How is your EU3 Game going?

[Pedro P]

I have been dedicating some time in a Burgundy > Lotharingia Death*Taxes mod game. Hard times mostly, I have to defend well the north (where the money is) and the south (where my capital is), and everyone wants to take advantage of me. I lost the game twice due to bad timing, but on the current one I finally managed to consolidate myself, dance around the emperor and france, form Lotharingia and conquest the lands around the rhine and provence and savoy in the Mediterranean.

England is one evil nation by the way :<
They are all nice when they want to destroy France, but they don't actually care about you, I have seen AI England to let I fight France alone, just to then swoop down and take their lands... and then attack me as soon as they get peace with France.

 

[civ_king]

I have been dedicating some time in a Burgundy > Lotharingia Death*Taxes mod game. Hard times mostly, I have to defend well the north (where the money is) and the south (where my capital is), and everyone wants to take advantage of me. I lost the game twice due to bad timing, but on the current one I finally managed to consolidate myself, dance around the emperor and france, form Lotharingia and conquest the lands around the rhine and provence and savoy in the Mediterranean.

England is one evil nation by the way :<
They are all nice when they want to destroy France, but they don't actually care about you, I have seen AI England to let I fight France alone, just to then swoop down and take their lands... and then attack me as soon as they get peace with France.

Dude, it's all about Burgundy>Lowlands (preferably Belgian)

 

[sophie]

Does History and Empires actually do anything for the era past 1820 or is it just like D&T with the arbitrarily extended end date?

 

[Mosher]

Spoiler :

The end of my Knights -> Jerusalem (custom made form decision) game. I mostly just spread Maltese culture and Catholicism, so I didn't expand too much - I own Portugal through personal union and inheritance.

My biggest religious accomplishment was the end of the schism - after a grueling, painful war of attrition with Muscovy, I converted it to Catholicism - and it was as big back then as it is today, in this screenshot. I also had to fight Poland and Ming at the same time.

Spoiler :

And culture. I started out this game wanting to completely replace Turkish culture with Maltese, but I had bad luck with settlement policies - most of them took 50-100 years to take - so I eventually scrapped that goal, and only managed to convert about half of Anatolia to Maltese culture.

Spoiler :

That nasty yellow country in Europe is Austria. I made a quick change in its color right before this screenshot because Jerusalem and Austria have an identical color (at least, in my modded Can Omer's Map they do, since Jerusalem's regular color is ugly), and I didn't want any confusion what with Austria's proximity to Jerusalem and its ugly borders.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

After several false starts with England I started a new game as France and am really enjoying it so far. Unlike England, where I feel like I have to conquer Ireland and Scotland and then sit back until I can colonize the new world, with France it always feels like there's something to do other than wait. My only regret so far is that I waited too long to attack Burgandy, now they're strong enough that I don't really want to take them on since it would be too much of a fair fight.

 

[Double A]

This may or may not be a copypaste of my post of Pdoxplaza:

So. I started playing EU3 a few days ago after playing CK2 for like 500-600 hours. First game is as the Hansa because Ulmers gonna Ulm, therefore Hansas must Hans.

It's 1480.

Spoiler :

Note that Portugal is both my ally and in control of like all of Egypt. Cores are everything I own in Germany, Granada, and Libya, and also Gafsa for some reason. I also have a core on Denmark who I'm not super keen on fighting due just paying them like 100 in gifts to get rid of the sound toll for the third friggin time, and two on Castille, who is still allied with Portugal and has over twice the troops I have. Hungary is my other ally of note. They kind of suck at everything except distracting Austria's 72000 troops. That's like 45k more than I have. I think they have about three more units of gold than I do too.

New CoTs popped up in Bulgaria and friggin Tuskegee. Lisbosa died awhile back. Liguaria is pretty close to death (Genoa lost it to Milan after it went admin. republic for some godawful reason, and to be honest that in itself killed Liguaria). Luebeck is worth 2.5k. Mexico is 330 and Tuskegee is 540 for some reason. Venezia is 880 for comparison. My trade league is huge, at least half of Europe. I also get trade from everyone in the Americas except the Inca, and their CoT is pretty close to decaying. They have forts all up everywhere, and I don't actually care enough to siege 11 fortresses, even if one of them has gold. Besides, my BB is 8 right now (but I am losing 1.45 a year). I have a net gain of 143 ducats a year but I'm only at 2 stab, raising war taxes, and at max maintenance, so I have no idea what my income will look like in a year when all that changes. Currently protecting Riga from Sweden and Lithuania because it's not like I have anything better to do.

I only get 335 MP a month, but my land FL is over 100 due to this:

Spoiler :

That is my main problem. I need to form Germany, and I have no freaking idea why I would ever annex something without a mission because that gives the Burgundian Death-Kaiser a free CB on me. Again, my army is crap. My navy could beat anyone but England's because I have so many freaking light ships, while they have so many freaking heavy ships. I've confirmed thalassocracy so my army tradition is just awful while my naval tradition is pretty much permanently at or above 90. I pretty much make all the money but have no way to actually put it in my coffers because my trade efficiency and production efficiency are crap, and this is on top of my 9 colonies and 6 missionaries. All my Old World stuff is Catholic except for Thrace, Kumasi, and Judea.

Actually, scratch that, English Italy is probably my number one concern because English freaking Italy.

 

[Dell19]

I think you are meant to vassalise the majority of the electors and then you can start annexing the provinces that you need to form Germany. Also even with just a few vassals, you should be able to beat Burgundy as far as I'm aware they don't have the same unlimited manpower as Austria and are more likely to get involved in their own difficult wars (eg France).

 

[Angst]

That's pretty impressive for a first game.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

I'm playing as Burgundy in my game and i vassalized 4 electors ensuring me the throne. Now what ?

What provinces do i have to annex to make Germany ?

Why won't those freaking dumb princes vote for my Reichsreform ? That was a huge waste of hard earned Imperial Authority.

My infamy is slowly going up because of unlawful HRE territory ! I guess they don't understand that the Emperor makes the law yet.

 

[Dell19]

I've played two games as Burgundy and it was far easier when I didn't pickup unlawful HRE territory so just vassalising Savoy etc.

To form Germany you need to conquer mainly provinces in the north east of the HRE (Brandenburg to Hesse or something like that). If you can form Germany then you should appear in the possible reforms / policies section (I have a feeling Burgundy cannot as they don't have the right culture).

To pass an election the majority of the HRE need to be friendly with you which is difficult if your infamy is high. Like with everything it helps if you have vassalised everyone.

Also your vassals can choose to vote for someone else if they really hate you.

 

[Nintz]

Burgundy is a French group, and their most likely culture shift is Dutch or Flemish due to the lowlands, neither of which can form Germany. So unless you conquer a whole bunch of, say, Rheinlander territory and culture-shift, there is no Burgundy > Germany possibility.

 

[uat2d]

As Burgundy you do can inherit France and countries within the HRE for no infamy and instant cores.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Damn, oh well, i guess i'll just try to advance the reforms and unite the HRE.

 

[Double A]

I think you are meant to vassalise the majority of the electors and then you can start annexing the provinces that you need to form Germany. Also even with just a few vassals, you should be able to beat Burgundy as far as I'm aware they don't have the same unlimited manpower as Austria and are more likely to get involved in their own difficult wars (eg France).

Yeah I've since noticed that Burgundy is really fragile and Austria just needs to be hit with a Tzar Bomba.

That's pretty impressive for a first game.

I've played CK2 for 500-600 hours and like five people are giving me constant advice, it's just all of them don't actually know what to tell me about Germany.

I've played two games as Burgundy and it was far easier when I didn't pickup unlawful HRE territory so just vassalising Savoy etc.

To form Germany you need to conquer mainly provinces in the north east of the HRE (Brandenburg to Hesse or something like that). If you can form Germany then you should appear in the possible reforms / policies section (I have a feeling Burgundy cannot as they don't have the right culture).

To pass an election the majority of the HRE need to be friendly with you which is difficult if your infamy is high. Like with everything it helps if you have vassalised everyone.

Also your vassals can choose to vote for someone else if they really hate you.

How many votes are needed to pass a reform?

 

[Angst]

Over half.

 

[Dell19]

There just need to be more yes votes than no so if there are 50 HRE states then 26 need to vote yes.

 

[bestbrian]

German Unification: http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Forming_Germany

 

[Double A]

German Unification: http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Forming_Germany

I already read that, it doesn't actually give any advice, it's just what you need to have to actually do the event, which I can clearly see in the decisions tab.

 

[Bowsling]

Forming Germany is really really difficult without forced PUs. I can't see the map, but if Austria or Bohemia took one of the provinces you need... you're IB for a hard time.

You also have to go through like 3 electors so you probably want to vassalize the elector-bishops if you want a chance at the throne.

 

[Double A]

Forming Germany is really really difficult without forced PUs. I can't see the map, but if Austria or Bohemia took one of the provinces you need... you're IB for a hard time.

You also have to go through like 3 electors so you probably want to vassalize the elector-bishops if you want a chance at the throne.

You know the Hansa is a merchant republic right? It's kind of their defining trait.