Cool Empire, looks more historical than a lot of others I've seen. 
France sure is messed up though.
France sure is messed up though.
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There is no way that you can survive as Holland without keeping France in check , forcing them to release countries is usually a good tactic.
Exactly. I like to think of myself as the great liberator. When I finish a battle, I generally release countries rather than take territory. Except for when I'm taking territory.
What is ahistorical is how split up my empire is. One province here, one province there.... I assume in real life it would just be too hard to manage such an empire. It is true that it requires keeping a larger standing army and having the highest level forts everywhere. Let's see -- all of these provinces stand alone:
Kurland
Warmia
Lubeck (sold Mecllenburg early on
)Lisboa (now -- not in pic)
Andalucia
Alexandria
Judea
Kutch
Then I have four other main areas (perhaps somewhat like the Hapsburgs):
Netherlands
Northern Italy
Mexico
Peru
Looks awesome
!! How many tech levels are you ahead of the others? Do you have further ambitions in this game? Cheers!Looks awesome
I'm 2 ahead of everyone except in trade, where I am 3 (I'm 25 straight across. Last time I discovered the techs 13 years ahead of time.)
One of my long-term goals was to take Lisboa, which had been the best COT in the world. I was waiting until Venice cored, so I wouldn't have too many non-core COTs. But I've done that. So honestly, I am thinking that the game is about played out. I may stick around long enough to build a manufactory everywhere and see if any interesting new objectives come along. I've never played much past 1600.
How can you have so many merchants so to dominate every CoT, even the foreign ones? Foreign competition should fill up all those empty merchant slots pretty soon...
Castile/Spain WC this is the map in 1821, but I finished off Manchu (the last nation) about 50 years before. This is my first and probably last WC, turns out to be more of a pain than its worth...
I'd love it if you'd forgotten about Provence or some small European minor.
Impressive map, very... yellow.
Impressive map, very... yellow.
Awesome job
. Did you use these 50 years for colonizing while crushing rebels all the time?
Well, it wasn't easy to get here! A monopoly makes it so any merchant has to displace you in order to go to the COT. Every month I check to see if any of my merchants have been displaced (page 24 is my friend). Most months none have, but if one (or two) does then I send a merchant. I get 15 merchants a year, so I have at least one new one every month.
It wasn't until around 1550 that I could dominate all of the first page of most valuable COTs. So it is mostly a question of just getting ahead of the curve. I think the biggest thing is my much higher trade efficiency. But I do have the somewhat gamey thing of being part of the Hanseatic league in addition to the East India Trade Company and the Oost-Indisch. Since I have three ports in the Baltic, being part of the Hanseatic makes sense. Since the Oost-Indisch was supposed to be so rich, I thought being part of both made sense. But maybe it is just an exploit. Anyway, here are some screenshots...
Yea. It was kind of boring... I've always hated colonizing, but there wasn't really anything else to do. There weren't all that many rebels left by the end, since nationalism had pretty much died down.
No. I started a lot of colonies in the final few years of the game, many of them weren't even cities yet at the end of the game. But I'm pretty sure almost everything that I had conquered was core by the end.
Looks nice! What's the year? Did you colonize Africa or did you kick someone out there? Is it a kind of mod you played? Cheers!
1641Looks nice! What's the year? Did you colonize Africa or did you kick someone out there? Is it a kind of mod you played? Cheers!
i colonized everywhere myself. it is a peaceful game except for tribal war and a very short lived war against great britain
new screen (1687)
i am lucky that both gbr and france are very weak (actually there is no france)
and gbr was formed by scotts :S
so that only i and spain are colonizing (and papal state conquered north cameroon)
A HTTT game. Started off as Pommerania. Year is 1509 and reformed into Prussia a year ago. Had a bunch of wars with Bohemia, Poland, Sweden, several Minors, Novgorod, Great Britain, Portugal and Castille at the same time. Luckily those nations were either too far away or also at war with each other, so I managed. But although I am HRE, my menpower was depleted at the end and I had a hard time to put down several rebellions that rose up because of WE.
Great Britain, Portugal and Castille are best buddies at the moment and have an absolutely unstoppable naval force (GB alone has 60 Carracks, I can just employ 40 vessels without increasend maintainance). France has been eaten by Burgundy and Aragorn. Austria did quite well until it went heads on against Burgundy (together with Aragorn). Aragorn got beaten up, was forced to terms and Austria stood alone. Bohemia did quite some conquest during its time as HRE, but it lost 2 wars against me and has to rebuild forces now.
Great Britain, Portugal and Castille are best buddies at the moment and have an absolutely unstoppable naval force (GB alone has 60 Carracks, I can just employ 40 vessels without increasend maintainance). France has been eaten by Burgundy and Aragorn. Austria did quite well until it went heads on against Burgundy (together with Aragorn). Aragorn got beaten up, was forced to terms and Austria stood alone. Bohemia did quite some conquest during its time as HRE, but it lost 2 wars against me and has to rebuild forces now.
Not a bad empire there. I'm surprised that Castille has joined the Portuguese-British perpetual alliance; sounds scary. Europe seems to be dominated by blobs at the moment for you, but I'm surprised to even see the Gondorians invading southern France.
I'm surprised that Castille has joined the Portuguese-British perpetual alliance; sounds scary. Europe seems to be dominated by blobs at the moment for you, but I'm surprised to even see the Gondorians invading southern France.