How is your EU3 Game going?

[cardgame]

What, nobody has noticed the gigantic Hungary and Portugal?

 

[Arakhor]

Iberian chop-suey is hardly unusual, but I did note Hungary with interest.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Why is it that very few people seem to like the Ottoman Empire despite its achievements of being generally awesome in favour for a dying weak Greek city?

Check out mah sig.

Anyways, I'm beginning to think about getting back into EU3 after a pretty long hiatus (also the fact that Magna Mundi isn't coming out until next year ), does anyone know if DW has dropped in price from the absurdly high $20?

 

[Duke of Britain]

in june the chronicles pack was around 7.99$

 

[NBAfan]

Check out mah sig.

Anyways, I'm beginning to think about getting back into EU3 after a pretty long hiatus (also the fact that Magna Mundi isn't coming out until next year ), does anyone know if DW has dropped in price from the absurdly high $20?

Get it now, every Paradox game is 50% off on GamersGate.

 

[Quintillus]

Why is it that very few people seem to like the Ottoman Empire despite its achievements of being generally awesome in favour for a dying weak Greek city?

Others have beat me to the answer, but not everyone is anti-Ottoman - I played them and did well in my first Europa Universalis (II) game. I can see the appeal of Byzantium, though.

Europe in my Brandenburg Game, 1594.

Dat... Genoese Africa???

in june the chronicles pack was around 7.99$

$7.50 to be exact, that's when I picked it up. If it's half off that's still pretty good at fifteen.

 

[Tee Kay]

Because people are suckers for the underdog.

This is also why the Confederacy gets so much interest.

But you'll find not many people play Granada.

 

[aronnax]

But you'll find not many people play Granada.

Playing Granada is impossible unless you play gamey. Or inherit the Mamluks Day 1.

I tried playing Morocco once and united everything from the Atlantic to Egypt's borders. It's just impossible to defend against the Iberian Alliance. What with their 5 years causi belli wars to take Tangiers and Oran.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Continuing my game as The Knights. I've started my crusades, capturing Jerusalem from the Mamluks, and Iraq from various countries. Now in the process of converting all of those Muslim provinces I have under my control. I also went and conquered Byzantium.

 

[Joecoolyo]

in june the chronicles pack was around 7.99$

I already own EU3 through HTTT, so that would be a waste

Get it now, every Paradox game is 50% off on GamersGate.

Oh really? Sweet, I might just go for it then. Thanks.

EDIT: It's only 5 bucks?

Count me in!

 

[Duke of Britain]

Others have beat me to the answer, but not everyone is anti-Ottoman - I played them and did well in my first Europa Universalis (II) game. I can see the appeal of Byzantium, though.

Well, i do like to play as the Ottos, but they aren't my fav civ...Byzantium makes a really interesting game, ally with Russia and help them, crusade and take back Egypt, the holy land and Iraq, convert europe back to the orthodox church...
it is just so nice to see Byzantium pwning Constantinople ftw!

 

[sophie]

Dat Provence

Yes, Dat Provence indeed. She's the second most powerful nation in the world, after Burgundy. She capitalized on France getting thoroughly raped in the first 50 years of the game by England, Aragon, and Austria, and has since become a major player in the HRE (She's held the title 6 out of 8 times or something like that).

No you haven't.

EDIT: Dat Sibir.

Well, I mean I've taken all the land from Denmark that I actually want, and as such I'm now perfectly willing to make nice with my Protestant brothers. Yes Dat Sibir. I didn't take a picture, but Kazakh is even more impressive, with land stretching all the way from Sibir's Eastern Borders to the Ming's western border. I'll get some pictures after this session.

Dat... Genoese Africa???

Yes. The colonies have been divided up between Portugal, Genoa, Brittany, Great Britain, and Provence. It's really weird, actually.

 

[aronnax]

Well, i do like to play as the Ottos, but they aren't my fav civ...Byzantium makes a really interesting game, ally with Russia and help them, crusade and take back Egypt, the holy land and Iraq, convert europe back to the orthodox church...
it is just so nice to see Byzantium pwning Constantinople ftw!

That's all fine and dandy if a player does it and the occasion odd AI Byzantine scraps through to bash up a new Empire.

But by right, it should be the Ottomans that dominate the Eastern Half of the Mediterranean and the Balkans and they can't bloody well do that when all their energy is spent trying to survive the Timurids.
Plus whatever insane invasion that occurs when Castile attacks the Ottomans via Alliance.
I'm all for the "what if" type of gaming that Paradox excels in but if Castile dominates Iberia, England conquers Ireland and Bohemia/Austria blobs 70% of the time, than 70% of the time, the Ottomans come up top, not 0% of the time.

On a different note, when was the last time you saw an EUIII world with nice borders?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Can we put other paradox game screenshots, since we have no HOI or Victoria or any other paradox game (Knights of Honor, Supreme Leader, Darkest Hour....) thread

 

[Civ'ed]

there's a vicky one now.

 

[Duke of Britain]

you guys really should download DAO...
it really makes the Ottos powerful until around 1750
in my game they were beaten by a coallition of me (Brandenburg) + Russia + other ppl but later they managed to even take back the provinces Russia had conquered before

 

[Joecoolyo]

That's all fine and dandy if a player does it and the occasion odd AI Byzantine scraps through to bash up a new Empire.

But by right, it should be the Ottomans that dominate the Eastern Half of the Mediterranean and the Balkans and they can't bloody well do that when all their energy is spent trying to survive the Timurids.
Plus whatever insane invasion that occurs when Castile attacks the Ottomans via Alliance.
I'm all for the "what if" type of gaming that Paradox excels in but if Castile dominates Iberia, England conquers Ireland and Bohemia/Austria blobs 70% of the time, than 70% of the time, the Ottomans come up top, not 0% of the time.

I wouldn't say 0% though, more like 5%. I've seen a massive Ottoman Empire before (and I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this at least twice in this thread). I was playing a Russian game, and after destroying a massively overpowered Lithuania, a large vacuum was left in Eastern Europe, and the Ottomans took advantage of it, grabbing every province from Istanbul to Sweden. It was insane.

EDIT: Though I do wish it would happen more often, the Ottomans are in need of some TLC

 

[madviking]

Note to self: never play Mantua ever again.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

you guys really should download DAO...
it really makes the Ottos powerful until around 1750
in my game they were beaten by a coallition of me (Brandenburg) + Russia + other ppl but later they managed to even take back the provinces Russia had conquered before

Link?

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Yugoslavia in Rising Nations

My first war was with Trieste, and I took Istria easily, but Italy took Trieste, so I declared war on Italy and took Trieste, it was easy. Notice the two small nations in Germany, well when I was at war with Trieste, Germany guaranteed it, so it went to war with me, when I took Istria, Germany sent two armies, which I defeated, so the score was 12%, and in the peace talks I asked that Germany releases those two, and they did . Then I declared war on Bulgaria, took every province except the capital and made it my vassal, later I annexed it. I also declared war on Albania, but Greece joined. So I took the southern Albanian province and Macedonia and the other northern Greek province. Finally I declared war on Albania again, annexed it, took Epirus from Greece and also demanded that they release Naxos and Crete. I'm going to annex only take only the red and after that, Im going to invade random nations and make socialist puppets. I'm allied to the USSR.

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