Grand Strategy/Paradox

[ElMartu]

Ok, so this game is some sort of a combination of Age of Empires and Risk?

kind of like RISK but way harder

way more rewarding as well

Two things:
What is Northumberland, and why don't you have the advanced water on

Northnumberland, along with Wales, Cornwall and probably one more nation starts as independent in Shattered Europe mod. They're druidic religion, so when they form Britannia they'll have a badass flag as well
And I like the plain water more, I'd say.

[Jubin]

Me and Jay are playing victoria 2 more often currently, and Jubin seems to have vanished

Slander! Slander I say! I have not vanished anywhere, just can't play EU3 right now. So might go back to Victoria: Revolutions for now.

[EenBeeFour]

 Not a fan of Hearts of Iron 2 and Victoria 1, I can't get used to the interface

Imo I play Hearts of Iron 3 the most out of them all, once you figure out the basics you catch on and play it more, and then you start to learn even more about all of it

[Jubin]

It would be good if someone could actually merge all the topics about any EU,Vicki or HOI.

[EenBeeFour]

It would be good if someone could actually merge all the topics about any EU,Vicki or HOI.

Replace topics with games and you have a great idea right there

[Jubin]

Replace topics with games and you have a great idea right there

You do know there's converters for that, so you can first play EU then convert that to a Vicki save game and play that and later convert that to HOI and you can get from 1399 till 1950s ( or whenever HOI campaign ends)

[EenBeeFour]

You do know there's converters for that, so you can first play EU then convert that to a Vicki save game and play that and later convert that to HOI and you can get from 1399 till 1950s ( or whenever HOI campaign ends)

Yeah, I'm not sure where to get them though, sounds like a great idea.

A few people have told me though the provinces aren't, would try it still.

[JayL]

I don't really like HOI, I'd prefer a Vic2 mod that changes tech, timespan, etc etc...

Would actually try making one myself if I had time.

[Jubin]

My preference would be EU 3 - HOI2 - Vicki 2 - Vicki - HOI 3.

[ElMartu]

yeah my suggestion would be to name this thread to Grand Strategy/Paradox thread, and lock the rest

[EenBeeFour]

yeah my suggestion would be to name this thread to Grand Strategy/Paradox thread, and lock the rest

Agreed

[Call_me_Dad]

This game takes a lot of patience. There are times when you would just be tempted to click the resign button and start all over again.
The main point to play this is to suppress that urge, have moderate ambitions, accept your defeats (No empire is unbeatable) and play the game at default settings.

There are these cheats, option settings, modding files that make this game too easy.
But once you do that, you get bored of this game.

Difficulty: Easy, AI Aggressiveness: Low, Merchants: Free, Colonist size: 400, Inflation: None.
Such settings would make this game easier. But that aint no fun.
Fun is when you have to deal with every cultural, economic, military etc. aspect of the game and each one of them is trying to take you down.


I usually pick Indian empires, as I know about the Indian history so it makes the game more interesting.
Just started the game with Rajputana.

Long Term plan: Survive.
Indian peninsula is plagued with religious wars during this period. Almost every empire has a 'Religious Liberation' Cassus Belli (spell?) on others. The ones who dont have that, form cross alliances and get other causes of war.
My plan is to defend against the Sunni attackers and survive somehow. Meanwhile improve my technology and economy for later part of game.
I will get alliance offers from Bihar and Gondwana. I dont plan to accept those, because they will be calling me to arms in their meaningless religious wars.
I plan to just watch and see other empires exhaust each other in these wars. Timurid would crumble and disintegrate into Kohistan, Baluchistan etc. Maybe a few spies in Delhi would give way to Punjabi Nationalists.
After I have an edge in technolgy and economy, ill strike down the empires with less alliances. Hopefully some of them will be bankrupt or have a very high infamy or War Exhaustion.
If somehow I can ally with Ming that would solve a lot of issues. No one dares to declare war on Ming.
Along with that, sending spies and supporting revolts in the bigger (infamous) nations would eventually bring them down. When they are busy combating revolts, ill try to make them my vassal. If I get some cores on forign provinces, ill try to get them. Else, it is better to have a smaller empire, as it is easier to administrate.

Short Term plan:
Take control on Sind's province - 'Kutch'
Kutch is a Sind province that is not on border with Timurids and is a coastal trading CoT.
Sind has no army to begin with and is constantly troubled by Timurid. Unless that have some good alliances, Kutch will be easy to take over.

[EenBeeFour]

Call_Me_Dad, "Casus belli" means "reason".

I generally play as Brunei on Easy or Normal and the rest of the settings on the default, because Brunei is practically Australia of that time, even if it says the difficulty is high when it really isn't.

[ElMartu]

tbh settings are best left untouched for max difficulty, except the actual 'Difficulty' one, which you put on Very Hard

I play everything I can, I don't really have a favorite nation at all... But I never played a long game of India or SE Asia, I admit.

Little progress on my Granada/Spain game, I'm planning to annex Milan and then move onwards to the balkans after that. Meanwhile I'm increasing my narrowminded slider (It was full innovative, jesus) to get more than +0.15 missionaries per year.

[ElMartu]

fucking BUMP

playing grand multiplayer game with 4 other nice fellows as no other than BYZANTIUM

it's ~1430 and i've taken back most cores. Truth be told it wasn't as hard as I thought, just have a ship or two more than the Ottoman fleet and catch them at war with Timurids and it's done. But it cost me 15 war exhaustion and enacting Liberum Veto, and a grand loan of 250 ducats and a 10000 men army from Muscovy (mr. JayL). All in all I couldn't have done it without him, but now I'm pretty much the only power in Eastern Europe, owning the balkans up to Macedonia and half of Asia minor.

I'm dark red in the technology map