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It's not that i am hiding something I just put the event there to be visible. And there is not much to see there.
This one is 20 years later.
This one is 20 years later.
and how it annexed japan just for the heck of it. you may call me oldfashioned, but sometimes I wonder why people play a game like this.
the only pictures worse than this are the ongodly HRE empires in EU3.
the only pictures worse than this are the ongodly HRE empires in EU3.
To each his own, if you don't like to play that way it's perfectly fine. No-one is forcing you to. I find the picture funny, an India covering all of China, but leaving out most of India
To each his own, if you don't like to play that way it's perfectly fine. No-one is forcing you to. I find the picture funny, an India covering all of China, but leaving out most of India
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I love this kind of thing, never really done it myself.
I wonder if thats the largest empire someones made with the lamest country?
I just had a plan. And it worked perfectly) It's a shame though that people of British India can't get exited about the country of India existing and revolt against the British.
May i ask what do you expect me to do with Sikkim different than this? What can be done with it anyway? And this is the only reason i started this game - to turn a lame country into a great empire. I don't see any other way to do it. Do you? Then share it with me please.
May i ask what do you expect me to do with Sikkim different than this? What can be done with it anyway? And this is the only reason i started this game - to turn a lame country into a great empire. I don't see any other way to do it. Do you? Then share it with me please.
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Why? Because it's fun, that's why. I love turning small, historically insignificant nations into mighty superpowers, and so do a lot of other people, apparently. Trying to always play a strictly historical game gets boring, fast.
But that's just me
@Nihtantuel - Nice job with Sikkim!
I did something only in the beginning. China was conquered by Britain, but i took the cake) I did it before in my Japan game, but Sikkim looks better)
Me to. It's incredibly impressive. Even if you manipulated healthcare, there's so many obstacles to overcome. A ridiculously tiny initial populace for a start. I'd imagine the first logical step is then to take out your neighbours Bhutan and Nepal for more Nepalese culture. Then i'm staggered at how you went and beat China and Japan. It also means you're either playing 1.0 allowing insta-annexation of those nations, or you broke the infamy limit and a LOT of truces.
Ah, so that wasn't a legitimate conqest? That makes sense, too bad though.
That is a seriously impressive Sikkim>India there. Ugly colour but that can be modded.
No, it wasn't legitimate. As it stated in the post above there is no way to do it on your own. In this case i took advantage of imperfect diplomacy mechanic in game.
Lies! - send your army (brigade) into claimed area and leave it out there to increase your odds +0.2% - but I am not absolutely certain were there other variables that increased that rate even more like... my personal charisma impacting national focus
In my game UK and Mexico were claiming west coast with at least 50% completion bar when I joined the race ...in both cases I was way ahead of 'em within short time so I gained historical outcome.
I think the founding of a Seattle Brothel and Jazz company was the biggest factor here!
Ok, sending in a brigade would do the trick. But will the British send in theirs to fight it? Never seen them do other places, but I might be wrong?
So damn close!
Prussia -> Germany game on 1.2. I came within spitting distance of the UK.
What's particularly galling is that I'm clearly ahead in industry and prestige - I just can't for the life of me understand how the UK manages to field the 4,000 or so brigades and thousands of ships that it does.
Pretty much won the scramble for Africa, although Madagascar was taken off the French over the course of a couple of wars. It seemed a bit more plausible than ripping chunks out of metropolitan France, although when my spheree Italy added the Rhone as a wargoal I let them take it.
Interestingly, the US chose the late game to wake up, beating Russia, then the CSA, then Russia again to reunify and reach the Pacific. They never went after their Mexican cores and wisely stayed away from Britain, which took New York earlier in the game.
Politically I hit the sweet spot, with the liberals consistently forming the government (late game LF for the win) and the socialists dominating the upper house. Rode my luck on reforms a bit too much and was rewarded with a dreaded anarcho-liberal uprising in the mid-30s, but apart from that and a couple of minor fascist revolts the twentieth century was quiet.
Went overboard with encouraging clerks though - that's 11.2% of the general population by 1936. Considerable numbers of bureacrats and clergy despite their funding being at 29% for at least half a century.
Econimically, for some reason regular clothes was the most profitable factory, beating out automobiles, which were otherwise the star performer.
Finally, what would a Prussia game be without beating up the Austrians? These shots come from a late game war (which I wasn't planning on, but who can resist an acquire state CB). The 20,000 artillery casualties are actually tanks, which can take a phenomenal amount of punishment and keep on going.
The naval battle was the usual late game affair of 13 dreadnoughts and 10 cruisers versus sailing ships.
Prussia -> Germany game on 1.2. I came within spitting distance of the UK.
What's particularly galling is that I'm clearly ahead in industry and prestige - I just can't for the life of me understand how the UK manages to field the 4,000 or so brigades and thousands of ships that it does.
Pretty much won the scramble for Africa, although Madagascar was taken off the French over the course of a couple of wars. It seemed a bit more plausible than ripping chunks out of metropolitan France, although when my spheree Italy added the Rhone as a wargoal I let them take it.
Interestingly, the US chose the late game to wake up, beating Russia, then the CSA, then Russia again to reunify and reach the Pacific. They never went after their Mexican cores and wisely stayed away from Britain, which took New York earlier in the game.
Politically I hit the sweet spot, with the liberals consistently forming the government (late game LF for the win) and the socialists dominating the upper house. Rode my luck on reforms a bit too much and was rewarded with a dreaded anarcho-liberal uprising in the mid-30s, but apart from that and a couple of minor fascist revolts the twentieth century was quiet.
Went overboard with encouraging clerks though - that's 11.2% of the general population by 1936. Considerable numbers of bureacrats and clergy despite their funding being at 29% for at least half a century.
Econimically, for some reason regular clothes was the most profitable factory, beating out automobiles, which were otherwise the star performer.
Finally, what would a Prussia game be without beating up the Austrians? These shots come from a late game war (which I wasn't planning on, but who can resist an acquire state CB). The 20,000 artillery casualties are actually tanks, which can take a phenomenal amount of punishment and keep on going.
The naval battle was the usual late game affair of 13 dreadnoughts and 10 cruisers versus sailing ships.