Europa Universalis III

[frogbeastegg]

That does sound a lot better. The manual's outline of the Sengoku campaign makes it sound like a must try for that alone.

Is it easy to run vanilla and MM side by side? Sometimes I'm in the mood for a challenging, limited campaign such as the one you describe for Italian unification, others I want to relax a bit and play in a sandbox where anything is possible if I know how.

Heh, I never get more than middling decent at any version of EU3 before I lose interest thanks to the various things I perceive to be missing or badly done. HTTT looks set to address a lot of those lacks. Right now I haven't played since shortly after IN's release. I'm the same with most Paradox games; in theory I love them, in practice there's always something which means I don't. With EU3 it's basically HTTT's feature list combined with the treatment of non-westerns. With EUII it was the historical determinism and nasty UI. EU: Rome was way too simplistic without Vae Victus, and too unstable with release version VV. CK has a massive great gaping hole in its supposedly historically accurate gameplay, and that makes it intolerable for me. Vicky is awesome and micromanagement hell.

I've been gearing up for some EU: Rome to see if the patches released since last time I tried it have made it stable enough to play, and I've been dabbling with For The Glory's demo. Guess I can tack a EU3 learning campaign on after that. Any suggestions on how best to cover the things I'll need to know for MM?



I read a bit on the EU3 wiki last night, looking to see how western European versus other tech groups works in the current version of IN. It's worse than I believed - westernised nations no longer gain access to westernised units except for in that very narrow window of opportunity after conquering a western European owned and 'civilised' province and before gaining a core on it. So your troops can use western weapons, train hard in western drills, come from a western copy-cat society, and they're still inferior because they're not white Europeans. Disgusting.

In older versions of the game westernised nations would adopt the western unit table and their armies would become identical. The highest levels of Latin units are points ahead of their counterparts in all other groups.