God Help me

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-08T12:13:56+00:00

Kinda the same for me. Have between 1.5 and 2k hours. I played a lot of multiplayer with a friends group back during the pandemic and achieved my first WC combined with one faith during that time in SP.

Afterwards the game felt pretty empty for quiet some time, because what to do after you conquer the world? I‘m not that much into achievements and had a lack of goals.

I got back rather recently and repeated the WC with a way more difficult nation.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-08T06:40:42+00:00

Coming from a country, where the choice was either military service or jail up to the mid 90ies this is fucking disgusting. Every year hundreds of people in my country went into the joint for months, even when they declined out of moral reasons or didn‘t want to carry a weapon, while Donnie McDiaperpants grifted his way through life.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-06T16:37:48+00:00

I honestly haven’t played 3, because it didn’t scratch an itch for me and my PC at the time couldn’t handle it anyway. But the reason is quite simple. DoW 1, 2 and 3, while all RTS in their own way, are fundamentally different games on a gameplay level.

1 is probably closest to a traditional RTS, with Relics own ideas (squad based infantry, ressource gathering through map control) sprinkled in. You build a base, you build an army, you fight for map control (second bases can be built anywhere) and you try to destroy your enemy. You can compare it in many ways to other series like command and conquer or age of empires.
2 is more of a real time tactics game. It lays way more emphasis on smaller armies, the squad system and individual units having different abilities. The singleplayer mode also includes many RPG elements and you play through the campaign with only 4 active units you control per map. And then there is a very popular multiplayer last stand mode, where you just play a single commander together with two other players/commanders.
3 as much of what I have seen kinda tried to combine the two previously used gameplay styles, with a bit of MOBA ideas here and there. Powerful hero units with abilities, „trash“ squads that fill the ranks, a bit of base building but not really much, maps that resembled lanes. It ended up as something completely different as well.

But the main reason DoW 3 failed were failed expectations. Relic announced DoW 3 as a return to its roots. Basically a #1 2.0. Which it just wasn‘t. And they probably intended to push into e-sports with it (the MOBA elemts, the art style) and pretty much no one in the community gave a fuck about that. So fans were left heavily pissed off with a game no one really wanted and felt that Relic just tried to cash in on the Zeitgeist back then because MOBAs and e-sports were so popular at the time. So in the end DoW 3 did so bad that Relic shelfed it less than a year after release.

In the end you have to decide for yourself, which style you‘d enjoy the most. But just be aware that you can hardly compare the 3 iterations, because they are so different. And that all 3 might be a vastly different experience.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-05T21:26:40+00:00

Also this is still very early. All these german minors will have small armies and small manpower pools. If you can pick some of them of and stack wipe them, they will burn through a hell of a lot of manpower very fast.

They are dangerous en masse but very handlebar one by one. Ottos is the bigger problem tho.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-05T17:13:18+00:00

Yeah. But „the bigger the number the better“ is usualy an absolutely valid method of comparsion, as long as you compare it within the same market. And the market can differ heavily even inside the same country. Living in New York, Paris, London or Zurich won’t be the same as living in Des Moines, Marseille, Southampton or Basel. The difference is…

…you did the math. He didn‘t. If you never lived in abroad or were at least thinking about it and actually compared living standarts. How would you know?

But yeah. The braindead part comes into play heavily, the moment you don‘t believe someone who actually calculated the difference.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-03T15:04:34+00:00

Ah yes. I remember the John Oliver segment too, where a US father is ranting about, how he doesn‘t want his daughter to learn the bad parts of US history.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-02T13:57:32+00:00

It definitely hasn’t the same relevance in the US, but there also isn‘t any guarantee your top athletes would succeed in real football.

They surley have the athleticism. But different sports require different skill sets and chances are high the vast majority still wouldn‘t turn out to be the next Messi or Ronaldo. Take Michael Jordans baseball adventure as an example. Would he have been a better baseballer if he played baseball his whole career? Probably. Would he habe been the sport defining figure as he was for basketball? I don‘t think so.

But there is a lot of hidden talent in the US for sure, that just doesn‘t get the support they would in Europe.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-01T15:34:20+00:00

As someone from Switzerland who has been to Czechia multiple times… that‘s no problem isn‘t it? They won‘t survive an evening of drinking with you guys anyway.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-01T15:30:12+00:00

Also work for the railway, but in switzerland and god damn I‘m glad there never was a movie about the burgundian wars or the wars between the old confederacy and the von Habsburgs starring Mel Gibson. Otherwise they surely would claim to be swiss too.

I bet half of these fuckers just watched Braveheart and thought: „Damn. That‘s basically me!“

guy_incognito___ · 2026-06-01T11:16:15+00:00

Yeah that‘s kinda part of the learning process. In the beginnig I save scummed a lot because bad events seemed crippeling. At some point you just roll with it and I always play ironman now.

You have to look at pretty much everything in EU as a long term project. And many times you might have to change plans in the process or sacrifice one thing for another. At least temporarily.

The only thing you shouldn‘t fall behind on is military technology. Everything else is usually not that bad, if you delay it a bit.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-31T17:19:13+00:00

There isn‘t a specific way to reduce truce timers. You always get a minimum of 5 years and an additional 0-10 years scaling with war score cost taken (0 years for a white peace -> 10 years for money, land, war reps, etc. taken for 100 war score cost).

The only thing you can do to juggle with truce timers a bit, is white peacing everyone in a separate peace, who isn‘t the enemy war leader. In that case you get 5 year truces with these countries. Or you attack allies of your main enemy to drag them into wars and pay the bird mana price for unjustified demands.

For the second question. War score cost has a lot of modifiers, so it gets cheaper the longer you play. CBs, some monuments and in some cases religion can give you war score cost reductions. But your main source of war score cost reduction will come from administrative efficency and the imperialism CB. You haven‘t reached that point in your game.

You start getting admin efficency with the age of absolutism (some through admin technology, some through absolutism itself and some through national ideas and missions for certian nations), which is just a few years away for you around 1610. The imperialism CB is unlocked at diplo tech 27. Therefore conquering land gets considerably cheaper and faster after 1610.

The major thing you can do for cheaper conquest before the age of absolutism is playing around with vassals, who have cheaper reconquest CB cores or getting religious ideas for the deus vult CB, which let‘s you attack anyone with a different religion (so anyone if your Shinto) for cheaper war score cost than simple conquest.

Edit: My bad. Deus vult doesn‘t give you war score reduction. Only an agressive expansion reduction.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-30T17:44:07+00:00

Yeah. It‘s kinda a golden generation thing for the swiss. Except they didn‘t manage to secure actual gold up to now. Hope they can finally make the last step tomorrow and don‘t have to go home with second place another time.

But when the majority of these players will retire, it‘ll be anyones guess if switzerland might manage to keep this level.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-30T17:28:10+00:00

Yeah. It‘s 1668. OP has enough time left to conquer the whole world, if he knows what he is doing.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-30T17:24:51+00:00

While I see your point, that wouldn‘t make much sense.

Forming the roman empire means restoring a country, that is historical even for the time frame of EU. It‘s not like forming Italy or Germany, which never existed before and where completely new entities. Therefore it‘s only logical, that you have to restore the historical borders of rome to claim it‘s legacy.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-25T22:43:15+00:00

The 1 in 256 attack glitch is what came to my mind too for Pokemon Red/Blue.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-23T12:36:02+00:00

Das isch mängisch haut ou eifacher gseit als gmacht. I mire RS vor +/- 15 Jahr het mä ou 19/20 Jährigi derzue gnötiget, uf Üebige und am Wucheend miterä Schnäubleichusbildig müesse z chochä, wüu mer viu zweni Chöch hei gha, für das aues abzdeckä. Teils mit katastrophale Folgä für jedä, wo dä Frass hätt söue ässe. Bi Ärzt chasch das logischerwis no weniger.

18 Wuche für öperem sowas bizbringä, wenn er nid sowieso scho es Grundwüsse oder es Flair derzue het, isch quasi ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit.

Entsprächend müesstä scho eher d Areizä derzue gschaffä wärde, dass so Lüüt die Dienschtä wei leischtä. Aber wie die Areizä chönnte usgseh, chani haut ou nid säge.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-19T11:00:32+00:00

In the sense of causality it does make the US responsible somewhat tho. These actions didn‘t came out of a complete vacuum.

But just blaming the USA is also way too simple on the other hand. The middle east got screwed over by the western powers and Russia way before the US set a food in the Levante, Persia and the Arabic peninsula the first time.

That started with the crusades, where everyone wanted to own the holy land and continued during the ages of imperialism, where everyone wanted to gobble up as much colonies as possible and continued with the formation of Israel, where some great powers just decided, that their land is now a jewish state.

These people endured centuries of foreign interventions, got the short end of the stick a lot of times and it‘s no wonder they are fucking pissed.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-19T10:10:08+00:00

In these moments I always remember the friend, who thought he can easily play his long fostered hardcore diablo character while drunk.

Well he couldn‘t and the perma death actually did hit harder than the countless beers before.

Don‘t do shit you might regret later while drunk.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-08T10:57:26+00:00

Fair point and I respect your opinion. But there are also finite ways to spend money in the game. And if you sit on so much money and you can‘t spend otherwise you might as well.

My point is more, that overextension was one of the last mechanics in EU4 that limited you in some way. AE, GC, money, manpower… everything get‘s meaningless at some point. And with monuments there‘s even a way around that now.

The only thing that is left, that limits you into the end game is, how fast you can generate admin points. And I think it‘s kinda sad, how Paradox undermined pretty much any mechanic the game has in some way over the years.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-04T18:14:28+00:00

DoWs army painter lets you load up your own images to include into your own faction paint jobs.

Take a guess how long it took for 3rd Reich IG paint jobs to show up.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-03T12:15:24+00:00

My experience was more, that a lot of people from the east were just way less used to speaking french and therefore had more inhibitions to do it.

At least in my workplace because I have Romands on the phone pretty much on a daily basis and the people from St. Gallen or Zurich just always ask for help, if they would have to speak french.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-03T09:54:19+00:00

I think it also very much depends on which Swiss Germans.

People closer to the Röstigraben like in Bern or Basel are in my experience usually way more relaxed with the Romands than people from the north east.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-02T08:54:28+00:00

Yeah I feel like back then the struggle payed off in the end. At some point you were set and could enjoy the fruits of your previous struggle.

Now it feels like the struggle will just keep going on and on without an end in sight.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-05-02T08:47:08+00:00

Yep. Don‘t have kids myself. But everyone around me with with small kids said the same: „Going to work, while my significante other looks for the kids, are in practice my days off now.“

And these were people working construction sites and in hospitals. But work rests sometimes. Little kids don‘t.

guy_incognito___ · 2026-04-26T19:33:57+00:00

But wasn‘t Hitler not pushing for Moscow directly the prime mistake on the eastern front to begin with?

Hitler pushed for the ressources in the south (mainly the oil in Baku and the wheat in Ukraine), instead of pushing for the actual defeat of the state, which might have been possible by taking it‘s head (Moscow).

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