SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
That red blob in the ex-Ottoman Empire looks like their land every 10 years or so once I attack it. Except in Italian Green 
How is your EU3 Game going?
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I only got into these kinds of games recently and honestly picked this particular one up a few days ago, still only learning about it and I wanna ask, has anyone ever played the game up until Revolutionary France? I'd like to know if the AI really takes to the changes and rages a powerful war in Europe also I'd like to know how you fared as France(If the events made a European conquest a real objective assuming you had roughly real borders and not all of America as France) . There's also a mod I think that extends it to WW2, how do the Germans fare, that will decide if I stick around till Rev. France and if I do get the mod. I'm more interested in defeating the world than actually owning it so I won't be claiming all of Europe like you guys do, just allying enough of it to help me do what Napoleon and Hitler tried to do.
I realize that these nations probably have to survive long enough to stand a chance at realizing these objectives but that will probably only mean I will help them survive long enough to
I realize that these nations probably have to survive long enough to stand a chance at realizing these objectives but that will probably only mean I will help them survive long enough to
Bowsling
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Welcome to the forum, Lescrow! 
hoplitejoe
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Welcome ![[party]](/images/smilies/partytime.gif "Party [party]")
I only got into these kinds of games recently and honestly picked this particular one up a few days ago, still only learning about it and I wanna ask, has anyone ever played the game up until Revolutionary France? I'd like to know if the AI really takes to the changes and rages a powerful war in Europe also I'd like to know how you fared as France(If the events made a European conquest a real objective assuming you had roughly real borders and not all of America as France) . There's also a mod I think that extends it to WW2, how do the Germans fare, that will decide if I stick around till Rev. France and if I do get the mod. I'm more interested in defeating the world than actually owning it so I won't be claiming all of Europe like you guys do, just allying enough of it to help me do what Napoleon and Hitler tried to do.
I realize that these nations probably have to survive long enough to stand a chance at realizing these objectives but that will probably only mean I will help them survive long enough to
I'm curious, how'd you end up on the CivFanatics forums about EU III, and not the Paradox forums?
madviking
north american scum
My money's on he was a Civ player who lurked around, but then got EU3 and saw this stuff.
I did play civ 5 about a month ago yeah, but that's not how I got here. I didn't much like civ itself, seemed heavily unrealistic and I basically didn't feel like I one up'd Arabia when I razed most of their cities and annexed their capitals. Ultimately I dropped the whole genre cuz no grand strategy/4x games really appealed to me. Someone introduced me to this game a few days ago, I googled it and with all the hotlinking and googling here I am and LOVING what I am seeing, I confess I have been reading this particular thread for at least three days, some of you guys are pretty awesome, I failed with France....thrice -_-', its pretty overwhelming and I may need someone to hold my hand until I get the hang of it.
That explains that.
Register your game (especially since there is a new patch coming out soon), and use the Paradox forums, as well as the EU III Wiki. You'll get the hang of it in no time.
madviking
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Bowsling
Deity
France is actually not as easy as some people make it out to be - I'd say Castile or England would be a better choice for a first game.
madviking
north american scum
Yea I agree. There's a bunch of junk to do (integrating the Duchies, fighting off England and Burgundy, dealing with the HRE) and Places like England (if you ignore your ancestral possessions), Castille, or even Portugal (if you go straight colonization) are more beginner friendly.
sophie
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lol, and EU3 doesn't?
hoplitejoe
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It is more realistic, if only due it it covering a shorter span of time.
The map is certainly of the world, terrain too, at least deserts are in the right places, few nations that start up at historically inaccurate places, have one immortal ruler and one or two minor tweaks like B17 and minutemen to make it resemble the real nations but otherwise its not even in the slightest the way I understand things to have been. EU is of a much larger scale, history many times more accurate, there's things like war exhaustion, population plays into your military capacity not just the amount of money you have, EU3 seems like a historical simulator on grand strategy and civ more like a parody.
I dunno, no game can certainly remake events exactly but EU3 seems to do it better, I kinda feel I am inviting trouble by saying this on a Civ forum, if I upset civ fans I do apologize.
madviking
north american scum
Sall good. I'm an estranged civ player.
Optical
The Fall of the Eleventh
I have to say that all that is actually pretty accurate.
I like Civ, it's a good game (I was a IV person though), but in terms of being true to history EU and other Paradox games are far better. Civ isn't designed to be that.
That said, I also tend to enjoy EU more.
I'll have some screenshots of my current EU game (Holland -> Netherlands) in a few minutes, just so this isn't a completely off-topic post. It's going rather well IMO, France has been reduced to only Savoy's original northernmost province (Savoie?) in Europe and their capital has moved to Nazca
EDIT: wait, don't have any screenshots. D'oh.
I like Civ, it's a good game (I was a IV person though), but in terms of being true to history EU and other Paradox games are far better. Civ isn't designed to be that.
That said, I also tend to enjoy EU more.
I'll have some screenshots of my current EU game (Holland -> Netherlands) in a few minutes, just so this isn't a completely off-topic post. It's going rather well IMO, France has been reduced to only Savoy's original northernmost province (Savoie?) in Europe and their capital has moved to Nazca
EDIT: wait, don't have any screenshots. D'oh.
Bowsling
Deity
Try CivIV or CivIII. They're both significantly better.
So playing as the Palatinate tonight, I finally inherited Bavaria... then forgot to save it. :suicide:
So playing as the Palatinate tonight, I finally inherited Bavaria... then forgot to save it. :suicide:
"Restoration"?
The problem, obviously, is with the ones that aren't. Like the random islands inside his territory or the ugly Mesopotamian thing or the land border in Europe.
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
*Insert sarcastic
here *Anyway, I honestly love Civ4 and EU3 equally. I find myself playing on EU3 more these days, but I just recently started and actually won my first game on Noble in Civ4 BtS
