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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #850 on: August 09, 2013, 03:08:58 AM »
So I've got Gods and kings now for Civ 5 and started to play as austria, which is fun because you get to buy city states. The I downloaded a mod that let me play as Columbia from Bioshock infinite which was also pretty cool.
Heh. Try Venice from Brave new world.

No settlers. You can only expand peacefully if you buy city-states off with their Great Merchant.
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« Reply #851 on: August 13, 2013, 11:26:46 PM »

So Africa finally unlocked for colonization, and I got first in western Africa, and that apparently made a huge difference, as you can see on this map here. I can't achieve Great Power status, though, because I literally have a rebellion every two minutes by either Norwegian nationalists or Scandinavian pan-nationalists. I've had my reserves mobilized for about 7 in-game years now, and I'm running out of soldiers. So my military is constantly getting weaker, and has gone to the point where my whole nation's army is 18,000 men, 6,000 of which are in Africa. And my army doesn't get any time to recover because there are rebellions all the goddamn time.

Seriously, why are there so many goddamn rebellions? They suck.

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« Reply #852 on: August 14, 2013, 12:54:12 AM »
Okay, now it's just weird. My colonial prestige is enough to get me up to number 6 on the "leaderboards", but even though you're supposed to become a great power when you become number 8, I'm still a secondary power. :|

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« Reply #853 on: August 14, 2013, 01:35:26 AM »
Okay, now it's just weird. My colonial prestige is enough to get me up to number 6 on the "leaderboards", but even though you're supposed to become a great power when you become number 8, I'm still a secondary power. :|

You can be number 6 in certain leader boards but not in others, you could have tons of prestige but wihout the military and economic power to back it up you will still be a secondary power
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« Reply #854 on: August 14, 2013, 04:56:17 AM »
I'm rather disappointed with how the UK is faring. Western British North America is US-controlled and the rest is controlled...by whoever the olive green group is.
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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #855 on: August 14, 2013, 09:49:55 AM »
I'm rather disappointed with how the UK is faring. Western British North America is US-controlled and the rest is controlled...by whoever the olive green group is.

I think its canada, I think they released it as a puppet state
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« Reply #856 on: August 14, 2013, 11:40:30 AM »
I'm rather disappointed with how the UK is faring. Western British North America is US-controlled and the rest is controlled...by whoever the olive green group is.
They've been severely weakened by a series of wars in Europe against Austria, France, Italy and Russia. France is now on the top instead of them.
I think its canada, I think they released it as a puppet state
Yup. British Canada.

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« Reply #857 on: August 14, 2013, 11:44:53 AM »
You can be number 6 in certain leader boards but not in others, you could have tons of prestige but wihout the military and economic power to back it up you will still be a secondary power
Pretty sure that's not how it works in this game. I had less military power the last time because I didn't have a fleet since it had been destroyed by the Prussians, yet I still became a Great Power there. Though I read on the PI forum where someone wrote that you need to be ranked 8 or better for six months, because that's when the list updates itself, but there are apparently no changes as long as two Great Powers are at war with each other, and they have to be at peace for six months or something. This might explain it, as all the Great Powers have been at war over the independence of Romania for quite some time now.

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« Reply #858 on: August 14, 2013, 09:07:13 PM »
Pretty sure that's not how it works in this game. I had less military power the last time because I didn't have a fleet since it had been destroyed by the Prussians, yet I still became a Great Power there. Though I read on the PI forum where someone wrote that you need to be ranked 8 or better for six months, because that's when the list updates itself, but there are apparently no changes as long as two Great Powers are at war with each other, and they have to be at peace for six months or something. This might explain it, as all the Great Powers have been at war over the independence of Romania for quite some time now.

Oh interesting, I haven't played any of the expansions so maybe they changed it
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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #859 on: August 14, 2013, 09:17:45 PM »

So a lot of things happened fast now. The race for Africa is over, and I definitely won. The only ones who got any significant amount of land in Africa other than me is France, Austria and Britain. I established two Dominion nations - the Principality of West Morocco, which is that big grey area in Africa; and the Democratic Republic of Equatoria, which is the lighter blue colour in central Africa. Both of those nations are no longer my puppets for some reason, though, and now they're just allies. I also included Denmark in my sphere of influence and became Scandinavia. The nations to the east of my direct colonies are Austrian puppet states.

I've also become a Great Power, I beat the crap out of Russia, Prussia and France along with Italy, Britain, and the US, forcing Russia to hand over Finland to me, and cutting France and Prussia down to size, reducing their military power to zero. France and Prussia were afterwards flooded with rebellions, resulting in Prussia becoming Socialist and France becoming a Communist dictatorship. Afterwards I declared war on France and took some of their colonial territory. And now there has been another revolution in France, turning it into a Jacobin democracy.

Oh, and the Great Powers in the world are the UK, the US, France, Scandinavia, Russia, Japan, Italy and Prussia.

I'm starting to have doubts in the historical accuracy in this playthrough.

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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #860 on: August 14, 2013, 09:25:56 PM »
and France becoming a Communist dictatorship...And now there has been another revolution in France, turning it into a Jacobin democracy.
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I'm starting to have doubts in the historical accuracy in this playthrough.
Accuracy is already kaput herr Tobbs. :P
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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #861 on: August 14, 2013, 09:42:07 PM »
Man, playing as Sweden is hard as gently-carress in this game. You always have to rely on others *coughBritaincough* to do the hard work for you, otherwise you'll get your ass kicked. Think I'll make a run with Prussia, see how that works out.

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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #862 on: August 14, 2013, 09:55:55 PM »
Man, playing as Sweden is hard as gently-carress in this game. You always have to rely on others *coughBritaincough* to do the hard work for you, otherwise you'll get your ass kicked. Think I'll make a run with Prussia, see how that works out.
I would not recommend it, I tried it once and even succeeded but managing your 10-15 sphered nations that you need for it is anoying as gently-carress...

Btw, I just succesfully converted my ck2 game to the new eu4, I'll give you guys a screenshot tommorow.
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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #863 on: August 14, 2013, 09:56:46 PM »
I would not recommend it, I tried it once and even succeeded but managing your 10-15 sphered nations that you need for it is anoying as gently-carress...

Btw, I just succesfully my ck2 game to the new eu4, I'll give you guys a screenshot tommorow.
You just successfully what your ck2 game to the new eu4? :P

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« Reply #864 on: August 14, 2013, 10:01:07 PM »
You just successfully what your ck2 game to the new eu4? :P
Dammit you're fast, I edited my post mere seconds after I posted it.  :P
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« Reply #865 on: August 14, 2013, 10:06:43 PM »
Dammit you're fast, I edited my post mere seconds after I posted it.  :P
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Re: Post your Strategy Game Status
« Reply #866 on: August 14, 2013, 11:00:48 PM »
okay, what game is this that everyone keeps posting?

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« Reply #867 on: August 14, 2013, 11:27:09 PM »
okay, what game is this that everyone keeps posting?
The colored map can come from a whole bunch of Paradox grand strategy games.
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« Reply #868 on: August 15, 2013, 12:22:56 AM »
The colored map can come from a whole bunch of Paradox grand strategy games.
In my case it's Victoria II: Heart of Darkness.

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« Reply #869 on: August 15, 2013, 01:40:40 AM »
Man, playing as Sweden is hard as gently-carress in this game. You always have to rely on others *coughBritaincough* to do the hard work for you, otherwise you'll get your ass kicked. Think I'll make a run with Prussia, see how that works out.


If you're going to play a GP then prussia is one of the more fun ones to do as you'll spend most of your time fighting the other GPs, in my prussia game I went to war with Austria, Russia, France and Britain at different points in time (usually all of them together)
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« Reply #870 on: August 15, 2013, 07:07:06 AM »
Of my hundreds of hours in Victoria II I have yet to start as a great power.  :ermm:

Well EUIV is released and I may or may not finish some games in CKII first so I can convert my saves into EUIV.

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« Reply #871 on: August 15, 2013, 07:22:23 AM »
Of my hundreds of hours in Victoria II I have yet to start as a great power.  :ermm:

Well EUIV is released and I may or may not finish some games in CKII first so I can convert my saves into EUIV.

You don't have to finish ck2, you can convert the game at any time. I did it some 20 years before the end.
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« Reply #872 on: August 15, 2013, 09:57:49 AM »
You don't have to finish ck2, you can convert the game at any time. I did it some 20 years before the end.
I know but like how I normally play I get strong then bored and start over.  I at least want to get to around 1300 for once....

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« Reply #873 on: August 15, 2013, 12:35:45 PM »
Why can you convert CKII games to EUIV? They're not even the same game series. :|

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« Reply #874 on: August 15, 2013, 12:36:31 PM »
Of my hundreds of hours in Victoria II I have yet to start as a great power.  :ermm:
Haven't you played as Germany? I assumed you had to start as Prussia or Austria for that to be possible.

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