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Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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The Satan event is fun, but I vastly prefer the Joan of Arc event. That one let me press the "Claim Holy Roman Empire" button. (Thanks for the claim, Mom!)

The last time I had the event fire, I had a genius heir that I wanted nothing untoward to happen to, so I shipped the child off to Byzantium.

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Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Less actual getting stuff, but the flipside is, Joan won't kill the rest of your family/anyone in their way like a Satanspawn will.

Basically you just get a 30+ Martial woman who is totally loyal to you and is capable of leading armies. Then there's a lot of flavor decisions.

But having a Martial that good and sitting on the mountains between Spain and France is a pretty acceptable way to slaughter an army much, much larger than your own.

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1)B
2)B
3)B
4)B
5)C

Veryslightlymad
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Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Ulama

I want to see someone do a Paradox campaign Tall instead of Wide.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Can we get some info on my new favorite plucky underdog (and somehow great power, one update a while ago having the biggest army), Charca?

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Feeling fine. Glad plucky little Charca wasn't completely Annexed. (Anyone remember when they were a Great Power???)

I know it's a little early to ask, but who is gonna get the big USA gently caress-off bonuses in this timeline? Ibriz is the biggest (and most prominently featured in this LP) country over there, but unless I'm misremembering, Anbaila should own the actual territory that caused that immigration bonus.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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I was talking specifically about the land-grab event, but yeah, there's a bunch of 'em floating around

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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I'm mostly intrigued by the Benin East Indies.

Surprised we got no writeup for the fan favorite Red Turbans.

As for who I'm rooting for in V2, Imjir is pretty high on my personal list. Dunno about you guys.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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WilliamAnderson posted:

wilyam 'andirsun

I don't know if there's a better way that isn't just transliteration

Muradismat ibn Rajul is the best I can come up with trying to actually translate and keep the meanings behind the name.*

*I did this because you may recall, old friend, that this is my shoot name.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Zikan posted:

can’t wait for the goon curse to hit all our goon named commanders as well and make them extra ineffective

I thought that Hashim was going to intentionally code it this way.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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QuoProQuid posted:

albionoria might do fine, but anbaila and neimni sund don't seem to have any major metropolitan areas that can finance the improvements needed to make use of its vast tracts of land.

I think you switched Albionoria with Neimni Sund in your head. Neimni Sund would have Cincinnati, which was already a major city by this time, (and also logically NS's capital), and if I'm transposing the map right, which is hard since Paradox sometimes shapes geography screwy, it looks like they control Memphis, as well, which being where it is, likely makes serious bank by taxing shipments coming from Anbaila to Ibriz, or even from Ibriz to other parts of Ibriz. ALSO, for some screwy reason, the Prosperity/devastation map seems to indicate that the most prosperous city in the entirety of North America is... uh.... somewhere North of Tallahassee. O_o What the hell is even there? Valdosta?

Anbaila contains Detroit and Chicago. It's entirely possible either or both would have significantly higher populations (or lower, to be fair!) in a world where there's several countries in what was historically just the US. Also keep in mind that the Celtic colonies are totally distinct from New England, so immigrants/settlers from the CU would have had to travel farther inland, or else be in a country that was potentially hostile to them. Even if Populations were exactly as in our own time, Chicago was a top 10 city by 1860 and exploded in population ever since.

Chicago is basically right on the border of Ibriz, though, so I could see that being both a detriment and a boon to its expansion vs our actual timeline, but ultimately probably more of a detriment. Regardless of size, it's almost certainly not the capital/seat of Anbailan government, as it's just too close to an expansionist, warlike power. Milwaukee or Minneapolis make much more sense, and for my money, I'd say it's extremely likely that Milwaukee is both the capital of Anbaila, and a bigger/more important city in this timeline than Chicago.

Albionoria, however, seems to just be a crappier version of real-world Canada. According to income though, they're on the first page of all countries listed, so maybe some Canadian Goon will tell me what I'm obviously missing.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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I feel like an England that exists entirely in exile on another continent would fall particularly in love with the King Arthur legend, particularly the "return during England's greatest need" bits.

What I'm saying is a Fascist New England flag should be a gauntleted hand gripping a sword embedded in a boulder.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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How about a decision for New England that has three options discussing their future:

1)Never letting themselves be exiled again/this is our home now -- Gives them some defensive bonus, and some bonuses to help improve their infrastructure. Maybe some prestige.
2)A revenge option -- Gives them cores on their ancestral isle, perhaps some bonuses to naval power
3)A North/South version of Manifest destiny -- instead of huge cores spreading East to West, gives them cores on Georgia, Florida, Maine, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia --- The reasoning being a desire to control the entire Atlantic coast against further European imperialism.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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ZearothK posted:

You picked my curiosity on the mysterious 8th GP. Japan?

Also I assume armies are next on the menu? I recall OOB's being the most tiresome part of building a total conversion.

I'd assume Egypt, since it isn't on that list.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Hashim posted:

As for immigration, the only way I could really do that is by giving the south american countries a modifier that increases their immigrant attraction. So we'll see how the game goes, and if it makes sense then sure, I'll give them a couple bonuses.

Given the glaring disparity between SA and NA in the prosperity/devastation map of EU4, this might actually be a good idea.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Imperialists. We've had our first period of actual prosperity and growth in almost 200 years.

Also, every time I've seen the socialists take over in one of these LPs, the entire country falls into a spiral of chaos and death.

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Imperialists because apparently over half the thread hasn't paid any drat attention the last several years.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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I choose emigrate to Albionoria and start a new life in a land of strange cultures and traditions, and also horrible, horrible snow.

I think this is the third Mega-LP where an attempt to go full socialism too fast caused a fascist coup.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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ThatBasqueGuy posted:

Buddy, that's gonna happen if you try to do full socialism at all. There's no world where the forces of capital that you build up over ~700 years allow goons to vote away their poo poo, be it 10 or 100 years.

I want to say we left one of these as a reasonably affluent, not-hellscape nation. Can't say I remember which one, so maybe not.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Azerbaijan is the one I was thinking of.

I think the key is we were all in on tolerance and reforms from seemingly the word go.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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Natural Flavor posted:



Can't wait to see this timelines version of Guernica.

It's the same painting, but terrifyingly, it's classified as a Realist work.

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Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

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....so....

What's life like in Waono today? Or Albionoria? Or... New France?

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