EU3 MMP2 Succession Game

[CountArach]

EU3 v.3.1(VIOG) Mod: Magna Mundi Platinum 2 v.1.15

EU3 v3.2 (TPAJ) Mod: Magna Mundi Platinum 2 v.1.15

It was the one that they linked to in the how-to-install thread.

[TinCow]

Yep, that was the problem. Updated the EU3 patch and Monk's save loads perfectly fine. Beginning my reign right now!

[TinCow]

Ferrante 2, the Revenge

Giovanna III's eldest son, Ferrante, was not an intelligent man. When the Queen's advisors arrived in Ferrante II's room to inform him that he had become the next King of Naples, they found him staring at a wall and picking his nose. After a few hours of explaining what the death of his mother actually meant, Ferrante looked at them blankly and responded.

"Ferrante King?"

The advisors looked at each other for a moment, before one of them nodded his head slowly and firmly.

Ferrante threw his arms up in the air and shouted, "FERRANTE KING!"

The next day, Ferrante convened the assembly of the royal court to issue his first orders as the ruler of Naples. After a great deal of ceremony, the feudal lords arrived to pledge their loyalty to their new King. He rose slowly to his feet, looked at his audience, and made clear his policy for the coming years.

"Ferrante want shiny things!"

He then attempted to take grab the earrings from the wife of a minor nobleman. When she screamed and ran away, Ferrante looked on in confusion. A nearby advisor whispered to the new King that he could not simply do whatever he wanted, the nobles were bound to him by a feudal contract which gave them certain rights. Ferrante punched the advisor in the face.

"FERRANTE KING!"

Thus ended several centuries of Feudal Monarchy in Naples.



Ferrante quickly grew bored with the council, and made his lack of interest clear.

"Ferrante want sex."

The advisors whispered amongst themselves for a while, and the King's request was soon granted.



A few weeks later, it rained. Ferrante took it as a personal insult and ordered that diplomatic warnings be sent to most of Italy. One advisor informed Ferrante that this list of nations included several that Naples was allied with. Ferrante threw the man out the window. The warnings were sent out without further delay.



Further warnings would continue to go out to random nations all over Europe throughout the rest of Ferrante's reign.

When the first month's taxes came in, Ferrante was not pleased with the results. After bandaging their wounds, the advisors informed him that inflation was high and growing higher, and that this inevitably made goods more expensive, but that such a situation was necessary to keep a steady income flow.

"Ferrante balance budget!"

When the advisors explained that if he did this, he would lose money, Ferrante looked at Rogerio de Sequeria and Pelayo Portocarrero, both of whom were dressed very finely due to their high salaries. Ferrante crushed their heads against the wall.

"Ferrante balance budget!"





Soon, Ferrante discovered the ocean.

"Ferrante like boats!"



After a few years of his rule, the peasants began to complain about the living conditions in Naples. Ferrante listened to their complaints carefully and respectfully, nodded in agreement with much of what they said. When they were done, he rose and, with a broad smile on his face, stabbed the nearest peasant in the face.



And the nobles rejoiced.



As the Reformation spread throughout Europe, Ferrante's advisors repeatedly tried to explain to him the significance of the growing split within the Church. Ferrante simply drooled on himself and picked his nose. After several weeks of this, the advisors gave up and simply let the religious issues continue as they always had.



One day, the Church gave Ferrante a lot of money. Ferrante prayed 7 times a day from that moment until the end of his life. Mostly, he prayed for more money.



In 1527, Spain declared war on Grenada. As Spain had been warned by Giovanna III, this was a legitimate causus belli for war.



A diplomat from Grenada arrived in Naples to request Ferrante's aid against Spain. Upon further questioning, it was discovered that France, Hungary, and the Pope were aiding Spain in the war. The advisors threw the diplomat from Grenada down a well and promised to never mention the war to Ferrante. There was much rejoicing.

Soon Ferrante heard of a man from a foreign country who promised to give him more shiney things. Ferrante was pleased.



Unfortunately for Ferrante, the wealth this man brought into the kingdom was too shiny and irresistable. On July 9, 1532, Ferrante choked to death on a ducat he was licking. His son, Gabriele I, did not look favorably on the man who gave him the coin.



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[CountArach]

Haha, brilliant. Well I'll try to play this through. I've got a very busy weekend ahead of me, so I can't guarantee when it will be done. I shall do my best.

[Monk]

Simply amazing TC. Simply amazing.

I apologize for leaving you with such high inflation, it was the one black mark on my reign that I truly hated, but it was necessary to keep us afloat through all the pirate hunting and loan repayments.

[TinCow]

I apologize for leaving you with such high inflation, it was the one black mark on my reign that I truly hated, but it was necessary to keep us afloat through all the pirate hunting and loan repayments.

It's not really that bad, I just didn't want it to go up further. I spent a large amount of my reign staring at the advisor screen waiting for a master of the mint to show up, but we never got one. With an Admin rating of 4, Ferrante II wasn't able to do much to reduce the inflation (I think it's at about 6.3, from 6.7) but at least it didn't go any higher. Generally, my reign was just profitable because there were absolutely no good opportunities for a war. We can now (when not at war) maintain positive yearly income while still reducing inflation at least slightly. There's also about 220+ ducats in the bank. Ferrante II didn't have good enough stats to do any of the province decision improvements to the buildings, but I did add three more anchorages. I didn't actually expand the fleet, because I was hoping I'd be able to pick the next idea before my turn was over and I was going to pick a naval idea. That would have made ships much cheaper to build by reducing our naval penalty, but I never got that far. That's why there's so much cash sitting around, though you two are free to spend it as you wish, of course.

[Jolt]

Brilliant indeed. :)

[seireikhaan]

Edit: Ma bad, didn't notice the next page.

[CountArach]

I should be able to play through it and write it up (Assuming it isn't a massive reign) tomorrow.

[CountArach]

Well it seems I may have inadvertantly deleted my euiii.exe, which is a problem for obvious reasons. I'm going to have to completely re-install the game and get everything going again, which will take me a little while. Sorry about the delay but if someone else (Monk?) could play the next turn that would be awesome. By the end of that I should be ready to go again.

[Monk]

Well it seems I may have inadvertantly deleted my euiii.exe, which is a problem for obvious reasons. I'm going to have to completely re-install the game and get everything going again, which will take me a little while. Sorry about the delay but if someone else (Monk?) could play the next turn that would be awesome. By the end of that I should be ready to go again.

Hm. So would you like to temporarily switch slots? I'll play this go and then you take the next? If that's the case I'll download tomorrow and begin.

It's near midnight here so I'm not gonna be getting to anything tonight.

[CountArach]

Hm. So would you like to temporarily switch slots? I'll play this go and then you take the next? If that's the case I'll download tomorrow and begin.

It's near midnight here so I'm not gonna be getting to anything tonight.

That would be the ideal situation, yeah.

Sorry again guys. I have no idea what happened.

[TinCow]

Not a problem, lately I've been getting into a game as Silesia. If you've never tried them I highly recommend it. Their three starting ideas are absolutely superb (all 3 work for the Liberte, etc. specialized idea) and make regaining stability unbelievably easy. They also start only 1 slider move away from the Balanced Policies bonus, which makes that a given right from the start. Silesia is in the same culture group as the Czechs and Polish, which gives interesting (and extensive) expansion options into Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary if you can join in on an opportunistic war, and allows for easy out-of-HRE expansion, which is unusual for a HRE member. They are relatively prosperous as well, for a landlocked nation, and can support an army up to their landforce limits if need be. It's been interesting so far, and my goal for this game is to gain a Protestant victory in The Long War and eventually dismantle the HRE, neither of which I have ever accomplished before.

I'm also really looking forward to when MM is adapted to HttT. The new causus belli system is making me drool.

[TinCow]

FYI, something has come up and Monk is not likely to be able to take the next turn. CA, go ahead and do it whenever you have the time.

[Beskar]

I haven't really played MM admittedly, but I am interested in giving the game a shot if you are allowing sign ups.

(Though that saved game seems corrupted.)
(Actually, the whole mod seems corrupted.)

Looks like I have to retract, MM isn't working right, for some reason it keep saying the date is 1 AD.

HTT comes out tomorrow apparently though.

[TinCow]

I haven't really played MM admittedly, but I am interested in giving the game a shot if you are allowing sign ups.

(Though that saved game seems corrupted.)
(Actually, the whole mod seems corrupted.)

Looks like I have to retract, MM isn't working right, for some reason it keep saying the date is 1 AD.

HTT comes out tomorrow apparently though.

You're probably not running the right EU3 patch for MM. MM requires the old beta 3.2 patch, and I don't think it works with the final version released recently. In addition, MM has already patched itself beyond the version we're playing here, so doing a completely up-to-date EU3 and MM installation would (I'm pretty sure) be incompatible with the save games we have posted here.

I'll hold out some hope that CA can get his game working, but if not we can just abort this and start up a new game with a fully patched version once MM has been adapted for HTT (which, as far as I have been reading, won't take very long).