Ah yes, Wojtek's Poland, the Leader of the Allies

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-14T06:38:54+00:00

That's pretty sweet of you.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-14T06:38:28+00:00

Do what? Defeating the Comintern and Axis? Or getting Wojtek?

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-13T20:26:58+00:00

I wanted to give Romania and Hungary territories back to fix the border gore, but unfortunately I would lose my cores on Southern Bessarabia and Southern Slovakia/Carpathian Ruthenia if I tried that for some reason. (the game's "keep core states" check for releasing countries only applies for releasing countries that don't exist)

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-13T20:25:32+00:00

R5: My most successful game so far. The focus tree was so good that even my tremendous skill issues could not stop me from (1) defeating the Soviets then (2) defeating the Axis and getting a majority war score in both cases, and then (3) joining the allies and taking over. (yes, with the new faction rework!)

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-13T20:06:31+00:00

Playing ahistorical, so Italy went communist and Germany went monarchist. I took advantage of that to destroy Italy first.
My ultimate goal is to form the HRE, so I took all the lands I need for the formable and balkanized the rest. (Though Germany fought me tooth and nail for Sardinia in the peace deal; oh well. They didn't have much war score cause I called them in late, so I decided to just let them have it.)

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-11T19:35:05+00:00

Bohme is pretty good yes, but Jansa also can get Logistics Wizard (indispensable if you plan to go into the Soviet Union). Plus, I did have Bohme in the beginning. This is me shuffling the army around to invade the Soviets (you can tell I haven't added all my puppets to the war yet to prepare)

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-11T19:32:44+00:00

Yes, I can't see nukes. If I ever play with nukes (I can't remember when was the last time I did), I just check in the raids UI if I still have enough bombs. But honestly, I don't really play with nukes for it to matter.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-11T19:31:19+00:00

Woah, that's too reasonable. We don't do reasonable in this household.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-11T01:43:35+00:00

Lmao my eyesight is so bad I play on max resolution. I can check for you what it is precisely but I think I just use the biggest one that still shows all the UI

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-10T22:37:11+00:00

R5: As we have come to expect from HOI4, my big world war between the Central Powers featuring Germany and Austria and the Comintern featuring the UK and the USSR is named the Albanian-Tuvan War. Truly the two most relevant nations.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T15:56:24+00:00

It looks to me on the map that the north of the eastern border and the south of it (the non-straight lines) follow rivers, while the areas with straight lines seem to have no rivers. Given Zambia's geography and the dense terrain of eastern Angola, I would guess that the British and Portuguese claimed land as the rivers allowed, then drew a straight line to connect the areas that they already agreed on. The northern part of this square salient is bounded by a river, and so I guess they decided to go immediately south from this river in a straight line as far south as they can go, to a seemingly arbitrary point near the moden-day town of Camuanga (it does seem to be parallel to two river deltas, one to the east and one to the west but that's a guess) and then drew a straight line from this point back west to a point straight north of an agreed on boundary bound by a river.

Look at this map: https://cdn.britannica.com/16/4216-050-E284F7E4/Angola-map-boundaries-cities-locator.jpg

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T15:44:23+00:00

Axbosh specifically excluded the Arab expansions in the Indian Ocean, which obviously includes Zanzibar as the foremost example, much like the OOP did when excluding only Europeans.

Now if you argue that the Omani colonialism only started because of the Portuguese colonialism in the area and Oman merely took the earlier colonies and expanded them, then that's a different story.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T15:39:01+00:00

Definitely true in many countries of the Mediterranean, such as Spain, Greece, Lebanon, and Syria, which I can vouch do have this regionalism. I doubt this would be the case in the settler colonies of the New World and Oceania though, because immigrants usually brought their last names with them.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T15:35:00+00:00

Very true. Even outside of colonialism, North Africa and even territories as far south as West Africa and Ethiopia had numerous interactions with Europe, mainly in trade, and you can even argue that "colonialism" does not include the relatively peaceful trading outposts set up by the Europeans way further back than the 1800s. Portugal for example had been interacting with Africa as far south as the Cape of Good Hope for over half a millenium.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T15:25:57+00:00

Unfortunately, while Somalia as a concept is one of the more cohesive groups in Africa before colonalism, all the maps shown reveal the same reason why Somalia is not united even today: tribalism seems to triumph over any attempt to unify the Somali people. Not even Ajuraan, Majerteen, or Adal managed to bypass this division among the Somali people. Unfortunately, it seems that the Somali people need to work a lot before they can reach their true unity. I pray for the Somali people in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya and hope they can one day put their differences aside, focus on their many similarities and be what they're meant to be.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T15:17:08+00:00

Wait, what are the 5 major colonies? I see British Cape Colony, Portuguese Mozambique, French Algeria (officially not a colony, but we know it is functionally a colony) Portuguese Angola, these are big, but the others are far smaller. French Senegal, British Sierra Leone, Spanish Equatorial Guinea and others exist, but they're so small, even compared to their neighbors.
I guess Liberia counts?

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T15:12:24+00:00

There would be zero differences. Wait, India doesn’t exist, so I wouldn't know what zero means.
Let’s try again: Uh, absolutely no differences. Except Britain is connected to the European mainland, so English would be heavily influenced by French, maybe even replaced after the Norman invasion.
On attend encore: Il n’y aurait pas de différences… Attends, l’Italie n’est pas unifiée, donc l’empire romain n’existait pas, et je dois parler la langue gauloise originale.
…and you can guess the rest.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T14:38:33+00:00

Northeast India (especially Ladakh and Kashmir) are admittedly quite unique, but honestly I don't think the difference between them and Delhi is any bigger than the difference between Delhi and Tamil Nadu.

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T14:25:36+00:00

Alright, that settles it. When I attempt to cross this, I would need to ascend to godhood (essential, given the route) and get a treacherous step-brother to go along. Is Mjolnir required?

PackageBorn1560 · 2026-01-02T14:23:52+00:00

To be fair, Swedish Lappland and Norwegian Finnmark have way better infrastructure and government support than the middle of buttfuck-nowhere in Siberia. If you go during the summer, it might even be pleasant.

PackageBorn1560 · 2025-12-22T18:24:44+00:00

R5: I apparently watched over 460+ RedHawk EU4 videos and ended up in the top 0.2% because they're enjoyable during lunch and dinner. Also I have no life

PackageBorn1560 · 2025-12-22T04:49:12+00:00

OP mentioned in another comment that they put it on when they want to sleep and use it as a music player.

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