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[loose nut]

I never, ever had trouble with France, they always become a few province minor for me, except when I played as one.

I think from reading about it, this may be because of the version of EU? That in some versions France gets devoured by Burgundy consistently? I am playing In Nomine and am reluctant to spring for any more expansions (which are not very cheap on the Mac) until/unless the game really sinks its teeth in.

[majikero]

Alliance system is funny.

Played Fujiwara. Declared war on Taria, who's Allied to Tachibana and garanteed by Minamoto. I was allied to Tachibana so I used call-to-arms. The end result:
Me vs. Taria, Tachibana, Minamoto
Tachibana vs. Minamoto

So I beat Taria and vassal them. Minamoto is the alliance leader so the warscore list them as me against the two of them who is fighting.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Hey guise, I'm not an expert on this game, but couldn't you just unify the HRE instead? Just saiyan.

If you unify Germany, you get +1 base tax on the entire German region.

[Zrk2]

The best way to do it would be form Germany, conquer all of the HRE. Become emperor.

Or just be Austria, and spread glorious Habsburg PUS all over Germany, but vassalize electors. That way, you're the perma-emperor, and you get insta-cores all over the place! *Runs off to start over again with Austria.*

[Chattox]

So.. what exactly is the goal of this game? And what is a good nation/objective to start with when you have no idea what you're doing?

[Domenique]

I never, ever had trouble with France, they always become a few province minor for me, except when I played as one.

I think from reading about it, this may be because of the version of EU? That in some versions France gets devoured by Burgundy consistently? I am playing In Nomine and am reluctant to spring for any more expansions (which are not very cheap on the Mac) until/unless the game really sinks its teeth in.

Divine Wind, my friend.

So.. what exactly is the goal of this game? And what is a good nation/objective to start with when you have no idea what you're doing?

There's no goal. Just expand and develop your country, the watch your country being the big blob occupying half a continent and get euphoria for that sole reason. Like Civilization.

[Chattox]

There's no goal. Just expand and develop your country, the watch your country being the big blob occupying half a continent and get euphoria for that sole reason. Like Civilization.

Ahh! That makes a lot more sense. I think one of the main reasons I couldn't understand it was because I couldn't figure out how to win So what is a good nation for a complete beginner?

[Micro102]

France, portugal, britian. And just read some strategy guides before you play them, as they need to be played in different ways.

[snelg]

So.. what exactly is the goal of this game? And what is a good nation/objective to start with when you have no idea what you're doing?

The achievements (if you're playing divine wind) could get you going or give you some possible ideas for goals if you want something other than "become really large and beat everyone else down in the process". They worked well for me at least although some of them are really badly designed.

But really, you can set any goals you can think of for yourself. Become leading trader or have the highest technology, unite the holy roman empire or just try to survive. There's a lot of things you could do. 

[Tarran]

Ahh! That makes a lot more sense. I think one of the main reasons I couldn't understand it was because I couldn't figure out how to win So what is a good nation for a complete beginner?

The Knights, Byzantium, Georgia.

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That was sarcastic. They are some of the worst nations around to be truthful. The Knights have basically no income and their position is crap. Byzantium has the Ottomans busy trying to murder them, and we all know how that went in real life. Georgia is smack dab right in the middle of THREE HORDES. Two of them are very strong.

The easy ones would be:

France, portugal, britian. And just read some strategy guides before you play them, as they need to be played in different ways.

And Castle.

The ones I consider Easy-Medium (mostly based on read AARs, starting positions and how the AI preforms, but some of them are from experience) are Bavaria, Naples, Austria, Bohemia, Burgundy, Ming (China), and Milan.



But to be perfectly honest, do you REALLY want easy? It's no fun when it's easy.

Start with some random one-three province minor. So much more entertaining to make the small big, knowing what you started from. Conquering the world with France is far too easy.

[Cheese]

I've started my first Magna Mundi game as Portugal, though I'm not sure if I should have played vanilla a bit more. It's definitely more challenging, Portugal is easy enough since you can just buddy up with Castille and they'll leave you alone while they push Aragon around for trying to take Navarre, but the colony maintenance from having 2 colonies at the start makes income a bit of a problem. Fortunately, one of them is a few years or so off become a normal province and the other is similarly close, it just has more problems with the natives.

[mainiac]

Byzantium isn't all that hard to attain major power status with.  The Ottos don't have the cores to declare war right away anymore.  There are tons of delicious minors around who you can nom-nom with reconquest wars.  Yes, a stroke of bad luck can wipe you out at the start, but if you survive the start, you have tons of cores and tons of religious enemies to conquer.  I'm not saying that it's easy to recreate Justinians empire by 1452 (although it's very possible to do that.)  But it's only medium difficulty to be strong enough to protect yourself from the Ottomans.  Just remember to conquer unprotected minors and use spies to foster patriotic rebels in vassal nations with the wrong culture.  Once your strength is built up you can curb stomp the Ottomans, especially if you use the strait to your advantage.

Once you have all of Greece and Anatolia as cored, same religion and same culture, you are about as powerful as a unified France.  And you still have religious wars and missions to conquer valuable territories in Venice, Jerusalem and Alexandria.  Then the reformation comes along and screws up everyone in Europe who isn't you.

All in all, not easy for a beginner, but not all that much of a challenge to play if you are experienced.

[Mormota]

How do you Call-to-Arms?

[Tarran]

Be the war leader, click on the country, it should be the second option. Remember that Call To Arms later in a war is DW only.

[Rex_Nex]

How do you survive as the Mutapa? They get wiped off the map within a year or two, no matter what I try. Am I forced to sue for peace?