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SwordsMaster
06-03-2009, 18:37
Just noticed your income/expense numbers. Greece is surviving on 2£ daily!
Yeah, it's tough to get any cash flow, my only exports are grain, cotton, fruit and sulphur. I managed to save up enough to buy 2 clippers so I can actually convoy effectively. Plus some industrial techs have brought up my income/exports. Unfortunately Russia attacked the Ottomans and the UK attacked Russia, so I lost two allies and the possibility of attacking the Ottomans. I banned the British Faction since they were going to be elected (all my clergy are Liberal, 56% of voters, 10% of population) and that really would have stung my militancy levels. I keep getting liberal and socialist events, which I don't want. I could use some conservative/reactionary ones to convert my clergy back to conservative.
https://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2240/62271464.jpg
https://img3.imageshack.us/img3/281/austriaeurope.jpg
https://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5791/austriaasia.jpg
Interesting game so far. Playing as Austria I allied with Germany in early 37' to hopefully avoid the Anchluss(sp?). Well I declared war on Hungary not long after I allied to Germany and annexed them. Italy had a GoI on Hungary and declared war on me not long after I had annexed them. So then we basically destroyed Italy, but Italy wouldn't accept any of my peace deals so I created a Italian Social Republic as a puppet. I left the alliance with Germany not long after that. WW2 was not fun to watch Germany was completely destroyed by France and SU. Then the US declared war on SU(91 belligerence) and then the SU declared war on Japan. I made the Allies declare war on the SU because I thought it would make it a bit more interesting.
seireikhaan
06-08-2009, 05:43
Ichi, you're gonna have to give me hints or somethin' on HoI. For the love of me, I cannot get my head wrapped around this game. Of course, I s'pose I should probably stop trying to play as Nationalist China....
Ichi, you're gonna have to give me hints or somethin' on HoI. For the love of me, I cannot get my head wrapped around this game. Of course, I s'pose I should probably stop trying to play as Nationalist China....
What exactly don't you get? Yeah, probably should try Germany. That was my first game in HoI.
As far as my game. The SU was just annexed, France has pretty much all of Europe and into central Russia, the UK has Finland and a bit of northern Russia and almost the entire Central part of Russia, and the US have the rest.
Japan just declared war on the US, UK, and Netherlands.
What exactly don't you get? Yeah, probably should try Germany. That was my first game in HoI.
As far as my game. The SU was just annexed, France has pretty much all of Europe and into central Russia, the UK has Finland and a bit of northern Russia and almost the entire Central part of Russia, and the US have the rest.
Japan just declared war on the US, UK, and Netherlands.
That's a "#$%&/ up game.
seireikhaan
06-10-2009, 10:31
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/bolivia4.jpg
Finally, I have Brazil comparatively isolated in South America. Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Panama, and Paraguay are all my satelites. I'm hoping Brazil takes bait and declares war on me, so I might turn the entire continent against them....
edit: And the alliance offers were basically for **** and giggles, on the off chance that I might get lucky and actually just have a really nice, safe bastion in South America. Not to be... >:(
Mailman653
06-11-2009, 23:39
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/Officerpuppy_/Other/mountblade2009-06-1117-59-32-07.jpg
Prophecy of Pendor 2.0 (I finally got back into MB)
Prussian to the Iron
06-11-2009, 23:54
wow. that looks epicly aesome.
seireikhaan
06-16-2009, 05:26
A bit of Civ IV: Colonization. Unfortunately won't win this particular game, but I was rather amused by my "capital", New Amsterdam. I've got two merchantmen running back and forth continually to my continental cities so I can keep funneling in the resources I need to keep the industry booming.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/98da55877740d9a8fd6fc4ac228efb9c18fe60a5.png
Veho Nex
06-16-2009, 08:51
https://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg250/jkarinen/rottkxi-20090615-213130.png
My new campaign in Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI. I have 2 districts, I'm running my kingdom outta Louyang where the emperor is situated and Ma Teng is my prefect for the 2nd district which consist of all the light gray on the left.
Hooahguy
06-16-2009, 17:18
blind fire
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/210637641895a2212073da31767d4311b9c0ae35.jpg (http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/hooahguy14/ss_file-210637641895a2212073da31767d4311b9c0ae35.jpg)
and some more:
taking cover
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/b9066fa7d84b78bf16c7bebb321e5d049390ac32.jpg (http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/hooahguy14/ss_file-b9066fa7d84b78bf16c7bebb321e5d049390ac32.jpg)
my online persona:
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/large/64f904fdb4832d02390a8c0b473197a393170545.jpg (http://www.xfire.com/screenshots/hooahguy14/ss_file-64f904fdb4832d02390a8c0b473197a393170545.jpg)
Prussian to the Iron
06-16-2009, 21:08
is that R6: V1? the second one is soooo much better.
Veho Nex
06-16-2009, 21:19
He could be running it on the lowest settings.
seireikhaan
06-16-2009, 22:23
Hopped back to an older Persian game I'd had in Vicky. Just for :daisy: and giggles....
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/persiasuicide.jpg
BANZAI!
Hooahguy
06-17-2009, 00:19
He could be running it on the lowest settings.
nope: the highest.
but realize that the last 2 photos are from the MP, where graphics have been scaled down a lot.
also, the game was introduced before AA was mainstream, so....
also, john- you say you never played R6V1, yet say R6V2 is better?
tell that to the people who reviewed it. :smash:
Prussian to the Iron
06-17-2009, 02:27
ive played R6V1.
Hooahguy
06-17-2009, 02:38
ive played R6V1.
oh, you did? my bad. i thoguht you said you didnt.
anyhow, my impression is that while the MP and graphics of R6V2 are better, overall R6V1 was better, considering it got a metascore of 85 and R6V2 got a score of 78.
Prussian to the Iron
06-17-2009, 02:42
meh, whatevs. i think we can agree GoW 2 beats both :P
Marshal Murat
06-17-2009, 04:30
khaan, having any election troubles in Tehran recently?
Got to spend a few hours on EU3- here's an update on my long-running Byzantine Campaign:
https://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7567/byzl.jpg
Prussian to the Iron
06-17-2009, 17:36
khaan, having any election troubles in Tehran recently?
OMG i just fell out of my seat laughing!!:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:
khaan, having any election troubles in Tehran recently?
:laugh4:
Hmm. Quite a few EU3 screenies. Might have to purchase...
'khaan I laughed pretty hard at that Civ screenie, tiny tiny island. I recently got both Civ IV and Colonisation, haven't had a chance to really try it yet? Similar to the older versions? Harder? Easier? My initial impressions were a feeling of being overwhelmed. But, I do like the features and feel so far.
Prussian to the Iron
06-17-2009, 19:42
thats vickie though i thought? not civ.
Hooahguy
06-17-2009, 21:48
in my sights....
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/r6v1.jpg
seireikhaan
06-17-2009, 22:09
'khaan I laughed pretty hard at that Civ screenie, tiny tiny island. I recently got both Civ IV and Colonisation, haven't had a chance to really try it yet? Similar to the older versions? Harder? Easier? My initial impressions were a feeling of being overwhelmed. But, I do like the features and feel so far.
Civ IV is definitely an improvement upon Civ III, in my view. First, of course, graphically its more pleasing to look at as compared to III.
Second- do you just have Civ IV, or do you have the expansions? I very much recommend them.
Third- I'd say difficulty seems about right. It all depends on what level you play on. I stick to Noble, which pits you against the AI on even terms. I would advise starting the first game on either Chieftain or Warlord, though, just to get a feel for how things work and what strategies to pursue. Not sure if it disappoints you or not, though, is that they removed the Sid(~:eek:) difficulty setting. Generally, though, Civ IV requires a different set of strategies, for the most part. Civ III's big weakness was that the AI forced the player to adapt a strategy of blitz blitz blitz. Not only can Civ IV be played at a slower pace, you almost must play at a slower pace. Maintenance costs for building or capturing new cities can, early on, destroy your ability to finance research and can put you at such a deficit in the long run that it can be almost impossible to recover without a lot of help.
As for colonization- I never played the original, so I can't compare it to it. As compared to Civ IV, its basically like Civ IV, but with micro-economic focus instead of macro focus. Military features are stripped down to bare bones, while economic management becomes much more important. A lot of the "long run" features are no longer present. No culture, no research, no maintenence. I'd say its not a game I could play over and over again, but every now and then can make a nice campaign.
seireikhaan
06-17-2009, 22:46
khaan, having any election troubles in Tehran recently?
Of course not. Persia is the most stable nation in the world. The Persian people are completely satisfied with these most honest of results.
:stare:
seireikhaan
06-18-2009, 00:27
So anyone familiar with the definition of irony?
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/persiachaos2.jpg
Nice little batch of politicos I got. :dizzy2:
Hehe. Liberal Revolutionaries?
Thanks for the run-down on Civ4. I do have Warlords, but not Beyond the Sword. I'll see how I go before committing to that.
Reactionaries are Right-Winged. So they would be trying to do the Islamic Revolution and depose the Shah.
Whoa. Pluralism is quite high in Persia.
Establishment or Populism 'khaan?
seireikhaan
06-18-2009, 08:30
Establishment or Populism 'khaan?
Actually, I believe I'm researching that tech right now.... I always go for populism.
seireikhaan
06-19-2009, 22:44
Well, I decided to load back up the Persian game and take the entirely more practical approach to conquering egypt- absorbing large chunks piecemeal in a series of wars. Eventually annexed them, but with a bb of about 19 instead of 54 thanks to Egypt being uncivilized. :juggle2: Along the way "united" the arabian peninsula by conquering Yemen and Oman, both in two wars each, as well as purchasing Aden from British India. Released Crete as a satellite to help soften the bb a bit. Fortunately all this time, Russia and the UK are my bestest buddies and are guaranteeing my independence, which methink is the overriding factor for why I've not had any DOW on me. Well.... after a while, I got tired of my incompetent Persian capitalists, who were barely making any money even when I had managed to get their taxes to zero. I simply couldn't let my econ stagnate, I needed to use the state to build rails and (more) factories. Further, I had big minority populations which I dearly needed working in factories if I was going to get a strong econ.
Thus, behold, the Persian worker's Paradise:
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/persianempire2.jpg
United Socialist Persian Republics!
SwordsMaster
06-20-2009, 16:03
So the next step i'm guessing is cleaning up what remains of the turks...
Picked up Civ 4: Beyond the Sword this morning. And with the rain and wind outside, I thought I'd buckle down and give the additional scenarios a go. Final Frontier mod/scenario is amazing. A lot of fun.
https://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5306/civp.jpg
Crazed Rabbit
06-20-2009, 21:41
Some images from my first* successful EU3 game:
The situation in Europe. Bohemia and Austria are frightening. So is France, but that's to be expected.
https://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6485/eu352.jpg
North America:
https://img269.imageshack.us/img269/9079/eu353.jpg
Central America:
https://img190.imageshack.us/img190/2706/eu354.jpg
I've also annexed the Chimu (who had somehow conquered the Incans completely). I think I've got almost all the gold producing provinces in the Americas. I also stayed Catholic while France is 1/3 Catholic, 1/3 Reformed, and 1/3 Protestant. Maybe that helps explain why this point in the game is the longest I've gone without fighting France. Spain has most of the east coast of South America.
Previously, I had fought Portugal and Castile in NE North America, taking most of their provinces. And then I attacked Portugal again later. Combined with wars with Castile, they now have two provinces in Iberia and a handful in the Caribbean.
Right now I'm thinking about what idea to get next. I'm thinking the Viceroys one.
CR
WHY DID YOU ATTACK PORTUGAL!? *cries*
Hooahguy
06-26-2009, 01:26
blind shooting
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/pointblank.jpg
thankfully my team was near me.... while refitting, this terrorist came in the room. luckily Michael cut him down with a burst of MG fire...
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/teamhelp.jpg
and finally, this is why i love Ubisoft games....
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/sweeeeeet.jpg
seireikhaan
06-27-2009, 03:23
AT LAST!
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/iraniandemocracy.jpg
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/iraniandemocracyptII.jpg
After 20-some odd years of iron fisted, forced industrialization, I was finally ready to hand over gov't to the people. I was tired of crushing rebellion after rebellion after rebellion. My military was paralyzed, its a darned good thing nobody warred with me during the commie phase.
Still crushing every rebellion on the Empire's fringes, I evacuated inner Iran. Within a couple years, nearly all of my homelands were under revolutionary control. And, on a glorious day, the flag of Freedom was waved. The communists were chased from Persia, or else pressured to moderate their views. With precious democracy initiated, the socialist party won the election with over half of the votes. A new reign of peace and prosperity was begun.
*Out of Character: The commie phase was direly important. Despite the immense suffering and rebellion, 20 years of it sufficiently warped the populace into being secular/liberal. With the democratic gov't, I've had just a single rebellion in the last couple years, as opposed to the 3 per week I averaged during commie reign. Also, I think the commie phase kicked some sense into my capitalists, as they're now doing their darned job and building my rails, a tank factory, and an airplane factory(the socialist party is interventionist (:2thumbsup:). Last objective before end game- ally with Austria/Russia and take down the Turks. :charge:
Your military is uber impressive.
Mouzafphaerre
07-05-2009, 22:50
.
A typical bridge defence (EB):
https://img200.imageshack.us/img200/9909/3434s.th.jpg (https://img200.imageshack.us/i/3434s.jpg/)
Returned a Heroic Victory and Triumphus for the general, in addition to the epiteth "Africanvs". Unfortunately he died of natural causes before he could make it back to Roma. :shrug:
.
seireikhaan
07-14-2009, 23:40
Well, with a new version of VIP, a new campaign with a new faction was a must, naturally.
My first crack at the Dutch East Indies:
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/dutcheastindies.jpg
Bought the Phillipines from Spain. Lots of valuable, but raw, resources meant that I have relatively little use for both rails and am unable to build any factories, due to having about 1/10th of one percent of my population being listed as "accepted" by my gov't.(dutch). Invaded the Middle east at one point, taking over Abu Dhabi, then swapping it to Britain for Singapore and Molucca. Siam wasn't alll that difficult to annex, and most of my other gains in the indies themselves were scripted. While China was in its little hell pot of a civil war, I dog-piled on top, and succeeded in snagging Taiwan and a coal province in Manchuria, which I thought was nice given I had no other demestic supply. After a while, Russia decided to throw a hissy fit over me having influence in east asia, and declared war upon me, apparently for that one province. I haven't had the slightest problems holding onto the province, which amuses me. Mostly on account of me thwarting multiple 300k man armies with 90k men, and sustaining about a thousand percent fewer casualties than Russia. I snagged russia's colony on the long island they usually share with Japan, and sent it to the Brits as part of the package to get Singapore. Curiously, about a month after I made the deal, there was some Russo-Japanese treaty where Japan forked over the other colony to Russia. :wall: I snagged the new one anyways, in case I need it for diplomatic ammo in the future.
And somewhere at that point was when I noticed I was actually at war with China again, who had declared an alliance with Russia. Happily taking advantage, I marched into Beijing again, this time taking Tianjin from them as my reward. Oh, almost forgot, apparently in VIP .3, the Dutch east indies have no time restriction on colonizing Oceania, so basically, the pacific is 85% mine. :inquisitive:
I just recovered a save game as Germany I had previously lost (I spoke about my mittel europa and the creation of the a Great Depression with it in a post in these forums here (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showpost.php?p=2238135&postcount=38))
So I got back to playing it earnestly, and apparently I was in the process of a war with Britain. I just finished the war and got a massive peace deal off the UK, one that further incapacitates it from putting up a fight against me.
So, I decided I show my uber-German uber-Gross Deutschland and its Mittel Europa, along with the newest addition, Ireland. I'll also show the statistics which prove the gigantic hegemony my country has over the world market.
The Uber-Grossdeutschland
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/aa.jpg
Europe, under the firm hegemony of Germany. Note the difference between Venice and Italy. The Baltic Countries are my Dominions.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/a.jpg
The major German colony.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/b.jpg
Asia. Two strange things: 1. UK gained the entire Pacific coast in the Crimean War from Russia and 2. The fourth Japanese-American war over the main Phillipine islands. All this while an independent Philippines exists peaceful in the island of Palau, left of the Philippines.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/c.jpg
The Californian event chain to pass to the USA was :daisy: up by the European intervention in Mexico. France recieved some Californian provinces, and I think that was what screwed up the event. I later conquered them in a war against France and sold them to the US (They're those provinces inside Mexican California. That way, the USA didn't have that immigration magnet that is California.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/e.jpg
Self-explanatory. The Greatest nations in the world. Many of those are my satellites, part of my Mittel Europa.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/z.jpg
List of country ordered by Export Value. My total income from Exportations practically equals the sum of the amount of both the second and third major exporters. Also from there, in Ships, one can see the gigantic cost this war had on the UK navy. While my past wars, I tried to avoid as best as possible any major confrontation with the Royal Navy, I had in the last decade invested gigantically in building a sizeable navy. The results were that in the beginning of the war, both mine and the British navy had around 180 ships. Now the UK navy has been substancially reduced. Coupled with the reduced territory and industrial base, that means from now on I should easily become the sole naval power of the world (Except of Japan).
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/f.jpg
The list of countries with biggest production share per trade good. Easy to see who dominates manufactured goods. When I created the great depression, I had even greater hegemony then now.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/g.jpg
seireikhaan
07-15-2009, 01:32
Dang, that's a heck of a strong empire. What's your BB rating?
Also, how the HECK does Japan have such a strong military rating? :dizzy2:
Last time I checked (Long ago) it was around 130.8
Japan has been in wars with the USA over the Philippines every now and then, that's the only thing I can think of.
Probably, since Britain should no longer pose a problem to me (Or even to Scotland), the next war, which shall be started by the Raj, I'll start claiming India directly. Pity is that I shouldn't be able to bring the game into HoI 2. My country already dominates the scene so much, in HoI 2, there wouldn't be anyone able to face my empire. (Only maybe an alliance between all the major non-Mittel Europa powers)
EDIT: As a curiousity my German (National Population) is: 94 186 000 out of 240 270 000
Actually, now my BB is 679.16. :D
Meneldil
07-16-2009, 22:17
I bought Victoria and Revolutions on GamersGate, and I must say I'm a bit confused. The manual seems quite outdated, and even the vicky wiki doesn't mention a lot of details.
Anyway, I've been playing with Uruguay first, as it seemed to be a pretty quiet nation that would allow me to get into the game. While I turned the country into a democracy, I couldn't get it to be a liberal democracy. Immigration never started, and I left in frustration in 1860.
I then started with Argentina. I turned it into a democracy as well, and this time (woot), I even achieved to get a liberal party elected (by turning a bunch of farmers into clerks and restricting vote to the wealthier classes). Things is, all the parties available but one are laissez-faire or interventionist parties. The only state-capitalist party (reactionary party) could never get elected. And I mean, never ever, except maybe by turning 30K dudes into clergymen. So, with interventionist and laissez-faire parties, I cannot build factories by myself (which is not mentioned in the manual or in vickiwiki). Apparently I have to wait for capitalists to build factories and railroad, as the state can't do it. That's all nice and dandy, but I've yet to see a capitalist in my country. I'm left with 30K unemployed clerks who elected a government that doesn't let me build factories.
Any idea? I thought about somehow electing the reactionary party while I'm getting machine parts, build a few factories, and then, turn the reactionnary POPs into clerks to get a liberal party elected (thus getting some immigration, and hopefully, a few capitalists).
seireikhaan
07-16-2009, 23:57
I bought Victoria and Revolutions on GamersGate, and I must say I'm a bit confused. The manual seems quite outdated, and even the vicky wiki doesn't mention a lot of details.
Anyway, I've been playing with Uruguay first, as it seemed to be a pretty quiet nation that would allow me to get into the game. While I turned the country into a democracy, I couldn't get it to be a liberal democracy. Immigration never started, and I left in frustration in 1860.
I then started with Argentina. I turned it into a democracy as well, and this time (woot), I even achieved to get a liberal party elected (by turning a bunch of farmers into clerks and restricting vote to the wealthier classes). Things is, all the parties available but one are laissez-faire or interventionist parties. The only state-capitalist party (reactionary party) could never get elected. And I mean, never ever, except maybe by turning 30K dudes into clergymen. So, with interventionist and laissez-faire parties, I cannot build factories by myself (which is not mentioned in the manual or in vickiwiki). Apparently I have to wait for capitalists to build factories and railroad, as the state can't do it. That's all nice and dandy, but I've yet to see a capitalist in my country. I'm left with 30K unemployed clerks who elected a government that doesn't let me build factories.
Any idea? I thought about somehow electing the reactionary party while I'm getting machine parts, build a few factories, and then, turn the reactionnary POPs into clerks to get a liberal party elected (thus getting some immigration, and hopefully, a few capitalists).
You need to fork over some change to convert one of your clerk pops into a capitalist pop. Its not terribly cheap, but its far more cost efficient than building everything yourself. I actually aim for interventionist parties myself, as they're the most versatile.
Also worth noting- capitalists will only build factories in the state in which they reside, though they will build rails wherever. If you need factories in every province, you'll need a capitalist per province.
I bought Victoria and Revolutions on GamersGate, and I must say I'm a bit confused. The manual seems quite outdated, and even the vicky wiki doesn't mention a lot of details.
Anyway, I've been playing with Uruguay first, as it seemed to be a pretty quiet nation that would allow me to get into the game. While I turned the country into a democracy, I couldn't get it to be a liberal democracy. Immigration never started, and I left in frustration in 1860.
I then started with Argentina. I turned it into a democracy as well, and this time (woot), I even achieved to get a liberal party elected (by turning a bunch of farmers into clerks and restricting vote to the wealthier classes). Things is, all the parties available but one are laissez-faire or interventionist parties. The only state-capitalist party (reactionary party) could never get elected. And I mean, never ever, except maybe by turning 30K dudes into clergymen. So, with interventionist and laissez-faire parties, I cannot build factories by myself (which is not mentioned in the manual or in vickiwiki). Apparently I have to wait for capitalists to build factories and railroad, as the state can't do it. That's all nice and dandy, but I've yet to see a capitalist in my country. I'm left with 30K unemployed clerks who elected a government that doesn't let me build factories.
Any idea? I thought about somehow electing the reactionary party while I'm getting machine parts, build a few factories, and then, turn the reactionnary POPs into clerks to get a liberal party elected (thus getting some immigration, and hopefully, a few capitalists).
This AAR (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=305484) is probably the best at teaching someone how to play.
This AAR (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=305484) is probably the best at teaching someone how to play.
Yeap. Though, that is for VIP, which means many resources are changed.
Mailman653
07-23-2009, 05:24
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/Officerpuppy_/Other/Game2007-06-1916-39-44-09.jpg
MAFIA
I HATE THAT LEVEL!
The stupid NPCs always run forward and get themselves killed by exploding cars.
Veho Nex
07-23-2009, 15:01
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/0352bb05880816c98813dfa256d75693a522e80a.png
That navy destroyed my just by running into 3 of my ships and blowing up.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/42b5b9f94e146ac4a68597f08bd03ecefe916391.png
My caption:
"What you got a problem with this?"
Dodge_272
07-24-2009, 23:10
http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/b01a20bf04de1c5502e5600061a79fbd6g.jpg
Ah of course. Once again, the great display by the Portuguese, securing what is rightfully ours.
Anyways, khaan, you who were having such difficulty with HoI 2, here's a little display of mine. It was on HoI 2: Armaggedon, with DAIM mod (Determined AI Mod; Makes the AI :daisy: more difficult to defeat)
I was the Soviet Union.
It all began when in May, 1941 the Invincible German War Machine, which steamrolled France, Poland, et al. decided it would be a good time to invade the Soviet lands.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/hoi2may-1.jpg
Unfortunatly for Germany and Churchill, Germany wasn't quite expecting the punch the Soviet Union gave immediately against the German army. In a shocking display, the invincible German army was completely wiped out in 6 months and on the 30th of October, with only Bordeaux and surrounding lands under German control, the German reich accepted the unconditional surrender demanded by the Soviet Union.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/hoi2october.jpg
But the war is not over yet, the Soviet army still needs to pour into the fascist peninsula and crush Franco and Salazar, but not before ending the Vichy France's reign over southern France.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/hoi2soviet-1.jpg
Hooahguy
07-27-2009, 18:12
whoa thats a huge russian empire! lenin would be proud.
Mailman653
07-31-2009, 21:52
https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/Officerpuppy_/Other/TS32009-07-3114-12-18-20.jpg
125 daily for cleaning service.
You got it all wrong man! She's a pro-gamer! You're paying her to get awesome high-scores on your games!
Various miscelaneous screenshots I retrieved from my old computer.
My diagram explaining the impossibility of Cao Cao escaping in RTK XI, since he was trapped deep, deep, deep in enemy territory (He was enemy of everybody. To escape he would have to cross a river and go through 655 km/400 miles in enemy territory before reaching a friendly city.). Used in an argument with my fellow SimRTK players.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Cao-Cao-Escape-Routes.jpg
Egyptian grain storage and measurement already understood the golden concept of 1337ness. From the game Pharaoh
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/LeetGrain.jpg
Looks like Puyol had a heart attack. >_> From FM 07
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Puyolmorredeataquecardiaco.jpg
HAHA! Pwned (I'm Powell.)! Need For Speed Most Wanted 2
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Pwned.jpg
From a multiplayer game of Populous. I cast the Armageddon spell which leads to an all-out confrontation between the followers of every tribe. Last tribe standing wins the game with that spell. I used the spell after crushing my opponent. As you can see, its my entire army against his "Fantastic Four" squad.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/QuartetoFantastico.jpg
This is a second before one of the said Fantastic Four proceeds to get a free ticket to outer space, courtesy of my many Fire Warriors.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Whathappensnext.jpg
First time I ever saw A.I. Confederation beat the A.I. Union in Victoria: Revolutions. I was Bavaria/South German Federation in that game.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Semttulo-1.jpg
Can't remember why I took this screenie. It's from Space Empires 5. Pretty cold planet too. EDIT: Ah yes, an ice planet with an average temperature of 109º C/228º F
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Semttulo.jpg
Warren Spector, who made the best game ever which is of course Thief is working on a mickey mouse game. I thought that was pretty ehhhhhhhh untill I saw the artwork.
http://www.gamert.nl/nieuws/warren_spectors_steampunk_mick.html
Warren Spector, who made the best game ever which is of course Thief is working on a mickey mouse game. I thought that was pretty ehhhhhhhh untill I saw the artwork.
http://www.gamert.nl/nieuws/warren_spectors_steampunk_mick.html
That could be the greatest concept art I've ever seen in my life.
Veho Nex
08-01-2009, 16:19
My god! Is that a Zombie Mickey?
Just as for clarity, products Spector therefore not those creepy plate boss are who an actress appeared assassinated and with afro in the courtroom. That was Phil Spector. No, products are the puike gozer who gave storm, games such as Thief and Deus to our, with its studio ion ex. For many gamerts a hero, among which many of us here on the redactie. Since 2004, after the release Thief: Deadly Shadows we nothing has however learned more of Spector, and also at the development of Deus ex 2 and Thief 4 he does not seem have involved. However, we know that its current studio, Junction has been bought up Point studios, in 2007, by Disney, but also after that purchase it remained long quiet.
To yesterday! By means of several sources we came then, as it happens, on the site of one Fred Gambino, draughtsman and concept artist for several cartoons. In its port folio we find, under the cup Epic Mickey, zestal concept art pieces which a type shows Disney distorted world. And also on the site of another draughtsman, one Gary Clover, similar material is find. Nou all that little meaning will not have, truth it that Gamasutra caught a year ago already a rumour that Junction Point to steampunk Disney title would work, and came also there the title Epic Mickey at up.
Details still more get by means of CV of Tony Pulham, another concept artist, which it undisclosed project calls. As yet further still no official affirmatives of the side of can Disney or Junction Point, but of us… no, must that game there certainly come. Or would the nevertheless ordinary Kingdom Hearts be 3? The leaked concept verifies art after the click!
Looked for a quick translation, German didn't work but Dutch did. I think it makes less sense now :/
Hooahguy
08-02-2009, 07:24
a few random screens from CoD4:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/rpgincoming.jpg
beautiful scene, and if you look carefully you can see the RPG that will, in a few seconds, will take down my "choppah."
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/nightvision.jpg
unfortunately i didnt catch a scene of exchanging gunfire with my NVG, but this is still cool.
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/closeairsupport.jpg
close air support rules.
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/chopper.jpg
i love my close air support. too bad it was scripted in.
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/butterflies.jpg
butterflies coming out of his head?
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/awkward.jpg
staring at macmillians rear end while scared :daisy:less . i think on the try i took this one on, they discovered me- again- but i managed to escape. but macmillian was an idiot and got killed. :wall:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/advanceordie.jpg
advance or die- that the way it is in CoD4. just the way i like it.
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/aplan.jpg
he calls that a plan?
A few screens from Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment. 10 players spread across 5 systems, six of whom met up in an asteroid field to have a slugfest. Apologies for the UI in these shots, i dunno how to turn it off.
First shot is of me and purple entering the battle, purple took one look at the fleets there and said "Heck with that" and jumped away :laugh4:. I'm light blue.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/ScreenShot_0.jpg
An over the shoulder shot of my fleet engaging the enemy, Most of the UI elements are turned off here to give you a better sense of scope. Look at that clump of ships ahead! We're in for a rough ride.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/ScreenShot_1.jpg
Dark blue got his tail handed to him and lost pretty quick, Red and Orange were actually allies which i hadn't realized, so when Dark blue was gone they turned to me. Here my fleet stands toe to toe with a vastly supperior force and holds their own.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/ScreenShot_2.jpg
PArty's over! Someone invited Green, who shows up with a force that dwarfs mine and the allied Red and Orange combined. Both sides bugged out and retreated to friendly systems.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/ScreenShot_3.jpg
Holy :daisy: ! You need jedi reflexes to manuever your ship out of that clogged up center of the image
Holy :daisy: ! You need jedi reflexes to manuever your ship out of that clogged up center of the image
Yeah tell me about it! I arrived on the scene late and thought I could sit back and pick the clump apart bit by bit to claim dominion over the asteroids. Unfortunately Red and Orange were allies as mentioned and as soon as Dark Blue was destroyed they literally unfolded from their ball and came out swinging. :sweatdrop:
I didn't manage to put much of a dent in their combined force (orange got mauled but red was pretty tough, i think he stayed to fight Green by himself) but i stood in there for a long time, repair ships are a god-send as TEC.
Hooahguy
08-05-2009, 05:10
Sins of a Solar Empire looks interesting...
Veho Nex
08-05-2009, 06:06
Sins of a Solar Empire looks interesting...
It is... And monk makes me want to play it again. Do you play online? I wouldn't mind getting some games going. Last time I played sins though it was at a lan and the game lasted 18 hours straight. In the end I was defeated by a coalition of about 5 other players.
It is... And monk makes me want to play it again. Do you play online? I wouldn't mind getting some games going. Last time I played sins though it was at a lan and the game lasted 18 hours straight. In the end I was defeated by a coalition of about 5 other players.
Nope, believe it or not that was all offline play. The Entrenchment AI is a real pain on Hard or Unfair settings. I've got the game saved and i'll probably be going back to it tomorrow, or maybe the day after.
I wouldn't be against some online play but I've never done so with Sins before, i wouldn't be surprised if you would win quite easily.
Crandaeolon
08-05-2009, 16:03
I wouldn't be against some online play but I've never done so with Sins before, i wouldn't be surprised if you would win quite easily.
I might be available for some Sins games as well, I bought Entrenchment but haven't really played it yet.
An 18-hour marathon doesn't really sound feasible; AFAIK, typical Sins online games are Huge Single-Star Random maps, with Quickstart enabled and all settings set to Fast (it's not really fast at all), normal fleet size. Those are usually resolved in around 2 hours, so setting aside about 3 hours should be enough to get a game going. If there's too few people for a team game, stomping the computer is always an option and might even be a good idea for the couple first online games.
My timezone is GMT +2, I'd prefer late evening games. ICO name is the same as here.
Hooahguy
08-05-2009, 16:13
hmmm im thinking about buying SoaSE.
looks really good.
Crandaeolon
08-05-2009, 17:18
Just be aware that it's really a rather standard RTS game, not particularly deep and a bit on the slow side if you're used to games such as Total Annihilation/SupCom, Company of Heroes etc. Advertising slogans in the vein of "Zomg Epic RT4X Game!" are somewhat misleading. Still, it's quite pretty, has enough strategic and tactical options (with Entrenchment), has a good interface and is possibly the closest thing to an evening-length 4X.
Veho Nex
08-05-2009, 19:04
I might be available for some Sins games as well, I bought Entrenchment but haven't really played it yet.
An 18-hour marathon doesn't really sound feasible; AFAIK, typical Sins online games are Huge Single-Star Random maps, with Quickstart enabled and all settings set to Fast (it's not really fast at all), normal fleet size. Those are usually resolved in around 2 hours, so setting aside about 3 hours should be enough to get a game going. If there's too few people for a team game, stomping the computer is always an option and might even be a good idea for the couple first online games.
My timezone is GMT +2, I'd prefer late evening games. ICO name is the same as here.
Heh, thats the beauty of LANs no one is doing anything and it's usually played on the largest possible map with the most time consuming settings. 18 hours was going to be longer but the 5 man coalition that steam rolled three galaxies in about 2 and a half hours got a joined first prize. They each got a T-Shirt and 3 120mm fans. Second place (me) Got a nvidea 9800gt. That was back when I had an AGP mother board... Sold it for 200 bucks :D
Dodge_272
08-21-2009, 00:18
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/hoi11.JPG
Veho Nex
08-21-2009, 17:53
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/783c9ac9a2d14989b198d30eb58a51d34d90f5c1.png
You know... when you have a spaceship that can take out their base just from dieing... Your race is awesome.
Dodge_272
08-21-2009, 18:35
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/hoi13.JPG
What's French for "triple envelopment" ?
You know... when you have a spaceship that can take out their base just from dieing... Your race is awesome.
What game is that from Veho?
Veho Nex
08-23-2009, 09:15
Supreme Commander. My fist game against balanced AI
pevergreen
08-23-2009, 11:38
The AI in SupCom is just too weak imo. Can beat Supreme without trying now.
Now a game like AoE 2, I can't beat AI on that.
Veho Nex
08-23-2009, 12:08
AI cheats... No matter what I always worry about his bomber spam after 2 minutes killing my commander :/
OOOOR!! You could say it's like a human who spams bombers to get an early win :yes:
Veho Nex
08-25-2009, 00:04
Stealth generators dont work against the ai though. No matter where I put my commander he is always seen.
Milan apparently has a distinct lack of candidates for the manager spot. Or do they?
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Semttulo-3.jpg
Dodge_272
08-27-2009, 19:52
Decided to start a new game, everything is better this time. apart from I hardly have a navy.
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/hoi4.JPG
My current Victoria: Rev game
https://img193.imageshack.us/img193/8743/italyunited.jpg
Italy united in 1850.
I basically said to heck with all industrialization, commerce and industry techs and just went all out army research for the first twenty years. I poured every cent I had into raising troops and sold the three provinces i held that France had a core on. The AI is desperate to get its hands on cores and paid 10k each, so i spanned those payments out over 15 years and used it to completely finance my unification wars.
As i was making the final push, fighting Spain and Two Sicilies, I also sold France some provinces I had captured in the Caribbean in the late 1840s. (I annexed Haiti and quickly sold it to France for a nice influx of money.) Once Naples fell, Italy was formed and I inherited the lands of Two Sicilians. You can still see what's left of my war chest in this shot!
I'm about eight years later and I just fought a huge war in the center of Europe against Germany while allied with France. The Germans managed a break-through near Chalons until my forces encircled and annihilated a huge force of over 140,000 men, after such a sudden defeat Germany sued for peace the very next week. It was my first real test on the world stage and I am quite proud of my performance.
seireikhaan
08-29-2009, 01:14
Kudos on taking the hard(er) route to Italian unification. I usually try to let the events play out.
The Germans managed a break-through near Chalons until my forces encircled and annihilated a huge force of over 140,000 men, after such a sudden defeat Germany sued for peace the very next week. It was my first real test on the world stage and I am quite proud of my performance.
Had a "similar" reversed story. I was Germany and was involved in a war against Italy because it had declared war on my Satelite "Venice" (Which I had formed from the Austrian-owned Italian lands). Long story short, I ended up having a battle for Rome lasting more than 2 months, where most of our armies were concentrated (All this as other smaller battles raged in the neighbouring provinces as I attempted to isolate the capital form the rest of Italy to gain an hefty combat bonus, while Italy struggled to maintain a connection between Rome and the rest of Italy). Both me and Italy kept pouring more and more divisions into Rome. In the end, I managed to close in and surround the capital province, and by then the Italian armies were already losing many more men than I were. Needless to say, with the "Encircled" Battle Effect, the Italians fighting in Rome began dropping like flies. This battle along with another battle in Milan or somewhere around it, I managed to wipe out the entire Italian army of 60 divisions (The Italians commited as many as 50 divisions in the Roman disaster) in those two battles. War result: North Italy changed hands to Venice, the Italian army had vanished and obviously never managed to be the same again. Venice on the other hand went from its single division in the beginning of the war to 20 divisions ten years later with North Italy as part of its country.
Thanks for the kudos you guys. :thumbsup:
Here's another vicky shot, this time something a bit different.
https://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9017/usca.jpg
The United States of Central America (USCA) in VIP .301. This has been a lot more challenging, if a little slower, than my Italian games of late. Whereas Sardinia-Peidmont (my preferred Italian nation) has plenty of Pops and all the manpower you need, USCA is in desperate shortage of people. I think you barely have 1.4 million citizens at the start and the coming Civil War doesn't help!
Having the federal government survive the civil war was much harder than I thought, mainly due to how few troops you have and how unwilling to fight for you they are. The USCA emerged stronger than it was previously, after a little building I turned Haiti into a satellite and ended their struggle with the Dominican Republic. Annexing the later and awarding their land to the former. Doing that was a great boost to prestige and scored me the ability to buy some much needed machine parts!
Columbia was actually the roughest challenge, I fought a year long war over control of Panama with them. It actually threatened to bog down into terrible entrenched warfare until I managed an amphibious landing and captured their capital. :beam: Unfortunately I lost a lot of prestige by only settling for 3 provinces, but that's all i wanted (they are cores after-all) and it was all I could get without losing what I had occupied.
The hardest challenge will be the eventual industrialization of my nation. My pops are spread so thinly I'm not sure I can do it without some immigration. :sweatdrop:
Very cool, Monk. Looks like you've managed to thrive, despite your nation's inherent challenges. :bow:
Quick question, though: Are those provinces in northern Columbia currently occupied by you, then? (I've never quite had a full grasp of how provincial coloration works in these games.)
Very cool, Monk. Looks like you've managed to thrive, despite your nation's inherent challenges. :bow:
Quick question, though: Are those provinces in northern Columbia currently occupied by you, then? (I've never quite had a full grasp of how provincial coloration works in these games.)
Nope, I don't own anything south of Panama. They are slightly lighter in color than the other Columbian provinces because they are "in sight" of my ships. It's the Fog of War at work, I have to either have one of my provinces bordering their lands or have a navy or army close to see things like enemy armies and what not. It's very similar to the Fog of War in normal RTS games. :yes:
My provinces are in white. :2thumbsup:
If you want manpower, there is an easy way to do that for an American country:
1st)
- Build up your relations with China to 200
- Expand your RGO's
2nd)
- Sell them a coastal province of yours
- Wait a year for Chinese POPs to flood the province you sold to China
3rd)
- Trade your sold province with two others you control
- Then buy back both provinces China still controlled.
You can keep repeating it for as many provinces as you like.
And there you have it, you should by then have quite the millions to work in your RGOs. The final step is putting a party with full citizenship in power, and you can harness the Chinese POPs into your Industry. Once you have an Industry settled in, go after Mexico.
End the game as a Great Power.
An update from my HoI 2 game with the Soviet Union. I sent the screenies in my first post after Germany was annexed. However, Vichy France, Italy, Nationalist Spain and Portugal were still in the Axis. As was seen in those screenies, Germany came down in a mere 6 months, leaving little else to occupy. The rest of the Axis offered only token resistence before my armies overwhelming advance.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/a-1.jpg
European France fell quickly after occupied France collapsed. Italy and Sicily also were overrun with no resistence. Churchill couldn't sit in England and watch the entire European continent being swallowed by the Red Giant while Britain continued ever defensive and cautious. Churchill decided that it was time to act and make a dim display of power so that the UK couldn't be blamed for not helping defeat the Axis.
Speaking in the House of Lords, Churchill made a speech that the UK could no longer afford to be overly protective, but should imitate the heroes of the Napoleonic War where they stroke at the European giant through the Western Iberian Peninsula, and liberated Portugal, its ancestral ally from oppression, from where they progressed to ending the tyranny of Napoleon. He was greatly applauded and at once the expedition to save Portugal and as much as possible of Spain from the Communist onslaught begun. Part of the Royal Navy was used to disembark forced in coastal key areas of lightly garrisonned Portugal, which had most of its troops deployed in the front fighting the Soviets. The disembark was a success, and after only weeks the entire country was occupied and the Allied troops were expanding into Galicia and Spain. The main objective of the Allied forces was now to ensure a land link between the enclave of Gibraltar, which effectively controlled the straits, and the rest of Allied occupied Iberia. Overall, it succeeded in conquering the Western half of peninsula. The invasion speeded the end of hostilities in continental Europe, with the final Spanish force surrendering in Malaga. Thus, in mid-December, not even two months after Germany surrendered, the war in continental Europe was over. Stalin already began his plans for the total garrisonning of Europe to integrate it into the world revolution that he wanted to begin. In the Western Iberian Peninsula, people cheered as though they still were under a military occupation. Communist partizans however, were not content and acts of sabotage and propaganda began.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/b-1.jpg
Soon after the end of hostilities in Europe, Soviet troops start disembarking in Vichy French Africa, to give the final blow in the Axis North African forces. Armored forces disembarked in Casablanca, making their way through the coast unopposed all the way to Tunisia where they swiftly encircle and destroyed the Vichy French North African forces. With the fall of metropolitan Italy in earlier months, the Industrial base which supplied the Italian North African forces dwindled, and the months- old stalemate they had achieved at the outskirts of Alexandria was broken. Soon the British forces passed on the offensive for the first time in that theater and as the Soviet troops conquered Tunisia, so were the British North African forces pressing for Tripoli. The Soviet and British troops arrived roughly at the same time at the outskirts of the Italian colonial capital, and the Soviet forces tried to strike first, but the disorganization of the armored forces moving non-stop since Morroco, and the heavy concentration of Italian forces in Tripoli repelled the Soviet offensive. The British forces however, much more numerous attacked a day later and took the capital in the last land battle of World War 2, after which the capitulation was signed. Most of Libya became part of the British Empire, only with the Saharan provinces and the coastal border with Tunisia falling to Soviet administration. By then, Vichy France had also collapsed, and when Soviet forces disembarked in French Guyana, did the last remnants of Vichy France sign the capitulation, awarding most of its colonial empire to the Soviet Union.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/c-1.jpg
Only Portugal remained, with capital in its Chinese colony of Macau. The Soviet Forces soon moved transportation to the Pacific, where it embarked forces from Vladivostok and disembarked them in Macau without any resistence, triggering the capitulation of the final member of the Axis, effectively ending World War 2 in the 6th of May, 1942. Soviet involvement shifted and ended swiftly the war which appeared to be the triumphant march of Germany for European domination. In the end, the Soviet Union took advantage of the German conquests, and absorbed them into its giant empire, with its very own colonial empire. Soviet Africa was the name the allies pejoratively gave to the African colonies administered by the Soviet Union.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/d-1.jpg
Peace however, lasted little more than one month. The Allies and USA, very fearful of communist hegemony in Europe, demanded that the Soviet Union give back the territories occupied by Germany to the legitimate Allied governments, demands that Stalin promptly refused, since they were now part of the Communist World Revolution. Since the Soviet Union refused to compromise and achieve some sort of balanced spheres of powers, Roosevelt persuaded the Congress of the USA that the Soviet Union was a threat of the American way of life that could not be ignored. Obviously, Roosevelt could not have broken the Splendid Isolation that started after World War 1 to start a war with a vaguely distant country, were it not for the gigantic massive support and lobbying by every and all American corporate and banking industries to bring down a threat to the American elite. Congressmen and the people were heavily pressured by the media to see the Soviets as the threat to world peace, heirs of Hitler and his destructive Germany. They quickly clinged on the policy that Stalin was enacting of Total Occupation, which involved garrisoning the whole of Europe and indoctrinating it in Communist ideology. The media cried out that if America remained oblivious to it, as did Britain and France before the German threat, America would soon face the same fate as the continental Europeans, and be subjected to totalitarian Communist oppression. Quickly public opinion shifted from isolation into active aggression and destruction of communism. Congress could only do so much, and on the 2nd of June, 1942. Roosevelt managed to get Congress declare war on the Soviet Union, and called for the liberation of Europe from communism. Stalin had hoped for a period of peace as he integrated the occupied territories into his Empire. The problem for the Soviet Union was not so much of war, since the USA could do little to attack the new Soviet expansion in Europe. The problem was when diplomatic circles reported that Churchill, a known fierce hater of Communism, had signed a treaty of military access with the USA, effectively providing the means to the USA to launch amphibious attacks on the Soviet lands. Only then, Stalin saw that war with the whole of the Allies was unavoidable, and started to make preparations such as redeploying his forces. The Soviet Union had no navy, so it could not contest the seas against Britain and once at war, it could not appropriately transport large amounts of troops to defend his African possessions and attack Britain in North Africa, where he wanted to bring the Empire to its knees. As such, the only land connection to the British African empire was through Turkey. Numerous coups on the government were attempted, and large ground forces were placed in all Soviet-Turkish borders. Churchill too thought about avoiding a war with the Soviet Union which he thought was impossible to defeat so soon after Britain was overwhelmed by Germany. However, he saw through the Soviet intentions in deploying troops against Turkey. As such, British officials approached Turkey to join the Allies as a deterrence against Soviet aggression, but Turkey was afraid that the Soviet Union might utilize that pretext to invade the country, and it was basically agreed that there was little the Allies could do in such a case. As such, both parties concluded a secret agreement where if the Soviet Union attacked Turkey, Turkey would join the Allies, effectively placing Britain at war with a giant again. After another coup attempt failed, Stalin decided he could not wait any longer and ordered his troops to cross the border and seize the country to be integrated into the Soviet Union. The formal cause of the invasion was the Turkish refusal to allow passage of Soviet merchant ships through the straits. Soon after the invasion Turkey joined the Allies and Britain was at war once again. Churchill knew it was innevitable for Western Allied Iberia to fall and therefore wouldn't commit didn't commit many troops to its defence, and according to his predictions the experienced Soviet soldiers quickly ploughed through the lightly defended Western Iberia. Gibraltar suffered a massive assault and was one of the first places to fall. The Soviets quickly realligned the minefields in the straight and repaired the Sea Battery built there to destroy any ships that tried to cross the strait. With Gibraltar closed, the British merchant navy now had to take the longer route across Africa, though that had little benefits for the Soviet Union. In Turkey, the Turks struggled heroicly but there was only so much they could. The British then had what many called at that time, a stroke of genius and managed to convince the Iranian Shah to join the Allies. The arguments forwarded were many, and consisted mainly in that the Soviets had attacked Turkey for mere occupation and exploitation of the country, and that, if left unchecked, the Soviets would soon do the same to Turkey, seizing the oil fields and annexing the country. The Shah knew very well the difficulties his army would face before a Soviet offensive, but he was quickly promised high support from Middle Eastern and Indian troops to repel any offensives on his country. The Shah also knew very well that Communists hated monarchic countries and that in case of a coup against him, he would surely be murdered. As such, he gave his approval and joined the Allies against the Soviet Union, broadening the front size and forcing the Soviets to divert men and resources from the Turkish offensive, which would proceed then against Iraq and British-occupied Syria and through to Suez. Now instead of a single thrust, the Soviet Union had to attack West and East and hopefully it would be enough to halt the Soviet advance and protect Suez, which with the fall of Gibraltar, was then crucial for the British domination in the Mediterranean. Only that the British underestimated the Soviet resources, and soon enough, the Soviet Union deployed further divisions to attack Iran on both sides of the Caspian Sea, while not decreasing any force on its Turkish offensive.
The Sub-Saharan African War Theater was unarguably the one which was most favourable for the Allies. With a vast number of divisions compared to the three divisions the Soviet Union could deploy in Dakar, the Allied forces advanced all the way to Dakar where they were then stopped by the well dug-in Soviet army.
The North African theater also suffered from severe lack of Soviet power especially when compared to the British forces which defeated the Italians. Numerous times did the Soviet forces had to retreat to prevent from being encircled, but they always managed to beat back the larger British forces until they were reinforced. With the deployment of Soviet transport ships in Soviet Marseilles, which brought experienced Soviet troops to the North African theater. After the capture of Tripoli, thousands upon thousands of Soviet Sukhois, which soon enough obliterated the British North African troops, effectively collapsing the North African front for the British, and enabling a practical unopposed Soviet advance towards Egypt.
Meanwhile in the Middle East and Persia, after the fall of Turkey, the Allied forces were struggling to halt the Soviet advance. Successes were achieved in halting the Soviet advance for several weeks in Coastal Iraq, around Basorah and in the Palestinian mandate. However, it was clear that both Iraq and Persia would soon capitulate as well. After some days of successful defence in Palestine, the Soviet forces finally broke through and advanced all the way to Suez, encircling some of the British forces in the meantime. By that time, the North African forces had occupied Alexandria, which was the always successfully defended against the Italians in World War 2. Both the North African and the Middle Eastern fronts encountered each other in Cairo. While 30 divisions remained in Egypt to push the British South, some 15 divisions began redeployment for the Sub-Saharan African front, which had already been reinforced with several other divisions, but which remained on the defensive. Around 20 divisions began redeployment for the Persian-Indian border, which was being heavily contested between Allied and Soviet forces for a month. Needless to say, the USA had finally began deploying land divisions on masse in India, at the request of Churchill, so much that American forces made up most of the Allied strength in India. The arrival of the experienced Middle Eastern troops, manage to create a large numeric superiority for the Soviet forces, which after 5 offensives manage to break through Karachi and used its Armored forces to launch two spearheads into India.
In the Sub-Saharan African theater, the reinforcement has been equally important. On the insistent request of British officials, the Americans requested that Liberia enter the war to support the Allies. A bad move was Liberia suffered the first offensive by the newly reinforced Sub-Saharan Corps, which began pushing the Allies on all sides, and effectively occupied and annexed Liberia to Soviet colonies. Thus we arrive at where I am. Close to being two years from the date that Germany declared war of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union already dominated most of the Old World.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/e-1.jpg
Europe and the Iberian and Mediterreanean fronts, already settled.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/f-1.jpg
Africa with the Sub-Saharan front in the West and the continual of the Egyptian campaign in the East.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/g-1.jpg
The Middle East and Asia, completely overrun despite some resistance. Also showing is the beginning of the Soviet breakthrough into India.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/h.jpg
The comparison of Armies. The Soviet Union has the greatest most numerous army by far.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/j.jpg
As you can see, the Soviet navy is practical to non-existent, now serving the purpose of transportation inside the Soviet lake that is called the Mediterranean.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/k.jpg
And the Air Force comparison. Likewise Soviet surpremacy is unfathomable. Dozens of Air Force Close Air Support squadrons quickly wiped out most of the British North African forces (Numbering some 20 divisions, including many armored divisions) in a week.
Phew. This should really be in Mead Hall.
Ibn-Khaldun
09-02-2009, 20:20
Huh.. the world is .. errm.. red in your game! :dizzy2:
An update from my HoI 2 game with the Soviet Union. I sent the screenies in my first post after Germany was annexed. However, Vichy France, Italy, Nationalist Spain and Portugal were still in the Axis. As was seen in those screenies, Germany came down in a mere 6 months, leaving little else to occupy. The rest of the Axis offered only token resistence before my armies overwhelming advance.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/a-1.jpg
European France fell quickly after occupied France collapsed. Italy and Sicily also were overrun with no resistence. Churchill couldn't sit in England and watch the entire European continent being swallowed by the Red Giant while Britain continued ever defensive and cautious. Churchill decided that it was time to act and make a dim display of power so that the UK couldn't be blamed for not helping defeat the Axis.
Speaking in the House of Lords, Churchill made a speech that the UK could no longer afford to be overly protective, but should imitate the heroes of the Napoleonic War where they stroke at the European giant through the Western Iberian Peninsula, and liberated Portugal, its ancestral ally from oppression, from where they progressed to ending the tyranny of Napoleon. He was greatly applauded and at once the expedition to save Portugal and as much as possible of Spain from the Communist onslaught begun. Part of the Royal Navy was used to disembark forced in coastal key areas of lightly garrisonned Portugal, which had most of its troops deployed in the front fighting the Soviets. The disembark was a success, and after only weeks the entire country was occupied and the Allied troops were expanding into Galicia and Spain. The main objective of the Allied forces was now to ensure a land link between the enclave of Gibraltar, which effectively controlled the straits, and the rest of Allied occupied Iberia. Overall, it succeeded in conquering the Western half of peninsula. The invasion speeded the end of hostilities in continental Europe, with the final Spanish force surrendering in Malaga. Thus, in mid-December, not even two months after Germany surrendered, the war in continental Europe was over. Stalin already began his plans for the total garrisonning of Europe to integrate it into the world revolution that he wanted to begin. In the Western Iberian Peninsula, people cheered as though they still were under a military occupation. Communist partizans however, were not content and acts of sabotage and propaganda began.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/b-1.jpg
Soon after the end of hostilities in Europe, Soviet troops start disembarking in Vichy French Africa, to give the final blow in the Axis North African forces. Armored forces disembarked in Casablanca, making their way through the coast unopposed all the way to Tunisia where they swiftly encircle and destroyed the Vichy French North African forces. With the fall of metropolitan Italy in earlier months, the Industrial base which supplied the Italian North African forces dwindled, and the months- old stalemate they had achieved at the outskirts of Alexandria was broken. Soon the British forces passed on the offensive for the first time in that theater and as the Soviet troops conquered Tunisia, so were the British North African forces pressing for Tripoli. The Soviet and British troops arrived roughly at the same time at the outskirts of the Italian colonial capital, and the Soviet forces tried to strike first, but the disorganization of the armored forces moving non-stop since Morroco, and the heavy concentration of Italian forces in Tripoli repelled the Soviet offensive. The British forces however, much more numerous attacked a day later and took the capital in the last land battle of World War 2, after which the capitulation was signed. Most of Libya became part of the British Empire, only with the Saharan provinces and the coastal border with Tunisia falling to Soviet administration. By then, Vichy France had also collapsed, and when Soviet forces disembarked in French Guyana, did the last remnants of Vichy France sign the capitulation, awarding most of its colonial empire to the Soviet Union.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/c-1.jpg
Only Portugal remained, with capital in its Chinese colony of Macau. The Soviet Forces soon moved transportation to the Pacific, where it embarked forces from Vladivostok and disembarked them in Macau without any resistence, triggering the capitulation of the final member of the Axis, effectively ending World War 2 in the 6th of May, 1942. Soviet involvement shifted and ended swiftly the war which appeared to be the triumphant march of Germany for European domination. In the end, the Soviet Union took advantage of the German conquests, and absorbed them into its giant empire, with its very own colonial empire. Soviet Africa was the name the allies pejoratively gave to the African colonies administered by the Soviet Union.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/d-1.jpg
Peace however, lasted little more than one month. The Allies and USA, very fearful of communist hegemony in Europe, demanded that the Soviet Union give back the territories occupied by Germany to the legitimate Allied governments, demands that Stalin promptly refused, since they were now part of the Communist World Revolution. Since the Soviet Union refused to compromise and achieve some sort of balanced spheres of powers, Roosevelt persuaded the Congress of the USA that the Soviet Union was a threat of the American way of life that could not be ignored. Obviously, Roosevelt could not have broken the Splendid Isolation that started after World War 1 to start a war with a vaguely distant country, were it not for the gigantic massive support and lobbying by every and all American corporate and banking industries to bring down a threat to the American elite. Congressmen and the people were heavily pressured by the media to see the Soviets as the threat to world peace, heirs of Hitler and his destructive Germany. They quickly clinged on the policy that Stalin was enacting of Total Occupation, which involved garrisoning the whole of Europe and indoctrinating it in Communist ideology. The media cried out that if America remained oblivious to it, as did Britain and France before the German threat, America would soon face the same fate as the continental Europeans, and be subjected to totalitarian Communist oppression. Quickly public opinion shifted from isolation into active aggression and destruction of communism. Congress could only do so much, and on the 2nd of June, 1942. Roosevelt managed to get Congress declare war on the Soviet Union, and called for the liberation of Europe from communism. Stalin had hoped for a period of peace as he integrated the occupied territories into his Empire. The problem for the Soviet Union was not so much of war, since the USA could do little to attack the new Soviet expansion in Europe. The problem was when diplomatic circles reported that Churchill, a known fierce hater of Communism, had signed a treaty of military access with the USA, effectively providing the means to the USA to launch amphibious attacks on the Soviet lands. Only then, Stalin saw that war with the whole of the Allies was unavoidable, and started to make preparations such as redeploying his forces. The Soviet Union had no navy, so it could not contest the seas against Britain and once at war, it could not appropriately transport large amounts of troops to defend his African possessions and attack Britain in North Africa, where he wanted to bring the Empire to its knees. As such, the only land connection to the British African empire was through Turkey. Numerous coups on the government were attempted, and large ground forces were placed in all Soviet-Turkish borders. Churchill too thought about avoiding a war with the Soviet Union which he thought was impossible to defeat so soon after Britain was overwhelmed by Germany. However, he saw through the Soviet intentions in deploying troops against Turkey. As such, British officials approached Turkey to join the Allies as a deterrence against Soviet aggression, but Turkey was afraid that the Soviet Union might utilize that pretext to invade the country, and it was basically agreed that there was little the Allies could do in such a case. As such, both parties concluded a secret agreement where if the Soviet Union attacked Turkey, Turkey would join the Allies, effectively placing Britain at war with a giant again. After another coup attempt failed, Stalin decided he could not wait any longer and ordered his troops to cross the border and seize the country to be integrated into the Soviet Union. The formal cause of the invasion was the Turkish refusal to allow passage of Soviet merchant ships through the straits. Soon after the invasion Turkey joined the Allies and Britain was at war once again. Churchill knew it was innevitable for Western Allied Iberia to fall and therefore wouldn't commit didn't commit many troops to its defence, and according to his predictions the experienced Soviet soldiers quickly ploughed through the lightly defended Western Iberia. Gibraltar suffered a massive assault and was one of the first places to fall. The Soviets quickly realligned the minefields in the straight and repaired the Sea Battery built there to destroy any ships that tried to cross the strait. With Gibraltar closed, the British merchant navy now had to take the longer route across Africa, though that had little benefits for the Soviet Union. In Turkey, the Turks struggled heroicly but there was only so much they could. The British then had what many called at that time, a stroke of genius and managed to convince the Iranian Shah to join the Allies. The arguments forwarded were many, and consisted mainly in that the Soviets had attacked Turkey for mere occupation and exploitation of the country, and that, if left unchecked, the Soviets would soon do the same to Turkey, seizing the oil fields and annexing the country. The Shah knew very well the difficulties his army would face before a Soviet offensive, but he was quickly promised high support from Middle Eastern and Indian troops to repel any offensives on his country. The Shah also knew very well that Communists hated monarchic countries and that in case of a coup against him, he would surely be murdered. As such, he gave his approval and joined the Allies against the Soviet Union, broadening the front size and forcing the Soviets to divert men and resources from the Turkish offensive, which would proceed then against Iraq and British-occupied Syria and through to Suez. Now instead of a single thrust, the Soviet Union had to attack West and East and hopefully it would be enough to halt the Soviet advance and protect Suez, which with the fall of Gibraltar, was then crucial for the British domination in the Mediterranean. Only that the British underestimated the Soviet resources, and soon enough, the Soviet Union deployed further divisions to attack Iran on both sides of the Caspian Sea, while not decreasing any force on its Turkish offensive.
The Sub-Saharan African War Theater was unarguably the one which was most favourable for the Allies. With a vast number of divisions compared to the three divisions the Soviet Union could deploy in Dakar, the Allied forces advanced all the way to Dakar where they were then stopped by the well dug-in Soviet army.
The North African theater also suffered from severe lack of Soviet power especially when compared to the British forces which defeated the Italians. Numerous times did the Soviet forces had to retreat to prevent from being encircled, but they always managed to beat back the larger British forces until they were reinforced. With the deployment of Soviet transport ships in Soviet Marseilles, which brought experienced Soviet troops to the North African theater. After the capture of Tripoli, thousands upon thousands of Soviet Sukhois, which soon enough obliterated the British North African troops, effectively collapsing the North African front for the British, and enabling a practical unopposed Soviet advance towards Egypt.
Meanwhile in the Middle East and Persia, after the fall of Turkey, the Allied forces were struggling to halt the Soviet advance. Successes were achieved in halting the Soviet advance for several weeks in Coastal Iraq, around Basorah and in the Palestinian mandate. However, it was clear that both Iraq and Persia would soon capitulate as well. After some days of successful defence in Palestine, the Soviet forces finally broke through and advanced all the way to Suez, encircling some of the British forces in the meantime. By that time, the North African forces had occupied Alexandria, which was the always successfully defended against the Italians in World War 2. Both the North African and the Middle Eastern fronts encountered each other in Cairo. While 30 divisions remained in Egypt to push the British South, some 15 divisions began redeployment for the Sub-Saharan African front, which had already been reinforced with several other divisions, but which remained on the defensive. Around 20 divisions began redeployment for the Persian-Indian border, which was being heavily contested between Allied and Soviet forces for a month. Needless to say, the USA had finally began deploying land divisions on masse in India, at the request of Churchill, so much that American forces made up most of the Allied strength in India. The arrival of the experienced Middle Eastern troops, manage to create a large numeric superiority for the Soviet forces, which after 5 offensives manage to break through Karachi and used its Armored forces to launch two spearheads into India.
In the Sub-Saharan African theater, the reinforcement has been equally important. On the insistent request of British officials, the Americans requested that Liberia enter the war to support the Allies. A bad move was Liberia suffered the first offensive by the newly reinforced Sub-Saharan Corps, which began pushing the Allies on all sides, and effectively occupied and annexed Liberia to Soviet colonies. Thus we arrive at where I am. Close to being two years from the date that Germany declared war of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union already dominated most of the Old World.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/e-1.jpg
Europe and the Iberian and Mediterreanean fronts, already settled.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/f-1.jpg
Africa with the Sub-Saharan front in the West and the continual of the Egyptian campaign in the East.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/g-1.jpg
The Middle East and Asia, completely overrun despite some resistance. Also showing is the beginning of the Soviet breakthrough into India.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/h.jpg
The comparison of Armies. The Soviet Union has the greatest most numerous army by far.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/j.jpg
As you can see, the Soviet navy is practical to non-existent, now serving the purpose of transportation inside the Soviet lake that is called the Mediterranean.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/k.jpg
And the Air Force comparison. Likewise Soviet surpremacy is unfathomable. Dozens of Air Force Close Air Support squadrons quickly wiped out most of the British North African forces (Numbering some 20 divisions, including many armored divisions) in a week.
Phew. This should really be in Mead Hall.
How in the world are you keeping partisans suppressed over such a huge area of land. :stunned:
Total (Well, almost total) Occupation of all provinces with Garisson+MP. Thus why I have little manpower left. Ntocie the number of garrison divisions in the National Army Comparison.
EDIT: But I take it that you never played HoI 2, right? Partizans aren't that much of a problem there.
Total (Well, almost total) Occupation of all provinces with Garisson+MP. Thus why I have little manpower left. Ntocie the number of garrison divisions in the National Army Comparison.
EDIT: But I take it that you never played HoI 2, right? Partizans aren't that much of a problem there.
Very briefly, but no I haven't played it enough to have a full understanding of all the mechanics.
In any event, amazing work. :thumbsup:
Update from my Quake Live progress. Notice my extremely bad accuracy now. But dunno, I'm playing better than before.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Semttulo-4.jpg
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/untitled-10.jpg
Probably the greatest Magic game I've played until now. It was a very quick game. His deck was a deck whose purpose is putting cards from my deck (Where I go to fetch cards on a turn-basis so I can play them) directly into my graveyard (The place where dead creatures or used spells go). Ultimately, if a player can't draw cards from his deck, then he loses. He used several of those spells in a row, meaning 5 turns into the game I had like 20 cards in my graveyard (And many valuable cards too). He then played a spell where he fetches all cards (Except basic lands) in my graveyard and removes them all from the game (Since there are some spells which can put cards from the graveyard into play), as well as all the copies of those cards still in my deck (Which dwindled my remaining cards in my deck to only 12 or so). Absolutely luckily I had enough combination of lands to play the single most destructive Planeswalker (A card type) in the game, Planeswalker which I had in my hand. What that planeswalker ultimate ability does, is to basically deal a lot of damage to the opponent and destroys most of the cards he has in play. Right afterwards, I drawed a great creature (Which wasn't luckily affected by the spells my opponent used, as he was deep below my deck). Still, with both the Planeswalker and the creature, I wasn't gonna be able to deal enough damage in time to me still being able to draw cards from my deck. Just the very next turn, I got the life-saving land card (Which allows me to put cards from my graveyard into the bottom of my deck.). As my Planeswalker had already destroyed all the cards he had in play, he couldn't play anything, and my land card was basically allowed to freely put cards into the bottom of deck, thus giving me enough turns so my creatures could kill him. Notice the number of cards left in my deck - 2. I was two turns away from losing if the last land card I drawed and played (Mistveil Plains) had already been removed from the game with the spells my opponent used. Truly epic.
Veho Nex
09-19-2009, 05:33
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/f275861a711ddad05260bf83eb2b2b56776a0165.png
Screeny from one of most kick A westerns I've ever played.
Crazed Rabbit
09-19-2009, 20:51
Ahoy, here be some M&B Warband screenies for me mates:
The scurvy swadian dogs here be laid low by the axe men!:
https://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4680/gateslaughter.jpg
Your humble captain dressed in medieval finery:
https://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3111/nordinfantry.jpg
CR
Using this (http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/EU3toRev), I plan to play a single game spanned over EUIII and into Vicky:Rev. The converter doesn't seem entirely reliable but it will give me an excuse to make it to the end of an EUIII game for once. :thumbsup:
So enjoy the first (of many) intended screenshot updates Of Hesse's attempts to unify Germany, played on Hard with High AI aggression.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/Hesse1.jpg
Unfortunately, It looks like i've went a little too fast for my own good. Through peaceful annexations, bribes, out right conquest and well crafted guarantees of independence, Hesse has grown by leaps and bounds. All but defeating Burgundy and a handful of other HRE members in a series of wars that has really taken it's toll, both on Hesse and Europe abroad. The members of the Holy Roman Empire are tired of war and nearly everyone hates my kingdom.
After a century of internal warfare and strife, order has nearly completely broken down within the Empire. Due to Hesse's (my) continued wars of aggression, the member states began to look outside the empire for someone who could restore some semblance of order to the many fiefs. That power was found in Poland, for a time, but with the Golden Horde resurgent Poland's eyes are elsewhere and the minor states of Germany are without a cause to unite them or a strong leader to protect them. Infighting, not just of my doing, is at an all time high.
I've been forced to end my long time alliance with France, who was instrumental in defeating Burgundy, in favor of guaranteeing the independence of nearly every southern German state. My hope is that such a move will end France's rapid expansion, they've close to doubled in size in the last 20 years. In truth I really don't want to fight France, but if they keep interfering in my affairs by annexing states within the HRE i may be forced to.
The big blue has an even worse reputation than I do (which is hard to imagine!) and one more war will send them spiraling into BadBoy status. If I can force a major conflict onto them they'll collapse, it's just a matter of doing so. Sadly is i'm so close to hitting my BB limit I may end up in the same spot if I so much as think about war, so we're both in a bit of a cold war. Both seek to establish dominance over the scattered Empire, both neither can really make it happen just yet.
Meanwhile.. Austria has been quite busi solidifying their power in the south. I went head to head with them during my wars to subjugate a few new vassals thrity years ago, but that was long ago. Both of us have grown since then, and I'm not sure I want to bash my head against that particular wall. If things don't change soon, there won't be a Holy Roman Empire, there will just be France, Hesse, and Austria. :laugh4:
Meneldil
09-20-2009, 23:03
Are you playing with a specific mod? Most of them (try to) fix the big blue annoying growth. I'm not sure mods work with the converter though.
I for my self couldn't be bothered playing a vanilla game again. Seeing a few countries conquer half of Europe by 1430 is kind of annoying.
Are you playing with a specific mod? Most of them (try to) fix the big blue annoying growth. I'm not sure mods work with the converter though.
I for my self couldn't be bothered playing a vanilla game again. Seeing a few countries conquer half of Europe by 1430 is kind of annoying.
No, I was playing on Vanilla, but honestly never seen France get this big before.
It's funny you should post about that, cuz my last continuation of the game saw me get completely obliterated by France's Doomstacks (i never had a chance, and their land tech was the same as mine!). They basically have pushed their BB passed the limit and are fighting all of Europe.. and are winning. It's absolutely ridiculous.
I sorta understand why people tend to cry "overpowered" in their general direction. Wow.
I may give this project a try under Magna Mundi, as that has limited compatibility with the converter from my understandings.
Crazed Rabbit
09-21-2009, 23:25
I'm playing as Austria, and France has taken a different path - though not voluntarily.
https://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3744/eu3austria.jpg
I had taken Lyonnais from France earlier as the result of some war I jumped in on to beat up France. And some years later they attacked with their doomstacks.
Facing complete defeat, I decided to reload and try and sell the province to France. They didn't bite at 2k, though it was likely. Then I noticed they had a doomstack of ~30k inf and ~20k+ cav fighting in Northern Germany - Sweden has conquered Scandinavia and made (big) inroads into the mainland.
That left very few troops on our borders, and I already had Casus Belli on them.
So I went for it, launching tens of thousands at their southern provinces, going for the most populous ones and storming fortresses in days. Also, I had numerous allies/vassals from earlier wars of conquest, and they all joined in on the fun, storming Northern France with thousands of men.
In the end, I had a 99% rating and had conquered nearly every mainland France province, and gained seven of France's most populated provinces. Then I peacefully annexed Savoy. Now I'm trying to lower my BB score (about 20 right now) before attacking France again, and waiting for my excommunicated king to die.
You'll see that Siena has grown relatively powerful, as a result of an early alliance with me and a war against Hungary, and the Papacy got two new provinces after Aragon declared war on them.
Also note the Byzantine Empire, which I beat out of the Ottomans, along with Moldavia, and Bulgaria, with Great Britain beat out of the Ottomans.
EDIT: I checked, and my manpower is only 2k max less than France's now - 84k to 86k. :dizzy2:
Something I didn't experience as England.
CR
No, I was playing on Vanilla, but honestly never seen France get this big before.
It's funny you should post about that, cuz my last continuation of the game saw me get completely obliterated by France's Doomstacks (i never had a chance, and their land tech was the same as mine!). They basically have pushed their BB passed the limit and are fighting all of Europe.. and are winning. It's absolutely ridiculous.
I sorta understand why people tend to cry "overpowered" in their general direction. Wow.
I may give this project a try under Magna Mundi, as that has limited compatibility with the converter from my understandings.
How curious. I did the same project years ago with EU2, exactly with teh same country. I still have the conversion to HoI 2 in my computer. I should post some screenies of my Vicky Hessen (That's what they called it in EU2. It was converted to Hesse-Darmstadt in Vicky.) empire. I never had such fun in a EU2 game. Unlike your game, I struggled hard to get the lift off being a German minor. In that game, Austria dominated Germany, and I myself was beaten into submission once or twice.
When Austria had most of Germany under their control, I used (Part of a bad teeth just came out of my mouth as I wrote this. >__>) my puppet status to attack the remaining German minors in East Germany and annex them together into me, and late-game, already with an advanced tech and with most of North America as my colonial Empire, I managed to begin beating Austria back in Germany, along with willing French help. Victoria wasn't as awesome. I had a huge empire to manage and for a good part of the game (I still didn't know how to play it well by then) rebellions spawned one after the other.
Veho Nex
09-23-2009, 06:39
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/32608aa281756c49fd26cbe3174106d8407f8e77.png
SwordsMaster
09-23-2009, 09:10
Big picture
Is that Pirates of the Caribbean?
Veho Nex
09-23-2009, 15:20
Negative, that is Sid Meiers Pirates! 2004 version
Veho Nex
09-24-2009, 06:10
https://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg250/jkarinen/SMRailroads0001.jpg
Im rich
https://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg250/jkarinen/SMRailroads0002.jpg
El Presidente!
Meneldil
09-24-2009, 11:16
Is it City XL? I'm willing to give this one a try, but I'm not sure my CP could handle it.
al Roumi
09-24-2009, 11:43
I'm playing as Austria, and France has taken a different path - though not voluntarily.
...
CR
Is that Poland blobbing on your eastern border?
eek!
looks like you've turned the corner against France, well done!
Is it City XL? I'm willing to give this one a try, but I'm not sure my CP could handle it.
Nope.
There's a demo (http://www.gamershell.com/download_50716.shtml) you can try but I think it will expire once the game is released.
Island paradise:
https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i231/husar1985/Tropico.jpg
Here's the gigantic amount of Frames per Second from my cousin's computer as I attempted to play Quake Live in this computer (As you can see, it isn't even fullscreen mode).
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Semttulo-5.jpg
Hooahguy
10-01-2009, 01:47
Island paradise:
https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i231/husar1985/Tropico.jpg
whats that from?
whats that from?
Tropico 3.
Zradha Pahlavan
10-06-2009, 20:49
https://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/Dancing_Fungus/untitled-2.jpg
Veho Nex
10-06-2009, 22:23
https://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/Dancing_Fungus/untitled-2.jpg
game?
EUIII - Magna Mundi Platinum 2. Playing as the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1399, shown here in Red.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/Shogunate.jpg
This has been such a fun game. The way the shogun works in MM is hard to explain, the best way I can describe it is a mini-HRE with much less rules and much more restrictions on the emperor/shogun. I'm always trying to balance whether to support the interests of the Ashikaga or the interests of Japan.
It's been nearly 30 years of constant warfare, the Daimyo are ambitious and abuse their rites regularly conducting illegal warfare and leaving the Shogun to pick up the pieces. If any daimyo claims more than 6 provinces they can initiate a civil war, so as Shogun it has been my duty to prevent that at all costs. Any clan who gets too big must face the shogun, but because of this the Daimyo are starting to figure out I am not allowing any room for ambition. As such, my edicts are being ignored and I have little control over them.
Yet for all their defiance, i've been brutally decentralizing them. Each time a clan begins to gather a large portion of the country beneath their banner I declare war and force them to release those they conquered. Few Daimyo truly support the Shogun, but none of them dare to defy it. :beam:
seireikhaan
10-26-2009, 16:09
Hehe. I've been doing a ming game for the last few weeks, and I've been doing about the same thing- picking on stronger warlords in Japan. Slightly different reasoning, however. :2thumbsup:
Screenshots from my Civ 4: BtS multiplayer game with Hax.
I took them when I started invading his continent and attacking the Byzantines, who crushed him in 5 successive wars, to save him from impending destruction. Only with my help in technology and units did he manage to stave off the Byzantines for so long. I, on the other hand, got attacked by my neighbour (Darius) as well, but I duly crushed him like the little bug he was and expelled him from the continent, and made him my vassal. Now with the entire continent to fuel my war machine, I am bent on taking Hax's continent and giving it back to him, erasing the Byzantines completely.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Hax1.jpg
The northern part of Hax's continent. Wonsan was taken by my amphibious assault and duly returned to his empire.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Hax2.jpg
The lower part of Hax's continent. The Western coastal cities all fell to my attack. The Galleons are returning to my continent to be shipped with reinforcements.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Hax3.jpg
My continent. Note the conquered Persian cities to the South. They are being assimilated into the great nation that is Portugal.
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/Hax4.jpg
An overlook of both continents. The light blue down South is Persia, who occupies the Frozen wastelands South and is my vassal.
Hooahguy
11-06-2009, 15:00
screens from Peggle:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/100000.jpg
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/aced.jpg
from Empire Earth
my A-10s doing a quick flyby on two lone enemy tanks:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/flyby.jpg
more A-10s harassing a tank column
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/harassingtanks.jpg
harassing some infantry. as you can tell i love A-10s.
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/harassing.jpg
finally, a nuke to destroy the enemy industry:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/nuke.jpg
Meneldil
11-06-2009, 16:00
https://img682.imageshack.us/img682/499/homm5tote.jpg
Some HoMM5 TotE goodness.
Top-right corner: my hero and army. Bottom-right: the outcome of the fight.
For those not familiar with the game, the Cyclops are a bit stronger than my stronger unit (the Spectral Dragons) on an individual basis. The AI had 428 Cyclops while I had 7 Dragons.
The way to win this fight (which is not supposed to be won) is to mind control the ennemy units so they kill eachothers. With various artefacts, the plague zombies and banshee howl, it's possible to lower the orcs' morale to -7, which means they rarely play.
At some point, only the cyclops will be still alive (eventually another stack that will never have a chance to play). The spectres attack the cyclops and get retaliated (there's a 50% chance they don't get hit with their "immaterial" ability) and then the summoned creatures (Phoenix, Avatar of Death) and other undeads (especially vampire lords) gang the cyclops until their next attack.
Arantir resurects everything that dies, and cast mass slow and banshee howl every once in a while.
Warluster
11-15-2009, 00:17
Some screenshots from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Singleplayer.
https://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3420/codmw220091115082222.png
A screenshot from the Gulag mission. This mission is the nicest looking mission in the game, and also one of the most fun. That's 'Soap' MacTavish just there.
https://img198.imageshack.us/img198/4843/codmw220091115082254.png
The gulag itself.
https://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2654/codmw220091115084807.png
Soap tries to find a way to escape from the bowels of the gulag, by firing a flare into the air.
https://img198.imageshack.us/img198/8051/codmw220091115084955.png
The aid station in the American trench system in front of the White House.
seireikhaan
12-10-2009, 19:11
A little EU III, with Magna Mundi. Been doing a Burgundian campaign for the last month for the last month or so(let it down for a couple weeks due to other stuff), and I'm at what could be a pivotal moment for the kingdom:
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/EU3_1.jpg
I started earlier than 1453, so a flew things haven't gone to the game plan. Castille and Aragaon never fused, but are apparently allied. I was myself allied to Aragon, and when France declared war on Aragon, we both came to their aid. On top of this, a trigger popped up at a silly time where France declared war on me(after I already joined the war :inquisitive:). Because I joined the HRE pretty early on in the game, this means Austria is joining in the fun to boot. Of all the times for me to kick France into a corner, this is absolutely it.
seireikhaan
12-10-2009, 21:25
Amendment to the previous post, sorta:
Charles the :smash: saving my sorry hide.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/EU3_2.jpg
Amendment to the previous post, sorta:
Charles the :smash: saving my sorry hide.
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/EU3_2.jpg
:stunned: You just... wow.
seireikhaan
12-28-2009, 07:10
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/EU3_MAP_SPA_1666130_2.jpg
EU III, HTTT.
Safe to say that marital inheritance is a tad overpowered. Started as Castille. Inherited Portugal in the 1420's, inherited Aragon in 1490's, and just inherited the UK in 1678. The fact that unions are relatively easy to get the needed warscore in wars of succession makes them a bit too strong.
And ya, its native, so silly shenanigans are up again(well, besides myself:juggle2:). Austria's some kind of deformed behemoth in the east, and Algeria's gone on a conquering spree in N. Africa. Ming are about to finish of S/E asia, so who knows what they'll busy themselves with in the last 150 years.
Alexander the Pretty Good
12-28-2009, 19:19
Just got EU 3 (Complete, not HttT) for Christmas. Does HttT reduce French "blobbing" at all? I suck as France but the AI does not. Their kings are all fantastic generals and even if they weren't they could just drown me in Frenchmen anyway.
johnhughthom
12-28-2009, 19:27
Just got EU 3 (Complete, not HttT) for Christmas. Does HttT reduce French "blobbing" at all? I suck as France but the AI does not. Their kings are all fantastic generals and even if they weren't they could just drown me in Frenchmen anyway.
I haven't got HttT myself yet, waiting for it to be patched, but the consensus on the Paradox forums seems to be it does reduce it.
seireikhaan
12-28-2009, 20:47
Wait, what did I just say in the last post? Something about royal unions being perhaps a bit too easy? Riiiiiiiiight....
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/EU3_MAP_SPA_1694911_1.jpg
Well, now I've got a bit over a hundred years to find a way to dismantle Austria. :juggle2: And I succeed at that, maybe I'll take a shot at the Ottos and Ming, if I'm feeling bored by the end of the campaign.
EDIT:
1) France's blobbing is reduced maybe a little bit. I haven't noticed a huge difference in my couple of campaigns, personally, but they aren't running everything in europe over, I guess. However,
2) France is still incredibly tough. I had to duke a war out with them to get my king recognized as ruler of France, and it was definitely one of the more epic wars. Even with the combined might of the Spanish, Portugese, Italian, and British empires, they still gave me a tough run for my money. Funnily enough, however, the war was decided within a year. Too many epic battles where one side was totally knocked out. We were probably even on the number of utterly destroyed stacks, but then, that was why I set 160k or so soldiers to train on top of my existing army when I was preparing for the war, so I still had a couple stacks o' doom when France had been bled dry.
Dodge_272
12-30-2009, 13:24
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/fm11111111.JPG
seireikhaan
12-30-2009, 20:47
Ok, so ya.... I think Castille might be just a wee bit too easy in HTTT. Inherited Brandenburg after a war of succession, seized Saxony's island in the Caribbean(:inquisitive:) to give myself complete control of the western hemisphere, and waited... waited... finally, around 1800, I got all the national ideas I needed. Declared war on the last remaining other superpower, Austria, using their reputation as casus belli. And?
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/3eef58701fb592e0996ebbe777beceeff92adf82.png
Result of the war?
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/EU3_MAP_SPA_1802829_2.jpg
Now to fend off itty bitty minors, rebels, and cruise to the finish line. :juggle2:
johnhughthom
12-31-2009, 07:56
What happened at Roma Dodge 272?
My own FM game:
https://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp139/johnhughthom/fm2009-12-3101-32-37-19.jpg
Gutted.
Craterus
01-03-2010, 20:04
Losing the league on goal difference is always a kick in the teeth. On an FM08 game, I tied with Bayern on points (the highest points total recorded in the Bundesliga) and scored more goals than them (and more goals than anyone else in the history of the league) but they had a far better defensive record. Horrible.
I also didn't get a mention in the record books, the highest ever points total record was given to Bayern :sad:
Hooahguy
01-04-2010, 02:12
my character in R6V2:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/my_guy.jpg
Greyblades
01-04-2010, 02:20
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/EU3_MAP_SPA_1802829_2.jpg
Hey khaan how do you make these?
Veho Nex
01-04-2010, 16:16
From "The Saboteur"
Warning* Picture is 1680*1050
http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/natural/b9c34bf449b90009873a118908e7ab095f560151.png
That's what one gets for having his character killed! :P
seireikhaan
01-04-2010, 20:30
Hey khaan how do you make these?
Press F12 while playing, and the game takes the map shot for you. All you have to do is go into wherever you have your EUIII folder, go into it, then find the screenshots folder. They'll be in there.
The Wizard
01-29-2010, 12:04
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/Odomaris/EU3_MAP_ENG_1500417_1.png
My HTTT England game in 1500, lucky nations on. I've been fighting France on and off for the past 100 years, turning the 100 Years' War into the 150 Years' War, and I bet it'll be the 250 Years' War before it's over. The past few decades though, I've mostly been busying myself exploring and colonizing instead of fighting France, though a regency (when you can't DoW) prevented me from doing so a year or 5 before this, when France was fighting Milan (which controlled most of N. Italy but has more or less collapsed since that war) and Bavaria (HRE, with more troops and MP than France). I would have liked to have intervened and weakened France, which seems to recover from the worst positions (20+ WE, almost no troops, rebel doomstacks all over) within 3 years tops. I'm planning to colonize Brazil and Indonesia in the coming century.
Note the rise of Thuringia in northeastern Germany, as well as Muscovy. The Timurids are still going strong, they recently attacked Hungary through the OE. And, of course, Spain. Portugal is making this history student rage by conquering the Mississippi basin by 1500. Even if America was discovered in the 1470s.
Crazed Rabbit
02-06-2010, 04:00
Me and Monk square off in the AvP demo.
https://img109.imageshack.us/img109/9444/orgavp.jpg
Man, that game is scary to play as a marine.
CR
TevashSzat
02-07-2010, 21:06
This is my maze for Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 on Hard difficulty.
Finished it without any lives lost and I believe this is about as good as it is gonna get for this maze configuration. This is the product, unfortunately, of the reading days leading up to finals week last semester.
9406 Points
https://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4299/7618082.gif
Hooahguy
02-10-2010, 05:39
one of my epic battles in SoaSE: Diplomacy, using the Distant Stars mod.
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_10.jpg
Very cool, Hooahguy! I've been eying getting Sins Diplomacy/Trinity for a while now, and screenies like this only further whet my appetite. Of course, then I'd also have to find time to play it.... :sweatdrop:
Hooahguy
02-10-2010, 17:33
dont worry, ill take more today of my invasion of the vasari solar system!
EDIT:
update-
my invasion failed. miserably. they showed up with over a dozen homing mines, which took out a bunch of my frigates and heavy cruisers, as well as damaging a few key capital ships.
i withdrew back to my home system immediately, seeing a massive combined enemy fleet about to intercept me.
back at my home system, a massive battle was occurring. all my enemies seemed to converge against me. i was alone. i fought to the last ship, the last starbase.
finally after an hour, they broke through, and began hopping over my planets, they got to my home planet, and after a valiant battle with two capital ships, my fleet capitulated and i was defeated.
screens of the massive battle:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_21.jpg
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_20.jpg
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_19.jpg
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_17.jpg
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_16.jpg
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_15.jpg
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/ScreenShot_14.jpg
i started a new game with fewer enemies.
Veho Nex
02-11-2010, 00:45
i heard the new ai was very brutal
Hooahguy
02-11-2010, 20:16
it is, i think they will probably tone it down in the next patch.
Kekvit Irae
02-28-2010, 10:23
Afrika was made for cat lovers.
http://www.robotparty.us/afrika/AFRIKA%99_30.png
http://www.robotparty.us/afrika/AFRIKA%99_32.png
http://www.robotparty.us/afrika/AFRIKA%99_33.png
I love cats so much, I for one, would accept cat leadership of the world
Kekvit Irae
03-04-2010, 15:18
I finally completed Afrika, after only 44 hours of gameplay.
A few more of my favorite shots:
http://www.robotparty.us/afrika/AFRIKA%99_21.jpg
Cheetah cubs!
http://www.robotparty.us/afrika/AfrikaLulz4.jpg
:3
http://www.robotparty.us/afrika/AFRIKA%99_22.jpg
Taken when an elephant was chasing my vehicle, ala Jurassic Park. Objects in mirror are closer than they appear.
http://www.robotparty.us/afrika/BigGame/AFRIKA%99_20.jpg
The big daddy of Afrika: the Barbary Lion.
The Wizard
03-06-2010, 02:38
45 years after my earlier post (see above), and I've since formed Britain and dramatically expanded my American holdings.
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v519/Odomaris/EU3_MAP_GBR_154519_1.png
The Reformation has fired by now; large swaths of Central and Eastern Europe are Protestant because of Milan's conversion and subsequent election to HRE, after which they used the new ability to try and convert HRE members to your state religion to convert most of the HRE. Bohemia and the Scandinavian realms converted, too.
Note the continued existence of the Timurids, still going strong despite having tribal gov since the beginning (!). Georgia (the azure blue) made some strides in the past 45 years, though it's Muslim now. Muscovy was going real strong and blobbing real hard till they went over the BB limit and got dogpiled. I doubt they're down and out, though. Also, the big white blob from EU2 has returned.
I'm hoping to finish the conquest of Ireland soon, though Spain (which is huge and has the biggest army) has warned me. My goals are also to get the Orkneys from Norway, extend my American holdings into Argentina, expand my African holdings along the coast and conquer Indonesia.
Dodge_272
03-06-2010, 19:59
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/wre475.JPG
Total war free screenshot topic my arse, no-one reads the other one.
seireikhaan
03-16-2010, 08:50
Dragon Age: Origins, using a few mods. Most notably the conjuration spells mod, which has some interesting mechanics. Fighting the High Dragon:
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/93959320-4.jpg
Kekvit Irae
03-16-2010, 18:20
Dragon Age: Origins, using a few mods. Most notably the conjuration spells mod, which has some interesting mechanics. Fighting the High Dragon:
Morrigan Approves (+10)
Dodge_272
03-26-2010, 21:11
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/siegeofbelgrade.JPG
The siege of Belgrade has been postponed due to bad weather.
Ibn-Khaldun
03-27-2010, 00:03
From what mod is this pic?
pevergreen
03-30-2010, 08:01
My best EU 3 game so far (playing HTTT)
https://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7690/eu3mapbyz14193251.png
I'm the byzantine empire, hoping to recreate rome...
brown splodge above asia minor = vassal, as is, above greece, the lighter purple, the dark green (that goes northwards) the brown and the two below the brown. Translyvania is next (the creamy colour above greece, surrounded by my vassals on 3 sides)
Ottomans down to their capital, after truce is up, thats gone too.
Current situation (5 hours later)
The stuff inside the black lines is me and my vassals.
https://img33.imageshack.us/img33/7550/eu3p.jpg
Second edit:
Retiring for the night
The world at 1437:
https://img707.imageshack.us/img707/1083/eu3mapbyz1437121.png
My vassals and I
https://img718.imageshack.us/img718/7263/eu3mapbyz1437122.png
https://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu150/Joltie/2009-11-02_120528.jpg
Beautiful map of Distant Worlds.
@pev: Nice-looking game so far! I wish you luck in restoring the Empire. ~:cheers:
Question: Is that the Persians in red? And are they often that big?
@Jolt: A beautiful screenie indeed. You've gotta love just how big these maps can get. :yes:
By the way, did you download the new patch yet? I did so late last night, and it's already done wonders in improving my economy.
I must confess I don't have the game. I just saw that screenie in a random preview and I was awed. Since this forum also has a thread and interest on Distant Worlds, I decided to post the screenie. :)
pevergreen
03-31-2010, 10:21
@pev: Nice-looking game so far! I wish you luck in restoring the Empire. ~:cheers:
Question: Is that the Persians in red? And are they often that big?
Just for you:
Map of the world at 1447
https://img441.imageshack.us/img441/7006/eu3mapbyz1447521.png
Vassals and I
https://img534.imageshack.us/img534/460/eu3mapbyz1447522.png
A bit of story:
The empire and its vassals were beseiged by the Austrians, the Bohemians and Wurzberg. United in war, they came down from the north and north west. All was well, the tides were being half held back, until Castille, Savoy, Aragon and multiple other nations all attacked, including the Golden Horde.
The golden horde made peace after gobbling up a vassal of mine, after 15 years or so, Austria and Bohemia attacked each other, and I managed to make peace with them, not gaining, but not losing anything. The wars continued in northern italy though, and ended with two more countries becoming my vassals. I indirectly own most of italy.
Current status of the world.
Castille have most of Iberia, and northern africa, along with Portugal. France controls modern day france, england has nearly got complete control over Ireland. The 'lukes are beset by rebels.
The red is the Timurids. Up north Novgorod is doing well.
Poland and Lithuania, plus some minor states have declared war on me (including Hungary, which is two provinces and both being sieged.
The pinkish colour is poland, the purple is Lithuania. The greenish colour is the newly formed Croatia, which is about to become the even newer vassal of the Empire. To the left of Poland is Bohemia, and the white below them is Austria.
I'm going to take a little break from this one, and try to form the HRE or Germany or something from a one province country.
pevergreen
04-05-2010, 15:39
Myself, playing Castille in a multiplayer game, with my friend as France. We're both pretty bad at the game.
Its 1444.
https://img242.imageshack.us/img242/3173/eu3mapcas14441271.png
seireikhaan
04-05-2010, 16:21
:inquisitive:
Is Ethiopia in the midst of conquering Egypt?
pevergreen
04-06-2010, 06:19
It looks like they are. :laugh4: I can't see them in game yet though. Playing a few more hours tonight I think.
1463: Killed and annexed the Huron. Will be going further south. Inflation at about 5%, making ~150 a year with all the coastal american provinces being colonies, bar one.
https://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3514/eu3mapmp14636261.png
Veho Nex
04-11-2010, 05:57
Free MW2 weekend. Im 1337 pr0 at this game.
Nuke ftw:
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/95550891-4.jpg
Another where I was 2 kills away from nuke:
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/95550900-4.jpg
And one from yesterday evening:
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/95449981-4.jpg
Your stats there are quite impressive! Do you ever say this to your defeated enemies, or perhaps just to yourself if in a more humble mood:
'Mess with the best, die like the rest.' Just curious.
Veho Nex
04-11-2010, 18:49
Usually I just get accused of hacking. You know some level 30 non prestige is going 30 and 10 or 40 and 10. So I kinda just troll around saying I'll turn off my hax maybe next round.
Hooahguy
04-12-2010, 01:54
wow VN, impressive. for MW2. now lets see you play BC2. :wink:
*wants to go back to BC2, then remembers his dad took away his laptop*
Ha ha! You should flaunt your skill. Your obviously a good player. When others accuse you of cheating and rush you to make a point of it, it is oh so satisfying to cut them down on a level field! :)
Veho Nex
04-12-2010, 02:43
Ha ha! You should flaunt your skill. Your obviously a good player. When others accuse you of cheating and rush you to make a point of it, it is oh so satisfying to cut them down on a level field! :)
Heh, maybe I should. Kinda depressed free weekend it ending tomorrow.
wow VN, impressive. for MW2. now lets see you play BC2. :wink:
*wants to go back to BC2, then remembers his dad took away his laptop*
:( VN's score inf BC2 10-40 VN's score in MW 40-10
I just cant get good at the BF games while for some reason and CoD game comes naturally to me.
https://img63.imageshack.us/img63/2790/eu3mapfra.jpg
That's mine HTTT campaign. As you see I'm doing well as France, 1487, ranked 1st in both military/economy (in EU).
Brits were beaten recently in what, 4th war with them=), now after when I was able to make an invasion they did not stand a chance..
The only disgust is diplomacy leveled down to almost no use. Castillian pope got me outlawed two times, after capturing burgundian cities (they were as strong as me at some point) I got a lot of "badboy" fame, had to apply one law, that decreases pope's role, and now I have good relations only with 5 countries, which I set free from the Britain's rule...
The fun thing is, for about 20 years or so I havent a CB against England, and finally swedes get them outlawed! Immediate invasion afterwards..
I'm curious, what will that china monster become in the end :inquisitive:
Kekvit Irae
04-12-2010, 15:42
The loading screen of Simplz Zoo is pretty damn creepy. The eyes of the animals stare into the very depths of your soul!
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/kekvitirae/simplzWTF.jpg (language warning)
Hooahguy
04-12-2010, 18:22
:( VN's score inf BC2 10-40 VN's score in MW 40-10
I just cant get good at the BF games while for some reason and CoD game comes naturally to me.
maybe because the BF games require teamwork? :tongue:
Veho Nex
04-12-2010, 20:22
maybe because the BF games require teamwork? :tongue:
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA HA...
Ha....
hahaha.
BF games and Team work barely go into the same sentence. What I've noticed is either everyone is sniping with a sniper rifle or the M60 on hard core, oooorrrr everyone is n00b t00bin or m60ing it up on regular. The only satisfaction I get out of BC2 is flying the black hawk while one of my buddies on vent is pointing out targets and telling my which way to bank. The servers seem so laggy though, I get tired of putting a clip into a guy and walking away only to find out that I supposedly died in that fight.
Hooahguy
04-13-2010, 01:11
then you clearly arent playing it right. duh.
*smacks forehead*
pevergreen
04-13-2010, 07:18
then you clearly arent playing it right. duh.
*smacks forehead*
Pretty sure what he is saying is true.
At least the worst BF2142 had was the...ummm, forgotten its name...ah yes, the Voss.
And that was only slightly overpowered. Everything else was balanced.
Hooahguy
04-13-2010, 17:16
well, idk what you people you are talking about. maybe its because you are on a bad server?
sure, there are people who just go around and shooting things, like another COD game.
maybe join a clan, with people who care about winning the game and not getting a higher score. when i play with my clan, we always use tactics. fire and meneuver. covering fire. play as a frickin team. i love it. in BF2142 had the same things. lone wolves will hate the game, naturally. do you notice how the team which does use tacics, or at least one squad of the team, always wins against a team which its members just run around for the score.
oh btw the m60 has been nerfed, or will be in the future, as DICE devs said.
i will relate one fun match i had on the map with the lighthouse.
we were defending the last mcom station. after we repelled the initial assault, my squad, being covered by another squad, ran up to the lighthouse, went inside, and began firing at attackers below us. it wasnt long until we won.
see what tactics can do?
also, putting a full clip in an enemy is somewhat realistic. also depends on if they are using ceramic armor. modern vests can withstand quite a lot of bullets. in Afghanistan, there are reports of US soldiers getting hit in the stomach with AK-47 rounds and getting right back up, unhurt.
about BF2142, the voss wasnt unbalanced. the only people who cry about it were the ones who didnt know how to fight it. my krylov always beat the voss, any day of the week.
summary:
if you want the BF experience you need to play with a squad that actually cares about winning. not hard to find, just round them together, using the built in VOIP and start from there. have one medic for covering fire and health, an engi for heavy support, and the rest assault.
boom, there you go, a perfect squad, and the only way to get the experience.
Kekvit Irae
04-13-2010, 17:28
ITT: butthurt MW2 players who are too busy with the Commando perk to know what actual teamwork is.
:)
Veho Nex
04-14-2010, 00:36
I dont do commando. Danger close Pro + Scavanger Pro + Steady Aim Pro + UMP red dot + .44 mag FMJ
I win... Always.
well, idk what you people you are talking about. maybe its because you are on a bad server?
sure, there are people who just go around and shooting things, like another COD game.
maybe join a clan, with people who care about winning the game and not getting a higher score. when i play with my clan, we always use tactics. fire and meneuver. covering fire. play as a frickin team. i love it. in BF2142 had the same things. lone wolves will hate the game, naturally. do you notice how the team which does use tacics, or at least one squad of the team, always wins against a team which its members just run around for the score.
oh btw the m60 has been nerfed, or will be in the future, as DICE devs said.
i will relate one fun match i had on the map with the lighthouse.
we were defending the last mcom station. after we repelled the initial assault, my squad, being covered by another squad, ran up to the lighthouse, went inside, and began firing at attackers below us. it wasnt long until we won.
see what tactics can do?
also, putting a full clip in an enemy is somewhat realistic. also depends on if they are using ceramic armor. modern vests can withstand quite a lot of bullets. in Afghanistan, there are reports of US soldiers getting hit in the stomach with AK-47 rounds and getting right back up, unhurt.
about BF2142, the voss wasnt unbalanced. the only people who cry about it were the ones who didnt know how to fight it. my krylov always beat the voss, any day of the week.
summary:
if you want the BF experience you need to play with a squad that actually cares about winning. not hard to find, just round them together, using the built in VOIP and start from there. have one medic for covering fire and health, an engi for heavy support, and the rest assault.
boom, there you go, a perfect squad, and the only way to get the experience.
For real team-work games, try Team Fortress 2 (I would also say Enemy Territory, but that is way beyond it's prime, and the only fun I get out of it is pubbing.)
You have to admit they messed up the balancing in BC2, sub machine guns are more accurate than assault rifles and seem to have the same power. And the M60 is just ridiculous.
Hooahguy
04-14-2010, 14:58
You have to admit they messed up the balancing in BC2, sub machine guns are more accurate than assault rifles and seem to have the same power. And the M60 is just ridiculous.
thats why they are being nerfed.:idea2:
Veho Nex
04-14-2010, 18:01
3 weeks and I havent seen anything let alone a hot fix for some of the MP lag issues.
Anyways the last of the free weekend score shots for MW2.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/95623429-4.jpg
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/95623418-4.jpg
For those of you who notice the player Gold3n in most of these screen shots he is my older brother, he owns the game, and plays a bit every night. It makes me sad to know I could beat his rear end any day of the week. Unless its Tuesday... For some reason I cant game for nothing on a Tuesday.
pevergreen
04-14-2010, 18:22
about BF2142, the voss wasnt unbalanced. the only people who cry about it were the ones who didnt know how to fight it. my krylov always beat the voss, any day of the week.
Your evidence is you, my evidence is the former tournament (2142AF) which at its prime consisted of ~130 playing members. Chief among those agreed with me that the voss was overpowered.
Their credentials?
SLI-Fire: Total played time 2122:12:17 (h:m:s)
Reformat: Total played time 1129:12:33
Kyp-Z-Durron Total played time 916:02:45
(on the topic that we arent really talking about but is still there, of noobs who only use one item set etc, check out these stats from BF2142 belonging to SLI:
Tank
26107 Kills
1699 Death
15.37 K/D Ratio
5136 Destroyed
2886 Roadkills
555:12:25 Time
He is GOOD with a tank.)
And those 3 were just some of them :wink:
Back to why I'm posting here:
This was Castille in 1463.
https://img63.imageshack.us/img63/3514/eu3mapmp14636261.png
This is Spain in 1529
https://img359.imageshack.us/img359/3853/eu3mapspa15295271.png
Fun things to note: England no longer exists, scotland peacefully annexed them. If you look closely, you'll realise half of southern England is Spanish.
Fun things to note: England no longer exists, scotland peacefully annexed them. If you look closely, you'll realise half of southern England is Spanish.
It appears to be more than half, from the looks of it. ~;) How'd you pull that off, anyway? A diplo-annex like what Scotland did, or was it through more forceful means?
Hooahguy
04-14-2010, 23:07
Your evidence is you, my evidence is the former tournament (2142AF) which at its prime consisted of ~130 playing members. Chief among those agreed with me that the voss was overpowered.
Their credentials?
SLI-Fire: Total played time 2122:12:17 (h:m:s)
Reformat: Total played time 1129:12:33
Kyp-Z-Durron Total played time 916:02:45
means little. everyone has their own playing style. i, and im a total n00b (http://www.2142-stats.com/hooahguy+stats.html), did better with the krylov than the voss.
i had a 2.99 kdr with the krylov, a 1.16 with the voss.
can we stop talking about BF2142? the more i talk about it the more i miss it. :shame:
btw i could also bring my own people who agree that the voss isnt overpowered.
pevergreen
04-15-2010, 04:39
It appears to be more than half, from the looks of it. ~;) How'd you pull that off, anyway? A diplo-annex like what Scotland did, or was it through more forceful means?
It was wonderous.
I was bored, and had about 5 years before I got core on Barcelona, allowing me to form spain, so I check what i had, and sent my spanish armies up. (I have a North, East, South and West defence army, 12k men each) and ferryed them into Kent (which was scottish) From there, had England excommunicated and lo and behold, 48 thousand Iberians beat about 12 thousand British. Wales had been released so they sent two thousand in, but i quickly went through them. Got as much as I could in the peace deal, was going to wait until scotland war'd them again (which they had already done just after I got peace, they took one more province) so i could annex, but they peacfully annexed.So I left my new british armies (north and south, 12k men each :tongue:) and prepared for my African campaign, by raising another 36 thousand men.
Has Japan conquered Mancuria? Wowie Zowie
pevergreen
04-19-2010, 13:56
https://img339.imageshack.us/img339/4775/eu3mapfra14773281.png
World at 1477. Guess who I'm playing as.
France.
https://img594.imageshack.us/img594/7370/eu3mapfra14773282.png
So many vassals...
It appears the House of Valois is doing well. ~D :bow:
pevergreen
04-20-2010, 03:51
It appears the House of Valois is doing well. ~D :bow:
Before my massive european campaign, I had about 15 vassals, 16 infamy and military alliances. I got to the point where I was at war with all of europe at once, so I started annexing. I currently have 275 infamy and i just released all those vassals. I'm the HRE, all electors are my vassals, but none are voting for me.
The great thing is though, I didn't actually have to fight any of those battles. My vassals were an unending horde, wiping out europe by themselves. I just hung around wiping out rebels.
pevergreen
04-22-2010, 10:35
For Veho:
Random DM game. My loadout changes from round to round as I'm not playing to win, just to do challenges. This round was RPD with silencer and Raffica with red dot sight.
https://img717.imageshack.us/img717/8831/scoreboard.jpg
Well you're better than me (not hard), but not good enough. ;)
And a screenshot from my latest Tropico 3 game, as you can see, I managed to get a very busy intersection.
https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i231/husar1985/tropico/Tropico3_3.jpg
Yes, it's 1920*1200, the way it's meant to be played. ~;)
pevergreen
04-23-2010, 17:37
I've been playing quite a bit of EU3.
I played only vanilla, then a few days ago, I found the Hand Drawn map mod. It looks lovely.
However, I have found god.
Whole World Mod.
Starting map. (With all england vassals released. Imagine if the normal English/Scottish border like in Vanilla and thats the only change.)
https://img291.imageshack.us/img291/9761/eu3mapeng139910141.png
I'm England. All but the tiny yellow bit (scotland only has capital) and the blue above it, are my vassals that I released.
https://img97.imageshack.us/img97/6246/eu3mapeng140810201.png
This mod is incredible. 500 new countries or something...
pevergreen
04-24-2010, 06:50
My current campaign.
I did have all the vassals released, but I went on a 40 year long war to annex the entire British Isles. Ireland popped up, got rid of them. Even got Norway out of the island just above me. This mod is awesome.
https://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2630/eu3mapgbr14794241.png
Meneldil
04-24-2010, 10:37
I find it not awesome precisely because of what is happening on your map: vanilla strong nations (France, Spain, Muscovy, Ottomans, etc.) become even more powerful as soon as you add more one-province nations around them.
WWM is funny during the first 20 years, then it usually gets out of hand.
But then, I also dislike MM policy of not adding any new nations (and even deleting some vanilla ones). I think MEIOU found a good balance on the "new nations / keep everyone in check" slider :)
pevergreen
04-29-2010, 16:58
Recreating the old Roman Empire! One step at a time... I'm only the Emperor of Naples so far.
https://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1926/eu3mapnap149412121.png
Interesting blobs:
Great Britain formed
France
Castille
Morocco
Muscowy
Lithuania still hanging around somehow.
Bohemia
I think that blob in the Holy Lands is a big Syria
Veho Nex
04-29-2010, 21:51
I forgot to pause this battle before I alt tabbed. Luckily I still won even when I came back a half hour after it had started.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/96589630-4.jpg
Also, nice score pever.
Edit:
DMUC: My well disciplined men held off an amateur Austrian army despite being outnumbered considerably. With minor casualties, most from FF.
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/97175032-4.jpg
And a screenshot from my latest Tropico 3 game, as you can see, I managed to get a very busy intersection.
Very nice. Much tidier than any of my islands ever are, mine are just sprawling messes of buildings, with roads added as an after-thought.
pevergreen
05-12-2010, 07:10
Recreating the old Roman Empire! One step at a time... I'm only the Emperor of Naples so far.
https://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1926/eu3mapnap149412121.png
Interesting blobs:
Great Britain formed
France
Castille
Morocco
Muscowy
Lithuania still hanging around somehow.
Bohemia
I think that blob in the Holy Lands is a big Syria
Over 100 years later, Naples -> Italy -> Roman Empire
https://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9467/eu3maprem16041231.png
Poor me, I've stuck to the Italian lands.
Or have I?
Say hello to my vassals and allies. :beam:
https://img268.imageshack.us/img268/6733/eu3maprem16041232.png
pevergreen
05-13-2010, 06:07
https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6765/302f.jpg
I think i did ok that round.
Veho Nex
05-13-2010, 09:24
https://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6765/302f.jpg
I think i did ok that round.
HAX!
Dodge_272
05-17-2010, 23:36
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/handblownoffhandhandhandbloodhandhand.JPG
Ouch! Were those your men or the enemies? NTW or ETW? Hopefully they were expendible!
Hooahguy
05-18-2010, 23:40
darthmod!
Veho Nex
05-19-2010, 12:42
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/97729937-4.jpg
My second in command for the fighters guild really can draw. Its on par with the mona lisa
seireikhaan
05-20-2010, 03:46
The Empire is threatened by rebels!
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x246/greaterkhaan/theenglisharecoming.png
El Husarente is at it again. ~D
https://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i231/husar1985/tropico/Tropico3_6.jpg
pevergreen
05-20-2010, 11:42
https://img9.imageshack.us/img9/4739/4214e.jpg
Veho Nex
05-20-2010, 12:32
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/97751577-4.jpg
And I-E-I-I-E-I-I-E-E-I WILL ALWAYSSS LOOVVVEEE YOUUUU!!! ALWAAYYYSSS LOVE YOU!!!!
This is from just before I was torn to shreds by Muscovy, Poland, Bohemia and Austria....
https://img686.imageshack.us/img686/9234/hostileseverywhere.jpg
https://img689.imageshack.us/img689/6281/eu3mapteu1449341.png
pevergreen
06-08-2010, 02:10
https://img38.imageshack.us/img38/8194/eu3mapxia1474171.png
I am Xia, the green blob in china.
https://img38.imageshack.us/img38/8194/eu3mapxia1474171.png
I am Xia, the green blob in china.
I would assume that is WWM? Who's the blue in India?
pevergreen
06-08-2010, 05:23
Yes, thats WWM, without extra natives. If extra natives was on, N America and Oceania would be filled.
Will edit when i find out who blue is.
pevergreen
06-11-2010, 13:35
I would assume that is WWM? Who's the blue in India?
Bahmani Sultanate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahmani_Sultanate).
pevergreen
06-12-2010, 09:20
https://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9592/eu3mapxia14946111.png
If you'll look closely, the Xia have expanded into Africa.
pevergreen
06-16-2010, 09:38
https://img268.imageshack.us/img268/417/eu3maphab151510171.png
Whole World Mod with extra natives. I've been the HRemperor since the start, all but one thing passed. (Austria)
Russia looks scary. They have ~150k troops.
pevergreen
06-17-2010, 11:07
I feel lonely...no one else have screenies?
https://img682.imageshack.us/img682/8579/eu3maphre15581151.png
So yeah, passed the final reform, formed the Holy Roman Empire. I'm a noble republic, chose a Military Candidate to win.
Stats:
Admin: 9
Beaurocratic: 9
Military: 6
He's alright.
When the empire formed, I was ranked second in land forces, with 160k troops. Russia has 220.
I decided to increase my land force. Its not done building and I'm at 332 thousand men.
My mission is to "Create an Army for our nation".
I need to have a standing army of 584 thousand men to complete the mission. :rolleyes:
I feel lonely...no one else have screenies?
I just got into this game a few weeks back and I'm really enjoying it. Beskar formatted my laptop yesterday though, so all my old saves are gone, but I've started a new game as Tyrone (well, Ireland now), so will post a screenie at some point so you're not on your lonesome. :3
Dodge_272
06-17-2010, 18:40
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/assassin.JPG
I was not expecting this!! I spent the last few hours playing 1944 scenatio organising fronts and retreating both in the east and west. Will this make my game easier or harder now? Shall I get a new flag?? Exciting stuff?
Greyblades
06-17-2010, 23:10
Why would hitler being assassinated destroy the nazti party? Wouldn't Himmler or Goering just take over or something?
Why would hitler being assassinated destroy the nazti party? Wouldn't Himmler or Goering just take over or something?
20th July Plot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot). Basically it was a coup which if successful would have removed the high german command's ability to counter the coup. There is a quite recent thread on the matter in the monastery.
Some screenies from my Anno 1404 game.
https://img106.imageshack.us/img106/4583/26nieuwvermijcknoble5.jpg
https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4491/screenshot0014.jpg
https://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5392/screenshot0045.jpg
I like those Anno screenies!
Greyblades
06-18-2010, 03:36
Blimey that looks cool, is that like settlers?
Ja'chyra
06-18-2010, 15:24
Very atmospheric, it must have taken you ages to get the angles just right.
Hooahguy
06-18-2010, 19:44
me playing SWAT 4:
My team blasting through the door, even though I just unlocked it. *sigh*
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/Swat42010-06-1814-02-46-20.jpg
again, my team blasting through a door. this is before we find a room full of creepy paper-mache masks of the killers victims. by the way, i just came from injuring and arresting the suspect, but only after i took a shotgun round to the chest. thankfully my vest stopped it.
this mission was creepy as :daisy:
https://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa73/hooahguy14/Swat42010-06-1814-08-44-00.jpg
I like those Anno screenies!
Teehee! :bow:
Blimey that looks cool, is that like settlers?
Anno 1404 is a city builder, with the colonial aspect and resource management between different islands/bases thrown in. There is also combat obviously, but it is over simplistic and not very fun. I think Settlers something like AoE?
Very atmospheric, it must have taken you ages to get the angles just right.
Teehee, not really, there is a key which changes the angle. The tornado one, was pretty well caught I must admit. :)
Anno 1404 is a city builder, with the colonial aspect and resource management between different islands/bases thrown in. There is also combat obviously, but it is over simplistic and not very fun. I think Settlers something like AoE?
Settlers is more like Settlers or more like anno instead of AoE, but it depends on which Settlers we're talking about, some are more like AoE.
Teehee, not really, there is a key which changes the angle. The tornado one, was pretty well caught I must admit. :)
Yeah, postcard view, and you still found some pretty nice angles.
A few more then:
Another cute post card screenie
https://img31.imageshack.us/img31/8461/23zwaanenburgpatricien5.jpg
The Mythical City on the Hills!
https://img7.imageshack.us/img7/3521/screenshot0017n.jpg
https://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7041/screenshot0019b.jpg
Another city. Before:
https://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t83/NobleMarty/before.png
After:
https://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t83/NobleMarty/after.png
Veho Nex
06-26-2010, 08:24
I had been in this server for 3 minutes
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/99861128-4.jpg
Heavies wrack up tons of points, especially so if you run a medic train with one. Even if you don't get the objective a single ubercharge can easily score upwards of ten points. My pocket doctor and I once managed 100 points in 15 minutes on a random payload map. ~D
Veho Nex
06-26-2010, 18:09
Yeah but this was a special heavy experience. It had almost became a normal one where I get 2 or 3 kills and then die, but I had three medics healing me and I was hovering inbetween 20 and 100 life, and it was "over time" on king of the hill. I had won it for my team. I felt proud.
Meneldil
06-26-2010, 20:06
https://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6413/pharaohe.jpg (https://img35.imageshack.us/i/pharaohe.jpg/)
My current mission in Pharaoh (with Cleopatra expansion): Djedu.
A quite easy mission, given that you get to export Papyrus, Reeds, Wood and Meat.
I had to import 450 sandstones for the Temple of the Sun (big building at the top), as well as resources to produce pottery and beer.
The only little trick in this mission is to effectively build your cities on both sides of the Nile
Alexander the Pretty Good
06-27-2010, 07:17
Heavies wrack up tons of points, especially so if you run a medic train with one. Even if you don't get the objective a single ubercharge can easily score upwards of ten points. My pocket doctor and I once managed 100 points in 15 minutes on a random payload map. ~D
Yeah but this was a special heavy experience. It had almost became a normal one where I get 2 or 3 kills and then die, but I had three medics healing me and I was hovering inbetween 20 and 100 life, and it was "over time" on king of the hill. I had won it for my team. I felt proud.
My best was one charmed life where I got 25 kills, with only a little help from occasional medics. I was defending I think the second stage of cranetop.
Also, Natascha for the win.
Crazed Rabbit
06-27-2010, 07:41
Also, Natascha for the win.
Most. Annoying. Gun. Evar.
Anyways, just tonight I barbequed 5 or so people trying to cap a point on the mill map, but alas, I did not get a screenshot. Always fun though. Half of them were on fire before they knew they were under attack, and the backburner gave out lots of criticals.
CR
Veho Nex
06-27-2010, 17:57
I was one of those 5 people :(
Alexander the Pretty Good
06-27-2010, 17:59
I got to re-equip the backburner some time, but the pyro has been nerfed so hard I rarely bother.
I got to re-equip the backburner some time, but the pyro has been nerfed so hard I rarely bother.
Pyro is more a utility class now. The ability to air-blast Ubers backward can slow an offense to a dead stop. I've seen pyros juggle a heavy for a full uber duration, and I shouldnt have to say why those with the Homewrecker are credit to team! ~D
In line with screenshots:
https://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x301/swcsalha/EU3_MAP_SPA_1481523_2.jpg
My current HTTT, nearing the first century mark in play as Castile (Now spain). Aragon nearly overcome me really early on with some shrewd political dealings in Europe (at one point they were set to inherit both Naples and Sicily). After a couple hard fought wars and no small amount of hardship I completed the merger and formed Spain. Portugal turned vassal and I diplo-annexed them around 15 years prior to this map. My side of Europe has been predictable, Spain forming from Castile and North Africa falling to me, ect. What has been the big surprise is everyone else.
Muscowy lost an initial war against Novgorod which completely fractured the Rus principalities, they've begun to reform and battle back but that's a fairly recent development. Lithuania imploded, as did Poland, paving the way for Moscow's surge. Hungary survived their intial troubles ( i havent seen that happen for a number of games) and is quickly becoming a power to be reckoned with in the East. The Mamlukes hold a sizable empire and have defeated the Ottomans on numerous occasions. Most surprising of all, England collapsed as a result of a war against the French and completely disappeared. In it's place? Wales! They've taken all of England's former holdings and have (by now) cored all of the southern island. Ireland formed as a result of nearly every irish OPM at one point getting 3/4 of the isle, then losing them all to rebelling. Leinster finally had the conviction to claim all Ireland and make the transition.
Dodge_272
06-29-2010, 00:21
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/8/20/2550160/dday1941.JPG
Holy shhh... 12 Divisions land in the low countries, New years day 1941!!
johnhughthom
06-29-2010, 00:48
https://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp139/johnhughthom/Crusaders2010-06-2900-41-07-45-1.jpg
Crusader Kings with DVIP. Started off as Count of Ulaid, you need a bit of luck at the start of a game with them as the province next door which you have a claim on can quickly be inherited by a Scottish Count making expansion a lot more difficult. I got lucky in this and was able to take it quickly, now waiting to get 100 gold to claim the Dukedom of Ulster and then I'm on my way on the long slow path to be King of Ireland. With a bit of luck I might get it with this guy.
Dodge_272
06-29-2010, 09:27
https://i405.photobucket.com/albums/pp139/johnhughthom/Crusaders2010-06-2900-41-07-45-1.jpg
Crusader Kings with DVIP. Started off as Count of Ulaid, you need a bit of luck at the start of a game with them as the province next door which you have a claim on can quickly be inherited by a Scottish Count making expansion a lot more difficult. I got lucky in this and was able to take it quickly, now waiting to get 100 gold to claim the Dukedom of Ulster and then I'm on my way on the long slow path to be King of Ireland. With a bit of luck I might get it with this guy.
Be careful William the Bastard doesn't become Papal Controller any time soon or your game could be over sooner than you may think!
johnhughthom
06-29-2010, 12:36
Be careful William the Bastard doesn't become Papal Controller any time soon or your game could be over sooner than you may think!
He is at the moment! :laugh4:
His realm is in duress and he is constantly battling rebellious vassals, so I think I might get away with it this time.
Meneldil
06-30-2010, 06:29
Here are some more Pharaoh screens. I switched to easy for a little while, but since it is now quite easy (I'm swimming in debens), I'm gonna play in normal again.
https://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5885/pharaoh1.jpg (https://img18.imageshack.us/i/pharaoh1.jpg/)
https://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6927/pharaoh2.jpg (https://img20.imageshack.us/i/pharaoh2.jpg/)
https://img52.imageshack.us/img52/7349/pharaoh3.jpg (https://img52.imageshack.us/i/pharaoh3.jpg/)
There's one thing that kind of bothers me in this game: the need to build a load of temples if you don't want gods to be mad at you. In a city with 6000 inhabitants (such as the one I screened there), having less than 10 temple for each good means impedent doom.
Meneldil
06-30-2010, 09:24
Another oldie, one of my favorite games ever, Magic and Mayhem, aka Duel: the Mage Wars, aka Arcanes
https://img375.imageshack.us/img375/6567/arcanes8.jpg (https://img375.imageshack.us/i/arcanes8.jpg/)
https://img267.imageshack.us/img267/8190/arcanes9.jpg (https://img267.imageshack.us/i/arcanes9.jpg/)
https://img819.imageshack.us/img819/3796/arcanes16.jpg (https://img819.imageshack.us/i/arcanes16.jpg/)
Great game, saddly overlooked and almost unknown nowadays.
Veho Nex
07-01-2010, 08:42
1680*1050
http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/100158187-4.jpg
Scout pwnage
Dodge_272 your lack of militia divisions disturbs me. The value of militia is immense. Your coastal defence would be more effective if you stationed a Inf+Mil army at each coastal province. Mil offer force modifiers and spread casualties evenly, meaning your valuable Inf can fight longer.
Also your IC is too low. At the start of a game Germany should build a 2 serial run of factories in every province, 3 is even better in the long-run if you are up for it.
johnhughthom
07-07-2010, 22:18
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The fourth King of Ireland. Casting coveting glances across the Irish Sea, already has one vassal in Wales and a random Arab somehow got a province there which is a nice excuse to meddle in Welsh affairs...
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