How is your EU3 Game going?
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north american scum
Dat Ass...am.
Northen Wolf
Young Hunter
Meet England, in 1604. Spain got created by Aragon. In 10 years it collapsed into Castille and Spain. After I claimed Spains colonies and took back one of their provinces (gained a core on one of their provinces), Spain got swarmed with rebels and Aragon revolted. Planning to vassalize Aragon and Diplo-Annex it, while moving to take out (and claim colonies of) Hanseatic plague and Finland/Sweden 
Oh, Papal state gained Iceland through catholic heretic rebels, that made it to defect. Austria is troubling me tho, gained some nice manpower and allies while it was the Emperor and despite of their exceeded infamy limit, (30+) I don't want a full-fledged war with that beast.
That be Englands colonial Empire. I think I should have most of Northern USA under mah grip soon enough. Where to expand next? Tried to expand into Africa, but claiming colonies is easier, than building new colonies and facing constant slow pop-growth and horrible natives.
For some odd reason, AI expanded much slower than I expected (idea that allows to colonize new lands was my second idea) - maybe cuz Portugal and Castille were busy in interfighting and France was beaten several times by my forces ? Still, I expected more of a challenge (had Most northern provinces of South America under my control when Portugal finally reached carribian isles).
Sadly, I failed to gain 100% grip of whole Carribian isle region (portugal, milan and spain/castille got their share) and I moved too slow in annexing incas, allowing Prussia and Swedes to get 3 states in South America (but gained more than 2500 gold in the progress!).
I'm thinking of letting let AI to build up East coast of USA (with all those aggressive natives) , while taking West-coast and central areas to myself. Should not be too difficult to gain control of entire America before game ends.
Normal difficulty, no lucky nations, 50 year cores
Oh, Papal state gained Iceland through catholic heretic rebels, that made it to defect. Austria is troubling me tho, gained some nice manpower and allies while it was the Emperor and despite of their exceeded infamy limit, (30+) I don't want a full-fledged war with that beast.
That be Englands colonial Empire. I think I should have most of Northern USA under mah grip soon enough. Where to expand next? Tried to expand into Africa, but claiming colonies is easier, than building new colonies and facing constant slow pop-growth and horrible natives.
For some odd reason, AI expanded much slower than I expected (idea that allows to colonize new lands was my second idea) - maybe cuz Portugal and Castille were busy in interfighting and France was beaten several times by my forces ? Still, I expected more of a challenge (had Most northern provinces of South America under my control when Portugal finally reached carribian isles).
Sadly, I failed to gain 100% grip of whole Carribian isle region (portugal, milan and spain/castille got their share) and I moved too slow in annexing incas, allowing Prussia and Swedes to get 3 states in South America (but gained more than 2500 gold in the progress!).
I'm thinking of letting let AI to build up East coast of USA (with all those aggressive natives) , while taking West-coast and central areas to myself. Should not be too difficult to gain control of entire America before game ends.
Normal difficulty, no lucky nations, 50 year cores
Since I don't plan on getting Divine Wind anytime soon (Paradox expansions are always waay too overpriced), I was kinda curious as to what these flags are.
I keep on seeing them in all these DW pics, and I still haven't figured out what they're there for. Anyone know?
I keep on seeing them in all these DW pics, and I still haven't figured out what they're there for. Anyone know?
They're the new "alert" system. They are alerts that you can read by hovering your mouse over or clicking on them if I remember well. They have it like that in Victoria 2. It's better than just the old list at the bottom, at least with this system you can quickly tell which country are in the news. THey are on different "levels" or "floors" depending on the subject of the news.
I heard that people were getting DW for about $10 at some places.
Also, I never read the in-game news, there's too much of it!
Although it is funny when you are playing as France in the late 18th Century, and someone else (such as Russia) gets the French Revolution event.I'm waiting for it to drop to about 10$ at Gamersgate, which it will do this spring I'm ready to bet, if only for a week-end or something. I also don't like paying 20$ for their expansion, although frankly with the graphic update to DW it's probably the one that deserves it most (as opposed to a 10 megs patch/mod like Napoleon's Ambition).
Also, I never read the in-game news, there's too much of it!
I also have a problem with the in-game alerts. I know I can set them up (alert options), but the flood of information means that I pretty much either miss all important info or pay attention to everything (in which case I spend 3 hours playing the first decade).
Really? That's actually pretty cool, much better than the old system. In fact, I didn't even bother reading the old one, no point
Show me where!
$10 is affordable, $20 is a rip.
Northen Wolf
Young Hunter
1) I don't know whatever I gain cores on everything or not. 45% of my lands are uncored, with average two of them gaining core every year (COLONIEZ!). If I form GB, will that gain-core timer reset?
2) My Centralization is near-max already, so centr. boost that I get from forming GB is not much help.
3) England owns cores on many provinces. I don't like foreign cores on my provinces, esp. In colonies.
It shouldn't.
Well, if it's only near-max, you can still use the boost. Besides, you get tax and manpower bonuses as well.
Oh well.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Hey Guys, I have started a new game as Poland after getting some advice here and my game was going fairly well
In 100 years I managed to conquer most of lithuania and all of the teutonic order and pommerania.. 95% of the time I only went to war when I had c.b. - except for a couple times (maybe twice) when I attacked the teutons cause i wanted more sea access
Then the reformation came and f'd up my country. Rebels appeared everywhere and my armies just could not cope with them. at all! I was losing every single battle for some reason - this never happened in the game before.. I could face a 5k strong army with something weaker - and win. This time around I was sending in fairly large (25k+) armies to face 6k armies and losing. What's going on? Eventually there was too much unrest and ukraine, danzig, latvia (i think), and lithuania declared independence. taking maybe 30% of my territory. Not only that, I went bankrupt cause I tried to build up my army during the rebellion. a bit too much I guess - but I tried to do whatever it took to defeat the rebels.
Any tips on how to prevent something like that from happening? I'm happy enough where I am 100 years into the game- even with the lost territory. It's not that bad, but it could be.. awesome! If I could only keep all the stuff I conquered.. I don't want to have to reconquer the parts I want.
Also, nobody seems to like me.. When I look at the list of countries and their relations with me, the highest number I see is a 7.. which is BAD. Nobody wants to marry my ass, and of course not enter into alliances.. Why did this happen? Going to war only when you have c.b. isn't good enough? Or should I have been kissing arse throughout the game diplomatically in order to ensure that I had allies? I had several royal marriages, some with fairly powerful countries.. but those are now gone.
In 100 years I managed to conquer most of lithuania and all of the teutonic order and pommerania.. 95% of the time I only went to war when I had c.b. - except for a couple times (maybe twice) when I attacked the teutons cause i wanted more sea access
Then the reformation came and f'd up my country. Rebels appeared everywhere and my armies just could not cope with them. at all! I was losing every single battle for some reason - this never happened in the game before.. I could face a 5k strong army with something weaker - and win. This time around I was sending in fairly large (25k+) armies to face 6k armies and losing. What's going on? Eventually there was too much unrest and ukraine, danzig, latvia (i think), and lithuania declared independence. taking maybe 30% of my territory. Not only that, I went bankrupt cause I tried to build up my army during the rebellion. a bit too much I guess - but I tried to do whatever it took to defeat the rebels.
Any tips on how to prevent something like that from happening? I'm happy enough where I am 100 years into the game- even with the lost territory. It's not that bad, but it could be.. awesome! If I could only keep all the stuff I conquered.. I don't want to have to reconquer the parts I want.
Also, nobody seems to like me.. When I look at the list of countries and their relations with me, the highest number I see is a 7.. which is BAD. Nobody wants to marry my ass, and of course not enter into alliances.. Why did this happen? Going to war only when you have c.b. isn't good enough? Or should I have been kissing arse throughout the game diplomatically in order to ensure that I had allies? I had several royal marriages, some with fairly powerful countries.. but those are now gone.
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
What version are you playing?
Are you playing at below the normal difficulty? Cause in the normal one having so bad relations is obviously a dangerous state to be in 
I would reload from where you were before you went bankrupt. Mind your inflation as well, i never had above 5% inflation in any of my games (never took a loan either though).
Here is my new game, 20 years in. It goes fairly well, and currently i am thinking of attacking the Mameluks from my land in Tripoli and from Dulkadir which grants me military access.
But they have a 30K army, split into two, and my entire army only numbers 20K men. Also they have land 5 and i have land 4. So i may have to rethink my plan, unless someone else fights them too or they finally have to face some serious revolts.
Also i do hope the timurids collapse soon, since in the last war they sent more than 40K men to my provinces... I had to create a 25K army, and only due to their bad strategy was i able to fight them and capture one province, get a score of +12% and agree to concede defeat. Otherwise they were asking me to pay 7,5 ducats per month!
I would reload from where you were before you went bankrupt. Mind your inflation as well, i never had above 5% inflation in any of my games (never took a loan either though).
Here is my new game, 20 years in. It goes fairly well, and currently i am thinking of attacking the Mameluks from my land in Tripoli and from Dulkadir which grants me military access.
But they have a 30K army, split into two, and my entire army only numbers 20K men. Also they have land 5 and i have land 4. So i may have to rethink my plan, unless someone else fights them too or they finally have to face some serious revolts.
Also i do hope the timurids collapse soon, since in the last war they sent more than 40K men to my provinces... I had to create a 25K army, and only due to their bad strategy was i able to fight them and capture one province, get a score of +12% and agree to concede defeat. Otherwise they were asking me to pay 7,5 ducats per month!
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I have EU3 complete, which apparently includes In Nomine and Napoleons Ambition.. but when I launch the game I only see a EU3 link, so I'm assuming it's launching the latest expansion. (Napoleons ambition?) (I'm using Steam btw)
Kyriakos said:
I went with 'very easy' for this.. my first 'serious' game. Will move up to easy once I figure out what mistakes I'm making.
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
Chances are, the reason why you are losing to your rebels is because as Poland, you are not technologically advanced enough. There is a point where troops transition from meelee to gun powder weapons and that is a significant gap.
Rebels I believe, always take the highest technology of your tech group (Im not sure though)
Try increasing the tech of your troops, or hiring mercenaries from Western Tech groups or build soldiers from provinces with the core of a country with a Western Tech Group and select the western troops.
Also, try to have more 'Fire' power armies than the old cavalry shock base armies.
As with the world not liking you, that's somewhat normal in a pre-HTTT game. But yes, you could kiss ass more often, make better friends and keeping relations up by constantly bribing them with money.
Rebels I believe, always take the highest technology of your tech group (Im not sure though)
Try increasing the tech of your troops, or hiring mercenaries from Western Tech groups or build soldiers from provinces with the core of a country with a Western Tech Group and select the western troops.
Also, try to have more 'Fire' power armies than the old cavalry shock base armies.
As with the world not liking you, that's somewhat normal in a pre-HTTT game. But yes, you could kiss ass more often, make better friends and keeping relations up by constantly bribing them with money.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
Russia game: 1648, infamy is killing me!!
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Hmm that could be it, cause I never had problems with rebels. Like I said before, I was able to crush them with almost any sized army.
I *should* have provinces that give me decently advanced troops, though.. Shouldn't pommerania? I don't think I've even seen gun powder units though, but maybe I haven't been paying enough attention..
My tech advancement rate has been pretty quick so far (I think), shouldn't that help?
Northen Wolf
Young Hunter
What is your land tech compared to your neighbors ? Having more than 2 in difference can cause huge issues - You can defeat 12 unit native indian stacks with 2 infantry units, killing 6000+ their troops and losing none of your troops).
You can check Tech-rates through ledger (press L) or by clicking on neighbor province (it should show something like Land:8 Naval: 7 near were their relations list is.)
Second thing is, what is your army moral? If you have reduced army payments or have had events that reduce moral of army, your armies will lose (retreat) from battles that they probably can win. So a tip would be: Before attacking enemy, make sure your unit stack always has near-full moral.
Third thing is - are you attacking provinces that have high amount of mountains or a river seprating two provinces? The "attacker penalty" can pretty much ensure loser status in some provinces, even if you have 25 units and they have 10 units against you. Try not to attack enemy who is in highly mountainous province, as chance are that you will carry out the attack in mountains.
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Revolts
My Experience is - Never take too large chunks of enemy territory (5-6 provinces max), unless those provinces have your cores (provinces what you have core on, will rarely revolt), as nationalism will make sure that tons of rebels will spawn. If you happen to take several territories, try to keep at least 3 units on every territory that have high revolt risk:
1) You can send reinforcements from neighboring provinces
2) When rebels spawn, they will attack defending unit and You gain terrain bonuses
3) Units in provinces reduce revolt chance
Increasing stability can also reduce revolt risk, as can certain advisor.
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On the topic of you not being liked.
No one likes you, because you (probably) have high Infamy - Any illegal action you do (take provinces that are not your cores, demand vassaliation, no casus belly when you declare war on enemy) will increase your infamy.
More about infamy.
I often refer to wiki while playing EU III
