Duke of Britain
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This.
You also wouldn't like being called to a war if you have low stab, high WE, etc... so don't call the AI when it is in such situation.
How is your EU3 Game going?
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This.
You also wouldn't like being called to a war if you have low stab, high WE, etc... so don't call the AI when it is in such situation.
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Important: Ulm has returned!
Svip's back?
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
Actually, Glory for Ulm IS BACK.
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I decided to start a game as the Iroquois, because my Timurids game is on hold and Novgorod just wasn't challenging enough. I've played ahead a good ways, but I'll spread out the updates to increase the suspense and highlight some of the unusual facets of this game, both in my area and abroad.
This brings us to the first glance at the world, in August, 1425.
In the New World, I was forced to conquer the Huron right away, because they tried to conquer me. A large mercenary army was successful, debt was accumulated, and they were annexed. And they were not happy about it. Although they were annexed in 1400, it was less than four years ago that I wrested the last province from the most recent rebellion. Now the revolt risk is a manageable 2.5% or so in their former provinces, and the economy is in better shape. All techs, including stability, are zero.
But in the Old World, things are a-happening! Aragon has gained the upper hand on Castille, and even more inexplicably, so has Morocco, who together with Algiers owns North Africa. Further east, Sicily of all powers has becoming the first imperialistic western nation, taking part of the Mamluk lands. And, for the first time in any game I've ever played, Ireland has formed, with no interference from myself. Seeing as Cornwall also exists, England clearly lost a war, but even so, a unified Ireland is a surprise. We've also seen Serbia go from being an Ottoman vassal to a Venetian one, while Bosnia has gained independence.
And we've had an existant Ireland, Aragon being superior to Castille, and Morocco in Iberia for no less than 8 years.
Will Morocco and Aragon become dominant in Iberia, and will Ireland stand on its own against the hungry English lords? Perhaps more importantly, will the Iroquios stand or their own or prove to be a paper tiger? And will the Ottomans finally put forth a respectable showing, or will they become a Venetian province like Serbia? Only time will tell.
This brings us to the first glance at the world, in August, 1425.
Spoiler :
In the New World, I was forced to conquer the Huron right away, because they tried to conquer me. A large mercenary army was successful, debt was accumulated, and they were annexed. And they were not happy about it. Although they were annexed in 1400, it was less than four years ago that I wrested the last province from the most recent rebellion. Now the revolt risk is a manageable 2.5% or so in their former provinces, and the economy is in better shape. All techs, including stability, are zero.
But in the Old World, things are a-happening! Aragon has gained the upper hand on Castille, and even more inexplicably, so has Morocco, who together with Algiers owns North Africa. Further east, Sicily of all powers has becoming the first imperialistic western nation, taking part of the Mamluk lands. And, for the first time in any game I've ever played, Ireland has formed, with no interference from myself. Seeing as Cornwall also exists, England clearly lost a war, but even so, a unified Ireland is a surprise. We've also seen Serbia go from being an Ottoman vassal to a Venetian one, while Bosnia has gained independence.
And we've had an existant Ireland, Aragon being superior to Castille, and Morocco in Iberia for no less than 8 years.
Will Morocco and Aragon become dominant in Iberia, and will Ireland stand on its own against the hungry English lords? Perhaps more importantly, will the Iroquios stand or their own or prove to be a paper tiger? And will the Ottomans finally put forth a respectable showing, or will they become a Venetian province like Serbia? Only time will tell.
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
Quintillus, do you play Death and Taxes? A unified Ireland is not exactly big news to D&T players (although it rarely lasts more than a few decades) but Castille in half is still pretty impressive.
hoplitejoe
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I don't see Ireland unite often at all in D&T.
SouthernKing
crickety cricket
It happened a lot more before the 1356 start was instituted. I am still playing 1399 until the 1356-1399 period is polished up, so I see it fairly often.
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Nope, I've only ever played regular, unmodded Divine Wind. I might branch out at some point but regular DW is still proving quite fun for me.
Here's the situation in August 1446, twenty-one years later:
Spoiler :
Ireland, sadly, has fallen. Morocco, too, has lost their advantage. Aragon, however, maintains its edge in Iberia. Meanwhile, the Mamluks defeated Sicily, but Naples has taken the helm of Italian colonialism, by taking Tunisia from Algiers. And way far up north, Tver has become the dominant Russian state, after what I can only assume must have been a massive collapse by Novgorod. The Horde has done a nice job of taking Muscowy off the map.
India is also being partitioned nicely between Vijaynagar, Orissa, Rajputana, and Bihar in that order. Poor Malwa and Bundelkhand are stuck in the middle.
In Iroquois-land, Production Tech 1 has been reached, providing a massive 10% production bonus over Tech 0. This is somewhat less exciting than it sounds, however, as before we had actually been at -2% production, not counting the minimum 1%, so we actually only went from 1% to 8% rather than the expected 11%.
sophie
Break My Heart
Even in vanilla DW I'd see it happen rather often. It usually only lasted for a decade at most, and even then, they were usually OPMs or vassals, but it still wasn't uncommon. A relatively powerful Wales, now there's a rare sight.
Robert Can't
Éponine
Spoiler :
And you know what's worse?
Austria is in a personal union under Bosnia
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
England hasn't formed Britain?
hoplitejoe
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Clearly going to try and form France.
Blue Emu
GroFAZ
DW 5.1, no mods except the Korean Pirate Raid fix.
Currently playing Ming... and trying to role-play them as the Celestial Kingdom: no external wars unless attacked or called to arms by an ally, no trades in external COTs, no land-grabbing, no colonization except Taiwan.
I've been focussing almost entirely on "inward perfection"... balancing the three factions so that the Emperor can play them off against each other instead of being a puppet.
My first NI was Patron of the Arts. Not sure what I'll pick as my second... I don't really need Bureaucracy, but it sounds like a very Ming-like thing to do.
Currently playing Ming... and trying to role-play them as the Celestial Kingdom: no external wars unless attacked or called to arms by an ally, no trades in external COTs, no land-grabbing, no colonization except Taiwan.
I've been focussing almost entirely on "inward perfection"... balancing the three factions so that the Emperor can play them off against each other instead of being a puppet.
My first NI was Patron of the Arts. Not sure what I'll pick as my second... I don't really need Bureaucracy, but it sounds like a very Ming-like thing to do.
Chukchi Husky
Lone Wolf
Today I finally finished a game.
I started the game sometimes last year, and played it on and off. I played as Muscowy, then becoming Russia, and the difficulty was Very Easy. I never really had any big wars, I spent most of the game colonizing the nomadic countries in Siberia. The only country that was a challenge in a war was Austria, and I think I ended up losing a province to them. At the end of the game, I managed to get high relations with Austria and much of the European countries.
The big blue country in America is France, I think the only bit they kept in Europe is Île-de-France, and their monarchs were from the Rurikovich dynasty. Portugal were also kicked out of Europe. The large country in the Middle East is Syria. The blue on in China is Korea.
Are the locations of the American countries supposed to be random? I had Mexico in Louisiana, Louisiana and the USA in Mexico, Chile and Peru in Alaska, and I think Canada is in South America.
I started the game sometimes last year, and played it on and off. I played as Muscowy, then becoming Russia, and the difficulty was Very Easy. I never really had any big wars, I spent most of the game colonizing the nomadic countries in Siberia. The only country that was a challenge in a war was Austria, and I think I ended up losing a province to them. At the end of the game, I managed to get high relations with Austria and much of the European countries.
The big blue country in America is France, I think the only bit they kept in Europe is Île-de-France, and their monarchs were from the Rurikovich dynasty. Portugal were also kicked out of Europe. The large country in the Middle East is Syria. The blue on in China is Korea.
Are the locations of the American countries supposed to be random? I had Mexico in Louisiana, Louisiana and the USA in Mexico, Chile and Peru in Alaska, and I think Canada is in South America.
