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GSD posted:Did Lai Ang ever move its capital back to Europe from Zheng He Bay? Nope! So by this point I've just been interpreting it as the sultan and the old liberal government effectively being exiled to Avalon while the fascists run rampant on the mainland.
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Empress Theonora posted:Nope! So by this point I've just been interpreting it as the sultan and the old liberal government effectively being exiled to Avalon while the fascists run rampant on the mainland. The Wise and Mighty Sultanate of Zheng He Bay and Associated Colonies. Edit: if Zheng He Bay ends up as its own tag, I hope we can ally them.
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Feb 6, 2016 06:31
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It's always a good time in Sino-Spanish Massachusetts.
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For the German liberals, you could maybe use the flag of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold which was the paramilitary organisation of the SPD during the Weimar Republic in OTL: (Obviously without the name of the Reichsbanner) If you are going for the three-way Civil War, it would probably be a good idea if you spelled out which sides in society support which party, stuff like who has the support of the Union, where does the Church fall (I forget, did Germany stay orthodox, or did they go heretic?), things like that, so that the imagery can be a bit more distinct between the three.
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Feb 6, 2016 08:15
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Flagsperg: In OTL, the commonly-understood origin of the black-red-gold colors of the German tricolour (first used in 1848) come from: red for the Hanseatic League, and black/gold for the Habsburg monarchy (as they were considered a German empire and one of their own, Archduke Johann, was named regent of the 1848 pan-German state that never came to be). Unfortunately in this timeline, none of those things existed. But in reality who cares, they're all basic colors and who's to say they don't symbolize something else in this timeline.
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Drone posted:Flagsperg:   Black, for the black eagle of the Holy Roman Empire Gold, for the golden field upon which it flew Red, because a tricolor needs three colors EDIT: The Hansa briefly existed, too, but they were an ephemeral presence in CK2 that never really put a dent in Iceland's North Sea trade monopoly and not really important to German identity.
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Feb 6, 2016 20:12
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Welp, I got rocked. Keep the black-red-gold!
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Feb 6, 2016 20:24
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Red was just the favorite color of the person who designed the tricolor.
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Feb 6, 2016 20:28
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GSD posted:Red was just the favorite color of the person who designed the tricolor. Red stands for blood. Doesn't matter whose, really. Just "blood *shrug*"
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Here's the GER_republic.tga flag from ByzMod, incidentally: I guess it's just the same as the NGF one except without the three lions? We never saw it because although the NGF formed Germany never did. (Meanwhile I apparently forgot to replace any of PRU's flags besides the monarchy one, so if the Holy Roman Empire-- which used the PRU tag-- had become a republic, communist, or fascist state before they formed the NGF there would have been some wacky Prussian flag that made no sense.) EDIT: Let's just post all the German flags since I'm looking right at them. Some of them are still vanilla V2 flags, a few are by me, and the others are by people in the thread: Germany (GER) Republic: Monarchy:  Communist (ORIGINAL FLAG DO NOT STEAL)  Fascist:  The Holy Roman Empire (PRU) Monarchy:  Republic (Whoops!)  Communist (Whoops!)  Fascist (Whoops!)  The North German Federation (NGF) Monarchy ("The Habsburg Monarch" and then also later the flag of the North German republic because V2 is weird):  Republic (AKA Goethe's flag):  Communist (Müller's flag)  Fascist: 
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sorry to intrude, but what is a hiratine? V that's fantastic, thank you stephenfry fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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stephenfry posted:sorry to intrude, but what is a hiratine? Literally the Guillotine with a different name. In our timeline it was named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotine. In this it was invented by a member of the Hira family, though I'm not sure about the exact in-game date. I would like to think it was during Noor Sallajer's revolution though. EDIT: Found it! EDIT2: Ninja'd... still, url! Luhood fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Mar 7, 2016 |
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Luhood posted:Literally the Guillotine with a different name. In our timeline it was named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotine. In this it was invented by a member of the Hira family, though I'm not sure about the exact in-game date. I would like to think it was during Noor Sallajer's revolution though. It was invented late in the reign of Empress Yustina Yaroslavovich, back when the Roman Commonwealth was still pretty close to the Peak Enlightenment of Julia the Great. That post featured a number of user-submitted characters, including StrifeHira's Manto Hira: StrifeHira posted:
I was all like, hm, what sort of invention would an eighteenth century intellectual type who wants to defend the Enlightenment through the application of technology come up with? And then I was all like, Oh. The Byzantine Commune has phased out the death penalty for most crimes, but for those cases in which capital punishment is still mandated ("No man or woman shall conspire to restore the Roman Empire", etc.), the hiratine remains the preferred method. Byzantine communists always have had a soft spot for their liberal forebears.
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Empress Theonora posted:Byzantine communists always have had a soft spot for their liberal forebears. That's definitely an "as above so below" thing there
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I'm still just a bit touched that the ol' chopping device got my name attached to it. Rather grim, but I'm not complaining.
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Only 3 months until HOI4 is out! and another 3 until it's patched and modded to a playable level Also while I'm pointlessly bumping one thread, I might as well ask about another: is your norman game dead? I'm going through Rincewind LP withdrawals after reading this for a second time.
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Visceral Realism posted:Only 3 months until HOI4 is out! and another 3 until it's patched and modded to a playable level Because HoI is coming out so soon, it seems pretty pointless to continue NormanLP at this point. We wouldn't get very far in, and then like months to a year from now after getting through HoI IV and Stellaris I'd be going back to an ancient pre-Conclave CK2 save and it'd suck. And anyway now that HoI IV is "a few months" instead of "idk like a year???" away from release, an entire separate mega-campaign is just too big to think about. So I think it's dead for now, although probably after this LP finally ends it or an LP in a similar spirit will arise from the ashes. But there is some Rincewind LP™-brand content coming up! I'm using the time in between now and the HoI IV release to finish drawing all of the Great Power leader portraits and writing a massive proper State of the World for the V2 endgame, so that's some stuff that will be coming out between now and then.
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That makes perfect sense. Anyway, this LP is an absolute treasure!
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Empress Theonora posted:finish drawing all of the Great Power leader portraits Jesus Christ  Godspeed you crazy goon. That's what I call dedication.
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Empress Theonora posted:Because HoI is coming out so soon, it seems pretty pointless to continue NormanLP at this point. We wouldn't get very far in, and then like months to a year from now after getting through HoI IV and Stellaris I'd be going back to an ancient pre-Conclave CK2 save and it'd suck. And anyway now that HoI IV is "a few months" instead of "idk like a year???" away from release, an entire separate mega-campaign is just too big to think about. So I think it's dead for now, although probably after this LP finally ends it or an LP in a similar spirit will arise from the ashes. Wait.... when did your name change to Empress Theonora? I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Tbh I'm still going to say rincewind
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Mar 16, 2016 20:36
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she has conspired to restore the roman empire
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just between you and me, speaking out of character, rome is neat i guess i wouldn't be writing a whole LP about what it means to be "roman" if i didn't think so, though. 
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Empress Theonora posted:just between you and me, speaking out of character, rome is neat So... does that mean the Byzantines (did I spell that right?) have to execute you now? I can have moments of... eccentricity and sometimes be quite curious about things. Please forgive me if I do something foolish or rude.
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Stephen9001 posted:So... does that mean the Byzantines (did I spell that right?) have to execute you now? Nope, we just have to restore Rome.
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Actually, Rome is dumb.
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Don't worry, Valeria is bringing Rome back with a vengeance for us.
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GunnerJ posted:Actually, Rome is dumb. GothMod will save us from bad posts like this
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 AriadneThread posted:she has conspired to restore the roman empire
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I'm looking forward to Space-Rome in the Stellaris section of the LP. And then hopefully at the height of its power a civil war will break out and we'll be left with dozens of little Romes dotted around the Galaxy. Ensuring that everywhere you go there will be Rome.
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BwenGun posted:I'm looking forward to Space-Rome in the Stellaris section of the LP. And then hopefully at the height of its power a civil war will break out and we'll be left with dozens of little Romes dotted around the Galaxy. Ensuring that everywhere you go there will be Rome. So what you are saying is that wherever you home, that'll be rome?
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can't believe i got hiratined by own own dang thread
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Empress Theonora posted:can't believe i got hiratined by own own dang thread Live by the oppressive weapon of executing those with a dissenting opinions on Rome...   
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Empress Theonora posted:can't believe i got hiratined by own own dang thread hey, it happened to Robespierre
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AJ_Impy posted:Live by the oppressive weapon of executing those with a dissenting opinions on Rome... You know we're better than that, yes? In a just world, this would be the appropriate punishment:  And after that, it's off to a nunnery, of course.
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leave rose lalonde olone Actually, we really didn't put out too many people's eyes in our CK2 days, did we? I think we did it to, like, one doux the whole time through.
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the greatest missed opportunity stellaris looks pretty cool, i've kind of stayed away from paradox games, but i'm tempted to pick that one up depending on what the verdict is once it's out
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Ugh, German commies and the degenerate (Yaroslavovich? I don't remember) pretender to Throne of Caesars! How did such a world come to be? How did creatures like these come to be among the most powerful in the world? Bah! Two more wrongs for Valeria to right. OOC: Great work ET, really looking forward to the rest. I really like that expression on the Tsarina's face (and that they'd stick that loving trident on a globus cruciger of all things). Also, what kind of Republik is on Herr Syndie's document there?
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