Paradox Interactive Thread: V2 The cartographers nightmare. - Games

I know right? I always try to Manipulate the UK into buying Alaska. Its possible, most of the time the US buys it though. The UK will buy it if they have enough money. Also Canada took New England because they wanted that Boston Clam Chowder they kept hearing about. Well, New England broke off and later applied to join Canadian Confederation.

What the hell is going on in China? Also Albania is a bit too big for it's own good.

[QUOTE=croguy;39890007]What the hell is going on in China? Also Albania is a bit too big for it's own good.[/QUOTE] It broke and then Japan went all historical and took Korea and Manchukuo. [editline]12th March 2013[/editline] Not sure what was going on in Albania.

[QUOTE=VOSK;39888386]Is APD better than NNM?[/QUOTE]No, stick with NNM.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;39889431] [URL=http://minus.com/l1HUQW8amaTX5][IMG]http://i.minus.com/j1HUQW8amaTX5.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE] That's a mighty handsome world you got there, aside from the always horrendous Africa and whatever's happening north of Afghanistan. How do Australia and Canada usually get their independence? In my games they mostly stay British until 1936, aside from that ugly eastern Canada that occasionally pops up.

I'm using APD they have independence events. The AI can choose not to release them. Fun fact, all those German Colonies, they were inherited from Hanover when the Germanic states united.

[QUOTE=Tuskin;39888068]Where the hell is Canada is getting all this Prestige? I've not seen them go to war once. They must be doing national decisions that give it. [URL=http://minus.com/lqWKJvNR64UHU][IMG]http://i.minus.com/jqWKJvNR64UHU.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [editline]12th March 2013[/editline] Heh, I spoke too soon, Portugal just declared war on the Kongo whom Canada was allied with. They lost, damn. [editline]12th March 2013[/editline] Ok Canada is building about 10 Dreadnoughts in Dutch harbour.[/QUOTE] It's the canadian maple syrup. Exported all over the world everyone loves it.

My Italy playthrough is going pretty swell. I've captured the Middle East and am holding my own in Ethiopia. Also a while back I conquered all the Balkan minors. Greece, Hungary, Yugoslavia... etc. Captured Malta and Cyprus, too. The Royal Navy decided they wanted them back (I didn't garrison them), and sent a task force. The Regia Marina steamed out of Italian ports to meet them. Although I initially deployed my raiding squadrons (1 BC/4 DD) to cover the approaches back to Gibraltar, soon enough my entire navy had been drawn in to the conflict. [img]http://i.imgur.com/xDcJCxM.jpg[/img] Pretty happy my battlecruisers finally caught a Carrier Task Force. Seems the two carriers we destroyed were WW1 vintage, but oh well. One more escaped, but it seems that Britain's grasp of the sea has been weakened.

New HoD update: [t]http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/540953_10151798975869816_563976357_n.jpg[/t] [quote= PI Facebook Page]By 1857 it had become clear that Greece's patrons were unable to free them from Ottoman occupation, much less liberate Thesslia. Despite limited success against the Russian North Seas fleet, the UK had gone to war over Thesslia, and the British people had been told to expect a walkover 'A Greek Thesslia by Christmas!', instead they got five years of inconclusive fighting while Greece was occupied. Peace had to be made. With the war firmly in their favour, the Ottoman empire was able to humiliate the United Kingdom at the peace table. Rather than being enlarged in size, the Greek state would have a puppet government, loyal to Istanbul, installed. Embarrassed by their support of the losing side, Belgium could no longer claim to be a Great Power, and were generally considered to have been overshadowed by Sweden. With the ending of the Thesslian crisis, Europe was again at peace.[/quote]

New pope elected. Papal Influence is lessened for all countries.

[QUOTE=Rowtree;39901492]New pope elected. Papal Influence is lessened for all countries.[/QUOTE] Quick! Send the delegates! We mustn't let Argentina get a holy claim on the Falklands again! [editline]13th March 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Zillamaster55;39899499]New HoD update:[/QUOTE] I bet this update was staged, there's no way in hell that the UK looses a war taking place mostly on coastline. The last time I saw them fuck around in the Balkans they blockaded all of the Black sea and East Mediterranean, and unloaded several doomstacks on both sides of the Bosphorus.

[QUOTE=croguy;39901623]Quick! Send the delegates! We mustn't let Argentina get a holy claim on the Falklands again! [editline]13th March 2013[/editline] I bet this update was staged, there's no way in hell that the UK looses a war taking place mostly on coastline. The last time I saw them fuck around in the Balkans they blockaded all of the Black sea and East Mediterranean, and unloaded several doomstacks on both sides of the Bosphorus.[/QUOTE]You're probably right about that, except for the army part. UK is all but useless in any wars involving Europe or the Middle East at least in all my games. Also I like how Sweden is considered a GP in that. Good ol' Swedish bias! Also my French game has been going wacko lately. I used custom mode to leave the Allies, which gave me enough time to build up an Low Countries army group and extend the Maginot Line there. Since I was neutral, Germany left me alone for the most part. After the rest of the continental Allied powers fell one by one, the United Kingdom would spend the next two years in fear of an German invasion, and constantly sent diplomats to me for pleas of help. Then, the Japanese declared war on me, while simultaneously the Soviet Union declared war on Germany whom launched Operation Sealion at that exact moment also. In a moment of panic, I declared war on Germany because for some reason I wasn't at war with them, but I couldn't send a corps to the isles because Italy somehow controlled Gibraltar. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/PHCGYMY.jpg[/IMG] Little outdated. I played a few months ahead and they're more or less by Coventry by now. RIP in pieces UK.

Huh, this is weird, Darkest Hour, 1941, Germany takes over mainland France, but doesn't puppet France, but Free France still forms. Both Free France and 'Vichy France' are part of the allies. [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] No, sorry 'Vichy France' isn't part of the allies, but they are stilled Allied with the UK and at war with Germany.. If that makes any sense. [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] The Soviet Union is also at war with the allies. What the shit. [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] Germany just Annexed France, then Nationalist Spain joined the allies and declared war on Germany.

Oh man, playing as the aftasid emirate was insanely rewarding. I managed to nab portucale when galicia and leon went into war with each other. My son, a vassal of mine, managed to grab the duchy of leon, too. Then I managed to defend against a holy war where every ruler in the iberian peninsula took part, I won because I managed to make it so their 3K army would either have to go through an army of 500 rebels or go through the river to face me. They went for me and a 3K v 3K battle insued where I completely creamed them. After that, I managed to take a chunk off castille with the help of the almoravid, which made the christian rulers helpless, so I just nabbed the rest of leon and galicia. Meanwhile, the dhuninid and the duke of barcelona (helped by france) were locked in war for tons of time, so I got time to stabilize and still grab chunks of land from the southern emirate. Eventually, I managed to take dhuninid land which made me the foremost power in the iberian peninsula, I even managed to nab navarra, aragon, the rest of castille and gascogne while france was in civil war. My forces numbered ~20K when my I formed andalusia and my sultan of 6K prestige died at the age of 76, with a ~4 year old daughter in his hands. It sucks that I can't form Hispania, though.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ZkO8CclhI[/media]

WW2 was too damn silly for my taste, so I loaded 1959 in New World Order mod. Nixon beat Kennedy in the election. Fuck.

Thread, we have become aware that Argentina is now PAPAL CONTROLLER! [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] Holy fuck am I late

New HoD DD on wars & the military. [url]http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?675112-HoD-DD-4-%E2%80%93-Wars-and-The-Military[/url][/quote]

Oh wow, in Darkest Hour first time I seen the USSR Collapse in WW2, Germany kicked their ass and then they fell apart and turned into a Fascist Russia. [URL=http://minus.com/lx54OJXl64Dew][IMG]http://i.minus.com/jx54OJXl64Dew.png[/IMG][/URL] [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] US Had been nuking the hell out of Germany, but not Japan, they don't have any Air Bases in range, they won't nuke the tiny islands. And I think Germany may had something to do with the fall of the Soviet Union because Russia is offering them military access.

Just had a very interesting Vic2 game with Sikkim/China. I chose Sikkim and managed to modernize it a bit,but not enough for civilization. So i switch for China and modernize and civilize it fully,then make a alliance with Sikkim. Long story short,Sikkim controlled Nepal,Tibet,Buthan,and entire Indochina while China controlled the easternmost parts of Russia. Also,Yugoslavia controlled the entire Balkan,Portugal ruled Spain,France,Switzerland,Luxembourg,Belgium,Italy. Britain lost all of it's colonies to Japan and Chile. Russia ruled everything else in Europe. Chile ruled over Peru,Bolivia and Argentina. India ruled Arabia and everything between. Ethiopia surprisingly controlled entire eastern Africa. Oh,and CSA controlled the entire North America. And it made slavery illegal so it defeated it's own purpose pretty much.

[QUOTE=IPK;39912469]Just had a very interesting Vic2 game with Sikkim/China. I chose Sikkim and managed to modernize it a bit,but not enough for civilization. So i switch for China and modernize and civilize it fully,then make a alliance with Sikkim. Long story short,Sikkim controlled Nepal,Tibet,Buthan,and entire Indochina while China controlled the easternmost parts of Russia. Also,Yugoslavia controlled the entire Balkan,Portugal ruled Spain,France,Switzerland,Luxembourg,Belgium,Italy. Britain lost all of it's colonies to Japan and Chile. Russia ruled everything else in Europe. Chile ruled over Peru,Bolivia and Argentina. India ruled Arabia and everything between. Ethiopia surprisingly controlled entire eastern Africa. Oh,and CSA controlled the entire North America. And it made slavery illegal so it defeated it's own purpose pretty much.[/QUOTE] Need pictures, sounds awesome.

I'm still wondering if anyone could code in the flag/region capabilities of Darkest Hour. I.E - Make Germany an Allied puppet? They have the Black-Orange-Red flag rather than the Imperial flag.

[QUOTE=IPK;39912469]Just had a very interesting Vic2 game with Sikkim/China. I chose Sikkim and managed to modernize it a bit,but not enough for civilization. So i switch for China and modernize and civilize it fully,then make a alliance with Sikkim. Long story short,Sikkim controlled Nepal,Tibet,Buthan,and entire Indochina while China controlled the easternmost parts of Russia. Also,Yugoslavia controlled the entire Balkan,Portugal ruled Spain,France,Switzerland,Luxembourg,Belgium,Italy. Britain lost all of it's colonies to Japan and Chile. Russia ruled everything else in Europe. Chile ruled over Peru,Bolivia and Argentina. India ruled Arabia and everything between. Ethiopia surprisingly controlled entire eastern Africa. Oh,and CSA controlled the entire North America. And it made slavery illegal so it defeated it's own purpose pretty much.[/QUOTE] Wasn't the CSA primarily fighting for State Rights? It just so happened that Slavery was one of the hot political points at the time and an example on the federal government encroaching on the autonomy of the states, rather than just fighting for slavery for the sake of slavery I could be wrong though. if it were EU3 they'd be listed as American Particularists

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;39916774]Wasn't the CSA primarily fighting for State Rights? It just so happened that Slavery was one of the hot political points at the time and an example on the federal government encroaching on the autonomy of the states, rather than just fighting for slavery for the sake of slavery I could be wrong though. if it were EU3 they'd be listed as American Particularists[/QUOTE] That's the general gist of it, states rights over federal powers. Centralization vs decentralization. They basically wanted each state to amount to individual countries under the protection of a federal army, but not with federal laws ruling over them.

Playing EU3 as venice. An Ireland kingdom diplomatically insults me for whatever reason. TODAY IS THE START OF AN ITALIAN IRELAND! [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] Annexing the shit out of that.

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;39916774]Wasn't the CSA primarily fighting for State Rights? It just so happened that Slavery was one of the hot political points at the time and an example on the federal government encroaching on the autonomy of the states, rather than just fighting for slavery for the sake of slavery I could be wrong though. if it were EU3 they'd be listed as American Particularists[/QUOTE] Slavery wasn't a big issue until 1863, but don't tell the Yanks that. They'll generalize the CSA as just South Carolina.

State rights and Slavery went hand in hand. The states were fighting for their rights to have more autonomy from the government, and one of the big issues over that was the increasing absolutionist movement, and more and more states generally going against slavery. They feared that there would soon be a ban on it, and pulled their cards as a result. [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] And it went much farther. Slave imports became illegal at the start of the 19th century, and following the Mexican american war, there was a ban on Slavery in any of the former Mexican states. [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] You can argue state rights as a cause and I'll buy that. The thing is though, the states right over slavery was about 75 percent of it.

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;39916774]Wasn't the CSA primarily fighting for State Rights? It just so happened that Slavery was one of the hot political points at the time and an example on the federal government encroaching on the autonomy of the states, rather than just fighting for slavery for the sake of slavery I could be wrong though. if it were EU3 they'd be listed as American Particularists[/QUOTE] Practically all the seceding states gave a bill or reason to do it, of which about 2/3rd mentioned slavery (and only slavery) as the "states rights" issue at hand. It was about state's rights... to slavery. [editline]14th March 2013[/editline] Read up on the history but part of the post-war reconciliation was reframing the war as a fight over states' rights which is a lot more palpable than slavery. So we didn't you know, kill all southerners and denigrate them forever. On the flip side, a lot of people think the CSA was an a-okay cause. Which is completely fucking terrible.

[QUOTE][IMG]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/848073753931762241/1408ECA04EB0CA1BE3D8111C77C53CA00581C160/[/IMG][/QUOTE] Is there a way of breaking up armies faster into smaller chunks? I have several 1K army groups and it'll take forever to break them up so they won't start to death. There has to be a hotkey or something Oh boy I have to order all these armies to separate Providences how the fuck am I going to do this

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;39916774]Wasn't the CSA primarily fighting for State Rights? It just so happened that Slavery was one of the hot political points at the time and an example on the federal government encroaching on the autonomy of the states, rather than just fighting for slavery for the sake of slavery I could be wrong though. if it were EU3 they'd be listed as American Particularists[/QUOTE] state's rights and slavery. the way the csa structured its government showed that they did have legitimate interest in a broader state's rights agenda, but slavery was the major issue. [QUOTE=Moustacheman;39917095]Slavery wasn't a big issue until 1863, but don't tell the Yanks that. They'll generalize the CSA as just South Carolina.[/QUOTE] actually slavery had been a growing issue since the constitution was ratified.