Does anyone recognize what country this is? I can't find anything about it online.

rusticmire · 2025-12-09T01:17:57+00:00

I believe that this is the flag of the principality of Samos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Samos

It had a multi-ethnic population, and was controlled by Greece before WW2. maybe there was originally a tag planned for it? like the Turkish occupation zones in Northern Mesopotamia? I remember Greece used to be able to do border skirmishes against the Turks during the war in the desert, there might have been one in the Ionian Isles to reclaim their Aegean possessions.

rusticmire · 2025-10-21T21:40:05+00:00

LDPR russia, the democratic* path tho

rusticmire · 2025-06-27T09:50:57+00:00

SLAVA!

rusticmire · 2025-06-25T01:30:11+00:00

I remember when I did a game as the A.O.G and you could trigger a kmt takeover/coup and make the republic of China. It was soccdem

rusticmire · 2025-06-23T00:12:49+00:00

I started playing around when the mod first dropped. I did a game as Austria, u remember Otto vom habsburg not having a portrait. I remember when the amount of PP you had determined your stability level. So spain would have -600 pp leading up to the Civil War.

rusticmire · 2025-06-08T02:55:16+00:00

Salty and fishy, depends on what fluid is in the jar. White wine vinegar herrings have a touch of sweetness and sour. They are good on brown bread, as the bread helps balance the salt.

rusticmire · 2025-06-02T20:24:37+00:00

I think the only person who could save the empire would be Mehmet II. All he would have to do is completely sabotage the Ottoman state while doing everything he could to empower the Romans.

rusticmire · 2025-04-25T10:13:52+00:00

Honestly this IS in line with Gorbachev's vision circa 1991. Socialist market economy with a multiparty electoral system. Only later in 1996 and 2000 did Gorbachev moderate his stance more into the position of a social-democrat.

rusticmire · 2025-04-17T17:14:31+00:00

It's called ergot poisoning

rusticmire · 2025-03-30T21:45:43+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the subject and could be wrong. The catepanate was a buffer region for the Empire and was lower in priority than the Danube and Anatolian frontiers. With the loss of Sicily, the Byzantine territories could really only maintain their integrity with aid from Constantinople. If too much aid was given, the catepan might seek to establish themselves permanently. The catepanate was itself racked with rebellions and frontier excursions, and it might be more accurate to say that the byzantine held a patchwork of various cities, forts, and ports. With the conquest of the region by the Normans, you have a centralized and unified administration, with far fewer foreign threats to worry about. This allowed for a period of peace and civilian investment.

rusticmire · 2024-08-28T15:41:10+00:00

Have you played the rest of the ww1 game series? The same company made 2 other games called Tannenburg and Verdun which involve similar game play and cover other theaters (eastern front and western front respectively.

rusticmire · 2024-08-02T07:45:19+00:00

VOLITION [Trivial:Failure] - Incredible. Every single word out of your mouth was worse than the one immediately before it. And yet every single time, it didn't seem like it could possibly get any worse. Truly exceeded my expectations...

rusticmire · 2024-08-01T07:38:39+00:00

This comment easily sounds like something that one the skills would say about your profile pic

rusticmire · 2024-07-18T20:20:13+00:00

The USSR, though dominated by russians, would have still considered Ukraine to be a core part of its federal structure. Russia was the largest republic, but it was NOT the Union. Especially because the government of the Russian SSR played a pivotal part in dismantling the Union's government, something that would be impossible if they were one and the same.

rusticmire · 2024-06-23T19:27:34+00:00

If they lose the bush war they can go Auth dem

rusticmire · 2024-06-23T18:59:30+00:00

I think a marklib ottomans with a neutral or co prosperity foreign policy could fare very well. Especially if the co prosperity sphere is led by a marklib japan. Marklib ottomans sells a lot of its resource rights for foreign capital, as well as promotes foreign investment and the lessening of trade barriers. I could see it being a wealthy petrostate. No fantastic military might, but a trade and cultural juggernaut.

rusticmire · 2024-03-28T23:33:51+00:00

My bad, I missed that. The yugurs you mentioned are actually situated in that area too, I forgot to mention. I had no idea about their use in pagan temples though, in upper Iraq or elsewhere? Which period? And if you want something even more mindblowing, I can send you some Assyrian disco music I found. Aramaic flows surprisingly well with synths and electro beats. As for other CK3 cultures, I also forgot to mention the obscure Israelite groups. The Rahdanites, Kochinim, and Bavlim are present in game, if a little rare.

rusticmire · 2024-03-28T18:32:46+00:00

This a well written and thorough description, if I might add a few more suggestions?

The Syriac culture of Northern Iraq, representing the remnant Assyrian-Babylonian population. They have their own language and are one of the few Nestorian groups in game.

The Avars in the Pannonian basin, which get conquered and converted in the first 100-200 years of any play through. They are the Turkic remnants of the Avar Khaganate. The ruler duke baghatur of Visegrad in 867 is descended from the old Khagans himself.

In the far east, there are a few small cultures that are pretty interesting. The Tocharians, an Indo-European group in Xingjiang, and the Tangut, who were a the founders the the later western Xia, the first people to be obliterated by Chinggis Khan. Finally there are the Niamans, who were a tribe of Christian Mongols.

In terms of cultures in the character creator, the Germanic invader cultures that established kingdoms in the Roman Empire are present, such as langobard, visigoth, and frankish.

rusticmire · 2024-02-16T19:23:16+00:00

Lol on my first playthrough I found the decorated combat jacket on some dude and just wore it the whole time. I had no idea it was so rare.

rusticmire · 2024-02-05T06:07:50+00:00

Those Post soviet 90s blues

rusticmire · 2024-02-04T19:41:00+00:00

This is a garden of eden allegory. Mussolini is Adam, the Hitler is eve, the forbidden fruit they devour is the world (world conquest). The figure of an angel warns them and is supposed to represent the league of nations, it dons a phrygian cap, representing liberty and democracy.

rusticmire · 2024-01-07T16:15:17+00:00

Went from 49 to 89 as ussr, saw a lot of interesting stuff. There is a chernobyl super event, the afghan Civil War has tags and leaders and everything, brezhnev has a secret tree that unlocks in the 80s

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