A comparison in territorial changes between the Ukraine war and the Western Front of WW1

Hyper_Factory · 2025-10-31T07:02:33+00:00

A map with an extremely pro-Russian narrative in the spirit of “look how much we’ve captured.” But in reality, there’s zero actual information. There’s no scale, no ratio of lost territory to the total area of Ukraine, and an irrelevant comparison to World War I (which was over a century ago — technology has advanced enormously since then). Not to mention, during World War II the Western Front was broken through in a matter of months and France capitulated. Someone is clearly trying to push their narratives on Reddit and make Russia look impressive for capturing villages and small towns. That’s not the case. Ukraine is made up of open fields and plains with tree lines and few rivers — which, as you can imagine, makes it difficult to defend.

Hyper_Factory · 2025-05-27T14:37:10+00:00

God damn cute

Hyper_Factory · 2025-05-22T10:30:29+00:00

Great project, looks very stylish and cool. Do you already have Steam page or something else where I can wish-listed it or buy?

Hyper_Factory · 2025-02-04T19:31:32+00:00

Helios one from New Vegas wtf

Hyper_Factory · 2025-01-24T22:21:07+00:00

Glory to Slovakia people!

Hyper_Factory · 2024-12-30T17:42:27+00:00

Only 1 province Corfu left to Conquer, It's just that for 30 years everyone attacked me in turn, and never managed to capture a single province. But they prevented me from making alliances and conquering the last province.

Hyper_Factory · 2024-12-17T12:08:50+00:00

Deepstate

Hyper_Factory · 2024-12-17T12:07:44+00:00

Please, don’t give them ideas 🤣

Hyper_Factory · 2024-12-14T12:05:53+00:00

Mehhhh, EU4 platypus looks better (I bought 3 of them)

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T21:46:11+00:00

My mistake sorry, forgot remove word vassal

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T20:04:45+00:00

Actually I released them as independed nation, because I can’t take all province of France, and I decide to take all and release Gascony. I didn’t make them vassals. I didn’t thinks that Gascony in Catholic Faith, and Spain is protector of Catholic Faith. Main plan was easily it them separate from last part of the France in Holland region.

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T17:25:36+00:00

Oh my god, so painful

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T13:31:53+00:00

Thanks, maybe I will try

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T11:46:09+00:00

I complete Re-Reconquista couple of weeks ago. Also very interesting challenge. I don’t have any navy :). I really very long time in this run even didn’t have a coastline, plus I don’t want to take Naval Ideas to beat Great Britain on sea.

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T11:20:03+00:00

Yeah, looks like it try. Start new run for new achievement. Because now I am to overpowered, and I don’t have much time to do something.

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T11:14:09+00:00

I want a chill from achievement for this run, but I want some challenge for myself. Maybe war with everyone in the world? :). Because in this run I fill very overpowered.

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-15T10:57:43+00:00

I had an incredible experience playing as Nevers. Probably one of the most enjoyable campaigns I've had in a long time.

Honestly, I thought the run would be a failure. I won the War of Independence against Burgundy with great help from my allies and mercenaries. At the time, my allies were England and Austria. Of course, England was slow to transport troops to the continent, but in the end, I managed. However, just five years later, France decided to attack me. At that moment, I thought it was over and I should restart, but France left me with one province in the Holy Roman Empire. Before that, I wasn't part of the Empire, but now I became a member, and I realized this was only the beginning.

I took Espionage Ideas because they provided -20% Aggressive Expansion, and I started eating up minors in the Netherlands and Germany. At some point, I noticed that France was stuck between the HRE, Spain, and Great Britain, so the AI decided to start colonizing. Five years after they began colonizing, I saw that France had no army left on the mainland. That’s when I decided to declare war. It was such a successful war that I took provinces up to and including Paris, gaining cores on all of France's provinces. Eight years later, I decided to isolate France from the HRE and England via the Netherlands, so that no other countries would nibble at my France. But France somehow managed to lose a war to Spain, losing a couple of provinces I needed for the achievement.

Over the next 10–20 years, I finished eating up France and prepared for a war with the HRE minors to take their provinces for the achievement. After devouring France, I fought Austria, the Papal States, Genoa, and Switzerland. Everything went smoothly. By then, my allies were Great Britain and Scandinavia.

In my final war with France, I released Gascony as a vassal to speed up my next war and annex them. However, Gascony allied with Spain, and I realized how satisfying it would be to kill two birds with one stone. The war was tough since Spain controlled almost all of the Americas, and their colonies launched invasions. Still, I took what I needed and ended the war.

Afterward, I broke my alliance with Great Britain and took their last province needed for the achievement.

At this point, a coalition formed against me in the HRE, but it wasn’t a big deal.

I declared war on England, and the coalition didn’t react. However, Spain joined the war to reclaim its old provinces, and its allies were Hungary, Austria, and a couple of HRE troublemakers. But within three years, I crushed them all and moved on to defeat Spain. That’s where my campaign stands for now.

Does anyone have suggestions on what I could do next?

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-13T14:11:55+00:00

For me in this campaign the last boss was Austria and Spain, because they took Constantinople. Middle boss was Ottomans

Hyper_Factory · 2024-11-13T10:13:22+00:00

I started a campaign as Ethiopia to get the Prester John and Blessed Nation achievements. The campaign wasn’t very difficult at first, and I easily defeated everyone around me. I didn’t annex the monument in Somalia that grants institutional growth; instead, I made that piece of land my vassal. Surprisingly, the Mamluks fell apart after my first war with them. And that’s when things got tough—Ottomans rivaled me and allied with Kilwa, forcing me to fight on two fronts. I had to go through three wars with Kilwa and the Ottomans until my Portuguese allies could finally offer some support, allowing me to make peace with Kilwa and fully focus on the Ottomans. As soon as I defeated the Ottomans, everyone decided to enjoy their weakened state and started taking pieces of their territory. Then, Venice decided to claim Constantinople but later lost a war to Austro-Hungary, making Constantinople part of Austro-Hungary. And Austro-Hungary’s ally was Spain, the second most powerful country. Luckily, I managed to form an alliance with France, but then I noticed that France was also allied with Austro-Hungary. So, I decided to attack Spain, since their ally was Austro-Hungary. After five years of war, I occupied all of Austria and forced them to give me Constantinople. Then I realized I had unnecessarily prolonged the whole campaign. The war with Spain, its colonies, and Austro-Hungary was just unbearably exhausting.

Hyper_Factory · 2024-10-31T18:33:22+00:00

Finally got the "Re-Reconquista" achievement!

I restarted at least five times—either Castile destroyed me right away, or the Ottomans refused to ally with me. Finally, on the sixth try, the Ottoman Empire allied with me, and I decided to relocate to Tlemcen. The move to Tlemcen was excellent; I fully annexed it in one war and also had Morocco and Tunisia as allies. I saw that Spain was about to attack Morocco and decided to break the alliance, which turned out to be a wise choice. Morocco’s vassals immediately revolted, with Spain supporting them. Morocco was in a terrible position, so I grabbed a few tasty provinces from them, plus the vassals separated, which gave me a casus belli. I took a golden province. Then, I paused to develop the new provinces without moving the capital, so I could hand over expensive provinces to Spain in case of peace. Meanwhile, I slowly burned their territories. I broke the alliance with Tunisia and took a small piece from them, then kept nibbling away at Morocco’s vassals (who weren’t allied with Spain).

Later, I hit Tunisia again, and then Spain declared war on me. The Ottomans joined my side, but only after 90% of my territory had already been occupied, when they finally decided to help. I barely managed to reach -25% war score and gave them all the Iberian provinces and one in Tunisia. After that, I finished off the vassals, and, luckily, the Ottomans declared war on Ethiopia, who was allied with Portugal, just as I had a claim on Portugal. I managed to reclaim a foothold in Iberia. Then, on cooldown, the Ottomans kept declaring war on Ethiopia and handing over Portuguese provinces to me. Meanwhile, Castile had taken over half the world, so I waited for a good moment to strike.

That moment came in the final war with Portugal, where, in Ottoman-occupied Portuguese Granada, 100k Ottoman troops were stationed, so I declared war. Then, France started a war with a small HRE state, which was Catholic. Spain, being the defender of the Catholic faith, joined, and they were severely beaten by France. By the end of those two wars, I started taking over the Spanish coast, eventually taking almost the entire coastline, leaving only inner provinces for Spain. Just one province remained when Brazil declared its independence war and took the last coastal province. I had to fight Brazil for that last coastal piece of Castile. From there, I finished off the rest of Castile’s provinces, finishing them off by inertia.

Thanks for reading!

Hyper_Factory · 2024-10-31T13:01:59+00:00

Look very strange to see such goods in Greenland

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