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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:Also at first glance- I really like the idea of who is researching what as being a part of the Tech tree- it certainly gives it a bit more immersion than a normal tech tree. Although I'm not sure it's well served by everyone having like 20 researchers available for 2-3 slots? And I'm also assuming you can't lose or be betrayed by them either? Yeah that was a really cool aspect of HoI2 research. A lot more immersive and thought-out than just 'queue everything'. The 20 researchers are because they've all got different specialties. Pick a shipyard that has experience building carriers to research carrier related stuff etc. The Corporate fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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I started that Kaiserreich LP I was talking about. Well I mean I made the first post but there will be more I promise.
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Oct 30, 2014 19:02
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I apologize if this has been posted before, but I've only just run across it. Paradox makes the best videogame ads. 
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Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:What's a good starter nation for KR? Germany seems a bit too expansive, but places like Ireland or Siam seem like they're way too far behind to do anything significant. I like Qing. You start small, then conquer some neighbours and snowball in power until the German East China Company joins you, at which point you're a real power at ~120 IC. You can then fight a war with Japan over Manchuria and win!!! Also, there are event chains to get into the German alliance, which allows you to participate in the big war.
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Dibujante posted:Also, there are event chains to get into the German alliance, which allows you to participate in the big war. That's not how you play Qing. When you play Qing, you conquer your way through India, Persia, Anatolia and the Balkans, then fight whomever won the big war in an even bigger war.
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TheMcD posted:That's not how you play Qing. When you play Qing, you conquer your way through India, Persia, Anatolia and the Balkans, then fight whomever won the big war in an even bigger war. Well yeah, but if you want a mellower playthrough, you can do ally Germany. Note: if you do this, you will at some point fight a two-front war in India and Russia and it will be pretty amazing. Plus you definitely have the IC and tech teams to maintain full-stack armor divisions and just run roughshod over everyone. I wrapped up the Princely Federation in one month with tanks only.
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VostokProgram posted:That pink blob is the aforementioned British Columbia problem. I get that every game too. Paradox please eliminate BC as a viable country in V3 tia. Conquering it is going to take a lot longer than necessary, apparently you can't demand territory from a nation's satellite, you can only demand their freedom. I'm going to annex the Prairies during this current war, then have to fight two more wars just to annex BC. loving ridiculous. Charlz Guybon fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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Guildencrantz posted:
I screamed IRL when I saw that.
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it's like paradox is just spitting in the face of the idea of pretty borders with those picture frames
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Tomn posted:I apologize if this has been posted before, but I've only just run across it. Holy poo poo an "I put on my robe and wizard hat" reference, that's a blast from the past.
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Holy poo poo the website for the singalong is loving amazing.
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Pretty borders? Pretty... OH GOD BOHEMIA WHAT HAVE YOU DONE.
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dublish posted:Pretty borders? It thinks it is still in Divine Wind.
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Tomn posted:I apologize if this has been posted before, but I've only just run across it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxxnq5YAVHw Reposting this because Paradox's advertising department is amazing.
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Paradox is still the only company to make a slow paced strategy game look exciting in a trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y53_GV2aAg8 dublish posted:Pretty borders?
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Don Gato posted:Bohemia is trying to recreate that Korea snake from EUIII. Just googled this, Seoul to Timbuktu, dear god. 
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Odobenidae posted:Just googled this, Seoul to Timbuktu, dear god. Could not stop laughing for at least 5 minutes. This is a work of art.
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Odobenidae posted:Just googled this, Seoul to Timbuktu, dear god. Someone did the same with Portugal. ....He then turned around and made another snake all the way back.
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Never forget Bohemian Siberia
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Sheep posted:Holy poo poo the website for the singalong is loving amazing. This is absolutely magic(k)al. Whoever came up with it deserves a raise. I have a compulsion to buy the game now even though I don't even like the genre. 
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Sheep posted:Holy poo poo the website for the singalong is loving amazing. I can't tell if the screenshot links are intentionally broken. 
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VostokProgram posted:I can't tell if the screenshot links are intentionally broken. They're actual pictures of an IE missing pic error lol 
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Sheep posted:Holy poo poo the website for the singalong is loving amazing. Paradox please make Horse Economy 3: Horsetile Takeover a real game, TIA.
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Tomn posted:Paradox please make Horse Economy 3: Horsetile Takeover a real game, TIA. Finally, a paradox game that properly tracks horses.
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Magicka 2 trailers are awesome.
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There's a Halloween sale on our webstore, should anyone want some DLCs.
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Darkrenown posted:There's a Halloween sale on our webstore, should anyone want some DLCs. Yoink! Conquest of Paradise and Wealth of Nations! I noticed Res Publica isn't on sale, but I grabbed it anyway as it's really cheap on Steam. That officially catches me up to every gameplay DLC except Art of War and Charlemagne.
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Couldn't beat Britain, so I save scummed and waited a few years. It's 1891 now and Britain (#2) and the Ottomans (#8) are in a Great War with Russia (#6) and Italy (#7) and a host of minors. The British alliance is outgunned 409 to 356, and are at a geographically disadvantage to due to the position of the Ottomans, and are slowly losing the war. A great time to liberate Columbia and Canada from bondage, I manufacture a CB and only get caught at the end for .1 infamy! Let's see what my ally France (#1) has to say about joining such a war? I'm (# 4). Impossible  Needless to say I don't launch the war. Now Britain is allied to Germany (#3), but we'll never have a better time to act! 
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What controls who takes leadership of a Great War? It is 1898 and I am the South German Federation, stuck in a war that I can't win against the North German Federation, because Russia took the lead and promptly got her face smashed in by the NGF, even as I took all my war goals in the Rhineland. 
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DrSunshine posted:What controls who takes leadership of a Great War? It is 1898 and I am the South German Federation, stuck in a war that I can't win against the North German Federation, because Russia took the lead and promptly got her face smashed in by the NGF, even as I took all my war goals in the Rhineland. Pretty sure that it's the stronger power, or if it started as a crisis war, then whichever great power was the first to sponsor the cause.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Couldn't beat Britain, so I save scummed and waited a few years. You've played the USA until 1891 and aren't even #1? And you're still afraid of goddamn Britain? 
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It's only my second game. Prussia --> Germany was much easier. I can over run Canada, but then Britain and Germany land large armies on the East Coast and they have the tech edge so I can't beat them.
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Britain and Germany pulling off naval invasions in V2? Your game is broken, reinstall and try again.
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Charlz Guybon posted:It's only my second game. I can understand Germany but Britain should not have the army tech edge on you. Do you have enough clergymans? What's your ltieracy like? Also, what does your unit composition look like?
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GrossMurpel posted:I can understand Germany but Britain should not have the army tech edge on you. Do you have enough clergymans? What's your ltieracy like? Literacy is 85ish I think. It's been five years since my last aborted attempt at fighting them and I've picked up a couple of army techs since so it would be more even now. I usually have my troops in army corps of around 30k, two regiments of artillery, two dragoons, an engineer and five or six infantry. Group together in larger stacks/fronts as needed. I probably need to recruit more guardsmen if I'm going to be going on the offensive.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Literacy is 85ish I think. It's been five years since my last aborted attempt at fighting them and I've picked up a couple of army techs since so it would be more even now. More art. Always more art. Stop using dragoons, at this point you only want cavalry for the recon efficiency (which speeds up sieges). I usually roll with 5 inf/1 hussar/1 engi/4 artillery and even that is quite low in artillery.
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Yeah seriously artillery is the most powerful unit in the game(next to airplanes), you should always have as much of it stacked behind your troops as possible.
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Charlz Guybon posted:Literacy is 85ish I think. It's been five years since my last aborted attempt at fighting them and I've picked up a couple of army techs since so it would be more even now. Guards are only good for the attack, their defensive stats are poo poo so they take massive casualties. I normally swap out 2 units of infantry for guards so that my armies have a bit more punch to them, and then I have as many artillery as I can possibly fit without losing my siege/recon bonuses. And did you remember to research the artillery techs? Each tech makes them an assload better than the previous tech did because of how their support stat works. Remember the old adage: "Artillery wins wars"
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