OK, you did a 1419 start, so you beat me into the HRE by a few years, while I used the extra 19 years to vassalize Wallachia and Ragusa instead. I'll have to remember that if I ever start another HUN campaign, or avoid it if playing a Bohemian one.
Back to gool old vanilla game with this : Burgundy -> France -> HRE.
Well, at first I just wanted to see how Burgundy would handle the "Guarantee Granada on day 1" strategy. But hey, they're too damn strong...
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I really focused on Europe this time. That's why I didn't bother exploring once I had destroyed the main colonizers. I only discovered North America around 1805.
So France, Castile, Portugal, England and Aragon, as well as Muscovy and a huge Polotsk, were conquered the hard way. The other non-HRE states were vassalized and annexed later. I became Emperor very early, then started to interfere in the East because Poland-Lith was too successful against the Golden Horde.
I used a very dirty tactic against most of my foes, especially in the early game : when you want to tear some rival down, like to the point of no return, just occupy them for a very, very long time (10 years or more). Meanwhile you can get busy elsewhere and even fight other wars. At a certain point your enemy's war exhaustion will be so high that they will accept any peace deal. That's how I made Lithuania separate from Poland and explode, and Poland become my vassal as well as Hungary later on. Then we were best friends until the day, centuries after, when I gently annexed them.
I took my time to do all the HRE stuff and united in 1680. Some 20 years before I was able to form France, so I did it, why not ? It was a bit pointless though, as it just moved my capital to Paris and gave me a reconquest CB on Armagnac.
In the early 18th century I forced a PU on Denmark who had conquered almost all of Scandinavia (except Norway who was already my vassal). I inherited them shortly after.
Well, due to horde or holy wars and so on, I also got involved into some trouble in Asia...
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... and Africa ! But still I left some people in peace. I'm not that greedy, I already had insane amounts of cash. I just wanted to get a nice map.
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I even spared a good part of virgin land on Earth. Colonization can be so boring, and it always lead to awful maps if you let the AI do its way.
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The color he likely changed it. Not that I blame him; that shade of red looks better than grey.I thought the HRE was Grey not red and why is it called Saint Empire Romain?
The color he likely changed it. Not that I blame him; that shade of red looks better than grey.
The "Saint Empire Romain" part is likely because he plays in french.
Tried Qasim Khanate in EU3 miscmods, just because their flag is one of the coolest in the game. Turned out they're pretty awesome.
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From then on it was too tempting to form that odd and scary Sunni Russia and proceed destroying the Golden Horde.
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On acount of becoming an Emperor early, is it realistic for Burgundy to be an Emperor at all, with them being French and the rest of the Empire German or Latin.Back to gool old vanilla game with this : Burgundy -> France -> HRE.
Well, at first I just wanted to see how Burgundy would handle the "Guarantee Granada on day 1" strategy. But hey, they're too damn strong...
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I really focused on Europe this time. That's why I didn't bother exploring once I had destroyed the main colonizers. I only discovered North America around 1805.
So France, Castile, Portugal, England and Aragon, as well as Muscovy and a huge Polotsk, were conquered the hard way. The other non-HRE states were vassalized and annexed later. I became Emperor very early, then started to interfere in the East because Poland-Lith was too successful against the Golden Horde.
I used a very dirty tactic against most of my foes, especially in the early game : when you want to tear some rival down, like to the point of no return, just occupy them for a very, very long time (10 years or more). Meanwhile you can get busy elsewhere and even fight other wars. At a certain point your enemy's war exhaustion will be so high that they will accept any peace deal. That's how I made Lithuania separate from Poland and explode, and Poland become my vassal as well as Hungary later on. Then we were best friends until the day, centuries after, when I gently annexed them.
I took my time to do all the HRE stuff and united in 1680. Some 20 years before I was able to form France, so I did it, why not ? It was a bit pointless though, as it just moved my capital to Paris and gave me a reconquest CB on Armagnac.
In the early 18th century I forced a PU on Denmark who had conquered almost all of Scandinavia (except Norway who was already my vassal). I inherited them shortly after.
Well, due to horde or holy wars and so on, I also got involved into some trouble in Asia...
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... and Africa ! But still I left some people in peace. I'm not that greedy, I already had insane amounts of cash. I just wanted to get a nice map.
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I even spared a good part of virgin land on Earth. Colonization can be so boring, and it always lead to awful maps if you let the AI do its way.
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Dem borders, bro...
You need to save Europe from itself...
On acount of becoming an Emperor early, is it realistic for Burgundy to be an Emperor at all, with them being French and the rest of the Empire German or Latin.
In my Burgundy game, Charles I became an Emperor 'par forfait', so to speak, when Austria bumped its badboy to 8 after annexing Croatia. From then on there was no real contenders to Burgundian Emperor. I stopped, however, with the Reforms when I reached the ability to enact Ewiger Landsfried. It just seemed like not much fun not having the internal border changes. And then afterwards, I'd need to cancel electorial rights, thus removing any challenge in that part of the game. So, no forming HRE for me.
How long do your games last?A proud Aragon, who just inherited Castile. It was high time since they had taken QFTNW and were starting heavy exploration and colonization, which would have made them hard to handle. No formation of Spain in sight, Barcelona is a much better capital than Madrid
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I have to settle all this new virgin land before anyone else gets greedy on it now. But the mess in the East is interesting as well... just DoW Zaporozhia with Holy War CB, become neighbour with Lithuania's horde vassal Crimea, and see what happens there. Meanwhile I'd rather finish eating England, and consider destroying the HRE who looks weaker than usual. Should be doable thanks to my old ally France...
How long do your games last?
Looks good. I particularly like the Ragusan stretch.I can't stop playing. Here is a short insight into a Romanian formation game with Wallachia. Perhaps the toughest thing I ever tried in EU3. Wallachia is really dirt poor, even more than the other Romanian neighbors... but at least, unlike the latter, it's a free country. However you're also surrounded by scary and hostile countries and you're bound to always feel uncomfortable. Even when you get a little stronger, even with 200 relation, utter trust, royal marriage, military access and so on... Austria or Bohemia will still be able to DoW you without a proper CB. I was lucky though, that on the other side the Ottomans were always busy with the hordes and ignored me, even after I managed to beat them 3 times and steal what I needed to form Romania from them, in addition with some other good provinces. But they're damn big now, it will be a pain to keep on that good job with Holy War.
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Do you think it would be possible for us to play a multiplayer game head-to-head?I can't stop playing. Here is a short insight into a Romanian formation game with Wallachia. Perhaps the toughest thing I ever tried in EU3. Wallachia is really dirt poor, even more than the other Romanian neighbors... but at least, unlike the latter, it's a free country. However you're also surrounded by scary and hostile countries and you're bound to always feel uncomfortable. Even when you get a little stronger, even with 200 relation, utter trust, royal marriage, military access and so on... Austria or Bohemia will still be able to DoW you without a proper CB. I was lucky though, that on the other side the Ottomans were always busy with the hordes and ignored me, even after I managed to beat them 3 times and steal what I needed to form Romania from them, in addition with some other good provinces. But they're damn big now, it will be a pain to keep on that good job with Holy War.
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