Game is almost impossible without boost. I'm having trouble trying to take Europe after I took the U.S and that's with an army or orgs and money backing me. Ive only just started mining Mars for resources.
"Countries closer to the equator get a bonus to boos generation" I love how every time when I wonder if the game models a certain facet of politics, economics, society or space travel, the answer is always yes.
Indeed, everything from elites working against you if you don't keep them happy to the equator being the best place to launch to solar collectors closer to the sun working better is modeled, the depth is insane
this makes me wonder for china I took over it and no matter what I seemingly did over about 20 years the population declined. For India the population just exploded after I took control. Could this be because the game simulates the aging population of china and the one child policy?
Love your Humanity first playthrough. Especially funny is USA - given popular support there being basically only"X-COM" and "Imperium of Man" you can imagine the conversations there. "We should kill all those damned Xenos!" "Hey, hey. Moderation. Let's kill only those that come here!". On the other hand, very realistic this way 😀
the debate is not "if we should kill the aliens", its by what methods should we eradicate them, "nukes can be too dirty but kinetics don't usually get the whole job done"
@@cheeseninja1115 we need boots on the ground, wherever there is ground with aliens to dig out of. Now gimme some space marines and make an A10 that can work in space and ill show you some very dead aliens
A deep dive guide on councilors and how to use them properly would be amazing, especially the missions that are not about public influence or CP's. But the ones about other factions councilors and sabotage, or orbit or alien assests. Also how loyalty works or telling if you have a compromised councilor.
A quick rough guide. Make sure you have :- 1 operative/spy maybe rebel someone who will focus on INV and ESP allowing them to crack, purge , detain , investigate councilor , steal etc 1 commando/officer or event dilpomat. Focus on CMD alowing them to secure/increase unrest , coup d'etat and assault assets. Diplomats work due to government trait. 1 tech mogul/scientist/astronaut . Focus on advising so needs ADM/CMD/SCI stick on your main country for nice boosts. Keep one of your persuasion agents for turning others agents and maintaining support , inspiring and general missions. After that it's how you want to focus but make sure you get some security for cumulative council bonus vs enemy missions and I would recommend having at least 1 criminal as their orgs are a great source of OPS income and not bad for ESP. Oh and 2 people who can inspire so they can inpsire each other.
I'd like to know how to take over space stations and moon/asteroid/planet bases. Human and alien. I haven't been able to do so myself, I'm expecting it to be hidden behind a research wall that I'm not aware of. But it may be something else..
@@kristianfagerstrom7011 Marines either via ship slots or interface orbit station. Tooltip also includes nearby habs but i have not got that to work yet. Maybe not close enough? You can also transfer a councilor to lead an assault if they have right missions.
There's no mention here of how to read your opening hand. You start with a random reputation in every country, including one handful where you'll have high reputation. In highly authoritarian nations like Iran or North Korea, this can be as high as 80% in October, basically handing you the country if you bother. You can check which nations like you in the Nations ledger (F5), then sort it by clicking your faction's logo on the left. Another thing to look for are Councillor traits like Demagogue, Fanatic or Media Darling. These stack and can double your persuasion score if you put your councillors in the right place. Demagogue for instance lets you get into India very easily.
Excellent points! This is one of the strengths of this game IMO: small, seemingly inconsequential and innocuous things like a personality trait of a councilor really can have a sort of emergent "butterfly effect" in this game.
@@georgeorwell8501 because the pope is the ruler of the papal states. not a part of italy. Pope gets to do what the pope wants to do. and as far as I can tell no system exists in the game to make him obey you.
South Korea's another interesting middle power because it's easy to get. If you have North Korea, you get approx a +4 to taking CPs in South Korea because it's the only neighbour. Conveniently it also starts with a space program. New Zealand's also another small country that starts with a space program, so is good for spamming MC or Boost as well.
Taking both Koreas also gives you the option to unify them into a singular Korea (usually, South takes over North). A unified Korea is a pretty nice mid-power nation in East Asia and a natural ally to Japan and Taiwan to help keep China in check.
@@ThatPianoNoob If you can remove S. Korea's alliance with the US and somehow get China into the war, then yes, N. Korea + China can conquer South Korea.
Another thing about France is it has Kourou, a province on the northern edge of South America. Since that is where their main launch facility is, I imagine that means they also get a pretty hefty equatorial boost to their boost production even though the main provinces are in Europe. The Benelux and British have stuff in the Caribbean, so should they get a space program they would be pretty efficient as well.
@Peter This is also the case in real life, and it’s because the Earth spins faster closer to the equator and you can use this momentum to launch stuff into orbit using less fuel.
I tried this and it works HORRIBLY. This is because France shares it's boost with the EU, which in the current version means you basically cannot use them to generate boost until you should already be well on your way to saving for the moon. (I don't believe you can leave federations like the EU until late september 2023. Just look in game. At game start on normal, France starts with half the boost of the USA, basically, but their actual boost income is about seven times smaller than it would be if they weren't in the EU and didn't have korou as a colony). Not sure if korou being a colonial region also matters, but France in my experience is a highly misleading trap. Basically, you spend all your early economic power on enriching your opposing factions who all hang out in Italy siphoning off your boost. You also cannot avoid it, because you cannot choose WHERE to build your boost, the game automatically does it in korou. I would argue if you just want a western European nation to spam direct investment boost in, you are MUCH Better off just going for England, even though England is not particularly good at it, they just aren't actively terrible, like France is.
@@timmietimmins3780 French Guyana is no detriment with respect to boost; it's all the EU siphoning it away. Colony status means it's not as useful economically, and it's why you can't build mission control there (or in the French holdings in the Pacific or Indian Oceans). As mentioned, Kazakhstan has the same issue with the Eurasian Union, and like the French the game assumes the nations federated at game start and have to wait out a 360 day cooldown before they can join a union or opt out. Big difference, however, is that Kazakhstan is a larger proportion of its federation, and so keeps a larger percentage of its boost, and it has more than twice the starting boost besides.
Pretty interesting that the management cap seems to have gotten more harsh than it was in the demo. I used to gleefully run way way over my management cap and simply compensate with orgs that printed influence stacked on high persuasion councilors. This has been all but impossible in the latest release and honestly I'm here for it. Makes the early game much more about tradeoffs and much less about definitively doing well or doing poorly.
Yup. I remember in the demo having combined most of Europe into the EU fed, fully controlling Canada, US, Mexico and Russia as well as a handful of other random smaller countries around the world. Looks like that would be much, much harder now.
Bro I buy this game because of the Long War peeps and then I go to the Steam forums and people are saying watch PerunGamingAU's tutorial and I come here and start listening and its the same guy doing the content covering the Ukraine conflict I've been listening to for 6 months now. Awesome.
Looking forward to more guides. I'm still stuck in the early game. I've played 5 factions already. After controlling nations in a few years, I find myself not knowing what to do. Other factions would start going into space and I'm still planet side increasing public opinion lol
Yeah - taking nations really is only the very opening. After that you really need to get into space, and preferably be the first to the moon. Think the early space race would be worth looking at?
@@PerunGamingAU I know when I saw a lunar mining module cost 56 boost I was at a bit of a loss cause at the time it was a little more than 2 years worth of boost to me... I then got nuclear freighters and space tugs. Of course, once I got 1 mine going my boost expenses dropped massively. I don't know if I'd call it snowballing so much as a high barrier to entry. Really gotta pinch those boost pennies to get started.
@@mazazon Yeah in my first playthrough I was sending space station after space station up, and watching the other factions save up huge stockpiles of boost like "lol stupid ai"... Then we unlocked the moon, and mining, and I went "oh."
Just a minor add , you may want to hold onto Mexico if you have a criminal agent. It is one of the countries that has a good few criminal orgs specific to it. Like other country specifc ones these come with a good stack of cash OPS , ESP , INF and SEC.
@@monkian its kind of fucked up how Lebanon isn't even represented as a nation on the geomap but you can still acquire Hezbollah, a paramilitary group from the south of Lebanon lmao. still a great game though.
Yeah, honestly I told the devs they need to use hyperlinks so that people can examine the tech tree. And they needed to improve its UI. They totally ignored me. Frankly atm, the tech tree is the most opaque thing in the entire game.
My Plan For now is Go For Antimatter Technology after all the aliens don't have that so getting the up hand for a Change is Good,however i Need to Retake Jupiter to that to work,Must Imagine the aliens Reaction When They See it.They Wake up a Sleeping Giant and The Giant is Angry.
Tech tree honestly hasn't bothered me at this point, simply because just like learning what resources & stats mean in game terms, you have to learn what your research values really mean and what you can do before you can make sense of any sort of tech tree - hyperlinked or not. And by the time you've understood that, the tech tree isn't incomprehensible imho. I don't expect to "win" on this first playthrough or two, so I honestly didn't even look at the tech tree until I was 4 or 5 years in because nothing on it would make much sense to me until I'd understood more about the game.
If you get ther 3rd cap point in India, the unity boost will translate into public opinion for whatever faction controls it. Meaning that if you're not the first one into India, you might even have an easier time later on taking over control. I had some hopes for this game, but now playing it - it's so frikkin great. There aren't a lot of good diplomacy/ subterfuge games out there and this in is so much fun. The space race, which got me interested in the first place, is just an added cherry on the top.
Started watching your playthrough yesterday morning, having never seen the game. Decided to buy it that evening and before I know it it's 2 am and I've got to get up at 6 in time to get the kids off to Kindy 😬
When playing as more humanitarian factions I sometimes end up with councilors like early scientists who can't be used for much except bad control nation rolls. In that scenario I like running around and picking up a bunch of "broken" 3rd world countries and immediately giving them up when I hit the control point cap. That let's me give the governments a tip on what they can do to get their country under control and start fixing it. Since the countries are worth so little in the early game they often stay under my "guidance" for a while even while under crackdown. Its fun, I might get a salvageable nation out of it later, and it makes me feel like I'm doing my best to make the world a better place. And honestly the cost is literally 0 if you don't have a good advise country for that councilor yet or haven't been able to get them orgs for more mission types.
OK, how about playing an Africa-focused game? They're worth little individually, but presumably you can get a lot of them, right? No nukes and no armies, so I supposed you'd need _some_ other nation. But would it be possible to build them up over time, or would some other faction just take them from you, after awhile? I just like the idea of doing that. And yeah, I prefer playing games as a humanitarian, anyway. :)
@@Bill_Garthright There are some techs that let you unify some of the African nations, so that is a possible mid-game strategy. The main thing you lack there are armies/nukes for defense and boost income, which you need to find a fix for or you’ll fall behind in the space race.
@@LasertechStudios3142 Thanks. That sounds interesting. Once I start playing the game myself (I'd like to wait until it's out of early access, but I don't know if I can), maybe I'll look for a nation which can give me a little of that without using up a ton of control points. We'll see. I know this isn't the optimal way to play the game.
@@aclassicguardsman946 Thanks. I decided to give it a try, and yes, that's the first nation I took. Otherwise, it's all been African nations south of the Sahara. Israel has one nuke and one army, which is good. And it's the only nation I have which can get boost and mission control right away. On the other hand, its economy isn't much, and there's a lot of unrest. But then, that's why it's so cheap, with only two control points. We'll see. I don't think it's going to work out very well, but this is just an experiment, anyway - and my first attempt at the game.
Perun, I am continuously impressed by your videos...and your mind! I especially appreciate the entertainment value you add to your playthroughs, and am thoroughly enjoying your Humanity First run. As for future guides, I would definitely appreciate one about optimizing economies. It's clear you have a firm grasp of that aspect of the game and I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Definitely looking forward to more guides! Been watching your series and started playing yesterday. Quite a bit overwhelmed but definitely looking forward to getting better. My vote is for early tech guide next.
Great Guide. Think I can add public opinion can help when taking over countries. Combined with controlling points in and around the country I found it the most determining factor at the beginning for chances to get into a country. Remember persuasion is the skill used in taking control and pushing public opinion, cracking an enemy control point and stealing it are diffrent skills. Don't forget you can abandon the nations you don't need - and still controll it until somone else takes it.
I always go for Africa after the EU. It takes a while to get down the tech tree to the point where you can unite the different sections in Africa. I’ve managed to form the Ivory Coast federation and merg it but that was over 7 years into my play through
@@rhyssmith4218 Yeah same here! I tried to rush for the unification techs but they're so much more expensive when compared to other techs at the same level. Great States tech was like 10k when other techs were around 2k
I'm definitely interested in an Africa game - I mean, when I finally get around to installing and playing Terra Invicta. It doesn't really sound like a winning strategy, but it still might be fun. Maybe I'll have to play on 'Easy' difficulty?
Very informative video, covered all the major nations & power blocks I was considering to open with, except for Brazil. Already started watching the Humanity First (USA) playthrough EP 01 during my Hurricane Ian downtime, and download the rest for offline viewing for when my internet goes down. Looking forward to playing in the EA period of this game!
Is the ability to build navies predetermined, or based on GDP? In my playthrough, I was surprised to see Saudi Arabia had that capability when Israel did not.
@@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze Well, it's Perun. If you don't know about him, he gained a meteoritic fame from the start of the Ukraine war by making 50-70 minutes long powerpoint presentations about the war and all its aspects, and later videos about the economics and organisational aspects of waging a war, building or maintaining a military. And he's really good at it, but by his standards, 33 minutes is a real effort to remain concise
Kinda just stumbled on this channel when looking for Tarra Invicta videos, and was confused as to why your voice was so familiar. Didn't know you had a gaming channel, Perun :P
Perun, you should add one thing about EU, because of the way the game deals with mission control, boost, build army and build navy is different from how it calculates the other investiments ( population doesn t matter as much for those I talked above ), EU don t need to rush to be formed, instead it s perfect to juice armies, boost and mission control, quite generally in a EU game just on earth I easily get above 100 mission control before the first alien invasion, so even if it has it s problems as a opener, if you hold France Hostage, and open with another superpower, you are set for flawless game. Example, with EU and USA the aliens got surprised that I had 20 armies to thrown at their heads from the get go, killed without losing any armies.
I was thinking that this game would be even more awesome as a 'humanity goes into space' game with no aliens distractions to distort and detract from that concept. Perhaps mods might make that happen in the future?
Heh, heh. It's funny, but that's kind of how I feel. I mean, I love the idea of aliens. But what sounds fun for me is just taking control of nations on Earth and improving the lives of the people living there - boosting economics, research, civil rights, etc. Nuking my enemies just doesn't interest me as much. :)
@@Bill_Garthright Unfortunately Aliens are necessary in the universe of Terra Invicta because their arrival is what springs Factions into action and ppl of Earth into heavily industrialising space. Unless there is another event that can push humanity into space No-Aliens playthrough doesn't seem plausible form story perspective or forcing a singular faction like Exodus with "Earth is dying we need to escape"
@@Noxiefy Sure, I agree. Although I remember a book - _Boundary_ by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor - where a massive space race on Earth resulted from the discovery of high-tech alien ruins on Mars and elsewhere in the solar system. It was the promise of high technology that did it, not the risk that aliens would attack (just the risk that someone else would get it first). That wouldn't be quite the same thing, of course, but it created the same kind of scramble into space. I like the idea of all of this. I'm just not particularly interested in fighting battles. Designing warships simply doesn't interest me as much as the other stuff in the game. But that's OK. There's enough there that _does_ interest me, certainly. (And I haven't gotten to the warships part, anyway - not yet - so who knows?)
I can't wait until someone somewhere does an Africa Saves the World playthrough. At the moment, African nations don't seem to good for very much (in game), so confining yourself to that continent seems like a "fun" challenge.
can factions work together? some factions to sound like they would not absolutely go out of their way to fight each other. Defend earth defensively or attack aliens offensively seems somewhat compatible, for a time at least. Is there diplomacy between the factions like non aggression pacts?
I only know a little bit from watching Perun’s humanity first play through, but at the very least I have seen diplomacy screens that include non aggression pacts.
Yes totally, if you’re playing as the resistance then a faction like humanity first, as long as they aren’t impeding on territory you want, is better to make friends with than enemies, because their goal is to fight the aliens just like you.
Russia should be considered a superpower more than France, as it can confederate with other nations in their alliance and has many more clams, when you unlock Warsaw pact. In my play through I hold Russia with all its allies confederate under it, China and Japan, playing as the Project Exodus, not one of other faction has dared to challenge me all game and this my first real play through I ever played.
Forgot one thing when talking about India. Unionize with Pakistan ASAP, +2 nukes and +1 army for a total of 5, means you can tackle China, even in an armed conflict.
A fun game I’m doing is a Japan then India game but the resistance managed to secure India so I switched to a Russia-Japan game from all the public opinion boost. Once I got Russia it wasn’t hard to annex all the core territories. One thing I don’t get is annexing territories can lower your tech level so Russia went from a 3.98 to a low 3.7 from annexing all the stans and Eastern European nations. Plus the high Japan research allowed me to control one of the global research focuses and I could push for the forward Russia focus
@@iaroslavagapov2671 I think the aliens need a rebalance because it's hard for me to think in a si-fi setting that any species can be on the planet in ten years. The fleet I built is never good enough because the A.I keeps taking over my stations for no reason. The marines need to be more effective and the fleet building needs to be better.
@@desertdude8274 well my main complain is that there's nothing really to do as a project exodus in the late game. You don't need to fight aliens(aside for exotics needed to buils interstellar launch facility) and you just sit there and wait until your technologies are researched
How feasible do you reckon an Africa playthrough is? I'm thinking it could be a fun challenge taking Africa and confederating it where possible while also going to space.
You'd need to rush some of the sociology techs to unlock the East African Federation and make that your base of operations, then continue down that path until you research Great Nations for the African Union.
I did not realize who I had clicked on, then I started hearing this oddly familiar voice, but there was no PowerPoint slide. It kinda freaked me out. But its all good now. Good luck shadow govermenting all!
well if you go by actual number of launches these days China and the US outclass Russia completely (this year so far US: 62, China: 42, Russia: 13)... so I guess realistically China should have by far the highest base boost and then SpaceX plus the US base boost should be even higher.
Great guide! My first playthrough just puttering around I decided to take the US. I pushed Russia out of Ukraine, nuked Moscow about a dozen times, and then learned you can nuke your own territory when Russia nuked Moscow to destroy my army besieging the already charred remains.
Good guide. In one of your videos, you mentioned doing an episode about ships. I, at least, could really use that. I just barely got my first few ships up, but really have no idea what the tradeoffs of the various technologies are, which ones are worth developing and using and which aren't, etc. So a space ship guide would be the #1 thing I'd love to see.
Another great video! Many of those points were fairly obvious in my opinion. I would really be interested in how 1) point distribution should be optimised in a nation and 2) how you can make it with a bad start (e.g. Africa challenge)
New Zealand feels like another decent MC grab - two CP, relatively small economy (~6 points a month), but pre-established space program. I pick it up decently often. You could use it for boost, but it's pretty far from the equator.
So... did you know you are an Organization in the game? Not a huge surprise that the guys making the most complex political science simulator I have ever seen in a game are a fan of your chanel...
Heheheh. India. The AI taught me the value of India when I was watching global research and thought “holy crap! How is the Resistance dumping so much research at everything?!” Then I saw India. It’s got 400 research alone. And they appear to have gone all-in on that part of the world and abandoned Europe…after I signed an NAP with them. I guess they handed me Europe to be friendly? Interesting how that bit me in the ass in a totally unexpected way.
Brother Perun. A guide on spacecrafts and tech tree. I'm at the point where aliens are definitely coming and I need to arm myself to defend my space assets. But it's crazy complex to build ships. I understand that there's basically a choice for every resource and you may want to focus on building stuff you can pay for but I noticed there's for example two kinds of thrusters that use hydrogen and their stats are entirely different.
I get China by taking Singapore for spoils then taking all non-rival surrounding countries I can. The spoils give money for full public campaigns to make it easier. China has more long term potential overall if you stack percentage boosts for development.
Concerning the CP cap; You can go through some shenanigans to make mega states. The united states of north america can be combined into the UK with the anglosphere tech which lets the UK untie with canada so if you do the techs which deconstruct the US in the right order you can have the USNA unite with the UK which can unite with the EU. Likewise the south american union can unite with the EU if you deconstruct it correctly such that the capital ends up in french guiana. From there you can unite the EU into the eurasian union which can then be deconstructed in such a way the capital ends up in turkmenistan which can then be united into turkey and then turkey can unite with a caliphate. After that caliphate can unite with the african union easily. If the pan asian combine has its capital in taiwan through shannigans you can unite it with the oceanic federation which is indoniesia and all of oceania and the pacific islands and then that federation can be united into the caliphate. Then the caliphate can be shenniganed to have the capital move to pakistan it can be united into greater india creating a world wide super state. At least this was true when I was playing the beta a month or two ago. This is not even close to worth it btw. The US, China, or India can easily carry you into the lategame with as much research and money as you'll ever need, let alone any of the super states, so unless you really want to do it for RP or a clean map it isn't worth it at all.
Been waiting for this! I'm also trying to decide on my first hire seeing as one of my two starting counselors is trash. What's a good rating for a stat? Which stats are most important? Do I recruit entirely for Admin and Influence? Should I be hiring for resource generation? Or action options?
Influence in the early game - you can take 0 loyalty politicans, since you’ll be shoving them off the council soon enough. After nations stabilize (2024 ish), switch your focus to one or two Influence councilors who are loyal to a fault, preferably with one having good Admin as a secondary stat. Then you’ll want one “cleaner” who can get their hands dirty, do the assassinations, gather intel on or lock down enemy councilors. And for your 4th slot, you can do whatever really. A desk-slave with high admin and Science is good if you did a superpower opening. Or you can have a flex-role councilor that can do it all, just poorly. Its really up to you.
My first game, I took over the UK first, then France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Sweeden and Portugal. This managed to get me to mars and have 3 bases there before anyone else.
Thanks for this guide! I'm doing it wrong in my first cinematic/tutorial game. Going to free ukraine and then see if I can pivot to actually doing my job. What a gem, absoulte classic. I'm 15, it's 2am, I'm picking a new base in the alps for my sneaky xenomorph exterminators. I'm scared. I didn't think anything would ever make me feel that way again.
Just be aware that you're sharing that boost with the rest of the EU... and until you either cut them off or gain control of them most boost France generates it gives away.
"The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is a free trade agreement that came into being in 2015 to increase economic cooperation and raise the standard of living of its members. Member countries include Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan." Not made up
I turned Saudi into a money factory, producing over 300 funding PER MONTH. More than USA. I just put 65% funding into 'funding' and now it pays for all my space assets. Love it.
In my first game (as the Resistance) I started with the EU, Russia and Kazakhstan, which led to the AI grabbing the US and China and I just couldn't get a hold on them... but then for some reason the other factions bombarded each other with dozens of coups, unrest and control flips which got me into both nations by the mid-game and let me secure all super-powers, crippling the other factions heavily. The only downside was that all the troubles the two countries went through absolutely wrecked their stats. The US was down to "Totalitarism (0)", lost over half its GDP, Inequality was at extreme and Cohesion down to fractured. Still managed to stitch the country back together and made it at least the 3nd best power economically after the Greater EU (that also absorbed Russia) and China. Was my top supplier of nukes and military though and got my other nations all the power to expand and wreck the Aliens. :D Soon I will start an Academy playthrough and I plan to focus on Japan, China and eventually all the East-Asian Great Nations-shenanigans.
You should update these :) Some other nations which are worth noting - Indonesia and Brazil which are kind of a pocket india. The middle East - Gulf States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia - These are big boost generators with either population or high per capita income and resource areas.
Can we get a video on the general goals in the game at different stages? I've got USA and starting some space bases but no idea what to do next. Except killing xeno lovers i guess?
I will. just need another day or so to get another play session in. this is the part of the week where I have to focus most on the weekly release for the other channel
It's also good to keep synergy in mind. For example: if you go for the EU, you will get tons of science but not all that much money. If you get Saudi Arabia, you can not only compensate the funding but also use the science from the EU to discover the Caliphate. The Caliphate's claims span a massive area. Integrating all those nations would be difficult - unless you're allied to the EU and have high mil armies to fight the wars for you. Bonus points if you also put Russia into the EU - now you have two supermassive meganations that are almost impossible for your opponents to get into and you control a big chunk of the world's population while eventually also having enough CP left to grab even more real estate.
The Eurasian Economic Union is a real thing. It started with specific customs treaties with Belarus and Kazakhstan but became a fully integrated economic zone like the EU in 2015.
Am I grabbing the US wrong? I seem to just be getting completely stuck for 10 years with Control point cap, great position and research but I can barely alter the economy. I am slowly unifying the people though
Got France, Italy and Russia, all defended and in my control. Suddenly all of them get cracked out of nowhere. This game is going to drive me insane.. :)
That might have been because you were playing as the academy ( which is considered to be hardest faction ) . Since the academy wants to be equals with the Aliens , when alien military bases are detected people loose hope that the aliens will treat humanity as equals and align more towards extremist values causing all your control points to be cracked out and loose a ton of support
that is a lot of knowledge i did not have for my first game. :D In my first run i managed to took over russia, and parts+government of the USA aswell as scandinavia later on, renew the warsaw pact, made russia great again etc. The academy was pretty friendly, made deals and stuff, and the servants took over germany and the UK. so ... they were annoying, i killed some of their councilors and they gone to war. The academy had china, and suddently germany developed a nuke. China asked his allies the USA and Russia to go to war against germany, humanity first took over the UK, had robot armies and started to invade random countries in middle and south america, so we attacked germany and just before we took the capital they launched a nuke and all of a sudden ... china stopped the war, allied with germany and when i checked, i dont know how, not with an army, the servants took over whole china ... started to march towards russia whos poor armies were bound fighting in europe. So ... russia had to nuke stuff ... Long story short, china, the US, india somehow got involved and russia nearly shot all their nukes on each other and now i am setteling in africa ... very interesting game so far. I expect the aliens to win. :D
‘Proon’. Ok. I thought it was ‘Perrin’. I came as a recent subscriber from your war analysis channel. So you have just about sold me on this game just by existing.
You forgot to mention that Russia and China have security apparatus CP, which gives +3 to detain and assasination missions. It's crazy good against "spoilery content" councilors.
Suggestion: Grow your channel and invest in a quality microphone. The sound quality is absolutely terrible, and not suited to listen for more than a couple minutes.
Hearing military logistics man give a guide on terra invicta in the exact same tone which he uses to describe the issues with russian mobilisation feels surreal. Like if Joe Biden started streaming COD.
When going EU route. Should you do the unification ASAP? What I mean is grab France from turn one, Germany, Italy and once available create true EU and follow with more countries? Or should you wait with the smaller countries like Poland, Czech, Norse
