If you are roleplaying, you might well see your empire as a federation leader that is constantly trying to make friends in the galaxy, playing 'tall' (i.e. This would be in contrast to the more usual 'min-max' style of play where you essentially do whatever is constantly going to maximize your power and control, regardless. Most basic definition would be the player thinking up an imaginary background and modus operendi for their empire and its leaders and then sticking to this concept throughout the game.

Probably a few ways to explain this and I suspect there are different levels/degrees that players will take it. each will give your mind rich characters and emergent plots to work with. You can do it with r/eu4 for instance, or r/rimworld, or r/fallout, or r/totalwar. Once you start using video games to tell stories in your head, it gets addicting. It was a breathtaking 20 hours of play - well worth every penny I ever paid on this game. I renamed that sector after the Admiral who won that battle, Costa, then went to bed. Even the Fallen Empires were offering stilted words of praise.

When I finished, I closed my eyes and imagined my dreaded Commonwealth of Man suddenly revered amongst the filthy xenos. It took four fleets, and one suicide mission - Task Force SAMSON (see? this is how you roleplay) - to close the portal and stop the bleeding. I watched in horror as I sent doomstack after doomstack toward their fleets, all to be wiped out in piecemeal actions. A year later, when I came in to clean up, found they had grown too strong for my initial fleet. My arrogant Imperatrix at the time, Tshuoyane, let the monsters feast.

I was just in the middle of a war with a Fallen Empire when bang, a portal to an evil dimension of cannibal staticmonsters opens up right in their home sector. The extraordinary thing is, the game, after a while, will seem to be telling the story with you. The best leaders- like Imperatrix Beauclair- get whole sectors named after them. I imagine those admirals talking, and I imagine my leaders giving speeches, earning good or bad reputations eventually in history. Instead I let the game and I write a story together. Those guys who minimax? Good on them, but I can't do that. Roleplaying is by far the most rewarding way to play Paradox games. When they die, you're bummed out And that transition from admiral to leader, their characteristics change. You grow attached to admirals after a while, don't you? And eventually your admirals become leaders, at least sometimes? When they do well, you're happy. Two of the goth nations can even make good members for alliances and federations.Īfter my next game as the squids I may continue to make more moderate races to add to the list of peoples who can stand against the goths, as the current list of nations favours the hegemonic imperialists rather massively. Even if three of the six goth nations are at least some what moderate and understandable. It is quite fun to have a galaxy that basically ends up united against the massive goth threat from all sides. And while I might end up changing the goth peoples into stronger variants (They all see each other as aliens) like visigoths, ostrogoths and the like. I have covered all the fanatics so far, but that does leave room for more moderate peoples to be introduced. Supporting cast members include the spiritual flowers, the federation building spores and the pacifist but immensely strong and defensive squid. Along with them are a diverse collection of other races such as the plutocratic hydra, the scientific angles, the xenophobic huskarls, the stalwart ironborn and the genocidal homo spaiens.

In my games there are 6 different Gothic nations, the goths being a race of strong fast breeding cockroaches, most of whom are hegemonic imperialists and thus tend to consume the galaxy in any game they are present in. In essence I have created my own universe with races and peoples who I can remember and are tailored to be a certain way. Personally I have created a number of nations and set them to always spawn into my games.

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