How is your EU3 Game going?

[Rub'Rum]

Don't take the missions too seriously, cancel them if they're too bad, otherwise just mind your own business until the opportunity comes along.

It's not just the missions, I realized a lot of my original goals were just going to make research impossible for centuries and increase colonization costs through the roof. So basically, maybe these goals could be achieved... On very easy. So basically, only way for a playable game was forming Russia. I sort of gave up on that game, in 1480, my Muscovy friend had grown over the Golden Horde and decided I was next target.

Novgorod is a merchant republic, so much for royal marriage hehe.

 

[T_F]

MMU IS AWESOME.

Austria game, 1510. I somehow managed to inherit Hungary when my last heir came of age (who is a beast at 8/9/5, even if I did find him in the reeds by a river). The Burgundian succession event happened to fire like six months after I finished up a long and bloody war with them, which I found rather humorous. (I accidentally loaned Baden to Alsace because I was clicking through the 'build road' province decisions and one of them wasn't.)
My Imperial authority skyrocketed from like 57 to 92 after a nice little liberation war against Brandenburg. I got to join like 6 Hungarian provinces into the Empire the instant I inherited them.

Currently the top 4 armies are France, Russia, my new neighbors the Ottomans, and me. I'm building up, though, since my forcelimit is like 120-something. (For whatever strange reason Aragón is a great power and I'm not.)

The only really weird things have been Connacht in a PU under Castilla, and Tyrone being annexed by Aragón. And Poland's doing a good job of Catholicizing all of those Russian provinces it inherited from Lithuania. (Oh, and I had a PU over Wallachia that lasted about a week - since they were half-occupied by the Ottomans and I didn't come to their rescue, I guess they decided they were better off without me.)

 

[Joecoolyo]

I would, only if I could find my screenshots folder. Ever since I reinstalled EU3 I cannot find the darn thing...

Found it! It took forever, but I found it.

Now the map you requested!

The Known World, Circa 1550-something

As you can obviously tell, I'm the HRE. But what you can't tell, I'll explain here.

The borers for my nation I have now are basically the same exact one's I got when I formed the HRE, except for areas of Prussia, Poland, Western Coast of France, Spain, Denmark, and parts of England (which I annexed from my vassal, the Papal State).

Other interesting tidbits:

-That is England in Spain
-That is Denmark in Sweden
-That isn't Greece, it's the Byzantines, they revolted and came back after a massive collapse of the Ottomans, and grew to their current size during a massive power vacuum in the region (after the collapse)
-Out of that same collapse came Bulgaria (the only other Balkans state left)
-Out of that same collapse, Candar revolted and took all of Turkey (except for the part Portugal owns)
-The Ottomans are now a OPM on far eastern Turkey (I think that's where Armenia would be)
-Freisland is the one survivor of the formation of HRE, but they're not going to last all that long

 

[remake20]

My current game as Leinster. I'm less than 10 years in, but with such a bad start I'm doin so much better than I thought I would. Sorry for the heck load of screenies. My goal right now is to form Ireland, and then maybe go for England. The battle for Munster and the battle that sent the Munster troops off were both battles I won, but lost more troops, so i had some luck. That may have something to do with the very easy difficulty, but I don't know. I think this is my last game at that level.

Spoiler :

I haven't played a lot in this game so far, but to take over Ireland in less than 10 years would be something. Sorry I don't have the world map thing, but oh well. You guys have anything for me?


EDIT: Two questions. One, if I am allied with England and so is Scotland, if I declare war on Scotland, who will England join? Two, how do you become HRE?

 

[Hakim]

I don't know.

IIRC the only slider which is always better in one of the directions is the centralization slider - towards centralization. At least in In Nomine. Afaik, the only reason to move it towards decentralization is the potential for stability increase if you really need it.

 

[NBAfan]

Joecoolyo, how do you make the maps look like that?

 

[T_F]

I don't know.

IIRC the only slider which is always better in one of the directions is the centralization slider - towards centralization. At least in In Nomine. Afaik, the only reason to move it towards decentralization is the potential for stability increase if you really need it.

The thing with Centralization vs Decentralization is that moving it to Centralization is guaranteed better modifiers, but a 100% chance of a one-time bad event (stability loss, large revolt, etc); and moving it to Decentralization has worse modifiers but a 100% chance of a one-time good event (stability gain, loss of inflation, etc). If your country is doing awesomely with +3 stab and a whole lot of money, move towards Centralized; if your country is in dire straits move towards Decentralized.

@remake20: AFAIK the only really successful Ireland strategies involve trading like crap to help you discover and colonize the New World fast, moving your capital there and letting England take Ireland over, and then once you've built up a nice American empire coming back and taking back what is rightfully yours. You might want to keep that in mind.
(And HRE - if you're in the Empire, being powerful and having a lot of electors like you will probably do it (especially if the current Emperor is failing), but outside I have no idea - I'd like to know just as much how that happens.)

 

[Joecoolyo]

Joecoolyo, how do you make the maps look like that?

Blood, sweat, and a whole lotta tears

Oh, and this.

 

[remake20]

I still don't know how to send troops across ocean can someone please help?

 

[T_F]

Put em on a transport (i.e. move the transport into a coastal sea zone, then move your troops on it) and go.

If it's unexplored, you'll have to get the Quest for the New World national idea and an explorer (NOT conquistador). You should probably send a couple of caravels with him attached as your first exploring party (i.e. don't explore with your transports - you'll lose a whole lot if attrition gets you). When you explore, ALWAYS pay attention to the attrition number (the % under the number of ships) and each ship's current health. I usually send em back home when they hit 70% or 80%.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Something that often confuses people is how when your ships are in your port you can't put your guys in them. When you move your guys into the ships, the ships have to be in the sea zone next to your province, and not in the province's ports.

 

[Chieftess]

Something that often confuses people is how when your ships are in your port you can't put your guys in them. When you move your guys into the ships, the ships have to be in the sea zone next to your province, and not in the province's ports.

However, a ship with troops on it unloads much quicker by docking it than unloading the units from sea. It also took me the longest time to figure out that you needed the ship docked to give it a leader...

 

[remake20]

Okay, but how exactly do I put my troops "on it" cause I just do I have to click on the ships, because clicking on the province doesn't work. I'll try it our later.

 

[Rub'Rum]

Put your ships in the neighbouring sea zone. Click on your army that is standing in the province, walk into the sea province where the ships are, or the ships themselves (right click).

Basically, once you have ships capable of taking your troops in a neighbouring sea province, then that sea province becomes just like a land province, you can just walk into it...

Actually I don't remember if you have to right click on the ships or the sea province itself, now that you mention it. But that would take, um, about 1 second to figure out.

 

[remake20]

Is it only possible to get a 100% or even over 40% war score if you do not take over all provinces?

 

[Joecoolyo]

Is it only possible to get a 100% or even over 40% war score if you do not take over all provinces?

To get 100%, you do need to take practically everything they have.

Other than that, war score is determined by how many battles you've won (each worth something around 1%), how many blockades you're putting up, and how much they value each province you take. i.e., your war score will go up much more if you take their capitol, rather than just a colony.

 

[Rub'Rum]

I really feel like battles should give more war score...

 

[Tee Kay]

What's better: an absolute monarchy or an empire?

 

[Metromonkey]

If you're near a lot of infidels and can't get defender of the faith, Empire up until 1650 because you get the Holy War Casus Belli on all infidels. Otherwise always go with Absolute Monarchy simply because Imperialism is such a useful Casus Belli.

 

[Joecoolyo]

If you're near a lot of infidels and can't get defender of the faith, Empire up until 1650 because you get the Holy War Casus Belli on all infidels. Otherwise always go with Absolute Monarchy simply because Imperialism is such a useful Casus Belli.

What's the Imperialism Casus Belli? Because that might just prompt a change for me (I'm an empire, just because I like the moral increase, but I almost never use the Holy War Casus Belli, so a change might be needed).