Yay, World Conquest

St Leo · December 11, 2002, 20:56

Australia's my puppet and everyone else is my ally. No, I am not going to try going for an EU2 style world conquest even though it might actually be pleasant in HOI.

Heresson · December 12, 2002, 11:11

impressing. Very nice. Especially that it seems that You play as Poland, don't You...

General Ludd · December 12, 2002, 20:50

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Originally posted by Heresson
impressing. Very nice. Especially that it seems that You play as Poland, don't You...

I think he's playing as germany, the black stripe is just hard to see on the dark background.

St Leo · December 12, 2002, 23:42

Sorry, I played as Germany. Poland's more gold than grey.

Havard · December 14, 2002, 19:11

Nice to see you left Norway alone

You should try that again with 1.02

St Leo · December 14, 2002, 20:30

Nice to see you left Norway alone

Well, submarine bases are all that Norway is good for.

General Ludd · December 15, 2002, 09:20

Is that afghanistan in the heart of asia? It did quite well.

Dauphin · December 15, 2002, 09:50

What do the colourless territories represent?

General Ludd · December 15, 2002, 16:35

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Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
What do the colourless territories represent?

Germany is the gray colour, if that's what you are refering too.

Dauphin · December 15, 2002, 17:27

I thought so, but I didn't think it would be that easy to conquer all that territory from the Allies.

St Leo · December 15, 2002, 20:01

1.02 promises to change that.

General Ludd · December 15, 2002, 22:17

It'd be very difficult to do that in 1.02. you get 10% dissent for going to war with a country who you don't have claims on, and 5% for a country that you do have claims on.

Much easier to just kill the big guys and coup the rest.

Edit: and it's all around much more difficult now aswell, with the bug fixes, improvements, and AI tweaks.

Heresson · December 16, 2002, 10:08

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Originally posted by Osweld

I think he's playing as germany, the black stripe is just hard to see on the dark background.

You're right

But what Europe Universalis is it? It's in modern times it seems? In my EU2, I can't play further than 1817... Do I?

Carolus_Rex · December 16, 2002, 13:38

It's HoI, the WW2 Sim.

Heresson · December 17, 2002, 05:59

Mmmmm I like it! Looks nice...

Ramo · December 20, 2002, 05:58

I'm in a "Very Hard" 1.02 game as France right now.

I beat the original Axis of Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, and Spain within about 3/4 a year. Germany's war in Poland gave me numerical superiority on the Western front, and it was only a matter of time till their armies were encircled and destoryed. Though mountainous Austria and the Sudetenland was rather annoying. I moved onto Italy afterwards, and conquered them soon enough.

Then I declared war on, and conquered the "Paternal Autocratic" Baltic and Balkan states (since I apparantly, sometimes, have dissent-free declarations of war against them). Then I conquered fascist Portugal. Then PA Siam.

In '42, I was itching to get in a war with the Soviets, but didn't quite have numerical superiority, and I needed enough juice to cross the entire Soviet Union. But I realized the Soviets were at war with the Axis. So, I decided to declare war against PA Persia to force them into the Axis, and therefore draw the bulk of the Red Army South. The gambit worked, and I subsequentely declared war against the Soviet Union (albeit with a hefty 40% dissent penalty). With at least a 3-1 local numerical superiority, not to mention a huge technological superiority, I was able to destroy their entire garrison, and take the entire Soviet West pretty quickly. And I beat off the re-inforcements which were suffering from lack of supply (given that I occupied the Soviet supply centers), annexing it eventually.

Then, in '44, I decided to take out Japan, which had swallowed China. Landing a couple armor groups with a couple tactical bomber groups supporting them, I was able to eventually take them out given my technological lead. China was harder, though. Meanwhile, I noticed Finland went PA, so I conquered them with my relatively paltry Western garrison. Japan surrendered eventually, with myself gaining basically everything but their smaller pacific territories which went to the US. Then I conquered the PA Carribean (Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic). Then PA Argentina. Then PA Brazil.

Now, in mid '46, I should get nukes by the end of the year, and am building up a huge V-2 stockpile (my manpower is limited since I'm France, obviously, so I can't afford to build limitless panzer divisions like the US can). I outnumber their armour at least 3-1, but they have way more infantry than I do. It won't be a pretty war...

Heresson · December 20, 2002, 09:56

Congratulations

Jon Shafer · December 21, 2002, 20:10

Peh, you call that WC!

Ramo · December 22, 2002, 06:09

Ah, finished the US off just in time.

Interestingly enough, right before I annexed them, they just turned Stalinist (I suppose since they weren't able to put any industrial production into consumer goods, so the dissent went through the roof). Although, as a rule I only attacked non-"democratic" states, I invaded and puppeted "Centrist" India after she declared independence (I can't let those dirty anti-imperialists set an example for the subjects of my glorious empire

). I would've annexed India, but for some odd reason the territory went to the UK instead of France (even though the UK hadn't conquered/supplied the conquests for an inch of the country). My allies are Britain and Commonwealth, Belgium, Luxemburg, Estonia, and India. And that is India which has annexed the Eastern end of Indonesia, not New Zealand (Japan conquered it from the Netherlands, the US conquered it from Japan, and India conquered it from the US).

Eurasia...

Ramo · December 22, 2002, 06:11

The Americas and the Pacific Islands:

Dauphin · December 22, 2002, 06:46

The game looks too easy.

Have you tried multiplayer?

Ramo · December 23, 2002, 05:21

I agree that it's currently too easy, but it's much better than before. I think a major problem is the AI's army composition - not enough armor is being built. When I invaded the US for instance, its land forces were only about 10-20% armor. I on the other hand had about 60% armor, and a higher proportion of armor than that actually got to the American front. I initially faced some stiff resistance (I had a front front from Eastern Washington to Eastern Texas that I couldn't move lasting a few months), but when I destroyed the front, there wasn't much more to resist me. Of course, the US built around 3 or 4 hundred militia divisions, but I nuked at least 150 of them into oblivion, and only several [super-heavy 120 mm] panzer divisions were regularly able to cut thourgh a militia force 15 times as large like hot butter.

No, I haven't tried multiplayer yet.

St Leo · December 23, 2002, 22:02

It's incredibly fun annexing Poland

Oh, be nice. Don't make me conquer the Soviets as Latvia.

Az · December 29, 2002, 16:52

Say... what are the hardware demands on this game?