How is your EU3 Game going?

[Antilogic]

Having not played as a Turkish minor, I can't give very specific advice. However, sounds like you have a decent base that you should be able to consolidate around. Although the Ottomans appear powerful now, they generally run into trouble within a few decades, so keep your eyes out for an opportunity to steal a few provinces. You are only 3 years in, if you don't see any opportunities immediately try building up your trade and waiting for a few years.

Since the big Turks have cores on you (and it sounds like you are spoiling for a fight), I would retain my military NIs. National Conscripts is very powerful for small nations since you are likely manpower-poor, and if you get into a fight with a major power, you will need the replacements.

 

[Blue Emu]

... National Conscripts is very powerful for small nations...

True. There are several large nations (such as the Golden Horde) that start with the National Conscripts NI and have little practical use for it; they would be well advised to switch to something more useful. But for a smaller nation, it works very well.

 

[Antilogic]

Yeah, there was nothing I hated more than winning a few big defensive battles as a minor against a major but still losing the war because I run out of replacements. National Conscripts has saved my bacon more times than I can count.

Late-game, especially if I become a major territorial power and I have plenty of reserves, I typically replace it with a late-game NI immediately when it becomes available. I've started taking a liking to switching into the Regimental System (or whatever it's called) that cuts your military maintenance. Picking that up with Cabinet the moment you hit the required techs is awesome for the warmonger.

 

[Duke of Britain]

Regimental System is awesome
In my Brazil game with a random map i would have been dead in maintance had it not been for my sliders and that NI...and my income was massive

Anyway, anyone knows where i can upload a 12mb gif? photobucket freezes the progress at 94% for some reason...
Or could anyone try to make it smaller?

 

[Bowsling]

National Conscripts can be useful for bigger nations, too. It allows you to go further and further along the Quantity slider.

Could someone explain me this?

Spoiler :

Where is Sardinia anyway?

 

[Optical]

I thought that was them in the southern half of Sardinia.

 

[Antilogic]

National Conscripts can be useful for bigger nations, too. It allows you to go further and further along the Quantity slider.

I tend to prefer the Quality side of that myself. I usually like to get the Recruiting Act, I think, that requires Quantity to be at +1, then I shift back towards Quality, as close to -4 as possible to get the Fire bonus on my leaders.

 

[aronnax]

France is frustrating me in my current Milan game.

In my first war against France, France invaded me for Lombardia.
I mobilised my rag-tag team of allies and a couple of my allies' allies joined in.

So it was me, Milan + my vassals, Venice and Ferrara, with Allies, Bavaria, Mantua, Branderburg, Austria (as HRE) and Genoa, just rushed in to the Alps and slowly smashed through army after army. I was able to chip France's war capacity to 8% and had a war score of 27% when I made peace with her, ceding the province that bordered me to Mantua and freeing Toulouse.

Now 5 years has passed and she declared war on Toulouse. I tried to defend Toulouse but she always gives in before I can save her. Castile also can't defeat France due to France's insane generals.

Maybe I should just like Toulouse fall and save myself the trouble...

Current Progress:


I hope to take Sicily and Naples by 1489 (waiting for the Emperor to die). I'm not planning on taking anymore HRE provinces so I can leave the Empire in 1489, when Firense becomes a core.

Screenshots from my game.

An angel sent by God to help me crush the French. He ruled for 26 years and fought for most of the war against France. His greatest achievement has to be killing the French King in a massive battle. He died in battle later, about 4 months before the war was concluded on Milanese terms.



Isn't this disgusting? The union of these states makes Poland the richest, largest and the most powerful country in Europe. Brandenburg is flanked from both sides by it. It's worse than France if you ask me. I hope Muscovy and the Golden Horde takes it down.

In the background, you can see me fight France for a second time, this time against a General-King with 11 points

 

[Optical]

What does Poland look like on the map?

 

[uat2d]

Where is Sardinia anyway?

I thought that was them in the southern half of Sardinia.

The island of Sardinia is shared between Savoy and France, Sardinia currently only owns Treviso and Venice.

 

[Optical]

Think anyone'll notice?

 

[aronnax]

What does Poland look like on the map?

Makes me sick looking at it.

 

[Arakhor]

Looks impressive, Arronax!

 

[uat2d]

That's not such a nasty Poland, here's mine from the game of the Sardinia in Venice game:

Spoiler :

If they declared, I don't think I'd ever be able to hold them off without Iberia.

 

[aronnax]

Looks impressive, Arronax!

That isn't my handy work, that's the AI on an inheritance spree!

That's not such a nasty Poland, here's mine from the game of the Sardinia in Venice game:

If they declared, I don't think I'd ever be able to hold them off without Iberia.

Give the Poland in my timeline another 130 years, maybe it'll be just as frightening.

 

[Duke of Britain]

Anyway, anyone knows where i can upload a 12mb gif? photobucket freezes the progress at 94% for some reason...
Or could anyone try to make it smaller?

No one can help me there?

 

[Tee Kay]

I think DeviantArt might support a gif that size.

 

[Quintillus]

Is GIF really the smallest-size format for the file? I find it's actually somewhat rare for GIF to be the smallest.

Those are some impressive Polands. I'm a fan, personally - ought to be a nice, competitive eastern European power!

 

[Optical]

Which usually ends up being Austria

 

[civ_king]

Has anyone noticed that in D&T the easiest country to form Belgium with is Burgundy?

If you follow the missions you get 7 Wallonian provinces, 5 Burgundian provinces, 5 Flemish provinces, move capital to Wallonian province and culture shift or if you want Flemish make sure to get Brabant first and then move capital to Antwerp plus culture shift. Burgundian missions actually give you all the cores you need to form it