Thursday at 18:00cest - The Art of War - Feature presentation, Patch Notes and Q&A

[Trin Tragula]

Bessarabia is the historical region that consists of the in-game region of Bender (which in reality was just a small part of Bessarabia) AND in-game region of Bessarabia which in reality should be named Ismail/Chilia/Cetatea Alba. Ismail being the name given by the ottomans.]

Before the Russians got involved in this region, very late in the EU4 - era, Bessarabia was the traditional name of the southern plains region and only later did it become the name of the eastern region represented by Bender on the screenshot above

Wikipedia has a pretty good map of how the meaning of the names drifted: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Partitions_of_Moldavia.jpg

 

[cleef]

Point taken.

 

[oblio-]

Before the Russians got involved in this region, very late in the EU4 - era, Bessarabia was the traditional name of the southern plains region and only later did it become the name of the eastern region represented by Bender on the screenshot above

Wikipedia has a pretty good map of how the meaning of the names drifted: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Partitions_of_Moldavia.jpg

Russia: carving up arbitrary Romanian territories since 1812.

 

[salmanbabri]

I have heard that general's maneuver pips have some added effect now instead of terrain one (which is gone due to only 1 terrain per province). Any idea what that change is?

 

[spinoza013]

Matt seemed to hint at the beginning that it might not be 30th Oct release. Am I just being paranoid?

 

[Wizzington]

Matt seemed to hint at the beginning that it might not be 30th Oct release. Am I just being paranoid?

Release is 30th Oct.

 

[oblio-]

I have heard that general's maneuver pips have some added effect now instead of terrain one (which is gone due to only 1 terrain per province). Any idea what that change is?

No river crossing penalty if your maneuver > their maneuver.

 

[RobRoy3]

No river crossing penalty if your maneuver > their maneuver.

Do we know what happens if we've got two Maneuver 6 generals facing off in a river province?

 

[spinoza013]

Release is 30th Oct.

Whew

 

[calvinhobbeslik]

Do we know what happens if we've got two Maneuver 6 generals facing off in a river province?

The attacker gets the river penalty.

 

[RobRoy3]

The attacker gets the river penalty.

Always?

Sorry. I should've been more specific. Do we know if they're also tweaking how river crossing penalty is assessed? The oft-repeated assurance, that it only happens when the attacker's line of march crosses a river graphic, simply isn't true sometimes. Is it going to be made more consistent/clearer?

"Attacker always gets it, unless he's got a higher maneuver rating" would be an acceptable response; I just like to know these things. So I'm wondering if the concept of crossing the river graphic is still relevant?

 

[VampireBoot]

Always?

Sorry. I should've been more specific. Do we know if they're also tweaking how river crossing penalty is assessed? The oft-repeated assurance, that it only happens when the attacker's line of march crosses a river graphic, simply isn't true sometimes. Is it going to be made more consistent/clearer?

"Attacker always gets it, unless he's got a higher maneuver rating" would be an acceptable response; I just like to know these things. So I'm wondering if the concept of crossing the river graphic is still relevant?

There's a new UI feature that tells you where the river crossings are for each province, and you'll see if you'll get a river crossing when you select an army and hover over provinces.

 

[Brainblow]

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Thanks, and you're right this is really good. Only thing that I have a major problem with is that they mention that Franz Josef was Franz Ferdinand's father, when he was his uncle. I really hope they keep making these, I think they have potential

They're making a series on the Sengoku Jidai starting sometime in November.

 

[h0tSteel]

I've said this before but please make those statues smaller, or at least make it so that they only show up in religion map mode..

I'm really looking forward to AoW but this is one of those little things that is really going to annoy me.. look at Frisia you cant even read the name anymore that statue covers up like half the province.

If you're not going to make them smaller then I hope they can be modded out without affecting ironman?

 

[calvinhobbeslik]

Always?

Sorry. I should've been more specific. Do we know if they're also tweaking how river crossing penalty is assessed? The oft-repeated assurance, that it only happens when the attacker's line of march crosses a river graphic, simply isn't true sometimes. Is it going to be made more consistent/clearer?

"Attacker always gets it, unless he's got a higher maneuver rating" would be an acceptable response; I just like to know these things. So I'm wondering if the concept of crossing the river graphic is still relevant?

Er, I meant that the defender can never get it, and the attacker does not get it iff their maneuver is higher than the defender's maneuver.

 

[AKronblad]

Was the changes to the Curia and the Cardinals presented and discussed, and how far into the "show"?

 

[thErgonomic]

Was there anything in the stream about allied objectives or transport sharing?

 

[spinoza013]

Was the changes to the Curia and the Cardinals presented and discussed, and how far into the "show"?

[video]http://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive/b/578727681[/video]

01:13:50sec in.

 

[spinoza013]

Was there anything in the stream about allied objectives or transport sharing?

nope

 

[AKronblad]

[video]http://www.twitch.tv/paradoxinteractive/b/578727681[/video]

01:13:50sec in.

Super, many thanks Spinoza!