Meh, not worth playing if it stops at 1648. As soon as it got interesting it was 20 years past the end date.
btw. you didn't answer my question How will the ranking for best be done in the end? How will finished goals be weighed with money accrued?
And just to clarify:
to finish the 3rd goal i need 7 caribbean islands, not 5. 2+5, right?
and 3rd goal also mentions "10 more prov in east asian trade port region/ indonesia region".
Is this 10 more from 1st or 2nd goal?
Another thing that needs clarification:
1st goal requires Manhattan +2other NA provinces and 2 provinces in the caribbean.
Now region mapmode tells me that the caribbean is also north america.
So could it be done by colonizing manhattan +2 islands in the caribbean?
I think this is not intended, if so, you should clarify. I took 2 provinces in the caribbean and manhattan+2 provs in NA (that means today USA)
I guess i will post a first update on my journey later
Y2Jonathon.
Thanks for participating, great to see you conquered the Spanish Netherlands and enacted the decision. However I can't even give you a single point as you haven't satisfied all of the requirements of any of the goals. Could you tell us how the challenge went, and what your idea of EU3 fun is?
My recommendation for the goals would have been:
Primary: Peace out the 80 years war without giving up any territory. Found the Dutch East India Company. Get a certain amount of trade income. Nothing too flashy here.
Secondary: Push Spain out of The Netherlands.
Bonus: What you had about iconoclasm and beating Spain by a certain date is interesting. Perhaps this is where you could require some sort of colonial requirements. Maybe the ultimate goal would be to pass Spain in income by a certain date establishing the Netherlands as the true economic powerhouse?
Was going to start today but I got distracted with a Trojan on my Laptop. So tomorrow after depositing my laptop the computer place I will give it a go.
Great Job XRW! Congrats on completing the scenario!
Having finished it, what do you think the primary goals should have been?
My recommendation for the goals would have been:
Primary: Peace out the 80 years war without giving up any territory. Found the Dutch East India Company. Get a certain amount of trade income. Nothing too flashy here.
Secondary: Push Spain out of The Netherlands.
Bonus: What you had about iconoclasm and beating Spain by a certain date is interesting. Perhaps this is where you could require some sort of colonial requirements. Maybe the ultimate goal would be to pass Spain in income by a certain date establishing the Netherlands as the true economic powerhouse?
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I think this is too easy. I mean: it should still pose a challenge. If you are a halfway skilled player, you can easily survive the first war. I consider myself at best an average player and i even managed to win it. Granted, it took me 8 years, but you have only one place of action, so your attention can't be somewhere else.
I see you took all of the spanish Netherlands provinces. How do you do that? I mean it will give you a lot of infamy because those provinces are in the HRE.
I thought about leaving the HRE but then i would lose Friesland. I could release them as a vassal, but then i would need to annex them later again...
I actually want those who are not yet halfway skilled players to be able to complete the primary goals.
Look at my screenshots, some of them say Imperial Reconquest. Lots of free cores... yummy.
If a country outside the HRE owns HRE provinces, you get a core upon conquest.