If you build it....... Friday will come

[Tuna]

Tuna what faction are you playing as in Rome 2?

err my first time, so Rome!

[MetalDog]

It's 1466 in Castile.  I declared war on Granada in 1460, a week after the truce expired.  I neglected to check her allies and realized I am now in a war with Morrocco, the Ottomans and Athens as well as Granada.  The Ottomans have sent two of my fleets to the ocean floor along with several thousands of my (transported) troops.  I am hemorraghing money in an effort to build land and naval forces back.  They won't accept a White Peace or even let me surrender. 

I do have a better quality of troop now.  And the navy I am putting together should be able to hold off the Ottomans.  We shall see what we shall see come next time.

[Arctic Blast]

Despite my picking up CM : BN with the Commonwealth expansion last weekend, it's all about South Park : The Stick of Truth this weekend. I'm about 3 and a half hours in, and enjoying it so far.

I've been working a number of board game trades and auction buys over the past couple of weeks, and they've started arriving. I'll definitely get Robinson Crusoe on the table, and try to at least read the rules and mess around a bit with Last Will and Eclipse. I've also got two more boxes to ship out...

[Kushan]

It's 1466 in Castile.

Same game (I think), playing as France. I won the 100 years war (of course), and took all but Calais from England. I waited a couple of years, then went to war against Burgundy to take Picardie, which would give me access to Calais. A month after I declare war, my king died of natural causes and left me with a regency. a year later, I was on my way to winning the war, when Burgundy's king died in battle, which triggered the event that will split Burgundy's lands between Austria and France. So instead of one province, I got 7-8 out of the war. I've not kicked England out of Calais, and have vassalized Scotland (who Englands reduced to 2 provinces). I've now got 34,000 troops now in Scotland just waiting to get the word to go. I'm just waiting for my own naval construction program to finish up. I'm also hoping I can convince MD to let me borrow his fleet as well.

They won't accept a White Peace or even let me surrender. 

If you take and hold your war objective, you will get a ticking warscore. Assuming you can keep your war exhaustion in check, you might be able to wait them out until they will surrender.

[Rizik6]

Playing a large scenario in Battle of Kursk - Southern Flank.  Also searching for something else to grab my interest in my ever growing Steam backlog.

[Wolfe1759]

I'm intending on focusing on Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes, I've had it since it was Elemental, bought all the DLC but never really got into it even though RPG and 4X are things I really like. With a major patch and new DLC round the corner I'm going to aim to play at least to turn 100 probably further to see if it finally clicks with me.

However I've already been distracted by Judge Dredd - Dredd vs Death which I've picked up on the GOG weekend sale for just over £1. Only played 15 mins or so but I've already lost the Tutorial - Judge Wolfe got a bit trigger happy with incendiary shells from his Lawgiver during hostage rescue training, was declared Rogue and then taken out by the Special Judicial Squad that was sent to apprehend him !

[Ian C]

I will be playing Commander The Great War and my recent 'find' the Black Ice mod for Hearts of Iron III. Well worth a look:

http://blackicemod.com/doc/unit-guide/infantry-units
http://blackicemod.com/about
http://blackicemod.com/doc

[MetalDog]

It's 1466 in Castile.

Same game (I think), playing as France. I won the 100 years war (of course), and took all but Calais from England. I waited a couple of years, then went to war against Burgundy to take Picardie, which would give me access to Calais. A month after I declare war, my king died of natural causes and left me with a regency. a year later, I was on my way to winning the war, when Burgundy's king died in battle, which triggered the event that will split Burgundy's lands between Austria and France. So instead of one province, I got 7-8 out of the war. I've not kicked England out of Calais, and have vassalized Scotland (who Englands reduced to 2 provinces). I've now got 34,000 troops now in Scotland just waiting to get the word to go. I'm just waiting for my own naval construction program to finish up. I'm also hoping I can convince MD to let me borrow his fleet as well.

They won't accept a White Peace or even let me surrender. 

If you take and hold your war objective, you will get a ticking warscore. Assuming you can keep your war exhaustion in check, you might be able to wait them out until they will surrender.

Yes.  It's the same game.  It's pissing me off that I can't get the Morroccans to capitulate.  I have Granada.  And the Warscore IS ticking in my favor, I just don't want to wait that long ;)  Once that whole mess is over, you may borrow (what's left of) my fleet.

[Gusington]

Are you enjoying EU4?

[steve58]

Steve58, I can provisionally recommend Galactrix: Puzzle Quest as a gem-matching puzzle based space RPG. I say "provisionally" because it's unstable on Win8 and tends to randomly crash, mitigated but not eliminated by turning off the music. The background tends to whirl around to induce vertigo, too -- an intentional stylistic choice but  :P

Thanks Jason, I'll check it out.

[MetalDog]

Are you enjoying EU4?

Rather a complex question at the moment.  On the plus side, Castile is an ideal starting country for me (thanks for the suggestions to that effect).  There is enough income, troops, goals, and, 'stuff going on,' to keep me engaged.  On the negative side, I don't grasp some of the mechanics well, if at all.  I know Trade is important, and I have figured out some ways to affect it, but I don't know how effective my measures are or if there is something I could be doing that is much better.  My grasp of the history of that  time is poor.  Which is easily remedied, but, my grasp is poor for a reason.  That time period just doesn't hold my interest well.

Having said that, you might ask yourself, "Then why did you buy the game in the first place?!"  Simple.  I love games.  More specifically, Paradox games.  And I will bash away at this until I figure out what I am doing and get decent enough not to embarrass myself when playing MP.  I might even subject you people to an AAR.  So there :P

[Nefaro]

Are you enjoying EU4?

Rather a complex question at the moment.  On the plus side, Castile is an ideal starting country for me (thanks for the suggestions to that effect).  There is enough income, troops, goals, and, 'stuff going on,' to keep me engaged.  On the negative side, I don't grasp some of the mechanics well, if at all.  I know Trade is important, and I have figured out some ways to affect it, but I don't know how effective my measures are or if there is something I could be doing that is much better.  My grasp of the history of that  time is poor.  Which is easily remedied, but, my grasp is poor for a reason.  That time period just doesn't hold my interest well.

Pretty sure I gave some tips on running your Trade Routes in a big EU4 thread on these forums.  It's not very difficult once you know what the handful of trade node settings & strategies are, and how "the flow" of wealth works.

[MetalDog]

I've read the Wiki, and I feel an idiot for not understanding what they are writing.  In English even!  As a matter of fact, I've read the Wiki back to front and refer to it when I have a question of what I am doing.  It'll just take repeated play by me in order for some of that to sink in.

[Barthheart]

I've read the Wiki, and I feel an idiot for not understanding what they are writing.  In English even!  As a matter of fact, I've read the Wiki back to front and refer to it when I have a question of what I am doing.  It'll just take repeated play by me in order for some of that to sink in.

You are not alone. I've read lots of stuff on the trade system and still don't understand it.... I know how to put ships on trade protection, move merchants to certain trade nodes... but have no clue on how to get feedback if my actions are having any effect.... that's what I find most frustrating.

[undercovergeek]

I've read the Wiki, and I feel an idiot for not understanding what they are writing.  In English even!  As a matter of fact, I've read the Wiki back to front and refer to it when I have a question of what I am doing.  It'll just take repeated play by me in order for some of that to sink in.

You are not alone. I've read lots of stuff on the trade system and still don't understand it.... I know how to put ships on trade protection, move merchants to certain trade nodes... but have no clue on how to get feedback if my actions are having any effect.... that's what I find most frustrating.

find a castille AAR or lets play - itll solve a lot of issues