Most Irritating accent - Page 5

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 13:13

allies are irrelevant... I produce and trade enough grain to have an army big enough to conquer the world.

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 13:23

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Originally posted by Ecthelion
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!

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 13:56

do that, yankee

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 13:57

Playing as France I own 60% of Europe in 1540.

Dauphin · August 14, 2002, 13:59

Think what you could acheive with a real nation.

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 14:04

He's probably playing on the difficulty levels where the AI never declares war on you, anyway!

Buck Birdseed · August 14, 2002, 14:15

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Originally posted by Kassiopeia
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...

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 14:46

it's Normal Normal, but after this game, and a few others, I'll finally get on very hard and furious shortly

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 15:13

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.

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 15:17

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.

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 15:37

Weird? Nope.

Buggy AI

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 15:39

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

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 15:54

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.

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 15:57

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.

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 15:58

How about China or Nippon, then?

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 15:59

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...

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 16:04

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

Bosh · August 14, 2002, 16:06

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Try being the Ottomans. Or the Russians.

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

Boris Godunov · August 14, 2002, 16:14

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Originally posted by Ecthelion
how nazi of you

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?

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 19:21

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

Provost Harrison · August 14, 2002, 19:35

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?

Ecthy · August 14, 2002, 19:40

It's a nourthern accent

ever considered moving to Lundun

Provost Harrison · August 14, 2002, 19:48

Shut up you Jurmun

Lung · August 14, 2002, 19:50

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!!!

Provost Harrison · August 14, 2002, 19:51

Ah, the dulcet tones of a Yarpie