I thought I was the only nerd on this site playing EU III. Heir to the Throne was really epic, not perfect but a really nice and complex game :) My personal favourite, start with Holland (zeeland + holland in personal union with hainaut) immediatly look for a conflict with Hainaut which leads your personal union. After that I would usually try to steal some provinces away from Burgundy while monopolizing all of west europe trade centers.
After that I usually started buying both the papacy and emporer of the holy roman empire. Once you are emporer you got shitloads of reasons for a good conquest casus beli. France can be a bitch, but if you time it you can destroy their armies :)
Or start with England, rush attack ile de france. If you own ile de france early on in the game cosmopolitan rebels should take over most of central france in the name of England :) After that you can colonize using England/Ireland while France can be your base to start conquering toward China :)
Or if you really want a challenge, go for Japan. Beat Ming and start conquering and westernizing. Pain in the ass to keep up with Western powers though and your religion sucks cocks. Just start an animist revolution at your most northern island and let them take over your provinces :)
Also had some epic games with Byzantium, they got cores all over greece and Turkey. A well timed push and you can take over the whole Ottoman Empire and in less then 50 years most Turkish provinces will switch to greek, giving you +10 core provinces with your main culture. Too bad they are orthodox and you are basicly converting all the time. Its also a shit religion but okish compared to some Eastern religions :)
I could keep going on about this game :) Only thing I really disliked is how you cant really compete against Western Europe unless you pick muslim or eastern tech group. Chinese tech group is just imba to play unless you are Ming, dont get me started on American or African nations :)
Haven't played the newest addition because as soon as I installed a beta patch my computer started doing weird stuff. So I just play with IN.
Problem is I'm not that good in it, so I just stick to the big countries and try going for World Conquest. Almost succeeded with Castille in the Vanilla version (only half a dozen countries left alive), and finished an attempt with England last week in which I failed horribly. Don't think I even had half of the world.
Tried with Novgorod a few times, in an attempt to form Russia and WC with them, but I'm always up against both Lithuania and the Golden Horde so that's not very interesting.
its a 260mb rar file or so giving you HTTT stand alone. Its really a lot better than vanilla, alot lot better. Biggest tip i can give you use is to use the right casus belli. When you declare war, there are several reasons why you declare ware. Chosing reconquest allows you to recapture provinces which you have a claim on, losing only 1/4 BadBoy points for example. Its all about find decent reasons to attack your neighbours. Thats why i really love the Holy Roman Empire. Always got a reason to attack somebody. If you dont have decent reasons BB points will build up, provinces will revolt, other nations will be alot more likely to attack you, relations with other nations deteriorate etc. Stay away from BadBoy points at all time :) If you conquer the american tribes, annex all of them at once instead of annexing provinces. When Turbo annexing you incite a revolt in one province while your armies kill off the enemy armies. Once half a country is in revolt the country will collapse and shitloads of provinces will join you :) Had occasions where +6 provinces joined my empire. Its also really nice on the one province minors. Get one revolution going and let it spread throughout the small german nations :) If they are on or two provinces and one gets taken over they basicly stop existing and join you :)
If you want a real challenge play the Timurids or any of the other hordes :) The are harcore :) When your monarch dies you get succesion wars, once you retake power you need to go plundering / raping provinces. King dies => cycle begins anew :) Kinda like it was in real history :) All the horde nations have this cycle (golden horde, think also the mongols but they usually are a subject of ming, so it doesnt matter for them) Timurids are just nice cause they start the game with a BBQWTFNICE general 'Timurid the Great'. Or start in 1427(or was it 1417?) as ming and receive a free explorer 50 years before anybody in the words does :) Thats a spoiler but its a nice one :)
Theres a really good wiki about eu3 btw, check it out if you play next time.
"When Turbo annexing you incite a revolt in one province while your armies kill off the enemy armies. Once half a country is in revolt the country will collapse and shitloads of provinces will join you :) Had occasions where +6 provinces joined my empire."
Yeah, in my game with Castille I encountered this. Was having a grand war with Austria (who consisted out of Austria, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Lithuania) and I had everything, except for the capital and 2 other provinces but those were occupied by rebels. So after the rebels captured the capital, every province I occupied joined my empire. Was easily 20-30 provinces and I was completely stunned because I didn't know that that would happen :D
I know about the BB, didn't know about the different reputation hits concerning what CB u use. But once I pass 1700 or something, I don't care about the BB anymore. If anything it actually helps speeding up the WC because even the smallest nations DoW you for no reason but your high reputation. Absolutely hilarious when an OPM without allies and a standing army of barely 2k DoW's an empire with 200 provinces and a standing army of 300k.
Haven't touched it since last week cos I got a bit tired of it (the game is so addictive that IF I play it, I play it non-stop) but this conversation got me interested again. Gonna try with England again for a WC, but gonna do it differently this time. Last time I made the mistake of conquering Norway and Sweden after a few years, resulting in +20 provinces with low manpower and income, but skyrocketing my technology costs so I was 10-15 levels behind France by 1700. I lost interest in the game, but then I discovered some cheat codes and I was like ":D".
Gonna try the IdF rush in the war vs France, hopefully I can drive them to exhaustion before my pockets run dry.
no trust me, you want heir to the throne. for real :) hardly any rules have been changed, you just have a lot more casus belli reasons and some annoying parts have been removed or changed (like province decissions)
from those on the pic:
half-life
quake III arena
tom clancys ghost recon
wolf et
gta III
mafia
jedi knight; jedi academy
beyond good & evil (btw i have to reinstall it! epic game)
cod
sw kotor
painkiller
half-life 2
cod 2
gta sa
fable
hitman blood money
r6 vegas
jade empire
etqw! :D
portal
audiosurf
grid
gta IV
fallout 3
mass effect
mirrors edge
fear 2
mass effect 2
played almost all on the list :D but those above are my favourites from them
wow is it that long ago wolf3D came out?? played that so much back in the days (downloaded it on my phone yesterday :D:D) also X-COM was really really great for it's time (still is imo :D) Doom also ofc, alone in the dark, kings quest (didn't really like it that much but my sister was always playing it) commander keen ofc 1 till 10000 :D well i played loads of games in that list from like 1992 on up :p
i was just a bit too young for the older ones, was born in the 1990 :p
i remember Keen, Wing Commander, Monkey island, Wolfenstein, Incredible Machine, Doom, Raptor, Theme Park, Sim City, Warcraft Myst(got zeh original game at home :P) and Full Throttle (play it like 100 times) from those before 96 :p
and C&C ofc
enemy territory
team fortress classic
team fortress 2
final fantasy all series
diablo
diablo 2
dungeon keeper
dungeon keeper 2
warcraft I-III
world of warcraft
linegage 2
from the pic (mostly):
C&C (1, RA, RA 2)
Total War (the whole series)
Warcraft 2, 3
Civilization II, III, IV
Diablo II
Quake II, III/Live
GTA III, VC, SA, IV
AoE 2
Call of Duty 1 + UO
Half-Life 2
Unreal Tournament
CS, CSS
and MAYBE Borderlands, but I guess it's too early to call
oh and Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, which is the only one adventure game I've ever finished (which actually means that they're boring for me, apart from this one :P)
ET
Morrowind
Fallout 1&2
Commander Keen series
Castle of the winds :D
Championship/Football manager series
Warcraft 1&2
older red alerts
dungeon keeper
Duke nukem 3D
supaplex
wolf 3D obviously
Doom
Total annihilation
unreal tournament old one
Knights and merchants !
sim city
ceasar 3
cyberdogs !!
and some other games I cant remember the names of :( but these were the games that I enjoyed most
Assassins Creed and Portal....the most unique games i ever played specially AC: a 10 out 10 game.
btw nfs games like hot pursuit, underground 2, mw not included.
list contains mostly action/adventure games so name it "brief history of action/adventure pc gaming" rather than the current title.
and yea, 2010 needs bf:bc2, metro2033, just cause 2 (whenever it got released) to be in list.
- Cycling Manager-series
- Football Manager-series
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Europa Universalis III
- Rome: Total War
- Baldur's Gate
After that I usually started buying both the papacy and emporer of the holy roman empire. Once you are emporer you got shitloads of reasons for a good conquest casus beli. France can be a bitch, but if you time it you can destroy their armies :)
Or start with England, rush attack ile de france. If you own ile de france early on in the game cosmopolitan rebels should take over most of central france in the name of England :) After that you can colonize using England/Ireland while France can be your base to start conquering toward China :)
Or if you really want a challenge, go for Japan. Beat Ming and start conquering and westernizing. Pain in the ass to keep up with Western powers though and your religion sucks cocks. Just start an animist revolution at your most northern island and let them take over your provinces :)
Also had some epic games with Byzantium, they got cores all over greece and Turkey. A well timed push and you can take over the whole Ottoman Empire and in less then 50 years most Turkish provinces will switch to greek, giving you +10 core provinces with your main culture. Too bad they are orthodox and you are basicly converting all the time. Its also a shit religion but okish compared to some Eastern religions :)
I could keep going on about this game :) Only thing I really disliked is how you cant really compete against Western Europe unless you pick muslim or eastern tech group. Chinese tech group is just imba to play unless you are Ming, dont get me started on American or African nations :)
Problem is I'm not that good in it, so I just stick to the big countries and try going for World Conquest. Almost succeeded with Castille in the Vanilla version (only half a dozen countries left alive), and finished an attempt with England last week in which I failed horribly. Don't think I even had half of the world.
Tried with Novgorod a few times, in an attempt to form Russia and WC with them, but I'm always up against both Lithuania and the Golden Horde so that's not very interesting.
its a 260mb rar file or so giving you HTTT stand alone. Its really a lot better than vanilla, alot lot better. Biggest tip i can give you use is to use the right casus belli. When you declare war, there are several reasons why you declare ware. Chosing reconquest allows you to recapture provinces which you have a claim on, losing only 1/4 BadBoy points for example. Its all about find decent reasons to attack your neighbours. Thats why i really love the Holy Roman Empire. Always got a reason to attack somebody. If you dont have decent reasons BB points will build up, provinces will revolt, other nations will be alot more likely to attack you, relations with other nations deteriorate etc. Stay away from BadBoy points at all time :) If you conquer the american tribes, annex all of them at once instead of annexing provinces. When Turbo annexing you incite a revolt in one province while your armies kill off the enemy armies. Once half a country is in revolt the country will collapse and shitloads of provinces will join you :) Had occasions where +6 provinces joined my empire. Its also really nice on the one province minors. Get one revolution going and let it spread throughout the small german nations :) If they are on or two provinces and one gets taken over they basicly stop existing and join you :)
If you want a real challenge play the Timurids or any of the other hordes :) The are harcore :) When your monarch dies you get succesion wars, once you retake power you need to go plundering / raping provinces. King dies => cycle begins anew :) Kinda like it was in real history :) All the horde nations have this cycle (golden horde, think also the mongols but they usually are a subject of ming, so it doesnt matter for them) Timurids are just nice cause they start the game with a BBQWTFNICE general 'Timurid the Great'. Or start in 1427(or was it 1417?) as ming and receive a free explorer 50 years before anybody in the words does :) Thats a spoiler but its a nice one :)
Theres a really good wiki about eu3 btw, check it out if you play next time.
Yeah, in my game with Castille I encountered this. Was having a grand war with Austria (who consisted out of Austria, Hungary, Poland, Greece, Lithuania) and I had everything, except for the capital and 2 other provinces but those were occupied by rebels. So after the rebels captured the capital, every province I occupied joined my empire. Was easily 20-30 provinces and I was completely stunned because I didn't know that that would happen :D
I know about the BB, didn't know about the different reputation hits concerning what CB u use. But once I pass 1700 or something, I don't care about the BB anymore. If anything it actually helps speeding up the WC because even the smallest nations DoW you for no reason but your high reputation. Absolutely hilarious when an OPM without allies and a standing army of barely 2k DoW's an empire with 200 provinces and a standing army of 300k.
Haven't touched it since last week cos I got a bit tired of it (the game is so addictive that IF I play it, I play it non-stop) but this conversation got me interested again. Gonna try with England again for a WC, but gonna do it differently this time. Last time I made the mistake of conquering Norway and Sweden after a few years, resulting in +20 provinces with low manpower and income, but skyrocketing my technology costs so I was 10-15 levels behind France by 1700. I lost interest in the game, but then I discovered some cheat codes and I was like ":D".
Gonna try the IdF rush in the war vs France, hopefully I can drive them to exhaustion before my pockets run dry.
can't be arsed getting adjusted to another new verison, with new rules n shit. IN is pretty good.
Guess i'll try it out, im not in a game atm anyway.
Games I have mostly enjoyed: Money Island -and Fallout -series, Duke Nukem 3D, Deus EX, Shogo Mobile Armor Division and ET
half-life
quake III arena
tom clancys ghost recon
wolf et
gta III
mafia
jedi knight; jedi academy
beyond good & evil (btw i have to reinstall it! epic game)
cod
sw kotor
painkiller
half-life 2
cod 2
gta sa
fable
hitman blood money
r6 vegas
jade empire
etqw! :D
portal
audiosurf
grid
gta IV
fallout 3
mass effect
mirrors edge
fear 2
mass effect 2
played almost all on the list :D but those above are my favourites from them
tombraider series
max payne 1+2
mafia
half life 2
i wanted orange, it gave me lemon lime!
i remember Keen, Wing Commander, Monkey island, Wolfenstein, Incredible Machine, Doom, Raptor, Theme Park, Sim City, Warcraft Myst(got zeh original game at home :P) and Full Throttle (play it like 100 times) from those before 96 :p
and C&C ofc
Fable
Fable II
Deus ex (can't wait for the coming game)
I also really enjoyed brotherhood of the blade on PSP.
team fortress classic
team fortress 2
final fantasy all series
diablo
diablo 2
dungeon keeper
dungeon keeper 2
warcraft I-III
world of warcraft
linegage 2
Need for Speed
Command & Conquer
Enemy Territory
Grand Theft Auto
Football Manager
Stalker
These are the games I used to play & enjoy the most.
C&C (1, RA, RA 2)
Total War (the whole series)
Warcraft 2, 3
Civilization II, III, IV
Diablo II
Quake II, III/Live
GTA III, VC, SA, IV
AoE 2
Call of Duty 1 + UO
Half-Life 2
Unreal Tournament
CS, CSS
and MAYBE Borderlands, but I guess it's too early to call
oh and Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, which is the only one adventure game I've ever finished (which actually means that they're boring for me, apart from this one :P)
Morrowind
Fallout 1&2
Commander Keen series
Castle of the winds :D
Championship/Football manager series
Warcraft 1&2
older red alerts
dungeon keeper
Duke nukem 3D
supaplex
wolf 3D obviously
Doom
Total annihilation
unreal tournament old one
Knights and merchants !
sim city
ceasar 3
cyberdogs !!
and some other games I cant remember the names of :( but these were the games that I enjoyed most
btw nfs games like hot pursuit, underground 2, mw not included.
list contains mostly action/adventure games so name it "brief history of action/adventure pc gaming" rather than the current title.
and yea, 2010 needs bf:bc2, metro2033, just cause 2 (whenever it got released) to be in list.