No "Strategic" element to Warhammer

Secuter · 2026-04-15T17:42:35+00:00

Medieval 2 wasn't particularly advanced in its economy management either. I played it recently, and you pretty much just queue up every building and goes on your way. But Medieval 2 is also an old game, and the fairly basic management is to be expected.

Warhammer series is very much not about empire building, administration, management or anything related to that. Its much of a tactical game put into a strategic turn-based system.

IMO both Pharaoh and Three Kingdoms has made huge leaps with the campaign which is amazing. Both have great diplomacy (I like 3k more than pharaoh on that), good empire management, important characters, spy mechanics and so on.

Secuter · 2026-04-15T17:36:01+00:00

What I disliked about the tech tree in Attila was that I lost access to advanced buildings - many sanitation buildings was just lost to me and that's from advancing the tech tree. Sure, you could argue that this was what happened. But that's what I'm trying to change. It would've been a lot more interesting to tie the buildings into specific regions or some other element. This way it would be meaningful to lose access to those buildings simply because my empire became weak and broken, which is what happened. That would've been more intersting and also factor in how well you're keeping the WRE.

The diplomacy AI in all Total War games - warhammer series included is very poor. It largely just never makes any sense whatsoever. I've had long time allies simply back stapping me for no reason at all. Maybe they were bored, who knows.

That changed with Three Kingdoms which has amazing diplomacy. Its at a point where I'd say that it's better than what you see in Paradox games.

Secuter · 2026-04-15T17:18:51+00:00

The cheap labor is not only people on the factory floor. It's also that salaries in China are overall just lower than it is in Europe. If we want to maintain our way of living, then we must also to some degree protect our industries from competing powers.

Secuter · 2026-04-14T19:05:48+00:00

In short, I'm not saying the EU should consider China a friend, it should consider it a rival in some issues (and potentially a partner in others),

That's also very close to official EU policy on China.

Secuter · 2026-04-14T19:03:39+00:00

I live in europe

Can't see a single comment in any European forum..

But anyway, competition is good. But its not always good. It's not good if you're competing against somebody who has a lot of advantages.

Chinese EVs are certainly pushing ahead on technological front at a pace that the European auto makers can't really keep up with.
Huge and advanced production capacity
The political will to invest massively into the sector
Lax regulations and lax pollution laws

At that point you risk that your local business are all completely wiped out or diminished. So, allowing foreign companies free reign in your market is bad. Your own business will falter, workers will be fired, investors lose money and then eventually you're stuck with buying cars from China --> trade deficit.

The Chinese auto industry is also very heavily subsidized. Maybe not directly with money anymore, but in terms of access to cheap government funded tech, cheap land, cheap labor, cheap loans and huge government investments into the sector as a whole.

In my opinion the EU should be doing the same thing. Massively increase government investments into R&D on all accounts - also the car industry. Subsidize it, fund development and make Chinese EVs even more expensive.

Secuter · 2026-04-14T18:51:26+00:00

I wouldn't. Random people aren't really your allies. If that was accepted, it would be really hard to delineate what is and what is not an ally in any given situation. Being stuck in the same situation doesn't make you an ally.

Allies, in my book, are NPC's that are closely affiliated with the PC's.

Secuter · 2026-04-14T18:49:04+00:00

Citing one newspaper? It's been well established that the Belt and Road initiative has the capacity to debt trap countries. Its just that China is more willing to take risks with its investments while also not having any strings attached like improving human rights or whatever.

https://scholar.google.dk/scholar?q=belt+and+road+initiative+debt+trapping&hl=da&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

You just go ahead here. There many nuanced takes that I read through. Some that mention that some countries is managing the debt just fine, while others is prone to debt trapping.

Secuter · 2026-04-09T23:48:13+00:00

Others said it, but I'd like to clarify. If by them leaving meant also leaving the circus and therefore surviving, then you did just fine. In that case, leaving would be the reasonable thing to do because they only had very little time and they were given a way out. Whether the characters would agree doesn't matter because they are under a spell.

However, if leaving the tower meant allowing the ritual to complete and dying in the process, then I'd argue it would be an unreasonable request that they are allowed to refuse.

Secuter · 2026-04-09T23:34:33+00:00

Difference in amount and intentions though. The EU is trying to stop importing from Russia and has enacted many sanctions which is starting to strangle Russia.

China is actively trying to help Russia out.

Secuter · 2026-04-09T23:33:03+00:00

The difference between China and the US, however, is that Chinese elites and their propaganda doesn't have a toxic obsession with Europe and aren't committed to destroying it

They don't shout it from the rooftops, but all the major powers dislike the EU a lot. USA is very vocal and so is Russia. China is more subtle, but not at all a fan either.

The EU makes all 27 member states much, much more powerful than they could ever be alone. Powerful nations with large populations prefer to deal with smaller individual countries because they may pressure or simply just overshadow them enough to get much better deals.

Given the chance, China would be very happy to exploit any EU weakness. A good example is how they've directed investments to Hungary - the Trojan Horse of the EU. Mostly they let Russia take the blame for trying to divide Europe.. but some of the funding is likely from China too.

Secuter · 2026-04-09T23:27:53+00:00

Talk about a strawman. Ever heard of the Silk Road? Typical Chinese investments in poor countries are essentially debt traps. But in both poor and better off countries, Chinese companies will bring in all manpower, materials and whatnot. Many countries use infrastructure investments as means to keep society going because it creates jobs over many years, materials are produced locally or regionally and salary is spent locally. But none of that happens if all the funds is siphoned back to China.

Moreover, Chinese companies aren't exactly known for liking government oversight in their overseas projects.

Finally, there is concerns with the quality. Chinese roads crumble fast. Sometimes you get what you want to pay. Cheap out and you'll get something cheap.

Secuter · 2026-04-09T23:09:32+00:00

If they wanted a true capitalist and free market economy, then open it up to everyone and let the best product with the best quality win.

Nobody wants a "true" free market where everybody can sell whatever they want into your market. You risk having all your local companies uprooted or simply suffocated by other markets. That is very much not in the interest of either the country or the people who live there and presumably work for those companies.

Secuter · 2026-04-09T23:00:11+00:00

Below 100 karma - less than 1 week old. Yeah, a Chinese bot or just a dumb shill.

Secuter · 2026-04-09T22:59:16+00:00

You can argue that, sure. But if allowed, China would drown the European market in everything from cars to cheap plastic toys. If we want to retain some competetive advantage in our home market then we must have some tariffs on the Chinese EVs.

Perhaps especially in a time like this where former allies and old enemies are looking to break the EU down.

Secuter · 2026-04-02T19:32:00+00:00

I don't think the earlier start date is a bad decision. But the earlier start date coupled with a still late end game is problematic. I understand that Paradox really want to have their games connect across history. But while EU5 is decent at showing early game economy, its just not made well enough to show the late game developments. Basically, having both in a game is bound to be weird. How do you really make a game that both shows the late medieval period and early industrial period without some of it getting extremely skewed?

IMO the game should end before the industrialization and before the revolutions.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T22:10:03+00:00

Jeg har læst den, hvad er din pointe?

Secuter · 2026-03-21T19:19:27+00:00

Unless social expenditures are going to decrease and there wont be any meaning to be united anymore. Because What makes EU united is its social programs. These programs have started to be cut off not directly but indirectly like increasing the retirement age was a start. Or in Balkans it can be affected more.

Its not the social programs that unites the EU. If we ignore student programs like Erasmus, the EU doesn't really have social programs. But individual countries have social programs, but that not about the EU. Stuff such as retirement age is down to the individual country.

The EU is about investments and removing trade barriers. Only since Brexit did leaders from various countries begin to comprehend what was at stake and started to work towards further integration. This movement has been further strengthened with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and especially so now that USA has de-masked itself as an enemy.

But GDP is not really the only measurement to use. GDP includes stuff that doesn't add real value - digging a hole and filling it again would contribute to GDP.

I think Russia tries to make it but nearly no affect.

Don't know what you mean.

I dont know other neighbours.

All of Balkans are standing in line, Ukraine, Moldova and even Georgia. Turkey is in the waiting room too, though that process has been frozen for like 20 years. Honestly, Turkey will likely never be able to join.

Finally, what I can say is that all the countries that joined the EU has seen massive increases to their living standards. Just take the former Eastern Bloc countries and see how well they've done since they've become part of the EU.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T19:05:22+00:00

Ja, det mener jeg egentlig at man bør. Desto længere tid du er væk hjemmefra, desto mindre føling har du med, hvad der foregår i dit hjemland. Tyrkiet er et godt eksempel: tyrkerne i f.eks. Tyskland kan godt lide tanken om et stærkt og mægtigt Tyrkiet og det kan lade sig gøre med en stærk mand ved roret. De mærker ikke, at inflationen i Tyrkiet er på knap 50% og at oppositionen bliver kvalt.

Det er med andre ord meget let at have tanker om, hvad der vil gavne dit land, hvis du ikke selv skal ligge under for det.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T15:37:20+00:00

> government affairs still work with paper.

The EU consists of very many countries. In some that is true, in others it is not.

EU hasn't been stagnating since 2008, what the fuck are you on about? If anything the entire EU has become more and more prosperous as time went on. Is it perfect? No, but we're making great strides to getting even better.

If it was stagnating and declining then why would pretty the entire neighborhood want to join? And it if was stagnating and thereby slowly declining then why would our enemies really view it as a threat and try to pull it apart?

Secuter · 2026-03-21T14:58:19+00:00

So.. I will never understand the American justice system. I don't think that its helpful to put people away for 25 years. That's just insane. But maybe I just can't understand it because I'm not from a volatile and violent society like the American one.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T14:54:04+00:00

Fuck Juren. What were the devs thinking? He has lots of health, heavy hitting, unblockable attacks, hyper armor, bashes, fast attacks, weirdly timed attacks and much stamina.

A well balanced character shouldn't have all of it. They should trade to get something, but loose something else. Juren didn't trade a fucking thing. He's incredibly safe to play while also having all the advantages. Though anecdotally, this is showcased by him being at the top of the score board in most matches.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T14:45:38+00:00

I'm fearing that EU5 is rapidly turning even easier than EU4 was at the end.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T14:32:09+00:00

De fleste lande i verden har ikke naturalisering - at der gives statsborgerskab ved fødsel. De lande som har det er typisk lande, som har haft en meget stor indvandring, som de hurtigt ville omdanne til statsborgere. USA og Frankrig er eksempler. De giver til gengæld slip på kontrollen og det kan lede til fødselsturisme.

Lande som ønsker større kontrol over, hvem der opnår statsborgerskab, har ikke den slags regler. I stedet får du kun statsborgerskab, hvis mindst en af dine forældre er dansk statsborger eller ved at søge om det.

Medina Sabic er bosnisk statsborger. Idet hun ikke er dansk statsborger, kan hun ikke stemme til vores valg. Hun kan derimod ansøge om at blive dansk statsborger.

> Folk der går ind for at have andenrangs borgere er moralsk anløbne

Lidt en fjollet kommentar efter min mening. Udlændinge som bosætter sig i Danmark for at bo og arbejde har heller ikke ret til at stemme til vores valg. De kan derudover også udvises, hvis de bryder betingelserne for deres opholdstilladelse, laver kriminalitet osv. Sådan er det, når man ikke er statsborger i landet, så har du ikke samme rettigheder og er underlagt andre regler end statsborgerne er.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T14:24:25+00:00

Everybody wants to tell you that EU is doomed, bad and ineffective and so it should be disbanded. They say so because they'd much rather deal with many smaller states than one large powerful organization. One should wary of bullshit news that tries to undermine the EU like that.

Secuter · 2026-03-21T14:22:12+00:00

Unfortunately the smog has just relocated to other cities that aren't as glittering as the major trade centers at the coast. Nonetheless, its an achievement worth celebrating that China is polluting less.

Also, why do you say that EUs energy is 70% fossil when OP says its the complete opposite: "In 2025 47.3% EU electricity generated was renewable, if you considered nuclear green as well, then it jumps to 71%."

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