The GMs, the casters, the devs, and you, the viewers, we do it all for you!įor those of you who missed the Grandest LAN live, the entire event is being uploaded to YouTube in easy to digest, 30ish minute episodes. Everyone on the back end making sure the game ran smoothly. The players for taking time out of their lives to Role Play with us. TurboLARP for setting up the event, Parsec for making it possible.
We just want to give a warm and hearty thank you to everyone. Thousands of you watched the events unfold live, and hundreds of thousands have already caught up by watching the VODs on Twitch.
And it went off without a hitch! Thankfully. Many of you have asked “How is this a LAN”? Simple! All the computers were here in Stockholm, in one great LAN (with minimal latency), and all the players used Parsec, which is a remote desktop app, to control the computers from the comfort of their homes. Thankfully our partners at Parsec made this year's LAN party possible. Obviously we couldn't bring dozens of people together in one place for days on end. This year posed some additional challenges due to Covid. Today we are here to talk a little bit about Grandest LAN. Sorry to inform you all that today’s "DD" has been delayed due to sick leave on the EUIV team, and we should be back to more normal next week. The British Empire has broken into pieces as the Dominions have shed the last ties to their former mother country, causing one British Civil Servant to exclaim “Not since Helen of Troy has such misfortune been brought over a great nation by a single woman!” (Churchill, reportedly, remarked “If only she had been single.Pontus here, marketing lead on EU4. Surprising many observers, Alf Landon has defeated Roosevelt in the presidential elections and wastes little time in returning the dollar to the gold standard in a bid to undo the damage wrought by the irresponsible policies of his predecessor.Īs 1936 turns into 1937, the Royalists in Germany have pushed deep into fascist territory in the South and the far North. Meanwhile, Otto’s first act as King of Hungary is to start an ambitious program of industrial expansion - believing, no doubt, that providing jobs to the Hungarian workers will help build support for his rule.
We will observe from the country of Uruguay.īy October 1936, the Royalist counter-offensive is in full swing and has largely succeeded in restoring the original frontline. France is kept as default (so it will react to Imperial Germany), the US and Mexico are set to be random. So Germany will bring back the Kaiser, Hungary will restore Austria-Hungary, Romania will aim to achieve Balkan Dominance, Japan will restore the Emperor, Manchukuo will attempt to gain independence, Britain will give support to the King’s Party (Charles II of Romania approves, but is quietly told that is not what that means) and finally the Netherlands will try to support the only man in the Dutch government - Queen Wilhelmina. Today, we are going to go through a little AAR based on one of the little scenarios people around the office have been using: “How many monarchies can I have at the same time?” Given the often mutually-exclusive nature of focus trees and the sheer number of possible combinations, that can lead to situations where one AI can no longer continue its path or things behave in an unexpected way. It should also be noted that this allows you to create combinations that lead to situations we didn’t anticipate when we made some focus trees (“Should Democratic Germany really ally with Communist Hungary to contain Fascist France? What if Britain is Communist?”) or event chains. Since this would allow you to set up scenarios that would make some achievements fairly trivial, these settings largely disable achievements. The setting for an AI overrides all other game settings, so if you check historical focuses but tell the German AI to restore the Kaiser, it will pick Oppose Hitler anyway.