Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Just played my first game from 1399 all the way to 1821 as Portugal (I formed Spain in 1815 though). Lots of very strange events happened. Austria and France both sucked at navies and had a century-ish long war where they barely did any fighting due to lack of land borders. Brazil formed in Western Africa, Haiti in Cuba, Venezulea in Turks & Caicos Islands, Lousiana in Ecuador and Central America, and England never annexed Scotland (which also did absolutely nothing for a few hundred years until Sweden and Scotland's Hudson Bay colonies turned into Canada and Scotland invaded from it's Laborador colony).
I was allied with Hindustan (you'll see why) and France (major land power, terrible navy).
North America:
Both Ireland and Siena were kicked out of Europe and ended up in the colonies.
Central & South America:
I also kicked Castille out of Iberia in the 1600s and they moved their Capital to Argentina (where they continued sucking).
East Asia:
I lost count of the amount of times France dragged me into yet another god damn war with Korea, and France did poorly in all of them and always seemed to take the worst regions (before attacking again 5 years later). They have also utterly failed to hold Vietnam.
The Japanese are all allied with each other and have done nothing since the 1600s, and yes that is Byzantium in the upper left. EDIT: Also, no freaking idea how Cyprus ended up with three regions from Korea.
Europe:
Austria has barely done anything since the 1500s, except gain and then lose Wallachia. Bohemia has been steadily growing, Ulm is doing nicely, Georgia exploded (they go all the way down to the Red Sea), and somehow Byzantium held on to all the land it took in Eastern Russia from the Golden Horde until the 1700s (and it has only lost about half of it's regions there).
EDIT: ALso Byzantium never annexed the Ottomans.
Also odd is that the Reformation was not very successful, a few German minors, England and Scotland are the only Protestant nations (and Canada), and Croatia and Aachen are the only Reformed nations. Also I am shocked that Algeria is still around (and my vassal for ~200 years despite completely ignoring them).
I was allied with Hindustan (you'll see why) and France (major land power, terrible navy).
North America:
Both Ireland and Siena were kicked out of Europe and ended up in the colonies.
Spoiler :
Central & South America:
I also kicked Castille out of Iberia in the 1600s and they moved their Capital to Argentina (where they continued sucking).
Spoiler :
East Asia:
I lost count of the amount of times France dragged me into yet another god damn war with Korea, and France did poorly in all of them and always seemed to take the worst regions (before attacking again 5 years later). They have also utterly failed to hold Vietnam.
The Japanese are all allied with each other and have done nothing since the 1600s, and yes that is Byzantium in the upper left. EDIT: Also, no freaking idea how Cyprus ended up with three regions from Korea.
Spoiler :
Europe:
Austria has barely done anything since the 1500s, except gain and then lose Wallachia. Bohemia has been steadily growing, Ulm is doing nicely, Georgia exploded (they go all the way down to the Red Sea), and somehow Byzantium held on to all the land it took in Eastern Russia from the Golden Horde until the 1700s (and it has only lost about half of it's regions there).
EDIT: ALso Byzantium never annexed the Ottomans.
Spoiler :
Also odd is that the Reformation was not very successful, a few German minors, England and Scotland are the only Protestant nations (and Canada), and Croatia and Aachen are the only Reformed nations. Also I am shocked that Algeria is still around (and my vassal for ~200 years despite completely ignoring them).
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