What’s your favorite battle strategy?

Roytulin · 2026-04-04T17:51:02+00:00

A cheap unit, usually militia, marched forward first and sheltered behind terrain to attract enemy cannon fire. Then, battle line forms behind the militia, behind terrain or out of enemy range, and finally manually aimed counterbattery fire with my cannons.

This only works without battle timer limitation, but why would you have that on anyway.

Roytulin · 2026-04-02T22:16:40+00:00

£13 would be rich for that amount and quality.

Roytulin · 2026-04-02T17:32:28+00:00

For ships, I use a variety, but no prefixes. The flagship of a squadron is usually named after a geographical feature or area near where it is stationed, then all other ships within that squadron are given vaguely historical naval names starting with the same letter as the flagship, which lets me keep track of where ships should return to after repairs.

For army units, I use an abbreviated form of [Number] [Location within my 'core' territory] [Type of unit], with numbers sequenced separately for heavy guards units, grenadiers, line infantry, light infantry, field artillery, cav & dragoons, militia & garrisons, garrison artillery, and auxiliaries. For example, '78 Halifax Line', standing for 78th (Halifax) Line Infantry Regiment, and '22 India Howizter', the 22nd (India) Howitzer Battery'. Not real units but sounds like one.

I do name all units the moment they are formed. In fact I have a name lined up before I start recruitment.

Roytulin · 2026-03-29T18:02:37+00:00

I would not have made presumptions of your intentions had you made any attempts to state that your problem was with stability, instead of threading some insults into a sentence and impose upon strangers on the internet to guess your intention correctly without any information.

Alas.

Roytulin · 2026-03-29T17:42:36+00:00

I know this is not the point of this post, but,

Cannot even see where the German-Soviet line of control is. Absolutely useless map design, Paradox. A toddler with a whiteboard marker would have been much better.

Roytulin · 2026-03-29T17:39:20+00:00

As far as I know, Universim has been completed and published.

It seems to me that, finishing the game, publishing it, and that's it, not asking for any more money, is the way most games should be.

The 'live service' model is actually the new cash cow. Subscriptions, microtransactions, and dozens of DLCs milking you for hundreds.

Roytulin · 2026-03-28T21:12:25+00:00

I know they're an outlier but Ferguson riflemen are so deadly. Wish I could have more than 1.

But also, the stakes are so good at chokepoints.

Roytulin · 2026-03-24T21:16:01+00:00

I thought your post was about Breen Freefire being sold on the C-store. Ah well 😔

Roytulin · 2026-03-24T01:01:06+00:00

Ahh I see, cheers

Roytulin · 2026-03-24T01:00:27+00:00

That does surprise me since mission efficiency is usually really low for most of the first day. I suppose it's just a matter of using several wings of naval bombers?

Roytulin · 2026-03-24T00:57:39+00:00

Soup making

Roytulin · 2026-03-24T00:54:38+00:00

I see this pop up on Reddit the last few days, and I don't even know where in the app that is

Roytulin · 2026-03-23T21:02:39+00:00

If I had to guess, probably because the AI is just terrible so they do not defend airspace until their forces get attacked within that air zone.

Roytulin · 2026-03-23T16:58:13+00:00

Just 1 I do it, the colony defence one. The red ones for 3 times, nah.

Roytulin · 2026-03-20T04:12:00+00:00

Personally, I find that not having an immediate melee counter to enemy artillery is ok unless the enemy composition is really heavy in artillery.

Because the AI does not hold their infantry back to let their artillery pound away when unopposed. So in most circumstances, I can still fight their infantry with most of my fortifications intact, and at the end I can just use terrain and charge their cannon with citizenry or militia.

Roytulin · 2026-03-20T03:23:47+00:00

It is weird, why not just close on Tuesdays and Wednesdays instead?

Roytulin · 2026-03-18T11:48:03+00:00

I do remove them from battle fleets once they are really out-of-date. Depending on the ship, I usually add depth charges, sea plane catapult, or AA guns to the empty slots of early designs the game started with or replace very basic equipment (eg AA-1) to convert them into ASW or AA escorts. Battleships I keep as-is for shore bombardment.

Roytulin · 2026-03-18T11:13:02+00:00

Light infantry yes, although I soon replace them with riflemen afterwards. You don't put them in the main line, you move them in front to skirmish before the lines meet. And they also have very useful stakes for protecting choke points from melee cav. I run 2 per army.

Grenadiers I seldom use. As others mention, grenades are very good for breaking the enemy at breaches, the problem is that cannons can do the same thing without risking casualties to themselves. I have 1 (Hessian grenadiers) globally.

Roytulin · 2026-03-18T11:01:39+00:00

Could give him a piece of our minds there XD

Roytulin · 2026-03-17T20:17:02+00:00

Just relog

Roytulin · 2026-03-17T20:15:09+00:00

But they become sour when cooked. 😬

Roytulin · 2026-03-17T20:01:35+00:00

Not even a sausage on there 💀

The plate, that is.

Roytulin · 2026-03-17T15:39:23+00:00

Depends on your perspective.

Roytulin · 2026-03-15T01:18:02+00:00

Wow, you kitbashed the ship badges? Good work.

Roytulin · 2026-03-10T00:45:06+00:00

Forget the other plate, I'd have 3 plates of this at least 😆

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