Paradox Games II

[The Huskar Social Union]

Huh, never actually sympathized with Tywin up until now.

I always imagined that going out like this.

"Who are you, that I must so low" said the proud lord from his seat of castamere. 'Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know. And a coat of gold, a gold of red - a lion still has claws and mine alone are sharp my lord, long and sharp as yours."

Suddenly crossbowmen!

[The IASM]

I always imagined that going out like this.

"Who are you, that I must so low" said the proud lord from his seat of castamere. 'Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know. And a coat of gold, a gold of red - a lion still has claws and mine alone are sharp my lord, long and sharp as yours."

Suddenly crossbowmen!

And then the red lion retreats back into his underground fortress and Tywin redirects the local river into the fort and drowns everyone inside. That is cannon by the way.

[Machtergreifung]

Huh, never actually sympathized with Tywin up until now.

CK2 inspires you to see things from alternate perspectives.

That's why I love CK2.

My current character, King Roussel II of Jerusalem, is an excellent example. Known as "the Blessed" and has buckets of prestige.

In reality, he's a brutally efficent warrior-king (in his defence, both his father and his grandfather born and died by the sword) who's wars must have caused some damage.

[Lykens]

CK2 inspires you to see things from alternate perspectives.

That's why I love CK2.

My current character, King Roussel II of Jerusalem, is an excellent example. Known as "the Blessed" and has buckets of prestige.

In reality, he's a brutally efficent warrior-king (in his defence, both his father and his grandfather born and died by the sword) who's wars must have caused some damage.

The brother of the Tsar of Russia is the king of England, and was third in line to the throne. Two sons in quick succession displaced him, and he killed both, and was discovered both times.

Tried to kill the third and fourth sons, was discovered to be behind both, and is still known as Iakov the Beloved. But that character is an all around jackass, he goes after family members who tend to be several times stronger than him.

[Nationstatelandsville]

CK2 inspires you to see things from alternate perspectives.

That's why I love CK2.

My current character, King Roussel II of Jerusalem, is an excellent example. Known as "the Blessed" and has buckets of prestige.

In reality, he's a brutally efficent warrior-king (in his defence, both his father and his grandfather born and died by the sword) who's wars must have caused some damage.

King Malsnectan got that throne by scheming, lying, killing a lot of innocent children (it's a hobby), starting a few wars, winning the shit out of them, and exploiting the Church.

He is loved by all, bishops especially.

[Shaggai]

I got a bit bored with curbstomping everyone, so I started a new CK2 game as the Duke of Achaia in 876. So far I've married a Princess of West Francia and declared war on my liege in order to lower crown authority. I'm winning at this point, having smashed the main army and the army that spawned to protect the Empire.

[Bralia]

Nah, that's pretty much expected from Germany. I'll give you condemned: Create Israeli cores, force release of Israel as an independent state, then conquer Israel.

(Assuming we're running PDM) Fire off Balfour Declaration Manually, release/play-as Israel, conquer everything between Morocco and India, Between the Caucasus and Aden - create a Supreme Minority State. Bonus Points for having all the territories that weren't controlled by Israel IRL(That means, Israel as is, together with the Palestinian Territories, in addition to [East] Suez and Sinai) as colonial territories. Then make a screenshot and publish it on that page of ISIS's idea.
Extra Bonus Points if a massive "ISRAEL" spans your whole territory.
...

Actually, I think I might do a less extreme attempt of that in my next run at Vicky.

I approve.

Make Isreal fascist. Because that'll be funny.

I just took a look at their Fascist Flag for Israel. Quite interesting, though it seems to be more Theocratic than directly fascist. Speaking of those flags, I must say, some of the fascist flags P'dox do look somewhat nice.
For example the Fascist flag of Indore. Jan Mayen as well

I went searching for the fascist flags and I found this. Spectacular collection of all of the flags in the game. I had no idea Babylon even existed as a nation before seeing this collection. And say what you will about fascism, they've certainly got great taste in flags. I think the Babylonian and Byzantium flags take the cake.

[Lunas Legion]

(Assuming we're running PDM) Fire off Balfour Declaration Manually, release/play-as Israel, conquer everything between Morocco and India, Between the Caucasus and Aden - create a Supreme Minority State. Bonus Points for having all the territories that weren't controlled by Israel IRL(That means, Israel as is, together with the Palestinian Territories, in addition to [East] Suez and Sinai) as colonial territories. Then make a screenshot and publish it on that page of ISIS's idea.
Extra Bonus Points if a massive "ISRAEL" spans your whole territory.
...

Actually, I think I might do a less extreme attempt of that in my next run at Vicky.

I approve.

I just took a look at their Fascist Flag for Israel. Quite interesting, though it seems to be more Theocratic than directly fascist. Speaking of those flags, I must say, some of the fascist flags P'dox do look somewhat nice.
For example the Fascist flag of Indore. Jan Mayen as well

I went searching for the fascist flags and I found this. Spectacular collection of all of the flags in the game. I had no idea Babylon even existed as a nation before seeing this collection. And say what you will about fascism, they've certainly got great taste in flags. I think the Babylonian and Byzantium flags take the cake.

Fascist Babylon flag is awesome. It might be awesome enough to make me change my NS flag to it.

[Lykens]

Here is Russia, at its greatest extent. For now. If the Rurikid in Hungary doesn't humor me for too long, I might try to absorb it.

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/565 ... C924308CC/

And here, the vast domains of House Rurikid, encompassing four empires, and two kingdoms.
http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/565 ... 67DFEC3B1/

Russia, Byzantium, Hispania, and the Holy Roman Empire. England is held by the youngest brother, and also the last surviving, he isn't very nice. Hungary is held by a cousin of the current Tsar of Russia, as is Hispania and the Holy Roman Empire. The byzantine branch split a long time ago, so they are distant kinsman at best, maybe fourth or fifth cousins.

[Zeinbrad]

Think I'm going to try a Heart of Iron III again.

Anyone have any tutorials?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Think I'm going to try a Heart of Iron III again.

Anyone have any tutorials?

When was the last time you played HOI3?

[Zeinbrad]

Think I'm going to try a Heart of Iron III again.

Anyone have any tutorials?

When was the last time you played HOI3?

Last year I think, 45 minutes.

I just didn't know how it worked.

[The Huskar Social Union]

When was the last time you played HOI3?

Last year I think, 45 minutes.

I just didn't know how it worked.

Hmm, well then i would suggest you try your hands with the likes of the USSR or USA, they are very large and powerful countries that do not see fighting for a while, and allow you to make some mistakes that wont horribly screw you over. But i would also suggest that you look up a ton of tutorials on youtube about certain things like what research to focus on as different nations, what formation makeups to have for divisions, that kind of thing. Its what i did and it was really helpful in the long run.

HOI3 is pretty daunting but once you get the hand of it it becomes quite easy to do stuff with.

edit: Also check out the HOI3 wiki, they usually have guides for all the major countries and plans on what to do with them. As well as for the economy, how to use spies, how to use aircraft, all that kind of stuff.

[The Jonathanian States]

I approve.


I went searching for the fascist flags and I found this. Spectacular collection of all of the flags in the game. I had no idea Babylon even existed as a nation before seeing this collection. And say what you will about fascism, they've certainly got great taste in flags. I think the Babylonian and Byzantium flags take the cake.

Fascist Babylon flag is awesome. It might be awesome enough to make me change my NS flag to it.

Yeh, it is.

(Assuming we're running PDM) Fire off Balfour Declaration Manually, release/play-as Israel, conquer everything between Morocco and India, Between the Caucasus and Aden - create a Supreme Minority State. Bonus Points for having all the territories that weren't controlled by Israel IRL(That means, Israel as is, together with the Palestinian Territories, in addition to [East] Suez and Sinai) as colonial territories. Then make a screenshot and publish it on that page of ISIS's idea.
Extra Bonus Points if a massive "ISRAEL" spans your whole territory.
...

Actually, I think I might do a less extreme attempt of that in my next run at Vicky.

I approve.

I just took a look at their Fascist Flag for Israel. Quite interesting, though it seems to be more Theocratic than directly fascist. Speaking of those flags, I must say, some of the fascist flags P'dox do look somewhat nice.
For example the Fascist flag of Indore. Jan Mayen as well

I went searching for the fascist flags and I found this. Spectacular collection of all of the flags in the game. I had no idea Babylon even existed as a nation before seeing this collection. And say what you will about fascism, they've certainly got great taste in flags. I think the Babylonian and Byzantium flags take the cake.

I'm too lazy to split the quote:
So for the former. Thanks *bows*
For the latter. Yeah, I used that link as well. Babylon is really awesome when fascist. When fascist even Canada's flag looks nice. EDIT: Almost as good as Fascist Congo.

[The Huskar Social Union]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

[Landenburg]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

I really enjoyed Japan or even Denmark.

[Emilio Aguinaldo]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

Babylon.

[The Huskar Social Union]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

Babylon.

Hmm, Can you just release all of the available nations in Vic2 straight from the beginning? like in some of the other games?

Because that would be interesting...

[Olivaero]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

Depends what you mean by medium tier Japans pretty cool for that type of thing(and of course historical) Maybe the Ottomans as well? they certainly need a revolution to jump start them. If you want a slightly more educated population to start maybe a Italy play though as either sardinia or Sicily? (Sicily being the harder one) and if you want something slightly more at the bottom end of the medium tier theirs always Spain Although you will end up hating the name christianos or Carlist by the end.

[The Huskar Social Union]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

Depends what you mean by medium tier Japans pretty cool for that type of thing(and of course historical) Maybe the Ottomans as well? they certainly need a revolution to jump start them. If you want a slightly more educated population to start maybe a Italy play though as either sardinia or Sicily? (Sicily being the harder one) and if you want something slightly more at the bottom end of the medium tier theirs always Spain Although you will end up hating the name christianos or Carlist by the end.

I think ill give Sardinia a go. And ill probably mess around with a few more in game as well.

[Lunas Legion]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

Babylon.

You have to be Iraq and a GP to become Babylon.

Edit: Can someone upload a decent resolution version of the fascist Babylon flag to Imgur, since I think I'll use it as my NS flag.

[Machtergreifung]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

Brazil.

A big regional power, but you're quite firmly in the low-medium teir of powers internationally.

[The Jonathanian States]

Dat moment when Saudi Armies march into Israel and crush Palestinian uprisings Satellites are the best part of Vicky. Best part ever.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Right so i decided on Sardinia-Piedmont for my new Vickoria 2 game, and so far things have not been that bad. Its 1849 now, and i have been primarily focusing on my economy and i have managed to get a few factories up already that are running smoothly, some metal factories, a furniture factory, a glass factory and a clothing factory. I went to war with the Swiss early on and annexed the eastern half of their country which gave me one of those metal factories (steel i believe it was) and some extra resources.

I then decided to try and make Tunisia my puppet as i was planning on getting involved in africa, so i declared war, and things went smoothly at first. Then the Ottomans decided to intervene even though they had no alliance with the Tunisians and did not really like one another. And this caused my campaign to fail, i defeated their first army and drove away a couple of their scouting navies but then they brought up a massive flotilla and invaded Sardinia. Ihad nothing to stop them with so they occupied it all and then invaded my home territory and i was forced to accept a status quo peace treaty with them. It ended up knocking me down from 14th place to 29th.

A few years later i then decided to pick on Morocco alongside France and we both took over some territory from them, i grabbed the province just south of Gibraltar and i plan on grabbing Fez later in the game once the truce runs out. Im allied with the Papal States and France with the rest of the Italian states being divided between French and Austrian allegiance.

And the only other interesting thing was the USA handing Mexico its ass in a third war since the game has started. They are just smashing them to pieces.

[Bojikami]

What would be a good medium tier nation in Victoria 2? I was planning on starting another game and this time trying to see if i can have a communist revolution break out in full swing.

Or even a fascist one, that would be interesting as well.

Bavaria, or perhaps Central America.