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Last Emperor posted:So what's the hard and fast rule of avoiding fort bugginess at the moment? Delete all of your forts, siege all of their forts. Create a world with no forts.
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Any nice youtubers playing cossacks? I usualy like Arumba, but he is just playing one boring horde world conquest game right now. I usually like small and hard starts and weird stuff like moving continents and forming nations with strange nations.
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Dec 11, 2015 20:20
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Will I receive the Ideas guy achievement even if I use less than the eight hundred points? Getting real tired of trying to reach the full eight hundred points in the custom country creator
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Dec 11, 2015 20:25
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skipThings posted:Will I receive the Ideas guy achievement even if I use less than the eight hundred points? Getting real tired of trying to reach the full eight hundred points in the custom country creator You should do, yeah. You can double check immediately after starting now they've added the achievements screen in-game: if it shows up you're eligible, if it doesn't then you're not eligible and can just exit immediately
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Dec 11, 2015 20:52
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DeeEmTee posted:Steppe hordes get a 25% bonus to shock damage on friendly (owned?) steppe provinces. So what you do is build as many infantry as they have total units in their front line and then fill as much of your combat width as you can with horsemen for flanking bonuses which lets you completely stomp most armies. If you do this you'll just end up with with all your infantry getting shredded on the front line, while only four of your cavalry regiments actually fight, and the rest will be sitting in the back row or dancing on the sidelines doing nothing. What you want, as a steppe horde, is armies comprised of nothing but cavalry (and later artillery), because you don't suffer a tactics penalty for it like other tech groups do. Infantry as a steppe horde is almost always a waste of manpower, except for sieges.
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Dec 11, 2015 21:05
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Just formed Germany as TO->Prussia, I'm the biggest empire in Europe and have the awesome claims that I should be able to grab over the next 30-50 years. It's before 1700. Any ideas for goals more interesting/cool than "lebensraum the gently caress out of Europe with ridiculous space marine soldiers"?
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Dec 11, 2015 21:11
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Guildencrantz posted:Just formed Germany as TO->Prussia, I'm the biggest empire in Europe and have the awesome claims that I should be able to grab over the next 30-50 years. It's before 1700. Any ideas for goals more interesting/cool than "lebensraum the gently caress out of Europe with ridiculous space marine soldiers"? Lebensraum the gently caress out of China.
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Dec 11, 2015 21:12
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Conquer land in the shape of a dick.
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Dec 11, 2015 21:22
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My glorious King Carlos of the United States, you have finally overthrown our oppressive Spanish overlords. Then, through your diplomatic acumen you secured the throne of Louisiana as well. What is the next step for our nation? Have your heard of the mystical land of Japan? Yes, the secluded kingdom of the distant Orient. What of it? We shall make it ours.  I have no idea what went through the USA's mind here. The don't even have a port on the Pacific Ocean!
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Dec 11, 2015 21:27
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Can you get the achievements like "get 200 provinces" and "get 1000 provinces" while playing with a custom nation? Doing Ideas Guy now and it's super fun.
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Dec 11, 2015 21:36
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Fister Roboto posted:If you do this you'll just end up with with all your infantry getting shredded on the front line, while only four of your cavalry regiments actually fight, and the rest will be sitting in the back row or dancing on the sidelines doing nothing. What you want, as a steppe horde, is armies comprised of nothing but cavalry (and later artillery), because you don't suffer a tactics penalty for it like other tech groups do. Infantry as a steppe horde is almost always a waste of manpower, except for sieges. Yeah except we're talking about the early part of the game in which you can afford like 6 cavalry rofl
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Dec 11, 2015 21:55
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KoldPT posted:Can you get the achievements like "get 200 provinces" and "get 1000 provinces" while playing with a custom nation? Doing Ideas Guy now and it's super fun. don't think so, it should show if you're eligible in the achievements browser
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Dec 11, 2015 21:56
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Just started up my first non-cheat game as Theodoro, got lucky and jumped on Crimea the moment they attacked Golden Horde and took Crimea (the province), and just expanded from there. Genoa ceased to be a problem once they left the HRE so I ousted them too. Now I've started taking over the entirety of the Caucasian mountains, bumping up against the Ottomans, who got mauled by Venice, Persia, who is my main threat, Lithuania, and the Golden Horde, who is weak as crap but also has worthless land so no point in conquering them since I stripped Astrakhan from them. What happens when Cossacks get over 80 influence anyways? And what do they do for provinces?
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Dec 11, 2015 22:00
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Last Emperor posted:So what's the hard and fast rule of avoiding fort bugginess at the moment? For an actual answer: Forts now allow you to move inside their ZoC, but you can't go "through" them and if you want to leave the ZoC you have to do it through the same province that you came in from. There's still a bit of weirdness sometimes when 2-3 forts are right next to each other, but for the most part it works about how you'd expect. Just always be wary when you step "inside" a ZoC that you might not be able to just jump back out or have to take a weird detour and try to plan accordingly. Sistergodiva posted:Any nice youtubers playing cossacks? I usualy like Arumba, but he is just playing one boring horde world conquest game right now. I usually like small and hard starts and weird stuff like moving continents and forming nations with strange nations. DDRJake actually works for Paradox as a tester and does a ton of weird/goofy campaigns and achievement runs. Right now he's doing a run going for The Third Way (convert all Islamic provinces to Ibadi) as Mzab, before that he played as Aq Qoyunlu and got into a 40 year war with the Ottomans. Because he actually works on the game he knows pretty much every weird mechanic and often shows off fun tricks/bugs/exploits, and you can learn quite a bit if you're a moderately experienced player. https://www.youtube.com/user/DDRJake/playlists KoldPT posted:Can you get the achievements like "get 200 provinces" and "get 1000 provinces" while playing with a custom nation? Doing Ideas Guy now and it's super fun. No only the custom nation achievements are possible with custom nations unfortunately. It makes sense because being able to just plop down a country anywhere and give it almost any combination of bonuses would make a lot of achievements fairly trivial. Also yeah Hordes are really fun now. Even with only a 50 point Zoroastrian Horde (going for Rags to Riches and the Rekindling the Fire achievements) my biggest setback so far is just waiting for my lands to convert so that my new provinces stop constantly revolting. Being able to save a bunch of points by starting with a 0/0/0 ruler and just getting all my monarch points from razing is pretty fun. I mean I still made him a general and killed him ASAP, but it wasn't nearly as brutal as I thought it'd be. VDay fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Dec 11, 2015 22:07
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KoldPT posted:Can you get the achievements like "get 200 provinces" and "get 1000 provinces" while playing with a custom nation? Doing Ideas Guy now and it's super fun. Nope! The little trophy insignia by the pause button will tell you what you're still eligible for this game.
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Dec 11, 2015 22:11
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Fister Roboto posted:If you do this you'll just end up with with all your infantry getting shredded on the front line, while only four of your cavalry regiments actually fight, and the rest will be sitting in the back row or dancing on the sidelines doing nothing. What you want, as a steppe horde, is armies comprised of nothing but cavalry (and later artillery), because you don't suffer a tactics penalty for it like other tech groups do. Infantry as a steppe horde is almost always a waste of manpower, except for sieges. To add to this: cavalry are much stronger than infantry in the early game because their shock modifier and the pips on the unit are a lot larger. I think it's miltech 8 when you get the x2 shock bonus for cavalry and if you can get there before Ming you should absolutely destroy their armies once you lure them into your steppes. With the tribal conquest cb you can rack up warscore through punching Ming in the face and then siege down one or two forts and take as much land as you can. You'll probably want to destroy most of the forts you get after unrest dies down to a manageable level because there's no way you'll be able to afford them.
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Dec 11, 2015 22:39
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Novgorod start is surprisingly tough for being a pretty solid power, because Muscovy (and because of a total lack of useful allies).
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Dec 11, 2015 22:44
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I'm about 100 years into a Venice game and the Ottomans are just unstoppable. They've eaten Serbia and Wallachia outright and then they declared war on me. Despite my alliances with Austria-Hungary (they're PU'd) and super-Savoy (they ate Genoa), they still win every battle effortlessly despite being outnumbered 1.5:1. I'm assuming this is because of their national ideas and the Janissaries. Is there anything I can do to hold off the Ottoman hordes once they get going? I didn't really bother with them much in the early game.
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Dec 11, 2015 22:48
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Buryatia's gold mine is a gold mine though tbh.
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Dec 11, 2015 22:49
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The one thing that really needs to be fixed with Estates: the fact that various loyalty/influence events often don't give the actual bonus they say they will. It's either some bug where previous event bonuses/maluses are being knocked off when the new bonus/malus gets applied, or the game's doing that on purpose and just not surfacing that math in the event decisions. Either way it leads to misleading decisions where a +/-10 influence event actually gives +/-20, making it harder to micromanage a high influence.
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Dec 11, 2015 23:20
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DeeEmTee posted:Steppe hordes get a 25% bonus to shock damage on friendly (owned?) steppe provinces. So what you do is build as many infantry as they have total units in their front line and then fill as much of your combat width as you can with horsemen for flanking bonuses which lets you completely stomp most armies. It's completely worth it to go into debt to break a big nation because they will almost always go into more debt due to your units not costing anything to reinforce. Really dumb question here but how do you find out what units go in the front line and combat width? Is it displayed anywhere?
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Dec 11, 2015 23:28
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Novgorod start is surprisingly tough for being a pretty solid power, because Muscovy (and because of a total lack of useful allies). I just got frozen assets earlier. You need Poland to PU Lith and to be able to rival the Teutonic Order. It might take some restarts. Poland has a habit of breaking itself against the Teutons now though so it's not even a sure thing. Livonia and the Teutons will probably ally so claim Livonia or take a mission against them. Call Poland in since Livonia probably won't ally Bohemia or anyone else strong enough to make a difference like the TO can. If Poland strikes first just try to help win. Muscovy will probably be wearing themselves out on the hordes in the mean time so attack them when they're fighting one. Muscovy can still put up a good fight even against Novgorod, Lithuania and Poland and a horde at the same time but with mercenaries you should be able to grind them down eventually. Once they're out of the way Novgorod doesn't have any real threats as long as you stay good with the PLC.  Got it in 1612. Took trade-expansion-plutocratic-exploration. Build manufactories everywhere and production development. It helped that for some reason the PLC wasn't contesting trade from Kiev and letting 100% of it flow north even though by then we were rivals. Trujillo fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Dec 11, 2015 23:39
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VDay posted:a 40 year war with the Ottomans How do you even deal with the war exhaustion and call for peace 
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Dec 11, 2015 23:46
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DeeEmTee posted:Yeah except we're talking about the early part of the game in which you can afford like 6 cavalry rofl If you can't afford enough cavalry, you're not looting enough, or giving enough land to your tribes.
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Dec 11, 2015 23:47
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Why would you use infantry even for sieges? The reason you usually do that is reinforcing infantry is cheaper... but, you know, since hordes get free reinforcements, that's pointless. Just never make infantry.
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Dec 11, 2015 23:53
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az posted:How do you even deal with the war exhaustion and call for peace He was down to -91% warscore for a while there, but he used that as an opportunity to show how the enemy can't send you negative stab peace offers if your own rebels took any land they occupied. He eventually won but he wasn't quick enough to grab istanbul.
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Dec 11, 2015 23:57
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GreyPowerVan posted:Why would you use infantry even for sieges? The reason you usually do that is reinforcing infantry is cheaper... but, you know, since hordes get free reinforcements, that's pointless. Just never make infantry. Well, if all you can afford is 6 cavalry like DeeEmTee suggests, you can't siege a capital province which has a castle in it.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:16
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az posted:How do you even deal with the war exhaustion and call for peace By not winning. No call for peace if you don't have a positive warscore.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:19
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Trujillo posted:I just got frozen assets earlier. You need Poland to PU Lith and to be able to rival the Teutonic Order. It might take some restarts. Poland has a habit of breaking itself against the Teutons now though so it's not even a sure thing. Livonia and the Teutons will probably ally so claim Livonia or take a mission against them. Call Poland in since Livonia probably won't ally Bohemia or anyone else strong enough to make a difference like the TO can. If Poland strikes first just try to help win. Muscovy will probably be wearing themselves out on the hordes in the mean time so attack them when they're fighting one. Muscovy can still put up a good fight even against Novgorod, Lithuania and Poland and a horde at the same time but with mercenaries you should be able to grind them down eventually. Once they're out of the way Novgorod doesn't have any real threats as long as you stay good with the PLC. After a couple tries I decided "ehh, Muscovy seems to like attacking Novgorod first, maybe I'll just try the Kazan achievement." Guess what happened. 
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Dec 12, 2015 00:49
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Are there any plans to revamp the ledger? I feel like it could really use some improvements in functionality and usability. I really miss being able to build things from it.
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Dec 12, 2015 00:57
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GreyPowerVan posted:Why would you use infantry even for sieges? The reason you usually do that is reinforcing infantry is cheaper... but, you know, since hordes get free reinforcements, that's pointless. Just never make infantry. You hire mercenary infantry so you rarely have to put your expansion on hold due to manpower.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:36
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Fintilgin posted:I've often thought fleets should work more like HoI airplanes. You give them a Home Port and set them a mission and it's carried out independently. You never manually move them province to province. There needs to be naval Interdiction in this game like there is in Hearts of Iron II.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:39
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Is there a way to add custom events to custom nations?
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Dec 12, 2015 03:43
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They have a tag if you look at debug mode, have you tried tying the events to that? You could do it by culture or whatever too.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:44
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DeeEmTee posted:You hire mercenary infantry so you rarely have to put your expansion on hold due to manpower. Hordes don't have to worry about manpower. Your Tribes provinces give so much manpower.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:48
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GreyPowerVan posted:Hordes don't have to worry about manpower. Your Tribes provinces give so much manpower. Dude again, we're talking about the early game here. Unless you're expanding slow as poo poo or into the easiest possible targets which is incredibly dumb your manpower goes low.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:57
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Any tips for Riga? Trying the take the whole baltic achivement, but having both musovy and poland gunning for your stuff and being unable to join the empire makes it hard. Also ideas? Trade was really good when I managed to get Danzig.
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Dec 12, 2015 03:58
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GreyPowerVan posted:Hordes don't have to worry about manpower. Your Tribes provinces give so much manpower. Yeah, this is wrong
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Dec 12, 2015 04:11
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I don't know about you guys but the fact that my cavalry armies kill armies twice their size while barely losing anything makes it where I don't have many problems with manpower, even earlygame. Maybe if you're not fighting in the steppes or get a bunch of lovely generals?
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Have all the various hotfixes recently fixed the save game deletion/corruption deal or is that still a thing?
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