The screenshot topic

**Meneldil** · 06-03-2009, 15:35

Originally Posted by Martok

I think the question that's foremost in my mind isn't "how", but "why"? What earthly reason could Modena possibly have for invading & annexing Iceland? I fail to see how they could have any strategic interest there.

Common Paradoxian behavior. A crappy country get a reason to attack another (ie. Casus Belli) through random events, declare war, send a fleet of 2 ships and an army of 2 infantry/divisions and annex another crappy country on the other end of the map.

Conflicts between Corsica and Athens or Arboreto and another one province blakanic/turkish kingdom is fair game in my EUIII MEIOU game.

**Marshal Murat** · 06-03-2009, 15:47

"SON, tell me why all these Italianos are landing at Reykjavik?"
"General, they seem to have taken offense at...something. They declared war and have sailed to conquer us."
"Why?"
"We have saunas, sir?"
"Good point. Our rally cry shall be Free the Saunas!"
"Excellent general, we'll win this one."

**naut** · 06-03-2009, 17:02

Hehe. Iceland...

Tried a Vicky-Ricky-VIP game as Greece. I'm not very good. Constantly alt-tabbing to paradoxian.org. I managed to steal Crete when the Second Oriental Crisis flaired up, with the help of my British Allies, well they did almost all the work, I just took Crete itself, waiting for my warscore to go high enough then sued for peace.

Note the ruling party is the Reactionary Russian Faction... Yeh, I was holding an election when all of Greece's militancy events kick in.

**SwordsMaster** · 06-03-2009, 18:37

Just noticed your income/expense numbers. Greece is surviving on 2£ daily!

**naut** · 06-03-2009, 19:32

Yeah, it's tough to get any cash flow, my only exports are grain, cotton, fruit and sulphur. I managed to save up enough to buy 2 clippers so I can actually convoy effectively. Plus some industrial techs have brought up my income/exports. Unfortunately Russia attacked the Ottomans and the UK attacked Russia, so I lost two allies and the possibility of attacking the Ottomans. I banned the British Faction since they were going to be elected (all my clergy are Liberal, 56% of voters, 10% of population) and that really would have stung my militancy levels. I keep getting liberal and socialist events, which I don't want. I could use some conservative/reactionary ones to convert my clergy back to conservative.

**Csargo** · 06-07-2009, 17:16

Interesting game so far. Playing as Austria I allied with Germany in early 37' to hopefully avoid the Anchluss(sp?). Well I declared war on Hungary not long after I allied to Germany and annexed them. Italy had a GoI on Hungary and declared war on me not long after I had annexed them. So then we basically destroyed Italy, but Italy wouldn't accept any of my peace deals so I created a Italian Social Republic as a puppet. I left the alliance with Germany not long after that. WW2 was not fun to watch Germany was completely destroyed by France and SU. Then the US declared war on SU(91 belligerence) and then the SU declared war on Japan. I made the Allies declare war on the SU because I thought it would make it a bit more interesting.

**seireikhaan** · 06-08-2009, 05:43

Ichi, you're gonna have to give me hints or somethin' on HoI. For the love of me, I cannot get my head wrapped around this game. Of course, I s'pose I should probably stop trying to play as Nationalist China....