Paradox Games VI: Cuckolding Habsburgs since 1076 AD

[The Huskar Social Union]

There's also the fact that it's Tyrion Lannister...

All men must die. All men must drink.

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You too? The filthy hippies have done that to me, too, and I sought to do the same thing.

I, too, have felt the pain of this betrayal. Damn you, Artisan Troupe. Being your patron is so rewarding, but even so I want nothing more than to destroy you.

I was the patron of those pricks as well and the fackers robbed me blind when i asked for a festival.

Seven years i dedicated to funding you, seven years i listened to your songs and admired your art work, and when the time came that we could host a festival together, you weren't there.

Why weren't you there?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Woo! Ancient Dreadnought under my control and the achievement for it in the bag. Good thing i got it when i did, the empire whose territory it was in could soon be a war zone, as they had a serious decline in their relations with their neighbours and it got so bad they collapsed their federation they had and are fully armed for war against one another.

If war does kick off i plan on staying out of it, im going to focus on internal stuff for a good bit as well as more achievement hunting, but i will root for the Drakar Star Empire because they are my guys, i made them, they are my little martial empire people.

Achievements ive got since starting up stellaris ironman again with two concurrent games are:

Dreadnought
Digging Deep
Power Overwhelming
Building Better Worlds
Domo Arigato
The Grand Fleet
A Home away from Home
Mad Genius
The Good Stuff
Return to Dust
Old Friends

This is fun, its keeping me busy as my continued failure of job seeking continues to well... fail.

I feel your pain...
What empire you rockin' in that pic?

Its called the Haahn Foundation. (Blue guys to the bottom right)
Xenophobe, Spiritualist and Authoritarian.

All round general enslavers we are with a bit of religion to spice it up.

I have lots of Slave Colonies as you might guess by the names of the right and have five races... iirc at various states of enslavement and thrall work in my empire. And two vassals.

[Steffan]

I feel your pain...
What empire you rockin' in that pic?

Its called the Haahn Foundation. (Blue guys to the bottom right)
Xenophobe, Spiritualist and Authoritarian.

All round general enslavers we are with a bit of religion to spice it up.

I have lots of Slave Colonies as you might guess by the names of the right and have five races... iirc at various states of enslavement and thrall work in my empire. And two vassals.

So like the Imperium of Man, but run by xeno scum!?
Haa, joke

[Anywhere Else But Here]

I would assume so, 130kish troops cant sustain themselves in the North African desert.

"Hold my beer." -130k troops in the North African desert

Do they have 130k mates to hold their beers for them? Because now you have 260k men to sustain in the North African desert.

[Rannoria]

"Hold my beer." -130k troops in the North African desert

Do they have 130k mates to hold their beers for them? Because now you have 260k men to sustain in the North African desert.

whoa

[Genivaria]

Its called the Haahn Foundation. (Blue guys to the bottom right)
Xenophobe, Spiritualist and Authoritarian.

All round general enslavers we are with a bit of religion to spice it up.

I have lots of Slave Colonies as you might guess by the names of the right and have five races... iirc at various states of enslavement and thrall work in my empire. And two vassals.

So like the Imperium of Man, but run by xeno scum!?
Haa, joke

Imperium of Man doesn't enslave, only purge.

[Genivaria]

The complete list of changes to Stellaris in Synthetic Dawn.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Have three highly militaristic hostile neighbours who have all declared me their rival and signed defensive and non aggression pacts with one another.

When the inevitable war comes and im outgunned and outnumbered as fuck

[The Batavia]

Have three highly militaristic hostile neighbours who have all declared me their rival and signed defensive and non aggression pacts with one another.

When the inevitable war comes and im outgunned and outnumbered as fuck

[The Huskar Social Union]

Have three highly militaristic hostile neighbours who have all declared me their rival and signed defensive and non aggression pacts with one another.

When the inevitable war comes and im outgunned and outnumbered as fuck

Well i might not be as fucked as i think i am, im out teching all of them (they are all ranked as Inferior tech to me) and my fleet can now match each individual fleet on its own (obviously 3-1 out numbered still) so i think if i can just keep teching up and adding more powerful ships into my fleet and fight around my Mil stations i could win.

My current research bonuses for each section of research are:

Physics: 54%
Society: 49%
Engineering: 53%

So im researching pretty damn quickly

[The Batavia]

Well i might not be as fucked as i think i am, im out teching all of them (they are all ranked as Inferior tech to me) and my fleet can now match each individual fleet on its own (obviously 3-1 out numbered still) so i think if i can just keep teching up and adding more powerful ships into my fleet and fight around my Mil stations i could win.

My current research bonuses for each section of research are:

Physics: 54%
Society: 49%
Engineering: 53%

So im researching pretty damn quickly

I thought you would be completely destroyed considering how you formulated it.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Well i might not be as fucked as i think i am, im out teching all of them (they are all ranked as Inferior tech to me) and my fleet can now match each individual fleet on its own (obviously 3-1 out numbered still) so i think if i can just keep teching up and adding more powerful ships into my fleet and fight around my Mil stations i could win.

My current research bonuses for each section of research are:

Physics: 54%
Society: 49%
Engineering: 53%

So im researching pretty damn quickly

I thought you would be completely destroyed considering how you formulated it.

Well they were all superior in fleet strength and matched my technology so i expected an attack quickly, but they keep holding off, and the longer they do the more advanced i get.

Ill still have to fight a two front war and will be going up against a lot of ships.

Yay one of them broke off their rivalry with me!

[Renoa]

I just discovered that a vast majority of the audio files on my computer are just sound effects from EU4 and CK2. It makes sense, I guess. I mean, who needs other music I have to pay for when I can listen to the smooth, dulcet tones of "province_tab_click.wav" ?

[Anywhere Else But Here]

Zone of Control shenanigans. In case the picture is hard to see, that's me, trying to get from Wurzburg in central Germany to Friesland in Holland, via everywhere.

[Ifreann]

Zone of Control shenanigans. In case the picture is hard to see, that's me, trying to get from Wurzburg in central Germany to Friesland in Holland, via everywhere.

I hear the Livonian Order is lovely this time of year.

[The Batavia]

Zone of Control shenanigans. In case the picture is hard to see, that's me, trying to get from Wurzburg in central Germany to Friesland in Holland, via everywhere.

Dat Commonblob tho.

[Bralia]

The politics going on in my current Victoria 2 game as America has been rather interesting.

First up was the was the war to puppet Korea that my ally Japan wanted. I jumped into the war without looking and all of a sudden it was Japan and I versus the Soviet Union, who I was NOT expecting. I was more or less planning to let Japan fail up until the USSR started making outrageous demands. Out of all of them, they sought to convert me to communism, which was unforgivable. I dispatched a fleet with two powerful armies to take the fight to Korea and see the war ended myself. And then I finally noticed that I was the war leader. Called in Germany to the war and suddenly the Russians weren't so demanding anymore. The way it played out felt like an alt-version of WWII. The Axis and America fighting side-by-side against the Comintern while the Allies stayed on the sidelines.

The time between 1908 and 1913 shall become known as the period of World War 1. Three wars total were fought, one of them being a true Great War, but all of them containing Great Powers:

--- The Great War to Dismantle the British Empire had its origins about a decade ago when the British mistreated the Irish so badly that they declared their independence. Sensing weakness in their Empire, I took my opportunity. I sailed over to Ireland and set up a puppet government. Ireland was to be an American staging base to strike the heart of the Kingdom. Years later, the nation of Canada had claimed its place as a Great Power. I did not approve of this posturing. Troops being stationed in Ireland was already an operation in progress when Canada entered the stage and that was the spark that lit the fuse. The humiliation of Canada was the initial goal of the war. And so things began. Germany and America (and midway through the war, Scandinavia) versus the United Kingdom and Canada. The most vicious battles in the war were fought between Seattle and Vancouver, crazily enough. Both sides traded severe blows to each other there. Ultimately, the occupation of the British Isles did not convince their alliance to surrender until it was shown that Canadian troops were subjugated once and for all.

--- Sensing opportunity and weakness in the German-American alliance, France struck in an effort to reconquer land lost decades ago about ~2 years into the ongoing Great War. The German army was mighty, though, and kept the French at bay. Through sheer amount of battles alone, the war with France was forced back. The only tribute extracted from the French was the tiny island of St. Pierre and Miquelon, over in Newfoundland. The thought of dissolving the French Empire was conceived of, but with so much going on in the world, the governments of America and Germany agreed to settle and deal with more immediate threats. This was the first of the three wars to be ended.

--- Merely a month or so after the French attack on Germany, Italy seized its own opportunity capitalize on the chaos in the world to declare war upon Austria, calling their ally Germany to arms. German focus shifted to the Austrians, who were now striking the heart of Germany. Germany fought a two front war fighting France's armies to dust while simultaneously beating back the Austrians and even managing to siege down key Austrian fortifications. Austria ended up overwhelmed by the attention that it was shown. Control of the war had been deferred to America, but no American troops ever actually contributed this war at all. Arrogant American diplomats eventually came to the table and made the demand to dissolve the communist Austrian government and establish a democracy, to which all parties accepted very graciously.

All in all, this was probably the most Great Power on Great Power action at once and within a relatively short period of time that I've ever experienced. A truly pleasing World War experience. I don't I've had so much fun mini-managing tactics by pausing every other day in quite some time.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Bralia become a lovely marxist lass and we can frolic in the fields and foundries with Lenin and Trotsky.

[The Norgan Alliance]

The politics going on in my current Victoria 2 game as America has been rather interesting.

First up was the was the war to puppet Korea that my ally Japan wanted. I jumped into the war without looking and all of a sudden it was Japan and I versus the Soviet Union, who I was NOT expecting. I was more or less planning to let Japan fail up until the USSR started making outrageous demands. Out of all of them, they sought to convert me to communism, which was unforgivable. I dispatched a fleet with two powerful armies to take the fight to Korea and see the war ended myself. And then I finally noticed that I was the war leader. Called in Germany to the war and suddenly the Russians weren't so demanding anymore. The way it played out felt like an alt-version of WWII. The Axis and America fighting side-by-side against the Comintern while the Allies stayed on the sidelines.

The time between 1908 and 1913 shall become known as the period of World War 1. Three wars total were fought, one of them being a true Great War, but all of them containing Great Powers:

--- The Great War to Dismantle the British Empire had its origins about a decade ago when the British mistreated the Irish so badly that they declared their independence. Sensing weakness in their Empire, I took my opportunity. I sailed over to Ireland and set up a puppet government. Ireland was to be an American staging base to strike the heart of the Kingdom. Years later, the nation of Canada had claimed its place as a Great Power. I did not approve of this posturing. Troops being stationed in Ireland was already an operation in progress when Canada entered the stage and that was the spark that lit the fuse. The humiliation of Canada was the initial goal of the war. And so things began. Germany and America (and midway through the war, Scandinavia) versus the United Kingdom and Canada. The most vicious battles in the war were fought between Seattle and Vancouver, crazily enough. Both sides traded severe blows to each other there. Ultimately, the occupation of the British Isles did not convince their alliance to surrender until it was shown that Canadian troops were subjugated once and for all.

--- Sensing opportunity and weakness in the German-American alliance, France struck in an effort to reconquer land lost decades ago about ~2 years into the ongoing Great War. The German army was mighty, though, and kept the French at bay. Through sheer amount of battles alone, the war with France was forced back. The only tribute extracted from the French was the tiny island of St. Pierre and Miquelon, over in Newfoundland. The thought of dissolving the French Empire was conceived of, but with so much going on in the world, the governments of America and Germany agreed to settle and deal with more immediate threats. This was the first of the three wars to be ended.

--- Merely a month or so after the French attack on Germany, Italy seized its own opportunity capitalize on the chaos in the world to declare war upon Austria, calling their ally Germany to arms. German focus shifted to the Austrians, who were now striking the heart of Germany. Germany fought a two front war fighting France's armies to dust while simultaneously beating back the Austrians and even managing to siege down key Austrian fortifications. Austria ended up overwhelmed by the attention that it was shown. Control of the war had been deferred to America, but no American troops ever actually contributed this war at all. Arrogant American diplomats eventually came to the table and made the demand to dissolve the communist Austrian government and establish a democracy, to which all parties accepted very graciously.

All in all, this was probably the most Great Power on Great Power action at once and within a relatively short period of time that I've ever experienced. A truly pleasing World War experience. I don't I've had so much fun mini-managing tactics by pausing every other day in quite some time.

Oh man that sounds awesome! Not only did Ireland get independence, the SU formed, Austria went communist, and even Scandinavia formed! Any chance you could get a screenshot of the world for us?

[Dakran]

I thought you would be completely destroyed considering how you formulated it.

Well they were all superior in fleet strength and matched my technology so i expected an attack quickly, but they keep holding off, and the longer they do the more advanced i get.

Ill still have to fight a two front war and will be going up against a lot of ships.

Yay one of them broke off their rivalry with me!

Have you considered space forts?

[The Huskar Social Union]

Well they were all superior in fleet strength and matched my technology so i expected an attack quickly, but they keep holding off, and the longer they do the more advanced i get.

Ill still have to fight a two front war and will be going up against a lot of ships.

Yay one of them broke off their rivalry with me!

Have you considered space forts?

Thats what i was doing, i placed defence stations with minefields at my worlds near the border of my two northern rivals (the other was to the south, but is no longer my rival, and easily the weakest of the three) as an extra layer of defence, but now we are more in a cold war stage, the tech and fleet power gap between me and them has narrowed (i still have a slight tech advantage i'd wager) so ive kept the stations around just encase, but i have a defensive pact with another large power ive came into contact with so ill have some help if a war does break out.


In the mean time ive expanded a lot and researched some more advanced robotics tech, i mean... sentient AI could never go wrong!

[Ism]

So I just finished the the Worm In Waiting chain. That was interesting.

[The Huskar Social Union]

So I just finished the the Worm In Waiting chain. That was interesting.

Never got to try it yet but ive heard interesting things about it.

[Ifreann]

So I just finished the the Worm In Waiting chain. That was interesting.

What was will be, what will be was.

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So I just finished the the Worm In Waiting chain. That was interesting.

Never got to try it yet but ive heard interesting things about it.

Seek out the Worm In Waiting, Huskar. It "loves" you.

[The Huskar Social Union]

So I just finished the the Worm In Waiting chain. That was interesting.

What was will be, what will be was.

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Never got to try it yet but ive heard interesting things about it.

Seek out the Worm In Waiting, Huskar. It "loves" you.

It can love my laser rifle when im through with it.

And how do you actually trigger it though? What are the requirements?