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[PardalTPT]

Well, this empire has costed me more hours of my life than I'd like to admit.

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The picture is from 1776, less than half a century away from endgame.

Holy Roman Empire, formed from Austria, historical 1399 start, normal diff. Gold color is because the HRE green is very hard to spot, and I like gold. I'll try to make a summary:

1399 - 1560:  Begun as Austria. Expanded normally; became emperor. In a lucky twist, managed to claim the throne of France. United the HRE; Integrated France; waited for overextension to fade. Minor holy wars; married Spain and England. Claimed Spanish throne, then English throne; integrated, then waited for impossible infamy to fade. As a pastime, started to colonize.

1560 - 1650:  Roaring rampage of Holy Wars; managed to dig all the way to China and Korea. Colonization expands rapidly. Switched to Absolute Monarchy and gained Imperialism CB on everyone; put it to good use. Russia starts blobbing northern Asia.

1650 - 1770:  Turns out, what was meant to be a pastime turned out to be the best investment the Empire has ever made. Colonized over 99% of the Americas, Phillipines, Australia and Africa. Now, having cored roughly entire Europe, Northern Africa, Middle East and most of the colonies, the Empire is, in fact, invincible. Conquest, conquest, conquest. And then some more conquest. Left Russia alone; it was far more worth to take as much land possible in blitzkriegen against small country alliances.

1770 - 1776: Having no worthy opponent left, the Empire takes on Russia. Outnumbered six to one and being about 150 years behind in Land Tech, the Bear stands no match. But it would still take too many wars to chip off the many territories, so I got sick of it and made a Poland new game.

Any opinions are welcome.

[Deadmeat1471]

My current For The Glory w/ AGCEEP game as England.
Everytime i've conquered France in EU2/FtG the game has always crashed soon after. Autosave this time, I learnt 
Despite conquering most of france, other nations are now catching up. Going to use my tax revenue to colonise the worrllddddd.

*Oh and i'm working on diploannexing Scotland and Brittany.

[Zrk2]

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A) Welcome to the forums, the crazxy is at the perfect temperature right now.

B) Nice game; Austria us probably my favourite nation to play. Why didn't you just wait to inherit France England and Spain?

[PardalTPT]

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A) Welcome to the forums, the crazxy is at the perfect temperature right now.

B) Nice game; Austria us probably my favourite nation to play. Why didn't you just wait to inherit France England and Spain?

Hello and thank you. Answering item (b): because, on another occasion, I played a game as Milan and applied the very same strategy to greater extent. After uniting the Holy Roman Empire, I managed to be crowned King of France, Spain, England, Norway, Sweden and Lithuania.

I also managed not to inherit a single one of them. All the way up to 1821.

Thus, my faith in the inheritance system is somewhat shallow. Or maybe I just have bird stool for luck.

[Zrk2]

You must be doing something wrong. With a little micro managing you can inherit one the first monarch death at least 75% of the time, probably more.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Wut. Thats amazing. It took me nearly two centuries and ten-ish leaders to inherit Sweden and form Scandinavia as Denmark, and thats AFTER I force inherited Norway. What kind of insanely OP stuff is Austria sniffing?

[PardalTPT]

You must be doing something wrong. With a little micro managing you can inherit one the first monarch death at least 75% of the time, probably more.

PLEASE do explain how. It would make me a very happy man for a couple of hours.

[Zrk2]

I just bribe them up to 200 and keep my legitimacy high. As long as you aren't at war when your ruler dies you should get to inherit if you are reasonably larger than the minor partners. I actually find that if used right PUs are an exploit, especially in the HRE.

[majikero]

I did that as Japan. PU with Korea, Manchu and Ming. Would have done Wu if the game didn't bugged out on me.

[Xeron]

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This is my Wallachia run.The regions surrounded by red are mine.The regions surrounded with dark blue are my vassals.I had most trouble with Poland and occasional wars with the Ottomans and Russians.I also have millitary alliances with all my vassals.I also am at war with China.

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The regions surrounded by red are my colonies and the regions with dark green are my colonies that are currently occupied by enemy Chinese forces.

[Azthor]

EU3 Ryuku achievment, anyone? Remember, you don't need to control all territories, the only requirment is that none be controlled by others. And no, it shouldn't be even remotely possible in Magna Mundi.

[Heron TSG]

What is the requirement for it? The best I've done with Ryukyu is take over the Koreas, stalemate with Manchu for a while, and eventually get a few southeast Asian territories.

[mainiac]

What is the requirement for it? The best I've done with Ryukyu is take over the Koreas, stalemate with Manchu for a while, and eventually get a few southeast Asian territories.

You need to control all the territory in this region.

[Heron TSG]

By Odin's beard! Has it ever been done? I mean, The Audacity of Hope (Iroquois) would be easy by comparison!

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I believe Prawnstar actually said that he wouldn't do The Three Mountains in an AAR because it's too easy. Something about force-converting the nation to Sunni Islam and using that to westernize and get a foothold in Southeast Asia, and then go from there.