Your Greatest EU4 Ironies

[bleakie]

I think the most ironic thing here is the fact that half of the cases mentioned in this thread are not ironic. I blame Alanis Morisette.

Long time lurker here but I could not stop myself. Great stories all though

When you mentioned this, I suddenly find that I have missed the whole point of the story. It is me who released the OPM Haasa from Hedjaz a few years earlier, in an attempt to undermine the Arabian hegemony of Hedjaz. So the net result is that I have shot myself in the foot.:wacko:

 

[Varyar]

As Sweden, shortly after winning my war of Independence against Denmark, I got the "National Epic" event.
Yes! Write me a tale of a great and glorious Swedish king of yore, tell me the brave heroic deeds of...Christian III von Wittelsbach? *executes bard for treason*

Always a cause for chuckling. Got it for Charles VI of France and, in my current Hungary game, it fired for Ladislaus Postumus who reigned for all but one day before being replaced by Matthias Corvinus

 

[Hans Lemurson]

As the Ottomans, I planned for 5 years to make a heretic Oman like me and become my vassal (involving the conquest of a rival province), but Oman vassalized OPM Haasa literally in the month before I ask for vassalization, making the vassalization impossible.

Have to choose between sticking with the -1 diplomatic relations penalty for 25 more years or taking 1 stab hit for ending the royal marriage and sabotaging all the relations with Oman, making vassalization impossible for the next 50 years.

When [arkansonney] mentioned this, I suddenly find that I have missed the whole point of the story. It is me who released the OPM Haasa from Hedjaz a few years earlier, in an attempt to undermine the Arabian hegemony of Hedjaz. So the net result is that I have shot myself in the foot.:wacko:

NowTHAT is true irony!

Everybody take notes.

 

[unmerged(13581)]

I just played a Ottomans game going for the Sultan of Rum. The first wars go well, I take all my cores, vassalize Bosnia, Serbia and Wallachia and turn to the Mameluks. My troops arrive at the border at the 27th of november where I decide to wait for the 1st of december to dow and go for their troops before they get their moral up. At the 29th of november my King dies gaining me 12 years of regency council since my heir was just 2 years old...

Still I played on, managed to take quite some lands and even prepared Naples to get annexed in 1550 to get me going for Rome. So far I really managed to keep the coalitions/AE under control, Austria beeing the only western power in a coalition against me (because of my war in soutern Italy) along with Persia and 4 province Ethiopia. I had 0 AE with the eastern powers, so I decide to go for Kazan to release the Golden Horde as my next vassal for expansion into Russia. A short war later I have 100% warscore against Kazan, relase the Golden Horde and still have about 30% warscore left. So I look around and find that lovely province of Lower Don, sunni, basetax of 3 and I even have a claim on it. So I'm like "what bad could it do" and take it in the peace deal.
Some days later Russia decides that it really really is outraged now and enters the coalition against me. Another week later Lithaunia joins them along with Poland who is under a PU with them. To top it off Hungary not only joins the Coalition as well but also goes ahead and declares war on me. So in the end, half the world was coming for me just because I took one single worthless province somewhere in the steppes... well, it was the end to that game.

 

[Johan]

In our office MP... as monarch. Adm 5 monarch, adm 4 heir, adm+3 advisor..

Hits button to Westernize.

within 6 months, all 3 are dead... and I have an adm 1 regency council for 15 yeats.

 

[horngeek]

In our office MP... as monarch. Adm 5 monarch, adm 4 heir, adm+3 advisor..

Hits button to Westernize.

within 6 months, all 3 are dead... and I have an adm 1 regency council for 15 yeats.

Ouch. It's a lot harder to bitch about out own repeated gut-punches when we know the guys who made the game get hit just as hard.

My own ironic moment was a game where I was playing Scotland and was beating up England...

Then just after forming Great Britain (and wiping out the English Culture), I got a Personal Union with France.

The reaction of the Stuart who got offered the throne of France, I like to imagine, would have been to find one of the English lords he had booted off their land, then gloat about how he achieved through peaceful means what the English destroyed themselves trying to achieve.

 

[Ak1995]

Oh boy!
speaking of heirs.
I had a ruler of 1/2/0 with an heir of 4/4/6.
When my ruler finally died, My heir was 72 years old already, died after 3 months of reign.

 

[balmung60]

In a case of (somewhat engineered) irony, I wound up with Protestant Spain (and France) and devoutly Catholic Denmark (which had integrated Norway and Sweden), who were, naturally, mortal enemies, and (in the engineered irony part) a Sunni, Turkish Byzantium against an Orthodox Ottoman Empire. The religious situation in that game was really weird. And there was also a Protestant Pope.

 

[Sandmann]

In my first and last 1.1 iron man game as Brandenburg I became emperor and all of a sudden the Burgundy inheritance event popped without me knowing anything about it. Now that I know about it I have been trying to reproduce that lucky inheritance event game but of course without success when trying hard, oh the irony..

 

[spoffy]

I'm sure this has happened to other people (I think I saw a screenshot at one point), but Burgundy got a PU over Austria in a recent England game for me.

 

[Atris]

Had my sights set on the final remains of Venice. improved relations with Austria to ally them and improved relations with Aragon so they wouldnt go into coalition after I killed Venice. Before I have finished my preparations Austria calls me and Aragon to war against venice. They pretty much immediately siege all provinces.

Result? Aragon got venice capital, Austria most of their europe mainland provinces, and me? I got a fat nothing burger xD

 

[riromero]

As the Polish Commonwealth, I declare war on Austria. I deal with their armies and all their little friends and then proceed to siege the nearby provinces. The siege of Wein is almost complete when the Ottoman Empire declares war on me, marches across Hungary and breaks my Wein siege. I'm routed and sent back home with my tail between my legs. This is what I love about this game.

 

[liamgamer55]

I just got an Agricultural Revolution event that can give me +2 Base Tax!

...In a wrong-religion province where I'm only making 0.5% progress per month.

Dear OP; I'd suggest you understand what irony means before you make a thread about it.

Irony is when you aim to do something positive and then an unexpected turn of events means that it actually has the opposite effect. This can apply for negative to positive things. It also doesn't necassarily need to be a turn of events. It could also involve information the person doing something doesn't know. E.g. "I said kraba in language x... but what I didn't realise is that the insult that I was going for was actually krada and kraba is in fact a great compliment in language x". That example could also be a case of irony. It usually overall has to have to do with new events changing things or missing information (which may or may not be discovered) changing things though.

1. Spending 200+ points to increase stab to +3, only to get the free stab event a few days later.
2. -Cash events as soon as you repay all your loans and you are at 10 ducats.

All of these are ironic. The first is ironic because an unexpected turn of events made an action effectively worthless. The second is ironic because an unexpected turn of events made an action suddenly be negative.

The most relevent and precise definition i can find is "Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs".

 

[sotero]

Dear OP; I'd suggest you understand what irony means before you make a thread about it.

It's cause if he enhances the base tax by 2, he won't be able to convert the province anymore. So a good event actually came in a bad time.

 

[unmerged(80402)]

Demand France to return provinces to england as Aragon. Next thing England do? Allies to Castille, Breaks alliance with me, and marks me as rival.

 

[unmerged(804580)]

I just realized it. The greatest irony I found so far.

That I'm still playing this game despite the added level of frustration with each patch. I don't know how long it'll last.

Some of you might be more experienced with this and got used to it, but as this is my first Paradox game, it really feels frustrating to have something at first and have it taken away. It's like they're doing a negative reinforcement, like "oh our players are doing X, what would happen if we take it away from them?" I don't want this thread to be about the patches though, so please ignore this paragraph or the moderators might kick in.

 

[-Malovane-]

 

[Shynka]

Don't know if irony, but I found it a bit amusing. In my Commonwealth game on 1.2 the Habsburgs rose to my throne, as well as Austria. In my Hansa 1.3 game, the Jagiellons rose to the Austrian throne.

 

[unmerged(80402)]

Greatest irony is, how country with such distastefull meatballs, could make such great gaming company...

[video=youtube;sY_Yf4zz-yo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo[/video]

This is the best use of swedish meatballs ever.

 

[Esben_DRK]

[video=youtube;WY_amJ0YZrM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_amJ0YZrM[/video]
Just so we got that cleared up!

I have had several of the "helping allies and then they turn on me", but once I had an enemy who tried to appease me. I found it funny that they tried to get a royal marriage with me while I was fabricating a claim.