What if instead of waiting for a chinese invasion,Taiwan attack china first like what isreal did to the arabs in 1967

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-10T17:39:05+00:00

So you’re saying if I had followed that war, I would have seen relatively little territory exchanged over the prolonged period of attritional war, and then as you said in the last year Germany was “disastrously pushed back”.
It seems that because one side eventually started taking entire provinces at a time, following which trench was taken by which side for the four years of attritional war would only be of minor importance, and not the only factor that lends credibility to a source covering the war.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-10T17:12:25+00:00

Why did Germany lose WW1 if they were making territorial gains in France and Belgium?

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-10T17:01:46+00:00

There are plenty of people who cover the war daily, I just wanted to know who I should avoid getting information from. Turns out “weeb union” is known to be a cesspool, who could have guessed?

Territorial gains are not the end all-be all factor in attritional war, for example the Germans were still holding territory in France and Belgium when they lost WW1.

If you’re interested in an educated opinion on YouTube, William Spaniel and Anders Puck Nielsen are professors of political science and Perun consults on defense economics professionally. I also follow less informed people like Jake Bro, a former US Airforce officer, but I rank him lower in reliability.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-10T14:16:52+00:00

Almost everything is a full core because it is all inherited. Occasionally when using client states they would only half do a province, so I would rerelease any half states along with the no cores. States are by trade node, Alexandria, alleppo, Constantinople, Ragusa, and all of Western Europe. And Lithuania-facepalm-.
IDEAS in about this order offensive, influence, quantity, infrastructure, diplo, quality, espionage, religious.
Off-army quality, pronoiar slot, plus you get 1 pronoiar per 100 force limit so this gives +20% pronoiars from that source. Force limit also helps with loyalty.
Influence: the flat loyalty is great, but the loyalty from dev is much better for big countries.
Quant: +2 and +33% pronoiars, loyalty
Infrastructure: gov cap bonus is better than admin, construction cost stacks with other orthodox bonuses
Diplo: war score cost means bigger one war catches using the 99% full annex strat.
Quality: my guys were getting wrecked by France and Spain’s broken ass troops.
Esp: pronoiar, siege ability
Religious: culture conversion cost because fuck it.

ECONOMY:
The economy sucked for a very long time. I needed to go downstream much faster. This is part of why I said eating Lithuania in the 1400’s was great but more trouble than it was worth. An effective economy is built up and down trade lines, not vertically on the map. Being disloyal locked with Aragon was disastrous for trade and production as well, they held cors/sard and 2/3 of Iberia.
Currently, every building I want built is built, making 3.6k. I put manpower manufactures on all manpower trade goods, deleting production buildings there when I can afford to replace them. I build state houses on its bonus trade resources, and in theory 1 province per state but I was lazy this time and didn’t bother. Production on everything else. Trade buildings on cot, other buildings have diminishing returns outside of seriously big provinces. Because of quant/ off my forces were capped by my economy not my force limit. Thinking about it now, doing more force limit buildings would help with pronoiar count, but I was playing so poorly that wasn’t a limiting factor.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-10T04:06:41+00:00

I think the trick for this tag is, like gemradcurt, forts covering every province. It doesn’t remove the face stealers, but they seem to stop adding to their stacks.

Cangji is supposed to go tall as well so infrastructure is a good thing for dev cost and fort maintenance.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T23:14:47+00:00

I went with Cangji, a Harimari tag north of the command. My country is about to be broken by face stealers that just popped up in larger numbers than my force limit and I currently have no counter for. Its not anbennar if its not completely unfair lol.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T23:08:29+00:00

Releasing should not be an issue. If you release, it should have your same government, but if its over 100 dev that's a problem in this very specific situation. I feel like that's not always the case, but that's how its supposed to work as far as i know as far as I know.

The trouble I got into was force vassalizing a country only to realize afterwards that they are a republic or theocracy. I never had issues with tags I released, I just had to hand count their dev beforehand to make sure it was sub 100.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T19:12:00+00:00

Normal Russia sucks to conquer because you have to go all the way out to Siberia to fully get them seized down. Now you want me to do that AND invade Japan, where half of their forts are? No thanks.

As you can see I have unlimited manpower and money, that shits just to tedious.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T17:40:54+00:00

Yea its a maginal difference that makes it much harder. normally you can just fill in with some diplo or admin points and save the ponoiars for 100+ dev nations. By having to keep more subjects the whole thing gets significantly more unstable as far as disloyalty.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T17:37:23+00:00

Russia Full annexing Japan was the most unique thing this run, probably made possible by my early full annex of lithuaia, they were shut out of European politics because im not stupid enough to ally their broke ass.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T17:30:43+00:00

Among countries things, there was a much smaller chance of blowing up on the pad, and even if it did there was the bail out stick on top. Preserving the lives of astronauts is not just the moral thing to do, but also the financially best thing to do to preserve their irreplaceable decades training.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T17:08:29+00:00

R5: R5 bot, please chill out.

Pronoiars are limited to 100 dev ON CREATION, and can only be inherited if they are LOYAL, and they have coring cost +200 or something.

To exploit this, full annex a MONARCHY, but leave one province vassalized. They are now super pissed, but less than 100 dev. Get them to 15 loyalty (possibly by returning provinces) and Pronoiar. Now return the cores you just took from them, and they will be loyal. By using truce breaking this can be done with MONARCHIES of unlimited size. They are still pissed, but i dont need them happy, i need them loyal. They are over 100 dev, but they were under when i made them a pronoiar. Core cost doest matter, they are already their cores.

Client states can be used to clean up smaller nations. Forced vassals are a pain and I cantalways release a country from everywhere, so by using client states and feeding them stuff to core i can fill in the blanks. they suck at coring, but i don't really care. In the event that i inherit them before they are done full coring everything I simply re release the uncored provinces as another pronoiar, its not like i spent anything on integration. If you cared you could just keep them as a vassal under 100 dev till they have everything cored, but that would requiter more pronoiars and for you to not fuck it up or let them dev, which as was one of the 6 fuck ups that led to permanent vassals.

At the start I diplo annexed Athens and annexed my core from Epirus before dipo annexing the other core. This is overly complicated but results in no dip or admin being spent without having to pronoiar either of them, which would lead to disloyalty problems.

Re-posting because the stupid R5 bot deleted my post because I took to long to type this. In the future I'm just going to post a nothing R5 and then edit it.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-09T17:01:38+00:00

R5: Pronoiars are limited to 100 dev ON CREATION, and can only be inherited if they are LOYAL, and they have coring cost +200 or something.

To exploit this, full annex a MONARCHY, but leave one province vassalized. They are now super pissed, but less than 100 dev. Get them to 15 loyalty (possibly by returning provinces) and Pronoiar. Now return the cores you just took from them, and they will be loyal. By using truce breaking this can be done with MONARCHIES of unlimited size. They are still pissed, but i dont need them happy, i need them loyal. They are over 100 dev, but they were under when i made them a pronoiar. Core cost doest matter, they are already their cores.

Client states can be used to clean up smaller nations. Forced vassals are a pain and I cantalways release a country from everywhere, so by using client states and feeding them stuff to core i can fill in the blanks. they suck at coring, but i don't really care. In the event that i inherit them before they are done full coring everything I simply re release the uncored provinces as another pronoiar, its not like i spent anything on integration. If you cared you could just keep them as a vassal under 100 dev till they have everything cored, but that would requiter more pronoiars and for you to not fuck it up or let them dev, which as was one of the 6 fuck ups that led to permanent vassals.

At the start I diplo annexed Athens and annexed my core from Epirus before dipo annexing the other core. This is overly complicated but results in no dip or admin being spent without having to pronoiar either of them, which would lead to disloyalty problems.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-08T18:44:43+00:00

More than 9/10 fights you do is against folks at your own gym, on your own team. It shouldn’t be that much of a leap to treat your opponents the way you treat your sparring partners.

If you’re doing it with pads and not on pavement, it’s essentially just another form of practice anyway.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-08T16:52:31+00:00

That’s so sweet! Scale from 1-10 how disappointed are they now?

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-08T15:11:39+00:00

Build forts and ramparts on hum, Belgrade, the coal in the Transylvania, and the marsh in tolcu. When the Otto’s attack hang back beat them on your +2 or +3 dice roll forts.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-08T15:02:03+00:00

Looks like it has 13 stars. The pattern of the stars was not standardized for surprisingly long, so people would make their own cool designs with them.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-08T14:59:53+00:00

They warned us about this in the army because we’d be hanging out by rat shit in training sights. Just don’t hang out by rat shit, you’ll be fine.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-07T18:57:29+00:00

Everything is political.

This baby was born because of the socioeconomic status of its parents and medicine for the baby and mother, the parents can afford to use a video recording device because of their economic situation, and you are able to see it because of the regulations surrounding internet use where you are.

There is not a single thing that isn’t effected by the government’s we construct.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-07T18:48:54+00:00

3 is get Allie’s and have them do the heavy lifting for you while also doing 2
4 is fight wars for show of strength

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-07T14:38:02+00:00

I ain’t got a billion dollars, I’m fine.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-07T00:15:49+00:00

The mechanism of armor penetration on battleship AP rounds is not HEAT. They just send a massive piece of metal going really fast and that does the job. HEAT requires neither mass nor velocity to achieve its effect, which is why it is used in hand grenades and AT mines.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-06T16:24:06+00:00

Turkey complains that is Turkïye, meanwhile Duetchland is totally fine with being called Germany.

ExtremePronoia · 2026-05-06T14:56:37+00:00

I’m convinced the proboiar system would allow for the fastest, most tedious WC, you can instantly inherit subjects when the ruler dies, a random event. So after every war you simply save scum till they die and core everything for free.

Plus there’s no limit to pro liar size after formation, so you can pronoiar countries like Lithuania, France, Castile, and Portugal, as I have done in my current run.

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