That worked out fairly well. I deduced you were Germany before you said it.
And LO AND BEHOLD Russia and the land bridge to the S. China seas I pointed out several times.
That map confirms so many of my suspicions.
1. Castille taking areas around Jerusalem but never actually taking down the holy city.
2. 282 years into the game and both Manchu and Japan have no Idea what a colonist is, even for local domination. Don't just script them stupid.
3. There are S. American provinces the AI waits forever to bother colonizing, even though they would be a great advantage at the time. Mostly the Brazillian and GoM coasts.
Good TO game you have there, you should load up Castille and start selling off their absurd provinces to the rightful owners. How the hell did they end up with the Russian Capital???
To be fair for #1, I own Judea and Damascus, and I think my 20,000 troops sitting in Jerusalem are what's deterring them from taking the city.
2. Yeah. It's a bit annoying how retarded the growth of the far east is in EU3. But meh, it is
europa universalis after all.
3. Most likely the problem there is that a few nations have set preferences as to where to colonize, so if some sort of misfortune befalls them, then they won't colonize them all that fast.
And I wasn't the TO. I had fun annexing them though hehe. I formed Prussia from Sweden, then Germany from Prussia. Castille ended up taking Neva (that's St. Petersburg, right?) in the early 1400s from Novgorod, and have held onto it ever since.