How is your EU3 Game going?

[TheLastOne36]

I decided to Trash my Venice game cause I can't recover diplomatically, most of the world doesn't even talk to me.

I started a new game as Genoa, I edited some of the settings, (I just saved game at the very start, went over to France, Milan and Savoy, and made them 'sell me a province' for 0 Gold) as I wanted to have a 'nicer' start. I allied myself with Spain, and he declared on Granada, and I had a boat with 3 units waiting for the declaration to take Gibraltar as a stronghold. (but also for colonization) We then preceded to attack North Africa. After 4 years everything from Tunis to Morocco was occupied by the alliance (Portugal, Castille, Genoa and Napoli) I got the moroccon territories of Tangiers, Cueta, Mellila and Atlas, while Portugal got the coastal areas. Napoli also got Tunisian territories, but Morocco captured them back, while Tunisia declared independence...

Later Castille claimed Aragon's throne and I took advantage, getting what I can. Provence and France ended their vassalship and France declared on Provence. I took advantage and declared and got my troops first to Provence, and I captured it instead of france. (I admit I had to reload a couple of times because I was playing at a two high speed and France vassled Provence before I got a chance to Annex it) Navarra was Aragon's vassal which I captured during the Aragonese war.

I also cheated 9000 gold to deal with rebels when I became bankrupt. (which explains why I have so much money) I though't I needed alot, but it turns out that only very little was needed.

 

[germanicus12]

After finally releasing the Papal States from Vassalage, I immediately turned and declared war on them and conquered them. Then I formed Italy, but then the following year saw Poland and Austria my two strongest allies crumbling before Russia.

In just 2 years, they were left with 5 provinces each and I now share a border with a Russian monster. (I did not take any Austrian, Polish, or Ottoman lands, it was all Russia... my eastern border matches the real Italian border, so that should give you an idea of how big they are.)

Truth be told, I am now a nervous wreck as I try frantically to ally with France, Britain and Spain to no avail, noone wants to tangle with Russia... I fear my game may end soon, as I cannot match the Russian horde on the battlefield.

Oh well, I get to play as another country now.

Oh and the year is now 1621. Also, I would post a screenshot, but I could not figure it out... I know about f12 but where the file is... I have no idea...)

EDIT: I forgot I still have my colonies... the Carribean islands that I took from Spain and Britain plus the North East section of America and Canada. Could the game still continue even though your "cores" are conquered? I have several cores in my colonies so I don't know if the game could continue or not.

Also, I forgot to add, I do not have the expansions, just the original.

 

[TheLastOne36]

My Polish Empire!

As you can see, I brought great honor to my nation. I also renamed provinces to my liking. Teutonic Order is no more.
My ally Denmark:

Has been successful, They took advantage of my armies defending against Bavarian HRE Emperor attacks, and annexed some German minors, as well as Gotland and those Estonian islands.
Here is the Byzantine Empire:

What I basically did, is together with Castille, we invaded the Ottomans in a Crusade called by Hungary. I took all Ottoman territories in Greece mainland, signed peace with them a couple of times, converted them all to Catholicism, and made a new nation the Byzantines (and Bulgaria). I than let them free from vassalhood 10 years later, and Byzantines annexed more of Turkey, and bulgaria as well as Albania.

Finally this:

My Ally Spain, My Ally Milan, and giant Morocco. (I have Gibraltar)

Milan (with my help) will form Italy in the future. The state to the south of Milan is Sicily. England has formed Great Britain.

I plan in the future to bring Morocco down to size in a joint Spanish-Portuguese-Danish-Polish-Lithuanian-Milanese-Byzantine effort. What fun!

 

[Dachs]

Nice job. What's the status in Lithuania? Are you still in a PU?

 

[PhroX]

Just finished a great game of EU3. I'm lazy, so I'll copy my post from the "Post Your Empire" thread on the Paradox Forums

The final world map of my latest game. SRI 4.1, I'm Persia (I started as some insignificant nation and waited for the Timurids to collapse, then took over Persia).

I've the most income, second largest army, 5th or 6th biggest navy, tech is pretty much as high as anyone (all neighbour bonuses are <1). All but about 6 provinces are Shiite, and only a dozen at most aren't cored.

I added the black borders to distinguish between me, the Golden Horde, and Republican Germany (for some reason, they're that colour instead of the normal German grey-blue)

Some notes:
The big orangey-brown blob in North America is Quebec (who annexed Canada ), the lighter orangey-brown nation to the west Chile (who are also in South America) the dark red Louisiana, the small pink one is Mexico and the pale blue the US. Others are the remnants of the European colonising nations.
South America had pretty much every colonial revolution possible along with some Spainish, Portuguese and Dutch territory.
Austria did scarily well as the Emperor, even taking chunks of France and Russia, before having a revolution and becoming Republican Germany about a decade before the end.
France never annexed Provence, while a couple more of the other French minors got released late on
England never conquered Scotland but they were still doing very well until their colonies rebelled, at which point they got beaten up by Milan, who in turn would probably only lasted a few more years as a major power, as nearly all of their Italian provinces were occupied by Germany when the game ended.
No-one seemed that interested in going East - the Dutch and Portuguese finally started colonising the the East Indies about 20 years from the end. Wasn't a cache problem - they could explore East - they just didn't seem to be interested.

 

[Chieftess]

Disclaimer: This is a heavily modded game. I was testing out how the settings and groups work (I wanna add a Polynesian group for Australia and Oceania, once I figure out how to give "tech groups" (like European, Asian...)

Sunday January 22nd, 1421
The Dawn of the Great Mayan Civil War​

Following the death of their beloved king, multiple heirs claimed their right to the throne. Rumors of rebellion and revolt started on the dawn of the Winter Soltice. One month later, the people rose up in support of their heir to the throne!

Catching wind of the plot, the new ruler already split up the massive armies at the corners of the empire into more mobile armies to hunt down the rebels.

The battlefields of the north. The Azteca Rebels.

The battlefields of the south. The Muisca Rebels. As you can see from the far south, several armies are already performing manuvers to engage the rebels.

The Empire of the Maya in 1421. I really do wonder about that lone rebel faction in the middle of the core provinces... There's apparently a southern group of loyal states to the throne, as well.

...

And by October, much of the Rebel Mayan Pretenders to the throne have retreated into the Rocky Mountains. The south was quickly won as the rebels were trapped on all three sides. Mexico was the most fought over, but eventually the true heirs to the Mayan throne were victorious!

On March 1st, 1422, the last battle of the war, led by the great General Ahmok Ahkinxoc, was fought. By April 8th, 1422, all provinces have return to the control of the rightful Mayan king.

EDIT: The general of that 100+k army passed away a year later. He was honored with a funeral fit for an emperor.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Nice job. What's the status in Lithuania? Are you still in a PU?

My my... Lithuania... Never speak to me about them again...

A while later, Lithuania became HRE Emperor and used it's power to conquer most of Russia. (Can Lithuania form Russia?) Personal Union finished a year after I started the game was my King died very quickly.

Poland became the Polish Empire soon after, and Poland-Castille-Milan conquered Morocco, and Morocco was reduced to 1 state, and Mameluks rid of all their libyan possestions in a later war. (as well as Syria). I hold Tunisia and Polish Morocco, Milan took Algeria, and Castille took parts of Libya and the rest of Morocco. Milan has one Moroccan state (the one above Ifni) and could because of that Colonize. North Africa is all Christian except for the one state Morocco and Mameluks.

Byzantines uber-failed when I wasn't looking. I looked one year, and everything was fine, I looked the next year, and Greece was formed and had all Byzantine possessions except for thrace and 1 Anatolian bordering state. They also converted Protestant Greece to Catholicism. (Protestantism started in Corfu, under Byzantine rule, most of Greece was Protestant) Strangely enough, Greece until very recently, was a Byzantine Vassal.

Ottomans uber-failed as well. Milan invaded Anatolia and they are reduced to two states.

Poland-Lithuania was the biggest entity in the world (maybe only ming was bigger) until I tried a silly attempt at trying to unify the netherlands, and Lithuania declared on me. They were defeated and we became enemies.

I had to declare on France to gain all the provinces for Dutch provinces needed for Netherlands. That worked out catastrophically, France was uber-strong and promptly defeated my 30k army in Holland. (Mind you, it was 1520's!) Castille got brought in the war thank god, and they conquered all of france from the middle-down. Milan also got in the war, and took some French possessions. France was defeated in a joint Polish-Castillian effort in Africa. Milan gladly helped me with the revolts in north africa during this time. Hungary was destroyed due to my battle expertise. Peace treaty was carved with France giving independence to Burgandy, and Guayenne, Provence to Milan, the needed states to Holland, and border territories to Spain. Hungary lost most of it's balkan territories to Milan, and it's Romanian territories to me. I'll give a unified Romania independence in the future.

Poland has become a colonial power, with colonies in North Africa, Mauritania, Fernando Po, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Barbados and the turks and caicos.

So far, I only see Spain and Portugal colonizing the americas, England and France are occupied in Africa however. England formed great Britian.

Milan should form Italy when they are done with some war with an Indian country due to an alliance with Baluchistan...

Powers at this day is...
Poland - me.
Lithuania - Baltic Russia
Milan - to strong for my liking, will probably choose Sicily next, it has Anatolia, Balkans, parts of North Africa and lots and lots of military and money.
Castille - Always strong
Great Britain - nuff said.
France - Not as sure, they should still be very powerful.
Persia - Controll from Balkan sea to the Indian Ocean, and from India to one state bordering the red sea.
Ming - All of Central Asia, annexed several SE Asian states, annexed one Indian state.

Ming makes me wonder, would it be possible to conquer the world as Ming? I saw someone almost do it with Iroquois in an AAR so it should not be to difficult.

 

[Oruc]

Im the Golden Horde mostly been helping the Ottos and Timurids. Surprised I haven't been involved in a war with one of them, usually after I've helped build up one of the ai they decide Im a threat.
Blagh Tims have started colonising, thats why I let the Yaroslav russians revolt, I'll start them giving money and hopefully they will colonise Siberia before the Tims
haven't been paying attention to western Europe so I don't know how England ended up with most of Denmark.

Nothing spectactular has happened, except I helped turn back China usually they kick my arse.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I got bored of my Poland game and started a new game.

As Holland, I formed the Netherlands after 5 years from 1399. (I went and made an alliance between gelre and utrecht and other dutch states, and made gelre declare on Holland, than I conquered everything. I let go Netherlands as a vassal, releasing all my territory except for Holland, than I went to play as the Netherlands and declared on Holland and annexed them.)

I expanded as Netherlands and conquered all of modern day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg as well as Calais. I also wanted to see Poland colonize, so I gave them Gibraltar again, before starting the game.

Most interesting point of the game is how France is divided into two countries, independent of each other and equally strong. In the North is France, and in the South is Guayenne, which has conquered everything from them middle point of France down, from the Atlantic coast to Savoy. (Nice is part of Guayenne). Both countries are powers in Europe, but niether are superpowers like France usually ends up, I wish more games were like that.

The colonial age is starting in the 1470's, with the colonizers being The Netherlands (Bermuda and Sierra Leone so far), Poland (Madiera's, Trarza), Portugal (Azores, Tangiers), Castille (Canary Islands), Guayenne (Cape Verde, Rio Oro), and Norway (one colony in Greenland when I checked).

I think this colonial age is going to be interesting.

 

[Chieftess]

In my game, the Mayans had another Civil War in 1440 - that one was over REAL quick! The poor rebels! It was similar to last time, except that Mesoamerica, and the former Incan territories (save for like two) didn't have any rebels.

The next year, the Dutch were spotted off the coast. (In 1441, Columbus, across the Atlantic, did run! ) I have almost every coastal territory claimed, except for Greenland. I still don't have western Alaska (not discovered yet), most of the Carribean islands, and inland Patagonia colonized yet. I've got the Western-most coast of Africa (Liberia, I think) colonized, so the Mayans can westernize. I'm still getting the hang of the naval aspect of the game, like which ships can use explorers, which ships can transport, and so on. Kind of tricky ferrying over 1 unit at a time. I'm not even sure how to blockade (just plop a ship at a bottleneck, for example?).

 

[PhroX]

I'm not even sure how to blockade (just plop a ship at a bottleneck, for example?).

Once you've got the tech that lets you blockade (it's Naval, forget which level), just put your ships in a coastal zone, and all ports in that zone are blockaded automatically.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Kind of tricky ferrying over 1 unit at a time

if you put more cogs into the stack, than you can ferry over much more units. I had a stack of 30 cogs in my Spain game and delivered like 40k troops at the Chinese Border.

What year are you in Chieftess? You could try conquering the world.

Possible here with Iroquois: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=384744&page=74

He ran out of diplomats but since you are cheating, you can cheat in a few diplomats.

 

[TheLastOne36]

My latest game Netherlands. (I saved over Poland by accident so that game is gone in the trash. )

I got bored of my Poland game and started a new game.

As Holland, I formed the Netherlands after 5 years from 1399. (I went and made an alliance between gelre and utrecht and other dutch states, and made gelre declare on Holland, than I conquered everything. I let go Netherlands as a vassal, releasing all my territory except for Holland, than I went to play as the Netherlands and declared on Holland and annexed them.)

I expanded as Netherlands and conquered all of modern day Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg as well as Calais. I also wanted to see Poland colonize, so I gave them Gibraltar again, before starting the game.

Most interesting point of the game is how France is divided into two countries, independent of each other and equally strong. In the North is France, and in the South is Guayenne, which has conquered everything from them middle point of France down, from the Atlantic coast to Savoy. (Nice is part of Guayenne). Both countries are powers in Europe, but niether are superpowers like France usually ends up, I wish more games were like that.

The colonial age is starting in the 1470's, with the colonizers being The Netherlands (Bermuda and Sierra Leone so far), Poland (Madiera's, Trarza), Portugal (Azores, Tangiers), Castille (Canary Islands), Guayenne (Cape Verde, Rio Oro), and Norway (one colony in Greenland when I checked).

I think this colonial age is going to be interesting.

As you see Guayenne is quite impressive.
Poland is to strong for my liking. They vassalized and annexed Brundenburg earlier to.

 

[Chieftess]

My latest game Netherlands. (I saved over Poland by accident so that game is gone in the trash. )

I did that one. I was saving the game and loading as different nations just to make them all declare war on each other to see what would happen. I made Spain (Castille) declare war on every single nation, then some saves later, I discovered it was a 1399 AD save, and not the 1450-something save I had.


Anyway, in my game, Tennessee seems very, very independant. There's constant nationalist rebellions there.

 

[Dell19]

I did that one. I was saving the game and loading as different nations just to make them all declare war on each other to see what would happen. I made Spain (Castille) declare war on every single nation, then some saves later, I discovered it was a 1399 AD save, and not the 1450-something save I had.


Anyway, in my game, Tennessee seems very, very independant. There's constant nationalist rebellions there.

I tend to do rolling saves as well as the auto saves to minimise the chances of losing an entire game. I think I've got at least 20 saves for my current AAR just in case.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Note to self: When game is done/satisfactory, and you are bored of playing it, copy and paste to a seperate folder.

I did it again accidentally to on my netherlands game. (I was experimenting on forming a united Celtica based on Ireland), luckily I have autosaves.

What do you guys have autosaves set to? I have it twice a year.

 

[Chieftess]

I have it set to once a year. I had it at every month, but that got annoying quick.

 

[Lone Wolf]

In my first EUIII game, I'm playing as Russia, because of the sense of obligation to Motherland. I started in 1492, and it's already 1575. My only conquests so far are the Siberian colonies up to Irkutsk, the majority of the territory of the Siberian and Kazan Khanates, Tambow and the strip of land that leads to Caspian Sea, but I'm planning to attack the Ottoman Empire soon. In the honor of Polish posters in CFC, I'm planning to have warm relations with Poland and Lithuania. I even sold Chernigov back to Lithuania, as a sign of friendship.

I plan to slowly bring my nation to having completely Free Subjects, as a proper bleeding heart liberal (in Russian sense of the world).

It's definitely a good game, although chasing all these lost armies of enemies around is quite annoying. BTW, how do you take these political world maps?

 

[Tani Coyote]

@ Lone_Wolf:

Press F12. That should save the world map for you. Which folder it's in tends to vary, unfortunately.

Shift + F12 will give you a world map with just your empire.

Edit: The F12 thing doesn't work unless you're using In Nomine.

 

[Lone Wolf]

Edit: The F12 thing doesn't work unless you're using In Nomine.

I'm using it, so thanks.