First serious game ever, i signed white peace with the emperor of HRE (bavaria) while in the war for the crown of austria. Didn't think that it would revoke my military acces through the HRE :-(
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not all that painful since it happened early, but still enough of a screw up to make me stare at my monitor in disbelief for a good 5 minutes.
started an ironman game as Sweden. i decided that i wanted to bide my time and fatten my bank account before declaring independence from Denmark. after 20 years or so, the perfect opportunity presented itself, Denmark is at war with both the Ottomans and Muscovy and is getting stomped. i immediately declare my independence and proceed to siege all of Denmark. i offer a peace that would give me all of my core provinces and a healthy stack of ducats. only after Denmark has accepted do i realize that i forgot to also demand my independence. the PU continues and my perfect start comes crashing down
started an ironman game as Sweden. i decided that i wanted to bide my time and fatten my bank account before declaring independence from Denmark. after 20 years or so, the perfect opportunity presented itself, Denmark is at war with both the Ottomans and Muscovy and is getting stomped. i immediately declare my independence and proceed to siege all of Denmark. i offer a peace that would give me all of my core provinces and a healthy stack of ducats. only after Denmark has accepted do i realize that i forgot to also demand my independence. the PU continues and my perfect start comes crashing down
Way too many instances of forgetting to cancel military acess (and wasting DIP) and putting people on ships 
Playing as France I wanted to get the Master of India achievement. Russia had become a monster though and had taken over parts of India already in 1700. In Europe Austria was a monster and Russia was allied to Austria. I attacked Russia and had most of my troops in India to fight them and I was going to peace out Austria asap and give up somehing I didn't need much, like my PU with Naples. I did this on day 1. A few weeks later... Austria back in the war. I noticed this cause they attacked my only stack that I had in Europe.
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That's correct although they probably should put in some system to disallow being called back into a war you already left by the same side...
They were called to war by Russia when I DoW Russia yeah. I peaced them out the first day, but they entered the same war again a few weeks later. I know this happens (which is stupid) but I had forgotten it for a moment. I screwed up
As Malaya I was exploring the pacific while dealing with a war against Japan, I get distracted and lose one of my light ships in the middle of nowhere. Well that's fine, I'll just build a new light ship, stick an explorer on it and send it over. So I do that, I forget again. Repeat one more time, 150 diplo power gone down the drain because I cannot into micromanagement. Hmm, time to pay a bit more attention, so this time I pay attention to my ship, I get distracted by it and Japan butt mangles my 15k stack.
Started a game as Utrecht -> Netherlands.
At first everything went awesome, in few decades I transformed income 3 OPM into income 20 trade power. However I had incredibly bad luck with Burgundy: this country, in 99% weak and smashed by neighbors, this time somehow turned to be so strong it can beat France alone.
And then SUPER RETARDED SCREW UP
Burgundy declares war on united France <if anyone declares war on united France it means you should be horribly terrified of him>, I am an ally of France, but I don't honor alliance.
This would be pretty wise move, because Burgundy dragged into war its two allies... Castille and Denmark... With Castille having Aragon and Naples under PU and Denmark having Norway, Sweden and Saxony + Venice and Milan.
...the problem is, later I declared war on this super alliance. With my only allies being England and 2 province Hansa.
Remember, I am 6 - province Utrecht. My army size limit is 13 regiments. For some reason one half hour ago I decided it would be awesome idea to declare war on the alliance which was occupying 1/3 of FRANCE in the same time, I literally attacked the single most powerful force in the world.
I seriously don't understand why have I done this. My entire war plan was completely idiotic, I thought 'well their armies are taking care of France while I will just attack Breda and everything will be OK'.
First thing AI does is returns one of few invading armies to Breda, completely massacres my entire country along all my desperate measures such as mercenaries and sorties, everything is occupied, the end. I ragequit and just stare in my screen; I don't understand my own stupidity. It is 4 AM, the middle of the night in my country, and I instead of sleeping and preparing for big exams, or doing whatever productive with my life, just created a country and idiotically destroyed it in few hours.
At first everything went awesome, in few decades I transformed income 3 OPM into income 20 trade power. However I had incredibly bad luck with Burgundy: this country, in 99% weak and smashed by neighbors, this time somehow turned to be so strong it can beat France alone.
And then SUPER RETARDED SCREW UP
Burgundy declares war on united France <if anyone declares war on united France it means you should be horribly terrified of him>, I am an ally of France, but I don't honor alliance.
This would be pretty wise move, because Burgundy dragged into war its two allies... Castille and Denmark... With Castille having Aragon and Naples under PU and Denmark having Norway, Sweden and Saxony + Venice and Milan.
...the problem is, later I declared war on this super alliance. With my only allies being England and 2 province Hansa.
Remember, I am 6 - province Utrecht. My army size limit is 13 regiments. For some reason one half hour ago I decided it would be awesome idea to declare war on the alliance which was occupying 1/3 of FRANCE in the same time, I literally attacked the single most powerful force in the world.
I seriously don't understand why have I done this. My entire war plan was completely idiotic, I thought 'well their armies are taking care of France while I will just attack Breda and everything will be OK'.
First thing AI does is returns one of few invading armies to Breda, completely massacres my entire country along all my desperate measures such as mercenaries and sorties, everything is occupied, the end. I ragequit and just stare in my screen; I don't understand my own stupidity. It is 4 AM, the middle of the night in my country, and I instead of sleeping and preparing for big exams, or doing whatever productive with my life, just created a country and idiotically destroyed it in few hours.
Using the new ship building template as the Otomans, I built a new 30 stack of trade ships for use on Constantinople. Half were auto built on the other side of the Suez, and I hadn't discovered a way around Africa yet. Had to rebuild.
I didn't realize that you couldn't annex a vassal when you are at war which delayed my plan for Lebensraum but a lot.
Playing as England I take apart France, make Switzerland a powerful march and feed vassal Milan almost all of Italy.
Then my ally Austria revokes the privilege. Around 100 base tax vassals lost and quite a lot of curses uttered.
I completely forgot about how far the HRE already progressed and stupid me even helped them getting there :sad:
Then my ally Austria revokes the privilege. Around 100 base tax vassals lost and quite a lot of curses uttered.
I completely forgot about how far the HRE already progressed and stupid me even helped them getting there :sad:
I don't know how many times I have declared war during a truce by mistake. (sometimes I do it in purpose though to keep their truces allies away from the war)
I've given land to the wrong vassal who is unable to core the land several times.
I've just left boats in the middle of the ocean to slowly die more times then I can count.
I didn't know I could let go of a personal union and go into a war with France and a major coalition war at the same time when I was big Prussia.
I've declared war on the wrong country by mistake while not paying attention a few times. I refer to these as my wars of the great clerical errors.
I've joined really stupid ally wars because I misread who was on the side of my enemies.
I'm getting a bit better at looking before I leap in this game but leaping is fun and looking is boring so it's not unusual that I'll do real well and then die from stupid things I wasn't looking at but know better then.
I've given land to the wrong vassal who is unable to core the land several times.
I've just left boats in the middle of the ocean to slowly die more times then I can count.
I didn't know I could let go of a personal union and go into a war with France and a major coalition war at the same time when I was big Prussia.
I've declared war on the wrong country by mistake while not paying attention a few times. I refer to these as my wars of the great clerical errors.
I've joined really stupid ally wars because I misread who was on the side of my enemies.
I'm getting a bit better at looking before I leap in this game but leaping is fun and looking is boring so it's not unusual that I'll do real well and then die from stupid things I wasn't looking at but know better then.
Hahahaha, yeah this one is great.
I just did this last night in my current Novgorod game.
I have Norway, Livonians, Perm, Ryazan, Kazan, Nogai and finland as vassals.
I'm allied to France.
I declare on Otto and start using my army to clear my vassals rebellions while they are out fighting the good fight.
Couple of years down the road Hedjaz and mamluks start sending me peace offers.
Military Advisor: "Sir, the AQ alliance is falling apart. Both the Mamluks and Hedjaz is begging for peace."
Knyaz: "AQ alliance? Aren't we fighting the ottomans?"
MA: "No sir, you where very specific, you wanted to declare on AQ."
K: "I pointed you towards Eastern Anatolia."
MA: "Yes sir. To the province that had defected to AQ during a siege."
Lesson to be learned. Doublecheck your decs.
Whenever I play Gelre and think France would be a good ally against Burgundy....
FranceOP.exe has stopped responding.
FranceOP.exe has stopped responding.
As a Byzantium which had reconquered all of Anatolia and the Balkans, I suddenly, out of the blue, got a PU with France in about 1560. Austria, which is my rival and quite powerful, intervenes. I decide to smack Austria about a bit and then concede France to them, on the basis that. having been smacked about, they will then have France declare on them.
Decades pass, and I finally get around to buying CoP, and making use of that nifty Support Independence mechanic. France accepts, and I look forward to taking Austria apart, along with France, and thus being able to sweep into Naples and Italy unopposed.
Then Austria inherits France. Not integrates, inherits. Right out of the blue, with a chance to do so of around 4%. It therefore becomes impossible for myself, as Byzantium, to conquer anything in Europe except the OPM Papal State (in Rome) and Hungary. Austria has an army of 245,000 men in 1650, and outnumbers my 100,000-man Byzantine army by two-to-one.
All because I didn't fancy the hassle of hanging on to a PU with France, my former loyal ally, in 1560.
Decades pass, and I finally get around to buying CoP, and making use of that nifty Support Independence mechanic. France accepts, and I look forward to taking Austria apart, along with France, and thus being able to sweep into Naples and Italy unopposed.
Then Austria inherits France. Not integrates, inherits. Right out of the blue, with a chance to do so of around 4%. It therefore becomes impossible for myself, as Byzantium, to conquer anything in Europe except the OPM Papal State (in Rome) and Hungary. Austria has an army of 245,000 men in 1650, and outnumbers my 100,000-man Byzantine army by two-to-one.
All because I didn't fancy the hassle of hanging on to a PU with France, my former loyal ally, in 1560.
I do so many things by randomly misclicking I'm pretty sure my rulers are drunk all the time for the explanation.
Just recently:
Declared war on Denmark and named Fyn as the war goal instead of one of their mainland provinces when they had a superior fleet.
Declared war on OPM Novgorod who has no allies to clean up his last province, but didn't pay attention to the truce timer. To top it off, I had just annexed Denmark and was waiting on Muscovy's 5 years for their allies to get bored to annex them so Admin points were in short supply.
As Aztec went way over relations limit to start the game and get a bunch of alliances so I could unite the area.
Problem #1: I took royal marriages so it was costly to backstab them. Why I did that I have no clue because that was a rookie mistake.
Problem #2: In the 2nd war, I picked a country not allied with any of my allies, but then in a show of total idiocy I named a co-belligerent who I had purposefully avoided declaring on so that I wouldn't draw in half my alliance against me.
Sometimes I feel I'm my own worst enemy. But then a peasants war hits and I remember who the real enemy is.
Declared war on Denmark and named Fyn as the war goal instead of one of their mainland provinces when they had a superior fleet.
Declared war on OPM Novgorod who has no allies to clean up his last province, but didn't pay attention to the truce timer. To top it off, I had just annexed Denmark and was waiting on Muscovy's 5 years for their allies to get bored to annex them so Admin points were in short supply.
As Aztec went way over relations limit to start the game and get a bunch of alliances so I could unite the area.
Problem #1: I took royal marriages so it was costly to backstab them. Why I did that I have no clue because that was a rookie mistake.
Problem #2: In the 2nd war, I picked a country not allied with any of my allies, but then in a show of total idiocy I named a co-belligerent who I had purposefully avoided declaring on so that I wouldn't draw in half my alliance against me.
Sometimes I feel I'm my own worst enemy. But then a peasants war hits and I remember who the real enemy is.