Poll: What's your favourite country in mp?

[arcorelli]

I expected France to become the winner. Awesome leader file, and the possibility to become a coloniser/trader country for those who love it. But instead it is England. Remarkable.

As cheech said, England is safer (the safest country in the game, even if you play them badly you are at least almost sure of being safe from invasion). With France you need to fight and being agressive to do something, with England nop.

Although I do note that Ozzeh actually prefers the english file because their leaders (and they got one of the better leaderfiles in the game)

Anyway, almost nobody voted Sweden? Paradox gave them extremely good events and leaders and they still are unloved. Sad

 

[unmerged(34338)]

NL, the best country for traders like me I think

 

[Ampoliros]

Sweden, because you can sit back and relax with a chilled drink and plot the destruction of all europe. You have many options (a bit like France). You can go naval and build a grand colonial empire or go land and kick the fxxxxxx shxxx out of northern Europe.

Also, I´m a peculiar guy and Sweden is a peculiar country.....

 

[unmerged(10915)]

Sweden, because you can sit back and relax with a chilled drink and plot the destruction of all europe. You have many options (a bit like France). You can go naval and build a grand colonial empire or go land and kick the fxxxxxx shxxx out of northern Europe.

Bad thing is, if you decide to go both paths, you will eventually be spanked to pieces. If you go land, the naval nations will have too big a navy for you to handle. If you go naval, you have to be very careful with continental gains, since you will be very weak when the superleaders start to dwindle.

 

[unmerged(38752)]

Although I do note that Ozzeh actually prefers the english file because their leaders (and they got one of the better leaderfiles in the game)

What I find good about England is that from a certain point in time you are hardly ever without good admirals. And besides that, you also get a number of uber-generals to sort out your conflicts on land. Namely: Cromwell, Marlborough, Clive and Wellington are all nearly invincible when supported by a good fleet.

France has the problem that it is surrounded by neighbours that at times have a distinct leader advantage towards it. Mainly Spain at the start and Austria certain periods in history (Wallenstein/PE time mostly). England can only really be troubled by De Ruyter at some point and a naval France later (both of which are almost never a serious issue in an MP game).

 

[unmerged(6147)]

England being top has proved what i always suspected.

That the EU community are a bunch of cowards

The percentage for ENG as the number one nation went down from over 30% to 16% after this comment by Cheech. Which just shows that some people have no selfconfidence.

Some lunatic even voted for Poland :wacko: The number one sucker nation in this game. Perhaps HAL posted a vote

 

[ForzaA]

it was a tossup between Russia and the OE really..

Because I'm a bad trader, and because I just like the hordes of troops you get to throw at your enemies (I'm generally an all-infantry player ).

 

[unmerged(11323)]

Spain, all the economic and colonial fun of england while having to keep france and ottos in check with your wealth from your possition nearer to the middle of the action

Russia is a close second, always so much to do and not enough time to colonize and conquer it all

 

[Casluerj]

Some lunatic even voted for Poland

Sterkarm probably... Never seen him playing another country.

 

[unmerged(6147)]

Sterkarm probably... Never seen him playing another country.

yeah, that was the one I could not find in my memory. I only came up with the number one Poland fan: HAL!

I once saw Sterkarm play Austria but he quitted after a session or two

 

[the_genius]

Sterkarm probably... Never seen him playing another country.

Surely it wasn't Wolfie or any other member of ATE crew

 

[Seen]

Of course went for NL, but Sweden is actualy a tiny bit nicer for game importance in most games

 

[unmerged(27214)]

*Wanders in.*

Hmmm, haven't been around here in a while...

****** pissed off the mod crew so badly his name got censored? Wow. He was always a nice guy to me. (EDIT: Plus, the sig was always cool.)

Ahem.

One of the very few things I was ever good at in EUMP was Zen Trading, but I hate colonial nations with a passion, so I guess I'm a Sweden kinda guy. I dunno, I can't stand playing under the gun, and most nations are just too high pressure for me. If I'm England/Spain/Russia/Porto I fear I'm not colonizing enough, if I'm Austria/France/OE I always think there's no way I'm going to survive the next big war (more or less reasonable, I'm a mediocre warmonger)... Sweden lets me get into a nice little groove.

Other than that, I'm a pretty big fan of Brandenburg for some odd reason, I guess because it's easy to attach yourself to Austria for the first few hundred years, then win big in playing Austria off France later in the game.

...Good Lord, I need to find a game.

 

[fraese]

*Wanders in.*

Hmmm, haven't been around here in a while...

****** pissed off the mod crew so badly his name got censored? Wow. He was always a nice guy to me. (EDIT: Plus, the sig was always cool.)

Ahem.

One of the very few things I was ever good at in EUMP was Zen Trading, but I hate colonial nations with a passion, so I guess I'm a Sweden kinda guy. I dunno, I can't stand playing under the gun, and most nations are just too high pressure for me. If I'm England/Spain/Russia/Porto I fear I'm not colonizing enough, if I'm Austria/France/OE I always think there's no way I'm going to survive the next big war (more or less reasonable, I'm a mediocre warmonger)... Sweden lets me get into a nice little groove.

Other than that, I'm a pretty big fan of Brandenburg for some odd reason, I guess because it's easy to attach yourself to Austria for the first few hundred years, then win big in playing Austria off France later in the game.

...Good Lord, I need to find a game.

Interested in starting a new campaign today? Hop on ICQ! My number is in my sig.

 

[Seen]

*Wanders in.*

Hmmm, haven't been around here in a while...

****** pissed off the mod crew so badly his name got censored? Wow. He was always a nice guy to me. (EDIT: Plus, the sig was always cool.)

I sense some minor frustrations

 

[Ampoliros]

Bad thing is, if you decide to go both paths, you will eventually be spanked to pieces. If you go land, the naval nations will have too big a navy for you to handle. If you go naval, you have to be very careful with continental gains, since you will be very weak when the superleaders start to dwindle.

You cannot imagine how correct you are with this asessment.
I played Sweden in my first MP-campaign here. During the time of the swedish Über-Generals I thrashed both Russia and Austria but in the endgame a terrible gang totaly smashed Sweden. I was neither land nor naval and that led to a terrible disaster.

 

[Slargos]

Going to have to go with Sweden for some of the reaons JTU posted.

Another of my favourites would have to be Poland since it gets to play swing vote in a lot of conflicts.

 

[unmerged(11287)]

Brandenburg/Prussia. it's just a fine combination of diplomacy and war. Also, lack of money makes it be extremely careful about everything. Newbies, abstain.