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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #90 on: April 22, 2011, 09:04:50 am »

Mmm, so I exported the map in EU3 with f12 but now I can't find it? Help?
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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #91 on: April 22, 2011, 09:07:10 am »

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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #92 on: April 22, 2011, 09:10:16 am »

Not seeing a screenshots directory?  ???

Is this another thing where I have to run as administrator?

EDIT: Tried running EU3 as administrator, and of course not seeing my save. I hate windows.

EDIT2: After some googling, found it under virtual store hidden away somewhere. Is there anyway to turn virtual store off? Windows 7 here. Anyway, map incoming soon hopefully.
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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #93 on: April 22, 2011, 11:08:25 am »


Spain in 1650

Started off as Castille in 1399, attacked Portugal a few times, eventually annexing them. They were allied with England at the, somehow I managed to get England to release a bunch of nations I forget how, I think it was a combination of high prestige on my part, winning naval battles, and eventually shipping my armies to their home soil when Portugal was out of the picture and avoiding their doomstack while sieging their other province. Oh yeah, and they had some territory on the mainland near me that they eventually ceded to me as well. I made the released nations my vassals and eventually diploannexed them, as can be seen from the map. There was also another war later on with England to get their remaining territories in Scotland and on the mainland. After that my rep was getting a bit high so I left them be...until the present day. Currently planning another assault on them in 1651.

With Portugal taken out of the colonization race, I turned my attention to Aragon, Granada, Morroco and Algiers, getting a nice bonus from the reconquista mission for Granada. Eventually they were all OPM and eventually annexed, Aragon netting me some islands in the Mediterranean as well. At this point I already had the national bank idea and had just gotten the Quest for the new world, so I decided to recover from my wars and nearly dishonourable scum reputation and start exploring, spurred on by the new trade route to India mission. I also had some conquistadors exploring south from the conquered Morocco territories.

Eventually I discovered America, and as you can see, colonization was successful. There were some French colonies but I'm getting to that. Right, so everything was going great, colonizizing, getting ready to expand east in north Africa, exploring and then France declared war on me. Fotunately I was expecting this, and had prepared agood sized army in preparation, I also called in some of my forces from africa and England proceeded to gangbang France with some vassals in Europe Ihad acquired over the years through pure diplomacy. We fucked Fance's shit up, nd I had him release nation, mostly ones along the coastline, cede his colonies and cede a few provinces, notably Antwerpen.

With France broken I was riding the gravy train, colonizing, exploring, annexing small countries, diploannexing my vassals, vasalising all the little countries in europe, except the archbishoprics and republics, the rare war with France, attacking african and american countries. Sometime during al this the reformation began. On the one hand, gah, colonies randomly converting and giving me even more rebels and vassal converting, hurting relations. Also hurt relations with countries that I was busy vassalising. But on the upside some of those annoying archbishoprics and, most importantly, France, converted to the protestant faiths. Dingding! I grabbed the unam sanctum idea, and the rest is history.

Around this time I started noticing that my sealane efficiency was only in the 50ies, even with my horribly huge fleet. As such I made my chief objective making a land connection between my provinces in Africa and Madrid(Oh yeah, forgot to mention, formed the spanish nation at 1500ish). Fortunately I got a mission to attack Naples, which I did, bringing their fried milan into the brawl, which I then stole some provinces from, with the help of my vassals mostly switserland and savoy. I also vassalised milan and eventually annexed naples completely. The papal state which had grown to 4 provinces joined in during one of the wars or italy, and was reduced to OPM status.

Since this is getting too long lets skip the rest, since you can fill it in. I managed to conquer most in my path with my much higher manpower until finally only two poland provinces at the Baltic Sea were blocking me from my land connection. The year was 1620ish. As you can see from the map, Poland is frikken huge. As such I spend the next few years building up forces, waiting for war exhaustion, reputation and nationalism to drop. Finally, at the beginning of 1650, I attacked with about half to two thirds of my entire total army. The fighting was intense, though most of his armies were split up dealing with rebellions. I lost about a quarter of my troops in the fighting, and eventually got a 75 percent warscore, barely enough to get the two provinces I wanted and a hefty tribute. Immediately my sealane efficiency jumped to the 80ties and I turned my attention to putting out rebellions caused by my 10something war exhaustion.

Oh yeah, and thanks to owning the majority of catholic countries, and bribing the electors of the HRE, I am permanently the HRE and the Papal Controller.

Oh yeah, and the papal state has territories in Scandinavia for some reason.

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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #94 on: April 22, 2011, 12:35:19 pm »

You haven't conquered enough. There are still nations that resist your power.
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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #95 on: April 22, 2011, 09:11:28 pm »

Which expansion is that?

Speaking of which, might get a new DW empire, but the game really takes a toll on my computer. I might get a CK duchy instead.

I mean, it makes it go on full-fanning continuously, as in even when it's stopped. Is there any way to lessen the burden it has?
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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #96 on: April 22, 2011, 10:44:11 pm »

You haven't conquered enough. There are still nations that resist your power.

Indeed.  Those nations mock you with their existence.

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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #97 on: April 23, 2011, 12:52:35 am »

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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #98 on: April 23, 2011, 05:01:01 pm »

So, just what IS europa universalis?

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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #99 on: April 23, 2011, 05:12:32 pm »

So, just what IS europa universalis?

It's a special sandbox where you make Napoleon look like a p***y.  :P

Here's a shot from my current CK game (CK:DV with Deus Vult Improvement Pack and More Kingdoms Mod):
Spoiler: L'Empire Verdant! (click to show/hide)

That large green thing is my Empire of Aquitania, with capital at Bordeaux. The HRE is in disarray, having changed hands between the Billung (Saxony) and von Franken (Franconia) dynasties a few times now. Venice is an independent kingdom, and fairly potent. Genoa is still a merchant republic, and controls much of the northern Italian peninsula, and is also quite potent. I've vassalized it twice, but it keeps breaking away and it's a major undertaking to force them back into the Aquitanian fold.

England (which by right of title is part of the Empire) is a mish-mash of Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Norwegians, Swedes and...umm...the Ziyanid kingdom, which arose spontaneously out of Cornwall, and is Castillian Catholic. Don't ask, it's a long story.

Poland, Croatia and Hungary are reasonably intact. The Byzantine-Seljuk wars...well, the Sultan of the Seljuk Turks is ALSO the Byzantine Emperor now, which should tell you how that went. He's also allied and at peace with the Najeebid Dynasty in Egypt, which bodes ill for eastern Europe.

The other two major powers in the Muslim world are the Emirate of Medina, which is scattered and in Realm Duress now; and the Sultanate of Qarakhnid, which controls much of Russia, and curb-stomped the Golden Horde as soon as it showed up.

In far eastern Europe, the only two powers of note are the Principality of Cheremisa (about the only Russian princedom left, and fairly extensive) and the Duchy of Lithuania, which looks to be close to declaring itself a kingdom.

This one has potential for importing into EU3: you've got multiple strong Muslim powers, a single West European superpower on the Continent, a couple of mid-majors in Poland and Hungary, a few small but rich merchant kingdoms in Venice and Genoa, and complete disarray in central Europe. With EU3, I'd have little problems with religion, but definite issues with cultural divides, unless I can start spreading Occitan. I might keep France intact (IIRC, Occitan and the other French cultures are considered in the same group) but I'll have trouble keeping the Iberian peninsula in line (which I already have problems with in this game).


My other main problem right now is that of succession. My firstborn has gone competely bonkers, and isn't fit to rule a chamberpot, much less a mighty empire. My second-eldest is at least sane, but tepid and uninspiring. My third-born is a prodigy, and has character stats out the wazoo (11 Martial, 15 Diplomacy, 16 Intrigue, 10 Stewardship) but he left my court in his youth over a disagreement, and is currently the spymaster in Burgundy. His loyalty there keeps dropping, but when it finally got to zero, it suddenly went back up to 100, and he was 1000 gold richer (i.e. Duke of Burgundy got the event to pay him to retain his services). Now I'm forced to decide if I can risk waiting it out for him to drop back down to zero (if he leaves that court, he'll almost certainly return home), attack and absorb my own vassal just to get him back in my court, or assassinate his two worthless brethren so that I can be assured the Empire is in good hands?



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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #100 on: April 23, 2011, 05:34:26 pm »

So, just what IS europa universalis?
A series of grand strategy games by Paradox Interactive set from around 1400-1800, you can play as pretty much any civilization from that time, which is awesome.

Monsieurs-dames, l'Empire Francais en 1521!


When I declared war on Brittany, England, Burgundy and some Holy Roman Empire minors attacked me, I managed to annex Brittany, take several provinces off Burgundy and vassalize the minors. This drove my infamy over the limit, causing several other Holy Roman minors to attack me, which I then vassalized, which made others attack me, and so on, till I controlled the whole western Holy Roman Empire, and all the electors, at which point they made the stupid decision to elect Milan as Holy Roman Emperor. I was at war with them, so I simply occupied the capital and dissolved the Empire. Having spent all of the 15th century at war, now I'm simply waiting for the infamy to fall back down (so many revolts, so little heir legitimacy ::)) and then I can storm eastern Europe with my army of minors.
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« Reply #101 on: April 24, 2011, 08:40:30 am »

Update on my CK game above:

Oh what difference three years can make. The prodigal son has returned, been married off to a nice Occitan girl (who is also a prodigy, hopefully producing a line of prodigies) and has been invested as Duke of Luxembourg, paving the way for his succession.

In the East, Egypt pretty much ceased to exist. Not sure what happened, but it looks like a combined crusade under Danish and Venetian banners shattered Egypt into seperate sheikdoms and conquered much of coastal North Africa and the Levantine. The Il-Khanate have had better luck where the Golden Horde failed, establishing a foothold in what had been the Qarakhanid Sultanate's rich homelands (in Mazandaran and Khwarizim), though they're constantly having to fight to retain that foothold. The massive Seljuk-Byzantine Empire appears to have been a beneficiary of the dissolution of Egypt, with a number of territories in Mesopotamia pledging allegiance. Anatolia is almost entirely Muslim now, as are parts of Greece and much of Southern Russia. The picture is looking fairly grim for Orthodoxy.
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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #102 on: April 30, 2011, 12:37:32 pm »

I just got EUIII and I am currently working on an Empire.

BTW, does anyone know of anyways to get more manpower quicker without going quantity?
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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #103 on: April 30, 2011, 01:11:10 pm »

Assuming you're playing with DW, raise your land tech to unlock buildings that help with that, as well as make soldiers train faster and cheaper.
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Re: The Show off your Empires Thread
« Reply #104 on: May 01, 2011, 07:55:05 am »

Also, conquering lands and getting lucky with events (along with perhaps some provincial decisions?) will help. I think there's an advisor who will raise it.
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