1. Kill/replace your leader. (sometimes it's nice to be a merchant republic...)
2. Get yourself or one of your friends into the Papal controller seat.
3. Repair relationship with the Papal controller
How is your EU3 Game going?
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1. Kill/replace your leader. (sometimes it's nice to be a merchant republic...)
2. Get yourself or one of your friends into the Papal controller seat.
3. Repair relationship with the Papal controller
Finally i have a connected Empire, after the new war against the Mameluks 
As it was going on Naples declared on me, and it was a stalemate, or rather i crushed their only army and could occupy everything but my infamy meant i would have had to gain nothing, apart from forcing them to become orthodox. But i thought that it was a dangerous state of affairs to be in war with two alliances, other might join them, so i agreed to sign peace with Naples and the other italian nations.
Other things to notice:
-Castille has now some land in England.
-Poland is expanding in Russia, that is something you do not see AI Poland do much
-Persia annexed Georgia. I am not very willing to have a common border with them...
-Sweden died. The mighty Hansa controls most of their territory. But i have seen the Hansa lose it all again, so who knows what will happen in the Hyperborea.
As it was going on Naples declared on me, and it was a stalemate, or rather i crushed their only army and could occupy everything but my infamy meant i would have had to gain nothing, apart from forcing them to become orthodox. But i thought that it was a dangerous state of affairs to be in war with two alliances, other might join them, so i agreed to sign peace with Naples and the other italian nations.
Other things to notice:
-Castille has now some land in England.
-Poland is expanding in Russia, that is something you do not see AI Poland do much
-Persia annexed Georgia. I am not very willing to have a common border with them...
-Sweden died. The mighty Hansa controls most of their territory. But i have seen the Hansa lose it all again, so who knows what will happen in the Hyperborea.
If you have good enough relations with the Papal State, you can't be excommunicated.
This. So hard. For the century you have to spend Catholic before you can convert, investing in high relations with the Pope is some of the best money you can spend.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Make your king a general and send him into battle until he dies 
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
Somebody said that the best way to inherit a country is to send your king into battle.. but I also heard that your personal union member won't join you (or whatever the proper terminology is) if you're at war. How do you get around this paradox? (that probably isn't a paradox)
Are teh paradox forums any good btw?
edit: I can't seem to find much information on trade leagues.. can you join more than one? I get a ton of requests to join trade leagues at the beginning of each game. Should I join all of them? Just one?
Are teh paradox forums any good btw?
edit: I can't seem to find much information on trade leagues.. can you join more than one? I get a ton of requests to join trade leagues at the beginning of each game. Should I join all of them? Just one?
The Paradox forums are very good, a lot like here.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
They load really slowly though.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
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Decided to see if I could get one of the nonpowers halfway decent now that I have a bit more experience. After a couple tries at forming Russia as a minor power (try forming Russia as Ryazan if you want hard, their only expansion options are Muscovy, Lithuania, or the Golden Horde 
), and a failed attempt as Brittany, I seem to have established myself as a regional power at least as Bourbonnais. I'm gray in the picture (but not the same gray as Lorraine). AKA, I'm the one whose cities are all burning.
I often see Berri captured by the English under Henry V, so that was a concern early on. I devassalized nearly right away, while France was too busy to do anything about it. Then, midsummer 1419, France and England make peace for a small monetary exchange, and that includes me as I'm still in the alliance (just not a vassal). I then notice that Brittany also had the bright idea of canceling their vassalage (with England), as well as their alliance. That solves my sticky expansion situation nicely - I cancel my alliance with France, obtain right of passage with France (in that order), and after a few years (to let the truce after the initial war expire), declare war on Brittany. I take out one loan to fund a nice big army, and it seems they have the same bright idea as they're able to fund an equally large army to match mine, forcing me to take out a second loan. But in the end I subdue them and occupy all their territory, getting everything except their capital in the peace process. I could have made them a vassal, but decline as I want to conquer them later.
My main priority at that point was avoiding bankruptcy. I was already at my loan limit and if my creditors didn't think I was credit-worthy (I probably wasn't), it was tough potatoes. I had to disband two-thirds of my army to pay off one loan, and was able to extend the other
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Well, just after I extended that loan, in March 1431, Auvergne declares war on me, bringing their master France and co-vassal Provence into the war as well, plus France's allies Scotland and Gelre. 19v4 in territories plus I'm already broke and have a 5000-man army. Not good. Fortunately the bankers think I'll be able to repay them somehow, and I get another loan to rebuild my army with. My strategy is the only possible one against these odds, a kamikaze strategy. There's no way I'm defeating France at this point, so I decide to target Auvergne, the leader of the alliance, and completely eliminate them. I occupy both Auvergne and Cevennes as quickly as possible, preventing them from training more troops. Meanwhile France, Provence, Scotland, and Gelre are sweeping up my territories, and it's quickly becoming do-or-die, rather than the initial do-or-lose-one-province. When I finish off the last of Auvergne's troops that are trying to retake their lands, I have 1% over the minimum number of troops required to besiege a city. So I take Auvergne itself, and then move on to Cevennes. Their alliance has 50,000 troops, whittling quickly due to insufficient supply lines, in Brest, my last outpost. But Cevennes falls first, likely only days before Brest would have fallen, and Auvergne offers everything they own including a healthy sum of gold, for peace as the leader of the alliance. Thus how I avoided total annihilation.
In the spirit of the fight, a Bourbonnais nobleman gave me 200 gold during the fight. Past when it was possible for it to actually help - I'd already lost all territories to the point that I couldn't train any more troops - but it was a nice gesture. Had a loss been inevitable my plan was to give it all to my old enemy England, but as I won it will come in very handy indeed to pay off those blasted loans.
Inflation, not surprisingly, is a significant problem for so early on, at 7.4%, and more than double the second-highest in the world. I feel like this is bound to be a problem with any small country, at least any that has strong neighbors. Still, it's better than the automatic +10% if I had gone bankrupt, which also would have caused other disastrous effects.
I still really need England to fight France again. Aragon is allied with England, which often leads to an English victory in the Hundred Year's War. Right now they're tied up in Ireland, though. Aragon has southeast Ireland and the Irish have more than enough forces to retake it as well as Dublin but aren't doing anything about it. Basically it's a stupid war that both sides would do best to end in a white peace at this point.
Biggest AI surprise thus far has been Novgorod holding their own in Russia. Mostly because Sweden decided to fight the Teutons and the Golden Horde invaded Moscow. Usually Novgorod gets completely dogpiled in EU2.
), and a failed attempt as Brittany, I seem to have established myself as a regional power at least as Bourbonnais. I'm gray in the picture (but not the same gray as Lorraine). AKA, I'm the one whose cities are all burning.
I often see Berri captured by the English under Henry V, so that was a concern early on. I devassalized nearly right away, while France was too busy to do anything about it. Then, midsummer 1419, France and England make peace for a small monetary exchange, and that includes me as I'm still in the alliance (just not a vassal). I then notice that Brittany also had the bright idea of canceling their vassalage (with England), as well as their alliance. That solves my sticky expansion situation nicely - I cancel my alliance with France, obtain right of passage with France (in that order), and after a few years (to let the truce after the initial war expire), declare war on Brittany. I take out one loan to fund a nice big army, and it seems they have the same bright idea as they're able to fund an equally large army to match mine, forcing me to take out a second loan. But in the end I subdue them and occupy all their territory, getting everything except their capital in the peace process. I could have made them a vassal, but decline as I want to conquer them later.
My main priority at that point was avoiding bankruptcy. I was already at my loan limit and if my creditors didn't think I was credit-worthy (I probably wasn't), it was tough potatoes. I had to disband two-thirds of my army to pay off one loan, and was able to extend the other
.Well, just after I extended that loan, in March 1431, Auvergne declares war on me, bringing their master France and co-vassal Provence into the war as well, plus France's allies Scotland and Gelre. 19v4 in territories plus I'm already broke and have a 5000-man army. Not good. Fortunately the bankers think I'll be able to repay them somehow, and I get another loan to rebuild my army with. My strategy is the only possible one against these odds, a kamikaze strategy. There's no way I'm defeating France at this point, so I decide to target Auvergne, the leader of the alliance, and completely eliminate them. I occupy both Auvergne and Cevennes as quickly as possible, preventing them from training more troops. Meanwhile France, Provence, Scotland, and Gelre are sweeping up my territories, and it's quickly becoming do-or-die, rather than the initial do-or-lose-one-province. When I finish off the last of Auvergne's troops that are trying to retake their lands, I have 1% over the minimum number of troops required to besiege a city. So I take Auvergne itself, and then move on to Cevennes. Their alliance has 50,000 troops, whittling quickly due to insufficient supply lines, in Brest, my last outpost. But Cevennes falls first, likely only days before Brest would have fallen, and Auvergne offers everything they own including a healthy sum of gold, for peace as the leader of the alliance. Thus how I avoided total annihilation.
In the spirit of the fight, a Bourbonnais nobleman gave me 200 gold during the fight. Past when it was possible for it to actually help - I'd already lost all territories to the point that I couldn't train any more troops - but it was a nice gesture. Had a loss been inevitable my plan was to give it all to my old enemy England, but as I won it will come in very handy indeed to pay off those blasted loans.
Inflation, not surprisingly, is a significant problem for so early on, at 7.4%, and more than double the second-highest in the world. I feel like this is bound to be a problem with any small country, at least any that has strong neighbors. Still, it's better than the automatic +10% if I had gone bankrupt, which also would have caused other disastrous effects.
I still really need England to fight France again. Aragon is allied with England, which often leads to an English victory in the Hundred Year's War. Right now they're tied up in Ireland, though. Aragon has southeast Ireland and the Irish have more than enough forces to retake it as well as Dublin but aren't doing anything about it. Basically it's a stupid war that both sides would do best to end in a white peace at this point.
Biggest AI surprise thus far has been Novgorod holding their own in Russia. Mostly because Sweden decided to fight the Teutons and the Golden Horde invaded Moscow. Usually Novgorod gets completely dogpiled in EU2.
Northen Wolf
Young Hunter
England and its colonial empire in 1637. Just emerged from war, where I took tons of the new Scandinavian Power (Read: The Hansa) colonies and conquered myself a province in India.
This be view on Europe, Castille + Aragon killed spain. Hansa ows large territory in Scandinavia. Milan and Austria are two superpowers, who are allied. Hence making me difficult to defeat them. And they got 2 points higher land tech than I do. Surprisingly, I've can't remember any period where Austria or Milan had new kingdoms form/revolt or even periods when they had single provinces being conquered by Rebels (Have not noticed any rebel-controlled provinces. Austria gained superpower status, once it inherited Naples.
Colonies are well paying for their costs. Colonies cost fees are about 60% of what tariffs bring in and most of Southern America has cored. Stupid Provence, Milan, Hansa and Castille have few provinces in America tho, Provence having most of the East coast cities. And I want these provinces.
Just waiting my infamy to drop below 15, so I could subjucate few new vassals (running out of old ones). And conquer Few african provinces + india.
This be view on Europe, Castille + Aragon killed spain. Hansa ows large territory in Scandinavia. Milan and Austria are two superpowers, who are allied. Hence making me difficult to defeat them. And they got 2 points higher land tech than I do. Surprisingly, I've can't remember any period where Austria or Milan had new kingdoms form/revolt or even periods when they had single provinces being conquered by Rebels (Have not noticed any rebel-controlled provinces. Austria gained superpower status, once it inherited Naples.
Colonies are well paying for their costs. Colonies cost fees are about 60% of what tariffs bring in and most of Southern America has cored. Stupid Provence, Milan, Hansa and Castille have few provinces in America tho, Provence having most of the East coast cities. And I want these provinces.
Just waiting my infamy to drop below 15, so I could subjucate few new vassals (running out of old ones). And conquer Few african provinces + india.
You haven't been reading the Ulm AAR thread, have you?
You must see that. It is awesome!You haven't been reading the Ulm AAR thread, have you?
Can't beat a forum that the devs participate in frequently.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
The Ulm AAR is so awesome (I follow it on flagland) that I tried achieving and Ulmer Reich with Ferrara. Of course, the first problem was that Ferrara is not Ulm. Secondly, I don't have DW and thus cannot Ulmerize the world. Result? A Ferrarempire with holdings in Italy (ferrara and Venice, Modena as vassal (that's one vassal and no Venice, god bless rebels)), the Black Sea area (Kaffa, Thrace (I renamed to Constantinople) and Georgia), Morea (Which I gloriously renamed Sparta) and Limburg (from a war with burgundy in which entire Lombardia was involved), and I used to own Granada as well (annex-vassalize was the worst idea ever... that's why the Ferrarempire is so large). I also control Slavonia from THREE Wars with Croatia, which always involved my mercs getting hit by the Croatians:
Spoiler :
I never reached 1700. It seems pointless to me to go on, does anything change much in the later parts of the game?
Sadly if you start as the Byzantines you have to waste the first 40-50 years just to get to be as powerful as some other nations already are in the beginning of the game. Maybe in the far future i will start a game as England, with the intention of holding all land historically in the empire
Sadly if you start as the Byzantines you have to waste the first 40-50 years just to get to be as powerful as some other nations already are in the beginning of the game. Maybe in the far future i will start a game as England, with the intention of holding all land historically in the empire
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
Is the American revolution a scripted event that will always happen?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
It will happen if the requirements are met, but I don't know what they are.
