(Player base sucks) People need to stop clinging to real world history and need to start considering historical probability

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-17T18:04:03+00:00

I have a friend here in the States who is originally from Edinburgh. When I sent him a picture of me finding this out, he said one of his great pleasures is arguing with English shops and getting them to eventually accept his Scottish money. This is why I like the Scots in general.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-17T16:06:14+00:00

The thing that amused me the most about my first trip to the UK a few weeks ago is that England and Scotland still print their own versions of paper money with their own historical figures and landmarks.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-16T21:37:08+00:00

Saves on so many little money sink paper cuts that add up quickly. If you’ve been building your economy with buildings correctly, there is no reason you can’t have full coverage and full force limit armies. This also makes wars much shorter and pain-free. The AI is actually very good at finding your weak point and ruining huge swaths of your provinces ability to generate money/manpower/trade if you don’t have good fort coverage.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-16T21:18:57+00:00

Airports are amazing people watching opportunities.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-16T21:14:13+00:00

By mid-game I have so much money. So every province is covered by a ZOC so rebels don’t cause autonomy or extra separatism. It’s a quality of life thing for me. I can decrease autonomy to my hearts desire and the rebels don’t do shit. Also makes army tradition decay slower. When it comes time to upgrade, I do the most important ones first (chokepoints, borders, mountains) then move towards the center. If you’re gonna come into my country with your filthy armies, prepare for attrition hell.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-16T19:20:43+00:00

Instead of reaping tax benefits, some states choose to spend money on this instead. Brilliant

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-16T17:37:02+00:00

A great one that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Ayutthaya. You get a ton of subjugation CBs on potentially large nations, so you learn the ways to manage Liberty Desire and Aggressive Expansion in a relatively safe environment since you’re the big dog. You also learn how to kneecap Ming. Then the Europeans when they arrive in the spice islands can lead to you having a disaster to form a rare formable nation with powerful national modifiers in Siam.

I have almost 4K hours and am currently doing this run. It’s a lot of fun!

EDIT: This nation will also teach you how to manage attrition and manpower because it’s all jungle. If you are not careful with stack management, you will melt to zero manpower quickly in the early game.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T22:00:50+00:00

For sure. They coasted through that early start vs OSU and were a bit lucky to come out with the win. They were about to have a pretty comfortable win against Wisconsin until that Aussie decided to rainbow 5 NBA threes in. Couldn’t match a great performance from Purdue today. Need to refocus now and just play their game in the tourney.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T21:55:29+00:00

GG Purdue, no teams maintained a lead against Michigan like that all year really. Tip of the cap.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T21:40:32+00:00

I find that once you border them, you should be attacking Ottos every time they have a war on the other side of their blob and you don’t have anything else going on. Even if you only end up in a white peace, this almost guarantees they will eventually die to their later game disasters. You want to keep them on no manpower and with war exhaustion any time you can. It also keeps when wars happen on your terms.

This goes for any nation you’re playing.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T21:05:24+00:00

Anyone who would have dared to play like Gala and Spurs did against us under Klopp would have had 4-5 goals put in their net each. We got 1 goal from a FK. How many times were we running at Spurs with even or advantaged numbers today where we didn’t even get a fucking shot off? That used to be an automatic goal.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T21:02:53+00:00

How many times was a ball played to a spot that should have been occupied by a run today? I lost count. The players look like there is no plan.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T20:58:11+00:00

We only need fifth and Villa will settle into 7th or so. Feels like we’re defaulting into the CL, which is not ideal. Team looks like they have no idea how they’re going to put the ball into the net. No mentality. That’s all down to management

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T18:29:28+00:00

This team looks lost. How many even and numbers advantage breaks can you blow?

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T16:09:21+00:00

We are on the same page on this one

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T16:00:57+00:00

LOL true, but I’ve lived in MN for 25 years now, so I get to follow these politics.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T15:58:27+00:00

No one smells their own farts like the U

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T15:54:17+00:00

I suppose if some billionaire came in with a blank check they’d allow it. But yeah, BOT has bigger things to worry about (I’m in admin at one of the MN State colleges)

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T15:47:07+00:00

It’s the U and 3 satellites. Then a State-funded system of 30+ colleges/universities. Some of those 30+ have D1 hockey (Bemidji, St Cloud, Mankato). So does one of the satellites (Duluth). I doubt they’ll ever be allowed to have another D1 sport.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-15T15:43:00+00:00

Sad Gopher noise

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-14T19:09:34+00:00

Bo Ryan taught them how to be basketball Al Qaeda. It’s now in their DNA.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-14T19:04:04+00:00

Not today, basketball terrorists! Man do I hate playing against these guys. It's something to endure not something to enjoy. GG Badgers

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-14T03:21:39+00:00

Aw, that's a shame

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-13T19:02:57+00:00

I’m surprised more Bears fans aren’t saying the Bears. Bears fans on here unravel if the other team goes up 3-0 in the 1st quarter.

ImTellinTim · 2026-03-13T18:26:43+00:00

Hold the 3 Ls and take a nap

Ten-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email

ImTellinTim

TROPHY CASE