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Hungary and Bohemia. My intention was to restart until Poland refused the Lithuania PU, but it happened right off the bat. I attacked during Poland's war with the TO. I thought I was going to have to do without Hungary for a while, though (they didn't rival Poland until about a year? in). Only problem was Hungary occupied a couple of provinces so I could only take one province from Poland in the peace deal, and instead had to release Gal-Vol and attack them later.
I did the golden horn thing then suffered through not having privileged RCC magic. I took that event kicking me out of tribal gov't without thinking too :/.
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Did you know that Yorkshire is required to form the Roman Empire? I didn't.
Both of those nations on GB are my client states. The northern one is called, fittingly enough, "Yorkshire". Also I didn't notice that I accidentally gave Metz (part of the French region) to another client state I made in germany. Ah well. Still got Georgia on my Mind and a Decent Reserve, so that's nice.
Both of those nations on GB are my client states. The northern one is called, fittingly enough, "Yorkshire". Also I didn't notice that I accidentally gave Metz (part of the French region) to another client state I made in germany. Ah well. Still got Georgia on my Mind and a Decent Reserve, so that's nice.
Judging by his "100% accurate" he is perfectly aware of that. It's just a joke.haha nova means new in latin
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Not an impressive start with France by any means, but great to see AI Scotland finally win a war against England (although it was with the help of Castile and I).
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Yeah but he might of not known what it actually meant, he just knew it wasn't north.
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I know that's not too original but, being an average player, I struggled 380 years for that, especially at the end, which was really stressful, so I need to share my result!
My first WC with the ottomans, just 6 months before the end of the game... I had to break 3 truces and as you can see, it was really short with rebels. Aragon was the last man alive, and I had not seen that this guy had an extra province hidden in the Atlantic, still terra incognita, kinda scary when you see that you don't full annex him 8 months before the end!
The same map some months after the WC, kinda funny:
My first WC with the ottomans, just 6 months before the end of the game... I had to break 3 truces and as you can see, it was really short with rebels. Aragon was the last man alive, and I had not seen that this guy had an extra province hidden in the Atlantic, still terra incognita, kinda scary when you see that you don't full annex him 8 months before the end!
The same map some months after the WC, kinda funny:
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You should be happy, my flag turned white when I formed the Roman Empire as Revolutionary Byzantium. Marching into battle with white flags was odd, to say the least
We finally got unique ideas for Nitra, so I went to play a quick speed 5 game just for fun. Considering that by 1550 it looked like complete disaster (2/3 of HRE went heretic, Austria integrated the Nitraless Hungary, Brandenburg ate northern HRE from Friesland to Pomerania and Ottomans intervened against me to help the Austards), I'm pretty happy how it ended up. I was drowning in MPs and money, and eventually ran out of stuff to build, even in my subjects (Aragon and Portugal PUs, HRE completely revoked); relegated the heresies to Scandinavia, removed Brandenburg and Austria from premises and even took revenge on Ottoderps.
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I had a good run, but this is the end. Ottomans allied everyone around me, but I had a ton of allies so he could never attack me directly. Eventually I got a chance to attack Persia without him interfering, but Russia saw this as a chance to attack my ally Commonwealth. Now here's where things get a bit stupid. All three of us are great powers, but obviously Russia is on par with both of us combined, but the game just sees 2 great powers against 1 great power, and suddenly ottomans joins the war. Bear in mind this is Russia attacking the two of us, knowing he stands a good chance of winning, and the game sees it fair to have the strongest power in the game joining the attacker against the two of us. I had previously removed the alliance between Ottomans and Russia to prevent this from happening, but it seems that doesn't matter these days.
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Main reason why I'm not getting RoM anytime soon - seems to be very poorly implemented.. (that there can be great power interventions is one thing, but that they can intervene in wars of aggression ? Nope. Not getting that).
That being said, I'm impressed you got that far, AI usually tag-teams me long before that, and I'm too bad a player to survive
That being said, I'm impressed you got that far, AI usually tag-teams me long before that, and I'm too bad a player to survive
Why not go for Uzbek and co to consolidate your powerbase before attacking Persia, and to cut this path for Russia. Seems like an absolute priority.
Bad luck for the intervention however.
Bad luck for the intervention however.
Just a quick Ottoman Empire that I rushed to finish before leaving my EU4 computer behind for Christmas.
It's not anything exciting, but the main reason I did this was for the achievement spam. I don't normally do massive blobbing games, so this was good for getting a bunch of things out of the way. Maybe one day I'll get around to doing a WC, but after this game started to get boring and repetitive after a while I don't think I'd have the patience.
It's not anything exciting, but the main reason I did this was for the achievement spam. I don't normally do massive blobbing games, so this was good for getting a bunch of things out of the way. Maybe one day I'll get around to doing a WC, but after this game started to get boring and repetitive after a while I don't think I'd have the patience.
Ottomans into Roman Empire:
Checked off Mare Nostrum, Combined Arms and A Protected Market.
After the opening steps of eating Byzantium and AQ, I declared war on Serbia and Bosnia. I snaked to Bosnia's christian provinces, and used the Dhimmi trick to quickly convert most of my territory to Catholic. After that your standard Ototman game by eating all those claimed provinces from your missions, only now with massive PI generation from spreading the Christian faith. My loyal ally throughout the game was Russia, best bros ever. Never desired my lands at all, even if they were a bit annoyed when I ate their ally Theodoro why they weren't looking. Kiev is a vassal. France was backstabbed in the 1750s because I needed their clay, Prussia backstabbed me when we both wanted our border at the Rhine.
In the midgame, I had to fight a PLC that got a PU over the remnants of Hungary, nothing too difficult for the Ototmans but I made the biggest mistake of the campaign: I fed Brandenburg. Not much, but they fully exploited the weakened PLC to form Prussia and blob out.
And those Germans hold a grudge:
Had to fight the Prussians once for a single province in France which belonged to a Proetstant OPM Gascony, and it was no fun fighting against 160k Prussian doomstacks that ran around with 11.0 morale - especially as I was running out of manpower as I was juggling wars with France, Gascony and an Austria-led German coalition.
I'll probably end the campaign here, no desire to fight this coalition, although I'd like to finish Maritime Ideas just to take the Thalassocarcy decision once.
Checked off Mare Nostrum, Combined Arms and A Protected Market.
After the opening steps of eating Byzantium and AQ, I declared war on Serbia and Bosnia. I snaked to Bosnia's christian provinces, and used the Dhimmi trick to quickly convert most of my territory to Catholic. After that your standard Ototman game by eating all those claimed provinces from your missions, only now with massive PI generation from spreading the Christian faith. My loyal ally throughout the game was Russia, best bros ever. Never desired my lands at all, even if they were a bit annoyed when I ate their ally Theodoro why they weren't looking. Kiev is a vassal. France was backstabbed in the 1750s because I needed their clay, Prussia backstabbed me when we both wanted our border at the Rhine.
In the midgame, I had to fight a PLC that got a PU over the remnants of Hungary, nothing too difficult for the Ototmans but I made the biggest mistake of the campaign: I fed Brandenburg. Not much, but they fully exploited the weakened PLC to form Prussia and blob out.
And those Germans hold a grudge:
Had to fight the Prussians once for a single province in France which belonged to a Proetstant OPM Gascony, and it was no fun fighting against 160k Prussian doomstacks that ran around with 11.0 morale - especially as I was running out of manpower as I was juggling wars with France, Gascony and an Austria-led German coalition.
I'll probably end the campaign here, no desire to fight this coalition, although I'd like to finish Maritime Ideas just to take the Thalassocarcy decision once.
A quick look at my Kilwan game, right when I got Queen of Mercury.
After my Ryazan game, I wanted to chase another achievement. I restarted Manipur 12 times or so, and Ceylon 6 or something, so I decided that maybe I should sleep before playing, and pick easier achievements.
I went for a very easy one that may end up in a WC if I don't mess up too much.
The heart of my country is obviously Africa, Kazembe and Timbuktu are vassals and I am feeding them Central and Western Africa.
I need to hurry up on India, and then go for China. The Mingplosion gave me a great opportunity of WC.
I went for exploration first and secured all the Spice money. I was one of the first countries to embrace Colonialism, but apart from that it is rather meh. Despite a very high development my FL is low and my manpower is abysmal. At least I make money, but I don't really need it.
This turns out to be the great part of the game, and this will drastically improve once I finish India.
Europe is still massive. Big Commonwealth, and Russia has a very annoying PU on Spain that slowed me down immensely, because I need 4 years to get 40% warscore peacedeals and I can't progress fast enough. Catalonia is a vassal. Austria has been reduced to dust however, they are repeatedly attacked by PLC+France+Brandenburg and Ottos+me. Even if I don't do much, my vassals give me war participation and free favors.
Portugal is below 100% warscore, but I can't find all their provinces so I can't finish them to get their massive SA colonies.
You would believe that I am massive but I don't even have the higher FL, half my development is in trade companies. I am also using almost full merc infantry since the mid 16th century or so and I still have manpower issues.
I am still a tribal despotism, and that allowed me to delay Administrative quite a lot, because Economic was desperately needed. I rose all the way up to 16% inflation despite economic as my second group, now this is stable.
I am allied with France and Ottos, but I have quite a lot of problems. I take any advice by the way.
Spain is in that PU under Russia, PLC and France are allied. I think I will keep on eating India and then China, spam regimental camps to finally increase my FL,a nd during this time regularly pounce on Spain, and climb through Italy. I hope I will get into a massive coalition of all the HRE members doing so, to dismantle it and fully annex everyone with the cobelligerant trick. After that I will dump France and take down the PLC, this would be even better if I could make it so that France dishonors the call without me breaking my alliance with them. I am afraid I won't make it in time, especially for GB and the far away Russian territories. And all of this will leave a 700 warscore Ottomans that I desperately need right now but won't be able to annex without a double/triple trucebreak if I wait too long.
After my Ryazan game, I wanted to chase another achievement. I restarted Manipur 12 times or so, and Ceylon 6 or something, so I decided that maybe I should sleep before playing, and pick easier achievements.
I went for a very easy one that may end up in a WC if I don't mess up too much.
The heart of my country is obviously Africa, Kazembe and Timbuktu are vassals and I am feeding them Central and Western Africa.
I need to hurry up on India, and then go for China. The Mingplosion gave me a great opportunity of WC.
I went for exploration first and secured all the Spice money. I was one of the first countries to embrace Colonialism, but apart from that it is rather meh. Despite a very high development my FL is low and my manpower is abysmal. At least I make money, but I don't really need it.
This turns out to be the great part of the game, and this will drastically improve once I finish India.
Europe is still massive. Big Commonwealth, and Russia has a very annoying PU on Spain that slowed me down immensely, because I need 4 years to get 40% warscore peacedeals and I can't progress fast enough. Catalonia is a vassal. Austria has been reduced to dust however, they are repeatedly attacked by PLC+France+Brandenburg and Ottos+me. Even if I don't do much, my vassals give me war participation and free favors.
Portugal is below 100% warscore, but I can't find all their provinces so I can't finish them to get their massive SA colonies.
You would believe that I am massive but I don't even have the higher FL, half my development is in trade companies. I am also using almost full merc infantry since the mid 16th century or so and I still have manpower issues.
I am still a tribal despotism, and that allowed me to delay Administrative quite a lot, because Economic was desperately needed. I rose all the way up to 16% inflation despite economic as my second group, now this is stable.
I am allied with France and Ottos, but I have quite a lot of problems. I take any advice by the way.
Spain is in that PU under Russia, PLC and France are allied. I think I will keep on eating India and then China, spam regimental camps to finally increase my FL,a nd during this time regularly pounce on Spain, and climb through Italy. I hope I will get into a massive coalition of all the HRE members doing so, to dismantle it and fully annex everyone with the cobelligerant trick. After that I will dump France and take down the PLC, this would be even better if I could make it so that France dishonors the call without me breaking my alliance with them. I am afraid I won't make it in time, especially for GB and the far away Russian territories. And all of this will leave a 700 warscore Ottomans that I desperately need right now but won't be able to annex without a double/triple trucebreak if I wait too long.
Naples Mare Nostrum attempt, I just needed 3 French provinces (I forgot to take it in an earlier war against britain/spain).
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Ach. Hard luckNaples Mare Nostrum attempt, just needed caux (forgot to take it in a war against britain).
You seem to be in a poor position for WC, Europe is going to be impossible.A quick look at my Kilwan game, right when I got Queen of Mercury.
After my Ryazan game, I wanted to chase another achievement. I restarted Manipur 12 times or so, and Ceylon 6 or something, so I decided that maybe I should sleep before playing, and pick easier achievements.
I went for a very easy one that may end up in a WC if I don't mess up too much.
The heart of my country is obviously Africa, Kazembe and Timbuktu are vassals and I am feeding them Central and Western Africa.
I need to hurry up on India, and then go for China. The Mingplosion gave me a great opportunity of WC.
I went for exploration first and secured all the Spice money. I was one of the first countries to embrace Colonialism, but apart from that it is rather meh. Despite a very high development my FL is low and my manpower is abysmal. At least I make money, but I don't really need it.
This turns out to be the great part of the game, and this will drastically improve once I finish India.
Europe is still massive. Big Commonwealth, and Russia has a very annoying PU on Spain that slowed me down immensely, because I need 4 years to get 40% warscore peacedeals and I can't progress fast enough. Catalonia is a vassal. Austria has been reduced to dust however, they are repeatedly attacked by PLC+France+Brandenburg and Ottos+me. Even if I don't do much, my vassals give me war participation and free favors.
Portugal is below 100% warscore, but I can't find all their provinces so I can't finish them to get their massive SA colonies.
You would believe that I am massive but I don't even have the higher FL, half my development is in trade companies. I am also using almost full merc infantry since the mid 16th century or so and I still have manpower issues.
I am still a tribal despotism, and that allowed me to delay Administrative quite a lot, because Economic was desperately needed. I rose all the way up to 16% inflation despite economic as my second group, now this is stable.
I am allied with France and Ottos, but I have quite a lot of problems. I take any advice by the way.
Spain is in that PU under Russia, PLC and France are allied. I think I will keep on eating India and then China, spam regimental camps to finally increase my FL,a nd during this time regularly pounce on Spain, and climb through Italy. I hope I will get into a massive coalition of all the HRE members doing so, to dismantle it and fully annex everyone with the cobelligerant trick. After that I will dump France and take down the PLC, this would be even better if I could make it so that France dishonors the call without me breaking my alliance with them. I am afraid I won't make it in time, especially for GB and the far away Russian territories. And all of this will leave a 700 warscore Ottomans that I desperately need right now but won't be able to annex without a double/triple trucebreak if I wait too long.