The Largest Nation YOU have ever built.

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Seeing that their is a post for the largest AI nation you have ever seen I think it would be fitting to have one for the largest nation YOU have ever built. I mean... what's fun about bragging about the AI's nation? Let's boast our nations. I will be posting one here soon.
I'm sure people have plenty of HUGE nations, especially those who claim to have achieved WC. LET'S SEE IT! I'm curious to see it all.


jdfess

 

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I don't have any screenies (it was on another computer) but I had a game about 3 months ago in which I was playing France, and controlled all of the British Isles and the Netherlands (I'd diploannexed Eire and Scotland, and forcevassaled and annexed England, and then inherited Burgundy) and got to colonize North America and Australia and New Zealand uncontested. By about 1680.

 

[Raze]

Cheats or no cheats?

 

[Mats_SX]

Cheats or no cheats?

Seriously, exactly how impressive is a WC with a cheating France, when there is a WC as Xhosa, with no cheats, out there?

My record would be an England I made. Screenies some day.

 

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That was without cheats. (sarcasm) love how you just assumed that it was a WC *and* that I was cheating.... (/sarcasm)

I had some lucky breaks early in the game and simply decided to see what a combined British/French Empire would have looked like. Aside from the Burgundy inheritance I'd kept it to those two chunks of Europe... which means, with a couple exceptions along the German side of France, all of my provinces were of French, English, Gaelic or Dutch cultures.

The BB was a bit high for a while in the early 1500s, but I play conservative, and was allied to Spain, Portugal, Genoa and Savoy (until I annexed Savoy too, then I think I had the Papal States), so most of the AI's were scared of my alliance. I'd also taken all the choices in the Italy-related events that did not give me any claims, so there weren't conflicting claims.

I'd kept the BB down some by annexing England before it colonized at all. It had been forcevassaled based on a second war in roughly 1435, so I had plenty of time. (I bought maps off Norway early on, so I was able to start colonizing Canada as soon as I started getting exp's and conq's.) I did have to fight a couple wars against Austria and Venice and their allies, but fought them to draws. (And I think I forcevassaled Helvetia in there but didn't annex it. Same for some of the west-central German states, you know, around Hesse.)

It wasn't exactly a WC, nor an attempt to do so, but the point it was at at circa 1700 might have been a decent (if late) launch point for something like that.

 

[anubisfike]

*Borat voice*: I like!

All of it is Catholic except Morea... the damn spartans wont convert xD

It is one of the bigger countries I have succesfully created.
Also western part of Northern America and western part of Siberia is mine...

 

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I have a fairly hefty Spain going in another game that maybe I should post screens of. It's not quite as large as that France, but part of that is due to the fact that I've not been very aggressive in it.

 

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I have a fairly hefty Spain going in another game that maybe I should post screens of. It's not quite as large as that France, but part of that is due to the fact that I've not been very aggressive in it.

THAT FRANCE IS MASSIVE!!! It's Charlemagne's Empire and then some. Oh and... I guess you can put cheats on here but seriously... What's the glory in that I mean hell... Anybody can cheat lol.

 

[anubisfike]

Its not cheat.
Believe me if you want..
All of Balkan was from diploannexing Austria.
So I didnt take all of that myself.
Only Italy, Netherlands and some things in Germany. Also Aragon...

 

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Its not cheat.
Believe me if you want..
All of Balkan was from diploannexing Austria.
So I didnt take all of that myself.
Only Italy, Netherlands and some things in Germany. Also Aragon...

I believe it, it's only 6 or so provinces larger than this Germany, which is also without cheats (see my Germany AAR). I mean just the Europe part. My Germany didn't have that big of a colonial empire.

 

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Impressive empires you got there. As for my empire, it isn't very big, but I'm very proud of it.

It's Pomerania in AGCEEP 1.54 on very hard.

 

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I believe it, it's only 6 or so provinces larger than this Germany, which is also without cheats (see my Germany AAR). I mean just the Europe part. My Germany didn't have that big of a colonial empire.

Haha I love how Croatia is just a little beacon of difference in that whole giant germany you got there. Are they your vassals?

 

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They were my vassals yes, but they converted to Sunni so I couldn't annex them. It was very annoying to have that orange spot in all my gray. Almost as bad as blue Paris.

 

[BurningEGO]

Its not cheat.
Believe me if you want..
All of Balkan was from diploannexing Austria.
So I didnt take all of that myself.
Only Italy, Netherlands and some things in Germany. Also Aragon...

How did you colonize so much? That is the question tbh. You colonized more then 100 provinces and its only 1700... What are your sliders?

P.S: and what is more comic about it, is that by 1708 you have only LT 33 with such a massive, and obviously wealthy france

 

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Here's another one I like - played as Granada in AGCEEP 1.53 I think, on normal:

 

[anubisfike]

How did you colonize so much? That is the question tbh. You colonized more then 100 provinces and its only 1700... What are your sliders?

P.S: and what is more comic about it, is that by 1708 you have only LT 33 with such a massive, and obviously wealthy france

Narrowminded, Free trade, Naval, Free subjects, Plutocraty, Centralization, Defensive, Quality.

All of it isnt full colonies yet, and I have also got ALOT of random explorer events, each giving 4 colonists. (Or is it 3?)
My sliders gives 7 colonists a year.
I got full free trade early from random events, and after that it wasnt a long jump to narrowminded (3-4 if i remember correctly) and then naval was achieved sometime around 1540 I think...
And centralization comes from random events + french events strenghtening the crowns power.

7colonist/year x 200 years (if I count in random colonists also, it is somewhere around 7 a year for 200 years..) is 1400
1400/10 (wich is a colony) is 140. So if ALL would succeed I have 140 colonies provinces, and I have counted my total colonies to somewhere around 110, and then remove provinces conquered from pagans (that is 20 something) and then remove all provinces revolted off england to me, and those I have taken in war, (10-15 something), and there is my massive colonial empire! (Also on a funny sidenote, 1 province in alaska was colonized by china, and that province also revolted to me.

And I have put everything to Infra and Trade to get as much out of my massive empire as I can. Level 10 in both, and now researching naval.
Nobdody dare to fight me anyway as it is... o

 

[Skarion]

Trying to accomplish a WC before the end of the game but the BB wars are just so boring that I never actualy care to play after 1780.

 

[Dspencer]

*Borat voice*: I like!

Wow, you're history says your stability just dropped, but for some reason you're stab is at +3! Maybe your france should be coloured orange instead of blue.

 

[BurningEGO]

Haha well spoted! No cheats, you said, eh?

And i also believe Pocahontas have imigrated to france!

 

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Haha well spoted! No cheats, you said, eh?

And i also believe Pocahontas have imigrated to france!

I LOOOOVE the Granada. That's impressive. As well as the Pommerania. Also, to the Pommeranian one. WHy don't you just take over Croatia? It's not like anybody's going to declare war on you and destroy you're Empire or something. BB's already gotta be high, who cares? Just force annex them.