How is your EU3 Game going?
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Colonial separatists are a funny thing in EU3, they rarely show up where you expect them and often don't control contiguous territories.
In my game, Burgundy moved it's capital to somewhere in its Mali colony and lost all its European possessions. Venice did the same, but moved to Argentina instead. Portugal, the usual guilty party, has maintained stable relations with Spain and hasn't been sacked (yet). There really should be some rule about switching continents for your capitals.
In my game, Burgundy moved it's capital to somewhere in its Mali colony and lost all its European possessions. Venice did the same, but moved to Argentina instead. Portugal, the usual guilty party, has maintained stable relations with Spain and hasn't been sacked (yet). There really should be some rule about switching continents for your capitals.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Well, there is historical precedent for it.
Only one, as far as I know. And it tends to happen not during the Napoleonic Wars, but literally centuries before.
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I've seen that happen, too.
My Iroquois game ended in Danish fire and brimstone.
Spoiler The Iroquois Story :
In my next game, the Ottomans have legitimately been doing very well, certainly a power to rival France and Bohemia, the other two great powers. Unfortunately, I happen to be playing Athens in this game, meaning I'm right next door. My tech has also suffered due to the strain of wars and rebellions - though Venice has been my primary foil, not the Ottomans. But, learning from last time, I beelined to Land Tech 18 once the Ottomans were getting close, and got there within a month of them.
Spoiler :
Bohemia has been HRE for most of the game, and has some nice northern Italian holdings that they gained by inheriting Milan. They've also kept Austria in check, which I like. The Horde did a nice job of keeping Russia down, and later Sibir finished the job, leading to Lithuania and Sweden dominating the north, and the Ottomans moving north. The Mamluks were powerful, but have been owned by the Ottomans a couple times. At one time they had Candari territory (the Ottomans start pretty weak in 1402, with multiple rebellions), and controlling basically the entire east coast of Africa and most of Arabia. They are at war with the Ottomans again now, as well as Tripoli, who is in a personal union with the Ottomans. Yes, they are scary neighbors. Vijaynagar avoided collapse and formed Hindustan, and for awhile Khmer was strong in southeast Asia. Brunei has done well the whole game.
Aragon regained independence after Spain got owned by France not too long ago. Riga declared war opportunistically on the Teutonic Order to raise to some prominence, though they were vassals of Lithuania for a few months earlier this decade (Bohemia then owned Lithuania, who does still have a vassal in Muscowy. Lithuania is also Land Tech 17, which probably led to Prussia, Bohemia, and the Ottomans all fighting them. They did defeat Prussia).
In the New World, Portuguese Inca, British Maya, and Spanish North America are big. Galicia and Parma have a few colonies on the American east coast - presumably conquered during wars. France took a few Mutapan provinces, but otherwise has no colonies - Sweden is the blue in West Africa and the New World.
I fought two wars with the Ottomans. In the 1540's, I Liberum Veto attacked them, but was owned by their superior troops. My navy and the Portuguese navy combined to destroy theirs, however, and the monarchy ruled from Crete while a total naval blockade was executed. Surprisingly, the Ottomans agreed to a white peace - the blockade apparently was quite effective. Achaea, my former ally, was annexed in the war, however. In the second war, in the 1560's, I took advantage of the Ottoman army fighting the Mamluks, blockaded the Dardanelles and trapped their navy in Istanbul, and marched on their western lands with my far inferior army. They had no troops in Europe, and I was winning until an Ottoman army marched north of the Baltic to stop me. I'd forgotten they were still at war with the Horde, and could march through their lands to fight me. Still, I got out of it by paying a measly 25 ducats, and Istanbul was spared a sacking by a few months.
I have been allied with Sweden for decades, through thick and thin. I used to be allied with Portugal, but then they fought Sweden and I sided with Sweden's stronger navy. Lithuania is a new ally, and Wallachia has been since after the latest Ottoman war. Naples is my current Italian ally, but I've been switching between them, the Pope, and Ferrara (now conquered) all game. Greece, who controls Naxos (which defected to Urbino due to religion and then went independent), is my vassal. I am Catholic, despite a mainly Reformed country at one point. The diplomatic benefits of it have been worth it, and I even became Papal Controller once, but they haven't been easy.
I went with National Bank as my first idea, and even so inflation has been bad. Press Gangs was my second and allowed me to build a huge army, three times my forcelimit size, but I dropped it for Superior Seamanship so that my technologically inferior navy could still best the Ottomans even without Portuguese help. Grand Navy was my third idea, with the clear pattern that though I don't stand a chance of besting their army, with a superior navy I can keep most of their army at bay.
You should put that on a t-shirt. 
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SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Unconfirmed reports (from a MMtG beta tester) that Magna Mundi will price at $/€ 19.99. I will continue to gather info and deliver it here.
Bowsling
Deity
Ooh my. Is that a WC?
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Blue Emu
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I got an awesome start in my current Austria game.
It's still very early in the game (only about ten years in), but already things look promising. My very first mission was "Italian Ambitions", adding the wealthy territories of Verona, Brescia and Cremona to my country and giving me cores on them. Taking this swath of territory also crippled my Italian rival Milan.
My second mission, "Subjugate Burgundy", had a lot of promise, but had to be put on hold since they were allied at the time with the HRE Bohemia and with Hungary... I don't think I would have been able to deal with all three at once.
Hungary was in the running for HRE Emperor (with five of the seven Electors willing to support them), but then ruined their chances by engaging in an ambitious spree of "Claim Throne" spam... claiming three thrones in the same year (including that of HRE Bohemia) destroyed their relations with the Electors... and left six of the Electors supporting me instead, even though I had not made any diplomatic moves to win support.
The incumbent HRE Emperor providentially chose that moment to die, leaving the title to me. Burgundy expanded in a series of wars against the Rhineland states, fighting off interventions from the Scandinavian alliance and running up their war exhaustion... but Bohemia and Hungary held to their Burgundian alliance so I continued waiting for a favorable chance to attack.
While I was biding my time, France attacked Province and my HRE mandate dragged me into a brutal war against the French alliance. The indecisive but mutually destructive battles drained the French manpower and ran their war exhaustion up over 15 points, after which the tide turned in my favor.
The French war continues... I hope to occupy enough of France to force a favorable peace. I will try to balkanize them, liberating Dauphine and perhaps Languedoc or Champaigne as well.
I will have to balance this aspiration against my Burgundian ambitions, though... because Brugundy has finally declared one war too many, and both Bohemia and Hungary have abandoned their Burgundian alliance. Hungary has even entered the war against them. If the war with France can be finished quickly, now would be a good time to attempt to subjugate Burgundy.
So all in all, a very favorable situation. I have added three rich Italian provinces to my domains, crippled Milan, ascended to the HRE throne, and I am in the process of crippling France, perhaps with Burgundy to follow. That would put me in a very strong position... all within the first ten years of the game.
It's still very early in the game (only about ten years in), but already things look promising. My very first mission was "Italian Ambitions", adding the wealthy territories of Verona, Brescia and Cremona to my country and giving me cores on them. Taking this swath of territory also crippled my Italian rival Milan.
My second mission, "Subjugate Burgundy", had a lot of promise, but had to be put on hold since they were allied at the time with the HRE Bohemia and with Hungary... I don't think I would have been able to deal with all three at once.
Hungary was in the running for HRE Emperor (with five of the seven Electors willing to support them), but then ruined their chances by engaging in an ambitious spree of "Claim Throne" spam... claiming three thrones in the same year (including that of HRE Bohemia) destroyed their relations with the Electors... and left six of the Electors supporting me instead, even though I had not made any diplomatic moves to win support.
The incumbent HRE Emperor providentially chose that moment to die, leaving the title to me. Burgundy expanded in a series of wars against the Rhineland states, fighting off interventions from the Scandinavian alliance and running up their war exhaustion... but Bohemia and Hungary held to their Burgundian alliance so I continued waiting for a favorable chance to attack.
While I was biding my time, France attacked Province and my HRE mandate dragged me into a brutal war against the French alliance. The indecisive but mutually destructive battles drained the French manpower and ran their war exhaustion up over 15 points, after which the tide turned in my favor.
The French war continues... I hope to occupy enough of France to force a favorable peace. I will try to balkanize them, liberating Dauphine and perhaps Languedoc or Champaigne as well.
I will have to balance this aspiration against my Burgundian ambitions, though... because Brugundy has finally declared one war too many, and both Bohemia and Hungary have abandoned their Burgundian alliance. Hungary has even entered the war against them. If the war with France can be finished quickly, now would be a good time to attempt to subjugate Burgundy.
So all in all, a very favorable situation. I have added three rich Italian provinces to my domains, crippled Milan, ascended to the HRE throne, and I am in the process of crippling France, perhaps with Burgundy to follow. That would put me in a very strong position... all within the first ten years of the game.
madviking
north american scum
arrrrgghhhhhhhhhhhh the Wheeling Convention was a GYP!
Update on my mod: here are the US revolters
So the USA is united, but these are the potential nations that could appear through revolution/force-released as the result of wars?
Yepyep.
It's not shown here, but several of the claims will overlap (eg CSA and Five Nations in Oklahoma)
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
trying to figure out what that tiny nation is...
Duke of Britain
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I say Brazil, Mexico and Canada unite and eat teh US remains alive 
