Post your Europa Universalis 4 Empire

[Tufto]

I really like your borders, there is no superstrong overwhelming power. You might consider convert it to Victoria.

Aye, I very well might.

The borders were deliberate; I set myself the goal of conquering all of the Subcontinent and nothing more, so it was a relatively laid-back game.

Also, holy ****, but that's an incredibly successful Prussia in the Bahmanid Hindustan screenshot.

I blame it on Burgundy not dying, causing Austria to remain small throughout.

 

[Silverbow]

Hessian mercenaries:

AKA worst emperor ever. I never accept defensive calls against France, and my AE in the HRE is through the roof. Of course, what's left of HRE by now? My allies Austria and Trier, about four OPMs and then Bavaria, Brabant and Brandenburg (notice a theme?) who all hate me with burning passion but don't have the guts to declare on me and keep getting eaten.

PUd Bohemia (just inherited) by force. Contested Brandenburg's PU over Denmark and won. Spain fell randomly into my lap, my ally France contested, I gave them two Spanish provinces and that was it for the "succession war".

And gave Portugal a 5/6/6 heir via "Take that, von Habsburgs!" event...

 

[bauke67]

You are an evil monster for allowing PLC to be eaten that much by Russia.

Haha yeah, that Russia is an absolute monster. Don't think I'll be able to stop it without filling out Quantity in addition to the Offensive, Defensive and Quality I already have Especially with it's strong Danish ally.

How does it come that your AE was so high by simply taking down the HRE in 300 years?
That's a very interesting strat you got there, anyway, worth giving it a try. This changes from the usual "turn Sunni, ally the Ottomans, steamroll PLC" one.

Yeah I'm not entirely sure it was that high, but it was at least 200. I should've dismantled the empire cause i'm pretty sure that would've caused a lot less AE.

 

[Vincenzo_667]

My modest little Bahmanid game. First Ironman I've completed the whole way through.

...Actually, now that I think about it, this is probably the first EU3 or 4 game I've fully completed from startdate-to-enddate at all .

I do rather like how the borders turned out. Persia and the Ottomans had an unholy alliance the whole way through, which I'm glad I never had to tussle with.

The oddest thing was Ottoman Australia and its perverse desire to spy on me.

Gotta love that exiled Portugal in SA.

 

[FB5813]

You can feed all of asia into Novgorod and the AI, especially in India, develops like mad.
I mean, it's already high dev to begin with.

While you on the other hand "only" had America to feed into the English channel and might've even lost some on the way with Castille pulling quite a bit.

Eh. I was pulling plenty from Asia with only a little of the Indian trade being lost at the Gulf of Aden and some at the Ivory Coast, plus the trade that can't be directed that way. Catalonia was using Genoa as its trade port and left the New world trade totally untouched.

There are also less manufactories in America than in Asia, especially in player's hands.

I'd say I built manufactories in 60% of the new world provinces. Basically everything that wasn't wool, fish or grain and didn't already have its building slots taken up.

Anyway, there's one easy way to solve my confusion. Time for a Novgorod game!

 

[Dominion]

Eh. I was pulling plenty from Asia with only a little of the Indian trade being lost at the Gulf of Aden and some at the Ivory Coast, plus the trade that can't be directed that way. Catalonia was using Genoa as its trade port and left the New world trade totally untouched.



I'd say I built manufactories in 60% of the new world provinces. Basically everything that wasn't wool, fish or grain and didn't already have its building slots taken up.

Anyway, there's one easy way to solve my confusion. Time for a Novgorod game!

Reduce Indian nations to two or three manufactory provinces before annexing them completely and they will develop both to 30+ before the truce runs out.

If you want to be a bit gamey about it.

Tunis currently has a basetax of 2.1 in my run because of that, just to give an example.

Unintentionally though. Misclicked. But I won't complain.

 

[FB5813]

Reduce Indian nations to two or three manufactory provinces before annexing them completely and they will develop both to 30+ before the truce runs out.

If you want to be a bit gamey about it.

Tunis currently has a basetax of 2.1 in my run because of that, just to give an example.

Unintentionally though. Misclicked. But I won't complain.

Ahh, lovely idea. Very happy to be gamey about this sort of thing as its not an exploit, just clever play.

 

[JCan]

Gotta love that exiled Portugal in SA.

I bet their capital is Madeira or The Azores though.

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

I bet their capital is Madeira or The Azores though.

Wouldn't they have created colonial nations in SA then?

 

[JCan]

Wouldn't they have created colonial nations in SA then?

I was half-joking really.

I just seem to notice whenever Portugal gets exiled in my games, their capital ends up being in Madeira or The Azores!

 

[SchwarzerKaiser]

I was half joking really.

I just seem to notice whenever Portugal gets exiled in my games, their capital ends up being in Madeira or The Azores!

Oh, I see.
But yeah, the AI seems really reluctant to take these islands when conquering Portugal.

 

[Silverbow]

The Hessen game is actually quite hilarious. I formed a tag that's barely ever seen and transformed the HRE into full blown Sith Empire.

I didn't even know you can be the sole HRE member... I'm gonna pass as many reforms as I can eventually just for the lulz.

Spain & Portugal are PUs; Milan, Clanricarde & Scotland are vassals; France, Hungary, Sweden & Teutons are allies. I hope to PU most of the allies by the end of the game... after all, it's the Evil Empire.

 

[Shadoon4]

The Hessen game is actually quite hilarious. I formed a tag that's barely ever seen and transformed the HRE into full blown Sith Empire.

I didn't even know you can be the sole HRE member... I'm gonna pass as many reforms as I can eventually just for the lulz.

Spain & Portugal are PUs; Milan, Clanricarde & Scotland are vassals; France, Hungary, Sweden & Teutons are allies. I hope to PU most of the allies by the end of the game... after all, it's the Evil Empire.

You should vote for someone else, war dec, dismantle HRE and form Germany just to mess with the game

 

[Gans]

You should vote for someone else, war dec, dismantle HRE and form Germany just to mess with the game

Or just flip to anything non-catholic

 

[bauke67]

Or stay emperor and get dem sweet bonuses.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Revoking with no members then spam releasing HRE vassals sounds amusing.

 

[Gans]

Revoking with no members then spam releasing HRE vassals sounds amusing.

How would he gain the IA for that? Blob out of control and by adding provinces? Or if abdicating actually also gives the 10IA on succession he might also abuse that (I'm not really sure if this works, never tried)

 

[Sunspawn]

After succession reform, you no longer get IA for succession.

 

[Silverbow]

You should vote for someone else, war dec, dismantle HRE and form Germany just to mess with the game

I'm not forming the hideous Germany when I managed to form something obscure. Maybe I could jump through culture hoops to become Hannover, but I kinda like Westphalia.

Revoking with no members then spam releasing HRE vassals sounds amusing.

If only the cores wouldn't all expire so fast...

How would he gain the IA for that? Blob out of control and by adding provinces? Or if abdicating actually also gives the 10IA on succession he might also abuse that (I'm not really sure if this works, never tried)

Just annexing my subjects (well, once Milan/Scotland/Connacht get to eat their fill, of course) and adding their provinces to the Empire would give me some 3-4 reforms. Which is what I plan to do. And who knows what PUs can still fall into my lap? Full diplo ideas marriage spam FTW.

 

[Camtheman]

Time to trigger those RP whiners

Now just for the burgundian inheritance to go in my favor...