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 That's quite a while to have to wait to be able to declare war after a refused ultimatum. I should perhaps just have made an event for it, oh well gives me time to gather the Canadian military and bring them to Britain. Also the Germans are super vulnerable, I bet I can have the PSA and Australasia basically pick up their entire pacific empire without encountering much resistance. Before I launch the next phase of the second Weltkrieg and plunge the world into a pool of blood I figured I'd screenshot the casualty tables so far as I quite like that DH actually displays this, gives you a sense of how brutal wars have been even if you haven't been directly involved in most of them.   EDIT:   
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Oct 12, 2014 12:44
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 On the topic of DH, how are you supposed to handle all the micromanagement when you're running a large empire like the UK or Germany? Is it just a matter of slower speeds and pausing constantly?
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Oct 12, 2014 13:07
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ThePutty posted:
I usually play wars at Fast and pause a whole lot. It also helps to watch the first few hours of a battle closely. If you make progress in your attack, you're probably gonna win it unless the enemy bombs you or gets reinforcements. Likewise, if the defender makes progress you have to attack with more dudes, get to ORG bombing or retreat.
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Oct 12, 2014 13:20
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ThePutty posted:
Generally speaking for those games I run a high speed with it set to pause whenever anything that requires my input happens.
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Oct 12, 2014 13:33
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So it appears that Germany is essentially completely unable to do anything to me because of my naval superiority and lack of land borders. The question I'm asking myself now though is: is this the right time to invade? I'm thinking I would essentially do an alt-history Operation Overlord invading the Grand Duchies of Britanny and Normandy since they are almost completely defenseless and don't appear to have German garrisons. Here is a picture of the situation, you can see the forces at my disposal here. That's 15 Canadian divisions, 11 British and 35 American, I also have some marine divisions lurking about in the Atlantic taking islands from Castille. Canadian and British divisions are armor, mec and mot, Americans are all infantry. Could this be enough? I could again possibly bring over 20-40 new divisions from America, especially since i have not taken control of the PSA military yet. Here is the intel I have on Germany.  Also due to me losing my nuclear research I did as Canada they are much further along with regards to getting nukes than I am. And that could turn out to be kind of bad.. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 13:45
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I'd try and work on allies at this point, you'll get swarmed and destroyed if you put everything in Brittany.
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Oct 12, 2014 13:59
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GrossMurpel posted:I think that happens when the USA is winning, i.e. you have to deal with it every time you try to win the Civil War as them. It fires when the AUS are losing, but Reed almost never agrees to it. On the rare occasions when he does, it almost certainly spells doom for the Federal Government and results in a Cold War between the AUS and CSA.
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Oct 12, 2014 15:35
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Small aside: In my Austria > Danubian Federation game UoB declared war on Ireland but they're not really doing anything, the same thing happens every time Sweden and Norway declare war on each other. Canada also never seems to invade UoB without my intervention. I'm thinking of teaming up with the Entente for exactly this reason!
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Oct 12, 2014 15:46
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Randarkman posted:So it appears that Germany is essentially completely unable to do anything to me because of my naval superiority and lack of land borders. The question I'm asking myself now though is: is this the right time to invade? Put troops ashore in Castile and any other low-tech low-infrastructure bad-terrain places you can find. Force the Germans to spread out to confront multiple landings, then pick and choose where to defeat them in detail. Keep tac bombers on logistic bombing to mess with supply and movement. Also, strat bombers.
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Oct 12, 2014 15:52
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Mister Adequate posted:It fires when the AUS are losing, but Reed almost never agrees to it. On the rare occasions when he does, it almost certainly spells doom for the Federal Government and results in a Cold War between the AUS and CSA. How does it result in a cold war when literally the moment the USA is annexed an event fires to force war between the CSA and AUS?
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Oct 12, 2014 15:52
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Not to derail from KR-chat, but I found a pretty fantastic (though probably fake) pair of posts on the EU4 forums -truth666 posted:Culturally, both islam and the semi-asian orthodox countries were traditionally west-hater civilizations. Hungary is a Central European country, and part of the Catholic-Protestant western civilization. Hungary is not Eastern European (Orthodox = semi-asian culture) country. 
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Oct 12, 2014 16:21
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quote:Ottoman Empire was poor and backward country like the balkans. Half of the population of modern Turkey were nomads until the 17th century. This guy's a loving goldmine!
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Oct 12, 2014 16:37
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Ah I thought point three was him arguing western civilization invented the concept of an economy. Also I am pretty sure Hungary never had a constitution or anything close really.
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Oct 12, 2014 16:52
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Oh Kaisarreich....   Anyway, now that I've liberated the UK as Canada, do any more events fire for major wars (currently it's 1942). Germany steamrollered France and now with Britain out of the picture, seems like Europe will be pretty quiet for the rest of the game unless I force a war.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:03
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CharlestheHammer posted:Also I am pretty sure Hungary never had a constitution or anything close really. They had and have the Holy Crown, they need nothing more.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:13
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Oh Kaisarreich.... Britain will at some point (after the election if it wasn't cancelled) try to re-assert its dominance over Ireland especially if its ruled by the military or the National Party and to a somewhat lesser extent the Conservative Party. Ireland will usually refuse their demands and this will cause Britain, if any of the above are ruling, to declare war on Ireland, that should cause a war with Germany as they are almost certainly guarenteeing their independence.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:14
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KR chat prompted me to play a Union of Britain game. However, when Alsace-Lorraine or War! rolled around, France decided that their "new weapons are not ready yet" so now it's 1941 and I fear Germany's IC advantage over France will become too much, and they'll steamroll through Paris before I can safely establish garrisons in Normandy, wait for France to fall and then begin reconquering and reestablishing France as my own puppet Should I just keep waiting, or force a war by declaring war on Germany myself?
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Oct 12, 2014 17:31
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Ofaloaf posted:KR chat prompted me to play a Union of Britain game. However, when Alsace-Lorraine or War! rolled around, France decided that their "new weapons are not ready yet" so now it's 1941 and I fear Germany's IC advantage over France will become too much, and they'll steamroll through Paris before I can safely establish garrisons in Normandy, wait for France to fall and then begin reconquering and reestablishing France as my own puppet Force it. France gets poo poo on if they wait because they're too retarded to use their nukes properly.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:36
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brocretin posted:Not to derail from KR-chat, but I found a pretty fantastic (though probably fake) pair of posts on the EU4 forums - These were beautiful.
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Oct 12, 2014 17:42
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My first attempt at Russia had Germany steamroll France in a few months and the Federal Government handily win the American Civil War. Wound up with a democratic Russia that was supposed to try to expand in Central Asia, but after I took the first country (modern day Kazakstan) things seemed to stall. I had a core on the further south Central Asia nations but couldn't declare war and there didn't seem to be any more events. My second attempt had me go Communist and France crushed Germany so fast that I had to launch a hasty war to seize the Ukraine before they turned it into a puppet. It's only late 1938 early 1939 and France owns most of Europe as released puppets. They literally blitzed right up through the Baltic States and were entering Ukraine before I managed to grab (most) of it. Reds seem to be winning the wars in Spain and America too, so I guess this is going to be a red world. I guess I can go beat up on some minors or something. I dunno.
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Oct 12, 2014 18:53
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Fintilgin posted:I dunno. Go west, young man. Bring Totalism to the degenerate Syndies.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:04
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Any hints on how to learn how to play DH? I kinda want to try Kaiserreich now.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:05
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I've got an issue with he Steam version of Victoria 2: Whenever I try to run it, Steam crashes. I've had look for solutions, but nothing seems to work and, as far as I can tell, this only affects Vicky 2. Any ideas?
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Oct 12, 2014 19:25
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MorphineMike posted:I've got an issue with he Steam version of Victoria 2: Whenever I try to run it, Steam crashes. I've had look for solutions, but nothing seems to work and, as far as I can tell, this only affects Vicky 2. Any ideas? Have you cleared the map cache? I can't remember whether it's C:\My Docs\Paradox Interactive\Victoria II\map\cache or C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Victoria 2\map\cache , but no harm in clearing both I don't think.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:26
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Mister Adequate posted:It fires when the AUS are losing, but Reed almost never agrees to it. On the rare occasions when he does, it almost certainly spells doom for the Federal Government and results in a Cold War between the AUS and CSA. I've seen it fire a bunch of times, then days later it breaks before they've had time to do anything. Go figure.
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Oct 12, 2014 19:27
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Autonomous Monster posted:Go west, young man. Bring Totalism to the degenerate Syndies. But aren't we supposed to be Commu-Buddies?  Also, I like the country ~roleplay~ aspects, but I feel like I keep running into things like this: quote:It's time to elect a new Prime Minister, this is a very important decision that will have long lasting effects on our country! Who should we choose? Then you sort of have to try to puzzle out what might happen by studying how the tooltips will shift your policies around.  
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Oct 12, 2014 20:03
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Fintilgin posted:But aren't we supposed to be Commu-Buddies? I usually save before those decisions and find out what the hell they do one at a time.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:11
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Also where the heck are decisions in HoI2 based games.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:22
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Gorelab posted:Also where the heck are decisions in HoI2 based games. Only DH has them, they're the second button in the top left between the list of all provinces you own button and the list all your armies button.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:23
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Only DH has them, they're the second button in the top left between the list of all provinces you own button and the list all your armies button. And most of the content in Kaiserreich predates them, not to mention scheduled elections don't really fit for them. The problem is that you can't access any menus or check anything when an event is sprung on you, so if you don't remember if any of those ministers are already in your cabinet or what they do, TOUGH CRAP.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:26
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Are there like any good places to read on like basic units and stuff I should be having in groups? I am kinda lost though I think I could probably make Germany get to the point where the Soviet Union pushes in my face.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:30
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Allyn posted:Have you cleared the map cache? I can't remember whether it's C:\My Docs\Paradox Interactive\Victoria II\map\cache or C:\Steam\SteamApps\common\Victoria 2\map\cache , but no harm in clearing both I don't think. Yep, cleared both. It's weird, it was running fine for a little bit then, despite me changing nothing, it just started crashing at the "Preparing to Launch Victoria 2..." screen E: I decided to retry it and now it works fine
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Oct 12, 2014 20:33
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Played a bit more in my KR game just now. I've been having a real phony war with Germany, no major battles occuring apart from a few naval clashes and air battles above Britain. Improving relations with potentially useful neutrals is slow since it seems most kind of dislike me, and I've all but given up getting the Soviets on my side, just getting them positive would require me to influence them every chance until summer 1944 or something. I did however get this event, and seized the opportunity and change of pace it granted me with glee.  Fast forward a week and Ireland is once again British, then I figure that if people don't want to ally me the diplomatic way I can invade their countries and take their IC and resources at least. I figured Norway would be easy and potentially useful as a naval and airbase so I cooked up some phony casus belli and invaded and subjugated the neutral country, purely because of security concerns mind you, a legitimate government will be set up once the situation that necessitated the invasion has passed.  This still isn't really getting me that much closer to an invasion of Germany, though I suspect this war will end in nuclear fire so I've started building a nuclear reactor to make sure it is Berlin that burns, if not alone then at least first. But then at the end of the year, guess who decides to press their territorial claims against Ukraine?  Yup. It's gonna be good. The Soviets are estimated to have around 200+ infantry divisions compared to around 100 for Germany and 50 for Ukraine and White Ruthenia together.
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Fintilgin posted:But aren't we supposed to be Commu-Buddies? It's a bit silly when all the difference it does is which Head of State you get and you don't know what each one does. If there's no "no immediate effect" notifer in the option, there probably won't be a followup event (I think one or two events are triggered by "event X has happened" instead of vice versa but that's it) E: ^^^^^^ Is it even possible to get someone to join your alliance in KR? I don't think I ever managed it outside of events. GrossMurpel fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Oct 12, 2014 |
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Oct 12, 2014 21:12
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GrossMurpel posted:E: ^^^^^^ Is it even possible to get someone to join your alliance in KR? I don't think I ever managed it outside of events. I remember earlier in that game that I had someone, might have been the United Provinces, with like ~10% chance to bring them into my alliance, though I might have been mistaken there, because I figured I wouldn't bother.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:18
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Gorelab posted:Any hints on how to learn how to play DH? I kinda want to try Kaiserreich now. I was bored and just recorded an hourlong intro video/very basic tutorial for DH: Kaiserreich. Would anyone be actually interested if I uploaded that to Youtube? Not as an actual longrunning LP, but as a general overview of Hearts of Iron and how it's different from other Paradox games like EU4 and CK2 that are maybe more accessible.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:26
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Drone posted:I was bored and just recorded an hourlong intro video/very basic tutorial for DH: Kaiserreich. Would anyone be actually interested if I uploaded that to Youtube? Not as an actual longrunning LP, but as a general overview of Hearts of Iron and how it's different from other Paradox games like EU4 and CK2 that are maybe more accessible. Yes? I tried DH but bounced right off it.
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Oct 12, 2014 21:48
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Go for it, it may even get some more people interested!
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Oct 12, 2014 21:54
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I would watch it so yes, imo 
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 So, now China's involved as well. This is not gonna end well. EDIT: I'm also well underway with an invasion of Europe, France will hopefully soon be liberated. After the Soviets attacked I waited 4 months until April and then launched an attack thinking, correctly that most of the German army would be engaged in the east, this is less than 3 weeks into the invasion. 
Randarkman fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Oct 13, 2014 |
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