Sorry about the long post, but I'm just THAT excited about this game..
And you're right to be!
Welcome on board!
Sorry about the long post, but I'm just THAT excited about this game..
why is the mamluks still alive? Vassal?
I started with 5 provinces, 1405 start, it is a bit easier and hardly impossible. What you do not see on that picture is a high war exhaustion with a spent veto decision, I waged almost constant war for two decades just to survive! I've been pretty lucky along the way though.the strangest thing about that byz game is how paradox hasnt seen and realize they need to nerf the hell out of a country which took over the ottomans entire nation before the ottomans took over byzantium a two province minor... thats a huge problem
On the Syria thing, that reminds me of my byz game when they emerged CATHOLIC. what a hell they provided me with. lol.
I finished a 1399 start with Ayutthaya, normal settings, except lucky nations off and spread of land/sea discoveries set to 200 years. I was playing a few games seeing how different colonization went with various spread of discoveries rates, and that setting really seemed to give the best results.
I spent most of the game allied with Ming, against a superpower alliance of Manchu and a massive Vijayanagar. Eventually through some sly spy action instigated by Korea, Ming collapsed into all the usual tiny Chinese kingdoms, which allowed Manchu to eat up most of the territory until succumbing to the Korean treatment itself, and I ate a huge swathe of the south. Vijayanagar and Manchu declared war on me in about 1750, and I was more or less slaughtered between them, but I did take Vijayanagar down hard and they never recovered, eventually desintigrating into a series of tiny kingdoms. Manchu did grab a load of my Chinese aquisitions though.
Some cool thigns to see is a Genoa with her capital in Brazil and no Italian land whatsoever, a very nicely bordered Ramazan where the Ottomans are supposed to be, Louisiana who won her independence from Mexico, of all countries, and the most incredible South America I have ever seen in the game. Chile is Lombard, La Plata 25% Portugeuse and 75% lombard, and the rest Spanish. Originally, Milan and Genoa basically owned South America until rebels took over and carved out some decent borders, which are more or less the same shape as the colonies they formed from.
Great Britain was the story of the game though. After colonizing basically all of North America, they totally collapsed, seeing Haiti, Canada, Quebec, USA, Mexico and Louisiana win independence in the new world, and Ireland and wales in the old country. I figured they were toast, and as they were the only real colonial threat to South-east Asia (France and Spain were pretty neutral towards me and Netherlands never formed), I thought I was in the clear from heavy euro aggression. Then I peaked back there at about 1800, and they divided up the independent new world countries between them and the US (now their ally). They were far and away the strongest country in the game, with a ridiculous income and huge military forces.
They declared war on me in 1814. What you can't see in that map is basically all of the Ayutthayan maritime empire is totally occupied by about a hundred thousand British troops. The rest is totally blockaded by the imperial mega-fleet of doom. Another couple years of futile resistance, and Ayutthaya would have been a tiny colonial British dominion.
@Mondopotato: What program did you use?
What map is this?
Is it perhaps because of the funny name?I used gimp. Obviously photoshop will do the trick too, but I've always been partial to gimp.