Crown of the North is actually a nice little game

[lord of the mark]

Loaded this up. Am playing as king Erik of Denmark.
Cute game.

Learning about all these obscure Scandinavian provinces.

The sounds dont seem to have been translated. The guys fighting sound like a bunch of drunk Minnesotans, as portrayed on Prairie Home Companion.

WTF is "Pulpit-THING"?

Unfortunately most of the events are generic-medieval, and not specific to Scandinavian history. I am pleased to learn about the reassurances of Nyborg, and Uncle Valdemar, and such.

Cant find any good sources on the net for Scand history for this period.

Having gotten it in the strat pack with EU2 and Vickie, im happy. But Im really a little dizzy at the idea that anybody (esp non-Scandinavians) paid full price for this.

[Gamecube64]

I disagree.

Once you get going it is basically exponential growth until all the little minors are eaten up. There is no reason not to be at war and you have tons of cash to throw around, to nearly constantly upgrade the numerous buildings in your many, many provinces.

If the hanseatic league gets angry though, THEN you have a fight on your hands! The balancing of peasants, burghers, nobles, and the church was cool too.

[lord of the mark]

well yeah, ive figured out its kinda unbalanced. Keep building troops, conquering minors, and building improvements. I probably wont play it more than once.

But for a game i got basically as a freebie along with EU2, Victoria and HOI in the strat pack, I can appreciate for the little things.

Pulpit THING.

[Verrucosus]

Playing "Crown of the North" is not a particularly rewarding experience in itself. However, it allows you to become familiar with the basics of how the Paradox games work and you will not feel as overwhelmed when playing the more complex games. (Of course, this assumes that "Crown of the North" doesn't convince you that these Paradox games are really much worse than their reputation and that you shouldn't touch them ever again.)

[Heresson]

My cd (orýgýnal!) got scratched or sth and I can,t play ýt anyway ;(

[Ecthy]

Thing is a Germanic word for an assembly of people with political power. In its most basic meaning this means the assembly of all adults of a village to make a decision. I think there were bigger Things for entire clans and tribes.

Today, the parliaments of Norway (Storting - grand assembly) and Iceland (Althing - all-assembly) still bear that name. There were Things in Germany too, before Christianisation and conquering by the Franks.

[lord of the mark]

Sorry Ecthy, according to Swedes on the Paradox boards, its actually:

Förflyttning!= Movement!


Apparently my American ears misheard the Swedish.

[Ecthy]

Yeah, but my description of the Thing concept remaisn the best post ever

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Yeah, but my description of the Thing concept remaisn the best post ever

things

[Ecthy]