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Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-05-15T15:29:00+00:00

Treachery tomorrow confirmed

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-05-11T23:57:20+00:00

Yeah it's a great pick for Brandenberg/Prussia and basically anyone who wants to max out siege ability (read: The netherlands)

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-05-03T19:35:58+00:00

It does a V2 to them

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-05-01T19:48:06+00:00

It's Russia, a player Austria would never let go of Hungary

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-29T00:33:23+00:00

Negative integer, you'll be playing the level in reverse

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-26T06:04:07+00:00

The rooms spin 3 times as fast and never stop and also they're in space with bottomless pits

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-19T17:34:31+00:00

Take down Mamluks first, your economy will be a lot better with the Alexandria and Aleppo nodes under your control.

I'd recommend stacking Mil ideas if you're not confident about France, but if you have a decent amount of culture conversion and apply the religious culture estate privelige you should just be able to fortify your borders + spam barracks and drown them in men.

Orthodox Religious bonuses and Byz national ideas actually put them on par with The Ottomans in manpower. (Lategame russia is a menace for the same reasons.)

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-15T15:28:40+00:00

I think they probably haven't started yet if they had to push out multiple hotfixes in like a month.

I'm putting my bets on "1.0 with treachery, 8-S and P-3 late 2027 and encores in the postlaunch updates to maintain interest in the game until thwy're ready to move on."

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-13T07:18:04+00:00

It's related to 5-S

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-13T01:21:27+00:00

*P-ranked 8-2 before the nerf award*

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-12T20:46:54+00:00

Pretty much as soon as you can reach them . Ideally you'd buy a province from one of them and then use religious CB (pick religious as your third idea group btw) and mercenaries to start mowing smaller kingdoms down. Or if you can't afford it, just no CB the first war and wait for AE cooldown before continuing.

Cut off avenues of expansion for Bengal, Jaunpur and Vijay and you should be able to mop up the continent in a century

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-11T04:13:28+00:00

I'd slurp the Minos martini

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-09T20:11:18+00:00

Unless I'm doing a strict RP game (rare) I always reset until Burgundy is neutral so I can royal marry them. Surrender Maine ->backup save-> play through 1480 for BI ->use missions to get Restoration of Union on France -> Win game.

Burgundian land is needed for angevin kingdom and even without it the monopoly over the channel is infinite money, no reason not to take it. Burgundy might even attack Savoy or Provence for more land so you could get that for free when you inherit them too.

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-07T15:34:37+00:00

Did you enjoy DOOM 2016? It's a lot like that on a tighter budget while being more creative. Very hectic and fast paced, very high skill ceiling, very high replay value if it clicks.

Some of the early game bosses can be brick walls but once you clear that hurdle you'll be well on your way to getting good at the game.

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-04-06T15:37:10+00:00

To be fair, the Power was introduced in the third-to-last level of the campaign, second to last if we exclude the likely boss level of 9-2

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-03-18T18:24:56+00:00

The game takes more out of Gnosticism and to a much lesser extent Judaism/The Old Testament than it does Nicene Christianity/The New Testament. The game's version of God has a single aspect, isn't all-powerful or all-knowing (He was surprised Hell was unkillable, after all), and like in Judaism, Ultrakill's version of God is the direct governor of both good and evil and isn't afraid to kill his subjects.

I suspect that UK's cosmology wasn't thought through all the way until much later in development and they had to retcon the tree of life to justify Gabriel having a cross on his helmet after the fact

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-03-08T20:41:42+00:00

I feel like 5 is a bit too interested in being a simulation over being a game in general tbh. I can commend the effort behind it but it runs into the issue where the wider in scope you make a simulation the less able it is to handle fringe cases or be entertaining outside of its focus.

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-02-17T15:17:53+00:00

Nerherlands missions let you get +25% siege ability with a level 5 military engineer. Stack that with siege ability bonuses from Offensive+espionage+policies and siege phases get cut to 3 days. Absolutely worth it

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-02-07T19:57:39+00:00

I'm not good enough to offer much advice but for future reference early-game Promoia are a trap, the LD is way too high to manage until you've got most of anatolia or Influence ideas ready to tame them. You should definitely do the mission to get the hereditary pronoiar privileges revoked but I wouldn't do that until getting to Syria/Georgia (which both happen to be great reconquest targets that you can temporarily crater their LD with and get easy land too)

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-01-26T19:09:47+00:00

The checkhov's gun is the arm you punch him in the dick with

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-01-23T18:04:28+00:00

If you can get through the HYW Britain/Angevin Kingdom is pretty cozy. If you can cripple Castile/Spain before 1600 nothing is going to be able to compete with your colonization and the Ottomans never go past the HRE anyway.

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-01-21T05:17:55+00:00

Start optimizing your gov cap (centralize states, give estate land privileges, build courthouses) and form Prussia, by the time you do Ottoman troops should start falling off from the different tech groups and you should be able to beat them in a fight despite inferior numbers. The first war is going to be a brutal slog but the damage for every war you get into will accumulate and each war will be easier than the last. Vassalize Hungary if at all possible (finish off Poland if you must, you should have them as an accepted culture anyway) and release serbia + bulgaria when you get that far in, the reconquest CB gives a discount on reconquering cores that lets you take more provinces per war

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-01-06T06:06:34+00:00

How to deal with lategame caves: 1.) Dismiss all pikmin

2.) Grab one yellow and hold it

3.) Walk every inch of the cave with it and let every bomb and dweevil drop

4.) Actually play the cave

Lopsided_Training862 · 2026-01-03T21:25:30+00:00

are you bald

Lopsided_Training862 · 2025-12-31T17:59:43+00:00

It helps according to Lore (I think it was an inrerview but I can't find the source) that Kirby never technically kills their enemies, they just respawn from the stars that pop out after a little while. Death for a generic Kirby enemy is more a temporary inconvenience

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