mechaerik
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Just F12.
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Just F12.
the changes in ahd are overwhelming to me, long story short, when I first got the game I couldn't even play as england/britian and couldn't load a save game, so now that everything is working I am trying stuff out, but it seems like factories are more expensive and the cb changes don't make a lot of sense to me. As france, what factories should I be building at the start? What national focuses should I use and is it wise to goto war early?
I like the influence part of it, I am trying to pry egypt from the ottomans and going after places like morroco, persia and brazil, maybe argentina, but how many of the three dots should I use? Iwant to do 3 in morroco bc I am afraid of spain taking them over, I might also try and get sard/pied and switzerland to like me and I usually ally with russia, portugal and the netherlands....
Are there any french specific AHD walk throughs I can look at, I just get so overwhelmed when I first get these games.
On another note, anyone heard anything about the magna mundi game coming out soon? is it stand alone from eu3?
edit: where on the diplomacy ui can I tell my or others infamy?
I like the influence part of it, I am trying to pry egypt from the ottomans and going after places like morroco, persia and brazil, maybe argentina, but how many of the three dots should I use? Iwant to do 3 in morroco bc I am afraid of spain taking them over, I might also try and get sard/pied and switzerland to like me and I usually ally with russia, portugal and the netherlands....
Are there any french specific AHD walk throughs I can look at, I just get so overwhelmed when I first get these games.
On another note, anyone heard anything about the magna mundi game coming out soon? is it stand alone from eu3?
edit: where on the diplomacy ui can I tell my or others infamy?
It is. It is also going to be completely and utterly AWESOME, if quality of the earlier mod of the same name is anything to judge the dev team by.
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
In AHD, you can tell your own infamy at the top, I under either the Politics or Diplomacy tab (not sure which, I don't have AHD). Its a tattered flag icon.
To check others' infamy (and your own pre-AHD), you have to find them in the Diplomatic screen, and switch to the "Show Wars" tab. It has their infamy there, next to the same tattered flag icon.
Some time in Q2 this year....
getting AHD tomorrowPolycrates
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I gather France is a bit problematic at the moment - it has a negative growth modifier and has some emigration dramas, supposedly it all should be toned down in a patch.
Anyway as far as factories go; I think your best bet for early factories are factories for basic goods, that are in demand, and that you have raw materials for in your own country (this is best, because profits aren't cut into by tariffs) or at least in your sphere so you've got a reliable supply of inputs. Lumber and steel seem to be particularly good since they can only be built in provinces that have the raw resource so it's a bit harder to get a glut on the market. Fabric factories can be a good choice too. These things vary from game to game though, so make sure you're looking at the world market as well. Military goods (including canned food) are bad choices early-game, since the demand fluctuates so much.
The most important thing with factories though, in my experience, is to get the factory input and output techs (NOT the throughput, these are much less important). The relevant techs are pretty much all in the three rightmost columns of the commerce tech screen. There's one you can get early that gives -5% input and +5% output as inventions, which is huge when the margins are as tight as they often are. Until you've got a few efficiency boosters, factories aren't really much of a money spinner, and can easily become a liability.
For national focus, encourage clergy is generally never a bad way to go; both for tech and for literacy. Likewise, look through your regions' administrative efficiency and see which ones could most use more bureaucrats. If tariffs and rich taxes are low enough, encouraging capitalists can be a good way to kickstart your industrialisation, but you have to make sure they're not just all going broke and demoting again. If you're interventionist or laissez-faire and have a decent number of capitalists with enough money, encouraging a certain factory type can be useful.
I haven't found the party loyalty focuses to have enough effect to really justify them, but others might differ.
Generally, you want more focuses on your most populated regions (there's a useful mapmode for this).
Good advice on the NFs, I follow a similar strategy. I usually prioritize colonization if I can, though. The prestige and troops are just too good to pass up.
I just noticed they severely, and I mean severely nerfed the "Avantgarde Intelligentsia" tech school in AHD. It only gives a +5% to cultural, -25% to navy, and -5% to industry. I know the +30% before was strong, but was it necessary to weaken it this much? Don't see much talk about it over on the P-dox forums either.
I'm considering buffing it up for my Russia game, we'll see. It needs at least +15% cultural, maybe +20%.
I just noticed they severely, and I mean severely nerfed the "Avantgarde Intelligentsia" tech school in AHD. It only gives a +5% to cultural, -25% to navy, and -5% to industry. I know the +30% before was strong, but was it necessary to weaken it this much? Don't see much talk about it over on the P-dox forums either.
I'm considering buffing it up for my Russia game, we'll see. It needs at least +15% cultural, maybe +20%.
Zack
99% hot gas
I bought EU3 Complete a while back (so I don't have Heir to the Throne or Divine Wind), but when I tried to start a game as an easy nation like Castile I just had no idea what to do at all, quit, and haven't really bothered going back to it since. I have HoI2 Doomsday Armageddon and really enjoy it, I figured out how to play it mostly from looking through the manual and following along with a "this is how you play the game" type AAR, and I have a decent understanding of how to play the game.
I couldn't find any similar such thing for EU3, so I was pretty much left to my own devices and just had no patience to figure the game out on my own.
Should I get the other expansions for EU3 and try to get into it? It looks like an interesting game and seems to be the consensus for best Paradox game; is there anything I can look at to help me get into the game at all? I was just so lost when I tried to play it before.
On the other hand, HoI3 + expansions looks really good, but I'm not sure my comp would be able to handle it at a sufficient pace (the demo takes a million years to load the game, and while the game seemed fine once it actually started, I'm guessing it'll be a laggy hell once the game gets going).
Darkest Hour, Sengoku, Crusader Kings II, and Vicky II all also look pretty interesting (but again, with some of those I'm not sure how well my comp would handle them; fwiw, it doesn't really have any trouble running Civ 5, so it's not awful by any means, but it's also not great by any means).
Any suggestions?
I couldn't find any similar such thing for EU3, so I was pretty much left to my own devices and just had no patience to figure the game out on my own.
Should I get the other expansions for EU3 and try to get into it? It looks like an interesting game and seems to be the consensus for best Paradox game; is there anything I can look at to help me get into the game at all? I was just so lost when I tried to play it before.
On the other hand, HoI3 + expansions looks really good, but I'm not sure my comp would be able to handle it at a sufficient pace (the demo takes a million years to load the game, and while the game seemed fine once it actually started, I'm guessing it'll be a laggy hell once the game gets going).
Darkest Hour, Sengoku, Crusader Kings II, and Vicky II all also look pretty interesting (but again, with some of those I'm not sure how well my comp would handle them; fwiw, it doesn't really have any trouble running Civ 5, so it's not awful by any means, but it's also not great by any means).
Any suggestions?
You might want to try and find the Beta AARs, as they tend to be more focused on the features in the game and how you use them. I know there are a few good ones on the Paradox forums, but I can't remember their links right now.
HoI3 can be very resource-intensive, and it's a pretty good game with the expansion packs. I haven't played it nearly as much as the others though. I am a big fan of Victoria II--mostly due to the time period and all the game mechanics except for combat (I really wish they retained the HoI-style combat mechanics). It's industrialization, politics, diplomacy, etc. Difficult to get the hang of, but there are good AARs that are more gameplay-focused on Paradox. It used to be a resource hog, especially late game, but they have been fixing that in the expansion and in the recent patches. So it's getting there. I haven't played CK2 or Sengoku yet.
As far as system resources go, I am playing on a 4-year old laptop, and they run reasonably well. I get a little lag late-game, but I'm willing to put up with it.
Also, I was considering putting together an AAR of AGEod's American Civil War. I'm playing a round right now that has gotten up to mid-1862, and it has been a pretty aggressive game, lots of maneuvering and marching. I am playing the Union, have done better in the East but crappy in the West--new players tend to make mistakes, and I've made plenty. Anyone interested?
HoI3 can be very resource-intensive, and it's a pretty good game with the expansion packs. I haven't played it nearly as much as the others though. I am a big fan of Victoria II--mostly due to the time period and all the game mechanics except for combat (I really wish they retained the HoI-style combat mechanics). It's industrialization, politics, diplomacy, etc. Difficult to get the hang of, but there are good AARs that are more gameplay-focused on Paradox. It used to be a resource hog, especially late game, but they have been fixing that in the expansion and in the recent patches. So it's getting there. I haven't played CK2 or Sengoku yet.
As far as system resources go, I am playing on a 4-year old laptop, and they run reasonably well. I get a little lag late-game, but I'm willing to put up with it.
Also, I was considering putting together an AAR of AGEod's American Civil War. I'm playing a round right now that has gotten up to mid-1862, and it has been a pretty aggressive game, lots of maneuvering and marching. I am playing the Union, have done better in the East but crappy in the West--new players tend to make mistakes, and I've made plenty. Anyone interested?
Blue Emu
GroFAZ
As long as you have even a half-decent graphics card, you should have no trouble running them at full speed.
It's possible to speed up EU-3 Divine Wind tremendously, by using a user-created mod that simplifies the "billowing-cloud" fog-of-war. My game runs at least three times faster just by using that mod.
That happened to me the first couple of times I played (as Aragon, then France). Then I read through the EU3 Wiki and AARs on the Paradox forums and get tips from people here. There are tooltips everywhere in the game to guide you along too.
Castile is a ridiculously easy/overpowered country. You are able to easily beat any country in the naval race except for England, field an army larger than any except for France and Austria, swallow all of North Africa within the first 50 years and almost all the useful bits of the Americas and India in the next 200 years, you don't have to go through things like Westernisation, and the Reformation has minimal effects on you.
For starters, just remember:
1) you load troops on to transports by sailing the transports out to sea then march the troops into the coastal sea area where the transports sit.
2) inflation is bad. National Bank idea is your best friend.
3) instability is bad. Stabilty cost goes up with empire size (but is not too bad if you maximise income, take stabilty cost reducing ideas, decisions, etc)
4) beware of France and Austria.
5) don't colonise deserts.
Blue Emu said:
This I didn't know. Linky?
madviking
north american scum
6) if you're gonna colonize, be sure to go all Aguirre/von Trotha on the natives before you start sending colonists; those pesky natives decrease your chance of succeeding in the vital stages, burning valuable colonists. It's not like the 1000-odd population bonus will help you in any concrete way.
Polycrates
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I would second looking through the AARs and seeing what other people have done, and the wiki is pretty useful as well (there should be a castile strategy guide there as well).
I'd also suggest getting at least Heir To The Throne, it's probably the best of the expansions. Divine Wind is more optional, really.
I'd also suggest getting at least Heir To The Throne, it's probably the best of the expansions. Divine Wind is more optional, really.
Blue Emu
GroFAZ
Here:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?517049-Divine-Wind-faster-graphics-Pack.
You might need to have your base EU-3 game (or EU-3 Complete) registered in your user profile on the Paradox forum, in order to gain access to the User Modifications sub-Forum.
Let me know how it works for you... if you don't have any graphics lag issues, then it won't help much because there isn't any problem to fix... but I swear by that mod!
shadowplay
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Been there.
I have EU3: Complete as well and only recently got into it. What I did to get the very basic feel for the game was apply the fix for the tutorial (there's a fix explained here) and played through that, and then read the EU3 wiki that others have mentioned above to help explain some of the rest of the basics. I'm still in the beginners phase myself but this is what I've done to make sense of some of the game mechanics.
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
EU3 is not worth playing without all of the expansions.
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
And a mod to fix to the hideous borders.
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