I'm FRIDAY, Da Ba Dee

[Huw the Poo]

Kushan recommended France or Spain for a beginner, so I'm going with Spain as I'm already familiar with the territory from playing the tutorials.

Plus France smells.

[W8taminute]

Battle Brothers is fun.  Anyone here play it?

[undercovergeek]

Kushan recommended France or Spain for a beginner, so I'm going with Spain as I'm already familiar with the territory from playing the tutorials.

Plus France smells.

good luck, amigo - you set some goals?

[Huw the Poo]

Cheers bud.  Nah no goals, since this is my first time - I'll be happy just to have any clue at all of what I'm doing!  I'll see if I can conquer a nation or two, I expect. :)

[undercovergeek]

portugal looks good - but dont upset the english

actually now youve found a course of action - watch a lets play of someone with spain for some heeents and teeeps

[Apocalypse 31]

Heroes and Generals

I've been thinking about giving this a try. Is it more run and gun, something like Battlefield, or more like Red Orchestra? Or is it Arma level complex?

Run & gun.

[W8taminute]

Heroes and Generals

I've been thinking about giving this a try. Is it more run and gun, something like Battlefield, or more like Red Orchestra? Or is it Arma level complex?

Run & gun.

No it's not.  It's more like Arma but a more simplified version of Arma.  In Heroes and Generals if you run and gun you're going to die real quick.  H&G is more about using terrain to your advantage when you approach the enemy.  The first person to get spotted is the first person to die.  Teamwork is also key in H&G.  Lone wolf rambo tactics will get you killed.  Covering terrain with your team in leaps and bounds with plenty of overwatch will win the day.

[Kushan]

Kushan recommended France or Spain for a beginner, so I'm going with Spain as I'm already familiar with the territory from playing the tutorials.

Plus France smells.

Make friends with Portugal and try to vassalize Navarra before France or Aragon. Grenada and Aragon will be your natural enemies at the start. Morocco may look appetizing as well, but the +50% coring cost (and I think they're lands still count as overseas, but that may have hanged) doesn't really make them worth going for early on.

[Nefaro]

Kushan recommended France or Spain for a beginner, so I'm going with Spain as I'm already familiar with the territory from playing the tutorials.

Plus France smells.

I had much success playing Denmark in my first game of EU4. 

Has even more of the full treatment since you can not only colonize North America pretty early, with some effort, you also start with Norway and Sweden nominally under your purview.  So after forcing your claim on them early, you can become the Nordic Empire fairly quickly, just before settling as much of NA as the Brits - who end up being your only real rival for awhile and they're often busy fighting with France.

[WallysWorld]

Continuing my Nationals dynasty with MLB 2K12. Sitting at 14-12 in third place two games behind the Braves.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Playing through all of the tutorials again for Victoria 2. Currently reading Massie's "Dreadnought" and it gave me an inch to play a strategic Victorian era game.

[Nefaro]

Currently reading Massie's "Dreadnought" and it gave me an inch to play a strategic Victorian era game.

No Rule The Waves, Steam & Iron, or Jutland?  ^-^


Also, watch out.  Give it an inch and it may take a mile.  :P

[Huw the Poo]

Thanks for the tips, chaps - much appreciated!  Nef, roger that...I'll go Denmark on my second campaign. O0

[Gusington]

Can I play as a Rumanian count in CKII? Better yet...Wallachian?

[MetalDog]

With the appropriate DLC, the answer is pretty limitless.

[Gusington]

Dear God that sounds promising.