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[NewsMuffin]

Yes, I believe it is.

[Tarran]

...So it's like total war campain

Not really. Building armies and cities is much more simple (less complex) than Total war, and battles are not manually controlled by you.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

There's multiplayer but I couldn't enjoy it. The pausing/time mechanic isn't done right and instead of it having simultaneous time mechanics like Defcon, it has this broken ONLY DIE HOST KONNEN PAUSE. In a game where you'll want to slow down/pause to consider events or tactics its really broken.

As for why I enjoy EU3 so much I really don't know. On the surface it seems like a terrible game, nothing but sliders. I jumped into it one day after reading a few forum posts and haven't looked back.

[Rex_Nex]

I loaded back up my first real game of EU3 from my laptop and... wha. I'm the Mameluke. I have everything that borders them in the 1399 start vassalized; not touching anything but allies. Somehow I have .71 inflation reduction (how? I only see -.10/year bonus from an adviser. How is -.71 even possible?) Venice is in the Ottomans, I'm sitting at -2stab, Castille is creeping up on me... eek. Bad decisions all over. I havent got a single extra province the entire game. Its 1506.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Oh the Mamelukes. So many painful memories with ruler succession and the rebels that arise from it. Changing governments/modernising is also damn hard. Unlike the horde countries to the East they can't even form a new country that removes that pitiful government system. :<
The funny thing is that the AI usually expands with them really quickly to the point where you consider they might not collpase for once, then it does and it becomes a bunch of rebel ruled provences which the majority of nations ignore.

[Zrk2]

Oh god. You're right Spain in 1519 leads a PU with Austria, is everywhere in Europe and has colonies and room to conquer almost all the natives. The world really is yours to lose.

[Azthor]

Oh god. You're right Spain in 1519 leads a PU with Austria, is everywhere in Europe and has colonies and room to conquer almost all the natives. The world really is yours to lose.

Have you taken a look at Charles I von Habsburg, while we are at it?

Edit: now that I've give given it a try, 1810 France is so ridiculously powerful that even if you do go ahead and invade Russia, you can still emerge over all of Europe before 1820. Give one military stack Napoleon as a general, then sent it through southern Spain, instantly disbanding every rebel in the way, and then to Portugal, conquering it effortlesly. Simultaneously, Austria should have declared war on you; send two stacks with good generals and destroy Austria's two large stacks, it is easily done and your vassals will handle it from there onwards. Portugal won't surrender easily, but Austria does; you can force it to liberate Hungary, after which it becomes an useless cripple. Spain, once its mainland has been pacified by Napoleon, will successfuly conquer Brazil and if you start building a navy right from the start you should be able to hold the british navy in a battle for long enough to a few dozen of transport ships to get napoleons four dozen men stack into the british mainland, after which it becomes a curbstomp. Assuming you didn't waste time, as rebelleions would start popping up all over due to WE otherwise, you will have managed to take all of Portugal's european possessions, splinter Austria in a shadow of its former self and gain a permanent hold over a third of your choice of the british islands. You should have from 3 to 4 unused stacks, which can be sent against Russia; while the attrition does hurt, you can use the large stacks to defeat Russia's pre-generated military, then split them up in several small units which can be used to cover all of the russian soil, preventing further unit production. It may be worth sieging a russian province or two to use as supply bases while advancing through the territory.

[Karlito]

So hey, what do I do now that I've become the Shogun? My influence is 100, and I've already enacted the reforms available to me. I can no longer wage war against my fellow Daimyos, so what are some good foreign targets in East Asia? I started as Fujiwara, so my personal fleet is a bit weak, which is unfortunate because it means I have somewhat poor force-projection capabilities.

[Azthor]

So hey, what do I do now that I've become the Shogun? My influence is 100, and I've already enacted the reforms available to me. I can no longer wage war against my fellow Daimyos, so what are some good foreign targets in East Asia? I started as Fujiwara, so my personal fleet is a bit weak, which is unfortunate because it means I have somewhat poor force-projection capabilities.

That is not how it works; unify Japan, then worry about foreign powers. Use spies to forge claims on alll of the Daimyo's lands, 4 claims in a roll should lower your authority by 20, allowing you to declare war with a Reconquest Casus Belli. Since the annexation of cored provinces under a reconquest CB has a null cost, you should try and annex the individual Daimyos in a single war. Ideally, have claims on all of a Daimyo's provinces before declaring war. Use magistrates to improve your cultural tradition and invest heavily in government; both an embassy and a 6th level Diplomat advisor will help you immensely with reducing the infamy you will incur from staking claims on the japanese provinces.

Play your cards well and you can form Japan before 1500; after that, you should try and get a hold over Brunei and Maccato, then India, before facing Ming, Don't forget to make a priority out of westernization.

[nil]

I had a lot of fun playing as Japan

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and yeah, that's Ireland with an almost completely conquered Great Britain; it even has some colonies in west Africa.  Didn't have anything to do with it either; my only interference into the lands of the barbarians was to take Venice.

[Heron TSG]

Huh, another huge Brandenburg. And uh... something purple up in Iceland. Blobby France, of course. A somewhat expansionist Switzerland? And uh... BAVARIAN Scandinavia? That's gotta be a lucky inheritance. No way.

[Tarran]

A somewhat expansionist Switzerland?

Nope, it's good old Bavaria. I checked the color is the same of Bavarias in other images. Switzerland is a browner gray.

Also, look at that Bosnia, Brunswick, Brabant, and Ireland.

[Yannanth]

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[Johnfalcon99977]

Who did USA and Louisiana revolt from? Why haven't Venice's colonies revolted yet?

[RedKing]

Looks like Venice moved their capital to the New World (the map closeup says Venice instead of "Venetian North America"). So, little to no chance of revolt.