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[Rilder]

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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Europe Universalis III

I'm playing the Ottoman Empire, year is 1524....



Me: In a period of calm, focusing on trade with a new center of trade built in Istanbul. (Aka my Infamy got to high) Of course apparently Istanbul is an awesome place for a COT as it immediatly got like 800 wealth going through it, good money for me. :DL  When I can begin my assaut

Now for the rest of the world.

Austria is -Scary- and I do not want to fight a war with them, luckily their excommunicated and have an infamy rating worse then me so if they get involved with a long war with me and my Vassals they will most likely get flanked by everybody and their brother.

The Netherlands... I don't know what the bloody hell happened there but they apparently own Poland

India, I can't name the factions off the top of my head but at some point it was pretty much united then something happened and they just fractured.

The Timurid Empire once a huge empire that I was pretty afraid of at some point broke like a twig, with mostly Persia taking its place, along with several other smaller factions.

The Golden Horde is somehow still going despite every time I've looked at them somebody is either invading or half their provinces are rebelling, but they keep on going.

On that note, I'm not really sure whats going on in Russia, Muscovy had a good amount of lands but then they fell...

Castille, these guys were bloody strong, stretching pretty the entirety of North Africa except the Tunis area, including up to two provinces north of Judea, I fought a couple wars with them with no loss by either side... then their rather vast empire... fell.  It started in Egypt around Judea, rebellions saw their provinces returned to the Mamelukes then it just stormed west I guess and even onto the Iberian Peninsula... Last I looked the Entire place is occupied by some faction I'm not sure the name of.

France: They just recently got that big, for awhile they were pretty fractured, with England holding more lands in France then well... France.. but then I think England lost stability and lost control of several factions in England.

[Frajic]

This makes me want to play an empire game. Sorry, I have no examples. Yet.

[Nirur Torir]

Could be fun. Here's mine:

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Europa Universalis III - All expansions + Whole World Mod

Morocco, year 1458.



My goal is the complete annexation of Africa.

After surviving the oppressive Iberian attempts at destroying me, I switched my starting national idea out for Colonial Ventures. I then began colonize-exploring southwards, towards the savage barbarians rumored to be in the area. When I was nearly there, I spontaneously received a colonial conquest casus belli on Mutapa.

As they had gold mines, I had little choice other then to send a few soldiers over to relieve them of their burden. Queue another (barely) failed Castillian attempt at my lands.

As the years went on, I continued my conquests to the south, finished Mutapa off, annexed Tunisia, and forced Algiers into a personal union. They became Moroccan holdings soon enough. I picked up a few nearly worthless centers of trade along the way, as well as hitting the infamy limit. Rebels are a constant thorn in my side.

I'm not sure when Castille annexed Aragon, and they won a war with Portugal a while back. Their mission is still to take Tangiers, and they are now at war with me once again. The Papal State, now located somewhere in the HRE, joined in, and the Ottomans decided to join in on my side. They are a welcome distraction.

[breadbocks]

My "empire" in my current webdiplomacy game. I'm England(Pink) and my ass is getting handed to me.

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[Simmura McCrea]

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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[Ampersand]

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,

[Cheese]

I have a sudden urge to play EU3 again. Or SR2020. I love paradox.

[Rilder]

Update...

Ottoman Empire 1669



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.

[Ampersand]

Oh god what happened to Poland, Austria what have you done.

[Rilder]

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.

[Lightning4]

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.

[Heron TSG]

That's pretty good for Castille. Normally I see people become Spain before getting that huge.

[Evergod41]

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.

[Yaddy1]

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...

[Evergod41]

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...