Your First Custom Nation?

[TomosCaerllion]

Assyria

I'd either go overboard and create all 32 custom nations as an alt-history world, or recreate loads of states from antiquity, or just use it to improve and augment converted games, giving sensible ideas etc.

Here's one I'd like to make though:

Assyria: Based around Northern Iraq and part of Syria.
Culture: Syrian (close enough)
Religion: Coptic (again, close enough)

Ideas:
Traditions: +1 Yearly Legitimacy and -5% Tech Cost.
Ambitions: -20% Core Creation Cost.

The Lamassu Guardians: +20% Fort Defence.
As Old as History: -1% prestige decay.
Royal Palaces: -10% build cost.
Church of the East: +2% Missionary strength.
Royal Lion Hunts: +10% Cavalry combat ability.
Fertile Crescent: +10% Production Efficiency.
King of Kings: +2 Diplomatic Relations.

 

[eon47]

go overboard and create all 32 custom nations as an alt-history world

This, all the games, all the time. :wub:

Suðreyjar consisting of all of Norway's islands and possibly some combination of Ireland and Scotland. Muslim Iberia. Christian North Africa. Something--anything--in England to make it more interesting. A more historically accurate Navarre (irony noted). A Catalan-Occitain state. A Japanese Shinto state in southern Korea. Something Finno-Ugric. Christian India. More Siberian states to block the possibility of Spanish colonization there. Jewish Semien. All the pagans in Scandinavians. ALL THE PAGANS EVERYWHERE.

El Dorado will basically ruin vanilla for me, but in a very enjoyable way.

 

[Ternega]

An OPM Christian European Despotic monarchy with maxed out diplomacy: rep/relations/overtime/vassal income/vassal force limit/Improve relations/envoy travel/free diplomat/unjust demands. And try to push game of thrones to it's logical extreme. Probably in HRE. May be some espionage if I have slots/points left. A starting ruler must have 6 in diplo, rest is situational.

 

[jacobsighs]

A tribal kingdom in Europe called "Polans" after the tribe from which Poland derives its name.

 

[murlocmancer]

Amazonian empire, i'll start in brazil and make my female empire that will rule the world! Probably military focused ideas and some colonizers.

I also want to make an Mediterranian island nation but not sure how you can pick your provinces. Maybe just a Carthage.

 

[Sunspawn]

Militaria
Primary Culture: Random
Primary Religion: Shia
Gov't form: Absolute Monarchy

Traditions: all the land morale I can put & +1 leader shock
+20% Manpower
-10% tech cost
+20% FL
-10% idea cost
-25% coring costs
+1 Leader fire
max Inf CA I can put
Ambitions: All the discipline I can put there.

Start in some BT-rich region, maybe HRE.

 

[Eh up me duck]

Basilea Hellas

Primary Culture: Greek
Primary Religion: Pagan/Hellenic
Government: Empire

Traditions:

Don't know EU4 enough to be specific. Land and navy buffs, cheaper tech.

I would grab as many Greek provinces as I could.

 

[VladimirLenin]

Might as well put mine in:

Location: In the northern Caucasus.
Culture: Russian
Government: Absolut Monarchy
Religion: Orthodox
Graphics: Eastern.

The nation would probably be some sort of Russian state reflecting my home, Stavropol.

 

[Janiculum]

Some sort of America look-alike.
Columbia
Government: Merchant Republic probably
Tech: Western
Culture: American, duh
Religion: No idea, probably Catholic

Location: This is the fun part, I definitely want to start in Africa, probably around Lake Chad or southern Tunisia somewhere.

Traditions: Idea Cost -5%, Tech Cost -5%
Ambitions: Republican Tradition +1
Ideas:
+15% Trade Efficiency
Colonists +1
National Unrest -2
Culture Conversion Cost -20%
Core Creation Cost -20%
Infantry Combat Ability +15%
+1 Merchant

 

[Pellucid]

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.

Make sure you give Saruhan its old flag again.

 

[cpm4001]

*Stronk Ireland owning Scotland and Wales. Ha, ha, England.

*Milan completely unchanged from its standard except with Sardinia-Piedmont's great blue color.

*Properly buffed Ulm...in an observer game.

 

[Baconman]

Would love to play on the idea that most of the Templars fled Europe and play as them somewhere in the middle of the U.S or Maybe Minnesota and eventually come back and try to get revenge on France

 

[SotoElTerremoto]

The Impirrenship of Rynatoo

The Impirrenship is one of the many nations of the Americas that are incredibly advanced when it comes to technology, With their vassals, Asignon, Juran, and Suran, they look to expand along the western coast of America and potentially colonize Asia.

Traditions:
+1 colonist
-20% tech cost

Ideas:
Hegemony over Rylonia;
+2 diplomatic relation, +25% subject forcelimit

Retake The Wastes;
+1 Colonist, +25 settler increase

Retribution against the Mikaeli;
+5% discipline, +10% army morale

Building of the Armadas;
-20% ship cost, +15% navy morale

Exploitation of the Westerners;
+50% colonial range, +10% discipline

Final Conquest;
-25% core-creation cost, -50% time to fabricate claims, -50% aggressive expansion penalty

etc.

Basically super-OP nation of my choosing, in north america, along with 31 other American nations that have better tech than Europe.

Yeah. Dis gun be güüd...

 

[Brodacious]

Random Mercenary band somewhere in the world. Probably make an Israel nation too. 1444 CSA? Probably. Imperium of Man? Better believe it.

 

[Radene]

I think I'll start with the Caliphate of Caliphornia. Not sure yet about ideas, but it's going to spread the true faith across NA before those pesky European infidels get there.

 

[CassCD]

I intend to go all out. A Custom Setup (dark world) with Random Values and a Random New World. I seek to make all 32 available nations, strewn about the world, starting as OPMs. Every single nation will have to claw its way from mediocrity into gargantuan behemoths. Quick and early expansion will be emphasized when I get into the details of the nations I create. I have no idea which nation I'd choose for myself, assuming I choose one at all. This world I'm playing might actually be even more entertaining if I go into Observer mode and watch the AI go at it without human interference.

 

[PMLF]

I plan to create some anachronistic countries:

- Brazil with more or less modern borders
- Israel with more or less modern borders
- Vinland
- Chinese state in California
- Zoroastrian Persia

 

[TheDecider]

Hansa (trade modifiers) or Netherlands (naval fl, mercs, trade income) but on steroids. Definitely calling it Vandersex

Then a replacement in Iberia, an über-colonizer. Sadly max 1 colonist though, a certain bonus could only be in one slot and all envoys were locked to lvl 1.

 

[atwix]

my first custom nation?

None.

Stupid feature really.

Just another feature that "allows" paradox to ask us money, and in the end not all will use it, because you can't get any achievements you want.

And to be honest, i think the majority of player base care more about achievements then a custom nation.

Those people will prefer albania, wallachia, najd, ryukyu etc to get hard achievements more then playing a custom nation.

I really hope there won't be good features to use in the dlc apart from custom nation. Because i won't buy the dlc if it hasn't got additional good features.

 

[AlphaSonic]

Because no one uses CK2 Designer, or because everyone plays just for achievements.