Official Civ4 S&T Off-Topic Thread
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Manuss
Sleeping man
Live long and prosper. 
CaterpillarKing
Conqueror of Cacoons
We will miss your lovely Civ IV quotes.. <3
Moai_Spammer
Ave, True to Caesar!
CaterpillarKing
Conqueror of Cacoons
I am gif-making KING!
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Moai_Spammer
Ave, True to Caesar!
it's...
it's so beautiful
it's so beautiful
GreekAnalyzer
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Alright so I got V2, HoI3, CKII and EUIV. I'm frankly lost. Halp plz.
CaterpillarKing
Conqueror of Cacoons
Frankly, my best advice is play a few games and just figure it out on your own 
The tutorials for V2 take ages and I think some of the others don't even have tutorials. One piece of advice, in V2, don't declare a war you aren't prepare for and don't piss off the Great Powers.
The tutorials for V2 take ages and I think some of the others don't even have tutorials. One piece of advice, in V2, don't declare a war you aren't prepare for and don't piss off the Great Powers.
LucarioTheKing
Unholy Mutant Pokemon
For CKII, try and take a powerful duke who is a vassal to someone, eg. The Duke of Aquitane in France. Then send your chancellor to fabricate a claim on the Duchy of Toulouse. Invade them and take the title. Then start a faction to separate from France, with any luck you're powerful enough to win the inevitable civil war/revolution. Then save up gold and piety until you can make the Kingdom of Aquitane.
Or take the Earl of Dublin, wait for the Earl of Laigin to die, you should claim the county as his successor. Then, try and take over the territory to the west of Dublin, this will allow you to form a Duchy/Petty Kingdom. You will, of course need to fabricate a claim on the county. Then pick off the smaller counties and petty Kingdoms around you, saving up Gold and Piety, then once you have 7/13 counties, you can form the Kingdom of Ireland.
Those are just two of the better starts at the Stamford Bridge Bookmark, hope I helped!
CaterpillarKing
Conqueror of Cacoons
I made Ireland out of Munster, I even took some of Wales and am pretty proud of it 
LucarioTheKing
Unholy Mutant Pokemon
Out of a Leon start, I made the Empire of Hispania and took some of France. As Hungary I took Croatia, Poland, Lithuania, and Serbia for my Carpathian Empire. My Ireland was formed from Dublin, and then I took most of Scotland, out of Apulia I formed Sicily, and Created the combined kingdom of Aquitane and Brittany as the Duke of Aquitane.
As long as you understand some of the base game, you can get to be in control of it quickly, or at least powerful enough.
As long as you understand some of the base game, you can get to be in control of it quickly, or at least powerful enough.
CaterpillarKing
Conqueror of Cacoons
I was Leon and held almost all of Christian Hispania and then made the mistake of marrying the King of France and when I divorced him he declared war and crushed me. It was my first real game though.
In Vic2, play as someone big you can't really fail as, like France or the USA to start with and get your feet wet, then start playing mid-level powers for more of a challenge. Prepare to be bored for a long time if you're playing most uncivs due to their inability to realistically do anything and generally terrible economy. Don't install PDM (a kitchen sink mod) unless you want to be overrun by rebels who outnumber your entire population and repeatedly change your government. I tend to play NNM and /gsg/mod, and they spawn a fair amount of rebels too, but not as many.
I've never played HoI games so I can't really comment on them, but I've heard Kaiserreich is an excellent mod for HoI II (idk if there's a HoI III version of it)
CK2 is the easiest out of all of them. Get as much DLC as possible, especially the DLC which has a lot of major content such as the Republic and Sons of Abraham. I recommend starting as Venice if you have the Republic, or an Irish county if you don't/can't play as a republic. My first full game of CK2 saw me start as Venice and perform a spectacular World Conquest, having formed the Roman Empire.
Don't play EU4.
Whats wrong with EU4?
CaterpillarKing
Conqueror of Cacoons
Could you be a tad more specific?
Manuss
Sleeping man
I don't get it. Could you be more specific please? I'm really having fun playing it.
GreekAnalyzer
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@WIM: Thanks for the tips!
We should make a formal rules of S&T
Rule 7 is already taken
Rule 1: VGL is always democratic
We should make a formal rules of S&T
Rule 7 is already taken
Rule 1: VGL is always democratic
