Post your Europa Universalis 4 Empire

[Blitzzer]

My current Tabarestani "empire". Randomly started it last night and suddenly noticed I wasn't doing half bad. I allied both the Mamluks and the Ottoman, had them beat up the Timurids and got this far.
Messed up a bit by taking back that one Tabarestan core and by making them give an OPM Persia (here I've already annexed them) one of their cores, instead of taking all the necessary provinces you need to form Persia (the two where you see the Timurid armies hanging around, in case you were wondering).

But now the Ottoman want to have my soil for themselves and I broke my alliance with the Mams to not get dragged into that ongoing war between them. The Ottos have the safeguard Eastern Anatolia mission and a bunch of claims on my lands. Sirvanshah and Georgia are my vassals. To top it off, the Timurids are just waiting for the truce timer to go away so they can get a round two with me...

I was thinking I would release Armenia, sell them any border provinces between me and the Ottos and end vassalisation, and see if that would mend our relations. What would you guys do?

Mods are Endonym Empire and Thick borders and recolored water v.1.3.

Foul language removed - Seelmeister

 

[Ibrins]

Just finished my latest PLC game. Nothing much, just your typical Blobbonwealth all over again.

Annexed Muscovy, removed keb---- *ahem*, drove out the Ottomans, converted half the world to Protestantism (eradicating Orthodoxy in the process), took a sizeable chunk out of the HRE, Went To Space, Had a Little Patience, and had a fun little war with westernized Ming and Dai Viet during the last 4 years. The preparation felt kinda like I was playing Hearts of Iron: had stacks all across the border (600k troops total), and then BAM! - DOW. Was kinda fun to imagine how the Chinese would've felt in that situation. Centuries of experience in repelling disorganized and underdeveloped nomad tribes amounting to exactly nil when 600k enemies with state-of-the-art weaponry pour across the entire border. Granted, the alliance of Ming, Dai Viet, and Korea had a combined head count of ~450k themselves, but when I stackwiped a 52k-large army during the first few days, I noticed they were 2-3 mil tech levels behind. Was kinda anticlimactic, heh. Would've gone with France as the final boss (300k french troops, eeeeek), but my eastern borders were a tad ugly

I'm guessing the rebels were given the "Largest army" award, since there were ~600k in England alone during pretty much the entire game.
Oh, and there was a Revolutionary Portugal. Sure didn't feel like it.

 

[Lapsed Pacifist]

While that's an incredibly impressive Commonwealth you've got there, I've got to say...DAT IRELAND.

 

[Ibrins]

While that's an incredibly impressive Commonwealth you've got there, I've got to say...DAT IRELAND.

With rebels being the way they are at the moment, Great Britain was occupied by several-hundred-large stacks pretty much the entire game Ireland eventually took the opportunity as well

 

[Luchofeio]

My try as Ryukyu. Started as having China + India as end game goals but ended up ganking Europe for fun. That Commonwalth just scared my laziness of conquest in the polish area...



The protestant spreads into the far east! lol

 

[raikaria]

Behold; Brandenburgian Hannover!

Because forming Prussia is too boring. And grey is ugly.

That and it's my first culture-shift I've ever done. Wanted to learn how and I've never made Hannover before so I thought I'd do both.

At one point when I force vassaled Brunswick and then got Coalition-Warred; won, and took a province from the Hansa [Giving it to Brunswick] I was racking up 80+ AE. I've shot up in AE again due to just reducing the Hansa to a OPM and jumping onto Holstein just after they lost a war against Sweden and got reduced to their sole Hannoverian province and force vassaled them. I'll probobly feed them some delicious Swedes [And the last of the Hansa] soon. I'm not too scared of Coalitions anymore; as long as I don't anger Austria. I have Poland-Lithuania backing me up.

Also East Freisa is a 3 Province nation. They somehow took Freisland alone; but I just gave them Oldenburg because my AE is too high. I'll probobly Vassal them one day, but somehow our base tax isn't high enough compared to theirs ._. Also they're still not HRE, so I'm not even sure how they are getting away with this.

Also made a save file before I capital-changed to allow the culture shift; and just after tag-switching so I can do a what-if in Spectate. See if anything notable changes. [Claims allowed me to expand quickly; but those Stab Hits; also AI Brandenburg and AI Hannover would take different ideas.]

 

[Ibrins]

I'll probobly Vassal them one day, but somehow our base tax isn't high enough compared to theirs

If I recall correctly, if they have, say, 12 basetax, you'd need to have 12 BT squared, so at least 144 BT to not incur any basetax modifiers to vassalization chance. Being below their BT squared would incur penalties, while having more would net you bonuses... At least that's how it used to work a few patches back, if memory serves. Not sure how it works now.

 

[jacobsighs]

The Papal State, 1453-1789

My allies are Great Britian and Poland (little PLC), my enemies are France, Austria, and Spain. I beat France in a decisive war in the 1600s (when they turned protestant), which let me beat them 2 more times (with Spain's help). I beat the Ottomans easily in 3 wars, taking all Balkans + western Anatolia, the rest was taken by Mamlukes. Eventually I took Croatia from Austria, but only after they dragged in France and Spain (costing me my alliance). I spent the last 30-40 years beating up the Mamlukes/Egypt with Persia (who is very friendly).

Not as grand as other empires here, but I am proud!

 

[StatikShocker]

Stressful game. I don't like having such lofty expectations... but I think I did alright.










I have 1.87 million manpower and 1.2 million soldiers. Once my dynasty died and I got Trastamara, I got a free PU on Naples and then forced it on Castile and Portugal, and opted to not do it on Austria since I didn't want 4 PU's at once. Maybe I could have done more if I had. All French, British, Portuguese, Castilian, and Moroccan colonial nations are mine. Its Bohemia that made the HRE with very few princes. I'm still Eastern tech.
Anyone know if I can export the History file? Its interesting. Its an Ironman game.

 

[Incompetent]

Nice work - the only disappointment for me is that you didn't dismantle the fake Roman Empire before it contracted greyscale.

 

[Ultima_Ratio]

Stressful game. I don't like having such lofty expectations... but I think I did alright.










I have 1.87 million manpower and 1.2 million soldiers. Once my dynasty died and I got Trastamara, I got a free PU on Naples and then forced it on Castile and Portugal, and opted to not do it on Austria since I didn't want 4 PU's at once. Maybe I could have done more if I had. All French, British, Portuguese, Castilian, and Moroccan colonial nations are mine. Its Bohemia that made the HRE with very few princes. I'm still Eastern tech.
Anyone know if I can export the History file? Its interesting. Its an Ironman game.

Eww for Siberia.

 

[StatikShocker]

Eww for Siberia.

its what happens when you integrate Iberians. maybe, I should have just sold it to Russia.

 

[Starfflame]

Started as Denmark:

 

[Zekk]

Gothic Invasion successfull !




very hard game, because of dumb coalitions of nearly all Europe against me any time...

Strategy :

Take Crete from Venice for future coring in the continent
Attack Austria and take Gorz for bridgehead in the HRE
Ally Ottomans for naval supremacy and Muscovy for securing eastern front when Poland/Lithuany dow you
Improve relations with France, Castille to escape massive blobs and impossible coalitions
Eat piece by piece the HRE

 

[Flame1280]

Did you need to have all of the provinces cored to get the achivement? or did you get it before everything was cored, Im coming up close myself but with only 20 years left in the game (I took the long route I guess xD) I am not sure Ill have enough admin points to core everything

 

[bbqftw]

'one-tag' mongolia great khan. Decently pleased with my time, could have gone faster with less play mistakes but I think I managed the ending decades well enough

"reform or die":

 

[ikkiks]

I just finished my Theodoro game. My only regret is that I took too long to realize I could've done a WC. Oh well... I'm happy with the map at least.

 

[Nikolaj-11]

Started as Denmark:

What culture does the actual "Canada" have?

 

[RiseofBubblez]

The Haixi Khanate: 1444

The Manchurian Republic: 1497

I still have a lot more time to expand and have started pushing more into China to try and build up a power base which I can use to defeat Oirat.

 

[Zekk]

Did you need to have all of the provinces cored to get the achivement? or did you get it before everything was cored, Im coming up close myself but with only 20 years left in the game (I took the long route I guess xD) I am not sure Ill have enough admin points to core everything

No, coring not necessary.
Last germanic culture territories I annexed was Flanders, the Steam success poped before I cored them.