Europa Universalis General Thread

[Kafein]

Playing Papal States, holy year 1636.

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I exploded France very early while they were at war with Burgundy, I then exploded Burgundy, started eating French and Bourbon territories and later exploded England. Austria remained my biggest problem up until around 1550, now it's my infamy. I only need to take Friuli from Aquilea to make the Kingdom of God national decision (which is completely OP).

My constant advance into their territory means the empire is pretty much dead at this stage, never able to get more than 5 authority or something. After all, all matters related to God should be ruled by men of the Church.

My first national value was Unam Sanctam so not being catholic is a very bad idea. Also I'm the forever papal controller (I have like 75% of obtaining the next cardinal, all the time), whenever some catholic nation annoys me I just excommunicate them. Also having all those cardinals gives me -1.2 infamy per year.

I pretty much control all important european COTs except lubeck, and I also formed the first carribean COT in Moron so I get a heapload of gold through trade.

I have a lot of small vassals that I will take some time to annex. France (Calais), England (London), Ragusa, Monteblack in spanish, Alençon, Normandy, Aragon and Algiers. They are all catholic. Even funnier, Algiers is ruled by a bishop.

[Abay]

Also having all those cardinals gives me -1.2 infamy per year.

omg, -1.2 ?      I need those cardinals in Ottoman Palace 

[Turboflex]

Try Magna Mundi mod if you find EU3 too easy.

[Kafein]

Try Magna Mundi mod if you find EU3 too easy.

Most countries are not "too easy", at least not during the first years. The only problem is that when you become blobby, nothing can really hurt you anymore.

[SeQuel]

Most countries are not "too easy", at least not during the first years. The only problem is that when you become blobby, nothing can really hurt you anymore.

Yah, that was my only gripe with the game. You eventually become a power house and destroy everything in your path.

[Christo]

Somewhat related.

I love this tune so much. The music is fantastic even if you listen to it for the 1000th time.

[Abay]

It is really first time that I like 90% of musics of a game like that 

[Kafein]

Weirdly enough, I still like the musics after thousands of hours.

[Abay]

I will load new map after peace with Hindustan, Great Britain and France soon 

[Teeth]

This is my only screenshot of EU3.....I couldn't continue this file unfortunately because I re installed Windows 7 and forgot to back it up >.<

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My borders are so pretty.

Did you start with Novgorod or Muscowy, if you started in 1399 ofcourse? I have been trying to form glorious Russia with Muscowy about 3 times now, but Golden Horse always fucks me up sooner or later, sometimes with or without Novgorod. Oh I always play without Lucky Nations cause I think it is gay, isnt Muscowy a lucky nation?

On the subject of mods, are there any that are a vast and undisputable improvement of the base game?

[SeQuel]

Did you start with Novgorod or Muscowy, if you started in 1399 ofcourse? I have been trying to form glorious Russia with Muscowy about 3 times now, but Golden Horse always fucks me up sooner or later, sometimes with or without Novgorod. Oh I always play without Lucky Nations cause I think it is gay, isnt Muscowy a lucky nation?

On the subject of mods, are there any that are a vast and undisputable improvement of the base game?

I started with Novgorod.

I really like Death and Taxes, it's not super hard like Magna Mundi but it changes the game up quite a bit. Everything has more of a impact like decisions, policies, and national decisions.

[Kafein]

On the subject of mods, are there any that are a vast and undisputable improvement of the base game?

I haven't played many, but due to the nature of the game, it's almost impossible to make a mod that only improves things. Even those things you wish worked differently in the base game, sometimes when you play the "fixed" version, the game seems more dull.

[SeQuel]

Started a game with my friend. I'm playing Serbia, he's playing Naples. Needless to say, were been in A LOT OF WARS and keep barely coming out on top. We just came out of a war against Croatia, Hungary, and Poland. We were pretty close to losing until we started to come back, as we were making our come back Austria takes advantage of this and declares war on them. Poland gets scared and white peaces and 1-2 months later Austria peaces with Hungary. Now me and my friend just had to deal with Croatia and Hungary which was a fun fight. It's actually pretty fun and I'm enjoying this file a lot with him.

Here's the screenshot of the progress.

Notes:

THIS IS ALL ON THE DEATH AND TAXES MOD

- Look at Castille, completely fucking blew up. Ever seen Leon before?
- You can't see it in the screenshot but Sweden is spanning across Russia
- France got destroyed early in the game and made the biggest come back I've ever seen.
- A lot of random nations have random provinces everywhere.
- Fuck Ottomans and their god tier generals.

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[Kafein]

Is that a french portugal I see ?

[SeQuel]

Is that a french portugal I see ?

It is, you also got Galacia right above it and Morocco actually capping Castille.