How is your EU3 Game going?

[Love]

Austria is badass

 

[Tani Coyote]

After Austria's most recent spanking(they had 7 provinces in 1533; at the war's end, they had lost 1 province each to Italy, France, Armagnac, Toulouse and Guyenne), Europe is pretty solidly under Italian rule, I'd say.

The Iberians are of course continuing to spam colonists the world over. The Portuguese have vassalised Aragon, and given the tendency of the AI to rapidly annex states in this game, this will be an interesting development.

I predict turmoil will eventually engulf the Iberian peninsula, since a series of interlocking alliances make it so each state is aligned to the others on the peninsula except at least one. While Iberia's been stable for decades as a result of this, Portugal annexing Aragon will throw a wildcard into the equation, not to mention the fact two of Castile's provinces are Reformed. As well, Castile's cores on Granada, Galicia, and finally Armagnac will likely spell the end of peace in Iberia.

Hopefully, Armagnac, Toulouse and Guyenne will fight a Cold War against eachother, with each boasting two provinces at home and one province in the former Austrian Lowlands. One of them(I think it was Guyenne) is also Reformed, and so this just invites wars of religion. Italy will, of course, see to it that the Catholic states of the south are protected from Reformist or Castilian aggression... one day, one day, Italy will have to butt heads with Castile in order to assert herself as the ruler of Western Europe..

The Muslim powers, meanwhile, have developed a habit of making alliances across continents. Songhai is aligned with the Ottomans and other faraway powers. As Italy has a core on Songhai's coastline(read: colonisation opportunities come much quicker), this would enable Italy to gain ground on several fronts, with much less badboy than fighting another war in Europe(Italy has about 13.5 badboy).

In due time, Sweden and Novgorod will form Scandinavia and Russia, respectively, and these states will pick up the slack as Italy's rivals once the Castilians are dealt with.

 

[TheLastOne36]

How do you make your map like that? With the black borders and everything?

 

[Tani Coyote]

I just use a photo editor to recreate the approximate borders of my Terra Incognita. o.o

 

[TheLastOne36]

In WWM you could probably form the EU in the future. (WWM also allows you to restore the Rome empire)

 

[Tani Coyote]

...If that becomes compatible with Heir to the Throne, I will certainly get it and use it for my evil ends.

 

[TheLastOne36]

It will.

We are giving it so much extra juice as well.

Redone Catalonia, France, England, Poland, Bohemia, Balkans, Turkey, Netherlands, Italy and Germany are all included. Bolded is what we have done/are doing for 4.0(first version for HTTT). And all that is just in Europe.

We are also hopefully going to get some extra sexy flags for numerious nations.

I highly suggest you try WWM's India. India is as good and detailed as Europe(Japan as well, much more detailed, like 20 or so nations), and in 4.0, we are going to have Borneo taken to the extreme.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I take it that besides adding more provinces to actually give the smaller countries a snowball's chance in hell of a fair fight, it is also to make the borders much better looking? You can count on me to check that out.

Will you be including Lesbos as part of Genoa by any chance? I don't know why, but that was one thing I liked from my brief foray into Magna Mundi..

 

[TheLastOne36]

Yes, We somehow forgot to include Genoese islands in the Aegian in the last version.

It will be included in 4.0 with a *fixed* Aegian sea, because right now it is kinda meh.


And yes, we do fix up the borders of nations. This is what I did to the Balkans:

Spoiler :

Since than, Slovakia was redone as well as Poland/Ukraine/Baltics.

 

[cardgame]

My badboy is over 300, but for some insane reason, Switzerland, the traditionally neutral country with an honorable rep, offered me an alliance when I was in two wars.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Your denmark and you haven't conquered the Baltics?

 

[cardgame]

Your denmark and you haven't conquered the Baltics?

I'm playing Vanilla so I can't form a country, I guess. Had no interest in Scandinavia anyway.

Anyway, I did conquer two or four provinces in the very beginning.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I'm talking about the Baltic States, which Denmark and Sweden creamed over for a few hundred years.

 

[cardgame]

You mean the Teutonic Order?

They're next after Poland-Lithuania

 

[Joecoolyo]

I'm playing Vanilla so I can't form a country, I guess. Had no interest in Scandinavia anyway.

Anyway, I did conquer two or four provinces in the very beginning.

Ahh... that explains it. I was wondering how the hell you were able to conquer all of Germany by 1466... wait a second, what year does the game start in Vanilla?

 

[Metromonkey]

It starts on 29th May 1453. The day Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

 

[Joecoolyo]

It starts on 29th May 1453. The day Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

Now I'm even more stunned! In ten years you were able to conquer all that!

 

[cardgame]

Now I'm even more stunned! In ten years you were able to conquer all that!

my plans now are to annex Lorraine, Milan, Savoy, and then invade France. Burgundy first, if they don't give me military access.

Denmark controls 600,000+ soldiers and 120 odd ships.

To fully reinforce all of my armies would take 260K men, and 100 will reach my armies this month

Riga and Pskov allied with me shortly after I made peace with the Teutons and Lithuanians.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Nearly halfway into the 16th century, Italy has finally exiled the Habsburgs to Gloucestershire and seized Vienna, while she has also butchered Trier a little bit more.

What is interesting is that three wars interlinked with eachother:

Italy first attacked the German state of Cleves, which was Reformed and which was an Italian core. This prompted Guyenne, Luneburg, and Trier to form a futile alliance against Italy, which was promptly crushed.

While this was going on, the old fart heading Toulouse died, willing his crown to Italy, prompting a succession crisis where Italy and Morocco went against Portugal, Castile, England, Galicia and Oyo. This war eventually ended with Portugal parting with her Mediterranean territories and renouncing claims to Toulouse(which had expanded to take Rhodes despite being a non-coastal country), while Castile ceded her eastern coastline and her colony of Ivory Coast. Galicia accepted vassalage, and England surrendered East Anglia, isolating London(before the English changed their capital to Lancashire).

Before that war had concluded, however, the Swedes attacked weakened Luneburg, and Italy's former enemies called upon Vittore I, Emperor of the Italian and Holy Roman Empires, for protection. Vittore I "failed" to protect Luneburg from annexation, but took advantage of Sweden's mostly-infantry army to cripple the forces of Gustav I Adolf, forcing him to retreat to Sweden and cede all territories south of Slesvig. As a bonus, besides his army being reduced to only around 10,000 men, he returned to a burning Swedish Empire, at -1 stability with numerous rebellions, especially a strong Norwegian nationalist movement.

The Holy Roman Empire is nearly centralised, and Iberia is falling into the Italian sphere of influence... can anybody stop Italy?

 

[TheLastOne36]

Did you change Denmarks color?