The Obligatory EUIV Strange Screenshot Thread

[wizardchakka]

Apparently imperially long family names are now all the rage among Austrian nobility. Say hello to Maximilian I, of the house von und zu Goldegg und Lindeburgh. I still cant read that without laughter. His friends just call him Max though.

 

[Lord_P]

Apparently imperially long family names are now all the rage among Austrian nobility. Say hello to Maximilian I, of the house von und zu Goldegg und Lindeburgh. I still cant read that without laughter. His friends just call him Max though.

Von und zu Goldegg und Lindeburgh? Von und zu? The... what???

 

[Blijert]

Apparently imperially long family names are now all the rage among Austrian nobility. Say hello to Maximilian I, of the house von und zu Goldegg und Lindeburgh. I still cant read that without laughter. His friends just call him Max though.

I thougth it was an easteregg, turns out they were real! http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldegg_zu_Lindenburg

(Basically an old Tyroler noble family, no english wiki)

 

[wizardchakka]

::EDIT:: Lol Blijert, I never checked for that, all the more hilarious that its a real family

 

[Clownie]

The Stromer von Reichenbach and von und zu Goldegg und Lindenburg families are really, really common when you're playing with the nation designer, for some reason.

 

[Illianor123]

I think its a bug related to its government type. It comes from an event, the last time i got it was when I was warring on Pueblo as a Kingdom of USA. It made all non-republics that border me join a coalition against me, which were just themselves, Navaro and myself I beleive. Because I somehow border myself. And ain't a republic.

Assuming you possess to provinces that are adjacent to each other, then you border yourself.
So if you were a bunch of enclaves then you wouldn't.

 

[Sunspawn]

The Electors are feeling a bit indecisive.

The latter is an anti-king elected to curb the Emperor's power.

 

[Krajzen]

Von und zu Goldegg und Lindenburg sounds more badass the more I think about it.

 

[radco85]

The most pathetic centers of religion I've seen yet

 

[TheArrogantOne]

Apparently imperially long family names are now all the rage among Austrian nobility. Say hello to Maximilian I, of the house von und zu Goldegg und Lindeburgh. I still cant read that without laughter. His friends just call him Max though.

Get a royal marriage with the Iroquois and have a von und zu Goldegg und Lindenburg with a badass 20-letter name

 

[MetalTaberna]

So here I am, playing Poland, which is stereotypically known as being very Catholic, so I decided that when the Reformation was to hit (my first time), I would take Religious Ideas and hope for Emperorship.

*ding*

Hm, that's early --

No.

Nooooooooooo. Not my 12 BT capital Warzsawa. Cuuuuuurse you, ATL-equivalent of Martin Luther... (and only 20 years until my next idea group! Yay religious unity!)

 

[Parapluman]

In my Spanish achievement hunt i declared war on Tlemcen who was at the time a opm. During the war they somehow got another uncored province. (they weren't at war with anyone else though so how they obtained is is beyond me)

I took their capital and forgot about them, but then a few decades later I noticed that they still hadn't cored their new capital. By the end of the game they had gained another opm as a vassal but they still refused to pay the monarch points to core their capital. (the country that does have a core is Tunis i made a small graphical mod that replaces their flag with an elephant)

Heres one of my colonial nations that spawned rebels before I had even named them yet. So I christened them "Rebelton" And these were no ordinary rebels either but the rare Congolese-English Patriots.

 

[chrnno]

So here I am, playing Poland, which is stereotypically known as being very Catholic, so I decided that when the Reformation was to hit (my first time), I would take Religious Ideas and hope for Emperorship.

*ding*
Hm, that's early --

No.

Nooooooooooo. Not my 12 BT capital Warzsawa. Cuuuuuurse you, ATL-equivalent of Martin Luther... (and only 20 years until my next idea group! Yay religious unity!)

As Poland I just like to take humanist and completely ignore religions within christianity. So what if the country is split three ways between orthodox, protestant and reformed I am still catholic with 125% religious unity anyway.

In my Spanish achievement hunt i declared war on Tlemcen who was at the time a opm. During the war they somehow got another uncored province. (they weren't at war with anyone else though so how they obtained is is beyond me)

I took their capital and forgot about them, but then a few decades later I noticed that they still hadn't cored their new capital. By the end of the game they had gained another opm as a vassal but they still refused to pay the monarch points to core their capital.

Coring range is defined from owned cores thus they are unable to core their capital unless they get a subject that happens to border them.

 

[Krajzen]

The most pathetic centers of religion I've seen yet

Well this made me chuckle

 

[Fongo592]

It looks like Lithuania wants to race Muscovy to the Pacific

 

[TheArrogantOne]

Sooo, I started a new game as a custom nation in Poznan (OPM). Then I switched to observer and after, I came back. Some fun stuff happened... (Note : It's Extended Timeline and 1444 start)

First, I thought this is pretty fun. Notice Poland's name....

God save us all.... Commonwealth, c'mon, don't be so OP...

They actually did it... (Don't pay attention to my ugly borders, I did it on purpose )

 

[Dakilla TM]

Get a royal marriage with the Iroquois and have a von und zu Goldegg und Lindenburg with a badass 20-letter name

No he needs to find a way to marry Ayuthaya(Thailand), that way he can have a ruler name with 50 letters

 

[josh127]

The Electors are feeling a bit indecisive.

As Qing you can reject both Phony (Not) Roman Emperors, because you know who the one true emperor in the world is.

 

[chochko12]

Strange things happen in HRE...

Kongo is in its starting position - western and Catholic.

 

[Krajzen]

Honestly I think it is absolutely awesome. Historical Kongo from this period was Christianized, pretty densely populated and strong enough to resist Portuguese for a long time (and win in a few major land battles over them) while sending emissaries to Europe and buildings its religious infrastructure. Furthermore those emissaries were received pretty cordially in Europe.

One thing which fascinates me in eu4 period is how fluent and non-obvious intolerance and tolerance for different cultures was. Vatican received Catholic emissaries from such exotic countries as Kongo and Japan and reportedly received them with great honours. One Japanese samurai traveller went to Europe, his ship crashed and he had to land in France where he became local fame by fascinated people. There were Iroquis emissaries received as a guests on a French court and black skinned merchants, aristocrats and intellectuals in Europe and USA at this time. Hell there was even one very prominent black guy in Russian court. Read that again.

One one hand we had barbarity, cruelty, arrogance and fanaticism and on the other constant crazy intermixing between cultures and politics either being dictated by dogmas or astonishing realpolitik - in eu4 period there was a functioning alliance between Elisabeth's England and Morocco against Spain. England was exporting high tech artillery to Morocco to help them fight against Christians! France has been occasionally allying with and supporting Ottomans as well as standing on the side of Protestants in religious wars despite being zealous Catholic. Armed forces of PLC had very loyal soldiers of Muslim Tatars (they were among the most loyal in the period of Deluge when country was almost annihilated). There were Portuguese soldiers fighting alongside Ethiopians against Adal Sultanate (also black-skinned) supported by Ottoman janissary corps. Dante Alighieri in his greatest work placed Muhammad on the lowest level of hell as Antichrist but in the same time he placed Saladin among the great noble pagan men alongside Socrates, Cicero etc.

The high reputation of Saladin viewed in Europe as great honorable knight never ceases to amaze me. We are talking about Muslim general from the period of bloody muslim-christian wars who dealt devastating defeat to Christians, reconquered Jerusalem and turned its main church into mosque. But he was nice, intelligent and honorable and spared civilians from massacres. It is quite inspiring to find out that at least sometimes quality of a man steppes over prejudices and cultural boundaries.