Strange Screenshots

[digitCruncher]

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First of my strange screenshots, using a slightly out of date version of Death and Taxes. The Golden Horde has been going into China (and, at it's height, was one province away from linking the Japan Sea with the Red Sea, and 3 away from connecting the Mediterranean and Japan Sea!). However, it isn't as big as it was before. Nonetheless, the terms of Yuan's surrender (a medium sized nation north of modern-day China) was ... interesting. 8 ducats (normal) and cancellation of all deals with ... the Golden Horde!? I have no idea what deal was struck between Yuan and the Golden Horde in the MIDDLE OF A WAR!

(Also, huge internet cookies on the person to correctly work out the other strange thing in this screenshot, which happened to me. Clues: I have always been in control of Ireland / Munster, and the strange thing is the reason I have one advisor, almost no prestige, no legitimacy, and no stability)

[Edit]Apparently this is also a Death&Taxes game ... huh.[/Edit] Next up: this (old) battle between the Teutonic Order (YAY!) and Novgorod (BOO!). When Novgorod charged in to battle (Broke off a siege in Muscowy while I was looking elsewhere), I thought it was going to be a quick death for that stack, especially since on day 1, my general died, leaving the stack without any general, and only a +2 crossing bonus. And it was a quick battle, the logs in the bottom left confirm that the battle of Ingermanland lasted 11 days (from 16 August 1404, to 27 August 1404). However ... I won. Not only that, but it started off (with full morale on both sides, I might add) with 14000 Novgorod troops vs. 5000 Teutonic Order troops. Over 1500 Novgorod troops died in the ensuing slaughter, while my general dying amounted to more than 14% of Teutonic casualties! (And even then, despite this being a textbook case of how a battle is fought ... I still only gained 0.5 Prestige and 0.1 Land Tradition. Typical...

 

[Sybot]

Poor Pommerania. You know you're in trouble when your own army is siding with the ones attacking you.

They're lucky I was there to come to their aid.

 

[Pompan]

Poor Pommerania. You know you're in trouble when your own army is siding with the ones attacking you.

They're lucky I was there to come to their aid.

What country has an army standing in Brandenburg? ...The province Brandenburg. Kurland?

 

[vasziljevics]

What country has an army standing in Brandenburg? ...The province Brandenburg. Kurland?

yeah, that's Kurland.

 

[Sjiveru]

Kurland is the war leader rather than the Netherlands? How big are they?

(And who are you?)

 

[Sybot]

Kurland/Courland is me. It's Azerimod, where you can start out in the Latvian region as the Batavian Order and form Courland once the Reformation happens. Not really that strange in context. Currently I hold the Baltic regions from Prussia to Finland, plus a few colonies, so I'm easily larger than the Netherlands.

 

[Serzis]

Kurland/Courland is me. It's Azerimod, where you can start out in the Latvian region as the Batavian Order and form Courland once the Reformation happens.

Haven't played Azerimod, but was it perhaps the Livonian Order, rather than Batavia -- the latter historically being located on the other side of Europe? Still, the Duchy of Courland does not seen like the natural successor, considering that it was more of a split-off. The Livonian Confederacy feels like a more natural semi-secular state to reform into, rather than collapse into. Still, it would be as much a compromise as Austria-Hungery -- which for some reasons exists in quite a few mods.

On the issue of the actual screen-shot: Tough luck for Brandenburg.

 

[Sybot]

Haven't played Azerimod, but was it perhaps the Livonian Order, rather than Batavia -- the latter historically being located on the other side of Europe? Still, the Duchy of Courland does not seen like the natural successor, considering that it was more of a split-off.

It's an alternate history scenario with Dutch crusaders in the Baltic instead of Germans (amongst many other things), and the Courland decision is basically the same as the Teutonic Order -> Prussia decision in requirements. I guess that's the logic behind it.

 

[Serzis]

It's an alternate history scenario with Dutch crusaders in the Baltic instead of Germans (amongst many other things), and the Courland decision is basically the same as the Teutonic Order -> Prussia decision in requirements. I guess that's the logic behind it.

How peculiar.

 

[unmerged(531554)]

Spot the strange?

 

[Taiisatai64]

Dat Gotland.

 

[Ivir Baggins]

Transylvania. And Serbia. And Swesish Algeria and western Turkey.

 

[Taiisatai64]

Transylvania. And Serbia. And Swesish Algeria and western Turkey.

What about Serbia...?

 

[CassCD]

I find the map itself strange.

 

[Marcus Scipio]

Spain in Norway?

 

[DanubianCossak]

Spain in Norway?

Happens in my game only like all the time. Its either Spain or England who go on a conquest spree in Scandinavia, and sometimes even Ottomans...

 

[JesterCorp1990]

In all of my dozens of games, I have never seen this happen:

 

[unmerged(487181)]

So I was minding my own business as Milan assisting Bohemia against France when suddenly, the Genoa, a legendary tribe of Lombard nomads, appeared at my borders.

I got the screenshot a few years later, after successfully colonizing Genova (read: sending 1000 civilians to declare to a town of several hundred thousand that they now were under my sovereign rule). The Genoa now roam the island of Corsica; no one dares brush upon its shores for fear of being cannibalized, I'm sure, and as a result of their fierce reputation the Genoa will now live forever.

 

[unmerged(271387)]

Why do i think thati have seen an orthodox genoan horde before here?
What version do you use?And could you upload a save?

 

[unmerged(487181)]

DW5.1. I'll happily upload a save if I can figure out how. What steps do I take to do that?

(Caveat emptor: Austria's current mission is "Our claims to northern Italy"...)