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[Zrk2]

Azkanan, really nice looking Russia there.

You should just invade Japan.

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I see what you did there.

[Supercharazad]

Are you paying the same game as me? I always play on normal and the AI usually outsmarts me :V

You're paying a game?!

[Yannanth]

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[snelg]

Glad I wasn't the only one feeling like the AI in Victoria II is out to get me... 
The hoi3 ai however doesn't get much diplomacy done (it tries to be a wwII game) and the rest of the ai leaves a lot to be desired (though it's nowhere near as bad as when it was released with the expansions and patches).

[Yannanth]

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[Yannanth]

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[Tarran]

Maybe the reason you like EU3 so much is because it's much more random with hundreds of countries everywhere, allowing countless possibilities?

[Biag]

I personally prefer EUIII because it's actually possible to start as an OPM and get shit done, whereas in Vicky II I felt completely paralyzed by larger nations when I tried to play a mid-sized country.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

So on my latest map I decided I'll play as the Pope and do crazy shit.
My goal is to create the SHIELD OF FAITH (patent pending). The SHIELD OF FAITH is taking over all the costal provences of Europe and encasing them in a protective shield of PURE JESUS. No heretic or heathen thoughts can get in and any created within the confinds of the SHIELD OF FAITH will be dealt with quickly.

My Progress:
I've already united Italy and land locked Castile.
The North African Arabs are my vassals who worship the one true god.
France hasn't made much headway since I took the southern provences.
Bohemia and most of the HRE has collapsed thanks to a rare vassalisation of a weakened Austria who got back a ton of land by rebels.
England was capped by Ireland who is my current butt buddy, the only thing stopping them forming Brytenwalda is France who have taken London, I'm hoping this keeps them tied up enough so they don't start colonising/out navy me.
I forsee Ireland being my biggest threat since they're going to be the hardest to land lock and they'll be the first ones to colonise. Sweden will be a close second. I'll be waiting for an excuse to take Iceland to slow down their colonial abilities.

My goals:
So my first goal is to try and keep the glorious European master race out of the dirty pagan lands as long as possible and hopefully stop them colonising at all, don't want pagan thoughts coming back to the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
I'm unsure what to do with with the Middle East and Asia, they're not Europeans and therefore I'm unsure if they deserve the glory of Jesus. I might just convert Russia (when/if they form) to the one true god and let them spread the faith if the Slavic people choose to do so.
As for the New World I think they're going to be beyond saving. I'll start the Great Inquisition and reduce the native populations to nothing and don't let anyone set foot on that terrible Devil land.

Any recommendations what else I should do with this terribly evil Papal State?

[Dutchling]

Make everyone worship Cathol, the three-headed god!

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Well they already believe in a magic holy triangle. I suppose a three-headed god wouldn't be that far of a reach ...

Also as an Update, Sweden has taken London from France and now the united Celts have entered a bloody war against Sweden and her allies which is perhaps the best possible outcome for me. This has been the luckiest map ever, God wants me to win. I do pray that Sweden holds onto London so that this stuff keeps happening, forever.

[snelg]

I still find it a bit more fun than Vicky II though I can't quite place why. V2 is of course a great game in its own right, but I like EU3 more for some reason.

Yeah, like others mentioned there's a lot more variation since it's not always the same great powers etc. No one is really that much ahead in EU3 compared to United Kingdom or huge immigration to USA every game in Vic2. It has come a long way from Vic1. It's still hard to  go far without a decent population in Vic2. While in EU3 it's easy to come over money which covers most of the things you need.

There's also much faster and larger changes in EU3 and its time-frame is longer. Infamy cools down much faster in EU3 ( ).

[Micro102]

Well they already believe in a magic holy triangle. I suppose a three-headed god wouldn't be that far of a reach ...

Also as an Update, Sweden has taken London from France and now the united Celts have entered a bloody war against Sweden and her allies which is perhaps the best possible outcome for me. This has been the luckiest map ever, God wants me to win. I do pray that Sweden holds onto London so that this stuff keeps happening, forever.

Nice. But why didn't you just take London yourself? Aren't you allies with Ireland?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Nice. But why didn't you just take London yourself? Aren't you allies with Ireland?

Sadly by the time I got there from Italy the Swedes had already landed troops in London.  I also believe I forget to metion Ireland has taken Celtic Brittany.

I decided I'll be trying to stay out of the Frenco-Irish-Swedish conflict as much as possible. Attacking each other only helps Jesus and by proxy me.
I think I'll be [trying to] refrain from playing EU3 in the next week, real life issues and all those boring things, but if I do I'll try and keep you all updated.

I'm acutally considering doing this again and making an AAR out of it if it turns out to be viable. It seems like a very good story, shame I'll never get the same luck as Ireland forming and vassalising Austria.

[Errol]

Anyone ever modded Death & Taxes gamefiles so that Ryukyu could become a merchant republic?

Yeah... I'm the largest economy at this point, trading in every notable CoT around the globe which includes my home CoT. Shamefully I didn't put it into Okinawa, because I moved my capital to Taiwan. We're fully westernized. Next stop: Formation of Japan! The manly way.

(Seriously though, this is going to be one for the long haul - my army is technologically superior, theirs has the better sliders, ideas and is like five times larger... and if I wait much longer Date won't be the only one with Asian Arquebuses.)