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So, with all the new patches, has anyone else noticed that the creation of Spain hardly ever happens?

In my many games so far, I've seen Castille constantly knock out Portugal and Aragon from being contenders very early. It also has the nasty tendency to form PUs and inherit Portugal.

But soon after beating up on it's Iberian neighbors, Castille soon forgets it's reconquista and almost always decides to gobble up land from eastern Medditeranean nations (Ottomans, Malmuks, Byz, GH) and go on African colony sprees.

What's also strange, is that while France is almost certainly a failure in every game, The WE and revolts never break Castille. England and France both hardly ever end up colonizing the new world in time to prevent the yellow blob from making the venture pointless.

Aragon can be beaten silly by every nation in the game but hardly ever loses it's islands and never becomes annexed as a result.

In most games I've played Russia and Scandinavia almost always form, Ireland is formed via revolts almost every time right after England gets finished wiping out all the Irish minors. (I'm thinking there needs to be very simple British unification missions all through the game, as England/GB never bother to reconquest it's lost mainland properties)

All I know is that Castille despises all things non-Castillian on the African continent.
 

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this has happened to me many times. i hate it when i see some kind of super Castille that owns half the middle east all of Asia Minor most of Africa but can bring itself to land on the beleares
 

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ahh castille. i'm considering writing my first AAR on them. a personal union only AAR. "Its Personal"
anyways... yeah, same here. ireland has formed in nearly EVERY game i've played so far. once, castille warned (i think) Munster (irish minor) and then went on a conquering spree in ireland. then took a bite of scotland.
in my games, france either becomes super epic, or is raped by england in one war, then burgandy joins the fun, then minor nations get released, and bam, no more france. Charlemagne would think... wow... epic fail.
 

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I've yet to see France make it out of the 1400s without being reduced to a OPM :rofl:

Some other strange observations for HTTT:

-Russia has been sighted a few times carving a path to the south china sea :wacko:

-The Ottoman Empire has a bloodlust for Baltic coastal provinces. :confused:

-Byz is a beast of the east. I've seen it bounce back from it's 1399 start more often than I've seen the well-established Ottos succeed.

-Revolt-formed countries happen constantly, but for some reason are always incompetent. (Ukraine - Poltosk - Flanders - Cornwall)

-Trade leagues need to be re-instated when they re-emerge, sucks playing one and having no opponents within 10-20 years.

-What goes up must come down, and lucky nations are hardly exempt.

-Just give me the province you KNOW I have a mission for, AI... I don't feel like laying siege the entirety of Austria to get Bresica.
 

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I've noticed that the island OPMs are very durable. Gotland resisted Sweden (which is just one province short of Scandanavia) for two centuries and at least a dozen attempts before I took them over myself. Sardinia and Aragon (on the Baleares) have also lasted over 300 years. Spain formed in my first HttT game though. Castille inherited Aragon after only 60 years.
 

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If you made the requirement to form Spain owning all of North Africa and Egypt, Castille would form it every game.
 

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The problem with Castille prefering to attack africa over unifying spain is that the AI overprioritizes religious group enemies. This is also why the ottomans are happily moving as far into europe as they can while ignoring the mamluks and persians.
 

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I'd say that 4/5 times now, Spain will not form, they just seem completely uninterested in unifying Spain at all and end up with a giant North Africa Empire, even worse, often this keeps going and going, Castille ends up in the Balkans, Castille Take the Black Sea but Castille seems completely disinterested in Iberia and because of this, will often get blind-sided by a French Aragonese alliance and lose all its North provs
 

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Interesting, I mod'd the game files to have Castile and Portugal choose Divine Supremacy over QFNW and assumed that was why they were taking over Northern Africa and Asia Minor every game. I got sick of seeing nothing but yellow and green in the New World btw, sure its historical but I'd rather see more diversity in the Americas.
 

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I posted Castille inheriting Aragon and forming Spain in Strange Screenshots for just this very reason. :)