How is your EU3 Game going?

[Antilogic]

You say this as though any state in EU3 has consistent allies and as though any alliance can be reasonably construed as 'dependable' unless it involves two human players who are concurrently having sex with each other (though usually not at the same time).

Unless they are vassals, the alliance button is basically a -25 prestige button for somebody and a false sense of security.

 

[Tee Kay]

You say this as though any state in EU3 has consistent allies and as though any alliance can be reasonably construed as 'dependable' unless it involves two human players who are concurrently having sex with each other (though usually not at the same time).

While I grasp your point, the argument I'm trying to thrust forward is that the Ottoman Empire does suck particularly in this regard. Austria very often gang up with Bohemia and Poland on top of the Ottomans, with DotF Castile penetrating their nether regions, and not forgetting any nomadic hordes that come through the rear. The Ottomans has no one they can get together with, since all their potential mates are either too far away or too weak too help.

The AI doesn't have a solid grasp on handling multi-front wars in this game, which is the big contributor to the diplomatic problem you outlined above.

Yes, definitely, and the Ottomans are more prone to multi-front defeat than others, for all the reasons I've outlined previously.

Unless they are vassals, the alliance button is basically a -25 prestige button for somebody and a false sense of security.

Well, I had a couple of Ottoman games where I maintained my alliance with France for several centuries.

 

[Tee Kay]

What the start of the Grand Campaign will look like in the Balkans in my mod...

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Austro-hungarian Sandzak looks to big, give a bit to montenegro and serbia

 

[Tee Kay]

Austro-hungarian Sandzak looks to big, give a bit to montenegro and serbia

Serbia and Montenegro controlled no parts of the Sandzak in 1900 AFAIK. It was under Austro-Hungarian occupation, though not annexed, and given back to the Ottoman Empire in 1908, before being partitioned between S and M in 1912.

(Edits: or do you mean that Sandzak is too big? Yes, I think so too, I'll fix it.)

 

[NedimNapoleon]

The upper is correct but I meant the lower.

 

[Dachs]

Bohemia looks horrible but that's an artifact of the EU3 map and how it fists Central and Eastern Europe in the ass

 

[Antilogic]

Bohemia looks horrible but that's an artifact of the EU3 map and how it fists Central and Eastern Europe in the ass

I'm fairly certain it is impossible for the English language to be used to communicate this idea more crudely or effectively.

 

[civ_king]

Bohemia looks horrible but that's an artifact of the EU3 map and how it fists Central and Eastern Europe in the ass

My parents just came in and checked to see what the hell all the laughing was about.

 

[Optical]

13 years away from actually completing a game! Which is an even more impressive feat considering how awful my comp is at running games

 

[Tee Kay]

South America!

Spoiler :

 

[W|M]

Those Brazilian provinces (and, incidentally, probably a lot of the rest of the South American provinces) are completely inaccurate, and have messed up borders, especially Mato Grosso and Maranhão.

 

[uat2d]

Tierra del Fuego also seems poorly done.

 

[Duke of Britain]

I don't know why people think you can't depend on AI allies...

They almost never betray me, now if you always have massive infamy and never built a good trust with them...then they can and WILL betray you someday. (Once i had France help me in a lot of dogpiles...)

 

[Antilogic]

I don't know why people think you can't depend on AI allies...

They almost never betray me, now if you always have massive infamy and never built a good trust with them...then they can and WILL betray you someday. (Once i had France help me in a lot of dogpiles...)

You usually have to honor their calls before they will even think about honoring yours. That, and they are more likely to honor calls now than in previous versions of the game.

 

[uat2d]

I've had England breaking the alliance, refusing to join me in my war vs Castille (was Portugal) and DoWing me with +200 relations, military access both ways and royal marriage. It said they trusted me intrinsically (they had called for my help some 10 times already and I always joined to help them).

Afterwards, I never again joined an alliance. The only alliance I'm willing to have is with vassals.

 

[Yeekim]

20th century, roughly.

How did you get the idea of making a 20th century mod for EU3?

 

[cardgame]

My allies always run away if I declare first

 

[SouthernKing]

How many people have seen an even remotely successful AI Ottomans? Hell, I am impressed if they manage to capture Istanbul in the 1356 start.

I have seen pretty powerful Ottomans in 1356, able to overpower the Eretnids/Candar/Ramazan/other Turkish states by 1400.

 

[Quintillus]

Overall I've had decent luck with allies honoring my calls to war. Occasionally they don't, but most of the time it's because they were recently owned themselves, have huge war weariness, or something like that. In the most recent case, my ally had both been owned and had huge war weariness, and the new enemy was super-powerful. I wouldn't have haplessly tried to help in their shoes, either.

Edit: Forgot to mention it was a defensive war . It would have been incredibly foolish for me to start that war at that time.