FRIDAY'S Last Stand!

[JudgeDredd]

No gaming for me...I'm in Vegas for the wifey's birthday. Gambling and debauchery all weekend.

That sounds amazing!  ;D

[undercovergeek]

which bit

[JudgeDredd]

...Gambling and debauchery all weekend.

that bit

[Kushan]

The last time i played as HRE i read up on the heinous responsibilities of the Emperor - youre not supposed to go annexing your own members!! and youre supposed to go slap Austria and Bohemia and make them reestablish Bavaria - youll get all sorts of credit and benefits and will get reelected without a hitch

Annexing for the HRE himself is for those outside the HRE - France, Burgundy, Italy - unless your RPG-ing a crazy Emperor  :P

Yea, that's what the emperor is supposed to do. I'm using the imperial liberation CB on the smaller members, but until now both Austria and Bohemia had 3-4 times my manpower and force limit. I'm also allied to both of them but that's not likely to last very much longer. I want to dismantle the but can't do that as emperor.

Sort of role playing the emperor who didn't want to be emperor.

[undercovergeek]

i forget now, if you march on Austria - does the rest of HRE come with you?

[Kushan]

i forget now, if you march on Austria - does the rest of HRE come with you?

No. When an outside power declares war on an HRE member, the emperor, whoever that is at the time, gets asked to join the war. If he declines, the he loses a good amount of imperial authority, and he gains some just for joining the war. If someone takes over an imperial member, outside powers and member of the HRE, the emperor will get an imperial liberation CB against them.

I do wish the AI would do a better job with liberating members. Seems like if it's non an outside power the AI will usually just sit back and watch the members fight.

[Martok]

@mikeck & Gusington:  Have a good weekend, guys!  Sounds like it'll be fun. 

[Tuna]

I should be around Saturday night for some Warlock action.   8)

Might be tough for me.. Son's Graduation is tomorrow... Stepson coming home from NYC.. will be lots of family at the house..

[undercovergeek]

i forget now, if you march on Austria - does the rest of HRE come with you?

No. When an outside power declares war on an HRE member, the emperor, whoever that is at the time, gets asked to join the war. If he declines, the he loses a good amount of imperial authority, and he gains some just for joining the war. If someone takes over an imperial member, outside powers and member of the HRE, the emperor will get an imperial liberation CB against them.

I do wish the AI would do a better job with liberating members. Seems like if it's non an outside power the AI will usually just sit back and watch the members fight.

i was austria as the HRE and spent a huge amount of time policing the HRE - spent an awful lot of time at war without actually improving my own borders, just sorting everyone else out

thats why i moved to Naples for the next game - really need to fire that up again

[Kushan]

i was austria as the HRE and spent a huge amount of time policing the HRE - spent an awful lot of time at war without actually improving my own borders, just sorting everyone else out

thats why i moved to Naples for the next game - really need to fire that up again

That's why I decided to play Brandenburg. I really didn't want to be emperor and havering to police the HRE. Austria is one of my favorites to play, but it feels like I'm constantly at war with someone, and most of the time it's not a war of my choice.

[RedArgo]

I just finished reading The Killer Angels (the book the movie Gettysburg was base on), so I finally started going through the tutorials for Scourge of War: Gettysburg.  I also got Distant Worlds Universe installed so I'd like to give that a whirl.  And I'm sure I'll sink more time into World of Tanks.

[JudgeDredd]

I should be around Saturday night for some Warlock action.   8)

Might be tough for me.. Son's Graduation is tomorrow... Stepson coming home from NYC.. will be lots of family at the house..

Excellent news.

[Sir Slash]

I've got the urge to go back to Empire Total War, where I had Russia on the verge of a campaign victory until Rome 2 came out. I want to see some up close bayonet action and play one good siege battle where my mortars and heavy arty blast the crap out of somebody's fort. Then I'll be over it.

[Shelldrake]

@mikeck & Gusington:  Have a good weekend, guys!  Sounds like it'll be fun.

+1

I will be playing some Empire Total War and WG Red Dragon this weekend. Have a good one folks!

[GDS_Starfury]

I'm thinking I'll put the new pc together.