Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Boredom and trying to get use to my new mouse.
While We Wait: Part 4
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Boredom and trying to get use to my new mouse.
North King
blech
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Once was once too much.
Hey man, if everyone else hadn't reserved every single country from the beginning of the game, I wouldn't have had to start a rebel faction. As I recall, das started the NES during a block party, and by the time I got back everything had already been taken...
Oh, I know. And if I had been playing the Ottomans, you would have lost.
If you had been the Ottomans, I wouldn't have tried.Oh, I know. And if I had been playing the Ottomans, you would have lost.
The Ottomans also wouldn't have had that minor rebellion early on that sort of crippled them and induced Russia to invade. Along with that story I wrote.
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Hey man, if everyone else hadn't reserved every single country from the beginning of the game, I wouldn't have had to start a rebel faction. As I recall, das started the NES during a block party, and by the time I got back everything had already been taken...
Well some of us were slightly more original in our rebel factions...after all the possible paths my few guys from Marseilles in a Barcelona Coffee House could have taken were near limitless - all roads don't lead to Constantinople you know
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Shadowbound
Incorrugible
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The EUA was made of win. And Mexicans.
It wasn't that unoriginal when I first did it. And I don't just play as the Greeks or a variant thereof. I just know more about them.Well some of us were slightly more original in our rebel factions...after all the possible paths my few guys from Marseilles in a Barcelona Coffee House could have taken were near limitless - all roads don't lead to Constantinople you know
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Im on my 5th cup of coffee I made extra strong here at work so If I post more stupidity consider this a warning.
On the rebel factions I have found that generally speaking they do not seem to fair well in NESing, but there are always exceptions.
On the rebel factions I have found that generally speaking they do not seem to fair well in NESing, but there are always exceptions.
They're not supposed to do very well. It was only because Spain was having serious issues in NES2 VIa that Disenfrancised's Estados Unidos managed to seize control of the Americas' Pacific Coast and central North America, and it was only because Kentharu was an extremely new NESer who didn't know what he was doing as the Sultan of the Ottomans (and because Stormbringer's Russia annihilated him) that my Greek rebels/Byzantines managed to succeed.
NES2 VI was definitely a game for rebel factions. Xin Han, Byzantines, EUA, the PUAF states, and the French cordon sanitaire around Russia in Eastern Europe all did fairly well, and then there were the Dar al-Islam successor states, which did okay during the BT at least. 'Course, a lot more rebels got crushed in that game as well, like the Way of Peace and Thlayli's various Caliphal movements and the janissaries.
Dreadnought
Deity
It's especially annoying when your rebellion is wiped out the same turn it starts. I remeber that happening in some Rome-esqe NES I was in.
Hey, the first time I tried to launch a Greek revolt, it got overshadowed by an NPC rebellion and was barely mentioned. Tried again the second time and actually wrote a story, went to bed, and when I woke up Russia had issued an ultimatum against the Ottoman Empire on our behalf...which I completely didn't expect. Got lucky.
Tried again the second time and actually wrote a story, went to bed, and when I woke up Russia had issued an ultimatum against the Ottoman Empire on our behalf...which I completely didn't expect. Got lucky.
Symphony D.
Deity
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Kozmos
Jew Detective
Dobar stari Lekar House.
Something always cracks me about the whole lupus running gag.
Something always cracks me about the whole lupus running gag.
qoou
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OMFG! I just beat muta-ling with hydra-lurk! Sorry, but this is incredibly exciting to me! Granted, he went 9 overpool and my 12 hatch/expo managed to hold out, but the fact that he made me stop mining and attack his creep/sunken right before I got my pool kind of offset that. Must go watch replay...
Edit: It was more of a macro win actually: he went 9pool speedlings into 1lair fast muta, while I went 3 hatch. He was still in the game though, until he decided to suicide his muta army against my hydra army (he lost ~18 mutas; if he hadn't done that, I would've had to move out cautiously, and he'd quickly get a macro advantage (he was already caught up to my 3hatch). If I moved out, I would've had to beat whatever he had (turned out to only be 3 sunk and a few ling) with only 8lurk and 20hydra since he could easily rip through my drones in seconds. If I chose to be cautious, I would've had to keep building hydras, and if he was smart and kept pumping out mutas while gaining map control I would've been horribly outmacroed and lost 1expo to 3expo)
Edit: It was more of a macro win actually: he went 9pool speedlings into 1lair fast muta, while I went 3 hatch. He was still in the game though, until he decided to suicide his muta army against my hydra army (he lost ~18 mutas; if he hadn't done that, I would've had to move out cautiously, and he'd quickly get a macro advantage (he was already caught up to my 3hatch). If I moved out, I would've had to beat whatever he had (turned out to only be 3 sunk and a few ling) with only 8lurk and 20hydra since he could easily rip through my drones in seconds. If I chose to be cautious, I would've had to keep building hydras, and if he was smart and kept pumping out mutas while gaining map control I would've been horribly outmacroed and lost 1expo to 3expo)
Luckymoose
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That's what happens if the mods don't like you.
qoou
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RPG?
I just managed to find a working copy of Starcraft ~1 month ago or so, and now I'm back from random vacations and can fully focus on shocking people on iccup with non-standard strategies. (my favorite is flying 5 queens in a terran's base, spawning all three of their tanks, ensnaring the M&M they send to chase me out, and then parasiting dropships (or other stuff if they're not going for a drop). 40 seconds later, when they're still wondering why the . .. .. .. . I have queens, mass cracks show up on their doorstep, and right as they start calling me a chobo for not knowing that stim>crack, I ensnare their M&M, canceling stim. Doesn't always work, but when it does I often lol when they tell me about their initial reaction to my queens)
Disenfrancised
Beep Beep
Well Spains troubles were in good part due to my schemes; organising (and then have the inner circle leave out to dry when the going got tough) spanish republicans and ethnic rebels, and engineering a financial crisis and destruction of the governments credability. Spain was definately in a weaker position than France at the start, but its fall took a lot of work
.Its because NESers generally try and kick off the rebellion right from the get go when any real revolutionary activity would have been bubbling up for years in advance/occur in slready failing or defeated states.
Dreadnought
Deity
Luckymoose said:
I think you are giving yourself too much credit in two respects with this statement.
