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also i meant congress of vienna idk why i said westphalia which was similar but two centuries too early
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 18:57 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 23:51 |
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:also i meant congress of vienna idk why i said westphalia which was similar but two centuries too early
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 18:57 |
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I'd love for some well done mods that both extend the V3 timeline and roll back the start date. Give me an extra century.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:01 |
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I'm okay with them doing a single start date and just putting in the framework to allow modders to do the rest. It's a whole lot of effort with pretty much no return.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:09 |
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:romaniacs?
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:16 |
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Both CK3 and HOI4 have mods with entirely fictitious start/end dates, I see no reason why Victoria 3 would be limited where other games aren't. There's at least a few fantasy CK3 mods that use entirely different date systems, but I'm pretty sure they still use the Gregorian calendar, but I could be wrong.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:17 |
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they live in the water tower above the hagia sophia and are constantly getting on alex and annas nerves
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:33 |
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Anne Comnena's book is pretty funny because a lot of it is just her talking about how much she loving hates Western Europeans.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:39 |
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If you were a Kommenoi you would too
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:43 |
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Yeah she spent a lot of time either getting brutalized by the Norman’s or watching Western Europeans being insane assholes.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 19:46 |
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TwoQuestions posted:Both CK3 and HOI4 have mods with entirely fictitious start/end dates, I see no reason why Victoria 3 would be limited where other games aren't. There's at least a few fantasy CK3 mods that use entirely different date systems, but I'm pretty sure they still use the Gregorian calendar, but I could be wrong. The guy who made the Way of Kings mod seems to think it's not possible to use an entirely different calendar system. I think there's a little bit that can be done to change up the way the date is presented, but you can't do stuff like make years that are 500 days long or anything.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 20:24 |
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DaysBefore posted:Anne Comnena's book is pretty funny because a lot of it is just her talking about how much she loving hates Western Europeans. but she thinks the normans are pretty hot (if despicable) as i recall
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 20:56 |
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oh god the byzaboo chat has leaked into the thread
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 21:48 |
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Lady Radia posted:oh god the byzaboo chat has leaked into the thread
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 22:05 |
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It is Paradox. You cannot escape the byzaboos.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 22:21 |
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:The guy who made the Way of Kings mod seems to think it's not possible to use an entirely different calendar system. Yeah, I was working on a fantasy mod for CK3 too and ran into the same issue. You can rename months and change the format of the date, but the fundamental year structure is fixed.
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# ? Apr 25, 2022 22:26 |
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I wonder how much of CK3, V3 legacy will make it into EU5. At least, I feel like the journaling system will make EU5 more enjoyable to play but I imagine there'd be holdouts for mission trees.
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 01:11 |
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I wrote my Master's Thesis on Byzantium. The Byzaboo is posting from inside the thread.
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 04:36 |
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It’s fine Byzantium is insanely interesting and cool and should get talked about more outside exactly Justianian
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 14:06 |
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Ms Adequate posted:I wrote my Master's Thesis on Byzantium. I simply would have taken out thousands of ducats in loans, overbought mercenaries and galleys, allied Albania and routed the Ottomans at Constantinople: a rationalist's perspective on the 1453 Byzantine-Ottoman conflict, Adequate, M. 2021, The American Historical Review 122 (3) pp. 223-231
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 16:37 |
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Ms Adequate posted:I wrote my Master's Thesis on Byzantium. how much do people fight about calling them Romans in the inner circles?
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 16:43 |
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Allying Albania against Ottomans is always a wise move.
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 16:47 |
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It is kind of funny they are only called Byzantium because of Germans with a weird grudge.
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 17:16 |
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Popoto posted:how much do people fight about calling them Romans in the inner circles? As opposed to 'Byzantines'? Almost none, surprisingly! As opposed to 'Greeks'? Well there have been bigger Byzantine civil conflicts, but not many...
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 21:11 |
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the people we now know as Greeks still call themselves Romans, basically until they needed foreign backing for their independence and found the British much more sympathetic to the idea of ancient Greeks than medieval Byzantines? If ever there was a time period for weird Byzantine fantasies, I think the Victorian era makes sense, considering Greek nationalist ambitions.
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# ? Apr 26, 2022 21:24 |
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Eiba posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the people we now know as Greeks still call themselves Romans, basically until they needed foreign backing for their independence and found the British much more sympathetic to the idea of ancient Greeks than medieval Byzantines? Oh yes, if anyone has big ideas about reclaiming past glory in this time period it's the Greeks.
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Eiba posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the people we now know as Greeks still call themselves Romans, basically until they needed foreign backing for their independence and found the British much more sympathetic to the idea of ancient Greeks than medieval Byzantines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemnos quote:On 8 October 1912, during the First Balkan War, Lemnos became part of Greece. The Greek navy under Rear Admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis took it over without any casualties from the occupying Turkish Ottoman garrison, who were returned to Anatolia. Peter Charanis, born on the island in 1908 and later a professor of Byzantine history at Rutgers University recounts when the island was liberated and Greek soldiers were sent to the villages and stationed themselves in the public squares. Some of the children ran to see what Greek soldiers looked like. ‘‘What are you looking at?’’ one of them asked. ‘‘At Hellenes,’’ the children replied. ‘‘Are you not Hellenes yourselves?’’ a soldier retorted. ‘‘No, we are Romans." the children replied, which might seem odd at a first glance, but indicates that in parts of Greece the locals self-identified as a continuation of the Eastern, Greek-speaking part of the Roman Empire (Ρωμιοί).[24]
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# ? Apr 27, 2022 00:37 |
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https://twitter.com/PDXVictoria/status/1519317179916865536
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# ? Apr 27, 2022 15:37 |
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moltkes moves are great but if i havent figured out how to dragon punch after 30 years im never going to
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https://twitter.com/PDXVictoria/status/1519709273793581057?s=20&t=dg4AkYPF3QRVTmtgi7_yhA Seems interesting. One thing I'm curious about is if the general selection is manual or automatic from the assigned generals to the front.
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 17:08 |
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From the sound of it, I think it's automatic. Choosing which generals to assign to a front is meant to be the way the player influences the combat, the individual general is then picked randomly from those (I'm not sure if there will be some weighting here for things like making generals with skills relevant to say, the terrain type or whatever, more likely to be chosen).
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 17:54 |
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Yeah the DD mentions the choice of generals is part of a script. I'm sure there will be turbo nerds that want more micro back that will end up making a mod that has a popup or something that lets you choose or who knows what.
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 18:01 |
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The Cheshire Cat posted:From the sound of it, I think it's automatic. Choosing which generals to assign to a front is meant to be the way the player influences the combat, the individual general is then picked randomly from those (I'm not sure if there will be some weighting here for things like making generals with skills relevant to say, the terrain type or whatever, more likely to be chosen). The generals are picked before they determine which province to fight on so that, specifically, is unlikely.
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 18:09 |
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I agree it's part of the script, but it seems possible that the script is 'give player (or ai) decision box to select general.' For instance, you could select your offensive genius to lead the charge and have an engineer following along to fortify things you take and generally take the defensive role for counterattacks.
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 18:19 |
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Will your war strategy impact your success in a war or is it just a matter of assigning generals and hoping you have a bigger population and better tech? In vic 2 you could lead obscure nations to success against European great powers if lucky and clever with your units. I hope i still have a chance of winning as the Sikh Empire against Great Britain for example. Not complaining, just wondering how it will work.
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 20:08 |
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Party In My Diapee posted:Will your war strategy impact your success in a war or is it just a matter of assigning generals and hoping you have a bigger population and better tech? In vic 2 you could lead obscure nations to success against European great powers if lucky and clever with your units. I hope i still have a chance of winning as the Sikh Empire against Great Britain for example. I mean, there won't be any unit micro to get clever with, so you'd have thought it would be harder for the Sikhs to defeat Great Britain than in games that have that unit micro. If you want to defeat Britain, get France, Spain and the Dutch on your side.
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 20:17 |
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I mean there isn't really any tactics or strategy to deal with. All you really do is pick what generals you want, pick what production methods you want your soldiers to use, and assign each general soldiers, a border, and then attack/defend/reserve. Your primary job in a war is logistics.
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# ? Apr 28, 2022 20:43 |
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Hellioning posted:I mean there isn't really any tactics or strategy to deal with. All you really do is pick what generals you want, pick what production methods you want your soldiers to use, and assign each general soldiers, a border, and then attack/defend/reserve. Your primary job in a war is logistics. we dont know how much the alpha reflects the status of the released game, there could be more decisions and influence you can have in the released state
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# ? Apr 29, 2022 02:02 |
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I could see some kind of "oversupply" where you dump extra weapons, ammunition and horses into your army in order to boost their effectiveness. But you won't see Hearts of Iron 4-style "I leave a hole in my lines, allow the enemy to advance into it, then cut them off and encircle them" stuff, and that's a good thing. War isn't really the focus of this game, economics and diplomacy are.
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Gort posted:I could see some kind of "oversupply" where you dump extra weapons, ammunition and horses into your army in order to boost their effectiveness. It's also a good thing because in 90% of cases where your army vastly overperformes in regular PDX games it's a result of the AI making GBS threads the bed or you forcing the AI to poo poo the bed.
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