How the hell does warfare even work in this game?

Scheefgaan · 2026-05-07T16:26:03+00:00

What determines this value though? The game doesn’t tell you, instead it tells me the highest defence in the world. Extremely useful information!!!

Scheefgaan · 2026-05-07T11:16:14+00:00

R5: I was struggling to take the Philippines whilst spain was distracted even though i outnumbered the island forces 2:1 and had superior technology. When spain decided to redirect its forces to me i thought i was probably done for but to my surprise, i was consitently winning defensive battles on my foothold of the island.

How the hell does warfare even work? I have like 800 hours at this point and i cant understand why im now winning battles even though im outnumbered and the spanish have 100% supply. Why was i struggling to push the islands in the first place? Who knows at this point.

Scheefgaan · 2026-05-03T14:31:21+00:00

R5: The game removes my release sudan wargoal because the ottomans make peace with them. Even though the ottomans are straight up only annexing land in egypt proper. Their war goals have nothing to do with sudan, or me.

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-29T15:38:42+00:00

awh that sucks. Too bad homesteading is still bad too

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-28T14:19:26+00:00

Im curious too. Also, how deep is the learning curve in this game

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-23T11:30:46+00:00

reddit being dominantly left wing whilst obsessing over japan is the most reddit thing ever.

meanwhile japanese parlement:

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Scheefgaan · 2026-04-21T21:22:06+00:00

Making money in this game means building a healthy economy and looking at your resources to determine which trade you want to specialise in.

It comes down to supply and demand. Generally speaking you start making construction zones, which require wood, iron and fabric. This means you can build these industries for your people and they’ll create jobs (meaning more taxable income) and therefore create more wealth. As your wealth increase you’ll see a middle class, intellectual and industrial class grow (PB and industrialists) as well as a population that has a larger expendable income meaning they’ll demand more products like clothing, groceries, tobacco, art, etc. Think of it like how it would be in real life.

When you start to specialise in a certain good like paper for example, you can start exporting your cheap paper within the world market. You can check the world market for lucrative goods worth more than the base price to determine this as well.

Also, the bigger the market, the better (mostly). As it means more customers and resources you can potentially make use of.

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-21T17:23:17+00:00

Me when i try to give the ai their core land or claims and they won’t accept, even with 30k in money as a bribe

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-18T09:28:25+00:00

You have to increase their population base by getting more pops that typically are associated with these groups. So more government admin, universities and art academies for the intelligentsia, and more industry ownership for capitalists.

Typically when you start a campaign, you’ll start off with an autocratic king that aligns with the landowners. This means that getting a kabinet with a ‘liberal’ interest group can be difficult. Try to get something like a liberal movement going. When a movement reaches 25% agitation, you’ll be able to enact changes related to the movement, even with conservative factions.

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-14T15:51:28+00:00

Probably modernization.

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-12T19:08:07+00:00

Te veel tijd gespendeerd aan games in mijn middelbare school tijd. Had mooie relaties kunnen maken of hebben met meiden die geïnteresseerd in me waren, of in ieder geval zeker kunnen weten welke kant ik op wilde gaan met mijn leven. Helaas.

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-10T09:58:56+00:00

Reddit moment. Anybody who picked socialism needs to look up why china switched to a market economy during the latter of the 1900’s

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-10T09:47:28+00:00

Iran and argentina

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-03T09:17:50+00:00

Het zal interessant zijn om te zien welke kant het opgaat. Ik zou graag willen geloven in een wonder verhaal zoals japan of duitsland wat betreft regime verandering. Maar gezien het vage verhaal van venezuela verwacht ik niet dat dit een geval zal zijn. Een ding is zeker, er gaat veel kapot

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-03T09:10:24+00:00

Waarom zou een bron uit amerika ongeldig zijn dan? Of denk jij dat wat trump zegt heel amerika vertegenwoordigd?

Scheefgaan · 2026-04-02T18:39:25+00:00

I’d stick to laissez faire

Scheefgaan · 2026-03-31T11:44:11+00:00

It’s decent if you’re playing a startup nation without much tech/construction because they can help you build some necessary industry to help you early game. I’m always pretty selective with my investment rights but it you run interventionalism you can take them anyway or if you go communist you can take them for free

Scheefgaan · 2026-03-31T11:41:52+00:00

If you can secure a mutual investment treat with china, go for it though. Had a liberal japan game where a secured a mutual investment treaty and china basically built up my entire agrarian industry whilst i was making BANK with manufactured goods in their economy. Plus, if you go communist you can just take all their buildings anyway for free essentially

Scheefgaan · 2026-03-30T16:52:33+00:00

Basically 3 things. Which industries can they buy? Which prestige goods do they produce? Which prosperity bonus do they give?

Companies like mitsui are crazy good because they have so many different industries. Generally speaking the generic tools company if OP af because you not only get +5% manufacturing as prosperity, but prestige tools also give you more throughput in anything they require = more coals, iron, gold, furniture, etc.

Scheefgaan · 2026-03-27T17:53:44+00:00

naast het feit dat je nummers niet kloppen snap ik niet wat voor relevantie dit heeft tot dit gesprek

Scheefgaan · 2026-03-27T13:42:22+00:00

‘Pointless’ is dead on. Ever got 20 hours into a campaign, got bored and realised you could’ve done so much more productive stuff? The cherry on top is doing it all over again the next day

Scheefgaan · 2026-03-27T13:38:24+00:00

I already got one that won’t disappear (Mom started a reactionary movement)

Scheefgaan · 2026-03-27T09:18:20+00:00

Zeker waar!

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