Europa Universalis General Thread

[ARN_]

The new El Dorado dlc is quite awesome, best part about it is being able to create your own dream nation

[bagge]

Just started playing again after a year~ break or so. Wanted to restore the Roman Empire Need to be more aggressive next time

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[AntiBlitz]

Great Khan achievement as Mongolia, i cut it pretty close towards the end, but was eventually able to ensure Mongorian beef for all.

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[Umbra]

Holy shit dat sardinia piedermont

[AntiBlitz]

Holy shit dat sardinia piedermont

ikr, thats the first time ive ever seen them in a game like that in which i didnt influence the outcome.  But thats not unusual for my games, seems they are always very odd when i play them.

[Kafein]

That's a microscopic BBB for 1817.

[AntiBlitz]

That's a microscopic BBB for 1817.

they lost a colonial independence war which made them release Normandie, Guyenne, and a few other countries, not to mention they were snuffed on either side by both Sardinia-Piedemont and Netherlands which were both huge.  Towards the end, i had to ally them and the Netherlands to hold Spain at bay while i had a war with Scandinavia and England.

I ended up staying buddhist, which i might add is a terrible religion, as it offers nothing.  I would really like to see variation and different systems in place for the different religions.  I also never had a chance to westernize as i was continuously conquering land.  Mongolia, who starts off as a vassal, poor, and stuck between Ming and Oirat does not make for a very good world conquest country with all these new updates. 

[Kafein]

they lost a colonial independence war which made them release Normandie, Guyenne, and a few other countries, not to mention they were snuffed on either side by both Sardinia-Piedemont and Netherlands which were both huge.  Towards the end, i had to ally them and the Netherlands to hold Spain at bay while i had a war with Scandinavia and England.

I ended up staying buddhist, which i might add is a terrible religion, as it offers nothing.  I would really like to see variation and different systems in place for the different religions.  I also never had a chance to westernize as i was continuously conquering land.  Mongolia, who starts off as a vassal, poor, and stuck between Ming and Oirat does not make for a very good world conquest country with all these new updates.

Much like EU3 the game gets harder with every update. If you use the loopholes that the updates fix, anyways.

In other news, Poland is a really interesting choice. Currently circa 1480, in a second war with Muscowy. The first was me not letting them getting union over Ryazan, and winning of course. I think they can't even form Russia now. I'm starting to think this game could get very easy if I trash the green giant right at the beginning.

[AntiBlitz]

And without further ado, Dracula's Revenge, a very rough achievement, on par with Granada.

To get this achievement, i went through:
warned by Hungary, Ottomans, Poland
Vassal of Poland
Independence war with Poland
Lost a war to Ottomans taking half my land and releasing Hungary
Westernization
Civil war(Draculesti Dynasty died)
Personal Union with Russia(Rurikovich Dynasty died)
Personal Union with France(French war for union)
Stoking a rebellion intentionally to spawn pretender rebels, then getting a new king, ending the union
i used Sow Discontent on the Ottomans when i had them at war and crushed them with rebellions, yes espionage ideas do work.
Finally Multiple wars with the ottomans, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Naples, Portugal, etc. until the end result here.

Oh and France bugged itself out and wouldnt use its armies, so they just sat there and watched me burn the majority of the time.

An absolute fucking disaster of a run that somehow worked.

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[Christo]

Ro.. Romania? visitors can't see pics , please register or login

[Kafein]

how is that even... wat

[AntiBlitz]

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historical to Romanian history im sure

warned by Hungary, Ottomans, Poland
Vassal of Poland
Independence war with Poland
Lost a war to Ottomans taking half my land and releasing Hungary
Westernization
Civil war(Draculesti Dynasty died)
Personal Union with Russia(Rurikovich Dynasty died)
Personal Union with France(French war for union)
Stoking a rebellion intentionally to spawn pretender rebels, then getting a new king, ending the union
i used Sow Discontent on the Ottomans when i had them at war and crushed them with rebellions, yes espionage ideas do work.
Finally Multiple wars with the ottomans, Poland, Lithuania, Austria, Naples, Portugal, etc. until the end result here.



id also like to mention that i absolutely love the client state stuff, i spent like 20 mins creating a flag and picking a color, not to mention coming up with a name for them.  Hence, the birth of Aegea, my pretty child.

any suggestions for the next achievement run?  im thinking im going to play Pomerania next to form Prussia, just to kind of chill out a bit, anxiety levels were too damn high with the last run going so "smooth".

does this link go to my achievements?
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198007097626/stats/236850/achievements/

[Christo]

historical to Romanian history im sure

lol 

[Kafein]

That border region between austria and iraq raises even more questions though.

[AntiBlitz]

That border region between austria and iraq raises even more questions though.

When i was personal unioned by France, Austria allied France, who was then brought into the huge war over my personal union.  Austria being severely weakened by the multiple wars, and of course now this one was then attacked by the Ottomans for Dalmatia.  At first the ottomans were winning, but once the union war was over, the full force of france came down upon them, and for who knows what reason they took the most random bits of land in a piece deal.  I believe they took 4 pieces of land total, only one that was actually core-able, so for like 150 years they were slightly overextended constantly, idk why dont ask, AI sometimes.  Later on, once i was independent and the ottoman menace was thoroughly crushed they just randomly attacked them and swallowed a huge, just stupid amount of land, which is what you see there.  Im not sure, but i dont believe the AI takes overextension, even though it claims it can be if you sell them land.