So, what will be your first 'Heir' nation?

[thewista]

It will definitely be Austria. I cannot resist the urge to tighten the Habsburg reins of power over the Holy Roman Empire, and use the new dynasty system for all of its marital worth ... and crush a few vile Protestants while I'm at it.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

Either this or Sicily. I must form Italy. I'll make them an offer they can't refuse.

 

[Poh]

i havnt really decided yet but i think i'll give the papal states a try uniting italy under the popes banner and then go for jerusalem and try making them into a giant vassal ... i like the idea on paper but irl i'll have to see if i can restrict myself to having making such a vassal

 

[JimboOmega]

I want to play Dai Viet but I fear the new CB system will mean that expanding in that area will mean all that much more infamy and thus that much more Ming rage. Must find a way to hold back Ming.

Otherwise, I don't know, England. Europe is where the action is but it just seems so... easy?

 

[barretta]

England or Portugal most likely

 

[sir q]

Austria->HRE->the world?

 

[sprites]

Easier to check it when not playing it...

yeah

i'll play it , then try aragon ^^

 

[TrojanAC]

Brabant or Denmark... or Austria and the Habsburg Dominance Decision

 

[ashandresash]

Aragon will be just the beginning...

 

[I am.]

Austria or Novgorod...
Thinking also of Portugal, have not played a colonial power in quite some time

 

[lordkestrel]

Ming, I want to try out the new westernization with a fairly easy country so I can get a feel for it.

 

[jalapen0]

Either this or Sicily. I must form Italy. I'll make them an offer they can't refuse.

lol

 

[unmerged(150125)]

I think I'll do Portugal or Holland/Netherlands, turn them into Merchant Republics/start up a trade league, then force African and Indian countries to join the league through war and build up super-rich COTs around the world.

 

[Asturiano]

Castilla will be my first, then Norway I suspect.

 

[Enigmax]

Gonna try my favorites: (in no particular order)

Brandenburg - form Prussia and later on Holy Roman Empire. Going to try conquer whole Europe and ignore the New World and Asia.

Byzantium - All-time favorite. Recreate the Roman Empire and bring enlightment to Europe and the Middle-East. Will also try becoming Holy Roman Emperor.

Burgundy - Pwn France. Make Europe go purple and try to colonize the Americas.

Holland - going to form Netherlands, vassalize my fellow germans and create a massive colonial and financial empire.

Ottomans - try to recreate history here by conquering whole Mediterranean and the Balkan.

Nizhy-Novgorod - New country! Probably form Russia at some point and then go from there.

Kingdom of Jerusalem - figure out a way to recreate it and then play them. Going to conquer the whole middle-east as well as Turkey and Egypt. Also going to see if I can help Byzantium regain control of Greece (and make them my vassal as well)

 

[unmerged(147169)]

Kingdom of Jerusalem - figure out a way to recreate it and then play them. Going to conquer the whole middle-east as well as Turkey and Egypt. Also going to see if I can help Byzantium regain control of Greece (and make them my vassal as well)

I also want to do this, but I am going to have to edit the common dynasty names so that it won't be a french crusader kingdom, because I won't create it as france (all the names are french, blah) :/ or just include a variety of dynasty names, since i could imagine other countries being involved.

 

[sactwu]

I'm definitely going to start with Epirus, being a greek despotate is just too cool
After that probably Baden trying to unite the HRE or something like that...
And of course KoJ, going on a crusade all over Asia.

 

[delra]

Ming, I want to try out the new westernization with a fairly easy country so I can get a feel for it.

There's NEW westernization?

 

[Brian Bóruma]

You'll also be a vassal of France...

And with the help of one diplomat, that ends.

 

[Camara]

There's NEW westernization?

I'll probably be emu'd, still:

Complete westernization now: tech + units


1) A small african/asiatic country (the ones with cool flags generally win my choice)

2) Portugal. I never turned them into protestant, it should be cool. Or maybe I'll turn them gnostic for the glory of it! Or create Jerusalem with it too. Outside vanilla, of course.

 

[unmerged(70995)]

I'm thinking Brittany. If that goes well maybe I'll have the courage to again attempt the insanity of an Ethiopian campaign... with this new westernization.