How is your EU3 Game going?

[Love]

Try to ally with aragon or castille or some other big power.

 

[Tani Coyote]

I snuck in a few months of EU3 last night, and I'm currently deciding where the Italian blob should go next:

The year is 1578.

The strongest alliance bloc on my border is by far Castile-Poland-Lithuania, all aligned in a multilateral alliance.

As I have warm relations with the Poles and Lithuanians, I wish to destroy Castile separately.

My way of doing this shall be by excommunicating them as well as Grenada, a Catholic state that Castile and Portugal both guarantee. Given my annual revenue of 2000+ ducats, I am raising tens of divisions to go off to fight in Iberia. The Iberian forces have rebuilt since their last solid asswhooping(in which Castile lost much of their African coastline), but apart from their naval strength, I should be able to overwhelm them. And even so, I can easily amass caravels if they want to fight on the seas.

Scandinavia is also an issue, being predominantly reformed and hostile to Italy.

Once Castile and Portugal are dealt another solid asswhooping, I'll go on an adventure in Britain, which is a tangled mess of alliances. I probably won't attack Poland and Lithuania for some time, being occupied trying to annex my vassals, and also on good terms with them. I currently lead a personal union with three-province Toulouse(formed in a succession war with Portugal and Castile; I was also at war with Sweden at the time due to their invasion of Luneburg), and hopefully I can get one with Poland or Lithuania as well.

P.S. I LOVE the red color I edited in!

 

[remake20]

Urrg! I've seemed to have worked myself into another corner! Well, actually, I haven't done anything, but the damn Ottomans have grown so large that there's nothing I can do to stop them.

Spoiler :

They have a larger army then me (153k vs. 120k) and they're more advanced (level 17 vs. level 11). And every time I get into a coalition war with them (i.e. I don't declare war, but I get a call to arms), every one of my neighbors decides to declare war on me too, making it impossible to do anything to the Ottomans. I can't declare war by myself, since I'm being warned by all my neighbors. I've even played out a scenario where they declare war on me, and all my neighbors still declare war on me! What do I do???

EDIT: By neighbors, I mean the Siberian/caucus nations, not my European neighbors.

That's one odd map. Does anyone know how to fix my no flags bug?

 

[Joecoolyo]

Try to ally with aragon or castille or some other big power.

They all hate me.

I decided to play on just a bit more (before the new beta patch crashed my game ), and avoided the Ottomans at all costs. I eventually got into a war with Austria, and took some of their good provinces, and another war with Kazakh and friends. I also decided to Westernize, which is good in the long term but really, really bad in the long term. I have -3 stability and +50% cost for stability, which is causing my entire country to revolt. Modernizing the Military's going to be even worse...

But anyways, here's a map.

 

[remake20]

I see no map

 

[Maniacal]

I see a map.

 

[cardgame]

I've always seen the map

 

[Tani Coyote]

No one has any advice for the New RomanItalian blob?

 

[Tee Kay]

No one has any advice for the New RomanItalian blob?

Destroy them all. Castile, Poland and Lithuania, then Russia, then India, then Ming.

At this point, I'm assuming your reputation is probably abymal (or, rather, sky high) so you might as well give up on trying to get it down to zero and just go crazy on a world conquering quest.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Destroy them all. Castile, Poland and Lithuania, then Russia, then India, then Ming.

At this point, I'm assuming your reputation is probably abymal (or, rather, sky high) so you might as well give up on trying to get it down to zero and just go crazy on a world conquering quest.

Our army is expanding pretty rapidly into the 200s range, so a world conquest might be possible...

I usually keep my reputation around 20ish at the highest. This is usually the result of me getting caught up in a moment of fury and just annexing any OPM that dares to join a war against me.

Hell, even my prestige keeps going back up to +100 all the time, thanks to the Jerusalem and Mecca bonuses, the Barbary Pirates defeated bonus, the HRE bonus, the Papal Bonus, and a few other minor bonuses... And if it fell, I could just add new HRE provinces.

...My reputation'll probably get much higher too, as I have to stab a few knives into the hearts of a few German rulers... many of them have been vassalised and are steadily being annexed, but I'll have to take them out eventually...

Though I'll admit a guilty pleasure of mine is spamming presents to the various German states as well as Poland to keep relations high, in the hopes of personal union/vassalisation and eventually annexation.

Though there is that little Swedish territory along the Rhine... ..Now if only they'd annex Luxembourg for me and make my job easier.

 

[Tee Kay]

In my current game as France (In Nomine) I wanted to finish off Castile quickly. By this time they had 3 provinces left in Iberia and colonies scattered all around the world. In an alliance with the Ottomans (not that I needed them) it took me several years to occupy all their far-flung possessions. The colonies are worth 2% war score each so I took them all plus one mainland province (to leave Castile landlocked). My reputation shot up from 19 to almost 50. It's ridiculous. Surely the reputation hit you suffer should depend on the importance of a province? Apparently the reworked casus belli system in HTTT is better, so I've heard.

I'll probably give up on trying to become honourable again and just go on a conquering spree. The only other significant powers which can really resist are Ming and the Ottomans.

 

[Tani Coyote]

In my current game as France (In Nomine) I wanted to finish off Castile quickly. By this time they had 3 provinces left in Iberia and colonies scattered all around the world. In an alliance with the Ottomans (not that I needed them) it took me several years to occupy all their far-flung possessions. The colonies are worth 2% war score each so I took them all plus one mainland province (to leave Castile landlocked). My reputation shot up from 19 to almost 50. It's ridiculous. Surely the reputation hit you suffer should depend on the importance of a province? Apparently the reworked casus belli system in HTTT is better, so I've heard.

Freaking yikes! Suddenly I dunno if I want HTTT! Does it have any benefits that offset the more insane conquest prevention system? (I see they took a page from Magna Mundi...)

I'll probably give up on trying to become honourable again and just go on a conquering spree. The only other significant powers which can really resist are Ming and the Ottomans.

And of course, being human, you know the importance of this nifty thing called "Sow Discontent"...

For 600 gold, you can bring an empire to its knees, and cost them thousands of gold to repair the damage. If that's not a freaking profitable venture, I dunno what is.

 

[Tee Kay]

Freaking yikes! Suddenly I dunno if I want HTTT! Does it have any benefits that offset the more insane conquest prevention system? (I see they took a page from Magna Mundi...)

Apparantly in HTTT, there are different types of casus belli, so certain types of casus belli can reduce the reputation hit when you take a province.

I'll be definitely getting HTTT. The AUD-USD exchange rates are very good at the moment.

And of course, being human, you know the importance of this nifty thing called "Sow Discontent"...

For 600 gold, you can bring an empire to its knees, and cost them thousands of gold to repair the damage. If that's not a freaking profitable venture, I dunno what is.

I love spies. "Fabricate Claims" is very useful too.

I'll be destabilizing the Ottoman Empire. I hate backstabbing my allies (especially if they're Ottoman) but I guess this is the sort of time where I forget all my real-life principles and activate my evil villain mode.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Apparantly in HTTT, there are different types of casus belli, so certain types of casus belli can reduce the reputation hit when you take a province.

I'll be definitely getting HTTT. The AUD-USD exchange rates are very good at the moment.

I'll probably get it over the Summer or whenever my grades improve. Madre is not going to subsidise me if they don't...

I love spies. "Fabricate Claims" is very useful too.

Indeed! Free casus belli reduces your rep costs by half, at least for the declaration of war.

...Sad they got rid of the free cores involved though.

I'll be destabilizing the Ottoman Empire. I hate backstabbing my allies (especially if they're Ottoman) but I guess this is the sort of time where I forget all my real-life principles and activate my evil villain mode.

Allies are just enemies who haven't attacked you yet.

And besides, if we all played with the conscientious ruler/real life principles variant, we'd get nothing done! There'd be only defensive wars and peaceful expansion, and none of the epic Enlightenment/Colonial Age blitzkriegs!

 

[remake20]

I still need help with my flag bug. And I can see the map now.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Our army is expanding pretty rapidly into the 200s range, so a world conquest might be possible...

You have an empire of that size and you're army is only 200,000 strong? I had an empire half the size of yours (my HRE game, which I gave up), and in the year 1510 I had an army well into the 700,000 range.

I still need help with my flag bug. And I can see the map now.

Try the Paradox Forums, and see what they have to say.

 

[Tani Coyote]

You have an empire of that size and you're army is only 200,000 strong? I had an empire half the size of yours (my HRE game, which I gave up), and in the year 1510 I had an army well into the 700,000 range.

I've never really built up a large army... I've focused it all into improvements and other stuff. I refuse to neglect internal development in favor of military development!

...Granted, at this point, I may as well say screw the whole development index as I make 2000+ a year at January and hold several monopolies, and just assrape my neighbors.

 

[Joecoolyo]

I've never really built up a large army... I've focused it all into improvements and other stuff. I refuse to neglect internal development in favor of military development!

...Granted, at this point, I may as well say screw the whole development index as I make 2000+ a year at January and hold several monopolies, and just assrape my neighbors.

I was able to afford both the military and improvements making only about 500 at the end of year. Build up yo military man!

 

[cardgame]

Increase it to 500,000 and lead them well. Do what Napoleon and Hitler failed to do!

 

[Love]

Just remember to split 'em up in armies of 30 000-45 000, or whatever your support limit is in the provinces...