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Unfrance

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^ Why is the one guy that is surrounded by you not dead?
 
^ Why is the one guy that is surrounded by you not dead?

Because they rebelled and left the HRE when I revoke the Privilagio. So when the HRE nation is formed they were left independent and I decided to be nice and let them be (ie can't be bothered to attack them and lose stability when there's a couple of excommunicated rulers around, namely the kings of France and Sweden).

There's two, actually. Salzburg is still alive.
 
Congrats on post 7,000.
 
Unfrance

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Oooouch, owned!

You make me want to get HTTT so I can try that... but that would mean being peaceful for the most part... foxy's a bloodthirsty warmonger, not some peace-loving hippie! :mad:

Very nice regardless. May the rulers of Mainz and Salzburg rule for 1000 years, free from knives being stabbed into their hearts... :mischief:
 
You make me want to get HTTT so I can try that... but that would mean being peaceful for the most part... foxy's a bloodthirsty warmonger, not some peace-loving hippie! :mad:

Don't worry. I was almost constantly at war.

Anyway, during my first offensive war with France I was Austria (not the HRE yet) but I have all the HRE nations as my vassal and allied. So when I declared war all the 30+ disparate states of the HRE all joined in, plus England. Seeing the combined armies of the HRE pouring into France was very entertaining. I demanded several provinces and the release of several countries while England grabbed Brittany. Aragon and Portugal joined in and grabbed a few provinces as well. So during the second war (now as the HRE) France couldn't put up too much of a fight and most of the fighting was against the English.

Founding the HRE was a bit too easy with Austria. I imagine it would be much harder as, say, Baden.
 
Don't worry. I was almost constantly at war.

Excellent. I approve. The only thing that keeps me from waging war is the accursed reputation limit...

Anyway, during my first offensive war with France I was Austria (not the HRE yet) but I have all the HRE nations as my vassal and allied. So when I declared war all the 30+ disparate states of the HRE all joined in, plus England. Seeing the combined armies of the HRE pouring into France was very entertaining. I demanded several provinces and the release of several countries while England grabbed Brittany. Aragon and Portugal joined in and grabbed a few provinces as well. So during the second war (now as the HRE) France couldn't put up too much of a fight and most of the fighting was against the English.

So... just by merit of being HRE, you can easily vassalise all the HRE members and then ally with them all to create a vassal horde?

...Damn. That must be gamebreaking, but nonetheless quite epic to show all the European powers who joke about Italy and Germany existing only in geographical terms just how little they know. ;)

I will definitely need to try this...

Founding the HRE was a bit too easy with Austria. I imagine it would be much harder as, say, Baden.

I would imagine. This is why I edited my files so Austria starts broken up into Styria, Austria and Tirol. I give them royal marriages and such, but it does greatly balance Austria's position out - i.e. they no longer blob uncontrollably.
 
So... just by merit of being HRE, you can easily vassalise all the HRE members and then ally with them all to create a vassal horde?

...Damn. That must be gamebreaking, but nonetheless quite epic to show all the European powers who joke about Italy and Germany existing only in geographical terms just how little they know. ;)

No. There's a set of reforms you need to enact as Emperor before that's possible. It's not too hard though, provided you managed to retain the imperial office long enough.
 
So I am playing a nation that is able to colonize for the first time and I wondering how to go about it... do I spend my 1.1 colonist a year on new colonies as much as possible or grow the ones I have? Another thing, how long does each conquistador and explorer last in IN? They seem to die really early and I have to spend another colonist on them. Oh and is conquering any of the new world of african countries worth it or just milk them for cash?
 
So I am playing a nation that is able to colonize for the first time and I wondering how to go about it... do I spend my 1.1 colonist a year on new colonies as much as possible or grow the ones I have? Another thing, how long does each conquistador and explorer last in IN? They seem to die really early and I have to spend another colonist on them. Oh and is conquering any of the new world of african countries worth it or just milk them for cash?

I normally try to grow my existing colonies first since they're a drain on your budget. However, if there's a lot of competition then I would try to settle the richest (ie highest base tax value) provinces, or strategically important ones. Make sure you can defend them all though.

Conquistadors and explorers are like generals and admirals AFAIK. Sometimes you get lucky and one survives for 20 - 30 years. Mine seems to die rather quickly though.

As for the pagans, I generally keep them around to milk them for cash. When they ran out of money and your empire is in good shape and you're bored, annex them.
 
Behold the glorious Second Serbian Empire founded by Stephen III Lezarevic and his incompetent sons and grandsons. All provinces owned are shown:
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It's good that the Balkans are so desperately poor. Otherwise this would have been too easy until now. Turkey took the initial break-up quite well, and left me alone until very recently. Most of the game was spent fighting back Hungary and Venice, and allying Poland and Austria, who I royally screwed over by being a little to anxious to defeat Hungary. It bore the brunt of Hungary, The Palatinate and Italy's (and I do mean ALL of it) armies while me and Poland took what we could from Hungary.


In a rare occurence in my games, both the Timurids and Golden Hordes have collapsed. I had planned to use Poland, Austria, and Catholic Zaporozhie (Who almost totally replaced the Golden Horde) to defeat them, but for almost 50 years every time the Ottomans were weak, Hungary attacked me. England(?) and Castille both attacked the Ottomans, creating Bulgaria, Morea, and Trebizond. Morea was my vassal, but I disowned them after remembering you can't diplo-annex any one outside your religion group. Apparently the Ottomans took offense to that as they declared war soon afterwards. I managed to win a peace for half my treasury.

But now I'm out of options. I have only 40 ducats, and an army of only 12000. The Turks are looming and Zaporozhie has gone the way of the Horde. Bulgaria stops Poland from having an incentive to fight the infidel Turks. I'm too poor to block the straits, too weak to fight the Ottomans, and too vulnerable to avoid attack.

I'm allied with: Poland, Bohemia, and Bulgaria
+50 relations with: France, Urbino, Austria, Muscowy,
Powers that could help but won't: Venice, Naples, Urbino (All Navally)

What should Serbia do?
 
A barrel roll.

Seriously though, nice job with Serbia. If you're playing HTTT with the latest beta patch, the Ottomans can be a real pain-in-the-ass to deal with.
 
what about :backstab: Bulgaria?


I actually ended up doing that, with Poland getting the two eastern provinces and me ending up with the rest. Since I had full control of the terms of the treaty, in hindsight that was a mistake.

I enlisted Castille, Bohemia, and faithful Poland in my attempt to not get smashed by the Turks. Castille blocked the straits for me, so I was able to defeat the European Ottoman army. I commanded the seige of every province. Except Edirne. :wallbash: I was fully aware Poland would take the province if they got a hold of it, fully aware they had won the seige, and STILL let them peace out with Edirne! Edirne is important because it is the gateway to Thrace, and the gateway to stop Polish expansion into Asia. Still, Turkey could no longer send troop my way, so I was able to balkanize them a bit. In the second war, Castille released more nations, and Poland took Bursa. I took the rest of European Turkey. Poland then started its own wars, smashing Lithuania and then shaming various German minors. The result is a huge empire. At one time, they had an army larger than that of me and France combined (Not that I have a big army)!

You'd think after 200 years of unwavering loyalty I'd love Poland. No, I'm frantically trying to think of ways to betray them. I'm too weak to be the knife, I have to stab them with the armies of France or(but probably and) Castille. Actually, my current plan involves giving Poland Anatolia up to the Persian monster, and hoping Persia declares. I'd then dishonor the alliance, ally France and Castille(army), Urbino (back-up army), and Bohemia (shield). It's an incredibly poor plan. I'm surrounded by Poland to my east, the Med and Urbino to the south, a vassal, then France to the east, and a dangerous Bavaria to the north.
I can "support" 72 units. I can afford 36.
Poland owns 12000 units, France owns 14000, Spain owns 13000, Persia owns 11000 (all rough estimates.)

The World (Unified South Slavs in 1556) in 1609.
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Holy crap. Poland's a ravenous beast. :lol:

...Nice to see several blobs of doom, however. All the little guys are oh so steadily vanishing from the map...

On your ability to maintain troops:

Do you reduce the slider to 50% maintenance during peacetime? That could be your problem. Keeping 50% during peace makes it much cheaper to maintain a large force with money to spare, even if it takes a few months to reach full wartime readiness once war starts and you slide it to 100%.
 
In a lot of my games Poland conquers whoever is just S of them (Lithuania?) and then goes all over the place.
 
In most of my games Poland just sits there.
 
In my game, Poland's my only ally (that isn't a vassal).

I decided to pick up my old Russian game (after a good week long break, i.e. Just Cause 2 :D), and holy crap did things go in my favor.



As you can see, I've moved into central asia and finally made a push against the Ottomans.

Due to Westernization I've been able to catch up to the rest of the world, including the Ottomans. I due to my capture of Central Asia, my manpower has been on the increase. So finally, in 1606, I had an army larger than the Ottomans and I was at the same tech level. And so, I declared war on Sibir, which also brought Khiva, Chagatai, and Khzak in along with the Ottomans. Everyone but the Ottomans were easy to handle.

The Ottomans took some really intricate strategy, due to to the fact that we're near equal in power. So when I declared war, I did what Russia always does in those situations, I scorched the land and fled. I got three massive armies (each about 30,000 men) trapped in scorched Russia. After a month, two of them left to conquer Poland, the third stayed until I destroyed it. With Poland distracting them, I blitzed Eastern Europe and conquered everything in between me and Poland. Though this wasn't enough to warrant a treaty, so I merged all my armies and begun a massive blitz to their capitol Constantinople. Though about halfway there Sweden (Holy Roman Emperor) decides to join in on the fun. And so I was able to sign a peace treaty, and take a good 5 or 6 provinces from them. This is of course the Ottoman's first defeat since they begun their rampage, and I don't plan it to be their last.

In other news:

-Bavaria has replaced Austria as the German menace in my game
-Munster is trying to create a pseudo-Netherlands, and is succeeding.
-Scotland is still alive, and is colonizing the New World. All the yellow colonies in North America (except for the Caribbean) are Scottish.
-Though Castille is having it's own fun in S. America and Africa.
 
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