PDOX Games VIII: Communism Will Win

[The Rich Port]

As long as it is indeed the craftsmen I can make it happen.

I passed lots of reforms as Germany... Not fast enough, though, evidently, cuz at one point I had 2 million Socialists and then 1 million Communists organizing into coups because of my policies.

The game's almost over and I'm still a constitutional monarchy, no Jacobin uprisings.

On the other hand, France and Austria are fascists because, to be fair, I've been bullying them the entire game, so XD

No. No reforms. You are autocrat. You give the people nothing. It makes them angrier and more likely to turn to communism.

I'm a good king tho with a constitution and everything XD

I kinda wanted to become a republic so I could get a more exciting map name than "Germany". I kinda liked the German Empire. Maybe I can start rolling reforms back if I keep the Nationalists in power?

[Lunas Legion]

No. No reforms. You are autocrat. You give the people nothing. It makes them angrier and more likely to turn to communism.

I'm a good king tho with a constitution and everything XD

I kinda wanted to become a republic so I could get a more exciting map name than "Germany". I kinda liked the German Empire. Maybe I can start rolling reforms back if I keep the Nationalists in power?

You'll need whatever your reactionary party is to do that.

[The Rich Port]

I'm a good king tho with a constitution and everything XD

I kinda wanted to become a republic so I could get a more exciting map name than "Germany". I kinda liked the German Empire. Maybe I can start rolling reforms back if I keep the Nationalists in power?

You'll need whatever your reactionary party is to do that.

Some German word XD

Nationalisneinnatzipartei

[Lunas Legion]

You'll need whatever your reactionary party is to do that.

Some German word XD

Nationalisneinnatzipartei

Beautiful. I could scream that angrily at someone and they'd think I was insulting them.

[Bralia]

The first major patch for I:R is going to be a big one, they're already reworking entire mechanics.

Game so shite at launch Paradox releases large patch to save their heads from the rebels.

I guarantee you that they've been working on this 1.1 patch ever since, or even maybe even the beginnings of these changes, before the code freeze. People need to remember that Paradox is always two steps ahead of everyone else, when one DLC drops you can be assured that the next one is well in the works.

Ok guys, a question. How does one increase the number of trade routes? (Specifically, I need one trade route in a province so I can build ships there).

You can tweak your commerce setting in the economy window to provide a trade route, at the cost of direct commerce income.

Imperator: Rome?

Current state of my world

Started a second actual Ironman Icenia run through this time around, and honestly it's gone a lot better. Taking some lessons learned from my first "practice" game. Primarily, how to manage the tribes, which are actually OP when you use them right.

I've been lucky enough to avoid any big troubles except from a civil war some three provinces into my expansion.
Fortunately, I was in a pretty safe spot with the alliance/defensive pact I had built, so I was able to clean it up, restore my manpower pool and return to the conquering.

I appreciate how mercurial the alliances are actually. Means I'm not waiting decades for an opportunity.

Also pictured, me civilising the tribes. I'm actually almost caught up on Macedon. So much for the cultured greeks

You GOTTA get that Scorpio invention. I've been taking every single siege related invention and I feel like it's done wonders at making sure I finish wars before anybody else can really ravage my lands.

[The Rich Port]

Also, the African Opium War. Wot.

[Abserdia]

1.) I think the cheese-meta for avoiding the Civil War is to make every state a slave state so Northern con/mil goes up high enough to outlaw slavery. Otherwise though, slave states just make the ACW more annoying/less annoying depending on which side you take.
2.) Infamy slowly goes down on its own, but you can also release puppets and take decisions/event choices that lower it. Hawaii might be a good nation to release if you've already colonized the Pacific.
3.) There's not really a trick as far as I know. Just let communist pops rebel and overthrow your government.

Trick with commies is encourage the strata that join the commie party; so craftsmen, and use the encourage party loyalty in your most populous states. Also tax the everloving shit out of them, pick any events that raise militancy or consciousness, pass no reforms of any kind ever.

Although you might get a fascist uprising instead.

I found a 2010 forum post that might still be relevant. Pretty much everything Lunas said. High MIL + high support for social reforms = communism.

[Bralia]

Johan, shut up, I literally just said this.

[Abserdia]

Johan, shut up, I literally just said this.

Have we ever seen Bralia and Johan in the same room together?

[Impaled Nazarene]

Johan, shut up, I literally just said this.

Stop reminding me that the Stellaris guy did this game...

[The Rich Port]

Johan, shut up, I literally just said this.

Stop reminding me that the Stellaris guy did this game...

XD wait wha happun with Stellaris and Imperator?

[Bralia]

Johan, shut up, I literally just said this.

Stop reminding me that the Stellaris guy did this game...

?

Henrik Fahraeus, the CK2 guy, was the first Game Director for Stellaris.

[North German Realm]

Also, I was thinking of running the USA in Victoria 2. I have several questions I haven't been able to find answers to.

1.) Does it really matter whether I make free or slave states? It seems to have delayed the Civil War for about ten years. It began in 1890 and I ended in 1892. I guess it makes it easier?

2.) Is there any way to lower infamy? I was thinking of maybe uniting the American continent but everything in the New World is "civilized" -_- I can't figure any way except maybe a great war with all of the southern states in a coalition.

3.) Is there a trick to going Communist. No reason, just curious. >u>

1- As a general rule (if you're playing Vanilla), the "slave" states will necessarily join the Confederacy while the "Free" states remain in the Union. That's basically for deciding what your "chosen territory" is beforehand if you wanna play a Confederacy run. In HFM, if you appease the slave states too much, some of the Free States might try to revolt as "The Free States of America", which is honestly a more interesting idea imo.

2- If you're not using console, no. It just naturally gets decreased a small amount per month. There are decisions that can lower that (Signing the Geneva Convention, for example).

3- I'm not sure I get your point. Do you mean "why should I go communist" or "how do I go communist"?

Which reminds me,

You know you're fucked when even Switzerland hates you

(Depicted: France and the relations of her neighbors, I played Germany, while A-H, Netherlands, Italy, and the UK ere also GPs)

[Grenartia]

>mfw i push a kid out of the sandbox and realize i just won a sandbox

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That Turkey's so fucking big, I want to fry it for Thanksgiving.

So again it's basically just acknowledging that trans people exist.

In others words; diversity for diversity's sake.

Good fucking godless heathens, that's a nuclear shittake.

I don't care what a character is so long as they aren't horribly written, which Token Diverse Characters™ always are.

I have yet to see the number of "terribly written/implemented" non-white and/or queer characters surpass the number of well written and implemented non-white and/or queer characters.

I'm sorry but if I was gay I wouldn't give two shits about a gay character being portrayed in media if it's done poorly - I'd much rather have my demographic be portrayed accurately and realistically or not at all.

Congratulations, you are now an SJW.

You don't get to be in media just because you exist; that's an idiotic argument.

I fail to see how. Media is inherently a reflection of reality, and of the human experience, or at least, our perceptions of it. Its the mirror through which we see ourselves and the world around us. Therefore, whatever exists should be viewable in that mirror.

You're just playing devil's advocate for shitty writing.

Other than that one thing in Mass Effect Andromeda, I've yet to see a minority character that *is* shitty writing. And even then, nobody actually stood up to defend that.

As an aspiring writer myself, I must say I'm a bit disgusted by that. When I write minority characters I don't write them as minorities; I write them as people. There is no excuse for any other so-called "writer" not doing the same.

Congrats, you're still an SJW. Welcome to the club.

Stop apologizing for hack writing.

It feels like you're attacking a massive strawman here.

[United Muscovite Nations]

Imperator might be a good game if they took out the retarded barbarian system that causes Egypt of all places to be the target of the vast majority of barbarian hordes in the game for the odd reason that much of its territory is desert.

[Bralia]

I literally just enslaved 20% of the Makedonian population. The amount of them in the province of Sparta alone makes me feel like a real woman again for the first time in years.

[The Rich Port]

So... Nomadics in CK2.

Should I stay nomadic or nah. Not gonna lie, I love having a massive, nigh unstoppable army, but the idea of losing all of the turf I've gained really turns me off, not to mention micro-managing the clans and the council is really fucking annoying.

I've reformed the Tengri faith to be Unyielding, Equal, RIDERS OF THE SKY, and Temporal. My guy is not only the Hero of the Eagle Warriors, he is also the Tengrikiz and also the Khan of the Uyghurs. Sadly, not Genghis Khan, since he's not a Mongol ._.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

So... Nomadics in CK2.

Should I stay nomadic or nah. Not gonna lie, I love having a massive, nigh unstoppable army, but the idea of losing all of the turf I've gained really turns me off, not to mention micro-managing the clans and the council is really fucking annoying.

I've reformed the Tengri faith to be Unyielding, Equal, RIDERS OF THE SKY, and Temporal. My guy is not only the Hero of the Eagle Warriors, he is also the Tengrikiz and also the Khan of the Uyghurs. Sadly, not Genghis Khan, since he's not a Mongol ._.

Do you own a Mongol province? If so, there is a possibility to become Mongol...

[Alvecia]

Imperator: Rome?

Current state of my world

Started a second actual Ironman Icenia run through this time around, and honestly it's gone a lot better. Taking some lessons learned from my first "practice" game. Primarily, how to manage the tribes, which are actually OP when you use them right.

I've been lucky enough to avoid any big troubles except from a civil war some three provinces into my expansion.
Fortunately, I was in a pretty safe spot with the alliance/defensive pact I had built, so I was able to clean it up, restore my manpower pool and return to the conquering.

I appreciate how mercurial the alliances are actually. Means I'm not waiting decades for an opportunity.

Also pictured, me civilising the tribes. I'm actually almost caught up on Macedon. So much for the cultured greeks

You GOTTA get that Scorpio invention. I've been taking every single siege related invention and I feel like it's done wonders at making sure I finish wars before anybody else can really ravage my lands.

Cheers, I’ll make a note.

[Nocturnalis]

I love it when a pretender to the throne raises a rival army, only to be dismissed a year later. Free armies are always a good thing.

The first major patch for I:R is going to be a big one, they're already reworking entire mechanics.

Adding of features from previous PDS games like moving capitals and regnal numbers on monarchs

I am so glad I did not pay full price for this game.

[Platypus Bureaucracy]

Imperator might be a good game if they took out the retarded barbarian system that causes Egypt of all places to be the target of the vast majority of barbarian hordes in the game for the odd reason that much of its territory is desert.

They love sand. It's coarse and rough and...wait, what?

[Bralia]

And so the Argead dynasty dies as the Agiad dynasty ascends. They don't have long now, two more wars should do it. Really wish the Seleukids and Egyptians would stop protecting them, they haven't done a damn thing all game.

[Phoenicaea]

^ @Braila, isn t him Argead, Phyrrus? does it mean mine family has got possible friends in Egypt and Babylon?

i don t know at what age i will throw Phyrrus in campaigning, i fear i won t be able to war untill he is too old. it needs lenghty years to prepare the country.

[Bralia]

. . . I did not understand a single word of that.

[The Rich Port]

So... Nomadics in CK2.

Should I stay nomadic or nah. Not gonna lie, I love having a massive, nigh unstoppable army, but the idea of losing all of the turf I've gained really turns me off, not to mention micro-managing the clans and the council is really fucking annoying.

I've reformed the Tengri faith to be Unyielding, Equal, RIDERS OF THE SKY, and Temporal. My guy is not only the Hero of the Eagle Warriors, he is also the Tengrikiz and also the Khan of the Uyghurs. Sadly, not Genghis Khan, since he's not a Mongol ._.

Do you own a Mongol province? If so, there is a possibility to become Mongol...

I do, actually XD moving the capital, I assume.