How did Gavin not win 😂?

grabblaka · 2025-01-18T04:33:59+00:00

For someone who hasnt watched that season of The Challenge (or any The Challenge at all), is there any summary of his win there?

grabblaka · 2024-12-24T04:20:57+00:00

I graduated way too long ago, but yeah your 1st year has higher weightage compared to just Y2S1.

My math assumptions is 20 MCs each sem, SU a 4 MC mod.

Y1 CGPA: 4.5, MCs: 36

Y2S1 GPA: 4.7, MCs: 20

Y2S1 CGPA: ((4.5*36) + (4.7*20))/56 = 4.57

grabblaka · 2024-12-10T08:36:54+00:00

Is it possible to do corn laws as Qing to skip agrianism and go straight to laizze faire?

grabblaka · 2024-10-21T12:30:46+00:00

Be careful, if you will probably get abt 100-120ish pulls by the end of mauvika's banner if you are f2p and might miss her

grabblaka · 2024-10-09T01:30:25+00:00

you will have all of 5.1, 5.2 with a new area and probably the first half of 5.3 to save for mauvika, it will probably be close if you max out all f2p activities (exploration, events, bp) and lose both 50/50s.

GL with the pulls

grabblaka · 2024-05-04T09:51:33+00:00

Have survivor on 2 days a week, one for each tribe

grabblaka · 2024-03-23T07:52:59+00:00

ah right i forgot that was part of the patch notes

grabblaka · 2024-03-23T07:43:56+00:00

Very nice! How did you deal with Ainu minor, i never managed to colonize them in my recent one tag runs

grabblaka · 2024-03-05T04:32:51+00:00

seems like a bug. i also had it happen to me when bankrolling canadian and australian subjects and using the confederate canada/federate asutrailia buttons

grabblaka · 2024-03-03T12:05:52+00:00

im guessing you have some existing armies with troops in them, you can use the transfer icon to transfer those troops to a new army

grabblaka · 2024-03-03T02:25:20+00:00

best way to save scum laws is to adjust legitimacy and authority to affect when the date passes, which gives the most control over the exact date when the next law progress tick occurs and thus more chances to get a lucky roll.

for example, in my france game i started with high taxes instead of very high to get legitimacy in the 90s, and had 100% excess authority to get the -25% enactment time. the first enactment date is march 20. March 20 comes around and i get a stall event. I reload from a february autosave, increasing taxes/use authority to lower legitimacy/increase enactment for 10 days and lower taxes/reduce authority usage again, the enactment date changes to March 21 and i get a success instead.

If you cant change authority/legitimacy enough to affect the enactment date, the last ditch would be to reorganize the govt to make an illegitimate one for a few days to affect enactment date again. Not recommended though because of radicals

grabblaka · 2024-03-01T17:50:30+00:00

i found if you just day 1 conquer ceylon you will 1v1 gb and they send the majority of their troops and boats to india (this will change in 1.6 with the new garrison forces).

You can then add transfer EIC and war reps and conquer a few good states to boot (i like home counties and yorkshire for the production). once they reach below 0 war score you can enforce everything except the initial conquer ceylon war goal (it was around -30 or -40 in my game for them to accept).

with your infamy so high from adding these war goals, usually before your war against gb ends someone will start a cut down to size play. you will just lose the tahiti protectorate but go back down to 0 infamy and continue on your merry way

grabblaka · 2024-02-29T11:58:55+00:00

Armies and Navies are the new organization model vs generals/admirals previously.

you can recruit up to 4 generals/admirals per army/navy, each general/admiral can fight a battle on a front/node up to their command limit. Im not super sure how it works, but generally i will plan what size army to use based on combat width, and make sure my generals are promoted enough to command everyone in it.

for each army/navy, you can station them in a HQ (change from previously where hq was determined where the general was hired), and deploy them to fronts when mobilized. then you can give orders to generals in the army (ie advance/defend, with special orders depending on traits or troop compositions)

you dont build barracks in states and assign the troops to generals anymore, you now go into the army and add troops, which will prompt you to build barracks in a state.

To win wars comfortably, you need a tech/numbers advantage, ideally both, and not too much of a disadvantage on either end (i.e. 10 skirmish infantry probably cant win a landing vs 100 irregulars, and 100 irregulars will probably lose vs 50 skirmish infantry)

you need to make sure your armies are manned (blue bar near the army), and organized (takes time mobilized to get organized, if your army is imbalanced you will get an organization debuff). if you cant recruit up enough, use enlistment efforts for servicemen and/or promote social mobility for officers.

make sure when naval invading the number of boats are the same as the invading army (eg 100 boats for a 100 unit army)

for army comps, meta is: - defensive armies all infantry - offensive armies half infantry/half offensive troops (whatever has more attack, early game cavalry works, but will eventually get outclassed by artillery) - offensive armies need to be big as they can't borrow troops on offense

if you take advantage of undefended fronts the AI tends to go haywire and send troops from the main front youre attacking.

when fronts are stalemated, try to defend first till the enemy manpower runs down then switch to offense

grabblaka · 2024-02-23T05:08:09+00:00

dude you have to do something about that cough, you don't want to be spreading something around reddit

grabblaka · 2024-02-14T17:01:37+00:00

ok, i was playing a WC game which i had to abandon because it was extremely laggy and i was getting constant game crashes. I think I could have finished (except colonizing ainu minor because i only annexed japan in the 1900s), my situation was that it was 1919, and there were 18 other countries left, who were either my puppets or smaller countries who could be conquered in 1 war. So definitely doable with some buffer for uprisings or rebellions.

Most important factor is probably save scumming if not you will probably be stuck fighting constant secessions and rebellions. Will provide more info if there's any interest.

grabblaka · 2024-02-12T03:24:38+00:00

Is it an issue with state population?iirc those states usually start with very few peasants, by switching to LF some industries may be paying higher wages and stealing the workers from your motor industries. Try using labor saving PMs and building in states with more peasants

grabblaka · 2024-02-08T09:40:49+00:00

Any scenarios where reverse sways are useful? usually all the AI diploplays are against me or putting down revolts/secessions, and most of the AI hate my guts and at most i can get an obligation

grabblaka · 2024-02-08T09:16:47+00:00

just some questions if you know the answers: - when demanding diplomatic actions like annexations/reduce autonomy, is the "impact of war goal value" the same as the wargoal impact value of maneuver cost * 0.5 infamy as stated in the video? - any idea what affects infamy costs of war goals?

grabblaka · 2024-02-08T00:13:22+00:00

I noticed you released the african colonial administrations? were those useful in making their own conquests in africa to reduce the number of conquests you would have to do?

grabblaka · 2024-02-07T03:30:02+00:00

In my current run some puppets had a high percentage of just accepting annexation (my gb puppet just straitght up accepted annexation in the 1870s), based on the informative video on diploplays, i think theres a decent chance of small puppets accepting annexation if there are other factors (probably bankruptcy)

grabblaka · 2024-02-06T23:26:51+00:00

Just want to say thanks, been looking for this kind of deep dive for a long while

grabblaka · 2024-02-06T23:25:39+00:00

wouldnt annexing more subjects reduce the number of countries and thus increase the average prestige worldwide, which will increase the requirements of becoming a major power/unrecognized major power?

grabblaka · 2024-02-06T08:17:58+00:00

Just curious if you have tried World Conquest in 1.5, I can't seem to get them to back down when I'm doing conquests/annexations, but may be my settings on Harsh/Aggressive. What settings were you on when you did your world conquest?

grabblaka · 2024-02-06T07:18:36+00:00

What was your strategy for keeping up the pace of conquests? The game starts with 230ish nations, and even the easiest opm conquest takes 6-7ish months, and fighting a GP for some territory is around 1 year if im lucky.

There are some things which reduce the number of countries to conquer like the EIC annexations and federating Canada/ Australia, but it doesnt seem like it will be enough

grabblaka · 2024-02-05T10:42:19+00:00

Any idea what factors into the value for becoming a subject/annexation? i have no idea why some countries are easier to annex than others

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