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Almost finished Knights game, thinking if i should eat south france from provence or not as i dont have much else to do.

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i made a gif for my glorious 1015 dev 112 k manpower and a forcelimit of 117 Florentine>Tuscan empire it might be small but its strong
ps:i dont know if gifs are allowed i will delete them if they're not allowed .For anybody who cant see http://i.imgur.com/gX782yZ.gif

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edit: 5 years later RIP IN PIECES :cccccc At least formed italy :p i mean literally my country is in pieces
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the year was just 1623 i could do so much more but that last coalition with spain+austria(and his ally russia)+ottomans just siphoned the fun in that playthrough and i think you meant Mali

i was allied to france if it wasnt for the ottomans i think i could win ottos had 210 troops so yeah :(
edit:not 210 sorry 210 is the manpower 110 troops i mean
 
Hey there!

I wanted to start a nice laid-back Austria game with only managing the HRE countries, no conquest/expansion whatever, and i had the craziest of games so far!

First off, Hungary with the event got the Habsburg heir - thats usual, but then:
France had an Interregnum and produced a Habsburg king.
Spain went under a PU with England, but i contested it - and after a long bloody drag - i managed to secure the Spain PU for myself.
Muscovy lost her heir, the king was young, 35 or so years old, but i tossed a RM anyway... a month later the king died and i got Muscovy in a PU (Lithuania contested it, but it was crushed swiftly)
I supported my heir on the polish throne and after a few wins, Poland dropped the elective monarchy and became a kingdom with the Habsburg king.
Poland spread Habsburgs to Lithuania (my rival, so i couldn't RM them)
Portugal's king was old, i RMed them, the Marriage Policy Pays off event fired, got a Habsburg heir for their throne.
Used the event to claim Hungary's throne.
Lihtuania dropped rivalry, i RM-ed them, then claimed the throne soon after.
Claimed Poland's throne too.
In a war with Great Britain, i made them release Scotland. I wanted to diplo vassalize Scotland, but i got them in a PU instead. Their king was young, 35 or so, just like Muscovy's.
Portugal's king died heirless at the age of 60+, France backed off, (not that he have had a chance anyway after i revoked privilegia :)), i got the PU.

Right now i have 7 PUs, except Great Britain and France i have all major European thrones.
France was my ally all along, but after i got Portugal they became hostile, then rival :( Maybe the AI figured out that i want France under my PU as well :D On a serious note, i have no idea why France dropped alliance at 180+ opinion... they had a mission in Bengal, but none of my subjects were even close to India.

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I also had some fun with the new place heir on vassal's throne button:

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I'm hesitant if i shall integrate Scotland / Hungary / form HRE to have a shot at inheriting Spain or Muscovy... the map would look a lot better but it feels so good to have all these minions to do the dirty work for me :D
 
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First ever time actually forming Persia (Qara Qoyunlu). I really enjoyed this playthrough and experienced the unique persian events. By the 1600s I ran out of things to do and got bored as my Persia reached its desired borders. I was kind of hoping Russia was going to be a decent competetor in the north, but got torn apart by it's neighbours as usual...
 
Eastern Roman(-ian) Empire
Nothing too spectacular blobbing-wise, but after having suffered a humiliating setbacking defeat in 1610ish and having to cede 1/4 of the country back to Ottos and Hungary, former Dracula motherland took its revenge and vassalized then annexed Ottomans and has Hungary as a junior PU member. Constantinople is the capital of course, could culture shift to Turkish, but decided against it. Note almost invisible border with my best buddies Ryazan.
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Eastern Roman(-ian) Empire
Nothing too spectacular blobbing-wise, but after having suffered a humiliating setbacking defeat in 1610ish and having to cede 1/4 of the country back to Ottos and Hungary, former Dracula motherland took its revenge and vassalized then annexed Ottomans and has Hungary as a junior PU member. Constantinople is the capital of course, could culture shift to Turkish, but decided against it. Note almost invisible border with my best buddies Ryazan.
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My god Romania what have they done with your color. :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
 
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Didn't go after Europe until it was too late. Over 2000 force limit and still doubting if I can take them because I play so many HRE OPM games I have an irrational fear of them.

That said, besieging late-game Ming is so brutal I gave up and went after Europe a bit anyway.

I think I'm ready for a WC, just need to refine my pacing.
 
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Byzantine Empire, I tried to keep nice and tidy borders and I also tried to reach the empire's 555 AD borders, although a group of powerful European alliances has so far stopped that from happening.

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Africa:
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Asia:
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