Russia: Visual strategy guide

[Askthepizzaguy]

How do you keep cities from going rebel after you abandon them, especially if you don't build anything? I have trouble keeping cities happy and in line even with happiness buildings.

Answer: For my Russia campaign? Exterminations, exterminations, and more exterminations.

I also move my capital closer to the front line after Krakow falls. Krakow is my capital for a while, then it creeps further southwest into Prague, and Vienna.

Answer: Version 1.0

[sirnoob]

errrrr pizzaguy the pictures won't work again this time its not the bandwidth it just shows little crosses.

[Askthepizzaguy]

errrrr pizzaguy the pictures won't work again this time its not the bandwidth it just shows little crosses.

That is odd, Sirnoob. I just checked and they are working perfectly.

Anyone else have any problems with viewing?

[Odin]

Anyone else have any problems with viewing?

they worked for me. Yet another entertaining thread mate.

[sirnoob]

Now it does work yay now i don't have to read the captions

[Rebellious Waffle]

Here's an idea for a challenge: the Polybius Rush.

For the very element of unexpectedness in the events I have chosen as my theme will be sufficient to challenge and incite everyone, young and old alike, to peruse my systematic history. For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans in less than fifty-three years have succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government — a thing unique in history? Or who again is there so passionately devoted to other spectacles or studies as to regard anything as of greater moment than the acquisition of this knowledge?

The conditions for the Polybius Rush would be as follows:

1) Use an Italian faction (Venice, Milan, Sicily).
2) Conquer the Italian peninsula, fighting only defensive wars against non-Italians until the peninsula has been conquered. Do not conquer any non-Italian provinces before conquering Italy. Taking Rome is optional.
3) Conquer and hold the following territories: the two rebel settlements on the Iberian peninsula, Toulouse, Marseilles, Corsica, Sardinia, Tunisia, Crete, Rhodes, Durazzo, Zagreb, Ragusa, Corinth, Thessalonica, Constantinople, Nicaea, Smyrna, Nicosia, Antioch, Acre, Jerusalem. The rest of the Iberian peninsula, North Africa, Caesarea and Trezibond are desirable but not required.
4) Ally with Egypt. Conquering the Egyptians' starting provinces is an acceptable alternative but not required.
5) Accomplish (3) and (4) in no more than 26 turns after accomplishing (2). (i.e. 52 years' game time.)
6) Bonus points: avoid conquering France before (3) has been accomplished. Once (3) has been accomplished, immediately conquer France. After conquering France, proceed to conquer Caernavon, Caen, London, and York. Refrain from conquering Inverness, Edinburgh, and Dublin.
7) Bonus points: complete the long campaign victory conditions without destroying the following factions: Russia, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Scotland. Avoid conquering any European provinces east of the Rhine until the rest of Europe, North Africa, Egypt, the Levant, and Asia Minor are under your control.

The idea is to replicate the Classical history of Roman expansion in a Medieval setting, taking over more-or-less the same places in approximately the same order over the same span of time.

I'm not sure if it's technically possible, but you said you were up for a challenge...

[Askthepizzaguy]

An interesting if complicated challenge.

As soon as I am done with the HRE challenge, which I am confident I will win

(already managed 50 provinces by turn 16, forgot to take Rome)

I will consider another challenge