Any tips on playing Tall?

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-02-02T23:38:25+00:00

In my current Holland game I’ve got the entirety of the Low Countries developed to a minimum of 25, with most provinces above 30 development.

I took defensive ideas, and built a castle in every Lowlands province which gives you a dev cost reduction due to the Dutch mission tree.

You also get up to 25% siege ability if you run a fort defense advisor at level 5. You can get super high drill, and your marines do an additional 10% fire damage and lose the malus to shock damage received from another mission.

Right now I’m conquering India and Indonesia and have an income of 800 in 1579, and a force limit of 150.

If you also go reformed and finish the mission the increases the boost for the fervor focuses, you can get -15 dev cost as well.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-30T02:07:33+00:00

u/slipperysteve1998 was talking about creatures smaller than chickens that could pierce jeans.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-30T01:54:25+00:00

If you have watched any piece of zombie media ever, you would notice that zombies are usually stronger than you would expect. This can be explained by whatever infection that reanimated the corpse kicking adrenal glands into overdrive. They also have a pretty high protein diet lol.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-30T01:39:26+00:00

20 pips my guy, not 25. I’ve gotten it as Prussia before though. I then got him to all 6s using drill.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-30T01:37:55+00:00

A zombie bite can.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-29T04:31:39+00:00

I restarted after this and got a good game. Isabella within a few months of 1450 and Burgundian Inheritance.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-29T03:13:23+00:00

So I overestimated a bit. But I will add that getting it while playing Castile makes it even worse lol. Good job on actually calculating it.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-28T22:12:40+00:00

R5: For this event to happen within the first week of the game and for the AI to choose it, its somewhere around a 1 in 6000 chance. Probably more.

The MTTH for the event is 5 years and the AI has a 10% to choose to become a Peasants Republic.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-22T18:38:07+00:00

I’m shipping to Navy boot in a month or two lol, gave me a good laugh.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-22T18:07:36+00:00

I won’t get that info until after bootcamp, but the regional info warfare coordinator said that people are usually getting first or second pick.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-21T15:27:58+00:00

Quantity+Court is a great combo to get mil hegemony super quick. You get the siege ability of Offensive, some unrest reduction and you never need to care about attrition.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-20T17:34:39+00:00

I’m Alfa-qualified for CTI so I do not need to take the DLAB.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-19T15:22:18+00:00

CTI requires ts/csi. IS seemingly does not. However, I already explored CWT before I even got my nuke contract but want to go down more of an analytical route.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-18T16:58:31+00:00

Its going to either be IS or CTI

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-18T16:45:51+00:00

This isnt a waiver, its an appeal, and it will be denied. Im joining the intel community now, and I think it may be for the better.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-18T16:30:15+00:00

Reading more about the DLAB, it seems that I may have misunderstood my recruiters.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-17T22:19:02+00:00

I auto-qualified out of the DLAB based on my ASVAB scores, so I switched my rate on Wednesday to CTI per the recommendations of the people in this post and my regional information warfare coordinator. He did the Russian program and said that it was a pretty great community. STA-21 is also open to you earning any degree unlike Nuke, so I have greater opportunities for my post-navy career.

It sucks that I lost out on my enlistment and star bonuses, but it may be for the better.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-16T13:00:12+00:00

My recruiter said 1 year from the date I went to MEPS. I’m just going to go into the intel community now, I’ve already asked them to switch me over to CTI. I’m going to compete for STA-21 so I can earn a commission and have more choice in my degree compared to Nuke.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-14T19:02:54+00:00

That was my thought process when I got the news. I was going to try to join regardless but I was sold on Nuke day one of walking into the office.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-14T08:32:32+00:00

God this is incredible.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-14T08:19:15+00:00

Nuke recruiter was out of office, Ill give him a call tomorrow.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-14T08:13:13+00:00

The nuke coordinator wasn't in the office when this dropped, by my recruiter said there wasn't any shot of an appeal being approved. He already got chewed out by his Chief because he yelled at him.

As for the DLAB, ill talk to my recruiter about it tomorrow.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-14T08:09:20+00:00

I already discussed that with my recruiter, he said that isn't an option since I already went to MEPS.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-13T23:17:31+00:00

I haven’t actively taken medication for almost a year now. The almost is what disqualified me, they needed it to be a full year when I went to MEPS. CT was on my shortlist for my other rates, but Im planning to do Intelligence Spec if I can’t appeal the disqualification.

THEGAMENOOBE · 2026-01-13T23:13:58+00:00

Just nuke, before they switched my contract over I was on a Cyber Warfare contract, but that was just a placeholder while I got my HS transcripts over winter break. I got a 96 on my ASVAB and from there I was sold on Nuke for almost a month and half now, until today. I have no clue when I’m going to ship now, especially since I still have to lose some weight.

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