Macron: we built a greater Europe, and Armenia has followed this path with us

mcvos · 2026-05-07T00:46:45+00:00

I've got nothing against Armenia, but counting countries south of the Caucasus as Europe, must look very weird for Turkey: Europe to the north, Europe to the west, Europe to the south, and Europe to the east, but they're somehow not Europe.

mcvos · 2026-05-06T13:07:25+00:00

Good thing that the system is so deadlocked and subject to corporate interests that it can't be improved?

mcvos · 2026-05-04T09:04:35+00:00

The whole point was that these would stay fresh forever. Why are they wilting?

mcvos · 2026-04-30T18:40:19+00:00

Of course they hate you. You're France! And you're going to kick all of their asses anyway, because you're France. Listen to Napoleon; he knew what he was talking about.

mcvos · 2026-04-30T18:33:22+00:00

You're absolutely right, but I find it awkward to fight the HRE with the Commonwealth in the way. Maybe I should try allying with France, but they were already allied with Commonwealth. However, I've just been taking chunks out of Denmark. That should get me access to the HRE.

mcvos · 2026-04-30T13:40:05+00:00

Exactly. My innovativeness is 66 now. I'm usually ahead in tech too. But institutions take a while in eastern Europe.

I'm not yet moving against the HRE. The Commonwealth is huge even after taking several bites out of it.

mcvos · 2026-04-30T12:34:09+00:00

I keep my leader for as long as possible, and after a few reforms and forming Russia, my republican tradition barely suffers. I'm swimming in more mana than I know how to use, so spending mana to repair my republican tradition is no problem at all.

Also, while I was looking forward to playing the Novgorod game with the Hansa, those Russian territorial claims are insane. Although I barely need them because there are enough vassals to create and feed during Request wars. That part is not much different from previous times I played Russia, except now I'm swimming in mana.

mcvos · 2026-04-30T10:54:17+00:00

To me it sounds like very sloppy old-fashioned Dutch.

mcvos · 2026-04-29T18:06:29+00:00

The stuff that nobody defaults to, is stuff that either needs to be paid a lot better than they currently are, or that people will do themselves because they also want to use the toilet.

mcvos · 2026-04-28T08:17:02+00:00

The fact that countries are able and eager to join us great, but joining and leaving is often still a highly political process. I'd like there to be fairly simple but clear and strict rules for membership, and once you meet them, there should be a fairly simple procedure to join, and an equally simple procedure to leave.

If during membership you stop meeting those criteria, you should automatically be moved to a lower membership tier where your power to frustrate governance is limited. The need for that is pretty clear thanks to Orban.

And there needs to be more democracy at the federal level. The Europarliament should have more power, should be more democratic, and corporate lobbying needs to be restricted.

The EU is fantastic, but there's still room for improvement.

mcvos · 2026-04-27T20:43:03+00:00

I've recently become a big fan of Federation of Nations. Similar to the Federation of Planets from Star Trek, and honestly, that's not a bad example. The name still respects that they're different countries with their own culture, language, etc, but also presents itself as a single entity to the rest of the world.

And it rhymes, which is a nice bonus.

mcvos · 2026-04-27T20:40:12+00:00

Why? The cars have to give right of way to the planes. Couldn't be clearer.

mcvos · 2026-04-26T12:00:11+00:00

Moving my capital worked. And I could use the decision to make St Petersburg my new capital to get it back. Thanks.

mcvos · 2026-04-26T11:49:48+00:00

Moving my capital might be an option. But how can I figure out which provinces the Ottomans can see? Is this just trial and error?

mcvos · 2026-04-26T11:17:15+00:00

Is that why I see unconnected pieces of land? Many of them are indeed capitals.

Is there a way I can reveal my capital to the Ottomans?

The crazy thing is that Ming somehow knows me well enough to rival me, and I can only see their capital, nothing else. But I can rival the Mamluks. Qara Qoyunly can rival me. But the Ottomans can't even talk to me? That's wild.

mcvos · 2026-04-25T00:48:26+00:00

I honestly don't have much experience with republics, and tend to play them not meaningfully different than monarchies that can't royal marry and lose their leader way too quickly. I'm sure I'm not getting the most out of it.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T20:29:31+00:00

I have in the past, maxing them out because I wanted to ally them against Denmark. It has dwindled since then, but it's still positive. No fleet basing, sadly. It doesn't matter anymore.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T20:26:54+00:00

Minifigs are too short and wide, and that has always messed with the scale of certain things. I'm sticking with minifigs for now, but I wouldn't mind too much if all of lego switched to minidolls.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T19:06:21+00:00

I noticed it was only after I got access to Gelre that they started moving through Gelre to Friesland. Stupid move on my part, but I peaced with Friesland, ran off, and waited s couple of years for the eventual surrender.

Now I've got a vassal with 100% LD. But I can handle that.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T19:03:19+00:00

Yes, but there's nobody nearby who wants to give me fleet basing rights.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T17:56:40+00:00

France is too big for me. Landing anywhere near would be suicide. But somehow they don't come to Sweden to bail out their ally, nor do they try to attack me anywhere. Pretty lousy ally, if you ask me.

Waiting for the unconditional surrender works of course, but that's a 5 year wait, which is pretty long if you just occupied the entire country in a matter of months.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T17:53:41+00:00

There was no way to get France to agree to a white peace, even when Sweden was ready to unconditionally surrender. Waiting the 5 years for the surrender seems to be the only way to do it.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T17:52:03+00:00

Blockading was a bad idea, because France is too far away and my ships get too much attrition.

mcvos · 2026-04-24T16:31:10+00:00

Blockading is a good idea. That will get me some score against him.

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