I've been playing several different empires recently but I keep on ending up restarting for one reason or another.
My first reasonable game ever was as the Ottomans and after quite a long time playing I had established a large empire but then I was miles behind in technology so the game became less appealing to play since I could only potentially expan east and that meant Persia. The alternates were an advanced Austria that had been pushed back past Venice or a huge Russia
Next was a game as England where I had all of France as well as all of the UK bar parts of Ireland, Holland, parts of West Germany/Switzerland, southern Norway, Mexico, Parts of the US, the beginnings of an empire in Africa after wars with the nations below Morrocco and a string of colonies all the way to India but then the game got dull because there was nothing left to do except to keep on colonising and deal with rebellions...
Then there was the game as Russia which you can read about in another thread. A large Russian empire was formed and after achieving the target there wasn't much motivation to continue especially as the last time I loaded tthe game I got a load of rebellions in the south which I could have eventually destroyed but its not a great start.
Sweden was the next empire to be formed and I might play the game again but ultimately I had succeeded in largely uniting Scandanavia except for one or two provinces and had also stopped Russia from forming but I had no real targets left to fight and couldn't afford to start a new war anyway.
Saxony was the diplomatic game where after winning an opening war, the rest of the game consisted of a series of diplomatic annexations until I had formed a reasonably large empire but then found myself as the weaker empire when compared to either of the two big neighbours, Austria and France who were both more advanced and kept on allying which each other. One day I might play it again and think about trying to conquer the north but again the yearly rebellions kind of put me off reloading especially when war weariness and stability have always been positive.
Gujarat was the next challenge but after forming a nice empire stretching from Persia to the east where I owned northern India I once again reached a point where I just didn't want to progress because all that was left was to sit back and wait for loans to be paid off and my reputation to heal...
Recently I've been playing as Venice. I now realise just how important reputation can be. After largely uniting Italy and gaining Greece and Constantinople I have gone through a series of continuous wars. After diplomatically annexing Tuscany, I have faced a minor invasion from England, then Spain, then Austria and allies, then Spain and Aragorn, then a huge rebellion as a result of the last war and just as that was beginning to be cleared up, Hungary and allies declared war... I'm thinking about putting the difficulty and aggression down to their lowest levels to see if there is any way of stopping the continuous wars...
My first reasonable game ever was as the Ottomans and after quite a long time playing I had established a large empire but then I was miles behind in technology so the game became less appealing to play since I could only potentially expan east and that meant Persia. The alternates were an advanced Austria that had been pushed back past Venice or a huge Russia
Next was a game as England where I had all of France as well as all of the UK bar parts of Ireland, Holland, parts of West Germany/Switzerland, southern Norway, Mexico, Parts of the US, the beginnings of an empire in Africa after wars with the nations below Morrocco and a string of colonies all the way to India but then the game got dull because there was nothing left to do except to keep on colonising and deal with rebellions...
Then there was the game as Russia which you can read about in another thread. A large Russian empire was formed and after achieving the target there wasn't much motivation to continue especially as the last time I loaded tthe game I got a load of rebellions in the south which I could have eventually destroyed but its not a great start.
Sweden was the next empire to be formed and I might play the game again but ultimately I had succeeded in largely uniting Scandanavia except for one or two provinces and had also stopped Russia from forming but I had no real targets left to fight and couldn't afford to start a new war anyway.
Saxony was the diplomatic game where after winning an opening war, the rest of the game consisted of a series of diplomatic annexations until I had formed a reasonably large empire but then found myself as the weaker empire when compared to either of the two big neighbours, Austria and France who were both more advanced and kept on allying which each other. One day I might play it again and think about trying to conquer the north but again the yearly rebellions kind of put me off reloading especially when war weariness and stability have always been positive.
Gujarat was the next challenge but after forming a nice empire stretching from Persia to the east where I owned northern India I once again reached a point where I just didn't want to progress because all that was left was to sit back and wait for loans to be paid off and my reputation to heal...
Recently I've been playing as Venice. I now realise just how important reputation can be. After largely uniting Italy and gaining Greece and Constantinople I have gone through a series of continuous wars. After diplomatically annexing Tuscany, I have faced a minor invasion from England, then Spain, then Austria and allies, then Spain and Aragorn, then a huge rebellion as a result of the last war and just as that was beginning to be cleared up, Hungary and allies declared war... I'm thinking about putting the difficulty and aggression down to their lowest levels to see if there is any way of stopping the continuous wars...
