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StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Not an expert but would a good way of putting it be that Quantity is a largely strategic advantage, and not a good tactical one?

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StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Whoa didn't realize they shook up the Ethiopia start

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Trogdos! posted:

The AI doesn't seem to care about fort zones in 1.19 beta. They can just waltz right through to my backline to siege it, and I'm not talking about that AI shortcut cheat. It's provinces that should be completely unreachable by them.

Does this account for the new fort rules?

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

PDXmas Carol started playing. They just start earlier every year

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Go go Alodia

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Tsyni posted:

I'm guessing the new ui element is a power bar and when it fills up one of your generals goes super saiyan.

Hitler Mana

I am super rusty at this too since playing as Ethiopia the Ottomans whacked me in 1530 or so with 2-3x my troops and two techs ahead plus a shitload of manpower. I might be totally hosed here.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

I play at speed 5 all the time. This may actually mean I'm not aggressive enough.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Mercs coming out of an infinite manpower pool is a little weird

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:

[*]The majority of the mercs hired by a state would not have sat there and waiting for an outsider army to stroll by, occupy some land, then say "sure foreigner, we will join you in fighting our brothers who did get recruited by by our lord" for the same price as that same foreigner would have paid for the equivalent amount of men recruited in their homeland.

this actually did sort of happen, mercs taken prisoner in the 30YW would often end up getting recruited by the other side

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

while we're at it how historical is it that lategame armies are composed of 50-40% artillery corps

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Has anyone tried SA natives recently?

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Jay Rust posted:

There should be an achievement for playing through a pacifist campaign, you know, without starting any wars, never demanding land or vassals, just chilling and pumping up your development and inspiring your neighbours to lay down their arms and welcome love into their hearts.

Ironically that's more Stellaris' bag

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Funky Valentine posted:

"lynch your fellow forumites"

I'm not quite sure which Werewolf he means

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Hey I haven't played since a little before Mandate of Heaven. I hear that had some issues, should I stay 1.9 or play on the current patch? Are the DLCs worth getting?

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Started up a new game as Sweden after having not played in, uh, forever. Got independence from Denmark and have been eating my way along the Livonian Order, but a) I'm constantly broke and b) Denmark allied with Muscovy and I can't figure a good way to break that alliance. I do have Lithuania on my side but I don't think they can take Muscovy by themselves.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Well now I overextended trying to take out all the baltic orders at once- it worked but I lost all my manpower and now Denmark+Muscovy are invading :ohdear:

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

So I managed to beat Muscovy in a couple defensive wars (mostly by beating their armies in detail and taking advantage of the fact the AI didn't actually go after the wargoal and instead started taking over random bits of shithole Finnish territory) but I've now got the issue that the Nobility has too much influence and I can't seem to find a good way to lower it.

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Also what's a good second idea pick after the usual Defensive first? Thinking Admin or maybe Innovative since I'm set up to get admin ideas rn, then Diplo or Influence once it comes time to go after the HRE

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

I too want a realtime map of literally the entire loving world

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

Also imagine trying to do naval combat when the English Channel is three loving zones wide

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

hadn't you heard that being a fanatic absolutist is a necessary component of Catholicism

StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

reignonyourparade posted:

The pope as leader of the Catholic Church has different interests than the pope as leader of the Papal State.

Notably the Pope tacitly supported Cardinal Richelieu arming Protestant rebels in the 30YW because gently caress the Hapsburgs

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StashAugustine
Mar 24, 2013

Do not trust in hope- it will betray you! Only faith and hatred sustain.

maybe we can match the glory of Wargame Red Dragons global chat and get a gay porn version of Last of the Mohicans or something

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