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[Zrk2]

Sounds delicious. Mayhaps I will at some point.

[Rilder]

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.

[Korbac]

I'm with Rilder here, it seems really tough.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

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 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.

[Zrk2]

I'm reading this solely based in the knowledge that he plays DF.

[Pwnzerfaust]

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.

[Heron TSG]

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.

[Pwnzerfaust]

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.

[Zrk2]

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.

[Flying Dice]

Pre-warning: not EUIII 

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Aurora

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.

[Zrk2]

Pre-warning: not EUIII 

HERESY!

Just kidding, I posted a total war empire at some point.

[Teneb]

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.

[majikero]

If your borders meet with England, how can you tell?

[Svarte Troner]

If your borders meet with England, how can you tell?

The English will just give up all their territory to avoid the confusion.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

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.