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If anyone wants a brief session on EU4 I can cover a lot of the basics in an hour or two. Send me a PM with your details (Steam), I'll probably be able to do this on the weekend sometime.

A mic will be useful though, I don't like doing a lot of typing :D

It can be a bit daunting if you've never played this kind of game before, but I find it way more rewarding than stuff like Civ 5.
 
I absolutely love CK 2 I have played loads lately.

Last night I had a quick blast with a new game. As Castille looking for a decent ally outside Spain accidentally married the Kaisers infertile daughter. So I decided to try make this work, seduced half the rulers in Spains wives. Accidentally had 4 heirs all legitimized forgetting that I was Gavel kind. Get assassinated by one of the other rulers whose wife I had tumbled, before I could change to Primogeniture.

Cue four children taking over my two duchies, ruler is only 2 years old. :D Great fun.

Has anyone had the spawn of satan event chain trigger? :)
 
Noticed the trailer for a Warhammer 40k game based on Battlefleet Gothic. Looks nice, and suitably grimdark, but I'd still rather someone made Dawn of War 3. I miss Gabriel Angelos. :(

lucky13 said:
I absolutely love CK 2 I have played loads lately.

Last night I had a quick blast with a new game. As Castille looking for a decent ally outside Spain accidentally married the Kaisers infertile daughter. So I decided to try make this work, seduced half the rulers in Spains wives. Accidentally had 4 heirs all legitimized forgetting that I was Gavel kind. Get assassinated by one of the other rulers whose wife I had tumbled, before I could change to Primogeniture.

Cue four children taking over my two duchies, ruler is only 2 years old. :D Great fun.

Has anyone had the spawn of satan event chain trigger? :)
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Yep, and I didn't even know that chain existed! The Omen references and the end result when your heir comes of age were a lot of fun. Shame he went (completely) nuts after a few years. :D

My current CK2 campaign is focused on creating a new English kingdom in West Africa, worshipping the Greek gods. No idea why I'm doing it, but that's the joy of this game.
 
Sunk some hours into Europa Universalis IV and Hearts of Iron III with the Historical Plausibility mod. Looking forward to trying HOI IV which should be released later this year.
 
lucky13 said:
I absolutely love CK 2 I have played loads lately.

Last night I had a quick blast with a new game. As Castille looking for a decent ally outside Spain accidentally married the Kaisers infertile daughter. So I decided to try make this work, seduced half the rulers in Spains wives. Accidentally had 4 heirs all legitimized forgetting that I was Gavel kind. Get assassinated by one of the other rulers whose wife I had tumbled, before I could change to Primogeniture.

Cue four children taking over my two duchies, ruler is only 2 years old. :D Great fun.

Has anyone had the spawn of satan event chain trigger? :)
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Sounds cool. I'll have to check it out.
 
Oh forgot to ask. Does anyone ever do any after action reports for their strategy games at all? I know its a bit geeky but I find them really interesting especially when you see a really hard fought battle / war in a strategy game.

I'm looking through the HoI3 ones at the moment in the hopes that it'll teach me more about the game since I only really started playing it recently.

Even though I obviously don't know everything about the game yet even just playing it through like this is great fun. It's at the slow stage before the start of the war and you can feel the tension building as time passes and countries build up their military strength.

I'll have to think about annexing Austria soon.
 
Cromulent said:
Oh forgot to ask. Does anyone ever do any after action reports for their strategy games at all? I know its a bit geeky but I find them really interesting especially when you see a really hard fought battle / war in a strategy game.

I'm looking through the HoI3 ones at the moment in the hopes that it'll teach me more about the game since I only really started playing it recently.

Even though I obviously don't know everything about the game yet even just playing it through like this is great fun. It's at the slow stage before the start of the war and you can feel the tension building as time passes and countries build up their military strength.

I'll have to think about annexing Austria soon.
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I did one of my Castille WC game on EU4:

https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/31mej5/castille_wc_aar/
 
Civ V is normally my go-to strategy game, but I too am looking for something new.

Looking forward to XCOM 2 (delayed to Feb), and the new Creative Assembly Warhammer game (not sure when that one is expected).

I see EU4 being recommended in this thread - might give that a go.

Has anyone tried the new Gal Civ? (3?), any good? Reviews seem mixed.
 
Eulogy said:
I did one of my Castille WC game on EU4:

https://www.reddit.com/r/eu4/comments/31mej5/castille_wc_aar/
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Cool. I'll read through that. Might make me want to get out EU3 which I believe I got for free for some reason (Paradox did a give away at some point if I remember correctly). If I get on with that I might get EU4.

Crimefighter said:
Civ V is normally my go-to strategy game, but I too am looking for something new.

Looking forward to XCOM 2 (delayed to Feb), and the new Creative Assembly Warhammer game (not sure when that one is expected).

I see EU4 being recommended in this thread - might give that a go.

Has anyone tried the new Gal Civ? (3?), any good? Reviews seem mixed.
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I never really got into Civ 5 to be honest. I didn't really enjoy it that much when compared to Civ 4 which I enjoyed much more.

As for the new Creative Assembly Total War games I think they ruined the series after Shogun 2. Rome 2: Total War and Attila: Total war didn't do anything for me. If I didn't have an annoying bug that stopped me changing the screen resolution in it I'd still be playing the original Rome Total War which is still my favourite game in the entire Total War series.
 
I kind of agree with the total war thing, Shogun 2 was still good, Rome 2 was boring as hell. It all felt more like a hassle to play than fun. And I've played em all since Rome1.

Rome- Awesome, still the best imho.
Medieval 2 - Great, didn't like some changes, but overall still awesome. Unit movement ai sometimes dumber than in rome, which caused some annoyances. Loved how you discovered the america's a certain moment.
Empire - took me a while to get into, economy completely turned upside down, but also epic game.
Shogun 2 - Also took me a while to get into, relatively expensive units so you have to use soldiers sparingly, also you have to halt on a certain moment with expansion to save up money before everybody DOW's you. But Epic game still.
Rome 2: Gave it 3 tries, from the 3rd try I got as far as having whole of Italy, the islands, Chartage, and a bit of gaul. But I got really annoyed at all the meaningless decisions and questions and features of the game.

Gal civ 3, I don't know, I liked Gal Civ 2.

Apparantly I have CK2 in my steam list, never played it though, going to give that a go sometime.
 
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EU4 is quite different from 3 according to my friend, you can get the base game for about £5 from the keysites (Kinguin etc). I'd watch a few videos etc, and if you like it try that instead.

The DLC changes bits and pieces, I have most of it personally but I have sunk over 1k hours into that game :D
 
Eulogy said:
EU4 is quite different from 3 according to my friend, you can get the base game for about £5 from the keysites (Kinguin etc). I'd watch a few videos etc, and if you like it try that instead.

The DLC changes bits and pieces, I have most of it personally but I have sunk over 1k hours into that game :D
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Cool I didn't know about Kinguin at all. I see the whole EU4 collection is available for less than £15 which is awesome given the replayability of these type of games.

Sorry for the stupid question but are there any other sites like that that I can bookmark for cheap games? I try and keep all my games in Steam as it means I don't need to bother installing loads of stuff from CD and I can easily add and remove games as I want them.

Since my day job is as a programmer I've been thinking about getting into game development and I thought a great place to start would be making mods for these types of games. I've got some cool ideas for little scenarios that could play out into quite interesting battles and wars.
 
Old Man said:
For those who enjoyed Rome Total War (1 and 2), but looking for something more realistic, then you need to look at http://www.rometotalrealism.org/ ; a lot of work has gone in to making RTW to RTR (Rome Total Realism) and trust me, it's great.

Also check out: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?2054-Rome-II-Total-Realism mods here for all TW games.
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If I could get the original Rome Total War working at a higher game resolution I'd be playing it all the time but alas there seems to be some kind of bug on my system. I made a post on the main Total War forum but no one has responded to it yet so I guess I'll just have to see if it fixes itself (perhaps when I next upgrade my graphics drivers).
 
Cromulent said:
If I could get the original Rome Total War working at a higher game resolution I'd be playing it all the time but alas there seems to be some kind of bug on my system. I made a post on the main Total War forum but no one has responded to it yet so I guess I'll just have to see if it fixes itself (perhaps when I next upgrade my graphics drivers).
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Go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgCub-J6UTE

Also RTR 1.9 (which I have), fixes this.
 
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