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The production system is a huge step forwards from HOI3, the land combat and research is a small gain, the ai and naval war is about the same and I cannot forgive the abomination that is the air system. Seriously how could anybody have looked at that and though, yep that's good let's ship this.
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drat, I was hoping for 15 March. That said after Stellaris and HOI4 I'm not going to day 1 it, despite being a total sucker for anything to do with classical antiquity.
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I thought trade was on a province not city level?
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The thing that astonishes/horrifies me is that greatest nation of the world Sweden wasn't playable by design in EU1.
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Feb 7, 2019 09:31
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I think there's only been 2?
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Isn't that every map game though?
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Feb 11, 2019 21:24
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MiddleOne posted:Where is the stream? https://www.twitch.tv/videos/379442227
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They cut the start dates from EU4 because it was a lot of extra research for them and 99% of people only ever used the earliest one anyway.
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Feb 17, 2019 20:49
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Would that really feel like a different kind of war given HOIs combat mechanics though?
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Feb 21, 2019 20:28
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Oh God paradox posters reaction to that guy.
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Feb 26, 2019 07:09
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dead comedy forums posted:A tad offtopic but not so much: well, since Paradox owns White Wolf and this is usually the general chat for the company games, do we have a goonthread for the ARG that has been rolling around recently about a potential Bloodlines-type game? https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3882000
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VostokProgram posted:The fascist countries need to be buffed for gameplay reasons. If the outcome of the war was a foregone conclusion there wouldn't be much point to the game That's fair enough, but the problem is the best way to play a lot of not Axis nations, especially minors, is to take the fascist tree. That makes no sense at all.
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RabidWeasel posted:Is there an Imperator thread yet or are we waiting for the game to actually come out first? Pfft, Rule the Waves 2 has been announced for the 25th of April. Imperator has no hope.
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Mar 16, 2019 16:36
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Imagine how cool March of the Eagles would have been if paradox put some effort in it?
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I sincerely hope so. If you've got to that point just play witp.
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I mean it would be interesting if they took out counters in favour of a sort of HOI 4 style front painting system. You as the presumed demonic being possessing the monarch tell your generals to paint this bit of the map your colour, and you will give them x thousand men to do it with. Flesh generals out to be more interesting than a single die roll and have it be more about managing your generals and their personalities than about counter pushing, with jealousies, dis loyalties, personal ambitions ect all getting in the way. Have a few buttons you can press to override your generals and order an offensive or hold a position. Maybe have the likelihood of this working out the way you want it to be related to your current ruler's stats and your relationships to the generals you appointed. Have the make ruler a general button still there which will remove any possible penalties from giving direct orders but make it so the front calculations are taken from the ruler's stats rather than the general's, and carries the risk of the ruler dieing early. Maybe your heir could also take direct command like this but with a chance of the armies and generals on the front deciding they like him better than you and starting a civil war if he preforms well and is ambitious. Do I think this is ever going to happen? No. Should I be sent to the gulag for daring to think about it? I hope not.
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Yeah I know, but neither did the king choose which town the battle would take place over, usually, unless he was leading himself. I just said front because the HOI 4 is the closest to this system we have so far. Actually it would probably work more like the aerial battles bucket system in practice, but with the ability to define the coverage of the bucket instead of it being fixed. I was more thinking from the King's perspective he tells his dude to go and conquer lower Silesia, here's 25k men, off you go. So you as the player would paint over half a dozen provinces or whatever, and the game would calculate where the battle would actually occur based on how many men, how many men opposing you, ect. How far away from your own province you can paint would depend on your logistics tech, buildings present ect. Your opponent would see a warning as soon as you commit troops, (with estimated troop numbers improving over time maybe?) and could then paint his own provinces and appoint an army to defend, I don't know, I]m not trying to say this is a fully thought out idea but this whole conversation is about design philosophy not detailed system design.
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The frustrating thing I find about EU combat is the game is absolutely built around it, but you have so little input to affect the outcomes, unless you micro the gently caress out of it. Like you have exact control over every 1k man stack, but as soon as an actual battle breaks out its just a d10. I don't know, it just feels like the system has had it's day, it hasn't really changed at all since EU2 after all, maybe even EU1, I don't know I didn't play 1.
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Not gonna lie, I am considerably more hype for FoG:E than Imperator, AEGOD jank and all. Apart from the battles I'm really looking for to their culture/decadence system, sounds like a more interesting and interactive take on aggressive expansion than just a plain modifier in the dev diaries at a least, will be interesting to see how it actually plays. I really like their attitude to buildings too, a huge variety overall but a system of weighted cards to decide what is available to build in different provinces.
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Apr 1, 2019 21:13
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Bring back Hoi 3 OOB/CoC.
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Tyrel Lohr posted:What's worse is that MOO2 was fundamentally more of an iteration on Master of Magic. And while I loved MOM, I could never get into MOO2 and I've always considered it to be something of a disappointing game simply because it did feel like a reskinned MOM. I think you mean where is the RTW style ship designer.
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I'm real upset Paradox did Stellaris rather than SotS 3 in house.
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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:There's an entire focus and event chain devoted to the purging of the party and armed forces that give major maluses to the country. The Nazis have none of their crimes mentioned or have them affect their warmaking potential. I think he means mechanically Stalin did nothing wrong. As in if you don't purge you will get a Trostkyist uprising, rather than the purges being manifestations of Stalin's paranoia.
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I suppose the objection is that you can run the wermacht cleanly? I don't know, I pretty much agree with you that it's as good as it gets short of banning games about WW2, which I don't think is a good idea.
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Depends what it is really, doesn't it. I'm quite in favour of wheraboos licking dog poo poo, say.
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The sad thing is I knew imperator was going to be poo poo but I bought it anyway because I love the time period, and then surprise surprise it turned out to be poo poo 
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Ultimate general isn't the first comparison to come to mind but it's very good, and FoG:E is coming in a month adding a strategic layer.
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I don't even remember that at all, are the first bits on the LP archive?
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Obviously the next step is gacha for the dlc.
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I think one of my biggest disappointments with paradox is the have only really managed to produce 3 good series, EU HoI and Vicky, CK2 being the only exception to this. Everything else they have tried, they haven't really tried and have swiftly abandoned. In retrospect it's painfully obvious that things like sengku or march of the eagle were never intended to be good games, so why did they even bother in the first place?
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Cantorsdust posted:I’ll second this. It’s really good. Features: The decadence system is so good. It's the only game that models rise and fall like that, I wouldn't call it railroading to say all empires fall, because they kind of do. Plus if you rise quickly enough you've got time to rise, fall and rise again before the end of the game. Or you can burn super bright, collapse and still have the highest score at the end of the game, kind of the Alexander strategy, which is also super cool and the only game to do anything like that. Plus it plugs into FoG II, itself a great game. Yes the plugin is grog and awkward as gently caress, but it's worth the price of admission just as a dynamic campaign generator for FoG II, and it can stand on it's own feet as a great game. I never thought I'd say it, but AGEOD really did a great job there, it blows EU:R 2 out the water.
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