What's the worst game you ever played?

[unmerged(176373)]

My first DW game, at attempt at forming Italy via Venice, has to be the most blunder-full game I've ever played.

The first mistake was going towards naval, and then not bothering with colonization. I'm not really sure what I was thinking, beyond "strong navy is good!"

I started expanding into Italy rather than the ottoman lands, since I wanted to form Italy. Through some very lucky breaks I managed to conquer most of Italy except Milan, the last holdout I needed to form Italy. And then disaster...

Burgundy was leading a PU with both Milan and Bavaria, an inherited them both. And then soon afterwards kicked France's ass.

I needed some help and a deterrent against Burgundy, so I allied with Switzerland and Austria, who in this game was a tiny state that got it's ass kicked earlier in the game. I helped Austria expand eastwards and soon Austria had all of Hungary and was into the Balkans right up to the Ottomans. By now Burgundy was a massive empire stretching from Milan to Brittany to Holland.

I expanded into Ottoman territory to get some more manpower in preparation for the eventual war against Burgundy. The Ottomans were easy enough to destroy and I had just finished conquering a whole lot of territory by the time the reformation started. I got excommunicated because I wasn't watching my relation with the papal state (whom I had annexed earlier) so I switched to Protestant.

Which broke all my alliances. Giant Austria then declared war on me. Being full Naval and some quality, I was still really hurting for Manpower. Burgundy then piles on.

Austria kicking my ass in the Balkans, Burgundy kicking my ass in Italy. This is where I gave up o

 

[lordkestrel]

I ended up getting annexed by Armagnac.

 

[cosmeIII]

I ended up getting annexed by Armagnac.

Woah woah what, you mean, as Armagnac?

 

[lordkestrel]

Woah woah what, you mean, as Armagnac?

No, I was playing Avignon, and Armagnac annexed me (France had been broken). Pretty shameful

 

[unmerged(303218)]

Running out of missions by 1410 as Brittany.

Uniting France and Western Germany as Burgundy (maybe form France), getting excomm/Badboy, endless warring, pwning everyone, revolts everywhere, overextension. Rebel Wars. More rebels. Even more rebels. Owning everything from the Pyrennes to the Elbe-Danube line (and the Po Valley) with average RR of 20-30%. (Few cores, you know.)

 

[Concrete]

Back when I was learning to play, I went Austria, and in short order was at war with all of Europe at the same time.
Needless to say I ran away from that game, but it did teach me an important lesson: Badboy is called bad for a reason.

More recently a TO>Prussia game, in which I could do nothing to either Novgorod, Brandenburg(HRE), Poland/Lithuania or Denmark, for the fear of being immediately hit from two other sides. I was trapped like that until 1550.(Although I suppose I did manage to turn everything around after that though.)

 

[KPJ]

I started a game a few days ago that was my first EU3 fail ever, Golden Horde to Russia.
I formed Russia, expanded to Kola, St. Petersburg, Ruthenia and Budjak in the west, all of GH territory in the east.
Now I've Westernized to Muslim tech, but stability is requiring something like 3 years per point at full funding, war exhaustion is massive (I can't beat the Europeans without something like 10v1 odds), and without putting big stacks (who cause attrition and more war exhaustion) I can't beat the rebels that pop up, 2-3 stacks every month. I tried loading an earlier save and reforming the government before I westernized, but I get the same problem, stability is almost impossible to control, and with the reformed gov. my forcelimits and income disappear, while my units stay the same, and to make things even worse the various hordes to the east and west (Lithuania and Poland became hordes) invade too hard.
I've spent hours replaying a 10-20 year stretch and can't seem to make any ground on it, finally gave up

 

[unmerged(336515)]

The first day I played, one of the nations I played with was Sardinia in Nomine. The first month, Milan declared war on me. Needless to say, I got crushed

 

[unmerged(277230)]

I started as Naples and went to form Italy. I went over the limit, and converted to protestant.

Basicly same concept as the first post

 

[Cpt. Beercan]

The first game I played was as Burgandy. I thought I was doing so good, i annexed Leige, Bar, Brabant, Luxemburg, Holland. I was geting bigger and bigger. By 1402 i was pretty much at war with everyone in Europe...and lost.

 

[unmerged(323328)]

Almost crashed and burned with my Yaroslavl-Russia game. Massive waves of revolts every five years (Thank you, Golden Horde >_>) and at times something like 80 inflation. Let's not get started on Westernisation. Managed to salvage it though.

Had a short game as Lorraine in which I invaded all my neighbours. Go to five provinces, but then Burgundy wanted Bar back. I think that's all that needs saying...

 

[unmerged(290778)]

It was my first game ever. I was Castille and busy waiting for my newly annexed Aragonese provinces to core up. While I was busy waging war with Portugal, Aragon, and north African nations, France was busy blobbing up and became the Holy Roman Emperor.

Then they invaded me... GG

 

[unmerged(115269)]

I took a break for a few months in Eu3; played as Bohemia and ended up in a war against Poland, Hungary, Milan (not so much a problem) and Austria. Let's just say, the HREmperor is a 2 province speck :< *ragequit* quickly followed

 

[kuroiya88]

Playing as Timurids in 5.0. I tried so hard to reform my government. Waves of rebels and foreign invasions crippled my country for decades. I reached the 1600s and realized it was a lost cause. My armies were so backward that they couldn't hold their ground. It was a lot of hours spent just to realize how futile it all was. I next tried to creat the Mughals with Delhi, but that was my second worst game (ended in complete disaster).

 

[Moltke]

In early EU3 before any expansions. Worst game I ever played.

Thankfully it's a new game, I consider among the best now. Worst country? Timurids. Ugh.

 

[unmerged(277230)]

Ah. I was just reminded of a game where I was Pomerania, and Poland brought me down to be a OPM. 100 years later, I had united all of Germany. Good times.

 

[JDMS]

My very first game, playing IN as Castille. I completely ignored Aragon and Portugal, instead choosing to try to conquer all of North Africa. I made it to Tunisia before having to quit. I was at -3 stability with rebellions every few days, impossible inflation, and no money. I gave up.

 

[Hystarea]

I formed HRE and I got mega rebels all over place D: I was stupid and tried becoming even larger which meant more rebels, I conquered France, but then too many rebellions so I quit :\

 

[gela1212]

My worst game has probably been "Take That von Habsburgs!"

Don't you realize how hard it is to abuse European tech advantages to kill your enemies? Psh.

 

[unmerged(277230)]

My worst game has probably been "Take That von Habsburgs!"

Don't you realize how hard it is to abuse European tech advantages to kill your enemies? Psh.

The game has hardly gone anywhere. But then again, Denmark and England have forced colonization upon us about 250 years early.