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OpenlyEvilJello
Dec 28, 2009

Koramei posted:

drat, it's that bad? I saw people recommending Arumba's tutorial stuff before, maybe one of his earlier serieses is better? Anyone here learned by watching them?

I stumbled across it while looking for Civ VI pre-release gameplay footage and eventually watched the whole thing. It plus the Rights of Man dev clash convinced me to buy the game. Assuming you're willing to put in a few hours I'd say it's a pretty effective teaching tool. The game's far too complex for any reasonable-length tutorial to accomplish anything, but it's not like they're still introducing major mechanics 40 hours in; by that point it's all edge cases and optimizing and such.

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OpenlyEvilJello
Dec 28, 2009

Finally finished my first campaign after more than a year (life gets in the way; whole campaign was on 1.19 as a result). I went in with the intention of securing a lot of vassals as Austria via the privilegia revocation and ended with 130 princes in the empire. I'm pretty happy with that result for a first game, though I'm sure I could better it by quite a bit with the experience. The world at the beginning of 1821:

And the state of the HRE:

The line Armenia-Nogai-Bashkiria-Russia marks its eastern extent; all European states outside Britain and Iberia are members.
Thanks to some of the thread regulars for giving me advice at the start.

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