Your first game = The only game that you do not realize you caught in bugs. :wacko:
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Agree. But it requires great deal of self restraint no to read these threads.
When HoI was coming, I tried to restrain myself from reading too much about the tricks. Once I got the game, I cranked the difficulty directly up to VH/F in order to steepen the learning curve. Unfortunately back then HoI was still 1.00 or 1.01, making it far too easy - after I had conquered the world with Germany, USSR and Italy I got this dreaded "Been there, done that" feeling and was never again able to really enjoy the game.
The problem is that I'd love to get Vic as soon as it hits the stores, but if the early versions are too easy, it may spoil the game for me. On the other hand, if I wait til Vic has been patched to 1.05, I have probably read already through all the faq's and know exactly what to do straight from the beginning - and that is not good either.
A difficult situation for sure.
Manuals and 1st games
The biggest "flaw" with manuals is the fact, that they arrive simultaneously to the game. So there really is only the time during install where I peek at the manual, as soon as I can, I start playing.
Only on the next day on the way to work or so do I really READ the manual. Then combined with a first impression of my trial an error method of the first playday I then start to really play in earnest. ( Thats why I never take my favourite country for my first trying game ).
mios
The biggest "flaw" with manuals is the fact, that they arrive simultaneously to the game. So there really is only the time during install where I peek at the manual, as soon as I can, I start playing.
Only on the next day on the way to work or so do I really READ the manual. Then combined with a first impression of my trial an error method of the first playday I then start to really play in earnest. ( Thats why I never take my favourite country for my first trying game ).
mios
Originally posted by beowulf
World Conquest.
lol thnx, sometimes the most confusing things happen to have the simplest of answers... i was checking Clausewitz's and Sun Tzu's strategy books and the closer i could get was "Wesley Clark's" (WC) book, Waging Modern War... :rofl:
My first EUII was Spain, and rather cool. I did play as historically as possible, not involving in Europe, & steamrolling Americas. Hell I did even not know I could invade my neighours with the ToT!!!!! But, of course, gold mines & inflation did screw my game, & I ceased it in early 1700s.
Knowing the effects ot Tot, I'd have been faaaaaaaaar more powerful.
Knowing the effects ot Tot, I'd have been faaaaaaaaar more powerful.
All you people talk 'bout my first EUII (hehe, atleast we swedes used to play back in the old EUI days...) do none of you play HoI? 'Cause this game is going to be more like HoI then EU.
i played EUI as indicated
I heard HoI was mediocre...so didn't plan on spending 50 bucks on it... I was gonna buy it this week for 20..but ill just wait for vicky now...maybe when its 5 or 10 bucks ill give it a whirl.
Originally posted by skkrrt
i played EUI as indicated
I heard HoI was mediocre...so didn't plan on spending 50 bucks on it... I was gonna buy it this week for 20..but ill just wait for vicky now...maybe when its 5 or 10 bucks ill give it a whirl.
Mediocre? MEDIOCRE? MEDIOCRE?? MEDIOCRE??? MEDIOCRE????
:wacko: IT'S THE BEST GAME EVER MADE!!!!
Akilles wrote:
These boards have long been infested by 'EU2 vs HoI' threads. After much debate, the only thing that we know for certain is that each game has a deticated fan base.
Once Victoria comes out, I am sure what we will be treated to the first 'Victoria vs HoI vs EU2' thread.
Anyway, my first HoI game was with Brazil. The game went pretty well but many of my soldiers died before I fully grasped the concept of low infastructure provinces. Also, I overran all of south america and was at a loss to explain my dramatic loss of IC. Then I noticed that my dissent was at 100%.
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EnPeaSea
These boards have long been infested by 'EU2 vs HoI' threads. After much debate, the only thing that we know for certain is that each game has a deticated fan base.
Once Victoria comes out, I am sure what we will be treated to the first 'Victoria vs HoI vs EU2' thread.
Anyway, my first HoI game was with Brazil. The game went pretty well but many of my soldiers died before I fully grasped the concept of low infastructure provinces.
Also, I overran all of south america and was at a loss to explain my dramatic loss of IC. Then I noticed that my dissent was at 100%.--
EnPeaSea
Originally posted by beowulf
I for one hope that WC will finally not be possible in this game.
Agreed. That's the one main problem I had with EU and EU2...maintaining a world spanning empire was far too easy.