Having received no death threats following the world conquest in EU3 with Scotland (a feat which any sane minded person should find appalling) in my first AAR, and having thoroughly enjoyed creating the AAR, I thought I'd have a stab at a second. This time the poor nation of Oyo is my victim.
For those who intelligently did not read my first AAR; I wished to ressurect a member of the Stuarts, the royal family of Scotland throughout my first AAR (namely Ceaser Stuart, the last ruler in my original AAR), for this Oyo AAR. As such I am afraid there are clear links between both this and the older AAR, thus there are quite alot of references to Scotland throughout this AAR due to Ceaser Stuart's prescence. Put simply; Scots are alcoholic, obese and incompetent in my AAR (as I am in real life). Ceasar Stuart very much continues in this vein in this AAR.
A bit more explanation is called for before this AAR can be fully started, and readers are once again bored to tears by my drivel. This game was begun with patch 4.1b beta, and was then later updated to the February 27th patch upon my return to the save. However I have not yet installed the March 27th patch, nor indeed the new April 15th patch, as I was wary of either new version proving incompatible with this save.
Anyway since I began the game with the 4.1b beta patch, and I am now running it with the 27th February patch, there will be some differences in screenshots (off the top of my head I can think of the truce notification which was added to the banners along the top with the 27th Feb patch). I just wished to point this out before some eagle eyed reader makes a comment (I am of course being optimistic in actually presuming anyone will read this nonsense).
Alongside this I have made two minor changes to the events in the game. One due to a bug I stumbled across, which is more fully explained here. Basically the bug is that when the incapable ruler event fires, the -20 infamy coupled with the -10 infamy from playing the game on very hard, seemed to break the infamy system. As I ended up with -2 as my maximum infamy, and infamy began improving my relations with AI countries (yes, people liked my being a warmongering blaggard!). Good to have of course, but it seemed to rather spoil things.
This screenshot shows what I am trying to say.
To solve the bug I made the incapable ruler event a -15 infamy penalty as opposed to the -20 it previously was. Things seem to be working fine now.
Alongside this I made a change to the reform the government event requirements. As it was, you had to centralise and become innovative in order to westernise. Then you had to begin decentralising (or becoming narrowminded) to then reform your government. Madness. Following the debate on this thread, I instead made the reform government possible once you have reached either -2 centralisation or -2 innovative, which makes alot more sense to me.
After all this explanation, and tinkering by me, its probably the case that the new patches fix all of this...
Anyway, as has already been alluded to, this game is being played on very hard difficulty. With a pagan minor nation. Yes, this will likely prove a very short AAR (huzzah any sane minded reader cheers). This is actually my sixth attempt with Oyo, and hopefully it will prove slightly better than previous efforts. I've played a good few years into the game, as I was wanting to make sure this AAR was not a mere two update lightning annexation by the AI. Saying that, I am certainly not attempting a world conquest in this AAR, surviving for fifty years would be an accomplishment.
Oh yes, and aggressivness is set to normal. Lucky nations are historical.
WARNING: This AAR will contain a large number of screenshots so as to make up for my lack of writing ability. There will be attempts at humour made during this AAR, such attempts will be horrendous. Worst of all this AAR will, alas, feature a Stuart once more (as for the Stuarts more fulsome information can be found here, in my first AAR - yay for blatant self-promotion - put simply, I conquered the world with the Stuart family at the helm of Scotland).
For those who intelligently did not read my first AAR; I wished to ressurect a member of the Stuarts, the royal family of Scotland throughout my first AAR (namely Ceaser Stuart, the last ruler in my original AAR), for this Oyo AAR. As such I am afraid there are clear links between both this and the older AAR, thus there are quite alot of references to Scotland throughout this AAR due to Ceaser Stuart's prescence. Put simply; Scots are alcoholic, obese and incompetent in my AAR (as I am in real life). Ceasar Stuart very much continues in this vein in this AAR.
A bit more explanation is called for before this AAR can be fully started, and readers are once again bored to tears by my drivel. This game was begun with patch 4.1b beta, and was then later updated to the February 27th patch upon my return to the save. However I have not yet installed the March 27th patch, nor indeed the new April 15th patch, as I was wary of either new version proving incompatible with this save.
Anyway since I began the game with the 4.1b beta patch, and I am now running it with the 27th February patch, there will be some differences in screenshots (off the top of my head I can think of the truce notification which was added to the banners along the top with the 27th Feb patch). I just wished to point this out before some eagle eyed reader makes a comment (I am of course being optimistic in actually presuming anyone will read this nonsense).
Alongside this I have made two minor changes to the events in the game. One due to a bug I stumbled across, which is more fully explained here. Basically the bug is that when the incapable ruler event fires, the -20 infamy coupled with the -10 infamy from playing the game on very hard, seemed to break the infamy system. As I ended up with -2 as my maximum infamy, and infamy began improving my relations with AI countries (yes, people liked my being a warmongering blaggard!). Good to have of course, but it seemed to rather spoil things.
This screenshot shows what I am trying to say.
To solve the bug I made the incapable ruler event a -15 infamy penalty as opposed to the -20 it previously was. Things seem to be working fine now.
Alongside this I made a change to the reform the government event requirements. As it was, you had to centralise and become innovative in order to westernise. Then you had to begin decentralising (or becoming narrowminded) to then reform your government. Madness. Following the debate on this thread, I instead made the reform government possible once you have reached either -2 centralisation or -2 innovative, which makes alot more sense to me.
After all this explanation, and tinkering by me, its probably the case that the new patches fix all of this...
Anyway, as has already been alluded to, this game is being played on very hard difficulty. With a pagan minor nation. Yes, this will likely prove a very short AAR (huzzah any sane minded reader cheers). This is actually my sixth attempt with Oyo, and hopefully it will prove slightly better than previous efforts. I've played a good few years into the game, as I was wanting to make sure this AAR was not a mere two update lightning annexation by the AI. Saying that, I am certainly not attempting a world conquest in this AAR, surviving for fifty years would be an accomplishment.
Oh yes, and aggressivness is set to normal. Lucky nations are historical.
WARNING: This AAR will contain a large number of screenshots so as to make up for my lack of writing ability. There will be attempts at humour made during this AAR, such attempts will be horrendous. Worst of all this AAR will, alas, feature a Stuart once more (as for the Stuarts more fulsome information can be found here, in my first AAR - yay for blatant self-promotion - put simply, I conquered the world with the Stuart family at the helm of Scotland).
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