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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2565 on: January 28, 2016, 02:30:18 pm »

Victoria 2 does that.
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« Reply #2566 on: January 28, 2016, 04:29:24 pm »

I think the MEIOU and taxes mod is currently developing a system to change from development to population.
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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2567 on: January 29, 2016, 05:52:21 am »

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« Reply #2568 on: January 29, 2016, 06:19:05 am »

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« Reply #2569 on: January 29, 2016, 10:15:42 am »

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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2570 on: January 30, 2016, 01:20:30 pm »

Around the early 1500 Smolensk was beginning to exercise independence from the Mongols, namely by attacking them. Tsar Mstislav figured there was no way the Mongols could kill all the Russians, but with Mamlukian help they were more than capable. One silver lining was that although this war ended inconclusively, it did demonstrate the Smolenskian immune system of over 100k Russian patriots who swarmed over and beyond territorial boundaries to recapture any Russian lands taken by the enemy. The Mamluke's intervention in Russia and their constant desire to send spies and saboteurs to Moskvau pissed off four generations of Tsar Mstislavs to the point where the Smolenskians made it their mission to capture Jerusalem. 85 years of war with the Mamlukes.
The biggest issue was that resupplying my armies over the Georgian mountains was too slow, so I could send hundreds of thousands south to capture some land, the Mamlukes could keep attacking until my armies had to withdraw and resupply and then just recapture everything. Fortunately I still made some headway into Anatolia in those 85 years, returning Byzantine lands to Byzantium and expanding the reach of my vassal Georgia to provide a comfortable buffer for the Mamlukes to cry over whilst I gradually destroyed their Mongol ally in the North. Towards the end of the 85 years war the Smolenskians had reached such a critical mass of cannons and Russians that the Mongol hordes were not only overthrown, but they were usurped.
Kazakhs were the next to go. The success of the war was compounded by the Russian patriot blob. Any land the Kazakhs took from me were very quickly swarmed by the patriots, it was quite horrifying really. When I tried moving my capital to Siberia I found they counted as rebels and so did not let me, so I accepted their demand to turn Smolensk over to Smolensk...
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They all joined my army O_O

I felt such happiness, the war for Jerusalem was to end quite decisively. All I needed was to outfit my patriots with some artillery and that'd be that. And then the war for the Protestant League started. 500,000 men on one side, 400,000 on the other. Russia, France, Bohemia, Hungary, Bulgaria, all the Protestant Princes and Sicilian-England versus the three Catholic princes, the Papacy, the Teutonic Knights, Poland, Scandinavia, Austria, Spain, Portugal, Byzantium, Holland and Switzerland. The French and Iberian forces were locked in a stalemate whilst in the East the Austro-German-Greek troops just tore through everything the Balkan forces had. I realized grudgingly that the Russians were not even close to being their match so just engaged in hit and run combat, knowing the German forces could scarcely afford their casualties and the Byzantines would succumb to my marches' sieging. Any undefended columns were assaulted by Russians en masse and as soon as the uberstormtoopers arrived, a retreat was ordered back to Kiev. The worst casualties suffered in any one battle for an army of over 100,000 Russians was 3,000 troops. Most pleasing.

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Very much the turning point of the war, the Austrians could scarcely afford to keep winning, let alone fight the might of Smolensk, the entire Balkans and northern Germany at once.
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After that it was simply a matter of keeping the Greeks and Austrians divided whilst Smolensk's artillery laid siege to the walls everyone else failed to breach. Shame it brought an end to my 85 years war when I was so close to taking Jerusalem. You win this round Mamlukes... But be wary, my Smolenskians are now battle hardened elite veterans.

I'd have an AAR map of the aftermath but it's too large for imgur to handle :P

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« Reply #2571 on: January 31, 2016, 09:48:30 am »

I'm currently playing Mazovia and have formed Poland. The League wars formed; I wanted the catholic league to win so that I'd get the Catholic Empire bonus.

The problem I'm having is that England is the war leader for the Protestants. While the Catholics beat every other nation in Europe (quite easily, too), England is just sitting there alone against all of us with a navy better than most of the world combined. This is problematic because we cannot gain enough warscore to get the catholic victory without getting troops to England. After a while the Peace of Westphalia triggers and no one gets their bonus.

Is there anything I can do that's not a huge pain in the ass, or should I just give up on a catholic victory? Not getting the bonus is not a big deal, but it's still frustrating.
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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2572 on: January 31, 2016, 02:48:44 pm »

Can you draw the English away by landing on one of their colonies and then bumrushing for their homeland?

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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2573 on: January 31, 2016, 03:12:40 pm »

Make a mod which adds high-powered catapults and parachutes, launch the first paratrooper attack of the Thirty Years War?  :P
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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2574 on: February 02, 2016, 06:58:47 pm »

Some notable things in my Smolensk run so far:

  • Holland is an independent colonial power, as is the Netherlands. The two Dutch states are bitter rivals, with Holland being smaller in Europe but with a head start on colonizing. Both are the only two protestant colonizers, though already one of their colonies was forcibly converted to Catholicism (New Holland in Canada, during the war of the three Canadas). In the war of the three Canadas, French Canada expanded westwards into native lands whilst New Holland succeeded in taking over most of Newfoundland (English Canada). Sadly the two Dutch powers do not seem likely to unite their small Empires peacefully into one terrifying Dutch Empire any time soon.
  • Naples has held a personal union over England for about 200 years now, but as England had absorbed Ireland and annexed Scotland it was too large to integrate into one state. The Anglo-Sicilian Empire is a horrifying beast to behold, though thankfully it is one that is mostly limited to Central America and its pincer formation on Europe.
  • Portugal's adventure in South Africa went surprisingly well, so well it is so large it has no rivals anywhere near it, and probably will continue to have none for centuries still.
  • The power of Byzantophiles managed to make the Byzantines repulse the Ottomans (largely due to the Ottomans being backstabbed by Dulkadir during their failed invasion of Constantinople), and over time the Byzantines regained much of their lost strength. They do not have the birthplace of Greece itself however, with Achaea and Athens (and Corfu) full of Sicilians under the Empire of Naples.
  • After the Byzantines were aided by Smolensk in their war to smite the last remnants of Venice, they decided to reward the Russians by giving them Corsica. This was not a gift the Smolenskians wanted, so they gave it away to the Papacy, almost as an apology for helping the Protestant league make the HRE officially protty.
  • The HRE is also a bit mad. They converted the Hungarians to protestantism and during the religious league wars the title of Emperor flitted between the Napoli and the French, resulting in the HRE incorporating Eastern France (France remaining outside the Empire) and extending all the way south to Malta and Corfu (with the Napoli Empire being a member of the HRE). The Napoli Empire is an Empire above an Empire and within an Empire.
  • Corsica was an elector within the Holy Roman Empire, and I felt quite guilty being given one of my favourite countries I like seeing independent. When I gave Corsica to the Papacy, it was largely because I did not want Emperor Wuttenburg to get irritated with the Tsar Mstislavs. What I did not expect was for the Sienans to conquer Rome and evict the Papacy to Corsica.
  • The Catholic Papacy of Corsica is alongside Austria and the Napoli-Anglo Empire the last Catholics of the HRE. On the bright side for them, as a result of England being subject to Naples and all of Scandinavia subject to Sweden, the entire non-Orthodox Christian world is Catholic. Still, the Pope being a vassal to the Protestant Emperor is an amusing image.
  • Finns also don't exist anymore, having been Swedified.
  • Brittany survived, largely as a result of the Napoli Empire inheriting a duchy right in front of Brittany, acting as a French anger magnet keeping the Bretons safe. Brittany has since developed its own modest overseas colonial Empire.
  • The Portuguese, Spanish and English have all taken a claim to Australia. The English arrived there first, the Portuguese finished a colony there first and the Spanish formed a colonial nation there first.
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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2575 on: February 03, 2016, 11:07:04 pm »

So the Dutch of Holland managed to invade the Dutch of Netherlands and in their bitter struggle finally take over un-Holland Netherlands to make all of the Netherlands Holland. I thought this would be the end and all of the Netherland's colonies would become independent Dutch Republics, but then this happened and the Netherlands just moved their capital to the Amazon interior. The Netherlands will have the last laugh in a hundred years...

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« Reply #2576 on: February 03, 2016, 11:18:30 pm »

Funny, Usually its Holland that gets evicted form Europe to the Americas.
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Re: Europa Universalis IV
« Reply #2577 on: February 04, 2016, 05:06:15 am »

So the Dutch of Holland managed to invade the Dutch of Netherlands and in their bitter struggle finally take over un-Holland Netherlands to make all of the Netherlands Holland. I thought this would be the end and all of the Netherland's colonies would become independent Dutch Republics, but then this happened and the Netherlands just moved their capital to the Amazon interior. The Netherlands will have the last laugh in a hundred years...
Not that crazy, actually. Sure, it had no eviction from Europe, but nothing is perfect.
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« Reply #2578 on: February 04, 2016, 05:52:30 am »

New dev diary is out!
Johan confirms the icon in the previous DD is for sailors -- perhaps also confirming the next DLC will indeed be called "Mare Nostrum" -- and leaks that he'll be the project lead for this DLC because Wiz has moved on to another project.
And we'll now have the Barbary pirates in game. Looks like hordes of the sea that are able raze any not-friendly province they can blockade.
And the next DD will be about new changes to espionage.

I'm not sure what naval manpower accomplishes by itself other than putting a hard cap on navy size(since going over FL is extremely cheap as long as you don't build heavies) but hopefully we'll be shown more naval tweaks in the next weeks and it will make sense. And I can predict people getting bitter about it being tied to province development.
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« Reply #2579 on: February 04, 2016, 01:16:18 pm »

Hmmm I know Ming is supposed to be big but weak, but they just broke for about the tenth time to peasants and they have gone bankrupt 6 times or so.

Oddly enough only Mongolia and miao seperated from them.
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