The Obligatory EUIV Strange Screenshot Thread

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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.
This just made my day! Sometimes humanity can be awesome.
 

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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.

This was an interesting read, thanks :)
 

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Maybe not so strange, probably was the 100 trad general event but still, this general is insane :D And he is my vassal aswell along with Wales. Poor England they will pay the Iron price.


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Also, not exactly strange, but it is the first time I have seen this event occur.
If you are not a horde where you can deliberately try to trigger it is pretty rare, one of the main restrictions is that it requires the province to be your primary culture but not the other countries'.
 

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So... I knew there where 0/0/0 kings, but Theodora took the cake this game
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Meanwhile... other weird things that happened this game where...
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England has owned all of that since they defeated France in the initial war, lost another province recently though, baguette is rising.

Then this is whats happening in Asia and Russia.
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Whats going on? :eek:

Oh and Ethiopia became terrifying for the Muslims in the region
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All your screenshots are cool but this



completely cracked me up

Going by the logic of how long kings live, I would say that King will live for the rest of the game.
 

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Most of that land is horribly useless Tibetan wasteland.

Though it is still pretty nice expansion for a poor OPM with generic ideas :p
Actually they're a 5PM with Shan ideas and a gold province. Although, while the gold puts them a bit ahead of others in the area they really should eat Jaunpur and Arakan if they want to make good money.

That said SEA usually comes down to alliances these days. Those countries fight each other for superiority and the land changes hands left and right until someone finally (not always though) comes out on top. My borders might be off, but it looks like Ming exploded and they ended up eating Dali to the East. That's not great land, but at least it beats Tibet land which is only good for getting your name in big letters.

Then again getting your name in big letters is a good thing too :p

Edit: Oh, and Shan ideas are pretty low on my list when it comes to ideas. They're better than generic, but nothing in there really strikes me as "good".
 

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There have been stranger things in this thread but i found this game interesting to watch Europe . Playing as GB but have not touched Europe until a few years ago (PU/integrated Sweden after they ate Norway and Denmark).


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France have been dividing Austria over the years and both Tirol and Styria are doing extremely well, Styria is currently owning the Ottomans. Sardinia-Piedmont rose from savoys ashes and ruled as emperor for a 100 years untile France decided they hade done enough and stompt them. Tuscany eating Italy might not be so uncommon, but The Papal state relocating to Nurnberg and becoming a OPM is something new.
 

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Actually they're a 5PM with Shan ideas and a gold province. Although, while the gold puts them a bit ahead of others in the area they really should eat Jaunpur and Arakan if they want to make good money.

It's a common problem in the area: Jaunpur is a tough nut to crack at the beginning (the strongest starting state in India probably), and many weak countries prefer to expand into poor Tibet just to get some free provinces - I often see Assam and Nepal owning most of the tibetan plateau, which does absolutely nothing for their economy or force limit. Of course, I've also seen Jaunpur dominating Tibet a couple of times for no reason at all, and once I think I've seen Ming completely relocating there, which is pretty fun thouhg.

All in all, I like the thought of Mon Yang conquering Tibet, as they are my first objective in my Tibet games (due to same culture group, gold province and not many friends).