How is your EU3 Game going?
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At first I thought you were Sweden, then Castille and then Naples. I didn't even see the Americas.
The stuff the AI does...
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
Just saw this during my sideline game as Cyprus (just wanting to see Europe implode)
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Sweden, why exactly are you meddling in England in the first place??
Also note the IN France.
Sweden, why exactly are you meddling in England in the first place??
Also note the IN France.
nutranurse
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Time for me to report, droogs.
So I started a new game as Firenze, just for poops and giggles. Initially I was going to just plod along as a nice little trader nation, but then the game bombarded me with a poop-ton of 'Conquest' missions on the various Italian OPMs, and I wasn't going to pass up all those free cores, so...
Where to start? Well, it's the year 1360 and the world is quickly coming to know the wrath of Naples. I'm not sure how, but Naples just is disgustingly powerful this game. At first Naples was my ally and helped me duke it out with the Papal States when I was trying to conquer Urbino (whom the PS had guaranteed, silly pope). It was awesome to see how utterly trashed the pope got--I'm pretty sure Naples killed 2 or 3 popes in battle because there were papal elections out the wazoo in the space of a few years. It stopped being fun, though, when Naples took over most of the Papal States.
For the next decade or two it would go like this: Rebels spawn, give the province back to the papal states, Naples wars on papal states, takes back province, rebels spawn. That worked till Aragon-Naples teamed up and just decided to end the Papal States once and for all. For a period of five or so years the Papal States existed only in France--Rome was in the hands of Aragon.
That's when Naples/Aragon turned their eyes on me.
While this was all happening I was happily expanding in every which direction I could. I rationalized as the various Italian States going like 'Poop, Naples is getting pretty huge, let's band together?' Or at least that's what I'm going with because now I'm dead-set on forming Italy so as to oppose the Neapolitan goon squad. Venice also is expanding into northern Italy, which brings us into conflict, though I am saved by Austira and Hungry who DOW Venice when they have their pants down. It was also around this time that the Bohemian king died and Bohemia went under a PU with Naples.
Aragon had a small province in Italy (iirc the name) and seemed to be expanding eastwards (the greek leg of the Serbian blob was once all Aragon), so they, of course, decided to declare war on me. Naples joined in and I pooped my pants. I fought a losing war and was about to peace out when a Castile-France alliance just "Nope"'d the Aragon-Naples. Most of the Aragonese troops went back to Iberia to defend themselves, but in vain. England jumped in at some point after excommunicating the king of Aragon, they own Terragon or something like that. That just left Naples to me, who backed out of the war after I offered them 200 ducats.
The past 20 or so years I have been prepping myself for what will undoubtedly be one hell of a war. The only reason I survived the last one was because the merchants elected my super-doge who had 8-8-8 stats and the 'Brilliant Strategist' and 'Cruel' traits. Dude is going down in history as the Colonel Tigh of Italians for all the poop he had to deal with and still come out more-or-less alive. I recently allied Savoy, Austria, and Genoa, who should help me against Naples when the time comes. I just got yet another 'Conquest' Mission, this time against Mantua--though Venice is currently protecting them and I'm waiting for the Austria-Venice truce to end so I can get Austria in the war.
Some interesting points outside my little Italian hell:
--Hussite Austria: I guess and event or something fired because ALL of Austria is Hussite, and so is the country. Most of southern Bohemia is Hussite and there are a few HRE OPMs who are Hussite too.
--English-Irish-Suffle: Since the start of the game England has been pretty distracted by Ireland. They conquered all of it at one point, but a massive rebellion happened when all of the English troops were in Aragon or something, and so a few nations came back into existence. England recent reconquered them, only to have another one pop up (Ulster/Ulaid, iirc the name).
--Italian HRE Emperor: With Bohemia under the power of Naples and Austria following a heretical faith who could the electors turn to but Milan? Oh, sure Brandenburg is a perfectly viable candidate, but this game seems to have dictated that ALL interesting things have to happen in Italy. So, yep, Milanese Emperor.
--Serbia in Greec-I mean the true Serbian homeland: Somehow Serbia has managed to not be crushed by Hungry and instead has done some crushing of its own against the Greeks. Also, for whatever reason, they are suddenly way better than the Ottomans and have proceeded to beat the poop out of them with the help of the ERE and, occasionally, Portugal. See that mishmash of terrorists? That all used to be Ottoman territory till they were forced to release a few vassals. I'm pretty sure Serbia is going to take on Tarnavo next. Maybe those crazy nationalists on the paradox forms are not so crazy after all?
So I started a new game as Firenze, just for poops and giggles. Initially I was going to just plod along as a nice little trader nation, but then the game bombarded me with a poop-ton of 'Conquest' missions on the various Italian OPMs, and I wasn't going to pass up all those free cores, so...
Where to start? Well, it's the year 1360 and the world is quickly coming to know the wrath of Naples. I'm not sure how, but Naples just is disgustingly powerful this game. At first Naples was my ally and helped me duke it out with the Papal States when I was trying to conquer Urbino (whom the PS had guaranteed, silly pope). It was awesome to see how utterly trashed the pope got--I'm pretty sure Naples killed 2 or 3 popes in battle because there were papal elections out the wazoo in the space of a few years. It stopped being fun, though, when Naples took over most of the Papal States.
For the next decade or two it would go like this: Rebels spawn, give the province back to the papal states, Naples wars on papal states, takes back province, rebels spawn. That worked till Aragon-Naples teamed up and just decided to end the Papal States once and for all. For a period of five or so years the Papal States existed only in France--Rome was in the hands of Aragon.
That's when Naples/Aragon turned their eyes on me.
While this was all happening I was happily expanding in every which direction I could. I rationalized as the various Italian States going like 'Poop, Naples is getting pretty huge, let's band together?' Or at least that's what I'm going with because now I'm dead-set on forming Italy so as to oppose the Neapolitan goon squad. Venice also is expanding into northern Italy, which brings us into conflict, though I am saved by Austira and Hungry who DOW Venice when they have their pants down. It was also around this time that the Bohemian king died and Bohemia went under a PU with Naples.
Aragon had a small province in Italy (iirc the name) and seemed to be expanding eastwards (the greek leg of the Serbian blob was once all Aragon), so they, of course, decided to declare war on me. Naples joined in and I pooped my pants. I fought a losing war and was about to peace out when a Castile-France alliance just "Nope"'d the Aragon-Naples. Most of the Aragonese troops went back to Iberia to defend themselves, but in vain. England jumped in at some point after excommunicating the king of Aragon, they own Terragon or something like that. That just left Naples to me, who backed out of the war after I offered them 200 ducats.
The past 20 or so years I have been prepping myself for what will undoubtedly be one hell of a war. The only reason I survived the last one was because the merchants elected my super-doge who had 8-8-8 stats and the 'Brilliant Strategist' and 'Cruel' traits. Dude is going down in history as the Colonel Tigh of Italians for all the poop he had to deal with and still come out more-or-less alive. I recently allied Savoy, Austria, and Genoa, who should help me against Naples when the time comes. I just got yet another 'Conquest' Mission, this time against Mantua--though Venice is currently protecting them and I'm waiting for the Austria-Venice truce to end so I can get Austria in the war.
Some interesting points outside my little Italian hell:
--Hussite Austria: I guess and event or something fired because ALL of Austria is Hussite, and so is the country. Most of southern Bohemia is Hussite and there are a few HRE OPMs who are Hussite too.
--English-Irish-Suffle: Since the start of the game England has been pretty distracted by Ireland. They conquered all of it at one point, but a massive rebellion happened when all of the English troops were in Aragon or something, and so a few nations came back into existence. England recent reconquered them, only to have another one pop up (Ulster/Ulaid, iirc the name).
--Italian HRE Emperor: With Bohemia under the power of Naples and Austria following a heretical faith who could the electors turn to but Milan? Oh, sure Brandenburg is a perfectly viable candidate, but this game seems to have dictated that ALL interesting things have to happen in Italy. So, yep, Milanese Emperor.
--Serbia in Greec-I mean the true Serbian homeland: Somehow Serbia has managed to not be crushed by Hungry and instead has done some crushing of its own against the Greeks. Also, for whatever reason, they are suddenly way better than the Ottomans and have proceeded to beat the poop out of them with the help of the ERE and, occasionally, Portugal. See that mishmash of terrorists? That all used to be Ottoman territory till they were forced to release a few vassals. I'm pretty sure Serbia is going to take on Tarnavo next. Maybe those crazy nationalists on the paradox forms are not so crazy after all?
Optical
The Fall of the Eleventh
No screenshots, but:
Savoy, 1408. Already things have taken a turn for the slightly odd. Byzantium has been completely eliminated - first, Morea was taken by the unexpected invaders:
ALGIERS.
But this takes the cake. Looked at the world map at one point; imagine my surprise when I see Thrace, not under Byzantine control...
but in ACHAEA's hands.
Bear in mind: this is 1408!
Savoy, 1408. Already things have taken a turn for the slightly odd. Byzantium has been completely eliminated - first, Morea was taken by the unexpected invaders:
ALGIERS.
But this takes the cake. Looked at the world map at one point; imagine my surprise when I see Thrace, not under Byzantine control...
but in ACHAEA's hands.
Bear in mind: this is 1408!
salty mud
Deity
Sorry Olaf, but the amazingness of the situation is detracted somewhat without a screenshot to gawp at.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
What mod is this?
salty mud
Deity
Looks like it may be MEIOU.
Winner
Diverse in Unity
Never played MEIOU. The only other mod where there is an independent Hussite religion is MM. And it's always great fun playing as Hussite Bohemia, spreading this heresy all over the Empire
nutranurse
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Never played MEIOU. The only other mod where there is an independent Hussite religion is MM. And it's always great fun playing as Hussite Bohemia, spreading this heresy all over the Empire
Yep, it's MEIOU. I'd say give it a try! I'm having a blast and can never go back to vanilla.
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The map is just so ugly though 
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
MEIOU has the best map, its even better than the victoria map!
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
The map is just so ugly though
The map is goddamn amazing. If it wasn't so pretty I might actually think about going back to HTTT Magna Mundi.
Optical
The Fall of the Eleventh
Sorry Olaf, but the amazingness of the situation is detracted somewhat without a screenshot to gawp at.
I'll get one next time I'm playing.
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In my game, Brittany just moved their capital from South America to Australia. Meanwhile, I'm playing Russia, and just reached Production Tech 72 and now my textile mills are considerably less useful.
In other news, the part of the War of American Revolution between the USA and Portugal continues to drag on after more than 30 years. Portugal has finally stopped going bankrupt every year, but can't make a headway despite USA's enlightened decision to field Latin Medieval Infantry and Chevauchées rather than something halfway modern.
In other news, the part of the War of American Revolution between the USA and Portugal continues to drag on after more than 30 years. Portugal has finally stopped going bankrupt every year, but can't make a headway despite USA's enlightened decision to field Latin Medieval Infantry and Chevauchées rather than something halfway modern.
Optical
The Fall of the Eleventh
Ah, here we go. Sorry, I misremembered the date: Achaea actually managed to take Thebes in the first five years. My computer hates me, so the screenshot I took from then got saved as a PNG and is simply a blank white sheet >.> but here's one from my current point of progress (1417):
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
You can find out what kind of troops other people are using?
I did not know that...
uat2d
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Just like in real life, the Socialist party lost the elections!
