Grandest Lan 2023! Info and newsfeed

[Ryagi]

Grandest Lan 2023 is here!

Since 2017, EUIV The Grandest Lan Party events have introduced completely new ways of playing EUIV. Together, almost 100 LAN participants will forge their great stories all under one roof.
This Lan consists of multiple nations lead by a team of 2-3 people, these players will work together to gather espionage and enact diplomacy with other teams, keep their nations running smoothly, and work towards their goals. This is not a competitive event! There will be no losers or winners.

More info on the event itself here: https://eu4.turbolarp.space/

And for those who couldn't make it, this event will be streamed live to the world! In addition to the PDX livestream, we'll also be updating this forum post as well as our Newsfeed on Discord with the latest LAN developments. We hope you enjoy!

Watch our stream live on (The Game begins 19:30 CET):
Twitch
Youtube

Get live updates through Skanderbeg here
See what the players are roleplaying this year here

Starting Nations:

Spoiler: Player/Team Starting Nations

Nitra
Redacted0312
Pumnurau
Bre_thierry

Navarra
Skullicus
Jarlballin
WolNoks

Munster
Skullicus
Jarlballin
WolNoks

Zaporozhie
DrPeepeepoopooMD
Mr.potato777
Arxel1

The Knights
Arhat42
Zetner

Byzantium
Eleminator
Catmandos
mcree

Livonian Order
Hawky
Dzikidestroyer

Tlemcen
Irishcream4679
darthkecks
Sturmi

Granada
Zlewikk
Szyna_
Daktrian

Wallachia
Praiokles
Imrtoxici

Hamburg
Gekkarino
Skoneone
Zarjan

Saxony
Njago
LordZendikar
ukz_james97

Tafilalt
rawadon
arch902
telly_vision

Orleans
Commander Swift
natnat
.raging

Gotland
trinkledink
tiaskor
skendas

Ferrara
Ugur
Ural

Three Leagues
cenkor
da blak mon/camowns
mortendreier

Hesse
Lumberjacco
valtia.
keldog

Theodoro
theravis
julius_nalle
eliudfs1

Wolgast
Pickman
wolfslayer1997
Tysako_

The Papal State
snarffles
mexico0078
podkid

Serbia
kylez
PoorMithridates
cyrileom

Landshut
dscan
Vogolask
lout.

Tver
empressaurelia
Tribunbaer
petersunsmith

Provence
Anthorath
bertus
Shadark

Moldavia
MrKam1kaz3
lordseru
angentwesley

Teutonic Order
seamansalad
morganl.
piterfraszka

Brittany
LTChance
TheArchduke

Cyprus
config.sisyphos
ozan.s

Kildare
captainalex1701
majorbloodnok
.vibrantechno

Wales
jonjonbenben
Big_woodenbox
brettlessr

Holland
lazerson.
gridzone
.hammurabi

Day 1 (Nov 17th)

Spoiler: Day 1 Updates

Update 0: Teams are getting organized and Prep for the game is beginning.
The live stream will begin shortly before the game at 19:30 CET

Update 1: The Stream is now live!

Update 2: In a noteworthy turn of events, Provence, the picturesque region in southeastern France, has issued an urgent plea for assistance from France as tensions with England surge. The escalation of disputes and rising hostilities has prompted Provence to request diplomatic and potentially military support from France, seeking to ensure regional stability and security.

Update 3: The small nation of Kildare has fallen to the might of Wales!
The team playing Kildare will now take part in an assembly to choose a new nation to play.

Armenia has been chosen!

Update 4: Navara has decided they want a bit of Ireland >: D

Update 5: Gotland has declared a unification war on Denmark!

Update 6: It seems Gotland is now being invaded by denmark

Update 7: Granada has successfully formed Andulsia

Update 8: A large player war featuring The Papal states, Ferrara, Bavaria and more has erupted.

Update 9: Snakey Moldovia

Update 10: Ferrara has fallen and will be relocating to Gilan (Northern Persia)

Update 11: Gotland is now eliminated and is relocating into newly spawned Fars
Update 12: The wars in Italy continue! The three leagues is declaring war on Milan (AI) who is under the protection of the Papal States (Player)

If you are curious what our player treaties board looks like:

Update 13: Tver has become Catholic, and is expanding North of Muscovy. Possibly trying to form Russia?

Some interesting stats to share at the time of writing!
- The Province of Hamburg has reached 50 devlopement
- Zaporozhie is at 200k Unit kills! More than any other player nation in the game

Update 15: Three Leagues has formed Switzerland

Update 16: Spain was balkanized and now features 9 different tags

Some Day 1 Stats!
- Bavaria invested the most money into building, with its total buildings value being at 3700
- The Papal States is by far the richest, with an income of 41 ducats/month
- The biggest country in terms of area is Zaporozhie, with roughly 2.8mln km^2 in area
- Hamburg has the most ideas, at 10

And a final image for Day 1:

End of Day 1, Player Map Mode:

Day 2 (Nov 18th)

Spoiler: Day 2 Updates pt 1

Day 2 has begun!

Update 1: The Islamic Nations have decided to form the Holy Islamic Empire soon. Possibility of new nations joining them. HRE won’t be happy.

Update 2: Treaty board is going wild right now. Provence and Hamburg are lingering...What could they plotting?

Update 3: The previously Catholic nation of Provence appears to have shunned it's loyalty to the Pope and converted to...
Islam??

This latest addition to the Holy Islamic Empire is easily the most scandalous so far.

Update 4: Morocco has declared themselves Emperor of The Holy Islamic Empire during the latest Parliament Assembly!

During this assembly, also the matter of Swiss vs Bavarians was settled by sword duel!

Bavaria was victorious and the claims of oath breaking has been dismissed. Bavaria had a defensive pact with the Papal State and claimed the Swiss brought wrath upon themselves by a much too aggressive expansion in the provinces of former Austria.
Also, King Arthur returned successful with the Holy Grail. Pomerania was appointed keepers of the grail!

Holland has posted a proclamation of affection. "Holland Doth Declare that the pope's existence makes even the angels above question their perfection"

Update 5: Representatives of all religions are about to gather to a meeting called by Merlin to try and sow peace in this holy war.

Update 6: Bavaria has turned... Shinto!?

Update 7: Jerusalem has formed!

Update 8: The pope has lost the great holy war!

Update 9: With the fall of the papal states. The Papal players have undersably left their stations (For now >: D)

Interesting fact time! At the time of writing (Day 2 13:23 CET):
• Total player income: 910 Ducats
• Bavaria will soon catch up to Ming in terms of buildings value! 14300 vs 10900
• Bavaria is at 160 dev clicks, so 30% of their dev comes from deving


Update 10: War in northern europe rages on. 1513 and we already see some classic big MP battles

Update 11: A great assembly has been held! The house of lords will gather and discuss ongoings

Update 12: Bavaria is demanding the Pope puts an end to the bloodshed

Update 13: Hamburg has proposed a ban on Naval ideas

Update 13.1: Naval ideas were not Banned. Naval idea enjoyers rejoice.

Update 14: "Navarra shall be Norse!" Is Declared

Update 15: The snakey shape of Zaporozhie is under debate at the assembly. After fierce debate between the sides of "Let the snake be" or "Cut the snake!", cutting has won out.

Update 16: Avalon had decreed that Korea must be converted to the Catholic faith

Update 17: Parliament has now closed!

Update 18: Player map mode as of 15:30 CET!

Update 19: The Knights are now... Sunni

Update 20: Zaporozhie has formed Poland and intends to create an umatched horse army

Update 21: In the Grandest Lan Oathbreakers are those reneged on their sworn promises, and as a result are viewed with suspicion and disdain. Mornings have been Declared Oathbreakers! (No one likes waking up in the morning anyway)

Update(?) 22: What FlorryWorry does when he is not casting the Grandest Lan:

Update 23: Andalusia has announced there will soon be a playable Serbia colony in Brazil, They have also declared they will not conquer lands outside the Iberia in Europe.

Update 24: Britanny has formed Quebec (Old Brittany lands are now owned by France)

Update 25: Tver has formed Russia!

Update 26: Navarra Iceland lets goooo!!

Update 27: There are whispers that and holy Alliance of Northern Protestants and Catholics are forming against Shinto...

Update 28: Map of Europe 1543 (left), Old world player map (right)

Spoiler: Day 2 Updates pt 2

Update 29: One of the largest battle we have seen so far! And a very large war in eastern Europe.

Update 30: Bavaria and Nitra have lost the war, and as a result, Nitra will no longer be Shinto.

Update 31: Player Map Mode as of 20:00 CET

Update 32: A dark day... France has Declared war on Bavaria while Bavaria was in an interview on stream!

Update 33: (AE is just a number). With 635 Aggressive Expansion, France now faces a large coalition against them.

Update 34: Another very large battle, this time in Western Europe on the borders of France in the war of France/Saxony

Update 35: After heavy fighting France has managed to secure a pyrrhic victory! Some stats on the war:

- Switzerland managed to pull off 4 stackwipes, coming up at 80k troops stackwiped total.
Order of casualties taken, France 550k, Hansa at 330k, Livonia at 260k
- The biggest battle had 800k troops!
- Switzerland managed to kill 600k troops, and lose around 220k, meaning they had about 3:1 K/D ratio
- Interestingly, the defenders seem to have struggled with attrition, attrition made for 36% of their total casualties taken in the war, compared to 23% for the attackers

Update 36: A war between the mighty player nations of Miao and Poland has broken out.
The Polish hussars are stand strong in the mountains!

Update 37: While Polands troops are occupied in the east... Russian forces invade from the north.

Update 38: Curia controller Qubec

Update 39: 1572 map of Eurasia!

Update 40: Nitra and Saxony have initiated a series of in-game "humiliation duels" - eleven 1k stacks of infantry will go up each other (Generals allowed), the loser has to rename their capital to "[opponent] country is the best

Update 41: Miao has won in the war with Poland! (See update 36)

Update 42: "The great content war" has begun!

Letter reads: "With the permission of the great states of France And Andulusia, we, Switzerland, Request the deletion/forgiveness of (at least some) of our debts that occurred during the french saxony death war.This will ensure our contribution to make the Humiliation war, aka, THE GREAT CONTENT WAR much Greater"

Update 43: Some Final Stats as we wrap up Day 2!

- Players now have a combined 3600 income, of which Hansa makes for nearly 1/7th, at over 500
- Tuscany is the most built up nation with each of their province having 18 development on average and 825 ducats in buildings value
- Hansa managed to become a pinnacle of progress and innovation.. by reaching 100 innovativeness!
- The dividends on Poland's rulers are still paying, as they are still at the top of the list of countries by mana generation
- Players have breached 6000 dev clicks, and 2200 development, which means that by now, roughly one third of each player country is made from developing on average.
- We are at 22.5mln player casualties combined!
- Andalusia and France are fiercely competing for the highest manpower counts, with both having roughly 220k, and Andalusia narrowly managing to take the edge

Player map end of day 2:

Day 3 (Nov 19th)
Update 1:
The third days kick off with an assembly in parliament where a number of matters were settled:
- First order of business is King Arthur declaring that the Holy Grail has been stolen! Expeditions will be launched to recover it
- Mongolia and Russia settled their differences and are now the best of friends
- The Parliament votes on whether Aggressive should remain unchanged or removed altogether. It is decided to let it remain unchanged.
- The Pope has been declared the patriarch of both the Catholic and the Coptic faith
- The first order of business for the newly appointed patriarch is to crown an Emperor of the Catholic Mongol Empire

- Last but not least: the matter of who's best, cats or dogs, is debated and voted on. Following persuasive arguments from both Big Miao and Lord Nuff Nuff of Pomerania the matter is decided in favor of cats. The hall erupts in approving meows.

Update 2:
On the coasts of Western North America we can see some... interesting faces

From north to south: Armenia, Saxony, Netherlands, Venezuela, Morocco.

Update 3: Map of Europe, 1609:

Update 4: A Large player war of the waves has begun!

Update 5: Russia has declared "war" on Mongolia (Formerly Poland). This "war" involves a lot of standing at the border staring at their enemies.

Update 6: A former spymaster of King Arthur's Court, Morgana has stolen the Holy Grail and is holding it in her evil new world Lair! Only with the combined forces of good can the grail be taken back and morgana's dark powers be vanquished!

Spoiler: (P.S Broceliande is defiantly not influenced by Community Manager Bjorn or FlorryWorry)

Update 7: Jerusulum has converted to Coptic and become the New Zealots!

Update 8: Eranshahar has declared on the two Miao's. But the real news here is that there are 2 Miao's and one of them is SIamese Miao :3

Update 9: Texas has been formed by Morroco! "Hell YEAH" - Florry

Update 10: Stonehenge has been moved to it's Rightful home of Paris.

Update 11: Switzerland and Bavaria are engaged in a brutal war! Although the swiss suffered a substantial stack wipe, they have quickly rebuilt their mercenaries.

Update 12: Player map mode as of 18:00 CET!

Update 13: A word from The Lan game masters:
In the grand arena of the Grandest Lanparty, where nations rise and fall in the digital realm of Europa Universalis IV, the spirit of good sportsmanship shines as brightly as any conquering empire. It is a testament to the camaraderie and sportsmanship that define this incredible event.

In a heartwarming display of unity and fairness, all participating teams recently came together to sign a pact that showcased the true essence of sportsmanship. They collectively decided to grant another team the opportunity to control the formidable nation of Brazil, allowing for a more balanced and competitive experience.

This act of generosity and camaraderie exemplifies the ethos of the Grandest Lanparty—a celebration of both fierce competition and mutual respect. It's a reminder that, beyond the strategies and battles, it is the friendships forged and the shared love for the game that make this event truly grand.

Update 14: FlorryWorry has joined the game officially in the province of Dragonville. Serving as the evil Morgana Le Fey's Marshal (See update 6). Will the world survive?

Update 15: In a great betrayal, "Florry's Ponies" have turned against Florry to fight with King Arthur!

Update 16: The Ponies have seen the error of their ways, and have joined team Florry and Morgana! (Green)

Update 17: Morgana's Armies lead by Florry have successfully invaded King Arthurs court on Avalon! The forces of Morgana reign!

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[LeoTheMobster]

awesome

 

[sprites]

oh it was thursday and friday?

 

[Agamidae]

oh it was thursday and friday?

no, it started on friday, will go on for two more days

 

[TurnipWatch]

Who are the streamers / commentators? Do they do eu4 streaming or videos normally?

 

[vvvasi]

Day 2 stream is starting in just a few minutes if people want to tune in

Who are the streamers / commentators? Do they do eu4 streaming or videos normally?

We have four this year. Two streamers: Florry and @Enigmaticrose4 (also Prison Architect community ambassador). Then there is Mathieu/The French Paradox (former EU dev, currently working on HOI) and myself. We're mixing up casting pairs this year so it's a lucky dip who you'll see when you tune in.

 

[klingonadmiral]

Why is this using a mod?

 

[Ryagi]

Why is this using a mod?

Mod is so that the Game Master can ensure a smooth and fun roleplay experience

Information on the roleplay set up can be found here: https://turbolarp.notion.site/The-Event-2053904113614a1598970fa3d781f509

 

[Jarvin]

Why is this using a mod?

Firstly, for RP; the mod can enhance that aspect by adding some cool events, rewards for 'quests' (done irl in castle)
Secondly, just organizational aspect. Usually MP groups would do all sorts of save edits inbetween sessions.
Last year, we were doing them kind of whenever needed, but in the context of a LAN environment, it means halting the game for some time, which ideally needs to be avoided
Hence a mod, which allows doing some save edits(say, to preare a country for a player being reseeded on it) without ever stopping the game.

 

[Gabarius]

Is there going to be another update to address the huge amount of bugs left over in the latest patch?

 

[vvvasi]

There will be another update likely before the end of the year, yes