How is your EU3 Game going?

[Joecoolyo]

Here's a pretty good "guess who I am".

Could I be:

- The Golden Horde, pushing their way into Eastern Europe?
- The Lithuanians, holding back the Horde?
- The Ottomans, making their way into Hungary while holding onto remote possessions in Central Asia?
- The newly formed Mughals, taking charge in India?
- The Italians, pushing their way up the Rhine and destroying Burgundy?
- The Japanese, taking down the Ming?
- The Koreans, (who you can't see in the picture) but now own all of Eastern China?

The year's 1658 by the way.

 

[cardgame]

Why do the Ottomans have territory in Tibet and Kazakhstan???

I say you're Italy.

 

[Metromonkey]

I'd have to agree. I can't see any way that an AI could form Italy and still have a powerful France and to weaken Austria by itself.

 

[PhroX]

Given that the filename is EU3_MAP_ITA_16581117_1.jpg, I think you're right

 

[Joecoolyo]

Damn file names, forgot to change it. Anyways you are correct, I am Italy. Though I still find it pretty messed up ho well Korea is doing. Usually they end up getting split up by Ming and Manchu, but in my game they're owning Ming while Japan owns Manchu. It's crazy.

edit: and about the Ottomans, that's not them in Tibet (just another similar colored country, forgot who). But for the stuff in Central Asia, I guess they took it after a little war with the Timurids.

editedit: The only reason France is alive is because they are my only steady ally. Without them, they was no way I would have even been able to take out Burgundy. Though they never contributed all that much, they mostly had to deal with constant revolts in the provinces.

 

[Turquoiside]

It should be pretty clear who I am:

I'm either Austria, who after finishing kicking Turkey out of Europe got tied down in a BB war with Castille and associates...or

I'm India who finally finished marginalizing the Timurids and fighting off Japan.

Spoiler :

The colonies should have given it away...
Interesting things this game:
-By far the most interesting in this game, was the huge Austria that became (though I haven't played THAT much) the first nation I've seen to break the Reputation limit
-But the strangest thing was Great Britain getting paralyzed by rebels. They got revolutionary rebels around 1750 and stayed that way until the end, unfortunately for them never getting invaded during the time. Louisiana is still at war with them from thier revolution.
-Poland got shrunk down to only two provinces, but recovered to have most of north Germany before Austria seperated them into many little Polands (Looks like five pieces at the end)
-Brabant was one province away from forming the Netherlands, but that province belonged to Austria, so they had no real hope of actually going further.
-Because the Austrians were routinely stomping Turkey, the Golden Horde was actually more of a threat than the Turks, despite a smaller army and worse tech group.
-I only got most of Khiva because Yemen DoWed near the end and Khiva joined (also why I took Najran from them)
-Japan had -3 stability twice before finally the Ming came back. Their empire was largely temporary though, they had no culture shifts and not a single conversion. Korea and Manchu broke off first, but Japan managed to regain most of Korea. When the Ming brooke off, Japan then both of them together, were easy pickings.
-I really shouldn't have those two provinces that look like they should be in the Ottoman Empire. They accepted a deal giving me those provinces, a renounce on almost all cores now outside their empire, and the release of Bosnia and Serbia. My warscore was 0%.
-France was amazingly quiet during this game. When they took their Spanish provinces, I thought they would be as bad as usual, but I don't think they did much else besides peacefully colonize and ignore Austria.
-Europe really hated Brunei. After I came in, and took their provinces by Tibet, Europe released nations and beat them into what the other Indonesians could take over.

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Guess who I am:

Spoiler :

Could I be the Byzantines, who greatly weakened the Ottoman Empire and took back most of the Aegean?
Could I be Tver, on the rise after being a two-province minor?
Could I be England, rising unscathed from the Hundred Years' War?
Could I be the Knights, who hammered the final nail in the Ottomans' coffin?
Could I be Ethiopia, who trounced Adal?
Could I be Hedjaz, the main power in the Arabian Peninsula?
Or could I be Mutapa, taking all of Swahili?

 

[Joecoolyo]

Novgorod?

 

[cardgame]

Byzantium ofc

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Nay and nay. Not even the Byzantines.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

The Knights

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Yep. Just diplo-annexed Karaman and conquered Adana (and Antioch too).

 

[Rub'Rum]

I just got Heir to the Throne... I haven't played much EU III yet so I still sort of suck in general at it. This must be why I decided to play as Tibet (I must be a tard).

It's now 1550 and all I've managed is losing two provinces. I've been walked over about three times. I regained some of my provinces through revolts... My inflation was 17% at some point, managed to get it down to 11%... Still going down. A lot of fast-forwarding. My population is 10 times lower than the neighbouring provinces. I spent 30 years as Korea's vassal until it got annexed by Manchu. This is going well.

 

[Metromonkey]

Generally nations outside of Europe (and maybe India) aren't much fun to play as because either A. You get stomped by Ming or B. You get stomped by one of the European colonial powers. For people who aren't too good at the game the most commonly mentioned "newbie" nations are England and Castille. Both are fairly rich and have many options to expand early on and have few nearby threats until France gets large (which seems to be less likely in Heir to the Throne. Another one that's commonly suggested are Sweden or Norway but they start in a personal union with Denmark in 1399 so I'm not sure if they're still good newbie nations.

 

[cardgame]

Milan starts very well-off, but if you (try to) expand, Bohemia brings 50,000 men and kicks your ass. I learned that the hard way

What about Aragon? Seems like they might be a decent starter?

 

[Rub'Rum]

I started as Bohemia once and it was going well... As for my Tibet game, strangely, I got swarmed by Assam, Gondwana and Korea, but Ming has left me alone for now. They even fought alongside me for a while... I started badly, quickly racking up depts because I had a pretender event right at the start with no army to take care of it.

 

[PhroX]

Generally nations outside of Europe (and maybe India) aren't much fun to play as because either A. You get stomped by Ming or B. You get stomped by one of the European colonial powers.

This is true to some extent, but there are definitely some non-European nations worth playing. Indian states are great fun, as are some of the Middle Eastern nations (see my Persia game earlier in this thread). Further east, Malacca is a fun one, while Japan (particularly with MMP2) is always good. Even some of the central asian nations like the Uzbecks can lead to good, albeit challenging, games. America and sub-Saharan Africa though are indeed not much fun.

 

[Chieftess]

I'm playing a game as Ireland (formed it), but I seem to not be able to build ships anymore. I don't know if I bugged the game (all of my galleys sunk like 1 ocean section away from the coast), but my core provinces can't build ships for the life of them. So, I'm stuck with 13 ships...

And I can't establish colonies on islands now (only provinces adjacent to a provence). I could initially colonize islands and other unclaimed territories, but couldn't after finding the Iroquois.

On top of that, I still can't seem to diplo-annex a vassal (no one wants to be annexed, I guess...). I tried with England 4 times, and figured it was quicker just to conquer them.

 

[remake20]

I'm probably stupid asking this, but what game is this?

 

[NBAfan]

I'm probably stupid asking this, but what game is this?

Europa Universalis III, it is a very fun game!
You can be any nation from 1453 to 1821. The expantions extend to starting date to 1399.