For those who don't play paradox games or Hearts of Iron 4, I did a difficult achievement, which is starting as communist china and proclaiming the People's republic of china. You have to fight an uphill battle starting from a single province. I managed to consolidate, drive out the japanese, and turn on the Kuomintang in a few years. This last year has been researching and preparing a naval invasion to fully defeat Japan. Of course, I had to keep Mao as the head, otherwise how could I really claim to have created the PRC?

  • EldritchMayo [he/him,comrade/them]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Eventually it clicks. It def took me a while but it’s really a curve, once a few things fall into place all the systems fall into place too. It does take a little while for sure though, but then it’s fun cause you can do shit like this. I plan on destroying America in this run.

    • Terminalfilth [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Are there any good guides? I'm fucking terrible at most RTS games. I need my turns. But this seems really cool and I wanna play it. FTL may actually be my all time favorite and I feel like a complex RTS could appeal but I've never clicked with one.

    • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Hell yeah, HOI4 + Stellaris is a great combo. You can start with HOI then take your communist revolution to spaaaaccceee!

      • KiaKaha [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        There are a lot of expansions there for HOI4. Do you need them all? Can it be pirated, or are there regular updates?

        • EldritchMayo [he/him,comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          Get the ones that apply to the countries you like. I bought “Waking the tiger” for a few bucks for this run, took me a couple tries and maybe 10 odd hours in total, worth the cost. There’s expansions for the Spanish civil war, yugoslavia, etc which are all fun communist play throughs.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I don't have them all, just check the reviews for them. I'd just get the main game first though, you'll know when you need the DLC because you'll have 200+ hours in the game and be thinking "I could use that dlc". Also check G2A, they're cheap as hell on there usually. Stellaris is usually available for $10 there.

          • TheDabBitch [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            Piracy is better than g2a. They're a money laundering scheme and all keys bought there will cause the real devs to be hit with chargebacks cause they used stolen credit cards.

            Just pirate it jfc

            • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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              edit-2
              4 years ago

              Yeah, but you don't get updates with the pirated version. The only reason I recommend G2A for Paradox is that they are constantly putting their games on sale so there are actually a few resellers that just stockpile keys when the game is $10 then sell them back for a buck or two profit. Also Paradox overcharges for their games and you can always buy DLC legit if you want to support them.

    • WetAssPossum [they/them,ey/em]
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      4 years ago

      Do you have any understanding of naval gameplay? It used to be you would only spam battleships, but now after MTG I have no fucking clue how naval gameplay works. Best I can figure out is using subs.

      • EldritchMayo [he/him,comrade/them]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        I don't have the MTG dlc, and yeah I have no clue how it works. That's my least known area of expertise unfortunately.

      • Classic_Agency [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Its not the best but its supposed to work in that battleships kill cruisers who kill destroyers who kill subs who kill battleships IIRC. If you are a small country just build subs. If you are a large country its good to build some heavy cruisers and destroyers also. Battleships take too long to build to be of much use imo.