Post your Europa Universalis 4 Empire

[TheMeInTeam]

Christ on a crutch, TMIT, why?

Because I'm evil. In the course of conquests as opportunities arose as I was stopping for today I noticed that it looked particularly awful. There's still plenty of time, an HRE to dismantle and a casual vault over to India to bother with at some point. The borders will get cleaned because it'll ALL be nuclear green in West Europe .

As for AE France, Portugal, Castile, and Aragon have tons, especially Aragon which ate a good chunk of Castile and integrated Naples (convenient, now I get to do it too). I engineered a pretty nasty dogpile on France since they were being all hostile, ever since I've just been meandering around mopping stuff with merc infantry + couple cavalry --> now I have full front of merc inf and full back row regular arty with level 3 advisors other than military. Defensive + 100 power projection (farm it!) + 100 prestige + army reformer is the route I chose this game since generic Italian ideas aren't the best for direct combat. I wasn't disappointed.

This is a super lazy run with diplomatic, influence, humanist, defensive so far (only a little way into influence, went diplomatic first). Humanist + cash up the butt for DotF means reformation hasn't done much to my catholic "empire" . I can copy what I did with Theodoro in reverse with dismantle + dipvassal.

 

[TenshiN]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=552154495
Arakan Empire. The Buddhist mechanics are kinda fun to play around with.
Kudos to the guy that did the Ternate campaign. You make me look like I just started.

Nice going, especially if you stayed Buddhist! You can at least double the size of your Empire in the last 100 years of the game if you did research an adm efficiency cap. This thing is so broken, its kinda ridiculous, especially since you've already done most of the work conquering China. Mop it up and head for India?

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Nice going, especially if you stayed Buddhist! You can at least double the size of your Empire in the last 100 years of the game if you did research an adm efficiency cap. This thing is so broken, its kinda ridiculous, especially since you've already done most of the work conquering China. Mop it up and head for India?

The most broken combo is tier 3 admin efficiency and client states, because you can chain truce break and core simultaneously.

Of course you only have it a short while.

 

[TenshiN]

The most broken combo is tier 3 admin efficiency and client states, because you can chain truce break and core simultaneously.

Of course you only have it a short while.

This sounds cheesy as heck. Maybe still worth the try though

 

[grandadmiralbob]

Nice going, especially if you stayed Buddhist! You can at least double the size of your Empire in the last 100 years of the game if you did research an adm efficiency cap. This thing is so broken, its kinda ridiculous, especially since you've already done most of the work conquering China. Mop it up and head for India?

Yup I stayed Theravada. Just turned on Wu my last Chinese ally and caused some issues for Hindustan. I did do admin ideas but I didn't do them first cuz I'm special like that. I chose religious first because of all of the conversions that I had to do. I lead in mil tech, but my admin and diplo tech are horrible. I think i'm 15,15,25. :/

 

[TenshiN]

Yup I stayed Theravada. Just turned on Wu my last Chinese ally and caused some issues for Hindustan. I did do admin ideas but I didn't do them first cuz I'm special like that. I chose religious first because of all of the conversions that I had to do. I lead in mil tech, but my admin and diplo tech are horrible. I think i'm 15,15,25. :/

Ah, this sucks. You can usually westernize fast enough in this area by capturing the first visible european colony in the region, since you can westernize from a captured western core. It is usually best to sometimes sit back and wait for the adm efficiency bonuses, or just conquer some distant overseas which are very cheap to core

 

[ArzhurG]

Here is a my last game. I managed to get Master of India with Theodoro.

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I also decided to delete the Ottomans.

I didn't do this until I was sure that I would get Gothic Invasion.

Russia also bowed to my might and was in a PU under me. I integrated them and got large parts of the spice islands.

I stayed Orthodox and converted the majority of Europe. The Copts became quite powerful thanks to Medri Bahri (I didn't help them at all, except that I destroyed the Ottomans).

Leon and Aragon were released by the AI. I took this opportunity to vassalize them and then eat the rest of Iberia. The the French decided that it would be a great idea to break their alliance with me. This gave me the chance to take the last province that I needed for Gothic Invasion. Several quick wars later I owned all of their European territory.

 

[grandadmiralbob]

Ah, this sucks. You can usually westernize fast enough in this area by capturing the first visible european colony in the region, since you can westernize from a captured western core. It is usually best to sometimes sit back and wait for the adm efficiency bonuses, or just conquer some distant overseas which are very cheap to core

Meh, I'll just take what I can. I don't care about how big I get. The only thing that matters is that I had fun and I made Arakan into a significant Empire. If I get to imperialism CBs I might snipe some land and get a global empire, but other than that I'm happy. BTW, the ability for Buddhists to release nations without any diplo cost is amazing. If you want to cripple nations without AE, OE, or other costs, you can just release and vassalize. The times that I did go on a conquering spree **MING** my kharma went to like -90 which sucks cuz you have to wait for it to get up to 50 or preferable 25, before getting into a big war. The extra diplo rep really helps too with integration.
Two more things
1. Bahamanis HAS westernized and they are domineering to me. lol
2. If possible w/o using exploits, I'd like to take at least Sumatra, China, and India. I've never played this late in game, what happens when Indian tech 30 meets Chinese tech 25 units? FYI, Arakan has no military traditions and I think Bahamanis does.

 

[TenshiN]

Meh, I'll just take what I can. I don't care about how big I get. The only thing that matters is that I had fun and I made Arakan into a significant Empire. If I get to imperialism CBs I might snipe some land and get a global empire, but other than that I'm happy. BTW, the ability for Buddhists to release nations without any diplo cost is amazing. If you want to cripple nations without AE, OE, or other costs, you can just release and vassalize. The times that I did go on a conquering spree **MING** my kharma went to like -90 which sucks cuz you have to wait for it to get up to 50 or preferable 25, before getting into a big war. The extra diplo rep really helps too with integration.
Two more things
1. Bahamanis HAS westernized and they are domineering to me. lol
2. If possible w/o using exploits, I'd like to take at least Sumatra, China, and India. I've never played this late in game, what happens when Indian tech 30 meets Chinese tech 25 units? FYI, Arakan has no military traditions and I think Bahamanis does.

Conquering much without a single level of adm efficiency is gonne be hard... Well, westernized India is usually quite the challenge even at lategame since they have loads of money and max level forts everywhere. If they are also superior in tech, i'd stay clear of it and go for the steppes instead and maybe finish the game with a wrecked Russia, since the proud Arakanese people are superior to some europeans

 

[Old Man Jenkins]

Here is a my last game. I managed to get Master of India with Theodoro.

Spoiler

I also decided to delete the Ottomans.

I didn't do this until I was sure that I would get Gothic Invasion.

Russia also bowed to my might and was in a PU under me. I integrated them and got large parts of the spice islands.

I stayed Orthodox and converted the majority of Europe. The Copts became quite powerful thanks to Medri Bahri (I didn't help them at all, except that I destroyed the Ottomans).

Leon and Aragon were released by the AI. I took this opportunity to vassalize them and then eat the rest of Iberia. The the French decided that it would be a great idea to break their alliance with me. This gave me the chance to take the last province that I needed for Gothic Invasion. Several quick wars later I owned all of their European territory.

That's pretty damn epic!

 

[dwelch]

I managed to get Master of India with Theodoro.

...HOW...?!?!

 

[ArzhurG]

...HOW...?!?!

I had nearly all of the Germanic culture provinces with about 60-70 years. Then it was just a matter a attacking quickly (and using proclaim guarantee to reduce truces to 5 years). I did take 156% overextension in my last war against Nepal without it causing much problems (I guess that Humanism helped).

When I started going for India I didn't have any of France or Iberia either. While waiting for overextension to die down I feed the European vassals (Leon, Aragon and later Normandy).

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P.S. I got quite lucky in the early game. I got this heir without Lux Stella.

He became my ruler for 40-50 years also!

 

[ArzhurG]

That's pretty damn epic!

Thanks. I was looking at that achievement for a while, so when I got a chance I took it.

 

[Phoenix VII]

Started as Oman and probably wouldn't have become Arabia if I wasn't going for the Arabian Coffee achievement, just too much green. Aside from Arabia, eastern Africa, most of Persia, a couple provinces is southwest Africa, and a little of northeastern India, I also have most of Indonesia and most of Borneo though this was gained rather late in the game. Spain was in a PU under Lithuania in my last war with Spain which kept me from kicking them out of SE Asia completely. I think I'd have done much better if I expanded into Persia and India earlier than I did, and saved Somalia for later. I have Ardalan as a march and Australia as a CN (Spanish Australia just has the 3 or 4 provinces in SW Australia).

 

[grandadmiralbob]

Conquering much without a single level of adm efficiency is gonne be hard... Well, westernized India is usually quite the challenge even at lategame since they have loads of money and max level forts everywhere. If they are also superior in tech, i'd stay clear of it and go for the steppes instead and maybe finish the game with a wrecked Russia, since the proud Arakanese people are superior to some europeans

My tech is a lot better than I thought and I'm not worried about Bahamanis as my manpower and 180k army and limitless manpower will crush them. I played it a little more and I'm about to diplovassalize Perm, just beat Wu and some other East Asians in a war, vassalized Buryatia and now I got bored with it so I'm going to start a new campaign. I believe I am 21 20 29, which I'm behind in adm. and dip. tech, but only behind them 1 in mil. So I guess I could wait for imperialism and focus admin and declare war on France..... or not.
Nice Arabia guy above me btw. Hold back the Turk!

 

[Sunspawn]

Started as Oman and probably wouldn't have become Arabia if I wasn't going for the Arabian Coffee achievement, just too much green. Aside from Arabia, eastern Africa, most of Persia, a couple provinces is southwest Africa, and a little of northeastern India, I also have most of Indonesia and most of Borneo though this was gained rather late in the game. Spain was in a PU under Lithuania in my last war with Spain which kept me from kicking them out of SE Asia completely. I think I'd have done much better if I expanded into Persia and India earlier than I did, and saved Somalia for later. I have Ardalan as a march and Australia as a CN (Spanish Australia just has the 3 or 4 provinces in SW Australia).

The Ottoman-Persian-Arabian border needs fixing.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

At some point I remembered I'm supposed to get a province, so I got lucky Lucca a few decades back. Stopping for now since I'm tired, not sure if I'll come back to this one:



No colonial ideas for me, just tooled around beating on Europe and middle east until I hit imperialism, then snaked the achievement province in one war in like 2-3 years. The only notable thing about this game is that I stayed Catholic, went humanist, but would still finish with > 500 Catholic provinces easily. Mecca and almost all of the rest of ME/North Africa are converted, as is Persia.

Maybe I'll jump back in, snipe Rome, and form Italy for that achievement though.

 

[Sunspawn]

Yick, so much radiation, Fukushima is a fart compared to your Lucca.

 

[Zelius]

So I did the Rajput Reich achievement. Restriction: take only India, a snake to Europe, Europe is free game.

...

... it all started as a fevered dream...

(woohoo! admin power!)

--- some border-snaking later ---

We arrive in Germany, and-
Woohoo! Good ridd- I mean, how DARE you assassinate my Archduke!

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Boom. Make way for the true Kaiser!

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Something's missing here... Reich... Reich... Anschluss! Anschluss!!!!

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Forgive my shameless France alliance.

So of course...

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Ok, maybe we should consider sl- Anschluss! ANSCHLUSS!!! +The people love a good annexation.

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Anschluss! Final Germany region provinces.

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It's not a Reich if there's not at least one France beatdown

Coalition of Europe? Hah!

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Political map: 1734.

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Spent about 10 years waiting for truces to take about 10 one-province and two-province minors. I did not use the Guarantee exploit except to test it out one time.

There's still more than enough time to annex everyone. I originally intended to annex most/all directly, but there were just too many nations with unowned cores and I couldn't resist.

EDIT: Update. Took a break while moving to new PC (EUIV still lags in late-game, I am sad) but now finally got around to absorbing Germany myself. Just look at those pretty borders!

Still too lazy to tidy all the borders though.

+was trying to replicate a couple bugs on speed 5 and let the coalition form again, oh well. Of course I attack the coalition.

 

[Krajzen]

This Theodoro, Nagaur and Lucca are amazing. And Arabia is sexy