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Hellioning
Jun 27, 2008

KOGAHAZAN!! posted:

I played, uh, I forget the name but whatever Zebrican nation is the one with a Posadist route, not that long ago. It was pretty fun for a while, but the run sort of spluttered to a halt eventually when the focus tree started to demand ever-larger stockpiles of nuclear weapons to progress (and I'd hosed my nuke income with the secret weapon decisions that come with permanent nuke upkeep costs). Took multiple ingame years of twiddling my thumbs and flood-building reactors to dig my way out of that hole.

I think the nations on Equus are dispreferred atm because their trees are old and grody and considered in need of an overhaul.

But if people want to know where the cool content is, I think the recommended nations UI highlights them all?

e:



Yeah, any of these is probably good?

Personally, of these, I'd avoid Stalliongrad and the Crystal Empire. Only one of Stalliongrad's path has actual content that functions, and the Crystal Empire is heavily tied into the show, features, of all things, a CYOA/visual novel esque series of events, and kind of plays second fiddle to Equestria and the Changelings. Other than that everywhere in that image is fine.

Personally, I'd recommend Aquileia (July Monarchy France), as well as the Griffonian Empire and anything under Herzland (the HRE if it was still relevent in WWI/II.)

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Rynoto
Apr 27, 2009
It doesn't help that I'm fat as fuck, so my face shouldn't be shown off in the first place.
As an addition to EaW chat if you want to do hardmode then Haukland - small island nation between the two north continents - gains the ability later in their mission tree to tame dragons and use them in their armies and the Socialist Republic of Skynavia - far northwest in the tundra - is the outside bet contender for the Griffonian Empire and subsequently has access to the most overpowered ability of being able to core every province.

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



Aquilea is a fave. New Mareland is pretty interesting too, though I've yet to successfully pull off either a Big Sister run or reclamation of Equus after the Changelings win there.

(Rosa Maledicta the Queen of Blood/Bones 4eva)

Hellioning
Jun 27, 2008

I apologize but I refuse to let anyone subject themselves to a Dread League run, even if Rosa is cool and good.

HerraS
Apr 15, 2012

Looking professional when committing genocide is essential. This is mostly achieved by using a beret.

Olive drab colour ensures the genocider will remain hidden from his prey until it's too late for them to do anything.



play the evil wizard pentarchy instead

Rynoto
Apr 27, 2009
It doesn't help that I'm fat as fuck, so my face shouldn't be shown off in the first place.

Hellioning posted:

I apologize but I refuse to let anyone subject themselves to a Dread League run, even if Rosa is cool and good.

It wouldn't be so bad if the first years weren't sitting doing nothing but waiting for the tree to progress and watching the Empire to see how quickly they reform to know if it'll even be possible.

Making a million armies armed with flintlocks and overwhelming tank lines with bodies is stupidly fun, at least. IIRC they have something insane like -50% infantry width which also stacks with the inf width from Mass Assault doctrine to make overwhelm tactics more than viable.

Rynoto fucked around with this message at 03:53 on May 24, 2023

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
Wow, my first game with the new peace conference mechanics and I don't understand them at all

Magissima
Apr 15, 2013

I'd like to introduce you to some of the most special of our rocks and minerals.
Soiled Meat

HerraS posted:

play the evil wizard pentarchy instead

If you like reading and minigames

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

The new peace conferences take a little bit to figure out, but eventually they seem mostly straight forward.

Effectively you end up bidding on provinces against other war participants. You spend your war score on getting all the easy stuff first, and then you start spending the remaining points trying to get what the other winners are trying to get.

There were some problems with the numbers and war score though last time I played. Sometimes I ended up in a situation where I was 1 point off from being able to claim every province/state.

Magissima posted:

If you like reading and minigames

Kaiserreich players.

Yaoi Gagarin
Feb 20, 2014

thats TNO players, us KR players like actually playing the game

really queer Christmas
Apr 22, 2014

VostokProgram posted:

thats TNO players, us KR players like actually playing the game

Why

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Not that I want to start a silly slap fight online, and Kaiserreich is the only mod I really play, but all the new minor tags like Poland have all been mini games and events.

Xenoborg
Mar 10, 2007

KR does eventually get to a war for most countries. TNO really only has any fighting in the Russian Warlord states, The rest of the world is JUST minigames and events until the game over screen. (Both are good depending what you are up for)

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Well, there's the proxy conflicts for the superpowers (as well as some countries that can send volunteers like Brazil on the SAW and Guangzhou with their weapon testing battallions) and the GCW

Farecoal
Oct 15, 2011

There he go
Kaiserredux is the version that still has all the fun stuff, right?

Jeremor
Jun 1, 2009

Drop Your Nuts



Trying to fight the Soviet civil war as the left opposition, just got my rear end kicked on my first attempt out of arkhangelsk. There's kind of a lot going on. I had a decent amount of divisions, but my manpower was quickly gone and the whole thing folded. I had no idea what I was doing.

Do you want to try to rush to spring the civil war sooner rather than later, or take your time? I pretty much went down all the civil war focuses as quickly as possible, and kicked it off in 1938 when I didn't have any left. The western powers pledged to support me with equipment, but during the civil war I didn't see anything. What should I be doing to prep and make it easier?

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Personally with Trotsky I usually did it starting in Odessa, or whatever was the headquarters location in Ukrainian SSR.

There's a bunch of scripted stuff going on with the civil war, and also some RNG. Like a few months after the civil war starts, you get desertion events when you capture cities with a lot of victory points.

There was a exploit/gimmick where you would switch your main division template to only 1 AA battalion, then send all the equipment to Spain as lend-lease. Then fire the civil war event, and cancel the lend-lease so you get all of that equipment back. I assume it still kind of works.

Most of the civil war focuses are just there, you don't need to do them. They're mostly there to either make it easier, which you shouldn't need, or to unlock some specific advisor after the civil war. You should probably look ahead to see if you really want or need any of that stuff. Stalin will still have the NKVD ones, but the red army regular ones would be a lot weaker.

I'd say rushing the civil war as quickly as possible is the better way, and you should focus on micro managing your divisions to encircle and destroy as many of Stalin's as you can.

But really, really, I don't think the soviet civil war is all that fun honestly. Unless you really want to do some alternate history stuff, Stalin's focus tree is still the best as long as you rush the paranoia/purge part.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

New Kaiserreich update makes me ask the decade old question.

Will the frontline system ever work?

Lum_
Jun 5, 2006

Farecoal posted:

Kaiserredux is the version that still has all the fun stuff, right?

It has some fun stuff (tons more content in general, 6 way American Civil War), some profoundly “problematic” stuff (one of the ACW factions is literally the KKK), and some profoundly silly stuff (the new Albanian ultra-Hoxhaist focus path is… it’s a thing.)

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea

Lostconfused posted:

New Kaiserreich update makes me ask the decade old question.

Will the frontline system ever work?

I think realistically the frontline system is going to work pretty much as it currently does until Hearts of Iron 5.

Iymarra
Oct 4, 2010




Survived AGDQ 2018 Awful Games block!
Grimey Drawer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_fA1AwbkcQ This just got posted on the official channel

... --- -- . - .... .. -. --. / .. ... / -.-. --- -- .. -. --. / .--- ..- -. . / --... - .... = SOMETHING IS COMING JUNE 7TH

CVKCXCUGBRALSBMBMHOYCCCKXA
TBFBZFWBPUZBOCBILAMNWZEWADZBRJRK = THERE ARE MORE HIDDEN MESSAGES IN THE [dunno] CAN YOU FIND THEM ALL?

- .... . .-. . / .- .-. . / -- --- .-. . / .... .. -.. -.. . -. / -- . ... ... .- --. . ... = THERE ARE MORE HIDDEN MESSAGES

09 04 40 is the date of the start of operation weserübung, the german invasion of norway/denmark so hopefully this means the next dlc is nordic focused

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo
Who is going to be stronger, Quisling’s North Sea Empire or Restored Hyperfinland?

Also Sweden content tracks with international arms dealing

Lum_
Jun 5, 2006
if we can't replay the Finno-Korean Hyperwar what good is the dlc anyway

Vichan
Oct 1, 2014

I'LL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR CRIME

Iymarra posted:


09 04 40 is the date of the start of operation weserübung, the german invasion of norway/denmark so hopefully this means the next dlc is nordic focused



Give us Denmark GUI, you cowards! :argh:

Dramicus
Mar 26, 2010
Grimey Drawer
It makes sense that the Scandinavian DLC is next as Sweden is the perfect match for the arms market they previewed in the recent dev diaries. Sweden spent most of the war selling weapons to both the Allies and the Axis. The famous Bofors AA guns that the British widely used were Swedish-made (or at least designed, I don't know if the UK ended up producing them locally under license). And there were a bunch of other Swedish weapons that found their way into Axis use as well.

Lum_
Jun 5, 2006

Vichan posted:



Give us Denmark GUI, you cowards! :argh:

FOCUS: STOMACH

Edgar Allen Ho
Apr 3, 2017

by sebmojo

Dramicus posted:

It makes sense that the Scandinavian DLC is next as Sweden is the perfect match for the arms market they previewed in the recent dev diaries. Sweden spent most of the war selling weapons to both the Allies and the Axis. The famous Bofors AA guns that the British widely used were Swedish-made (or at least designed, I don't know if the UK ended up producing them locally under license). And there were a bunch of other Swedish weapons that found their way into Axis use as well.

I play hungarians in historical miniatures games, about half of my fancy kit is swedish.

Dramicus
Mar 26, 2010
Grimey Drawer

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

I play hungarians in historical miniatures games, about half of my fancy kit is swedish.

Hungary is always interesting for the eclectic mix of imported and locally developed stuff they have. I wish more games included the various minors and their equipment. There's a criminal underuse of IAR 80s, among others.

Cantorsdust
Aug 10, 2008

Infinitely many points, but zero length.

Vichan posted:



Give us Denmark GUI, you cowards! :argh:

That pylorus is incorrectly labeled. It’s too far down and the arrow is pointing to the second portion of the duodenum. My ability to feel human has been taken away etc etc

Vichan
Oct 1, 2014

I'LL PUNISH YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR CRIME

Cantorsdust posted:

That pylorus is incorrectly labeled. It’s too far down and the arrow is pointing to the second portion of the duodenum. My ability to feel human has been taken away etc etc

This is all because Paradox went public smh my head.

DrSunshine
Mar 23, 2009

Did I just say that out loud~~?!!!

Vichan posted:



Give us Denmark GUI, you cowards! :argh:

The Levers of Power:

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

New Ukraine in Kaiserreich is so buff now. All of eastern Europe just carrying the Kaiser on their backs now. Unless the computer RNGs into a revolt.

Also I was too stupid to learn from someone else's mistakes and setup a collaboration government in Germany instead of Ukraine, again.

Moon Slayer
Jun 19, 2007

If anyone is interested in The New Order but doesn't want to actually dive in blind, I'm doing a Let's Play of Guangdong, the most recent major content update.

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4032743

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

I tried playing TNO last nite as USA. No CIA decision panel (but I could see CIA decisions hiding in a tooltip) and too sluggish even on a super computer. Welp.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


tno is interesting in that it shows how far you can go with middling to (very occasionally) good writing and and player base of bored teens and 20-somethings

Farecoal
Oct 15, 2011

There he go

Agean90 posted:

tno is interesting in that it shows how far you can go with middling to (very occasionally) good writing and and player base of bored teens and 20-somethings

Edgy!

HannibalBarca
Sep 11, 2016

History shows, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man.

guidoanselmi posted:

I tried playing TNO last nite as USA. No CIA decision panel (but I could see CIA decisions hiding in a tooltip) and too sluggish even on a super computer. Welp.

yeah they completely overhauled the GUI for American foreign policy/CIA decisions, reworked and added a bunch of conflicts, and in the process made the game unplayably laggy :v:

also the haiti conflict doesn't even work properly lmao

RocknRollaAyatollah
Nov 26, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
I remember in the earlier build there's an implication the CIA is doing much more than they are but it was actually Burgundy trying to start WWIII. Burgundy has a bunch of projects like escalate South Africa into a war by killing Ian Smith and trying to get the Japanese and USA into a conflict through confrontations. I can't remember if the Japanese shrimping ship, which was the standoff that caused WWIII most the time, was one of them. I think it's hinted that the assassination attempt on Hitler was actually Burgundy/Himmler getting him back while doing the above apocalyptic poo poo stirring. I don't know if they changed it yet, they said they were, but Burgundy had a minigame where you had to build bunkers to survive WWIII but no matter what you do, you can't complete them properly because Himmler and crew are insane and incompetent.

I haven't played it in a bit but I feel like Thousand Week Reich is better because you can actually play HOI4, it's more believable in that all the collapse happens in the 50's instead of the 60's, and it's not just a VN unless you play as a Russia unifier. The US does get some wars, mainly South Africa, but it's not like that takes more than a year, if that, since it's very easy to outmaneuver the German colonial states. I think ultimately the HOI4 is best when the game is kept in the 30's/40's because the engine really struggles to properly represent conflict post WWII.

Echo Chamber
Oct 16, 2008

best username/post combo
The game's coming home to Scandinavia.
https://twitter.com/hoi_game/status/1666430621457997826?s=61&t=kcY4l2x5HnYUqI9eJ-2-HQ

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
can we trick paradox into thinking some tech based nation with computers that was wholly uninvolved with ww2 existed so we can get an expansion fixing the AI

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