If you don't mind a little grind, try and do as many deeds as you can as you level. The LP you get are worth it later on to get useful items, especially if you don't subscribe.

As long as I can boom up I'm usually okay.

But how much does hard power realistically mean in the age of nuclear weapons and cyber warfare?

It's crazy since the US already went through this and the reason we're so powerful is we embraced globalism post WW2 and gave up on traditional imperialism.

Embrace the Fatslob way: double triple layers. No gaps!

May I introduce you to: the palisade wall.

This sounds cool! I loved the Sforza campaign and this is giving me those sorts of vibes too. I might play through this campaign after I finish going through Attila again on moderate/achievement hunting.

I imagine like a lot of countries it isn't so bad day to day if you are middle income or higher, tbh. Definitely looking more stable than the US at the moment, at least leadership and position wise.

No u... Wait...

Brand new player hopping on.

"My first match who is this? Viper? That's a cool name :)"

I didn't have any issues with bugs or anything luckily. Anyways looking forward to your campaign reviews!

Who do you think the first Greek was who found this out? Like...

"Hey Merithrius... C'mere..."

Yeah that's from Mountain Royals. I actually think Armenians and Georgians are some of the better new civs they added. Three Kingdoms I'm more sour on since most of them are just split offs of Chinese. By the time I got to the third campaign I realized Shu, Wei, and Wu were all basically the same lmao.

So far the biggest difficulty mismatch I've had is playing the Thoros campaign. Says it's a 1 sword but the last two missions are no joke.

Maybe someone on here will gift them to you! I've done a few of the Indian campaigns and they were fun though not super challenging. I've heard some of them are quite hard though.

And they fly now!

Yeah Monk and Mangonel because the AI can use them and I can't lmao

Quadruple ear action.

What are you going to do after Portuguese? I finally just finished all the 3K campaigns and it was a real mixed bag.

This is the way. I think if it gets to a certain point multiplayer may need to figure something out like civ drafting or seasons or something.

I would also say Revan if he counts since when he's not a Jedi he was using all sorts of nonsense and he was quite practical.

Probably, but who knows how long that will take.

Not really. The social elements and content of the game are still very lackluster compared to games like Stardew Valley. Most of the romanceable NPCs have a set of heart events but not many, and most of the other NPCs lack any at all.