![]() You find yourself screaming at the screen as your entire army that you spent years building into a finely honed killing machine is cut down in seconds by the ravening hordes of the Eastern European countries. However, suddenly, oh god, it’s all going wrong. Before you know it you’re feeling unstoppable, you declare war on Europe, all of it, at the same time, you don’t care, you’re the King of Britain and you want blood. The game sucks you in rapidly, and doesn’t let go readily. This ‘little’ piece of the map had so far taken me over 6 hours to capture and successfully keep protected from counter attacks. The game has naval combat too, I didn’t strike too much with my naval forces as they were more than a little thin on the ground initially and used the ships mainly for transporting my troops to the far flung battlefields of Eire. As your wealth grows,recruit your armies and prepare for war, invade your neighbours and take control of their territory. First it’s a good idea to make friends with some of them, whether it’s through trade agreements, royal marriages or peace treaties. Well, that was the plan, but it’s not that easy. Personally I picked England,as I always liked the idea of being the King and running rough-shod over the French, Germans, and Italians. To start with you choose your starting nation, from one of over 250, yes you heard right 250 different starting nations. It’s a map of the world, there for you to plunder and conquer however you wish. And this is another feature of the game there are no missions, no set goals. I was aiming to control the British Isles with an ironfist. Battles are fought out using very ‘table top’ war game methods, if this was being played out in your kitchen you would probably need 300 dice, a degree in astrophysics and a hefty logarithm book just to work out who won the first round of combat.ĭon’t however let this level of complexity put you off, it is this level of detail that makes the game what it is, after a few hours of playing I forgot about the workman like graphics and was immersed in a feud with Ireland, Wales and Scotland. No jolly little unit animations here, single unit icons represent your units and fleets. Right from the off the game makes no qualms about its complexity. We have all played Command & Conquer, Rise of Nations et al, but compared to Europa Universalis 3, they are just for kids. Reviews // 3rd Apr 2009 - 14 years ago // By Scott Ruthven Europa Universalis III: Complete Edition Review ![]()
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