Grand Strategy (Paradox Interactive thread)

[Erlkonig]

K then, Empty huge galaxy it is.

[SeiKeo]

Disclaimer: I know nothing about that game and that may be a terrible idea.

[Erlkonig]

Disclaimer: I know nothing about that game and that may be a terrible idea.

You're right, it was boring as hell =/

TIME TO GO BACK TO EU3

[SeiKeo]

FUCK YEAH EU 3

god I'm so hooked now

[Erlkonig]

I think I'm going to stay away from Mongol Hordes now.

Now, what country would be interesting like Byzantium...

Maybe Japan?

[Cruor]

I loved EU3 but when I tried out HoI I had no idea what I was doing because everything was the same color and there were too much stuff and I didn't know what to do lol.

[Five_X]

*goes to play Europa Barbarorum*

[SeiKeo]

Bitches. There's this little bit from the Sinai to Judea that you can't really see. Inca, Maya, Cherokee, Tripoli are vassals, Aragon was forced into a personal union.

[Erlkonig]

Revolutionary Switzerland.

I love this.

[Five_X]

The penis of Italy will jizz across the Mediterranean!

[Erlkonig]

That feel when you finally manage to mod this



IT'S ON FUCKERS

[Five_X]

Holy shit, I just played the most amazing game of AoE3 ever. Lasted a whole two and a half hours, but it was brilliant.

I was the Russians, my best faction, and it was a 3 x 3 battle on Hard. After a while the three enemies focused all on me, and they wouldn't let up. Still, I gave them hell, and managed to resist their nonstop offense for the whole two and a half hours. There was the Indians, the Spanish and the Dutch, and by far the worst were the Dutch.

I had the horrible luck of the map getting the Little Bombard mercenaries, and the AI fucking loves mercenaries. There was the Dutch, too, so it ended up that I was being smashed with wave after wave of the second best artillery piece in the game, with only shitty Cossacks to stop them.

Fortunately, I had all the right cards to make my infantry train in literally less than a second; the training bar didn't even show up. The units just instantly spawned, and this was true for all infantry but my Strelets, which trained fast anyhow. Cavalry were alright, and I managed to get a lot of use out of Cossacks.

I almost got defeated when the enemies concentrated their efforts on my first Fort, bringing it down. I managed to repel that attack eventually, but I had to make do with a bunch of haphazard blockhouses and a stable in lieu of a good Fort. The other stood, though, which was a godsend. Had they all pushed right past just enough there, I would have been utterly ruined. Luckily, I managed to pop up to Imperial to match their own Imperial troops, and gathered tons and tons of resources to rebuild my defenses and upgrade all of my relevant troops.

The real turning point, though, was when I crippled their naval power with a surprise attack; the whole game had been fought without any naval engagements up until I sent Imperial frigates and a couple Monitors to destroy their fleet and their docks. I blockaded them there, and stopped them from getting any sea-based resources, which are often the most important parts of late-game strategy.

Two of my galleons parked right on their shore, and I sent wave after wave of my troops into the Indian base. Not even all their camels, elephants and British redcoats could help them, and being so close to the shoreline made it so that they were toppled quickly. My Oprichnik raiding cavalry worked wonders against their buildings, and just as I had whittled down the Indians, I started to work on the Spanish.

That was a bit harder, since they got immediate backup from the Dutch and their endless coffers, but with some aid from my Iroquois allies (my German friends had been destroyed completely earlier in the match) I punched a hole straight through their town and destroyed their military buildings. My Oprichniks made quick work of everything that was left.

After that, there was only the Dutch left. They'd fortified their town something fierce, with a big old Fort smack in the middle of their town as well as numerous towers and, of course, those goddamn Bombards. I sent all I got at them, even though it took a long while for my Halberdiers and Cossacks and Oprichniks to reach them from the shoreline. After some intense pressure and clever maneuvering, I defeated them. It was quite, quite lovely to hear old Maurice begging for mercy. I decided to give it to him, because it's late and I ought to be getting to bed really soon.

The real key to victory here was my ability to mass-produce troops that perfectly countered what I was getting hit with. That was especially obivous when it came to the Indian camels; they were absolutely cut to ribbons by my Halberdiers, and it was really beautiful.

That was a truly fantastic battle. I hope that I can fight even harder and win even faster next time, but I could only do that as the Russians or perhaps the Germans. I'm not nearly good enough as any other faction to win against three whole Hard enemies.

Those fucking Bombards, man.

[Erlkonig]

ok, now you're gonna make me download Age of Empires 3 @_@

[Five_X]

THIS THREAD MUST BE BACK!

Thanks to Leo for getting me hard for vicky2.

[mewarmo990]

Ah, Paradox. I played dozens of hours of King Arthur until I ran into a game-stopping bug that never got fixed because it was years after most of the developers had already been laid off.

This is me who thinks the strategy part of Total War games is stupid, loving the hell out of this part-fantasy part-RPG wargame.

Coincidentally this was around the time where I was getting interested in the finer details Nasuverse lore, what with pulling the Sword from the Stone and its magic changing Arthur and the British Isles and miracles and all that. If I was someone that liked fanfiction I probably would have written something.

[Reiu]

Was playing Crusader Kings II, but then lost my save file a couple months ago. I spent like eighty hours on it, and poof. Haven't touched it since then.

Still waiting on Europa Universalis IV though.

[Five_X]

[Reiu]

All Google reverse image search tells me is that it's an artist called Bob Ross painting happy little trees. Clarification for the ignorant peasant please?

Come to think of it I should probably try playing other nations; I almost always start with Burgundy.

[Five_X]

All Google reverse image search tells me is that it's an artist called Bob Ross painting happy little trees. Clarification for the ignorant peasant please?

Come to think of it I should probably try playing other nations; I almost always start with Burgundy.

Bob Ross is the master of Paradox games, for he knows the way of the interactive map-painting simulator.

Really the whole point of Paradox games is to mess with sliders and watch pretty colours make shapes on the map. Then Germany blobs up in Vicky and makes everything terrible.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Nobody here plays Sword of the Stars??!

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Ah, Paradox. I played dozens of hours of King Arthur until I ran into a game-stopping bug that never got fixed because it was years after most of the developers had already been laid off.

This is me who thinks the strategy part of Total War games is stupid, loving the hell out of this part-fantasy part-RPG wargame.

Coincidentally this was around the time where I was getting interested in the finer details Nasuverse lore, what with pulling the Sword from the Stone and its magic changing Arthur and the British Isles and miracles and all that. If I was someone that liked fanfiction I probably would have written something.

The strategy part was executed kinda weirdly.

Early game mass spies + snowballing early unit missions for free cavalry allows you to quickly nom a significant amount of land- and if you grab some place easily defendable, ex Scandinavia in TW2, you'd be set for most of the rest of the game.