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[Tarran]

Uncored provinces aren't that bad, really, unless you're in the HRE.

Take Sardinia and Corsica. Then claim random Greek islands.

[sneakey pete]

Speaking of the HRE.. is there any emporer specific way to get a core on a empire territory? i need fraken to form germany. The rest have been taken care of by PU's and vassalisation annex missions.

[Rex_Nex]

Could you just use MOAR PUs? As the emperor, not many people are going to stop you from forcing PUs in the HRE, right?

[Tarran]

Another way is to have a non-HRE take a HRE territory and take it back. Bam, free core... At least in both D&T and MEIOU. Not sure in vanilla, since I've never played vanilla.

[Rex_Nex]

Wow, thats teasing...

[sneakey pete]

They're already in a PU, which is the annoying part. maybe i just need to PU whoevers PUing them once their PU finishes. or something.

edit: that's weird, as emperor i still can't declare war on any subjects of the empire or non empire nations who control empire lands without a core.

[Rex_Nex]

France still curbstomped me. Meh. Their navy is actually stronger then the British navy. Not to mention megablob Morocco declaring war every time I get into a war.

What I'll probably end up doing is moving my national focus over to where France has cores on my territory (brittany) and moving it back a decade later. I'm tired of these french reconquests; they beat me no matter what. I have like 8 morale... doesnt really matter when they can blob 80 stacks of units against every 20 I throw up.

That said, I have almost 20,000 gold. I dont know what to do with it, so I'll probably just invest it. Investing is such a terrible use of gold though... even constantly building, rehiring armies, etc, I cant use it all >.< My income is ~300 when I have the minting slider all the way to the left, and ~700 if I bring it over enough so my advisor can cover the inflation.

If I mint 100% coin, I'm looking at 1700 a year... wow...

[Azkanan]

I like to play as Saxony the most. It's quite the challenge.

I spent the first hundred years or so controlling all Centers of Trade and then dismantling the HRE. From there, I formed germany.

I now have 70,000 troops on the ground at all times. I can steamroll any country. I'm the most technologically advanced. I'm #1 Nation. Low infamy, high prestige.

Note: I've just taken southern sweden/western Lithuania/western Muscowy, too. Finland and Teutonic order are mine, too .




STEAMTROLLED

[sneakey pete]

Soo, it turns out you can dismantle the HRE just by occupying the capitals of all the electors, you don't actually have to vassalise them. Would have been handy to know that before..

[Johnfalcon99977]

Eh, Rex? Do you have inflation on? If you do then keeping the slider at a very high point for a long period of time is a horrible horrible idea.

Also just started a Venictian game and OH GAWD I just managed to almost completely annex Greece (minus Ottoman territory) and that stupid Theocracy to Venice's easy in the first ten years. On the down side, now I have a shitton of Infamy and now I havr to get Verona, owned by Milan, and by defination the Empire.

(Spelled some things wrong because Phone.)

[Criptfeind]

Another way is to have a non-HRE take a HRE territory and take it back. Bam, free core... At least in both D&T and MEIOU. Not sure in vanilla, since I've never played vanilla.

Wow. That seems terribly OP and likely to cause not very realistic actions.

Their navy is actually stronger then the British navy.

You're doing it wrong.

Money issues

You're doing it more wrong. Don't mint unless you need it, that money comes from your tech research. And you know what both takes a ton of cash and apparently you have been forgetting it? Your navy. England needs a large navy, they should basically always be at or above their force limit for maximum navy effectiveness. And 20k is enough money to simply beat any nation in a war. Screw the force limit, get 200k troops. Roflstomp anyone. Or spend it all on colonizing, that can eat money fast.

[andrea]

I am playing a game as ottomans.
a few years ago, england invaded me and controlled half of my territories. When timurids declared war, I had no choice but paying them tribute ( I could barely destroy english armies. 40k timurids stealing provinces would have destroyed me.).
Is there a way to stop paying without taking the -2 stability it from declaring war to them without a casus belli?

also, is there a way to make england stop attacking me? after truce ended, they attacked me again, despite losing last war due to war exhaustion. They seem willing to take stability hits as long as it keeps me down into an attriton war. In fact, I never had more than 2-3 years of peace since game started. I think the game is just trying to keep my war exhaustion high. several times, a large coalition would declare war, never land a soldier or send a ship, then offer white peace.

I hope my economy can survive... inflation is at 17 and climbing, despite a master of mint and national bank. between tribute to timurids, ports blockaded by england and many of my provinces occupied, and high revolt risk due to war exhaustion, I have to mint way too much.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Rex, if you can't beat France's fleet and you have a surplus which can't find a way to spend, Why don't you use said surplus to make a better fleet? It costs a lot to have a good navy but you have a lot of money, right?

Also just an FYI its ok to be at a loss per month as long as you are making a yearly gain. And lower military maintance during peace times. It will save you *a ton* of money

[Rex_Nex]

Sheesh guys, I know how to play EU >.>

I'm not having any money problems at all. This is a super rich Castille -> Spain -> Iberia. I was only commenting on how much I could be making if I minted. I dont mint, ever.

I'm also not England. It just struck me as odd that France's Navy > England's Navy.

And I'm also not having an issue with France's navy, for the most part. Its just land wars. I could and should curbstomp france, I just cant handle multiple fronts and Morocco seems to love kicking me while I'm down. Aztecs too, for some reason, even though I havent even been to the new world yet. Right now I'm working on getting Fort 3's on everything in order to slow down France's warscore gain.

That, and it's extremely hard to defeat France when they have been buddied up with the HRE for god knows how long.

[RedKing]

My Scandinavia game is up to about 1770-something. Novgorod no longer exists, diplo-annexed Polotsk, and finished colonizing Siberia all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Realizing that my army forcelimit was basically double what I was actually using (236, army was only using about 112), I've begun constructing some large 25,000-man continental armies (Arme av Scandinavia, Arme av Ryssland, Arme av Asien, Arme av Nya Sverige). This makes intervention by France, Holland and/or Lithuania less likely and more painful for them if they choose to do so. The Kajserliga Flottan is the envy of all Europe, and the Kolonial Flottan is easily the match of many European navies.

For the moment I've chosen the path of least resistance by reducing Khiva and trying to consolidate provinces in central Asia. But eventually I'm going to need to take on Lithuania, preferably at a time when France and Holland are unlikely to aid them and when Austria can assist me. I make sure to stay on the good side of Hapsburgian Austria--they're probably the only nation that could pose a real existential threat to the vastness of the Scandinavian Empire.