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I always (mostly) play the underdog in Computer games. Carthage, CSA, UK, Italy, Japan.
Much fun.
Much fun.
I always play the overdog because I am very bad at computer games.
Thats the beauty of games like HOI, EU or Victoria.I always play the overdog because I am very bad at computer games.
Pick what you want.
I do not think I have ever actually finished a paradox game. The furthest I get is with South Africa, I played a KR game where I played as socialist South Africa and kicked the Europeans out of Africa. I also played as Oranje in Vicky1 and took over all of Africa that way.
I've only finished a couple of times. Normally, either the situation gets so far out of hand that I'm no longer relevant (eliminated, reduced to a puppet government, or otherwise left with no likely options for improvement), or else have blobbed to the point where there is no longer any doubt of the outcome, as in "I can easily take on the 2nd through 5th largest powers combined, and at least one of those is an ally". Playing any further is just tedium.
I feel your pain. And agree with Kovax that once the matter is decided it is just folly and boring to continue on to the end.
Nothing is as satisfying as being on the ropes, sucking wind while desperately holding the line, then breaking the enemy and routing him off the map. In this, I heartily agree.
I tend to enjoy the idea of KR games. But the problem is that I get so interested in the storyline that I am less interested in the game itself.
Carthage or Hannibal? Those are quite different beasts. ;-)
Because the Carthagian aristocracy had good reasons not to support Hannibal.
I have no clue really, I don't know much about Carthage. All I know is that Rome is the elephant and Carthage is the whale, and that whales are better than elephants.
I too recall Hannibal's famous crossing of the Mediterranean on whales.
Any analogy that does not make Carthage the elephant is suspect.
But I do like Tempest's image of Hannibal crossing the Med on an elephant strapped to a whale.
It was like Caesar in Gaul... Had the Romans knew it they would have sided with the guy with the Dinosaur name. ;-)
I assume you mean Napoleon and Britain as applied to any large military land v sea conflict.
Sure but Rome versus Carthage is classic Elephant/Whale stuff.
Absolutely. I am with you. I understand the 'Sea People', and I know the Legions.
But, Carthage has to be the elephant. Because you can't get a whale over the Alps.