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Who has the largest one and when are you going to conquer his land?
> 2nd largest Navy
Who has the largest one and when are you going to conquer his land?
How is your EU4 Game going?
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Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
Some screenshots from a few years ago in the game:
Look at that Comonwealth
Ottomans are doing ok:
And the rest of the world:
France colapsed about 4 times in a row, now it's left with 2 provinces. I annexed Scotland and formed GB. Started a colony in Newfoundland and piggybacking Portugal's ship basing rights to make a colony in Brazil as well.
Look at that Comonwealth
Spoiler :
Ottomans are doing ok:
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And the rest of the world:
Spoiler :
France colapsed about 4 times in a row, now it's left with 2 provinces. I annexed Scotland and formed GB. Started a colony in Newfoundland and piggybacking Portugal's ship basing rights to make a colony in Brazil as well.
I tried finding infos on http://eu4wiki.com/ but it didnt help me, its still very incomplete. So heres the situation:
My Brandenburg game is working out quite nicely, but its far from 'won' and I need to figure out how to go on from here. Its ~1525ad and I got most of the territories I need for Germany and Prussi, but I dont have admin10 yet, plus me and my heir are both below diplo4. So both options will take some time. I was emperor since the first one died, took the diplo ideas and maxed it quickly. Used it to get several hre reforms quickly, bohemia is in pu with me, i got a few small vassals, and military-wise its ok. Lith/Poland could be somewhat dangerous, but I got them under control. France is very dangerous though, realy bad. I need to get my def up soon.
Soooo.....
-What are the pros and cons of HRE reuinion, Germany and Prussia?
-Which of these can be played after each other? Can I form Prussia first, reunite the HRE to get all provinces, and afterwards turn it into Germany all together?
-Which national ideas do I get as pru, hre or ger?
-can I be emperor when i switched to prussia or germany?
-are the empire reformation boni lost if i reunite the hre?
-any other 'traps' hidden somewhere?
Thanks in advance for any answer I might get
My Brandenburg game is working out quite nicely, but its far from 'won' and I need to figure out how to go on from here. Its ~1525ad and I got most of the territories I need for Germany and Prussi, but I dont have admin10 yet, plus me and my heir are both below diplo4. So both options will take some time. I was emperor since the first one died, took the diplo ideas and maxed it quickly. Used it to get several hre reforms quickly, bohemia is in pu with me, i got a few small vassals, and military-wise its ok. Lith/Poland could be somewhat dangerous, but I got them under control. France is very dangerous though, realy bad. I need to get my def up soon.
Soooo.....
-What are the pros and cons of HRE reuinion, Germany and Prussia?
-Which of these can be played after each other? Can I form Prussia first, reunite the HRE to get all provinces, and afterwards turn it into Germany all together?
-Which national ideas do I get as pru, hre or ger?
-can I be emperor when i switched to prussia or germany?
-are the empire reformation boni lost if i reunite the hre?
-any other 'traps' hidden somewhere?
Thanks in advance for any answer I might get
Mosher
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Wolfbeckett
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Well my Spain game ended with sort of a whimper. By the mid 1700's I just wanted it to be over so I stopped expanding and just started building infrastructure hoping to get through it as fast as possible so that I could say I made it all the way to the end. Then, in 1792, a mere few decades before the game would end, a monstrously powerful HRE declared war on me. I had neither the resources nor, I decided, the willpower to even try to fight them off, so I gave up the ghost then and there and called it a game.
Trying to decide who to play as and what sort of goals to go for next but nothing is really inspiring me at the moment.
Trying to decide who to play as and what sort of goals to go for next but nothing is really inspiring me at the moment.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
Oh man, i got the conquer Judeea for 1000 gold mission. My military tech was about 3-4 levels above the Ottomans, i had a massive fleet so i thought i'd just send my 29 "Pride of Europe" with my uber-expert general. The first bad omen was the fact that my state of the art navy (strongest in the world - 45 warships + 30 transports) got OBLITERATED when the ottomans gathered every single wimpy ship they had in their huge empire and they kept joining the battle faster than my cannons could sink them ! (they gathered about 100 galleys and other ships from what i could figure - the galleys obviously had the bonus for inland sea) My fleet fell apart soon after.
I thought, no matter - the Expeditionary force landed, and with the 1000 gold i'll rebuild the navy. The Pride of Europe was busy besieging Judea when a stack of doom of 40-regiments appeared on the horizon. My army decimated the ottomans who fled after 20.000 of their troops died while the british suffered minimal losses. Soon after, the siege was over and Judea was occupied. At that point i thought, hmm, i didn't think this though, i need 10% warscore to ask for the province. Meh, i'll just conquer some of these crappy provinces around Judea. And at that point i get the message that the Ottomans made white peace with the Commonwealth & Allies and thought, surely being the sole country at war with the Ottomans won't affect me in any way at all. After a month or so recovering all the previous losses, new smaller armies start looming on the horizon. At first i thought they were going to make another stack of doom and attack (and fail). But they didn't, they formed random armies of about 20 regiments strong and atacked, but not all at once - one by one. One by one they battered the Pride of Europe, they had no chance to win any of the battles, but that was never the point was it, the point was to win the war. And they did ... The Pride of Europe repelled 3 medium-sized stacks but when the fourth came morale broke down - the casualties were not very severe, but they just couldn't take any more fighting and fell into a disorganized retreat - thousands of miles from friendly territory and with no hope of relief from the sea.
So, with my army and navy basically castrated, i loaded the game and gave up these EU3 ambitions.
I thought, no matter - the Expeditionary force landed, and with the 1000 gold i'll rebuild the navy. The Pride of Europe was busy besieging Judea when a stack of doom of 40-regiments appeared on the horizon. My army decimated the ottomans who fled after 20.000 of their troops died while the british suffered minimal losses. Soon after, the siege was over and Judea was occupied. At that point i thought, hmm, i didn't think this though, i need 10% warscore to ask for the province. Meh, i'll just conquer some of these crappy provinces around Judea. And at that point i get the message that the Ottomans made white peace with the Commonwealth & Allies and thought, surely being the sole country at war with the Ottomans won't affect me in any way at all. After a month or so recovering all the previous losses, new smaller armies start looming on the horizon. At first i thought they were going to make another stack of doom and attack (and fail). But they didn't, they formed random armies of about 20 regiments strong and atacked, but not all at once - one by one. One by one they battered the Pride of Europe, they had no chance to win any of the battles, but that was never the point was it, the point was to win the war. And they did ... The Pride of Europe repelled 3 medium-sized stacks but when the fourth came morale broke down - the casualties were not very severe, but they just couldn't take any more fighting and fell into a disorganized retreat - thousands of miles from friendly territory and with no hope of relief from the sea.
So, with my army and navy basically castrated, i loaded the game and gave up these EU3 ambitions.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Attacking the Ottomans before 1700....not even once.
Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
Haha, it was around 1580 IIRC.
Was a fun experience tho.
Was a fun experience tho.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Ottomans make me fear playing any eastern nation. They are a plague because you have to devote all of your resources and time to just defend from them...not even invade, just defend. They are seriously overpowered compared to any eastern nation. Playing with Wallachia or Albania is just suicide. With Bosnia or Hungary you at least have some buffer space that buys you time. I'm up to 1510 in my Bosnia game. Its going pretty good, I took Lika, Zagreb and the province north of it in the last war against Hungary. Hungary is the sick man of Europe thanks to me and Poland. The Ottomans are closing in, they're running out of neighbors to conquer aka bait so its only a matter of time before they strike. The later the better. They already control everything south of Kosovo, Egypt and the Levant and Asia Minor/Kurdistan. The only force that could halt them is the Q something nation in Northern Iran. Another player that is rising is Tripoli, but they seem friendly with the Turks. Ramazan is scraping an existence as an enclave but they'll fall soon. Apart from me and weak Serbia the Ottomans have only a few options, so I sense an invasion soon.
Wolfbeckett
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Heretic_Cata
We're gonna live forever
@Nedim: So like real life then. 
This is much better than EU3 where the Ottomans fall apart in the first 50 years of the game.
Btw, it's almost 1600 and Wallachia still exists - and not as a vassal.
This is much better than EU3 where the Ottomans fall apart in the first 50 years of the game.
Btw, it's almost 1600 and Wallachia still exists - and not as a vassal.
germanicus12
First Citizen of Rome
The Ottomans. Though I have way more heavy ships than they do. None of the European powers even come close to me, Portugal who is my only competition in the race for colonization only has 50 ships to my 109. Spain is beginning to fade and has withdrawn from the race to protect against Portuguese aggression. They have allied with me to deter Portugal who sees my colonial armies poised like hungry lions at their rich colonial holdings in South America.
The Ottomans have 132, with a limit at 150. I have 109, with a limit of 113. (I don't see any wars with the Ottomans any time in my future. So unless someone near them takes them down a peg or two chances are they will remain on top in the naval category.)
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@Nedim: So like real life then.
This is much better than EU3 where the Ottomans fall apart in the first 50 years of the game.
Btw, it's almost 1600 and Wallachia still exists - and not as a vassal.
I agree - the Ottomans almost never did as well as they did historically in EU3. You could almost count on either Spain or Britain being the dominant power in Asia Minor by 1500. OK, maybe not count on, but it probably did happen more than the Ottomans still being a powerful force in the region.
Nice story about the attempted Conquest of Jerusalem. I'm impressed by the Ottomans' tactics to wear your army down and then finish it. Unfortunate for your ambitions, but it's good that the AI isn't being a pushover.
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
Only the lucky can know peace from the Turks.
Wolfbeckett
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Briefly started a new game as the Ottomans yesterday. There's... there's a lot going on? I was kinda overwhelmed trying to figure out what I should be doing first. I know the Ottomans are supposed to expand but it's hard to know which direction to expand in at first, they're literally surrounded by possible targets and it seems like going too far either way will put into contact with powers that I'm not sure I can handle, Mamluks in the south and Poland/Austria/Hungary in the north. Guess this will be a trial and error deal where I may need to start over a few times until I know how to properly deal with it all.
Anyone playing China?
MaxRiga
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germanicus12
First Citizen of Rome
Just crushed the Ottomans in a major coalition involving 3 of the world's 5 biggest superpowers, the Ottomans being one of the 5. Only Spain did not get involved.
The Coalition Members:
Great Britain (War Leader)
Poland (Great power)
Portugal (Great Power)
Austria
Milan
Bohemia
Islamic Allies:
Ottomans (War Leader)
Syria (Paid 60 Gold in payments after crushing defeats in just a year)
Tripoli (honored alliance but then sued for white peace right after when the 100 ship British fleet anchored offshore)
Crimea (crushed by Polish forces and became Polish vassals.)
The Ottoman fleet was lured away from their home fleet by the faster and smaller British fleet right into the ambush set up by the larger and more powerful British heavies near Sicily, the battle was close but in the end British seamanship proved to be the deciding factor as the Turkish fleet was destroyed and what was left of the battered fleet limped home and never sallied out for the remainder of the war.
Meanwhile on land, the Polish and Austrian forces gained the upper hand early crushing 2 large Turk armies and capturing 10 provinces before the Turks came back with another large army, this time the Polish and Austrian forces were divided and stretched along a thousand mile front and were being defeated piecemeal, so I moved my 2 largest armies onto transport fleets and targeted Constantinople which fell to a combined land and sea siege after 1 year. At this the Turks were willing to sit down and discuss peace terms. I rejected their offer to admit defeat and pay reparations. They needed to be curtailed and their expansion halted. So I demanded they release the Byzantium Empire and Bulgaria, as well as pay Poland and Austria each 700 in reparations. They agreed to our terms.
Europe after the Treaty of Constantinople:
The rest of the Empire: (not shown; Britain has begun colonizing Australia, and Britain's South American holdings.)
Finally surpassed the Ottomans in Naval supremacy. I now lead in all categories.
The Coalition Members:
Great Britain (War Leader)
Poland (Great power)
Portugal (Great Power)
Austria
Milan
Bohemia
Islamic Allies:
Ottomans (War Leader)
Syria (Paid 60 Gold in payments after crushing defeats in just a year)
Tripoli (honored alliance but then sued for white peace right after when the 100 ship British fleet anchored offshore)
Crimea (crushed by Polish forces and became Polish vassals.)
The Ottoman fleet was lured away from their home fleet by the faster and smaller British fleet right into the ambush set up by the larger and more powerful British heavies near Sicily, the battle was close but in the end British seamanship proved to be the deciding factor as the Turkish fleet was destroyed and what was left of the battered fleet limped home and never sallied out for the remainder of the war.
Meanwhile on land, the Polish and Austrian forces gained the upper hand early crushing 2 large Turk armies and capturing 10 provinces before the Turks came back with another large army, this time the Polish and Austrian forces were divided and stretched along a thousand mile front and were being defeated piecemeal, so I moved my 2 largest armies onto transport fleets and targeted Constantinople which fell to a combined land and sea siege after 1 year. At this the Turks were willing to sit down and discuss peace terms. I rejected their offer to admit defeat and pay reparations. They needed to be curtailed and their expansion halted. So I demanded they release the Byzantium Empire and Bulgaria, as well as pay Poland and Austria each 700 in reparations. They agreed to our terms.
Europe after the Treaty of Constantinople:
Spoiler :
The rest of the Empire: (not shown; Britain has begun colonizing Australia, and Britain's South American holdings.)
Spoiler :
Finally surpassed the Ottomans in Naval supremacy. I now lead in all categories.
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