[QUOTE=junker|154;39641707]I am always looking for grand strategy games and stumbled upon Imperalism II, it seems like a neat game and in the vein of paradox titles. Has anyone got some experience with that title?[/QUOTE]I saw a few gameplay videos and it looks really fun, it looks like a hybrid of Civ and EU.
[QUOTE=Coffee;39650862]My main issue with Paradox games is that every time there's a new one out, I have to spend half an hour trying to figure out how to use the new UI for the game.[/QUOTE]
paradox games are fairly consistent as far as ui goes. lucky it's just a half hour instead of hours of learning.
Tried my first game as France and am only like 3/4 or 1 year into it.
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/CAEhO5.png[/t]
Already have conquered a bunch of small Germanic shits and taken half of Sicily.
I tried to take Gibralter and sent a 60K strong army, the British responded by sending 30K men to attempt to weaken my army. After that I ran out of supplies and suddenly a 100K strong army came out of nowhere and I got completely destroyed.
Lets see how long this war lasts. I had the UK declare war on everyone they could in 1939 except for Haiti and the Dominican Republic, nearly everyone except the US and obviously the Soviet Union joined the Axis, UK declared war on a puppet of the US so it didn't make the US join, had the UK declared war on the US directly they would have.
[t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/594744376175314601/DDEA4F3F4C573BC0CA33D79611C888BB319C68E2/[/t]
[editline]20th February 2013[/editline]
Well, hello there Spain
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[editline]20th February 2013[/editline]
Well, there goes the UK
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[QUOTE=Tuskin;39651789][t]http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/594744376175601321/220B3C0F114B39572B683805F0D0A6126829EF72/[/t][/QUOTE]
Philip II would have been proud of that moment :-)
ignore in the box where it says Spain annexed Canada and other allied countries, they didn't. The Soviet Union got all the Asian allies, Saudi Arabia got the Middle East stuff, USA got Canada. Only allies left are New Zealand, South Africa and Australia which just lost Sydney to the Japanese.
[editline]20th February 2013[/editline]
Oh wow, got to love events that are not tied to AI. Japan is at war with the Soviet Union and whats left of the allies, and they also just attacked Pearl Harbour.
[editline]20th February 2013[/editline]
The AI broke. Japan attacking the US caused it to join the Comintern, which also made it declare war on Canada for some reason, even though Canada is the US' puppet.
No, I'm wrong, Canada nad the US are not at war, its just for some reason their troops are occupying each other territory if they're in it.
[QUOTE=lifehole;39650860]Aren't all those areas combined basically Lotharingia?[/QUOTE]
More or less. With their borders ending at Switzerland.
Germany won a war against France that literally almost exploded into ww1 if one of the 5 secondary powers France had on it's side had become a great power in the fight against me (New England, obv.) and Germany, it resulted in a huge death toll on all sides, and for once, Germany almost lost, mostly because the only troops I could throw in were colonial infantry, which I used mostly to just take French holdings in africa.
After all this death, a huge war lasting 5+ years, spanning across two continents, Germany decides to take it's grand, more than worthy prize of...
Zanzibar.
So I said fuck that, and decided to shuffle the African-Arabian borders to our favour with cheats, while not punishing France TOO much.
Africa before the war:
[IMG]http://puu.sh/25QLy[/IMG]
Africa after the war:
[IMG]http://puu.sh/25QMw[/IMG]
South Africa/Now Italian Abu Dhabi and Indian conquests were genuine, at the cost of a ton of infamy.
I cut up the UK despite no affiliation, but they weren't doing much in africa anyways.
I traded places in arabia/africa with Italy, but only because we were allies with 200 relation.
I took more than I gave with france (ethiopia area is bout it.), and released Congo-Brazzaville as an austria-hungary satellite.
I gave Portugal some of my useless wool/grain areas just for nicer borders, and I took part of the Ottoman Empire, because they allied with france. They were a bitch to hold off at Suez.
I think I gave our side enough reperations for the massive war that is was, right? Or should I have not done anything at all and let the almost fully occupied french get away with just losing zanzibar?
Are we ever going to find a suitable time for the Vick2 game? I understand that some of us work/school during the weekday, but we should at least try organizing something at the very least.
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;39663839]Are we ever going to find a suitable time for the Vick2 game? I understand that some of us work/school during the weekday, but we should at least try organizing something at the very least.[/QUOTE]
i might want to take part - discuss things in the Steam chat for the FP Paradox Interactive group sometime tomorrow?
[QUOTE=lifehole;39662422]I think I gave our side enough reperations for the massive war that is was, right? Or should I have not done anything at all and let the almost fully occupied french get away with just losing zanzibar?[/QUOTE]
I think it looks pretty legit to me. You were definitely a lot nicer to France than the Entente was after WWI which can suit the not-Great-War scale of it. I think you did a nice job carving out spheres that each power was allowed to maintain.
Pretty obvious which the player country is considering your Cape to Cairo empire, lol
One thing I really like about March of the Eagles is that you really aren't forced to do something you don't want to.
In the sense that if I never want to declare war on Austria as France I don't have to do it unlike in other warsims from Paradox like Hearts of Iron you are sort of forced down the same path each time.
Me and Rearadmiral started a multiplayer game of HOI3 today, me as Japan and him Germany. First thing I did was move my armies into Germany after I joined the axis and prepare for an invasion of Denmark. I wanted Iceland and Rear wanted Denmark proper but before Rear could get his troops all the way through Denmark they surrendered. This meant I took control of northern Denmark and the little islands east of it. This angered Rear greatly as he wanted his borders to be perfect. I laughed because he was mad. After that he invaded Sweden and Norway with air support from me and I took all the islands off the coast. Although, Rear had his troops attack from the Denmark island controlled by me and he started taking territory in my name. Rear got mad again because he wanted his borders to be perfect. He retreated his units from Sweden, letting them take back the territory they lost and invaded Sweden by sea. As Rear was fighting in Norway I launched my invasion of Ireland and took it. That's where we stopped for the night, Europe ended up looking like this
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/MYkkatl.jpg[/img_thumb]
And while we were doing all this we were raising Switzerland's threat
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CjUI72z.jpg[/IMG]
This is a picture of Austria being scared of Switzerland being neutral at them
[QUOTE=Frayyyy;39665534]I think it looks pretty legit to me. You were definitely a lot nicer to France than the Entente was after WWI which can suit the not-Great-War scale of it. I think you did a nice job carving out spheres that each power was allowed to maintain.
Pretty obvious which the player country is considering your Cape to Cairo empire, lol[/QUOTE]
Thanks. This entire game when it comes to territorial conquest has been all about africa. If it wasn't, I would control most of North America, because I have a cultural union CB on the yankee culture against the USA, for some reason.
And with the CSA-Canada-Alaska-Germany-New England alliance I could've just completely absorbed the US, but would probably have no colonies in africa because I ain't very good at multitasking.
I'm thinking about just releasing & unsphereing a ton of african minors just to make the game a bit more interesting.
Or for a slightly more comedic playthrough, release Quebec, Maritime Union, Newfoundland, etc and give them all of my north american holdings and become a purely colonial, african empire.
[editline]21st February 2013[/editline]
I s'pose I should post a world map
[IMG]http://puu.sh/262CJ[/IMG]
I wish there was a more indepth Paradox title about the chinese era based upon the novel of The Romance of Three Kingdoms. It has a lot of potential, perhaps we will see a title based upon medieval china.
[QUOTE=junker|154;39667824]I wish there was a more indepth Paradox title about the chinese era based upon the novel of The Romance of Three Kingdoms. It has a lot of potential, perhaps we will see a title based upon medieval china.[/QUOTE]
Has there ever been a paradox title that focused on an area that wasn't either europe, or the world?
[QUOTE=lifehole;39667876]Has there ever been a paradox title that focused on an area that wasn't either europe, or the world?[/QUOTE]
Sengoku?
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And while we were doing all this we were raising Switzerland's threat
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/CjUI72z.jpg[/IMG]
This is a picture of Austria being scared of Switzerland being neutral at them[/QUOTE]
Oh god, they have no opinion..unless they are hiding their opinion! OH GOD.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/bfKO23T.jpg[/IMG]
Russian Empire in EU3( More Provincies Mod)
(also how to resize pictures on facepunch to thumbnail).
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Had a game in DH where Turkey joined the Axis, and the Soviet Union blitzed through them, even though the Turks had captured much of northern Arabia.
Then the Soviet Union got the provinces and released Israel.
[I]COMMUNIST JEWS[/I]
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;39668964]Oh god, they have no opinion..unless they are hiding their opinion! OH GOD.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/bfKO23T.jpg[/t]
Russian Empire in EU3( More Provincies Mod)
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Lol I saw you post this in the "Post your Empires!" thread in Paradox Plaza. You better cut Poland off soon before they into the Golden Horde!
trying to entice people to hang around in here:
[url]http://steamcommunity.com/groups/facepunchparadox[/url]
organize that Vicky II MP game?
Vicky 2 mp is weird as hell.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;39672042]Vicky 2 mp is weird as hell.[/QUOTE]
It's probably the most fun out of the bunch if you ask me.
[QUOTE=lifehole;39667876]Has there ever been a paradox title that focused on an area that wasn't either europe, or the world?[/QUOTE]Including Paradox France? Birth of America & a Civil War game as well.
There's a demo out on STEAM for March of the Eagles if you haven't bought it yet. You get to play as Prussia only but it's the full game apparently.
So in CK2, started on the Alexiad. Did some wars, captured the Duchy your family has claims on ,gave it to a brother of mine. The Fatmids were weak and I sent a guy to make a Claim on Alexandria. Went to war and crushed them fairly easily, seeing how they only had Egypt at the time. I captured some more of Romania, I have some of Crimea, have made a republic from capturing that. A while later, I got the Imperial Reconquest and I used that to get back Nikea from Rum. What happened afterwards was that the title just completely Dissolved. Turkey was now a bunch of duchies and I just swept in and fucking took them all over. The Seljuks just declared war on me for Lower Turkey, so yeah. Gonna have fun with that. Been distributing the land in 2-5 sections, making sure there's sort of an equalizer. The main problem in Byzantium games is the combined mass of the vassals and many of them grow out of control with power if not kept in check. Ive distributed the majority of Turkish land among my sons, with my heir getting the Romanian lands and the kingdom that comes from it.
[editline]21st February 2013[/editline]
Also, Southern Italy and Sicily are like Four or Five different Duchies all held by the Hauteville family with different branches.
I had to do a double take on them once. Two of them were both ruled by Identical Duke Roberts.
[editline]21st February 2013[/editline]
And France's capital in in the middle of an independent Burgundy and the Capets are not in power. Like, the capital is literally in the center of a doughnut.
Aquitaine also achieved its independence and France is basically a second rate power at the moment.
[editline]21st February 2013[/editline]
The Kingdom of Kiev formed and it's basically stretching from Western Ukraine, to Eastern Finland.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;39673872]So in CK2, started on the Alexiad. Did some wars, captured the Duchy your family has claims on ,gave it to a brother of mine. The Fatmids were weak and I sent a guy to make a Claim on Alexandria. Went to war and crushed them fairly easily, seeing how they only had Egypt at the time. I captured some more of Romania, I have some of Crimea, have made a republic from capturing that. A while later, I got the Imperial Reconquest and I used that to get back Nikea from Rum. What happened afterwards was that the title just completely Dissolved. Turkey was now a bunch of duchies and I just swept in and fucking took them all over. The Seljuks just declared war on me for Lower Turkey, so yeah. Gonna have fun with that. Been distributing the land in 2-5 sections, making sure there's sort of an equalizer. The main problem in Byzantium games is the combined mass of the vassals and many of them grow out of control with power if not kept in check. Ive distributed the majority of Turkish land among my sons, with my heir getting the Romanian lands and the kingdom that comes from it.
[editline]21st February 2013[/editline]
Also, Southern Italy and Sicily are like Four or Five different Duchies all held by the Hauteville family with different branches.
I had to do a double take on them once. Two of them were both ruled by Identical Duke Roberts.
[editline]21st February 2013[/editline]
And France's capital in in the middle of an independent Burgundy and the Capets are not in power. Like, the capital is literally in the center of a doughnut.
Aquitaine also achieved its independence and France is basically a second rate power at the moment.
[editline]21st February 2013[/editline]
The Kingdom of Kiev formed and it's basically stretching from Western Ukraine, to Eastern Finland.[/QUOTE]
pics?
NGF is getting on my nerves in my French game. I cannot risk going into a single war without them pouncing on me at every chance they get. Oh, you're assisting Italy in their war against Austria-Hungary? WELL FUCK YOU. Trying to invade Mexico? HAHA TIME FOR WAR.
[QUOTE=kamikaze470;39675082]NGF is getting on my nerves in my French game. I cannot risk going into a single war without them pouncing on me at every chance they get. Oh, you're assisting Italy in their war against Austria-Hungary? WELL FUCK YOU. Trying to invade Mexico? HAHA TIME FOR WAR.[/QUOTE]
Similarly in my Prussia --> NGF game I'm waiting for a chance for France to be distracted so I can beat them up :v:
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