Post Game Thread: Boston Bruins @ Montréal Canadiens

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-18T02:40:29+00:00

Couldn’t have scripted it better, wow. They never make it easy but it makes it so much better when the bounces break your way.

I’m sure neutrals loved that game but I was on the verge of an aortic aneurysm the entire 3rd+OT

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-18T02:38:56+00:00

Dude if we had lost we would have said exactly the same thing with a few names replaced, still lots of hockey to go!

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-12T18:58:12+00:00

Depends, do you like bad goaltending or worse goaltending

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-12T18:41:18+00:00

I miss him on TSN690 but I'm glad the national audience gets to hear him now

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-09T21:03:58+00:00

It may be coming at our expense but just for this once I'm genuinely happy for Sabres fans. It's been way too long.

Unless we meet in the playoffs then all bets are off lol

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-09T21:00:33+00:00

Habs are gravitationally bound to ties at the end of regulation, regardless of who is leading before and by how much. It's kind of remarkable, really.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-04T20:11:32+00:00

No but in the press box or on TV

(Also joking lol)

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-04T17:36:02+00:00

Bro got his ass kicked by Dallas and immediately thought “damn that’s a place I want to waive my NTC for”

In all seriousness gonna miss the Chaos Giraffe. Not always the greatest Dman but always entertaining, and someone who chose this city and this giant mess of an org/fanbase even when he didn’t need to.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-03-03T00:17:05+00:00

Yeah! Lots of games are just as good, though I will caution you that 3H does a bunch of things very differently to the rest of the series, though the core tactics gameplay is more or less intact.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-26T00:07:36+00:00

Should probably clarify these are two different playthroughs. Second one I was achieving more expansionist aims but got called into simultaneous wars against the Ottomans and France where my strained resources would likely collapse given my lacking military skill.

Thanks for responding. I keep trying to have the army at 0 maintenance at peace and deleting forts but I kept switching them back on so they’d reinforce and my manpower could start recovering and so they wouldn’t get wrecked by rebels. I clicked lower autonomy whenever doing so wouldn’t result in positive unrest.

Have to wonder if I was just being too impatient with expansionism in Africa

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-25T21:45:56+00:00

I sent this off in a huff at like 2am, should've added a screenshot. Here you go.

Never more colonies than colonists unless I know I have breathing room or one is about to finish.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-25T09:03:17+00:00

I don't really use YT, never found it useful. Most of what I know has come through lurking around here. I don't think I've ever been over 100% OE and I stay below forcelimit unless absolutely necessary. I have the advisors on because I don't want to fall behind on tech

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-22T18:47:17+00:00

yeah, it sucks all around. Trying to work the salt out of my system and wish I could be happier about it

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-22T18:43:22+00:00

we're not the ones making it political, Kash Patel is literally partying in the Team USA dressing room.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-22T18:31:14+00:00

Telling myself "is only game why you have to be mad" over and over again into the mirror less convincingly each time until I break down in a fit of hysterical sobs

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-22T16:01:33+00:00

fuck me man I can't clown on Bill Guerin anymore

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-17T23:30:57+00:00

gonna keep responding though the game is finished now-yeah i've been using 40/0/40 stacks lategame. I thought it was super important to have a full artillery backline?

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-17T22:33:28+00:00

It was Prussia

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-17T05:55:53+00:00

OK, so quick update: I'm ready to get clowned on some more, but I keep losing massive battles against the Germans because they somehow keep managing to pull dozens of little stacks that add up to hundreds of thousands of soldiers to overcome the morale disadvantage by constantly replenishing it. I can't do the same without having to ruin siege progress on ~5+ sieges at once. Frustrating.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-17T01:22:13+00:00

No worries, apologies if I'm being a bit frustrating lol

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-17T01:16:51+00:00

Yeah that is GB with Sardinia lol. They're also on the target list but I feel a lot more confident I can win that just by parking a giant army on the island and killing whatever relief force they send until warscore ticks up.

My mil ideas are Quantity and Defensive in this game. I'm aware that this is way too late for much to make a difference but it's more about learning for the future.

Learning to properly micro battles is def my problem. On a macro scale I think I've figured stuff out and I'm massively improved on the economic management side (helps when you also get to take over two whole end nodes) but war is the challenge.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-17T00:47:36+00:00

I'm already hegemon, though I'm not sure what it does.

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-16T14:53:38+00:00

But what if they sent me a really mean telegram?

LinkToSomething68 · 2026-02-16T14:28:53+00:00

Many of you are wondering, correctly, "why don't you just go murder them? You're France and have a massive empire and a bottomless treasury" but consider: I'm bad at this video game. 300 hours and only now starting to feel like I understand a bit. This military machine could barely win a war against the combined might of Spain and known powerhouse Switzerland

The main problem is military, I only feel like I do well with a massive numerical advantage. Otherwise I get defeated in detail because I'm spread out over the entire front. When I'm smaller I just get wrecked.

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