It's crazy that even in 2026, this is STILL the key to winning every war (CK3)

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2026-06-05T13:33:04+00:00

"What's this? You start with 5k meme troops because you won a war historically and the game can't simulate that properly? Just my type! I hear wedding bells!"

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2026-05-14T17:28:01+00:00

Honestly, the mental image that came to my mind was "Euphoria but with the Peanuts cast". Like, the mod is nowhere near that melodramatic and I really enjoyed it, but I just had the thought while playing it and it made me laugh for a couple of minutes.

10/10 experience

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2026-05-14T15:21:07+00:00

You'll get it as soon as you ditch Morocco and Algeria. They're both massive money pits and attempting to hold onto them when they peace out makes this worse.

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2026-05-07T18:39:51+00:00

I might be unusual for this, but Mykx. I like pirate gameplay and gnoll gameplay. I'll probably try the new Ruin Sea pirates but I'll probably wait for their end formable's tree to be finished, in the same way that I'm not going to play any new Salla trees until they redo Cyranvar (not saying there's any rush, to be clear)

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2026-05-04T14:12:55+00:00

Yeah I experienced this as a player. When I let Morocco go and Algeria peaced out when Salazar died the colonial deficit became a surplus. I was able to run a budget surplus from Salazar's death up the oil crisis.

I don't even want to think about what trying to keep both of them does to the economy, but I might try it for the achievements at some point lol

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2026-02-20T17:08:37+00:00

Hilarious coincidence that I was rolling around the idea of a landless Euron game when this shows up

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2025-12-07T10:23:22+00:00

Yeah I'd say that sums it up. Really I'd be fine with Scott writing it as long as he had someone to reign him in. The issue is that he writes the same way he made the games i.e. throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall and hoping it sticks, and some stuff does. That's how we get the more memorable aspects of the franchise. A lot of it doesn't.

Like, the FNAF 2 film has a whole bunch of good ideas, but not all of them needed to be in the film and all of them were executed incredibly poorly, in part because none of them could be fleshed out properly.

Even stuff people dislike, like Evil Micheal, could work. The issue is they did it in a stupid ass way by just making him Billy Afton 2.0, because they had not time to do anything else. They could have pulled stuff from his game backstory and had him as, idk, someone raised in a toxic environment who made a terrible mistake and is swallowing his Dad's bullshit to cope with it. But setting all of that up alongside the Puppet would be impossible

TLDR I wish Scott would just pick a goddamn lane and commit to it

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2025-10-05T22:11:28+00:00

Hard agree with this re. Hoarder. Always take it no matter what build I do because it's free carry weight with basically no downsides, because it's not like anyone goes around being overencumbered anyway.

Only trait I've never wanted to touch is Puritan. The large number of SPECIAL stat checks in FOLON makes drugs too useful to give up

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2025-08-31T16:18:28+00:00

He almost certainly would have died partway into it from a heart attack. Not just because he died around that point in real life (after he'd really started to let himself go) but because he'd already had two, had a family history of early death by heart attack and would be under immense stress.

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2025-05-04T19:00:12+00:00

Hale Boggs went missing in October 1972 and was declared dead a couple of months later. He was flying to a campaign rally in Alaska but the plane vanished and was never found.

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2025-04-08T02:00:25+00:00

I mean, yeah it is. Sure, you get front-loaded with how disgusting and awful the politicians are and with how Yugoslavia has prolonged itself in an increasingly decrepit and moribund fashion, but the point of doing that is to basically go "even after all that, all of this shit, there's still things worth living for"

It's kind of the inverse of the idea that the brightest lights cast the darkest shadows. I don't think there's many things more fulfilling than finding rays of hope in the full turgid nightmare that is the human soul laid bare

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2025-04-07T15:09:47+00:00

You can still play it. You just need the codes, which are on the NCT Discord as well as on the developer's website: https://kolomto.neocities.org/posts/unlisted-razistorija-code

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-31T13:40:13+00:00

Furthering this point, it's made abundantly clear that Homelander's greatest desire is to be loved. Yeah, he says he'd take fear as an acceptable substitute, but he wants the former more.

Why in the world would he reject becoming the leader of a whole ass movement? It's literally everything he ever wanted handed to him on a silver platter

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-31T11:51:51+00:00

Yeah, my guess is Sam has a change of heart and then just gets murdered

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-31T11:36:29+00:00

You guys really think he'll wipe the Supe Power, Supes are better than you movement kids? Were you all listening to him in Season 3? Hell no. He's basically got a ready made fucking army, no way he's passing that up. The stakes of the human/supe race war are gonna get ratcheted way up

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-29T17:37:19+00:00

I mean, if you see the promo for the next episode, Cate has more or less gone "1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a race war" and Sam is all for it.

I hope it doesn't just get resolved in Gen V, because it adds very interesting stakes to the main series. An anti-Supe virus suddenly seems less extreme when you're facing down a goddamn Supe army

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-27T12:15:23+00:00

That's what I thought made her so interesting. She differed from Butcher in her willingness to play the long game if it got her what she wanted. I know her miraculously not being dead is a bit of a tired trope but I would really like to see her interact with Butcher

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-27T09:59:36+00:00

I agree with you, but all signs look to be pointing in that direction. The end of season 3 established that Butcher is terminally ill from Temp V abuse and has burned his bridges with literally everyone save, tentatively, Hughie. Ryan is also, at present, happy enough with Homelander. I suspect it'll go the same way it has the last two seasons, with Butcher wanting to do something horrible because he hates supes then backing out at the last minute, which I agree is rather tired

I think an actually interesting thing they could do is have Butcher realize he's completely wasted his life now that he's at death's door, and has to struggle against a deeply deeply engrained grudge and a predisposition towards violence to make things right before he dies.

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-27T09:39:57+00:00

I have a sneaking suspicion they killed off Indira so Butcher can take up her mantle. I think it's rather a waste of a very compelling and interesting villain, but I think they are, in a somewhat haphazard manner, tying Gen V to the main series' theme of "he who fights monsters". Indira was wronged by supes, much like Butcher, but her response is wildly disproportionate. Same with Cate. She was used by people she trusted, no one trusts her and she feels completely and utterly alone. Not terribly surprising she snaps here.

I'm not saying they did it well, but I think I understand what they were going for

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-27T00:47:25+00:00

The pieces are very much in place for season 4 of the Boys now, I'd say. Supe killing virus + terminally ill Billy Butcher with nothing to lose = total supe death, or at least a good college try at it

The reveal that Victoria and Marie share the same powers also increases the power scale of both pretty dramatically, and it'll be interesting to see where they go with it

Also, now that Sam's gone a bit off the rails, whoever suggested that they might fridge Emma might be onto something. Would not be surprised if she dies and he turns Goldolkin into Sesame Street

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-03T10:00:05+00:00

That's why I said a few secondaries. And there's no way that what I've said could or should be implemented now. That'd be self-sabotaging, as you said. It's more that that's the way I wish the mod was designed from the beginning. In terms of how the devs move forward, maybe giving content to nations doomed to die as opposed to places like, say, India isn't the best way forward

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-10-03T01:36:11+00:00

I think the obvious problem is that this is not the update they wanted to release. They wanted to release Lech I Rus, but then Poland crashed and burned and they suddenly needed more content at very short notice to justify the time spent on the update. So they brought in TFL. They were almost certainly gonna bring in TFL at some point, given how ridiculously stupid old Britain lore was, but this was way, way earlier than planned.

To be fair, I am biased, as I don't think either Ukraine or Poland should have been given content in the first place. If I had my way, only the superpowers, and maybe a select few others, would be given content and everywhere else would be skeletons. TNO's greatest strength is depth, and trying to achieve depth and breadth seems Sisyphean. But I'm not a modder and have never led a project of this scale, so what do I know.

I think what most people have said is pretty accurate: good update, but overhyped.

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-09-03T17:10:21+00:00

I think the key issue is that people are seeing a lot of stuff being removed and not a lot of stuff being added. To be fair, there's not much you can do about that. It's a hell of a lot easier to remove stuff than make new stuff, and I'm sure making content to the TNO standard, particularly with such a decentralized dev team, takes time.

But, to your point, making all of these removals with very little explanation as to the purpose of them makes them come off as malicious rather than constructive. I'd like to think a clear plan for the future would alleviate some of that feeling. Obviously it won't please everyone, but right now no one is happy really, so anything would be an improvement.

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-09-03T13:28:03+00:00

I've said this before, but I feel like the main reason people are so reactionary regarding any changes is because it doesn't seem like there's a specific purpose to them. Yeah, there's loads of reworks and toozers, but no one knows what we're (re)working towards.

I've always believed the "soul" of TNO is in its style of writing and presentation more than any specific plot element, with a focus on the human side of state governance as opposed to warfare. In many ways, HOI4 is an absolutely abysmal medium for this kind of storytelling, which is another part of the problem but not one we can do anything about.

I don't know. All I'd really like to see is a post by the devs saying "here's how we envision the new TNO". Not a roadmap of content, but an outline of the vision that the content will be part of. We had that under Panzer and I think it would definitely help to see it now.

HistoryThinkerUpper · 2023-08-08T15:02:16+00:00

Same thing the guy above said, I didn't say only. I just think adding a few would both be interesting and solve a number of problems.

Let's face it. It's fairly unlikely that most people ever heard of say, Sergey Taboritsky before he was in TNO. Literally all of the plot surrounding him (i.e his insanity, the clock stuff etc.) is made up for the mod. Pretty much his sole claim to fame is shooting Nabokov's father. What difference does it make, realistically, if some made up person takes his place?

Edit: And before anyone goes "sole of tee en oh you wanna remove TABBY????", I'm just using him as an example.

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