nope, it's just a noun and nothing more

they hate victoria 3 because it's the common man's game. victoria ii is like an exclusive club.

no i hate vic3 because war in it sucks dick

also the map is fucking ugly, it looks like watercolor painting with a heavy emphasis on water like stop with the faded coloring shit
eu5 did a much better job with the colors

vic3 is so boring even a girl wouldnt make it worth playing

also yeah it released almost 4 years ago and france STILL spills across the rhine
you cant make a napoleonic rhine border
they left out giant fucking rivers like the one in riga dividing half of russia or most rivers in africa
the ones they bothered to put in the game are horrifically inaccurate like in siam/laos, it took them until a few hotfixes after the south america dlc to fix the fucking uruguay river

they REALLY dont give a fuck even about surface level shit

in hindsight i thank them for having that purple-haired bitch in the teasers telling me upfront that v3 wasn't going to be a war game and that i wouldn't be controlling my military
it saved me from the trouble of having to try that hot flaming piece of dogshit garbage

the post above me was made by michael jackson

in which gsg/startdate genoa is better than venice?

none of them

1066 ck3 bc you can get groB tuscany, aquitaine, and duchy of barcelona "for free" in 20 years

ck3 gets extremely boring in 50-100 years you're going out of your way to handicap yourself

unless
except if
barring
save

yeah i missed some of those

friday night on /gsg/ more like friday night on cemetery.

a jolly day at the designated burial grounds

why was that post deleted

Top 5 Paradox games:
1. Europa Universalis IV
2. Crusader Kings 2
3. Hearts of Iron IV
4. Victoria 2
5. Imperator: Rome

>hoi4
no
>v2
nah
>imperator
nyet

you forgot to deny eu4 and ck2

goy4 IS easily top 5 pdx games if not top 1, it's just not a top 5 /gsg/ picks

if we count by popularity it's their top game, but i wouldn't say it's a good game, but to be honest the last time i've interacted it was a couple years ago (when it launched)

>>2460372
what is that even about

which paradox games i can run in my thinkpad

lol who is deleting innocuous posts?

Finally
Victoria 2 gameplay automatized
https://www.moddb.com/mods/ai-army-control-toggle/downloads/ai-control-final-version-110

sorry i only read papers and curated documentaries

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in a thread or 2 ago I saw people discussing that paradox can't do navies right, and it made me think how would you do naval warfare so its fun and engaging?
In every paradox game, naval battles are just a pure numbers game. whoever has better/more ships wins. Compare the vast sea to land warfare. With land battles you have to worry about terrain, forts, attrition, etc. The reason why a smaller weaker nation is able to defend themselves and win against a larger more powerful nation is because they can take advantage of fighting in their own land, They can stay on hills/mountains, defend forts, lure in the invaders for a kill, go scorched earth, etc. What is there to naval battles? just send all your ships to the battle, not like there are any defense bonuses or attrition. I honestly forget that ck3 doesn't have ships. Sure it's kinda silly seeing a huge army of 15k+ medieval soldiers transform into ships, but adding navies probably isn't worth the effort

>>2460449
hOI4 Vanilla Navy Rework fixes that

I like vic3 bc it's less eurocentric and they economic system it is good

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Is janny on a melty again?

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>PLC/Russian front

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can you play as china?

>russia becomes polish catholic
>constantinople becomes serbian orthodox
fair trade desu

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Like Ming? Sure why not after this campaign, they're one of my favourite nations
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It's beginning to look that way. I'm tempted to rush towards Poland's capital and separate peace but that would be kind of lame and I don't want Russia to be permanently crippled

Play a trade nation = unlimited money but terrible troops
Play a military nation = Incredible troops but no money
Play an Ottoman nation = Conquer the world by 1600

I know which one I'm picking.

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Where should I find a new homeland for the Circassian people? I was originally thinking southern france but the Mongols appeared and now I need to find something within reach

stellaris font in eu4 is disgusting

MAN-made horrors beyond comprehension might be from /gsg/ yes

>>2460550
I just love how Tom Bull is holding him up. It's like that really short turk guy they post videos of him punching them harmelssly and stuff

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>peace with Ottomans

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>peace with Commonwealth
Russia granted us Salento as part of a separate peace with Two Sicilies

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>Serbia in 1562
I think it's about time we start to distance ourselves from Venice.

form the roman borders or ur gay lol

Imagine the bloodbath if Serbia pulled this off in times where the roaches already settled in the Balkans and Anatolia...

gsg for colonizing spain as arabs?

ck2

that shit is old unc

at least it ain't a memegame like a certain second installment of a series that wears the victorian label despite being actually anything but.

guy who thinks the victoria series peaked at 1 and everything after is a poor imitation of perfection

ck2, 3 or eu4. throw a coin

i peaked in liqqy2school

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>Mongols appeared
why do people play with random mongols
anyway stick to southern france, let the mongols be the pressure that forces your people to keep pushing west

only pedophile rapists dislike vicky 2

macho milf fuckers play eu4 while crossdressing

vgh vgh vgh i just had another amazing epic mega campaign idea:
restoring ancient athens back to its former glory, starting in imperator rome, and reuniting the diadochi under athenian leadership, fending off rome, then, in ck3, gimping yourself by splitting off from the athenian empire as a vassal in the east and going full-blown alexander the great mode but this time not conquering india but CHINA and then converting to buddhism UGHHHH greco-buddhism my beloved and then yeah eu4 and vic2 you just go with the flow.
i just thought of that last part while typing this man this is so epic im gonna do it

>nobody plays eu4

meanwhile only eu4 is played

>>2460774
>a man make a cringey fool of himself
Don't sign you are posts

>>2459816 →

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your map is confusing me why is the date so low

1558 is already lategame eu4 doe

about as much of a victory as america and the cold war, we're invading vststan

i don't like eurocentric games

>pyrrhic victory even doe all of discord embraces no reply culture

^ what did he mean by this? ^

which african country do you recommend in vic2 gfm

i never played gfm, but if the ai is as braindead as in hpm then i recommend zulustan
i remember i beat off both spain and portugal

have you tried unshakalaka.exe

but did you defeat them?

the ai is braindead in every mod, it's hardcoded

try krimmod, the ai literally plays better than nataliafag

i went bankrupt and died
rerun time
I VVILL make Mombasa great again
this time im selling titles instead of manamaxxing so i can make it out of the first war with money in the bank

but the optimal manamaxxing strategy (via innovative ideas and stacking advisor cost reduction) involves selling titles for money
you sell titles then immediately revoke land then devv for crownland. you end up with a shitload of dev and a shitload of money

do you mean seize land? but you can only do it once every 5 years

>ev&oe this was in 1450 so no 'deers and i gave away all my crownland for mana privileges so i couldn't have sold b4 the war
its like ur not even looking at my screen

i didnt liked crimeamod, they erased all african cultures

yes, seize land, that's the name
you sell land then seize land. you just need your estates to trend above 60 loyalty and occasionally do the agenda for the one that got uppity via event

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accurate

Only CK3, Imperator and HOI4 are good
The rest have awful AI

i haven't played ck3 and imperator but you sabotage your point by saying goy$ has non-shit ai
if you play as germany and leave your western border completely ungarrisoned in '39 when you attack poland france will not attack you at all
literally a braindead game where you just draw arrows and win

im literally not talking about seizing land though. my first post was not written well. to be clear i am implying that if i had not given privileges that give +1 of one of the monarch points then i would have had enough crownland to sell titles before i went to war and would not have gone bankrupt for at least a couple more months during which i may have been able to appropriate some funds from my enemies

historically accurate france

yeah i too've come to the conclusion that the +1 mana privileges are stupid because they make the estates very hard to keep in line

>>2460848
>>2460848
>>2460848
yes, the ai doesn't encourage soldiers!! or does so on a very low priority i guess, but i saw The German Empire having red brigades and provinces without soldier pops because it kept promoting craftsmen instead!!!

what a peculiar use of exclamation marks

we use exclamation euros these days

If the game is called "Europa" Universalis then why are the Ottomans, Mamluks, and Timurids the most powerful nations in the game?

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ayyyyyy lmao

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because the protagonist can't start out strong. he needs to start out weak and gain power to defeat the final boss, otherwise it's not fun

>>2460732
Nice one. I once had a similar idea of a Athenian Empire mega campaign but IR-CK2-EU4-Vic2 and not converting to cringe religions like buddhism. Either stay Hellenic or convert to Orthodoxy while blobbing similarly to the Roman Empire but more eastern orientated to prevent Islam. Might completely destroy the Mecca/Medina region to make sure.

every time i get a cool idea for a megacampaign i remember that you can easily become the top dog within the timeframe of a single game and then it's all boring throughout the rest of the games

yeah but if you blob and then just play tall and roleplay internal conflicts and make all your neighbors vassals and tributaries

vgh i mvst cqnqver the lesser kings and bring prqsperity to their lands

your.... Corruption. is growing. i. i didn't know you felt that way about me.

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egypt is fun

i got raped by the austrians lol

>120k £
i usually just spam invest in whatever the capitalists are doing. no cappies?

I played Victoria 3 a few months ago and I had fun.

why crimeamod removed ukranians wtf

i like to click on provinces that i can see from countries whos capital i don't know so it reveals the capital it feels good in seeyoufor

because there's no gameplay reason to have them
they're always accepted by russia no matter what
they're not accepted by anyone else like in pdm where poland can accept them

Paradox games I have played and my favourite nation in them:
EU IV: Brandenburg
Victoria 2: Prussia
Hearts of Iron IV: Czechoslovakia
Crusader Kings 2: Connacht (Ireland)
Imperator Rome: Hibernia (Ireland)
Stellaris: Humans (Xenophile)
Victoria 3: Ottoman Empire
Crusader Kings 3: Desmond (Ireland)

What are your favourite Paradox nations to play as?

also "african" why
and removed a lot of african cultures as nations
i'm disgusted

the only african cunt removed is sokoto doe
and the one singular nigger culture makes african cunts like ethiopia more playable because you can just make a pan-wakandan empire instead of always being confined to your starting location because lol no accepted cultures

but what about zulu and the other african cultures

>>2460936
But there are thousands of different tribal groups and they all hate each other.

and i hate my neighbor, but that doesn't mean slovene should be multiple separate cultures

how come gsg is so active 2day
>>2460923
egypt is mega op, dont do the meme alawite empire
>>2460927
>unciv
>invest in factories

YOUR MOTHER IS MEGA OP

uhmmmmm, civilize, nigga? open a book o algo

look guys i'm tired about eurocentrism in/gsg/ can we just play ming or ethiopia or something besides the typical eurofag fantasy

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your gold WILL be mine and you will like it. should have gone to mil tech 4 zimBABIES.

In our timeline: The United Kingdom was the greatest empire of human history.
Now, imagine a timeline where the global hyperpower wasn't the UK but it was Madagascar.

you're right im gonna go for madagascar next
they are stealing my trade and this cannot continue

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Almost done with this playthrough in the Faerun mod (started as the Vhaeraunite Drow Shadow Dragon in Ched Nasad in the last start date), goal is the rest of the Sword Coast. Any recommendation for who to play next? I like underdogs. The toughest battles were against other dragons who almost always crippled my armies.

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Also, for shits and giggles, I may or may not rape Alustriel's spawn when they come of age. They have good genes and are worthy of being the mothers of my bastards. I caught them in a siege .

>>2460933
>Ireland
Something that you can always come back to, I just finished an Irish (with roman borders) empire campaign a few weeks ago. Near the end I got dragged into a very long bizarre Jihad for Arabia since my militant Christian vassals conquered most of Arabia. I had a hindu for an ally and we beat back the horde after some back and forth occupations and attrition. Only play CK and Stellaris, so;
CK2; Yemen
CK3; Éire
Stellaris; Authoritarian Xenophobe

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Only non-European country I ever played was Assyria.

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And Israel in Imperator Rome. Totally forgot about that one.

It isn't supposed to be that big.

EU5 sucks I´m gonna play FC 26 to get my gsg fix.

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Imagine the meltdown if a team only hired European players and totally destroyed the whole league.

how much does one pay to have their company as one of the sponsors in a soccer video game?

HPM or GFM or HFM or Victoria III

Crimeamod

The sponsorships you see in the game are tied to the licenses the game has with the clubs and leagues.

>EU IV: Brandenburg
coward

instagram.com/reel/Daqv1J1REAI/?igsh=b3Qwd2J2cnV1b2ox
please protect us alpha greg!

not clicking that

>>2461027
That game is fucking dreadful. Made it fully arcade. Players getting stuck in animations tipped me over the edge. Only play career mode. The matches just feel like garbage on world class yet professional is always 10-0. Despise the game.

>>2461126
please please please i haven’t laughed this hard in ages someone needs to witness this i canr be the only one

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laugh at this instead

alpha greg would have protected ungarn

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>>2460865

>>2460865
>>2461163
Shit lists.

I still think it is absurd that Castille is a really formidable nation on day 1 but about 30 years after the game start they then get an event-driven personal union on Aragon which is also a powerful nation.
At least the Burgundian Inheritance isn't always certain.

wait till bro find out about 1544 start date castile

>I still think it is absurd that Castille is a really formidable nation on day 1
what is absurd about it

Sorry, I meant that Castille was both very powerful and gets a huge power spike early on in the campaign.

it's castile with one L, retard