How is your EU3 Game going?

[Duke of Britain]

Look, bestbrian, stay with the land/naval slider at 0, raise two armies of 6000 or 8000 each and send them to the new world to conquer Mexico after your infamy is arond 21 or 22 (gold mines ftw), then use them to keep peace in the conquered areas, don't forget to colonize to the north of the conquered area, it has more gold mines, after you discover the Inca and Mexico is pacified and converted to catholic, send one army to conquer the Inca, they have more gold. many areas near them can be colonized and will give you gold!

about sliders...go :
full merchantilism
full narrowminded (you're spain, and i hope you'll colonize as much as possible, narrowminded helps that)
full free subjects (will help your tech, so narrowminded will not destroy it, but your size may end up destroying it if your economy is not strong)
full quality
land/naval 0 (when you inherit France you may go land)
full centralized (of course)
full aristocracy (i'm assuming you'll want to conquer some of Europe, considering the awesome position you are in, so trade in foreign cots will be useless)


don't forget to join a trade league if you can, and if you get the Italian Ambitions mission (i did in my spain game, very early, so it was even better) attack the country with the most universities (in my game was Milan, the 3 coastal provinces they start with) and profit with your new cores.
don't forget the religious decisions, enact the ones that give more missionaries and more convertion chance, and of course, the bishops one that makes stability cheaper (big empires have stability problems )

and Empire is the best early government, it is a monarchy, it has a awesome title, very good bonus, more magistrates, awesome (again ) and you can change to Absolute monarchy for 1 stability (cheap!)
try to become a Empire as early as you can, because if you get it when you're massive...well...good luck getting stability back, but get it anyway, it's worth it.

oh, if France insults you, just declare a crusade/war in somenoe, then reject all peace deals, France won't insult you when they're in war. another option would be getting a bigger army.

 

[aukrest]

Do the pictures I posted on the last page work now?

 

[Maniacal]

Yes, though I recommend using something like imgur for hosting pictures in the future.

 

[cardgame]

Whatever you do, don't use photobucket, it's awful

 

[Maniacal]

Photobucket isn't perfect, but its worked well for me in the past. I hate it when people use imageshack since it always tries to add an advertisement link on the bottom and its site always gives me pop ups for online gambling.

 

[Tee Kay]

Not to mention it can't cope well with large images. And sometimes an uploaded image just become lost.

 

[cardgame]

These are the reasons why I hate photobucket:

Whenever I search for images with google, photobucket images are always too small to see. No exceptions.

Whenever an image is broken, it's one of three things:

1. poster used the bbc code/URL incorrectly

2. Hotlinking

3. Photobucket "BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED, UPGRADE TO PRO TODAY"

 

[Maniacal]

Thats because the users are probably dumb. Though constantly changing the interface (and it generally being meh) doesn't help.

Imgur is still the best one I've used, though it will eventually delete stuff it it has had no views for at least a month.

 

[Arakhor]

I'm storing hundreds of picture on my Photobucket account. I always found Imageshack to be absolutely frightful.

 

[aukrest]

I just convert the pictures on paint and then upload from there, it works good enough really. The first one got blurred because of my own error, though.

 

[Dachs]

Maybe I'm showing my inexperience here, but a -3 Stability hit for +.6 magistrates and +.25 Morale, seems like a pretty poor exchange.

Stab is hilariously cheap. Magistrates aren't.

 

[Tee Kay]

Stab is hilariously cheap.

Play outside Europe.

 

[Dachs]

He's playing Castile. If he were playing in areas with low-base tax provs, I wouldn't have said that.

 

[Ninja Dude]

So, uh, I kinda just started playing again with the latest patch, and it seems like the Golden Horde is unstoppable. It's about 50 years into my Hungary game, and they've taken chunks out of Poland and Lithuania, completely gobbled up the Russian states (besides Novgorod), and they've taken lots of formerly-Teutonic lands on the Baltic. They keep invading me with 50+ divisions and I just get raped :I

 

[Kyriakos]

The hordes can be dangerous sometimes indeed. I recall a game as the Byzantine Empire where i was by any standard a strong nation, fielding a 40K army, and along comes the Timurid horde with 40K horsemen along with 20 odd K on foot.
In the end i managed to sign peace with just prestige damage, but i had to reload a couple of times, and create a larger army.

 

[Maniacal]

They never do well in my games

 

[W|M]

What's the most effective way of getting authority higher as the H.R.Emperor?

 

[aukrest]

Well, here is my Timurid->Mughal game. I started it probably two months ago and have been playing it here and there interspersed with my other games, and its 1652 right now. This is the first country I ever played with a tribal government, so I was pretty surprised when Timur died and the succession crisis began and the rebels raped me, but now that I'm the Mughals that is over

and the rest of the world:

The tan in Greece and in South America is a muslim greece and Great Britain was formed Scotland. Ireland formed but got destroyed by GB and is in exile in the Americas. Castille used to be a 2PM who was reduced by Portugal, Aragon, England, Burgundy and revolter Granada, and its part of the reason why England collapsed to Scotland.

All options were normal except no lucky nations.

 

[Arakhor]

WIM, release states, fight for the Empire, maintain religious unity and successfully have your heir become Emperor.

 

[Ninja Dude]

They never do well in my games

They have done nothing but dominate in mine. The Timurids took over most of Anatolia after the Ottomans got beat by the Byzantines and me in a few wars. While land there has changed hands quite a bit, they seem to have established themselves fairly good. The Golden Horde, as I stated above, is just conquering everyone in their path. Once they get peace with one country they start against another, so that no unified effort can be made against them. They almost always make it to Krakow when fighting the Polish, who seem to be the punching bags of this game anyways.

I guess I can just hope and pray for a massive succession crisis to occur and have my neighbors attack them.