Let's Wear Black: A Gothic Total War/Paradox Mega-LP

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Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

What a fine time to get into this thread! I just finished catching up and suddenly EU4 is underway.

It is a great LP but if I may make one suggestion, we should restore the rightful Amaling dynasty to power. Only then can Gothia-Rome truly bestride the world.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2016 19:20

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 19:19

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Military Ideas! We are The Goths, not some soft landowners grown fat off the humiliated people - we must take what is ours with axe and horse!

# ¿ Nov 11, 2016 04:17

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

tunapirate posted:

whos tina and why does she get a whole country

Ofaloaf please edit the game so Tina's ruling dynasty are the Belchers.

# ¿ Dec 12, 2016 00:40

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Ofaloaf posted:

For Hispanians, I've just been defaulting to Latin for everything. Gothic Romance was relatively easy because it's just one or two actual languages smooshed together, but I don't have the chops for actually conlanging something new together. I'd assume the language(s) spoken in the Iberian Peninsula would just be Latin after an extra thousand years of drift and seeping of the vernacular into what was Classical Latin, but I can't figure out what that'd sound like. I've had it argued that it'd largely just be Spanish, but I dunno.

In this timeline, many of the Roman successor states developed Romance languages precisely identical to ours, but in different places. So our Spanish is their Romanian, our Italian is their Gascon, our Dalmatian is their Spanish, etc. etc.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2016 01:08

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Lord Cyrahzax posted:

Traitor! Heretic! False emperor and falser king! Tiuderic the Mad has stolen Gothia from the bosom of Mother Church and butchered her children for the sake of his vanity and greed! He has destroyed Gothia and the House of Triarius's rightful place in the empire and world, for nothing! This man, this creature, this thing, is no true sovereign of we proud and faithful Goths! How could it be so? No, he is an agent of discord and evil, a demon in stolen flesh, here to funnel weak-willed souls to his master in Hell, while destroying God's own sword and shield in Europe!

It cannot stand! It will not! Death to Tiuderic! Death to the Concilarist traitors!

Never stop :allears:

# ¿ Feb 19, 2017 21:11

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

I must vote for A, for my conscience dictates it.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2017 20:08

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

In days long past, Attila forged his empire and we forged ours by going West. The cyclical nature of reality* suggest we will find great wealth if we do the same.

* May not be an entirely orthodox aspect of our faith, but we're not Orthodox anymore!

# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 21:46

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Coward posted:

Only to find out that Japan was inside us all along.

Maybe the real Japan was the friends we made along the way :nyoron:

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 04:22

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

The Conciliarist Evangelical Union!

# ¿ Jul 2, 2017 02:18

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Lord Cyrahzax posted:

And holy poo poo, Thrace and Mali.

Abyssinia, too!

# ¿ Jul 27, 2017 07:30

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

TRADE DOSH. The modern Rome rests on global, growing trade, from the Americas to the Far East. The more we aid this the stronger we become.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2018 07:58

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Californippon

# ¿ Feb 8, 2018 08:08

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Pakled posted:

It'll be like Victoria 1 where the UK always ends up taking a bunch of useless provinces in Siberia

Gotta colonize someone :shrug:

# ¿ Mar 15, 2018 07:28

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Crazycryodude posted:

Building the Panama Canal 200 years early is gonna result in some serious fun (and also probably a literal million deaths).

This is gonna be great, I'm super ready!

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 20:28

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

I'm liking this 50 year ahead-of-time invention of photography!

# ¿ Apr 10, 2018 05:15

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

For Britain and the druids!

# ¿ Apr 17, 2018 17:19

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

out loud what an absolutely amazing war

love too completely depopulate our fighting men to put ourselves in a WORSE position

# ¿ Apr 24, 2018 19:40

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

"It is I, daimyo Hideyoshi Triarius!"

# ¿ Apr 25, 2018 05:20

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Ofaloaf posted:

I dunno about the continuation of a Roman Empire meaning that terminology would be ossified; I could imagine that military terms changed a lot in the early middle ages as everything imploded and Germanic dudes ran amok everywhere, simply because there would be scant few legions to turn to and everybody ended up using peasant levies anyways.

There must be a ton of jackasses who claim to be the continuation of old Legions, even now. Just imagine the amount of accolades, campaign medals, banners, etc., that one would have if it genuinely could trace its heritage back to the Empire though :allears:

# ¿ Apr 26, 2018 06:27

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

The worst part is that you're gonna have some noble families, especially in Hispania, that can unironically trace their lines back to the 3rd century -- and maybe even earlier. Even with all the chaos and believed fabrications, the sheer smugness of those old old old patricians must be unimaginable to our modern sensibilities.

I admit that I would be pretty drat smug if I could trace a family tree back over 1500 years pretty much regardless of who is in there. That level of genealogical fidelity is yummy to me.

Actually yes, kindly rework the LP so it is now the detailed history of a single familoh no it's CK2

# ¿ Apr 27, 2018 06:23

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

lol just lol that this many had to die because we misread a call to arms

# ¿ May 9, 2018 06:02

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

This kind of sperging is why we love you :allears:

# ¿ May 9, 2018 15:04

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Goths HORNY

BenRGamer posted:

So 1836 is the EUIV end date?

Typically it ends on January 2nd, 1821, but I presume Ofaloaf extended it to '36 so they could go straight into Vicky 2 (Which starts on Jan 1st 1836) rather than having to account for the intervening years, either with non-gameplay narrative or by going through March of the Eagles, which would require its own mod conversion enterprise that nobody can be faulted for wishing to avoid because that's a huge amount of work for a very short period of time.

# ¿ May 13, 2018 22:46

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Lord Cyrahzax posted:

Which flag is supposed to be which ideology here?

# ¿ May 24, 2018 20:53

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

BenRGamer posted:

So with Paradox buying HBS, who here wants to see Gothia in BattleTech

Now I want a fantastically over-armed Assault Mech that has like zero heatsinks called Tiuderic XIII

# ¿ Jun 7, 2018 05:54

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Ofaloaf posted:

Victoria II is an intensely convoluted game that is rife with bizarre design decisions and complicated mechanics which I'm not sure the creators fully understood. There's a global market for resources, there's ideologies, there's revolutionaries and there's some policies which specifically take decisions out of your hands and into the hands of the frustrating AI, like liberalism's affinity for laissez-faire economics, which prohibit the player from building any factories or railroads themselves and leave that all in the hands of AI capitalist pops.

They don't; when Wiz first joined Paradox he was all fired up and announced he was going to "fix Vicky 2", to widespread laughter. After taking a look at the thing, he realized it is so arcane and unfathomable a mess that, indeed, it was beyond even understanding, let alone fixing.

Vicky 2 is their best game is what I'm saying.

# ¿ Jul 21, 2018 15:34

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

I have been wanting to mega campaign Carthage for years and years so I am very ready to sacrifice children to Moloch

# ¿ Jul 24, 2018 03:39

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

loving purple people

# ¿ Jul 28, 2018 04:35

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Extremely jazzed to see this back! Long live weirdly gender progressive Gothia!

catlord posted:

Edit: Holy gently caress, I completely forgot about whatever's going on in Central Asia.

In awe at the size of that lad. An absolute unit.

Ps I hope Evaric gets paid decently and maybe finds a little peace from the nightmares of his past. :unsmith:

# ¿ Aug 30, 2018 06:47

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Ofaloaf posted:

which of these options produces the most trains

More provinces = more room for trains and more need for them. Serendipitously enough, trains also make it easier to get to new lands which need trains. Maybe we could even make the trains themselves a vehicle of conquest, armored and armed, chugging along at 1mph as track is laid before them, and everywhere those iron roads touch shall be ours forevermore!

# ¿ Sep 1, 2018 04:23

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 19:19

Ms Adequate: Oct 30, 2011; Baby even when I'm dead and gone
You will always be my only one, my only one
When the night is calling
No matter who I become
You will always be my only one, my only one, my only one
When the night is calling

Raserys posted:

I like whichever option has no goon voting

*laughs in doric*

# ¿ Sep 1, 2018 07:36

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