There's my Ottoman Empire in 1501
How is your EU3 Game going?
- Thread starter TheLastOne36
- Start date
aronnax
Let your spirit be free
It might be a bit mean to say but.... That's it?
Lone Wolf
Deity
- Joined
- Dec 4, 2006
- Messages
- 9,908
Why exactly my former Chinese holdings in Siberia had decided that they'd rather defect to Pskov? I had to annex Pskov itself and vassalize its new Siberian holdings. I hope that when the obligatory 10 years pass, Pskov-in-Sibeira will have no problems being annexed.
you are indeed mean to suggest I don't absolutely rule this game
what can I say? I've never been one for rapid expansion, trying to keep bb reasonably low, etc. slow and steady is more my style. But yeah, I probably wouldn't have been a great world conqueror, given the opportunity
What's up with Great Britain? 
Anyway, I had a 1-province AI do something very, very, very stupid. As I was manuvering large stacks to attack another nation, this one little province decided to declare war... with 50,000 troop next to it... Needless to say, it was over quickly.
Time for a very, very bad pun. As far as Europe goes, it won't be Eur(ope)'s for much longer, it'll be May(a)n.
Anyway, I had a 1-province AI do something very, very, very stupid. As I was manuvering large stacks to attack another nation, this one little province decided to declare war... with 50,000 troop next to it... Needless to say, it was over quickly.
Time for a very, very bad pun. As far as Europe goes, it won't be Eur(ope)'s for much longer, it'll be May(a)n.
yeah, they were a bit of a pain. They're gone by now (as well as most of lithuania, poland and potosk, but I let them live for a while because they were allied with Austria and I wasn't ready to take them on all together just yet. I was barely able to hold my own in the first war against them
umm, nothing? take a closer looks at the shades of red...GB controls only their usual provinces and a piece of finland. the red blob in the middle east/northern africa is the timurid empire who inheritet the mameluksWhat's up with Great Britain?
so how's your game with the mayans going? I have a game started somewhere as the Iroquois, but got bored by it, because there's not really anything to do until the europeans arrive ...Time for a very, very bad pun. As far as Europe goes, it won't be Eur(ope)'s for much longer, it'll be May(a)n.
Trying to convince their vassals not to end up like the one-province nations and join in the conquest of the world.
(Looks like it's gonna take a LONG time to lower the BB reputation. Might as well conquer the whole world instead...) The Timilud (sp) are getting very big, too, as is Maharathra. My eastern Siberian colonist have since become cores and are now churning out units to head south. Ming was also getting far too big for his own good.Time for a very, very bad pun. As far as Europe goes, it won't be Eur(ope)'s for much longer, it'll be May(a)n.
That pun was absolutely awful
Turquoiside
Emperor
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2008
- Messages
- 1,552
I happened to pick up The Complete Edition last weekend at a low price, and have been playing all this week. Overall, it is fun. But does anyone know if it is even possible to win, or even survive as Granada in a semi-normal game? My current games all end with me beginning an escape to America, but I'm always destroyed before I get a full province.
Serutan
Eatibus Anythingibus
What's up with Great Britain?
Time for a very, very bad pun. As far as Europe goes, it won't be Eur(ope)'s for much longer, it'll be May(a)n.
Bad puns are like sneak attacks - There should never be any warning.
PhroX
Deity
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2009
- Messages
- 2,801
Basically, unless you want to be really cheesey* you have to get lucky to succeed as Granada. I remember reading on the Paradox forums about someone who was able to siege the Spanish capital before they were able to take any of his provinces, and could force a peace that benefited him, but that kind of thing comes down to having the RNG on your side
* Cheesey tactics are things like going and taking a HRE OPM right at the beginning of the game.
TheLastOne36
Deity
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2007
- Messages
- 14,045
I prefer dutch 1opm. They tend to be rich, and as closer to home.
PhroX
Deity
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2009
- Messages
- 2,801
Yeah, the Dutch one's are good. Just wait till the Emperor is distracted, then jump in. Lubek's also nice due to it's CoT. The easiest are probably the Irish ones, as you don't have to deal with the Emperor, but the provinces are pretty poor.
I remember Till writing an AAR about a game as Grenada, though I think it was EU2.
TheLastOne36
Deity
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2007
- Messages
- 14,045
Mecklenburg starts with 2 states, and thus will take two wars 5 years apart to conquer Lubeck. Plus HRE emperor at start of the game is Bohemia. Bohemia just needs to cross Brandenburg to reach Mecklenburg.
Dutch 1PM are the best, they are the richest, and are a good starting point for conquering the netherlands, which would be much better than just a couple of German states. After awhile, you can relaunch an assault on Castille/Spain as well as Colonize.
PhroX
Deity
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2009
- Messages
- 2,801
Heh, I had forgotten that Lubeck wasn't an independant nation in vanilla. So used to playing SRI these days. Though, even then, you can still take that one province from Meck.
I do agree that the Dutch states are better overall, just saying that they're not the only option. The also put you closer to something large and blue....
Tani Coyote
Son of Huehuecoyotl
- Joined
- May 28, 2007
- Messages
- 15,195
My game as Aragón, as of 1461. Well, now I've formed Spain, though this version of Spain is dominated by the Catalan group rather than the Castilian. (Madrid's culture, coincidentally enough, became Catalan through a conversion event)
The game itself has a few modifications to facilitate warfare and development. For instance, the formation of Spain gives cores on the Italian and Greek lands Aragon would have claims on, hence it made it slightly easier to absorb those areas. Cultures are a bit easier to accept, while war exhaustion decreases faster. To ensure the formation of Italy as a rival, I helped Milan along by giving them cores on the four provinces required to form Italy, and I might do the same with a German minor at some point. (I need some new rivals, as I'm likely to trounce France in the near future to lay the foundations for a New Roman Empire...
) As well, to make the Anglo-Burgundo-French Wars more interesting, I made it so the Straits of Dover are LITERALLY straits again. 
Please do not get too offended by the somewhat rude comments around the map, they're meant in good humor and also because of the roleplaying(I'm Spain for goodness sakes!)
Turquoiside
Emperor
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2008
- Messages
- 1,552
These are some shots from My Ottoman game, started right after the war with Persia (The real-life one).
Playing as Turkey isn't as easy as I thought. Austria and friends invades around 1610 , destroy what I though was a solid army and take all provinces down to Macedonia. I make peace, giving them only a few provinces, and a promise of revenge. Tripoli insults me during this time, thinking I won't invade them while I'm about to lose almost a 1/4 of my territory. After I crush thier allies, they become my vassals. But while Austria was merrily slaughtering Turks, Spain inherited Portugal and became a massive Iberian Empire. SuperSpain declares on Austria while I rebuild, but it's pretty much a stalemate. I redeclare around 1650, and am almost crushed yet again. My Polish force is ruined, my 30,000 strong army is crushed and Austria moves in. Spain, as it seems, hasn't been doing much. I take my surviving units and proceed to decisively push back Austria while Poland decides to make peace. With 30,000 more units freed up, SuperSpain suddenly re-appears and occupies Austria with me. The cowards then give White Peace to Austria, almost ruining the entire war. What you can't see in this picture, is that after this set-back, all of Austria is occupied by 1655. I can't annex, so take what I need to target the "Most Serene Republic of Venice".
The next 40 years up to here are spent in peace, partly due to A.I. and system incompetence. Tuscany, the Papal States, and a few others declare on Venice. Tuscany occupies and takes Venice, but I assume the Venetian fleet blockaded the army's escape. So Tuscany and Venice spend the next 40 years in war, Tuscany without most its army, Venice without a capital and with plenty of revolts to go around. Eventually this stupidity ends, Venice pushes Tuscany out, and I declare on Venice with its nice, available CoT. Unfortunately, Poland was aligned with them, and proceeds to crush my 100,000 strong (but not the most advanced) force. While Poland and my surviving forces chase around each other, I occupy all of Venice with the advanced troops from the former Austrian territories. I annex all but their capital, and Poland takes another White Peace when it could have fought up to my capital. The shot is right after that war.
I colonized and improved my technology while the Venetian-Tuscan stalemate was going on. I colonized the Bahamas from the French, and also colonize some of Indonesia. I got sizeable revolts that overwhelmed my garrison though, and my Red Sea fleet was destroyed in the reaction-crossing. The good news is that in only two to six more years I'll be able to build troops in my lone surviving province there.
England had done quite bad, failing to unite the Islands like they usually do in my experience. So the current Superpowers are:
Russia (In a war vs. the Ming, they occupied 90% of Chinese territory.)
SuperSpain (Woe to their enemies [and that's me])
Ottoman Turkey (Me)
Persia (They are on their way to controlling all of India!)
France (Obviously)
Poland (They don't do much except seperate Russia from the rest of the world [And maybe that's enough])
Austria (Perhaps not as much as the rest, but for a nation that was totally occupied and without an army just 50 years ago, I'm impressed at their success)
Playing as Turkey isn't as easy as I thought. Austria and friends invades around 1610 , destroy what I though was a solid army and take all provinces down to Macedonia. I make peace, giving them only a few provinces, and a promise of revenge. Tripoli insults me during this time, thinking I won't invade them while I'm about to lose almost a 1/4 of my territory. After I crush thier allies, they become my vassals. But while Austria was merrily slaughtering Turks, Spain inherited Portugal and became a massive Iberian Empire. SuperSpain declares on Austria while I rebuild, but it's pretty much a stalemate. I redeclare around 1650, and am almost crushed yet again. My Polish force is ruined, my 30,000 strong army is crushed and Austria moves in. Spain, as it seems, hasn't been doing much. I take my surviving units and proceed to decisively push back Austria while Poland decides to make peace. With 30,000 more units freed up, SuperSpain suddenly re-appears and occupies Austria with me. The cowards then give White Peace to Austria, almost ruining the entire war. What you can't see in this picture, is that after this set-back, all of Austria is occupied by 1655. I can't annex, so take what I need to target the "Most Serene Republic of Venice".
The next 40 years up to here are spent in peace, partly due to A.I. and system incompetence. Tuscany, the Papal States, and a few others declare on Venice. Tuscany occupies and takes Venice, but I assume the Venetian fleet blockaded the army's escape. So Tuscany and Venice spend the next 40 years in war, Tuscany without most its army, Venice without a capital and with plenty of revolts to go around. Eventually this stupidity ends, Venice pushes Tuscany out, and I declare on Venice with its nice, available CoT. Unfortunately, Poland was aligned with them, and proceeds to crush my 100,000 strong (but not the most advanced) force. While Poland and my surviving forces chase around each other, I occupy all of Venice with the advanced troops from the former Austrian territories. I annex all but their capital, and Poland takes another White Peace when it could have fought up to my capital. The shot is right after that war.
I colonized and improved my technology while the Venetian-Tuscan stalemate was going on. I colonized the Bahamas from the French, and also colonize some of Indonesia. I got sizeable revolts that overwhelmed my garrison though, and my Red Sea fleet was destroyed in the reaction-crossing. The good news is that in only two to six more years I'll be able to build troops in my lone surviving province there.
England had done quite bad, failing to unite the Islands like they usually do in my experience. So the current Superpowers are:
Russia (In a war vs. the Ming, they occupied 90% of Chinese territory.)
SuperSpain (Woe to their enemies [and that's me])
Ottoman Turkey (Me)
Persia (They are on their way to controlling all of India!)
France (Obviously)
Poland (They don't do much except seperate Russia from the rest of the world [And maybe that's enough])
Austria (Perhaps not as much as the rest, but for a nation that was totally occupied and without an army just 50 years ago, I'm impressed at their success)
