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Title: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on September 24, 2010, 05:06:33 pm
The purpose of this thread is for those of us who play games like Eu3 , Civilization, SOTS, Total War, what have you, basically games where you can build an empire or you control a nation. Here you can show off your empire and describe, if you so choose, your struggles in forming that Nation.

To lead by example I shall go first.

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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Frajic on September 24, 2010, 05:21:19 pm
This makes me want to play an empire game. Sorry, I have no examples. Yet.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Nirur Torir on September 24, 2010, 06:02:50 pm
Could be fun. Here's mine:

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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: breadbocks on September 25, 2010, 04:15:03 am
My "empire" in my current webdiplomacy game. I'm England(Pink) and my ass is getting handed to me.
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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on September 25, 2010, 04:33:51 am
Supreme Ruler 2020, playing as Saudi Arabia. The green bit's me, although this picture's out of date, as I've taken the red country to the north (Somethingorotherbjan) and the UAE.
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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on September 25, 2010, 05:14:24 pm
(http://oi56.tinypic.com/207rghf.jpg)
Hurr am i doin it rite?
Holy Roman Empire. Formed by Byzantium. Europa Universalis 3.

Weirdness? The Netherlands moved it's capital to Mexico. England declared independence from Great Britain, and it's capital is London. Great Britain's capital is Timbuktu. Mexico is a revolutionary Republic, and dutch. Texas is mainly Greek save for one province which belongs to the USA. Haiti in North Carolina. I control massive parts of China.

I also hold Spain in a personal union that lasted until the end of the game without inheriting, but the King of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor are the same person, so I'm calling them mine. By the time this game ended (I don't have screenshots and no more save), I owned all the little enclaves in my territory. Syria, Poland, Brittany,
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Cheese on September 26, 2010, 04:34:03 am
I have a sudden urge to play EU3 again. Or SR2020. I love paradox.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on September 29, 2010, 07:51:51 pm
Update...

Ottoman Empire 1669

(http://i51.tinypic.com/2isce9t.jpg)

Its been interesting, Now pretty much moving from outright attempts of conquest as I'm over extended, I'm also trying to westernize which has resulted in pretty much a civil war, at one point my Stability was -3 because of it but THANKFULLY, my bestest friends, the Qara Konolu or whatever their called  stepped up and helped me and earned a lot of gratitude from me. (Event had me go from -3 to 0) Had a war with Milan (owns most of Italia) which was pretty "Fun" since they have like 10 land tech over me. >.>

Also, rest of the world pic:

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Yes, that's right, Norway fucking invaded France.

Persia was pretty strong for awhile but thanks to me and Qara they got royally screwed.

The huge blob of Austria is a vassal to to a one province minor of Saxony thanks to a personal union.

On that note Northumberland leads a personal union with Great Britain...

Russia is still divided, Golden Horde holding all the cards it looks like, but can't stand up to the Swedes I think.


Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on October 02, 2010, 12:29:20 am
Oh god what happened to Poland, Austria what have you done.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on October 24, 2010, 11:56:11 pm
Spoiler: Taranto Hauteville Family 1105 (click to show/hide)

Kingdom Come gave me an urge to play CK...  I started as Taranto, was initially slow, unable to stand up to the Duchy of Apulia, my liege but I managed to take the province with the shield over it after a couple wars, Apulia growing pretty good itself but I knew my best chance was to become a Duchy.  Luckily to the east the Byzantines were going through a bit of crap (which they would recover from with time) and their just happened to be weak Duchy of Epirus.. and thus after a brief war the County Of Taranto became the Duchy of Epirus (Despite not actually owning anything in Epirus) Of course becoming a duchy broke my Servitude to Apullia, which seems like it caused them to collapse, while they fell I slowly prospered, gaining strength and more vassals.  The Apullian Duchy was incorporated into mine after the Cyrnenican and Palman Muslim Invasion. Finally I united enough of South Italy to name Abelard De Hauteville the King of Sicily. ALL HAIL THE KING.

Now at 65 he can finally rest and prepare his Son for the throne.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Lightning4 on October 30, 2010, 07:09:52 am
EU3: Complete, got it a few weeks ago. This thread partly inspired me to get it, what with the... unusual paths history can branch off to!

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The year is 1517. Castille, since my friends recommended that as the best for starting out as a new player.
Need to slow down on the rampant colonization, I'm getting pretty overextended. Colonial costs are hitting me hard, the only thing keeping me afloat is the old loot and plunder strategy the real world Spain used. Keeping a war economy has been proving rough on my reputation as well.

Plans include conquering all of Africa, becoming the largest colonial power, and shattering those damn French like a cheap glass window.
Won't be easy doing the first two at the same time, and I'm having trouble getting allies to make the third a better possibility. Only chance is to wait for a mass dogpile on them again, otherwise.


Fun stuff:
France used to be cohesive, but a decisive backstab by me against them allowed me to force them to cede a few nations. They're now staying at -3 stability thanks to me, and I await a chance to strike again. They're still ridiculously powerful in military, only surpassed by Ming in raw manpower.

Aragon still exists because I'm a wimp and haven't found an opportune CB to kill them with yet. If I eventually do it, I can finally become Spain.

Timurids never died. They're terrifying and I'm glad they're over there. They have 93k men, are an empire, and are still expanding. Part of me hopes they never die because this seems to be quite a unique occurrence.

Russia will probably never see the light of day. Musco(w/v)y ceased existing about 15 years ago, and the Golden Horde, despite being a Tribal Democracy, is still quite strong. Lithuania being all up in their business doesn't help either.

Lithuania is the Holy Roman Emperor.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on October 30, 2010, 10:33:07 am
That's pretty good for Castille. Normally I see people become Spain before getting that huge.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Evergod41 on October 30, 2010, 03:38:57 pm
Japanese Giant Death Robots and Nukes vs Roman Tanks of all kinds and Artillery

Civ V is awesome... I was playing a great plains map

Me (Japan)
Rome
USA
No City-States
No Barbarians

Didn't take screens, but I started in the Industrial age to speed things along.

I sent the pikemen I started with to explore the map, Rome found me, then USA found me. Many treaties of all kinds ensued. Including a war with Rome that lasted until I gave up from the lag of rendering Fallout on every tile that I didn't own... USA was pwned, Rome was between us, and I dont spam military units, so I couldn't save him.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Yaddy1 on October 31, 2010, 09:51:04 am
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until I gave up from the lag of rendering Fallout on every tile that I didn't own...

You can make the fog of war less cpu-hungry in the options menu. I found the game unplayable until I did that...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Evergod41 on October 31, 2010, 10:49:49 am
Quote from: Yaddy1 on October 31, 2010, 09:51:04 am
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until I gave up from the lag of rendering Fallout on every tile that I didn't own...

You can make the fog of war less cpu-hungry in the options menu. I found the game unplayable until I did that...
yes, I could also play on the 2D option... which I do, but the game is still demanding when several players own like 10 cities, and over 50 units, and it tries to do all of the CPU's moves AT THE SAME TIME!!! THAT is the only flaw I see in the game, it doesn't pace itself, and I end up starting with an alliance just to slow down the research, cause I can get to guns before they can get to swords... unless it's the german player, then they get to their Kernstich, or whatever it's called, before I get to swords...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on October 31, 2010, 01:17:56 pm
British Empire
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Right click -> view image for the better size.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 01, 2010, 05:47:02 am
That looks... not much different. XD (Vicky 2 I assume?)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on November 01, 2010, 02:46:06 pm
Quote from: Rilder on November 01, 2010, 05:47:02 am
That looks... not much different. XD (Vicky 2 I assume?)
It's obviously EU3. Ugh.
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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Lorak on November 01, 2010, 04:22:53 pm
Hehe that's funny because Rilder's original post said  "That looks.... historically accurate"  which I was totally thinking in my head, but then he edited his post for some reason.  =-o
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on November 01, 2010, 04:28:28 pm
Quote from: Lorak on November 01, 2010, 04:22:53 pm
Hehe that's funny because Rilder's original post said  "That looks.... historically accurate"  which I was totally thinking in my head, but then he edited his post for some reason.  =-o
I pride my empires in their historical accuracy.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 02, 2010, 07:07:30 am
Well I assumed it was EU3 at first and you'd somehow steered the entire world accurately. :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Cheese on November 03, 2010, 11:38:11 am
How come it's pink?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Toady Two on November 05, 2010, 05:48:18 pm
How do you export the map images in EU3?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on November 05, 2010, 06:40:25 pm
Quote from: Cheese on November 03, 2010, 11:38:11 am
How come it's pink?
Because I like a pink Britain.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 07, 2010, 10:38:26 pm
Spoiler: Hessia 1581 (click to show/hide)

Enjoyable game... Managed to come out on top in Germany, obviously and now I'm one province away from creating "Germany" and once I get my Infamy down I can try and make the entire HRE my vassal.. of course I know for a fact that Burgundy won't like that so may end up as an epic HRE Civil war.

The eventual war with Burgundy should be interesting though, besides Castile they are the only major power I haven't fought.

I also bit the bullet and started Colonizing as you can see by New Hessia, They should help a bit in any Mainland Conflicts

On to Observations:

Great Britain got bogged down in European wars I think so they couldn't become that much of a Colonial Power, but since they've decided to focus more on peace they've picked up the pace in that department, though its looking like the USA will be in Mexico and Mexico will be where the USA is supposed to form.  :P

Castille has pretty much ignored Europe beyond annexing Poland in favor of trying to colonize as much as they can.

France... well their holding on, probably thanks to being in the HRE, It looks like their abandoning Europe in favor of a Colonial Migration or something.

Burgundy.. well their burgundy... they've basically left Germany itself alone in favor of trying to unite France under their rule.

Aragon, They focused their ambitions on Italy, at one point having almost the entire place in their control, then I intervened shortly after being Crowned Emperor the result was a... bloody and long, not being strong enough to break through their lines and they constantly sending 2-4 unit naval invasions which of course got annihilated, but now they've been kicked out of Italy and its back to the hoard of minors par usual.

Scandinavia, not much to say about them, except when they war they like to send CONSTANT invasions of 1-3 units, to the point after my first war (Back when they were Sweden) I had 99 Army Tradition.

Prussia: Used to be a friend, now a Rival, fought two wars with them, first war was initially about forcing Catholicism on them (IIRC) and the Second ended up me forcing them to release the Teutonic Order (haha)

Teutonic Order: Formed into Prussia - > Got released thanks to me, then Pomerania Seceded and I was dragged into the war to defend them, resulting in a couple minors being released.

Austria: Or perhaps the Austro-Greco-Turk Empire, They utterly pwned the Ottomans and are a definitely major power, my first war with them however was a humiliating loss for them, but since then they've secured Asia Minor so its a scary prospect facing them.

So yeah... the 1600s are promising to be "Interesting."
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Intelligent Shade of Blue on November 09, 2010, 02:23:04 am
Quote from: Toady Two on November 05, 2010, 05:48:18 pm
How do you export the map images in EU3?

F12. Shift-F12 will export a map of just your empire & vassals.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 09, 2010, 07:33:41 pm
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All these empires have made me jealous and I opened up my EUIII set again. And now I shall be LPing my history to all of you who are interested. Man EUIII was fun. I still remember how I had been bent on conquering the world using Korea. It was *brutal*. I used the console to give me 50k gold, 100 prestige, and etc. Then used it regularly to restock my advisers. Then used it regularly to spam event 727. Then spammed it *continuously* and I mean, like every 3 minutes or so when Ming decided to screw me over and I didn't have an army ready. Thank god for those Cantonese patriots, seriously. That and mercenaries. Throughout the way, I ended up getting into a personal union with Ming, which promptly ended after Ming revolted at my next ruler, conquered Manchu and several parts of Siberia, conquered Malacca and Atthuthaya (or whatever it is) ... and found why I should never conquer countries ever again after being screwed over by revolts continuously.

And then I decided to Westernize, at which point I spend all my points on trade and waited... and found it taking too long so I tried spamming gold then my fingers got tired and I realized that I could put money into research using the damn console. So I decided to get me some free research points, got QftNW, went all the way to Europe. Now it was beginning to get fun; so I screwed over the Ottoman Empire a few times, caused havoc, went screw you to the pope, then got a crusade on me and... My great European empire was screwed over even with spamming the console...

And I got tired and quit. That was my first game, really. I'm just posting it here because I wanted to share it with you all.



Soo... in any case, coming up is my new game. And my skills are going to be rusty but hopefully I'll do well.
*My game this time:
-Country Japan, Oct 14, 1399
-My strategy is going the fastest route down to Westernization. My goals is to vassalize Korea and Ryuku right away, sell most of my provinces to Ryuku, get Unam Sanctum as fast as possible and bringing a 10k army to Indochina, then starting to vassalize the countries one by one until I get to India, at which I will stop war and have finished Trade 7, and switch Unam Sanctum to QftNW. Then it's Europe time and hopefully I can get by quickly enough and get a province off Brittany or something.

I'll post my game later, around 1430~50 or so.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on November 09, 2010, 07:39:52 pm
Abandoned my Portuguese Empire in Victoria 2. Now, back to playing MMP2 in EU3.  :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on November 09, 2010, 10:30:31 pm
I don't believe that EUIII lets you sell provinces to vassals.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Cheese on November 10, 2010, 11:34:52 am
That's some.. liberal cheating there Hyo.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 13, 2010, 12:20:26 am
*Ahem*

In any case, I have a question- what affects yearly income again? Because I went from 3.5k gold to 700, and at this rate, I'm going to be bankrupt soon... And it's not as if I'm capable of minting my way through either.

Also, is the inflation from minting scaled or fixed?

And uh, finally, do tariffs count toward annual income, or do only legit taxes do?

My update for Japan is, uh, coming soon. Basically, I screwed over Indochina and NE India, I got to Europe, westernized, vassalized the Byzantine Empire, Sicily, conquered Napoli and fought Milan for control over Italy.

I'm rather concerned about my status though, since my empire's going to fall apart very soon it seems. First, I have financial issues as shown above. Second, the HRE, aka Bavaria is tougher than I thought. And weaker than I hoped it to be. France is slowly eating away at eastern Europe, and has already conquered parts of Aragon- though Castille took the rest before France could gobble it. Burgundy died out within the first 50 years it seems, providing France with a one-way ticket to victory.

Also, I'm having a rather big conflict of territories. My strategy throughout Indochina was to simply vassalize them all, but in Europe's that different. I'm actually thinking getting a good foothold in the area of my own territories. However, this comes into conflict with my teching tactics. I'm currently rather far behind in technology and if this continues, I'm going to get outraced pretty soon. And so it's been bugging me for a while... *sigh*

And finally, Shinto is a crappy religion; though it's better than Confucianism any day, I really with that Japan can convert to Catholic. And for RP reasons, I don't want to go with Hindu because I find Hindu Japanese people.... well, weird. That and I'm not about to get revolts in mainland JAPAN. I have enough trouble screwing around in Europe already.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 13, 2010, 03:29:47 am
Holy Roman Empire 1675
15 Years after Germany United.

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Vassal Map for clear borders (http://i53.tinypic.com/2s6ral0.jpg)

March 30th 1660 I officially united the Empire under Hessian rule (If it could even be called Hesse the "Von Hesse" line had lost the throne ages ago though I don't know why)

Since then its been mostly solidifying my rule, expanding colonies and building ships. (As well as bringing my army up to over 250 Thousand troops)
Hesse Before Uniting, just for the record (http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2277/fortherecord.jpg)

World politics.

Wars with Burgundy have broken them pretty bad but their still scary and can eliminate an army if they try.

Ryazan seems to be uniting Russia pretty good, though they can't move west without trifling with me..

The Ottomans gained the upper hand after the fall of Austria. (Fall of Austria depicted here, this was after a single war with me some time before uniting) (http://i51.tinypic.com/vpyp21.jpg)

Castille is Castille... Enormous Colonial Empire...  for some reason I feel like I'm in a cold war with them, German and Spanish forces continue to be arrayed against each other in North America and West Africa, to the point where I think there is actually more Soldiers in New Hesse then actual colonists. Comparitively I have more raw manpower but Castille has more active troops... however my troops are more advanced and more infantry based so *shrug*  I'd probably lose Africa but gain the upper hand in Europe and America.

The southern Tip of Aragoneese South America is in full Rebellion for some reason, though I dunno if a new faction will actually Arise...

Sweden seems to be getting the uperhand in Scandinavia... I don't even think Scandinavia's capital is in Europe anymore, probably in one of the Colonies...

Naples has a few colonies out there though lost two in South America in the Venetian war.

Baluchistan and Delhi seem to have India cut in half pretty well.

Persia lost a lot to Castille but still strong.

England has for the post part butted out of Europe in favor of Colonial expansion.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on November 13, 2010, 10:15:53 am
Why do none of you use Magna Mundi? It's depressing.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 13, 2010, 12:23:44 pm
Quote from: PenguinOverlord on November 13, 2010, 10:15:53 am
Why do none of you use Magna Mundi? It's depressing.

I have my reasons, but lets keep that discussion out of this thread.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on November 13, 2010, 01:05:00 pm
So what are those two countries in the northern part of England? I'd guess one is Scotland and the other is York.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on November 13, 2010, 01:12:47 pm
Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal God on November 13, 2010, 01:05:00 pm
So what are those two countries in the northern part of England? I'd guess one is Scotland and the other is York.
Northumberland, I think
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 13, 2010, 03:54:42 pm
Yeah Scotland and Northumberland, I think they are both vassals of GB, there has to be some reason why Britain hasn't tried to reclaim them...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 14, 2010, 12:59:50 am
The Great Empire of Japan- 1503

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Yeah, it's been a bumpy ride and I've come far over the last 100 years. And I mean *far*. As you can see- or not; Japan is now a major player in Europe, having fought Napoli and Milan for control over Italy and have gained a significant amount of land in France. So here's a summary of my playthrough.

1399~1405- The Beginning of the Empire

I first forgoed my initial idea of a technological powerhouse, because I was afraid that if I wasn't careful Ryuku might just decide to screw me over when they had most of my provinces. That and because Settsu wasn't Japan's capitol. So I first paid 100 for claims on Korea, vassalized it, and annexed Ryuku soon after.After that, I conquered the rest of the independents in the South Pacific, including Malacca. However, I did not get a chance to get to Aceh, sadly. So thanks to the two level 4 statesman/treasurer I had to start with, I managed to get Unam Sanctum by 1414.

1405~1440- Steamroll your way through oblivion

Somewhere along the line, Ming got into a PU with me, because it's ruler died while fighting with the Oirat Horde. And you know what to do with big gigantic nation of doom- steamroll my way through Indochina. Which I did- until NE India, where *my* ruler, Gokomatsu, died and apparently I had bad relations with Ming somehow. Ming then got its own ruler, and I was left to conquer Assam and co. on my own.

Which I did, of course, and vassalized all the way up to Gondowan; where I took it upon my self to take the territories of Delhi and Bengala, since they were rather tasty. However, my rampage stopped there, because the three Indian nations- Punjab, V- something, and the other one- light blue, olive green, and the pink one next to delhi; allied with each other. And this far into India, I can't get support from most of my indochina vassals, and while Bihar and Gondowan are powerful, it's going to be nowhere enough to cut it. And I'm not willing to sacrifice my treasury for this attempt either... Or wasn't willing to afford any more. I fought them, and they brought numerous 10k stacks at me, which I *barely* managed to fend off long enough to sue for a white peace. It was brutal.

So, while I'm aiming for trade 7 and not having anything to do, I decided to conquer Indochina a bit. I went and killed Dai Viet, Suikhothai, Lan Xang and Champa- though Champa had Vijaya taken over by Aceh. However, while doing so I *accidentally*... declared war on Champa without devassalizing it... And vassal relations as well as stability took a hit. And so, I had to postpone finishing off Champa because I had 3 rebellions popping up at once. It took me a bit to deal with them, and I sold my Indochina territories to my larger vassals because I was too lazy to screw around with rebels. And I got bored again, so I decided to conquer Tibet, which happened rather easily as well.

At this point, I found myself without much of an enemy in Asia.. well, except, Ming. India was powerful, but I doubted that it was going to attempt expanding on me anytime soon; and the other would-be power is... Japan, which is, well, me. Ming was a serious threat though. I hadn't the best of relations, even though I was in a PU with them which should've given me 200 relations... and they had embargoed me. A rather dangerous sign of them going to kill me. However, they were rather caught up with their wars in the west for now, so I decided to leave them rather than face a potentially suicide situation.

1441~1450- To Europe!

And after all that, I finally got my QftNW, which was a real blessing. I immediately set out to Europe, hoping that I could get a land from Brittany or something. After a couple of years, I found myself dismayed. Castille conquered Aragon, France conquered Burgandy, Hungary was going around rampantly, and England had already conquered Scotland and was finishing off Ireland.... by the 1440s. And so, I went and reluctantly rampaged on Sicily to vassalize them and Cambria off of them. I soon spent the next few years on Westernization.

After I had done so, I decided to get a large vassal to help me with my conquest in Europe. I found the Byzantine Empire... which was quite considerable, really. It had taken a decent part of Asia Minor though I manged to vassalize it in one go. I spent a few more years to conquer Morea and destroyed the Ottoman Empire (Which was *puny*, with only 4 provinces) and gave the territories to Byzantine.

1451~1470- The Battle for Italy

It was at that point that I realized that Milan had cornered Napoli and it had only one territory left. I panicked and Annexed Napoli right away to discover... Milan being the new ruler of Italy. I facepalmed for having let things go this far. At this rate, I wouldn't get any decent foothold in Italy- and I really wanted Italy and all of its precious universities. Asia Minor was too risky with the Tirmuid, Mamluks, and Bosnia having gone and guaranteed everything usable, so I was only left with Eastern Europe. Germany was a no go; I wasn't suicidal enough to face the HRE directly just yet and I was only left with Milan... which had Italy and was a bloody member of the HRE as well... Wait- that makes Milan even worse of a choice! Why am I even considering this again?

And so I decided that I *was* suicidal enough to face the HRE and fight Milan for control over its territories. So began the conquest of Ferrara using the territories of Mantua (who had been Napoli's allies), which was Milan's ally... which was also part of the HRE. My goal was to conquer as much of Milan as possible before Bavaria managed to get through Tirol and slaughter me to pieces. Thankfully that never happened- Bavaria was too busy with its war with Hungary and sent me a White Peace soon after- and Milan without Bavaria is... well... Milan. And so I quickly got Firenze and others for myself.

Having taken parts of Italy but still not satisfied, I quickly declared war on Venice... which just *happened* to be allied with Milan. Que epic stomping of Milan and Venice. More territories out of Milan, Venice is reduced to one territory. Wait, I'm not done yet. Milan still up and strong? Why, then the obvious answer is taking Corsica which also just... *happened* to be guaranteed by Milan. Now, the AI is either just outright stupid or I'm extremely lucky because Milan declared war on me... again, after being slaughtered two times in a row. By me. I still got Venezia, and Genoa became my vassal as well. Sadly, the conquering of Corsica wasn't as great, because the Swiss and Brandenburg, the new HRE, declared war on me as well. Thankfully, Brandenburg was only two months old as the HRE, and I fended it off rather well until I managed to screw Milan over rest of the way.

All in all, I've taken most of Italy. Which took a hefty amount of time and I'm rather thankful that it had ended at this point or else I would've been screwed by overextending myself. Now one might note that I've been making extensive wars in Europe and be wondering that it's got to be impossible. Not quite so. I had been very careful during the war not to make any army overruns as much as possible. Also, as you may have noticed, the war took quite a long time, it wasn't a quick curb stomp battle as I would've liked it to have been. For example, Milan had a 21k army rampaging around at one point. And the thing with Europe is, it's supply limit is high. Very high. Trying to kill them off with attrition as one would do with Ming is very unlikely. Also, Brandenburg, while relatively weak, had continuously sent troops throughout the third war, totaling in about 15k troops in my estimate. This was an especially brutal period for me, because rebels were running high (And Italian rebels for some reason really like to be 10k stacks unlike nice 3~5k ones back in Asia), the Byzantines were suffering from Turkish rebels as well. My saving grace is that Hungary had attacked Bavaria again, which made Brandenburg pull its stacks back a year or so in, resulting in a white peace, and Sicily's continuous contribution of troops (Strange, in a way, since it only has two provinces). That and the fact that I had 3.5k saved up from Asia. Sadly, that huge stack of 3.5k ducats had dropped to 900 by the time I finished with Milan. I never realized why I had ever managed to save up so much in the first place.

1471~1480-  Brief Period of Peace

So Milan was screwed and I should get right back on to killing Milan, right? Not going to happen. As it did, Milan apparently allied themselves with England, and I don't want to get involved in another massive war right now. Also, if England does go to war with me, there is a likely chance in the post-war aftermath that France would invade through Scotland's territories and kill England- in fact, France getting any bigger at all, would be a problem; a problem I'll discuss a bit further.

So, what do I do now? Nothing. My manpower's been hitting 700~900 for the last few months, and I've actually been lucky to have pulled out thus far. Especially since Milan had a higher land tech and better troops than me. It sucks that you can't switch troop types in IN. Then again, Chinese cavalry are actually rather much better until land tech 38 I believe. But infantry's going to be hit hard. Then again, it's not going to be around a hundred years later from now.

And the one thing is, my treasury is bottoming out, and very soon- and I CAN'T TELL WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, that really bothers me a lot. To compensate for the situation, I have an active war with Tripoli just so that I can get War Taxes to help ease the deficits- my ruler has a 9 ADM and it is oh, such a wonderful thing. Of course, I've all the three of its provinces under my control so it can't do anything while I'm busy idling.

On a side note, there hasn't been much change in Asia, except Manchu got three provinces from Ming rebels, two to the south and one to the north due to Ming having been busy killing off the GH and the Tirumuids, and it had warred the newly popped up Mongol Khanate for some reason that I can't comprehend. Well, it got Korea to war it due to Korea having an alliance with it. It fetched Korea quite a few territories and I jumped in on the last second to get Haixi off of the whole thing. The Khanate was quickly re-absorbed by Ming soon after though.

The only parts to conquer that are left are the few northern parts to the NE and NW. And due to Milan running out of things to DoW through, I'm not going be warring them anymore. They do have a guarantee on Cyprus- though the problem is that France and Castille both have a guarantee on it as well; and taking on the world's currently two largest superpowers is by far *not* a smart move. At least; not at the same time.

1481~1502- The Epic Franco-Japanese War

During my wars with Milan there was something that I became increasingly concerned with- France. Now I know that France is a big problem for any major European player, but it was getting way out of hand. It had slaughtered Castille, moving a fair bit into their lands, and was slowly eating way at the HRE. It also had the islands above scotland near England, which meant that if I'm not careful and they conquer England too, they're soon going to be invincible, and I have no chance of winning at all unless I'm willing to go the long way and try to risk WWIII against France. I mean come on- they're quickly turning into Ming and to make it worse, they're in the bloody damn latin tech group.

So, the point is, France is getting powerful, way too fast. France has already proven itself capable of killing Castile before, it's been eating away at the HRE, and Palatinate isn't going to be able to do much about a French rampage- it's predecessors proved how incapable they were of that already.

So, after I had recovered... and my gold count was increased to 1200 (through war taxes and minting, I was even considering a loan but..) I decided to prepare for France. At this point in the game I had a total of 30 regiments. I was waiting so that I'd be able to get a DoW on Corfu and attack France right away when...

FRANCE DECLARES WAR ON CASTILLE! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!!!!!

Or not. To look on the bright side, Castille is also allied with England. However, if this goes well for France, it could mean big trouble for me. Either way, Castille's still pretty powerful and France will burn quite a few troops on it while I go and hit it from the back. The AI for some reason always makes peace with other AIs if Human Players attack it but it's still going to be painful somewhat to France, and will at least keep their troops on their border for a while.

So 5 months after Castille's DoW, France probably fought a few battles that would be hard on them, and it should be fast enough that Castille hasn't taken too much of a beating. I go through my vassal the Swiss and strike into France, using Champte-Compte. It proves to be a disaster however. After having taken 4 of their provinces them in quick assaults, France starts blasting off at me... in a painful manner. First, they send a bunch of 1 and 2 stacks, which I kill off easily and then comes a 11k. Okay, that's not too bad, and then a bloody 28k stack consisting of 17k cavalry and 11k infantry, followed by several 10k stacks. It was at that point that France had troops sieging my escape route... in other words, guaranteeing doom for 22k of my troops. And *then* comes the peace deal between Castille and Fran.. wai-what? Are you telling me that France had troops to spare while still at war with Castille!?

I tried to fight a guerilla war in France for a while, taking out a bunch of 1~2 stacks, but I was soon cornered by the enemy forces. I tried to request access from England but they wouldn't let me and the German OPM all hate me too much from Milan wars. I still managed to take a good decent chunk out of their force though and I'm proud.

But whether I'm proud or not, it's fact that the french war machine is coming at me strong. They invade the Swiss and cut through them with no problem at all, and they will soon arrive in Brecia. There's not much I can do to stop them and it's going to be ugly, but I try to use the scorched earth tactic and immediately set off flames in northern Italy, in hopes that it will slow them down. And ho, it does! The 28k French force arrived in Brecia first, along with another 10k regiment, boosting up attrition damage to all time highs. And for some reason, it seemed that they have not learned how to assault as they sit there and let their troops be slaughtered by attrition. However Brecia *does* fall though, and French troops start storming in... only to have the huge stack going back into France and smaller 4~6k stacks spreading out.

At that point, my army, 12k strong starts wiping out the stacks that come in through Italy, trying to time it so I suffer as little as from Attrition as possible. Although I manage to fend them off, France sends another 18k stack my way, which I quickly move to dodge. It then proceeds to start sieging suffering attrition damage....

And the same stuff happens over and over again... for more than 15 years. I never realized time was going so fast. But in any case, it seems that France's assault was growing slowly weaker, so I took my navy and patrolled around, to find that it was being ravaged by rebels. Surprised, I go and check France's stats again to find it at -3 stability. Surprise, surprise, I'm not sure what triggered that, but that means high RR and perfect time for me to step in. I go in, but there still are quite a few french forces fighting the rebels, and over the course of 3 years, I conquer quite a bit of France and take over the territories to get what you see on the World Map there. And it's now two years later...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on November 14, 2010, 02:00:08 am
Scorched Earth works wonders when your opponent is as bad of a tactician as Hitler was.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Muz on November 14, 2010, 02:21:11 am
Quote from: PenguinOverlord on November 13, 2010, 10:15:53 am
Why do none of you use Magna Mundi? It's depressing.

Yeah, this. Vanilla EU3 is kinda... easy. Especially when it's possible to conquer the civilized world with the Incans.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Lightning4 on November 14, 2010, 08:08:04 am
Continuation of Castille, 1641. AKA, WHY ARE YOU NOT SPAIN YET?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Times are great for the Castillian empire. We are the Holy Roman Emperor, we always have 100 prestige, we own approximately 75% of Africa and a good chunk of South America... although, we no longer have an alliance with any of the local powerhouses. The only negatives right now being a mediocre king and slight slacking in the technological department.
Finally got around to conquering Aragon about 30 years ago. 20 to go until I am finally (belatedly) Spain.
The terrifying Bleu Blob has been neutered somewhat from my last post due to several strikes against them. They might have hard times ahead, I'm keeping them at -3 stability with spies and they're locked in a very, very long stalemate with Great Britain and have maxed WE about 10 years ago. Despite this, they are still first place for military as I haven't been staying very competitive in that department.

Not much in the way of future plans besides completing my domination of Africa, continuing my colonization of the world, and keeping France in check. I may try to do some damage to the Ottomans since they're starting to move into Europe. Can't have that!

Notes:
-The Timurids, sadly, finally snapped like a twig (partly my fault for dragging them into wars when they were already max WE). Mass revolts fractured their once great empire and forced them back into a tribal state. However, they cling to what's left of their empire, and have reformed back to a despotic monarchy. Interestingly, they have inherited a lucky tag from someone, so they may not be out of the game yet.
-Lithuania, good grief, Lithuania. There's never going to be Russia.
-Ottomans starting a bit late. They were content to stay the size they were for the past 200 years or so, but have finally started conquering into Europe. I'm going to have to watch them.
-Naples is getting scary. Yes, that is Naples in Persia. And I'm pretty sure it's my fault they got there.
-Everywhere I go, Portugal eventually appears in the vicinity. Africa? Portugal. South America? Portugal. Conquer the Maya? Portugal. Claim a Southeast Asian province? Portugal conquers Aceh and moves in nearby. Good neighbors for life, no mater the location in the world.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 14, 2010, 08:58:19 am
In any case, in my current situation, I've conquered Italy, forced France to surrender some territory. Provence, being a protestant has rebelled against France, which is good, but they've also gotten french guarantees and it's obvious that France is just waiting to gobble it up. I found this to be a good opportunity since I realized that inland provinces without sea connection make no revenue at all- or in other words, my french provinces. Sadly I'll have to battle France again, but this time I'm much more ready to fight them; especially scorched earth if I must do it.

Castille's a pretty major beginning power in colonization, as is GB. Both are moving into the Americas, so I don't think I'll be fighting them on the continent for a while- nor be helpful against France.

Now Ming is becoming a serious threat. I've seen its navy reach Europe already, and if it gets a good neighbour off of it, it's going to westernize. And trust me, a westernized Ming for your neighbour is never very pleasant. So I'm hoping that I'm able to go and war them already. However, I'm in a difficult position. I'm sure that if I concentrate on it, I can take at least France or Ming on at least on even grounds until they die of Attrition. However, France hates me very much and has a very high chance of DoWing me as soon as the truce ends. I also need some sea territories to get some revenue as well. So I can't make any kind of decision at all, which is starting to become a pain.

On a side note, my treasury's finally dropped to 100 ducats, but I've raided Mali, which apparently had 3k ducats with them, to... *share* some. It'll be finished in a year or so.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 16, 2010, 12:33:15 am
(http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2791/egyptkq.jpg)

Egypt 1130AD (M2:TW + Stainless Steel 6.3)

Still Early in the campaign but is already bloody as fuck thanks to a crusade called against Cairo..

Currently have two armies operating as well as a full stack garrison in Cairo, casualties after each battle have been huge especially with Egypt's crappy units at the start.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on November 16, 2010, 01:03:06 am
So what all does Stainless Steel do? I've been looking for M2TW mods. It looks like it expands the map a litte bit east, but does it add more regions? Change balance?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on November 16, 2010, 02:00:14 am
It changes a lot of stuff that I can't name off the top of my head. I've found it sorta feels like a more complete and enjoyable M2:TW
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 16, 2010, 07:00:49 am
I've started a new Japan and have decided to make a proper AAR out of it, complete with screenshots and all. So, this is my new Japan, planning on WC by 1821, beginning at 1399 of course.

So, first of all, a few reasons why one should go Japan:
-It's in Asia, free from all the political battles and headaches from Europe
-It's religion, Shinto is unique to Japan, meaning that Unam Sanctum and early expansion can make killing anything a whole lot easier.
-It's an island country, at the same time, is fairly large; large England, meaning that it's rather a safe country to play with, since enemies will rarely succeed be able to land on your shores as long as your navy is strong.

Some problems I would face:
-Since it's an island countries, it can't do cultural shifts (As far as I know) without moving the capital
-It's religion, Shinto, gives a -20% tax modifier, which hurts; though better than Confucianism
-It's bordering Ming, which can be such a pain, and will have to deal with it sooner or later
-It starts in the eastern tech group, meaning that its units will grow to be useless at tech 38+, and that it needs to westernize three times before getting full research capabilities.

In any case, Japan is a safe country to play with, that is relatively minor in the beginning, but easy to grow into a powerhouse.


So.. let's begin.

10/1399- I've started the first day managements, and used my three diplomats to gain military access to Tibet, Manchu, and Korea. Well, Korea wasn't necessary but just to be safe I added it in there. The purpose of this was to prepare for my eventual war against Ming. I intend to extend my influence in SE Asia and in the seas, and expect to fight Ming within 50 years. And as everyone knows, fighting Ming straight on is never a smart move.

In the meantime, I really love my new advisors- a 4 star statesman and a 3 star treasurer; and I've got another 3 star statesman just waiting for me to trade Ashikaga out for him. As for the other stuff, a slider towards Centralization, kill off the annoying revolt, and a government change to Despotic Monarchy.

(http://img535.imageshack.us/img535/87/eu32m.png)

12/1399- It's december now, and I've finally got another diplomat. I declared war on Ryuku like I always do; and it always turns out that if I don't declare war on it first, it declares war on me, which can be pretry minor, but pretty annoying and/or fatal; especially if I'm fighting Ming or something. That and to juice some war taxes out of it.

10/1400- Ryuku siege completed; however, I'm going to milk some war taxes on it so going to wait till January

1/1401- January and time to make peace with Ryuku. However, I'm suddenly in conflict with myself- though I've annexed Ryuku many times, Okinawa now that I look at it isn't such a tempting province; I needs to spend a missionary on it, and it's base tax is 2; which is rather poor. I don't want to take any burdens on with me, because I need to get to westernization as fast as possible, and I'm afraid getting Okinawa will slow me down by a few months.

(http://img574.imageshack.us/img574/5083/eu34a.png)


So I have three choices:

A) Annex Ryuku and play it normally; not like it would hurt that much - besides, you'll need to conquer sooner or later for WC so might as well do it now.
B) Vassalize Ryuku; then you still get money off of it, and can conquer it later for a prestige hit.
C) Leave Ryuku for now, milk war taxes from it, and go kill a few other Muslim nations.

Any suggestions?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on November 16, 2010, 09:03:17 am
Vassalization sounds like a good idea.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on November 16, 2010, 10:41:45 am
EU3, Holy Roman Empire, 1683.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I think I'm winning.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Cheese on November 16, 2010, 11:42:36 am
Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal God on November 16, 2010, 01:03:06 am
So what all does Stainless Steel do? I've been looking for M2TW mods. It looks like it expands the map a litte bit east, but does it add more regions? Change balance?
It basically expands everything.(Aside from stuff like diplomacy, but diplomacy is for weak rulers)

More units, nations and provinces, improved battle and campaign AI and various stuffs. The AI, by the way, is amazing. On the campaign map the change might not be as noticeable, but on the campaign map it makes the game awesome. Each game is actually different, rather than a few nations being destined to be awesome for a while then having constant stalemate wars while the player rolls up the world, each game(usually) different nations will often expand into huge empires that give the player real challenge. At end-game you'll usually see 4 or 5 big empires, including the players controlling the whole map. One guy even got caught between 2 massive English and Moorish empires as the Byzantium.
Oh, and it's much more difficult. The difficulty improves with every version. With 6.3 I think it's something like very easy is normal, normal is very hard and very hard is fcking insane.

Older, but still relevant post (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=383005). Check out the features spoiler on the 6.1 post.
Release post (http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=377824) for the latest semi-major release.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 16, 2010, 11:48:00 am
Quote from: Simmura McCrea on November 16, 2010, 10:41:45 am
I think I'm winning.

Well, at least in Europe. You're way too big for your own good to attempt any decent WC though.

Is that HTtT, or IN? MM?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on November 16, 2010, 11:59:17 am
HttT. And it's not like infamy is going to change anything, it's currently ~170.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 16, 2010, 09:31:33 pm
TIME TO DECLARE WAR ON MING HAS COME....!!!!!!!!!~~~~

Or yeah. I'm just being suicidal and maniacal.

So this is the news:

1/1401 - I have decided to vassalize Ryuku; however, have stuck with leaving it as it is now, to milk war taxes from it as much as possible.

3/1401 - War on Brunei which is neither guaranteed nor allied to anyone. My forces quickly rip Brunei apart, however, the guerilla war that I'm forced to fight and the long siege pushes the battle for a year.

3/1402 - The siege of Brunei has been completed and finished taking care of those pests. Now that I think about it, I think I could've gotten enough war score by having had conquered the other provinces... Ah well. Not like I care all too much, so I give Brunei first place on my Happy Vassal's Club. Hooray!

5/1402 - And being the warmonger I am, I move straight onto Malacca. Now Malacca is a special case as I intend to finish it off in two wars; one to conquer three of its territories and one to annex it. Why is Malacca so special you may ask? No reason; except it's tasty, tasty CoT.

9/1403 - And unsurprisingly, Malacca falls in little less than a year. And it cost me quite a bit too. Malacca wasn't that powerful, but Aceh suddenly storming me with its 7,000 army surprised me a little. However, it performed atrociously against my 6,000 army... And because their general sucked, while mine was pretty awesome. Did I mention that Gokomatsu is a 4 shock general? Awesome~ (Especially considering his military's only 4, or so I remember)

11/1403 - Defended from a few more Aceh attacks and now war on Malakassar. I've had a rebel sprout up, and it was really annoying. Ugh, seriously. A 4k rebel army hurts this early on. In any case, I quickly go and strike Malacca again, for the remaining capital, so that I may now conquer it.

4/1404 - Ugh, I forgot why IN is so annoying; there are so many bad events. In any case, I got a choice between a -500 trade tech and -1stab/-1merchant. I toke the stab/merchant hit because I can recover stab within 3~4 years, and because the trade tech hit would be fatal towards westernization and annoying.

9/1404 - Malacca is now annexed. Finally, now to embark upon the long, long journey of conquering Aceh... (Which is made especially painful by the fact that most of Aceh is TI, meaning that it's going to take a long, long time.)

7/1405 - Vassalized Ryuku, since the 5 year limit was coming up soon.

1/1406 - Did I mention the game hates me? Other than having had two rebel armies popping up during the last month, I've also just had *another* bad event; apparently rebel uprising in Malacca. Sadly, I chose the negotiations which not only cost me 30 ducats but a negative tax modifier, which hurts. I simply couldn't afford to have a 6k rebel suddenly pop up while my army was too busy conquering Aceh. The WE from that would've been unbearable- and due to constant war taxes, it's now around 5.6. (My ruler, Gokomatsu, is only capable of -0.08/month, so it's a base of +0.02 per month plus battle WE and attrition)

1/1407 - Other than another rebel army that popped up (Geez, is it just me or are there an awful lot of rebels...) a special case (and a very *delightful* special case) has occurred- MING HAS ENTERED A TIME OF TROUBLES!!!~

As all of you know, that is *such* a pain in the ass event, and screws you up pretty badly. Well, no fear, because I intend to screw Ming up even more badly. In all seriousness though, this is a big bonus for me, because it means that Ming is going to go down that much faster. As soon as I finish this conquest of Aceh and I get my 1st NI (Which is coming up in 1411, thanks to the lucky statesman I had gotten myself) I plan on going to war with Ming right away. This, folks, will be facing war with Ming even before 1420 hits, everyone. And if I manage to screw Ming up using this, I'd be setting up a record.

However, this is all not goody fun, though. Ming currently has a larger navy than me, and even if I do build it up, it's only going to be even and there's a chance that Ming will break through and screw me over. My only hope is that my precious will come to my rescue with their fleets of ships, therefore turning the tide in my favour.

(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/5889/eu31.png)

2/1407- I never noticed this, but Brunei finally conquered Malkassar for me. Wow, that took a long time, and Malkassar's right beside them dammit. I annex Malkassar right away- the reason I am doing this is because Malkassar has a whooping base tax of 11. Now, the only problem here is its religion... which is Sunni. Did I ever mention I hate it? It's missionary chance reduction is painful and annoying. It's one of the reasons that I had never bothered to annex Malacca or Malkassar in my previous games.

3/1407 - And this years old conflict between Aceh and me is finally over... And I drained Aceh of its treasury, dammit! In any case, Aceh's been ravaged by 10+ WE, and been rather screwed up lately... I feel bad now. In any case, I've given Aceh an invitation to join my Happy Vassal's Club which it happily accepted... Well, hey, it didn't refuse at least~ Now to finally take care of all those rebels...

10/1407 - Wait, wut? Rebels in Ezochi... Oh shi- I forgot to send a missionary there at the beginning of the game. In any case, it's the bloody tax revolters. I wish it's be religious revolters so that I could've simply stopped it with much problem, but no, it just *had* to give me a tax reduction.

7/1409 - King died admist of combat, stability drop. However, I'm satisfied, since my new one has an ADM skill of 7 (!), MIL of 5. The DIP is rather low, at 3; but like I care. I rolled for a general 2 Maneuver, 2 Fire, 2 Shock, no siege sadly. Hooray for this lucky roll, I'm so happy! *sniff*

In any case, sorry I couldn't get a screenshot of at least this, because I'm not used to this whole AAR and LP thing. I really need to remember to press F11 everytime something major comes up.

9/1409 - It's been a few years of rebel stomping. In the mean time, Aceh is now my vassal, and Malacca is now also Aceh's. I've given away those annoying pieces of land to Aceh, because I'm too lazy to deal with the revolts myself.

Now then... it's a new future opening up for me and I am currently going to do wait a few more years to burn off some WE, BB, build a larger navy and wait for Unam Sanctum in 1411.

The problem is... What will I do once I hit 1411? I have a few choices right now

A) Kill MING
B) Declare war on Indochina
C) Do nothing


(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/764/eu33.png)

First of all for A), Ming has a larger navy than me (for now) since I haven't been building ships lately. Also, it's still suffering quite a bit, and it's getting practically zero income in its provinces- for tax at least, due to Times of Troubles. It's army is still fairly large, at 88k, is nothing to underestimate. However, as we all know oh so well, Malacca WC AAR, courtesy of Rastar (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=378188&page=7) - Ming AI is a pushover and overly easy to slaughter through attrition. A few more problems in that - can I support a long-term war with Ming? If I'm not careful, WE will kill *me* instead.

B) This is a much safer way. I can declare on Pegu to get me in a bunch of wars and vassalize them. This will potentially give me more money to work with both through the treasury and prolonged war taxes. At a first glance, this is much better than directly confronting Ming. However, the downside to this is that I do not know when Times of Troubles will end and that I need to strike at it as fast as possible or else I'm going to lose the huge advantage I will need to take on Ming.

C) I *hate* this option. I really, really hate it. However a few good things come off of this - it burns of WE and BB, WE especially since I'm not thinking that it's not going to hit 0 by 5/1411 (Currently, 6, which is fairly high).  And I can turn off army modifiers which will help me save up gold without getting WE through gold taxes like A) or B). However, very little can be achieved here and my warmongering spirit tells me to not take this unless I'm desperate for something.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on November 16, 2010, 09:40:40 pm
I recommend making your own LP thread. It's a good start to an LP, but this thread is for empire showmanship, not empire building.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on November 16, 2010, 10:34:42 pm
I apologize. Should I copy my previous posts over there, or just continue on from the new thread?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Iituem on November 16, 2010, 10:55:04 pm
I'd suggest copying for completeness.  That way it's all in one place.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: SethCreiyd on December 06, 2010, 06:39:07 pm
This is my Russian Empire in Victoria 2.  I conquered most of the eastern world and a great deal of the west.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The European powers were defeated one by one in wars of Russian aggression in the name of territorial expansion.  Leaving civilized diplomacy to the dogs of war, Russia grew in size every year as it added more and more territories to its list.

Sweden was the first, losing most of its territory when the Russians invaded in 1837.  Norway was released as a Russian puppet state, giving Russia further access to the Atlantic.  Several Balkan states gained their 'independence' during the territorial wars with the Ottoman Empire.  They may be self-governing, but they are part of the Empire and any dissent from them will result in an immediate and forceful reprisal.

Austria, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, all fell before the Tzar's invincible armies.  The Russsian appetite for land turned elsewhere.

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The Empire now possesses the entirety of the Middle East, as well as most of mainland Asia.  While Britain retains control over the southern half of India, it lost the north during a failed war to contain Russia.  By the time Britain attempted this, Russia's military had grown too powerful for any one nation to stop.  The uncivilized states of Asia put up no effective resistance.  Japan, alas, remains unconquered, but it's only a matter of time, really.

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A quick war with the Netherlands saw the acquisition of Russian Indonesia, while colonization netted the Kenya and Somalia regions.  Alaska, Oregon, Washington and Idaho each belong to the Empire.

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Life as a Russian citizen is not too bad, but the revolution is due any day now.  There are over a billion people in Russia and very few of them are ethnically Russian.  Most are Chinese, in fact.  I expect the Americans are involved in the unrest, since I have to keep sending Secret Police to their subversive newspaper operations.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Russia does have very, very high infamy.  2041.61 out of 25, to be precise.  I completely gave up caring about Infamy about ten years into the game timeline when I 'liberated' a good chunk of the Balkans with impunity.  Britain tried to contain me for my absurd expansion, twice, and got defeated both times, losing much of India in the process (their Influence in Asia went with it).

I'm in the process of waging my 15th 16th war of humiliation, which is a pretext of a war goal to break a truce with China and conquer them for less prestige loss.  Soon I will conquer Spain, France, Japan, and the Netherlands, but I have to wait for a future patch, because FPS has gotten pretty awful.  The lag on the military screen is particularly atrocious.

Up until this point, though, it's been a blast.  It's fun to be the villain of the world!  When you have a powerful enough military, Infamy doesn't matter.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on December 06, 2010, 06:51:00 pm
Dang Seth, that's a huge empire. I'm wondering what your release nations list must look like. Any weird ones?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on December 06, 2010, 07:39:44 pm
Spoiler: Hessie->Holy Roman Empire End of Game (click to show/hide)

Finally finished my Hessia game, was good fun... don't really feel like writing anything about it atm though. :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Toady Two on December 07, 2010, 04:04:40 pm
wtf Ryazan?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Korbac on December 07, 2010, 10:19:16 pm
 ???

Quote from: Toady Two on December 07, 2010, 04:04:40 pm
wtf Ryazan?

 ??? My thoughts exactly  ???
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: SethCreiyd on December 07, 2010, 11:32:01 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on December 06, 2010, 06:51:00 pm
Dang Seth, that's a huge empire. I'm wondering what your release nations list must look like. Any weird ones?

The list is huge.  There's all the Chinese subdistricts like the Guanxi Clique, and you can liberate the likes of Latvia, Azerbaijan, Iraq. The weirdest was Wang Chien(sic?) which I actually released.

I'm thinking of releasing Israel, but I'm the defender of Eastern Christendom and feel it would be safer in Russian hands.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Intelligent Shade of Blue on December 11, 2010, 04:14:44 pm
Here's maps of my current English (now Great Britain) game:

Spoiler: The world in 1462 (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Territory of the British Empire (click to show/hide)

I destroyed France in a number of wars, starting with the retaking of Normandie and Caux. In the second war, I took Maine and Anjou and made them release Guyenne, which cut France into three pieces - Moribhan (which they had taken from Brittany when it was allied with me), the area around Ile de France, and the Dauphin region in the south east. In the third war, I made them release Dauphin and Champagne. Finally, I got a mission to conquer France, which I promptly did, granting me cores on every region in Gallia and CBs on Berry, Bourbonnais, Burgundy (though at that time I still had a core in Picardie...) and Champagne. So far I've vassalized Berry and Foix and taken two provinces from Champagne, though these wars made me enemies with Guyenne and Dauphin. Unfortunately to take any of my remaining cores in Gallia would mean war with Burgundy, which has an an army about as large as mine but much more concentrated since the haven't spread as much as I have.

Also as a result of these wars, I ended up in a war with Aragon and Portugal, which led to me taking those colonies up in the eastern part of Scandinavia from Portugal and eventually the annexation of Portugal by Castille... I also randomly got a mission to conquer Navarra, which I believe stemmed from the time I conquered Navarra when it was under French control, leading to a war with Castille. They weren't too much of a problem though and gave it up easily.

My territory in Africa originally was gained after I, as Papal Controller (as I often am now), called for a crusade against Morroco in the hopes of getting a province with a gold mine. I eventually conquered three of Morroco's provinces and then started colonizing further south down the coast, and have just now bumped up against Mali. Tangiers though was a different story, having first been conquered by Portugal but taken by England during the war with Aragon and Portugal.   

Currently my main goals are to eventually take all my cores in Gallia (and the province of Picardie, even though my core there expired) but that involves going up against Burgundy no matter who I attack (Champagne and Bourbonnaise are either allied or guaranteed by Burgundy), who I believe will be a bigger challenge than France was. I'll probably attack Burgundy first, since they control the most of my unclaimed cores and the current Holy Roman Emperor is the Palatinate, who is incredibly weak. At one time the HRE was controlled by Austria, which is starting to become a powerhouse but luckily despite having battled them in the past is one of my allies.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on December 24, 2010, 08:02:37 am
The Grand Duchy of Skane and Finland under the most glorious Harald Af Bornholm.

Spoiler: Lands+ Vassals (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Country + Surrounding Nations (click to show/hide)

Started as Bornholm(That name just rolls off the tongue) and slowly built up, at one point the previous Duke of Skane was conquered either by rebellion or Sweden, can't remember but anyways the King of Denmark named me Duke of Skane and I've held it since.   At one point I went to war with my King, which is how I got most of the northernest parts of Finland and that large Danish Island that I can't remember the name of but I ended up rejoining since I didn't really want to break the Kingdom, that and my king went insane.  After the war, Jutland was still independent (probably due to the Danish king to focused on Sweden and me to make them bend the knee again) so I snatched it up and gave it to a Bornholm.

There is also a Bornholm holding the County of Slesvig thanks to a well placed assassin. I wish I'd been able to assassinate the king though since that Bornholm was, at the time, 3rd in line to the Throne of Denmark....
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Yaddy1 on December 24, 2010, 03:09:29 pm
Only slightly tarnished? Nice. My reputation always gets really bad. Then the civil wars come. And then the only solution is making your 2 year old son and 6 year old daughter own most of your kingdom.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on December 24, 2010, 07:05:59 pm
Probably due to my playstyle this game, in my previous Taranto game I sort of rushed for stuff like the King of Sicily and found myself over extended having to deal with rebellions every month, this time I'm just sort of Relaxing.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Muz on January 28, 2011, 12:54:13 pm
Quote from: PenguinOverlord on November 13, 2010, 10:15:53 am
Why do none of you use Magna Mundi? It's depressing.

Yeah, I don't really consider an empire an empire unless it's a MM one. EU3 seems like the easy version, and without as much fun events as a MM game. So, here's a MMP2 game for your enjoyment :)

Brunei. My RL home province. Today in the 21st century, it's a tiny country making tons of money selling oil. Nothing like an empire. So, I decided to try and simulate what it could've been.

One of the tougher nations you could pick in MM. Only one province. Almost no tax. It's got a strong edge in trade, but without tax, inflation normally goes mad (I've seen it hit 23% in 16th century without human control). 2 national policies dedicated to trade, the other to naval, giving them specialized traders.

It starts off as an oligarchic monarchy, meaning that gov is impossible to change until 18 Gov tech. 50% tech penalty from lack of foreign contact, 10% tech penalty from socioeconomic status, 25% tech penalty from (lack of) diversity.

Without my interference, it'd end up like this:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

But thanks to my brilliant and risk taking leadership, it's now this:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: World maps (click to show/hide)

Yup, that's right, a Magna Mundi game.

Spoiler: Brunei 1601 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: How I did it (click to show/hide)


So, there. Magna Mundi's good fun when you figure it out, a hell lot more realistic, and way more fun, especially with the events and political system. Also very satisfying building that nation.. going to be upgrading it to an official Empire by the next century.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on January 30, 2011, 01:14:04 am
That's pretty impressive. How's your relationship with Ming? Every time I've tried to do anything over in East Asia, Ming stomps me flat.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Muz on January 30, 2011, 05:59:47 am
-200 with Ming, as usual.

Not too bad, though. They haven't bothered my 15 merchants on their territory. They've actually never even harassed me. I think they want Dai Viet, and diplo-annexed them already, shouldn't be bothering me much.

And if they do bother Brunei... together with Malacca and my SE Asian vassals, there's enough to match them, while both me and Malacca have about as many big ships as all of Ming have galleys, with more naval tech and national ideas. It's a good thing that both nations got into a race to build up navy :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Toady Two on January 30, 2011, 06:41:30 am
Wow. I feel I've accomplished something when I manage to expand as Muscovy in Magna Mundi. Playing a small country with the mods rules for attrition and infamy must be very nerve wracking.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on February 04, 2011, 12:06:51 am
Spoiler: Republic of Italy, 1745, right click view image to see better (click to show/hide)

Had a bit of a frustrating start, Venice has a pretty cruddy economy at the start honestly, but eventually was able to worm my way up to controlling the Italian Peninsula enough to form Italy, soon after moved into an Administrative Republic from a Merchant Republic.  Now I've basically retired from too much expansion and instead I've been shoving my nose in other countries businesses.

Onto the fun part of EU3 (HTTT) AI expansion!

Castille used to be damn near to uniting Spain, as well as holding the western half of North Africa (Fez and Tunis' lands) Then they experienced some widespread rebellions culminating in their current European holdings. Out of their wake came the Christian Tribal Federation of Fez (Which would end up as papal controller for awhile) Scattered Morocco holdings and Granada and Portugal regaining independence.

France has been surprisingly passive, they have their nearly united France and their colonies in various places and they are on their second conquering of Anatolia after a war with me meant them losing the entire area to release the Ottomans

On the Ottomans, they were a major obstacle to Venice but thanks to France they are now a weak republic (Their faction leader is a Doge)

I haven't paid much attention to the East so just make of all that as you will.

Bohemia is/was the big badasses of Germany, and have colonies all over... They just got out of war with me losing Poland and Lithuania and that Turquoise nation there (I think, can't remember off hand)

Great Britain & the Isles... well these guys have been interesting to say the least. The British were formed by Scotland and they have a drive to hold lands in/near Italy, this ended up with them Holding Parma... of course I couldn't let them have it so war broke out (Between me and Milan with GB on Milans side)  Unable to get a peace to give me parma I was forced to Invade England... well it worked and peace with attained with Britain giving me Parma as well as releasing Scotland and one other British minor (The pink ones). Soon after the area broke out in revolts, ending up with England reappearing and the British Government being exiled to South America.  England immediately got the idea of reuniting the Isles(Can't have that can we?) Which meant me intervening in several wars which left england broken and allowing Lancaster to swoop in and gain strength. As of now, unless the Kingdom of Ireland (formed by Munster, the only non-republican dictatorship in the Isles) gets any bright ideas I'm gonna leave the isles to their petty re-unification wars.

I dunno what happened to my Vassal Styria but their now holding a pretty good colonial west coast there, heh.

Brandenburg has pretty much held the HRE Emperorship for ages now, and are pretty strong, holding Canada and once leading a personal union with Bavaria(Which at the time was pretty fucking big) and inheriting their lands, of course they got cocky which lead to war with me which lost them a lot of lands around the alps.

For the Future I think I'm gonna start releasing vassals and letting them find their own destiny instead of being slaves to me, their all Republican Dictatorships right now, I just turned Constitutional Republic as well, meaning my Doge is now a President.  :P
 
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Muz on February 05, 2011, 04:43:00 am
Haha, Austrian Australia, Christian Tribal Federation of Fez, and Castille colonizing the world. The whole map makes me think 'lolwat'.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on February 05, 2011, 07:10:06 pm
Dammit, now I really want to play that. I want to get M2:TW too. Curse you Bay 12, you're costing me too much money!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Muz on February 06, 2011, 08:44:18 am
I prefer EU3 over M:TW2. EU3's better at simulating politics and conquering the world stuff, MTW is pretty much just the tactical combat and seeing stuff blow up with the world conquest thing just a back story. It's nice too, but M:TW is quite grindish and not at all realistic; the tactical part is also flawed because of the AI.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Mr.Person on February 07, 2011, 12:02:35 am
I am the Catholic Byzantine Emperor in CK:DV. All my vassals keep leaving, it sucks. About to take over Hungary, too bad he has like no vassals and I have no prestige and Realm Duress and a constant -2 stability. Still, I'm the King of Germany, so there's that.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Deon on February 09, 2011, 12:20:17 am
@ RILDER:

ZAPOROZHYE? It's Ukraine! It's focking Ukraine south of Japan? Wow! :D
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Korbac on February 09, 2011, 03:27:03 am
Any more nice Empire Building games you guys could recommend on the cheap? (Less / equal to Ł15) I have CK but am having trouble with it running on Vista.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on February 11, 2011, 10:31:06 pm
You should've gotten EU3 Complete + HTTT as it was on deal. Let me think.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: inteuniso on February 13, 2011, 10:07:00 pm
The Protestant Kingdom of the Netherlands, 1588

After getting an extremely lucky start when playing as Holland, first by conquering Hainaut, inheriting Luneberg and then gaining Cores on Hamburg and Hannover, I quickly made progress. By 1588, I span 4 continents and am planning on expanding further into South America and the East Indies.

My Empire
(http://img.ie/44805.jpg)
The world. Note Portugal's holdings. Also, Great Britain, a Theocracy, controls most of Mexico.
(http://img.ie/7c58b.jpg)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on February 19, 2011, 12:51:30 am
(http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/5607/medieval220110219003002.png) The Republic of Venice circa 1200. I have beaten Milan into a pulp, leaving them with about one random settlement out west somewhere. I have captured two rebel villages, and have fought the Byzantines more times then I can count. I also hold Irkalion on Crete, but it didn't fit in the screenshot. Next I have to choose who I'll go to war with next, the HRE, Hungary, the Papal States, the Byzantine Empire (most likely, they're assholes), or Sicily, my friend (mostly because the Papal States have kept us apart, currently they're excommunicated and I'm in shit for continuing my war against Milan despite what the Pope demanded.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Toady Two on March 11, 2011, 01:13:03 pm
(http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w9/GutterRunner_2007/2011-03-11_00001.jpg)

Magna Mundi Ultimate - Safavid Persia 1559

I started of as a Turkic tribe call Qara Koyunlu. They were Sunni until the Shi'ite Safavid dynasty seized power and formed the Persian nation.

What came later was a series of conquest that made me feel a bit overconfident. It's the beauty of Magna Mundi that it  can make your situation change dramatically from descizions you made many decades prior. As you see by my borders alone I am in bit of a predicament and my planned expansion eastward into India might prove impossible, I'm probably going to the thrashed and then downward spiral...

Despite having vast, rich, fully converted provinces, a gold mine and a CoT I can only muster fund to keep a standing army of around 40 000 men.

Now look at my neighbors. Two of them, Ottoman Empire and Russia muster respectively the biggest and the second biggest army in the world, 80 000 dudes a pop. Both are obviously hostile. Ottomans are pissed because I'm a heretic major power converting or annexing all their friendly Sunni minors. I've ended up on Russia's short list too by engaging in the colonial CoT in Crimea. The Khanate is my vassal and it has two Russian cores on it's provinces.

It's probably my fault why the Russians are so beefy so early on. Earlier this century Poland also crusaded against me and ended up losing their entire army trying to take Crimea. I white peaced out but the weakened Poland was easy prey for Muscovy so now I face with a much worse foe.

If I manage to defend against this Russian invasion(I will likely lose the CoT). My hopes of expanding east look grim still. Transoxania musters an adequate 40 000 strong military and is allied with Delhi that packs another 40 000.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on March 11, 2011, 01:35:29 pm
The Persian Plateau is very mountainous and offers a great tactical advantage if you know how to use it. You should be able to handle any one of those enemies if you are able to make use of attrition as much as possible. You can loose nearly every battle and get many provinces occupied if you play the game smart and simply wear the enemy down. They will not be able to sustain a prolonged war in the region of Persia for very long without having to worry about prolonged rebellion at home.

Drive up war exhaustion as much as you possibly can for your enemies and you've nothing to worry about.


It also looks like you're playing Magna Mundi, so here's the advice I offer in that regard. Make sure you develop the provinces. In this mod, no province is worthless. Developing them with provincial decisions for biannual fairs and artisan workshops and the following building lines is always a good idea, and can make even the poorest of provinces profitable.

Take an army national idea to give you a higher land force limit,  if you feel your army is too small to sustain the country.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Toady Two on March 11, 2011, 02:12:53 pm
Yeah well, with your advice in mind I managed to hold off the Russia, England, Norway alliance and giving them no more than a concession of defeat.

I did savescum a bit to get my micro right. It was difficult not to lose an 8000 strong army against 40000 russians roaming tiny provinces with only 10 day travel periods. Russian WE rocketed up to 20 while he lay siege to by heavily fortified provinces. They were then hit by the Times of Strife event and got down to 1 stab.

I haven't been building improvements unfortunately. I hope it won't make me suffer later. I just can't muster the cash with no minting. I spend every dime on missionaries and fortifications. Once I have attained religious unity(very close) and fortified the border provinces I will get some improvements going.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: alexwazer on March 11, 2011, 10:43:18 pm
Here's the state of my empire in my current game of CK, in which I started as Count of Usora (Croatia) and now hold the titles of king of Jerusalem and Syria:

Iberian Peninsula:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Balkans:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Middle East:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

King/Kingdom details:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

At some point, some muslims from Spain managed to take 2 provinces from the king of Croatia. Later on, I conquered those, along with my current holdings in Spain.

Because I created my own kingdom instead of breaking free, the king of Croatia doesn't mind too much the fact that I kept a few provinces, so we have relatively good relations. It won't last forever  :P He currently holds the title of king of Serbia on which I have a claim.

It is somewhat funny how I got my kingdom. It started with the usual crusade to liberate Jerusalem. After I successfully conquered the province, and a few neighboring ones, I had an event to give back Jerusalem to the church or whatever, which created the kingdom of Jerusalem (and gave me a whole lot of piety and 250 prestige). After a quick look at my new neighbor, I realized I could claim his king title for... 250 prestige  :o Guess what I did ;)

When I got my kingdom, the Turks were all over the place: from Kuwait to Byzantion, from Acre to the very borders of the Rus empire. After the death of one of their previous leader, I did all I could to destroy them. Assassinated their new leader (a merely average leader) and got him replaced by a 1 year old child, assassinated the chancellor to screw his diplomacy and then declared war. I started the war with close to 5,000 gold and finished with over 15,000; after some of the Turks vassals declared war only to plead for a peace agreement, many offering tribute of 500 or so (one offered over 5,000). I gained almost nothing from this first war (Acre, Tiberias, Palmyra and Byzantion) considering I had to use every single men I had, including my vassals' and had to fight from Turkey to Iran and from Georgia to Jordania against an enemy that started with nearly 200,000 troops under his command... and had to deal with a backstabbing Byzantium empire at the same time (they only wanted Antiocheia however). However, I achieved to break the Turkish empire, they were left with nearly nothing except a bunch of rebellious vassals and ex-vassals.

My kingdom is in a relatively stable state at this point. My previous ruler died recently, so I am currently trying to make sure the succession goes well. I have 2 main issues right now. My kingdom is so spread out that it is becoming troublesome to deal with rebellious vassals, so I am planning to give every province in the Iberian peninsula to my vassal there who is a cousin or something. If he breaks free later on, I'll just let him go and hope he can create a new kingdom for our dynasty :D If he declares war, I would just let him waste his time moving troops all over the world and offer white peace once his troops have been slaughtered. My second issue is much more annoying. The kingdom of Croatia, the Byzantium Empire, the Kingdom of Georgia (held by muslims) and the Turks all have claims on part of my kingdom. While none of them is strong enough to attack me on their own, I would have a hard time fighting any 2 of these at the same time. This is the reason I am currently allied with the BE. I will need to move against one of them before long or risk having them move against me.




Edit: I decided to continue the game after leaving it on hold for a week. A few months only after the above screenshots, the BE decided to do a bit more backstabbing. I mobilized every troops between Croatia and Syria, pillaging every byzantine provinces on the way before the damn fool agreed to drop his claim on Byzantion. I had a few claims on some of his provinces, but I dropped them all so I wouldn't have to worry too much about more backstabbing. Next step will probably be to force a war with Croatia so I can later focus on the eastern front without worry.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on March 12, 2011, 07:26:00 pm
Quote from: Toady Two on March 11, 2011, 02:12:53 pm
I haven't been building improvements unfortunately. I hope it won't make me suffer later. I just can't muster the cash with no minting. I spend every dime on missionaries and fortifications. Once I have attained religious unity(very close) and fortified the border provinces I will get some improvements going.

You need to have the appropriate great men, and provincial buildings. In addition, the province must be core.

Simply, an Alderman will get you the market and workshop building expansions. In any province with a workshop, you can use a provincial decision to upgrade it to artisan workshops, and more as your tech level progresses. Chartered Markets become biannual fairs, and so on, Anchorages become Expanded Anchorages, and so on. Just stay focused, and it shouldn't be an issue. Generally, you only ought worry about the Workshop and Market line above everything else, the Anchorage line second. Ignore the collector line, as the revolt risk added is too risky outside of your capital.

Finally, send merchants to Indian centers of trade, and Samarkand. Even Genoa and Venice, if you can get away with it.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on March 30, 2011, 08:28:19 pm
Japanese Empire, 1751 (EU3 Divine Wind none of the beta patches)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Started as Minamoto, just in the last 100 years I've finally managed to gain a significant amount of power, probably due to Westernizing. Slowly colonizing into the North and for the most part pursing a vassalization doctrine in South East Asia. (Surprisingly easy to Diplo-Vassal a lot of the minors)

China has been my main battlefield with a few short skirmishes with the Europeans trying to annex Pattani till I got fed up and Vassalized them (2 Stab hit for that ouch)

Not going for WC of course, I don't play that way.

Rest of the World:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lets see, Both Flanders and Brittany have moved their capitals to the new world.

The Hanseatic league has a pretty huge foothold in South America

Milan is colonizing every corner they can find.

Castille is doing the same thing they did in my Hesse->HRE game and colonizing the hell out of North America.

Not paying much attention to Europe but it looks like a clusterfuck as usual.

Venice is expanding its holdings in Asia Minor

Baluchistan has been like that for a couple hundred years

The Oirat Horde share Japans Dynasty
As do Shan I believe.

Gondwana was the powerhouse of India then it fell so now Rajputana is now the powerhouse.

China has been torn apart by constant warfare, Ming at one point was annexed, then they made a comeback, though they got dragged into a few wars for awhile and got beat down pretty hard, but now they've learned just to stay the fuck out of the rest of Chinas business and have seemed to make a bit of a comeback.  Qin and Wu on the other hand constantly see themselves greater then what they actually are, usually resulting in Japan intervention and the prompt beating down by the Expeditionary Army, followed by the countryside going to revolt

Brunei, forever alone and ignored.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Toady Two on March 31, 2011, 11:50:53 am
Wow that is some twisted AI expansion, the wierdest shit is going on in the New World. Nice job unifying Japan.

I'm most shocked at the surviving Oirats. Don't they start as a tribal horde nation that can only lose land unless they modernize? I take it you took hand in Ming's collapse that might have help the local Mongols a fair bit.

Baluchistan is sick, I'm disappointed that they didn't form Mughals and go on an India conquest spree.

I'm clueless as to what landlocked Bavaria is doing in Alaska.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on March 31, 2011, 12:31:57 pm
Actually Ming collapsed long before I united Japan, they had just come back as a OPM by the time I was getting close to Uniting Japan.  I dunno what happened to the Oirat, Maybe they were annexed and came back in a rebellion/peace deal. A while before this Qin was HUGE. I think owning everything the Oirat owns now.

Edit: Fun Fact I discovered playing today.. Oman.. yes Oman is one of the most technologically advanced nations ingame, having 40 some land technology for example, while nations like Milan are still in their mid 30s.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on April 03, 2011, 12:32:49 am
The only more insane uber-Venice I've ever seen is one I made, what with controlling all of Italy, Greece, India, and the Americas. I've never seen AI Venice do anything but not understand how to defend it's capital from Rebels.

Whatever though. I suggest you check out the Delvet-i ali Osman Map if you have Divine Wind. Generally it is more correct and the shape of things is more sensible and proportioned, no more Sicily south of Tunis. The map doesn't just modify things in the area of The Ottoman Empire, either. Most of Europe is effected, as well as western Asia, including Persia, and Northern Africa
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on April 03, 2011, 01:21:53 am
Eh I'm not in the mood to mod just yet.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on April 15, 2011, 04:49:55 pm
I'ma getting EU3, then seeing if I can conquer as much as I can with Italy.

CONQUEST HO!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 22, 2011, 09:04:50 am
Mmm, so I exported the map in EU3 with f12 but now I can't find it? Help?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on April 22, 2011, 09:07:10 am
EU3 directory\screenshots
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 22, 2011, 09:10:16 am
Not seeing a screenshots directory?  ???

Is this another thing where I have to run as administrator?

EDIT: Tried running EU3 as administrator, and of course not seeing my save. I hate windows.

EDIT2: After some googling, found it under virtual store hidden away somewhere. Is there anyway to turn virtual store off? Windows 7 here. Anyway, map incoming soon hopefully.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 22, 2011, 11:08:25 am
Spoiler: The World is Spanish and Catholic (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: I don't know what that blob in Mongolia is. (click to show/hide)

Spain in 1650

Started off as Castille in 1399, attacked Portugal a few times, eventually annexing them. They were allied with England at the, somehow I managed to get England to release a bunch of nations I forget how, I think it was a combination of high prestige on my part, winning naval battles, and eventually shipping my armies to their home soil when Portugal was out of the picture and avoiding their doomstack while sieging their other province. Oh yeah, and they had some territory on the mainland near me that they eventually ceded to me as well. I made the released nations my vassals and eventually diploannexed them, as can be seen from the map. There was also another war later on with England to get their remaining territories in Scotland and on the mainland. After that my rep was getting a bit high so I left them be...until the present day. Currently planning another assault on them in 1651.

With Portugal taken out of the colonization race, I turned my attention to Aragon, Granada, Morroco and Algiers, getting a nice bonus from the reconquista mission for Granada. Eventually they were all OPM and eventually annexed, Aragon netting me some islands in the Mediterranean as well. At this point I already had the national bank idea and had just gotten the Quest for the new world, so I decided to recover from my wars and nearly dishonourable scum reputation and start exploring, spurred on by the new trade route to India mission. I also had some conquistadors exploring south from the conquered Morocco territories.

Eventually I discovered America, and as you can see, colonization was successful. There were some French colonies but I'm getting to that. Right, so everything was going great, colonizizing, getting ready to expand east in north Africa, exploring and then France declared war on me. Fotunately I was expecting this, and had prepared agood sized army in preparation, I also called in some of my forces from africa and England proceeded to gangbang France with some vassals in Europe Ihad acquired over the years through pure diplomacy. We fucked Fance's shit up, nd I had him release nation, mostly ones along the coastline, cede his colonies and cede a few provinces, notably Antwerpen.

With France broken I was riding the gravy train, colonizing, exploring, annexing small countries, diploannexing my vassals, vasalising all the little countries in europe, except the archbishoprics and republics, the rare war with France, attacking african and american countries. Sometime during al this the reformation began. On the one hand, gah, colonies randomly converting and giving me even more rebels and vassal converting, hurting relations. Also hurt relations with countries that I was busy vassalising. But on the upside some of those annoying archbishoprics and, most importantly, France, converted to the protestant faiths. Dingding! I grabbed the unam sanctum idea, and the rest is history.

Around this time I started noticing that my sealane efficiency was only in the 50ies, even with my horribly huge fleet. As such I made my chief objective making a land connection between my provinces in Africa and Madrid(Oh yeah, forgot to mention, formed the spanish nation at 1500ish). Fortunately I got a mission to attack Naples, which I did, bringing their fried milan into the brawl, which I then stole some provinces from, with the help of my vassals mostly switserland and savoy. I also vassalised milan and eventually annexed naples completely. The papal state which had grown to 4 provinces joined in during one of the wars or italy, and was reduced to OPM status.

Since this is getting too long lets skip the rest, since you can fill it in. I managed to conquer most in my path with my much higher manpower until finally only two poland provinces at the Baltic Sea were blocking me from my land connection. The year was 1620ish. As you can see from the map, Poland is frikken huge. As such I spend the next few years building up forces, waiting for war exhaustion, reputation and nationalism to drop. Finally, at the beginning of 1650, I attacked with about half to two thirds of my entire total army. The fighting was intense, though most of his armies were split up dealing with rebellions. I lost about a quarter of my troops in the fighting, and eventually got a 75 percent warscore, barely enough to get the two provinces I wanted and a hefty tribute. Immediately my sealane efficiency jumped to the 80ties and I turned my attention to putting out rebellions caused by my 10something war exhaustion.

Oh yeah, and thanks to owning the majority of catholic countries, and bribing the electors of the HRE, I am permanently the HRE and the Papal Controller.

Oh yeah, and the papal state has territories in Scandinavia for some reason.

Current Government:

Administrative Monarchy

National Ideas:

National Bank
Quest for the New World
Press Gangs
Viceroys
Unam Sanctum
Bill of rights
National Trade Policy

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Full Aristocracy
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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: CJ1145 on April 22, 2011, 12:35:19 pm
You haven't conquered enough. There are still nations that resist your power.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on April 22, 2011, 09:11:28 pm
Which expansion is that?

Speaking of which, might get a new DW empire, but the game really takes a toll on my computer. I might get a CK duchy instead.

I mean, it makes it go on full-fanning continuously, as in even when it's stopped. Is there any way to lessen the burden it has?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on April 22, 2011, 10:44:11 pm
Quote from: CJ1145 on April 22, 2011, 12:35:19 pm
You haven't conquered enough. There are still nations that resist your power.

Indeed.  Those nations mock you with their existence.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on April 23, 2011, 12:52:35 am
Quote from: Hyo on April 22, 2011, 09:11:28 pm
Which expansion is that?

IN
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: ggamer on April 23, 2011, 05:01:01 pm
So, just what IS europa universalis?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RedKing on April 23, 2011, 05:12:32 pm
Quote from: ggamer on April 23, 2011, 05:01:01 pm
So, just what IS europa universalis?

It's a special sandbox where you make Napoleon look like a p***y.  :P

Here's a shot from my current CK game (CK:DV with Deus Vult Improvement Pack and More Kingdoms Mod):
Spoiler: L'Empire Verdant! (click to show/hide)

That large green thing is my Empire of Aquitania, with capital at Bordeaux. The HRE is in disarray, having changed hands between the Billung (Saxony) and von Franken (Franconia) dynasties a few times now. Venice is an independent kingdom, and fairly potent. Genoa is still a merchant republic, and controls much of the northern Italian peninsula, and is also quite potent. I've vassalized it twice, but it keeps breaking away and it's a major undertaking to force them back into the Aquitanian fold.

England (which by right of title is part of the Empire) is a mish-mash of Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Norwegians, Swedes and...umm...the Ziyanid kingdom, which arose spontaneously out of Cornwall, and is Castillian Catholic. Don't ask, it's a long story.

Poland, Croatia and Hungary are reasonably intact. The Byzantine-Seljuk wars...well, the Sultan of the Seljuk Turks is ALSO the Byzantine Emperor now, which should tell you how that went. He's also allied and at peace with the Najeebid Dynasty in Egypt, which bodes ill for eastern Europe.

The other two major powers in the Muslim world are the Emirate of Medina, which is scattered and in Realm Duress now; and the Sultanate of Qarakhnid, which controls much of Russia, and curb-stomped the Golden Horde as soon as it showed up.

In far eastern Europe, the only two powers of note are the Principality of Cheremisa (about the only Russian princedom left, and fairly extensive) and the Duchy of Lithuania, which looks to be close to declaring itself a kingdom.

This one has potential for importing into EU3: you've got multiple strong Muslim powers, a single West European superpower on the Continent, a couple of mid-majors in Poland and Hungary, a few small but rich merchant kingdoms in Venice and Genoa, and complete disarray in central Europe. With EU3, I'd have little problems with religion, but definite issues with cultural divides, unless I can start spreading Occitan. I might keep France intact (IIRC, Occitan and the other French cultures are considered in the same group) but I'll have trouble keeping the Iberian peninsula in line (which I already have problems with in this game).


My other main problem right now is that of succession. My firstborn has gone competely bonkers, and isn't fit to rule a chamberpot, much less a mighty empire. My second-eldest is at least sane, but tepid and uninspiring. My third-born is a prodigy, and has character stats out the wazoo (11 Martial, 15 Diplomacy, 16 Intrigue, 10 Stewardship) but he left my court in his youth over a disagreement, and is currently the spymaster in Burgundy. His loyalty there keeps dropping, but when it finally got to zero, it suddenly went back up to 100, and he was 1000 gold richer (i.e. Duke of Burgundy got the event to pay him to retain his services). Now I'm forced to decide if I can risk waiting it out for him to drop back down to zero (if he leaves that court, he'll almost certainly return home), attack and absorb my own vassal just to get him back in my court, or assassinate his two worthless brethren so that I can be assured the Empire is in good hands?



Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Aequor on April 23, 2011, 05:34:26 pm
Quote from: ggamer on April 23, 2011, 05:01:01 pm
So, just what IS europa universalis?
A series of grand strategy games by Paradox Interactive set from around 1400-1800, you can play as pretty much any civilization from that time, which is awesome.

Monsieurs-dames, l'Empire Francais en 1521!

Spoiler: N'est ce pas magnifique? (click to show/hide)

When I declared war on Brittany, England, Burgundy and some Holy Roman Empire minors attacked me, I managed to annex Brittany, take several provinces off Burgundy and vassalize the minors. This drove my infamy over the limit, causing several other Holy Roman minors to attack me, which I then vassalized, which made others attack me, and so on, till I controlled the whole western Holy Roman Empire, and all the electors, at which point they made the stupid decision to elect Milan as Holy Roman Emperor. I was at war with them, so I simply occupied the capital and dissolved the Empire. Having spent all of the 15th century at war, now I'm simply waiting for the infamy to fall back down (so many revolts, so little heir legitimacy ::)) and then I can storm eastern Europe with my army of minors.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RedKing on April 24, 2011, 08:40:30 am
Update on my CK game above:

Oh what difference three years can make. The prodigal son has returned, been married off to a nice Occitan girl (who is also a prodigy, hopefully producing a line of prodigies) and has been invested as Duke of Luxembourg, paving the way for his succession.

In the East, Egypt pretty much ceased to exist. Not sure what happened, but it looks like a combined crusade under Danish and Venetian banners shattered Egypt into seperate sheikdoms and conquered much of coastal North Africa and the Levantine. The Il-Khanate have had better luck where the Golden Horde failed, establishing a foothold in what had been the Qarakhanid Sultanate's rich homelands (in Mazandaran and Khwarizim), though they're constantly having to fight to retain that foothold. The massive Seljuk-Byzantine Empire appears to have been a beneficiary of the dissolution of Egypt, with a number of territories in Mesopotamia pledging allegiance. Anatolia is almost entirely Muslim now, as are parts of Greece and much of Southern Russia. The picture is looking fairly grim for Orthodoxy.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on April 30, 2011, 12:37:32 pm
I just got EUIII and I am currently working on an Empire.

BTW, does anyone know of anyways to get more manpower quicker without going quantity?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on April 30, 2011, 01:11:10 pm
Assuming you're playing with DW, raise your land tech to unlock buildings that help with that, as well as make soldiers train faster and cheaper.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Korbac on May 01, 2011, 07:55:05 am
Also, conquering lands and getting lucky with events (along with perhaps some provincial decisions?) will help. I think there's an advisor who will raise it.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 01, 2011, 10:04:29 am
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on April 30, 2011, 12:37:32 pm
I just got EUIII and I am currently working on an Empire.

BTW, does anyone know of anyways to get more manpower quicker without going quantity?

Become the holy roman emperor or conquer more provinces, worked for me. My manpower is rarely under 200k  8)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 01, 2011, 12:27:30 pm
Spend all your magistrates on cultural tradition until it's atleast over 70% and then hire a manpower-boosting advisor.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RedKing on May 01, 2011, 01:06:06 pm
Quote from: RedKing on April 24, 2011, 08:40:30 am
Update on my CK game above:

Oh what difference three years can make. The prodigal son has returned, been married off to a nice Occitan girl (who is also a prodigy, hopefully producing a line of prodigies) and has been invested as Duke of Luxembourg, paving the way for his succession.

In the East, Egypt pretty much ceased to exist. Not sure what happened, but it looks like a combined crusade under Danish and Venetian banners shattered Egypt into seperate sheikdoms and conquered much of coastal North Africa and the Levantine. The Il-Khanate have had better luck where the Golden Horde failed, establishing a foothold in what had been the Qarakhanid Sultanate's rich homelands (in Mazandaran and Khwarizim), though they're constantly having to fight to retain that foothold. The massive Seljuk-Byzantine Empire appears to have been a beneficiary of the dissolution of Egypt, with a number of territories in Mesopotamia pledging allegiance. Anatolia is almost entirely Muslim now, as are parts of Greece and much of Southern Russia. The picture is looking fairly grim for Orthodoxy.

20 year update:

The year is now 1252, and events have taken the kind of turn that remind me why I love this game *and* why it frustrates the hell out of me at times. They say there is a thin line between genius and madness, and my brilliant prodigy 3rd son crossed it. And became a heretic to boot. So I was left with:

1. Crazy farking eldest son who I gave an Archbishopric down in the most worthless end of Iberia.
2. Sane, but woefully understatted second son, who is Duke of a 1-county duchy.
3. Brilliant, crazy, heretic 3rd son who I (wisely now in retrospect) only gave Luxembourg to.

#1 was out of the question. Dude's stats were near zero on everything. #3, even while crazed, had better stats than #2. But he *is* crazy, and a heretic. BAD reaction penalties to all vassals. I'd watch my empire disintegrate, and eventually he'd likely be excommunicated--which would mean every two-bit noble from Bordeaux to Bratislava would be claim-jumping my titles. My descendants would be fending off challengers for generations to come.

Then I noticed that #2 had a son himself, who while not yet of majority age, had excellent stats and was himself another prodigy. That sealed it. Gave # 2 some spare titles up in the mish-mash that is England, which was enough to push him to the lead of the succession line. He's had two bouts of realm duress since then, and had to put up some serious fights, but now the Empire seems secure, and with a robust heir already in line for the throne.

Meanwhile, son #3 bit off more than he could chew by picking a fight with the Genoese. Even tag-teaming with two other potent duchies, the Genoese waited them out and bankrupted them, eventually obtaining the title to Luxembourg in the bargain. Genoa genuinely worries me, but they're also handy to have on my SE border as a counterbalance to Germany, Burgundy, Venice and Sicily.

In the East, the Il-Khanate had a pretty good 20 year run, but then the Qarakhanids got serious and annhilated them. They also flattened the Golden Horde on its third attempt to secure a foothold west of the Urals. From what I can gather, the Qarakhanids can field an army of about 120,000 if they do a grand mobilization. The Russian Prince of Cheremisa had a pretty good run, coming fairly close to being able to establish the Kingdom of Rus. Then he got into a bad war with said Qarakhanids, and recently lost a swath of territory all the way to Smolensk. The barbarians truly are at the gate of Eastern Christendom, but not the ones we were expecting.

The Turko-Arabic Byzantine Sultanate has lost a fair chunk of territory in Anatolia, which has dissolved into anarchy, but they've solidified their territory in Mesopotamia and Persia.

I'm still really looking forward to exporting this thing to EU3.


EDIT: Forgot to add, somehow crazy eldest son lost his crazed trait. He's still depressed, and still has cumulative traits that are worse than the average 5-year old, but....he's next in line for the Papacy.  :o

Apparently decades of sitting around making frescoes out of peanut butter and becoming fluent in Boogawooga are a great way to demonstrate piety.  :P

I have no idea what sort of drama this is going to entail. So many options, so little time. I'm kinda wondering if I can rework my inheritance laws and make prodigious use of assassins so that Crazy Pope-Brother inherits the throne instead, then change the Papal State's inheritance law and make it a hereditary title. Talk about putting the Holy back in the Empire. I can't even fathom how how many different ways that would break the game. I've annexed the Papal State before, and it usually pops back up by event after a while, often in Venaissin (to simulate the Avignon Papacy). But I've never broke the game in such a way that the Pope (while being a family member) could inherit all my titles. I've no idea if that would change me into the Papal State with a bunch of secular titles in addition, or make the Pope a King with an additional title of King of the Papal State, or what.

Of course, he'd be Pontiff-Emperor Imbecilus I, but at least he has non-feeble sons who could in theory inherit.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 01, 2011, 02:12:34 pm
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Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My game in the year 1684 of our Lord

The Pope is my vassal, the Timirud Empire is no more, Austria is conquered, Venice annexed, the Mediterranean is entirely Spanish and the entirety of Europe is under my direct control or my vassal. England is reduced to England and Poland has territories in India. Norway has been returned to the one true faith.

Finally bit the bullet and became dishonourable scum hated throughout the world. Currently preparing for another onslaught against Poland. And I had a regency council so lost the HREship to Poland, here's to hoping I'll get it back if I completely crush poland, as all the electors are my vassals. At least I eventually got a sweet ruler, 8 admin, 7 diplo and 4 mil.

Oh yeah, and I grabbed defender of the faith after I defeated England, who were the former holders. :3 War exhaustion is much less irritating now.



Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on May 02, 2011, 03:44:49 pm
Quote from: RedKing on May 01, 2011, 01:06:06 pm
Quote from: RedKing on April 24, 2011, 08:40:30 am
EDIT: Forgot to add, somehow crazy eldest son lost his crazed trait. He's still depressed, and still has cumulative traits that are worse than the average 5-year old, but....he's next in line for the Papacy.  :o

It's an act of God!  This blessed soul must be ordained the greatest servant upon this Earth!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 02, 2011, 07:58:31 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on May 01, 2011, 02:12:34 pm
-snip-

What is this? You have been slacking! I want universal Spanish control! Get off your lazy butt! /sarcasm
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 03, 2011, 06:00:07 pm
Have troubles with the Aragon Empire. Mainly with France.

Perhaps I should elaborate.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RedKing on May 04, 2011, 07:01:18 am
Quote from: EuchreJack on May 02, 2011, 03:44:49 pm
Quote from: RedKing on May 01, 2011, 01:06:06 pm
Quote from: RedKing on April 24, 2011, 08:40:30 am
EDIT: Forgot to add, somehow crazy eldest son lost his crazed trait. He's still depressed, and still has cumulative traits that are worse than the average 5-year old, but....he's next in line for the Papacy.  :o

It's an act of God!  This blessed soul must be ordained the greatest servant upon this Earth!

Sadly, some experimentation revealed that as soon as he becomes Pope, he is no longer in consideration for inheritance of secular titles. I didn't check to see what would happen if I paused the game and killed the right people off such that he became King and Pope simultaneously. My guess is that the game would still have to process one title first, which would invalidate claims on the other. Oh well.

I let the game run about two years in normal course, and he died anyways before becoming Pope. Meanwhile, the current Pope (a Croat named Hranimir, with high stats) is going on a tear in the chaos of western Anatolia. The Papal State now includes all of central Italy and the whole western coast of Anatolia. If he actually retakes Byzantium, things are going to get really interesting. The Il-Khanat popped up again, but this time they seem to be content to extort large sums of cash out of the nearby Beys rather than conquering territory.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 04:12:57 am
The Spanish Empire in the year 1694 of our Lord.

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The State of the World in the year 1694 of our Lord

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Sunday Schools and the Judiciary act were instituted, both aimed at decreasing revolt risk. Sunday schools also increased missionary chance. Both decrease tax income, but I have so much money that that doesn't matter. And if I run low on money I can just mint more.

I managed to catch the Poland doomstack of about 75k on one of the Danish isles and keep them there with my main navy, so my primary enemy in conquering Poland after that was attrition.

England is now a one province minor vassal of Poland, much like how Hungary was a one province minor vassal of England before the wars.

The vassals are becoming uppity due to their liege being the most hated nation in what remains on the non-Spanish world, due to several wars of aggression. Some of them may have to be annexed by the sword to bring the rest into line.

Aceh was a pushover, and my vassals are truly dedicated to helping me, sending their armies across the entire Eurasia to aid me in my wars aggression with their 1k stacks that make no difference. Facepalm.

Edit: Just got involved in a massive war with Ming, Norway and the green blob above Delhi. Norway was returned to the true faith by the sword again, lets hope they remain Catholic longer this time. Or not, so I can declare war on them again without a stab hit. The green blob is completely occupied, just waiting to deal with Ming and return my troops to friendly territory before peacing them. Ming is well on the way to complete occupation.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 07, 2011, 06:11:58 am
Demonic Spoon. I only have one thing to say about your empire.

SAVE FLIE SAVE FILE SAVE FILE SAVE FLIE SAVE FILE SAVE FILE SAVE FLIE SAVE FILE SAVE FILE SAVE FLIE SAVE FILE SAVE FILE...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 06:28:30 am
Meh, make your own world-spanning empire.

Also, I think my game may be slightly bugged, the excommunicate and crusade options no longer show up in diplomacy list, even though I am the papal controller.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 07, 2011, 07:06:09 am
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 06:28:30 am
Meh, make your own world-spanning empire.

But I can't >.>
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 07:21:31 am
Spain has a decent empire during the 80 years war, start then.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 07, 2011, 07:55:52 am
... Out of curiosty, how many nations can you release at this point?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 10:22:22 am
The create vassals button is greyed out for some reason. This save has crashed a few times so I think its bugged, I just want to complete the game because this is my first playthrough. After its done I'm gonna try reinstalling the game. Its probably due to the virtualstore thing I mentioned earlier, messed up my save a bit.

I have annexed at least 50 nations though. Let me list some:

France, Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Aragon, Portugal, Morroco, Mongol Khanate, Mamluks, Algiers, Nepal, Venice, Aquileia, Finland, Novogorod, Hungary, Austria, Salzburg, Greece, Serbia, Ottoman Empire, Ethiopia, Cherokee, Aztecs, Inca Empire, Savoy, Liege, Hamburg, Gotland, Milan, Genoa, Morea, Moldavia, Crete, Cyprys, Corsica, Transylvania, Syria, Timurid Empire, Sind, Switzerland, Northumberland, Huron, Maya, Cornwall, Mutapa, Swahili, Yemen, Oman, Najd, Haasa, Iraq, Connacht, Munster, Tyrone.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on May 07, 2011, 10:42:22 am
You can't release a vassal if you're at war. I assume that's the problem.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 10:49:17 am
Mmm, oh that's probably it then, currently busy curbstomping Delhi, again. Polish India is still red Polish India. I find that hilarious btw.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 07, 2011, 11:09:48 am
If you conquer all (or at least most) of the world by endgame, can you release all the nations and show us the map? That'd be a whole fucking lost of nations, one would wonder what it would be like to see them all...

<.< >.> ^.^
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 11:56:21 am
So checked during a temporary ceasefire in my world conquest. I can release about 150 nations.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 12:16:03 pm
The Spanish Empire in the year 1708 of our Lord.

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The State of the World in the year 1708 of our Lord.

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Times have been good for the Spanish, Spain, and the Spanish Empire.

The Spanish Empire spread from coast to golden coast, and then from the other golden coast to the other golden coast. The sun shall never set upon the Spanish Empire and none can stand before its might.

There have also been significant advances in the fields of land warfare and Latin Hussars, Line Infantry and Coehorn Mortars have entered into common usage by the Spanish Empire.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 07, 2011, 12:30:20 pm
Any colonial revolters yet? Those are always nice.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 12:41:10 pm
Yeah, a few. I crushed them with my 15k cavalry unit rebel supression garrisons. Rebels are suprisingly rare however, as I do everything in my power to keep war exhaustion and revolt risk low. High Judge advisors, a lot of national decisions, courthouses, and the provincial court system province decision are my main methods. I also convert like there's no tomorrow and scatter 15k cavalry garrisions around the place to suppress any rebellions that pop up. My current force in the Americas number at about 60k cavalry in 4 garrisions. I also have a 15k garrision in Hawaii that I should probably move to a more useful location sometime. The protestant zealots there were very annoying until I converted them. Rebels on island are very annoying, as my units and fleets are usually far away from them, and by the time they get there the islanders have already defected to another country. As I said, annoying.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 07, 2011, 12:48:15 pm
Demonic, does protestantism even exist in your game world anymore?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 07, 2011, 12:48:53 pm
Now I REALLY want that save. Why can you not give it to us? We would love you forever :3
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 12:49:37 pm
It still shows up in my colonies before they reach city size, the annoying religious migration event. And some of my vassals are still prostestant until I get around to annexing them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on May 07, 2011, 01:18:20 pm
Demonic Spoon, considering how close you are to total world domination, you must not spare anyone.  All must become Spanish!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 01:44:52 pm
Even Japan and Navarra? Navarra has been my loyal vassal since forever. And I hear annexing the papal state is bugged.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 07, 2011, 01:47:23 pm
Then take the papalcy down on the last turn. Become the spanish god-emperor.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 07, 2011, 02:50:48 pm
There are no turns in EUIII. Its all pausible real time.

And hes going to release every nation in the world at the end of the game and show us the glorious clusterfuck of nations.

Edit:
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 01:44:52 pm
Navarra has been my loyal vassal since forever.
Funny you say that. Navarra was the one of the frist nations to get annexed in my game, and it was by the Castile >_>
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 07, 2011, 02:55:35 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 07, 2011, 02:50:48 pm
There are no turns in EUIII. Its all pausible real time.
I know. I mean for him to do so on the last day/month/year (I'm much less familiar with Europa Universalis than the other Paradox games) and thus not have to deal with any consequences.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on May 07, 2011, 03:07:21 pm
I've never seen any bugs with annexing the Papal States.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 07, 2011, 11:11:56 pm
Oh, well it was just a rumour I heard somewhere so I could have been wrong. Apparently its a event that keeps popping up if you're catholic and annex them to release the papal state, but it keeps popping up more than the single time it should or something if you refuse.

EDIT: At war with Delhi, Ming, Korea and Japan simultaneously. Fun times. Sibir is gone. Operation Fuck Poland is currently on hold till I have less other wars going on. Rebels are becoming a problem. Hussars have so far been sufficient to keep them in check though only barely.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RedKing on May 08, 2011, 11:30:13 am
There are some major problems with annexing the Papal State in CK, not sure about EU2/3.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 08, 2011, 11:41:26 am
As I understand it, the destruction of the Papacy in EUIII will result in it taking over a Catholic theocracy, if any still exist.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 08, 2011, 11:44:40 am
Question.

How do I get that huge white nation map of the world?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on May 08, 2011, 11:47:16 am
F12. I can't remember the one for the you+vassals map, but I think it's Ctrl+F12.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 08, 2011, 12:00:48 pm
I think I have one or two catholic archbishopric vassals.

It is shift+f12

Anyway:

The Spanish Empire in the year 1719 of our lord:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The State of the World in the year 1719 of our lord.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Good progress I think. Rebels are becoming a problem as war exhaustion rises though, I need the attrition national idea.

Currently at war with Muscowy, Poland and Vietnam (Dai Viet). Sadly didn't get any provinces from Japan as I forgot Ming was the alliance leader and made peace with them first.

Relationship with vassals rapidly approaching zero so expecting a massive backlash from my vassals once they cross the line. Currently don't have any enough diplomats to keep up good relations with my 10 or so vassals so things are going to get ugly in the clusterfuck that is eastern central Europa. I have actually managed to get my tech levels ahead of their time, even with my narrowminded slider and huge size penalties. I guess lots of money does solve all life's problems. I think Navarra might be ahead of me on the tech by like 1 point or so but everyone else is behind me.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 08, 2011, 12:02:10 pm
Only a hundred and three years left to destory everything that isn't Spain!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 08, 2011, 12:03:20 pm
That's why I'm attacking like mad and completely ignoring war exhaustion. The rebels are slowing down my momentum though.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 08, 2011, 12:08:37 pm
GIVE ME SAVE NOAW.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 08, 2011, 12:15:19 pm
Mmm, nurturing rebels in enemy provinces really speeds up the conquering process, because you can attack the ally-less new nation once they go independent and quickly annex them without using up your warscore against the other country.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 08, 2011, 12:35:23 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on May 08, 2011, 12:15:19 pm
Mmm, nurturing rebels in enemy provinces really speeds up the conquering process, because you can attack the ally-less new nation once they go independent and quickly annex them without using up your warscore against the other country.
And save?
Played Normandy. I don't have much of an Empire at this time, but the world has turned out to be interesting, to say the least.

Spoiler: Europe, 1416 (click to show/hide)

Nothing much has happened yet. I plan on revolting againist my French masters and their tiny army with ten-thousand mercs and a very badass military king. 6 points in shock for heavens sake!

Have no idea why the Golden Horde broke up. Nor why Iraq exists. Or why Ottomons haven't expanded much in the last few years.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 08, 2011, 12:44:25 pm
Heh, Timurid empire is going strong, which is surpising. Golden Horde gets succession crisises which usually causes them to collapse eventually. Especialy if they decide to stay tribal as this masochist did (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?486346-Rebels-without-a-pause-a-Tribal-AAR). Looks like someone took over the strait between the two parts of the Ottoman Empire so that must be causing them problems and is probably behind their lack of expansion. Iraq is Iraq. Don't mess with them or they swarm you with suicide bombers. Oh wait.

France breaking up is surprising. Oh wait, this is HttT or DW right? I hear France is weaker in those, which would explain it.

Aragon is doing well.

EDIT: Wait...is that...Ukraine dividing poland/hungary/lithuania in two? O.o

EDIT 2: Polish Revolutionaries type rebels showed up in Poland, I'm gonna guard them like crown jewels.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 08, 2011, 01:33:21 pm
Its worse on the other side. Ming broke up INTIRELY, reducing them down to two territories.

And this is not HttT or DW. That only makes the French breakup more surprising.

Edit: And yes. That is Ukraine dividing Lithuania in two. Don't ask.

Edit2: Also crub-stomping France. Their armies were insanly weakened by Noble faggots, and for some reason they thought this was a good idea to attack their vassal.
Now my army is besiging France's capital, and Noble faggots are noble faggots with France's only other province.

Edit3: Toulouse got themselves excommunicated. Have NO idea how.

Edit3: France is... interesting. I am fighting a war with them, and I have completely raped them. I have occupied every one of their provinces, along with their allies provinces, and they have no military units. I try and make them hand over land. They say no '-.-

They also seem obesed with the "Defender of the Faith" title, and grab it very time you can get it. Although, I don't think they CAN do any defending of ANYTHING, given their military.

Edit4:
These last five years were BUSY.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Don't ask about Crimea, because I don't know.

Spent most of the game annexing one states or territories sepperated from the whole. Eventually attacked some nation France vassaled, and they delcared war on me. Dispite the fact that, you know, ALL THEIR TERRITORY WAS OCCUPIED BY NOBLE FAGGOTS. I crub-stomped the tiny nation quite easily, and took some of Frances land. But when I turned in my demands, they said no. So I besiged their capital. They did not say yes intill I took their last territory, and even then they didn't even let me vassal them! Or do anything else (Beside give up a few cores.).

Everything was nice and quite.

That is, intill Brittany came knocking on my door. They most likely declaring war on me because everyone else was doing it. So many was have been sparked recently by everyone (Including me!) that if I didn't know any better, I'd say this game was an RTS! The ensuing conflict was very long and VERY bloody. Burgundy joined in on the fun when it started, and that was very bad because I would need to fight the war in four fronts! Luckly, I had far superior numbers, and my awsome general which was also my king. After sometime, I was desprate to end the war. I took Burgundy's capital and ended the war by taking most of Brittany for myself.

And now here I am. And Iraq is still going strong, in case youy wanted to know.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 08, 2011, 11:23:30 pm
Check your reputation, if you're over the limit other countries will declare war on you a lot.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Dutchling on May 10, 2011, 12:37:07 pm
Having only read the first page I am gonna play that Europe university game right now! The Netherlands are a derping nation man!
(conquering Poland, moving the capital to revolutionary mexico, establishing colonies in Canada >.>)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 10, 2011, 01:15:37 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/1iq4G.png) (http://imgur.com/1iq4G)

It's the Hunnic Invasion all over again.

That's the Golden Horde, for those who don't know.

Some absurdities include Portugal conquering Aragon, English Successes in the Hundred Years War, the Partitioning of Greece between Venice and the Knights of St. John, and Aragonese Algeria currently under occupation by Byzantine soldiers. Also, that landlocked blue bit in western Africa belongs to Oman somehow.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 10, 2011, 02:11:49 pm
Nice, what's the blue in the middle east bordering persia?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 10, 2011, 02:21:09 pm
Quote from: Dutchling on May 10, 2011, 12:37:07 pm
Having only read the first page I am gonna play that Europe university game right now! The Netherlands are a derping nation man!
(conquering Poland, moving the capital to revolutionary mexico, establishing colonies in Canada >.>)

... How long have you been playing the game?

When the game starts the Netherlands don't even exist >.>
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 10, 2011, 02:30:48 pm
Quote from: Demonic Spoon on May 10, 2011, 02:11:49 pm
Nice, what's the blue in the middle east bordering persia?

Jalayirids. They're Mongol Empire successor state much like the Golden Horde. They're there at the start of the game. Also, I've now gone through two Tribal succession crisis events. I came out of both intact. After the second, I've gained most of the conquered territory as core, lost the overextension modifier, and am finally in the black with my finances without minting.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on May 10, 2011, 03:39:13 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 10, 2011, 02:21:09 pm
... How long have you been playing the game?

When the game starts the Netherlands don't even exist >.>

Please. If you have ever played the game before, you should know that there are multiple starting dates to begin the game.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 10, 2011, 04:35:37 pm
I know, its just that I assume most people start by playing Grand campaign. >_>
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Dutchling on May 11, 2011, 01:43:28 pm
Of course not, I started as soon as the Dutch golden age started, which is around 1610. Apparently we were at war with Portugal (don't remember ever learning that at school...). I haven no idea what to do though :P I know I have some colonies and my civ's leader, Stadhouder Willem II is also  general. Rembrandt, a painter, is my advisor and there are Flemish nationalists in Spanish Belgium. Than Sweden starts bitching around with trade agreements and I apparently have a good reason to declare war on them.
When I paused the game again, I noticed a lot of pop ups about provinces that are able to build stuff so I build something in Holland. It will take 12 months, ok. So I unpause again and I notice the game advancing at about 1 day per 10 seconds....
I know I can make it go faster but I don't want to miss anything :S

Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Mr.Person on May 11, 2011, 06:21:37 pm
Don't worry, every speed but the very fastest is, well, kind of slow. The speed I use is the fourth speed, which puts things right at 1 day taking 1 RL second. Even that is pretty slow because I pause a lot.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 12, 2011, 12:02:41 pm
The revolution in Poland finally succeeded, causing them to fragment rather badly. Currently attacking some of the fragments that I have casus belli on due to border disputes or fabricating claims with spies.

In other news, I had my first revolutionaries a while back, a single unit of infantry in Africa.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Frajic on May 12, 2011, 03:16:51 pm
Spoiler: Map of the world, as of 1613 (click to show/hide)

I'm playing as Norway(Alt for norge!), and have recently been in pretty hot water. First of all, I have no effective allies. My only good ally is Poland, and it's pretty hard for them to get any reinforcements over to my part of Europe. Second; in 1601, for some reason I can't recall, Great Britain went to war on me. My navy had been crippled and stuck over on the other side of the atlantic after a failed attempt at fending off some pirates(why did I even bother?), so I could neither stop the flytes nor get my own troops to British soil. So I'm stuck fending off a superpower all on my own. Short summary; they kept sending 10-20k armies at me, and after 10 years I lost foothold. I'm guessing the casualties were between 50-100k from both sides. I decided I had to stop the war no matter what, so I agreed to convert to their own religion.

Now, here's the(not so) fun part; in the middle of this, Portugal declared war on me too. I didn't pay too much attention to that, but once I finished the war with GB, I discover I have foreign troops in my country. So I open the war overview, and find out that Spain is amongs his allies. At this point my thoughts are pretty much "Well, fuck." What's worse, I can't end this war. Neither Portugal nor Spain are willing to listen to any peace offer. The only thing I can do is brace for impact.

On the light side of things, Prussia offered me an alliance. They're the grey blob that owns Finland.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 12, 2011, 03:29:42 pm
I only have one Question.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on May 12, 2011, 03:30:52 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 12, 2011, 03:29:42 pm
I only have one Question.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
It's a lake, IIRC.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on May 12, 2011, 03:56:47 pm
Pyrate, you NEED to ally with Prussia.

I say this never having played this game, but it seems like sound strategy.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Frajic on May 12, 2011, 04:00:51 pm
Quote from: EuchreJack on May 12, 2011, 03:56:47 pm
Pyrate, you NEED to ally with Prussia.

I say this never having played this game, but it seems like sound strategy.
As if I hadn't already done that :P I need all the help I can get!

Also, I'm playing on, well... very easy difficulty. I get a huge edge, but look at me, I'm still being bullied into submission :I
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 14, 2011, 02:43:18 am
I'd suggest taking it slow, maybe conquer some of Spain's colonies, and I hear the AI usually don't defend the iberian peninsula well so possibly attack their homeland as well. Mostly though, take advantage of the homeground advantage, wait for them to come to you and suffer from attrition. Is that Spain in Scandinavia? Conquer those provinces, it might give you enough warscore to get a decent peace deal. Portugal usually doesn't have enough manpower for any sort of extended fighting. Is that Sind/Sibir(can't remember which) to your right? They and Denmark look like easy picking so I would suggest attacking them when you have the time. And I thought that grey blob was the Teutonic Order at first. Lol. Anyway, take it slow and try not to declare war too much at first. Possibly bribe some electors to eventually become HRE for manpower boost.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 14, 2011, 04:35:53 am
The world in the year 1726 of our Lord:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The faiths of Orthodox Christianity, Shiite and Hindu are extinct. Manchu is annexed. The conquest of Japan has begun. Korea is reduced to two provinces. Aceh diplomatically annexed by Delhi. Poland is finally starting to look smaller. Ming and Delhi lost a big chunk of provinces. Annexed a lot of minors.

EDIT: Whoops, forgot to add pic.

EDIT2: Wtf? Ming just turned into Manchu?! Oh well, not complaining.

EDIT3: Checked the log, apparently they decided to form the Chinese nation. Amusing.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Frajic on May 14, 2011, 12:32:51 pm
I managed to shake off all the warmongers(GB came back again shortly after) with persistent peacemaking, and I also found out why they constantly went after me. I had a couple of vassals in America that gave them the colonization casus belli. They were a huge nuisance to me, and I couldn't even give them up because my prestige was too low. So I found it really funny when I used their release as an asset in my peace negotiation :P

Now I'm rebuilding my navy, getting a proper army and investing all my money in war tech. Europe shall bow down to me.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 14, 2011, 12:52:39 pm
The Cleansing of the Vassals has begun. The Pope has been overthrown. Long Live the the Spanish Emperor, Pope of the Spanish Catholic Church! Map in a few years.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 14, 2011, 03:53:34 pm
Spoiler: Spain, in the year 1754 of our Lord (click to show/hide)

Waiting for the truces to expire. Reformed Christianity, Protestant Christianity and Buddhism no longer exist and Shinto will soon join them. Got the American Quest for Independence event, just gave them some cores after which nothing happened. Got a lot of cool loyalist stronghold events before this though via governors that I replaced or something, forgot the specific name of the event. Executed a lot of founding fathers as well.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 14, 2011, 04:10:54 pm
What's that, two countries left? Good job, now do the same with a super-poor OPM.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 14, 2011, 04:14:24 pm
Three, and anything he uncovers in unexplored territory.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 14, 2011, 05:26:00 pm
I've explored everything, black is impassable terrain. 3 left yes. Anyway gonna go sleep now.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on May 14, 2011, 05:28:11 pm
Is it possible to take a OPM from that save-game and attempt a reverse-WC? :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 14, 2011, 10:31:20 pm
Quote from: Hyo on May 14, 2011, 05:28:11 pm
Is it possible to take a OPM from that save-game and attempt a reverse-WC? :P
No. So clearly we're going to have to do this.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 15, 2011, 01:25:33 am
Quote from: Hyo on May 14, 2011, 05:28:11 pm
Is it possible to take a OPM from that save-game and attempt a reverse-WC? :P

I suppose I could release a nation or take one of my older saves, but I really don't want to.

This post is image heavy

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THE YEAR IS 1777 AND SPAIN IS THE EARTH

The Spanish Empire during the reign of his Majesty, the God Emperor of the World, King of Spain, Pope of the Spanish Catholic Church, Defender of the Faith, Holy Roman Emperor, Felipe III in the year 1777 of our Lord:

"As there is but one Ruler in Heaven, so there must be but one Ruler on Earth."

~Felipe II, on the eve of the 86th War of Spanish Aggression, the war to end all wars.

(http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/ww99/Demonic_Spoon/EU310-Copy.png?t=1305440307)

Spoiler: The World, the Empire (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Status of the World, Status of the Empire (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Armies of the World, Armies of the Empire (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Commerce of the World, Commerce of the Empire (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: History and Previous Rulers of the Empire (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Frajic on May 15, 2011, 05:21:59 am
Congratulations. You won the game.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 15, 2011, 05:48:38 am
EUIII doesn't have a "win" condition.  :P But thanks.  ;)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on May 15, 2011, 09:25:52 am
What's your tech situation look like?  Does having a monopoly on every COT let you get way ahead of time on techs?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 15, 2011, 09:42:37 am
I'm about 10 years ahead on everything. Even managed to build a few manufactories.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 15, 2011, 09:51:56 am
Now release everything and show us the map.

Use the "Prestige" cheat if you run out of enough prestige to do it.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 15, 2011, 09:54:07 am
You need prestige to release countries? Huh?

And always release the smallest ones for extra fun!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on May 15, 2011, 09:58:26 am
I'd say this is more than just winning the game.  This is total domination.  Dude, you owned the game.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 15, 2011, 10:04:34 am
I would, but I deleted the save, and uninstalled the game, since it seems to be bugged. Gonna be reinstalling it next weekend and trying out either the Pope or Muscowy.

And thanks EuhreJac. I've heard someone completed world conquest in the 1500s with France though, and this was only on normal.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 15, 2011, 10:05:01 am
... D:
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 15, 2011, 10:08:56 am
That's a shame. I was hoping we'd get to see you messing around with Earth Spain untill 1836 rolled around.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 15, 2011, 10:14:14 am
I did mess around with them till the game ended. Was pretty boring, a few quests for independence, founding fathers that I executed, Agricultural Development and Minorities Prospering, a few provinces being assimilated to the Castillian culture, all provinces eventually coring, Felipe IV taking the throne, the Divine Supremacy and Church Attendance Duties National Ideas being adopted to speed up cultural assimilation etc.

And in case anyone was wondering, yes those are ships off of all my coasts in the first screenshot, seemed like the easiest way to combat pirates, don't know how other people handle them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 15, 2011, 01:36:46 pm
In a rush to finish my conquest and form the Norman Empire.

From there I can work on my Infamy which is as high as shit. Also, Hungary delcared war on me and brought a bunch of allies in on it. Luckly for me, almost all of his allies are with him in Eastern Europe. Seeing as I am in North Western Europe, I should just occastional get a 1000 Hungariens knocking on my door occastionally. But it manages to be annoying as piss seeing as I cannot talk to the thousand rebels walking around or get enough men to kill them off.

Edit: Aforementioned rebels are also drity cheaters. How can poorly armed and under trained peasants can beat gaint professional armies which are armed to the tooth and have much better leadership.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 15, 2011, 02:19:54 pm
Via difficulty settings.

EDIT: Also pysched because I should be getting the game next week.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on May 15, 2011, 02:39:12 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 15, 2011, 01:36:46 pm
Edit: Aforementioned rebels are also drity cheaters. How can poorly armed and under trained peasants can beat gaint professional armies which are armed to the tooth and have much better leadership.
Reminds me of the USA.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 15, 2011, 03:46:55 pm
Spoiler: Norman Empire (click to show/hide)

I have finally conquered the Netherlands and declared myself as an Empire. Yes, I was disspointed at the lack of no "Norman Empire" nation title, but who gives a rats ass?

Due to that gaint blob in Egypt and Western Middle East may mean Iraq will not be Iraq anymore. Crimea is still a war powerhouse, only matched by me. Saxony hates my guts hard, and their the leaders of the HRE. May have to watch my back. May keep France independent, due to their sheer number of allies.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Taricus on May 15, 2011, 03:51:59 pm
Mamlukes boy. Don't dis them, especially once the ottomans get them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 15, 2011, 08:49:31 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/RFDz5.jpg)
Click to Embiggen.

My Delhi Sultanate in the MEIOU mod. If things look very different to you, that's because they are very different in this mod. Many, many, many new provinces, events, and other things to contend with, not to mention a somewhat broken nomadic system, that is set to be fixed in the next release of the mod (no country that borders the nomads can get any colonists right now). Additionally, the mod combines the Dei Gratia mod that enables various new religions and provincial minority religions, and SRI AI that makes countries behave in a somewhat more sensible way.

The year is 1563 or something, the Sultanate controls most of the subcontinent, save for one bit on the northern end of Sri Lanka. I've started going on expeditions of conquest to take over Indo-china, slowly but steadily, but Ayutthaya is surprisingly more powerful than it looks, due to sheer province density and the wealth of it's trade goods, and a high population density. My large multiethnic empire is prone to revolt in the assorted provinces, and thus I cant bring my full forces to bare against them, and the war which won me a great deal of the territory between the Ganges and the current border with Ayutthaya came at great cost of manpower and time. Worryingly, once I had taken that region over, they swiftly began consolidating their control over the region, annexing a few small neighbors and reaching down into Malacca.

Since the border is fairly narrow, it shouldn't be too hard to hold. I could probably ruin the country for a long period of time if I could dedicate all of my armies to the job. However, even if rebellion wasn't a problem, the other, more pressing one is my neighbor to the North. Insane, unstoppable, uncountable, unyielding nomads united under the great Kazakh Khanate. I can hold them back, as they have a real hard time invading through the Hindu Kush mountain ranges, and the Himalayas provide another insurmountable obstacle in the form of wasteland provinces, but I can't really push through and start really hurting them. They've just plain got too many men. And I've got a standing army of 130,000. But I know their secret. Soon, Kazakhs, Soon, I WILL have ALL your potassium.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on May 15, 2011, 10:05:20 pm
Quote from: PenguinOverlord on May 15, 2011, 02:39:12 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 15, 2011, 01:36:46 pm
Edit: Aforementioned rebels are also drity cheaters. How can poorly armed and under trained peasants can beat gaint professional armies which are armed to the tooth and have much better leadership.
Reminds me of the USA.
Yeah, like that one time the British didn't want a revolution going on in their colony.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 16, 2011, 02:37:19 pm
Playing EU III and need some advice so my Empire stays afloat.

My reputation is at 96.00, which is very very bad. Any ways to decrease it other then waiting around?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 16, 2011, 02:57:57 pm
Your... I... hnngh? H...how? How on earth did your infamy get that high?

Releasing vassals reduces infamy, but just one point per vassal. There are advisors who reduce infamy as well. Use the Commission Painting decision to get your cultural tradition up and then hire one of those.

EDIT: I mean seriously, how? Were you taking as much infamy as possible on purpose?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Taricus on May 16, 2011, 02:59:44 pm
EUIII complete, no expansions after In nomine, So I don't think he has that option...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 16, 2011, 03:20:33 pm
If you're up to 96 infamy, there really isn't any way for you to get it down to safe any time soon. The point of no return has been crossed. You only have one option left. You must wage war against everyone else before they can wage war on you.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 16, 2011, 04:11:07 pm
Quote from: Digital Hellhound on May 16, 2011, 02:57:57 pm
I mean seriously, how? Were you taking as much infamy as possible on purpose?

Completely annexing Northern France and all of the Netherlands in the timeframe of 16 years may have had something to do with it. I was in a big rush to grab the Empire title. Didn't help me much in the end, did it?

May just leave Normandy to its own devices and wait for the Infamy to cool down before playing it again. After all, the nation of Athens is begging for the rebuilding of Greece. I like the idea, not too much infamy in the way, not to forget that the Ottomons are currently occupied with the Mamlukes, Turmids, Persia, Iraq, and a whole bunch of other Middle Eastern Nations. Impressive amount of enemies its made for it self.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Virex on May 16, 2011, 06:12:14 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on May 16, 2011, 03:20:33 pm
If you're up to 96 infamy, there really isn't any way for you to get it down to safe any time soon. The point of no return has been crossed. You only have one option left. You must wage war against everyone else before they can wage war on you.
Mod in the Norse religion and go on a holy crusade of bloodshed to restore the supremacy of the Vikings!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 16, 2011, 06:17:36 pm
The only way you can deal with it at that point is, pump out more soldiers, and wait for the inevitable war of all against one.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on May 16, 2011, 07:15:41 pm
Thankfully, it's IN. IN has no ugly infamy events. Just keep pumping out the soldiers and declare war on everything - it's too late now, it's now World Conquest or nothing.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on May 16, 2011, 11:21:10 pm
Indeed. I was up to about 700 infamy at the end of my game. Good times.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 17, 2011, 03:51:45 pm
I am now througly convinced the game is cheating.

I was playing as Athens, and I declared war on the Ottomans, because a quest required I get it from them. The reward was a core in that territory, which is pretty fuc*ing important given that I only had one province with a core in it at the time.

So I seige the territory I needed to, hopefully thinking I could also grab a second province before I ended the war. Then the Ottomans armies came, and it basically brought all its armies. Strange, given that they were fighting a big war in the east. But the real bullshit was to come.
When we engaged in combat, my military leader with four shock points always got very high rolls during the Fire phase, which is completely worthless at this point in the game given that Gunpowder isn't being used in armies at this time. And during the shock phases, I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS got zeros! Its not even funny! I was losing hundreds of soldiers while he got off with only a few dozen! He also attacked my capital. This is bullshit because all his armies were heading toward my seige eariler, then one army changes direction and gets to my capital in half the time!

SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME THIS WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 17, 2011, 04:21:03 pm
Just installed EU3, starting my obligatory 'WTF AM I DOING' LP right now. This will be great.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on May 17, 2011, 07:09:11 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 17, 2011, 03:51:45 pm
SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME THIS WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!

Bad luck.  It's a simple matter of probabilities.  As a minor nation, two consecutive bad rolls are bad enough to wipe you out.  Leaders dont protect you as having the leadership advantage gives you a boost to offense, not defense.  So the odds are pretty good that if you fight enough battles as a minor, you are going to get shafted badly a good portion of the time if you engage in too many fair fights.

As a minor, your only hope is to engage the enemy when they are almost helpless.  If you need to fight a large army, then you are basically limited to doing it on hilly terrain across a strait or river where the terrain will render your opponents army nearly harmless.  But as a minor, you need to fight as little as possible.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 17, 2011, 08:03:06 pm
I had cheated a tiny bit and got myself a 12,000 merc army.

Explain how that is destoried.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on May 17, 2011, 08:09:54 pm
While Mercs in DW have an added bonus that they get free manpower, they also have an exceptionally lower morale regeneration which acts as a very steep bell-curve, at around 2/3 being generally the highest you can, and are willing to go. It's almost impossible to get these soldiers to full-morale unless you keep them for years, which is totally missing the point about mercenaries.

Basically, Mercs aren't really the most reliable army. If you're a minor and you have the gold, of course, the unlimited MP is surely the way to go, but don't ever expect Merc armies to be actually good at what they're doing.


Besides, the AI going to your capital is not cheating. It's not like it moved there instantaneously. It's the same thing any decent human would've done, so why not an Ai?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 17, 2011, 08:33:48 pm
Quote from: Hyo on May 17, 2011, 08:09:54 pm
Besides, the AI going to your capital is not cheating. It's not like it moved there instantaneously. It's the same thing any decent human would've done, so why not an Ai?
You don't understand. I saw that army walking towards the territory my army was in, change directions, and get to my capital in half the time it would've taken one of my armies to get their.

And yes, bad luck is believable for the second or third zero, but after the seventh zero in a row, its starts to get a bit "curious". There is a one out of ten chance I would get a zero. You almost never get that much bad luck.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on May 17, 2011, 11:25:32 pm
What, it's still possible. 0.1^7 is still not 0 after all. ;)

In any case, the difference in travel time would either be because the travel length is shorter: i.e. the province your enemy is in is closer to your capital than your armies are, and the opposing general's stats. Probably a mix of both, really.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 18, 2011, 03:49:28 am
The mistake was declaring war on the the most powerful country in the region while you are the weakest country in the region.

Your first moves as a Greek minor should never be to attack the Ottomans. It's absurd to even try. Your first moves ought to be to grab territory from other minor states around you, such as Achea, Morea, the Byzantine Empire, Naxos, Albania, and Epirus. You need the income and manpower, even just some of it, if you want to stand a chance. You cannot beat the Turks in a stand up fight. You need to be mobile, avoid direct confrontation with their armies, and hit them only when you know you can win without a doubt. You need to fight in your own territory, eat away their armies with attrition, and pounce. Do not begin taking any of their territory until all of their armies are completely destroyed. Then, siege every province you can, use mercenaries that you will disband at the end of the war as needed.

Try to get allies if possible, Poland and Hungary will often support war against the Turks. Having high relations with wealthy countries in the west may also net you a good deal of war-subsidies as everyone wants to see the Turks suffer.

Also note, transit times between provinces are effected by a variety of factors, not merely how close they seem to be. Rivers, mountains, swampland, and other things can all make travel times unintuitive unless you pay attention to these things. Also, what you may have witnessed in the army suddenly changing directions to arrive at your capital could be two armies in the same province, one heading your way, one heading the other. Outwardly, only one of these would be visible while sharing the same spot.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 18, 2011, 07:36:08 am
What's the year? In the first hundred years or so the Ottomans will be way ahead of you in military techs. Even if they aren't, attacking the Ottoman Empire as a greek minor is pretty much suicide. You might want to check out some strategy guides and such.

I once lost with a 30k+ army, at nearly full morale, with a 5-shock, 3-fire leader against a Timmie 20k. I was land tech 9, they were land tech 4. There were the usual terrain penalties from forest, but I don't think they contributed that much.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 18, 2011, 02:46:05 pm
Still, the Ottomans were fighting a big war in the east. Any person with a good tactical sense would think that the Ottomans armies would be busy occupied with the Mamlukes, Persia, and other nations. But they somehow find the balls to take all their armies and direct them at me. The tiny minor nation. I would of also only taken one province. I was hoping it would end pretty soon. I also had a mission to get the province I wanted, which gave it a core.
All of these points, which I had already expressed in a previous post, made a small, quick war with the Ottomans seem like a profitable idea.

As for the travel time, I saw no factors making them get to my Capital any sooner then it took for me to get to their provinces. And as I have said before, I saw and confirmed the sight of an Ottoman army stop moving towards my armies and switch to my capital.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PenguinOverlord on May 18, 2011, 06:46:19 pm
Quote from: Ampersand on May 15, 2011, 08:49:31 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/RFDz5.jpg)
Click to Embiggen.

My Delhi Sultanate in the MEIOU mod. If things look very different to you, that's because they are very different in this mod. Many, many, many new provinces, events, and other things to contend with, not to mention a somewhat broken nomadic system, that is set to be fixed in the next release of the mod (no country that borders the nomads can get any colonists right now). Additionally, the mod combines the Dei Gratia mod that enables various new religions and provincial minority religions, and SRI AI that makes countries behave in a somewhat more sensible way.

The year is 1563 or something, the Sultanate controls most of the subcontinent, save for one bit on the northern end of Sri Lanka. I've started going on expeditions of conquest to take over Indo-china, slowly but steadily, but Ayutthaya is surprisingly more powerful than it looks, due to sheer province density and the wealth of it's trade goods, and a high population density. My large multiethnic empire is prone to revolt in the assorted provinces, and thus I cant bring my full forces to bare against them, and the war which won me a great deal of the territory between the Ganges and the current border with Ayutthaya came at great cost of manpower and time. Worryingly, once I had taken that region over, they swiftly began consolidating their control over the region, annexing a few small neighbors and reaching down into Malacca.

Since the border is fairly narrow, it shouldn't be too hard to hold. I could probably ruin the country for a long period of time if I could dedicate all of my armies to the job. However, even if rebellion wasn't a problem, the other, more pressing one is my neighbor to the North. Insane, unstoppable, uncountable, unyielding nomads united under the great Kazakh Khanate. I can hold them back, as they have a real hard time invading through the Hindu Kush mountain ranges, and the Himalayas provide another insurmountable obstacle in the form of wasteland provinces, but I can't really push through and start really hurting them. They've just plain got too many men. And I've got a standing army of 130,000. But I know their secret. Soon, Kazakhs, Soon, I WILL have ALL your potassium.
MEIOU's also so pretty, man.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 18, 2011, 06:54:59 pm
So my game as Delhi has finally come to a head where bugs have caused a consistent crash on the same date. For now at least, this game is over around 1739. Using the MEIOU mod

(http://i.imgur.com/QBFZ3.png)

The game, due to some errors in the code that are being sorted out for the next version of the mod, has turned out quite absurd. Spain and Portugal have completely failed to take the new world. Other than the natives, the only countries with any real presence in the new world are Venice, Lubeck, Navarra, and Iceland. Europe as a whole has been completely exploded. Too much feudal infighting has allowed other regions of the world to surpass it. Namely, me. Despite having 75 percent research rate, I lead the world in technology, and control the highest percentage of the world's wealth over any other country, I monopolize the production of simple grains, and command the world's most advanced, and largest army.

The Empire is close to being united under the Sikh religion, as from the beginning, the administration has worked to support Sikh Gurus at every opportunity, seeing the spread of the new faith as a way to unite a deeply divided country. The conversion unfortunately alienated the other branch of the royal dynasty that rules over Persia, which remains Sunni Muslim.

As for the goings on in the East; the only serious Rival we've had was the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, which for a good period of time, was unchallenged in it's cultural region. It was the only country that could seriously resist my attempts to expand into Burma, due to it's density of provinces, manpower, and wealth. It, on multiple occasions, they managed to infiltrate and seize control of the center of trade in Kolkata, leading to a series of wars to retake the province, and a long period of spy wars.

The competition between us lead to a race for colonies, both between us and Yemen. I siezed Zanzibar, several islands in the Indian Ocean, and the western half of Australia. The Eastern half is control by the Chinese Shu Han dynasty, and one province by Korea. Several Micronesian islands are controled by a variety of countries, Ayutthaya principle among them. I took Wake island as a base to move to the New World. My colonies in California and Oregon are the most profitable I have, two of them holding goldmines.

Ayutthaya began moving on Siberia, soon after I forced them to release Khmer in Cambodia, and their state began collapsing at the fringes soon after.

The Sibir Khanate has effectively replaced the threat of the Kazakh Khanate.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 18, 2011, 07:01:26 pm
Cool, I'm still imploding the second I try to wage a war across any body of water, even the Strait of Gibraltar... Fucking Morocco.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: x2yzh9 on May 19, 2011, 06:03:43 pm
Would anyone be interested in joining my glacies-like play by committee space empires 4 game? It's in my sig. I hate to advertise but I don't know what else to do.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on May 21, 2011, 12:59:51 pm
I just found out that I can rack up +30 relations with someone by freeing their provinces from rebel control.  Fighting rebel armies on their territory also seems to give a +10 boost.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 23, 2011, 05:57:22 pm
Does it get you prestige too?

EDIT: My Great Britain in ~1520

Spoiler: Spark Notes Version (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The Unadulterated Map (click to show/hide)

So I started as England and had the 'Conquer Ireland' quest, meaning I annexed three of them before they could make any alliances. The last two formed alliances so I entered Royal Marriages with them and claimed their thrones, fighting to wars over the thrones. After 50 years they still didn't want to join and somehow my legitimacy tanked.

I had gone to war with Castille over a trade dispute (only so they would call Scotland into the war, I love how this game makes me think) and I had ROFLSTOMPED the entirety of Scotland, annexing them. The high revolt risk from all that nationalism and whiskey is what I think killed my legitimacy. This lead to both of those nations I had personal unions with trying to claim my throne, starting a war in which I annexed them. Austria also claimed my throne but they couldn't get to me so they took peace after a while.

Now I was dragged into a war with the Teutonic Order and Pommerania, resulting in my two territories around Danzig.

By this point Portugal had been hammered by Castille and forced to break their alliance with me. Instead they alligned with Muscowy and Novgorod, and I with Lithuania and Sweden. Sweden routinely starts wars with Norway without a causus belli and that draws Muscowy and Novgorod into the battle, bringing Portugal in, and I would dump troops on their shores. In the last war I occupied all of Iberian Portugal and was fighting in Morocco. So I was able to force them to cede one of their Iberian territories and give me 100 ducats.

I'm not sure exactly how Bohemia ended up with all those territories, but they seem to be overextended since I was able to occupy a lot of their original territories in one of the Wars of Swedish Agression (according to the history there have been at least five) and got one of them, which I then sold back to them for around 160 ducats.

As to colonizations, I colonized the Azores and they recently cored, so now I can set up a whole hell of a lot more colonies. According to the map where you choose your nation Castille is the only other nation with any other colonies, and they have about the same number as me, only in South America.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 23, 2011, 08:43:29 pm
La France in my new, post Delhi game.

(http://i.imgur.com/yQ5nw.png)

This is the story of stupidly good luck. I started out as England in the midst of the Hundred Years War, and was able to, by the skin of my teeth, find victory and force personal Union with France. Now, England in MEIOU starts off as Anglois, not English, cultured, which is within the southern French culture group which makes England winning the Hundred Years War a bit more manageable, since France won't constantly have an elevated revolt risk. It also means that after gaining cores on most of France, I can form the French Nation all over again and get all the cores I didn't have before, and in addition gain French national decisions with the English traits that promote colony growth.

Within a few years of forcing the Union with France, I randomly gained a union with Portugal, and subsequently with Castile. No cheatsies, no forcing it with fabricated claims. The rulers just died and I randomly got personal unions with both of them. I inherited France in 1510, and inherited Castile around 1556. Portugal is still awaiting inheritance. I'm Papal controller and that isn't due to change any time soon due to sheer number of catholic provinces, I've started colonizing the New World, and am the only country able to do so. My absurdly high income from combined England and France keeping me way ahead in the Tech race, gaining cores on Castile and Portugal will only drive that higher. I've designs on conquering Aragon, and have a mission to invade Milan. All in all, set to rebuild the Western Roman Empire. Too bad there's no decision for that.

Also, for some reason, being Papal controller and therefore allied to the Pope made the Pope wayyy more confident than he has any right to be, and he started going completely bonkers conquering and annexing north Italian states and even Provence. I had to lay down the law pretty hard to make it stop.

Also, that grey province in France, in the north east besides Burgundy, that would be the Antipope. I'm not too sure how to deal with that yet.

Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 24, 2011, 12:37:11 pm
Behold, the glorious Tsardom Merchant Republic of All Russias!

(http://i.imgur.com/i1AMD.png)

Spoiler: Just Russia+Vassals (click to show/hide)

I admit it, it's not that impressive yet, but I do have the highest income in the world, and the third-biggest army. I'm planning on taking the Middle East + India next, instead of going the 'historical' route, through Asia to the Far East. It's just dirt-poor provinces and then Ming, not worth the effort. Started as Novgorod in 1399, conquered Russia pretty fast. I would've formed Russia ages ago but I misunderstood the requirements and had to wait another 50 years. >_>

Colonization of the New World has been pretty slow so far, but I'm sure it'll pick up soon. France, as is said on the map, is pretty chaotic. There's pretty much every single french minor on the map right now, and France itself is a three-province minor. Burgundy started off good but hasn't done anything in the last few decades. India was first conquered almost fully by Vijaynagar, then a muslim country and now Orissa's growing pretty fast. Lan Xang is highlighted just because I haven't seen a powerful country form in that area many times.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 24, 2011, 01:23:47 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/1nw10.png)

I know I said I inherited Castile in 1556, but that was a lie. I had accidentally adjusted all the dates in my previous post ahead by fifty years. I inherited Castile in 1505, and France around 1455. The MEIOU start date for the Grand Campaign is 1349, rather than 1399, just to make it clear that I had plenty of time.

No one has really messed with me much. When the Protestant Reformation started up, I had a lot of rebellion problems but, as Papal Controller, I was able to reform the Catholic Church enough to the point that moderate protestants have started to reintegrate into the Catholic Church. Now it is around 1557, and I've inherited Portugal. They had begun colonizing Africa, but I've assimilated those colonies to my culture. Two Sicilies have started halting attempts to colonize south America, but I've been using spies to keep them out at all costs, and started throwing colonists around to provinces I didn't even intend to colonize immediately just to keep ahead of the race. This will mean I can't focus on just a few to keep up with, but permitting foreign presence in the New World is unacceptable to me for now. I won't be satisfied until the whole of the new world is Blue.

I'm not suffering too much from Rebellion anymore thankfully. The Jesuits have been assisting me in driving out the last bits of Protestantism out of the provinces, and once that is done, I shouldn't have much to worry about.

Also, the Pope won't stop declaring war on things and rely on me to pick up the slack for him. In the previous picture, that tiny purple slice in Egypt was a Catholic Egyptian state that was a left over of the Pope declaring war on things.


Also a note on the labeling. I call the union of England and France the Angvin Empire, as that is what Historians have called the Plantagenet kingdom that ruled England and most of Western France historically, until the Hundred Years War period kicked them off the continent.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 24, 2011, 02:21:18 pm
I'ma go hide my head in shame now... Time to go play as Bohemia, I think... Mwuhaha!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 25, 2011, 04:50:50 am
I wouldn't feel too much shame. Like I tried to explain, most of what happened there is actually an accident. Now, England inheriting France and subsequently becoming France wasn't an accident, but part of the starting scenario if you manage to win the War, but Portugal and Spain WERE definitely not intentional annexations. I had no intention of doing anything with them at all.

In fact, when I first saw the Personal Union fire for Portugal, I was like 'Oh, god damn it, if I inherit them there's no way I'll be able to manage the unrest and the rebels and all that without a lot of micromanagement.' But then, when the Personal union for Castile fired, I literally, out loud, said, "You've got to be shitting me.", not just because it effectively eliminated all of my military and colonial rivals, but, also just made managing the whole problem with unrest a hell of a lot easier, since I can just set a few armies to hunt rebels and they'll march from Paris to Lisbon if they have to without me having to lift a finger, and gave me so many catholic provinces I effectively had permanent control of the Pope.

This empire I built has a hell of a lot more to do with Luck than skill, save for the first defeat of France in he Hundred Years War. That took legitimate effort.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RF on May 25, 2011, 10:39:59 am
I'm currently playing EU3 Complete MMP so I can convert my save to Vicky Revolutions. Should be fun. :p

I'm playing as Ashikaga. It's barely been 30 years and I've managed to unite a good deal of Japan. I'm hoping to unite the rest soon, but the other clans are causing me trouble. It's mainly the stability hits and bad boy issues that're annoying me.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Orjasmo on May 25, 2011, 02:52:33 pm
I feel so noobish asking this but how do you insert images from a file on your PC?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 25, 2011, 03:01:26 pm
You have to upload them to a hosting site like imageshack or photobucket.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 25, 2011, 08:46:42 pm
I am winning so hard at this game.

Spoiler: Athens And Vassals (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Everything else in the PERFECTLY SANE world (click to show/hide)

Yes. As an eastern faction, I have somehow gotten a foothold in Spain. I feel so badass right now.

It started when I declared war on the Knights (For Vassal, but I declared "Fuck it" and annexed them). I hadn't noticed I was also at war with Castille intill I had a Spainish army at my front door. Destoried them easily, and moved on to make a merc army to teach those damned Spaniards a lesson. I had an honest fleet. Made up mostly of light ships and Transports, and four or five heavies. It did not last one second againist Castilles rapist insane fleet made up of 50-something heavy ships. I eventaully got to them, but I had lost my awsome 5 shock general getting there. Although, once I had gotten Gallia (Or whatever it was called), it was smooth sailing intill I got them to sgin that peace treaty.

And so I got a chunk of Iberia.
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Oh yeah, one last thing of note:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 25, 2011, 09:21:08 pm
I think they ought fix that one day, such that, if you have a regency council, it either refers to the previous King, or the child who will grow up to be king.

It's intended to reference this phenomenon in history; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_in_the_mountain
Which is why I think it ought to refer to a king that's already dead.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on May 25, 2011, 10:51:07 pm
Apparently the Four Knights of the Apocalypse will have some stiff competition from every past legendary liege.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 26, 2011, 06:52:29 am
Think about it harder. When does a Regency Council come out?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 26, 2011, 02:12:26 pm
In your 'darkest hour,' when your last king is dead and the next is too young. Wow, that's perfect.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EmperorNuthulu on May 26, 2011, 02:36:57 pm
Wait, when your last king is dead and the next is too young? And you're a greek place?

You've won so hard the Alexander the great is going to come back from the dead to rule!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 26, 2011, 03:07:09 pm
Well, accually I was thinking it was anti-Queen Propoganda (The Regency Council will return when our Queen is dead and we will all party.), but that works too.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 28, 2011, 09:02:29 am
Spoiler: The Imperial Republic of Athens (click to show/hide)

Before you say anything, yes. Danzig is really a Constitional Republic.

The map is pretty much self explanatory. I have conquered most of the Balkans, Antolia, and the Eastern edge of the... Middle East. That pretty much it.
Any questions or comments?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: The Doctor on May 28, 2011, 10:01:02 am
Destroy the Byzantines and become them.

Yes, you can wear them like a fleshy mask.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 28, 2011, 11:00:01 am
They are my vassal. I plan on diplo-annexing them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 28, 2011, 11:34:19 am
Damn son, wait til I get my badass Castille up and running. I had one that was pretty tough, but a glitch involving Portugal declaring war on the Cherokees before anyone had even crossed the atlantic forced me to restart.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 28, 2011, 11:56:50 am
Going through the proccess of Westernation. I just one more point in centralization before I can reform the military.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 28, 2011, 02:52:37 pm
Ready for the revolts?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 28, 2011, 03:01:06 pm
I already have plenty of those. Too bad they never work >:)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 28, 2011, 04:33:50 pm
You'd think the peasants would learn eventually...

And the nationalists are just refusing to accept reality.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RF on May 28, 2011, 04:35:57 pm
I don't like advertising but...

The Drones need you. (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=85526.msg2305861#msg2305861). D:
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Carcanken on May 28, 2011, 06:55:52 pm
Quote from: Rilder on September 29, 2010, 07:51:51 pm
Update...

Ottoman Empire 1669

(http://i51.tinypic.com/2isce9t.jpg)


How do you get a screenshot of the map like that in Europa Universalis III?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on May 28, 2011, 06:58:57 pm
F12
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 28, 2011, 07:33:49 pm
NOw where does it save to? I looked through the folders but couldn't find it. Or my laptop keybindings stop it from working, I had to rebind most stuff in DF when I moved it over...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Carcanken on May 28, 2011, 09:34:28 pm
Everytime I start as Castille, I make Granada my first choice to conquer. And every single time I attack their army, they might loose 3/4 of it, but the rest moves to the territory above granada, resulting in me to STOP my siege, then walk over to whatever they are attacking, then go back to my siege to find they have another army.

edit: Im having a bug, it says "failed to create graphics device" whenever I try to start, and it hasnt been doing this before. What should I do?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: The Doctor on May 29, 2011, 12:14:29 pm
This is my Greek Orthodox Jerusalem. I started as the Duke of Cyprus under the Byzantines (Which didn't crumble -immediately-, surprisingly), took Antioch and northern Syria, spread down the coast line until Acre. Then I took the Gaza strip analog (two provinces), and the strip beyond the Jordan river. Egypt was huge and controlled Jerusalem proper and the three provinces north of, but I had enough provinces to declare myself King of Jerusalem.

During this whole game, before I crowned myself, I had to vassalize myself to certain Moslem sheiks and Emirs, but I usually managed to take one of their provinces along with it.

Eventually I attacked Egypt while Alexandria, their capital, was a crusade target. I took Jerusalem, the three provinces, and Alexandria.

I -think- Jersualem is Greek, but almost all my directly controlled provinces are Orthodox (including Jerusalem) and Beirut, Tyre, and Alexandria are Greek culture.

Until my current ruler, I controlled the entire Levantine coast, with a few inland provinces to buff my economy. That was at 12 Intrigue, my current guy has 5. :I

Anywhere, here are the maps. It's a fun game, with oddities like a Republic of Cordoba controlling a large swath of Iberia, Bohemia inherited the Hungarian crown, the Tribe of Ingers is growing, and the Byzantines, while this might change because the Turks have them occupied, are still alive and still control Greece, Serbja, and Anatolia.

Spoiler: Relations (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Political (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 29, 2011, 12:28:47 pm
"Impressive, no?" - Prince Apostolos Dimitrios, Describing the Republic quite nicely.

Spoiler: The Imperial Republic of Athens, 1487 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The World, 1487 (click to show/hide)
Yes. Danzig is still alive. And still a Constitutional Republic.

The maps are, again, pretty self-explanitory. What can I say? I am not much of an ARG writer.

Also: Can you see what theme I am naming my colonies to?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 29, 2011, 12:32:33 pm
Danzing usually is a constitutional republic when it gets released, I think. In my Novgorod/Russia game, they got turned into a monarchy pretty quickly though. :/
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 29, 2011, 06:10:54 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 29, 2011, 12:28:47 pm
Also: Can you see what theme I am naming my colonies to?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The most cliched Greek names you can come up with? lol
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Korbac on May 29, 2011, 06:40:26 pm
You missed out "Zeus" "Delphi" and "Eudaimonia". XD
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 29, 2011, 07:14:44 pm
Getting to those :P

Im just naming them after "Greek" stuff.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: The Doctor on May 29, 2011, 07:43:47 pm
You forgot Thracia. :U As like a semi-capital province.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 29, 2011, 07:51:09 pm
Hey, slow down. I'm still colonizing, people.

Edit: Also, is it possible to port games from EU III to Victoria II?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 29, 2011, 08:22:45 pm
I think so...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: The Doctor on May 29, 2011, 10:11:53 pm
It's not in the game.

But others are working on a converter.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Carcanken on May 30, 2011, 01:57:26 am
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 29, 2011, 12:28:47 pm
"Impressive, no?" - Prince Apostolos Dimitrios, Describing the Republic quite nicely.

Spoiler: The Imperial Republic of Athens, 1487 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The World, 1487 (click to show/hide)
Yes. Danzig is still alive. And still a Constitutional Republic.

The maps are, again, pretty self-explanitory. What can I say? I am not much of an ARG writer.

Also: Can you see what theme I am naming my colonies to?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

How do you play as Athens? I havent seen that as a nation for me. Do you need a DLC?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: ein on May 30, 2011, 06:54:23 am
It's a start, I suppose.
Spoiler: Finland, 1427, my first game where I actually know what I'm doing. (click to show/hide)

King is Jani I Soop.
His heir is Väinämöinen Soop.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 30, 2011, 09:39:16 am
Quote from: Carcanken on May 30, 2011, 01:57:26 am
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on May 29, 2011, 12:28:47 pm
"Impressive, no?" - Prince Apostolos Dimitrios, Describing the Republic quite nicely.

Spoiler: The Imperial Republic of Athens, 1487 (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The World, 1487 (click to show/hide)
Yes. Danzig is still alive. And still a Constitutional Republic.

The maps are, again, pretty self-explanitory. What can I say? I am not much of an ARG writer.

Also: Can you see what theme I am naming my colonies to?
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

How do you play as Athens? I havent seen that as a nation for me. Do you need a DLC?

Athens is a nation that you can play as if you do either two things.
1. Athens is freed during gameplay and you choose to play as it.
--OR--
2. You fast foward a little into the future using the time controls under the date select.

I used method 2. You can play Athens in the normal game or any DLC.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Frajic on May 30, 2011, 09:50:15 am
Semi-related, but I've found a very fitting victory song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMeWTcPOLGg) for EU3(victory = world domination).

I guess I'll tie in my progress as Norway. I haven't played very much, I can't remember the year(~1660, I think), but I'm still earning a ton of money and am investing most of it into tech. Both naval and land tech is 10 levels ahead of everyone else, so I perform very well on the battlefield.

...did I mention I annexed Finland and have begun to fight against Prussia?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 30, 2011, 12:40:22 pm
Alright people, empire stats check!

My income is currently a nice 4700, while the second-highest income is Burgundy with 1500 or so. The AI's also suffering heavily from inflation, while mine is 0. >_>

Army size is also something like 118k, biggest in the world at the moment. The game's getting pretty easy, so I should probably conquer the entire world as well. Atleast Eurasia and Africa.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Virex on May 30, 2011, 12:51:25 pm
I think I was up to 120 or something last run, by 1570. That's as Oman in Magna Mundi, mind you and it was before I learned that going to war in Magna Mundi isn't the instant-lose button everyone makes it out to be, so we're talking about a 4-province country in one of the poorest, least-populated parts of the world and blessed with nomads... I don't think there were many CoT's worth more then 350 dukats left that weren't dominated by my merchants, but in trying to pull my country out of the backward position it was, inflation did go up to 11%. Oh I think I was also pretty close to being the world leader in most techs.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on May 30, 2011, 01:40:12 pm
I lose -1000 golda year, but it does mot matter due to my CASH reserves. I simply cannot manage the economy in this game, so I just bully, people around to get mah bills forfilled.

And still manage to keep a very low infamy rating. Not bad, Falcon, not bad at all.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on May 30, 2011, 02:16:45 pm
You're losing over a thousand gold annually? What the hell? What's costing so much, your armies? And you should check your actual income in the Ledger, on the nation comparison page.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 30, 2011, 02:21:27 pm
I get something like 10000 in net profit over the course of a year without any inflation. Here's what happened in that England->France game I posted about earlier since my last post.

Consolidation of the New World mainly. I resisted getting involved in European affairs, though the Pope was always aggressive and eventually forced me into War with the Mamlukes. Of course, I went in and annexed Jerusalem straight away and released the Kingdom of Jerusalem as an independent state. Around this same time, I get it in my head to start trying to get France into the Holy Roman Empire knowing that I'd probably get elected fairly easily just by the size of the state. Took many, many, mannnnny tries to convince the current Emperor, Milan, to add Paris into the Empire, and thus France, but eventually he acquiesced to my insistence and when he died, I became Emperor.

Now, at this point of the Game the Empire itself had grown to encompass all of Scandinavia as well, which had properly fallen apart into a collection of random feudal states rather than just Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. In other words, it looked like the HRE to begin with. A few reforms had already been passed, but I went ahead and started accumulating more authority to start pressing for more reforms. Within a decade or so, I got to Revocation of the Privilege, which would make all HRE member states my Vassals. Of course, this doesn't fly over very well with large member states, namely Sweden and Bohemia, or the Lutherans and Calvinist states. They succeed from the Empire and we're immediately cast into war. Of course, being UltraFrance, I steamroll them and call in the vassals I got from the reform to aid me

I force Bohemia to release several large states that it had annexed, and demand some territory which I immediately sell back to the proper owners. Sweden, which I'm not interested in, asks for white peace, and I accept. The other states eventually  are forced back into vassalage, or otherwise concede defeat if they were still in a state of vassalage to France but merely honoring alliances. I force the Lutherans and Calvinists to convert, including Sweden, which pushes my authority up again due to the 'A Wayward Sheep Returns' event when an HRE heretic state converts back to Catholicism.

When the war comes to a close, Jerusalem calls me to honor our alliance and help fight the Ottoman Turks. This marks the beginning of the Fifth Crusade. I join, and so do all my vassals. The Ottoman Empire finds all it's provinces under siege within months by Danes, Frenchman, Genoans, Germans and god knows what else. Jerusalem takes some territory, I take some territory and sell it to Jerusalem. The Crusade ends with Jerusalem grown stronger, and the Turks severely weakened, all their armies destroyed, their provinces devastated, their war exhaustion high. The Venetians attack, as do the Hungarians. At the conclusion of that war, the Turks barely still exist. Venice took most of central Anatolia, Hungary stretches down the Balkan peninsula.

Almost immediately afterward, Switzerland declares war on me, and is completely squashed. I don't know what they were thinking, given that I had a standing army of well over 250 thousand men, compared to their 25 thousand, and that's not including vassal armies.

I force them back into vassalage as part of the Empire, and force them to adopt Catholicism again. My authority rises. Finally, Renovatio Imperii. Become the Holy Roman Empire, inherit all member states, become the only meaningful power in the world.

Income; 10000 or so. My land force limit is some 800 thousand but I've no need for that right now, when even Sweden can barely muster 8 thousand. I have no credible threats, no real rivals that I need to fear. Just a waiting game now to get rebels to start calming down before moving on to the next thing, whatever that is.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 30, 2011, 04:32:12 pm
Spoiler: The Empire of Glorious Spain (click to show/hide)

I began as Castille and annexed Morocco, as per standard operating procedure. Then I went to war with Algiers, beating their ass. A little later on Aragon broke their alliance with me and I soon got a border friction casus belli on them. When I went to war I forced them to give up two of their provinces and cut a white peace with Sicily, their only ally worth a damn.

I had also formed alliances with Portugal Scotland and Sweden.

Another war in north africa came about after Algiers called a jihad on me, and I annexed Tunisia. Driving my bad boy points over 30 (thank you easy difficulty!)

Then I used some silly casus belli or other to attack Aragon and take all their provinces except one they had acquired in Italy, leading to me taking everything but that one and their capital.

Around now I went to war with Algiers and took all but two of their territories.

Yadda yadda, annex this take cash from that blah blah...

Leaves me about like this, and soon I head off to colonize the new world.

Next steps: War with France? I dunno... lol France is mine.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on May 30, 2011, 06:05:05 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on May 30, 2011, 04:32:12 pm
Next steps: War with France? I dunno... lol France is mine.

Yes. This seems like an excellent idea.

Trollface.jpg
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: ein on May 31, 2011, 04:58:02 pm
Spoiler: Awesome. (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on May 31, 2011, 06:14:19 pm
...You've sort of got half your territories occupied... That could significantly dent your 'awesome'.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on June 01, 2011, 12:27:57 am
Those are non-cores. That's the diplomatic map. Still, you're risking over-extension with that many uncored provinces, might wanna slow down for a while.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on June 01, 2011, 02:30:41 pm
Dear lord my over extention is extreme. I only had two something cores to amount for my 50 something uncored territories. However, I am starting to gain the cores for the uncored land.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on June 01, 2011, 02:36:38 pm
*facepalm*

I hope you don't mind me asking, but what difficulty are you playing on?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on June 01, 2011, 03:23:16 pm
Easy-to-Medium, not sure. Didn't take the time to check the settings after my last game.

Also, don't blame me for being a warmonger expans- Wait.

Well anyway, I am slowing down on conquests. Don't really like to idea of total world conquest, so I am just going to settle down and see where the game takes me.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on June 01, 2011, 04:06:56 pm
What if it takes you to world conquest?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Frajic on June 01, 2011, 04:22:08 pm
Then he'll punch world conquest in the snout to establish dominance.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on June 01, 2011, 07:20:27 pm
Wow, that was a very accurate description of what I would do.

How did you do it?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on June 01, 2011, 08:45:19 pm
He punched it in the snout.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on June 30, 2011, 03:01:52 pm
Slightly less than 50 years ago, this was the state of Asia.
Spoiler: Bad. (click to show/hide)
Things weren't looking good for Deccan (teal). Sure, India had been conquered after almost a decade of on-and-off warfare with the equally large state of Delhi, but India was not a large part of Asia. Ming (maroon) had established complete control over half of the continent while retaining full stability and lacking many rebels. The Timurid Empire (red) had shrunk a bit, but it was still every bit as powerful as Deccan. The Mamluks (brown) reigned supreme in the Middle East. The Golden Horde (yellow) had been beaten back by the Poles, but their army was once again out for blood. Deccan... Deccan was stuck. Nowhere left to expand without running into one of these, barring incredibly slow colonization attempts that had thus far only claimed Diego Garcia.

Something had to be done, of course. I spent a large part of my treasury sending spies to incite rebellion in the Timurid empire, splitting it into a half-dozen new countries and leaving only a shattered rump state in Samarkand that still remains to this day. Unfortunately, the rebels within the Mamluk empire split off and conquered many of these other states to form Persia, an even more powerful country. An alliance was forged with the state of Arakan (purple in the map), the only not-huge free state bordering Deccan that wasn't the incredibly lame state of Kashmir. For the next few years, Deccan created masses of troops. It was time to do something unexpected and supposedly suicidal - take on Ming. Ming was huge, and nobody liked them. Unfortunately, the plan went awry when Ming pre-emptively threw 50,000 men into Arakan to annex it. By the time Deccan's armies had formed up, it was too late. Fortunately, a new king had been crowned, Taj ud-din Firuz II, grandson of the Taj ud-din Firuz that had conquered Delhi and united India. This king was pretty terrible with economics (score of 3), but his military skill was unmatched in the world. (Score of 10) He personally led the charge into Ming. Tens of thousands of men died on either side, but in the end Deccan had claimed a narrow swath of provinces leading all the way through to Panduranga at the very tip of Indochina. Arakan was released and re-allied. For five years, Ming and Deccan sent hordes and hordes of spies at each other, most of which were deflected by impeccable spy defenses. Along this swath of land, however, the greatest armies in history were being formed. This time, it was Deccan that took the initiative. The goal was to conquer Indochina and set up a defensive line between Thang Long and Liangshan, but when the dust had cleared and the Deccanese army got to that point... there were no armies of Ming in sight. A blitzkrieg of the highest order began, cavalry riding to claim provinces while the infantry slowly moved up the front. There were only two problems. First, a 100,000 man doomstack incoming from Altishar in the Himalayas. Second, a 100,000 man doomstack incoming from Jiangsu on the eastern coast of China. To counter the first, most of the Himalayan provinces were scorched and armies were raised in northern India. By the time the remaining 20,000 Ming soldiers got through, the 20,000 less demoralized Deccanese soldiers crushed them. To counter the second, the armies retreated together and formed a 150,000 man doomstack lead by the greatest general in the world. After these defeats, Ming collapsed. (That was quite fortunate, as Deccan's armies were battered to hell.) Provinces far and wide defected to Japan, and after the war Deccan claimed all of southeast Asia, much of the Himalayas, and parts of interior China. Throughout the following decades, wars would be repeatedly started to take more and more Ming land until only a few provinces remained. There are currently only two such provinces remaining, Wu in Guiyang and Qin in Jinan.

All of this plus a later curbstomping of Persia and Japan led to this. That, and hordes and hordes of colonists and explorers. New world shmoo shmorld. I have Siberia!

Spoiler: The Glorious Feudal Monarchy of Deccan (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: 1566 (click to show/hide)

Some labels on that last map got squeezed by accidental shrinkage, ask me if you can't read them. My goal in this game has been to create an Asia that can fight off and defeat any single European country instead of being colonized. To that end, I've started 'protecting' the continent by claiming it. The golden horde is next. I'm currently occupying the Mamluks entirely, just waiting for a diplomat to ask for their surrender. These screenshots were taken at the very end of Taj ud-din Firuz II's reign, an almost 50-year period of constant warfare that led Deccan to the conquest of almost two hundred provinces. Unfortunately only the ones I owned in that first map are cores right now. That should change very rapidly over the next half century, though, as the 50 year waiting periods run out. France, Venice, Sweden, Poland, and Great Britain are the main threats, with Castille and Portugal being the most widespread countries. Right now France has about 1/3 of my troopcount, which does not bode well for my armies that half half the land tech. More troops shall be made for the crossing of the Danube and the Rhine, I imagine. Poland currently has 50,000 troops on my border of far higher quality than mine, but I'm amassing 200,000 at that border to overrun them before moving on to the Horde.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on June 30, 2011, 07:08:11 pm
Might you relate to us the tale of how Papal Iceland came to exist?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on June 30, 2011, 07:36:29 pm
From what I can gather, Venice is the only protestant country in Europe, and they conquered Rome at one point. Denmark gave the Pope Iceland, and then the Pope built up an army and sailed back home to retake Rome. Since then, Venice has joined France in the constantly-excommunicated club. The Pope never gave Denmark their land back, and he occasionally uses his nordic armies to beat the crap out of European minor powers that anger him.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on June 30, 2011, 08:36:30 pm
That's hilarious. The pope is almost as trollin in this game as he is in Medieval 2. When I formed the HRE I annexed the Pope and then let him out as a vassal to keep my relations high and make myslef unexcommunicatable.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on June 30, 2011, 09:15:26 pm
Yeah, the Pope seems to be the only thing keeping France in check. Every time France does something stupid like invading Castille (for the 7th time) they get excommunicated. At some point a large swath of Europe declared war on France including Ara-gone, Castille, Portugal, most of the HRE, and Great Britain, the Pope, and Utrecht. France bought peace with huge lumps of dough (ha!) with everyone but the Pope and Utrecht. The Pope landed at Marseilles and raised hell (double ha!) for a bit before finally withdrawing with white peace. Somehow Utrecht had been the Allied leader this whole time and went in alone... One fleet carried troops to an undefended swatch of coastline. Their army of only 5000 dodged French legions all the way to Ile de France. Where they took Paris. Utrecht got occupied at this point, but Utrecht came off on the better end somehow and forced France to pay them ludicrous sums of money in return for peace. With this money, Utrecht created the most technology advanced army in the world. Seriously, they're four or five tech ahead of everyone else, and they have the most artillery of any country.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: The Doctor on June 30, 2011, 11:07:33 pm
Drag them into a war with France again. :D Either they'll go "Fuck you, blob." or they'll be brought down.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on June 30, 2011, 11:28:51 pm
I need to post my HRE that I formed in the 1540s, I've blobbed all of central Europe and driven France back to their coastline, the only threat I see coming is Russia (formerly Muscowy!?!?!) in the east, as England is still pretty weak.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on July 01, 2011, 01:02:31 am
Watch out for Ming. If they got to be a lucky nation like in my game and you haven't done anything to slow them down, the Muscovites are probably just heading West to flee the ravenous hordes of Ming.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on July 01, 2011, 10:35:08 am
Well, Ming isn't that bad... Unless you get a human to buff it up with a conversion to Hindi and an early Westernization, of course. (i.e. our discontinued IN game.)

Remember this, anyone? :P

(http://img.ie/images/7cc6a.jpg)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on July 01, 2011, 10:39:07 am
Alright, I have to point this outnow. On all of these EUIII maps, in Asia, there's a section of impassible terrain that looks like a face with a raised eyebrow. Now you can't unsee it.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on July 01, 2011, 11:17:05 am
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on July 01, 2011, 10:39:07 am
Alright, I have to point this outnow. On all of these EUIII maps, in Asia, there's a section of impassible terrain that looks like a face with a raised eyebrow. Now you can't unsee it.
NOOOOOOOOO.....

Hrm, that Ming seems to be quite similar to the one I fought against, except that it has Siberia instead of Indochina.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on July 01, 2011, 12:37:32 pm
That's a standard AI Ming in DW, until it collapses. I've seen Ming at war with Muscovy in the early 1500s, happily invading by land.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pakhawaj on July 01, 2011, 02:10:36 pm
This is from a Swahili game I played a while ago, it's the only EU III game I've actually completed (though the date is 1761, I deem it completed as I finished the goal I set out to do which was to modernise Swahili and prevent European colonies in Africa). I played this game using Magna Mundi Ultimate.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Things of interest-
The American Kingdom is ruled by the native Americans (though they accept both American and English cultures).
India is entirely Hindu and ruled by large almost completely modernised Kingdoms
French America and Greenland is entirely of either Breton or native culture.
Most of Spain is currently in revolt.
At one point Ethiopia controlled all of Upper Egypt and a bit of Lower Egypt.
Indonesia is still unknown to the Europeans.
Bishopric Bremen has legal control over Iceland.

I stopped playing the game because I got annoyed at the countries in the New World; Venezuela is Haiti, Haiti is some little Caribbean island, Cuba is Jamaica. :(

There aren't many completed empires in this thread. Well done on that Sikh India a few pages back, that game looks fun! I like playing as religious minorities sometimes, I'm currently playing a Zoroastrian Persia which is very difficult in MMU.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on July 01, 2011, 07:11:53 pm
Let me tell you, being Sunni in that Deccan game sucks. I fight off dozens of religious revolts per year because only 3% of my land is Muslim, and only half of that is Sunni. Durn Confucian-Shinto-Animist-Shiite-Buddhist rebels.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on July 02, 2011, 08:18:45 pm
Should go ultra-narrow minded honestly. There are tradeoffs to be made in this game. When it comes to be a massive, continent spanning empire, there are really only two possible options. Be ultra-leftist and tolerant of everything via Libertie, Fraternite, Egalite, Ecumenism, and Humanist Tolerance, OR go ultra narrow minded and theocratic, and adopt Church Attendance Duty, Unam Sanctum, and similar ideas and convert everything you gain, while hoping for the culture flipping event to fire all over the place, which it probably will.

Really, the first option is probably the best, but what you absolutely cannot get away with is staying in the middle ground. You have to go for one extreme or the other if you want to be a massive empire, otherwise you will get rebel problems.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on July 04, 2011, 03:12:26 pm
Any advice on where those F12 screen captures save to? I tried finding them but they aren't in any of the game folders. Also, I'm using a laptop so there is the fastforward (I think) button on F12.

Also, Bill of Rights is your friend.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: RF on July 04, 2011, 03:45:27 pm
Steam has it's own screenshots folder.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on July 04, 2011, 04:19:36 pm
It also saves to the screenshots folder in the Europa Universalis 3 directory, even when using steam.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on July 04, 2011, 09:43:07 pm
On further inpectionI think I just have to change the key-bindings.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Lightning4 on July 05, 2011, 07:13:20 am
Finally got around to completing my Castille game from page 1 of this thread.
EU3 IN

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Not quite how I wanted to end, sadly. In the final 10 years of the game my King died and I entered a succession crisis. I chose Naples over Great Britain and handily vanquished them, forcing them to concede to Naples. Sadly, this PU remained until the end of the game. Sad since the GB king from that war actually died not long after. Naples would have been a much tougher battle though.
Due to this I also lost the practically hereditary hold on the crown of the HRE. I held it for something like 300 years. There isn't really much of an "empire" left to rule, however. There's only about six nations left.

Though despite the setbacks, the mighty kingdom of Spain should have a glorious future once they throw off the union. I ended up being by far the most wealthy nation, and eventually gained a massive technological lead as well. Only Naples ended up being technologically competitive.

Poor GB has a worse future. They're going into the new era with Munster and Scotland released from the war, and what they control of the British Isles is covered with revolutionaries. Munster somehow owns all of Ireland, no idea why they didn't form it before the end of the game.
To boot, GB is massively behind technologically, I don't know how they got that way. It was basically like fighting natives. They were 20 levels behind by the Succession war.

I didn't have too many goals. One was to conquer Africa. As can be seen, that was essentially completed barring a few random Portuguese provinces, a random province from Naples, and a vassalized Morocco I never had the heart to destroy.
Another goal was essentially to end France. I took pity on them after the last great war and decided to stay on their good side from then on. The war was devastating for them, they never reclaimed much of the land I forced them to release. They never were the same after that war.

Fun/historical facts:
-Ottomans in Turks Islands.
-Mexico colonized Hawaii (and some other South Pacific islands. Samoa I think that is)
-Only three colonial nations. Haiti controls one or two Caribbean island provinces. Venezuela controls Cuba and Jamaica. Mexico is actually where it should be for the most part.
-The giant tan blob is, of course, three different nations: Golden Horde, Persia, and Syria.
-Where I was, Portugal soon found its way there as well. They had to be everywhere I was colonizing. Hence the random dots of green in my otherwise pristine expanses of banana yellow. Though, they lost their S. Asian provinces within the last 50 years of the game.
-The Timurid empire used to be SCARY. They still exist, at least. I kind of miss their original form. They fell back in the mid 1500s, still a fair bit longer than their normal splinter time.
-Formed Spain in the late 1600s. DON'T MOCK ME. :P
-One very strangely shaped Korea.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on July 05, 2011, 10:50:29 am
Pfft... LATE 1600s! I formed the HRE in the 1540s!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on July 05, 2011, 10:57:23 am
On the note of papal state weirdness, I once saw the papal state invading norway for reasons unknown while still controlling Rome. They ended up with like 3 provinces in Scandinavia that they kept a hold of until I crushed them. And its important to take Portugal out of the colonization race early on in my opinion, saves a lot of trouble later on. Still, looks like a good strong Spain though.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on July 05, 2011, 01:03:51 pm
Glorious Russia again, this time in 1655.

(http://i.imgur.com/90XAT.png)

As you can see, I've just smashed in Ming's face and forced it to release Wu and Xia. I was going to conquer India with the nice, nearly infamy-free Holy War CB's but those disappear in 1650. A shame, but I'm full innovative, massively tolerant, etc etc, it didn't really make any sense anyhow.

Forgot the vassal+allies pic, but rest assured that anything inside my wonderful little blob is either an ally, vassal or thoroughly ignored.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: The Doctor on July 05, 2011, 01:45:09 pm
You didn't seem to wanna colonize Siberia o.o
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on July 05, 2011, 02:20:19 pm
It's not worth anything and takes too long. I've made a grand total of two colonies outside horde colonizing, and I gave the other to Sibir.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on July 05, 2011, 06:29:28 pm
Siberia will make crap in taxes, but the trade income from the abundant natural resources is flippin' awesome.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Ampersand on July 05, 2011, 09:42:22 pm
Siberia has a lot of fur and gold, for example. It's definitely worth it if you have high production and trade efficiency. The only reason you wouldn't want to colonize is if you are Catholic and intend to hold onto the Papacy. Getting the papacy is determined by province count and the base tax in the provinces. This, mechanically, was intended to be sort of a way to balance the fact that Spain could basically get it every time once colonization starts.

Since you're Russia, though, I presume you're still Orthodox, in which case, you have no excuse. Siberia is absolutely worth it.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on July 06, 2011, 12:54:03 am
Well then, I suppose I should start up some colonies there. Atleast I'll look bigger on the map.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pakhawaj on July 27, 2011, 06:55:44 am
This game keeps crashing, I don't know if I'll continue it. This map shows the progression of religion from 1399-1620 and the current year in my game is 1629-
(http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx173/Pakhawaj/RPersia-1.gif)
The easy part in playing Zoroastrian Persia at least for me, was the beginning with only the collapsing Timurids to contend with. Afterwards, fighting Georgia and the various Khaganates becomes much more difficult.
Converting provinces to Zoroastrianism was actually relatively easy with the religious war events, it almost felt like cheating.
Notable things are:
Very successful reformation. I've never seen this before, I wish Catholic Bohemia had never become an elector so the HRE would become a protestant institution, that would've been cool.
Venice's conquest and conversion of Turkey/Greece, the Ottoman Empire is now a 2 Province Minor.
Colonial Ireland (though they appear to have given up after those two Brazilian colonies :()
The conversion of India to Islam and following conversion back to Hinduism (I'd like to think I had a part in this)
Japan is whole and has been for a couple of decades.
Korea is Tengriist.
The Knights converted to Protestant before being swiftly gobbled up by England.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Mr.Person on July 27, 2011, 04:15:53 pm
Man, how did you make such a neat map?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on August 08, 2011, 06:43:31 am
Teutonic Order -> Prussia, 1742


Spoiler: Prussia and her Neighbors (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Map of the Greater Prussian Empire (click to show/hide)

First time ever playing Teutonic order, been pretty fun, slow but strong growth, completely ignoring colonization except for Greenland. One thing of note is that I'm pretty much the Sole reason the Reformation still exists, everyone else went back to Catholic, Protestent has only a couple of provinces hanging out on the edges of my territory.

Burgundy has always been the dominate faction France, but France has always managed to hold on so they haven't ever been able to actually unite the area.

Russia and I are stuck in an alliance due to a bug "Allied in a War" even if were both at peace.

Scandinavia has been a Warzone, various factions have been enjoying fighting brutal wars over Denmark, currently owned by Spain, Sweden keeps trying to conquer Norway and Finland and getting ganked by factions like me, the latest war ended with me forcing them to release Finland who I SHALL DEFEND.

Bohemia... oh gods, if you notice their 2 provinces in far east, that's a fraction of what their empire used to be... they stretched from Bohemia to bloody China and integrated almost everything into the Holy Roman Empire who they revoked voting privileges However in forming this massive empire they created massive inflation.  War eventually broke out between them and me, and after a pendulum swinging series of battles along our borders they eventually broke and me and my vassals promptly swarmed their lands. In the peace treaty they lost pretty much everything except their homelands and a few provinces here and there, and in another war later I re-instated voting in doing so stripping the Emperor title from the cold dead corpses of their armies. (Austria took the Crown)

Currently the former-Bohemian empire is pretty much a power vacuum, the nations released just aren't technologically advanced enough to defend themselves, however Zaporozhie, Nogai, and Kazakh (The green faction vassal to Persia) are all in the Holy Roman Empire, which is interesting, which is why I gave them the nickname "Holy Roman Khanates" (That's all their government types afaik)

On that note Persia is huge, they are really exploiting the hell out of that power Vacuum.

Georgia's little Kingdom is unexpected, I've never seen them do that before!

Cyprus is my Vassal, which is awesome.

Venice is copying my old Venice game and taking as much Mexico and Central America as they can get.

Tuscany owns a good chunk of Canada

Yeah, that's all I can really think of, its fun and awesome and fucked up.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pakhawaj on August 09, 2011, 05:02:58 pm
Bloody hell! I'd forgotten how crazy vanilla EU III could be, that Spanish Africa is insane!Is that Spain the the Lebanon and Egypt too?
That's a great empire you've got there, I'm glad you've taken the Finns under your wing, I usually try to protect cool or interesting states too, even if they hate me. :P

Quote from: Mr.Person on July 27, 2011, 04:15:53 pm
Man, how did you make such a neat map?
I used this program (http://"http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?379965-EU3View-make-magic-animated-GIFs-of-your-empire!-%28not-actually-magic%29") and edited the timing a bit with Fireworks. Very neat little software.

To contribute something other than a Paradox empire, here the state of my tula and tribe in my current slowly ongoing game of Kings of Dragons pass:
(http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx173/Pakhawaj/Locaem.png)
The little pink "x"s are inside my tula (split apart by a wee feud I'm afraid), and the blue outline is my very large tribe which my king (who is a woman in true Dragon Pass style) presides over. I'm having a bit of difficulty getting enough cows currently, my tula is a bit too large but I refuse to split again!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on September 20, 2011, 03:54:57 pm
I feel this thread was been empty long enough.
First Things First.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
OH GOD AUSTRIA
OH GOD CASTILE
OH GOD BRITAIN
OH GOD THERE ARE LOT OF GAINT EMPIRES ON THIS MAP

I started as start as Naples, during the time it controlled Both Roma and the Province next to it.

It was a mostly uneventful unification: waiting for Vassals to be annexed, and then a reconquest spree once I formed Italy. At this point, I made my goal making sure France remains unified, and saving the Western Costal Balkan Countries from all being annexed by Austria. One of these goals was less then successful. Although, my opposition to the other Major Powers has made me enemies with a Large part of Europe. My only friends are people I have Freed or vassaled. I would also like to point out that I am ridiculously rich. I am getting, no shit, more then 100 gold a day. And about 2000-3000 a month. Keep in mind this is with the Teasury Silder set very very low. I am having trouble finding ways to spend all of it so my Inflation doesn't go to the shit bowl. I think my Godly income comes from the fact that I am in control of the only and Largest Trade Legue in Europe, I have Trade Agreements with everyone (That doesn't hate my guts), I have a Monopoly on the CoT in Japan (I am the only European with Traders in Asia), I have dumped obscene amounts of gold into Gold producing buildings, I have a thousand Conquered Vassals... and the list goes on. Its fucking ridiculous. My colonies aren't very Large, but I haven't spent much time on them and its still early in colonization.

The Major European Powers are Castille, Italy (Me), Great Britan (Formed far before it should have), and Austria (Though Only though Pure Size and Military Strength.) It also seems that a few more powers in Asia have risen as well.

You see those nice little Maroon bits in Southern France? Thats whats left over from their complete control over Southern France. They had control over the area for quite a while, in till I came and liberated those countries under their control. You may have noticed that GB still has some holdings there. I also freed Wales in said war, which explains why it still exists. While were on the topic of GB, I believe they also annexed Portgual at some point, but Spain got pissed and Delcared war on GB. Instead of freeing the Portuguese, the Greedy Spanish king just took the land for himself. The British Managed to keep some land, though, so they still have a few enclaves there. GB's American colonies are so god awful its funny. Each one of them are like ten people strong.

Block Alasac is Blocky.

You see that Tan Bit where the Malmusks should be? That isn't that Malmusks. Thats Syria. They revolted after the Malmusks took a Particularly hard beating. When they delcared independence, they took the Malmusks EVERYTHING. As in, they may of well annexed them. However, it seems Syria is getting Thrashed by GB right now, so no worries.

Spain failed to colonize the new world somehow. My guess is that they were too busy with all the wars in Iberia. They made up for this by annexing all of Creek. They had a wonderful time with Africa, though, putting all their colony inside it. It makes both mine and GB's colonies look God Awful, which they are.

Ming must of gotten its face smashed at one point, most likely by either the Gaint Green Blob to its West or by Rebels. Now the China region is devided between Wu (The South), Ming (The Coast), and Qin (The Center). On a side note, Wu just used to be a cute little Island off the coast of Ming, before it got supa-srs.

Hungary... this Maroon bit continued existance makes my logic break itself. It has remained that way since the games start. Austria has showed absolutely no intention of annexing it. But... Hungary isn't Austrias Vassal, Hungary is not Austrias ally, Hungary does not have any allies, Hungary is not part of the HRE, Hungary has NO army, Hungary doesn't even share Austria's Religon! THIS MAKE NO SENSE.

For some unexplainable reason, Triopli no longer exists in North Africa. It is now in Central Africa.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Stworca on September 23, 2011, 06:30:23 am
"Western" Roman Empire :
(http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/5420/winnz.jpg)

Now let's see HoI2
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Stworca on September 23, 2011, 08:47:29 am
I have finally transported my entire HoI2 to my laptop.

Here is how the political map was looking like in 1936 :
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Here is the year 1942
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Britain is Pink'ish
US is dark blue
Canada, Australia and New Zeland are where they are supposed to be.
USSR is that block surrounded by enemies.
Everything.. EVERYTHING else is either down to absolutely no meaning in the game, or in the Axis.

This is where i stopped aiding the Axis in any way i could and took control of ze US.
This is how my very first LP started, long time ago. I never got to finish it.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it's time for the games to start anew.

Germany alone has 150 armor divisions, with at least four times as much infantry.
Japan navy is ball-breaking
UK is at the edge of total annihilation with Suez closed down, colonies in Asia invaded by Chino-Japan waves, Africa lost to ze Germans and some core naval bases in Atlantic ocean taken by Japan.
USSR has been butt-raped by Germans in a record time.
Canada, Australia, South Africa and others are nigh useless.

The only good news for UK is that Japan is not in alliance with Germans. Japanese formed their own alliance with Communist China and all those indies in Asia.
Germans have every other country in the alliance, including South American nations.

US was up until now on 50% IC, due to Peace Time. The second They join the war it will go up to 100%, which is about 380 IC. Germans have 600.

Last time i've played it took me weeks to get to 1945, with Japan out, South America retaken, Suez retaken, naval supremacy on mediterran (cutting supply routes to Africa) and invasions starting in Greece, Sicily and Spain simultaneously.
Germans had nukes by then.
This was the best effin run i have had in any game.

I had an EU2 screenshot somewhere too, with Poland having a border with China on the east edge of the empire, and.. China on the west edge. But EU is just ridiculous :S
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on September 23, 2011, 06:40:26 pm
Did you win as the US?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on September 23, 2011, 07:34:24 pm
You know, I just noticed. US annexed Mexico.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: hexedmagica on September 23, 2011, 08:12:55 pm
(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h201/hexedmagica/EU3_MAP_ITA_16151231_2.jpg)

Italy in 1615. Started as Milan, ended up roflstomping Austria and inheriting Byzantium. Then proceeded to lose Thrace to the Ottomans, took all their holdings in the Balkans for it a hundred years later. So I then decided to get some colonies, because Portugal is nonexistent.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on September 23, 2011, 08:39:28 pm
Rest of the World Map?

Also: JPG D:
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on September 23, 2011, 08:40:48 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on September 23, 2011, 08:39:28 pm
Rest of the World Map?

Also: JPG D:

PNG FTW!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: SethCreiyd on September 23, 2011, 10:06:34 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Surviving the war of Independence was easy with the help of the Yankees.  Sam Houston's army won the Alamo and retreated to Oklahoma before Mexican reinforcements arrived and by that time, Washington D.C. had declared war on our side.  Mexico sued for peace, and the new nation of Texas became a flourishing center of culture and commerce, growing prestigious in the eyes of Europe.

The fledgling state remained in the sphere of the United States until the Revolution of 1847, when a reactionary group dissatisfied with the legal abolishment of slavery took power in a military coup and suspended the Constitution.  Strangely, the group chose not to reinstate the slaver's institution but set out industrializing the state, providing factories and infrastructure.  The ensuing monetary cost was tremendous, but eventually paid for by territorial expansion into Haiti and the disputed Oklahoma territory.

In 1852, Mexico declared war on Texas and was defeated utterly, once again, at the Alamo.  The Texians quickly occupied and conquered much of northern Mexico.  The people in these areas, many of them natives, were generally left alone and many of them joined the Army of Texas to do war with the Confederate States of America, from which even more territory was gained.  Aside from a brief opportunistic war with Portugal and various bloodless acquisitions from Mexico, Texas has been at peace ever since 1868.

Where next?  I'm thinking Japan might be a nice card in the deck, the extra manpower alone would be worth it.  I'd take Columbia out of California but they're in my Sphere and a faithful ally of Texas, and until that changes they aren't any kind of a strategic threat.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on September 23, 2011, 10:09:12 pm
Spain's always a good target. Perhaps take on the U.S. for a decent challenge?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on September 23, 2011, 11:32:01 pm
Quote from: hexedmagica on September 23, 2011, 08:12:55 pm
Then proceeded to lose Thrace to the Ottomans

Fix this!  How dare you waste your time on trivial things while the heathen occupies the second Rome right on your doorstep.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Stworca on September 24, 2011, 03:29:08 am
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on September 23, 2011, 06:40:26 pm
Did you win as the US?

I never finished that game. My last save is June 1 1945, and this is how it looked like :
(http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9114/hoi22011092315000950.jpg)
(http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/6099/hoi22011092315000334.jpg)

Normandy is untouchable, with some level 8+ fortresses along the coastline and sick number of troops.
So i breached a line across the entire south europe to draw Germans attention, force them to create a large front and have a new opening to exploit.
France was as good as mine, but with Spain just next to us and Normandy troops on the way, it could change any minute.
Italy was a stalemate, Germans had more troops, we had better brigades and commanders.
Balkans are a mess. While we can easily hold the ground west. the right "fork" is about to be overrun by shwaben.
Rommel still lives, but thankfully he's not in Europe. He's blocking our advancement into Middle East. (on that Italian province next to SA)
Japs and Chinese put up hell of a fight, but in the end we outmaneuvered them and conquered all of their provinces with 1/3 of their forces.
Naval superiority : Check. Total check in fact. Germans only have 1 wolfpack of submarines roaming somewhere, everything else of theirs is on the bottom of the ocean. Japan and Italy fleets have been completely annihilated.
Air superiority : A year ago it was a check, now, despite us having 72 interceptors and 40 fighters Germans still rule over their own skies. There are some "safe" zones though. Balkans are completely in our control air-wise. Italy and France are also safe zones.
Troop wise : We are way behind. Wehrmacht is outnumbering us greatly.
IC wise : We are even more behind. They have almost twice our IC.
Manpower wise though we still had about 800, with tons of resources. Our loses were minimal so far, and not one unit was lost "for good".

Once Germans start pushing extremely hard to recapture France, Balkans and perhaps even Italy, i'll launch assaults on Denmark, perhaps Norway, and i'm not going to lose a single unit in Europe, as our fleets are simply everywhere. CACL zergs, some 6 carrier CTF's, four giant transport fleets and a BB-mostly bombardment fleet.

It would take a few years more, but Germany was in fact doomed, unless They dropped their nukes on US mainland. I do hold all the islands in range though..
German troops would at some point stop getting reinforced, their Manpower runs out.. then it's just a matter of time. I also suspect that due to our invasions, closing suez, sinking transport fleets and capturing some important provinces, they may have oil problems in the future.

Lastly, i know where Their nuclear base is, and thus.. Yeah.

I stopped playing because my old laptop died.. Now i have the save back.

Quote
You know, I just noticed. US annexed Mexico.

Aye! Also note that "Central America" is formed from all the 1 province minors. Long story short : Mexico was couped, DoWed us and all of the latin America, when we had only 5 troops.. They annexed all of the minors, then lost all of their lands to us.. Got anexed by us. Central America was formed.

Lovely turn of events!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on September 25, 2011, 06:55:55 pm
Royal marriages are OP.

Spoiler: Glorious Inherity Goodness (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Iituem on September 25, 2011, 07:06:52 pm
Sadly I don't have a screen of the save but a better demonstration would be how under the unified HRE and with Personal Unions with the Ottomans, Britain, Spain, Portugal and Russia my single ruler basically controlled about a third of the world.  In 1520.  Starting from Ansbach.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: SethCreiyd on September 25, 2011, 07:17:33 pm
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on September 23, 2011, 10:09:12 pm
Spain's always a good target. Perhaps take on the U.S. for a decent challenge?

The U.S. is terrifyingly powerful, as Stworca's game demonstrates nicely.  They're only in third place below the UK and France, but their mobilized military score is about five times my own.  I could probably hold the border but if it breaks I wouldn't be able to keep up with the massive occupation.  Texas currently has great relations with them, and I like that as long as they're able to crush us.  Indeed Spain, on the other hand, they can't even keep Cuba out of rebel hands and their navy is a splintering mess thanks to French aggression.  Seems like a good bet for now.


Quote from: Zrk2 on September 25, 2011, 06:55:55 pm
Royal marriages are OP.

Spoiler: Glorious Inherity Goodness (click to show/hide)

Just ask Charles V.  Inherit Castille and you're set!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on September 25, 2011, 08:01:23 pm
Wait, how do you inherit Ottomans?  How'd they go christian?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on September 25, 2011, 08:11:15 pm
Quote from: SethCreiyd on September 25, 2011, 07:17:33 pm
Just ask Charles V.  Inherit Castille and you're set!

there's some internet cookies for you over in the EU3 thread...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Iituem on September 25, 2011, 08:15:42 pm
Quote from: mainiac on September 25, 2011, 08:01:23 pm
Wait, how do you inherit Ottomans?  How'd they go christian?

Cheating, technically.  I waited until the Ottomans didn't have a valid heir, then used the "Fabricate Claim" espionage action to get the "Very Nearly Legitimate Documents" CB.  War, then resolution with a Union.  Bam, sidestepped the whole 'marriage' issue.  In truth, with the exception of Castille (where I legitimately did pull off a marriage, union and inheritance) every single PU since then has been a result of forged documents.  The only Major Power I can't hit with that tactic is Persia, which is a Theocracy.

A Theocracy that also dominates the entire middle east and nearly all of India.  It's basically a superpower.  o_o
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on September 25, 2011, 08:19:38 pm
But you can only fabricate claims against christians...?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on September 26, 2011, 02:59:19 pm
Apparently not. This is good to know.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on October 26, 2011, 02:18:48 pm
It's been a while, and I've got this. (Bump)

(http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/9673/eu3game2011102521393708.png)
By zrk2 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/zrk2) at 2011-10-26

I'm planning a war with GB, my intended troops dispositions will be like this, and the enemy troop dispositions are like this to the best of my knowledge.

(http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9673/eu3game2011102521393708.png)
By zrk2 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/zrk2) at 2011-10-26
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Virex on October 26, 2011, 03:29:45 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oman and Jemen switched places? WTF?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on October 27, 2011, 02:43:31 pm
Humourous post is humourous. Next time use spoilers for the massive quote if followed by one line of text.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: loose nut on November 03, 2011, 01:38:51 pm
Would you look at this bullshit.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Cyrus is one of my favorites, but I've never played with Darius before, and he is ridiculous. Give him horses in Persepolis's BFC, and a nearby neighbor you want to kill (in this case Willem van Oranje, ooh I hate him - took him out with 4 immortals sometime around 2200 BC), and he's just going to run away with everything. And the third person on the continent? Hatsepshut. Separated by a desert. She just offered herself up as a vassal. Ridiculous! That thirty turn golden age? Taj Mahal + finishing the colosseum quest. Ridiculous! In Persepolis: Temple of Artemis, Great Lighthouse, Colossus, Mausoleum of Mausallos, and something else I forget. Oh yeah, Temple of Zeus. Pasargadae has the Great Library and Sankore, and Amsterdam has a bunch of other shit plus Heroic Epic. Ridiculous! Does my military suck? Oh no, it's world-class, with a bunch of level 3 immortals turned knights, and I'm about to go apeshit with privateers. Ridiculous!

(Yeah, it's at Noble, I'm not that good)

I want this game to go straight through transcendence on Alpha Centauri.

Update: lolrailroads before 1600, it's like I'm playing on Chieftain.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on November 03, 2011, 02:17:36 pm
oh hey look something not EUIII.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Dutchling on November 04, 2011, 01:41:54 pm
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on November 03, 2011, 02:17:36 pm
oh hey look something not EUIII.
Someone doesn't understand the purpose of this thread :P

Also, Atlantis:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Julius Clonkus on November 06, 2011, 11:26:37 am
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on November 03, 2011, 02:17:36 pm
oh hey look something not EUIII.
Well we can't have that now can we.

Me playing a Brandenburg -> Prussia -> Germany game with the Death and Taxes mod.
(http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/3254/eu3mapger17586241.th.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/843/eu3mapger17586241.png/)
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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Cicero on November 06, 2011, 08:13:03 pm
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Also, Atlantis:
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I had this bug before. I had to reinstall. It sucked.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Dutchling on November 07, 2011, 08:10:22 am
I had it because I was modding the map and Paint.net corrupts the map every time I saved. Now I just use paint and it works fine.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Mr.Person on November 07, 2011, 05:33:26 pm
Not a huge achievement, I know, but here goes:

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Now I just have to beat Ming while fighting off all these rebels without going bankrupt. I'm thinking I'll probably just use scorched earth tactics since all our connecting provinces are mountain-filled. Worst comes to worst, I'll just concede defeat. Ming will be easy to kill at pretty much any time since their tech group is so bad, but taking out the Balkans will get harder and harder as time goes on.

The other advantage is that Ming already has like 10 war exhaustion from parking giant stacks in Kazakh. They're also at war with Japan, so that might be contributing. I know their army is still pretty big, though. I can see like 30 to 40 regiments in Kazakh alone.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Dutchling on November 08, 2011, 01:28:40 pm
Well, I doubt I could have managed that without ragequiting because of the rebels.
But why don't you just form the Mughal Empire?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Mr.Person on November 08, 2011, 07:24:11 pm
Quote from: Dutchling on November 08, 2011, 01:28:40 pm
Well, I doubt I could have managed that without ragequiting because of the rebels.
But why don't you just form the Mughal Empire?

Timur died before I got all the necessary Indian provinces. All of his successors lacked the military skill. I'm also still not at government tech 4 just yet even though I've been focusing on it for quite some time. Yes, tech costs are that bad, not even getting into my insane stability costs.

I'd also like to get more of Africa out of the way since I can holy war basically everything else on the map. Oddly enough Ethiopia there is Orthodox, so I'm not going to wait on them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Elfeater on November 08, 2011, 08:01:13 pm
Whart is the CK game? A full name please.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on November 08, 2011, 08:27:22 pm
Crusader Kings. The expansion is Deus Vult. There is a sequel coming out in the next few months.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Dutchling on November 09, 2011, 10:29:42 am
Quote from: Mr.Person on November 08, 2011, 07:24:11 pm
Timur died before I got all the necessary Indian provinces. All of his successors lacked the military skill. I'm also still not at government tech 4 just yet even though I've been focusing on it for quite some time. Yes, tech costs are that bad, not even getting into my insane stability costs.

I'd also like to get more of Africa out of the way since I can holy war basically everything else on the map. Oddly enough Ethiopia there is Orthodox, so I'm not going to wait on them.
Last time I played Timur (first time as well..) I formed it after only getting perhaps 15 more provinces. I did have to wait for gov tech as well do I guess you were just more successful at beating the Ottomans and Mamluks than I was.

And Ethiopia always starts Orthodox. They were converted by the Eastern Roman Empire or so.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Virex on November 11, 2011, 04:11:43 pm
Actually, Etheopia was never a part of the Roman empire. Two greek brothers converted the leader of the Aksumite empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksumite_Empire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksumite_Empire)) and from there the belief spread. The Aksumite Empire is probably the first country that adopted Christianity as it's state religion, outpacing Rome by roughly half a century. If I recall correctly, Ethiopia is the only part of Africa that was never incorporated into the country of an European power, though they were briefly occupied by Itally during WW2.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Detonate on November 11, 2011, 09:06:00 pm
Quote from: Virex on November 11, 2011, 04:11:43 pm
If I recall correctly, Ethiopia is the only part of Africa that was never incorporated into the country of an European power, though they were briefly occupied by Itally during WW2.

Ethiopia and Liberia, yes. Ethiopia was annexed by Italy in 1936 after the Second Italian-Abyssinian War, creating Italian East Africa.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pakhawaj on November 11, 2011, 10:01:31 pm
Quote from: Detonate on November 11, 2011, 09:06:00 pm
Quote from: Virex on November 11, 2011, 04:11:43 pm
If I recall correctly, Ethiopia is the only part of Africa that was never incorporated into the country of an European power, though they were briefly occupied by Itally during WW2.

Ethiopia and Liberia, yes. Ethiopia was annexed by Italy in 1936 after the Second Italian-Abyssinian War, creating Italian East Africa.

Do you not mean Libya? I don't think Liberia and Italy had much contact in this time frame, I could be wrong though!

(http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx173/Pakhawaj/Byz.png)
Playing the fantasy Byzantium scenario in the AGCEEP, currently trying to out-colonise The Netherlands in Indonesia and maybe get some nicer borders in the Ukraine.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Virex on November 12, 2011, 10:36:00 am
No, Liberia was an American colony that declared independence some 20 years after it's founding. It never had extensive dealings with Italy.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Biag on November 12, 2011, 04:18:13 pm
It was colonized by Americans, but not the United States Government. The American Colonization Society, a private organization, started collecting ex-slave volunteers in the 1820s and sending them to Liberia. A while later, the Americo-Liberian colonists said "Hey we're a country now! Indigenous people you are now Liberians!" and then set about controlling everything.

Related: if you like history go check out Liberia's Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia), because it's a surprisingly interesting country.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Silent_Thunder on November 17, 2011, 01:56:17 am
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Yes I actually overthrew the French government and got them to join the Axis. This seemed to immediatly get Britian to declare war on me. Not sure why.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on November 25, 2011, 02:45:22 pm
The Irish Empire circa the year 1600 in HttT on VH Difficulty. Aragon and the Ottomans are doing better than usual an-what's that giant blue blob in Asia?! I'm considering moving my capital to America. Should I?

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Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on November 25, 2011, 03:55:01 pm
Are most of your colonies already cores?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on November 25, 2011, 04:01:04 pm
Moving your capital to America will give crazy income.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on November 25, 2011, 05:30:46 pm
I think you should move your capitol to the smoking ashes of London.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on November 25, 2011, 05:32:33 pm
What's that giant blob in China, under Ming? And why does your map make so much sense? My DW-adjusted brain is confused.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on November 25, 2011, 07:43:34 pm
Looks like Wu to me.

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on November 25, 2011, 05:30:46 pm
I think you should move your capitol to the smoking ashes of London.
+1
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on November 25, 2011, 08:51:29 pm
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on November 25, 2011, 07:43:34 pm
Looks like Wu to me.

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on November 25, 2011, 05:30:46 pm
I think you should move your capitol to the smoking ashes of London.
+1
+2

You should move it to the smoking ashes of WORLD DOMINATION.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on November 26, 2011, 02:55:04 am
How I hate very hard difficulty, the computer cheats so bad. In any case Great Britian is allied with Castille so I don't want to take them on yet, I'm considering attacking Aragon soon though.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on December 03, 2011, 12:07:39 pm
Explain how it cheats?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on December 03, 2011, 12:39:35 pm
As far as I'm aware, it only gives the player penalties and grants various bonuses to the AI. The wiki doesn't mention anything else, either.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Demonic Spoon on December 04, 2011, 02:07:02 am
Yeah, but it feels like it's cheating. My larger armies often get beaten by the enemy, even though my discipline is high and my land technology relatively up to date. It's like I can't even take on Aragon cos they'd hand my ass to me. It's the manpower and tax modfiers that really mess it up. I have to be seriously a lot larger than any other country to even consider attacking them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on December 10, 2011, 09:22:19 am
Spoiler: Imperial Scandinavia (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: The World, 1513: Reason 5 to just let Poland-Lithuania die (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: inteuniso on December 10, 2011, 11:23:52 am
What is that Dark Green blob in northern Greece?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on December 10, 2011, 11:46:06 am
Heh, theres a funny story behind that.

Thats Morea. Some time ago, last century in fact, I guess there are a National revolt from the Ottomans. I don't know the details, but somehow Morea ended up with cores on ALL of former Byzantium territory. Yes, they eventually lost those cores, but they still have cores on Greek provinces.

And they have been abusing the fuck out of them recently.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on December 11, 2011, 06:38:05 pm
What is that thing in China?

Also, I'm about to take on the Ottomans as Byzantium, after reclaiming my non-Ottoman cores in Turkey. Any advice?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on December 12, 2011, 07:10:15 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on December 11, 2011, 06:38:05 pm
What is that thing in China?
Thats Xia, one of the Chinese Nations. Still landlocked, BTW. :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on December 12, 2011, 07:49:04 pm
Zrk, try to split them by occupying the sea of Marmara with a navy. Attack the side they don't have an army on.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on December 12, 2011, 08:08:26 pm
I posted about it in the eu3 thread. I did it by jumping on them when they were at war with the Timurids and losing horribly (Only 5000 troops on hand)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on December 13, 2011, 04:00:53 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on December 12, 2011, 08:08:26 pm
jumping on them when they were at war ... and losing horribly

The secret to all good offences in the EU series.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on December 18, 2011, 12:36:26 am
Is offences the word you were looking for? Perhaps:
-Offensives
-Invasions
-Conquests
-Etc

Would be more appropriate.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on December 18, 2011, 08:56:16 am
Quote from: Zrk2 on December 18, 2011, 12:36:26 am
Is offences the word you were looking for? Perhaps:
-Offensives
-Invasions
-Conquests
-Etc

Would be more appropriate.

Yeah, that should be offensives.   :P

But I'm certain my opponent does indeed take offence to my conduct.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on December 31, 2011, 05:30:49 pm
Spoiler: 60 years or so after the last post (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: The World (click to show/hide)

The only stuff not shown is the Scandinavian Island of Gornkap and the fact that, for whatever reason, Mantua is my vassal. The fuck?
 
Notable facts:
Castille is a Government in Exile, with its Capital in the New World.
Scandinavia is completely Prostant, with the Exception of her colonies which are a huge Clusterfuck of Religons and the only reason I still have that Tolerance IN.
The Coast of Africa has been colonized like ten thousand times, always resulting in Failure.
North Western Africa is actually a mix of Mainly Christan Religons, with a tiny bit of Muslium mixed in there. Hell, Tunisa is Angelican for fucks sake.
*Various other Major Historical Changes.*
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on December 31, 2011, 05:37:04 pm
Wow, Germany and France are completely collapsed.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on December 31, 2011, 07:03:31 pm
Funnily enough, ever since I dismantled the Holy Roman Empire, Germany has been quite heavily populated by fairly strong states. Most of those States in Northern Germany are actually Vassals.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on December 31, 2011, 07:46:23 pm
France actually implodes quite regularly, all that has to happen is they really lose one war and then they have to release some states, and then it snowballs from there. What's more surprising is non-collapsed Poland. And who is that in the Middle East?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Grantyman on January 01, 2012, 04:17:58 pm
I'd say that's Persia.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on January 01, 2012, 08:38:46 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on December 31, 2011, 07:46:23 pm
What's more surprising is non-collapsed Poland. And who is that in the Middle East?

Thats mostly due to my intervention. We made an Alliance near the start and it has been going since then, with the occasional moments where it broke due to Religous changes (I went Prostant and they went Reformed) and wars I simply couldn't join because inevitable Alliance Cascades, Large Stab hits, and Clusterfucks. I don't know why I'm still allied with them. I guess Poland just kinda grew on me a bit and I couldn't just let them go.  :-\

Early game I had to bail them out from getting completely fucked over by Bohemia (Back when the HRE still existed) and Lithuania. Speaking of Lithuania, oh god, they were once REALLY fucking Scary. They managed to break out of their PU with Poland because they were Excomunicated when their Ruler died and go on an Absolute rampage. By the end of it, they Literally extended straight from the Black sea to the White sea. We (Me, Poland, and Russia (Then Muscowy)) managed to get them under control by the time that Map was made, but god DAMN. They used to be a Iron Clad Steamroller.

Quote from: Zrk2 on December 31, 2011, 07:46:23 pm
And who is that in the Middle East?

Persia. And if you had a keen eye, you could also see that they had colonies on the Horn of Africa and even in South East Asia.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 01, 2012, 10:18:16 pm
I saw Wu colonize Mutapa once.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on January 01, 2012, 10:35:59 pm
I've seen Iroquois colonize Mutapa, but that was an AAR.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 01, 2012, 10:47:02 pm
I saw an AAR where the Iroquois managed a World Conquest. PrawnStar is a lunatic.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on January 01, 2012, 10:54:17 pm
That's the one, The Audacity of Hope. The spinoff by another guy, the Audacity of Pope, is almost as good.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Toady Two on January 02, 2012, 02:03:40 pm
Same guy pulled off a complete WC with a tribal Golden Horde without changing government. If I recall correctly his final rebel count was around seven million.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Simmura McCrea on January 02, 2012, 02:08:38 pm
Quote from: Toady Two on January 02, 2012, 02:03:40 pm
Same guy pulled off a complete WC with a tribal Golden Horde without changing government. If I recall correctly his final rebel count was around seven million.
Also PrawnStar, and IIRC it was upwards of 20 million. Although there's a fair chance I'm wrong.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 02, 2012, 02:23:55 pm
Quote from: Simmura McCrea on January 02, 2012, 02:08:38 pm
Quote from: Toady Two on January 02, 2012, 02:03:40 pm
Same guy pulled off a complete WC with a tribal Golden Horde without changing government. If I recall correctly his final rebel count was around seven million.
Also PrawnStar, and IIRC it was upwards of 20 million. Although there's a fair chance I'm wrong.
As I recall, there was at one point an incident in which some of the rebel groups accidentally collided with enemy armies and prevented him from suffering a major loss. Also, I'm pretty sure he never actually stopped the rebellions entirely after the first Tribal Succession Crisis.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on January 02, 2012, 03:36:55 pm
He also tried a below-infamy limit WC, but failed just barely, if I remember correctly.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 02, 2012, 06:29:48 pm
I've never done a WC, is it as hard as people have said it is?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 02, 2012, 07:00:18 pm
It depends on the situation. In Crusader Kings taking over the available map is really easy if you know what you're doing. In EU3 world conquests have been achieved with nations like Xhosa, a one province tribal pagan minor in southern Africa with a severe tech penalty . It's probably most difficult in Victora II, where the only WC I've ever seen was done with Great Britain, and just barely. It's easier in Hearts of Iron because there's less political nonsense and more total all-consuming warfare.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 02, 2012, 09:33:08 pm
I might try one some time. Which nation is easiest?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on January 02, 2012, 10:29:13 pm
In EU3, France, Great Britain, or Burgundy. Castille's good too if you can take on France. Really any major power can do it if you ignore the infamy limit. (Though if you try it as Deccan like I did, expect horrifically backwards technology and endless rebels.)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 02, 2012, 11:27:54 pm
Sounds delicious. Mayhaps I will at some point.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on January 03, 2012, 08:54:44 am
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on January 02, 2012, 07:00:18 pm
It depends on the situation. In Crusader Kings taking over the available map is really easy if you know what you're doing.

That must be some know how then, I've never gotten really large empires in CK, maybe it's just the way I play but I've found that the game mechanics are really good at limiting your expansion. To much Infamy and your vassals get pissed at you and even without infamy the more vassals you have the harder it is to actually keep everyone in check.  One realm duress, one awesome king dying (and being replaced by a shitty one), one bad event and a large empire in that game will just be devastated.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Korbac on January 03, 2012, 09:19:11 am
I'm with Rilder here, it seems really tough.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 03, 2012, 03:40:15 pm
Quote from: Rilder on January 03, 2012, 08:54:44 am
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on January 02, 2012, 07:00:18 pm
It depends on the situation. In Crusader Kings taking over the available map is really easy if you know what you're doing.

That must be some know how then, I've never gotten really large empires in CK, maybe it's just the way I play but I've found that the game mechanics are really good at limiting your expansion. To much Infamy and your vassals get pissed at you and even without infamy the more vassals you have the harder it is to actually keep everyone in check.  One realm duress, one awesome king dying (and being replaced by a shitty one), one bad event and a large empire in that game will just be devastated.
Have you ever read the Kingdom Come (http://lparchive.org/Paradox-Games-Kingdom-Come/) MegaAAR/LP? If not, at least read the Crusader Kings section and then come back here (Although it's awesome enough that you should read the whole thing). That section with the rapid expansion across the entire Middle East is what's relevant to a "World" Conquest. It just didn't last to that degree in the LP, and with good reason since that would make the rest of the story boring.

It's not like it's necessarily a cakewalk, and perhaps "really easy" is too generous, but it's not by any means an impossibility.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 03, 2012, 09:31:55 pm
I'm reading this solely based in the knowledge that he plays DF.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pwnzerfaust on January 10, 2012, 08:15:36 am
This is my EU3: DW game as Brandenburg-Germany. The year is 1600.

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That gigantic blob in Central Asia is Persia. Colonialisation of the New World and Africa is practically nonexistent except for Germany's extensive colonies in North America's East Coast.

I formed Germany around 1550. At the time, I controlled most of Eastern Germany, except Pommerania which had blobbed east into Poland. Using the handy Reconquest casus belli, I rapidly expanded my holdings to include the rest of Germany proper.

I am the Holy Roman Emperor, and that crown has been constantly Brandenburgian or German since about 1450.

Early in the 15th century, around 1430 or so, England inherited Portugal. Castille formed Spain around 1510 and controlled the entire Iberian peninsula save for Portugal, along with Brittany, Normandy, Morocco, parts of Italy, parts of the Ottoman Empire, Maya, and Egypt. However, in the 1560s, it got into a disastrous war with France and Austria, later joined by England and Germany. Spain managed to peace out of the war with relatively few territorial losses (I took Gibraltar, England took some east coast Spanish province as you can see). However, by the end of the war, its war exhaustion was ~25-30 and its army and navy were literally nonexistent. Massive revolts rocked its entirety. I'd be lying if I said my spies played no part in the chaos.

Catalunya, Grenada, Normandy, Morocco, Maya, Mentese, Ferrara, Aquileia, and Brittany all declared independence. A pretender seized the throne, and then another seized the throne from them, before revolutionaries took over and turned the nation into an administrative republic. In 1600, Spain still has not recovered from the war it lost three decades earlier, and it's doubtful whether it ever will.

My colonial ambitions began around 1530, when I got a core on Stade. They were modest at first, colonizing only Bermuda and some unpronounceable island off the east coast of modern-day Maine. However, following the unification of Germany and acquisition of the Colonial Ventures Idea, colonialism positively exploded. Most of the east coast is now mine, as is Cuba, Hispaniola, and Jamaica.

To compliment my land empire, I also am owner of the single largest network of merchants in the world, with monopolies in no less than six trade centers, and a very large presence in almost every other one in the known world. The trade income these merchants provide fund an enormous investment in technology, and I am the world leader in every field, outpacing all other nations by one to two tech levels.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on January 10, 2012, 08:42:54 am
Looks like you've got this game in the bag. I recommend playing Brunei on the same stage and trying to defeat Germany before the end of time.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pwnzerfaust on January 10, 2012, 09:14:04 am
Yeah, we'll see. Honestly what baffles me most is that the colonization game has essentially not even started. In most games I play, colonization starts before 1470, and is in full swing by 1520-1530.

My hypothesis is that England inheriting Portugal, and Spain spending most of its attention on Africa and the Middle East, and France losing the Hundred Years' War, just completely messed up the course of things. Strange in any event.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 10, 2012, 05:56:11 pm
Even when that happens I find that the Dutch and German nations tend to take over colonialism. I once saw Brabant become the leading colonial power.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Flying Dice on January 28, 2012, 12:47:27 pm
Pre-warning: not EUIII  :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

System names are a bit jumbled because I had to zoom a fair bit out to capture the whole map. That said, this is the second largest empire I've put together, and certainly the most stable.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 28, 2012, 02:46:10 pm
Quote from: Flying Dice on January 28, 2012, 12:47:27 pm
Pre-warning: not EUIII  :P

HERESY!

Just kidding, I posted a total war empire at some point.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Teneb on January 29, 2012, 04:55:44 pm
So, EU3:DW (D&T mod). My biggest empire so far

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I am the Roman Empire, the red nation in the middle. I started as Byzantium and managed to swallow up the ottomans when they were attacked by the Mamluks. Meanwhile, castille is getting pwned by Portugal, Aragon and England.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: majikero on January 29, 2012, 05:34:52 pm
If your borders meet with England, how can you tell?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Svarte Troner on January 29, 2012, 09:04:08 pm
Quote from: majikero on January 29, 2012, 05:34:52 pm
If your borders meet with England, how can you tell?

The English will just give up all their territory to avoid the confusion.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 29, 2012, 09:06:09 pm
Quote from: Svarte Troner on January 29, 2012, 09:04:08 pm
Quote from: majikero on January 29, 2012, 05:34:52 pm
If your borders meet with England, how can you tell?

The English will just give up all their territory to avoid the confusion plant their flags on you and say that you belong to them.
Fixed for historical accuracy.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 29, 2012, 09:10:02 pm
Guys, make a decision for me: Do I annex Hungary for 44 infamy and Fun, or do I force them to break all the treaties and revoke all the cores?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 29, 2012, 09:12:21 pm
Annex, of course. It's like you've never been a lunatic imperialist before.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 29, 2012, 09:14:56 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on January 29, 2012, 09:12:21 pm
Annex, of course. It's like you've never been a lunatic imperialist before.

It's 1460, colonialism isn't even a thing yet, let alone imperialism. Also, for Fun, I'm getting ready to provoke a succession war with France. Too bad they have more prov- wait a minute. I see what I'll do here! I'll annex Hungary to get enough provinces to keep France in line, then I'll seize the throne of France! It's insane Foolproof!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 29, 2012, 09:18:28 pm
No, it's insane. But that's alright, I'm pretty sure the greater European monarchy has become somewhat inbred by this point in time, so insanity is completely justifiable.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 29, 2012, 09:25:31 pm
I'm still ruled by a Habsburg; insanity, inbreeding, rampant throne seizing, Slav oppressing, and losing every fucking war but still growing are my specialties.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on January 30, 2012, 12:17:54 am
You need allies.  Non-fake people with whom you can converse and conquer the world.  You then turn on them for extra fun.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on January 30, 2012, 12:22:46 am
Allies, he says. You don't need allies. You need.....world conquest. And there is only room for one glorious nation in that.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on January 30, 2012, 04:31:19 pm
How do  go about winning the 100 Years War as England from 1399? The only tip the wiki gave me was "Start in 1420." Lazy assholes.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: majikero on January 30, 2012, 05:29:35 pm
Take Scotland when France is busy? Abandon your continental holdings? Start the royal navy?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Cicero on January 30, 2012, 05:50:52 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on January 30, 2012, 04:31:19 pm
How do  go about winning the 100 Years War as England from 1399? The only tip the wiki gave me was "Start in 1420." Lazy assholes.

Here's their laziest post. http://www.paradoxian.org/vicky2wiki/Liberia (http://www.paradoxian.org/vicky2wiki/Liberia) The sad thing is it's fairly accurate. I had 60% of my population in the military, a navy of 70 ships and a staff of 16 generals, 8 admirals and I still couldn't get enough military score to civilize. Looking forward to the expansion when civilizing will make sense.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: majikero on January 30, 2012, 09:21:03 pm
AoD/IC 1.02
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Taking over China is a lot harder in Iron Cross. If Communist China didn't join the unified front, it would have been a lot easier. For some reason, the communist have better infantry tech than me. My current plan is to build an air base near them and drop paratroopers in the softer parts of their territory and bomb them to hell. Hopefully, I'll crack their defense. My guys in the communist front are already at max experience and my 2 of my Generals have 5 skill just from fighting the communist.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Svarte Troner on January 30, 2012, 10:27:20 pm
Teach those dirty commies a lesson. I'm about to load up HOI 3 and take the fight to those darn'd Rooskees as good old Finland.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on February 18, 2012, 02:30:08 pm
The Newly Formed Duchy of Bourbon under the Glorius Duke Robert de Limoges in 1165. (Yeah he has a bit of Eastern blood in him)
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Started as the Count of Limousin.

Been a pretty bloody campaign so far, the moment one war ends another begins basically. Was pretty slow for my own puny County for most of the early decades, just collecting money and building something (preferbly something that netted me more money)  First county was able to claim was Le March. My second province was Lleida which I claimed after a brief holywar with the One Province Muslim faction that owned it. (The holy orders helped with that one)

After that lead to a period of civil wars and Muslim invasions where the entire country was just in utter Chaos.  At one point the entire Northwestern part of France was occupied by Muslims. (Even holy orders couldn't help.) Eventually forcing France into defeat a few times (with no territorial loss) Losing those wars with the Muslims did allow the King to reorganize and finally end the Civil war

At this point I started getting Fabricated claims come in, first Bourbon and shortly after Auvergne, both also count under my Duke who didn't really object to my blatant power grabs. With having a Duchy title in my sites but unable to claim it without being under a Duke I declared war, hired some cheap mercs and went to war on my Liege who after losing one Province and his army was quite willing to accept my Independence .(Not really independent but a vassal under the King of France instead) Then all I had to do was colect a few bucks and create the Duchy of Bourbon.

Crappy Quality Picture of the Rest of the World:
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Starting off, France and Navarra are the only remaining Christian nations in Iberia, the Reconquista is pretty much stalled as it is right now, though there is always a war between France and someone in Iberia, however it never gets anywhere.

England is doing pretty good, a good portion of the games I've tried before seem to lead to them getting beat up pretty bad with large parts in Norwegian hands but in this game they seem to be doing well.

What happened to Poland? I have no idea.

Rus seems to be growing, as is Hungary.

What the fuck did Georgia do? It seems to own most of Northern Greece including Byzantium, what the fuck.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on February 18, 2012, 07:08:33 pm
Is this CK2? Looks pretty sick.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on February 19, 2012, 01:02:49 am
Yep, CK2.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PardalTPT on March 12, 2012, 11:08:18 pm
Well, this empire has costed me more hours of my life than I'd like to admit.


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The picture is from 1776, less than half a century away from endgame.

Holy Roman Empire, formed from Austria, historical 1399 start, normal diff. Gold color is because the HRE green is very hard to spot, and I like gold. I'll try to make a summary:

1399 - 1560:  Begun as Austria. Expanded normally; became emperor. In a lucky twist, managed to claim the throne of France. United the HRE; Integrated France; waited for overextension to fade. Minor holy wars; married Spain and England. Claimed Spanish throne, then English throne; integrated, then waited for impossible infamy to fade. As a pastime, started to colonize.

1560 - 1650:  Roaring rampage of Holy Wars; managed to dig all the way to China and Korea. Colonization expands rapidly. Switched to Absolute Monarchy and gained Imperialism CB on everyone; put it to good use. Russia starts blobbing northern Asia.

1650 - 1770:  Turns out, what was meant to be a pastime turned out to be the best investment the Empire has ever made. Colonized over 99% of the Americas, Phillipines, Australia and Africa. Now, having cored roughly entire Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East and most of the colonies, the Empire is, in fact, invincible. Conquest, conquest, conquest. And then some more conquest. Left Russia alone; it was far more worth to take as much land possible in blitzkriegen against small country alliances.

1770 - 1776: Having no worthy opponent left, the Empire takes on Russia. Outnumbered six to one and being about 150 years behind in Land Tech, the Bear stands no match. But it would still take too many wars to chip off the many territories, so I got sick of it and made a Poland new game.

Any opinions are welcome.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Deadmeat1471 on March 14, 2012, 12:07:27 pm
(http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/deadmeat1471/XCOM20120314170056screen.jpg)

My current For The Glory w/ AGCEEP game as England.
Everytime i've conquered France in EU2/FtG the game has always crashed soon after. Autosave this time, I learnt  :P
Despite conquering most of france, other nations are now catching up. Going to use my tax revenue to colonise the worrllddddd.

*Oh and i'm working on diploannexing Scotland and Brittany.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on March 14, 2012, 08:52:27 pm
Quote from: PardalTPT on March 12, 2012, 11:08:18 pm
-snip-

A) Welcome to the forums, the crazxy is at the perfect temperature right now.

B) Nice game; Austria us probably my favourite nation to play. Why didn't you just wait to inherit France England and Spain?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PardalTPT on March 14, 2012, 10:04:36 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on March 14, 2012, 08:52:27 pm
Quote from: PardalTPT on March 12, 2012, 11:08:18 pm
-snip-

A) Welcome to the forums, the crazxy is at the perfect temperature right now.

B) Nice game; Austria us probably my favourite nation to play. Why didn't you just wait to inherit France England and Spain?

Hello and thank you. Answering item (b): because, on another occasion, I played a game as Milan and applied the very same strategy to greater extent. After uniting the Holy Roman Empire, I managed to be crowned King of France, Spain, England, Norway, Sweden and Lithuania.

I also managed not to inherit a single one of them. All the way up to 1821.

Thus, my faith in the inheritance system is somewhat shallow. Or maybe I just have bird stool for luck.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on March 14, 2012, 11:58:41 pm
You must be doing something wrong. With a little micro managing you can inherit one the first monarch death at least 75% of the time, probably more.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on March 15, 2012, 08:02:17 am
Wut. Thats amazing. It took me nearly two centuries and ten-ish leaders to inherit Sweden and form Scandinavia as Denmark, and thats AFTER I force inherited Norway. What kind of insanely OP stuff is Austria sniffing?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: PardalTPT on March 15, 2012, 09:30:03 pm
Quote from: Zrk2 on March 14, 2012, 11:58:41 pm
You must be doing something wrong. With a little micro managing you can inherit one the first monarch death at least 75% of the time, probably more.

PLEASE do explain how. It would make me a very happy man for a couple of hours.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on March 16, 2012, 10:33:34 pm
I just bribe them up to 200 and keep my legitimacy high. As long as you aren't at war when your ruler dies you should get to inherit if you are reasonably larger than the minor partners. I actually find that if used right PUs are an exploit, especially in the HRE.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: majikero on March 17, 2012, 01:14:14 am
I did that as Japan. PU with Korea, Manchu and Ming. Would have done Wu if the game didn't bugged out on me.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Xeron on March 18, 2012, 08:43:20 am
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
This is my Wallachia run.The regions surrounded by red are mine.The regions surrounded with dark blue are my vassals.I had most trouble with Poland and occasional wars with the Ottomans and Russians.I also have millitary alliances with all my vassals.I also am at war with China.
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The regions surrounded by red are my colonies and the regions with dark green are my colonies that are currently occupied by enemy Chinese forces.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Azthor on March 18, 2012, 08:51:45 pm
EU3 Ryuku achievment, anyone? Remember, you don't need to control all territories, the only requirment is that none be controlled by others. And no, it shouldn't be even remotely possible in Magna Mundi.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on March 18, 2012, 09:39:30 pm
What is the requirement for it? The best I've done with Ryukyu is take over the Koreas, stalemate with Manchu for a while, and eventually get a few southeast Asian territories.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: mainiac on March 18, 2012, 11:41:50 pm
Quote from: Barbarossa TSG on March 18, 2012, 09:39:30 pm
What is the requirement for it? The best I've done with Ryukyu is take over the Koreas, stalemate with Manchu for a while, and eventually get a few southeast Asian territories.

You need to control all the territory in this region. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Heron TSG on March 18, 2012, 11:47:58 pm
By Odin's beard! Has it ever been done? I mean, The Audacity of Hope (Iroquois) would be easy by comparison!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on March 19, 2012, 06:04:13 am
I believe Prawnstar actually said that he wouldn't do The Three Mountains in an AAR because it's too easy. Something about force-converting the nation to Sunni Islam and using that to westernize and get a foothold in Southeast Asia, and then go from there.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: majikero on March 19, 2012, 11:02:14 am
It's been done before by several players already. A quick search turns up "The Three Mountains" AAR by poor_newb.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Xeron on March 19, 2012, 12:36:24 pm
Quote from: Xeron on March 18, 2012, 08:43:20 am
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This is my Wallachia run.The regions surrounded by red are mine.The regions surrounded with dark blue are my vassals.I had most trouble with Poland and occasional wars with the Ottomans and Russians.I also have millitary alliances with all my vassals.I also am at war with China.
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The regions surrounded by red are my colonies and the regions with dark green are my colonies that are currently occupied by enemy Chinese forces.
No reply to my post ?:(
I extended the empire btw.Need to take a screenshot
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: loose nut on March 19, 2012, 10:56:38 pm
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I know it's a super easy game and all, but good lord is it still a grind getting a barbarian faction to 50 provinces when you let the Romans go post-Marian. Ace unit roster though, the Germans. Interestingly the Seleucids survived the whole game after being gobbled down to Damascus by Egypt and then made their vassal.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Delta Foxtrot on March 20, 2012, 04:23:30 am
Ah, vanilla RTW, the fun we used to share.

Now do a world conquest as a one province wonderland in a mod that hits the province cap :D
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on May 27, 2012, 11:57:21 pm
House Balog
Kingdom of Hungary & Croatia
End of game, 1453

Spoiler: The Kingdom as it stands under Queen Claudia (click to show/hide)
The Balogs under Harald took the throne of Hungary in 1316 when King Oszkar the Fat died and in a fair and honest election amongst the vassals, They have ruled ever since.


Spoiler: The World as it enters the Renaissance (click to show/hide)

Yeah, very interesting world, let's start at Britannia.

Scotland - They've been doing well for themselves, still under the Dunkelds, could of probably taken all of Ireland and made themselves king of that if they wanted but they decided to invest in trying to conquer Scandinavia, they started with Norway and for a time held the throne but eventually got throne off it so at some point they went and tried to conquer Sweden instead, which they succeeded at.  Pretty good position for trying to form some sort of North Sea Empire I would presume.

England - Is still under the Godwins who have never been ousted from the throne the entire game, but they haven't done anything either. Probably would fall to Scottish power if push came to shove.

Wales - They've done well I think, Establishing a good powerbase in Ireland and even a couple holdings in the Netherlands, I'd almost say they are in a good position to form a trading empire, possibly discover the new world or something.

France - The Capets still control it, of course expanding into Iberia, probably destined for some brutal wars with the HRE or something.

Holy Roman Empire - Well they've been quite invested in Iberia too, as well as North Africa as a whole, they are also Primogeniture which in my opinion was too easy for the to attain, I'd suspect that future warring with France over Iberia would allow upstarts like Venice to step in and weaken them a bit.

Venice - Suprising upstart in Italy, doing quite well for themselves, could probably unite Italy in the right circumstances.

Denmark - At the start it had potential and was ripping through Russia with a vengeance, then the Mongols came... Denmarks gone now, with the Duchy of Slesvig remaining as a bastion of Danish culture.

Ilkhanate - Established themselves a power base in Finland and converted to Catholic, Yeah all of Finland is considered Mongolian now.

Poland - Done well for themselves, established themselves as a Baltic and Black Sea power and even gone so far as making advances in Sicily

Golden Horde - Don't think they've been a real danger to Europe, except utterly destroying Denmark, Oh and they converted to Orthodox and as it stands are the people in any sort of power to be normal Orthodox...yeah

Rus - They formed early and have enjoyed themselves a pretty wild ride, Queen Amalia of the Árpáds back when they were the Rulers of Hungary got a claim on the throne and (in one of the boldest actions by AI I've seen) promptly conquered it, proving that you can indeed fight a land war in Russia, you just have to be Hungarian. It stayed in the Árpáds until Oszkar the Fat's son had it usurped from him by the House Poth in 1317 who held it continuously until the 1432 when a Descendant of Oszkar retook the throne.  Its slowly in decline I think, every nation on its border snapping at its heals

Byzantium Empire - Doing very well for themselves, especially in the art of conquering the Muslims.  They are also Nestorian, an Orthodox Heresy, it gained power at some point and has just stuck, has many possibilities in its hands though I suspect it would most likely go about recreating Megas Alexandros' empire.

Christian Kingdoms of Egypt - What I call the several Kingdoms that have popped up since the Fall of Muslim power thanks to Crusades and Romans.  They are an interesting lot, we have: The Kingdom Of Jerusalem(Nestorian) Kingdom Egypt (Catholic) and the Kingdom of Nubia (Nestorian), Theres also a french holding which controls the City of Jerusalem itself as well as the coastal area.  Interesting region I think, could possibly lead to of interesting wars in the future (If the game could continue)

Muslims and such - Yeah they just got trashed, Turmids are the only ones who had a chance to reclaim any glory in the region and the just failed. Interesting note though, one of the Muslin mercenary companies formed their own little nation down in Ethiopia.

Spoiler: Religions of Europe and such (click to show/hide)
Not much to say beyond I think the Catholics won, Islam has been bushed to the far corners of the map and the only ones who call themselves pure Orthodox is the Golden Horde.


Spoiler: End of the Game scoresheet (click to show/hide)

Well we did okay I think, started as a count (of course, I ain't gonna start from a well established Dynasty, are you crazy?!?!) and made my way to Duke pretty quickly, (in-spite of losing my first count in the first eight fucking years)

Could of probably carved out a larger empire I suppose but that's not how I play and I like the way things turned out. It leaves a lot of things to ponder how they would turn out in the following era instead of "LOL HERP A DERP WORLD CONQUER".

This is my first Crusader Kings campaign to ever reach the end date, including Crusader Kings 1 campaigns which is pretty awesome. 

I had a lot of fun and will definitely be starting a new Campaign soon and I definitely suggest anybody who doesn't have CK2 to get it as soon as they can. (at the time of this post its on sale on Amazon with a bunch of other Paradox games for $12.50 USD which is a really good deal)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on May 28, 2012, 12:00:28 am
One of the things I was worried about in Crusader Kings II is that it would be oriented such to stamp out interesting heretic religions easily. Glad to see it didn't happen like that in your game. Now, if only we could get a Carthar Papacy...
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Jacob/Lee on May 28, 2012, 12:28:15 am
I'll give you a picture of my empire once we get something worth bragging about :P

I'm playing M&B:WB as my own faction around day 950 I think. "The Confederation of Cheese" is only about 20-30 days old and is made up of 4 castles and Khudan, our capital. I intentionally took a castle then asked for it just to have it denied to me so I could break off without giving up my 140 top-tier soldiers split between my 2 garrisons. Right when I founded my empire 3 emirs just threw themselves at me so I took them in. I later convinced 2 jarls to join me which is how I got most of my castles. We're at war with the Swadians for some reason and the Nords, namely because I was a Nord vassal and I broke off from the motherland. I'll give you a sitrep on the factions:

Vaegirs: Gone. They were exterminated by the Nords, I led the war for the most part. The Nords own Reyvadin, I own Khudan and the Sarranid Sultanate owns Rivacheg and Curaw. I think they got those 2 (plus a random castle) when jarls defected to the Sarranids.

Swadia: Mostly gone. All they own is Tevarin Castle. I also led the charge. The Nords own all of their former land save Tevarin Castle and Dhirim. Once I gain some ground (mostly so my villagers don't need to walk 1/4 of the way across the world through nothing but hostile territory) I'm going to strike ~deep and hard~ straight through Nord territory just to take the boot to these assholes. I wonder how having 10 counts and 2 fiefs goes down among them.

Nords: The largest faction along with the Sarranids. They own what used to be Swadia, save Dhirim and Uxkhal, plus what used to be the Vaegir lands except Rivacheg, Curaw, Khudan and one castle. They lost one of the castles in their own turf because of a traitor but that's it. They also own a couple other castles in Khergit turf. I'm honestly surprised they still have this many vassals considering King Ragnar has 10 fiefs. Jarl Turya used to own a good chunk of the Nordic empire too, something like 6 castles, Reyvadin and a few villages, but he randomly decides to defect to the Sarranids not even a week after I ask him to join me. Bastard. Most of my long-time friends here have defected, but some are left.

Rhodoks: Nothing special, really. They own their original territory and do nothing but go to war with the Nords, Sarranids and Khergits, not losing nor gaining ground. I have newfound respect for them since they declared war on the Nords a week after I founded my kingdom and as such have been drawing most of the fire for me.

Khergit Khanate: Still nothing special. They've given the Sarranid Sultanate a hard time but usually end up achieving nothing during their wars. My father-in-law and several of my close Nord friends have defected here and I hope to see it burn. Oh, and they own Shariz, aka the capital of the Sarranid Sultanate.

Sarranid Sultanate: This is where it gets fun. Aside from 50% of all traitors fleeing here, this place is a hotbed of internal conflict and owns a good chunk of the world along with the Nords. They own all their original territories along with Uxkhal, Dhirim, Curaw, Rivacheg and Wercheg. They own a bunch of castles in Nord and Khergit territory, too. They have a huge overpopulation of vassals in the north apparently and I've seen 15 goddamn emirs based in Curaw, all with no more than 40 men each. They scare me a lot.

The Confederation of Cheese: Of course, my empire. Led by "High Churner Jacob" we're on a warpath to bring the world to its knees. I'm kickstarting this plan with syndicating other lords and making them defect to me, bringing their fiefs with them. We only wage open war when someone declares war on us, which will be a lot considering the Swadians went to war 2 weeks after we formed.

Anyone have any ideas how I should take a picture of all of Calradia at once? :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: JamesCorella on May 28, 2012, 02:09:40 am
"High Churner Jacob" lmao xD
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Jacob/Lee on June 01, 2012, 12:11:45 am
I told the damned shipwright in Sargoth that the boards of his galleys weren't sealed correctly, but he didn't listen to me. Joke's on him when he set sail then drowned when his ship sunk. I swear I heard one of the recent immigrants say they were the last to come since people have heard about how much of a deathtrap Calradia is, so with the last person who knows how to build ships gone and no new ones coming... We're stuck in this hellhole for eternity. Might as well make the best of it!

Welp, I got diplomacy mod and the world just fell apart. Since I was 1000 days in, lords practically starting diving into the sea to escape Calradia and probably 80% of the lords are gone now. The political scene has shifted, too.

First, the Nords are breaking down. They have 3 vassals I believe, not nearly enough to defend all their land, which is why it's gone now. To make it better, 2 of them are my prisoners.

Second, the Swadians are rebuilding. They took almost all turf from the Praven/Suno river to Tihr. They also have a massive amount of vassals compared to everyone else... (http://i.imgur.com/9Cs2V.jpg) Fuck me.

Third, my faction is growing as well. Save the Sarranid-owned fiefs in the former Vaegir lands we own all properties.

Fourth, the Rhodoks are no longer dormant. They beast has awoken and now they're striking out of their mountainous deathtrap.

Anyway,
Spoiler: Rhodok lands (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: the Confederation of Cheese's lands (click to show/hide)
Spoiler: Swadian lands (click to show/hide)
Also note the lack of Nord lands.

First the world had to face the Nord tide. With the world crumbling, Swadia's war machine picking up steam and the last factions stabbing each other for their hardly defended fiefs, who will come out on top?


STATUS UPDATE: The Rhodoks have gone to war with us. Then, about a week and a half and a failed siege of Dhirim later, Count Bulba defects and joins us. He took half the Rhodok's lands with him.
Spoiler: more land (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Cheese on June 03, 2012, 06:15:17 am
Quote from: Rilder on May 27, 2012, 11:57:21 pm
House Balog
Kingdom of Hungary & Croatia
End of game, 1453

Spoiler: The Kingdom as it stands under Queen Claudia (click to show/hide)
The Balogs under Harald took the throne of Hungary in 1316 when King Oszkar the Fat died and in a fair and honest election amongst the vassals, They have ruled ever since.


Spoiler: The World as it enters the Renaissance (click to show/hide)

Britain - Is still under the Godwins who have never been ousted from the throne the entire game, but they haven't done anything either. Probably would fall to Scottish power if push came to shove.


England formed Britain?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rilder on June 03, 2012, 01:01:22 pm
Quote from: Cheese on June 03, 2012, 06:15:17 am
England formed Britain?

Britain, Britannia, Whatever, changed to England :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 21, 2012, 11:35:34 am
Ok, I'm playing Darkest Hour (standalone expansion of Hearts of Iron 2) with the Fallout Mod.  I've taken the Reavers and conquered enough land to be considered a regional power.  In this mod, there are three "official" alliances, the Dictatorship of Man, headed by the Enclave; the Jihad, lead by New Arryho and eventually the alliance of the "Chosen One"; and the American Unity, currently lead by the Former USA.  Two of the alliance heads, the Enclave and the Former USA like me enough so that I might be able to join their alliance.  Currently nobody likes me enough to create an alliance.  Among unofficial alliances, the Junkers like me enough to allow me into their alliance with Caesar's Legions.

The Junkers/Caesar's Legion alliance is at war with the Former USA, and the Dark Cathedral is also at war with the Former USA.  The Former USA has good technology and some pre-war units, but they're surrounded.  They also have a battleship!

The Enclave is at war with Shi and New Arryho.  Both Shi and New Arryho don't border me, so I would likely be a spectator to the war if I joined the Enclave's alliance.  However, I would not be able to leave the alliance until the Enclave's wars are over, and it is unlikely that the Enclave would be able to conquer Shi in the near future.  There is also the concern of the returning Chosen One to consider...

Map:
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Stats:
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Victory point totals roughly translate into industrial capacity.  So at fifth place, I can expect to be quite industrious in the future.

I'm currently debating whether or not to join one of the mentioned friendly alliances, primarily for the blueprints.  In true Reaver spirit, I'd like to join these alliances because I'm hoping they'll share their technology.

I'm sort of tempted to join all the alliances in an attempt to maximize the number of techs.

Thoughts from fellow forumites would be appreciated.  Note that Caesar's Legion borders us, so allying with the Former USA would mean immediate war with Caesar's Legion.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on June 21, 2012, 03:12:36 pm
The Manitou got eaten by the Spiders? That's new.

At any case, I say hit Caeser's Legion quick, whether with or without the FUS. Caeser is a bitch in FODD, because as a slaver guild, with additional MP it quickly overruns the FUS, because the latter doesn't know how to use its air superiority properly. If it gets a proper industrial base, you can expect it to be steamrolling shit like mad very soon. (Depends on AI aggressiveness, but I'd assume you've set it to aggressive or higher, as the game stagnates otherwise until the Last battle.)

You need to hit Caeser quick, and fast; I'd suggest simply backstabbing Caesar and roll over the FUS and the Dark Cathredal like a domino.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on June 21, 2012, 03:22:27 pm
I wish there were more LP's of HoI: Fallout. But man, spiders. Why did there have to be a faction of giant spiders?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 21, 2012, 03:51:41 pm
Quote from: Hyo on June 21, 2012, 03:12:36 pm
The Manitou got eaten by the Spiders? That's new.

They always seem to fall to the Spiders whenever I play, although that isn't that many times.  I did play as spiders once, and found it was quite easy to overwhelm the Manitou.

I'm on the default AI aggressiveness.  Some factions are at war, as you can see.  However, I've never been attacked in this or any other game of this mod I've played, and I was wondering about that.

Thanks for the advice.  Since Caesar is currently fighting FUSA, I'll probably attack them soon.  I was originally going to bulk up my forces a bit, but without any generals my faction is limited to stacks of 16.  I'd like my Colonel to level up before promoting him to General.

On the bright side, my elimination of the FUSA will allow the NCR to take over the American Unity faction, which should make that alliance much stronger.

I like the idea of my own alliance, so maybe I'll make the other factions into puppets or something, after I ensure they're left with no valuable lands.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 22, 2012, 01:22:52 pm
Ok, playing ahead, I learned something very important: Both the FUSA and the NCR are going to die with near certainty.  With both of those factions dead and no action from me, the American Unity will perish.  So, the question is: should I join the American Unity, knowing these factions will die, so that the dream of American Unity can continue?

As an American myself, I'm very tempted to do so.  Besides, free alliance is cool, and I won't gain the belligerance from attacking Caesar's Legions, but will rather be seen as a loyal member of the international community going to the aid of my brother-in-arms.  Unfortunately, my save is after declaring war on Caesar.  Oh well.

But honestly, does it make sense that the Reavers would join the American Unity?  They could care less about the old government, only caring about the old technology.

But since I like this idea so much, I'll just roleplay that the Reaver's assistance is bought with new technology from the FUSA.  After all, the FUSA does have both naval and air technologies, which the Reavers haven't even touched.

EDIT: Ok, I joined the American Unity.  Unfortunately, the FUSA was stingy and never gave us any of those juicy pre-war techs they had, so I let them die.

But look who's leading the American Unity now!

(http://i49.tinypic.com/s2thxl.gif)

But this begs the question: Why would the Reavers be leading the American Unity?  How would a cult of raiders obsessed with technology become interested in restoring the old United States?

Anyone that can satisfactorily answer that will recieve some sort of (nominal) reward.  Anyone that tries to answer this question will get a unit named after them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: somebody on June 22, 2012, 08:19:19 pm
Maybe they realized that if they restore the USA and bring it back to it's former glory they could manufacture all the technology they currently have to scavenge for.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 22, 2012, 08:33:54 pm
An interesting theory, but as you can see in the below picture, the Reavers are quite content to salvage the wastelands:

(http://img860.imageshack.us/img860/809/screenhunter04jun222129.gif)

Salvage seems to fit more into the religious theme they have toward technology.  Only the worthy, such as the Reavers, acquire advanced tesla armor.

As promised, here is your unit:

(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/9177/screenhunter05jun222131.gif)

I'll try not to get you crucified fighing Caesar (red provinces).   :P
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 08:44:28 pm
Given what I've learned about the Reavers from the Fallout wiki, I'd say their best motivation for joining American Unity is to get one step closer to obtaining the Pre-War technology they so desire. The Pre-War World would be a lot like Eden for them, with all that advanced technology commonplace and getting more so. American Unity's members are some of the last threads of the old world, so they have to follow up on that.

One can only hope they never learn of Big MT.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on June 22, 2012, 09:08:24 pm
Looking at the odds against you right now... Good luck~
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 22, 2012, 09:18:43 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 08:44:28 pm
One can only hope they never learn of Big MT.

I actually wish that Big MT was included in this mod, although it would go against the whole "Big MT not interferring with the outside world" thing.

Quote from: Hyo on June 22, 2012, 09:08:24 pm
Looking at the odds against you right now... Good luck~

You obviously know a lot more about my impending doom than I.  I've never played far enough to trigger the Last Battle.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 09:22:16 pm
Quote from: EuchreJack on June 22, 2012, 09:18:43 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 08:44:28 pm
One can only hope they never learn of Big MT.
I actually wish that Big MT was included in this mod, although it would go against the whole "Big MT not interferring with the outside world" thing.
I'm pretty sure Big MT is still an actual mountain at this point in the timeline, so it not being included makes sense. The Think Tank imply that they blew it up not too long before Elijah, Ulysses, and the Courier arrived. 
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 22, 2012, 11:11:59 pm
Going to sleep soon, here is the state of my American Reaver Empire.

(http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/6743/screenhunter06jun230012.gif)

(http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/652/screenhunter07jun230013.gif)

Note that Shi has taken over Navarro base from the Enclave, so they are significantly less powerful.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 11:13:56 pm
Question: What exactly is X Marks The Spot Beta? I never did find that out.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Svarte Troner on June 23, 2012, 12:21:18 am
Behold, the New Mongolian Khanate! Ruled under an iron fist by the coolest guy on this side of the Urals, Roman Baron Von Ungern-Sternberg!

(http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/15832_0_4725.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/6tgxv.png)

Made with Darkest Hour: Kaiserreich mod
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on June 23, 2012, 08:21:39 am
Ah, Ungern-Sternberg. My favorite mad Estonian-Russian genocidal mystic neo-mongol warlord.

I've always loved Kaiserreich, it's such a cool scenario.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on June 23, 2012, 09:39:39 am
Agreed, Ungern-Sternberg is awesome.

Speaking of which, who's the bloody idiot that triggered the Zombie acopalypse? Tsk, tsk. (Although they're not really much of an acopalypse though. Should really be buffed.)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 23, 2012, 02:33:26 pm
That would have been Caesar's Legion fleeing my Reaver hordes.  I'm actually quite happy about it: The Zombies went to war with the Caesar/Junker alliance, and kept giving me military access through their territory.  My conquest of Caesar was shortened by several months due to this.

I'm hoping to somehow get them to join my alliance.

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 11:13:56 pm
Question: What exactly is X Marks The Spot Beta? I never did find that out.

I don't know, sorry.

EDIT: The Chosen One appeared, and I "peaked in" on the Chosen One's army and tech.  The army is 40 divisions or so, and technology is far in advance of my own.  Improved regulars, heavy irregulars, advanced attack helicopters, etc.  I'm pretty scared.

However, I do have two advantages over the Chosen One: more industry and more tech teams.  Which means time is on my side, for now.  That could change when the Jihad starts in earnest.

I should also point out that Reaver commanders sort of suck.  Granted, they are perhaps better than some other minor factions, especially the "town" factions, but they're definitely outclassed by the Chosen One's commanders.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 23, 2012, 09:52:35 pm
Ok, the Chosen One triggered the Final War, and people are chosing sides.

(http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/3707/screenhunter01jun232247.gif)

(http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/474/screenhunter02jun232247.gif)

(http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/9261/screenhunter03jun232247.gif)

(http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/9578/screenhunter04jun232247.gif)

I now noticably less concerned about the Chosen One.  Although not all of the factions have chosen sides, currently God Machine is the only unaligned party that would matter.  As an extra bonus, note that none of my allies brought me into war with the Chosen One.  For some reason, being the head of the American Unity didn't draw me into any extra wars: I'm only at war with the Enclave because Shi was at war with them prior to deciding to join us.

Unfortunately, making the Zombie Horde into my puppets crashes the game, so I'll have to wait for RCC to annex them.  Oh well.  My Midwest Brotherhood of Steel-Robot Nation-RCC-Shi-Reaver alliance will keep me happy!
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Hyo on June 24, 2012, 08:02:03 am
Yeah, there's an automatic event to have FUSA / NCR DoW the Chosen One, but apparently they forgot that someone else could take over. :P.

DoW on them yourself and let the war begin!

(Speaking of which, the Chosen One should also seriously be buffed if the human's not part of the Jihad.)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Johnfalcon99977 on June 24, 2012, 08:12:19 am
I'm sorry to break your groove Euchre, but this isn't a LP thread.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on June 24, 2012, 09:54:58 am
Quote from: Johnfalcon99977 on June 24, 2012, 08:12:19 am
I'm sorry to break your groove Euchre, but this isn't a LP thread.

Good point.  Although, I'm afraid if I label this an LP, then I'll suddenly lose all interest in this game and reporting upon it.  :P

Still, I'll start a dedicated thread if I'm interested in sharing more exploits of the Reaver American Unity Empire.

Quote from: Hyo on June 24, 2012, 08:02:03 am
Yeah, there's an automatic event to have FUSA / NCR DoW the Chosen One, but apparently they forgot that someone else could take over. :P.

DoW on them yourself and let the war begin!

(Speaking of which, the Chosen One should also seriously be buffed if the human's not part of the Jihad.)

Uh, no thank you.  I'll wait until Enclave is completely and utterly destroyed before messing with the Chosen One.

I should get something for managing to take over American Unity, right?  ;D

Also, will Reservation or God Machine ever get into the Final War?  They seem contently neutral for now.

As a final update, Kurtz tends to die and be reborn a lot.  I assume it is because Kurtz's starting province keeps changing hands, and the opposing factions repeatedly annex and liberate Kurtz.  Another fatality of the war, I guess.

New topic here (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=112067.0).  I'm hoping that at least some people follow me in the move, I haven't had much luck in attracting attention to my LPs in the past.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Svarte Troner on June 28, 2012, 09:58:33 pm
Spoiler: Holyfuckwalloftext (click to show/hide)

(http://i.imgur.com/pgIr5.png)
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Boksi on July 06, 2012, 03:21:30 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
That was easy. I wonder what I should do next. Maybe paint the Americas blue. Or take over Russia and colonize Siberia.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on July 06, 2012, 03:26:47 pm
Personal Union and Vassalize everyone. Convert to Protestantism and take Roma. Remain a decentralized feudal monarchy that practices serfdom until the 1800s. World Conquest.

There are plenty of things.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on July 06, 2012, 05:32:17 pm
Unless I'm missing something, Europe isn't yours yet.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rakonas on July 20, 2012, 10:13:33 am
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 09:22:16 pm
Quote from: EuchreJack on June 22, 2012, 09:18:43 pm
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 08:44:28 pm
One can only hope they never learn of Big MT.
I actually wish that Big MT was included in this mod, although it would go against the whole "Big MT not interferring with the outside world" thing.
I'm pretty sure Big MT is still an actual mountain at this point in the timeline, so it not being included makes sense. The Think Tank imply that they blew it up not too long before Elijah, Ulysses, and the Courier arrived.
The timeline is all screwy, though. Caesar's Legion is supposed to have been routed at Hoover's Dam and is suddenly in virginia, but Caesar wasn't even born at this point or something. Personally I wish they would make a new scenario set after the events of New Vegas, with House/Yes Man in charge of Vegas.
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on June 22, 2012, 11:13:56 pm
Question: What exactly is X Marks The Spot Beta? I never did find that out.
It's one of the nations that are supposed to appear at some point in the game, like the god machine. Sometimes they never fire but you can manually fire the events if you look for them.

Anyway, here's my doing.
Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Now for the rest of the world to become a part of the glorious cyborg collective. Also, Space.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on July 20, 2012, 10:30:35 am
Well, you got me beat.  I more or less stopped when my position became dominant.  But I'll probably go back in to kill the Spiders.  I've been busy.

Congratulations!

One thing about the Fallout Mod: Every nation starts out so small that it is relatively easy for most nations to gain dominance through rapid expansion.  There is no USA or USSR to really ruin everyone's day.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on July 20, 2012, 10:32:29 am
Quote from: EuchreJack on July 20, 2012, 10:30:35 am
I've been busy.
Arachnid sympathizer.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Rakonas on July 20, 2012, 10:40:27 am
Spiders were hard, but personally I found the Enclave with 60k stacks somehow staying supplied despite being reduced to a single island to be the ultimate challenge. Battles lasted months, and it took years of constant bombing to finally eradicate them. From what your current 'won' state looks like in the other thread, you'll still have a hell of a hard time taking down the jihad among other things. Also, you're dependent on your alliance. It may be called American Unity, but that doesn't look like a bunch of nations capable of co-existing to me.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: EuchreJack on July 20, 2012, 10:47:51 am
Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on July 20, 2012, 10:32:29 am
Quote from: EuchreJack on July 20, 2012, 10:30:35 am
I've been busy.
Arachnid sympathizer.

Whatever do you mean?  :P

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quote from: Rakonas on July 20, 2012, 10:40:27 am
Spiders were hard, but personally I found the Enclave with 60k stacks somehow staying supplied despite being reduced to a single island to be the ultimate challenge. Battles lasted months, and it took years of constant bombing to finally eradicate them. From what your current 'won' state looks like in the other thread, you'll still have a hell of a hard time taking down the jihad among other things. Also, you're dependent on your alliance. It may be called American Unity, but that doesn't look like a bunch of nations capable of co-existing to me.

They co-exist because they can't break the alliance until our state-of-war ends, and I can hardly be bothered to erradicate the Enclave for a few tiny insignficant islands that hardly count as being part of North America anyways.  Thus the war goes on, and thus my "pals" are forced to co-exist.  That is how I invision the end-game, at least until we figure out how to nuke the Enclave's bases.

Thanks for the goating though, as it means I need to continue.  But forwarning that it will be about a week before I touch this game again due to commitments.

Oh, and don't worry about the Spiders, MetalSlimeHunt.  I need Florida for naval expansion, and I'm hoping the Spiders absorbed Manatau's naval tech teams.  So, I've got plenty of reasons to erradicate them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pakhawaj on September 18, 2012, 04:42:43 am
I posted a relatively large (relative the rest of the posts in this thread anyway) history of my nation, then my computer crashed! Never mind. :(
Here's my Ashanti Empire using the Black Death scenario in MiscMods:
(http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx173/Pakhawaj/EU3_MAP_ASH_177446_1.png)
I cleaned up some areas, each country is named in their alphabet first and in the Latin alphabet second.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: a1s on September 18, 2012, 03:25:58 pm
Can we get a bigger version of that picture? I can't read any of the names. (or at least have the Latinized name be first?)
Also, is Europe Muslim now? How'd that happen?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: MetalSlimeHunt on September 18, 2012, 04:06:01 pm
In the Black Death scenario it follows an alternate history where the Black Death was way worse than in reality and killed almost everyone in Europe, allowing Muslim states to colonize the area after the disease subsided.

When the game starts almost all of Europe is Terra Nullius. There are about three OPM Christian states left in the world.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Pakhawaj on September 18, 2012, 09:33:28 pm
Quote from: a1s on September 18, 2012, 03:25:58 pm
Can we get a bigger version of that picture? I can't read any of the names. (or at least have the Latinized name be first?)
Also, is Europe Muslim now? How'd that happen?

(http://i753.photobucket.com/albums/xx173/Pakhawaj/EU3_MAP_ASH_1774.4.6_1_zps31244065.png)

Sure. The original image was much larger, my image host must downscale large files or something.

In the Black Death scenario there are only around three or four Christian states in Europe, though this increased over time due to other states converting. It's only within the last century or so that Christianity's been on a massive decline, the only significant Christian states left are Rumi and Novgorod. The only Catholic state left on Earth is a Japanese country on Kyushu who must have been converted by Aragon at some point I guess.
Faransi (France) is a Zoroastrian state and used to be a massive power until they got invaded simultaneously by Magyaristan (Hungary) and Al-Alemand (Germany) who are both massive pains in the arses.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on September 21, 2012, 07:10:35 pm
Jihad?
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on September 21, 2012, 09:44:46 pm
I think I've fucked up. Regard:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Castille leads a PU with Austria AND England (WHY?) and when I got into what looked like a nice little chance to take Milan down a notch has turned into a world war. It all started when Milan went to war with France (gotta love the Imperialism CB), why? Because fuck France that's why. So they obviously don't feel like doing the heavy lifting themselves they invite Castille in to join in the fun. But France calls on me to dig them out, so I come in seeing Milan as the alliance leader and thinking I'll finally have an excuse to take them down several pegs.

Then Castille became the Alliance Leader and I saved and quit so I could plan this shit out first.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Megaman on September 22, 2012, 12:59:40 am
Fuckin' Spaniards.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Digital Hellhound on September 22, 2012, 07:40:24 am
Ooh, that looks like a fun world war. I'd probably just savescum because I am a coward, but I hope you go through with this and show those Castilians (why aren't they Spain?) who's boss. Even if it turns out to be them.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Megaman on September 22, 2012, 02:02:28 pm
World Wars like that usually take me several sittings to win, not because It's hard for me to do but because I get really bored after a bit. It's like a chore after a while.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Zrk2 on September 22, 2012, 04:11:14 pm
I tried and Milan actually ended up the war leader so I was able to extort 1000 ducats out of them.

Then I cleaned my pants out.

Now I'm planning my own war with Castille. I'm anticipating raising about 100k extra troops for it.
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Stworca on October 10, 2012, 04:13:26 am
I've just started playing DW a few days ago as Tachibana (A Jap Daimyo) and thanks to 2 PU's (Tai and Fuj) that i've inherited upon my ruler dying in battle, i've unified Japan in 1416, without ever becoming the Shogun.
Spoiler: Big image (click to show/hide)

Thanks to the holy war national idea I've managed to secure all countries from 2 to 7 as Vassals, and Korea (1) has a PU with me.
"X" Marks Tibet, potential ally of great value against Ming. I will also try to lure Manchu into that upcoming war, and with my own provinces safe (91 non-cog ships) and "decent" administration, i plan on winning it with war exhaustion and revolts. No way can i compete with those damn 60k large stacks of Mings in any other way. Hmm.

Money-wise it's decent, i'll switch the holy war to national bank, which will go well with my rank 6 minter for a -0,22 inflation
Title: Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
Post by: Flying Dice on November 07, 2012, 08:52:24 pm
My current Sweden campaign as of April 1364. D&T, Always War.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So yeah. England managed to snatch Orkney away from me at some point, and I don't really mind because it means I won't be constantly having to avoid their navy. France has been shifted northward by some minors and Brittany but is still blobbing a fair bit. Castille ate Portugal, so I have one less concern if I manage to go colonial. The Golden Horde, Muscovy, Lithuania, and Novgorod are all running on shoestrings. I'm currently in the process of dismantling Lithuania in tandem with the Teutonic Knights, each of us carefully ignoring the other. The point I'm at right now in Germany is sort of an equilibrium; I need to restore my forces and I've still got a few minors as cushion, so the only real threat there is Poland, and they've only got about one decent stack.

Meanwhile Central Asia is a mess. Maybe it'll have solidified power blocs a century or so down the road.

On the plus side, Morocco is turning into a bit of a power, so Castille may not have an easy go of it in North Africa.