Is EUIII better than EUII?

**Crazed Rabbit** · 06-02-2009, 18:50

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

Is Gibraltar one of Castile's cores?

Nope - it's one of Granada's, but they are non-existent.

The best way to deal with France as England is, funnily enough, the historical one: abandon your continental provinces and build a navy. With a strong navy, it is very easy to keep the British Isles safe. Even if France keeps declaring war, you can defeat their fleet and blockade the entire country, producing a lot of war score and war weariness. This also allows you to gobble up all of France's colonial possessions, since they have no way to get a fleet out there to protect them. The same works for Spain.

How do you blockade? I think I might just have to abandon the continent.

CR

**TinCow** · 06-02-2009, 19:02

Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit

How do you blockade? I think I might just have to abandon the continent.

First you have to reach the right level of technology. I can't remember for sure, but for some reason I think Naval 9 allows you to do it. Once you have the ability to blockade, all you have to do is leave 1 or more ships in a sea square that borders an enemy coastal province. The enemy ports on that sea square will then get little chain icons around them and they will be 'blockaded.' The more of the enemy ports you blockade, and the longer you blockade them, the more war weariness (and other bad stuff) that starts to accumulate on them. You also get war score (for peace negotiations) from blockades.

This is usually only advisable once you have naval superiority, though, as it requires you to scatter a lot of little fleets around. If the enemy still has a strong fleet, they can run around knocking out your blockade fleets one by one.

**Meneldil** · 06-07-2009, 19:17

Tried EU: Rome today, with Vae Victis. Well, as you said Froggy, it's far from great. First of all, Rome is so overwhelmingly powerful that most factions surrounding it are bound to lose.

Secondly, the game is slow. Way too slow. Waiting 10 years to be able to colonize a province when you're playing a minor faction is stupid. Then, the whole colonization system is aweful. Yay Macedonia in Poland.

Finally, the character gestion thingy is annoying and boring. From what I got, player's decisions have little effect on the traits. Then again, it's more or less useless. Even if all your characters are dumb cowards, you can kick any other faction ass bar the 4 biggies (Rome, Carthago, Seleukids and Ptolemies).

**OverKnight** · 07-20-2009, 00:51

I'm thinking of reinstalling EU III and adding the latest expansion In Nomine.

Considering I'm rusty and the steep and unforgiving learning curve of Paradox games, can anyone recommend a FAQ or AAR they found helpful.

**pevergreen** · 07-20-2009, 01:19

My learning experience:

Numbers beat anything.
Merchants are key.
The economy system is annoying.

**Zim** · 07-20-2009, 02:12

FAQ

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...d.php?t=404217

The Paradox forums' excellent AAR forum for EU3. I actually learned to play the game properly from
AARs, sad as that may sound...

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/...play.php?f=360

Originally Posted by OverKnight

I'm thinking of reinstalling EU III and adding the latest expansion In Nomine.

Considering I'm rusty and the steep and unforgiving learning curve of Paradox games, can anyone recommend a FAQ or AAR they found helpful.

**OverKnight** · 07-20-2009, 04:16

Cool. For AARs I'm looking for a few in particular that would give me a example of the new IN features and strategies. Does anyone have some favorites?

The LibrAARy over at paradoxplaza is helpful, but doesn't sort by expansion, game version or quality. Good AARs tend to have a lot of views, but that also means they're generally older.

Of course reading AARs can be dangerous. Raading about how someone conquered the world with the Byzantines is informative, but can be discouraging when I start playing and find my skills lacking by comparison.