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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Didn't they? I don't hear people bitching about it anymore. Not really. Morons on the Paradox forums routinely bitch about Paper-, Bird-, and Sword Mana. Often while complaining about La Baguette. It's great, because it immediately tips you off to which posts can be safely ignored.
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Gort posted:Don't spend IC upgrading units unless you really have NOTHING else to do with it. More units will almost always trump better upgraded ones due to a number of combat mechanics. The thing is I didn't. And my 1926 and 1931 infantry are being cut to ribbons when going on the offensive against French troops.
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Randarkman posted:The thing is I didn't. And my 1926 and 1931 infantry are being cut to ribbons when going on the offensive against French troops. Yeah, the "don't upgrade, build more units" has one serious caveat, and that is "EXCEPT when you're talking about the troops from the Re-activate the Wehrmacht event because holy poo poo".
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A Buttery Pastry posted:It would certainly have to be more built up by that point I think than it was historically, otherwise it doesn't seem particularly plausible that the French kings wouldn't just gently caress off to the court of some other European king until things could get back under control. It's not exactly like the king of Portugal fleeing his minor state to live in a colony that's about equal to the mother country. Plus just imagine telling the French king that he should flee the most magnificent court in Europe and go live in a swamp. Still, that would offer the possibility of a Revolutionary Canada vs. Absolutist Louisiana, with the US trapped in the middle, horrified at the politics on display, which would not be the worst thing. Mods??? MODS?!?!?!?!?! oystertoadfish posted:edit: although i suppose they would've headed back to paris in 1815 or whenever napoleon gets beaten in that scenario - but after a generation of slave-holding, how well would they have integrated back into metropolitan french society? might've been interesting. the portuguese court spent a generation in a slave-holding colony - i wonder if that was part of why dom pedro felt alienated from portugal after growing up in brazil, and ended up choosing the latter over the former? so the bourbons going to st-domingue would've been quite a direct parallel to the historic experience of the braganzas in brazil, i suspect The idea was that Brazil's independence was basically guaranteed for quite a while and the monarchy spent as much time there as they did to make sure that when they left Pedro could maintain Brazil in a state that while independent would still be as friendly as possible to Portugal. Gort posted:Don't spend IC upgrading units unless you really have NOTHING else to do with it. More units will almost always trump better upgraded ones due to a number of combat mechanics.
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Mans posted:Mods??? MODS?!?!?!?!?!
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:I think it's possible too, but it would take a lot of narrative in a video game to get people to that world. This is why I'm like the only person in the world I guess who doesn't really like KaiserReich. It takes a simple idea (Germany wins WWI) and throws so much additional speculation and narrative on to it and then once the game starts keeps spamming even more that at no point do you feel like you can casually get on top of the story. I think it's a strength of KR that it doesn't just try to interpret what could have happened as a result of its point of divergence, but inserts a couple of points of divergence after that and consistently takes the paths that would result in more potential conflict. There's really no reason that the Indian subcontinent should be divided up between the three states, except that it'll give the player an interesting scenario to declare war over. It's like if you were going to write a Harpoon scenario about as US carrier battle group facing down a combined Chinese+Vietnamese navy off the coast of Madagascar. Who cares how wildly improbable it'd be even if it was being written by Tom Clancy himself? The important thing is that it facilitates cool and interesting gameplay.
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Sep 22, 2015 12:27
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Portugal IS a small country. 
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One of the most shameful parts of decolonisation: Portugal saved up all that admin power to make Goa a core and it was all wasted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_annexation_of_Goa
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I just noticed the Paradox forums changed the "disagree" button to "respectfully disagree."
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Mans posted:Portugal IS NOT a small country, stop trolling. I respectfully disagree with this post
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Sep 22, 2015 17:10
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Mans posted:Portugal IS NOT a small country, stop trolling. 
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Sep 22, 2015 17:49
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You forgot to randomly colour in seas and lakes
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Enjoy posted:You forgot to randomly colour in seas and lakes
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Mans posted:Portugal IS NOT a small country, stop trolling. I'd like to see Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa et al overlaid on top of that map. Or the entirety of Russia. Or even the French colonial possessions at the time.
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Mans posted:Portugal IS NOT a small country, stop trolling. Now do one but for the British Empire.
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Where did Africa go? Also, after 2300 hours played, I finally did a WC in EU IV. Did it with France, but I didn't even get the big blue blob achievement.
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vyelkin posted:Now do one but for the British Empire. Or Russia.
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Struensee posted:Where did Africa go?
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Tomn posted:I'd like to see Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa et al overlaid on top of that map. Those were colonies, conquered with blood and steel. Timor was as Portuguese as Lisbon. Where the hell is Salazar's HoI4 portrait, Darkrenown? The world awaits!
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Alchenar posted:One of the most shameful parts of decolonisation: Portugal saved up all that admin power to make Goa a core and it was all wasted Really interesting and surprisingly detailed wiki page. Knew Portugal didn't still own Goa but not how it happened. Thanks for posting.
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Gort posted:Or Russia. https://youtu.be/BXqKkYYALMU
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Felix is the name of a cat food so you know this dude must be nice and friendly 
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So I just beat Russia and i've taken England and its 1943. Does the USA ever attack if you've already taken England?
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By 44 they'll start preparing amphibious invasions but it's really up to the AI gods if that means Normandies or hopeless infantry raids.
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Affi posted:So I just beat Russia and i've taken England and its 1943. Happens to me really often. I always ship a ton of garrison units to Britain to man all of the beaches just in case, then I release England/Scotland/Wales as puppets. England itself will get around like 60 IC I think and is more than capable of defending its shores after they've been on their own for about a year, freeing up your troops for more fighting elsewhere.
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HoI 4 Forum getting a big glut of weirdo German Nationalists since yesterday. It's very cool.
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any "good" posts to share
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If they're still up when I get home from work I'll try and share, but one guy is vehemently defending Germany as basically a non-aggressor in any part of WW2, and someone else is asking if the game will model German soldiers being, well, just plain better than those other nations' soldiers.
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:If they're still up when I get home from work I'll try and share, but one guy is vehemently defending Germany as basically a non-aggressor in any part of WW2, and someone else is asking if the game will model German soldiers being, well, just plain better than those other nations' soldiers. I've actually just reached the point in Beevor's book on the Battle of the Bulge where Eisenhower complains "how is it that our attacks always slow down to a crawl, but the Germans throw two divisions at us and suddenly they're breaking through our lines everywhere?"
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Well, the top thread is "Invading the US" and the OP's post starts off like this :quote:Will there be decisions and events for doing this? "Oligarchic lying govt" 
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Wehraboos are the worst part about segments of Paradox's fanbase. Just slightly worse than Balkan nationalists.
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BillBear posted:Well, the top thread is "Invading the US" and the OP's post starts off like this : That thread is amazing. "Look, all the Axis needs to do is to conquer all of Eurasia and then spend half a decade or more building war armaments in order to successfully invade the United States, it's PERFECTLY feasible!"
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Mans posted:By 44 they'll start preparing amphibious invasions but it's really up to the AI gods if that means Normandies or hopeless infantry raids. No. I mean they havnt joined the war yet. Pearl harbour happened and they are at war with Japan. But they are at peace with me. My game was weird though. 1933 start and England basically had no fleet. the soviets had a fully modern army and an insane airforce.
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Affi posted:No. I mean they havnt joined the war yet. Pearl harbour happened and they are at war with Japan. But they are at peace with me. 33 start is broken.
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Is the World In Flames II mod any good for DH? I've wanted to do a campaign as the USA for some time and heard WIF II gives America tons of flavor and ups the challenge somewhat.
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BillBear posted:Well, the top thread is "Invading the US" and the OP's post starts off like this : Yeah that dude owns for craziness.
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Alchenar posted:I've actually just reached the point in Beevor's book on the Battle of the Bulge where Eisenhower complains "how is it that our attacks always slow down to a crawl, but the Germans throw two divisions at us and suddenly they're breaking through our lines everywhere?" I think Patton, during the battle of the Bulge, argued for simply opening the lines and letting the Germans through. Let them drive all the way to Paris with their couple of mobile divisions for all the good it will do them.
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:Yeah that dude owns for craziness.  Furiously masturbating Neo-Nazi posted:It's only gamey if the proper conditions such as elimination of all other threats and total naval and air domination over the coastlines of the US aren't met.   This guy is hilarious.
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At this rate, the Paradox forums are going to end up on SPLC's list of hate groups. Jesus Christ dude, at least make an effort at being crypto about it.
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Seems like the guy who made a pretty long post about why Germany invading the US is total bonkers didn't get many buyers. I mean you should still be able to attempt it in game. But there's no way in hell it shouldn't be really hard to do much more than say you managed to at least land a force before it was cut off and destroyed. e: The Kaiser had the military plans to invade the US east Coast in order to force the Americans to the bargaining table regarding European involvement in the Carribean and South America. Despite Kaiser Wilhelm being pretty enthusiastic about it, his military brass seem to have been of the opinion that it was certain to end in utter defeat and ruin, especially as the plan basically required the Germans to first conquer Cuba to act as a base, as if that would make the whole thing easier. Randarkman fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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