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VerdantSquire posted:Considering the converter hasn't been updated at all since it got released with EU4, I have a feeling it may be a lost cause at this point. You can use it to get an idea of the politics and stuff for converting, but if you want anything meaningful you have to mod it yourself. That's weird, I recall the converter getting updates to at least maintain compatibility if not add content on DLC releases.
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Darkrenown posted:Johan "No Nickname" Lerstrom. I love how ridiculous Swedish Johan is. It is a thing of beauty when he speaks.
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Sep 13, 2014 02:20
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http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?800670-Hearts-of-Iron-IV-Developer-Diary-9-Vacation-and-Air-tech Um, excuse me Paradox, how will I research the F6F Hellcat, please explain, thank you
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BBJoey posted:http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?800670-Hearts-of-Iron-IV-Developer-Diary-9-Vacation-and-Air-tech Amphibious Soviet war dogs CONFIRMED. And I better be able to make rocket powered bombers or I'm boycotting Paradox forever 
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YF-23 posted:That's weird, I recall the converter getting updates to at least maintain compatibility if not add content on DLC releases. Well, it hasn't really been updated in a meaningful way at all. It still does exactly what it says it does, but that may not be good enough for some people who want a little more continuity then the converter offers.
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Rereading Kersch's LP persuaded me to have a shot at V2 HoD again. I feel like Mexico ought to be able to pull off a similar strat as brazil and dominate Central America, but those pesky Yanquis clean my clock every time. Is there any way to pull off an early military victory against them before the juggernaut starts churning away, and/or to be a more attractive immigration destination? Also is it worth changing to empire to be able to appoint parties and build factories to kickstart industrialisation? I can only get my militancy high enough by letting Texas win and then declining white peace repeatedly, and when I do then it tanks my militancy. Such a great game but so hard to not suck at 
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BBJoey posted:http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?800670-Hearts-of-Iron-IV-Developer-Diary-9-Vacation-and-Air-tech I don't care what history says about the Americans considering them hot garbage, Paradox, you done good giving me Airacobras as a major American fighter type.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Rereading Kersch's LP persuaded me to have a shot at V2 HoD again. I feel like Mexico ought to be able to pull off a similar strat as brazil and dominate Central America, but those pesky Yanquis clean my clock every time. Is there any way to pull off an early military victory against them before the juggernaut starts churning away, and/or to be a more attractive immigration destination? Don't invade Texas, build up your military to the point that you're stronger than the US then invade Texas. The US will not intervene if you're stronger than them.
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uPen posted:Don't invade Texas, build up your military to the point that you're stronger than the US then invade Texas. The US will not intervene if you're stronger than them. That's what I find tough though: the US goes great guns and is able to outbuild me 2:1, never mind that they've probably got a host of mil techs that would make me lose a straight fight.
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You shouldn't get in a fight with them, just sit and build till your stronger then take out Texas.
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Pornographic Memory posted:I don't care what history says about the Americans considering them hot garbage, Paradox, you done good giving me Airacobras as a major American fighter type. They were great planes, just not for what the US needed which was high altitude escort/interceptor. The USSR loved them. (you probably know this but I do love me some Bell aircraft  )
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IIRC the US won't join if Texas is winning, so just let them take a couple of provinces to keep your WS in the negative while you build up.
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VerdantSquire posted:Well, it hasn't really been updated in a meaningful way at all. It still does exactly what it says it does, but that may not be good enough for some people who want a little more continuity then the converter offers. The issue I found last time I converted was the sunni's heretics became the main religion so when I converted all of the sunni provinces came up with as no religion.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Rereading Kersch's LP persuaded me to have a shot at V2 HoD again. I feel like Mexico ought to be able to pull off a similar strat as brazil and dominate Central America, but those pesky Yanquis clean my clock every time. Is there any way to pull off an early military victory against them before the juggernaut starts churning away, and/or to be a more attractive immigration destination? If you're looking to reliably take over Texas, let me humbly suggest this strategy. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3655554&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=8#post434702041
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Patter Song posted:If you're looking to reliably take over Texas, let me humbly suggest this strategy. Thank you! Great write-up.
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BBJoey posted:http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?800670-Hearts-of-Iron-IV-Developer-Diary-9-Vacation-and-Air-tech You research lvl 2 Fighter unlocking the Airacobra, then research the sub tech unlocking lvl 2 carrier fighter - the Hellcat.
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podcat posted:You research lvl 2 Fighter unlocking the Airacobra, then research the sub tech unlocking lvl 2 carrier fighter - the Hellcat. I was being sarcastic  but clearly I didn't go far enough, because right now in the Paradox thread there's a bunch of spergs going on about how transport planes need to be modelled separately to bombers as if anybody actually enjoyed having to waste IC on a fleet of transports just so you could launch one or two paradrop missions in the entire game.
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BBJoey posted:I was being sarcastic How will players royally gently caress up Operation Market Garden like in history if they dont have transports? (although the transporter force for market garden actually contained a large percentage of converted bombers) podcat fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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Sep 13, 2014 10:26
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Gimmick Account posted:Speaking of bugging the CK2 team about bugs: Was the pagan reformation coat of arms fluctuation bug that I provided you a save for a while ago ever fixed? The last thing I heard from you about this was that it was being looked at. Would be good to know before I start a Saxon game with the new expansion. It's marked as fixed internally, so it should be in the next patch.
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That reminds me of War in the East going through a phase where allowing the use of multi engined bombers as transports turned every He 111 and Ju 88 in the Luftwaffe into a flying gascan for the Panzertruppen.
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podcat posted:How will players royally gently caress up Operation Market Garden like i history if they dont have transports? (although the transporter force for market garden actually contained a large percentage of converted bombers) But how will I be able to add a requirement to fly Hitler out to the Wolf's Lair in his personal Ju 52 to convene with his generals in my ~immersion~ mod if you don't model transports?!
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gradenko_2000 posted:That reminds me of War in the East going through a phase where allowing the use of multi engined bombers as transports turned every He 111 and Ju 88 in the Luftwaffe into a flying gascan for the Panzertruppen. That actually sounds like it could've worked, though. Or am I confusing siphoning the gas out of planes with putting fuel cans in the planes?
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Kavak posted:That actually sounds like it could've worked, though. well He 111s were historically used by the luftwaffe for supply transportation on the eastern front. It worked in small scale, but was too big of a task to do it large scale, google "Stalingrad airlift" for relevant articles. podcat fucked around with this message at 12:06 on Sep 13, 2014 |
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WitE is like the perfect case study on why bottom-up simulations are a bad idea.
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YF-23 posted:Westernisation scales to country size/total base tax. Unless you are a giant behemoth and/or have a lovely monarch it should not take more than 20ish years. This is incorrect, it's based on income. I was playing a Ming ironman game, and I was only able to pull 2 points per category out to westernize, and it would have taken me 60 years. Cue Russia invading me and kicking my teeth in after pulling in Spain and Portugal, and them occupying me nearly (but not quite) 100%, and refusing to peace out. Since my income had plummeted so much, I was instead pulling 8 each per month, and my 69 year Westernization occurred in only 15 years (it slowed down again when they finally peaced out, but I leapt decades ahead). As Ming you can also control things a bit with the factions, and intentionally screwing up your trade to avoid income.
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Yes, isolating your country to trade is the historical way to modernize.
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Sindai posted:Guess who got promoted to EU4 project lead? I havent led a project for a long time.. Just suitshit these days.. And eu4 design / code cause its fun. Think v2 was last i was doing any lead job on.. Since the besuchov did sengoku & eu4. Doomdark ck2, birken did mote, and podcat hoi4..
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pdxjohan posted:I havent led a project for a long time.. Just suitshit these days.. And eu4 design / code cause its fun. Is it because you've been working on Rome 2 all that time? It's ok, you can tell us.
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ZearothK posted:Yes, isolating your country to trade is the historical way to modernize. Ideally, I'd love to see it where trade affects tech speed and/or westernization, and tech groups just get dropped out entirely. I'm not sure how the math would actually work, but the whole idea being, the more regions of trade that you have flowing into nodes that you have a working merchant, the more ideas you're exposed to. That should still end up with the same relative tech speeds we have now, but at least makes it a bit more flexible (especially if my holy grail wish of bidirectional/reversable trade nodes ever occur).
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quote:well with the lack of transport aircraft and everything else, i can honestly say that i am not surpriced as it seems paradox are willingly dumbing down the game
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Hearts of Iron: Black Ops 2: The Fall of Reach
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So I abandoned the Serbia game I posted about earlier. My main mistake was getting to Great Power status too early. That made it difficult to find allies, and Serbia definitely need allies - even after some more expansion I simply could not raise enough soldiers to defend my territory. So, new game time. This time I will avoid Great Power status and attempt to abuse alliances. Wisdom of Falcon Redux   Almost right away I get really lucky. An event fires which moves me into the Russian sphere, which allows me to ally with them. Unfortunately Prussia allied with the Ottomans or I could have had the Russians conquer all my cores for me right away. As it is I will have to wait. (Note: it is possible to get an alliance with the Ottomans on day 1 but they are not very useful as allies)  I will have to do quite a bit of waiting since Europe is a mess of alliances. I use the Flashpoint Tension NF but no luck with it, I get a few crises but they never go to war. Note how I haven't expanded, but quintupled my starting population! And look at that income! How did I do this?  Russia is really helpful in colonial conquests as it turns out. Fun fact: Russia would hold on to southern Persia and later colonize east Africa from there. This is a huge deal, and really what made this playthrough possible. Persia is a lot richer and more densely populated than Serbia, with Persia I was able to get both the manpower and funds for a proper army.  At one point the Ottomans removed me from Russia's sphere. This was not a huge deal as it meant I made a lot more from tariffs and I was able to ally the Austrians and beat up the Ottomans while the Russians and Germans were fighting over something else. All my cores reclaimed from the Ottomans!  I also tidied up the borders in Persia. Behold the Srb Empire!  I eventually re-allied the Russians just in time for the Brother's War. Austria had no chance against the combined forces of NGF, Russia, and Serbia. I ended up adding Croatia as a wargoal for the full infamy cost, definitely worth it. I now control all of Serbia's cores, next step will be forming Yugoslavia.  Russia sphered the Ottomans so I had to do some trickery where I temporarily went to war against them to leave their sphere so I could declare on the Ottomans for Montenegro. The Netherland intervened on the Ottomans side but I managed to beat them by the old tactic of baiting the AI with a weak stack in a mountain with reinforcements nearby. Austria declared war on me right afterwards, but luckily I was back in the Russian sphere by then and they conquered Dalmatia for me. With that, I had enough to form Yugoslavia.    the clay is returnedI expect I will take some more lands from AH and get to GP status by 1900.
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I had no clue so many paradox people are goons but after reading some of the paradox forum for the first time the other day I get why
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Morholt posted:
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ZearothK posted:Beautiful. I love it.
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Liking these bite-sized LPs.
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Morholt posted:
Tito looks upon your endeavours with a tear of happiness in his eye, but you have not yet liberated the Slovenians, comrade!
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Was going to ask. The year is 1848 in my US game. I was about to attack Mexico when I got the 'Do you want all of Columbia from the British?' event. Now I can easily get into a scrap with Mexico but with acceptance to that earlier event, Britain tends to gang up on me. Would mobilizing my army the British off trying to attack me, while I deal with Mexico?
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Morholt posted:
I am utterly shocked by the shameless gap between Yugoslav Persia and Yugoslavia proper. When Great Wars roll around, you absolutely must make Yugoslavia's borders contiguous by declaring war on the Ottomans! Remove kebab!
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SkySteak posted:Was going to ask. The year is 1848 in my US game. I was about to attack Mexico when I got the 'Do you want all of Columbia from the British?' event. Now I can easily get into a scrap with Mexico but with acceptance to that earlier event, Britain tends to gang up on me. Would mobilizing my army the British off trying to attack me, while I deal with Mexico? You should have enough pops from all the immigrants to beat Britain by mobilizing. You're gonna have to sooner or later, best do it now.
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