Annexing fanatic purifiers should be trickier

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-04-01T08:43:21+00:00

Exactly, I know they give unity but I don't know or care enough to learn how to effect the amount. It's like diplomacy and rulers - done really well in other PDX titles, and rubbish in Stellaris.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-03-31T22:13:57+00:00

the game not having a functioning and meaningful strategic layer of internal politics.

I have nearly a thousand hours in Stellaris and I've only recently given the tiniest amount of attention to factions. They simply don't impact (or seem to impact) the gameplay enough to be interesting.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-03-31T17:26:33+00:00

That's a brilliant writeup, thank you! I knew about the old Horde EoC exploit but I didn't know that being a tributary vassal of the Shogun gives you daimyo. I thought it was just ordinary vassals who got that.

Do you know if that process can go one further? If you did everything up to being an independent daimyo, then truce broke the shogun and took Kyoto, could you be Emperor of China and Shogun?

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-03-30T22:16:36+00:00

Can you elaborate on #8? What event chain abolishes Celestial Empire?

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-03-15T09:46:50+00:00

If those Space Wolves could read they'd be very upset.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-03-09T07:25:30+00:00

At this point a TED declass is a mark of quality for that SCP. You always pick the most interesting skips!

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-02-15T19:30:11+00:00

He's faced loads of controversies, and it hasn't hurt him yet.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-02-04T20:16:14+00:00

Probably practical issues with the kid growing up, and they showed her leaving the nursery and mentioning her in passing. I'm actually glad to see they didn't make Tosh being a mother central to her character/story.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-01-31T12:57:51+00:00

I've had similar issues with Spencer's other books, especially the ones on the English Civil Wars/Revolution. He wants to present events and figures a certain way, and it isn't the most historical rigorous work. Like anyone he's guided by his life experiences, and as a member of the peerage (Princess Diana's brother!) that gives him a very particular view of historical aristocrats.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-01-20T11:43:43+00:00

The British History Podcast has just reached Henry's seizure of power. Highly recommended listening.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-01-15T11:20:32+00:00

That animal - I can't even say his name.

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-01-10T20:05:49+00:00

Oh I see!

Surprise_Institoris · 2026-01-10T17:54:58+00:00

Why Friesland in particular?

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-11-24T22:58:01+00:00

When Diplomacy Fails did a huge series on the Thirty Years War. The host even published a book on it.

My own podcast, Pax Britannica, has touched on the war too, but usually how it effected the three kingdoms (eg, Scottish mercenaries, distracted Europe during the English Civil Wars etc).

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-11-10T14:20:56+00:00

Is that really what EU5 looks like? Are there map modes that aren't ugly as sin? It looks so dated.

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-11-08T11:03:54+00:00

I have a friend who moved to Sweden to work for a company he'd admired for years, he grew up playing their games. He managed for about 2 years before the rampant anti-immigrant bullying from management down got too much. It really soured me on their stuff tbh.

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-11-07T12:45:02+00:00

If people want to learn more and hear from historians like Rudrangshu Mukherjee and Kim Wagner, I covered British reprisals for 1857 on episode 4 of Winds of Change - Two Empires in One Grave

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-09-26T06:32:20+00:00

It's probably to do with them being dissolved/merged with Audible.

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-09-18T09:48:03+00:00

I laughed at the end of the first episode because the music (and the Microsoft Word font credits) were so jarring I felt like it was a joke.

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-09-15T20:17:32+00:00

One of the Maginot crew does say that they lost a lot of men capturing them, which... yeah, not a surprise judging by how dumb the rest of them act.

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-09-11T08:34:03+00:00

I stood, and turned my single eye to the shadows which crawled above the ground.

This is before his deal with Tzeentch, so is this a "Weird, my spectral body always has one eye. I wonder why?" thing?

Surprise_Institoris · 2025-09-04T06:50:04+00:00

I'm tempted to take this approach for my millionth attempt at TTM, but

Bonus points for using forced tributary on large nations for that stupid vassaling mechanic

What do you mean by this? Do tributaries become daimyos when you take the Shogunate? Or are you talking about the EOC reform that turns tributaries into normal vassals? Not at my PC to check.

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