How is your EU3 Game going?
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It certainly is possible to go from a small power to world conquest - there's been a world conquest as the tiny Italian state of Mantua, for instance, and another as one of the Native American tribes. (PrawnStar...) Some of the most powerful states are actually the small ones, like the Byzantine Empire, which has a rough patch early on, but loads of potential, even after it recovers its cores.
That said, it's probably best not to start off with a smaller country - less margin for error. Try Portugal, England, Castile, or France first, I think.
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I tend to find "midsize" nations to be good starting points. It's not impossible to do stuff, but nor are you overwhelmed. I'd say somewhere like Burgundy, Bohemia or so on would be an interesting place to start.
As for how my game's going, well, I've just finished a run through of MMU. Should be *pretty* obvious who I am even without looking at the image name
As for how my game's going, well, I've just finished a run through of MMU. Should be *pretty* obvious who I am even without looking at the image name
Jos Ballenbak
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That's one big blue blob there 
Burgundy and Bohemia are both functionally similar to Castile, France, Portugal, or England in terms of potential in the GC. Burgundy starts with a Center of Trade under its control and has a ton of missions to grab territory in the western part of the HRE that grant auto-cores. Bohemia starts with control of the imperium itself. You could easily call either one of those "major powers" in their own right. There's a lot of leeway for both of them, more so Bohemia than Burgundy, as Burgundy does have to deal with France next door and to a lesser extent England.
Love
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Wouldn't allying with england do the trick?
Controlling the imperium is my way of saying that Bohemia's ruler is the Holy Roman Emperor in 1399. Uniting the empire is possible in HttT and DW, where the Emperor can pass reforms if he gets enough imperial authority. The last of those reforms is the renovatio imperii, turning the HRE into a single state ruled by you. Even if you don't unite the Empire, the Emperor still has access to all of the benefits granted by imperial reforms (if any have been passed) and his force limits and manpower are both vastly increased, as is his prestige. Emperors also get a casus belli on states outside the Empire that attack states inside the Empire.
As Burgundy? England has cores on you. I doubt it'd work. Temporary opportunistic one-war alliances can be useful between England and Burgundy, but definitely no long-term relationships.
You can create the HRE with any HRE state so long as you're the Emperor. Conquering all of the provinces won't do it; that's the way to form Germany (and you don't need to take all of the provinces, either).
And uniting the HRE isn't available in IN. Just HttT and DW.
Love
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Spoiler :
It can get awesome
It's probably better to do it before then, because the reformation plays havoc with your imperial authority.
Huh? I thought you lost 10 authority for someone converting and gained only that many back for converting them back, so you'd have to enforce unity on everyone just to stay above water. Which is impractical, for obvious reasons.
Just started playing as Burgundy (third time's the charm!) and I'm starting to spread around, but I've noticed that I get a significant reputation hit when I annex one of my neighbours. What should I do? I vassalised them instead, but how am I going to expand? Playing In Nomine.
Thanks,
Wasila
Thanks,
Wasila
You need to have a core on the territory you're annexing, otherwise you're going to incur significant reputation.
Sometimes vassalization is a better option, especially if you find yourself overextended or can't afford the reputation. If you vassalize your neighbour you can, theoretically, annex them later peacefully after 10 years if they share your religion for the price of one slider move to decentralization. In practice it's very difficult to do so you can simply cancel vassalization and invade them when you're free to do so.
Reputation lowers naturally depending on your leader's diplomatic skill. You can recruit Diplomats to get rid of it faster.
