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[Azthor]

Or maybe you meant one province in each region type? I didnt know it worked like that.

I was editing my post. It is not related to regions at all, my bad, refer to the post above.

It is worth noting that your own cores don't matter; if you control an uncored province, it will still give you cores in the provinces of its neighbours.

[Heron TSG]

Ah, yes, I was merely misinterpreting Renovatio Imperii. This should be fun! Though it doesn't matter much anyway, since I'm modding in an event to create a half-dozen Imperial substates so that I don't have to manage the entire country and just wait around for the next 250 years curbstomping rebels and naught else. (I plan to release them all at about 1800 from vassalization so that Victoria will be super awesome.)

[Azthor]

Ah, yes, I was merely misinterpreting Renovatio Imperii. This should be fun! Though it doesn't matter much anyway, since I'm modding in an event to create a half-dozen Imperial substates so that I don't have to manage the entire country and just wait around for the next 250 years curbstomping rebels and naught else. (I plan to release them all at about 1800 from vassalization so that Victoria will be super awesome.)

Reminds me of a playthrough were I turned Bohemia into an OPM with all of the Empire vassalized (I released/sold all my provinces)... Then the Ottomans declared war on me. Poor, poor Ottomans.

[Nilum]

My first EU3 game resulted in this:
*I'm playing as England

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Making Burgundy into a superpower... was not my intention. I chipped away at France, forcing them to release their vassals and other countries. I didn't really take much French territory for myself, though, and focused my efforts on Castille and the New World. It wasn't until Burgundy DoW'd me after I'd just finished a war with Castille that I realized what a horrible mistake I'd made. Even if I somehow defeated Burgundy, Austria awaited me.

My second campaign, I was much more proactive about taking out France:

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Ten years later, I'd forced Castille to release Aragon and basically nullified any potential threat to English hegemony over the continent. I could probably have considered taking on the HRE, but an update for D&T was released and I foolishly forgot that my save file was stored in the mod folder (which I had deleted). I'll probably start another campaign again soon, though.

[dogstile]

You took that much land and gained that little in the way of infamy? How?

[Nilum]

You took that much land and gained that little in the way of infamy? How?

I got severely lucky with a mission that gave me cores on all of Gallia. I think it was 'Occupy Paris'. It basically rendered me unstoppable. I had a 6 star diplomat, too. I definitely see where people are coming from when they say England is unbalanced in Death & Taxes.

[Rex_Nex]

Actually, I think Occupy Paris is a vanilla mission. England is stupid good in normal Eu3 also...

Anyway, I picked apart Austria, helped Prussia grow, and ripped up Ukraine. I have the highest income in the game, yay!

Unsure what I want to do; I could either expand extremely fast unto the Horde lands (Im actually surprised the Golden Horde is relatively powerful in the mids 1500's) but deal with more rebels are poor provinces, or very slowly nick at Europe. My tech isn't all that great, but I'm not too far behind in Land.

[Azthor]

Actually, I think Occupy Paris is a vanilla mission. England is stupid good in normal Eu3 also...

Anyway, I picked apart Austria, helped Prussia grow, and ripped up Ukraine. I have the highest income in the game, yay!

Unsure what I want to do; I could either expand extremely fast unto the Horde lands (Im actually surprised the Golden Horde is relatively powerful in the mids 1500's) but deal with more rebels are poor provinces, or very slowly nick at Europe. My tech isn't all that great, but I'm not too far behind in Land.

The best start you can get in EU3 is to choose England, then become France. Yes, you read that right, become France.

Use the Occupy Paris mission to annex all of France in two or three wars, grabbing Ireland and Scotland on the way if the appropriate missions pop up. Once you are ready, go for a cultural shift and "form France", then use France's usual reconquest casus bellis, with none of the usual bother of removing vassals first. If you manage to Fabricate Claims on Spain's throne somewhere along the way, you've just won the game.

[Heron TSG]

Psh, best start is The Knights at the zenith of the Ottomans' power. It's a damn fun 4 years. 

[Catastrophic lolcats]

I've always been fond of Granada as the "impossible" start. Me and a friend spent ages trying to survive the Castilian onslaught in various ways.
In the end it got very strange, capping Munster, taking Corsica and asking for military access from the Mamluks and taking Ethiopia. All of this is fruitless when your capital is still in Granada and you can't ever afford to move it leading to massive amount of rebels, no income and a hungry Castile raising your war limit into insane levels.

The rest of the Arab world isn't much help either. Usually dragging you into monoracial wars with each other.

[Rex_Nex]

You can cheat your way into beating castille with granada. Moving troops toward the opponent's army causes his army to root in place; it'll probably take an hour to do so, but if you can keep 1 troop always going towards castille's force they won't even move and you can siege around them. Just be sure to reset that troop every few weeks so he never actually reaches the opponent.

At least this is how I heard you can survive as Granada.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Never really been a fan of the "dance of death" in Paradox games as you just described. It can be pretty annoying and boring to have two armies not choosing to engage each other because they're trying to out move their opponent.

Not really sure how you could address this issue. Maybe make it so armies can engage each other "in-between" provinces instead of waiting for them to reach that province? I'm sure there's many battles where an army has caught up to a retreating army and slayed them before they got anywhere.

Slightly off topic: For the first time ever I had an ally army attach to mine in CK2 and it was glorious. If it works anything like that in EU3 it will be a great addition to the game.

[webadict]

Actually, I think Occupy Paris is a vanilla mission. England is stupid good in normal Eu3 also...

Anyway, I picked apart Austria, helped Prussia grow, and ripped up Ukraine. I have the highest income in the game, yay!

Unsure what I want to do; I could either expand extremely fast unto the Horde lands (Im actually surprised the Golden Horde is relatively powerful in the mids 1500's) but deal with more rebels are poor provinces, or very slowly nick at Europe. My tech isn't all that great, but I'm not too far behind in Land.

The best start you can get in EU3 is to choose England, then become France. Yes, you read that right, become France.

Use the Occupy Paris mission to annex all of France in two or three wars, grabbing Ireland and Scotland on the way if the appropriate missions pop up. Once you are ready, go for a cultural shift and "form France", then use France's usual reconquest casus bellis, with none of the usual bother of removing vassals first. If you manage to Fabricate Claims on Spain's throne somewhere along the way, you've just won the game.

This sounds like fun.

I'm gonna try it.

[Rex_Nex]

Bad Luck Brian Ottoman:

Attacks Knights...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Gets vassalized.

[dogstile]

Oh dear, how did that happen?