#Paradox Grand Strategy

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novel crescent
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The trick to defeating Wingbardy is radars and naval bombers

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Turtle and let them come to you

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Bleed them out as they attempt to land and fail

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Then push the mainland when they've been attritioned down

runic moss
novel crescent
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They will try and fail to invade

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You want lots of naval bombers and CAS

novel crescent
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By the time their divisions make it anywhere near Hippogriffia you can bomb the shit out of them

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They will try to take those islands so make sure you have some troops stationed there

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Eventually Wingbardy will send you a peace offer for the status quo

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You will struggle against their huge navy if you try to match them on the sea

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Hippogriffia is very easy to turtle and defend if you prepare properly

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You have pretty much every defensive advantage being able to cover every approach

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You do not have the ponypower or the industry to fight on equal terms, especially if Wingbardy is involved

novel crescent
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CAS and naval bombers is all you need

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You can try to hold your mainland territory if you want but it takes a lot of resources you would be better using to defend Hippogriffia

novel crescent
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It's not a terrible position for them to throw themselves against your position and bleed out

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and gives you a position to counterattack from when you do decide to capitulate them

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If you do everything right Wingbardy's tanks won't even be a problem because they will sink well before touching your shores

runic moss
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I see

runic moss
novel crescent
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You can do it as soon as they run out of equipment

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You'll notice their divisions becoming understrength

runic moss
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Also, Hippogriffia lost the NZW in my game. I’m Equestria. Is there a round 2 and can I intervene?

novel crescent
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Your industry will be completely untouched and you will be taking minimal casualties

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Not sure tbh

runic moss
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And Wingbardy will peace out?

novel crescent
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Yes

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Without needing to invade them

runic moss
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Oh

novel crescent
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You just need to survive their invasion

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Their divisions are tough and their navy is larger than yours

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Radars and naval bombers is how you win

novel crescent
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So they will send everything they got at you

runic moss
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Huh

sharp solar
novel crescent
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Yes

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I will play a game later and show you what I do

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Haven't booted up EaW in ages

sharp solar
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There is also the white peace after you defeat Colthage and Chiropterra, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean.

keen flower
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It's the same event Iirc

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They share a timer I think

novel crescent
keen flower
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Yeah that's the one I'm thinking of

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Do note that every HiP path has content for winning and losing the war

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Well Except for maybe one but I haven't played the "secret path in a qhile"

sharp solar
keen flower
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Possible,you probably get an event about him fleeing the country

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I know for a fact Crack's tree is for losing is unique

sharp solar
echo willow
runic moss
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How do you do anything as Stalliongrad? Regardless of what you do Equestria or Changelings outscale you

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Even if you swallow up Nova Griffonia

thick vessel
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Tonks

marsh topaz
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It depends on the run, but typically it's mainly tanks. I reccomend letting Equestria and the Changelings weaken each other, then mid-war, launch an offensive to take out Equestria first. Letting chrysalis get that land, factories, and flavor events will hamper your efforts in the long run

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Equestria gets much stronger if you let them grow too powerful, which is why you shouldn't go out of your way to invade northwards (by justifying on the northern nations) and taking out the changelings first.

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If you have extra strength while dealing with Equestria, justify on those aformentioned northern nations and get a border with the bears, or changelings depending on who controls the area. This will split their forces, since the area is harder to push through, so your main forces can wittle down the main force.

drifting dock
vernal kiln
rocky reef
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nah it'll be finnneeeee

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Not like eu4 will be going away any time soon

runic moss
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I tried ELF

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I needed literal cheats to not die in 2 months

radiant wasp
sharp solar
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ELF has a better chance if the Changeling are fighting someone else at the same time. Like the southern Equestrian Civil War breakaways, or perhaps Nova Griffonia.

rocky reef
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I finally remembered eu4 exist, so I ended up making this big provence happen to conserve gov cap

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so does anyone here play eu4 and have tips for gov cap, because that's kinda my issue right now

drifting dock
rocky reef
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thank you, now i'm going to plan for tommorow

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last look at the gps before i go to sleep, worth mentioning scotland and great britan exist at the same time ,

radiant wasp
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The best advice

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Take all 300 gov cap from estates

sharp solar
echo willow
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There's a Hearts of Iron 4 giveaway starting today for 500 winners before June 9th

rocky reef
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ok I normally don't like to ask this but like what is this mission telling me

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I'm assuming it means I have spain be under my dynasty AND have 4 provinces in iberia but paradox confuses me sometimes

drifting dock
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Essentially, you must have:

  • 100 Legitimacy (or other government equal)
  • 2x total dev points of Spain (or Castile if you break them enough)
  • You and Spain share the same dynasty (should be an event that pops if friendly enough and you both rival France)
  • 4 provinces in the Iberia region (today's Spain and Portugal).
rocky reef
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Ok I think that clears it up

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I think I'm going to declare on Britan for Calais and use that to get the 4 provinces in iberia

drifting dock
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Assuming Portugal hasn't dumped England, that's an easier way in. Easier if you can vassal them afterwards (since you can let them go on colonizing),

rocky reef
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just tested and using the console to give myself 4 provinces in iberia and apperently that's all I'm missing?

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I can assure you just because I've eaten all of france does not mean I have twice their dev

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it's the mid 1550s for context

drifting dock
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Austria's dev does take half from the HRE IIRC, plus 100% of what they have already (minus tech penalities if they apply).

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Check the Top 8 Powers to see what it tells you.

rustic valve
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Crusader Kings 2 has super detailed logs that allow you to see all the stats on every nation and ruler in the game. I forgot if EU4 has something similar

rocky reef
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I've got myself 1483 dev, with half of my subjects being 222
spain has 1093 with half of their subjects dev being 443

drifting dock
vernal kiln
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Silly paradox

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Otherwise why would the one of the following be true be there?

drifting dock
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IIRC, it does remove the bits no longer needed if you made it, but it has been about a year since I last touched it (and certainly not with the newest DLC). There's 10 years of bolted on shit and only so much room in their UI to display the important bits.

rocky reef
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but seriously I get perma claims on the entirity of france , poland, and the balkans, and ofc the pu's you get

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to bad it's no longer worth it to pu poland via the mission tree

runic moss
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What's posada path

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And how do you get her in charge

sharp solar
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It's Hippogriffia's communist path. It's not a secret path, so unlocking it shouldn't be a problem if you follow the focus tree.

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@runic moss

runic moss
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Thanks

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Any strats?

sharp solar
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Sorry, never played it. But it's pretty strong one, and probably not too difficult if you're not going for optional conquests with after War Plan Hydrogen.

novel crescent
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Yeah I didn't find Posada's path to be too difficult and it was a lot of fun

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Good flavor/writing too

rocky reef
drifting dock
rocky reef
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more budget for Eu5 then

cursive tide
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wasnt life by you the sims competitor? that sucks

sharp solar
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If you are waiting for The Sims' alternative, you should probably look at Paralives.

novel crescent
drifting dock
drifting dock
floral marten
runic moss
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How to play Griffonian Empire?

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Once Aquileia teams up with the Republic you'll be fighting a two front war and its joever

sharp solar
runic moss
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HEH?

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WHAT>

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oh

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I see\

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Okay, smash Republic, then smash Aquileia, and I win

runic moss
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I figured it out

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Basically, don't bother with anything else, rush down the focus to kill Republic, and win

rustic valve
rocky reef
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or just spend a longer to build up for the war since you controll when it starts, not them

sharp solar
# rustic valve God, the people there are so rude

Maybe a bit. But that was in the feedback channel. It was not long after another user was asking for tips on how to play XYZ, which were sometimes nations that even AI can win as. Or in other words, a skill issue, as the devs can't just make those nations even stronger than they already are.

When another user arrived with something similar, it was inevitable that someone would answer this way as well.

sharp solar
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The duality of players

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radiant wasp
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Where AI is a real cheater

runic moss
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But as Equestria, you can easily get 96 divs by 1011. Park them on the river behind Acornage, built a line of level 3 forts, with level 5 forts in Fairflanks, the tile to the right of it, and the tile surrounded by river on 3 flanks, and watch as the changelings recreate MGR, except they're Raiden and you're Armstrong

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And this guy doesn't know what "attache" is

runic moss
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No one's said this so

Gigastructural Engineering has updated

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Matrioshka Brain got nerfed hard

novel crescent
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What got nerfed?

radiant wasp
keen flower
runic moss
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What's the most absurd mod you've played in a paradox game?

keen flower
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I'll give three the come to mind for hoi4 off the top of my head
Kaiserredux:Kaiserreich but insane with some truly wacky paths
Red flood: faster faster faster
Fueherreich: the premise is what makes it insane

marsh topaz
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Yeah Kaiserredux is pretty unhinged, but I love it for what it's worth

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I wanna give a mention to Red World, because it is really fucking unhinged

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Bernie Sanders directly causes that world's 9/11 in a plot to possibly take over the northern US faction.

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Bull Gates can also become a leader of the same faction. Which is a sorta, communist country? As opposed to the southern US just being thr OG government faction.

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Rest in peace to the mod maker, who's life ended early. He seemed like a respected dude in his small community, and has a dedicated fanbase in keeping the mod up to date.

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It's essentially a "what if the USSR won the cold war?" mod. With the lore detailing that Ronald Reagen officially dismantled the USA, in a similar style to how the USSR split off otl.

radiant wasp
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Or name TNO after so many years...

marsh topaz
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TNO would probably be my third choice. It is based on a more popular "realistic" alt-history choice, but it's chock full of batshit insane unrealism around the topic. Interesting concept, but the implementation is pretty bad.

radiant wasp
marsh topaz
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The US somehow losing to Japan for example makes no sense in any reality. With the allies and especially the USSR losing being more realistic.

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And thats saying something

radiant wasp
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But when developers which came after Panzer decided make "realistic" mod

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TNO died

radiant wasp
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Until Sea-Lion

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Until Soviet died

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Until China died

marsh topaz
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In TNO?

radiant wasp
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Yes

marsh topaz
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Mm. Still doesn't make a lot of sense to lose to Japan either way.

radiant wasp
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USA entered the war, when Japan started with NUKES

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On Pearl-Harbor

marsh topaz
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Wat

radiant wasp
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Yes

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Pearl-Harbor was nuclear bombed

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And Germany entered the war

marsh topaz
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This information just fucking baffles me

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How in the 9 circles of hell does Japan develop nuclear bombs before the US

radiant wasp
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Roosvelt didn't happen at all

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USA never left isolationist stance

marsh topaz
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Even then, most of the people who developed the first nuclear bombs resided in the US after the nazis took over. With the second being the USSR post-WW2.

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I'm a history nerd, so that aspect of Japan somehow doing this is leagues more baffling to me than anything else.

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Oh well, at least it's not Man in the High Castle or Wolfenstein

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The Germans would not have developed nuclear weaponry in any sense up until other powers would start developing and using them, due to the fact a lot of Jewish scientists worked on nuclear science at this time.

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High Castle and Wolfenstein both use the concept of the Germans developing the nuke first iirc

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But it's more fantasy in Wolfenstein tho, so I can kinda give it a pass. It's a fantasy about rising up and destroying them, rather than a serious scenario.

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I mean, High Castle in similar tbf, it's moreso sci-fi than actual alt-history, but still. Using it in a sense of comparison.

radiant wasp
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Germany didn't Nuclear Weaponry first only because several operations in Norway

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When they broke heavy water production

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And then massive bombardments in 1944-1945

marsh topaz
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I guess on the German side, it's realistic in sense enough that an invasion of the US mainland is practically an impossible feat. It is weird that Japan is given ports, but if nukes are in the picture, I suppose it, works.

radiant wasp
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And there are facts which says that Japan tested prototype of nuclear bomb on 2nd August of 1945

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Mostly the only reason which stopped Axis from making Nuclear Bombs is low amount of natural resources

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Especially German sent a lot of stuff for nuclear production on submarine

runic moss
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I tried out Diarchy Expanded

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It’s so good

runic moss
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Equestria rework got teased

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AND HOLY HELL THOSE DEBUFFS

novel crescent
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Can't wait for the rework

runic moss
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Not even lv10 forts can save me from this one

keen flower
# runic moss AND HOLY HELL THOSE DEBUFFS

I mean the new debuffs aren't really bad aside from the one about not being able to train divisions at the start
The only thing I'm worried about is the tree ends up to big and too long if anything

prisma sonnet
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Makes playing as them dicey…I guess demolishing railroads and infrastructure and building forts way back might help…

radiant wasp
sharp solar
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The balancing goal there is that you're supposed to be pushed to the gates of Canterlot during the Great War before you can turn the tide.

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Also, no more guaranteeing Olenia shenanigans.

prisma sonnet
keen flower
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Maybe it will be, but the northwest is fairly empty so you won't lose much when you lose it, it'll probably become standard to hold thr mountains of canterlot, and the rivers near that area

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Let me boot up hoi4 rq to draw where I mean

prisma sonnet
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Although to be honest I’m probably thinking about how it’s damned difficult to rebuild your front line nowadays if the changelings break through and you’re defending at the border.

rocky reef
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most likely yeah

runic moss
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Got em

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Time to recreate the Battle of Moscow

rocky reef
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you say that but the terrain near it makes it easy enough to hold

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even with the giga buffed alicorn sunset

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that combined with the industrial trees which will probably mitigate most of the threat

prisma sonnet
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I still haven’t seen the teaser tho, I went looking on Reddit and didn’t find it…

rocky reef
prisma sonnet
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Anyway, I guess I’m not and never have been a particularly competent strategist. Usually I take the approach of fortifying some defensible area and letting the enemy throw themselves against it until they’re all dead and I can crush their weak divisions easily.

rocky reef
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If it works it works

prisma sonnet
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I could be better at developing research, industrial, and national focus strategies too.

runic moss
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Right now my strat is just to abandon anything before Vanhoover

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With the rework I'm prolly gonna say goodbye to Tall Tale

rocky reef
prisma sonnet
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True, but I like developing mastery.

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And I definitely feel like a beginner most of the time.

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(I know that’s objectively untrue but that’s how I feel)

runic moss
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Me whose entire strategy revolves around camping behind lv3+ forts:

prisma sonnet
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I mean that’s literally what I said I do lol.

runic moss
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I'm guessing the new strat is to form a line using the coast and the mountains before Canterlot and hold there instead of the Vanhoover line

prisma sonnet
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Although with Equestria I usually ended up doing naval landings on the Hjortland peninsula and around Olenia until I could land in the rear (after I stabilized the front of course)

rocky reef
prisma sonnet
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This would spread out the changeling forces enough that you could advance from the initial front line (it also meant that they tended to attack more and wear themselves out)

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I suppose a variant of that strategy would probably still work.

rocky reef
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I don't see why not

runic moss
rocky reef
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tbf I just don't want the war to end up like this

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runic moss
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I don't think D Day works anymore unless its directly behind the enemy at Las Pegasus to encircle them

rocky reef
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you'll probably be fine

runic moss
rocky reef
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miltirazation starts when olenia or nova griffoinia is invaded anyway so atleast that will be consistent

runic moss
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Which means an earlier Olenian invasion is favorable instead of unfavorable now

prisma sonnet
runic moss
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IDK I've never lost tall tale

prisma sonnet
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Of course you’d need to find the forces, but you’d have to do that anyway for any kind of offensive strategy to win the war.

runic moss
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The AI however, can and will struggle in the update. I expect Crystal Empire, Stalliongrad with Vasily, and New Mareland to be unplayable for a while

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I've seen the AI lose Las Pegasus, but then take advantage of the overstretched changeling forces to counter-encircle them in Appleloosa and pull back

rocky reef
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I think vasily will be fine, assuming the update for stalliongrad comes out soonish

prisma sonnet
# runic moss IDK I've never lost tall tale

Technically neither have I, but even if you have once the frontlines have stabilized it will be hard to go over to the offensive through them. A naval-peripheral strategy takes advantage of Equestria’s relative naval strength and can leverage air power that it has some advantages with (due to large rubber and aluminum supplies). And it doesn’t require tanks…

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(I say technically because I’ve quit some games where the situation appeared unsalvageable even though the changelings weren’t anywhere near Tall Tale)

runic moss
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As long as they don't break the west in the opening 4 months you win

prisma sonnet
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My experience with infantry-driven offensives is not positive. I’d rather attack where they aren’t.

runic moss
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Assuming you're not deliberately delaying Urgent War Committee to challenge yourself, you can have more mils than the changelings at war start

rocky reef
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I wouldn't know about that, I've only played equstria as a challenge run for anything remotly recent

prisma sonnet
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Sure, the problem is that I need those for enough infantry equipment, artillery, anti-tank guns, and aircraft to stop their initial offensive, and it’s hard to keep those up to date and also get tanks.

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Or at least it was when I played.

runic moss
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Depends on how wild Zebrica and Griffonia are and Sombra+Attache, you can get all debuffs gone by 1011

prisma sonnet
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Now I want to play EaW this weekend, probably as Hippogriffia though because I’m a masochist.

runic moss
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Which path?

prisma sonnet
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Harmonic or maybe Posada. But I never did work out how to do the Harmonic path really well (also I think the last time I played it I ran into a bug that kept me from finishing the post-war path)

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Kirinia or Hindia would be good options too since I’ve done neither.

rocky reef
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fair warning for kiria

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Harmonic kiria is very boring and with little content besides killing roam eventually

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My personal favorite path is fickle current

prisma sonnet
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I mean my favorite game ever was one where I was playing harmonic Nimbusia and set up Grover II as regent (= cheated for him a bunch) so that I could fight a gigantic war with him in the extreme late game.

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(That one was fair; I won)

sharp solar
rocky reef
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if people wanted to read that much they would pick up a book

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or play TNO

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but yeah that's more accurate

rocky reef
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turns out those theroitcal fallback lines I made were broadly correct if one were to turn it around from canterlot

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runic moss
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If you lose Manehattan it’s over

keen flower
runic moss
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The Thousand Week Reich mod will have a massive update on Aug 2

rocky reef
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finally I'll be able to play without reverting my game to whatever patch TWR is on

drifting dock
prisma sonnet
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I ended up starting a vanilla Crusader Kings 3 game as the Duchy of Pagan yesterday. After a false start I was able to put together the Kingdom of Pagan mostly diplomatically, so now I’m focusing on building up the County of Pagan, building the unique building there, and redoing my men-at-arms.

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I’m planning on a mix of war elephants, palace guards (the Burman unique heavy infantry unit), and siege weapons. Objectively suboptimal, but cool.

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Overall my plan is to go very tall and focus on developing my lands. In the long run I also want to consolidate back control of the Duchy of Pagan and eventually also Rāmaññadeśa (which has another unique building and, unlike Pagan, jungle terrain for elephantries)

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That will also give me full control over three of the Ari holy sites (right now I gave the Duke of Rāmaññadeśa religious protection to get him to join peacefully, so it’s not Ari-ruled)

echo willow
prisma sonnet
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I always preferred the idea of them having a hate-love relationship…I know River is married, be quiet.

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Honestly though they’re actually very similar to each other so it’s funny that they hate each other so much.

prisma sonnet
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I managed to build the Ananda Temple in Crusader Kings 3 yesterday, which is a powerful special building in the county of Pagan. It was kind of tricky because the building costs 1000 gold and I kept being interrupted by events that required me to spend hundreds of gold…

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This means that Pagan is almost fully developed and I should soon be able to turn towards building up my retinue. That’s important because right now I’m militarily weak and dependent on alliances with my vassals and neighbors to prevent war. That’s actually been pretty successful overall, but it would be better to have a strong military in my own right. Plus, that will help in the future when I want to revoke titles from my vassals in order to expand my domain.

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This was brought home to me when towards the end of my third king’s reign (I saved and quit after he died) I became involved in a civil war in one of my allies only for my army to be caught out by a larger force and crushed like the Yamato military at the Battle of Baekgang :V That also resulted in my son and heir and his son and heir being captured and needing a ransom to be returned. So not great.

prisma sonnet
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Yesterday I had one of those !!!FUN!!! Times in CK3 cadancewheeze

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The son and heir and grandson and heir mentioned above both died in a short timeframe, one of tuberculosis and the next of sword to the face courtesy of one of the extended family members who were holding part of the Duchy of Pagan, leaving a 2 year old on the throne.

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Predictably the murderous kinsman and the other counts rebelled, and I wasn’t able to shut them down through alliances like usual.

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I was able to get an alliance with Pala, who came in and saved my butt, and then I revoked all of their titles. So that worked out. I still need to redo my retinue and build up a war chest, though, so in the future I could deter them or at least win more easily.

runic moss
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The Thousand Week Reich mod has officially updated. Might come slow for some though

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Never mind its crashing

runic moss
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It is updated fully now

novel crescent
keen flower
runic moss
keen flower
rocky reef
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first attempt to get into the mod and it crashes when I hit enter to play a country

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I even loaded back to the correct version of hoi4

runic moss
rocky reef
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didn't even need to do that

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I just had to reopen the mod and then it worked for some reason

rocky reef
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it's a fun mod but the actual war part is piss easy since you start with tanks

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the congress mechanics were simmilar to real life in the sense of it being a pain in my ass and felt like the odds were stacked against the actual chance make a respresentative/senator actually agree to vote for the bill

red belfry
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It's easy because you're the world hegemony lol.

keen flower
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While true I didn't even build mils or any new units that campaign or air

prisma sonnet
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I ended up getting to a point in the Pagan game where I felt more like starting over than continuing. I let a friend unfamiliar with the game choose an area to play in, and he chose Croatia so...now I'm playing in Croatia. I started as the 867 Duke of Croatia, this guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domagoj_of_Croatia), and between him and his son this guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iljko_of_Croatia) I was able to conquer just enough of Croatia to form the kingdom after a few hours of play (probably the late 9th or early 10th century, roughly historically). Now I'm looking to wrap up taking over the remaining independent rulers in Croatia and Serbia and spend 100+ years building up my land and centralizing power since those two guys have been amazingly incompetent stewards and I've been starving for cash the whole time.

Iljko of Croatia

According to older historiography, Iljko was a duke (Croatian: knez) in Croatia from 876 until 878, and a member of the Domagojević dynasty, probably the son of Domagoj.
However, it has later generally been accepted that his name was a consequence of a wrong translation of the Chronicle of Dandolo, a Latin text written by Andrea Dandolo in the 1...

prisma sonnet
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Well that ended fast abflat Ilijko's son died young, leaving a child daughter on the throne with practically no demense during a war. Her uncle pushed his claim on the throne and with no realistic way to fight I accepted it, figuring I could build back up from my remaining county...but a few years later he took that too. Game over (and it was ironman so I can't go back and do things differently)

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I do think it's funny that it said "that dynasty's story is over" when the kingdom is full of that dynasty people.

rocky reef
prisma sonnet
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Next game is definitely going back to Pagan or Sri Lanka/southern India; a chill game where I don't have to worry too much about war or building my domain but more about developing and holding it is more my speed at the moment.

runic moss
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Just beat Sirenalia in Stellaris

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I'd rate it 6/10

novel crescent
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What did you like and dislike about that path?

runic moss
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The situation is too slow

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They weren't too much of a threat cause I had ACOT, but still, for an endgame Gigastructures player they're laughably easy

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By the time you fight them you have planetcrafts and systemcrafts

prisma sonnet
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I ended up playing a short Sri Lanka game but dropped that to start a game as Murchad, Petty King of Munster this afternoon since I wasn't up to trying Croatia again and saw that I hadn't finished the achievement for forming Ireland as an Irishman or Irishwoman.

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That ended up not being a problem; what was a problem and is a problem is the periodic death waves of plagues that run through Dublin and kill off my characters. I came perilously close at one point to having a game over when the first High King died due to a disease treatment, then his daughter died only a few months later leaving a second, minor daughter on the throne with NO dynasty members available.

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Luckily she ended up having a ton of kids so for now the succession is safe, but if I look through my dynasty tree I see disease has claimed the overwhelming fraction of my relatives...

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At least I'm getting close to finishing up my domain buildings, and then I can worry about adding additional holdings and then working on my vassal holdings. I really want to spread hospices for the suppression of plague everywhere, even if they only help so much...

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I probably should set up family members in Scotland, Wales, maybe England to try to prevent my dynasty from being annhilated when the Black Death comes calling.

runic moss
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EAW just updated

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New Mareland exiles apparently got new content

keen flower
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I mean that didn't really change that much

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I'm more concerned with the doctrine changes for GBP and mass mob

sharp solar
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The goal here is to make every doctrine viable.

floral marten
rocky reef
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If I have to fight through the south east after this I'm going to scream

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rocky reef
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tag switching to delete All of the equstrian units ( I wanted to give the changlings the equipment),I ended up using setcontroller at some point to take the crystal empire

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hell I even invaded wingbardy in the time it to to finish the job

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frankly that campaign was more tedious than difficult past a certain point, so for now I'm trying to find a consistent way to to avoid the aquillian revolution

dense cloud
prisma sonnet
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The griffon Napoleon twigiggle

dense cloud
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Still have to try it out, because so far my only Griffonian related experience has been the Griffonian Empire

runic moss
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Just don't demand new mareland

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Unless they go independent

dense cloud
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…I think I tried Wingbardy once actually, but that was a while ago

runic moss
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Griffonian majors can be summed up as:

-Blob your neighbors

-Fend off the Empire

-Don't piss off Equestria

dense cloud
runic moss
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I'm not risking 220 divs and the biggest fleet in the world anyways

dense cloud
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Oh they did

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runic moss
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Then you gotta blitz New Mareland before Equestria can send over 100 divs to kick your teeth in

dense cloud
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Pretty much

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I’ve also been thinking after rewatching this clip

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You think Grandpa Gruff would be happy after a resurgent Griffonian Empire conquers Griffonstone?

runic moss
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I posted this in the EAW discord and I'll post this here

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Challenge: Play Equestria. But:

-Crystal goes Sombra
-Stalliongrad goes Serov
-Changelings are historical
-Hippogriffia goes Sirenalia
-Buffalo goes supremacist
-Wingbardy goes Beakolini
-Greneclyf goes supremacist
-New Mareland is independent
-And you can't go Civil War or Daybreaker

lapis sky
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XD

runic moss
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Update when I tried this

Sombra wardeced me early and I stomped him. One threat down

rocky reef
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how's the progress

runic moss
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I had diarchy expanded cause I'm not good

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They came at me one at a time and Sirenalia's busy with Chiropterra.

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Now that I'm about to beat changelings its Beakolini and Sirenalia left

sharp solar
runic moss
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Buffalo and Greneclyf are small fry anyways

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And buffalo vs equestria might make this challenge too ez cause you can remove debuffs using the excuse of the war

rocky reef
rocky reef
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intervene against him while he's still fighting cadence , hope he becomes a major country (or just let him enough so you're30% of the way to capiulating) and then just profit

runic moss
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So debuffs weren't gone until 1010

runic moss
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Sirenalia didn't even attack during the war

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Maybe this was too easy

sharp solar
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Even as a player, if you rush as sirens, you probably won't be able to join the changeling faction before the great war is already in progress. Imagine how tough it must be for the AI.

runic moss
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true

runic moss
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Gearing up to fight Sirenalia. Continent is mine, 250 mils, 120 dockyards. Just need to wait for them to get to fighting me.

rocky reef
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why so many dockyards?

prisma sonnet
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Sirenalia being an island country across an ocean?

runic moss
prisma sonnet
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Planning out a Crusader Kings 3 game as Bohemia now. I haven’t done one surprisingly and I still feel like I’m not playing as well as I should.

runic moss
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Sirenalia down. Challenge completed

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Wingbardy got kicked by Asterion so I didn't have to fight them

rocky reef
rocky reef
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anything of note worth talking about that happened

runic moss
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Naval bombers got more kills than my actual doomstack

runic moss
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Pegasi hard carried the entire lategame campaign

rocky reef
rocky reef
rocky reef
runic moss
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If Crystal, STG and Changelings hit you all at once? No

rocky reef
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yeah I suppose that would be the deciding factor

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but it is incredibly rare to have all 3 attack you at once

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and if winbardy attacks you at all that's still rare by itself

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my only note is that you have nothing stopping you from intervening against smobra while he fights cadance, or just preventing him from kill her by tricking the ai by putting units against his frontlnie
oh and i guess it could be made more difficult by giving the changlings the buffed alicorn sunset

rocky reef
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can't trust any changling for shit

marsh topaz
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Bro gets rejected by one deer and goes ballistic

rocky reef
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me when hoi4 visuals have as stroke so I end up having to close the game

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I really should've just taken the screenshot and be done with this campaign ain't going to lie instead of waiting for gloria to coronated

rocky reef
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finally the goal of this campaign (getting gloria on the throne on the path that makes the country be based on equstria )

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I made them go pan griffon because I wanted more of a challenge

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anyway that was really easy all things considered even if I used the console a few times to ensure the ai went down the right path and actually did the stuff

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hardest part was uniting the herzlands but I managed to beat the changlings quick enough to help there

prisma sonnet
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Princess Gloria?

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This is definitely not a path I'm familiar with, but that's not surprising at this point.

runic moss
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Submod

sharp solar
prisma sonnet
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Ahhhhhh, I thought it might be some kind of variant on Greifmarschen's Harmonic path.

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Or a Vedina path or something...

rocky reef
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it's a good submod but my god does it remind how painful it is waiting for her coronation

rocky reef
rocky reef
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source: Have played way to much hoi4/Eaw

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also happy birthday

prisma sonnet
# rocky reef why Vedina?

Because Vedina is on the harmonic end of griffon countries and I could see some secret super-harmonic path for it.

rocky reef
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makes sense

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not like Vedina has much else going for it

dense cloud
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https://youtu.be/vnu0gmo4zNA?si=baXLYN7iYUbpPwkM

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Hearts of Iron 4 is on sale

rocky reef
# runic moss

ew , who would buy a game where the ai constantly walks into encirclements

rocky reef
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gotta love the abilty to complete both foci of that are mutally exclusive

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rocky reef
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wtf is a dutch

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(the revolt hasn't even happened yet

vernal kiln
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Wtf Aragon

keen flower
# vernal kiln Wtf Aragon

I don't really play eu4 often enough to get good at eu4 , and aragon doesnt really take much skill to have a good time

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Less skill than castile at any rate if I'm deciding if I want to expand my foothold on the British isles or go after the ottomans

vernal kiln
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Ah oke fair

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I just played a mega campaign with castille

keen flower
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Also is castile a thing in Ck , trying to tell if the mega campaign was from eu4 to hoi4

vernal kiln
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Castille began as a breakaway state after the fall of Asturias, asking with Navarra, Leon and Galicia

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Started with them in 1066 and currently trying to convert it to hoi4

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Good game to play all things considered, if anything its hard to not become the global superpower in the 1600s

keen flower
runic moss
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Back on the grind

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keen flower
runic moss
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The same as always

keen flower
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Try and take over the world?

runic moss
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Beat up the continent, beat up Chiropterra, beat up Wingbardy when they come knocking, beat up Empire if they go for Riv Fed

keen flower
runic moss
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Two of my friends are gonna learn hoi4. If one of them plays Equestria, and the other plays Crystal, who do I play to help them out?

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Stalliongrad or Hippogriffia?

keen flower
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It'd take longer to join them as HIP but your own content would be better, and it shouldn't take to Long to wrap up north zebrica

sharp solar
keen flower
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First with early hoi4 dlc's now this, guess this is how paradox will he operating moving forward, probably will screw them over when we eventually get eu5

sharp solar
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The difference compared to HoI4 is that those are not the first couple of expansions that have released chronologically, but a selection of those that were deemed essential. Granted, the same could be said for HoI4's expansions that were integrated, they just happened to be the oldest ones.

prisma sonnet
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I spent five-ish hours playing Imperator: Rome today, starting as the Aestian (Baltic) tribe of Saloia literally on the edge of the map. Despite being the weakest of the Baltic tribes I was able to conquer the other three through strategic alliances and mercenary usage, then conquer the Gothic and other Germanic tribes of the rest of the Venedia region and colonize the empty provinces there.

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I built a ton of cities in the province of Turuntia (=Lithuania and Latvia) to take advantage of a related bonus, so now that’s my powerhouse province with something like 20-25% of my national population and twice as many people as any of my other provinces.

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I know I’m never going to match Rome or the Maurya in terms of raw population or power, but overall things feel like they’re going well and I believe I can steer Aestuia (a formable country representing the union of the proto-Baltic tribes into a single state) into a very bright future indeed.

vernal kiln
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How was the game? I haven't played it since release and was wondering if it was worth returning to

prisma sonnet
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With 2.0 they got it into a good though not perfect state and then…completely abandoned it. Alas.

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But it’s pretty fun. The modding scene is probably more helped than hurt by the fact Paradox isn’t updating it.

drifting dock
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpf0Jh0bb2o Yet another Stellaris DLC.

As for if you should get it, a quick search is telling me "optional" at best. It is part of Season 8 package if you got that.

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runic moss
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Got Kaiserreich

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HOW TF DO YOU PLAY AMERICA

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I DON'T KNOW HOW THE CIVIL WAR WORKS

marsh topaz
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The Kaiserreich civil war is fairly simple

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The lead up events to the war affect the civil war itself. It is not avoidable whatsoever. Depending on a few choice and the leader you choose during the 1936 election, there is at max a 4-way civil war, (with Canada annexing or puppeting the New England and Upstate New York when the war breaks out for a "fifth" member) and at least it could be a two-way civil war, between the feds and the faction you didn't clamp down on

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If we go by the 4-way civil war, the factions are as follows:

The Combined Syndicates of America (CSA) - A faction of syndicalists which make up irl communists and socialists during the 1930's. They spawn in the north, in the midwest. And have a large influence on NYC.

The American Union State (AUS) - The southern states faction which are led by a populist historical figure, Huey Long. They act as the nationalists, and have some of the most morally bad paths in the civil war.

The Pacific States of America - A faction of constitutionalists who support the status quo of American democracy, they spawn at California and the west coast, if the American government is couped

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And to break up the long list a little so I don't make it too long and somehow trip a bot trigger.

The United States/Federal Government - Which can be couped or not be couped depending on if you elect a moderate candidate and select the right decisions.

The coup is led by OTL General Douglas MacArthur, and he spearheads a self-imposed "heroic" saving of America by removing powers from congress during the civil war to fight the other factions. He may return powers to congress post-civil war, or he ends up in the "American Caesar" path, which he becomes a dictator.

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The non-couped Federal Government is just whoever moderate candidate you elected, which turns it into a 3-way civil war, removing the PSA entirely

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Now the lore is out of the way, I'll break the simple part down.

CSA: Has the most industry potential and the most manpower, the most powerful faction.

AUS: The weakest faction, relies on elite units. Terrible industry and manpower due to the 1930's south not being as developed before OTL WW2

PSA: Wildcard faction, but offers a mixture of both of the other two factions. Has the luxury of the capital and VP's far away from the conflict.

USA: The hardest faction to play, given they typically only get D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. Their army relies on an organized army, not militia. They have actual soldiers, but you can still call in national guard militias.
(And depending on events during the breakup of the US, you could be fighting on 3-4 different fronts depending on the plan you choose, but if you do the couped feds, I recc abandoning the west to focus on the CSA and AUS)

runic moss
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Play

marsh topaz
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Also Canada will more than likely yoink New England than not, and you can play as them. Their gimmick is they're removed from the conflict at first, and you can build up and attack later.

runic moss
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I see

marsh topaz
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For a first time playing, I reccomend... either the syndies or the PSA

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The syndies have that strong industry and are at the heart of the civil war. The PSA on the other hand gives you a little more time to build up, since the rocky mountains and southwest deserts are hard to cross for the other factions

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The standard US gets pretty complicated and the AUS is not very beginner friendly.

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Just watch out for the US if you play the syndies. Sometimes Canada won't get New England, and Boston has a huge industry that the US typically keeps.

rocky reef
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least bugged road to 56 focus tree be like:

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(the spanish civil war isn't even considered over yet, and they don't even have the recovering from civil war national spirt)

runic moss
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How does one win as Valery Stablein?

vernal kiln
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I just realized there's some fun to be had in vic3, just gotta get good at it

novel crescent
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Git gud scrub

keen flower
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You always hate playing it, and then suddenly when you win it's a well designed game

vernal kiln
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Well vic3 never had that quality until recently

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I just spend my night trying to perfect an Italy unification but it's stupid hard to get an ally

novel crescent
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Is Vicky 3 in a playable state now?

drifting dock
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Playable yes, although I would wait for the newest patch coming up soon.

vernal kiln
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Ive been playing it with a revamp mod mostly, but i find it more playable than Vic2

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plus i play mp a bit with friends

runic moss
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Trying to mod HOI4 is a pain

vernal kiln
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do you mean making a mod or using a mod

runic moss
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making a mod

vernal kiln
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oof that must suck

keen flower
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What for

drifting dock
drifting dock
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https://steamcommunity.com/games/281990/announcements/detail/4700158472330642431

https://youtu.be/LAz5nDXjbEI

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This new CK3 DLC is pretty fun

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Judea in West Africa

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Interesting timeline

vernal kiln
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I probably should change the name to Judah since Judea is the name of the geographical region and isn't entirely related to the religion

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But for the most part its completely cursed and I love it

novel crescent
vernal kiln
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Anyone wanna play CK3?

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we should get a ping for games

rocky reef
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but we all live in radically different time zones

sharp solar
vernal kiln
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Not again PipBigSigh

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Can I have a break with dlcs for once

sharp solar
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Arheo was tweeting. Perhaps hinting at what nations might get focus trees in the DLC

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152810/Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Expansion_Pass_1/

Steam
Hearts of Iron IV: Expansion Pass 1

This expansion pass for Hearts of Iron IV includes two expansion pass bonuses, one expansion pack, one country pack and one unit pack. Content in the pack invites you to write exciting new histories of Germany in a greatly reworked focus tree, survive as a minor Asian power under siege, and illustrate your game with new vehicle art.Enlist now to...

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Reworked and new focus trees for Germany and its commissariats
Reworked Hungary focus tree
New focus tree for Austria
New focus tree for Belgium and Belgian Congo

sharp solar
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They later clarified that the unit pack is actually in Q2

sharp solar
sharp solar
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There seems to be an interesting map change coming (hidden in Austria's dev diary video)

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marsh topaz
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Oh dear

rocky reef
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rdsnrk I'm sure that won't cause any problems in the future

runic moss
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So Britain AI is doomed....

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But why tho...

vernal kiln
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That can't be real, it would break the dynamic of the war and make naval invasions unnecessary

rocky reef
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nah let dunkurk happen and the germans chase them across the sea

novel crescent
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How well does the Axis do against Britain rn

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Haven't played vanilla in longer than I can even remember

rocky reef
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I think that they do well in africa but can't really land in the british isles, so fairly historical

sharp solar
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Devs responses are a bit scarce at the moment, but they seem to say that it is not a strait crossing. One reply said it's a convoy route. Perhaps we will find out later what that means and how that works.

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After the first dev reply mentioning a "convoy route", I wasn't sure if it was a joke or not. But now that another dev is saying that it's not a crossing (without saying what that is), I'm starting to think that it might indeed not be a crossing.

vernal kiln
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Phew thank God

marsh topaz
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They might be reworking the trade mechanics or overseas logistics a little bit then. Convoys are used for 3 things: Trade, supply, and ferrying soldiers for naval invasions. So if it's not crossing, it's probably related to the other two.

sharp solar
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If I had to guess, this could be to have more countries count as part of the same landmass for trade. Right now, if you are landlocked, you can only import from countries on the same landmass. This means that you cannot import from the UK for instance.

sharp solar
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EU4 is now on a massive sale. You could get Ultimate Bundle for 87% off whatever it would be normally (75% I think?)

sharp solar
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EaW released a trailer for the upcoming major update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx4rWZ15fNk

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Me who's in the middle of my Escalation 84 run:

keen flower
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We've probably got +2 weeks until it releases

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More likely it'll be a month

sharp solar
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They aim to have a patch on Gotterdammerung's release to make the mod compatible (like what happened with AAT). Whether that will be 2.3 itself, a final 2.2.X, or perhaps 2.3.0.1, we shall find out.

wet canopy
runic moss
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CHAT

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CES REWORK DROPPED

hallow temple
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who what?

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what's CES?

runic moss
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Celestial State

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From Equestria at War

hallow temple
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oh neat! are there patch notes somewhere?

runic moss
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In the EAW server

keen flower
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Now thede are lnly 2 countries on Equid that I really a
Wouldnt consider at least somewhat fun

sharp solar
keen flower
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Buffalo and penguins actually

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Frontier at least gives a nice little story of taking of a shithole taking over nova griffiojia, and becoming the new government there

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I legitimately do not know if penguins get any events releated to their wargoala they get (bears and yaks and nova griffionia I think)

And for Buffalo I just don't think it would be fun

sharp solar
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Ah, I completely forgot about the buffalo

drifting dock
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https://steamcommunity.com/games/1158310/announcements/detail/4517765223386178180?snr=2___

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drifting dock
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Everything but the subs. Nice.

dense cloud
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Rule Britannia intensifies

hallow temple
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nice work

echo willow
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Götterdämmerung DLC is finally out
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3152780/Expansion__Hearts_of_Iron_IV_Gtterdmmerung/

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Expansion - Hearts of Iron IV: Götterdämmerung

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yes

runic moss
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EAW compat is out

vernal kiln
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compat?

keen flower
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Compatibility patch, making it now playable without rolling back versions

vernal kiln
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Gotcha can't wait to see the new projects they make

sharp solar
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Is this a crossover?

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drifting dock
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It is an older reference between game series and comets.

keen flower
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"I wish I lived in more enlightened times"

novel crescent
keen flower
tough falcon
sharp solar
vernal kiln
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I forgot how much I love playing stalliongrad in EAW

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I just trade all my equipment to build a powerhouse industry

keen flower
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cadwhy a hoi4 player actually enjoying the game

runic moss
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You can get jet engines by 1942(or 1012 in EAW) apparently with the new special project mechanics cadancewheeze

keen flower
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well designed paradox, well designed

prisma sonnet
# runic moss You can get jet engines by 1942(or 1012 in EAW) apparently with the new special ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_178 tho

Heinkel He 178

The Heinkel He 178 was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel. It was the world's first aircraft to fly using the thrust from a turbojet engine.
The He 178 was developed to test the jet propulsion concept devised by the German engineer Hans von Ohain during the mid-1930s. Having secured the ind...

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Also the Me-262 first flew with jets in 1942, so this isn't really totally unreasonable.

keen flower
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er welp

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that was certainly horrifying , and I'm probably not going to play it again for a long while

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10/10 path

novel crescent
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Victory at what cost?

keen flower
vernal kiln
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I have never touched any of these secret trees, hoping the regular trees are just as fun

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But it's hard to have fun when colthage doesn't even have a communism path and I wanna create the zebra soviet union

keen flower
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zarishat is communist I beleive but that's techincally coltva content

keen flower
vernal kiln
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Theres no way to convert to communism with their bullshit mechanic

keen flower
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you're thinking of Zesh, zarishat is his sister,

vernal kiln
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How do you get zarish in charge then? The coltva uprising only lets you play as Zesh no?

keen flower
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well zesh has to be killed

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which happens through taking the deal with the scientfelds and miltarist to end the civil war early as the constualist, and then inviting the coltvans to negoitiate

vernal kiln
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Does she have a different tree?

keen flower
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yes

vernal kiln
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I feel like I did her before, I'll give it another attempt tonight

keen flower
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Maybe, good luck

vernal kiln
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I need a country in zebrica that I can create in a fair amount of time to fight Aris and Hindia

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That way I can gain my industry quickly to compete against Equestria and the Griffons

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Also I'm eager to do a proper multiplayer game for EAW

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The EAW discord only has channels for planned events, no lfg channel

keen flower
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have you considered just dragging someone to play hoi4 with you forcefully

vernal kiln
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They never have the energy to play it like I do

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It's like they're not used to playing hoi4 games for 12 hours straight or something

keen flower
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ah true, if you ever get so lonely to play hoi4 I'll probably be free, but if you want another commie path for zebrica, there's commie hippogrphia which actually content for defeating all supreamcist natoins in the world

vernal kiln
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But, Zebras

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I wanna larp my destruction of Equestria like FOE

vernal kiln
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and when you win enough you can do an early peace deal?

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And by doing that somehow kills zesh

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Do I need to do the focus to "negotiate" with Zesh before the civil war starts?

keen flower
keen flower
keen flower
keen flower
vernal kiln
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Ah oke

vernal kiln
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Wait, this just brings me to the third civil war

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Is it possible to keep Zarishat?

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@keen flower

keen flower
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Yes, you just have make sure a certain amount of prefecture don't fall into anarchy so you avoid the third civil war

vernal kiln
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Hmm okay, it looks like I just do that by improving authority

keen flower
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Yes

vernal kiln
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I guess it's just very specific focuses I need to do

keen flower
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Click on the decision Hammer and you should be able to see the decisions to do it on the little map

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Thank god the ui for this is planned to be reworked

keen flower
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I feel dumb, I just checked and it requires clicking on the states themselves to check authority and increase it

prisma sonnet
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I spent an hour last night looking at the Bronze Age mod for Imperator:Rome and just checking out different countries to see which ones might be interesting to play without actually playing any rarityspeechless

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I still haven’t made up my mind…

keen flower
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I think that's just a universal paradox expereince

keen flower
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So do any of yall have plans for today's turkey day?

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I'm probably just going to play turkey in eu4

prisma sonnet
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I am going out to a (non-official) work party and spent the morning baking stuff partially for said party...so no.

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I am hoping to have some time to play the Imperator: Rome Bronze Age mod at some point this weekend...if I can figure out who to play rdsnrk

keen flower
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cool cool, if you can't figure out what to play just spin a wheel, there's probably one out there for it

red belfry
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Time to convert to Iconoclasm 🙏

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By MrScroup

Still not sure this is appropriate for the server due to its imagery so I’m posting it here just incase

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marsh topaz
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I wonder what it could look like.
(I havent touched HOI4 ever since the DLC came out, so idk)

keen flower
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I'll find out in a few years when the Crystal Empire gets reworked /j

sharp solar
marsh topaz
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Love him

novel crescent
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nice horse

vernal kiln
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What was his original?

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nvm it looked like this?

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I dunno about yall but whenever I play EAW i chose whoever is the cutest rather than buffs

sharp solar
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Kind of similar to me. Though I look less at whether a character is cute, but simply whether they have a custom portrait after all.

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Sunburst portrait likely had to be redone due to him becoming a scientist, and thus needing a full size portrait, whereas before he was just an advisor with a small portrait and no full size version available.

runic moss
keen flower
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I just don't really see particularly cute options most of the time, so usually I just focus on buffs

marsh topaz
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I usually aim for ponies, since I just really want to play as ponies

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Zebras here and there

vernal kiln
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most of the time I choose the countries' path based of if the leader is cute

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which usually means switching to communist or fascist just to have the cute mare

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probably why Stalliongrad is my favorite country

drifting dock
echo willow
vernal kiln
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Oh no

keen flower
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Do we take this as a sign hoi5 might actually be soon? This feels weird to me

drifting dock
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No. HOI5 will be announced at PAXCon when it is nearly ready. Given how the game is going, it will be a while. EU IV is over 12 years old and still doing DLC.

vernal kiln
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tbf EUV is in the works right

sharp solar
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-70% is on the base game. The DLC have progressively smaller discounts the newer they are, with GD having no discount at all. Looks like a typical sale to me.

keen flower
keen flower
drifting dock
sharp solar
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How often do they release DLC's for EU4? Because I think the most recent one was in May.

drifting dock
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1-2x a year, but it is going through the Custody Program similar to Stellaris.

sharp solar
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What's that?

drifting dock
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Basically, they are going back through older DLC and adding newer things to them or making them part of the base game.

sharp solar
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Yeah, I noticed that they added three or so to the base game last year.

solemn granite
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what dlcs are required to play EaW in HoI:4?

prisma sonnet
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I don’t think any, technically. It has fallbacks to ignore missing DLC…I think.

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For my part, I’m thinking of starting a game as the Caitians (cat people) in one of the Star Trek mods for Stellaris, or recreate the Mrrshan from Master of Orion and play them in Stellaris…

drifting dock
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I'd check the wiki. A lot of the bigger mods, including EaW, probably do require some DLC, but a good chunk of that has now been made standard.

keen flower
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No dlc are strictly required but some make a few paths marginally better
(LA resistance for Monarchist wingbardy, and Götterdämmerung for Communist Hippogrphia) but nothing major really changes to my knowledge

runic moss
# solemn granite what dlcs are required to play EaW in HoI:4?

EAW technically needs no DLC, but if you want to grab them anyways, I'd recommend in this order

  • Gotterdammerung(Wait for sale)

  • Man the Guns

  • No Step Back

  • By Blood Alone

  • One of Arms Against Tyranny or La Resistance.

The rest are unnecessary even for vanilla.

runic moss
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And disable all crisises

prisma sonnet
sharp solar
runic moss
sharp solar
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Okay, but they do different things. What's wrong with getting both?

runic moss
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You could I suppose

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I suppose I'm just stuck in the mentality of "Spend the least money possible"

sharp solar
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Honestly, same. I play with no DLC currently. The only ones I did buy ended up being integrated into the base game. Besides not being able to get navies in peace conferences, I don't think I'm really at a disadvantage.

marsh topaz
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I want to pop in here real quick and share art of an old, rarely used EAW character.

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I love this lil guy

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Gold Muffin is part of old, removed Changeling Lands content. In which the Changelings could go communist way back when. He now resides as an advisor in Stalliongrad.

runic moss
marsh topaz
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Good bug

sharp solar
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Huh, never heard of CHN's communist path that was removed. Only Equestria's.

keen flower
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How did you even access the commie changling path anyway? I know it involved thorax somehow but beyond that I've no clue

wet canopy
keen flower
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welp

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think i've discovered the strangest north zebrcia I've ever seen

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on one hand weird, on the other, new meta for max core pop for different HIP paths

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anyway, I set HIP to sirens, and they did
then at some point they fought wingbardy after they conquered north zebrica,
eventually they got pushed to just the aris the island, and moonfeather became the leader with a generic tree
then wingbardy beat them fully, and released them as a puppet through decision,
and that somehow lead to HIP having a civil war, and one side gained the siren civil war tree, and that made the other gain the normal HIP tree

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anyway, long story short, HIP now has cores on all of north zebrica except for Zumida and Warzana, and quaghiti, and can now go down any path it wants I think

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which is just plain old weird

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also they'll probably keep the harmonic north zebrican war victory tree? which is funny

sharp solar
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Must be some weird interactions when sirens escape after certain capitulation progress. They were originally a player-only path and probably them losing wasn't tested properly when they were made available to the AI.

I had something similar happen when I played as Kaiser Kattail. When I almost capitulated them, the sirens escaped, and they had a civil war against harmonists. This meant that I was forced to use console to continue his playthrough, because he cannot justify manually.

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The victory tree might be because Hippogriffia technically already won the NZW, as sirens.

keen flower
keen flower
sharp solar
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Like, it might be stability related. Like, if you don't keep stability above certain level before the sirens, you get a civil war. And this is the first time their stability dropped this low after the sirens left.

keen flower
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cocothink maybe yeah, but that doesn't really explain why one side got the tree for if you choose to fight a civil war against the actual government as the abyss cultist

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probably just hoi4 being weird and not expecting this scenario

sharp solar
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Because the civil war starting would give that tree to one side. It is supposed to happen before the whole takeover takes place, but if it doesn't happen, the only thing preventing it are the sirens (which also unlocks all those siren mechanics). If the sirens leave, it disables the siren mechanics, but also removes the only thing that completely prevents the civil war. So once the stability drops, it's the cultist civil war.

The cultist probably had the HIP tag, like the original Hippogriffia and like Sirenalia. After the civil war, that new Hippogriffia is probably some dynamic tag, and they might have access to the tree because it's their "original tag".

keen flower
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lol

drifting dock
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https://steamcommunity.com/games/281990/announcements/detail/515201205637480670

Steam :: Stellaris :: Stellaris Dev Diary #369 - 4.0 Changes: Part 3

by Eladrin Hello everyone! Today we’re going to take a glance at the Trade and Logistics changes coming in the Stellaris 4.0 ‘Phoenix’ update, then check out some new portraits. Trade and Logistics​ Trade as a Standard Resource​ The Trade system introduced in the Stellaris 2.2 ‘Le Guin’ update was raised as an especially frequent point of confus...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW103FLlgM0

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Hearts Of Iron IV
Hearts of Iron IV: Graveyard of Empires | Story Trailer | Available...

Hearts of Iron IV: Graveyard of Empires | Expansion Pass 1 - Buy NOW!👉 https://pdxint.at/GoEStore
More details here👉 https://pdxint.at/40NsTUF

Lead a great national rebirth. Navigate the difficult path between nationalist dreams and imperial oppression. Will you restore ancient empires, create your own dominion over the region or join one of th...

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echo willow
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I found this EaW fan video in eaw EaW's hall of fame. Thought I might share it here as well if you like map painting lore with more on the technical side of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B957W7H2v0

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Mapping & Yapping
Equestria at War animated map - Alicorn Sunset Plan / Year 1011

On May 18, darkness fell upon Equus. Queen Chrysalis launched an operation to crush Equestria in a few months. Victory seemed clear — until the war took an unexpected turn...

This video is based on Equestria At War mod for the strategy game Hearts of Iron 4, which takes place in the alternate universe of My Little Pony during World War II.

Art...

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keen flower
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😔 we got a Great war recap before we got an Equestria rework

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No seriously great video, wonser when the man will finish this off

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I think my favorite part is how this is fairly close to what the great war is supposed to be historically

runic moss
solid anvil
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An edited recording of the EaW panel at HarmonyCon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzRvSQjQxw

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Equestria at War Team
Equestria at War "Introduction to Equestria at War" Harmonycon Pane...

The Equestria at War team finds itself in a strange new world... HarmonyCon! Travelling all the way to Dallas, Texas the developers host an introduction to the mod itself, with some new reveals along the way.

Enjoy!

www.equestriaatwar.com

Join us on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/kPkNFb5
Steam page: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles...

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It's called an introduction, but it's a great watch for anybody interested in the mod regardless of experience levels. There's also upcoming stuff teased.

keen flower
echo willow
solid acorn
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Ah I didn't know we had an EaW thread here

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So pacifist runs are possible then

echo willow
solid acorn
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What would be an easy way to get started with something like thar?

slate arch
# echo willow

I’m looking at this with my friend rn, the Indian tree is wild stuff

solid acorn
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I've never played it before so there's a lot I don't know

slate arch
solid acorn
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Yes

novel crescent
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It's def got a bit of a learning curve

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I would follow a YouTube guide for new players

slate arch
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I won’t lie I’ve got 3k hours on HOI4 and I myself don’t even think I have the mechanics figured out

solid acorn
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I've never played it, only seen screenshots

slate arch
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I’d definitely watch a guide on how to work the economy and create units. It’s not super duper complex but for someone who has never played it before I feel it’s hard to explain without a visual reference

solid acorn
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Do you know of any good guides?

slate arch
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Not off the top of my head, no. But since the game is fairly popular there’s going to be a lot of options

drifting dock
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT7S0pMdzhiS93QUr8cVdIoHdjurZSJW- This list is a bit outdated (5 years ago; nation here has been reworked since, but was chosen because you start fast and some stuff is already set), but a vast majority of the basics seen here will apply to just about every nation you can play (and probably can carry over to EaW with a few adjustments).

Note: The streamer now works for PDX on HoI4 (did Stellaris and forum modded EU IV), was responsible for the Sub 3 nerf years ago at a live tourney, and generally knows his stuff.

You'll probably need the wiki for specific nation stuff (mostly focuses, leaders, and certain things hidden until you activate them), but knowing the baseline and how to handle the meat of the game will help with future ones (vanilla or modded).

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Beginner Friendly | Italy | Man the Guns | Hearts of Iron IV
solid acorn
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I hate to ask, but is there one that's focused on EaW? I'm afraid if I try to learn it and it's real countries, i won't retain it

drifting dock
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I do not know, but I'm sure some YT sleuthing can find you something. Their discord might have something that you're looking for.

solid acorn
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I'd ask in their discord server but I currently can't join it

slate arch
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I’m sure there’s ones out there for EaW because it’s one of the most popular mods in the game

solid acorn
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I'm looking but YT is not being kind to me

slate arch
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I just did a search of my own. They’re kinda old

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I do genuinely believe that joining the discord would be your best option

solid acorn
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I would but I'm having issues with their verification process

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So I'm gonna have to deal with that after I get home

drifting dock
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Good luck when you do start it. Page seems easy enough.

solid acorn
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Page?

echo willow
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The current rendition of the offical hoi4 guide is made by Hammotime with PDX on their Youtube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvHT121_lWQ

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Hearts Of Iron IV
Hearts of Iron IV: Complete Beginners Guide

Hearts of Iron IV can seem complex and sometimes overwhelming, but today @hammotimee will guide you through the basic concepts that will rank you up from Cadet to General in no time! In this complete beginners guide, They'll be covering everything from setting up production to divulging the secrets on "How Navy Works". Study the guide general - ...

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solid acorn
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I'm not sure who those people are but I can give it a check. How much of it is transferable to EaW?

echo willow
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The developers made EaW as close to base game as possible while adding the extra flavor with lore content and game mechanics

solid acorn
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I see

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5 minutes into this video and there's a lot already

drifting dock
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There's a lot to take in, so its fine to do so in small chunks. I spend the first hour or so on a new/revisiting older nations to figure out how I should play their focus tree before going on to the actual building and the like.

solid acorn
drifting dock
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That's just me though. The more you play, the faster it generally goes, but each nation is special in a lot of spots and doing things at the right time helps a ton.

solid acorn
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I'm gonna have to pause it for now, it's way too much info poppyscrunch

vernal kiln
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PK is playing EaW??

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Impossible

solid acorn
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Only if it's possible to play as a pacifist

vernal kiln
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PK this is a war game, if you want pacifist you're better off playing Stellaris

solid acorn
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Stellaris has a pony mod?

vernal kiln
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Ye

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I usually play pacifist Littlepip I think to represent the New Canterlot Republic

solid acorn
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What kind of game is Stellaris?

vernal kiln
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Space RTS

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you control star systems, colonize planets and build an empire based off of those resources you gain

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Stellaris is special in that you don't have to kill people in order to win the game, you just play tall until someone goes to war with you

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Then you beat the shit out of them so they don't think about doing it again

solid acorn
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I see

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I remember someone said that it is possible to do it without actually fighting, but this was a long time ago and I may be misremembering

vernal kiln
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For Hoi4?

solid acorn
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For EaW

vernal kiln
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HOI4 is won by those who have the strongest economy and best tactics

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You cannot have a strong economy unless you kill other nations or have an OP focus tree

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hell, half of the focus trees are designed around dictators who value their race over others

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I like Stalliongrad because it does communism without having to kill a large amount of ponies, it's just chill and trade with everyone for a beefy economy

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But at some point your goal is to dominate the continent so you go to war with Celestia to become the hegemon

solid acorn
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I see

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So I am mistaken then

vernal kiln
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I see a lot of people who have bought this game solely for EaW, and I wonder how they think they can play a 40 I think dollar game without running into its core functions as a World War II strategy game

solid acorn
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That's why I'm asking before I potentially waste $40

vernal kiln
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Good on ya for asking around though, I love seeing new people taking interest in pony mods even if it is for games like this

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usually I find games I've never seen that have pony mods and I get to buy a new game I'm unfamiliar with that has something I love

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it's super cool DerpyYep

solid acorn
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I'm probably not going to get it

vernal kiln
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I completely get that since I've only seen you in this discord

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Theres a fair amount of people who don't get enjoyment from war games especially if you add cute ponies to it

solid acorn
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The lore and depth has me interested but not the violence part

vernal kiln
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A good amount of people are unable to get beyond that part

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I unfortunately am the kind of person that reads Fallout Equestria and Background Pony for enjoyment DerpyHonest

solid acorn
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I'm kind of interested in Stellaris but it sounds like that has fighting in it too

vernal kiln
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Plenty of it, in fact there's a couple systems in the game designed for the eradication of other player's species. But Stellaris does a lot more in the pacifist department where it's possible to play the game like that

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You're just cutting half of the game from you

solid acorn
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Hmm....

vernal kiln
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You're also destined to have an AI declare war on you, so you need to fight someone at some point

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But in this case, you can play a defensive war in order to win over them rather than being on the offensive.

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I like playing this way because I enjoy nation building, but I also won't stop myself from killing off a race because they won't stop fighting me

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Stellaris has a cool feature where you can integrate other races into your empire too with I think it's the best solution

solid acorn
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I see

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Well, EaW is a definite No if fighting is unavoidable. Stellaris maybe

vernal kiln
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EaW gives you options to play as the good guy if you'd like

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but yeah fighting is unavoidable, it's like the United States in WWII

solid acorn
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Damn

marsh topaz
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For the most part, playing as the good guy nations typically have you go on defensive wars against hostile powers since HOI4's theme is usually more based around the action of WWII than it is for diplomacy like their other games. You can set game rules to attempt to make the hostile powers not want to fight, but imo it gets really boring as a lot of flavor events are based around the Great War of the mod.

vernal kiln
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I guess the River Republic never does any war

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unless they go to war with themself

marsh topaz
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I love those River Pones, they're neat

vernal kiln
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my favorite is wittenland

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ultra supreme unicorn and pegasi divisions only are super fun

solid acorn
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Thank you for the information, if nothing else

marsh topaz
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I like the River Republic, Bakara, and that one nation who has the funny and full moustache dude

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Its been quite a bit since I've played EAW last over in the griffon lands

vernal kiln
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As of late ive only been playing in griffonia, my latest was the free cities of Gryphus

solid acorn
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I'm not surprised but I can't help but feel a bit disappointed

marsh topaz
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It's understandable. I wish for more mods and games that delve into pony

vernal kiln
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I really want a mod for the Sims

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I wanna just play pony sims actually

marsh topaz
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An actualy good designed pony mod for the sims would be fun

vernal kiln
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PK if there is a strategy game that doesnt involve too much fighting that I could point you to, Rimworld is an excellent pony town builder

marsh topaz
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Rimworld imo is also a tad less complicated in areas as well, but a little more in others

solid acorn
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I thought Rimworld was really complicated

vernal kiln
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much less than these games i can assure you

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you just worry about pop needs and potential outside raids mostly

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actually now that i think of it Rimworld really is just the sims

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like a mad max version of the sims lol

solid acorn
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I see

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Do you have any screens of the pony version of Stellaris or Rimworld?

vernal kiln
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Im sure Rom has plenty of picures of his rimworld games, as for stellaris hold on

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The pony mod for stellaris is mostly cosmetic, but has some specific pony traits you can add to your empire to change things up

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I usually play the game with this the entire time because Im not a huge fan of the alien designs, but if I ever do a mp game i'd be okay with it

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Rimworld is the same, but it's a lot more immersive since it's on a much smaller scale

solid acorn
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I see

prisma sonnet
solid acorn
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Are the pony mods in Stellaris or Rimworld as in depth as EaW?

prisma sonnet
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No.

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In Stellaris you could probably do something similar like the Star Trek mods, but the pony mods that I know of are largely cosmetic. Rimworld is intentionally designed to be very much a "make your own story" game.

solid acorn
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I see

vernal kiln
prisma sonnet
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Yeah, Custom Difficulty -> Major Threats off, and you can add Quest Threats, Intro Threats, and Maneater Packs.

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Plus turn off insect spawns and delete the insects and mechanical faction from the factions.

drifting dock
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It doesn't remove all raids, but they will be few and far between (its game balance and action). Going for an ending will trigger those events though.

prisma sonnet
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Based on the difficulty descriptions those settings should turn off violent threats...except maybe the endgame threats, true.

drifting dock
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Wiki probably has the finer details on that.

solid acorn
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Thanks for the info cocothink

vernal kiln
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here ya go PK

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basically adds a species where you can have pony characters

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you can also have human characters along side them too

prisma sonnet
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In any case PK would probably be fine in Peaceful mode.

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I should get that mod too cocothink

solid acorn
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which game is that?

slate arch
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There’s a rimworld mlp mod??? Might need to give it a try

prisma sonnet
solid acorn
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Ah ok

cursive tide
vernal kiln
solid acorn
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I think I had a ping here?

runic moss
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I pinged you seeing that you wanted to play EAW

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But now that you don't

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Never mind

solid acorn
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Ah, sorry about that. I don't actually own it yet

echo willow
solid acorn
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No, I was able to join and they sufficient answered my questions. Thank you for checking though!

echo willow
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Sounds good ThumbsUpDuck

solid acorn
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Yeah, I don't think EaW is for me unfortunately

vernal kiln
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@echo willow whens the next comp game yall doing

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im dying to play EaW with people who dont desync every minute

keen flower
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even excluding stuff like star father, it can be a bit depressing sometimes

echo willow
vernal kiln
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Now I just need a weekend I can play on

radiant wasp
vernal kiln
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Ye

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But it'll have to be the weekend after next weekend

runic moss
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New HOI4 dlc was a flop

keen flower
drifting dock
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They fix most of it, but folks are complaining about paying for things that modders are doing for free and are acting like spoiled children in part.

sharp solar
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But at this moment, a lot of stuff is not working. Players have the right to share their opinion on the state of the DLC as it is today, not is it may hopefully be at some point in the future. Games like Cyberpunk or No Man's Sky absolutely deserved their bad reviews on release and had to work hard to earn their current praise, and so will GoE/HoI4 have to work hard as well. Here's a video summarizing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PhUnxNoOc

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sejozwak
Don't buy this DLC.

Tragedy has befallen us, Hearts of Iron 4 is no more again.
#hoi4 #dlc #sejozwak
https://discord.gg/7Y5ErvXkEc

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marsh topaz
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They charge a lot of money by pushing out these DLC's, so quality should reflect the price, otherwise people are naturally going to be angry.

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People have made extremely high quality mods for free, only giving the option to donate to their team. Paradox should at least be doing more, especially when they slap a mandatory fee on new features and content to their game

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Paradox's worst trait as a company is their focus on paid DLC. They have so much of it in their games. A portion of it is even a similar price to the base game itself.
(And that goes for multiple games, not just hoi4)

drifting dock
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https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/394360/view/499441143215294074 "We fucked up, but won't say too much more than that".

Personally, there comes a point where releasing content that gives folks that didn't really participate in WW2 something to do does not help the game at all, as fun and wacky as some of it can be. That does go against their Pass system as it stands and slowing things down means less new content (and probably not lower prices).

Hearts of Iron IV - Update from the Developers - Steam News

Greetings all, At the risk of stating the obvious, the release of Graveyard of Empires has not gone the way we wanted. Today, I want to post a mini-retrospective that explains some of what happened leading up to the release, and how we plan on acting on the results of that and on subsequent feedback and reception moving forwards. One of the most...

sharp solar
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That may have been true for ToA, but GoE isn't just about the fact which countries are included, but more about the quality. If we got some important countries with a similar level of quality, people might be even more mad at it.

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I'd rather that B team get experience doing some not important countries first before they start reworking someone else.

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Two expansions (with new mechanics and whatnot) might unfortunately not be feasible.

tough falcon
drifting dock
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haha

drifting dock
slate arch
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Going to the art museum makes me wanna play EU4

sharp solar
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A Vicky 2 mod in the EaW world has been announced on their server:

Hey?
Guess what?
Celestia 2 that's what.

Yes a Vic 2 mod for EaW is in the works and so far we've gotten a lot of progress done since starting about 1-2~ months ago:

  • Initial Terrain and River Map done. Only needs polishing in some areas to look better. The whole map is represented.
  • 2750~ provinces added but some provinces may need to have their shapes adjusted or split off.
  • Initial pass of population has been added, based on the Hoi4 state population. Just needs further refinement.
  • Initial starting tags and countries have been added on the map. Start date is 932 so borders are very different and likely will be refined more once a dev tells me that X or Y nation should be partitioned into a gajillion small nations. I've already done so for a few places where I've gotten direction to do so.
  • The mod is now 'playable' in the sense that you could download the mod right now, launch the game without crashing, pick a country, and look at the map but there's absolutely 0 content.
  • Initial RGOs have been added but they need to be refined, distribution is not very good.
  • Some LOC for provinces has been done mostly in Equestria itself

There's only a few more things left before the 'pre-alpha' stuff is done, ranked by order of difficulty:

  • Province Positions
  • LOC of all provinces
  • Adjusting RGOs to balance the world eco while being sensible and 'lore accurate' (there's not enough lore about Coal deposits so I'm playing fast and loose there)
  • Culture and Religion Distribution

Once that is complete content creation can begin (AKA the fun stuff, events, decisions, racial techs, etc).

prisma sonnet
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I was thinking about a similar mod for Victoria 3, so I support this!

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The existing MLP mod for Victoria 2 is...okay.

sharp solar
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When asked about a v3 mod, one of the eaw devs said "Vic 3 mod is [REDACTED], thats all you’ll know"

vernal kiln
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hmm

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I feel like they should focus on refining EaW rather than make a vic2 mod

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like theres still nothing of interest to do in Zebrica

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and the Kirins are annoying to play apparently

drifting dock
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Vic 2 is an old ass game that people refuse to leave because they want to control their armies (which 3 does not let you do directly).

marsh topaz
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I am ready for Celestia 2: Celestia Harder

keen flower
keen flower
keen flower
# vernal kiln like theres still nothing of interest to do in Zebrica

I think that just boils down tk wanting to actually get multiple countries in certain regions done before releasing anything

Kinda like how Zar-Hay is fully ready but is waiting on content for the other great lakes iirc so it doesn't feel isolated like Chitali does where it has content but none of its neighbors do

sharp solar
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Regarding what they made previously, they say "Vae Victis (alt his mod I based on Post Finem with some creative liberties) and an Heirs to Aquitania Fork namely"

radiant wasp
solid anvil
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Development on one project doesn't take away from development on others. For countries, typically there's a main coder and a few writers, focusing on that project because they want to. There're numerous reworks and new countries being developed all at once, at any given time.

In the case of the conversions, the developers for these aren't taking away from development elsewhere because they wouldn't be working elsewhere to the same degree generally.

solid anvil
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I don't like all the tedium in this though.

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I also like Victoria 3's military system- at least, the theory of it.

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I think it's cool to make it less about the micro and more about the macro of war, even to the degree of removing direct unit control.
Unfortunately the implementation isn't great imo and even more annoying to try to wield than Victoria 2's. I just find some of it odd and unintuitive personally as well.

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As a whole I feel like Victoria 2 and Victoria 3 are sidegrades- both of them do different things and improve in some areas that the other is lacking in; it's just a question of which flavor you want.

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That being said, I think Victoria 3 is a definite upgrade at the same time because of its QOL features and certain improvements. More recent game is also easier to run without worrying of technical errors in general.

solid anvil
# solid anvil That being said, I think Victoria 3 is a definite upgrade at the same time becau...

Victoria 3's economy is not doomed to fail by design or overly lean on shortages, that's one big thing for me.

I also think the market system is cool and more fun than the sphere of influence system of Victoria 2.

There's the matter of RGOs, and this is one of those flavor things-
Victoria 2 has only one RGO per province. This leads to weird things like having no coal in your entire country if you got unlucky with what the devs felt your provinces should produce, and Bohemia being the world coalbasket.

Victoria 3, in contrast, allows provinces to produce more than one good. I like this a lot. Some people prefer Victoria 2's way though because it can make for a different interesting gameplay.

cursive tide
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I do wanna learn Vic 3 gameplay but there's just so much of it lol

prisma sonnet
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I should probably play Victoria 3 sometime.

vernal kiln
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Vic 3 is fun but I would rather play Stellaris or CK3, the multiplayer aspect is very slow

prisma sonnet
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I don’t play multiplayer.

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I also should play CK3 though, I’ve been thinking about British history and a little about Norse history lately and it would be fun to play in that area.

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I’ve also wanted to do a tall game in Croatia for a long while, and also in Zhetysu.

cursive tide
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Sorry but british history is the best history
Because our history is everyone else's too

prisma sonnet
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Heh. I would be playing as Al with the goal of forming Britannia with a few additions (the Orkneys, Faeroes, and Iceland) and the aim of making the British Isles truly a “green and pleasant land” with a mostly tall play.

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Keeping the Normans and Danes away…

vernal kiln
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I love British history

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A lot of my games are in the north area

red belfry
prisma sonnet
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I did an Ireland game but it was kind of boring because I was too passive. I’ve done Al before, though not the Nords.

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Also I’ve been playing since before CKII came out.

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Not long before, but before.

prisma sonnet
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I ended up buying Victoria 3 over the weekend and did a few extremely short games as South American countries. I think I’m going to play Argentina again and again until I get a handle on how to play as them and then…probably play some other game as I will have gotten interested in something different instead.

vernal kiln
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I like playing Columbia

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Cuba is fun to play Tropico in

prisma sonnet
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I started a Victoria 3 game as Argentina yesterday but after expanding my military to shatter the Peru-Bolivia Confederation I…made a mistake while setting up my diplomatic play and lost the opportunity to invite Chile, Ecuador, and maybe Colombia or even Brazil into the war 🫠

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So I’ll need to start over tonight. That’s not terrible, since I also discovered that I was a bit too eager to expand my military without building up the supply base needed to feed and equip it.

keen flower
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late game casulaty ratios are honestly insane, even without using CAS and battle planning

runic moss
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How did you get literally everyone into the faction

keen flower
keen flower
runic moss
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I have obtained stellaris leviathans

keen flower
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this took me way to long to get a successful run of for the April fools crossover compared to the Equestria at war one . I am not proud of it , but at least I'm pretty sure I could probably manage a 1v1 against almost any great power

vernal kiln
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were back

keen flower
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I did end up cheating and using the console

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but that's because Steam is horrible and the eu4 subscipriton to get the dlc didn't go through until my second day of attempts. That meant when I did get it that great projects I needed to complete the finish the misson tree were unavalibale and flat out did not exist, for some reason other great projects were just fine? I may attempt to do a second playthrough in earnest later, but late game eu4 is honestly exhausting and kinda gets to a point of not being fun, turns out making 500 ducats a month is kinda unbalanced

radiant wasp
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Poor Celestia spent 250 years without little ponies

keen flower
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truly the worst fate