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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:18
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The best way of describing EUII is that it is a real time version of old classic strategy boardgames (like the Axis and Allies boardgame from the mid eighties).
It runs from 1419-1820 and there are various starting points along that way allowed (for example the Napoleonic Wars has its own campaign). I, like many people, prefer to play the grand campaign (the whole thing).
You play a country and are responsible for everything. You can play any country you like, although the European countries are most fun. The combat, exploration, economic and especially the diplomatic models are much more developed than those in the Civ series.
You will find yourself constrained by exactly the same sort of problems as faced real rulers. For example, the alliance system is very realistic and you really need to think carefully about who you ally yourself with. For most countries alliances are necessary, otherwise you will find yourself being ganged up on.
Conquering other countries by military force is possible, although very difficult, since the rest of the world quickly paints you as a warmonger and will set out to cut you down to size. It is often more effective to annex countries by diplomatic means (gifts, royal marriages, vassalization).
Exploration is a lot of fun. Once you receive Explorers/Conquistadors, the rest of the world is open for colonization and exploitation. Wars between rival colonial powers can be very rewarding from a gameplay point of view.
It is certainly worth your money and it is probably best to start with EUII before playing Victoria or Hearts of Iron, which are much more complicated games.
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Serb
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Siberia, Communist party of Apolyton
Nov 2001
time: 11:18
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EU2 is much more complicated than HOI.
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Agathon
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Leafs 4TW!! - CPA
Dec 2002
time: 00:18
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Yeah, you have armies and navies which are made up of a mix of infantry, cavalry, artillery, warships, transports and galleys.
Each has a leader, who may or may not be a special historical leader (like Nelson).
You also send out colonists to colonize new territories and to establish trading posts, merchants to trade, diplomats to conduct diplomacy and missionaries to convert the heathen.
Depending on which map mode you have, you will not see the units.
Buy the game. You can probably find it quite cheap these days, and it is better than Civ. Once you get bored of thrashing the computer, you can play over the net with other Apolytoners or whoever.
Once you get bored, buy Victoria. Once you get bored of that it will be about 2012 by which time virtual sex will have become indistinguishable from the real thing and computer games will die off (spotty teen boys will have better things to do). 
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25-11-2004 05:17
awn of the Modern World ..
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