Re: Europa Universalis III
Bought and played lasted night (works fine on Vista if you are interested)...
I have EU2 in a drawer somewhere, same with HOI as I had great difficulty getting into them...
This time was different, I don't know, maybe the pretty gfx... :2thumbsup:
So it is now 1487 England is ruling a United Great Briton and Ireland. We have lost and ceeded Gascony to the French but have retained Calais despite repeated attacks by Brittony and a short occupaction by Norway (?!?)...
Taking Scotland was ammusing in that I invaded and successfully conquered all their provinces once and forced Vasselization on them only to have Brittony inherit the Kingdom of Scotland!?!?
Well I had Casus belli with Brittony so I invaded again and conquered all of Scotland again! But Brittony refused to ceed the territory so I was forced to invaid and occupy the rest of Brittony after which they agreed to terms ceeding Scotland to me...
Things I have noted, agreeing to alliances with small itallian or german states is a pain as they are constantly at war with someone on the other side of europe. Despite invaiding and occupying all the Brittony provinces I did not get the option to Annex in a peace treaty, any ideas??
All in all a lot of fun... Now to build up the economy and look for the new world!! :D
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Originally Posted by Bob the Insane
Things I have noted, agreeing to alliances with small itallian or german states is a pain as they are constantly at war with someone on the other side of europe.
Be very careful about agreeing to alliance wars. If your ally started the war and you agree to join, then you cop the same stability hit as your ally. You can lose several stab levels in one shot!
Unfortunately, there is no simple way of figuring out what the stab hit might be. I hope they fix this in an upcoming patch, but it hasn't been mentioned yet.
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Despite invaiding and occupying all the Brittony provinces I did not get the option to Annex in a peace treaty, any ideas??
You can only annex a one-province country. Otherwise, you have to be content with several of their provinces rather than all of them. Annexing countries also gives you quite a badboy hit apparently.
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It does. There is an exception to this rule if you are annexing uncivilised nations though, as for example american-indian nations, some of the african ones, etc...
Diplo annexing apparently gives you a tremendous bb hit also. In my current game as Spain, i diploannexed France and suddenly all my alliances were broken, and basically I go to war as soon as the previous truce expires. With everyone in Europe! My only ally right now is the Pope.
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Diplo annexing apparently gives you a tremendous bb hit also. In my current game as Spain, i diploannexed France and suddenly all my alliances were broken, and basically I go to war as soon as the previous truce expires. With everyone in Europe! My only ally right now is the Pope.
Sounds like you crossed the badboy threshold. Welcome to the world of the Badboy Wars (tm), where everybody with a border to you and their grandmother will keep declaring war on you to no end. You can finish it only once you stand on the top of the world above mountains of corpses of national leaders or you maintain a defensive stance (i.e. no taking provinces whatsoever even in a defensive war) long enough to return to the barely not too evil badboy level. Giving up some provinces and/or liberate a few places would help.
Diploannexing is overall much, much less damaging to reputation than taking provinces in offensive wars, but can be very damning if you're annexing something like the Empire of Spain with all the many colonies that come with it, as you might as well jump from zero right up to the war-provoking badboy level in one shot.
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Originally Posted by AntiochusIII
Sounds like you crossed the badboy threshold. Welcome to the world of the Badboy Wars (tm), where everybody with a border to you and their grandmother will keep declaring war on you to no end. You can finish it only once you stand on the top of the world above mountains of corpses of national leaders or you maintain a defensive stance (i.e. no taking provinces whatsoever even in a defensive war) long enough to return to the barely not too evil badboy level. Giving up some provinces and/or liberate a few places would help.
Diploannexing is overall much, much less damaging to reputation than taking provinces in offensive wars, but can be very damning if you're annexing something like the Empire of Spain with all the many colonies that come with it, as you might as well jump from zero right up to the war-provoking badboy level in one shot.
Very annoying. It is quite pointless also, when places like Swahili that i haven't even discovered yet declare war. Or, in the latest instance, Russia landed a regiment in Spanish flanders. And Russia is landlocked and there are at least 4-5 countries between the two of us.
I am going for the Mountain of Corpses (tm) approach. I already own ALL of the american continent and most of Western Europe, as well as norther Africa from Ifni to Tunis. For as long as the Pope is behind me, i'll bring Catholicism to the infidels :laugh4:.
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There's a new patch out. Get it through the launcher, or from here. Paradox made a *lot* of changes in this patch, and it both squashes swarms of bugs and makes improvements to gameplay.
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Wow, that crazy Sweed has been busy. Good to see! :2thumbsup:
