Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
It's not Svip's fault he forgot, what's there is pretty awesome.
How is your EU3 Game going?
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It's not Svip's fault he forgot, what's there is pretty awesome.
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Any tips for taking on Castille as Portugal? 
On Ulm: Those who have not read the AAR are sinners. Period.
On Ulm: Those who have not read the AAR are sinners. Period.
SamSniped
DJ Goodboye
I am in the middle of a Milan game now on EU3:In Nomine at 1424. I annexed Tuscany, DoW'd Naples after a call to arms, and took Apulia while Abruzzi went to the Papal State and another province to Sicily, leaving Naples with their capital. I then went on to annex Tuscany. After 4 to 7 wars (I lost count) I gained Treviso from Venice, Krain from Apulia; Genoa lost Corsica, Azow, and Kaffa to the Papal State, who lost the latter two to the Golden Horde and had to give up Corsica as a free nation. Then I DoW'd Genoa, who called in Naples as an ally, and annexed both and ended the war with everyone else
I'm a couple years from Land Tech 5 (gives me Longbowmen and Men-At-Arms), and when I get it I will get a CB on the Papal State and Urbino to gain Ancona and Rome. Then by 1490 or so, I will form Italy.
Mind you this is the first game I am promising myself I will play all the way through...and it's on Very Easy difficulty
The "Ulm Thing" is very good; you really should read it on a nice lazy Sunday. Sorta like this one.
It's totally his fault. Who's else would it be? If you're going to start something, you finish it, or you don't start it at all. That's why it can't be the Greatest. AAR. EVER. It's been abandoned, and it's a slap to the face of those who invested their time into reading it. Just like "Princes of the Universe", or "Don Deity" before we cajoled/harrassed Snaaty into coming up with some kind of completion.
What's there is truly awesome, however.
uat2d
ಠ_ಠ
Any tips for taking on Castille as Portugal?
On Ulm: Those who have not read the AAR are sinners. Period.
Build an army, take Granada, Castile gets mission to attack the moors in Africa, once they arrive there, destroy their fleet with the mighty Portuguese navy and siege all their provinces.
Easy enough.
Racsoviale
Smoke me a kipper!
SouthernKing: I tried a game with Portugal and did two things to handle Catille. First I found that playing nice with Castille in the first 50ish yars is much easier. My entire foreignpolicy was based on keeping on good terms with them
Second: I allied with Aragon and waited for Castille to get embroiled in a long useless war in North Africa
and keeping tabs on my waraims I ended the war as soon as I could get what I wanted from the war.
Second: I allied with Aragon and waited for Castille to get embroiled in a long useless war in North Africa
and keeping tabs on my waraims I ended the war as soon as I could get what I wanted from the war.
sophie
Break My Heart
Second: I allied with Aragon and waited for Castille to get embroiled in a long useless war in North Africa
This is pretty good advice for warring in EU3 in general. I think the most important thing to realize about EU3 if you're aiming at improving is to make a realistic assessment of what you want, can, and will be able to get out of the war, execute that, and pull out. Nothing in EU3 is more debilitating than a large, committed war that goes nowhere.
The first rule for any new players to learn is that this game is LONG. The most common error new people make is trying to do too much too quickly. Rather than taking 10 uncored territories now, thereby throwing your infamy, WE, and economy into the spitter, wait for a cb, take 1 or 2 provinces and wait for another opportunity.
And then you get too experienced with the game and start trying world conquests as minor powers, where you don't have much of a choice--you have to conquer that quickly otherwise you won't be able to take the world before 1821 rolls around.
Although yeah, this is generally good advice, I'm just being snarky.
sophie
Break My Heart
And then you get too experienced with the game and start trying world conquests as minor powers, where you don't have much of a choice--you have to conquer that quickly otherwise you won't be able to take the world before 1821 rolls around.
Although yeah, this is generally good advice, I'm just being snarky.
Yeah, well once you get to that stage, you can pretty much throw all the rules out the window
I don't think it's as bad as it sounds, but you are still better off without it.
The real annoying thing is the increase in revolt risk, which forces you to station more troops at home (and at random 1 province possessions/islands) to handle the revolts. It will slow you down, but it will usually not stop you.
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
Started as Hesse, D&T 4.0 1356 start:
Used Spies to flip Westfalen to me at the beginning, then waited until I got a CB on Brunswick (Alliance), so I could annex it without drawing in Bohemia. This triggered a war with a few large nations (Brandenburg or Poland, can't remember which), but Denmark got my back. Formed Westphalia this way in nine years. From there I slowly munched my cores back, timing it so that I could get them without fighting anyone too large to handle. Forced Pommerania into a Personal Union, Cleves just sort of fell into it, and I just inherited both.
I have four vassalized electors.
This picture was taken just after the death of Napoleon I Hofmann, with a regency for Napoleon II Hofmann (he's 13). Bremen is my only uncored territory. I still have a core on Altmark I have yet to reclaim.
I had just finished a massive war in which I tried to annex Luneburg; they called in Holstein and Brandenburg, the latter of which became WL and later called in Austria. I did manage to annex Luneburg, but the hordes and hordes of minors overwhelmed me and I was forced to release Hamburg; the small 5K stack in Bremen is all that remains of my once glorious 33K main army.
A coalition of France, Portugal, Aragon, and early on Denmark, have torn Castille to pieces; they got excommed and subsequently nommed by every power in range.
Great Britain formed extremely early; I first noticed them in 1392.
Lithuania went from doing well to being annexed in the space of about 10-20 years. It was partitioned between the TO, Moscow, and the GH.
Speaking of Moscow, its been doing very well. At one point it was at war with about half of Europe over Riga. It came out relatively unscathed.
I'm slated to be next HRE and the Bohemian Emperor is getting quite old. I'm not sure I like where this is going, especially if I become HRE while I still only have 5K soldiers. Especially because my only reliable ally is Bavaria, who got destroyed in the previous war.
Used Spies to flip Westfalen to me at the beginning, then waited until I got a CB on Brunswick (Alliance), so I could annex it without drawing in Bohemia. This triggered a war with a few large nations (Brandenburg or Poland, can't remember which), but Denmark got my back. Formed Westphalia this way in nine years. From there I slowly munched my cores back, timing it so that I could get them without fighting anyone too large to handle. Forced Pommerania into a Personal Union, Cleves just sort of fell into it, and I just inherited both.
I have four vassalized electors.
This picture was taken just after the death of Napoleon I Hofmann, with a regency for Napoleon II Hofmann (he's 13). Bremen is my only uncored territory. I still have a core on Altmark I have yet to reclaim.
I had just finished a massive war in which I tried to annex Luneburg; they called in Holstein and Brandenburg, the latter of which became WL and later called in Austria. I did manage to annex Luneburg, but the hordes and hordes of minors overwhelmed me and I was forced to release Hamburg; the small 5K stack in Bremen is all that remains of my once glorious 33K main army.
A coalition of France, Portugal, Aragon, and early on Denmark, have torn Castille to pieces; they got excommed and subsequently nommed by every power in range.
Great Britain formed extremely early; I first noticed them in 1392.
Lithuania went from doing well to being annexed in the space of about 10-20 years. It was partitioned between the TO, Moscow, and the GH.
Speaking of Moscow, its been doing very well. At one point it was at war with about half of Europe over Riga. It came out relatively unscathed.
I'm slated to be next HRE and the Bohemian Emperor is getting quite old. I'm not sure I like where this is going, especially if I become HRE while I still only have 5K soldiers. Especially because my only reliable ally is Bavaria, who got destroyed in the previous war.
Racsoviale
Smoke me a kipper!
So After uniting Germany I got really bored with that game and Europe for that matter so I started a new game with the Ottomans.
I know my borders are ugly but the Jalayirids have been my trusty allies against the Golden Horde, Timurids and the Mameluks since almost the beginning of the game and I cant really get myself to backstab them
On the other hand this map can be usefull in demonstrating this quote by Owen Glyndwr:
"I think the most important thing to realize about EU3 if you're aiming at improving is to make a realistic assessment of what you want, can, and will be able to get out of the war, execute that, and pull out."
I had gotten what I wanted out of the war with Persia(gold and that they removed their cores on my territory) but because I listened to my inner megalomaniac I decide to take the two territories below Iraq from them as well.
This was really stupid for a lot of reasons: Aleppo had just turned core and I had lost my overextension modifier(BTW it gives +3 revolt risk and +50% stab cost), they were both Shia but I had force converted Persia to Sunni meaning they could have spent time and money on converting them. And they are dirt poor.
And being overextended while in the midst of Westernising and having enacted some of the Ottoman and muslim religious decisions which makes stab regain take even longer time is no fun at all.
EDIT: nice empire you have there Mechaerik, but arent you a bit worried that France might start moving north when it has gobbled up the rest of Iberia?
I know my borders are ugly but the Jalayirids have been my trusty allies against the Golden Horde, Timurids and the Mameluks since almost the beginning of the game and I cant really get myself to backstab them
On the other hand this map can be usefull in demonstrating this quote by Owen Glyndwr:
"I think the most important thing to realize about EU3 if you're aiming at improving is to make a realistic assessment of what you want, can, and will be able to get out of the war, execute that, and pull out."
I had gotten what I wanted out of the war with Persia(gold and that they removed their cores on my territory) but because I listened to my inner megalomaniac I decide to take the two territories below Iraq from them as well.
This was really stupid for a lot of reasons: Aleppo had just turned core and I had lost my overextension modifier(BTW it gives +3 revolt risk and +50% stab cost), they were both Shia but I had force converted Persia to Sunni meaning they could have spent time and money on converting them. And they are dirt poor.
And being overextended while in the midst of Westernising and having enacted some of the Ottoman and muslim religious decisions which makes stab regain take even longer time is no fun at all.
EDIT: nice empire you have there Mechaerik, but arent you a bit worried that France might start moving north when it has gobbled up the rest of Iberia?
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
Yes. And I'm especially worried because now I'm the Emperor. But the first Imperial War has turned out to be against Naples.
My forcelimit is also now 120, waaaaaaaay up from the 62 it was immediately following the conclusion of the war (before the dual-inherit and election as Emperor), and I'm mostly Quality and Land. The problem is I'm bleeding money; I lose 13 ducats a month.
I currently have 3 stacks of 11 (7 infantry, 4 cavalry) and a stack of 10. Goal is to assemble these into 8/4/3 once I get the tech; those stacks form the brunt of my fighting forces for a while.
My forcelimit is also now 120, waaaaaaaay up from the 62 it was immediately following the conclusion of the war (before the dual-inherit and election as Emperor), and I'm mostly Quality and Land. The problem is I'm bleeding money; I lose 13 ducats a month.
I currently have 3 stacks of 11 (7 infantry, 4 cavalry) and a stack of 10. Goal is to assemble these into 8/4/3 once I get the tech; those stacks form the brunt of my fighting forces for a while.
uat2d
ಠ_ಠ
I thought I was seeing double, having looked through my CFC and Paradox Plaza subscriptions. 
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...mpire-here&p=13305138&viewfull=1#post13305138
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...mpire-here&p=13305138&viewfull=1#post13305138
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
It's an illusion.... woo...
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Read my new AAR! Death and Taxes 3.4, Portugal.
Here is the CFC link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=451753
It is also on Paradox plaza for your pleasure reading: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-de-A%E7%FAcar-e-Especiarias-A-Lusitanian-AAR
Here is the CFC link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=451753
It is also on Paradox plaza for your pleasure reading: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...-de-A%E7%FAcar-e-Especiarias-A-Lusitanian-AAR
Optical
The Fall of the Eleventh
I can't decide where to read it! 
I know, I'll read it on CFC and comment on both
I know, I'll read it on CFC and comment on both
uat2d
ಠ_ಠ
Spoiler :
Please explain me this because I'm getting sick of it.
Not only is it awful that you can fully conquer a country but only get to win like 25% of their land, having to deal with massive infamy even for defensive wars and if as much as you get some troops in a boat the whole country revolts because of +3/month war exhaustion from attrition, it has got to the point where you can whip out the enemy's army and conquer all of his mainland and they still won't sign peace, even when it's 1 gold!
Oh, and Hesse, the leader of the war, says I have some 91% war score rather than 79% when I only focused on Austria without conquering Hesse's lands and is willing to give me Austria's provinces, but at the full infamy price of 4, which is obviously unacceptable.
Civ4, with all its faults, at least doesn't have these issues of countries severely miscalculating their situation, there there's no Luxembourg demanding me some thousands of gold when they have no military and I'm their neighbor and have the largest and most advanced one in the world, nor would it ever simply refuse to be annexed!
