Paradox Games V: Oh baby! I love you so---*heart attack*

[Lunas Legion]

Just played my first round of Reaper's Due and my entire house died off in the first fifteen years

What...... the fuck

Well, I had my entire house die off in a century and a bit.

And I was the Karlings.

Or the landed bit at least, there were still about 5 Karlings kicking around but they couldn't inherit due to succession laws.

Yes, I did help by murdering two children, and the Saxons helped by turning my heir into a eunuch and executing his only child, and someone helped by assassinating the last Karling emperor while he was childless, and the last Karling male was rendered incapable while childless, so... GG me.

[Deramen]

Why on earth would you lose puppets by westernizing in Vic2? I, as china westernized and had puppets in a lot of southeast Asia, south Asia, and central Asia. But then I lost them all by westernizing. The only Territory/Puppet I gained was Korea, and that's cause I conquered them.

Man Vic2 really needs a sequel.

What year?

Like 1880-ish.

[Genivaria]

So after reading the CK2 wiki a bit I discovered a very evil but ingenious method of grooming an heir.

Don't marry and don't have any concubines, use the seduction focus to have ALOT of bastard children, educate them all and legitimize the best one.

It's like the Hunger Games except the prize is a kingdom.

[Herargon]

So after reading the CK2 wiki a bit I discovered a very evil but ingenious method of grooming an heir.

Don't marry and don't have any concubines, use the seduction focus to have ALOT of bastard children, educate them all and legitimize the best one.

It's like the Hunger Games except the prize is a kingdom.

Or an empire, or a superempire... like the Roman Empire, and the Hindustan one.

[Arkolon]

My kinsman married the Countess of Aquilea, a vassal of the Lombard King. If I grant my kinsman a county title and they have a son, that son will inherit both counties. But will he be my vassal, or a Lombard vassal?

[Oberstyre]

My kinsman married the Countess of Aquilea, a vassal of the Lombard King. If I grant my kinsman a county title and they have a son, that son will inherit both counties. But will he be my vassal, or a Lombard vassal?

I think it might end up depending on which land they inherit first

[Arkolon]

My kinsman married the Countess of Aquilea, a vassal of the Lombard King. If I grant my kinsman a county title and they have a son, that son will inherit both counties. But will he be my vassal, or a Lombard vassal?

I think it might end up depending on which land they inherit first

That makes so much sense I wonder why I even asked in the first place. Thanks.

[The Intergalactic Russian Empire]

Playing Millennium Dawn mod for HoI4 as Russia. Helped defeat ISIS with some volunteers. Best part? They surrendered on 9/11/2016

10/10

[Socialist Czechia]

Conquest of China is still too easy. HOI IV didn't changed that much.

Or is it easy because I conquered China before, like, 42 times already?

[Shaggai]

Just played my first round of Reaper's Due and my entire house died off in the first fifteen years

What...... the fuck

Well, I had my entire house die off in a century and a bit.

And I was the Karlings.

Or the landed bit at least, there were still about 5 Karlings kicking around but they couldn't inherit due to succession laws.

Yes, I did help by murdering two children, and the Saxons helped by turning my heir into a eunuch and executing his only child, and someone helped by assassinating the last Karling emperor while he was childless, and the last Karling male was rendered incapable while childless, so... GG me.

Most dynasties didn't last more than a few generations, so this is just Paradox upping the historical accuracy of CK2.

[The Intergalactic Russian Empire]

Well, I had my entire house die off in a century and a bit.

And I was the Karlings.

Or the landed bit at least, there were still about 5 Karlings kicking around but they couldn't inherit due to succession laws.

Yes, I did help by murdering two children, and the Saxons helped by turning my heir into a eunuch and executing his only child, and someone helped by assassinating the last Karling emperor while he was childless, and the last Karling male was rendered incapable while childless, so... GG me.

Most dynasties didn't last more than a few generations, so this is just Paradox upping the historical accuracy of CK2.

Thank God "playable non-dynastic heir" mods exist.

[Hurdergaryp]

Conquest of China is still too easy. HOI IV didn't changed that much.

Or is it easy because I conquered China before, like, 42 times already?

Sounds like you have a bit of a fetish for conquering China.

[Socialist Czechia]

Conquest of China is still too easy. HOI IV didn't changed that much.

Or is it easy because I conquered China before, like, 42 times already?

Sounds like you have a bit of a fetish for conquering China.

'cause it's still much more tricky than conquest of USSR. encirclement, encirclement, encirclement...Ural, Caucasus, End (not always though).

[Val Halla]

Oh my. relatives have claims that I can absolutely push successfully. Against? Byzantium.

[Herargon]

Sounds like you have a bit of a fetish for conquering China.

'cause it's still much more tricky than conquest of USSR. encirclement, encirclement, encirclement...Ural, Caucasus, End (not always though).

I've still gotten nightmares of those encirclement schemes. 150 arrows twickled into each other, creating a furious mess. And that was DH or HoI3.

[Socialist Czechia]

'cause it's still much more tricky than conquest of USSR. encirclement, encirclement, encirclement...Ural, Caucasus, End (not always though).

I've still gotten nightmares of those encirclement schemes. 150 arrows twickled into each other, creating a furious mess. And that was DH or HoI3.

Not mentioning even more annoying multiple partisan armies appearing from nowhere like an Orks, in worst moments possible.

[Herargon]

I've still gotten nightmares of those encirclement schemes. 150 arrows twickled into each other, creating a furious mess. And that was DH or HoI3.

Not mentioning even more annoying multiple partisan armies appearing from nowhere like an Orks, in worst moments possible.

You've got a tactic to root out those pests? It sounds like you learned how to fight against them.

[Socialist Czechia]

Not mentioning even more annoying multiple partisan armies appearing from nowhere like an Orks, in worst moments possible.

You've got a tactic to root out those pests? It sounds like you learned how to fight against them.

I never found any better defense than: 1. Zero dissent 2. Few scattered garrisons (with police) combined with most inferior divisions (usually just most inferior allies, not my forces).

But it's still annoying. Although there were IRL literally armies of partisans in Yugoslavia or USSR or China, it's not like they assembled divisions and retook whole cities just like that on daily basis, aside from full-scale uprisings (Warsaw).
it should more suck TC, even ICs, but not creating attacking partisan divisions from thin air.

[Pandeeria]

Does anyone else find that mending the Schism with Byzantium (in the earlier starts) is really easy? You already control Constantinople, Antioch is right on your door step, Rome can be taken by simply fabricating claim. The only two Pentarchs that are even considering challenging is Jerusalem and Alexandria.

All you got to do is keep waging holy wars. If the Abbasids are gigantic, they can't join any coalition against you and not many other Muslim nations will join the war against you. If they are fragmented, weak, and already half dead, then your declaration of war may push them off into total collapse, and a bunch of weaker Muslim nations will join against you, which is definitely manageable as mighty Byzantium.

Either way it's a win-win for you.

[Bralia]

Does anyone else find that mending the Schism with Byzantium (in the earlier starts) is really easy? You already control Constantinople, Antioch is right on your door step, Rome can be taken by simply fabricating claim. The only two Pentarchs that are even considering challenging is Jerusalem and Alexandria.

All you got to do is keep waging holy wars. If the Abbasids are gigantic, they can't join any coalition against you and not many other Muslim nations will join the war against you. If they are fragmented, weak, and already half dead, then your declaration of war may push them off into total collapse, and a bunch of weaker Muslim nations will join against you, which is definitely manageable as mighty Byzantium.

Either way it's a win-win for you.

Now try pulling it off when starting as the Count of Seleukeia.

[SuperFruitland]

I'm starting to feel sorry for the Americans.

They're having to deal with my 2000+ soft attack panzer divisions rolling across Mississippi.

Also, as it turns out, you only need 125 or so divisions to conquer the Soviet Union if all of those are either quality infantry divisions or ridiculously good panzers.

10/10

[Zostra]

I'm starting to feel sorry for the Americans.

They're having to deal with my 2000+ soft attack panzer divisions rolling across Mississippi.

Also, as it turns out, you only need 125 or so divisions to conquer the Soviet Union if all of those are either quality infantry divisions or ridiculously good panzers.

10/10

2000? Jeez, what's the width of those divisions?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Playing Millennium Dawn mod for HoI4 as Russia. Helped defeat ISIS with some volunteers. Best part? They surrendered on 9/11/2016

10/10

Putin smiles upon you my friend.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Progress of my german campaign: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/448493529399168818/13A08DE2F19E3189F0F28717853A803DCA24608B/

Planning on taking out Norway and Denmark next, im also sending an army under Rommel to NA to help the Italians and Turks take Egypt. Then im going to attempt an invasion of the UK near Scotland. Im currently trying to get Nat. Spain to join my alliance so they take Gibraltar and help in africa, and i plan on taking out greece and Yugoslavia at some point before the inevitable war with the Soviets.

Also had a large battle against the Royal Navy which i surprisingly won. Took a bit of a battering though so the navy was sent back to a Baltic sea port to repair. Also interesting side note, the invasion of Finland by the USSR brought it into war with the allies.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Should never have invited Japan into the Axis, fuckers declared war on the States the second i landed troops in Scotland. I took Britain, but now have a ton of american soldiers sitting in Belfast and the soviet union is justifying war goals against me.

It was going so damn well, allies lost Africa, they lost europe, Japan was kicking their asses in Indochina. Think ill have to activate fortress Europe mode and dig in, or maybe invade the soviets and try to catch them off guard before they can attack me.