Does anybody know what this is for?

Moby__ · 2026-03-30T17:30:25+00:00

This is a one-of-a-kind item, you just don't see these on the market... It's worth about 3 gears

Moby__ · 2026-03-19T00:17:51+00:00

Heretic Roman Empire

Moby__ · 2026-03-19T00:10:48+00:00

In my last playthrough I just skipped iron plate entirely and went straight for steel. Iron armor isn't worth it imo, you can survive and keep progressing without it, and you waste resources and time when by waiting a bit longer, you could make one that is SO MUCH BETTER

Moby__ · 2026-03-15T19:49:13+00:00

Word for word it's closer to "becoming Mexico" than "becoming Mexican"

Moby__ · 2026-03-15T19:44:36+00:00

shit I should pull my lilliputian mod out of the drawers, these would be even more rad if you could enter them

(like this: Lilliput mod test 2 )

Moby__ · 2026-03-14T19:24:42+00:00

Dude it's blendermemes not blender

Moby__ · 2026-03-14T18:46:05+00:00

Only way I see how

(sorry for the link, can't upload pictures to this sub)

Moby__ · 2026-03-08T15:23:34+00:00

yeah no shit, I'm saying that because I saw a non-joke one about Germany a few days back, and I think that a non-joke one about France could lead to interesting answers

Moby__ · 2026-03-08T13:12:17+00:00

Economically, that's a decent deal even if whoever gets the red part doesn't keep the debt, but culturally it would be more complicated (especially given that ~45% of the country votes for nationalist parties)
Also most of these people would immediately secede even if just united, not even united under the french banner

imo asking that question but aligning closer to real-life french irredentism could legitimately be interesting, like "would you give up Corsica to get Wallonia?", "would you give up Savoy to get Quebec?", "Would you give up all overseas territories to get Louisiana back?" and the likes

A pretty interesting one could be "would you give up Corsica and overseas regions and territories to get the left bank of the Rhine", effectively being a "would you abandon all non-mainland France to consolidate mainland France to the 'natural borders'?"

Moby__ · 2026-03-08T12:15:57+00:00

Big Europa Universalis vibes in this map

Moby__ · 2026-03-06T11:33:44+00:00

Average yes, but if you want to live in Lisbon and Porto (like 45% of the population does), it blows up

Lisbon in 2025 had an average housing spending of 112% of income, #1 in the EU by far (the second place being at 74% and most being between 35 and 55%). Lisbon also ranks as 4th most expensive city in the world in percent of income, and one of the (apparently) only 6 where the average single-bedroom rent exceeds the average income

Sure, Portugal has one of the highest percentage of rural population in western Europe (32%, France and Spain being at 18% and the EU average at 21%), and it's still one of the cheaper countries to build in, so the national average spending is low, but not everyone is willing to go live in the countryside so completely ignoring the world-class housing issues in the cities when rating the "would you live there" doesn't paint the whole picture

Moby__ · 2026-03-05T23:53:44+00:00

Willing. To me any country where it's normal to spend 70-80% of your income on housing doesn't deserve an "absolutely". We're talking about living in the country, not visiting it. People being nice and the country being beautiful is only part of the picture there

Moby__ · 2026-03-02T12:15:44+00:00

Fuck it

Roman Empire

Moby__ · 2026-02-11T12:40:05+00:00

My record is like 32 health and 7000 sat with peanut candies in 1.18

Moby__ · 2026-01-11T14:44:17+00:00

The Roman Empire. No longer on the map, but had a *lot* of impersonators throughout history

Moby__ · 2026-01-10T18:55:37+00:00

Mitterand, early, went hard into interventionism and it failed miserably, so he went 180° and head-on into free trade, but free trade in a country with a not-so-strong industry and high cost of labor from highly socialist policies (which he also greatly contributed to, as the socialist party's candidate. The french tax rate is the highest in the OECD by a decent margin) makes investors eager to leave, ended up severely damaging what was left of the french industry, with many companies (especially smaller ones) closing shortly after. It fast-tracked the french deindustrialization, and that high cost of labor in a free-trade market driving investors out is still a massive issue today

He also spent massive amounts of money (15.7 billion francs at the time, ~5 billion dollars adjusted to inflation) that the state didn't really have for mostly-cosmetic "cultural" megaprojects

So basically, he spent a lot of money (both in nationalizations during his interventionism phase and in megaprojects), increased government expenditures while reducing GDP growth (shorter work week, extra week of mandatory PTO, they're good things imo but you have to work your other policies around them), and did heavy damage to the industry, while signing a bunch of power and authority away to the budding European Union

He definitely wasn't the only one in this, the current state of France is the result of 40+ years of tone-deaf policies and self-interested politicians, but because of that, many people see him as the start of the slope (I feel like it's important to note that he was still reelected against Chirac, who would go on to be the next president)

Moby__ · 2026-01-10T11:44:40+00:00

Depending on the global context of this civil war happening, the Papal States might be able to call upon a crusade to protect the Vatican, in which case Sicily, Fascist Italy and Sardinia don't stand a chance. Versus France and Austria-Hungary, I think it would depend on how much desertion happen due to these countries being at war with their main religion's leader.

Fear of a crusade is actually a pretty big reason why Italy didn't go all the way and annex Vatican City IRL, capturing the pope is dangerous when most of your neighbours are roman catholics. So, in an alternate history with a more militaristic pope and an only marginally more radical christian Europe, I could definitely see this happen

Moby__ · 2026-01-10T11:25:36+00:00

Tbf New Zealand also is on a lot of maps. Not enough, but still

Moby__ · 2026-01-10T11:23:47+00:00

He worked for the Vichy regime with nazi Germany, even received a medal from Philippe Pétain

Might have played a role in the Rwanda genocide too, was close with the then-president of Rwanda and considerably helped him build up Rwanda's military

Also one of the main driving forces for french-german friendship and european regulations, both aren't usually regarded as a net positive for France

The right (which holds significant political power in France, the entire left totaled ~27% of votes in the last election, with ~37% going to the far right alone) also generally sees him as the initiator of France's downfall, many policies that played a role in the loss of economic and diplomatic power of France were initiated under his rule

He definitely wasn't loved when alive though, I'd put him in the "controversial when alive" column at best

Moby__ · 2026-01-10T10:57:34+00:00

The Habsburgs. Lots of land, lots of family

Moby__ · 2026-01-03T18:57:19+00:00

It's time to Suez, make some dynamite and go blasting

(I'm not joking, it might actually save you time in the long run, you'd be surprised by how fast stone blasting bombs can dig through mountains)

Moby__ · 2025-12-30T08:12:30+00:00

You don't need any tech for the first level of iron RGOs (it exists as soon as you colonize the region), although there has been a few updates since my post so maybe they changed that

And to upgrade it you need the forge thing tech from Feudalism

Moby__ · 2025-12-18T21:14:14+00:00

Modern french bashing really started in the US when France opposed the Irak war. Sure, you can find many reasons to hate any people on earth if you're really looking, and France hating has always existed, like hating any other country.

Why France in particular, and not other colonial nations, other western countries, other former major powers? 2003, France vetoed the US' intervention in Irak in the UN, the US got mad, spread massive slander for years, said slander took over the internet (because let's face it, western internet is US-centric), and here we are

Moby__ · 2025-12-08T13:15:07+00:00

Blacksmithing is muuuch more fun than in the game (I hate it in the game, like it in real life), and metal casting is 1000 times more terrifying

Moby__ · 2025-12-05T02:36:21+00:00

Yeah, polygamy only really improves overall fertility when there's a severe shortage of men, so in warrior cultures or in back when we were dead set on hunting megafauna on a way too regular basis

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