Paradox Interactive Megathread V1 - "Rebels, Rebels Everywhere!" - Games

Spain and the Slavic areas suck absolute shit. Spain is constantly filled with retarded in-fighting between the kingdoms there, and once you start to get a hold on something, the Jihads get so severe that you eventually become the target. The Slavic locations are also terrible, since alliances are constantly broken, and there are practically endless wars going on. Once you get your shit in gear, the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire decides to smack your shit.

[QUOTE=theseltsamone;38187639]Too late when you scroll back you'll already be Muslim. Unrelated: Has anybody had any luck unifying Germany as Austria before ~1870? I've gotten around 1850, but that was with cheating. I'm thinking about sphering away a few of Prussia's minors to lower the Admit Hegemony score, but I think that'll give Prussia too much time to build up beyond what I can do.[/QUOTE] Yes I did it in like 1862 once with some reloading/saving. Just insta sphere the countries that you need to create the Northern German federation, and start a war with Austria on day one so you don't have to bother about France.. you'll have the NGF in like 1855 and things get way easier from there. Somehow France had an extremely weak army in this playtrough. It was a weird playtough. I colonized pretty much the whole world along with France and in the late 1890's there were only like 12 industrialized countries, with the mayor powers having enormous amounts of industries.

Sometimes I would mod CK to make one of the count guys in Finland or the Baltic states to make them Christian. I once managed to unify Finland and run the dynasty right up into the 1400s. I have to savescum around the mid 1300s tho because my entire family died off due to the plague.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;38193487]Spain and the Slavic areas suck absolute shit. Spain is constantly filled with retarded in-fighting between the kingdoms there, and once you start to get a hold on something, the Jihads get so severe that you eventually become the target. [/QUOTE]And because of this I start games in the year 1076. Most of Iberia is unified under the Castille banner + moderate troop count from their starting CA. Giving them a probable opportunity of turning the tide. [editline]26th October 2012[/editline] Electors in a Elective Monarchy are only your direct vassals right? When I became duke it reverted my law to Gavelkind. My ruler was 60+ years old so I went ahead and used console command to change it back. But for some reason, my liege and some random count are the only electors instead of my own. Is this normal or what

We still need to be able to play as: Theocracies Republics Pagans Lowborn Seriously. It's not like the game is bad, but I really don't like that they've taken the DLC route with this one.

How could we play lowborn exactly?

I am going to try and use my knowledge of Darwinian evolution to try and breed a better family. I will select family members with the highest traits to inherent my kingdom, and for them to marry people of high traits too. Whilst disfavouring people with poor traits. If successful, I can slowly make a better race.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;38196441]We still need to be able to play as: Theocracies Republics Pagans Lowborn Seriously. It's not like the game is bad, but I really don't like that they've taken the DLC route with this one.[/QUOTE] Mods.

[QUOTE=cheezey;38193915]Yes I did it in like 1862 once with some reloading/saving. Just insta sphere the countries that you need to create the Northern German federation, and start a war with Austria on day one so you don't have to bother about France.. you'll have the NGF in like 1855 and things get way easier from there. Somehow France had an extremely weak army in this playtrough. It was a weird playtough. I colonized pretty much the whole world along with France and in the late 1890's there were only like 12 industrialized countries, with the mayor powers having enormous amounts of industries.[/QUOTE] Yeah, Prussian Germany is easy to form but it's not as strong as Grob-Deutschland, since that has both Austria and Prussia in it. Right now my gameplan for Grob-Deutschland is: 1. Ally France day 1, Declare war on Prussia day 2 2. Defend your borders while adding the wargoals "Acquire Prussian Wurttemberg", "Acquire Schliesen", and "Humiliate Prussia" 3. Play chicken with France, trying to occupy as much of Prussia's lands for as long as possible before France ducks out and get the Rhineland 4. Hope that France stays in long enough for your humiliation of Prussia to knock them down to secondary power 5. Form SGF 6. (The problem) slowly pick up the minor nations that used to be in Prussia's spheres. (This can take quite a while, since you have to wait for truces to run out before you can influence) 7. War Prussia again to add to sphere (acquiring another province just to be safe) 8. Get that fucking French land. I've heard of people getting Hegemony AND adding Prussia to their sphere, but it always either costs 108 war-score, or I don't get their spheres, since they're already a secondary power.

I am getting the modern day mod for Vicky 1. Who the shit put Tony Blair as the default leader picture for Britain? Thatcher is more memorable and evil.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;38198843]I am getting the modern day mod for Vicky 1. Who the shit put Tony Blair as the default leader picture for Britain? Thatcher is more memorable and evil.[/QUOTE] Apocalypse 1836 for Vicky II is something good as well if you want a mod that's alternative that has the theme of "rebuilding civilization" with the help of conscripts wearing their little forage caps and putting down hordes of zombies

I completely forgot all about Apocalypse 1836! Is it even compatible with AHD at all?

[QUOTE=kamikaze470;38199493]I completely forgot all about Apocalypse 1836! Is it even compatible with AHD at all?[/QUOTE] [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?537039-AlterVicky-Apocalypse-1836[/url] the latest version is, yup

[QUOTE=kamikaze470;38199493]I completely forgot all about Apocalypse 1836! Is it even compatible with AHD at all?[/QUOTE] If this is the mod [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?537039-AlterVicky-Apocalypse-1836[/url] Then yes. [editline]26th October 2012[/editline] God damn ninjas. [editline]26th October 2012[/editline] I need the $20 for AHD, damn you unemployment.

Any HOI3 mods to try out?

[QUOTE=theseltsamone;38198192]Yeah, Prussian Germany is easy to form but it's not as strong as Grob-Deutschland, since that has both Austria and Prussia in it. Right now my gameplan for Grob-Deutschland is: 1. Ally France day 1, Declare war on Prussia day 2 2. Defend your borders while adding the wargoals "Acquire Prussian Wurttemberg", "Acquire Schliesen", and "Humiliate Prussia" 3. Play chicken with France, trying to occupy as much of Prussia's lands for as long as possible before France ducks out and get the Rhineland 4. Hope that France stays in long enough for your humiliation of Prussia to knock them down to secondary power 5. Form SGF 6. (The problem) slowly pick up the minor nations that used to be in Prussia's spheres. (This can take quite a while, since you have to wait for truces to run out before you can influence) 7. War Prussia again to add to sphere (acquiring another province just to be safe) 8. Get that fucking French land. I've heard of people getting Hegemony AND adding Prussia to their sphere, but it always either costs 108 war-score, or I don't get their spheres, since they're already a secondary power.[/QUOTE] OR, do like me; smack their shit (as Prussia). I formed the NGF, then did what I could to sphere all the SGF lands and Luxembourg, all the while slowly taking the Czech lands from Austria and occupying them as much as possible. Eventually, I forced them into a sphere and downright annexed all of it. [t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/596977780236429111/15D5EA18DBCA06B131D4E3555B2AE90D3D8F121E/[/t]

[QUOTE=Tuskin;38199542]If this is the mod [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?537039-AlterVicky-Apocalypse-1836[/url] Then yes.[/QUOTE] Does zombie occupation eventually lead to depopulation of the captured territories? [editline]27th October 2012[/editline] Also something really weird happened in my Prussia-NGF-Germany APD game. Once I managed to wreck Austria and form NGF, I got the ability to invade France and occupy Alsace-Lorraine. The war went by smoothly and, due to my spheres, I was able to get everything done extremely fast, thus forming Germany. However, once I selected that I wanted the remaining bits of Austria(mega Hungary successfully claimed independence and my allies liberated Croatia and South Poland) and saved the game my year got set from 1854 to 1836 for some strange reason.

I bought AHD for Vic2, liking the new features and map colours, the borders are easier to see too.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;38208712]I bought AHD for Vic2, liking the new features and map colours, the borders are easier to see too.[/QUOTE] And don't forget the most important feature: Prussia being the right color.

So The UK declared war on the US to acquire New England, but the game is calling it '2nd American War of Independence" [t]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23810060/2012-10-27_00017.jpg[/t] [editline]27th October 2012[/editline] Hmm, Started the grand campaign, Civil War events seem to be happening earlier then normal for the AI, Harper's Ferry Raid in 1951 instead of 1859 and the Civil War just started in 1855 in stead of '61, also for some reason Northern Idaho is part of the CSA. [editline]27th October 2012[/editline] US also decalred war on Mexico to take California, but they have no troops in the west.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;38196441]We still need to be able to play as: Theocracies Republics Pagans Lowborn Seriously. It's not like the game is bad, but I really don't like that they've taken the DLC route with this one.[/QUOTE] You can't play as Theocracies and Republics because of the games dynastic focus. Theocracies and Republics both voted on leaders.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;38210282]So The UK declared war on the US to acquire New England, but the game is calling it '2nd American War of Independence" [/QUOTE]They did this to add flavor. For example, US warring Mexico will be something generic to the outside world, and to the US and Mexico it'd be "US Invasion of Mexico". [quote]Hmm, Started the grand campaign, Civil War events seem to be happening earlier then normal for the AI, Harper's Ferry Raid in 1951 instead of 1859 and the Civil War just started in 1855 in stead of '61, also for some reason Northern Idaho is part of the CSA.[/quote] Average game of Vic2. :downs:

Haha wow really.. playing Duke of Cornwall in Prince and Thane winning all the battles with my brilliant marital skills, but then i slip over and stab myself, dead. Rebellion over. All that money on mercs wasted.

End of my Vic2 game with the New Nations Mod (Not pictured, Canadian owned Alaska) [t]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578971142881472105/9050AFD09A4B3B130C7914AFB6F07184704A9D50/[/t] [t]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578971142881466545/B2CD0EAC86D61B035D1A46B44C741D7BC3EBC0AE/[/t] [t]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578971142881462978/FEDB0DD22D4B1710E1B468FD359706075D1C3383/[/t] [t]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578971142881469336/A28C9802F3FC3B1E3720D93964FE18FDB266AEF9/[/t] [t]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578971142881478601/FA4FC5A5C9EC3A2150B3A60F8DAC1A792C44CACE/[/t] [t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/578971142881474791/3A06E382CFE951AB63DC8E4543CF6EF7279CDA53/[/t] [t]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/578971142881460572/74B85E31D6F9DDDB657C73374EFFD03E6F12ABBE/[/t] Not sure why the US has Canada's western provinces, UK controlled them, but then America took them without going to war and neither Canada or the UK tried to take them back.

Playing this mod at the moment. [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?638632-MOD-A-New-World-The-Dawn-of-Empires[/url] It's really fucking interesting. Every county is independent and has it's own culture and religion.

[QUOTE=croguy;38205562]Does zombie occupation eventually lead to depopulation of the captured territories?[/QUOTE]From what I observed in an zombie-infested Greece, the population will go as low as 1 so I'm going to take a guess and say no. They also (partially) overran Bavaria and Serbia. Latin America is like the only place where they're literally making any progress at all. Zombies should be in extremely large numbers, and pop up more often. From what I see they take a few provinces (which get re-taken with no effort) and then eventually die off.

I actually established the German Empire relatively easily in my game as Prussia in the zombie mod, mainly due to France and Austria being fucking over run with them and I took advantage of that to assert my dominion over the necessary landholdings.

Is there some event where I can make zombies start spawning again?

Check the events file that it modified. Should be able to just put the event # into your console and restart the plague.