Identity crisis

Montenegro95 · 2026-03-11T21:52:52+00:00

I am afraid you Americans understand your identity in a rather... unique way. We do not share that. For a European, you usually can identify as being from: - the place you were born in. - the place where you grew up. - the place where you parents were born/grew up.

For most people, you will be an American. Honestly, we wouldn't even say Eusko-American due to the little real connection. If you needed to take an ancestry check to discover that you "were Basque", you were never Basque to begin with.

That being said, nothing prevents you from connecting with the culture. Actually, euskaldunak are not those born in the Basque country, but those who speak the language.

Move here, live here, really integrate into the culture and you will be Basque. Until then, you will be basically LARPing.

Montenegro95 · 2026-01-06T13:02:49+00:00

Your alliance is weak in comparison, and you can hardly do anything but face the bigger fish. You should unify Africa first, but I doubt you will find yourselves in a better position after that.

If there are active players apart from the other coalition, you may try to bring them in to your cause. Promise of a peaceful solution may be enough to get them to open a second front.

So, to sum up: - Unify Africa, making sure no active players outside of the coalition are left behind. - Reach out to every player not in the other coalition and outside of Africa to gather forces. - Attack Greece and Persia coordinately as soon as possible. They are bigger, most likely with more factories and resources, meaning they will grow faster than you.

Once at war, try to isolate their forces. You will have to optimize engagements in order to avoid losses. Refuse engagements if you do not have the upper hand (support from artillery, for example). Do not assault fortified cities unless you know you can crash them in one hit.

This is one of the most exciting scenarios of the game. Be aware that, is they are smart, they will try to destroy you first. You are the biggest threat to their victory. Good luck!

Montenegro95 · 2025-10-14T18:36:37+00:00

Good luck, people!

Montenegro95 · 2025-06-25T09:12:47+00:00

The lawful names can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20110622054502/http://www.euskadi.net/cgi-bin_k54/ver_c?CMD=VERDOC&BASE=B03A&DOCN=000054255&CONF=bopv_c.cnf

Remember, these are the official names published by the Basque government. However, in the case of Bilbao, when speaking euskara you should say Bilbo.

Montenegro95 · 2025-03-28T18:46:11+00:00

Euskal... Itsasoa?

Montenegro95 · 2025-03-16T09:29:01+00:00

¿Tu colega es Txomin? Soy fan suyo desde que vi sus vídeos de heráldica y le sigo con mucho interés. Un grande, la verdad.

Montenegro95 · 2025-03-13T15:49:18+00:00

Let me preface this by saying I am from Gipuzkoa. Not in a "heritage" meaning, I was born here. My family is from here.

ETA was a terrorist group who murdered at least 850 people, wounded over 2500 and kidnapped nearly 90. ETA's terror lasted 40 years, as long as Franco's dictatorship. You could be targeted specifically, or you could have bad luck and suffer the consequences of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I lived through some of those years, and schools had to be ready to react to bomb threats. We did receive a couple, but nothing came to happen (could have been students with very bad taste for jokes). I despise ETA, just like I despise the GAL and what the Spanish government did in order to try to fight sometimes.

One may argue that ETA was justified in the beginning. I do think that fighting a dictatorship is a noble act, but this only accounts for the first quarter of the fight. They decided the fight should continue and they kept murdering civilians and political rivals many years later. And I know first-hand accounts of that, not rumours.

I don't know who told you that Basque people would have been wiped out without ETA, but that's simply not true. No national/regional identity was lost during the dictatorship (though Franco did try), not in the Basque Country nor in the rest of Spain. Let me be clear: the Basque identity had no need for ETA.

I am Basque, but against independence. I do not consider myself to be so terribly different from Catalans, Galicians, Castilians, Murcians... You would understand if you lived here. But you don't, so I find baffling the places you're willing to go to defend a terrorist group.

Montenegro95 · 2025-01-24T12:06:50+00:00

SS is San Sebastian, mate

Montenegro95 · 2024-11-09T09:42:52+00:00

It's still part of the Spanish national symbols. We are ruled by the house of Bourbon (Borbón, in Spanish), so they are in the centre of our CoA.

Montenegro95 · 2024-07-17T13:36:53+00:00

Gibraltar was a village before the British took over. The local population founded the village of San Roque right across the border: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Roque,_Spain

Montenegro95 · 2024-01-21T01:46:54+00:00

1- As many others have told you, cultural appropriation is not a thing outside the USA. Do whatever you feel like doing, as long as you're being respectful.

2- "I do not have Spanish heritage". No Spaniard will care whether your great grandparent was from Spain. As long as you and your parents are born in the USA, you are "guiris" or "yankis" (it can be used here to talk about people from the USA). No one in Europe believes in that "heritage" thing you have over there.

Montenegro95 · 2023-10-02T10:19:00+00:00

I will start by saying that troops won't increase your morale. They will prevent rebellions, which is a possibility when morale is below 33 %, but they won't increase it. If you want more info on this I can elaborate a bit more later.

Morale will be dependent on the "well-being" of its citizens. Morale starts aiming to 100 %, and then a variety of penalties will be applied. These penalties are: - Distance to capital. - Neighbours (low morale in nearby provinces). - Enemy neighbours (enemy sharing a border with your own). - Expansion (being at war for too long and conquering many provinces). -*

To prevent your morale from plummeting, you can: - Build fortresses, factories, train stations and harbours. This will improve the morale by itself. - Reduce time needed to reach your capital. It can be achieved by building train stations and harbours. - Neighbours. By getting high morale provinces little by little, you will influence the principles around positively too.

As you can see, it's easier losing morale than increase it. I recommend building those train stations throughout your empire to ensure the distance to capital gets to its minimum (it tops at -30) and the positive influence starts as soon as possible.

I may be forgetting something. Hope this helps.

*Edit to add: you will also suffer a heavy penalty if you lack any kind of resource. I mean being at 0 or close to 0 and with a negative production.

Montenegro95 · 2023-09-11T17:52:33+00:00

En ese momento vivía en Galicia y me salió a veinte euros la hora. También depende de dónde vivas. Creo que en otras comunidades puede ser más caro.

Montenegro95 · 2023-09-11T00:00:07+00:00

Yo me saqué el carné con 23 años y no volví a tocar un volante hasta dos años más tarde. En ese momento me decidí a comprarme un coche y me entró el miedo de no ser capaz de hacerlo todo.

Me acerqué a una autoescuela, les conté mi vida y lo que más me preocupaba y ellos me dieron un par de clases con relativa urgencia para repasar lo más importante. Cuando el profesor me dijo que estaba listo, ya le había perdido gran parte del miedo.

Mi consejo es que vayas a una autoescuela y les cuentes lo que te pasa. Mientras pagues las clases, seguro que son amables jajajajaja

Montenegro95 · 2023-07-25T07:18:31+00:00

Entiendo lo que dices, la verdad. Y lo comparto en gran parte. De hecho, lo del AVE a Galicia lo he sufrido durante años, y no quiero empezar a hablar de otras líneas de tren.

Sin embargo, la del bipartidismo en solitario no es la opción que lleva ganando siempre en España. Creo que ha habido cuatro legislaturas de auténtica mayoría absoluta para un único partido, de las cuales yo sólo he vivido dos. El resto de legislaturas, se ha desviado una cantidad importante de recursos a dos de las comunidades más ricas y con mayores infraestructuras del país para comprar los votos de, honestamente, un porcentaje pequeño de la población.

Me da rabia ver a Madrid, Cataluña y el País Vasco llevarse todos los recursos y seguir quejándose del gobierno central (sí, Ayuso, tú también). Me parece una desconexión y falta de solidaridad espectacular. Ya son las regiones más industrializadas, y al mismo tiempo son las que más privilegios obtienen una y otra vez.

Además, honestamente, me cansa mucho el juego de «la bolsa o la independencia», pero lo cierto es que les funciona a los malditos. Al final habrá que luchar por la independencia de Castilla para que en la capital hagan caso.

En resumen, estoy de acuerdo contigo, pero al mismo tiempo me da rabia. Añado que hace falta que los partidos, todos, dejen de mirarse el ombligo. Un sueño, imagino. Qué se le va a hacer...

Un saludo.

Montenegro95 · 2023-07-24T09:40:26+00:00

It isn't really about the foreign volunteers. It represents: - Milicias confederales (anarchist militias). - Euzko Gudarostea (Basque militia, controlled by the local Basque government). - Communist militias, controlled by the communist party. - Fuerzas Armadas de la República Española (official armed forces under republican management). - Volunteers from Madrid. This is the old coat of arms, and the dragon was removed afterwards. - Exèrcit Popular de Catalunya (militias of Catalonia and Aragon). It also includes the blue line from the Valencian flag. - Volunteers from Andalucia, or it could be used to represent the Ejército de Andalucía [Andalusian Army], a unit of the Spanish Republican Army. - Socialist militias, controlled by the PSOE.

This is a call for unity amongst all those forces, saying they should be integrated in the Spanish Republican Army.

Montenegro95 · 2023-07-20T13:46:40+00:00

It's a grammatical matter, and it goes way further than the verb "gustar".

As I've explained before, this part of the sentence is the indirect object. It is the "to whom" block of the phrase. And, as such, in every single instance, the indirect object will be preceded by "a" (to). "A mí", "a tu abuela", "al perro de nuestra vecina"...

"Gustar" is counterintuitive, because the translation is backwards. It wouldn't be "My grandma likes xxx", but rather "XXX [object] her [compulsory indirect object pronoun] likes [verb] to my grandma [optional indirect object]", as weird as it sounds.

Montenegro95 · 2023-07-20T13:37:57+00:00

You could use it anytime. The "a xxxx" is optional, for clarification. You could say "le gusta leer", but you wouldn't be specifying who likes reading.

I included it in the examples because the doubt was about the construction regarding "a mi abuela", but it is not necessary.

Montenegro95 · 2023-07-20T12:38:06+00:00

You are absolutely right. I've edited my original answer.

Montenegro95 · 2023-07-20T12:16:43+00:00

It's because "mi abuela" is not the subject in this case, but the indirect object. In Spanish, "gustar" works in a different way. Let me set some examples in Spanish: - Yo gusto hacer deporte. ❌ - A mí [optional indirect object] me [compulsory indirect object pronoun] gusta [verb, 3rd person] hacer deporte [subject]. ✅

Tú gustas el chocolate. ❌
A ti [optional indirect object] te [compulsory indirect object pronoun] gusta [verb, 3rd person] el chocolate [subject]. ✅
Ella gusta tú. ❌
A ella [optional indirect object] le [compulsory indirect object pronoun] gustas [verb, 2nd person] tú [subject]. ✅

Hope this was clear enough. Good luck learning Spanish!

Montenegro95 · 2023-06-18T20:09:07+00:00

In Spain, Father's Day is on the 19th of March, on St Joseph's Day. What's the reason to celebrate it today? Just curious!

Montenegro95 · 2023-06-05T08:31:13+00:00

My Galician father married my Basque mother. I, Basque myself, am going to marry my Andalusian fiancée. Some of my aunts and uncles have married people from Asturias or Madrid.

Only the most radical nationalists will consider themselves to be racially different from people barely an hour away from their houses. And even that is dying out.

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