Thread 2176355

If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.

No, Vic 3 is not good yet. In fact it never will be. Neither will EU5.

How fares your empire, /gsg/?

This week in history:
October 18, 1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
October 19, 1781 – American Revolutionary War: The siege of Yorktown comes to an end.
October 20, 1803 – The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase.
October 21, 1895 – The capitulation of Tainan completes the Japanese conquest of Taiwan.
October 22, 1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer
October 23, 1991 – Signing of the Paris Peace Accords which ends the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
October 24, 1998 – Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.

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Previous thread: >>2167376

>weeb hitler
good thread
>no this day in history
shit thread

>October 18, 1748 – Signing of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession.
What's this then

^thisdayinhistoric schismatic

>>2176359
Good thing this thread has both

that's this week in history not this day in history

this thread has both

this thread is not going to last only a day why would you have this day in history
it's irrelevant, the times have changed, it's this week now get over it

the times haven't changed it's just one retard forcing a stupid change to the op

how long did the previous thread last huh

vgsg threads lasted more than 24 hours too, you disingenuous faggot

should have made the change sooner then huh

we got a reactionary pop over there

it's not a change it's just a stupid whim of the maker of the last few threads
we'll be back to status quo next thread

why do you want less history in the OP
are you anti-history

i want more history in the op
i don't want stupid meme events like deep space 1 cherry picked from 7 different days. i want a more vertical slice from a single day that will show the more interesting stuff

what would your day in history be

614 – King Chlothar II promulgates the Edict of Paris (Edictum Chlotacharii), a sort of Frankish Magna Carta that defends the rights of the Frankish nobles while it excludes Jews from all civil employment in the Frankish Kingdom
1009 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock
1081 – The Normans defeat the Roman Empire in the Battle of Dyrrhachium
1597 – King Philip II of Spain sends his third and final armada against England, but it ends in failure due to storms. The remaining ships are captured or sunk by the English
1851 – Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
1860 – The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
1912 – First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war
1945 – The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb stolen by Klaus Fuchs from the Los Alamos National Laboratory
1967 – The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet

so many interesting events and the retard chooses to pick the most boring ones from the whole week

that one has boring space shit too

it's not boring it's literally the epic space race (which the soviet union won)
it also has an epic yet somehow not very well known battle between the normans and romans

Rome fell in the 400s tho, what empire?

sometime it's okay to choose boring events and not ones you would find in threads from years ago

you're off by a literal thousand years
i thought gsgeers would be more knowledgeable about history...

the roman empire fell in 1806

the roman empire hasn't fallen yet

the real roman empire was the friends we made along the way

>The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet
> :|
>The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock
> :O!!!!!!

Science flies you to the Moon, religion flies you into buildings.

translate the key of the map i don't speak polish

translate the key of the map i don't speak subhuman

why'd you copy and paste my post?

i don't even speak polish and it's the most easy to understand thing wtf

it was applause

/ / / / plebiscite areas
-------- curzon line
-.-.-.-.-. furthest extent of the polish (not subhuman) offensive in 1920
<----- directions of polish army offensives
--------(red) furthest extent of the soviet offensive in 1920
<-----(red) directions of soviet offensives

you were a pole in the previous life

and what's the furthest extent of the polish (subhuman) offensive in 1920?

>-.-.-.-.-. furthest extent of the polish (not subhuman) offensive in 1920
it doesn't show that

why didn't they just keep the -.-.-.-.-.- border?

they shouldn't have kept half of territories they ended up keeping, why would poland need nothing but angry ukranians

for lebensraum

>drang nach osten, germany
Ö
>drang nach osten, poland
:|

they should have pushed all the way up to the dnieper for a defensive border then expulsed all the russians and settled all the poles from germany there

yeah, it should've been drang nach westen

drang nach westen is never good because there's very little space in western evropa and a lot of space in eastern evropa and asia that the russians are not using properly

expelling all russians from there and resettling resulted wasteland with exactly five polish people from germany sound like a good idea
can imagine how defensive that would be, the river would make it impenetrable

russians were using it properly enough until communists came

there were millions of poles living there and that's not even counting the other various western slavs

The world would be a better place right now if Kresy remained Polish.

are we being raided?

yeah and they would settle in eastern wastelands just because...?

same reason millions of people migrated to the neu welt — free land

how about kuk maps

oh i wish i was in the land of paprika, old times there are not forgotten

>23 18
>low

why did russia get poland in the congress of vienna when it was austria and prussia that took it in the partitions?

prussia lost them long time ago by the time russia conquered them back from nappy, and getting rhineland instead of few polish villages sound like a good deal
also alex i was a polephile, so much that he considered giving back congress poland gubernias lost in partitions

do you fellas ever host paradox games?

it wasn't a few polish villages it was literally a half of poland including one of the largest cities in europe at the time

yes we play victoria 2 mp regularly

mp wheb

Pfui who spawned right on my doorstep

mp webm

real /big/ hours
i can do mp tomorrow

krakow and lwow were the two main hubs of polish culture
congress poland really wasnt worth arguing with russia over

now you can invade them and enslave them to your alien cock

no Mischwesen
they fucked me there in the North and i saw they have a 1200 fleet.

Less than 3 weeks until eu5
Who's your first campaign gonna be as?

dont make me keep repeating it asshole i will play as the southern court!!!

southern court of what?

i don't think eu5 will run on my pc very well past the first couple of years and i'm not upgrading for 1 (one) game

^turd worlder poorfag

United Nation really declared on me. and The 2nd Vanilla-Nation is right there. Commonwealth sounds polish.
i have a 4090 but can´t run CK3 on Ultra fluently after 50years.

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take a guess

>if you don't waste $2000 every 1.5 years on the newest aislop hardware to run the newest bloated games that do nothing older games didn't you're the blackest gorilla bantu
my 3rd favorite meme of 2025

i'm guessing china

one strike

i wouldnt mind playing stellaris again
if somebody would recreate the 300 mod long modlist i used in the past, of course

>i have a 4090 but can´t run CK3 on Ultra fluently after 50years.
holy shit, have they really made the game this bloated from 2022 to now?
or is something bottlenecking your pc?
is your cpu shit? your memory? how about your bootdrive?

at least tell me if i was close
or at least what direction from my guess is the target

theres only two countries in the world that had southern courts, china and japan
i didnt tell you because even just hinting at it being east would make sure that you get it right(you probably guessed japan anyway even without me giving you a hint)
anyway yeah there's the possibility of some epic imperiums restoriums there, and in the north-south imperial court split the south(which lost) was officially recognized by the meiji emperor and by extension the empire to be the legitimate successors

if you said east i would have said richmond

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Ck3 isn't a graphically demanding game dipshit, your 4090 means nothing when it comes to the actually intensive aspects of the game, which are handled by your CPU and ram, it also works fine for me
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If you're not retarded you can spend $2000 on a PC and not need to upgrade anything for like 6 years, but I understand if $2000 is your yearly wage in India

>>2176718
don't bother. the mid-lategame is still unplayably laggy. now apparently it's because of the ships or whatever. I don't even care anymore. even with the smallest galaxy, with a few mods like mega engineering, my fps by year 2100 is well under 30 even on the slowest speed

or he could play ck2 which does everything ck3 does and more at a fraction of the sys reqs
but idk why i'm replying earnestly to someone who calls anyone who doesn't enjoy the modern unoptimized slop a native american

>>2176737
wrong
ck3 alone crashes the machine i use when everything else runs at a brisk pace and 60fps high graphics

i'm guessing you don't build your own pc

What the everloving fuck is this, this is literally the FIRST fucking post I see on this website and there's a fucking "nig__rmod" here

shut up reportfaggot

look, prominent victoria 2 mods are included in the op. i don't make the rules

i do and i'm happy with my 1080ti

i was obviously talking to the guy with the 4090, he failed to answer my questions about his specs

i was the guy that started this conversation and you will direct all attention towards ME

what psu do you guys have? personally i have two pygmies running inside pygmy-sized wheels providing electricity for me, they do a pretty good job and i'm so pleased with them that i even gave them names, jimmy and jobby

Please Shut Up

psus don't mean shit beyond "is my pc willing to stay alive and working without any blackouts"

no bottleneck, maybe the new Intel CPU but i have Ultra 9 285k, the newest from them + 96gb ram

>96gb ram
why

Because i play Bannerlord and simultanuesly play with ai

i don't failed, i am often late

chatting with or genning aislop i can understand. i don't condone it but i can understand it
but why the fuck would you play bannerlord when warband is the superior mountain blade?

well i don't know what to say about your cpu, i have the impression that amd cpus work better for using multiple applications(playing games while shitposting+other things simultaneously)
i still don't know what your bootdrive is, if you're one of the rare weirdos that avoid ssds, and if you don't, then if you have your ck3 directly installed directly into your ssd bootdrive or have it installed into a secondary instead

>>2176811
Who are you quoting?

your mom

Nah, there you are wrong. With a perfekt modlist and war sails arriving. but warband Lord of the Rings is still superior and that there is so Phantasy Calradia succesor

Poland can into superpower.

>>2176744
Then that's your machine having something wrong with it, I've literally played ck3 on the integrated graphic and just had to turn down the settings and resolution a bit to hit 40-60. The game really does not require a lot of graphic computing power
And no, it wasn't a fancy APU or gaming integrated graphics, it was just the shitty integrated graphics that I used until my GPU arrived

had to Status Quo. They are so lucky,

but i dont want this castle anymore i see. its bordering the Niggerfaction

atleast im not dying. cosmic storms are ugly. good thing for waiting on EU5

>>2176973
Is this real?

The Religious League war came down to Lubeck and Saxony vs The Palatinate and Hungary.
The Holy Roman Empire is now Protestant.

But more importantly... Lubeck is the richest nation on all of Earth.

bro your overseas territories?

ottomano blobbanus cheekus breekus

Lubeck is a Northern German state. Not a New World state.

why didn't italy ever colonize the new world

southern half of italy was kind of a backwater under spain with more focus on domestic economy
the pope on the otter hand basically sanctify the brutal colonization of novus mondus, virgin late colonizers "muh burden to civilize" vs chad "pope said you belong under His Most Catholic Majesty of Spain."
genoa meanwhile played a big role behind the scenes, helping spain and portugal with shipbuilding, navigation, astronomy, and mapmaking :o also don’t forget cristoffa corombo was genoese
northen italian bankers in general invested a lot on spanish futures and portuguese and later dutch/anglo trade companies
only venice was busy getting undercut and losing customers to every atlantic startup with a sail.
footnote: amerigo vespucci was from florence

why does your eu4 look like it's for the ps2

I boughted the deluxe edition for EU5, sucks that it's releasing just one week after All Under Heaven.

What is this dumb lubeck, letting Poland big

17 days
y'all are monumental gay if we don't game together on release
blessings

i think i'm finally ready to swallow the farm pill, ugly as they are
there is a pearl out for me life

no one should be sniped on sc moments after they arise from siesta.. it's not christian

2 Pet. 3:10
if even a crumb of this place is left on the other side i don't think i could ever be content

If you see a gibberish post, it was made by raiders, ignore it.

it's a /v/ meme. he didn't actually boughteded it

>cristoffa corombo was genoese
i thought he was a turk

the world is turkish because god was a turk

hmmm i've heard of the turkish odin theory before

only 2 weeks left until eu5

minekidmeme.jpg

i hope to not be too busy when nov4 comes

y'all been implying fitgirl will provide for eu5 the same day it comes out
i was absent when victoria 3 was released so how fast was the crack

fitgirl is not a cracker, fitgirl just repacks scene releases to reduce file size for people with bad internet (germans)

i won't wait for fitgirl i'll go to my favourite forum for talking about csgo

i'm not going to be downloading anything
i simply want to catch the lulz and drink tears if the game sucks
alternately if the game turns out to be good, then i'll catch sight of that anyways

>drink tears
i don't think anyone here is emotionally invested in eu5 considering the track record paradox has had for the last 10+ years

i am. if it turn out to be shit i'm going to cry.

i've seen hype in here and i've seen it in other threads too

also there's like a 50% chance that you can play with just a steam emulator
i think the only things that need to be cracked are the dlc, and there'll be none on release(or at least nothing important)

i haven't seen any hype here that wasn't clearly ironic
fix your sarcasm detector

your detector picks up too many false positives

goldberg isn't the only one there's also uhhhhhhh hhhh that other one yeah

no it does not
the primary guy talking about preordering eu5 is the gibberishposting raider that also tries to force a bizzare meme about a rivalry between wiz and johan

how can eu5 be good if johan himself said it won't be???

i don't even factor that guy in
instead the other guys, those expressing fear or talking about jewtubers talking about it or the ones arguing with the eu5 doomposting

did johan rape your wife or something

johan raped eu4 (my wife) and made a bastard child (imperator)

ck3 is great
i mean sure game is kind of shitty but it's one of the "thing so bad it loops around to being good" or something... and the 3d avatars just make it soo adorable to play

didnt know women were allowed here

the 3d models are the best ones paradox has come up with so far

so is fitgirl an actual girl or more like *chuckles to self* fitBOY?

yes, they are the best ones they have come up with but they're still really bad and misshapen

fitgirl is a guy
that avatar you see of the 'girl' is from some movie or something

they're far too stylized(in a kiddie sort of way) to be good
eu5's is the best of all the 3d models paradox has done so far because they're more grounded, still shit and with less variety than ck3's though
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don't think anybody knows
i think the girl image is some random french-algerian mutt or something
fitgirl's been shitting out a lot of repacks for ages now so there's the theory that it's not 1 person doing it but a whole group

why would it be called girl if it's a guy?

you didn't download fitgirl repacks just because you thought there's a girl behind them, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUECWi5pX7o

yep that's bait

in any case my pc is cooked
so chat, i don't think i will be making a review for eu5
although in my professional opinion eu5 is really just eu4 but with EVEN more modifier and mana types (on steroids)

the only mana are the religion related stuff
which i think is just because they didn't know what the fuck to do with religions

>they're far too stylized(in a kiddie sort of way) to be good
i don't know what you're expecting
they're not goofy/caricatured like in civilization games, differing so much from that infact that it makes them palatable

time for a nap

>uh akshuly mana will be few
the entire game is filled with point accumulation to unlock bonus modifier(s)
basicly the same thing with mana, abstracted goyslop to give player bonuses
relic mana, historical figure mana, advance mana, monument mana, slider manas it's so eu4 core

chatgpt, define mana and mail your definition to this guy's mailbox

>uhh akshooly it's only mana if you can spend it
if you haven't speedread my post, you would've known that i already addressed that, faggot.

it's not "mana" if it isn't mana you absolute cripple
abstraction doesn't equal mana, and you are retarded if you seriously expect a game that doesn't abstract some things to exist(there are currently exactly 0 of these)

respectfully disagree x1

retard just say that you have never played eu4 before
it's the same fucking thing, you boughteth a dlc so that your country of choice get bonuses for doing absolutely nothing but wait for points to accumulate at most
in eu5, stuff like this is cranked to max by default
ideas, national ideas, government reform etc not only still exist in eu5 but are even more stronger and come in various shapes or forms, it's clear that they want to accomodate for various types of "build" (modifier stacking for specific modifier) since it's the only content they're good at producing and eu4tards have been so ingrained with such circumstances

disrespectfully agree x1

>accumulates points to purchase +10% retardpost efficientcy
>that's mana

>accumulates points to unlock +10% retardpost efficientcy
>that's not mana therefore not the same even if the end product is literally the fucking same

i love this meme of trolls pretending not to know what mana refers to in the context of paradox games (especially eu4)
can't wait for people to rehash the same talking points for a self-evident idea for the 6 millionth time

Lmao. It is the year 1600 and I am playing as Lubeck. Russia must have received well over 15000 ducats in subsidies and gifts from me. They are my only hope against the Commonwealth.
About 30% of Lubeck's entire economic output from 1444 to 1600 has gone to Russia's coffers.

why?
if it's 1600 you should have completed innovative>offensive>espionage ideas and your army should be very strong, but if it isn't you can always take another military group like quantity or quality
polend is strong but not that strong. their forts are in grasslands usually

I just finished quality ideas and our army is now competent but we only have 50k men and 30k manpower against the Commonwealth + England + Sweden who combined have about 250k men and 300k manpower.
Russia and Hungary are my allies and they also rival the Commonwealth so they are my key to victory.
Lubeck needs Prussia for its mission tree.

it's not semantics you big oaf
merely pointing out these nonsense flavoürs only exist to give the player buffs

semantics more like semitics

playing eu4 without taking quantity first is crazy work my guy
so go for that and spend your cash on force limit buildings if you're the richest country in eu4 and your monthly balance is high in the positive you're a filthy no-blobber

Abominable.

eu4 while taking quantity first is crazy
you're supposed to start with innovative ideas then baloon your force limit with vassals and ever since they added the free company maintaining high manpower is easy
then you take offensive to make your troops great and improve your siege ability because sieges win wars

i think that venice is cute

why is a grown man using the word "cute"?

I think that Venice is losing its island in EU V. No idea how they will remain a major power when a nation such as Milan or Austria can just march their army straight into the capital.

venezia is an island irl but the way eu4 handles it looks so fucking ugly on the world map

that albania is even cuter

i really like how everyone ignored the dildo-colored smol preuben (sic)

its spelling was too dumb, so yes i cautiously ignored it

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i've played more of any gsg than you have you retarded infant
you have no idea what the fuck a game is, what the word abstraction means, nor do you understand what a mana is
>accumulates points to unlock +10% retardpost efficientcy
you can use this logic for anything you want
oh no, look at that barracks MANA inputting pop MANA and resource MANA to produce manpower MANA which are consumed by army MANA to reinforce soldier MANA
your retarded crippled brain registers anything that is abstracted to any level(e.g a soldier being a random pop that is forcefully taken by a building or is motivated by his surroundings(i'm a nazi ideology pop and niggers are invading my country +100 desire to join the SS)) as "mana" or "modifier slop" because said thing isn't simulated exactly as it is in real life(in this case because the pop is randomly taken or joins due to his motivation which is decided by numbers - as opposed to every single braincell of his and his environment down to local rabid dogs being perfectly simulated)
you can use your retarded "logic" to shit on any game or piece of software, and i bet you don't have a single software or feature within software that you're satisfied with because it's all modifierslop and 0101slop down to the very bones
you don't know what the fuck software is or how it works so please stfu and leave this place to do something more up to your speed like playing floppy birds instead

how much post mana did you spend for that rant

he spent 15 post mana because he incurred the +50% posting cost penalty for replying to trolls

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I'm not lying

yes you are

sorry but i can't trust the opinion of a preorder cuck kindly leave the premises

you don't trust a preorder cuck when he confesses to be a preorder cuck?

literally what the FUCK is the point of preordering a digital good?
the benefit of preordering physical goods is obvious. you guarantee that you will get the product at the first possible opportunity, but you already have that guarantee for a digital good that can be endlessly copied at no cost

What if one wishes to support the developers and publisher with an injection of hard-earned capital?

i don't know, they gift him with some extra goody like a christopher columbus dildo

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I'm going to buy the game anyway and it's more convenient to pre-order now so I can pre-load and play the game right away on release day

is that a replica of columbus' cock or a latex statuette of his whole body?

enjoy getting your hard drive corrupted omegalolz

no it's his telescope which he used when he found america

why would preordering eu5 include a columbus dildo when eu5 is a medieval game and 90% of playthroughs will end before 1492?

are you implying you wouldn't buy a columbus dildo?

i'm questioning the point of using a name associated with the renaissance and the age of discovery to advertise a game that's a direct competitor to ck3

but would you buy it?

i have no use case for a columbus dildo

hear me out
maybe... just maybe... maybe johan does not give a fuck about ck3 because... ck3 is a project out of his hands, just like with shittoria 3 and hoi4....
maybe he just wants to revise a "better" start date than the eu4 start date

laaaaame

i don't care
the only reason i played eu4 as imperfect as it was was because it took place in an epic timeframe of colonization
if i want to play a medieval gsg i will play ck2 which does a medieval simulation much better than eu5 ever will

sure, go do that
to me it seems johan doesn't really care about the official milestones of when an era starts or ends, he just wants to make a game with economy and pops and all the other features he liked from the previous games that to him were just testbeds anyways
he probably liked the idea of the several years before the black plague as well as the black plague itself serving as the preface of most of the game

if he wanted to do that he wouldn't snub the idea of a sequel to the best paradox game - liq2 for so many years
he wouldn't make the most barebones normalfag scalping device that is imperator either

maybe he doesn't give a fuck about the victorian age right now have you ever thought of that
the black metal artist decided to go acoustic
the victorian age dev decided to go medieval-colonial

that just contradicts what you said about him not giving a fuck about ages but instead wanting to make the best game mechanically
building upon victoria 2 mechanics would have been that perfect paradox game yet he didn't do that and instead went in the direction of mana uber alles for many years

oh my science is that a police officer breaking the law while stealing his paycheck bring him back

they're not deporting him, they're extraditing him
and the penalty for working is death in montenegro

you won't like our games from now on, nonce

what do you mean, he's probably thinking of the best of both worlds
attracting the eu4 fanbase (which is arguably the most massive) + putting his pops and economy mechanics in it and whatever else
you also have to consider that eu4 is too old and bloated with dlc, so maybe in his eyes he sees it as needing a successor
and ck2 and v2 already had their turns (at getting a sequel) spent
and hoi4 will likely be next after eu4's turn

Remember the 6 million germanics killed in the germocaust

ck2 and vic2 got sequels in the name only

doesn't matter
i'm not talking "sPiRiTuAL sUcCeSsOrS"

hello

eu5 is the spiritual sequel to vic2

me neither, i'm talking about games that actually build upon the formula and improve it, not a completely different game with the same name just incremented by 1

eu5 is a beloved sequel to the shit i took the other day

hi :)

stelaris is the spiritual successor to east vs west

well then your goalposts are different from mine, see ya

that's not 6 million deaths that's just 6 million casualties of which only about 1/3 are lethal depending on your military hospitals tech level

hi :D

Why is /gsg/ still allowed to exist?
You niggers should be banished to /mlp/

see? shouldn't have interjected into my thesis that eu5 is a medieval game then
good thing you're leaving

we're intelligent, nihilistic and have a wicked sense of humour
what's not to like

no talk of mlp takes place in here
maybe you need to get banished to /mlp/ projecting faggot

Italia!

verbum gsg manet in aeternum

do you sign the geneva convention?

Nope!

it's detrimental to sign it in vanilla from both a roleplaying and powergaming standpoint
it's actually beneficial to sign it in crimeamod yet i still don't do it

eu5 is only partially a medieval game

sometimes genocide is more beneficial

an italy blob is unaesthetic release northern italy

yes, the end date is in 1821 just like in eu4
the problem is that in eu4 you win and are unstoppable after just 100 years thereabouts, therefore i'm suspecting the same thing will happen in eu5 where there's 155 years of gameplay before renaissance proper starts (116 if we count the fall of the roman empire as the cutoff)

i would play it to the end date anyways

snowpajeets

this is why victoria 2 is so good: because it's so short you don't have the time to snowball you have in eu4 and ck2

i don't try to snowball, i just try to make decisions and then watch those decisions affect my surroundings decades and decades and decades later

it's not about trying, it's about playing optimally
if you play optimally the growth of your power will outpace any ai, even on very hard difficulty (because the vh ai bonii are static)

don't care about playing optimally, there are games i like gettingsweaty over, but gsg isn't one of them

see this is where we differ. you call it being sweaty, i call it making smart decisions
i don't care about micromanagment either, but i will not make dumb decisions for the sake of role playing
that's not what bismarck would do

bismarck is not a good role model he could have had a germania from aarhus to ljubljana but he chose not to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWUuhNd37WI
thoughts on poland deciding not to extradite the man allegedly responsible for blowing up nord stream 2 to the germans?

based polend

polska is ruled by globalists that want to see moskva burn and roosiya get balkanized
i could say a lot more on that but cumguzzling janny will carpetbomb the thread

How does /gsg/ feel about blobbing into baltikum?

no he wont no gsgeer ever reports
every country in the world but north korea is ruled by globalists and the zigger-pigger brothers' war is an artificially created threat made to further the globohomo agenda
why do you think it begun exactly when covid was running out of steam? i wonder what the next threat will be... they've been threatening a famine for a couple years now and 2030 is coming soon. that is supposed to be the year 0 of the new world order

why would you blob into the baltic when you can colonize and get incredibly rich?

>>2176686
The biggest drain that paradox games usually have is the CPU, specifically single core performance. After I upgraded to a Ryzen I could actually play the Anbennar and Vicky to the end

It's slow as fuck and I'm wating for Admin tech 10 to drop Exploration for Expansion as I went Infrastructure first.

is it slow though?
get ports along the african coast and work towards zuidafrika before the portuguese get it
then ceylon and towards the spice islands, like a proper dutchman would

>>2177776
>every country in the world but north korea is ruled by globalists
no
when i say "globalists" i'm talking about everyone who falls in line with usa, okay
russians, chinese, etc., those to me are briggers

well you see when i say globalists i mean everyone who falls in line with the jewish freemasonry or at least goes along with their plans like china does

real /big/ hours

a well-adjusted human being says globalists and means people who collect globes

>russia and china secretly don't want to overcome the americans over a war of ownership of natural resources, no no...
>they are freemasons along with the americans and just want to do war for war's sake
schizo

they will call you a schizo but they will never call you wrong

it's because war is funny

calling you wrong is being far too obvious of me, as we are already arguing

who's winning so far

we are arguing? i didn't notice

me, i am

dunno if i'd call it winning but whoever said schizo first loses

yea', i was keeping it lite because of jannies
disengaging

ladies ladies there's enough paradoxslop for all of us

no gods, no jannies
we are free men here in gsg
i will say nigger whenever i please and there is nothing they can do about it

oh i am a good ol gsgger, now thats just what am

someone hold this hothead down before he says it again

>get banned from posting images for 24 hours because of a word
do i really feel like it today...

they still rangeban people from posting images??????????
i thought that shitty trend died when they stopped pushing the pass so hard

no, see
you do the router trick and you can post just fine, but not post images

>>2177841
why was this post deleted?
also works on my machine

covering my ass

>Play meme game
>Get memed on

back then a foreigner couldn't become the president of the united states
that changed in 2008

ah, i have start from anew... nothing special in my area.
Traditions: Prosperity -> Unyielding -> Subfertuge

i think i fucked up my planetary buidllings i need to build districts

too much selling buying/selling on the marketplace

i agree, anon. when are we releasing hawaii as an independent state for the infamy loss? they aren't ACTUALLY americans, after all...

brothernon you're sitting on 500 influence in the earlygame what are you doing
explore, claim systems, you're letting the ai run a train over you for free

why would we ever get rid of colonies? makes no sense
releasing filipines and cuba was a mistake

what's your favorite vic2 colony? mine's malaya

5
pretty sure i once posted an image of abraham lincoln becoming the emperor of the qings
vanilla vic3 of course, 0 mods

2

when is mp

uhhh i forgot. how about tomorrow?
how many people do we have ready? i can host

what mp

victoria 2 with crimeamod

sounds fun i'm in

im in too
whats the ip

tomorrow
i have to work in 7 and a half hours

Poland = quite strong
Lithuania = quite strong
Poland gets an event to turn Lithuania into a personal union
Poland + Lithuania = very strong

Does Paradox even have a balance team?

but poland was strong irl
she only died because of internal issues and constant war for 3 centuries

first time playing eu4, used to play eu3 a long long time ago. any tips?

I know only two things about Polish history:
1. They think that their horses can fly
2. They are responsible for the largest war in all of human history

mana generation is incredibly important
provinces can and need to be cored. don't go over 100% overextension
vassals can be integrated
that's it

every country back then had constant war for 3 centuries

What exactly happens if you go over 100% overextension? I have done so before and not suffered any noteworthy penalties.

it's the anglos that are responsible actually

not to the extent poland did

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Overextension_events
you just got lucky

Ouchie. I will stick to 99% overextension. Or vassal feed.

do i play sniper elite 5, hoi4, listen to music, or watch anime?

idk roll some dice
i recommend 3 or 4 though

The game.

petition to rename this place to grandi strategy general

a bold suggestion

didn´t knew i had this much influence.

cp don't open

(catholic programmer)

first time seeing this terry clip

the FUCK am I missing?

nothing, it's a bug

Nice, we reached the end of our mission tree within 200 years and have become fairly powerful. How is your grand strategy campaign going?

swedenapmi

why the fuck are there jews in macedonia?

no its Terry A. Davis with right measurements

349
Big chilling waiting for Reformed to spawn, been busy bullying France and Polen
410
It's an event the Ottomans get after Jews get expelled from Spain

many sephardic jews fleeing the iberian peninsula in 1492 were in fact invited by the ottermans to bolster trade in thessaloniki, the turk sultan even said something along the lines of "thanks for the da jooz mana, ferdinand blud :sob: :wilted_flower:"
by the 1500s, literally more than half of the city’s population was jewish (approx 30k+), making it the largest jewish hub in the world, so much so that the ports and much of commerce would shut down entirely on shabbat

all i got from that was "turks are retarded" and "with jews you lose"

solun also was the socialist hub of the ottoman empire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX0HdIQd-6Q
v___v

how it feels to learn that your player heir that you have groomed to be a better ruler than you has suddenly died

we do a little savescumming ahh feel

gesundheit

got a bunch of bad rng holy fuck 1490 and i've only blobbed this much
can't wait to see the roman borders in genoese yellow bros, also should i include northen black sea coast or nahh

blobbing in the steps so ugly
blob tunis instead

y̶o̶u̶r̶ m̶o̶m̶ i̶s̶ u̶g̶l̶y̶ l̶m̶a̶o̶ nah, trust the process bro
also proofs that RNGrandi is wild in this save
>the scots fookin' inherited sam fine burgundian lass
>a BIG and thriving sus (snatched madeira from portugal in a war), i feel like this is surely some 0.001% chance kind of shit, also makes me want to vassalize and then feed them the interior of maghreb

y̶o̶u̶r̶ m̶o̶m̶ i̶s̶ u̶g̶l̶y̶ l̶m̶a̶o̶ nah, trust the process
also proofs that RNGrandi is wild in this save
>the scots fookin' inherited sam fine burgundian lass
>a BIG and thriving sus (snatched madeira from portugal in a war), i feel like this is surely some 0.001% chance kind of shit, also makes me want to vassalize and then feed them the interior of maghreb

>"turks are retarded"
i think you meant to say that spaniards(read:arabs) are merciless freaks who would gladly use biological warfare on those they don't like

thank god for making turks so kind and merciful

it's the only reason they lost

god wills it

isn't that the guy that was afraid of fighting some fat guy

no idea

he's not turkish he's american

lefties cant be american

marx was american

amount of win11 shilling on /v/ is insane, its either ai spam or jeet spam
its always the same shitty broken arguments and images down to a t so you can easily tell its not natural

prolemaic

problematic egypt

>kush
lol
antigonos was the best
kassandros deserved the rope

why are you arguing on reddit

i'm a reddit refugee

a reddit refugee that hates win11!?

"A constitution? So that the Russian tsar must swear allegiance to some cattle?"
- Alexander III

just swinging by to remind you all this is the worst general on this site and you should all kill yourselves

another victim claimed by raiding on behalf of /gsg/

respectfully disagree

>>2178613
What map mod? Or am I so used to mods that I can't recognize vanilla?

so when's the vic 2 game girls

>he fell for it
lmao bamboozled

you would never lie to me, right?...

join

Why have Greeks squandered the international potential of Salonica/Thessaloniki? It used to be a globe-spanning port & metropolis under the Ottomans, *the* most important Ottoman city of the Balkans, but today it's a mid-tier university town. Is it because of the holocaust?

>>2178782
i just came back from work we can begin soon i will setup the hamachi and install the latest crimeamod

never knew it was that big, always thought it was just a regular sized city

ok, no one's been bamboozled. i keep my word
hamachi id: gsgeers
hamachi password: grandi
newest crimeamod checksum: TJDO
come join

I really like playing as small nations but I think that my next pick will finally be a big guy.
Do you have any favourite large nations in EU IV?

yeah denmark

are you beton or desktop

i am beton, the owner of the network
say something in the hamachi chat

beton the replyfag, got it

look, the ends justify the means
i had to reply to get your attention

>when thessaloniki was a port that serviced the entire ottoman balkans it was a major port!!!!
>why was the small nation state of greece not able to maintain this?

yeah, antwerp was a port that serviced the entire sprawling dutch colonial network and afterwards it was squandered by this small nation state of belgium

nice day for a walk

what's the mp status

the mp status is 3 players ready and if we can't secure any more players we start soon

i'll join in a minute then

should i play learn to fly 3?

2 is better

hello minimax we're ready

found a new gsg
https://juliasmileyface.itch.io/voice-train-game

average gsg poster

i saw that video i remember it
good video
made by the pacman people

>leaked
uhoh

damn that's crazy, i come here during my vacation after so long and you guys are playing vicky 2 mp
what happened to rostovbro btw? did he pirate cyberpunk and end up in jail?

yean no id reather play this
https://framiel.itch.io/mutilataur
https://maktronius.itch.io/orgamble
https://juliasmileyface.itch.io/voice-train-game
https://dreamonstudios.itch.io/gladihoppers
https://teamlazerbeam.itch.io/shroom-and-gloom
https://payandaonline.itch.io/forgetmesa

voice train game huh
cute

i'm alive and kicking

you wouldnt believe the look of these goofy tomboys ive downloaded last

you know that no one want's to look at them

i want to look at them

>1920x1080
uh oh turdie moment

Why does this thread even exist? It's a retarded, insular circlejerk full of miserable people marinating in their own autism and inside jokes.

to be fair, you have to have very high iq to understand /gsg/

this is a place to discuss grand strategy games
seems self explamanatory
we have an ongoing multiplayer game what part of that do you not understand

>it's a place to discuss grand strategy games
it's 99% disc*rd-tier shitposting and 1% games
/vst/ would benefit if every /gsg/ poster suffered a cholesterol-induced heart attack and died

why would i trust the opinion of a man who can't do basic math?
it's 25% discord-tier shitposting at most

How can make Vic2 run Faster and more stable? Project alice fucking sucks

it runs perfectly stable for me
decently fast too

you can increase tick rate in settings file but it fucks with game stability, idk if it would work for mp

some modders say you can use 4gb patcher on it, not sure if it has any relevancy when you're not using bloatmods
it's really hard to get problem with running vic2

zomg he's just like me using iirc in 2025

>>2179185
Using GFM? or Vanilla?

lol

using krimmod

we just need to not lag

hm

yes, i was there, 3000 years ago
it was a short lived mod but it's events were incorporated to all the major mods at the time

i heard of the drama but wasnt there at the time

little did we know at the time grandi was samefagging to manipulate the public opinion

master puppeteer

Hello! It has been a few years but I wanted to try Austria again.

This is what we have achieved in 18 years.
Bohemia is in a Personal Union
Hungary is in a new form of Personal Union that doesn't even cost a diplomatic slot
Trent is our vassal

We are the second greatest power in the world and our Austrian + subject armies combined number 80k which is double that of the next biggest who is the Ottomans at 40k.
This nation was always busted but now it is a true raidboss that is side by side countries such as France and Castille.

20 years into the game and we are getting incredible modifiers such as this. Do whatever you want as Austria.

The fuck Timmy gon do?

it's time for bed timmy, shut off your pc and brush your teeth

you dont need to brush your teeth if you never got infected

i literally eat an apple a day preferably the sour one

how strange, guess this is how some neckbeards roll

that's not what makes austria a raidboss because hungary is even stronger in that regard they have missions that gives PU to croatia, austria, bohemia, poland, lithuania, and muscovy
they are a raidboss through revoking privilegia

>Poland is for bullying
How fares the campaign anons?

>>2179354
>>2179354
>>2179354
stop abusing poland, asshole
they are not even geographically relevant to you

Sorry chud, I need my baltic grain

Hol up
Is...is Europa Universalis a 4X game

Always has been

Sad!

post idea groups

Just closed the game but I took Infrastructure -> Exploration to the 2nd idea. At admin Tech 10 I dropped exploration for Expansion + Defensive

Who will be the Ottomans of Europa Universalis V?

>>2179427
Me

maybe hungary or golden horde

name 5 polish people

me
my mom
my dad
my two sisters

big family

Even Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, literally one of the greatest men to ever live, and a pious, family-oriented man, couldn't stop his daughter from being a whore and humiliating him.

Johan
Talex
Robbie
Crimeadev
Grandi

what about em

polish men in greek bodies

poland is just a geographical expression

poland is a mistake

poland is cute

https://youtu.be/_W7cC-dpbV4?t=110
shroud is the best pole of all time

>>2179507
Robert Lewandowski
Lukas Podolski
Mikołaj Kopernik
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Rosa Luxemburg

>polish names
>look inside
>ethnically germans

moving to germland doesnt make you ethnically german

shroud is a cheating fraud

Nederlands are canonically Reformed right? Think I'm going to switch as soon as it's available. I don't really need HRE-emperoship anymore

netherlands are canonically catholic, but historically lutheran

wdym you don't need the emperorship? you'll stop needing the emperorship when you fully reform the empire

What is the difference between canonically being something and historically being something

*throws 56 into the oubliette*

we've managed to acquire anthro cloning technology from the secret chamber of kuffu
epic

>cropping
kys

chill the fuck down unc
i understand that you're impatient for the kino roman borders but try to relax for a sec

i'm not your uncle, you're thinking of bob

why does eu4 general name list contains two names and two surnames for every culture

I thought they were calvinist though? Wasn't William of Orange calvinist?
674
I mean I'll join the league war so that Reformed can become emperor (I think it's religious peace I need to get?). Beyond that was mainly planning on colonize and chill desu
690
>genoa
very cool

>blobbing into the baltic without taking control of lubeck first
gay

But I do control Lübeck

you're wasting your botes to get merely 56% control of the node

I guess I could take it later but I wasn't really planning on blobbing originally

laughable balance

then you shouldn't have blobbed into the baltic since it doesn't do anything for you

See 372

g-d, i hate mission trees

stop lying that mission has a peaceful resolution as well, one that does not require blobbing

>>2179684
why are you not using any cavalry?

he's too poor to afford horses

cav in eu4 is a scam unless you're poland or the steppe niggas

arumba said horses are not worth it

arumba said horses are not worth it when you're poor and want to fill your force limit
horses are worth it if you have the money to spare and want a more competent army

today's my lucky day, i can take a record breaking 3 provinces in a single war

benis :DDDD

>german names
>look inside
>spiritually polish

>german name
>german language
>german culture
>look inside
>genetically polish

>2 weeks until eu5
What do you plan on doing bros? Who do you plan on playing first?

i plan on playing prussia in victoria 2

we're not your bros, nigger

War in the East

>>2179754
England just to learn mechanics. Then Byzantium, Greenland, The Knights, Athens, Teutonic Order, maybe a smaller Swedish state with the potential to bring back Asatru.

I don't like that the Ottomans can beat a 60 stack with a 30 stack.
I also don't like that the Ottomans are extremely rich.
In addition, I disapprove of the fact that the Ottomans have the largest army in the world.

Imagine a world without the Ottomans.

i'll be rawdogging it as a small hre country

>>2179743
So are you not automating diplomats?

1 million cootbus artisans rise up.

>low thread activity, high poal me activity
female /gsg/ lurkers theory confirmed

13 is not that high

it's just enough for a supper

ok but do you believe in female lurkers or just lurkers who love this place as much as we do like...

i get lurking but i don't get it in case with /gsg/

there gotta be some fem lurkers

love is a strong word. i myself only use /gsg/ just because i can post my low iq takes AND getting a response out of it without people looking down on me

love is a strong word. i myself only use /gsg/ because this is the only place where i can post my low iq takes AND getting a response out of it without people looking down on me

wtf same but in my headcanon my posts are of good quality.

mp today?

i didnt play any league today

Holy.

remember vine?

>>2179819
>>2179836
>>2179844
i'm quiet right now only because i'm gaming
i saw the poll, i responded, but then went back to gaming
you'll know i'm active in here by the rise of defamatory remarks

remember netscape?
yeah
i'm that cool

damn unc youre ancient

My vassal swarm could beat up your vassal swarm!

suddenly king's field

>>2176976
yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfeilstorch