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Pakled posted:I always make decisions in CK the same way my ruler would based on his personality traits. If he's cold and cruel, he'd beat the poo poo out of his kids when they did something wrong (or perhaps have a servant do so). A wise and just king would try to instill those virtues in his children. A lazy, arbitrary king basically ignores his realm, and he only rides out to battle when his kingdom is in a state of total upheaval with vassals breaking away and poo poo (basically when he has no other choice). The best thing about being a vassal is being able to send your king to war for free. Battlefield events are fun and dangerous!
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Hey guys, it's time for a: So the Archiving of Crete is finally getting back into gear. I've got all of Wiz's updates (Sims and Suebia included), and I'll be editing those in the coming days, but I need your help! So much of the thread was based on the inter-update periods, and it would be a shame to lose them. On the other hand, to straight transcribe the thread would be pointless. The answer? Tomn posted:Note: "Pre-session discussion" denotes everything from the last update down to the beginning of the legislative session. The session itself is of course everything during the actual legislative session. "Post-session discussion" denotes everything after the bill is put up for final voting up to the next update. See? Concise, entertaining, easy to read. Think you can do something like this? Choose a session, 3-50. All are welcome! sniper4625 fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Sep 30, 2011 |
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I might do a session or two. I'm torn between that one where Merry Marauder showed up to vote at the last minute and that one where you miscounted the votes and sent a wrong bill to the floor.
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That's a really neat way of doing it. Should make it much much easier to read for an archived version since the thread, even when it was new, was very hard to slog through sometimes. I might do one or two if I have some time, I'd need to review the sessions better. Have to make sure my Hebeists are included.
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Magrov posted:I might do a session or two. I'm torn between that one where Merry Marauder showed up to vote at the last minute MERRY MARAUDER! I was actually just reading over some of my glorious victories in the old thread, so I may do one of those.
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Chapter 8: Vicious Cycle (1460 - 1470) Muscowy attacks the Golden Horde at the start of the new year, triggering declarations of war on the Golden Horde from Qurighar and Cherson as well. Back in Europe, the Bohemian Emperors continue to advance their positions by successfully creating the Reichsregiment, an Imperial governing body intended to strengthen the Empire as a whole. Aram continues to build up the infrastructure of Azerbaijan, investing in markets and trade depots all over the country. After three years of invasion from all sides, the Golden Horde is almost completely occupied by its enemies. Realizing the futility of further resistance, the Khan surrenders unconditionally and the victors take whatever spoils they desire. Muscowy seizes a huge territory of Russian and Tartar lands... ... Qurighar takes the Horde's easternmost possessions... ... and Cherson seizes its Crimean lands, manydoubling the size of their territory in one fell swoop. In 1465 war comes to Azerbaijan once more as Armenia declares war on Syria, and Aram feels forced to honor his alliance with the Syrians, hoping that they will be able to bear the brunt of the Armenian and Greek invasion. This quickly proves a vain hope, as Armenian and Greek troops swarm over the Syrian border. Other Armenian troops advance East into Azerbaijan, and Emin Sabiri meets them with the Azeri army. Aram has ordered him to fight defensively and under no circumstances advance into Armenian lands. At first this strategy is successful, and numerous defeats are dealt to Armenian and Greek armies invading Azerbaijan. Eventually however, numbers begin to tell, as manpower runs low and the losses in battle become harder and harder to replace. Finally a Nicaean army attacks Tabriz and routs the Azeri army. Emin pulls back to the interior, raising mercenaries and fighting desperately to hold on to the provinces not already occupied by the enemy. Forced to flee Tabriz and hide in the mountains, Prince Aydogdu falls gravely ill from exposure in the cold mountain climate. For a while he is close to death, but survives thanks to the attentions of the royal physician. By 1468 almost the entire country is in enemy hands, and there is nowhere left to retreat to. However, Syria has proven more resilient to enemy invasion and before the enemy armies can deliver the final blow to Azerbaijan, war-tired Armenia decides to make peace, taking Van from Syria and Georgia from Azerbaijan. As one conflict ends, another begins. The Pope has excommunicated Italy for warring with Burgundy, and the King of Italy, rather than accept the humilation and try to make amends with Rome, has chosen to install a Pope of his own in Modena with the support of a handful of Cardinals. With two Popes now reigning in Italy, the Catholic Church is divided and for the moment, noone knows which Pope to answer to. Cherson proves unable to hold on to its vast conquests as Crimean rebels declare independence in Zaporozhia. Two consecutive defeats against Armenia has convinced Aram that Azerbaijan must invest more in its own defense, and he invites fortification experts from Greece to help create a new chain of forts on the Armenian border. To get his mind off the shameful losses, he indulges in mysticism, inviting Sufi mystics and philosophers to practice their ways in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan appears trapped in a cycle of defeats, less and less able to defend itself against its stronger neighbour with each territory lost. Can anything break this vicious cycle? Wiz fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Oct 7, 2011 |
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Great work on picking tolerance for heathens as our NI guyz! Tempted to say we should just give it up, try to get Azerbaijan killed ASAP and get the mod released sooner rather than later.
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quote:Oh, and glorious Cherson :byzantium: e; And yeah, we sure have a lot of heathens to be tolerant to now guys, way to go. e2; Azerbaijan should just join in the next time Muscowy decides to beat up the Golden Horde piņata. Kainser fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Sep 30, 2011 |
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The Saurus posted:Great work on picking tolerance for heathens as our NI guyz! Because the other two idea's would of helped us so much more? Looks like Russia is going to be forming soon!
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:19 |
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Yeah, good voting, guys. Come on Azerbaijan, just pull one of your patented "flee across the worlds".
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:21 |
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^^^ If only we had kept our black sea port, we could have invaded the Aztecs and made home in the new world.iLurk posted:Because the other two idea's would of helped us so much more? National bank would have allowed us to mint more with no consequences, which could have been used to bribe our enemies, or obtain a strong second ally, or raise more mercenaries.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:23 |
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Nth-ing the "man, Humanist Tolerance sure was useful". Any chance we can switch ideas, at least if the next king is a little less of a pussy? With all the territorial losses, the stab costs should be tiny. Re: Battle of Alania, how come you fought the Thessalonians with a bigger army, an equally skilled general, on the defensive in presumably mountainous territory and still lost (and ate a ton more losses and WE than them)? Tech inferiority, a huge morale difference, or both? NihilCredo fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Sep 30, 2011 |
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Kainser posted:e; And yeah, we sure have a lot of heathens to be tolerant to now guys, way to go. We're tolerating them from afar
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The Saurus posted:Great work on picking tolerance for heathens as our NI guyz! And not get a mod for Victoria 2? I don't think so. <>
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The Saurus posted:Tempted to say we should just give it up, try to get Azerbaijan killed ASAP and get the mod released sooner rather than later. This is the dumbest post, but the fact that people are thinking like this makes me want to encourage Wiz to release the mod before finishing the LP because, unfortunately, it's not having the effect of making people focus on the LP rather than focusing on the mod, it's making people wish the LP was over sooner.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:27 |
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No you see when we get annexed maybe we can convince the Armenians how great human tolerance is!
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:28 |
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Off to Iceland...
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NihilCredo posted:Nth-ing the "man, Humanist Tolerance sure was useful". I won the Battle of Alania. The reason I took more losses was just bad dice rolls.
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Garenas posted:This is the dumbest post, but the fact that people are thinking like this makes me want to encourage Wiz to release the mod before finishing the LP because, unfortunately, it's not having the effect of making people focus on the LP rather than focusing on the mod, it's making people wish the LP was over sooner. OK, how's this: If I get annexed, I'll sit on the mod for 3 months before releasing it. That should nip any calls for defeat in the bud.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:34 |
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National Bank would not have helped at all, you people don't know poo poo about this game.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:34 |
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Wiz posted some better Japan maps in the IRC if anyone wanted to see them : Start: Current:
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Darth Windu posted:National Bank would not have helped at all, you people don't know poo poo about this game. Seriously, this. It's not like I chose defeat over minting, there's just only so many mercenaries you can buy, especially with half the country occupied.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:37 |
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I think most people voted for Humanist Tolerance because it was a refreshing change of pace from dull powergaming and/or Islamic Fascist Mordor. I highly doubt anyone actually thought that it would make us best friends with Armenia or the Greek states.
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seal it with a kiss posted:No you see when we get annexed maybe we can convince the Armenians how great human tolerance is! They already have both Humanist Tolerance and Ecumenicism. The Armenians will tolerate the gently caress out of you.
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Wiz posted:OK, how's this: If I get annexed, I'll sit on the mod for 3 months before releasing it. As someone who's just watching and enjoying this, thank you.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:40 |
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So wait, we don't tart the game with level 1 forts? No wonder thongs haven't been going so well. Well not that we can actually fortify stuff, I think we might be able to do better now. At least now we can scorch the earth and let our foes wither on the vine as they foolishly try to take our lands
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:41 |
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quote:e2; Azerbaijan should just join in the next time Muscowy decides to beat up the Golden Horde piņata. If our King wasn't basically the biggest wimp I would have. My fingers were itching to take Astrakhan.
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Jimmy4400nav posted:So wait, we don't tart the game with level 1 forts? No wonder thongs haven't been going so well. Well not that we can actually fortify stuff, I think we might be able to do better now. At least now we can scorch the earth and let our foes wither on the vine as they foolishly try to take our lands All provinces have fort level 1 even without any forts built. Level 1 fort built = fort level 2 total. I've majorly nerfed Scorch Earth, so you can't use it as an instant win button.
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MadPierrot posted:I think most people voted for Humanist Tolerance because it was a refreshing change of pace from dull powergaming and/or Islamic Fascist Mordor. I highly doubt anyone actually thought that it would make us best friends with Armenia or the Greek states. Exactly this. If you're playing EU3 to win, you're doing it wrong.
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Wiz posted:All provinces have fort level 1 even without any forts built. Ah, so does this mean we get to fortify even more or do we have to wait for fort level 2?
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Jimmy4400nav posted:Ah, so does this mean we get to fortify even more or do we have to wait for fort level 2? Yeah, a province with a level 1 fort built will have fort level 2.
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Slow Loris posted:Exactly this. If you're playing EU3 to win, you're doing it wrong. Playing it to survive is fairly common, though. Maybe if we get annexed Wiz can just do handsoff updates for us anyway. One of the best parts of paradox LPs is all the crazy poo poo the player doesn't even have a hand in anyway.
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Also, if you're interested in writing summaries, let me know so I can add you to the list
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:47 |
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Aram's been useful for his reforms, but what we really need right now is his more military-minded heir to come to power to take back our rightful clay (and also Astrakhan).
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:49 |
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Poor Serbia got kicked back to square one What's that other country in Bosnia?
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:51 |
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Who's colonizing the Caribbean? Portugal?
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:57 |
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Not even EU3 can prevent Azerbaijan from getting continually kicked in the nuts. In 50 years we'll probably end up in India or something.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:59 |
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Oh no, one lost war, whatever will we do! Tolerance is great, and it will pay off in the end.
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# ? Sep 30, 2011 21:59 |
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Cowcatcher posted:Poor Serbia got kicked back to square one Muscowy (somehow) Talas posted:Who's colonizing the Caribbean? Portugal? Yep, Portugal is colonzing the Caribbean and Atlantic Isles, Morocco is colonizing the African coast.
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And we're back to square one again. Blast. One day, Armenia! You think you can take our ancient enemy from our boots? Never. We will rule the South Caucasus. We must consult Allah himself to guide us. From the use of plant life, a symbol of Allah and his creative nature. And we shall burn this plant life and smoke it, as we are the land of eternal fire. Sufi Mysticism, ho!
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