14-08-2002 22:13									#121
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allies are irrelevant... I produce and trade enough grain to have an army big enough to conquer the world.

	14-08-2002 22:23									#122
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quote: 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!

	14-08-2002 22:56									#123
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do that, yankee

	14-08-2002 22:57									#124
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Playing as France I own 60% of Europe in 1540.

	14-08-2002 22:59									#125
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Think what you could acheive with a real nation.

	14-08-2002 23:04									#126
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He's probably playing on the difficulty levels where the AI never declares war on you, anyway!

	14-08-2002 23:15									#127
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quote: 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...

	14-08-2002 23:46									#128
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it's Normal Normal, but after this game, and a few others, I'll finally get on very hard and furious shortly

	15-08-2002 00:13									#129
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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.

	15-08-2002 00:17									#130
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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.

	15-08-2002 00:37									#131
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Weird? Nope.

Buggy AI

	15-08-2002 00:39									#132
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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

	15-08-2002 00:54									#133
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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.

	15-08-2002 00:57									#134
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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.

	15-08-2002 00:58									#135
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How about China or Nippon, then?

	15-08-2002 00:59									#136
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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...

	15-08-2002 01:04									#137
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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

	15-08-2002 01:06									#138
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quote: 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

	15-08-2002 01:14									#139
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quote: 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?

	15-08-2002 04:21									#140
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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

	15-08-2002 04:35									#141
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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?

	15-08-2002 04:40									#142
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It's a nourthern accent

ever considered moving to Lundun

	15-08-2002 04:48									#143
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Shut up you Jurmun

	15-08-2002 04:50									#144
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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!!!

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	15-08-2002 04:51									#145
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Ah, the dulcet tones of a Yarpie