Discuss your first games.

[Ibrins]

Sweden->Scandinavia. Everything was going fairly well, until the last war against Muscovy. Lost more manpower than I needed to, and now even my standing armies can't reinforce to full strength. Just as I was coming to terms with a 15-20 year wound-licking period, I was hit with the flipping pissant's war. Not only do I not have any manpower, with all the negative modifiers I now only get ~200/month and the average nationwide revolt risk is above 20%. Suffice to say, this will probably set me back half a century, if not more. This event is seriously too much.

 

[hyperion643]

Played as the Yamana daimyo of Japan. Started off slow but went on a rampage and formed Japan by 1490. After a victorious war against Korea, I now plan to colonize Taiwan and the Philippines and conquer the Indonesian states

 

[LordChrinox]

Played England. Win the Hundred Year's War resulting for France to renounce their claim on some of my lands. Burgundy declared war on me. I lose the war resulting to lose of some of my lands. 8 years later conquered the Irish. Now on my way to declaring war with Scotland. Henry VI died at last, thanks GOD. Now with King Caesar I can now continue my quest for world domination.

 

[Neviskio]

Since I'm a newbie-ish player I decided to trust the game and go with the france suggestion, I don't like france in any way shape or form but I'm really happy of my first 100-or-so years. I will restart because as a newb I made some horrible mistakes but still:

Managed to conquer everything but bourgogne and the bordering south province I can't remember the name fairly quickly, and got a foothold in antwerp/liege all the while by losing a huge war with austria and then kicking it's ass again, I could handle most of portugal + england + austria mega wars fairly but I still suck hard at wars.I just lose too often and I don't understand why.Mostly against austria and being at the same tech/slightly ahead and with more man, waiting in provinces that cause them to have a -1 roll due to terrain and a good defensive general.I guess I have a bad unit composition? I generally do 50/50 split with cavalry and some artillery here and there, but I still fail miserably.

Also rebels kick my ass but I learned to HANDLE THEM!(XD damn button I had missed it completely) and that's fine. Maybe france is just super easy but I found out that I'm quite decent now at the game compared to eu3 and CK2! Wish only I was capable at war now

 

[Phystarstk]

Update on my Ireland game: After colonizing/conquering most of eastern North America, I'm getting gangbanged by Spain, Portugal (in PU with Spain), and UK (which probably isn't allied with Spain, but they just hate me a lot). I could probably handle any one of them by themselves. All three of them is insane. Spain has like roving 60 ship fleets, when my forcelimit is around 40 total. And so does UK. Portugal has more like 35-40 ship fleets.

My military can do okay against any one of them, but, when they keep hitting me both at home and in the New World, I just can't defend it all. Sooner or later, I run out of money and manpower.. but the war doesn't stop. It's like both sides just want to -destroy- me utterly.

Oh well, I'm glad I didn't steamroll Ireland into a world power with no problems. It's probably time for another game....

 

[Ruskhan]

First game as France.

I think i was the first one to discover America. I pushed England out of mainland europe, got some provinces here and there... but overall am focusing on exploration, its still early for me to colonize i need more colonization range (or something)...

Also i liked the new way to change cultures, i though i would hate it, since it goes so fast, but if you view it as changing culture of administration in the province its not that bad, maybe Paradox should keep it that way. Thoughts?

 

[Mattobro]

Playing Ottomans on Ironman, Normal difficulty, Historical lucky nations.

Started off by declaring on Byzantium with the mission to take Constantinople day one, they held out valiantly for about 4 years before I took the city of the world's desire aswell as their Greek territory. Proceeded to take Wallachia as my vassal, annexed Ramazan and 2 of the other Anatolian minors. Decided to help out my royal marriage, ally and potential vassal Aq Qoyunlu against the Qara Qoyunlu to get in their good books. Had a huge 8 year war with me, the Timurids and Aq Qoyunlu against the Qara Qoyonlu and Crimea, with the former completely collapsing after the war since I hunter killed all their armies and Timurids completely sieged them down. Aq Qoyunlu was so grateful for my help after the war that they accepted vassalisation, so I'm sitting in a great position right now, Out teching 2/3 of Europe with my beast ruler Mehmet Fatih's stats and his heir Isa being a slightly worse but still respectable 3/3/4, things are looking good for the Ottomans future. Just got to wait for my manpower to come back...

 

[Skyhunteren]

Denmark->Scandinavia I have played a very diplomatic game, played it very safe and almost not used my army. Slesvig-holstein is annexed. Norway and sweden have been incoorperated. Hamborg, ösel and western part of Novgorod was taken in wars. Netherlands and the Palantien are lesser partners in PU and meckelburg is my vassale. It is around 1489 and I am a single tech level away from starting to colonise.

In the early part of the game I alliede wis Austria and joined the hre.

 

[sirrichard]

I am playing a converted 1066 start from CK2 since I played a lot of Eu3 already, and the Byzantines keep trying to beat the Seljuks, loosing prestige over and over again until they can't claw themselvs up the pit

 

[Andrew4250]

Tried playing as Brandenburg.

The second I conquer a province everyone gains up on me, I proceed to swamp my self in loans until I have enough soldiers to fight them off. Take horrific losses compared to the computer. Still manage to fight them off. Try to chase the enemy into a province. Get declared on. A 16 stack swoops in and kills my 8 units. Both my allies, Austria and Bohemia desert me.

I lose that war and am forced to give up two provinces. That's okay though, I can roll with the punches I'm only down to what I started with, no big deal. I look around, find a Brunswick as an ally, get Bohemia back again.

Brunswick goes on a conquesting spree. My armies get decimated in each engagement, manage to peace out early.

Down to 2 provinces. Spend years trying to battle loans, get declared on again Bohemia drops me like a sack of potatoes. I build up a new army. My 8 versus their 8, perhaps a potential for success? Nope, my superior discipline, tactics, morale and leader has no chance against the dice rolls of the computer. Proceed to get stomped.

Down to one province with 95 loans. Can only afford a single soldier. Get declared on, almost get conquered but pretender rebels to the rescue! They then proceed to take over. Which is fine, except during the siege the interest of the loans was more then I can afford, forcing me to take more and more loans as the siege progresses.

I collapse into bankruptcy and tears.

 

[SacredDatura]

Picked Brunswick thinking I'll play a provincial backwater in the HRE for a quiet game of learning the ropes and observing the big boys under the AI. Hoo boy was I wrong about it being quiet. I mistook a 'claim' as a legitimate core, and assumed the Unlawful Territory would go away at once once I had the core made (it does not), so I annexed Luneburg. Cue a coalition of all my neighbours tearing me a new one. Munster took Hannover from me, then proceeded to get dogpiled by a coalition against them for aggressive expansion. Though since they had the Hansa as a buddy, they held on to my Hannover. And I can't even take advantage of the momentary weakness of Munster because everyone still hates me for annexing Luneburg. Heh.

 

[Sangrael]

Went with Castile for the first game. My king died from a disease within 3 months, and there was a -1 stability hit. Went to the heir, things progressed well and I was conquering Granada in April of 48 when that king up and died. I had an heir, but he was only 2, so it went to a Regency, and gave me yet another -1 stability. Sued for peace and ended up with 2 of the 3 Granada provinces, and couldn't go back to war for the last due to the lack of an actual monarch. Instead of sitting around and waiting to have diplomacy for another 12 years I started over. Aragon up and attacked within the first year, and went straight for Madrid where my full 23 army was stationed. He crossed a river to get to me with his size 24 army, so I figured I had it. My general died almost immediately, and they ended up routing me, then chasing down the army to finish it off. I'm thinking Castile is cursed, and I'm going to pick someone else for my next game.

 

[Shadowless]

First game was as the Timurids (getting ready for a MP as them) took 4 of my core provinces from Qara, ate my way into india, ended up with a tribal succession issue 2 years before forming the mughul. Currently I own all the Timurid lands + 1/3 of india in 1510. Second game was Venice, took a few lands in Italy, all the eastern mediteranian islands except for crete and also took southern Greece then had the Ottomans declare war on me with twice as many galleys (45 to my 20) Needless to say it will be a few years rebuilding my Navy. (I love them building such a large navy as it is nearly impossible to block the straits now)

 

[XRW]

Venice. I get screwed by ottomans everytime. Austria, and Hungary hate be because whichever one I try to ally with gets into a hopeless war that I can't join. I can't maintain navy and army at max forcelimits. I joined the coalition against ottomans. We had like 1/3 to half the troops of just the ottomans. AI is more than willing to help an ally screw me over but none seem to help me at all, even if they're willing to join on my side and have more than enough troops. Forget about my navy. It's crap. Trade is providing much less income than expected....i can get 5-6 ducats. Is that a lot? I honestly have not idea.

 

[Pietrus]

I started as burgundy, I took a few hre opms which led to me being attacked by the emporer around 1450. By the skin of my teeth I managed to take sungau zurich and bern in the war. As soon as this war finished however I was atcked by france. I managed to barely survive and go on to take 1 provence and force france to release tolousse who i would later ally and diplo annex. After a series of wars and peace times spent coring I had taken a third of the hre all of the netherlands and france. I then colonized 8 african provences and took the east and southeen coasts of north america. I attack and conquered all of the new world countries. The year is around 1550 and that is where I am now

 

[Giskler]

Ironman Castille -> Spain. Annexed Navarra, started colonising Africa, South America and Caribbean. Reformation hit and I figured I'd see what would happen if I tried to convert Spain... very bad idea. 3 years of civil war with doomstacks upwards to 37 ravaging the countryside and half a dozen peasant and nationalist rebellions started because of it. Accepted demands and went back to Catholicism, but country is bankrupt and several rebellions still raging.

Going to be a pain in the ass to clean everything up, but on the other hand it was fun having to deal with a bad decision rather than reload and keep trucking. Started integrating Aragon after the civil war was over and now I have to go beat down Granada (1 province decleared independence) and put out all the rebellions while dealing with repaying several loans and bad modifiers on almost every province. Add my moron ruler (0/1/2) on top and I'm just roleplaying it as a dark period in Spain's history

 

[DarkImpaler]

Going to be a pain in the ass to clean everything up, but on the other hand it was fun having to deal with a bad decision rather than reload and keep trucking. Started integrating Aragon after the civil war was over and now I have to go beat down Granada (1 province decleared independence) and put out all the rebellions while dealing with repaying several loans and bad modifiers on almost every province. Add my moron ruler (0/1/2) on top and I'm just roleplaying it as a dark period in Spain's history

That's moron?
I begun Ironman Castille... *BAM* after 2 years my leader died and all i got was this stupid King with 0/0/0 that, OF COURSE, is nearly immortal and is now 60 years old and doesn't wanna die.

 

[murlocmancer]

Well my first game was with Novogord. I failed as i could not beat Muscovy and the vassal army of doom. Tried it like 10 more time and have failed every time XD

 

[firelordzuko]

That's moron?
I begun Ironman Castille... *BAM* after 2 years my leader died and all i got was this stupid King with 0/0/0 that, OF COURSE, is nearly immortal and is now 60 years old and doesn't wanna die.

Playing Ironman Castile, I managed to kill him in battle and was succeeded by a 16 years old girl named Maria ... who had 6-4-5. Awesome. This enabled me to get the Iberian Union / PU with Aragon event, though of course she died in favour of her 3-3-3 sister soon after. Next heir is 5-3-3.

 

[whelan]

playing as france in iron man mode, started spending all my points on wars, buildings and now i still have men at arms and everyone else has level 10 units. while mine are 2. might ave to restart the game as im way behind technology wise.