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West Texan 18 6.29%
Midwestern 14 4.90%
East Texan/Arkansas/Mississippi 23 8.04%
Dixie 16 5.59%
Arab 12 4.20%
New Yawker 21 7.34%
New England 16 5.59%
Minnesota 9 3.15%
California, dude! 18 6.29%
Western Canadian 8 2.80%
French 15 5.24%
Cajun 6 2.10%
Spanish 8 2.80%
Latin American 6 2.10%
Cockney 14 4.90%
Welsh 7 2.45%
Scots/Irish 5 1.75%
Finnish 11 3.85%
Scandinavian 9 3.15%
German 8 2.80%
Slavic 7 2.45%
Chinese 14 4.90%
Japanese 11 3.85%
Aussie 10 3.50%
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Old August 14, 2002, 13:13   #121
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allies are irrelevant... I produce and trade enough grain to have an army big enough to conquer the world.
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allies are irrelevant... I produce and trade enough grain to have an army big enough to conquer the world.
Javolle, mein Fuhrer!

Next, we invade Russia in the winter!
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do that, yankee
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Playing as France I own 60% of Europe in 1540.
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Think what you could acheive with a real nation.
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He's probably playing on the difficulty levels where the AI never declares war on you, anyway!
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Accents = Dialects?
I'd say that in English, unlike in Swedish and apparently Finnish, dialects are a subset of the accents. New England Accent = New England Dialect, whereas to a Swede the word "Accent" would mean the way a foreign speaker would speak the language whereas "Dialekt" would mean the way a native speaker would.

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What is it with americans and the evolution of language? New forms aren't just dismissed but laughed at and considered stupid. Remember, people, that Grammar is a formalisation of the way people actually speak, not the other way around.

Many of my favourite accents, like heavy Caribbean ones, involve a highly changed grammattical structure with new connectives, brilliant new words, beautiful sentence structure and pronounciation. I think new forms growing out of the population should be celebrated, not repressed.

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Least fav accent? Swedish: Skånska, Östermalm. English: the sort of accent the Queen uses. Ewww...
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it's Normal Normal, but after this game, and a few others, I'll finally get on very hard and furious shortly
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I played on Normal several times, and the AI NEVER declared war on me, not once. I had an absolutely atrocious rating, had conquered and annexed 2/3 of Europe, and still couldn't get anyone to declare war on me. My only means of getting into wars without declaring them was to ally with someone and hope they go to war. But no one wanted to be my ally since I was so rotten.
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how rotten of you

on normal, I actually have had others declare war on me. but seldomly. and really haven't been in life danger ever. apart from once, when they conquered both my provinces, but then the war automatically ended with return to status quo. weird.
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Weird? Nope.

Buggy AI
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yeah. but then it'd also suck if they forced me to give away 50% of my empire, that'd make the whole game less fun.

recommend me a nation to play
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The point is, you shouldn't realistically be able to capture and hold an empire covering 60% of Europe in the era in which this game takes place. That was the whole point of the nationality and religion conflicts, to make massive empires near-impossible to attain. But the flukey AI makes it possible to get around that.

My favorite is to start as Brandenburg or Prussia and try to create a united German state with roughly the same borders as 1871. However, given how event-driven the game is, it's best to play as the large nations. Try being the Ottomans. Or the Russians.
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Naturally I've played Brandenburg before

Russia and Ottomania have been played as well... maybe I should try something non-European.

pre-Mughal Timurids were a pain though... there is no chance you can conquer India as Babur, too much stress beforehand.
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How about China or Nippon, then?
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Oh, and on one game as Prussia, I not only united all German states, I also colonized/conquered all of SE asia. Neu Berlin instead of Singapore...hehehe...
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how nazi of you

tried China in 1419 once, what instability...

south americans are said to be fun though... loads of inflation and still no worries for gold is there in loads
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Problem with the russians is if you keep up with their historic expansion the BB gets to unplayable levels after a bit on very hard
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I didn't commit genocide, nope...



Being imperialistic and being nazi aren't the same thing!

China is a challenge, certainly. But I found it quite fun. It's not fun to have an easy time of it after all.

How about Byzantium? Beat back the Ottoman threat and establish a new Byzantine Empire over the eastern Mediterranean?
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never made it as byzantium, although I did do pretty well at some point (even got some of their provinces, but I was bankrupt all the time and they had one huge army
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Call me weird but I quite like German accents. And I adore Russian accents. Must be all those Bond girls

Anyway, what is so humourous or distinctive about my accent then?
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It's a nourthern accent

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Piss-poor poll choices as usual

Definitely Afrikaaner, closely followed by New Zealand accent. Truly horrible! Kiwis pronounce i's as u's, a's as i's, u's as e's, e's as u's, and o'd don't get pronounced at all!!!

And the Afrikaaner accent is EVEN WORSE!!!

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Ah, the dulcet tones of a Yarpie
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