Okay I can feel the impatience to actually start running time, and also my own impatience to get rid of some of you so I don't have to write so much next time.
Let's jump right back into it with
@V.O. Technically his nation should have the ending period too, but the extra dot took up a stupid amount of space, so V.O he remains. V.O.'s position looked incredible before I added
@Andycoleno9 right next to him, but it's still pretty good. He's got quite a compact country, and if he can avoid ruinous (and I'm also surprised that's how you spell ruinous) war with the player spooning him, he's got some minor countries to gobble up. That depends on who gets to become Holy Roman Emperor, though, as whoever that is will look to protect the minnows. He's got a lot of money-focused ideas, which I guess makes sense considering King Joel Glazer is an
entrepeneur. I promise I didn't do that.
Next up we've got a late edition to the game. So late that he's not even there on some of the screenshots. Luckily we found
@hobbers a friend to play with, with
@Walrus. He doesn't actually directly border anyone, but there's no doubt a confrontation with (heathen) hobbers is on the cards. He's actually also deceptively close to
@Wing Attack Plan R to the south, who is yet to be formally introduced. If the AI controlling
@Walrus like a meat puppet is any smart he'll ignore Europe and start conquering Asia instead. Sultan Walrus von Walrus has a pretty interesting ideas set to play with, though he's a
naive enthusiast so maybe not.
Back in Europe proper, we've got
@Welsh Wonder, who naturally chose Wales as his base of operations. That makes three countries that occupy parts of Britain and none of them is English*. Suspicious. In any case, Welsh Wonder is in an interesting position, splitting his country between France and Britain. The risk is that he gets bullied out of both of them, but if he manages to make some good friends he could be set for mass expansion. He's got a good varied set of national ideas, and King Dean Saunders, first of his name is a
calm fellow.
*incidentally, our guy even has London. Or, as it's now apparently called, Llundain.
Let's get to our last Muslim country, the not-at-all-inconveniently named
@Wing Attack Plan R. Probably the most isolated of the player countries (can I call them player countries if they're completely run by AI?), he doesn't border anyone who is likely to be a threat. Though as I mentioned earlier
@Walrus is just out of view in Anatolia, and
@Stobzilla is just a short Libya away. If he starts conquering, which he could with some decent starting ideas, he could find himself the king of the Middle East and East Africa. Sultana Scarlett Johansson is a
free thinker.
Last up, unless I forgot someone (
), it's
@Andycoleno9. Famously A is not the last letter of the alphabet, but he also joined late and is thus also missing from some screenshots. Whatever else you could say about the shape of his country, it's not the most defensible one. If
@V.O. and
@Denis79 were to gang up on him it could be a short game for our expert EU4 player. Expertise is just tears in rain in the hands of the replicants we call Paradox Interactive AI. He's got some interesting ideas, though, and could pick up some more considering King Garak I is a
free thinker.
