How is your EU3 Game going?

[SuperBeaverInc.]

First game with HttT. Playing as England. I lucked out with France, as they went and used a reconquest casus belli on me while I was invading Scotland, with a mission of vassalizing them. After vassalizing Scotland, I redeployed all my soldiers to the continent, and got a new mission of occupying Paris. I managed to beat back the French armies and occupy Paris, giving me cores on all of northern France. So I managed to beat France and gain most of northern France without gaining any infamy. And Spain is just a mess, which might be slightly my fault, as I destroyed the Castille army while aiding my former Portuguese allies, creating a giant power vacuum on the peninsula. Castille has collapsed something like 5 times in the last 30 years.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

First game with HttT. Playing as England. I lucked out with France, as they went and used a reconquest casus belli on me while I was invading Scotland, with a mission of vassalizing them. After vassalizing Scotland, I redeployed all my soldiers to the continent, and got a new mission of occupying Paris. I managed to beat back the French armies and occupy Paris, giving me cores on all of northern France. So I managed to beat France and gain most of northern France without gaining any infamy. And Spain is just a mess, which might be slightly my fault, as I destroyed the Castille army while aiding my former Portuguese allies, creating a giant power vacuum on the peninsula. Castille has collapsed something like 5 times in the last 30 years.

Another war against France. Took Ile-de-France, and forced them to release Guyenne, which cut off their capital from all of their other provinces, which soon revolted from France, causing it to collapse into a one province minor in Poitou.

Also, I just inherited the throne of Denmark. All 5 Danish provinces have been annexed to the English throne.

 

[T_F]

England's got a nice situation with France - since they have core on Île-de-France, they have a perpetual Reconquest CB.

Burgundy, 1425 (HTTT). They're pretty easy on start, since now all they have separating the halves is an OPM they already have core on. I got a string of conquest missions up till like 1408 letting me get practically half of the Low Countries. I'm trying to slowly break France (I just got Toulouse and some OPM released, but they then diplo-annexed Auvergne.)

In other news, Morocco has blobbed the crap out of North Africa, Poland is in a union under Bavaria, Napoli is creeping up the Italian peninsula and Austria is about to slaughter my ally Brittany in a succession war over Savoy.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Great Britain in 1491

And my sphere of influence

 

[Dachs]

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

It should have been obvious that he was cheating from looking at his builds, much less the territory he controlled.

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

My first EUIII game with Burgundy. Black lines indicate borders of myself and allies.

I have a question: how do I get my inflation down??

I don't understand how that works.... and my inflation is about 80% so that is pretty awfull.

 

[PhroX]

I have a question: how do I get my inflation down??

I don't understand how that works.... and my inflation is about 80% so that is pretty awfull.

There's some tips in this thread:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=336768

And yeah, 80% is really really bad. You shouldn't really be going above 10% or so except in emergencies (some people try to keep it at 0 all the time, but IMO that's a massive waste. A small amount of inflation doesn't hurt much, and the extra money you get can easily make up for it if invested well - e.g. armies for conquest. That said, I wouldn't mint purely for the sake of doing so.)

 

[Joecoolyo]

It should have been obvious that he was cheating from looking at his builds, much less the territory he controlled.

Oh, I did notice the amount of money he had, which made me somewhat suspicious. Though I didn't even know there was any cheats, it just doesn't seem like the "cheating" type of game

 

[Tani Coyote]

Europe and it's surrounding regions in 1556.

Having just whacked Catholic Granada, Castile, Portugal, and annexed the Papal States in Avignon, Italy has graduated to "very bad reputation" status. Portugal surrendered it's Aragonese territories and some money, while Castile surrendered it's wealthy trade center of Andalucia and all of her African coastline except for one province. Granada gave up Gibraltar, and so it's expected the Castilian Empire in Africa will collapse in the near future, as the Castilians will not be able to effectively put down the usual post-war revolts short of transporting troops to Africa.

Black lines indicate overall borders of the Italian Empire, with red being vassal states/unions inside the empire.

The mess of lines in the East is meant to indicate the overlapping territories and cores of Persia(one of the three Empires in the game alongside Italy and Castile), Rajputana(overlord of India), and Italy. War is likely to erupt somewhere in this region in the near-future.

 

[Dachs]

I find that I tend to deliberately curtail expansion if the borders are ugly. So I expand a lot less quickly than I ought to.

 

[Turquoiside]

This could be a mildy difficult "Which Nation am I?" Am I Rajputana--> India and did I watch amazed as Japan totally destroyed Ming China? Or am I Japan who dismissively saw Rajputana happen to be the power in charge for long enough to form India and hates them for sicking my prestige with wars that only hurt my colonial African holdings? They (India) are the about the third power to control a good chunk of the required provinces and still haven't completely tamed the south. Or am I the Brunei who has seen bette days but is now a little constricted because Japan is guarenteeing all of Indochina AND is allied with India?

The mod is my own custom one that only adds India with Sardinia-Piedmont's colors and still doesn't have correct flags.

The year is 1657.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Your Great Britain.

 

[T_F]

Forming the HRE is WAY too easy.

Formerly Burgundy, January 4, 1492.

Muscovy has blobbed Sweden near to death, and before I became the HRE Aquileia (of all places) was blobbing its way through Hungary. The reason the Ottomans have bits of Egypt is not because they took it from the Mamluks, but the English. France is mostly mine because of all of the minors I released joining the HRE. And yes, that is me in Central America.

Maybe it's time to start playing Hard difficulty now...

 

[cardgame]

Badboy?

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Great Britain 1548. My colonies in the southern United States, Cuba, and South America were just taken from Portugal in a war.

 

[Tee Kay]

Wat's up in Asia?

 

[PhroX]

MMP2, Bohemia, circa 1750:

Pretty much happy with my nation as it is, might try to vassalise/diploannex some HRE states if I end up at war with them, but otherwise, I'm probably sticking with what I've got. The same seems to apply to the other major powers in Europe, there hasn't really been much conflict in the last 50-60 years, except for feuding HRE minors, and a battle between Spain and Portugal/Norway, which the latter two won.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Wat's up in Asia?

Persia collapsed and Delhi overran northern India and Tibet

 

[sophie]

England's a downright beast in that game!

 

[aronnax]

I find that I tend to deliberately curtail expansion if the borders are ugly. So I expand a lot less quickly than I ought to.

Very true. Ugly borders can also make me declare war to fix them.

In my current Ottoman Game, Im rejecting to hold on to anything above the Danube, the Po and the Pyrenees, prefering to gift them, vassalise them or release them.