They’re very similar
Both. Vassalised them early on but did a lot of my own colonising too. They had pretty much everything west between the tropic lines except the carribean when I annexed them I had mostly everything else and GB and France had bits and pieces which in turn caused the everwars ™ every time a truce ran out.
Glad I’m not the only one lol. I feel like your goal now is mare nostrum or you can just quit. This is the stage when it usually gets tedious for me.
Oh man. I picked up Divinity: Original Sin 2 over the weekend on sale. I don’t know how I missed out on this for so long. It’s like a wonderful combination of diablo, xcom, and dragon age. I probably put 15 hours into it this weekend (I’m not proud of this) and I’m still in what I assume is the starting area.
Something I’ve realized recently is that so many newer games just point you directly to every side quest and main quest. Like, when it first came out I thought it was very cool that Skyrim would put little icons on my compass to show me where to find caves and mines and when I accepted a quest there would be a huge arrow telling me where to go. But man, that just completely removes the exploration and discovery that was so much of the fun I had in diablo 2 or Morrowind or whatever that I sunk hundreds of hours into as a teenager. I had forgotten how much fun it is to explore a world that is completely new and run into enemies that just completely outclass me, so I have to leave and come back later.
Anyway so far 10/10 would recommend.
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Yeah it’s good. You should be trying out Age of Decadence based on this post.
I like to at least finish so I get the timeline
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Yeah… the problem I have is that I’m usually going after some ridiculously huge achievement so I build this ridiculous borderline unmanageable empire that I have to play at the slowest possible time speed through constant wars for the last hundred years… and it takes forever. And eventually I just get bored of it and miss the early game before it became obvious how everything was going to end.
My most recent game has been Milan->Italy->Mare Nostrum… and I’ve got most of what I need for the Roman empire, but in my last war I got two separated colonies in Africa, some land in India, and some land in China in a recent war (because I could and am greedy) so now I’m dealing with all these revolts on the other side of the world from my actual empire and regretting every second of it.
The whole thing is so tedious and irritating that I’ll probably never go back to it. Even though I’m really close to finishing.
This is kind of a thing in my life where I stop 3% short of finishing things I’m doing.
I haven’t played it. The keys I listed are for games that either a) don’t interest me or; b) I have some interest in, but don’t anticipate having time to play it so I might as well give it to someone who will make use of it.
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I played the first one and really didn’t like it but I hear that 2 fixes a lot of the mistakes of the first game so I may check it out at some point.
You guys have been making me hungry to get into strategy games again so I got a copy of one of the new Total War games and by god, the time between turns takes forever to process on my PC. idk why they decided they need 5,000 opponents in the game now, but it’s making think I need to play this Europa game all the cool kids are talking about.
Also, I never got around to tackling the end castle on Darkest Dungeon because I’m scared. I might try that some time.
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Thanks to whoever linked that let’s play. I think I have a solid grasp of how combat actually works now. I was mystified before as to why I would win or lose fights. Makes a lot more sense now.
If this castille run goes to shit I may try the ottomans. I rerolled after giving that series a proper watch.
Now I’m spain again, this time I immediately mothballed my fortresses, got rid of my carracks, and am focusing on hitting my force limit and building spy networks in granada and morroco before I conquer granada.
I started out with basically everyone liking me except england. Even morroco was only a -8. Pretty sweet starting roll IMO. So, I sent marriage offers to Portugal and aragon, who immediately sent offer for alliances. They don’t have any real enemies other than england as well - nice. Accepted the alliances, a unified Iberian peninsula is a strong one!
Weak ass navarro tried to get in on the action and I was like lol fine ugly kid you can sit with us if you like. France is pretty chill with me but I am NOT getting dragged into their wars. I sent a diplo to improve relations because I didn’t know what to do with my spares. Started out with France at +44. Hope they don’t send me an alliance invitation because that’s a hard no from me, the last few games I learned fucking with England and France’s bullshit is just way too much work.
Set my rivals to morroco, england, and randomly burgundy because there was no other real choice other than picking allies.
My plan is to just chill for as long as I can, focus my forces up north in case england decides to get cute, and conquer granada. Once that’s done, grab my allies and have a unified campaign into morocco and conquer that shit. Portugal is already at +155, I figure I can vassalize them after they get colonization (how do I know when they get it?) and then they can start colonizing for me. Aragon will become a PU I guess after the Iberian wedding.
Seems like a solid gameplan. Looks like Ottomans and France may go at it at some point and maybe I can wipe them out when that happens. Casually supporting france while it keeps europe distracted and laying low and taking out easy targets in N Africa is my rough game plan. I’m basically gonna avoid europe bullshit as long as possible.
I actually really like taking the French side in the Hundred Years’ War and doing absolutely nothing but looting the English provinces for easy gold.
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Now you just need to get CK2, start at the earliest date, have a complete runthough and export the file to EU4 as the starting conditions
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OK, starting my first EU run as the Kutai kingdom. Let’s do this!
One of those who watched The Witcher and then bought Witcher 3. I was worried but it hooked me in with the swashbuckling, the morally ambiguous choices, and cinematic feeling. The Crones tapastry felt like a very oh f*ck I’m in it now moment
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Crones were possibly some of my favorite videogame villains of all time. Holy fuck that’s some creepy shit. Love that whole story storyline with the Bloody Baron, and the voice action is fantastic.
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OK I get that I need some kind of casus belli to start fighting these guys in North Borneo, but I’m not sure how to make that happen. Seems like us being different religions out to be enough for us to be beefing.
if you choose a religious group of ideas later on you’ll gain that ability
I sent Brunei a nastygram. And now the Madyas want to be allies. Sure, why not.
OK, I built up a bunch of troops and the war between the Kutai/Madya alliance vs the Brunei/Sulu axis of evil is underway.
Also, I’ve gotten two messages about some daimyo in Japan who are about to attack each other and I have no idea what I’m supposed to do with that.
UPDATE: I got my ass handed to me because Brunei has 5,000 more dudes than I do. Gonna start over