Post your Empires!

[Lade]

You were told 4 times how to do it.

I probably deserve it.

Anyways, I'll edit in an empire here if I find a save worth posting...

 

[sophie]

Cheezy - What mod was that you were playing?

I gave ETW a go but was disappointed by the RTI campaign. I guess I'll give the full campaign a go.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Its Stainless Steel.

 

[Godwynn]

Allied with Great Britain, Poland-Lithuania, and Russia.

Prussia has been destroyed, and I have effectively neutered the Ottomans by conquering their provinces in Europe.

The biggest thread remains an expanding France on Continental Europe with their Spanish allies.

 

[Dachs]

Why ally with the Poles? Lots of nice Catholic provinces to eat.

 

[W|M]

 

[Shekwan]

Why ally with the Poles? Lots of nice Catholic provinces to eat.

That would probably provoke a war with Russia, and he's probably good friends with them due to Ottoman bashing.

 

[Godwynn]

Why ally with the Poles? Lots of nice Catholic provinces to eat.

I allied with the Poles to secure my border while I invaded Austria. I kept them as a secure border against the Ottomans.

Once I put down the rebellions and rebuild my economic base, I will turn my attention to either Poland or the small German states.

 

[W|M]

Anyway, France also has nice Catholic provinces to eat...

 

[Godwynn]

I started a game as Prussia.

I don't understand why Venice declared war on me, I capture Venice in one year.

I know Dachs will be mad, but I will invade Saxony and Poland once I put down all of the rebellions in Vienna, Amsterdam, and Munich. I am currently allied with Poland. Austria and the United Provinces have been destroyed.

 

[LightSpectra]

I played a similar game to that. First I formed the historical German Empire in almost the same method as Bismarck (though France had less of a happy ending), then I had the monarchy abolished and established the Republik Großdeutschland.

At that point, I had fulfilled all of Prussia's victory conditions, but strangely the Marathas had a higher prestige rating than I did, so I believe I invaded them just for the kicks of it.

 

[Godwynn]

How does one change the government type? I want to get out of the absolute monarchy as Frederika Louisa took control and my lower classes aren't too happy.

 

[LightSpectra]

Have your capital's region be in red happiness for three turns in a row. A rebel stack will appear, and have them capture the capital. If it's a lower class revolt, you become a republic; and if you have an upper-class revolt, you get a new absolute monarchy. Not sure how to have a constitutional monarchy.

Republics have much happier lower classes and faster research rate, but you can only change one minister per round, and every faction that's an absolute monarchy will hate your guts.

 

[W|M]

Upper-Class Revolution in Absolute Monarchy: Still Absolute Monarchy, just change the monarch.
Lower-Class Revolution in Absolute Monarchy: Become Republic.
Upper-Class Revolution in Const. Monarchy: Become Absolute Monarchy.
Lower-Class Revolution in Const. Monarchy: Become Republic.
Upper-Class Revolution in Republic: Become Const. Monarchy.
Lower-Class Revolution in Republic: Not sure, probably just change the party.

 

[LightSpectra]

That's kind of silly. An upper class revolution while in absolute monarchy should give you a constitutional monarchy. That's how Magna Carta was born.

 

[Traitorfish]

That's kind of silly. An upper class revolution while in absolute monarchy should give you a constitutional monarchy. That's how Magna Carta was born.

The Magna Carta is, despite later mythology, a bit of a reactionary document; it represents a regressive shift towardds devolved feudalism rather than a progressive shift towards constitutional monarchy; it did not suggest that sovereignty lay anywhere than the monarch, nor that the power of the nobility was derived from another source. It was really the English Civil War and Glorious Revolution, both of which were driven primarily by borgoise interests, that made Britain into a constitutional monarchy as we would understand it, shifting effective, if not ceremonial sovereignty from the monarch to parliament.
Point being, they really should have made a distinction between an aristocratic and borgoise revolution, both of which, while approximately "upper class" revolutions, have greatly distinct social effects. A borgoise revolution could prefer constitutional monarchy, as a lower-class revolution prefers republic and an aristocratic one absolute monarchy.
After all, the period depicted represents that in which the borgoise emerged as the dominant social class, so presenting contemporary politics as nothing but powdered wigs and phrygian caps can be a bit simplistic.

[/taking things far too seriously]

 

[LightSpectra]

Magna Carta was also a bit progressive in the sense that it put the king as accountable to the people, not just the Church and natural law. The original version of it also had a council that could veto the king's decisions.

 

[LightSpectra]

Spoiler :

The Holy Roman Empire, restored to its 1618 borders with all centralized authority to Emperor Leopold I, and hereditary lands of the Habsburgs in the Balkans; with also Corsica, Sicily-Naples and a colony in Tunisia acquired after Spain and Genoa refused to sue for peace. (Switzerland is apparently a black hole, so I can't acquire them no matter what I do.) The Dutch were eliminated, and a client German king currently rules Amsterdam as a protectorate of the Empire. Allied with Britain and Poland-Lithuania.

Population of 50 million, incredible industrialization and economic growth in all territories, 600,000-some soldiers after full mobilization. I can't acquire Venice as that would break my alliance with Poland-Lithuania, and I have no interest in acquiring any ire from the Papal States.

The Empire's primary enemies are France, Spain and the Ottomans. The former had just gone through a catastrophic war that threw them into bankruptcy and loss of all of their warships and capture of their professional armies. I don't have the navy to invade Spain at this point, but once I do, I'll revive the imperium of Charles V. The Ottomans have lost all of their territory in Europe to the Poles and are currently organizing a defense in Anatolia. I have good relations with the Swedish as well, but acquiring Denmark to have complete continental security might be in my interests at some point.

What's highlighted here is Eugene of Savoy, whom as far as I can tell is maxed out as a general.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

The Polish Empire, nearing the end of the Hungarian "problem"

 

[Poltair]

Btw, do the emergent factions actually do anything? I've never seen one take another region, ever.

The reason emergent factions do absolutely nothing is simple, they appear so far on in the game with only one province. That means they have practically no economy, no military and (Though I'm not sure of this one.) No technology.

Put yourself in the shoes of the leaders of a newly emerged Greece, you can either sit tight and wait to die, or attempt to expand into Ottoman territory which by whatever point you've emerged as a faction probably and possibly spans half the globe (Or has been replaced by a similar sized Empire who's border you touch instead.)

Emergent nations will do something if they're capable, for instance in my Maratha game, when the nation of Afghanistan emerged, I eventually negotiated trade rights, military acess and an alliance. I conquered the Persian empire using my Maratha forces (I'd already united India.) And as I went I gave each province to the Afghans.

It took them a while to bring the territories under control and fashion themselves a working economy but eventually their alliance and my baby sitting paid off, when Russia and the Ottoman Empire declared war on me, I focussed on Russia while the Afghans attacked the Ottomans. They didn't do much, took one territory I think but still, from an emergent faction they managed to take on one of the original and playable factions and win, and still hold that province. All they needed was a little nurturing.