How is your EU3 Game going?
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Ninja Dude
Sorry, I wasn't listening...
Hungary, as I stated before. One that got stuck in a PU under Bohemia for like 1430-1445 or something - _ -
chegel
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My first game I actually finished. Normally I get bored in the first years of the 18. century. This is with Beta Patch 5.1 - 30th March.
The mighty Basque nation of Navarra:
I always wanted to do a colonial game and move my capital to the new world as soon as possible to see how strong one can get this way. So I chose Navarra, the country with the strongest slider setting in the beginning, a OPM which can actually directly move the capital overseas without moving it to an island before.
Well, I did succeed but had to reload once and cheated once by switching to Castille to stop a war against me. (They wanted all my money which I had saved to burn on rapid colonization, 2200 ducats in the 1470s, a lot of money for an OPM. It would have jeopardized my plans on getting a big empire overseas fast and thus the whole point of the game. So I made them vassalize me instead after some years of war and my war exhaustion at 20ish; it was their mission to do so after all.)
Here are some pictures of my empire 1820. I did not plan an AAR so I did not make pictures in the game.
My whole nation:
The whole world:
My economy in detail...:
...and in relation to the rest of the world:
And last my precious new capital:
Some things I learned in this game:
Trading is even more overpowered than I thought, tolls are an impressive source of income for nations with big CoTs (Manhattan was not my biggest CoT), Constitutional Monarchy is my new favorite government, colonial revolters are very strange and naval maintenance is way too high in this beta patch.
The mighty Basque nation of Navarra:
I always wanted to do a colonial game and move my capital to the new world as soon as possible to see how strong one can get this way. So I chose Navarra, the country with the strongest slider setting in the beginning, a OPM which can actually directly move the capital overseas without moving it to an island before.
Well, I did succeed but had to reload once and cheated once by switching to Castille to stop a war against me. (They wanted all my money which I had saved to burn on rapid colonization, 2200 ducats in the 1470s, a lot of money for an OPM. It would have jeopardized my plans on getting a big empire overseas fast and thus the whole point of the game. So I made them vassalize me instead after some years of war and my war exhaustion at 20ish; it was their mission to do so after all.)
Here are some pictures of my empire 1820. I did not plan an AAR so I did not make pictures in the game.
My whole nation:
Spoiler :
The whole world:
Spoiler :
My economy in detail...:
Spoiler :
...and in relation to the rest of the world:
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And last my precious new capital:
Spoiler :
Some things I learned in this game:
Trading is even more overpowered than I thought, tolls are an impressive source of income for nations with big CoTs (Manhattan was not my biggest CoT), Constitutional Monarchy is my new favorite government, colonial revolters are very strange and naval maintenance is way too high in this beta patch.
chegel
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Thank you, it was a lot of fun to play although it was almost completely peaceful. I never thought this was possible.
Here is what I meant by impressive source of income. I knew before there are tolls but I did not know that they are that high.
The reason for my new love for Constitutional Monarchy is this little modifier I did not even know about. I just switched to that government because it gave me 2.2 magistrates a year and I originally wanted to switch to Constitutional Republic later. (Which I never did because you lose this modifier when switching out of Constitutional Monarchy.) I hired a statesman advisor, which you need for Separation of Power, for the Education Act decision. Else I maybe would have never discovered this beautiful modifier.
And here is the ridiculously high naval maintenance; more than one ducat per ship per month. (This were 90 Three-Deckers and 40 East-Indiamen plus some Barques for anti piracy.)
Here is what I meant by impressive source of income. I knew before there are tolls but I did not know that they are that high.
The reason for my new love for Constitutional Monarchy is this little modifier I did not even know about. I just switched to that government because it gave me 2.2 magistrates a year and I originally wanted to switch to Constitutional Republic later. (Which I never did because you lose this modifier when switching out of Constitutional Monarchy.) I hired a statesman advisor, which you need for Separation of Power, for the Education Act decision. Else I maybe would have never discovered this beautiful modifier.
And here is the ridiculously high naval maintenance; more than one ducat per ship per month. (This were 90 Three-Deckers and 40 East-Indiamen plus some Barques for anti piracy.)
chegel
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The only thing you can really do is leave the natives alone and pray they will not attack your colonies or at least not so often. So your provinces start with at least more than 1000 population.
You cannot get the growth rate very high without a CoT but this is obviously not an option for every province. Manhattan got that big because it had a CoT level 13-17 for most of the game. Population growth is exponential, Manhattan had 160k in 1700 and reached the cap in 1770.
But I guess you knew all that already, so unfortunately no tips here.
You cannot get the growth rate very high without a CoT but this is obviously not an option for every province. Manhattan got that big because it had a CoT level 13-17 for most of the game. Population growth is exponential, Manhattan had 160k in 1700 and reached the cap in 1770.
But I guess you knew all that already, so unfortunately no tips here.
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Wow, surviving Byzantium, that Ak koyunlu thingy bordering the Ottos, and nothing unusual about Netherlands colonizing East Siberia 
very nice game, your empire had how many monopolies? and lulz for that modifier, just shows how awesome Monarchy is
very nice game, your empire had how many monopolies? and lulz for that modifier, just shows how awesome Monarchy is
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In my current Byzantium game, Morocco seems to be obsessed with attacking me, even though my borders are nowhere near their's, I don't have any Moroccan cores and AI aggressiveness is Normal.
Let me guess, they were allied with the Ottos in your first war with them? they must hate you even more because of this.
Actually, I've never been to war with the Ottomans, due to them being allied to the much more powerful Mameluks (I tried to attack the Ottomans when the Mameluks didn't answer a call to arms, but then they re-allied and the Mameluks declared war on me, forcing me to reload. 
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Bad, in my current Ottoman game (in the HRE mod) i had to ragequit 2 times, around the same time, in the first after destroying muscowy and getting Azow and a border with the GH (2 provinces, my vassal Crimea had borders with it but i didn't) i started eating them, when BAM! super Poland-Lithuania (first time i saw they inheriting Huge Lithuania) DOWed me, bringing Austria and some others along, no problem, i am westernized for quite some time and have janissaries, while poland just sucks against me, time to kill them, but BAM! again, my full morale armies get completely destroyed by like...4000 polish troops at 0 morale? WTH? game is trolling me -.- ragequite
today i tried again, this time i came out better of Muscowy war, destroying their PU with georgia and getting 2 georgian provinces too! but muscowy wasn't willing to give me azow, and lol, they got a PROVINCE in a peace deal with STEPPE NOMADS Golden Horde, okay...i will try to get that province in a deal, and remove my 3 infamy from that province with cheats...but then...
GIGA BAM!
Novgorod DOWs me (LOL?) briging along Poland.
Hungary DOWs me, briging along recently formed junior in PU Scandinavia (yes, Sweden was under a PU with Hungary when they formed Scandinavia...) AND Austria
Algiers and Morroco (lolz, both had no reasons to do so, Morroco was my ally some time before, and Algiers once had a PU, but broke the PU when i refused to inherit them in exchange of -400 gold and +29 inflation because of their crisis)
nedless to say i rage-quit.
Paradox games seem to be trolling me since yesterday, like when my Germany game in Victoria II crashed from nothing... had to re-do a war with Switzerland in exchange for Baden (they annexed it, i sphered them, then i unified Germany but didn't got the territories -.-), and i was winning another one against France...
once i get the mood, i will reload the Ottoman one until i get something close to the first two tries, and whiout trolling from the game, otherwise i won't continue it for some time. year was around 1500, i westernized easily after conquering two italian provinces from naples
i could only think of EUIII, after that much trolling (these were not the first times, not even close to the firsts...), as this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=DRMBxnxWiNQ&annotation_id=annotation_333471
today i tried again, this time i came out better of Muscowy war, destroying their PU with georgia and getting 2 georgian provinces too! but muscowy wasn't willing to give me azow, and lol, they got a PROVINCE in a peace deal with STEPPE NOMADS Golden Horde, okay...i will try to get that province in a deal, and remove my 3 infamy from that province with cheats...but then...
GIGA BAM!
Novgorod DOWs me (LOL?) briging along Poland.
Hungary DOWs me, briging along recently formed junior in PU Scandinavia (yes, Sweden was under a PU with Hungary when they formed Scandinavia...) AND Austria
Algiers and Morroco (lolz, both had no reasons to do so, Morroco was my ally some time before, and Algiers once had a PU, but broke the PU when i refused to inherit them in exchange of -400 gold and +29 inflation because of their crisis)
nedless to say i rage-quit.
Paradox games seem to be trolling me since yesterday, like when my Germany game in Victoria II crashed from nothing... had to re-do a war with Switzerland in exchange for Baden (they annexed it, i sphered them, then i unified Germany but didn't got the territories -.-), and i was winning another one against France...
once i get the mood, i will reload the Ottoman one until i get something close to the first two tries, and whiout trolling from the game, otherwise i won't continue it for some time. year was around 1500, i westernized easily after conquering two italian provinces from naples
i could only think of EUIII, after that much trolling (these were not the first times, not even close to the firsts...), as this : http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&v=DRMBxnxWiNQ&annotation_id=annotation_333471
Ninja Dude
Sorry, I wasn't listening...
Welp, that game where I was complaining about the Hordes as Hungary? Everything is fine now. And now I've formed the HRE
Actually, I've never been to war with the Ottomans, due to them being allied to the much more powerful Mameluks (I tried to attack the Ottomans when the Mameluks didn't answer a call to arms, but then they re-allied and the Mameluks declared war on me, forcing me to reload.
Serves you right for playing the Byzantines.
I was recently able to splinter the Ottomans in my game that's taking forever to play through. They had expanded from the NW Caspian Sea to the SE Mediterranean Sea and from the NW Black Sea to Crimea. They also occupied the land above Bosnia and Serbia (their vassals). They also had the 3rd largest military in the world.
In order to splinter their forces I used all of my stored spies to spawn rebels in their eastern borders. This drew their entire army over the Turkish straits. Before I declared war I sailed my fleet to blockade their navy and also to block the straits. My armies freely roamed their NW provinces and I was able to take a few in Turkey as well before I decided it was time to declare peace (their armies were coming and I didn't want to risk bad rolls). I took several provinces in southern Turkey, which, with Candar, kept the Ottoman armies from their western half in peacetime.
Rebels began spawning (on their own) and the Ottomans didn't recruit the forces necessary to defeat them, so the entire western half of the Ottomans became under rebel control. 7 nations were released when the Ottomans were broken. 5 on the western half and 2 on the eastern. It was quite a quick turn around.
In order to splinter their forces I used all of my stored spies to spawn rebels in their eastern borders. This drew their entire army over the Turkish straits. Before I declared war I sailed my fleet to blockade their navy and also to block the straits. My armies freely roamed their NW provinces and I was able to take a few in Turkey as well before I decided it was time to declare peace (their armies were coming and I didn't want to risk bad rolls). I took several provinces in southern Turkey, which, with Candar, kept the Ottoman armies from their western half in peacetime.
Rebels began spawning (on their own) and the Ottomans didn't recruit the forces necessary to defeat them, so the entire western half of the Ottomans became under rebel control. 7 nations were released when the Ottomans were broken. 5 on the western half and 2 on the eastern. It was quite a quick turn around.
I'm actually doing pretty decently otherwise (apart from my fairly high inflation and horrible leaders). I've conquered all the Turkish minors except Ak Konyulu, as well as Tripoli and an independent Crete. I can defeat the Ottomans and the Mameluks on their own (due to sheer force of numbers and being able to annihilate their main armies when I chase them) but I can't beat them at the same time.
Fun fact: The Ottomans haven't expanded at all since I started the game.
Duke of Britain
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It's just a matter of time until the Mamluks explode, soon they will have a tribal sucession, i'm sure of it!
ComradeNapoleon
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Upto about 1450-something in my Mecklenburg game (IN Baby )
Just finished conquering Mexico; it's gonna be rebel-whacking for a bit, but I think I have enough provinces for declaring an empire now. I probably will stop playing this one, as it's Very Easy difficulty
I'm considering maybe doing a Bourbonais AAR when I can actually play EU3 without failing. It's sliders make me drool almost as much as their biscuits
)Just finished conquering Mexico; it's gonna be rebel-whacking for a bit, but I think I have enough provinces for declaring an empire now. I probably will stop playing this one, as it's Very Easy difficulty
I'm considering maybe doing a Bourbonais AAR when I can actually play EU3 without failing. It's sliders make me drool almost as much as their biscuits
In my Dutch game, I have a monopoly on a ridiculous amounts of CoTs - In fact, I'm even embargoed by the Manchus and still have had monopoly in Guangzhou for years since they began embargoing me! 
I also control (and have a monopoly on) the most valuable CoT in the world, Sunda!
I also control (and have a monopoly on) the most valuable CoT in the world, Sunda!
ComradeNapoleon
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Nice, never seen the Faroe Islands be the most wealthy CoT in the world
I wish I had access to my EU3 game all the time, but I can only play it once every fortnight
and my dad's starting to get annoyed that I never speak to him when I'm round his
Seriously, I hate my craptop; can't even play For The Glory properly.
I wish I had access to my EU3 game all the time, but I can only play it once every fortnight
and my dad's starting to get annoyed that I never speak to him when I'm round his
Seriously, I hate my craptop; can't even play For The Glory properly.
