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Title: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on January 02, 2009, 03:13:01 PM
I've always been a fan of these games, so I thought they deserved a thread. I love Victoria and HoI; I've actually been LANing Hearts of Iron 2 with some friends over the break and we've had some pretty fun games.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: afleitch on January 02, 2009, 03:17:05 PM
I've always been a fan of these games, so I thought they deserved a thread. I love Victoria and HoI; I've actually been LANing Hearts of Iron 2 with some friends over the break and we've had some pretty fun games.

I am a big fan of Victoria and EUIII. Of course my Victoria has been modded so it's almost unrecognisable. The fact that Paradox encourage modding and feedback is one of it's strongest points as a developer. I like Victoria in particular for it's less military approach and the use of diplomacy/trade, plus it's fun to try out some 'what if' scenarios.

Of course a potential Victoria update/remake would be welcomed ;D


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on January 02, 2009, 03:20:51 PM
What's your mod(s) for Vicky? I just use VIP, but I do love it.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: afleitch on January 02, 2009, 03:49:10 PM
What's your mod(s) for Vicky? I just use VIP, but I do love it.

I have VIP too, but i've altered some data, including formation dates, adjusted flags and added about 3 potential countries/unions that are not in VIP


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 02, 2009, 06:09:13 PM
I adore CK, love Vicky, rather dislike EUIII (I get CTDs every... 20 years, I'd say) and feel coldly towards the HoIs.  That's cuz CK and Vicky can get ahistorical quickly :) (perhaps EUIII can, too, but I have yet to be able to play any significant span of time with it :P)

Some parts of VIP look nice but it appears to do a good job of making the game more historical.  No more Haiti being the world's fifth most important country :(


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: 12th Doctor on January 02, 2009, 06:42:49 PM
Hearts of Iron II looks interesting.  Wish I had the money.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: afleitch on January 02, 2009, 06:48:53 PM
Hearts of Iron II looks interesting.  Wish I had the money.

It's very military based. I chose to play Argentina at first, just to re-arm etc. By the time the war came around, I declared war on the Axis powers and had some interesting naval battles, followed by some financial aid going both ways.

Next time around I was Estonia :/ I built up good relations with Germany prior to the war and the Soviet Union left me alone when it did the carve up in 1939. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 as planned and I had to grant them access. As a result they were better able to attack (and take) Leningrad and advance on Moscow....

In short it's a fun game ;D


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Erc on January 02, 2009, 07:39:31 PM
I've got the EU's, HoI 1, and Vicky.

Always liked EU2; I have EU3 but my computer's video card can't keep up with it.  From what I've seen (going at the pace of about 10 seconds / day!) it looks quite nice.

HoI & Vicky I never really got much into.  My few attempts at HoI I'd get wiped off the face of the planet within a couple years.  HoI 2 looks good, but I'm not going to buy that if I can't figure out how to be at all successful with the first game.
Vicky...I just never really figured out how to work it.  The economy system always looks really interesting at first but I can never get it to work the way I want it (I can't build anything because my workers don't have clothes?  I'm pretty sure they aren't actually running around Belgium naked this time of year).  I should really give them another try one of these days.

CK has always looked really fun, and I may pick it up one of these days.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Lunar on January 02, 2009, 08:25:09 PM
I played Hearts of Iron hardcore in highschool, especially mutliplayer that I would play with at the same time every week.  HoI is single-handedly responsible for my ability to name obscure state capitals


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Dowager Mod on January 02, 2009, 08:29:23 PM
I have all of their games, was just in the middle of a game of Vicky.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 02, 2009, 09:03:11 PM
I played Hearts of Iron hardcore in highschool, especially mutliplayer that I would play with at the same time every week.  HoI is single-handedly responsible for my ability to name obscure state capitals

I credit EU and CK with my knowledge of European geography.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Man From G.O.P. on January 03, 2009, 02:05:49 AM
I used to play Victoria all the time and for some odd reason I often played at the Netherlands, seeing if I could expand on the continent while being smack dab between Germany France and the UK.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: k-onmmunist on January 03, 2009, 02:52:29 PM
I have all of the games, but Vicky is the best.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Matt Damon™ on January 03, 2009, 09:06:10 PM
victoria owns


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 03, 2009, 09:14:55 PM
I still don't know why Crusader Kings is the least popular Paradox game (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=79724.0).  (well, besides Dippy, obviously ;))


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on January 06, 2009, 03:31:15 PM
I just want to add that having a LAN game of HOI 2 (or I guess any paradox game, in theory) reaaaally messes up with your sleep. I stayed up until five am last night playing it.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Reluctant Republican on January 06, 2009, 09:30:32 PM
I’ve played HOI 2 the most, though I don’t believe I’ve ever really fought a war in it, thus defeating the purpose. But I don’t really play strategy games, and I never mastered the use of navy’s or airforce in the game, which prevent me from doing much. My biggest complaint with it is that outside of war there’s nothing to do, and it does get tedious after awhile. It looks like HOI3 is going to have an expanded political system though, so that should be good.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: LanceMcSteel on January 07, 2009, 07:17:22 PM
I got Vicky and HOI 1 and 2.

Would have to say Vicky is superior due to the better economic engine and immigration in the game that HOI lacks. Its fun to just to play as a American nation, enact social reforms and let the immigrants flood in and become an economic super power within 30 years.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Platypus on January 21, 2009, 11:53:23 AM
HoI is crap, CK is OK, but the stars of the show are the EU series. I'll always love them, along with Civ 2 and SimCity 4 :)


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: DanielX on January 23, 2009, 05:39:21 PM
I have EUII, and its great, albeit old (and cheap - like $10 to download, no intrusive DRM, Paradox is a much nicer company than EA). Once my financial situation is a touch better, I'm going to sweep in and get EUIII and Victoria.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on March 01, 2009, 05:23:17 PM
I got Vicky and HOI 1 and 2.

Would have to say Vicky is superior due to the better economic engine and immigration in the game that HOI lacks. Its fun to just to play as a American nation, enact social reforms and let the immigrants flood in and become an economic super power within 30 years.

I have Vicky and Vicky Revolutions. I can't get anybody to to come to the US. The only immigration is to CA which consists of Russians(proabably cause Russia collapses everytime I play for some reason) and Chinese. There is no immigration anywhere else especially in NY, PA, the midwest and New England where I need it the most to run my factories, while CA is severly overpopulated with like 150 pop to NY's 70. I have tried everything from radical Socialism to Extreme Lassiez Faire and nothing effects it. Another problem is that when I play starting in 1881(my prefered start year cause things are stable) I can't get the US economy to grow while Germany is racing up to 3000 by 1885 and to 5200 by 1890 and I am still stuck at 1500 down from about 1800 which is the Game starting point.

That said I love the economic engine and the election simulation. I wish it included the Gov't simulation(Secretaries/Ministers) of HoI 1 and 2 as well.

I am also working on a game of HoI 2 Doomsday playing as the US. Last Summer I got really into military strategy especially Naval Tactics. I loved building Carrier Groups(1 Carrier, 2 Cruisers, 3 Destroyers was my prefered setup). My land skills were horrible so the game turned me off.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on March 01, 2009, 08:53:04 PM
In Vicky, pops only migrate to your most recently "de-colonized" region.  In order to get them to move themselves around your country you need to make sure there's a shortage of jobs in the region you want to evict them from and a lot of jobs elsewhere in the country.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on March 02, 2009, 10:39:39 PM
In Vicky, pops only migrate to your most recently "de-colonized" region.  In order to get them to move themselves around your country you need to make sure there's a shortage of jobs in the region you want to evict them from and a lot of jobs elsewhere in the country.

The problem is Vicky Revolutions doesn't allow for flexibility like the original did. The problem isn't internal migration but immigration from say Ireland to Massachusetts and Italy to NY and both are like 99% Protestant and 95% Yankee and its 1900. Revolutions doesn't allow for you to build factories unless the ruling party is state capitalist or planned economy. In 1881 both the GOP and the Dems are Lassiez Faire(Of course I change these from time to time to add more fun to the mix, but only btw Lassiez Faire and Interventionist). Immigration is usually dead in Revolutions for some reason with the exception of California, Alaska and Siberia(For some reason the Chinese flock to these three regions and the last 2 make no sense at all)

Plus why is my economy always stagnated. Is it my fear of debt. I always slide the Education slider to 100% to gain a tech edge. Crime, Military and Social spending(none existent in 1881 except 12 hour workday which I usually lower to 10 or 8 after I discover an off setting technology like "Shift work") usually take a hit to keep my budget balanced with usally a 100 surplus or more. I am the king of unfunded mandates. Tariffs I usually place at 25% or more(A requirement to get those pesky capitalist to invest) and I try to eliminate the income taxes or make them as low as possible(Don't have a choice cause the only way to build factories is via Capitalists thanks to game restrictions, mentioned above) and if the rich rate is higher then 25% nothing is built. I have tried more socialist policies with the sliders for taxes being at 75% for rich, 50% for Middle Class, and 25% for the poor; Tarriffs at 100% and -25%; plus spending jacked up and the result was not stagnation but shrinking.

I am seriously considering uninstalling Vicotoria Revolutions and returning to the original version An Empire Under the Sun.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on March 02, 2009, 11:58:37 PM
Yes.  Like I said, pops move to the most recently de-colonized region, and only to that region; the only way to try to reshuffle your pops is by following the strategies I provided.

If you're looking for factories to spring up, promote pops to capitalists posthaste.  With the tiny countries I'm wont to play, I usually attempt to convert a ~20,000 member strong pop at first, but America can support much bigger capitalist populations, I'm sure.  Remember that capitalists only build factories in their home regions, though they build railroads anywhere they can.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: 12th Doctor on January 23, 2010, 12:35:22 AM
I am interested in buying either Hearts of Iron II or III now, but I am a bit confused about something.  I have heard that one, or the other, or both allow you to play not only any country that exists, but any country that could possibly (CSA, Burgundy, Soviet Europe, etc) have existed... but I can't find confirmation of this anywhere.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on January 23, 2010, 01:14:55 AM
Mods, I believe.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on January 23, 2010, 07:48:54 PM
I know nothing about III, but in II you can do it with about five minutes of modding (or thirty seconds of downloading a scenario that already exists). It's probably easier in III but I dunno.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: k-onmmunist on January 24, 2010, 07:04:45 AM
Victoria is the greatest game ever. I just made a Canadian Empire on it :P

Consisting of OTL territory, Greenland, Alaska, West Africa and Namibia :)


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl on January 24, 2010, 08:15:52 AM
I still don't know why Crusader Kings is the least popular Paradox game (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=79724.0).  (well, besides Dippy, obviously ;))

Probably cause it's the only one to not have any historical determinism.


I play it, but its my least favorite.



Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl on January 24, 2010, 08:16:58 AM
Of Paradox Games, I play:

Europa Universalis
Europa Universalis II
Europa Universalis III : In Nomine
Crusader Kings
Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun
Victoria: Revolutions
Hearts of Iron
Hearts of Iron 2 Doomsday Armageddon
Hearts of Iron 3
Europa Universalis: Rome
Diplomacy


I would love to play a multiplayer with people here on any of these games. :P


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 24, 2010, 10:05:03 AM
I still don't know why Crusader Kings is the least popular Paradox game (https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=79724.0).  (well, besides Dippy, obviously ;))

Probably cause it's the only one to not have any historical determinism.

Exactly!  It's fantastic!


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: 12th Doctor on January 24, 2010, 03:40:55 PM
Could someone here give me a brief tutorial on how to use the different stuff on Hearts of Iron III?  For some reason, my in game tutorials crash the game, which I downloaded, so I don't have the manual.  I have downloaded all the patches, and they were no help.  The entire thing seems less intuitive than I figured it would be.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Free Palestine on January 24, 2010, 04:40:37 PM
I play Victoria and For the Glory.  I have EUIII but I never really liked the 3D interface, or the exploration in the game.  Hearts of Iron II is just too limited for me.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Mikado on January 24, 2010, 04:49:56 PM
Suggestion for someone who has all four games: (only have EU III and Vicky here).

Play through all four games, mod each one to be like the previous one where it ended.  Take screenshots and put them here, with a clear plotline for us to follow.  Allow us to vote on big choices in EU III and Vicky, and accept suggestions from the board.  Don't worry about derailing history.  If the mighty Croatian Empire ends up ruling South America, roll with it.

If successful, it'd be the best thread in the history of this board, and quite possibly the forum.

This is a suggestion, not a request.  There is a colossal amount of work involved, and I certainly wouldn't want to do it, and I wouldn't blame you at all if you didn't want to either.  However, if there's someone here that does want to undertake this endeavor, he'd be quite popular indeed.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

I think that someone like ilikeverin could pull it off.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: 12th Doctor on January 24, 2010, 05:32:50 PM
Suggestion for someone who has all four games: (only have EU III and Vicky here).

Play through all four games, mod each one to be like the previous one where it ended.  Take screenshots and put them here, with a clear plotline for us to follow.  Allow us to vote on big choices in EU III and Vicky, and accept suggestions from the board.  Don't worry about derailing history.  If the mighty Croatian Empire ends up ruling South America, roll with it.

If successful, it'd be the best thread in the history of this board, and quite possibly the forum.

This is a suggestion, not a request.  There is a colossal amount of work involved, and I certainly wouldn't want to do it, and I wouldn't blame you at all if you didn't want to either.  However, if there's someone here that does want to undertake this endeavor, he'd be quite popular indeed.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

I think that someone like ilikeverin could pull it off.

I think they have a program now, installed with Crusader Kings, that automatically does that for you.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: 12th Doctor on January 24, 2010, 08:16:39 PM
Suggestion for someone who has all four games: (only have EU III and Vicky here).

Play through all four games, mod each one to be like the previous one where it ended.  Take screenshots and put them here, with a clear plotline for us to follow.  Allow us to vote on big choices in EU III and Vicky, and accept suggestions from the board.  Don't worry about derailing history.  If the mighty Croatian Empire ends up ruling South America, roll with it.

If successful, it'd be the best thread in the history of this board, and quite possibly the forum.

This is a suggestion, not a request.  There is a colossal amount of work involved, and I certainly wouldn't want to do it, and I wouldn't blame you at all if you didn't want to either.  However, if there's someone here that does want to undertake this endeavor, he'd be quite popular indeed.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

I think that someone like ilikeverin could pull it off.

I think they have a program now, installed with Crusader Kings, that automatically does that for you.

Actually, its part of the Victoria expansion pack.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 24, 2010, 08:44:35 PM
Suggestion for someone who has all four games: (only have EU III and Vicky here).

Play through all four games, mod each one to be like the previous one where it ended.  Take screenshots and put them here, with a clear plotline for us to follow.  Allow us to vote on big choices in EU III and Vicky, and accept suggestions from the board.  Don't worry about derailing history.  If the mighty Croatian Empire ends up ruling South America, roll with it.

If successful, it'd be the best thread in the history of this board, and quite possibly the forum.

This is a suggestion, not a request.  There is a colossal amount of work involved, and I certainly wouldn't want to do it, and I wouldn't blame you at all if you didn't want to either.  However, if there's someone here that does want to undertake this endeavor, he'd be quite popular indeed.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

I think that someone like ilikeverin could pull it off.

I have all four that are portable from one to the next, but, sadly, no... my attention span is not sufficient enough to have even finished a full game of Crusader Kings, my favorite.  Plus, I really don't have that much free time.

It's also worth noting that pulling off such a feat on the hyperactive Paradox AAR forums (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=a3fbe3972ceb746b3e0eec76337c7ade&f=224) has only been attempted rarely.  I'm not sure it's ever been pulled off, honestly.  Part of the problem is that the community is so splintered that it's hard to find someone who, say, would be just as happy sitting through a game of Crusader Kings as one of Hearts of Iron.

I've finished Victoria several times, but that's because it goes so darn fast!


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 24, 2010, 08:48:43 PM
Suggestion for someone who has all four games: (only have EU III and Vicky here).

Play through all four games, mod each one to be like the previous one where it ended.  Take screenshots and put them here, with a clear plotline for us to follow.  Allow us to vote on big choices in EU III and Vicky, and accept suggestions from the board.  Don't worry about derailing history.  If the mighty Croatian Empire ends up ruling South America, roll with it.

If successful, it'd be the best thread in the history of this board, and quite possibly the forum.

This is a suggestion, not a request.  There is a colossal amount of work involved, and I certainly wouldn't want to do it, and I wouldn't blame you at all if you didn't want to either.  However, if there's someone here that does want to undertake this endeavor, he'd be quite popular indeed.

If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

I think that someone like ilikeverin could pull it off.

I have all four that are portable from one to the next, but, sadly, no... my attention span is not sufficient enough to have even finished a full game of Crusader Kings, my favorite.  Plus, I really don't have that much free time.

It's also worth noting that pulling off such a feat on the hyperactive Paradox AAR forums (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?s=a3fbe3972ceb746b3e0eec76337c7ade&f=224) has only been attempted rarely.  I'm not sure it's ever been pulled off, honestly.  Part of the problem is that the community is so splintered that it's hard to find someone who, say, would be just as happy sitting through a game of Crusader Kings as one of Hearts of Iron.

I've finished Victoria several times, but that's because it goes so darn fast!

Actually, now that I think of it, how about this: we have four different Atlasians pick the game they like best and play through it, then pass it off to the next.

The free time issue for me still remains, and I suspect I'd be drafted to play Crusader Kings (oh, woe is me! ;D), but if we started this summer it might be able to work.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Хahar 🤔 on January 24, 2010, 10:29:38 PM
Mikado, you could do it. CK really just makes things ahistorical, and HoI only does one thing.

But ilikeverin's idea I like.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: HappyWarrior on January 24, 2010, 11:36:43 PM
I don't have the money to get any of the games, though I have Rome as of now.  Is there any way that anyone knows to get a copy for free or use another person's code to get a copy 4 my comp?


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Mikado on January 25, 2010, 02:29:53 AM
Mikado, you could do it. CK really just makes things ahistorical, and HoI only does one thing.

But ilikeverin's idea I like.

Xahar...um...I don't think you quite understand how long these games take.  Also, to be completely honest, I'm not that great at any of them.


PS:  Verin, you could do Crusader Kings as Iceland and barely lift a finger.  :D  Damn interface, where are my territories?


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: k-onmmunist on January 25, 2010, 05:29:30 AM
I have all of them, and I would do it, but I really really hardcore suck at all of them except Hearts of Iron 2.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 25, 2010, 09:50:45 AM
Mikado, you could do it. CK really just makes things ahistorical, and HoI only does one thing.

But ilikeverin's idea I like.

Xahar...um...I don't think you quite understand how long these games take.  Also, to be completely honest, I'm not that great at any of them.


PS:  Verin, you could do Crusader Kings as Iceland and barely lift a finger.  :D  Damn interface, where are my territories?

Unfortunately Iceland starts as a Republic and is thus not playable from 1066 :'(


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Lief 🗽 on January 26, 2010, 10:08:57 PM
If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Damnit. I just spend hours reading this instead of doing school work. :P


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on January 26, 2010, 11:02:50 PM
I've seen it done several times before on the Paradox AAR forums, verin.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on January 26, 2010, 11:28:05 PM
I've seen it done several times before on the Paradox AAR forums, verin.

Do you have examples?  I know I've seen it started a lot of times, but finished...

Then again, I suppose all the finished ones would end up in a HoI AAR forum, which I never look at.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Platypus on January 28, 2010, 12:24:35 PM
If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Damnit. I just spend hours reading this instead of doing school work. :P

I'm nearing the end of the EU3 part now. I'm looking forward to Vicky, but I'm dubious about the HOI2 quality, because, well, HOI/HOI2 sucked.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl on January 30, 2010, 12:54:35 AM
If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Damnit. I just spend hours reading this instead of doing school work. :P

I'm nearing the end of the EU3 part now. I'm looking forward to Vicky, but I'm dubious about the HOI2 quality, because, well, HOI/HOI2 sucked.

HoI 2 did not suck. Especially with Doomsday and Armageddon added on.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on February 03, 2010, 02:49:37 AM
If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Damnit. I just spend hours reading this instead of doing school work. :P

I'm nearing the end of the EU3 part now. I'm looking forward to Vicky, but I'm dubious about the HOI2 quality, because, well, HOI/HOI2 sucked.

I've actually spent the greater part of the week reading through this scenario and just finished. The poster, Wiz, made even the HOI parts awesome and suspenseful. I love the whole thing, especially how the Reichstag always messes everything up.

and Verin- I do distinctly remember at least one completed Byzantine mega-AAR, and vaguely recall several others (though I don't know if they finished). I'll go look through the Paradox HOI boards to see if I can find anything.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Mikado on February 03, 2010, 06:31:13 PM
If you want to know what I'm talking about, something like this:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2787274&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Damnit. I just spend hours reading this instead of doing school work. :P

I'm nearing the end of the EU3 part now. I'm looking forward to Vicky, but I'm dubious about the HOI2 quality, because, well, HOI/HOI2 sucked.

I've actually spent the greater part of the week reading through this scenario and just finished. The poster, Wiz, made even the HOI parts awesome and suspenseful. I love the whole thing, especially how the Reichstag always messes everything up.

and Verin- I do distinctly remember at least one completed Byzantine mega-AAR, and vaguely recall several others (though I don't know if they finished). I'll go look through the Paradox HOI boards to see if I can find anything.

Wiz is currently running a heavily modded version of Rome as Crete.  He's only a little way in, and his variant actually makes Rome an interesting game.  I never bought that one because it looked horrible.

His mod can be downloaded here:  http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=440660

Crete is here:  http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3257534

Crete isn't very far in yet, but the Cretins...er...Cretans in the Senate are very active.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on February 04, 2010, 03:39:27 PM
Yeah, I've been reading the Crete thread as it goes along as well. Almost even considering throwing down the money for an SA account to take part in it. I bought Rome when it came out and was horribly let down, though Wiz's mod actually makes the game decent.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: k-onmmunist on February 05, 2010, 09:12:32 AM
I think I'll do an Austria-Hungary AAR.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Mikado on February 05, 2010, 03:31:56 PM

In Victoria, right?

Yeah, I've been reading the Crete thread as it goes along as well. Almost even considering throwing down the money for an SA account to take part in it. I bought Rome when it came out and was horribly let down, though Wiz's mod actually makes the game decent.

I read several SA boards, and that one in particular has some funny threads.  I've been toying around with posting a link to The You Testament on the Religion Board.  I'm not a Christian and that game offends me with its bastardization of Christianity.  How can you create a Jesus game and screw up Jesus?


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: k-onmmunist on February 05, 2010, 03:33:07 PM

Aye. I'll try democraticising to keep the liberals happy.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: k-onmmunist on February 14, 2010, 05:44:13 AM
I played Hearts of Iron hardcore in highschool, especially mutliplayer that I would play with at the same time every week.  HoI is single-handedly responsible for my ability to name obscure state capitals

I credit EU and CK with my knowledge of European geography.

I credit Victoria with my knowledge of modernism and philosophy.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on February 14, 2010, 08:31:43 PM
I played Hearts of Iron hardcore in highschool, especially mutliplayer that I would play with at the same time every week.  HoI is single-handedly responsible for my ability to name obscure state capitals

I credit EU and CK with my knowledge of European geography.

I credit Victoria with my knowledge of modernism and philosophy.

I've always meant to take the time to actually read their overly thorough overviews of every philosopher ever, but they're so terribly boring ;)


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: k-onmmunist on February 15, 2010, 05:57:39 PM
I played Hearts of Iron hardcore in highschool, especially mutliplayer that I would play with at the same time every week.  HoI is single-handedly responsible for my ability to name obscure state capitals

I credit EU and CK with my knowledge of European geography.

I credit Victoria with my knowledge of modernism and philosophy.

I've always meant to take the time to actually read their overly thorough overviews of every philosopher ever, but they're so terribly boring ;)

Really? I actually found them very informative.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on February 16, 2010, 12:07:03 AM
I played Hearts of Iron hardcore in highschool, especially mutliplayer that I would play with at the same time every week.  HoI is single-handedly responsible for my ability to name obscure state capitals

I credit EU and CK with my knowledge of European geography.

I credit Victoria with my knowledge of modernism and philosophy.

I've always meant to take the time to actually read their overly thorough overviews of every philosopher ever, but they're so terribly boring ;)

Really? I actually found them very informative.

I'm sure they are (by "overly thorough" I meant "very thorough", essentially), but philosophy doesn't tend to excite me.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Badger on February 18, 2010, 04:25:01 PM
Love the EU's. Also have Crusader Kings and Vicky, but both discs are corrupted.

I believe my dream game would be a cross between CK and Medieval Total War II.

Just downloaded the most recent EUIII patch which wiped all my (incomplete) saved games. :(


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on February 18, 2010, 08:14:38 PM
Love the EU's. Also have Crusader Kings and Vicky, but both discs are corrupted.

I believe my dream game would be a cross between CK and Medieval Total War II.

Just downloaded the most recent EUIII patch which wiped all my (incomplete) saved games. :(

thats a real b**ch isn't it?


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Badger on February 19, 2010, 04:08:16 PM
Love the EU's. Also have Crusader Kings and Vicky, but both discs are corrupted.

I believe my dream game would be a cross between CK and Medieval Total War II.

Just downloaded the most recent EUIII patch which wiped all my (incomplete) saved games. :(

thats a real b**ch isn't it?

Tell me about it! Though it gives me a chance to restart as some of the countries I was playing and wanted to do better. ;)


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Platypus on November 13, 2010, 08:36:47 AM
I finally got Eu3. It crashes a lot but I'm having a lot of fun.

Any tips for new players?


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: ilikeverin on November 17, 2010, 02:36:11 PM
Get Vicky 2, which is amazing and also amazing2?


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Mikado on November 17, 2010, 02:49:04 PM
So, a while back I linked to the Hohenzollern thread on Something Awful?  Well, the same guy that did that, Wiz, has been/is running a heavily modified version of EU:Rome on Something Awful based on democratic voting by the thread's readers.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3257534

We are the glorious Democratic Republic of Crete, which is...well...

()

Allied with Carthage and Pontus, but our alliance is currently losing a war with Rome, Egypt, Celtiberi, and Numidia (poor old Carthage is getting slaughtered).


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on November 17, 2010, 08:38:13 PM
Got Vicky 2-playing as the USA. It's 1858 and I've annexed Hawaii and Texas and have about a third of Latin America in my sphere, though I don't plan to take California, Arizona, etc. until I finish the Civil War.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Bacon King on November 18, 2010, 11:29:38 AM
You post on SA, Mikado? What's your username? (I don't post but I have been lurking that Crete thread from time to time, <3 populists)


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: The Mikado on November 18, 2010, 11:36:10 AM
You post on SA, Mikado? What's your username? (I don't post but I have been lurking that Crete thread from time to time, <3 populists)

Patter Song.

If you've been lurking in Crete, you'll recognize me pretty quickly, I think.  :P


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Badger on November 25, 2010, 05:27:07 PM
Well, it's Thanksgiving, I'm full, the wife and boys are down for naps, and I've been drinking my homebrew stout, good bourbon, and now sake.

Sounds like the perfect time to start an EU3 game! :D


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee on November 25, 2010, 05:34:15 PM
Well, it's Thanksgiving, I'm full, the wife and boys are down for naps, and I've been drinking my homebrew stout, good bourbon, and now sake.

Sounds like the perfect time to start an EU3 game! :D

What country and year?


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Lief 🗽 on December 22, 2010, 10:25:47 AM
There's a new EU3 expansion focusing on Asia apparently. Sounds interesting. It also updated the graphics; the map looks a lot nicer now.


Title: Re: Paradox Games Thread
Post by: Badger on May 31, 2011, 03:48:37 PM
Well, it's Thanksgiving, I'm full, the wife and boys are down for naps, and I've been drinking my homebrew stout, good bourbon, and now sake.

Sounds like the perfect time to start an EU3 game! :D

What country and year?

I believe I started two around the same time from the earliest date available with The Grand Campaign (1350?). One as France, and one as Castille. Still playing each on rare occassion I find the time.