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?

  • 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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            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.