come on pirates get up your game I want my fucking mods especially since valve has no fucking right to content people are fucking making for free
steamworkshop.download sucks ass and continues to serve old versions or, in the case of an older version of the mod I want which was uploaded, literally just doesn't download anything (it just says some bullshit about free space instead of giving a download link)
I can't do it the "legit way" because I don't have 10000 fucking dollars to spend on Europa Universalis and all its bullshit DLCs that the mod I wanna play FUCKING NEEDS
I was gonna suggest using steamcmd to just pull the files by id, but anonymous downloads are apparently blocked for EU (I tried it and it spits out "error: download failed" with no more details), unlike mods for Kenshi, Conan Exiles, and Rimworld all of which can be pulled that way.