Post your Europa Universalis 4 Empire

[achmedino]

My Ainu empire:

Definitely one of the hardest nations I've played.

 

[illusiondrmr]

Italiano Mafiozo de Lucca 1.12.1/2

Color seemed fun @ the start, but after slapping the Balkans, my eyes started to burn !
Didn't use lot the vassal system (just 1 or 2 medium sized vassals during my campaign), could do a lot better i guess. OH well, gg !

I will stick to my beloved Jaunpur's grey color, with which im gonna start my next warmongering game ;>>

Cheers

 

[achmedino]

Italiano Mafiozo de Lucca 1.12.1/2

Color seemed fun @ the start, but after slapping the Balkans, my eyes started to burn !
Didn't use lot the vassal system (just 1 or 2 medium sized vassals during my campaign), could do a lot better i guess. OH well, gg !

I will stick to my beloved Jaunpur's grey color, with which im gonna start my next warmongering game ;>>

Cheers

Why didn't you get Lucky Lucca? It would have been really easy considering your strength.

 

[illusiondrmr]

Why didn't you get Lucky Lucca? It would have been really easy considering your strength.

I don't get after achievements in any of my games. Yes, it would pretty easy to conquer India but i stuck mostly in eu/africa. Cba to travel there i guess ;>

 

[Sunspawn]

Why didn't you get Lucky Lucca? It would have been really easy considering your strength.

Where's Lucknow anyway?

 

[niallmcfc]

Where's Lucknow anyway?

Eastern part of Delhi, close to Bihar.

 

[AndreasPhokas]

My tall empire of Hamburg(the little green spec under Denmark ) It was sort of annoying breaking out of the hansa but once I did I just played smart. My goals were simple, take northern Germany and that's it. I didn't expand past those provinces but I built them up, hamburg had over 50 development and the rest of those provinces had atleast 20) and then focused on colonizing.

Brandenburg is my space marine chapter march that assisted me greatly in wars. I spent most of the time trying to keep folks from blobbing all over the place. The Commonwealth was my ally the entire time and Scandinavia for the first part of it. Also provence never was killed for Anjou they just sat there until they got into a PU with commonwealth) Also that purple nation is actually Greece I was in the process of feeding their provinces back to them when the game ended(Edirne). Also helped rebuild Bharat(vijaya) they were getting leveled by Bengal until the Indienkorps intervened.

My colonies were Amerika for the eastern seaboard. a lot of provinces were rammstein themed and the capital is called Baldur's gate due to my syndic being called baldur....yup the capital of America is Baldur's gate)

Kannada is my Canadian CM, they're just kinda there and Juliana is my version of Louisiana my syndic was called Julian when it was created.)

I have a small base in brasil and then the the coast of the bay of Bengal along with sofala)

oddities

1. Greece only had a core in Athens randomly that's it.

2. Provence surviving

3. Most of the Colonial nations broke away

4. Great Britain never killed Scotland

5.Qing Formed

6. Save somehow lost ironman

7. I was one of four protestant nations by the end of the game, no reformed nations and only 2 electors the whole game with emperor going between Austria and bohemia

8. Sukthothai migrated to the Khmer...

 

[Brodacious]

Dat -27 prestige though

 

[AndreasPhokas]

Dat -27 prestige though

Yeah that's from selling back Greece their provinces. they wouldn't enter the war and didn't have cores. -10 prestige per province. Roleplaying restoring hellas etc etc.

 

[Lopatou_ovalil]

My Tabarestan -> Shahanshah -> This Is Persia game. This is the furthest I have ever made it in a game of EU4.

The Forming of Persia

I had Afghanistan as my vassal at this point, annexed them, conquered all the land in my culture group, and began conquering QQ with the Ottomans as my ally. As soon as I conquered a border with the Ottos they immediately rivaled me, which gave me the idea to go for the This Is Persia achievement.

My proudest feat of this game is that I didn't lose a single battle against the Ottomans or Mamluks, and I was undefeated in battle for ~200 years. This was the war that shattered my streak. (It was my first real war against western powers, with my accomplished goal being to annex Greece.)

As punishment for their failure, I forced the defeated army to dwell on their embarrassment as they marched around my borders.

Here is my final Empire:

And the rest of the world:

A few notes: The League Wars are very disappointing this patch; I much preferred it when there were two wars instead of one. Protestants won the league war even though there were actually very few protestant nations leading to a collapse of the HRE. This is the first game that I've seen colonial nations rebel in, with two Portuguese nations throwing off the shackles. Norway lost all of its home provinces but migrated to Canada and was somehow the first nation to circumnavigate the globe. Russia was extremely powerful at one point, bordering me in Georgia, but Bankrupt during War -> Civil War -> War with Commonwealth + Sweden -> Revolting Hordes -> 100% Autonomy in all Provinces but the capital -> Nuclear Implosion happened. It's among the greatest things I have seen in EU4. The Commonwealth was nigh unstoppable. Sweden formed Scandinavia. The Netherlands revolted from Bohemia (who was emperor during the Inheritance) and went on to become a Great Power. They colonized parts of the Caribbean and Africa and fought off France and the Commonwealth in the above pictured war with limited help from Brandenburg. Aragon was the strongest nation in the world during the 1500s. Ragusa conquered a significant portion of the Balkans. I got the achievements Shahanshah, This is Persia, City of Cities, and It's all about the Money. I also westernized for the first time (it was extremely late and unneccessary but I had a 15 year truce so I worked it in between 1685-1700).

can you give me any suggestion for help with shahanshah achievement ?

 

[fangmanator]

can you give me any suggestion for help with shahanshah achievement ?

You have to be patient at the start and wait for the Timurids to get low legitimacy, a regency, low stability, or a bad event. It normally doesn't take long for their old ruler and heir to die which can cause several of these to occur at once. It seemed to me that the Timurids would get rebels in the order of Persian Seperatists, Khorasani Seperatists, Afghan Seperatists, and then maybe pretenders if they have a succession crisis. This works out well because they tend to run low on manpower after they have beaten the Persian rebels but before they have beaten the others, which gives you a good time to attack (you might have to wait for the second cycle depending on what wars they fight). I feel a bigger threat then the Timurids would be an independent Persia, but I actually released them as a vassal in Gilan so I just had to diplo-annex them after their rebels won. This is probably somewhat gamey and it might've been more trouble than it was worth anyways because Persia had a massive Liberty Desire that I constantly had to struggle with, and I conquered most of the required lands on my own anyways.

Edit: I also supported the Tabarestani Seperatists in Golestan, but they didn't seem to make a difference. The money probably would've been better spent on mercenaries.

 

[Mattimeo78]

Can't Tabarestan form Persia right out of the gate, or did they patch it? Took me like six seconds to get the achievement.

 

[Sunspawn]

Can't Tabarestan form Persia right out of the gate, or did they patch it? Took me like six seconds to get the achievement.

You can no longer get it as a released vassal.

 

[Zak Preston]

My attempt to play "tall" as a small but proud Georgia:

In early 1550's Georgia has expanded it's territories to the Gulf of Persia and rapidly westernized (to get access to trade companies)

As you can see, forts were eating all my budget, so every single war with Ottomans, Persia, Mamluks or Nogai led me into huge debts.

In around 1600's I was able to reach NA West Coast, where lots of native tribes were willing to give me their treasures. This was the time when I forgot about any of problems with gold: 10k army (6/2/2) of Georgian Conquistadors thrashed Central American natives in first war and seized their territory in second war. I called them "Immortal Terror", since all possessing in New World have been achieved by those guys. True Georgian Dzhigits.

Also this was the time when I got the achievement "Georgia on My Mind". I've already had strong alliances with Austria, Great Britain and Russia, so no Ottomans, Lithuania or Spain-Portugal could scare me. This was the time when I had to increase the numbers of my Conquistadors up to half of my FL in order to act more aggressively.

After getting a decent foothold in Americas (both South and North) it was the time to conquer some lands in Asia. So I started to wage war after war on Chineese, Japaneese and Indian nations, took only important trade centers, fortified them and bathed in cash, flowing from Nippon, Malakka, Malay, Indochina, India and China. European affairs didn't bother me at all: all the focus was on building my trade empire. In Americas I helped La Plata, Haiti, Colombia and USA to get their independence only to take their lands a few decades later.

In mid XVIII I got a rank of Empire, turbo-colonizing Australia, America and Oceania.

Russia was formed by Novgorod and never colonized Sibir, Poland lost union over Lithuania and both failed horribly. Ottomans wasted millions of soldiers on wars with me instead of Mamluks, Castile formed Spain, France uderperformed greatly, while Britain was involved in counless European wars that gave her nothing but debts, Austria lost it's Emperor title for centuries and HRE suffered badly. Swedish Scandinavia formed in 1600's.

Playing "tall": i had no free Monarch Points until late 1780's. Even though I stayed in my borders for centuries and didn't conquer much, I really had no chance to improve my lands properly.

 

[lordmathia]

My common sense Byzantium game, turns out its not actually super difficult to blob in this patch.

So I managed to get a pu with Russia in the last twenty years of the game after having spent a couple centuries helping them rebuild after being wrecked by PLC, which was lucky.

Orthodoxy reigns supreme in Europe. Everywhere else though... :/
Also Religious ideas + Byz ideas makes absorbing provinces super easy. As soon as they're converted and cored (which takes at most two years) they lose pretty much all unrest.

 

[fangmanator]

Congrats on having the largest Byzantine Empire I've seen. Even if you hadn't gotten a union with Russia it would still be the largest.

 

[Lopatou_ovalil]

You have to be patient at the start and wait for the Timurids to get low legitimacy, a regency, low stability, or a bad event. It normally doesn't take long for their old ruler and heir to die which can cause several of these to occur at once. It seemed to me that the Timurids would get rebels in the order of Persian Seperatists, Khorasani Seperatists, Afghan Seperatists, and then maybe pretenders if they have a succession crisis. This works out well because they tend to run low on manpower after they have beaten the Persian rebels but before they have beaten the others, which gives you a good time to attack (you might have to wait for the second cycle depending on what wars they fight). I feel a bigger threat then the Timurids would be an independent Persia, but I actually released them as a vassal in Gilan so I just had to diplo-annex them after their rebels won. This is probably somewhat gamey and it might've been more trouble than it was worth anyways because Persia had a massive Liberty Desire that I constantly had to struggle with, and I conquered most of the required lands on my own anyways.

Edit: I also supported the Tabarestani Seperatists in Golestan, but they didn't seem to make a difference. The money probably would've been better spent on mercenaries.

and what ideas did you pick ?

 

[EMT0]

My Tabarestan -> Shahanshah -> This Is Persia game. This is the furthest I have ever made it in a game of EU4.

Here is my final Empire:

A few notes: The League Wars are very disappointing this patch; I much preferred it when there were two wars instead of one. Protestants won the league war even though there were actually very few protestant nations leading to a collapse of the HRE. This is the first game that I've seen colonial nations rebel in, with two Portuguese nations throwing off the shackles. Norway lost all of its home provinces but migrated to Canada and was somehow the first nation to circumnavigate the globe. Russia was extremely powerful at one point, bordering me in Georgia, but Bankrupt during War -> Civil War -> War with Commonwealth + Sweden -> Revolting Hordes -> 100% Autonomy in all Provinces but the capital -> Nuclear Implosion happened. It's among the greatest things I have seen in EU4. The Commonwealth was nigh unstoppable. Sweden formed Scandinavia. The Netherlands revolted from Bohemia (who was emperor during the Inheritance) and went on to become a Great Power. They colonized parts of the Caribbean and Africa and fought off France and the Commonwealth in the above pictured war with limited help from Brandenburg. Aragon was the strongest nation in the world during the 1500s. Ragusa conquered a significant portion of the Balkans. I got the achievements Shahanshah, This is Persia, City of Cities, and It's all about the Money. I also westernized for the first time (it was extremely late and unneccessary but I had a 15 year truce so I worked it in between 1685-1700).

Very nice. I'm currently on the tail end of a Taberastan into Persia game for the Shahanshah and This is Persia achievements, 1761 and I'm weighing my options.

This is my current expansion into the Ottomans in 1761, and I've got a truce until 1771. I've got a sinking feeling that I won't be able to meet the achievement unless I start trucebreaking, so I've put off finishing this for about a week or so to think on what I want to do. Here is the full extent of my empire; probably the reason why I'm so farther behind in this achievement despite it being 40 years later.

 

[bbqftw]

All the world is subject to Milan:

Republican Milan = no Emperor mechanics. Got extremely stressful around the 1700s since I had to break 3 truces to shut down westernizations - Muscovy westernized so I had to feed their entire lands to a horde buffer state. Turns out nations can Westernize off of dead Western nation cores...once that was under control it was smooth sailing. Besides the anti-Westernize trucebreaks, there was just 1 on France and that was that.

Final vassals - Morocco, Medri Bahri (these two were one-shot with adm efficiency) - Mamluks (went bankrupt 3 times due to fort maintenance), Nogai (went bankrupt once, you can imagine how fun it was to kill rebels when that happens ._.), Sarig Yogir, Alsace, Oldenburg, Mantua (went bankrupt twice). Eventually I figured out to start subsidizing my vassals.

Still, I got to show off a nice AE/DIP exploit of mostly my own invention (hopefully it isn't fixed in 1.13!) so I am quite pleased with this run.

 

[bbqftw]

My attempt to play "tall" as a small but proud Georgia:

In early 1550's Georgia has expanded it's territories to the Gulf of Persia and rapidly westernized (to get access to trade companies)

As you can see, forts were eating all my budget, so every single war with Ottomans, Persia, Mamluks or Nogai led me into huge debts.

In around 1600's I was able to reach NA West Coast, where lots of native tribes were willing to give me their treasures. This was the time when I forgot about any of problems with gold: 10k army (6/2/2) of Georgian Conquistadors thrashed Central American natives in first war and seized their territory in second war. I called them "Immortal Terror", since all possessing in New World have been achieved by those guys. True Georgian Dzhigits.

Also this was the time when I got the achievement "Georgia on My Mind". I've already had strong alliances with Austria, Great Britain and Russia, so no Ottomans, Lithuania or Spain-Portugal could scare me. This was the time when I had to increase the numbers of my Conquistadors up to half of my FL in order to act more aggressively.

After getting a decent foothold in Americas (both South and North) it was the time to conquer some lands in Asia. So I started to wage war after war on Chineese, Japaneese and Indian nations, took only important trade centers, fortified them and bathed in cash, flowing from Nippon, Malakka, Malay, Indochina, India and China. European affairs didn't bother me at all: all the focus was on building my trade empire. In Americas I helped La Plata, Haiti, Colombia and USA to get their independence only to take their lands a few decades later.

In mid XVIII I got a rank of Empire, turbo-colonizing Australia, America and Oceania.

Russia was formed by Novgorod and never colonized Sibir, Poland lost union over Lithuania and both failed horribly. Ottomans wasted millions of soldiers on wars with me instead of Mamluks, Castile formed Spain, France uderperformed greatly, while Britain was involved in counless European wars that gave her nothing but debts, Austria lost it's Emperor title for centuries and HRE suffered badly. Swedish Scandinavia formed in 1600's.

Playing "tall": i had no free Monarch Points until late 1780's. Even though I stayed in my borders for centuries and didn't conquer much, I really had no chance to improve my lands properly.

Nice! Georgia stronk. Caucasus is definitely the most 'interesting' starting European region in this patch right now (in my opinion).