Jolt said: Indeed, it really is great to hear that you're trying to enjoy the Paradox games in your own way with someone relating you what is happening and you're the one actually making the plans and guiding your country.



burny, mind giving us a general notion of what happened during those three hours? What game you played, what country did you pick and how you fared against your opponents? Cheers. Click to expand...

Well,first thing i asked niall was if he had any notion on how the world looks.And he has a good notion on how western european nations are located to one another. England across the channel, followed by France, with next to them Germany ,Poland and Russia.This line is actually good enough to start from since it kind of works like the trunk of a tree. Every nation that needs to be localised is measured vs the location of this line. And as time and repetition passes it will be easier for niall to visualise it.So needless to say we started a western europeangame as Spain/Castille .I chose Spain for several reasons.It is one of those countries that is fit for any kind of game being naval, land, trade, colonial, religious...This gives a higher degree of interactivity and discussion about what could be done next.Spain is by far one of easiest nations to visualise. It's a square-like peninsula divided into three vertical parts, portugal,castille and aragon. It has a bottleneck to the northeast with France and a strait with Africa.To keep it easy to follow I suggested to focus on conquering Iberia. This will enable us to withstand the BBB in the pyrenees in case they chose to invade us and the repetition of telling where these nations are because of our constant warring with them, aid in making it easier to remember on how spain looks like. Plus later it will be obvious where those darn portuguese - aragonese rebels are standing.Our game itself hasn‘t advanced that much yet since I explained the first hour and a half on how the mechanics of the game work. And due to PDS imaginative naming of the technology, tech was probably terribly confusing.Having three general admin, diplo and mil tech tabs + admin, diplo and mil tech groups with a diplo tech ideagroup...After having explained the general mechanics we started our strategydiscussion. Since France and England are busy in the hundred years war we calculated that they would be unable to help either portugal or aragon. We chose scotland for ally as a counterweight for any future wars with the english.Since portugal has low legitimacy and prestige we arranged for a royal marriage, followed by a successionwar.As it stands now,we have occupied portugal completely, whilst the warscore slowly ticks up to 84.The english have joined the portuguese but due to their struggle in France ,we haven't seen any armies landing in Iberia.We even sunk a small fleet of 2 big ships and 4 light ships,before rushing back into our ports since their doomfleet was rapidly approaching.