Mamoulian War

British Museum had an gaming exhibition! http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2015/09/hearthstone-exhibited-as-modern-art-at-the-va-museum-in-london/ We're slowly getting there! :-P

Not much gaming news, but related. If you care about it, MS have stealthily pushed "Win10-like" updates to Win 7 and 8, which might infringe on your privacy. http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/09/microsoft-accused-of-adding-spy-features-to-windows-7-8/

Well if it is fan service to the typical tea-bagging Halo players, I will gladly pass the game

I was finally able to rewrite the last two parts of my Europa Universalis playthrough. I have found out, that I completely forgot about one quick war, which happened before the last big one. All fixed now :D You can check it out with pictures on the link below https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page4

The last FF game I liked was X, but IX was the last really good one. I loved IX a lot. I actually played it after X and X-2. When I played FFXII second time, to my surprise I somehow found it enjoyable as well. First playthrough was boring and I hated the gambit system. It looked like MMO to me. XIII was mediocre, but still I have kind of liked the game... There must be something wrong with me... XIII-2 was much better game, and I enjoyed it a lot. But Lightning Returns?... Even bigger disappointment for me than the Original Campaign of Neverwinter Nights... I wish I could forget about it Yes it makes sense, I feel the same, and from what I heard, lot of Final Fantasy fans as well...

We have state holiday here today, so I used the free time, to rewrite and add pictures to Parts 4, 5 and 6 of my EU sessions https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page3 I have found today, that will latest drivers, my PC has became capable of using ShadowPlay to record or stream. I have also found out, that 5 minutes of High quality recording uses 1,9GB of HDD :-/ Has any of you tried out to work with it? I am thinking, if it is worth to use in some cases while playing for example Lords of Xulima or other older games.

Some more news revealed about FFXV on PAX. http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/29/final-fantasy-xv-details-on-how-youll-get-to-cruise-on-the-regalia/ http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/29/final-fantasy-xvs-leviathan-revealed-to-be-female-and-concept-art-details/ http://www.siliconera.com/2015/08/29/final-fantasy-xvs-release-date-will-be-announced-in-march-2016/ The game will be definitely released in 2016, but the more info they show, the more I am afraid it will be another boring singleplayer MMO walking simulator with sucky action combat like Lightning Returns:FFXIII Man it sold less copies then Bravely default on NDS for a reason FFS As I know myself, I am sucker into this franchise, so I will probably cave in and buy it despite all the warning signs... But at this point I am more anticipating the new Star Ocean 5 game from SE... IMO Namco Bandai already surpassed SE as a leading developer of true JRPGs with their Atelier and Tales of series, which makes me sad, but on the other hand, they gave me much more fun while playing their game in the last 5 years.

Finished adding more content to me new site about my EU game https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis-page2 Parts 2 and 3 complete with pictures

I ended up home with stomach problems during last few days, so I have decided to redo the few things I have written here about my playthrough of Europa Universalis and add few of the pictures as well. I made a google sites web page, where, I have corrected few mistakes in chronological order of events and possible made few new, but yeah, **** happens It should be now much corresponding to the reality Anyway, if you'd like, feel free to check it out https://sites.google.com/site/mamoulianfh/letsplay/europa-universalis Only the first part is rewritten yet. Feel free to leave here some insights if you wish. Unfortunately, I do not know how to enable commenting on the site for other people, without allowing them to edit whole page. If any of you have experience with it, please let me know, how to allow it. Thanks

I have EU2 as well I will play it later this year, because I have still pretty big backlog of games. And I really wanted to start with the oldest game The biggest thing I like already about EU2 is that you can choose from big number of countries compared to 8 in EU1. I will have to do lot of thinking before starting this one

Then I think I have made the right choice to start from the oldest one The learning curve should not be so steep as well, like if I would start right away with newer games

Haha, no worries I never played any Paradox game except CK1 for a brief time So it was big unknown for me. Once I have seen all of their older games for sale on GOG, so I decided to give it a try and start from the oldest And I am having a blast!!!

Manual says, that in EU 1 the Major Powers cannot be annexed (in Grand Campaign, Turkey is one of the Major Powers), so I would presume, that it is impossible to occupy their capital as well. Turkey is the only Major power which I have come so close to their capital, so I was never that close to victory over them.

Europa Universalis kind of LP Part 8 - Day 10: I started to play today, hoping that I would continue to build up my army and infrastructure, but almost immediately after the last peace-out France declared war to Spain, and Austria as a good alliance member, joined the fight as well. Spain was in Alliance with The Papal State and The Knights, so having the troops in Naples, I have attacked immediately The Papal State. After a while I have conquered the Apulia province and started moving to the Rome. Right after that, Turkish alliance and alliance of Netherlands declared war on me, too. First thing I have done, was defend against numerous Turkish troops and slowly retaliate Netherlands troops while they were sieging my provinces. Netherlands this time had sent in my way all of their troops, and I was for the first time outnumbered. Thankfully I had almost 4000 Ducats saved, so I built two big armies in Bohemia and Austria immediately, which pretty much saved my ass big time. After few struggles with Turks and their allies I besieged The Cyclades and Morea and offered them peace for both of these provinces. Having lost almost all of their land troops and some ships, they had no other option than to accept. With one of the enemies gone, I have let some troops to look out for rebells and moved all of my remaining troops, except one in Italy, against the super-big Netherlands army, which was ransacking my northern provinces. They already conquered three of them Meanwhile my Italian troop was helping out with sieging Rome, and after a few months, The Papal State was crushed, with Apulia going to me and Rome going to France. I was hoping to get both of them, but sometimes your plans are prone to fail I tried to go against The Knights as well. Their only province was on Rhodes Island was heavily fortified and there was almost no food, which meant that almost immediately after starting the siege, I lost half the my army and caused them almost no harm. I decided to retreat and after a while Spain offered me peace for 250 Ducats, which I rather accepted. With Spain out of the way, it was time to go all out against Netherlands. Thankfully France have weakened them a little bit near their borders, so I was able to rebuild all of my lost troops and sting their big army. With big casualties on both sides, I was able to destroy them and after another few months I got back all of my lost provinces as well. I spent more than 4000 Ducats to be able to recover from big loses, which Netherlands caused me. And I think, they lost almost as much. Both of us ended up really decimated, so this time, the only option I had was to offer them white peace and pay Denmark 250 Ducats to immediately cease fire, because they were allied with China, which was causing big havoc in my colonies on Malay peninsula . All in all, I think I have lost more than 150,000 soldiers in this war!!! Well time of peace arrived again, and in January, I got pretty big financial boost, because during this war, in my colony of Malacca was formed new very rich Center of Trade. This helped me with rebuilding some troops. I have checked the Relation standing with Venice and decided to give it little bit of boost as well. I was lucky and got up to 200 again. I checked them on month later, and to my surprise, the game offered me the option of diplomatic annexation, because they were my vassals for very long time. Little bit afraid I offered them to become part of my Reich, and they accepted. With this deal, seven Venice provinces have joined me. Spending big money on keeping good Relation with your allies is really worth it in this game. During this war I was also able to upgrade Singapore colony to city, and 500 natives, still living there have became citizens as well. I built small army there as well, to be more ready for defense, if China decides to harass me again. I also sent another 100 colonists to Phuket, and after arriving there, I have successfully founded one more colony in South East Asia. My personal goal of getting Turkey out of Europe has been fulfilled. The still have in Europe province of Thrace, but because it is their capital, the game does not allow to conquer it The plan for now, is to rebuild all of my armies, and to try to get as long peace as possible, because all the ex-Venice provinces will be prone to rebellions. It could be little bit hard this time, because after this annexation, I got into negative Relation with France, which might cause me some troubles in coming years. They grew pretty powerful in last few wars. Thankfully my Relation with Scotland, Spain and Denmark is pretty high now, so hopefully I will not be forced into all-out war again, like last time.

Ok, thanks for the quick answers I will think about creating account then. Now that I started to play more on PC again, I might find it useful

Ok thanks, just one more question. Do you know if I publish some images on imgur, can I add more of them later to the same link without account?

Thanks for the website, wondering if they sell some stuff in here as well :-/ we'll see about it.

Europa Universalis Part 7 - Day 9: And again, I decided to upgrade infrastructure as much as possible and continue in pushing Turkey out of Europe. The war was this time very short, but as before, as soon as I started to attack Turkey, Denmark and Poland-Lithuania declared war on me. Meanwhile I was producing some more colonists as well, so to focus more on the colonization attempts, I decided to make fast peace, first with Turkey (I got Obrudja and Rumelia as a compensation) and then with Poland-Lithuania (I got Bessarabia from them). The latter peace was kind of bad-managed from me, and I regret now to go for it so fast. Because trying to Podolia province as well, would help me little bit more with logistics of my troops when waging war with Turkish-Crimea alliance. Well I still have to push for three more Turkish provinces, so I believe, that as soon as I declare war on them again, I'll be attacked by Poland again, and I could get this province later. Right after that I signed peace with Denmark and England again, and everything went back to normal. Put some money into upgrading the relations with some countries and I reached maximum level for Trade research. While I was in war I accumulated 300 colonists, which I put into good use, and upgraded Malacca colony to small city and colonized Kuala Lumpur province. This two province are trading in Spices, which is one of the best priced commodities in EU, so the boost which I got into my Center of Trade in Naples was pretty significant. In the comming years I put more colonists into Kuala Lumpur and built amongst others manufactories, one in Malacca as well, which in the end made the population there more comfortable to live Well it ended up as little bit shorter update, but there is no need for wall of text every time Anyway, I wanted to add some screens as well, but somehow the function of adding attachment to my Obsidz account is disabled Well, I will have to use some external service then, but making one more account at another website, sighs... I am losing track of all of my accounts already... EDIT: any recommendations for a solid website, which I can use for my kind of Let's Plays, which will not require me, for signing in with them, to give them all the private details of my whole family and all of our cats and dogs?

well, i was used to keyboard/stick combo, so i would not be afraid of that even now but what does the CH abbreviation means?

I have proper flightstick somewhere, but it is almost as old as me. It was made for Game Port (

I'm happy to hear that, though I think I have to buy a new controller for it Do you know by any chance, if it is possible to fly with Xbox or PS3 controller, or it is waste off effort as flying with keyboard?

Keyrock, you are the most funded guy about Space Sims around here Can you please tell me little bit about Independence War 1 and 2? I have never played nor seen it, and it is now on GOG sale. I will probably not buy it this time of year, because I spent a lot on gaming lately, but some insights on these games would be welcome. Thanks.

Europa Universalis Part 6 - Day 8: I have used the long lasting peace to build up my research and province infrastructure and of course build more troops at the Turkish borders. I have also put a lot of money into improving the relations with my allies, and Spain and Venice to the maximum, so I can be sure they would not attack me, if someone declared war on me. During time of peace the Military alliance expired, so I decided to take a lead and form the alliance again, but this time, I have invited Venice as well and made the current alliance with France, Portugal, Scotland and Venice one of the most powerful in the world. Unfortunately despite having very high relation with Scotland, I was unable to turn them into my vassals We'll see how it will go in nest few years. In the end, I have decided, that I want to push them out of Europe. After building up, I declared war on them, and immediately attacked 3 of their provinces. After a while, I conquered Bujak and Hellas, so I moved few more troops to Bulgaria, but before conquering this province, Netherlands and Hanseatic League and their allies, including Poland-Lithuania and England declared war on me as well. I have left some soldiers next to Turkey started big production of armies in Bohemia and Austria and slowly moved my armies to the north. This time, I decided to not attack Poland, and just defend my provinces. I moved all my armies in the west into three provinces of Hanseatic League. Meanwhile I have conquered Bulgaria and Turkey offered me peace in exchange for Bujak and Bulgaria, which was promptly accepted from my side. I have left only one smaller army there to sort out rebellions and moved forward to push against Hanseatic League. After a while I have conquered all of their provinces and ended war with another annexation. Right after that, I have paid 250 Ducats to their Danish allies to end the war. They accepted, so I moved all of my remaining troops to Netherlands. After conquering two of their provinces, they offered me Hessen for peace. One more province in my Reich Just to be sure to not get again into endless rebellions from war exhaustion, I have peaced out with England for 250 Ducats as well, and that meant end of another successful war for Austria. During the war I have reached maximum technology level for Infrastructure, so now I have more money to spent on Trade and Army upgrades In the coming time of peace, I was able to upgrade my colony in Gambia to small city, and I was successful at forming a colony in Malacca (part of current Malaysia). Unfortunately Austria produces only 100 colonists per year, and not all of them are successful at expanding colonies, so it will be long time until I will be able to achieve my current goal of colonizing Malaysia and Singapore provinces.

From GOG: "The White March Part II automatically becomes available to Expansion Pass owners as soon as it is released this Winter."

I wish GOG would bring the X-games to their web I am so much disappointed about what turned out out of everything promised :/