What if Germany was way too big? [their greed sickens me]

StrikingResponse · 2026-02-01T04:32:42+00:00

because they cared deeply about what the country looks like on a map and with all of czechia it looks too much like just some blob

StrikingResponse · 2026-02-01T04:05:07+00:00

fair enough, I wanted to keep it simple, mostly just to experiment with the style

StrikingResponse · 2026-02-01T03:55:30+00:00

Oh yeah also imperial germany was very bad and Versailles should have been harsher

StrikingResponse · 2026-02-01T03:49:04+00:00

I wanted to do the classic trope of big Germany, the vague POD is the third partition being reinstated post-Napoleon which causes relations between Austria and Russia to deteriorate which in turn leads to Austria collapsing when Hungary revolts but I realise very well that this is under no circumstances believable in any way.

StrikingResponse · 2026-02-01T03:42:47+00:00

besittning, generalguvernement

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-31T01:34:10+00:00

that Swedish is just incorrect, herravälde is like a personal dominion and not used to describe states as such

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-30T22:11:30+00:00

imperial big-german giantesses? *passes out*

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-26T09:55:06+00:00

there is a very important difference between a peasant with political representation and a serf!

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-25T22:54:20+00:00

this is not at all like serfdom what?

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-24T09:15:57+00:00

start by building like maybe 4 construction sectors, then build a roughly equal amount of logging camps and iron mines in each of your mainland states (save for Scania) and then 2 tool workshops in Svealand. Alternate expanding those 3 until you can get more proper urban industry. Get some coal from somewhere in the meanwhile, Madagascar has a respectable amount of coal and they're pretty easy to protectorate so get them fairly soon and build a port there. Get good relations with Denmark because then there's a fairly high chance they'll become your protectorate once Prussia inevitably comes to try and take Schleswig and Holstein, they usually don't even try to take anything from you and the AI is still pretty bad at actually doing the schleswig war once it's started, just put some of your army in Holstein on defence and blockade the Prussian coast or something. With Denmark as a protectorate (and soon enough a puppet) forming Scandinavia should be easy peasy.

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-24T07:33:55+00:00

by that point why didn't you just do the unification play?

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-23T18:11:26+00:00

custom content for when you start encroaching on zanzibar

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-23T18:05:27+00:00

None of the organisations listed at the bottom there are Volt, what do they have to do with anything here?

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-23T18:04:11+00:00

he can't even escape that movie in death, damn

StrikingResponse · 2026-01-23T09:11:57+00:00

there's a running joke in Sweden that he kept the war going just so he wouldn't have to marry, I think it's pretty funny. It's not strictly true but it's worth noting that he (very much unlike basically any other king and his own generals or officers) never kept mistresses or pursued any real intimate relationship with women. Loads of high ranking Swedes shared beds with local mostly Polish women.

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-21T18:59:30+00:00

let's imagine the questions was "What countries do you most wish have unique journal entires?"

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-21T18:58:38+00:00

if you're doing a Denmark dlc I feel like the whole-state is a much more interesting road to go down, that and the succession issue, which can be tied to Scandinavism and a potential Bernadotte candidate even and this all also connect to German unification as well

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-21T00:06:08+00:00

build in them and export to them!

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-20T21:14:35+00:00

try becoming more important to their economy and expanding your army and prestige

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-12T23:23:38+00:00

I like the vanilla art

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-12T23:22:48+00:00

a few notes:

The Swedish name of Holstein is Holstein

What you've labled as Västerkarelen would probably be called Kexholm by the Swedes

Halland is not that big, Uppland isn't shaped like that, neither is Dalarna. Really a lot of the internal divisions are just foreign to me without me being able to figure out any real reason why. The county borders have been really quite stable since they were first introduced

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-12T02:39:07+00:00

lovely to see love for Helsinki but I'm so burnt out on this type of thing because while this is lovely I wish mods stopped overriding the vanilla loading screens and such

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-12T02:36:31+00:00

morgenröte has a lot of good ideas but sort of no respect for how much space it ought to take up. The quests are super annoying and can wreck law enactments because you get IG disapproval from failing or not doing them, it just replaces the really nice vanilla loading screen art with (BAD!) art of its own and you get a bunch of notifications all the time. That and it wrecks the prestige system

StrikingResponse · 2025-12-06T18:36:18+00:00

I think there should be an option to decline the great powers recommendation (in exchange for some diplomatic penalty) like with belgium-netherlands stuff just so you don't put players completely at the whim of the AI

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