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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:lmao. ukkkraine sucks so loving much dude its the republikkk of ukkkraine dumbass -_-
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uKKKrane vs ruSSia
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Nov 14, 2022 20:46
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This is what assimilation means in Victoria 3, this the most inclusive law short of multiculturalism which just removes all restrictions. It's Mexico and only white people and hispanic speakers will assimilate, all americans that were originaly living in america before whitey came are still oppressed and discriminated against. Edit: Also have to convert to catholicism I guess. Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 21:04 on Nov 14, 2022 |
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A question for Frosted Flake, would you recommend any one volume history of land artillery during the 19th century, developments from Waterloo to Ypres. Hopefully something not just covering just one country?
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Nov 14, 2022 20:55
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Paradox nerds lol
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all these Putin lovers may have a problem, but Ukraine is Kool, Kool, Kool with me
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Sure sounds like V3 has some issues. Honestly if I just want to play fun, well designed games qua games I really don't see what Paradox has to offer; the whole point of their oeuvre is the historical groundinglobster shirt posted:that was a deliberate design choice on the part of the devs as they wanted to make a war simulator not a game where you can do the holocaust. whether thats appropriate for a world war 2 game is up for debate but knowing the political beliefs of a big chunk of paradox's player base i think that disallowing the player from meaningfully interacting with civilian populations (except as an abstract number for manpower) is certainly defensible lol I mean, HoI4 is not a war simulator, it's a meme politics simulator PoontifexMacksimus has issued a correction as of 21:04 on Nov 14, 2022 |
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lobster shirt posted:that was a deliberate design choice on the part of the devs as they wanted to make a war simulator not a game where you can do the holocaust. whether thats appropriate for a world war 2 game is up for debate but knowing the political beliefs of a big chunk of paradox's player base i think that disallowing the player from meaningfully interacting with civilian populations (except as an abstract number for manpower) is certainly defensible lol Yeah, any game mechanic that showed the real or imagined “advantages” to those policies would be pretty horrifying, and a mechanic with penalties like “-20 manpower for being evil”, may not be worth including?
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:A question for Frosted Flake, would you recommend any one volume history of land artillery during the 19th century, developments from Waterloo to Ypres. Hopefully something not just covering just one country? One volume?!? JK, Field Artillery and Firepower by Bailey, it’s the best general work. We give it out as a retirement present, mine’s signed by the whole Battery. I use it at least once a week to look up something or other.
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Nov 14, 2022 21:05
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:I mean, HoI4 is not a war simulator, it's a meme politics simulator It's more of a hang out with your buddy Mussolini simulator with the newest expansion.
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Nov 14, 2022 21:05
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“Unlike other books that either describe the technical aspects of present-day firepower or outline its history during specific wars, this work provides both a detailed explanation of the modern artillery system and a history of its development over the past six hundred fifty years, identifying its enduring principles and changing practices against an ever-changing background of technology, tactics, and strategy. When an earlier version of this book was published in 1989, it became known as the best single source on field artillery in the English language. “
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Nov 14, 2022 21:06
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:I mean, HoI4 is not a war simulator, it's a meme politics simulator i pretty much only played hoi4 in co-op with real life friends, playing meme games like "can we conquer the world as communist <insert 3-4 tiny countries>" stalin's a real friend so it's pretty much always possible lol
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iCe-CuBe. posted:Paradox nerds lol the best paradox game? cities skylines
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The Ukrainian leadership is very online. Kicking CNN out of Kherson for not sufficiently vetting footage seems like a weird own goal. CNN didn't even criticize the Nazi salute.Frosted Flake posted:Yeah, any game mechanic that showed the real or imagined “advantages” to those policies would be pretty horrifying, and a mechanic with penalties like “-20 manpower for being evil”, may not be worth including? implementing dynamite in mines gives an increased death rate to the workforce
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Akaiku posted:Is.. is Canada in danger of collapse if Ukraine goes first? inshallah
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The fact that the Ukrainians apparently cannot help themselves despite the entire western media running cover for them is really something else.
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Atrocious Joe posted:The Ukrainian leadership is very online. Kicking CNN out of Kherson for not sufficiently vetting footage seems like a weird own goal. CNN didn't even criticize the Nazi salute. it would have been an own goal if anyone cared lol. western media not even pretending to be anything other than a propaganda machine following around the Ukrainian military and releasing its approved talking points when cleared
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Nov 14, 2022 21:13
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Frosted Flake posted:Yeah, any game mechanic that showed the real or imagined “advantages” to those policies would be pretty horrifying, and a mechanic with penalties like “-20 manpower for being evil”, may not be worth including? In older Europa Universalis game genociding native populations was often the most efficient way to colonise some provinces that would otherwise just kill your defenseless settlers faster than you could send them. Of course with the absent logistical models of those games marching a genocidal army of 30000 to completely depopulate central Africa or America presented no issue.
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Nov 14, 2022 21:13
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Frosted Flake posted:The fact that the Ukrainians apparently cannot help themselves despite the entire western media running cover for them is really something else. story of this whole thing. Ukrainian state would 100% succeed at projecting the saintly image everyone wants to see if they could stop themselves from bragging about their purge lust, but such things are not possible. but also doesn't matter because people look at that stuff and their brains do the "doesnt look like anything to me" meme
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Atrocious Joe posted:The Ukrainian leadership is very online. Kicking CNN out of Kherson for not sufficiently vetting footage seems like a weird own goal. CNN didn't even criticize the Nazi salute. Nitroglycerin, I think dynamite is supposed to be safer lol. If you really want to "kill" people you need to use the violent suppression decree which bumps up mortality rate in the state with turmoil it's used on. Which usually comes from cultures that are being discriminated against. That's about as close as you can get to a genocide. PoontifexMacksimus posted:In older Europa Universalis game genociding native populations was often the most efficient way to colonise some provinces that would otherwise just kill your defenseless settlers faster than you could send them. Of course with the absent logistical models of those games marching a genocidal army of 30000 to completely depopulate central Africa or America presented no issue.
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Nov 14, 2022 21:16
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this latest round of reprisals has actually been reported upon in mainstream western news sources, though in quite sanitised terms. i was honestly taken a little aback at that, and it may have spooked the ukrainian leadership
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Danann posted:https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1591986635142561793 thank you for posting the ayn rand account mentioning the wapo article e: 
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Nov 14, 2022 21:39
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Frosted Flake posted:Yeah, any game mechanic that showed the real or imagined “advantages” to those policies would be pretty horrifying, and a mechanic with penalties like “-20 manpower for being evil”, may not be worth including? It would be worse overall to give players the option to forego the holocaust, giving the impression that its possible to do fascism without doing fascism.
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https://twitter.com/ukraine_world/status/1592252447422320640
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I can see a situation where Russia picks a line close to the current one and western europe dial back their arms to a trickle and russia only does retaliatory strikes With a peace treaty and no arms being delivered, enthusiasm for a ukrainian war would fizzle out pretty quickly Edit: pull out of kherson sure seems like a concession Russia was willing to make to get NATO to agree to ceasefire or at least drastically reduce weapons inflow Hadlock has issued a correction as of 21:52 on Nov 14, 2022 |
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Frosted Flake posted:It kind of reminds me of how Canada promised no Reservists would be sent to Afghanistan, which was fine for doing Bosnia stuff in Kabul, was (“allegedly”) bullied into taking over Kandahar, tried a couple Regular Force tours and realized we were in over our heads, told the public limited qualified Reservists could volunteer, created a program to Strongly Encourage employers to let Reservists deploy, said no Reserve units would deploy as a whole (no whole Regular force units deploy either - Canada uses the Regimental System, the public doesn’t know), and then by 2008-10 at least half, probably more of the manpower, things like all of the helicopter door gunners, everybody doing detainee transport, all of the PRT security details, somehow those are all Reservists. Huh, Canada decided to formally recognise their volunteers? 
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Nov 14, 2022 21:51
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Hadlock posted:I can see a situation where Russia picks a line close to the current one and western europe dial back their arms to a trickle and russia only does retaliatory strikes and Ukraine's continued decline at the hands of western exploitation and owing their soul to the IMF, all the arms that have mysteriously gone missing wind up being used to commit terrorist attacks across the continent. etc.
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Frosted Flake posted:One volume?!? Thank you very much, though my question was on the 19th century I am honestly in the dark about 16th and 17th century specifics... My layman understanding always ran something like: 15th century - if you have any sizable amount of artillery you can roll over old medieval castles, the golden age of the Huge Bombard 16th century - trace italienne puts the the advantage back with the defenders as metallurgy and ballistics are still primitive 17th century - leather cannons and stuff for field battles; while for sieges...?? Vauban is around and I guess metallurgy develops...? 18th century - Newton's calculus and gravity give the first scientific understanding of ballistics, and centralised fiscal-military states can properly standardise artillery parks 19th century - start out with 18th century artillery, end with 20th century artillery, obviously a whole lot going on in between!
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Truga posted:yeah, it owns It's kid of telling how every major HoI4 mod treats the actual combat system as a chore to get through until you can trigger the next set of political RP events
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Nov 14, 2022 22:07
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:It's kid of telling how every major HoI4 mod treats the actual combat system as a chore to get through until you can trigger the next set of political RP events Much like putin treats the war in the ukraine
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Nov 14, 2022 22:10
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:It's kid of telling how every major HoI4 mod treats the actual combat system as a chore to get through until you can trigger the next set of political RP events Nah. Kaiserreich is all about fighting WW2 with a different flavour of revanchism. Old World Blues is almost pure combat with a lot less narrative than other mods I've seen.
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Nov 14, 2022 22:11
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Lostconfused posted:Nah. Kaiserreich is all about fighting WW2 with a different flavour of revanchism. Old World Blues is almost pure combat with a lot less narrative than other mods I've seen. KR is about what if the KMT was actually good.
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Lostconfused posted:Nah. Kaiserreich is all about fighting WW2 with a different flavour of revanchism. Old World Blues is almost pure combat with a lot less narrative than other mods I've seen. If anyone cared about playing Hearts of Iron for the wargame gameplay why is the primary focus of these mods on their alternate reality narrative state? With Old World Blues people aren't clamouring for HoI gameplay, they want to play around in the narrative world they know from RPGs.
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Tankbuster posted:KR is about what if the KMT was actually good. The left KMT is real and it's still good 
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Atrocious Joe posted:the EU already needs to build walls to keep out the jungle. a Ukrainian DMZ is able to both resist Russia and prevent migrants from getting into the garden. Am I missing something? It's not known to be a significant pathway and Belarus only became one last year, allegedly due to Lukashenko's policies. https://frontex.europa.eu/we-know/migratory-map/ Hadlock posted:Are they mostly concerned about the HIMARS and Javelins or what. Looks like they've built 45k javelins so surely the manufacturing capacity is there? It was there. Remember these things were originally built in the 90s. They are trying to up production from 2k to 4k annually. https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2022/05/09/lockheed-aiming-to-double-javelin-production-seeks-supply-chain-crank-up/ Lostconfused posted:Nitroglycerin, I think dynamite is supposed to be safer lol. It's a major ingredient in many smokeless powders, so close.
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iCe-CuBe. posted:Paradox nerds lol As someone who has played tons of paradox games, this is probably the only post of yours that I think is both good and correct.
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Nov 14, 2022 22:23
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PoontifexMacksimus posted:If anyone cared about playing Hearts of Iron for the wargame gameplay why is the primary focus of these mods on their alternate reality narrative state? Because paradox made the map moddable?
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Lostconfused posted:Look if you want to talk about genocide then I think you should talk about it and not diminish the issue by contextualizing it through a bad game that refuses to address that point because it's a politically sensitive topic that gets in the way of their cultural/national/ideological power fantasy. That's why Stellaris is the best Paradox game. You can't feel bad about purging slugmen.
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https://twitter.com/StefanTompson/status/1590944415115509760 Lmfao
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Truga posted:the only good paradox game is stellaris because it doesn't shy away from the stupider topics of empires Thank you.
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