Two humorous state welcome signs…

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EU3 started off a bit meh, but after the expansions it’s the best grand strategy game imo. I love to unify countries. I think in eU3 the most difficult one is Brandenburg>Prussia>Germany. You start off as a lesser partner in a personal union with Luxemburg and have to worsen relationship with them to have a chance of freeing yourself. Then you have to fight at least the Polish, Pommeranians and Teutonics to get your core provinces for forming Prussia.

And apart from the wars and politics you also need to keep an eye on your technology, religion, trade, colonization, missions, etc. Trying to become Holy Emperor, get the favour of the pope, etc is great.

And one thing i like about it is that it isn’t just a metter of throwing money at it to get your way. Getting bishops from your realm in the holy see is quite random, and money helps it just a little bit. Taking National Ideas that increase piety helps, but it is never certain. Same goes for votes to become emperor, etc.

How are you doing? Find a place here for me?

A couple of other experiences that will give you some “pucker factor”…

Side-seating in a T-41 Mescalero when Air Traffic Control screws up and sends a Boeing 767 into your flight path at your altitude (I had the yoke in my crotch as the Major I was sitting next to ripped it back… I was close enough to see the passengers in the windows of the 767…

Nav Training in a Boeing T-43A and watching the Colorado landscape go by on ground radar, and hearing from the T-43 in front of us that there was a T-41 180 degrees our heading and 300 hundred feet below us… then seeing a green swath fill half of the ground radar as that T-41 passed beneath us close enough to block almost all of the radar…

Commercial Flight Denver to Pittsburgh on US Air, watching rivets come out of the wing in flight… (you don;t actually see the rivet come out, you just see the skin vibrating with the rivet loose, and then there is no rivet…)

@Jennifer:

Interesting.  That’s in order on the list under the map, I presume?

I’d have expected New York to be in the top 5.  Illinois I figured would have been much lower.

Yea I also thought New York would be at a much higher position too.  I wasn’t surprised to see my home state California to be at the top.  Stuff there is pretty expensive.  :-(

HAHA, that one is nice

I think it’s all symbolic.
The true sign is that Israel will be drowned in peat.  Or Bushmill’s, I can’t tell.

The voters are not unreasnoble, they just want more spending and less taxes. :)

Can you say, hello casino?