It's fun watching your prestige sliding back and forth as you win and lose battles. That you actually ended the update with five points less than you started with seems to prove MorningSIDEr's hypothesis that throwing your men away recklessly is seen as the surest sign of true greatness in the eyes of the world.
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Only one thing to say:
[video=youtube;hBhkm8zH2yk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBhkm8zH2yk[/video]
Probably not as poetic as other comments, though.
[video=youtube;hBhkm8zH2yk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBhkm8zH2yk[/video]
Probably not as poetic as other comments, though.
yeah, well, if Japan is not careful who's toes they step on, they will be singing "Hail to England" before they know it
yeah, well, if Japan is not careful who's toes they step on, they will be singing "Hail to England" before they know it
You mean: http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Invasion_of_Japan
no, I meant
[video=youtube;TCDgmtLjrvo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCDgmtLjrvo[/video]
Thanks. I went back to fantasy for this one. It features Dalacroy and Moirya, characters I introduced in my very first sale, The Marsh God. This will be their sixth appearance in print.
This is a fascinating war. China keeps raising troops and sending them into the meat grinder. If the Chinese opponent was human, as opposed to AI, would they have sued for peace earlier, or would they have stuck it out as a matter of pride? (notwithstanding the fact a human opponent would have tackled the war differently, I'm sure). Also, what happened at Port Arthur? I was a little surprised, the Japanese had more troops.
I wonder when China will learn the lesson NOT to send your troops against a dug-in, technologically superior enemy. You think the country that Sun Tzu came from would use his tactics, but apparently not. Well, just take a lot of states this time, and they won't have such a large army (hopefully).
I'm actually getting some serious slowing down AFTER the upgrade -- more than before the upgrade. Still getting used to the jitteryness.
You're right about the changes. Research is really fast in AHD, and I have a bunch of useless generals now!
I'm suspicious about the situation with attrition, though -- I remember situations where my stacks would lose numbers to attrition, and the Chinese stacks just shrugged off the first of the month without any changes.Thanks Ren!
A thoroughly enjoyable read! Keep up the good work.
Im going to try Japan too though using the new nations mod (it splits japan into factions initially Imperial Japan along with some other houses owning portions of japan, all as puppets of the Shogunate). Im going to try re-unit japan under imperial rule before dismembering Korea from japan. It looks like japanese history can be replayed with a little more depth
Welcome, BPM! Thanks! I really appreciate it. Sorry I didn't welcome you before the update.
Hope you enjoy playing Japan -- it's a fun country! Would be interesting without unification. Hope you'll let us know how it goes!
I know! I can hardly imagine. I'm not sure I can check manpower or anything like that -- the figures don't make sense to me. China at the time of the last update had a population of 109 million, of which 4.1 million were soldiers <<heartstops>>. Earlier dates still showed 109 million total population, but smaller numbers of soldiers. I don't remember them mobilizing, so... Not sure what's going on.
Well put - that is interesting. Many more battles "won," like China won them, might put them in their grave.
With 4 million soldiers, I'm not sure they need advice like that. Wow.
They'll be excited to join the Japanese Empire, don't you think?
I wish I didn't need twice the province value in warscore before they'll deal...
That's hilarious! How is it I've never, in my life, heard of this group? Thanks! They sure do have that recognizable '80s sound!
yeah, well, if Japan is not careful who's toes they step on, they will be singing "Hail to England" before they know it
Heh, funny you should mention that... :rollseyes: (gameplay surprise, last night)
What on earth was that? Japanese, obviously...
Funny!
Excellent! Congratulations again! I remember The Marsh God -- I'll have to catch up on your other writings one of these days. I've dedicated my reading time during breaks at work to finally finishing both of Director's HistoryPark stories -- I finished Who Wants to be Napoleon, which was magnificent, and I'm about a quarter of the way through Here There Be Dragons now. There's so much great writing here (and outside, in your case) that I've never had time to really sit down and read, and I'm determined to give it a go and finally finish these things I've wanted to read for years.
Thanks, about the war! I think the AI must have simply concluded China wars best when it throws everything it has at an enemy. It sure seemed to have worn me down, each time, so it's working on some level. Makes me not want to really go against them -- kind of like those bright colors in nature that signal "Don't mess with me!"
Port Arthur, the first time, was a large Japanese army that had already gone through the meatgrinder at Mukden, which was a huge battle. When I gave up and retreated from Mukden, it was like a stirred antpile -- Chinese armies spread everywhichway. A couple of their armies went to Korea. Another Chinese army (a fresh one) went to Port Arthur, and got me there. But the second battle at Port Arthur, the Chinese were no longer fresh, and I won by attacking their ravaged remnants.
No kidding! Course that's about all they fight, so to be fair... Sun Tzu's tactics seem to be beyond the AI, unfortunately. Would be nice if they could be programmed in and have them taken into account. THAT would be a fun AI!
Indeed. I despair that I may have to feed my poor armies to China over and over... I do solve that little problem, for a little while....
Hey, thanks, everybody, for your comments! This last week has been a whirlwind, but I've begun working on the next update, and I still hope to be able to finish it and post it in 12-24 hours. Real epic stuff coming up!
Any new (or old) lurkers out there want to say hi, in the meantime?
Be back with you soon...
Rensslaer
off-topic trivia on Manowar (sorry, just couldn't resist): they should still be in the Guiness Book of records as the loudest band in the world. You think KISS is loud? In the mid '80s, Manowar would provide earplugs for people coming to their concerts :blink:
oh, and that singer may not be Pavaroti, but I remember one DVD where he performed an opera song.
ok, back on-topic: same amount of people, but less soldier pops? Did all those soldiers demote/promote to something else? Maybe China couldn't keep their military slider going? Would be really funny if going to war with Japan would bankrupt them.
oh, and that singer may not be Pavaroti, but I remember one DVD where he performed an opera song.
ok, back on-topic: same amount of people, but less soldier pops? Did all those soldiers demote/promote to something else? Maybe China couldn't keep their military slider going? Would be really funny if going to war with Japan would bankrupt them.
More Chinese blood rivers ... nothing new :/
The interesting bit is that, since the start of the Russian war, you are floating in the verge of being a great power. That means a assured GP spot when you finally finish this war with a win ( as I don't see much of a way of you losing this war at this point, since the chinese casualties at this are too big even for the Chinese and they should be starting to have some issues in there )
The interesting bit is that, since the start of the Russian war, you are floating in the verge of being a great power. That means a assured GP spot when you finally finish this war with a win ( as I don't see much of a way of you losing this war at this point, since the chinese casualties at this are too big even for the Chinese
and they should be starting to have some issues in there )
How could you miss out the 'self-proclaimed kings of metal'??
Also, I would recommend the song 'Ride the dragon'. Its name also kind of suits the AAR situation .
The second link is a background to an anime I know (not that I have seen it) and there is the Holy Britannian Empire (and V2 often reminds me of this entity)
And finally, to misterbean: Of course that I know the song, I was just joking.
Also, I would recommend the song 'Ride the dragon'
. Its name also kind of suits the AAR situation .The second link is a background to an anime I know (not that I have seen it) and there is the Holy Britannian Empire (and V2 often reminds me of this entity
)And finally, to misterbean: Of course that I know the song, I was just joking
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this is the last Manowar reference you'll get from me, but the one song that is THE MOST appropriate considering Chinese casualties: Kill With Power.
If you'd played from the beginning in AHD you'd have about 300 useless generals rather than just a bunch of them.
If you'd played to the end in vanilla you'd be taking 40 seconds of lag for each order you gave an army.
You may be seeing some slowdown effect of having too high numbers of soldiers in your game since demotion to soldiers in AHD can't give anything like the soldier populations that it did in vanilla, so you probably have a lot more units in your game than AHD normally gets.
If you'd played to the end in vanilla you'd be taking 40 seconds of lag for each order you gave an army.
You may be seeing some slowdown effect of having too high numbers of soldiers in your game since demotion to soldiers in AHD can't give anything like the soldier populations that it did in vanilla, so you probably have a lot more units in your game than AHD normally gets.
It's Vanilla up to 1908, but on Director's recommendation I switched to AHD at that point. Still getting used to it -- never played AHD before.
Renss