I've always promoted baliffs as soon as I can... I try to avoid raising war taxes unless it is necessary to raise the needed funds for the war as it also increases inflation. With pretty much every nation, land research should be the priority over anything else as thats what the other nations will be doing. Also if you have most of France and England then you should be able to run at between -2 and 0 and still make a good profit, at least thats been working for my Milan empire. If you have the Ile de France trade centre then I would concentrate on that one, not Flanders as that will disappear at some point to be replaced by a new Dutch one later on. Also Anglia should be a priority. Lately I've avoided trade centres unless I own them as in a war an advanced nation can block your access.
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Started another game and the most interesting point is that the Ottoman empire has become very large. They actually annexed Egypt and have taken most of Persia whilst also grabbing Samara before the Russians could grab it and holding the usual portion of the Balkans. I'm quite impressed since I've never seen the AI do so well although it could hurt me later as Russia can't go south or get to Siberia so they are trying to go west instead. 
Gelion
Retired Captain
What nation are you playing?
(+ who's that on your avy?
)
(+ who's that on your avy?
)
Gelion
Retired Captain
Have you tried the "Timurid" Empire (Last Mongolian state)? It is a fun game 
. Or Byzantine like I told you?
(who's that in your avy plz
)
. Or Byzantine like I told you?(who's that in your avy plz
)
Gelion
Retired Captain
Thanks . Never choose Catholosism, those guys never help you much . Do you have a pic of you last Byzantine game?
. Never choose Catholosism, those guys never help you much . Do you have a pic of you last Byzantine game?
Thanks for the tips Gelion.
Here is my current game:
BMP format: http://www.munzy.net/images/EU2/EU2_Derek_Austria_1514.bmp
And this is an artistic representation of my current game:
XCF format: [/url]http://www.munzy.net/images/EU2/EU2_Europe-Plasma001.xcf[/url]
And old game of mine where I was playing England:
BMP format: http://www.munzy.net/images/EU2/EU2_England_1490.bmp
Here is my current game:
BMP format: http://www.munzy.net/images/EU2/EU2_Derek_Austria_1514.bmp
And this is an artistic representation of my current game:
XCF format: [/url]http://www.munzy.net/images/EU2/EU2_Europe-Plasma001.xcf[/url]
And old game of mine where I was playing England:
BMP format: http://www.munzy.net/images/EU2/EU2_England_1490.bmp
Revolutionairy
President for life
whats with the artist picture? bit random....
How was it worked out?
How was it worked out?
Gelion
Retired Captain
Gelion
Retired Captain
Yeah I'm on the same tech level as top Western states there. Just annexed Kosovo and made Bosnia my vassal. On the verge of a big war with Austria. I have to win that one if I want to continue expanding and possibly existing. Austria is caught up in 4 big wars all ver Europe I'll just wait till it will start breaking apart and join in the fun. The big on in the East is Perisa. I have Russia and Moldovia (yey!) as my allies.
Btw here's a good tip I rememebred: If you convert a province to your Religion and it fails, go back to last autosave and wait again. Keep repeating untill the province does convert. For example it took me 5 reloads to get 25%-chance conversion done.
Btw here's a good tip I rememebred: If you convert a province to your Religion and it fails, go back to last autosave and wait again. Keep repeating untill the province does convert. For example it took me 5 reloads to get 25%-chance conversion done.
Gelion said:
Thats also kind of cheating... If something goes massively wrong then I can generally justify a reload but reloading for conversions seems abit odd... Although then again if it makes the game playable then I guess it is okay.
Gelion
Retired Captain
I agree its not completely honest, but I got used to doing that after 10(!) conversions failed in a aprx.30%-chance province.
Here's a question that I wanted to ask: How do you deal with Austria (no matter how small you are)? Seems to be the biggest threat in game.
Here's a question that I wanted to ask: How do you deal with Austria (no matter how small you are)? Seems to be the biggest threat in game.
Try playing inbetween Austria and France... Either way one will form a super empire. I guess Austria is easier to deal with since they start off small and if you hurt their eventual annexation targets then they can't get as large and also if you are at war with one of their diploannexation targets when their events trigger, apparently they no longer annex that nation so in some respects you can lessen their size but you need to be powerful enough and have the opportunities to take out those other nations before they become Austria.
One of the most frustrating things is watching one of the major nations expand away from you. In my current game I basically took out Bohemia and stopped Austria expanding northwest but then they went after Poland instead so they have still created a nation with a similar size to mine. In the same game I'm pretty much playing on fast most of the time now since unless I get a major tech advantage I can't see many opportunities for winning a European war unless I can get some major allies. The problem with that will be that France, Spain, Austria and Venice are all allied whilst I am allied to Sweden. I guess I could continue to expand my Ivory coast empire.
One of the most frustrating things is watching one of the major nations expand away from you. In my current game I basically took out Bohemia and stopped Austria expanding northwest but then they went after Poland instead so they have still created a nation with a similar size to mine. In the same game I'm pretty much playing on fast most of the time now since unless I get a major tech advantage I can't see many opportunities for winning a European war unless I can get some major allies. The problem with that will be that France, Spain, Austria and Venice are all allied whilst I am allied to Sweden. I guess I could continue to expand my Ivory coast empire.
What do you guys change when it comes to domestic policies? I have been trying to maximize my Technolog by going towards Centralization and Innovativeness. When I max those out I plan on raising the Quality of troops and going towards Free Subjects (trying to make super troops).
I used The Gimp to get the artistic rep. Yes, a little random but I though it was weird.
I used The Gimp to get the artistic rep. Yes, a little random but I though it was weird.
So far in my Bavaria game I have moved towards a centralised and innovative nation and then largely left the other sliders as they are since my nation is now quite large and has plenty of non core provinces so the stab -1 hit effects me alot more than at the start. In general I find that having land over navy is best since I usually only use the sea for transporting units.
Edit: For the first time in plenty of games I'm actually ahead of all my continental rivals in military techs although for some reason Sweden are another 5 techs ahead of me...
Edit: For the first time in plenty of games I'm actually ahead of all my continental rivals in military techs although for some reason Sweden are another 5 techs ahead of me...
