Yeah, though, as of recently, they're getting their asses kicked by a Coalition of governments (England, Munster, Scotland, etc.). Oh, and the Ottoman Empire also joined in on the fun (somehow they were able to move through my Livland province to get to Sweden, how, I haven't the foggiest).
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Tani Coyote
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The Emperor, when at war, can move through all the territories of the Empire.
From what I've seen, the Emperor's enemies can ALSO move through the Empire.
Solution? Remove Livland from the Empire if you dislike Ottoman incursions.
The Emperor, when at war, can move through all the territories of the Empire.
From what I've seen, the Emperor's enemies can ALSO move through the Empire.
Solution? Remove Livland from the Empire if you dislike Ottoman incursions.
Really? That's weird.
Anyhoo, here's the result:
Not very pretty, as you can see. Though luck was slightly on my side, you see, the Ottomans were already at 10 war exhaustion. So, even though I was at 20/30 infamy, I decided it was a perfect time to strike. I'll let you be the judge of how effective it was.
So, I was playing as theHoly Roman Empire, when multiple religious and peasant uprisings quickly caused mainland Castile to be overran by rebels. Leon defected to me, and since it's surrounded by Castilian (though rebel held) territories and was in fact about to be besieged again by one of the rebel armies I sold it back to Castile for 400 ducats. Then Galicia defected to the HRE, followed by the rest of northern provinces, then Leon defected again, and so on. I ended up controlling half of mainland Castile within a few months without fighting, and most of the other half was gobbled up by a resurgent Granada.
Toledo joined the HRE too. The King of Castile fled Spain looking for a suitable place in the Colonies to set up a new capital city. He ended up in Timbuktu.
Toledo joined the HRE too. The King of Castile fled Spain looking for a suitable place in the Colonies to set up a new capital city. He ended up in Timbuktu.
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Really? That's weird.
Anyhoo, here's the result:
Not very pretty, as you can see. Though luck was slightly on my side, you see, the Ottomans were already at 10 war exhaustion. So, even though I was at 20/30 infamy, I decided it was a perfect time to strike. I'll let you be the judge of how effective it was.
Is that you or Portugal in NA?
So, I was playing as theHoly Roman Empire, when multiple religious and peasant uprisings quickly caused mainland Castile to be overran by rebels. Leon defected to me, and since it's surrounded by Castilian (though rebel held) territories and was in fact about to be besieged again by one of the rebel armies I sold it back to Castile for 400 ducats. Then Galicia defected to the HRE, followed by the rest of northern provinces, then Leon defected again, and so on. I ended up controlling half of mainland Castile within a few months without fighting, and most of the other half was gobbled up by a resurgent Granada.
Spoiler :
Toledo joined the HRE too. The King of Castile fled Spain looking for a suitable place in the Colonies to set up a new capital city. He ended up in Timbuktu.
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Haha, I love when that happens. The same thing happened when to me in my HRE game once England was overrun by rebels. Took over the entire island without even firing a shot.
Portugal; in fact, they actually moved their capitol there once they were defeated in a war against Spain. They now operate out of South Carolina
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Portugal; in fact, they actually moved their capitol there once they were defeated in a war against Spain. They now operate out of South Carolina
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In my HRE game I had GBs capital in middle east.
D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
Byz, 1423. Blocked the strait with a bunch of galleys and a carrack, funded Greek Patriots in Larissa. They spread to Macedonia and Edirne, and all three defected. I got all of Bulgaria, the province of Anatolia, and Bursa (cutting off Bithynia, the capital). Mentese and Saruhan broke away, and they were conquered. I then attacked Venice and Naxos, dragging Castile into the war. Then, Achaea and Corfu. Castile, however, stupidly sent no guards for their transports, failing to land. Greece was in my hands. A few months after that, the Ottomans were next, allied to Candar and the Kazakhs. The new annexation rules made me basically annex almost all of Anatolia without even giving me a single BB/infamy point.
Then, the Timurids (allied to the Mamluks, Ramazan, and Dulkadir) attacked. About half of my army was slaughtered by about 50,000 Timurids and 20,000 Mamluks coming into Anatolia. However, the Mamluk leader died, there was a succession, and they whitepeaced. Timur's heirs, however, were wiped out when I basically pocketed the main army, cornered them, and attacked. I did the same with the other army, and I was back to regaining my occupied land. I took some, annexing Ramazan (but leaving Dulkadir as a buffer) and about five Timurid provinces (to be used as bases for taking Syria and the Holy Land).
Other Oddities:
That gigantic blob in Lithuania is a tribal Ukraine, who most likely will collapse from tribal succession. Majapahit has expanded into Brunei. A Catholic Trebizond is in Kaffa.
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The mamluks are easy to break.
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Fortunately, it looks like one of the Islamic powers already did the hard work of splitting them in half... so long as there's no military access or alliance, the Mamluk Levant will collapse nicely into Byzantine hands...
I'm thinking of creating a mod for EU3. Basically it will extend the timeline from the beginning of the Middle Ages to after 1900. However I'm not sure how I would model nuclear weapons, ICBMs, air units and all that. If I can't then I'll limit the end date to around World War I.
The Ruskie Empire
Circa year 1720-something
Finally completed Westernization, an in celebration I destroyed Poland and took a chunk out of Brandenburg.
Now for some oddities in my game:
-Yes, that's Munster in northern Germany
-And that's Bavaria in southern Germany
-That is the Ottomans in Scandinavia
-All the yellow territories on the North American continent belong to Scotland, as do a couple yellow ones in India
-The rest of the yellow is Castille
-Yes, that is Portugal trying to create a pseudo-America (they even moved their capitol to Georgia)
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Is it possible to modify attack/defense/speed stats for each individual unit(i.e. Medieval Infantry, and then Tercio infantry, etc. along the upgrade path), as well as the general appearance of units?
If so, I would think it would be something like this:
The infantry, after a point, turn into more modern infantry, with different graphics and different stats.
The cavalry eventually become tanks of varying strength as time goes on.
And the artillery eventually phase out in favor of planes. In fact, given the multiple unit lines that can coexist thanks to the "preferred" feature, you could make it so nations can choose between artillery/planes at first in their siege doctrine.
I think the main implication here would be graphics. But so long as speed and all the factors can be modified for each unit, it would be possible to make them all evolve.
No luck on bombs, but at least you'd have a more modern game!
The alternative would be to somehow make the conquistador option become a nuke at a certain point... and somehow be able to use him for only one battle to DEVASTATING effect.
Just some of my ideas.
D'Artagnan59
The Gascon
Hedjaz (conquered by Morocco, now an OPM in Mecca). Actually, they were allied to Persia, Dulkadir, and some other forgettable power. Most of Mamluk Levant was passed to me, but the eastern provinces minus Dayr Az Zor got occupied by Shiites that I beat out of Mosul and revolted back to Persia. For some reason, I whitepeaced with Dulkadir.
However, I decided to vassalize Serbia and Albania, and I took Montenegro on. Then, I crushed Venice by mission, getting myself a nice foothold in Italy. Montenegro was attacked, and Hungary intervened. I then seized Banat and all of Croatia and Bosnia for myself.
Austria is dishonorable scum and most likely will be dishonorable scum for a VERY long time (they're more than twice over the BB limit and somehow have occupied most of Milan for years). They have taken over Aquileia as well. Now, I retake Aquileia to connect Venice to the Byzantine heartland.
Weirdness Addendum: I just realized that Naples is in Scotland.
Racsoviale
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my spanish empire
1570ish
1660ish
and finally, where I lost interest in the game in 1731
There are basically 3 superpowers left in the world. Me, Scandinavia and the timurid/mughal.
England is too weak to stand a chance against me, and I can steamroll their colonies with no problem if the need should arise, the only thing protecting them is my lack of a serious navy.
Scandinavia is a serious threat, but I have more manpower, wealth and troops than them, and can very quickly build an unstoppable force if they should declare(the blue thing in france is Scandinavian territory).
Finally the Mughals(I think thats who they are) are enormous, they are virtually the only power big enough to contend me. But on paper I am stronger than they are, I actually have more troops than they have and a bigger navy, the problem is that the majority of troops are in europe and the americas, and I only have token anti rebellion forces in the mid east. The same goes for my navy, virtually all my navy is composed of anti piracy fleets in the carribean and africa.
and yes that is Japan in somalia
I have been playing this game on and off for 6 months, where I began as Castile, with the goal of learning to manage inflation after my post about being a complete noob in the EU franchise
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=336768&highlight=inflation
After getting to know the economic parts of the game I set out to form spain and conquor North Africa(and in the long term getting to control all of the mediteranian).
As I was warring in North Africa I was also preparing for the inevitable french DoW and got an alliance with england, the french wars turned out in my favour and after 3-4 wars the french med was mine, and france had been dimantled.
After that i began colonizing the african continent and SA, this was done completely uncontested with Portugal and France gone.
As I was colonizing I turned against my former ally England, they were becoming too powerfull, and had taken a good chunk out of France. These wars proved to drain england dry and the peace deals saw the release of Wales and Cornwall and Ire. I think this might have been why england has been so passive later on in the colonization game.
During a relative long peace time I have been focusing on colonizing NA and the rest of Africa and converting all my territories to Catholic(is it me or are heathen territories easier to convert than heretics?)
SO this game went from being exciting into feeling like a chore(im sick and tired of constantly chasing pirates and putting down peasant revolts all over my empire) I had at some time thought it would be a epic ending to this game with and all out war with the Mughals, but with a suspicious Scandinavia watching my every move(they have warned me) I dont really feel like going through with it(I am very confident I could take them both on, I just dont really feel up to task of hunting all the rebels they would spawn everywhere)
To sum it up: this game went perfect but got a bit boring when I felt noone could threaten me any more, maybe I should give it a try and see what this two-front war of epic proportions in asia and and europe would do to my confidence.
P.S. sorry about the long post, but I felt I needed to give something back, after all the helpful advice I got before, and I got to try out photobucket(yay me)
1570ish
1660ish
and finally, where I lost interest in the game in 1731
There are basically 3 superpowers left in the world. Me, Scandinavia and the timurid/mughal.
England is too weak to stand a chance against me, and I can steamroll their colonies with no problem if the need should arise, the only thing protecting them is my lack of a serious navy.
Scandinavia is a serious threat, but I have more manpower, wealth and troops than them, and can very quickly build an unstoppable force if they should declare(the blue thing in france is Scandinavian territory).
Finally the Mughals(I think thats who they are) are enormous, they are virtually the only power big enough to contend me. But on paper I am stronger than they are, I actually have more troops than they have and a bigger navy, the problem is that the majority of troops are in europe and the americas, and I only have token anti rebellion forces in the mid east. The same goes for my navy, virtually all my navy is composed of anti piracy fleets in the carribean and africa.
and yes that is Japan in somalia
I have been playing this game on and off for 6 months, where I began as Castile, with the goal of learning to manage inflation after my post about being a complete noob in the EU franchise
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=336768&highlight=inflation
After getting to know the economic parts of the game I set out to form spain and conquor North Africa(and in the long term getting to control all of the mediteranian).
As I was warring in North Africa I was also preparing for the inevitable french DoW and got an alliance with england, the french wars turned out in my favour and after 3-4 wars the french med was mine, and france had been dimantled.
After that i began colonizing the african continent and SA, this was done completely uncontested with Portugal and France gone.
As I was colonizing I turned against my former ally England, they were becoming too powerfull, and had taken a good chunk out of France. These wars proved to drain england dry and the peace deals saw the release of Wales and Cornwall and Ire. I think this might have been why england has been so passive later on in the colonization game.
During a relative long peace time I have been focusing on colonizing NA and the rest of Africa and converting all my territories to Catholic(is it me or are heathen territories easier to convert than heretics?)
SO this game went from being exciting into feeling like a chore(im sick and tired of constantly chasing pirates and putting down peasant revolts all over my empire) I had at some time thought it would be a epic ending to this game with and all out war with the Mughals, but with a suspicious Scandinavia watching my every move(they have warned me) I dont really feel like going through with it(I am very confident I could take them both on, I just dont really feel up to task of hunting all the rebels they would spawn everywhere)
To sum it up: this game went perfect but got a bit boring when I felt noone could threaten me any more, maybe I should give it a try and see what this two-front war of epic proportions in asia and and europe would do to my confidence.
P.S. sorry about the long post, but I felt I needed to give something back, after all the helpful advice I got before, and I got to try out photobucket(yay me)
Racsoviale
Smoke me a kipper!
Btw Im playing easy(if not very easy) since this began as a test game, but Im still very proud of what I have accomplished so far.
And a little question: the Mali are the OPM in Africa and they are allied/guarantied by the Mughals, could this be my opening to start a war with the Mughals without dragging in Scandinavia?(they have warned me) or should I wait for Scandinavia to start a war? or wait for their warning to expire?
And to make up for my extreme confidence in this game, I can report that my newly started game as Milan on normal has a huge and hostille France with the mission "conquor Milan"
And a little question: the Mali are the OPM in Africa and they are allied/guarantied by the Mughals, could this be my opening to start a war with the Mughals without dragging in Scandinavia?(they have warned me) or should I wait for Scandinavia to start a war? or wait for their warning to expire?
And to make up for my extreme confidence in this game, I can report that my newly started game as Milan on normal has a huge and hostille France with the mission "conquor Milan"
Scandinavia may still declare war I think. However, you seem to be in a position where you can defeat all three simultaneously.
And to make up for my extreme confidence in this game, I can report that my newly started game as Milan on normal has a huge and hostille France with the mission "conquor Milan"
Good luck. Try to get a lot of strong allies while gobbling up as many of the other Italians as possible without dragging in major powers or gaining too much reputation/infamy (because then you will not have allies, you see). Use your spies to keep France destabilized if you can.
Racsoviale
Smoke me a kipper!
Taillesskangaru: Yeah I did have a feeling that Scandinavia still had the possibility to declare.
regarding my Milan game, I am actually not Milan anymore, I managed to form Italy in 1485. Here is a picture
As you can see France is big, and I actually managed to beat them in one war, where I jumped on them, when they were at war with the Iberians. Ofcoarse because I wasnt the alliance leader, Castille ended the war in a white peace, just as I had conquered half of France, and was thrashing their depleted uberstacks
I think that was my big moment for splitting up France a bit.
Oh, and my border are infact not beyond the alps, that is a vassal(Baden or Wurtemberg I believe)
On my eastern border I have a hostile Hungary, allied with Lithuania and Muscovy, but I managed to balkanize the Balkans a bit by making them release Croatia, and Transylvania.
The only parts I need to have present day Italy is Liguria and Venize(allied with hungary ofcoarse) and sardinia(portugal I think) and Sicilly(my vassal)
In addition to France's mission to conquer me I have Hungary who keeps excommunicate me.
But on the Bright side I have a very strong alliance with England and Castille. An alliance I do everything to preserve, meaning I have been in a few fake wars with north africa, in order not to lose castille.
Furthermore I am struggling with my age old nemesis again: inflation is high, in the 20s I believe, but atleast I know the reason, which puts me above my earlier games. Because of my delicate situation with two big threats on either side of my border I have a lot of troops, which makes my military expenses sky rocket.
And I am doing my best to correct this, but it is a slow process that gets interupted when I go to war with the big boys in europe.
To try and correct this I have built a CoT in Firenze(I went to war with Liguria because I wanted their CoT and land, but Because I saw they had a ton of money I settled for a monetary tribute instead of annexation. I reasoned that since I have a core there I can always attack them again, and its not like they are going to run anywhere, so I got 2500 ducats instead)
Should I have annexed Liguria to get the CoT, and possibly enraged France further, or was this decision the superior decision?
Am I correct in the assumption that wars where the defeated nation only pays me ducats and gives up cores and releases nations/cancels vassals are ones where my BB goes down?
And how exactly does prestige work? I win a lot of wars and usually demand the defeated nation to release countries and pay me and I have a few vassals, but my prestige still floats around the zeroes. I dont think I get the mechanic behind it.
All in all I really enjoy this game a lot more than the castille/spain game, it is more intense and there are a lot more to consider. I actually had to give up provinces in my first war with France just to get out of the war.(Savoie and release Switzerland). It is really a lot more fun to be one of the smaller fish in the pond than the raging unstoppable dinosaur shark.
regarding my Milan game, I am actually not Milan anymore, I managed to form Italy in 1485. Here is a picture
As you can see France is big, and I actually managed to beat them in one war, where I jumped on them, when they were at war with the Iberians. Ofcoarse because I wasnt the alliance leader, Castille ended the war in a white peace, just as I had conquered half of France, and was thrashing their depleted uberstacks
I think that was my big moment for splitting up France a bit.
Oh, and my border are infact not beyond the alps, that is a vassal(Baden or Wurtemberg I believe)
On my eastern border I have a hostile Hungary, allied with Lithuania and Muscovy, but I managed to balkanize the Balkans a bit by making them release Croatia, and Transylvania.
The only parts I need to have present day Italy is Liguria and Venize(allied with hungary ofcoarse) and sardinia(portugal I think) and Sicilly(my vassal)
In addition to France's mission to conquer me I have Hungary who keeps excommunicate me.
But on the Bright side I have a very strong alliance with England and Castille. An alliance I do everything to preserve, meaning I have been in a few fake wars with north africa, in order not to lose castille.
Furthermore I am struggling with my age old nemesis again: inflation is high, in the 20s I believe, but atleast I know the reason, which puts me above my earlier games. Because of my delicate situation with two big threats on either side of my border I have a lot of troops, which makes my military expenses sky rocket.
And I am doing my best to correct this, but it is a slow process that gets interupted when I go to war with the big boys in europe.
To try and correct this I have built a CoT in Firenze(I went to war with Liguria because I wanted their CoT and land, but Because I saw they had a ton of money I settled for a monetary tribute instead of annexation. I reasoned that since I have a core there I can always attack them again, and its not like they are going to run anywhere, so I got 2500 ducats instead)
Should I have annexed Liguria to get the CoT, and possibly enraged France further, or was this decision the superior decision?
Am I correct in the assumption that wars where the defeated nation only pays me ducats and gives up cores and releases nations/cancels vassals are ones where my BB goes down?
And how exactly does prestige work? I win a lot of wars and usually demand the defeated nation to release countries and pay me and I have a few vassals, but my prestige still floats around the zeroes. I dont think I get the mechanic behind it.
All in all I really enjoy this game a lot more than the castille/spain game, it is more intense and there are a lot more to consider. I actually had to give up provinces in my first war with France just to get out of the war.(Savoie and release Switzerland). It is really a lot more fun to be one of the smaller fish in the pond than the raging unstoppable dinosaur shark.
