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Epirus -> Greece in MEIOU 5.1
This game never got easy until about 1550 when I finally reached full free trade and boosted my economy through post offices and foreign markets. At it's height my inflation was 28% and I just couldn't catch a lucky break. I didn't get the -one- core I needed for Greece until 1500 (cores are got through event with MTTH of 250 years in MEIOU)
I'm used to playing Western powers, didn't know that eastern lands could be so piss poor. You jump for joy at a 5-tax province that doesn't deal in wool.
This game never got easy until about 1550 when I finally reached full free trade and boosted my economy through post offices and foreign markets. At it's height my inflation was 28% and I just couldn't catch a lucky break. I didn't get the -one- core I needed for Greece until 1500 (cores are got through event with MTTH of 250 years in MEIOU)
I'm used to playing Western powers, didn't know that eastern lands could be so piss poor. You jump for joy at a 5-tax province that doesn't deal in wool.
MEIOU 5.2 Hard mode, random lucky nations, all other settings normal.
Hardest game yet, but even castille with the backing of Genoa, France, England and Portugal could not withstand my 35k merc army.
And neither could my finances.
I was the Golden Horde in our latest MP game. While my first Tribal succession crises was horrid, the next couple were more like minor succession incidents. This is as far as the game went before we all got bored and quit.
MEIOU mod, hard mode, all other settings default.
I have Europe blockaded and make ~500 ducats off of blockades alone.
Meiou, hard difficulty, Cyprus -> Jerusalem. Objective: Blockade the world.
A few revolter nations towards the end evaded me but all in all I'd say job well done. Blockade income is roughly 3000 ducats per month straight into the coffers and it's the first time I've ever taken the NI that repairs ships in coastlines.
A few revolter nations towards the end evaded me but all in all I'd say job well done. Blockade income is roughly 3000 ducats per month straight into the coffers and it's the first time I've ever taken the NI that repairs ships in coastlines.
Couldn't agree more on the trade eff. part. No sub-level 5 building should increase nation-wide income. Vanilla post offices were broken enough as they were. The building system is currently being overhauled and what you see now is their first go at a new building structure after they found that you can add new building types. They added a (massively underpowered) welfare and transport building type with 6 buildings for each.
That's why I changed it. Boosting trade eff. on the cheap makes for a far too easy game. With that changed I felt Meiou 5.2 was the best way to play EU3 for me. A vast improvement on an already great game.
As for the graphics, I felt the same way at first glance, now I prefer it over vanilla. That's all about personal taste. Bit harsh to say the mod sucks though. It's one of my all time favourite games.
You tell us Turcany is a superpower and then don't show a screenshot of them? Rectify this!
No cheats. Just pain.
I haven't had a province with 0% revolt risk for about a century.
EDIT: I can build boats. Any nation with Muslim tech or better can build boats. I cannot, however, colonise land. A World conquest from this point would be impossible without changing government type to conqure the likes of Japan. I -could- conquer Great Britain by bordering them on the mainland then sailing over to the British Isles and taking that land (tits to that)
I haven't had a province with 0% revolt risk for about a century.
EDIT: I can build boats. Any nation with Muslim tech or better can build boats. I cannot, however, colonise land. A World conquest from this point would be impossible without changing government type to conqure the likes of Japan. I -could- conquer Great Britain by bordering them on the mainland then sailing over to the British Isles and taking that land (tits to that)
Brunni occupied that little island to the north of Japan. I bordered Brunni, took the island then Horde-warred my way through Japan. The shogunate didn't disband but it doesn't matter, I ate shoguns and Japanese Emperor alike as per normal.
The HRE was a right ball ache. I declared on another horde while fighting the HRE as that stops the formal requests but Hainout fled to the new world remaining an elector and Genoa was reduced to Corsica. Cosica was their island capital and I wasn't able to disband the HRE until I occupied it decades later by bordering them in the Americas.
Yeah, decades of not getting the -0.08WE "peace" because I was at war with another horde. Not great for when I was fighting total war.
Yep, Western tech in 1585 and troop reforms in 1605.
Good god it was messy. Something like +12% revolt Risk in every province from being more centralised and innovative than my government type allows.
My humble Cherokee for the No Trail of Tears achievement with absurd manpower and tech that plunged Europe into a new dark age.
All I own are the provinces you see there and everything possible is built (or being built) Even those wool provinces are bringing in the moola.
I tell you though, of all the games for there to be blobbing AIs, I got the worst situation in that regard.
Hard mode, random lucky nations. All other setting default.
All I own are the provinces you see there and everything possible is built (or being built) Even those wool provinces are bringing in the moola.
I tell you though, of all the games for there to be blobbing AIs, I got the worst situation in that regard.
Hard mode, random lucky nations. All other setting default.
WT... how?
That's kind of a big question.
I vassalised Shawnee and Creek, gave them all my lands and left myself with only Muskugee. I spent 150 years in peace making slider changes towards westernisation and innovation. in 1501, Potugal game along and got his arse kicked (a little) and I let him border me.
I westernised all the way to Latin tech in a year then sailed off on a boat to Europe. I annexed two-province-minor Austria, got rid of one of the provinces and left myself with Wien. I lost my province in America, bankrupt myself and became a christian Austrian nation.
Then I reformed my military units to Western, converted myself to Reformed religion and became a trading powerhouse. I made no effort at all to expand and only took the extra lands when I saw how much trouble France and the HRE were going to be.
I had one war with Portugal, gave them that land in the peace deal then fled to Europe before the truce was over.
I actually though I was a gonner because I only had 2,000 troops and no fort on my one province, but my vassal Shawnee came to save me and we beat back the portugese troops from my one province.
EDIT: Or do you mean surviving as an OPM in Europe? Once I was in Europe I was westernised and Christian so I was no different from Ulm or Cleves. I just lived very poor for 50 years (Wien was my only province and I had no core on it => only 10% census tax) then I just started trading like crazy.
If you have only one province and go bankrupt, you become the faith and culture of that one province. Since I did so when all I had was Wien, Protestant became state religion and Austrian became state culture.
This is the only reliable way to switch religious groups.