Languish Universalis - Game thread

[Slargos]

While they are sure to buy your pleas of helplessness while you devour all Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, the Caucasus, India...Not that those areas will improve your economy, oh, no!  You're doing it solely to help the poor brown pipple that live there.

What have the Ottomans ever done for us?

What? You mean besides the roads, post offices, indoor plumbing, laws, medicine...

Yeah, well. Besides that. What have the Ottomans ever done for us?[/]

[Slargos]

While they are sure to buy your pleas of helplessness while you devour all Persia, Afghanistan, Baluchistan, the Caucasus, India...Not that those areas will improve your economy, oh, no!  You're doing it solely to help the poor brown pipple that live there.

It's interesting though, that you should mention all the impoverished provinces that will be a drain on my economy and tech speed for about 200 years before they turn profitable. Conquered so that I might secure the manpower to keep Austria honest. 

All the while conveniently forgetting all the gold you've looted from Incan and Aztec coffers.

I'm sure no one will notice that, however. You're probably going to get away with it.

[Alcibiades]

Am I the only one not up to something?   

[Habbaku]

Am I the only one not up to something?   

Nope, I have it on good authority that Kleves is doing absolutely nothing.

[Slargos]

Don't worry. I'm not up to anything either. I won't be touching a player nation the entire game, because I want to solidify my position for the war that may or may not come in 1813.

My overarching goal is to conquer as many AI nations as possible, for the fear of maybe losing a war against a player.

I really wouldn't want that.

This is, after all, just a communal single player game.

[katmai]

Be careful what you wish for Slargy, ya might just get it.

[Vricklund]

The eternal MP problem. Either you have players who will gang rape your country and leave you playing a 2 province minor for the rest of the game. Or. You have the sensible players, that will not wage war because it distracts from hyperteching. It's difficult to strike a balance between the two.

That being said I'd rather play the sensible player.

Playing the OE was fun in eu2 because you (read I) had no chance of keeping up in trade and infra. The solution was to make the OE a stable, high morale, manpower rich, war machine and just be a general pain in the butt to the others. Looking back I wish I had played more latin nations in the same way.

[Solmyr]

Speaking of fault, has anyone realized that the Turks have expanded to the very border of India?  Will any steps whatsoever be taken to deter them from such extravagant expansion this next session, or will the great powers sit idly by while the subcontinent becomes dominated by a new Caliphate?

Spain is more than willing to throw her power behind a suitable coalition aimed at freeing the Balkan states from the Turkish yoke and perhaps liberating the Holy Land in addition.

Sorry, everyone is too busy ranting about Austrian consolidation of just Germany, that's clearly way more important than the Turks taking over all of Asia.

[Solmyr]

Am I the only one not up to something?   

Other than blobbifying Russia?

Don't think you haven't been noticed.

[Slargos]

Hear ye, hear ye.

Wracked with rebellion and mutinous armies, the wise and benevolent Padisha Bayezid II has declared that further incursions into the Indian subcontinent will be suspended indefinitely. The overextended and stumbling Ottoman Empire can handle no more territorial expansion into the far east.

[Alcibiades]

Am I the only one not up to something?   

Other than blobbifying Russia?

Don't think you haven't been noticed.

I don't even encompass all of the Russian domain like your nations do, my economy isn't up to par, and my low tech levels are laughable.  Notice that, beeeeach.   

[katmai]

Am I the only one not up to something?   

Other than blobbifying Russia?

Don't think you haven't been noticed.

I don't even encompass all of the Russian domain like your nations do, my economy isn't up to par, and my low tech levels are laughable.  Notice that, beeeeach.   

Hey I'll have you know i don't encompass of of Italy cause of your lack of taking Genoa territory, so stop crying you big russian baby!

[Alcibiades]

Keep talking to me like that and you never will! 

[katmai]

Fine i'll go take genoa by myself!



What time are we starting this Sun?

[Habbaku]

I'd like to do 10:30 again this week, if possible, but 11 is fine if others want.