The Obligatory EUIV Strange Screenshot Thread

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Remind me: names and surnames are chosen from pool specific to a culture, so it is impossible for Majapahit to miraculously get 'random' guy named Timurid, right?

Yup. Only a civ that has no culture can get random names (happened to me once when I made an error while modding and had a succession war between Xiu and Cocomes when my leader died).
The only way Majapahit could get this is marry a horde...
 

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The only way I can see it happening is a long chain of unlikely events, like how you used to get succession wars between the Ottomans and Japan over the Golden Horde because they all had the same dynasty. But that soon? Beats me.
 

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Any horde can get the Timurid dynasty fairly easily. The real question is which horde was close enough to Majapahit to arrange a marriage, especially seeing as Maja has a different religion group.
 

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Any horde can get the Timurid dynasty fairly easily. The real question is which horde was close enough to Majapahit to arrange a marriage, especially seeing as Maja has a different religion group.

Latest patch, non-christian faiths can marry whoever they please (assuming the country isn't christian). It could have been a chain, e.g. timurids -> malacca -> majapahit or some other arrangement.

The most dubious part of this is that in 12 years two countries had rulers die without heirs, considering how easy it is for islamic nations to get heirs and that iirc both nations have rulers + heirs at the start of the game.
 

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Latest patch, non-christian faiths can marry whoever they please (assuming the country isn't christian). It could have been a chain, e.g. timurids -> malacca -> majapahit or some other arrangement.

The most dubious part of this is that in 12 years two countries had rulers die without heirs, considering how easy it is for islamic nations to get heirs and that iirc both nations have rulers + heirs at the start of the game.

This is very weird situation indeed...
 

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Sweden seems to have a slight rebel problem
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My first ironman! So:

Where's my power projection?
Where are all the Iberians in Morocco? I think it's the first time I saw that happen.
WTF, Poland? Also, small blue blob Kiev, not Krakow.
I don't think I've ever seen Livonians and Riga expand this way. I don't think I ever saw Riga expand at all.
Also nowadays I rarely see Genoa only in the east.
 
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My first ironman! So:

Where's my power projection?
Where are all the Iberians in Morocco? I think it's the first time I saw that happen.
WTF, Poland? Also, small blue blob Kiev, not Krakow.
I don't think I've ever seen Livonians and Riga expand this way. I don't think I ever saw Riga expand at all.
Also nowadays I rarely see Genoa only in the east.

How the fuck of all countries Bohemia got burgundian inheritance
 
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How the fuck of all countries Bohemia got burgundian inheritance

Simple - Emperor inherits. No? For me it's quite common to see Bohemia in Netherlands.

Can you rival anyone? If you can't get any rivals you don't get power projection.

Actually I think it was a glitch - "turning it off, and on again" helped.

This game went south for France really quick. The rebels literally broke the country apart, never saw it before. France was left with around 7-8 provinces.
 

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Simple - Emperor inherits. No? For me it's quite common to see Bohemia in Netherlands.
If the Emperor is reasonably powerful (8 provinces, 6 if Austria). So yes, Bohemia isn't all that unlikely: it's a pretty powerful prince in the HRE, and it's an elector to boot, so it has all the chances to be elected. It also starts with 7 provinces, so it only needs to win one more somewhere. And that's where the difference between Bohemia and the Palatinate lies: the latter needs to get expand from 3 provinces to 8, which is why we see it a Palatinate Burgundy much less often than a Bohemian. (or at least I do.)