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Takeda - Military badasses that start off with one landlocked province. Super-Military focused. Bring the fight to the Chinese 400 years ahead of schedule.

18 (66.7%)

Kono - NAVAL badasses, less awesome than Takeda

3 (11.1%)

Yamana - They start off strong, and in the best region of Japan. Boring, but still.

0 (0%)

Ouchi - TRADING DEWDS

3 (11.1%)

Uesugi -  People next to Takeda, bigger, easier to play than Takeda.

0 (0%)

Ryukyu - Animist Japanese southerners. These guys will be less focus with unifying Japan than destroying Indonesia, though.

3 (11.1%)

Total Members Voted: 27

[PenguinOverlord]

So. Guys. I'm going to make a LP of Europa Universalis. Awesome. Is anyone up for a multiplayer game of it?
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(EU3 Complete + Magna Mundi Platinum 2)

Europa Universalis

Europa Universalis III (EUIII) is a grand strategy computer game by Paradox Interactive.

Magna Mundi

Magna Mundi is an effort to lead the game through historical processes while allowing the gameplay to flow freely within the constraints faced historically, thus, and in part contrary to the vanilla experience, creating plausible alternate realities.

We achieve this by coding complex event pools that are not targeted at the most tangible elements in the game, the countries, but instead at the virtual environment the engine generates: Religion, certain geographic regions, certain political entities, all the colonial environment, etc.

Beyond this we turn the game mechanics much deeper to spice it up trying to allow the player to feel a living, breathing world, hidding the raw mechanics that define the game system.
Expect a detailed National Ideas system, Vassalization system, Personal Unions system, Modernization system, Warfare system, Covert Action system, Trade system, etc.

Taking advantage of the latest designs of IN, we use decisions to open new strategies to gameplay, instead of prizes to be achieved after some game mechanic was "beaten", the path taken in vanilla. This means decisions are now really dilemmas the players face. Is it worth it financing a smuggler operation in a neighbour province? Is it worth it to build a great arsenal? Is it worth it to protect your traders? Is it worth it to fund public schools? Is it worth it to take drastic measures against the plague? Is it worth it to build hiring fairs to have bigger chances of getting the dearly needed advisor? Is it worth it to sacrifice part of the civil population and local political strenght to have a chance to recover a rebel province without sending a single men there? Is it worth it cripple a bit the long term economy to recover faster from chaotic stability? Is it worth it to sacrifice centuries of policies in order to eventually modernize? Is it worth it to pay dearly to fund an expedition to the new world? ... the list goes on and on... and on.

Our objective is to give you, the man behind the curtain, the tools to pursue your objecties with miryads of different strategies and immerse you in a new reality.
Your challenge is to take the best decisions and decades, if not centuries later, look back and be proud of the decisons that shaped your nation's destiny.

List of More Proeminent Features (in no particular order):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

- Plagues
- Civil Wars
- Discoveries
- Colonial formation
- Colonial policies
- Colonial independence
- Country formation
- Trade goods (49 in all)
- Trade rankings
- Trade policy
- Sucession wars
- Imperial politics
- Imperial power
- Imperial diet and voting
- Imperial demesne
- Indepth religion (the world extensively covered)
- Religion conversion
- Berber pirate policies
- Berber pirate consequences
- Berber pirate hunt
- Covert Action (60 spy missions)
- Modernizing through foreign contact
- Modernizing socio-economic structure
- Sengoku Jidai (hugely detailed civil war in Japan)
- Land Warfare
- Naval warfare
- Static Defences
- Attrition
- Special army maintenance
- Reputation
- War Exhaustion
- Prestige
- Advisors
- Rebels
- Stability mechanics
- Inflation mechanics
- Vassalization
- Personal Unions
- Map provinces
- Map graphics
- Province data
- Country data
- Diplomacy Data
- Army data
- Navy data
- Ship types
- Army types
- Policies
- Radical policies
- War of the roses
- Jews
- Knights of Saint John
- Status Quo
- Government systems
- Government efficiency
- National ideas content
- National ideas specialization
- New national ideas
- Balance of power
- Historical AI
- much, much more... this list is very far from complete and most items include many subitems.

I only just recently got this game, I snagged EU3 for 4 and a half dollars. Anyway, let's get started:

What the hell should we be?

[andrea]

4 and half dollars? lucky...

I already have EU3, but after all the threads I am thinking about buying all the expansions.. unluckily local stores don't sell them so I'll have to buy a complete pack from steam, which still doesn't include Heir to the throne.


I vote for holland, lets dominate the world through money. Also, I believe we should colonize as much as we can. Trade and colonies in the new world, while our brave soldiers keep the big powers at bay in europe.
(in vanilla I managed to hold an healthy France for 10 years just by mercenaries, killed their king in battle and ended with white peace. Holland may seem smll and weak, but once you have money it can be wooonderful! but I saw this as an player who likes money more than swords in most games)

[Servant Corps]

I read through MM's manual and they have special mechanics for the Japanese Civil War that wasn't in vanilla.

Why not play as the Songun? Or even better, one of his lackeys?

[Judas Maccabeus]

I agree with the Dutch, though I say go with Brabant, or perhaps Gelre if you prefer them.

(Note that I'm only familiar with vanilla EU3, not MM, so said countries are probably different than how I know them...)

[PenguinOverlord]

Holland starts under the control of Burgundy in 1453, when we're going to start the game.
Edit: Tested out how Burgundy played. I declared war with the obscure little Liege, and suddenly the Holy Roman Emperor (Austria) swoops in and utterly crushes me. Losing is fun.

[inteuniso]

I suggest either Gelre or, for a true challenge, Utrecht. Of course, uniting Ireland is always fun.

I always play as one of the german states myself. It's a damn challenge (to me) uniting germany as a opm. Mainly because of the HRE.

[Ampersand]

By the way Magna Mundi for Heir to the Throne is coming out March 1st.

[Servant Corps]

Yeah, but he has only EU3 Complete. That doesn't have HttT.

[Ampersand]

My point being that there's no reason for him to hold back on acquiring HTTT as of today.

[Servant Corps]

There are very terrible features in HTTT, such as heirs dying on a whim, stupid casus bellums like Imperialism, Personal Unions easily fabriciated thanks to awesome spies, dynasties running around like musical chairs, etc.

But you know what? I always want to see the Japanese civil war, and by golly, I'm going to see it. I'm going to get EU3 Complete and MM, and let me experience Japan.

[Deon]

I think that's enough... I'm getting EU3 + HTTT today... Damn you .

[PenguinOverlord]

After many, many tries, I find that playing Gelre or Friesland in the normal Magna Mundi start is nigh-impossible due to the sheer military splendor of Austria. Damn you Austria. Now I'm going to have to start in 1399, where the Holy Roman Emporer is as far away from me as possible. I also managed to play this in a 1399 game, playing a few years and becoming a trading empire. I forgot to turn on Fraps.

[inteuniso]

D'oh.

Anyways, generally you aren't supposed to play at 1399. And does Austria conquer you every time while you still are an OPM? If so, it might be a good idea to conquer friesland as gelre (try to fabricate some claims or do something just really damn crazy, along with the help of your allies.)

It also helps to keep up friendly relations with England, France, and Bohemia.

[PenguinOverlord]

Woss' wrong with a 1399 start, exactly? As in, what bugs, etc.?

[Virex]

After many, many tries, I find that playing Gelre or Friesland in the normal Magna Mundi start is nigh-impossible due to the sheer military splendor of Austria. Damn you Austria. Now I'm going to have to start in 1399, where the Holy Roman Emporer is as far away from me as possible. I also managed to play this in a 1399 game, playing a few years and becoming a trading empire. I forgot to turn on Fraps.

Turning lucky nations off or to random might help. It certanly helped me when playing Brabant. Friggin Burgundy normaly grabs the richest of my three core provinces within 10 years, but when I turned lucky nations to random, Burgundy got hammerd hard by france, which let me grab their COT instead...