How is your EU3 Game going?

[bestbrian]

What do you mean, I have cores everywhere!

Please help me, I really can't play properly like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXwcsaK8AMI

I'll tell you what the most glaring problem is: you have 5 unused magistrates. You have a huge, cored, colonial empire, and none of the provinces you clicked on had even level one buildings. My general rule for easy building is: if you have four, build something (this way you don't lose fractional magistrates).

I have to run out. I'll add some more once I have a chance to see the whole vid.

 

[Radio Noer]

Well, in my first game, I started as Spain and took the three provinces to my South, so I think that's a minor success for a first time player

Spoiler :

 

[Civ'ed]

^first thing for any Castille player

 

[SouthernKing]

^first thing for any Castille player

Actually, attacking Aragon first is better than attacking Granada first

 

[Radio Noer]

I'll worry about that later once I figure out all the sliders and people and diplo, etc. This is one complicated game.

 

[SouthernKing]

I'll worry about that later once I figure out all the sliders and people and diplo, etc. This is one complicated game.

Hmm...if you need help, there is an EU3 wiki out there. the info on there is quite helpful, it helped me a lot.

 

[Radio Noer]

Of course, a wiki, I should have known. This will be most helpful

 

[madviking]

No one learned how to play this game in a day. It took me like a week to fully learn it. Don't panic.

 

[Radio Noer]

I'm not really panicking, I just realized that this will take some time, just like it took me quite a while of off and on playing to get CIV 4 nailed, it'll take some time with this but it is already quite fun at the basic level I understand it.

 

[bestbrian]

No one learned how to play this game in a day. It took me like a week to fully learn it. Don't panic.

I spent about a month perusing the Wiki, the Paradox Forums, and reading AARs for about a month BEFORE I even bought the game back in April, and I was still thrashing about. I also started off with Castille (and restarted, and restarted, and restarted), before I felt comfortable enough to play a game full on through to 1821, and that game ended in September. That's a six month learning curve.

 

[remake20]

Don't worry, Radio, I've been playing for months (over 30 hours) and I still have many things to learn.

On a completely unrelated note, I'm trying to reform Byzantium, but I'm quite stuck. I start by blitzing Candar, Karama, and Razaman, and then go for the Ottomans. I attempt to block off the straight, stranding most of their army over in the Balkan peninsula while I wipe up Turkey, however my superior navy always looses to theirs because of my -37 prestige. The year is 1408 and it said one of my reasons for loss (-9% at one point) was because of lack of heir (or something similar as I deleted that save), however in the leader tab is said I had an heir with a strong claim. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong to have -37 infamy after annexing 3 (small) countries and playing for 9 years?

 

[Civ'ed]

Actually, attacking Aragon first is better than attacking Granada first

Only with a CB, señor El Pony

 

[Leonel]

No one learned how to play this game in a day. It took me like a week to fully learn it. Don't panic.

Took me several months.

 

[SouthernKing]

I got EU3 in July, and I still have not gotten a game all the way to 1821 (furthest was a Death and Taxes Byz game that I was in the late 1600s and then I lost the save updating my Death and Taxes version) so you can probably imagine.

 

[Thrawn]

Actually, attacking Aragon first is better than attacking Granada first

heh, I'm in the same boat. Figured while I don't have a full time job, I should spend some time to try and figure out EU3. I'd read a little about playing as Castille on the wiki, so I guaranteed Navarra and waited for Aragon to use its CB, but that didn't happen so I got bored and hit granada. Ended up taking most of morocco as well, which wasn't intended. After I slowly took the first couple, their army just seemed to disappear and the rest of the country fell like dominos. Of course that did give me about 20 infamy, so I guess I need to wait a bit before doing any more wars.

I've got a question about land armies too, in the wiki, it mentions how, especially early on, pure cavalry armies are the way to go. Yet in game, apparently I don't get a combined arms bonus if the army consists of 50% or more of cavalry? Is it worth losing that bonus? My experience in morocco would suggest so, as without the large numbers of cavalry I had I don't think I would have been as successful. The infantry portions of my army just seemed to die pretty quickly.

Next up on my plan for this game and learning EU3, is to eventually conquer aragon so I can form spain later, as well as conquering portugal to unite the entire peninusla under spanish rule. Then after that I'll just look to colonising probably, see what happens.

 

[SouthernKing]

Pure cavalry armies apparently were great in the original game and a few expansions after. One of the later expansions changed that by adding the less than 50% bonus; balanced cav-infantry is the way to go.

 

[remake20]

On a completely unrelated note, I'm trying to reform Byzantium, but I'm quite stuck. I start by blitzing Candar, Karama, and Razaman, and then go for the Ottomans. I attempt to block off the straight, stranding most of their army over in the Balkan peninsula while I wipe up Turkey, however my superior navy always looses to theirs because of my -37 prestige. The year is 1408 and it said one of my reasons for loss (-9% at one point) was because of lack of heir (or something similar as I deleted that save), however in the leader tab is said I had an heir with a strong claim. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong to have -37 infamy after annexing 3 (small) countries and playing for 9 years?

So anyone got an answer?

 

[civ_king]

Recruit a high star Diplomat, get Cardinals.

How do you bribe cardinals in DW?

The cost of your techs is proportional to the number of provinces you have. So if you're settling crap provinces they can do more harm than good in your research.

My Spain game wasn't bad, course I had every province in both Americas (and Caribbean) channeling through Mexico and dominated that one trading CoT

Africa is a dump except the South most 4, those are decent

I'll tell you what the most glaring problem is: you have 5 unused magistrates. You have a huge, cored, colonial empire, and none of the provinces you clicked on had even level one buildings. My general rule for easy building is: if you have four, build something (this way you don't lose fractional magistrates).

I have to run out. I'll add some more once I have a chance to see the whole vid.

Is spending magistrates to get level 5/6 star advisers good or bad?

Pure cavalry armies apparently were great in the original game and a few expansions after. One of the later expansions changed that by adding the less than 50% bonus; balanced cav-infantry is the way to go.

Cavalry used to move faster than infantry so you used to be able to blitz hard

 

[Northen Wolf]

How do you bribe cardinals in DW?

You can't, you can just hope cardinals come from your provinces.

Is spending magistrates to get level 5/6 star advisers good or bad?

Good, that's how you should get them. That's how I get diplomats and other advisors and that's what you should do with magistrates if you have not enough money to build (get culture up).

 

[remake20]

I FINALLY got a game of Byzantine going. I am very happy with my progress because I still feel I suck at the game.

Spoiler :

My infamy is in the teens and I lag behind a little it tech, due to the necessity to field a large anti-Ottoman army. So now my plan is to build economically while infamy goes down (and hopefully get someone to weaken the Timurids). My current allies are Milan and Austria D) with hopefully someone else soon. Sadly, I've used up all of my Reconquest Casus Bellis,excluding the two remaining Ottoman provinces and Aragon (whom I'm hoping to align with). I think this is going to be the first game I actually play past the year 1500 (I restart a lot)!

Oh I still am loosing prestige due to "Uncontested claims." How do I get rid of that?