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Favorite Paradox Game?

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Strelok said:
Oh absolutly no idea then, other than make sure to attack the darkies for that sweet sweet Congolese rubber.
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Haven't played the original Vicky but do the Ethiopians and Egyptians still have those sweet rubber and precious metal states? I usually play Vicky II as the CSA and make a point to grab some African colonies just to get those states from Ethiopia and Egypt before Italy gets its grubby little hands on them.

My current game has a CSA industrial powerhouse, saved Texas from Mexica and annexed them for the good of the Confederacy, grabbed Sonora and Chihuahua for a Pacific Coastline, freed the Mormon Nation of Desert from Mexico, grabbed the rest of my cores from the USA in about four wars including the original Civil War, freed the Manhattan Commune from the USA and made them part of my Sphere of Influence. Several Central and South American SOI's as well. Eventually SOi'd the USA and had to fight a war with Great Britain over it, which ended in White Peace. Now its late game, I'm like the 2nd greatest Industrial power in the world, the America's are my own private Sphere of Influence, colonies in South Africa near the Transvaal and the state of Oranje which are both allies, and occupation of the aforementioned states of Egypt and Ethiopia with Precious Metals and Rubber. Making plenty pounds with the Confederate telephone and automobile industries lol, as well as machine parts.

Vicky II is definitely the most steep learning curve of all the paradox games I've played so far, but it can be quite involving and fun when you start to learn what everything means and how important trade, RGO's, POP's, and SOI's are. When I get a lot more skilled at the game, I want to get the achievement for recreating the Byzantine Empire in Vicky II. What is it with every Paradox forum player's obsession with the Byzantines lol.
 
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Coleman Francis said:
Haven't played the original Vicky but do the Ethiopians and Egyptians still have those sweet rubber and precious metal states? I usually play Vicky II as the CSA and make a point to grab some African colonies just to get those states from Ethiopia and Egypt before Italy gets its grubby little hands on them.
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Never played V1, which is why I'm making the assumption.

I play with HPM mod now on the 4.03 beta branch though, so if I'm playing a New World Power, chances are the Scramble for Africa will result in some european power nabbing everything.

Or worse, China westernizes. Little tip for anyone playing V2. DO NOT LET CHINA WESTERNIZE, it literally destroys the game because of how economic priority works on the world market. HPM makes it way harder for it to happen, but it still does.
 
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Another thing I've noticed about China, never grab colonies from them. Their large population of craftsmen will literally destroy your attempts at industrialization before they even get off the ground.
 
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Coleman Francis said:
Another thing I've noticed about China, never grab colonies from them. Their large population of craftsmen will literally destroy your attempts at industrialization before they even get off the ground.
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Yeah but you can encourage soldiers, and all the unemployed chinamen will join your modern army, and you can say fuck industrilization and just create Pax Europa on the backs of hundreds of thousands of dead Chinese. Done right annexing a Chinese province is basically a cheat code, which is why it's generally frowned upon unless in a WC run (where of course every exploit under the sun will be used).

As to the reason for Paradox player's obsessions with Byzantium, it's because EUIII, the game that most people started with, Byzantium was basically just Constantinople plus some hopes and dreams, and they dared you to recreate Pax Romana with the Ottomans busting your door down from day 1.
 
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Strelok said:
As to the reason for Paradox player's obsessions with Byzantium, it's because EUIII, the game that most people started with, Byzantium was basically just Constantinople plus some hopes and dreams, and they dared you to recreate Pax Romana with the Ottomans busting your door down from day 1.
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Ah, thank you for the explanation, that actually makes a lot of sense. They sure get some rather "interesting" unique options for CKII when you pick the Byzantine Empire. You would never think blinding and castrating disloyal subjects would be so fun until you play that game.

I started with EUII, and yeah, same deal, they start with Constantinople in the early Grand Campaign start, and the Ottoman's (though not yet united in Anatolia yet) are your hated, much stronger neighbor. There is a mod for EU2 which is pretty much mandatory, even for first time players of the game, that fixes bugs, updates the map, and adds thousands of accurate historical events which trigger at certain times automatically or other times when certain conditions are met with particular kingdoms. This is the AGCEEP mod, which was essentially two separate mods originally, the AGC (Alternate Grandcampaign) and the EEP (Extra Events Project). The two modding teams eventually joined forces and created definitely most popular (likely the best as well) mod for EU2. It adds so much historical flavor in the form of triggered events, it makes for so much more interesting games, because they added tons of events for the main power (Spain, France, England, Venice, Rus, Novograd, Austria, Poland, etc) but they also added a whole ton of content for the smaller, lesser played kingdoms that were historically accurate and just made the game so much more fun.

One of my favorite games was playing with the Byzantine Empire on EUII with AGCEEP. I went to war early with one of the Ottomans future conquests in Anatolia to keep them from getting it and to strengthen my already tiny, poor kingdom. A few years of White Peace Wars with the Ottomans, holding them off nicely, when an event fired that gave me the ability to Convert to Roman Catholicism instead of Eastern Orthodoxy. I was like, hell yell I wanna be Roman Catholic. Anyways, to make an already long story short, I ended up taking all of Anatolia from the Ottoman's and they got annexed in the Mideast by the Ayyubids or one of those Arab Empires. I confuse the names all the time, and I took Venice, Genoa, Sicily, the Papal States, basically all of Italy besides a few of the Northern most kingdoms who had allied with the Austrian and Spanish Habsbergs, who I was not in any condition to take on simultaneously.

One of my most rewarding games of EUII for sure. Tried playing them in EUIII and actually did pretty well, but it was getting extremely expensive and time consuming converting all the Ottoman Moslem savages as I pushed them out of Anatolia.

My favorites are like most people that play EUIII (and II for that matter) Spain, France, England, Genoa, Austria, and occasionally the Teutonic order, especially in EUIII since you can form a nice Kingdom with them eventually instead of remaining a religious order ruled by a Grandmaster. I want to be a King dammit!
 
Literally been assassinating my 13 sons one by one until I get my genius/attractive/strong daughter as my heir. Toughest one so far is the 3 year old. Snakes and daggers just bounce off of him.
 
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Lackadaisy said:
Literally been assassinating my 13 sons one by one until I get my genius/attractive/strong daughter as my heir. Toughest one so far is the 3 year old. Snakes and daggers just bounce off of him.
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You're aware of the -10 penalty, right?
 
These include games like Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings II, Victoria, Hearts of Iron or Stellaris.

Personally, my favorite of their games is Europa Universalis IV. There's something strangely satisfying about taking a country down an ahistorical path, such as restoring the Byzantine Empire as Trebizond, pushing back the Crimean and Mongol Hordes as Theodoro or dismantling the Holy Roman Empire as Poland. So what are your thoughts on the game?
 
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I started playing Europa Universalis IV the other day. I'm trying to play as Mutapa and I've seriously lost my shit a couple of times because of how useless my troops are. I've managed to annex and forcefully vassalise my nearest kingdoms but the Sunni nation along the coast just knocks me the fuck out whenever we got to war. I can outnumber their armies 3 to 1 but my morale tanks so quickly my armies always end up fleeing halfway across the kingdom. Every. Single. Time.

Other than that, I'm enjoying it. The satisfaction of seeing my kingdom absorb another is just... so good. I suddenly understand why people have fought wars all these passed millennia.
 
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I play Stellaris a lot. I'm trying to get into Europa but I'm having trouble getting used to all the mechanics.
 
Furina said:
I started playing Europa Universalis IV the other day. I'm trying to play as Mutapa and I've seriously lost my shit a couple of times because of how useless my troops are. I've managed to annex and forcefully vassalise my nearest kingdoms but the Sunni nation along the coast just knocks me the fuck out whenever we got to war. I can outnumber their armies 3 to 1 but my morale tanks so quickly my armies always end up fleeing halfway across the kingdom. Every. Single. Time.

Other than that, I'm enjoying it. The satisfaction of seeing my kingdom absorb another is just... so good. I suddenly understand why people have fought wars all these passed millennia.
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That's rough. He probably has a shit ton of piety, which grants combat bonuses. Heh. Fear is facing down a max piety Ottoman Empire as Poland...
 
God of Nothing said:
I play Stellaris a lot. I'm trying to get into Europa but I'm having trouble getting used to all the mechanics.
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It takes a while, but when you get it man, the game feels so good. It's an awesome feeling, winning the Hundred Years' War as England, turning France into the Holy Roman Empire or restoring the Roman Empire itself
 
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Finished a heavily modded Stellaris game with an evil robot faction, by taking over the galaxy.

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