Hurray! It's back!
I was wondering if somebody could recommend a good tutorial-ish AAR for MEIOU. I downloaded it a while ago but haven't tried it yet. It seems like it's quite drastically different from standard EU 3.
Hmm, tough to say. There's the AAR listing but most of the recent ones are anything but gameplay AARs. The Naples one went pretty deep into the mechanics but that's with a game and mod version that's nearly as old as what I'm using for this AAR. The Sibir one is at least for DW and you can probably pick something up there even though it's not very long.
Don't be too intimidated by MEIOU though, even if none of the AARs really give what you're looking for. While it adds and changes a lot of stuff it's one of the more intuitive mods out there as far as learning to play it goes IMO if you have a good grasp of the vanilla game. I really hadn't played that much when I started this AAR and the game's gone just fine. Granted, reading the files helped in some situations.
Holy crap! This is a great day, for certain. Especially with the taste of things to come with that last exchange. Oh man!
Hehe, lovely reaction. Caught you by surprise, did I?
Brilliant, it's back!
Indeed it is. Welcome!
I luuuurve the Colonialism CB in cases like that. It sucks, however, when you only border 1-2 provinces...
Yeah. The long borders make the wars more difficult logistically (especially since I need to take into account that my North American lands are quite prone to rebellion) but certainly give me good gains with the CB.
It must have sucked that you're still playing an old version of MEIOU while all the cool kids play the new ones.
Heh, I have seven different installs of EU III when you count just different versions of vanilla and MEIOU, so I'm not exactly letting my AARs keep me behind. Of course the AARs have old versions, but that's unavoidable when you do AARs like I do. I.e. take your sweet time. :laugh:
A good object lesson in why you shouldn't let academics decide your foreign policy. I suppose the University of Cuzco's international relations faculty are going ashore in the first wave...
Huh? I find the policy entirely sensible. Okay, apart from enemies we only have "nations that we leave alone as long as they behave" instead of friends or allies, I'll give you that, but what's wrong with that?
I sort of dropped out on commenting on this before it paused, so it's nice to see that natural disasters are still hitting you hard.
Even though it was in a very inconvenient province, I had to laugh when the first natural disaster I got after getting back to the game hit me for 90% of the inhabitants.
Revenge of the blood red god begins!!!
About time too!
It's back! Wonderful And welcome back.
Thanks!
Welcome back, friend. Kick those silly Spaniards off your continent!
Thank you, will do!
Once again it lives!
How long will it take to 'persuade' Spain and Portugal that it is time to leave the New World ?
It seems that your path to the world domination is straight and clear by now. Hopefully your entire population won't die because of volcanoes/diseases/floods/earthquakes/meteoritic rains/alien invasions (choose your extinction catastrophe immediately after this ad and gain ANOTHER random cataclysm for FREE. This offer is time-limited).
Hehe, I suppose it's good that the disasters are here to keep us honest.
I haven't counted how many wars it will take (and indeed some parts are still TI so I don't even have the accurate province count) but "some decades" should be the correct answer.
Glad to see this return! The Iberian powers should soon be removed from America and then the Time of Revenge (wholly justified 'revenge' which will truly usher in a period of enlightment to the benighted European hordes) begins!
I like your thinking.
Wow! Great to see an update, I have been hoping, but didn't want to nag you. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, good to have you and happy to drag you out of lurking.
Until a natural disaster kills 90% of the population in some province just as some Euro Thief is about to conquer it.
Welcome back
Thanks! Yes, that scenario did cross my mind. :laugh:
Wow, glad to see you're back at it, Malurous. I can't wait how the thieves will be punished, though there is a real chance the Spanish will roll over and die before the Inca get their revenge. The English seem well on their way to extinction, too, but you can always take Iceland in that case.
Can't really know what happens with the Spanish - it wouldn't be the first time that the AI has someone on the ropes and just signs some insignificant peace deal.
We'll see about England, they've been in pretty much the same situation for a long time and so far there has been no sign of it changing. If Geneva decides to eat them they're toast, but that hasn't happened so far.