Paradox Studio Thread

[Slap47]

I think the USA is going to make it...

I wonder how Vic3 dlc performed. Aside from initial wave of praise it honestly looks shite. Not much changed.

The ability to foreign invest makes it kinda a necessary DLC.

 

[God of Nothing]

is there any better pagan start than zunbil?

I got lucky with the Abbasids getting a few decadent caliphs in a row, but having to fight most of India for one of the holy sites several times, fend off those annoying fucking steppe niggers, and deal with the constant culture/religion uprisings was a pain in the ass.

i want to try slavic kiev again as the only female chieftian in the entire game but that's based on several different RNG (The steppe niggers not fucking you up, the Bulgarians not gobbling you up instead of Serbia, and your neighbors making the most convenient subjugations allowing you to conquer most of Kievan Rus)

 

[JJLiautaud]

is there any better pagan start than zunbil?
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I got lucky with the Abbasids getting a few decadent caliphs in a row, but having to fight most of India for one of the holy sites several times, fend off those annoying fucking steppe niggers, and deal with the constant culture/religion uprisings was a pain in the ass.

i want to try slavic kiev again as the only female chieftian in the entire game but that's based on several different RNG (The steppe niggers not fucking you up, the Bulgarians not gobbling you up instead of Serbia, and your neighbors making the most convenient subjugations allowing you to conquer most of Kievan Rus)

The Norse are a lot of fun for 200 years.

 

[Computer God Autism]

The Norse are a lot of fun for 200 years.

They're also very good for a Merchant Republic, funnily enough. Very easy to get seed capital through soliciting involuntary investments in Britain.

 

[God of Nothing]

The Norse are a lot of fun for 200 years.

eh, they're too easy

They're also very good for a Merchant Republic, funnily enough. Very easy to get seed capital through soliciting involuntary investments in Britain.

I prefer the Lithuanian group of people for that.

 

[Blackstar]

The feedback to the Tinto maps on Poland, Baltics, and Ruthenia has been posted and it's a big one, great to see it.

• Added 194 new locations!!! (lolimagine an EU4 DLC adding that many)
• Lots of dynamic province names and renamings
• New cultures added, Polish and Ruthenian cultures fragmented
• Reworked country ownership, RGOs, pops, and terrain

 

[Computer God Autism]

I prefer the Lithuanian group of people for that.

Why? Easier access to trade posts?

The feedback to the Tinto maps on Poland, Baltics, and Ruthenia has been posted and it's a big one, great to see it.

• Added 194 new locations!!! (lolimagine an EU4 DLC adding that many)
• Lots of dynamic province names and renamings
• New cultures added, Polish and Ruthenian cultures fragmented
• Reworked country ownership, RGOs, pops, and terrain

Johan please stop breaking my kneecaps, I already paid

 

[God of Nothing]

Why? Easier access to trade posts?

More I can't easily make a giant merchant republic after plundering Europe to the ground.
Romuva is very comfy to reform too.

 

[East_Clintwood]

Tinto Talks #28 is up and concerns Winter and it's effects. Naturally food production is affected, anywhere from a 25% reduction in a mild winter, to basically no production in a severe one. More interestingly it also apparently freezes (heh) construction of both building and ships, meaning shit like Russia's desperate attempts to find a port that isn't an arctic hellhole make sense. However that's not all, by far the most interesting bit IMO:

Freezing Seas
Narrows, Inland Seas and Lakes have the possibility of freezing over during winter. This can happen when a seazone has had severe winter for over a week, and will then last until winter is no longer severe in that location.

A frozen seazone can be traversed by armies and this allows greater military control over the lands it reaches; however, it will cause navies to get stuck until it thaws. Be careful when the weather changes, it can thaw with catastrophic consequences if an army is on the ice. Navies can also not enter any seazone that has frozen over.

 

[JJLiautaud]

Tinto Talks #28 is up and concerns Winter and it's effects. Naturally food production is affected, anywhere from a 25% reduction in a mild winter, to basically no production in a severe one. More interestingly it also apparently freezes (heh) construction of both building and ships, meaning shit like Russia's desperate attempts to find a port that isn't an arctic hellhole make sense. However that's not all, by far the most interesting bit IMO:

Shocked they don't have an ice industry modeled

 

[Blackstar]

Tinto Talks #28 is up and concerns Winter and it's effects. Naturally food production is affected, anywhere from a 25% reduction in a mild winter, to basically no production in a severe one. More interestingly it also apparently freezes (heh) construction of both building and ships, meaning shit like Russia's desperate attempts to find a port that isn't an arctic hellhole make sense. However that's not all, by far the most interesting bit IMO:

What I find to be really cool is that in heavy winters mountain provinces will become untraversable, will make playing mountainous countries way more interesting and defendable.

Some more interesting stuff that Johan mentioned in the replies:
If a navy is out in a sea tile that gets frozen, it will be stuck there and armies will be able to capture it (You better watch out with blockading shit lol)
An army can die by being on a frozen tile that melts
Sea tiles being frozen can reduce control and slow down trade by making it require longer routes

 

[Super Hans v2]

An army can die by being on a frozen tile that melts

That's going to be a fun meta strategy.

 

[Kane Lives]

That's going to be a fun meta strategy.

Can already see future EUV strategy guides revolving around abusing this vs AI lol.

 

[Blackstar]

I can already see it, entrapping bigger enemy stacks on the ice by encircling them and not letting them leave in time or throwing small suicide stacks at them so they don't leave in time.

 

[Computer God Autism]

Can already see future EUV strategy guides revolving around abusing this vs AI lol.

Hopefully it means the Netherlands are actually defensible

 

[General Emílio Médici]

This will be fucking huge. It will make war a lot more realistic and conquest actually hard like IRL.

 

[LOWERCASE LETTERS]

CK2 becomes a lot easier once you realize it's really a game about marginalizing/arranging the deaths of your many useless relatives.

 

[God of Nothing]

Tribal in CK2+ is such a pain. I forgot you had to upgrade everything on top of tribal organization to feudalize.

I setup pretty much everything with my founding ruler and relaxed with my second to build up all the funds I'd ever need.
Speaking of founding, the Dobrava I got for this run was insane.

Spoiler: so the post is not too big

 

[Almighty Space Duck]

Can already see future EUV strategy guides revolving around abusing this vs AI lol.

Island trapping move aside. There’s a new player in town.

 

[Happy Camper]

That's going to be a fun meta strategy.

Really an underrated element in games. Even in more tactical games that's pretty rare. Company of Heroes 2 stands out as one of the few examples where frozen lakes were a thing and on the grander level I can only think of a few cases like Operational Art of War letting supplies move over frozen water as if it was open terrain without roads.