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« Reply #375 on: July 17, 2012, 09:23:34 PM »
they need a good smacking around
Argentinians?
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« Reply #376 on: July 18, 2012, 07:07:15 AM »
Argentinians?

Yes, the Argentinians need a good smacking around. By the way thanks for showing me how to spell Argentinians properly. Grammar mistakes will not be tolerated even with myself! :P
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« Reply #377 on: July 18, 2012, 12:34:41 PM »
Yes, the Argentinians need a good smacking around.
Awesome, Carry on! :sorcerer:
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« Reply #378 on: July 18, 2012, 07:06:58 PM »
Awesome, Carry on! :sorcerer:

Glad to see you agree. :P

Now on-topic: Prussia stands awesome. That is all.
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« Reply #379 on: July 20, 2012, 12:15:00 AM »
It is done. After infuriating me with their constant raids, I have finally destroyed Poland-Lithuania. I am also at peace with Russia, Spain and Courland. So for now the only people I have to fight are rebels and revolutionaries. I wanted to make Courland a protectorate, but unfortunately Quebec of all nations beat me to them (they somehow even managed to convince Poland-Lithiania to become one too, before the end). Fortunately as well I'm also almost finished researching everything, so once thats done I can remove the universities, and end all these uprisings. So essentially for now I'm going to focus on domestic issues, before seeking further expansion...hmmm, maybe attack Russia. They have no friends and Austria refuses to give me a port in the Balkans, so I can't attack the Spanish. Finland, Estonia & Livonia and St. Petersburg seem to be regions worth attacking in Russia.
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« Reply #380 on: July 20, 2012, 05:58:43 PM »
Welp. I have started a new game as the Ottoman Empire in EUIII (Just love playing as them) Going extremely well so far, and will post some screenies at the later date. :P

Anyway, I'm also pretty excited about two upcoming games from Paradox: March of the Eagles and East vs West

March of the Eagles, which takes place in the Napoleonic Wars era Europe, is described as a mix of Hearts Of Iron and Sengoku with alot of EU influence

But above all, I'm excited about East vs West, as it finally adds the era I have wanted to see in a Paradox's series of grand strategy games for a long time: The Cold War.  It is made on Paradox's Clausewitz engine like all the modern Paradox games, and has a short basic description of "As the 1950’s approach, the arms race intensifies and the world fears World War III as the US and USSR fight for global dominance. Guide your country through this dangerous historical era with all means direct and conventional, nuclear or indirect, via diplomacy, espionage and economy." 

Details from both games are rather limited right now, but I'm certainly hyped about East vs West more than any other upcoming game at the moment.
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« Reply #381 on: July 20, 2012, 06:19:39 PM »
Welp. I have started a new game as the Ottoman Empire in EUIII (Just love playing as them) Going extremely well so far, and will post some screenies at the later date. :P

Anyway, I'm also pretty excited about two upcoming games from Paradox: March of the Eagles and East vs West

March of the Eagles, which takes place in the Napoleonic Wars era Europe, is described as a mix of Hearts Of Iron and Sengoku with alot of EU influence

But above all, I'm excited about East vs West, as it finally adds the era I have wanted to see in a Paradox's series of grand strategy game for a long time: The Cold War.  It is made on Paradox's Clausewitz engine like all the modern Paradox games, and has a short basic description of "As the 1950’s approach, the arms race intensifies and the world fears World War III as the US and USSR fight for global dominance. Guide your country through this dangerous historical era with all means direct and conventional, nuclear or indirect, via diplomacy, espionage and economy." 

Details from both games are rather limited right now, but I'm certainly hyped about East vs West more than any other upcoming game at the moment.

I am now equaly as hyped. I must now swear off food for three days to save up enough to buy these games.
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« Reply #382 on: July 20, 2012, 06:22:10 PM »
Welp. I have started a new game as the Ottoman Empire in EUIII (Just love playing as them) Going extremely well so far, and will post some screenies at the later date. :P

Anyway, I'm also pretty excited about two upcoming games from Paradox: March of the Eagles and East vs West

March of the Eagles, which takes place in the Napoleonic Wars era Europe, is described as a mix of Hearts Of Iron and Sengoku with alot of EU influence

But above all, I'm excited about East vs West, as it finally adds the era I have wanted to see in a Paradox's series of grand strategy game for a long time: The Cold War.  It is made on Paradox's Clausewitz engine like all the modern Paradox games, and has a short basic description of "As the 1950’s approach, the arms race intensifies and the world fears World War III as the US and USSR fight for global dominance. Guide your country through this dangerous historical era with all means direct and conventional, nuclear or indirect, via diplomacy, espionage and economy." 

Details from both games are rather limited right now, but I'm certainly hyped about East vs West more than any other upcoming game at the moment.
Play it as the USSR! >:D
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« Reply #383 on: July 20, 2012, 06:25:37 PM »
If they succeed in pulling off the political, diplomatic and economical side of that game, I'm going to love the crap out of it.
Play it as the USSR! >:D
Definitely will. :P

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« Reply #384 on: July 20, 2012, 06:28:14 PM »
If they succeed in pulling off the political, diplomatic and economical side of that game, I'm going to love the crap out of it.Definitely will. :P

Can you play as any country? I'd love to pull off making Canada a superpower. The US and USSR sure as hell wouldn't see it coming. :P
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« Reply #385 on: July 20, 2012, 06:36:36 PM »
Can you play as any country? I'd love to pull off making Canada a superpower. The US and USSR sure as hell wouldn't see it coming. :P
It will be the same as in any other Paradox game. All the countries are available.

Finland was in a very interesting position during the Cold War, and if the diplomacal,political and economical sides of the game are handled well, it should prove to be very interesting to play as Finland.

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« Reply #386 on: July 20, 2012, 06:44:24 PM »
It will be the same as in any other Paradox game. All the countries are available.

Finland was in a very interesting position during the Cold War, and if the diplomacal,political and economical sides of the game are handled well, it should prove to be very interesting to play as Finland.

Paradox...they're the guys that made the Supreme Ruler Series, right?

If I recall correctly, Finland hated (and still does) the USSR/Russia, but wasn't chummy with NATO either. Still, they would have likely been the first to be invaded if the Cold War went hot.
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« Reply #387 on: July 20, 2012, 06:56:00 PM »
Paradox...they're the guys that made the Supreme Ruler Series, right?

If I recall correctly, Finland hated (and still does) the USSR/Russia, but wasn't chummy with NATO either. Still, they would have likely been the first to be invaded if the Cold War went hot.
Paradox also made Hearts of Iron, Victoria and Europa Universalis games. :P

And our policy during the Cold War was one of appeasment to the USSR. They were our neighbours after all and Leningrad was/is very close to our boarder, so obviously they wanted to secure their North Western boarder. We had a Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with them. Under the pact, we were obliged to resist armed attacks by "Germany or its allies" (in reality NATO) against Finland, or against the Soviet Union through Finland, with the help of the Soviet army if necessary. So if a war of agression against the Soviets broke out, and our lands were used as an invasion route. we would have been obliged to side with the Soviets under this pact. Soviets tried to tie us closer to the Warsaw Pact as time progressed though, althought it was never met with huge success. Anyway, Soviets still used to have alot of influence on Finnish politics during the Cold War.

Finland tried to maintain a policy of neutrality though. We wanted to get closer to the West and especially closer to the EEC, but Soviets tried to prevent us from going too far into the west and away from them, so it was a game of balancing between neutrality, economical interests and the Soviet influence.
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« Reply #388 on: July 20, 2012, 07:02:35 PM »
Paradox also made Hearts of Iron, Victoria and Europa Universalis games. :P

And our policy during the Cold War was one of appeasment to the USSR. They were our neighbours after all and Leningrad was/is very close to our boarder, so obviously they wanted to secure their North Western boarder. We had a Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance with them. Under the pact, we were obliged to resist armed attacks by "Germany or its allies" (in reality NATO) against Finland, or against the Soviet Union through Finland, with the help of the Soviet army if necessary. So if a war of agression against the Soviets broke out, and our lands were used as an invasion route. we would have been obliged to side with the Soviets under this pact. Soviets tried to tie us closer to the Warsaw Pact as time progressed though, althought it was never met with huge success. Anyway, Soviets still used to have alot of influence on Finnish politics during the Cold War.

Finland tried to maintain a policy of neutrality though. We wanted to get closer to the West and especially closer to the EEC, but Soviets tried to prevent us from going too far into the west and away from them, so it was a game of balancing between neutrality, economical interests and the Soviet influence.

That I knew too. :P

I knew the Soviets had influence over Finland...but I never realized Finland was so tied to the USSR. Considering those two's past history, I would've thought Finland would have popped a blood vessel at the thought of appeasing the USSR. I always thought too that Finland was likely to be invaded the Soviets, not the other way around. Man, I really need to brush up on my Cold War history.
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« Reply #389 on: July 20, 2012, 07:09:22 PM »
That I knew too. :P

I knew the Soviets had influence over Finland...but I never realized Finland was so tied to the USSR. Considering those two's past history, I would've thought Finland would have popped a blood vessel at the thought of appeasing the USSR. I always thought too that Finland was likely to be invaded the Soviets, not the other way around. Man, I really need to brush up on my Cold War history.
I remember seeing some old Cold War era docs where Finland is sometimes painted red with lands like Poland and East Germany. It wasn't nearly as bad as that :D, but East certainly had much more control over us than the West, for example, they had influence on presidental elections (The reason why we had Urho Kekkonen as a president for 25 years) and they also had influence over which political parties of individuals were allowed in the government.

But we never had a socialist system, we were a modern democracy with a market economy, and we weren't really tied to the Warsaw Pact, and Soviets didn't have military bases or forces in Finland.

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« Reply #390 on: July 20, 2012, 07:19:56 PM »
I remember seeing some old Cold War era docs where Finland is sometimes painted red with lands like Poland and East Germany. It wasn't nearly as bad as that :D, but East certainly had much more control over us than the West, for example, they had influence on presidental elections (The reason why we had Urho Kekkonen as a president for 25 years) and they also had influence over which political parties of individuals were allowed in the government.

But we never had a socialist system, we were a modern democracy with a market economy, and we weren't really tied to the Warsaw Pact, and Soviets didn't have military bases or forces in Finland.

So they only politically dominated you then. :P

I wonder what current Finnish-Russian relations are these days...
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« Reply #391 on: July 20, 2012, 07:23:08 PM »
Hmm... Shortly put, we appeased them because it was within our interests to appease them due to our security and economical interests, but we tried to limit the appeasment to the point, that our national sovereignty and interests weren't compromised, even if they were couple of occasions where this didn't succeed, as pointed above, but we managed to remain outside the Warsaw Pact, and the communists only occasionaly made it to the government in elections, so their ideological influence in our country was almost never that big. But what can you do with such a huge superpower right next to your doorstep? :P

And they aren't that bad today from my point of view. Russian Federation is not nearly as aggressive or interventional as the USSR. We still have some occasional diplomatic issues. And of course, there is some bad blood due to our history, but it is not an issue to me.
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« Reply #392 on: July 20, 2012, 07:24:23 PM »
It will be the same as in any other Paradox game. All the countries are available.
If that turns out to be true, Brazil should be avalable as a country too, but a kind of weak ass one...
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« Reply #393 on: July 20, 2012, 07:39:39 PM »
If that turns out to be true, Brazil should be avalable as a country too, but a kind of weak ass one...
Well, it is still a regional power, so it's not all that bad. Even with all the political turmoil Brazil had back then, and with the Latin America being under heavy influence from USA.

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« Reply #394 on: July 20, 2012, 07:43:10 PM »
Hmm... Shortly put, we appeased them because it was within our interests to appease them due to our security and economical interests, but we tried to limit the appeasment to the point, that our national sovereignty and interests weren't compromised, even if they were couple of occasions where this didn't succeed, as pointed above, but we managed to remain outside the Warsaw Pact, and the communists only occasionaly made it to the government in elections, so their ideological influence in our country was almost never that big. But what can you do with such a huge superpower right next to your doorstep? :P

And they aren't that bad today from my point of view. Russian Federation is not nearly as aggressive or interventional as the USSR. We still have some occasional diplomatic issues. And of course, there is some bad blood due to our history, but it is not an issue to me.

I know the feeling, we appease the high and mighty US for similair reasons. Only difference is you guys were able to get out, we're still stuck. :P

Well, it is still a regional power, so it's not all that bad. Even with all the political turmoil Brazil had back then, and with the Latin America being under heavy influence from USA.

Are you kidding, mikethor could do more with Brazil than I with Canada. Even today the Brazilian military is better equipped and larger than the Canadian Forces...
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« Reply #395 on: July 20, 2012, 07:45:47 PM »
Well, it is still a regional power, so it's not all that bad. Even with all the political turmoil Brazil had back then, and with the Latin America being under heavy influence from USA.
If we assume that the Cold War ocurred between 1947 and 1991 then...political turmoil indeed. We had a dictatorship installed here from 1964 to 1985.
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« Reply #396 on: July 20, 2012, 07:50:30 PM »
If we assume that the Cold War ocurred between 1947 and 1991 then...political turmoil indeed. We had a dictatorship installed here from 1964 to 1985.
And a period of political instability before that IIRC. Don't know that much from Barazilian history of that era, and only person I can name from that period is Getulio Vargas.

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« Reply #397 on: July 20, 2012, 07:52:28 PM »
If we assume that the Cold War ocurred between 1947 and 1991 then...political turmoil indeed. We had a dictatorship installed here from 1964 to 1985.
Wait, wut? The Cold War lasted that long? I thought it was between 1951 and 1958 or something :ermm:

Again, we do not learn much about wars here. The only thing I know about the Cold War was that the US and Soviets were at each other's throats for a while. But it couldn't possibly have lasted until 1991? The Soviet Union disappeared in 1989, after all.

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« Reply #398 on: July 20, 2012, 07:53:14 PM »
Are you kidding, mikethor could do more with Brazil than I with Canada. Even today the Brazilian military is better equipped and larger than the Canadian Forces...
UFE :P

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« Reply #399 on: July 20, 2012, 07:54:26 PM »
Wait, wut? The Cold War lasted that long? I thought it was between 1951 and 1958 or something :ermm:

Again, we do not learn much about wars here. The only thing I know about the Cold War was that the US and Soviets were at each other's throats for a while. But it couldn't possibly have lasted until 1991? The Soviet Union disappeared in 1989, after all.
USSR was formally dissolved in December of 1991