is the last major faction we need to deal with, and then I just gotta pick up some cores and claims in Central America
I won't attack yet, I'd like to see how strong they are
Testing them through a nuking run and seeing if they'll just waste troops grinding against me in an org rush or not

meager lance
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Only took till the 11th of August 1959 (23 1/2 years of gameplay) for Italy to do this

meager lance
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Quite a few of the weird ones are included in the rework
Like William "Bible Bill" Aberhart (a kind of authoritarian Christian distributist), J.F.C. Fuller (a mystical fascist general), and Adrien Arcand (scary vanilla fascist man)

meager lance
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Giving Somalia another spin in KX
We're handing things off to Siad Barre again, who's known for being an obnoxious egomaniac
Never have I seen such a weird descriptor for a government minister in HOI4
"Efficient sociopath" 💀

meager lance
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Ukraine again, but as pro-Austrian republican democrats
After a few struggles (I just BARELY missed winning the industrialization minigame, and we did get pushed back a bit by the Russians at the start of the war)
We've made a massive org rush and now we're pushing Radek to his limits
Just set up the biggest encirclement of the day

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Eyyyy
Not long after

meager lance
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Another big pocket

tawny acorn
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victoria 2 germany campaign. We were about to be number 1 in everything but it should be noted that taking land in this game is strictly forbidden and will lead to all of your neighbours to simultaneously declare war on you to contain your expansion.

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this screenshot is pre armageddon btw

meager lance
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What's that blue sliver between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia?
Slovakia?

tawny acorn
tawny acorn
remote grotto
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In 1866, Austria granted a degree of autonomy to Galicia after its own defeat in the Austro-Prussian War.[54] Politically freer Kraków became a Polish national symbol and a centre of culture and art, known frequently as the "Polish Athens" (Polskie Ateny). Many leading Polish artists of the period resided in Kraków,[55] among them the seminal painter Jan Matejko,[56] laid to rest at Rakowicki Cemetery, and the founder of modern Polish drama, Stanisław Wyspiański.[57] Fin de siècle Kraków evolved into a modern metropolis; running water and electric streetcars were introduced in 1901, and between 1910 and 1915, Kraków and its surrounding suburban communities were gradually combined into a single administrative unit called Greater Kraków (Wielki Kraków). - Wikipedia

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Left out the most important part: *** This Republic of Kraków (1815–1846) included the towns of Chrzanow, Trzebinia and Nowa Gora and 224 villages.***

meager lance
remote grotto
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Does anybody here play the mod TNO?

tawny acorn
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Ah no

remote grotto
remote grotto
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Hm.

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Its Monday.

gaunt forge
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Crazy that even Chełmek was included

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My mother is from there

remote grotto
remote grotto
# gaunt forge

Krakow was a former capital for Poland, do I remember correctly?

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It wasn’t always Warsaw…

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Yeah, Google helped.

gaunt forge
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We're getting our train to Vienna back in December

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and Budapest

tawny acorn
remote grotto
meager lance
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Finally started an Afghan campaign
Thanks to the insane power creep and an opening for a rush to Delhi, we won the war!

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Not sure if I want to do the Totalist Eternal Flame Emirate or a more pluralistic path, but we're going with Amanullah nevertheless

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big-ghanistan 😳

meager lance
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We've already started the reforms to follow in the steps of Akbar
We backstabbed the Central Asian Islamists and puppeted them after Russia and I sandwiched them
Savinkovite Russia refused the Aral Agreement though, meaning I still have to be on edge
I'd like to split Iran with the Ottomans next, and after that I resume my Indian conquests

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RIP
Tried to start the war too late, the Ottomans capped just as I took the focus

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Maybe we can take them in as they flee tho... 👀

remote grotto
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Can you form the Mughal Empire now? Or is that update not out yet?

meager lance
# remote grotto Can you form the Mughal Empire now? Or is that update not out yet?

Yes, you can do that by allowing Nasrullah Khan to succeed his brother Habibullah after winning the war
I chose not to by implicating Nasrullah in the death of his brother (and Amanullah succeeds as a result)
Nasrullah's path can also unlock the Ottomans-in-exile tree if they lose the Desert War
Which gives you the most cores by far of any Ottoman path

remote grotto
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Where can you go with the Mughal?

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All of India and Indochina?

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And who can you join sides with?

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Sorry for the bother but I don't have a working computer currently.

meager lance
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I don't remember exactly, l'll just quickly check the cores and claims at home

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As for factions, all the factions have a common foreign policy tree where you can join either the Reichspakt, CPS, Moscow Accord, or Istanbul Pact after doing something to appease them (backstab Turkestan for Russia, distrust Central China and Europeans for Japan, sign defence treaties with Germany, help in the Desert War for the Ottomans)
The only way to enter the Entente is if you lose so badly to India you become a Dominion
I think the Totalist Amanullah can join the 3I as well

meager lance
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Sooooo Arms Against Tyranny (the Scandinavia DLC) has dropped today

remote grotto
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Count the Wonders.:D

remote grotto
tawny acorn
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Ooh we’re coming back to civ

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We used to have channel for civ 6 back in the day

remote grotto
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It fits here perfectly well.;D

tawny acorn
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For sure

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I had a super OP world as America once but I lost the save

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I was making like 5k a month with 100 nukes and maxxed military

meager lance
# remote grotto Where can you go with the Mughal?

Oh, by the way, if you work towards a new Mughal Empire, welcome the Ottomans-in-exile but stick with Nasrullah Khan instead of yielding to Osman IV, and then recapture the Ottoman Empire, then you get a special formable, the Mughal-Ottoman Empire poggers
Which sounds just as massive as you'd imagine
It has cores stretching from Bengal to the Balkans

remote grotto
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Kaiserredux is interesting, unique in a way and thats all it has.

meager lance
# remote grotto I completely abandoned Hoi4. It just… isn’t fulfilling anymore. After 1900 hours...

Oh I abandoned vanilla sooooo long ago lmfao
As for the mods, I still have things I'm interested in trying, but it's just a matter of finding any time for it
After 1000 hours, I feel like I've already seen enough of the important stuff
And while it's not like I've tried every single DLC (or else I'd be bankrupt and disowned) or every big mod (or else I'd become some extremist freak), it really doesn't matter
The useless navy is the most obvious example of this, but for the longest time, the military meta just hasn't changed a lot
Just build CAS, some boring old 20 or 40 widths, a couple of tank templates you found from a YouTuber, maybe a few strat bombers to drop some nukes
It's not like HOI4's a solved game like tic-tac-toe, but it's definitely been analyzed enough to feel like that
So yeah, I can understand why the fun has disappeared 😔

remote grotto
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Yep, that’s why I came back to Civ6.

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And I just remembered that I have almost every DLC for it.:D

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And playing it makes my decision firm that if I had to choose, I would choose Civ6 over any other game.:D

tawny acorn
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🙏🙏🙏

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Bless up, they finally joined the

meager lance
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...v o i d

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They have been consumed by a black hole

tawny acorn
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Not even a faction I made

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just a weird glitch ig

coral shadow
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what happened in argentina?

meager lance
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THE Kaiserreich of Kaiserreich is being updated in the near future, and the entire focus tree just dropped
It's the largest update in the mod's history (unsurprisingly), and the past few Minor Monday updates and November dev diaries have expanded on the new mechanics and political lore
Among them are a card game for Black Monday, more detailed militarization as the 2WK approaches and begins, yearly Mitteleuropa agendas, and political paths ranging from Social Democrat to Paternal Autocrat

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Democratic parties have the subtree in the first image instead of the "Regime of the Red General" subtree
And the second image is the subtree for arch-conservatives instead

remote grotto
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Volkskonservatismus

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Love it.:D

remote grotto
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And I have to do one last German Empire run. XD

meager lance
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Socialist and non-Socialist puppet trees for Germany dropped 10 minutes ago

tawny acorn
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Anyone knows any good mods for Victoria 2?

remote grotto
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Not really...:/

meager lance
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German rework confirmed for 1st December poggers

meager lance
meager lance
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Returned to Germany in Kaiserreich (finally), and I decided to try for a SocDem victory
So, so, complex, there were probably 10 different crises I had to deal with before the 2WK, and then I got hit with a -40% defense penalty (among other things) when the war started just because I did terribly in the card game (took me 2 years to finish it)
Delayed the war as much as I could, it's now August 1940 and we're not doing too great yikes
We've mobilized quickly though, defensive penalty is down to -15%

meager lance
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Had to try again
This time I finished off Black Monday in April of 1938! 😄
My debts were also around 150%, meaning I'm also going to be more prepared for the war
I've also started mobilizing much earlier and I've now got 105 divisions (probably 20 more than I had at this point last time)
Next, I just need to deal with the SWR reactionaries, start progressive policies, and start reforming the army
Worried about an earlier 2WK since the French refused to renew the Treaty of Metz yikes
And my allied AI formed the Nordic Federation (first time I've ever seen it in KR I think, took long enough)

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LMFAO
Austria-Hungary lowkey just vaporized KEKW
We snapped up Austria in the process
Sneaky W?
Although the rest of the Balkans might just join the Russians later and bite me in the back oof

meager lance
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Took about a year and some nervewracking cavalry micro, but the Patagonian-Chilean duo has toppled the decadent Argentinian reactionaries!

meager lance
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The 2WK is nearly over
It's so joever for the Internationale crying_jordan

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RIP 💀
Not only did the Germans win, but the German ethnonationalists won (the closest thing in this timeline to Nazis) oof

meager lance
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Trying DU Germany yet again
Pretty good Black Monday recovery (done by 13 Feb 1938)

remote grotto
meager lance
remote grotto
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XD

meager lance
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Saw this on the KR subreddit
Certified Finnish moment 🫡 🇫🇮

meager lance
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I spent nearly 3 hour playing HOI tonight only to epically fail crying_jordan
It was probably my best run as Yan ever
Slowly died after several counteroffensives to the might of democratic Japan
Fengtian rebelled unsuccessfully, the Germans executed a miraculous counteroffensive only to fall later, the RP managed to manhandle the Balkans, and nearly capitulated the Thai armies Bruh
What a pain

meager lance
# meager lance I spent nearly 3 hour playing HOI tonight only to epically fail <:crying_jordan:...

I failed again in 3 ½ hours as a democratic Russian Republic for a different reason
Best Germany and Transamur no problem
But Austria, Italy, Ottomans, and a bunch of others teamed up and sat the 2WK out
I want to fight them, but the division limiter is capped at 300 divisions (I recall it could go higher, I'd seen it go past 1100 before iirc)
Can't do much with 300 divisions, allied with neutered Germany and Indonesia fighting against 750 divisions
Gotta do this decade-long run again Bruh

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I just can't catch a break
I think I've done 10 runs this winter and just taken Ls every single time CringeHarold
Man have I gotten bad at this game

meager lance
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So far I've failed as DU Germany 5 times, Schleicher Germany once (accidentally got to SWR), Shanxi once, Socialist Italy once, Carlist Spain once, Socialist Argentina once (complete dead end), Socialist Finland once, Liberal Russia once, and Communist China in RT56 once
That's THIRTEEN Ls, and I don't think this is because of bad luck

remote grotto
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I just love my snakes. xD

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Also Russia ganged on a lot of people.

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My best country. xD

meager lance
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The dumbest Balkan War took me 2 years to win...

meager lance
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One of the largest pockets I've ever seen (a couple more divisions were vapourized before I could take this screencap)
I think that's all the Polish Army gone in Ukraine...
It happened so fast too

meager lance
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Another DU Germany run
Just watched the new Kaiser get rekt in 4k troll

gritty cobalt
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im looking forward to IFZ ive played the prologue and it is really good, should be releasing as a beta soon

meager lance
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Last run before class ramps up again: Nasrullah Khan's Afghanistan in Kaiserredux
Snaked to Delhi easily. then split Iran with the Ottomans and are pushing them towards Egypt
The dam just broke in the Holy Land, we've now got a massive 19-division encirclement in Sinai

meager lance
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?????
The strangest part is that the CSA (alliance leader) isn't even led by Capone and his thugs

meager lance
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Lol

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I might have a bit more time on Saturday
I'd like to finish one run, either a decently fortified DU Germany save in Kaiserreich, or that Mughal save in Kaiserredux

remote grotto
meager lance
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Did a Japan run again this week after their tree got a refresh
It took until Valentine's Day 1946 to declare "victory against imperialism" but I'd say it was pretty easy
Unfortunately the Russians declared on me and now I'm bogged down in Siberia...
Also my screenshot command isn't working (it leaves the window for some reason)

meager lance
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Hoping to do another run over Easter
And I've got two ideas

  1. I'd like to try Democratic Canada in Kaiserredux and successfully integrate all of America again, then finish the Entente WC

  2. I want to win as a DU Germany, since I've gotten good enough to hold during the 2WK (now I need to go on the attack)

remote grotto
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A pretty long project.

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It defines took more real life time then it should have.

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But I made it look cool.

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Started in 867, as Polania or what is the duchies name.

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Played like 50 years. XD

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Took me 16 hours or so.

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Volhynia is part of the family who could be vassalised.

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My mother has a claim on Silesia. And I am basically ready to move my capital from Poznan to Krakow.

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Did pretty well. I am proud of myself.

remote grotto
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Also, found this original one hiding on my shelf.

meager lance
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Booted up Kaiserreich this evening to get this splendid encirclement as Princely India to finish off the British lapdogs

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Nabbed 14 more divisions in two separate encirclements earlier (one in Kashmir, and the other in Quetta)

meager lance
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Got around to playing Canada again in KX to try and get a glitch-free run
We entered the war a year later than the Germans, but it was well worth it since we came very ready

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Looks like we sealed the French as well

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Oh, we are soooo back 😎

meager lance
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We finally vapourized America as well
I'd like to integrate them and then try and dismantle Germany next

meager lance
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Finally, the first post-war election

meager lance
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We're finally to reorganize America

meager lance
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RIP Albert
Now it's Lizzie's turn
Our monarch has technically been different from the Brits ever since the end of the 2WK (Eddie's still going strong there)
So I guess our monarch is kinda the second-in-command in the Royal Family

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A good encirclement of hypercapitalists in the Congo

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They've been at war with Obama for over a decade now, so I decided to put them out of their misery

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Obama's just been holding out on Zanzibar in the meanwhile KEKW

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Dropped my first nuke..on Obama

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The Atomic Era has truly begun.

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Did that just in time for the next election, which will go to the Social Credit Party (with PC support) instead of the CCF + Liberal support

meager lance
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Stats as of January 1959
I should probably have deployed my 150k planes in reserves to top the charts

meager lance
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We have begun the Hyperwar on Christmas Day 1968.

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And we are more than ready...

meager lance
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Well that didn't take long...
2 months and our mega OP tank corps made it to Berlin

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So long...

meager lance
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One of our many, many encirclements (they've already taken about 15M casualties, whereas we've taken just about 2.5M)

meager lance
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Within a couple of days of bringing the 72 tanks to Thrace, we broke through and are now mincing the Turkish divisions

meager lance
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Still cooking
The casualties are just for the countries remaining
The real ratio is probably 5M to 20M

meager lance
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This might be the worst ratioing of the AI I've ever done...
I dropped only two nukes on them as well

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Ungodly political power gain...

meager lance
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that's an 11540 KDR

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All because I've dropped close to 50 nukes on them and done basically nothing else to them

meager lance
tawny acorn
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Anyone else excited for EU5?

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Looks real promising

remote grotto
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Idk, Victoria 3 was a huge letdown.

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It (I mean EU5) certainly will have new features but they will probably be like the most basic and generic stuff to have again 20+ DLCs.

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Honestly, they made me stop playing games. XD

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Only 3 games I enjoy nowadays are Rule the Waves 2, Factorio and CIV6.

tawny acorn
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Honestly their games deserve to be more expensive because of how much detail and work goes into it, but it’s a bummer when so many important features are locked away in otherwise useless DLC’s that cost like 40 dollars

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But yeah idk I have a good feeling about EU5

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Hopefully they’ll learn from Vicky 3 and stick to their old formulas while adding new “buy worthy” game mechanics

tawny acorn
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Minimal effort maximal profit lol

remote grotto
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Although I hope I am not right.

remote grotto
meager lance
meager lance
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(For those unfamiliar, this mod is basically a Cold War mod set after Kaiserreich, built by some of the Kaiserdevs)

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Content is gonna be somewhat limited unfortunately
Might still give Canada a shot though

meager lance
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Giving the Kaiserreich another spin
Just finished recovering from Black Monday
The reactionary opposition is being handled well
Agrarians, Zentrum, LVP, and minorities have joined us
Now it's time to mobilize over the next two years

remote grotto
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Everyone said its a hard focus tree and hard missions, that its the toughest Germany play through.
Honestly, doesnt look bad to me. XD

meager lance
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It's a high-risk, high-reward path
You enter the 2WK in the weakest position of any path, but exit in the strongest position

remote grotto
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True true.

meager lance
remote grotto
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Epic win.

meager lance
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Giving Norton's PSA a go
We've been rapidly moving across the country using only infantry
And we just got a nice encirclement of Longists in the Upper Midwest

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The secret weapon? We won wars against Mexico and Cuba before we went in, and cored them both poggers

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So the problem that's usually the PSA's biggest weakness has been eliminated

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Knocked out the Longists, and the infantry drive is still going smoothly

meager lance
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Good pocket on the racists

meager lance
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The Feds are now trapped

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We finally did it, in about 4 years

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Reconstruction must begin promptly...

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Nice superevent

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We have reawakened almost immediately to take New England for ourselves

restive wigeon
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Who are these magical 0.5% of players?

remote grotto
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YTbers who make achievement runs. xD

tawny acorn
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What are these paradox fonts 💀

meager lance
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Built the East African Federation under Siad Barre (the efficient sociopath)

meager lance
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A rare circumstance: managed to join the Co-Prosperity Sphere as the Pacific States of America in Kaiserreich

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(I'll exit when I can join the Entente though, when they win the war and the Tories finally cease their wartime emergency)

meager lance
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Got the even rarer scenario of the Ottomans joining us, although it's much too late
Didn't join any wars, so I can duck out easily
Hopefully I can join the Entente still...

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Teehee
We did it

meager lance
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Great Qing? More like Greatest Qing 😎

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(I did botch this run, since I did not prepare for free elections by 1940, and thus the NCERA just called off future elections 😢)

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Decided to play it to the end anyways

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RIP Russia 🪦

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Trimmed ourselves down to the right size
Glad KR allows you to renounce the Treaty of Aigun to get some Outer Manchurian claims at least

meager lance
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Ending with these borders
Not half bad
Japan, Korea, Siberia, and Central Asia are puppets
Nearly reached the division limit, a good size navy and airforce for 1949 (the planes are probably made of paper though)
Well-oiled economy with pretty high infrastructure development and strong rural support in the largest country in the world

meager lance
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ok I'm not a huge fan of Puyi, but this new portrait that was released about a month ago is absolutely fire 🔥

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the reflections on the glasses are especially pleasing

meager lance
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OH MY GOD
I had to reload the save about 25 times for this to pass
It's meant to be a 10% chance (of course the aristocrats wouldn't voluntarily give up power)
Turned out to be less than half the probability for me
Thank god it happened though

meager lance
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Ended the 2WK in 3 years, and 2 years after I started the 3WK

meager lance
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My homie Chen finally reunited China after a decade of struggle 🥹 🫡
Fengtian revolted against Japan, the war took about 4 years, and Chen got insanely strong in the meantime

meager lance
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5 PP A DAY as Deutschland 💪

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Finished the world conquest in 1955, but there's so much I still have to do in my focus tree

remote grotto
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(Jk):D

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But I think its more fun to liberalize Germany too.

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It is more historically accurate I believe.

meager lance
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It's harder pre-war because there's a lot of established forces you have to overcome
But you can build lots of momentum during the war and the endgame is a lot easier because of the reforms

remote grotto
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Yep.

meager lance
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We did it!
This is the maximum amount of PP gain I can get as DU Germany

meager lance
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Finally ending the run in mid-1961
We've researched everything, and finally finished the focus trees

meager lance
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Doing a run as Zhili-exile Sichuan to see the revamped focus effects and determine a strat for a harder run

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Kaiserreich also finally implemented its own achievement system

meager lance
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An abnormal Federalist China...
Ever since Hunan got a revamp, I've wanted to try this pretty difficult challenge
Starting as Hunan, I was able to claim the Federalist mantle in Guangzhou and conquer the rest of China from there
The war of resistance took about 7 years, but we grew quite powerful then
Final showdown against the Qing wasn't too bad
Finally worked out after a couple of tries

meager lance
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Never seen a Mitteleuropean election this close so late
A massive 3 vs 15 tie KEKW

meager lance
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Russian rework in Kaiserreich is now well and truly on the horizon; a dev stream was held yesterday that showcased the new content! poggers
It also includes new content for Central Asia

remote grotto
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Victoria 3 is free to try!

remote grotto
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And now, the most interesting ones I think, the after and befores (my mistake, I choose the wrong order xD):

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I went till 1894.

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It was fine.

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But its far from a playable and understandable game I think.

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Some features are meh, or dont work without the dlc, the warfare system is still really really bad, etc, the game visually bugs cities and capitals, Vienna becomes Brussels with the Danish flag.

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I say 3 more years. XD

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And couple hundred bucks.

tawny acorn
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Lmao

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Oh paradox, what would we do without you

meager lance
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remote grotto
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Found some old runs on my PC Steam Photo Library.

remote grotto
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Also, 2 questions, does anyone else have the problem that EU4 doesn’t start for them?
And what do you guys think of Project Caesar so far?

modern frigate
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have you tried TNO perchance?

meager lance
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Kaiserreich had its usual Christmas update, and this one was focused on South China (Liangguang & Yunnan) along with Nepal & tweaks to Fengtian & Canada, among others

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There are two things I'm quite happy with (both of which now make Liangguang one of the best starting nations in the game)

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Firstly, the Right Kuomintang in South China have been fleshed out in much the same way as the Left Kuomintang of East China, which immediately makes them one of the best unifiers due to the sheer detail in how the paths have been developed
So if you like the L-KMT, the R-KMT is now basically just as good