Place is dead as a dodo!

[Dauphin]

No posts in the past 10 days. Where has everyone gone?

Makes you wonder if this section is worthwhile anymore.

[St Leo]

That's a lie a you know it. We are 300 years less dead than a dodo.

[Dauphin]

220 years.

[Maniac]

Perhaps to the official EU forums...

[Leonidas]

Yup - they're all at the EU2 forums. . . heh. . .

[War4ever]

how many of you actually play this game....i find it very difficult

[Shadowstrike]

EU isn't as complex as it looks. Basically all you do is raise troops, keep stablity up and look for a good chance to expand your borders. There's a kind of pacing to the game, which you'll find after you play it a little. Its all about increasing your resources (money. land, etc.) through war and diplomacy (though I'd concern myself more with war, diploannexing is tricky), while maintaining a balance of power so that your enemies keep fighting each other instead of you.

[Maniac]

I actually find the game very easy. In my very first game as Denmark, a rather small nation, I already was first in VPs after 50 years. Now in 1630 I basically control all of North America up until the Rockies, entire South America except the Inca empire, the entire Baltic region with the exception of Sweden, and of course a whole range of colonies in Africa, Indonesia and Australia. I guess I already played too many strategy games...

[Seneca]

Only the Very Hard is worth playing on - then the challenge is to expand without triggering a bad boy war, which is a challenge indeed.

[Maniac]

I must admit, for this first game I chose the Normal difficulty level, though I take it as a personal rule never to go beyond 35 BB points, the BB wars limit. But on VH, the AI doesn't suffer war attrition. That's a reason I wouldn't like to play on VH: I want large empires to fall apart as a consequence of long wars. Otherwise Europe is divided too soon between just a few large powers.

[Victor Galis]

If the difficulty isn't set high enough BB becomes a good thing. It allows you to expand without losing stability to declare war

[Dauphin]

This forum should be amalgamated into other games. No posts in over ten days, this place is a graveyard.

[Shadowstrike]

Maybe we should start an AAR (After Action Report)

[St Leo]

Hmm...
How about graphic descriptions of the consummation of every royal marriage?

[Dauphin]

Henry VIII getting it on with Catherine Parr is not my idea of good reading.