How is your EU3 Game going?

[W|M]

Dat Syria. Get Masters of Mints and increase minting to help with monetary problems, as well as the National Bank NI, although your economy will most likely be improving a short while after about 1500.

 

[Ergo Sum]

Moar war. You can set military maintenance to 0% in peacetime and get morale up to a decent level again in 2 months if need be. Use magistrates on cultural tradition stuff (commission paintings, endorse culture, etc.) to get 100% and get a level 6 master of mint so you can mint ad infinitum, that should be huge with an empire that size. Start colonizing the Caribs and the North American South/South American North for great tradegoods and provinces that will make you a killing in 300 years. Take high base-tax and trade-good provinces, starting with North Italy and Austria, then the Low Countries and moving through Germany.

Reminds me of the PI forum thread asking why people think England's an easy country lol. Not that new players should instantly know how to manage the economy, but anyone with experience can tell you that England is in a commanding position economically...militarily...colonially, etc.

 

[Northen Wolf]

Is that on terra incognita a glitch? And dat Aquilea...

Nope, that appeared when I accidentally messed up IrfanView when converting pic smaller.

If you want less of a yearly deficit you need to invest in constables in high base tax provinces and trade centers. Marketplaces will indirectly improve monthly trade income... that will only help your deficit if you mint and run some MoM advisors or National Bank to counter inflation. Monthly income otherwise goes straight into research.

So constables increase income-per-month and marketplaces/trade just gets pumped into research. So, to make money I need constables and to increase research rate, Marketplaces are the best bet? Did not know that.

dat Tunisia.

Not for long, I have plans to connect my african holdings with my European lands and main road is going to go through Tunisia.

YOUR BORDERS!! NOOOOO MY EYES!


i'm quite suprised you haven't conquered all of France, but nice progress, time to clean up the borders and release some catholic african countries... (reduce that army?)

France will be conquered soon, don't you worry. And most nations in my borders are my vassals, waiting to be Annexed or PU'd. I'm planning to release Fez, but I do want to conquer world (or as much of it as possible) and therefor I'll rather make a "land route" from Europa to Africa. Besides, My borders look fine to me.

I like your Aquilia, Lithuania and Hungary but how did you manage to get so much land in so short time?(and wiith such an okay reputation)

-First I got conquer Ireland mission - declared in 1399 and conquer all before they could make allies.
-Then France declare war on me a few times and I used my 3x12 armies to gang against smaller armies of France and Allies - took quite a bit micromanagement and using of fleet to transport troops to my ports, but I caused a lot of war-weariness and reduced amount of vassals France had.
-In 141? I Personal Unioned Castille. (I have marriages all over the world, every nation that has nothing against with marry with GB princesses has a royal marriage
-In ~1420 I declared war on France and defeated them, again thanks to ganging up 4x12 unit armies on smaller armies and thanks to great generals and defensive bonuses (mountains, forests, etc.), Conquered all of Frances provinces and waited for them to submit - released several nations (Champagne included).

Waited until Ceasefire expired and redeclared war on France - canceled one of my missions and got !Occupy Paris! mission instead. Occupied Paris and I got free cores on A Lot of nations. Went reconquering whatever I could, usually white-peacing Austria before any battles could be held.

Since 1410 I've Used Holy war casus Bellies to conquer rich African provinces. I also captured Judea and in next war I captured Alexandria (for its trade center).

Capturing Scotland had some problems tho - no more conquer scotland mission for England pre 1600's, so annexing scotland costed like 12 BB's to me.
So,
My strategy:
*Marry all over the place
*Weaken France until you are capable of taking 'le blob out.
*Occupy paris mission - after that its simple to get most nations/france provinces with your cores.
*Retake all cores, including burgundy cores and capture antwerpen in process.
*Capture rich african provinces AND Judea + alexandria. (once land-tech is equal or higher to mamluks)
*Try to capture as many trade centers as possible - Antwerpen, Alexandria, Ill-de-France etc.

Dat Syria. Get Masters of Mints and increase minting to help with monetary problems, as well as the National Bank NI, although your economy will most likely be improving a short while after about 1500.

Syria will go down, I got mission to Annex a syrian province for free core and I'm going to take all Mediterranean sea provinces =) I'm against minting tho, I've used it in several games and I've always fallen behind in tech progress, so I'll try not to use minting unless necessary. -30 /a year is not that bad tho - I get more when I attempt to conquer someone and I'm making peace-deals with their allies.
As mamluks are an horde, I'll get their capital in 10 years aswell.

Moar war. You can set military maintenance to 0% in peacetime and get morale up to a decent level again in 2 months if need be. Use magistrates on cultural tradition stuff (commission paintings, endorse culture, etc.) to get 100% and get a level 6 master of mint so you can mint ad infinitum, that should be huge with an empire that size. Start colonizing the Caribs and the North American South/South American North for great tradegoods and provinces that will make you a killing in 300 years. Take high base-tax and trade-good provinces, starting with North Italy and Austria, then the Low Countries and moving through Germany.

Reminds me of the PI forum thread asking why people think England's an easy country lol. Not that new players should instantly know how to manage the economy, but anyone with experience can tell you that England is in a commanding position economically...militarily...colonially, etc.

I'm still getting 12-unit rebel armies every month or so. I'm trying to do with as less minting as possible. Besides I got diplomat (- infamy!), Land tech researcher (hard to get a six-star land-tech advisor) and Government tech researcher.

I'm planning to colonize new world, once I hit govt. tech 11 (which is soon). I have +1 moral for armies (military drill) and church attendance duty.

Also, what casus bellies to use to conquer germany OPM's ? Like, I have hard time getting casus bellies as there is.

England is hard to conquer - its fleet can defeat any incoming attacks. Also, by using its fleet, you can ambush AI into attacking your 6-unit army with its 13 unit army and then just land some reinforcements. Once new player loses a war against france, England is quite a bit weaker - without proper place to make war with france, france gona go le'blob.

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Also should I convert england to Protestantism or not? I don't like catholic :/

 

[W|M]

Depending on whether you get predominantly Protestant or Reformed provinces once they appear, convert to one of them, but you'll probably want to be Reformed if you plan on trading a lot.

I find that although England is a bit easy, it's hard to deal with French rebels everywhere, and my Rome game involves me having a navy so large that it can destroy the British fleet (Controlling most of the Mediterranean and half of the Black Sea coast helps there, of course).

 

[Parapaiontes]

DAT Aquilea.
Enjoy your Bohemian Asia.

 

[Ergo Sum]

I'm still getting 12-unit rebel armies every month or so. I'm trying to do with as less minting as possible. Besides I got diplomat (- infamy!), Land tech researcher (hard to get a six-star land-tech advisor) and Government tech researcher.

I'm planning to colonize new world, once I hit govt. tech 11 (which is soon). I have +1 moral for armies (military drill) and church attendance duty.

Also, what casus bellies to use to conquer germany OPM's ? Like, I have hard time getting casus bellies as there is.

England is hard to conquer - its fleet can defeat any incoming attacks. Also, by using its fleet, you can ambush AI into attacking your 6-unit army with its 13 unit army and then just land some reinforcements. Once new player loses a war against france, England is quite a bit weaker - without proper place to make war with france, france gona go le'blob.

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Also should I convert england to Protestantism or not? I don't like catholic :/

Minting I've found is fine when you have negative inflation modifiers, you don't need to be 10 land techs ahead to compete, esp. with England. As for religion - the pros and cons of each religion are substantial, don't be afraid to convert but remember that converting after only a mild reformation can isolate you diplomatically from possible Catholic allies. German OPMs are a headache, just ignore them. Or wait until you can dismantle HRE and swallow them up with Counter-revolution or Imperialism CB (the last one is a little more viable, comes with mid-game switch to Absolute Monarchy). Otherwise forging claims on the thrones of weak states is a good route, but usually not worth the headache (war against their allies, getting relations up above 100, etc.). Considering there are a good 50 states in the HRE this route is really only worth it for big countries, and possibly the Low Countries.

 

[W|M]

At the start, there is a possible amount of 63 countries in the HRE, although not all of them are independent. This is assuming you're playing DW vanilla, of course.

 

[Duke of Britain]

My strategy:
*Marry all over the place
*Weaken France until you are capable of taking 'le blob out.
*Occupy paris mission - after that its simple to get most nations/france provinces with your cores.
*Retake all cores, including burgundy cores and capture antwerpen in process.
*Capture rich african provinces AND Judea + alexandria. (once land-tech is equal or higher to mamluks)
*Try to capture as many trade centers as possible - Antwerpen, Alexandria, Ill-de-France etc.

You should be able to kill France in the first war, 3 armies of around 12.000 each is enough, you'll mint, but it is worth it for destroying France early and getting some of your cores in Gallia in the first war.

Also should I convert england to Protestantism or not? I don't like catholic :/

No, the union is big enough to get quite the control of the Curia, vassalize the Pope and keep him a OPM in Rome if you can, plus it's just natural, France + England wouldn't be easy to go protestant.

 

[Parapaiontes]

Shamanist Finland gained independence a while ago.
I wasn't expecting ferrera to use the holy war casus belli though..

 

[SouthernKing]

uh.....

 

[Jos Ballenbak]

I can hear Ulm scream FERRARA from here

 

[Duke of Britain]

If this is D&T i expect Russia formed soon and Ferrara screwed

in my Denmark -> Scandinavia game they (russians) broke alliance with me and attacked me had to give polish land

 

[Parapaiontes]

My game as France.
Tunisia managed to conquer some of the Netherlands.

Iberia is currently in a "civil war", thanks to morocco.
Morocco used to control 80% of Castille.
Instead of demanding some provinces and do a reversed reconquista...
They released Granada.

 

[Duke of Britain]

Catholic Granada is seriously common (not in D&T, as they don't get released often, but still)

Nice dinasty tough.

EDIT : My ULM! game! (started in 1453)

Don't ask me, that is just...the best tech lead i ever got!

Dat Burgundy, it is on their way to form Lotharingia they are a monster (and they grew a lot, like you can see in the next screenshot)

The Ulmmer confederation most of them are monarchies and adm. republics, with soem republican dictatorships and a lot of bishops.

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A bonus from a MP game in miscmods :

 

[Civ'ed]

Edit of outings the swear word.

 

[Tee Kay]

Okay, why is there a Byzantium?

 

[Duke of Britain]

Miscmods peace of God scenario. Byz got ROFLpwned later by Trebizond and some other countries, Karaman despite all orthodox provs got independent as a catholic country, Trebizond grew a lot, among other things.

 

[Leonel]

I didn't know there was a new version of MiscMods and there are new nations to the Dark Continent mod. Maybe I'll do a North American game!

 

[Parapaiontes]

Catholic Granada is seriously common

I know it is.
I was pointing out the Catholicism because of the Ummayad dynasty.

 

[Arakhor]

The thing I don't like about the new version of the Dark Campaign is the English Muslims in the Marches, one of about two non-coastal provinces. You start at the coast and work in, particularly on a massive island!