How is your EU3 Game going?

[SouthernKing]

I forgot to take a screenie, but I commissioned a national epic, and the message that came up said "In Vijaynagar's hour of darkness, (Regency Council) will come back to lead the nation."

Probably fairly common, but I still lol'd.

 

[sophie]

Not in a situation like this, but when they were really losing the war and had to concede the peace the enemy wanted.

No, in a situation like this.

 

[W|M]

I forgot to take a screenie, but I commissioned a national epic, and the message that came up said "In Vijaynagar's hour of darkness, (Regency Council) will come back to lead the nation."

Probably fairly common, but I still lol'd.

In MEIOU, I did the same thing with my first leader (Edward III) in my England game, and it said the Old Ruler instead of Edward II.

 

[Duke of Britain]

No, in a situation like this.

If you didn't read he just gave away territory of his allies for free, at least this is how i interpreted it.

in Real life the Bohemian king would never agree to that

 

[Traitorfish]

Always wondered why Gaelic writing systems are seemingly so crazily unphonetic. I mean, for example, the spelling of names like Caoimhghín (Kevin), Deasmhumhnach (Desmond), Conchobar (Conor), Cuileán (Collin), Eoghainín (Owen), Cainneach (Kenny) have almost no correlation to how they actually sound, according to Latin alphabet we all know and love. In this regard the Gaels managed to outdo even the French. All in all, it's sorta cool and adds that bit of a national flavour. But is there any popularity in Gaelic world for the idea of spelling simplification?

You're mistaken- the Gaelic languages are entirely phonetic, far more so than English. It's just that on the one hand what constitutes phonetic spelling varies from language to language (it even varies slightly between Ireland and Scotland), and on the other that the Gaels are traditionally very particular about the subtleties of their languages, and so can produce quite complicated spellings. Once you pick up the phonology it rolls right off your tongue (although I could only take a stab at it myself, and even then I get mixed up between the Scottish and Irish).

(And, for the record "Eoghainín" is actually "Ewan" (technically "Ewanan", but these days it's usually given as "Eoghan", i.e. Ewan)- it's cognate to the Welsh-rooted "Owen" ("Owain"), but not identical.)

 

[Veles]

Hmm... Perhaps "phonetic" isn't a correct word here. By phonetic I mean one letter represent one sound. If it's entirely phonetic why so many unpronounced vowels? Why no "v"? Is it "bhodca"?

 

[Traitorfish]

Hmm... Perhaps "phonetic" isn't a correct word here. By phonetic I mean one letter represent one sound. If it's entirely phonetic why so many unpronounced vowels? Why no "v"? Is it "bhodca"?

Ah, well, this is what I meant by "subtleties". In Gaelic orthography (which is what I meant before instead of "phonology", getting myself muddled, sorry), clusters of letters, and particularly vowels, are used to specify specific pronunciations that in English would largely be implicit. It can be more complicated, but it leaves less to intuition or, as the case may be, outright guessing. (You'll actually find something similar being used to in Lowland Scots to indicate vowels, although not with quite the same thoroughness.)

And, yeah, for some reason the Gaelic languages only use the letter "v" at the beginning of words. Otherwise it's "bh". I'm not really sure what the particular logic of that is.

 

[Veles]

I see. Well, I never understood that overcomplication with so many vowels. I think it's logical that one symbol represents one sound, that's the initial idea behind the alphabet ffs. Though ancient Gaelic books written in Irish Minuscule script, with so many vowels and without "k"s and "v"s, sure look pretty cool.

You guys should really try out Cyrillic alphabet for your language sometime It's perfectly phonetic and have symbols for pretty much any sound you can produce.

Joking aside, I actually find the phonetics and pronounciation of Gaeilge to be more similiar to that of Slavic languages rather than English. Unlike the latter you, for example, have proper "r" and "h" and a sound, which in Cyrillic is denoted as "ы" and in Turkish as "ı" (sounds as Uí in Uí Néill) which no native English speaker can evar pronounce.

The most phonetic language I know of is definately Belarusian. Zei rait vords in Sairilik laik dat, i.e. ekzaktli hau zei hir it, samtaims it's sou hailarius for eh Rashan spiker tu rid

 

[Duke of Britain]

Wow, as Austria in SRI i just got a PU with Bohemia in 1405
i had just finished a war with Milan because of my mission, then claimed Gorz throne...when i saw the PU pop-up i was thinking it was Gorz, but no, i saw Bohemia CoA
and guess who became HRE? Palatinate.

EDIT :

guess what, portugal claims Hungary throne after they get defeated by GH (lost no provinces, just released transylvania frmo vassalization) and 2 months after it...Portugal leads PU with Hungary!

EDIT 2 :

wow, GH claimed the throne of the Timurids!
it would be interesting to see a reborn Mongol Empire, even if not nowhere near Mongolia or their greatest extent, it would be still massive!

 

[Optical]

Vijayanagar--->Hindustan, 1526:

Vassals are Gujarat, Orissa, Assam, Deva Bengal and Nepal. That thing in the middle of my lovely empire is Bundelkhand, with whom I have a truce

 

[cardgame]

dat manchu in SEA o.O

 

[Optical]

They've got Manchuria as well

 

[NBAfan]

Wow, as Austria in SRI i just got a PU with Bohemia in 1405
i had just finished a war with Milan because of my mission, then claimed Gorz throne...when i saw the PU pop-up i was thinking it was Gorz, but no, i saw Bohemia CoA
and guess who became HRE? Palatinate.

EDIT :

guess what, portugal claims Hungary throne after they get defeated by GH (lost no provinces, just released transylvania frmo vassalization) and 2 months after it...Portugal leads PU with Hungary!

EDIT 2 :

wow, GH claimed the throne of the Timurids!
it would be interesting to see a reborn Mongol Empire, even if not nowhere near Mongolia or their greatest extent, it would be still massive!

That's pretty nice. Just wait for the reformation to hit and the Bohemia provinces convert to the wrong religion.

 

[Duke of Britain]

In my Austria game i've managed to inherit Brandenburg and Gorz
Brandenburg was awesome, no claims or anything like that, and then, from nothing, i inherit them! i had no PU with them before that, i also inherited the elector status

Oh, Scandinavia formed, Ottos collapsed against a imperial crusade when Hungary called for my help (Ottos 100% WS against them, idk why no peace was made) and Muscowy is slowly growing.
Baden ruler died whiout heir and their interregnum asked to be added to the imperial desmene, i accepted.

later i post pics, need to go to bed

 

[Ashurdan]

In settings, what does spread of land and spread of sea mean?

 

[Optical]

I was under the impression it had to do with the spped you 'naturally' discovered provinces, without doing anything, but I could be wrong.

 

[Antilogic]

In settings, what does spread of land and spread of sea mean?

How fast you will learn about those types of provinces if a neighbor in your tech group explores them. Basically, it gives a lead time to the nations that get 'Quest for a New World' and start exploring and colonizing on their own. So, if the spread is 50 years, and Portugal discovers Bermuda in 1470, other west Europeans will discover the province and see it on their maps in 1520.

My Burgundy game has become a massive colonial grind. Claimed most of North America up to the Mississippi River (except for the Gulf Coast), also whacking random Indian nations to build up an empire there (currently waiting for infamy to drop and embassy to disappear to annex Mysore). A simple glance at the ruler history indicates that under my good emperors over the last 70 years (Jean III, Joseph I, Louis-Joseph I), I've been gaining roughly 2-3 provinces per year with low infamy.

 

[Civ'ed]

EDIT 2 :

wow, GH claimed the throne of the Timurids!
it would be interesting to see a reborn Mongol Empire, even if not nowhere near Mongolia or their greatest extent, it would be still massive!

You're screwed.
Everyone knows a GH-Timurid nation destroys the whole world in a eyeblink.

 

[Bowsling]

If you didn't read he just gave away territory of his allies for free, at least this is how i interpreted it.

in Real life the Bohemian king would never agree to that

No, I haven't done that yet. I realized it would be a convenient way to kill two birds with one stone - end the war, reduce Bohemia's territory, and straddle Austria with a crapload of infamy.

And, of course, I have already reloaded it a couple of times, because I would keep sending my army down to Franken (which is isolated from the rest of Brunswick, I tok it from Bavaria, and also borders Austria in Sudety), and have it annihilated anytime an Austrian army of considerable size decided my army was annoying them.

 

[Tee Kay]

You're screwed.
Everyone knows a GH-Timurid nation destroys the whole world in a eyeblink.

They can't as long as they're stuck in Steppe Horde government.