How is your EU3 Game going?

[Chieftess]

@ 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.

Is there a way to take a screenshot of other map types, like political, economic (I don't even understand that one yet...)?

 

[Dachs]

It's definitely a good game, although chasing all these lost armies of enemies around is quite annoying.

Use cav stacks and leaders with high Shock. Works like a charm until the last century of the game or so.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I just noticed how fun it is to play as an Indonesian nation!

As Aceh, it's only like 1430 and i'm colonizing Indonesia. I already conquered Java.

Note, I'm usnig Whole World mod, and it adds tons of Indonesian islands, so maybe that is why it is so fun.

Granted, it is only a 'fun' game, nothing serious, so I am cheating in extra colonist and I bought a couple tech levels of Navy and Trade.

 

[cardgame]

I decided to stop ubercheating my games with 100,000,000,000,000 mercenaries and colonists and now I'm just using cash cheat.

Spoiler :

If you just get cash and hire mercs, you could conquer all of Europe in no time at all. Every week there's thousands of mercs to hire.

also, i bet you were totally expecting a pic here. hahahaha.

I started as France in 1480 when Provence is gone.

I annexed Auvergne and after doubling my army conquered all of Britanny except their capital, conquered all of Austria's Netherlands and annexed four territories therein, and am currently in a war with Castille (they keep landing on my shores and i keep driving them off) and Savoy, currently Savoy's troops are in my territories and my troops are in theirs, but I'm recruiting some more in my center to drive them off. Soon I will vassalize them and take a province or two, at which point I shall take Lorraigne (sp) and vasslize them as well.

Currently I am gifting the vassals in the middle of my territory to get them back up to 190-200 relations again, so I can demand their vassalization.

After all that I'll focus on colonizing the new world!

 

[Lone Wolf]

It's strange that in peace negotiations you can annex only the enemy provinces in which you have stationed armies.

 

[Chieftess]

I learned the hard way that putting transports back into a harbor (by Acapulco Bay or something) unloads the units. All 106 of them! They were heading for Indonesia...

 

[Dachs]

It's strange that in peace negotiations you can annex only the enemy provinces in which you have stationed armies.

And that you can't do a full annex unless the state is an OPM. This is why the Ottomans suck at killing the Mamluks in EU3 whereas in OTL they did a year's campaigning and were done with it.

 

[Dell19]

Out of interest is there a reason why so many people seem to be using the full on cheats?

In EU2 there were occasional reasons to fire a cash event to get 50 ducats rather than accidentally go bankrupt because of a negative event however I'm not sure what the challenge is if you have more money than you can spend.

 

[Dachs]

Out of interest is there a reason why so many people seem to be using the full on cheats?

Laziness, lack of ability, or training wheels.

 

[Chieftess]

And that you can't do a full annex unless the state is an OPM. This is why the Ottomans suck at killing the Mamluks in EU3 whereas in OTL they did a year's campaigning and were done with it.

What's OPM? Any list of EU3 acronyms laying around?

Out of interest is there a reason why so many people seem to be using the full on cheats?

In EU2 there were occasional reasons to fire a cash event to get 50 ducats rather than accidentally go bankrupt because of a negative event however I'm not sure what the challenge is if you have more money than you can spend.

Getting our feet wet. I'm still learning things, and seeing how things work. I just recently learned that it's best to have your huge stack wait at a local far flung colony that's established so that they can recover (looked odd seeing a unit with 0 troops). For awhile there, I thought that maybe they were being picked off one by one awhile moving from one province to another in enemy territory. I still haven't figure out how to build a great palace, though - got that event, but didn't know how to build it. I'm not sure how to westernize, either.

 

[Lone Wolf]

What's OPM?

One Province... Something, I presume?

 

[TheLastOne36]

One Province Minor.

Out of interest is there a reason why so many people seem to be using the full on cheats?

In EU2 there were occasional reasons to fire a cash event to get 50 ducats rather than accidentally go bankrupt because of a negative event however I'm not sure what the challenge is if you have more money than you can spend.

Laziness, lack of ability, or training wheels.

Or for fun. It is VERY Fun to play as a nation like Aceh and just send a billion colonist's all over Indonesia.

In my game as Aceh, I fully colonized Australia(they are all cities) and it's only 1470. I have most colonizable areas of Indonesia Colonized as well as all of Papua Guinea. (My range is in the 500's i believe) and some of my cores are starting to finally core up. I already invaded Brunei once and took the province needed to to form Indonesia. I will form Indonesia at around 1490, and finish off Brunei and focus my attention in South East Asia. I'm lucky that Spain colonized a province in Philippines which allows me to westernize, which I should shortly after I form Indonesia (forming Indonesia gives you +2 centralization. I need 1 more cetnralization and 1 more innovative to westernize). 100 % of all colonized parts of Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand is Muslim. (Some parts are still animist and uncolonized though).

I think this is the funnest game I ever had. Granted I do spam alt-2-1-colonist-enter, but this game is meant for Fun. If I want realism, i'd play as a European nation.

 

[Love]

Reminds me of my spanish game where i had colonized everything and conquested africa, india, america and italy

man i cheated

 

[Chieftess]

Reminds me of my spanish game where i had colonized everything and conquested africa, india, america and italy

man i cheated

That's what I like about this game - you can even change the rules files mid-game and it'll still take effect. Then there's saving, reloading as another nation/kingdom, doing something like gifting a province or declaring war, then reloading as your civ. I'm going to try at least once to make everyone at war with every known nation and see what happens (removing units, too).

 

[PhroX]

I'm not sure how to westernize, either.

Here you go:

http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Westernization

As a note, I don't really get the cheating either, makes it boring IMO, even for non-European nations. And I definately think it's a bad idea for new players - much better to learn by getting your ass handed to you on a plate

 

[Chieftess]

Here you go:

http://www.paradoxian.org/eu3wiki/Westernization

As a note, I don't really get the cheating either, makes it boring IMO, even for non-European nations. And I definately think it's a bad idea for new players - much better to learn by getting your ass handed to you on a plate

So, how do you change your state religion from anamist to Christian? I read something on the wiki about the religion tab and there being a button, but I don't see anything. And the slider changes seem random...?

 

[TheLastOne36]

I believe for starters, a province of yours needs to be christian. Although I see numerious times Byzantines or Greeks being Muslim when all their provinces are orthadox or catholic and vice versa.

 

[Chieftess]

I believe for starters, a province of yours needs to be christian. Although I see numerious times Byzantines or Greeks being Muslim when all their provinces are orthadox or catholic and vice versa.

There's plenty of provinces like that, and they are core provinces.

 

[PhroX]

So, how do you change your state religion from anamist to Christian? I read something on the wiki about the religion tab and there being a button, but I don't see anything. And the slider changes seem random...?

Dunno. IIRC, normally you can only change to a different religion group if you're got one province and religious rebels take it (and I think you have to collapse as well - not nice), but there might be something different for Animist/Shamanistic nations (changes within the group are possible if religious rebels take any province, or of course by decision for the Reformation).

Not something I've ever had to do though, as I've only played with IN, and Westernisation doesn't need it anymore.

As for Muslim Byzantines, it's probably a result of them getting annexed, then rebelling/getting released after the Ottomans have converted their capital or similar.

 

[TheLastOne36]

What religion do you want to change from?

You can only freely change religions between Catholicism, Protestantism and Reformed.

If you want to change to another religion, what you can do is send your missionaries to a province with the target religion, (allowing it to revolt due to being converted) put your missionary spending to 0%, and wait for a revolt. Once some religious zealots come up, comply with their demands, which would be 'state religion switched to x' as well as 2 decentralization and a pretty bad reputation hit.

It's an exploit sort of if you are doing it intentionally, but it's the only way to switch from Islam to Catholic or Budhist to Orthadoxy or Orthadoxy to Catholic etc.