Maniacal
the green Napoleon
You should try playing another nation.
How is your EU3 Game going?
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I still stand by my earlier recommendation that you should rebuild the Byz Empire as Morea in 1453. On MMP2.
I like playing as the Empire, but i am not masochistic
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
I tried a game as the Inca a couple days ago. There wasn't much to do and I got bored. What *can* you really do if you play as the Inca starting in 1399, though? Your first goal should be opening up an idea slot, right? It seems like it's impossible to get it for the first.. couple hundred years? What am I missing?
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Its like playing with Hawaii in Victoria II, a freakin island, you cant even support a navy, uncivilized...
As for the poster (Germanicus12) who mentioned his "strange" war with the ottomans, i came to notice that the AI calculates what it should give in a peace negotiation based on three factors:
1) How many provinces of it you occupy.
2) How many provinces of its allies you occupy. If they are vassals then you get even more warscore in your favor.
3) Last but definitely not least: what standing armies it has, compared with your own.
This means that you can forget signing lucrative peace-deals if you have not wiped out most of the enemy forces. I had games where i occupied almost all of the ottomans and they would not even give away a single province, because an ally of theirs had an army of similar strength as my own, and so the result of the war was deemed to be undecided yet
1) How many provinces of it you occupy.
2) How many provinces of its allies you occupy. If they are vassals then you get even more warscore in your favor.
3) Last but definitely not least: what standing armies it has, compared with your own.
This means that you can forget signing lucrative peace-deals if you have not wiped out most of the enemy forces. I had games where i occupied almost all of the ottomans and they would not even give away a single province, because an ally of theirs had an army of similar strength as my own, and so the result of the war was deemed to be undecided yet
Racsoviale
Smoke me a kipper!
I read an AAR on the paradoxforums where the guy ended up smashing europe with the Iroquois. the key in the beginning seemed to be aiming at getting level 1 forts up an running in your provinces as well as keeping the number of provinces at the exact level where it does not cause a civil war.
Furthermore he seemed to be very cautious with where he expanded, which meant he only had one border province with a european power, which in turn he did his best to keep at very good relations.
Here is the link
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?384744-The-Audacity-of-Hope-An-Iroquois-IN-AAR
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Play anything that isn't Byzantine's again.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Very interesting thread, just spent the last half an hour going through it
I noticed that infamy isn't one of the icons at the top of the screen.. in the top left corner, where it usually appears. Is this a mod?Some nations i would be interested in playing, and reasons not to try:
England - too easy
France - starts possibly not that strong, but again generally an easy ride
Japan - too far away from anything that can help one modernize. Probably the first hundred years will be both difficult and ultimately useless (?)
Muscovy - I heard it is a challenge, but i believe that Russia is meant to be played by the AI due to the massive size which makes it tiresome to quell revolts and raise stability.
Austria - Could be interesting, but it has a limited scope of expansion.
Byzantines - That's what i am talking about
England - too easy
France - starts possibly not that strong, but again generally an easy ride
Japan - too far away from anything that can help one modernize. Probably the first hundred years will be both difficult and ultimately useless (?)
Muscovy - I heard it is a challenge, but i believe that Russia is meant to be played by the AI due to the massive size which makes it tiresome to quell revolts and raise stability.
Austria - Could be interesting, but it has a limited scope of expansion.
Byzantines - That's what i am talking about
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Try to play with Bosnia, I played with Bosnia until a yesterday (when I re-installed windows and formatted my disks and forgot to upload my saves), anyways its really hard, Ottomans from one side, Hungary from another, In my game i immediately took Ragusa and all of Serbia (Zeta,Serbia and Kosovo), I was really lucky because the French for some reason declared war on the ottomans and attacked the Ottomans in Turkey and Georgia, but the Ottomans declared war on me a few days before that, and because of that they had no strong army on the balkans, I took Macedonia and Albania, and France annexed much of Turkey and Georgia, I allied with Austria, it annexed Hungaryand one front was secure, then every time my infamy dipped I declared war on the weakened Ottomans and took all of the balkans, and made Epirus my vassal, Then I declared war on Byzantium and took Constantinople, and renamed it Nedimopole. Then I sent a small fleet into Africa with 4 units and declared war on Kongo and annexed it in two wars. The next 50 years were boring I was at 1691
chegel
Warlord
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Try Hansa>Prussia>Germany for an intersting game which is not too easy. In the end, when you do everything right and wait for the prussian military reforms, you will be the most powerful country in the world and have had a fun time getting there. Then you can either steamroll Europe or start a new game because steamrolling is kinda boring...
Luckymoose
The World is Mine
Some nations i would be interested in playing, and reasons not to try:
England - too easy
France - starts possibly not that strong, but again generally an easy ride
Japan - too far away from anything that can help one modernize. Probably the first hundred years will be both difficult and ultimately useless (?)
Muscovy - I heard it is a challenge, but i believe that Russia is meant to be played by the AI due to the massive size which makes it tiresome to quell revolts and raise stability.
Austria - Could be interesting, but it has a limited scope of expansion.
Byzantines - That's what i am talking about
Play a Russian minor and form Russia. Nothing is meant to be played by the A.I, that is absurd.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
Yeah It's Russia, I formed it in 1460. My vassals are: Korea, Iraq, Syria, Mazovia, Mongol Khanate and Ramazan. I defeated Poland yet again taking more provinces which launches my infamy even higher in the double digits. In peacetime to reduce my infamy , I colonize as much as possible. My recent wars were agains Louisiana who defected from Mecklenburg, but taking two provinces of mine, so I took 8 provinces from them
.Something really weird happened though, as Polotsk emerged from Poland and they formed a PU with me, with them leading. I think it was because of my negative prestige level after some rather nasty events. They had 2 provinces so I just insulted the crap out of them and annexed them rather fast. Eastern Europe is slowly becoming Orthodox.
Here are some other weird things happening:
-Brazil was formed...... in West-Africa
-France still exists, but is in a hopeless position
-Spain is still not formed. Aragon still own Barcelona.
-Chille is the only country that defected from it's colonial owner and is doing well. USA, Canada, Quebec, Mexico and Venezuela are all sucking really hard.
-Quebec is in New-England, Canada around the Hudson Bay, and USA is around New Edward Island.
That's why you need to give yourself a secondary goal, like, for example, holding onto your territories in France.
I haven't played recently as them, but I don't remember them being too hard.
Since you're playing DW, the first hundred years would be spent uniting. Then modernize and blow your way through Asia.
I played as Japan once, but it was a while ago (I want to say IN), and I managed to conquer all of SE Asia within the first hundred years.
I have no idea what everyone is talking about, forming Russia was a breeze for me, especially with all the amazing missions you get. And hell, I had to contend with an uber-Lithuania and an uber-Ottoman Empire.
Waaay to easy, I played it and within the first 50 years I formed the HRE.
If you want a challenge, try playing a country that only starts out with one or two provinces (that aren't the Byzantines). Like, any German minor, or, if you want a real challenge, an Indian/SE Asian minor.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
You should consider Scotland, Aragon or Teutonic Order, they have great potential but begin in a some what hostile situation with superpowers surrounding them.
