The screenshot topic

**Meneldil** · 04-09-2009, 22:23

Someone is watching Alizee on youtube. That's more disturbing than a cheap MtG game IMO

**Jolt** · 04-09-2009, 22:57

:O Alizee's lovely! How dare a french utter such words?

**seireikhaan** · 04-11-2009, 06:35

EU III: In Nomine, with the Magna Mundi Mod. Started as Bohemia, and wow...

Magna Mundi sure makes the HRE a lot more difficult to deal with. I've had more than one occasion where I've been brought to the brink of the abyss by Imperial sanctions that sapped my taxes and manpower. However, I've scraped, fought, and kicked my way into promince in eastern Europe, with some help from my legal inheritence of Mecklenburg(who had unfortunately lost Lubeck, the CoT, to the Danes previously. Lubeck has since been the center of hilarity as it continually rebels against the Danes/Scandinavians, who keep trying to futiley put it under heel). Currently am allied to Russia and Ukraine, along with a vassal or two in the HRE. My two big concerns for halting my eventual creation of Germany are Burgundy and Austria. Burgundy somehow survived the inital phases of the game, and now hold a lockgrip over the periphery of France. I managed to beat Styria, the proto-Austrians, into submission and drove them southwards, but Austria has since formed, regrouped, and still presents a considerable danger to my southern border as the Emperor. In the north, Denmark inherited BOTH the Norwegian and Swedish thrones, and thus created Scandinavia. They have just recently guaranteeed my independence despite my being a general jerk.

But perhaps the most interesting thing thus far...

Yes, that's the religious map. Catholicism got absolutely waylaid.

**Meneldil** · 04-13-2009, 17:29

That is interesting. I've been playing a Terra Nova game with France, and in 1460, when Protestantism emerged, I blissfully embraced it.

Thing is, in 1500, I was still the only protestant country. Only in 1506 Burgundy became protestant, and the two of us were hated by the rest of the world. I think Terra Nova is bugged in that respect.

I'm now playing with MEIOU, as I find Magna Mundi to be way too tedious sometimes. Still France, as I'd like to finish a game with that country before moving onto another one. MEIOU is in some respect bugged as hell, but I like it so far.

**Husar** · 04-13-2009, 19:09

Originally Posted by Meneldil

That is interesting. I've been playing a Terra Nova game with France, and in 1460, when Protestantism emerged, I blissfully embraced it.

Thing is, in 1500, I was still the only protestant country. Only in 1506 Burgundy became protestant, and the two of us were hated by the rest of the world. I think Terra Nova is bugged in that respect.

Almost the exact same thing happened to me when I played Brandenburg in vanilla EU3. I gave up on that game.

**Meneldil** · 04-26-2009, 20:38

My EUIII MEIOU game, as France. My empire isn't that interesting, I'm slowly uniting France (who starts with a handful of provinces, most of the modern days country being owned by a dozen of other nations), and grabed most of Portugal through a couple of wars. I think I'm #1 prestige-wise, but Castille is not far behind.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

What is interesting is the state of England. It managed to conquer most of Scotland and Ireland, and was probably the biggest threat to my kingdom. 4 years earlier, the English waged war on Scotland (whom I had force-vassalized). I decided to help my vassal and declared war on England. Despite the fact I somehow defeated the english navy (at the start of MEIOU, nations can only build cog, and galley at naval 2, thus england doesn't have such a huge advantage navy-wise), the first two years were terrible. I think I lost something like 100K men. My manpower collapsed and I was left with around 15K men defending Scotland, when Castille (my ally) attacked England and took most of Ireland.

Poor english then went bankrupt, after what an event triggered, causing Norway and Sweden to declare war on England.
Nationalists rioted in Cornwall (sp?), Wales and Mann, and will probably appear in Northumberland fairly soon. The english king is left with 0 men, 2 cogs, and his territory invaded by roaming hords of French, Scots, Swedes, Norses and Spaniards.

**Monk** · 05-12-2009, 20:58

So after looking at all the screens of EUIII in this thread for quite some time, and with a serious need to get things off my mind over the weekend i bought EUIII - Complete and dove in. I have to say, it's a really satisfying experience once you get the grip of things. I haven't tried any mods yet mainly because I am still getting the hang of vanilla, but what I see so far I love.

The result of my first serious play through is the Merchant's Republic of Novgorod.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

Uniting the smaller Russian states was, at first, just a fool's dream as Muscovy and Tvar had both grown powerful early on. Through a mix of shady business that has earned me quite the bad reputation I forcefully annexed every Russian state I could, with the exception of Pskov which Lithuania (current ally) beat me to. I'm engaged in a bit of a Cold War with the Golden Horde, the true power on the steppes, after the last war I fought against them and their Ottoman allies ended in a minor defeat for me. That light green is an Ottoman satellite outpost, taken from me in the war.