What nation will you play first in Dharma?

[Lord Hoosier]

What Nation will you play in your first Dharma campaign? I was considering a Portugal colonial game with a particular focus on India and Burma. I'll likely also play as Vijayanagar or Bengal at the same time to get the feel for the other side of the expansion.

 

[L1ve]

I'm sure it's gonna be Timmy => Mughals campaign. Russia seems interesting choice as well with the additional missions coming out, but i'm worried about wide play nerf. Later maybe some republic run.

 

[Reezy]

I'm sure it's gonna be Timmy => Mughals campaign. Russia seems interesting choice as well with the additional missions coming out, but i'm worried about wide play nerf. Later maybe some republic run.

Pardon my ignorance since I'm coming back to the game after a year and haven't read every diary. What is the wide play nerf?

 

[Lord Hoosier]

Pardon my ignorance since I'm coming back to the game after a year and haven't read every diary. What is the wide play nerf?

Lately the updates and expansions have been encouraging to playing tall i.e. a handful of high development provinces without major conquests. Think Venice or Lubeck or the Papal Sates. As such they have been making it harder to play wide or "blob" as it is more often called in PDS games. Russia is entirely built around a massive number of Low Development provinces and as such it is seriously affected negatively by the features that are supposed to make playing tall fun and interesting.

 

[cristofolmc]

Im gonna go for a european colonizer to squeeze all those nice new stuff for tall play and trading empire building. Probably england. Well, probably not because they don't have nobility and I also want to see how the new integrated estates play out. So probably netherlands. Or Castille.

After that, I will sure try an indian nation.

 

[Slayen]

Pardon my ignorance since I'm coming back to the game after a year and haven't read every diary. What is the wide play nerf?

You will gain corruption if your total number of territories is greater than the max number of states you can have. So if you can say have 12 states, you can control up to 12 territories before gaining corruption. Note, it's max states, not current states that matter. So if you can have 12 but only have 10 you can still have an additional 12 territories corruption free. Further note, in progress colonies and trade companies do NOT count toward this limit.

Also, and this is the change I'm personally not fond of, you can no long send missionaries or culture convert in territories.

Now as for what nations I'm likely to play first? If they get new unit models, Timurids-Mughals is a top contender. Jaunpur and Bengal also rank pretty high.

 

[TheDungen]

I've been putting of a Timurid run for a while now so probably them.

 

[MagentaPhoenix]

A Siberian tribe!

 

[Bayes]

Some indian opm into mughals, or is that heresy?

 

[Magnificent Genius]

Madurai.

 

[Ironside121]

Gonna go back and do another World Conquest as Hungary - who were my first WC- just to see how much they're killing blobbing, might have to change my playstyle a bit.

 

[Dakka]

Really depends on what achievements they add but likely either Timmy into Mughals or Bengal so I can recreate the Sur Empire (before consuming the rest of India)

 

[Martian Gamer]

Either Holland or Hamburg.

 

[Darth.]

Probably Portugal then one of the Nepalese OPMs

 

[DDRJake]

I'm tempted to go back to my old flame Kochin, but Taungu is calling for me.

 

[Xhila]

It really depends on the achievements, but probably/hopefully a Indian OPM into one of the new formable countries and then an unification of India

 

[Natz]

Really depends on how the new government system works, but probably either England/Castille, to get a look at the new colonization mechanics and government system with countries I am very confortable with. Timmy to mughals to test the corruption changes and get into India early. Or a random Indian nation, would have to check ideas first. Was always a bit thrown back of playing in India due to the less than ideal national ideas, but some of the new ones look rather good.

 

[Llyw olaf]

Mysore, 1444 and 1776, probably fail a few times.
Then Punjab, Orissa and Timmy into Mughals.
Afterwards a European coloniser, tempted to go Dutch.

 

[PrimeYuri]

Lately the updates and expansions have been encouraging to playing tall i.e. a handful of high development provinces without major conquests. Think Venice or Lubeck or the Papal Sates. As such they have been making it harder to play wide or "blob" as it is more often called in PDS games. Russia is entirely built around a massive number of Low Development provinces and as such it is seriously affected negatively by the features that are supposed to make playing tall fun and interesting.

They are not encouraging to playing tall but discouraging to play wide. There is a difference there.

Ontopic;
Will likely try again Timmy-mughal run and see how it plays having 100 corruption all the time
Florence-Italy (/egypt) - HRE game again because of buff to republics and new achievements since last time I conquered the world with them

 

[DarkBlue]

Ceylon - The Buddhists Strike Back