AARs....

Velociryx · June 11, 2003, 11:56

I've started three on the Paradox board. One died a premature death (corrupted HD), and the other two....I dunno...they're just not getting it done for me. I think that part of the problem is the fact that you gotta jump thru a lot of hoops to put images into the AAR, and I like images....I just don't want to have to go thru a lot of rigamarole to get them included.

So....I'm thinking I'll start a new AAR here....an image-friendly board. It's got the makings of a good story, and I'm more accustomed to writing here anyway....just....thinking out loud for the moment....will play this latest game out a bit further to see where and how it's going, but it's looking like a keeper so far!

-=Vel=-

EDIT: VH/N with Lorraine, 1.07 beta (the second to the last beta).

Game goals:

1) To survive (not so easy as Lorraine)
2) To control all my cultural provinces (basically, every french/german province in europe), and ONLY those provinces. I'll allow myself colonization, but will not seek territorial gains against any territory that's not French or German culture.
3) No cheats or abusive use of loopholes
4) No bankrupcies
5) Repay any loans taken on time (no extensions)
6) To tell a good story

Lawrence of Arabia · June 11, 2003, 14:27

Go get em Vel.

Nikolai · June 11, 2003, 14:44

I'll follow it with interest.

Nvver read an AAR with Lorraine. Go conquer!

But what will you do if one of the countries you have to take to fullfill your goal about owning cultural territories(with capital in one of them), have other territories not of your culture?

It's not as you can realese all of them as vassal countries I'd guess.

Velociryx · June 11, 2003, 15:31

Thought about that! Savoie, for example, has one French, and one Italian province.

If possible, I'm going to arrange to "lose" a war and give up those provinces as part of the peace....if not, I'll try to come as close as I can to meeting my goal, with a few "extraneous" cultures tossed into the mix.

-=Vel=-

Victor Galis · June 11, 2003, 15:56

Bah, follow in my footsteps as I lead Bavaria to a glorious Balkan and Turkish empire at the expense of the weak and decadent Ottoman Empire.

Nikolai · June 11, 2003, 16:16

Maybe you should make an AAR of thet too?

A more "professional" AAR than the summary you've given us untill now, if you understand what I mean.

Dale · June 11, 2003, 23:26

Vel:

Arrange it so when warring someone like Savoy, that one of your allies peace out with the "extra" prov, then you annex the capital.

That way you get the French prov, and your ally gets the non-French.

Or, Arrange it so that in the siege, you leave just before claiming it so your ally gets it. That way, in the second war, you get the capital. Heaps of ways around having to lose a war.

Victor Galis · June 12, 2003, 13:46

AARs take time, and when I sleep 10 hours a day, and work another 8, that doesn't leave much time for playing, eating, getting to work, etc.

Velociryx · June 12, 2003, 15:04

Ohhhhh this game ROCKS! I definitely see AAR potential here! Last night I played through an *intense* war (can't say with whom, or what the outcome was, cos it'd spoil the read later), and have mapped out my plans for recovery and (hopefully) eventual dominance! If I can avoid war for a handful of years and just kina lay low, I think I'm well positioned to grow...

-=Vel=-
(Duke of Lorraine, Scourge of the German Minors, Bane of Burgundy, Shield of France)

Nikolai · June 12, 2003, 15:34

The words "outcome" and "recovery" do however give us some clues...

Are you going for WC, since you are afraid of China as Lorraine?

Velociryx · June 12, 2003, 17:18

Nope...I definitely wanna refrain from WC (just the French/German cultural provinces, plus whatever I can colonize), but if anybody tries to ruin my party, I'll sure be happy to stomp them into oblivion (or, run like hell and let my allies do it, which was kina what I did at the start of the aforementioned war...LOL)....you shoulda seen it! (well, actually you will! I took a screenie! 160k troops marching against my 38k...EGADS!~

-=Vel=-

Dale · June 12, 2003, 19:59

And where is this afore-mentioned screenie?

Velociryx · June 13, 2003, 01:31

Well, since you asked for it, here's a sneak preview of the AAR I'll soon be starting!

Velociryx · June 13, 2003, 01:34

A quick count of the armies of Pfalz, Cologne, and Burgundy will reveal exactly how dire the straits were on the opening days of the war....

-=Vel=-

Dale · June 13, 2003, 02:35

If there's one leader I hate the most in EU2, it's Phillipe of Burgundy!!!!!!

The amount of times he's kicked my butt is not funny. But oh, doesn't it feel good to hit "annex" on Burgundy.

BTW, looks like you're doing pretty good so far.

I'm going to start a new Moscow game tonight, and I'll let you know how it goes. I think I'll war the "protestant" path and get Norway's maps to find America...... *musings*

Velociryx · June 13, 2003, 12:06

Agreed....I swear the computer cheats in favor of Burgundy....they're....uncanny.

Fortunately, the war that followed the screenshot above, while certainly tense (given the disparity of numbers, me:them), was not as brutal as it could have been. Had our enemies wished to, they could have parked a 20-25k army in every province I owned and simply erased me. They did not (much to my relief), and in fact, seemed dangerously fascinated with Lux (130k troops piled into the siege there, which took more than a year, and the attrition worked their armies over).

Still, when you're a little guy (as I am in the picture shown), the sight of nearly 200k troops converging on your positions is....terrifying....

-=Vel=-

PS: And yes!@ Lemme know how it goes! I played the Rus a few times....intriguing area!

Victor Galis · June 13, 2003, 12:32

The AI certainly needs some work. It seems to love attrition. It loves to send 60k troops into a province that can support like 10k. This is most annoying when Austria sends all their armies into a province which I am besieging calmly with my 10k men, slowly wearing down the defenders. Suddenly, I lose like half my army to attrition thanks to my allies' "help."

Main_Brain · June 13, 2003, 18:39

Funny I always assumed Pfalz would be called Palatinate ( meanign all Countries would be translated ;=) )

For a serious Attrition game try playing Tibet vs China

Lawrence of Arabia · June 14, 2003, 13:00

Cologn is also called Koln.

Victor Galis · June 14, 2003, 19:39

The game calls the country Cologne, but the province is labeled Koeln (can't figure out umlauts on laptop keyboard).

I am known as Bavaria, but my capital province is Bayern. My first African colony is called New Bayern. I think they just got lazy and stopped translating halfway though.