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Europa Universalis IV MP Community Thread of Swedish rail defeating armies - Part II
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My EUIV hours are set to actually be higher than my Dota hours even.
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Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
I think that's how multiplayer should work, by the way. If there is a sense that one player is acting in too cutthroat a manner, then "coalitions" should act as a natural restraint against that (humans are much better at judging this than the AI, since AE is an imperfect proxy for aggressiveness). I think it makes the diplomatic game much more interesting. I've had to think about my diplomatic situation much more so far than all of last game, in which we pretty much avoided conflict due to pre-planned borders and maybe there was some friction once all the AI nations were gone.
I would have liked that, but I'm not sure there are enough players available, at least among the people who typically frequent the EU4 and Paradox threads. And at this point, it would be difficult for me to make both games.
US players can play in this. You just have to have a job that ends pretty early in the day or be a student like me
I know Mgo is American too there may be some others from these timezones I dunno.
Eastern timezone is better off than Pacific though (I take you are Pacific timezone from the Seahawks logo in your avatar)
I know Mgo is American too there may be some others from these timezones I dunno.
Eastern timezone is better off than Pacific though (I take you are Pacific timezone from the Seahawks logo in your avatar)
Haha, yes. Because I expected full support and protection from Crab I only had a couple thousand men in the traditional borders of Portugal, which quickly proved to be a bad idea.
Nope nope nope
I think for the EU to be better than the US, the EU would first have to be an actual union, something like 3% of the population living in EU countries want. (Including me, woo!)
Edit: Also, Roboleon and Morfeo are sort of anti-European turncoats, being Norwegian and all. Now a map of just the EU has that ridiculous Finno-Swedish cock and balls on it.
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I thought Americans only played Call'a Doodey?
fanboi >> Kabouter
At least I'm not a supporter of the extreme right.
fascism > communism
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My EUIV hours are set to actually be higher than my Dota hours even.
Top three on my account
Dota 2 have nothing on EU4 imo, and while Civ is fun, the 5th game is atrocious compared to the glory that was Civ4 (and even moreso Civ2), so it makes sense imo
I definitely agree with this. This makes diplomacy really important, and it makes that balance between expanding without looking too aggressive much harder and more interesting to find.
Maybe it doesnt do anything for you, but come on, there are literary more swedes in norway than in sweden these days after the mismanagement of your fascist governement, so you compatriots doesnt exactly share your opinion.
And I know you want that pige!
Edit 2: Read this about you swedes yesterday, "A generation of waiters": http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/09/19/...helgekommentaren/lordagskommentaren/35355911/
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Mgoblue201
Won't stop picking the right nation
Every EU player has demeaned themselves to France at some point. There's no shame in it.
Yep, Washington State.US players can play in this. You just have to have a job that ends pretty early in the day or be a student like me
I know Mgo is American too there may be some others from these timezones I dunno.
Eastern timezone is better off than Pacific though (I take you are Pacific timezone from the Seahawks logo in your avatar)
You have no idea how much it hurts me to be so far away from Europe. All of my favorite games are still widely played there. Supraball, Tribes, Warsow, EUIV, and more.
Most of my gaming time is spent in competitive games with my group of pals. Competitive FPS being the primary. I definitely prefer EU over Dota, but gaming time for me is as much about hanging out with my friends as it is playing games.Dota 2 have nothing on EU4 imo, and while Civ is fun, the 5th game is atrocious compared to the glory that was Civ4 (and even moreso Civ2), so it makes sense imo
And Civ IV is overrated. Stacks of doom against AI were absolutely silly.
12/01/1537
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I did grab Tirol, because Austria was forced to release it as new country after losing to France.
But Haly's IA is messing things up.
What happened was that I decided to grab Ansbach at the end of the session. They were in a coalition with Switzerland, Palatinate, Aachen and some other small countries. But, a few of these were already in a war with my French ally, and when I checked DOW-status, France was ready to join in.
However, either France decided to say "fuck it" or I have accidentally un-ticked them from call to arms, because after I declared I ended up being alone on my side of the conflict. (Still allied to France, so I guess I must have fucked it up myself?)
Hilariousness ensued.
tl;dr: I'm not in a war with neither France nor Venice, don't ever listen to Haly
Oh crap, the AI fucked that war up. My sweet Pomeranian territories ;_;
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What it was was that France couldn't join your war because then it would have been at war with the same countries in two wars. You should have waited before grabbing Ansbach
POOR GAME DESIGN, 1/10 FRENCH COCKS WOULD NOT PLAY AGAIN
no, but seriously, it's a bit weird that they then would show up with a green tick next to the join prompt ?
Stack of doom is not a great system, but the current so-called "tactical" gameplay in civ5 is much worse against the AI, and also much more exploitable. It also created a ton of other problems which is what made the game so terrible in the first place IMO. But this is a derailing.
Edit: The fucking worst part about Civ5 though were the priorities when making the game. For instance they wanted to get rid of the "spaghetti roads". Why? Well, they have always been useful in wars, and in the older games it was even encouraged because it increased trade. But Jon Schafer thought it "looked terrible" - so they had to create a system to discourage the creating of them. Seriously, this pissed me off, in a strategy game like Civ they let a (subjective) visual design-decision behind changing a perfectly fine gameplay-system. If you read interviews with the designers you will see that these kinds of priorities were all over the creating of the game - and unfortunately it shows
Some terrible playing by our bavarian friend I see!
Brandenburg AAR in shitty Arrested Development gifs:
Finding out all my former vassals declared war on me:
Having to release more than half of my territory (Teutons and Mecklenburg) in a peace deal:
Accidentally white peacing Mecklenburg instead of fully annexing in a reconquest war:
Poland vassalizing the Teutons and annexing Mecklenburg:
Verdict: I'm going to die and Poland will be my killer.
Finding out all my former vassals declared war on me:
Having to release more than half of my territory (Teutons and Mecklenburg) in a peace deal:
Accidentally white peacing Mecklenburg instead of fully annexing in a reconquest war:
Poland vassalizing the Teutons and annexing Mecklenburg:
Verdict: I'm going to die and Poland will be my killer.
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I got a shitty peace (lost four provinces, and two vassals), but I'm trying to make the most out of it. Regained Tirol and Lienz and made them a Vassal, and took a province from Wurtemberg
The Hansa AAR
12/01/1537 - 11/06/1548
Summary: Played the waiting game. Ended the session with a war against Denmark/Sweden that I'm going to easily win.
In other news, mgo finally gained the upper hand over France, which means I'm fucked.
12/01/1537 - 11/06/1548
Summary: Played the waiting game. Ended the session with a war against Denmark/Sweden that I'm going to easily win.
In other news, mgo finally gained the upper hand over France, which means I'm fucked.
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Quiet session, didn't do much. Mostly just sitting around watching Castile integrate.
Too tired from running your victory laps to do more?
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