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I want to play now with a couple of friends while we're self-isolating... The DLC subscription thing would actually be perfect for us right now.
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ilitarist posted:You can't play Paradox games while the next expansion is in the works anyway. It's the law. So, never? 
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Mar 20, 2020 12:20
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You can play Crusader Kings 2 now.
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fuf posted:I want to play now with a couple of friends while we're self-isolating... In MP, only one person has to have the DLC for everyone to use it. No help if y'all all have the same DLCs but otherwise, it's nice.
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Mar 20, 2020 14:28
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Yeah that helps. It's still an expensive prospect though, even just for one person and even if they've already got a few DLC!
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Mar 20, 2020 15:08
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why can't I see my friend's game in the multiplayer list?  my other friend can see it
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Mar 21, 2020 22:48
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Paradox's MP code is 25% broken all the time, just in different ways across the games. Joining through Steam should work.
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Mar 21, 2020 23:16
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ilitarist posted:You can play Crusader Kings 2 now. Nah, waiting for CK3.
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Someone in earlier in the thread mentioned turning The Knights into a Pirate Republic. What would be the easiest way to go about doing that? I know you have to somehow get them to not be a Theocracy to make it possible.
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I've tried Taungu like three times and I think I hate OPM starts now.
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Ethiser posted:Someone in earlier in the thread mentioned turning The Knights into a Pirate Republic. What would be the easiest way to go about doing that? I know you have to somehow get them to not be a Theocracy to make it possible. Honestly the Knights should just start as a Pirate Republic Theocracy, that's more or less what they were by 1444.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Wafflecopper posted:If you do this you should also culture shift to a Scandinavian culture, that way you're pirates, vikings, and knights Needs ninjas in there somewhere.
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Mar 23, 2020 22:01
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Religiously convert to Shinto, done.
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Gravity Cant Apple posted:Needs ninjas in there somewhere.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates,_Vikings_and_Knights_II
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So I've never been Netherlands before. I started as Holland, was able to get France and England to support independence day one, Surrender of Maine happened peacefully... And Burgundy just abandoned the PU. I didn't realize the AI was smart enough to see what was about to happen. Mission accomplished, but I'm way worse off than I would've been stomping Burgundy in the initial war and keeping France as an ally. Now my only ally options are Dithmarschen and... Burgundy
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couple of random questions after our MP session: How do captured ships get distributed? we had all three players in naval battles, and the same player would get all the captured ships every time. He wasn't the war leader, he didn't have the best admiral, he didn't initiate the battles... we couldn't figure out any logic to it but any captured ships would just always go to him. How come you can't sell provinces when you're in a deficit and have loans? Historically that seems like the one time a nation would want to sell provinces!
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Mar 26, 2020 00:23
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people barely understand the most basic parts of ship combat to begin with
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oddium posted:people barely understand the most basic parts of ship combat to begin with I've played 239 hours and I don't even know where to begin with the naval portion of this game, all I've got is that Galleys are good in Seas while Heavies are good in Oceans and i'm not even sure if thats 100% true
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That's a basic rule of thumb to follow. Another is that you only have a 25 combat width available to each side, which doesn't change through miltech but through admiral maneuver, ideas and the tile being a coastal sea. One side can be wider than the other too! Heavies take up 3 of those slots while other ships take up 1, but fortunately carry enough cannons to be more than 3 times the number on others. Oh, and if a ship in combat drops to 0 morale while they are engaged, they stop dealing damage entirely. So while the wiki would tell you to lump up your navy into one deathball and fight, your best bet are split fleets somewhat larger than your combat width, baiting a fight and then feeding in one after the other, like you do for max width armies in the 1750s+.
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Mar 26, 2020 03:19
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fuf posted:couple of random questions after our MP session: It's probably the first tag alphabetically or something like that. Or maybe the first player to join the multiplayer session.
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I'm trying to get back into this after the dozens of patches, expansions, and general changes over the past few years. I picked Portugal a few times since I felt like focusing on trade and colonization, but I keep getting destroyed by Morocco sooner or later, even when I give back Ceuta right at the start. Playing on Normal, no Lucky Nations. I give up as Portugal. I'm just not a good enough player despite all the hours I've sunk into this game. Do you guys have tips for a chill country to play as? Maybe I should just pick Castile and try to stay on good terms with France.
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I think Muscowy is a good chill but not too chill country. It has a nice difficulty curve: you have clear goals in the beginning and you almost inevitably become a great power with a limited focus. Hordes to the East will become a nice path to expansion and you'll mostly decide yourself how much are you going to be involved in European politics. There are some possible problems. Novogorod may stumble into some good early alliances, Ottomans may be too successful and get deep into Crimea, Lithuania and steppes. Institutions will take a long time to get to you but in mid-game you'll probably ignore Europeans and expand into Asia so it's not as bad as it looks. There's Third Rome DLC adding some mechanics and flavour but really Russia has a lot of it from the beginning so it's really optional. It may be easier to grab some achievements with it (like expanding to the Pacific Ocean before 1600) but you aren't playing for achievements, aren't you.
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Ottomans are the ultimate chill country to play as since you can't really go wrong in the first few hundred years.
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Fellblade posted:Ottomans are the ultimate chill country to play as since you can't really go wrong in the first few hundred years. Well, an inexperienced player might go mad with power and get coalitioned into the dust if they don't manage their AE well
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Wafflecopper posted:Well, an inexperienced player might go mad with power and get coalitioned into the dust if they don't manage their AE well This is what happens to me way too often when I play France and get all of the non-Calis stuff in the first war with England and then try to get Provence and Brittany too fast afterwards and move into Savoy.
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I'm just so gosh darn excited to get some more flavour pumped into the Pope and German countries next DLC, guys. 
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Mar 26, 2020 14:45
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Already got that cheevo, I'm afraid. Dithmarschen is DEADMARSCHEN to me!
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THE BAR posted:I'm just so gosh darn excited to get some more flavour pumped into the Pope and German countries next DLC, guys. Yeah these last few dev diaries have been very lame. Just release the fix for armies marching around the world god damnit.
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PittTheElder posted:Just release the fix for armies marching around the world god damnit.
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I settled on Spain to ease my way back into things. Only way I can lose is if I piss off France, which unfortunately is a real possibility since they're my rivals. If I form Spain, will I automatically lose the Castilian bonuses? They're pretty good. Phlegmish fucked around with this message at 09:40 on Mar 28, 2020 |
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Phlegmish posted:I settled on Spain to easy my way back into things. Only way I can lose is if I piss off France, which unfortunately is a real possibility since they're my rivals. Your national ideas? You get to choose between your old ideas and missions when forming a new nation. E: In Spain's case, they just add a few new missions to the Castilian set. THE BAR fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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I might form Spain and keep the Castilian traditions, then. I'm just a bit wary of getting rid of my Aragonese vassal since I'm pretty sure the AI is militarily more competent than I am, and my total army size would decrease. You guys have any military tips? I think that's my weak point, I don't understand a thing about how the fighting in this game works. I remember the best stack composition being e.g. 10/5/10?
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Phlegmish posted:I might form Spain and keep the Castilian traditions, then. I'm just a bit wary of getting rid of my Aragonese vassal since I'm pretty sure the AI is militarily more competent than I am, and my total army size would decrease. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1ITH6oNHsIlVHo2LJnR92wP5LEKiON0k2rZJ82YbYaB0/htmlview#gid=0
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Thanks! The cavalry is a much lower percentage than I expected. So at tech level 16, the most effective stack is 32/4/30? That's obviously more than any province's supply limit at that point in the game. Should I keep two 16/2/15 stacks in adjacent provinces and then feed them into the same battle?
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Phlegmish posted:Thanks! The cavalry is a much lower percentage than I expected. Yeah, split em up as needed, really only need the whole army to fight other similar armies. e: Cav isn't all that useful, cost way to much for what you get out of em, you could probably skip them and not miss out on much Azhais fucked around with this message at 11:05 on Mar 27, 2020 |
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Phlegmish posted:I might form Spain and keep the Castilian traditions, then. I'm just a bit wary of getting rid of my Aragonese vassal since I'm pretty sure the AI is militarily more competent than I am, and my total army size would decrease. You can release them as a vassal after forming Spain, I'm pretty sure?
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Azhais posted:Yeah, split em up as needed, really only need the whole army to fight other similar armies. Cav are useful early game for doing more damage compared to an equivalent amount of infantry but that requires you to be hitting your force limit without hitting your ducat limit.
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I don't suppose anyone knows if there is a drawback to changing culture as Russia? Will it break the tsardom or any missions?
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