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Anbennar is pretty good. Do you not like it because it's not a map of earth?
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<soystus update (JUST LIKE MY CAPESHIT MOVIES 
)>albania declares war with help from secondary power Aragon>plantagenet knock-off unites former plantagenia in arcadia after civil war>bashar al assad secedes from turkey №9881[Quote]
>Anbennar is pretty good. Do you not like it because it's not a map of earth?
I'm not quite sure, I just feel limited to what I can do so far, though I've mainly been sticking with Eborhil and whilst I can do TGD in "North Africa" dealing with rebels on multiple different islands, with multiple different fronts, I don't like it, I might try Lorent or someone else.
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anby is an historic warsim
doesn't belong in mappaintslop general
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>>9680you want me to believe ~ wasn't pressed during this campaign?
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>>4642The fan fork is absolute garbage. Like yeah it does have more event chains and such, but it uses a really garbage economy mod as its basis (PDM, I think?) and the writing is trash. Personally I prefer to just play base DOD.
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Yeah Fan Fork kinda sucks.
division numbers are wack too.
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Wow I just went on a fucking trip lads.
>Bohemia becomes Elbians>Venice declares on me with help from Elbians>Elbians cant reach me>Elbians 200 brigades rolls my ally Hungary>Hungary becomes rebel hell>I get decced on by Albania (allied Aragon) at the same time>Hungary is war leader in both of my wars>Hungary forced me to concede West Macedonia (60 warscore)>I beat Albania into a white peace>I ate 10 infamy trying to puppet Albania but Hungary just forced me out
(1/?)
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>Get random Desperate Defence modifier from a bug I think
>Immediately dec on venice ASAP to take cores back
>win
>Dual Monarchy spheres me
>Start making money in DM sphere
>Ally DM for security
>Hungary loses east to Romanian Patriots
>Turkey goes bankrupt, but I'm almost bankrupt too so I can't do anything about it
>Belgians form Arcadia
>Eventually truce runs out on Venice and I fabricate for round 2
(2/?)
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>Hungary gets in unwinnable crisis war over their lost provinces>I dec on Venice and win because Elbians can't reach them>Belgians sphere Turkey (FUCK) 
>I desperately ally Italy, they immediately get decced on by Aragon>fuck that raisin im out>Finally fabricate final greek war against fucking venice>Italy unlocks great wars>Hungary gets 5 war goals enforced on them in another beat down GEEEEEEEG>I finish off Gayreek Venice for the third time and take my decision to core greece FINALLY(3/3)
My economy has fully recovered lads. I'm in the best sphere for military goods right now and I'm almost completely caught up in tech.
Venice is gonna lose to me one more time when I take the islands and Turkey is about to lose a huge chunk as soon as I force my way into GP.
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Newfag here. What's the best game for AUSTRIAN EMPIRE experience? Vic3 vanilla was awful. Should I try again with mods? Which ones? Or should I try Vic2? Does another alternative(which is a better option) exist? I just want Victorian raisin with flavor and I really like the Austrian Empire
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I didnt play Austria in every mod and situation but this is what I know about them
>Austria in Vic 2 vanilla is alright but can be tricky
>Austria in most v2 mods is usually good because german exceptionalism
>Vic3 Austria just forget it they're in a really bad position for everything
>EU4 Austria is peak HRE gaming none of the other games come close in this way
>CK2 Austria is kind of kino, HRE gaming is pretty fun here too
>HOI4 Austria sucks but they're okay in KR/KX mods
>HOI3 Austria (LOL)
I suppose if you are really itching for a Vic experience you can try to find a V2 mod that suits that experience. V3 mods are really underdeveloped in comparison to V2 mods just like the game itself.
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you're all playing vic2 instead of 3 only because you're autistic contrarian retards
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>>11522Victoria 2 with Ending Extension Mod.
The name is a bit misleading - it does add an extra 20 years to the game's time span with matching techs, but it's also basically a continuation of HPM and adds/fixes more stuff in the main timeline, especially China flavour since the dev is Chinese or China-interested; it also makes Austria-Hungary to Danubian Federation SLIGHTLY less RNG-dependent.
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this is getting ugly
i think i saw habsburg commonwealth but that ended and now their dynasty is "von friesen", which kind of sucks
theyre filling the carpathian basin with slovaks
i keep forgetting this game gets less fun the more you play it because you have to accelerate your expansion, you cant keep expanding at the same rate or it will feel as though youre expanding slower over time relative to your size
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>>11918>>11568Thanks. Will check them out.
>>11790Fuck no. I can somewhat forgive the retarded economy,and the warsystem can be saved with a few major changes (like the naval update they are working on right now). But the abysmal dograisin that is is the diplomacy system is beyond saving, especially the fucking war goals and infamy parts.
Example from yesterday: Two sicily started a Italian unification play against France, and I naturally had to join because Tuscany was considered my protectorate. The problem is, I can't add a single fucking wargoal for some reason, I'm just automatically an ally of France without any say in anything. Prussia and Russia joined on the aide of Sicily (and retardedly betrayed me, Austria, their close friend with defensive pacts, but the AI being retarded is expected). And in all of this I couldn't even ask for a war reparations from Prussia or Russia. I couldn't even get out of France's side and attempt to join him under different conditions, so I was locked in a war with nothing to gain. While The French as a war leader had no problem demanding Prussia to get humiliated.
And even under the normal circumstances co-beligerents/ allies can't ask for more than one wargoal, why? Why can't someone join a war after it has started? Why is the infamy system so retardedly basic? Why is the war reparations considered a separate wargoal, and why does it have a fixed and unchangeable amount(10 percent of the taxes or something)? If anything the amount of war reparations should be the topic of discussion.
I know most of the Vic3 fags are trolls, but I wanted to rant a little bit anyways. Victorian era is not (mainly) about the wars, but the diplomacy and politics. So why is the diplomacy in this game worse than even EU4?
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>>18821my number one biggest problem with vic is definitely the economy but my second is the diplomacy like you said.
The third huge problem in my opinion is that immigration stacking is crazy broken, I really think it's bugged or something because there's no way the devs intended to allow you to get so much immigration as any country.
A secondary problem to the economy is the retarded rgo access you get because of the way the game handles the lack of spheres and simulates pseudo-closed regional markets when that's not how it ever worked irl. The sphere replacement mechanics don't make sense and the game would be infinitely better with the old market system and sphere mechanics.
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Typing it out I realized PDX listened to the forum complainers from 12 years ago who didn't like how they were getting removed from their sphere by other GPs but they took the wrong approach to fixing it.
Vic2 GP spheres is a much more fair system than the bullraisin you have in Vic3.
If I want to get out of a sphere in Vic2 I just soil relations or improve with others to get removed but in V3: Why do I have to over-power or out-scale my spherelord to get out of my sphere?
Being in a "sphere" aka Power Bloc in Vic3 is a legit disadvantage as opposed to Vic2 where being in a sphere is a direct advantage 80% of the time.
There is also never a time where I would want to steal lead of my bloc instead of just becoming a GP and possibly making my own. The bonuses are rarely worth it.
Reforms really fucking suck in Vic3 also. Reforms in V3 are like Elections in V2. If you've played either game you instantly understand this point. ReformsV3/ElectionsV2 is Vic at it's weakest and only for V3 reforms are half of the gameplay where V2 election spam is largely optional.
The game is still crazy unbalanced in every possible way and boring. This is despite 10+ years of feedback 3 (technically 5) "DLC" and 3 years of the game being out including leaks.
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Typing it out I realized PDX listened to the forum complainers from 12 years ago who didn't like how they were getting removed from their sphere by other GPs but they took the wrong approach to fixing it.
Vic2 GP spheres is a much more fair system than the bullraisin you have in Vic3.
If I want to get out of a sphere in Vic2 I just soil relations or improve with others to get removed but in V3: Why do I have to over-power or out-scale my spherelord to get out of my sphere?
Being in a "sphere" aka Power Bloc in Vic3 is a legit disadvantage as opposed to Vic2 where being in a sphere is a direct advantage 80% of the time.
There is also never a time where I would want to steal lead of my bloc instead of just becoming a GP and possibly making my own. The bonuses are rarely worth it.
Reforms really fucking suck in Vic3 also. Reforms in V3 are like Elections in V2. If you've played either game you instantly understand this point. ReformsV3/ElectionsV2 is Vic at it's weakest and only for V3 reforms are half of the gameplay where V2 election spam is largely optional.
The game is still crazy unbalanced in every possible way and boring. This is despite 10+ years of feedback 3 (technically 5) "DLC" and 3 years of the game being out including leaks.
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damn look at my attrition vs combat casualties
anyway i forgot PLC is an elective monarchy duh, it seems in this universe german protestant nobles are wielding the power. there is no universe where poles really maintain great power status by themselves
more relevantly though is the 2nd or 3rd venetian neocrusade against the ottomans concurrent with the 3rd major qoyun-mamluk war. all the great muslim states are ruled by turks, i mean mamluks speak qipchak, but i also saved the tatar city of astrakhan and its nomadic surroundings and theyre presumably speaking qipchak there still.
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map gaming almost died..
№19583[Quote]
hello is ck2 or ck3 better and also can i make army units within the game
thank you
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>>19583I think CK2 with HIP is better but CK3 has the sims 4 models rather than portraits and is easier overall to get into. Neither barely any depth when it comes to combat or units. I’m not that familiar with retinues or buildings in CK3 but in CK2 your levies will be a mob that is similar to every other lord’s mob. You can make retinues with specific units but it’s best to fill it with one unit.
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>>19583I think CK2 is still better.
Spain and Steppe horded in CK3 are the only real improved areas from CK2.
They are trying to expand the map to China which I think is a big mistake.
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>>20075Tbh I think the majority of players will not reach Age of Reformation before restarting in EU5.
I imagine a lot of map painters just starting over and over.
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the top comment on a recent eu5 preview vid: "tbh i'm looking forward to anbennar more than eu5"
johan is now a slave for the desires of anby. pray for this man
№20455[Quote]
How is Vic3 nowadays? Anything positive on the horizon?
№20479[Quote]
>thinking about playing pdx games
:)))
>playing pdx games
:(((
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>>20479Nah, they're still fun.
№20878[Quote]
Just bought Distant Worlds 2. What am I in for?
№20889[Quote]
>>20878Absolute gem game but stellaris fags are filtered by the simple looking ui elements
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>>20455actually they are releasing a second expansion pass.
>trade mechanics>2 immersion packs>no major expansion packUnless the mechanics pack improves the game by a substantial margin this looks really grim. I say this as someone who likes Vic3 a lot I really don't know if PDX can keep players interested for an entire year with this content alone.
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Anbennar is a legit gem.
EU4 mods are on an entirely different level of effort than HOI4 mods.
How come every HOI4 mod ends in flames and has weekly troon 'cord drama when EU4 mods just drop gem update after gem update for a decade with no hitches?
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>>20916EU4 has always been more autistic, HOI4 is for youtubers making lichtenstein conquers world omgg?!
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my ideal gaming scenario is driver seat in the panzer with opb as gunner and vade of PS fame commanding
i don't speak the language but i will go off vibe and they will compliment my driver's instinct, the purity of my germanix blood putting us in sync
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if these nerds can WC as ulm, why i can't win spanish war with falangist ?
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Ok while I was gone, this is what I was working on. I restarted Macedonia one last time and my goal was to get to GP.
Finally got to GP in 1936.
>The decisions to get cores actively nerf you by taking away turkish accepted
>Cant assimilate anyone
>Cant hire Regulars or Artillery unless it's accepted culture
>Literacy is FUCKED the entire game and there is nothing you can do about it until atleast 1900
>You can try but you will never get all the techs as Macedonia
>You have to get GP in order to core only a portion of the Turkish states
>Early game infamy reduction is done within 2 years and you arent allowed to expand due to the independence war modifier taking away your diplo points
>No coal no bronze in starting RGOs so you spend a fortune on your army until mid game
>Almost EVERY GP has a vested interest in FUCKING you for trying to delete kebab even if they have to cross 2 oceans to stop you
The only saving grace of this campaign was that when Russia formed I got in their sphere and made +$1000 a day.
90% of the time you get sphered by Aragon and just lose money because they have the raisinTIEST sphere ever.
A disgusting Yellow Germany formed in my game from Elbians and they meddled with my conquest of Ottomans 3 times.
This tag fucking sucks. I was really hoping there was some extra flavor behind the "Rebuild Alexander's Empire" decision but there was nothing.
Ottos gets all the balkan cultures accepted but Macedonia can't keep Turkish accepted AND have cores. I almost feel like editing the decision to keep Turkish because it's a gigantic gimp. You start 30% Turkish for fuck sake. It's not balanced.
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Not sure if Fan Fork has any Batavia content but I want to play them anyway.
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holy FUCK
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Why does England have 400 brigades?
Also this South American scenario is new.
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Are we really stuck here now? My new router blocks this site so the only way I can post is on my phone with no wifi
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yeah. 8moe and 8cuck are both slower and have less posters so it looks like we're here
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why does your router block the site? sharty rangebans india are you indian?
№23415[Quote]
I'm bored of Total War Warhammer 3. Should I give one of these games a shot?
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>>23415They're kinda bad but good if you condition yourself to like the jank
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>>21626i have no idea what "forming batavia" means wtf are you talking about? batavia was the name of jakarta in dutch indonesia. you havent been to that part of the map yet so idk what indonesia looks like
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based post some mobile gsg for us
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>>23415You can try, TWH3 is pretty brainless by comparison
№23673[Quote]
Usually it’s just a generic refused connection error but while on my phone with wifi I got it to display this super fucking gay sounding message about Eero Secure “protecting” the network. I didn’t know what the fuck that was until I remembered we recently upgraded our internet plan from 1gb to 2gb and they had to come out and install these stupid iPhone-store looking white routers that didn’t have antennas
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NEW IMPERATOR PATCH
NOT A DRILL
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>Cant justify anyone until I take the Cape cores back
>Burgundy does a scripted war against me
>I kill their 10 brigades in south africa, scripted white peace happens
>no truce
>For next war wait until Burgundy explodes as they sometimes do
>Entirety of europe starts exploding, DM becomes France
>Burgundian Civil War happens
>Japan declares on their ex-substates which draws Burgundy in because of a port province they have
>Event pops after 6 months of holding cores, peaces out the war
Honestly this region being railroaded in Fan Fork makes sense and works fine. After forming Batavia, you're quite strong.
I prefer this to original DoD.
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>scripted Civil war event fires after you get your cores and pits you against the other Geus states alone
>After forming Batavia you get a big immigration boost
>you also get to choose between monarchy with no reforms or republic with a ton of good reforms
This is sick. Batavia is way better in Fan Fork. Gonna conquer Madagascar and the other uncivs near me now
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i tried line wars i am not very good
remember anzacs
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>Ok lets just check up on aragon and… OH MY GOODNESS
get fucked.
>Another scripted chinese civil war happening imagine my shock
and what the FUCK is this broken decision holy CACA
500%
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I didnt even know it was possible but Ottomans lost all their cores through some congress event in europe for some reason.
Scandi lost their empire basically
and I have fucking insane RGOs
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i can almost turn into a horde, but i forgot that the decison to form persia makes you into a monarchy. i at least want to raze arabia and egypt first
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>UK peacefully united under England and is still best buds with France and Ireland wholesome bigchungus 100 reddit style
>UK has the ugliest flag ever
>Belgians achieved forming Arcadia after they fought the easiest 2 wars ever
>I expanded and blocked Scandi from the African interior right before the scramble starts
Bigtavia
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this color is pretty epic
№24599[Quote]
>>24459I really wish you could culture-mesh in CK2/CK3 like this.
№24600[Quote]
talex
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>>24464why does your raisin look like foobar2000
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>>24464>turkey>yugo>romania>on the same side>asian hugbox + west europe vs central europe and arcadiafucking hell no wonder that war was 20 in game years
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its the war analyzer, chud
№24620[Quote]
luv the war analyzer
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my 2/1/2 died thankfully, he was the son of a long reigning guy who was probably one of my best rulers canonically.
through a series of mostly typical and violent dynastic succession events, hasan ali II now solidifies his place as shahanshah by destroying damascus, samarkand, bukhara, and some other places. most of the shiites living here had already fled to the qoyunlu domain in years previous, so these places are stubborn sponsors of mamlukean and ottoman political and religious life. they must come to heel.
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>>23719Based. I just picked this up recently from their Gog sale (was actually cheaper than the current steam sale with a welcome bonus). I'll toss them some shekels for the expansion as thanks for keeping the game going.
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>>9658Absolutely incorrigibly undisputedly indelibly BTFO by
>>23719 №25323[Quote]
I’m playing Bannerlord with the Europe mod right now
№25389[Quote]
>>25323Currently, our party consists of
>Balian, our chivalrous leader. He leads from the front and rapidly became well known throughout Europe. Personally leads our heavy cavalry into battle.>Hogelun, his beloved wife and Mongol Princess. She follows him into battle, loosing arrows from horseback.>Gilleandris the Lucky, Scottish Gallóglaigh and Varangian. Leads our melee infantry into battle.>Milo Ironbelly, Anglo-Norman Longbowman. Leads our ranged infantry into battle.>Adilger Bloodaxe, Teutonic Order Knight. Rides with Balian’s cavalry.>Hugues Barrelchest, French Knight. Rides with Balian’s cavalry.>Sigwin the Boar. Crusader of unknown origin. Rides with Balian’s cavalry.>Altamur the Prince, Cuman Crusader. Rides with Balian’s cavalry.Svarn Bloodaxe, Bulgarian warrior. Rides with Balian’s cavalry.
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>got that biyearly urge to fuck about with byzantium in ck2
I'm back
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№26373[Quote]
looks Nordic as fuck. Prussian German ethnicity.
№26374[Quote]
Imperator is on sale -81% off for the next week
№26486[Quote]
4cuck is back, it sucks even worse now somehow, not going back
№26497[Quote]
>new Imperator patch
Guess I'll do the Parthia run again. I did it on release, even posted my progress on 4chan's /gsg/. Good times.
№26507[Quote]
fuck yeah I think I want to start a scythian playthrough actually
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>>26497>only levies>can't build an army>can't influence the levies' numbersGuess I'll never paint the world purple again. It's over. My day is ruined.
Really, how does one play with such a system?
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>the thread on vst got taken over by cordtroons. I stay here now.
i went and took a look and the whole thread needs to be b&. faggotry abound
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they fucking killed imperator didnt they