PDOX Games VIII: Communism Will Win

[The Huskar Social Union]

Got my achievement, and slowly but surely we are winning the war despite spain throwing a spanner in the works and attacking me the second i capitulated Italy

[Washington Resistance Army]

So, me and UMN started up a WW1 game last night in HoI4 and I feel like it's been going decently. I'm playing Mexico and he's the Ottoman Empire and we're both in the Central Powers. He has the Middle East on lock and firmly under our control, Eastern Europe has already fallen and been replaced with a bunch of German puppets while the USSR does its thing. Germany has been pushed back into the Rhineland but the lines have stabilized a bit as France has run out of manpower and it's fallen to the other Entente members to try and continue the offensives. Italy did its usual thing and switched sides but they've barely made any progress even against an Austria-Hungary that is focusing elsewhere.

Over on the Mexican front things have been hectic at times but the Porfiriato stands strong and has been responsible for the deaths of no less than a million Americans and a couple hundred thousand other Entente casualties. Even the US is starting to show serious equipment deficits while us in the Central Powers are still going strong so I'm mildly hopeful we can pull out a win.

I only got one screenshot because it was really late when we stopped but as you can see even after nearly 2 years the Entente has made little progress in knocking me out of the war.

[Impaled Nazarene]

So, me and UMN started up a WW1 game last night in HoI4 and I feel like it's been going decently. I'm playing Mexico and he's the Ottoman Empire and we're both in the Central Powers. He has the Middle East on lock and firmly under our control, Eastern Europe has already fallen and been replaced with a bunch of German puppets while the USSR does its thing. Germany has been pushed back into the Rhineland but the lines have stabilized a bit as France has run out of manpower and it's fallen to the other Entente members to try and continue the offensives. Italy did its usual thing and switched sides but they've barely made any progress even against an Austria-Hungary that is focusing elsewhere.

Over on the Mexican front things have been hectic at times but the Porfiriato stands strong and has been responsible for the deaths of no less than a million Americans and a couple hundred thousand other Entente casualties. Even the US is starting to show serious equipment deficits while us in the Central Powers are still going strong so I'm mildly hopeful we can pull out a win.

I only got one screenshot because it was really late when we stopped but as you can see even after nearly 2 years the Entente has made little progress in knocking me out of the war.

I always join the Allies as the Ottomans because all the land Mehmed wants is to the north.

[Purpelia]

The WW1 mod has such great potential but is screwed over by the fact it has too many scripted things.

[United Muscovite Nations]

So, me and UMN started up a WW1 game last night in HoI4 and I feel like it's been going decently. I'm playing Mexico and he's the Ottoman Empire and we're both in the Central Powers. He has the Middle East on lock and firmly under our control, Eastern Europe has already fallen and been replaced with a bunch of German puppets while the USSR does its thing. Germany has been pushed back into the Rhineland but the lines have stabilized a bit as France has run out of manpower and it's fallen to the other Entente members to try and continue the offensives. Italy did its usual thing and switched sides but they've barely made any progress even against an Austria-Hungary that is focusing elsewhere.

Over on the Mexican front things have been hectic at times but the Porfiriato stands strong and has been responsible for the deaths of no less than a million Americans and a couple hundred thousand other Entente casualties. Even the US is starting to show serious equipment deficits while us in the Central Powers are still going strong so I'm mildly hopeful we can pull out a win.

I only got one screenshot because it was really late when we stopped but as you can see even after nearly 2 years the Entente has made little progress in knocking me out of the war.

I always join the Allies as the Ottomans because all the land Mehmed wants is to the north.

I want Egypt.

[Impaled Nazarene]

I always join the Allies as the Ottomans because all the land Mehmed wants is to the north.

I want Egypt.

Your icon made that clear

[Washington Resistance Army]

The WW1 mod has such great potential but is screwed over by the fact it has too many scripted things.

This tbh.

Like, get this, the Qing Dynasty actually won the Xinhai Revolution in our game and I thought that was awesome. But then the event said they lost, and the revolution just kept happening again and again because the Qing aren't supposed to win.

If your mod is narrative driven sure it's fine to have lots of scripted stuff but in a general sandbox type of mod it's fucking stupid to have that amount of nonsense.

[Purpelia]

The WW1 mod has such great potential but is screwed over by the fact it has too many scripted things.

This tbh.

Like, get this, the Qing Dynasty actually won the Xinhai Revolution in our game and I thought that was awesome. But then the event said they lost, and the revolution just kept happening again and again because the Qing aren't supposed to win.

If your mod is narrative driven sure it's fine to have lots of scripted stuff but in a general sandbox type of mod it's fucking stupid to have that amount of nonsense.

And if the game is a semi historical sandbox game narrative mods don't make sense to begin with.

[Thuzbekistan]

Why is my EU4 shutting down when I go to the main menu?

[Ifreann]

Why is my EU4 shutting down when I go to the main menu?

It does that to make sure the game state is reset. Prevents cheating.

[Holy Tedalonia]

This tbh.

Like, get this, the Qing Dynasty actually won the Xinhai Revolution in our game and I thought that was awesome. But then the event said they lost, and the revolution just kept happening again and again because the Qing aren't supposed to win.

If your mod is narrative driven sure it's fine to have lots of scripted stuff but in a general sandbox type of mod it's fucking stupid to have that amount of nonsense.

And if the game is a semi historical sandbox game narrative mods don't make sense to begin with.

I struggle to call HoI4 a sandbox game. As there is very little you can do to the map that actually allows creativity and customization.

It strikes me more like a grand scenario map that allows you to play from multiple governments.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Why is my EU4 shutting down when I go to the main menu?

It wants you to play a good game.

[Ithalian Empire]

Why is my EU4 shutting down when I go to the main menu?

It wants you to play a good game.

[The Imperial Reach]

Why is my EU4 shutting down when I go to the main menu?

It wants you to play a good game.

[Impaled Nazarene]

It wants you to play a good game.

Actually it might be trying to get you to preorder Rome

[The Imperial Reach]

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Actually it might be trying to get you to preorder Rome

Never go full preorder.

[Ifreann]

Actually it might be trying to get you to preorder Rome

Never go full preorder.

Just €69.99 and you could have Bloodlines 2 a whole day early!



He says, as if he wasn't definitely going to spend €89.99 on the even more deluxe version.

[The Imperial Reach]

So, the Taid are bullshit. Somehow this literally nobody-ass dynasty has managed to go from ruling over some big-ass duchy to conquering all of Tibet, India, and most of Turan. I had to forcefully remove them from Persia and they're still insanely powerful. I knocked them down to 60k and now they're back at 90k somehow; God knows how.

On the bright side, China keeps making them their bitch so that's always funny to watch. I'm close enough to interact with China now so I can get these sweet, sweet Chinese boons. I once remove the stain that is the Taid Empire from the map I plan to inevitably invade China and put an Isaurian on the throne. Alas, the arrival of the Aztecs and Mongols draws ever nearer. Fortunately as I expand my levies increase so I'll soon be able to hold them off when they inevitably show up.

I've started handing out kingdom-tier titles to vassals in order to reduce the number of faction members drastically. I just know it's going to bite me in the ass later but I'll deal with that when the time comes.

My Byzantine Empire is so large I feel like I need to rework my military strategy. Before I was simply lumping it all into a single, mighty, doomstack of death and destruction. But seeing as the Taid are the only ones who can even come close to matching me in sheer numbers, I think I'll start switching up my strategy.

I'm going to start raising my levies based on their location more instead of just raising them all when facing numerically large opponents. I've got about 20k personal levies, 80k vassal levies, 4k Varangians, and 7k Holy Order I can call upon. What I'm going to start doing is just raise what I need so as to avoid unnecessary attrition crippling my armies and my vassals getting pissy because I raised their troops. I think I'll start selecting them by what continent their on; African levies raised for wars in Africa, Asian levies for wars in Asia, European levies for wars in Europe + my own personal levies, the Holy Order, and of course Varangians.

Side note: I haven't been in a civil war for 100-200 years now due to constant assassinations, bribes, and non-aggression pacts. Unfortunately as I get larger this is becoming harder to avoid. I've only just barely managed to avoid several civil wars recently and as I get larger it will become harder to avoid them. I think I might be due for another soon as I'm fairly sure more than half of my vassals are in one faction or another.

Also, the Taid executed one of my imprisoned relatives I was trying to liberate so I took one of the Emperor's (a king-tier, no less!) and castrated, blinded, tortured, and humiliated him before throwing him into the oubliette. Just because the Taid are pissing me off. Oh, and I think they lost their war against the Western Protectorate - though that was inevitable tbh.

Abbasids pulled some serious bullshit in Ethiopia when I was trying to take Semien: I'd siege their castles, but for some reason the sieges would keep destroying my armies despite vastly outnumbering the defenders.

Heretics keep popping up even though I constantly have 100% moral authority, muddling my beautiful religious map.

Currently holy warring Germania for Friuli. Somehow a pagan took old of Orthodox Mazovia and then converted to Catholicism - suffice to say that pissed me off.

Consider: viceroys.

Fuck no; too annoying.

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Paradox, how did you make Khaganates THIS over-fucking-powered?
The only good thing to come of this might be the Pope executing Order 422 a few hundred years early.

Ok Charlemagne just got the bubonic plague and the plague has not spawned on the map or anything. Do immortal characters just randomly attract deadly diseases or is the game trying THAT hard to kill me?

Okay how the fuck are you that big in 800? Wtf?

Also, cursed image; HRE should never be that big.

[Impaled Nazarene]

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Paradox, how did you make Khaganates THIS over-fucking-powered?
The only good thing to come of this might be the Pope executing Order 422 a few hundred years early.

Ok Charlemagne just got the bubonic plague and the plague has not spawned on the map or anything. Do immortal characters just randomly attract deadly diseases or is the game trying THAT hard to kill me?

Okay how the fuck are you that big in 800? Wtf?

Also, cursed image; HRE should never be that big.

Papal claims + Slavic vassals having good claims + mercenaries + Immortal Charlemagne = a lot of fucking land. Most slavic nations are tiny so 1 holy war wipes them out, spam holy wars = a fuck ton of land. Revoke heathen titles replace with Christians, christian vassals in slavic lands wage holy wars of their own.

[Ism]

So I finished my Ireland game, and I gotta say Crusades are ridiculously op. I was getting like, 16k paydays every time one rolled around.

[Valrifell]

So I finished my Ireland game, and I gotta say Crusades are ridiculously op. I was getting like, 16k paydays every time one rolled around.

They're never not worth it.

[Ithalian Empire]

So I finished my Ireland game, and I gotta say Crusades are ridiculously op. I was getting like, 16k paydays every time one rolled around.

Its like large wars waged in popular causes are profitable to the winners.

[Thuzbekistan]

Why is my EU4 shutting down when I go to the main menu?

It wants you to play a good game.

Tough luck. I suck worse at that game than I do at hoi

[Valrifell]

It wants you to play a good game.

Tough luck. I suck worse at that game than I do at hoi

At least with EU4 I can take a middling power and make them stronk, but with HoI4 I can play as the Soviets or Germany and get my ass kicked easily.

[Washington Resistance Army]

Tough luck. I suck worse at that game than I do at hoi

At least with EU4 I can take a middling power and make them stronk, but with HoI4 I can play as the Soviets or Germany and get my ass kicked easily.

Do you even 40 width?