The screenshot topic

[Veho Nex]

Screeny from one of most kick A westerns I've ever played.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Ahoy, here be some M&B Warband screenies for me mates:

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The scurvy swadian dogs here be laid low by the axe men!:

Your humble captain dressed in medieval finery:

CR

[Monk]

Using this, 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.

So enjoy the first (of many) intended screenshot updates Of Hesse's attempts to unify Germany, played on Hard with High AI aggression.

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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.

[Meneldil]

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.

[Monk]

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]

I'm playing as Austria, and France has taken a different path - though not voluntarily.

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.
Something I didn't experience as England.

CR

[Jolt]

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]

[SwordsMaster]

Big picture

Is that Pirates of the Caribbean?

[Veho Nex]

Negative, that is Sid Meiers Pirates! 2004 version

[Veho Nex]

Im rich



El Presidente!

[Meneldil]

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]

I'm playing as Austria, and France has taken a different path - though not voluntarily.
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CR

Is that Poland blobbing on your eastern border?

eek!

looks like you've turned the corner against France, well done!

[Husar]

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 you can try but I think it will expire once the game is released.

[Husar]

Island paradise:

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[Jolt]

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).

[Hooahguy]

Island paradise:

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whats that from?

[Husar]

whats that from?

Tropico 3.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

[Veho Nex]

game?

[Monk]

EUIII - Magna Mundi Platinum 2. Playing as the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1399, shown here in Red.

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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.

[seireikhaan]

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.

[Jolt]

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.

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The northern part of Hax's continent. Wonsan was taken by my amphibious assault and duly returned to his empire.


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.


My continent. Note the conquered Persian cities to the South. They are being assimilated into the great nation that is Portugal.


An overlook of both continents. The light blue down South is Persia, who occupies the Frozen wastelands South and is my vassal.

[Hooahguy]

screens from Peggle:

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from Empire Earth

my A-10s doing a quick flyby on two lone enemy tanks:

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more A-10s harassing a tank column

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harassing some infantry. as you can tell i love A-10s.

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finally, a nuke to destroy the enemy industry:

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[Meneldil]

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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]

Some screenshots from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Singleplayer.

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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.

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The gulag itself.

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Soap tries to find a way to escape from the bowels of the gulag, by firing a flare into the air.

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The aid station in the American trench system in front of the White House.

[seireikhaan]

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:





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 ). 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]

Amendment to the previous post, sorta:

Charles the saving my sorry hide.

[Monk]

Amendment to the previous post, sorta:

Charles the saving my sorry hide.

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You just... wow.

[seireikhaan]

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). 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.