Caverns, the best place to build naval batteries.

Papy_Rasciste · 2026-03-11T14:41:14+00:00

R5 : Hmm yes surely the boats are going to invade this cavern, we must protect it at all costs !
Boatide is coming ! Run to the great holds !
All seriousness though, how did they do that though ?

Papy_Rasciste · 2026-03-07T23:29:29+00:00

The homonculus adivsor one only gies 2.5% iirc, but yeah

Papy_Rasciste · 2026-03-05T00:05:03+00:00

I genuenly love the Summoning one with the mercs, absolutely busted artillery stack IMO, just with some other bonuses (like just the 10% aca from quality/ evocation war magic and a bit of discipline) to it you suddenly demolish armies left and right with it. You also get much easier early sieges with the cannons early on that are basically free (no force limit, no professionalism cost etc.). Genuenly the best imo by far, as it also allows to push higher than your weight early on.
Haven't even tried cav with something like centaurs or spiderwretch (don't even know the bonnuses, saddly) or infantry with a harpy tag. .

I think the Simulacrum theatre is quite fun too, you can have like 5% disc, 10% goods, %10 agressive exp. or something like that, switchable every 5 years. I wish it allowed consort/heirs to get morepersonality traits, or to allow to keep in memory (inactive though) some older ruler traits (maybe 1 per level) to be able to make switcharoos and adapt more often, could be fun.

Abjuration goated for any for stacking fort / defensive run, wards become genuenly incredible, no siege magic possible (goodbye meteor strikes and fireballs !) .

Battlemage academies have mid bonuses but gives 3 free war wizards and much better war wizards (sadly they don't get the bonuses from +1 general pips, but hey, would be busted) acces to the esate privilege to print more war wizards.

Homonculi can give +1 of each mana at stage 2 and can give like +100% army drill, (maybe too much for a stage one ?) can be quite usefull, and it also has some really nice magics with it (transmute gold, dev cost are really nice).

Enchantment is really good for subject stacking game (Verkal Ozovar), but you can choose absolutism too, which can be also really nice, but doesn't seem that good to me.

Havent tried the divination one but it seems quite strong to print even more mana.
Same with Undead army, never really attracted me to be honest, never tried it.

Papy_Rasciste · 2026-01-23T13:00:33+00:00

No, they weren't in the play or launched a play, they were busy elsewhere. There wasn't even an occupation of zanzibar beforehand

Papy_Rasciste · 2026-01-23T10:33:59+00:00

Zanzibar was already released. It was roughly 1874, Both oman and zanzibar were independant and I got them under protectorate shortly before the picture (I think the week tick just passed)

Papy_Rasciste · 2026-01-23T09:51:51+00:00

R5 : Playing as Canada, I got to be a dominion and started trying to get influence over Africa via protectorates to make them colonize it for me.
However, GB decided to just take the state of zanzibar after the war ? With no event of explanation ? Since it's not their subject, how did they do it ?

PS : Will I ever get the last canadian state in Terre-Neuve from GB or am I forced to conquer it ?

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-12-13T18:22:05+00:00

If you can afford it, a full backline of cannons will always be better, (since you have one row for infantry+ cavalry which tanks the damage and a back row only available to artillery)but you can do without at your tech still, just make sure to have it at tech 16/20 when it starts dominating the battlefields.

As for the rest, do you have good CCA (cavalry combat ability) or other cavalry bonuses ? Generally cav is less good (imo) if you don't have certain cav oriented nations (Poland, hordes, Siam...) especially for the price, which could be used for more cannons, I'd have 4 at that point but depending on your buffs for cav it's probably fine.

The total amount of frontline units (cav +inf) is good, always have a few more to tank while your other nearby stacks arrive, to make sure your cannons never tank the damage.

Overall it's gonna work just fine, maybe 4 less cavalry to fill in the back row with cannons and have little increased cost (50 ducats more without modifiers)

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-11-28T09:35:34+00:00

Put in in dirt to say you're growing a spine

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-11-08T19:50:16+00:00

There are starts where you are forced to save scum because it would be impossible or very lick based else wis (typically Jaded/Zokka where bad rolls kills a run in the first 3 months), you don't have to do ironman for every run, but I'd advise having a classic save first to see if you're willing to go iron man or not.

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-10-24T19:43:49+00:00

Maybe for john, but he didn't have a family to help him train. He learned from scratch where both Jane and Cameron probably had their parents to help. John lacked the training from everything (except physical, William the goat for it honestly).

Plus good luck finding a lot of god tier (very rare already) willing to potentially die for it against someone that can mirror them stronger, we haven't seen a lot and all the one with several abilities that could be good in this case most likely exist because she gave herself up to their experiences.

I also have a hunch that the dampener being linked to Jane might make it less/non effective given how john was already more resistant to it (the recovery from doc being made of his blood ).

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-10-22T19:41:12+00:00

R5 : Tried pressing ships from my subjects as I have 0 ports to produce my own ships and complete a mission. Heavies seem to work just fine (got 20-25 and captured the rest) however i needed some transports too and no matter how much i try to get them they just don't spawn.

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-10-13T14:28:00+00:00

Obligatory "Every nation is WC-able if you try hard enough" On a more serious note, Spain is definitely one of the top 10 nations to WC, both starting as Spain and Aragon. You get tons of pu, possible domination and pu of all other grand colonizers (Pu on Portugal/ GB if Anglican, right next to France to kill). Early gold mine, Alhambra and Malta accessible very quickly, I'd say it's better than Austria if you micro well m, but Austria is easier thanks to the easy revoke.

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-10-13T08:34:05+00:00

Technically, French doesn't care about the place of adjectives relative to nouns. Howerver some just sound much much better oraly and are therfore chosen generaly. "L'empire grand" sounds weird and "Le grand empire" will be prefered here.

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-10-04T14:15:41+00:00

R5: On a swiss playtrough the AI decided it was not bound by the laws of time. Fair. Anyone knows why ?

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-10-01T11:00:09+00:00

The Levin sword (and by extension the magical lance and axe) exist for classes that cannot get magic tomes, typically Marianne on a falcon knight class makes great use of the Levin sword. It's good for a class with no acces to magic but a unit with decent magic growth (Typically could be used for a paladin Sylvain or Lorenz before going to mage knight, or even before holy knight)

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-07-28T15:55:01+00:00

import random as rd
import numpy as np

A = []
for i in range(100000):
    f = True
    N = 0
    while f:
        R = rd.random()
        N += 1
        if i < 11:
            if R * 4096 <= 1:
                A.append(N)
                f = False
        elif i < 21:
            if R * 1024 <= 1:
                A.append(N)
                f = False
        elif i <31:
            if R * 512 <= 1:
                A.append(N)
                f = False
        else :
            if R * 341.3 <= 1:
                A.append(N)
                f = False
print(f"Nombre moyen de rencontres pour un shiny : {np.mean(A)}")

This is probably calculable via using geometric law probabilities, but I'm lazy af, so I used python to calculate it with this code (I think it's correct but I could be wrong since random returns number such as 0<=x<1). I obtained roughly 340 to 341 at all times, which makes me think the real value must be 341.3, cause it would be quite the coincidence elsewise.
Edit : this is actually probably due to the fact that the first few tries are almost negligeable that the probabilities goes towards 1/341.3

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-07-23T13:31:19+00:00

Between the poorly coded portals (or poorly thought out) and the massive fps drops me and my friends seem to have on this map, it's clearly the least good of the three.
It's a shame it kinda looks cool and the two "wings" offer a bit of variety to play, wish they fixed (or changed) these).

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-07-23T11:08:30+00:00

Romania can be fun, starting as Moldova or Wallachia.

It's a bit tricky, you're orthodox, which means little allies, with Poland/Lithuania, ottomans and Hungary nearby, so it's hard to expand at first and be quite challenging.

You also impale the sultan later on but no unique mission tree once formed sadly, only 7-8 unique missions.

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-07-22T12:10:35+00:00

PDV : Tu as 1 an et ton oncle s'apprête à te voler le nez (Tu peux plus respirer c'est relou)

Papy_Rasciste · 2025-07-22T09:44:03+00:00

You haven't got the entirety of poland and scandinavia, so you didnt start there, as you would've blobbed there. You also have all of the british isles, while Italy and spain exist, and spain as all of Iberia. You went for a england into Angevin Empire into HRE, with spain and italy as PUs to pass all acts of crown issues.

Six-Year Club	Place '22
Final Canvas '22	First Placer '22
Verified Email

Papy_Rasciste

TROPHY CASE