Best start you've ever had?

[Lightbanee]

I think this may in fact be the best start i've ever had. I royal married Iberia and randomly like the game does far too often murdered Castile's leader who had no heir and oh I now have a royal marriage over Castille and Aragon is fighting me to stop me but since i'm allied to Portugal they get utterly destroyed.

 

[damifoe]

I once had a Byzantium game where I got a PU over Austria-Hungary 20 years into the game for free

 

[Jespoke]

Back as the 3rd or 4th game I ever played, before I really knew what I was doing, I got the Burgundian Inheritance as Gelre, letting me completely bypass the question of how I was even going to get the land I needed to form the Netherlands.

 

[Lightbanee]

onto Morocco now

 

[grandadmiralbob]

Probably when I started a game as Pommerania back in the day. And I saw that they could form Prussia.

 

[BavarianKing]

I had the best one last week! Started as Muscovy, as always, went for novgorod first and simultaniously tried to get that Imeriti PU at its very old rulers death. Once I have managed to do that I checked both Poland and Lithunia and there it was: Both countries had the Rurikid Dynasty?!?!? Both independent and without an heir. No idea how or when.

And than it happend: The lithunian ruler died at the age of 28 and I only had to fight Poland and some northern Germans to get the PU in 1450 or something like that. Game got pretty boring at that point and I have lost everything since than bc I tried to fight the Ottos out of boredom....

 

[grisamentum]

My luckiest start ever, when doing Mzab -> Third Way / Andalusia game:

 

[Lightbanee]

I had the best one last week! Started as Muscovy, as always, went for novgorod first and simultaniously tried to get that Imeriti PU at its very old rulers death. Once I have managed to do that I checked both Poland and Lithunia and there it was: Both countries had the Rurikid Dynasty?!?!? Both independent and without an heir. No idea how or when.

And than it happend: The lithunian ruler died at the age of 28 and I only had to fight Poland and some northern Germans to get the PU in 1450 or something like that. Game got pretty boring at that point and I have lost everything since than bc I tried to fight the Ottos out of boredom....

With that much power you should have tried to do Third Rome but that's a very fun sounding start lol.

 

[BavarianKing]

With that much power you should have tried to do Third Rome but that's a very fun sounding start lol.

Worst thing is that I am obsessed with a perfect Muscovy start. Like this had to be my 100000 start as Muscovy, I exclusively play as them, but everytime I optimize my strategy, getting even more powerful even earlier I quit bc the game starts to bore me... I just cant handle playing as a rich and over powerful country.

 

[Workiwork]

my start right now was quite nice. normal but nice. I play as syria, independence supported by ottomans and after my independence ottomans stays as my personal shield and support me in most wars. A minus of nearly -130 relations because they want my land, but still +200 overall because of nice things like getting an osmanoglu on my throne.

luckiest "start" was with Berg getting a PU over (a granted weakened) France. depending on how many years you count as start ^^ still was early

 

[Ixal]

Best start I had was with England. Abandoned the continent, sold all provinces to France, even had a royal marriage with it and a few month later the french king died and I got a PU over it.

 

[RMS Oceanic]

In a Brandenburg game the Neumark event fired on 12th November 1444 meaning I could immediately strike into Pomerania and be ready to fight the Teutons before Poland's truce ran out.

 

[bestbrian]

My first legit game of EU3 as Spain I inherited France within the first couple of years. Being new, it was all too much to handle, so I restarted. Never got that lucky again.

 

[makaramus]

when I played ming

 

[DominusNovus]

I once had a Byzantium game where I got a PU over Austria-Hungary 20 years into the game for free

I got a PU over France relatively early in a Byz game (I want to say before 1500), way back in the day. I'd probably already beaten the Ottomans back pretty solidly, so it wasn't that big of a game changer.

 

[adin85]

Maybe it was not best start ever, but in 25 years I got PU over Bohemia, Austria, Sweden, Hungary, France.

 

[Gaijin de Moscu]

I had 2 great starts in my recent games with no cheese / save scumming:

1. As Ryukyu, was able to enforce peace and grab a province right next to Kyoto. That enabled a pleasant Three Mountains where I became Qing.

2. As Saluzzo, inherited a massive Burgundy and then became HRE emperor on the same day as I PUed Austria. It's now smooth sailing as I tag-switch my way to a world conquest.

 

[MachopPower69]

I decided to try out the new Teutonic Order. I got lucky with RNG getting the Livonians as a vassal. I managed to ally Bohemia and Muscovy and take Kutavia and Poznan states and form Prussia (None of the big youtubers showcased the Prussian missions, just the Crusaders missions which was disappointing.