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Super interested in seeing more of what is obviously EU5. Now let's see if they can release it with fun mechanics AND flavor for the different countries. Hoping it's not another Vicky 3 that took a while to have either.
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Mar 13, 2024 18:33
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reddit thinks the start date is probably 1337. The map of india apparently looks like the 1330s, and that's the year the hundred years war started
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Mar 13, 2024 19:11
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cheetah7071 posted:reddit thinks the start date is probably 1337. The map of india apparently looks like the 1330s, and that's the year the hundred years war started
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Mar 13, 2024 19:48
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That would be a pretty ambitious start and would overlap with CK3 by over 100 years. Would be interesting to see how the maps develop differently though.
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Mar 13, 2024 20:10
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Starting over 100 years earlier would be wild to me. Maybe we would get an earlier end date then so the Napoleonic Wars could be represented by a new game that had a 100-150 year span to cover from EU5 to Vicky3? This is probably my dream scenario, personally, but seems unlikely.
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1337 would precede the Black Death, so maybe an opportunity to show off the new pop system in a big splashy way at the start of the game? But I think the Yuan had Tibet/bits of SE Asia then?
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Hellioning posted:This is probably my dream scenario, personally, but seems unlikely. KOGAHAZAN!! posted:I think the Yuan had Tibet/bits of SE Asia then?
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Mar 13, 2024 20:26
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I would expect 1356 to be the earliest date, just because the HRE had such a central position in Europe, and it would nicely sidestep the Black Death.
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Mar 13, 2024 20:32
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start date is around 1370 based on the map they showed
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Mar 13, 2024 20:58
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I hope the game's timespan is only like, twenty years. Then maybe i'll finish a run
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Mar 13, 2024 21:19
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i want to play it
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Mar 13, 2024 21:38
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They really need to cut out the Napoleonic period into its own game again. There's just too much change to model it the same way you can 1400.
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Mar 13, 2024 21:56
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Oh poo poo EU5! How did I miss this! Looks freaking awesome!!
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Mar 13, 2024 22:17
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It’s obviously EU5 at least in spirit, but I wonder if they’ll go with a less Eurocentric name for it this time? EU4 has already been moving away from the focus on Europe over its lifespan, as other areas are fleshed out and mechanics reworked to make competing with European powers easier, to the point where the name is kind of misleading, not to mention awkward
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Mar 13, 2024 22:18
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I mean Victoria is still called Victoria even though you can play as everywhere in the world. Crusader Kings was still called Crusader Kings even when you could play as a pagan republic.
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Mar 13, 2024 22:35
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Calling Rome 2 Imperator didn't really work out either.
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Mar 13, 2024 22:53
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Gaius Marius posted:They really need to cut out the Napoleonic period into its own game again. There's just too much change to model it the same way you can 1400. March of the Eagles II spanning 1750 to 1823 would be interesting, especially given you'd have the Revolution around the midpoint on historical timing.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:04
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V for Vegas posted:Calling Rome 2 Imperator didn't really work out either. Maybe if they'd called Imperator 'Europa Universalis: Origins' it would have had a better reception, given that it was really mostly iterating on EU4. I'm glad they're doing pops in this, I:R especially later on had a really nice military dynamic with how levies and standing armies impacted your economy and population, and how warfare had you considering the population of an area not just its size and resources. Oh man, Anbennar 2 in this engine.... it's going to be great in 2027 or whenever.
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One more update on my Mulen playthrough (stealthily trying to get people to play Anbennar again because it's kindof awesome): Still haven't done any tall play, but most of the way there now in terms of the conquest required. Of course whether doing any development as the soon-to-be undisputed #1 world power is meaningful, is, well, debatable. But for all my complaints it's been very fun to do. Reminds of starting as a French vassal or similar in EU4, it's painful but you actually get something out of it, unlike the more painful of vanilla EU4 starts. e: Also the solution to not having money is trade and trade companies, the forbidden plains and serpentspine are a different continent and so can be assigned to them. They are also far easier to take over than Bulwar itself and you can really milk them for trade. You can also siphon off trade from Rahen via trade ships and then route it through your trade centers. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Mar 14, 2024 |
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Mar 14, 2024 04:01
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Private Speech posted:(stealthily trying to get people to play Anbennar again because it's kindof awesome): I never really stopped, I just don't post about it much. Anbennar owns though and probably doubled EU4's already huge lifespan for me
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What are some of the cool recently-added/updated starts in anbennar right now?
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Mar 14, 2024 05:59
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Jay Rust posted:What are some of the cool recently-added/updated starts in anbennar right now? It got added in the last patch and was in the Bitbucket for a while before, but I enjoyed Cestirmark (?), one of the Trollsbay Adventurer tags. The MT has a habit of wanting you to jump through very specific hoops, but it's still a cool mix of uniting the bay through diplomacy, establishing a tall-ish early USA style Republic, flipping Ravelian, and setting up a sort of spooky FBI to investigate weird precursor poo poo. It's a fun narrative.
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Mar 14, 2024 06:36
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For the latest steam release? Yinquan is a large mission tree about a nation run by fox spirits who can trigger the Rending early. Bianfang has an option to go Mystic Accord, or forcibly reject the spirits now when the Rending starts with a fairly cool event. Luciande (Company of the Thorn formable) is country all about being an openly vampire run nation. Triggers a big coalition war against all of Cannor that you just need to survive long enough to get your Ravenloft style mist borders working, cause winning isn't really practical without exploits. The Freemarches is tag founded by escaped orcish slaves in the new world. To get it you have to own 3 provinces in Dalaire or have a colonial nation with that many while having the orcish slave trader variable on. Then around 1520 you get an option to play as escaped slaves. The actual mission tree proper is about building a home for yourself in the Curse One forst and then going back to conquer the colonial slaver nations.
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Wafflecopper posted:It’s obviously EU5 at least in spirit, but I wonder if they’ll go with a less Eurocentric name for it this time? EU4 has already been moving away from the focus on Europe over its lifespan, as other areas are fleshed out and mechanics reworked to make competing with European powers easier, to the point where the name is kind of misleading, not to mention awkward Gaius Marius posted:They really need to cut out the Napoleonic period into its own game again. There's just too much change to model it the same way you can 1400. Yuiiut posted:March of the Eagles II spanning 1750 to 1823 would be interesting, especially given you'd have the Revolution around the midpoint on historical timing.
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Wafflecopper posted:It’s obviously EU5 at least in spirit, but I wonder if they’ll go with a less Eurocentric name for it this time? EU4 has already been moving away from the focus on Europe over its lifespan, as other areas are fleshed out and mechanics reworked to make competing with European powers easier, to the point where the name is kind of misleading, not to mention awkward This is my suspicion as well. I can’t imagine another reason they would be playing so coy with announcing the name of what is obviously going to be the sequel to EU4.
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Private Speech posted:One more update on my Mulen playthrough (stealthily trying to get people to play Anbennar again because it's kindof awesome): Best Bulwar tree is Karashar. Topic Locked.
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Freemarches also pwn as a like mix between orc canada and palmares
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I've never properly tried playing as a spawnable in anbennar, like are you meant to just hit speed 5 until 1550? Seems so weird!
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Jay Rust posted:I've never properly tried playing as a spawnable in anbennar, like are you meant to just hit speed 5 until 1550? Seems so weird! Iirc the spawnable gets more starting money/mana/tech/institutions/other buffs depending on the state of the country which spawned it, so playing your origin country well still benefits you.
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Spawnables inherit tech and institutions, and get money based on your dev.
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I just did Freemarches and tbh it was a kind of boring run. As I usually find when I play Aelantir spawnables, I was having more fun with the origin country. When you finally spawn you spend a whole bunch of time speed 5 colonising empty provinces and devving/building to get your economy up and running and satisfy mission requirements. Maybe bully some locals which are usually really easy (and therefore boring) to beat thanks to your tech advantage and bonus starting troops and force limit. With no big scary powers or alliance webs to negotiate there's never any challenge. Fortunately I kept a save with my origin country (Vertesk) which I'm gonna fire back up since it was my first time playing in the EoA with the new trade node layout. When did that happen anyway? I only noticed it when I started this run.
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Jay Rust posted:I've never properly tried playing as a spawnable in anbennar, like are you meant to just hit speed 5 until 1550? Seems so weird! Sometimes I just find a save game with the correct date, tag switch to the spawning country, and console command myself a bunch of dev / tech / institutions.
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Is there a good country to start as in Anbennar that will give you enough of a lore dump to get situated? It seems really fun, and I get that it's obviously Not-Earth and there's loving dwarves and elves and centaurs and poo poo. I get it. I know all of these things. But every time I start there is so many fantasy names thrown at me at once that I lose my head. The gently caress is a Bulwar?
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soviet elsa posted:Is there a good country to start as in Anbennar that will give you enough of a lore dump to get situated? I would suggest one of the medium to large-sized countries in not-Europe. They are built on relatively familiar tropes and shouldn't have anything too crazy going on in terms of difficulty. Grombar is a very interesting option, as it is a grey orc kingdom that has to figure out between going full orc or integrating its orc aristocratic class with the native humans it recently conquered, which will have you interacting with some of the setting's major historical events and the pop mechanics. also, just read the likely EU5 dev diary and I am not enthused. I was hoping for a mechanics flush from EU4 to EU5, not "we will try Imperator Rome, but harder". I think a lot of the reason why EU4 works is how boardgamey several of its mechanics are and going full sim feels like playing to PDS' weaknesses as a studio. ZearothK fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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The fantasy name soup is just something you have to get used to. I didn't know how to spell Anbennar consistently until like yesterday
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Imperator Rome but harder ft mothereffin W
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soviet elsa posted:Is there a good country to start as in Anbennar that will give you enough of a lore dump to get situated? I'll second playing in Cannor (not-Europe). If you're okay with HRE mechanics, then Wesdam is a good option. They're a cadet branch of the Silmunas, the recently-overthrown Emperors who ruled Dameria (not-Austria, kind of) until Lorent and Wex and a bunch of others got together and gave them the boot. Anyone who took part in this uprising on either side gets a little event and an opinion modifier at game start to reflect it. Wesdam (West Dameria) survived despite their dynasty because they sided with the The heir to the original line, Rogier Silmuna, is also around-- he got smuggled out of the capital as a wee babe and now he's leading one of the adventuring bands in the ruins of Escann, looking for his sister who got married off to a Castanorian pre-Greentide. He's also a fun playthrough; his formable lets you build a conspiracy of loyalists to retake the throne of Anbennar. But it's also a lot more complex, requiring you to navigate the adventuring band mechanics in Escann. Quorum fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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The new Effelai tags in the Aelantir jungle rule, and they don't even have an MT yet.
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Simply be a Dwarf. Who cares about what's happening outside the mountains? Most of the orcs just left and it's time to reclaim them. Nothing can go wrong with this plan. No disaster can stop us.
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