Okay so, background story on me (lol!), i've basically only played 4x space games (galciv2, sins, sots, etc) and the total war series (many flaws, but many great mods) in this grand strategy sense. I've grown more interested in the Paradox games and similar games, but never had the patience to buckle down and learn them (or as Jim Raynor would have said, "Time to man up!" and just do it!) :rofl:
Last week however I sat down with HoI3 SF and didnt quit until i learnt it. I alt-tabbed to the manual, read the entire thing, alt-tabbing back to the tutorials, for literally days (not non-stop, mind you! just almost). My head hurt, my eyes were bloodshot, and my armpits smelly..
But i did it!
Then an annoying site called Gamersgate felt it appropriate to email me and let me know that Victoria 2 is coming..
And I was like "oh cool, and it actually has nice art too on top of the already assumed great gameplay, the one thing i missed from HoI", looking at all these gray screens is a bit of a brain-melt.
Not to mention something so wrong, a thought so incorrect..
"And since i just learnt HoI3, i'll be able to just jump in and play!"
Oh god how wrong.. ANOTHER day full of alt-tabbing, hundreds of pages of manual and strategy guide reading, tutorial progressing and tooltip analyzing.
My poor eyes!!
Yeah, that was the intro to my post, it was supposed to be a noob-AAR about the comedy of my first session as Korea. Oh what the heck, here goes. What not to do.
The Korean Empire.
The game starts, i analyze the different screens and decide that, hey, why does everyone have to be civilized and democratic? Its time for a military powerhouse!
5 years pass. Westeners land on my shores, several times. I decide, hey lets force them to stay. Oblivious to the militancy that rises each time.
Alliance request from Japan! Oh my, heart pounding, my own shogunate friends!
And funny story, Great Britain thought I should do something about the Korean Reactionist rebels in the north, so naturally I agreed, they are the nice people right?
Oh joy.. An innocent looking button named something along the lines of "lets put an end to the rebels", has the noble effect of killing 100.000 people in this 200k populated province!
(since so many were militant there, unaware to my beginner eyes, population screen? never used!)
I just killed 100k people because Britain asked me to deal with a few farmer rebels :rofl:
100k people who, incidentally, could not farm anymore, hence I needed to raise taxes for everyone else to keep up the budget, hence MORE people joined the Korean Reactionist rebels.
10 more years pass. My research of the first Banking tech completed..
Rebellions everywhere! Forced to swap the government to do some backwards-reforms, trying to tighten my grip on the nation.
Failure, swapping my government to Liberals to eventually try to revert the changes i made.. oops.
Even more swapping, back to Royalists this time, i should never have strayed..
Then I decide it's a good idea to invade Johure (apologize to any "Johurians" out there if i misspelled it)
Resulting in troops withering away after a MAGNIFICENT occupation victory (with no opposition, since their army guarded the capital). My troops!
Japan disagrees, breaks the alliance and leaves me alone in the rain
Forced to tax the pants off my farmers and laborers to afford more infantry, raising all the troops i can, ferrying them over 10 at a time, their puny nation is soon to be mine!
Oh yes, its mine, my troops are withering away over there without supplies, food or friendship, but its mine!
Britain, at relation -196 (my +15 attempt at increasing relations, did not help), swiftly took it over!
They offered peace once they got their filthy hands on what they wanted, Korean Singapore (love the region naming system).
Filthy British!
I am now back where I started, with less prestige, more infamy, more rebels and no alliance. I have elections and an increasingly friendly government. All my plans have failed
Spectacular game, well worth the learning-barrier!
It's an investment for the future! For your.... gaming, future.. Oh god I have wasted my life.
Last week however I sat down with HoI3 SF and didnt quit until i learnt it. I alt-tabbed to the manual, read the entire thing, alt-tabbing back to the tutorials, for literally days (not non-stop, mind you! just almost). My head hurt, my eyes were bloodshot, and my armpits smelly..
But i did it!
Then an annoying site called Gamersgate felt it appropriate to email me and let me know that Victoria 2 is coming..
And I was like "oh cool, and it actually has nice art too on top of the already assumed great gameplay, the one thing i missed from HoI", looking at all these gray screens is a bit of a brain-melt.
Not to mention something so wrong, a thought so incorrect..
"And since i just learnt HoI3, i'll be able to just jump in and play!
"Oh god how wrong.. ANOTHER day full of alt-tabbing, hundreds of pages of manual and strategy guide reading, tutorial progressing and tooltip analyzing.
My poor eyes!!
Yeah, that was the intro to my post, it was supposed to be a noob-AAR about the comedy of my first session as Korea. Oh what the heck, here goes. What not to do.
The Korean Empire.
The game starts, i analyze the different screens and decide that, hey, why does everyone have to be civilized and democratic? Its time for a military powerhouse!
5 years pass. Westeners land on my shores, several times. I decide, hey lets force them to stay. Oblivious to the militancy that rises each time.
Alliance request from Japan! Oh my, heart pounding, my own shogunate friends!
And funny story, Great Britain thought I should do something about the Korean Reactionist rebels in the north, so naturally I agreed, they are the nice people right?
Oh joy.. An innocent looking button named something along the lines of "lets put an end to the rebels", has the noble effect of killing 100.000 people in this 200k populated province!
(since so many were militant there, unaware to my beginner eyes, population screen? never used!)
I just killed 100k people because Britain asked me to deal with a few farmer rebels :rofl:
100k people who, incidentally, could not farm anymore, hence I needed to raise taxes for everyone else to keep up the budget, hence MORE people joined the Korean Reactionist rebels.
10 more years pass. My research of the first Banking tech completed..
Rebellions everywhere! Forced to swap the government to do some backwards-reforms, trying to tighten my grip on the nation.
Failure, swapping my government to Liberals to eventually try to revert the changes i made.. oops.
Even more swapping, back to Royalists this time, i should never have strayed..
Then I decide it's a good idea to invade Johure (apologize to any "Johurians" out there if i misspelled it
)Resulting in troops withering away after a MAGNIFICENT occupation victory (with no opposition, since their army guarded the capital). My troops!
Japan disagrees, breaks the alliance and leaves me alone in the rain
Forced to tax the pants off my farmers and laborers to afford more infantry, raising all the troops i can, ferrying them over 10 at a time, their puny nation is soon to be mine!
Oh yes, its mine, my troops are withering away over there without supplies, food or friendship, but its mine!
Britain, at relation -196 (my +15 attempt at increasing relations, did not help), swiftly took it over!
They offered peace once they got their filthy hands on what they wanted, Korean Singapore (love the region naming system).
Filthy British!
I am now back where I started, with less prestige, more infamy, more rebels and no alliance. I have elections and an increasingly friendly government. All my plans have failed
Spectacular game, well worth the learning-barrier!
It's an investment for the future! For your.... gaming, future.. Oh god I have wasted my life.
