How is your EU3 Game going?

[Civ'ed]

wait until Bar takes over the world in D&T. THEN you have a challenge.

 

[Kyriakos]

The problem with playing as Byz in regular DW is that you essentially lose the first 30years to get on par with Castille. But that is a LOT of time to lose, which is why when i played as England i owned all Scotland and Ireland in less than 10 years (IIRC)

 

[NBAfan]

Just gave the D&T mod a try (as Byzantium). It's too easy. Waaaay too easy, if you start in 1407 or so when Byzantium is in control of most of Macedonia. I allied with Serbia, Wallachia, Montenegro, and Athens and declared war on the Ottomans, who are in the middle of civil war. First I notice I got some totally overpowered modifier ("resisting the Turks") which gave me 50% more tax revenue, crapload of extra manpower, and bigger land force limits. The Ottomans kicked my butt in a few battles (my starting army got wiped out), but I could easily afford building more troops and hiring more mercs. Eventually, the Ottomans got soundly beaten, I took the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, and from there on it was mostly a walk in the park. About 60 years later most of Anatolia is in my hands and the process of religious and cultural conversion proceeds splendidly.

Meh. I'll return to my SRI game. The new map is nice, but other than that, D&T doesn't seem to offer the kind of challenge I desire.

That's why I like SRI better too. Plus, the HRE is awesome fun.

 

[Duke of Britain]

Just gave the D&T mod a try (as Byzantium). It's too easy. Waaaay too easy, if you start in 1407 or so when Byzantium is in control of most of Macedonia. I allied with Serbia, Wallachia, Montenegro, and Athens and declared war on the Ottomans, who are in the middle of civil war. First I notice I got some totally overpowered modifier ("resisting the Turks") which gave me 50% more tax revenue, crapload of extra manpower, and bigger land force limits. The Ottomans kicked my butt in a few battles (my starting army got wiped out), but I could easily afford building more troops and hiring more mercs. Eventually, the Ottomans got soundly beaten, I took the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, and from there on it was mostly a walk in the park. About 60 years later most of Anatolia is in my hands and the process of religious and cultural conversion proceeds splendidly.

Meh. I'll return to my SRI game. The new map is nice, but other than that, D&T doesn't seem to offer the kind of challenge I desire.

Don't offer the kind of challenge?
HAH!
I remember lots of games with huge massive endgame bosses in D&T.

Especially Denmark, Burgundy and Spain in a Brandenburg -> Prussia -> Germany game i played once

My latest SRI game as Austria had me become the european superpower with ease compared to D&T...

 

[NBAfan]

Don't offer the kind of challenge?
HAH!
I remember lots of games with huge massive endgame bosses in D&T.

Especially Denmark, Burgundy and Spain in a Brandenburg -> Prussia -> Germany game i played once

My latest SRI game as Austria had me become the european superpower with ease compared to D&T...

I must have been thing of MEIOU. The AI does provide tough competition with D&T in the late game.

 

[Winner]

Remember how I said I was bored? Well here's what happened when I played the game for a while yesterday:

First, I got this strange event, something about aristocrats being unhappy with something, despite my sliders being set to full aristocracy. The tooltips were so long that I couldn't see the beginning, so I clicked the option "buy their favour" or something like that. Then my stability fell to negative territory and my treasury went from +4000 gold to -5000 gold

Being a Greek culture country, I of course took 5 loans (and went bankrupt later ). Meanwhile, I got the "Revolution is here", with huge revoltrisk all over. My Emperor was executed and Byzantium became a revolutionary republic, after which rebel stacks-of-doom started popping up all over Greece and Asia Minor. I tried to defeat them, but I was loosing about 900 gold a year from revoltrisk and looted/occupied provinces.

Then noble rebels took Constantinople, the revolution was defeated, and a constitutional monarchy was established.

Then I reloaded the game Yeah

That's why I like SRI better too. Plus, the HRE is awesome fun.

Yes. But it's sometimes frustrating, which is why I've modded the mod to some extent to suit my tastes

Don't offer the kind of challenge?
HAH!
I remember lots of games with huge massive endgame bosses in D&T.

Especially Denmark, Burgundy and Spain in a Brandenburg -> Prussia -> Germany game i played once

My latest SRI game as Austria had me become the european superpower with ease compared to D&T...

I'll give it another try later. What I liked was how it "reworked the "Comet Sighted" event (Personally, I like the "Paradox hates me!" choice the best )

 

[Civ'ed]

really? I always take the "I'm going to save and reload" option during MP

 

[Winner]

It's just too bad there is no Magna Mundi for the latest expansion. Although, the final MMU version was so CPU intensive that I didn't really have the patience to play it at its sluggish pace.

Anyway, I found some really old screenshots. It's MM Bohemia game, in which I apparently decided to form a Hussite HRE superpower

Spoiler :

 

[Racsoviale]

My second attempt at forming Germany. This time as Bavaria.

All German minors are my vassals and the reason I have expanded in northern Germany is because I inherited my 3 personal unions at the same time and the polish provinces are because of protestant defections to me.

I'm allied with Austria and have just finished a war with france where I got them to release aragon and Navarre

Expanding in the HRE is slow and my main way of reducing infamy is through all the juicy subjucation missions I keep getting.

Is it easier to inherit vassals or is it a waste of time having royal marriage and keeping relations at 200 with them?

I know I can diplo-annex but that comes with noncored territory which is a no-go at the moment.

and here is a little weird moment I saw

Trebizond have one territory(Kaffa) so I imagine this war is serious business on their part

And at the first picture, that is Wales occupying all of England.

Also: create a proper fleet missions are quite fun when naval limit is 2

 

[Duke of Britain]

Hey, i like SRI, but my fav mods are MEIOU and D&T

oh, SRI has some really sucky event...you can't have more than one PU at the same time, i suggest disabling that event if you play it

 

[Civ'ed]

Hey, i like SRI, but my fav mods are MEIOU and D&T

weellll.... Not to brag, but I MIGHT get to play a version of MEIOU that isn't public yet

 

[W|M]

What the hell are the Abbasids and Gujaratis doing in Siberia?

 

[Civ'ed]

AirotCiv
That being said,
The project is pretty large for Dr_Quin, so there are some colonial problem thingies.

 

[Racsoviale]

Damn it seems I have misunderstood the mechanics of vassals and inheriting. I thought you would have a much bigger chance a inheriting them but nowhere does it say that. Which means it is going to take forever to form Germany because of the annexing and waiting 50 years to get cores and getting a yearly rise of infamy in the mean time.

I should have forced unions the whole time instead of vassalizing

 

[Tee Kay]

Vassalisation is a good idea if you don't intend to rule directly (for example, poor provinces in a marginal area of your interest). Otherwise, personal union's a better bet, especially if the victim partner has the same culture.

 

[Bowsling]

Or if they're not a monarchy.

 

[SouthernKing]

Denmark, currently in 1447, there was a pan-European war in the 1420s that resulted in me vassalizing Leinster and Brittany (its better off if you dont ask), although I did have to give up Leinster to get France off my back. I am impatiently waiting for my union underlings to be inherited, but that is for a different day.

 

[Optical]

Screenshot(s)?

 

[Robert Can't]

In a game of D&T I seem to have come across an odd OPM in Finland - The Papal States, which are apparently Orthodox?

Spoiler :

 

[Bowsling]

In my game, I had a zombie general for a little while. He died, but he continued to command the army that I had him leading, and he actually fought a couple of battles before I decided that it was cheating and removed him from command, after which he disappeared.