But-but I coined IHKI, the Player Slayer. Not Jake
. Not that I particularly care, but I would like to hear my name mentioned somewhere on stream
. For the record, it's 'old-man's-HQ' as in head quarters.
Out of the lesser evils, my favourites are AlexIvan, IHKI, and Gnivom. They absolutely proved themselves interesting in the last game. Too bad the latter two are squeezed against each other so tightly. I like to think that Jake wore that cape all the way through the session. No, I take that back; I like to think that Jake wears that cape all the way, every day! Besides, I disagree with the statement that Groogy is not playing right, because he focuses on roleplay too much. I'd say he plays perfectly right, precisely because of that. Even if he doesn't get a trophy, he is a winner.
Right now I'd say that StarNaN is in the best position, with Baluchistan open to him. In time, perhaps he could even form the Mughals. Jake can only pray that Ming falls apart ASAP so he can expand eastwards. Like he said, there's Tibet, but that land is not lucrative at all compared to what's in the south, anyways he would clash against Wiz before long and wither in the process. I sense an interesting possible future development. Namely, the steppes can be conquered in a flash and they provide a load of Manpower, but little money. Conquering India, on the other hand, will be a laborious process with so many players of fairly even power squeezed in there. See where I'm going with this? In the early and middle game this could be an extremely advantageous arrangement to whoever of the Indians is the first to secure such alliance with the ruler of the steppes. Most likely Wiz. Speaking of which, I had high, high hopes for Mr. Nipples this time around, but his future doesn't look to bright. Also, Trin Tragula should be moved to Perm
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I don't think that any of the Japanese are going to set foot in Wiz backed Korea and vice versa. One team will have too many boats while the other too many bodies. But I am curious to see how the Japanese countries progress. How cool would it be to watch them share this small island and support each other till the end of the game?! There're so many people picking Exploration Ideas, not to mention the existence of the European colonisers... Although it's hard to comment on south-east Asia, I don't think Exploration will be the escape so many of the players want to rely on.
I asked for blood, and blood was spilt, but I'm a bit worried about the late game repercussions of putting so many players in positions where they get eliminated rapidly. In Europe land changed hands often, but people didn't die as much. But it could be just fine. I guess we'll see what happens next.
Well his expansion against the ai is more limited then the last two times he played, though knowing him he is propably trying to gank up on ming with korea and maybe oirat too. i dont know why they even allow him to start so far away from the "playerkiller". sending in the new players so close to ddrjake and starnan is quite harsh though i expect starnan to dominate india soon.
however i have to point out that iam a little bit disappointed in the casting. though i do admit that the action this session was propably a little bit difficult to follow iam missing the explanation why and what is going on and what changed in the game seeing all those new "features" or hearing the "hints" and just getting a somewhat snarky remark about a dev diary or that it is work in progress is just not very satisfiing and yes jake always found the time to explain new things to us, even if they were work in progress and changed back.. like the fort-area-mechanic in the last campaign.
on the other hand i cant really let the argument count that there was so many things at so many places going on at the same time when johan himself wasnt using the spare time he got from the game speed but instead pushed for a faster speed.
like expected, i miss jakes cynical casting already
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This. This! I get that everyone wants to already see the intriguing alliances and plots, but we don't need more speed. EU4 is not StarCraft. The tension comes from a different place than a crazy tempo, and it will be all that much more satisfying to witness great things happen after seeing them slowly come to surface. Also, someone give Johan a tissue! Nah. I get that it's a tic, like the ones that plague Slavoj Zizek. It's always funny when he casually swears, even though they shouldn't. It's obvious that Johan is his own boss
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Jake comes only for a moment at the end and completely turns around the mood. Overall, I think what the commentators lack the most is experience. Chris could increase his frequency and volume a little. But it could also be that the two don't click together. Doing live commentary is not as easy as one might think, and there's also personal charisma, so I don't anything it against the two. Though I wish the tributary mechanic was explained better.
India was dominated by the (up to then somewhat secret) Bahmani-Gujarat-Vijayanagar alliance of Bratyn's design.
The most interesting part is that it was one of the newbies who took the initiative. I like that.
