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I played around with some Horde nations and was really surprised in how different they are from the settlers. It's such a different game, purely focused on conquest and looting as well as their successian crises that pop up each time your leader dies. Of course I knew all that, what I didn't know is that each time you win a seige in hostile territory you actually lose war exhaustion and gain prestige and legitimacy. So in a sense, the more you loot and plunder the more war you can conduct. Just dont take too many non-cores! :laugh4:
Here's the result of my experiments. The mighty Timur reaches the Aegean Sea!
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From my recent game as France. It's 1687, it may not seem impressive compared to most eu3 games, but I playing Magna Mundi and it's really hard. I expanded too quickly early on and had plenty of unrest, but I finally managed to get that somewhat under control when my colonial options opened up, I changed a national idea and I inherited Holland, at which point my administration was overwhelmed and my country fell into full on civil war. I released the Dutch as the Netherlands to focus on my French provinces and 80 years later I've only just recently crushed the last rebels and paid off all my debts, now I'm focusing on trying to get down my awful inflation.
The most interesting thing that's happened though is Spain inheriting Portugal. The funny thing is that the former Portuguese empire was probably more powerful than the current Spanish empire. It will be interesting to see if they can hold the new empire together, considering they were having trouble holding the previous empire together.
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Playing nations outside of western culture isn't something I do a lot so i picked the Ottomans for a first go. I read online that this was a very militaristic game choice and I could expect top be fighting expansionist wars from start to finish, whoever wrote that was dead on as it's been a hectic bid for survival. It's so odd playing a game constantly hovering on 0 or +1 stability, but that's what I was in for, which isnt even mentioning the westernization and military reforms I would need.
Before I started I decided on a few ground rules: Infamy can never at any point reach 0. Historically the Ottomans expanded at an incredible speed in the 1500s and i wanted to try to keep pace. There was no way I could, but i wanted to try.
Secondly, Inflation can at no point pass 5%. While inflation isn't really a problem until you hit 10%, i wanted to make this game my first game where I totally controlled it from the start. An economy that passed 5 or 6% inflation before 1500 would mean failure, right now I sit as the only "great power" with absolutely no measure of inflation. Overall I think i did pretty well. ~D
The world of 1554
Westernization is done, Military has been reformed and I'm nigh unstoppable.
The western powers have been desperate to curve my expansion. First it was Castile in North Africa who were not at all happy to see me meddling in what they considered their sphere. The Castilian navy proved a formidable foe, but unfortunately their army was not in the same league as mine. Then, England tried their hand at curving my expansionist (some say, powermongering) ways when I invaded Malta. They are the few who have had success, and managed to contain me rather well. But unfortunately for the west their strength failed at the most crucial time, the Italian Wars, The French lead coalition of the Italian states against me.
The first war for Italy saw Naples fall, southern Italy switch hands to me but not much more than that. Fighting reached a bloody stalemate on Sicily and around Genoa so both sides agreed to call a cease fire. Around ten years later, France threw my merchants out of their Centers of Trade - It made me angry, so Monk smash! In the ensuing fighting central Italy, along with Rome, fell and France's King was soundly crushed in Nice.
Elsewhere in the world - The Golden Horde have collapsed due to a civil war but not before decimating the Russian states. Sweden stepped in and established rule over the broken states but is struggling under crushing inflation and massive revolts.
Poland-Lithuana fell apart, replaced by the four states of Ukraine, Mazovia, Prussia and Potolsk, all of which are very poor and struggle with each other for dominance. I've had my eye on it for some time, keen to smack down whoever rises from their wars. Prussia i fear won't last long, inflation is on the rise and they rely entirely on foreign mercenaries for their standing army.
Saxony (yes, the one province minor Saxony!), at one point, took over almost all of Eastern Europe but fractured and fell apartt. Despite that, they are still a decent power in the region alongside Bohemia and Austria - the latter of which have been fighting each other off and on for decades. It was that preoccupation that allowed France to begin building a base of power in Italy, only to have me come and completely push them out again.
And believe it or not? All of this is Lucky Nations - historical. It's been a crazy ride!
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I've been playing an HTTT England game (1399 start, all values default because I keep forgetting to turn lucky nations off). I was mostly interested in improving my land combat game, inspired by one of the tutorial AARs featuring England. You get tons of great missions at the start which helps, too. It took about 60 years of hard fighting to beat down France and Burgundy. Several times I was on the verge of beating one of them and the other would attack, and I'd need to white peace with the first, or at least just get them to revoke cores on my land. Try as I might I could never get the "Occupy Paris" mission in a war that I could actually achieve that; by the time I could do that without Burgundy intervening I think the mission wouldn't fire anymore. So I just took Paris because I have a core on it. :P Then I formed Great Britain.
Managed to break up France enough that the various component parts had been fighting with each other off and on, with me only sometimes intervening. I was going to start thinking about colonies (which I find pretty tedious, to be honest) and then out of the blue I inherited the Netherlands (don't remember when exactly, it was around the time I got the Counter reformation - yeah, I stayed Catholic). That made things pretty easy, since they owned most of what they have default cores for. It also lead to me being the HRE for a good while, managed to institute the reform that says no fighting among HRE members (and it kills your mil tradition!). Fought a war with Bavaria over something and liberated them, managed to vassalize the Pope, which came in handy.
I was also way ahead of my neighbors in military research so wars were a cakewalk. Stay on the defense until I had mashed up their armies then roll over their provinces. I took most lvl1 forts in less than a week. But I think I have the most artillery in the world, so maybe that's it. Artillery is wonderful, even in battle.
Anyway, during this time Portugal has colonized most of North America (I managed to grab most of the Caribbean, South Africa, and New Jersey :D). They've also moved their capital to one of the northern seaboard provinces (abnaki??) and they're starting to kick Castille around on the mainland. I figure I'm up next for a war with them (especially since they've hated my guts since I liberated several provinces from Aragon as the HRE and they joined to defend Aragon). Two colonial wars later (the second far more successful than the first) and I've got Lisboa from them (I now have 5 CoTs, 4 of them coastal), I've liberated a few of the native nations from them, and Gibraltar is making a play at the Spanish homeland.
The only other thing of note is that Austria is a monster and Scandinavia formed. The latter is a paper tiger; they have like 40% inflation. The former though has territory that stretches from a border with my Netherlands (yikes!) to Persia. Their standing army is 4x time and their manpower reserves are 3x. I've spied them into -3 stability and they didn't lose a single province to rebellion because they have troops everywhere. And somehow they're the only other nation on Earth that's kept up with my military research, which is normally 5 levels or more ahead of everyone else who matters. It's 1663 and they're the only threat to me. I don't really want to deal with them. :P
The world in 1663:
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Great Britain, allies and vassals on the European mainland:
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Portuguese North America (note plucky British and native thorns in the Portuguese side):
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The Caribbean:
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South Africa:
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Our East Indies base of operations (had a mission for it plus I could form the East India Company which is quite the nifty decision):
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I just bought EU3: Complete. It's one of the games I always wanted but never had the time or extra money to buy it. Anyway, when I opened the new game screen I was overwhelmed by the choices. In demo I was able to play only western nations(and if you mod a bit then the others as well) but now all nations were available and I just couldn't choose which one to pick!
So, any suggestions when to start and what country should I pick first?
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Ibn-Khaldun
I just bought EU3: Complete. It's one of the games I always wanted but never had the time or extra money to buy it. Anyway, when I opened the new game screen I was overwhelmed by the choices. In demo I was able to play only western nations(and if you mod a bit then the others as well) but now all nations were available and I just couldn't choose which one to pick!
So, any suggestions when to start and what country should I pick first?
Castile 1399, it's a very easy game with lots of options for you to spread your wings. Grenada serves as a nice target as well. Be careful in your African invasions however, it isn't hard to botch the landings against Morroco.
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Castile 1399, it's a very easy game with lots of options for you to spread your legs. Grenada serves as a nice target as well. Be careful in your African invasions however, it isn't hard to botch the landings against Morroco.
That may be true, but if you own Castile + Granada, you'll also have the manpower to botch two or three landings before your people start getting really upset. :P
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England is very good, simply because no one can hit you since you have the biggest navy at the start. You will however, might have to forfeit your lands on Mainland Europe, but no one can cross to the isles, which allows you to easily bring in Scotland and Ireland under your wing.
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I started 2 campaigns: Castille and Byzantine Empire.
As Castille I managed to expand a bit in North Africa and currently having quite enjoyable game.
However, as Byzantine Empire I'm about to fall. I managed to annex Achaea but because they were allied with Sicily, Aquileia and Genoa I faced constant naval invasions. In the end I managed to get a white peace but just as this war ended another one started. My ally Bosnia was attacked by Hungary and I was dragged into that war. So, currently I have no navy(Sicily destroyed it), war weariness is quite high and I can't get my armies to the front because Ottomans don't give me permission to go through their land. I also can't get out of that war with white peace.
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I reccomend the burgundians. trial by fire, more or less.
Edit: Yay torrent
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Ok. Sweden is impossible in MM. Seriously, who made it that hard? Just as the war was turning in my favour I went bankrupt and got hit by massive revolts. Didn't help that Oslo withstood 1300+ days of siege!!!
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Are you using it with HTTT? The out-of-box version seems rather bland.
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Vladimir
Are you using it with HTTT? The out-of-box version seems rather bland.
Yep. Magna Mundi just makes it ridiculous. From Laplanders revolting to Finns revolting to starting at war with both Denmark and Norway. Ugh.
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I have query....my version of HTTT keeps killing my income, and killing my naval focelimits. And I honestly dont get it. Any ideas?
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Have you checked the national/provincial modifiers?
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I have query....my version of HTTT keeps killing my income, and killing my naval focelimits. And I honestly dont get it. Any ideas?
The thing eating up you naval forcelimits, and possibly your income as well, is most likely coastal pirate defences, which you can enact or disable in the national decisions. If you are a trading sea empire like portugal or england, then they are a good thing, the hit to your taxes will be less than what you would lose through piracy and the naval forcelimits can be recovered by building anchorages and taking the grand navy NI. If you are playing as a land empire like france or ming on the other hand, then just ditch the national defences by going to the national decisions, and just implement extensive defences on the provincial level.
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Income = ?
navy = rebels at capital
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Um, sorry to resurrect this but I got a problem.
I got EU III Complete via Impulse yesterday, installed a couple of minutes ago however have fallen in doubt since it says v1.3 for the version of game.
The Complete Edition is supposed to include Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine on top of EU III and the wikipedia article on EUIII says that those expansions are in v2.2 and v3.2 respectively.
How can I make sure that I got a complete edition or not please ?
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LeftEyeNine
Um, sorry to resurrect this but I got a problem.
I got EU III Complete via Impulse yesterday, installed a couple of minutes ago however have fallen in doubt since it says v1.3 for the version of game.
The Complete Edition is supposed to include Napoleon's Ambition and In Nomine on top of EU III and
the wikipedia article on EUIII says that those expansions are in v2.2 and v3.2 respectively.
How can I make sure that I got a complete edition or not please ?
EUIII's menu will always display the highest installed expansion pack, i believe the highest "Complete" gets you is In Nomine. That should be displayed somewhere on your main menu after you've entered the game. You can also double-check your version of the game by looking at the bottom left-hand of the screen, once you've entered the game.
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It says 1.3 at the bottom left.
I've been cheated by Impulse ? :inquisitive:
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LeftEyeNine
It says 1.3 at the bottom left.
I've been cheated by Impulse ? :inquisitive:
I highly doubt their intention was to cheat you, the Impulse page for EUIII - Complete clearly shows all three games included with the bundle. If you purchased complete but were only credited with the base game, you should raise your concerns with Impulse.
edit: said expansions when i meant games. EUIII has so many iterations it gets confusing x_x
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Thanks, Monk. I'll see to this tomorrow.
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EU3 Complete is the base game with In Nomine and some other one.
It doesn't include Heir to the Throne or Divine Wind.
I believe the picture is some guy on a horse with a flag? It has been a while since I played the base game.
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They have completed the missing expansions today by themselves. :happy:
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LeftEyeNine
They have completed the missing expansions today by themselves. :happy:
Glad to hear that LEN. :thumbsup:
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You know I realy wish they would just make one game to cover all of history.
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Greyblades
You know I realy wish they would just make one game to cover all of history.
History is never the same, it is constantly changing.
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Greyblades
You know I realy wish they would just make one game to cover all of history.
EUIII is as close as they are to that and, surprisingly, they've continued to support it even after all these years. If they keep releasing expansions for EUIII, i will take that in the place of a single all encompassing game.
Or better yet: EU4. But with how many improvements EUIII has received, i dunno if an EU4 will be forthcoming anytime soon. :laugh4:
