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500? That's not too shabby. Manpower doesn't come cheap in this game! Use more mercs.
My Iroquois game got more interesting. I westernized and was friends with GB for a bit... but not long. Quite soon I started qualifying as a competing great power and was left on my own.
I've got protectorates across the americas now, including Inca and Aztec down south. Aztec is a lot of trouble tbh, got my in two wars so far. First one was hellish, against Castille with her colonial nationas and Portugal with her colonial nations. I was kind of hard pressed to fight them back. Once I got my fleet to round up and wipe their fleets and finally got my armies on the right landmasses I've managed to eventually weasel out with a concede defeat aftr 8-10 years or so.
Not another 8 years later Castille's New Granada attacked Aztec again. This time without Portugal and her flock so I steamrolled Castille and NG and took _all_ of Castille's overseas. The revolts while I was busy coring them were harder than the war. Found a new ally - France, they kept Castille occupied at home so I even threw them a bone in the form of Aragon in the peace deal.
Oh and I'm Papal Controller with 5 cardinals. Who'd have thought?
Arming up to control trade now, took trade ideas and am working now to steer all that to my home province in Gulf of St. Lawrence. Going to spend most of the remaining game colonizing, I think. Also in Asia.
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Posted 29 January 2014 - 07:16 AM
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 14 April 2014 - 05:06 AM
Been playing this a lot again. Rewriting history is strangely rewarding!
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 05:09 AM
seven decades later, I think I might be doing it right! Also inherited Bohemia and PUd Brandenburg. Japan is being scrambled to get vassalized, and then spoonfed all the daimyios that got punched out of her. Go me!
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 03:48 PM
Attempting a world conquest? Or is that out of reach? Also Castile colonising Siberia is one of the most annoying mechanics of the game.. You have all the Americas, the spice islands and Africa to colonise... Why would you colonise Siberia?
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Posted 15 April 2014 - 09:17 PM
Way too slow for WC I'm afraid, preserving MPs for tech as I'm going for that Poland Can Into Space achievement, also probably gonna get the European in Japan one as well. I just went against Muscovy after dealing with the holy orders and things got a bit out of hand, I couldn't stop!
As for Castillan Siberia, yeah, it's a well-known and widely hated thing in the community. It's got to do mostly with how tropical colonies are a lot slower than arctic ones, making northern colonies like Siberia look a lot more comfy for colonizers than, say, the Spice Islands and Africa. There's also the bonus colonist Castille gets from their National Ideas. Colonization is just way too fast in this game, the whole world gets filled by mid-1700s, while in reality places like eastern siberia, california and the antipodes weren't properly colonized until the 19th century iirc.
As for Castillan Siberia, yeah, it's a well-known and widely hated thing in the community. It's got to do mostly with how tropical colonies are a lot slower than arctic ones, making northern colonies like Siberia look a lot more comfy for colonizers than, say, the Spice Islands and Africa. There's also the bonus colonist Castille gets from their National Ideas. Colonization is just way too fast in this game, the whole world gets filled by mid-1700s, while in reality places like eastern siberia, california and the antipodes weren't properly colonized until the 19th century iirc.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 04 June 2014 - 03:08 PM
I've had a couple of sick days and was lucky enough to get a new DLC for EU4 just before. So, having nothing to do but staying on the couch I decided to reform the Byzantine empire in all its former glory. It took a few false starts. A lot of false starts, but I finally got one where the Ottoman's decided to go for Anatolia rather than Constantinople and Greece while Crimea was too heavily embroiled in a war to the east to participate.
It took four wars to dislodge the Ottomans from Europe, and it was only during the fourth that I felt confident of victory before I started. Ironman is nerve racking business. Now, with Wallachia annexed, all of asia minor under my control and with the Mameluks slowly folding under the pressure of my superior technology, manpower and force limit, I've started paying more attention to Europe. I only lack Rome to heal the great schism, but the Papal state is allied to Mecha France and a Super Austria functioning in some sort of god mode. I've found a strong ally in Poland, which have recently inherited Lithuania while also expanding north and west all the way up to the border of Denmark. However, they're falling behind technologically, and in a war I fear they'd fold against either one of the two superpowers.
So for now I'll have to establish my absolute dominance over the muslim part of the Mediterranean while waiting for an opening to grab Rome.
It's quite interesting playing as Byzant though, I must say. For some strange reason I've now had 6 empresses in a row, all named varieties of Theodora. They've all been competent to great rulers. I'm in 1515, and I imagine I should be able to reestablish the borders of Justinian by the end date.
I'm trying to play historically, so at the moment I have Religious, Diplomatic and Defensive as my three idea groups.
It took four wars to dislodge the Ottomans from Europe, and it was only during the fourth that I felt confident of victory before I started. Ironman is nerve racking business. Now, with Wallachia annexed, all of asia minor under my control and with the Mameluks slowly folding under the pressure of my superior technology, manpower and force limit, I've started paying more attention to Europe. I only lack Rome to heal the great schism, but the Papal state is allied to Mecha France and a Super Austria functioning in some sort of god mode. I've found a strong ally in Poland, which have recently inherited Lithuania while also expanding north and west all the way up to the border of Denmark. However, they're falling behind technologically, and in a war I fear they'd fold against either one of the two superpowers.
So for now I'll have to establish my absolute dominance over the muslim part of the Mediterranean while waiting for an opening to grab Rome.
It's quite interesting playing as Byzant though, I must say. For some strange reason I've now had 6 empresses in a row, all named varieties of Theodora. They've all been competent to great rulers. I'm in 1515, and I imagine I should be able to reestablish the borders of Justinian by the end date.
I'm trying to play historically, so at the moment I have Religious, Diplomatic and Defensive as my three idea groups.
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Posted 30 June 2014 - 12:37 PM
If you have Religious, you have Holy War CB, and it's one of the very few CBs that prevent warleader change. How big is Papal States in your game? You could mount up for an attack, pop your whole army in 1 stack and take Rome by assault (note, that would be very costly, stack artillery and infantry!) for 100% warscore and enforce demands before Austria or the Big Blue Blob even get to the front.
Alternatively, you could try a proxy war with one of the Pope's allies that's strong enough to not get a warleader change and that is not allied to anyone ridiculously strong like France. You could also try and wait until such a time when you're fighting alongside France and/or Austria in another war and declare then - allies in a war cannot join a war against that nation.
In any case, best thing to do in 1.6.1 is to try to ally France, with the recent goods produced (and by extension income and manpower) changes, France got even more stupidly overpowered than before, you'll likely be unable to beat them in a war until you can outnumber them like 2:1 and pull them into mountains. France is a monster and should be treated like one.
Quite a badass thing to attempt, I have to admit. I've not played Byzantium yet in EU4. If you want another interesting game, try forming Netherlands as a dutch OPM and create a trade empire. Much fun to be had.
Two more amusing runs you could do: Turn The Tables (vassalize your former overlord as a colonial nation) and No Trail of Tears (own entire Thirteen Colonies as a westernized Cherokee)
I've recently done an achievement run with Otto (Definitely the Sultan of Rum, Master of India) so now I'm a bit fatigued and am consoling myself with some Easy difficulty XCOM (nice and relaxing to see all the new features in Enemy Within)
Alternatively, you could try a proxy war with one of the Pope's allies that's strong enough to not get a warleader change and that is not allied to anyone ridiculously strong like France. You could also try and wait until such a time when you're fighting alongside France and/or Austria in another war and declare then - allies in a war cannot join a war against that nation.
In any case, best thing to do in 1.6.1 is to try to ally France, with the recent goods produced (and by extension income and manpower) changes, France got even more stupidly overpowered than before, you'll likely be unable to beat them in a war until you can outnumber them like 2:1 and pull them into mountains. France is a monster and should be treated like one.
Quite a badass thing to attempt, I have to admit. I've not played Byzantium yet in EU4. If you want another interesting game, try forming Netherlands as a dutch OPM and create a trade empire. Much fun to be had.
Two more amusing runs you could do: Turn The Tables (vassalize your former overlord as a colonial nation) and No Trail of Tears (own entire Thirteen Colonies as a westernized Cherokee)
I've recently done an achievement run with Otto (Definitely the Sultan of Rum, Master of India) so now I'm a bit fatigued and am consoling myself with some Easy difficulty XCOM (nice and relaxing to see all the new features in Enemy Within)
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 30 June 2014 - 01:00 PM
Man, I remember playing Europe Universalis 3 to death. Once I started as Bosnia and conquered the entire world (using the infinite money and no rebellions cheat of course 
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One day I have to get this and lose my life once more.
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Posted 10 July 2014 - 08:05 AM
Do eeeet! Great game, and keeps changing over time with new patches and DLC. Coming soon is Res Publica, with some new features for Republics (a faction system similar to Ming) and new events and unique govt type for Poland/Commonwealth (elective monarchy) and some other stuff, like National Focus (FINALLY! instead of 3/3/3 base monarch point gain you can focus, like for mil you'd get 2/2/5), and they're removing the MP gain penalty from lower tech groups, which is AWESOME.
Definitely doing another Poland/Commonwealth run with the new DLC.
Definitely doing another Poland/Commonwealth run with the new DLC.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 31 October 2014 - 06:42 AM
OK, new DLC - Art of War - and this one is the largest yet of any Paradox game. We've got over 900 new provinces, client states, 30 Years War mechanic, catholicism overhaul, dozens of new playable nations, rebel overhaul, local autonomy, marches, tonnes of new national ideas, reformation overhaul... and more.
I'm running a Malacca game now, uniting Indonesia for now. I still don't know how to bite Ayutthaya yet, but I'm slowly making my way to an alliance with both Khmer and Lan Xang, we should be able to put a dent in them once I finish up annexing Sumatra and Borneo. Can't wait to get home and play again.
I'm running a Malacca game now, uniting Indonesia for now. I still don't know how to bite Ayutthaya yet, but I'm slowly making my way to an alliance with both Khmer and Lan Xang, we should be able to put a dent in them once I finish up annexing Sumatra and Borneo. Can't wait to get home and play again.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 20 July 2015 - 05:50 PM
So, a few patches and expansions later, I'm still playing this.
This week's achievement:
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Number of downloads: 1
Anyone else still at it?
This week's achievement:
eu4_33.jpg (776.83K)
Number of downloads: 1
Anyone else still at it?
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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Posted 20 July 2015 - 06:39 PM
i have yet to start. considering it though
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Posted 21 July 2015 - 02:07 PM
Should pick it up again. When I have finished the Witcher 3 and have time... probably somewhere in late Fall.
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