Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
I know I've only had this for a couple of days, but I don't think that I've ever played a game that seemed to so very deeply resent my attempts to play it. I must be doing something wrong.
It takes practice, certainly. I know when I first played it a couple months ago, I was extremely intimidated. But now I seem to have the hang of things.
Speaking of which, here's an update on my Byzantium game. As I stated, Byzantium would rise again! I realized that I was a good 10-20 tech levels over most of Europe so I started wars with various places, slowly capturing territory with my new vast army paid for by the riches of the Americas. Oh and I wasn't the only one that moved my capital to the new world! Venice relocated theirs to somewhere in Uruguay. I'm hesitant to try and reclaim territory under Milan for cascading alliances but I think I just need to create alliances of my own. I've been trying hard to get allied with Burgandy to distract Milan on their hometurf. Castille was stubborn with their territory but I eventually reclaimed the Aegean coast!
I've also been heavily colonizing America but my attempt to wall off North America from the other European powers was almost a success as you can see Castille in the Pacific Northwest. I however managed to secure the heartland. I think at this point, I'll drop the colonialism national idea.
I also captured and colonized parts of South Asia and New Zealand, securing the Centers of Trade for myself and colonizing Taiwan and the Philippines. I attempted to capture Kyoto's CoT but attrition got the best of me.
And here's a general overview
I held them off pretty well when I annexed Bulgaria.
I did something similar for a few nations that I had some heavy RP-ing with (the Normandy game was huge fun, might do it again in DW). Here are two that I could dig up on short notice (only relevant parts copied):
