Gigantic AAR (CK to HoI2)

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That just sounds 2crazy! :wacko:

 

[unmerged(59077)]

I will be starting an AAR soonish that plans to be a magacampaign. Playing-wise I'm in 1630-somethings right now but the amount of editing one has to do to keep the setup faithful in conversions etc. is mindboggling.

 

[wilcoxchar]

I just had a possibly interesting thought. What if someone were to do a mega-campaign but each time get as close as you can to a hands-off game. See how the AI does against itself for 900 years, with no human intervention. Maybe start off as Iceland in CK, Mercs or somesuch in EU2, not sure who you should be for Vicky or HOI though.

 

[Ges]

Just some shameless self promotion but my current Grand Duchy of Burgundy AAR spans the years 1337-1888 so far.

Althought just 80 years of CK (because the fact that any longer playing easily gives you too much easy land) and Victorian AAR is still incomplete and there isn't any plans to continue to HoI I believe it's some kind of example of continuous AAR. Threads:

CK-AAR:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268334
EU2-AAR:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=269329
Vic-AAR:
http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?t=271136

 

[unmerged(63726)]

I just had a possibly interesting thought. What if someone were to do a mega-campaign but each time get as close as you can to a hands-off game. See how the AI does against itself for 900 years, with no human intervention. Maybe start off as Iceland in CK, Mercs or somesuch in EU2, not sure who you should be for Vicky or HOI though.

I like!

And I'll check out your AARs too Ges.

 

[unmerged(11366)]

I just had a possibly interesting thought. What if someone were to do a mega-campaign but each time get as close as you can to a hands-off game. See how the AI does against itself for 900 years, with no human intervention. Maybe start off as Iceland in CK, Mercs or somesuch in EU2, not sure who you should be for Vicky or HOI though.

There might even not be a white blob!
That sounds like a nifty idea ... for someone who has a book to read while they "play"

 

[Duke of Wellington]

I just had a possibly interesting thought. What if someone were to do a mega-campaign but each time get as close as you can to a hands-off game. See how the AI does against itself for 900 years, with no human intervention. Maybe start off as Iceland in CK, Mercs or somesuch in EU2, not sure who you should be for Vicky or HOI though.

The ai tends to stagnate in hands off games, at least in EUII. After about 200 years with no player the ai settles into blocks of power and change little.

 

[Snake IV]

The ai tends to stagnate in hands off games, at least in EUII. After about 200 years with no player the ai settles into blocks of power and change little.

That will probably chance in EUIII, with things like succession wars and such

 

[Duke of Wellington]

That will probably chance in EUIII, with things like succession wars and such

I sure hope so. It will make for some interesting hands off games I think.

 

[wilcoxchar]

Is that 200 years of constant playing Duke? Because the AI usually wakes up upon save and reload, which if I do a hands-off AAR I'd do every 20-30 years.

 

[Steed]

I rarely play more than a century of CK at a time. After 400 years you'd probably own all the map. Which would make for a pretty boring EUII game... never mind Vicky or HoI.

Seconded o

 

[Duke of Wellington]

Is that 200 years of constant playing Duke? Because the AI usually wakes up upon save and reload, which if I do a hands-off AAR I'd do every 20-30 years.

No not 200 years constantly. It usually takes about that long for France, Spain, Austria, OE and Russia to reach a point where they balance each other and don't declare war upon each other. A player in Europe usually weakens one of those powers and causes it to get DOWed more and weakened thus meaning a balance is harder to reach.

 

[wilcoxchar]

So far I'm running a game of CK as Iceland, and by 1125 things are getting interesting. The Byzantines managed to hold out fairly well with minimal losses in Anatolia, and even manged to take Baghdad! However, after the Byznatine emperor got realm duress, a couple duchies rebelled and the Seljuks are now taking advantage of this and invading. Iberia was going pretty Christian, with the peninsula almost split between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Leon, Castile, and Portugal. Right after getting the Portugal title, Leon DOW'ed the Fatimids though and now they're dying.

 

[coz1]

Thread merged with earlier thread on this topic.

 

[Red Barron]

Converting from one game to another, sometimes things don't work out very well. Check my Spain AAR from victoria, converted to Doomsday, everything was a mess. After I fixed it up a bit, it was playable. It does give you a real different look at history, I will say that much.

 

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I`m writing megacampaign AAR. Right now halfway through CK. I`ll use King of Men supreme converter - far superior to built one. I hope that someone will write converter to EUIII

 

[Victor1234]

I'm planning to use his converter plus some of my own editing for the move to EU2 as well. Although I'm only up to 1250 in CK right now, I intend to squeeze every cent of satisfaction out of Paradox that I can, by going right to 1953 in Doomsday