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my first global play was for portugal, i like them for colonisation, i didnt try WC, but what i did is reloading after each failed colonist 
to make them all succesfull, thus i colonised almost all americans shores at 1520
to make them all succesfull, thus i colonised almost all americans shores at 1520
Duke of Wellington said:
he he, no, i'v make save and just look into it, succesfull colonisation = yes or no, so if no success i reload and gave another try, even with 20-30 percents it works pretty succesfull
o oh gee, yeah, thats some form of ...[enter proper word, i dont know]
but just think for awhile - about 1500 monthly income before 1520, no rivals in new world, no rivals in techs, no competition anyhow...and thats became soo boring
, hehe
My first game of EU I, I played Russia. Lost most of my armies to attrition before the weather cleared. Restarted a few times before I figured out to immediately split up my big starting armies and get the resulting smaller armies spread out into several provinces to be under the attrition limit.
My first game of EU II, I played Ethiopia. That was with version 1.03--I had an enjoyable game until the duplicate tag bug screwed up my saves. I deleted and reinstalled the game before I discovered this forum and learned the work-around for the bug.
My first game of EU II, I played Ethiopia. That was with version 1.03--I had an enjoyable game until the duplicate tag bug screwed up my saves. I deleted and reinstalled the game before I discovered this forum and learned the work-around for the bug.
Old Joe said:he he, no, i'v make save and just look into it, succesfull colonisation = yes or no, so if no success i reload and gave another try, even with 20-30 percents it works pretty succesfull
Why didn't you just modify the savegame when you took the bother to check the success? That way you wouldn't have had to do it over and over again.. You could just have replaced "success = no" with "yes"..
my first game I also played as Sweden in the grand campaign with the 1.08 patch.
I actually did quite well, conquering denmark and colonizing american and canada (colonial cities in kansas).
By the end of the game it was my protestant empire versus the big white blob of super-austria, and I basically built maybe 500K troops and whomped them
I actually did quite well, conquering denmark and colonizing american and canada (colonial cities in kansas).
By the end of the game it was my protestant empire versus the big white blob of super-austria, and I basically built maybe 500K troops and whomped them
thats cheating you know, save-load is game feature, so its not a cheatmhusoy said:
madness?
right
Yes it is cheat. Not save-load but save-reload. It's a big differense.Old Joe said:
But it don't feel like cheating thats the all important difference :rofl: and since its a game feature its WaDSnake IV said:
My first was with France. Lots of bloody fighting in the 100 Years War until I force vassalized Burgundy only to realize that a large group of the English had crossed the channel and my forces were stretched thin. At that point I had to restart. The second time things went very well, but I was a bit of a pacifist. The English held on to a territory in France, Brittany still existed, and I didn't get Lorraine or Alsace. On the bright side, I had an ok sized colonial empire and most of the Dutch provinces belonged to me. I got bored in the 1600's though.
My first game was a Grand Campaign with Russia in EU1. It was wonderful to learn by making mistakes. In the first 50 years I have conquered the Volga with "millions" of men dying in unuseful assaults (didn't know that sieges can be better sometimes).
My friends were Denmark and Bohemia.
Frequent wars with Sweden in the north, Poland in the east and Persia in the south, each one with its alliances. I don't like to lose, so I got some provinces every peace negotiation.
Two important things helped me to change the game forever.
1) Diplo-annexed Denmark. They had found some provinces in Northern Canada. My foothold for America colonization was established (then started investing in Naval Technology. Nonetheless, Denmark had vassalized Norway before. So all Sweden was rounded by my nation. What to do? War and annex.
2) Conquest of some Persian provinces in the Levant as peace negotiation. I didn't wish to have muslims in my nation, but those provinces were so rich that I started loving them. It help me get lots of money and started using merchants more seriously.
It took a long time since I got my first Consquistador to go eastward into Siberia. Meanwhile Portugal was nice to share his maps and then I found some colonies here and there, in every part of the world.
After I diplo-annexed Bohemia, all Europe declared war on me. I kept annexing those small countires each war. Allied with Netherlads as soon as they got free. They conquered French provinces while I was annexing all Poland and Germany.
Then I knew that good relations prevent wars. I allied Austria (I didn't dare to beat them), and got friend of England and France.
After Spain went bankrupt in the late 1600's, I started conquering all her rich colonies in America. Did the same with Portugal. Then I found many colonies in the Southeast Asia and India.
What to do with a gigantic budget and manpower? Conquer the world!
A nearly 100-year war with the Ottomans made half of Eurasia Russia fall to rebels, but I managed it and got the richest provinves from the Turks.
Also annexed Persia and Mysore. I recruited all my soldier there and lauched a campaign to China. "Millions" died in the way (attrition in Vietnam), but I got it in the mid 1700's.
The game ended in 1795 (EU1). If it was EU2, I should say I could conquer the rest of the world, but as a realistic person I say that if it was EU2 I couldn't do the same, due to the features it has.
After that I had to format my PC and lost everything. There are only good memores.
My friends were Denmark and Bohemia.
Frequent wars with Sweden in the north, Poland in the east and Persia in the south, each one with its alliances. I don't like to lose, so I got some provinces every peace negotiation.
Two important things helped me to change the game forever.
1) Diplo-annexed Denmark. They had found some provinces in Northern Canada. My foothold for America colonization was established (then started investing in Naval Technology. Nonetheless, Denmark had vassalized Norway before. So all Sweden was rounded by my nation. What to do? War and annex.
2) Conquest of some Persian provinces in the Levant as peace negotiation. I didn't wish to have muslims in my nation, but those provinces were so rich that I started loving them. It help me get lots of money and started using merchants more seriously.
It took a long time since I got my first Consquistador to go eastward into Siberia. Meanwhile Portugal was nice to share his maps and then I found some colonies here and there, in every part of the world.
After I diplo-annexed Bohemia, all Europe declared war on me. I kept annexing those small countires each war. Allied with Netherlads as soon as they got free. They conquered French provinces while I was annexing all Poland and Germany.
Then I knew that good relations prevent wars. I allied Austria (I didn't dare to beat them), and got friend of England and France.
After Spain went bankrupt in the late 1600's, I started conquering all her rich colonies in America. Did the same with Portugal. Then I found many colonies in the Southeast Asia and India.
What to do with a gigantic budget and manpower? Conquer the world!
A nearly 100-year war with the Ottomans made half of Eurasia Russia fall to rebels, but I managed it and got the richest provinves from the Turks.
Also annexed Persia and Mysore. I recruited all my soldier there and lauched a campaign to China. "Millions" died in the way (attrition in Vietnam), but I got it in the mid 1700's.
The game ended in 1795 (EU1). If it was EU2, I should say I could conquer the rest of the world, but as a realistic person I say that if it was EU2 I couldn't do the same, due to the features it has.
After that I had to format my PC and lost everything. There are only good memores.
My first game was with Sweden (of course) , playing eu1. Remember buying it a month or two before eu2 was released hehe. I ended up conquering Skåne and Norway following all these damn missions which i later turned off.
, playing eu1. Remember buying it a month or two before eu2 was released hehe. I ended up conquering Skåne and Norway following all these damn missions which i later turned off.
My first game of EU2 that I remember was as Muscovy. I did fairly well starting off by cancelling my vassalization with the GH and DOWing them. After nine years I got about 7 or 8 provs in the peace deal. But sadly, I had no idea about BB, so, after annexing Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, I barely got a stalemate with an alliance of Poland, Lithuania, and Sweden. I accidentally deleted the save when I was cleaning out my EU2 save files.
EU2 was the first game that I bought from Paradox and I had absolutely no idea how it works. I started as Croatia and spent half an hour trying to figure out where can I bulid farms and have more armies. I also tried to look for gold mines or something to have more money. Then I discovered 'the slider', maxed my money and tought "that's it, now I can go to war!". I promptly declared war to Bosnia. Then the Stability windows popped up. "WTF is that? I'll worry about that later." What a mistake! Serbia and Ragusa declared war on me immediately. My armies where more and more expensive and I was about to lose. Then the Ottomans declared war on Serbia. "Aha! I'll crush them with the help of Ottomans!" But the Ottomans where not what I expected and I had to start a new game to avoid total humiliation...
Portugal of course (as it had been in Eu1)
Though I didn't end it... colonizing endlessly and then loosing all wars you get yourself into was prety boring.
(as it had been in Eu1)Though I didn't end it... colonizing endlessly and then loosing all wars you get yourself into was prety boring.
Fat said:
This sort of story seems pretty common
How many people declared war on their neighbours within 5 minutes of playing the game? My first game as Spain I ended up in BB wars with about 100 years to go and had no idea why everybody wouldn't leve me alone.