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[Hooahguy]

A pic from a recent Sins of a Solar Empire- Diplomacy game. Im on a huge map with 11 stars and 99 planets. It’s a 4v4 match, 2 TEC (one of them is me) 2 Vasari (my allies) and 4 Advent. Im trying to RP Mass Effect by saying the TEC is the Alliance, the Vasari are the Council races, and the Advent are the Geth. Fun all around! Im using the Distant Stars mod with Dynamic Movement.
Here it shows me defeating (barely) some Advent ships, including 3 Advent capital ships. If it wasn’t for my Kodiaks though I would have been toast.
After this battle though, I send a scout to the neighboring planet and I find an Advent starbase, lots of homing mines, and many heavy cruisers and capital ships. So right now Im building up my fleet to attack. Right now I have 30 Kodiak cruisers, 3 Kol battleships, 2 Sova carriers, 1 Marza dreadnought, 2 Dunov battlecruisers and one Akkan battlecruiser. Not to mention 10 LRM frigates, and 6 repair ships.
Do you think its enough to take down the enemy fleet + the starbase? I still haven’t made the torpedo cruisers that are meant to destroy the starbase, but I’ll make those soon.

[pevergreen]

I've been getting so excited about Divine Wind, I decided to hop back into a game of EU3.

Starting in 1399 as Austria, for some reason I started out with 33.3% inflation.

I read that setting AI Aggresiveness to low enourages them to play safe, so you don't see the huge empires then collapsing empires almost straight away. So far - its working:



France inherited Castille a long time ago, they are about 4 years off getting cores on the whole thing.
England is taking its sweet time. Its work has been mostly on Brittany, going back and forth on how much they control.

No country has imploded so far. Tuetonic order is strong, Lithuania is doing ok.

Hungary was doing great, until a trifecta of wars at the same time. Lithuania and its allies, me and my allies and Croatia rebelling.

As for me: I'm playing a lot less aggressive than I usually do (maybe thats because all the infamy costs are normal...)

I claimed the thrones of Bavaria and Ferrera so far, inherited them. Waiting to inheret naples.
Saslzberg, Pisa and Urbino are my vassals, those 4 and Lithuania are my allies.

[pevergreen]

5th Jan, 1500.

Austrian Empire is doing well. Uncontestedly the empire's leading nation. France in the west, the Ottomans and Lithuania to the east are the only real rivals. England still slowly taking the isles.

Novogorod has collapsed, now there is a battle for power up there.

Austria leads Personal Unions with: Hungary, Poland and Sicily. It inheretedd Bohemia and Naples.
Client states include Pommerania, The Palatianate, Pisa and Urbino.



Once I inheret Hungary, I plan to form Austria-Hungary.

[Beskar]

A pic from a recent Sins of a Solar Empire- Diplomacy game. Im on a huge map with 11 stars and 99 planets. It’s a 4v4 match, 2 TEC (one of them is me) 2 Vasari (my allies) and 4 Advent. Im trying to RP Mass Effect by saying the TEC is the Alliance, the Vasari are the Council races, and the Advent are the Geth. Fun all around! Im using the Distant Stars mod with Dynamic Movement.
Here it shows me defeating (barely) some Advent ships, including 3 Advent capital ships. If it wasn’t for my Kodiaks though I would have been toast.
After this battle though, I send a scout to the neighboring planet and I find an Advent starbase, lots of homing mines, and many heavy cruisers and capital ships. So right now Im building up my fleet to attack. Right now I have 30 Kodiak cruisers, 3 Kol battleships, 2 Sova carriers, 1 Marza dreadnought, 2 Dunov battlecruisers and one Akkan battlecruiser. Not to mention 10 LRM frigates, and 6 repair ships.
Do you think its enough to take down the enemy fleet + the starbase? I still haven’t made the torpedo cruisers that are meant to destroy the starbase, but I’ll make those soon.

Should do what I do and pay 'Cerebus' to send in a big army against them.

[pevergreen]

1561, the 7th of November.

Today, Austria faces the beginning of the hardest time it has faced.

In its attempts to retake provinces it had gained cores on, it underestimated how big the problem would get.


Over the last 20 years, colonisation has begun. I'm really pleased with the low aggressiveness AI. I've never seen france colonise like this (NA, SA and a chunk of India) GB and Portugal doing it as well. That part of brazil and a few islands are mine, because I was bored.

I still have not inhereted Sicily, Poland or Hungary, though I do now have the Pope as my vassal.

Here is a pic summarising how bad it looks.



France and the Ottomans together have 100k more standing troops than me (france alone has 40k) I do have my subject nations, but there is only so much that Urbino, Pisa, The Papal State, and my other kingdoms, Poland, Hungary, Sicily and Prussia can do.

We are against: Morocco, The Ottoman Empire, France, Hesse, Brandenburg, Lorraine and maybe a few others.

I'll pick it up in a few hours and see how I go.

[pevergreen]

Its been nearly 24 hours since my last post, maybe we should have a thread "Post your EU3 empire"

36 years have passed. State of the world, during another war:



I have revoked the privaleges, so most of the HRE area is vassalised, very few resisted. I still have not inhereted, the weak king i had managed to stay alive for 30+ years.

After this war, my title will be pevergreen, King of Austria, Poland, Hungary, Sicily, Prussia, Brandenburg and Great Britain, the Holy Roman Emperor.

[pevergreen]

1 Jan, 1615.



Yaaay, super fun time.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

You formed HRE but lost your British holdings? Or you released Austria and they ate everything?

[pevergreen]

I formed Austria-Hungary.

I couldn't break the wooden wall (couldn't land an army on english soil) So i white peaced them.

Austria actually do exist though, the red dot between Africa and S.America. Rebels took over the island and I couldn't be bothered to send troops all the way there, so I let them take it.

Hungary existed as well about a year ago, I force a country to release them so I could annex them (released their capital, which I had a core on)

So at one point, the free nations of Hungary, Austria and Austria-Hungary existed at the same time.

[Greyblades]

Been playing two worlds 2 and to be frank it is very pretty, everything looks nice and colourful, except for one little thing
The main character.:
Yeah, thats the main character, no I didnt do anything to the arms, there isn't an arm length slider. I feel like I'm playing a malshapened hobbit.

[pevergreen]

1640. Not much has changed in the last 35 years, stupid infamy...

I took most of the border provinces from France, removed the ugly little countries that I had envolped and just finished a decently sized war against Sweden, Muscowy and Ukraine. Only got 3 provinces out of it. Problem now is, I only have cores on two places outside my borders. Infamy hurts.

Starting to see a couple Irish countries colonising, as well as the one that replaced Brittany (Breziah? or something)

The british isles are a mess, England and GB, scotland and many minors. All non-colonial provinces are either captured by revolutionaries, or in the case of the two irish ones, by Mide.

[Hooahguy]

Im really starting to look into Victoria. It looks fun and your game descriptions also make the game look awesome, but IDK if I have the time to learn all the ropes.

[pevergreen]

Im really starting to look into Victoria. It looks fun and your game descriptions also make the game look awesome, but IDK if I have the time to learn all the ropes.

Victoria and Eu3 are very different games.

Eu3 took me about 15-20 hours to learn completely by myself, spending most of the time picking some of the hardest nations out of stubbornness. Vicky is a whole different beast, one that is too micromanagement orientated for me.

With Divine Wind coming, if you have the money (Complete + HTTT + Divine Wind) its a good set, and i've found that Multiplayer is the best way to learn (within a few hours I had some buddies of mine that havent played strategy games at all, playing quite well, doing better than me in a lot of ways) and I'm always willing to multiplayer Eu3.

[seireikhaan]

Assuming you're referring to Vicky 1, both are excellent games. Haven't taken a crack at 2, but my general policy would be to wait on Paradox games- they tend to be a tad rough at the start, but they're usually very good at patching, updating, and generally improving the game. It *does* take time to learn the ropes, I will say, but it just feels so good when you can create improbable empires. With EUIII, I don't feel like its as imposing to try and go conquer excessively. Even creating a great empire, it sometimes just feels... idk, empty. With Vicky, you(or I, anyways), feel immense pride when you create a resurgent Persian Empire in the midst of European colonialism, or create a grand Texan Republic that spans the Atlantic to the Pacific, or rebuild China into the leader of the world.

You know, sorta like this(mainly just to keep screenshots in the screenshot thread):

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[pevergreen]

I've been learning Vicky 2 for the last few days.

Best way I've found to summarise it, compared to Eu3:

Imagine if you took everything in Eu3 and made it harder and more realistic. Eu3 you just conquer, theres 'tech levels' and 'economy'. You can make huge armies and go win basically.

Vicky 2 is hard. I did my learning game, currently going as Parma (starts off with one province) After about 20 years I annexed Modena, trying to unite the Region I'm in. Sitting at Rank #27 (rank actually means something now)

Just recently got people working in my factories, about 2k in total. Turning a nice profit with ~55% taxes on all groups ($12 a day) so I could probably lower it.

Just to give those who dont know an idea of the interface:

[pevergreen]

My recent game in Victoria 2:

Prussia, straight up, I decide to assert my hegemony over the german people, so I go to war with Austria. I pull in most of north germany, they pull in south germany, plus the netherlands and a few italians states.

Things are going ok, holding, holding, then as I wipe out about 80 thousand men, its going well. I start to siege the netherlands, while still fighting Bavaria and Wuttemburg.

I'm on top. The Netherlands has nothing, Bavaria has been crushed, Wuttemburg sieged out.

Great Britain intervenes.

France intervenes.

I status quo and lose 30 prestige. Huge blow.

[Greyblades]

Sounds like france and england decided to nip you in the bud before you became too powerful. It happens, especially when your infamy is above 25, thebest way to lower it is to release states as vassals, that way you get some heat off you and a new partner in wars. It's especially good for prussia as you automatically reabsorb them when you for Germany. Next time I would advise only warring when GB & France are fightinng colonial wars so they are allready occupied.

[pevergreen]

Sounds like france and england decided to nip you in the bud before you became too powerful. It happens, especially when your infamy is above 25, thebest way to lower it is to release states as vassals, that way you get some heat off you and a new partner in wars. It's especially good for prussia as you automatically reabsorb them when you for Germany. Next time I would advise only warring when GB & France are fightinng colonial wars so they are allready occupied.

Thats the problem, GB actually dishonoured the alliance with Austria at the start of the war. Then they both come in. My infamy was 0.

If that was Eu3, I would have won so easy.

[Greyblades]

Well GB's entire schtick is keeping any one power from dominating europe, so yeah. At least your playing the patched version, at release it was impossible for the great powers to ally with each other in the first place.

[Hooahguy]

Is it a wise move to get Vicky 1 without playing EU3?

[pevergreen]

I would go straight for Vicky 2, to be honest.
Its quite fun, with Beskar advising me to wait until Divine Wind is on sale in steam (apparently at christmas) this is my paradox game for the next few weeks.

Current progress:

Screenshot of my country. Started as Prussia, formed the North German Confederation, and now I've become THE GERMAN EMPIRE.


The world:

[Greyblades]

Is it a wise move to get Vicky 1 without playing EU3?

It doesnt realy matter. While vicky 2 is based off the same engine as EU3 vicky 1 is a completely different beast, compared to the first one victoria 2 is practically dumbed down.

[Hooahguy]

I would get Vicky 2 but my computer cant run it, nor can it run EU3, so Vicky 1 seems like my only choice.

[Motep]

Online game with my friend. He is the HRE, and I am France.
Started about two months ago. I was Burgundy, he was Austria. We ate france, and then we slowly ate the rest of the world. I didnt care about colonies until I realized he was twice as powerful as I, and I have been narrowing the gap. Now he only tops me by about a third.

Fun Facts: Only the Ottomans and France have Black Sea access
due to the new patch and the fact that I keep frogetting to fix the file, everyone can colonize anything.
HRE is in Japan
Order of Military Might: France, Ottomans, Spain, HRE
Several provinces my friend owns have been renamed as personal insults to me. Venice is trying to get me to perform a fairly lewd act.

[Veho Nex]

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My best game of World of Tanks. I was in a M4A3E8 Sherman. I got lucky to survive a Jagdtiger, and a hit from a stug3 almost took out my tracks while i was trying to circle around the jagdtiger. In the end my 76 tore through the rear of the jagd like it was nothing and I moved on but unfortunately it was my last kill.

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[Alexander the Pretty Good]

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My best game of World of Tanks. I was in a M4A3E8 Sherman. I got lucky to survive a Jagdtiger, and a hit from a stug3 almost took out my tracks while i was trying to circle around the jagdtiger. In the end my 76 tore through the rear of the jagd like it was nothing and I moved on but unfortunately it was my last kill.

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Holy cow man. Were you using AP or HE?

[Hooahguy]

So whats the average learning curve for Vicky1?

EDIT: went against my better judgement and bought Vicky1 for $5 on amazon. Is Vicky Revolutions worth it? I cant find it anywhere but impulse. I also bought the boxed version of it, so could I buy the download version of V:R and still be able to play?

[Veho Nex]

Holy cow man. Were you using AP or HE?

APCR for the JT, AP for the others. I never use HE.

[pevergreen]

I took on Austria in 2 more wars. Smashed them.

They've overtaken me in the greatpower standings though, I'm down to fifth, they have mass industrialised. About 300-400 in front of me in score.

First war is to assert my domination over the german people. I then expand the war to take Tirol.

5 Years later, I declare war again and take Venice, giving me a seaport to the south.

Typical result of a battle. Shows how far advanced the German Military is.


Just before peace in the first war.


World map:

[Husar]

Played some Infinity Blade today and made some screenshots, keep in mind that the display it's on is much smaller than the pictures appear on a normal computer display. (the hitpoint difference may make it look easy, and it still was at that point, but not long after that I already started to struggle a bit, thus no screenshots from there )



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