Grand Strategy (Paradox Interactive thread)

[Petrikow]

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.

You poor soul.

I´ve spent some >100 hours on CK2 on steam

I don´t have EU3 on steam but I´ve probably played that game for >300 hours or something like that

>100 hours on Vicky 2 as well.

Map painting is my soul.

I´m so glad paradox got wiz for EU4. if you haven´t, then try his mod for EU3 (EU3+). It´s makes the game really hard but also really satisfying.

I guess I can post my latest CK2 game...

Spoiler:

[SeiKeo]

>taking germania

Turn in your eagle.

[AggroAnnabelle]

I have wasted so much time on CK2.. If you micromanage everything it is so epic in scope and length! Has anyone tried the new paradox one, "War of the Eagles" or whatever? Not AS interested in that timeperiod of history but it looks awesome in the same vein as HOI 2

[Seika]

I´m so glad paradox got wiz for EU4. if you haven´t, then try his mod for EU3 (EU3+). It´s makes the game really hard but also really satisfying.

Huh. I've been working my way through his LPs this last week (the Crete of infamy is buried away from me as a non-goon, but Hohenzollern Rising and Azerbaijan have been sweet). Interesting news. Possibly pends a slightly more sane set of nations outside Europe, judging by his threads.

[SeiKeo]

Well right now Wiz is actually on the V2 expansion but he'll probably be on EU4 eventually.

[Five_X]

HoD when plz

[SeiKeo]

Literally soon.

[Five_X]

Not soon enough! :<

Maybe Paradox will even bother to release a third expansion, one that fixes the silly AI and their confusing preference for chunks of English territory and their apparent inability to board troops on ships.

In my next game, I feel like playing Spain and seeing if I can stay afloat. Spain seems like the perfect country to choose, since it's not as indomitable as a game-start GP, but horrifically underpowered like a minor or a non-Japan unciv.

[Petrikow]

They delayed it from 2013 Q1 to Q2 by the way...

Maybe Paradox will even bother to release a third expansion, one that fixes the silly AI and their confusing preference for chunks of English territory and their apparent inability to board troops on ships.

The AI has always been an issue in Paradox Games. The reason I'm glad they picked up wiz is because he's good at calibrating the AI, something which is in dire need of improvement.

Huh. I've been working my way through his LPs this last week (the Crete of infamy is buried away from me as a non-goon, but Hohenzollern Rising and Azerbaijan have been sweet). Interesting news. Possibly pends a slightly more sane set of nations outside Europe, judging by his threads.

It's not like EU3 has sane nations inside of Europe either

one word: BOHEMIA

But yeah his calibration of the AI makes the world a lot more sane, special props for making the AI colonise with less randomness.

[Five_X]

Alas, the days when the Papal States wanted to conquer Ethiopia are at their end.

[Five_X]

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...-The-Military&

New DevDiary. No more justifying wars while at war. Oh god, what do I do now? ;__;

[SeiKeo]

Suck it up and take the infamy like the warmongerer you are.

>No warscore cap on battles
>progressive warscore for occupying goals
>Liberate nation
>non-instant mobilization
>Battle plans

would literally buy hod just for this stuff

[Petrikow]

It's like they just took a bunch of stuff from CK2, EU3 and HoI and inserted into Vicky 2!

I'm not complaining.

[Five_X]

I guess I'll just have to set up my WGs in advance, then. :/

[Erlkonig]

unified paradox setting when

steppe wulf doesn't count

[Five_X]

Real hardcore fans either just back to the older games and savegame import, or they mod their saves and games to import CK2 -> EU3 -> V2 -> HoI3

[SeiKeo]

In the most technical sense that doesn't work, there's a 15 yearish gap between EU3 and V2 :3

[Five_X]

In the most technical sense that doesn't work, there's a 15 yearish gap between EU3 and V2 :3

That's why the most hardcore fans modify EU3's end date.

And, in the most technical sense that also doesn't work; there's a -50 yearish gap between CK2 and EU3. :3

[Petrikow]

Well, you can just start EU3 from the 1450's. In fact you can start EU3 at any point between 1399-1820.

It's funny to look around the dates and see what stats Paradox has allocated to certain rulers.

[Five_X]

I wish you could start Vicky2 from any date, but that would be really hard what with the POPs and major events and stuff. :/