Paradox Studio Thread

[Computer God Autism]

where camel warriors could trounce everybody provided they were in a desert or 'jeets could build war elephants.

Still sour they never added in Crossbows as a unit type.

 

[LovisXVI]

Worse still, CK3's removal of the (somewhat) deep unit composition system in favor of bogstandard troop quality and like 3 or 2 unit types (I think generic men-at-arms are one of them) just neuters the combat, it really is big army smash at that pointe barring terrain modifiers. In CK2, you could be trounced in a battle if one of your flanks was under-manned in favor of another flank or had no commander, freeing that enemy flank up to attack one of your remaining flanks, even if your army was 1.5x bigger and had more heavy-inf and heavy-cav, one of the highlights was the special retinues as well where camel warriors could trounce everybody provided they were in a desert or 'jeets could build war elephants.

The MaA system in CK3 has all of that? They're more customizable than CK2's levies, that's for certain. Admittedly the main problem with that system is the universal units, which are boring. Of all the things to complain about, CK3's MaA isn't one of them. I wish it were more like Imperator's hybrid levy-legion system it had at the end though, though that's a general problem I have with CK's general inability to represent governmental development, as the "feudal" states of western Europe went through quite different systems, especially regionally.

 

[Sooty Soot]

The MaA system in CK3 has a

If I'm being honest I'm not too familiar with CK3, the only time I tried playing it was as some Shia Persia in 867, tried waging a war, got like 4 events in 2 months and then lost the war. Still, the lack of unique units is just more evidence of CK3 being as wide as an ocean but shallow as a puddle. On a sidenote, does CK3 even have tech or the pagan homeland debuff for feudal armies? I always notice the Byzantines pushing into the Pechenengs in timelapses.

 

[WarrenZHarding]

CK's failure to represent any real difference between professional/professional feudal armies and conscripts/tribes/peasant mobs beyond unit composition is tragic.

Field of Glory: Kingdoms has an interesting approach to this by dividing recruitable units into Mercenary, Levy, and Standing Army. Mercenaries dont cost manpower, but have a high gold upkeep and dont level up. Levies are cheap to recruit, but have high manpower reqs to keep and level up slowly. Standing Army units are expensive to buy, but have very low upkeep and level up the fastest and you have a cap on how many you can field. In addition, tribals have lower caps on SA units, but get buffs to levies and other such tweaks to make sure Feudal armies arent the same as tribal or republics armies. Something like that would really be welcome in CK3.

 

[LovisXVI]

Field of Glory: Kingdoms has an interesting approach to this by dividing recruitable units into Mercenary, Levy, and Standing Army. Mercenaries dont cost manpower, but have a high gold upkeep and dont level up. Levies are cheap to recruit, but have high manpower reqs to keep and level up slowly. Standing Army units are expensive to buy, but have very low upkeep and level up the fastest and you have a cap on how many you can field. In addition, tribals have lower caps on SA units, but get buffs to levies and other such tweaks to make sure Feudal armies arent the same as tribal or republics armies. Something like that would really be welcome in CK3.

I think if they backported a version of what they did for Hordes, where MaA are drawn from the same pool as levies, would be nice.

On a sidenote, does CK3 even have tech or the pagan homeland debuff for feudal armies?

I'll be very honest, pagan homeland supply debuff was the single worst part of CK2, not even close. It doesn't meaningfully change gameplay and is far too gamist for my tastes (same reason I don't care for most Societies), it just makes it incredibly annoying to conquer unreformed pagans, unless you spend a bit of gold to build a fort on every province you siege down, then the debuff goes away completely.

 

[Sooty Soot]

Remember that nomad-to-India game I was doing? Well... The India part might be getting a bit extreme.

 

[WarrenZHarding]

Remember that nomad-to-India game I was doing? Well... The India part might be getting a bit extreme.
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Saar! Do not redeem the poo!

 

[East_Clintwood]

Paradox have put up their latest HoI 4 I can't believe it's not butter a dev diary:https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/developer-corner-aerohydrodynamics.1852938/

The tl:dr:

Some islands will be designated "Strategic locations" giving them a better cap on certain buildings like naval bases/forts/airbases.
Carrier fighters will now automatically help defend against enemy naval strike missions
Carrier airwings can now be given air missions separate to the carriers, and will carry them out in the region the carrier is in
Carrier hangar modules will now have surface/sub detection stats. There was also a coy developer response suggesting they could add more specialized version that would be better at detection (proper CVE's at last, perhaps?)
New Special Forces type called Rangers, will be for jungle and woodland fighting.

 

[WarrenZHarding]

Now that pdx is coming back from their break, any bets on how many more hotfix patches we get for Stellaris?

 

[Slur Generator]

Maybe we can get a release date for Project Little Caesar. Seriously how many dev blogs can they realistically make? They talked about pretty much every part of the globe besides South Africa and Australia, and that's because nothing happened there before white the man touched the soil.

 

[East_Clintwood]

any bets on how many more hotfix patches we get for Stellaris?

Depends, are we counting the Open Betas or not? if we're not then probably only another couple of actual patches I expect. if we are then probably another 10 or so, given 4.0.22 is on it's second iteration and still won't be released til some time next month meaning there's maybe time for at least one or two more iterations before the final one is released.

 

[LovisXVI]

Red Turban Revolt? Yes
Really enjoyed what they are doing with this and looks about the right level of torturous.

 

[Chieftain Coke Peanut]

Maybe we can get a release date for Project Little Caesar.

They're going to keep us on edge for a while I think. I sure hope they stick the landing on this one, it seems a little too ambitious. I suspect it'll end up like Imperator where only a few countries have actual content on release. I'm hopeful they do it justice. EU4 is my least favorite Paradox title but Caesar seems like it could be pretty damn good.

 

[Slap47]

I think Paradox games would only have a fraction of their current popularity if their UI

You don't realize what Paradox gets right until you play other games. AGEOD games are completely overwhelming at a glance and there is no real way to ease into them.

Red Turban Revolt? Yes
Really enjoyed what they are doing with this and looks about the right level of torturous.

Paradox games will become truly great when games get harder the larger your country is. Really worried you'll just steamroll as the Ming/Yuan once this catastrophe is beaten.

 

[LovisXVI]

You don't realize what Paradox gets right until you play other games. AGEOD games are completely overwhelming at a glance and there is no real way to ease into them.



Paradox games will become truly great when games get harder the larger your country is. Really worried you'll just steamroll as the Ming/Yuan once this catastrophe is beaten.

Based on how control eminates our from the capital and certain buildings, and how revolts take land with them I think EU5 will at least get much closer.

 

[Slur Generator]

Not Directly EU5 related but would be cool if they added him as a great commander by event.

#EDIT#

He is almost certainly one of these prodigies.

 

[ellroy]

For lack of a better place to ask this, I need to ask it here.

I'm in iron man game as France and I got a big coalition that sprung up against me in a month. I'm allied to Switzerland, Castile, and Poland without the PU with Lithuania. Milan loves to declare war within a month each time I try to play from my iron man save file.

How badly did I screw myself over and is this recoverable?

 

[Professor Donger]

For lack of a better place to ask this, I need to ask it here.

I'm in iron man game as France and I got a big coalition that sprung up against me in a month. I'm allied to Switzerland, Castile, and Poland without the PU with Lithuania. Milan loves to declare war within a month each time I try to play from my iron man save file.

How badly did I screw myself over and is this recoverable?

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What did you even do to get that Coalition?

 

[Mound Dweller]

For lack of a better place to ask this, I need to ask it here.

I'm in iron man game as France and I got a big coalition that sprung up against me in a month. I'm allied to Switzerland, Castile, and Poland without the PU with Lithuania. Milan loves to declare war within a month each time I try to play from my iron man save file.

How badly did I screw myself over and is this recoverable?

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Okay I will still contest that AE is just a number...
But that number is too damn high, you never heard of truce juggling? Look that up and restart with it mind, before you get Napoleonic War'd 300 years early again.

What did you even do to get that Coalition?

He appears to have conquered the land off of BUR instead of waiting for the inheritance.
Only other thing that could have done it is full annexing BRI + using the wrong CB to snatch Normandy + Gascony off off ENG.
All in all should get some more hours in before doing ironman; it's not savescumming if it's a learning experience.

 

[ellroy]

What did you even do to get that Coalition?

Okay I will still contest that AE is just a number...
But that number is too damn high, you never heard of truce juggling? Look that up and restart with it mind, before you get Napoleonic War'd 300 years early again.

He appears to have conquered the land off of BUR instead of waiting for the inheritance.
Only other thing that could have done it is full annexing BRI + using the wrong CB to snatch Normandy + Gascony off off ENG.
All in all should get some more hours in before doing ironman; it's not savescumming if it's a learning experience.

I missed out on the inheritance despite my constant fighting with Burgundy before then. I had the Burgundian succession war but wasn't prepared for it and my vassals were shit at fighting it compared to Burgundy and their own and their alliance with Aragon. As soon as I could get a positive war score, I white peace'd it because it was going to get ugly eventually. Burgundy afterwards joined the HRE (a first in my previous playthroughs) and immediately allied Austria and Austria must of taken quantity because they had a lot of manpower so I didn't want to directly go to war with Burgundy.

I took advantage of Burgundy's weird alliances with Saluzzo and Aragon to use either Provence's claims on Sardina and my new vassal Savoy's claims on Saluzzo since I liberated them from Genoa when I went to war over Provence's claims on Corsica. I would destroy Burgundy first and chipped away Western Burgundy with Aragon's war and then again for Eastern Burgundy over Saluzzo. To make matter's worse, I revoked the HRE territory on the two western Burgundian provinces. I think I clearly took too much in those three wars and Milan kicked off the Coalition. I keep trying to soothe over Milan and Bohemia but Milan won't have it and will declare war.

Sucks to know I have to start over but I did learn a little bit even with 200+ hours under my belt before this game.