Your First Custom Nation?

[Mafiabrett]

I just got done watching the Borgia's.. so im thinking of making Cesare's ambition Northern Italian Kingdom with the Borgia Dynasty.

Capital would most likely be Florence
Religion Catholic
Culture (This is a tough one, i might make it Catalan since the Borgia's are from Aragon but i might also make it Italian since only the rulers are Spaniards and adopted alot of Italian culture.
Location North of Papal States, but south of Switz/Austria
Color not sure yet
Government Feudal Monarchy
Tech Western

 

[lordreaven448]

I'm thinking maybe a country down in South Africa, Buddhist or Hindu Philippines. Maybe a big Siberian Nation too.

 

[Mikalos]

Def gonna do IS

then mod out the reqs when that fails and create a world where christianity never florished, or islam. just a bunch of pagans everywhere

 

[Krajzen]

Def gonna do IS

lol

screw your IS, I will create Kurdistan

 

[anomanderus]

The noongar empire will conquer all

 

[Incompetent]

lol

screw your IS, I will create Kurdistan

Never mind custom nations, this needs to exist as a revolter in the standard game.

 

[moscal]

Name: Caesar's Legion
Location: west Mesoamerica or west north America
Religion: norse, meybe aztec
Culture: roman or local tribal
Color: imperial crimson
Gov.: empire or tribal federation or steppe nomad
Tech.: western or mesoamerican
Leader: Edward Sallow (planned stat - 2/3/6)
City style: north american tribal

Traditions: +10% Infantry combat ability; +25% vassal forcelimit bonus
Fight of opposites: -10% idea cost
Brutal pacification: -10% stability cost; -0,1 doom progress (?)
Assimilation tribes: +10% manpower
Modern slave society: -10% power build cost; +10% productions
War, war never change: -10% cost of reducing war exhaustion
Strict abstinence: +5% discipline
Code of Laws: -1 RR; +5% tax
Ambition: +1 leader shock

 

[Crusaderking28]

Not sure if said before, but I'd like to cover the New World in a ton of ahistorical countries. Chinese Colonies in California, Vinland, Markland and Greenland, Nova Roma in Florida. Primarily to mess up colonization, they would be mostly Western Tech.

 

[emux]

Mine goes nicely with the one posted by emux.

Leng

Location: Kokand, Central Asia
Culture: Uzbek
Religion: Sikhism (Followers of Hastur and the Great Old Ones)
Government: Theocracy
Leader: The High Priest Not To Be Described (5/1/3)
Tech Group: Western

Traditions: +50% Hostile core creation cost on us, +1 Attrition for enemies

Land of Nightmare: +30% National spy defense
The Plateau of Leng is known to be a place of unimaginable terror. Only the most fool-hardy of foreign agents would dare attempt to infiltrate it.

Unnatural Growth: +10% Manpower recovery speed
The race of men that inhabit Leng are not quite human, and it is said they derive nourishment from the flesh of their foes...

Voice of the Old Ones: -2 National unrest
The High Priest of Leng rules with absolute awe and terror, for his words are the words of the Great Old Ones.

Ships of the Moonbeasts: +25% Trade range
The toadish moonbeasts are fellow servants of the Great Old Ones. With the help of their merchants and flying ships, there is almost nowhere Leng cannot reach.

Call the Endless Cults: +10% Land forcelimits modifier
When the time is right, the High Priest of Leng can summon the scattered servants of the Old Ones from around the world to join in his great work.

Blessing of the Old Ones: +15% Morale of armies
The armies of Leng fight with fanatical strength, knowing that the triumph of their masters is inevitable.

Visions from Beyond: +3% Missionary strength
All mortals will come to venerate the High Priest and the dark gods he serves, willingly or not.

Ambition: +10% Global trade power

I'm sure the exact numbers will have to tweaked, especially if I decide to go for a 'fair' game, but that's the gist of it.

ancient epic battle on MP!

 

[cziken201]

If theres an endless limit on custom nations (or one that you can increase), ill just do custom setup - create the entire world - play.

 

[Lakedaimon]

I'm gonna make the Brotherhood of Steel for sure!

 

[Kinney]

I kind of want to create either Aotearoa or Hawaii, but the lack of a Polynesian culture in the game is a problem in that regard.

 

[Yxklyx]

I kind of want to create either Aotearoa or Hawaii, but the lack of a Polynesian culture in the game is a problem in that regard.

Don't those un-colonized provinces have unique cultures already? Are you sure there's no Polynesian?

 

[cpm4001]

Never mind custom nations, this needs to exist as a revolter in the standard game.

I believe it does already, actually.

 

[grommile]

I believe it does already, actually.

The tag ARD (Ardalan) is designated as the primary tag of the Kurdish culture. There is no tag called "Kurdistan", though that is the default name of Province 418 in all languages except English (where it is called Diyarbakir by default)

 

[Tzeentch_]

A pirate nation exclusively for multiplayer.

Culture: English
Name: Pirates of the Caribbean
Religion: Catholic (later reformed)
Technology group: Western
Government: Merchant Republic
Ruler: Hector
Dynasty: Barbossa
Capital: The Azores or Tortuga
Map graphics: Western

+0.5 Yearly republican tradition
+20% Colonial range or Colonist

+10% Morale of armies
+15% Morale of navies
+100% Available mercenaries
-10% Mercenary cost
-15% Naval maintenance modifier
+30% Privateer efficiency
+1 Yearly naval tradition

+25% Naval forcelimits modifier

The nation will revolve purely around privateering and declaring war against any player with a significant amount of coastline. I'll then proceed to blockade, sink their fleets, burn down colonies, loot their provinces and hopefully you can steal gold from the treasure fleets coming back from America. Mercenaries will do most of the ground work as it'll be risky business looting provinces and assaulting coastal provinces without getting caught. Demands will always be gold, lots of gold. Sometimes rum.

The only thing that I'm having trouble with deciding is where to start. Ideally it would be Tortuga, but a western nation in America is 170/200 points already. There's no way you could have decent ideas with ~30 points remaining even as an OPM. My other idea was to start in the Azores and shoot straight for America with Exploration and then move my capital there. Failing that I would probably start along the Barbary coast or even Somalia. I'm not too sure though, as getting enough provinces in Africa for a decent naval force limit would be more difficult, well, keeping hold of them will be (compared to the numerous islands in the Caribbean for example).

Any suggestions?

 

[Keioel]

IF Roman culture is in at release I'm gonna do either a Roman Republic or a Western Roman Empire game.

 

[Shuriken]

An Orthodox Moray.

Moray was once independent, and my ancestors are all from the region.

Orthodox because I think it fits the thrawn mindset of the Scots (especially of Moray). Also it never made sense that they'd have such trouble with temporal leadership in London, but be fine with spiritual leadership out of Rome.

 

[Gidia]

Hmm, a Vinland situated in Newfoundland (and whatever areas I can get after choosing western tech), and more than likely a Knights Templar nation located around Maine soon after that.

 

[QuestingMod]

Probably the Katzie, the first nations group that lived where I grew up, represented as an OPM with very standard west coast native ideas. Something simple.

For future playthroughs... I don't know, I kind of see myself mostly using it to represent smaller, less-significant OPM states roughly where they were located, or else vassal states which EU4 incorporates into their mother realms. Something small.