So I did my first game from start to end, Let me introduce to you the Empire of Byzantium.
First of European map:
World map:
( the bright blue in east africa, and purple in arabia are my pets)
Finished in the year of 1767
This is my third game and by far the most fun one I'll done.
Started out with ally Wallencia, and funny enough Poland accepted my call for allience before Hungary.
However First war with the Ottomans did not go easy. Poland was fighting against the Teutonic Order, when they attacked and did not step in until two years into the ottoman conquest of Constantinople, but i managed to hold them off and claim almost all the byzantine cores in the first war, and pushed them out of europe with two more wars.
Hungary was from 1444--> 1550. The baddest bitch in Europe, forcing me to claim the balkans before the swallowed them. I slowly pushed first the Ottomans, then the marmeluks out of the old Eastern Roman Empire. With control of the Sinai, before the Colonial Powers reached the indian Ocean, I could reach the Aden and slowly build up to dominate the trade of the indian ocean.
After year 1700 i got bored so i decided to see if i could manage to build the suez channel. At year 1708 i calculated that by using half my income I would afford it on 50 years. I could properly have done it earlier, however it was boring just to save up so i expanded into the western part of India, the philipines, some islands in indonesia, Arabian peninsula and ofc. Siberia
Scandinavia started out with the independence war, but Super-Denmark ate 2/3rds of Sweden and finland while norway took the other. But then Norway attacked and forced Denmark to realise Sweden, and was for a century the biggest and went colonising canada and Florida. Newly released Sweden eventually formed scandinavia, left Denmark to Bornholm, and a close to exodus Norway.
Western Europe was in general funny.
An unholy alliance of burgundy/Provance/GB /portugal and Spain hold until year 1700 France to a mere shadow of itself. Portugal was this game big coloniser, with the westafrican coast, Caraibien, Australia, and big cuncks of Meso-America.
Between 1600 and 1700 Spain lead a PU with Burgundy and GB, although it formed the biggest empire ever seen it seriously weakened GB and Spain, in a century they fought 3 independence wars, also resulting in a series of independence wars of former British: Mexico, La plata and Colombia & Spanish Brazil. The endless wars made room for a France re-claming french cores and turned into westerneurope biggest military force.
Acualia was released from Venice as an OPM, and came to dominate Italy until i showed up.
Ming was exploded before i got to see it, and quite funny quing formed and came to dominate northern china/ Korea and Japan.
Bharat was close to unite India until close to 1730ish until i showed up with superior forces and claimed the west, causing Bharat to destabilise and explode anyway.
I tried as much as possible to avoid europe.
From 1450-1530 i was allied to Poland but decided to cancel the alliance due to fear of us becoming a mayor power bloc
Hungary ended up getting a PU over Austria, and dominated central europe 1500-1600
I Supported Austrian Independence and they became my sole 1st power ally, and between 1650 and 1750 we formed the triple alliance of France/Austria/Byzantine.
The last 30-40 years or France and I went military states against each other. I was a little a head in tech but had to much caverlery compared to the western powers but won on superior manpower and discipline.
2nd Imperial war from 1806-1811: Austria, Hungary, Acuelia(Italy) Navarra, the german minors Vs. Byzantine/french alliance.
Sorry for long post. but i really enjoyed this game
into two great wars:
1st Imperial war from 1791-1798: Commonwealth/Austria/acuelia(italy) Coalition Vs. Byzantine/French alliance.
it was the funniest war i ever had . the top 4
