How good is Europa Universalis?

[mactbone]

I tried getting into the Allies, but they won't take me and I'm trying to be a nice Finland and not support the Nazis.

Are there any other smaller sized countries that would be involved in the war? I'd rather not be Spain, or any of the countries that get rolled over by the Nazis. Maybe Greece, or some other Eastern European country?

I also thought about being Canada, but I didn't want to be part of the Commonwealth.

[Dinner]

I'm a fan of alternative history so I like to play a Brazil who conquors all of south America and then joins the Axis and helps to invade the U.S.. In real life this could never have happened but in HOI it's pretty easy to arrange.

Also the reason they wouldn't let you join the allies is your political pyramid has to look like the other alliance members or they will reject you. During election time just keep moving your country towards Demacracy and away from facism & communism and they'll accept you in no time.

[Dinner]

You could try being hungery or Rumania if you wanted to play a smaller axis power. The communist Chinese state is difficult to play but great if you want to be paert of the comminturn. Any of the other states make a good choice for allied powers. Sweden is always fun as a neutral.

[mactbone]

Hmm, maybe Brazil would be a cool choice, or Mexico. Then I could pick which alliance I want to join.

[Sten Sture]

How bad is the AI? I have heard reports that it is worse than the original CivII AI, and if it is that bad I'm wondering if I will like EU2. I doubt if I will play it PBEM or MP (if it even has the feature) so I am debating still.

[Dauphin]

The AI honours alliances and actually sends troops to help. That alone makes it better than CivII's AI IMHO.

[Proteus_MST]

Jep, the AI of EU 2 is the only AI I really trust

[St Leo]

But I want a map editor...

But I want a system that could run that map editor.

[Heresson]

Right

[Dinner]

The Ai ok but nothing to write home about. Yes, it sends troops and onors allainces. It also masses forces and attacks with combined arms but I've noticed the Ai to inexplicably open up holes in its line of defense for no apparent reason. As the Germans I didn't mind see the Soviets leave proviences unoccupied but it does cost me some replay enjoyment.

Still the MP is very stable so a human player is just a hop-skip-jump away.

[Carolus_Rex]

Originally posted by St Leo
But I want a map editor...

But I want a system that could run that map editor.

Heh, break into Paradox Towers and steal it.

[Jon Shafer]

Map editor...

Good luck, I don't think you'll ever see that from Paradox.
I heard it took 2 days to compile the map when they brought in 3 extra computers to help process it.

[Heresson]

AI isn't very wise. For example; little, 1-province states often have great armies, up t0 75... And what do they do if they are at war with me? Put all this army at one of my numberous provinces to bleed itself out, and their allies often come and "help" them there...

[DarkCloud]

I heard it took 2 days to compile the map when they brought in 3 extra computers to help process it.

Yeah... sure... even if that happened- then how come for EU1 a 3rd party person managed to develop a map-generator for EU1

[Mordoch]

Originally posted by DarkCloud

Yeah... sure... even if that happened- then how come for EU1 a 3rd party person managed to develop a map-generator for EU1

The "Map Generator" merely altered the names and resources of provinces, it did not alter the map or art itself. I have heard that loading the map editor on a computer requires somewhere in the vicinity of 2 GB of ram.