Because no one, in a thread where people take one province islands to world empire, is going to proudly post screenshots of that time they got their ass humiliatingly kicked by the AI. :rofl:
But it certainly happens!
Because no one, in a thread where people take one province islands to world empire, is going to proudly post screenshots of that time they got their ass humiliatingly kicked by the AI. :rofl:
I finally finished my Poland->PLC game. I wanted to test out the new elective monarchy mechanics...I did not really like this government type, though this was before they hotfixed it so that foreign heirs gave 90 legitimacy instead of 20. I was able to become an Absolute Monarchy eventually.
After PUing Lithuania and allying Austria, I annexed TO and vassalized LO. Then I vassalized and fed Novgorod. Unfortunately, I barely missed stopping Muscovy from colonizing, so I had to keep fighting them until I annexed them.
Denmark had inherited its PU's, but lost them to rebels. Later, I got lucky PU's on both France and Denmark within a short span of time. I then spent the next few years feeding Denmark its cores on all of Scandinavia. Annexing them took a lot of DIP points, but it was worth it, since it helped me monopolize the Baltic and Lubeck nodes (I moved my trade capital to the latter and conquered Northern Germany). I decided to keep France alive to have effortless siege power. In addition, I reallied with Austria, and thus I could defeat any opponent, even the Ottomans.
Firstly though, I used France and Austria to dismantle the HRE: Austria lost the Emperorship to Sardinia-Piedmont, so after a couple of no CB wars and allying half the electors, the HRE was dismantled (legitimizing that achievement, which I actually got by forming the HRE), which is why Austria was able to blob so much. They vassalized Bohemia and annexed them in August 1820, only a few months before the end of the game.
In the last century, I was focused on annexing Crimea and crippling the Ottomans. I forced them to release nations and return cores. Once Iraq and Syria were released, everything below Turkey was overseas, so I was able to release all the countries for very low amounts of warscore (possibly with the help of Administrative Efficiency). The Ottomans, unfortunately, reconquered Bulgaria (which was released as an Ibadi nation) and were about to reconquer Iraq when the game ended...
Poland+Humanism=Lots of accepted cultures! The most notable are Russian and Tartar, but I also accepted some German cultures, as well as Danish. Contrary to some other, I did briefly have Lithuanian as an accepted culture, but lost them after conquering large amounts of Horde territory. In addition, I had full tolerance of heretics, so once the province flipping events started to happen too frequently for me to convert them back, I decided to just convert heathens, since there was no need to convert heretics.
I of course got the Winged Hussars achievement, and it was fun building half-cav armies and using high shock generals to stackwipe Ottoman stacks in a single battle. I also decided to get the Grand Armada Achievement, but I was only a couple of months away from running out of money since I had exceeded my forcelimits by 3 or 4 fold, and I had to build 7 ships in each province and thus suffer the high ship maintenance costs for much longer. Finally, I did indeed get into space!
Finally, some random observations: I built the Kiel canal, the AI formed Hindustan and expanded a lot, a nice Persia, England and Portugal dominating the Americas, with Castile for once getting the short end of the stick. Austria colonized Africa, Castile and England split the Australian region (the former getting 2 Australian provinces and all of New Zealand, and the latter colonizing the rest of Australia), and Egypt formed from the released Mamluks.
This was a great game! Next up (probably) is another shot at the Netherlands, but this time from Burgundy...
How did you manage all that and still max out all idea slots, as well as reach tech 32 across the board?
By not taking too many techs ahead of time, and using my NF for ADM to help me core stuff (I actually did not need to core much; just half of modern-day Russia, Northern Germany, and Crimea. I got all of Novogorod's cores, Scandinavia, and Lithuania by annexing vassals.
yeah, there are no Greek Ideas. still a merchant republic as well.did your Greece keep venetian ideas?
its been awhile since they added any. at first they were adding them each new patch, but nothing for a long time... many nations in needsweet I know what my next eu4 game is then!
I do think the greek minors(as well as Russian/Balkans/Georgia/French/southeast asia) need NIs though. Heck paradox could even borrow from the mods and just tweak the numbers.
why do we never see the rise and fall of empires ?
I m so sick of these perfect,uber stable empires