Your First Custom Nation?

[Marcus Septim]

We all know we need this thread, and we all know we're already planning out our first designer nations. So, lets share, here's mine, very much a work in progress:

Nova Roma, a tiny state founded by aristocrats lost at sea while fleeing Italy during the Dark Ages.
Location: Some good province in the Caribbean, preferably on the N. American coast. Just an OPM.
Culture: Umbrian
Government: Oligarchic Republic
Religion: Orthodox, maybe Catholic
Graphics: Eastern, maybe Western
Tech Group: Presuming your starting world map still depends your tech group, then probably meso-American. If not, then Muslim or Indian should do nicely (or even Chinese, ideally, I'd want to have cavalry, but willing to sacrifice it).
Traditions:
+2.0 Republican Tradition
-10% Tech Cost
Ideas:
+1 Colonist
-10% Army Attrition
+20 Settler Increase
+1 Army Tradition
+1 Merchant
+25% Fort Defense
+1 Diplomatic Relations
Ambitions:
-20% Building Power Cost

i will sue you for copywright i had the same damn idea Nova Roma was torn betwen republic or Empire

 

[Leoap]

Pirate Nation!!!Capital Tortuga

 

[abedfo]

Replace Byzantium with Gondor as a noble republic. Reform to monarchy when the true heir of Elendil is found. Bonus points for smashing Mordor.....i mean the ottomans!

Religion. Coptic.
Culture. Gothic.
Tech Group. Western.

Provinces. Constantinople, Edirne, Macedonia, Epirus, Thessaly, Morea, Achaea, Athens. If this can be afforded.

 

[Krajzen]

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Pirate Nation!!!Capital Tortuga

Religion: Nahuatl so you have to engage in pirate raids to race against doom meter. Also military bonuses.
Government: Tribal Democracy
Culture: Irish or something equally crazy

Ideas: super corsairs, super fleet, super trade, super tolerance

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My idea: al Andalus

Iberia split between Portugal, Castille, Aragon and Andalus so you can survive unlike Granada.
Ibadi religion for naval morale.
Naval and colonization ideas.
Western tech.

Goal: NOT conquering Castille/Portugal and instead engaging in a colonial race against them, naval wars, treaty of tordesillas complications etc.


Idea nr 2: divide all Australia on OPM 'aborigine' nations with some cool religion. Play as one of them. Profit.

Idea nr 3: Roman Empire starting a OPM in Rome. Government - Empire, super military ideas, Pagan religion, let the hell break loose.

Alternatively do the same thing with 'Sparta'

Idea nr 4: if judaism is allowed via converter - Israel with 3 provs, uber military ideas, try to survive.

Idea nr 5: create custom nations allied with each other:
Mordor - all Middle East
Isengard - Iberia and Maghreb
Harad - rest of muslim Africa
Rhun - all Tartar hordes

Versus an alliance of!

Gondor - Byzantium
Rohan - Ruthenia
Dwarves - Caucasus
Green Elves - Muscovy
Eriador - France
High Elves - Italy

 

[RegulasFade]

The lost church of the east:

Holy Bishopric of Saint Thomas. Might think of a better name at some point.

Basically the Malabar Coast provinces, only changed to Coptic with religious gov. type if possible. Indian Tech still.

This area was one of the only eastern Christian sects to last past Timur's reign and in this alternate history they would retain their dominance in the region. These guys are also technically the real origin of the prestor John legend (rather then Ethiopia).

 

[net.split]

Gonna play a nation off the northwest coast of Africa, just south of Morocco. I don't know about the name or flag yet, but it'll be a merchant republic with ideas focused on colonization and trade. I'll go with Shia religion and Islamic tech group so I don't have a Portugal-easy game. I'll also start with a very small number of provinces.

Meanwhile I'm going to spawn countries all over Spain, France, and the Ottomans to break up those blobs. Maybe toss a couple Norse countries in Scandinavia and Britain. Russia's going to see a few newcomers to compete with Muscovy, too.

I demand chaos!

 

[vitek69]

I'll go for some ahistorical country, like Carthage or Latin Empire

 

[Yxklyx]

One with a capital in Oceania.

 

[poursa]

But the Latin Empire is pretty historical..

 

[Ober]

Sixth Heaven: Rome, all-military ideas, Japanese, Shinto, 6/6/6 Oda Nobunaga the Demon King. Let the annihilation of humanity begin.

Great Moravia to form a tsardom for all Slavs.

Alternatively lost Chinese colony in California with Zheng He as its first governor.

 

[Jacobinx]

Islamic State

 

[Rainbow Mirage]

Alternatively lost Chinese colony in California with Zheng He as its first governor.

That would actually be pretty neat to play as.

 

[TenshiN]

The Han Empire! Capital: Luoyang, Government: Empire, Tech: Chinese (Taking all Ex-Ming territories, except the few provinces below Yunnan)
Ideas:
Traditions: National Manpower Modifier +33%, Idea Cost -10%
Ideas:
1) Son of Heaven: Yearly Legitimacy +1
2) Steppe Expansion: Colonists +1
3) The Han Script: Diplomatic Reputation +1
4) Legalism Teachings: National Unrest -2
5) Local Administration: Production Efficiency +10%
6) Chu Ko Nu: Infantry Combat Ability +10%
7) The Art of War: Land Leader Siege +1
Ambitions:
Land Forcelimit +50%

Always wanted to play as the Han China, and now i can! The ideas themselves are subject to change, probably

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I think I might do something like take the province of Malta or maybe a province in Ireland like Meath and make a nation called "Gooby pls".

- Cheapest regular republic (probably oligarchic), merchant if we have spare points due to being an OPM but the set below is pretty good so maybe not at 200 points.

- Tradition: +100% available mercs, -50% mercenary cost
- -2 unrest
- +2 tolerance of the true faith
- +1 yearly RT
- -25% core creation
- +2 diprep
- +5% discipline
- +20% morale
- Ambition: -33% merc maintenance

Might be fun to make it something like Hindu.

Another fun one: Cursed pig men
Religion: Animist

Tradition: Missionary strength +3%, +1 missionary
- -2 unrest
- +2 tolerance true faith
- 5% discipline
- 20% morale
- 20% infantry combat
- 25% land FL
- -25% attrition
- Ambition: - 20% artillery combat ability

Convert Europe to animist easily.

There's always derpy junk like swapping out Baluchistan + huge chunk of Timurids + Delhi and giving yourself the freebie garbage ideas, then form Mughals.

 

[vitek69]

But the Latin Empire is pretty historical..

So is Carthage; my bad for poor wording. I meant something more like "out of place" in EU4 era. Like, historical nations that never made it into this part of history.

 

[wolfing]

I'm not so interested in making a custom nation by itself. The first thing I'll do is create a custom nation AND play a random world.

 

[jedikiller1]

Illuminati or New World Order in Bavaria...

 

[billclintonmask]

Gonna make my home state of Pennsylvania

 

[Gurluas]

Believe me, I wish I could get Rome to be this:

But what are my options? Animist? Shamanist? Romans are no tree worshiping Barbarians!

Assuming they port all the Ck2 religions, Hellenic will be there too. and you can make an Hellenic Rome.
Like this:

It's not certain how many they'll add by release though.
So far only Norse and Jewish are in...And I admit, I prefer having Zoroastrian before Hellenic.

 

[Rooz]

either some ridiculous HRE prince or in colonizable lands