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Cycloneman
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Pfft, problem and solution come in a package. Too much reputation, and all our vassals are about to rebel? Just re-vassalize them whenever they rebel and cede claims to their land. Kabam, instant rep sink

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Cycloneman
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So, since we're playing as Azerbaijan rather than any one dynasty, if the mongols conquer Azerbaijan, are we gonna play as the Mongols?

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Since the Il Khanate is settled and owns all of Azerbaijan, does that mean they're eventually usurp our title to Azerbaijan?

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Wiz posted:

- Kingdoms have been fiddled with a lot.
- Some new Duchies have been added.
- Lots of events/MTTHs rebalanced.
- Pillaging is actually worthwhile.
- Mongols.

That's about it.
Can I have the mod?

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Also, if you forced the Mongols into a siege, they would get loving pissed off and burn your city to the ground when they were done. That's what happened to Baghdad, Al-Musta'sim made the Mongols besiege it, they destroyed canals that were thousands of years old, burnt the libraries, killed the fleeing civilians, and razed the city. This had a powerful effect on whether or not other people were willing to let the Mongols in without a siege.

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NihilCredo posted:

Wait, whose blood would the archer drink? Could a mare be bled enough to sustain a man without collapsing?
I'm pretty sure Mongols had more than one horse at a time, so they could switch between them and ride for longer.

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1) No
2) No, I wanna see the Delhi sultanate still intact.
3) Yes
4) Yes
5) No.

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Reveilled posted:

So this would create a different dynamic, I think, for class relations and the emergence of left-wing thought in Japan if the Ikko-Ikki win. I would say the appearance of a radical left wing agenda like Communism would be inevitable in the conditions created by the Industrial revolution, but the ideology itself could have some very important differences if this world's Marx and Engles lived in Nagasaki instead of London.
Some kind of Liberation theology-derived revolutionary socialism, rather than an atheistic class-struggle-based one? That'd be super cool to see emerge as dominant.

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Kavak posted:

Okay, I guess this was part of the Hohenzollern thread rather than LP, but what the hell is up with the stuff about trains?
Modernizers wanted to industrialize the glorious German nation with more trains, but then there was a war with France and a bunch of other countries* and they got a really bad rep, even though Germany was doing fine. So now, whenever there is any talk of "modernism" - things like "tolerance," and "industry" - the reactionaries instantly associate it with the "failed" policies of the Modernizers.

In point of fact, here is the front with France directly before the fall of the Modernizers:

and after:


I rest my case.

* this war only occurred because the (then heavily reactionary) Reichstag was colossal jackasses, ruining relations with the rest of Europe by claiming they wanted to make a peace to last and then stealing a bunch of territory from France and Iberia.

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It's funny how much the modernizers get poo poo on even though they basically did nothing wrong. Even if we accept the idea that the modernizers were a bad thing for the German military at the time, and would've lead to a loss... pretty much the moment that there was a war, there was an emergency election and the modernizers were kicked out, sadly never to be returned. The modernizers are sort of an... October Revolution for the radical right wing of the Reichstag/Shura. The source for a convenient, absurd claim that all political opposition is military opposition, that if we dare to move even one inch to the left, we will all be murdered by anarchist bomb-throwers/the French.

Somebody ought to write a "People's History of the German Empire" overview of the Victoria era of the game, talkin' 'bout the Zuhrimani wars and later developments in the context of a country that didn't always (read: ever) like what the Reichstag chose.

e: imagine that every time there's a stack of "socialist" rebels, it's actually just a mass strike that government troops put down. that's what i do.

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Munin posted:

Wouldn't the "Islamic Centre of Scholarly" be better as "Centre of Islamic Scholarity" or "Scholarly Islamic Centre"?
Or perhaps even "Center of Islamic Scholarship"!

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I vote that we become a constitutional monarchy, then promptly gently caress everyone in our country up the rear end with neo-liberal bullshit until the Communists take over in democratic elections and abolish the monarchy.

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Phlegmish posted:

This is off-topic, but is there a thread about Dawntide on SA? I can't find one at first glance.
Let me check.

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Quarter the number of provinces in Europe, double the number in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

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alistair posted:

Wiz, have you ever considered charging money for a Paradox LP? Or witholding your updates until you hit a certain number of "donations"? I can't speak for anyone else, but I would definitely pay.
That would probably demotivate him, actually, since it would make this a job rather than something he does in his spare time for fun. Also, shut up.

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Wiz posted:

The only ones that aren't balanced towards the rest are New World (have superior units for their tech level since they'll always lag behind in tech)
What does that mean for the Cherokee in this game? Are their soldiers currently around as good as Western ones? Worse? Better?

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Talas posted:

Yucatan sounds like a good name then.
"Yucatan" is a Spanish corruption of a Mayan phrase meaning, "I don't understand you." The Spaniards might still be stupid enough to use the name, but they don't have to.

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Sorry if you've said before and I just missed it, but why are both Spanish and Portuguese colonies revolting into the same country?

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cwDeici posted:

Hey guys, I'm trying to run the Hohen mod for In Nomine, but ever since buying the complete EU3 pack every time I download EU3 it automatically installs itself as Divine Wind. :(
Any ideas? Or is there a better thread for me to be asking this?

Thanks.
Fun2EU (which works for DW) has a scenario that's modelled after the Hohen mod (France split between north and South, Grenada owning most of Spain, pagan Finland, etc).

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The Cherokee need to take advantage of the instability in the various colonies to grab a few provinces. And by "few provinces," I mean, the whole of the Americas. America for Americans.

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Zeroisanumber posted:

We'd more or less wiped them out or confined them to Indian Reservations by that time. It's a sad, shameful story.
By 1800? Nah. White folks had barely set foot in Kansas, for example.

e: And by "barely set foot," I mean the first permanent white settlement wouldn't be until 1827.

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Arglebargle III posted:

50% is the number I have heard quoted myself. Huge, still, but different.

I think in this timeline for the Cherokee to be doing so well there may have been a visionary Jesuit or someone similar who introduced smallpox vaccination to the Cherokee upon contact after seeing what had happened to the Caribbean peoples.
The Cherokee were still an independent, modernizing society at this point in Real World history, so...

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Arglebargle III posted:

This absolutely untrue Eurocentric garbage. Smallpox vaccination was practiced in several places around the world long before Enlightenment Europeans started doing it. China in specific but I believe it was developed independently in other places as well.
That was inoculation, not a vaccine.

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What's the gameplay purpose of Azerimod's increased inflation?

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Gladi posted:

The Roman Empire fell in 1921. :colbert: Your liking or disliking of the name of the polity does not change that.
1923, actually.

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Flag for communist Azerbaijan (or anyone, really):

And proper game size:

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QuoProQuid posted:

My mistake. For some reason I was thinking that Germany had become a Republic at the end of EU3. I don't know why.
Because they did, but then they got their asses whooped and turned back into dirty monarchist scum.

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Wiz posted:

I would also like to note that the two most important countries are in the scenario:
Neither of these is Bhutan, you're a liar.

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Patter Song posted:

Totally agree that Cherokee noblemen would effectively consider themselves the same as the Europeans, even if not all white people shared that judgement. Honestly, I think there could be some sort of situation where the aristocracy/elite in the European and colonial countries viewing the Cherokee as de facto white and Cherokee gentlemen as the same as a gentleman from Poland or whatever while the commoners in those same European countries view them as "filthy Injun savages."
Why in the world would the commoners believe it if the elites didn't?

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Patter Song posted:

The commoners in New England will include a lot of people who just want to colonize the gently caress out of Tennessee and won't understand why the government in Boston/Philadelphia/New York/whatever New England's capital is is holding them back from war with the savages, while the government appreciates both Cherokee's power and its legitimacy as a diplomatic partner.
Yeah but it was a realistic possibility for the European states in the Americas to wreck the Natives' poo poo and give their land to commoners who (as commoners are wont to do) want land. Whereas ITTL, the Cherokee are a huge, supermilitarized modern state who would be really hard to mess with, and I think that the general public would understand that.

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Alikchi posted:

I am no biologist, but I know someone who is and has comment on the potato thing:
I thought the problem (not in Diamond's book, never read it) with Australia's agriculture (or lack thereof) was that all the domesticatable crops native to Australia are all perennial crops (rather than annual ones), which don't seem to have formed the staple of many civilizations, much less the very beginnings of agriculture.

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Wiz posted:

So I'm having a weird issue and hoping someone has the V2 modding experience to tell me what's going on: I can't get any of my countries to have slave POPs. Regardless of their slavery policy, ruling party etc their slaves turn into farmers upon starting the game. I've tried comparing country and history files to countries that have slave POPs in vanilla (like the US) and I seriously can't figure out what's going on.
Did you make individual states into slave states?

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Maximum Hitler only happened in HoI2 anyways. Wiz isn't going to port it into HoI2, so it's all good.

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Rannos22 posted:

Apparently, in order to be a Perfect Flag you need to not be a tricolor and not have any images on it but also not be boring and represent your country's history :psyduck:
Images are fine, just don't use photographic type ones - they should be iconic. Like he says, Albania is pushing it. Ideal flag designs are possible to reproduce with a pen and paper, not awful messes.

I think his rules are generally correct, though there are some I think he rated way worse than they should be because he focuses on visual noise that doesn't really get read. For example, look at the low-rated Brazil and Iran; they have distinctive, visually pleasing designs, even though they could probably be simplified a bit without a problem (get rid of the text on Iran's and simplify the blue ball on Brazil's), the overcomplicated elements don't make the flag difficult to read/reproduce. They could be removed and it would be easily recognizable and cleaner, but even with them they don't make it ugly. A counterexample of overcomplification would be, say, the Falklands flag, where there's a sheep on an island on a boat with text underneath it, so there's no real way to "correct" or "simplify" this without making a flag that's very different looking, and I think Argentina should take the islands from the UK just so I never have to see that flag again.

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Can countries that start as a democracy even become a monarchy?

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