As for me - I always merge my armies, make my country as centralised as possible, never take islands, never have more than two religions. And always tend to make my country whole and not to have separated provinces (exeptions - large colonial areas)
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Ayeshteni said:
Yes, I agree, and like it not, slavery was historical.
I have the same problem with reorganizing units. I would like to be able to say, build ships and call it, for example, "The Atlantic Fleet", right from the time of building, or a land unit and give it an appropriate tag. In the game, not playing around editing the files.
I don't like slave provinces either. One can always pretend that no slaves are used in the sugar industry...
Merging armies is something I do too. I really miss that I can't do it when sieging
I aim for all country culture provinces and a minimum of non-country culture provinces. Rich trading centers, Holland and Anglia are provinces I take even if their culture doesn't match.
I'm surprised that nobody is concerned about the natives. I don't care about the Caribbean cannibals which I always kill, but I like to think that the other natives are made into good citizens so I most often try to incorporate them in my colonies.
I also convert all pagans, thinking that I incorporate them too in my empire.
Merging armies is something I do too. I really miss that I can't do it when sieging
I aim for all country culture provinces and a minimum of non-country culture provinces. Rich trading centers, Holland and Anglia are provinces I take even if their culture doesn't match.
I'm surprised that nobody is concerned about the natives. I don't care about the Caribbean cannibals which I always kill, but I like to think that the other natives are made into good citizens so I most often try to incorporate them in my colonies.
I also convert all pagans, thinking that I incorporate them too in my empire.
I usually try to form a "natural border", a river, large body of water or mountain range, for my nation. No idea why, but it does fit with the mentality of certain European nations at the time (France, Spand, England).
On the rare occasions when I'm not doing this, I usually try to get the entirety of a culture inside my borders and avoid taking in the edges of others. This begins to be a problem when trying to take something like Ukrainian or Arab cultures. :wacko:
On the rare occasions when I'm not doing this, I usually try to get the entirety of a culture inside my borders and avoid taking in the edges of others. This begins to be a problem when trying to take something like Ukrainian or Arab cultures. :wacko:
Lovely. How many weeks' holiday a year do they get?ozymandius said:Not in my empire! All of the natives in my colonies are paid well with full health and dental benefits. Yeah...
Welcome to the forum, by the way.
A very good point I hadn't considered. Right, that means all of you who don't like to further the slave trade can't trade in CoTs that draw trade from provinces producing slaves, gold, sugar, tobacco or cotton. That means all CoTs in Africa and the Americas and all CoTs owned by colonial majors. You also can't build refineries or goods manufactories because they increase demand for sugar and cotton respectively and a greater demand for these goods encourages the creation of more plantations using more slavesMarshall Thomas said:
Edit: Yay run-on sentences!
Master Shake said:This thread is just further proof that every one of us has a little OCD in us. Anyway, I too avoid the slave territories. And, I absolutely must convert all protestant or reformed territories. Also, I strive to elimate all protestant or reformed nations ... I'm a catholic you see
Are you sure that you don't mean "Counter-Reform Catholic"?
Underhand said:
Slavery...
BTW, I don't understand this generalized guilty feeling about slavery. It's nonsense to judge the past according the present mentality, and yet more nonsense to feel guilty for something you haven't done...
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Same here. I always imagine my monarch looking at a map and thinking "That just looks ugly, let's declare war on <insert country> to gain that just that one extremely poor province to straighten my border".Fnuco said:
I tend to stick with smoothish borders in both Old World landgrabs as well as colonization, but in my case this has more to do with strategy than aesthetics. A circle is easier to defend than a crescent.
One big idiosyncrasy is that I always want to dominate the sugar trade, controlling as many sugar provinces as possible and building refineries in as many as I can afford. I suppose this is because sugar was historically a big moneymaker for colonial powers.
Another thing I do is, once I'm at the top, I will smack second-rank powers around a bit, in a particular way. I seize provinces that can be released as vassals, which I then release and invite into my alliance (if possible). I also like to secure my borders with vassal states--expanding to a good geographical limit and then ceasing aggressive conquest in favor of vassalizations.
When I play an appropriate Muslim country I make it a major goal to eradicate Shi'ism or Sunni (depending on who I am) and to unify the entire Muslim world under my banner.
Another thing I do is, once I'm at the top, I will smack second-rank powers around a bit, in a particular way. I seize provinces that can be released as vassals, which I then release and invite into my alliance (if possible). I also like to secure my borders with vassal states--expanding to a good geographical limit and then ceasing aggressive conquest in favor of vassalizations.
When I play an appropriate Muslim country I make it a major goal to eradicate Shi'ism or Sunni (depending on who I am) and to unify the entire Muslim world under my banner.
i am like someone else on here, i always strive for furs, whether im in NA colonizing or muscowy....
i also always group my units as i dont like to see three or four flags in a province, i especially hate it when there is 3 or 4 nations in just one province, it looks bad and the attrition is a bitch....
when at war i feel like i must always get the biggest land grab possible, even if my BB will sky rocket, i seen to always aim for that 100% war score. i tend to do this even if i was only planning on getting 1 of my cores....
and probly the worst thing i do and i hate it, but once a game gets to easy and i know im most likely going to win, ill start another one, and i always play the GC, all the others just dont intrest me enough...
i also always group my units as i dont like to see three or four flags in a province, i especially hate it when there is 3 or 4 nations in just one province, it looks bad and the attrition is a bitch....
when at war i feel like i must always get the biggest land grab possible, even if my BB will sky rocket, i seen to always aim for that 100% war score. i tend to do this even if i was only planning on getting 1 of my cores....
and probly the worst thing i do and i hate it, but once a game gets to easy and i know im most likely going to win, ill start another one, and i always play the GC, all the others just dont intrest me enough...
This is a mental chronical illness to me too. I start the game, in a slow planified way, and after 50 years I get bored and start with another nation. I have only finished one game with Portugal, and after 1650 it was a pain to keep playing it. I don't know why, but I find the 1419-1580 period far more interesting to play.
I also make a pre-research of the country history, to maintain some goals like protecting Prussia with Brandenburg or allying with german minors to stop the devil Habsburgs.
And the funniest of all is a strange obsesion of keeping my country troops at the same number that appears on the following scenarios. Let's say I start a GC with England, so I check the 1492 scenario and I find that they have x troops in Calais and x troops in London and so on. So when I reach 1492 I make myself sure I also have that number of troops.And the same with the following scenarios.
If I'm not playing as the Kingdom of Jurusalem then i always find myself waging war against whoever owns the province and then creating them as vassals. Then I get this strange urge to defend it at all costs. I have seen myself lose a few wars whilst throwing all my resources into liberating judea and totally ignoring the defence of my realm. Its an unusual compultion.
I like renaming my navies after the general sea zone they're in. I mean, historically they didn't call their fleets the "Anglia Fleet." They were things like the "North Sea Fleet." So I move my naval units around to just the right seazone, and reorganize them. This gets me a nice "Baltic Sea Squadron," but unfortunately I can't seem to get rid of the article for "The North Sea Squadron."
Hmmm.. let me see...
- I usually take provinces/colonies that will make my country look good, even if they aren't always profitable.
- I try to make sure Norway stays safe
- I also have that thing where I have to stack multiple armies in the same province
- For some reason, I like having my fleets out of port (but in "my" sea) and see how much "+ x months" I can get before I for some reason need to move them
- I usually take provinces/colonies that will make my country look good, even if they aren't always profitable.
- I try to make sure Norway stays safe
- I also have that thing where I have to stack multiple armies in the same province
- For some reason, I like having my fleets out of port (but in "my" sea) and see how much "+ x months" I can get before I for some reason need to move them
I just wanted to share my "problems"....
If some nation sieges and sacks Constantinople i hold a grudge against them and after awhile i have to DoW them.
Armys have to be at 10 thousand men if it drops below that even to 9,900 it bugs me and i have to make it 10,000 again.
Every army has it's own area it protects and the troop type will depend on that areas terrain, even if theres like 3 mountain provinces and 1 plains i will still make half infantry half cavalry.
The monarch leader always has to be in the capital (i do not know why) but it does
The last number of habits are probably my worst,
when i change the slider to something new and close it's menu i have to recheck it like 3-5 times to make sure it's stays there and is on the correct one i set it, same thing with the 10 year sliders.
When i am planning to invade a country i judge on the number of provinces in game, i once invaded Hungary with OE with 40,000 soldiers when it had only 4-5 provs and they surprised me with i believe it was 60 or 70 thousand.
Another is when i'm at war with someone i tend to gather troops at one place and hope for the enemy to group up in another and i send all my men at once to theres and have a great battle and name it to (Battle of Moscow) or where ever i am at.
The last would probably be if i was a naval nation my ships would have to be around the number of total soldiers i have 50,000=50 ships and so on until it gets to high and i stop.
The rest are pretty typical and already meantioned.
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OK, mine is I always have to have a complicated plot to role play. Right now, Im doing a Byzantium renaissance, in which I have specific goals (unite all greek orthodox provinces under me, have all other orthodox provinces under a culture-specific orthodox vassal, never DOW and orthodox nation etc). This is becoming a pain because Im losing endless troops trying to get Rhodes(Greek and Orthodox). Plus Im having trouble keeping my one-province Armenian-and-Orthodox vassal in Armenia alive - everyone keeps DOWing it and killing it before I can protect it properly.
Other things - I never push for enough in peace settlements. For example, if Ive got someone at 35%, i'll only ask for a single province worth say 10%. I find it frustrating to have to keep going back and asking for peace each month until I get come down to an offer they'll accept, so I just ask for something really low first up.
Also, Im a compulsive save game file editor. Eg playing Byzantium, I'll be looking at the political map view and say "Hey, we've got a core on Steiermark - that's just silly, why would we want a core on an Austrian provence that far from home. I'll just nip in to the save file and remove that core." Then once Im in there, I think, well that would have cost me a diplomat in RL, so I'd better take off one diplomat. Then I'll think, well removing a core on Austria might have improved our relations, so I'll go edit our relations up say 20 points etc etc etc.
Other things - I never push for enough in peace settlements. For example, if Ive got someone at 35%, i'll only ask for a single province worth say 10%. I find it frustrating to have to keep going back and asking for peace each month until I get come down to an offer they'll accept, so I just ask for something really low first up.
Also, Im a compulsive save game file editor. Eg playing Byzantium, I'll be looking at the political map view and say "Hey, we've got a core on Steiermark - that's just silly, why would we want a core on an Austrian provence that far from home. I'll just nip in to the save file and remove that core." Then once Im in there, I think, well that would have cost me a diplomat in RL, so I'd better take off one diplomat. Then I'll think, well removing a core on Austria might have improved our relations, so I'll go edit our relations up say 20 points etc etc etc.