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Disclaimer is that I've never done this for EU4, but can't imagine it would be any different for this game than any other game.

Basically what you want to do is take the old hard drive out of the now broken laptop, connect it to a working computer using an an external sata connector or hard drive enclosure (something like This or That)

Once the drive is connected you should be able to navigate through it the same way you would on the machine it came from, except the drive will have a different letter assigned to it (D: or F: probably, it would have been C: on the original laptop, lets assume it gets D:)

Find where your EU4 saves are: Paradox's website says they are stored at C:\Users\<USER>\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV\ by default, so you'd be looking for D:\Users\USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV.

Copy the save games from the old disk (D:\Users\USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV) To the working computer (C:\Users\USER\Documents\Paradox Interactive\Europa Universalis IV)

Load up EU4 and it will look for your saves in that directory, and hopefully find the ones that you just copied over.

P.S. If this comes across as condescending in any way, I don't mean it to. I just don't want to assume any experience on your part. On the other hand if you need more guidance feel free to PM me questions. Good Luck!

>The Price- Is EU4 worth the $40?

No, it's worth much more than that.

>It looks like an awesome game, and I am loving the demo, but $40 is a lot of money compared to the price of Civ V. Is EU4 really worth more than double what Civ V is?

A better question would be, is Civ V really worth half of what EU4 is going for?

Paradox games often go on sale, I got EU4 just a few months after its release for $25. But, for that to work, you have to regularly check for sales. There are no sales right now, unfortunately. It's a tragedy that you missed the Summer sale, it almost certainly had a deep discount then even if it wasn't a daily. The next time you can definitely count on a sale would be December.

EDIT: Well, I did some digging, someone's selling a boxed copy shipped from the UK on Amazon for $25.

>The End- Because the demo has an automatic end time (you can only play for a certain number of turns), I am wondering how the end of the game works. Is there a time limit, a victory condition, or nothing?

It takes hundreds of hours to get to 1821. Most people just start a game with their own goals in mind, like forming the HRE, or maybe making some small African nation a genuine world power. Whether or not you continue on after reaching your goal is up to you - in most cases you become so ridiculously powerful at some point it's kind of pointless to play on. If you want to, you can go for a world conquest, but that gets really tedious and you'll probably have to rely on exploits and gamey tactics to overcome EU4's rather significant anti-blobbing mechanics (overextension, aggressive expansion, truce timers, etc...) This game is unlike most other strategy games in that they're not basically geared to make a world conquest for one player a given by the end of the game. It much more of a realistic attempt to simulate history - the world was not conquered by one person in 1821, so the average playthrough of any good simulation of it shouldn't end like that either.

*Although, it will become apparent to you more and more how glaringly ahistorical it can be the more you play. And I honestly have a suspicion that its historicity is heavily maintained by gimping the AI, forcing them to play in historical fashion rather than doing what's strategically optimal; just imagine if they integrated some of DDRJakes exploits into the AI coding. That said, whatever its faults, no other simulation even comes close.

Well it's sale day and you were correct. I noticed they had all there products listed on amazon and was excited because I have a stack of unused amazon gift cards haha.

Unfortunately they neither listed HoM on amazon and none of the items are on sale (seems to be exclusive on amazon). I wonder if t his was an oversight. Looking at this they appear to have correlating sales but not this time. Looks like i'll be holding out a little longer! I also made a post on the paradox forums hopefully to get some answers but seems to be mostly ignored atm.

edit: Ok so the price just went down as of me posting this! Wow I wonder if they saw my post on paradox HAHA! anyways none of the other prices havedropped yet and HoM still isnt listed so we will see I guess.

also interesting that the sale on common sense (price changed 15 minutes ago) is 9.99 while its 7.50 on steam. wonder what is going on

I found the 1410 map on Wikipedia, specifically from this page (towards the bottom). I don't know of any anthology containing maps such as this one. I do agree that this is an excellent map and has great details. If it helps, here is the Wikimedia profile of that map from 1410. In that page you'll find various details on the map. Towards the bottom you'll find all the Wikipedia articles that use this map. You can search around and find more.

Scholarly atlases also provide greatly detailed and historical maps. Two notable examples that I physically own are the D.K. World History Atlas, and also the Cassell's Atlas of World History, both of which have greatly detailed maps. Buying physical copies isn't really a good choice though because there's always better maps somewhere online.

Searching around the internet, you'll find tons of great sites that provide maps of varying quality. One popular site is www.geacron.com, which maps every continent in every year from -3000 to 2019. Their maps aren't very detailed but interesting nonetheless.

I hope this helped.

The Thirty Years War: Europe's Tragedy

It's extremely thorough, which is both good and bad, because that war contained so many competing interests and an infinite number of notable generals and politicians that it can be overwhelming to remember who is doing what to whom and who wants what. But that said, I think that's really just the nature of the war itself. I definitely recommend it, if you have the patience to finish it. I bought the book knowing relatively little about the 30 years war and now know a lot more about it, and it's pretty well-written as well. Definitely recommend it.

The thirty years war was a crazy, huge, complicated thing and that book gives an overview of all of it. All that information can be daunting, but it's a great book. It's also a great time capsule of how government worked in that time frame, as well as society in general. And it helps explain why the Netherlands exists, too.

Your Dad is being overly harsh, but he's not wrong. Simply put you shouldn't be using a video game as a source for any discussions you have with other people. It's fine as an inspiration but it is not a source of historical information.

These wouldn't be bad places to start and should be sources your Dad would be happy with.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aztecs-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions-ebook/dp/B005YMCCR8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1487438218&sr=8-2&keywords=oxford+history+of+aztecs

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Kingdoms-Mexico-Penguin-history/dp/0140135871/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487438233&sr=8-1&keywords=penguin+history+of+aztecs

http://www.amazon.com/Colonel-Roosevelt-Edmund-Morris/dp/0375757074/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1427210272&sr=8-4&keywords=edmund+morris

Easiest the best biography I've ever read, and I believe the first in the series won a Pulitzer prize

This is what I have. And I can't bring myself to play on here. It's just too slow. I would definitely reccomend getting something with a bit of a better CPU.

Edit: would help if I shared the link huh?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01B9APNG0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_P1lgybKD6M2B1

I recommend Europe: a History by Norman Davies

He really breaks down the European history in a refreshing manner. Instead of just addressing the great powers, like France, UK, Germany, Spain, etc, he goes in to depth on the lesser known, or at least less written about parts of Europe. Of course, there's plenty of discussion on those powers as well, but it's all put together in a unified tract which in a way makes sense of the calamity that is Europe's shared histories.

Was that game actually released?

I only played a demo back then, and it was great, but the AI would always get stuck with cargos in the hyperspace node.

Oh, and get this book, it's awesome. :D
http://www.amazon.com/My-Time-Among-Stars-Fading-ebook/dp/B00KQ2SMXE

1493: Uncovering the World Columbus Created is a great text on the effects that colonialism had on global economics, politics, and environmental changes. And it's well written.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307278247?pc_redir=1404825718&robot_redir=1

I'll give you two that I've enjoyed lately:

Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations talks about some states that you see in Eu4 like Aragon, Burgundy and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century takes you into the life of a French nobleman during the Hundred Years War. I'd check out pretty much anything else by Tuchman while you're at it.

Defenders of the Faith by James Reston. Charles V vs. Suleiman the Magnificent during the stirrings of the Reformation. One of the better histories of the time.

The Pursuit of Glory:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Pursuit-Glory-Revolutions-1648-1815/dp/0143113895

It's a huge book, but interesting reading, and begins by outlining tons of minute social, political, and economic changes leading up to the Napoleonic era. I found it one of the most climactic reads, as after a lot of minutia, then the end actually just walks you through historical events, all of which suddenly make tons of sense given the environment!

This is the one, by Peter H. Wilson. I skimmed through it one day while browsing in Barnes and ended up spending 40 minutes reading a chapter that goes into great detail about Gustavus Adolphus' military movements into northern germany. At that point, I figured I should probably pick it up!

I thoroughly enjoyed this one about Venice.