Your First Custom Nation?

[spinoza013]

Cornwall!
Ideas towards production, morale regen, goods produced, stability cost, religious unity, infantry ability and maybe leader shock. I'd like to fit reduced autonomy in there, but IDK

Catholic religion

Not decided on Black and Gold or Black and white flag just yet.

OPM would be a hard start, but catching England in the middle of the HYW and the war of the roses could be interesting, sneak some land from Ireland and go from there

Kernow, I'd be interested in trying this out too.

 

[ArtayOfficial]

Kingdom of León
Capital: León #208
Ruler: #Random#, dynasty: Jiménez.
Heir: #Random#, dynasty: Jiménez.
Territory: All historical provinces before integrating by Castille.
Units: Western, of course.
Technology Group: Western.
Government: Feudal Monarchy.
Culture: Galician or Castillian.
Religion: Catholic.

Traditions: +5.0% discipline
Ideas:
+10.0% land morale
Permanent casus belli against neighboring heathens and heretics(?)
+2% missionary strength
-25% Accepted culture threshold
-5% Idea cost
-10% Land attrition
-10% Naval maintenance modifier
+1 Yearly army tradition
-25% Advisor costs
Ambitions:
-10% Technology cost

 

[Christopholes]

I'm not playing a Cornwall till I can have:
Popcorn: +1 land lead shock
Corn maize: +1 attrition for enemies
and Wall of Corn +20% fort defense
as ideas.

 

[DCyDe]

Illyria,

starting with Albania, Serbia and maybe Ragusa and Bosnia (more and it would be too easy)

* sea raiders: + 15% galley combat ability
- skirmish tactics: land leader manouver +1
- into the hills: enemy attrition +1, defensiveness +10%
- legacy of the roman wars: infantry combat ability +10%
- Adriatic supremacy: trade power +15%
- epyrote traditions: -25% merc cost
- reform the navy: +30% naval forcelimit
* Illyrian pirates: + 50% raiding efficiency

 

[HussarHD]

Bulgarian Republic

Capital: Sofia
Religion: Orthodox
Culture: Bulgarian
Location: Modern Bulgaria and piece of Greece
Color: Dark Green
Government: Noble Republic
Technology group: Eastern

 

[ratonbox]

Either create a proper Romania just to see how easy it is to take over Europe or for fun I will make Napoleonia in St. Helena, with Land Leader Shock value +1, -25% merc cost, as much discipline that I can muster, western tech group(will be expensive) and just some other random ideas, like colonists and merchants.

 

[eliaspays]

I'm going to mod so that infinite points can be used and recreate the world of 1984. Disputed territory will be wasteland.

 

[net.split]

Cornwall!
Ideas towards production, morale regen, goods produced, stability cost, religious unity, infantry ability and maybe leader shock. I'd like to fit reduced autonomy in there, but IDK

Catholic religion

Not decided on Black and Gold or Black and white flag just yet.

OPM would be a hard start, but catching England in the middle of the HYW and the war of the roses could be interesting, sneak some land from Ireland and go from there

Yeah, this is pretty much a "conquer Ireland, basically play as Ireland" game. You don't have too many other options (you can't do anything against England, HYW or no).

Unless you make more custom nations! You can make 32, after all. So, make more nations for Wales, Kent, and Northumberland to split up England a little more. Maybe do the same with France so it's not even more one-sided (even just replacing a few vassals with independent states could go a long way). For more local fun, break up Scandinavia a bit too.

Of course the "just go Ireland" option is still there, but you could fix that by creating a united Ireland as well. Or maybe a split Ireland between two nations vying for control -- that's probably even more fun.

From there, what you do (apart from Day 1) is mostly a result of the alliances that form between your new states. And that's a lot more interesting!

 

[grommile]

I am tempted (but not that tempted) to do the following:

Name: Bejam
Government: Administrative Republic
Provinces: Reykjavik, Akureyri

 

[ponasozis]

gonna make something silly like atlantis with random stuff

 

[omega20056]

A Byzantium that avoided the civil war of the mid 1300s and managed to hold onto Greece.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Yeah, this is pretty much a "conquer Ireland, basically play as Ireland" game. You don't have too many other options (you can't do anything against England, HYW or no).

Unless you make more custom nations! You can make 32, after all. So, make more nations for Wales, Kent, and Northumberland to split up England a little more. Maybe do the same with France so it's not even more one-sided (even just replacing a few vassals with independent states could go a long way). For more local fun, break up Scandinavia a bit too.

Of course the "just go Ireland" option is still there, but you could fix that by creating a united Ireland as well. Or maybe a split Ireland between two nations vying for control -- that's probably even more fun.

From there, what you do (apart from Day 1) is mostly a result of the alliances that form between your new states. And that's a lot more interesting!

If you set available mercs as a tradition, you can jack your FL up pretty hard, hard enough that if England goes abroad you can stuff them with gobs of infantry + Scotland + tech lead + looting to fund it wins.

+100% is 12 FL, so you'd start with 15-16 (16 based on Cornwall's tax IIRC). I'm not sure that will be allowed though.

 

[Helperman123]

Alanas's Empire or (Ulm Empire)
Central Germany, Leading Dynasty: Alanas
Government: Feudal Monarchy
Starting tradition
-15 AE reduction
+10% improvable relation
Ideas.
A shattered Legacy!: +7.5 discipline
Un-unstandable Leaders: -10 Stability Cost Modifier
The Emperor's favorite: +2 Diplo reputation
Shen's Moderator: -10 tech cost
The lesson of Qing's game: +15 national manpower modifier
Paradox's jokes: -2 national risks
Never Trust A Crimea: No stability lost when breaking diplo relations with people.
Ambition: + 15 infantry combat.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

fair enough.. my apologies then.

But that 20% doesn't mean only 20% of player base does ironman.

It means 20% of all the sold copies of eu4 ever played ironman. And it might be only that 20% of all sold copies still play the game.

So it might be that 100% of player base plays ironman.

... just to say numbers prove nothing

Even common achievements like taking a province or doing a royal marriage have pathetically low rates. While there is the potential for some variance in people attempting an ironman and quitting quickly, or deliberately conquering nothing ever, I think it's fair to guess that the percentage of players who pick ironman and then deliberately avoid even the most basic achievements attained by playing the game more than a few minutes is very low, and that the achievement % for those is, while not perfect, a pretty close estimation.

 

[-Malovane-]

Doubt it's possible, but..

Vinland:

Eastern Tech Tribal Nation. Shamanist (or Norse/Germanic if that's available). Starts in Beothuk.

Traditions: -25% Naval Attrition, +2 Naval Leader Maneuver

Songs of the Red: +1 Colonist
A Longing for Home: +50% Naval Supply Range
A Return to Old Ways: +50% Privateer Efficiency
The Reconquest: -15% Core-Creation Cost
Great Blots: +15% Land Morale
Prepare the Invasion: -20% Infantry Maintenance
The Reformation: +2 Missionary Strength

Ambitions: +1 Land Leader Shock

 

[net.split]

If you set available mercs as a tradition, you can jack your FL up pretty hard, hard enough that if England goes abroad you can stuff them with gobs of infantry + Scotland + tech lead + looting to fund it wins.

+100% is 12 FL, so you'd start with 15-16 (16 based on Cornwall's tax IIRC). I'm not sure that will be allowed though.

Does England go abroad properly in the current update? Haven't watched the HYW play out very closely in recent versions.

 

[FreeSoc]

Does England go abroad properly in the current update? Haven't watched the HYW play out very closely in recent versions.

It has a bizarre tendency to invade Hungary (if Hungary joins on France's side) and Aragon's islands (if Aragon joins on France's side).

 

[unmerged(777425)]

Western Icelandic Caliphate
Muslim tech
Capital in Reykjavik

..and of course colonize-aimed ideas.
Will be fun to see if I survive until the colonizing can begin!

 

[eliaspays]

It has a bizarre tendency to invade Hungary (if Hungary joins on France's side) and Aragon's islands (if Aragon joins on France's side).

Or any person that France allies, really :laugh:

 

[benice1234]

I like the idea of a Chinese republic on the west coast.