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[Dutchling]

Having only read the first page I am gonna play that Europe university game right now! The Netherlands are a derping nation man!
(conquering Poland, moving the capital to revolutionary mexico, establishing colonies in Canada >.>)

[Ampersand]

It's the Hunnic Invasion all over again.

That's the Golden Horde, for those who don't know.

Some absurdities include Portugal conquering Aragon, English Successes in the Hundred Years War, the Partitioning of Greece between Venice and the Knights of St. John, and Aragonese Algeria currently under occupation by Byzantine soldiers. Also, that landlocked blue bit in western Africa belongs to Oman somehow.

[Demonic Spoon]

Nice, what's the blue in the middle east bordering persia?

[Johnfalcon99977]

Having only read the first page I am gonna play that Europe university game right now! The Netherlands are a derping nation man!
(conquering Poland, moving the capital to revolutionary mexico, establishing colonies in Canada >.>)

... How long have you been playing the game?

When the game starts the Netherlands don't even exist >.>

[Ampersand]

Nice, what's the blue in the middle east bordering persia?

Jalayirids. They're Mongol Empire successor state much like the Golden Horde. They're there at the start of the game. Also, I've now gone through two Tribal succession crisis events. I came out of both intact. After the second, I've gained most of the conquered territory as core, lost the overextension modifier, and am finally in the black with my finances without minting.

[Hyo]

... How long have you been playing the game?

When the game starts the Netherlands don't even exist >.>

Please. If you have ever played the game before, you should know that there are multiple starting dates to begin the game.

[Johnfalcon99977]

I know, its just that I assume most people start by playing Grand campaign. >_>

[Dutchling]

Of course not, I started as soon as the Dutch golden age started, which is around 1610. Apparently we were at war with Portugal (don't remember ever learning that at school...). I haven no idea what to do though I know I have some colonies and my civ's leader, Stadhouder Willem II is also  general. Rembrandt, a painter, is my advisor and there are Flemish nationalists in Spanish Belgium. Than Sweden starts bitching around with trade agreements and I apparently have a good reason to declare war on them.
When I paused the game again, I noticed a lot of pop ups about provinces that are able to build stuff so I build something in Holland. It will take 12 months, ok. So I unpause again and I notice the game advancing at about 1 day per 10 seconds....
I know I can make it go faster but I don't want to miss anything :S

[Mr.Person]

Don't worry, every speed but the very fastest is, well, kind of slow. The speed I use is the fourth speed, which puts things right at 1 day taking 1 RL second. Even that is pretty slow because I pause a lot.

[Demonic Spoon]

The revolution in Poland finally succeeded, causing them to fragment rather badly. Currently attacking some of the fragments that I have casus belli on due to border disputes or fabricating claims with spies.

In other news, I had my first revolutionaries a while back, a single unit of infantry in Africa.

[Frajic]

Spoiler: Map of the world, as of 1613 (click to show/hide)

I'm playing as Norway(Alt for norge!), and have recently been in pretty hot water. First of all, I have no effective allies. My only good ally is Poland, and it's pretty hard for them to get any reinforcements over to my part of Europe. Second; in 1601, for some reason I can't recall, Great Britain went to war on me. My navy had been crippled and stuck over on the other side of the atlantic after a failed attempt at fending off some pirates(why did I even bother?), so I could neither stop the flytes nor get my own troops to British soil. So I'm stuck fending off a superpower all on my own. Short summary; they kept sending 10-20k armies at me, and after 10 years I lost foothold. I'm guessing the casualties were between 50-100k from both sides. I decided I had to stop the war no matter what, so I agreed to convert to their own religion.

Now, here's the(not so) fun part; in the middle of this, Portugal declared war on me too. I didn't pay too much attention to that, but once I finished the war with GB, I discover I have foreign troops in my country. So I open the war overview, and find out that Spain is amongs his allies. At this point my thoughts are pretty much "Well, fuck." What's worse, I can't end this war. Neither Portugal nor Spain are willing to listen to any peace offer. The only thing I can do is brace for impact.

On the light side of things, Prussia offered me an alliance. They're the grey blob that owns Finland.

[Johnfalcon99977]

I only have one Question.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Simmura McCrea]

I only have one Question.

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It's a lake, IIRC.

[EuchreJack]

Pyrate, you NEED to ally with Prussia.

I say this never having played this game, but it seems like sound strategy.

[Frajic]

Pyrate, you NEED to ally with Prussia.

I say this never having played this game, but it seems like sound strategy.

As if I hadn't already done that I need all the help I can get!

Also, I'm playing on, well... very easy difficulty. I get a huge edge, but look at me, I'm still being bullied into submission :I