Place is dead as a dodo!

Dauphin · June 22, 2002, 12:39

No posts in the past 10 days. Where has everyone gone?

Makes you wonder if this section is worthwhile anymore.

St Leo · June 22, 2002, 18:42

That's a lie a you know it. We are 300 years less dead than a dodo.

Dauphin · June 23, 2002, 07:34

220 years.

Maniac · June 23, 2002, 10:22

Perhaps to the official EU forums...

Leonidas · June 23, 2002, 13:19

Yup - they're all at the EU2 forums. . . heh. . .

War4ever · June 23, 2002, 18:49

how many of you actually play this game....i find it very difficult

Shadowstrike · June 23, 2002, 19:08

EU isn't as complex as it looks. Basically all you do is raise troops, keep stablity up and look for a good chance to expand your borders. There's a kind of pacing to the game, which you'll find after you play it a little. Its all about increasing your resources (money. land, etc.) through war and diplomacy (though I'd concern myself more with war, diploannexing is tricky), while maintaining a balance of power so that your enemies keep fighting each other instead of you.

Maniac · June 24, 2002, 13:52

I actually find the game very easy. In my very first game as Denmark, a rather small nation, I already was first in VPs after 50 years. Now in 1630 I basically control all of North America up until the Rockies, entire South America except the Inca empire, the entire Baltic region with the exception of Sweden, and of course a whole range of colonies in Africa, Indonesia and Australia. I guess I already played too many strategy games...

Seneca · June 26, 2002, 12:48

Only the Very Hard is worth playing on - then the challenge is to expand without triggering a bad boy war, which is a challenge indeed.

Maniac · June 27, 2002, 06:58

I must admit, for this first game I chose the Normal difficulty level, though I take it as a personal rule never to go beyond 35 BB points, the BB wars limit. But on VH, the AI doesn't suffer war attrition. That's a reason I wouldn't like to play on VH: I want large empires to fall apart as a consequence of long wars. Otherwise Europe is divided too soon between just a few large powers.

Victor Galis · June 29, 2002, 17:28

If the difficulty isn't set high enough BB becomes a good thing. It allows you to expand without losing stability to declare war

Dauphin · July 13, 2002, 18:05

This forum should be amalgamated into other games. No posts in over ten days, this place is a graveyard.

Shadowstrike · July 14, 2002, 15:46

Maybe we should start an AAR (After Action Report)

St Leo · July 14, 2002, 17:04

Hmm...
How about graphic descriptions of the consummation of every royal marriage?

Dauphin · July 15, 2002, 08:50

Henry VIII getting it on with Catherine Parr is not my idea of good reading.

Victor Galis · July 15, 2002, 12:46

I second that.

OneFootInTheGrave · July 17, 2002, 07:43

An AAR could save this place

ThePlagueRat · July 18, 2002, 17:30

Quote:

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
This forum should be amalgamated into other games. No posts in over ten days, this place is a graveyard.

Either my thread there could be moved in here, or the other way round? Hmmm...

MattyBoy · July 24, 2002, 01:51

Maybe we should move the EU stuff under Classic Games (along with MoM and Colonization)

St Leo · July 24, 2002, 23:53

Or not.

ravagon · July 25, 2002, 03:49

Quote:

Originally posted by MattyBoy
Maybe we should move the EU stuff under Classic Games (along with MoM and Colonization)

That forum is for ancient out-dated games that hardly anybody uses anymore but which can serve as discussion points or nostalgic woolgathering.
Like Civ3.

This forum will pick up again once Crusaders/[The WW2 one whose name I've forgotten right now

] come out.
And yes indeed it could use an AAR or two.

Havard · July 25, 2002, 07:35

Quote:

Originally posted by ravagon

This forum will pick up again once Crusaders/[The WW2 one whose name I've forgotten right now

] come out.
And yes indeed it could use an AAR or two.

Crusader Kings/Hearts of Iron

I guess it will. I have my "home" on the Paradox forum, and thus tend to post there. I only drop by here from time to time to see if there is any action (which it rarely is

)

MattyBoy · July 25, 2002, 23:37

That Crusaders game looks very pretty, methinks.

I notice that the Classic Games forum is actually quieter than this one, except when someone triggers a flurry from the MoM fans.

Dale · July 26, 2002, 00:26

Venice AAR in progress

I'll probably only update once or twice a week, so don't push me.

Carolus_Rex · July 27, 2002, 12:24

Oh, I'm here again, guess I haven't visited for a month or so.

Janbalk · July 29, 2002, 03:48

Quote:

Originally posted by ravagon

That forum is for ancient out-dated games that hardly anybody uses anymore but which can serve as discussion points or nostalgic woolgathering.
Like Civ3.

CIv3 is not ancient

MattyBoy · July 29, 2002, 19:30

Quote:

That forum is for ancient out-dated games that hardly anybody uses anymore but which can serve as discussion points or nostalgic woolgathering.

Keep an eye on the MoM threads and you might notice that people are still getting their kicks out of that game. I can't stop coming back to it. If it's nostalgic to reminisce about last night's game, then we're guilty as charged.

ThePlagueRat · August 1, 2002, 10:16

I think Oerdin has revived this place lately.

That's nice!

Oerdin · August 1, 2002, 12:45

It's nice that somebody noticed.

Seriously though I wanted to post some information that EU players would find both useful and educational. I was sort of turned off when I first looked at this forum because there was absolutely no useful information about the game. Hopefully now any new players that happen along will think of Apolyton as a place to get a greater understanding of EU1 & EU2.

DarkCloud · August 8, 2002, 18:27

Yes, thank's for the useful information, previously I went to the EU forum for all information, but thanks to you is all here to see easily.