Finished GC. Screenshot inside. Feel free to post about your finished GCs.

[Orm]

So I've finished my first GC, my only game so far. Must have spent about 50 hours on it now. Went pretty OK considering I was a complete newbie when I started. There are still bits I don't understand fully, like politics, and other bits I didn't get (or take o ) the chance to try, like colonialism.

Played on Very Hard, Coward, with Sweden. I set out to produce a lot of steel, but soon realized that the real money was in heavier goods, so once I started producing steamers the money started pouring in. I haven't been in too many wars, just a small skirmish with Prussia, trying to help Denmark, which ended in a small disaster but turned into a white peace after all. I waged a Great War on Russia together with Prussia and Austria in 1911-12, and got most of Finland in the peace (due to a cock-up in negociations I missed Kotka o ), and released them as satellites. Europe has been fairly peaceful, apart from Prussia being gang-raped by France and Austria in the early 60's (hence no Germany), probably because of my settings. I will use more aggressive settings in the future.
If it hadn't been for an event that destroyed a level 10 steel factory in 1912, I would have won the game. That event brought me down from 3rd place to 7th, and I've struggled to get back up by increasing my industry for the last 8 years. Didn't quite make it... beat the UK though.
Would have done an AAR, but I'm too lazy. This will have to do.

So here is the End-of-Scenario screenie:

Now I will sleep on what nation to take on next.

Edit: changed location of screenie.

 

[Oldman]

pretty sweet

 

[unmerged(7537)]

Looks like Germany didn't form after all, and France is beating the shit out of Prussia.

And Krakow managed to stay alive until 1920!

 

[unmerged(17303)]

Wow. Russia isn't even a great power.

You must have smacked them around like you were Ike Turner.

 

[unmerged(10894)]

Lol 41 million ending treasury. Is it just me or is the 12,000$ a day suplus a little wrong.

Good job beowolf.

BTW it's quite interesting that Portugal has almost twice the amount of victory points as Spain did....

 

[treedom]

Right on.

Do you think you would've won if you hadn't lost that level 10 factory?

 

[unmerged(7161)]

Bah, the screenie isn't showing up for me...

 

[treedom]

Maybe his bandwith is running on empty.

 

[unmerged(3168)]

Originally posted by treedom
Maybe his bandwith is running on empty.

That would be a yes.

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And this is the second time in an hour that I've tried to view it

 

[unmerged(16501)]

in my last gc as france, germany never formed, ww1 never took place, the csa won the acw, and i won the game

in my game as the CSA i won the civil war, bought cuba off spain, and colonized more of africa than france and britain has combined!
germany never formed, and ww1 didnt wreak havoc on the work.

*sigh*

 

[TBB]

Originally posted by Ryan
in my last gc as france, germany never formed, ww1 never took place, the csa won the acw, and i won the game

in my game as the CSA i won the civil war, bought cuba off spain, and colonized more of africa than france and britain has combined!
germany never formed, and ww1 didnt wreak havoc on the work.

*sigh*

Do you have any other screenshots of your ACW game? Mainly events, battles, tech, and leaders thanx.

 

[unmerged(9214)]

45 million citizens? Did you have a lot of colonies?

 

[unmerged(4848)]

Did you play with 1.00 or 1.01?

As a non-game owner (but to be! ) I'm very sad to see that that is no Germany in 1920!

Morever I don't understand how you reached a POP of 35 million without any colonies?

 

[Finnish Dragon]

Look at Beowulf´s industry. Sweden is the most industrilized nation in this game. Export - Import is almost 43.000 because he hardly imports anything(raw material?). His nation made about 12.000 profit per month. His income is high and maintenance is low compared to that. I think he should have built more military units; divisions and ships. There are almost 10 million people in Göteborg alone.

 

[John Poole]

Hmmmm could you post a screeny of North America at the end of your game?

 

[unmerged(11750)]

Um, exactly what did the U.S. do that caused them to win the game? ... and I second Poole's request for a NA screenie.

 

[Orm]

The US won the ACW, but didn't annex CSA... there was a repatriation event in the 1870's. Then they beat the crap out of Mexico. Their industry was slightly smaller than mine.

I used 1.01.
My population is extremely high because I've had such good living conditions for a long time. I turned into a democracy in 1872, and have had full social reforms since then. Strangely I've had no immigration, but I had emigration from some parts for a while due to high militancy.

I think democracy is the "easy way out", might be more interesting to be more repressive.

I'll see about making some more screenies as requested when I get home from work.

 

[unmerged(16501)]

I think democracy is the "easy way out", might be more interesting to be more repressive.

democracies are indeed the easy way out. there are no advantages to staying some form of monarchy.

no, i dont have any more sceenies

 

[unmerged(11750)]

I think democracy is the "easy way out", might be more interesting to be more repressive.

Well, that goes without saying.

Mentally digesting what you said about the U.S., and looking again at your map, it sounds like one can win the game (or at least, get damn close) by just concentrating on the economy and winning one or two major wars. I'm left to wonder how imperialist bastards like myself will fare in this game.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your inaugural experience ... it's grand therapy for those of us who don't have the game yet.

 

[Judge]

Really impressing, only one big mistake, you didn’t ban the social democrats. I did yesterday when they grew too strong- don’t want pacifist in Sweden