How is your EU3 Game going?

[JohnnyW]

Resized. Also, forgot to mention the Sunni Byzantines in Crete.

Thanks.

Here's my game (very easy btw) in 1429. I'm already expanding into South America.

 

[Kyriakos]

A final update for tonight

Well, two notable things happened.

First of all Hungary declared war on Bohemia, and got utterly ruined. Serbia rebelled, and i am now allied with it, Georgia and Milan.

Then France got destroyed in a war with Austria, and finally forced to release Switzerland and Flanders...

 

[Joecoolyo]

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Here's the map for my Manchu game, currently 1684 right now.

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I got extremely lucky in this game. The expanded rapidly into the steppes, constantly getting into long wars with the nomad countries. Eventually, something must have snapped, because they started losing ground, and they got swamped with rebels. I decided the time was right, and swept into northern China. I avoided the huge Ming armies that were playing wack-a-mole with the rebels, and I managed to form the Army of the Green Standard, so that gave me a little more weight to throw around. Eventually I got a good peace deal, and the Wu broke off of the Ming. They managed to maintain their independence, and I allied with them. Together, we gobbled up the Ming, until it was just the two of us. Knowing that there can be only one Son of Heaven, I repeatedly whipped them in a couple wars and established myself as the only dynasty in China

After this, I did stuff like colonize Siberia and the Pacific. I pushed the nomads back, but didn't get carried away like the Ming did. I was stuck in a Personal Union with Champa for a while shortly after I beat the Wu After that, I subjugated Shan and Dai Vet, and forced Tangu to become Confucian.

While I was busy fighting in China and Southeast Asia, Europe has been chaotic. Burgundy and France have been in numerous wars, and somewhere in the middle of it all Normandy became independent. Burgundy got a chunk of Scotland, while it has been steadily losing ground to France. Iberia is a mess. Navarre and Castille are usually two-province minors, while Granada and Aragon dominate the rest of Iberia. England conquered chunks of Portugal, but rebellions are causing these lands to defect. Galicia and Swedish Iberia are also notable.

The HRE is a mess as well. Bohemia, Austria, and Hesse have been juggling the Emperorship over the years, just enough so that neither one of them could gain any significant amount of power. The Baltic coast has been a strange sight. At one point the TO, Prussia, and Kourland existed at the same time. Oldenburg and Holland have joined Armagnac in colonizing the New World, adding to the ridiculousness.

The Ottomans have been pretty much bulldozing through Europe. They've had less luck fighting England for dominance over North Africa. The English have really had a strong presence in Africa, but with recent unstability England is losing its hold on Africa, and it appears as though Aragon may become the new dominant power in the region. In Crimea and Ukraine the Ottomans have taken root. An odd Christian Tartar Zaporozhye has remained in the region for quite some years now, and I have no idea where it came from.

Georgia and Moscowy have been steadily pushing east. Boring, but intimidating.

Colonization has been a mess. Every European and his brother has a stake in the New World, and Africa hasn't been immune to this effect either. The main colonial powers right now are Grenada, Sweden, England, and Holland, with Armagnac and Oldenburg occasionally popping up. Minamoto colonized and conquered parts of Africa before Japan was unified. But after shortly after Japan was unified it lost a war with Holland, and a new Minamoto has proclaimed independence in Africa. India used to be in serious danger of losing independence to Sweden, England, and Grenada, but Europe's affinity for chaos has allowed numerous rebellions and Indian coalitions to push the Europeans out of the heart of India.

So yeah, the world outside of China is a fractured and chaotic place, just as it should be ;P

EDIT: Yes, Jalayirids in Central Asia.

Goddamn, that map looks like a Jackson Pollock painting

 

[Love]

I had a game where brittany pwned the ottomans with the ship in Bosporus trick, which balkanized them up pretty good.

 

[Kyriakos]

Apart from my little conquest of Syria, and the release of Iraq (which then went on war against me...) not much has changed other than Austria getting an even bigger part of Asia. I hope they will go to war with the Russians.
I am now westernised, and there is a balance of power with Austria.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I been playing a game as France and somehow I ended up being elected as Holy Roman Emperor.

 

[Love]

As long as it's not spain...

 

[Maniacal]

My Netherlands game (and yes I am using some cheats, I will not be using them in my next games though as I want to get some achievements ).

EDIT: Sorry for giant pictures, but I don't feel like resizing them right now. Use CTRL + Scroll wheel to zoom out.

First, this is how the world looked in 1473.

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Now 103 years later in 1576 I now dominate most of the world.

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After inheriting Lithuania, Poland has barely done ANYTHING at all this entire game. Sweden has reabsorbed Norway (which had formerly managed to regain all of its lands) and Denmark continues to merely be a minor nation and a shadow of its former self. France had its armies crushed in a war against me and then everyone and their mother declared war and tore France apart. Castille is still not trying to form Spain and Austria keeps trying to stay relevant and it looks like it will soon be time for another smack down on them.

Hindustan has been hugely successful in the Far East.

Damn Aragon is asking for a smack down too, invading the Inca like that!

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Big Poland is big

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

why do you have that pointless island in the baltics?

 

[Northen Wolf]

why do you have that pointless island in the baltics?

It's not pointless, it's part of Estonia! Besides, there be hot estonian wimmin there.

---
PrinceScamp, try EU3 while not cheating - quite a different experience.

 

[Maniacal]

why do you have that pointless island in the baltics?

Because the game wouldn't let me get rid of it, it kept returning it to me after I sold it off and I couldn't create a vassal there (eventually managed to rid myself of Kirkland). One of the "perks" of being the Hole Roman Emperor.

It's not pointless, it's part of Estonia! Besides, there be hot estonian wimmin there.

It had like 2000 people, I completely ignored it hoping it would rebel until I gained a core :/ Then I built it up into a fort in case I ever get into a war in that region.

PrinceScamp, try EU3 while not cheating - quite a different experience.

I already said the next ones aren't going to use cheats, this was my first DW game and I was impatient

 

[Leifmk]

The other day I saw that Cornwall had at one point taken over England entirely (I was busy doing the Muscowy -> Russia thing and not paying much attention to that corner of the map). Probably an inheritance. A few decades later England was back on the map and about normal-sized.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Playing as Hedjaz. Managed to conquer Najd and Haasa. Yemen and Adal are both vassals, while I'm allied with the Ottomans.

 

[Love]

Time to screw with the mamluks?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Not quite yet. I don't want to get much bigger until I can get out of tribal despotism. (Government tech 10) The thing with tribal governments is that whenever your king dies, you get a bunch of rebels...any bigger would be a bad thing. And besides, the Ottomans are having a bit of trouble with revolts right now, so the timing wouldn't be great.

 

[germanicus12]

Where do you normally find those entire world maps for EUIII? I took screenshots and I get confirmation in game that screenshots were taken but I cannot find them in my EUIII folders or my Pictures Folder. I have a Windows XP system. If you need more info I will gladly provide them if it helps find those wayward pictures. Thanks.

 

[Maniacal]

Program Files -> Paradox Interactive -> EUIII -> Screenshots

 

[Luckymoose]

Hindustan 1546.

 

[Kyriakos]

What happened to Greece?