PDX Games IX: The Pacific Bread Centaur

[Renoa]

Look at that Communist Swag

That man is absolutely blowing cigarette smoke in your face before making sure your body won't be found again until it's finally dug up during the construction of a parking lot in 2007.

[The Huskar Social Union]

That’s just how I dress most days.

Based

Based and Partisan pilled?

Indeed i think so

Look at that Communist Swag

That man is absolutely blowing cigarette smoke in your face before making sure your body won't be found again until it's finally dug up during the construction of a parking lot in 2007.

r/oddlyspecific

[Bralia]

This inspired a poll in me. I didn't think I had any ideas left.

[Sordhau]

Based

Based and Partisan pilled?

Indeed i think so

That man is absolutely blowing cigarette smoke in your face before making sure your body won't be found again until it's finally dug up during the construction of a parking lot in 2007.

r/oddlyspecific

19th century Leftist partisan fashion is the next big thing. Heloin doesn't realize it but she's a trendsetter.

[Heloin]

This inspired a poll in me. I didn't think I had any ideas left.

We have a 110 pages left before the next thread and our next tyrant, you have to sustain the idea train at least another *checks math and current rate of posting* one more year. We should have a Victoria 3 by that point to help you along to the finish line.

[Endem]

Because you knew, as well as everyone else, that they had to do a Roman Empire alt-path.

Is that a Papal secret path? On the lower right corner in the last image.

[Hispida]

Look at that Communist Swag

yet again, the people relish in victory over the forces of reaction and counter-revolution

long live the people's republic of awesome paradox models, death to the awesome paradox models people's republic

[Renoa]

Who the hell actually looks at the unit sprites? I'm usually zoomed way too far out to see them in any detail.

[Bralia]

This inspired a poll in me. I didn't think I had any ideas left.

We have a 110 pages left before the next thread and our next tyrant, you have to sustain the idea train at least another *checks math and current rate of posting* one more year. We should have a Victoria 3 by that point to help you along to the finish line.

Funny thing, when I created the last poll, I think I explicitly said that it would carry me to Vicky 3's release. Mind you, this was when I was fully expecting the game to be out in April or early May.

Who the hell actually looks at the unit sprites? I'm usually zoomed way too far out to see them in any detail.

Same, tbh.

[Heloin]

Who the hell actually looks at the unit sprites? I'm usually zoomed way too far out to see them in any detail.

I usually play small nations so I’m not zoomed that far out until quiet late in the game.

[Bralia]

???

I guess the total collapse of my ability to stay awake this morning meant nobody else stepped up? Here's the Stellaris DD.

[Sordhau]

Been playing a lot of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and it's made me want to build a Spartan Empire in CK3.

Can't wait to surf to victory on Athenian tears.

[Heloin]

Been playing a lot of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey and it's made me want to build a Spartan Empire in CK3.

Can't wait to surf to victory on Athenian tears.

“Why is the Despot moving us into these abandoned ruins?”
“Vibes.”

[Khurkhogur]

Ahh, a PDX thread. Time for a rant.
I hate EU4 so much. It's not because it's a bad game, it's because it's an excellently-designed game that's so shallow. The AI is horrible and can't really challenge the player except by cheating. During wars, rather than stand and fight, the AI goes over to your country to siege it. And everything just turns into a stupid siege race. And attrition doesn't even affect the game that much, which it absolutely should. What a horrible and unenjoyable representation of military history.
Everything is so flat on a broader scale, too. Nothing bad ever happens (bad as in actually reversing the course of the game) that isn't entirely self-inflicted. Once a country is stable and has a lot of development, it snowballs, period. Never mind that that is not how politics work at all in real life. Paradox has tried to fix this by adding disasters and stuff like that, but those are rarely that devastating.
It becomes clear what a strong game this is conceptually when you play/watch competitive MP, which is so enjoyable. But with the state that the AI is in (and always has been in), it's not a good game.

[Heloin]

Ahh, a PDX thread. Time for a rant.
I hate EU4 so much. It's not because it's a bad game, it's because it's an excellently-designed game that's so shallow. The AI is horrible and can't really challenge the player except by cheating. During wars, rather than stand and fight, the AI goes over to your country to siege it. And everything just turns into a stupid siege race. And attrition doesn't even affect the game that much, which it absolutely should. What a horrible and unenjoyable representation of military history.
Everything is so flat on a broader scale, too. Nothing bad ever happens (bad as in actually reversing the course of the game) that isn't entirely self-inflicted. Once a country is stable and has a lot of development, it snowballs, period. Never mind that that is not how politics work at all in real life. Paradox has tried to fix this by adding disasters and stuff like that, but those are rarely that devastating.
It becomes clear what a strong game this is conceptually when you play/watch competitive MP, which is so enjoyable. But with the state that the AI is in (and always has been in), it's not a good game.

It’s a great game because I remember EU2.

[Continental Free States]

Other than colonialism which somehow continues to be an issue regardless of the content pack they've released (but not the same way depending on the pack), the only issue I have with EU4 is that whole thing where a country will eventually become too big to fail. Except for Ming which collapses almost on event, every other polity, if it gets large enough, will continue to remain powerful. It's not that bad when the country in question is like idk a colonial empire so you can offset that with something, but then you get super France or (my worst experience ever) Pasai Sultanate expanding into India, Australia and Japan.

[Renoa]

Other than colonialism which somehow continues to be an issue regardless of the content pack they've released (but not the same way depending on the pack), the only issue I have with EU4 is that whole thing where a country will eventually become too big to fail. Except for Ming which collapses almost on event, every other polity, if it gets large enough, will continue to remain powerful. It's not that bad when the country in question is like idk a colonial empire so you can offset that with something, but then you get super France or (my worst experience ever) Pasai Sultanate expanding into India, Australia and Japan.

Colonization is my single biggest issue with the game and it's pretty much singlehandedly preventing me from starting a new game. Paradox fixed the issue of native Americans being too weak by severely overcorrecting in the opposite direction and made colonization an unintuitive, uninteresting chore that's way more unrealistic than how it was years ago.

[Bralia]

I'm going to end my misery by slapping this mod into all future CK3 games. I'm entirely done with the AI expanding my borders without my consent and in the dumbest possible ways.

[Bralia]

With the final ambition of conquering all of Arabia complete, I think it's time to tell the story of the Charybdizine Empire. I'll try to keep it condensed so it doesn't drag on*, but there is quite a lot of lore I developed as I went:

Haesteinn settled and created his Kingdom of Tyrhenia in the center of the world. The seat of old Rome was just a short sea away and the current seat of Rome not too far further away. The histories and gods of the Romans and the Greeks became instant hits with Haesteinn and all of his Asatru followers. So taken was he with the legends of Rome that he quickly converted to their faith, Orthodox Christianity. From our eyes, their faith must be strong and descended from greatness. Skyllapolis, the capital of the empire (known to the former locals as Cagliari) became a rich center of learning of Roman and Greek culture. Norseman very quickly adopted the practices of the locals and the surprisingly flattering nature of the "invaders" brought the Latin cultures closer to the Norse. This new culture was known as Skyllan. About ~60 years later, intense fascination and respect with Greek military tradition brought about Odyseian: the best warriors of Scandinavian and Greek origin reformed into a grand professional retinue that could terminate any grand levied army it faced.

In the wake of the recently formed Charybdizine Empire, named for the control the empire had over the waves, a quiet revelation was being discovered by the learned scholars in Skyllapolis. Centuries of research into their own past and faith, alongside the Roman's and Greece's led the clergy to determine one truth: The Fates were clear. The Apocalypse is inevitable. But not insurmountable. The fundamental ideals of the clergy shifted quickly and radically. Nothing else mattered but determining the nature of the Apocalypse. God, and his pagan forms, placed his trust in humanity, his best creation. This is humanity's test, to learn the nature of the End through the reality we live in. The sky, the stars, the earth, they all have purpose. It's the duty of all followers of the true faith to not squander our short time on this Earth and save our descendants from Fate.

When Haesteinn learned of history's greatest leaders, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Trajan, Constantine, Justinian, and so many more, he knew he didn't have much time left to live. But these legends inspired and endowed him with a sense of purpose. He was determined to inspire this level of ambition to his children. And so a grand lineage and tradition began. Every Tyrhenian ruler would be subsequently cultivated to aspire to their greatness. The conquest of Odyseion (known to the locals as Rome) was the first great city to join growing Kingdom, retaliated upon for their transgressions on the Tyrhenian peoples. Africa and Egypt were the first truly glorious conquests and show of strength to the world. And with this strength, Charybdis was declared and a religious fervor began to grip the country. Jerusalem, Antioch, and finally Charybdision itself (known to the locals as Byzantion or Constantinople) were all taken in grand holy campaigns to assert the fledgling Cataclysmic faith's authority in the world. But it wasn't enough to rise to the top, it was time to discredit and dismantle the Abrahamic faiths. Arabia was slowly conquered and subsumed. With the seat of Charybdizine power always always in the far west, on Sardinia, many would compare to the height of the Empire to Alexander's.

In the future, the empire would be remembered for a long time and in retrospect, as the Lords of the Shallow Seas. Best known for controlling trade between ALL corners of the known world and its pervasive fight against ignorance, always teaching of the world before doctrine.

*Yep, definitely failed that, this is what happens when I get carried away with RP.

[Heloin]

And I've lost Britain, and I've lost Gaul,
And I've lost Rome and, worst of all,
I've lost Lalage

For all intensive purposes Imperator is dead. Back to Rome Centurion, the Empire is lost.

[Bralia]

EUIV DD. Finland, The Hansa, and theocratic stuff.

Tired. So tired. Eye barely functional. Good night, thread.

[The Huskar Social Union]

Who the hell actually looks at the unit sprites? I'm usually zoomed way too far out to see them in any detail.

Who cares about the grand strategic situation when i can zoom in and look at my little KV-1s and T-34's go Vroooooooom across Ukraine into Poland?

What do you mean the Nazis are at Minsk and Kiev? *Zooms out* SWEET LENIN!

[Bralia]

Alternate Switzerland focus tree in a nutshell: I'm not stuck in the middle of all of you, you're stuck on this continent with ME!!!

[The Huskar Social Union]

Alternate Switzerland focus tree in a nutshell: I'm not stuck in the middle of all of you, you're stuck on this continent with ME!!!

You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large army, composed of regular troops, marching through mountains and plains. You may tell yourself, This is not my Guisan, this is not my neutral and democratic Switzerland. And you may ask yourself, how did I get here?​

Solid reference to the Talking heads

Overall it looks okay as far as focus trees go. Noticed there is no communist path but seems to be multiple democratic routes (alongside the fascist ones) so thats interesting.

[Serrus]

Alternate Switzerland focus tree in a nutshell: I'm not stuck in the middle of all of you, you're stuck on this continent with ME!!!

You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large army, composed of regular troops, marching through mountains and plains. You may tell yourself, This is not my Guisan, this is not my neutral and democratic Switzerland. And you may ask yourself, how did I get here?​

Solid reference to the Talking heads

Overall it looks okay as far as focus trees go. Noticed there is no communist path but seems to be multiple democratic routes (alongside the fascist ones) so thats interesting.

Apparently they didn't have time for the communists and might add it if they get time